From 852ee58594ab99d9231258c1274cda2c5e1f2297 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roberto Gonzales Matos Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:10:24 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/6] Feat: new benchmark --- py-2/benchmarks/nginx/.gitignore | 2 + py-2/benchmarks/nginx/checksum.md5 | 1 + py-2/benchmarks/nginx/cleanup.sh | 7 +++ py-2/benchmarks/nginx/execution.sh | 1 + py-2/benchmarks/nginx/input.sh | 30 ++++++++++++ py-2/benchmarks/nginx/log.txt | 2 + py-2/benchmarks/nginx/run.sh | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ py-2/benchmarks/nginx/scripts/1.sh | 23 +++++++++ py-2/benchmarks/nginx/scripts/2.sh | 24 ++++++++++ py-2/benchmarks/nginx/scripts/3.sh | 3 ++ py-2/benchmarks/nginx/scripts/4.sh | 23 +++++++++ py-2/benchmarks/nginx/scripts/5.sh | 5 ++ py-2/benchmarks/nginx/scripts/6.sh | 1 + py-2/benchmarks/nginx/scripts/7.sh | 1 + py-2/benchmarks/nginx/scripts/8.sh | 1 + py-2/benchmarks/nginx/verify.sh | 15 ++++++ scripts/run_tests.sh | 0 17 files changed, 216 insertions(+) create mode 100644 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--- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +inputs/ +outputs/ diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/checksum.md5 b/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/checksum.md5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..200e0b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/checksum.md5 @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +3fe6814c6d6f2edd73a83c35f45aa024 results/nginx.sh.out \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/cleanup.sh b/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/cleanup.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000..aa7991b --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/cleanup.sh @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +#!/bin/bash + +REPO_TOP=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel) +results_dir="${REPO_TOP}/covid-mts/results" + +echo "Cleaning up outputs..." +rm -rf $results_dir \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/execution.sh b/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/execution.sh new file mode 100644 index 0000000..94a5b99 --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/execution.sh @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +## Run this file to execute entire script considering aggregators! diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/input.sh b/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/input.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000..90c3ad0 --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/input.sh @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +#!/bin/bash + +REPO_TOP=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel) +DIR=$REPO_TOP/analysis-logs/input +mkdir -p $DIR +cd $DIR + +if [[ $1 == "--kaggle" ]]; then + # Set up Kaggle API + if [[ ! -d ~/.kaggle ]]; then + mkdir ~/.kaggle + echo "Place your kaggle.json in the ~/.kaggle directory." + fi + chmod 600 ~/.kaggle/kaggle.json + + if [[ ! -f nginx.zip ]]; then + kaggle datasets download -d eliasdabbas/web-server-access-logs + unzip web-server-access-logs + rm -f web-server-access-logs.zip client_hostname.csv + fi +else + if [[ ! -f nginx.zip ]]; then + # TODO: replace with omega URL + # wget -O nginx.zip "https://dataverse.harvard.edu/api/access/datafile/:persistentId?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/3QBYB5/NXKB6J" + # unzip web-server-access-logs + # rm -f web-server-access-logs.zip + echo "Not implemented yet." + exit 1 + fi +fi \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/log.txt b/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/log.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b7516c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/log.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Running aggregators for script: ./scripts/1.sh and input file: 1 +Running aggregators for script: ./scripts/1.sh and input file: 1 diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/run.sh b/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/run.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000..f65adc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/run.sh @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +#!/bin/bash +export SUITE_DIR=$(realpath $(dirname "$0")) +export TIMEFORMAT=%R +cd $SUITE_DIR + +if [[ "$1" == "--small" ]]; then + echo "Using small input" + export INPUT="$SUITE_DIR/inputs/access.log" +else + # not using this + echo "Using default input" + export IN="$SUITE_DIR/inputs/pg" +fi + +# //////// +# original script +# REPO_TOP=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel) + +# eval_dir="${REPO_TOP}/analysis-logs" +# results_dir="${eval_dir}/results" +# inputs_dir="${eval_dir}/input" + +# shell="/bin/bash" + +# mkdir -p $results_dir + +# export INPUT=${inputs_dir}/access.log +# script="${eval_dir}/nginx.sh" + +# echo "Executing $(basename "$script")" +# $shell "$script" > "$results_dir/$(basename "$script").out" + +# //////// + +covid-mts_bash() { +for number in $( + seq 7 + ); do + script="${number}" + script_file="./scripts/$script.sh" + output_dir="./outputs/bash/$script/" + output_file="./outputs/bash/$script.out" + time_file="./outputs/bash/$script.time" + log_file="./outputs/bash/$script.log" + + time bash $script_file $input_file >$output_file 2>$time_file + + cat "${time_file}" >>$all_res_file + echo "$script_file $(cat "$time_file")" | tee -a $mode_res_file + done +} + +ID=1 # track agg run + +covid-mts_agg() { + AGG_FILE="../agg_run.sh" + chmod +x $AGG_FILE + mkdir -p "outputs/agg" + echo executing oneliners agg $(date) | tee -a $mode_res_file $all_res_file + + for number in $(seq 7); do + script="${number}" + script_file="./scripts/$script.sh" + output_dir="./outputs/agg/$script/" + output_file="./outputs/agg/$script.out" + time_file="./outputs/agg/$script.time" + log_file="./outputs/agg/$script.log" + { time ../agg_run.sh $script_file $input_file $ID covid-mts >$output_file; } 2>$time_file #run file with input and direct to output + + cat "${time_file}" >>$all_res_file + echo "$script_file $(cat "$time_file")" | tee -a $mode_res_file + ((ID++)) + done +} + +covid-mts_bash +covid-mts_agg diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/scripts/1.sh b/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/scripts/1.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000..9031e1f --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/scripts/1.sh @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +#!/bin/bash +# Vehicles on the road per day + +# out1 + +# curl https://balab.aueb.gr/~dds/oasa-$(date --date='1 days ago' +'%y-%m-%d').bz2 | +# bzip2 -d | # decompress +# Replace the line below with the two lines above to stream the latest file +# cat "$1" | # assumes saved input +# sed 's/T..:..:..//' | # hide times +# cut -d ',' -f 1,3 | # keep only day and bus no +# sort -u | # remove duplicate records due to time +# cut -d ',' -f 1 | # keep all dates +# sort | # preparing for uniq +# uniq -c | # count unique dates +# awk "{print \$2,\$1}" # print first date, then count + +# # diff out{1,} + +cat $1 | cat ${INPUT} | cut -d "\"" -f3 | cut -d ' ' -f2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/scripts/2.sh b/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/scripts/2.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000..2c8361e --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/scripts/2.sh @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +#!/bin/bash +# Days a vehicle is on the road + +# out1 + +# curl https://balab.aueb.gr/~dds/oasa-$(date --date='1 days ago' +'%y-%m-%d').bz2 | +# bzip2 -d | # decompress +# Replace the line below with the two lines above to stream the latest file +# cat "$1" | # assumes saved input +# sed 's/T..:..:..//' | # hide times +# cut -d ',' -f 3,1 | # keep only day and bus ID +# sort -u | # removing duplicate day-buses +# cut -d ',' -f 2 | # keep only bus ID +# sort | # preparing for uniq +# uniq -c | # count unique dates +# sort -k 1 -n | # sort in reverse numerical order +# awk "{print \$2,\$1}" # print first date, then count + +# diff out{1,} + +cat $1 | awk '{print $9}' ${INPUT} | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/scripts/3.sh b/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/scripts/3.sh new file mode 100644 index 0000000..62c7ac1 --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/scripts/3.sh @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +#!/bin/bash + +cat $1 | awk '($9 ~ /404/)' ${INPUT} | awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/scripts/4.sh b/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/scripts/4.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000..497fff0 --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/nginx/scripts/4.sh @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +#!/bin/bash +# Hours monitored each day + +# Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 10:21:23 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 2/6] Feat: added basic synthesizer --- 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horrors perpetrated by that +more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my +have frightened you—sit down and tell me all the news.” +It was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna Pávlovna +Schérer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Márya Fëdorovna. +rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna +All her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered +“If you have nothing better to do, Count (or Prince), and if the +I shall be very charmed to see you tonight between 7 and 10—Annette +embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on +his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that +refined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and +who had grown old in society and at court. He went up to Anna Pávlovna, +kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, +and complacently seated himself on the sofa. +politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony +festivities and fireworks are becoming wearisome.” +“Don’t tease! Well, and what has been decided about Novosíltsev’s +burnt his boats, and I believe that we are ready to burn ours.” +overflowed with animation and impulsiveness. To be an enthusiast had +become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not +“Oh, don’t speak to me of Austria. Perhaps I don’t understand +things, but Austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war. She +recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it. That is the one +thing I have faith in! Our good and wonderful sovereign has to perform +the noblest role on earth, and he is so virtuous and noble that God will +not forsake him. He will fulfill his vocation and crush the hydra of +this murderer and villain! We alone must avenge the blood of the just +one.... Whom, I ask you, can we rely on?... England with her commercial +spirit will not and cannot understand the Emperor Alexander’s +find, and still seeks, some secret motive in our actions. What answer +did Novosíltsev get? None. The English have not understood and cannot +understand the self-abnegation of our Emperor who wants nothing for +perform! Prussia has always declared that Buonaparte is invincible, and +neutrality is just a trap. I have faith only in God and the lofty +sister,” was all she said, in a dry and mournful tone. +expression of profound and sincere devotion and respect mingled with +sadness, and this occurred every time she mentioned her illustrious +beaucoup d’estime, and again her face clouded over with sadness. +The prince was silent and looked indifferent. But, with the womanly and +courtierlike quickness and tact habitual to her, Anna Pávlovna +recommended to the Empress) and at the same time to console him, so she +The prince bowed to signify his respect and gratitude. +to the prince and smiling amiably at him as if to show that political +and social topics were ended and the time had come for intimate +added in a tone admitting of no rejoinder and raising her eyebrows. +anyone, and so you don’t deserve to have them.” +I am dissatisfied with your younger son? Between ourselves” (and her +Majesty’s and you were pitied....” +a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools. +more natural and animated than usual, so that the wrinkles round +his mouth very clearly revealed something unexpectedly coarse and +“I am your faithful slave and to you alone I can confess that my +asked. “They say old maids have a mania for matchmaking, and though I +Prince Vasíli did not reply, though, with the quickness of memory and +current of his thoughts, “that Anatole is costing me forty thousand +“Her father is very rich and stingy. He lives in the country. He is +the late Emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the King of Prussia.’ He is +very clever but eccentric, and a bore. The poor girl is very unhappy. +He is an aide-de-camp of Kutúzov’s and will be here tonight.” +Pávlovna’s hand and for some reason drawing it downwards. “Arrange +that affair for me and I shall always be your most devoted slave-slafe +and of good family and that’s all I want.” +And with the familiarity and easy grace peculiar to him, he raised the +maid of honor’s hand to his lips, kissed it, and swung it to and fro +Lise, young Bolkónski’s wife, this very evening, and perhaps the +and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. +father to the ambassador’s entertainment; she wore a ball dress and +She had been married during the previous winter, and being pregnant did +The Abbé Morio and many others had also come. +aunt,” or “You do not know my aunt?” and very gravely conducted +began to arrive; and slowly turning her eyes from the visitor to her +aunt, Anna Pávlovna mentioned each one’s name and then left them. +one of them knew, not one of them wanted to know, and not one of them +cared about; Anna Pávlovna observed these greetings with mournful and +solemn interest and silent approval. The aunt spoke to each of them in +the same words, about their health and her own, and the health of Her +with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not +but it lifted all the more sweetly, and was especially charming when she +upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to be her own special and +young woman, so soon to become a mother, so full of life and health, and +carrying her burden so lightly. Old men and dull dispirited young ones +who looked at her, after being in her company and talking to her a +and health. All who talked to her, and at each word saw her bright smile +and the constant gleam of her white teeth, thought that they were in a +steps, her workbag on her arm, and gaily spreading out her dress sat +pleasure to herself and to all around her. “I have brought my work,” +said she in French, displaying her bag and addressing all present. +a small reception, and just see how badly I am dressed.” And she +“You know,” said the princess in the same tone of voice and still in +French, turning to a general, “my husband is deserting me? He is going +added, addressing Prince Vasíli, and without waiting for an answer she +at that time, a very high ruffle, and a brown dress coat. This stout +grandee of Catherine’s time who now lay dying in Moscow. The young man +just returned from abroad where he had been educated, and this was his +this lowest-grade greeting, a look of anxiety and fear, as at the sight +of something too large and unsuited to the place, came over her face +the clever though shy, but observant and natural, expression which +“It is very good of you, Monsieur Pierre, to come and visit a poor +Pierre murmured something unintelligible, and continued to look round as +“Yes, I have heard of his scheme for perpetual peace, and it is very +and get away to attend to her duties as hostess. But Pierre now +she had finished speaking to him, and now he continued to speak to +another who wished to get away. With his head bent, and his big feet +resumed her duties as hostess and continued to listen and watch, ready +the foreman of a spinning mill, when he has set the hands to work, goes +round and notices here a spindle that has stopped or there one that +creaks or makes more noise than it should, and hastens to check the +drawing room, approaching now a silent, now a too-noisy group, and by a +proper, and regular motion. But amid these cares her anxiety about +the group round Mortemart to listen to what was being said there, and +Pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception at Anna +the intellectual lights of Petersburg were gathered there and, like a +and refined expression on the faces of those present he was always +Here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an +steadily and ceaselessly on all sides. With the exception of the aunt, +Princess Hélène, Prince Vasíli’s daughter, and the little Princess +Bolkónskaya, very pretty and rosy, though rather too plump for her age. +The third group was gathered round Mortemart and Anna Pávlovna. +The vicomte was a nice-looking young man with soft features and polished +her guests, first the vicomte and then the abbé, as peculiarly choice +had perished by his own magnanimity, and that there were particular +The vicomte bowed and smiled courteously in token of his willingness to +to a third; and the vicomte was served up to the company in the choicest +and most advantageous style, like a well-garnished joint of roast beef +The vicomte wished to begin his story and gave a subtle smile. +and ivy, with a gleam of white shoulders, glossy hair, and sparkling +privilege of admiring her beautiful figure and shapely shoulders, +back, and bosom—which in the fashion of those days were very much +exposed—and she seemed to bring the glamour of a ballroom with her as +appeared shy of her unquestionable and all too victorious beauty. She +“How lovely!” said everyone who saw her; and the vicomte lifted his +shoulders and dropped his eyes as if startled by something extraordinary +when she took her seat opposite and beamed upon him also with her +The princess rested her bare round arm on a little table and considered +to time she smoothed the folds of her dress, and whenever the story +the expression she saw on the maid of honor’s face, and again relapsed +The little princess had also left the tea table and followed Hélène. +There was a general movement as the princess, smiling and talking +merrily to everyone at once, sat down and gaily arranged herself in her +“Now I am all right,” she said, and asking the vicomte to begin, she +Prince Hippolyte, having brought the workbag, joined the circle and +self-satisfied, youthful, and constant smile of animation, and by the +was dulled by imbecility and a constant expression of sullen +self-confidence, while his body was thin and weak. His eyes, nose, and +mouth all seemed puckered into a vacant, wearied grimace, and his arms +and legs always fell into unnatural positions. +the princess and hastily adjusting his lorgnette, as if without this +effrayée, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings. +who also enjoyed the famous actress’ favors, and that in his presence +subject, and was thus at the duc’s mercy. The latter spared him, and +The story was very pretty and interesting, especially at the point +where the rivals suddenly recognized one another; and the ladies looked +her work as if to testify that the interest and fascination of the story +The vicomte appreciated this silent praise and smiling gratefully +talking too loudly and vehemently with the abbé, so she hurried to the +the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young +were talking and listening too eagerly and too naturally, which was why +“The means are ... the balance of power in Europe and the rights of +the maintenance of the balance of power of Europe, and it would save the +At that moment Anna Pávlovna came up and, looking severely at Pierre, +face instantly changed and assumed an offensively affected, sugary +“I am so enchanted by the brilliancy of the wit and culture of the +Not letting the abbé and Pierre escape, Anna Pávlovna, the more +Bolkónski, the little princess’ husband. He was a very handsome young +her with a grimace that distorted his handsome face, kissed Anna +Pávlovna’s hand, and screwing up his eyes scanned the whole company. +“General Kutúzov,” said Bolkónski, speaking French and stressing +“André,” said his wife, addressing her husband in the same +been telling us such a tale about Mademoiselle George and Buonaparte!” +Prince Andrew screwed up his eyes and turned away. Pierre, who from +affectionate eyes, now came up and took his arm. Before he looked round +unexpectedly kind and pleasant smile. +“No, impossible!” said Prince Andrew, laughing and pressing +Pierre’s hand to show that there was no need to ask the question. He +wished to say something more, but at that moment Prince Vasíli and his +daughter got up to go and the two young men rose to let them pass. +of a pleasure, and obliges me to interrupt you. I am very sorry to leave +holding up the folds of her dress, and the smile shone still more +In passing Prince Vasíli seized Pierre’s hand and said to Anna +a whole month and this is the first time I have seen him in society. +Anna Pávlovna smiled and promised to take Pierre in hand. She knew his +had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook Prince +had left her kindly and tear-worn face and it now expressed only anxiety +and fear. +Although Prince Vasíli listened reluctantly and not very politely +ingratiating and appealing smile, and took his hand that he might not go +“What would it cost you to say a word to the Emperor, and then he +best families in Russia, but she was poor, and having long been out of +invitation to Anna Pávlovna’s reception and had sat listening to +embittered look clouded her once handsome face, but only for a moment; +then she smiled again and clutched Prince Vasíli’s arm more tightly. +for anything and I never will again, nor have I ever reminded you of my +do this for my son—and I shall always regard you as a benefactor,” +Golítsyn and he has refused. Be the kindhearted man you always were,” +beautiful head and looking over her classically molded shoulder as she +if it is to last. Prince Vasíli knew this, and having once realized +will not rest until they have gained their end, and are prepared if +necessary to go on insisting day after day and hour after hour, and even +“My dear Anna Mikháylovna,” said he with his usual familiarity and +ask; but to prove my devotion to you and how I respect your father’s +Guards. Here is my hand on it. Are you satisfied?” +rest, and then...” +since his appointment as Commander in Chief. He told me himself that +Apparently she had forgotten her age and by force of habit employed +group where the vicomte was still talking, and again pretended to +Milan?” asked Anna Pávlovna, “and of the comedy of the people of +Genoa and Lucca laying their petitions before Monsieur Buonaparte, and +Monsieur Buonaparte sitting on a throne and granting the petitions of +XVII, for the Queen, or for Madame Elizabeth? Nothing!” and he became +little princess, and having asked for a needle began tracing the Condé +far. By intrigues, violence, exile, and executions, French society—I +mean good French society—will have been forever destroyed, and +He shrugged his shoulders and spread out his hands. Pierre wished to +“The Emperor Alexander,” said she, with the melancholy which +their own form of government; and I believe that once free from the +“From what I have heard,” said Pierre, blushing and breaking into +It was evident that he did not like the vicomte and was aiming his +Napoleon’s words. “‘I opened my antechambers and they crowded +after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one +Before Anna Pávlovna and the others had time to smile their +conversation, and though Anna Pávlovna felt sure he would say something +“was a political necessity, and it seems to me that Napoleon +greatness of soul?” said the little princess, smiling and drawing her +“Capital!” said Prince Hippolyte in English, and began slapping his +knee with the palm of his hand. +audience over his spectacles and continued. +from the Revolution leaving the people to anarchy, and Napoleon alone +understood the Revolution and quelled it, and so for the general good, +“No,” cried he, becoming more and more eager, “Napoleon is great +preserved all that was good in it—equality of citizenship and freedom +of speech and of the press—and only for that reason did he obtain +rid them of the Bourbons and because they saw that he was a great +man. The Revolution was a grand thing!” continued Monsieur Pierre, +betraying by this desperate and provocative proposition his extreme +youth and his wish to express all that was in his mind. +“What? Revolution and regicide a grand thing?... Well, after that... +“Yes: ideas of robbery, murder, and regicide,” again interjected an +prejudices, and equality of citizenship, and all these ideas Napoleon +“Liberty and equality,” said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at +not love liberty and equality? Even our Saviour preached liberty and +vicomte and from the vicomte to their hostess. In the first moment of +had not exasperated the vicomte, and had convinced herself that it was +impossible to stop him, she rallied her forces and joined the vicomte in +innocent and untried?” +the 18th Brumaire; was not that an imposture? It was a swindle, and not +Pierre, not knowing whom to answer, looked at them all and smiled. His +between his acts as a private person, as a general, and as an emperor. +was great on the bridge of Arcola, and in the hospital at Jaffa where he +gave his hand to the plague-stricken; but ... but there are other acts +Pierre’s remarks, rose and made a sign to his wife that it was time to +and asking them all to be seated began: +“I was told a charming Moscow story today and must treat you to it. +Everyone waited, so emphatically and eagerly did he demand their +“There is in Moscow a lady, une dame, and she is very stingy. She must +have two footmen behind her carriage, and very big ones. That was her +livery, get up behind the carriage, and come with me while I make some +Here Prince Hippolyte spluttered and burst out laughing long before his +persons, among them the elderly lady and Anna Pávlovna, did however +“She went. Suddenly there was a great wind. The girl lost her hat and +longer and went on, between gasps of laughter: “And the whole world +it, or why it had to be told in Russian, still Anna Pávlovna and the +ending Pierre’s unpleasant and unamiable outburst. After the anecdote +and next balls, about theatricals, and who would meet whom, and when and +red hands; he did not know, as the saying is, how to enter a drawing +room and still less how to leave one; that is, how to say something +general’s three-cornered hat, and held it, pulling at the plume, +till the general asked him to restore it. All his absent-mindedness and +inability to enter a room and converse in it was, however, redeemed by +his kindly, simple, and modest expression. Anna Pávlovna turned toward +him and, with a Christian mildness that expressed forgiveness of his +indiscretion, nodded and said: “I hope to see you again, but I also +When she said this, he did not reply and only bowed, but again everybody +Prince Andrew had gone out into the hall, and, turning his shoulders +princess, and stared fixedly at her through his eyeglass. +contemplated between Anatole and the little princess’ sister-in-law. +“Write to her and let me know how her father looks at the matter. Au +revoir! ”—and she left the hall. +Prince Hippolyte approached the little princess and, bending his face +Two footmen, the princess’ and his own, stood holding a shawl and +understanding but not wishing to appear to do so. The princess as usual +spoke smilingly and listened with a laugh. +smiling joyfully; and snatching the shawl from the footman, whom he +Still smiling, she gracefully moved away, turning and glancing at her +husband. Prince Andrew’s eyes were closed, so weary and sleepy did he +reached to his very heels, and, stumbling in it, ran out into the porch +carriage, her husband was adjusting his saber; Prince Hippolyte, under +“I am expecting you, Pierre,” said the same voice, but gently and +nice indeed, quite French,” and he kissed the tips of his fingers. +continued the vicomte. “I pity the poor husband, that little officer +Hippolyte spluttered again, and amid his laughter said, “And you were +one quite at home, and from habit immediately lay down on the sofa, took +from the shelf the first book that came to his hand (it was Caesar’s +Commentaries), and resting on his elbow, began reading it in the middle. +hands. +face to Prince Andrew, smiled, and waved his hand. +and had remained away till he was twenty. When he returned to Moscow +his father dismissed the abbé and said to the young man, “Now go +to Petersburg, look round, and choose your profession. I will agree to +anything. Here is a letter to Prince Vasíli, and here is money. Write +to me all about it, and I will help you in everything.” Pierre had +already been choosing a career for three months, and had not decided +“No, I have not; but this is what I have been thinking and wanted +freedom I could understand it and should be the first to enter the army; +but to help England and Austria against the greatest man in the world is +Andrew shook himself as if waking up, and his face assumed the look it +dress as fresh and elegant as the other. Prince Andrew rose and politely +and fussily in the easy chair, “how is it Annette never got married? +“And I am still arguing with your husband. I can’t understand why he +understand it; I don’t in the least understand why men can’t live +the Emperor spoke to him most graciously. Annette and I were speaking of +Pierre looked at his friend and, noticing that he did not like the +she had spoken to Hippolyte in the drawing room and which was so plainly +must be broken off ... and then you know, André...” (she looked +significantly at her husband) “I’m afraid, I’m afraid!” she +whispered, and a shudder ran down her back. +Her husband looked at her as if surprised to notice that someone besides +Pierre and himself was in the room, and addressed her in a tone of +“What is it you are afraid of, Lise? I don’t understand,” said he. +of his own, goodness only knows why, he leaves me and locks me up alone +“With my father and sister, remember,” said Prince Andrew gently. +Her tone was now querulous and her lip drawn up, giving her not a +“I still can’t understand what you are afraid of,” said Prince +The princess blushed, and raised her arms with a gesture of despair. +Prince Andrew rose, shrugged his shoulders, and walked about the room. +Pierre looked over his spectacles with naïve surprise, now at him and +so to me? What have I done to you? You are going to the war and have no +an entreaty, a threat, and above all conviction that she would herself +Pierre, who had been growing more and more agitated as he listened to +all this, rose and approached the princess. He seemed unable to bear the +sight of tears and was ready to cry himself. +I myself have experienced ... and so ... because ... No, excuse me! +Prince Andrew caught him by the hand. +face changed into a winning and piteous look of fear. Her beautiful eyes +glanced askance at her husband’s face, and her own assumed the timid, +“Mon Dieu, mon Dieu!” she muttered, and lifting her dress with one +hand she went up to her husband and kissed him on the forehead. +“Good night, Lise,” said he, rising and courteously kissing her hand +with his small hand. +“Let us go and have supper,” he said with a sigh, going to the door. +They entered the elegant, newly decorated, and luxurious dining room. +Everything from the table napkins to the silver, china, and glass bore +Halfway through supper Prince Andrew leaned his elbows on the table and, +and suddenly determines to speak out. +and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen +her plainly as she is, or else you will make a cruel and irrevocable +mistake. Marry when you are old and good for nothing—or all that is +good and noble in you will be lost. It will all be wasted on trifles. +room, where you will be ranged side by side with a court lackey and an +idiot!... But what’s the good?...” and he waved his arm. +Pierre took off his spectacles, which made his face seem different and +the good-natured expression still more apparent, and gazed at his friend +would I not give now to be unmarried! You are the first and only one to +who had lolled in Anna Pávlovna’s easy chairs and with half-closed +“You don’t understand why I say this,” he continued, “but it is +the whole story of life. You talk of Bonaparte and his career,” said +but his aim to consider, and he reached it. But tie yourself up with +a woman and, like a chained convict, you lose all freedom! And all you +have of hope and strength merely weighs you down and torments you with +regret. Drawing rooms, gossip, balls, vanity, and triviality—these are +the greatest war there ever was, and I know nothing and am fit for +nothing. I am very amiable and have a caustic wit,” continued Prince +Andrew, “and at Anna Pávlovna’s they listen to me. And that stupid +set without whom my wife cannot exist, and those women.... If you only +knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is +consider yourself incapable and your life a spoiled life. You have +thought of his friend and how much he expected of him in the future. +highest degree just the very qualities Pierre lacked, and which might +and had an opinion about everything), but above all at his capacity for +work and study. And if Pierre was often struck by Andrew’s lack +Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise +and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels +He suddenly blushed crimson, and it was plain that he had made a great +effort to say this. “Without a name and without means... And it +present I am free and am all right. Only I haven’t the least idea what +Prince Andrew looked kindly at him, yet his glance—friendly and +those Kurágins and leading that sort of life. It suits you so +badly—all this debauchery, dissipation, and the rest of it!” +“I don’t understand it,” replied Prince Andrew. “Women who are +women, ‘women and wine’ I don’t understand!” +Pierre was staying at Prince Vasíli Kurágin’s and sharing the +aches, and one spends all one’s money. He asked me for tonight, but I +enough to see a long way in the deserted street and it seemed more like +extraordinary may happen to one that honor and dishonor will be all the +all his decisions and intentions. He went to Kurágin’s. +and went in at the open door. There was no one in the anteroom; empty +bottles, cloaks, and overshoes were lying about; there was a smell of +alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance. +Cards and supper were over, but the visitors had not yet dispersed. +Pierre threw off his cloak and entered the first room, in which were the +laughter, the shouting of familiar voices, the growling of a bear, and +pulling him by the chain and trying to set him at the others. +hands.” +“Jacob, bring a bottle!” shouted the host, a tall, handsome fellow +who stood in the midst of the group, without a coat, and with his fine +Dólokhov, an officer of the Semënov regiment, a notorious gambler and +“I don’t understand. What’s it all about?” +“Wait a bit, he is not drunk yet! A bottle here,” said Anatole, and +the tipsy guests who were again crowding round the window, and listening +“No, I won’t,” said Pierre, pushing Anatole aside, and he went up +Dólokhov was holding the Englishman’s hand and clearly and distinctly +Anatole and Pierre. +Dólokhov was of medium height, with curly hair and light-blue eyes. He +of the upper lip formed a sharp wedge and closed firmly on the firm +lower one, and something like two distinct smiles played continually +and no connections. Yet, though Anatole spent tens of thousands of +rubles, Dólokhov lived with him and had placed himself on such a +more than they did Anatole. Dólokhov could play all games and nearly +Both Kurágin and Dólokhov were at that time notorious among the rakes +and scapegraces of Petersburg. +were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of +Pierre seized the crossbeam, tugged, and wrenched the oak frame out with +of rum in his hand was approaching the window, from which the light of +Dólokhov, the bottle of rum still in his hand, jumped onto the window +sill. “Listen!” cried he, standing there and addressing those in the +understand him, but he did not speak it very well—“I bet fifty +spot” (he stooped and pointed to the sloping ledge outside the window) +“and without holding on to anything. Is that right?” +Anatole turned to the Englishman and taking him by one of the buttons +of his coat and looking down at him—the Englishman was short—began +understand?” +accept this challenge or not. Anatole did not release him, and though +sill, leaned over, and looked down. +Dólokhov climbed carefully and slowly through the window and lowered +on his seat, lowered his hands, moved a little to the right and then to +the left, and took up the bottle. Anatole brought two candles and +Dólokhov’s back in his white shirt, and his curly head, were lit +present, suddenly pushed forward with a scared and angry look and wanted +“Don’t touch him! You’ll startle him and then he’ll be killed. +Dólokhov turned round and, again holding on with both hands, arranged +Saying this he again turned round, dropped his hands, took the bottle +and lifted it to his lips, threw back his head, and raised his free hand +window and from Dólokhov’s back. Anatole stood erect with staring +who had wished to stop the affair ran to a corner of the room and threw +horror and fear. All were still. Pierre took his hands from his eyes. +further back till his curly hair touched his shirt collar, and the hand +holding the bottle was lifted higher and higher and trembled with the +effort. The bottle was emptying perceptibly and rising still higher +and his head tilting yet further back. “Why is it so long?” thought +Suddenly Dólokhov made a backward movement with his spine, and his arm +as he sat on the sloping ledge. As he began slipping down, his head and +arm wavered still more with the strain. One hand moved as if to clutch +his eyes and thought he would never open them again. Suddenly he was +aware of a stir all around. He looked up: Dólokhov was standing on the +The Englishman took out his purse and began counting out the money. +Dólokhov stood frowning and did not speak. Pierre jumped upon the +banging the table with a determined and drunken gesture and preparing to +bit and I’ll get round him.... Listen! I’ll take your bet tomorrow, +and began dancing round the room with it. +exception made, and Borís transferred into the regiment of Semënov +to Kutúzov’s staff despite all Anna Mikháylovna’s endeavors and +returned to Moscow and went straight to her rich relations, the +Rostóvs, with whom she stayed when in the town and where her darling +Bóry, who had only just entered a regiment of the line and was being +childhood and lived for years at a time. The Guards had already left +Petersburg on the tenth of August, and her son, who had remained in +It was St. Natalia’s day and the name day of two of the Rostóvs—the +mother and the youngest daughter—both named Nataly. Ever since +the morning, carriages with six horses had been coming and going +the Povarskáya, so well known to all Moscow. The countess herself and +her handsome eldest daughter were in the drawing room with the visitors +who came to congratulate, and who constantly succeeded one another in +A languor of motion and speech, resulting from weakness, gave her a +drawing room, helped to receive and entertain the visitors. The young +take part in receiving the visitors. The count met the guests and saw +called everyone without exception and without the slightest variation +rank—“I thank you for myself and for our two dear ones whose name +These words he repeated to everyone without exception or variation, and +same firm pressure of the hand and the same quick, repeated bows. As +still in the drawing room, drew a chair toward him or her, and jauntily +spreading out his legs and putting his hands on his knees with the air +of a man who enjoys life and knows how to live, he swayed to and +questions of health, sometimes in Russian and sometimes in very bad but +the fulfillment of duty, he rose to see some visitors off and, stroking +conservatory and pantry into the large marble dining hall, where tables +were being set out for eighty people; and looking at the footmen, who +were bringing in silver and china, moving tables, and unfolding damask +table linen, he would call Dmítri Vasílevich, a man of good family and +the manager of all his affairs, and while looking with pleasure at the +“Márya Lvóvna Karágina and her daughter!” announced the +room. The countess reflected a moment and took a pinch from a gold +snuffbox with her husband’s portrait on it. +“I’m quite worn out by these callers. However, I’ll see her and +A tall, stout, and proud-looking woman, with a round-faced smiling +at the Razumóvski’s ball ... and Countess Apráksina ... I was +interrupting one another and mingling with the rustling of dresses and +and say, “I am so delighted... Mamma’s health... and Countess +Apráksina...” and then, again rustling, pass into the anteroom, put +on cloaks or mantles, and drive away. The conversation was on the chief +topic of the day: the illness of the wealthy and celebrated beau of +Catherine’s day, Count Bezúkhov, and about his illegitimate son +such bad health, and now this vexation about his son is enough to kill +“Prince Vasíli’s son, he, and a certain Dólokhov have, it is said, +Dólokhov has been degraded to the ranks and Bezúkhov’s son sent +“They are regular brigands, especially Dólokhov,” replied the +put it in a carriage, and set off with it to visit some actresses! The +police tried to interfere, and what did the young men do? They tied +a policeman and the bear back to back and put the bear into the Moyka +well educated and clever. This is all that his foreign education has +The visitor made a gesture with her hand. +wishing to show her connections and knowledge of what went on in +“The fact of the matter is,” said she significantly, and also in a +“How handsome the old man still was only a year ago!” remarked the +countess. “I have never seen a handsomer man.” +count is very fond of Pierre, looked after his education, and wrote to +the Emperor about him; so that in the case of his death—and he is +so ill that he may die at any moment, and Dr. Lorrain has come from +or Prince Vasíli. Forty thousand serfs and millions of rubles! I know +and seeing that the elder visitor was not listening, he turned to the +well and, in particular, drinks well. “So do come and dine with us!” +now rose and took their leave. The visitor’s daughter was already +suddenly from the next room were heard the footsteps of boys and girls +running to the door and the noise of a chair falling over, and a girl +darted in and stopped short in the middle of the room. It was evident +of the Guards, a girl of fifteen, and a plump rosy-faced boy in a short +The count jumped up and, swaying from side to side, spread his arms wide +and threw them round the little girl who had run in. +husband. +childish bare shoulders which after her run heaved and shook her +in lace-frilled drawers, and feet in low slippers—was just at that +attention to her severe remark—and began to laugh. She laughed, and in +her mother and burst into such a loud, ringing fit of laughter that even +“Now then, go away and take your monstrosity with you,” said the +mother, pushing away her daughter with pretended sternness, and turning +glanced up at her through tears of laughter, and again hid her face. +son; Sónya, the count’s fifteen-year-old niece, and little Pétya, +his youngest boy, had all settled down in the drawing room and were +and mirth that shone in all their faces. Evidently in the back rooms, +been more amusing than the drawing room talk of society scandals, the +weather, and Countess Apráksina. Now and then they glanced at one +The two young men, the student and the officer, friends from childhood, +were of the same age and both handsome fellows, though not alike. Borís +was tall and fair, and his calm and handsome face had regular, delicate +features. Nicholas was short with curly hair and an open expression. +Dark hairs were already showing on his upper lip, and his whole face +expressed impetuosity and enthusiasm. Nicholas blushed when he entered +failed. Borís on the contrary at once found his footing, and related +quietly and humorously how he had known that doll Mimi when she was +during the five years he had known her, and how her head had cracked +She turned away from him and glanced at her younger brother, who was +screwing up his eyes and shaking with suppressed laughter, and unable +to control herself any longer, she jumped up and rushed from the room as +“Yes, yes, go and tell them to get it ready,” she answered, +Borís quietly left the room and went in search of Natásha. The plump +young lady visitor and the countess’ eldest daughter (who was four +years older than her sister and behaved already like a grown-up person), +were Nicholas and Sónya, the niece. Sónya was a slender little +lashes, thick black plaits coiling twice round her head, and a tawny +tint in her complexion and especially in the color of her slender but +graceful and muscular arms and neck. By the grace of her movements, +by the softness and flexibility of her small limbs, and by a certain +coyness and reserve of manner, she reminded one of a pretty, half-grown +upon anyone, and it was clear that the kitten had settled down only to +spring up with more energy and again play with her cousin as soon as +they too could, like Natásha and Borís, escape from the drawing room. +“Ah yes, my dear,” said the count, addressing the visitor and +pointing to Nicholas, “his friend Borís has become an officer, and +so for friendship’s sake he is leaving the university and me, his +old father, and entering the military service, my dear. And there was a +place and everything waiting for him in the Archives Department! Isn’t +“They’ve been saying so a long while,” said the count, “and +they’ll say so again and again, and that will be the end of it. My +up and turning away as if from a shameful aspersion. “It is not from +He glanced at his cousin and the young lady visitor; and they were both +today. He has been here on leave and is taking Nicholas back with him. +It can’t be helped!” said the count, shrugging his shoulders and +with the flirtatiousness of a handsome youth at Sónya and the young +to start her gambols again and display her kittenish nature. +rose from an ensign and became Emperor. Well, well, God grant it,” he +smile, and engaged the smiling Julie in a confidential conversation +of Sónya, who blushed and smiled unnaturally. In the midst of his talk +he glanced round at her. She gave him a passionately angry glance, and +hardly able to restrain her tears and maintain the artificial smile +on her lips, she got up and left the room. All Nicholas’ animation +vanished. He waited for the first pause in the conversation, and then +brought into the room had vanished; and as if answering a question no +one had put but which was always in her mind, “and how much suffering, +for girls and boys.” +have always, thank God, been my children’s friend and had their full +always be my daughters’ first confidante, and that if Nicholas, with +countess with a gentle smile, looking at Borís and went on, evidently +were to be severe with her and to forbid it ... goodness knows what they +me of her own accord in the evening and tell me everything. Perhaps I +“Yes, I was brought up quite differently,” remarked the handsome +on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, +learning, was well brought up, and had a pleasant voice; what she said +was true and appropriate, yet, strange to say, everyone—the visitors +and countess alike—turned to look at her as if wondering why she had +said it, and they all felt awkward. +“People are always too clever with their eldest children and try to +The guests got up and took their leave, promising to return to dinner. +conservatory. There she paused and stood listening to the conversation +growing impatient, and stamped her foot, ready to cry at his not coming +flower tubs and hid there. +dust from the sleeve of his uniform, and going up to a mirror examined +his handsome face. Natásha, very still, peered out from her ambush, +glass, smiled, and walked toward the other door. Natásha was about to +Hardly had Borís gone than Sónya, flushed, in tears, and muttering +to run out to her, and remained in her hiding place, watching—as +experiencing a new and peculiar pleasure. Sónya, muttering to herself, +kept looking round toward the drawing room door. It opened and Nicholas +“Well, if you do, so much the better, and you can go back to her!” +“Só-o-onya! Look here! How can you torture me and yourself like that, +for a mere fancy?” said Nicholas taking her hand. +Sónya did not pull it away, and left off crying. Natásha, not stirring +and scarcely breathing, watched from her ambush with sparkling eyes. +and kissed her. +“Oh, how nice,” thought Natásha; and when Sónya and Nicholas had +gone out of the conservatory she followed and called Borís to her. +“Borís, come here,” said she with a sly and significant look. “I +have something to tell you. Here, here!” and she led him into the +She grew confused, glanced round, and, seeing the doll she had thrown +Borís looked attentively and kindly at her eager face, but did not +“Don’t you want to? Well, then, come here,” said she, and +went further in among the plants and threw down the doll. “Closer, +She caught the young officer by his cuffs, and a look of solemnity and +glancing up at him from under her brows, smiling, and almost crying from +“How funny you are!” he said, bending down to her and blushing still +more, but he waited and did nothing. +that both her slender bare arms clasped him above his neck, and, tossing +and stood, hanging her head. +years ... then I will ask for your hand.” +A smile of joy and satisfaction lit up her eager face. +She took his arm and with a happy face went with him into the adjoining +Anna Mikháylovna looked at Véra and paused. The countess pressed her +friend’s hand. +The handsome Véra smiled contemptuously but did not seem at all hurt. +one pair at each window. She stopped and smiled scornfully. Sónya was +first he had ever written. Borís and Natásha were at the other window +and ceased talking when Véra entered. Sónya and Natásha looked at +It was pleasant and touching to see these little girls in love; but +have a room of your own,” and she took the inkstand from Nicholas. +replied, and the four simply looked at one another. She lingered in the +room with the inkstand in her hand. +“And at your age what secrets can there be between Natásha and +She seemed that day to be more than ever kind and affectionate to +“We don’t interfere with you and Berg.” +never understand it, because you’ve never loved anyone. You have no +heart! You are a Madame de Genlis and nothing more” (this nickname, +bestowed on Véra by Nicholas, was considered very stinging), “and +your greatest pleasure is to be unpleasant to people! Go and flirt with +unpleasant things to everyone and upset them. Let’s go to the +All four, like a flock of scared birds, got up and left the room. +The handsome Véra, who produced such an irritating and unpleasant +effect on everyone, smiled and, evidently unmoved by what had been +said to her, went to the looking glass and arranged her hair and scarf. +Looking at her own handsome face she seemed to become still colder and +last long? It’s all the Club and his easygoing nature. Even in the +country do we get any rest? Theatricals, hunting, and heaven knows what +ministers and great people, and know how to deal with them all! It’s +know what it is to be left a widow without means and with a son you love +big people I write a note: ‘Princess So-and-So desires an interview +with So and-So,’ and then I take a cab and go myself two, three, or +“Well, and to whom did you apply about Bóry?” asked the countess. +and put the matter before the Emperor,” said Princess Anna +Princess. I am at your command.’ Yes, he is a fine fellow and a very +dropping her voice. “My wretched lawsuit takes all I have and makes no +progress. Would you believe it, I have literally not a penny and don’t +know how to equip Borís.” She took out her handkerchief and began to +cry. “I need five hundred rubles, and have only one twenty-five-ruble +he is Bóry’s godfather—and allow him something for his maintenance, +The countess’ eyes filled with tears and she pondered in silence. +alone... that tremendous fortune... and what is his life worth? It’s a +burden to him, and Bóry’s life is only just beginning....” +“Heaven only knows, my dear! These rich grandees are so selfish. +Still, I will take Borís and go to see him at once, and I shall speak +princess rose. “It’s now two o’clock and you dine at four. There +time, Anna Mikháylovna sent someone to call her son, and went into the +door, and added in a whisper so that her son should not hear, “Wish me +count coming out from the dining hall into the anteroom, and he added: +house, you know, and danced with the children. Be sure to invite him, my +straw covered street and turned into the wide courtyard of Count Cyril +mother, drawing her hand from beneath her old mantle and laying +it timidly and tenderly on her son’s arm, “be affectionate and +all, and your future depends on him. Remember that, my dear, and be nice +it...” answered her son coldly. “But I have promised and will do it +Although the hall porter saw someone’s carriage standing at the +entrance, after scrutinizing the mother and son (who without asking to +rows of statues in niches) and looking significantly at the lady’s old +cloak, he asked whether they wanted the count or the princesses, and, +today, and that his excellency was not receiving anyone. +“My dear!” exclaimed his mother imploringly, again laying her hand +The hall porter sullenly pulled a bell that rang upstairs, and turned +to a footman dressed in knee breeches, shoes, and a swallow-tail coat, +who ran downstairs and looked over from the halfway landing. +Venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly +Just as the mother and son, having reached the middle of the hall, were +entered, the bronze handle of one of the doors turned and Prince Vasíli +swallowing his r’s, and pronouncing the Latin words with a French +Seeing Anna Mikháylovna and her son, Prince Vasíli dismissed the +doctor with a bow and approached them silently and with a look of +clouded his mother’s face, and he smiled slightly. +Prince Vasíli stared at her and at Borís questioningly and perplexed. +head and lips indicating very little hope for the patient. +Mikháylovna,” said Prince Vasíli, arranging his lace frill, and in +tone and manner, here in Moscow to Anna Mikháylovna whom he had placed +“Try to serve well and show yourself worthy,” added he, addressing +and respectfully that the prince gave him a searching glance. +“I never could understand how Nataly made up her mind to marry that +unlicked bear! A perfectly absurd and stupid fellow, and a gambler too, +and Borís. He is his godson,” she added, her tone suggesting that +Prince Vasíli became thoughtful and frowned. Anna Mikháylovna saw that +and hastened to reassure him. +“If it were not for my sincere affection and devotion to Uncle,” +said she, uttering the word with peculiar assurance and unconcern, “I +her head and continued in a whisper: “Has he performed his final duty, +worse, and it is absolutely necessary to prepare him if he is so ill. +We women, Prince,” and she smiled tenderly, “always know how to say +Evidently the prince understood her, and also understood, as he had done +A door of one of the inner rooms opened and one of the princesses, the +and am at your service to help you nurse my uncle. I imagine what you +have gone through,” and she sympathetically turned up her eyes. +The princess gave no reply and did not even smile, but left the room as +Anna Mikháylovna took off her gloves and, occupying the position she +and don’t forget to give him the Rostóvs’ invitation. They ask him +man.... Here he is, and the count has not once asked for him.” +stairs and up another, to Pierre’s rooms. +Petersburg, and had been expelled from there for riotous conduct and +for some days in Moscow and was staying as usual at his father’s +already known in Moscow and that the ladies about his father—who were +two younger ones were embroidering: both were rosy and pretty and they +The eldest princess paused in her reading and silently stared at him +while the youngest, the one with the mole, who was of a cheerful and +canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying +“The count is suffering physically and mentally, and apparently you +him... Olga, go and see whether Uncle’s beef tea is ready—it is +almost time,” she added, giving Pierre to understand that they were +busy, and busy making his father comfortable, while evidently he, +Olga went out. Pierre stood looking at the sisters; then he bowed and +Next day Prince Vasíli had arrived and settled in the count’s house. +He sent for Pierre and said to him: “My dear fellow, if you are going +is all I have to say to you. The count is very, very ill, and you must +Since then Pierre had not been disturbed and had spent the whole time in +When Borís appeared at his door Pierre was pacing up and down his room, +as if running a sword through an invisible foe, and glaring savagely +over his spectacles, and then again resuming his walk, muttering +indistinct words, shrugging his shoulders and gesticulating. +“England is done for,” said he, scowling and pointing his finger +at someone unseen. “Mr. Pitt, as a traitor to the nation and to the +moment imagined himself to be Napoleon in person and to have just +effected the dangerous crossing of the Straits of Dover and captured +London—could pronounce Pitt’s sentence, he saw a well-built and +handsome young officer entering his room. Pierre paused. He had left +Moscow when Borís was a boy of fourteen, and had quite forgotten him, +but in his usual impulsive and hearty way he took Borís by the hand +it necessary to introduce himself, and without experiencing the least +“You are mistaken,” said Borís deliberately, with a bold and +Mikháylovna Drubetskáya. Rostóv, the father, is Ilyá, and his son is +Pierre shook his head and arms as if attacked by mosquitoes or bees. +papers and it was the first time he had heard Villeneuve’s name. +“We here in Moscow are more occupied with dinner parties and scandal +nothing about it and have not thought about it. Moscow is chiefly busy +with gossip,” he continued. “Just now they are talking about you and +But Borís spoke distinctly, clearly, and dryly, looking straight into +“But I just wish to say, to avoid misunderstandings, that you are +your father is rich, I don’t regard myself as a relation of his, and +For a long time Pierre could not understand, but when he did, he jumped +way, and, blushing far more than Borís, began to speak with a feeling +of mingled shame and vexation. +And Borís, having apparently relieved himself of an onerous duty and +extricated himself from an awkward situation and placed another in it, +were children. You might think that I... I understand, quite understand. +acquainted,” and he pressed Borís’ hand. “Do you know, I have not +Pierre saw that Borís wished to change the subject, and being of the +same mind he began explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the +and warmly pressing his hand looked affectionately over his spectacles +into Borís’ eyes. After he had gone Pierre continued pacing up and +intelligent, and resolute young man. +life, he felt an unaccountable tenderness for this young man and made up +Prince Vasíli saw the princess off. She held a handkerchief to her eyes +and her face was tearful. +may I shall do my duty. I will come and spend the night. He must not be +“I don’t understand, Mamma—what is his attitude to Pierre?” +“Ah, my dear! He is so rich, and we are so poor!” +alone applying her handkerchief to her eyes. At last she rang. +The countess was upset by her friend’s sorrow and humiliating poverty, +and was therefore out of sorts, a state of mind which with her always +found expression in calling her maid “my dear” and speaking to her +have, my dear! I tasted it. The thousand rubles I paid for Tarás were +He sat down by his wife, his elbows on his knees and his hands ruffling +“What are your commands, little countess?” +“Oh, little countess!” ... and the count began bustling to get out +“I want a great deal, Count! I want five hundred rubles,” and taking +out her cambric handkerchief she began wiping her husband’s waistcoat. +house and now managed all his affairs, stepped softly into the room. +bring me such tattered and dirty notes as last time, but nice clean ones +the count was beginning to breathe heavily and quickly which was always +count, and having kissed his wife’s hand he went back to his study. +in clean notes, was lying ready under a handkerchief on the countess’ +little table, and Anna Mikháylovna noticed that something was agitating +ill! I was only there a few moments and hardly said a word...” +elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief. +Anna Mikháylovna instantly guessed her intention and stooped to be +Anna Mikháylovna was already embracing her and weeping. The countess +wept too. They wept because they were friends, and because they were +kindhearted, and because they—friends from childhood—had to think +about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over.... +Countess Rostóva, with her daughters and a large number of guests, was +his study and showed them his choice collection of Turkish pipes. From +common sense and frank plainness of speech. Márya Dmítrievna was known +to the Imperial family as well as to all Moscow and Petersburg, and both +cities wondered at her, laughed privately at her rudenesses, and told +respected and feared her. +of the war that had been announced in a manifesto, and about the +smoking and talking. He neither smoked nor talked, but bending his head +first to one side and then to the other watched the smokers with evident +pleasure and listened to the conversation of his two neighbors, whom he +One of them was a sallow, clean-shaven civilian with a thin and wrinkled +young man. He sat with his legs up on the sofa as if quite at home and, +smoke spasmodically and screwing up his eyes. This was an old bachelor, +irreproachably washed, brushed, and buttoned, held his pipe in the +middle of his mouth and with red lips gently inhaled the smoke, letting +it escape from his handsome mouth in rings. This was Lieutenant Berg, an +the army, and about whom Natásha had teased her elder sister Véra, +speaking of Berg as her “intended.” The count sat between them and +said Shinshín, laughing ironically and mixing the most ordinary Russian +Berg always spoke quietly, politely, and with great precision. His +and silent when the talk related to any topic that had no direct bearing +circumstantially and with evident satisfaction. +with the rank of lieutenant; but as it is I receive two hundred and +thirty,” said he, looking at Shinshín and the count with a joyful, +I shall be in a more prominent position,” continued Berg, “and +what can be done with two hundred and thirty rubles! I even manage to +put a little aside and to send something to my father,” he went on, +of his mouth and winking at the count. +the company commander might get killed and he, as senior in the company, +the regiment, and how satisfied his father was with him. Berg evidently +enjoyed narrating all this, and did not seem to suspect that others, +sedate, and the naïveté of his youthful egotism was so obvious, that +shoulder and taking his feet off the sofa. +conversation but think it necessary to move about and talk, in order +to show that they are not at all impatient for their food. The host and +hostess look toward the door, and now and then glance at one another, +and the visitors try to guess from these glances who, or what, they are +Pierre had come just at dinnertime and was sitting awkwardly in the +search of somebody and answered all her questions in monosyllables. He +was in the way and was the only one who did not notice the fact. Most of +“You have not yet seen my husband?” +understood that she was being asked to entertain this young man, and +on all sides. The countess rose and went into the ballroom. +“Herself,” came the answer in a rough voice, and Márya Dmítrievna +All the unmarried ladies and even the married ones except the very +oldest rose. Márya Dmítrievna paused at the door. Tall and stout, +surveying the guests, and leisurely arranged her wide sleeves as if +“Health and happiness to her whose name day we are keeping and to her +who was kissing her hand, “you’re feeling dull in Moscow, I daresay? +see how these nestlings are growing up,” and she pointed to the girls. +“You must look for husbands for them whether you like it or not....” +always called Natásha a Cossack) and she stroked the child’s arm as +she came up fearless and gay to kiss her hand. “I know she’s a scamp +She took a pair of pear-shaped ruby earrings from her huge reticule and, +of her saint’s-day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to +tone of voice. “Come here, my friend...” and she ominously tucked +your father the truth when he was in favor, and in your case it’s my +and he amuses himself setting a policeman astride a bear! For shame, +She turned away and gave her hand to the count, who could hardly keep +whole dining hall, and last of all the children, tutors, and governesses +band struck up in the gallery, and the guests settled down in their +places. Then the strains of the count’s household band were replaced +by the clatter of knives and forks, the voices of visitors, and the +Márya Dmítrievna on her right and Anna Mikháylovna on her left, the +with the hussar colonel on his left and Shinshín and the other male +grown-up young people: Véra beside Berg, and Pierre beside Borís; and +on the other side, the children, tutors, and governesses. From behind +the crystal decanters and fruit vases, the count kept glancing at his +wife and her tall cap with its light-blue ribbons, and busily filled +behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed +men’s end the voices sounded louder and louder, especially that of the +colonel of hussars who, growing more and more flushed, ate and drank so +guests were and exchanging glances with Natásha, who was sitting +opposite. Pierre spoke little but examined the new faces, and ate a +great deal. Of the two soups he chose turtle with savory patties and +napkin, from behind the next man’s shoulders and whispered: “Dry +that stood before his plate, Pierre held out one at random and drank +thirteen look at the boy they are in love with and have just kissed for +the first time. Sometimes that same look fell on Pierre, and that funny +pale, now blushed and strained every nerve to overhear what Nicholas +and Julie were saying to one another. The governess kept looking round +and kinds of dessert, in order to send a full description of the dinner +to his people in Germany; and he felt greatly offended when the butler +no one would understand that it was not to quench his thirst or from +At the men’s end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. +in Petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day +been forwarded by courier to the commander in chief. +Shinshín. “He has stopped Austria’s cackle and I fear it will be +the service and patriotically Russian. He resented Shinshín’s remark. +vreatening Russia and zat ze safety and dignity of ze Empire as vell +... and the wish, which constitutes the Emperor’s sole and absolute +him to despatch part of the army abroad and to create a new condition +wine with dignity and looking to the count for approval. +turn spindles at home!’?” said Shinshín, puckering his brows and +what he was about; yet they beat him à plate couture,*(3) and where +are we to find Suvórovs now? Je vous demande un peu,” *(4) said he, +thumping the table; “and ve must tie for our Emperor, and zen all vill +again turning to the count. “Zat is how ve old hussars look at it, and +zere’s an end of it! And how do you, a young man and a young hussar, +eyes and ears intent on the colonel. +his plate round and moving his wineglasses about with as much decision +and desperation as though he were at that moment facing some great +that his remarks were too enthusiastic and emphatic for the occasion and +Sónya trembled all over and blushed to her ears and behind them and +down to her neck and shoulders while Nicholas was speaking. +Pierre listened to the colonel’s speech and nodded approvingly. +table. “What are you thumping the table for?” she demanded of the +hussar, “and why are you exciting yourself? Do you think the French +in God’s hands. You may die in your bed or God may spare you in a +and the men’s at the other. +Her face suddenly flushed with reckless and joyous resolution. She half +was coming, and turning to her mother: +sternly with a threatening and forbidding movement of her head. +“Mamma! What sweets are we going to have?” and Natásha’s voice +sounded still more firm and resolute. +Sónya and fat little Pétya doubled up with laughter. +and to Pierre, glancing at him again. +Natásha saw there was nothing to be afraid of and so she braved even +Márya Dmítrievna and the countess burst out laughing, and all the +but at the incredible boldness and smartness of this little girl who had +pineapple ice. Before the ices, champagne was served round. The band +again struck up, the count and countess kissed, and the guests, leaving +their seats, went up to “congratulate” the countess, and reached +across the table to clink glasses with the count, with the children, and +with one another. Again the footmen rushed about, chairs scraped, and +guests returned to the drawing room and to the count’s study. +The card tables were drawn out, sets made up for boston, and the +dropping into his usual after-dinner nap, and laughed at everything. +clavichord and harp. Julie by general request played first. After she +other young ladies in begging Natásha and Nicholas, who were noted for +She looked round and seeing that her friend was not in the room ran to +Running into Sónya’s room and not finding her there, Natásha ran to +dress under her, hiding her face with her slender fingers, and sobbing +changed: her eyes became fixed, and then a shiver passed down her broad +neck and the corners of her mouth drooped. +Natásha’s large mouth widened, making her look quite ugly, and she +crying. Sónya tried to lift her head to answer but could not, and +blue-striped feather bed and hugging her friend. With an effort Sónya +sat up and began wiping her eyes and explaining. +come... he told me himself... but still I should not cry,” and she +showed a paper she held in her hand—with the verses Nicholas had +understand... what a soul he has!” +“It’s all very well for you... I am not envious... I love you and +one would have to... the Metropolitan himself... and even then it +the countess as her mother and called her so) “that I am spoiling +Nicholas’ career and am heartless and ungrateful, while truly... God +is my witness,” and she made the sign of the cross, “I love her so +much, and all of you, only Véra... And what for? What have I done +Sónya could not continue, and again hid her face in her hands and in +“Yes, these verses Nicholas wrote himself and I copied some others, +and she found them on my table and said she’d show them to Mamma, and +that I was ungrateful, and that Mamma would never allow him to marry +her up, hugged her, and, smiling through her tears, began comforting +remember how we and Nicholas, all three of us, talked in the sitting +arranged and how nice it all was? There’s Uncle Shinshín’s brother +it. And he is so clever and so good!” said Natásha. “Don’t +you cry, Sónya, dear love, darling Sónya!” and she kissed her and +and she won’t say anything to Mamma. Nicholas will tell her himself, +and he doesn’t care at all for Julie.” +Sónya sat up. The little kitten brightened, its eyes shone, and it +seemed ready to lift its tail, jump down on its soft paws, and begin +frock and hair. +“Well, let’s go and sing ‘The Brook.’” +Sónya, shaking off some down which clung to her and tucking away the +and light, joyous steps. At the visitors’ request the young people + How sweet, as fancies wander free, +get ready to dance in the large hall, and the sound of the feet and the +Natásha came in and walking straight up to Pierre said, laughing and +While the couples were arranging themselves and the musicians tuning up, +sitting in a conspicuous place and talking to him like a grown-up lady. +She had a fan in her hand that one of the ladies had given her to hold. +Assuming quite the pose of a society woman (heaven knows when and where +she had learned it) she talked with her partner, fanning herself and +Natásha blushed and laughed. +pushed back in the sitting room where the count and Márya Dmítrievna +had been playing cards with the majority of the more distinguished and +and replacing their purses and pocketbooks, entered the ballroom. First +came Márya Dmítrievna and the count, both with merry countenances. The +gallantry lit up his face and as soon as the last figure of the +écossaise was ended, he clapped his hands to the musicians and shouted +“Look at Papa!” shouted Natásha to the whole company, and quite +curly head to her knees and made the whole room ring with her laughter. +jovial old gentleman, who standing beside his tall and stout partner, +shoulders, turned out his toes, tapped gently with his foot, and, by +a smile that broadened his round face more and more, prepared the +filled by the domestic serfs—the men on one side and the women on +The count danced well and knew it. But his partner could not and did not +hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her +stern but handsome face really joined in the dance. What was expressed +expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose. +But if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed +the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and +her foot—which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual +severity. The dance grew livelier and livelier. The other couples could +not attract a moment’s attention to their own evolutions and did not +even try to do so. All were watching the count and Márya Dmítrievna. +and shouted to the musicians to play faster. Faster, faster, and faster; +lightly, more lightly, and yet more lightly whirled the count, flying +and making a wide sweep with his arm, amid a thunder of applause and +and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs. +her sleeves and puffing heavily. +to a tune in which the weary musicians blundered, and while tired +footmen and cooks were getting the supper, Count Bezúkhov had a +made for the sacrament of unction, and in his house there was the bustle +and thrill of suspense usual at such moments. Outside the house, beyond +that evening to bid a last farewell to the celebrated grandee of +bows and trying to escape as quickly as possible from the glances fixed +on him by the doctors, clergy, and relatives of the family. Prince +Vasíli, who had grown thinner and paler during the last few days, +leaning his elbow on his knee and covering his face with his hand. After +sitting so for a while he rose, and, looking about him with frightened +whispers, and, whenever anyone went into or came from the dying man’s +room, grew silent and gazed with eyes full of curiosity or expectancy at +“The limits of human life ... are fixed and may not be +beside him and was listening naïvely to his words. +his hand over the thin grizzled strands of hair combed back across his +“Yes, and he is over sixty. I hear the count no longer recognizes +from weeping and sat down beside Dr. Lorrain, who was sitting in a +weather. “The weather is beautiful, Princess; and besides, in Moscow +“Take a glass of boiled water and put a pinch of cream of tartar,” +and he indicated with his delicate fingers what he meant by a pinch. +“Tonight, not later,” said he in a low voice, and he moved away +understand and state the patient’s condition. +the icons and there was a pleasant scent of flowers and burnt pastilles. +cupboards, and little tables. The quilt of a high, white feather bed was +She rose and smoothed her hair, which was as usual so extremely smooth +that it seemed to be made of one piece with her head and covered with +unchanging stonily severe expression; and, sitting down opposite the +“Well, my dear?” said Prince Vasíli, taking her hand and bending it +prominent gray eyes. Then she shook her head and glanced up at the icons +and devotion, or of weariness and hope of resting before long. Prince +Prince Vasíli said no more and his cheeks began to twitch nervously, +too seemed strange; at one moment they looked impudently sly and at the +hands, looked attentively into Prince Vasíli’s eyes evidently +“Well, you see, my dear princess and cousin, Catherine Semënovna,” +The princess continued to look at him without moving, and with the same +her. “You know, Catiche, that we—you three sisters, Mámontov, and +me; but, my dear, I am getting on for sixty and must be prepared for +his portrait, “definitely demanded that he should be called.” +replied, “and it is that He would be merciful to him and would allow +rubbing his bald head and angrily pulling back toward him the little +table and becoming more animated and talking more rapidly: “what if +Pierre’s legitimation? Do you understand that in consideration of the +“I can tell you more,” continued Prince Vasíli, seizing her hand, +“that letter was written, though it was not sent, and the Emperor knew +as soon as all is over,” and Prince Vasíli sighed to intimate what he +meant by the words all is over, “and the count’s papers are opened, +the will and letter will be delivered to the Emperor, and the petition +legal heir to everything and you won’t get anything. You must know, +my dear, whether the will and letter were written, and whether they have +ought to know where they are, and must find them, because...” +“What next?” the princess interrupted, smiling sardonically and not +changing the expression of her eyes. “I am a woman, and you think we +“Well, really, Catiche! Can’t you understand! You are so +and will then inherit everything under the will? And if the will and +and you, mon cousin, seem to consider me a perfect fool,” said the +saying something witty and stinging. +tell you for the tenth time that if the letter to the Emperor and the +girl, you and your sisters are not heiresses! If you don’t believe me, +(the family solicitor) “and he says the same.” +her thin lips grew white, though her eyes did not change, and her voice +and I don’t now.” +She pushed the little dog off her lap and smoothed her dress. +nothing but meanness, deceit, envy, intrigue, and ingratitude—the +“Yes, I was a fool! I still believed in people, loved them, and +The princess wished to rise, but the prince held her by the hand. She +all done casually in a moment of anger, of illness, and was afterwards +last moments by not letting him commit this injustice, and not to let +has to be cunning and cruel.” +and wish you to have as good an opinion of me. Don’t upset yourself, +and let us talk sensibly while there is still time, be it a day or be it +but an hour.... Tell me all you know about the will, and above all where +it is. You must know. We will take it at once and show it to the +count. He has, no doubt, forgotten it and will wish to destroy it. +You understand that my sole desire is conscientiously to carry out his +and you.” +“Ah, don’t talk to me! Last winter she wheedled herself in here and +Sophie—I can’t repeat them—that it made the count quite ill and he +While these conversations were going on in the reception room and the +and Anna Mikháylovna (who found it necessary to accompany him) was +he was asleep in his corner and woke him up. Rousing himself, Pierre +followed Anna Mikháylovna out of the carriage, and only then began +looked like tradespeople, ran hurriedly from the entrance and hid in the +to be all right,” Pierre concluded, and followed Anna Mikháylovna. +of assurance and haste, Pierre concluded that it was all absolutely +clattering. These men pressed close to the wall to let Pierre and Anna +Mikháylovna pass and did not evince the least surprise at seeing them +the landing. “I’d better go to my own room.” +Anna Mikháylovna paused and waited for him to come up. +Pierre did not understand a word, but the conviction that all this had +to be grew stronger, and he meekly followed Anna Mikháylovna who was +in this part of the house and did not even know of the existence of +with a decanter on a tray as “my dear” and “my sweet,” asked +about the princess’ health and then led Pierre along a stone passage. +in the house was done in haste at that time), and Pierre and Anna +Prince Vasíli and the eldest princess were sitting close together +impatience, while the princess jumped up and with a gesture of +This action was so unlike her usual composure and the fear depicted on +stopped and glanced inquiringly over his spectacles at his guide. Anna +Mikháylovna evinced no surprise, she only smiled faintly and sighed, as +reply to his look, and went still faster along the passage. +Pierre could not make out what it was all about, and still less what +approach, but even in this room there now stood an empty bath, and water +and by a servant who passed out on tiptoe without heeding them. They +windows opening into the conservatory, with its large bust and full +another. All became silent and turned to look at the pale tear-worn Anna +Mikháylovna as she entered, and at the big stout figure of Pierre who, +glance at all those in the room and noticing the count’s confessor +seeming to grow suddenly smaller, and respectfully received the blessing +first of one and then of another priest. +The doctor cast a rapid glance upwards and silently shrugged his +shoulders and eyes, almost closing the latter, sighed, and moved away +from the doctor to Pierre. To him, in a particularly respectful and +“Trust in His mercy!” and pointing out a small sofa for him to sit +and wait for her, she went silently toward the door that everyone was +watching and it creaked very slightly as she disappeared behind it. +with something more than curiosity and sympathy. He noticed that they +of awe and even servility. A deference such as he had never before +the priests, rose and offered him her seat; an aide-de-camp picked up +and returned a glove Pierre had dropped; the doctors became respectfully +silent as he passed by, and moved to make way for him. At first Pierre +wished to take another seat so as not to trouble the lady, and also to +pick up the glove himself and to pass round the doctors who were not +even in his way; but all at once he felt that this would not do, and +rite which everyone expected of him, and that he was therefore bound +aide-de-camp, and sat down in the lady’s chair, placing his huge hands +and decided in his own mind that all was as it should be, and that in +order not to lose his head and do foolish things he must not act on his +his eyes seemed larger than usual when he glanced round and noticed +Pierre. He went up to him, took his hand (a thing he never used to do), +and drew it downwards as if wishing to ascertain whether it was firmly +well!” and he turned to go. +But Pierre thought it necessary to ask: “How is...” and hesitated, +in perplexity, and only later grasped that a stroke was an attack of +illness. Prince Vasíli said something to Lorrain in passing and went +through the door on tiptoe. He could not walk well on tiptoe and his +whole body jerked at each step. The eldest princess followed him, and +the priests and deacons and some servants also went in at the door. +Through that door was heard a noise of things being moved about, and +resolute in the discharge of duty, ran out and touching Pierre lightly +Pierre went in at the door, stepping on the soft carpet, and noticed +that the strange lady, the aide-de-camp, and some of the servants, all +Pierre well knew this large room divided by columns and an arch, its +columns, with a high silk-curtained mahogany bedstead on one side and +the gleaming icons stood a long invalid chair, and in that chair +hair above his broad forehead which reminded one of a lion, and the deep +characteristically noble wrinkles of his handsome, ruddy face. He lay +just under the icons; his large thick hands outside the quilt. Into the +right hand, which was lying palm downwards, a wax taper had been thrust +between forefinger and thumb, and an old servant, bending over from +with lighted tapers in their hands, slowly and solemnly conducting the +handkerchiefs to their eyes, and just in front of them their eldest +sister, Catiche, with a vicious and determined look steadily fixed on +sorrowful, and all-forgiving expression on her face, stood by the door +invalid chair, a wax taper in his left hand, was leaning his left arm on +and was crossing himself with his right hand, turning his eyes upward +and resignation to the will of God. “If you do not understand these +Behind him stood the aide-de-camp, the doctors, and the menservants; +the men and women had separated as in church. All were silently crossing +themselves, and the reading of the church service, the subdued chanting +of deep bass voices, and in the intervals sighs and the shuffling of +was about, went across the room to where Pierre was standing and gave +him a taper. He lit it and, distracted by observing those around him, +began crossing himself with the hand that held the taper. +watched him. She smiled, hid her face in her handkerchief, and remained +with it hidden for awhile; then looking up and seeing Pierre she +to one another, and the old servant who was holding the count’s hand +got up and said something to the ladies. Anna Mikháylovna stepped +forward and, stooping over the dying man, beckoned to Lorrain from +importance of the rite now being performed and even approved of it. He +hand that was free, and turning sideways felt the pulse and reflected +stir around him, then the people resumed their places and the service +left the chair on which he had been leaning, and—with an air +which intimated that he knew what he was about and if others did not +understand him it was so much the worse for them—did not go up to the +dying man, but passed by him, joined the eldest princess, and moved +silken hangings. On leaving the bed both Prince Vasíli and the princess +The chanting of the service ceased, and the voice of the priest was +sacrament. The dying man lay as lifeless and immovable as before. Around +him everyone began to stir: steps were audible and whispers, among which +The sick man was so surrounded by doctors, princesses, and servants +they had lifted the dying man and were moving him. +Here!” exclaimed different voices; and the heavy breathing of the +bearers and the shuffling of their feet grew more hurried, as if the +he caught a momentary glimpse between their heads and backs of the dying +man’s high, stout, uncovered chest and powerful shoulders, raised by +those who were holding him under the armpits, and of his gray, curly, +leonine head. This head, with its remarkably broad brow and cheekbones, +its handsome, sensual mouth, and its cold, majestic expression, was +movements of the bearers, and the cold listless gaze fixed itself upon +hand and said, “Come.” Pierre went with her to the bed on which the +hands were symmetrically placed on the green silk quilt, the palms +not knowing what to do, and glanced inquiringly at his guide. Anna +man’s hand and moving her lips as if to send it a kiss. Pierre, +suggestion and pressed his lips to the large boned, fleshy hand. Neither +the hand nor a single muscle of the count’s face stirred. Once more +distressed that his stout and clumsy body took up so much room and doing +father and son. This lasted about two minutes, which to Pierre seemed an +hour. Suddenly the broad muscles and lines of the count’s face began +to twitch. The twitching increased, the handsome mouth was drawn to one +side (only now did Pierre realize how near death his father was), and +quilt. The eyes and face of the sick man showed impatience. He made an +“Wants to turn on the other side,” whispered the servant, and got up +helplessly and he made a fruitless effort to pull it forward. Whether he +face, and again at the arm, and on his face a feeble, piteous smile +quivering in his breast and a tickling in his nose, and tears dimmed his +There was now no one in the reception room except Prince Vasíli and the +Great and talking eagerly. As soon as they saw Pierre and his companion +they became silent, and Pierre thought he saw the princess hide +Vasíli to Anna Mikháylovna. “Go and take something, my poor Anna +handleless cup before a table on which tea and a cold supper were laid +and little tables. During balls given at the house Pierre, who did not +who, as they passed through in their ball dresses with diamonds and +this same room was dimly lighted by two candles. On one small table tea +things and supper dishes stood in disorder, and in the middle of the +whispering, and betraying by every word and movement that they none +of them forgot what was happening and what was about to happen in the +liked to. He looked inquiringly at his monitress and saw that she was +Vasíli and the eldest princess. Pierre concluded that this also was +essential, and after a short interval followed her. Anna Mikháylovna +was standing beside the princess, and they were both speaking in excited +“Permit me, Princess, to know what is necessary and what is not +“But, my dear princess,” answered Anna Mikháylovna blandly but +impressively, blocking the way to the bedroom and preventing the other +the two ladies, addressing Prince Vasíli and pointing to an inlaid +portfolio she held in her hand. “All I know is that his real will is +in his writing table, and this is a paper he has forgotten....” +“Dear princess, I beg and implore you, have some pity on him! Je vous +of its honeyed firmness and softness. +loud that those in the drawing room heard her and were startled. “Why +Intriguer!” she hissed viciously, and tugged with all her might at the +portfolio, and changed her grip. +Prince Vasíli rose. “Oh!” said he with reproach and surprise, +and ask him, I!... does that satisfy you?” +which had lost all dignity, and at the twitching cheeks of Prince +Mikháylovna and snatching the portfolio from her. +Prince Vasíli bent his head and spread out his hands. +and which had always opened so quietly, burst noisily open and banged +against the wall, and the second of the three sisters rushed out +wringing her hands. +“What are you doing!” she cried vehemently. “He is dying and you +caught up the object of contention and ran into the bedroom. The eldest +princess and Prince Vasíli, recovering themselves, followed her. A few +handkerchief and rushed from the room. +sitting and dropped onto it, covering his face with his hand. Pierre +noticed that he was pale and that his jaw quivered and shook as if in an +“Ah, my friend!” said he, taking Pierre by the elbow; and there was +in his voice a sincerity and weakness Pierre had never observed in it +before. “How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? I am +awful...” and he burst into tears. +She led him into the dark drawing room and Pierre was glad no one could +see his face. Anna Mikháylovna left him, and when she returned he was +But God will support you: you are young, and are now, I hope, in command +duties on you, and you must be a man.” +Pierre understood nothing of all this and coloring shyly looked in +Mikháylovna returned to the Rostóvs’ and went to bed. On waking in +the morning she told the Rostóvs and all her acquaintances the details +to the last meeting between father and son, it was so touching that she +could not think of it without tears, and did not know which had behaved +everything and everybody at last and had spoken such pathetic words to +soul to see such men as the old count and his worthy son,” said she. +Of the behavior of the eldest princess and Prince Vasíli she spoke +disapprovingly, but in whispers and as a great secret. +arrival of young Prince Andrew and his wife was daily expected, but +with his daughter, Princess Mary, and her companion, Mademoiselle +Bald Hills, while he himself needed no one and nothing. He used to +say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and +superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence. He +himself undertook his daughter’s education, and to develop these two +cardinal virtues in her gave her lessons in algebra and geometry +till she was twenty, and arranged her life so that her whole time was +and not only at the same hour but at the same minute. With those about +him, from his daughter to his serfs, the prince was sharp and invariably +and respect as few hardhearted men would have aroused. Although he was +in retirement and had now no influence in political affairs, every high +considered it his duty to visit him and waited in the lofty antechamber +antechamber experienced the same feeling of respect and even fear when +the enormously high study door opened and showed the figure of a rather +small old man, with powdered wig, small withered hands, and bushy gray +morning greeting, crossing herself with trepidation and repeating a +silent prayer. Every morning she came in like that, and every morning +quietly and said in a whisper: “Please walk in.” +opened the door which moved noiselessly and easily. She paused at the +entrance. The prince was working at the lathe and after glancing round +The large table covered with books and plans, the tall glass-fronted +standing up, on which lay an open exercise book, and the lathe with +tools laid ready to hand and shavings scattered around—all indicated +continuous, varied, and orderly activity. The motion of the small foot +shod in a Tartar boot embroidered with silver, and the firm pressure +of the lean sinewy hand, showed that the prince still possessed the +tenacious endurance and vigor of hardy old age. After a few more turns +dropped it into a leather pouch attached to the lathe, and, approaching +so he simply held out his bristly cheek (as yet unshaven) and, regarding +her tenderly and attentively, said severely: +containing lessons in geometry written by himself and drew up a chair +“For tomorrow!” said he, quickly finding the page and making a +taking a letter addressed in a woman’s hand from a bag hanging above +princess’ face. She took it quickly and bent her head over it. +and a timid smile. +more and holding out the letter. +the letter away, and leaning his elbows on the table he drew toward him +daughter and placing an arm on the back of the chair on which she sat, +old age and tobacco, which she had known so long. “Now, madam, these +close to her; the red patches on her face came and went, and it was +plain that she understood nothing and was so frightened that her +fear would prevent her understanding any of her father’s further +the princess’ eyes grew dim, she could not see and could not hear +close to her, of his breath and the smell of him, and could think only +sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself +and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, +and sometimes flung the exercise book away. +aside and turning sharply away; but rising immediately, he paced up and +down, lightly touched his daughter’s hair and sat down again. +He drew up his chair, and continued to explain. +Mary, having taken and closed the exercise book with the next day’s +I don’t want to have you like our silly ladies. Get used to it and +you’ll like it,” and he patted her cheek. “It will drive all the +She turned to go, but he stopped her with a gesture and took an uncut +He patted her on the shoulder and himself closed the door after her. +rarely left her and which made her plain, sickly face yet plainer. She +sat down at her writing table, on which stood miniature portraits and +which was littered with books and papers. The princess was as untidy as +her father was tidy. She put down the geometry book and eagerly broke +Dear and precious Friend, How terrible and frightful a thing is +separation! Though I tell myself that half my life and half my happiness +are wrapped up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us +fate and in spite of the pleasures and distractions around me I cannot +calm, and penetrating, a look I loved so well and seem to see before me +Having read thus far, Princess Mary sighed and glanced into the mirror +which stood on her right. It reflected a weak, ungraceful figure and +princess, turning away and continuing to read. But Julie did not flatter +her friend, the princess’ eyes—large, deep and luminous (it seemed +to the frontier. Our dear Emperor has left Petersburg and it is thought +inactive and has left the university to join the army. I will confess to +last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which +one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, +he is so frank and has so much heart. He is so pure and poetic that +Someday I will tell you about our parting and all that was said then. +these poignant joys and sorrows. You are fortunate, for the latter are +this poetic and pure intimacy, were what my heart needed. But enough of +old Count Bezúkhov, and his inheritance. Fancy! The three princesses +have received very little, Prince Vasíli nothing, and it is Monsieur +Pierre who has inherited all the property and has besides been +recognized as legitimate; so that he is now Count Bezúkhov and +Vasíli played a very despicable part in this affair and that he +I confess I understand very little about all these matters of wills and +to know as plain Monsieur Pierre, has become Count Bezúkhov and the +watch the change in the tone and manners of the mammas burdened by +marriageable daughters, and of the young ladies themselves, toward +him, though, between you and me, he always seemed to me a poor sort +by finding husbands for me (most of whom I don’t even know), the +Bezúkhova. But you will understand that I have no desire for the post. +someone rich and distinguée, and it is on you that his relations’ +handsome and a terrible scapegrace. That is all I have been able to find +But enough of gossip. I am at the end of my second sheet of paper, and +Mamma has sent for me to go and dine at the Apráksins’. Read the +is an admirable book which calms and elevates the soul. Adieu! Give +my respects to monsieur your father and my compliments to Mademoiselle +P.S. Let me have news of your brother and his charming little wife. +The princess pondered awhile with a thoughtful smile and her luminous +rose and with her heavy tread went up to the table. She took a sheet of +paper and her hand moved rapidly over it. This is the reply she wrote, +Dear and precious Friend, Your letter of the 13th has given me great +man? On such matters I am only severe with myself. I understand such +feelings in others, and if never having felt them I cannot approve of +sweeter, and better than the feelings which the beautiful eyes of a +young man can inspire in a romantic and loving young girl like yourself. +and my father was much affected by it. He says the count was the last +representative but one of the great century, and that it is his own +seemed to me to have an excellent heart, and that is the quality I value +most in people. As to his inheritance and the part played by Prince +So young, and burdened with such riches—to what temptations he will be +poorer than the poorest beggar. A thousand thanks, dear friend, for the +volume you have sent me and which has such success in Moscow. Yet since +weak human understanding cannot grasp, it seems to me rather useless to +spend time in reading what is unintelligible and can therefore bear +no fruit. I never could understand the fondness some people have for +their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for +the Epistles and Gospels. Let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries +terrible and holy secrets of Providence while we remain in this flesh +which forms an impenetrable veil between us and the Eternal? Let us +conform to them and follow them, and let us be persuaded that the less +rejects all knowledge that does not come from Him; and the less we seek +has received a letter and is expecting a visit from Prince Vasíli. In +the duties of wife and mother upon me I shall try to perform them as +toward him whom He may give me for husband. +are—at the heart of affairs and of the world—is the talk all of +war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature—which townsfolk +and painfully felt. My father talks of nothing but marches and +countermarches, things of which I understand nothing; and the day +people and starting to join the army. You should have seen the state of +the mothers, wives, and children of the men who were going and should +laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of +injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing +Adieu, dear and kind friend; may our divine Saviour and His most Holy +Mother keep you in their holy and all-powerful care! +Bourienne rapidly, in her pleasant mellow tones and with guttural r’s. +She brought into Princess Mary’s strenuous, mournful, and gloomy +world a quite different atmosphere, careless, lighthearted, and +“Princess, I must warn you,” she added, lowering her voice and +evidently listening to herself with pleasure, and speaking with +him and would not have others do so.” +The princess glanced at her watch and, seeing that she was five minutes +room with a look of alarm. Between twelve and two o’clock, as the +day was mapped out, the prince rested and the princess played the +Just then a closed carriage and another with a hood drove up to the +alight, and let her pass into the house before him. Old Tíkhon, wearing +a whisper that the prince was sleeping, and hastily closed the door. +was at home last, and, having assured himself that they had not, he +and her short, downy, smiling lip lifted when she began to speak just as +merrily and prettily as ever. +“Why, this is a palace!” she said to her husband, looking around +Tíkhon, at her husband, and at the footman who accompanied them. +“Is that Mary practicing? Let’s go quietly and take her by +who kissed his hand. +of the oft-repeated passage of the sonata. Prince Andrew stopped and +middle, a cry was heard, then Princess Mary’s heavy tread and the +hand to her heart, with a beatific smile and obviously equally ready to +cry or to laugh. Prince Andrew shrugged his shoulders and frowned, as +of one another, and then, as if afraid of being too late, seized each +other’s hands, kissing them and pulling them away, and again began +kissing each other on the face, and then to Prince Andrew’s surprise +both began to cry and kissed again. Mademoiselle Bourienne also began to +it seemed quite natural that they should cry, and apparently it never +“Ah! my dear!... Ah! Mary!...” they suddenly exclaimed, and then +Prince Andrew and his sister, hand in hand, kissed one another, and +turned toward her brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, +continually and rapidly touching her rosy nether lip when necessary +and drawing up again next moment when her face broke into a smile of +glittering teeth and sparkling eyes. She told of an accident they had +condition, and immediately after that informed them that she had left +all her clothes in Petersburg and that heaven knew what she would have +to dress in here; and that Andrew had quite changed, and that Kitty +Odýntsova had married an old man, and that there was a suitor for Mary, +still looking silently at her brother and her beautiful eyes were full +of love and sadness. It was plain that she was following a train of +“Yes, and even tomorrow,” replied her brother. +The face of the little princess changed. She sighed and said: “Yes, +and unexpectedly again began to cry. +Lise? Take her to your room and I’ll go to Father. How is he? Just the +showed that, in spite of all his love and respect for his father, he was +“The hours are the same, and the lathe, and also the mathematics and +When the twenty minutes had elapsed and the time had come for the old +style, wearing an antique coat and powdered hair; and when Prince Andrew +entered his father’s dressing room (not with the contemptuous look and +thick, bushy eyebrows. Prince Andrew went up and kissed his father on +topic—making fun of the military men of the day, and more particularly +“Yes, Father, I have come to you and brought my wife who is +father’s face with an eager and respectful look. “How is your +“Only fools and rakes fall ill, my boy. You know me: I am busy from +morning till night and abstemious, so of course I am well.” +loving and honoring him. “Why, I have not yet had time to settle +see whether it was firmly plaited, and grasping his by the hand. “The +house for your wife is ready. Princess Mary will take her there and +show her over, and they’ll talk nineteen to the dozen. That’s +their woman’s way! I am glad to have her. Sit down and talk. About +Mikhelson’s army I understand—Tolstóy ‘s too... a simultaneous +chair and pacing up and down the room followed by Tíkhon, who ran after +him, handing him different articles of clothing. “What of Sweden? How +reluctantly, but gradually with more and more animation, and from habit +ninety thousand strong, was to threaten Prussia so as to bring her out +of her neutrality and draw her into the war; how part of that army was +to join some Swedish forces at Stralsund; how two hundred and twenty +thousand Austrians, with a hundred thousand Russians, were to operate in +Italy and on the Rhine; how fifty thousand Russians and as many English +were to land at Naples, and how a total force of five hundred thousand +not listening to it continued to dress while walking about, and three +This meant that Tíkhon was not handing him the waistcoat he wanted. +“And will she soon be confined?” and shaking his head reproachfully +“Malbrook s’en va-t-en guerre. Dieu sait quand reviendra.” * +“Well, you’ve told me nothing new,” and the old man repeated, +meditatively and rapidly: +“Dieu sait quand reviendra. Go to the dining room.” +At the appointed hour the prince, powdered and shaven, entered the +dining room where his daughter-in-law, Princess Mary, and Mademoiselle +very strictly to social distinctions and rarely admitted even important +checked handkerchief) to illustrate the theory that all men are equals, +and had more than once impressed on his daughter that Michael Ivánovich +exceedingly lofty, the members of the household and the footmen—one +signs to the footmen, and anxiously glancing from the clock to the door +portrait (evidently by the hand of the artist belonging to the estate) +of a ruling prince, in a crown—an alleged descendant of Rúrik and +Princess Mary looked at her brother in surprise. She did not understand +reverence and was beyond question. +Princess Mary could not understand the boldness of her brother’s +criticism and was about to reply, when the expected footsteps were heard +coming from the study. The prince walked in quickly and jauntily as was +struck two and another with a shrill tone joined in from the drawing +their thick, bushy eyebrows sternly scanned all present and rested on +sensation of fear and respect which the old man inspired in all around +him. He stroked her hair and then patted her awkwardly on the back of +her eyes, and then quickly went to his place and sat down. “Sit down, +and not with his eyes. +silent and seemed confused. The prince asked her about her father, and +she began to smile and talk. He asked about mutual acquaintances, and +she became still more animated and chattered away giving him greetings +from various people and retelling the town gossip. +“Countess Apráksina, poor thing, has lost her husband and she has +cried her eyes out,” she said, growing more and more lively. +As she became animated the prince looked at her more and more sternly, +and suddenly, as if he had studied her sufficiently and had formed a +definite idea of her, he turned away and addressed Michael Ivánovich. +telling me what forces are being collected against him! While you and I +Michael Ivánovich did not at all know when “you and I” had said +such things about Bonaparte, but understanding that he was wanted as +And the conversation again turned on the war, on Bonaparte, and the +generals and statesmen of the day. The old prince seemed convinced not +A B C of war or of politics, and that Bonaparte was an insignificant +that there were no political difficulties in Europe and no real war, +father’s ridicule of the new men, and drew him on and listened to him +himself fall into a trap Moreau set him, and from which he did not know +Consider, Prince Andrew. Two... Frederick and Suvórov; Moreau!... +Moreau would have been a prisoner if Suvórov had had a free hand; but +he had the Hofs-kriegs-wurst-schnapps-Rath on his hands. It would have +“you and your generals won’t get on against Buonaparte; you’ll +Were the Potëmkins, Suvórovs, and Orlóvs Germans? No, lad, either you +commander among them! Hm!...” +him, Bonaparte had made in his campaigns and even in politics. His +listened, refraining from a reply, and involuntarily wondered how this +old man, living alone in the country for so many years, could know and +discuss so minutely and acutely all the recent European military and +“You think I’m an old man and don’t understand the present state +sleep at night. Come now, where has this great commander of yours shown +“Dieu sait quand reviendra.” hummed the prince out of tune and, with +The little princess during the whole discussion and the rest of +father-in-law and now at Princess Mary. When they left the table she +took her sister-in-law’s arm and drew her into another room. +After inspecting the carriage himself and seeing the trunks put in, he +with silver plate, two Turkish pistols and a saber—a present from +clean, and in cloth covers carefully tied with tapes. +one reviews the past and plans for the future. Prince Andrew’s face +looked very thoughtful and tender. With his hands behind him he paced +and thoughtfully shaking his head. Did he fear going to the war, or was +hurriedly unclasped his hands, stopped at a table as if tying the +cover of the small box, and assumed his usual tranquil and impenetrable +had apparently been running), “and I did so wish to have another talk +obviously strange to her to think that this stern handsome man should be +Prince Andrew was silent, but the princess noticed the ironical and +Andrew? Don’t forget that she has grown up and been educated in +society, and so her position now is not a rosy one. We should enter into +to be parted from her husband and be left alone in the country, in her + * To understand all is to forgive all. +think we thoroughly understand. +“You live in the country and don’t think the life terrible,” he +life, and can’t, for I know no other. But think, Andrew: for a young +life, all alone—for Papa is always busy, and I... well, you know what +“No? She is very nice and kind and, above all, she’s much to be +and she’s even in my way. You know I always was a savage, and now am +even more so. I like being alone.... Father likes her very much. She and +Michael Ivánovich are the two people to whom he is always gentle and +after losing her own father. She is very good-natured, and my father +likes her way of reading. She reads to him in the evenings and reads +Princess Mary was first surprised and then aghast at this question. +“He always was rather harsh; and now I should think he’s getting +thoughts rather than the trend of the conversation—“and that’s a +contented and happy with him. I only wish you were all as happy as I +understand how a man of his immense intellect can fail to see what is +as clear as day, and can go so far astray. That is the only thing +improvement. His satire has been less bitter of late, and there was a +monk he received and had a long talk with.” +“Ah! my dear, I am afraid you and your monk are wasting your +“Ah! mon ami, I only pray, and hope that God will hear me. +and is nothing unworthy of you, but it will comfort me. Promise, +Andrúsha!...” said she, putting her hand in her reticule but not yet +the subject of her request and must not be shown before the request was +grandfather, wore it in all his wars.” (She still did not take out +“Andrew, I bless you with this icon and you must promise me you will +“If it does not weigh a hundredweight and won’t break my neck... +repented and added: “I am glad; really, dear, I am very glad.” +“Against your will He will save and have mercy on you and bring you +to Himself, for in Him alone is truth and peace,” said she in a voice +trembling with emotion, solemnly holding up in both hands before her +She crossed herself, kissed the icon, and handed it to Andrew. +up the whole of her thin, sickly face and made it beautiful. Her brother +crossed himself and kissed the icon. There was a look of tenderness, for +“Thank you, my dear.” She kissed him on the forehead and sat down +“As I was saying to you, Andrew, be kind and generous as you always +sweet, so good-natured, and her position now is a very hard one.” +Red patches appeared on Princess Mary’s face and she was silent as if +The patches grew deeper on her forehead, neck, and cheeks. She tried to +princess had been crying after dinner and had spoken of her forebodings +about her confinement, and how she dreaded it, and had complained of her +fate, her father-in-law, and her husband. After crying she had fallen +“Know this, Másha: I can’t reproach, have not reproached, and never +shall reproach my wife with anything, and I cannot reproach myself +with anything in regard to her; and that always will be so in whatever +As he said this he rose, went to his sister, and, stooping, kissed +her forehead. His fine eyes lit up with a thoughtful, kindly, and +“Let us go to her, I must say good-by. Or—go and wake and I’ll +take these away. Put this on the seat and this to the right.” +Princess Mary rose and moved to the door, then stopped and said: +“Andrew, if you had faith you would have turned to God and asked Him +to give you the love you do not feel, and your prayer would have been +sweetly. It was the third time that day that, with an ecstatic and +blushing and dropping her eyes. +Prince Andrew looked sternly at her and an expression of anger suddenly +and hair, without looking at her eyes, with such contempt that the +Frenchwoman blushed and went away without a word. When he reached his +sister’s room his wife was already awake and her merry voice, hurrying +usual in French, and as if after long self-restraint she wished to make +“No, but imagine the old Countess Zúbova, with false curls and her +This very sentence about Countess Zúbova and this same laugh Prince +five times. He entered the room softly. The little princess, plump and +rosy, was sitting in an easy chair with her work in her hands, talking +incessantly, repeating Petersburg reminiscences and even phrases. Prince +Andrew came up, stroked her hair, and asked if she felt rested after +their journey. She answered him and continued her chatter. +Mary, and the little princess. Prince Andrew had been called to his +spectacles and white dressing gown, in which he received no one but his +“Kiss me here,” and he touched his cheek: “Thanks, thanks!” +“For not dilly-dallying and not hanging to a woman’s apron strings. +writing, so that his quill spluttered and squeaked. “If you have +hands....” +The old prince stopped writing and, as if not understanding, fixed his +cases only one goes wrong, but it is her fancy and mine. They have been +telling her things. She has had a dream and is frightened.” +He signed with a flourish and suddenly turning to his son began to +“The wife!” said the old prince, briefly and significantly. +“I don’t understand!” said Prince Andrew. +He seized his son by the hand with small bony fingers, shook it, looked +through him, and again laughed his frigid laugh. +old man continued to fold and seal his letter, snatching up and throwing +down the wax, the seal, and the paper, with his accustomed rapidity. +Andrew did not speak; he was both pleased and displeased that his father +understood him. The old man got up and gave the letter to his son. +I have written that he should make use of you in proper places and not +and like him. Write and tell me how he receives you. If he is all +was accustomed to understand him. He led him to the desk, raised the +lid, drew out a drawer, and took out an exercise book filled with his +bold, tall, close handwriting. +hand them to the Emperor after my death. Now here is a Lombard bond +and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of +“Well, now, good-by!” He gave his son his hand to kiss, and embraced +your old father...” he paused unexpectedly, and then in a querulous +killed and if I have a son, do not let him be taken away from you—as I +“Not let the wife have him?” said the old man, and laughed. +at the door Prince Andrew and the figure of the old man in a white +dressing gown, spectacled and wigless, shouting in an angry voice. +Prince Andrew sighed and made no reply. +“Andrew, already!” said the little princess, turning pale and +looking with dismay at her husband. +He embraced her. She screamed and fell unconscious on his shoulder. +and carefully placed her in an easy chair. +“Adieu, Mary,” said he gently to his sister, taking her by the hand +and kissing her, and then he left the room with rapid steps. +Andrew had gone and made the sign of the cross in his direction. From +door opened quickly and the stern figure of the old man in the white +“Gone? That’s all right!” said he; and looking angrily at the +unconscious little princess, he shook his head reprovingly and slammed +In October, 1805, a Russian army was occupying the villages and towns of +the Archduchy of Austria, and yet other regiments freshly arriving from +Russia were settling near the fortress of Braunau and burdening the +the commander in chief, Kutúzov. +by the commander in chief. Despite the un-Russian appearance of the +locality and surroundings—fruit gardens, stone fences, tiled roofs, +and hills in the distance—and despite the fact that the inhabitants +the commander in chief would inspect the regiment on the march. Though +the words of the order were not clear to the regimental commander, and +not, it was decided at a consultation between the battalion commanders +soldiers, after a twenty-mile march, were kept mending and cleaning all +night long without closing their eyes, while the adjutants and +company commanders calculated and reckoned, and by morning the +thousand men each of whom knew his place and his duty, had every button +and every strap in place, and shone with cleanliness. And not only +externally was all in order, but had it pleased the commander in chief +shirt, and in every knapsack the appointed number of articles, “awl, +soap, and all,” as the soldiers say. There was only one circumstance +this defect was not due to any fault of the regimental commander, for +in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the Austrian +commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred miles. +The commander of the regiment was an elderly, choleric, stout, and +thick-set general with grizzled eyebrows and whiskers, and wider from +chest to back than across the shoulders. He had on a brand-new uniform +showing the creases where it had been folded and thick gold epaulettes +which seemed to stand rather than lie down on his massive shoulders. He +his life. He walked about in front of the line and at every step pulled +himself up, slightly arching his back. It was plain that the commander +admired his regiment, rejoiced in it, and that his whole mind was +matters, social interests and the fair sex occupied no small part of his +battalion commanders who smilingly pressed forward (it was plain that +they both felt happy). “We had our hands full last night. However, I +The battalion commander perceived the jovial irony and laughed. +“What?” asked the commander. +clearly worded the day before, namely, that the commander in chief +the march: in their greatcoats, and packs, and without any preparation +before with proposals and demands for him to join up with the army of +the Archduke Ferdinand and Mack, and Kutúzov, not considering this +so the worse the condition it was in, the better pleased the commander +men should be in their greatcoats and in marching order, and that the +commander in chief would otherwise be dissatisfied. On hearing this the +regimental commander hung his head, silently shrugged his shoulders, and +the battalion commander. “Oh, my God!” he added, stepping resolutely +forward. “Company commanders!” he shouted in a voice accustomed to +command. “Sergeants major!... How soon will he be here?” he asked +The regimental commander, going up to the line himself, ordered the +soldiers to change into their greatcoats. The company commanders ran off +were not in very good condition), and instantly the squares that had up +to then been in regular order and silent began to sway and stretch and +hum with voices. On all sides soldiers were running to and fro, throwing +up their knapsacks with a jerk of their shoulders and pulling the straps +over their heads, unstrapping their overcoats and drawing the sleeves on +instead of black. The regimental commander walked with his jerky steps +to the front of the regiment and examined it from a distance. +“Whatever is this? This!” he shouted and stood still. “Commander +“Commander of the third company wanted by the general!... commander to +the general... third company to the commander.” The words passed along +the lines and an adjutant ran to look for the missing officer. +appeared from behind his company and, though he was a middle-aged man +and not in the habit of running, trotted awkwardly stumbling on his +intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously. The general looked the +captain up and down as he came up panting, slackening his pace as he +shouted the regimental commander, thrusting forward his jaw and pointing +The commander in chief is expected and you leave your place? Eh? I’ll +The commander of the company, with his eyes fixed on his superior, +pressed two fingers more and more rigidly to his cap, as if in this +Hungarian?” said the commander with an austere gibe. +regimental commander cooling down a little. “Leave indeed.... One says +a word to you and you... What?” he added with renewed irritation, “I +And the commander, turning to look at the adjutant, directed his jerky +anger and walking up to the regiment wished to find a further excuse for +“H-o-o-w are you standing? Where’s your leg? Your leg?” shouted +the commander with a tone of suffering in his voice, while there were +still five men between him and Dólokhov with his bluish-gray uniform. +The eyes of the general and the soldier met. The general became silent, +The regimental commander, flushing, ran to his horse, seized the stirrup +with trembling hands, threw his body across the saddle, righted himself, +drew his saber, and with a happy and resolute countenance, opening +preening its plumage and became motionless. +“Att-ention!” shouted the regimental commander in a soul-shaking +voice which expressed joy for himself, severity for the regiment, and +light blue Viennese calèche, slightly creaking on its springs and drawn +and a convoy of Croats. Beside Kutúzov sat an Austrian general, in +calèche stopped in front of the regiment. Kutúzov and the Austrian +general were talking in low voices and Kutúzov smiled slightly as +thousand men breathlessly gazing at him and the regimental commander did +The word of command rang out, and again the regiment quivered, as with a +feeble voice of the commander in chief was heard. The regiment roared, +“Health to your ex... len... len... lency!” and again all became +and the general in white, accompanied by the suite, walked between the +From the way the regimental commander saluted the commander in chief and +devoured him with his eyes, drawing himself up obsequiously, and from +and hardly able to restrain his jerky movements, and from the way he +darted forward at every word or gesture of the commander in chief, +greater zeal than his duty as a commander. Thanks to the strictness and +assiduity of its commander the regiment, in comparison with others that +were only 217 sick and stragglers. Everything was in good order except +noticing what a bad state of things it was. The regimental commander +commander in chief’s regarding the regiment. Behind Kutúzov, at a +and sometimes laughed. Nearest of all to the commander in chief walked +a handsome adjutant. This was Prince Bolkónski. Beside him was his +kindly, smiling, handsome face and moist eyes. Nesvítski could hardly +beside him. This hussar, with a grave face and without a smile or a +commander’s back and mimicked his every movement. Each time the +commander started and bent forward, the hussar started and bent forward +in exactly the same manner. Nesvítski laughed and nudged the others to +Kutúzov walked slowly and languidly past thousands of eyes which were +been reprimanded on account of the blue greatcoat. +more than Timókhin had done when he was reprimanded by the regimental +commander, but now that the commander in chief addressed him he drew +it had the commander in chief continued to look at him, and so Kutúzov, +who evidently understood his case and wished him nothing but good, +scarred and puffy face. +satisfied with him?” he asked the regimental commander. +officer as in a looking glass—started, moved forward, and answered: +“We all have our weaknesses,” said Kutúzov smiling and walking away +The regimental commander was afraid he might be blamed for this and did +captain and his drawn-in stomach, and mimicked his expression and pose +and while Kutúzov was turning managed to make a grimace and then assume +a most serious, deferential, and innocent expression. +The third company was the last, and Kutúzov pondered, apparently trying +suite and said in French: +up to the commander in chief, and presented arms. +duty. The Emperor is gracious, and I shan’t forget you if you deserve +The clear blue eyes looked at the commander in chief just as boldly as +they had looked at the regimental commander, seeming by their expression +to tear open the veil of convention that separates a commander in chief +and prove my devotion to His Majesty the Emperor and to Russia!” +him and everything he could say had long been known to him, that he was +weary of it and it was not at all what he wanted. He turned away and +quarters near Braunau, where they hoped to receive boots and clothes and +regimental commander, overtaking the third company on its way to its +quarters and riding up to Captain Timókhin who was walking in front. +(The regimental commander’s face now that the inspection was happily +pleased!” And he held out his hand to the captain. +behaving himself, and in general...” +“And what about his character?” asked the regimental commander. +day he is sensible, well educated, and good-natured, and the next he’s +a wild beast.... In Poland, if you please, he nearly killed a Jew.” +“Oh, well, well!” remarked the regimental commander. “Still, one +he understood his commander’s wish. +The regimental commander sought out Dólokhov in the ranks and, reining +“Well, that’s all right,” continued the regimental commander. “A +could hear. “I thank you all! God be praised!” and he rode past that +company and overtook the next one. +regimental commander was nicknamed King of Hearts). +“No, friend, he is sharper-eyed than you are. Boots and leg bands... +and are drawn along.” +drummer, their leader, turned round facing the singers, and flourishing +words: “Morning dawned, the sun was rising,” and concluding: “On +been composed in the Turkish campaign and now being sung in Austria, the +Having jerked out these last words as soldiers do and waved his arms +as if flinging something to the ground, the drummer—a lean, handsome +soldier of forty—looked sternly at the singers and screwed up his +object above his head and, holding it there for some seconds, suddenly +flung it down and began: +“Oh, my bower new...!” chimed in twenty voices, and the castanet +and, walking backwards before the company, jerked his shoulders and +swinging their arms and keeping time spontaneously, marched with long +and the tramp of horses’ hoofs were heard. Kutúzov and his suite were +returning to the town. The commander in chief made a sign that the +men should continue to march at ease, and he and all his suite showed +pleasure at the sound of the singing and the sight of the dancing +soldier and the gay and smartly marching men. In the second file +marching with particular grace and boldness in time to the song and +suite who had mimicked the regimental commander, fell back from the +carriage and rode up to Dólokhov. +private and had not seen fit to recognize him. But now that Kutúzov had +The lively song gave a special flavor to the tone of free and easy +gaiety with which Zherkóv spoke, and to the intentional coldness of +song, arousing an involuntary sensation of courage and cheerfulness. +“I’m glad,” answered Dólokhov briefly and clearly, as the song +demanded. +“I say, come round some evening and we’ll have a game of faro!” +“I can’t. I’ve sworn not to. I won’t drink and won’t play till + To my native land...” +past the company, and overtook the carriage, still keeping time to the +his private room and, calling his adjutant, asked for some papers +relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the +letters that had come from the Archduke Ferdinand, who was in command of +required papers. Kutúzov and the Austrian member of the Hofkriegsrath +exclamation he was asking the adjutant to wait, and he went on with the +of expression and intonation that obliged one to listen to each +personally it would be a pleasure to hand over the supreme command +of the army into the hands of a better informed and more skillful +general—of whom Austria has so many—and to lay down all this heavy +liberty not to believe me and I don’t even care whether you do or +“On the contrary,” he said, in a querulous and angry tone that +Russian troops and their commander of the laurels they have been +“But that is my conviction, and judging by the last letter with which +His Highness the Archduke Ferdinand has honored me, I imagine that the +Mack, have by now already gained a decisive victory and no longer need +that were afloat, and so Kutúzov’s suggestion of an Austrian victory +sounded much like irony. But Kutúzov went on blandly smiling with the +informed him of a victory and stated strategically the position of the +“Please have a look at it”—and Kutúzov with an ironical smile +following passage, in German, from the Archduke Ferdinand’s letter: +We have fully concentrated forces of nearly seventy thousand men with +which to attack and defeat the enemy should he cross the Lech. Also, +commanding both sides of the Danube, so that should the enemy not +of communications, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his +Russian army will be fully equipped, and shall then, in conjunction with +Kutúzov sighed deeply on finishing this paragraph and looked at the +member of the Hofkriegsrath mildly and attentively. +with jests and to come to business. He involuntarily looked round at the +reports from our scouts. Here are two letters from Count Nostitz and +here is one from His Highness the Archduke Ferdinand and here are +these,” he said, handing him several papers, “make a neat memorandum +movements of the Austrian army, and then give it to his excellency.” +liked to tell him. He gathered up the papers and with a bow to both, +stepped softly over the carpet and went out into the waiting room. +affected languor and indolence. He now looked like a man who has time +agreeable and interesting work. His face expressed more satisfaction +with himself and those around him, his smile and glance were brighter +and more attractive. +Kutúzov, whom he had overtaken in Poland, had received him very kindly, +and had taken him to Vienna and given him the more serious commissions. +firmness, and expedition. I consider myself fortunate to have such a +On Kutúzov’s staff, among his fellow officers and in the army +different from themselves and from everyone else, expected great things +of him, listened to him, admired, and imitated him, and with them Prince +Andrew was natural and pleasant. Others, the majority, disliked him and +considered him conceited, cold, and disagreeable. But among these people +Prince Andrew knew how to take his stand so that they respected and even +his hand Prince Andrew came up to his comrade, the aide-de-camp on duty, +“I am ordered to write a memorandum explaining why we are not +order of Maria Theresa on his neck and a black bandage round his head, +“Commander in Chief Kutúzov?” said the newly arrived general +speaking quickly with a harsh German accent, looking to both sides and +“The commander in chief is engaged,” said Kozlóvski, going +hurriedly up to the unknown general and blocking his way to the door. +“The commander in chief is engaged,” repeated Kozlóvski calmly. +The general’s face clouded, his lips quivered and trembled. He took +leaf, gave it to Kozlóvski, stepped quickly to the window, and threw +immediately broke off. The door of the private room opened and Kutúzov +appeared in the doorway. The general with the bandaged head bent forward +as though running away from some danger, and, making long, quick strides +and his forehead became smooth again, he bowed his head respectfully, +closed his eyes, silently let Mack enter his room before him, and closed +and that the whole army had surrendered at Ulm proved to be correct. +lay in the general progress of the war. When he saw Mack and heard the +understood all the difficulties of the Russian army’s position, and +vividly imagined what awaited it and the part he would have to +humiliation of arrogant Austria and that in a week’s time he might, +perhaps, see and take part in the first Russian encounter with the +might outweigh all the courage of the Russian troops, and at the same +Excited and irritated by these thoughts Prince Andrew went toward his +he met Nesvítski, with whom he shared a room, and the wag Zherkóv; +pale face and glittering eyes. +Just as Prince Andrew met Nesvítski and Zherkóv, there came toward +army, and the member of the Hofkriegsrath who had arrived the previous +“They’re coming!... they’re coming!... Stand aside, make way, +“Your excellency,” said he in German, stepping forward and +He bowed his head and scraped first with one foot and then with the +The general frowned, turned away, and went on. +Bolkónski, turning still paler, pushed him away with an angry look and +of Mack, the news of his defeat, and the thought of what lay before the +Nesvítski and Zherkóv were so surprised by this outburst that they +and taking Nesvítski’s arm he left Zherkóv, who did not know what to +“What’s the matter?” exclaimed Prince Andrew standing still in +his excitement. “Don’t you understand that either we are officers +serving our Tsar and our country, rejoicing in the successes and + * “Forty thousand men massacred and the army of our allies + destroyed, and you find that a cause for jesting!” +and went out of the corridor. +assigned to cavalry-captain Denísov, the squadron commander, known +ever since he had overtaken the regiment in Poland, had lived with the +squadron commander. +part from his horse, and at last sprang down and called to his orderly. +headlong to the horse. “Walk him up and down, my dear fellow,” he +“Mind, walk him up and down well!” +evident that the cadet was liberal with his tips and that it paid to +serve him. Rostóv patted the horse’s neck and then his flank, and +“Splendid! What a horse he will be!” he thought with a smile, and +porch. His landlord, who in a waistcoat and a pointed cap, pitchfork in +hand, was clearing manure from the cowhouse, looked out, and his face +Kaiser Alexander hoch!” *(2) said he, quoting words often repeated by +the German landlord. + Hurrah for Emperor Alexander!” +The German laughed, came out of the cowshed, pulled off his cap, and +Rostóv waved his cap above his head like the German and cried laughing, +reason for rejoicing, they looked at each other with joyful delight and +and parted smiling, the German returning to his cowshed and Rostóv +brag about it, but if he stays out till morning it means he’s lost and +said he. “Now for trouble!” Rostóv looked out of the window and +sparkling black eyes, and black tousled mustache and hair. He wore an +unfastened cloak, wide breeches hanging down in creases, and a crumpled +“Lavwúska!” he shouted loudly and angrily, “take it off, +and have seen Fräulein Mathilde.” +luck! Such ill luck. As soon as you left, it began and went on. Hullo +Puckering up his face though smiling, and showing his short strong +teeth, he began with stubby fingers of both hands to ruffle up his thick +“the rat”) he said, rubbing his forehead and whole face with both +hands. “Just fancy, he didn’t let me win a single cahd, not one +fist, and tapped it on the floor, making the sparks fly, while he +“He lets one win the singles and collahs it as soon as one doubles it; +gives the singles and snatches the doubles!” +He scattered the burning tobacco, smashed the pipe, and threw it away. +Then he remained silent for a while, and all at once looked cheerfully +boots and the clinking of spurs that came to a stop, and a respectful +“Wostóv, deah fellow, just see how much there is left and shove the +purse undah the pillow,” he said, and went out to the quartermaster. +Rostóv took the money and, mechanically arranging the old and new coins +voice, and Lieutenant Telyánin, a small officer of the same squadron, +Rostóv thrust the purse under the pillow and shook the damp little hand +regiment but was not liked; Rostóv especially detested him and was +face; his eyes continually wandered from one object to another. +and show you what kind of rivet to use.” +Telyánin, and he went out to give the order. +Denísov screwed up his face and pointing over his shoulder with his +thumb to the room where Telyánin was sitting, he frowned and gave a +what’s one to do?” and, having given his order, he returned to +left him, rubbing his small white hands. +and looking carelessly about him. +They went through the porch and into the stable. The lieutenant +explained how to rivet the hoof and went away to his own quarters. +When Rostóv went back there was a bottle of vodka and a sausage on the +paper. He looked gloomily in Rostóv’s face and said: “I am witing +He leaned his elbows on the table with his pen in his hand and, +are childwen of the dust... but one falls in love and one is a God, one +Denísov frowned and was about to shout some reply but stopped. +“Seven new and three old imperials.” +“Oh, it’s wetched! Well, what are you standing there for, you +pillows one at a time and shaking them. +He pulled off the quilt and shook it. The purse was not there. +“You’re always like that; you thwow a thing down anywhere and forget +Lavrúshka turned all the bedding over, looked under the bed and under +the table, searched everywhere, and stood still in the middle of the +room. Denísov silently watched Lavrúshka’s movements, and when the +Rostóv felt Denísov’s gaze fixed on him, raised his eyes, and +somewhere below his throat rushed to his face and eyes. He could not +“And there hasn’t been anyone in the room except the lieutenant and +“Now then, you devil’s puppet, look alive and hunt for it!” +shouted Denísov, suddenly, turning purple and rushing at the man with +on his saber, and put on his cap. +orderly by the shoulders and knocking him against the wall. +a moment, and, evidently understanding what Rostóv hinted at, seized +“Nonsense!” he cried, and the veins on his forehead and neck stood +The purse is here! I’ll flay this scoundwel alive, and it will be +and went to the door. +But Rostóv pulled away his arm and, with as much anger as though +“Do you understand what you’re saying?” he said in a trembling +He could not finish, and ran out of the room. +“Ah, may the devil take you and evewybody,” were the last words +The headquarters were situated two miles away from Salzeneck, and +Rostóv, without returning home, took a horse and rode there. There was +it and saw Telyánin’s horse at the porch. +sausages and a bottle of wine. +“Ah, you’ve come here too, young man!” he said, smiling and +word; and he sat down at the nearest table. +Both were silent. There were two Germans and a Russian officer in the +room. No one spoke and the only sounds heard were the clatter of knives +and the munching of the lieutenant. +purse and, drawing its rings aside with his small, white, turned-up +fingers, drew out a gold imperial, and lifting his eyebrows gave it to +The coin was a new one. Rostóv rose and went up to Telyánin. +With shifting eyes but eyebrows still raised, Telyánin handed him the +pale, and added, “Look at it, young man.” +Rostóv took the purse in his hand, examined it and the money in it, and +and suddenly seemed to grow very merry. +He stretched out his hand to take hold of the purse. Rostóv let go of +it. Telyánin took the purse and began carelessly slipping it into the +pocket of his riding breeches, with his eyebrows lifted and his mouth +pocket and that’s quite simple and is no one else’s business.” +“Well, young man?” he said with a sigh, and from under his lifted +Rostóv’s and back, and back again and again in an instant. +“Come here,” said Rostóv, catching hold of Telyánin’s arm and +But these words came like a piteous, despairing cry and an entreaty for +fell from him. He was glad, and at the same instant began to pity the +Telyánin, taking up his cap and moving toward a small empty room. “We +“I know it and shall prove it,” said Rostóv. +to Rostóv’s face, and his sobs were audible. +take it...” He threw it on the table. “I have an old father and +Rostóv took the money, avoiding Telyánin’s eyes, and went out of the +room without a word. But at the door he stopped and then retraced his +take the money,” and he threw the purse to him and ran out of the inn. +said a tall, grizzly-haired staff captain, with enormous mustaches and +affairs of honor and had twice regained his commission. +me I lied, and I told him he lied. And there it rests. He may keep me +me apologize, because if he, as commander of this regiment, thinks it +“You just wait a moment, my dear fellow, and listen,” interrupted +one would not need finesse; and he tells me that I am lying—so let him +demand satisfaction of his regimental commander?” +Denísov sat gloomily biting his mustache and listening to the +officers,” continued the staff captain, “and Bogdánich” (the +“Well, have it so, and you talked a lot of nonsense to him and must +“I did not expect this of you,” said the staff captain seriously and +The case is this: you ought to have thought the matter over and +taken advice; but no, you go and blurt it all straight out before the +officers. Now what was the colonel to do? Have the officer tried and +It’s not pleasant, but what’s to be done, my dear fellow? You landed +conceit prevents your apologizing, and you wish to make the whole +apologize to an old and honorable officer? Whatever Bogdánich may +be, anyway he is an honorable and brave old colonel! You’re quick at +regiment next to no time, my lad, you’re here today and tomorrow +you’ll be appointed adjutant somewhere and can snap your fingers when +Denísov remained silent and did not move, but occasionally looked with +“You value your own pride and don’t wish to apologize,” continued +the staff captain, “but we old fellows, who have grown up in and, God +regiment, and Bogdánich knows it. Oh, we do prize it, old fellow! And +And the staff captain rose and turned away from Rostóv. +Rostóv, growing red and pale alternately, looked first at one officer +and then at the other. +“No, gentlemen, no... you mustn’t think... I quite understand. +the regiment I’d... Ah well, I’ll show that in action, and for me +round and clapping Rostóv on the shoulder with his big hand. +“Go and apologize, your excellency. Yes, go!” +can’t, do what you will! How can I go and apologize like a little boy +“It’ll be worse for you. Bogdánich is vindictive and you’ll pay +“What? Saw the real Mack? With hands and feet?” +The regimental adjutant came in and confirmed the news brought by +the rivers Inn (at Braunau) and Traun (near Linz). On October 23 the +baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling +bridge was at times veiled by a diaphanous curtain of slanting rain, and +cathedral, and its bridge, on both sides of which streamed jostling +masses of Russian troops. At the bend of the Danube, vessels, an island, +and a castle with a park surrounded by the waters of the confluence of +the Enns and the Danube became visible, and the rocky left bank of the +treetops and bluish gorges. The turrets of a convent stood out beyond a +wild virgin pine forest, and far away on the other side of the Enns the +Among the field guns on the brow of the hill the general in command of +the rearguard by the commander in chief, was sitting on the trail of a +gun carriage. A Cossack who accompanied him had handed him a knapsack +and a flask, and Nesvítski was treating some officers to pies and real +place! We passed close to the park and saw two deer... and what a +another pie but felt shy, and therefore pretended to be examining the +added he, munching a pie in his moist-lipped handsome mouth, “would be +He pointed with a smile to a turreted nunnery, and his eyes narrowed and +Meanwhile the staff officer standing in front pointed out something to +field glass and shrugging his shoulders, “so it is! They’ll be fired +On the opposite side the enemy could be seen by the naked eye, and from +a shot, and our troops could be seen hurrying to the crossing. +Nesvítski rose, puffing, and went up to the general, smiling. +“Yes, please do,” answered the general, and he repeated the order +that had already once been given in detail: “and tell the hussars +that they are to cross last and to fire the bridge as I ordered; and the +and flask, and swung his heavy person easily into the saddle. +watched him smilingly, and he rode off by the winding path down the +“Crew, to your guns!” commanded the officer. +In a moment the men came running gaily from their campfires and began +“One!” came the command. +metallic roar, and a whistling grenade flew above the heads of our +troops below the hill and fell far short of the enemy, a little smoke +The faces of officers and men brightened up at the sound. Everyone got +up and began watching the movements of our troops below, as plainly +visible as if but a stone’s throw away, and the movements of the +out from behind the clouds, and the clear sound of the solitary shot +and the brilliance of the bright sunshine merged in a single joyous and +alighted from his horse and whose big body was jammed against the +Nesvítski tried to move on, soldiers and carts pushed him back again +and pressed him against the railings, and all he could do was to smile. +crowded together close to his wheels and his horses. “What a fellow! +But the convoyman took no notice of the word “general” and shouted +little waves of the Enns, which rippling and eddying round the piles of +knapsacks, bayonets, long muskets, and, under the shakos, faces with +broad cheekbones, sunken cheeks, and listless tired expressions, and +white foam on the waves of the Enns, an officer, in a cloak and with +and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers’ or +company’s baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered, and hemmed in on +with a wink, and passed on followed by another, an old man. +That soldier passed on, and after him came another sitting on a cart. +“Where the devil have the leg bands been shoved to?” said an +orderly, running behind the cart and fumbling in the back of it. +“Bah! How they scurry. He just sends a ball and they think they’ll +all be killed,” a sergeant was saying angrily and reproachfully. +before. It was a German cart with a pair of horses led by a German, and +baby, an old woman, and a healthy German girl with bright red cheeks +turned toward the women, and while the vehicle was passing at foot pace +who, angry and frightened, strode energetically along with downcast +apple, also half smiling as he looked at the handsome girl. +The German closed his eyes, signifying that he did not understand. +The girl smiled and took it. Nesvítski like the rest of the men on the +kind of talk, and at last all stopped. As often happens, the horses of +a convoy wagon became restive at the end of the bridge, and the whole +at one another, and all pressed toward the exit from the bridge. +With great difficulty he managed to get to his horse, and shouting +for him, but again pressed on him so that they jammed his leg, and those +Nesvítski looked round and saw, some fifteen paces away but separated +by the living mass of moving infantry, Váska Denísov, red and shaggy, +with his cap on the back of his black head and a cloak hanging jauntily +whites glittering and rolling as he waved his sheathed saber in a small +bare hand as red as his face. +white teeth fiercely and spurring his black thoroughbred Arab, which +twitched its ears as the bayonets touched it, and snorted, spurting +hoofs, and apparently ready to jump over the railings had his rider let +scabbard and flourishing it. +The soldiers crowded against one another with terrified faces, and +Denísov. “They keep dwagging the wegiment to and fwo all day. If they +“What a dandy you are today!” said Nesvítski, looking at +Denísov’s new cloak and saddlecloth. +Denísov smiled, took out of his sabretache a handkerchief that diffused +a smell of perfume, and put it to Nesvítski’s nose. +and scented myself.” +The imposing figure of Nesvítski followed by his Cossack, and +the determination of Denísov who flourished his sword and shouted +to the farther side of the bridge and stopped the infantry. Beside the +and having done this he rode back. +Carelessly holding in his stallion that was neighing and pawing the +resounded on the planks of the bridge, and the squadron, officers in +front and men four abreast, spread across the bridge and began to emerge +trampled mud and gazed with that particular feeling of ill-will, +estrangement, and ridicule with which troops of different arms usually +the baggage wagons had all crossed, the crush was less, and the last +At the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our +ground, artillery and troops in blue uniform were seen. These were the +the officers and men of Denísov’s squadron, though they tried to talk +of other things and to look in other directions, thought only of what +was there on the hilltop, and kept constantly looking at the patches +The weather had cleared again since noon and the sun was descending +brightly upon the Danube and the dark hills around it. It was calm, and +at intervals the bugle calls and the shouts of the enemy could be heard +from the hill. There was no one now between the squadron and the enemy +yards was all that separated them. The enemy ceased firing, and that +stern, threatening, inaccessible, and intangible line which separates +the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. And +and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must +be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will +strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and are surrounded by other such +excitedly animated and healthy men.” So thinks, or at any rate +feels, anyone who comes in sight of the enemy, and that feeling gives +a particular glamour and glad keenness of impression to everything that +and a ball flew whistling over the heads of the hussar squadron. The +officers who had been standing together rode off to their places. The +squadron. All were looking at the enemy in front and at the squadron +commander, awaiting the word of command. A second and a third cannon +with rapid rhythmic whistle flew over the heads of the horsemen and fell +of each shot, as at the word of command, the whole squadron with its +ball flew past, rose in the stirrups and sank back again. The soldiers +bugler, showed one common expression of conflict, irritation, and +excitement, around chin and mouth. The quartermaster frowned, looking +Rook—a handsome horse despite its game leg—had the happy air of a +indication of something new and stern showed round the mouth. +The black, hairy, snub-nosed face of Váska Denísov, and his whole +short sturdy figure with the sinewy hairy hand and stumpy fingers in +good horse, Bedouin, and sitting as though falling backwards in the +saddle, he galloped to the other flank of the squadron and shouted in +felt perfectly happy. Just then the commander appeared on the bridge. +The squadron crossed the bridge and drew out of range of fire without +line followed them across and the last Cossacks quitted the farther side +up to Denísov’s squadron and rode at a footpace not far from Rostóv, +that he was at the front and in the power of a man toward whom he now +colonel’s athletic back, his nape covered with light hair, and his red +to notice him, and that his whole aim now was to test the cadet’s +courage, so he drew himself up and looked around him merrily; then it +after the attack, Bogdánich would come up to him as he lay wounded and +would magnanimously extend the hand of reconciliation. +could get more rewards by doing nothing on the staff, and had succeeded +came to his former chief with an order from the commander of the rear +gloomy gravity and glancing round at his comrades, “there is an order +to stop and fire the bridge.” +serious tone, “but the prince told me to ‘go and tell the colonel +that the hussars must return quickly and fire the bridge.’” +to fire the bridge, and now someone has gone and blundered; they are all +beside themselves over there and one can’t make anything out.” +The colonel deliberately stopped the regiment and turned to Nesvítski. +cap and smoothing his hair wet with perspiration with his plump hand, +“I am not your ‘dear sir,’ Mr. Staff Officer, and you did not tell +me to burn the bridge! I know the service, and it is my habit orders +hand. “How did you get here?” said he, turning to Zherkóv. +staff officer, and at Zherkóv, and he frowned. +for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second +wishes to test me!” His heart contracted and the blood rushed to his +conjecture, but the colonel did not once glance at Rostóv, and looked +as he always did when at the front, solemn and stern. Then came the word +of command. +Their sabers catching in the bridles and their spurs jingling, the +that his heart stood still. His hand trembled as he gave his horse into +an orderly’s charge, and he felt the blood rush to his heart with +a thud. Denísov rode past him, leaning back and shouting something. +catching and their sabers clattering. +and fell on his hands. The others outstripped him. +Rostóv wiping his muddy hands on his breeches looked at his enemy and +back, Cadet!” he cried angrily; and turning to Denísov, who, showing +Meanwhile Nesvítski, Zherkóv, and the officer of the suite were +standing together out of range of the shots, watching, now the small +and blue riding breeches, who were swarming near the bridge, and then at +uniforms and groups with horses, easily recognizable as artillery. +get there and fire the bridge or will the French get within grapeshot +range and wipe them out?” These were the questions each man of the +with a sinking heart—watching the bridge and the hussars in the bright +evening light and the blue tunics advancing from the other side with +their bayonets and guns. +Vladímir medal and ribbon? But now, even if they do get peppered, the +squadron may be recommended for honors and he may get a ribbon. Our +and hurriedly removed. +appeared, then a second and a third almost simultaneously, and at the +reports one after another, and a third. +but at irregular intervals, and grapeshot cracked and rattled onto the +setting it on fire and the French batteries were now firing at them, no +longer to hinder them but because the guns were trained and there was +got back to their horses. Two were misdirected and the shot went too +high, but the last round fell in the midst of a group of hussars and +rattle on the bridge as if nuts were being spilt, and the hussar nearest +hussar and began lifting him. +still he was lifted and laid on the stretcher. +Nicholas Rostóv turned away and, as if searching for something, gazed +into the distance, at the waters of the Danube, at the sky, and at the +sun. How beautiful the sky looked; how blue, how calm, and how deep! +How bright and glorious was the setting sun! With what soft glitter the +blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and +and happiness... “I should wish for nothing else, nothing, if only I +were there,” thought Rostóv. “In myself alone and in that sunshine +there is so much happiness; but here... groans, suffering, fear, and +this uncertainty and hurry... There—they are shouting again, and +again are all running back somewhere, and I shall run with them, and it, +death, is here above me and around... Another instant and I shall never +At that instant the sun began to hide behind the clouds, and other +stretchers came into view before Rostóv. And the fear of death and of +the stretchers, and love of the sun and of life, all merged into one +“O Lord God! Thou who art in that heaven, save, forgive, and protect +sounded louder and calmer, the stretchers disappeared from sight. +Rostóv, and sighing deeply he took Rook, his horse, which stood resting +one foot, from the orderly and began to mount. +“Yes and no mistake!” cried Denísov. “You worked like wegular +bwicks and it’s nasty work! An attack’s pleasant work! Hacking +of the colonel, Nesvítski, Zherkóv, and the officer from the suite. +triumphantly and gaily. +wounded, and one knocked out,” he added, unable to restrain a happy +smile, and pronouncing the phrase “knocked out” with ringing +Pursued by the French army of a hundred thousand men under the command +and compelled to act under conditions of war unlike anything that had +been foreseen, the Russian army of thirty-five thousand men commanded +overtaken by the enemy and fighting rearguard actions only as far as +There had been actions at Lambach, Amstetten, and Melk; but despite the +courage and endurance—acknowledged even by the enemy—with which the +rapid retreat. Austrian troops that had escaped capture at Ulm and had +joined Kutúzov at Braunau now separated from the Russian army, and +Kutúzov was left with only his own weak and exhausted forces. The +modern science of strategics, had been handed to Kutúzov when he was in +Vienna by the Austrian Hofkriegsrath, the sole and almost unattainable +left bank of the Danube and took up a position for the first time +with the river between himself and the main body of the French. On the +and broke it up. In this action for the first time trophies were taken: +banners, cannon, and two enemy generals. For the first time, after a +fortnight’s retreat, the Russian troops had halted and after a fight +troops were ill-clad, exhausted, and had lost a third of their number +in killed, wounded, sick, and stragglers; though a number of sick and +wounded had been abandoned on the other side of the Danube with a letter +in which Kutúzov entrusted them to the humanity of the enemy; and +though the big hospitals and the houses in Krems converted into military +hospitals could no longer accommodate all the sick and wounded, yet the +stand made at Krems and the victory over Mortier raised the spirits of +the army considerably. Throughout the whole army and at headquarters +of columns from Russia, of some victory gained by the Austrians, and of +wounded under him and his own arm slightly grazed by a bullet. As a mark +of the commander in chief’s special favor he was sent with the news of +very muscular men, and on the night of the battle, having arrived +given him by the commander in chief and his fellow officers, Prince +wheels and the sensation of victory. Then he began to imagine that +the Russians were running away and that he himself was killed, but he +again recalled all the details of the victory and his own calm courage +during the battle, and feeling reassured he dozed off.... The dark +thawing in the sunshine, the horses galloped quickly, and on both sides +of the road were forests of different kinds, fields, and villages. +cart, shouting and scolding a soldier with coarse abuse. In each of +the long German carts six or more pale, dirty, bandaged men were being +Prince Andrew told his driver to stop, and asked a soldier in what +answered the soldier. Prince Andrew took out his purse and gave the +“Good news!... Go on!” he shouted to the driver, and they galloped +streets of Brünn and found himself surrounded by high buildings, the +lights of shops, houses, and street lamps, fine carriages, and all that +atmosphere of a large and active town which is always so attractive to a +soldier after camp life. Despite his rapid journey and sleepless night, +Prince Andrew when he drove up to the palace felt even more vigorous and +and his thoughts followed one another with extraordinary clearness and +dim, but definite and in the concise form in which he imagined himself +questions that might be put to him and the answers he would give. He +to the palace, however, an official came running out to meet him, and +The adjutant on duty, meeting Prince Andrew, asked him to wait, and went +in to the Minister of War. Five minutes later he returned and bowing +approached the door of the minister’s room. He felt offended, and +the adjutant and the minister. “Away from the smell of powder, they +and making pencil notes on them, and for the first two or three minutes +taking no notice of his arrival. A wax candle stood at each side of the +to the end, without raising his eyes at the opening of the door and the +“Take this and deliver it,” said he to his adjutant, handing him the +papers and still taking no notice of the special messenger. +evenly, and then raised his head. He had an intellectual and distinctive +expression on his face changed in a way evidently deliberate and +He took the dispatch which was addressed to him and began to read it +Having glanced through the dispatch he laid it on the table and looked +and happiness the victory had afforded him had been now left in the +indifferent hands of the Minister of War and the polite adjutant. The +After washing and dressing, Prince Andrew came into the diplomat’s +luxurious study and sat down to the dinner prepared for him. Bilíbin +After his journey and the campaign during which he had been deprived of +all the comforts of cleanliness and all the refinements of life, Prince +Bilíbin was a man of thirty-five, a bachelor, and of the same circle as +of sixteen, had been in Paris and Copenhagen, and now held a rather +important post in Vienna. Both the foreign minister and our ambassador +in Vienna knew him and valued him. He was not one of those many +avoid doing certain things, and speak French. He was one of those, +who, liking work, knew how to do it, and despite his indolence would +prepare a circular, memorandum, or report, skillfully, pointedly, and +but also for his skill in dealing and conversing with those in the +something striking and took part in a conversation only when that was +in the Viennese drawing rooms and often had an influence on matters +looked as clean and well washed as the tips of one’s fingers after a +and his eyebrows were lifted, then his eyebrows would descend and +twinkled and looked out straight. +engagement and his reception by the Minister of War. +“They received me and my news as one receives a dog in a game of +Bilíbin smiled and the wrinkles on his face disappeared. +distance and puckering the skin above his left eye, “malgré la haute +and his one division, and even then Mortier slips through your fingers! +the Minister of War but also his Most August Majesty the Emperor and +He looked straight at Prince Andrew and suddenly unwrinkled his +“I confess I do not understand: perhaps there are diplomatic +out. Mack loses a whole army, the Archduke Ferdinand and the Archduke +Karl give no signs of life and make blunder after blunder. Kutúzov +invincibility of the French, and the Minister of War does not even care +us nice news of a victory by the Archduke Karl or Ferdinand (one +archduke’s as good as another, as you know) and even if it is only +over a fire brigade of Bonaparte’s, that will be another story and +Ferdinand disgraces himself. You abandon Vienna, give up its +and your capital!’ The one general whom we all loved, Schmidt, you +expose to a bullet, and then you congratulate us on the victory! Admit +“Not only occupied, but Bonaparte is at Schönbrunn, and the count, +After the fatigues and impressions of the journey, his reception, and +“and showed me a letter in which the parade of the French in Vienna +your victory is not a matter for great rejoicing and that you can’t be +Prince Andrew, beginning to understand that his news of the battle +the bridge and its celebrated bridgehead and Prince Auersperg? We heard +“Prince Auersperg is on this, on our side of the river, and is +taken and I hope it will not be, for it is mined and orders have been +mountains of Bohemia, and you and your army would have spent a bad +quoting one of his own mots, releasing the wrinkles on his forehead, and +the Emperor Alexander and the King of Prussia in Berlin? If Prussia +joins the Allies, Austria’s hand will be forced and there will be war. +clenching his small hand and striking the table with it, “and what +l’u! * I shall certainly adopt an innovation and call him simply +“This is what I think. Austria has been made a fool of, and she is +taken, and all this for the beaux yeux * of His Sardinian Majesty. And +are being deceived, my instinct tells me of negotiations with France and +When Prince Andrew reached the room prepared for him and lay down in a +clean shirt on the feather bed with its warmed and fragrant pillows, he +Bonaparte’s new triumph, tomorrow’s levee and parade, and the +He closed his eyes, and immediately a sound of cannonading, of musketry +and the rattling of carriage wheels seemed to fill his ears, and now +the French were firing, and he felt his heart palpitating as he rode +and he experienced tenfold the joy of living, as he had not done since +“Yes, that all happened!” he said, and, smiling happily to himself +Austrian adjutant, Bilíbin, and last night’s conversation. Having +animated, and handsome, with his hand bandaged. In the study were four +war or politics but related to high society, to certain women, and to +politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions +about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry +jests and gossip. +appointment to London was a promotion and that he was so to regard it. +you—is that that man suffers, and this Don Juan, wicked fellow, is +Hippolyte, and began looking through a lorgnette at his elevated legs. +Bilíbin and the rest of “ours” burst out laughing in Hippolyte’s +face, and Prince Andrew saw that Hippolyte, of whom—he had to +He sat down beside Hippolyte and wrinkling his forehead began talking +to him about politics. Prince Andrew and the others gathered round these +expressing... as in its last note... you understand... Besides, unless +mouth!” said Bilíbin, and the mop of hair on his head moved with +Everybody laughed, and Hippolyte louder than anyone. He was evidently +distressed, and breathed painfully, but could not restrain the wild +this house and in Brünn itself. I want to entertain him as far as I +and I beg you all to help me. Brünn’s attractions must be shown him. +You can undertake the theater, I society, and you, Hippolyte, of course +dinner,” cried several voices. “We’ll take you in hand.” +that provisions are supplied and the routes indicated,” said Bilíbin, +audiences, but he does not like talking himself and can’t do it, as +been told to, and the Emperor Francis merely looked fixedly into his +face and just nodded to him with his long head. But after it was +Francis received him standing in the middle of the room. Before the +seemed confused and blushed as if not knowing what to say. +“Was Kutúzov well? When had he left Krems?” and so on. The Emperor +five in the afternoon,” replied Bolkónski growing more animated and +he had ready in his mind, of all he knew and had seen. But the Emperor +smiled and interrupted him. +“Three and a half miles, Your Majesty.” +“The French have abandoned the left bank?” +The Emperor thanked Prince Andrew and bowed. Prince Andrew withdrew and +saw friendly looks and heard friendly words. Yesterday’s adjutant +reproached him for not having stayed at the palace, and offered him +his own house. The Minister of War came up and congratulated him on the +archduchess also wished to see him. He did not know whom to answer, and +took him by the shoulder, led him to the window, and began to talk to +the Grand Cross of Maria Theresa, and the whole army received rewards. +Bolkónski was invited everywhere, and had to spend the whole morning +calling on the principal Austrian dignitaries. Between four and five +and his visit to Brünn. At the door he found a vehicle half full of +to provide himself with some books for the campaign, and had spent some +Prince Andrew could not understand. +Auersperg was defending, and the bridge was not blown up: so Murat +is now rushing along the road to Brünn and will be here in a day or +gentlemen, messieurs les maréchaux, * Murat, Lannes, and Belliard, +mount and ride to the bridge. (Observe that all three are Gascons.) +mined and doubly mined and that there are menacing fortifications at its +head and an army of fifteen thousand men has been ordered to blow up +the bridge and not let us cross? But it will please our sovereign the +Emperor Napoleon if we take this bridge, so let us three go and take +it!’ ‘Yes, let’s!’ say the others. And off they go and take the +bridge, cross it, and now with their whole army are on this side of the +Danube, marching on us, you, and your lines of communication.” +“Stop jesting,” said Prince Andrew sadly and seriously. This news +grieved him and yet he was pleased. +the ranks of obscure officers and offer him the first step to fame! +that could save the army, and how he alone would be entrusted with the +These gentlemen ride onto the bridge alone and wave white handkerchiefs; +tête-de-pont. * They spin him a thousand gasconades, saying that +Bonaparte, that they desire to see Prince Auersperg, and so on. The +jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a French battalion gets to +the water, and approaches the tête-de-pont. At length appears the +Hostilities are ended, we can shake one another’s hand.... The +bewildered him with fine words, and he is so flattered by his rapidly +established intimacy with the French marshals, and so dazzled by the +sight of Murat’s mantle and ostrich plumes, qu’il n’y voit que du +French battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the +the mines and blow up the bridge, this sergeant, seeing that the French +stayed his hand. The sergeant, who was evidently wiser than his general, +goes up to Auersperg and says: ‘Prince, you are being deceived, here +true Gascon) and says: ‘I don’t recognize the world-famous Austrian +was a stroke of genius. Prince Auersperg feels his dignity at stake and + * (2) That their fire gets into his eyes and he forgets that +and the glory that awaited him. +hitherto puckered brow became smooth as a sign of pleasure, and with a +risen and was going toward his room. +Prince Andrew looked inquiringly at him and gave no reply. +the army now that it is in danger. I understand that. Mon cher, it is +side of the question and you will see that your duty, on the contrary, +anything else.... You have not been ordered to return and have not been +dismissed from here; therefore, you can stay and go with us wherever our +ill luck takes us. They say we are going to Olmütz, and Olmütz is a +very decent town. You and I will travel comfortably in my calèche.” +“I am speaking sincerely as a friend! Consider! Where and why are +things,” and the skin over his left temple puckered, “either you +share defeat and disgrace with Kutúzov’s whole army.” +set off to rejoin the army, not knowing where he would find it and +In Brünn everybody attached to the court was packing up, and the heavy +great haste and in the greatest disorder. The road was so obstructed +took a horse and a Cossack from a Cossack commander, and hungry and +commander in chief and of his own luggage. Very sinister reports of the +position of the army reached him as he went along, and the appearance of +and they awoke in him astonishment at the genius of his hero, a feeling +of wounded pride, and a hope of glory. “And should there be nothing +carts, guns, artillery, and again baggage wagons and vehicles of all +kinds overtaking one another and blocking the muddy road, three and +sometimes four abreast. From all sides, behind and before, as far as ear +and gun carriages, the tramp of horses, the crack of whips, shouts, the +urging of horses, and the swearing of soldiers, orderlies, and officers. +flayed, some not, and broken-down carts beside which solitary soldiers +sat waiting for something, and again soldiers straggling from their +returned from them dragging sheep, fowls, hay, and bulging sacks. At +each ascent or descent of the road the crowds were yet denser and the +pushed the guns and wagons themselves. Whips cracked, hoofs slipped, +traces broke, and lungs were strained with shouting. The officers +directing the march rode backward and forward between the carts. Their +voices were but feebly heard amid the uproar and one saw by their faces +Wishing to find out where the commander in chief was, he rode up to +evidently rigged up by soldiers out of any available materials and +looking like something between a cart, a cabriolet, and a calèche. +A soldier was driving, and a woman enveloped in shawls sat behind the +and was just putting his question to a soldier when his attention +the woman’s vehicle for trying to get ahead of others, and the strokes +and, waving her thin arms from under the woolen shawl, cried: +Chasseurs.... They won’t let us pass, we are left behind and have lost +The officer glanced at him, and without replying turned again to the +rage, “who are you? Are you in command here? Eh? I am commander here, +Prince Andrew, his face distorted with fury, rode up to him and raised +The officer flourished his arm and hastily rode away. +doctor’s wife, who was calling him her deliverer, and recalling with +galloped on to the village where he was told that the commander in chief +On reaching the village he dismounted and went to the nearest house, +intending to rest if but for a moment, eat something, and try to sort +out the stinging and tormenting thoughts that confused his mind. “This +is a mob of scoundrels and not an army,” he was thinking as he went +He turned round. Nesvítski’s handsome face looked out of the little +window. Nesvítski, moving his moist lips as he chewed something, and +Entering the house, Prince Andrew saw Nesvítski and another adjutant +had any news. On their familiar faces he read agitation and alarm. +“Where is the commander in chief?” asked Bolkónski. +“Well, is it true that it’s peace and capitulation?” asked +we’re getting it still worse,” said Nesvítski. “But sit down and +He had just remembered his recent encounter with the doctor’s wife and +“What is the commander in chief doing here?” he asked. +abominable, quite abominable!” said Prince Andrew, and he went off to +the house where the commander in chief was. +Passing by Kutúzov’s carriage and the exhausted saddle horses of +house with Prince Bagratión and Weyrother. Weyrother was the Austrian +at Prince Andrew and did not even nod to him. +angrily and disrespectfully at Kozlóvski. +Through the door came the sounds of Kutúzov’s voice, excited and +disrespectful manner of the exhausted clerk, the fact that the clerk and +Kozlóvski were squatting on the floor by a tub so near to the commander +in chief, and from the noisy laughter of the Cossacks holding the +horses near the window, Prince Andrew felt that something important and +Just as he was going to open it the sounds ceased, the door opened, and +Kutúzov with his eagle nose and puffy face appeared in the doorway. +the commander in chief’s one sound eye showed him to be so preoccupied +with thoughts and anxieties as to be oblivious of his presence. He +impassive face of Oriental type, came out after the commander in chief. +loudly, handing Kutúzov an envelope. +“Well, good-by, Prince,” said he to Bagratión. “My blessing, and +His face suddenly softened and tears came into his eyes. With his left +hand he drew Bagratión toward him, and with his right, on which he wore +“Christ be with you!” Kutúzov repeated and went toward his +“Get in,” said Kutúzov, and noticing that Bolkónski still delayed, +They got into the carriage and drove for a few minutes in silence. +and involuntarily noticed the carefully washed seams of the scar near +his temple, where an Ismail bullet had pierced his skull, and the empty +saying, and sat plunged in thought. Five minutes later, gently swaying +affair, and about some ladies they both knew. +he commanded was in an almost hopeless position. The spy reported that +Napoleon’s army of one hundred and fifty thousand men would cut him +off completely and surround his exhausted army of forty thousand, and he +to abandon the road connecting him with the troops arriving from Russia, +mountains, defending himself against superior forces of the enemy and +abandoning all hope of a junction with Buxhöwden. If Kutúzov decided +by the French who had crossed the Vienna bridge, and encumbered by his +baggage and transport, having to accept battle on the march against an +from Vienna to Znaim was shorter and better than the road for the +four thousand strong, to the right across the hills from the Krems-Znaim +resting, and to halt facing Vienna with Znaim to his rear, and if he +hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers +before he could reach Znaim. Hence Bagratión with his four thousand +that had placed the Vienna bridge in the hands of the French without +and with this object offered a three days’ truce on condition that +that negotiations for peace were already proceeding, and that he +Murat’s emissary and retired, leaving Bagratión’s division +negotiations and to offer the Russian army the three days’ truce. +a truce and sent his adjutant to Kutúzov to report the offer he had +Bagratión’s exhausted troops some rest, and letting the transport and +if but one stage nearer Znaim. The offer of a truce gave the only, and +to agree to the truce but also to offer terms of capitulation, and +road. Bagratión’s exhausted and hungry detachment, which alone +covered this movement of the transport and of the whole army, had to +and also that Murat’s mistake would very soon be discovered, proved +truce and a capitulation, he detected a ruse and wrote the following +I cannot find words to express to you my displeasure. You command only +my advance guard, and have no right to arrange an armistice without my +the armistice immediately and march on the enemy. Inform him that the +general who signed that capitulation had no right to do so, and that no +army.... You are in a position to seize its baggage and artillery. +escape, and Bagratión’s four thousand men merrily lighted campfires, +dried and warmed themselves, cooked their porridge for the first time +for three days, and not one of them knew or imagined what was in store +Between three and four o’clock in the afternoon Prince Andrew, who +had persisted in his request to Kutúzov, arrived at Grunth and reported +Murat’s detachment and the battle had not yet begun. In Bagratión’s +Bagratión, knowing Bolkónski to be a favorite and trusted adjutant, +received him with distinction and special marks of favor, explaining to +him that there would probably be an engagement that day or the next, and +the rearguard and have an eye on the order of retreat, “which is also +“If he is one of the ordinary little staff dandies sent to earn a +to execute an order. The officer on duty, a handsome, elegantly dressed +seemed to be seeking something, and soldiers dragging doors, benches, +and fencing from the village. +hand. And there,” he pointed to a sutler’s tent, “they crowd in +and sit. This morning I turned them all out and now look, it’s full +again. I must go there, Prince, and scare them a bit. It won’t take a +“Yes, let’s go in and I will get myself a roll and some cheese,” +They dismounted and entered the tent. Several officers, with flushed and +weary faces, were sitting at the table eating and drinking. +Captain,” and he turned to a thin, dirty little artillery officer who +sounded and you’ll be in a pretty position without your boots!” (The +you, all!” he added in a tone of command. +Túshin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to +jest was unacceptable and had not come off. He grew confused. +The staff officer and Prince Andrew mounted their horses and rode on. +Having ridden beyond the village, continually meeting and overtaking +soldiers and officers of various regiments, they saw on their left some +bank by unseen hands. Prince Andrew and the officer rode up, looked at +the entrenchment, and went on again. Just behind it they came upon some +entrenchment. They had to hold their noses and put their horses to a +seen. Prince Andrew stopped and began examining the position. +The staff officer remained behind and Prince Andrew rode on alone. +The farther forward and nearer the enemy he went, the more orderly and +cheerful were the troops. The greatest disorder and depression had been +miles away from the French. At Grunth also some apprehension and alarm +their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company +the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up. Soldiers scattered over +the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building +shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, +dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending +boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers. +In one company dinner was ready, and the soldiers were gazing eagerly +emptied them, rolling the vodka in their mouths, and walked away from +the sergeant major with brightened expressions, licking their lips and +encampment, and not within sight of the enemy before an action in +chasseur regiment and in the lines of the Kiev grenadiers—fine fellows +commander, higher than and different from the others, Prince Andrew came +soldiers held him while two others were flourishing their switches and +A stout major was pacing up and down the line, and regardless of the +honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in +So the swishing sound of the strokes, and the desperate but unnatural +A young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face +stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant +line and that of the enemy were far apart on the right and left flanks, +another’s faces and speak to one another. Besides the soldiers who +who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies. +no longer looked at the French but paid attention to the sight-seers and +Russian musketeer who had gone up to the picket line with an officer and +was rapidly and excitedly talking to a French grenadier. “Hark to him +“Wait a bit and listen. It’s fine!” answered Sídorov, who was +recognized him and stopped to listen to what he was saying. Dólokhov +“Now then, go on, go on!” incited the officer, bending forward and +trying to prove that the Russians had surrendered and had fled all +“We have orders to drive you off here, and we shall drive you off,” +“Only take care you and your Cossacks are not all captured!” said +The French onlookers and listeners laughed. +And Dólokhov swore at him in coarse soldier’s Russian and shouldering +Sídorov, turning to the French, winked, and began to jabber meaningless +and good-humored laughter from the soldiers that it infected the French +to unload the muskets, explode the ammunition, and all return home as +But the guns remained loaded, the loopholes in blockhouses and +entrenchments looked out just as menacingly, and the unlimbered cannon +told him the whole field could be seen. Here he dismounted, and stopped +artillery sentry was pacing up and down; he stood at attention when the +Behind the guns were their limbers and still farther back picket ropes +and artillerymen’s bonfires. To the left, not far from the farthest +It was true that a view over nearly the whole Russian position and the +could be seen, and in three places to left and right the French troops +evidently in the village itself and behind the hill. To the left from +Our infantry were stationed there, and at the farthest point the +dragoons. In the center, where Túshin’s battery stood and from which +Prince Andrew was surveying the position, was the easiest and most +direct descent and ascent to the brook separating us from Schön +wider than ours, and it was plain that they could easily outflank us +on both sides. Behind our position was a steep and deep dip, making it +difficult for artillery and cavalry to retire. Prince Andrew took +out his notebook and, leaning on the cannon, sketched a plan of the +center, and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the +dip. Prince Andrew, being always near the commander in chief, closely +following the mass movements and general orders, and constantly studying +flank,” he said to himself, “the Kiev grenadiers and the Podólsk +on this high ground, shall withdraw the left flank under its cover, and +shed, and its tone was so sincere that he could not but listen. +“No, friend,” said a pleasant and, as it seemed to Prince Andrew, a +very wise, because you can take everything along with you—vodka and +“Well, stand us some of your herb vodka, Túshin,” it said. +He did not finish. Just then there was a whistle in the air; nearer and +nearer, faster and louder, louder and faster, a cannon ball, as if it +and his kind, intelligent face rather pale, rushed out of the shed +motionless masses of the French now swayed and that there really was +The battle had begun! Prince Andrew turned his horse and galloped back +growing louder and more frequent. Evidently our guns had begun to reply. +and Murat, humiliated and anxious to expiate his fault, had at once +moved his forces to attack the center and outflank both the Russian +wings, hoping before evening and before the arrival of the Emperor to +blood rush to his heart. “But where and how will my Toulon present +Passing between the companies that had been eating porridge and drinking +movement of soldiers forming ranks and getting their muskets ready, +and on all their faces he recognized the same eagerness that filled his +the face of each soldier and each officer seemed to say. +The foremost, wearing a Cossack cloak and lambskin cap and riding a +him to come up; Prince Bagratión reined in his horse and recognizing +and wished he could tell what, if anything, this man was thinking +and feeling at that moment. “Is there anything at all behind that +told him, and said, “Very good!” in a tone that seemed to imply that +everything that took place and was reported to him was exactly what he +riding a fine bobtailed horse, and a civilian—an accountant who had +smile of satisfaction and presented a strange appearance among the +hussars, Cossacks, and adjutants, in his camlet coat, as he jolted on +joke, and purposely trying to appear stupider than he really was. +By this time they were all approaching Túshin’s battery, and a ball +ended with a thud into something soft... f-f-flop! and a Cossack, riding +a little to their right and behind the accountant, crashed to earth with +his horse. Zherkóv and the staff officer bent over their saddles and +and examined him with attentive curiosity. The Cossack was dead, but the +Prince Bagratión screwed up his eyes, looked round, and, seeing the +the care of a skillful rider and, slightly bending over, disengaged his +Suvórov giving his saber to Bagratión in Italy, and the recollection +“Whose company?” asked Prince Bagratión of an artilleryman standing +frightened here?” and the artilleryman understood him. +freckled gunner in a merry voice, standing to attention. +“Yes, yes,” muttered Bagratión as if considering something, and he +As he approached, a ringing shot issued from it deafening him and his +suite, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the gun they could see +a trembling hand placed a charge in the cannon’s mouth. The short, +carriage, moved forward and, not noticing the general, looked out +shading his eyes with his small hand. +“Lift it two lines more and it will be just right,” cried he in a +Bagratión called to him, and Túshin, raising three fingers to his cap +with a bashful and awkward gesture not at all like a military salute +No one had given Túshin orders where and at what to fire, but after +report, and began deliberately to examine the whole battlefield extended +rivulet flowed, the soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was +heard, and much farther to the right beyond the dragoons, the officer of +without support. Prince Bagratión turned to the officer and with his +officer’s remark was just and that really no answer could be made to +commander of the regiment in the hollow and news that immense masses +of the French were coming down upon them and that his regiment was in +disorder and was retreating upon the Kiev grenadiers. Prince Bagratión +bowed his head in sign of assent and approval. He rode off at a walk to +the right and sent an adjutant to the dragoons with orders to attack the +the commander of the dragoons had already retreated beyond the dip in +the ground, as a heavy fire had been opened on him and he was losing +men uselessly, and so had hastened to throw some sharpshooters into the +As he was leaving the battery, firing was heard on the left also, and +himself, Prince Bagratión sent Zherkóv to tell the general in command +as the right flank would probably not be able to withstand the enemy’s +attack very long. About Túshin and the battalion that had been in +attentively to Bagratión’s colloquies with the commanding officers +and the orders he gave them and, to his surprise, found that no orders +subordinate commanders was done, if not by his direct command, at least +though what happened was due to chance and was independent of the +commander’s will, owing to the tact Bagratión showed, his presence +countenances became calm; soldiers and officers greeted him gaily, grew +more cheerful in his presence, and were evidently anxious to display +bleeding head and no cap was being dragged along by two soldiers who +supported him under the arms. There was a gurgle in his throat and he +groaning aloud and swinging his arm which had just been hurt, while +that moment been wounded and his face showed fear rather than suffering. +Crossing a road they descended a steep incline and saw several men +unwounded. The soldiers were ascending the hill breathing heavily, and +despite the general’s presence were talking loudly and gesticulating. +smoke, and an officer catching sight of Bagratión rushed shouting after +to the ranks along which shots crackled now here and now there, drowning +the sound of voices and the shouts of command. The whole air reeked with +wind to carry away. A pleasant humming and whistling of bullets were +The commander of the regiment, a thin, feeble-looking old man with a +giving him a mild expression, rode up to Bagratión and welcomed him as +been attacked by French cavalry and that, though the attack had been +had happened during that half-hour to the troops entrusted to him, and +of the action balls and shells began flying all over his regiment and +hitting men and that afterwards someone had shouted “Cavalry!” and +hollow and were firing at our men. Prince Bagratión bowed his head as a +sign that this was exactly what he had desired and expected. Turning +expressed the concentrated and happy resolution you see on the face of +eagerly and rather disdainfully, not resting on anything although his +movements were still slow and measured. +The commander of the regiment turned to Prince Bagratión, entreating +from him. “There, you see!” and he drew attention to the bullets +whistling, singing, and hissing continually around them. He spoke in the +tone of entreaty and reproach that a carpenter uses to a gentleman who +your hands.” He spoke as if those bullets could not kill him, and his +he only gave an order to cease firing and re-form, so as to give room +to move from right to left as if drawn by an invisible hand, and the +against them and winding down over the uneven ground. One could already +and see the standard flapping against its staff. +and moved to the right; from behind it, dispersing the laggards, came +a company commander, a fine round-faced man, with a stupid and happy +would appear as he passed the commander. +to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real +weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men +if all the powers of his soul were concentrated on passing the commander +in the best possible manner, and feeling that he was doing it well he +at each alternate step; and in time to this, with stern but varied +faces, the wall of soldiers burdened with knapsacks and muskets marched +in step, and each one of these hundreds of soldiers seemed to be +left...” A fat major skirted a bush, puffing and falling out of +ball, cleaving the air, flew over the heads of Bagratión and his suite, +and fell into the column to the measure of “Left... left!” “Close +up!” came the company commander’s voice in jaunty tones. The +fallen, and an old trooper on the flank, a noncommissioned officer who +had stopped beside the dead men, ran to catch up his line and, falling +into step with a hop, looked back angrily, and through the ominous +silence and the regular tramp of feet beating the ground in unison, one +fearing to relax, shouted with his mouth wide open and passed on. +The order was given to halt and down knapsacks. +Bagratión rode round the ranks that had marched past him and +dismounted. He gave the reins to a Cossack, took off and handed over his diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-1/1M.txt/grep-1M-01 b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-1/1M.txt/grep-1M-01 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..daaec58 --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-1/1M.txt/grep-1M-01 @@ -0,0 +1,3478 @@ +felt coat, stretched his legs, and set his cap straight. The head of the +turning for a moment to the front line, and slightly swinging his arms, +forward, and experienced great happiness. +could clearly distinguish their bandoliers, red epaulets, and even their +legs and turned-out toes, climbed the hill with difficulty.) Prince +Bagratión gave no further orders and silently continued to walk on in +French, smoke appeared all along their uneven ranks, and musket shots +who had marched so gaily and complacently. But at the moment the first +report was heard, Bagratión looked round and shouted, “Hurrah!” +“Hurrah—ah!—ah!” rang a long-drawn shout from our ranks, and +passing Bagratión and racing one another they rushed in an irregular +but joyous and eager crowd down the hill at their disordered foe. +French were putting out the fire which the wind was spreading, and thus +of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the +of the Azóv and Podólsk infantry and the Pávlograd hussars—was +simultaneously attacked and outflanked by superior French forces under +Lannes and was thrown into confusion. Bagratión had sent Zherkóv +to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat +Zherkóv, not removing his hand from his cap, turned his horse about +and galloped off. But no sooner had he left Bagratión than his courage +failed him. He was seized by panic and could not go where it was +firing was, he began to look for the general and his staff where they +could not possibly be, and so did not deliver the order. +The command of the left flank belonged by seniority to the commander of +the regiment Kutúzov had reviewed at Braunau and in which Dólokhov was +serving as a private. But the command of the extreme left flank had been +assigned to the commander of the Pávlograd regiment in which Rostóv +was serving, and a misunderstanding arose. The two commanders were much +exasperated with one another and, long after the action had begun on +the right flank and the French were already advancing, were engaged +regiments, both cavalry and infantry, were by no means ready for the +battle and were engaged in peaceful occupations, the cavalry feeding the +horses and the infantry collecting wood. +hussars, flushing and addressing an adjutant who had ridden up, “so +But haste was becoming imperative. Cannon and musketry, mingling +together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes +of Lannes’ sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and +command of the infantry went toward his horse with jerky steps, and +having mounted drew himself up very straight and tall and rode to the +Pávlograd commander. The commanders met with polite bows but with +occupy the position and prepare for an attack.” +“I am not in the cavalry, Colonel, but I am a Russian general and if +touching his horse and turning purple in the face. “Vill you be so +goot to come to ze front and see dat zis position iss no goot? I don’t +and I won’t allow it to be said!” +general expanded his chest and rode, frowning, beside him to the +bullets. They reached the front, several bullets sped over them, and +was impossible for cavalry to act among the bushes and broken ground, +and colonel looked sternly and significantly at one another like two +there was nothing to be said, and neither wished to give occasion for +and a muffled shout almost behind them in the wood. The French had +there was nothing between the squadron and the enemy, and again that +terrible dividing line of uncertainty and fear—resembling the line +conscious of this unseen line, and the question whether they would cross +it or not, and how they would cross it, agitated them all. +to him by the officers, and, like a man desperately insisting on having +of an attack spread through the squadron. The command to form up rang +out and the sabers whizzed as they were drawn from their scabbards. +Still no one moved. The troops of the left flank, infantry and hussars +alike, felt that the commander did not himself know what to do, and this +reins and started of his own accord. +Before him, on the right, Rostóv saw the front lines of his hussars and +“Faster!” came the word of command, and Rostóv felt Rook’s flanks +Rostóv anticipated his horse’s movements and became more and more +in the middle of the line that had seemed so terrible—and now he +had crossed that line and not only was there nothing terrible, but +everything was becoming more and more happy and animated. “Oh, how I +now,” thought Rostóv driving his spurs into Rook and letting him go +from him, and Rostóv felt as in a dream that he continued to be carried +behind him Bondarchúk, an hussar he knew, jolted against him and looked +angrily at him. Bondarchúk’s horse swerved and galloped past. +asked and answered at the same instant. He was alone in the middle of a +field. Instead of the moving horses and hussars’ backs, he saw nothing +before him but the motionless earth and the stubble around him. There +was warm blood under his arm. “No, I am wounded and the horse is +having become entangled in the saddle. Where our men were, and where the +and could not answer. “Can something bad have happened to me?” +he wondered as he got up: and at that moment he felt that something +it were not his. He examined his hand carefully, vainly trying to find +came a man wearing a strange shako and a blue cloak, swarthy, sunburned, +and with a hooked nose. Then came two more, and many more running +was being held by the arms and his horse was being led behind him. +Frenchmen, and though but a moment before he had been galloping to get +at them and hack them to pieces, their proximity now seemed so awful +is so fond of?” He remembered his mother’s love for him, and his +family’s, and his friends’, and the enemy’s intention to kill him +and running so lightly, frightened Rostóv. He seized his pistol and, +instead of firing it, flung it at the Frenchman and ran with all his +and conflict with which he had trodden the Enns bridge, but with the +of fear for his young and happy life, possessed his whole being. Rapidly +used to show at catchplay, now and then turning his good-natured, pale, +round once more. The French had fallen behind, and just as he looked +round the first man changed his run to a walk and, turning, shouted +Frenchman also stopped and took aim. Rostóv closed his eyes and stooped +down. One bullet and then another whistled past him. He mustered his +last remaining strength, took hold of his left hand with his right, and +of the wood ran out of it, the different companies getting mixed, and +senseless cry, “Cut off!” that is so terrible in battle, and that +The moment he heard the firing and the cry from behind, the general +realized that something dreadful had happened to his regiment, and the +recalcitrant cavalry colonel, his own dignity as a general, and above +all quite forgetting the danger and all regard for self-preservation, he +clutched the crupper of his saddle and, spurring his horse, galloped to +missed him. His one desire was to know what was happening and at any +the copse across which our men, regardless of orders, were running and +attend to the voice of their commander, or would they, disregarding him, +distorted out of all likeness to his former self, and the flourishing of +air, and disobeying orders. The moral hesitation which decided the fate +The general had a fit of coughing as a result of shouting and of the +powder smoke and stopped in despair. Everything seemed lost. But at that +moment the French who were attacking, suddenly and without any apparent +reason, ran back and disappeared from the outskirts, and Russian +company, which alone had maintained its order in the wood and, having +a desperate cry and such mad, drunken determination that, taken by +surprise, the French had thrown down their muskets and run. Dólokhov, +running beside Timókhin, killed a Frenchman at close quarters and was +fugitives returned, the battalions re-formed, and the French who had +reserve units were able to join up, and the fight was at an end. The +regimental commander and Major Ekonómov had stopped beside a bridge, +and took hold of the commander’s stirrup, almost leaning against him. +or cap, his head was bandaged, and over his shoulder a French munition +pouch was slung. He had an officer’s sword in his hand. The soldier +was pale, his blue eyes looked impudently into the commander’s face, +and his lips were smiling. Though the commander was occupied in giving +to the French sword and pouch. “I have taken an officer prisoner. I +stopped the company.” Dólokhov breathed heavily from weariness and +“All right, all right,” replied the commander, and turned to Major +But Dólokhov did not go away; he untied the handkerchief around his +head, pulled it off, and showed the blood congealed on his hair. +Túshin’s battery had been forgotten and only at the very end of the +send his orderly staff officer, and later Prince Andrew also, to order +by someone’s order, the battery had continued firing and was only not +Grand! Look at the smoke, the smoke!” exclaimed the artillerymen, +cried at each shot: “Fine! That’s good! Look at it... Grand!” The +and began firing them at Túshin’s battery. +In their childlike glee, aroused by the fire and their luck in +battery when two balls, and then four more, fell among our guns, one +knocking over two horses and another tearing off a munition-wagon +reserve gun carriage, the wounded were carried away, and the four guns +had been killed at the beginning of the engagement and within an hour +the artillerymen were still as merry and lively as ever. Twice they +noticed the French appearing below them, and then they fired grapeshot +Little Túshin, moving feebly and awkwardly, kept telling his orderly to +“refill my pipe for that one!” and then, scattering sparks from it, +ran forward shading his eyes with his small hand to look at the French. +wheels and working the screws himself. +dead or wounded horses and harnessing fresh ones, and shouting in his +feeble voice, so high pitched and irresolute. His face grew more and +more animated. Only when a man was killed or wounded did he frown and +for the most part handsome fellows and, as is always the case in an +artillery company, a head and shoulders taller and twice as broad +as their officer—all looked at their commander like children in an +embarrassing situation, and the expression on his face was invariably +Owing to the terrible uproar and the necessity for concentration and +fear, and the thought that he might be killed or badly wounded never +occurred to him. On the contrary, he became more and more elated. It +had first seen the enemy and fired the first shot, and that the corner +of the field he stood on was well-known and familiar ground. Though he +thought of everything, considered everything, and did everything the +From the deafening sounds of his own guns around him, the whistle and +thud of the enemy’s cannon balls, from the flushed and perspiring +of men and horses, from the little puffs of smoke on the enemy’s side +(always followed by a ball flying past and striking the earth, a man, a +his own had taken possession of his brain and at that moment afforded +small cloud rose from the hill and was borne in a streak to the left by +“What do you want, your honor?” asked an artilleryman, standing +was large and of an old pattern. The French swarming round their guns +seemed to him like ants. In that world, the handsome drunkard Number One +often than at anyone else and took delight in his every movement. +the ebb and flow of these sounds. +cannon balls at the French with both hands. +“Are you mad? You have twice been ordered to retreat, and you...” +ball, flying close to him, caused him to duck and bend over his horse. +He paused, and just as he was about to say something more, another ball +stopped him. He turned his horse and galloped off. +and he felt a nervous shudder run down his spine. But the mere thought +and dismounted slowly among the guns. He delivered the order and did +positions and withdrawn in his presence. Together with Túshin, stepping +across the bodies and under a terrible fire from the French, he attended +(one shattered gun and one unicorn were left behind), Prince Andrew rode +“Well, till we meet again...” he said, holding out his hand to +dear fellow!” and for some unknown reason tears suddenly filled his +The wind had fallen and black clouds, merging with the powder smoke, +dark and the glow of two conflagrations was the more conspicuous. The +cannonade was dying down, but the rattle of musketry behind and on the +right sounded oftener and nearer. As soon as Túshin with his guns, +of fire and had descended into the dip, he was met by some of the staff, +among them the staff officer and Zherkóv, who had been twice sent to +another, they all gave, and transmitted, orders as to how to proceed, +reprimanding and reproaching him. Túshin gave no orders, and, +the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves +after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages. The jaunty +cadet, supporting one hand with the other, came up to Túshin and asked +It was plain that this cadet had already repeatedly asked for a lift and +The cadet was Rostóv. With one hand he supported the other; he was +pale and his jaw trembled, shivering feverishly. He was placed on +breeches and arm. +infantry, and having reached the village of Gruntersdorf they halted. It +off, and the firing had begun to subside. Suddenly, near by on the +right, shouting and firing were again heard. Flashes of shot gleamed in +the darkness. This was the last French attack and was met by soldiers +the village again, but Túshin’s guns could not move, and the +artillerymen, Túshin, and the cadet exchanged silent glances as they +awaited their fate. The firing died down and soldiers, talking eagerly, +The French had been repulsed for the last time. And again and again in +always in one direction, humming with whispers and talk and the sound of +hoofs and wheels. Amid the general rumble, the groans and voices of the +a white horse followed by his suite, and said something in passing: +closer together and a report spread that they were ordered to halt: +Fires were lighted and the talk became more audible. Captain Túshin, +station or a doctor for the cadet, and sat down by a bonfire the +fire. From pain, cold, and damp, a feverish shivering shook his whole +position. He kept closing his eyes and then again looking at the fire, +which seemed to him dazzlingly red, and at the feeble, round-shouldered +Túshin’s large, kind, intelligent eyes were fixed with sympathy and +From all sides were heard the footsteps and talk of the infantry, who +were walking, driving past, and settling down all around. The sound +crackling of wood fires near and afar, merged into one tremulous rumble. +gloom, but a dark sea swelling and gradually subsiding after a storm. +Rostóv looked at and listened listlessly to what passed before and +his hands to the blaze, and turned away his face. +With the soldier, an infantry officer with a bandaged cheek came up to +the bonfire, and addressing Túshin asked him to have the guns moved a +the campfire. They were quarreling and fighting desperately, each trying +Then a thin, pale soldier, his neck bandaged with a bloodstained leg +band, came up and in angry tones asked the artillerymen for water. +Next came four soldiers, carrying something heavy on a cloak, and passed +Túshin rose and, buttoning his greatcoat and pulling it straight, +for him, Prince Bagratión sat at dinner, talking with some commanding +the half-closed eyes was there greedily gnawing a mutton bone, and the +glass of vodka and the dinner; and the staff officer with the signet +ring, and Zherkóv, uneasily glancing at them all, and Prince Andrew, +pale, with compressed lips and feverishly glittering eyes. +In a corner of the hut stood a standard captured from the French, and +individual commanders and inquiring into details of the action and our +from the wood, mustered the men who were woodcutting, and, allowing the +French to pass him, had made a bayonet charge with two battalions and +disorganized, I stopped in the road and thought: ‘I’ll let them +come on and will meet them with the fire of the whole battalion’—and +The general had so wished to do this and was so sorry he had not managed +continued—remembering Dólokhov’s conversation with Kutúzov and his +presence and particularly distinguished himself.” +the glory of our arms and of the day’s work, they assumed a serious +infantry, cavalry, and artillery. How was it that two guns were +abandoned in the center?” he inquired, searching with his eyes for +flank; he knew that all the guns there had been abandoned at the very +“One was damaged,” answered the staff officer, “and the other I +can’t understand. I was there all the time giving orders and had only +village and had already been sent for. +and abruptly. +All were silent. Túshin appeared at the threshold and made his way +sight of his superiors, he did not notice the staff of the banner and +“How was it a gun was abandoned?” asked Bagratión, frowning, not so +and the disgrace of having lost two guns and yet remaining alive present +jaw trembling and was hardly able to mutter: “I don’t know... your +trouble, and silently fixed his eyes on Bagratión as a schoolboy who +intervene. Prince Andrew looked at Túshin from under his brows and his +went there and found two thirds of the men and horses knocked out, two +guns smashed, and no supports at all.” +Prince Bagratión and Túshin looked with equal intentness at +battery and the heroic endurance of Captain Túshin and his company,” +and without awaiting a reply, Prince Andrew rose and left the table. +to credit it, bent his head, and told Túshin that he could go. Prince +Prince Andrew gave him a look, but said nothing and went away. He felt +sad and depressed. It was all so strange, so unlike what he had hoped. +him. The pain in his arm became more and more intense. Irresistible +drowsiness overpowered him, red rings danced before his eyes, and the +impression of those voices and faces and a sense of loneliness merged +with the physical pain. It was they, these soldiers—wounded and +unwounded—it was they who were crushing, weighing down, and twisting +the sinews and scorching the flesh of his sprained arm and shoulder. To +appeared to him in a dream: his mother and her large white hand, +Sónya’s thin little shoulders, Natásha’s eyes and laughter, +Denísov with his voice and mustache, and Telyánin and all that affair +with Telyánin and Bogdánich. That affair was the same thing as this +soldier with the harsh voice, and it was that affair and this soldier +that were so agonizingly, incessantly pulling and pressing his arm and +He opened his eyes and looked up. The black canopy of night hung less +pity me. Yet I was once at home, strong, happy, and loved.” He sighed +and, doing so, groaned involuntarily. +out over the fire, and not waiting for an answer he gave a grunt and +fluttering above the fire and remembered a Russian winter at his warm, +healthy body, and all the affection and care of his family. “And why +Next day the French army did not renew their attack, and the remnant of +was merely a man of the world who had got on and to whom getting on had +become a habit. Schemes and devices for which he never rightly accounted +circumstances and persons he met. Of these plans he had not merely one +some approaching achievement, and some in course of disintegration. He +must gain his confidence and friendship and through him obtain a special +entice him to marry my daughter and lend me the forty thousand rubles +immediately told him that this man could be useful, and without any +confidence, flatter him, become intimate with him, and finally make his +He had Pierre at hand in Moscow and procured for him an appointment as +Councilor of State, and insisted on the young man accompanying him to +Petersburg and staying at his house. With apparent absent-mindedness, +he thought out his plans beforehand he could not have been so natural +and shown such unaffected familiarity in intercourse with everybody both +above and below him in social standing. Something always drew him toward +those richer and more powerful than himself and he had rare skill in +Pierre, on unexpectedly becoming Count Bezúkhov and a rich man, felt +himself after his recent loneliness and freedom from cares so beset and +estate near Moscow, and to receive many people who formerly did not +and grieved had he chosen not to see them. These different +people—businessmen, relations, and acquaintances alike—were all +disposed to treat the young heir in the most friendly and flattering +honorable, Count,” or, “Were he as clever as you,” and so on, +till he began sincerely to believe in his own exceptional kindness and +had always seemed to him that he really was very kind and intelligent. +Even people who had formerly been spiteful toward him and evidently +unfriendly now became gentle and affectionate. The angry eldest +princess, with the long waist and hair plastered down like a doll’s, +and frequent blushes she told him she was very sorry about their past +misunderstandings and did not now feel she had a right to ask him for +to remain for a few weeks longer in the house she so loved and where +took her hand and begged her forgiveness, without knowing what for. +From that day the eldest princess quite changed toward Pierre and began +great deal from the deceased,” said Prince Vasíli to him, handing him +this bone—a bill for thirty thousand rubles—to the poor princess +the inlaid portfolio. Pierre signed the deed and after that the princess +him feel confused by her smiles and her own confusion when meeting him. +It seemed so natural to Pierre that everyone should like him, and it +was always busy and always felt in a state of mild and cheerful +intoxication. He felt as though he were the center of some important and +he did not do it he would grieve and disappoint many people, but if he +did this and that, all would be well; and he did what was demanded of +affairs and of Pierre himself in those early days. From the death of +a man oppressed by business, weary and suffering, who yet would not, for +his old friend and the possessor of such enormous wealth, to the caprice +of fate and the designs of rogues. During the few days he spent in +go to him himself, and tell him what ought to be done in a tone of +weariness and assurance, as if he were adding every time: “You know +I am overwhelmed with business and it is purely out of charity that +I trouble myself about you, and you also know quite well that what I +Vasíli one day, closing his eyes and fingering Pierre’s elbow, +upon and could not now be altered. “We start tomorrow and I’m giving +here is now settled, and I ought to have been off long ago. Here is +something I have received from the chancellor. I asked him for you, and +you have been entered in the diplomatic corps and made a Gentleman of +Notwithstanding the tone of wearied assurance with which these words +and there is nothing to thank me for. No one has ever complained yet of +being too much loved; and besides, you are free, you could throw it +“You know, mon cher, your father and I had some accounts to settle, so +I have received what was due from the Ryazán estate and will keep it; +several thousand rubles quitrent received from Pierre’s peasants, +gentleness and affection. He could not refuse the post, or rather the +and acquaintances, invitations, and social occupations were so numerous +and continual expectation of some good, always in front of him but never +a friend older than himself and whom he respected. His whole time +was taken up with dinners and balls and was spent chiefly at Prince +Vasíli’s house in the company of the stout princess, his wife, and +what he was saying was out of place, tactless and unsuitable, that +stupidest remarks came out clever and apt. Now everything Pierre said +she wished to and only refrained out of regard for his modesty. +link which other people recognized had grown up between himself and +Hélène, and that thought both alarmed him, as if some obligation were +being imposed on him which he could not fulfill, and pleased him as an +Emperor Alexander’s visit to Potsdam, and of how the two august +afflicted by the death of the father he had hardly known), and her +Prince Vasíli and the generals, had the benefit of the diplomat. +but Anna Pávlovna—who was in the excited condition of a commander on +a battlefield to whom thousands of new and brilliant ideas occur which +(She glanced at Hélène and smiled at her.) “My dear Hélène, be +charitable to my poor aunt who adores you. Go and keep her company for +I only wanted to know your opinion,” and Anna Pávlovna let Pierre go. +her beauty and her remarkable skill in appearing silently dignified in +desirous of hiding her adoration for Hélène and inclined rather +say that it is dull in my house again,” and she glanced at Hélène. +coughed, swallowed, and said in French that she was very pleased to see +and the same look. In the middle of a dull and halting conversation, +to everyone. Pierre was so used to that smile, and it had so little +father, Count Bezúkhov, and showed them her own box. Princess Hélène +asked to see the portrait of the aunt’s husband on the box lid. +a celebrated miniaturist, and he leaned over the table to take the +He half rose, meaning to go round, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox, +room, and looked round with a smile. She was, as always at evening +front and back. Her bust, which had always seemed like marble to Pierre, +the living charm of her neck and shoulders, so near to his lips that +conscious of the warmth of her body, the scent of perfume, and the +wife, and that it could not be otherwise. +He knew this at that moment as surely as if he had been standing at the +altar with her. How and when this would be he did not know, he did not +Pierre dropped his eyes, lifted them again, and wished once more to see +mist and taking it for a tree can again take it for a tree after he has +She already had power over him, and between them there was no longer any +This was true. The architect had told him that it was necessary, and +muttered something and colored. +and she with him, that there was quite a scandal and that that’s why +(the reflection was still incomplete), he caught himself smiling and was +conscious that another line of thought had sprung up, and while thinking +wife, how she would love him become quite different, and how all he had +thought and heard of her might be false. And he again saw her not as the +before?” and again he told himself that it was impossible, that there +would be something unnatural, and as it seemed to him dishonorable, in +this marriage. He recalled her former words and looks and the words +and looks of those who had seen them together. He recalled Anna +Pávlovna’s words and looks when she spoke to him about his house, +recalled thousands of such hints from Prince Vasíli and others, and was +something that was evidently wrong and that he ought not to do. But at +visit his neglected estates at the same time and pick up his son Anatole +where his regiment was stationed, and take him to visit Prince Nicholas +rich old man. But before leaving home and undertaking these new affairs, +where he was staying, and had been absurd, excited, and foolish in +Lëlya’s name day. I will invite two or three people, and if he does +not understand what he ought to do then it will be my affair—yes, my +Six weeks after Anna Pávlovna’s “At Home” and after the sleepless +night when he had decided that to marry Hélène would be a calamity and +that he ought to avoid her and go away, Pierre, despite that decision, +had not left Prince Vasíli’s and felt with terror that in people’s +eyes he was every day more and more connected with her, that it was +could not break away from her, and that though it would be a terrible +the general pleasure and disappoint everyone’s expectation. Prince +hand in passing and draw it downwards, or absent-mindedly hold out his +wrinkled, clean-shaven cheek for Pierre to kiss and would say: “Till +am staying in for your sake,” and so on. And though Prince Vasíli, +Every day he said to himself one and the same thing: “It is time I +understood her and made up my mind what she really is. Was I mistaken +always clear and simple, so she is not stupid. She never was abashed and +to make reflections or think aloud in her company, and she had always +did not interest her—or by a silent look and smile which more palpably +waiting for him to say a word and cross a certain line, and he knew that +seized him at the thought of that dreadful step. A thousand times during +that month and a half while he felt himself drawn nearer and nearer to +he lacked that strength of will which he had known in himself and really +themselves quite innocent, and since that day when he was overpowered +and relations had been given to understand that the fate of the young +Princess Kurágina, a portly imposing woman who had once been handsome, +more important guests—an old general and his wife, and Anna Pávlovna +Schérer. At the other end sat the younger and less important guests, +and there too sat the members of the family, and Pierre and Hélène, +the guests. To each of them he made some careless and agreeable remark +except to Pierre and Hélène, whose presence he seemed not to notice. +He enlivened the whole party. The wax candles burned brightly, the +silver and crystal gleamed, so did the ladies’ toilets and the gold +and silver of the men’s epaulets; servants in scarlet liveries moved +round the table, the clatter of plates, knives, and glasses mingled with +received and read the then famous rescript of the Emperor Alexander +the declaration from Petersburg gave him particular pleasure, and that +he was proud to be at the head of such a nation and would endeavor to be +“Well, and so he never got farther than: ‘Sergéy Kuzmích’?” +He began the rescript again and again, but as soon as he uttered +‘Sergéy’ he sobbed, ‘Kuz-mí-ch,’ tears, and ‘From all +sides’ was smothered in sobs and he could get no farther. And again +his handkerchief, and again: ‘Sergéy Kuzmích, From all sides,’... +and tears, till at last somebody else was asked to read it.” +“Kuzmích... From all sides... and then tears,” someone repeated +holding up a threatening finger. “He is such a worthy and excellent +honored guests sat, everyone seemed to be in high spirits and under the +influence of a variety of exciting sensations. Only Pierre and +feelings. But much as all the rest laughed, talked, and joked, much +as they enjoyed their Rhine wine, sauté, and ices, and however they +avoided looking at the young couple, and heedless and unobservant as +that the story about Sergéy Kuzmích, the laughter, and the food +were all a pretense, and that the whole attention of that company was +directed to—Pierre and Hélène. Prince Vasíli mimicked the sobbing +of Sergéy Kuzmích and at the same time his eyes glanced toward his +daughter, and while he laughed the expression on his face clearly said: +Pávlovna threatened him on behalf of “our dear Vyazmítinov,” and +read a congratulation on his future son-in-law and on his daughter’s +old lady next to her and glanced angrily at her daughter, and her sigh +seemed to say: “Yes, there’s nothing left for you and me but to sip +Into the insignificant, trifling, and artificial interests uniting that +and handsome young man and woman for one another. And this human feeling +dominated everything else and soared above all their affected chatter. +Jests fell flat, news was not interesting, and the animation was +table seemed to feel this, and they forgot their duties as they looked +at the beautiful Hélène with her radiant face and at the red, broad, +and happy though uneasy face of Pierre. It seemed as if the very light +of the candles was focused on those two happy faces alone. +Pierre felt that he was the center of it all, and this both pleased and +He did not see, hear, or understand anything clearly. Only now and +then detached ideas and impressions from the world of reality shot +awkward to attract everyone’s attention and to be considered a +lucky man and, with his plain face, to be looked on as a sort of Paris +possessed of a Helen. “But no doubt it always is and must be so!” +with her and picked up her reticule and drove out with her. How did it +that it was not she but he was so unusually beautiful, and that that was +why they all looked so at him, and flattered by this general admiration +he would expand his chest, raise his head, and rejoice at his good +second time. But Pierre was so absorbed that he did not understand what +Prince Vasíli smiled, and Pierre noticed that everyone was smiling at +him and Hélène. “Well, what of it, if you all know it?” thought +Pierre. “What of it? It’s the truth!” and he himself smiled his +gentle childlike smile, and Hélène smiled too. +occupation, came up to her for a moment and made haste to go away, +footsteps. Pierre rose and said it was getting late. Prince Vasíli gave +severity changed, and he drew Pierre’s hand downwards, made him sit +down, and smiled affectionately. +“Well, Lëlya?” he asked, turning instantly to his daughter and +about Sergéy Kuzmích that interested Prince Vasíli just then, and +something and went away. It seemed to Pierre that even the prince was +touched Pierre: he looked at Hélène and she too seemed disconcerted, +and her look seemed to say: “Well, it is your own fault.” +and he again began speaking about indifferent matters, about Sergéy +Prince Vasíli passed by, seeming not to hear the ladies, and sat down +on a sofa in a far corner of the room. He closed his eyes and seemed to +be dozing. His head sank forward and then he roused himself. +“Aline,” he said to his wife, “go and see what they are about.” +The princess went up to the door, passed by it with a dignified and +indifferent air, and glanced into the little drawing room. Pierre and +“Still the same,” she said to her husband. +Prince Vasíli frowned, twisting his mouth, his cheeks quivered and his +himself, he rose, threw back his head, and with resolute steps went +everything!” (He put one arm around Pierre and the other around his +voice trembled.) “I loved your father... and she will make you a good +He embraced his daughter, and then again Pierre, and kissed him with his +The old princess came in and also wept. The elderly lady was using +her handkerchief too. Pierre was kissed, and he kissed the beautiful +Hélène’s hand several times. After a while they were left alone +“All this had to be and could not be otherwise,” thought Pierre, +it’s definite and one is rid of the old tormenting doubt.” Pierre +held the hand of his betrothed in silence, looking at her beautiful +bosom as it rose and fell. +“Hélène!” he said aloud and paused. +Pierre took them off, and his eyes, besides the strange look eyes have +from which spectacles have just been removed, had also a frightened and +inquiring look. He was about to stoop over her hand and kiss it, but +lips and met them with her own. Her face struck Pierre, by its altered, +Six weeks later he was married, and settled in Count Bezúkhov’s +said, of a wife who was a celebrated beauty and of millions of money. +in November, 1805, announcing that he and his son would be paying him +a visit. “I am starting on a journey of inspection, and of course I +shall think nothing of an extra seventy miles to come and see you at +evening in advance of him, and he and his son arrived next day. +character, but more so recently, since in the new reigns of Paul and +Alexander Prince Vasíli had risen to high position and honors. And now, +from the hints contained in his letter and given by the little princess, +he saw which way the wind was blowing, and his low opinion changed into +particularly discontented and out of temper. Whether he was in a bad +in a bad temper, and in the morning Tíkhon had already advised the +collar and cap, went out for his usual walk. It had snowed the day +before and the path to the hothouse, along which the prince was in the +visible in the snow and a shovel had been left sticking in one of the +through the conservatories, the serfs’ quarters, and the outbuildings, +frowning and silent. +resembling his master in manners and looks, who was accompanying him +The prince bowed his head and went up to the porch. “God be +The prince turned round to the overseer and fixed his eyes on him, +“You thought!” shouted the prince, his words coming more and more +rapidly and indistinctly. “You thought!... Rascals! Blackguards!... +I’ll teach you to think!” and lifting his stick he swung it and +Before dinner, Princess Mary and Mademoiselle Bourienne, who knew +same as usual,” and Princess Mary pale, frightened, and with downcast +sympathize with him; if I seem sad and out of spirits myself, he will +The prince looked at his daughter’s frightened face and snorted. +His plate seemed to him not quite clean, and pointing to a spot he +flung it away. Tíkhon caught it and handed it to a footman. The little +In general at Bald Hills the little princess lived in constant fear, and +days with her, asked her to sleep in her room, and often talked with her +about the old prince and criticized him. +Excellency Prince Vasíli Kurágin and his son, I understand?” she +don’t understand. Perhaps Princess Elizabeth and Princess Mary know. +conservatories and the beauty of a flower that had just opened, and +had sunk, her lip was drawn up, and her eyes drawn down. +He left the room and went to the waiting room where Alpátych stood with +“All right, all right,” interrupted the prince, and laughing his +unnatural way, he stretched out his hand for Alpátych to kiss, and then +coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to +Prince Vasíli and Anatole had separate rooms assigned to them. +table on a corner of which he smilingly and absent-mindedly fixed his +large and handsome eyes. He regarded his whole life as a continual round +And he looked on this visit to a churlish old man and a rich and ugly +and amusingly. “And why not marry her if she really has so much money? +He shaved and scented himself with the care and elegance which had +become habitual to him and, his handsome head held high, entered his +father’s room with the good-humored and victorious air natural to +him. Prince Vasíli’s two valets were busy dressing him, and he looked +round with much animation and cheerfully nodded to his son as the latter +“Enough! What nonsense! Above all, try to be respectful and cautious +the minister and his son had arrived, but the appearance of both had +The little princess and Mademoiselle Bourienne had already received +from Másha, the lady’s maid, the necessary report of how handsome the +minister’s son was, with his rosy cheeks and dark eyebrows, and with +this information, the little princess and Mademoiselle Bourienne, whose +in, and sinking heavily into an armchair. +but had on one of her best dresses. Her hair was carefully done and her +face was animated, which, however, did not conceal its sunken and faded +fresh and pretty face yet more attractive. +room and we shall have to go down, and you have not smartened yourself +The little princess got up, rang for the maid, and hurriedly and merrily +began to devise and carry out a plan of how Princess Mary should be +the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both +otherwise. To tell them that she felt ashamed for herself and for them +dress her would prolong their banter and insistence. She flushed, her +beautiful eyes grew dim, red blotches came on her face, and it took +submitted herself to Mademoiselle Bourienne and Lise. Both these women +her with perfect sincerity, and with the naïve and firm conviction +It was not the dress, but the face and whole figure of Princess Mary +in the hair, the hair combed up, and the blue scarf arranged lower on +the best maroon dress, and so on, all would be well. They forgot that +the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that +however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it +would still remain piteous and plain. After two or three changes to +on the top of her head (a style that quite altered and spoiled her +looks) and she had put on a maroon dress with a pale-blue scarf, the +dress with her little hand, now arranging the scarf and looking at her +with her head bent first on one side and then on the other. +“No, it will not do,” she said decidedly, clasping her hands. “No, +to the maid, “bring the princess her gray dress, and you’ll see, +sitting motionless before the glass, looking at her face, and saw in the +mirror her eyes full of tears and her mouth quivering, ready to burst +“Well, now we’ll arrange something quite simple and becoming,” she +The three voices, hers, Mademoiselle Bourienne’s, and Katie’s, who +Her voice sounded so serious and so sad that the chirping of the birds +eyes full of tears and of thoughts, gazing shiningly and imploringly at +them, and understood that it was useless and even cruel to insist. +Mademoiselle Bourienne and the little princess had to own to themselves +both knew, an expression thoughtful and sad. This expression in Princess +knew that when it appeared on her face, she became mute and was not to +glass. Letting her arms fall helplessly, she sat with downcast eyes and +pondered. A husband, a man, a strong dominant and strangely attractive +being rose in her imagination, and carried her into a totally different +own breast, the husband standing by and gazing tenderly at her and the +She roused herself, and felt appalled at what she had been thinking, and +before going down she went into the room where the icons hung and, her +lamp, she stood before it with folded hands for a few moments. A painful +happiness and of children, but her strongest, most deeply hidden longing +others and even from herself, the stronger it grew. “O God,” she +seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. Man’s future and thy own fate +Princess Mary sighed, and having crossed herself went down, thinking +neither of her gown and coiffure nor of how she would go in nor of what +When Princess Mary came down, Prince Vasíli and his son were already +in the drawing room, talking to the little princess and Mademoiselle +the gentlemen and Mademoiselle Bourienne rose and the little princess, +saw them all and saw them in detail. She saw Prince Vasíli’s face, +again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression +Bourienne, with her ribbon and pretty face, and her unusually animated +something large, brilliant, and handsome moving toward her as she +entered the room. Prince Vasíli approached first, and she kissed the +bold forehead that bent over her hand and answered his question by +soft hand taking hers firmly, and she touched with her lips a white +with his right thumb under a button of his uniform, his chest expanded +and his back drawn in, slightly swinging one foot, and, with his head a +speaking and evidently not thinking about her at all. Anatole was not +faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable +a first introduction and betrays a consciousness of the impropriety of +such silence and an anxiety to find something to say, the effect is +bad. But Anatole was dumb, swung his foot, and smilingly examined the +them curiosity, awe, and even love—a supercilious consciousness of +looks and manner gave that impression. The princess felt this, and as if +she turned to his father. The conversation was general and animated, +thanks to Princess Lise’s voice and little downy lip that lifted over +employed by lively chatty people, and consisting in the assumption +that between the person they so address and themselves there are some +semi-private, long-established jokes and amusing reminiscences, though +Prince Vasíli readily adopted her tone and the little princess also +and even Princess Mary felt herself pleasantly made to share in these +brother Hippolyte told me about your goings on. Oh!” and she shook her +his son and seizing the little princess’ arm as if she would have run +away and he had just managed to catch her, “didn’t he tell you how +he himself was pining for the dear princess, and how she showed him the +had left Paris and how he had liked that city. Anatole answered the +Frenchwoman very readily and, looking at her with a smile, talked to her +about her native land. When he saw the pretty little Bourienne, Anatole +The old prince dressed leisurely in his study, frowning and considering +Prince Vasíli and that son of his to me? Prince Vasíli is a shallow +braggart and his son, no doubt, is a fine specimen,” he grumbled to +bring himself to part from his daughter and give her to a husband. The +prince never directly asked himself that question, knowing beforehand +that he would have to answer it justly, and justice clashed not only +certain. There’s Lise, married to Andrew—a better husband one would +lot? And who would marry Marie for love? Plain and awkward! They’ll +take her for her connections and wealth. Are there no women living +unmarried, and even the happier for it?” So thought Prince Bolkónski +while dressing, and yet the question he was always putting off demanded +intention of proposing, and today or tomorrow he would probably ask +for an answer. His birth and position in society were not bad. “Well, +coiffure, Mademoiselle Bourienne’s and Anatole’s smiles, and the +shameless, and he ignores her!” +love and befriend him.” +“Fine young fellow! Fine young fellow!” he said. “Well, come and +kiss me,” and he offered his cheek. +Anatole kissed the old man, and looked at him with curiosity and perfect +and, drawing up an armchair for Prince Vasíli, pointed to it and began +questioning him about political affairs and news. He seemed to listen +the visitors, and before the visitors I tell you that in future you are +turning to Anatole, “come here, let us talk and get acquainted.” +to read and write by the deacon, like your father and me. Now tell me, +scrutinizing Anatole closely and intently. +Tsar and the country? It is wartime. Such a fine fellow must serve. +ha!” laughed Prince Bolkónski, and Anatole laughed still louder. +“I have done my best for him, and I can assure you the education there +Prince Vasíli’s arm and led him to his study. As soon as they were +alone together, Prince Vasíli announced his hopes and wishes to the old +your presence; if she is willing, then he can stay on. He can stay and +till then. Their powers of reasoning, feeling, and observing immediately +increased tenfold, and their life, which seemed to have been passed in +Princess Mary grew quite unconscious of her face and coiffure. The +handsome open face of the man who might perhaps be her husband absorbed +all her attention. He seemed to her kind, brave, determined, manly, and +magnanimous. She felt convinced of that. Thousands of dreams of a future +family life continually rose in her imagination. She drove them away and +already, but then he cannot know what I think of him and may imagine +arrival, thought in another way. Of course, she, a handsome young woman +aloud to him and being friends with Princess Mary. Mademoiselle +ungainly Russian princesses, would fall in love with her and carry her +off; and here at last was a Russian prince. Mademoiselle Bourienne knew +seduced, and to whom her poor mother (sa pauvre mère) appeared, and +appeared. He would carry her away and then sa pauvre mère would appear +and he would marry her. So her future shaped itself in Mademoiselle +to her, and now that Anatole had appeared it just grouped itself around +him and she wished and tried to please him as much as possible. +unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the +struggle, but with naïve and lighthearted gaiety. +beginning to feel for the pretty and provocative Mademoiselle Bourienne +suddenness and prompt him to the coarsest and most reckless actions. +After tea, the company went into the sitting room and Princess Mary was +asked to play on the clavichord. Anatole, laughing and in high spirits, +came and leaned on his elbows, facing her and beside Mademoiselle +Her favorite sonata bore her into a most intimately poetic world and +Mademoiselle Bourienne was also looking at Princess Mary, and in her +lovely eyes there was a look of fearful joy and hope that was also new +and how happy I may be with such a friend and such a husband! Husband? +kissed Princess Mary’s hand. She did not know how she found the +courage, but she looked straight into his handsome face as it came near +to her shortsighted eyes. Turning from Princess Mary he went up and +kissed Mademoiselle Bourienne’s hand. (This was not etiquette, but +then he did everything so simply and with such assurance!) Mademoiselle +Bourienne flushed, and gave the princess a frightened look. +and not value her pure affection and devotion to me?” She went up +to her and kissed her warmly. Anatole went up to kiss the little +princess’ hand. +well I will give you my hand to kiss. Not till then!” she said. And +“Is he really to be my husband, this stranger who is so kind—yes, +kind, that is the chief thing,” thought Princess Mary; and fear, which +seemed to her that someone was there standing behind the screen in the +dark corner. And this someone was he—the devil—and he was also this +man with the white forehead, black eyebrows, and red lips. +She rang for her maid and asked her to sleep in her room. +Mademoiselle Bourienne walked up and down the conservatory for a long +awkward and uncomfortable, and her burden oppressed her now more than +when she was not like that and when everything was light and gay. She +sat in an armchair in her dressing jacket and nightcap and Katie, sleepy +and disheveled, beat and turned the heavy feather bed for the third +“I told you it was all lumps and holes!” the little princess +fault!” and her voice quivered like that of a child about to cry. +pacing angrily about and snorting. The old prince felt as though he +the whole matter and decide what was right and how he should act, but +instead of that he only excited himself more and more. +“The first man that turns up—she forgets her father and everything +else, runs upstairs and does up her hair and wags her tail and is unlike +nothing of her and looks only at Bourienne. No, she has no pride... but +mistake and that Anatole meant to flirt with Mademoiselle Bourienne, +Princess Mary’s self-esteem would be wounded and his point (not to +thought, he called Tíkhon and began to undress. +putting the nightshirt over his dried-up old body and gray-haired chest. +“I never invited them. They came to disturb my life—and there is not +Tíkhon knew his master’s habit of sometimes thinking aloud, and +Vasíli and his son. +“They have gone to bed and put out their lights, your excellency.” +“No good... no good...” said the prince rapidly, and thrusting his +feet into his slippers and his arms into the sleeves of his dressing +Though no words had passed between Anatole and Mademoiselle Bourienne, +much to say to one another in private and so they had been seeking an +and Anatole met in the conservatory. +read this in Tíkhon’s face and in that of Prince Vasíli’s valet, +The old prince was very affectionate and careful in his treatment of +dry hands clenched with vexation at her not understanding a sum in +not come and brought his pupil with him” (for some reason Prince +and, as you know my principles, I refer it to you.” +“How am I to understand you, mon père?” said the princess, growing +pale and then blushing. +“How understand me!” cried her father angrily. “Prince Vasíli +finds you to his taste as a daughter-in-law and makes a proposal to you +understand it’!... And I ask you!” +submit from habit, and she said: “I wish only to do your will, but if +dowry and take Mademoiselle Bourienne into the bargain. She’ll be the +daughter. She lowered her head and was ready to burst into tears. +“There’s no need to talk! He receives his orders and will marry you +over, and come back in an hour and tell me in his presence: yes or no. +Her fate was decided and happily decided. But what her father had said +still it was terrible, and she could not help thinking of it. She was +Bourienne aroused her. She raised her eyes, and two steps away saw +Anatole embracing the Frenchwoman and whispering something to her. With +a horrified expression on his handsome face, Anatole looked at Princess +Princess Mary looked at them in silence. She could not understand it. At +last Mademoiselle Bourienne gave a scream and ran away. Anatole bowed to +this strange incident, and then shrugging his shoulders went to the door +Mademoiselle Bourienne in her arms and gently stroking her hair. The +looking with tender affection and pity at Mademoiselle Bourienne’s +“Why? I love you more than ever,” said Princess Mary, “and I will +“But you despise me. You who are so pure can never understand being so +“I quite understand,” answered Princess Mary, with a sad smile. +“Calm yourself, my dear. I will go to my father,” she said, and went +Prince Vasíli, with one leg thrown high over the other and a snuffbox +in his hand, was sitting there with a smile of deep emotion on his face, +as if stirred to his heart’s core and himself regretting and laughing +“Ah, my dear, my dear!” he began, rising and taking her by both +hands. Then, sighing, he added: “My son’s fate is in your hands. +He drew back and a real tear appeared in his eye. +he shouted, “and then I shall reserve the right to state my opinion +also. Yes, my opinion, and only my opinion,” added Prince Bolkónski, +turning to Prince Vasíli and answering his imploring look. “Yes, or +glancing at Prince Vasíli and at her father with her beautiful eyes. +frowning and taking his daughter’s hand; he did not kiss her, but only +bending his forehead to hers just touched it, and pressed her hand so +that she winced and uttered a cry. +this heart, so kind and generous? Say ‘perhaps’... The future is so +of love and self-sacrifice. And cost what it may, I will arrange +poor Amélie’s happiness, she loves him so passionately, and so +father and Andrew. I shall be so happy when she is his wife. She is so +was the count at last handed a letter addressed in his son’s +handwriting. On receiving it, he ran on tiptoe to his study in alarm and +haste, trying to escape notice, closed the door, and began to read the +on hearing of the arrival of the letter went softly into the room and +found the count with it in his hand, sobbing and laughing at the same +Anna Mikháylovna sat down beside him, with her own handkerchief wiped +the tears from his eyes and from the letter, then having dried her +own eyes she comforted the count, and decided that at dinner and till +teatime she would prepare the countess, and after tea, with God’s +and about Nikólenka, twice asked when the last letter had been received +from him, though she knew that already, and remarked that they might +hints began to make the countess anxious and she glanced uneasily at +the count and at Anna Mikháylovna, the latter very adroitly turned +intonation, look, and expression, pricked up her ears from the beginning +of the meal and was certain that there was some secret between her +father and Anna Mikháylovna, that it had something to do with her +brother, and that Anna Mikháylovna was preparing them for it. Bold as +but she was too excited to eat anything and kept wriggling about on her +headlong after Anna Mikháylovna and, dashing at her, flung herself on +“I will, I will, only tell me! You won’t? Then I will go and tell at +“I won’t tell anyone!” and she ran off at once to Sónya. +She rushed to Sónya, hugged her, and began to cry. +You are all blubberers and understand nothing.” +“No, but she said that it was all over and that he’s now an +as I remember Nikólenka. Him—I just shut my eyes and remember, +“Oh, Natásha!” said Sónya, looking ecstatically and earnestly at +to say and as if she were saying it to someone else, with whom joking +and, whatever may happen to him or to me, shall never cease to love him +Natásha looked at Sónya with wondering and inquisitive eyes, and said +anything like it. She believed it could be, but did not understand it. +Sónya became thoughtful. The question of how to write to Nicholas, and +officer and a wounded hero, would it be right to remind him of herself +and, as it might seem, of the obligations to her he had taken on +“Well, I don’t know. It’s awkward and would make me ashamed.” +namesake, the new Count Bezúkhov) “and now she’s in love with that +tiptoe to the countess’ door and paused. +The count put his ear to the keyhole and listened. +then both voices together with glad intonations, and then footsteps. +of a surgeon who has just performed a difficult operation and admits the +countess, who sat holding in one hand the snuffbox with its portrait and +in the other the letter, and pressing them alternately to her lips. +bald head, over which she again looked at the letter and the portrait, +and in order to press them again to her lips, she slightly pushed away +the bald head. Véra, Natásha, Sónya, and Pétya now entered the room, +and the reading of the letter began. After a brief description of +the campaign and the two battles in which he had taken part, and his +promotion, Nicholas said that he kissed his father’s and mother’s +hands asking for their blessing, and that he kissed Véra, Natásha, and +Schoss, and his old nurse, and asked them to kiss for him “dear +Sónya, whom he loved and thought of just the same as ever.” When she +heard this Sónya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable +and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor. The countess was +should be glad and not cry.” +This was quite true, but the count, the countess, and Natásha looked +Nicholas’ letter was read over hundreds of times, and those who were +did not let it out of her hands. The tutors came, and the nurses, and +Dmítri, and several acquaintances, and the countess reread the letter +each time with fresh pleasure and each time discovered in it fresh +had first learned to say “pear” and then “granny,” that this son +should now be away in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, a manly +somewhere under her heart would ever cry, suck her breast, and begin to +this strong, brave man, this model son and officer that, judging by this +letters to Nicholas from all the household were written and copied out, +while under the supervision of the countess and the solicitude of the +count, money and all things necessary for the uniform and equipment +and her son. She had opportunities of sending her letters to the Grand +Duke Constantine Pávlovich, who commanded the Guards. The Rostóvs +and that if a letter reached the Grand Duke in command of the Guards +decided to send the letters and money by the Grand Duke’s courier to +Borís and Borís was to forward them to Nicholas. The letters were from +the old count, the countess, Pétya, Véra, Natásha, and Sónya, and +finally there were six thousand rubles for his outfit and various other +Russian and the Austrian. The Guards, just arrived from Russia, spent +the night ten miles from Olmütz and next morning were to come straight +Olmütz and that he wanted to see him as he had a letter and money for +after their active service, were stationed near Olmütz and the camp +swarmed with well-provisioned sutlers and Austrian Jews offering +celebrating awards they had received for the campaign, and made +Rostóv, who had just celebrated his promotion to a cornetcy and bought +Denísov’s horse, Bedouin, was in debt all round, to his comrades and +to Olmütz, dined there, drank a bottle of wine, and then set off alone +worn leather, and an officer’s saber with a sword knot. The Don horse +and he wore a crumpled hussar cap stuck jauntily back on one side of his +and all his comrades of the Guards by his appearance—that of a +their cleanliness and discipline. They had come by easy stages, their +knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the Austrian authorities had provided +had entered and left the town with their bands playing, and by the Grand +which the Guards prided themselves), the officers on foot and at their +proper posts. Borís had been quartered, and had marched all the +way, with Berg who was already in command of a company. Berg, who had +his superiors by his promptitude and accuracy and had arranged his money +acquaintance of many persons who might prove useful to him, and by +obtain a post on the commander in chief’s staff. Berg and Borís, +having rested after yesterday’s march, were sitting, clean and neatly +and watched his opponent’s face, evidently thinking about the game as +“We’ll try to,” replied Berg, touching a pawn and then removing +his hand. +nurse’s French, at which he and Borís used to laugh long ago. +Borís rose to meet Rostóv, but in doing so did not omit to steady and +that dread of beaten tracks, and wish to express itself in a manner +notwithstanding this, Borís embraced him in a quiet, friendly way and +They had not met for nearly half a year and, being at the age when young +those first steps. Both had changed greatly since they last met and both +“Oh, you damned dandies! Clean and fresh as if you’d been to a fete, +and with baritone notes in his voice, new to Borís, pointing to his own +mud-bespattered breeches. The German landlady, hearing Rostóv’s loud +fastened to the cording of his uniform and, indicating a bandaged arm, +rode with our regiment all the time, so that we had every comfort and +every advantage. What receptions we had in Poland! What dinners and +hussar revels and life in the fighting line, the other of the pleasures +and advantages of service under members of the Imperial family. +He went to his bed, drew a purse from under the clean pillow, and sent +“Yes, and I have some money and a letter to give you,” he added. +Rostóv took the letter and, throwing the money on the sofa, put both +arms on the table and began to read. After reading a few lines, he +letter from home and meet one of your own people whom you want to talk +everything over with, and I happen to be there, I’ll go at once, to +exclaimed, and immediately seizing him by the shoulder and looking +“Oh, don’t mention it, Count! I quite understand,” said Berg, +getting up and speaking in a muffled and guttural voice. +stood before a looking glass and brushed the hair on his temples +upwards, in the way affected by the Emperor Alexander, and, having +“Oh, what a pig I am, not to have written and to have given them +obtained through an acquaintance and sent to her son, asking him to take +it to its destination and make use of it. +“Why ‘What the devil’?” said Borís, picking it up and reading +“I want nothing, and I won’t be anyone’s adjutant.” +should much like to be an adjutant and not remain at the front.” +He looked intently and inquiringly into his friend’s eyes, evidently +“Well, send for him... and how do you get on with that German?” +“He is a very, very nice, honest, and pleasant fellow,” answered +Again Rostóv looked intently into Borís’ eyes and sighed. Berg +returned, and over the bottle of wine conversation between the three +officers became animated. The Guardsmen told Rostóv of their march and +how they had been made much of in Russia, Poland, and abroad. They spoke +of the sayings and doings of their commander, the Grand Duke, and told +stories of his kindness and irascibility. Berg, as usual, kept silent +stories of the Grand Duke’s quick temper he related with gusto how in +Galicia he had managed to deal with the Grand Duke when the latter +made a tour of the regiments and was annoyed at the irregularity of +a movement. With a pleasant smile Berg related how the Grand Duke +a rage) and called for the company commander. +Orders by heart and know the Regulations as well as I do the Lord’s +Prayer. So, Count, there never is any negligence in my company, and +so my conscience was at ease. I came forward....” (Berg stood up and +showed how he presented himself, with his hand to his cap, and really +it would have been difficult for a face to express greater respect and +is, stormed and stormed and stormed! It was not a matter of life but +rather of death, as the saying is. ‘Albanians!’ and ‘devils!’ +and ‘To Siberia!’” said Berg with a sagacious smile. “I knew I +Count,” said Berg, lighting his pipe and emitting rings of smoke. +But Borís noticed that he was preparing to make fun of Berg, and +skillfully changed the subject. He asked him to tell them how and where +he got his wound. This pleased Rostóv and he began talking about it, +and as he went on became more and more animated. He told them of his +as they have heard it described by others, and as sounds well, but not +at all as it really was. Rostóv was a truthful young man and would on +and inevitably he lapsed into falsehood. If he had told the truth to his +hearers—who like himself had often heard stories of attacks and had +formed a definite idea of what an attack was and were expecting to hear +to him. He could not tell them simply that everyone went at a trot and +that he fell off his horse and sprained his arm and then ran as hard as +and young people are rarely capable of it. His hearers expected a story +of how beside himself and all aflame with excitement, he had flown like +a storm at the square, cut his way in, slashed right and left, how his +saber had tasted flesh and he had fallen exhausted, and so on. And so he +and being well disposed toward Borís, who had managed to please him the +hoping to find him alone. When he came in and saw an hussar of the line +half-closed eyes he looked at Rostóv, bowed slightly and wearily, and +was evidently one, Rostóv felt confused, blushed, and became silent. +Borís inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without +give no opinion on such an important government order, and Berg laughed +“we will talk of it later” (and he looked round at Rostóv). “Come +to me after the review and we will do what is possible.” +anger he did not condescend to notice, and said: “I think you were +Bolkónski noticed the hussar’s state of mind, and it amused him. With +and particularly amiable smile. +A strange feeling of exasperation and yet of respect for this man’s +“I am not talking about you,” he said, “I don’t know you and, +quiet authority, “you wish to insult me, and I am ready to agree with +self-respect, but admit that the time and place are very badly chosen. +In a day or two we shall all have to take part in a greater and more +serious duel, and besides, Drubetskóy, who says he is an old friend +displease you. However,” he added rising, “you know my name and +or you as having been at all insulted, and as a man older than you, my +and with a bow to them both he went out. +ordered his horse at once and, coldly taking leave of Borís, rode +home. Should he go to headquarters next day and challenge that affected +seeing the fright of that small and frail but proud man when covered by +his pistol, and then he felt with surprise that of all the men he knew +Austrian and Russian troops, both those freshly arrived from Russia and +the Russian with his heir the Tsarévich, and the Austrian with the +Archduke, inspected the allied army of eighty thousand men. +on the field before the fortress. Now thousands of feet and bayonets +moved and halted at the officers’ command, turned with banners flying, +formed up at intervals, and wheeled round other similar masses of +hoofs and the jingling of showy cavalry in blue, red, and green braided +uniforms, with smartly dressed bandsmen in front mounted on black, roan, +polished shining cannon that quivered on the gun carriages and with +infantry and cavalry and took up its appointed position. Not only the +in to the utmost, their red necks squeezed into their stiff collars, and +wearing scarves and all their decorations, not only the elegant, pomaded +officers, but every soldier with his freshly washed and shaven face and +his weapons clean and polished to the utmost, and every horse groomed +till its coat shone like satin and every hair of its wetted mane lay +smooth—felt that no small matter was happening, but an important and +solemn affair. Every general and every soldier was conscious of his own +insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and +From early morning strenuous activities and efforts had begun and by ten +cavalry in front, behind it the artillery, and behind that again the +those recently arrived from Russia, both Guards and regiments of the +line; and the Austrian troops. But they all stood in the same lines, +under one command, and in a like order. +They’re coming!” Alarmed voices were heard, and a stir of final +lances and the unfolded standards fluttered against their staffs. It +repeated by others from various sides and all became silent. +was the Emperors’ suites. The Emperors rode up to the flank, and the +Alexander was clearly heard. He gave the words of greeting, and the +first regiment roared “Hurrah!” so deafeningly, continuously, and +joyfully that the men themselves were awed by their multitude and the +Rostóv, standing in the front lines of Kutúzov’s army which the Tsar +might, and a passionate attraction to him who was the cause of this +He felt that at a single word from that man all this vast mass (and he +himself an insignificant atom in it) would go through fire and water, +commit crime, die, or perform deeds of highest heroism, and so he could +not but tremble and his heart stand still at the imminence of that word. +after another greeting the Tsar with the strains of the march, and then +“Hurrah!”... Then the general march, and again “Hurrah! Hurrah!” +growing ever stronger and fuller and merging into a deafening roar. +Till the Tsar reached it, each regiment in its silence and immobility +already passed. Through the terrible and deafening roar of those voices, +amid the square masses of troops standing motionless as if turned to +symmetrically and above all freely, and in front of them two men—the +The handsome young Emperor Alexander, in the uniform of the Horse +Guards, wearing a cocked hat with its peaks front and back, with his +pleasant face and resonant though not loud voice, attracted everyone’s +Rostóv was not far from the trumpeters, and with his keen sight had +recognized the Tsar and watched his approach. When he was within twenty +paces, and Nicholas could clearly distinguish every detail of his +handsome, happy young face, he experienced a feeling of tenderness +and ecstasy such as he had never before known. Every trait and every +to the Austrian Emperor and smiled. +Seeing that smile, Rostóv involuntarily smiled himself and felt a still +some way and knowing that this was impossible was ready to cry. The Tsar +called the colonel of the regiment and said a few words to him. +“You have earned the St. George’s standards and will be worthy of +The Tsar said something more which Rostóv did not hear, and the +this indecision appeared to him majestic and enchanting, like everything +mare he rode, his hand in a white glove gathered up the reins, and he +Farther and farther he rode away, stopping at other regiments, till at +his horse indolently and carelessly. Rostóv recalled their quarrel of +yesterday and the question presented itself whether he ought or ought +love, such rapture, and such self-sacrifice, what do any of our quarrels +and affronts matter? I love and forgive everybody now.” +a ceremonial march past him, and Rostóv on Bedouin, recently purchased +alone and in full view of the Emperor. +Bedouin twice and successfully put him to the showy trot in which the +upon him, passed splendidly, lifting his feet with a high and graceful +Rostóv himself, his legs well back and his stomach drawn in and feeling +When the review was over, the newly arrived officers, and also +Kutúzov’s, collected in groups and began to talk about the awards, +about the Austrians and their uniforms, about their lines, about +Bonaparte, and how badly the latter would fare now, especially if the +Essen corps arrived and Prussia took our side. +But the talk in every group was chiefly about the Emperor Alexander. His +every word and movement was described with ecstasy. +enemy under the Emperor’s command. Commanded by the Emperor himself +Rostóv and most of the officers after the review. +The day after the review, Borís, in his best uniform and with his +Bolkónski, wishing to profit by his friendliness and obtain for himself +“It is all very well for Rostóv, whose father sends him ten thousand +rubles at a time, to talk about not wishing to cringe to anybody and not +make a career and must not miss opportunities, but must avail myself of +the town where the headquarters and the diplomatic corps were stationed +and the two Emperors were living with their suites, households, and +He knew no one, and despite his smart Guardsman’s uniform, all these +with their plumes, ribbons, and medals, both courtiers and military +aware of his existence. At the quarters of the commander in chief, +Kutúzov, where he inquired for Bolkónski, all the adjutants and even +great many officers like him were always coming there and that everybody +it, next day, November 15, after dinner he again went to Olmütz and, +Andrew was in and Borís was shown into a large hall probably formerly +used for dancing, but in which five beds now stood, and furniture of +various kinds: a table, chairs, and a clavichord. One adjutant, nearest +and whom Borís addressed turned round crossly and told him Bolkónski +was on duty and that he should go through the door on the left into the +reception room if he wished to see him. Borís thanked him and went to +the reception room, where he found some ten officers and generals. +when he wished to speak contemptuously, and noticing Borís, Prince +him to hear something more, nodded and turned to him with a cheerful +in the army, besides the subordination and discipline prescribed in the +military code, which he and the others knew in the regiment, there was +Guards. Prince Andrew came up to him and took his hand. +blushing—“of asking the commander in chief. He has had a letter from +“Only let me report this gentleman’s business, and I shall be at +say to the adjutant that Borís felt uncomfortable. He turned away and +waited impatiently for Prince Andrew’s return from the commander in +clavichord was. “It’s no use your going to the commander in chief. +us aides-de-camp and adjutants! But this is what we’ll do: I have +a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, Prince +Dolgorúkov; and though you may not know it, the fact is that now +Kutúzov with his staff and all of us count for nothing. Everything is +go there anyhow and I have already spoken to him about you. We shall +man and help him to worldly success. Under cover of obtaining help +himself, he kept in touch with the circle which confers success and +which attracted him. He very readily took up Borís’ cause and went +occupied by the Emperors and their retinues. +the Hofkriegsrath and both Emperors took part. At that council, contrary +to the views of the old generals Kutúzov and Prince Schwartzenberg, it +had been decided to advance immediately and give battle to Bonaparte. +delay and advised waiting for something else before advancing had been +so completely silenced and their arguments confuted by such conclusive +at the council—the coming battle and the victory that would certainly +locality was known and shown in every detail on the maps, and Bonaparte, +returned from the council, tired and exhausted but eager and proud +protégé, but Prince Dolgorúkov politely and firmly pressing his hand +said nothing to Borís and, evidently unable to suppress the thoughts +fellow,” he said abruptly and eagerly, “I must confess to having +been unjust to the Austrians and especially to Weyrother. What +“What can he say? Tra-di-ri-di-ra and so on... merely to gain time. +I tell you he is in our hands, that’s certain! But what was most +and of course not as ‘Emperor,’ it seemed to me it should be to +“But between not recognizing him as Emperor and calling him General +addressing him as ‘Usurper and Enemy of Mankind.’” +address. He is a wise and clever fellow.” +present Emperor—more than once in Paris, and tells me he never met a +adroitness and Italian play-acting! Do you know the tale about him and +Count Markóv? Count Markóv was the only man who knew how to handle +him. You know the story of the handkerchief? It is delightful!” +purposely dropped a handkerchief in front of him and stood looking +at Markóv, probably expecting Markóv to pick it up for him, and how +Markóv immediately dropped his own beside it and picked it up without +“Oh, what a nuisance,” said Dolgorúkov, getting up hurriedly and +pressing the hands of Prince Andrew and Borís. “You know I should +be very glad to do all in my power both for you and for this dear young +man.” Again he pressed the hand of the latter with an expression of +good-natured, sincere, and animated levity. “But you see... another +obedient, and insignificant atom. They followed Prince Dolgorúkov out +into the corridor and met—coming out of the door of the Emperor’s +with a clever face and sharply projecting jaw which, without spoiling +his face, gave him a peculiar vivacity and shiftiness of expression. +This short man nodded to Dolgorúkov as to an intimate friend and stared +at Prince Andrew with cool intensity, walking straight toward him and +did neither: a look of animosity appeared on his face and the other +turned away and went down the side of the corridor. +Next day, the army began its campaign, and up to the very battle of +again and remained for a while with the Ismáylov regiment. +which Nicholas Rostóv served and which was in Prince Bagratión’s +into action as arranged, and after going behind other columns for +Cossacks and then the first and second squadrons of hussars and infantry +battalions and artillery pass by and go forward and then Generals +Bagratión and Dolgorúkov ride past with their adjutants. All the fear +remained in reserve and Nicholas Rostóv spent that day in a dull and +wretched mood. At nine in the morning, he heard firing in front and +shouts of hurrah, and saw wounded being brought back (there were not +many of them), and at last he saw how a whole detachment of French +affair was over and, though not big, had been a successful engagement. +The men and officers returning spoke of a brilliant victory, of the +occupation of the town of Wischau and the capture of a whole French +squadron. The day was bright and sunny after a sharp night frost, and +officers, generals, and adjutants, as they passed Rostóv going or +precedes a battle and had spent that happy day in inactivity, was all +Denísov, who had settled down by the roadside with a flask and some +The officers gathered round Denísov’s canteen, eating and talking. +The officers got up and stood round the Cossacks and their prisoner. +accent. He was breathless with agitation, his face was red, and when +And at every word he added: “But don’t hurt my little horse!” and +was. Now he excused himself for having been taken prisoner and now, +discipline and zeal in the service. He brought with him into our +The Cossacks sold the horse for two gold pieces, and Rostóv, being the +to Rostóv when the animal was handed over to the hussar. +Rostóv smilingly reassured the dragoon and gave him money. +All began to run and bustle, and Rostóv saw coming up the road behind +Rostóv did not know or remember how he ran to his place and mounted. +Instantly his regret at not having been in action and his dejected mood +meeting arrives. Not daring to look round and without looking round, he +near everything grew brighter, more joyful, more significant, and more +festive around him. Nearer and nearer to Rostóv came that sun shedding +beams of mild and majestic light around, and already he felt himself +and majestic voice that was yet so simple! And as if in accord with +The Emperor drew level with Rostóv and halted. Alexander’s face was +shone with such gaiety and youth, such innocent youth, that it suggested +the liveliness of a fourteen-year-old boy, and yet it was the face +Emperor’s eyes met Rostóv’s and rested on them for not more than +foot, and galloped on. +battle and, in spite of the remonstrances of his courtiers, at twelve +o’clock left the third column with which he had been and galloped +represented as a brilliant victory over the French, and so the +Emperor and the whole army, especially while the smoke hung over +the battlefield, believed that the French had been defeated and were +Emperor’s arrival, lay several killed and wounded soldiers whom there +of officers and courtiers, was riding a bobtailed chestnut mare, a +different one from that which he had ridden at the review, and bending +to one side he gracefully held a gold lorgnette to his eyes and looked +wounded soldier was so dirty, coarse, and revolting that his proximity +and how the well-trained horse looked round unconcerned and did not +apparently suffering more than the dying soldier, and he rode away. +Rostóv saw tears filling the Emperor’s eyes and heard him, as he was +vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of +vodka. The campfires crackled and the soldiers’ songs resounded +promotion to the rank of major, and Rostóv, who had already drunk +said he, “but the health of our Sovereign, that good, enchanting, and +great man! Let us drink to his health and to the certain defeat of the +saying it right, I have drunk a good deal—but that is how I feel, and +so do you too! To the health of Alexander the First! Hurrah!” +And the old cavalry captain, Kírsten, shouted enthusiastically and no +When the officers had emptied and smashed their glasses, Kírsten filled +others and, in shirt sleeves and breeches, went glass in hand to the +soldiers’ bonfires and with his long gray mustache, his white chest +“Lads! here’s to our Sovereign, the Emperor, and victory over +The hussars crowded round and responded heartily with loud shouts. +Late that night, when all had separated, Denísov with his short hand +“I believe it, I believe it, fwiend, and I share and appwove...” +“No, you don’t understand!” +And Rostóv got up and went wandering among the campfires, dreaming of +eyes. He really was in love with the Tsar and the glory of the Russian +arms and the hope of future triumph. And he was not the only man to +love, though less ecstatically, with their Tsar and the glory of the +The next day the Emperor stopped at Wischau, and Villier, his physician, +was repeatedly summoned to see him. At headquarters and among the troops +near by the news spread that the Emperor was unwell. He ate nothing and +the sight of the killed and wounded. +a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the Russian Emperor, was +Emperor had only just fallen asleep and so Savary had to wait. At midday +he was admitted to the Emperor, and an hour later he rode off with +It was rumored that Savary had been sent to propose to Alexander +a meeting with Napoleon. To the joy and pride of the whole army, a +personal interview was refused, and instead of the Sovereign, Prince +Toward evening Dolgorúkov came back, went straight to the Tsar, and +On the eighteenth and nineteenth of November, the army advanced two +days’ march and the enemy’s outposts after a brief interchange +and fro, and dispatching of adjutants—was confined to the Emperor’s +Kutúzov’s headquarters and the staffs of the commanders of columns. +By evening, the adjutants had spread it to all ends and parts of the +army, and in the night from the nineteenth to the twentieth, the whole +eighty thousand allied troops rose from their bivouacs to the hum of +voices, and the army swayed and started in one enormous mass six miles +headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that +clock. One wheel slowly moved, another was set in motion, and a third, +and wheels began to revolve faster and faster, levers and cogwheels to +work, chimes to play, figures to pop out, and the hands to advance with +machine, an impulse once given leads to the final result; and just as +reached. Wheels creak on their axles as the cogs engage one another and +neighboring wheel is as quiet and motionless as though it were prepared +catches it and obeying the impulse that wheel begins to creak and joins +in the common motion the result and aim of which are beyond its ken. +wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular movement of the +hands which show the time, so the result of all the complicated human +activities of 160,000 Russians and French—all their passions, desires, +remorse, humiliations, sufferings, outbursts of pride, fear, and +of the hand on the dial of human history. +Prince Andrew was on duty that day and in constant attendance on the +commander in chief. +and after staying but a short time with the Tsar went to see the grand +and dissatisfied about something and that at headquarters they were +dissatisfied with him, and also that at the Emperor’s headquarters +“But they heard him at the council of war and will hear him when he +talks sense, but to temporize and wait for something now when Bonaparte +“Yes, I saw him, and am convinced that he fears nothing so much as +interview? Why negotiate, and above all why retreat, when to retreat is +me! That’s the sort of man he is, and nothing more,” replied +should be a nice set of fellows if we were to wait about and so give him +our hands! No, we mustn’t forget Suvórov and his rule—not to put +outposts today and it is impossible to say where his chief forces are +“Oh, that is all the same,” Dolgorúkov said quickly, and getting up +If he is standing before Brünn...” +Prince Andrew began to reply and to state his own plan, which might +to demonstrate the defects of the latter and the merits of his own plan, +Prince Dolgorúkov ceased to listen to him and gazed absent-mindedly not +till then, had listened with an amused smile to their conversation and +Kutúzov, there is not a single Russian in command of a column! The +commanders are: Herr General Wimpfen, le Comte de Langeron, le Prince de +Lichtenstein, le Prince, de Hohenlohe, and finally Prishprish, and so on +are now two Russians, Milorádovich, and Dokhtúrov, and there would be +Andrew. “I wish you good luck and success, gentlemen!” he added and +went out after shaking hands with Dolgorúkov and Bilíbin. +Kutúzov looked sternly at his adjutant and, after a pause, replied: +“I think the battle will be lost, and so I told Count Tolstóy and +dear general, I am engaged with rice and cutlets, look after military +held. All the commanders of columns were summoned to the commander in +chief’s and with the exception of Prince Bagratión, who declined to +eagerness and briskness presented a marked contrast to the dissatisfied +and drowsy Kutúzov, who reluctantly played the part of chairman and +line to reconnoiter personally, and twice to the Emperors, Russian and +Austrian, to report and explain, and to his headquarters where he had +dictated the dispositions in German, and now, much exhausted, he arrived +commander in chief. He interrupted him, talked rapidly and indistinctly, +without looking at the man he was addressing, and did not reply to +questions put to him. He was bespattered with mud and had a pitiful, +weary, and distracted air, though at the same time he was haughty and +Ostralitz. In the large drawing room which had become the commander +in chief’s office were gathered Kutúzov himself, Weyrother, and the +members of the council of war. They were drinking tea, and only awaited +in to inform the commander in chief of this and, availing himself +Weyrother, hurriedly rising from his seat and going up to the table on +with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. At the sound +“Yes, yes, if you please! It is already late,” said he, and nodding +his head he let it droop and again closed his eye. +followed proved that the commander in chief at that moment was absorbed +the gesture of a man too busy to lose a moment, glanced at Kutúzov and, +having convinced himself that he was asleep, took up a paper and in +“Dispositions for an attack on the enemy position behind Kobelnitz and +The dispositions were very complicated and difficult. They began as +“As the enemy’s left wing rests on wooded hills and his right +extends along Kobelnitz and Sokolnitz behind the ponds that are there, +while we, on the other hand, with our left wing by far outflank his +if we occupy the villages of Sokolnitz and Kobelnitz, whereby we +can both fall on his flank and pursue him over the plain between +Schlappanitz and the Thuerassa forest, avoiding the defiles of +Schlappanitz and Bellowitz which cover the enemy’s front. For this +column marches... The third column marches...” and so on, read +the wall, his eyes fixed on a burning candle, and seemed not to listen +with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache +elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders +and only turned away his eyes when the Austrian chief of staff finished +agreed or disagreed and was satisfied or not with the arrangements. Next +his head, and with inimical politeness lurking in the corners of his +Austrian general, continuing to read, frowned angrily and jerked his +good as to look at the map and listen.” Langeron lifted his eyes with +gaze drooped his eyes sadly and again took to twirling his snuffbox. +hand to his ear toward Weyrother, with the air of a man absorbed in +an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the outspread map +conscientiously studied the dispositions and the unfamiliar locality. He +and the difficult names of villages. Weyrother complied and Dohktúrov +brought his snuffbox to rest and, without looking at Weyrother or at +again, and let his head sink still lower. +attack instead of being attacked, and so render the whole of this +plan perfectly worthless. Weyrother met all objections with a firm and +contemptuous smile, evidently prepared beforehand to meet all objections +“He has forty thousand men at most,” replied Weyrother, with the +strange and ridiculous to meet objections from Russian generals and to +“The enemy has quenched his fires and a continual noise is heard from +the Thuerassa, he merely saves us a great deal of trouble and all our +Kutúzov here woke up, coughed heavily, and looked round at the +heard them, and we shall all do our duty. But before a battle, there is +He moved as if to rise. The generals bowed and retired. It was past +express his opinion as he had hoped to, left on him a vague and uneasy +impression. Whether Dolgorúkov and Weyrother, or Kutúzov, Langeron, +and the others who did not approve of the plan of attack, were +account of court and personal considerations tens of thousands of lives, +and my life, my life,” he thought, “must be risked?” +his last parting from his father and his wife; he remembered the days +when he first loved her. He thought of her pregnancy and felt sorry for +her and for himself, and in a nervously emotional and softened mood he +went out of the hut in which he was billeted with Nesvítski and began +to walk up and down before it. +The night was foggy and through the fog the moonlight gleamed +concentration of fighting at one point, and the hesitation of all the +commanders. And then that happy moment, that Toulon for which he had +so long waited, presents itself to him at last. He firmly and clearly +expresses his opinion to Kutúzov, to Weyrother, and to the Emperors. +the decisive point, and gains the victory alone. “But death and +answer that voice and went on dreaming of his triumphs. The dispositions +battle is won by him alone. Kutúzov is removed and he is appointed... +“Well and then?” asked the other voice. “If before that you are +what will happen and don’t want to know, and can’t, but if I want +is not my fault that I want it and want nothing but that and live only +what am I to do if I love nothing but fame and men’s esteem? Death, +wounds, the loss of family—I fear nothing. And precious and dear +me—yet dreadful and unnatural as it seems, I would give them all at +don’t know and never shall know, for the love of these men here,” he +and who was called Tit. He was saying, “Tit, I say, Tit!” +of the orderlies and servants. +“All the same, I love and value nothing but triumph over them all, I +value this mystic power and glory that is floating here above me in this +in couples and he himself rode along the line trying to master the +eyes kept closing, and in his fancy appeared—now the Emperor, now +Denísov, and now Moscow memories—and he again hurriedly opened his +eyes and saw close before him the head and ears of the horse he was +riding, and sometimes, when he came within six paces of them, the +“that the Emperor will meet me and give me an order as he would to any +other officer; he’ll say: ‘Go and find out what’s there.’ There +way and attaching him to himself! What if he gave me a place near him? +aroused him. He started and opened his eyes. +“Where am I? Oh yes, in the skirmishing line... pass and +now before I am off duty. I’ll take another turn and when I get back +I’ll go to the general and ask him.” He readjusted himself in the +saddle and touched up his horse to ride once more round his hussars. It +descent lit up, and facing it a black knoll that seemed as steep as a +to his horse’s mane and pulled up beside the hussar. He was succumbing +is that the Emperor is here. How he looked at me and wished to say +shouts of thousands of voices. His horse and the horse of the hussar +shouting came from, a fire flared up and went out again, then another, +and all along the French line on the hill fires flared up and the +shouting grew louder and louder. Rostóv could hear the sound of French +great; all he could hear was: “ahahah!” and “rrrr!” +pricking its ears at the noise and looking at the lights. The shouting +grew still louder and merged into a general roar that only an army +of several thousand men could produce. The lights spread farther and +The hussar only sighed without replying and coughed angrily. The sound +heard, and out of the foggy darkness the figure of a sergeant of hussars +Rostóv, still looking round toward the fires and the shouts, rode with +One was on a white horse. Prince Bagratión and Prince Dolgorúkov with +lights and shouts in the enemy’s camp. Rostóv rode up to Bagratión, +reported to him, and then joined the adjutants listening to what the +is nothing but a trick! He has retreated and ordered the rearguard to +kindle fires and make a noise to deceive us.” +Bagratión stopped and, before replying, tried to see Rostóv’s face +“Well, go and see,” he said, after a pause. +Rostóv spurred his horse, called to Sergeant Fédchenko and two other +hussars, told them to follow him, and trotted downhill in the direction +from which the shouting came. He felt both frightened and pleased to be +riding alone with three hussars into that mysterious and dangerous misty +him and did not stop but rode on and on, continually mistaking bushes +for trees and gullies for men and continually discovering his mistakes. +and distinctly. In the valley he saw before him something like a river, +cross it and ride over the black field up the hillside. To keep to the +crossed the road, and began riding up the hill at a gallop toward the +point where the French pickets had been standing that evening. +and a bullet whizzing high up in the mist with a plaintive sound passed +Rostóv turned his horse and galloped back. Four more reports followed +at intervals, and the bullets passed somewhere in the fog singing in +like his own, at the firing, and went back at a footpace. “Well, some +and with his hand at the salute rode up to the general. +Dolgorúkov was still insisting that the French had retreated and had +might retreat and leave the pickets.” +in the evening,” reported Rostóv, stooping forward with his hand at +the salute and unable to repress the smile of delight induced by his +ride and especially by the sound of the bullets. +The fires and shouting in the enemy’s army were occasioned by the fact +lit wisps of straw and ran after him, shouting, “Vive l’Empereur!” +Hollabrünn and have pursued ever since to this place. The position we +occupy is a strong one, and while they are marching to go round me on +valor carry disorder and confusion into the enemy’s ranks, but should +of England, inspired by such hatred of our nation! This victory will +conclude our campaign and we can return to winter quarters, where fresh +French troops who are being raised in France will join us, and the peace +I shall conclude will be worthy of my people, of you, and of myself. +center, the reserves, and Bagratión’s right flank had not yet moved, +but on the left flank the columns of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, +right flank and drive it into the Bohemian mountains according to plan, +were already up and astir. The smoke of the campfires, into which they +and dark. The officers were hurriedly drinking tea and breakfasting, the +soldiers, munching biscuit and beating a tattoo with their feet to +remains of sheds, chairs, tables, wheels, tubs, and everything that they +were moving in and out among the Russian troops and served as heralds +a commanding officer’s quarters, the regiment began to move: the +bags into the carts, got their muskets ready, and formed rank. The +officers buttoned up their coats, buckled on their swords and pouches, +and moved along the ranks shouting. The train drivers and orderlies +harnessed and packed the wagons and tied on the loads. The adjutants and +battalion and regimental commanders mounted, crossed themselves, gave +final instructions, orders, and commissions to the baggage men +who remained behind, and the monotonous tramp of thousands of feet +resounded. The column moved forward without knowing where and unable, +from the masses around them, the smoke and the increasing fog, to see +A soldier on the march is hemmed in and borne along by his regiment as +strange, unknown, and dangerous places he reaches, just as a sailor is +always surrounded by the same decks, masts, and rigging of his ship, so +same sergeant major Iván Mítrich, the same company dog Jack, and the +same commanders. The sailor rarely cares to know the latitude in which +his ship is sailing, but on the day of battle—heaven knows how and +and solemn, and awakening in the men an unusual curiosity. On the day of +regiment, they listen intently, look about, and eagerly ask concerning +not see ten paces ahead. Bushes looked like gigantic trees and level +ground like cliffs and slopes. Anywhere, on any side, one might +for a long time, always in the same fog, descending and ascending hills, +avoiding gardens and enclosures, going over new and unknown ground, and +aware that in front, behind, and on all sides, other Russian columns +night I looked at the campfires and there was no end of them. A regular +Though none of the column commanders rode up to the ranks or talked to +the men (the commanders, as we saw at the council of war, were out of +humor and dissatisfied with the affair, and so did not exert themselves +the greater part of the men had to halt and an unpleasant consciousness +of some dislocation and blunder spread through the ranks. How such +certainly is communicated very surely, and flows rapidly, imperceptibly, +and irrepressibly, as water does in a creek. Had the Russian army been +it was, the disorder was readily and naturally attributed to the stupid +Germans, and everyone was convinced that a dangerous muddle had been +“They were in a hurry enough to start us, and now here we stand in +behind. And now here we stand hungry.” +doing!” said the officer and rode off. +turn into vexation and anger at the stupid arrangements and at the +moving toward our left flank, the higher command found that our center +was too far separated from our right flank and the cavalry were all +ordered to turn back to the right. Several thousand cavalry crossed in +At the front an altercation occurred between an Austrian guide and a +Russian general. The general shouted a demand that the cavalry should be +halted, the Austrian argued that not he, but the higher command, was to +blame. The troops meanwhile stood growing listless and dispirited. After +were descending. In front in the fog a shot was heard and then another, +at first irregularly at varying intervals—trata...tat—and then more +and more regularly and rapidly, and the action at the Goldbach Stream +Not expecting to come on the enemy down by the stream, and having +commanders, and with a consciousness of being too late spreading through +the ranks, and above all being unable to see anything in front or around +lazily and advanced and again halted, receiving no timely orders from +the officers or adjutants who wandered about in the fog in those unknown +began for the first, second, and third columns, which had gone down into +a clear blue sky, and the sun’s vast orb quivered like a huge hollow, +army, and even Napoleon himself with his staff, were not on the far side +of the streams and hollows of Sokolnitz and Schlappanitz beyond which we +intended to take up our position and begin the action, but were on this +which seemed to rise out of the sea of mist and on which the Russian +troops were moving in the distance, and he listened to the sounds of +force had already descended into the valley toward the ponds and lakes +and part were leaving these Pratzen Heights which he intended to attack +and regarded as the key to the position. He saw over the mist that in +direction toward the valley and disappearing one after another into +sound of wheels and footsteps heard by the outposts during the night, +by the disorderly movement of the Russian columns, and from all +in front of them, and that the columns moving near Pratzen constituted +the center of the Russian army, and that that center was already +Before dawn he had slept for a few hours, and refreshed, vigorous, and +in good spirits, he mounted his horse and rode out into the field +in that happy mood in which everything seems possible and everything +the mist, and his cold face wore that special look of confident, +When the sun had entirely emerged from the fog, and fields and mist were +action—he drew the glove from his shapely white hand, made a sign +with it to the marshals, and ordered the action to begin. The marshals, +accompanied by adjutants, galloped off in different directions, and +toward those Pratzen Heights which were being more and more denuded by +Przebyszéwski’s and Langeron’s columns which had already gone down +into the valley. He greeted the men of the foremost regiment and gave +commander in chief’s suite. He was in a state of suppressed excitement +and irritation, though controlledly calm as a man is at the approach of +know, but he felt sure it would do so. The locality and the position of +Prince Andrew considered possible contingencies and formed new projects +such as might call for his rapidity of perception and decision. +concentrate. “There we shall encounter difficulties, and there,” +thought he, “I shall be sent with a brigade or division, and there, +standard in hand, I shall go forward and break whatever is in front of +He could not look calmly at the standards of the passing battalions. +Seeing them he kept thinking, “That may be the very standard with +our troops had descended and from whence came the sounds of firing. +Above the heights was the dark clear sky, and to the right the vast orb +some wooded hills were discernible, and it was there the enemy probably +entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and +of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist. In front and +behind moved infantry. The commander in chief was standing at the end of +worn and irritable. The infantry passing before him came to a halt +without any command being given, apparently obstructed by something in +“Do order them to form into battalion columns and go round the +you understand, your excellency, my dear sir, that you must not +galloped up to Kutúzov and asked in the Emperor’s name had the fourth +Kutúzov turned round without answering and his eye happened to fall +malevolent and caustic expression softened, as if admitting that what +was being done was not his adjutant’s fault, and still not answering +“Go, my dear fellow, and see whether the third division has passed the +village. Tell it to stop and await my orders.” +the third division and convinced himself that there really were no +regiment was much surprised at the commander in chief’s order to throw +in front of him and that the enemy must be at least six miles away. +hidden by dense mist. Having given orders in the commander in chief’s +“All right, all right!” he said to Prince Andrew, and turned to a +general who, watch in hand, was saying it was time they started as all +saluting, and this sound rapidly came nearer along the whole extended +of which Kutúzov was standing began to shout, he rode a little to one +side and looked round with a frown. Along the road from Pratzen galloped +soldier at the front, gave the command “Attention!” and rode up +to the Emperors with a salute. His whole appearance and manner were +Alexander unpleasantly, he rode up and saluted. +This unpleasant impression merely flitted over the young and happy face +of the Emperor like a cloud of haze across a clear sky and vanished. +there was still the same bewitching combination of majesty and mildness +in his fine gray eyes, and on his delicate lips the same capacity for +varying expression and the same prevalent appearance of goodhearted +brighter and more energetic. He was slightly flushed after galloping two +miles, and reining in his horse he sighed restfully and looked round +at the faces of his suite, young and animated as his own. Czartorýski, +Novosíltsev, Prince Volkónsky, Strógonov, and the others, all richly +heated horses, exchanging remarks and smiling, had stopped behind the +erect on his handsome black horse, looking about him in a leisurely and +preoccupied manner. He beckoned to one of his white adjutants and asked +Guard and line regiments, Russian and Austrian. Among them were grooms +a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of +Emperor Alexander hurriedly to Kutúzov, glancing courteously at the +rather round shoulders and glanced at Novosíltsev who was near him, as +Emperor Francis continued to look about him and did not listen. +heard, and again something in his face twitched—“That is just why +I do not begin, sire, because we are not on parade and not on the +Empress’ Field,” said he clearly and distinctly. +dissatisfaction and reproach. “Old though he may be, he should not, he +The Tsar looked intently and observantly into Kutúzov’s eye +“However, if you command it, Your Majesty,” said Kutúzov, lifting +his head and again assuming his former tone of a dull, unreasoning, but +He touched his horse and having called Milorádovich, the commander of +The troops again began to move, and two battalions of the Nóvgorod and +without his greatcoat, with his Orders on his breast and an enormous +and back, galloped strenuously forward, and with a dashing salute reined +Milorádovich wheeled his horse sharply and stationed himself a little +passed in step before the Emperors and their suites at a bold, brisk +“Lads!” shouted Milorádovich in a loud, self-confident, and cheery +battle, and by the sight of the gallant Ápsherons, his comrades in +field of Austerlitz, enduring the heedless blows of his left foot and +Empress’ Field, not understanding the significance of the firing, nor +being said, thought, and felt that day by its rider. +The Emperor turned with a smile to one of his followers and made a +inn, where two roads parted. Both of them led downhill and troops were +The fog had begun to clear and enemy troops were already dimly visible +about a mile and a half off on the opposite heights. Down below, on +the left, the firing became more distinct. Kutúzov had stopped and was +The two generals and the adjutant took hold of the field glass, trying +mile and a half away, but had suddenly and unexpectedly appeared just in +than five hundred paces from where Kutúzov was standing, a dense French +thought Prince Andrew, and striking his horse he rode up to Kutúzov. +quite close at hand, and a voice of naïve terror barely two steps from +at a command, everyone began to run. +Confused and ever-increasing crowds were running back to where five +touch with it, and looked around bewildered and unable to grasp what was +happening in front of him. Nesvítski with an angry face, red and unlike +place and without answering drew out a handkerchief. Blood was flowing +handkerchief to his wounded cheek and pointing to the fleeing soldiers. +“Stop them!” he shouted, and at the same moment, probably realizing +that it was impossible to stop them, spurred his horse and rode to the +A fresh wave of the flying mob caught him and bore him back with it. +Why are you hindering us?” Another in the same place turned round and +and Frenchmen running toward it. Higher up stood some Russian infantry, +fleeing crowd. A mounted general separated himself from the infantry and +all pale and exchanged looks in silence. +“Stop those wretches!” gasped Kutúzov to the regimental commander, +him for those words, bullets flew hissing across the regiment and across +The French had attacked the battery and, seeing Kutúzov, were firing +at him. After this volley the regimental commander clutched at his leg; +several soldiers fell, and a second lieutenant who was holding the +flag let it fall from his hands. It swayed and fell, but caught on the +“Oh! Oh! Oh!” groaned Kutúzov despairingly and looked around.... +the disordered battalion and at the enemy, “what’s that?” +shame and anger choking him, had already leapt from his horse and run to +the standard. +“Here it is!” thought he, seizing the staff of the standard and +“Hurrah!” shouted Prince Andrew, and, scarcely able to hold up +the heavy standard, he ran forward with full confidence that the whole +And really he only ran a few steps alone. One soldier moved and then +another and soon the whole battalion ran forward shouting “Hurrah!” +and overtook him. A sergeant of the battalion ran up and took the flag +that was swaying from its weight in Prince Andrew’s hands, but he +was immediately killed. Prince Andrew again seized the standard and, +artillerymen, some of whom were fighting, while others, having abandoned +soldiers who were seizing the artillery horses and turning the guns +round. Prince Andrew and the battalion were already within twenty paces +of the cannon. He heard the whistle of bullets above him unceasingly and +to right and left of him soldiers continually groaned and dropped. But +Frenchman remembers his bayonet and stabs him....” +the struggling men, and the fate of the red-haired gunner, who had +triumphantly secured the mop and still did not realize what awaited him, +it was that the pain distracted him and prevented his seeing what he had +and fell on his back. He opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle +had been killed or not and whether the cannon had been captured or +clouds gliding slowly across it. “How quiet, peaceful, and solemn; not +and fighting, not at all as the gunner and the Frenchman with frightened +and angry faces struggled for the mop: how differently do those clouds +quiet and peace. Thank God!...” +On our right flank commanded by Bagratión, at nine o’clock the battle +had not yet begun. Not wishing to agree to Dolgorúkov’s demand to +commence the action, and wishing to avert responsibility from himself, +commander in chief. Bagratión knew that as the distance between the two +(which he very likely would be), and found the commander in chief +and the boyish face Rostóv, breathless with excitement and hope, was +“And if I should meet His Majesty before I meet the commander in +chief, your excellency?” said Rostóv, with his hand to his cap. +hours’ sleep before morning and felt cheerful, bold, and resolute, +with elasticity of movement, faith in his good fortune, and generally in +that state of mind which makes everything seem possible, pleasant, and +orderly to the bravest general, and still more, he was going with a +was bright, he had a good horse under him, and his heart was full of +joy and happiness. On receiving the order he gave his horse the rein +and galloped along the line. At first he rode along the line of +standing motionless; then he came to the region occupied by Uvárov’s +cavalry and here he noticed a stir and signs of preparation for battle; +and musketry ahead of him. The firing grew louder and louder. +down the hillsides, and clouds of cannon smoke rolling, spreading, +and mingling with one another. He could also, by the gleam of bayonets +visible through the smoke, make out moving masses of infantry and narrow +going on, but strain his attention as he would he could not understand +some sort were moving about, in front and behind moved lines of troops; +but why, whither, and who they were, it was impossible to make out. +These sights and sounds had no depressing or intimidating effect on him; +on the contrary, they stimulated his energy and determination. +and again proceeded to gallop along the line, penetrating farther and +He was riding almost along the front line. A handful of men came +involuntarily noticed that one of them was bleeding, and galloped on. +uniforms, mounted on black horses, trotting straight toward him and +way of these men, and he would have got clear had they continued at the +and the jingle of their weapons and saw their horses, their figures, and +even their faces, more and more distinctly. They were our Horse Guards, +Rostóv could already see their faces and heard the command: +This Guardsman would certainly have bowled Rostóv and his Bedouin over +(Rostóv felt himself quite tiny and weak compared to these gigantic men +and horses) had it not occurred to Rostóv to flourish his whip before +hands high, shied, throwing back its ears; but the pockmarked Guardsman +drove his huge spurs in violently, and the horse, flourishing its tail +and extending its neck, galloped on yet faster. Hardly had the Horse +Guards passed Rostóv before he heard them shout, “Hurrah!” and +more, for immediately afterwards cannon began firing from somewhere and +of all that mass of huge and handsome men, of all those brilliant, +rich youths, officers and cadets, who had galloped past him on their +thousand-ruble horses, only eighteen were left after the charge. +“Why should I envy them? My chance is not lost, and maybe I shall see +the Emperor immediately!” thought Rostóv and galloped on. +When he came level with the Foot Guards he noticed that about them and +the soldiers’ faces and unnatural warlike solemnity on those of the +“Can you imagine it?” and he began describing how the Guards, having +taken up their position and seeing troops before them, thought they were +Austrians, and all at once discovered from the cannon balls discharged +by those troops that they were themselves in the front line and had +Highness,” and pointing to the Grand Duke who with his high shoulders +and frowning brows stood a hundred paces away from them in his helmet +and Horse Guards’ jacket, shouting something to a pale, white +“But that’s the Grand Duke, and I want the commander in chief or the +Emperor,” said Rostóv, and was about to spur his horse. +as Borís. “Count! I am wounded in my right hand” (and he showed his +bleeding hand with a handkerchief tied round it) “and I remained at +the front. I held my sword in my left hand, Count. All our family—the +He said something more, but Rostóv did not wait to hear it and rode +Having passed the Guards and traversed an empty space, Rostóv, to avoid +where the hottest musket fire and cannonade were heard. Suddenly he +heard musket fire quite close in front of him and behind our troops, +and for the issue of the whole battle. “But be that what it may,” +commander in chief here, and if all is lost it is for me to perish with +The foreboding of evil that had suddenly come over Rostóv was more and +firing?” Rostóv kept asking as he came up to Russian and Austrian +he was told in Russian, German, and Czech by the crowd of fugitives who +Several wounded men passed along the road, and words of abuse, screams, +and groans mingled in a general hubbub, then the firing died down. +Rostóv learned later that Russian and Austrian soldiers had been firing +handful of scoundrels. It will soon be over, it can’t be that, it +The idea of defeat and flight could not enter Rostóv’s head. Though +he saw French cannon and French troops on the Pratzen Heights just where +he had been ordered to look for the commander in chief, he could not, +Rostóv had been ordered to look for Kutúzov and the Emperor near the +village of Pratzen. But neither they nor a single commanding officer +sorts, and Russian and Austrian soldiers of all arms, some wounded and +some not. This whole mass droned and jostled in confusion under the +laughing for some reason and shaking himself free. +horse of a batman or groom of some important personage and began to +carriage at full speed about an hour before along that very road and +horses and Ilyá Iványch. I don’t think Ilyá drives anyone except +Rostóv let go of the horse and was about to ride on, when a wounded +“Who is it you want?” he asked. “The commander in chief? He was +not many left alive. Go that way, to that village, all the commanders +and he walked on. +he saw turrets and a church. What need to hurry? What was he now to say +to the Tsar or to Kutúzov, even if they were alive and unwounded? +Rostóv considered, and then went in the direction where they said he +yet occupied that region, and the Russians—the uninjured and slightly +manure on well-kept plowland, lay from ten to fifteen dead and wounded +to each couple of acres. The wounded crept together in twos and threes +and one could hear their distressing screams and groans, sometimes +avoid seeing all these suffering men, and he felt afraid—afraid not +for his life, but for the courage he needed and which he knew would not +stand the sight of these unfortunates. +The French, who had ceased firing at this field strewn with dead and +riding over it trained a gun on him and fired several shots. The +sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around +him merged in Rostóv’s mind into a single feeling of terror and pity +disordered. The French cannon did not reach there and the musketry fire +sounded far away. Here everyone clearly saw and said that the battle +correct, others that it was not, and explained the false rumor that had +from the field of battle with the pale and terrified Ober-Hofmarschal +from headquarters behind the village to the left, and thither Rostóv +he had ridden about two miles and had passed the last of the Russian +horse with his spurs, and giving it the rein leaped lightly over. Only +Turning the horse sharply, he again jumped the ditch, and deferentially +to Rostóv and involuntarily riveted his attention, made a gesture of +refusal with his head and hand and by that gesture Rostóv instantly +recognized his lamented and adored monarch. +thought Rostóv. At that moment Alexander turned his head and Rostóv +Emperor was pale, his cheeks sunken and his eyes hollow, but the charm, +false. He was happy to be seeing him. He knew that he might and even +ought to go straight to him and give the message Dolgorúkov had ordered +But as a youth in love trembles, is unnerved, and dares not utter the +chance of delay and flight when the longed-for moment comes and he is +the Emperor, and a thousand reasons occurred to him why it would be +inconvenient, unseemly, and impossible to do so. +his being alone and despondent! A strange face may seem unpleasant or +now, when my heart fails me and my mouth feels dry at the mere sight +most part to be spoken at a moment of victory and triumph, generally +when he was dying of wounds and the sovereign had thanked him for heroic +deeds, and while dying he expressed the love his actions had proved. +flank now that it is nearly four o’clock and the battle is lost? +reflections. Better die a thousand times than risk receiving an unkind +look or bad opinion from him,” Rostóv decided; and sorrowfully and +While Rostóv was thus arguing with himself and riding sadly away, +Captain von Toll chanced to ride to the same spot, and seeing the +Emperor at once rode up to him, offered his services, and assisted him +to cross the ditch on foot. The Emperor, wishing to rest and feeling +unwell, sat down under an apple tree and von Toll remained beside him. +Rostóv from a distance saw with envy and remorse how von Toll spoke +long and warmly to the Emperor and how the Emperor, evidently weeping, +covered his eyes with his hand and pressed von Toll’s hand. +“And I might have been in his place!” thought Rostóv, and hardly +was a unique chance to show his devotion to the Emperor and he had not +round and galloped back to the place where he had seen the Emperor, but +there was no one beyond the ditch now. Only some carts and carriages +horses in horsecloths. Then came a cart, and behind that walked an old, +bandy-legged domestic serf in a peaked cap and sheepskin coat. +in silence, and then the same joke was repeated. +than a hundred cannon were already in the hands of the French. +Przebyszéwski and his corps had laid down their arms. Other columns +The remains of Langeron’s and Dokhtúrov’s mingled forces were +crowding around the dams and banks of the ponds near the village of +In the rearguard, Dokhtúrov and others rallying some battalions kept up +angling, while his grandson, with shirt sleeves rolled up, handled the +so many years Moravians in shaggy caps and blue jackets had peacefully +driven their two-horse carts loaded with wheat and had returned dusty +and the cannon, under the horses’ hoofs and between the wagon wheels, +another, dying, stepping over the dying and killing one another, only to +move on a few steps and be killed themselves in the same way. +a shell burst in the midst of that dense throng, killing some and +Dólokhov—now an officer—wounded in the arm, and on foot, with +the regimental commander on horseback and some ten men of his company, +crowd, they had got wedged in at the approach to the dam and, jammed in +cannon and the crowd were dragging it out. A cannon ball killed someone +behind them, another fell in front and splashed Dólokhov with blood. +steps, and again stopped. +“Move on a hundred yards and we are certainly saved, remain here +another two minutes and it is certain death,” thought each one. +of the dam, throwing two soldiers off their feet, and ran onto the +The ice bore him but it swayed and creaked, and it was plain that it +under his weight alone. The men looked at him and pressed to the +entrance to the dam raised his hand and opened his mouth to address +everyone ducked. It flopped into something moist, and the general fell +The ice gave way under one of the foremost soldiers, and one leg slipped +near the gun waved their arms and beat the horses to make them turn and +those on foot, collapsed in a great mass, and some forty men who were on +it dashed, some forward and some back, drowning one another. +Still the cannon balls continued regularly to whistle and flop onto the +ice and into the water and oftenest of all among the crowd that covered +the dam, the pond, and the bank. +hand, lay Prince Andrew Bolkónski bleeding profusely and unconsciously +uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan. +Toward evening he ceased moaning and became quite still. He did not know +alive and suffering from a burning, lacerating pain in his head. +He listened and heard the sound of approaching horses, and voices +sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and +between them gleamed blue infinity. He did not turn his head and did not +see those who, judging by the sound of hoofs and voices, had ridden up +and stopped near him. +firing at the Augesd Dam and was looking at the killed and wounded left +who, with his face buried in the ground and a blackened nape, lay on his +“Have some brought from the reserve,” said Napoleon, and having gone +Prince Andrew understood that this was said of him and that it was +did they not interest him, but he took no notice of them and at once +and he saw above him the remote, lofty, and everlasting sky. He knew it +between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over +it. At that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over +him, or what was said of him; he was only glad that people were standing +near him and only wished that they would help him and bring him back to +understand it so differently. He collected all his strength, to stir and +utter a sound. He feebly moved his leg and uttered a weak, sickly groan +“Ah! He is alive,” said Napoleon. “Lift this young man up and +hand, rode up smiling to the Emperor to congratulate him on the victory. +being moved, and the probing of his wound at the dressing station. +wounded and captured Russian officers he was carried to the hospital. +During this transfer he felt a little stronger and was able to look +about him and even speak. +“All the same! They say this one is the commander of all the Emperor +Alexander’s Guards,” said the first one, indicating a Russian +“You are the commander of the Emperor Alexander’s regiment of Horse +“I commanded a squadron,” replied Repnín. +“The praise of a great commander is a soldier’s highest reward,” +and, addressing him, again used the epithet “young man” that was +“Well, and you, young man,” said he. “How do you feel, mon +hero himself with his paltry vanity and joy in victory appear, +compared to the lofty, equitable, and kindly sky which he had seen and +Everything seemed so futile and insignificant in comparison with the +stern and solemn train of thought that weakness from loss of blood, +suffering, and the nearness of death aroused in him. Looking into +greatness, the unimportance of life which no one could understand, and +alive could understand or explain. +The Emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of +the officers as he went: “Have these gentlemen attended to and taken +Prince Repnín!” and he spurred his horse and galloped away. +His face shone with self-satisfaction and pleasure. +The soldiers who had carried Prince Andrew had noticed and taken the +Prince Andrew did not see how and by whom it was replaced, but the +sister had hung round his neck with such emotion and reverence, “it +would be good if everything were as clear and simple as it seems to +and what to expect after it beyond the grave! How happy and calm I +understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but +his feverishness increased and he grew delirious. Visions of his father, +wife, sister, and future son, and the tenderness he had felt the night +before the battle, the figure of the insignificant little Napoleon, and +The quiet home life and peaceful happiness of Bald Hills presented +shortsighted delight at the misery of others, and doubts and torments +had followed, and only the heavens promised peace. Toward morning +all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of +unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of Napoleon’s doctor, +“He is a nervous, bilious subject,” said Larrey, “and will not +was going home to Vorónezh and Rostóv persuaded him to travel with him +as far as Moscow and to stay with him there. Meeting a comrade at +bottles of wine with him and, despite the jolting ruts across the +at the bottom of the sleigh beside Rostóv, who grew more and more +shops, bakers’ signboards, street lamps, and sleighs!” thought +Rostóv, when their leave permits had been passed at the town gate and +has his stand, and there’s Zakhár himself and still the same horse! +Denísov raised his head, coughed, and made no answer. +“Yes, sir, and there’s a light in your father’s study.” +all. At last the sleigh bore to the right, drew up at an entrance, and +broken off, the porch, and the post by the side of the pavement. He +sprang out before the sleigh stopped, and ran into the hall. The house +stood cold and silent, as if quite regardless of who had come to it. +he thought, stopping for a moment with a sinking heart, and then +immediately starting to run along the hall and up the warped steps of +the familiar staircase. The well-known old door handle, which always +as ever. A solitary tallow candle burned in the anteroom. +door and his expression of sleepy indifference suddenly changed to one +young master. “Can it be? My treasure!” and Prokófy, trembling with +announce him, but, changing his mind, came back and stooped to kiss the +forestall him, threw off his fur coat and ran on tiptoe through the +tables and the same chandelier with a cover over it; but someone had +already seen the young master, and, before he had reached the drawing +room, something flew out from a side door like a tornado and began +hugging and kissing him. Another and yet another creature of the same +kind sprang from a second door and a third; more hugging, more kissing, +more outcries, and tears of joy. He could not distinguish which was +Papa, which Natásha, and which Pétya. Everyone shouted, talked, and +changed!... Where are the candles?... Tea!...” +“Dearest... and me!” +Sónya, Natásha, Pétya, Anna Mikháylovna, Véra, and the old count +were all hugging him, and the serfs, men and maids, flocked into the +room, exclaiming and oh-ing and ah-ing. +Natásha, after she had pulled him down toward her and covered his face +with kisses, holding him tight by the skirt of his coat, sprang away and +pranced up and down in one place like a goat and shrieked piercingly. +All around were loving eyes glistening with tears of joy, and all around +Sónya too, all rosy red, clung to his arm and, radiant with bliss, +longed. Sónya now was sixteen and she was very pretty, especially at +her eyes off him, and smiling and holding her breath. He gave her a +grateful look, but was still expectant and looking for someone. The old +he had left. All the others let him go, and he ran to her. When they +who had come into the room unnoticed by anyone, stood there and wiped +“You are most welcome! I know, I know,” said the count, kissing and +springing to him, putting her arms round him, and kissing him. This +and, taking Natásha’s hand, kissed it. +Denísov was shown to the room prepared for him, and the Rostóvs all +The old countess, not letting go of his hand and kissing it every +eyes off him. His brother and sisters struggled for the places nearest +to him and disputed with one another who should bring him his tea, +handkerchief, and pipe. +insufficient, and he kept expecting something more, more and yet more. +satchels, sabretaches, open portmanteaus, and dirty boots. Two freshly +were bringing in jugs and basins, hot water for shaving, and their +well-brushed clothes. There was a masculine odor and a smell of tobacco. +A rustle of starched petticoats and the whispering and laughter of +crack and there was a glimpse of something blue, of ribbons, black hair, +and merry faces. It was Natásha, Sónya, and Pétya, who had come to +Meanwhile, Pétya, having found and seized the sabers in the outer room, +with the delight boys feel at the sight of a military elder brother, and +and went out. Natásha had put on one spurred boot and was just getting +her foot into the other. Sónya, when he came in, was twirling round and +was about to expand her dresses into a balloon and sit down. They were +dressed alike, in new pale-blue frocks, and were both fresh, rosy, and +one another time to ask questions and give replies concerning a thousand +they were saying was amusing, but because she felt happy and was unable +soul and his face. +She pulled up her muslin sleeve and showed him a red scar on her long, +fire and pressed it there!” +to be his old schoolroom, and looking into Natásha’s wildly bright +eyes, Rostóv re-entered that world of home and childhood which had no +and the burning of an arm with a ruler as a proof of love did not seem +to him senseless, he understood and was not surprised at it. +“Well, and is that all?” he asked. +for life, but I don’t understand that, I forget quickly.” +“Well, she loves me and you like that.” +free.’ Isn’t that lovely and noble! Yes, very noble? Isn’t it?” +asked Natásha, so seriously and excitedly that it was evident that what +“No, no!” cried Natásha, “she and I have already talked it over. +her because you must, and that wouldn’t do at all.” +that for an instant). Why should he not love her now, and even marry +and interests before him! “Yes, they have taken a wise decision,” he +“Well, and are you still true to Borís?” he continued. +about him or anyone else, and I don’t want anything of the kind.” +“Now?” repeated Natásha, and a happy smile lit up her face. “Have +understand. That’s what I’m up to.” +together, and made some steps on the very tips of her toes. +“See, I’m standing! See!” she said, but could not maintain herself +Rostóv laughed so loud and merrily that Denísov, in his bedroom, felt +envious and Natásha could not help joining in. +“Oh, well then, good-by: go and dress. Is he very terrible, +And Natásha rose and went out of the room on tiptoe, like a ballet +be done; he felt that everybody, including his mother and sisters, was +looking inquiringly at him and watching to see how he would behave +with her. He kissed her hand and addressed her not as thou but as +you—Sónya. But their eyes met and said thou, and exchanged tender +Natásha’s intermediacy, to remind him of his promise, and then +freedom and told her that one way or another he would never cease to +silent, “that Sónya and Nicholas now say you to one another and meet +only Sónya, Nicholas, and Natásha, but even the old countess, +pomaded hair, perfumed, and in a new uniform, looking just as smart as +he made himself when going into battle, and he was more amiable to the +ladies and gentlemen than Rostóv had ever expected to see him. +by his home circle as the best of sons, a hero, and their darling +Nikólenka; by his relations as a charming, attractive, and polite young +man; by his acquaintances as a handsome lieutenant of hussars, a good +dancer, and one of the best matches in the city. +that year, as all his estates had been remortgaged, and so Nicholas, +latest cut, such as no one else yet had in Moscow, and boots of the +latest fashion, with extremely pointed toes and small silver spurs, +at home again. He felt that he had grown up and matured very much. His +Now he was a lieutenant of hussars, in a jacket laced with silver, and +action, and in the company of well-known, elderly, and respected racing +Kámenski, visited the English Club, and was on intimate terms with a +he did not see him and had no opportunity of seeing him, he often spoke +about him and about his love for him, letting it be understood that he +had not told all and that there was something in his feelings for the +Emperor not everyone could understand, and with his whole soul he shared +very pretty and sweet, and evidently deeply in love with him, but he was +time for that sort of thing and a young man fears to bind himself and +“Ah, there will be, and there are, many more such girls somewhere whom +and into ladies’ society with an affectation of doing so against his +will. The races, the English Club, sprees with Denísov, and visits to +a certain house—that was another matter and quite the thing for a +The count walked up and down the hall in his dressing gown, giving +orders to the club steward and to the famous Feoktíst, the club’s +head cook, about asparagus, fresh cucumbers, strawberries, veal, and +fish for this dinner. The count had been a member and on the committee +so well how to arrange a feast on an open-handed, hospitable scale, +and still fewer men would be so well able and willing to make up out of +The club cook and the steward listened to the count’s orders with +several thousand rubles. +“Well then, mind and have cocks’ comb in the turtle soup, you +who appeared at his call. “Hurry off and tell Maksím, the gardener, +importance, he returned again, called back the cook and the club +steward, and again began giving orders. A light footstep and the +clinking of spurs were heard at the door, and the young count, handsome, +rosy, with a dark little mustache, evidently rested and made sleeker by +And the count turned to the cook, who, with a shrewd and respectful +expression, looked observantly and sympathetically at the father and +dinner, but providing it and serving it all up, that’s not their +“That’s it, that’s it!” exclaimed the count, and gaily seizing +his son by both hands, he cried, “Now I’ve got you, so take the +sleigh and pair at once, and go to Bezúkhov’s, and tell him ‘Count +Ilyá has sent you to ask for strawberries and fresh pineapples.’ We +have to go in and ask the princesses; and from there go on to the +Rasgulyáy—the coachman Ipátka knows—and look up the gypsy +white Cossack coat, and bring him along to me.” +At that moment, with noiseless footsteps and with the businesslike, +dressing gown every day, he invariably became confused and begged her to +eyes. “But I’ll go to Bezúkhov’s myself. Pierre has arrived, and +of his commissions and ordered the small closed carriage for her. +Anna Mikháylovna turned up her eyes, and profound sadness was depicted +as young Bezúkhov! Yes, I pity him from my heart, and shall try to give +“Wh-what is the matter?” asked both the young and old Rostóv. +up, invited him to his house in Petersburg, and now... she has come here +and that daredevil after her!” said Anna Mikháylovna, wishing to show +her sympathy for Pierre, but by involuntary intonations and a half smile +Next day, the third of March, soon after one o’clock, two hundred and +fifty members of the English Club and fifty guests were awaiting the +guest of honor and hero of the Austrian campaign, Prince Bagratión, to +and well informed foregathered when the news began to arrive in +December, nothing was said about the war and the last battle, as +Count Markóv, and Prince Vyázemski—did not show themselves at the +club, but met in private houses in intimate circles, and the +of the war and without leaders. The Moscovites felt that something was +wrong and that to discuss the bad news was difficult, and so it was best +the bigwigs who guided the club’s opinion reappeared, and everybody +began speaking clearly and definitely. Reasons were found for the +incredible, unheard-of, and impossible event of a Russian defeat, +everything became clear, and in all corners of Moscow the same things +defective commissariat, the treachery of the Pole Przebyszéwski and of +the Frenchman Langeron, Kutúzov’s incapacity, and (it was whispered) +the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless +and insignificant people. But the army, the Russian army, everyone +declared, was extraordinary and had achieved miracles of valor. The +soldiers, officers, and generals were heroes. But the hero of heroes was +Prince Bagratión, distinguished by his Schön Grabern affair and by +unbroken and had all day beaten back an enemy force twice as numerous +and was a stranger there. In his person, honor was shown to a simple +fighting Russian soldier without connections and intrigues, and to one +expressing disapproval and dislike of Kutúzov. +calling him a court weathercock and an old satyr. +modeling and modeling you must get smeared with clay,” suggesting +consolation for our defeat by the memory of former victories; and the +by highfalutin words, and Germans by logical arguments to show them +soldiers only need to be restrained and held back! On all sides, new and +our officers and men at Austerlitz. One had saved a standard, another +had killed five Frenchmen, a third had loaded five cannon singlehanded. +wounded in the right hand, taken his sword in the left, and gone +forward. Of Bolkónski, nothing was said, and only those who knew him +The members and guests of the club wandered hither and thither, sat, +stood, met, and separated, some in uniform and some in evening dress, +and a few here and there with powdered hair and in Russian kaftáns. +Powdered footmen, in livery with buckled shoes and smart stockings, +men with broad, self-confident faces, fat fingers, and resolute gestures +and voices. This class of guests and members sat in certain habitual +places and met in certain habitual groups. A minority of those present +Rostóv, and Dólokhov—who was now again an officer in the Semënov +respect and honor you, but all the same remember that the future belongs +wife’s command had let his hair grow and abandoned his spectacles, +went about the rooms fashionably dressed but looking sad and dull. Here, +his wealth, and being in the habit of lording it over these people, he +and connections he belonged to the groups of old and honored guests, and +Count Rostopchín, Valúev, and Narýshkin. Rostopchín was describing +how the Russians had been overwhelmed by flying Austrians and had had to +the nonsense talked by the Austrian generals. Shinshín, standing close +feel that in that place and on that day, it was improper to speak so of +Count Ilyá Rostóv, hurried and preoccupied, went about in his soft +boots between the dining and drawing rooms, hastily greeting the +important and unimportant, all of whom he knew, as if they were all +young son, resting on him and winking joyfully at him. Young Rostóv +made and highly valued. The old count came up to them and pressed +Dólokhov’s hand. +“Please come and visit us... you know my brave boy... been together +stir, and a footman who had run in announced, with a frightened face: +Bells rang, the stewards rushed forward, and—like rye shaken together +came together and crowded in the large drawing room by the door of the +of Austerlitz, but wore a tight new uniform with Russian and foreign +Orders, and the Star of St. George on his left breast. Evidently just +before coming to the dinner he had had his hair and whiskers trimmed, +festive in his air, which, in conjunction with his firm and virile +features, gave him a rather comical expression. Bekleshëv and Theodore +wishing to avail himself of their courtesy, and this caused some delay +and awkwardly over the parquet floor of the reception room, not knowing +what to do with his hands; he was more accustomed to walk over a plowed +Schön Grabern—and he would have found that easier. The committeemen +met him at the first door and, expressing their delight at seeing such a +for his reply, surrounded him, and led him to the drawing room. It was +members and guests jostling one another and trying to get a good look +animal. Count Ilyá Rostóv, laughing and repeating the words, “Make +energetically than anyone, led the guests into the drawing room, and +way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a +composed and printed in the hero’s honor. Bagratión, on seeing the +demanded that he should submit. Feeling himself in their power, he +resolutely took the salver with both hands and looked sternly and +held it till evening and have gone in to dinner with it) and drew his +“Well, I will read them, then!” Bagratión seemed to say, and, +fixing his weary eyes on the paper, began to read them with a fixed and +serious expression. But the author himself took the verses and began +reading them aloud. Bagratión bowed his head and listened: + Bring glory then to Alexander’s reign +that dinner was ready! The door opened, and from the dining room came +and Count Rostóv, glancing angrily at the author who went on reading +was more important than verses, and Bagratión, again preceding all the +two Alexanders—Bekleshëv and Narýshkin—which was a significant +seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the +deepest where the land lies lowest. +who recognized him and said a few words to him, disjointed and awkward, +as were all the words he spoke that day, and Count Ilyá looked joyfully +and proudly around while Bagratión spoke to his son. +Nicholas Rostóv, with Denísov and his new acquaintance, Dólokhov, sat +sat facing Bagratión and, as the very personification of Moscow +His efforts had not been in vain. The dinner, both the Lenten and the +footmen, and awaited each expected dish with some anxiety. Everything +began popping corks and filling the champagne glasses. After the fish, +begin,” he whispered, and taking up his glass, he rose. All were +“To the health of our Sovereign, the Emperor!” he cried, and at the +same moment his kindly eyes grew moist with tears of joy and enthusiasm. +The band immediately struck up “Conquest’s joyful thunder +waken...” All rose and cried “Hurrah!” Bagratión also rose and +health of our Sovereign, the Emperor!” he roared, “Hurrah!” and +his example, and the loud shouting continued for a long time. When the +voices subsided, the footmen cleared away the broken glass and everybody +sat down again, smiling at the noise they had made and exchanging +his plate, and proposed a toast, “To the health of the hero of our +last campaign, Prince Peter Ivánovich Bagratión!” and again his blue +but instead of the band a choir began singing a cantata composed by Paul +As soon as the singing was over, another and another toast was proposed +and Count Ilyá Rostóv became more and more moved, more glass was +smashed, and the shouting grew louder. They drank to Bekleshëv, +to all the club members and to all the club guests, and finally to +toast, the count took out his handkerchief and, covering his face, wept +Pierre sat opposite Dólokhov and Nicholas Rostóv. As usual, he ate and +drank much, and eagerly. But those who knew him intimately noticed that +dinner and looked about, blinking and scowling, or, with fixed eyes and +nose. His face was depressed and gloomy. He seemed to see and hear +nothing of what was going on around him and to be absorbed by some +depressing and unsolved problem. +his wife, and by an anonymous letter he had received that morning, which +disbelieved both the princess’ hints and the letter, but he feared +he chanced to meet Dólokhov’s handsome insolent eyes, Pierre felt +something terrible and monstrous rising in his soul and turned quickly +away. Involuntarily recalling his wife’s past and her relations with +former position after the campaign, had returned to Petersburg and come +companion, Dólokhov had come straight to his house, and Pierre had put +him up and lent him money. Pierre recalled how Hélène had smilingly +expressed disapproval of Dólokhov’s living at their house, and how +cynically Dólokhov had praised his wife’s beauty to him and from that +“Yes, he is very handsome,” thought Pierre, “and I know him. It +would be particularly pleasant to him to dishonor my name and ridicule +and helped him. I know and understand what a spice that would add to the +but I do not believe it. I have no right to, and can’t, believe it.” +of cruelty, as when tying the policeman to the bear and dropping them +seem to him that everyone is afraid of him, and that must please him. +He must think that I, too, am afraid of him—and in fact I am afraid of +him,” he thought, and again he felt something terrible and monstrous +rising in his soul. Dólokhov, Denísov, and Rostóv were now sitting +opposite Pierre and seemed very gay. Rostóv was talking merrily to his +two friends, one of whom was a dashing hussar and the other a notorious +duelist and rake, and every now and then he glanced ironically at +Pierre, whose preoccupied, absent-minded, and massive figure was a very +husband of a beauty, and in a word—an old woman; and secondly because +Pierre in his preoccupation and absent-mindedness had not recognized +Rostóv and had not responded to his greeting. When the Emperor’s +Pierre sighed, rose submissively, emptied his glass, and, waiting till +“One should make up to the husbands of pretty women,” said Denísov. +about him. He reddened and turned away. +“Well, now to the health of handsome women!” said Dólokhov, and +“Here’s to the health of lovely women, Peterkin—and their +across, snatched it from his hand and began reading it. Pierre looked +at Dólokhov and his eyes dropped, the something terrible and monstrous +that had tormented him all dinnertime rose and took possession of him. +Hearing that cry and seeing to whom it was addressed, Nesvítski and the +Dólokhov looked at Pierre with clear, mirthful, cruel eyes, and that +“You...! you... scoundrel! I challenge you!” he ejaculated, and, +At the very instant he did this and uttered those words, Pierre felt +the whole day was finally and indubitably answered in the affirmative. +He hated her and was forever sundered from her. Despite Denísov’s +Dólokhov’s second, and after dinner he discussed the arrangements for +Rostóv with Dólokhov and Denísov stayed on at the club till late, +listening to the gypsies and other singers. +words. If you are going to fight a duel, and you make a will and write +affectionate letters to your parents, and if you think you may be +killed, you are a fool and are lost for certain. But go with the firm +intention of killing your man as quickly and surely as possible, and +fear’s all gone, and your only thought is not to let him get away!’ +Next day, at eight in the morning, Pierre and Nesvítski drove to the +Sokólniki forest and found Dólokhov, Denísov, and Rostóv already +had no connection with the matter in hand. His haggard face was yellow. +He had evidently not slept that night. He looked about distractedly and +night he had not the slightest doubt, and the guiltlessness of +particularly calm and absent-minded way, which inspired the respect of +and the pistols loaded, Nesvítski went up to Pierre. +“and should not justify your confidence and the honor you have done +“Then allow me to express your regrets, and I am sure your opponent +the affair, and like everyone in similar cases, did not yet believe that +and where to shoot,” he said with an unnaturally gentle smile. +He took the pistol in his hand and began asking about the working of the +trigger, as he had not before held a pistol in his hand—a fact that he +his side had been attempting a reconciliation), and he also went up to +the deep wet snow between the place where they had been standing and +Nesvítski’s and Dólokhov’s sabers, which were stuck into the +ground ten paces apart to mark the barrier. It was thawing and misty; at +been ready, but they still delayed and all were silent. +Denísov first went to the barrier and announced: “As the +pistols, and at the word thwee begin to advance. +“O-ne! T-wo! Thwee!” he shouted angrily and stepped aside. +The combatants advanced along the trodden tracks, nearer and nearer to +“So I can fire when I like!” said Pierre, and at the word +“three,” he went quickly forward, missing the trodden path and +stepping into the deep snow. He held the pistol in his right hand at +hand he held carefully back, because he wished to support his right +hand with it and knew he must not do so. Having advanced six paces and +then quickly glanced at Dólokhov and, bending his finger as he had been +at the sound and then, smiling at his own sensations, stood still. The +only heard Dólokhov’s hurried steps, and his figure came in view +through the smoke. He was pressing one hand to his left side, while +toward him and said something. +saber, he sank on the snow beside it. His left hand was bloody; he wiped +it on his coat and supported himself with it. His frowning face was +pallid and quivered. +Pierre, hardly restraining his sobs, began running toward Dólokhov and +“To your barrier!” and Pierre, grasping what was meant, stopped by +drew in his legs and sat up, seeking a firm center of gravity. He sucked +and swallowed the cold snow, his lips quivered but his eyes, still +smiling, glittered with effort and exasperation as he mustered his +remaining strength. He raised his pistol and aimed. +Pierre, with a gentle smile of pity and remorse, his arms and legs +Dólokhov and looked sorrowfully at him. Denísov, Rostóv, and +and Dólokhov’s angry cry. +“Missed!” shouted Dólokhov, and he lay helplessly, face downwards +Pierre clutched his temples, and turning round went into the forest, +trampling through the deep snow, and muttering incoherent words: +Nesvítski stopped him and took him home. +Rostóv and Denísov drove away with the wounded Dólokhov. +The latter lay silent in the sleigh with closed eyes and did not answer +suddenly came to and, lifting his head with an effort, took Rostóv, who +was sitting beside him, by the hand. Rostóv was struck by the +totally altered and unexpectedly rapturous and tender expression on +“My mother! My mother, my angel, my adored angel mother,” and +Dólokhov pressed Rostóv’s hand and burst into tears. +He implored Rostóv to go on and prepare her. +Rostóv went on ahead to do what was asked, and to his great surprise +with an old mother and a hunchback sister, and was the most affectionate +of sons and brothers. +Pierre had of late rarely seen his wife alone. Both in Petersburg and in +He lay down on the sofa meaning to fall asleep and forget all that +thoughts, and memories suddenly arose within him that he could not fall +asleep, nor even remain in one place, but had to jump up and pace the +their marriage, with bare shoulders and a languid, passionate look on +her face, and then immediately he saw beside her Dólokhov’s handsome, +insolent, hard, and mocking face as he had seen it at the banquet, and +then that same face pale, quivering, and suffering, as it had been when +he reeled and sank on the snow. +loving her; in deceiving yourself and her.” And he vividly recalled +He remembered his honeymoon and blushed at the recollection. +Particularly vivid, humiliating, and shameful was the recollection of +study a little before noon in his silk dressing gown and found his head +steward there, who, bowing respectfully, looked into his face and at +his dressing gown and smiled slightly, as if expressing respectful +understanding of his employer’s happiness. +and social tact,” thought he; “been proud of my house, in which she +received all Petersburg, proud of her unapproachability and beauty. So +this is what I was proud of! I then thought that I did not understand +I was to blame for not understanding her, for not understanding that +constant composure and complacency and lack of all interests or desires, +and the whole secret lies in the terrible truth that she is a depraved +“Anatole used to come to borrow money from her and used to kiss her +kissed. Her father in jest tried to rouse her jealousy, and she replied +she felt any symptoms of pregnancy. She laughed contemptuously and said +she was not a fool to want to have children, and that she was not going +Then he recalled the coarseness and bluntness of her thoughts and the +young and old men and women Pierre could not understand why he did not +And now there’s Dólokhov sitting in the snow with a forced smile and +which was a lie, and worse than a lie? I am guilty and must endure... +nonsense,” he thought. “The slur on my name and honor—that’s all +“Louis XVI was executed because they said he was dishonorable and a +criminal,” came into Pierre’s head, “and from their point of +view they were right, as were those too who canonized him and died a +a despot. Who is right and who is wrong? No one! But if you are +most strongly expressed his insincere love for her, and he felt the +blood rush to his heart and had again to get up and move about and break +and tear whatever came to his hand. “Why did I tell her that ‘Je +faire dans cette galère?” * occurred to him, and he began to laugh at +In the night he called his valet and told him to pack up to go to +resolved to go away next day and leave a letter informing her of his +was lying asleep on the ottoman with an open book in his hand. +He woke up and looked round for a while with a startled expression, +herself in a white satin dressing gown embroidered with silver and with +a coronet) entered the room, calm and majestic, except that there was +She knew of the duel and had come to speak about it. She waited till the +valet had set down the coffee things and left the room. Pierre looked +at her timidly over his spectacles, and like a hare surrounded by hounds +who lays back her ears and continues to crouch motionless before her +and impossible, he again glanced timidly at her. She did not sit down +Pierre turned over heavily on the ottoman and opened his mouth, but +word, “and you believed it! Well, what have you proved? What does this +all Moscow, that everyone will say that you, drunk and not knowing what +Hélène raised her voice and became more and more excited, “A man +“Hm... Hm...!” growled Pierre, frowning without looking at her, and +his company? If you were cleverer and more agreeable, I should prefer +“Why shouldn’t I speak? I can speak as I like, and I tell you +plainly that there are not many wives with husbands such as you who +expression she did not understand, and lay down again. He was suffering +physically at that moment, there was a weight on his chest and he could +Pierre leaped up from the sofa and rushed staggering toward her. +“I’ll kill you!” he shouted, and seizing the marble top of a table +brandishing the slab. +Hélène’s face became terrible, she shrieked and sprang aside. His +father’s nature showed itself in Pierre. He felt the fascination and +delight of frenzy. He flung down the slab, broke it, and swooping +down on her with outstretched hands shouted, “Get out!” in such a +in Great Russia, which formed the larger part of his property, and left +Two months had elapsed since the news of the battle of Austerlitz and +the loss of Prince Andrew had reached Bald Hills, and in spite of the +letters sent through the embassy and all the searches made, his body had +place and that he might now be lying, recovering or dying, alone among +strangers and unable to send news of himself. The gazettes from which +very briefly and vaguely, that after brilliant engagements the Russians +had had to retreat and had made their withdrawal in perfect order. The +“Your son,” wrote Kutúzov, “fell before my eyes, a standard in +his hand and at the head of a regiment—he fell as a hero, worthy of +his father and his fatherland. To the great regret of myself and of the +myself and you with the hope that your son is alive, for otherwise +was silent with his steward, the gardener, and the architect, and though +lathe and, as usual, did not look round at her. +impetus, and Princess Mary long remembered the dying creak of that +She approached him, saw his face, and something gave way within her. Her +crushed, but angry and working unnaturally, she saw that hanging over +her and about to crush her was some terrible misfortune, the worst +in life, one she had not yet experienced, irreparable and +an indescribable charm of sorrow and self-forgetfulness that her father +Kutúzov writes...” and he screamed as piercingly as if he wished to +hearing these words her face changed and something brightened in her +joys and sorrows of this world—overflowed the great grief within her. +She forgot all fear of her father, went up to him, took his hand, and +go and tell Lise.” +The princess sank helplessly into an armchair beside her father and +leave of her and of Lise, his look tender yet proud. She saw him tender +and amused as he was when he put on the little icon. “Did he believe? +of eternal peace and blessedness?” she thought. +“Go! Go! Killed in battle, where the best of Russian men and +Russia’s glory were led to destruction. Go, Princess Mary. Go and tell +working and looked up with that curious expression of inner, happy calm +joyful and mysterious taking place within her. +“Mary,” she said, moving away from the embroidery frame and lying +back, “give me your hand.” She took her sister-in-law’s hand and +Her eyes were smiling expectantly, her downy lip rose and remained +Princess Mary knelt down before her and hid her face in the folds of her +bright and happy eyes at her sister-in-law. +prepare her sister-in-law, and every time began to cry. Unobservant as +understand, agitated her. She said nothing but looked about uneasily as +always afraid, came into her room with a peculiarly restless and malign +expression and went out again without saying a word. She looked at +and suddenly began to cry. +“No, you know it’s too soon for news. But my father is anxious and I +She had determined not to tell her and persuaded her father to hide the +within a few days. Princess Mary and the old prince each bore and hid +he made up his mind that Prince Andrew had been killed, and though he +memory, and he told everybody that his son had been killed. He tried not +less, ate less, slept less, and became weaker every day. Princess Mary +hoped. She prayed for her brother as living and was always awaiting news +of the nineteenth March, and her downy little lip rose from old habit, +but as sorrow was manifest in every smile, the sound of every word, and +Courage, my angel.” She kissed Lise and was about to leave the room. +“Oh, no, no!” And besides the pallor and the physical suffering +a suffering child and to wring her little hands even with some +white hands with an air of calm importance. +princess. (In accordance with Lise’s and Prince Andrew’s wishes they +had sent in good time to Moscow for a doctor and were expecting him at +their faces was a quiet and solemn look. +house, now and then opening her door when someone passed and watching +and out of the bedroom glanced at the princess and turned away. She did +not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting +the icon stand. To her surprise and distress she found that her prayers +did not calm her excitement. Suddenly her door opened softly and her old +“I’ve come to sit with you a bit, Másha,” said the nurse, “and +here I’ve brought the prince’s wedding candles to light before his +The nurse lit the gilt candles before the icons and sat down by the door +with her knitting. Princess Mary took a book and began reading. Only +princess anxious and inquiring, the nurse encouraging. Everyone in the +ordinary staid and respectful good manners habitual in the prince’s +household, a common anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a +consciousness that something great and mysterious was being accomplished +hall all sat waiting, silently and alert. In the outlying serfs’ +quarters torches and candles were burning and no one slept. The old +prince, stepping on his heels, paced up and down his study and sent +prince told me to ask,’ and come and tell me her answer.” +Tíkhon went and told the prince. +“Very good!” said the prince closing the door behind him, and +After a while he re-entered it as if to snuff the candles, and, seeing +face, shook his head, and going up to him silently kissed him on the +shoulder and left the room without snuffing the candles or saying why he +Evening passed, night came, and the feeling of suspense and softening of +sway and scatters its last snows and storms with desperate fury. A relay +Moscow who was expected every moment, and men on horseback with lanterns +hollows and snow-covered pools of water. +kerchief, and the loose skin that hung under her chin. +Nurse Sávishna, knitting in hand, was telling in low tones, scarcely +hearing or understanding her own words, what she had told hundreds of +returned), and, forcing open a loosely closed latch, set the damask +curtain flapping and blew out the candle with its chill, snowy draft. +knitting, went to the window and leaning out tried to catch the open +casement. The cold wind flapped the ends of her kerchief and her loose +said, holding the casement and not closing it. “With lanterns. Most +“Oh, my God! thank God!” said Princess Mary. “I must go and meet +Princess Mary threw a shawl over her head and ran to meet the newcomer. +with lanterns, standing at the entrance. She went out on the stairs. On +a banister post stood a tallow candle which guttered in the draft. On +the landing below, Philip, the footman, stood looking scared and holding +another candle. Still lower, beyond the turn of the staircase, one +could hear the footstep of someone in thick felt boots, and a voice that +Then the voice said something more, Demyán replied, and the steps in +would be too extraordinary,” and at the very moment she thought this, +the face and figure of Prince Andrew, in a fur cloak the deep collar of +which covered with snow, appeared on the landing where the footman +stood with the candle. Yes, it was he, pale, thin, with a changed and +stairs and embraced his sister. +“You did not get my letter?” he asked, and not waiting for a +station), and again embraced his sister. +cloak and felt boots, he went to the little princess’ apartment. +head (the pains had just left her). Strands of her black hair lay round +her inflamed and perspiring cheeks, her charming rosy mouth with its +downy lip was open and she was smiling joyfully. Prince Andrew entered +and paused facing her at the foot of the sofa on which she was lying. +Her glittering eyes, filled with childlike fear and excitement, rested +on him without changing their expression. “I love you all and have +seemed to say. She saw her husband, but did not realize the significance +of his appearance before her now. Prince Andrew went round the sofa and +She looked at him inquiringly and with childlike reproach. +“I expected help from you and I get none, none from you either!” +her sufferings or with their relief. The pangs began again and Mary +The doctor entered. Prince Andrew went out and, meeting Princess Mary, +off at every moment. They waited and listened. +Prince Andrew went again to his wife and sat waiting in the room next +to hers. A woman came from the bedroom with a frightened face and became +confused when she saw Prince Andrew. He covered his face with his hands +and remained so for some minutes. Piteous, helpless, animal moans came +through the door. Prince Andrew got up, went to the door, and tried to +He began pacing the room. The screaming ceased, and a few more seconds +the door; the scream ceased and he heard the wail of an infant. +choked him, and leaning his elbows on the window sill he began to cry, +tucked up, without a coat, pale and with a trembling jaw, came out +bewildered look and passed by without a word. A woman rushed out and +her in five minutes before and, despite the fixed eyes and the pallor of +“I love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you +In a corner of the room something red and tiny gave a grunt and squealed +in Mary Bogdánovna’s trembling white hands. +room. The old man already knew everything. He was standing close to +the door and as soon as it opened his rough old arms closed like a vise +round his son’s neck, and without a word he began to sob like a child. +Three days later the little princess was buried, and Prince Andrew went +“Ah, what have you done to me?” it still seemed to say, and Prince +Andrew felt that something gave way in his soul and that he was guilty +old man too came up and kissed the waxen little hands that lay quietly +crossed one on the other on her breast, and to him, too, her face seemed +to say: “Ah, what have you done to me, and why?” And at the sight +Another five days passed, and then the young Prince Nicholas Andréevich +the priest with a goose feather anointed the boy’s little red and +wrinkled soles and palms. +His grandfather, who was his godfather, trembling and afraid of dropping +him, carried the infant round the battered tin font and handed him over +faint with fear lest the baby should be drowned in the font, and awaited +the nurse brought it to him and nodded approval when she told him that +the efforts of the old count, and instead of being degraded to the ranks +recovered, and Rostóv became very friendly with him during his +passionately and tenderly, and old Mary Ivánovna, who had grown fond of +“Yes, Count,” she would say, “he is too noble and pure-souled for +and even now never says a word against him. Those pranks in Petersburg +I think there were not many such gallant sons of the fatherland out +honor? Knowing him to be an only son, to challenge him and shoot so +owed him money! What baseness! What meanness! I know you understand +people do understand him. He is such a lofty, heavenly soul!” +I love so that I would give my life for them, and the others I’d +and two or three friends—you among them—and as for the rest I only +that divine purity and devotion I look for in women. If I found such a +one I’d give my life for her! But those!...” and he made a gesture +regenerate, purify, and elevate me. But you don’t understand it.” +“Oh, yes, I quite understand,” answered Rostóv, who was under his +Denísov also came back and stayed with them. The first half of the +happiest, merriest times for him and the whole family. Nicholas brought +many young men to his parents’ house. Véra was a handsome girl +flower; Natásha, half grown up and half child, was now childishly +atmosphere characteristic of homes where there are very young and very +happiness), feeling the eager bustle around him, and hearing the fitful +bursts of song and music and the inconsequent but friendly prattle of +young girls ready for anything and full of hope—experienced the same +readiness to fall in love and an expectation of happiness. +man, and that in the duel with Bezúkhov, Pierre was right and Dólokhov +wrong, and further that he was disagreeable and unnatural. +“There’s nothing for me to understand,” she cried out with +resolute self-will, “he is wicked and heartless. There now, I like +your Denísov though he is a rake and all that, still I like him; so +you see I do understand. I don’t know how to put it... with this one +everything is calculated, and I don’t like that. But Denísov...” +even Denísov was nothing compared to Dólokhov—“you must understand +for the society of ladies, began to come often to the house, and the +have dared to say so, knew it and blushed scarlet every time Dólokhov +which they were present, and went to Iogel’s balls for young people +and looked at her in such a way that not only could she not bear his +glances without coloring, but even the old countess and Natásha blushed +“They’re always in love with someone,” he thought of Sónya and +Natásha. But he was not as much at ease with Sónya and Dólokhov as +before and was less frequently at home. +given to raise recruits, ten men in every thousand for the regular army, +and besides this, nine men in every thousand for the militia. Everywhere +Bonaparte was anathematized and in Moscow nothing but the coming war +remaining in Moscow, and only awaited the termination of Denísov’s +from home, at dinners, parties, and balls. +rarely done of late. It was a grand farewell dinner, as he and Denísov +were present, including Dólokhov and Denísov. +Never had love been so much in the air, and never had the amorous +this holiday time. “Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! +visiting all the places he meant to go to and where he had been invited, +returned home just before dinner. As soon as he entered he noticed and +felt the tension of the amorous air in the house, and also noticed a +and the old countess were especially disturbed, and to a lesser degree +Sónya and Dólokhov before dinner, and with the kindly sensitiveness +natural to him was very gentle and wary with them both at dinner. On +“He asked you, and Vasíli Dmítrich * is also going.” +“Where would I not go at the countess’ command!” said Denísov, +“Perhaps,” coldly and angrily replied Dólokhov, glancing at Sónya, +and, scowling, he gave Nicholas just such a look as he had given Pierre +“There is something up,” thought Nicholas, and he was further +after dinner. He called Natásha and asked her what was the matter. +seemed to give way within him at this news. Dólokhov was a suitable and +the point of view of the old countess and of society it was out of the +and accept the offer,” but before he had time to say it Natásha began +“Much as Mamma pressed her, she refused, and I know she won’t change +And Natásha kissed her brother and ran away. +A minute later Sónya came in with a frightened, guilty, and scared +look. Nicholas went up to her and kissed her hand. This was the first +time since his return that they had talked alone and about their love. +“Sophie,” he began, timidly at first and then more and more +boldly, “if you wish to refuse one who is not only a brilliant and +love you, and I think I love you more than anyone else....” +“No, but I have been in love a thousand times and shall fall in +confidence, and love as I have for you. Then I am young. Mamma does +“Don’t say that to me! I want nothing. I love you as a brother and +always shall, and I want nothing more.” +And Nicholas again kissed her hand. +and so said the youths and maidens themselves as they danced till they +were ready to drop, and so said the grown-up young men and women who +came to these balls with an air of condescension and found them most +pretty young Princesses Gorchakóv met suitors there and were married +and so further increased the fame of these dances. What distinguished +them from others was the absence of host or hostess and the presence of +the good-natured Iogel, flying about like a feather and bowing according +and amuse themselves as girls of thirteen and fourteen do who are +and so sparkling their eyes. Sometimes the best of the pupils, of whom +de châle, but at this last ball only the écossaise, the anglaise, and +taken a ballroom in Bezúkhov’s house, and the ball, as everyone said, +was a great success. There were many pretty girls and the Rostóv girls +were among the prettiest. They were both particularly happy and gay. +That evening, proud of Dólokhov’s proposal, her refusal, and her +so that the maid could hardly get her hair plaited, and she was +Natásha no less proud of her first long dress and of being at a real +Nicholas and Denísov were walking up and down, looking with kindly +The band struck up the newly introduced mazurka. Nicholas could not +refuse Iogel and asked Sónya to dance. Denísov sat down by the old +ladies and, leaning on his saber and beating time with his foot, told +them something funny and kept them amused, while he watched the young +people dancing, Iogel with Natásha, his pride and his best pupil, were +take his eyes off her and beat time with his saber in a way that clearly +indicated that if he was not dancing it was because he would not and not +Knowing that Denísov had a reputation even in Poland for the masterly +“Go and choose Denísov. He is a real dancer, a wonder!” he said. +When it came to Natásha’s turn to choose a partner, she rose and, +looking at her and waiting. Nicholas saw that Denísov was refusing +“Oh, the faiwy! She can do anything with me!” said Denísov, and +partner’s hand firmly, threw back his head, and advanced his foot, +waiting for the beat. Only on horse back and in the mazurka was +Denísov’s short stature not noticeable and he looked the fine fellow +at his partner with a merry and triumphant air, suddenly stamped with +one foot, bounded from the floor like a ball, and flew round the room +the room, and seeming not to notice the chairs was dashing straight at +them, when suddenly, clinking his spurs and spreading out his legs, +clanking his spurs, whirled rapidly round, and, striking his left heel +he meant to do, and abandoning herself to him followed his lead hardly +with his right hand, then falling on one knee he twirled her round him, +and again jumping up, dashed so impetuously forward that it seemed as if +and then he suddenly stopped and performed some new and unexpected +chair, he drew up with a click of his spurs and bowed to her, Natásha +was delighted with Denísov’s skill, he was asked again and again as +a partner, and the old men began smilingly to talk about Poland and the +good old days. Denísov, flushed after the mazurka and mopping himself +with his handkerchief, sat down by Natásha and did not leave her for +of, and am going to rejoin my regiment, I am giving a farewell supper +theater, where he had been with his family and Denísov. He was at once +two candles. On the table was a pile of gold and paper money, and he +was keeping the bank. Rostóv had not seen him since his proposal and +Sónya’s refusal and felt uncomfortable at the thought of how they +I’ll just finish dealing, and then Ilyúshka will come with his +dinner and at other times, when as if tired of everyday life he had felt +a need to escape from it by some strange, and usually cruel, action. +anything, Dólokhov, looking straight in his face, said slowly and +trusts to luck, one should make certain,’ and I want to try.” +“Well, you’d better not play,” Dólokhov added, and springing a +side and at first did not play. Dólokhov kept glancing at him. +card, putting a small stake on it, and beginning to play. +Rostóv staked five rubles on a card and lost, staked again, and again +The game continued; a waiter kept handing round champagne. +All Rostóv’s cards were beaten and he had eight hundred rubles scored +waiter filled his glass he changed his mind and altered it to his usual +Rostóv submitted. He let the eight hundred remain and laid down a seven +handed him, smiled at Dólokhov’s words, and with a sinking heart, +waiting for a seven to turn up, gazed at Dólokhov’s hands which held +two thousand rubles, and though he always disliked speaking of money +till May, and asked him to be more economical this time. Nicholas had +replied that it would be more than enough for him and that he gave his +Dólokhov’s hands and thought, “Now then, make haste and let me have +this card and I’ll take my cap and drive home to supper with Denísov, +Natásha, and Sónya, and will certainly never touch a card again.” At +with Natásha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed +clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and +might deprive him of all this happiness, newly appreciated and newly +illumined, and plunge him into the depths of unknown and undefined +movement of Dólokhov’s hands. Those broad, reddish hands, with hairy +wrists visible from under the shirt cuffs, laid down the pack and took +up a glass and a pipe that were handed him. +“So you are not afraid to play with me?” repeated Dólokhov, and as +chair, and began deliberately with a smile: +“Oh, those Moscow gossips!” said Dólokhov, and he took up the cards +“Aah!” Rostóv almost screamed lifting both hands to his head. The +An hour and a half later most of the players were but little interested +which he had reckoned up to ten thousand, but that now, as he vaguely +supposed, must have risen to fifteen thousand. In reality it already +exceeded twenty thousand rubles. Dólokhov was no longer listening to +hands and occasionally ran his eyes over the score against him. He had +decided to play until that score reached forty-three thousand. He +had fixed on that number because forty-three was the sum of his and +Sónya’s joint ages. Rostóv, leaning his head on both hands, sat at +and littered with cards. One tormenting impression did not leave him: +that those broad-boned reddish hands with hairy wrists visible from +under the shirt sleeves, those hands which he loved and hated, held him +accept it and fixed the stake himself. Nicholas submitted to him, and at +over the Enns, and then guessed that the card that came first to hand +cords on his coat and took a card with that number and tried staking the +players, or peered at the now cold face of Dólokhov and tried to read +casket for Mamma’s name day and then going home. I was so happy, so +that end and when did this new, terrible state of things begin? What +chose and placed cards, and watched those broad-boned agile hands in the +same way. When did it happen and what has happened? I am well and strong +and still the same and in the same place. No, it can’t be! Surely it +He was flushed and bathed in perspiration, though the room was not hot. +His face was terrible and piteous to see, especially from its helpless +The score against him reached the fateful sum of forty-three thousand. +meant to double the three thousand just put down to his score, when +Dólokhov, slamming down the pack of cards, put it aside and began +he marked the figures in his clear, bold hand. +Some swarthy men and women were really entering from the cold outside +and saying something in their gypsy accents. Nicholas understood that it +by which the total exceeded the round sum of forty-three thousand; and +corner of his card and, instead of the six thousand he had intended, +moment those hands with their short reddish fingers and hairy wrists, +“You owe forty-three thousand, Count,” said Dólokhov, and +“I say, Rostóv,” said Dólokhov clearly, smiling and looking +thought Rostóv. He knew what a shock he would inflict on his father and +escape it all, and felt that Dólokhov knew that he could save him from +all this shame and sorrow, but wanted now to play with him as a cat does +“My cousin has nothing to do with this and it’s not necessary to +“Tomorrow,” replied Rostóv and left the room. +To say “tomorrow” and keep up a dignified tone was not difficult, +but to go home alone, see his sisters, brother, mother, and father, +confess and ask for money he had no right to after giving his word of +from the theater, had had supper and were grouped round the clavichord. +of love which pervaded the Rostóv household that winter and, now after +Dólokhov’s proposal and Iogel’s ball, seemed to have grown thicker +round Sónya and Natásha as the air does before a thunderstorm. Sónya +and Natásha, in the light-blue dresses they had worn at the theater, +looking pretty and conscious of it, were standing by the clavichord, +happy and smiling. Véra was playing chess with Shinshín in the drawing +room. The old countess, waiting for the return of her husband and son, +Denísov, with sparkling eyes and ruffled hair, sat at the clavichord +striking chords with his short fingers, his legs thrown back and his +verses called “Enchantress,” which he had composed, and to which he +black-agate eyes at the frightened and happy Natásha. +glancing into the drawing room, where he saw Véra and his mother with +“Ah, and here’s Nicholas!” cried Natásha, running up to him. +Nicholas went to her, kissed her hand, and sitting down silently at her +table began to watch her hands arranging the cards. From the dancing +room, they still heard the laughter and merry voices trying to persuade +am I to go?” thought Nicholas, and went again into the dancing room +Nicholas began pacing up and down the room. +“My God, I’m a ruined and dishonored man! A bullet through my brain +He continued to pace the room, looking gloomily at Denísov and the +girls and avoiding their eyes. +enjoyment by sympathy with anyone’s sorrow,” she felt, and she said +Having lifted her head and let her arms droop lifelessly, as ballet +stepped to the middle of the room and stood still. +sister. “Why isn’t she dull and ashamed?” +surroundings, and from her smiling lips flowed sounds which anyone may +produce at the same intervals and hold for the same time, but which +leave you cold a thousand times and the thousand and first time thrill +you and make you weep. +voice, with its incorrect breathing and labored transitions, was +it and wished to hear it again. In her voice there was a virginal +freshness, an unconsciousness of her own powers, and an as yet untrained +next note, the next phrase, and everything in the world was divided into +this misery, and money, and Dólokhov, and anger, and honor—it’s all +Oh, how that chord vibrated, and how moved was something that was finest +in the world and above everything in the world. “What were losses, and +Dólokhov, and words of honor?... All nonsense! One might kill and rob +and yet be happy....” +reality again presented itself. He got up without saying a word and went +came in from his club, cheerful and contented. Nicholas, hearing him +“Well—had a good time?” said the old count, smiling gaily and +Nicholas tried to say “Yes,” but could not: and he nearly burst into +sobs. The count was lighting his pipe and did not notice his son’s +“Ah, it can’t be avoided!” thought Nicholas, for the first and +“Very much,” said Nicholas flushing, and with a stupid careless +little, I mean a good deal, a great deal—forty three thousand.” +with an apoplectic flush over neck and nape as old people do. +“Well!...” said the old count, spreading out his arms and sinking +a bold, free, and easy tone, while in his soul he regarded himself as a +longed to kiss his father’s hands and kneel to beg his forgiveness, +but said, in a careless and even rude voice, that it happens to +The old count cast down his eyes on hearing his son’s words and began +seizing his father’s hand, he pressed it to his lips and burst into +While father and son were having their explanation, the mother and +dolls and who was still having lessons. +indignantly. “I come to ask you what to do, and you call it +“No, he’s not a fool!” replied Natásha indignantly and seriously. +“No, but what is it, my dear? Do you want me to go and tell him?” +married,” answered the countess sharply and sarcastically. +“No, not on any account! I will tell him myself, and you’ll listen +at the door,” and Natásha ran across the drawing room to the dancing +with his face in his hands. +fate. It is in your hands.” +Denísov bent over her hand and she heard strange sounds she did not +understand. She kissed his rough curly black head. At this instant, they +daughter is so young, and I thought that, as my son’s friend, you +“Countess...” said Denísov, with downcast eyes and a guilty face. +voice, “but believe me, I so adore your daughter and all your family +and seeing her severe face said: “Well, good-by, Countess,” and +kissing her hand, he left the room with quick resolute strides, without +not at once raise, and he spent most of his time in the girls’ room. +Sónya was more tender and devoted to him than ever. It was as if she +He filled the girls’ albums with verses and music, and having at last +sent Dólokhov the whole forty-three thousand rubles and received his +his acquaintances, to overtake his regiment which was already in Poland. +feet in their overboots on the table, and began to reflect. +“Will you have the portmanteaus brought in? And a bed got ready, and +begun to think of the last station and was still pondering on the same +The postmaster, his wife, the valet, and a peasant woman selling +spectacles unable to understand what they wanted or how they could go on +Sokólniki after the duel and had spent that first agonizing, sleepless +these same questions which he could not solve and yet could not cease to +The postmaster came in and began obsequiously to beg his excellency to +have the courier horses. It was plain that he was lying and only wanted +bad for another traveler, and for himself it’s unavoidable, because +considered myself injured, and Louis XVI was executed because they +considered him a criminal, and a year later they executed those who +should one love and what hate? What does one live for? And what am I? +What is life, and what is death? What power governs all?” +There was no answer to any of these questions, except one, and that +not a logical answer and not at all a reply to them. The answer was: +“You’ll die and all will end. You’ll die and know all, or cease +rubles I don’t know what to do with, and she stands in her tattered +less a prey to evil and death?—death which ends all and must come +and again it turned uselessly in the same place. +His servant handed him a half-cut novel, in the form of letters, by +Madame de Souza. He began reading about the sufferings and virtuous +once was—did not struggle, and perhaps she was right. Nothing has been +Everything within and around him seemed confused, senseless, and +Pierre took his feet off the table, stood up, and lay down on a bed that +had been got ready for him, glancing now and then at the newcomer, who, +with a gloomy and tired face, was wearily taking off his wraps with the +aid of his servant, and not looking at Pierre. With a pair of felt boots +on his thin bony legs, and keeping on a worn, nankeen-covered, sheepskin +its broad temples and close-cropped hair, and looked at Bezúkhov. The +stern, shrewd, and penetrating expression of that look struck Pierre. He +eyes. His shriveled old hands were folded and on the finger of one of +it seemed to Pierre, sunk in profound and calm meditation. His servant +This active old servant was unpacking the traveler’s canteen and +tumbler with tea for himself and one for the beardless old man to whom +he passed it. Pierre began to feel a sense of uneasiness, and the +unfinished bit of nibbled sugar, and asked if anything more would be +The servant handed him a book which Pierre took to be a devotional work, +and the traveler became absorbed in it. Pierre looked at him. All at +once the stranger closed the book, putting in a marker, and again, +position with his eyes shut. Pierre looked at him and had not time +to turn away when the old man, opening his eyes, fixed his steady and +Pierre felt confused and wished to avoid that look, but the bright old +mistaken,” said the stranger in a deliberate and loud voice. +Pierre looked silently and inquiringly at him over his spectacles. +“I have heard of you, my dear sir,” continued the stranger, “and +Pierre flushed and, hurriedly putting his legs down from the bed, bent +forward toward the old man with a forced and timid smile. +He paused, his gaze still on Pierre, and moved aside on the sofa by way +involuntarily, came up and sat down beside him. +are young and I am old. I should like to help you as far as lies in my +The stranger’s face was not genial, it was even cold and severe, but +in spite of this, both the face and words of his new acquaintance were +an unexpected and tenderly paternal way. +hands, he looked more closely at the ring, with its skull—a Masonic +stranger, looking deeper and deeper into Pierre’s eyes. “And in +their name and my own I hold out a brotherly hand to you.” +“I am afraid,” said Pierre, smiling, and wavering between the +confidence the personality of the Freemason inspired in him and his own +from understanding—how am I to put it?—I am afraid my way of looking +at the world is so opposed to yours that we shall not understand one +“I know your outlook,” said the Mason, “and the view of life you +mention, and which you think is the result of your own mental efforts, +is the one held by the majority of people, and is the invariable fruit +of pride, indolence, and ignorance. Forgive me, my dear sir, but if I +whose words struck Pierre more and more by their precision and firmness. +a worthy dwelling place of the Great God,” he added, and closed his +God,” said Pierre, regretfully and with an effort, feeling it +The Mason looked intently at Pierre and smiled as a rich man with +millions in hand might smile at a poor fellow who told him that he, poor +cannot know Him. You do not know Him and that is why you are unhappy.” +“You know Him not, my dear sir, and so you are very unhappy. You do +thee, and even in those blasphemous words thou hast just uttered!” +pronounced the Mason in a stern and tremulous voice. +He paused and sighed, evidently trying to calm himself. +“If He were not,” he said quietly, “you and I would not be +hast thou denied?” he suddenly asked with exulting austerity and +didst thou, and why did the whole world, conceive the idea of the +eternal, and infinite in all His attributes?...” +He stopped and remained silent for a long time. +Pierre could not and did not wish to break this silence. +“He exists, but to understand Him is hard,” the Mason began again, +looking not at Pierre but straight before him, and turning the leaves +of his book with his old hands which from excitement he could not keep +bring him to thee, could take him by the hand and show him to thee. But +and all His mercy to one who is blind, or who shuts his eyes that he may +not see or understand Him and may not see or understand his own vileness +and sinfulness?” He paused again. “Who art thou? Thou dreamest that +went on, with a somber and scornful smile. “And thou art more foolish +and unreasonable than a little child, who, playing with the parts of a +skillfully made watch, dares to say that, as he does not understand +attain that knowledge and are still infinitely far from our aim; but +in our lack of understanding we see only our weakness and His +believes, in the speaker’s tone of conviction and earnestness, or +firmness and certainty of his vocation, which radiated from his whole +being (and which struck Pierre especially by contrast with his own +dejection and hopelessness)—at any rate, Pierre longed with his whole +soul to believe and he did believe, and felt a joyful sense of comfort, +regeneration, and return to life. +“I do not understand,” said Pierre, feeling with dismay doubts +“I don’t understand,” he said, “how it is that the mind of man +“The highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish +vessel and judge of its purity? Only by the inner purification of myself +worldly sciences of physics, history, chemistry, and the like, into +science explaining the whole creation and man’s place in it. To +receive that science it is necessary to purify and renew one’s inner +self, and so before one can know, it is necessary to believe and to +“Look then at thy inner self with the eyes of the spirit, and ask +good gifts? Are you content with yourself and with your life?” +“Thou hatest it. Then change it, purify thyself; and as thou art +How have you spent it? In riotous orgies and debauchery, receiving +everything from society and giving nothing in return. You have become +for your neighbor? Have you ever thought of your tens of thousands +of slaves? Have you helped them physically and morally? No! You have +woman; and what have you done? You have not helped her to find the way +of truth, my dear sir, but have thrust her into an abyss of deceit and +misery. A man offended you and you shot him, and you say you do not +know God and hate your life. There is nothing strange in that, my dear +leaned his arms on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes. Pierre +looked at that aged, stern, motionless, almost lifeless face and moved +The Mason cleared his throat huskily, as old men do, and called his +all, and without promising to help me?” thought Pierre, rising with +downcast head; and he began to pace the room, glancing occasionally at +and profligate life, though I did not like it and did not want to,” +thought Pierre. “But this man knows the truth and, if he wished to, +traveler, having packed his things with his practiced hands, began +fastening his coat. When he had finished, he turned to Bezúkhov, and +I, above all, who am to blame for everything. Help me, teach me, and +Pierre could not go on. He gulped and turned away. +Petersburg. Hand this to Count Willarski” (he took out his notebook +and wrote a few words on a large sheet of paper folded in four). +first of all devote some time to solitude and self-examination and do +my dear sir,” he added, seeing that his servant had entered... “and +and Martinists, even in Novíkov’s time. For a long while after he had +gone, Pierre did not go to bed or order horses but paced up and down +the room, pondering over his vicious past, and with a rapturous sense +the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that is how +he went nowhere and spent whole days in reading Thomas à Kempis, whose +of believing in the possibility of attaining perfection, and in the +into his room one evening in the official and ceremonious manner in +which Dólokhov’s second had called on him, and, having closed the +door behind him and satisfied himself that there was nobody else in the +“I have come to you with a message and an offer, Count,” he +said without sitting down. “A person of very high standing in our +before the usual term and has proposed to me to be your sponsor. I +to what he must do and how he should answer, Willarski only replied that +brothers more worthy than he would test him and that Pierre had only to +headquarters, and having ascended a dark staircase, they entered a small +something to him in French in an undertone and then went up to a small +Pierre’s eyes with it and tied it in a knot behind, catching some +hairs painfully in the knot. Then he drew his face down, kissed him, and +taking him by the hand led him forward. The hairs tied in the knot hurt +Pierre and there were lines of pain on his face and a shamefaced smile. +His huge figure, with arms hanging down and with a puckered, though +your eyes,” added Willarski. “I wish you courage and success,” +and, pressing Pierre’s hand, he went out. +he shrugged his shoulders and raised his hand to the kerchief, as if +with his eyes bandaged seemed to him an hour. His arms felt numb, +would happen to him and still more afraid of showing his fear. He felt +curious to know what was going to happen and what would be revealed to +would at last start on that path of regeneration and on the actively +Alexéevich. Loud knocks were heard at the door. Pierre took the bandage +off his eyes and glanced around him. The room was in black darkness, +and saw that the lamp stood on a black table on which lay an open book. +The book was the Gospel, and the white thing with the lamp inside was a +human skull with its cavities and teeth. After reading the first words +of the Gospel: “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with +God,” Pierre went round the table and saw a large open box filled +seemed to him that he had expected all this and even more. Trying +words with vague yet joyful ideas. The door opened and someone came in. +table and placed on it his small leather-gloved hands. +This short man had on a white leather apron which covered his chest and +you, who do not believe in the truth of the light and who have not +At the moment the door opened and the stranger came in, Pierre felt a +sense of awe and veneration such as he had experienced in his boyhood at +breath and beating heart he moved toward the Rhetor (by which name the +Smolyanínov, and it mortified him to think that the newcomer was an +acquaintance—he wished him simply a brother and a virtuous instructor. +“Very well,” said Smolyanínov, and went on at once: “Have you any +aim?” said he quietly and quickly. +with a trembling voice and some difficulty in utterance due to his +excitement and to being unaccustomed to speak of abstract matters in +“I imagine that Freemasonry is the fraternity and equality of men who +“No, I considered it erroneous and did not follow it,” said Pierre, +so softly that the Rhetor did not hear him and asked him what he was +therefore you seek wisdom and virtue. Is that not so?” said the +The Rhetor cleared his throat, crossed his gloved hands on his breast, +and began to speak. +“and if this aim coincides with yours, you may enter our Brotherhood +with profit. The first and chief object of our Order, the foundation on +which it rests and which no human power can destroy, is the preservation +and handing on to posterity of a certain important mystery... which +prepared by long and diligent self-purification, not everyone can hope +our members as much as possible to reform their hearts, to purify and +enlighten their minds, by means handed on to us by tradition from those +who have striven to attain this mystery, and thereby to render them +“By purifying and regenerating our members we try, thirdly, to improve +and virtue, and thereby try with all our might to combat the evil which +sways the world. Think this over and I will come to you again.” +“To combat the evil which sways the world...” Pierre repeated, and a +He imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he +vicious and unfortunate people whom he would assist by word and deed, +and the second aim, that of purifying and regenerating himself, did not +was already perfectly cured of his former faults and was ready for all +from this distressful life, and leads it to its place of recompense and +soul: courage, generosity, morality, love of mankind, and especially +felt so glad to be free from his own lawlessness and to submit his will +virtue was and could not recall it. +The third time the Rhetor came back more quickly and asked Pierre +whether he was still firm in his intention and determined to submit to +and virtue than mere words. This chamber with what you see therein +Pierre quickly took out his purse and watch, but could not manage for +Pierre took off his coat, waistcoat, and left boot according to the +left breast, and stooping down pulled up the left leg of his trousers +and was going to tuck up the other trouser leg to save this stranger the +trouble, but the Mason told him that was not necessary and gave him +doubt, and self-derision, which appeared on his face against his will, +Pierre stood with his arms hanging down and legs apart, before his +brother Rhetor, and awaited his further commands. +“And now, in token of candor, I ask you to reveal to me your chief +The Mason did not move and for a long time said nothing after this +answer. At last he moved up to Pierre and, taking the kerchief that lay +yourself, put a bridle on your senses, and seek blessedness, not in +replied: “Yes, yes, I agree,” and with a beaming, childlike smile, +his fat chest uncovered, stepping unevenly and timidly in one slippered +and one booted foot, he advanced, while Willarski held a sword to his +backwards and forwards and was at last brought to the doors of the +blindfolded) questioned him as to who he was, when and where he was +born, and so on. Then he was again led somewhere still blindfolded, +and as they went along he was told allegories of the toils of his +universe, and of the courage with which he should endure toils and +dangers. During these wanderings, Pierre noticed that he was spoken +of now as the “Seeker,” now as the “Sufferer,” and now as the +mallets and swords. As he was being led up to some object he noticed a +hesitation and uncertainty among his conductors. He heard those around +him disputing in whispers and one of them insisting that he should be +led along a certain carpet. After that they took his right hand, placed +it on something, and told him to hold a pair of compasses to his left +breast with the other hand and to repeat after someone who read aloud +an oath of fidelity to the laws of the Order. The candles were then +extinguished and some spirit lighted, as Pierre knew by the smell, and +he was told that he would now see the lesser light. The bandage was +taken off his eyes and, by the faint light of the burning spirit, +Pierre, as in a dream, saw several men standing before him, wearing +aprons like the Rhetor’s and holding swords in their hands pointed at +him and he was at once blindfolded again. +candles were relit and he was told that he would see the full light; the +bandage was again removed and more than ten voices said together: “Sic +Pierre gradually began to recover himself and looked about at the room +and at the people in it. Round a long table covered with black sat some +distinguished dignitary and a Swiss who had formerly been tutor at the +of the President, who held a mallet in his hand. Let into the wall was +altar on which lay a Testament and a skull. Round it stood seven large +candlesticks like those used in churches. Two of the brothers led Pierre +up to the altar, placed his feet at right angles, and bade him lie down, +obeying, and suddenly doubts arose in his mind. “Where am I? What am +through, and realized that he could not stop halfway. He was aghast +at his hesitation and, trying to arouse his former devotional feeling, +he had lain there some time, he was told to get up, and a white leather +and three pairs of gloves, and then the Grand Master addressed him. He +apron, which symbolized strength and purity; then of the unexplained +and indulgently to smooth with it the heart of his neighbor. As to the +he was to wear at the meetings, and finally of the third, a pair of +hands that are unclean.” While the Grand Master said these last words +looking about him uneasily, and an awkward pause followed. +rug and began reading to him from a manuscript book an explanation of +trowel, a rough stone and a squared stone, a pillar, three windows, and +the Lodge, told the password, and at last was permitted to sit down. +The Grand Master began reading the statutes. They were very long, and +Pierre, from joy, agitation, and embarrassment, was not in a state to +understand what was being read. He managed to follow only the last words +of the statutes and these remained in his mind. +“In our temples we recognize no other distinctions,” read the Grand +Master, “but those between virtue and vice. Beware of making any +never bear malice or enmity toward thy brother. Be kindly and courteous. +neighbor, and may envy never dim the purity of that bliss. Forgive thy +He finished and, getting up, embraced and kissed Pierre, who, with tears +congratulations and greetings from acquaintances that met him on all +brothers, and burned with impatience to set to work with them. +The Grand Master rapped with his mallet. All the Masons sat down in +their places, and one of them read an exhortation on the necessity of +The Grand Master proposed that the last duty should be performed, +and the distinguished dignitary who bore the title of “Collector +The meeting was at an end, and on reaching home Pierre felt as if he had +become completely changed, and had quite left behind his former habits +and way of life. +home reading a book and trying to fathom the significance of the Square, +physical things, and the fourth a combination of these. Now and then +his attention wandered from the book and the Square and he formed in +had heard that a rumor of his duel had reached the Emperor and that it +estates in the south and there attending to the welfare of his serfs. +Prince Vasíli, as he entered. “I know all about it, and I can tell +know all about it and understand it all,” he said. “You behaved as +go into that. But consider the position in which you are placing her and +me in the eyes of society, and even of the court,” he added, lowering +his voice. “She is living in Moscow and you are here. Remember, +dear boy,” and he drew Pierre’s arm downwards, “it is simply a +misunderstanding. I expect you feel it so yourself. Let us write her +a letter at once, and she’ll come here and all will be explained, or +Pierre tried several times to speak, but, on one hand, Prince Vasíli +did not let him and, on the other, Pierre himself feared to begin to +speak in the tone of decided refusal and disagreement in which he had +Masonic statutes, “be kindly and courteous,” recurred to him. He +blinked, went red, got up and sat down again, struggling with himself +unable to withstand it now, but he also felt that on what he said now +and I’ll write to her myself, and we will kill the fatted calf.” +without looking at him, and with a kind of fury that made him like his +and opened the door for him. +“Go!” he repeated, amazed at himself and glad to see the look of +confusion and fear that showed itself on Prince Vasíli’s face. +and leaving large sums of money with them for alms, went away to his +estates. His new brethren gave him letters to the Kiev and Odessa Masons +and promised to write to him and guide him in his new activity. +The duel between Pierre and Dólokhov was hushed up and, in spite of +an illegitimate son, and petted and extolled when he was the best +marriage—when the marriageable daughters and their mothers had nothing +to hope from him—especially as he did not know how, and did not +happened, he was said to be insanely jealous and subject like his +due to her misfortune. When conversation turned on her husband Hélène +acquired though she did not understand its significance. This expression +and that her husband was a cross laid upon her by God. Prince Vasíli +was mentioned and, pointing to his forehead, remarked: +Pierre, “I said at the time and before anyone else” (she insisted +was in raptures about him, when he had just returned from abroad, and +And how has it ended? I was against this marriage even then and foretold +and interesting person to the visitors and that nowhere else was the +society so dearly and distinctly indicated. +destruction of the Prussian army at Jena and Auerstädt and the +troops had already entered Prussia and our second war with Napoleon +by her husband, Mortemart, the delightful Prince Hippolyte who had +de beaucoup de mérite), a newly appointed maid of honor and her mother, +and several other less noteworthy persons. +the Prussian army and was aide-de-camp to a very important personage. +“Whatever the European sovereigns and commanders may do to +countenance Bonaparte, and to cause me, and us in general, annoyance and +to express our sincere views on that subject, and can only say to the +King of Prussia and others: ‘So much the worse for you. Tu l’as +voulu, George Dandin,’ that’s all we have to say about it!” +room, almost all the company had assembled, and the conversation, guided +by Anna Pávlovna, was about our diplomatic relations with Austria and +Borís, grown more manly and looking fresh, rosy and self-possessed, +aide-de-camp and was duly conducted to pay his respects to the aunt and +Anna Pávlovna gave him her shriveled hand to kiss and introduced him to +and simply, “Mr. Shítov—a man of great merit”—this of the man +Thanks to Anna Mikháylovna’s efforts, his own tastes, and the +Prussia, and had just returned from there as a special messenger. He had +been so pleased at Olmütz and according to which an ensign might rank +incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was +grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his +success and at the inability of others to understand these things. +be better dressed than others, and would rather deprive himself of many +and sought the acquaintance of only those above him in position and +who could therefore be of use to him. He liked Petersburg and despised +Moscow. The remembrance of the Rostóvs’ house and of his childish +love for Natásha was unpleasant to him and he had not once been to see +service, and he at once understood his role, letting his hostess make +each of those present, and the advantages that might accrue. He took +the seat indicated to him beside the fair Hélène and listened to the +them, and she doubts the means we have of gaining them. That is the +“We must distinguish between the Vienna cabinet and the Emperor of +After that Anna Pávlovna led up to the courage and firmness of the King +beautiful Hélène, whose eyes several times met those of the handsome +Borís to tell them about his journey to Glogau and in what state he +in pure, correct French many interesting details about the armies and +general attention, and Anna Pávlovna felt that the novelty she had +him several questions about his journey and seemed greatly interested in +“You absolutely must come and see me,” she said in a tone that +“On Tuesday between eight and nine. It will give me great pleasure.” +Borís promised to fulfill her wish and was about to begin a +“You know her husband, of course?” said Anna Pávlovna, closing her +eyes and indicating Hélène with a sorrowful gesture. “Ah, she is +such an unfortunate and charming woman! Don’t mention him before +When Borís and Anna Pávlovna returned to the others Prince Hippolyte +Bending forward in his armchair he said: “Le Roi de Prusse!” and +and then calmly and seriously sat back in his chair. Anna Pávlovna +Hippolyte interrupted her with the words: “Le Roi de Prusse...” and +again, as soon as all turned toward him, excused himself and said no +a joke he had heard in Vienna and which he had been trying all that +The conversation did not flag all evening and turned chiefly on the +significant command to come to her on Tuesday. +toward Anna Pávlovna, and Anna Pávlovna, with the same sad smile with +him to come. There were other guests and the countess talked little to +him, and only as he kissed her hand on taking leave said unexpectedly +and in a whisper, with a strangely unsmiling face: “Come to dinner +The war was flaming up and nearing the Russian frontier. Everywhere one +heard curses on Bonaparte, “the enemy of mankind.” Militiamen and +recruits were being enrolled in the villages, and from the seat of +war came contradictory news, false as usual and therefore variously +interpreted. The life of old Prince Bolkónski, Prince Andrew, and +In 1806 the old prince was made one of the eight commanders in chief +himself, and this fresh opportunity for action gave him new energy +and strength. He was continually traveling through the three provinces +to cruel with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the +mathematics from her father, and when the old prince was at home went +to his study with the wet nurse and little Prince Nicholas (as his +grandfather called him). The baby Prince Nicholas lived with his wet +nurse and nurse Sávishna in the late princess’ rooms and Princess +passionately fond of the boy, and Princess Mary often deprived herself +to give her friend the pleasure of dandling the little angel—as she +called her nephew—and playing with him. +tomb of the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument +about to smile, and once on coming out of the chapel Prince Andrew and +his father’s peculiarities, and partly because he needed solitude, +Prince Andrew made use of Boguchárovo, began building and spent most of +to continue his military service, and when the war recommenced +and everybody had to serve, he took a post under his father in the +recruitment so as to avoid active service. The old prince and his son +while Prince Andrew on the contrary, taking no part in the war and +had driven the old prince to town returned bringing papers and letters +child’s little chair while, frowning and with trembling hands, he +“What is it?” he said crossly, and, his hand shaking +mixture onto the floor and asked for some more water. The maid brought +table, a child’s table, and the little chair on which Prince Andrew +was sitting. The curtains were drawn, and a single candle was burning on +the cot where she was standing, “better wait a bit... later...” +“Oh, leave off, you always talk nonsense and keep putting things +off—and this is what comes of it!” said Prince Andrew in an +Prince Andrew got up and went on tiptoe up to the little bed, wineglass +in hand. +Princess Mary, evidently intimidated and confused that her opinion +doctor and expecting another for whom they had sent to town, they had +been trying first one remedy and then another. Worn out by sleeplessness +and anxiety they threw their burden of sorrow on one another and +reproached and disputed with each other. +“Devil take them!” he muttered, and after listening to the verbal +instructions his father had sent and taking the correspondence and his +Prince Andrew went up to the child and felt him. He was burning hot. +“Confound you and your Karl Ivánich!” He took the glass with the +drops and again went up to the cot. +and stooped glass in hand over the infant. +and calling the nurse began giving the medicine. The child screamed +hoarsely. Prince Andrew winced and, clutching his head, went out and sat +He still had all the letters in his hand. Opening them mechanically he +began reading. The old prince, now and then using abbreviations, wrote +in his large elongated hand on blue paper as follows: +and the rewards sent to the army are innumerable. Though he is a +German—I congratulate him! I can’t make out what the commander at +Kórchevo—a certain Khandrikóv—is up to; till now the additional +men and provisions have not arrived. Gallop off to him at once and +from Pétenka—he took part in it—and it’s all true. When +without delay and carry out instructions! +Prince Andrew sighed and broke the seal of another envelope. It was +without reading it and reread his father’s letter, ending with the +words: “Gallop off to Kórchevo and carry out instructions!” +he, going to the door and looking into the nursery. +Princess Mary was still standing by the cot, gently rocking the baby. +“Ah yes, and what else did he say that’s unpleasant?” thought +understanding half of it, read only to forget, if but for a moment, what +Bilíbin was now at army headquarters in a diplomatic capacity, and +though he wrote in French and used French jests and French idioms, +he described the whole campaign with a fearless self-censure and +diplomatic discretion tormented him, and he was happy to have in Prince +have certainly acquired a taste for war, and it is just as well for me; +our fine speeches and in his rude and savage way throws himself on the +and in two twists of the hand he breaks them to smithereens and installs +Bonaparte, ‘that Your Majesty should be received and treated in my +palace in a manner agreeable to yourself, and in so far as circumstances +the French and lay down their arms at the first demand. +“The head of the garrison at Glogau, with ten thousand men, asks the +it turns out that we have landed ourselves in war, and what is more, +in war on our own frontiers, with and for the King of Prussia. We have +a commander in chief. As it was considered that the Austerlitz success +might have been more decisive had the commander in chief not been so +young, all our octogenarians were reviewed, and of Prozoróvski +and Kámenski the latter was preferred. The general comes to us, +Suvórov-like, in a kibítka, and is received with acclamations of joy +and triumph. +himself. I am called in to help sort the letters and take those meant +for us. The field marshal looks on and waits for letters addressed +impatient and sets to work himself and finds letters from the Emperor +to Count T., Prince V., and others. Then he bursts into one of his wild +furies and rages at everyone and everything, seizes the letters, opens +them, and reads those from the Emperor addressed to others. ‘Ah! So +“‘I am wounded and cannot ride and consequently cannot command the +exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as +my riding and commanding so vast an army, so I have passed on the +command to the general next in seniority, Count Buxhöwden, having sent +him my whole staff and all that belongs to it, advising him if there is +one day’s ration of bread remains, and in some regiments none at all, +as reported by the division commanders, Ostermann and Sedmorétzki, and +already in any case dishonored by being unable to fulfill the great and +secretary rather than commander in the army. My removal from the army +thousands such as I in Russia.’ +“The field marshal is angry with the Emperor and he punishes us all, +interesting and entertaining. After the field marshal’s departure +it appears that we are within sight of the enemy and must give battle. +Buxhöwden is commander in chief by seniority, but General Bennigsen +does not quite see it; more particularly as it is he and his corps who +are within sight of the enemy and he wishes to profit by the opportunity +to fight a battle ‘on his own hand’ as the Germans say. He does so. +retreat after a battle have lost it is what we say; and according to +victory, and General Bennigsen, hoping to receive from Petersburg the +post of commander in chief as a reward for his victory, does not give up +the command of the army to General Buxhöwden. During this interregnum +we begin a very original and interesting series of maneuvers. Our aim is +but attacked and captured by a superior enemy force as a result of one +recross to the other. At last our enemy, Buxhöwden, catches us and +attacks. Both generals are angry, and the result is a challenge on +Buxhöwden’s part and an epileptic fit on Bennigsen’s. But at the +Pultúsk to Petersburg returns bringing our appointment as commander in +chief, and our first foe, Buxhöwden, is vanquished; we can now turn +soldiers, loudly demanding bread, meat, biscuits, fodder, and whatnot! +and in a way of which our last campaign can give you no idea. Half the +regiments form bands and scour the countryside and put everything +to fire and sword. The inhabitants are totally ruined, the hospitals +overflow with sick, and famine is everywhere. Twice the marauders even +attack our headquarters, and the commander in chief has to ask for a +my empty portmanteau and my dressing gown. The Emperor proposes to give +all commanders of divisions the right to shoot marauders, but I much +Bilíbin), what he had read began to interest him more and more. When he +had read thus far, he crumpled the letter up and threw it away. It was +had read, and listened to what was passing in the nursery. Suddenly he +reading the letter. He went on tiptoe to the nursery door and opened it. +with a scared look and that Princess Mary was no longer by the cot. +As often happens after long sleeplessness and long anxiety, he was +dead. All that he saw and heard seemed to confirm this terror. +“All is over,” he thought, and a cold sweat broke out on his +empty and that the nurse had been hiding the dead baby. He drew the +curtain aside and for some time his frightened, restless eyes could not +lay across the bed with his head lower than the pillow, and was smacking +his lips in his sleep and breathing evenly. +already lost him. He bent over him and, as his sister had taught him, +forehead was moist. Prince Andrew touched the head with his hand; even +but evidently the crisis was over and he was convalescent. Prince Andrew +head and at the little arms and legs which showed under the blanket. He +heard a rustle behind him and a shadow appeared under the curtain of +and dropped it again behind her. Prince Andrew recognized her without +looking and held out his hand to her. She pressed it. +The child moved slightly in his sleep, smiled, and rubbed his forehead +were in them. She leaned over to her brother and kissed him, slightly +and stood still in the dim light beneath the curtain as if not wishing +and explained to them his intentions and wishes. He told them that steps +would be taken immediately to free his serfs—and that till then they +punishments were to be admonitory and not corporal, and hospitals, +asylums, and schools were to be established on all the estates. Some of +with their management and embezzlement of money, some after their first +fright were amused by Pierre’s lisp and the new words they had not +this speech how they could best handle the master for their own ends. +income which was said to amount to five hundred thousand rubles a year, +an allowance of ten thousand rubles. He had a dim perception of the +About 80,000 went in payments on all the estates to the Land Bank, about +and the allowance to the three princesses; about 15,000 was given in +pensions and the same amount for asylums; 150,000 alimony was sent to +two years, and he did not know how the rest, about 100,000 rubles, was +spent, and almost every year he was obliged to borrow. Besides this the +chief steward wrote every year telling him of fires and bad harvests, +or of the necessity of rebuilding factories and workshops. So the first +consultations were detached from real affairs and did not link up with +them or make them move. On the one hand, the chief steward put the state +paying off the debts and undertaking new activities with serf labor, +to which Pierre did not agree. On the other hand, Pierre demanded that +showing the necessity of first paying off the loans from the Land Bank, +and the consequent impossibility of a speedy emancipation. +the forests in the province of Kostromá, the land lower down the river, +and the Crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which +measures—the removal of injunctions, petitions, permits, and so +on—that Pierre became quite bewildered and only replied: +to attend to the business himself and so he disliked it and only tried +consultations very valuable for the proprietor and troublesome to +In Kiev Pierre found some people he knew, and strangers hastened to make +his acquaintance and joyfully welcomed the rich newcomer, the +largest landowner of the province. Temptations to Pierre’s greatest +weeks, and months of his life passed in as great a rush and were as much +occupied with evening parties, dinners, lunches, and balls, giving him +life, and that of the seven virtues he lacked two—morality and the +another of the precepts—that of reforming the human race—and had +other virtues—love of his neighbor, and especially generosity. +intended to visit all his estates and see for himself how far his orders +had been carried out and in what state were the serfs whom God had +entrusted to his care and whom he intended to benefit. +insane—unprofitable to himself, to the count, and to the serfs—made +buildings—schools, hospitals, and asylums—on all the estates +such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread +and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his +master, would touch and delude him. +carriage, and the solitude of the road, all had a gladdening effect on +than the other; the serfs everywhere seemed thriving and touchingly +and salt and an icon of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, asking permission, +of Peter and Paul, his patron saints. In another place the women with +instructing in reading, writing, and religion. On all his estates Pierre +all on one plan, for hospitals, schools, and almshouses, which were soon +which the serfs’ manorial labor had been diminished, and heard the +with bread and salt and wished to build a chantry in honor of Peter and +and that the richest peasants (who formed the deputation) had begun +since the nursing mothers were no longer sent to work on his land, they +did still harder work on their own land. He did not know that the priest +who met him with the cross oppressed the peasants by his exactions, and +and secured their release by heavy payments. He did not know that the +to his estates and quite recovered the philanthropic mood in which +he had left Petersburg, and wrote enthusiastic letters to his +“brother-instructor” as he called the Grand Master. +thought Pierre, “and how little attention we pay to it!” +through the naïve and intelligent count and played with him as with +pressed him still harder with proofs of the impossibility and above all +difficult to imagine happier people, and that God only knew what would +the sale of the land and forests and to release them from the Land Bank, +but would probably never even inquire and would never know that the +newly erected buildings were standing empty and that the serfs continued +to give in money and work all that other people’s serfs gave—that is +fields and forests of fir and birch, which were partly cut down. The +house lay behind a newly dug pond filled with water to the brink and +bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular façade +out. The fences and gates were new and solid; two fire pumps and a +the bridges were strong and had handrails. Everything bore an impress of +tidiness and good management. Some domestic serfs Pierre met, in reply +prince was at home, and showed him into a clean little anteroom. +wooden walls redolent of pine, and would have gone farther, but Antón +ran ahead on tiptoe and knocked at a door. +“Ask him to wait,” and the sound was heard of a chair being pushed +Pierre went with rapid steps to the door and suddenly came face to +face with Prince Andrew, who came out frowning and looking old. Pierre +embraced him and lifting his spectacles kissed his friend on the cheek +and looked at him closely. +was struck by the change in him. His words were kindly and there was a +smile on his lips and face, but his eyes were dull and lifeless and in +and glad sparkle. Prince Andrew had grown thinner, paler, and more +manly-looking, but what amazed and estranged Pierre till he got used +to it were his inertia and a wrinkle on his brow indicating prolonged +put questions and gave brief replies about things they knew ought to +for the future, Pierre’s journeys and occupations, the war, and so +on. The preoccupation and despondency which Pierre had noticed in his +enthusiasms, dreams, and hopes of happiness or goodness, in Prince +which had been particularly revived and strengthened by his late tour. +different, and better, Pierre than he had been in Petersburg. +“Well, and you? What are your plans?” +Pierre looked silently and searchingly into Prince Andrew’s face, +and all you have been doing on your estates.” +had been doing, as though it were all an old-time story, and he listened +Pierre felt uncomfortable and even depressed in his friend’s company +and at last became silent. +evidently also felt depressed and constrained with his visitor, “I am +only bivouacking here and have just come to look round. I am going back +They went out and walked about till dinnertime, talking of the political +news and common acquaintances like people who do not know each other +intimately. Prince Andrew spoke with some animation and interest only of +the new homestead he was constructing and its buildings, but even here, +“However, this is not at all interesting. Let us have dinner, and then +Pierre blushed, as he always did when it was mentioned, and said +know it is all over, and forever.” +to know what is right and what is wrong. Men always did and always will +err, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.” +roused, had begun to talk, and wanted to express what had brought him to +more and more animated and evidently wishing to express his new outlook +life: remorse and illness. The only good is the absence of those evils. +“And love of one’s neighbor, and self-sacrifice?” began Pierre. +“No, I can’t agree with you! To live only so as not to do evil and +myself and ruined my life. And only now when I am living, or at least +shall not agree with you, and you do not really believe what you are +yourself and say you nearly ruined your life and only found happiness +lived for others, and not almost, but quite, ruined my life. And I have +growing excited. “What about your son, your sister, and your +as you and Princess Mary call it, are the chief source of all error and +“You are joking,” replied Pierre, growing more and more excited. +“What error or evil can there be in my wishing to do good, and even +doing a little—though I did very little and did it very badly? What +ourselves, were growing up and dying with no idea of God and truth +beyond ceremonies and meaningless prayers and are now instructed in +a comforting belief in future life, retribution, recompense, and +consolation? What evil and error are there in it, if people were dying +rendered, and I supplied them with a doctor, a hospital, and an asylum +peasant, or a woman with a baby, has no rest day or night and I give +them rest and leisure?” said Pierre, hurrying and lisping. “And +I have done that though badly and to a small extent; but I have done +something toward it and you cannot persuade me that it was not a good +action, and more than that, you can’t make me believe that you do not +know, and know for certain, that the enjoyment of doing this good is the +Prince Andrew. “I build a house and lay out a garden, and you build +hospitals. The one and the other may serve as a pastime. But what’s +right and what’s good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by +They rose from the table and sat down in the entrance porch which served +as a veranda. +schools,” he went on, crooking a finger, “education and so forth; +them taking off his cap) “from his animal condition and awaken in him +happiness possible, and that is just what you want to deprive him of. +after two in the morning, thoughts come and I can’t sleep but toss +about till dawn, because I think and can’t help thinking, just as +he can’t help plowing and mowing; if he didn’t, he would go to the +drink shop or fall ill. Just as I could not stand his terrible physical +labor but should die of it in a week, so he could not stand my physical +idleness, but would grow fat and die. The third thing—what else was +it you talked about?” and Prince Andrew crooked a third finger. “Ah, +yes, hospitals, medicine. He has a fit, he is dying, and you come and +bleed him and patch him up. He will drag about as a cripple, a burden to +everybody, for another ten years. It would be far easier and simpler for +him to die. Others are being born and there are plenty of them as it is. +Killed them, yes!” said he, frowning angrily and turning away from +Prince Andrew expressed his ideas so clearly and distinctly that it was +evident he had reflected on this subject more than once, and he spoke +readily and rapidly like a man who has not talked for a long time. His +understand how one can live with such ideas. I had such moments +myself not long ago, in Moscow and when traveling, but at such times I +me... myself most of all. Then I don’t eat, don’t wash... and how is +nothing, but here on the one hand the local nobility have done me the +out of it. They could not understand that I have not the necessary +command of the Third District, and my only way of avoiding active +his time. But he is growing old, and though not exactly cruel he has too +terrible, and now he has this authority of a commander in chief of +I alone have any influence with my father, and now and then can save him +did not, and do not, in the least care about that scoundrel of a clerk +Prince Andrew grew more and more animated. His eyes glittered feverishly +anyone flogged or sent to Siberia—and still less for your serfs. If +any the worse off. In Siberia they lead the same animal life, and the +stripes on their bodies heal, and they are happy as before. But it is +themselves, stifle this remorse and grow callous, as a result of being +able to inflict punishments justly and unjustly. It is those people I +pity, and for their sake I should like to liberate the serfs. You +become cruel and harsh, are conscious of it, but cannot restrain +themselves and grow more and more miserable.” +purity, and not the serfs’ backs and foreheads, which, beat and shave +as you may, always remain the same backs and foreheads.” +“No, no! A thousand times no! I shall never agree with you,” said +In the evening Andrew and Pierre got into the open carriage and drove to +Bald Hills. Prince Andrew, glancing at Pierre, broke the silence now and +his husbandry. +Pierre remained gloomily silent, answering in monosyllables and +see the true light, and that he, Pierre, ought to aid, enlighten, and diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-1/1M.txt/grep-1M-02 b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-1/1M.txt/grep-1M-02 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-1/1M/1M-00 b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-1/1M/1M-00 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f9b8d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-1/1M/1M-00 @@ -0,0 +1,10785 @@ + +The Project Gutenberg EBook of War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost +no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use +it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this +eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: War and Peace + +Author: Leo Tolstoy + +Translators: Louise and Aylmer Maude + +Posting Date: January 10, 2009 [EBook #2600] + +Last Updated: January 21, 2019 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WAR AND PEACE *** + + + + +An Anonymous Volunteer, and David Widger + + + + + + +WAR AND PEACE + + +By Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi + + + + + + CONTENTS + + + BOOK ONE: 1805 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + CHAPTER XXIII + + CHAPTER XXIV + + CHAPTER XXV + + CHAPTER XXVI + + CHAPTER XXVII + + CHAPTER XXVIII + + + BOOK TWO: 1805 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + + BOOK THREE: 1805 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + + BOOK FOUR: 1806 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + + BOOK FIVE: 1806 - 07 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + + BOOK SIX: 1808 - 10 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + CHAPTER XXIII + + CHAPTER XXIV + + CHAPTER XXV + + CHAPTER XXVI + + + BOOK SEVEN: 1810 - 11 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + + BOOK EIGHT: 1811 - 12 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + + BOOK NINE: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + CHAPTER XXIII + + + BOOK TEN: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + CHAPTER XXIII + + CHAPTER XXIV + + CHAPTER XXV + + CHAPTER XXVI + + CHAPTER XXVII + + CHAPTER XXVIII + + CHAPTER XXIX + + CHAPTER XXX + + CHAPTER XXXI + + CHAPTER XXXII + + CHAPTER XXXIII + + CHAPTER XXXIV + + CHAPTER XXXV + + CHAPTER XXXVI + + CHAPTER XXXVII + + CHAPTER XXXVIII + + CHAPTER XXXIX + + + BOOK ELEVEN: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + CHAPTER XXIII + + CHAPTER XXIV + + CHAPTER XXV + + CHAPTER XXVI + + CHAPTER XXVII + + CHAPTER XXVIII + + CHAPTER XXIX + + CHAPTER XXX + + CHAPTER XXXI + + CHAPTER XXXII + + CHAPTER XXXIII + + CHAPTER XXXIV + + + BOOK TWELVE: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + + BOOK THIRTEEN: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + + BOOK FOURTEEN: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + + BOOK FIFTEEN: 1812 - 13 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + + FIRST EPILOGUE: 1813 - 20 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + + SECOND EPILOGUE + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + + + + + + + + + +BOOK ONE: 1805 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +“Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the +Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, +if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that +Antichrist—I really believe he is Antichrist—I will have nothing +more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my +‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I +have frightened you—sit down and tell me all the news.” + +It was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna Pávlovna +Schérer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Márya Fëdorovna. +With these words she greeted Prince Vasíli Kurágin, a man of high +rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna +Pávlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering +from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used +only by the elite. + +All her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered +by a scarlet-liveried footman that morning, ran as follows: + +“If you have nothing better to do, Count (or Prince), and if the +prospect of spending an evening with a poor invalid is not too terrible, +I shall be very charmed to see you tonight between 7 and 10—Annette +Schérer.” + +“Heavens! what a virulent attack!” replied the prince, not in the +least disconcerted by this reception. He had just entered, wearing an +embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on +his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that +refined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and +with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance +who had grown old in society and at court. He went up to Anna Pávlovna, +kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, +and complacently seated himself on the sofa. + +“First of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. Set your friend’s +mind at rest,” said he without altering his tone, beneath the +politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony +could be discerned. + +“Can one be well while suffering morally? Can one be calm in times +like these if one has any feeling?” said Anna Pávlovna. “You are +staying the whole evening, I hope?” + +“And the fete at the English ambassador’s? Today is Wednesday. I +must put in an appearance there,” said the prince. “My daughter is +coming for me to take me there.” + +“I thought today’s fete had been canceled. I confess all these +festivities and fireworks are becoming wearisome.” + +“If they had known that you wished it, the entertainment would have +been put off,” said the prince, who, like a wound-up clock, by force +of habit said things he did not even wish to be believed. + +“Don’t tease! Well, and what has been decided about Novosíltsev’s +dispatch? You know everything.” + +“What can one say about it?” replied the prince in a cold, listless +tone. “What has been decided? They have decided that Buonaparte has +burnt his boats, and I believe that we are ready to burn ours.” + +Prince Vasíli always spoke languidly, like an actor repeating a stale +part. Anna Pávlovna Schérer on the contrary, despite her forty years, +overflowed with animation and impulsiveness. To be an enthusiast had +become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not +feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the +expectations of those who knew her. The subdued smile which, though it +did not suit her faded features, always played round her lips expressed, +as in a spoiled child, a continual consciousness of her charming defect, +which she neither wished, nor could, nor considered it necessary, to +correct. + +In the midst of a conversation on political matters Anna Pávlovna burst +out: + +“Oh, don’t speak to me of Austria. Perhaps I don’t understand +things, but Austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war. She +is betraying us! Russia alone must save Europe. Our gracious sovereign +recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it. That is the one +thing I have faith in! Our good and wonderful sovereign has to perform +the noblest role on earth, and he is so virtuous and noble that God will +not forsake him. He will fulfill his vocation and crush the hydra of +revolution, which has become more terrible than ever in the person of +this murderer and villain! We alone must avenge the blood of the just +one.... Whom, I ask you, can we rely on?... England with her commercial +spirit will not and cannot understand the Emperor Alexander’s +loftiness of soul. She has refused to evacuate Malta. She wanted to +find, and still seeks, some secret motive in our actions. What answer +did Novosíltsev get? None. The English have not understood and cannot +understand the self-abnegation of our Emperor who wants nothing for +himself, but only desires the good of mankind. And what have they +promised? Nothing! And what little they have promised they will not +perform! Prussia has always declared that Buonaparte is invincible, and +that all Europe is powerless before him.... And I don’t believe a +word that Hardenburg says, or Haugwitz either. This famous Prussian +neutrality is just a trap. I have faith only in God and the lofty +destiny of our adored monarch. He will save Europe!” + +She suddenly paused, smiling at her own impetuosity. + +“I think,” said the prince with a smile, “that if you had been +sent instead of our dear Wintzingerode you would have captured the King +of Prussia’s consent by assault. You are so eloquent. Will you give me +a cup of tea?” + +“In a moment. À propos,” she added, becoming calm again, “I am +expecting two very interesting men tonight, le Vicomte de Mortemart, who +is connected with the Montmorencys through the Rohans, one of the best +French families. He is one of the genuine émigrés, the good ones. And +also the Abbé Morio. Do you know that profound thinker? He has been +received by the Emperor. Had you heard?” + +“I shall be delighted to meet them,” said the prince. “But +tell me,” he added with studied carelessness as if it had only just +occurred to him, though the question he was about to ask was the chief +motive of his visit, “is it true that the Dowager Empress wants +Baron Funke to be appointed first secretary at Vienna? The baron by all +accounts is a poor creature.” + +Prince Vasíli wished to obtain this post for his son, but others were +trying through the Dowager Empress Márya Fëdorovna to secure it for +the baron. + +Anna Pávlovna almost closed her eyes to indicate that neither she nor +anyone else had a right to criticize what the Empress desired or was +pleased with. + +“Baron Funke has been recommended to the Dowager Empress by her +sister,” was all she said, in a dry and mournful tone. + +As she named the Empress, Anna Pávlovna’s face suddenly assumed an +expression of profound and sincere devotion and respect mingled with +sadness, and this occurred every time she mentioned her illustrious +patroness. She added that Her Majesty had deigned to show Baron Funke +beaucoup d’estime, and again her face clouded over with sadness. + +The prince was silent and looked indifferent. But, with the womanly and +courtierlike quickness and tact habitual to her, Anna Pávlovna +wished both to rebuke him (for daring to speak as he had done of a man +recommended to the Empress) and at the same time to console him, so she +said: + +“Now about your family. Do you know that since your daughter came +out everyone has been enraptured by her? They say she is amazingly +beautiful.” + +The prince bowed to signify his respect and gratitude. + +“I often think,” she continued after a short pause, drawing nearer +to the prince and smiling amiably at him as if to show that political +and social topics were ended and the time had come for intimate +conversation—“I often think how unfairly sometimes the joys of life +are distributed. Why has fate given you two such splendid children? +I don’t speak of Anatole, your youngest. I don’t like him,” she +added in a tone admitting of no rejoinder and raising her eyebrows. +“Two such charming children. And really you appreciate them less than +anyone, and so you don’t deserve to have them.” + +And she smiled her ecstatic smile. + +“I can’t help it,” said the prince. “Lavater would have said I +lack the bump of paternity.” + +“Don’t joke; I mean to have a serious talk with you. Do you know +I am dissatisfied with your younger son? Between ourselves” (and her +face assumed its melancholy expression), “he was mentioned at Her +Majesty’s and you were pitied....” + +The prince answered nothing, but she looked at him significantly, +awaiting a reply. He frowned. + +“What would you have me do?” he said at last. “You know I did all +a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools. +Hippolyte is at least a quiet fool, but Anatole is an active one. That +is the only difference between them.” He said this smiling in a way +more natural and animated than usual, so that the wrinkles round +his mouth very clearly revealed something unexpectedly coarse and +unpleasant. + +“And why are children born to such men as you? If you were not a +father there would be nothing I could reproach you with,” said Anna +Pávlovna, looking up pensively. + +“I am your faithful slave and to you alone I can confess that my +children are the bane of my life. It is the cross I have to bear. That +is how I explain it to myself. It can’t be helped!” + +He said no more, but expressed his resignation to cruel fate by a +gesture. Anna Pávlovna meditated. + +“Have you never thought of marrying your prodigal son Anatole?” she +asked. “They say old maids have a mania for matchmaking, and though I +don’t feel that weakness in myself as yet, I know a little person who +is very unhappy with her father. She is a relation of yours, Princess +Mary Bolkónskaya.” + +Prince Vasíli did not reply, though, with the quickness of memory and +perception befitting a man of the world, he indicated by a movement of +the head that he was considering this information. + +“Do you know,” he said at last, evidently unable to check the sad +current of his thoughts, “that Anatole is costing me forty thousand +rubles a year? And,” he went on after a pause, “what will it be in +five years, if he goes on like this?” Presently he added: “That’s +what we fathers have to put up with.... Is this princess of yours +rich?” + +“Her father is very rich and stingy. He lives in the country. He is +the well-known Prince Bolkónski who had to retire from the army under +the late Emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the King of Prussia.’ He is +very clever but eccentric, and a bore. The poor girl is very unhappy. +She has a brother; I think you know him, he married Lise Meinen lately. +He is an aide-de-camp of Kutúzov’s and will be here tonight.” + +“Listen, dear Annette,” said the prince, suddenly taking Anna +Pávlovna’s hand and for some reason drawing it downwards. “Arrange +that affair for me and I shall always be your most devoted slave-slafe +with an f, as a village elder of mine writes in his reports. She is rich +and of good family and that’s all I want.” + +And with the familiarity and easy grace peculiar to him, he raised the +maid of honor’s hand to his lips, kissed it, and swung it to and fro +as he lay back in his armchair, looking in another direction. + +“Attendez,” said Anna Pávlovna, reflecting, “I’ll speak to +Lise, young Bolkónski’s wife, this very evening, and perhaps the +thing can be arranged. It shall be on your family’s behalf that I’ll +start my apprenticeship as old maid.” + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +Anna Pávlovna’s drawing room was gradually filling. The highest +Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age +and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. +Prince Vasíli’s daughter, the beautiful Hélène, came to take her +father to the ambassador’s entertainment; she wore a ball dress and +her badge as maid of honor. The youthful little Princess Bolkónskaya, +known as la femme la plus séduisante de Pétersbourg, * was also there. +She had been married during the previous winter, and being pregnant did +not go to any large gatherings, but only to small receptions. Prince +Vasíli’s son, Hippolyte, had come with Mortemart, whom he introduced. +The Abbé Morio and many others had also come. + + * The most fascinating woman in Petersburg. + +To each new arrival Anna Pávlovna said, “You have not yet seen my +aunt,” or “You do not know my aunt?” and very gravely conducted +him or her to a little old lady, wearing large bows of ribbon in her +cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests +began to arrive; and slowly turning her eyes from the visitor to her +aunt, Anna Pávlovna mentioned each one’s name and then left them. + +Each visitor performed the ceremony of greeting this old aunt whom not +one of them knew, not one of them wanted to know, and not one of them +cared about; Anna Pávlovna observed these greetings with mournful and +solemn interest and silent approval. The aunt spoke to each of them in +the same words, about their health and her own, and the health of Her +Majesty, “who, thank God, was better today.” And each visitor, +though politeness prevented his showing impatience, left the old woman +with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not +return to her the whole evening. + +The young Princess Bolkónskaya had brought some work in a +gold-embroidered velvet bag. Her pretty little upper lip, on which a +delicate dark down was just perceptible, was too short for her teeth, +but it lifted all the more sweetly, and was especially charming when she +occasionally drew it down to meet the lower lip. As is always the case +with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her +upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to be her own special and +peculiar form of beauty. Everyone brightened at the sight of this pretty +young woman, so soon to become a mother, so full of life and health, and +carrying her burden so lightly. Old men and dull dispirited young ones +who looked at her, after being in her company and talking to her a +little while, felt as if they too were becoming, like her, full of life +and health. All who talked to her, and at each word saw her bright smile +and the constant gleam of her white teeth, thought that they were in a +specially amiable mood that day. + +The little princess went round the table with quick, short, swaying +steps, her workbag on her arm, and gaily spreading out her dress sat +down on a sofa near the silver samovar, as if all she was doing was a +pleasure to herself and to all around her. “I have brought my work,” +said she in French, displaying her bag and addressing all present. +“Mind, Annette, I hope you have not played a wicked trick on me,” +she added, turning to her hostess. “You wrote that it was to be quite +a small reception, and just see how badly I am dressed.” And she +spread out her arms to show her short-waisted, lace-trimmed, dainty gray +dress, girdled with a broad ribbon just below the breast. + +“Soyez tranquille, Lise, you will always be prettier than anyone +else,” replied Anna Pávlovna. + +“You know,” said the princess in the same tone of voice and still in +French, turning to a general, “my husband is deserting me? He is going +to get himself killed. Tell me what this wretched war is for?” she +added, addressing Prince Vasíli, and without waiting for an answer she +turned to speak to his daughter, the beautiful Hélène. + +“What a delightful woman this little princess is!” said Prince +Vasíli to Anna Pávlovna. + +One of the next arrivals was a stout, heavily built young man with +close-cropped hair, spectacles, the light-colored breeches fashionable +at that time, a very high ruffle, and a brown dress coat. This stout +young man was an illegitimate son of Count Bezúkhov, a well-known +grandee of Catherine’s time who now lay dying in Moscow. The young man +had not yet entered either the military or civil service, as he had only +just returned from abroad where he had been educated, and this was his +first appearance in society. Anna Pávlovna greeted him with the nod she +accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room. But in spite of +this lowest-grade greeting, a look of anxiety and fear, as at the sight +of something too large and unsuited to the place, came over her face +when she saw Pierre enter. Though he was certainly rather bigger than +the other men in the room, her anxiety could only have reference to +the clever though shy, but observant and natural, expression which +distinguished him from everyone else in that drawing room. + +“It is very good of you, Monsieur Pierre, to come and visit a poor +invalid,” said Anna Pávlovna, exchanging an alarmed glance with her +aunt as she conducted him to her. + +Pierre murmured something unintelligible, and continued to look round as +if in search of something. On his way to the aunt he bowed to the little +princess with a pleased smile, as to an intimate acquaintance. + +Anna Pávlovna’s alarm was justified, for Pierre turned away from the +aunt without waiting to hear her speech about Her Majesty’s health. +Anna Pávlovna in dismay detained him with the words: “Do you know the +Abbé Morio? He is a most interesting man.” + +“Yes, I have heard of his scheme for perpetual peace, and it is very +interesting but hardly feasible.” + +“You think so?” rejoined Anna Pávlovna in order to say something +and get away to attend to her duties as hostess. But Pierre now +committed a reverse act of impoliteness. First he had left a lady before +she had finished speaking to him, and now he continued to speak to +another who wished to get away. With his head bent, and his big feet +spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbé’s +plan chimerical. + +“We will talk of it later,” said Anna Pávlovna with a smile. + +And having got rid of this young man who did not know how to behave, she +resumed her duties as hostess and continued to listen and watch, ready +to help at any point where the conversation might happen to flag. As +the foreman of a spinning mill, when he has set the hands to work, goes +round and notices here a spindle that has stopped or there one that +creaks or makes more noise than it should, and hastens to check the +machine or set it in proper motion, so Anna Pávlovna moved about her +drawing room, approaching now a silent, now a too-noisy group, and by a +word or slight rearrangement kept the conversational machine in steady, +proper, and regular motion. But amid these cares her anxiety about +Pierre was evident. She kept an anxious watch on him when he approached +the group round Mortemart to listen to what was being said there, and +again when he passed to another group whose center was the abbé. + +Pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception at Anna +Pávlovna’s was the first he had attended in Russia. He knew that all +the intellectual lights of Petersburg were gathered there and, like a +child in a toyshop, did not know which way to look, afraid of missing +any clever conversation that was to be heard. Seeing the self-confident +and refined expression on the faces of those present he was always +expecting to hear something very profound. At last he came up to Morio. +Here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an +opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +Anna Pávlovna’s reception was in full swing. The spindles hummed +steadily and ceaselessly on all sides. With the exception of the aunt, +beside whom sat only one elderly lady, who with her thin careworn face +was rather out of place in this brilliant society, the whole company had +settled into three groups. One, chiefly masculine, had formed round +the abbé. Another, of young people, was grouped round the beautiful +Princess Hélène, Prince Vasíli’s daughter, and the little Princess +Bolkónskaya, very pretty and rosy, though rather too plump for her age. +The third group was gathered round Mortemart and Anna Pávlovna. + +The vicomte was a nice-looking young man with soft features and polished +manners, who evidently considered himself a celebrity but out of +politeness modestly placed himself at the disposal of the circle in +which he found himself. Anna Pávlovna was obviously serving him up as +a treat to her guests. As a clever maître d’hôtel serves up as a +specially choice delicacy a piece of meat that no one who had seen it in +the kitchen would have cared to eat, so Anna Pávlovna served up to +her guests, first the vicomte and then the abbé, as peculiarly choice +morsels. The group about Mortemart immediately began discussing the +murder of the Duc d’Enghien. The vicomte said that the Duc d’Enghien +had perished by his own magnanimity, and that there were particular +reasons for Buonaparte’s hatred of him. + +“Ah, yes! Do tell us all about it, Vicomte,” said Anna Pávlovna, +with a pleasant feeling that there was something à la Louis XV in the +sound of that sentence: “Contez nous çela, Vicomte.” + +The vicomte bowed and smiled courteously in token of his willingness to +comply. Anna Pávlovna arranged a group round him, inviting everyone to +listen to his tale. + +“The vicomte knew the duc personally,” whispered Anna Pávlovna to +one of the guests. “The vicomte is a wonderful raconteur,” said she +to another. “How evidently he belongs to the best society,” said she +to a third; and the vicomte was served up to the company in the choicest +and most advantageous style, like a well-garnished joint of roast beef +on a hot dish. + +The vicomte wished to begin his story and gave a subtle smile. + +“Come over here, Hélène, dear,” said Anna Pávlovna to the +beautiful young princess who was sitting some way off, the center of +another group. + +The princess smiled. She rose with the same unchanging smile with which +she had first entered the room—the smile of a perfectly beautiful +woman. With a slight rustle of her white dress trimmed with moss +and ivy, with a gleam of white shoulders, glossy hair, and sparkling +diamonds, she passed between the men who made way for her, not looking +at any of them but smiling on all, as if graciously allowing each the +privilege of admiring her beautiful figure and shapely shoulders, +back, and bosom—which in the fashion of those days were very much +exposed—and she seemed to bring the glamour of a ballroom with her as +she moved toward Anna Pávlovna. Hélène was so lovely that not only +did she not show any trace of coquetry, but on the contrary she even +appeared shy of her unquestionable and all too victorious beauty. She +seemed to wish, but to be unable, to diminish its effect. + +“How lovely!” said everyone who saw her; and the vicomte lifted his +shoulders and dropped his eyes as if startled by something extraordinary +when she took her seat opposite and beamed upon him also with her +unchanging smile. + +“Madame, I doubt my ability before such an audience,” said he, +smilingly inclining his head. + +The princess rested her bare round arm on a little table and considered +a reply unnecessary. She smilingly waited. All the time the story was +being told she sat upright, glancing now at her beautiful round arm, +altered in shape by its pressure on the table, now at her still more +beautiful bosom, on which she readjusted a diamond necklace. From time +to time she smoothed the folds of her dress, and whenever the story +produced an effect she glanced at Anna Pávlovna, at once adopted just +the expression she saw on the maid of honor’s face, and again relapsed +into her radiant smile. + +The little princess had also left the tea table and followed Hélène. + +“Wait a moment, I’ll get my work.... Now then, what are you +thinking of?” she went on, turning to Prince Hippolyte. “Fetch me my +workbag.” + +There was a general movement as the princess, smiling and talking +merrily to everyone at once, sat down and gaily arranged herself in her +seat. + +“Now I am all right,” she said, and asking the vicomte to begin, she +took up her work. + +Prince Hippolyte, having brought the workbag, joined the circle and +moving a chair close to hers seated himself beside her. + +Le charmant Hippolyte was surprising by his extraordinary resemblance +to his beautiful sister, but yet more by the fact that in spite of +this resemblance he was exceedingly ugly. His features were like his +sister’s, but while in her case everything was lit up by a joyous, +self-satisfied, youthful, and constant smile of animation, and by the +wonderful classic beauty of her figure, his face on the contrary +was dulled by imbecility and a constant expression of sullen +self-confidence, while his body was thin and weak. His eyes, nose, and +mouth all seemed puckered into a vacant, wearied grimace, and his arms +and legs always fell into unnatural positions. + +“It’s not going to be a ghost story?” said he, sitting down beside +the princess and hastily adjusting his lorgnette, as if without this +instrument he could not begin to speak. + +“Why no, my dear fellow,” said the astonished narrator, shrugging +his shoulders. + +“Because I hate ghost stories,” said Prince Hippolyte in a tone +which showed that he only understood the meaning of his words after he +had uttered them. + +He spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure +whether what he said was very witty or very stupid. He was dressed in +a dark-green dress coat, knee breeches of the color of cuisse de nymphe +effrayée, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings. + +The vicomte told his tale very neatly. It was an anecdote, then current, +to the effect that the Duc d’Enghien had gone secretly to Paris to +visit Mademoiselle George; that at her house he came upon Bonaparte, +who also enjoyed the famous actress’ favors, and that in his presence +Napoleon happened to fall into one of the fainting fits to which he was +subject, and was thus at the duc’s mercy. The latter spared him, and +this magnanimity Bonaparte subsequently repaid by death. + +The story was very pretty and interesting, especially at the point +where the rivals suddenly recognized one another; and the ladies looked +agitated. + +“Charming!” said Anna Pávlovna with an inquiring glance at the +little princess. + +“Charming!” whispered the little princess, sticking the needle into +her work as if to testify that the interest and fascination of the story +prevented her from going on with it. + +The vicomte appreciated this silent praise and smiling gratefully +prepared to continue, but just then Anna Pávlovna, who had kept a +watchful eye on the young man who so alarmed her, noticed that he was +talking too loudly and vehemently with the abbé, so she hurried to the +rescue. Pierre had managed to start a conversation with the abbé about +the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young +man’s simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory. Both +were talking and listening too eagerly and too naturally, which was why +Anna Pávlovna disapproved. + +“The means are ... the balance of power in Europe and the rights of +the people,” the abbé was saying. “It is only necessary for one +powerful nation like Russia—barbaric as she is said to be—to place +herself disinterestedly at the head of an alliance having for its object +the maintenance of the balance of power of Europe, and it would save the +world!” + +“But how are you to get that balance?” Pierre was beginning. + +At that moment Anna Pávlovna came up and, looking severely at Pierre, +asked the Italian how he stood Russian climate. The Italian’s +face instantly changed and assumed an offensively affected, sugary +expression, evidently habitual to him when conversing with women. + +“I am so enchanted by the brilliancy of the wit and culture of the +society, more especially of the feminine society, in which I have had +the honor of being received, that I have not yet had time to think of +the climate,” said he. + +Not letting the abbé and Pierre escape, Anna Pávlovna, the more +conveniently to keep them under observation, brought them into the +larger circle. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +Just then another visitor entered the drawing room: Prince Andrew +Bolkónski, the little princess’ husband. He was a very handsome young +man, of medium height, with firm, clearcut features. Everything about +him, from his weary, bored expression to his quiet, measured step, +offered a most striking contrast to his quiet, little wife. It was +evident that he not only knew everyone in the drawing room, but had +found them to be so tiresome that it wearied him to look at or listen to +them. And among all these faces that he found so tedious, none seemed +to bore him so much as that of his pretty wife. He turned away from +her with a grimace that distorted his handsome face, kissed Anna +Pávlovna’s hand, and screwing up his eyes scanned the whole company. + +“You are off to the war, Prince?” said Anna Pávlovna. + +“General Kutúzov,” said Bolkónski, speaking French and stressing +the last syllable of the general’s name like a Frenchman, “has been +pleased to take me as an aide-de-camp....” + +“And Lise, your wife?” + +“She will go to the country.” + +“Are you not ashamed to deprive us of your charming wife?” + +“André,” said his wife, addressing her husband in the same +coquettish manner in which she spoke to other men, “the vicomte has +been telling us such a tale about Mademoiselle George and Buonaparte!” + +Prince Andrew screwed up his eyes and turned away. Pierre, who from +the moment Prince Andrew entered the room had watched him with glad, +affectionate eyes, now came up and took his arm. Before he looked round +Prince Andrew frowned again, expressing his annoyance with whoever was +touching his arm, but when he saw Pierre’s beaming face he gave him an +unexpectedly kind and pleasant smile. + +“There now!... So you, too, are in the great world?” said he to +Pierre. + +“I knew you would be here,” replied Pierre. “I will come to supper +with you. May I?” he added in a low voice so as not to disturb the +vicomte who was continuing his story. + +“No, impossible!” said Prince Andrew, laughing and pressing +Pierre’s hand to show that there was no need to ask the question. He +wished to say something more, but at that moment Prince Vasíli and his +daughter got up to go and the two young men rose to let them pass. + +“You must excuse me, dear Vicomte,” said Prince Vasíli to the +Frenchman, holding him down by the sleeve in a friendly way to prevent +his rising. “This unfortunate fete at the ambassador’s deprives me +of a pleasure, and obliges me to interrupt you. I am very sorry to leave +your enchanting party,” said he, turning to Anna Pávlovna. + +His daughter, Princess Hélène, passed between the chairs, lightly +holding up the folds of her dress, and the smile shone still more +radiantly on her beautiful face. Pierre gazed at her with rapturous, +almost frightened, eyes as she passed him. + +“Very lovely,” said Prince Andrew. + +“Very,” said Pierre. + +In passing Prince Vasíli seized Pierre’s hand and said to Anna +Pávlovna: “Educate this bear for me! He has been staying with me +a whole month and this is the first time I have seen him in society. +Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever +women.” + + +Anna Pávlovna smiled and promised to take Pierre in hand. She knew his +father to be a connection of Prince Vasíli’s. The elderly lady who +had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook Prince +Vasíli in the anteroom. All the affectation of interest she had assumed +had left her kindly and tear-worn face and it now expressed only anxiety +and fear. + +“How about my son Borís, Prince?” said she, hurrying after him into +the anteroom. “I can’t remain any longer in Petersburg. Tell me what +news I may take back to my poor boy.” + +Although Prince Vasíli listened reluctantly and not very politely +to the elderly lady, even betraying some impatience, she gave him an +ingratiating and appealing smile, and took his hand that he might not go +away. + +“What would it cost you to say a word to the Emperor, and then he +would be transferred to the Guards at once?” said she. + +“Believe me, Princess, I am ready to do all I can,” answered Prince +Vasíli, “but it is difficult for me to ask the Emperor. I should +advise you to appeal to Rumyántsev through Prince Golítsyn. That would +be the best way.” + +The elderly lady was a Princess Drubetskáya, belonging to one of the +best families in Russia, but she was poor, and having long been out of +society had lost her former influential connections. She had now come to +Petersburg to procure an appointment in the Guards for her only son. +It was, in fact, solely to meet Prince Vasíli that she had obtained an +invitation to Anna Pávlovna’s reception and had sat listening to +the vicomte’s story. Prince Vasíli’s words frightened her, an +embittered look clouded her once handsome face, but only for a moment; +then she smiled again and clutched Prince Vasíli’s arm more tightly. + +“Listen to me, Prince,” said she. “I have never yet asked you +for anything and I never will again, nor have I ever reminded you of my +father’s friendship for you; but now I entreat you for God’s sake to +do this for my son—and I shall always regard you as a benefactor,” +she added hurriedly. “No, don’t be angry, but promise! I have asked +Golítsyn and he has refused. Be the kindhearted man you always were,” +she said, trying to smile though tears were in her eyes. + +“Papa, we shall be late,” said Princess Hélène, turning her +beautiful head and looking over her classically molded shoulder as she +stood waiting by the door. + +Influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized +if it is to last. Prince Vasíli knew this, and having once realized +that if he asked on behalf of all who begged of him, he would soon be +unable to ask for himself, he became chary of using his influence. But +in Princess Drubetskáya’s case he felt, after her second appeal, +something like qualms of conscience. She had reminded him of what was +quite true; he had been indebted to her father for the first steps in +his career. Moreover, he could see by her manners that she was one of +those women—mostly mothers—who, having once made up their minds, +will not rest until they have gained their end, and are prepared if +necessary to go on insisting day after day and hour after hour, and even +to make scenes. This last consideration moved him. + +“My dear Anna Mikháylovna,” said he with his usual familiarity and +weariness of tone, “it is almost impossible for me to do what you +ask; but to prove my devotion to you and how I respect your father’s +memory, I will do the impossible—your son shall be transferred to the +Guards. Here is my hand on it. Are you satisfied?” + +“My dear benefactor! This is what I expected from you—I knew your +kindness!” He turned to go. + +“Wait—just a word! When he has been transferred to the Guards...” +she faltered. “You are on good terms with Michael Ilariónovich +Kutúzov ... recommend Borís to him as adjutant! Then I shall be at +rest, and then...” + +Prince Vasíli smiled. + +“No, I won’t promise that. You don’t know how Kutúzov is pestered +since his appointment as Commander in Chief. He told me himself that +all the Moscow ladies have conspired to give him all their sons as +adjutants.” + +“No, but do promise! I won’t let you go! My dear benefactor...” + +“Papa,” said his beautiful daughter in the same tone as before, +“we shall be late.” + +“Well, au revoir! Good-by! You hear her?” + +“Then tomorrow you will speak to the Emperor?” + +“Certainly; but about Kutúzov, I don’t promise.” + +“Do promise, do promise, Vasíli!” cried Anna Mikháylovna as he +went, with the smile of a coquettish girl, which at one time probably +came naturally to her, but was now very ill-suited to her careworn face. + +Apparently she had forgotten her age and by force of habit employed +all the old feminine arts. But as soon as the prince had gone her face +resumed its former cold, artificial expression. She returned to the +group where the vicomte was still talking, and again pretended to +listen, while waiting till it would be time to leave. Her task was +accomplished. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +“And what do you think of this latest comedy, the coronation at +Milan?” asked Anna Pávlovna, “and of the comedy of the people of +Genoa and Lucca laying their petitions before Monsieur Buonaparte, and +Monsieur Buonaparte sitting on a throne and granting the petitions of +the nations? Adorable! It is enough to make one’s head whirl! It is as +if the whole world had gone crazy.” + +Prince Andrew looked Anna Pávlovna straight in the face with a +sarcastic smile. + +“‘Dieu me la donne, gare à qui la touche!’’ * They say he was +very fine when he said that,” he remarked, repeating the words in +Italian: “‘Dio mi l’ha dato. Guai a chi la tocchi!’’ + + * God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware! + +“I hope this will prove the last drop that will make the glass run +over,” Anna Pávlovna continued. “The sovereigns will not be able to +endure this man who is a menace to everything.” + +“The sovereigns? I do not speak of Russia,” said the vicomte, polite +but hopeless: “The sovereigns, madame... What have they done for Louis +XVII, for the Queen, or for Madame Elizabeth? Nothing!” and he became +more animated. “And believe me, they are reaping the reward of their +betrayal of the Bourbon cause. The sovereigns! Why, they are sending +ambassadors to compliment the usurper.” + +And sighing disdainfully, he again changed his position. + +Prince Hippolyte, who had been gazing at the vicomte for some time +through his lorgnette, suddenly turned completely round toward the +little princess, and having asked for a needle began tracing the Condé +coat of arms on the table. He explained this to her with as much gravity +as if she had asked him to do it. + +“Bâton de gueules, engrêlé de gueules d’azur—maison Condé,” +said he. + +The princess listened, smiling. + +“If Buonaparte remains on the throne of France a year longer,” the +vicomte continued, with the air of a man who, in a matter with which +he is better acquainted than anyone else, does not listen to others but +follows the current of his own thoughts, “things will have gone too +far. By intrigues, violence, exile, and executions, French society—I +mean good French society—will have been forever destroyed, and +then....” + +He shrugged his shoulders and spread out his hands. Pierre wished to +make a remark, for the conversation interested him, but Anna Pávlovna, +who had him under observation, interrupted: + +“The Emperor Alexander,” said she, with the melancholy which +always accompanied any reference of hers to the Imperial family, “has +declared that he will leave it to the French people themselves to choose +their own form of government; and I believe that once free from the +usurper, the whole nation will certainly throw itself into the arms +of its rightful king,” she concluded, trying to be amiable to the +royalist emigrant. + +“That is doubtful,” said Prince Andrew. “Monsieur le Vicomte quite +rightly supposes that matters have already gone too far. I think it will +be difficult to return to the old regime.” + +“From what I have heard,” said Pierre, blushing and breaking into +the conversation, “almost all the aristocracy has already gone over to +Bonaparte’s side.” + +“It is the Buonapartists who say that,” replied the vicomte without +looking at Pierre. “At the present time it is difficult to know the +real state of French public opinion.” + +“Bonaparte has said so,” remarked Prince Andrew with a sarcastic +smile. + +It was evident that he did not like the vicomte and was aiming his +remarks at him, though without looking at him. + +“‘I showed them the path to glory, but they did not follow +it,’” Prince Andrew continued after a short silence, again quoting +Napoleon’s words. “‘I opened my antechambers and they crowded +in.’ I do not know how far he was justified in saying so.” + +“Not in the least,” replied the vicomte. “After the murder of the +duc even the most partial ceased to regard him as a hero. If to some +people,” he went on, turning to Anna Pávlovna, “he ever was a hero, +after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one +hero less on earth.” + +Before Anna Pávlovna and the others had time to smile their +appreciation of the vicomte’s epigram, Pierre again broke into the +conversation, and though Anna Pávlovna felt sure he would say something +inappropriate, she was unable to stop him. + +“The execution of the Duc d’Enghien,” declared Monsieur Pierre, +“was a political necessity, and it seems to me that Napoleon +showed greatness of soul by not fearing to take on himself the whole +responsibility of that deed.” + +“Dieu! Mon Dieu!” muttered Anna Pávlovna in a terrified whisper. + +“What, Monsieur Pierre... Do you consider that assassination shows +greatness of soul?” said the little princess, smiling and drawing her +work nearer to her. + +“Oh! Oh!” exclaimed several voices. + +“Capital!” said Prince Hippolyte in English, and began slapping his +knee with the palm of his hand. + +The vicomte merely shrugged his shoulders. Pierre looked solemnly at his +audience over his spectacles and continued. + +“I say so,” he continued desperately, “because the Bourbons fled +from the Revolution leaving the people to anarchy, and Napoleon alone +understood the Revolution and quelled it, and so for the general good, +he could not stop short for the sake of one man’s life.” + +“Won’t you come over to the other table?” suggested Anna +Pávlovna. + +But Pierre continued his speech without heeding her. + +“No,” cried he, becoming more and more eager, “Napoleon is great +because he rose superior to the Revolution, suppressed its abuses, +preserved all that was good in it—equality of citizenship and freedom +of speech and of the press—and only for that reason did he obtain +power.” + +“Yes, if having obtained power, without availing himself of it to +commit murder he had restored it to the rightful king, I should have +called him a great man,” remarked the vicomte. + +“He could not do that. The people only gave him power that he might +rid them of the Bourbons and because they saw that he was a great +man. The Revolution was a grand thing!” continued Monsieur Pierre, +betraying by this desperate and provocative proposition his extreme +youth and his wish to express all that was in his mind. + +“What? Revolution and regicide a grand thing?... Well, after that... +But won’t you come to this other table?” repeated Anna Pávlovna. + +“Rousseau’s Contrat Social,” said the vicomte with a tolerant +smile. + +“I am not speaking of regicide, I am speaking about ideas.” + +“Yes: ideas of robbery, murder, and regicide,” again interjected an +ironical voice. + +“Those were extremes, no doubt, but they are not what is most +important. What is important are the rights of man, emancipation from +prejudices, and equality of citizenship, and all these ideas Napoleon +has retained in full force.” + +“Liberty and equality,” said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at +last deciding seriously to prove to this youth how foolish his words +were, “high-sounding words which have long been discredited. Who does +not love liberty and equality? Even our Saviour preached liberty and +equality. Have people since the Revolution become happier? On the +contrary. We wanted liberty, but Buonaparte has destroyed it.” + +Prince Andrew kept looking with an amused smile from Pierre to the +vicomte and from the vicomte to their hostess. In the first moment of +Pierre’s outburst Anna Pávlovna, despite her social experience, was +horror-struck. But when she saw that Pierre’s sacrilegious words +had not exasperated the vicomte, and had convinced herself that it was +impossible to stop him, she rallied her forces and joined the vicomte in +a vigorous attack on the orator. + +“But, my dear Monsieur Pierre,” said she, “how do you explain the +fact of a great man executing a duc—or even an ordinary man who—is +innocent and untried?” + +“I should like,” said the vicomte, “to ask how monsieur explains +the 18th Brumaire; was not that an imposture? It was a swindle, and not +at all like the conduct of a great man!” + +“And the prisoners he killed in Africa? That was horrible!” said the +little princess, shrugging her shoulders. + +“He’s a low fellow, say what you will,” remarked Prince Hippolyte. + +Pierre, not knowing whom to answer, looked at them all and smiled. His +smile was unlike the half-smile of other people. When he smiled, +his grave, even rather gloomy, look was instantaneously replaced by +another—a childlike, kindly, even rather silly look, which seemed to +ask forgiveness. + +The vicomte who was meeting him for the first time saw clearly that +this young Jacobin was not so terrible as his words suggested. All were +silent. + +“How do you expect him to answer you all at once?” said Prince +Andrew. “Besides, in the actions of a statesman one has to distinguish +between his acts as a private person, as a general, and as an emperor. +So it seems to me.” + +“Yes, yes, of course!” Pierre chimed in, pleased at the arrival of +this reinforcement. + +“One must admit,” continued Prince Andrew, “that Napoleon as a man +was great on the bridge of Arcola, and in the hospital at Jaffa where he +gave his hand to the plague-stricken; but ... but there are other acts +which it is difficult to justify.” + +Prince Andrew, who had evidently wished to tone down the awkwardness of +Pierre’s remarks, rose and made a sign to his wife that it was time to +go. + +Suddenly Prince Hippolyte started up making signs to everyone to attend, +and asking them all to be seated began: + +“I was told a charming Moscow story today and must treat you to it. +Excuse me, Vicomte—I must tell it in Russian or the point will be +lost....” And Prince Hippolyte began to tell his story in such Russian +as a Frenchman would speak after spending about a year in Russia. +Everyone waited, so emphatically and eagerly did he demand their +attention to his story. + +“There is in Moscow a lady, une dame, and she is very stingy. She must +have two footmen behind her carriage, and very big ones. That was her +taste. And she had a lady’s maid, also big. She said....” + +Here Prince Hippolyte paused, evidently collecting his ideas with +difficulty. + +“She said.... Oh yes! She said, ‘Girl,’ to the maid, ‘put on a +livery, get up behind the carriage, and come with me while I make some +calls.’” + +Here Prince Hippolyte spluttered and burst out laughing long before his +audience, which produced an effect unfavorable to the narrator. Several +persons, among them the elderly lady and Anna Pávlovna, did however +smile. + +“She went. Suddenly there was a great wind. The girl lost her hat and +her long hair came down....” Here he could contain himself no +longer and went on, between gasps of laughter: “And the whole world +knew....” + +And so the anecdote ended. Though it was unintelligible why he had told +it, or why it had to be told in Russian, still Anna Pávlovna and the +others appreciated Prince Hippolyte’s social tact in so agreeably +ending Pierre’s unpleasant and unamiable outburst. After the anecdote +the conversation broke up into insignificant small talk about the last +and next balls, about theatricals, and who would meet whom, and when and +where. + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +Having thanked Anna Pávlovna for her charming soiree, the guests began +to take their leave. + +Pierre was ungainly. Stout, about the average height, broad, with huge +red hands; he did not know, as the saying is, how to enter a drawing +room and still less how to leave one; that is, how to say something +particularly agreeable before going away. Besides this he was +absent-minded. When he rose to go, he took up instead of his own, the +general’s three-cornered hat, and held it, pulling at the plume, +till the general asked him to restore it. All his absent-mindedness and +inability to enter a room and converse in it was, however, redeemed by +his kindly, simple, and modest expression. Anna Pávlovna turned toward +him and, with a Christian mildness that expressed forgiveness of his +indiscretion, nodded and said: “I hope to see you again, but I also +hope you will change your opinions, my dear Monsieur Pierre.” + +When she said this, he did not reply and only bowed, but again everybody +saw his smile, which said nothing, unless perhaps, “Opinions are +opinions, but you see what a capital, good-natured fellow I am.” And +everyone, including Anna Pávlovna, felt this. + +Prince Andrew had gone out into the hall, and, turning his shoulders +to the footman who was helping him on with his cloak, listened +indifferently to his wife’s chatter with Prince Hippolyte who had also +come into the hall. Prince Hippolyte stood close to the pretty, pregnant +princess, and stared fixedly at her through his eyeglass. + +“Go in, Annette, or you will catch cold,” said the little princess, +taking leave of Anna Pávlovna. “It is settled,” she added in a low +voice. + +Anna Pávlovna had already managed to speak to Lise about the match she +contemplated between Anatole and the little princess’ sister-in-law. + +“I rely on you, my dear,” said Anna Pávlovna, also in a low tone. +“Write to her and let me know how her father looks at the matter. Au +revoir! ”—and she left the hall. + +Prince Hippolyte approached the little princess and, bending his face +close to her, began to whisper something. + +Two footmen, the princess’ and his own, stood holding a shawl and +a cloak, waiting for the conversation to finish. They listened to +the French sentences which to them were meaningless, with an air of +understanding but not wishing to appear to do so. The princess as usual +spoke smilingly and listened with a laugh. + +“I am very glad I did not go to the ambassador’s,” said Prince +Hippolyte “—so dull—. It has been a delightful evening, has it +not? Delightful!” + +“They say the ball will be very good,” replied the princess, drawing +up her downy little lip. “All the pretty women in society will be +there.” + +“Not all, for you will not be there; not all,” said Prince Hippolyte +smiling joyfully; and snatching the shawl from the footman, whom he +even pushed aside, he began wrapping it round the princess. Either from +awkwardness or intentionally (no one could have said which) after the +shawl had been adjusted he kept his arm around her for a long time, as +though embracing her. + +Still smiling, she gracefully moved away, turning and glancing at her +husband. Prince Andrew’s eyes were closed, so weary and sleepy did he +seem. + +“Are you ready?” he asked his wife, looking past her. + +Prince Hippolyte hurriedly put on his cloak, which in the latest fashion +reached to his very heels, and, stumbling in it, ran out into the porch +following the princess, whom a footman was helping into the carriage. + +“Princesse, au revoir,” cried he, stumbling with his tongue as well +as with his feet. + +The princess, picking up her dress, was taking her seat in the dark +carriage, her husband was adjusting his saber; Prince Hippolyte, under +pretense of helping, was in everyone’s way. + +“Allow me, sir,” said Prince Andrew in Russian in a cold, +disagreeable tone to Prince Hippolyte who was blocking his path. + +“I am expecting you, Pierre,” said the same voice, but gently and +affectionately. + +The postilion started, the carriage wheels rattled. Prince Hippolyte +laughed spasmodically as he stood in the porch waiting for the vicomte +whom he had promised to take home. + +“Well, mon cher,” said the vicomte, having seated himself beside +Hippolyte in the carriage, “your little princess is very nice, very +nice indeed, quite French,” and he kissed the tips of his fingers. +Hippolyte burst out laughing. + +“Do you know, you are a terrible chap for all your innocent airs,” +continued the vicomte. “I pity the poor husband, that little officer +who gives himself the airs of a monarch.” + +Hippolyte spluttered again, and amid his laughter said, “And you were +saying that the Russian ladies are not equal to the French? One has to +know how to deal with them.” + +Pierre reaching the house first went into Prince Andrew’s study like +one quite at home, and from habit immediately lay down on the sofa, took +from the shelf the first book that came to his hand (it was Caesar’s +Commentaries), and resting on his elbow, began reading it in the middle. + +“What have you done to Mlle Schérer? She will be quite ill now,” +said Prince Andrew, as he entered the study, rubbing his small white +hands. + +Pierre turned his whole body, making the sofa creak. He lifted his eager +face to Prince Andrew, smiled, and waved his hand. + +“That abbé is very interesting but he does not see the thing in the +right light.... In my opinion perpetual peace is possible but—I do not +know how to express it ... not by a balance of political power....” + +It was evident that Prince Andrew was not interested in such abstract +conversation. + +“One can’t everywhere say all one thinks, mon cher. Well, have +you at last decided on anything? Are you going to be a guardsman or a +diplomatist?” asked Prince Andrew after a momentary silence. + +Pierre sat up on the sofa, with his legs tucked under him. + +“Really, I don’t yet know. I don’t like either the one or the +other.” + +“But you must decide on something! Your father expects it.” + +Pierre at the age of ten had been sent abroad with an abbé as tutor, +and had remained away till he was twenty. When he returned to Moscow +his father dismissed the abbé and said to the young man, “Now go +to Petersburg, look round, and choose your profession. I will agree to +anything. Here is a letter to Prince Vasíli, and here is money. Write +to me all about it, and I will help you in everything.” Pierre had +already been choosing a career for three months, and had not decided +on anything. It was about this choice that Prince Andrew was speaking. +Pierre rubbed his forehead. + +“But he must be a Freemason,” said he, referring to the abbé whom +he had met that evening. + +“That is all nonsense.” Prince Andrew again interrupted him, “let +us talk business. Have you been to the Horse Guards?” + +“No, I have not; but this is what I have been thinking and wanted +to tell you. There is a war now against Napoleon. If it were a war for +freedom I could understand it and should be the first to enter the army; +but to help England and Austria against the greatest man in the world is +not right.” + +Prince Andrew only shrugged his shoulders at Pierre’s childish words. +He put on the air of one who finds it impossible to reply to such +nonsense, but it would in fact have been difficult to give any other +answer than the one Prince Andrew gave to this naïve question. + +“If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no +wars,” he said. + +“And that would be splendid,” said Pierre. + +Prince Andrew smiled ironically. + +“Very likely it would be splendid, but it will never come about....” + +“Well, why are you going to the war?” asked Pierre. + +“What for? I don’t know. I must. Besides that I am going....” He +paused. “I am going because the life I am leading here does not suit +me!” + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +The rustle of a woman’s dress was heard in the next room. Prince +Andrew shook himself as if waking up, and his face assumed the look it +had had in Anna Pávlovna’s drawing room. Pierre removed his feet from +the sofa. The princess came in. She had changed her gown for a house +dress as fresh and elegant as the other. Prince Andrew rose and politely +placed a chair for her. + +“How is it,” she began, as usual in French, settling down briskly +and fussily in the easy chair, “how is it Annette never got married? +How stupid you men all are not to have married her! Excuse me for saying +so, but you have no sense about women. What an argumentative fellow you +are, Monsieur Pierre!” + +“And I am still arguing with your husband. I can’t understand why he +wants to go to the war,” replied Pierre, addressing the princess +with none of the embarrassment so commonly shown by young men in their +intercourse with young women. + +The princess started. Evidently Pierre’s words touched her to the +quick. + +“Ah, that is just what I tell him!” said she. “I don’t +understand it; I don’t in the least understand why men can’t live +without wars. How is it that we women don’t want anything of the kind, +don’t need it? Now you shall judge between us. I always tell him: Here +he is Uncle’s aide-de-camp, a most brilliant position. He is so +well known, so much appreciated by everyone. The other day at the +Apráksins’ I heard a lady asking, ‘Is that the famous Prince +Andrew?’ I did indeed.” She laughed. “He is so well received +everywhere. He might easily become aide-de-camp to the Emperor. You know +the Emperor spoke to him most graciously. Annette and I were speaking of +how to arrange it. What do you think?” + +Pierre looked at his friend and, noticing that he did not like the +conversation, gave no reply. + +“When are you starting?” he asked. + +“Oh, don’t speak of his going, don’t! I won’t hear it spoken +of,” said the princess in the same petulantly playful tone in which +she had spoken to Hippolyte in the drawing room and which was so plainly +ill-suited to the family circle of which Pierre was almost a member. +“Today when I remembered that all these delightful associations +must be broken off ... and then you know, André...” (she looked +significantly at her husband) “I’m afraid, I’m afraid!” she +whispered, and a shudder ran down her back. + +Her husband looked at her as if surprised to notice that someone besides +Pierre and himself was in the room, and addressed her in a tone of +frigid politeness. + +“What is it you are afraid of, Lise? I don’t understand,” said he. + +“There, what egotists men all are: all, all egotists! Just for a whim +of his own, goodness only knows why, he leaves me and locks me up alone +in the country.” + +“With my father and sister, remember,” said Prince Andrew gently. + +“Alone all the same, without my friends.... And he expects me not to +be afraid.” + +Her tone was now querulous and her lip drawn up, giving her not a +joyful, but an animal, squirrel-like expression. She paused as if she +felt it indecorous to speak of her pregnancy before Pierre, though the +gist of the matter lay in that. + +“I still can’t understand what you are afraid of,” said Prince +Andrew slowly, not taking his eyes off his wife. + +The princess blushed, and raised her arms with a gesture of despair. + +“No, Andrew, I must say you have changed. Oh, how you have....” + +“Your doctor tells you to go to bed earlier,” said Prince Andrew. +“You had better go.” + +The princess said nothing, but suddenly her short downy lip quivered. +Prince Andrew rose, shrugged his shoulders, and walked about the room. + +Pierre looked over his spectacles with naïve surprise, now at him and +now at her, moved as if about to rise too, but changed his mind. + +“Why should I mind Monsieur Pierre being here?” exclaimed the little +princess suddenly, her pretty face all at once distorted by a tearful +grimace. “I have long wanted to ask you, Andrew, why you have changed +so to me? What have I done to you? You are going to the war and have no +pity for me. Why is it?” + +“Lise!” was all Prince Andrew said. But that one word expressed +an entreaty, a threat, and above all conviction that she would herself +regret her words. But she went on hurriedly: + +“You treat me like an invalid or a child. I see it all! Did you behave +like that six months ago?” + +“Lise, I beg you to desist,” said Prince Andrew still more +emphatically. + +Pierre, who had been growing more and more agitated as he listened to +all this, rose and approached the princess. He seemed unable to bear the +sight of tears and was ready to cry himself. + +“Calm yourself, Princess! It seems so to you because.... I assure you +I myself have experienced ... and so ... because ... No, excuse me! +An outsider is out of place here.... No, don’t distress yourself.... +Good-by!” + +Prince Andrew caught him by the hand. + +“No, wait, Pierre! The princess is too kind to wish to deprive me of +the pleasure of spending the evening with you.” + +“No, he thinks only of himself,” muttered the princess without +restraining her angry tears. + +“Lise!” said Prince Andrew dryly, raising his voice to the pitch +which indicates that patience is exhausted. + +Suddenly the angry, squirrel-like expression of the princess’ pretty +face changed into a winning and piteous look of fear. Her beautiful eyes +glanced askance at her husband’s face, and her own assumed the timid, +deprecating expression of a dog when it rapidly but feebly wags its +drooping tail. + +“Mon Dieu, mon Dieu!” she muttered, and lifting her dress with one +hand she went up to her husband and kissed him on the forehead. + +“Good night, Lise,” said he, rising and courteously kissing her hand +as he would have done to a stranger. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +The friends were silent. Neither cared to begin talking. Pierre +continually glanced at Prince Andrew; Prince Andrew rubbed his forehead +with his small hand. + +“Let us go and have supper,” he said with a sigh, going to the door. + +They entered the elegant, newly decorated, and luxurious dining room. +Everything from the table napkins to the silver, china, and glass bore +that imprint of newness found in the households of the newly married. +Halfway through supper Prince Andrew leaned his elbows on the table and, +with a look of nervous agitation such as Pierre had never before seen on +his face, began to talk—as one who has long had something on his mind +and suddenly determines to speak out. + +“Never, never marry, my dear fellow! That’s my advice: never marry +till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are capable of, +and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen +her plainly as she is, or else you will make a cruel and irrevocable +mistake. Marry when you are old and good for nothing—or all that is +good and noble in you will be lost. It will all be wasted on trifles. +Yes! Yes! Yes! Don’t look at me with such surprise. If you marry +expecting anything from yourself in the future, you will feel at every +step that for you all is ended, all is closed except the drawing +room, where you will be ranged side by side with a court lackey and an +idiot!... But what’s the good?...” and he waved his arm. + +Pierre took off his spectacles, which made his face seem different and +the good-natured expression still more apparent, and gazed at his friend +in amazement. + +“My wife,” continued Prince Andrew, “is an excellent woman, one +of those rare women with whom a man’s honor is safe; but, O God, what +would I not give now to be unmarried! You are the first and only one to +whom I mention this, because I like you.” + +As he said this Prince Andrew was less than ever like that Bolkónski +who had lolled in Anna Pávlovna’s easy chairs and with half-closed +eyes had uttered French phrases between his teeth. Every muscle of his +thin face was now quivering with nervous excitement; his eyes, in which +the fire of life had seemed extinguished, now flashed with brilliant +light. It was evident that the more lifeless he seemed at ordinary +times, the more impassioned he became in these moments of almost morbid +irritation. + +“You don’t understand why I say this,” he continued, “but it is +the whole story of life. You talk of Bonaparte and his career,” said +he (though Pierre had not mentioned Bonaparte), “but Bonaparte when +he worked went step by step toward his goal. He was free, he had nothing +but his aim to consider, and he reached it. But tie yourself up with +a woman and, like a chained convict, you lose all freedom! And all you +have of hope and strength merely weighs you down and torments you with +regret. Drawing rooms, gossip, balls, vanity, and triviality—these are +the enchanted circle I cannot escape from. I am now going to the war, +the greatest war there ever was, and I know nothing and am fit for +nothing. I am very amiable and have a caustic wit,” continued Prince +Andrew, “and at Anna Pávlovna’s they listen to me. And that stupid +set without whom my wife cannot exist, and those women.... If you only +knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is +right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that’s what +women are when you see them in their true colors! When you meet them +in society it seems as if there were something in them, but there’s +nothing, nothing, nothing! No, don’t marry, my dear fellow; don’t +marry!” concluded Prince Andrew. + +“It seems funny to me,” said Pierre, “that you, you should +consider yourself incapable and your life a spoiled life. You have +everything before you, everything. And you....” + +He did not finish his sentence, but his tone showed how highly he +thought of his friend and how much he expected of him in the future. + +“How can he talk like that?” thought Pierre. He considered his +friend a model of perfection because Prince Andrew possessed in the +highest degree just the very qualities Pierre lacked, and which might +be best described as strength of will. Pierre was always astonished at +Prince Andrew’s calm manner of treating everybody, his extraordinary +memory, his extensive reading (he had read everything, knew everything, +and had an opinion about everything), but above all at his capacity for +work and study. And if Pierre was often struck by Andrew’s lack +of capacity for philosophical meditation (to which he himself was +particularly addicted), he regarded even this not as a defect but as a +sign of strength. + +Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise +and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels +that they may run smoothly. + +“My part is played out,” said Prince Andrew. “What’s the use of +talking about me? Let us talk about you,” he added after a silence, +smiling at his reassuring thoughts. + +That smile was immediately reflected on Pierre’s face. + +“But what is there to say about me?” said Pierre, his face relaxing +into a careless, merry smile. “What am I? An illegitimate son!” +He suddenly blushed crimson, and it was plain that he had made a great +effort to say this. “Without a name and without means... And it +really...” But he did not say what “it really” was. “For the +present I am free and am all right. Only I haven’t the least idea what +I am to do; I wanted to consult you seriously.” + +Prince Andrew looked kindly at him, yet his glance—friendly and +affectionate as it was—expressed a sense of his own superiority. + +“I am fond of you, especially as you are the one live man among our +whole set. Yes, you’re all right! Choose what you will; it’s all the +same. You’ll be all right anywhere. But look here: give up visiting +those Kurágins and leading that sort of life. It suits you so +badly—all this debauchery, dissipation, and the rest of it!” + +“What would you have, my dear fellow?” answered Pierre, shrugging +his shoulders. “Women, my dear fellow; women!” + +“I don’t understand it,” replied Prince Andrew. “Women who are +comme il faut, that’s a different matter; but the Kurágins’ set of +women, ‘women and wine’ I don’t understand!” + +Pierre was staying at Prince Vasíli Kurágin’s and sharing the +dissipated life of his son Anatole, the son whom they were planning to +reform by marrying him to Prince Andrew’s sister. + +“Do you know?” said Pierre, as if suddenly struck by a happy +thought, “seriously, I have long been thinking of it.... Leading such +a life I can’t decide or think properly about anything. One’s head +aches, and one spends all one’s money. He asked me for tonight, but I +won’t go.” + +“You give me your word of honor not to go?” + +“On my honor!” + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +It was past one o’clock when Pierre left his friend. It was a +cloudless, northern, summer night. Pierre took an open cab intending +to drive straight home. But the nearer he drew to the house the more he +felt the impossibility of going to sleep on such a night. It was light +enough to see a long way in the deserted street and it seemed more like +morning or evening than night. On the way Pierre remembered that Anatole +Kurágin was expecting the usual set for cards that evening, after which +there was generally a drinking bout, finishing with visits of a kind +Pierre was very fond of. + +“I should like to go to Kurágin’s,” thought he. + +But he immediately recalled his promise to Prince Andrew not to go +there. Then, as happens to people of weak character, he desired so +passionately once more to enjoy that dissipation he was so accustomed to +that he decided to go. The thought immediately occurred to him that his +promise to Prince Andrew was of no account, because before he gave it +he had already promised Prince Anatole to come to his gathering; +“besides,” thought he, “all such ‘words of honor’ are +conventional things with no definite meaning, especially if +one considers that by tomorrow one may be dead, or something so +extraordinary may happen to one that honor and dishonor will be all the +same!” Pierre often indulged in reflections of this sort, nullifying +all his decisions and intentions. He went to Kurágin’s. + +Reaching the large house near the Horse Guards’ barracks, in which +Anatole lived, Pierre entered the lighted porch, ascended the stairs, +and went in at the open door. There was no one in the anteroom; empty +bottles, cloaks, and overshoes were lying about; there was a smell of +alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance. + +Cards and supper were over, but the visitors had not yet dispersed. +Pierre threw off his cloak and entered the first room, in which were the +remains of supper. A footman, thinking no one saw him, was drinking on +the sly what was left in the glasses. From the third room came sounds of +laughter, the shouting of familiar voices, the growling of a bear, and +general commotion. Some eight or nine young men were crowding anxiously +round an open window. Three others were romping with a young bear, one +pulling him by the chain and trying to set him at the others. + +“I bet a hundred on Stevens!” shouted one. + +“Mind, no holding on!” cried another. + +“I bet on Dólokhov!” cried a third. “Kurágin, you part our +hands.” + +“There, leave Bruin alone; here’s a bet on.” + +“At one draught, or he loses!” shouted a fourth. + +“Jacob, bring a bottle!” shouted the host, a tall, handsome fellow +who stood in the midst of the group, without a coat, and with his fine +linen shirt unfastened in front. “Wait a bit, you fellows.... Here is +Pétya! Good man!” cried he, addressing Pierre. + +Another voice, from a man of medium height with clear blue eyes, +particularly striking among all these drunken voices by its sober +ring, cried from the window: “Come here; part the bets!” This was +Dólokhov, an officer of the Semënov regiment, a notorious gambler and +duelist, who was living with Anatole. Pierre smiled, looking about him +merrily. + +“I don’t understand. What’s it all about?” + +“Wait a bit, he is not drunk yet! A bottle here,” said Anatole, and +taking a glass from the table he went up to Pierre. + +“First of all you must drink!” + +Pierre drank one glass after another, looking from under his brows at +the tipsy guests who were again crowding round the window, and listening +to their chatter. Anatole kept on refilling Pierre’s glass while +explaining that Dólokhov was betting with Stevens, an English naval +officer, that he would drink a bottle of rum sitting on the outer ledge +of the third floor window with his legs hanging out. + +“Go on, you must drink it all,” said Anatole, giving Pierre the last +glass, “or I won’t let you go!” + +“No, I won’t,” said Pierre, pushing Anatole aside, and he went up +to the window. + +Dólokhov was holding the Englishman’s hand and clearly and distinctly +repeating the terms of the bet, addressing himself particularly to +Anatole and Pierre. + +Dólokhov was of medium height, with curly hair and light-blue eyes. He +was about twenty-five. Like all infantry officers he wore no mustache, +so that his mouth, the most striking feature of his face, was clearly +seen. The lines of that mouth were remarkably finely curved. The middle +of the upper lip formed a sharp wedge and closed firmly on the firm +lower one, and something like two distinct smiles played continually +round the two corners of the mouth; this, together with the resolute, +insolent intelligence of his eyes, produced an effect which made it +impossible not to notice his face. Dólokhov was a man of small means +and no connections. Yet, though Anatole spent tens of thousands of +rubles, Dólokhov lived with him and had placed himself on such a +footing that all who knew them, including Anatole himself, respected him +more than they did Anatole. Dólokhov could play all games and nearly +always won. However much he drank, he never lost his clearheadedness. +Both Kurágin and Dólokhov were at that time notorious among the rakes +and scapegraces of Petersburg. + +The bottle of rum was brought. The window frame which prevented anyone +from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who +were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of +the gentlemen around. + +Anatole with his swaggering air strode up to the window. He wanted to +smash something. Pushing away the footmen he tugged at the frame, but +could not move it. He smashed a pane. + +“You have a try, Hercules,” said he, turning to Pierre. + +Pierre seized the crossbeam, tugged, and wrenched the oak frame out with +a crash. + +“Take it right out, or they’ll think I’m holding on,” said +Dólokhov. + +“Is the Englishman bragging?... Eh? Is it all right?” said Anatole. + +“First-rate,” said Pierre, looking at Dólokhov, who with a bottle +of rum in his hand was approaching the window, from which the light of +the sky, the dawn merging with the afterglow of sunset, was visible. + +Dólokhov, the bottle of rum still in his hand, jumped onto the window +sill. “Listen!” cried he, standing there and addressing those in the +room. All were silent. + +“I bet fifty imperials”—he spoke French that the Englishman might +understand him, but he did not speak it very well—“I bet fifty +imperials ... or do you wish to make it a hundred?” added he, +addressing the Englishman. + +“No, fifty,” replied the latter. + +“All right. Fifty imperials ... that I will drink a whole bottle of +rum without taking it from my mouth, sitting outside the window on this +spot” (he stooped and pointed to the sloping ledge outside the window) +“and without holding on to anything. Is that right?” + +“Quite right,” said the Englishman. + +Anatole turned to the Englishman and taking him by one of the buttons +of his coat and looking down at him—the Englishman was short—began +repeating the terms of the wager to him in English. + +“Wait!” cried Dólokhov, hammering with the bottle on the window +sill to attract attention. “Wait a bit, Kurágin. Listen! If +anyone else does the same, I will pay him a hundred imperials. Do you +understand?” + +The Englishman nodded, but gave no indication whether he intended to +accept this challenge or not. Anatole did not release him, and though +he kept nodding to show that he understood, Anatole went on translating +Dólokhov’s words into English. A thin young lad, an hussar of the +Life Guards, who had been losing that evening, climbed on the window +sill, leaned over, and looked down. + +“Oh! Oh! Oh!” he muttered, looking down from the window at the +stones of the pavement. + +“Shut up!” cried Dólokhov, pushing him away from the window. The +lad jumped awkwardly back into the room, tripping over his spurs. + +Placing the bottle on the window sill where he could reach it easily, +Dólokhov climbed carefully and slowly through the window and lowered +his legs. Pressing against both sides of the window, he adjusted himself +on his seat, lowered his hands, moved a little to the right and then to +the left, and took up the bottle. Anatole brought two candles and +placed them on the window sill, though it was already quite light. +Dólokhov’s back in his white shirt, and his curly head, were lit +up from both sides. Everyone crowded to the window, the Englishman in +front. Pierre stood smiling but silent. One man, older than the others +present, suddenly pushed forward with a scared and angry look and wanted +to seize hold of Dólokhov’s shirt. + +“I say, this is folly! He’ll be killed,” said this more sensible +man. + +Anatole stopped him. + +“Don’t touch him! You’ll startle him and then he’ll be killed. +Eh?... What then?... Eh?” + +Dólokhov turned round and, again holding on with both hands, arranged +himself on his seat. + +“If anyone comes meddling again,” said he, emitting the words +separately through his thin compressed lips, “I will throw him down +there. Now then!” + +Saying this he again turned round, dropped his hands, took the bottle +and lifted it to his lips, threw back his head, and raised his free hand +to balance himself. One of the footmen who had stooped to pick up some +broken glass remained in that position without taking his eyes from the +window and from Dólokhov’s back. Anatole stood erect with staring +eyes. The Englishman looked on sideways, pursing up his lips. The man +who had wished to stop the affair ran to a corner of the room and threw +himself on a sofa with his face to the wall. Pierre hid his face, from +which a faint smile forgot to fade though his features now expressed +horror and fear. All were still. Pierre took his hands from his eyes. +Dólokhov still sat in the same position, only his head was thrown +further back till his curly hair touched his shirt collar, and the hand +holding the bottle was lifted higher and higher and trembled with the +effort. The bottle was emptying perceptibly and rising still higher +and his head tilting yet further back. “Why is it so long?” thought +Pierre. It seemed to him that more than half an hour had elapsed. +Suddenly Dólokhov made a backward movement with his spine, and his arm +trembled nervously; this was sufficient to cause his whole body to slip +as he sat on the sloping ledge. As he began slipping down, his head and +arm wavered still more with the strain. One hand moved as if to clutch +the window sill, but refrained from touching it. Pierre again covered +his eyes and thought he would never open them again. Suddenly he was +aware of a stir all around. He looked up: Dólokhov was standing on the +window sill, with a pale but radiant face. + +“It’s empty.” + +He threw the bottle to the Englishman, who caught it neatly. Dólokhov +jumped down. He smelt strongly of rum. + +“Well done!... Fine fellow!... There’s a bet for you!... Devil take +you!” came from different sides. + +The Englishman took out his purse and began counting out the money. +Dólokhov stood frowning and did not speak. Pierre jumped upon the +window sill. + +“Gentlemen, who wishes to bet with me? I’ll do the same thing!” +he suddenly cried. “Even without a bet, there! Tell them to bring me a +bottle. I’ll do it.... Bring a bottle!” + +“Let him do it, let him do it,” said Dólokhov, smiling. + +“What next? Have you gone mad?... No one would let you!... Why, you go +giddy even on a staircase,” exclaimed several voices. + +“I’ll drink it! Let’s have a bottle of rum!” shouted Pierre, +banging the table with a determined and drunken gesture and preparing to +climb out of the window. + +They seized him by his arms; but he was so strong that everyone who +touched him was sent flying. + +“No, you’ll never manage him that way,” said Anatole. “Wait a +bit and I’ll get round him.... Listen! I’ll take your bet tomorrow, +but now we are all going to ——’s.” + +“Come on then,” cried Pierre. “Come on!... And we’ll take Bruin +with us.” + +And he caught the bear, took it in his arms, lifted it from the ground, +and began dancing round the room with it. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +Prince Vasíli kept the promise he had given to Princess Drubetskáya +who had spoken to him on behalf of her only son Borís on the evening of +Anna Pávlovna’s soiree. The matter was mentioned to the Emperor, an +exception made, and Borís transferred into the regiment of Semënov +Guards with the rank of cornet. He received, however, no appointment +to Kutúzov’s staff despite all Anna Mikháylovna’s endeavors and +entreaties. Soon after Anna Pávlovna’s reception Anna Mikháylovna +returned to Moscow and went straight to her rich relations, the +Rostóvs, with whom she stayed when in the town and where her darling +Bóry, who had only just entered a regiment of the line and was being +at once transferred to the Guards as a cornet, had been educated from +childhood and lived for years at a time. The Guards had already left +Petersburg on the tenth of August, and her son, who had remained in +Moscow for his equipment, was to join them on the march to Radzivílov. + +It was St. Natalia’s day and the name day of two of the Rostóvs—the +mother and the youngest daughter—both named Nataly. Ever since +the morning, carriages with six horses had been coming and going +continually, bringing visitors to the Countess Rostóva’s big house on +the Povarskáya, so well known to all Moscow. The countess herself and +her handsome eldest daughter were in the drawing room with the visitors +who came to congratulate, and who constantly succeeded one another in +relays. + +The countess was a woman of about forty-five, with a thin Oriental type +of face, evidently worn out with childbearing—she had had twelve. +A languor of motion and speech, resulting from weakness, gave her a +distinguished air which inspired respect. Princess Anna Mikháylovna +Drubetskáya, who as a member of the household was also seated in the +drawing room, helped to receive and entertain the visitors. The young +people were in one of the inner rooms, not considering it necessary to +take part in receiving the visitors. The count met the guests and saw +them off, inviting them all to dinner. + +“I am very, very grateful to you, mon cher,” or “ma chère”—he +called everyone without exception and without the slightest variation +in his tone, “my dear,” whether they were above or below him in +rank—“I thank you for myself and for our two dear ones whose name +day we are keeping. But mind you come to dinner or I shall be offended, +ma chère! On behalf of the whole family I beg you to come, mon cher!” +These words he repeated to everyone without exception or variation, and +with the same expression on his full, cheerful, clean-shaven face, the +same firm pressure of the hand and the same quick, repeated bows. As +soon as he had seen a visitor off he returned to one of those who were +still in the drawing room, drew a chair toward him or her, and jauntily +spreading out his legs and putting his hands on his knees with the air +of a man who enjoys life and knows how to live, he swayed to and +fro with dignity, offered surmises about the weather, or touched on +questions of health, sometimes in Russian and sometimes in very bad but +self-confident French; then again, like a man weary but unflinching in +the fulfillment of duty, he rose to see some visitors off and, stroking +his scanty gray hairs over his bald patch, also asked them to dinner. +Sometimes on his way back from the anteroom he would pass through the +conservatory and pantry into the large marble dining hall, where tables +were being set out for eighty people; and looking at the footmen, who +were bringing in silver and china, moving tables, and unfolding damask +table linen, he would call Dmítri Vasílevich, a man of good family and +the manager of all his affairs, and while looking with pleasure at the +enormous table would say: “Well, Dmítri, you’ll see that things are +all as they should be? That’s right! The great thing is the serving, +that’s it.” And with a complacent sigh he would return to the +drawing room. + +“Márya Lvóvna Karágina and her daughter!” announced the +countess’ gigantic footman in his bass voice, entering the drawing +room. The countess reflected a moment and took a pinch from a gold +snuffbox with her husband’s portrait on it. + +“I’m quite worn out by these callers. However, I’ll see her and +no more. She is so affected. Ask her in,” she said to the footman in a +sad voice, as if saying: “Very well, finish me off.” + +A tall, stout, and proud-looking woman, with a round-faced smiling +daughter, entered the drawing room, their dresses rustling. + +“Dear Countess, what an age... She has been laid up, poor child ... +at the Razumóvski’s ball ... and Countess Apráksina ... I was +so delighted...” came the sounds of animated feminine voices, +interrupting one another and mingling with the rustling of dresses and +the scraping of chairs. Then one of those conversations began which last +out until, at the first pause, the guests rise with a rustle of dresses +and say, “I am so delighted... Mamma’s health... and Countess +Apráksina...” and then, again rustling, pass into the anteroom, put +on cloaks or mantles, and drive away. The conversation was on the chief +topic of the day: the illness of the wealthy and celebrated beau of +Catherine’s day, Count Bezúkhov, and about his illegitimate son +Pierre, the one who had behaved so improperly at Anna Pávlovna’s +reception. + +“I am so sorry for the poor count,” said the visitor. “He is in +such bad health, and now this vexation about his son is enough to kill +him!” + +“What is that?” asked the countess as if she did not know what the +visitor alluded to, though she had already heard about the cause of +Count Bezúkhov’s distress some fifteen times. + +“That’s what comes of a modern education,” exclaimed the visitor. +“It seems that while he was abroad this young man was allowed to do +as he liked, now in Petersburg I hear he has been doing such terrible +things that he has been expelled by the police.” + +“You don’t say so!” replied the countess. + +“He chose his friends badly,” interposed Anna Mikháylovna. +“Prince Vasíli’s son, he, and a certain Dólokhov have, it is said, +been up to heaven only knows what! And they have had to suffer for it. +Dólokhov has been degraded to the ranks and Bezúkhov’s son sent +back to Moscow. Anatole Kurágin’s father managed somehow to get his +son’s affair hushed up, but even he was ordered out of Petersburg.” + +“But what have they been up to?” asked the countess. + +“They are regular brigands, especially Dólokhov,” replied the +visitor. “He is a son of Márya Ivánovna Dólokhova, such a worthy +woman, but there, just fancy! Those three got hold of a bear somewhere, +put it in a carriage, and set off with it to visit some actresses! The +police tried to interfere, and what did the young men do? They tied +a policeman and the bear back to back and put the bear into the Moyka +Canal. And there was the bear swimming about with the policeman on his +back!” + +“What a nice figure the policeman must have cut, my dear!” shouted +the count, dying with laughter. + +“Oh, how dreadful! How can you laugh at it, Count?” + +Yet the ladies themselves could not help laughing. + +“It was all they could do to rescue the poor man,” continued the +visitor. “And to think it is Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov’s son +who amuses himself in this sensible manner! And he was said to be so +well educated and clever. This is all that his foreign education has +done for him! I hope that here in Moscow no one will receive him, in +spite of his money. They wanted to introduce him to me, but I quite +declined: I have my daughters to consider.” + +“Why do you say this young man is so rich?” asked the countess, +turning away from the girls, who at once assumed an air of inattention. +“His children are all illegitimate. I think Pierre also is +illegitimate.” + +The visitor made a gesture with her hand. + +“I should think he has a score of them.” + +Princess Anna Mikháylovna intervened in the conversation, evidently +wishing to show her connections and knowledge of what went on in +society. + +“The fact of the matter is,” said she significantly, and also in a +half whisper, “everyone knows Count Cyril’s reputation.... He has +lost count of his children, but this Pierre was his favorite.” + +“How handsome the old man still was only a year ago!” remarked the +countess. “I have never seen a handsomer man.” + +“He is very much altered now,” said Anna Mikháylovna. “Well, as +I was saying, Prince Vasíli is the next heir through his wife, but the +count is very fond of Pierre, looked after his education, and wrote to +the Emperor about him; so that in the case of his death—and he is +so ill that he may die at any moment, and Dr. Lorrain has come from +Petersburg—no one knows who will inherit his immense fortune, Pierre +or Prince Vasíli. Forty thousand serfs and millions of rubles! I know +it all very well for Prince Vasíli told me himself. Besides, Cyril +Vladímirovich is my mother’s second cousin. He’s also my Bóry’s +godfather,” she added, as if she attached no importance at all to the +fact. + +“Prince Vasíli arrived in Moscow yesterday. I hear he has come on +some inspection business,” remarked the visitor. + +“Yes, but between ourselves,” said the princess, “that is a +pretext. The fact is he has come to see Count Cyril Vladímirovich, +hearing how ill he is.” + +“But do you know, my dear, that was a capital joke,” said the count; +and seeing that the elder visitor was not listening, he turned to the +young ladies. “I can just imagine what a funny figure that policeman +cut!” + +And as he waved his arms to impersonate the policeman, his portly form +again shook with a deep ringing laugh, the laugh of one who always eats +well and, in particular, drinks well. “So do come and dine with us!” +he said. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +Silence ensued. The countess looked at her callers, smiling affably, +but not concealing the fact that she would not be distressed if they +now rose and took their leave. The visitor’s daughter was already +smoothing down her dress with an inquiring look at her mother, when +suddenly from the next room were heard the footsteps of boys and girls +running to the door and the noise of a chair falling over, and a girl +of thirteen, hiding something in the folds of her short muslin frock, +darted in and stopped short in the middle of the room. It was evident +that she had not intended her flight to bring her so far. Behind her in +the doorway appeared a student with a crimson coat collar, an officer +of the Guards, a girl of fifteen, and a plump rosy-faced boy in a short +jacket. + +The count jumped up and, swaying from side to side, spread his arms wide +and threw them round the little girl who had run in. + +“Ah, here she is!” he exclaimed laughing. “My pet, whose name day +it is. My dear pet!” + +“Ma chère, there is a time for everything,” said the countess with +feigned severity. “You spoil her, Ilyá,” she added, turning to her +husband. + +“How do you do, my dear? I wish you many happy returns of your name +day,” said the visitor. “What a charming child,” she added, +addressing the mother. + +This black-eyed, wide-mouthed girl, not pretty but full of life—with +childish bare shoulders which after her run heaved and shook her +bodice, with black curls tossed backward, thin bare arms, little legs +in lace-frilled drawers, and feet in low slippers—was just at that +charming age when a girl is no longer a child, though the child is not +yet a young woman. Escaping from her father she ran to hide her flushed +face in the lace of her mother’s mantilla—not paying the least +attention to her severe remark—and began to laugh. She laughed, and in +fragmentary sentences tried to explain about a doll which she produced +from the folds of her frock. + +“Do you see?... My doll... Mimi... You see...” was all Natásha +managed to utter (to her everything seemed funny). She leaned against +her mother and burst into such a loud, ringing fit of laughter that even +the prim visitor could not help joining in. + +“Now then, go away and take your monstrosity with you,” said the +mother, pushing away her daughter with pretended sternness, and turning +to the visitor she added: “She is my youngest girl.” + +Natásha, raising her face for a moment from her mother’s mantilla, +glanced up at her through tears of laughter, and again hid her face. + +The visitor, compelled to look on at this family scene, thought it +necessary to take some part in it. + +“Tell me, my dear,” said she to Natásha, “is Mimi a relation of +yours? A daughter, I suppose?” + +Natásha did not like the visitor’s tone of condescension to childish +things. She did not reply, but looked at her seriously. + +Meanwhile the younger generation: Borís, the officer, Anna +Mikháylovna’s son; Nicholas, the undergraduate, the count’s eldest +son; Sónya, the count’s fifteen-year-old niece, and little Pétya, +his youngest boy, had all settled down in the drawing room and were +obviously trying to restrain within the bounds of decorum the excitement +and mirth that shone in all their faces. Evidently in the back rooms, +from which they had dashed out so impetuously, the conversation had +been more amusing than the drawing room talk of society scandals, the +weather, and Countess Apráksina. Now and then they glanced at one +another, hardly able to suppress their laughter. + +The two young men, the student and the officer, friends from childhood, +were of the same age and both handsome fellows, though not alike. Borís +was tall and fair, and his calm and handsome face had regular, delicate +features. Nicholas was short with curly hair and an open expression. +Dark hairs were already showing on his upper lip, and his whole face +expressed impetuosity and enthusiasm. Nicholas blushed when he entered +the drawing room. He evidently tried to find something to say, but +failed. Borís on the contrary at once found his footing, and related +quietly and humorously how he had known that doll Mimi when she was +still quite a young lady, before her nose was broken; how she had aged +during the five years he had known her, and how her head had cracked +right across the skull. Having said this he glanced at Natásha. +She turned away from him and glanced at her younger brother, who was +screwing up his eyes and shaking with suppressed laughter, and unable +to control herself any longer, she jumped up and rushed from the room as +fast as her nimble little feet would carry her. Borís did not laugh. + +“You were meaning to go out, weren’t you, Mamma? Do you want the +carriage?” he asked his mother with a smile. + +“Yes, yes, go and tell them to get it ready,” she answered, +returning his smile. + +Borís quietly left the room and went in search of Natásha. The plump +boy ran after them angrily, as if vexed that their program had been +disturbed. + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +The only young people remaining in the drawing room, not counting the +young lady visitor and the countess’ eldest daughter (who was four +years older than her sister and behaved already like a grown-up person), +were Nicholas and Sónya, the niece. Sónya was a slender little +brunette with a tender look in her eyes which were veiled by long +lashes, thick black plaits coiling twice round her head, and a tawny +tint in her complexion and especially in the color of her slender but +graceful and muscular arms and neck. By the grace of her movements, +by the softness and flexibility of her small limbs, and by a certain +coyness and reserve of manner, she reminded one of a pretty, half-grown +kitten which promises to become a beautiful little cat. She evidently +considered it proper to show an interest in the general conversation by +smiling, but in spite of herself her eyes under their thick long lashes +watched her cousin who was going to join the army, with such passionate +girlish adoration that her smile could not for a single instant impose +upon anyone, and it was clear that the kitten had settled down only to +spring up with more energy and again play with her cousin as soon as +they too could, like Natásha and Borís, escape from the drawing room. + +“Ah yes, my dear,” said the count, addressing the visitor and +pointing to Nicholas, “his friend Borís has become an officer, and +so for friendship’s sake he is leaving the university and me, his +old father, and entering the military service, my dear. And there was a +place and everything waiting for him in the Archives Department! Isn’t +that friendship?” remarked the count in an inquiring tone. + +“But they say that war has been declared,” replied the visitor. + +“They’ve been saying so a long while,” said the count, “and +they’ll say so again and again, and that will be the end of it. My +dear, there’s friendship for you,” he repeated. “He’s joining +the hussars.” + +The visitor, not knowing what to say, shook her head. + +“It’s not at all from friendship,” declared Nicholas, flaring +up and turning away as if from a shameful aspersion. “It is not from +friendship at all; I simply feel that the army is my vocation.” + +He glanced at his cousin and the young lady visitor; and they were both +regarding him with a smile of approbation. + +“Schubert, the colonel of the Pávlograd Hussars, is dining with us +today. He has been here on leave and is taking Nicholas back with him. +It can’t be helped!” said the count, shrugging his shoulders and +speaking playfully of a matter that evidently distressed him. + +“I have already told you, Papa,” said his son, “that if you +don’t wish to let me go, I’ll stay. But I know I am no use anywhere +except in the army; I am not a diplomat or a government clerk.—I +don’t know how to hide what I feel.” As he spoke he kept glancing +with the flirtatiousness of a handsome youth at Sónya and the young +lady visitor. + +The little kitten, feasting her eyes on him, seemed ready at any moment +to start her gambols again and display her kittenish nature. + +“All right, all right!” said the old count. “He always flares up! +This Buonaparte has turned all their heads; they all think of how he +rose from an ensign and became Emperor. Well, well, God grant it,” he +added, not noticing his visitor’s sarcastic smile. + +The elders began talking about Bonaparte. Julie Karágina turned to +young Rostóv. + +“What a pity you weren’t at the Arkhárovs’ on Thursday. It was so +dull without you,” said she, giving him a tender smile. + +The young man, flattered, sat down nearer to her with a coquettish +smile, and engaged the smiling Julie in a confidential conversation +without at all noticing that his involuntary smile had stabbed the heart +of Sónya, who blushed and smiled unnaturally. In the midst of his talk +he glanced round at her. She gave him a passionately angry glance, and +hardly able to restrain her tears and maintain the artificial smile +on her lips, she got up and left the room. All Nicholas’ animation +vanished. He waited for the first pause in the conversation, and then +with a distressed face left the room to find Sónya. + +“How plainly all these young people wear their hearts on their +sleeves!” said Anna Mikháylovna, pointing to Nicholas as he went out. +“Cousinage—dangereux voisinage,” * she added. + + * Cousinhood is a dangerous neighborhood. + +“Yes,” said the countess when the brightness these young people had +brought into the room had vanished; and as if answering a question no +one had put but which was always in her mind, “and how much suffering, +how much anxiety one has had to go through that we might rejoice in +them now! And yet really the anxiety is greater now than the joy. One is +always, always anxious! Especially just at this age, so dangerous both +for girls and boys.” + +“It all depends on the bringing up,” remarked the visitor. + +“Yes, you’re quite right,” continued the countess. “Till now I +have always, thank God, been my children’s friend and had their full +confidence,” said she, repeating the mistake of so many parents who +imagine that their children have no secrets from them. “I know I shall +always be my daughters’ first confidante, and that if Nicholas, with +his impulsive nature, does get into mischief (a boy can’t help it), he +will all the same never be like those Petersburg young men.” + +“Yes, they are splendid, splendid youngsters,” chimed in the count, +who always solved questions that seemed to him perplexing by deciding +that everything was splendid. “Just fancy: wants to be an hussar. +What’s one to do, my dear?” + +“What a charming creature your younger girl is,” said the visitor; +“a little volcano!” + +“Yes, a regular volcano,” said the count. “Takes after me! And +what a voice she has; though she’s my daughter, I tell the truth +when I say she’ll be a singer, a second Salomoni! We have engaged an +Italian to give her lessons.” + +“Isn’t she too young? I have heard that it harms the voice to train +it at that age.” + +“Oh no, not at all too young!” replied the count. “Why, our +mothers used to be married at twelve or thirteen.” + +“And she’s in love with Borís already. Just fancy!” said the +countess with a gentle smile, looking at Borís and went on, evidently +concerned with a thought that always occupied her: “Now you see if I +were to be severe with her and to forbid it ... goodness knows what they +might be up to on the sly” (she meant that they would be kissing), +“but as it is, I know every word she utters. She will come running to +me of her own accord in the evening and tell me everything. Perhaps I +spoil her, but really that seems the best plan. With her elder sister I +was stricter.” + +“Yes, I was brought up quite differently,” remarked the handsome +elder daughter, Countess Véra, with a smile. + +But the smile did not enhance Véra’s beauty as smiles generally do; +on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, +expression. Véra was good-looking, not at all stupid, quick at +learning, was well brought up, and had a pleasant voice; what she said +was true and appropriate, yet, strange to say, everyone—the visitors +and countess alike—turned to look at her as if wondering why she had +said it, and they all felt awkward. + +“People are always too clever with their eldest children and try to +make something exceptional of them,” said the visitor. + +“What’s the good of denying it, my dear? Our dear countess was too +clever with Véra,” said the count. “Well, what of that? She’s +turned out splendidly all the same,” he added, winking at Véra. + +The guests got up and took their leave, promising to return to dinner. + +“What manners! I thought they would never go,” said the countess, +when she had seen her guests out. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIII + +When Natásha ran out of the drawing room she only went as far as the +conservatory. There she paused and stood listening to the conversation +in the drawing room, waiting for Borís to come out. She was already +growing impatient, and stamped her foot, ready to cry at his not coming +at once, when she heard the young man’s discreet steps approaching +neither quickly nor slowly. At this Natásha dashed swiftly among the +flower tubs and hid there. + +Borís paused in the middle of the room, looked round, brushed a little +dust from the sleeve of his uniform, and going up to a mirror examined +his handsome face. Natásha, very still, peered out from her ambush, +waiting to see what he would do. He stood a little while before the +glass, smiled, and walked toward the other door. Natásha was about to +call him but changed her mind. “Let him look for me,” thought she. +Hardly had Borís gone than Sónya, flushed, in tears, and muttering +angrily, came in at the other door. Natásha checked her first impulse +to run out to her, and remained in her hiding place, watching—as +under an invisible cap—to see what went on in the world. She was +experiencing a new and peculiar pleasure. Sónya, muttering to herself, +kept looking round toward the drawing room door. It opened and Nicholas +came in. + +“Sónya, what is the matter with you? How can you?” said he, running +up to her. + +“It’s nothing, nothing; leave me alone!” sobbed Sónya. + +“Ah, I know what it is.” + +“Well, if you do, so much the better, and you can go back to her!” + +“Só-o-onya! Look here! How can you torture me and yourself like that, +for a mere fancy?” said Nicholas taking her hand. + +Sónya did not pull it away, and left off crying. Natásha, not stirring +and scarcely breathing, watched from her ambush with sparkling eyes. +“What will happen now?” thought she. + +“Sónya! What is anyone in the world to me? You alone are +everything!” said Nicholas. “And I will prove it to you.” + +“I don’t like you to talk like that.” + +“Well, then, I won’t; only forgive me, Sónya!” He drew her to him +and kissed her. + +“Oh, how nice,” thought Natásha; and when Sónya and Nicholas had +gone out of the conservatory she followed and called Borís to her. + +“Borís, come here,” said she with a sly and significant look. “I +have something to tell you. Here, here!” and she led him into the +conservatory to the place among the tubs where she had been hiding. + +Borís followed her, smiling. + +“What is the something?” asked he. + +She grew confused, glanced round, and, seeing the doll she had thrown +down on one of the tubs, picked it up. + +“Kiss the doll,” said she. + +Borís looked attentively and kindly at her eager face, but did not +reply. + +“Don’t you want to? Well, then, come here,” said she, and +went further in among the plants and threw down the doll. “Closer, +closer!” she whispered. + +She caught the young officer by his cuffs, and a look of solemnity and +fear appeared on her flushed face. + +“And me? Would you like to kiss me?” she whispered almost inaudibly, +glancing up at him from under her brows, smiling, and almost crying from +excitement. + +Borís blushed. + +“How funny you are!” he said, bending down to her and blushing still +more, but he waited and did nothing. + +Suddenly she jumped up onto a tub to be higher than he, embraced him so +that both her slender bare arms clasped him above his neck, and, tossing +back her hair, kissed him full on the lips. + +Then she slipped down among the flowerpots on the other side of the tubs +and stood, hanging her head. + +“Natásha,” he said, “you know that I love you, but....” + +“You are in love with me?” Natásha broke in. + +“Yes, I am, but please don’t let us do like that.... In another four +years ... then I will ask for your hand.” + +Natásha considered. + +“Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,” she counted on her slender +little fingers. “All right! Then it’s settled?” + +A smile of joy and satisfaction lit up her eager face. + +“Settled!” replied Borís. + +“Forever?” said the little girl. “Till death itself?” + +She took his arm and with a happy face went with him into the adjoining +sitting room. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +After receiving her visitors, the countess was so tired that she gave +orders to admit no more, but the porter was told to be sure to invite to +dinner all who came “to congratulate.” The countess wished to have +a tête-à-tête talk with the friend of her childhood, Princess Anna +Mikháylovna, whom she had not seen properly since she returned from +Petersburg. Anna Mikháylovna, with her tear-worn but pleasant face, +drew her chair nearer to that of the countess. + +“With you I will be quite frank,” said Anna Mikháylovna. “There +are not many left of us old friends! That’s why I so value your +friendship.” + +Anna Mikháylovna looked at Véra and paused. The countess pressed her +friend’s hand. + +“Véra,” she said to her eldest daughter who was evidently not a +favorite, “how is it you have so little tact? Don’t you see you are +not wanted here? Go to the other girls, or...” + +The handsome Véra smiled contemptuously but did not seem at all hurt. + +“If you had told me sooner, Mamma, I would have gone,” she replied +as she rose to go to her own room. + +But as she passed the sitting room she noticed two couples sitting, +one pair at each window. She stopped and smiled scornfully. Sónya was +sitting close to Nicholas who was copying out some verses for her, the +first he had ever written. Borís and Natásha were at the other window +and ceased talking when Véra entered. Sónya and Natásha looked at +Véra with guilty, happy faces. + +It was pleasant and touching to see these little girls in love; but +apparently the sight of them roused no pleasant feeling in Véra. + +“How often have I asked you not to take my things?” she said. “You +have a room of your own,” and she took the inkstand from Nicholas. + +“In a minute, in a minute,” he said, dipping his pen. + +“You always manage to do things at the wrong time,” continued Véra. +“You came rushing into the drawing room so that everyone felt ashamed +of you.” + +Though what she said was quite just, perhaps for that very reason no one +replied, and the four simply looked at one another. She lingered in the +room with the inkstand in her hand. + +“And at your age what secrets can there be between Natásha and +Borís, or between you two? It’s all nonsense!” + +“Now, Véra, what does it matter to you?” said Natásha in defense, +speaking very gently. + +She seemed that day to be more than ever kind and affectionate to +everyone. + +“Very silly,” said Véra. “I am ashamed of you. Secrets indeed!” + +“All have secrets of their own,” answered Natásha, getting warmer. +“We don’t interfere with you and Berg.” + +“I should think not,” said Véra, “because there can never be +anything wrong in my behavior. But I’ll just tell Mamma how you are +behaving with Borís.” + +“Natálya Ilyníchna behaves very well to me,” remarked Borís. “I +have nothing to complain of.” + +“Don’t, Borís! You are such a diplomat that it is really +tiresome,” said Natásha in a mortified voice that trembled slightly. +(She used the word “diplomat,” which was just then much in vogue +among the children, in the special sense they attached to it.) “Why +does she bother me?” And she added, turning to Véra, “You’ll +never understand it, because you’ve never loved anyone. You have no +heart! You are a Madame de Genlis and nothing more” (this nickname, +bestowed on Véra by Nicholas, was considered very stinging), “and +your greatest pleasure is to be unpleasant to people! Go and flirt with +Berg as much as you please,” she finished quickly. + +“I shall at any rate not run after a young man before visitors...” + +“Well, now you’ve done what you wanted,” put in Nicholas—“said +unpleasant things to everyone and upset them. Let’s go to the +nursery.” + +All four, like a flock of scared birds, got up and left the room. + +“The unpleasant things were said to me,” remarked Véra, “I said +none to anyone.” + +“Madame de Genlis! Madame de Genlis!” shouted laughing voices +through the door. + +The handsome Véra, who produced such an irritating and unpleasant +effect on everyone, smiled and, evidently unmoved by what had been +said to her, went to the looking glass and arranged her hair and scarf. +Looking at her own handsome face she seemed to become still colder and +calmer. + + +In the drawing room the conversation was still going on. + +“Ah, my dear,” said the countess, “my life is not all roses +either. Don’t I know that at the rate we are living our means won’t +last long? It’s all the Club and his easygoing nature. Even in the +country do we get any rest? Theatricals, hunting, and heaven knows what +besides! But don’t let’s talk about me; tell me how you managed +everything. I often wonder at you, Annette—how at your age you +can rush off alone in a carriage to Moscow, to Petersburg, to those +ministers and great people, and know how to deal with them all! It’s +quite astonishing. How did you get things settled? I couldn’t possibly +do it.” + +“Ah, my love,” answered Anna Mikháylovna, “God grant you never +know what it is to be left a widow without means and with a son you love +to distraction! One learns many things then,” she added with a certain +pride. “That lawsuit taught me much. When I want to see one of those +big people I write a note: ‘Princess So-and-So desires an interview +with So and-So,’ and then I take a cab and go myself two, three, or +four times—till I get what I want. I don’t mind what they think of +me.” + +“Well, and to whom did you apply about Bóry?” asked the countess. +“You see yours is already an officer in the Guards, while my Nicholas +is going as a cadet. There’s no one to interest himself for him. To +whom did you apply?” + +“To Prince Vasíli. He was so kind. He at once agreed to everything, +and put the matter before the Emperor,” said Princess Anna +Mikháylovna enthusiastically, quite forgetting all the humiliation she +had endured to gain her end. + +“Has Prince Vasíli aged much?” asked the countess. “I have not +seen him since we acted together at the Rumyántsovs’ theatricals. I +expect he has forgotten me. He paid me attentions in those days,” said +the countess, with a smile. + +“He is just the same as ever,” replied Anna Mikháylovna, +“overflowing with amiability. His position has not turned his head +at all. He said to me, ‘I am sorry I can do so little for you, dear +Princess. I am at your command.’ Yes, he is a fine fellow and a very +kind relation. But, Nataly, you know my love for my son: I would do +anything for his happiness! And my affairs are in such a bad way that my +position is now a terrible one,” continued Anna Mikháylovna, sadly, +dropping her voice. “My wretched lawsuit takes all I have and makes no +progress. Would you believe it, I have literally not a penny and don’t +know how to equip Borís.” She took out her handkerchief and began to +cry. “I need five hundred rubles, and have only one twenty-five-ruble +note. I am in such a state.... My only hope now is in Count Cyril +Vladímirovich Bezúkhov. If he will not assist his godson—you know +he is Bóry’s godfather—and allow him something for his maintenance, +all my trouble will have been thrown away.... I shall not be able to +equip him.” + +The countess’ eyes filled with tears and she pondered in silence. + +“I often think, though, perhaps it’s a sin,” said the princess, +“that here lives Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov so rich, all +alone... that tremendous fortune... and what is his life worth? It’s a +burden to him, and Bóry’s life is only just beginning....” + +“Surely he will leave something to Borís,” said the countess. + +“Heaven only knows, my dear! These rich grandees are so selfish. +Still, I will take Borís and go to see him at once, and I shall speak +to him straight out. Let people think what they will of me, it’s +really all the same to me when my son’s fate is at stake.” The +princess rose. “It’s now two o’clock and you dine at four. There +will just be time.” + +And like a practical Petersburg lady who knows how to make the most of +time, Anna Mikháylovna sent someone to call her son, and went into the +anteroom with him. + +“Good-by, my dear,” said she to the countess who saw her to the +door, and added in a whisper so that her son should not hear, “Wish me +good luck.” + +“Are you going to Count Cyril Vladímirovich, my dear?” said the +count coming out from the dining hall into the anteroom, and he added: +“If he is better, ask Pierre to dine with us. He has been to the +house, you know, and danced with the children. Be sure to invite him, my +dear. We will see how Tarás distinguishes himself today. He says Count +Orlóv never gave such a dinner as ours will be!” + + + + + +CHAPTER XV + +“My dear Borís,” said Princess Anna Mikháylovna to her son as +Countess Rostóva’s carriage in which they were seated drove over the +straw covered street and turned into the wide courtyard of Count Cyril +Vladímirovich Bezúkhov’s house. “My dear Borís,” said the +mother, drawing her hand from beneath her old mantle and laying +it timidly and tenderly on her son’s arm, “be affectionate and +attentive to him. Count Cyril Vladímirovich is your godfather after +all, and your future depends on him. Remember that, my dear, and be nice +to him, as you so well know how to be.” + +“If only I knew that anything besides humiliation would come of +it...” answered her son coldly. “But I have promised and will do it +for your sake.” + +Although the hall porter saw someone’s carriage standing at the +entrance, after scrutinizing the mother and son (who without asking to +be announced had passed straight through the glass porch between the +rows of statues in niches) and looking significantly at the lady’s old +cloak, he asked whether they wanted the count or the princesses, and, +hearing that they wished to see the count, said his excellency was worse +today, and that his excellency was not receiving anyone. + +“We may as well go back,” said the son in French. + +“My dear!” exclaimed his mother imploringly, again laying her hand +on his arm as if that touch might soothe or rouse him. + +Borís said no more, but looked inquiringly at his mother without taking +off his cloak. + +“My friend,” said Anna Mikháylovna in gentle tones, addressing +the hall porter, “I know Count Cyril Vladímirovich is very ill... +that’s why I have come... I am a relation. I shall not disturb him, +my friend... I only need see Prince Vasíli Sergéevich: he is staying +here, is he not? Please announce me.” + +The hall porter sullenly pulled a bell that rang upstairs, and turned +away. + +“Princess Drubetskáya to see Prince Vasíli Sergéevich,” he called +to a footman dressed in knee breeches, shoes, and a swallow-tail coat, +who ran downstairs and looked over from the halfway landing. + +The mother smoothed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large +Venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly +ascended the carpeted stairs. + +“My dear,” she said to her son, once more stimulating him by a +touch, “you promised me!” + +The son, lowering his eyes, followed her quietly. + +They entered the large hall, from which one of the doors led to the +apartments assigned to Prince Vasíli. + +Just as the mother and son, having reached the middle of the hall, were +about to ask their way of an elderly footman who had sprung up as they +entered, the bronze handle of one of the doors turned and Prince Vasíli +came out—wearing a velvet coat with a single star on his breast, +as was his custom when at home—taking leave of a good-looking, +dark-haired man. This was the celebrated Petersburg doctor, Lorrain. + +“Then it is certain?” said the prince. + +“Prince, humanum est errare, * but...” replied the doctor, +swallowing his r’s, and pronouncing the Latin words with a French +accent. + + * To err is human. + +“Very well, very well...” + +Seeing Anna Mikháylovna and her son, Prince Vasíli dismissed the +doctor with a bow and approached them silently and with a look of +inquiry. The son noticed that an expression of profound sorrow suddenly +clouded his mother’s face, and he smiled slightly. + +“Ah, Prince! In what sad circumstances we meet again! And how is our +dear invalid?” said she, as though unaware of the cold offensive look +fixed on her. + +Prince Vasíli stared at her and at Borís questioningly and perplexed. +Borís bowed politely. Prince Vasíli without acknowledging the bow +turned to Anna Mikháylovna, answering her query by a movement of the +head and lips indicating very little hope for the patient. + +“Is it possible?” exclaimed Anna Mikháylovna. “Oh, how awful! +It is terrible to think.... This is my son,” she added, indicating +Borís. “He wanted to thank you himself.” + +Borís bowed again politely. + +“Believe me, Prince, a mother’s heart will never forget what you +have done for us.” + +“I am glad I was able to do you a service, my dear Anna +Mikháylovna,” said Prince Vasíli, arranging his lace frill, and in +tone and manner, here in Moscow to Anna Mikháylovna whom he had placed +under an obligation, assuming an air of much greater importance than he +had done in Petersburg at Anna Schérer’s reception. + +“Try to serve well and show yourself worthy,” added he, addressing +Borís with severity. “I am glad.... Are you here on leave?” he went +on in his usual tone of indifference. + +“I am awaiting orders to join my new regiment, your excellency,” +replied Borís, betraying neither annoyance at the prince’s brusque +manner nor a desire to enter into conversation, but speaking so quietly +and respectfully that the prince gave him a searching glance. + +“Are you living with your mother?” + +“I am living at Countess Rostóva’s,” replied Borís, again +adding, “your excellency.” + +“That is, with Ilyá Rostóv who married Nataly Shinshiná,” said +Anna Mikháylovna. + +“I know, I know,” answered Prince Vasíli in his monotonous voice. +“I never could understand how Nataly made up her mind to marry that +unlicked bear! A perfectly absurd and stupid fellow, and a gambler too, +I am told.” + +“But a very kind man, Prince,” said Anna Mikháylovna with a +pathetic smile, as though she too knew that Count Rostóv deserved this +censure, but asked him not to be too hard on the poor old man. “What +do the doctors say?” asked the princess after a pause, her worn face +again expressing deep sorrow. + +“They give little hope,” replied the prince. + +“And I should so like to thank Uncle once for all his kindness to me +and Borís. He is his godson,” she added, her tone suggesting that +this fact ought to give Prince Vasíli much satisfaction. + +Prince Vasíli became thoughtful and frowned. Anna Mikháylovna saw that +he was afraid of finding in her a rival for Count Bezúkhov’s fortune, +and hastened to reassure him. + +“If it were not for my sincere affection and devotion to Uncle,” +said she, uttering the word with peculiar assurance and unconcern, “I +know his character: noble, upright ... but you see he has no one with +him except the young princesses.... They are still young....” She bent +her head and continued in a whisper: “Has he performed his final duty, +Prince? How priceless are those last moments! It can make things no +worse, and it is absolutely necessary to prepare him if he is so ill. +We women, Prince,” and she smiled tenderly, “always know how to say +these things. I absolutely must see him, however painful it may be for +me. I am used to suffering.” + +Evidently the prince understood her, and also understood, as he had done +at Anna Pávlovna’s, that it would be difficult to get rid of Anna +Mikháylovna. + +“Would not such a meeting be too trying for him, dear Anna +Mikháylovna?” said he. “Let us wait until evening. The doctors are +expecting a crisis.” + +“But one cannot delay, Prince, at such a moment! Consider that the +welfare of his soul is at stake. Ah, it is awful: the duties of a +Christian...” + +A door of one of the inner rooms opened and one of the princesses, the +count’s niece, entered with a cold, stern face. The length of her +body was strikingly out of proportion to her short legs. Prince Vasíli +turned to her. + +“Well, how is he?” + +“Still the same; but what can you expect, this noise...” said the +princess, looking at Anna Mikháylovna as at a stranger. + +“Ah, my dear, I hardly knew you,” said Anna Mikháylovna with a +happy smile, ambling lightly up to the count’s niece. “I have come, +and am at your service to help you nurse my uncle. I imagine what you +have gone through,” and she sympathetically turned up her eyes. + +The princess gave no reply and did not even smile, but left the room as +Anna Mikháylovna took off her gloves and, occupying the position she +had conquered, settled down in an armchair, inviting Prince Vasíli to +take a seat beside her. + +“Borís,” she said to her son with a smile, “I shall go in to see +the count, my uncle; but you, my dear, had better go to Pierre meanwhile +and don’t forget to give him the Rostóvs’ invitation. They ask him +to dinner. I suppose he won’t go?” she continued, turning to the +prince. + +“On the contrary,” replied the prince, who had plainly become +depressed, “I shall be only too glad if you relieve me of that young +man.... Here he is, and the count has not once asked for him.” + +He shrugged his shoulders. A footman conducted Borís down one flight of +stairs and up another, to Pierre’s rooms. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +Pierre, after all, had not managed to choose a career for himself in +Petersburg, and had been expelled from there for riotous conduct and +sent to Moscow. The story told about him at Count Rostóv’s was true. +Pierre had taken part in tying a policeman to a bear. He had now been +for some days in Moscow and was staying as usual at his father’s +house. Though he expected that the story of his escapade would be +already known in Moscow and that the ladies about his father—who were +never favorably disposed toward him—would have used it to turn the +count against him, he nevertheless on the day of his arrival went to +his father’s part of the house. Entering the drawing room, where the +princesses spent most of their time, he greeted the ladies, two of whom +were sitting at embroidery frames while a third read aloud. It was the +eldest who was reading—the one who had met Anna Mikháylovna. The +two younger ones were embroidering: both were rosy and pretty and they +differed only in that one had a little mole on her lip which made her +much prettier. Pierre was received as if he were a corpse or a leper. +The eldest princess paused in her reading and silently stared at him +with frightened eyes; the second assumed precisely the same expression; +while the youngest, the one with the mole, who was of a cheerful and +lively disposition, bent over her frame to hide a smile probably evoked +by the amusing scene she foresaw. She drew her wool down through the +canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying +to make out the pattern. + +“How do you do, cousin?” said Pierre. “You don’t recognize +me?” + +“I recognize you only too well, too well.” + +“How is the count? Can I see him?” asked Pierre, awkwardly as usual, +but unabashed. + +“The count is suffering physically and mentally, and apparently you +have done your best to increase his mental sufferings.” + +“Can I see the count?” Pierre again asked. + +“Hm.... If you wish to kill him, to kill him outright, you can see +him... Olga, go and see whether Uncle’s beef tea is ready—it is +almost time,” she added, giving Pierre to understand that they were +busy, and busy making his father comfortable, while evidently he, +Pierre, was only busy causing him annoyance. + +Olga went out. Pierre stood looking at the sisters; then he bowed and +said: “Then I will go to my rooms. You will let me know when I can see +him.” + +And he left the room, followed by the low but ringing laughter of the +sister with the mole. + +Next day Prince Vasíli had arrived and settled in the count’s house. +He sent for Pierre and said to him: “My dear fellow, if you are going +to behave here as you did in Petersburg, you will end very badly; that +is all I have to say to you. The count is very, very ill, and you must +not see him at all.” + +Since then Pierre had not been disturbed and had spent the whole time in +his rooms upstairs. + +When Borís appeared at his door Pierre was pacing up and down his room, +stopping occasionally at a corner to make menacing gestures at the wall, +as if running a sword through an invisible foe, and glaring savagely +over his spectacles, and then again resuming his walk, muttering +indistinct words, shrugging his shoulders and gesticulating. + +“England is done for,” said he, scowling and pointing his finger +at someone unseen. “Mr. Pitt, as a traitor to the nation and to the +rights of man, is sentenced to...” But before Pierre—who at that +moment imagined himself to be Napoleon in person and to have just +effected the dangerous crossing of the Straits of Dover and captured +London—could pronounce Pitt’s sentence, he saw a well-built and +handsome young officer entering his room. Pierre paused. He had left +Moscow when Borís was a boy of fourteen, and had quite forgotten him, +but in his usual impulsive and hearty way he took Borís by the hand +with a friendly smile. + +“Do you remember me?” asked Borís quietly with a pleasant smile. +“I have come with my mother to see the count, but it seems he is not +well.” + +“Yes, it seems he is ill. People are always disturbing him,” +answered Pierre, trying to remember who this young man was. + +Borís felt that Pierre did not recognize him but did not consider +it necessary to introduce himself, and without experiencing the least +embarrassment looked Pierre straight in the face. + +“Count Rostóv asks you to come to dinner today,” said he, after a +considerable pause which made Pierre feel uncomfortable. + +“Ah, Count Rostóv!” exclaimed Pierre joyfully. “Then you are his +son, Ilyá? Only fancy, I didn’t know you at first. Do you remember +how we went to the Sparrow Hills with Madame Jacquot?... It’s such an +age...” + +“You are mistaken,” said Borís deliberately, with a bold and +slightly sarcastic smile. “I am Borís, son of Princess Anna +Mikháylovna Drubetskáya. Rostóv, the father, is Ilyá, and his son is +Nicholas. I never knew any Madame Jacquot.” + +Pierre shook his head and arms as if attacked by mosquitoes or bees. + +“Oh dear, what am I thinking about? I’ve mixed everything up. One +has so many relatives in Moscow! So you are Borís? Of course. Well, now +we know where we are. And what do you think of the Boulogne expedition? +The English will come off badly, you know, if Napoleon gets across the +Channel. I think the expedition is quite feasible. If only Villeneuve +doesn’t make a mess of things!” + +Borís knew nothing about the Boulogne expedition; he did not read the +papers and it was the first time he had heard Villeneuve’s name. + +“We here in Moscow are more occupied with dinner parties and scandal +than with politics,” said he in his quiet ironical tone. “I know +nothing about it and have not thought about it. Moscow is chiefly busy +with gossip,” he continued. “Just now they are talking about you and +your father.” + +Pierre smiled in his good-natured way as if afraid for his companion’s +sake that the latter might say something he would afterwards regret. +But Borís spoke distinctly, clearly, and dryly, looking straight into +Pierre’s eyes. + +“Moscow has nothing else to do but gossip,” Borís went on. +“Everybody is wondering to whom the count will leave his fortune, +though he may perhaps outlive us all, as I sincerely hope he will...” + +“Yes, it is all very horrid,” interrupted Pierre, “very horrid.” + +Pierre was still afraid that this officer might inadvertently say +something disconcerting to himself. + +“And it must seem to you,” said Borís flushing slightly, but not +changing his tone or attitude, “it must seem to you that everyone is +trying to get something out of the rich man?” + +“So it does,” thought Pierre. + +“But I just wish to say, to avoid misunderstandings, that you are +quite mistaken if you reckon me or my mother among such people. We are +very poor, but for my own part at any rate, for the very reason that +your father is rich, I don’t regard myself as a relation of his, and +neither I nor my mother would ever ask or take anything from him.” + +For a long time Pierre could not understand, but when he did, he jumped +up from the sofa, seized Borís under the elbow in his quick, clumsy +way, and, blushing far more than Borís, began to speak with a feeling +of mingled shame and vexation. + +“Well, this is strange! Do you suppose I... who could think?... I know +very well...” + +But Borís again interrupted him. + +“I am glad I have spoken out fully. Perhaps you did not like it? You +must excuse me,” said he, putting Pierre at ease instead of being put +at ease by him, “but I hope I have not offended you. I always make it +a rule to speak out... Well, what answer am I to take? Will you come to +dinner at the Rostóvs’?” + +And Borís, having apparently relieved himself of an onerous duty and +extricated himself from an awkward situation and placed another in it, +became quite pleasant again. + +“No, but I say,” said Pierre, calming down, “you are a wonderful +fellow! What you have just said is good, very good. Of course you +don’t know me. We have not met for such a long time... not since we +were children. You might think that I... I understand, quite understand. +I could not have done it myself, I should not have had the courage, but +it’s splendid. I am very glad to have made your acquaintance. It’s +queer,” he added after a pause, “that you should have suspected +me!” He began to laugh. “Well, what of it! I hope we’ll get better +acquainted,” and he pressed Borís’ hand. “Do you know, I have not +once been in to see the count. He has not sent for me.... I am sorry for +him as a man, but what can one do?” + +“And so you think Napoleon will manage to get an army across?” asked +Borís with a smile. + +Pierre saw that Borís wished to change the subject, and being of the +same mind he began explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the +Boulogne expedition. + +A footman came in to summon Borís—the princess was going. Pierre, in +order to make Borís’ better acquaintance, promised to come to dinner, +and warmly pressing his hand looked affectionately over his spectacles +into Borís’ eyes. After he had gone Pierre continued pacing up and +down the room for a long time, no longer piercing an imaginary foe with +his imaginary sword, but smiling at the remembrance of that pleasant, +intelligent, and resolute young man. + +As often happens in early youth, especially to one who leads a lonely +life, he felt an unaccountable tenderness for this young man and made up +his mind that they would be friends. + +Prince Vasíli saw the princess off. She held a handkerchief to her eyes +and her face was tearful. + +“It is dreadful, dreadful!” she was saying, “but cost me what it +may I shall do my duty. I will come and spend the night. He must not be +left like this. Every moment is precious. I can’t think why his nieces +put it off. Perhaps God will help me to find a way to prepare him!... +Adieu, Prince! May God support you...” + +“Adieu, ma bonne,” answered Prince Vasíli turning away from her. + +“Oh, he is in a dreadful state,” said the mother to her son when +they were in the carriage. “He hardly recognizes anybody.” + +“I don’t understand, Mamma—what is his attitude to Pierre?” +asked the son. + +“The will will show that, my dear; our fate also depends on it.” + +“But why do you expect that he will leave us anything?” + +“Ah, my dear! He is so rich, and we are so poor!” + +“Well, that is hardly a sufficient reason, Mamma...” + +“Oh, Heaven! How ill he is!” exclaimed the mother. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVII + +After Anna Mikháylovna had driven off with her son to visit Count Cyril +Vladímirovich Bezúkhov, Countess Rostóva sat for a long time all +alone applying her handkerchief to her eyes. At last she rang. + +“What is the matter with you, my dear?” she said crossly to the maid +who kept her waiting some minutes. “Don’t you wish to serve me? Then +I’ll find you another place.” + +The countess was upset by her friend’s sorrow and humiliating poverty, +and was therefore out of sorts, a state of mind which with her always +found expression in calling her maid “my dear” and speaking to her +with exaggerated politeness. + +“I am very sorry, ma’am,” answered the maid. + +“Ask the count to come to me.” + +The count came waddling in to see his wife with a rather guilty look as +usual. + +“Well, little countess? What a sauté of game au madère we are to +have, my dear! I tasted it. The thousand rubles I paid for Tarás were +not ill-spent. He is worth it!” + +He sat down by his wife, his elbows on his knees and his hands ruffling +his gray hair. + +“What are your commands, little countess?” + +“You see, my dear... What’s that mess?” she said, pointing to his +waistcoat. “It’s the sauté, most likely,” she added with a smile. +“Well, you see, Count, I want some money.” + +Her face became sad. + +“Oh, little countess!” ... and the count began bustling to get out +his pocketbook. + +“I want a great deal, Count! I want five hundred rubles,” and taking +out her cambric handkerchief she began wiping her husband’s waistcoat. + +“Yes, immediately, immediately! Hey, who’s there?” he called out +in a tone only used by persons who are certain that those they call will +rush to obey the summons. “Send Dmítri to me!” + +Dmítri, a man of good family who had been brought up in the count’s +house and now managed all his affairs, stepped softly into the room. + +“This is what I want, my dear fellow,” said the count to the +deferential young man who had entered. “Bring me...” he reflected +a moment, “yes, bring me seven hundred rubles, yes! But mind, don’t +bring me such tattered and dirty notes as last time, but nice clean ones +for the countess.” + +“Yes, Dmítri, clean ones, please,” said the countess, sighing +deeply. + +“When would you like them, your excellency?” asked Dmítri. “Allow +me to inform you... But, don’t be uneasy,” he added, noticing that +the count was beginning to breathe heavily and quickly which was always +a sign of approaching anger. “I was forgetting... Do you wish it +brought at once?” + +“Yes, yes; just so! Bring it. Give it to the countess.” + +“What a treasure that Dmítri is,” added the count with a smile when +the young man had departed. “There is never any ‘impossible’ with +him. That’s a thing I hate! Everything is possible.” + +“Ah, money, Count, money! How much sorrow it causes in the world,” +said the countess. “But I am in great need of this sum.” + +“You, my little countess, are a notorious spendthrift,” said the +count, and having kissed his wife’s hand he went back to his study. + +When Anna Mikháylovna returned from Count Bezúkhov’s the money, all +in clean notes, was lying ready under a handkerchief on the countess’ +little table, and Anna Mikháylovna noticed that something was agitating +her. + +“Well, my dear?” asked the countess. + +“Oh, what a terrible state he is in! One would not know him, he is so +ill! I was only there a few moments and hardly said a word...” + +“Annette, for heaven’s sake don’t refuse me,” the countess +began, with a blush that looked very strange on her thin, dignified, +elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief. + +Anna Mikháylovna instantly guessed her intention and stooped to be +ready to embrace the countess at the appropriate moment. + +“This is for Borís from me, for his outfit.” + +Anna Mikháylovna was already embracing her and weeping. The countess +wept too. They wept because they were friends, and because they were +kindhearted, and because they—friends from childhood—had to think +about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over.... +But those tears were pleasant to them both. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVIII + +Countess Rostóva, with her daughters and a large number of guests, was +already seated in the drawing room. The count took the gentlemen into +his study and showed them his choice collection of Turkish pipes. From +time to time he went out to ask: “Hasn’t she come yet?” They +were expecting Márya Dmítrievna Akhrosímova, known in society as le +terrible dragon, a lady distinguished not for wealth or rank, but for +common sense and frank plainness of speech. Márya Dmítrievna was known +to the Imperial family as well as to all Moscow and Petersburg, and both +cities wondered at her, laughed privately at her rudenesses, and told +good stories about her, while none the less all without exception +respected and feared her. + +In the count’s room, which was full of tobacco smoke, they talked +of the war that had been announced in a manifesto, and about the +recruiting. None of them had yet seen the manifesto, but they all knew +it had appeared. The count sat on the sofa between two guests who were +smoking and talking. He neither smoked nor talked, but bending his head +first to one side and then to the other watched the smokers with evident +pleasure and listened to the conversation of his two neighbors, whom he +egged on against each other. + +One of them was a sallow, clean-shaven civilian with a thin and wrinkled +face, already growing old, though he was dressed like a most fashionable +young man. He sat with his legs up on the sofa as if quite at home and, +having stuck an amber mouthpiece far into his mouth, was inhaling the +smoke spasmodically and screwing up his eyes. This was an old bachelor, +Shinshín, a cousin of the countess’, a man with “a sharp tongue” +as they said in Moscow society. He seemed to be condescending to +his companion. The latter, a fresh, rosy officer of the Guards, +irreproachably washed, brushed, and buttoned, held his pipe in the +middle of his mouth and with red lips gently inhaled the smoke, letting +it escape from his handsome mouth in rings. This was Lieutenant Berg, an +officer in the Semënov regiment with whom Borís was to travel to join +the army, and about whom Natásha had teased her elder sister Véra, +speaking of Berg as her “intended.” The count sat between them and +listened attentively. His favorite occupation when not playing boston, a +card game he was very fond of, was that of listener, especially when he +succeeded in setting two loquacious talkers at one another. + +“Well, then, old chap, mon très honorable Alphonse Kárlovich,” +said Shinshín, laughing ironically and mixing the most ordinary Russian +expressions with the choicest French phrases—which was a peculiarity +of his speech. “Vous comptez vous faire des rentes sur l’état; * +you want to make something out of your company?” + + * You expect to make an income out of the government. + +“No, Peter Nikoláevich; I only want to show that in the cavalry +the advantages are far less than in the infantry. Just consider my own +position now, Peter Nikoláevich...” + +Berg always spoke quietly, politely, and with great precision. His +conversation always related entirely to himself; he would remain calm +and silent when the talk related to any topic that had no direct bearing +on himself. He could remain silent for hours without being at all put +out of countenance himself or making others uncomfortable, but as +soon as the conversation concerned himself he would begin to talk +circumstantially and with evident satisfaction. + +“Consider my position, Peter Nikoláevich. Were I in the cavalry I +should get not more than two hundred rubles every four months, even +with the rank of lieutenant; but as it is I receive two hundred and +thirty,” said he, looking at Shinshín and the count with a joyful, +pleasant smile, as if it were obvious to him that his success must +always be the chief desire of everyone else. + +“Besides that, Peter Nikoláevich, by exchanging into the Guards +I shall be in a more prominent position,” continued Berg, “and +vacancies occur much more frequently in the Foot Guards. Then just think +what can be done with two hundred and thirty rubles! I even manage to +put a little aside and to send something to my father,” he went on, +emitting a smoke ring. + +“La balance y est... * A German knows how to skin a flint, as the +proverb says,” remarked Shinshín, moving his pipe to the other side +of his mouth and winking at the count. + + * So that squares matters. + +The count burst out laughing. The other guests seeing that Shinshín +was talking came up to listen. Berg, oblivious of irony or indifference, +continued to explain how by exchanging into the Guards he had already +gained a step on his old comrades of the Cadet Corps; how in wartime +the company commander might get killed and he, as senior in the company, +might easily succeed to the post; how popular he was with everyone in +the regiment, and how satisfied his father was with him. Berg evidently +enjoyed narrating all this, and did not seem to suspect that others, +too, might have their own interests. But all he said was so prettily +sedate, and the naïveté of his youthful egotism was so obvious, that +he disarmed his hearers. + +“Well, my boy, you’ll get along wherever you go—foot or +horse—that I’ll warrant,” said Shinshín, patting him on the +shoulder and taking his feet off the sofa. + +Berg smiled joyously. The count, followed by his guests, went into the +drawing room. + +It was just the moment before a big dinner when the assembled guests, +expecting the summons to zakúska, * avoid engaging in any long +conversation but think it necessary to move about and talk, in order +to show that they are not at all impatient for their food. The host and +hostess look toward the door, and now and then glance at one another, +and the visitors try to guess from these glances who, or what, they are +waiting for—some important relation who has not yet arrived, or a dish +that is not yet ready. + + * Hors d’oeuvres. + +Pierre had come just at dinnertime and was sitting awkwardly in the +middle of the drawing room on the first chair he had come across, +blocking the way for everyone. The countess tried to make him talk, +but he went on naïvely looking around through his spectacles as if in +search of somebody and answered all her questions in monosyllables. He +was in the way and was the only one who did not notice the fact. Most of +the guests, knowing of the affair with the bear, looked with curiosity +at this big, stout, quiet man, wondering how such a clumsy, modest +fellow could have played such a prank on a policeman. + +“You have only lately arrived?” the countess asked him. + +“Oui, madame,” replied he, looking around him. + +“You have not yet seen my husband?” + +“Non, madame.” He smiled quite inappropriately. + +“You have been in Paris recently, I believe? I suppose it’s very +interesting.” + +“Very interesting.” + +The countess exchanged glances with Anna Mikháylovna. The latter +understood that she was being asked to entertain this young man, and +sitting down beside him she began to speak about his father; but he +answered her, as he had the countess, only in monosyllables. The other +guests were all conversing with one another. “The Razumóvskis... It +was charming... You are very kind... Countess Apráksina...” was heard +on all sides. The countess rose and went into the ballroom. + +“Márya Dmítrievna?” came her voice from there. + +“Herself,” came the answer in a rough voice, and Márya Dmítrievna +entered the room. + +All the unmarried ladies and even the married ones except the very +oldest rose. Márya Dmítrievna paused at the door. Tall and stout, +holding high her fifty-year-old head with its gray curls, she stood +surveying the guests, and leisurely arranged her wide sleeves as if +rolling them up. Márya Dmítrievna always spoke in Russian. + +“Health and happiness to her whose name day we are keeping and to her +children,” she said, in her loud, full-toned voice which drowned all +others. “Well, you old sinner,” she went on, turning to the count +who was kissing her hand, “you’re feeling dull in Moscow, I daresay? +Nowhere to hunt with your dogs? But what is to be done, old man? Just +see how these nestlings are growing up,” and she pointed to the girls. +“You must look for husbands for them whether you like it or not....” + +“Well,” said she, “how’s my Cossack?” (Márya Dmítrievna +always called Natásha a Cossack) and she stroked the child’s arm as +she came up fearless and gay to kiss her hand. “I know she’s a scamp +of a girl, but I like her.” + +She took a pair of pear-shaped ruby earrings from her huge reticule and, +having given them to the rosy Natásha, who beamed with the pleasure +of her saint’s-day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to +Pierre. + +“Eh, eh, friend! Come here a bit,” said she, assuming a soft high +tone of voice. “Come here, my friend...” and she ominously tucked +up her sleeves still higher. Pierre approached, looking at her in a +childlike way through his spectacles. + +“Come nearer, come nearer, friend! I used to be the only one to tell +your father the truth when he was in favor, and in your case it’s my +evident duty.” She paused. All were silent, expectant of what was to +follow, for this was clearly only a prelude. + +“A fine lad! My word! A fine lad!... His father lies on his deathbed +and he amuses himself setting a policeman astride a bear! For shame, +sir, for shame! It would be better if you went to the war.” + +She turned away and gave her hand to the count, who could hardly keep +from laughing. + +“Well, I suppose it is time we were at table?” said Márya +Dmítrievna. + +The count went in first with Márya Dmítrievna, the countess followed +on the arm of a colonel of hussars, a man of importance to them because +Nicholas was to go with him to the regiment; then came Anna Mikháylovna +with Shinshín. Berg gave his arm to Véra. The smiling Julie Karágina +went in with Nicholas. After them other couples followed, filling the +whole dining hall, and last of all the children, tutors, and governesses +followed singly. The footmen began moving about, chairs scraped, the +band struck up in the gallery, and the guests settled down in their +places. Then the strains of the count’s household band were replaced +by the clatter of knives and forks, the voices of visitors, and the +soft steps of the footmen. At one end of the table sat the countess with +Márya Dmítrievna on her right and Anna Mikháylovna on her left, the +other lady visitors were farther down. At the other end sat the count, +with the hussar colonel on his left and Shinshín and the other male +visitors on his right. Midway down the long table on one side sat the +grown-up young people: Véra beside Berg, and Pierre beside Borís; and +on the other side, the children, tutors, and governesses. From behind +the crystal decanters and fruit vases, the count kept glancing at his +wife and her tall cap with its light-blue ribbons, and busily filled +his neighbors’ glasses, not neglecting his own. The countess in turn, +without omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from +behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed +by their redness to contrast more than usual with his gray hair. At the +ladies’ end an even chatter of voices was heard all the time, at the +men’s end the voices sounded louder and louder, especially that of the +colonel of hussars who, growing more and more flushed, ate and drank so +much that the count held him up as a pattern to the other guests. Berg +with tender smiles was saying to Véra that love is not an earthly but +a heavenly feeling. Borís was telling his new friend Pierre who the +guests were and exchanging glances with Natásha, who was sitting +opposite. Pierre spoke little but examined the new faces, and ate a +great deal. Of the two soups he chose turtle with savory patties and +went on to the game without omitting a single dish or one of the wines. +These latter the butler thrust mysteriously forward, wrapped in a +napkin, from behind the next man’s shoulders and whispered: “Dry +Madeira”... “Hungarian”... or “Rhine wine” as the case might +be. Of the four crystal glasses engraved with the count’s monogram +that stood before his plate, Pierre held out one at random and drank +with enjoyment, gazing with ever-increasing amiability at the other +guests. Natásha, who sat opposite, was looking at Borís as girls of +thirteen look at the boy they are in love with and have just kissed for +the first time. Sometimes that same look fell on Pierre, and that funny +lively little girl’s look made him inclined to laugh without knowing +why. + +Nicholas sat at some distance from Sónya, beside Julie Karágina, to +whom he was again talking with the same involuntary smile. Sónya wore +a company smile but was evidently tormented by jealousy; now she turned +pale, now blushed and strained every nerve to overhear what Nicholas +and Julie were saying to one another. The governess kept looking round +uneasily as if preparing to resent any slight that might be put upon the +children. The German tutor was trying to remember all the dishes, wines, +and kinds of dessert, in order to send a full description of the dinner +to his people in Germany; and he felt greatly offended when the butler +with a bottle wrapped in a napkin passed him by. He frowned, trying to +appear as if he did not want any of that wine, but was mortified because +no one would understand that it was not to quench his thirst or from +greediness that he wanted it, but simply from a conscientious desire for +knowledge. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIX + +At the men’s end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. +The colonel told them that the declaration of war had already appeared +in Petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day +been forwarded by courier to the commander in chief. + +“And why the deuce are we going to fight Bonaparte?” remarked +Shinshín. “He has stopped Austria’s cackle and I fear it will be +our turn next.” + +The colonel was a stout, tall, plethoric German, evidently devoted to +the service and patriotically Russian. He resented Shinshín’s remark. + +“It is for the reasson, my goot sir,” said he, speaking with a +German accent, “for the reasson zat ze Emperor knows zat. He +declares in ze manifessto zat he cannot fiew wiz indifference ze danger +vreatening Russia and zat ze safety and dignity of ze Empire as vell +as ze sanctity of its alliances...” he spoke this last word with +particular emphasis as if in it lay the gist of the matter. + +Then with the unerring official memory that characterized him he +repeated from the opening words of the manifesto: + +... and the wish, which constitutes the Emperor’s sole and absolute +aim—to establish peace in Europe on firm foundations—has now decided +him to despatch part of the army abroad and to create a new condition +for the attainment of that purpose. + +“Zat, my dear sir, is vy...” he concluded, drinking a tumbler of +wine with dignity and looking to the count for approval. + +“Connaissez-vous le Proverbe:* ‘Jerome, Jerome, do not roam, but +turn spindles at home!’?” said Shinshín, puckering his brows and +smiling. “Cela nous convient à merveille.*(2) Suvórov now—he knew +what he was about; yet they beat him à plate couture,*(3) and where +are we to find Suvórovs now? Je vous demande un peu,” *(4) said he, +continually changing from French to Russian. + + *Do you know the proverb? + + *(2) That suits us down to the ground. + + *(3) Hollow. + + *(4) I just ask you that. + +“Ve must vight to the last tr-r-op of our plood!” said the colonel, +thumping the table; “and ve must tie for our Emperor, and zen all vill +pe vell. And ve must discuss it as little as po-o-ossible”... he dwelt +particularly on the word possible... “as po-o-ossible,” he ended, +again turning to the count. “Zat is how ve old hussars look at it, and +zere’s an end of it! And how do you, a young man and a young hussar, +how do you judge of it?” he added, addressing Nicholas, who when he +heard that the war was being discussed had turned from his partner with +eyes and ears intent on the colonel. + +“I am quite of your opinion,” replied Nicholas, flaming up, turning +his plate round and moving his wineglasses about with as much decision +and desperation as though he were at that moment facing some great +danger. “I am convinced that we Russians must die or conquer,” he +concluded, conscious—as were others—after the words were uttered +that his remarks were too enthusiastic and emphatic for the occasion and +were therefore awkward. + +“What you said just now was splendid!” said his partner Julie. + +Sónya trembled all over and blushed to her ears and behind them and +down to her neck and shoulders while Nicholas was speaking. + +Pierre listened to the colonel’s speech and nodded approvingly. + +“That’s fine,” said he. + +“The young man’s a real hussar!” shouted the colonel, again +thumping the table. + +“What are you making such a noise about over there?” Márya +Dmítrievna’s deep voice suddenly inquired from the other end of the +table. “What are you thumping the table for?” she demanded of the +hussar, “and why are you exciting yourself? Do you think the French +are here?” + +“I am speaking ze truce,” replied the hussar with a smile. + +“It’s all about the war,” the count shouted down the table. “You +know my son’s going, Márya Dmítrievna? My son is going.” + +“I have four sons in the army but still I don’t fret. It is all +in God’s hands. You may die in your bed or God may spare you in a +battle,” replied Márya Dmítrievna’s deep voice, which easily +carried the whole length of the table. + +“That’s true!” + +Once more the conversations concentrated, the ladies’ at the one end +and the men’s at the other. + +“You won’t ask,” Natásha’s little brother was saying; “I know +you won’t ask!” + +“I will,” replied Natásha. + +Her face suddenly flushed with reckless and joyous resolution. She half +rose, by a glance inviting Pierre, who sat opposite, to listen to what +was coming, and turning to her mother: + +“Mamma!” rang out the clear contralto notes of her childish voice, +audible the whole length of the table. + +“What is it?” asked the countess, startled; but seeing by her +daughter’s face that it was only mischief, she shook a finger at her +sternly with a threatening and forbidding movement of her head. + +The conversation was hushed. + +“Mamma! What sweets are we going to have?” and Natásha’s voice +sounded still more firm and resolute. + +The countess tried to frown, but could not. Márya Dmítrievna shook her +fat finger. + +“Cossack!” she said threateningly. + +Most of the guests, uncertain how to regard this sally, looked at the +elders. + +“You had better take care!” said the countess. + +“Mamma! What sweets are we going to have?” Natásha again cried +boldly, with saucy gaiety, confident that her prank would be taken in +good part. + +Sónya and fat little Pétya doubled up with laughter. + +“You see! I have asked,” whispered Natásha to her little brother +and to Pierre, glancing at him again. + +“Ice pudding, but you won’t get any,” said Márya Dmítrievna. + +Natásha saw there was nothing to be afraid of and so she braved even +Márya Dmítrievna. + +“Márya Dmítrievna! What kind of ice pudding? I don’t like ice +cream.” + +“Carrot ices.” + +“No! What kind, Márya Dmítrievna? What kind?” she almost screamed; +“I want to know!” + +Márya Dmítrievna and the countess burst out laughing, and all the +guests joined in. Everyone laughed, not at Márya Dmítrievna’s answer +but at the incredible boldness and smartness of this little girl who had +dared to treat Márya Dmítrievna in this fashion. + +Natásha only desisted when she had been told that there would be +pineapple ice. Before the ices, champagne was served round. The band +again struck up, the count and countess kissed, and the guests, leaving +their seats, went up to “congratulate” the countess, and reached +across the table to clink glasses with the count, with the children, and +with one another. Again the footmen rushed about, chairs scraped, and +in the same order in which they had entered but with redder faces, the +guests returned to the drawing room and to the count’s study. + + + + + +CHAPTER XX + +The card tables were drawn out, sets made up for boston, and the +count’s visitors settled themselves, some in the two drawing rooms, +some in the sitting room, some in the library. + +The count, holding his cards fanwise, kept himself with difficulty from +dropping into his usual after-dinner nap, and laughed at everything. +The young people, at the countess’ instigation, gathered round the +clavichord and harp. Julie by general request played first. After she +had played a little air with variations on the harp, she joined the +other young ladies in begging Natásha and Nicholas, who were noted for +their musical talent, to sing something. Natásha, who was treated as +though she were grown up, was evidently very proud of this but at the +same time felt shy. + +“What shall we sing?” she said. + +“‘The Brook,’” suggested Nicholas. + +“Well, then, let’s be quick. Borís, come here,” said Natásha. +“But where is Sónya?” + +She looked round and seeing that her friend was not in the room ran to +look for her. + +Running into Sónya’s room and not finding her there, Natásha ran to +the nursery, but Sónya was not there either. Natásha concluded that +she must be on the chest in the passage. The chest in the passage was +the place of mourning for the younger female generation in the Rostóv +household. And there in fact was Sónya lying face downward on Nurse’s +dirty feather bed on the top of the chest, crumpling her gauzy pink +dress under her, hiding her face with her slender fingers, and sobbing +so convulsively that her bare little shoulders shook. Natásha’s +face, which had been so radiantly happy all that saint’s day, suddenly +changed: her eyes became fixed, and then a shiver passed down her broad +neck and the corners of her mouth drooped. + +“Sónya! What is it? What is the matter?... Oo... Oo... Oo...!” And +Natásha’s large mouth widened, making her look quite ugly, and she +began to wail like a baby without knowing why, except that Sónya was +crying. Sónya tried to lift her head to answer but could not, and +hid her face still deeper in the bed. Natásha wept, sitting on the +blue-striped feather bed and hugging her friend. With an effort Sónya +sat up and began wiping her eyes and explaining. + +“Nicholas is going away in a week’s time, his... papers... have +come... he told me himself... but still I should not cry,” and she +showed a paper she held in her hand—with the verses Nicholas had +written, “still, I should not cry, but you can’t... no one can +understand... what a soul he has!” + +And she began to cry again because he had such a noble soul. + +“It’s all very well for you... I am not envious... I love you and +Borís also,” she went on, gaining a little strength; “he is nice... +there are no difficulties in your way.... But Nicholas is my cousin... +one would have to... the Metropolitan himself... and even then it +can’t be done. And besides, if she tells Mamma” (Sónya looked upon +the countess as her mother and called her so) “that I am spoiling +Nicholas’ career and am heartless and ungrateful, while truly... God +is my witness,” and she made the sign of the cross, “I love her so +much, and all of you, only Véra... And what for? What have I done +to her? I am so grateful to you that I would willingly sacrifice +everything, only I have nothing....” + +Sónya could not continue, and again hid her face in her hands and in +the feather bed. Natásha began consoling her, but her face showed that +she understood all the gravity of her friend’s trouble. + +“Sónya,” she suddenly exclaimed, as if she had guessed the true +reason of her friend’s sorrow, “I’m sure Véra has said something +to you since dinner? Hasn’t she?” + +“Yes, these verses Nicholas wrote himself and I copied some others, +and she found them on my table and said she’d show them to Mamma, and +that I was ungrateful, and that Mamma would never allow him to marry +me, but that he’ll marry Julie. You see how he’s been with her all +day... Natásha, what have I done to deserve it?...” + +And again she began to sob, more bitterly than before. Natásha lifted +her up, hugged her, and, smiling through her tears, began comforting +her. + +“Sónya, don’t believe her, darling! Don’t believe her! Do you +remember how we and Nicholas, all three of us, talked in the sitting +room after supper? Why, we settled how everything was to be. I don’t +quite remember how, but don’t you remember that it could all be +arranged and how nice it all was? There’s Uncle Shinshín’s brother +has married his first cousin. And we are only second cousins, you know. +And Borís says it is quite possible. You know I have told him all about +it. And he is so clever and so good!” said Natásha. “Don’t +you cry, Sónya, dear love, darling Sónya!” and she kissed her and +laughed. “Véra’s spiteful; never mind her! And all will come right +and she won’t say anything to Mamma. Nicholas will tell her himself, +and he doesn’t care at all for Julie.” + +Natásha kissed her on the hair. + +Sónya sat up. The little kitten brightened, its eyes shone, and it +seemed ready to lift its tail, jump down on its soft paws, and begin +playing with the ball of worsted as a kitten should. + +“Do you think so?... Really? Truly?” she said, quickly smoothing her +frock and hair. + +“Really, truly!” answered Natásha, pushing in a crisp lock that had +strayed from under her friend’s plaits. + +Both laughed. + +“Well, let’s go and sing ‘The Brook.’” + +“Come along!” + +“Do you know, that fat Pierre who sat opposite me is so funny!” said +Natásha, stopping suddenly. “I feel so happy!” + +And she set off at a run along the passage. + +Sónya, shaking off some down which clung to her and tucking away the +verses in the bosom of her dress close to her bony little chest, ran +after Natásha down the passage into the sitting room with flushed face +and light, joyous steps. At the visitors’ request the young people +sang the quartette, “The Brook,” with which everyone was delighted. +Then Nicholas sang a song he had just learned: + + At nighttime in the moon’s fair glow + How sweet, as fancies wander free, + To feel that in this world there’s one + Who still is thinking but of thee! + + That while her fingers touch the harp + Wafting sweet music o’er the lea, + It is for thee thus swells her heart, + Sighing its message out to thee... + + A day or two, then bliss unspoilt, + But oh! till then I cannot live!... + +He had not finished the last verse before the young people began to +get ready to dance in the large hall, and the sound of the feet and the +coughing of the musicians were heard from the gallery. + + +Pierre was sitting in the drawing room where Shinshín had engaged him, +as a man recently returned from abroad, in a political conversation in +which several others joined but which bored Pierre. When the music began +Natásha came in and walking straight up to Pierre said, laughing and +blushing: + +“Mamma told me to ask you to join the dancers.” + +“I am afraid of mixing the figures,” Pierre replied; “but if you +will be my teacher...” And lowering his big arm he offered it to the +slender little girl. + +While the couples were arranging themselves and the musicians tuning up, +Pierre sat down with his little partner. Natásha was perfectly happy; +she was dancing with a grown-up man, who had been abroad. She was +sitting in a conspicuous place and talking to him like a grown-up lady. +She had a fan in her hand that one of the ladies had given her to hold. +Assuming quite the pose of a society woman (heaven knows when and where +she had learned it) she talked with her partner, fanning herself and +smiling over the fan. + +“Dear, dear! Just look at her!” exclaimed the countess as she +crossed the ballroom, pointing to Natásha. + +Natásha blushed and laughed. + +“Well, really, Mamma! Why should you? What is there to be surprised +at?” + + +In the midst of the third écossaise there was a clatter of chairs being +pushed back in the sitting room where the count and Márya Dmítrievna +had been playing cards with the majority of the more distinguished and +older visitors. They now, stretching themselves after sitting so long, +and replacing their purses and pocketbooks, entered the ballroom. First +came Márya Dmítrievna and the count, both with merry countenances. The +count, with playful ceremony somewhat in ballet style, offered his +bent arm to Márya Dmítrievna. He drew himself up, a smile of debonair +gallantry lit up his face and as soon as the last figure of the +écossaise was ended, he clapped his hands to the musicians and shouted +up to their gallery, addressing the first violin: + +“Semën! Do you know the Daniel Cooper?” + +This was the count’s favorite dance, which he had danced in his youth. +(Strictly speaking, Daniel Cooper was one figure of the anglaise.) + +“Look at Papa!” shouted Natásha to the whole company, and quite +forgetting that she was dancing with a grown-up partner she bent her +curly head to her knees and made the whole room ring with her laughter. + +And indeed everybody in the room looked with a smile of pleasure at the +jovial old gentleman, who standing beside his tall and stout partner, +Márya Dmítrievna, curved his arms, beat time, straightened his +shoulders, turned out his toes, tapped gently with his foot, and, by +a smile that broadened his round face more and more, prepared the +onlookers for what was to follow. As soon as the provocatively gay +strains of Daniel Cooper (somewhat resembling those of a merry peasant +dance) began to sound, all the doorways of the ballroom were suddenly +filled by the domestic serfs—the men on one side and the women on +the other—who with beaming faces had come to see their master making +merry. + +“Just look at the master! A regular eagle he is!” loudly remarked +the nurse, as she stood in one of the doorways. + +The count danced well and knew it. But his partner could not and did not +want to dance well. Her enormous figure stood erect, her powerful arms +hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her +stern but handsome face really joined in the dance. What was expressed +by the whole of the count’s plump figure, in Márya Dmítrievna found +expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose. +But if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed +the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and +the agility with which he capered about on his light feet, Márya +Dmítrievna produced no less impression by slight exertions—the least +effort to move her shoulders or bend her arms when turning, or stamp +her foot—which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual +severity. The dance grew livelier and livelier. The other couples could +not attract a moment’s attention to their own evolutions and did not +even try to do so. All were watching the count and Márya Dmítrievna. +Natásha kept pulling everyone by sleeve or dress, urging them to +“look at Papa!” though as it was they never took their eyes off the +couple. In the intervals of the dance the count, breathing deeply, waved +and shouted to the musicians to play faster. Faster, faster, and faster; +lightly, more lightly, and yet more lightly whirled the count, flying +round Márya Dmítrievna, now on his toes, now on his heels; until, +turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, +raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspiring head, smiling +and making a wide sweep with his arm, amid a thunder of applause and +laughter led by Natásha. Both partners stood still, breathing heavily +and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs. + +“That’s how we used to dance in our time, ma chère,” said the +count. + +“That was a Daniel Cooper!” exclaimed Márya Dmítrievna, tucking up +her sleeves and puffing heavily. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXI + +While in the Rostóvs’ ballroom the sixth anglaise was being danced, +to a tune in which the weary musicians blundered, and while tired +footmen and cooks were getting the supper, Count Bezúkhov had a +sixth stroke. The doctors pronounced recovery impossible. After a mute +confession, communion was administered to the dying man, preparations +made for the sacrament of unction, and in his house there was the bustle +and thrill of suspense usual at such moments. Outside the house, beyond +the gates, a group of undertakers, who hid whenever a carriage drove up, +waited in expectation of an important order for an expensive funeral. +The Military Governor of Moscow, who had been assiduous in sending +aides-de-camp to inquire after the count’s health, came himself +that evening to bid a last farewell to the celebrated grandee of +Catherine’s court, Count Bezúkhov. + +The magnificent reception room was crowded. Everyone stood up +respectfully when the Military Governor, having stayed about half an +hour alone with the dying man, passed out, slightly acknowledging their +bows and trying to escape as quickly as possible from the glances fixed +on him by the doctors, clergy, and relatives of the family. Prince +Vasíli, who had grown thinner and paler during the last few days, +escorted him to the door, repeating something to him several times in +low tones. + +When the Military Governor had gone, Prince Vasíli sat down all alone +on a chair in the ballroom, crossing one leg high over the other, +leaning his elbow on his knee and covering his face with his hand. After +sitting so for a while he rose, and, looking about him with frightened +eyes, went with unusually hurried steps down the long corridor leading +to the back of the house, to the room of the eldest princess. + +Those who were in the dimly lit reception room spoke in nervous +whispers, and, whenever anyone went into or came from the dying man’s +room, grew silent and gazed with eyes full of curiosity or expectancy at +his door, which creaked slightly when opened. + +“The limits of human life ... are fixed and may not be +o’erpassed,” said an old priest to a lady who had taken a seat +beside him and was listening naïvely to his words. + +“I wonder, is it not too late to administer unction?” asked the +lady, adding the priest’s clerical title, as if she had no opinion of +her own on the subject. + +“Ah, madam, it is a great sacrament,” replied the priest, passing +his hand over the thin grizzled strands of hair combed back across his +bald head. + +“Who was that? The Military Governor himself?” was being asked at +the other side of the room. “How young-looking he is!” + +“Yes, and he is over sixty. I hear the count no longer recognizes +anyone. They wished to administer the sacrament of unction.” + +“I knew someone who received that sacrament seven times.” + +The second princess had just come from the sickroom with her eyes red +from weeping and sat down beside Dr. Lorrain, who was sitting in a +graceful pose under a portrait of Catherine, leaning his elbow on a +table. + +“Beautiful,” said the doctor in answer to a remark about the +weather. “The weather is beautiful, Princess; and besides, in Moscow +one feels as if one were in the country.” + +“Yes, indeed,” replied the princess with a sigh. “So he may have +something to drink?” + +Lorrain considered. + +“Has he taken his medicine?” + +“Yes.” + +The doctor glanced at his watch. + +“Take a glass of boiled water and put a pinch of cream of tartar,” +and he indicated with his delicate fingers what he meant by a pinch. + +“Dere has neffer been a gase,” a German doctor was saying to an +aide-de-camp, “dat one liffs after de sird stroke.” + +“And what a well-preserved man he was!” remarked the aide-de-camp. +“And who will inherit his wealth?” he added in a whisper. + +“It von’t go begging,” replied the German with a smile. + +Everyone again looked toward the door, which creaked as the second +princess went in with the drink she had prepared according to +Lorrain’s instructions. The German doctor went up to Lorrain. + +“Do you think he can last till morning?” asked the German, +addressing Lorrain in French which he pronounced badly. + +Lorrain, pursing up his lips, waved a severely negative finger before +his nose. + +“Tonight, not later,” said he in a low voice, and he moved away +with a decorous smile of self-satisfaction at being able clearly to +understand and state the patient’s condition. + +Meanwhile Prince Vasíli had opened the door into the princess’ room. + +In this room it was almost dark; only two tiny lamps were burning before +the icons and there was a pleasant scent of flowers and burnt pastilles. +The room was crowded with small pieces of furniture, whatnots, +cupboards, and little tables. The quilt of a high, white feather bed was +just visible behind a screen. A small dog began to bark. + +“Ah, is it you, cousin?” + +She rose and smoothed her hair, which was as usual so extremely smooth +that it seemed to be made of one piece with her head and covered with +varnish. + +“Has anything happened?” she asked. “I am so terrified.” + +“No, there is no change. I only came to have a talk about business, +Catiche,” * muttered the prince, seating himself wearily on the chair +she had just vacated. “You have made the place warm, I must say,” he +remarked. “Well, sit down: let’s have a talk.” + + *Catherine. + +“I thought perhaps something had happened,” she said with her +unchanging stonily severe expression; and, sitting down opposite the +prince, she prepared to listen. + +“I wished to get a nap, mon cousin, but I can’t.” + +“Well, my dear?” said Prince Vasíli, taking her hand and bending it +downwards as was his habit. + +It was plain that this “well?” referred to much that they both +understood without naming. + +The princess, who had a straight, rigid body, abnormally long for her +legs, looked directly at Prince Vasíli with no sign of emotion in her +prominent gray eyes. Then she shook her head and glanced up at the icons +with a sigh. This might have been taken as an expression of sorrow +and devotion, or of weariness and hope of resting before long. Prince +Vasíli understood it as an expression of weariness. + +“And I?” he said; “do you think it is easier for me? I am as worn +out as a post horse, but still I must have a talk with you, Catiche, a +very serious talk.” + +Prince Vasíli said no more and his cheeks began to twitch nervously, +now on one side, now on the other, giving his face an unpleasant +expression which was never to be seen on it in a drawing room. His eyes +too seemed strange; at one moment they looked impudently sly and at the +next glanced round in alarm. + +The princess, holding her little dog on her lap with her thin bony +hands, looked attentively into Prince Vasíli’s eyes evidently +resolved not to be the first to break silence, if she had to wait till +morning. + +“Well, you see, my dear princess and cousin, Catherine Semënovna,” +continued Prince Vasíli, returning to his theme, apparently not +without an inner struggle; “at such a moment as this one must think +of everything. One must think of the future, of all of you... I love you +all, like children of my own, as you know.” + +The princess continued to look at him without moving, and with the same +dull expression. + +“And then of course my family has also to be considered,” Prince +Vasíli went on, testily pushing away a little table without looking at +her. “You know, Catiche, that we—you three sisters, Mámontov, and +my wife—are the count’s only direct heirs. I know, I know how hard +it is for you to talk or think of such matters. It is no easier for +me; but, my dear, I am getting on for sixty and must be prepared for +anything. Do you know I have sent for Pierre? The count,” pointing to +his portrait, “definitely demanded that he should be called.” + +Prince Vasíli looked questioningly at the princess, but could not make +out whether she was considering what he had just said or whether she was +simply looking at him. + +“There is one thing I constantly pray God to grant, mon cousin,” she +replied, “and it is that He would be merciful to him and would allow +his noble soul peacefully to leave this...” + +“Yes, yes, of course,” interrupted Prince Vasíli impatiently, +rubbing his bald head and angrily pulling back toward him the little +table that he had pushed away. “But... in short, the fact is... you +know yourself that last winter the count made a will by which he left +all his property, not to us his direct heirs, but to Pierre.” + +“He has made wills enough!” quietly remarked the princess. “But he +cannot leave the estate to Pierre. Pierre is illegitimate.” + +“But, my dear,” said Prince Vasíli suddenly, clutching the little +table and becoming more animated and talking more rapidly: “what if +a letter has been written to the Emperor in which the count asks for +Pierre’s legitimation? Do you understand that in consideration of the +count’s services, his request would be granted?...” + +The princess smiled as people do who think they know more about the +subject under discussion than those they are talking with. + +“I can tell you more,” continued Prince Vasíli, seizing her hand, +“that letter was written, though it was not sent, and the Emperor knew +of it. The only question is, has it been destroyed or not? If not, then +as soon as all is over,” and Prince Vasíli sighed to intimate what he +meant by the words all is over, “and the count’s papers are opened, +the will and letter will be delivered to the Emperor, and the petition +will certainly be granted. Pierre will get everything as the legitimate +son.” + +“And our share?” asked the princess smiling ironically, as if +anything might happen, only not that. + +“But, my poor Catiche, it is as clear as daylight! He will then be the +legal heir to everything and you won’t get anything. You must know, +my dear, whether the will and letter were written, and whether they have +been destroyed or not. And if they have somehow been overlooked, you +ought to know where they are, and must find them, because...” + +“What next?” the princess interrupted, smiling sardonically and not +changing the expression of her eyes. “I am a woman, and you think we +are all stupid; but I know this: an illegitimate son cannot inherit... +un bâtard!”* she added, as if supposing that this translation of the +word would effectively prove to Prince Vasíli the invalidity of his +contention. + + * A bastard. + +“Well, really, Catiche! Can’t you understand! You are so +intelligent, how is it you don’t see that if the count has written a +letter to the Emperor begging him to recognize Pierre as legitimate, it +follows that Pierre will not be Pierre but will become Count Bezúkhov, +and will then inherit everything under the will? And if the will and +letter are not destroyed, then you will have nothing but the consolation +of having been dutiful et tout ce qui s’ensuit!* That’s certain.” + + * And all that follows therefrom. + +“I know the will was made, but I also know that it is invalid; +and you, mon cousin, seem to consider me a perfect fool,” said the +princess with the expression women assume when they suppose they are +saying something witty and stinging. + +“My dear Princess Catherine Semënovna,” began Prince Vasíli +impatiently, “I came here not to wrangle with you, but to talk about +your interests as with a kinswoman, a good, kind, true relation. And I +tell you for the tenth time that if the letter to the Emperor and the +will in Pierre’s favor are among the count’s papers, then, my dear +girl, you and your sisters are not heiresses! If you don’t believe me, +then believe an expert. I have just been talking to Dmítri Onúfrich” +(the family solicitor) “and he says the same.” + +At this a sudden change evidently took place in the princess’ ideas; +her thin lips grew white, though her eyes did not change, and her voice +when she began to speak passed through such transitions as she herself +evidently did not expect. + +“That would be a fine thing!” said she. “I never wanted anything +and I don’t now.” + +She pushed the little dog off her lap and smoothed her dress. + +“And this is gratitude—this is recognition for those who have +sacrificed everything for his sake!” she cried. “It’s splendid! +Fine! I don’t want anything, Prince.” + +“Yes, but you are not the only one. There are your sisters...” +replied Prince Vasíli. + +But the princess did not listen to him. + +“Yes, I knew it long ago but had forgotten. I knew that I could expect +nothing but meanness, deceit, envy, intrigue, and ingratitude—the +blackest ingratitude—in this house...” + +“Do you or do you not know where that will is?” insisted Prince +Vasíli, his cheeks twitching more than ever. + +“Yes, I was a fool! I still believed in people, loved them, and +sacrificed myself. But only the base, the vile succeed! I know who has +been intriguing!” + +The princess wished to rise, but the prince held her by the hand. She +had the air of one who has suddenly lost faith in the whole human race. +She gave her companion an angry glance. + +“There is still time, my dear. You must remember, Catiche, that it was +all done casually in a moment of anger, of illness, and was afterwards +forgotten. Our duty, my dear, is to rectify his mistake, to ease his +last moments by not letting him commit this injustice, and not to let +him die feeling that he is rendering unhappy those who...” + +“Who sacrificed everything for him,” chimed in the princess, who +would again have risen had not the prince still held her fast, “though +he never could appreciate it. No, mon cousin,” she added with a sigh, +“I shall always remember that in this world one must expect no reward, +that in this world there is neither honor nor justice. In this world one +has to be cunning and cruel.” + +“Now come, come! Be reasonable. I know your excellent heart.” + +“No, I have a wicked heart.” + +“I know your heart,” repeated the prince. “I value your friendship +and wish you to have as good an opinion of me. Don’t upset yourself, +and let us talk sensibly while there is still time, be it a day or be it +but an hour.... Tell me all you know about the will, and above all where +it is. You must know. We will take it at once and show it to the +count. He has, no doubt, forgotten it and will wish to destroy it. +You understand that my sole desire is conscientiously to carry out his +wishes; that is my only reason for being here. I came simply to help him +and you.” + +“Now I see it all! I know who has been intriguing—I know!” cried +the princess. + +“That’s not the point, my dear.” + +“It’s that protégé of yours, that sweet Princess Drubetskáya, +that Anna Mikháylovna whom I would not take for a housemaid... the +infamous, vile woman!” + +“Do not let us lose any time...” + +“Ah, don’t talk to me! Last winter she wheedled herself in here and +told the count such vile, disgraceful things about us, especially about +Sophie—I can’t repeat them—that it made the count quite ill and he +would not see us for a whole fortnight. I know it was then he wrote this +vile, infamous paper, but I thought the thing was invalid.” + +“We’ve got to it at last—why did you not tell me about it +sooner?” + +“It’s in the inlaid portfolio that he keeps under his pillow,” +said the princess, ignoring his question. “Now I know! Yes; if I have +a sin, a great sin, it is hatred of that vile woman!” almost shrieked +the princess, now quite changed. “And what does she come worming +herself in here for? But I will give her a piece of my mind. The time +will come!” + + + + + +CHAPTER XXII + +While these conversations were going on in the reception room and the +princess’ room, a carriage containing Pierre (who had been sent for) +and Anna Mikháylovna (who found it necessary to accompany him) was +driving into the court of Count Bezúkhov’s house. As the wheels +rolled softly over the straw beneath the windows, Anna Mikháylovna, +having turned with words of comfort to her companion, realized that +he was asleep in his corner and woke him up. Rousing himself, Pierre +followed Anna Mikháylovna out of the carriage, and only then began +to think of the interview with his dying father which awaited him. He +noticed that they had not come to the front entrance but to the back +door. While he was getting down from the carriage steps two men, who +looked like tradespeople, ran hurriedly from the entrance and hid in the +shadow of the wall. Pausing for a moment, Pierre noticed several other +men of the same kind hiding in the shadow of the house on both sides. +But neither Anna Mikháylovna nor the footman nor the coachman, who +could not help seeing these people, took any notice of them. “It seems +to be all right,” Pierre concluded, and followed Anna Mikháylovna. +She hurriedly ascended the narrow dimly lit stone staircase, calling to +Pierre, who was lagging behind, to follow. Though he did not see why it +was necessary for him to go to the count at all, still less why he had +to go by the back stairs, yet judging by Anna Mikháylovna’s air +of assurance and haste, Pierre concluded that it was all absolutely +necessary. Halfway up the stairs they were almost knocked over by +some men who, carrying pails, came running downstairs, their boots +clattering. These men pressed close to the wall to let Pierre and Anna +Mikháylovna pass and did not evince the least surprise at seeing them +there. + +“Is this the way to the princesses’ apartments?” asked Anna +Mikháylovna of one of them. + +“Yes,” replied a footman in a bold loud voice, as if anything were +now permissible; “the door to the left, ma’am.” + +“Perhaps the count did not ask for me,” said Pierre when he reached +the landing. “I’d better go to my own room.” + +Anna Mikháylovna paused and waited for him to come up. + +“Ah, my friend!” she said, touching his arm as she had done her +son’s when speaking to him that afternoon, “believe me I suffer no +less than you do, but be a man!” + +“But really, hadn’t I better go away?” he asked, looking kindly at +her over his spectacles. + +“Ah, my dear friend! Forget the wrongs that may have been done you. +Think that he is your father ... perhaps in the agony of death.” She +sighed. “I have loved you like a son from the first. Trust yourself to +me, Pierre. I shall not forget your interests.” + +Pierre did not understand a word, but the conviction that all this had +to be grew stronger, and he meekly followed Anna Mikháylovna who was +already opening a door. + +This door led into a back anteroom. An old man, a servant of the +princesses, sat in a corner knitting a stocking. Pierre had never been +in this part of the house and did not even know of the existence of +these rooms. Anna Mikháylovna, addressing a maid who was hurrying past +with a decanter on a tray as “my dear” and “my sweet,” asked +about the princess’ health and then led Pierre along a stone passage. +The first door on the left led into the princesses’ apartments. The +maid with the decanter in her haste had not closed the door (everything +in the house was done in haste at that time), and Pierre and Anna +Mikháylovna in passing instinctively glanced into the room, where +Prince Vasíli and the eldest princess were sitting close together +talking. Seeing them pass, Prince Vasíli drew back with obvious +impatience, while the princess jumped up and with a gesture of +desperation slammed the door with all her might. + +This action was so unlike her usual composure and the fear depicted on +Prince Vasíli’s face so out of keeping with his dignity that Pierre +stopped and glanced inquiringly over his spectacles at his guide. Anna +Mikháylovna evinced no surprise, she only smiled faintly and sighed, as +if to say that this was no more than she had expected. + +“Be a man, my friend. I will look after your interests,” said she in +reply to his look, and went still faster along the passage. + +Pierre could not make out what it was all about, and still less what +“watching over his interests” meant, but he decided that all these +things had to be. From the passage they went into a large, dimly +lit room adjoining the count’s reception room. It was one of those +sumptuous but cold apartments known to Pierre only from the front +approach, but even in this room there now stood an empty bath, and water +had been spilled on the carpet. They were met by a deacon with a censer +and by a servant who passed out on tiptoe without heeding them. They +went into the reception room familiar to Pierre, with two Italian +windows opening into the conservatory, with its large bust and full +length portrait of Catherine the Great. The same people were still +sitting here in almost the same positions as before, whispering to one +another. All became silent and turned to look at the pale tear-worn Anna +Mikháylovna as she entered, and at the big stout figure of Pierre who, +hanging his head, meekly followed her. + +Anna Mikháylovna’s face expressed a consciousness that the decisive +moment had arrived. With the air of a practical Petersburg lady she now, +keeping Pierre close beside her, entered the room even more boldly than +that afternoon. She felt that as she brought with her the person the +dying man wished to see, her own admission was assured. Casting a rapid +glance at all those in the room and noticing the count’s confessor +there, she glided up to him with a sort of amble, not exactly bowing yet +seeming to grow suddenly smaller, and respectfully received the blessing +first of one and then of another priest. + +“God be thanked that you are in time,” said she to one of the +priests; “all we relatives have been in such anxiety. This young +man is the count’s son,” she added more softly. “What a terrible +moment!” + +Having said this she went up to the doctor. + +“Dear doctor,” said she, “this young man is the count’s son. Is +there any hope?” + +The doctor cast a rapid glance upwards and silently shrugged his +shoulders. Anna Mikháylovna with just the same movement raised her +shoulders and eyes, almost closing the latter, sighed, and moved away +from the doctor to Pierre. To him, in a particularly respectful and +tenderly sad voice, she said: + +“Trust in His mercy!” and pointing out a small sofa for him to sit +and wait for her, she went silently toward the door that everyone was +watching and it creaked very slightly as she disappeared behind it. + +Pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved +toward the sofa she had indicated. As soon as Anna Mikháylovna had +disappeared he noticed that the eyes of all in the room turned to him +with something more than curiosity and sympathy. He noticed that they +whispered to one another, casting significant looks at him with a kind +of awe and even servility. A deference such as he had never before +received was shown him. A strange lady, the one who had been talking to +the priests, rose and offered him her seat; an aide-de-camp picked up +and returned a glove Pierre had dropped; the doctors became respectfully +silent as he passed by, and moved to make way for him. At first Pierre +wished to take another seat so as not to trouble the lady, and also to +pick up the glove himself and to pass round the doctors who were not +even in his way; but all at once he felt that this would not do, and +that tonight he was a person obliged to perform some sort of awful +rite which everyone expected of him, and that he was therefore bound +to accept their services. He took the glove in silence from the +aide-de-camp, and sat down in the lady’s chair, placing his huge hands +symmetrically on his knees in the naïve attitude of an Egyptian statue, +and decided in his own mind that all was as it should be, and that in +order not to lose his head and do foolish things he must not act on his +own ideas tonight, but must yield himself up entirely to the will of +those who were guiding him. + +Not two minutes had passed before Prince Vasíli with head erect +majestically entered the room. He was wearing his long coat with three +stars on his breast. He seemed to have grown thinner since the morning; +his eyes seemed larger than usual when he glanced round and noticed +Pierre. He went up to him, took his hand (a thing he never used to do), +and drew it downwards as if wishing to ascertain whether it was firmly +fixed on. + +“Courage, courage, my friend! He has asked to see you. That is +well!” and he turned to go. + +But Pierre thought it necessary to ask: “How is...” and hesitated, +not knowing whether it would be proper to call the dying man “the +count,” yet ashamed to call him “father.” + +“He had another stroke about half an hour ago. Courage, my +friend...” + +Pierre’s mind was in such a confused state that the word “stroke” +suggested to him a blow from something. He looked at Prince Vasíli +in perplexity, and only later grasped that a stroke was an attack of +illness. Prince Vasíli said something to Lorrain in passing and went +through the door on tiptoe. He could not walk well on tiptoe and his +whole body jerked at each step. The eldest princess followed him, and +the priests and deacons and some servants also went in at the door. +Through that door was heard a noise of things being moved about, and +at last Anna Mikháylovna, still with the same expression, pale but +resolute in the discharge of duty, ran out and touching Pierre lightly +on the arm said: + +“The divine mercy is inexhaustible! Unction is about to be +administered. Come.” + +Pierre went in at the door, stepping on the soft carpet, and noticed +that the strange lady, the aide-de-camp, and some of the servants, all +followed him in, as if there were now no further need for permission to +enter that room. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXIII + +Pierre well knew this large room divided by columns and an arch, its +walls hung round with Persian carpets. The part of the room behind the +columns, with a high silk-curtained mahogany bedstead on one side and +on the other an immense case containing icons, was brightly illuminated +with red light like a Russian church during evening service. Under +the gleaming icons stood a long invalid chair, and in that chair +on snowy-white smooth pillows, evidently freshly changed, Pierre +saw—covered to the waist by a bright green quilt—the familiar, +majestic figure of his father, Count Bezúkhov, with that gray mane of +hair above his broad forehead which reminded one of a lion, and the deep +characteristically noble wrinkles of his handsome, ruddy face. He lay +just under the icons; his large thick hands outside the quilt. Into the +right hand, which was lying palm downwards, a wax taper had been thrust +between forefinger and thumb, and an old servant, bending over from +behind the chair, held it in position. By the chair stood the priests, +their long hair falling over their magnificent glittering vestments, +with lighted tapers in their hands, slowly and solemnly conducting the +service. A little behind them stood the two younger princesses holding +handkerchiefs to their eyes, and just in front of them their eldest +sister, Catiche, with a vicious and determined look steadily fixed on +the icons, as though declaring to all that she could not answer for +herself should she glance round. Anna Mikháylovna, with a meek, +sorrowful, and all-forgiving expression on her face, stood by the door +near the strange lady. Prince Vasíli in front of the door, near the +invalid chair, a wax taper in his left hand, was leaning his left arm on +the carved back of a velvet chair he had turned round for the purpose, +and was crossing himself with his right hand, turning his eyes upward +each time he touched his forehead. His face wore a calm look of piety +and resignation to the will of God. “If you do not understand these +sentiments,” he seemed to be saying, “so much the worse for you!” + +Behind him stood the aide-de-camp, the doctors, and the menservants; +the men and women had separated as in church. All were silently crossing +themselves, and the reading of the church service, the subdued chanting +of deep bass voices, and in the intervals sighs and the shuffling of +feet were the only sounds that could be heard. Anna Mikháylovna, with +an air of importance that showed that she felt she quite knew what she +was about, went across the room to where Pierre was standing and gave +him a taper. He lit it and, distracted by observing those around him, +began crossing himself with the hand that held the taper. + +Sophie, the rosy, laughter-loving, youngest princess with the mole, +watched him. She smiled, hid her face in her handkerchief, and remained +with it hidden for awhile; then looking up and seeing Pierre she +again began to laugh. She evidently felt unable to look at him +without laughing, but could not resist looking at him: so to be out of +temptation she slipped quietly behind one of the columns. In the midst +of the service the voices of the priests suddenly ceased, they whispered +to one another, and the old servant who was holding the count’s hand +got up and said something to the ladies. Anna Mikháylovna stepped +forward and, stooping over the dying man, beckoned to Lorrain from +behind her back. The French doctor held no taper; he was leaning +against one of the columns in a respectful attitude implying that he, +a foreigner, in spite of all differences of faith, understood the full +importance of the rite now being performed and even approved of it. He +now approached the sick man with the noiseless step of one in full vigor +of life, with his delicate white fingers raised from the green quilt the +hand that was free, and turning sideways felt the pulse and reflected +a moment. The sick man was given something to drink, there was a +stir around him, then the people resumed their places and the service +continued. During this interval Pierre noticed that Prince Vasíli +left the chair on which he had been leaning, and—with an air +which intimated that he knew what he was about and if others did not +understand him it was so much the worse for them—did not go up to the +dying man, but passed by him, joined the eldest princess, and moved +with her to the side of the room where stood the high bedstead with its +silken hangings. On leaving the bed both Prince Vasíli and the princess +passed out by a back door, but returned to their places one after the +other before the service was concluded. Pierre paid no more attention +to this occurrence than to the rest of what went on, having made up his +mind once for all that what he saw happening around him that evening was +in some way essential. + +The chanting of the service ceased, and the voice of the priest was +heard respectfully congratulating the dying man on having received the +sacrament. The dying man lay as lifeless and immovable as before. Around +him everyone began to stir: steps were audible and whispers, among which +Anna Mikháylovna’s was the most distinct. + +Pierre heard her say: + +“Certainly he must be moved onto the bed; here it will be +impossible...” + +The sick man was so surrounded by doctors, princesses, and servants +that Pierre could no longer see the reddish-yellow face with its gray +mane—which, though he saw other faces as well, he had not lost sight +of for a single moment during the whole service. He judged by the +cautious movements of those who crowded round the invalid chair that +they had lifted the dying man and were moving him. + +“Catch hold of my arm or you’ll drop him!” he heard one of the +servants say in a frightened whisper. “Catch hold from underneath. +Here!” exclaimed different voices; and the heavy breathing of the +bearers and the shuffling of their feet grew more hurried, as if the +weight they were carrying were too much for them. + +As the bearers, among whom was Anna Mikháylovna, passed the young man +he caught a momentary glimpse between their heads and backs of the dying +man’s high, stout, uncovered chest and powerful shoulders, raised by +those who were holding him under the armpits, and of his gray, curly, +leonine head. This head, with its remarkably broad brow and cheekbones, +its handsome, sensual mouth, and its cold, majestic expression, was +not disfigured by the approach of death. It was the same as Pierre +remembered it three months before, when the count had sent him to +Petersburg. But now this head was swaying helplessly with the uneven +movements of the bearers, and the cold listless gaze fixed itself upon +nothing. + +After a few minutes’ bustle beside the high bedstead, those who had +carried the sick man dispersed. Anna Mikháylovna touched Pierre’s +hand and said, “Come.” Pierre went with her to the bed on which the +sick man had been laid in a stately pose in keeping with the ceremony +just completed. He lay with his head propped high on the pillows. His +hands were symmetrically placed on the green silk quilt, the palms +downward. When Pierre came up the count was gazing straight at him, but +with a look the significance of which could not be understood by mortal +man. Either this look meant nothing but that as long as one has eyes +they must look somewhere, or it meant too much. Pierre hesitated, +not knowing what to do, and glanced inquiringly at his guide. Anna +Mikháylovna made a hurried sign with her eyes, glancing at the sick +man’s hand and moving her lips as if to send it a kiss. Pierre, +carefully stretching his neck so as not to touch the quilt, followed her +suggestion and pressed his lips to the large boned, fleshy hand. Neither +the hand nor a single muscle of the count’s face stirred. Once more +Pierre looked questioningly at Anna Mikháylovna to see what he was to +do next. Anna Mikháylovna with her eyes indicated a chair that stood +beside the bed. Pierre obediently sat down, his eyes asking if he were +doing right. Anna Mikháylovna nodded approvingly. Again Pierre fell +into the naïvely symmetrical pose of an Egyptian statue, evidently +distressed that his stout and clumsy body took up so much room and doing +his utmost to look as small as possible. He looked at the count, who +still gazed at the spot where Pierre’s face had been before he sat +down. Anna Mikháylovna indicated by her attitude her consciousness of +the pathetic importance of these last moments of meeting between the +father and son. This lasted about two minutes, which to Pierre seemed an +hour. Suddenly the broad muscles and lines of the count’s face began +to twitch. The twitching increased, the handsome mouth was drawn to one +side (only now did Pierre realize how near death his father was), and +from that distorted mouth issued an indistinct, hoarse sound. Anna +Mikháylovna looked attentively at the sick man’s eyes, trying to +guess what he wanted; she pointed first to Pierre, then to some drink, +then named Prince Vasíli in an inquiring whisper, then pointed to the +quilt. The eyes and face of the sick man showed impatience. He made an +effort to look at the servant who stood constantly at the head of the +bed. + +“Wants to turn on the other side,” whispered the servant, and got up +to turn the count’s heavy body toward the wall. + +Pierre rose to help him. + +While the count was being turned over, one of his arms fell back +helplessly and he made a fruitless effort to pull it forward. Whether he +noticed the look of terror with which Pierre regarded that lifeless arm, +or whether some other thought flitted across his dying brain, at any +rate he glanced at the refractory arm, at Pierre’s terror-stricken +face, and again at the arm, and on his face a feeble, piteous smile +appeared, quite out of keeping with his features, that seemed to deride +his own helplessness. At sight of this smile Pierre felt an unexpected +quivering in his breast and a tickling in his nose, and tears dimmed his +eyes. The sick man was turned on to his side with his face to the wall. +He sighed. + +“He is dozing,” said Anna Mikháylovna, observing that one of the +princesses was coming to take her turn at watching. “Let us go.” + +Pierre went out. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXIV + +There was now no one in the reception room except Prince Vasíli and the +eldest princess, who were sitting under the portrait of Catherine the +Great and talking eagerly. As soon as they saw Pierre and his companion +they became silent, and Pierre thought he saw the princess hide +something as she whispered: + +“I can’t bear the sight of that woman.” + +“Catiche has had tea served in the small drawing room,” said Prince +Vasíli to Anna Mikháylovna. “Go and take something, my poor Anna +Mikháylovna, or you will not hold out.” + +To Pierre he said nothing, merely giving his arm a sympathetic squeeze +below the shoulder. Pierre went with Anna Mikháylovna into the small +drawing room. + +“There is nothing so refreshing after a sleepless night as a cup +of this delicious Russian tea,” Lorrain was saying with an air of +restrained animation as he stood sipping tea from a delicate Chinese +handleless cup before a table on which tea and a cold supper were laid +in the small circular room. Around the table all who were at Count +Bezúkhov’s house that night had gathered to fortify themselves. +Pierre well remembered this small circular drawing room with its mirrors +and little tables. During balls given at the house Pierre, who did not +know how to dance, had liked sitting in this room to watch the ladies +who, as they passed through in their ball dresses with diamonds and +pearls on their bare shoulders, looked at themselves in the brilliantly +lighted mirrors which repeated their reflections several times. Now +this same room was dimly lighted by two candles. On one small table tea +things and supper dishes stood in disorder, and in the middle of the +night a motley throng of people sat there, not merrymaking, but somberly +whispering, and betraying by every word and movement that they none +of them forgot what was happening and what was about to happen in the +bedroom. Pierre did not eat anything though he would very much have +liked to. He looked inquiringly at his monitress and saw that she was +again going on tiptoe to the reception room where they had left Prince +Vasíli and the eldest princess. Pierre concluded that this also was +essential, and after a short interval followed her. Anna Mikháylovna +was standing beside the princess, and they were both speaking in excited +whispers. + +“Permit me, Princess, to know what is necessary and what is not +necessary,” said the younger of the two speakers, evidently in the +same state of excitement as when she had slammed the door of her room. + +“But, my dear princess,” answered Anna Mikháylovna blandly but +impressively, blocking the way to the bedroom and preventing the other +from passing, “won’t this be too much for poor Uncle at a moment +when he needs repose? Worldly conversation at a moment when his soul is +already prepared...” + +Prince Vasíli was seated in an easy chair in his familiar attitude, +with one leg crossed high above the other. His cheeks, which were so +flabby that they looked heavier below, were twitching violently; but +he wore the air of a man little concerned in what the two ladies were +saying. + +“Come, my dear Anna Mikháylovna, let Catiche do as she pleases. You +know how fond the count is of her.” + +“I don’t even know what is in this paper,” said the younger of +the two ladies, addressing Prince Vasíli and pointing to an inlaid +portfolio she held in her hand. “All I know is that his real will is +in his writing table, and this is a paper he has forgotten....” + +She tried to pass Anna Mikháylovna, but the latter sprang so as to bar +her path. + +“I know, my dear, kind princess,” said Anna Mikháylovna, seizing +the portfolio so firmly that it was plain she would not let go easily. +“Dear princess, I beg and implore you, have some pity on him! Je vous +en conjure...” + +The princess did not reply. Their efforts in the struggle for the +portfolio were the only sounds audible, but it was evident that if +the princess did speak, her words would not be flattering to Anna +Mikháylovna. Though the latter held on tenaciously, her voice lost none +of its honeyed firmness and softness. + +“Pierre, my dear, come here. I think he will not be out of place in a +family consultation; is it not so, Prince?” + +“Why don’t you speak, cousin?” suddenly shrieked the princess so +loud that those in the drawing room heard her and were startled. “Why +do you remain silent when heaven knows who permits herself to +interfere, making a scene on the very threshold of a dying man’s room? +Intriguer!” she hissed viciously, and tugged with all her might at the +portfolio. + +But Anna Mikháylovna went forward a step or two to keep her hold on the +portfolio, and changed her grip. + +Prince Vasíli rose. “Oh!” said he with reproach and surprise, +“this is absurd! Come, let go I tell you.” + +The princess let go. + +“And you too!” + +But Anna Mikháylovna did not obey him. + +“Let go, I tell you! I will take the responsibility. I myself will go +and ask him, I!... does that satisfy you?” + +“But, Prince,” said Anna Mikháylovna, “after such a solemn +sacrament, allow him a moment’s peace! Here, Pierre, tell them your +opinion,” said she, turning to the young man who, having come quite +close, was gazing with astonishment at the angry face of the princess +which had lost all dignity, and at the twitching cheeks of Prince +Vasíli. + +“Remember that you will answer for the consequences,” said Prince +Vasíli severely. “You don’t know what you are doing.” + +“Vile woman!” shouted the princess, darting unexpectedly at Anna +Mikháylovna and snatching the portfolio from her. + +Prince Vasíli bent his head and spread out his hands. + +At this moment that terrible door, which Pierre had watched so long +and which had always opened so quietly, burst noisily open and banged +against the wall, and the second of the three sisters rushed out +wringing her hands. + +“What are you doing!” she cried vehemently. “He is dying and you +leave me alone with him!” + +Her sister dropped the portfolio. Anna Mikháylovna, stooping, quickly +caught up the object of contention and ran into the bedroom. The eldest +princess and Prince Vasíli, recovering themselves, followed her. A few +minutes later the eldest sister came out with a pale hard face, again +biting her underlip. At sight of Pierre her expression showed an +irrepressible hatred. + +“Yes, now you may be glad!” said she; “this is what you have +been waiting for.” And bursting into tears she hid her face in her +handkerchief and rushed from the room. + +Prince Vasíli came next. He staggered to the sofa on which Pierre was +sitting and dropped onto it, covering his face with his hand. Pierre +noticed that he was pale and that his jaw quivered and shook as if in an +ague. + +“Ah, my friend!” said he, taking Pierre by the elbow; and there was +in his voice a sincerity and weakness Pierre had never observed in it +before. “How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? I am +near sixty, dear friend... I too... All will end in death, all! Death is +awful...” and he burst into tears. + +Anna Mikháylovna came out last. She approached Pierre with slow, quiet +steps. + +“Pierre!” she said. + +Pierre gave her an inquiring look. She kissed the young man on his +forehead, wetting him with her tears. Then after a pause she said: + +“He is no more....” + +Pierre looked at her over his spectacles. + +“Come, I will go with you. Try to weep, nothing gives such relief as +tears.” + +She led him into the dark drawing room and Pierre was glad no one could +see his face. Anna Mikháylovna left him, and when she returned he was +fast asleep with his head on his arm. + +In the morning Anna Mikháylovna said to Pierre: + +“Yes, my dear, this is a great loss for us all, not to speak of you. +But God will support you: you are young, and are now, I hope, in command +of an immense fortune. The will has not yet been opened. I know you +well enough to be sure that this will not turn your head, but it imposes +duties on you, and you must be a man.” + +Pierre was silent. + +“Perhaps later on I may tell you, my dear boy, that if I had not been +there, God only knows what would have happened! You know, Uncle promised +me only the day before yesterday not to forget Borís. But he had +no time. I hope, my dear friend, you will carry out your father’s +wish?” + +Pierre understood nothing of all this and coloring shyly looked in +silence at Princess Anna Mikháylovna. After her talk with Pierre, Anna +Mikháylovna returned to the Rostóvs’ and went to bed. On waking in +the morning she told the Rostóvs and all her acquaintances the details +of Count Bezúkhov’s death. She said the count had died as she would +herself wish to die, that his end was not only touching but edifying. As +to the last meeting between father and son, it was so touching that she +could not think of it without tears, and did not know which had behaved +better during those awful moments—the father who so remembered +everything and everybody at last and had spoken such pathetic words to +the son, or Pierre, whom it had been pitiful to see, so stricken was he +with grief, though he tried hard to hide it in order not to sadden his +dying father. “It is painful, but it does one good. It uplifts the +soul to see such men as the old count and his worthy son,” said she. +Of the behavior of the eldest princess and Prince Vasíli she spoke +disapprovingly, but in whispers and as a great secret. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXV + +At Bald Hills, Prince Nicholas Andréevich Bolkónski’s estate, the +arrival of young Prince Andrew and his wife was daily expected, but +this expectation did not upset the regular routine of life in the old +prince’s household. General in Chief Prince Nicholas Andréevich +(nicknamed in society, “the King of Prussia”) ever since the Emperor +Paul had exiled him to his country estate had lived there continuously +with his daughter, Princess Mary, and her companion, Mademoiselle +Bourienne. Though in the new reign he was free to return to the +capitals, he still continued to live in the country, remarking that +anyone who wanted to see him could come the hundred miles from Moscow to +Bald Hills, while he himself needed no one and nothing. He used to +say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and +superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence. He +himself undertook his daughter’s education, and to develop these two +cardinal virtues in her gave her lessons in algebra and geometry +till she was twenty, and arranged her life so that her whole time was +occupied. He was himself always occupied: writing his memoirs, solving +problems in higher mathematics, turning snuffboxes on a lathe, working +in the garden, or superintending the building that was always going on +at his estate. As regularity is a prime condition facilitating activity, +regularity in his household was carried to the highest point of +exactitude. He always came to table under precisely the same conditions, +and not only at the same hour but at the same minute. With those about +him, from his daughter to his serfs, the prince was sharp and invariably +exacting, so that without being a hardhearted man he inspired such fear +and respect as few hardhearted men would have aroused. Although he was +in retirement and had now no influence in political affairs, every high +official appointed to the province in which the prince’s estate lay +considered it his duty to visit him and waited in the lofty antechamber +just as the architect, gardener, or Princess Mary did, till the prince +appeared punctually to the appointed hour. Everyone sitting in this +antechamber experienced the same feeling of respect and even fear when +the enormously high study door opened and showed the figure of a rather +small old man, with powdered wig, small withered hands, and bushy gray +eyebrows which, when he frowned, sometimes hid the gleam of his shrewd, +youthfully glittering eyes. + +On the morning of the day that the young couple were to arrive, Princess +Mary entered the antechamber as usual at the time appointed for the +morning greeting, crossing herself with trepidation and repeating a +silent prayer. Every morning she came in like that, and every morning +prayed that the daily interview might pass off well. + +An old powdered manservant who was sitting in the antechamber rose +quietly and said in a whisper: “Please walk in.” + +Through the door came the regular hum of a lathe. The princess timidly +opened the door which moved noiselessly and easily. She paused at the +entrance. The prince was working at the lathe and after glancing round +continued his work. + +The enormous study was full of things evidently in constant use. +The large table covered with books and plans, the tall glass-fronted +bookcases with keys in the locks, the high desk for writing while +standing up, on which lay an open exercise book, and the lathe with +tools laid ready to hand and shavings scattered around—all indicated +continuous, varied, and orderly activity. The motion of the small foot +shod in a Tartar boot embroidered with silver, and the firm pressure +of the lean sinewy hand, showed that the prince still possessed the +tenacious endurance and vigor of hardy old age. After a few more turns +of the lathe he removed his foot from the pedal, wiped his chisel, +dropped it into a leather pouch attached to the lathe, and, approaching +the table, summoned his daughter. He never gave his children a blessing, +so he simply held out his bristly cheek (as yet unshaven) and, regarding +her tenderly and attentively, said severely: + +“Quite well? All right then, sit down.” He took the exercise book +containing lessons in geometry written by himself and drew up a chair +with his foot. + +“For tomorrow!” said he, quickly finding the page and making a +scratch from one paragraph to another with his hard nail. + +The princess bent over the exercise book on the table. + +“Wait a bit, here’s a letter for you,” said the old man suddenly, +taking a letter addressed in a woman’s hand from a bag hanging above +the table, onto which he threw it. + +At the sight of the letter red patches showed themselves on the +princess’ face. She took it quickly and bent her head over it. + +“From Héloïse?” asked the prince with a cold smile that showed his +still sound, yellowish teeth. + +“Yes, it’s from Julie,” replied the princess with a timid glance +and a timid smile. + +“I’ll let two more letters pass, but the third I’ll read,” said +the prince sternly; “I’m afraid you write much nonsense. I’ll read +the third!” + +“Read this if you like, Father,” said the princess, blushing still +more and holding out the letter. + +“The third, I said the third!” cried the prince abruptly, pushing +the letter away, and leaning his elbows on the table he drew toward him +the exercise book containing geometrical figures. + +“Well, madam,” he began, stooping over the book close to his +daughter and placing an arm on the back of the chair on which she sat, +so that she felt herself surrounded on all sides by the acrid scent of +old age and tobacco, which she had known so long. “Now, madam, these +triangles are equal; please note that the angle ABC...” + +The princess looked in a scared way at her father’s eyes glittering +close to her; the red patches on her face came and went, and it was +plain that she understood nothing and was so frightened that her +fear would prevent her understanding any of her father’s further +explanations, however clear they might be. Whether it was the +teacher’s fault or the pupil’s, this same thing happened every day: +the princess’ eyes grew dim, she could not see and could not hear +anything, but was only conscious of her stern father’s withered face +close to her, of his breath and the smell of him, and could think only +of how to get away quickly to her own room to make out the problem in +peace. The old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was +sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself +and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, +and sometimes flung the exercise book away. + +The princess gave a wrong answer. + +“Well now, isn’t she a fool!” shouted the prince, pushing the book +aside and turning sharply away; but rising immediately, he paced up and +down, lightly touched his daughter’s hair and sat down again. + +He drew up his chair, and continued to explain. + +“This won’t do, Princess; it won’t do,” said he, when Princess +Mary, having taken and closed the exercise book with the next day’s +lesson, was about to leave: “Mathematics are most important, madam! +I don’t want to have you like our silly ladies. Get used to it and +you’ll like it,” and he patted her cheek. “It will drive all the +nonsense out of your head.” + +She turned to go, but he stopped her with a gesture and took an uncut +book from the high desk. + +“Here is some sort of Key to the Mysteries that your Héloïse has +sent you. Religious! I don’t interfere with anyone’s belief... I +have looked at it. Take it. Well, now go. Go.” + +He patted her on the shoulder and himself closed the door after her. + +Princess Mary went back to her room with the sad, scared expression that +rarely left her and which made her plain, sickly face yet plainer. She +sat down at her writing table, on which stood miniature portraits and +which was littered with books and papers. The princess was as untidy as +her father was tidy. She put down the geometry book and eagerly broke +the seal of her letter. It was from her most intimate friend from +childhood; that same Julie Karágina who had been at the Rostóvs’ +name-day party. + +Julie wrote in French: + +Dear and precious Friend, How terrible and frightful a thing is +separation! Though I tell myself that half my life and half my happiness +are wrapped up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us +our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against +fate and in spite of the pleasures and distractions around me I cannot +overcome a certain secret sorrow that has been in my heart ever since +we parted. Why are we not together as we were last summer, in your big +study, on the blue sofa, the confidential sofa? Why cannot I now, as +three months ago, draw fresh moral strength from your look, so gentle, +calm, and penetrating, a look I loved so well and seem to see before me +as I write? + +Having read thus far, Princess Mary sighed and glanced into the mirror +which stood on her right. It reflected a weak, ungraceful figure and +thin face. Her eyes, always sad, now looked with particular hopelessness +at her reflection in the glass. “She flatters me,” thought the +princess, turning away and continuing to read. But Julie did not flatter +her friend, the princess’ eyes—large, deep and luminous (it seemed +as if at times there radiated from them shafts of warm light)—were +so beautiful that very often in spite of the plainness of her face +they gave her an attraction more powerful than that of beauty. But the +princess never saw the beautiful expression of her own eyes—the look +they had when she was not thinking of herself. As with everyone, her +face assumed a forced unnatural expression as soon as she looked in a +glass. She went on reading: + +All Moscow talks of nothing but war. One of my two brothers is already +abroad, the other is with the Guards, who are starting on their march +to the frontier. Our dear Emperor has left Petersburg and it is thought +intends to expose his precious person to the chances of war. God grant +that the Corsican monster who is destroying the peace of Europe may +be overthrown by the angel whom it has pleased the Almighty, in His +goodness, to give us as sovereign! To say nothing of my brothers, this +war has deprived me of one of the associations nearest my heart. I mean +young Nicholas Rostóv, who with his enthusiasm could not bear to remain +inactive and has left the university to join the army. I will confess to +you, dear Mary, that in spite of his extreme youth his departure for +the army was a great grief to me. This young man, of whom I spoke to you +last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which +one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, +he is so frank and has so much heart. He is so pure and poetic that +my relations with him, transient as they were, have been one of the +sweetest comforts to my poor heart, which has already suffered so much. +Someday I will tell you about our parting and all that was said then. +That is still too fresh. Ah, dear friend, you are happy not to know +these poignant joys and sorrows. You are fortunate, for the latter are +generally the stronger! I know very well that Count Nicholas is too +young ever to be more to me than a friend, but this sweet friendship, +this poetic and pure intimacy, were what my heart needed. But enough of +this! The chief news, about which all Moscow gossips, is the death of +old Count Bezúkhov, and his inheritance. Fancy! The three princesses +have received very little, Prince Vasíli nothing, and it is Monsieur +Pierre who has inherited all the property and has besides been +recognized as legitimate; so that he is now Count Bezúkhov and +possessor of the finest fortune in Russia. It is rumored that Prince +Vasíli played a very despicable part in this affair and that he +returned to Petersburg quite crestfallen. + +I confess I understand very little about all these matters of wills and +inheritance; but I do know that since this young man, whom we all used +to know as plain Monsieur Pierre, has become Count Bezúkhov and the +owner of one of the largest fortunes in Russia, I am much amused to +watch the change in the tone and manners of the mammas burdened by +marriageable daughters, and of the young ladies themselves, toward +him, though, between you and me, he always seemed to me a poor sort +of fellow. As for the past two years people have amused themselves +by finding husbands for me (most of whom I don’t even know), the +matchmaking chronicles of Moscow now speak of me as the future Countess +Bezúkhova. But you will understand that I have no desire for the post. +À propos of marriages: do you know that a while ago that universal +auntie Anna Mikháylovna told me, under the seal of strict secrecy, of +a plan of marriage for you. It is neither more nor less than with Prince +Vasíli’s son Anatole, whom they wish to reform by marrying him to +someone rich and distinguée, and it is on you that his relations’ +choice has fallen. I don’t know what you will think of it, but +I consider it my duty to let you know of it. He is said to be very +handsome and a terrible scapegrace. That is all I have been able to find +out about him. + +But enough of gossip. I am at the end of my second sheet of paper, and +Mamma has sent for me to go and dine at the Apráksins’. Read the +mystical book I am sending you; it has an enormous success here. Though +there are things in it difficult for the feeble human mind to grasp, it +is an admirable book which calms and elevates the soul. Adieu! Give +my respects to monsieur your father and my compliments to Mademoiselle +Bourienne. I embrace you as I love you. + +JULIE + +P.S. Let me have news of your brother and his charming little wife. + +The princess pondered awhile with a thoughtful smile and her luminous +eyes lit up so that her face was entirely transformed. Then she suddenly +rose and with her heavy tread went up to the table. She took a sheet of +paper and her hand moved rapidly over it. This is the reply she wrote, +also in French: + +Dear and precious Friend, Your letter of the 13th has given me great +delight. So you still love me, my romantic Julie? Separation, of which +you say so much that is bad, does not seem to have had its usual effect +on you. You complain of our separation. What then should I say, if I +dared complain, I who am deprived of all who are dear to me? Ah, if +we had not religion to console us life would be very sad. Why do you +suppose that I should look severely on your affection for that young +man? On such matters I am only severe with myself. I understand such +feelings in others, and if never having felt them I cannot approve of +them, neither do I condemn them. Only it seems to me that Christian +love, love of one’s neighbor, love of one’s enemy, is worthier, +sweeter, and better than the feelings which the beautiful eyes of a +young man can inspire in a romantic and loving young girl like yourself. + +The news of Count Bezúkhov’s death reached us before your letter +and my father was much affected by it. He says the count was the last +representative but one of the great century, and that it is his own +turn now, but that he will do all he can to let his turn come as late as +possible. God preserve us from that terrible misfortune! + +I cannot agree with you about Pierre, whom I knew as a child. He always +seemed to me to have an excellent heart, and that is the quality I value +most in people. As to his inheritance and the part played by Prince +Vasíli, it is very sad for both. Ah, my dear friend, our divine +Saviour’s words, that it is easier for a camel to go through the +eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God, are +terribly true. I pity Prince Vasíli but am still more sorry for Pierre. +So young, and burdened with such riches—to what temptations he will be +exposed! If I were asked what I desire most on earth, it would be to be +poorer than the poorest beggar. A thousand thanks, dear friend, for the +volume you have sent me and which has such success in Moscow. Yet since +you tell me that among some good things it contains others which our +weak human understanding cannot grasp, it seems to me rather useless to +spend time in reading what is unintelligible and can therefore bear +no fruit. I never could understand the fondness some people have for +confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken +their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for +exaggeration quite contrary to Christian simplicity. Let us rather read +the Epistles and Gospels. Let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries +they contain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, know the +terrible and holy secrets of Providence while we remain in this flesh +which forms an impenetrable veil between us and the Eternal? Let us +rather confine ourselves to studying those sublime rules which our +divine Saviour has left for our guidance here below. Let us try to +conform to them and follow them, and let us be persuaded that the less +we let our feeble human minds roam, the better we shall please God, who +rejects all knowledge that does not come from Him; and the less we seek +to fathom what He has been pleased to conceal from us, the sooner will +He vouchsafe its revelation to us through His divine Spirit. + +My father has not spoken to me of a suitor, but has only told me that he +has received a letter and is expecting a visit from Prince Vasíli. In +regard to this project of marriage for me, I will tell you, dear sweet +friend, that I look on marriage as a divine institution to which we must +conform. However painful it may be to me, should the Almighty lay +the duties of wife and mother upon me I shall try to perform them as +faithfully as I can, without disquieting myself by examining my feelings +toward him whom He may give me for husband. + +I have had a letter from my brother, who announces his speedy arrival +at Bald Hills with his wife. This pleasure will be but a brief one, +however, for he will leave us again to take part in this unhappy war +into which we have been drawn, God knows how or why. Not only where you +are—at the heart of affairs and of the world—is the talk all of +war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature—which townsfolk +consider characteristic of the country—rumors of war are heard +and painfully felt. My father talks of nothing but marches and +countermarches, things of which I understand nothing; and the day +before yesterday during my daily walk through the village I witnessed a +heartrending scene.... It was a convoy of conscripts enrolled from our +people and starting to join the army. You should have seen the state of +the mothers, wives, and children of the men who were going and should +have heard the sobs. It seems as though mankind has forgotten the +laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of +injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing +one another. + +Adieu, dear and kind friend; may our divine Saviour and His most Holy +Mother keep you in their holy and all-powerful care! + +MARY + +“Ah, you are sending off a letter, Princess? I have already dispatched +mine. I have written to my poor mother,” said the smiling Mademoiselle +Bourienne rapidly, in her pleasant mellow tones and with guttural r’s. +She brought into Princess Mary’s strenuous, mournful, and gloomy +world a quite different atmosphere, careless, lighthearted, and +self-satisfied. + +“Princess, I must warn you,” she added, lowering her voice and +evidently listening to herself with pleasure, and speaking with +exaggerated grasseyement, “the prince has been scolding Michael +Ivánovich. He is in a very bad humor, very morose. Be prepared.” + +“Ah, dear friend,” replied Princess Mary, “I have asked you never +to warn me of the humor my father is in. I do not allow myself to judge +him and would not have others do so.” + +The princess glanced at her watch and, seeing that she was five minutes +late in starting her practice on the clavichord, went into the sitting +room with a look of alarm. Between twelve and two o’clock, as the +day was mapped out, the prince rested and the princess played the +clavichord. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXVI + +The gray-haired valet was sitting drowsily listening to the snoring of +the prince, who was in his large study. From the far side of the house +through the closed doors came the sound of difficult passages—twenty +times repeated—of a sonata by Dussek. + +Just then a closed carriage and another with a hood drove up to the +porch. Prince Andrew got out of the carriage, helped his little wife to +alight, and let her pass into the house before him. Old Tíkhon, wearing +a wig, put his head out of the door of the antechamber, reported in +a whisper that the prince was sleeping, and hastily closed the door. +Tíkhon knew that neither the son’s arrival nor any other unusual +event must be allowed to disturb the appointed order of the day. Prince +Andrew apparently knew this as well as Tíkhon; he looked at his watch +as if to ascertain whether his father’s habits had changed since he +was at home last, and, having assured himself that they had not, he +turned to his wife. + +“He will get up in twenty minutes. Let us go across to Mary’s +room,” he said. + +The little princess had grown stouter during this time, but her eyes +and her short, downy, smiling lip lifted when she began to speak just as +merrily and prettily as ever. + +“Why, this is a palace!” she said to her husband, looking around +with the expression with which people compliment their host at a ball. +“Let’s come, quick, quick!” And with a glance round, she smiled at +Tíkhon, at her husband, and at the footman who accompanied them. + +“Is that Mary practicing? Let’s go quietly and take her by +surprise.” + +Prince Andrew followed her with a courteous but sad expression. + +“You’ve grown older, Tíkhon,” he said in passing to the old man, +who kissed his hand. + +Before they reached the room from which the sounds of the clavichord +came, the pretty, fair-haired Frenchwoman, Mademoiselle Bourienne, +rushed out apparently beside herself with delight. + +“Ah! what joy for the princess!” exclaimed she: “At last! I must +let her know.” + +“No, no, please not... You are Mademoiselle Bourienne,” said +the little princess, kissing her. “I know you already through my +sister-in-law’s friendship for you. She was not expecting us?” + +They went up to the door of the sitting room from which came the sound +of the oft-repeated passage of the sonata. Prince Andrew stopped and +made a grimace, as if expecting something unpleasant. + +The little princess entered the room. The passage broke off in the +middle, a cry was heard, then Princess Mary’s heavy tread and the +sound of kissing. When Prince Andrew went in the two princesses, who +had only met once before for a short time at his wedding, were in +each other’s arms warmly pressing their lips to whatever place they +happened to touch. Mademoiselle Bourienne stood near them pressing her +hand to her heart, with a beatific smile and obviously equally ready to +cry or to laugh. Prince Andrew shrugged his shoulders and frowned, as +lovers of music do when they hear a false note. The two women let go +of one another, and then, as if afraid of being too late, seized each +other’s hands, kissing them and pulling them away, and again began +kissing each other on the face, and then to Prince Andrew’s surprise +both began to cry and kissed again. Mademoiselle Bourienne also began to +cry. Prince Andrew evidently felt ill at ease, but to the two women +it seemed quite natural that they should cry, and apparently it never +entered their heads that it could have been otherwise at this meeting. + +“Ah! my dear!... Ah! Mary!...” they suddenly exclaimed, and then +laughed. “I dreamed last night...”—“You were not expecting +us?...” “Ah! Mary, you have got thinner?...” “And you have grown +stouter!...” + +“I knew the princess at once,” put in Mademoiselle Bourienne. + +“And I had no idea!...” exclaimed Princess Mary. “Ah, Andrew, I +did not see you.” + +Prince Andrew and his sister, hand in hand, kissed one another, and +he told her she was still the same crybaby as ever. Princess Mary had +turned toward her brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, +gentle look of her large luminous eyes, very beautiful at that moment, +rested on Prince Andrew’s face. + +The little princess talked incessantly, her short, downy upper lip +continually and rapidly touching her rosy nether lip when necessary +and drawing up again next moment when her face broke into a smile of +glittering teeth and sparkling eyes. She told of an accident they had +had on the Spásski Hill which might have been serious for her in her +condition, and immediately after that informed them that she had left +all her clothes in Petersburg and that heaven knew what she would have +to dress in here; and that Andrew had quite changed, and that Kitty +Odýntsova had married an old man, and that there was a suitor for Mary, +a real one, but that they would talk of that later. Princess Mary was +still looking silently at her brother and her beautiful eyes were full +of love and sadness. It was plain that she was following a train of +thought independent of her sister-in-law’s words. In the midst of a +description of the last Petersburg fete she addressed her brother: + +“So you are really going to the war, Andrew?” she said sighing. + +Lise sighed too. + +“Yes, and even tomorrow,” replied her brother. + +“He is leaving me here, God knows why, when he might have had +promotion...” + +Princess Mary did not listen to the end, but continuing her train of +thought turned to her sister-in-law with a tender glance at her figure. + +“Is it certain?” she said. + +The face of the little princess changed. She sighed and said: “Yes, +quite certain. Ah! it is very dreadful...” + +Her lip descended. She brought her face close to her sister-in-law’s +and unexpectedly again began to cry. + +“She needs rest,” said Prince Andrew with a frown. “Don’t you, +Lise? Take her to your room and I’ll go to Father. How is he? Just the +same?” + +“Yes, just the same. Though I don’t know what your opinion will +be,” answered the princess joyfully. + +“And are the hours the same? And the walks in the avenues? And the +lathe?” asked Prince Andrew with a scarcely perceptible smile which +showed that, in spite of all his love and respect for his father, he was +aware of his weaknesses. + +“The hours are the same, and the lathe, and also the mathematics and +my geometry lessons,” said Princess Mary gleefully, as if her lessons +in geometry were among the greatest delights of her life. + +When the twenty minutes had elapsed and the time had come for the old +prince to get up, Tíkhon came to call the young prince to his father. +The old man made a departure from his usual routine in honor of his +son’s arrival: he gave orders to admit him to his apartments while +he dressed for dinner. The old prince always dressed in old-fashioned +style, wearing an antique coat and powdered hair; and when Prince Andrew +entered his father’s dressing room (not with the contemptuous look and +manner he wore in drawing rooms, but with the animated face with which +he talked to Pierre), the old man was sitting on a large leather-covered +chair, wrapped in a powdering mantle, entrusting his head to Tíkhon. + +“Ah! here’s the warrior! Wants to vanquish Buonaparte?” said the +old man, shaking his powdered head as much as the tail, which Tíkhon +was holding fast to plait, would allow. + +“You at least must tackle him properly, or else if he goes on like +this he’ll soon have us, too, for his subjects! How are you?” And he +held out his cheek. + +The old man was in a good temper after his nap before dinner. (He +used to say that a nap “after dinner was silver—before dinner, +golden.”) He cast happy, sidelong glances at his son from under his +thick, bushy eyebrows. Prince Andrew went up and kissed his father on +the spot indicated to him. He made no reply on his father’s favorite +topic—making fun of the military men of the day, and more particularly +of Bonaparte. + +“Yes, Father, I have come to you and brought my wife who is +pregnant,” said Prince Andrew, following every movement of his +father’s face with an eager and respectful look. “How is your +health?” + +“Only fools and rakes fall ill, my boy. You know me: I am busy from +morning till night and abstemious, so of course I am well.” + +“Thank God,” said his son smiling. + +“God has nothing to do with it! Well, go on,” he continued, +returning to his hobby; “tell me how the Germans have taught you to +fight Bonaparte by this new science you call ‘strategy.’” + +Prince Andrew smiled. + +“Give me time to collect my wits, Father,” said he, with a smile +that showed that his father’s foibles did not prevent his son from +loving and honoring him. “Why, I have not yet had time to settle +down!” + +“Nonsense, nonsense!” cried the old man, shaking his pigtail to +see whether it was firmly plaited, and grasping his by the hand. “The +house for your wife is ready. Princess Mary will take her there and +show her over, and they’ll talk nineteen to the dozen. That’s +their woman’s way! I am glad to have her. Sit down and talk. About +Mikhelson’s army I understand—Tolstóy ‘s too... a simultaneous +expedition.... But what’s the southern army to do? Prussia is +neutral... I know that. What about Austria?” said he, rising from his +chair and pacing up and down the room followed by Tíkhon, who ran after +him, handing him different articles of clothing. “What of Sweden? How +will they cross Pomerania?” + +Prince Andrew, seeing that his father insisted, began—at first +reluctantly, but gradually with more and more animation, and from habit +changing unconsciously from Russian to French as he went on—to explain +the plan of operation for the coming campaign. He explained how an army, +ninety thousand strong, was to threaten Prussia so as to bring her out +of her neutrality and draw her into the war; how part of that army was +to join some Swedish forces at Stralsund; how two hundred and twenty +thousand Austrians, with a hundred thousand Russians, were to operate in +Italy and on the Rhine; how fifty thousand Russians and as many English +were to land at Naples, and how a total force of five hundred thousand +men was to attack the French from different sides. The old prince did +not evince the least interest during this explanation, but as if he were +not listening to it continued to dress while walking about, and three +times unexpectedly interrupted. Once he stopped it by shouting: “The +white one, the white one!” + +This meant that Tíkhon was not handing him the waistcoat he wanted. +Another time he interrupted, saying: + +“And will she soon be confined?” and shaking his head reproachfully +said: “That’s bad! Go on, go on.” + +The third interruption came when Prince Andrew was finishing his +description. The old man began to sing, in the cracked voice of old age: +“Malbrook s’en va-t-en guerre. Dieu sait quand reviendra.” * + + * “Marlborough is going to the wars; God knows when he’ll + return.” + + +His son only smiled. + +“I don’t say it’s a plan I approve of,” said the son; “I am +only telling you what it is. Napoleon has also formed his plan by now, +not worse than this one.” + +“Well, you’ve told me nothing new,” and the old man repeated, +meditatively and rapidly: + +“Dieu sait quand reviendra. Go to the dining room.” + + + + + +CHAPTER XXVII + +At the appointed hour the prince, powdered and shaven, entered the +dining room where his daughter-in-law, Princess Mary, and Mademoiselle +Bourienne were already awaiting him together with his architect, who by +a strange caprice of his employer’s was admitted to table though the +position of that insignificant individual was such as could certainly +not have caused him to expect that honor. The prince, who generally kept +very strictly to social distinctions and rarely admitted even important +government officials to his table, had unexpectedly selected Michael +Ivánovich (who always went into a corner to blow his nose on his +checked handkerchief) to illustrate the theory that all men are equals, +and had more than once impressed on his daughter that Michael Ivánovich +was “not a whit worse than you or I.” At dinner the prince usually +spoke to the taciturn Michael Ivánovich more often than to anyone else. + +In the dining room, which like all the rooms in the house was +exceedingly lofty, the members of the household and the footmen—one +behind each chair—stood waiting for the prince to enter. The head +butler, napkin on arm, was scanning the setting of the table, making +signs to the footmen, and anxiously glancing from the clock to the door +by which the prince was to enter. Prince Andrew was looking at a large +gilt frame, new to him, containing the genealogical tree of the Princes +Bolkónski, opposite which hung another such frame with a badly painted +portrait (evidently by the hand of the artist belonging to the estate) +of a ruling prince, in a crown—an alleged descendant of Rúrik and +ancestor of the Bolkónskis. Prince Andrew, looking again at that +genealogical tree, shook his head, laughing as a man laughs who looks at +a portrait so characteristic of the original as to be amusing. + +“How thoroughly like him that is!” he said to Princess Mary, who had +come up to him. + +Princess Mary looked at her brother in surprise. She did not understand +what he was laughing at. Everything her father did inspired her with +reverence and was beyond question. + +“Everyone has his Achilles’ heel,” continued Prince Andrew. +“Fancy, with his powerful mind, indulging in such nonsense!” + +Princess Mary could not understand the boldness of her brother’s +criticism and was about to reply, when the expected footsteps were heard +coming from the study. The prince walked in quickly and jauntily as was +his wont, as if intentionally contrasting the briskness of his manners +with the strict formality of his house. At that moment the great clock +struck two and another with a shrill tone joined in from the drawing +room. The prince stood still; his lively glittering eyes from under +their thick, bushy eyebrows sternly scanned all present and rested on +the little princess. She felt, as courtiers do when the Tsar enters, the +sensation of fear and respect which the old man inspired in all around +him. He stroked her hair and then patted her awkwardly on the back of +her neck. + +“I’m glad, glad, to see you,” he said, looking attentively into +her eyes, and then quickly went to his place and sat down. “Sit down, +sit down! Sit down, Michael Ivánovich!” + +He indicated a place beside him to his daughter-in-law. A footman moved +the chair for her. + +“Ho, ho!” said the old man, casting his eyes on her rounded figure. +“You’ve been in a hurry. That’s bad!” + +He laughed in his usual dry, cold, unpleasant way, with his lips only +and not with his eyes. + +“You must walk, walk as much as possible, as much as possible,” he +said. + +The little princess did not, or did not wish to, hear his words. She was +silent and seemed confused. The prince asked her about her father, and +she began to smile and talk. He asked about mutual acquaintances, and +she became still more animated and chattered away giving him greetings +from various people and retelling the town gossip. + +“Countess Apráksina, poor thing, has lost her husband and she has +cried her eyes out,” she said, growing more and more lively. + +As she became animated the prince looked at her more and more sternly, +and suddenly, as if he had studied her sufficiently and had formed a +definite idea of her, he turned away and addressed Michael Ivánovich. + +“Well, Michael Ivánovich, our Bonaparte will be having a bad time +of it. Prince Andrew” (he always spoke thus of his son) “has been +telling me what forces are being collected against him! While you and I +never thought much of him.” + +Michael Ivánovich did not at all know when “you and I” had said +such things about Bonaparte, but understanding that he was wanted as +a peg on which to hang the prince’s favorite topic, he looked +inquiringly at the young prince, wondering what would follow. + +“He is a great tactician!” said the prince to his son, pointing to +the architect. + +And the conversation again turned on the war, on Bonaparte, and the +generals and statesmen of the day. The old prince seemed convinced not +only that all the men of the day were mere babies who did not know the +A B C of war or of politics, and that Bonaparte was an insignificant +little Frenchy, successful only because there were no longer any +Potëmkins or Suvórovs left to oppose him; but he was also convinced +that there were no political difficulties in Europe and no real war, +but only a sort of puppet show at which the men of the day were playing, +pretending to do something real. Prince Andrew gaily bore with his +father’s ridicule of the new men, and drew him on and listened to him +with evident pleasure. + +“The past always seems good,” said he, “but did not Suvórov +himself fall into a trap Moreau set him, and from which he did not know +how to escape?” + +“Who told you that? Who?” cried the prince. “Suvórov!” And he +jerked away his plate, which Tíkhon briskly caught. “Suvórov!... +Consider, Prince Andrew. Two... Frederick and Suvórov; Moreau!... +Moreau would have been a prisoner if Suvórov had had a free hand; but +he had the Hofs-kriegs-wurst-schnapps-Rath on his hands. It would have +puzzled the devil himself! When you get there you’ll find out what +those Hofs-kriegs-wurst-Raths are! Suvórov couldn’t manage them so +what chance has Michael Kutúzov? No, my dear boy,” he continued, +“you and your generals won’t get on against Buonaparte; you’ll +have to call in the French, so that birds of a feather may fight +together. The German, Pahlen, has been sent to New York in America, to +fetch the Frenchman, Moreau,” he said, alluding to the invitation made +that year to Moreau to enter the Russian service.... “Wonderful!... +Were the Potëmkins, Suvórovs, and Orlóvs Germans? No, lad, either you +fellows have all lost your wits, or I have outlived mine. May God help +you, but we’ll see what will happen. Buonaparte has become a great +commander among them! Hm!...” + +“I don’t at all say that all the plans are good,” said Prince +Andrew, “I am only surprised at your opinion of Bonaparte. You +may laugh as much as you like, but all the same Bonaparte is a great +general!” + +“Michael Ivánovich!” cried the old prince to the architect who, +busy with his roast meat, hoped he had been forgotten: “Didn’t +I tell you Buonaparte was a great tactician? Here, he says the same +thing.” + +“To be sure, your excellency,” replied the architect. + +The prince again laughed his frigid laugh. + +“Buonaparte was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He has got +splendid soldiers. Besides he began by attacking Germans. And only +idlers have failed to beat the Germans. Since the world began everybody +has beaten the Germans. They beat no one—except one another. He made +his reputation fighting them.” + +And the prince began explaining all the blunders which, according to +him, Bonaparte had made in his campaigns and even in politics. His +son made no rejoinder, but it was evident that whatever arguments were +presented he was as little able as his father to change his opinion. He +listened, refraining from a reply, and involuntarily wondered how this +old man, living alone in the country for so many years, could know and +discuss so minutely and acutely all the recent European military and +political events. + +“You think I’m an old man and don’t understand the present state +of affairs?” concluded his father. “But it troubles me. I don’t +sleep at night. Come now, where has this great commander of yours shown +his skill?” he concluded. + +“That would take too long to tell,” answered the son. + +“Well, then go off to your Buonaparte! Mademoiselle Bourienne, +here’s another admirer of that powder-monkey emperor of yours,” he +exclaimed in excellent French. + +“You know, Prince, I am not a Bonapartist!” + +“Dieu sait quand reviendra.” hummed the prince out of tune and, with +a laugh still more so, he quitted the table. + +The little princess during the whole discussion and the rest of +the dinner sat silent, glancing with a frightened look now at her +father-in-law and now at Princess Mary. When they left the table she +took her sister-in-law’s arm and drew her into another room. + +“What a clever man your father is,” said she; “perhaps that is why +I am afraid of him.” + +“Oh, he is so kind!” answered Princess Mary. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXVIII + +Prince Andrew was to leave next evening. The old prince, not altering +his routine, retired as usual after dinner. The little princess was in +her sister-in-law’s room. Prince Andrew in a traveling coat without +epaulettes had been packing with his valet in the rooms assigned to him. +After inspecting the carriage himself and seeing the trunks put in, he +ordered the horses to be harnessed. Only those things he always kept +with him remained in his room; a small box, a large canteen fitted +with silver plate, two Turkish pistols and a saber—a present from +his father who had brought it from the siege of Ochákov. All these +traveling effects of Prince Andrew’s were in very good order: new, +clean, and in cloth covers carefully tied with tapes. + +When starting on a journey or changing their mode of life, men capable +of reflection are generally in a serious frame of mind. At such moments +one reviews the past and plans for the future. Prince Andrew’s face +looked very thoughtful and tender. With his hands behind him he paced +briskly from corner to corner of the room, looking straight before him +and thoughtfully shaking his head. Did he fear going to the war, or was +he sad at leaving his wife?—perhaps both, but evidently he did not +wish to be seen in that mood, for hearing footsteps in the passage he +hurriedly unclasped his hands, stopped at a table as if tying the +cover of the small box, and assumed his usual tranquil and impenetrable +expression. It was the heavy tread of Princess Mary that he heard. + +“I hear you have given orders to harness,” she cried, panting (she +had apparently been running), “and I did so wish to have another talk +with you alone! God knows how long we may again be parted. You are not +angry with me for coming? You have changed so, Andrúsha,” she added, +as if to explain such a question. + +She smiled as she uttered his pet name, “Andrúsha.” It was +obviously strange to her to think that this stern handsome man should be +Andrúsha—the slender mischievous boy who had been her playfellow in +childhood. + +“And where is Lise?” he asked, answering her question only by a +smile. + +“She was so tired that she has fallen asleep on the sofa in my room. +Oh, Andrew! What a treasure of a wife you have,” said she, sitting +down on the sofa, facing her brother. “She is quite a child: such a +dear, merry child. I have grown so fond of her.” + +Prince Andrew was silent, but the princess noticed the ironical and +contemptuous look that showed itself on his face. + +“One must be indulgent to little weaknesses; who is free from them, +Andrew? Don’t forget that she has grown up and been educated in +society, and so her position now is not a rosy one. We should enter into +everyone’s situation. Tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner. * Think +what it must be for her, poor thing, after what she has been used to, +to be parted from her husband and be left alone in the country, in her +condition! It’s very hard.” + + * To understand all is to forgive all. + +Prince Andrew smiled as he looked at his sister, as we smile at those we +think we thoroughly understand. + +“You live in the country and don’t think the life terrible,” he +replied. + +“I... that’s different. Why speak of me? I don’t want any other +life, and can’t, for I know no other. But think, Andrew: for a young +society woman to be buried in the country during the best years of her +life, all alone—for Papa is always busy, and I... well, you know what +poor resources I have for entertaining a woman used to the best society. +There is only Mademoiselle Bourienne....” + +“I don’t like your Mademoiselle Bourienne at all,” said Prince +Andrew. + +“No? She is very nice and kind and, above all, she’s much to be +pitied. She has no one, no one. To tell the truth, I don’t need her, +and she’s even in my way. You know I always was a savage, and now am +even more so. I like being alone.... Father likes her very much. She and +Michael Ivánovich are the two people to whom he is always gentle and +kind, because he has been a benefactor to them both. As Sterne says: +‘We don’t love people so much for the good they have done us, as +for the good we have done them.’ Father took her when she was homeless +after losing her own father. She is very good-natured, and my father +likes her way of reading. She reads to him in the evenings and reads +splendidly.” + +“To be quite frank, Mary, I expect Father’s character sometimes +makes things trying for you, doesn’t it?” Prince Andrew asked +suddenly. + +Princess Mary was first surprised and then aghast at this question. + +“For me? For me?... Trying for me!...” said she. + +“He always was rather harsh; and now I should think he’s getting +very trying,” said Prince Andrew, apparently speaking lightly of their +father in order to puzzle or test his sister. + +“You are good in every way, Andrew, but you have a kind of +intellectual pride,” said the princess, following the train of her own +thoughts rather than the trend of the conversation—“and that’s a +great sin. How can one judge Father? But even if one might, what feeling +except veneration could such a man as my father evoke? And I am so +contented and happy with him. I only wish you were all as happy as I +am.” + +Her brother shook his head incredulously. + +“The only thing that is hard for me... I will tell you the truth, +Andrew... is Father’s way of treating religious subjects. I don’t +understand how a man of his immense intellect can fail to see what is +as clear as day, and can go so far astray. That is the only thing +that makes me unhappy. But even in this I can see lately a shade of +improvement. His satire has been less bitter of late, and there was a +monk he received and had a long talk with.” + +“Ah! my dear, I am afraid you and your monk are wasting your +powder,” said Prince Andrew banteringly yet tenderly. + +“Ah! mon ami, I only pray, and hope that God will hear me. +Andrew...” she said timidly after a moment’s silence, “I have a +great favor to ask of you.” + +“What is it, dear?” + +“No—promise that you will not refuse! It will give you no trouble +and is nothing unworthy of you, but it will comfort me. Promise, +Andrúsha!...” said she, putting her hand in her reticule but not yet +taking out what she was holding inside it, as if what she held were +the subject of her request and must not be shown before the request was +granted. + +She looked timidly at her brother. + +“Even if it were a great deal of trouble...” answered Prince Andrew, +as if guessing what it was about. + +“Think what you please! I know you are just like Father. Think as +you please, but do this for my sake! Please do! Father’s father, our +grandfather, wore it in all his wars.” (She still did not take out +what she was holding in her reticule.) “So you promise?” + +“Of course. What is it?” + +“Andrew, I bless you with this icon and you must promise me you will +never take it off. Do you promise?” + +“If it does not weigh a hundredweight and won’t break my neck... +To please you...” said Prince Andrew. But immediately, noticing +the pained expression his joke had brought to his sister’s face, he +repented and added: “I am glad; really, dear, I am very glad.” + +“Against your will He will save and have mercy on you and bring you +to Himself, for in Him alone is truth and peace,” said she in a voice +trembling with emotion, solemnly holding up in both hands before her +brother a small, oval, antique, dark-faced icon of the Saviour in a gold +setting, on a finely wrought silver chain. + +She crossed herself, kissed the icon, and handed it to Andrew. + +“Please, Andrew, for my sake!...” + +Rays of gentle light shone from her large, timid eyes. Those eyes lit +up the whole of her thin, sickly face and made it beautiful. Her brother +would have taken the icon, but she stopped him. Andrew understood, +crossed himself and kissed the icon. There was a look of tenderness, for +he was touched, but also a gleam of irony on his face. + +“Thank you, my dear.” She kissed him on the forehead and sat down +again on the sofa. They were silent for a while. + +“As I was saying to you, Andrew, be kind and generous as you always +used to be. Don’t judge Lise harshly,” she began. “She is so +sweet, so good-natured, and her position now is a very hard one.” + +“I do not think I have complained of my wife to you, Másha, or blamed +her. Why do you say all this to me?” + +Red patches appeared on Princess Mary’s face and she was silent as if +she felt guilty. + +“I have said nothing to you, but you have already been talked to. And +I am sorry for that,” he went on. + +The patches grew deeper on her forehead, neck, and cheeks. She tried to +say something but could not. Her brother had guessed right: the little +princess had been crying after dinner and had spoken of her forebodings +about her confinement, and how she dreaded it, and had complained of her +fate, her father-in-law, and her husband. After crying she had fallen +asleep. Prince Andrew felt sorry for his sister. + +“Know this, Másha: I can’t reproach, have not reproached, and never +shall reproach my wife with anything, and I cannot reproach myself +with anything in regard to her; and that always will be so in whatever +circumstances I may be placed. But if you want to know the truth... if +you want to know whether I am happy? No! Is she happy? No! But why this +is so I don’t know...” + +As he said this he rose, went to his sister, and, stooping, kissed +her forehead. His fine eyes lit up with a thoughtful, kindly, and +unaccustomed brightness, but he was looking not at his sister but over +her head toward the darkness of the open doorway. + +“Let us go to her, I must say good-by. Or—go and wake and I’ll +come in a moment. Petrúshka!” he called to his valet: “Come here, +take these away. Put this on the seat and this to the right.” + +Princess Mary rose and moved to the door, then stopped and said: +“Andrew, if you had faith you would have turned to God and asked Him +to give you the love you do not feel, and your prayer would have been +answered.” + +“Well, maybe!” said Prince Andrew. “Go, Másha; I’ll come +immediately.” + +On the way to his sister’s room, in the passage which connected one +wing with the other, Prince Andrew met Mademoiselle Bourienne smiling +sweetly. It was the third time that day that, with an ecstatic and +artless smile, she had met him in secluded passages. + +“Oh! I thought you were in your room,” she said, for some reason +blushing and dropping her eyes. + +Prince Andrew looked sternly at her and an expression of anger suddenly +came over his face. He said nothing to her but looked at her forehead +and hair, without looking at her eyes, with such contempt that the +Frenchwoman blushed and went away without a word. When he reached his +sister’s room his wife was already awake and her merry voice, hurrying +one word after another, came through the open door. She was speaking as +usual in French, and as if after long self-restraint she wished to make +up for lost time. + +“No, but imagine the old Countess Zúbova, with false curls and her +mouth full of false teeth, as if she were trying to cheat old age.... +Ha, ha, ha! Mary!” + +This very sentence about Countess Zúbova and this same laugh Prince +Andrew had already heard from his wife in the presence of others some +five times. He entered the room softly. The little princess, plump and +rosy, was sitting in an easy chair with her work in her hands, talking +incessantly, repeating Petersburg reminiscences and even phrases. Prince +Andrew came up, stroked her hair, and asked if she felt rested after +their journey. She answered him and continued her chatter. + +The coach with six horses was waiting at the porch. It was an autumn +night, so dark that the coachman could not see the carriage pole. +Servants with lanterns were bustling about in the porch. The immense +house was brilliant with lights shining through its lofty windows. The +domestic serfs were crowding in the hall, waiting to bid good-by to +the young prince. The members of the household were all gathered in the +reception hall: Michael Ivánovich, Mademoiselle Bourienne, Princess +Mary, and the little princess. Prince Andrew had been called to his +father’s study as the latter wished to say good-by to him alone. All +were waiting for them to come out. + +When Prince Andrew entered the study the old man in his old-age +spectacles and white dressing gown, in which he received no one but his +son, sat at the table writing. He glanced round. + +“Going?” And he went on writing. + +“I’ve come to say good-by.” + +“Kiss me here,” and he touched his cheek: “Thanks, thanks!” + +“What do you thank me for?” + +“For not dilly-dallying and not hanging to a woman’s apron strings. +The Service before everything. Thanks, thanks!” And he went on +writing, so that his quill spluttered and squeaked. “If you have +anything to say, say it. These two things can be done together,” he +added. + +“About my wife... I am ashamed as it is to leave her on your +hands....” + +“Why talk nonsense? Say what you want.” + +“When her confinement is due, send to Moscow for an accoucheur.... Let +him be here....” + +The old prince stopped writing and, as if not understanding, fixed his +stern eyes on his son. + +“I know that no one can help if nature does not do her work,” said +Prince Andrew, evidently confused. “I know that out of a million +cases only one goes wrong, but it is her fancy and mine. They have been +telling her things. She has had a dream and is frightened.” + +“Hm... Hm...” muttered the old prince to himself, finishing what he +was writing. “I’ll do it.” + +He signed with a flourish and suddenly turning to his son began to +laugh. + +“It’s a bad business, eh?” + +“What is bad, Father?” + +“The wife!” said the old prince, briefly and significantly. + +“I don’t understand!” said Prince Andrew. + +“No, it can’t be helped, lad,” said the prince. “They’re +all like that; one can’t unmarry. Don’t be afraid; I won’t tell +anyone, but you know it yourself.” + +He seized his son by the hand with small bony fingers, shook it, looked +straight into his son’s face with keen eyes which seemed to see +through him, and again laughed his frigid laugh. + +The son sighed, thus admitting that his father had understood him. The +old man continued to fold and seal his letter, snatching up and throwing +down the wax, the seal, and the paper, with his accustomed rapidity. + +“What’s to be done? She’s pretty! I will do everything. Make your +mind easy,” said he in abrupt sentences while sealing his letter. + +Andrew did not speak; he was both pleased and displeased that his father +understood him. The old man got up and gave the letter to his son. + +“Listen!” said he; “don’t worry about your wife: what can be +done shall be. Now listen! Give this letter to Michael Ilariónovich. * +I have written that he should make use of you in proper places and not +keep you long as an adjutant: a bad position! Tell him I remember +and like him. Write and tell me how he receives you. If he is all +right—serve him. Nicholas Bolkónski’s son need not serve under +anyone if he is in disfavor. Now come here.” + + *Kutúzov. + +He spoke so rapidly that he did not finish half his words, but his son +was accustomed to understand him. He led him to the desk, raised the +lid, drew out a drawer, and took out an exercise book filled with his +bold, tall, close handwriting. + +“I shall probably die before you. So remember, these are my memoirs; +hand them to the Emperor after my death. Now here is a Lombard bond +and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of +Suvórov’s wars. Send it to the Academy. Here are some jottings for +you to read when I am gone. You will find them useful.” + +Andrew did not tell his father that he would no doubt live a long time +yet. He felt that he must not say it. + +“I will do it all, Father,” he said. + +“Well, now, good-by!” He gave his son his hand to kiss, and embraced +him. “Remember this, Prince Andrew, if they kill you it will hurt me, +your old father...” he paused unexpectedly, and then in a querulous +voice suddenly shrieked: “but if I hear that you have not behaved like +a son of Nicholas Bolkónski, I shall be ashamed!” + +“You need not have said that to me, Father,” said the son with a +smile. + +The old man was silent. + +“I also wanted to ask you,” continued Prince Andrew, “if I’m +killed and if I have a son, do not let him be taken away from you—as I +said yesterday... let him grow up with you.... Please.” + +“Not let the wife have him?” said the old man, and laughed. + +They stood silent, facing one another. The old man’s sharp eyes were +fixed straight on his son’s. Something twitched in the lower part of +the old prince’s face. + +“We’ve said good-by. Go!” he suddenly shouted in a loud, angry +voice, opening his door. + +“What is it? What?” asked both princesses when they saw for a moment +at the door Prince Andrew and the figure of the old man in a white +dressing gown, spectacled and wigless, shouting in an angry voice. + +Prince Andrew sighed and made no reply. + +“Well!” he said, turning to his wife. + +And this “Well!” sounded coldly ironic, as if he were saying: “Now +go through your performance.” + +“Andrew, already!” said the little princess, turning pale and +looking with dismay at her husband. + +He embraced her. She screamed and fell unconscious on his shoulder. + +He cautiously released the shoulder she leaned on, looked into her face, +and carefully placed her in an easy chair. + +“Adieu, Mary,” said he gently to his sister, taking her by the hand +and kissing her, and then he left the room with rapid steps. + +The little princess lay in the armchair, Mademoiselle Bourienne chafing +her temples. Princess Mary, supporting her sister-in-law, still looked +with her beautiful eyes full of tears at the door through which Prince +Andrew had gone and made the sign of the cross in his direction. From +the study, like pistol shots, came the frequent sound of the old man +angrily blowing his nose. Hardly had Prince Andrew gone when the study +door opened quickly and the stern figure of the old man in the white +dressing gown looked out. + +“Gone? That’s all right!” said he; and looking angrily at the +unconscious little princess, he shook his head reprovingly and slammed +the door. + + + + + +BOOK TWO: 1805 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +In October, 1805, a Russian army was occupying the villages and towns of +the Archduchy of Austria, and yet other regiments freshly arriving from +Russia were settling near the fortress of Braunau and burdening the +inhabitants on whom they were quartered. Braunau was the headquarters of +the commander in chief, Kutúzov. + +On October 11, 1805, one of the infantry regiments that had just reached +Braunau had halted half a mile from the town, waiting to be inspected +by the commander in chief. Despite the un-Russian appearance of the +locality and surroundings—fruit gardens, stone fences, tiled roofs, +and hills in the distance—and despite the fact that the inhabitants +(who gazed with curiosity at the soldiers) were not Russians, the +regiment had just the appearance of any Russian regiment preparing for +an inspection anywhere in the heart of Russia. + +On the evening of the last day’s march an order had been received that +the commander in chief would inspect the regiment on the march. Though +the words of the order were not clear to the regimental commander, and +the question arose whether the troops were to be in marching order or +not, it was decided at a consultation between the battalion commanders +to present the regiment in parade order, on the principle that it is +always better to “bow too low than not bow low enough.” So the +soldiers, after a twenty-mile march, were kept mending and cleaning all +night long without closing their eyes, while the adjutants and +company commanders calculated and reckoned, and by morning the +regiment—instead of the straggling, disorderly crowd it had been on +its last march the day before—presented a well-ordered array of two +thousand men each of whom knew his place and his duty, had every button +and every strap in place, and shone with cleanliness. And not only +externally was all in order, but had it pleased the commander in chief +to look under the uniforms he would have found on every man a clean +shirt, and in every knapsack the appointed number of articles, “awl, +soap, and all,” as the soldiers say. There was only one circumstance +concerning which no one could be at ease. It was the state of the +soldiers’ boots. More than half the men’s boots were in holes. But +this defect was not due to any fault of the regimental commander, for +in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the Austrian +commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred miles. + +The commander of the regiment was an elderly, choleric, stout, and +thick-set general with grizzled eyebrows and whiskers, and wider from +chest to back than across the shoulders. He had on a brand-new uniform +showing the creases where it had been folded and thick gold epaulettes +which seemed to stand rather than lie down on his massive shoulders. He +had the air of a man happily performing one of the most solemn duties of +his life. He walked about in front of the line and at every step pulled +himself up, slightly arching his back. It was plain that the commander +admired his regiment, rejoiced in it, and that his whole mind was +engrossed by it, yet his strut seemed to indicate that, besides military +matters, social interests and the fair sex occupied no small part of his +thoughts. + +“Well, Michael Mítrich, sir?” he said, addressing one of the +battalion commanders who smilingly pressed forward (it was plain that +they both felt happy). “We had our hands full last night. However, I +think the regiment is not a bad one, eh?” + +The battalion commander perceived the jovial irony and laughed. + +“It would not be turned off the field even on the Tsarítsin +Meadow.” + +“What?” asked the commander. + +At that moment, on the road from the town on which signalers had been +posted, two men appeared on horse back. They were an aide-de-camp +followed by a Cossack. + +The aide-de-camp was sent to confirm the order which had not been +clearly worded the day before, namely, that the commander in chief +wished to see the regiment just in the state in which it had been on +the march: in their greatcoats, and packs, and without any preparation +whatever. + +A member of the Hofkriegsrath from Vienna had come to Kutúzov the day +before with proposals and demands for him to join up with the army of +the Archduke Ferdinand and Mack, and Kutúzov, not considering this +junction advisable, meant, among other arguments in support of his view, +to show the Austrian general the wretched state in which the troops +arrived from Russia. With this object he intended to meet the regiment; +so the worse the condition it was in, the better pleased the commander +in chief would be. Though the aide-de-camp did not know these +circumstances, he nevertheless delivered the definite order that the +men should be in their greatcoats and in marching order, and that the +commander in chief would otherwise be dissatisfied. On hearing this the +regimental commander hung his head, silently shrugged his shoulders, and +spread out his arms with a choleric gesture. + +“A fine mess we’ve made of it!” he remarked. + +“There now! Didn’t I tell you, Michael Mítrich, that if it was said +‘on the march’ it meant in greatcoats?” said he reproachfully to +the battalion commander. “Oh, my God!” he added, stepping resolutely +forward. “Company commanders!” he shouted in a voice accustomed to +command. “Sergeants major!... How soon will he be here?” he asked +the aide-de-camp with a respectful politeness evidently relating to the +personage he was referring to. + +“In an hour’s time, I should say.” + +“Shall we have time to change clothes?” + +“I don’t know, General....” + +The regimental commander, going up to the line himself, ordered the +soldiers to change into their greatcoats. The company commanders ran off +to their companies, the sergeants major began bustling (the greatcoats +were not in very good condition), and instantly the squares that had up +to then been in regular order and silent began to sway and stretch and +hum with voices. On all sides soldiers were running to and fro, throwing +up their knapsacks with a jerk of their shoulders and pulling the straps +over their heads, unstrapping their overcoats and drawing the sleeves on +with upraised arms. + +In half an hour all was again in order, only the squares had become gray +instead of black. The regimental commander walked with his jerky steps +to the front of the regiment and examined it from a distance. + +“Whatever is this? This!” he shouted and stood still. “Commander +of the third company!” + +“Commander of the third company wanted by the general!... commander to +the general... third company to the commander.” The words passed along +the lines and an adjutant ran to look for the missing officer. + +When the eager but misrepeated words had reached their destination in +a cry of: “The general to the third company,” the missing officer +appeared from behind his company and, though he was a middle-aged man +and not in the habit of running, trotted awkwardly stumbling on his +toes toward the general. The captain’s face showed the uneasiness of +a schoolboy who is told to repeat a lesson he has not learned. Spots +appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to +intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously. The general looked the +captain up and down as he came up panting, slackening his pace as he +approached. + +“You will soon be dressing your men in petticoats! What is this?” +shouted the regimental commander, thrusting forward his jaw and pointing +at a soldier in the ranks of the third company in a greatcoat of bluish +cloth, which contrasted with the others. “What have you been after? +The commander in chief is expected and you leave your place? Eh? I’ll +teach you to dress the men in fancy coats for a parade.... Eh...?” + +The commander of the company, with his eyes fixed on his superior, +pressed two fingers more and more rigidly to his cap, as if in this +pressure lay his only hope of salvation. + +“Well, why don’t you speak? Whom have you got there dressed up as a +Hungarian?” said the commander with an austere gibe. + +“Your excellency...” + +“Well, your excellency, what? Your excellency! But what about your +excellency?... nobody knows.” + +“Your excellency, it’s the officer Dólokhov, who has been reduced +to the ranks,” said the captain softly. + +“Well? Has he been degraded into a field marshal, or into a soldier? +If a soldier, he should be dressed in regulation uniform like the +others.” + +“Your excellency, you gave him leave yourself, on the march.” + +“Gave him leave? Leave? That’s just like you young men,” said the +regimental commander cooling down a little. “Leave indeed.... One says +a word to you and you... What?” he added with renewed irritation, “I +beg you to dress your men decently.” + +And the commander, turning to look at the adjutant, directed his jerky +steps down the line. He was evidently pleased at his own display of +anger and walking up to the regiment wished to find a further excuse for +wrath. Having snapped at an officer for an unpolished badge, at another +because his line was not straight, he reached the third company. + +“H-o-o-w are you standing? Where’s your leg? Your leg?” shouted +the commander with a tone of suffering in his voice, while there were +still five men between him and Dólokhov with his bluish-gray uniform. + +Dólokhov slowly straightened his bent knee, looking straight with his +clear, insolent eyes in the general’s face. + +“Why a blue coat? Off with it... Sergeant major! Change his coat... +the ras...” he did not finish. + +“General, I must obey orders, but I am not bound to endure...” +Dólokhov hurriedly interrupted. + +“No talking in the ranks!... No talking, no talking!” + +“Not bound to endure insults,” Dólokhov concluded in loud, ringing +tones. + +The eyes of the general and the soldier met. The general became silent, +angrily pulling down his tight scarf. + +“I request you to have the goodness to change your coat,” he said as +he turned away. + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +“He’s coming!” shouted the signaler at that moment. + +The regimental commander, flushing, ran to his horse, seized the stirrup +with trembling hands, threw his body across the saddle, righted himself, +drew his saber, and with a happy and resolute countenance, opening +his mouth awry, prepared to shout. The regiment fluttered like a bird +preening its plumage and became motionless. + +“Att-ention!” shouted the regimental commander in a soul-shaking +voice which expressed joy for himself, severity for the regiment, and +welcome for the approaching chief. + +Along the broad country road, edged on both sides by trees, came a high, +light blue Viennese calèche, slightly creaking on its springs and drawn +by six horses at a smart trot. Behind the calèche galloped the suite +and a convoy of Croats. Beside Kutúzov sat an Austrian general, in +a white uniform that looked strange among the Russian black ones. The +calèche stopped in front of the regiment. Kutúzov and the Austrian +general were talking in low voices and Kutúzov smiled slightly as +treading heavily he stepped down from the carriage just as if those two +thousand men breathlessly gazing at him and the regimental commander did +not exist. + +The word of command rang out, and again the regiment quivered, as with a +jingling sound it presented arms. Then amidst a dead silence the +feeble voice of the commander in chief was heard. The regiment roared, +“Health to your ex... len... len... lency!” and again all became +silent. At first Kutúzov stood still while the regiment moved; then he +and the general in white, accompanied by the suite, walked between the +ranks. + +From the way the regimental commander saluted the commander in chief and +devoured him with his eyes, drawing himself up obsequiously, and from +the way he walked through the ranks behind the generals, bending forward +and hardly able to restrain his jerky movements, and from the way he +darted forward at every word or gesture of the commander in chief, +it was evident that he performed his duty as a subordinate with even +greater zeal than his duty as a commander. Thanks to the strictness and +assiduity of its commander the regiment, in comparison with others that +had reached Braunau at the same time, was in splendid condition. There +were only 217 sick and stragglers. Everything was in good order except +the boots. + +Kutúzov walked through the ranks, sometimes stopping to say a few +friendly words to officers he had known in the Turkish war, sometimes +also to the soldiers. Looking at their boots he several times shook his +head sadly, pointing them out to the Austrian general with an expression +which seemed to say that he was not blaming anyone, but could not help +noticing what a bad state of things it was. The regimental commander +ran forward on each such occasion, fearing to miss a single word of the +commander in chief’s regarding the regiment. Behind Kutúzov, at a +distance that allowed every softly spoken word to be heard, followed +some twenty men of his suite. These gentlemen talked among themselves +and sometimes laughed. Nearest of all to the commander in chief walked +a handsome adjutant. This was Prince Bolkónski. Beside him was his +comrade Nesvítski, a tall staff officer, extremely stout, with a +kindly, smiling, handsome face and moist eyes. Nesvítski could hardly +keep from laughter provoked by a swarthy hussar officer who walked +beside him. This hussar, with a grave face and without a smile or a +change in the expression of his fixed eyes, watched the regimental +commander’s back and mimicked his every movement. Each time the +commander started and bent forward, the hussar started and bent forward +in exactly the same manner. Nesvítski laughed and nudged the others to +make them look at the wag. + +Kutúzov walked slowly and languidly past thousands of eyes which were +starting from their sockets to watch their chief. On reaching the +third company he suddenly stopped. His suite, not having expected this, +involuntarily came closer to him. + +“Ah, Timókhin!” said he, recognizing the red-nosed captain who had +been reprimanded on account of the blue greatcoat. + +One would have thought it impossible for a man to stretch himself +more than Timókhin had done when he was reprimanded by the regimental +commander, but now that the commander in chief addressed him he drew +himself up to such an extent that it seemed he could not have sustained +it had the commander in chief continued to look at him, and so Kutúzov, +who evidently understood his case and wished him nothing but good, +quickly turned away, a scarcely perceptible smile flitting over his +scarred and puffy face. + +“Another Ismail comrade,” said he. “A brave officer! Are you +satisfied with him?” he asked the regimental commander. + +And the latter—unconscious that he was being reflected in the hussar +officer as in a looking glass—started, moved forward, and answered: +“Highly satisfied, your excellency!” + +“We all have our weaknesses,” said Kutúzov smiling and walking away +from him. “He used to have a predilection for Bacchus.” + +The regimental commander was afraid he might be blamed for this and did +not answer. The hussar at that moment noticed the face of the red-nosed +captain and his drawn-in stomach, and mimicked his expression and pose +with such exactitude that Nesvítski could not help laughing. Kutúzov +turned round. The officer evidently had complete control of his face, +and while Kutúzov was turning managed to make a grimace and then assume +a most serious, deferential, and innocent expression. + +The third company was the last, and Kutúzov pondered, apparently trying +to recollect something. Prince Andrew stepped forward from among the +suite and said in French: + +“You told me to remind you of the officer Dólokhov, reduced to the +ranks in this regiment.” + +“Where is Dólokhov?” asked Kutúzov. + +Dólokhov, who had already changed into a soldier’s gray greatcoat, +did not wait to be called. The shapely figure of the fair-haired +soldier, with his clear blue eyes, stepped forward from the ranks, went +up to the commander in chief, and presented arms. + +“Have you a complaint to make?” Kutúzov asked with a slight frown. + +“This is Dólokhov,” said Prince Andrew. + +“Ah!” said Kutúzov. “I hope this will be a lesson to you. Do your +duty. The Emperor is gracious, and I shan’t forget you if you deserve +well.” + +The clear blue eyes looked at the commander in chief just as boldly as +they had looked at the regimental commander, seeming by their expression +to tear open the veil of convention that separates a commander in chief +so widely from a private. + +“One thing I ask of your excellency,” Dólokhov said in his firm, +ringing, deliberate voice. “I ask an opportunity to atone for my fault +and prove my devotion to His Majesty the Emperor and to Russia!” + +Kutúzov turned away. The same smile of the eyes with which he had +turned from Captain Timókhin again flitted over his face. He turned +away with a grimace as if to say that everything Dólokhov had said to +him and everything he could say had long been known to him, that he was +weary of it and it was not at all what he wanted. He turned away and +went to the carriage. + +The regiment broke up into companies, which went to their appointed +quarters near Braunau, where they hoped to receive boots and clothes and +to rest after their hard marches. + +“You won’t bear me a grudge, Prokhór Ignátych?” said the +regimental commander, overtaking the third company on its way to its +quarters and riding up to Captain Timókhin who was walking in front. +(The regimental commander’s face now that the inspection was happily +over beamed with irrepressible delight.) “It’s in the Emperor’s +service... it can’t be helped... one is sometimes a bit hasty on +parade... I am the first to apologize, you know me!... He was very +pleased!” And he held out his hand to the captain. + +“Don’t mention it, General, as if I’d be so bold!” replied the +captain, his nose growing redder as he gave a smile which showed where +two front teeth were missing that had been knocked out by the butt end +of a gun at Ismail. + +“And tell Mr. Dólokhov that I won’t forget him—he may be quite +easy. And tell me, please—I’ve been meaning to ask—how is he +behaving himself, and in general...” + +“As far as the service goes he is quite punctilious, your excellency; +but his character...” said Timókhin. + +“And what about his character?” asked the regimental commander. + +“It’s different on different days,” answered the captain. “One +day he is sensible, well educated, and good-natured, and the next he’s +a wild beast.... In Poland, if you please, he nearly killed a Jew.” + +“Oh, well, well!” remarked the regimental commander. “Still, one +must have pity on a young man in misfortune. You know he has important +connections... Well, then, you just...” + +“I will, your excellency,” said Timókhin, showing by his smile that +he understood his commander’s wish. + +“Well, of course, of course!” + +The regimental commander sought out Dólokhov in the ranks and, reining +in his horse, said to him: + +“After the next affair... epaulettes.” + +Dólokhov looked round but did not say anything, nor did the mocking +smile on his lips change. + +“Well, that’s all right,” continued the regimental commander. “A +cup of vodka for the men from me,” he added so that the soldiers +could hear. “I thank you all! God be praised!” and he rode past that +company and overtook the next one. + +“Well, he’s really a good fellow, one can serve under him,” said +Timókhin to the subaltern beside him. + +“In a word, a hearty one...” said the subaltern, laughing (the +regimental commander was nicknamed King of Hearts). + +The cheerful mood of their officers after the inspection infected the +soldiers. The company marched on gaily. The soldiers’ voices could be +heard on every side. + +“And they said Kutúzov was blind of one eye?” + +“And so he is! Quite blind!” + +“No, friend, he is sharper-eyed than you are. Boots and leg bands... +he noticed everything...” + +“When he looked at my feet, friend... well, thinks I...” + +“And that other one with him, the Austrian, looked as if he were +smeared with chalk—as white as flour! I suppose they polish him up as +they do the guns.” + +“I say, Fédeshon!... Did he say when the battles are to begin? You +were near him. Everybody said that Buonaparte himself was at Braunau.” + +“Buonaparte himself!... Just listen to the fool, what he doesn’t +know! The Prussians are up in arms now. The Austrians, you see, are +putting them down. When they’ve been put down, the war with Buonaparte +will begin. And he says Buonaparte is in Braunau! Shows you’re a fool. +You’d better listen more carefully!” + +“What devils these quartermasters are! See, the fifth company is +turning into the village already... they will have their buckwheat +cooked before we reach our quarters.” + +“Give me a biscuit, you devil!” + +“And did you give me tobacco yesterday? That’s just it, friend! Ah, +well, never mind, here you are.” + +“They might call a halt here or we’ll have to do another four miles +without eating.” + +“Wasn’t it fine when those Germans gave us lifts! You just sit still +and are drawn along.” + +“And here, friend, the people are quite beggarly. There they all +seemed to be Poles—all under the Russian crown—but here they’re +all regular Germans.” + +“Singers to the front” came the captain’s order. + +And from the different ranks some twenty men ran to the front. A +drummer, their leader, turned round facing the singers, and flourishing +his arm, began a long-drawn-out soldiers’ song, commencing with the +words: “Morning dawned, the sun was rising,” and concluding: “On +then, brothers, on to glory, led by Father Kámenski.” This song had +been composed in the Turkish campaign and now being sung in Austria, the +only change being that the words “Father Kámenski” were replaced by +“Father Kutúzov.” + +Having jerked out these last words as soldiers do and waved his arms +as if flinging something to the ground, the drummer—a lean, handsome +soldier of forty—looked sternly at the singers and screwed up his +eyes. Then having satisfied himself that all eyes were fixed on him, +he raised both arms as if carefully lifting some invisible but precious +object above his head and, holding it there for some seconds, suddenly +flung it down and began: + +“Oh, my bower, oh, my bower...!” + +“Oh, my bower new...!” chimed in twenty voices, and the castanet +player, in spite of the burden of his equipment, rushed out to the front +and, walking backwards before the company, jerked his shoulders and +flourished his castanets as if threatening someone. The soldiers, +swinging their arms and keeping time spontaneously, marched with long +steps. Behind the company the sound of wheels, the creaking of springs, +and the tramp of horses’ hoofs were heard. Kutúzov and his suite were +returning to the town. The commander in chief made a sign that the +men should continue to march at ease, and he and all his suite showed +pleasure at the sound of the singing and the sight of the dancing +soldier and the gay and smartly marching men. In the second file +from the right flank, beside which the carriage passed the company, +a blue-eyed soldier involuntarily attracted notice. It was Dólokhov +marching with particular grace and boldness in time to the song and +looking at those driving past as if he pitied all who were not at that +moment marching with the company. The hussar cornet of Kutúzov’s +suite who had mimicked the regimental commander, fell back from the +carriage and rode up to Dólokhov. + +Hussar cornet Zherkóv had at one time, in Petersburg, belonged to +the wild set led by Dólokhov. Zherkóv had met Dólokhov abroad as a +private and had not seen fit to recognize him. But now that Kutúzov had +spoken to the gentleman ranker, he addressed him with the cordiality of +an old friend. + +“My dear fellow, how are you?” said he through the singing, making +his horse keep pace with the company. + +“How am I?” Dólokhov answered coldly. “I am as you see.” + +The lively song gave a special flavor to the tone of free and easy +gaiety with which Zherkóv spoke, and to the intentional coldness of +Dólokhov’s reply. + +“And how do you get on with the officers?” inquired Zherkóv. + +“All right. They are good fellows. And how have you wriggled onto the +staff?” + +“I was attached; I’m on duty.” + +Both were silent. + +“She let the hawk fly upward from her wide right sleeve,” went the +song, arousing an involuntary sensation of courage and cheerfulness. +Their conversation would probably have been different but for the effect +of that song. + +“Is it true that Austrians have been beaten?” asked Dólokhov. + +“The devil only knows! They say so.” + +“I’m glad,” answered Dólokhov briefly and clearly, as the song +demanded. + +“I say, come round some evening and we’ll have a game of faro!” +said Zherkóv. + +“Why, have you too much money?” + +“Do come.” + +“I can’t. I’ve sworn not to. I won’t drink and won’t play till +I get reinstated.” + +“Well, that’s only till the first engagement.” + +“We shall see.” + +They were again silent. + +“Come if you need anything. One can at least be of use on the +staff...” + +Dólokhov smiled. “Don’t trouble. If I want anything, I won’t +beg—I’ll take it!” + +“Well, never mind; I only...” + +“And I only...” + +“Good-by.” + +“Good health...” + + “It’s a long, long way. + To my native land...” + + +Zherkóv touched his horse with the spurs; it pranced excitedly from +foot to foot uncertain with which to start, then settled down, galloped +past the company, and overtook the carriage, still keeping time to the +song. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +On returning from the review, Kutúzov took the Austrian general into +his private room and, calling his adjutant, asked for some papers +relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the +letters that had come from the Archduke Ferdinand, who was in command of +the advanced army. Prince Andrew Bolkónski came into the room with the +required papers. Kutúzov and the Austrian member of the Hofkriegsrath +were sitting at the table on which a plan was spread out. + +“Ah!...” said Kutúzov glancing at Bolkónski as if by this +exclamation he was asking the adjutant to wait, and he went on with the +conversation in French. + +“All I can say, General,” said he with a pleasant elegance +of expression and intonation that obliged one to listen to each +deliberately spoken word. It was evident that Kutúzov himself listened +with pleasure to his own voice. “All I can say, General, is that if +the matter depended on my personal wishes, the will of His Majesty the +Emperor Francis would have been fulfilled long ago. I should long +ago have joined the archduke. And believe me on my honour that to me +personally it would be a pleasure to hand over the supreme command +of the army into the hands of a better informed and more skillful +general—of whom Austria has so many—and to lay down all this heavy +responsibility. But circumstances are sometimes too strong for us, +General.” + +And Kutúzov smiled in a way that seemed to say, “You are quite at +liberty not to believe me and I don’t even care whether you do or +not, but you have no grounds for telling me so. And that is the whole +point.” + +The Austrian general looked dissatisfied, but had no option but to reply +in the same tone. + +“On the contrary,” he said, in a querulous and angry tone that +contrasted with his flattering words, “on the contrary, your +excellency’s participation in the common action is highly valued by +His Majesty; but we think the present delay is depriving the splendid +Russian troops and their commander of the laurels they have been +accustomed to win in their battles,” he concluded his evidently +prearranged sentence. + +Kutúzov bowed with the same smile. + +“But that is my conviction, and judging by the last letter with which +His Highness the Archduke Ferdinand has honored me, I imagine that the +Austrian troops, under the direction of so skillful a leader as General +Mack, have by now already gained a decisive victory and no longer need +our aid,” said Kutúzov. + +The general frowned. Though there was no definite news of an Austrian +defeat, there were many circumstances confirming the unfavorable rumors +that were afloat, and so Kutúzov’s suggestion of an Austrian victory +sounded much like irony. But Kutúzov went on blandly smiling with the +same expression, which seemed to say that he had a right to suppose +so. And, in fact, the last letter he had received from Mack’s army +informed him of a victory and stated strategically the position of the +army was very favorable. + +“Give me that letter,” said Kutúzov turning to Prince Andrew. +“Please have a look at it”—and Kutúzov with an ironical smile +about the corners of his mouth read to the Austrian general the +following passage, in German, from the Archduke Ferdinand’s letter: + +We have fully concentrated forces of nearly seventy thousand men with +which to attack and defeat the enemy should he cross the Lech. Also, +as we are masters of Ulm, we cannot be deprived of the advantage of +commanding both sides of the Danube, so that should the enemy not +cross the Lech, we can cross the Danube, throw ourselves on his line +of communications, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his +intention should he try to direct his whole force against our faithful +ally. We shall therefore confidently await the moment when the Imperial +Russian army will be fully equipped, and shall then, in conjunction with +it, easily find a way to prepare for the enemy the fate he deserves. + +Kutúzov sighed deeply on finishing this paragraph and looked at the +member of the Hofkriegsrath mildly and attentively. + +“But you know the wise maxim your excellency, advising one to expect +the worst,” said the Austrian general, evidently wishing to have done +with jests and to come to business. He involuntarily looked round at the +aide-de-camp. + +“Excuse me, General,” interrupted Kutúzov, also turning to Prince +Andrew. “Look here, my dear fellow, get from Kozlóvski all the +reports from our scouts. Here are two letters from Count Nostitz and +here is one from His Highness the Archduke Ferdinand and here are +these,” he said, handing him several papers, “make a neat memorandum +in French out of all this, showing all the news we have had of the +movements of the Austrian army, and then give it to his excellency.” + +Prince Andrew bowed his head in token of having understood from the +first not only what had been said but also what Kutúzov would have +liked to tell him. He gathered up the papers and with a bow to both, +stepped softly over the carpet and went out into the waiting room. + +Though not much time had passed since Prince Andrew had left Russia, he +had changed greatly during that period. In the expression of his face, +in his movements, in his walk, scarcely a trace was left of his former +affected languor and indolence. He now looked like a man who has time +to think of the impression he makes on others, but is occupied with +agreeable and interesting work. His face expressed more satisfaction +with himself and those around him, his smile and glance were brighter +and more attractive. + +Kutúzov, whom he had overtaken in Poland, had received him very kindly, +promised not to forget him, distinguished him above the other adjutants, +and had taken him to Vienna and given him the more serious commissions. +From Vienna Kutúzov wrote to his old comrade, Prince Andrew’s father. + +Your son bids fair to become an officer distinguished by his industry, +firmness, and expedition. I consider myself fortunate to have such a +subordinate by me. + +On Kutúzov’s staff, among his fellow officers and in the army +generally, Prince Andrew had, as he had had in Petersburg society, two +quite opposite reputations. Some, a minority, acknowledged him to be +different from themselves and from everyone else, expected great things +of him, listened to him, admired, and imitated him, and with them Prince +Andrew was natural and pleasant. Others, the majority, disliked him and +considered him conceited, cold, and disagreeable. But among these people +Prince Andrew knew how to take his stand so that they respected and even +feared him. + +Coming out of Kutúzov’s room into the waiting room with the papers in +his hand Prince Andrew came up to his comrade, the aide-de-camp on duty, +Kozlóvski, who was sitting at the window with a book. + +“Well, Prince?” asked Kozlóvski. + +“I am ordered to write a memorandum explaining why we are not +advancing.” + +“And why is it?” + +Prince Andrew shrugged his shoulders. + +“Any news from Mack?” + +“No.” + +“If it were true that he has been beaten, news would have come.” + +“Probably,” said Prince Andrew moving toward the outer door. + +But at that instant a tall Austrian general in a greatcoat, with the +order of Maria Theresa on his neck and a black bandage round his head, +who had evidently just arrived, entered quickly, slamming the door. +Prince Andrew stopped short. + +“Commander in Chief Kutúzov?” said the newly arrived general +speaking quickly with a harsh German accent, looking to both sides and +advancing straight toward the inner door. + +“The commander in chief is engaged,” said Kozlóvski, going +hurriedly up to the unknown general and blocking his way to the door. +“Whom shall I announce?” + +The unknown general looked disdainfully down at Kozlóvski, who was +rather short, as if surprised that anyone should not know him. + +“The commander in chief is engaged,” repeated Kozlóvski calmly. + +The general’s face clouded, his lips quivered and trembled. He took +out a notebook, hurriedly scribbled something in pencil, tore out the +leaf, gave it to Kozlóvski, stepped quickly to the window, and threw +himself into a chair, gazing at those in the room as if asking, “Why +do they look at me?” Then he lifted his head, stretched his neck as +if he intended to say something, but immediately, with affected +indifference, began to hum to himself, producing a queer sound which +immediately broke off. The door of the private room opened and Kutúzov +appeared in the doorway. The general with the bandaged head bent forward +as though running away from some danger, and, making long, quick strides +with his thin legs, went up to Kutúzov. + +“Vous voyez le malheureux Mack,” he uttered in a broken voice. + +Kutúzov’s face as he stood in the open doorway remained perfectly +immobile for a few moments. Then wrinkles ran over his face like a wave +and his forehead became smooth again, he bowed his head respectfully, +closed his eyes, silently let Mack enter his room before him, and closed +the door himself behind him. + +The report which had been circulated that the Austrians had been beaten +and that the whole army had surrendered at Ulm proved to be correct. +Within half an hour adjutants had been sent in various directions with +orders which showed that the Russian troops, who had hitherto been +inactive, would also soon have to meet the enemy. + +Prince Andrew was one of those rare staff officers whose chief interest +lay in the general progress of the war. When he saw Mack and heard the +details of his disaster he understood that half the campaign was lost, +understood all the difficulties of the Russian army’s position, and +vividly imagined what awaited it and the part he would have to +play. Involuntarily he felt a joyful agitation at the thought of the +humiliation of arrogant Austria and that in a week’s time he might, +perhaps, see and take part in the first Russian encounter with the +French since Suvórov met them. He feared that Bonaparte’s genius +might outweigh all the courage of the Russian troops, and at the same +time could not admit the idea of his hero being disgraced. + +Excited and irritated by these thoughts Prince Andrew went toward his +room to write to his father, to whom he wrote every day. In the corridor +he met Nesvítski, with whom he shared a room, and the wag Zherkóv; +they were as usual laughing. + +“Why are you so glum?” asked Nesvítski noticing Prince Andrew’s +pale face and glittering eyes. + +“There’s nothing to be gay about,” answered Bolkónski. + +Just as Prince Andrew met Nesvítski and Zherkóv, there came toward +them from the other end of the corridor, Strauch, an Austrian general +who on Kutúzov’s staff in charge of the provisioning of the Russian +army, and the member of the Hofkriegsrath who had arrived the previous +evening. There was room enough in the wide corridor for the generals to +pass the three officers quite easily, but Zherkóv, pushing Nesvítski +aside with his arm, said in a breathless voice, + +“They’re coming!... they’re coming!... Stand aside, make way, +please make way!” + +The generals were passing by, looking as if they wished to avoid +embarrassing attentions. On the face of the wag Zherkóv there suddenly +appeared a stupid smile of glee which he seemed unable to suppress. + +“Your excellency,” said he in German, stepping forward and +addressing the Austrian general, “I have the honor to congratulate +you.” + +He bowed his head and scraped first with one foot and then with the +other, awkwardly, like a child at a dancing lesson. + +The member of the Hofkriegsrath looked at him severely but, seeing the +seriousness of his stupid smile, could not but give him a moment’s +attention. He screwed up his eyes showing that he was listening. + +“I have the honor to congratulate you. General Mack has arrived, quite +well, only a little bruised just here,” he added, pointing with a +beaming smile to his head. + +The general frowned, turned away, and went on. + +“Gott, wie naiv!” * said he angrily, after he had gone a few steps. + + * “Good God, what simplicity!” + + +Nesvítski with a laugh threw his arms round Prince Andrew, but +Bolkónski, turning still paler, pushed him away with an angry look and +turned to Zherkóv. The nervous irritation aroused by the appearance +of Mack, the news of his defeat, and the thought of what lay before the +Russian army found vent in anger at Zherkóv’s untimely jest. + +“If you, sir, choose to make a buffoon of yourself,” he said +sharply, with a slight trembling of the lower jaw, “I can’t prevent +your doing so; but I warn you that if you dare to play the fool in my +presence, I will teach you to behave yourself.” + +Nesvítski and Zherkóv were so surprised by this outburst that they +gazed at Bolkónski silently with wide-open eyes. + +“What’s the matter? I only congratulated them,” said Zherkóv. + +“I am not jesting with you; please be silent!” cried Bolkónski, +and taking Nesvítski’s arm he left Zherkóv, who did not know what to +say. + +“Come, what’s the matter, old fellow?” said Nesvítski trying to +soothe him. + +“What’s the matter?” exclaimed Prince Andrew standing still in +his excitement. “Don’t you understand that either we are officers +serving our Tsar and our country, rejoicing in the successes and +grieving at the misfortunes of our common cause, or we are merely +lackeys who care nothing for their master’s business. Quarante mille +hommes massacrés et l’armée de nos alliés détruite, et vous +trouvez là le mot pour rire,” * he said, as if strengthening his +views by this French sentence. “C’est bien pour un garçon de rien +comme cet individu dont vous avez fait un ami, mais pas pour vous, pas +pour vous. *(2) Only a hobbledehoy could amuse himself in this +way,” he added in Russian—but pronouncing the word with a French +accent—having noticed that Zherkóv could still hear him. + + * “Forty thousand men massacred and the army of our allies + destroyed, and you find that a cause for jesting!” + + * (2) “It is all very well for that good-for-nothing fellow + of whom you have made a friend, but not for you, not for + you.” + + +He waited a moment to see whether the cornet would answer, but he turned +and went out of the corridor. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +The Pávlograd Hussars were stationed two miles from Braunau. The +squadron in which Nicholas Rostóv served as a cadet was quartered in +the German village of Salzeneck. The best quarters in the village were +assigned to cavalry-captain Denísov, the squadron commander, known +throughout the whole cavalry division as Váska Denísov. Cadet Rostóv, +ever since he had overtaken the regiment in Poland, had lived with the +squadron commander. + +On October 11, the day when all was astir at headquarters over the news +of Mack’s defeat, the camp life of the officers of this squadron was +proceeding as usual. Denísov, who had been losing at cards all night, +had not yet come home when Rostóv rode back early in the morning from +a foraging expedition. Rostóv in his cadet uniform, with a jerk to his +horse, rode up to the porch, swung his leg over the saddle with a supple +youthful movement, stood for a moment in the stirrup as if loathe to +part from his horse, and at last sprang down and called to his orderly. + +“Ah, Bondarénko, dear friend!” said he to the hussar who rushed up +headlong to the horse. “Walk him up and down, my dear fellow,” he +continued, with that gay brotherly cordiality which goodhearted young +people show to everyone when they are happy. + +“Yes, your excellency,” answered the Ukrainian gaily, tossing his +head. + +“Mind, walk him up and down well!” + +Another hussar also rushed toward the horse, but Bondarénko had already +thrown the reins of the snaffle bridle over the horse’s head. It was +evident that the cadet was liberal with his tips and that it paid to +serve him. Rostóv patted the horse’s neck and then his flank, and +lingered for a moment. + +“Splendid! What a horse he will be!” he thought with a smile, and +holding up his saber, his spurs jingling, he ran up the steps of the +porch. His landlord, who in a waistcoat and a pointed cap, pitchfork in +hand, was clearing manure from the cowhouse, looked out, and his face +immediately brightened on seeing Rostóv. “Schön gut Morgen! Schön +gut Morgen!” * he said winking with a merry smile, evidently pleased +to greet the young man. + + * “A very good morning! A very good morning!” + + +“Schon fleissig?” * said Rostóv with the same gay brotherly smile +which did not leave his eager face. “Hoch Oestreicher! Hoch Russen! +Kaiser Alexander hoch!” *(2) said he, quoting words often repeated by +the German landlord. + + * “Busy already?” + + * (2) “Hurrah for the Austrians! Hurrah for the Russians! + Hurrah for Emperor Alexander!” + + +The German laughed, came out of the cowshed, pulled off his cap, and +waving it above his head cried: + +“Und die ganze Welt hoch!” * + + * “And hurrah for the whole world!” + + +Rostóv waved his cap above his head like the German and cried laughing, +“Und vivat die ganze Welt!” Though neither the German cleaning his +cowshed nor Rostóv back with his platoon from foraging for hay had any +reason for rejoicing, they looked at each other with joyful delight and +brotherly love, wagged their heads in token of their mutual affection, +and parted smiling, the German returning to his cowshed and Rostóv +going to the cottage he occupied with Denísov. + +“What about your master?” he asked Lavrúshka, Denísov’s orderly, +whom all the regiment knew for a rogue. + +“Hasn’t been in since the evening. Must have been losing,” +answered Lavrúshka. “I know by now, if he wins he comes back early to +brag about it, but if he stays out till morning it means he’s lost and +will come back in a rage. Will you have coffee?” + +“Yes, bring some.” + +Ten minutes later Lavrúshka brought the coffee. “He’s coming!” +said he. “Now for trouble!” Rostóv looked out of the window and +saw Denísov coming home. Denísov was a small man with a red face, +sparkling black eyes, and black tousled mustache and hair. He wore an +unfastened cloak, wide breeches hanging down in creases, and a crumpled +shako on the back of his head. He came up to the porch gloomily, hanging +his head. + +“Lavwúska!” he shouted loudly and angrily, “take it off, +blockhead!” + +“Well, I am taking it off,” replied Lavrúshka’s voice. + +“Ah, you’re up already,” said Denísov, entering the room. + +“Long ago,” answered Rostóv, “I have already been for the hay, +and have seen Fräulein Mathilde.” + +“Weally! And I’ve been losing, bwother. I lost yesterday like a +damned fool!” cried Denísov, not pronouncing his r’s. “Such ill +luck! Such ill luck. As soon as you left, it began and went on. Hullo +there! Tea!” + +Puckering up his face though smiling, and showing his short strong +teeth, he began with stubby fingers of both hands to ruffle up his thick +tangled black hair. + +“And what devil made me go to that wat?” (an officer nicknamed +“the rat”) he said, rubbing his forehead and whole face with both +hands. “Just fancy, he didn’t let me win a single cahd, not one +cahd.” + +He took the lighted pipe that was offered to him, gripped it in his +fist, and tapped it on the floor, making the sparks fly, while he +continued to shout. + +“He lets one win the singles and collahs it as soon as one doubles it; +gives the singles and snatches the doubles!” + +He scattered the burning tobacco, smashed the pipe, and threw it away. +Then he remained silent for a while, and all at once looked cheerfully +with his glittering, black eyes at Rostóv. + +“If at least we had some women here; but there’s nothing foh one +to do but dwink. If we could only get to fighting soon. Hullo, who’s +there?” he said, turning to the door as he heard a tread of heavy +boots and the clinking of spurs that came to a stop, and a respectful +cough. + +“The squadron quartermaster!” said Lavrúshka. + +Denísov’s face puckered still more. + +“Wetched!” he muttered, throwing down a purse with some gold in it. +“Wostóv, deah fellow, just see how much there is left and shove the +purse undah the pillow,” he said, and went out to the quartermaster. + +Rostóv took the money and, mechanically arranging the old and new coins +in separate piles, began counting them. + +“Ah! Telyánin! How d’ye do? They plucked me last night,” came +Denísov’s voice from the next room. + +“Where? At Bykov’s, at the rat’s... I knew it,” replied a piping +voice, and Lieutenant Telyánin, a small officer of the same squadron, +entered the room. + +Rostóv thrust the purse under the pillow and shook the damp little hand +which was offered him. Telyánin for some reason had been transferred +from the Guards just before this campaign. He behaved very well in the +regiment but was not liked; Rostóv especially detested him and was +unable to overcome or conceal his groundless antipathy to the man. + +“Well, young cavalryman, how is my Rook behaving?” he asked. (Rook +was a young horse Telyánin had sold to Rostóv.) + +The lieutenant never looked the man he was speaking to straight in the +face; his eyes continually wandered from one object to another. + +“I saw you riding this morning...” he added. + +“Oh, he’s all right, a good horse,” answered Rostóv, though the +horse for which he had paid seven hundred rubbles was not worth half +that sum. “He’s begun to go a little lame on the left foreleg,” he +added. + +“The hoof’s cracked! That’s nothing. I’ll teach you what to do +and show you what kind of rivet to use.” + +“Yes, please do,” said Rostóv. + +“I’ll show you, I’ll show you! It’s not a secret. And it’s a +horse you’ll thank me for.” + +“Then I’ll have it brought round,” said Rostóv wishing to avoid +Telyánin, and he went out to give the order. + +In the passage Denísov, with a pipe, was squatting on the threshold +facing the quartermaster who was reporting to him. On seeing Rostóv, +Denísov screwed up his face and pointing over his shoulder with his +thumb to the room where Telyánin was sitting, he frowned and gave a +shudder of disgust. + +“Ugh! I don’t like that fellow,” he said, regardless of the +quartermaster’s presence. + +Rostóv shrugged his shoulders as much as to say: “Nor do I, but +what’s one to do?” and, having given his order, he returned to +Telyánin. + +Telyánin was sitting in the same indolent pose in which Rostóv had +left him, rubbing his small white hands. + +“Well there certainly are disgusting people,” thought Rostóv as he +entered. + +“Have you told them to bring the horse?” asked Telyánin, getting up +and looking carelessly about him. + +“I have.” + +“Let us go ourselves. I only came round to ask Denísov about +yesterday’s order. Have you got it, Denísov?” + +“Not yet. But where are you off to?” + +“I want to teach this young man how to shoe a horse,” said +Telyánin. + +They went through the porch and into the stable. The lieutenant +explained how to rivet the hoof and went away to his own quarters. + +When Rostóv went back there was a bottle of vodka and a sausage on the +table. Denísov was sitting there scratching with his pen on a sheet of +paper. He looked gloomily in Rostóv’s face and said: “I am witing +to her.” + +He leaned his elbows on the table with his pen in his hand and, +evidently glad of a chance to say quicker in words what he wanted to +write, told Rostóv the contents of his letter. + +“You see, my fwiend,” he said, “we sleep when we don’t love. We +are childwen of the dust... but one falls in love and one is a God, one +is pua’ as on the fihst day of cweation... Who’s that now? Send him +to the devil, I’m busy!” he shouted to Lavrúshka, who went up to +him not in the least abashed. + +“Who should it be? You yourself told him to come. It’s the +quartermaster for the money.” + +Denísov frowned and was about to shout some reply but stopped. + +“Wetched business,” he muttered to himself. “How much is left in +the puhse?” he asked, turning to Rostóv. + +“Seven new and three old imperials.” + +“Oh, it’s wetched! Well, what are you standing there for, you +sca’cwow? Call the quahtehmasteh,” he shouted to Lavrúshka. + +“Please, Denísov, let me lend you some: I have some, you know,” +said Rostóv, blushing. + +“Don’t like bowwowing from my own fellows, I don’t,” growled +Denísov. + +“But if you won’t accept money from me like a comrade, you will +offend me. Really I have some,” Rostóv repeated. + +“No, I tell you.” + +And Denísov went to the bed to get the purse from under the pillow. + +“Where have you put it, Wostóv?” + +“Under the lower pillow.” + +“It’s not there.” + +Denísov threw both pillows on the floor. The purse was not there. + +“That’s a miwacle.” + +“Wait, haven’t you dropped it?” said Rostóv, picking up the +pillows one at a time and shaking them. + +He pulled off the quilt and shook it. The purse was not there. + +“Dear me, can I have forgotten? No, I remember thinking that you kept +it under your head like a treasure,” said Rostóv. “I put it just +here. Where is it?” he asked, turning to Lavrúshka. + +“I haven’t been in the room. It must be where you put it.” + +“But it isn’t?...” + +“You’re always like that; you thwow a thing down anywhere and forget +it. Feel in your pockets.” + +“No, if I hadn’t thought of it being a treasure,” said Rostóv, +“but I remember putting it there.” + +Lavrúshka turned all the bedding over, looked under the bed and under +the table, searched everywhere, and stood still in the middle of the +room. Denísov silently watched Lavrúshka’s movements, and when the +latter threw up his arms in surprise saying it was nowhere to be found +Denísov glanced at Rostóv. + +“Wostóv, you’ve not been playing schoolboy twicks...” + +Rostóv felt Denísov’s gaze fixed on him, raised his eyes, and +instantly dropped them again. All the blood which had seemed congested +somewhere below his throat rushed to his face and eyes. He could not +draw breath. + +“And there hasn’t been anyone in the room except the lieutenant and +yourselves. It must be here somewhere,” said Lavrúshka. + +“Now then, you devil’s puppet, look alive and hunt for it!” +shouted Denísov, suddenly, turning purple and rushing at the man with +a threatening gesture. “If the purse isn’t found I’ll flog you, +I’ll flog you all.” + +Rostóv, his eyes avoiding Denísov, began buttoning his coat, buckled +on his saber, and put on his cap. + +“I must have that purse, I tell you,” shouted Denísov, shaking his +orderly by the shoulders and knocking him against the wall. + +“Denísov, let him alone, I know who has taken it,” said Rostóv, +going toward the door without raising his eyes. Denísov paused, thought +a moment, and, evidently understanding what Rostóv hinted at, seized +his arm. + +“Nonsense!” he cried, and the veins on his forehead and neck stood +out like cords. “You are mad, I tell you. I won’t allow it. +The purse is here! I’ll flay this scoundwel alive, and it will be +found.” + +“I know who has taken it,” repeated Rostóv in an unsteady voice, +and went to the door. + +“And I tell you, don’t you dahe to do it!” shouted Denísov, +rushing at the cadet to restrain him. + +But Rostóv pulled away his arm and, with as much anger as though +Denísov were his worst enemy, firmly fixed his eyes directly on his +face. + +“Do you understand what you’re saying?” he said in a trembling +voice. “There was no one else in the room except myself. So that if it +is not so, then...” + +He could not finish, and ran out of the room. + +“Ah, may the devil take you and evewybody,” were the last words +Rostóv heard. + +Rostóv went to Telyánin’s quarters. + +“The master is not in, he’s gone to headquarters,” said +Telyánin’s orderly. “Has something happened?” he added, surprised +at the cadet’s troubled face. + +“No, nothing.” + +“You’ve only just missed him,” said the orderly. + +The headquarters were situated two miles away from Salzeneck, and +Rostóv, without returning home, took a horse and rode there. There was +an inn in the village which the officers frequented. Rostóv rode up to +it and saw Telyánin’s horse at the porch. + +In the second room of the inn the lieutenant was sitting over a dish of +sausages and a bottle of wine. + +“Ah, you’ve come here too, young man!” he said, smiling and +raising his eyebrows. + +“Yes,” said Rostóv as if it cost him a great deal to utter the +word; and he sat down at the nearest table. + +Both were silent. There were two Germans and a Russian officer in the +room. No one spoke and the only sounds heard were the clatter of knives +and the munching of the lieutenant. + +When Telyánin had finished his lunch he took out of his pocket a double +purse and, drawing its rings aside with his small, white, turned-up +fingers, drew out a gold imperial, and lifting his eyebrows gave it to +the waiter. + +“Please be quick,” he said. + +The coin was a new one. Rostóv rose and went up to Telyánin. + +“Allow me to look at your purse,” he said in a low, almost +inaudible, voice. + +With shifting eyes but eyebrows still raised, Telyánin handed him the +purse. + +“Yes, it’s a nice purse. Yes, yes,” he said, growing suddenly +pale, and added, “Look at it, young man.” + +Rostóv took the purse in his hand, examined it and the money in it, and +looked at Telyánin. The lieutenant was looking about in his usual way +and suddenly seemed to grow very merry. + +“If we get to Vienna I’ll get rid of it there but in these wretched +little towns there’s nowhere to spend it,” said he. “Well, let me +have it, young man, I’m going.” + +Rostóv did not speak. + +“And you? Are you going to have lunch too? They feed you quite +decently here,” continued Telyánin. “Now then, let me have it.” + +He stretched out his hand to take hold of the purse. Rostóv let go of +it. Telyánin took the purse and began carelessly slipping it into the +pocket of his riding breeches, with his eyebrows lifted and his mouth +slightly open, as if to say, “Yes, yes, I am putting my purse in my +pocket and that’s quite simple and is no one else’s business.” + +“Well, young man?” he said with a sigh, and from under his lifted +brows he glanced into Rostóv’s eyes. + +Some flash as of an electric spark shot from Telyánin’s eyes to +Rostóv’s and back, and back again and again in an instant. + +“Come here,” said Rostóv, catching hold of Telyánin’s arm and +almost dragging him to the window. “That money is Denísov’s; you +took it...” he whispered just above Telyánin’s ear. + +“What? What? How dare you? What?” said Telyánin. + +But these words came like a piteous, despairing cry and an entreaty for +pardon. As soon as Rostóv heard them, an enormous load of doubt +fell from him. He was glad, and at the same instant began to pity the +miserable man who stood before him, but the task he had begun had to be +completed. + +“Heaven only knows what the people here may imagine,” muttered +Telyánin, taking up his cap and moving toward a small empty room. “We +must have an explanation...” + +“I know it and shall prove it,” said Rostóv. + +“I...” + +Every muscle of Telyánin’s pale, terrified face began to quiver, his +eyes still shifted from side to side but with a downward look not rising +to Rostóv’s face, and his sobs were audible. + +“Count!... Don’t ruin a young fellow... here is this wretched money, +take it...” He threw it on the table. “I have an old father and +mother!...” + +Rostóv took the money, avoiding Telyánin’s eyes, and went out of the +room without a word. But at the door he stopped and then retraced his +steps. “O God,” he said with tears in his eyes, “how could you do +it?” + +“Count...” said Telyánin drawing nearer to him. + +“Don’t touch me,” said Rostóv, drawing back. “If you need it, +take the money,” and he threw the purse to him and ran out of the inn. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +That same evening there was an animated discussion among the +squadron’s officers in Denísov’s quarters. + +“And I tell you, Rostóv, that you must apologize to the colonel!” +said a tall, grizzly-haired staff captain, with enormous mustaches and +many wrinkles on his large features, to Rostóv who was crimson with +excitement. + +The staff captain, Kírsten, had twice been reduced to the ranks for +affairs of honor and had twice regained his commission. + +“I will allow no one to call me a liar!” cried Rostóv. “He told +me I lied, and I told him he lied. And there it rests. He may keep me +on duty every day, or may place me under arrest, but no one can make +me apologize, because if he, as commander of this regiment, thinks it +beneath his dignity to give me satisfaction, then...” + +“You just wait a moment, my dear fellow, and listen,” interrupted +the staff captain in his deep bass, calmly stroking his long mustache. +“You tell the colonel in the presence of other officers that an +officer has stolen...” + +“I’m not to blame that the conversation began in the presence of +other officers. Perhaps I ought not to have spoken before them, but I am +not a diplomatist. That’s why I joined the hussars, thinking that here +one would not need finesse; and he tells me that I am lying—so let him +give me satisfaction...” + +“That’s all right. No one thinks you a coward, but that’s not the +point. Ask Denísov whether it is not out of the question for a cadet to +demand satisfaction of his regimental commander?” + +Denísov sat gloomily biting his mustache and listening to the +conversation, evidently with no wish to take part in it. He answered the +staff captain’s question by a disapproving shake of his head. + +“You speak to the colonel about this nasty business before other +officers,” continued the staff captain, “and Bogdánich” (the +colonel was called Bogdánich) “shuts you up.” + +“He did not shut me up, he said I was telling an untruth.” + +“Well, have it so, and you talked a lot of nonsense to him and must +apologize.” + +“Not on any account!” exclaimed Rostóv. + +“I did not expect this of you,” said the staff captain seriously and +severely. “You don’t wish to apologize, but, man, it’s not only to +him but to the whole regiment—all of us—you’re to blame all round. +The case is this: you ought to have thought the matter over and +taken advice; but no, you go and blurt it all straight out before the +officers. Now what was the colonel to do? Have the officer tried and +disgrace the whole regiment? Disgrace the whole regiment because of one +scoundrel? Is that how you look at it? We don’t see it like that. And +Bogdánich was a brick: he told you you were saying what was not true. +It’s not pleasant, but what’s to be done, my dear fellow? You landed +yourself in it. And now, when one wants to smooth the thing over, some +conceit prevents your apologizing, and you wish to make the whole +affair public. You are offended at being put on duty a bit, but why not +apologize to an old and honorable officer? Whatever Bogdánich may +be, anyway he is an honorable and brave old colonel! You’re quick at +taking offense, but you don’t mind disgracing the whole regiment!” +The staff captain’s voice began to tremble. “You have been in the +regiment next to no time, my lad, you’re here today and tomorrow +you’ll be appointed adjutant somewhere and can snap your fingers when +it is said ‘There are thieves among the Pávlograd officers!’ But +it’s not all the same to us! Am I not right, Denísov? It’s not the +same!” + +Denísov remained silent and did not move, but occasionally looked with +his glittering black eyes at Rostóv. + +“You value your own pride and don’t wish to apologize,” continued +the staff captain, “but we old fellows, who have grown up in and, God +willing, are going to die in the regiment, we prize the honor of the +regiment, and Bogdánich knows it. Oh, we do prize it, old fellow! And +all this is not right, it’s not right! You may take offense or not but +I always stick to mother truth. It’s not right!” + +And the staff captain rose and turned away from Rostóv. + +“That’s twue, devil take it!” shouted Denísov, jumping up. “Now +then, Wostóv, now then!” + +Rostóv, growing red and pale alternately, looked first at one officer +and then at the other. + +“No, gentlemen, no... you mustn’t think... I quite understand. +You’re wrong to think that of me... I... for me... for the honor of +the regiment I’d... Ah well, I’ll show that in action, and for me +the honor of the flag... Well, never mind, it’s true I’m to blame, +to blame all round. Well, what else do you want?...” + +“Come, that’s right, Count!” cried the staff captain, turning +round and clapping Rostóv on the shoulder with his big hand. + +“I tell you,” shouted Denísov, “he’s a fine fellow.” + +“That’s better, Count,” said the staff captain, beginning to +address Rostóv by his title, as if in recognition of his confession. +“Go and apologize, your excellency. Yes, go!” + +“Gentlemen, I’ll do anything. No one shall hear a word from me,” +said Rostóv in an imploring voice, “but I can’t apologize, by God I +can’t, do what you will! How can I go and apologize like a little boy +asking forgiveness?” + +Denísov began to laugh. + +“It’ll be worse for you. Bogdánich is vindictive and you’ll pay +for your obstinacy,” said Kírsten. + +“No, on my word it’s not obstinacy! I can’t describe the feeling. +I can’t...” + +“Well, it’s as you like,” said the staff captain. “And what has +become of that scoundrel?” he asked Denísov. + +“He has weported himself sick, he’s to be stwuck off the list +tomowwow,” muttered Denísov. + +“It is an illness, there’s no other way of explaining it,” said +the staff captain. + +“Illness or not, he’d better not cwoss my path. I’d kill him!” +shouted Denísov in a bloodthirsty tone. + +Just then Zherkóv entered the room. + +“What brings you here?” cried the officers turning to the newcomer. + +“We’re to go into action, gentlemen! Mack has surrendered with his +whole army.” + +“It’s not true!” + +“I’ve seen him myself!” + +“What? Saw the real Mack? With hands and feet?” + +“Into action! Into action! Bring him a bottle for such news! But how +did you come here?” + +“I’ve been sent back to the regiment all on account of that devil, +Mack. An Austrian general complained of me. I congratulated him on +Mack’s arrival... What’s the matter, Rostóv? You look as if you’d +just come out of a hot bath.” + +“Oh, my dear fellow, we’re in such a stew here these last two +days.” + +The regimental adjutant came in and confirmed the news brought by +Zherkóv. They were under orders to advance next day. + +“We’re going into action, gentlemen!” + +“Well, thank God! We’ve been sitting here too long!” + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +Kutúzov fell back toward Vienna, destroying behind him the bridges over +the rivers Inn (at Braunau) and Traun (near Linz). On October 23 the +Russian troops were crossing the river Enns. At midday the Russian +baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling +through the town of Enns on both sides of the bridge. + +It was a warm, rainy, autumnal day. The wide expanse that opened out +before the heights on which the Russian batteries stood guarding the +bridge was at times veiled by a diaphanous curtain of slanting rain, and +then, suddenly spread out in the sunlight, far-distant objects could +be clearly seen glittering as though freshly varnished. Down below, +the little town could be seen with its white, red-roofed houses, its +cathedral, and its bridge, on both sides of which streamed jostling +masses of Russian troops. At the bend of the Danube, vessels, an island, +and a castle with a park surrounded by the waters of the confluence of +the Enns and the Danube became visible, and the rocky left bank of the +Danube covered with pine forests, with a mystic background of green +treetops and bluish gorges. The turrets of a convent stood out beyond a +wild virgin pine forest, and far away on the other side of the Enns the +enemy’s horse patrols could be discerned. + +Among the field guns on the brow of the hill the general in command of +the rearguard stood with a staff officer, scanning the country through +his fieldglass. A little behind them Nesvítski, who had been sent to +the rearguard by the commander in chief, was sitting on the trail of a +gun carriage. A Cossack who accompanied him had handed him a knapsack +and a flask, and Nesvítski was treating some officers to pies and real +doppelkümmel. The officers gladly gathered round him, some on their +knees, some squatting Turkish fashion on the wet grass. + +“Yes, the Austrian prince who built that castle was no fool. It’s +a fine place! Why are you not eating anything, gentlemen?” Nesvítski +was saying. + +“Thank you very much, Prince,” answered one of the officers, pleased +to be talking to a staff officer of such importance. “It’s a lovely +place! We passed close to the park and saw two deer... and what a +splendid house!” + +“Look, Prince,” said another, who would have dearly liked to take +another pie but felt shy, and therefore pretended to be examining the +countryside—“See, our infantrymen have already got there. Look there +in the meadow behind the village, three of them are dragging something. +They’ll ransack that castle,” he remarked with evident approval. + +“So they will,” said Nesvítski. “No, but what I should like,” +added he, munching a pie in his moist-lipped handsome mouth, “would be +to slip in over there.” + +He pointed with a smile to a turreted nunnery, and his eyes narrowed and +gleamed. + +“That would be fine, gentlemen!” + +The officers laughed. + +“Just to flutter the nuns a bit. They say there are Italian girls +among them. On my word I’d give five years of my life for it!” + +“They must be feeling dull, too,” said one of the bolder officers, +laughing. + +Meanwhile the staff officer standing in front pointed out something to +the general, who looked through his field glass. + +“Yes, so it is, so it is,” said the general angrily, lowering the +field glass and shrugging his shoulders, “so it is! They’ll be fired +on at the crossing. And why are they dawdling there?” + +On the opposite side the enemy could be seen by the naked eye, and from +their battery a milk-white cloud arose. Then came the distant report of +a shot, and our troops could be seen hurrying to the crossing. + +Nesvítski rose, puffing, and went up to the general, smiling. + +“Would not your excellency like a little refreshment?” he said. + +“It’s a bad business,” said the general without answering him, +“our men have been wasting time.” + +“Hadn’t I better ride over, your excellency?” asked Nesvítski. + +“Yes, please do,” answered the general, and he repeated the order +that had already once been given in detail: “and tell the hussars +that they are to cross last and to fire the bridge as I ordered; and the +inflammable material on the bridge must be reinspected.” + +“Very good,” answered Nesvítski. + +He called the Cossack with his horse, told him to put away the knapsack +and flask, and swung his heavy person easily into the saddle. + +“I’ll really call in on the nuns,” he said to the officers who +watched him smilingly, and he rode off by the winding path down the +hill. + +“Now then, let’s see how far it will carry, Captain. Just try!” +said the general, turning to an artillery officer. “Have a little fun +to pass the time.” + +“Crew, to your guns!” commanded the officer. + +In a moment the men came running gaily from their campfires and began +loading. + +“One!” came the command. + +Number one jumped briskly aside. The gun rang out with a deafening +metallic roar, and a whistling grenade flew above the heads of our +troops below the hill and fell far short of the enemy, a little smoke +showing the spot where it burst. + +The faces of officers and men brightened up at the sound. Everyone got +up and began watching the movements of our troops below, as plainly +visible as if but a stone’s throw away, and the movements of the +approaching enemy farther off. At the same instant the sun came fully +out from behind the clouds, and the clear sound of the solitary shot +and the brilliance of the bright sunshine merged in a single joyous and +spirited impression. + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +Two of the enemy’s shots had already flown across the bridge, where +there was a crush. Halfway across stood Prince Nesvítski, who had +alighted from his horse and whose big body was jammed against the +railings. He looked back laughing to the Cossack who stood a few +steps behind him holding two horses by their bridles. Each time Prince +Nesvítski tried to move on, soldiers and carts pushed him back again +and pressed him against the railings, and all he could do was to smile. + +“What a fine fellow you are, friend!” said the Cossack to a convoy +soldier with a wagon, who was pressing onto the infantrymen who were +crowded together close to his wheels and his horses. “What a fellow! +You can’t wait a moment! Don’t you see the general wants to pass?” + +But the convoyman took no notice of the word “general” and shouted +at the soldiers who were blocking his way. “Hi there, boys! Keep to +the left! Wait a bit.” But the soldiers, crowded together shoulder to +shoulder, their bayonets interlocking, moved over the bridge in a dense +mass. Looking down over the rails Prince Nesvítski saw the rapid, noisy +little waves of the Enns, which rippling and eddying round the piles of +the bridge chased each other along. Looking on the bridge he saw equally +uniform living waves of soldiers, shoulder straps, covered shakos, +knapsacks, bayonets, long muskets, and, under the shakos, faces with +broad cheekbones, sunken cheeks, and listless tired expressions, and +feet that moved through the sticky mud that covered the planks of the +bridge. Sometimes through the monotonous waves of men, like a fleck of +white foam on the waves of the Enns, an officer, in a cloak and with +a type of face different from that of the men, squeezed his way along; +sometimes like a chip of wood whirling in the river, an hussar on foot, +an orderly, or a townsman was carried through the waves of infantry; +and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers’ or +company’s baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered, and hemmed in on +all sides, moved across the bridge. + +“It’s as if a dam had burst,” said the Cossack hopelessly. “Are +there many more of you to come?” + +“A million all but one!” replied a waggish soldier in a torn coat, +with a wink, and passed on followed by another, an old man. + +“If he” (he meant the enemy) “begins popping at the bridge now,” +said the old soldier dismally to a comrade, “you’ll forget to +scratch yourself.” + +That soldier passed on, and after him came another sitting on a cart. + +“Where the devil have the leg bands been shoved to?” said an +orderly, running behind the cart and fumbling in the back of it. + +And he also passed on with the wagon. Then came some merry soldiers who +had evidently been drinking. + +“And then, old fellow, he gives him one in the teeth with the butt +end of his gun...” a soldier whose greatcoat was well tucked up said +gaily, with a wide swing of his arm. + +“Yes, the ham was just delicious...” answered another with a loud +laugh. And they, too, passed on, so that Nesvítski did not learn who +had been struck on the teeth, or what the ham had to do with it. + +“Bah! How they scurry. He just sends a ball and they think they’ll +all be killed,” a sergeant was saying angrily and reproachfully. + +“As it flies past me, Daddy, the ball I mean,” said a young soldier +with an enormous mouth, hardly refraining from laughing, “I felt like +dying of fright. I did, ‘pon my word, I got that frightened!” said +he, as if bragging of having been frightened. + +That one also passed. Then followed a cart unlike any that had gone +before. It was a German cart with a pair of horses led by a German, and +seemed loaded with a whole houseful of effects. A fine brindled cow with +a large udder was attached to the cart behind. A woman with an unweaned +baby, an old woman, and a healthy German girl with bright red cheeks +were sitting on some feather beds. Evidently these fugitives were +allowed to pass by special permission. The eyes of all the soldiers +turned toward the women, and while the vehicle was passing at foot pace +all the soldiers’ remarks related to the two young ones. Every face +bore almost the same smile, expressing unseemly thoughts about the +women. + +“Just see, the German sausage is making tracks, too!” + +“Sell me the missis,” said another soldier, addressing the German, +who, angry and frightened, strode energetically along with downcast +eyes. + +“See how smart she’s made herself! Oh, the devils!” + +“There, Fedótov, you should be quartered on them!” + +“I have seen as much before now, mate!” + +“Where are you going?” asked an infantry officer who was eating an +apple, also half smiling as he looked at the handsome girl. + +The German closed his eyes, signifying that he did not understand. + +“Take it if you like,” said the officer, giving the girl an apple. + +The girl smiled and took it. Nesvítski like the rest of the men on the +bridge did not take his eyes off the women till they had passed. When +they had gone by, the same stream of soldiers followed, with the same +kind of talk, and at last all stopped. As often happens, the horses of +a convoy wagon became restive at the end of the bridge, and the whole +crowd had to wait. + +“And why are they stopping? There’s no proper order!” said the +soldiers. “Where are you shoving to? Devil take you! Can’t you wait? +It’ll be worse if he fires the bridge. See, here’s an officer jammed +in too”—different voices were saying in the crowd, as the men looked +at one another, and all pressed toward the exit from the bridge. + +Looking down at the waters of the Enns under the bridge, Nesvítski +suddenly heard a sound new to him, of something swiftly approaching... +something big, that splashed into the water. + +“Just see where it carries to!” a soldier near by said sternly, +looking round at the sound. + +“Encouraging us to get along quicker,” said another uneasily. + +The crowd moved on again. Nesvítski realized that it was a cannon ball. + +“Hey, Cossack, my horse!” he said. “Now, then, you there! get out +of the way! Make way!” + +With great difficulty he managed to get to his horse, and shouting +continually he moved on. The soldiers squeezed themselves to make way +for him, but again pressed on him so that they jammed his leg, and those +nearest him were not to blame for they were themselves pressed still +harder from behind. + +“Nesvítski, Nesvítski! you numskull!” came a hoarse voice from +behind him. + +Nesvítski looked round and saw, some fifteen paces away but separated +by the living mass of moving infantry, Váska Denísov, red and shaggy, +with his cap on the back of his black head and a cloak hanging jauntily +over his shoulder. + +“Tell these devils, these fiends, to let me pass!” shouted Denísov +evidently in a fit of rage, his coal-black eyes with their bloodshot +whites glittering and rolling as he waved his sheathed saber in a small +bare hand as red as his face. + +“Ah, Váska!” joyfully replied Nesvítski. “What’s up with +you?” + +“The squadwon can’t pass,” shouted Váska Denísov, showing his +white teeth fiercely and spurring his black thoroughbred Arab, which +twitched its ears as the bayonets touched it, and snorted, spurting +white foam from his bit, tramping the planks of the bridge with his +hoofs, and apparently ready to jump over the railings had his rider let +him. “What is this? They’re like sheep! Just like sheep! Out of the +way!... Let us pass!... Stop there, you devil with the cart! I’ll hack +you with my saber!” he shouted, actually drawing his saber from its +scabbard and flourishing it. + +The soldiers crowded against one another with terrified faces, and +Denísov joined Nesvítski. + +“How’s it you’re not drunk today?” said Nesvítski when the +other had ridden up to him. + +“They don’t even give one time to dwink!” answered Váska +Denísov. “They keep dwagging the wegiment to and fwo all day. If they +mean to fight, let’s fight. But the devil knows what this is.” + +“What a dandy you are today!” said Nesvítski, looking at +Denísov’s new cloak and saddlecloth. + +Denísov smiled, took out of his sabretache a handkerchief that diffused +a smell of perfume, and put it to Nesvítski’s nose. + +“Of course. I’m going into action! I’ve shaved, bwushed my teeth, +and scented myself.” + +The imposing figure of Nesvítski followed by his Cossack, and +the determination of Denísov who flourished his sword and shouted +frantically, had such an effect that they managed to squeeze through +to the farther side of the bridge and stopped the infantry. Beside the +bridge Nesvítski found the colonel to whom he had to deliver the order, +and having done this he rode back. + +Having cleared the way Denísov stopped at the end of the bridge. +Carelessly holding in his stallion that was neighing and pawing the +ground, eager to rejoin its fellows, he watched his squadron draw +nearer. Then the clang of hoofs, as of several horses galloping, +resounded on the planks of the bridge, and the squadron, officers in +front and men four abreast, spread across the bridge and began to emerge +on his side of it. + +The infantry who had been stopped crowded near the bridge in the +trampled mud and gazed with that particular feeling of ill-will, +estrangement, and ridicule with which troops of different arms usually +encounter one another at the clean, smart hussars who moved past them in +regular order. + +“Smart lads! Only fit for a fair!” said one. + +“What good are they? They’re led about just for show!” remarked +another. + +“Don’t kick up the dust, you infantry!” jested an hussar whose +prancing horse had splashed mud over some foot soldiers. + +“I’d like to put you on a two days’ march with a knapsack! Your +fine cords would soon get a bit rubbed,” said an infantryman, wiping +the mud off his face with his sleeve. “Perched up there, you’re more +like a bird than a man.” + +“There now, Zíkin, they ought to put you on a horse. You’d look +fine,” said a corporal, chaffing a thin little soldier who bent under +the weight of his knapsack. + +“Take a stick between your legs, that’ll suit you for a horse!” +the hussar shouted back. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +The last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing +together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel. At last +the baggage wagons had all crossed, the crush was less, and the last +battalion came onto the bridge. Only Denísov’s squadron of hussars +remained on the farther side of the bridge facing the enemy, who could +be seen from the hill on the opposite bank but was not yet visible from +the bridge, for the horizon as seen from the valley through which the +river flowed was formed by the rising ground only half a mile away. +At the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our +Cossack scouts were moving. Suddenly on the road at the top of the high +ground, artillery and troops in blue uniform were seen. These were the +French. A group of Cossack scouts retired down the hill at a trot. All +the officers and men of Denísov’s squadron, though they tried to talk +of other things and to look in other directions, thought only of what +was there on the hilltop, and kept constantly looking at the patches +appearing on the skyline, which they knew to be the enemy’s troops. +The weather had cleared again since noon and the sun was descending +brightly upon the Danube and the dark hills around it. It was calm, and +at intervals the bugle calls and the shouts of the enemy could be heard +from the hill. There was no one now between the squadron and the enemy +except a few scattered skirmishers. An empty space of some seven hundred +yards was all that separated them. The enemy ceased firing, and that +stern, threatening, inaccessible, and intangible line which separates +two hostile armies was all the more clearly felt. + +“One step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing +the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. And +what is there? Who is there?—there beyond that field, that tree, that +roof lit up by the sun? No one knows, but one wants to know. You fear +and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must +be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will +inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. But you are +strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and are surrounded by other such +excitedly animated and healthy men.” So thinks, or at any rate +feels, anyone who comes in sight of the enemy, and that feeling gives +a particular glamour and glad keenness of impression to everything that +takes place at such moments. + +On the high ground where the enemy was, the smoke of a cannon rose, +and a ball flew whistling over the heads of the hussar squadron. The +officers who had been standing together rode off to their places. The +hussars began carefully aligning their horses. Silence fell on the whole +squadron. All were looking at the enemy in front and at the squadron +commander, awaiting the word of command. A second and a third cannon +ball flew past. Evidently they were firing at the hussars, but the balls +with rapid rhythmic whistle flew over the heads of the horsemen and fell +somewhere beyond them. The hussars did not look round, but at the sound +of each shot, as at the word of command, the whole squadron with its +rows of faces so alike yet so different, holding its breath while the +ball flew past, rose in the stirrups and sank back again. The soldiers +without turning their heads glanced at one another, curious to see their +comrades’ impression. Every face, from Denísov’s to that of the +bugler, showed one common expression of conflict, irritation, and +excitement, around chin and mouth. The quartermaster frowned, looking +at the soldiers as if threatening to punish them. Cadet Mirónov ducked +every time a ball flew past. Rostóv on the left flank, mounted on his +Rook—a handsome horse despite its game leg—had the happy air of a +schoolboy called up before a large audience for an examination in which +he feels sure he will distinguish himself. He was glancing at everyone +with a clear, bright expression, as if asking them to notice how calmly +he sat under fire. But despite himself, on his face too that same +indication of something new and stern showed round the mouth. + +“Who’s that curtseying there? Cadet Miwónov! That’s not wight! +Look at me,” cried Denísov who, unable to keep still on one spot, +kept turning his horse in front of the squadron. + +The black, hairy, snub-nosed face of Váska Denísov, and his whole +short sturdy figure with the sinewy hairy hand and stumpy fingers in +which he held the hilt of his naked saber, looked just as it usually +did, especially toward evening when he had emptied his second bottle; he +was only redder than usual. With his shaggy head thrown back like birds +when they drink, pressing his spurs mercilessly into the sides of his +good horse, Bedouin, and sitting as though falling backwards in the +saddle, he galloped to the other flank of the squadron and shouted in +a hoarse voice to the men to look to their pistols. He rode up to +Kírsten. The staff captain on his broad-backed, steady mare came at a +walk to meet him. His face with its long mustache was serious as always, +only his eyes were brighter than usual. + +“Well, what about it?” said he to Denísov. “It won’t come to a +fight. You’ll see—we shall retire.” + +“The devil only knows what they’re about!” muttered Denísov. +“Ah, Wostóv,” he cried noticing the cadet’s bright face, +“you’ve got it at last.” + +And he smiled approvingly, evidently pleased with the cadet. Rostóv +felt perfectly happy. Just then the commander appeared on the bridge. +Denísov galloped up to him. + +“Your excellency! Let us attack them! I’ll dwive them off.” + +“Attack indeed!” said the colonel in a bored voice, puckering up his +face as if driving off a troublesome fly. “And why are you stopping +here? Don’t you see the skirmishers are retreating? Lead the squadron +back.” + +The squadron crossed the bridge and drew out of range of fire without +having lost a single man. The second squadron that had been in the front +line followed them across and the last Cossacks quitted the farther side +of the river. + +The two Pávlograd squadrons, having crossed the bridge, retired up the +hill one after the other. Their colonel, Karl Bogdánich Schubert, came +up to Denísov’s squadron and rode at a footpace not far from Rostóv, +without taking any notice of him although they were now meeting for the +first time since their encounter concerning Telyánin. Rostóv, feeling +that he was at the front and in the power of a man toward whom he now +admitted that he had been to blame, did not lift his eyes from the +colonel’s athletic back, his nape covered with light hair, and his red +neck. It seemed to Rostóv that Bogdánich was only pretending not +to notice him, and that his whole aim now was to test the cadet’s +courage, so he drew himself up and looked around him merrily; then it +seemed to him that Bogdánich rode so near in order to show him his +courage. Next he thought that his enemy would send the squadron on a +desperate attack just to punish him—Rostóv. Then he imagined how, +after the attack, Bogdánich would come up to him as he lay wounded and +would magnanimously extend the hand of reconciliation. + +The high-shouldered figure of Zherkóv, familiar to the Pávlograds as +he had but recently left their regiment, rode up to the colonel. +After his dismissal from headquarters Zherkóv had not remained in the +regiment, saying he was not such a fool as to slave at the front when he +could get more rewards by doing nothing on the staff, and had succeeded +in attaching himself as an orderly officer to Prince Bagratión. He now +came to his former chief with an order from the commander of the rear +guard. + +“Colonel,” he said, addressing Rostóv’s enemy with an air of +gloomy gravity and glancing round at his comrades, “there is an order +to stop and fire the bridge.” + +“An order to who?” asked the colonel morosely. + +“I don’t myself know ‘to who,’” replied the cornet in a +serious tone, “but the prince told me to ‘go and tell the colonel +that the hussars must return quickly and fire the bridge.’” + +Zherkóv was followed by an officer of the suite who rode up to the +colonel of hussars with the same order. After him the stout Nesvítski +came galloping up on a Cossack horse that could scarcely carry his +weight. + +“How’s this, Colonel?” he shouted as he approached. “I told you +to fire the bridge, and now someone has gone and blundered; they are all +beside themselves over there and one can’t make anything out.” + +The colonel deliberately stopped the regiment and turned to Nesvítski. + +“You spoke to me of inflammable material,” said he, “but you said +nothing about firing it.” + +“But, my dear sir,” said Nesvítski as he drew up, taking off his +cap and smoothing his hair wet with perspiration with his plump hand, +“wasn’t I telling you to fire the bridge, when inflammable material +had been put in position?” + +“I am not your ‘dear sir,’ Mr. Staff Officer, and you did not tell +me to burn the bridge! I know the service, and it is my habit orders +strictly to obey. You said the bridge would be burned, but who would it +burn, I could not know by the holy spirit!” + +“Ah, that’s always the way!” said Nesvítski with a wave of the +hand. “How did you get here?” said he, turning to Zherkóv. + +“On the same business. But you are damp! Let me wring you out!” + +“You were saying, Mr. Staff Officer...” continued the colonel in an +offended tone. + +“Colonel,” interrupted the officer of the suite, “You must be +quick or the enemy will bring up his guns to use grapeshot.” + +The colonel looked silently at the officer of the suite, at the stout +staff officer, and at Zherkóv, and he frowned. + +“I will the bridge fire,” he said in a solemn tone as if to announce +that in spite of all the unpleasantness he had to endure he would still +do the right thing. + +Striking his horse with his long muscular legs as if it were to blame +for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second +squadron, that in which Rostóv was serving under Denísov, to return to +the bridge. + +“There, it’s just as I thought,” said Rostóv to himself. “He +wishes to test me!” His heart contracted and the blood rushed to his +face. “Let him see whether I am a coward!” he thought. + +Again on all the bright faces of the squadron the serious expression +appeared that they had worn when under fire. Rostóv watched his enemy, +the colonel, closely—to find in his face confirmation of his own +conjecture, but the colonel did not once glance at Rostóv, and looked +as he always did when at the front, solemn and stern. Then came the word +of command. + +“Look sharp! Look sharp!” several voices repeated around him. + +Their sabers catching in the bridles and their spurs jingling, the +hussars hastily dismounted, not knowing what they were to do. The men +were crossing themselves. Rostóv no longer looked at the colonel, he +had no time. He was afraid of falling behind the hussars, so much afraid +that his heart stood still. His hand trembled as he gave his horse into +an orderly’s charge, and he felt the blood rush to his heart with +a thud. Denísov rode past him, leaning back and shouting something. +Rostóv saw nothing but the hussars running all around him, their spurs +catching and their sabers clattering. + +“Stretchers!” shouted someone behind him. + +Rostóv did not think what this call for stretchers meant; he ran on, +trying only to be ahead of the others; but just at the bridge, not +looking at the ground, he came on some sticky, trodden mud, stumbled, +and fell on his hands. The others outstripped him. + +“At boss zides, Captain,” he heard the voice of the colonel, who, +having ridden ahead, had pulled up his horse near the bridge, with a +triumphant, cheerful face. + +Rostóv wiping his muddy hands on his breeches looked at his enemy and +was about to run on, thinking that the farther he went to the front +the better. But Bogdánich, without looking at or recognizing Rostóv, +shouted to him: + +“Who’s that running on the middle of the bridge? To the right! Come +back, Cadet!” he cried angrily; and turning to Denísov, who, showing +off his courage, had ridden on to the planks of the bridge: + +“Why run risks, Captain? You should dismount,” he said. + +“Oh, every bullet has its billet,” answered Váska Denísov, turning +in his saddle. + + +Meanwhile Nesvítski, Zherkóv, and the officer of the suite were +standing together out of range of the shots, watching, now the small +group of men with yellow shakos, dark-green jackets braided with cord, +and blue riding breeches, who were swarming near the bridge, and then at +what was approaching in the distance from the opposite side—the blue +uniforms and groups with horses, easily recognizable as artillery. + +“Will they burn the bridge or not? Who’ll get there first? Will they +get there and fire the bridge or will the French get within grapeshot +range and wipe them out?” These were the questions each man of the +troops on the high ground above the bridge involuntarily asked himself +with a sinking heart—watching the bridge and the hussars in the bright +evening light and the blue tunics advancing from the other side with +their bayonets and guns. + +“Ugh. The hussars will get it hot!” said Nesvítski; “they are +within grapeshot range now.” + +“He shouldn’t have taken so many men,” said the officer of the +suite. + +“True enough,” answered Nesvítski; “two smart fellows could have +done the job just as well.” + +“Ah, your excellency,” put in Zherkóv, his eyes fixed on the +hussars, but still with that naïve air that made it impossible to know +whether he was speaking in jest or in earnest. “Ah, your excellency! +How you look at things! Send two men? And who then would give us the +Vladímir medal and ribbon? But now, even if they do get peppered, the +squadron may be recommended for honors and he may get a ribbon. Our +Bogdánich knows how things are done.” + +“There now!” said the officer of the suite, “that’s +grapeshot.” + +He pointed to the French guns, the limbers of which were being detached +and hurriedly removed. + +On the French side, amid the groups with cannon, a cloud of smoke +appeared, then a second and a third almost simultaneously, and at the +moment when the first report was heard a fourth was seen. Then two +reports one after another, and a third. + +“Oh! Oh!” groaned Nesvítski as if in fierce pain, seizing the +officer of the suite by the arm. “Look! A man has fallen! Fallen, +fallen!” + +“Two, I think.” + +“If I were Tsar I would never go to war,” said Nesvítski, turning +away. + +The French guns were hastily reloaded. The infantry in their blue +uniforms advanced toward the bridge at a run. Smoke appeared again +but at irregular intervals, and grapeshot cracked and rattled onto the +bridge. But this time Nesvítski could not see what was happening there, +as a dense cloud of smoke arose from it. The hussars had succeeded in +setting it on fire and the French batteries were now firing at them, no +longer to hinder them but because the guns were trained and there was +someone to fire at. + +The French had time to fire three rounds of grapeshot before the hussars +got back to their horses. Two were misdirected and the shot went too +high, but the last round fell in the midst of a group of hussars and +knocked three of them over. + +Rostóv, absorbed by his relations with Bogdánich, had paused on the +bridge not knowing what to do. There was no one to hew down (as he +had always imagined battles to himself), nor could he help to fire the +bridge because he had not brought any burning straw with him like the +other soldiers. He stood looking about him, when suddenly he heard a +rattle on the bridge as if nuts were being spilt, and the hussar nearest +to him fell against the rails with a groan. Rostóv ran up to him with +the others. Again someone shouted, “Stretchers!” Four men seized the +hussar and began lifting him. + +“Oooh! For Christ’s sake let me alone!” cried the wounded man, but +still he was lifted and laid on the stretcher. + +Nicholas Rostóv turned away and, as if searching for something, gazed +into the distance, at the waters of the Danube, at the sky, and at the +sun. How beautiful the sky looked; how blue, how calm, and how deep! +How bright and glorious was the setting sun! With what soft glitter the +waters of the distant Danube shone. And fairer still were the faraway +blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and +the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits... There was peace +and happiness... “I should wish for nothing else, nothing, if only I +were there,” thought Rostóv. “In myself alone and in that sunshine +there is so much happiness; but here... groans, suffering, fear, and +this uncertainty and hurry... There—they are shouting again, and +again are all running back somewhere, and I shall run with them, and it, +death, is here above me and around... Another instant and I shall never +again see the sun, this water, that gorge!...” + +At that instant the sun began to hide behind the clouds, and other +stretchers came into view before Rostóv. And the fear of death and of +the stretchers, and love of the sun and of life, all merged into one +feeling of sickening agitation. + +“O Lord God! Thou who art in that heaven, save, forgive, and protect +me!” Rostóv whispered. + +The hussars ran back to the men who held their horses; their voices +sounded louder and calmer, the stretchers disappeared from sight. + +“Well, fwiend? So you’ve smelt powdah!” shouted Váska Denísov +just above his ear. + +“It’s all over; but I am a coward—yes, a coward!” thought +Rostóv, and sighing deeply he took Rook, his horse, which stood resting +one foot, from the orderly and began to mount. + +“Was that grapeshot?” he asked Denísov. + +“Yes and no mistake!” cried Denísov. “You worked like wegular +bwicks and it’s nasty work! An attack’s pleasant work! Hacking +away at the dogs! But this sort of thing is the very devil, with them +shooting at you like a target.” + +And Denísov rode up to a group that had stopped near Rostóv, composed +of the colonel, Nesvítski, Zherkóv, and the officer from the suite. + +“Well, it seems that no one has noticed,” thought Rostóv. And this +was true. No one had taken any notice, for everyone knew the sensation +which the cadet under fire for the first time had experienced. + +“Here’s something for you to report,” said Zherkóv. “See if I +don’t get promoted to a sublieutenancy.” + +“Inform the prince that I the bridge fired!” said the colonel +triumphantly and gaily. + +“And if he asks about the losses?” + +“A trifle,” said the colonel in his bass voice: “two hussars +wounded, and one knocked out,” he added, unable to restrain a happy +smile, and pronouncing the phrase “knocked out” with ringing +distinctness. + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +Pursued by the French army of a hundred thousand men under the command +of Bonaparte, encountering a population that was unfriendly to it, +losing confidence in its allies, suffering from shortness of supplies, +and compelled to act under conditions of war unlike anything that had +been foreseen, the Russian army of thirty-five thousand men commanded +by Kutúzov was hurriedly retreating along the Danube, stopping where +overtaken by the enemy and fighting rearguard actions only as far as +necessary to enable it to retreat without losing its heavy equipment. +There had been actions at Lambach, Amstetten, and Melk; but despite the +courage and endurance—acknowledged even by the enemy—with which the +Russians fought, the only consequence of these actions was a yet more +rapid retreat. Austrian troops that had escaped capture at Ulm and had +joined Kutúzov at Braunau now separated from the Russian army, and +Kutúzov was left with only his own weak and exhausted forces. The +defense of Vienna was no longer to be thought of. Instead of an +offensive, the plan of which, carefully prepared in accord with the +modern science of strategics, had been handed to Kutúzov when he was in +Vienna by the Austrian Hofkriegsrath, the sole and almost unattainable +aim remaining for him was to effect a junction with the forces that were +advancing from Russia, without losing his army as Mack had done at Ulm. + +On the twenty-eighth of October Kutúzov with his army crossed to the +left bank of the Danube and took up a position for the first time +with the river between himself and the main body of the French. On the +thirtieth he attacked Mortier’s division, which was on the left bank, +and broke it up. In this action for the first time trophies were taken: +banners, cannon, and two enemy generals. For the first time, after a +fortnight’s retreat, the Russian troops had halted and after a fight +had not only held the field but had repulsed the French. Though the +troops were ill-clad, exhausted, and had lost a third of their number +in killed, wounded, sick, and stragglers; though a number of sick and +wounded had been abandoned on the other side of the Danube with a letter +in which Kutúzov entrusted them to the humanity of the enemy; and +though the big hospitals and the houses in Krems converted into military +hospitals could no longer accommodate all the sick and wounded, yet the +stand made at Krems and the victory over Mortier raised the spirits of +the army considerably. Throughout the whole army and at headquarters +most joyful though erroneous rumors were rife of the imaginary approach +of columns from Russia, of some victory gained by the Austrians, and of +the retreat of the frightened Bonaparte. + +Prince Andrew during the battle had been in attendance on the Austrian +General Schmidt, who was killed in the action. His horse had been +wounded under him and his own arm slightly grazed by a bullet. As a mark +of the commander in chief’s special favor he was sent with the news of +this victory to the Austrian court, now no longer at Vienna (which was +threatened by the French) but at Brünn. Despite his apparently delicate +build Prince Andrew could endure physical fatigue far better than many +very muscular men, and on the night of the battle, having arrived +at Krems excited but not weary, with dispatches from Dokhtúrov to +Kutúzov, he was sent immediately with a special dispatch to Brünn. +To be so sent meant not only a reward but an important step toward +promotion. + +The night was dark but starry, the road showed black in the snow that +had fallen the previous day—the day of the battle. Reviewing his +impressions of the recent battle, picturing pleasantly to himself the +impression his news of a victory would create, or recalling the send-off +given him by the commander in chief and his fellow officers, Prince +Andrew was galloping along in a post chaise enjoying the feelings of a +man who has at length begun to attain a long-desired happiness. As soon +as he closed his eyes his ears seemed filled with the rattle of the +wheels and the sensation of victory. Then he began to imagine that +the Russians were running away and that he himself was killed, but he +quickly roused himself with a feeling of joy, as if learning afresh that +this was not so but that on the contrary the French had run away. He +again recalled all the details of the victory and his own calm courage +during the battle, and feeling reassured he dozed off.... The dark +starry night was followed by a bright cheerful morning. The snow was +thawing in the sunshine, the horses galloped quickly, and on both sides +of the road were forests of different kinds, fields, and villages. + +At one of the post stations he overtook a convoy of Russian wounded. +The Russian officer in charge of the transport lolled back in the front +cart, shouting and scolding a soldier with coarse abuse. In each of +the long German carts six or more pale, dirty, bandaged men were being +jolted over the stony road. Some of them were talking (he heard Russian +words), others were eating bread; the more severely wounded looked +silently, with the languid interest of sick children, at the envoy +hurrying past them. + +Prince Andrew told his driver to stop, and asked a soldier in what +action they had been wounded. “Day before yesterday, on the Danube,” +answered the soldier. Prince Andrew took out his purse and gave the +soldier three gold pieces. + +“That’s for them all,” he said to the officer who came up. + +“Get well soon, lads!” he continued, turning to the soldiers. +“There’s plenty to do still.” + +“What news, sir?” asked the officer, evidently anxious to start a +conversation. + +“Good news!... Go on!” he shouted to the driver, and they galloped +on. + +It was already quite dark when Prince Andrew rattled over the paved +streets of Brünn and found himself surrounded by high buildings, the +lights of shops, houses, and street lamps, fine carriages, and all that +atmosphere of a large and active town which is always so attractive to a +soldier after camp life. Despite his rapid journey and sleepless night, +Prince Andrew when he drove up to the palace felt even more vigorous and +alert than he had done the day before. Only his eyes gleamed feverishly +and his thoughts followed one another with extraordinary clearness and +rapidity. He again vividly recalled the details of the battle, no longer +dim, but definite and in the concise form in which he imagined himself +stating them to the Emperor Francis. He vividly imagined the casual +questions that might be put to him and the answers he would give. He +expected to be at once presented to the Emperor. At the chief entrance +to the palace, however, an official came running out to meet him, and +learning that he was a special messenger led him to another entrance. + +“To the right from the corridor, Euer Hochgeboren! There you will find +the adjutant on duty,” said the official. “He will conduct you to +the Minister of War.” + +The adjutant on duty, meeting Prince Andrew, asked him to wait, and went +in to the Minister of War. Five minutes later he returned and bowing +with particular courtesy ushered Prince Andrew before him along a +corridor to the cabinet where the Minister of War was at work. The +adjutant by his elaborate courtesy appeared to wish to ward off any +attempt at familiarity on the part of the Russian messenger. + +Prince Andrew’s joyous feeling was considerably weakened as he +approached the door of the minister’s room. He felt offended, and +without his noticing it the feeling of offense immediately turned into +one of disdain which was quite uncalled for. His fertile mind instantly +suggested to him a point of view which gave him a right to despise +the adjutant and the minister. “Away from the smell of powder, they +probably think it easy to gain victories!” he thought. His eyes +narrowed disdainfully, he entered the room of the Minister of War with +peculiarly deliberate steps. This feeling of disdain was heightened +when he saw the minister seated at a large table reading some papers +and making pencil notes on them, and for the first two or three minutes +taking no notice of his arrival. A wax candle stood at each side of the +minister’s bent bald head with its gray temples. He went on reading +to the end, without raising his eyes at the opening of the door and the +sound of footsteps. + +“Take this and deliver it,” said he to his adjutant, handing him the +papers and still taking no notice of the special messenger. + +Prince Andrew felt that either the actions of Kutúzov’s army +interested the Minister of War less than any of the other matters he was +concerned with, or he wanted to give the Russian special messenger that +impression. “But that is a matter of perfect indifference to me,” he +thought. The minister drew the remaining papers together, arranged them +evenly, and then raised his head. He had an intellectual and distinctive +head, but the instant he turned to Prince Andrew the firm, intelligent +expression on his face changed in a way evidently deliberate and +habitual to him. His face took on the stupid artificial smile (which +does not even attempt to hide its artificiality) of a man who is +continually receiving many petitioners one after another. + +“From General Field Marshal Kutúzov?” he asked. “I hope it is +good news? There has been an encounter with Mortier? A victory? It was +high time!” + +He took the dispatch which was addressed to him and began to read it +with a mournful expression. + +“Oh, my God! My God! Schmidt!” he exclaimed in German. “What a +calamity! What a calamity!” + +Having glanced through the dispatch he laid it on the table and looked +at Prince Andrew, evidently considering something. + +“Ah what a calamity! You say the affair was decisive? But Mortier is +not captured.” Again he pondered. “I am very glad you have brought +good news, though Schmidt’s death is a heavy price to pay for the +victory. His Majesty will no doubt wish to see you, but not today. I +thank you! You must have a rest. Be at the levee tomorrow after the +parade. However, I will let you know.” + +The stupid smile, which had left his face while he was speaking, +reappeared. + +“Au revoir! Thank you very much. His Majesty will probably desire to +see you,” he added, bowing his head. + +When Prince Andrew left the palace he felt that all the interest +and happiness the victory had afforded him had been now left in the +indifferent hands of the Minister of War and the polite adjutant. The +whole tenor of his thoughts instantaneously changed; the battle seemed +the memory of a remote event long past. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +Prince Andrew stayed at Brünn with Bilíbin, a Russian acquaintance of +his in the diplomatic service. + +“Ah, my dear prince! I could not have a more welcome visitor,” +said Bilíbin as he came out to meet Prince Andrew. “Franz, put the +prince’s things in my bedroom,” said he to the servant who was +ushering Bolkónski in. “So you’re a messenger of victory, eh? +Splendid! And I am sitting here ill, as you see.” + +After washing and dressing, Prince Andrew came into the diplomat’s +luxurious study and sat down to the dinner prepared for him. Bilíbin +settled down comfortably beside the fire. + +After his journey and the campaign during which he had been deprived of +all the comforts of cleanliness and all the refinements of life, Prince +Andrew felt a pleasant sense of repose among luxurious surroundings such +as he had been accustomed to from childhood. Besides it was pleasant, +after his reception by the Austrians, to speak if not in Russian +(for they were speaking French) at least with a Russian who would, he +supposed, share the general Russian antipathy to the Austrians which was +then particularly strong. + +Bilíbin was a man of thirty-five, a bachelor, and of the same circle as +Prince Andrew. They had known each other previously in Petersburg, but +had become more intimate when Prince Andrew was in Vienna with Kutúzov. +Just as Prince Andrew was a young man who gave promise of rising high +in the military profession, so to an even greater extent Bilíbin gave +promise of rising in his diplomatic career. He was still a young man but +no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age +of sixteen, had been in Paris and Copenhagen, and now held a rather +important post in Vienna. Both the foreign minister and our ambassador +in Vienna knew him and valued him. He was not one of those many +diplomats who are esteemed because they have certain negative qualities, +avoid doing certain things, and speak French. He was one of those, +who, liking work, knew how to do it, and despite his indolence would +sometimes spend a whole night at his writing table. He worked well +whatever the import of his work. It was not the question “What for?” +but the question “How?” that interested him. What the diplomatic +matter might be he did not care, but it gave him great pleasure to +prepare a circular, memorandum, or report, skillfully, pointedly, and +elegantly. Bilíbin’s services were valued not only for what he wrote, +but also for his skill in dealing and conversing with those in the +highest spheres. + +Bilíbin liked conversation as he liked work, only when it could be +made elegantly witty. In society he always awaited an opportunity to say +something striking and took part in a conversation only when that was +possible. His conversation was always sprinkled with wittily original, +finished phrases of general interest. These sayings were prepared in the +inner laboratory of his mind in a portable form as if intentionally, so +that insignificant society people might carry them from drawing room to +drawing room. And, in fact, Bilíbin’s witticisms were hawked about +in the Viennese drawing rooms and often had an influence on matters +considered important. + +His thin, worn, sallow face was covered with deep wrinkles, which always +looked as clean and well washed as the tips of one’s fingers after a +Russian bath. The movement of these wrinkles formed the principal play +of expression on his face. Now his forehead would pucker into deep folds +and his eyebrows were lifted, then his eyebrows would descend and +deep wrinkles would crease his cheeks. His small, deep-set eyes always +twinkled and looked out straight. + +“Well, now tell me about your exploits,” said he. + +Bolkónski, very modestly without once mentioning himself, described the +engagement and his reception by the Minister of War. + +“They received me and my news as one receives a dog in a game of +skittles,” said he in conclusion. + +Bilíbin smiled and the wrinkles on his face disappeared. + +“Cependant, mon cher,” he remarked, examining his nails from a +distance and puckering the skin above his left eye, “malgré la haute +estime que je professe pour the Orthodox Russian army, j’avoue que +votre victoire n’est pas des plus victorieuses.” * + + * “But my dear fellow, with all my respect for the Orthodox + Russian army, I must say that your victory was not + particularly victorious.” + + +He went on talking in this way in French, uttering only those words in +Russian on which he wished to put a contemptuous emphasis. + +“Come now! You with all your forces fall on the unfortunate Mortier +and his one division, and even then Mortier slips through your fingers! +Where’s the victory?” + +“But seriously,” said Prince Andrew, “we can at any rate say +without boasting that it was a little better than at Ulm...” + +“Why didn’t you capture one, just one, marshal for us?” + +“Because not everything happens as one expects or with the smoothness +of a parade. We had expected, as I told you, to get at their rear by +seven in the morning but had not reached it by five in the afternoon.” + +“And why didn’t you do it at seven in the morning? You ought to have +been there at seven in the morning,” returned Bilíbin with a smile. +“You ought to have been there at seven in the morning.” + +“Why did you not succeed in impressing on Bonaparte by diplomatic +methods that he had better leave Genoa alone?” retorted Prince Andrew +in the same tone. + +“I know,” interrupted Bilíbin, “you’re thinking it’s very +easy to take marshals, sitting on a sofa by the fire! That is true, but +still why didn’t you capture him? So don’t be surprised if not only +the Minister of War but also his Most August Majesty the Emperor and +King Francis is not much delighted by your victory. Even I, a poor +secretary of the Russian Embassy, do not feel any need in token of my +joy to give my Franz a thaler, or let him go with his Liebchen to the +Prater... True, we have no Prater here...” + +He looked straight at Prince Andrew and suddenly unwrinkled his +forehead. + +“It is now my turn to ask you ‘why?’ mon cher,” said Bolkónski. +“I confess I do not understand: perhaps there are diplomatic +subtleties here beyond my feeble intelligence, but I can’t make it +out. Mack loses a whole army, the Archduke Ferdinand and the Archduke +Karl give no signs of life and make blunder after blunder. Kutúzov +alone at last gains a real victory, destroying the spell of the +invincibility of the French, and the Minister of War does not even care +to hear the details.” + +“That’s just it, my dear fellow. You see it’s hurrah for the Tsar, +for Russia, for the Orthodox Greek faith! All that is beautiful, but +what do we, I mean the Austrian court, care for your victories? Bring +us nice news of a victory by the Archduke Karl or Ferdinand (one +archduke’s as good as another, as you know) and even if it is only +over a fire brigade of Bonaparte’s, that will be another story and +we’ll fire off some cannon! But this sort of thing seems done +on purpose to vex us. The Archduke Karl does nothing, the Archduke +Ferdinand disgraces himself. You abandon Vienna, give up its +defense—as much as to say: ‘Heaven is with us, but heaven help you +and your capital!’ The one general whom we all loved, Schmidt, you +expose to a bullet, and then you congratulate us on the victory! Admit +that more irritating news than yours could not have been conceived. +It’s as if it had been done on purpose, on purpose. Besides, suppose +you did gain a brilliant victory, if even the Archduke Karl gained a +victory, what effect would that have on the general course of events? +It’s too late now when Vienna is occupied by the French army!” + +“What? Occupied? Vienna occupied?” + +“Not only occupied, but Bonaparte is at Schönbrunn, and the count, +our dear Count Vrbna, goes to him for orders.” + +After the fatigues and impressions of the journey, his reception, and +especially after having dined, Bolkónski felt that he could not take in +the full significance of the words he heard. + +“Count Lichtenfels was here this morning,” Bilíbin continued, +“and showed me a letter in which the parade of the French in Vienna +was fully described: Prince Murat et tout le tremblement... You see that +your victory is not a matter for great rejoicing and that you can’t be +received as a savior.” + +“Really I don’t care about that, I don’t care at all,” said +Prince Andrew, beginning to understand that his news of the battle +before Krems was really of small importance in view of such events as +the fall of Austria’s capital. “How is it Vienna was taken? What of +the bridge and its celebrated bridgehead and Prince Auersperg? We heard +reports that Prince Auersperg was defending Vienna?” he said. + +“Prince Auersperg is on this, on our side of the river, and is +defending us—doing it very badly, I think, but still he is defending +us. But Vienna is on the other side. No, the bridge has not yet been +taken and I hope it will not be, for it is mined and orders have been +given to blow it up. Otherwise we should long ago have been in the +mountains of Bohemia, and you and your army would have spent a bad +quarter of an hour between two fires.” + +“But still this does not mean that the campaign is over,” said +Prince Andrew. + +“Well, I think it is. The bigwigs here think so too, but they +daren’t say so. It will be as I said at the beginning of the campaign, +it won’t be your skirmishing at Dürrenstein, or gunpowder at all, +that will decide the matter, but those who devised it,” said Bilíbin +quoting one of his own mots, releasing the wrinkles on his forehead, and +pausing. “The only question is what will come of the meeting between +the Emperor Alexander and the King of Prussia in Berlin? If Prussia +joins the Allies, Austria’s hand will be forced and there will be war. +If not it is merely a question of settling where the preliminaries of +the new Campo Formio are to be drawn up.” + +“What an extraordinary genius!” Prince Andrew suddenly exclaimed, +clenching his small hand and striking the table with it, “and what +luck the man has!” + +“Buonaparte?” said Bilíbin inquiringly, puckering up his forehead +to indicate that he was about to say something witty. “Buonaparte?” +he repeated, accentuating the u: “I think, however, now that he lays +down laws for Austria at Schönbrunn, il faut lui faire grâce de +l’u! * I shall certainly adopt an innovation and call him simply +Bonaparte!” + + * “We must let him off the u!” + + +“But joking apart,” said Prince Andrew, “do you really think the +campaign is over?” + +“This is what I think. Austria has been made a fool of, and she is +not used to it. She will retaliate. And she has been fooled in the +first place because her provinces have been pillaged—they say the Holy +Russian army loots terribly—her army is destroyed, her capital +taken, and all this for the beaux yeux * of His Sardinian Majesty. And +therefore—this is between ourselves—I instinctively feel that we +are being deceived, my instinct tells me of negotiations with France and +projects for peace, a secret peace concluded separately.” + + * Fine eyes. + +“Impossible!” cried Prince Andrew. “That would be too base.” + +“If we live we shall see,” replied Bilíbin, his face again becoming +smooth as a sign that the conversation was at an end. + +When Prince Andrew reached the room prepared for him and lay down in a +clean shirt on the feather bed with its warmed and fragrant pillows, he +felt that the battle of which he had brought tidings was far, far +away from him. The alliance with Prussia, Austria’s treachery, +Bonaparte’s new triumph, tomorrow’s levee and parade, and the +audience with the Emperor Francis occupied his thoughts. + +He closed his eyes, and immediately a sound of cannonading, of musketry +and the rattling of carriage wheels seemed to fill his ears, and now +again drawn out in a thin line the musketeers were descending the hill, +the French were firing, and he felt his heart palpitating as he rode +forward beside Schmidt with the bullets merrily whistling all around, +and he experienced tenfold the joy of living, as he had not done since +childhood. + +He woke up... + +“Yes, that all happened!” he said, and, smiling happily to himself +like a child, he fell into a deep, youthful slumber. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +Next day he woke late. Recalling his recent impressions, the first +thought that came into his mind was that today he had to be presented +to the Emperor Francis; he remembered the Minister of War, the polite +Austrian adjutant, Bilíbin, and last night’s conversation. Having +dressed for his attendance at court in full parade uniform, which he +had not worn for a long time, he went into Bilíbin’s study fresh, +animated, and handsome, with his hand bandaged. In the study were four +gentlemen of the diplomatic corps. With Prince Hippolyte Kurágin, +who was a secretary to the embassy, Bolkónski was already acquainted. +Bilíbin introduced him to the others. + +The gentlemen assembled at Bilíbin’s were young, wealthy, gay society +men, who here, as in Vienna, formed a special set which Bilíbin, their +leader, called les nôtres. * This set, consisting almost exclusively of +diplomats, evidently had its own interests which had nothing to do with +war or politics but related to high society, to certain women, and to +the official side of the service. These gentlemen received Prince +Andrew as one of themselves, an honor they did not extend to many. From +politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions +about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry +jests and gossip. + + * Ours. + +“But the best of it was,” said one, telling of the misfortune of +a fellow diplomat, “that the Chancellor told him flatly that his +appointment to London was a promotion and that he was so to regard it. +Can you fancy the figure he cut?...” + +“But the worst of it, gentlemen—I am giving Kurágin away to +you—is that that man suffers, and this Don Juan, wicked fellow, is +taking advantage of it!” + +Prince Hippolyte was lolling in a lounge chair with his legs over its +arm. He began to laugh. + +“Tell me about that!” he said. + +“Oh, you Don Juan! You serpent!” cried several voices. + +“You, Bolkónski, don’t know,” said Bilíbin turning to Prince +Andrew, “that all the atrocities of the French army (I nearly said of +the Russian army) are nothing compared to what this man has been doing +among the women!” + +“La femme est la compagne de l’homme,” * announced Prince +Hippolyte, and began looking through a lorgnette at his elevated legs. + + * “Woman is man’s companion.” + + +Bilíbin and the rest of “ours” burst out laughing in Hippolyte’s +face, and Prince Andrew saw that Hippolyte, of whom—he had to +admit—he had almost been jealous on his wife’s account, was the butt +of this set. + +“Oh, I must give you a treat,” Bilíbin whispered to Bolkónski. +“Kurágin is exquisite when he discusses politics—you should see his +gravity!” + +He sat down beside Hippolyte and wrinkling his forehead began talking +to him about politics. Prince Andrew and the others gathered round these +two. + +“The Berlin cabinet cannot express a feeling of alliance,” began +Hippolyte gazing round with importance at the others, “without +expressing... as in its last note... you understand... Besides, unless +His Majesty the Emperor derogates from the principle of our alliance... + +“Wait, I have not finished...” he said to Prince Andrew, seizing +him by the arm, “I believe that intervention will be stronger than +nonintervention. And...” he paused. “Finally one cannot impute the +nonreceipt of our dispatch of November 18. That is how it will end.” +And he released Bolkónski’s arm to indicate that he had now quite +finished. + +“Demosthenes, I know thee by the pebble thou secretest in thy golden +mouth!” said Bilíbin, and the mop of hair on his head moved with +satisfaction. + +Everybody laughed, and Hippolyte louder than anyone. He was evidently +distressed, and breathed painfully, but could not restrain the wild +laughter that convulsed his usually impassive features. + +“Well now, gentlemen,” said Bilíbin, “Bolkónski is my guest in +this house and in Brünn itself. I want to entertain him as far as I +can, with all the pleasures of life here. If we were in Vienna it would +be easy, but here, in this wretched Moravian hole, it is more difficult, +and I beg you all to help me. Brünn’s attractions must be shown him. +You can undertake the theater, I society, and you, Hippolyte, of course +the women.” + +“We must let him see Amelie, she’s exquisite!” said one of +“ours,” kissing his finger tips. + +“In general we must turn this bloodthirsty soldier to more humane +interests,” said Bilíbin. + +“I shall scarcely be able to avail myself of your hospitality, +gentlemen, it is already time for me to go,” replied Prince Andrew +looking at his watch. + +“Where to?” + +“To the Emperor.” + +“Oh! Oh! Oh!” + +“Well, au revoir, Bolkónski! Au revoir, Prince! Come back early to +dinner,” cried several voices. “We’ll take you in hand.” + +“When speaking to the Emperor, try as far as you can to praise the way +that provisions are supplied and the routes indicated,” said Bilíbin, +accompanying him to the hall. + +“I should like to speak well of them, but as far as I know the facts, +I can’t,” replied Bolkónski, smiling. + +“Well, talk as much as you can, anyway. He has a passion for giving +audiences, but he does not like talking himself and can’t do it, as +you will see.” + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +At the levee Prince Andrew stood among the Austrian officers as he had +been told to, and the Emperor Francis merely looked fixedly into his +face and just nodded to him with his long head. But after it was +over, the adjutant he had seen the previous day ceremoniously informed +Bolkónski that the Emperor desired to give him an audience. The Emperor +Francis received him standing in the middle of the room. Before the +conversation began Prince Andrew was struck by the fact that the Emperor +seemed confused and blushed as if not knowing what to say. + +“Tell me, when did the battle begin?” he asked hurriedly. + +Prince Andrew replied. Then followed other questions just as simple: +“Was Kutúzov well? When had he left Krems?” and so on. The Emperor +spoke as if his sole aim were to put a given number of questions—the +answers to these questions, as was only too evident, did not interest +him. + +“At what o’clock did the battle begin?” asked the Emperor. + +“I cannot inform Your Majesty at what o’clock the battle began at +the front, but at Dürrenstein, where I was, our attack began after +five in the afternoon,” replied Bolkónski growing more animated and +expecting that he would have a chance to give a reliable account, which +he had ready in his mind, of all he knew and had seen. But the Emperor +smiled and interrupted him. + +“How many miles?” + +“From where to where, Your Majesty?” + +“From Dürrenstein to Krems.” + +“Three and a half miles, Your Majesty.” + +“The French have abandoned the left bank?” + +“According to the scouts the last of them crossed on rafts during the +night.” + +“Is there sufficient forage in Krems?” + +“Forage has not been supplied to the extent...” + +The Emperor interrupted him. + +“At what o’clock was General Schmidt killed?” + +“At seven o’clock, I believe.” + +“At seven o’clock? It’s very sad, very sad!” + +The Emperor thanked Prince Andrew and bowed. Prince Andrew withdrew and +was immediately surrounded by courtiers on all sides. Everywhere he +saw friendly looks and heard friendly words. Yesterday’s adjutant +reproached him for not having stayed at the palace, and offered him +his own house. The Minister of War came up and congratulated him on the +Maria Theresa Order of the third grade, which the Emperor was conferring +on him. The Empress’ chamberlain invited him to see Her Majesty. The +archduchess also wished to see him. He did not know whom to answer, and +for a few seconds collected his thoughts. Then the Russian ambassador +took him by the shoulder, led him to the window, and began to talk to +him. + +Contrary to Bilíbin’s forecast the news he had brought was joyfully +received. A thanksgiving service was arranged, Kutúzov was awarded +the Grand Cross of Maria Theresa, and the whole army received rewards. +Bolkónski was invited everywhere, and had to spend the whole morning +calling on the principal Austrian dignitaries. Between four and five +in the afternoon, having made all his calls, he was returning to +Bilíbin’s house thinking out a letter to his father about the battle +and his visit to Brünn. At the door he found a vehicle half full of +luggage. Franz, Bilíbin’s man, was dragging a portmanteau with some +difficulty out of the front door. + +Before returning to Bilíbin’s Prince Andrew had gone to a bookshop +to provide himself with some books for the campaign, and had spent some +time in the shop. + +“What is it?” he asked. + +“Oh, your excellency!” said Franz, with difficulty rolling the +portmanteau into the vehicle, “we are to move on still farther. The +scoundrel is again at our heels!” + +“Eh? What?” asked Prince Andrew. + +Bilíbin came out to meet him. His usually calm face showed excitement. + +“There now! Confess that this is delightful,” said he. “This +affair of the Thabor Bridge, at Vienna.... They have crossed without +striking a blow!” + +Prince Andrew could not understand. + +“But where do you come from not to know what every coachman in the +town knows?” + +“I come from the archduchess’. I heard nothing there.” + +“And you didn’t see that everybody is packing up?” + +“I did not... What is it all about?” inquired Prince Andrew +impatiently. + +“What’s it all about? Why, the French have crossed the bridge that +Auersperg was defending, and the bridge was not blown up: so Murat +is now rushing along the road to Brünn and will be here in a day or +two.” + +“What? Here? But why did they not blow up the bridge, if it was +mined?” + +“That is what I ask you. No one, not even Bonaparte, knows why.” + +Bolkónski shrugged his shoulders. + +“But if the bridge is crossed it means that the army too is lost? It +will be cut off,” said he. + +“That’s just it,” answered Bilíbin. “Listen! The French entered +Vienna as I told you. Very well. Next day, which was yesterday, those +gentlemen, messieurs les maréchaux, * Murat, Lannes, and Belliard, +mount and ride to the bridge. (Observe that all three are Gascons.) +‘Gentlemen,’ says one of them, ‘you know the Thabor Bridge is +mined and doubly mined and that there are menacing fortifications at its +head and an army of fifteen thousand men has been ordered to blow up +the bridge and not let us cross? But it will please our sovereign the +Emperor Napoleon if we take this bridge, so let us three go and take +it!’ ‘Yes, let’s!’ say the others. And off they go and take the +bridge, cross it, and now with their whole army are on this side of the +Danube, marching on us, you, and your lines of communication.” + + * The marshalls. + +“Stop jesting,” said Prince Andrew sadly and seriously. This news +grieved him and yet he was pleased. + +As soon as he learned that the Russian army was in such a hopeless +situation it occurred to him that it was he who was destined to lead it +out of this position; that here was the Toulon that would lift him from +the ranks of obscure officers and offer him the first step to fame! +Listening to Bilíbin he was already imagining how on reaching the army +he would give an opinion at the war council which would be the only one +that could save the army, and how he alone would be entrusted with the +executing of the plan. + +“Stop this jesting,” he said. + +“I am not jesting,” Bilíbin went on. “Nothing is truer or sadder. +These gentlemen ride onto the bridge alone and wave white handkerchiefs; +they assure the officer on duty that they, the marshals, are on +their way to negotiate with Prince Auersperg. He lets them enter the +tête-de-pont. * They spin him a thousand gasconades, saying that +the war is over, that the Emperor Francis is arranging a meeting with +Bonaparte, that they desire to see Prince Auersperg, and so on. The +officer sends for Auersperg; these gentlemen embrace the officers, crack +jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a French battalion gets to +the bridge unobserved, flings the bags of incendiary material into +the water, and approaches the tête-de-pont. At length appears the +lieutenant general, our dear Prince Auersperg von Mautern himself. +‘Dearest foe! Flower of the Austrian army, hero of the Turkish wars! +Hostilities are ended, we can shake one another’s hand.... The +Emperor Napoleon burns with impatience to make Prince Auersperg’s +acquaintance.’ In a word, those gentlemen, Gascons indeed, so +bewildered him with fine words, and he is so flattered by his rapidly +established intimacy with the French marshals, and so dazzled by the +sight of Murat’s mantle and ostrich plumes, qu’il n’y voit que du +feu, et oublie celui qu’il devait faire faire sur l’ennemi!” *(2) +In spite of the animation of his speech, Bilíbin did not forget to +pause after this mot to give time for its due appreciation. “The +French battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the +bridge is taken! But what is best of all,” he went on, his excitement +subsiding under the delightful interest of his own story, “is that the +sergeant in charge of the cannon which was to give the signal to fire +the mines and blow up the bridge, this sergeant, seeing that the French +troops were running onto the bridge, was about to fire, but Lannes +stayed his hand. The sergeant, who was evidently wiser than his general, +goes up to Auersperg and says: ‘Prince, you are being deceived, here +are the French!’ Murat, seeing that all is lost if the sergeant is +allowed to speak, turns to Auersperg with feigned astonishment (he is a +true Gascon) and says: ‘I don’t recognize the world-famous Austrian +discipline, if you allow a subordinate to address you like that!’ It +was a stroke of genius. Prince Auersperg feels his dignity at stake and +orders the sergeant to be arrested. Come, you must own that this affair +of the Thabor Bridge is delightful! It is not exactly stupidity, nor +rascality....” + + * Bridgehead. + + * (2) That their fire gets into his eyes and he forgets that + he ought to be firing at the enemy. + +“It may be treachery,” said Prince Andrew, vividly imagining the +gray overcoats, wounds, the smoke of gunpowder, the sounds of firing, +and the glory that awaited him. + +“Not that either. That puts the court in too bad a light,” replied +Bilíbin. “It’s not treachery nor rascality nor stupidity: it is +just as at Ulm... it is...”—he seemed to be trying to find the right +expression. “C’est... c’est du Mack. Nous sommes mackés (It is... +it is a bit of Mack. We are Macked),” he concluded, feeling that he +had produced a good epigram, a fresh one that would be repeated. His +hitherto puckered brow became smooth as a sign of pleasure, and with a +slight smile he began to examine his nails. + +“Where are you off to?” he said suddenly to Prince Andrew who had +risen and was going toward his room. + +“I am going away.” + +“Where to?” + +“To the army.” + +“But you meant to stay another two days?” + +“But now I am off at once.” + +And Prince Andrew after giving directions about his departure went to +his room. + +“Do you know, mon cher,” said Bilíbin following him, “I have been +thinking about you. Why are you going?” + +And in proof of the conclusiveness of his opinion all the wrinkles +vanished from his face. + +Prince Andrew looked inquiringly at him and gave no reply. + +“Why are you going? I know you think it your duty to gallop back to +the army now that it is in danger. I understand that. Mon cher, it is +heroism!” + +“Not at all,” said Prince Andrew. + +“But as you are a philosopher, be a consistent one, look at the other +side of the question and you will see that your duty, on the contrary, +is to take care of yourself. Leave it to those who are no longer fit for +anything else.... You have not been ordered to return and have not been +dismissed from here; therefore, you can stay and go with us wherever our +ill luck takes us. They say we are going to Olmütz, and Olmütz is a +very decent town. You and I will travel comfortably in my calèche.” + +“Do stop joking, Bilíbin,” cried Bolkónski. + +“I am speaking sincerely as a friend! Consider! Where and why are +you going, when you might remain here? You are faced by one of two +things,” and the skin over his left temple puckered, “either you +will not reach your regiment before peace is concluded, or you will +share defeat and disgrace with Kutúzov’s whole army.” + +And Bilíbin unwrinkled his temple, feeling that the dilemma was +insoluble. + +“I cannot argue about it,” replied Prince Andrew coldly, but he +thought: “I am going to save the army.” + +“My dear fellow, you are a hero!” said Bilíbin. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIII + +That same night, having taken leave of the Minister of War, Bolkónski +set off to rejoin the army, not knowing where he would find it and +fearing to be captured by the French on the way to Krems. + +In Brünn everybody attached to the court was packing up, and the heavy +baggage was already being dispatched to Olmütz. Near Hetzelsdorf Prince +Andrew struck the high road along which the Russian army was moving with +great haste and in the greatest disorder. The road was so obstructed +with carts that it was impossible to get by in a carriage. Prince Andrew +took a horse and a Cossack from a Cossack commander, and hungry and +weary, making his way past the baggage wagons, rode in search of the +commander in chief and of his own luggage. Very sinister reports of the +position of the army reached him as he went along, and the appearance of +the troops in their disorderly flight confirmed these rumors. + +“Cette armée russe que l’or de l’Angleterre a transportée des +extrémités de l’univers, nous allons lui faire éprouver le même +sort—(le sort de l’armée d’Ulm).” * He remembered these words +in Bonaparte’s address to his army at the beginning of the campaign, +and they awoke in him astonishment at the genius of his hero, a feeling +of wounded pride, and a hope of glory. “And should there be nothing +left but to die?” he thought. “Well, if need be, I shall do it no +worse than others.” + + * “That Russian army which has been brought from the ends of + the earth by English gold, we shall cause to share the same + fate—(the fate of the army at Ulm).” + + +He looked with disdain at the endless confused mass of detachments, +carts, guns, artillery, and again baggage wagons and vehicles of all +kinds overtaking one another and blocking the muddy road, three and +sometimes four abreast. From all sides, behind and before, as far as ear +could reach, there were the rattle of wheels, the creaking of carts +and gun carriages, the tramp of horses, the crack of whips, shouts, the +urging of horses, and the swearing of soldiers, orderlies, and officers. +All along the sides of the road fallen horses were to be seen, some +flayed, some not, and broken-down carts beside which solitary soldiers +sat waiting for something, and again soldiers straggling from their +companies, crowds of whom set off to the neighboring villages, or +returned from them dragging sheep, fowls, hay, and bulging sacks. At +each ascent or descent of the road the crowds were yet denser and the +din of shouting more incessant. Soldiers floundering knee-deep in mud +pushed the guns and wagons themselves. Whips cracked, hoofs slipped, +traces broke, and lungs were strained with shouting. The officers +directing the march rode backward and forward between the carts. Their +voices were but feebly heard amid the uproar and one saw by their faces +that they despaired of the possibility of checking this disorder. + +“Here is our dear Orthodox Russian army,” thought Bolkónski, +recalling Bilíbin’s words. + +Wishing to find out where the commander in chief was, he rode up to +a convoy. Directly opposite to him came a strange one-horse vehicle, +evidently rigged up by soldiers out of any available materials and +looking like something between a cart, a cabriolet, and a calèche. +A soldier was driving, and a woman enveloped in shawls sat behind the +apron under the leather hood of the vehicle. Prince Andrew rode up +and was just putting his question to a soldier when his attention +was diverted by the desperate shrieks of the woman in the vehicle. An +officer in charge of transport was beating the soldier who was driving +the woman’s vehicle for trying to get ahead of others, and the strokes +of his whip fell on the apron of the equipage. The woman screamed +piercingly. Seeing Prince Andrew she leaned out from behind the apron +and, waving her thin arms from under the woolen shawl, cried: + +“Mr. Aide-de-camp! Mr. Aide-de-camp!... For heaven’s sake... Protect +me! What will become of us? I am the wife of the doctor of the Seventh +Chasseurs.... They won’t let us pass, we are left behind and have lost +our people...” + +“I’ll flatten you into a pancake!” shouted the angry officer to +the soldier. “Turn back with your slut!” + +“Mr. Aide-de-camp! Help me!... What does it all mean?” screamed the +doctor’s wife. + +“Kindly let this cart pass. Don’t you see it’s a woman?” said +Prince Andrew riding up to the officer. + +The officer glanced at him, and without replying turned again to the +soldier. “I’ll teach you to push on!... Back!” + +“Let them pass, I tell you!” repeated Prince Andrew, compressing his +lips. + +“And who are you?” cried the officer, turning on him with tipsy +rage, “who are you? Are you in command here? Eh? I am commander here, +not you! Go back or I’ll flatten you into a pancake,” repeated he. +This expression evidently pleased him. + +“That was a nice snub for the little aide-de-camp,” came a voice +from behind. + +Prince Andrew saw that the officer was in that state of senseless, +tipsy rage when a man does not know what he is saying. He saw that his +championship of the doctor’s wife in her queer trap might expose him +to what he dreaded more than anything in the world—to ridicule; but +his instinct urged him on. Before the officer finished his sentence +Prince Andrew, his face distorted with fury, rode up to him and raised +his riding whip. + +“Kind...ly let—them—pass!” + +The officer flourished his arm and hastily rode away. + +“It’s all the fault of these fellows on the staff that there’s +this disorder,” he muttered. “Do as you like.” + +Prince Andrew without lifting his eyes rode hastily away from the +doctor’s wife, who was calling him her deliverer, and recalling with +a sense of disgust the minutest details of this humiliating scene he +galloped on to the village where he was told that the commander in chief +was. + +On reaching the village he dismounted and went to the nearest house, +intending to rest if but for a moment, eat something, and try to sort +out the stinging and tormenting thoughts that confused his mind. “This +is a mob of scoundrels and not an army,” he was thinking as he went +up to the window of the first house, when a familiar voice called him by +name. + +He turned round. Nesvítski’s handsome face looked out of the little +window. Nesvítski, moving his moist lips as he chewed something, and +flourishing his arm, called him to enter. + +“Bolkónski! Bolkónski!... Don’t you hear? Eh? Come quick...” he +shouted. + +Entering the house, Prince Andrew saw Nesvítski and another adjutant +having something to eat. They hastily turned round to him asking if he +had any news. On their familiar faces he read agitation and alarm. +This was particularly noticeable on Nesvítski’s usually laughing +countenance. + +“Where is the commander in chief?” asked Bolkónski. + +“Here, in that house,” answered the adjutant. + +“Well, is it true that it’s peace and capitulation?” asked +Nesvítski. + +“I was going to ask you. I know nothing except that it was all I could +do to get here.” + +“And we, my dear boy! It’s terrible! I was wrong to laugh at Mack, +we’re getting it still worse,” said Nesvítski. “But sit down and +have something to eat.” + +“You won’t be able to find either your baggage or anything else now, +Prince. And God only knows where your man Peter is,” said the other +adjutant. + +“Where are headquarters?” + +“We are to spend the night in Znaim.” + +“Well, I have got all I need into packs for two horses,” said +Nesvítski. “They’ve made up splendid packs for me—fit to cross +the Bohemian mountains with. It’s a bad lookout, old fellow! But +what’s the matter with you? You must be ill to shiver like that,” he +added, noticing that Prince Andrew winced as at an electric shock. + +“It’s nothing,” replied Prince Andrew. + +He had just remembered his recent encounter with the doctor’s wife and +the convoy officer. + +“What is the commander in chief doing here?” he asked. + +“I can’t make out at all,” said Nesvítski. + +“Well, all I can make out is that everything is abominable, +abominable, quite abominable!” said Prince Andrew, and he went off to +the house where the commander in chief was. + +Passing by Kutúzov’s carriage and the exhausted saddle horses of +his suite, with their Cossacks who were talking loudly together, Prince +Andrew entered the passage. Kutúzov himself, he was told, was in the +house with Prince Bagratión and Weyrother. Weyrother was the Austrian +general who had succeeded Schmidt. In the passage little Kozlóvski was +squatting on his heels in front of a clerk. The clerk, with cuffs turned +up, was hastily writing at a tub turned bottom upwards. Kozlóvski’s +face looked worn—he too had evidently not slept all night. He glanced +at Prince Andrew and did not even nod to him. + +“Second line... have you written it?” he continued dictating to the +clerk. “The Kiev Grenadiers, Podolian...” + +“One can’t write so fast, your honor,” said the clerk, glancing +angrily and disrespectfully at Kozlóvski. + +Through the door came the sounds of Kutúzov’s voice, excited and +dissatisfied, interrupted by another, an unfamiliar voice. From the +sound of these voices, the inattentive way Kozlóvski looked at him, the +disrespectful manner of the exhausted clerk, the fact that the clerk and +Kozlóvski were squatting on the floor by a tub so near to the commander +in chief, and from the noisy laughter of the Cossacks holding the +horses near the window, Prince Andrew felt that something important and +disastrous was about to happen. + +He turned to Kozlóvski with urgent questions. + +“Immediately, Prince,” said Kozlóvski. “Dispositions for +Bagratión.” + +“What about capitulation?” + +“Nothing of the sort. Orders are issued for a battle.” + +Prince Andrew moved toward the door from whence voices were heard. +Just as he was going to open it the sounds ceased, the door opened, and +Kutúzov with his eagle nose and puffy face appeared in the doorway. +Prince Andrew stood right in front of Kutúzov but the expression of +the commander in chief’s one sound eye showed him to be so preoccupied +with thoughts and anxieties as to be oblivious of his presence. He +looked straight at his adjutant’s face without recognizing him. + +“Well, have you finished?” said he to Kozlóvski. + +“One moment, your excellency.” + +Bagratión, a gaunt middle-aged man of medium height with a firm, +impassive face of Oriental type, came out after the commander in chief. + +“I have the honor to present myself,” repeated Prince Andrew rather +loudly, handing Kutúzov an envelope. + +“Ah, from Vienna? Very good. Later, later!” + +Kutúzov went out into the porch with Bagratión. + +“Well, good-by, Prince,” said he to Bagratión. “My blessing, and +may Christ be with you in your great endeavor!” + +His face suddenly softened and tears came into his eyes. With his left +hand he drew Bagratión toward him, and with his right, on which he wore +a ring, he made the sign of the cross over him with a gesture evidently +habitual, offering his puffy cheek, but Bagratión kissed him on the +neck instead. + +“Christ be with you!” Kutúzov repeated and went toward his +carriage. “Get in with me,” said he to Bolkónski. + +“Your excellency, I should like to be of use here. Allow me to remain +with Prince Bagratión’s detachment.” + +“Get in,” said Kutúzov, and noticing that Bolkónski still delayed, +he added: “I need good officers myself, need them myself!” + +They got into the carriage and drove for a few minutes in silence. + +“There is still much, much before us,” he said, as if with an old +man’s penetration he understood all that was passing in Bolkónski’s +mind. “If a tenth part of his detachment returns I shall thank God,” +he added as if speaking to himself. + +Prince Andrew glanced at Kutúzov’s face only a foot distant from him +and involuntarily noticed the carefully washed seams of the scar near +his temple, where an Ismail bullet had pierced his skull, and the empty +eye socket. “Yes, he has a right to speak so calmly of those men’s +death,” thought Bolkónski. + +“That is why I beg to be sent to that detachment,” he said. + +Kutúzov did not reply. He seemed to have forgotten what he had been +saying, and sat plunged in thought. Five minutes later, gently swaying +on the soft springs of the carriage, he turned to Prince Andrew. +There was not a trace of agitation on his face. With delicate irony he +questioned Prince Andrew about the details of his interview with the +Emperor, about the remarks he had heard at court concerning the Krems +affair, and about some ladies they both knew. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +On November 1 Kutúzov had received, through a spy, news that the army +he commanded was in an almost hopeless position. The spy reported that +the French, after crossing the bridge at Vienna, were advancing in +immense force upon Kutúzov’s line of communication with the troops +that were arriving from Russia. If Kutúzov decided to remain at Krems, +Napoleon’s army of one hundred and fifty thousand men would cut him +off completely and surround his exhausted army of forty thousand, and he +would find himself in the position of Mack at Ulm. If Kutúzov decided +to abandon the road connecting him with the troops arriving from Russia, +he would have to march with no road into unknown parts of the Bohemian +mountains, defending himself against superior forces of the enemy and +abandoning all hope of a junction with Buxhöwden. If Kutúzov decided +to retreat along the road from Krems to Olmütz, to unite with the +troops arriving from Russia, he risked being forestalled on that road +by the French who had crossed the Vienna bridge, and encumbered by his +baggage and transport, having to accept battle on the march against an +enemy three times as strong, who would hem him in from two sides. + +Kutúzov chose this latter course. + +The French, the spy reported, having crossed the Vienna bridge, were +advancing by forced marches toward Znaim, which lay sixty-six miles +off on the line of Kutúzov’s retreat. If he reached Znaim before the +French, there would be great hope of saving the army; to let the +French forestall him at Znaim meant the exposure of his whole army to a +disgrace such as that of Ulm, or to utter destruction. But to forestall +the French with his whole army was impossible. The road for the French +from Vienna to Znaim was shorter and better than the road for the +Russians from Krems to Znaim. + +The night he received the news, Kutúzov sent Bagratión’s vanguard, +four thousand strong, to the right across the hills from the Krems-Znaim +to the Vienna-Znaim road. Bagratión was to make this march without +resting, and to halt facing Vienna with Znaim to his rear, and if he +succeeded in forestalling the French he was to delay them as long as +possible. Kutúzov himself with all his transport took the road to +Znaim. + +Marching thirty miles that stormy night across roadless hills, with his +hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers +by the way, Bagratión came out on the Vienna-Znaim road at Hollabrünn +a few hours ahead of the French who were approaching Hollabrünn from +Vienna. Kutúzov with his transport had still to march for some days +before he could reach Znaim. Hence Bagratión with his four thousand +hungry, exhausted men would have to detain for days the whole enemy army +that came upon him at Hollabrünn, which was clearly impossible. But +a freak of fate made the impossible possible. The success of the trick +that had placed the Vienna bridge in the hands of the French without +a fight led Murat to try to deceive Kutúzov in a similar way. Meeting +Bagratión’s weak detachment on the Znaim road he supposed it to be +Kutúzov’s whole army. To be able to crush it absolutely he awaited +the arrival of the rest of the troops who were on their way from Vienna, +and with this object offered a three days’ truce on condition that +both armies should remain in position without moving. Murat declared +that negotiations for peace were already proceeding, and that he +therefore offered this truce to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. Count +Nostitz, the Austrian general occupying the advanced posts, believed +Murat’s emissary and retired, leaving Bagratión’s division +exposed. Another emissary rode to the Russian line to announce the peace +negotiations and to offer the Russian army the three days’ truce. +Bagratión replied that he was not authorized either to accept or refuse +a truce and sent his adjutant to Kutúzov to report the offer he had +received. + +A truce was Kutúzov’s sole chance of gaining time, giving +Bagratión’s exhausted troops some rest, and letting the transport and +heavy convoys (whose movements were concealed from the French) advance +if but one stage nearer Znaim. The offer of a truce gave the only, and +a quite unexpected, chance of saving the army. On receiving the news +he immediately dispatched Adjutant General Wintzingerode, who was in +attendance on him, to the enemy camp. Wintzingerode was not merely +to agree to the truce but also to offer terms of capitulation, and +meanwhile Kutúzov sent his adjutants back to hasten to the utmost the +movements of the baggage trains of the entire army along the Krems-Znaim +road. Bagratión’s exhausted and hungry detachment, which alone +covered this movement of the transport and of the whole army, had to +remain stationary in face of an enemy eight times as strong as itself. + +Kutúzov’s expectations that the proposals of capitulation (which were +in no way binding) might give time for part of the transport to pass, +and also that Murat’s mistake would very soon be discovered, proved +correct. As soon as Bonaparte (who was at Schönbrunn, sixteen miles +from Hollabrünn) received Murat’s dispatch with the proposal of a +truce and a capitulation, he detected a ruse and wrote the following +letter to Murat: + +Schönbrunn, 25th Brumaire, 1805, + +at eight o’clock in the morning + +To PRINCE MURAT, + +I cannot find words to express to you my displeasure. You command only +my advance guard, and have no right to arrange an armistice without my +order. You are causing me to lose the fruits of a campaign. Break +the armistice immediately and march on the enemy. Inform him that the +general who signed that capitulation had no right to do so, and that no +one but the Emperor of Russia has that right. + +If, however, the Emperor of Russia ratifies that convention, I will +ratify it; but it is only a trick. March on, destroy the Russian +army.... You are in a position to seize its baggage and artillery. + +The Russian Emperor’s aide-de-camp is an impostor. Officers are +nothing when they have no powers; this one had none.... The Austrians +let themselves be tricked at the crossing of the Vienna bridge, you are +letting yourself be tricked by an aide-de-camp of the Emperor. + +NAPOLEON + +Bonaparte’s adjutant rode full gallop with this menacing letter to +Murat. Bonaparte himself, not trusting to his generals, moved with all +the Guards to the field of battle, afraid of letting a ready victim +escape, and Bagratión’s four thousand men merrily lighted campfires, +dried and warmed themselves, cooked their porridge for the first time +for three days, and not one of them knew or imagined what was in store +for him. + + + + + +CHAPTER XV + +Between three and four o’clock in the afternoon Prince Andrew, who +had persisted in his request to Kutúzov, arrived at Grunth and reported +himself to Bagratión. Bonaparte’s adjutant had not yet reached +Murat’s detachment and the battle had not yet begun. In Bagratión’s +detachment no one knew anything of the general position of affairs. They +talked of peace but did not believe in its possibility; others talked +of a battle but also disbelieved in the nearness of an engagement. +Bagratión, knowing Bolkónski to be a favorite and trusted adjutant, +received him with distinction and special marks of favor, explaining to +him that there would probably be an engagement that day or the next, and +giving him full liberty to remain with him during the battle or to join +the rearguard and have an eye on the order of retreat, “which is also +very important.” + +“However, there will hardly be an engagement today,” said Bagratión +as if to reassure Prince Andrew. + +“If he is one of the ordinary little staff dandies sent to earn a +medal he can get his reward just as well in the rearguard, but if he +wishes to stay with me, let him... he’ll be of use here if he’s a +brave officer,” thought Bagratión. Prince Andrew, without replying, +asked the prince’s permission to ride round the position to see the +disposition of the forces, so as to know his bearings should he be sent +to execute an order. The officer on duty, a handsome, elegantly dressed +man with a diamond ring on his forefinger, who was fond of speaking +French though he spoke it badly, offered to conduct Prince Andrew. + +On all sides they saw rain-soaked officers with dejected faces who +seemed to be seeking something, and soldiers dragging doors, benches, +and fencing from the village. + +“There now, Prince! We can’t stop those fellows,” said the staff +officer pointing to the soldiers. “The officers don’t keep them in +hand. And there,” he pointed to a sutler’s tent, “they crowd in +and sit. This morning I turned them all out and now look, it’s full +again. I must go there, Prince, and scare them a bit. It won’t take a +moment.” + +“Yes, let’s go in and I will get myself a roll and some cheese,” +said Prince Andrew who had not yet had time to eat anything. + +“Why didn’t you mention it, Prince? I would have offered you +something.” + +They dismounted and entered the tent. Several officers, with flushed and +weary faces, were sitting at the table eating and drinking. + +“Now what does this mean, gentlemen?” said the staff officer, in +the reproachful tone of a man who has repeated the same thing more +than once. “You know it won’t do to leave your posts like this. +The prince gave orders that no one should leave his post. Now you, +Captain,” and he turned to a thin, dirty little artillery officer who +without his boots (he had given them to the canteen keeper to dry), +in only his stockings, rose when they entered, smiling not altogether +comfortably. + +“Well, aren’t you ashamed of yourself, Captain Túshin?” he +continued. “One would think that as an artillery officer you would set +a good example, yet here you are without your boots! The alarm will be +sounded and you’ll be in a pretty position without your boots!” (The +staff officer smiled.) “Kindly return to your posts, gentlemen, all of +you, all!” he added in a tone of command. + +Prince Andrew smiled involuntarily as he looked at the artillery officer +Túshin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to +the other, glanced inquiringly with his large, intelligent, kindly eyes +from Prince Andrew to the staff officer. + +“The soldiers say it feels easier without boots,” said Captain +Túshin smiling shyly in his uncomfortable position, evidently wishing +to adopt a jocular tone. But before he had finished he felt that his +jest was unacceptable and had not come off. He grew confused. + +“Kindly return to your posts,” said the staff officer trying to +preserve his gravity. + +Prince Andrew glanced again at the artillery officer’s small figure. +There was something peculiar about it, quite unsoldierly, rather comic, +but extremely attractive. + +The staff officer and Prince Andrew mounted their horses and rode on. + +Having ridden beyond the village, continually meeting and overtaking +soldiers and officers of various regiments, they saw on their left some +entrenchments being thrown up, the freshly dug clay of which showed up +red. Several battalions of soldiers, in their shirt sleeves despite +the cold wind, swarmed in these earthworks like a host of white ants; +spadefuls of red clay were continually being thrown up from behind the +bank by unseen hands. Prince Andrew and the officer rode up, looked at +the entrenchment, and went on again. Just behind it they came upon some +dozens of soldiers, continually replaced by others, who ran from the +entrenchment. They had to hold their noses and put their horses to a +trot to escape from the poisoned atmosphere of these latrines. + +“Voilà l’agrément des camps, monsieur le prince,” * said the +staff officer. + + * “This is a pleasure one gets in camp, Prince.” + + +They rode up the opposite hill. From there the French could already be +seen. Prince Andrew stopped and began examining the position. + +“That’s our battery,” said the staff officer indicating the +highest point. “It’s in charge of the queer fellow we saw without +his boots. You can see everything from there; let’s go there, +Prince.” + +“Thank you very much, I will go on alone,” said Prince Andrew, +wishing to rid himself of this staff officer’s company, “please +don’t trouble yourself further.” + +The staff officer remained behind and Prince Andrew rode on alone. + +The farther forward and nearer the enemy he went, the more orderly and +cheerful were the troops. The greatest disorder and depression had been +in the baggage train he had passed that morning on the Znaim road seven +miles away from the French. At Grunth also some apprehension and alarm +could be felt, but the nearer Prince Andrew came to the French lines the +more confident was the appearance of our troops. The soldiers in +their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company +officers were counting the men, poking the last man in each section in +the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up. Soldiers scattered over +the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building +shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, +dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending +boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers. +In one company dinner was ready, and the soldiers were gazing eagerly +at the steaming boiler, waiting till the sample, which a quartermaster +sergeant was carrying in a wooden bowl to an officer who sat on a log +before his shelter, had been tasted. + +Another company, a lucky one for not all the companies had vodka, +crowded round a pockmarked, broad-shouldered sergeant major who, tilting +a keg, filled one after another the canteen lids held out to him. The +soldiers lifted the canteen lids to their lips with reverential faces, +emptied them, rolling the vodka in their mouths, and walked away from +the sergeant major with brightened expressions, licking their lips and +wiping them on the sleeves of their greatcoats. All their faces were +as serene as if all this were happening at home awaiting peaceful +encampment, and not within sight of the enemy before an action in +which at least half of them would be left on the field. After passing a +chasseur regiment and in the lines of the Kiev grenadiers—fine fellows +busy with similar peaceful affairs—near the shelter of the regimental +commander, higher than and different from the others, Prince Andrew came +out in front of a platoon of grenadiers before whom lay a naked man. Two +soldiers held him while two others were flourishing their switches and +striking him regularly on his bare back. The man shrieked unnaturally. +A stout major was pacing up and down the line, and regardless of the +screams kept repeating: + +“It’s a shame for a soldier to steal; a soldier must be honest, +honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in +him, he’s a scoundrel. Go on! Go on!” + +So the swishing sound of the strokes, and the desperate but unnatural +screams, continued. + +“Go on, go on!” said the major. + +A young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face +stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant +as he rode by. + +Prince Andrew, having reached the front line, rode along it. Our front +line and that of the enemy were far apart on the right and left flanks, +but in the center where the men with a flag of truce had passed that +morning, the lines were so near together that the men could see one +another’s faces and speak to one another. Besides the soldiers who +formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers +who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies. + +Since early morning—despite an injunction not to approach the picket +line—the officers had been unable to keep sight-seers away. The +soldiers forming the picket line, like showmen exhibiting a curiosity, +no longer looked at the French but paid attention to the sight-seers and +grew weary waiting to be relieved. Prince Andrew halted to have a look +at the French. + +“Look! Look there!” one soldier was saying to another, pointing to a +Russian musketeer who had gone up to the picket line with an officer and +was rapidly and excitedly talking to a French grenadier. “Hark to him +jabbering! Fine, isn’t it? It’s all the Frenchy can do to keep up +with him. There now, Sídorov!” + +“Wait a bit and listen. It’s fine!” answered Sídorov, who was +considered an adept at French. + +The soldier to whom the laughers referred was Dólokhov. Prince Andrew +recognized him and stopped to listen to what he was saying. Dólokhov +had come from the left flank where their regiment was stationed, with +his captain. + +“Now then, go on, go on!” incited the officer, bending forward and +trying not to lose a word of the speech which was incomprehensible to +him. “More, please: more! What’s he saying?” + +Dólokhov did not answer the captain; he had been drawn into a hot +dispute with the French grenadier. They were naturally talking about the +campaign. The Frenchman, confusing the Austrians with the Russians, was +trying to prove that the Russians had surrendered and had fled all +the way from Ulm, while Dólokhov maintained that the Russians had not +surrendered but had beaten the French. + +“We have orders to drive you off here, and we shall drive you off,” +said Dólokhov. + +“Only take care you and your Cossacks are not all captured!” said +the French grenadier. + +The French onlookers and listeners laughed. + +“We’ll make you dance as we did under Suvórov...,” * said +Dólokhov. + + * “On vous fera danser.” + + +“Qu’ est-ce qu’il chante?” * asked a Frenchman. + + * “What’s he singing about?” + + +“It’s ancient history,” said another, guessing that it referred to +a former war. “The Emperor will teach your Suvara as he has taught the +others...” + +“Bonaparte...” began Dólokhov, but the Frenchman interrupted him. + +“Not Bonaparte. He is the Emperor! Sacré nom...!” cried he angrily. + +“The devil skin your Emperor.” + +And Dólokhov swore at him in coarse soldier’s Russian and shouldering +his musket walked away. + +“Let us go, Iván Lukích,” he said to the captain. + +“Ah, that’s the way to talk French,” said the picket soldiers. +“Now, Sídorov, you have a try!” + +Sídorov, turning to the French, winked, and began to jabber meaningless +sounds very fast: “Kari, mala, tafa, safi, muter, Kaská,” he said, +trying to give an expressive intonation to his voice. + +“Ho! ho! ho! Ha! ha! ha! ha! Ouh! ouh!” came peals of such healthy +and good-humored laughter from the soldiers that it infected the French +involuntarily, so much so that the only thing left to do seemed to be +to unload the muskets, explode the ammunition, and all return home as +quickly as possible. + +But the guns remained loaded, the loopholes in blockhouses and +entrenchments looked out just as menacingly, and the unlimbered cannon +confronted one another as before. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +Having ridden round the whole line from right flank to left, Prince +Andrew made his way up to the battery from which the staff officer had +told him the whole field could be seen. Here he dismounted, and stopped +beside the farthest of the four unlimbered cannon. Before the guns an +artillery sentry was pacing up and down; he stood at attention when the +officer arrived, but at a sign resumed his measured, monotonous pacing. +Behind the guns were their limbers and still farther back picket ropes +and artillerymen’s bonfires. To the left, not far from the farthest +cannon, was a small, newly constructed wattle shed from which came the +sound of officers’ voices in eager conversation. + +It was true that a view over nearly the whole Russian position and the +greater part of the enemy’s opened out from this battery. Just facing +it, on the crest of the opposite hill, the village of Schön Grabern +could be seen, and in three places to left and right the French troops +amid the smoke of their campfires, the greater part of whom were +evidently in the village itself and behind the hill. To the left from +that village, amid the smoke, was something resembling a battery, but it +was impossible to see it clearly with the naked eye. Our right flank was +posted on a rather steep incline which dominated the French position. +Our infantry were stationed there, and at the farthest point the +dragoons. In the center, where Túshin’s battery stood and from which +Prince Andrew was surveying the position, was the easiest and most +direct descent and ascent to the brook separating us from Schön +Grabern. On the left our troops were close to a copse, in which smoked +the bonfires of our infantry who were felling wood. The French line was +wider than ours, and it was plain that they could easily outflank us +on both sides. Behind our position was a steep and deep dip, making it +difficult for artillery and cavalry to retire. Prince Andrew took +out his notebook and, leaning on the cannon, sketched a plan of the +position. He made some notes on two points, intending to mention them to +Bagratión. His idea was, first, to concentrate all the artillery in the +center, and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the +dip. Prince Andrew, being always near the commander in chief, closely +following the mass movements and general orders, and constantly studying +historical accounts of battles, involuntarily pictured to himself the +course of events in the forthcoming action in broad outline. He +imagined only important possibilities: “If the enemy attacks the right +flank,” he said to himself, “the Kiev grenadiers and the Podólsk +chasseurs must hold their position till reserves from the center +come up. In that case the dragoons could successfully make a flank +counterattack. If they attack our center we, having the center battery +on this high ground, shall withdraw the left flank under its cover, and +retreat to the dip by echelons.” So he reasoned.... All the time +he had been beside the gun, he had heard the voices of the officers +distinctly, but as often happens had not understood a word of what they +were saying. Suddenly, however, he was struck by a voice coming from the +shed, and its tone was so sincere that he could not but listen. + +“No, friend,” said a pleasant and, as it seemed to Prince Andrew, a +familiar voice, “what I say is that if it were possible to know +what is beyond death, none of us would be afraid of it. That’s so, +friend.” + +Another, a younger voice, interrupted him: “Afraid or not, you can’t +escape it anyhow.” + +“All the same, one is afraid! Oh, you clever people,” said a third +manly voice interrupting them both. “Of course you artillery men are +very wise, because you can take everything along with you—vodka and +snacks.” + +And the owner of the manly voice, evidently an infantry officer, +laughed. + +“Yes, one is afraid,” continued the first speaker, he of the +familiar voice. “One is afraid of the unknown, that’s what it is. +Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is +no sky but only an atmosphere.” + +The manly voice again interrupted the artillery officer. + +“Well, stand us some of your herb vodka, Túshin,” it said. + +“Why,” thought Prince Andrew, “that’s the captain who stood up +in the sutler’s hut without his boots.” He recognized the agreeable, +philosophizing voice with pleasure. + +“Some herb vodka? Certainly!” said Túshin. “But still, to +conceive a future life...” + +He did not finish. Just then there was a whistle in the air; nearer and +nearer, faster and louder, louder and faster, a cannon ball, as if it +had not finished saying what was necessary, thudded into the ground near +the shed with super human force, throwing up a mass of earth. The ground +seemed to groan at the terrible impact. + +And immediately Túshin, with a short pipe in the corner of his mouth +and his kind, intelligent face rather pale, rushed out of the shed +followed by the owner of the manly voice, a dashing infantry officer who +hurried off to his company, buttoning up his coat as he ran. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVII + +Mounting his horse again Prince Andrew lingered with the battery, +looking at the puff from the gun that had sent the ball. His eyes +ran rapidly over the wide space, but he only saw that the hitherto +motionless masses of the French now swayed and that there really was +a battery to their left. The smoke above it had not yet dispersed. Two +mounted Frenchmen, probably adjutants, were galloping up the hill. A +small but distinctly visible enemy column was moving down the hill, +probably to strengthen the front line. The smoke of the first shot had +not yet dispersed before another puff appeared, followed by a report. +The battle had begun! Prince Andrew turned his horse and galloped back +to Grunth to find Prince Bagratión. He heard the cannonade behind him +growing louder and more frequent. Evidently our guns had begun to reply. +From the bottom of the slope, where the parleys had taken place, came +the report of musketry. + +Lemarrois had just arrived at a gallop with Bonaparte’s stern letter, +and Murat, humiliated and anxious to expiate his fault, had at once +moved his forces to attack the center and outflank both the Russian +wings, hoping before evening and before the arrival of the Emperor to +crush the contemptible detachment that stood before him. + +“It has begun. Here it is!” thought Prince Andrew, feeling the +blood rush to his heart. “But where and how will my Toulon present +itself?” + +Passing between the companies that had been eating porridge and drinking +vodka a quarter of an hour before, he saw everywhere the same rapid +movement of soldiers forming ranks and getting their muskets ready, +and on all their faces he recognized the same eagerness that filled his +heart. “It has begun! Here it is, dreadful but enjoyable!” was what +the face of each soldier and each officer seemed to say. + +Before he had reached the embankments that were being thrown up, he saw, +in the light of the dull autumn evening, mounted men coming toward him. +The foremost, wearing a Cossack cloak and lambskin cap and riding a +white horse, was Prince Bagratión. Prince Andrew stopped, waiting for +him to come up; Prince Bagratión reined in his horse and recognizing +Prince Andrew nodded to him. He still looked ahead while Prince Andrew +told him what he had seen. + +The feeling, “It has begun! Here it is!” was seen even on Prince +Bagratión’s hard brown face with its half-closed, dull, sleepy eyes. +Prince Andrew gazed with anxious curiosity at that impassive face +and wished he could tell what, if anything, this man was thinking +and feeling at that moment. “Is there anything at all behind that +impassive face?” Prince Andrew asked himself as he looked. Prince +Bagratión bent his head in sign of agreement with what Prince Andrew +told him, and said, “Very good!” in a tone that seemed to imply that +everything that took place and was reported to him was exactly what he +had foreseen. Prince Andrew, out of breath with his rapid ride, spoke +quickly. Prince Bagratión, uttering his words with an Oriental accent, +spoke particularly slowly, as if to impress the fact that there was no +need to hurry. However, he put his horse to a trot in the direction +of Túshin’s battery. Prince Andrew followed with the suite. Behind +Prince Bagratión rode an officer of the suite, the prince’s personal +adjutant, Zherkóv, an orderly officer, the staff officer on duty, +riding a fine bobtailed horse, and a civilian—an accountant who had +asked permission to be present at the battle out of curiosity. The +accountant, a stout, full-faced man, looked around him with a naïve +smile of satisfaction and presented a strange appearance among the +hussars, Cossacks, and adjutants, in his camlet coat, as he jolted on +his horse with a convoy officer’s saddle. + +“He wants to see a battle,” said Zherkóv to Bolkónski, pointing +to the accountant, “but he feels a pain in the pit of his stomach +already.” + +“Oh, leave off!” said the accountant with a beaming but rather +cunning smile, as if flattered at being made the subject of Zherkóv’s +joke, and purposely trying to appear stupider than he really was. + +“It is very strange, mon Monsieur Prince,” said the staff officer. +(He remembered that in French there is some peculiar way of addressing a +prince, but could not get it quite right.) + +By this time they were all approaching Túshin’s battery, and a ball +struck the ground in front of them. + +“What’s that that has fallen?” asked the accountant with a naïve +smile. + +“A French pancake,” answered Zherkóv. + +“So that’s what they hit with?” asked the accountant. “How +awful!” + +He seemed to swell with satisfaction. He had hardly finished speaking +when they again heard an unexpectedly violent whistling which suddenly +ended with a thud into something soft... f-f-flop! and a Cossack, riding +a little to their right and behind the accountant, crashed to earth with +his horse. Zherkóv and the staff officer bent over their saddles and +turned their horses away. The accountant stopped, facing the Cossack, +and examined him with attentive curiosity. The Cossack was dead, but the +horse still struggled. + +Prince Bagratión screwed up his eyes, looked round, and, seeing the +cause of the confusion, turned away with indifference, as if to say, +“Is it worth while noticing trifles?” He reined in his horse with +the care of a skillful rider and, slightly bending over, disengaged his +saber which had caught in his cloak. It was an old-fashioned saber of +a kind no longer in general use. Prince Andrew remembered the story of +Suvórov giving his saber to Bagratión in Italy, and the recollection +was particularly pleasant at that moment. They had reached the battery +at which Prince Andrew had been when he examined the battlefield. + +“Whose company?” asked Prince Bagratión of an artilleryman standing +by the ammunition wagon. + +He asked, “Whose company?” but he really meant, “Are you +frightened here?” and the artilleryman understood him. + +“Captain Túshin’s, your excellency!” shouted the red-haired, +freckled gunner in a merry voice, standing to attention. + +“Yes, yes,” muttered Bagratión as if considering something, and he +rode past the limbers to the farthest cannon. + +As he approached, a ringing shot issued from it deafening him and his +suite, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the gun they could see +the gunners who had seized it straining to roll it quickly back to its +former position. A huge, broad-shouldered gunner, Number One, holding +a mop, his legs far apart, sprang to the wheel; while Number Two with +a trembling hand placed a charge in the cannon’s mouth. The short, +round-shouldered Captain Túshin, stumbling over the tail of the gun +carriage, moved forward and, not noticing the general, looked out +shading his eyes with his small hand. + +“Lift it two lines more and it will be just right,” cried he in a +feeble voice to which he tried to impart a dashing note, ill-suited to +his weak figure. “Number Two!” he squeaked. “Fire, Medvédev!” + +Bagratión called to him, and Túshin, raising three fingers to his cap +with a bashful and awkward gesture not at all like a military salute +but like a priest’s benediction, approached the general. Though +Túshin’s guns had been intended to cannonade the valley, he was +firing incendiary balls at the village of Schön Grabern visible just +opposite, in front of which large masses of French were advancing. + +No one had given Túshin orders where and at what to fire, but after +consulting his sergeant major, Zakharchénko, for whom he had great +respect, he had decided that it would be a good thing to set fire to the +village. “Very good!” said Bagratión in reply to the officer’s +report, and began deliberately to examine the whole battlefield extended +before him. The French had advanced nearest on our right. Below the +height on which the Kiev regiment was stationed, in the hollow where the +rivulet flowed, the soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was +heard, and much farther to the right beyond the dragoons, the officer of +the suite pointed out to Bagratión a French column that was outflanking +us. To the left the horizon bounded by the adjacent wood. Prince +Bagratión ordered two battalions from the center to be sent to +reinforce the right flank. The officer of the suite ventured to remark +to the prince that if these battalions went away, the guns would remain +without support. Prince Bagratión turned to the officer and with his +dull eyes looked at him in silence. It seemed to Prince Andrew that the +officer’s remark was just and that really no answer could be made to +it. But at that moment an adjutant galloped up with a message from the +commander of the regiment in the hollow and news that immense masses +of the French were coming down upon them and that his regiment was in +disorder and was retreating upon the Kiev grenadiers. Prince Bagratión +bowed his head in sign of assent and approval. He rode off at a walk to +the right and sent an adjutant to the dragoons with orders to attack the +French. But this adjutant returned half an hour later with the news that +the commander of the dragoons had already retreated beyond the dip in +the ground, as a heavy fire had been opened on him and he was losing +men uselessly, and so had hastened to throw some sharpshooters into the +wood. + +“Very good!” said Bagratión. + +As he was leaving the battery, firing was heard on the left also, and +as it was too far to the left flank for him to have time to go there +himself, Prince Bagratión sent Zherkóv to tell the general in command +(the one who had paraded his regiment before Kutúzov at Braunau) that +he must retreat as quickly as possible behind the hollow in the rear, +as the right flank would probably not be able to withstand the enemy’s +attack very long. About Túshin and the battalion that had been in +support of his battery all was forgotten. Prince Andrew listened +attentively to Bagratión’s colloquies with the commanding officers +and the orders he gave them and, to his surprise, found that no orders +were really given, but that Prince Bagratión tried to make it appear +that everything done by necessity, by accident, or by the will of +subordinate commanders was done, if not by his direct command, at least +in accord with his intentions. Prince Andrew noticed, however, that +though what happened was due to chance and was independent of the +commander’s will, owing to the tact Bagratión showed, his presence +was very valuable. Officers who approached him with disturbed +countenances became calm; soldiers and officers greeted him gaily, grew +more cheerful in his presence, and were evidently anxious to display +their courage before him. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVIII + +Prince Bagratión, having reached the highest point of our right flank, +began riding downhill to where the roll of musketry was heard but where +on account of the smoke nothing could be seen. The nearer they got to +the hollow the less they could see but the more they felt the nearness +of the actual battlefield. They began to meet wounded men. One with a +bleeding head and no cap was being dragged along by two soldiers who +supported him under the arms. There was a gurgle in his throat and he +was spitting blood. A bullet had evidently hit him in the throat or +mouth. Another was walking sturdily by himself but without his musket, +groaning aloud and swinging his arm which had just been hurt, while +blood from it was streaming over his greatcoat as from a bottle. He had +that moment been wounded and his face showed fear rather than suffering. +Crossing a road they descended a steep incline and saw several men +lying on the ground; they also met a crowd of soldiers some of whom were +unwounded. The soldiers were ascending the hill breathing heavily, and +despite the general’s presence were talking loudly and gesticulating. +In front of them rows of gray cloaks were already visible through the +smoke, and an officer catching sight of Bagratión rushed shouting after +the crowd of retreating soldiers, ordering them back. Bagratión rode up +to the ranks along which shots crackled now here and now there, drowning +the sound of voices and the shouts of command. The whole air reeked with +smoke. The excited faces of the soldiers were blackened with it. Some +were using their ramrods, others putting powder on the touchpans or +taking charges from their pouches, while others were firing, though who +they were firing at could not be seen for the smoke which there was no +wind to carry away. A pleasant humming and whistling of bullets were +often heard. “What is this?” thought Prince Andrew approaching the +crowd of soldiers. “It can’t be an attack, for they are not moving; +it can’t be a square—for they are not drawn up for that.” + +The commander of the regiment, a thin, feeble-looking old man with a +pleasant smile—his eyelids drooping more than half over his old eyes, +giving him a mild expression, rode up to Bagratión and welcomed him as +a host welcomes an honored guest. He reported that his regiment had +been attacked by French cavalry and that, though the attack had been +repulsed, he had lost more than half his men. He said the attack +had been repulsed, employing this military term to describe what had +occurred to his regiment, but in reality he did not himself know what +had happened during that half-hour to the troops entrusted to him, and +could not say with certainty whether the attack had been repulsed or his +regiment had been broken up. All he knew was that at the commencement +of the action balls and shells began flying all over his regiment and +hitting men and that afterwards someone had shouted “Cavalry!” and +our men had begun firing. They were still firing, not at the cavalry +which had disappeared, but at French infantry who had come into the +hollow and were firing at our men. Prince Bagratión bowed his head as a +sign that this was exactly what he had desired and expected. Turning +to his adjutant he ordered him to bring down the two battalions of the +Sixth Chasseurs whom they had just passed. Prince Andrew was struck by +the changed expression on Prince Bagratión’s face at this moment. It +expressed the concentrated and happy resolution you see on the face of +a man who on a hot day takes a final run before plunging into the water. +The dull, sleepy expression was no longer there, nor the affectation +of profound thought. The round, steady, hawk’s eyes looked before him +eagerly and rather disdainfully, not resting on anything although his +movements were still slow and measured. + +The commander of the regiment turned to Prince Bagratión, entreating +him to go back as it was too dangerous to remain where they were. +“Please, your excellency, for God’s sake!” he kept saying, +glancing for support at an officer of the suite who turned away +from him. “There, you see!” and he drew attention to the bullets +whistling, singing, and hissing continually around them. He spoke in the +tone of entreaty and reproach that a carpenter uses to a gentleman who +has picked up an ax: “We are used to it, but you, sir, will blister +your hands.” He spoke as if those bullets could not kill him, and his +half-closed eyes gave still more persuasiveness to his words. The staff +officer joined in the colonel’s appeals, but Bagratión did not reply; +he only gave an order to cease firing and re-form, so as to give room +for the two approaching battalions. While he was speaking, the curtain +of smoke that had concealed the hollow, driven by a rising wind, began +to move from right to left as if drawn by an invisible hand, and the +hill opposite, with the French moving about on it, opened out before +them. All eyes fastened involuntarily on this French column advancing +against them and winding down over the uneven ground. One could already +see the soldiers’ shaggy caps, distinguish the officers from the men, +and see the standard flapping against its staff. + +“They march splendidly,” remarked someone in Bagratión’s suite. + +The head of the column had already descended into the hollow. The clash +would take place on this side of it... + +The remains of our regiment which had been in action rapidly formed up +and moved to the right; from behind it, dispersing the laggards, came +two battalions of the Sixth Chasseurs in fine order. Before they had +reached Bagratión, the weighty tread of the mass of men marching in +step could be heard. On their left flank, nearest to Bagratión, marched +a company commander, a fine round-faced man, with a stupid and happy +expression—the same man who had rushed out of the wattle shed. At that +moment he was clearly thinking of nothing but how dashing a fellow he +would appear as he passed the commander. + +With the self-satisfaction of a man on parade, he stepped lightly with +his muscular legs as if sailing along, stretching himself to his full +height without the smallest effort, his ease contrasting with the heavy +tread of the soldiers who were keeping step with him. He carried close +to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real +weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men +without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly. It was as +if all the powers of his soul were concentrated on passing the commander +in the best possible manner, and feeling that he was doing it well he +was happy. “Left... left... left...” he seemed to repeat to himself +at each alternate step; and in time to this, with stern but varied +faces, the wall of soldiers burdened with knapsacks and muskets marched +in step, and each one of these hundreds of soldiers seemed to be +repeating to himself at each alternate step, “Left... left... +left...” A fat major skirted a bush, puffing and falling out of +step; a soldier who had fallen behind, his face showing alarm at his +defection, ran at a trot, panting to catch up with his company. A cannon +ball, cleaving the air, flew over the heads of Bagratión and his suite, +and fell into the column to the measure of “Left... left!” “Close +up!” came the company commander’s voice in jaunty tones. The +soldiers passed in a semicircle round something where the ball had +fallen, and an old trooper on the flank, a noncommissioned officer who +had stopped beside the dead men, ran to catch up his line and, falling +into step with a hop, looked back angrily, and through the ominous +silence and the regular tramp of feet beating the ground in unison, one +seemed to hear left... left... left. + +“Well done, lads!” said Prince Bagratión. + +“Glad to do our best, your ex’len-lency!” came a confused shout +from the ranks. A morose soldier marching on the left turned his eyes on +Bagratión as he shouted, with an expression that seemed to say: “We +know that ourselves!” Another, without looking round, as though +fearing to relax, shouted with his mouth wide open and passed on. + +The order was given to halt and down knapsacks. + +Bagratión rode round the ranks that had marched past him and +dismounted. He gave the reins to a Cossack, took off and handed over his diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-1/1M/1M-01 b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-1/1M/1M-01 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..007ae1c --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-1/1M/1M-01 @@ -0,0 +1,10785 @@ +felt coat, stretched his legs, and set his cap straight. The head of the +French column, with its officers leading, appeared from below the hill. + +“Forward, with God!” said Bagratión, in a resolute, sonorous voice, +turning for a moment to the front line, and slightly swinging his arms, +he went forward uneasily over the rough field with the awkward gait of +a cavalryman. Prince Andrew felt that an invisible power was leading him +forward, and experienced great happiness. + +The French were already near. Prince Andrew, walking beside Bagratión, +could clearly distinguish their bandoliers, red epaulets, and even their +faces. (He distinctly saw an old French officer who, with gaitered +legs and turned-out toes, climbed the hill with difficulty.) Prince +Bagratión gave no further orders and silently continued to walk on in +front of the ranks. Suddenly one shot after another rang out from the +French, smoke appeared all along their uneven ranks, and musket shots +sounded. Several of our men fell, among them the round-faced officer +who had marched so gaily and complacently. But at the moment the first +report was heard, Bagratión looked round and shouted, “Hurrah!” + +“Hurrah—ah!—ah!” rang a long-drawn shout from our ranks, and +passing Bagratión and racing one another they rushed in an irregular +but joyous and eager crowd down the hill at their disordered foe. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIX + +The attack of the Sixth Chasseurs secured the retreat of our right +flank. In the center Túshin’s forgotten battery, which had managed to +set fire to the Schön Grabern village, delayed the French advance. The +French were putting out the fire which the wind was spreading, and thus +gave us time to retreat. The retirement of the center to the other side +of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the +different companies did not get mixed. But our left—which consisted +of the Azóv and Podólsk infantry and the Pávlograd hussars—was +simultaneously attacked and outflanked by superior French forces under +Lannes and was thrown into confusion. Bagratión had sent Zherkóv +to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat +immediately. + +Zherkóv, not removing his hand from his cap, turned his horse about +and galloped off. But no sooner had he left Bagratión than his courage +failed him. He was seized by panic and could not go where it was +dangerous. + +Having reached the left flank, instead of going to the front where the +firing was, he began to look for the general and his staff where they +could not possibly be, and so did not deliver the order. + +The command of the left flank belonged by seniority to the commander of +the regiment Kutúzov had reviewed at Braunau and in which Dólokhov was +serving as a private. But the command of the extreme left flank had been +assigned to the commander of the Pávlograd regiment in which Rostóv +was serving, and a misunderstanding arose. The two commanders were much +exasperated with one another and, long after the action had begun on +the right flank and the French were already advancing, were engaged +in discussion with the sole object of offending one another. But the +regiments, both cavalry and infantry, were by no means ready for the +impending action. From privates to general they were not expecting a +battle and were engaged in peaceful occupations, the cavalry feeding the +horses and the infantry collecting wood. + +“He higher iss dan I in rank,” said the German colonel of the +hussars, flushing and addressing an adjutant who had ridden up, “so +let him do what he vill, but I cannot sacrifice my hussars... Bugler, +sount ze retreat!” + +But haste was becoming imperative. Cannon and musketry, mingling +together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes +of Lannes’ sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and +forming up within twice the range of a musket shot. The general in +command of the infantry went toward his horse with jerky steps, and +having mounted drew himself up very straight and tall and rode to the +Pávlograd commander. The commanders met with polite bows but with +secret malevolence in their hearts. + +“Once again, Colonel,” said the general, “I can’t leave half +my men in the wood. I beg of you, I beg of you,” he repeated, “to +occupy the position and prepare for an attack.” + +“I peg of you yourself not to mix in vot is not your business!” +suddenly replied the irate colonel. “If you vere in the cavalry...” + +“I am not in the cavalry, Colonel, but I am a Russian general and if +you are not aware of the fact...” + +“Quite avare, your excellency,” suddenly shouted the colonel, +touching his horse and turning purple in the face. “Vill you be so +goot to come to ze front and see dat zis position iss no goot? I don’t +vish to destroy my men for your pleasure!” + +“You forget yourself, Colonel. I am not considering my own pleasure +and I won’t allow it to be said!” + +Taking the colonel’s outburst as a challenge to his courage, the +general expanded his chest and rode, frowning, beside him to the +front line, as if their differences would be settled there amongst the +bullets. They reached the front, several bullets sped over them, and +they halted in silence. There was nothing fresh to be seen from the +line, for from where they had been before it had been evident that it +was impossible for cavalry to act among the bushes and broken ground, +as well as that the French were outflanking our left. The general +and colonel looked sternly and significantly at one another like two +fighting cocks preparing for battle, each vainly trying to detect signs +of cowardice in the other. Both passed the examination successfully. As +there was nothing to be said, and neither wished to give occasion for +it to be alleged that he had been the first to leave the range of fire, +they would have remained there for a long time testing each other’s +courage had it not been that just then they heard the rattle of musketry +and a muffled shout almost behind them in the wood. The French had +attacked the men collecting wood in the copse. It was no longer possible +for the hussars to retreat with the infantry. They were cut off from +the line of retreat on the left by the French. However inconvenient the +position, it was now necessary to attack in order to cut a way through +for themselves. + +The squadron in which Rostóv was serving had scarcely time to mount +before it was halted facing the enemy. Again, as at the Enns bridge, +there was nothing between the squadron and the enemy, and again that +terrible dividing line of uncertainty and fear—resembling the line +separating the living from the dead—lay between them. All were +conscious of this unseen line, and the question whether they would cross +it or not, and how they would cross it, agitated them all. + +The colonel rode to the front, angrily gave some reply to questions put +to him by the officers, and, like a man desperately insisting on having +his own way, gave an order. No one said anything definite, but the rumor +of an attack spread through the squadron. The command to form up rang +out and the sabers whizzed as they were drawn from their scabbards. +Still no one moved. The troops of the left flank, infantry and hussars +alike, felt that the commander did not himself know what to do, and this +irresolution communicated itself to the men. + +“If only they would be quick!” thought Rostóv, feeling that at last +the time had come to experience the joy of an attack of which he had so +often heard from his fellow hussars. + +“Fo’ward, with God, lads!” rang out Denísov’s voice. “At a +twot fo’ward!” + +The horses’ croups began to sway in the front line. Rook pulled at the +reins and started of his own accord. + +Before him, on the right, Rostóv saw the front lines of his hussars and +still farther ahead a dark line which he could not see distinctly but +took to be the enemy. Shots could be heard, but some way off. + +“Faster!” came the word of command, and Rostóv felt Rook’s flanks +drooping as he broke into a gallop. + +Rostóv anticipated his horse’s movements and became more and more +elated. He had noticed a solitary tree ahead of him. This tree had been +in the middle of the line that had seemed so terrible—and now he +had crossed that line and not only was there nothing terrible, but +everything was becoming more and more happy and animated. “Oh, how I +will slash at him!” thought Rostóv, gripping the hilt of his saber. + +“Hur-a-a-a-ah!” came a roar of voices. “Let anyone come my way +now,” thought Rostóv driving his spurs into Rook and letting him go +at a full gallop so that he outstripped the others. Ahead, the enemy was +already visible. Suddenly something like a birch broom seemed to sweep +over the squadron. Rostóv raised his saber, ready to strike, but at +that instant the trooper Nikítenko, who was galloping ahead, shot away +from him, and Rostóv felt as in a dream that he continued to be carried +forward with unnatural speed but yet stayed on the same spot. From +behind him Bondarchúk, an hussar he knew, jolted against him and looked +angrily at him. Bondarchúk’s horse swerved and galloped past. + +“How is it I am not moving? I have fallen, I am killed!” Rostóv +asked and answered at the same instant. He was alone in the middle of a +field. Instead of the moving horses and hussars’ backs, he saw nothing +before him but the motionless earth and the stubble around him. There +was warm blood under his arm. “No, I am wounded and the horse is +killed.” Rook tried to rise on his forelegs but fell back, pinning his +rider’s leg. Blood was flowing from his head; he struggled but could +not rise. Rostóv also tried to rise but fell back, his sabretache +having become entangled in the saddle. Where our men were, and where the +French, he did not know. There was no one near. + +Having disentangled his leg, he rose. “Where, on which side, was now +the line that had so sharply divided the two armies?” he asked himself +and could not answer. “Can something bad have happened to me?” +he wondered as he got up: and at that moment he felt that something +superfluous was hanging on his benumbed left arm. The wrist felt as if +it were not his. He examined his hand carefully, vainly trying to find +blood on it. “Ah, here are people coming,” he thought joyfully, +seeing some men running toward him. “They will help me!” In front +came a man wearing a strange shako and a blue cloak, swarthy, sunburned, +and with a hooked nose. Then came two more, and many more running +behind. One of them said something strange, not in Russian. In among the +hindmost of these men wearing similar shakos was a Russian hussar. He +was being held by the arms and his horse was being led behind him. + +“It must be one of ours, a prisoner. Yes. Can it be that they will +take me too? Who are these men?” thought Rostóv, scarcely believing +his eyes. “Can they be French?” He looked at the approaching +Frenchmen, and though but a moment before he had been galloping to get +at them and hack them to pieces, their proximity now seemed so awful +that he could not believe his eyes. “Who are they? Why are they +running? Can they be coming at me? And why? To kill me? Me whom everyone +is so fond of?” He remembered his mother’s love for him, and his +family’s, and his friends’, and the enemy’s intention to kill him +seemed impossible. “But perhaps they may do it!” For more than ten +seconds he stood not moving from the spot or realizing the situation. +The foremost Frenchman, the one with the hooked nose, was already so +close that the expression of his face could be seen. And the excited, +alien face of that man, his bayonet hanging down, holding his breath, +and running so lightly, frightened Rostóv. He seized his pistol and, +instead of firing it, flung it at the Frenchman and ran with all his +might toward the bushes. He did not now run with the feeling of doubt +and conflict with which he had trodden the Enns bridge, but with the +feeling of a hare fleeing from the hounds. One single sentiment, that +of fear for his young and happy life, possessed his whole being. Rapidly +leaping the furrows, he fled across the field with the impetuosity he +used to show at catchplay, now and then turning his good-natured, pale, +young face to look back. A shudder of terror went through him: “No, +better not look,” he thought, but having reached the bushes he glanced +round once more. The French had fallen behind, and just as he looked +round the first man changed his run to a walk and, turning, shouted +something loudly to a comrade farther back. Rostóv paused. “No, +there’s some mistake,” thought he. “They can’t have wanted to +kill me.” But at the same time, his left arm felt as heavy as if +a seventy-pound weight were tied to it. He could run no more. The +Frenchman also stopped and took aim. Rostóv closed his eyes and stooped +down. One bullet and then another whistled past him. He mustered his +last remaining strength, took hold of his left hand with his right, and +reached the bushes. Behind these were some Russian sharpshooters. + + + + + +CHAPTER XX + +The infantry regiments that had been caught unawares in the outskirts +of the wood ran out of it, the different companies getting mixed, and +retreated as a disorderly crowd. One soldier, in his fear, uttered the +senseless cry, “Cut off!” that is so terrible in battle, and that +word infected the whole crowd with a feeling of panic. + +“Surrounded! Cut off? We’re lost!” shouted the fugitives. + +The moment he heard the firing and the cry from behind, the general +realized that something dreadful had happened to his regiment, and the +thought that he, an exemplary officer of many years’ service who +had never been to blame, might be held responsible at headquarters +for negligence or inefficiency so staggered him that, forgetting the +recalcitrant cavalry colonel, his own dignity as a general, and above +all quite forgetting the danger and all regard for self-preservation, he +clutched the crupper of his saddle and, spurring his horse, galloped to +the regiment under a hail of bullets which fell around, but fortunately +missed him. His one desire was to know what was happening and at any +cost correct, or remedy, the mistake if he had made one, so that he, +an exemplary officer of twenty-two years’ service, who had never been +censured, should not be held to blame. + +Having galloped safely through the French, he reached a field behind +the copse across which our men, regardless of orders, were running and +descending the valley. That moment of moral hesitation which decides +the fate of battles had arrived. Would this disorderly crowd of soldiers +attend to the voice of their commander, or would they, disregarding him, +continue their flight? Despite his desperate shouts that used to seem +so terrible to the soldiers, despite his furious purple countenance +distorted out of all likeness to his former self, and the flourishing of +his saber, the soldiers all continued to run, talking, firing into the +air, and disobeying orders. The moral hesitation which decided the fate +of battles was evidently culminating in a panic. + +The general had a fit of coughing as a result of shouting and of the +powder smoke and stopped in despair. Everything seemed lost. But at that +moment the French who were attacking, suddenly and without any apparent +reason, ran back and disappeared from the outskirts, and Russian +sharpshooters showed themselves in the copse. It was Timókhin’s +company, which alone had maintained its order in the wood and, having +lain in ambush in a ditch, now attacked the French unexpectedly. +Timókhin, armed only with a sword, had rushed at the enemy with such +a desperate cry and such mad, drunken determination that, taken by +surprise, the French had thrown down their muskets and run. Dólokhov, +running beside Timókhin, killed a Frenchman at close quarters and was +the first to seize the surrendering French officer by his collar. Our +fugitives returned, the battalions re-formed, and the French who had +nearly cut our left flank in half were for the moment repulsed. Our +reserve units were able to join up, and the fight was at an end. The +regimental commander and Major Ekonómov had stopped beside a bridge, +letting the retreating companies pass by them, when a soldier came up +and took hold of the commander’s stirrup, almost leaning against him. +The man was wearing a bluish coat of broadcloth, he had no knapsack +or cap, his head was bandaged, and over his shoulder a French munition +pouch was slung. He had an officer’s sword in his hand. The soldier +was pale, his blue eyes looked impudently into the commander’s face, +and his lips were smiling. Though the commander was occupied in giving +instructions to Major Ekonómov, he could not help taking notice of the +soldier. + +“Your excellency, here are two trophies,” said Dólokhov, pointing +to the French sword and pouch. “I have taken an officer prisoner. I +stopped the company.” Dólokhov breathed heavily from weariness and +spoke in abrupt sentences. “The whole company can bear witness. I beg +you will remember this, your excellency!” + +“All right, all right,” replied the commander, and turned to Major +Ekonómov. + +But Dólokhov did not go away; he untied the handkerchief around his +head, pulled it off, and showed the blood congealed on his hair. + +“A bayonet wound. I remained at the front. Remember, your +excellency!” + + +Túshin’s battery had been forgotten and only at the very end of the +action did Prince Bagratión, still hearing the cannonade in the center, +send his orderly staff officer, and later Prince Andrew also, to order +the battery to retire as quickly as possible. When the supports attached +to Túshin’s battery had been moved away in the middle of the action +by someone’s order, the battery had continued firing and was only not +captured by the French because the enemy could not surmise that anyone +could have the effrontery to continue firing from four quite undefended +guns. On the contrary, the energetic action of that battery led the +French to suppose that here—in the center—the main Russian forces +were concentrated. Twice they had attempted to attack this point, but on +each occasion had been driven back by grapeshot from the four isolated +guns on the hillock. + +Soon after Prince Bagratión had left him, Túshin had succeeded in +setting fire to Schön Grabern. + +“Look at them scurrying! It’s burning! Just see the smoke! Fine! +Grand! Look at the smoke, the smoke!” exclaimed the artillerymen, +brightening up. + +All the guns, without waiting for orders, were being fired in the +direction of the conflagration. As if urging each other on, the soldiers +cried at each shot: “Fine! That’s good! Look at it... Grand!” The +fire, fanned by the breeze, was rapidly spreading. The French columns +that had advanced beyond the village went back; but as though in revenge +for this failure, the enemy placed ten guns to the right of the village +and began firing them at Túshin’s battery. + +In their childlike glee, aroused by the fire and their luck in +successfully cannonading the French, our artillerymen only noticed this +battery when two balls, and then four more, fell among our guns, one +knocking over two horses and another tearing off a munition-wagon +driver’s leg. Their spirits once roused were, however, not diminished, +but only changed character. The horses were replaced by others from a +reserve gun carriage, the wounded were carried away, and the four guns +were turned against the ten-gun battery. Túshin’s companion officer +had been killed at the beginning of the engagement and within an hour +seventeen of the forty men of the guns’ crews had been disabled, but +the artillerymen were still as merry and lively as ever. Twice they +noticed the French appearing below them, and then they fired grapeshot +at them. + +Little Túshin, moving feebly and awkwardly, kept telling his orderly to +“refill my pipe for that one!” and then, scattering sparks from it, +ran forward shading his eyes with his small hand to look at the French. + +“Smack at ‘em, lads!” he kept saying, seizing the guns by the +wheels and working the screws himself. + +Amid the smoke, deafened by the incessant reports which always made him +jump, Túshin not taking his pipe from his mouth ran from gun to gun, +now aiming, now counting the charges, now giving orders about replacing +dead or wounded horses and harnessing fresh ones, and shouting in his +feeble voice, so high pitched and irresolute. His face grew more and +more animated. Only when a man was killed or wounded did he frown and +turn away from the sight, shouting angrily at the men who, as is always +the case, hesitated about lifting the injured or dead. The soldiers, +for the most part handsome fellows and, as is always the case in an +artillery company, a head and shoulders taller and twice as broad +as their officer—all looked at their commander like children in an +embarrassing situation, and the expression on his face was invariably +reflected on theirs. + +Owing to the terrible uproar and the necessity for concentration and +activity, Túshin did not experience the slightest unpleasant sense of +fear, and the thought that he might be killed or badly wounded never +occurred to him. On the contrary, he became more and more elated. It +seemed to him that it was a very long time ago, almost a day, since he +had first seen the enemy and fired the first shot, and that the corner +of the field he stood on was well-known and familiar ground. Though he +thought of everything, considered everything, and did everything the +best of officers could do in his position, he was in a state akin to +feverish delirium or drunkenness. + +From the deafening sounds of his own guns around him, the whistle and +thud of the enemy’s cannon balls, from the flushed and perspiring +faces of the crew bustling round the guns, from the sight of the blood +of men and horses, from the little puffs of smoke on the enemy’s side +(always followed by a ball flying past and striking the earth, a man, a +gun, a horse), from the sight of all these things a fantastic world of +his own had taken possession of his brain and at that moment afforded +him pleasure. The enemy’s guns were in his fancy not guns but pipes +from which occasional puffs were blown by an invisible smoker. + +“There... he’s puffing again,” muttered Túshin to himself, as a +small cloud rose from the hill and was borne in a streak to the left by +the wind. + +“Now look out for the ball... we’ll throw it back.” + +“What do you want, your honor?” asked an artilleryman, standing +close by, who heard him muttering. + +“Nothing... only a shell...” he answered. + +“Come along, our Matvévna!” he said to himself. “Matvévna” * +was the name his fancy gave to the farthest gun of the battery, which +was large and of an old pattern. The French swarming round their guns +seemed to him like ants. In that world, the handsome drunkard Number One +of the second gun’s crew was “uncle”; Túshin looked at him more +often than at anyone else and took delight in his every movement. +The sound of musketry at the foot of the hill, now diminishing, now +increasing, seemed like someone’s breathing. He listened intently to +the ebb and flow of these sounds. + + * Daughter of Matthew. + +“Ah! Breathing again, breathing!” he muttered to himself. + +He imagined himself as an enormously tall, powerful man who was throwing +cannon balls at the French with both hands. + +“Now then, Matvévna, dear old lady, don’t let me down!” he was +saying as he moved from the gun, when a strange, unfamiliar voice called +above his head: “Captain Túshin! Captain!” + +Túshin turned round in dismay. It was the staff officer who had turned +him out of the booth at Grunth. He was shouting in a gasping voice: + +“Are you mad? You have twice been ordered to retreat, and you...” + +“Why are they down on me?” thought Túshin, looking in alarm at his +superior. + +“I... don’t...” he muttered, holding up two fingers to his cap. +“I...” + +But the staff officer did not finish what he wanted to say. A cannon +ball, flying close to him, caused him to duck and bend over his horse. +He paused, and just as he was about to say something more, another ball +stopped him. He turned his horse and galloped off. + +“Retire! All to retire!” he shouted from a distance. + +The soldiers laughed. A moment later, an adjutant arrived with the same +order. + +It was Prince Andrew. The first thing he saw on riding up to the space +where Túshin’s guns were stationed was an unharnessed horse with a +broken leg, that lay screaming piteously beside the harnessed horses. +Blood was gushing from its leg as from a spring. Among the limbers lay +several dead men. One ball after another passed over as he approached +and he felt a nervous shudder run down his spine. But the mere thought +of being afraid roused him again. “I cannot be afraid,” thought he, +and dismounted slowly among the guns. He delivered the order and did +not leave the battery. He decided to have the guns removed from their +positions and withdrawn in his presence. Together with Túshin, stepping +across the bodies and under a terrible fire from the French, he attended +to the removal of the guns. + +“A staff officer was here a minute ago, but skipped off,” said an +artilleryman to Prince Andrew. “Not like your honor!” + +Prince Andrew said nothing to Túshin. They were both so busy as to seem +not to notice one another. When having limbered up the only two cannon +that remained uninjured out of the four, they began moving down the hill +(one shattered gun and one unicorn were left behind), Prince Andrew rode +up to Túshin. + +“Well, till we meet again...” he said, holding out his hand to +Túshin. + +“Good-by, my dear fellow,” said Túshin. “Dear soul! Good-by, my +dear fellow!” and for some unknown reason tears suddenly filled his +eyes. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXI + +The wind had fallen and black clouds, merging with the powder smoke, +hung low over the field of battle on the horizon. It was growing +dark and the glow of two conflagrations was the more conspicuous. The +cannonade was dying down, but the rattle of musketry behind and on the +right sounded oftener and nearer. As soon as Túshin with his guns, +continually driving round or coming upon wounded men, was out of range +of fire and had descended into the dip, he was met by some of the staff, +among them the staff officer and Zherkóv, who had been twice sent to +Túshin’s battery but had never reached it. Interrupting one +another, they all gave, and transmitted, orders as to how to proceed, +reprimanding and reproaching him. Túshin gave no orders, and, +silently—fearing to speak because at every word he felt ready to +weep without knowing why—rode behind on his artillery nag. Though +the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves +after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages. The jaunty +infantry officer who just before the battle had rushed out of +Túshin’s wattle shed was laid, with a bullet in his stomach, on +“Matvévna’s” carriage. At the foot of the hill, a pale hussar +cadet, supporting one hand with the other, came up to Túshin and asked +for a seat. + +“Captain, for God’s sake! I’ve hurt my arm,” he said timidly. +“For God’s sake... I can’t walk. For God’s sake!” + +It was plain that this cadet had already repeatedly asked for a lift and +been refused. He asked in a hesitating, piteous voice. + +“Tell them to give me a seat, for God’s sake!” + +“Give him a seat,” said Túshin. “Lay a cloak for him to sit on, +lad,” he said, addressing his favorite soldier. “And where is the +wounded officer?” + +“He has been set down. He died,” replied someone. + +“Help him up. Sit down, dear fellow, sit down! Spread out the cloak, +Antónov.” + +The cadet was Rostóv. With one hand he supported the other; he was +pale and his jaw trembled, shivering feverishly. He was placed on +“Matvévna,” the gun from which they had removed the dead officer. +The cloak they spread under him was wet with blood which stained his +breeches and arm. + +“What, are you wounded, my lad?” said Túshin, approaching the gun +on which Rostóv sat. + +“No, it’s a sprain.” + +“Then what is this blood on the gun carriage?” inquired Túshin. + +“It was the officer, your honor, stained it,” answered the +artilleryman, wiping away the blood with his coat sleeve, as if +apologizing for the state of his gun. + +It was all that they could do to get the guns up the rise aided by the +infantry, and having reached the village of Gruntersdorf they halted. It +had grown so dark that one could not distinguish the uniforms ten paces +off, and the firing had begun to subside. Suddenly, near by on the +right, shouting and firing were again heard. Flashes of shot gleamed in +the darkness. This was the last French attack and was met by soldiers +who had sheltered in the village houses. They all rushed out of +the village again, but Túshin’s guns could not move, and the +artillerymen, Túshin, and the cadet exchanged silent glances as they +awaited their fate. The firing died down and soldiers, talking eagerly, +streamed out of a side street. + +“Not hurt, Petróv?” asked one. + +“We’ve given it ‘em hot, mate! They won’t make another push +now,” said another. + +“You couldn’t see a thing. How they shot at their own fellows! +Nothing could be seen. Pitch-dark, brother! Isn’t there something to +drink?” + +The French had been repulsed for the last time. And again and again in +the complete darkness Túshin’s guns moved forward, surrounded by the +humming infantry as by a frame. + +In the darkness, it seemed as though a gloomy unseen river was flowing +always in one direction, humming with whispers and talk and the sound of +hoofs and wheels. Amid the general rumble, the groans and voices of the +wounded were more distinctly heard than any other sound in the darkness +of the night. The gloom that enveloped the army was filled with their +groans, which seemed to melt into one with the darkness of the night. +After a while the moving mass became agitated, someone rode past on +a white horse followed by his suite, and said something in passing: +“What did he say? Where to, now? Halt, is it? Did he thank us?” came +eager questions from all sides. The whole moving mass began pressing +closer together and a report spread that they were ordered to halt: +evidently those in front had halted. All remained where they were in the +middle of the muddy road. + +Fires were lighted and the talk became more audible. Captain Túshin, +having given orders to his company, sent a soldier to find a dressing +station or a doctor for the cadet, and sat down by a bonfire the +soldiers had kindled on the road. Rostóv, too, dragged himself to the +fire. From pain, cold, and damp, a feverish shivering shook his whole +body. Drowsiness was irresistibly mastering him, but he kept awake by +an excruciating pain in his arm, for which he could find no satisfactory +position. He kept closing his eyes and then again looking at the fire, +which seemed to him dazzlingly red, and at the feeble, round-shouldered +figure of Túshin who was sitting cross-legged like a Turk beside him. +Túshin’s large, kind, intelligent eyes were fixed with sympathy and +commiseration on Rostóv, who saw that Túshin with his whole heart +wished to help him but could not. + +From all sides were heard the footsteps and talk of the infantry, who +were walking, driving past, and settling down all around. The sound +of voices, the tramping feet, the horses’ hoofs moving in mud, the +crackling of wood fires near and afar, merged into one tremulous rumble. + +It was no longer, as before, a dark, unseen river flowing through the +gloom, but a dark sea swelling and gradually subsiding after a storm. +Rostóv looked at and listened listlessly to what passed before and +around him. An infantryman came to the fire, squatted on his heels, held +his hands to the blaze, and turned away his face. + +“You don’t mind your honor?” he asked Túshin. “I’ve lost my +company, your honor. I don’t know where... such bad luck!” + +With the soldier, an infantry officer with a bandaged cheek came up to +the bonfire, and addressing Túshin asked him to have the guns moved a +trifle to let a wagon go past. After he had gone, two soldiers rushed to +the campfire. They were quarreling and fighting desperately, each trying +to snatch from the other a boot they were both holding on to. + +“You picked it up?... I dare say! You’re very smart!” one of them +shouted hoarsely. + +Then a thin, pale soldier, his neck bandaged with a bloodstained leg +band, came up and in angry tones asked the artillerymen for water. + +“Must one die like a dog?” said he. + +Túshin told them to give the man some water. Then a cheerful soldier +ran up, begging a little fire for the infantry. + +“A nice little hot torch for the infantry! Good luck to you, fellow +countrymen. Thanks for the fire—we’ll return it with interest,” +said he, carrying away into the darkness a glowing stick. + +Next came four soldiers, carrying something heavy on a cloak, and passed +by the fire. One of them stumbled. + +“Who the devil has put the logs on the road?” snarled he. + +“He’s dead—why carry him?” said another. + +“Shut up!” + +And they disappeared into the darkness with their load. + +“Still aching?” Túshin asked Rostóv in a whisper. + +“Yes.” + +“Your honor, you’re wanted by the general. He is in the hut here,” +said a gunner, coming up to Túshin. + +“Coming, friend.” + +Túshin rose and, buttoning his greatcoat and pulling it straight, +walked away from the fire. + +Not far from the artillery campfire, in a hut that had been prepared +for him, Prince Bagratión sat at dinner, talking with some commanding +officers who had gathered at his quarters. The little old man with +the half-closed eyes was there greedily gnawing a mutton bone, and the +general who had served blamelessly for twenty-two years, flushed by a +glass of vodka and the dinner; and the staff officer with the signet +ring, and Zherkóv, uneasily glancing at them all, and Prince Andrew, +pale, with compressed lips and feverishly glittering eyes. + +In a corner of the hut stood a standard captured from the French, and +the accountant with the naïve face was feeling its texture, shaking his +head in perplexity—perhaps because the banner really interested him, +perhaps because it was hard for him, hungry as he was, to look on at +a dinner where there was no place for him. In the next hut there was a +French colonel who had been taken prisoner by our dragoons. Our officers +were flocking in to look at him. Prince Bagratión was thanking the +individual commanders and inquiring into details of the action and our +losses. The general whose regiment had been inspected at Braunau was +informing the prince that as soon as the action began he had withdrawn +from the wood, mustered the men who were woodcutting, and, allowing the +French to pass him, had made a bayonet charge with two battalions and +had broken up the French troops. + +“When I saw, your excellency, that their first battalion was +disorganized, I stopped in the road and thought: ‘I’ll let them +come on and will meet them with the fire of the whole battalion’—and +that’s what I did.” + +The general had so wished to do this and was so sorry he had not managed +to do it that it seemed to him as if it had really happened. Perhaps +it might really have been so? Could one possibly make out amid all that +confusion what did or did not happen? + +“By the way, your excellency, I should inform you,” he +continued—remembering Dólokhov’s conversation with Kutúzov and his +last interview with the gentleman-ranker—“that Private Dólokhov, +who was reduced to the ranks, took a French officer prisoner in my +presence and particularly distinguished himself.” + +“I saw the Pávlograd hussars attack there, your excellency,” chimed +in Zherkóv, looking uneasily around. He had not seen the hussars all +that day, but had heard about them from an infantry officer. “They +broke up two squares, your excellency.” + +Several of those present smiled at Zherkóv’s words, expecting one of +his usual jokes, but noticing that what he was saying redounded to +the glory of our arms and of the day’s work, they assumed a serious +expression, though many of them knew that what he was saying was a lie +devoid of any foundation. Prince Bagratión turned to the old colonel: + +“Gentlemen, I thank you all; all arms have behaved heroically: +infantry, cavalry, and artillery. How was it that two guns were +abandoned in the center?” he inquired, searching with his eyes for +someone. (Prince Bagratión did not ask about the guns on the left +flank; he knew that all the guns there had been abandoned at the very +beginning of the action.) “I think I sent you?” he added, turning to +the staff officer on duty. + +“One was damaged,” answered the staff officer, “and the other I +can’t understand. I was there all the time giving orders and had only +just left.... It is true that it was hot there,” he added, modestly. + +Someone mentioned that Captain Túshin was bivouacking close to the +village and had already been sent for. + +“Oh, but you were there?” said Prince Bagratión, addressing Prince +Andrew. + +“Of course, we only just missed one another,” said the staff +officer, with a smile to Bolkónski. + +“I had not the pleasure of seeing you,” said Prince Andrew, coldly +and abruptly. + +All were silent. Túshin appeared at the threshold and made his way +timidly from behind the backs of the generals. As he stepped past the +generals in the crowded hut, feeling embarrassed as he always was by the +sight of his superiors, he did not notice the staff of the banner and +stumbled over it. Several of those present laughed. + +“How was it a gun was abandoned?” asked Bagratión, frowning, not so +much at the captain as at those who were laughing, among whom Zherkóv +laughed loudest. + +Only now, when he was confronted by the stern authorities, did his guilt +and the disgrace of having lost two guns and yet remaining alive present +themselves to Túshin in all their horror. He had been so excited that +he had not thought about it until that moment. The officers’ laughter +confused him still more. He stood before Bagratión with his lower +jaw trembling and was hardly able to mutter: “I don’t know... your +excellency... I had no men... your excellency.” + +“You might have taken some from the covering troops.” + +Túshin did not say that there were no covering troops, though that +was perfectly true. He was afraid of getting some other officer into +trouble, and silently fixed his eyes on Bagratión as a schoolboy who +has blundered looks at an examiner. + +The silence lasted some time. Prince Bagratión, apparently not wishing +to be severe, found nothing to say; the others did not venture to +intervene. Prince Andrew looked at Túshin from under his brows and his +fingers twitched nervously. + +“Your excellency!” Prince Andrew broke the silence with his abrupt +voice, “you were pleased to send me to Captain Túshin’s battery. I +went there and found two thirds of the men and horses knocked out, two +guns smashed, and no supports at all.” + +Prince Bagratión and Túshin looked with equal intentness at +Bolkónski, who spoke with suppressed agitation. + +“And, if your excellency will allow me to express my opinion,” he +continued, “we owe today’s success chiefly to the action of that +battery and the heroic endurance of Captain Túshin and his company,” +and without awaiting a reply, Prince Andrew rose and left the table. + +Prince Bagratión looked at Túshin, evidently reluctant to show +distrust in Bolkónski’s emphatic opinion yet not feeling able fully +to credit it, bent his head, and told Túshin that he could go. Prince +Andrew went out with him. + +“Thank you; you saved me, my dear fellow!” said Túshin. + +Prince Andrew gave him a look, but said nothing and went away. He felt +sad and depressed. It was all so strange, so unlike what he had hoped. + + +“Who are they? Why are they here? What do they want? And when will +all this end?” thought Rostóv, looking at the changing shadows before +him. The pain in his arm became more and more intense. Irresistible +drowsiness overpowered him, red rings danced before his eyes, and the +impression of those voices and faces and a sense of loneliness merged +with the physical pain. It was they, these soldiers—wounded and +unwounded—it was they who were crushing, weighing down, and twisting +the sinews and scorching the flesh of his sprained arm and shoulder. To +rid himself of them he closed his eyes. + +For a moment he dozed, but in that short interval innumerable things +appeared to him in a dream: his mother and her large white hand, +Sónya’s thin little shoulders, Natásha’s eyes and laughter, +Denísov with his voice and mustache, and Telyánin and all that affair +with Telyánin and Bogdánich. That affair was the same thing as this +soldier with the harsh voice, and it was that affair and this soldier +that were so agonizingly, incessantly pulling and pressing his arm and +always dragging it in one direction. He tried to get away from them, but +they would not for an instant let his shoulder move a hair’s breadth. +It would not ache—it would be well—if only they did not pull it, but +it was impossible to get rid of them. + +He opened his eyes and looked up. The black canopy of night hung less +than a yard above the glow of the charcoal. Flakes of falling snow were +fluttering in that light. Túshin had not returned, the doctor had not +come. He was alone now, except for a soldier who was sitting naked at +the other side of the fire, warming his thin yellow body. + +“Nobody wants me!” thought Rostóv. “There is no one to help me or +pity me. Yet I was once at home, strong, happy, and loved.” He sighed +and, doing so, groaned involuntarily. + +“Eh, is anything hurting you?” asked the soldier, shaking his shirt +out over the fire, and not waiting for an answer he gave a grunt and +added: “What a lot of men have been crippled today—frightful!” + +Rostóv did not listen to the soldier. He looked at the snowflakes +fluttering above the fire and remembered a Russian winter at his warm, +bright home, his fluffy fur coat, his quickly gliding sleigh, his +healthy body, and all the affection and care of his family. “And why +did I come here?” he wondered. + +Next day the French army did not renew their attack, and the remnant of +Bagratión’s detachment was reunited to Kutúzov’s army. + + + + + +BOOK THREE: 1805 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +Prince Vasíli was not a man who deliberately thought out his plans. +Still less did he think of injuring anyone for his own advantage. He +was merely a man of the world who had got on and to whom getting on had +become a habit. Schemes and devices for which he never rightly accounted +to himself, but which formed the whole interest of his life, +were constantly shaping themselves in his mind, arising from the +circumstances and persons he met. Of these plans he had not merely one +or two in his head but dozens, some only beginning to form themselves, +some approaching achievement, and some in course of disintegration. He +did not, for instance, say to himself: “This man now has influence, I +must gain his confidence and friendship and through him obtain a special +grant.” Nor did he say to himself: “Pierre is a rich man, I must +entice him to marry my daughter and lend me the forty thousand rubles +I need.” But when he came across a man of position his instinct +immediately told him that this man could be useful, and without any +premeditation Prince Vasíli took the first opportunity to gain his +confidence, flatter him, become intimate with him, and finally make his +request. + +He had Pierre at hand in Moscow and procured for him an appointment as +Gentleman of the Bedchamber, which at that time conferred the status of +Councilor of State, and insisted on the young man accompanying him to +Petersburg and staying at his house. With apparent absent-mindedness, +yet with unhesitating assurance that he was doing the right thing, +Prince Vasíli did everything to get Pierre to marry his daughter. Had +he thought out his plans beforehand he could not have been so natural +and shown such unaffected familiarity in intercourse with everybody both +above and below him in social standing. Something always drew him toward +those richer and more powerful than himself and he had rare skill in +seizing the most opportune moment for making use of people. + +Pierre, on unexpectedly becoming Count Bezúkhov and a rich man, felt +himself after his recent loneliness and freedom from cares so beset and +preoccupied that only in bed was he able to be by himself. He had to +sign papers, to present himself at government offices, the purpose of +which was not clear to him, to question his chief steward, to visit his +estate near Moscow, and to receive many people who formerly did not +even wish to know of his existence but would now have been offended +and grieved had he chosen not to see them. These different +people—businessmen, relations, and acquaintances alike—were all +disposed to treat the young heir in the most friendly and flattering +manner: they were all evidently firmly convinced of Pierre’s noble +qualities. He was always hearing such words as: “With your remarkable +kindness,” or, “With your excellent heart,” “You are yourself so +honorable, Count,” or, “Were he as clever as you,” and so on, +till he began sincerely to believe in his own exceptional kindness and +extraordinary intelligence, the more so as in the depth of his heart it +had always seemed to him that he really was very kind and intelligent. +Even people who had formerly been spiteful toward him and evidently +unfriendly now became gentle and affectionate. The angry eldest +princess, with the long waist and hair plastered down like a doll’s, +had come into Pierre’s room after the funeral. With drooping eyes +and frequent blushes she told him she was very sorry about their past +misunderstandings and did not now feel she had a right to ask him for +anything, except only for permission, after the blow she had received, +to remain for a few weeks longer in the house she so loved and where +she had sacrificed so much. She could not refrain from weeping at these +words. Touched that this statuesque princess could so change, Pierre +took her hand and begged her forgiveness, without knowing what for. +From that day the eldest princess quite changed toward Pierre and began +knitting a striped scarf for him. + +“Do this for my sake, mon cher; after all, she had to put up with a +great deal from the deceased,” said Prince Vasíli to him, handing him +a deed to sign for the princess’ benefit. + +Prince Vasíli had come to the conclusion that it was necessary to throw +this bone—a bill for thirty thousand rubles—to the poor princess +that it might not occur to her to speak of his share in the affair of +the inlaid portfolio. Pierre signed the deed and after that the princess +grew still kinder. The younger sisters also became affectionate to him, +especially the youngest, the pretty one with the mole, who often made +him feel confused by her smiles and her own confusion when meeting him. + +It seemed so natural to Pierre that everyone should like him, and it +would have seemed so unnatural had anyone disliked him, that he could +not but believe in the sincerity of those around him. Besides, he had +no time to ask himself whether these people were sincere or not. He +was always busy and always felt in a state of mild and cheerful +intoxication. He felt as though he were the center of some important and +general movement; that something was constantly expected of him, that if +he did not do it he would grieve and disappoint many people, but if he +did this and that, all would be well; and he did what was demanded of +him, but still that happy result always remained in the future. + +More than anyone else, Prince Vasíli took possession of Pierre’s +affairs and of Pierre himself in those early days. From the death of +Count Bezúkhov he did not let go his hold of the lad. He had the air of +a man oppressed by business, weary and suffering, who yet would not, for +pity’s sake, leave this helpless youth who, after all, was the son of +his old friend and the possessor of such enormous wealth, to the caprice +of fate and the designs of rogues. During the few days he spent in +Moscow after the death of Count Bezúkhov, he would call Pierre, or +go to him himself, and tell him what ought to be done in a tone of +weariness and assurance, as if he were adding every time: “You know +I am overwhelmed with business and it is purely out of charity that +I trouble myself about you, and you also know quite well that what I +propose is the only thing possible.” + +“Well, my dear fellow, tomorrow we are off at last,” said Prince +Vasíli one day, closing his eyes and fingering Pierre’s elbow, +speaking as if he were saying something which had long since been agreed +upon and could not now be altered. “We start tomorrow and I’m giving +you a place in my carriage. I am very glad. All our important business +here is now settled, and I ought to have been off long ago. Here is +something I have received from the chancellor. I asked him for you, and +you have been entered in the diplomatic corps and made a Gentleman of +the Bedchamber. The diplomatic career now lies open before you.” + +Notwithstanding the tone of wearied assurance with which these words +were pronounced, Pierre, who had so long been considering his career, +wished to make some suggestion. But Prince Vasíli interrupted him in +the special deep cooing tone, precluding the possibility of interrupting +his speech, which he used in extreme cases when special persuasion was +needed. + +“Mais, mon cher, I did this for my own sake, to satisfy my conscience, +and there is nothing to thank me for. No one has ever complained yet of +being too much loved; and besides, you are free, you could throw it +up tomorrow. But you will see everything for yourself when you get to +Petersburg. It is high time for you to get away from these terrible +recollections.” Prince Vasíli sighed. “Yes, yes, my boy. And my +valet can go in your carriage. Ah! I was nearly forgetting,” he added. +“You know, mon cher, your father and I had some accounts to settle, so +I have received what was due from the Ryazán estate and will keep it; +you won’t require it. We’ll go into the accounts later.” + +By “what was due from the Ryazán estate” Prince Vasíli meant +several thousand rubles quitrent received from Pierre’s peasants, +which the prince had retained for himself. + +In Petersburg, as in Moscow, Pierre found the same atmosphere of +gentleness and affection. He could not refuse the post, or rather the +rank (for he did nothing), that Prince Vasíli had procured for him, +and acquaintances, invitations, and social occupations were so numerous +that, even more than in Moscow, he felt a sense of bewilderment, bustle, +and continual expectation of some good, always in front of him but never +attained. + +Of his former bachelor acquaintances many were no longer in Petersburg. +The Guards had gone to the front; Dólokhov had been reduced to the +ranks; Anatole was in the army somewhere in the provinces; Prince Andrew +was abroad; so Pierre had not the opportunity to spend his nights as he +used to like to spend them, or to open his mind by intimate talks with +a friend older than himself and whom he respected. His whole time +was taken up with dinners and balls and was spent chiefly at Prince +Vasíli’s house in the company of the stout princess, his wife, and +his beautiful daughter Hélène. + +Like the others, Anna Pávlovna Schérer showed Pierre the change of +attitude toward him that had taken place in society. + +Formerly in Anna Pávlovna’s presence, Pierre had always felt that +what he was saying was out of place, tactless and unsuitable, that +remarks which seemed to him clever while they formed in his mind became +foolish as soon as he uttered them, while on the contrary Hippolyte’s +stupidest remarks came out clever and apt. Now everything Pierre said +was charmant. Even if Anna Pávlovna did not say so, he could see that +she wished to and only refrained out of regard for his modesty. + +In the beginning of the winter of 1805-6 Pierre received one of Anna +Pávlovna’s usual pink notes with an invitation to which was added: +“You will find the beautiful Hélène here, whom it is always +delightful to see.” + +When he read that sentence, Pierre felt for the first time that some +link which other people recognized had grown up between himself and +Hélène, and that thought both alarmed him, as if some obligation were +being imposed on him which he could not fulfill, and pleased him as an +entertaining supposition. + +Anna Pávlovna’s “At Home” was like the former one, only the +novelty she offered her guests this time was not Mortemart, but a +diplomatist fresh from Berlin with the very latest details of the +Emperor Alexander’s visit to Potsdam, and of how the two august +friends had pledged themselves in an indissoluble alliance to uphold +the cause of justice against the enemy of the human race. Anna Pávlovna +received Pierre with a shade of melancholy, evidently relating to the +young man’s recent loss by the death of Count Bezúkhov (everyone +constantly considered it a duty to assure Pierre that he was greatly +afflicted by the death of the father he had hardly known), and her +melancholy was just like the august melancholy she showed at the mention +of her most august Majesty the Empress Márya Fëdorovna. Pierre felt +flattered by this. Anna Pávlovna arranged the different groups in her +drawing room with her habitual skill. The large group, in which were +Prince Vasíli and the generals, had the benefit of the diplomat. +Another group was at the tea table. Pierre wished to join the former, +but Anna Pávlovna—who was in the excited condition of a commander on +a battlefield to whom thousands of new and brilliant ideas occur which +there is hardly time to put in action—seeing Pierre, touched his +sleeve with her finger, saying: + +“Wait a bit, I have something in view for you this evening.” +(She glanced at Hélène and smiled at her.) “My dear Hélène, be +charitable to my poor aunt who adores you. Go and keep her company for +ten minutes. And that it will not be too dull, here is the dear count +who will not refuse to accompany you.” + +The beauty went to the aunt, but Anna Pávlovna detained Pierre, looking +as if she had to give some final necessary instructions. + +“Isn’t she exquisite?” she said to Pierre, pointing to the stately +beauty as she glided away. “And how she carries herself! For so young +a girl, such tact, such masterly perfection of manner! It comes from +her heart. Happy the man who wins her! With her the least worldly of men +would occupy a most brilliant position in society. Don’t you think so? +I only wanted to know your opinion,” and Anna Pávlovna let Pierre go. + +Pierre, in reply, sincerely agreed with her as to Hélène’s +perfection of manner. If he ever thought of Hélène, it was just of +her beauty and her remarkable skill in appearing silently dignified in +society. + +The old aunt received the two young people in her corner, but seemed +desirous of hiding her adoration for Hélène and inclined rather +to show her fear of Anna Pávlovna. She looked at her niece, as if +inquiring what she was to do with these people. On leaving them, Anna +Pávlovna again touched Pierre’s sleeve, saying: “I hope you won’t +say that it is dull in my house again,” and she glanced at Hélène. + +Hélène smiled, with a look implying that she did not admit the +possibility of anyone seeing her without being enchanted. The aunt +coughed, swallowed, and said in French that she was very pleased to see +Hélène, then she turned to Pierre with the same words of welcome +and the same look. In the middle of a dull and halting conversation, +Hélène turned to Pierre with the beautiful bright smile that she gave +to everyone. Pierre was so used to that smile, and it had so little +meaning for him, that he paid no attention to it. The aunt was just +speaking of a collection of snuffboxes that had belonged to Pierre’s +father, Count Bezúkhov, and showed them her own box. Princess Hélène +asked to see the portrait of the aunt’s husband on the box lid. + +“That is probably the work of Vinesse,” said Pierre, mentioning +a celebrated miniaturist, and he leaned over the table to take the +snuffbox while trying to hear what was being said at the other table. + +He half rose, meaning to go round, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox, +passing it across Hélène’s back. Hélène stooped forward to make +room, and looked round with a smile. She was, as always at evening +parties, wearing a dress such as was then fashionable, cut very low at +front and back. Her bust, which had always seemed like marble to Pierre, +was so close to him that his shortsighted eyes could not but perceive +the living charm of her neck and shoulders, so near to his lips that +he need only have bent his head a little to have touched them. He was +conscious of the warmth of her body, the scent of perfume, and the +creaking of her corset as she moved. He did not see her marble beauty +forming a complete whole with her dress, but all the charm of her body +only covered by her garments. And having once seen this he could not +help being aware of it, just as we cannot renew an illusion we have once +seen through. + +“So you have never noticed before how beautiful I am?” Hélène +seemed to say. “You had not noticed that I am a woman? Yes, I am a +woman who may belong to anyone—to you too,” said her glance. And at +that moment Pierre felt that Hélène not only could, but must, be his +wife, and that it could not be otherwise. + +He knew this at that moment as surely as if he had been standing at the +altar with her. How and when this would be he did not know, he did not +even know if it would be a good thing (he even felt, he knew not why, +that it would be a bad thing), but he knew it would happen. + +Pierre dropped his eyes, lifted them again, and wished once more to see +her as a distant beauty far removed from him, as he had seen her every +day until then, but he could no longer do it. He could not, any more +than a man who has been looking at a tuft of steppe grass through the +mist and taking it for a tree can again take it for a tree after he has +once recognized it to be a tuft of grass. She was terribly close to him. +She already had power over him, and between them there was no longer any +barrier except the barrier of his own will. + +“Well, I will leave you in your little corner,” came Anna +Pávlovna’s voice, “I see you are all right there.” + +And Pierre, anxiously trying to remember whether he had done anything +reprehensible, looked round with a blush. It seemed to him that everyone +knew what had happened to him as he knew it himself. + +A little later when he went up to the large circle, Anna Pávlovna said +to him: “I hear you are refitting your Petersburg house?” + +This was true. The architect had told him that it was necessary, and +Pierre, without knowing why, was having his enormous Petersburg house +done up. + +“That’s a good thing, but don’t move from Prince Vasíli’s. It +is good to have a friend like the prince,” she said, smiling at Prince +Vasíli. “I know something about that. Don’t I? And you are still so +young. You need advice. Don’t be angry with me for exercising an old +woman’s privilege.” + +She paused, as women always do, expecting something after they have +mentioned their age. “If you marry it will be a different thing,” +she continued, uniting them both in one glance. Pierre did not look at +Hélène nor she at him. But she was just as terribly close to him. He +muttered something and colored. + +When he got home he could not sleep for a long time for thinking of what +had happened. What had happened? Nothing. He had merely understood that +the woman he had known as a child, of whom when her beauty was mentioned +he had said absent-mindedly: “Yes, she’s good looking,” he had +understood that this woman might belong to him. + +“But she’s stupid. I have myself said she is stupid,” he thought. +“There is something nasty, something wrong, in the feeling she excites +in me. I have been told that her brother Anatole was in love with her +and she with him, that there was quite a scandal and that that’s why +he was sent away. Hippolyte is her brother... Prince Vasíli is her +father... It’s bad....” he reflected, but while he was thinking this +(the reflection was still incomplete), he caught himself smiling and was +conscious that another line of thought had sprung up, and while thinking +of her worthlessness he was also dreaming of how she would be his +wife, how she would love him become quite different, and how all he had +thought and heard of her might be false. And he again saw her not as the +daughter of Prince Vasíli, but visualized her whole body only veiled +by its gray dress. “But no! Why did this thought never occur to me +before?” and again he told himself that it was impossible, that there +would be something unnatural, and as it seemed to him dishonorable, in +this marriage. He recalled her former words and looks and the words +and looks of those who had seen them together. He recalled Anna +Pávlovna’s words and looks when she spoke to him about his house, +recalled thousands of such hints from Prince Vasíli and others, and was +seized by terror lest he had already, in some way, bound himself to do +something that was evidently wrong and that he ought not to do. But at +the very time he was expressing this conviction to himself, in another +part of his mind her image rose in all its womanly beauty. + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +In November, 1805, Prince Vasíli had to go on a tour of inspection +in four different provinces. He had arranged this for himself so as to +visit his neglected estates at the same time and pick up his son Anatole +where his regiment was stationed, and take him to visit Prince Nicholas +Bolkónski in order to arrange a match for him with the daughter of that +rich old man. But before leaving home and undertaking these new affairs, +Prince Vasíli had to settle matters with Pierre, who, it is true, had +latterly spent whole days at home, that is, in Prince Vasíli’s house +where he was staying, and had been absurd, excited, and foolish in +Hélène’s presence (as a lover should be), but had not yet proposed +to her. + +“This is all very fine, but things must be settled,” said Prince +Vasíli to himself, with a sorrowful sigh, one morning, feeling that +Pierre who was under such obligations to him (“But never mind that”) +was not behaving very well in this matter. “Youth, frivolity... well, +God be with him,” thought he, relishing his own goodness of heart, +“but it must be brought to a head. The day after tomorrow will be +Lëlya’s name day. I will invite two or three people, and if he does +not understand what he ought to do then it will be my affair—yes, my +affair. I am her father.” + +Six weeks after Anna Pávlovna’s “At Home” and after the sleepless +night when he had decided that to marry Hélène would be a calamity and +that he ought to avoid her and go away, Pierre, despite that decision, +had not left Prince Vasíli’s and felt with terror that in people’s +eyes he was every day more and more connected with her, that it was +impossible for him to return to his former conception of her, that he +could not break away from her, and that though it would be a terrible +thing he would have to unite his fate with hers. He might perhaps have +been able to free himself but that Prince Vasíli (who had rarely before +given receptions) now hardly let a day go by without having an evening +party at which Pierre had to be present unless he wished to spoil +the general pleasure and disappoint everyone’s expectation. Prince +Vasíli, in the rare moments when he was at home, would take Pierre’s +hand in passing and draw it downwards, or absent-mindedly hold out his +wrinkled, clean-shaven cheek for Pierre to kiss and would say: “Till +tomorrow,” or, “Be in to dinner or I shall not see you,” or, “I +am staying in for your sake,” and so on. And though Prince Vasíli, +when he stayed in (as he said) for Pierre’s sake, hardly exchanged a +couple of words with him, Pierre felt unable to disappoint him. +Every day he said to himself one and the same thing: “It is time I +understood her and made up my mind what she really is. Was I mistaken +before, or am I mistaken now? No, she is not stupid, she is an excellent +girl,” he sometimes said to himself “she never makes a mistake, +never says anything stupid. She says little, but what she does say is +always clear and simple, so she is not stupid. She never was abashed and +is not abashed now, so she cannot be a bad woman!” He had often begun +to make reflections or think aloud in her company, and she had always +answered him either by a brief but appropriate remark—showing that it +did not interest her—or by a silent look and smile which more palpably +than anything else showed Pierre her superiority. She was right in +regarding all arguments as nonsense in comparison with that smile. + +She always addressed him with a radiantly confiding smile meant for him +alone, in which there was something more significant than in the general +smile that usually brightened her face. Pierre knew that everyone was +waiting for him to say a word and cross a certain line, and he knew that +sooner or later he would step across it, but an incomprehensible terror +seized him at the thought of that dreadful step. A thousand times during +that month and a half while he felt himself drawn nearer and nearer to +that dreadful abyss, Pierre said to himself: “What am I doing? I need +resolution. Can it be that I have none?” + +He wished to take a decision, but felt with dismay that in this matter +he lacked that strength of will which he had known in himself and really +possessed. Pierre was one of those who are only strong when they feel +themselves quite innocent, and since that day when he was overpowered +by a feeling of desire while stooping over the snuffbox at Anna +Pávlovna’s, an unacknowledged sense of the guilt of that desire +paralyzed his will. + +On Hélène’s name day, a small party of just their own people—as +his wife said—met for supper at Prince Vasíli’s. All these friends +and relations had been given to understand that the fate of the young +girl would be decided that evening. The visitors were seated at supper. +Princess Kurágina, a portly imposing woman who had once been handsome, +was sitting at the head of the table. On either side of her sat the +more important guests—an old general and his wife, and Anna Pávlovna +Schérer. At the other end sat the younger and less important guests, +and there too sat the members of the family, and Pierre and Hélène, +side by side. Prince Vasíli was not having any supper: he went round +the table in a merry mood, sitting down now by one, now by another, of +the guests. To each of them he made some careless and agreeable remark +except to Pierre and Hélène, whose presence he seemed not to notice. +He enlivened the whole party. The wax candles burned brightly, the +silver and crystal gleamed, so did the ladies’ toilets and the gold +and silver of the men’s epaulets; servants in scarlet liveries moved +round the table, the clatter of plates, knives, and glasses mingled with +the animated hum of several conversations. At one end of the table, the +old chamberlain was heard assuring an old baroness that he loved her +passionately, at which she laughed; at the other could be heard the +story of the misfortunes of some Mary Víktorovna or other. At the +center of the table, Prince Vasíli attracted everybody’s attention. +With a facetious smile on his face, he was telling the ladies about last +Wednesday’s meeting of the Imperial Council, at which Sergéy Kuzmích +Vyazmítinov, the new military governor general of Petersburg, had +received and read the then famous rescript of the Emperor Alexander +from the army to Sergéy Kuzmích, in which the Emperor said that he was +receiving from all sides declarations of the people’s loyalty, that +the declaration from Petersburg gave him particular pleasure, and that +he was proud to be at the head of such a nation and would endeavor to be +worthy of it. This rescript began with the words: “Sergéy Kuzmích, +From all sides reports reach me,” etc. + +“Well, and so he never got farther than: ‘Sergéy Kuzmích’?” +asked one of the ladies. + +“Exactly, not a hair’s breadth farther,” answered Prince Vasíli, +laughing, “‘Sergéy Kuzmích... From all sides... From all sides... +Sergéy Kuzmích...’ Poor Vyazmítinov could not get any farther! +He began the rescript again and again, but as soon as he uttered +‘Sergéy’ he sobbed, ‘Kuz-mí-ch,’ tears, and ‘From all +sides’ was smothered in sobs and he could get no farther. And again +his handkerchief, and again: ‘Sergéy Kuzmích, From all sides,’... +and tears, till at last somebody else was asked to read it.” + +“Kuzmích... From all sides... and then tears,” someone repeated +laughing. + +“Don’t be unkind,” cried Anna Pávlovna from her end of the table +holding up a threatening finger. “He is such a worthy and excellent +man, our dear Vyazmítinov....” + +Everybody laughed a great deal. At the head of the table, where the +honored guests sat, everyone seemed to be in high spirits and under the +influence of a variety of exciting sensations. Only Pierre and +Hélène sat silently side by side almost at the bottom of the table, a +suppressed smile brightening both their faces, a smile that had nothing +to do with Sergéy Kuzmích—a smile of bashfulness at their own +feelings. But much as all the rest laughed, talked, and joked, much +as they enjoyed their Rhine wine, sauté, and ices, and however they +avoided looking at the young couple, and heedless and unobservant as +they seemed of them, one could feel by the occasional glances they gave +that the story about Sergéy Kuzmích, the laughter, and the food +were all a pretense, and that the whole attention of that company was +directed to—Pierre and Hélène. Prince Vasíli mimicked the sobbing +of Sergéy Kuzmích and at the same time his eyes glanced toward his +daughter, and while he laughed the expression on his face clearly said: +“Yes... it’s getting on, it will all be settled today.” Anna +Pávlovna threatened him on behalf of “our dear Vyazmítinov,” and +in her eyes, which, for an instant, glanced at Pierre, Prince Vasíli +read a congratulation on his future son-in-law and on his daughter’s +happiness. The old princess sighed sadly as she offered some wine to the +old lady next to her and glanced angrily at her daughter, and her sigh +seemed to say: “Yes, there’s nothing left for you and me but to sip +sweet wine, my dear, now that the time has come for these young ones to +be thus boldly, provocatively happy.” “And what nonsense all this is +that I am saying!” thought a diplomatist, glancing at the happy faces +of the lovers. “That’s happiness!” + +Into the insignificant, trifling, and artificial interests uniting that +society had entered the simple feeling of the attraction of a healthy +and handsome young man and woman for one another. And this human feeling +dominated everything else and soared above all their affected chatter. +Jests fell flat, news was not interesting, and the animation was +evidently forced. Not only the guests but even the footmen waiting at +table seemed to feel this, and they forgot their duties as they looked +at the beautiful Hélène with her radiant face and at the red, broad, +and happy though uneasy face of Pierre. It seemed as if the very light +of the candles was focused on those two happy faces alone. + +Pierre felt that he was the center of it all, and this both pleased and +embarrassed him. He was like a man entirely absorbed in some occupation. +He did not see, hear, or understand anything clearly. Only now and +then detached ideas and impressions from the world of reality shot +unexpectedly through his mind. + +“So it is all finished!” he thought. “And how has it all happened? +How quickly! Now I know that not because of her alone, nor of myself +alone, but because of everyone, it must inevitably come about. They are +all expecting it, they are so sure that it will happen that I cannot, I +cannot, disappoint them. But how will it be? I do not know, but it +will certainly happen!” thought Pierre, glancing at those dazzling +shoulders close to his eyes. + +Or he would suddenly feel ashamed of he knew not what. He felt it +awkward to attract everyone’s attention and to be considered a +lucky man and, with his plain face, to be looked on as a sort of Paris +possessed of a Helen. “But no doubt it always is and must be so!” +he consoled himself. “And besides, what have I done to bring it about? +How did it begin? I traveled from Moscow with Prince Vasíli. Then there +was nothing. So why should I not stay at his house? Then I played cards +with her and picked up her reticule and drove out with her. How did it +begin, when did it all come about?” And here he was sitting by her +side as her betrothed, seeing, hearing, feeling her nearness, her +breathing, her movements, her beauty. Then it would suddenly seem to him +that it was not she but he was so unusually beautiful, and that that was +why they all looked so at him, and flattered by this general admiration +he would expand his chest, raise his head, and rejoice at his good +fortune. Suddenly he heard a familiar voice repeating something to him a +second time. But Pierre was so absorbed that he did not understand what +was said. + +“I am asking you when you last heard from Bolkónski,” repeated +Prince Vasíli a third time. “How absent-minded you are, my dear +fellow.” + +Prince Vasíli smiled, and Pierre noticed that everyone was smiling at +him and Hélène. “Well, what of it, if you all know it?” thought +Pierre. “What of it? It’s the truth!” and he himself smiled his +gentle childlike smile, and Hélène smiled too. + +“When did you get the letter? Was it from Olmütz?” repeated +Prince Vasíli, who pretended to want to know this in order to settle a +dispute. + +“How can one talk or think of such trifles?” thought Pierre. + +“Yes, from Olmütz,” he answered, with a sigh. + +After supper Pierre with his partner followed the others into the +drawing room. The guests began to disperse, some without taking leave +of Hélène. Some, as if unwilling to distract her from an important +occupation, came up to her for a moment and made haste to go away, +refusing to let her see them off. The diplomatist preserved a mournful +silence as he left the drawing room. He pictured the vanity of his +diplomatic career in comparison with Pierre’s happiness. The old +general grumbled at his wife when she asked how his leg was. “Oh, the +old fool,” he thought. “That Princess Hélène will be beautiful +still when she’s fifty.” + +“I think I may congratulate you,” whispered Anna Pávlovna to the +old princess, kissing her soundly. “If I hadn’t this headache I’d +have stayed longer.” + +The old princess did not reply, she was tormented by jealousy of her +daughter’s happiness. + +While the guests were taking their leave Pierre remained for a long time +alone with Hélène in the little drawing room where they were sitting. +He had often before, during the last six weeks, remained alone with her, +but had never spoken to her of love. Now he felt that it was inevitable, +but he could not make up his mind to take the final step. He felt +ashamed; he felt that he was occupying someone else’s place here +beside Hélène. “This happiness is not for you,” some inner voice +whispered to him. “This happiness is for those who have not in them +what there is in you.” + +But, as he had to say something, he began by asking her whether she was +satisfied with the party. She replied in her usual simple manner that +this name day of hers had been one of the pleasantest she had ever had. + +Some of the nearest relatives had not yet left. They were sitting in +the large drawing room. Prince Vasíli came up to Pierre with languid +footsteps. Pierre rose and said it was getting late. Prince Vasíli gave +him a look of stern inquiry, as though what Pierre had just said was +so strange that one could not take it in. But then the expression of +severity changed, and he drew Pierre’s hand downwards, made him sit +down, and smiled affectionately. + +“Well, Lëlya?” he asked, turning instantly to his daughter and +addressing her with the careless tone of habitual tenderness natural to +parents who have petted their children from babyhood, but which Prince +Vasíli had only acquired by imitating other parents. + +And he again turned to Pierre. + +“Sergéy Kuzmích—From all sides—” he said, unbuttoning the top +button of his waistcoat. + +Pierre smiled, but his smile showed that he knew it was not the story +about Sergéy Kuzmích that interested Prince Vasíli just then, and +Prince Vasíli saw that Pierre knew this. He suddenly muttered +something and went away. It seemed to Pierre that even the prince was +disconcerted. The sight of the discomposure of that old man of the world +touched Pierre: he looked at Hélène and she too seemed disconcerted, +and her look seemed to say: “Well, it is your own fault.” + +“The step must be taken but I cannot, I cannot!” thought Pierre, +and he again began speaking about indifferent matters, about Sergéy +Kuzmích, asking what the point of the story was as he had not heard it +properly. Hélène answered with a smile that she too had missed it. + +When Prince Vasíli returned to the drawing room, the princess, his +wife, was talking in low tones to the elderly lady about Pierre. + +“Of course, it is a very brilliant match, but happiness, my dear...” + +“Marriages are made in heaven,” replied the elderly lady. + +Prince Vasíli passed by, seeming not to hear the ladies, and sat down +on a sofa in a far corner of the room. He closed his eyes and seemed to +be dozing. His head sank forward and then he roused himself. + +“Aline,” he said to his wife, “go and see what they are about.” + +The princess went up to the door, passed by it with a dignified and +indifferent air, and glanced into the little drawing room. Pierre and +Hélène still sat talking just as before. + +“Still the same,” she said to her husband. + +Prince Vasíli frowned, twisting his mouth, his cheeks quivered and his +face assumed the coarse, unpleasant expression peculiar to him. Shaking +himself, he rose, threw back his head, and with resolute steps went +past the ladies into the little drawing room. With quick steps he went +joyfully up to Pierre. His face was so unusually triumphant that Pierre +rose in alarm on seeing it. + +“Thank God!” said Prince Vasíli. “My wife has told me +everything!” (He put one arm around Pierre and the other around his +daughter.)—“My dear boy... Lëlya... I am very pleased.” (His +voice trembled.) “I loved your father... and she will make you a good +wife... God bless you!...” + +He embraced his daughter, and then again Pierre, and kissed him with his +malodorous mouth. Tears actually moistened his cheeks. + +“Princess, come here!” he shouted. + +The old princess came in and also wept. The elderly lady was using +her handkerchief too. Pierre was kissed, and he kissed the beautiful +Hélène’s hand several times. After a while they were left alone +again. + +“All this had to be and could not be otherwise,” thought Pierre, +“so it is useless to ask whether it is good or bad. It is good because +it’s definite and one is rid of the old tormenting doubt.” Pierre +held the hand of his betrothed in silence, looking at her beautiful +bosom as it rose and fell. + +“Hélène!” he said aloud and paused. + +“Something special is always said in such cases,” he thought, but +could not remember what it was that people say. He looked at her face. +She drew nearer to him. Her face flushed. + +“Oh, take those off... those...” she said, pointing to his +spectacles. + +Pierre took them off, and his eyes, besides the strange look eyes have +from which spectacles have just been removed, had also a frightened and +inquiring look. He was about to stoop over her hand and kiss it, but +with a rapid, almost brutal movement of her head, she intercepted his +lips and met them with her own. Her face struck Pierre, by its altered, +unpleasantly excited expression. + +“It is too late now, it’s done; besides I love her,” thought +Pierre. + +“Je vous aime!” * he said, remembering what has to be said at such +moments: but his words sounded so weak that he felt ashamed of himself. + + * “I love you.” + + +Six weeks later he was married, and settled in Count Bezúkhov’s +large, newly furnished Petersburg house, the happy possessor, as people +said, of a wife who was a celebrated beauty and of millions of money. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +Old Prince Nicholas Bolkónski received a letter from Prince Vasíli +in November, 1805, announcing that he and his son would be paying him +a visit. “I am starting on a journey of inspection, and of course I +shall think nothing of an extra seventy miles to come and see you at +the same time, my honored benefactor,” wrote Prince Vasíli. “My son +Anatole is accompanying me on his way to the army, so I hope you will +allow him personally to express the deep respect that, emulating his +father, he feels for you.” + +“It seems that there will be no need to bring Mary out, suitors are +coming to us of their own accord,” incautiously remarked the little +princess on hearing the news. + +Prince Nicholas frowned, but said nothing. + +A fortnight after the letter Prince Vasíli’s servants came one +evening in advance of him, and he and his son arrived next day. + +Old Bolkónski had always had a poor opinion of Prince Vasíli’s +character, but more so recently, since in the new reigns of Paul and +Alexander Prince Vasíli had risen to high position and honors. And now, +from the hints contained in his letter and given by the little princess, +he saw which way the wind was blowing, and his low opinion changed into +a feeling of contemptuous ill will. He snorted whenever he mentioned +him. On the day of Prince Vasíli’s arrival, Prince Bolkónski was +particularly discontented and out of temper. Whether he was in a bad +temper because Prince Vasíli was coming, or whether his being in a bad +temper made him specially annoyed at Prince Vasíli’s visit, he was +in a bad temper, and in the morning Tíkhon had already advised the +architect not to go to the prince with his report. + +“Do you hear how he’s walking?” said Tíkhon, drawing the +architect’s attention to the sound of the prince’s footsteps. +“Stepping flat on his heels—we know what that means....” + +However, at nine o’clock the prince, in his velvet coat with a sable +collar and cap, went out for his usual walk. It had snowed the day +before and the path to the hothouse, along which the prince was in the +habit of walking, had been swept: the marks of the broom were still +visible in the snow and a shovel had been left sticking in one of the +soft snowbanks that bordered both sides of the path. The prince went +through the conservatories, the serfs’ quarters, and the outbuildings, +frowning and silent. + +“Can a sleigh pass?” he asked his overseer, a venerable man, +resembling his master in manners and looks, who was accompanying him +back to the house. + +“The snow is deep. I am having the avenue swept, your honor.” + +The prince bowed his head and went up to the porch. “God be +thanked,” thought the overseer, “the storm has blown over!” + +“It would have been hard to drive up, your honor,” he added. “I +heard, your honor, that a minister is coming to visit your honor.” + +The prince turned round to the overseer and fixed his eyes on him, +frowning. + +“What? A minister? What minister? Who gave orders?” he said in +his shrill, harsh voice. “The road is not swept for the princess my +daughter, but for a minister! For me, there are no ministers!” + +“Your honor, I thought...” + +“You thought!” shouted the prince, his words coming more and more +rapidly and indistinctly. “You thought!... Rascals! Blackguards!... +I’ll teach you to think!” and lifting his stick he swung it and +would have hit Alpátych, the overseer, had not the latter instinctively +avoided the blow. “Thought... Blackguards...” shouted the prince +rapidly. + +But although Alpátych, frightened at his own temerity in avoiding the +stroke, came up to the prince, bowing his bald head resignedly before +him, or perhaps for that very reason, the prince, though he continued +to shout: “Blackguards!... Throw the snow back on the road!” did not +lift his stick again but hurried into the house. + +Before dinner, Princess Mary and Mademoiselle Bourienne, who knew +that the prince was in a bad humor, stood awaiting him; Mademoiselle +Bourienne with a radiant face that said: “I know nothing, I am the +same as usual,” and Princess Mary pale, frightened, and with downcast +eyes. What she found hardest to bear was to know that on such occasions +she ought to behave like Mademoiselle Bourienne, but could not. +She thought: “If I seem not to notice he will think that I do not +sympathize with him; if I seem sad and out of spirits myself, he will +say (as he has done before) that I’m in the dumps.” + +The prince looked at his daughter’s frightened face and snorted. + +“Fool... or dummy!” he muttered. + +“And the other one is not here. They’ve been telling tales,” he +thought—referring to the little princess who was not in the dining +room. + +“Where is the princess?” he asked. “Hiding?” + +“She is not very well,” answered Mademoiselle Bourienne with +a bright smile, “so she won’t come down. It is natural in her +state.” + +“Hm! Hm!” muttered the prince, sitting down. + +His plate seemed to him not quite clean, and pointing to a spot he +flung it away. Tíkhon caught it and handed it to a footman. The little +princess was not unwell, but had such an overpowering fear of the prince +that, hearing he was in a bad humor, she had decided not to appear. + +“I am afraid for the baby,” she said to Mademoiselle Bourienne: +“Heaven knows what a fright might do.” + +In general at Bald Hills the little princess lived in constant fear, and +with a sense of antipathy to the old prince which she did not +realize because the fear was so much the stronger feeling. The prince +reciprocated this antipathy, but it was overpowered by his contempt +for her. When the little princess had grown accustomed to life at Bald +Hills, she took a special fancy to Mademoiselle Bourienne, spent whole +days with her, asked her to sleep in her room, and often talked with her +about the old prince and criticized him. + +“So we are to have visitors, mon prince?” remarked Mademoiselle +Bourienne, unfolding her white napkin with her rosy fingers. “His +Excellency Prince Vasíli Kurágin and his son, I understand?” she +said inquiringly. + +“Hm!—his excellency is a puppy.... I got him his appointment in the +service,” said the prince disdainfully. “Why his son is coming I +don’t understand. Perhaps Princess Elizabeth and Princess Mary know. +I don’t want him.” (He looked at his blushing daughter.) “Are you +unwell today? Eh? Afraid of the ‘minister’ as that idiot Alpátych +called him this morning?” + +“No, mon père.” + +Though Mademoiselle Bourienne had been so unsuccessful in her choice +of a subject, she did not stop talking, but chattered about the +conservatories and the beauty of a flower that had just opened, and +after the soup the prince became more genial. + +After dinner, he went to see his daughter-in-law. The little princess +was sitting at a small table, chattering with Másha, her maid. She grew +pale on seeing her father-in-law. + +She was much altered. She was now plain rather than pretty. Her cheeks +had sunk, her lip was drawn up, and her eyes drawn down. + +“Yes, I feel a kind of oppression,” she said in reply to the +prince’s question as to how she felt. + +“Do you want anything?” + +“No, merci, mon père.” + +“Well, all right, all right.” + +He left the room and went to the waiting room where Alpátych stood with +bowed head. + +“Has the snow been shoveled back?” + +“Yes, your excellency. Forgive me for heaven’s sake... It was only +my stupidity.” + +“All right, all right,” interrupted the prince, and laughing his +unnatural way, he stretched out his hand for Alpátych to kiss, and then +proceeded to his study. + +Prince Vasíli arrived that evening. He was met in the avenue by +coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to +one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow. + +Prince Vasíli and Anatole had separate rooms assigned to them. + +Anatole, having taken off his overcoat, sat with arms akimbo before a +table on a corner of which he smilingly and absent-mindedly fixed his +large and handsome eyes. He regarded his whole life as a continual round +of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him. +And he looked on this visit to a churlish old man and a rich and ugly +heiress in the same way. All this might, he thought, turn out very well +and amusingly. “And why not marry her if she really has so much money? +That never does any harm,” thought Anatole. + +He shaved and scented himself with the care and elegance which had +become habitual to him and, his handsome head held high, entered his +father’s room with the good-humored and victorious air natural to +him. Prince Vasíli’s two valets were busy dressing him, and he looked +round with much animation and cheerfully nodded to his son as the latter +entered, as if to say: “Yes, that’s how I want you to look.” + +“I say, Father, joking apart, is she very hideous?” Anatole asked, +as if continuing a conversation the subject of which had often been +mentioned during the journey. + +“Enough! What nonsense! Above all, try to be respectful and cautious +with the old prince.” + +“If he starts a row I’ll go away,” said Prince Anatole. “I +can’t bear those old men! Eh?” + +“Remember, for you everything depends on this.” + +In the meantime, not only was it known in the maidservants’ rooms that +the minister and his son had arrived, but the appearance of both had +been minutely described. Princess Mary was sitting alone in her room, +vainly trying to master her agitation. + +“Why did they write, why did Lise tell me about it? It can never +happen!” she said, looking at herself in the glass. “How shall I +enter the drawing room? Even if I like him I can’t now be myself with +him.” The mere thought of her father’s look filled her with terror. +The little princess and Mademoiselle Bourienne had already received +from Másha, the lady’s maid, the necessary report of how handsome the +minister’s son was, with his rosy cheeks and dark eyebrows, and with +what difficulty the father had dragged his legs upstairs while the son +had followed him like an eagle, three steps at a time. Having received +this information, the little princess and Mademoiselle Bourienne, whose +chattering voices had reached her from the corridor, went into Princess +Mary’s room. + +“You know they’ve come, Marie?” said the little princess, waddling +in, and sinking heavily into an armchair. + +She was no longer in the loose gown she generally wore in the morning, +but had on one of her best dresses. Her hair was carefully done and her +face was animated, which, however, did not conceal its sunken and faded +outlines. Dressed as she used to be in Petersburg society, it was still +more noticeable how much plainer she had become. Some unobtrusive touch +had been added to Mademoiselle Bourienne’s toilet which rendered her +fresh and pretty face yet more attractive. + +“What! Are you going to remain as you are, dear princess?” she +began. “They’ll be announcing that the gentlemen are in the drawing +room and we shall have to go down, and you have not smartened yourself +up at all!” + +The little princess got up, rang for the maid, and hurriedly and merrily +began to devise and carry out a plan of how Princess Mary should be +dressed. Princess Mary’s self-esteem was wounded by the fact that +the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both +her companions’ not having the least conception that it could be +otherwise. To tell them that she felt ashamed for herself and for them +would be to betray her agitation, while to decline their offers to +dress her would prolong their banter and insistence. She flushed, her +beautiful eyes grew dim, red blotches came on her face, and it took +on the unattractive martyrlike expression it so often wore, as she +submitted herself to Mademoiselle Bourienne and Lise. Both these women +quite sincerely tried to make her look pretty. She was so plain that +neither of them could think of her as a rival, so they began dressing +her with perfect sincerity, and with the naïve and firm conviction +women have that dress can make a face pretty. + +“No really, my dear, this dress is not pretty,” said Lise, looking +sideways at Princess Mary from a little distance. “You have a maroon +dress, have it fetched. Really! You know the fate of your whole life may +be at stake. But this one is too light, it’s not becoming!” + +It was not the dress, but the face and whole figure of Princess Mary +that was not pretty, but neither Mademoiselle Bourienne nor the little +princess felt this; they still thought that if a blue ribbon were placed +in the hair, the hair combed up, and the blue scarf arranged lower on +the best maroon dress, and so on, all would be well. They forgot that +the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that +however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it +would still remain piteous and plain. After two or three changes to +which Princess Mary meekly submitted, just as her hair had been arranged +on the top of her head (a style that quite altered and spoiled her +looks) and she had put on a maroon dress with a pale-blue scarf, the +little princess walked twice round her, now adjusting a fold of the +dress with her little hand, now arranging the scarf and looking at her +with her head bent first on one side and then on the other. + +“No, it will not do,” she said decidedly, clasping her hands. “No, +Mary, really this dress does not suit you. I prefer you in your little +gray everyday dress. Now please, do it for my sake. Katie,” she said +to the maid, “bring the princess her gray dress, and you’ll see, +Mademoiselle Bourienne, how I shall arrange it,” she added, smiling +with a foretaste of artistic pleasure. + +But when Katie brought the required dress, Princess Mary remained +sitting motionless before the glass, looking at her face, and saw in the +mirror her eyes full of tears and her mouth quivering, ready to burst +into sobs. + +“Come, dear princess,” said Mademoiselle Bourienne, “just one more +little effort.” + +The little princess, taking the dress from the maid, came up to Princess +Mary. + +“Well, now we’ll arrange something quite simple and becoming,” she +said. + +The three voices, hers, Mademoiselle Bourienne’s, and Katie’s, who +was laughing at something, mingled in a merry sound, like the chirping +of birds. + +“No, leave me alone,” said Princess Mary. + +Her voice sounded so serious and so sad that the chirping of the birds +was silenced at once. They looked at the beautiful, large, thoughtful +eyes full of tears and of thoughts, gazing shiningly and imploringly at +them, and understood that it was useless and even cruel to insist. + +“At least, change your coiffure,” said the little princess. +“Didn’t I tell you,” she went on, turning reproachfully to +Mademoiselle Bourienne, “Mary’s is a face which such a coiffure does +not suit in the least. Not in the least! Please change it.” + +“Leave me alone, please leave me alone! It is all quite the same to +me,” answered a voice struggling with tears. + +Mademoiselle Bourienne and the little princess had to own to themselves +that Princess Mary in this guise looked very plain, worse than usual, +but it was too late. She was looking at them with an expression they +both knew, an expression thoughtful and sad. This expression in Princess +Mary did not frighten them (she never inspired fear in anyone), but they +knew that when it appeared on her face, she became mute and was not to +be shaken in her determination. + +“You will change it, won’t you?” said Lise. And as Princess Mary +gave no answer, she left the room. + +Princess Mary was left alone. She did not comply with Lise’s request, +she not only left her hair as it was, but did not even look in her +glass. Letting her arms fall helplessly, she sat with downcast eyes and +pondered. A husband, a man, a strong dominant and strangely attractive +being rose in her imagination, and carried her into a totally different +happy world of his own. She fancied a child, her own—such as she had +seen the day before in the arms of her nurse’s daughter—at her +own breast, the husband standing by and gazing tenderly at her and the +child. “But no, it is impossible, I am too ugly,” she thought. + +“Please come to tea. The prince will be out in a moment,” came the +maid’s voice at the door. + +She roused herself, and felt appalled at what she had been thinking, and +before going down she went into the room where the icons hung and, her +eyes fixed on the dark face of a large icon of the Saviour lit by a +lamp, she stood before it with folded hands for a few moments. A painful +doubt filled her soul. Could the joy of love, of earthly love for a +man, be for her? In her thoughts of marriage Princess Mary dreamed of +happiness and of children, but her strongest, most deeply hidden longing +was for earthly love. The more she tried to hide this feeling from +others and even from herself, the stronger it grew. “O God,” she +said, “how am I to stifle in my heart these temptations of the devil? +How am I to renounce forever these vile fancies, so as peacefully to +fulfill Thy will?” And scarcely had she put that question than God +gave her the answer in her own heart. “Desire nothing for thyself, +seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. Man’s future and thy own fate +must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for +anything. If it be God’s will to prove thee in the duties of marriage, +be ready to fulfill His will.” With this consoling thought (but +yet with a hope for the fulfillment of her forbidden earthly longing) +Princess Mary sighed, and having crossed herself went down, thinking +neither of her gown and coiffure nor of how she would go in nor of what +she would say. What could all that matter in comparison with the will of +God, without Whose care not a hair of man’s head can fall? + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +When Princess Mary came down, Prince Vasíli and his son were already +in the drawing room, talking to the little princess and Mademoiselle +Bourienne. When she entered with her heavy step, treading on her heels, +the gentlemen and Mademoiselle Bourienne rose and the little princess, +indicating her to the gentlemen, said: “Voilà Marie!” Princess Mary +saw them all and saw them in detail. She saw Prince Vasíli’s face, +serious for an instant at the sight of her, but immediately smiling +again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression +“Marie” produced on the visitors. And she saw Mademoiselle +Bourienne, with her ribbon and pretty face, and her unusually animated +look which was fixed on him, but him she could not see, she only saw +something large, brilliant, and handsome moving toward her as she +entered the room. Prince Vasíli approached first, and she kissed the +bold forehead that bent over her hand and answered his question by +saying that, on the contrary, she remembered him quite well. Then +Anatole came up to her. She still could not see him. She only felt a +soft hand taking hers firmly, and she touched with her lips a white +forehead, over which was beautiful light-brown hair smelling of pomade. +When she looked up at him she was struck by his beauty. Anatole stood +with his right thumb under a button of his uniform, his chest expanded +and his back drawn in, slightly swinging one foot, and, with his head a +little bent, looked with beaming face at the princess without +speaking and evidently not thinking about her at all. Anatole was not +quick-witted, nor ready or eloquent in conversation, but he had the +faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable +self-possession. If a man lacking in self-confidence remains dumb on +a first introduction and betrays a consciousness of the impropriety of +such silence and an anxiety to find something to say, the effect is +bad. But Anatole was dumb, swung his foot, and smilingly examined the +princess’ hair. It was evident that he could be silent in this way for +a very long time. “If anyone finds this silence inconvenient, let him +talk, but I don’t want to,” he seemed to say. Besides this, in his +behavior to women Anatole had a manner which particularly inspires in +them curiosity, awe, and even love—a supercilious consciousness of +his own superiority. It was as if he said to them: “I know you, I know +you, but why should I bother about you? You’d be only too glad, of +course.” Perhaps he did not really think this when he met women—even +probably he did not, for in general he thought very little—but his +looks and manner gave that impression. The princess felt this, and as if +wishing to show him that she did not even dare expect to interest him, +she turned to his father. The conversation was general and animated, +thanks to Princess Lise’s voice and little downy lip that lifted over +her white teeth. She met Prince Vasíli with that playful manner often +employed by lively chatty people, and consisting in the assumption +that between the person they so address and themselves there are some +semi-private, long-established jokes and amusing reminiscences, though +no such reminiscences really exist—just as none existed in this case. +Prince Vasíli readily adopted her tone and the little princess also +drew Anatole, whom she hardly knew, into these amusing recollections of +things that had never occurred. Mademoiselle Bourienne also shared them +and even Princess Mary felt herself pleasantly made to share in these +merry reminiscences. + +“Here at least we shall have the benefit of your company all to +ourselves, dear prince,” said the little princess (of course, in +French) to Prince Vasíli. “It’s not as at Annette’s * receptions +where you always ran away; you remember cette chère Annette!” + + * Anna Pávlovna. + +“Ah, but you won’t talk politics to me like Annette!” + +“And our little tea table?” + +“Oh, yes!” + +“Why is it you were never at Annette’s?” the little princess asked +Anatole. “Ah, I know, I know,” she said with a sly glance, “your +brother Hippolyte told me about your goings on. Oh!” and she shook her +finger at him, “I have even heard of your doings in Paris!” + +“And didn’t Hippolyte tell you?” asked Prince Vasíli, turning to +his son and seizing the little princess’ arm as if she would have run +away and he had just managed to catch her, “didn’t he tell you how +he himself was pining for the dear princess, and how she showed him the +door? Oh, she is a pearl among women, Princess,” he added, turning to +Princess Mary. + +When Paris was mentioned, Mademoiselle Bourienne for her part seized the +opportunity of joining in the general current of recollections. + +She took the liberty of inquiring whether it was long since Anatole +had left Paris and how he had liked that city. Anatole answered the +Frenchwoman very readily and, looking at her with a smile, talked to her +about her native land. When he saw the pretty little Bourienne, Anatole +came to the conclusion that he would not find Bald Hills dull either. +“Not at all bad!” he thought, examining her, “not at all bad, that +little companion! I hope she will bring her along with her when we’re +married, la petite est gentille.” * + + * The little one is charming. + +The old prince dressed leisurely in his study, frowning and considering +what he was to do. The coming of these visitors annoyed him. “What are +Prince Vasíli and that son of his to me? Prince Vasíli is a shallow +braggart and his son, no doubt, is a fine specimen,” he grumbled to +himself. What angered him was that the coming of these visitors revived +in his mind an unsettled question he always tried to stifle, one about +which he always deceived himself. The question was whether he could ever +bring himself to part from his daughter and give her to a husband. The +prince never directly asked himself that question, knowing beforehand +that he would have to answer it justly, and justice clashed not only +with his feelings but with the very possibility of life. Life without +Princess Mary, little as he seemed to value her, was unthinkable to +him. “And why should she marry?” he thought. “To be unhappy for +certain. There’s Lise, married to Andrew—a better husband one would +think could hardly be found nowadays—but is she contented with her +lot? And who would marry Marie for love? Plain and awkward! They’ll +take her for her connections and wealth. Are there no women living +unmarried, and even the happier for it?” So thought Prince Bolkónski +while dressing, and yet the question he was always putting off demanded +an immediate answer. Prince Vasíli had brought his son with the evident +intention of proposing, and today or tomorrow he would probably ask +for an answer. His birth and position in society were not bad. “Well, +I’ve nothing against it,” the prince said to himself, “but he must +be worthy of her. And that is what we shall see.” + +“That is what we shall see! That is what we shall see!” he added +aloud. + +He entered the drawing room with his usual alert step, glancing rapidly +round the company. He noticed the change in the little princess’ +dress, Mademoiselle Bourienne’s ribbon, Princess Mary’s unbecoming +coiffure, Mademoiselle Bourienne’s and Anatole’s smiles, and the +loneliness of his daughter amid the general conversation. “Got herself +up like a fool!” he thought, looking irritably at her. “She is +shameless, and he ignores her!” + +He went straight up to Prince Vasíli. + +“Well! How d’ye do? How d’ye do? Glad to see you!” + +“Friendship laughs at distance,” began Prince Vasíli in his usual +rapid, self-confident, familiar tone. “Here is my second son; please +love and befriend him.” + +Prince Bolkónski surveyed Anatole. + +“Fine young fellow! Fine young fellow!” he said. “Well, come and +kiss me,” and he offered his cheek. + +Anatole kissed the old man, and looked at him with curiosity and perfect +composure, waiting for a display of the eccentricities his father had +told him to expect. + +Prince Bolkónski sat down in his usual place in the corner of the sofa +and, drawing up an armchair for Prince Vasíli, pointed to it and began +questioning him about political affairs and news. He seemed to listen +attentively to what Prince Vasíli said, but kept glancing at Princess +Mary. + +“And so they are writing from Potsdam already?” he said, repeating +Prince Vasíli’s last words. Then rising, he suddenly went up to his +daughter. + +“Is it for visitors you’ve got yourself up like that, eh?” said +he. “Fine, very fine! You have done up your hair in this new way for +the visitors, and before the visitors I tell you that in future you are +never to dare to change your way of dress without my consent.” + +“It was my fault, mon père,” interceded the little princess, with a +blush. + +“You must do as you please,” said Prince Bolkónski, bowing to his +daughter-in-law, “but she need not make a fool of herself, she’s +plain enough as it is.” + +And he sat down again, paying no more attention to his daughter, who was +reduced to tears. + +“On the contrary, that coiffure suits the princess very well,” said +Prince Vasíli. + +“Now you, young prince, what’s your name?” said Prince Bolkónski, +turning to Anatole, “come here, let us talk and get acquainted.” + +“Now the fun begins,” thought Anatole, sitting down with a smile +beside the old prince. + +“Well, my dear boy, I hear you’ve been educated abroad, not taught +to read and write by the deacon, like your father and me. Now tell me, +my dear boy, are you serving in the Horse Guards?” asked the old man, +scrutinizing Anatole closely and intently. + +“No, I have been transferred to the line,” said Anatole, hardly able +to restrain his laughter. + +“Ah! That’s a good thing. So, my dear boy, you wish to serve the +Tsar and the country? It is wartime. Such a fine fellow must serve. +Well, are you off to the front?” + +“No, Prince, our regiment has gone to the front, but I am attached... +what is it I am attached to, Papa?” said Anatole, turning to his +father with a laugh. + +“A splendid soldier, splendid! ‘What am I attached to!’ Ha, ha, +ha!” laughed Prince Bolkónski, and Anatole laughed still louder. +Suddenly Prince Bolkónski frowned. + +“You may go,” he said to Anatole. + +Anatole returned smiling to the ladies. + +“And so you’ve had him educated abroad, Prince Vasíli, haven’t +you?” said the old prince to Prince Vasíli. + +“I have done my best for him, and I can assure you the education there +is much better than ours.” + +“Yes, everything is different nowadays, everything is changed. The +lad’s a fine fellow, a fine fellow! Well, come with me now.” He took +Prince Vasíli’s arm and led him to his study. As soon as they were +alone together, Prince Vasíli announced his hopes and wishes to the old +prince. + +“Well, do you think I shall prevent her, that I can’t part from +her?” said the old prince angrily. “What an idea! I’m ready for it +tomorrow! Only let me tell you, I want to know my son-in-law better. You +know my principles—everything aboveboard! I will ask her tomorrow in +your presence; if she is willing, then he can stay on. He can stay and +I’ll see.” The old prince snorted. “Let her marry, it’s all the +same to me!” he screamed in the same piercing tone as when parting +from his son. + +“I will tell you frankly,” said Prince Vasíli in the tone of +a crafty man convinced of the futility of being cunning with so +keen-sighted a companion. “You know, you see right through people. +Anatole is no genius, but he is an honest, goodhearted lad; an excellent +son or kinsman.” + +“All right, all right, we’ll see!” + +As always happens when women lead lonely lives for any length of time +without male society, on Anatole’s appearance all the three women of +Prince Bolkónski’s household felt that their life had not been real +till then. Their powers of reasoning, feeling, and observing immediately +increased tenfold, and their life, which seemed to have been passed in +darkness, was suddenly lit up by a new brightness, full of significance. + +Princess Mary grew quite unconscious of her face and coiffure. The +handsome open face of the man who might perhaps be her husband absorbed +all her attention. He seemed to her kind, brave, determined, manly, and +magnanimous. She felt convinced of that. Thousands of dreams of a future +family life continually rose in her imagination. She drove them away and +tried to conceal them. + +“But am I not too cold with him?” thought the princess. “I try +to be reserved because in the depth of my soul I feel too near to him +already, but then he cannot know what I think of him and may imagine +that I do not like him.” + +And Princess Mary tried, but could not manage, to be cordial to her new +guest. “Poor girl, she’s devilish ugly!” thought Anatole. + +Mademoiselle Bourienne, also roused to great excitement by Anatole’s +arrival, thought in another way. Of course, she, a handsome young woman +without any definite position, without relations or even a country, did +not intend to devote her life to serving Prince Bolkónski, to reading +aloud to him and being friends with Princess Mary. Mademoiselle +Bourienne had long been waiting for a Russian prince who, able to +appreciate at a glance her superiority to the plain, badly dressed, +ungainly Russian princesses, would fall in love with her and carry her +off; and here at last was a Russian prince. Mademoiselle Bourienne knew +a story, heard from her aunt but finished in her own way, which she +liked to repeat to herself. It was the story of a girl who had been +seduced, and to whom her poor mother (sa pauvre mère) appeared, and +reproached her for yielding to a man without being married. Mademoiselle +Bourienne was often touched to tears as in imagination she told this +story to him, her seducer. And now he, a real Russian prince, had +appeared. He would carry her away and then sa pauvre mère would appear +and he would marry her. So her future shaped itself in Mademoiselle +Bourienne’s head at the very time she was talking to Anatole about +Paris. It was not calculation that guided her (she did not even for a +moment consider what she should do), but all this had long been familiar +to her, and now that Anatole had appeared it just grouped itself around +him and she wished and tried to please him as much as possible. + +The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, +unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the +familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any +struggle, but with naïve and lighthearted gaiety. + +Although in female society Anatole usually assumed the role of a man +tired of being run after by women, his vanity was flattered by the +spectacle of his power over these three women. Besides that, he was +beginning to feel for the pretty and provocative Mademoiselle Bourienne +that passionate animal feeling which was apt to master him with great +suddenness and prompt him to the coarsest and most reckless actions. + +After tea, the company went into the sitting room and Princess Mary was +asked to play on the clavichord. Anatole, laughing and in high spirits, +came and leaned on his elbows, facing her and beside Mademoiselle +Bourienne. Princess Mary felt his look with a painfully joyous emotion. +Her favorite sonata bore her into a most intimately poetic world and +the look she felt upon her made that world still more poetic. But +Anatole’s expression, though his eyes were fixed on her, referred not +to her but to the movements of Mademoiselle Bourienne’s little +foot, which he was then touching with his own under the clavichord. +Mademoiselle Bourienne was also looking at Princess Mary, and in her +lovely eyes there was a look of fearful joy and hope that was also new +to the princess. + +“How she loves me!” thought Princess Mary. “How happy I am now, +and how happy I may be with such a friend and such a husband! Husband? +Can it be possible?” she thought, not daring to look at his face, but +still feeling his eyes gazing at her. + +In the evening, after supper, when all were about to retire, Anatole +kissed Princess Mary’s hand. She did not know how she found the +courage, but she looked straight into his handsome face as it came near +to her shortsighted eyes. Turning from Princess Mary he went up and +kissed Mademoiselle Bourienne’s hand. (This was not etiquette, but +then he did everything so simply and with such assurance!) Mademoiselle +Bourienne flushed, and gave the princess a frightened look. + +“What delicacy!” thought the princess. “Is it possible that +Amélie” (Mademoiselle Bourienne) “thinks I could be jealous of her, +and not value her pure affection and devotion to me?” She went up +to her and kissed her warmly. Anatole went up to kiss the little +princess’ hand. + +“No! No! No! When your father writes to tell me that you are behaving +well I will give you my hand to kiss. Not till then!” she said. And +smilingly raising a finger at him, she left the room. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +They all separated, but, except Anatole who fell asleep as soon as he +got into bed, all kept awake a long time that night. + +“Is he really to be my husband, this stranger who is so kind—yes, +kind, that is the chief thing,” thought Princess Mary; and fear, which +she had seldom experienced, came upon her. She feared to look round, it +seemed to her that someone was there standing behind the screen in the +dark corner. And this someone was he—the devil—and he was also this +man with the white forehead, black eyebrows, and red lips. + +She rang for her maid and asked her to sleep in her room. + +Mademoiselle Bourienne walked up and down the conservatory for a long +time that evening, vainly expecting someone, now smiling at someone, now +working herself up to tears with the imaginary words of her pauvre mère +rebuking her for her fall. + +The little princess grumbled to her maid that her bed was badly made. +She could not lie either on her face or on her side. Every position was +awkward and uncomfortable, and her burden oppressed her now more than +ever because Anatole’s presence had vividly recalled to her the time +when she was not like that and when everything was light and gay. She +sat in an armchair in her dressing jacket and nightcap and Katie, sleepy +and disheveled, beat and turned the heavy feather bed for the third +time, muttering to herself. + +“I told you it was all lumps and holes!” the little princess +repeated. “I should be glad enough to fall asleep, so it’s not my +fault!” and her voice quivered like that of a child about to cry. + +The old prince did not sleep either. Tíkhon, half asleep, heard him +pacing angrily about and snorting. The old prince felt as though he +had been insulted through his daughter. The insult was the more pointed +because it concerned not himself but another, his daughter, whom he +loved more than himself. He kept telling himself that he would consider +the whole matter and decide what was right and how he should act, but +instead of that he only excited himself more and more. + +“The first man that turns up—she forgets her father and everything +else, runs upstairs and does up her hair and wags her tail and is unlike +herself! Glad to throw her father over! And she knew I should notice +it. Fr... fr... fr! And don’t I see that that idiot had eyes only for +Bourienne—I shall have to get rid of her. And how is it she has not +pride enough to see it? If she has no pride for herself she might at +least have some for my sake! She must be shown that the blockhead thinks +nothing of her and looks only at Bourienne. No, she has no pride... but +I’ll let her see....” + +The old prince knew that if he told his daughter she was making a +mistake and that Anatole meant to flirt with Mademoiselle Bourienne, +Princess Mary’s self-esteem would be wounded and his point (not to +be parted from her) would be gained, so pacifying himself with this +thought, he called Tíkhon and began to undress. + +“What devil brought them here?” thought he, while Tíkhon was +putting the nightshirt over his dried-up old body and gray-haired chest. +“I never invited them. They came to disturb my life—and there is not +much of it left.” + +“Devil take ‘em!” he muttered, while his head was still covered by +the shirt. + +Tíkhon knew his master’s habit of sometimes thinking aloud, and +therefore met with unaltered looks the angrily inquisitive expression of +the face that emerged from the shirt. + +“Gone to bed?” asked the prince. + +Tíkhon, like all good valets, instinctively knew the direction of his +master’s thoughts. He guessed that the question referred to Prince +Vasíli and his son. + +“They have gone to bed and put out their lights, your excellency.” + +“No good... no good...” said the prince rapidly, and thrusting his +feet into his slippers and his arms into the sleeves of his dressing +gown, he went to the couch on which he slept. + +Though no words had passed between Anatole and Mademoiselle Bourienne, +they quite understood one another as to the first part of their romance, +up to the appearance of the pauvre mère; they understood that they had +much to say to one another in private and so they had been seeking an +opportunity since morning to meet one another alone. When Princess Mary +went to her father’s room at the usual hour, Mademoiselle Bourienne +and Anatole met in the conservatory. + +Princess Mary went to the door of the study with special trepidation. +It seemed to her that not only did everybody know that her fate would be +decided that day, but that they also knew what she thought about it. She +read this in Tíkhon’s face and in that of Prince Vasíli’s valet, +who made her a low bow when she met him in the corridor carrying hot +water. + +The old prince was very affectionate and careful in his treatment of +his daughter that morning. Princess Mary well knew this painstaking +expression of her father’s. His face wore that expression when his +dry hands clenched with vexation at her not understanding a sum in +arithmetic, when rising from his chair he would walk away from her, +repeating in a low voice the same words several times over. + +He came to the point at once, treating her ceremoniously. + +“I have had a proposition made me concerning you,” he said with an +unnatural smile. “I expect you have guessed that Prince Vasíli has +not come and brought his pupil with him” (for some reason Prince +Bolkónski referred to Anatole as a “pupil”) “for the sake of my +beautiful eyes. Last night a proposition was made me on your account +and, as you know my principles, I refer it to you.” + +“How am I to understand you, mon père?” said the princess, growing +pale and then blushing. + +“How understand me!” cried her father angrily. “Prince Vasíli +finds you to his taste as a daughter-in-law and makes a proposal to you +on his pupil’s behalf. That’s how it’s to be understood! ‘How +understand it’!... And I ask you!” + +“I do not know what you think, Father,” whispered the princess. + +“I? I? What of me? Leave me out of the question. I’m not going to +get married. What about you? That’s what I want to know.” + +The princess saw that her father regarded the matter with disapproval, +but at that moment the thought occurred to her that her fate would be +decided now or never. She lowered her eyes so as not to see the gaze +under which she felt that she could not think, but would only be able to +submit from habit, and she said: “I wish only to do your will, but if +I had to express my own desire...” She had no time to finish. The old +prince interrupted her. + +“That’s admirable!” he shouted. “He will take you with your +dowry and take Mademoiselle Bourienne into the bargain. She’ll be the +wife, while you...” + +The prince stopped. He saw the effect these words had produced on his +daughter. She lowered her head and was ready to burst into tears. + +“Now then, now then, I’m only joking!” he said. “Remember this, +Princess, I hold to the principle that a maiden has a full right to +choose. I give you freedom. Only remember that your life’s happiness +depends on your decision. Never mind me!” + +“But I do not know, Father!” + +“There’s no need to talk! He receives his orders and will marry you +or anybody; but you are free to choose.... Go to your room, think it +over, and come back in an hour and tell me in his presence: yes or no. +I know you will pray over it. Well, pray if you like, but you had better +think it over. Go! Yes or no, yes or no, yes or no!” he still shouted +when the princess, as if lost in a fog, had already staggered out of the +study. + +Her fate was decided and happily decided. But what her father had said +about Mademoiselle Bourienne was dreadful. It was untrue to be sure, but +still it was terrible, and she could not help thinking of it. She was +going straight on through the conservatory, neither seeing nor hearing +anything, when suddenly the well-known whispering of Mademoiselle +Bourienne aroused her. She raised her eyes, and two steps away saw +Anatole embracing the Frenchwoman and whispering something to her. With +a horrified expression on his handsome face, Anatole looked at Princess +Mary, but did not at once take his arm from the waist of Mademoiselle +Bourienne who had not yet seen her. + +“Who’s that? Why? Wait a moment!” Anatole’s face seemed to say. +Princess Mary looked at them in silence. She could not understand it. At +last Mademoiselle Bourienne gave a scream and ran away. Anatole bowed to +Princess Mary with a gay smile, as if inviting her to join in a laugh at +this strange incident, and then shrugging his shoulders went to the door +that led to his own apartments. + +An hour later, Tíkhon came to call Princess Mary to the old prince; +he added that Prince Vasíli was also there. When Tíkhon came to her +Princess Mary was sitting on the sofa in her room, holding the weeping +Mademoiselle Bourienne in her arms and gently stroking her hair. The +princess’ beautiful eyes with all their former calm radiance were +looking with tender affection and pity at Mademoiselle Bourienne’s +pretty face. + +“No, Princess, I have lost your affection forever!” said +Mademoiselle Bourienne. + +“Why? I love you more than ever,” said Princess Mary, “and I will +try to do all I can for your happiness.” + +“But you despise me. You who are so pure can never understand being so +carried away by passion. Oh, only my poor mother...” + +“I quite understand,” answered Princess Mary, with a sad smile. +“Calm yourself, my dear. I will go to my father,” she said, and went +out. + +Prince Vasíli, with one leg thrown high over the other and a snuffbox +in his hand, was sitting there with a smile of deep emotion on his face, +as if stirred to his heart’s core and himself regretting and laughing +at his own sensibility, when Princess Mary entered. He hurriedly took a +pinch of snuff. + +“Ah, my dear, my dear!” he began, rising and taking her by both +hands. Then, sighing, he added: “My son’s fate is in your hands. +Decide, my dear, good, gentle Marie, whom I have always loved as a +daughter!” + +He drew back and a real tear appeared in his eye. + +“Fr... fr...” snorted Prince Bolkónski. “The prince is making a +proposition to you in his pupil’s—I mean, his son’s—name. Do you +wish or not to be Prince Anatole Kurágin’s wife? Reply: yes or no,” +he shouted, “and then I shall reserve the right to state my opinion +also. Yes, my opinion, and only my opinion,” added Prince Bolkónski, +turning to Prince Vasíli and answering his imploring look. “Yes, or +no?” + +“My desire is never to leave you, Father, never to separate my +life from yours. I don’t wish to marry,” she answered positively, +glancing at Prince Vasíli and at her father with her beautiful eyes. + +“Humbug! Nonsense! Humbug, humbug, humbug!” cried Prince Bolkónski, +frowning and taking his daughter’s hand; he did not kiss her, but only +bending his forehead to hers just touched it, and pressed her hand so +that she winced and uttered a cry. + +Prince Vasíli rose. + +“My dear, I must tell you that this is a moment I shall never, never +forget. But, my dear, will you not give us a little hope of touching +this heart, so kind and generous? Say ‘perhaps’... The future is so +long. Say ‘perhaps.’” + +“Prince, what I have said is all there is in my heart. I thank you for +the honor, but I shall never be your son’s wife.” + +“Well, so that’s finished, my dear fellow! I am very glad to have +seen you. Very glad! Go back to your rooms, Princess. Go!” said +the old prince. “Very, very glad to have seen you,” repeated he, +embracing Prince Vasíli. + +“My vocation is a different one,” thought Princess Mary. “My +vocation is to be happy with another kind of happiness, the happiness +of love and self-sacrifice. And cost what it may, I will arrange +poor Amélie’s happiness, she loves him so passionately, and so +passionately repents. I will do all I can to arrange the match between +them. If he is not rich I will give her the means; I will ask my +father and Andrew. I shall be so happy when she is his wife. She is so +unfortunate, a stranger, alone, helpless! And, oh God, how passionately +she must love him if she could so far forget herself! Perhaps I might +have done the same!...” thought Princess Mary. + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +It was long since the Rostóvs had news of Nicholas. Not till midwinter +was the count at last handed a letter addressed in his son’s +handwriting. On receiving it, he ran on tiptoe to his study in alarm and +haste, trying to escape notice, closed the door, and began to read the +letter. + +Anna Mikháylovna, who always knew everything that passed in the house, +on hearing of the arrival of the letter went softly into the room and +found the count with it in his hand, sobbing and laughing at the same +time. + +Anna Mikháylovna, though her circumstances had improved, was still +living with the Rostóvs. + +“My dear friend?” said she, in a tone of pathetic inquiry, prepared +to sympathize in any way. + +The count sobbed yet more. + +“Nikólenka... a letter... wa... a... s... wounded... my darling +boy... the countess... promoted to be an officer... thank God... How +tell the little countess!” + +Anna Mikháylovna sat down beside him, with her own handkerchief wiped +the tears from his eyes and from the letter, then having dried her +own eyes she comforted the count, and decided that at dinner and till +teatime she would prepare the countess, and after tea, with God’s +help, would inform her. + +At dinner Anna Mikháylovna talked the whole time about the war news +and about Nikólenka, twice asked when the last letter had been received +from him, though she knew that already, and remarked that they might +very likely be getting a letter from him that day. Each time that these +hints began to make the countess anxious and she glanced uneasily at +the count and at Anna Mikháylovna, the latter very adroitly turned +the conversation to insignificant matters. Natásha, who, of the whole +family, was the most gifted with a capacity to feel any shades of +intonation, look, and expression, pricked up her ears from the beginning +of the meal and was certain that there was some secret between her +father and Anna Mikháylovna, that it had something to do with her +brother, and that Anna Mikháylovna was preparing them for it. Bold as +she was, Natásha, who knew how sensitive her mother was to anything +relating to Nikólenka, did not venture to ask any questions at dinner, +but she was too excited to eat anything and kept wriggling about on her +chair regardless of her governess’ remarks. After dinner, she rushed +headlong after Anna Mikháylovna and, dashing at her, flung herself on +her neck as soon as she overtook her in the sitting room. + +“Auntie, darling, do tell me what it is!” + +“Nothing, my dear.” + +“No, dearest, sweet one, honey, I won’t give up—I know you know +something.” + +Anna Mikháylovna shook her head. + +“You are a little slyboots,” she said. + +“A letter from Nikólenka! I’m sure of it!” exclaimed Natásha, +reading confirmation in Anna Mikháylovna’s face. + +“But for God’s sake, be careful, you know how it may affect your +mamma.” + +“I will, I will, only tell me! You won’t? Then I will go and tell at +once.” + +Anna Mikháylovna, in a few words, told her the contents of the letter, +on condition that she should tell no one. + +“No, on my true word of honor,” said Natásha, crossing herself, +“I won’t tell anyone!” and she ran off at once to Sónya. + +“Nikólenka... wounded... a letter,” she announced in gleeful +triumph. + +“Nicholas!” was all Sónya said, instantly turning white. + +Natásha, seeing the impression the news of her brother’s wound +produced on Sónya, felt for the first time the sorrowful side of the +news. + +She rushed to Sónya, hugged her, and began to cry. + +“A little wound, but he has been made an officer; he is well now, he +wrote himself,” said she through her tears. + +“There now! It’s true that all you women are crybabies,” remarked +Pétya, pacing the room with large, resolute strides. “Now I’m very +glad, very glad indeed, that my brother has distinguished himself so. +You are all blubberers and understand nothing.” + +Natásha smiled through her tears. + +“You haven’t read the letter?” asked Sónya. + +“No, but she said that it was all over and that he’s now an +officer.” + +“Thank God!” said Sónya, crossing herself. “But perhaps she +deceived you. Let us go to Mamma.” + +Pétya paced the room in silence for a time. + +“If I’d been in Nikólenka’s place I would have killed even more +of those Frenchmen,” he said. “What nasty brutes they are! I’d +have killed so many that there’d have been a heap of them.” + +“Hold your tongue, Pétya, what a goose you are!” + +“I’m not a goose, but they are who cry about trifles,” said +Pétya. + +“Do you remember him?” Natásha suddenly asked, after a moment’s +silence. + +Sónya smiled. + +“Do I remember Nicholas?” + +“No, Sónya, but do you remember so that you remember him perfectly, +remember everything?” said Natásha, with an expressive gesture, +evidently wishing to give her words a very definite meaning. “I +remember Nikólenka too, I remember him well,” she said. “But I +don’t remember Borís. I don’t remember him a bit.” + +“What! You don’t remember Borís?” asked Sónya in surprise. + +“It’s not that I don’t remember—I know what he is like, but not +as I remember Nikólenka. Him—I just shut my eyes and remember, +but Borís... No!” (She shut her eyes.) “No! there’s nothing at +all.” + +“Oh, Natásha!” said Sónya, looking ecstatically and earnestly at +her friend as if she did not consider her worthy to hear what she meant +to say and as if she were saying it to someone else, with whom joking +was out of the question, “I am in love with your brother once for all +and, whatever may happen to him or to me, shall never cease to love him +as long as I live.” + +Natásha looked at Sónya with wondering and inquisitive eyes, and said +nothing. She felt that Sónya was speaking the truth, that there was +such love as Sónya was speaking of. But Natásha had not yet felt +anything like it. She believed it could be, but did not understand it. + +“Shall you write to him?” she asked. + +Sónya became thoughtful. The question of how to write to Nicholas, and +whether she ought to write, tormented her. Now that he was already an +officer and a wounded hero, would it be right to remind him of herself +and, as it might seem, of the obligations to her he had taken on +himself? + +“I don’t know. I think if he writes, I will write too,” she said, +blushing. + +“And you won’t feel ashamed to write to him?” + +Sónya smiled. + +“No.” + +“And I should be ashamed to write to Borís. I’m not going to.” + +“Why should you be ashamed?” + +“Well, I don’t know. It’s awkward and would make me ashamed.” + +“And I know why she’d be ashamed,” said Pétya, offended by +Natásha’s previous remark. “It’s because she was in love with +that fat one in spectacles” (that was how Pétya described his +namesake, the new Count Bezúkhov) “and now she’s in love with that +singer” (he meant Natásha’s Italian singing master), “that’s +why she’s ashamed!” + +“Pétya, you’re a stupid!” said Natásha. + +“Not more stupid than you, madam,” said the nine-year-old Pétya, +with the air of an old brigadier. + +The countess had been prepared by Anna Mikháylovna’s hints at dinner. +On retiring to her own room, she sat in an armchair, her eyes fixed on a +miniature portrait of her son on the lid of a snuffbox, while the tears +kept coming into her eyes. Anna Mikháylovna, with the letter, came on +tiptoe to the countess’ door and paused. + +“Don’t come in,” she said to the old count who was following her. +“Come later.” And she went in, closing the door behind her. + +The count put his ear to the keyhole and listened. + +At first he heard the sound of indifferent voices, then Anna +Mikháylovna’s voice alone in a long speech, then a cry, then silence, +then both voices together with glad intonations, and then footsteps. +Anna Mikháylovna opened the door. Her face wore the proud expression +of a surgeon who has just performed a difficult operation and admits the +public to appreciate his skill. + +“It is done!” she said to the count, pointing triumphantly to the +countess, who sat holding in one hand the snuffbox with its portrait and +in the other the letter, and pressing them alternately to her lips. + +When she saw the count, she stretched out her arms to him, embraced his +bald head, over which she again looked at the letter and the portrait, +and in order to press them again to her lips, she slightly pushed away +the bald head. Véra, Natásha, Sónya, and Pétya now entered the room, +and the reading of the letter began. After a brief description of +the campaign and the two battles in which he had taken part, and his +promotion, Nicholas said that he kissed his father’s and mother’s +hands asking for their blessing, and that he kissed Véra, Natásha, and +Pétya. Besides that, he sent greetings to Monsieur Schelling, Madame +Schoss, and his old nurse, and asked them to kiss for him “dear +Sónya, whom he loved and thought of just the same as ever.” When she +heard this Sónya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable +to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, +whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, +and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor. The countess was +crying. + +“Why are you crying, Mamma?” asked Véra. “From all he says one +should be glad and not cry.” + +This was quite true, but the count, the countess, and Natásha looked +at her reproachfully. “And who is it she takes after?” thought the +countess. + +Nicholas’ letter was read over hundreds of times, and those who were +considered worthy to hear it had to come to the countess, for she +did not let it out of her hands. The tutors came, and the nurses, and +Dmítri, and several acquaintances, and the countess reread the letter +each time with fresh pleasure and each time discovered in it fresh +proofs of Nikólenka’s virtues. How strange, how extraordinary, how +joyful it seemed, that her son, the scarcely perceptible motion of whose +tiny limbs she had felt twenty years ago within her, that son about whom +she used to have quarrels with the too indulgent count, that son who +had first learned to say “pear” and then “granny,” that this son +should now be away in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, a manly +warrior doing some kind of man’s work of his own, without help or +guidance. The universal experience of ages, showing that children do +grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the +countess. Her son’s growth toward manhood, at each of its stages, +had seemed as extraordinary to her as if there had never existed the +millions of human beings who grew up in the same way. As twenty +years before, it seemed impossible that the little creature who lived +somewhere under her heart would ever cry, suck her breast, and begin to +speak, so now she could not believe that that little creature could be +this strong, brave man, this model son and officer that, judging by this +letter, he now was. + +“What a style! How charmingly he describes!” said she, reading the +descriptive part of the letter. “And what a soul! Not a word about +himself.... Not a word! About some Denísov or other, though he himself, +I dare say, is braver than any of them. He says nothing about his +sufferings. What a heart! How like him it is! And how he has remembered +everybody! Not forgetting anyone. I always said when he was only so +high—I always said....” + +For more than a week preparations were being made, rough drafts of +letters to Nicholas from all the household were written and copied out, +while under the supervision of the countess and the solicitude of the +count, money and all things necessary for the uniform and equipment +of the newly commissioned officer were collected. Anna Mikháylovna, +practical woman that she was, had even managed by favor with army +authorities to secure advantageous means of communication for herself +and her son. She had opportunities of sending her letters to the Grand +Duke Constantine Pávlovich, who commanded the Guards. The Rostóvs +supposed that The Russian Guards, Abroad, was quite a definite address, +and that if a letter reached the Grand Duke in command of the Guards +there was no reason why it should not reach the Pávlograd regiment, +which was presumably somewhere in the same neighborhood. And so it was +decided to send the letters and money by the Grand Duke’s courier to +Borís and Borís was to forward them to Nicholas. The letters were from +the old count, the countess, Pétya, Véra, Natásha, and Sónya, and +finally there were six thousand rubles for his outfit and various other +things the old count sent to his son. + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +On the twelfth of November, Kutúzov’s active army, in camp before +Olmütz, was preparing to be reviewed next day by the two Emperors—the +Russian and the Austrian. The Guards, just arrived from Russia, spent +the night ten miles from Olmütz and next morning were to come straight +to the review, reaching the field at Olmütz by ten o’clock. + +That day Nicholas Rostóv received a letter from Borís, telling him +that the Ismáylov regiment was quartered for the night ten miles from +Olmütz and that he wanted to see him as he had a letter and money for +him. Rostóv was particularly in need of money now that the troops, +after their active service, were stationed near Olmütz and the camp +swarmed with well-provisioned sutlers and Austrian Jews offering +all sorts of tempting wares. The Pávlograds held feast after feast, +celebrating awards they had received for the campaign, and made +expeditions to Olmütz to visit a certain Caroline the Hungarian, +who had recently opened a restaurant there with girls as waitresses. +Rostóv, who had just celebrated his promotion to a cornetcy and bought +Denísov’s horse, Bedouin, was in debt all round, to his comrades and +the sutlers. On receiving Borís’ letter he rode with a fellow officer +to Olmütz, dined there, drank a bottle of wine, and then set off alone +to the Guards’ camp to find his old playmate. Rostóv had not yet had +time to get his uniform. He had on a shabby cadet jacket, decorated with +a soldier’s cross, equally shabby cadet’s riding breeches lined with +worn leather, and an officer’s saber with a sword knot. The Don horse +he was riding was one he had bought from a Cossack during the campaign, +and he wore a crumpled hussar cap stuck jauntily back on one side of his +head. As he rode up to the camp he thought how he would impress Borís +and all his comrades of the Guards by his appearance—that of a +fighting hussar who had been under fire. + +The Guards had made their whole march as if on a pleasure trip, parading +their cleanliness and discipline. They had come by easy stages, their +knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the Austrian authorities had provided +excellent dinners for the officers at every halting place. The regiments +had entered and left the town with their bands playing, and by the Grand +Duke’s orders the men had marched all the way in step (a practice on +which the Guards prided themselves), the officers on foot and at their +proper posts. Borís had been quartered, and had marched all the +way, with Berg who was already in command of a company. Berg, who had +obtained his captaincy during the campaign, had gained the confidence of +his superiors by his promptitude and accuracy and had arranged his money +matters very satisfactorily. Borís, during the campaign, had made the +acquaintance of many persons who might prove useful to him, and by +a letter of recommendation he had brought from Pierre had become +acquainted with Prince Andrew Bolkónski, through whom he hoped to +obtain a post on the commander in chief’s staff. Berg and Borís, +having rested after yesterday’s march, were sitting, clean and neatly +dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, +playing chess. Berg held a smoking pipe between his knees. Borís, in +the accurate way characteristic of him, was building a little pyramid of +chessmen with his delicate white fingers while awaiting Berg’s move, +and watched his opponent’s face, evidently thinking about the game as +he always thought only of whatever he was engaged on. + +“Well, how are you going to get out of that?” he remarked. + +“We’ll try to,” replied Berg, touching a pawn and then removing +his hand. + +At that moment the door opened. + +“Here he is at last!” shouted Rostóv. “And Berg too! Oh, you +petisenfans, allay cushay dormir!” he exclaimed, imitating his Russian +nurse’s French, at which he and Borís used to laugh long ago. + +“Dear me, how you have changed!” + +Borís rose to meet Rostóv, but in doing so did not omit to steady and +replace some chessmen that were falling. He was about to embrace his +friend, but Nicholas avoided him. With that peculiar feeling of youth, +that dread of beaten tracks, and wish to express itself in a manner +different from that of its elders which is often insincere, Nicholas +wished to do something special on meeting his friend. He wanted to pinch +him, push him, do anything but kiss him—a thing everybody did. But +notwithstanding this, Borís embraced him in a quiet, friendly way and +kissed him three times. + +They had not met for nearly half a year and, being at the age when young +men take their first steps on life’s road, each saw immense changes in +the other, quite a new reflection of the society in which they had taken +those first steps. Both had changed greatly since they last met and both +were in a hurry to show the changes that had taken place in them. + +“Oh, you damned dandies! Clean and fresh as if you’d been to a fete, +not like us sinners of the line,” cried Rostóv, with martial swagger +and with baritone notes in his voice, new to Borís, pointing to his own +mud-bespattered breeches. The German landlady, hearing Rostóv’s loud +voice, popped her head in at the door. + +“Eh, is she pretty?” he asked with a wink. + +“Why do you shout so? You’ll frighten them!” said Borís. “I did +not expect you today,” he added. “I only sent you the note yesterday +by Bolkónski—an adjutant of Kutúzov’s, who’s a friend of mine. +I did not think he would get it to you so quickly.... Well, how are you? +Been under fire already?” asked Borís. + +Without answering, Rostóv shook the soldier’s Cross of St. George +fastened to the cording of his uniform and, indicating a bandaged arm, +glanced at Berg with a smile. + +“As you see,” he said. + +“Indeed? Yes, yes!” said Borís, with a smile. “And we too have +had a splendid march. You know, of course, that His Imperial Highness +rode with our regiment all the time, so that we had every comfort and +every advantage. What receptions we had in Poland! What dinners and +balls! I can’t tell you. And the Tsarévich was very gracious to all +our officers.” + +And the two friends told each other of their doings, the one of his +hussar revels and life in the fighting line, the other of the pleasures +and advantages of service under members of the Imperial family. + +“Oh, you Guards!” said Rostóv. “I say, send for some wine.” + +Borís made a grimace. + +“If you really want it,” said he. + +He went to his bed, drew a purse from under the clean pillow, and sent +for wine. + +“Yes, and I have some money and a letter to give you,” he added. + +Rostóv took the letter and, throwing the money on the sofa, put both +arms on the table and began to read. After reading a few lines, he +glanced angrily at Berg, then, meeting his eyes, hid his face behind the +letter. + +“Well, they’ve sent you a tidy sum,” said Berg, eying the heavy +purse that sank into the sofa. “As for us, Count, we get along on our +pay. I can tell you for myself...” + +“I say, Berg, my dear fellow,” said Rostóv, “when you get a +letter from home and meet one of your own people whom you want to talk +everything over with, and I happen to be there, I’ll go at once, to +be out of your way! Do go somewhere, anywhere... to the devil!” he +exclaimed, and immediately seizing him by the shoulder and looking +amiably into his face, evidently wishing to soften the rudeness of his +words, he added, “Don’t be hurt, my dear fellow; you know I speak +from my heart as to an old acquaintance.” + +“Oh, don’t mention it, Count! I quite understand,” said Berg, +getting up and speaking in a muffled and guttural voice. + +“Go across to our hosts: they invited you,” added Borís. + +Berg put on the cleanest of coats, without a spot or speck of dust, +stood before a looking glass and brushed the hair on his temples +upwards, in the way affected by the Emperor Alexander, and, having +assured himself from the way Rostóv looked at it that his coat had been +noticed, left the room with a pleasant smile. + +“Oh dear, what a beast I am!” muttered Rostóv, as he read the +letter. + +“Why?” + +“Oh, what a pig I am, not to have written and to have given them +such a fright! Oh, what a pig I am!” he repeated, flushing suddenly. +“Well, have you sent Gabriel for some wine? All right let’s have +some!” + +In the letter from his parents was enclosed a letter of recommendation +to Bagratión which the old countess at Anna Mikháylovna’s advice had +obtained through an acquaintance and sent to her son, asking him to take +it to its destination and make use of it. + +“What nonsense! Much I need it!” said Rostóv, throwing the letter +under the table. + +“Why have you thrown that away?” asked Borís. + +“It is some letter of recommendation... what the devil do I want it +for!” + +“Why ‘What the devil’?” said Borís, picking it up and reading +the address. “This letter would be of great use to you.” + +“I want nothing, and I won’t be anyone’s adjutant.” + +“Why not?” inquired Borís. + +“It’s a lackey’s job!” + +“You are still the same dreamer, I see,” remarked Borís, shaking +his head. + +“And you’re still the same diplomatist! But that’s not the +point... Come, how are you?” asked Rostóv. + +“Well, as you see. So far everything’s all right, but I confess I +should much like to be an adjutant and not remain at the front.” + +“Why?” + +“Because when once a man starts on military service, he should try to +make as successful a career of it as possible.” + +“Oh, that’s it!” said Rostóv, evidently thinking of something +else. + +He looked intently and inquiringly into his friend’s eyes, evidently +trying in vain to find the answer to some question. + +Old Gabriel brought in the wine. + +“Shouldn’t we now send for Berg?” asked Borís. “He would drink +with you. I can’t.” + +“Well, send for him... and how do you get on with that German?” +asked Rostóv, with a contemptuous smile. + +“He is a very, very nice, honest, and pleasant fellow,” answered +Borís. + +Again Rostóv looked intently into Borís’ eyes and sighed. Berg +returned, and over the bottle of wine conversation between the three +officers became animated. The Guardsmen told Rostóv of their march and +how they had been made much of in Russia, Poland, and abroad. They spoke +of the sayings and doings of their commander, the Grand Duke, and told +stories of his kindness and irascibility. Berg, as usual, kept silent +when the subject did not relate to himself, but in connection with the +stories of the Grand Duke’s quick temper he related with gusto how in +Galicia he had managed to deal with the Grand Duke when the latter +made a tour of the regiments and was annoyed at the irregularity of +a movement. With a pleasant smile Berg related how the Grand Duke +had ridden up to him in a violent passion, shouting: “Arnauts!” +(“Arnauts” was the Tsarévich’s favorite expression when he was in +a rage) and called for the company commander. + +“Would you believe it, Count, I was not at all alarmed, because I knew +I was right. Without boasting, you know, I may say that I know the Army +Orders by heart and know the Regulations as well as I do the Lord’s +Prayer. So, Count, there never is any negligence in my company, and +so my conscience was at ease. I came forward....” (Berg stood up and +showed how he presented himself, with his hand to his cap, and really +it would have been difficult for a face to express greater respect and +self-complacency than his did.) “Well, he stormed at me, as the saying +is, stormed and stormed and stormed! It was not a matter of life but +rather of death, as the saying is. ‘Albanians!’ and ‘devils!’ +and ‘To Siberia!’” said Berg with a sagacious smile. “I knew I +was in the right so I kept silent; was not that best, Count?... ‘Hey, +are you dumb?’ he shouted. Still I remained silent. And what do you +think, Count? The next day it was not even mentioned in the Orders of +the Day. That’s what keeping one’s head means. That’s the way, +Count,” said Berg, lighting his pipe and emitting rings of smoke. + +“Yes, that was fine,” said Rostóv, smiling. + +But Borís noticed that he was preparing to make fun of Berg, and +skillfully changed the subject. He asked him to tell them how and where +he got his wound. This pleased Rostóv and he began talking about it, +and as he went on became more and more animated. He told them of his +Schön Grabern affair, just as those who have taken part in a battle +generally do describe it, that is, as they would like it to have been, +as they have heard it described by others, and as sounds well, but not +at all as it really was. Rostóv was a truthful young man and would on +no account have told a deliberate lie. He began his story meaning to +tell everything just as it happened, but imperceptibly, involuntarily, +and inevitably he lapsed into falsehood. If he had told the truth to his +hearers—who like himself had often heard stories of attacks and had +formed a definite idea of what an attack was and were expecting to hear +just such a story—they would either not have believed him or, still +worse, would have thought that Rostóv was himself to blame since what +generally happens to the narrators of cavalry attacks had not happened +to him. He could not tell them simply that everyone went at a trot and +that he fell off his horse and sprained his arm and then ran as hard as +he could from a Frenchman into the wood. Besides, to tell everything as +it really happened, it would have been necessary to make an effort of +will to tell only what happened. It is very difficult to tell the truth, +and young people are rarely capable of it. His hearers expected a story +of how beside himself and all aflame with excitement, he had flown like +a storm at the square, cut his way in, slashed right and left, how his +saber had tasted flesh and he had fallen exhausted, and so on. And so he +told them all that. + +In the middle of his story, just as he was saying: “You cannot imagine +what a strange frenzy one experiences during an attack,” Prince +Andrew, whom Borís was expecting, entered the room. Prince Andrew, who +liked to help young men, was flattered by being asked for his assistance +and being well disposed toward Borís, who had managed to please him the +day before, he wished to do what the young man wanted. Having been sent +with papers from Kutúzov to the Tsarévich, he looked in on Borís, +hoping to find him alone. When he came in and saw an hussar of the line +recounting his military exploits (Prince Andrew could not endure +that sort of man), he gave Borís a pleasant smile, frowned as with +half-closed eyes he looked at Rostóv, bowed slightly and wearily, and +sat down languidly on the sofa: he felt it unpleasant to have dropped +in on bad company. Rostóv flushed up on noticing this, but he did not +care, this was a mere stranger. Glancing, however, at Borís, he saw +that he too seemed ashamed of the hussar of the line. + +In spite of Prince Andrew’s disagreeable, ironical tone, in spite of +the contempt with which Rostóv, from his fighting army point of view, +regarded all these little adjutants on the staff of whom the newcomer +was evidently one, Rostóv felt confused, blushed, and became silent. +Borís inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without +indiscretion, one might ask about our plans. + +“We shall probably advance,” replied Bolkónski, evidently reluctant +to say more in the presence of a stranger. + +Berg took the opportunity to ask, with great politeness, whether, as was +rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be +doubled. To this Prince Andrew answered with a smile that he could +give no opinion on such an important government order, and Berg laughed +gaily. + +“As to your business,” Prince Andrew continued, addressing Borís, +“we will talk of it later” (and he looked round at Rostóv). “Come +to me after the review and we will do what is possible.” + +And, having glanced round the room, Prince Andrew turned to Rostóv, +whose state of unconquerable childish embarrassment now changing to +anger he did not condescend to notice, and said: “I think you were +talking of the Schön Grabern affair? Were you there?” + +“I was there,” said Rostóv angrily, as if intending to insult the +aide-de-camp. + +Bolkónski noticed the hussar’s state of mind, and it amused him. With +a slightly contemptuous smile, he said: “Yes, there are many stories +now told about that affair!” + +“Yes, stories!” repeated Rostóv loudly, looking with eyes suddenly +grown furious, now at Borís, now at Bolkónski. “Yes, many stories! +But our stories are the stories of men who have been under the enemy’s +fire! Our stories have some weight, not like the stories of those +fellows on the staff who get rewards without doing anything!” + +“Of whom you imagine me to be one?” said Prince Andrew, with a quiet +and particularly amiable smile. + +A strange feeling of exasperation and yet of respect for this man’s +self-possession mingled at that moment in Rostóv’s soul. + +“I am not talking about you,” he said, “I don’t know you and, +frankly, I don’t want to. I am speaking of the staff in general.” + +“And I will tell you this,” Prince Andrew interrupted in a tone of +quiet authority, “you wish to insult me, and I am ready to agree with +you that it would be very easy to do so if you haven’t sufficient +self-respect, but admit that the time and place are very badly chosen. +In a day or two we shall all have to take part in a greater and more +serious duel, and besides, Drubetskóy, who says he is an old friend +of yours, is not at all to blame that my face has the misfortune to +displease you. However,” he added rising, “you know my name and +where to find me, but don’t forget that I do not regard either myself +or you as having been at all insulted, and as a man older than you, my +advice is to let the matter drop. Well then, on Friday after the review +I shall expect you, Drubetskóy. Au revoir!” exclaimed Prince Andrew, +and with a bow to them both he went out. + +Only when Prince Andrew was gone did Rostóv think of what he ought to +have said. And he was still more angry at having omitted to say it. He +ordered his horse at once and, coldly taking leave of Borís, rode +home. Should he go to headquarters next day and challenge that affected +adjutant, or really let the matter drop, was the question that worried +him all the way. He thought angrily of the pleasure he would have at +seeing the fright of that small and frail but proud man when covered by +his pistol, and then he felt with surprise that of all the men he knew +there was none he would so much like to have for a friend as that very +adjutant whom he so hated. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +The day after Rostóv had been to see Borís, a review was held of the +Austrian and Russian troops, both those freshly arrived from Russia and +those who had been campaigning under Kutúzov. The two Emperors, +the Russian with his heir the Tsarévich, and the Austrian with the +Archduke, inspected the allied army of eighty thousand men. + +From early morning the smart clean troops were on the move, forming up +on the field before the fortress. Now thousands of feet and bayonets +moved and halted at the officers’ command, turned with banners flying, +formed up at intervals, and wheeled round other similar masses of +infantry in different uniforms; now was heard the rhythmic beat of +hoofs and the jingling of showy cavalry in blue, red, and green braided +uniforms, with smartly dressed bandsmen in front mounted on black, roan, +or gray horses; then again, spreading out with the brazen clatter of the +polished shining cannon that quivered on the gun carriages and with +the smell of linstocks, came the artillery which crawled between the +infantry and cavalry and took up its appointed position. Not only the +generals in full parade uniforms, with their thin or thick waists drawn +in to the utmost, their red necks squeezed into their stiff collars, and +wearing scarves and all their decorations, not only the elegant, pomaded +officers, but every soldier with his freshly washed and shaven face and +his weapons clean and polished to the utmost, and every horse groomed +till its coat shone like satin and every hair of its wetted mane lay +smooth—felt that no small matter was happening, but an important and +solemn affair. Every general and every soldier was conscious of his own +insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and +yet at the same time was conscious of his strength as a part of that +enormous whole. + +From early morning strenuous activities and efforts had begun and by ten +o’clock all had been brought into due order. The ranks were drawn +up on the vast field. The whole army was extended in three lines: the +cavalry in front, behind it the artillery, and behind that again the +infantry. + +A space like a street was left between each two lines of troops. The +three parts of that army were sharply distinguished: Kutúzov’s +fighting army (with the Pávlograds on the right flank of the front); +those recently arrived from Russia, both Guards and regiments of the +line; and the Austrian troops. But they all stood in the same lines, +under one command, and in a like order. + +Like wind over leaves ran an excited whisper: “They’re coming! +They’re coming!” Alarmed voices were heard, and a stir of final +preparation swept over all the troops. + +From the direction of Olmütz in front of them, a group was seen +approaching. And at that moment, though the day was still, a light gust +of wind blowing over the army slightly stirred the streamers on the +lances and the unfolded standards fluttered against their staffs. It +looked as if by that slight motion the army itself was expressing its +joy at the approach of the Emperors. One voice was heard shouting: +“Eyes front!” Then, like the crowing of cocks at sunrise, this was +repeated by others from various sides and all became silent. + +In the deathlike stillness only the tramp of horses was heard. This +was the Emperors’ suites. The Emperors rode up to the flank, and the +trumpets of the first cavalry regiment played the general march. It +seemed as though not the trumpeters were playing, but as if the army +itself, rejoicing at the Emperors’ approach, had naturally burst into +music. Amid these sounds, only the youthful kindly voice of the Emperor +Alexander was clearly heard. He gave the words of greeting, and the +first regiment roared “Hurrah!” so deafeningly, continuously, and +joyfully that the men themselves were awed by their multitude and the +immensity of the power they constituted. + +Rostóv, standing in the front lines of Kutúzov’s army which the Tsar +approached first, experienced the same feeling as every other man in +that army: a feeling of self-forgetfulness, a proud consciousness of +might, and a passionate attraction to him who was the cause of this +triumph. + +He felt that at a single word from that man all this vast mass (and he +himself an insignificant atom in it) would go through fire and water, +commit crime, die, or perform deeds of highest heroism, and so he could +not but tremble and his heart stand still at the imminence of that word. + +“Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!” thundered from all sides, one regiment +after another greeting the Tsar with the strains of the march, and then +“Hurrah!”... Then the general march, and again “Hurrah! Hurrah!” +growing ever stronger and fuller and merging into a deafening roar. + +Till the Tsar reached it, each regiment in its silence and immobility +seemed like a lifeless body, but as soon as he came up it became alive, +its thunder joining the roar of the whole line along which he had +already passed. Through the terrible and deafening roar of those voices, +amid the square masses of troops standing motionless as if turned to +stone, hundreds of riders composing the suites moved carelessly but +symmetrically and above all freely, and in front of them two men—the +Emperors. Upon them the undivided, tensely passionate attention of that +whole mass of men was concentrated. + +The handsome young Emperor Alexander, in the uniform of the Horse +Guards, wearing a cocked hat with its peaks front and back, with his +pleasant face and resonant though not loud voice, attracted everyone’s +attention. + +Rostóv was not far from the trumpeters, and with his keen sight had +recognized the Tsar and watched his approach. When he was within twenty +paces, and Nicholas could clearly distinguish every detail of his +handsome, happy young face, he experienced a feeling of tenderness +and ecstasy such as he had never before known. Every trait and every +movement of the Tsar’s seemed to him enchanting. + +Stopping in front of the Pávlograds, the Tsar said something in French +to the Austrian Emperor and smiled. + +Seeing that smile, Rostóv involuntarily smiled himself and felt a still +stronger flow of love for his sovereign. He longed to show that love in +some way and knowing that this was impossible was ready to cry. The Tsar +called the colonel of the regiment and said a few words to him. + +“Oh God, what would happen to me if the Emperor spoke to me?” +thought Rostóv. “I should die of happiness!” + +The Tsar addressed the officers also: “I thank you all, gentlemen, I +thank you with my whole heart.” To Rostóv every word sounded like a +voice from heaven. How gladly would he have died at once for his Tsar! + +“You have earned the St. George’s standards and will be worthy of +them.” + +“Oh, to die, to die for him,” thought Rostóv. + +The Tsar said something more which Rostóv did not hear, and the +soldiers, straining their lungs, shouted “Hurrah!” + +Rostóv too, bending over his saddle, shouted “Hurrah!” with all his +might, feeling that he would like to injure himself by that shout, if +only to express his rapture fully. + +The Tsar stopped a few minutes in front of the hussars as if undecided. + +“How can the Emperor be undecided?” thought Rostóv, but then even +this indecision appeared to him majestic and enchanting, like everything +else the Tsar did. + +That hesitation lasted only an instant. The Tsar’s foot, in the narrow +pointed boot then fashionable, touched the groin of the bobtailed bay +mare he rode, his hand in a white glove gathered up the reins, and he +moved off accompanied by an irregularly swaying sea of aides-de-camp. +Farther and farther he rode away, stopping at other regiments, till at +last only his white plumes were visible to Rostóv from amid the suites +that surrounded the Emperors. + +Among the gentlemen of the suite, Rostóv noticed Bolkónski, sitting +his horse indolently and carelessly. Rostóv recalled their quarrel of +yesterday and the question presented itself whether he ought or ought +not to challenge Bolkónski. “Of course not!” he now thought. “Is +it worth thinking or speaking of it at such a moment? At a time of such +love, such rapture, and such self-sacrifice, what do any of our quarrels +and affronts matter? I love and forgive everybody now.” + +When the Emperor had passed nearly all the regiments, the troops began +a ceremonial march past him, and Rostóv on Bedouin, recently purchased +from Denísov, rode past too, at the rear of his squadron—that is, +alone and in full view of the Emperor. + +Before he reached him, Rostóv, who was a splendid horseman, spurred +Bedouin twice and successfully put him to the showy trot in which the +animal went when excited. Bending his foaming muzzle to his chest, his +tail extended, Bedouin, as if also conscious of the Emperor’s eye +upon him, passed splendidly, lifting his feet with a high and graceful +action, as if flying through the air without touching the ground. + +Rostóv himself, his legs well back and his stomach drawn in and feeling +himself one with his horse, rode past the Emperor with a frowning but +blissful face “like a vewy devil,” as Denísov expressed it. + +“Fine fellows, the Pávlograds!” remarked the Emperor. + +“My God, how happy I should be if he ordered me to leap into the fire +this instant!” thought Rostóv. + +When the review was over, the newly arrived officers, and also +Kutúzov’s, collected in groups and began to talk about the awards, +about the Austrians and their uniforms, about their lines, about +Bonaparte, and how badly the latter would fare now, especially if the +Essen corps arrived and Prussia took our side. + +But the talk in every group was chiefly about the Emperor Alexander. His +every word and movement was described with ecstasy. + +They all had but one wish: to advance as soon as possible against the +enemy under the Emperor’s command. Commanded by the Emperor himself +they could not fail to vanquish anyone, be it whom it might: so thought +Rostóv and most of the officers after the review. + +All were then more confident of victory than the winning of two battles +would have made them. + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +The day after the review, Borís, in his best uniform and with his +comrade Berg’s best wishes for success, rode to Olmütz to see +Bolkónski, wishing to profit by his friendliness and obtain for himself +the best post he could—preferably that of adjutant to some important +personage, a position in the army which seemed to him most attractive. +“It is all very well for Rostóv, whose father sends him ten thousand +rubles at a time, to talk about not wishing to cringe to anybody and not +be anyone’s lackey, but I who have nothing but my brains have to +make a career and must not miss opportunities, but must avail myself of +them!” he reflected. + +He did not find Prince Andrew in Olmütz that day, but the appearance of +the town where the headquarters and the diplomatic corps were stationed +and the two Emperors were living with their suites, households, and +courts only strengthened his desire to belong to that higher world. + +He knew no one, and despite his smart Guardsman’s uniform, all these +exalted personages passing in the streets in their elegant carriages +with their plumes, ribbons, and medals, both courtiers and military +men, seemed so immeasurably above him, an insignificant officer of the +Guards, that they not only did not wish to, but simply could not, be +aware of his existence. At the quarters of the commander in chief, +Kutúzov, where he inquired for Bolkónski, all the adjutants and even +the orderlies looked at him as if they wished to impress on him that a +great many officers like him were always coming there and that everybody +was heartily sick of them. In spite of this, or rather because of +it, next day, November 15, after dinner he again went to Olmütz and, +entering the house occupied by Kutúzov, asked for Bolkónski. Prince +Andrew was in and Borís was shown into a large hall probably formerly +used for dancing, but in which five beds now stood, and furniture of +various kinds: a table, chairs, and a clavichord. One adjutant, nearest +the door, was sitting at the table in a Persian dressing gown, writing. +Another, the red, stout Nesvítski, lay on a bed with his arms under his +head, laughing with an officer who had sat down beside him. A third was +playing a Viennese waltz on the clavichord, while a fourth, lying on +the clavichord, sang the tune. Bolkónski was not there. None of these +gentlemen changed his position on seeing Borís. The one who was writing +and whom Borís addressed turned round crossly and told him Bolkónski +was on duty and that he should go through the door on the left into the +reception room if he wished to see him. Borís thanked him and went to +the reception room, where he found some ten officers and generals. + +When he entered, Prince Andrew, his eyes drooping contemptuously (with +that peculiar expression of polite weariness which plainly says, “If +it were not my duty I would not talk to you for a moment”), was +listening to an old Russian general with decorations, who stood very +erect, almost on tiptoe, with a soldier’s obsequious expression on his +purple face, reporting something. + +“Very well, then, be so good as to wait,” said Prince Andrew to the +general, in Russian, speaking with the French intonation he affected +when he wished to speak contemptuously, and noticing Borís, Prince +Andrew, paying no more heed to the general who ran after him imploring +him to hear something more, nodded and turned to him with a cheerful +smile. + +At that moment Borís clearly realized what he had before surmised, that +in the army, besides the subordination and discipline prescribed in the +military code, which he and the others knew in the regiment, there was +another, more important, subordination, which made this tight-laced, +purple-faced general wait respectfully while Captain Prince Andrew, for +his own pleasure, chose to chat with Lieutenant Drubetskóy. More than +ever was Borís resolved to serve in future not according to the written +code, but under this unwritten law. He felt now that merely by having +been recommended to Prince Andrew he had already risen above the general +who at the front had the power to annihilate him, a lieutenant of the +Guards. Prince Andrew came up to him and took his hand. + +“I am very sorry you did not find me in yesterday. I was fussing about +with Germans all day. We went with Weyrother to survey the dispositions. +When Germans start being accurate, there’s no end to it!” + +Borís smiled, as if he understood what Prince Andrew was alluding to +as something generally known. But it was the first time he had heard +Weyrother’s name, or even the term “dispositions.” + +“Well, my dear fellow, so you still want to be an adjutant? I have +been thinking about you.” + +“Yes, I was thinking”—for some reason Borís could not help +blushing—“of asking the commander in chief. He has had a letter from +Prince Kurágin about me. I only wanted to ask because I fear the Guards +won’t be in action,” he added as if in apology. + +“All right, all right. We’ll talk it over,” replied Prince Andrew. +“Only let me report this gentleman’s business, and I shall be at +your disposal.” + +While Prince Andrew went to report about the purple-faced general, that +gentleman—evidently not sharing Borís’ conception of the advantages +of the unwritten code of subordination—looked so fixedly at the +presumptuous lieutenant who had prevented his finishing what he had to +say to the adjutant that Borís felt uncomfortable. He turned away and +waited impatiently for Prince Andrew’s return from the commander in +chief’s room. + +“You see, my dear fellow, I have been thinking about you,” +said Prince Andrew when they had gone into the large room where the +clavichord was. “It’s no use your going to the commander in chief. +He would say a lot of pleasant things, ask you to dinner” (“That +would not be bad as regards the unwritten code,” thought Borís), +“but nothing more would come of it. There will soon be a battalion of +us aides-de-camp and adjutants! But this is what we’ll do: I have +a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, Prince +Dolgorúkov; and though you may not know it, the fact is that now +Kutúzov with his staff and all of us count for nothing. Everything is +now centered round the Emperor. So we will go to Dolgorúkov; I have to +go there anyhow and I have already spoken to him about you. We shall +see whether he cannot attach you to himself or find a place for you +somewhere nearer the sun.” + +Prince Andrew always became specially keen when he had to guide a young +man and help him to worldly success. Under cover of obtaining help +of this kind for another, which from pride he would never accept for +himself, he kept in touch with the circle which confers success and +which attracted him. He very readily took up Borís’ cause and went +with him to Dolgorúkov. + +It was late in the evening when they entered the palace at Olmütz +occupied by the Emperors and their retinues. + +That same day a council of war had been held in which all the members of +the Hofkriegsrath and both Emperors took part. At that council, contrary +to the views of the old generals Kutúzov and Prince Schwartzenberg, it +had been decided to advance immediately and give battle to Bonaparte. +The council of war was just over when Prince Andrew accompanied +by Borís arrived at the palace to find Dolgorúkov. Everyone at +headquarters was still under the spell of the day’s council, at which +the party of the young had triumphed. The voices of those who counseled +delay and advised waiting for something else before advancing had been +so completely silenced and their arguments confuted by such conclusive +evidence of the advantages of attacking that what had been discussed +at the council—the coming battle and the victory that would certainly +result from it—no longer seemed to be in the future but in the past. +All the advantages were on our side. Our enormous forces, undoubtedly +superior to Napoleon’s, were concentrated in one place, the troops +inspired by the Emperors’ presence were eager for action. The +strategic position where the operations would take place was familiar in +all its details to the Austrian General Weyrother: a lucky accident had +ordained that the Austrian army should maneuver the previous year on the +very fields where the French had now to be fought; the adjacent +locality was known and shown in every detail on the maps, and Bonaparte, +evidently weakened, was undertaking nothing. + +Dolgorúkov, one of the warmest advocates of an attack, had just +returned from the council, tired and exhausted but eager and proud +of the victory that had been gained. Prince Andrew introduced his +protégé, but Prince Dolgorúkov politely and firmly pressing his hand +said nothing to Borís and, evidently unable to suppress the thoughts +which were uppermost in his mind at that moment, addressed Prince Andrew +in French. + +“Ah, my dear fellow, what a battle we have gained! God grant that +the one that will result from it will be as victorious! However, dear +fellow,” he said abruptly and eagerly, “I must confess to having +been unjust to the Austrians and especially to Weyrother. What +exactitude, what minuteness, what knowledge of the locality, what +foresight for every eventuality, every possibility even to the smallest +detail! No, my dear fellow, no conditions better than our present ones +could have been devised. This combination of Austrian precision with +Russian valor—what more could be wished for?” + +“So the attack is definitely resolved on?” asked Bolkónski. + +“And do you know, my dear fellow, it seems to me that Bonaparte has +decidedly lost bearings, you know that a letter was received from him +today for the Emperor.” Dolgorúkov smiled significantly. + +“Is that so? And what did he say?” inquired Bolkónski. + +“What can he say? Tra-di-ri-di-ra and so on... merely to gain time. +I tell you he is in our hands, that’s certain! But what was most +amusing,” he continued, with a sudden, good-natured laugh, “was that +we could not think how to address the reply! If not as ‘Consul’ +and of course not as ‘Emperor,’ it seemed to me it should be to +‘General Bonaparte.’” + +“But between not recognizing him as Emperor and calling him General +Bonaparte, there is a difference,” remarked Bolkónski. + +“That’s just it,” interrupted Dolgorúkov quickly, laughing. +“You know Bilíbin—he’s a very clever fellow. He suggested +addressing him as ‘Usurper and Enemy of Mankind.’” + +Dolgorúkov laughed merrily. + +“Only that?” said Bolkónski. + +“All the same, it was Bilíbin who found a suitable form for the +address. He is a wise and clever fellow.” + +“What was it?” + +“To the Head of the French Government... Au chef du gouvernement +français,” said Dolgorúkov, with grave satisfaction. “Good, +wasn’t it?” + +“Yes, but he will dislike it extremely,” said Bolkónski. + +“Oh yes, very much! My brother knows him, he’s dined with him—the +present Emperor—more than once in Paris, and tells me he never met a +more cunning or subtle diplomatist—you know, a combination of French +adroitness and Italian play-acting! Do you know the tale about him and +Count Markóv? Count Markóv was the only man who knew how to handle +him. You know the story of the handkerchief? It is delightful!” + +And the talkative Dolgorúkov, turning now to Borís, now to Prince +Andrew, told how Bonaparte wishing to test Markóv, our ambassador, +purposely dropped a handkerchief in front of him and stood looking +at Markóv, probably expecting Markóv to pick it up for him, and how +Markóv immediately dropped his own beside it and picked it up without +touching Bonaparte’s. + +“Delightful!” said Bolkónski. “But I have come to you, Prince, +as a petitioner on behalf of this young man. You see...” but +before Prince Andrew could finish, an aide-de-camp came in to summon +Dolgorúkov to the Emperor. + +“Oh, what a nuisance,” said Dolgorúkov, getting up hurriedly and +pressing the hands of Prince Andrew and Borís. “You know I should +be very glad to do all in my power both for you and for this dear young +man.” Again he pressed the hand of the latter with an expression of +good-natured, sincere, and animated levity. “But you see... another +time!” + +Borís was excited by the thought of being so close to the higher powers +as he felt himself to be at that moment. He was conscious that here +he was in contact with the springs that set in motion the enormous +movements of the mass of which in his regiment he felt himself a tiny, +obedient, and insignificant atom. They followed Prince Dolgorúkov out +into the corridor and met—coming out of the door of the Emperor’s +room by which Dolgorúkov had entered—a short man in civilian clothes +with a clever face and sharply projecting jaw which, without spoiling +his face, gave him a peculiar vivacity and shiftiness of expression. +This short man nodded to Dolgorúkov as to an intimate friend and stared +at Prince Andrew with cool intensity, walking straight toward him and +evidently expecting him to bow or to step out of his way. Prince Andrew +did neither: a look of animosity appeared on his face and the other +turned away and went down the side of the corridor. + +“Who was that?” asked Borís. + +“He is one of the most remarkable, but to me most unpleasant of +men—the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Adam Czartorýski.... It +is such men as he who decide the fate of nations,” added Bolkónski +with a sigh he could not suppress, as they passed out of the palace. + +Next day, the army began its campaign, and up to the very battle of +Austerlitz, Borís was unable to see either Prince Andrew or Dolgorúkov +again and remained for a while with the Ismáylov regiment. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +At dawn on the sixteenth of November, Denísov’s squadron, in +which Nicholas Rostóv served and which was in Prince Bagratión’s +detachment, moved from the place where it had spent the night, advancing +into action as arranged, and after going behind other columns for +about two thirds of a mile was stopped on the highroad. Rostóv saw the +Cossacks and then the first and second squadrons of hussars and infantry +battalions and artillery pass by and go forward and then Generals +Bagratión and Dolgorúkov ride past with their adjutants. All the fear +before action which he had experienced as previously, all the inner +struggle to conquer that fear, all his dreams of distinguishing himself +as a true hussar in this battle, had been wasted. Their squadron +remained in reserve and Nicholas Rostóv spent that day in a dull and +wretched mood. At nine in the morning, he heard firing in front and +shouts of hurrah, and saw wounded being brought back (there were not +many of them), and at last he saw how a whole detachment of French +cavalry was brought in, convoyed by a sótnya of Cossacks. Evidently the +affair was over and, though not big, had been a successful engagement. +The men and officers returning spoke of a brilliant victory, of the +occupation of the town of Wischau and the capture of a whole French +squadron. The day was bright and sunny after a sharp night frost, and +the cheerful glitter of that autumn day was in keeping with the news of +victory which was conveyed, not only by the tales of those who had taken +part in it, but also by the joyful expression on the faces of soldiers, +officers, generals, and adjutants, as they passed Rostóv going or +coming. And Nicholas, who had vainly suffered all the dread that +precedes a battle and had spent that happy day in inactivity, was all +the more depressed. + +“Come here, Wostóv. Let’s dwink to dwown our gwief!” shouted +Denísov, who had settled down by the roadside with a flask and some +food. + +The officers gathered round Denísov’s canteen, eating and talking. + +“There! They are bringing another!” cried one of the officers, +indicating a captive French dragoon who was being brought in on foot by +two Cossacks. + +One of them was leading by the bridle a fine large French horse he had +taken from the prisoner. + +“Sell us that horse!” Denísov called out to the Cossacks. + +“If you like, your honor!” + +The officers got up and stood round the Cossacks and their prisoner. +The French dragoon was a young Alsatian who spoke French with a German +accent. He was breathless with agitation, his face was red, and when +he heard some French spoken he at once began speaking to the officers, +addressing first one, then another. He said he would not have been +taken, it was not his fault but the corporal’s who had sent him to +seize some horsecloths, though he had told him the Russians were there. +And at every word he added: “But don’t hurt my little horse!” and +stroked the animal. It was plain that he did not quite grasp where he +was. Now he excused himself for having been taken prisoner and now, +imagining himself before his own officers, insisted on his soldierly +discipline and zeal in the service. He brought with him into our +rearguard all the freshness of atmosphere of the French army, which was +so alien to us. + +The Cossacks sold the horse for two gold pieces, and Rostóv, being the +richest of the officers now that he had received his money, bought it. + +“But don’t hurt my little horse!” said the Alsatian good-naturedly +to Rostóv when the animal was handed over to the hussar. + +Rostóv smilingly reassured the dragoon and gave him money. + +“Alley! Alley!” said the Cossack, touching the prisoner’s arm to +make him go on. + +“The Emperor! The Emperor!” was suddenly heard among the hussars. + +All began to run and bustle, and Rostóv saw coming up the road behind +him several riders with white plumes in their hats. In a moment everyone +was in his place, waiting. + +Rostóv did not know or remember how he ran to his place and mounted. +Instantly his regret at not having been in action and his dejected mood +amid people of whom he was weary had gone, instantly every thought of +himself had vanished. He was filled with happiness at his nearness to +the Emperor. He felt that this nearness by itself made up to him for the +day he had lost. He was happy as a lover when the longed-for moment of +meeting arrives. Not daring to look round and without looking round, he +was ecstatically conscious of his approach. He felt it not only from the +sound of the hoofs of the approaching cavalcade, but because as he drew +near everything grew brighter, more joyful, more significant, and more +festive around him. Nearer and nearer to Rostóv came that sun shedding +beams of mild and majestic light around, and already he felt himself +enveloped in those beams, he heard his voice, that kindly, calm, +and majestic voice that was yet so simple! And as if in accord with +Rostóv’s feeling, there was a deathly stillness amid which was heard +the Emperor’s voice. + +“The Pávlograd hussars?” he inquired. + +“The reserves, sire!” replied a voice, a very human one compared to +that which had said: “The Pávlograd hussars?” + +The Emperor drew level with Rostóv and halted. Alexander’s face was +even more beautiful than it had been three days before at the review. It +shone with such gaiety and youth, such innocent youth, that it suggested +the liveliness of a fourteen-year-old boy, and yet it was the face +of the majestic Emperor. Casually, while surveying the squadron, the +Emperor’s eyes met Rostóv’s and rested on them for not more than +two seconds. Whether or no the Emperor understood what was going on in +Rostóv’s soul (it seemed to Rostóv that he understood everything), +at any rate his light-blue eyes gazed for about two seconds into +Rostóv’s face. A gentle, mild light poured from them. Then all at +once he raised his eyebrows, abruptly touched his horse with his left +foot, and galloped on. + +The younger Emperor could not restrain his wish to be present at the +battle and, in spite of the remonstrances of his courtiers, at twelve +o’clock left the third column with which he had been and galloped +toward the vanguard. Before he came up with the hussars, several +adjutants met him with news of the successful result of the action. + +This battle, which consisted in the capture of a French squadron, was +represented as a brilliant victory over the French, and so the +Emperor and the whole army, especially while the smoke hung over +the battlefield, believed that the French had been defeated and were +retreating against their will. A few minutes after the Emperor had +passed, the Pávlograd division was ordered to advance. In Wischau +itself, a petty German town, Rostóv saw the Emperor again. In the +market place, where there had been some rather heavy firing before the +Emperor’s arrival, lay several killed and wounded soldiers whom there +had not been time to move. The Emperor, surrounded by his suite +of officers and courtiers, was riding a bobtailed chestnut mare, a +different one from that which he had ridden at the review, and bending +to one side he gracefully held a gold lorgnette to his eyes and looked +at a soldier who lay prone, with blood on his uncovered head. The +wounded soldier was so dirty, coarse, and revolting that his proximity +to the Emperor shocked Rostóv. Rostóv saw how the Emperor’s rather +round shoulders shuddered as if a cold shiver had run down them, how his +left foot began convulsively tapping the horse’s side with the spur, +and how the well-trained horse looked round unconcerned and did not +stir. An adjutant, dismounting, lifted the soldier under the arms to +place him on a stretcher that had been brought. The soldier groaned. + +“Gently, gently! Can’t you do it more gently?” said the Emperor +apparently suffering more than the dying soldier, and he rode away. + +Rostóv saw tears filling the Emperor’s eyes and heard him, as he was +riding away, say to Czartorýski: “What a terrible thing war is: what +a terrible thing! Quelle terrible chose que la guerre!” + +The troops of the vanguard were stationed before Wischau, within sight +of the enemy’s lines, which all day long had yielded ground to us +at the least firing. The Emperor’s gratitude was announced to the +vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of +vodka. The campfires crackled and the soldiers’ songs resounded +even more merrily than on the previous night. Denísov celebrated his +promotion to the rank of major, and Rostóv, who had already drunk +enough, at the end of the feast proposed the Emperor’s health. “Not +‘our Sovereign, the Emperor,’ as they say at official dinners,” +said he, “but the health of our Sovereign, that good, enchanting, and +great man! Let us drink to his health and to the certain defeat of the +French!” + +“If we fought before,” he said, “not letting the French pass, as +at Schön Grabern, what shall we not do now when he is at the front? We +will all die for him gladly! Is it not so, gentlemen? Perhaps I am not +saying it right, I have drunk a good deal—but that is how I feel, and +so do you too! To the health of Alexander the First! Hurrah!” + +“Hurrah!” rang the enthusiastic voices of the officers. + +And the old cavalry captain, Kírsten, shouted enthusiastically and no +less sincerely than the twenty-year-old Rostóv. + +When the officers had emptied and smashed their glasses, Kírsten filled +others and, in shirt sleeves and breeches, went glass in hand to the +soldiers’ bonfires and with his long gray mustache, his white chest +showing under his open shirt, he stood in a majestic pose in the light +of the campfire, waving his uplifted arm. + +“Lads! here’s to our Sovereign, the Emperor, and victory over +our enemies! Hurrah!” he exclaimed in his dashing, old, hussar’s +baritone. + +The hussars crowded round and responded heartily with loud shouts. + +Late that night, when all had separated, Denísov with his short hand +patted his favorite, Rostóv, on the shoulder. + +“As there’s no one to fall in love with on campaign, he’s fallen +in love with the Tsar,” he said. + +“Denísov, don’t make fun of it!” cried Rostóv. “It is such a +lofty, beautiful feeling, such a...” + +“I believe it, I believe it, fwiend, and I share and appwove...” + +“No, you don’t understand!” + +And Rostóv got up and went wandering among the campfires, dreaming of +what happiness it would be to die—not in saving the Emperor’s life +(he did not even dare to dream of that), but simply to die before his +eyes. He really was in love with the Tsar and the glory of the Russian +arms and the hope of future triumph. And he was not the only man to +experience that feeling during those memorable days preceding the battle +of Austerlitz: nine tenths of the men in the Russian army were then in +love, though less ecstatically, with their Tsar and the glory of the +Russian arms. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +The next day the Emperor stopped at Wischau, and Villier, his physician, +was repeatedly summoned to see him. At headquarters and among the troops +near by the news spread that the Emperor was unwell. He ate nothing and +had slept badly that night, those around him reported. The cause of this +indisposition was the strong impression made on his sensitive mind by +the sight of the killed and wounded. + +At daybreak on the seventeenth, a French officer who had come with +a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the Russian Emperor, was +brought into Wischau from our outposts. This officer was Savary. The +Emperor had only just fallen asleep and so Savary had to wait. At midday +he was admitted to the Emperor, and an hour later he rode off with +Prince Dolgorúkov to the advanced post of the French army. + +It was rumored that Savary had been sent to propose to Alexander +a meeting with Napoleon. To the joy and pride of the whole army, a +personal interview was refused, and instead of the Sovereign, Prince +Dolgorúkov, the victor at Wischau, was sent with Savary to negotiate +with Napoleon if, contrary to expectations, these negotiations were +actuated by a real desire for peace. + +Toward evening Dolgorúkov came back, went straight to the Tsar, and +remained alone with him for a long time. + +On the eighteenth and nineteenth of November, the army advanced two +days’ march and the enemy’s outposts after a brief interchange +of shots retreated. In the highest army circles from midday on the +nineteenth, a great, excitedly bustling activity began which lasted till +the morning of the twentieth, when the memorable battle of Austerlitz +was fought. + +Till midday on the nineteenth, the activity—the eager talk, running to +and fro, and dispatching of adjutants—was confined to the Emperor’s +headquarters. But on the afternoon of that day, this activity reached +Kutúzov’s headquarters and the staffs of the commanders of columns. +By evening, the adjutants had spread it to all ends and parts of the +army, and in the night from the nineteenth to the twentieth, the whole +eighty thousand allied troops rose from their bivouacs to the hum of +voices, and the army swayed and started in one enormous mass six miles +long. + +The concentrated activity which had begun at the Emperor’s +headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that +followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower +clock. One wheel slowly moved, another was set in motion, and a third, +and wheels began to revolve faster and faster, levers and cogwheels to +work, chimes to play, figures to pop out, and the hands to advance with +regular motion as a result of all that activity. + +Just as in the mechanism of a clock, so in the mechanism of the military +machine, an impulse once given leads to the final result; and just as +indifferently quiescent till the moment when motion is transmitted +to them are the parts of the mechanism which the impulse has not yet +reached. Wheels creak on their axles as the cogs engage one another and +the revolving pulleys whirr with the rapidity of their movement, but a +neighboring wheel is as quiet and motionless as though it were prepared +to remain so for a hundred years; but the moment comes when the lever +catches it and obeying the impulse that wheel begins to creak and joins +in the common motion the result and aim of which are beyond its ken. + +Just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable +wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular movement of the +hands which show the time, so the result of all the complicated human +activities of 160,000 Russians and French—all their passions, desires, +remorse, humiliations, sufferings, outbursts of pride, fear, and +enthusiasm—was only the loss of the battle of Austerlitz, the +so-called battle of the three Emperors—that is to say, a slow movement +of the hand on the dial of human history. + +Prince Andrew was on duty that day and in constant attendance on the +commander in chief. + +At six in the evening, Kutúzov went to the Emperor’s headquarters +and after staying but a short time with the Tsar went to see the grand +marshal of the court, Count Tolstóy. + +Bolkónski took the opportunity to go in to get some details of the +coming action from Dolgorúkov. He felt that Kutúzov was upset +and dissatisfied about something and that at headquarters they were +dissatisfied with him, and also that at the Emperor’s headquarters +everyone adopted toward him the tone of men who know something others do +not know: he therefore wished to speak to Dolgorúkov. + +“Well, how d’you do, my dear fellow?” said Dolgorúkov, who was +sitting at tea with Bilíbin. “The fete is for tomorrow. How is your +old fellow? Out of sorts?” + +“I won’t say he is out of sorts, but I fancy he would like to be +heard.” + +“But they heard him at the council of war and will hear him when he +talks sense, but to temporize and wait for something now when Bonaparte +fears nothing so much as a general battle is impossible.” + +“Yes, you have seen him?” said Prince Andrew. “Well, what is +Bonaparte like? How did he impress you?” + +“Yes, I saw him, and am convinced that he fears nothing so much as +a general engagement,” repeated Dolgorúkov, evidently prizing this +general conclusion which he had arrived at from his interview with +Napoleon. “If he weren’t afraid of a battle why did he ask for that +interview? Why negotiate, and above all why retreat, when to retreat is +so contrary to his method of conducting war? Believe me, he is afraid, +afraid of a general battle. His hour has come! Mark my words!” + +“But tell me, what is he like, eh?” said Prince Andrew again. + +“He is a man in a gray overcoat, very anxious that I should call +him ‘Your Majesty,’ but who, to his chagrin, got no title from +me! That’s the sort of man he is, and nothing more,” replied +Dolgorúkov, looking round at Bilíbin with a smile. + +“Despite my great respect for old Kutúzov,” he continued, “we +should be a nice set of fellows if we were to wait about and so give him +a chance to escape, or to trick us, now that we certainly have him in +our hands! No, we mustn’t forget Suvórov and his rule—not to put +yourself in a position to be attacked, but yourself to attack. Believe +me in war the energy of young men often shows the way better than all +the experience of old Cunctators.” + +“But in what position are we going to attack him? I have been at the +outposts today and it is impossible to say where his chief forces are +situated,” said Prince Andrew. + +He wished to explain to Dolgorúkov a plan of attack he had himself +formed. + +“Oh, that is all the same,” Dolgorúkov said quickly, and getting up +he spread a map on the table. “All eventualities have been foreseen. +If he is standing before Brünn...” + +And Prince Dolgorúkov rapidly but indistinctly explained Weyrother’s +plan of a flanking movement. + +Prince Andrew began to reply and to state his own plan, which might +have been as good as Weyrother’s, but for the disadvantage that +Weyrother’s had already been approved. As soon as Prince Andrew began +to demonstrate the defects of the latter and the merits of his own plan, +Prince Dolgorúkov ceased to listen to him and gazed absent-mindedly not +at the map, but at Prince Andrew’s face. + +“There will be a council of war at Kutúzov’s tonight, though; you +can say all this there,” remarked Dolgorúkov. + +“I will do so,” said Prince Andrew, moving away from the map. + +“Whatever are you bothering about, gentlemen?” said Bilíbin, who, +till then, had listened with an amused smile to their conversation and +now was evidently ready with a joke. “Whether tomorrow brings +victory or defeat, the glory of our Russian arms is secure. Except your +Kutúzov, there is not a single Russian in command of a column! The +commanders are: Herr General Wimpfen, le Comte de Langeron, le Prince de +Lichtenstein, le Prince, de Hohenlohe, and finally Prishprish, and so on +like all those Polish names.” + +“Be quiet, backbiter!” said Dolgorúkov. “It is not true; there +are now two Russians, Milorádovich, and Dokhtúrov, and there would be +a third, Count Arakchéev, if his nerves were not too weak.” + +“However, I think General Kutúzov has come out,” said Prince +Andrew. “I wish you good luck and success, gentlemen!” he added and +went out after shaking hands with Dolgorúkov and Bilíbin. + +On the way home, Prince Andrew could not refrain from asking Kutúzov, +who was sitting silently beside him, what he thought of tomorrow’s +battle. + +Kutúzov looked sternly at his adjutant and, after a pause, replied: +“I think the battle will be lost, and so I told Count Tolstóy and +asked him to tell the Emperor. What do you think he replied? ‘But, my +dear general, I am engaged with rice and cutlets, look after military +matters yourself!’ Yes... That was the answer I got!” + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +Shortly after nine o’clock that evening, Weyrother drove with his +plans to Kutúzov’s quarters where the council of war was to be +held. All the commanders of columns were summoned to the commander in +chief’s and with the exception of Prince Bagratión, who declined to +come, were all there at the appointed time. + +Weyrother, who was in full control of the proposed battle, by his +eagerness and briskness presented a marked contrast to the dissatisfied +and drowsy Kutúzov, who reluctantly played the part of chairman and +president of the council of war. Weyrother evidently felt himself to be +at the head of a movement that had already become unrestrainable. He was +like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. Whether he was +pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at +headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead +to. Weyrother had been twice that evening to the enemy’s picket +line to reconnoiter personally, and twice to the Emperors, Russian and +Austrian, to report and explain, and to his headquarters where he had +dictated the dispositions in German, and now, much exhausted, he arrived +at Kutúzov’s. + +He was evidently so busy that he even forgot to be polite to the +commander in chief. He interrupted him, talked rapidly and indistinctly, +without looking at the man he was addressing, and did not reply to +questions put to him. He was bespattered with mud and had a pitiful, +weary, and distracted air, though at the same time he was haughty and +self-confident. + +Kutúzov was occupying a nobleman’s castle of modest dimensions near +Ostralitz. In the large drawing room which had become the commander +in chief’s office were gathered Kutúzov himself, Weyrother, and the +members of the council of war. They were drinking tea, and only awaited +Prince Bagratión to begin the council. At last Bagratión’s orderly +came with the news that the prince could not attend. Prince Andrew came +in to inform the commander in chief of this and, availing himself +of permission previously given him by Kutúzov to be present at the +council, he remained in the room. + +“Since Prince Bagratión is not coming, we may begin,” said +Weyrother, hurriedly rising from his seat and going up to the table on +which an enormous map of the environs of Brünn was spread out. + +Kutúzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over +his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, +with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. At the sound +of Weyrother’s voice, he opened his one eye with an effort. + +“Yes, yes, if you please! It is already late,” said he, and nodding +his head he let it droop and again closed his eye. + +If at first the members of the council thought that Kutúzov was +pretending to sleep, the sounds his nose emitted during the reading that +followed proved that the commander in chief at that moment was absorbed +by a far more serious matter than a desire to show his contempt for +the dispositions or anything else—he was engaged in satisfying the +irresistible human need for sleep. He really was asleep. Weyrother, with +the gesture of a man too busy to lose a moment, glanced at Kutúzov and, +having convinced himself that he was asleep, took up a paper and in +a loud, monotonous voice began to read out the dispositions for the +impending battle, under a heading which he also read out: + +“Dispositions for an attack on the enemy position behind Kobelnitz and +Sokolnitz, November 30, 1805.” + +The dispositions were very complicated and difficult. They began as +follows: + +“As the enemy’s left wing rests on wooded hills and his right +extends along Kobelnitz and Sokolnitz behind the ponds that are there, +while we, on the other hand, with our left wing by far outflank his +right, it is advantageous to attack the enemy’s latter wing especially +if we occupy the villages of Sokolnitz and Kobelnitz, whereby we +can both fall on his flank and pursue him over the plain between +Schlappanitz and the Thuerassa forest, avoiding the defiles of +Schlappanitz and Bellowitz which cover the enemy’s front. For this +object it is necessary that... The first column marches... The second +column marches... The third column marches...” and so on, read +Weyrother. + +The generals seemed to listen reluctantly to the difficult dispositions. +The tall, fair-haired General Buxhöwden stood, leaning his back against +the wall, his eyes fixed on a burning candle, and seemed not to listen +or even to wish to be thought to listen. Exactly opposite Weyrother, +with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache +twisted upwards, sat the ruddy Milorádovich in a military pose, his +elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders +raised. He remained stubbornly silent, gazing at Weyrother’s face, +and only turned away his eyes when the Austrian chief of staff finished +reading. Then Milorádovich looked round significantly at the other +generals. But one could not tell from that significant look whether he +agreed or disagreed and was satisfied or not with the arrangements. Next +to Weyrother sat Count Langeron who, with a subtle smile that never left +his typically southern French face during the whole time of the reading, +gazed at his delicate fingers which rapidly twirled by its corners +a gold snuffbox on which was a portrait. In the middle of one of the +longest sentences, he stopped the rotary motion of the snuffbox, raised +his head, and with inimical politeness lurking in the corners of his +thin lips interrupted Weyrother, wishing to say something. But the +Austrian general, continuing to read, frowned angrily and jerked his +elbows, as if to say: “You can tell me your views later, but now be so +good as to look at the map and listen.” Langeron lifted his eyes with +an expression of perplexity, turned round to Milorádovich as if seeking +an explanation, but meeting the latter’s impressive but meaningless +gaze drooped his eyes sadly and again took to twirling his snuffbox. + +“A geography lesson!” he muttered as if to himself, but loud enough +to be heard. + +Przebyszéwski, with respectful but dignified politeness, held his +hand to his ear toward Weyrother, with the air of a man absorbed in +attention. Dohktúrov, a little man, sat opposite Weyrother, with +an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the outspread map +conscientiously studied the dispositions and the unfamiliar locality. He +asked Weyrother several times to repeat words he had not clearly heard +and the difficult names of villages. Weyrother complied and Dohktúrov +noted them down. + +When the reading which lasted more than an hour was over, Langeron again +brought his snuffbox to rest and, without looking at Weyrother or at +anyone in particular, began to say how difficult it was to carry out +such a plan in which the enemy’s position was assumed to be known, +whereas it was perhaps not known, since the enemy was in movement. +Langeron’s objections were valid but it was obvious that their chief +aim was to show General Weyrother—who had read his dispositions with +as much self-confidence as if he were addressing school children—that +he had to do, not with fools, but with men who could teach him something +in military matters. + +When the monotonous sound of Weyrother’s voice ceased, Kutúzov opened +his eye as a miller wakes up when the soporific drone of the mill wheel +is interrupted. He listened to what Langeron said, as if remarking, +“So you are still at that silly business!” quickly closed his eye +again, and let his head sink still lower. + +Langeron, trying as virulently as possible to sting Weyrother’s vanity +as author of the military plan, argued that Bonaparte might easily +attack instead of being attacked, and so render the whole of this +plan perfectly worthless. Weyrother met all objections with a firm and +contemptuous smile, evidently prepared beforehand to meet all objections +be they what they might. + +“If he could attack us, he would have done so today,” said he. + +“So you think he is powerless?” said Langeron. + +“He has forty thousand men at most,” replied Weyrother, with the +smile of a doctor to whom an old wife wishes to explain the treatment of +a case. + +“In that case he is inviting his doom by awaiting our attack,” said +Langeron, with a subtly ironical smile, again glancing round for support +to Milorádovich who was near him. + +But Milorádovich was at that moment evidently thinking of anything +rather than of what the generals were disputing about. + +“Ma foi!” said he, “tomorrow we shall see all that on the +battlefield.” + +Weyrother again gave that smile which seemed to say that to him it was +strange and ridiculous to meet objections from Russian generals and to +have to prove to them what he had not merely convinced himself of, but +had also convinced the sovereign Emperors of. + +“The enemy has quenched his fires and a continual noise is heard from +his camp,” said he. “What does that mean? Either he is retreating, +which is the only thing we need fear, or he is changing his position.” +(He smiled ironically.) “But even if he also took up a position in +the Thuerassa, he merely saves us a great deal of trouble and all our +arrangements to the minutest detail remain the same.” + +“How is that?...” began Prince Andrew, who had for long been waiting +an opportunity to express his doubts. + +Kutúzov here woke up, coughed heavily, and looked round at the +generals. + +“Gentlemen, the dispositions for tomorrow—or rather for today, for +it is past midnight—cannot now be altered,” said he. “You have +heard them, and we shall all do our duty. But before a battle, there is +nothing more important...” he paused, “than to have a good sleep.” + +He moved as if to rise. The generals bowed and retired. It was past +midnight. Prince Andrew went out. + +The council of war, at which Prince Andrew had not been able to +express his opinion as he had hoped to, left on him a vague and uneasy +impression. Whether Dolgorúkov and Weyrother, or Kutúzov, Langeron, +and the others who did not approve of the plan of attack, were +right—he did not know. “But was it really not possible for Kutúzov +to state his views plainly to the Emperor? Is it possible that on +account of court and personal considerations tens of thousands of lives, +and my life, my life,” he thought, “must be risked?” + +“Yes, it is very likely that I shall be killed tomorrow,” he +thought. And suddenly, at this thought of death, a whole series of most +distant, most intimate, memories rose in his imagination: he remembered +his last parting from his father and his wife; he remembered the days +when he first loved her. He thought of her pregnancy and felt sorry for +her and for himself, and in a nervously emotional and softened mood he +went out of the hut in which he was billeted with Nesvítski and began +to walk up and down before it. + +The night was foggy and through the fog the moonlight gleamed +mysteriously. “Yes, tomorrow, tomorrow!” he thought. “Tomorrow +everything may be over for me! All these memories will be no more, none +of them will have any meaning for me. Tomorrow perhaps, even certainly, +I have a presentiment that for the first time I shall have to show all +I can do.” And his fancy pictured the battle, its loss, the +concentration of fighting at one point, and the hesitation of all the +commanders. And then that happy moment, that Toulon for which he had +so long waited, presents itself to him at last. He firmly and clearly +expresses his opinion to Kutúzov, to Weyrother, and to the Emperors. +All are struck by the justness of his views, but no one undertakes to +carry them out, so he takes a regiment, a division—stipulates that no +one is to interfere with his arrangements—leads his division to +the decisive point, and gains the victory alone. “But death and +suffering?” suggested another voice. Prince Andrew, however, did not +answer that voice and went on dreaming of his triumphs. The dispositions +for the next battle are planned by him alone. Nominally he is only an +adjutant on Kutúzov’s staff, but he does everything alone. The next +battle is won by him alone. Kutúzov is removed and he is appointed... +“Well and then?” asked the other voice. “If before that you are +not ten times wounded, killed, or betrayed, well... what then?...” +“Well then,” Prince Andrew answered himself, “I don’t know +what will happen and don’t want to know, and can’t, but if I want +this—want glory, want to be known to men, want to be loved by them, it +is not my fault that I want it and want nothing but that and live only +for that. Yes, for that alone! I shall never tell anyone, but, oh God! +what am I to do if I love nothing but fame and men’s esteem? Death, +wounds, the loss of family—I fear nothing. And precious and dear +as many persons are to me—father, sister, wife—those dearest to +me—yet dreadful and unnatural as it seems, I would give them all at +once for a moment of glory, of triumph over men, of love from men I +don’t know and never shall know, for the love of these men here,” he +thought, as he listened to voices in Kutúzov’s courtyard. The voices +were those of the orderlies who were packing up; one voice, probably a +coachman’s, was teasing Kutúzov’s old cook whom Prince Andrew knew, +and who was called Tit. He was saying, “Tit, I say, Tit!” + +“Well?” returned the old man. + +“Go, Tit, thresh a bit!” said the wag. + +“Oh, go to the devil!” called out a voice, drowned by the laughter +of the orderlies and servants. + +“All the same, I love and value nothing but triumph over them all, I +value this mystic power and glory that is floating here above me in this +mist!” + + + + + +CHAPTER XIII + +That same night, Rostóv was with a platoon on skirmishing duty in front +of Bagratión’s detachment. His hussars were placed along the line +in couples and he himself rode along the line trying to master the +sleepiness that kept coming over him. An enormous space, with our +army’s campfires dimly glowing in the fog, could be seen behind him; +in front of him was misty darkness. Rostóv could see nothing, peer as +he would into that foggy distance: now something gleamed gray, now there +was something black, now little lights seemed to glimmer where the enemy +ought to be, now he fancied it was only something in his own eyes. His +eyes kept closing, and in his fancy appeared—now the Emperor, now +Denísov, and now Moscow memories—and he again hurriedly opened his +eyes and saw close before him the head and ears of the horse he was +riding, and sometimes, when he came within six paces of them, the +black figures of hussars, but in the distance was still the same misty +darkness. “Why not?... It might easily happen,” thought Rostóv, +“that the Emperor will meet me and give me an order as he would to any +other officer; he’ll say: ‘Go and find out what’s there.’ There +are many stories of his getting to know an officer in just such a chance +way and attaching him to himself! What if he gave me a place near him? +Oh, how I would guard him, how I would tell him the truth, how I would +unmask his deceivers!” And in order to realize vividly his love +devotion to the sovereign, Rostóv pictured to himself an enemy or a +deceitful German, whom he would not only kill with pleasure but whom +he would slap in the face before the Emperor. Suddenly a distant shout +aroused him. He started and opened his eyes. + +“Where am I? Oh yes, in the skirmishing line... pass and +watchword—shaft, Olmütz. What a nuisance that our squadron will be in +reserve tomorrow,” he thought. “I’ll ask leave to go to the front, +this may be my only chance of seeing the Emperor. It won’t be long +now before I am off duty. I’ll take another turn and when I get back +I’ll go to the general and ask him.” He readjusted himself in the +saddle and touched up his horse to ride once more round his hussars. It +seemed to him that it was getting lighter. To the left he saw a sloping +descent lit up, and facing it a black knoll that seemed as steep as a +wall. On this knoll there was a white patch that Rostóv could not at +all make out: was it a glade in the wood lit up by the moon, or some +unmelted snow, or some white houses? He even thought something moved on +that white spot. “I expect it’s snow... that spot... a spot—une +tache,” he thought. “There now... it’s not a tache... Natásha... +sister, black eyes... Na... tasha... (Won’t she be surprised when +I tell her how I’ve seen the Emperor?) Natásha... take my +sabretache...”—“Keep to the right, your honor, there are bushes +here,” came the voice of an hussar, past whom Rostóv was riding in +the act of falling asleep. Rostóv lifted his head that had sunk almost +to his horse’s mane and pulled up beside the hussar. He was succumbing +to irresistible, youthful, childish drowsiness. “But what was I +thinking? I mustn’t forget. How shall I speak to the Emperor? No, +that’s not it—that’s tomorrow. Oh yes! Natásha... sabretache... +saber them... Whom? The hussars... Ah, the hussars with mustaches. Along +the Tverskáya Street rode the hussar with mustaches... I thought about +him too, just opposite Gúryev’s house... Old Gúryev.... Oh, but +Denísov’s a fine fellow. But that’s all nonsense. The chief thing +is that the Emperor is here. How he looked at me and wished to say +something, but dared not.... No, it was I who dared not. But that’s +nonsense, the chief thing is not to forget the important thing I +was thinking of. Yes, Na-tásha, sabretache, oh, yes, yes! That’s +right!” And his head once more sank to his horse’s neck. All at once +it seemed to him that he was being fired at. “What? What? What?... Cut +them down! What?...” said Rostóv, waking up. At the moment he opened +his eyes he heard in front of him, where the enemy was, the long-drawn +shouts of thousands of voices. His horse and the horse of the hussar +near him pricked their ears at these shouts. Over there, where the +shouting came from, a fire flared up and went out again, then another, +and all along the French line on the hill fires flared up and the +shouting grew louder and louder. Rostóv could hear the sound of French +words but could not distinguish them. The din of many voices was too +great; all he could hear was: “ahahah!” and “rrrr!” + +“What’s that? What do you make of it?” said Rostóv to the hussar +beside him. “That must be the enemy’s camp!” + +The hussar did not reply. + +“Why, don’t you hear it?” Rostóv asked again, after waiting for a +reply. + +“Who can tell, your honor?” replied the hussar reluctantly. + +“From the direction, it must be the enemy,” repeated Rostóv. + +“It may be he or it may be nothing,” muttered the hussar. “It’s +dark... Steady!” he cried to his fidgeting horse. + +Rostóv’s horse was also getting restive: it pawed the frozen ground, +pricking its ears at the noise and looking at the lights. The shouting +grew still louder and merged into a general roar that only an army +of several thousand men could produce. The lights spread farther and +farther, probably along the line of the French camp. Rostóv no longer +wanted to sleep. The gay triumphant shouting of the enemy army had a +stimulating effect on him. “Vive l’Empereur! l’Empereur!” he now +heard distinctly. + +“They can’t be far off, probably just beyond the stream,” he said +to the hussar beside him. + +The hussar only sighed without replying and coughed angrily. The sound +of horse’s hoofs approaching at a trot along the line of hussars was +heard, and out of the foggy darkness the figure of a sergeant of hussars +suddenly appeared, looming huge as an elephant. + +“Your honor, the generals!” said the sergeant, riding up to Rostóv. + +Rostóv, still looking round toward the fires and the shouts, rode with +the sergeant to meet some mounted men who were riding along the line. +One was on a white horse. Prince Bagratión and Prince Dolgorúkov with +their adjutants had come to witness the curious phenomenon of the +lights and shouts in the enemy’s camp. Rostóv rode up to Bagratión, +reported to him, and then joined the adjutants listening to what the +generals were saying. + +“Believe me,” said Prince Dolgorúkov, addressing Bagratión, “it +is nothing but a trick! He has retreated and ordered the rearguard to +kindle fires and make a noise to deceive us.” + +“Hardly,” said Bagratión. “I saw them this evening on that +knoll; if they had retreated they would have withdrawn from that too.... +Officer!” said Bagratión to Rostóv, “are the enemy’s skirmishers +still there?” + +“They were there this evening, but now I don’t know, your +excellency. Shall I go with some of my hussars to see?” replied +Rostóv. + +Bagratión stopped and, before replying, tried to see Rostóv’s face +in the mist. + +“Well, go and see,” he said, after a pause. + +“Yes, sir.” + +Rostóv spurred his horse, called to Sergeant Fédchenko and two other +hussars, told them to follow him, and trotted downhill in the direction +from which the shouting came. He felt both frightened and pleased to be +riding alone with three hussars into that mysterious and dangerous misty +distance where no one had been before him. Bagratión called to him from +the hill not to go beyond the stream, but Rostóv pretended not to hear +him and did not stop but rode on and on, continually mistaking bushes +for trees and gullies for men and continually discovering his mistakes. +Having descended the hill at a trot, he no longer saw either our own or +the enemy’s fires, but heard the shouting of the French more loudly +and distinctly. In the valley he saw before him something like a river, +but when he reached it he found it was a road. Having come out onto +the road he reined in his horse, hesitating whether to ride along it or +cross it and ride over the black field up the hillside. To keep to the +road which gleamed white in the mist would have been safer because it +would be easier to see people coming along it. “Follow me!” said he, +crossed the road, and began riding up the hill at a gallop toward the +point where the French pickets had been standing that evening. + +“Your honor, there he is!” cried one of the hussars behind him. And +before Rostóv had time to make out what the black thing was that had +suddenly appeared in the fog, there was a flash, followed by a report, +and a bullet whizzing high up in the mist with a plaintive sound passed +out of hearing. Another musket missed fire but flashed in the pan. +Rostóv turned his horse and galloped back. Four more reports followed +at intervals, and the bullets passed somewhere in the fog singing in +different tones. Rostóv reined in his horse, whose spirits had risen, +like his own, at the firing, and went back at a footpace. “Well, some +more! Some more!” a merry voice was saying in his soul. But no more +shots came. + +Only when approaching Bagratión did Rostóv let his horse gallop again, +and with his hand at the salute rode up to the general. + +Dolgorúkov was still insisting that the French had retreated and had +only lit fires to deceive us. + +“What does that prove?” he was saying as Rostóv rode up. “They +might retreat and leave the pickets.” + +“It’s plain that they have not all gone yet, Prince,” said +Bagratión. “Wait till tomorrow morning, we’ll find out everything +tomorrow.” + +“The picket is still on the hill, your excellency, just where it was +in the evening,” reported Rostóv, stooping forward with his hand at +the salute and unable to repress the smile of delight induced by his +ride and especially by the sound of the bullets. + +“Very good, very good,” said Bagratión. “Thank you, officer.” + +“Your excellency,” said Rostóv, “may I ask a favor?” + +“What is it?” + +“Tomorrow our squadron is to be in reserve. May I ask to be attached +to the first squadron?” + +“What’s your name?” + +“Count Rostóv.” + +“Oh, very well, you may stay in attendance on me.” + +“Count Ilyá Rostóv’s son?” asked Dolgorúkov. + +But Rostóv did not reply. + +“Then I may reckon on it, your excellency?” + +“I will give the order.” + +“Tomorrow very likely I may be sent with some message to the +Emperor,” thought Rostóv. + +“Thank God!” + +The fires and shouting in the enemy’s army were occasioned by the fact +that while Napoleon’s proclamation was being read to the troops the +Emperor himself rode round his bivouacs. The soldiers, on seeing him, +lit wisps of straw and ran after him, shouting, “Vive l’Empereur!” +Napoleon’s proclamation was as follows: + +Soldiers! The Russian army is advancing against you to avenge the +Austrian army of Ulm. They are the same battalions you broke at +Hollabrünn and have pursued ever since to this place. The position we +occupy is a strong one, and while they are marching to go round me on +the right they will expose a flank to me. Soldiers! I will myself direct +your battalions. I will keep out of fire if you with your habitual +valor carry disorder and confusion into the enemy’s ranks, but should +victory be in doubt, even for a moment, you will see your Emperor +exposing himself to the first blows of the enemy, for there must be no +doubt of victory, especially on this day when what is at stake is the +honor of the French infantry, so necessary to the honor of our nation. + +Do not break your ranks on the plea of removing the wounded! Let every +man be fully imbued with the thought that we must defeat these hirelings +of England, inspired by such hatred of our nation! This victory will +conclude our campaign and we can return to winter quarters, where fresh +French troops who are being raised in France will join us, and the peace +I shall conclude will be worthy of my people, of you, and of myself. + +NAPOLEON + + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +At five in the morning it was still quite dark. The troops of the +center, the reserves, and Bagratión’s right flank had not yet moved, +but on the left flank the columns of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, +which were to be the first to descend the heights to attack the French +right flank and drive it into the Bohemian mountains according to plan, +were already up and astir. The smoke of the campfires, into which they +were throwing everything superfluous, made the eyes smart. It was cold +and dark. The officers were hurriedly drinking tea and breakfasting, the +soldiers, munching biscuit and beating a tattoo with their feet to +warm themselves, gathering round the fires throwing into the flames the +remains of sheds, chairs, tables, wheels, tubs, and everything that they +did not want or could not carry away with them. Austrian column guides +were moving in and out among the Russian troops and served as heralds +of the advance. As soon as an Austrian officer showed himself near +a commanding officer’s quarters, the regiment began to move: the +soldiers ran from the fires, thrust their pipes into their boots, their +bags into the carts, got their muskets ready, and formed rank. The +officers buttoned up their coats, buckled on their swords and pouches, +and moved along the ranks shouting. The train drivers and orderlies +harnessed and packed the wagons and tied on the loads. The adjutants and +battalion and regimental commanders mounted, crossed themselves, gave +final instructions, orders, and commissions to the baggage men +who remained behind, and the monotonous tramp of thousands of feet +resounded. The column moved forward without knowing where and unable, +from the masses around them, the smoke and the increasing fog, to see +either the place they were leaving or that to which they were going. + +A soldier on the march is hemmed in and borne along by his regiment as +much as a sailor is by his ship. However far he has walked, whatever +strange, unknown, and dangerous places he reaches, just as a sailor is +always surrounded by the same decks, masts, and rigging of his ship, so +the soldier always has around him the same comrades, the same ranks, the +same sergeant major Iván Mítrich, the same company dog Jack, and the +same commanders. The sailor rarely cares to know the latitude in which +his ship is sailing, but on the day of battle—heaven knows how and +whence—a stern note of which all are conscious sounds in the moral +atmosphere of an army, announcing the approach of something decisive +and solemn, and awakening in the men an unusual curiosity. On the day of +battle the soldiers excitedly try to get beyond the interests of their +regiment, they listen intently, look about, and eagerly ask concerning +what is going on around them. + +The fog had grown so dense that though it was growing light they could +not see ten paces ahead. Bushes looked like gigantic trees and level +ground like cliffs and slopes. Anywhere, on any side, one might +encounter an enemy invisible ten paces off. But the columns advanced +for a long time, always in the same fog, descending and ascending hills, +avoiding gardens and enclosures, going over new and unknown ground, and +nowhere encountering the enemy. On the contrary, the soldiers became +aware that in front, behind, and on all sides, other Russian columns +were moving in the same direction. Every soldier felt glad to know that +to the unknown place where he was going, many more of our men were going +too. + +“There now, the Kúrskies have also gone past,” was being said in +the ranks. + +“It’s wonderful what a lot of our troops have gathered, lads! Last +night I looked at the campfires and there was no end of them. A regular +Moscow!” + +Though none of the column commanders rode up to the ranks or talked to +the men (the commanders, as we saw at the council of war, were out of +humor and dissatisfied with the affair, and so did not exert themselves +to cheer the men but merely carried out the orders), yet the troops +marched gaily, as they always do when going into action, especially to +an attack. But when they had marched for about an hour in the dense fog, +the greater part of the men had to halt and an unpleasant consciousness +of some dislocation and blunder spread through the ranks. How such +a consciousness is communicated is very difficult to define, but it +certainly is communicated very surely, and flows rapidly, imperceptibly, +and irrepressibly, as water does in a creek. Had the Russian army been +alone without any allies, it might perhaps have been a long time before +this consciousness of mismanagement became a general conviction, but as +it was, the disorder was readily and naturally attributed to the stupid +Germans, and everyone was convinced that a dangerous muddle had been +occasioned by the sausage eaters. + +“Why have we stopped? Is the way blocked? Or have we already come up +against the French?” + +“No, one can’t hear them. They’d be firing if we had.” + +“They were in a hurry enough to start us, and now here we stand in +the middle of a field without rhyme or reason. It’s all those damned +Germans’ muddling! What stupid devils!” + +“Yes, I’d send them on in front, but no fear, they’re crowding up +behind. And now here we stand hungry.” + +“I say, shall we soon be clear? They say the cavalry are blocking the +way,” said an officer. + +“Ah, those damned Germans! They don’t know their own country!” +said another. + +“What division are you?” shouted an adjutant, riding up. + +“The Eighteenth.” + +“Then why are you here? You should have gone on long ago, now you +won’t get there till evening.” + +“What stupid orders! They don’t themselves know what they are +doing!” said the officer and rode off. + +Then a general rode past shouting something angrily, not in Russian. + +“Tafa-lafa! But what he’s jabbering no one can make out,” said a +soldier, mimicking the general who had ridden away. “I’d shoot them, +the scoundrels!” + +“We were ordered to be at the place before nine, but we haven’t got +halfway. Fine orders!” was being repeated on different sides. + +And the feeling of energy with which the troops had started began to +turn into vexation and anger at the stupid arrangements and at the +Germans. + +The cause of the confusion was that while the Austrian cavalry was +moving toward our left flank, the higher command found that our center +was too far separated from our right flank and the cavalry were all +ordered to turn back to the right. Several thousand cavalry crossed in +front of the infantry, who had to wait. + +At the front an altercation occurred between an Austrian guide and a +Russian general. The general shouted a demand that the cavalry should be +halted, the Austrian argued that not he, but the higher command, was to +blame. The troops meanwhile stood growing listless and dispirited. After +an hour’s delay they at last moved on, descending the hill. The fog +that was dispersing on the hill lay still more densely below, where they +were descending. In front in the fog a shot was heard and then another, +at first irregularly at varying intervals—trata...tat—and then more +and more regularly and rapidly, and the action at the Goldbach Stream +began. + +Not expecting to come on the enemy down by the stream, and having +stumbled on him in the fog, hearing no encouraging word from their +commanders, and with a consciousness of being too late spreading through +the ranks, and above all being unable to see anything in front or around +them in the thick fog, the Russians exchanged shots with the enemy +lazily and advanced and again halted, receiving no timely orders from +the officers or adjutants who wandered about in the fog in those unknown +surroundings unable to find their own regiments. In this way the action +began for the first, second, and third columns, which had gone down into +the valley. The fourth column, with which Kutúzov was, stood on the +Pratzen Heights. + +Below, where the fight was beginning, there was still thick fog; on the +higher ground it was clearing, but nothing could be seen of what was +going on in front. Whether all the enemy forces were, as we supposed, +six miles away, or whether they were near by in that sea of mist, no one +knew till after eight o’clock. + +It was nine o’clock in the morning. The fog lay unbroken like a sea +down below, but higher up at the village of Schlappanitz where Napoleon +stood with his marshals around him, it was quite light. Above him was +a clear blue sky, and the sun’s vast orb quivered like a huge hollow, +crimson float on the surface of that milky sea of mist. The whole French +army, and even Napoleon himself with his staff, were not on the far side +of the streams and hollows of Sokolnitz and Schlappanitz beyond which we +intended to take up our position and begin the action, but were on this +side, so close to our own forces that Napoleon with the naked eye could +distinguish a mounted man from one on foot. Napoleon, in the blue cloak +which he had worn on his Italian campaign, sat on his small gray Arab +horse a little in front of his marshals. He gazed silently at the hills +which seemed to rise out of the sea of mist and on which the Russian +troops were moving in the distance, and he listened to the sounds of +firing in the valley. Not a single muscle of his face—which in those +days was still thin—moved. His gleaming eyes were fixed intently on +one spot. His predictions were being justified. Part of the Russian +force had already descended into the valley toward the ponds and lakes +and part were leaving these Pratzen Heights which he intended to attack +and regarded as the key to the position. He saw over the mist that in +a hollow between two hills near the village of Pratzen, the Russian +columns, their bayonets glittering, were moving continuously in one +direction toward the valley and disappearing one after another into +the mist. From information he had received the evening before, from the +sound of wheels and footsteps heard by the outposts during the night, +by the disorderly movement of the Russian columns, and from all +indications, he saw clearly that the allies believed him to be far away +in front of them, and that the columns moving near Pratzen constituted +the center of the Russian army, and that that center was already +sufficiently weakened to be successfully attacked. But still he did not +begin the engagement. + +Today was a great day for him—the anniversary of his coronation. +Before dawn he had slept for a few hours, and refreshed, vigorous, and +in good spirits, he mounted his horse and rode out into the field +in that happy mood in which everything seems possible and everything +succeeds. He sat motionless, looking at the heights visible above +the mist, and his cold face wore that special look of confident, +self-complacent happiness that one sees on the face of a boy happily +in love. The marshals stood behind him not venturing to distract his +attention. He looked now at the Pratzen Heights, now at the sun floating +up out of the mist. + +When the sun had entirely emerged from the fog, and fields and mist were +aglow with dazzling light—as if he had only awaited this to begin the +action—he drew the glove from his shapely white hand, made a sign +with it to the marshals, and ordered the action to begin. The marshals, +accompanied by adjutants, galloped off in different directions, and +a few minutes later the chief forces of the French army moved rapidly +toward those Pratzen Heights which were being more and more denuded by +Russian troops moving down the valley to their left. + + + + + +CHAPTER XV + +At eight o’clock Kutúzov rode to Pratzen at the head of the fourth +column, Milorádovich’s, the one that was to take the place of +Przebyszéwski’s and Langeron’s columns which had already gone down +into the valley. He greeted the men of the foremost regiment and gave +them the order to march, thereby indicating that he intended to lead +that column himself. When he had reached the village of Pratzen he +halted. Prince Andrew was behind, among the immense number forming the +commander in chief’s suite. He was in a state of suppressed excitement +and irritation, though controlledly calm as a man is at the approach of +a long-awaited moment. He was firmly convinced that this was the day of +his Toulon, or his bridge of Arcola. How it would come about he did not +know, but he felt sure it would do so. The locality and the position of +our troops were known to him as far as they could be known to anyone +in our army. His own strategic plan, which obviously could not now +be carried out, was forgotten. Now, entering into Weyrother’s plan, +Prince Andrew considered possible contingencies and formed new projects +such as might call for his rapidity of perception and decision. + +To the left down below in the mist, the musketry fire of unseen forces +could be heard. It was there Prince Andrew thought the fight would +concentrate. “There we shall encounter difficulties, and there,” +thought he, “I shall be sent with a brigade or division, and there, +standard in hand, I shall go forward and break whatever is in front of +me.” + +He could not look calmly at the standards of the passing battalions. +Seeing them he kept thinking, “That may be the very standard with +which I shall lead the army.” + +In the morning all that was left of the night mist on the heights was +a hoar frost now turning to dew, but in the valleys it still lay like a +milk-white sea. Nothing was visible in the valley to the left into which +our troops had descended and from whence came the sounds of firing. +Above the heights was the dark clear sky, and to the right the vast orb +of the sun. In front, far off on the farther shore of that sea of mist, +some wooded hills were discernible, and it was there the enemy probably +was, for something could be descried. On the right the Guards were +entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and +then a gleam of bayonets; to the left beyond the village similar masses +of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist. In front and +behind moved infantry. The commander in chief was standing at the end of +the village letting the troops pass by him. That morning Kutúzov seemed +worn and irritable. The infantry passing before him came to a halt +without any command being given, apparently obstructed by something in +front. + +“Do order them to form into battalion columns and go round the +village!” he said angrily to a general who had ridden up. “Don’t +you understand, your excellency, my dear sir, that you must not +defile through narrow village streets when we are marching against the +enemy?” + +“I intended to re-form them beyond the village, your excellency,” +answered the general. + +Kutúzov laughed bitterly. + +“You’ll make a fine thing of it, deploying in sight of the enemy! +Very fine!” + +“The enemy is still far away, your excellency. According to the +dispositions...” + +“The dispositions!” exclaimed Kutúzov bitterly. “Who told you +that?... Kindly do as you are ordered.” + +“Yes, sir.” + +“My dear fellow,” Nesvítski whispered to Prince Andrew, “the old +man is as surly as a dog.” + +An Austrian officer in a white uniform with green plumes in his hat +galloped up to Kutúzov and asked in the Emperor’s name had the fourth +column advanced into action. + +Kutúzov turned round without answering and his eye happened to fall +upon Prince Andrew, who was beside him. Seeing him, Kutúzov’s +malevolent and caustic expression softened, as if admitting that what +was being done was not his adjutant’s fault, and still not answering +the Austrian adjutant, he addressed Bolkónski. + +“Go, my dear fellow, and see whether the third division has passed the +village. Tell it to stop and await my orders.” + +Hardly had Prince Andrew started than he stopped him. + +“And ask whether sharpshooters have been posted,” he added. “What +are they doing? What are they doing?” he murmured to himself, still +not replying to the Austrian. + +Prince Andrew galloped off to execute the order. + +Overtaking the battalions that continued to advance, he stopped +the third division and convinced himself that there really were no +sharpshooters in front of our columns. The colonel at the head of the +regiment was much surprised at the commander in chief’s order to throw +out skirmishers. He had felt perfectly sure that there were other troops +in front of him and that the enemy must be at least six miles away. +There was really nothing to be seen in front except a barren descent +hidden by dense mist. Having given orders in the commander in chief’s +name to rectify this omission, Prince Andrew galloped back. Kutúzov +still in the same place, his stout body resting heavily in the saddle +with the lassitude of age, sat yawning wearily with closed eyes. The +troops were no longer moving, but stood with the butts of their muskets +on the ground. + +“All right, all right!” he said to Prince Andrew, and turned to a +general who, watch in hand, was saying it was time they started as all +the left-flank columns had already descended. + +“Plenty of time, your excellency,” muttered Kutúzov in the midst of +a yawn. “Plenty of time,” he repeated. + +Just then at a distance behind Kutúzov was heard the sound of regiments +saluting, and this sound rapidly came nearer along the whole extended +line of the advancing Russian columns. Evidently the person they were +greeting was riding quickly. When the soldiers of the regiment in front +of which Kutúzov was standing began to shout, he rode a little to one +side and looked round with a frown. Along the road from Pratzen galloped +what looked like a squadron of horsemen in various uniforms. Two of them +rode side by side in front, at full gallop. One in a black uniform with +white plumes in his hat rode a bobtailed chestnut horse, the other who +was in a white uniform rode a black one. These were the two Emperors +followed by their suites. Kutúzov, affecting the manners of an old +soldier at the front, gave the command “Attention!” and rode up +to the Emperors with a salute. His whole appearance and manner were +suddenly transformed. He put on the air of a subordinate who obeys +without reasoning. With an affectation of respect which evidently struck +Alexander unpleasantly, he rode up and saluted. + +This unpleasant impression merely flitted over the young and happy face +of the Emperor like a cloud of haze across a clear sky and vanished. +After his illness he looked rather thinner that day than on the field +of Olmütz where Bolkónski had seen him for the first time abroad, but +there was still the same bewitching combination of majesty and mildness +in his fine gray eyes, and on his delicate lips the same capacity for +varying expression and the same prevalent appearance of goodhearted +innocent youth. + +At the Olmütz review he had seemed more majestic; here he seemed +brighter and more energetic. He was slightly flushed after galloping two +miles, and reining in his horse he sighed restfully and looked round +at the faces of his suite, young and animated as his own. Czartorýski, +Novosíltsev, Prince Volkónsky, Strógonov, and the others, all richly +dressed gay young men on splendid, well-groomed, fresh, only slightly +heated horses, exchanging remarks and smiling, had stopped behind the +Emperor. The Emperor Francis, a rosy, long faced young man, sat very +erect on his handsome black horse, looking about him in a leisurely and +preoccupied manner. He beckoned to one of his white adjutants and asked +some question—“Most likely he is asking at what o’clock they +started,” thought Prince Andrew, watching his old acquaintance with +a smile he could not repress as he recalled his reception at Brünn. +In the Emperors’ suite were the picked young orderly officers of the +Guard and line regiments, Russian and Austrian. Among them were grooms +leading the Tsar’s beautiful relay horses covered with embroidered +cloths. + +As when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters +a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of +success reached Kutúzov’s cheerless staff with the galloping advent +of all these brilliant young men. + +“Why aren’t you beginning, Michael Ilariónovich?” said the +Emperor Alexander hurriedly to Kutúzov, glancing courteously at the +same time at the Emperor Francis. + +“I am waiting, Your Majesty,” answered Kutúzov, bending forward +respectfully. + +The Emperor, frowning slightly, bent his ear forward as if he had not +quite heard. + +“Waiting, Your Majesty,” repeated Kutúzov. (Prince Andrew noted +that Kutúzov’s upper lip twitched unnaturally as he said the +word “waiting.”) “Not all the columns have formed up yet, Your +Majesty.” + +The Tsar heard but obviously did not like the reply; he shrugged his +rather round shoulders and glanced at Novosíltsev who was near him, as +if complaining of Kutúzov. + +“You know, Michael Ilariónovich, we are not on the Empress’ Field +where a parade does not begin till all the troops are assembled,” said +the Tsar with another glance at the Emperor Francis, as if inviting +him if not to join in at least to listen to what he was saying. But the +Emperor Francis continued to look about him and did not listen. + +“That is just why I do not begin, sire,” said Kutúzov in a +resounding voice, apparently to preclude the possibility of not being +heard, and again something in his face twitched—“That is just why +I do not begin, sire, because we are not on parade and not on the +Empress’ Field,” said he clearly and distinctly. + +In the Emperor’s suite all exchanged rapid looks that expressed +dissatisfaction and reproach. “Old though he may be, he should not, he +certainly should not, speak like that,” their glances seemed to say. + +The Tsar looked intently and observantly into Kutúzov’s eye +waiting to hear whether he would say anything more. But Kutúzov, with +respectfully bowed head, seemed also to be waiting. The silence lasted +for about a minute. + +“However, if you command it, Your Majesty,” said Kutúzov, lifting +his head and again assuming his former tone of a dull, unreasoning, but +submissive general. + +He touched his horse and having called Milorádovich, the commander of +the column, gave him the order to advance. + +The troops again began to move, and two battalions of the Nóvgorod and +one of the Ápsheron regiment went forward past the Emperor. + +As this Ápsheron battalion marched by, the red-faced Milorádovich, +without his greatcoat, with his Orders on his breast and an enormous +tuft of plumes in his cocked hat worn on one side with its corners front +and back, galloped strenuously forward, and with a dashing salute reined +in his horse before the Emperor. + +“God be with you, general!” said the Emperor. + +“Ma foi, sire, nous ferons ce qui sera dans notre possibilité, +sire,” * he answered gaily, raising nevertheless ironic smiles among +the gentlemen of the Tsar’s suite by his poor French. + + * “Indeed, Sire, we shall do everything it is possible to + do, Sire.” + + +Milorádovich wheeled his horse sharply and stationed himself a little +behind the Emperor. The Ápsheron men, excited by the Tsar’s presence, +passed in step before the Emperors and their suites at a bold, brisk +pace. + +“Lads!” shouted Milorádovich in a loud, self-confident, and cheery +voice, obviously so elated by the sound of firing, by the prospect of +battle, and by the sight of the gallant Ápsherons, his comrades in +Suvórov’s time, now passing so gallantly before the Emperors, that he +forgot the sovereigns’ presence. “Lads, it’s not the first village +you’ve had to take,” cried he. + +“Glad to do our best!” shouted the soldiers. + +The Emperor’s horse started at the sudden cry. This horse that had +carried the sovereign at reviews in Russia bore him also here on the +field of Austerlitz, enduring the heedless blows of his left foot and +pricking its ears at the sound of shots just as it had done on the +Empress’ Field, not understanding the significance of the firing, nor +of the nearness of the Emperor Francis’ black cob, nor of all that was +being said, thought, and felt that day by its rider. + +The Emperor turned with a smile to one of his followers and made a +remark to him, pointing to the gallant Ápsherons. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +Kutúzov accompanied by his adjutants rode at a walking pace behind the +carabineers. + +When he had gone less than half a mile in the rear of the column he +stopped at a solitary, deserted house that had probably once been an +inn, where two roads parted. Both of them led downhill and troops were +marching along both. + +The fog had begun to clear and enemy troops were already dimly visible +about a mile and a half off on the opposite heights. Down below, on +the left, the firing became more distinct. Kutúzov had stopped and was +speaking to an Austrian general. Prince Andrew, who was a little behind +looking at them, turned to an adjutant to ask him for a field glass. + +“Look, look!” said this adjutant, looking not at the troops in the +distance, but down the hill before him. “It’s the French!” + +The two generals and the adjutant took hold of the field glass, trying +to snatch it from one another. The expression on all their faces +suddenly changed to one of horror. The French were supposed to be a +mile and a half away, but had suddenly and unexpectedly appeared just in +front of us. + +“It’s the enemy?... No!... Yes, see it is!... for certain.... But +how is that?” said different voices. + +With the naked eye Prince Andrew saw below them to the right, not more +than five hundred paces from where Kutúzov was standing, a dense French +column coming up to meet the Ápsherons. + +“Here it is! The decisive moment has arrived. My turn has come,” +thought Prince Andrew, and striking his horse he rode up to Kutúzov. + +“The Ápsherons must be stopped, your excellency,” cried he. But at +that very instant a cloud of smoke spread all round, firing was heard +quite close at hand, and a voice of naïve terror barely two steps from +Prince Andrew shouted, “Brothers! All’s lost!” And at this as if +at a command, everyone began to run. + +Confused and ever-increasing crowds were running back to where five +minutes before the troops had passed the Emperors. Not only would it +have been difficult to stop that crowd, it was even impossible not to +be carried back with it oneself. Bolkónski only tried not to lose +touch with it, and looked around bewildered and unable to grasp what was +happening in front of him. Nesvítski with an angry face, red and unlike +himself, was shouting to Kutúzov that if he did not ride away at once +he would certainly be taken prisoner. Kutúzov remained in the same +place and without answering drew out a handkerchief. Blood was flowing +from his cheek. Prince Andrew forced his way to him. + +“You are wounded?” he asked, hardly able to master the trembling of +his lower jaw. + +“The wound is not here, it is there!” said Kutúzov, pressing the +handkerchief to his wounded cheek and pointing to the fleeing soldiers. +“Stop them!” he shouted, and at the same moment, probably realizing +that it was impossible to stop them, spurred his horse and rode to the +right. + +A fresh wave of the flying mob caught him and bore him back with it. + +The troops were running in such a dense mass that once surrounded by +them it was difficult to get out again. One was shouting, “Get on! +Why are you hindering us?” Another in the same place turned round and +fired in the air; a third was striking the horse Kutúzov himself rode. +Having by a great effort got away to the left from that flood of men, +Kutúzov, with his suite diminished by more than half, rode toward a +sound of artillery fire near by. Having forced his way out of the crowd +of fugitives, Prince Andrew, trying to keep near Kutúzov, saw on the +slope of the hill amid the smoke a Russian battery that was still firing +and Frenchmen running toward it. Higher up stood some Russian infantry, +neither moving forward to protect the battery nor backward with the +fleeing crowd. A mounted general separated himself from the infantry and +approached Kutúzov. Of Kutúzov’s suite only four remained. They were +all pale and exchanged looks in silence. + +“Stop those wretches!” gasped Kutúzov to the regimental commander, +pointing to the flying soldiers; but at that instant, as if to punish +him for those words, bullets flew hissing across the regiment and across +Kutúzov’s suite like a flock of little birds. + +The French had attacked the battery and, seeing Kutúzov, were firing +at him. After this volley the regimental commander clutched at his leg; +several soldiers fell, and a second lieutenant who was holding the +flag let it fall from his hands. It swayed and fell, but caught on the +muskets of the nearest soldiers. The soldiers started firing without +orders. + +“Oh! Oh! Oh!” groaned Kutúzov despairingly and looked around.... +“Bolkónski!” he whispered, his voice trembling from a consciousness +of the feebleness of age, “Bolkónski!” he whispered, pointing to +the disordered battalion and at the enemy, “what’s that?” + +But before he had finished speaking, Prince Andrew, feeling tears of +shame and anger choking him, had already leapt from his horse and run to +the standard. + +“Forward, lads!” he shouted in a voice piercing as a child’s. + +“Here it is!” thought he, seizing the staff of the standard and +hearing with pleasure the whistle of bullets evidently aimed at him. +Several soldiers fell. + +“Hurrah!” shouted Prince Andrew, and, scarcely able to hold up +the heavy standard, he ran forward with full confidence that the whole +battalion would follow him. + +And really he only ran a few steps alone. One soldier moved and then +another and soon the whole battalion ran forward shouting “Hurrah!” +and overtook him. A sergeant of the battalion ran up and took the flag +that was swaying from its weight in Prince Andrew’s hands, but he +was immediately killed. Prince Andrew again seized the standard and, +dragging it by the staff, ran on with the battalion. In front he saw our +artillerymen, some of whom were fighting, while others, having abandoned +their guns, were running toward him. He also saw French infantry +soldiers who were seizing the artillery horses and turning the guns +round. Prince Andrew and the battalion were already within twenty paces +of the cannon. He heard the whistle of bullets above him unceasingly and +to right and left of him soldiers continually groaned and dropped. But +he did not look at them: he looked only at what was going on in front +of him—at the battery. He now saw clearly the figure of a red-haired +gunner with his shako knocked awry, pulling one end of a mop while +a French soldier tugged at the other. He could distinctly see the +distraught yet angry expression on the faces of these two men, who +evidently did not realize what they were doing. + +“What are they about?” thought Prince Andrew as he gazed at them. +“Why doesn’t the red-haired gunner run away as he is unarmed? +Why doesn’t the Frenchman stab him? He will not get away before the +Frenchman remembers his bayonet and stabs him....” + +And really another French soldier, trailing his musket, ran up to +the struggling men, and the fate of the red-haired gunner, who had +triumphantly secured the mop and still did not realize what awaited him, +was about to be decided. But Prince Andrew did not see how it ended. It +seemed to him as though one of the soldiers near him hit him on the head +with the full swing of a bludgeon. It hurt a little, but the worst of +it was that the pain distracted him and prevented his seeing what he had +been looking at. + +“What’s this? Am I falling? My legs are giving way,” thought he, +and fell on his back. He opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle +of the Frenchmen with the gunners ended, whether the red-haired gunner +had been killed or not and whether the cannon had been captured or +saved. But he saw nothing. Above him there was now nothing but the +sky—the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray +clouds gliding slowly across it. “How quiet, peaceful, and solemn; not +at all as I ran,” thought Prince Andrew—“not as we ran, shouting +and fighting, not at all as the gunner and the Frenchman with frightened +and angry faces struggled for the mop: how differently do those clouds +glide across that lofty infinite sky! How was it I did not see that +lofty sky before? And how happy I am to have found it at last! Yes! All +is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. There is nothing, +nothing, but that. But even it does not exist, there is nothing but +quiet and peace. Thank God!...” + + + + + +CHAPTER XVII + +On our right flank commanded by Bagratión, at nine o’clock the battle +had not yet begun. Not wishing to agree to Dolgorúkov’s demand to +commence the action, and wishing to avert responsibility from himself, +Prince Bagratión proposed to Dolgorúkov to send to inquire of the +commander in chief. Bagratión knew that as the distance between the two +flanks was more than six miles, even if the messenger were not killed +(which he very likely would be), and found the commander in chief +(which would be very difficult), he would not be able to get back before +evening. + +Bagratión cast his large, expressionless, sleepy eyes round his suite, +and the boyish face Rostóv, breathless with excitement and hope, was +the first to catch his eye. He sent him. + +“And if I should meet His Majesty before I meet the commander in +chief, your excellency?” said Rostóv, with his hand to his cap. + +“You can give the message to His Majesty,” said Dolgorúkov, +hurriedly interrupting Bagratión. + +On being relieved from picket duty Rostóv had managed to get a few +hours’ sleep before morning and felt cheerful, bold, and resolute, +with elasticity of movement, faith in his good fortune, and generally in +that state of mind which makes everything seem possible, pleasant, and +easy. + +All his wishes were being fulfilled that morning: there was to be a +general engagement in which he was taking part, more than that, he was +orderly to the bravest general, and still more, he was going with a +message to Kutúzov, perhaps even to the sovereign himself. The morning +was bright, he had a good horse under him, and his heart was full of +joy and happiness. On receiving the order he gave his horse the rein +and galloped along the line. At first he rode along the line of +Bagratión’s troops, which had not yet advanced into action but were +standing motionless; then he came to the region occupied by Uvárov’s +cavalry and here he noticed a stir and signs of preparation for battle; +having passed Uvárov’s cavalry he clearly heard the sound of cannon +and musketry ahead of him. The firing grew louder and louder. + +In the fresh morning air were now heard, not two or three musket shots +at irregular intervals as before, followed by one or two cannon shots, +but a roll of volleys of musketry from the slopes of the hill before +Pratzen, interrupted by such frequent reports of cannon that sometimes +several of them were not separated from one another but merged into a +general roar. + +He could see puffs of musketry smoke that seemed to chase one another +down the hillsides, and clouds of cannon smoke rolling, spreading, +and mingling with one another. He could also, by the gleam of bayonets +visible through the smoke, make out moving masses of infantry and narrow +lines of artillery with green caissons. + +Rostóv stopped his horse for a moment on a hillock to see what was +going on, but strain his attention as he would he could not understand +or make out anything of what was happening: there in the smoke men of +some sort were moving about, in front and behind moved lines of troops; +but why, whither, and who they were, it was impossible to make out. +These sights and sounds had no depressing or intimidating effect on him; +on the contrary, they stimulated his energy and determination. + +“Go on! Go on! Give it them!” he mentally exclaimed at these sounds, +and again proceeded to gallop along the line, penetrating farther and +farther into the region where the army was already in action. + +“How it will be there I don’t know, but all will be well!” thought +Rostóv. + +After passing some Austrian troops he noticed that the next part of the +line (the Guards) was already in action. + +“So much the better! I shall see it close,” he thought. + +He was riding almost along the front line. A handful of men came +galloping toward him. They were our Uhlans who with disordered +ranks were returning from the attack. Rostóv got out of their way, +involuntarily noticed that one of them was bleeding, and galloped on. + +“That is no business of mine,” he thought. He had not ridden many +hundred yards after that before he saw to his left, across the whole +width of the field, an enormous mass of cavalry in brilliant white +uniforms, mounted on black horses, trotting straight toward him and +across his path. Rostóv put his horse to full gallop to get out of the +way of these men, and he would have got clear had they continued at the +same speed, but they kept increasing their pace, so that some of the +horses were already galloping. Rostóv heard the thud of their hoofs +and the jingle of their weapons and saw their horses, their figures, and +even their faces, more and more distinctly. They were our Horse Guards, +advancing to attack the French cavalry that was coming to meet them. + +The Horse Guards were galloping, but still holding in their horses. +Rostóv could already see their faces and heard the command: +“Charge!” shouted by an officer who was urging his thoroughbred to +full speed. Rostóv, fearing to be crushed or swept into the attack on +the French, galloped along the front as hard as his horse could go, but +still was not in time to avoid them. + +The last of the Horse Guards, a huge pockmarked fellow, frowned angrily +on seeing Rostóv before him, with whom he would inevitably collide. +This Guardsman would certainly have bowled Rostóv and his Bedouin over +(Rostóv felt himself quite tiny and weak compared to these gigantic men +and horses) had it not occurred to Rostóv to flourish his whip before +the eyes of the Guardsman’s horse. The heavy black horse, sixteen +hands high, shied, throwing back its ears; but the pockmarked Guardsman +drove his huge spurs in violently, and the horse, flourishing its tail +and extending its neck, galloped on yet faster. Hardly had the Horse +Guards passed Rostóv before he heard them shout, “Hurrah!” and +looking back saw that their foremost ranks were mixed up with some +foreign cavalry with red epaulets, probably French. He could see nothing +more, for immediately afterwards cannon began firing from somewhere and +smoke enveloped everything. + +At that moment, as the Horse Guards, having passed him, disappeared in +the smoke, Rostóv hesitated whether to gallop after them or to go where +he was sent. This was the brilliant charge of the Horse Guards that +amazed the French themselves. Rostóv was horrified to hear later that +of all that mass of huge and handsome men, of all those brilliant, +rich youths, officers and cadets, who had galloped past him on their +thousand-ruble horses, only eighteen were left after the charge. + +“Why should I envy them? My chance is not lost, and maybe I shall see +the Emperor immediately!” thought Rostóv and galloped on. + +When he came level with the Foot Guards he noticed that about them and +around them cannon balls were flying, of which he was aware not so +much because he heard their sound as because he saw uneasiness on +the soldiers’ faces and unnatural warlike solemnity on those of the +officers. + +Passing behind one of the lines of a regiment of Foot Guards he heard a +voice calling him by name. + +“Rostóv!” + +“What?” he answered, not recognizing Borís. + +“I say, we’ve been in the front line! Our regiment attacked!” said +Borís with the happy smile seen on the faces of young men who have been +under fire for the first time. + +Rostóv stopped. + +“Have you?” he said. “Well, how did it go?” + +“We drove them back!” said Borís with animation, growing talkative. +“Can you imagine it?” and he began describing how the Guards, having +taken up their position and seeing troops before them, thought they were +Austrians, and all at once discovered from the cannon balls discharged +by those troops that they were themselves in the front line and had +unexpectedly to go into action. Rostóv without hearing Borís to the +end spurred his horse. + +“Where are you off to?” asked Borís. + +“With a message to His Majesty.” + +“There he is!” said Borís, thinking Rostóv had said “His +Highness,” and pointing to the Grand Duke who with his high shoulders +and frowning brows stood a hundred paces away from them in his helmet +and Horse Guards’ jacket, shouting something to a pale, white +uniformed Austrian officer. + +“But that’s the Grand Duke, and I want the commander in chief or the +Emperor,” said Rostóv, and was about to spur his horse. + +“Count! Count!” shouted Berg who ran up from the other side as eager +as Borís. “Count! I am wounded in my right hand” (and he showed his +bleeding hand with a handkerchief tied round it) “and I remained at +the front. I held my sword in my left hand, Count. All our family—the +von Bergs—have been knights!” + +He said something more, but Rostóv did not wait to hear it and rode +away. + +Having passed the Guards and traversed an empty space, Rostóv, to avoid +again getting in front of the first line as he had done when the Horse +Guards charged, followed the line of reserves, going far round the place +where the hottest musket fire and cannonade were heard. Suddenly he +heard musket fire quite close in front of him and behind our troops, +where he could never have expected the enemy to be. + +“What can it be?” he thought. “The enemy in the rear of our army? +Impossible!” And suddenly he was seized by a panic of fear for himself +and for the issue of the whole battle. “But be that what it may,” +he reflected, “there is no riding round it now. I must look for the +commander in chief here, and if all is lost it is for me to perish with +the rest.” + +The foreboding of evil that had suddenly come over Rostóv was more and +more confirmed the farther he rode into the region behind the village of +Pratzen, which was full of troops of all kinds. + +“What does it mean? What is it? Whom are they firing at? Who is +firing?” Rostóv kept asking as he came up to Russian and Austrian +soldiers running in confused crowds across his path. + +“The devil knows! They’ve killed everybody! It’s all up now!” +he was told in Russian, German, and Czech by the crowd of fugitives who +understood what was happening as little as he did. + +“Kill the Germans!” shouted one. + +“May the devil take them—the traitors!” + +“Zum Henker diese Russen!” * muttered a German. + + * “Hang these Russians!” + + +Several wounded men passed along the road, and words of abuse, screams, +and groans mingled in a general hubbub, then the firing died down. +Rostóv learned later that Russian and Austrian soldiers had been firing +at one another. + +“My God! What does it all mean?” thought he. “And here, where at +any moment the Emperor may see them.... But no, these must be only a +handful of scoundrels. It will soon be over, it can’t be that, it +can’t be! Only to get past them quicker, quicker!” + +The idea of defeat and flight could not enter Rostóv’s head. Though +he saw French cannon and French troops on the Pratzen Heights just where +he had been ordered to look for the commander in chief, he could not, +did not wish to, believe that. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVIII + +Rostóv had been ordered to look for Kutúzov and the Emperor near the +village of Pratzen. But neither they nor a single commanding officer +were there, only disorganized crowds of troops of various kinds. He +urged on his already weary horse to get quickly past these crowds, but +the farther he went the more disorganized they were. The highroad on +which he had come out was thronged with calèches, carriages of all +sorts, and Russian and Austrian soldiers of all arms, some wounded and +some not. This whole mass droned and jostled in confusion under the +dismal influence of cannon balls flying from the French batteries +stationed on the Pratzen Heights. + +“Where is the Emperor? Where is Kutúzov?” Rostóv kept asking +everyone he could stop, but got no answer from anyone. + +At last seizing a soldier by his collar he forced him to answer. + +“Eh, brother! They’ve all bolted long ago!” said the soldier, +laughing for some reason and shaking himself free. + +Having left that soldier who was evidently drunk, Rostóv stopped the +horse of a batman or groom of some important personage and began to +question him. The man announced that the Tsar had been driven in a +carriage at full speed about an hour before along that very road and +that he was dangerously wounded. + +“It can’t be!” said Rostóv. “It must have been someone else.” + +“I saw him myself,” replied the man with a self-confident smile of +derision. “I ought to know the Emperor by now, after the times I’ve +seen him in Petersburg. I saw him just as I see you.... There he sat in +the carriage as pale as anything. How they made the four black horses +fly! Gracious me, they did rattle past! It’s time I knew the Imperial +horses and Ilyá Iványch. I don’t think Ilyá drives anyone except +the Tsar!” + +Rostóv let go of the horse and was about to ride on, when a wounded +officer passing by addressed him: + +“Who is it you want?” he asked. “The commander in chief? He was +killed by a cannon ball—struck in the breast before our regiment.” + +“Not killed—wounded!” another officer corrected him. + +“Who? Kutúzov?” asked Rostóv. + +“Not Kutúzov, but what’s his name—well, never mind... there are +not many left alive. Go that way, to that village, all the commanders +are there,” said the officer, pointing to the village of Hosjeradek, +and he walked on. + +Rostóv rode on at a footpace not knowing why or to whom he was now +going. The Emperor was wounded, the battle lost. It was impossible to +doubt it now. Rostóv rode in the direction pointed out to him, in which +he saw turrets and a church. What need to hurry? What was he now to say +to the Tsar or to Kutúzov, even if they were alive and unwounded? + +“Take this road, your honor, that way you will be killed at once!” a +soldier shouted to him. “They’d kill you there!” + +“Oh, what are you talking about?” said another. “Where is he to +go? That way is nearer.” + +Rostóv considered, and then went in the direction where they said he +would be killed. + +“It’s all the same now. If the Emperor is wounded, am I to try to +save myself?” he thought. He rode on to the region where the greatest +number of men had perished in fleeing from Pratzen. The French had not +yet occupied that region, and the Russians—the uninjured and slightly +wounded—had left it long ago. All about the field, like heaps of +manure on well-kept plowland, lay from ten to fifteen dead and wounded +to each couple of acres. The wounded crept together in twos and threes +and one could hear their distressing screams and groans, sometimes +feigned—or so it seemed to Rostóv. He put his horse to a trot to +avoid seeing all these suffering men, and he felt afraid—afraid not +for his life, but for the courage he needed and which he knew would not +stand the sight of these unfortunates. + +The French, who had ceased firing at this field strewn with dead and +wounded where there was no one left to fire at, on seeing an adjutant +riding over it trained a gun on him and fired several shots. The +sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around +him merged in Rostóv’s mind into a single feeling of terror and pity +for himself. He remembered his mother’s last letter. “What would she +feel,” thought he, “if she saw me here now on this field with the +cannon aimed at me?” + +In the village of Hosjeradek there were Russian troops retiring from +the field of battle, who though still in some confusion were less +disordered. The French cannon did not reach there and the musketry fire +sounded far away. Here everyone clearly saw and said that the battle +was lost. No one whom Rostóv asked could tell him where the Emperor +or Kutúzov was. Some said the report that the Emperor was wounded was +correct, others that it was not, and explained the false rumor that had +spread by the fact that the Emperor’s carriage had really galloped +from the field of battle with the pale and terrified Ober-Hofmarschal +Count Tolstóy, who had ridden out to the battlefield with others in +the Emperor’s suite. One officer told Rostóv that he had seen someone +from headquarters behind the village to the left, and thither Rostóv +rode, not hoping to find anyone but merely to ease his conscience. When +he had ridden about two miles and had passed the last of the Russian +troops, he saw, near a kitchen garden with a ditch round it, two men +on horseback facing the ditch. One with a white plume in his hat seemed +familiar to Rostóv; the other on a beautiful chestnut horse (which +Rostóv fancied he had seen before) rode up to the ditch, struck his +horse with his spurs, and giving it the rein leaped lightly over. Only +a little earth crumbled from the bank under the horse’s hind hoofs. +Turning the horse sharply, he again jumped the ditch, and deferentially +addressed the horseman with the white plumes, evidently suggesting +that he should do the same. The rider, whose figure seemed familiar +to Rostóv and involuntarily riveted his attention, made a gesture of +refusal with his head and hand and by that gesture Rostóv instantly +recognized his lamented and adored monarch. + +“But it can’t be he, alone in the midst of this empty field!” +thought Rostóv. At that moment Alexander turned his head and Rostóv +saw the beloved features that were so deeply engraved on his memory. The +Emperor was pale, his cheeks sunken and his eyes hollow, but the charm, +the mildness of his features, was all the greater. Rostóv was happy +in the assurance that the rumors about the Emperor being wounded were +false. He was happy to be seeing him. He knew that he might and even +ought to go straight to him and give the message Dolgorúkov had ordered +him to deliver. + +But as a youth in love trembles, is unnerved, and dares not utter the +thoughts he has dreamed of for nights, but looks around for help or a +chance of delay and flight when the longed-for moment comes and he is +alone with her, so Rostóv, now that he had attained what he had longed +for more than anything else in the world, did not know how to approach +the Emperor, and a thousand reasons occurred to him why it would be +inconvenient, unseemly, and impossible to do so. + +“What! It is as if I were glad of a chance to take advantage of +his being alone and despondent! A strange face may seem unpleasant or +painful to him at this moment of sorrow; besides, what can I say to him +now, when my heart fails me and my mouth feels dry at the mere sight +of him?” Not one of the innumerable speeches addressed to the Emperor +that he had composed in his imagination could he now recall. Those +speeches were intended for quite other conditions, they were for the +most part to be spoken at a moment of victory and triumph, generally +when he was dying of wounds and the sovereign had thanked him for heroic +deeds, and while dying he expressed the love his actions had proved. + +“Besides how can I ask the Emperor for his instructions for the right +flank now that it is nearly four o’clock and the battle is lost? +No, certainly I must not approach him, I must not intrude on his +reflections. Better die a thousand times than risk receiving an unkind +look or bad opinion from him,” Rostóv decided; and sorrowfully and +with a heart full despair he rode away, continually looking back at the +Tsar, who still remained in the same attitude of indecision. + +While Rostóv was thus arguing with himself and riding sadly away, +Captain von Toll chanced to ride to the same spot, and seeing the +Emperor at once rode up to him, offered his services, and assisted him +to cross the ditch on foot. The Emperor, wishing to rest and feeling +unwell, sat down under an apple tree and von Toll remained beside him. +Rostóv from a distance saw with envy and remorse how von Toll spoke +long and warmly to the Emperor and how the Emperor, evidently weeping, +covered his eyes with his hand and pressed von Toll’s hand. + +“And I might have been in his place!” thought Rostóv, and hardly +restraining his tears of pity for the Emperor, he rode on in utter +despair, not knowing where to or why he was now riding. + +His despair was all the greater from feeling that his own weakness was +the cause of his grief. + +He might... not only might but should, have gone up to the sovereign. It +was a unique chance to show his devotion to the Emperor and he had not +made use of it.... “What have I done?” thought he. And he turned +round and galloped back to the place where he had seen the Emperor, but +there was no one beyond the ditch now. Only some carts and carriages +were passing by. From one of the drivers he learned that Kutúzov’s +staff were not far off, in the village the vehicles were going to. +Rostóv followed them. In front of him walked Kutúzov’s groom leading +horses in horsecloths. Then came a cart, and behind that walked an old, +bandy-legged domestic serf in a peaked cap and sheepskin coat. + +“Tit! I say, Tit!” said the groom. + +“What?” answered the old man absent-mindedly. + +“Go, Tit! Thresh a bit!” + +“Oh, you fool!” said the old man, spitting angrily. Some time passed +in silence, and then the same joke was repeated. + + +Before five in the evening the battle had been lost at all points. More +than a hundred cannon were already in the hands of the French. + +Przebyszéwski and his corps had laid down their arms. Other columns +after losing half their men were retreating in disorderly confused +masses. + +The remains of Langeron’s and Dokhtúrov’s mingled forces were +crowding around the dams and banks of the ponds near the village of +Augesd. + +After five o’clock it was only at the Augesd Dam that a hot cannonade +(delivered by the French alone) was still to be heard from numerous +batteries ranged on the slopes of the Pratzen Heights, directed at our +retreating forces. + +In the rearguard, Dokhtúrov and others rallying some battalions kept up +a musketry fire at the French cavalry that was pursuing our troops. It +was growing dusk. On the narrow Augesd Dam where for so many years the +old miller had been accustomed to sit in his tasseled cap peacefully +angling, while his grandson, with shirt sleeves rolled up, handled the +floundering silvery fish in the watering can, on that dam over which for +so many years Moravians in shaggy caps and blue jackets had peacefully +driven their two-horse carts loaded with wheat and had returned dusty +with flour whitening their carts—on that narrow dam amid the wagons +and the cannon, under the horses’ hoofs and between the wagon wheels, +men disfigured by fear of death now crowded together, crushing one +another, dying, stepping over the dying and killing one another, only to +move on a few steps and be killed themselves in the same way. + +Every ten seconds a cannon ball flew compressing the air around, or +a shell burst in the midst of that dense throng, killing some and +splashing with blood those near them. + +Dólokhov—now an officer—wounded in the arm, and on foot, with +the regimental commander on horseback and some ten men of his company, +represented all that was left of that whole regiment. Impelled by the +crowd, they had got wedged in at the approach to the dam and, jammed in +on all sides, had stopped because a horse in front had fallen under a +cannon and the crowd were dragging it out. A cannon ball killed someone +behind them, another fell in front and splashed Dólokhov with blood. +The crowd, pushing forward desperately, squeezed together, moved a few +steps, and again stopped. + +“Move on a hundred yards and we are certainly saved, remain here +another two minutes and it is certain death,” thought each one. + +Dólokhov who was in the midst of the crowd forced his way to the edge +of the dam, throwing two soldiers off their feet, and ran onto the +slippery ice that covered the millpool. + +“Turn this way!” he shouted, jumping over the ice which creaked +under him; “turn this way!” he shouted to those with the gun. “It +bears!...” + +The ice bore him but it swayed and creaked, and it was plain that it +would give way not only under a cannon or a crowd, but very soon even +under his weight alone. The men looked at him and pressed to the +bank, hesitating to step onto the ice. The general on horseback at the +entrance to the dam raised his hand and opened his mouth to address +Dólokhov. Suddenly a cannon ball hissed so low above the crowd that +everyone ducked. It flopped into something moist, and the general fell +from his horse in a pool of blood. Nobody gave him a look or thought of +raising him. + +“Get onto the ice, over the ice! Go on! Turn! Don’t you hear? Go +on!” innumerable voices suddenly shouted after the ball had struck +the general, the men themselves not knowing what, or why, they were +shouting. + +One of the hindmost guns that was going onto the dam turned off onto the +ice. Crowds of soldiers from the dam began running onto the frozen pond. +The ice gave way under one of the foremost soldiers, and one leg slipped +into the water. He tried to right himself but fell in up to his waist. +The nearest soldiers shrank back, the gun driver stopped his horse, but +from behind still came the shouts: “Onto the ice, why do you stop? Go +on! Go on!” And cries of horror were heard in the crowd. The soldiers +near the gun waved their arms and beat the horses to make them turn and +move on. The horses moved off the bank. The ice, that had held under +those on foot, collapsed in a great mass, and some forty men who were on +it dashed, some forward and some back, drowning one another. + +Still the cannon balls continued regularly to whistle and flop onto the +ice and into the water and oftenest of all among the crowd that covered +the dam, the pond, and the bank. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIX + +On the Pratzen Heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his +hand, lay Prince Andrew Bolkónski bleeding profusely and unconsciously +uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan. + +Toward evening he ceased moaning and became quite still. He did not know +how long his unconsciousness lasted. Suddenly he again felt that he was +alive and suffering from a burning, lacerating pain in his head. + +“Where is it, that lofty sky that I did not know till now, but saw +today?” was his first thought. “And I did not know this suffering +either,” he thought. “Yes, I did not know anything, anything at all +till now. But where am I?” + +He listened and heard the sound of approaching horses, and voices +speaking French. He opened his eyes. Above him again was the same lofty +sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and +between them gleamed blue infinity. He did not turn his head and did not +see those who, judging by the sound of hoofs and voices, had ridden up +and stopped near him. + +It was Napoleon accompanied by two aides-de-camp. Bonaparte riding +over the battlefield had given final orders to strengthen the batteries +firing at the Augesd Dam and was looking at the killed and wounded left +on the field. + +“Fine men!” remarked Napoleon, looking at a dead Russian grenadier, +who, with his face buried in the ground and a blackened nape, lay on his +stomach with an already stiffened arm flung wide. + +“The ammunition for the guns in position is exhausted, Your +Majesty,” said an adjutant who had come from the batteries that were +firing at Augesd. + +“Have some brought from the reserve,” said Napoleon, and having gone +on a few steps he stopped before Prince Andrew, who lay on his back with +the flagstaff that had been dropped beside him. (The flag had already +been taken by the French as a trophy.) + +“That’s a fine death!” said Napoleon as he gazed at Bolkónski. + +Prince Andrew understood that this was said of him and that it was +Napoleon who said it. He heard the speaker addressed as Sire. But he +heard the words as he might have heard the buzzing of a fly. Not only +did they not interest him, but he took no notice of them and at once +forgot them. His head was burning, he felt himself bleeding to death, +and he saw above him the remote, lofty, and everlasting sky. He knew it +was Napoleon—his hero—but at that moment Napoleon seemed to him +such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was passing now +between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over +it. At that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over +him, or what was said of him; he was only glad that people were standing +near him and only wished that they would help him and bring him back to +life, which seemed to him so beautiful now that he had today learned to +understand it so differently. He collected all his strength, to stir and +utter a sound. He feebly moved his leg and uttered a weak, sickly groan +which aroused his own pity. + +“Ah! He is alive,” said Napoleon. “Lift this young man up and +carry him to the dressing station.” + +Having said this, Napoleon rode on to meet Marshal Lannes, who, hat in +hand, rode up smiling to the Emperor to congratulate him on the victory. + +Prince Andrew remembered nothing more: he lost consciousness from the +terrible pain of being lifted onto the stretcher, the jolting while +being moved, and the probing of his wound at the dressing station. +He did not regain consciousness till late in the day, when with other +wounded and captured Russian officers he was carried to the hospital. +During this transfer he felt a little stronger and was able to look +about him and even speak. + +The first words he heard on coming to his senses were those of a French +convoy officer, who said rapidly: “We must halt here: the Emperor +will pass here immediately; it will please him to see these gentlemen +prisoners.” + +“There are so many prisoners today, nearly the whole Russian army, +that he is probably tired of them,” said another officer. + +“All the same! They say this one is the commander of all the Emperor +Alexander’s Guards,” said the first one, indicating a Russian +officer in the white uniform of the Horse Guards. + +Bolkónski recognized Prince Repnín whom he had met in Petersburg +society. Beside him stood a lad of nineteen, also a wounded officer of +the Horse Guards. + +Bonaparte, having come up at a gallop, stopped his horse. + +“Which is the senior?” he asked, on seeing the prisoners. + +They named the colonel, Prince Repnín. + +“You are the commander of the Emperor Alexander’s regiment of Horse +Guards?” asked Napoleon. + +“I commanded a squadron,” replied Repnín. + +“Your regiment fulfilled its duty honorably,” said Napoleon. + +“The praise of a great commander is a soldier’s highest reward,” +said Repnín. + +“I bestow it with pleasure,” said Napoleon. “And who is that young +man beside you?” + +Prince Repnín named Lieutenant Sukhtélen. + +After looking at him Napoleon smiled. + +“He’s very young to come to meddle with us.” + +“Youth is no hindrance to courage,” muttered Sukhtélen in a failing +voice. + +“A splendid reply!” said Napoleon. “Young man, you will go far!” + +Prince Andrew, who had also been brought forward before the Emperor’s +eyes to complete the show of prisoners, could not fail to attract his +attention. Napoleon apparently remembered seeing him on the battlefield +and, addressing him, again used the epithet “young man” that was +connected in his memory with Prince Andrew. + +“Well, and you, young man,” said he. “How do you feel, mon +brave?” + +Though five minutes before, Prince Andrew had been able to say a few +words to the soldiers who were carrying him, now with his eyes fixed +straight on Napoleon, he was silent.... So insignificant at that moment +seemed to him all the interests that engrossed Napoleon, so mean did his +hero himself with his paltry vanity and joy in victory appear, +compared to the lofty, equitable, and kindly sky which he had seen and +understood, that he could not answer him. + +Everything seemed so futile and insignificant in comparison with the +stern and solemn train of thought that weakness from loss of blood, +suffering, and the nearness of death aroused in him. Looking into +Napoleon’s eyes Prince Andrew thought of the insignificance of +greatness, the unimportance of life which no one could understand, and +the still greater unimportance of death, the meaning of which no one +alive could understand or explain. + +The Emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of +the officers as he went: “Have these gentlemen attended to and taken +to my bivouac; let my doctor, Larrey, examine their wounds. Au revoir, +Prince Repnín!” and he spurred his horse and galloped away. + +His face shone with self-satisfaction and pleasure. + +The soldiers who had carried Prince Andrew had noticed and taken the +little gold icon Princess Mary had hung round her brother’s neck, but +seeing the favor the Emperor showed the prisoners, they now hastened to +return the holy image. + +Prince Andrew did not see how and by whom it was replaced, but the +little icon with its thin gold chain suddenly appeared upon his chest +outside his uniform. + +“It would be good,” thought Prince Andrew, glancing at the icon his +sister had hung round his neck with such emotion and reverence, “it +would be good if everything were as clear and simple as it seems to +Mary. How good it would be to know where to seek for help in this life, +and what to expect after it beyond the grave! How happy and calm I +should be if I could now say: ‘Lord, have mercy on me!’... But to +whom should I say that? Either to a Power indefinable, incomprehensible, +which I not only cannot address but which I cannot even express in +words—the Great All or Nothing-” said he to himself, “or to +that God who has been sewn into this amulet by Mary! There is nothing +certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything I +understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but +all-important.” + +The stretchers moved on. At every jolt he again felt unendurable pain; +his feverishness increased and he grew delirious. Visions of his father, +wife, sister, and future son, and the tenderness he had felt the night +before the battle, the figure of the insignificant little Napoleon, and +above all this the lofty sky, formed the chief subjects of his delirious +fancies. + +The quiet home life and peaceful happiness of Bald Hills presented +itself to him. He was already enjoying that happiness when that +little Napoleon had suddenly appeared with his unsympathizing look of +shortsighted delight at the misery of others, and doubts and torments +had followed, and only the heavens promised peace. Toward morning +all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of +unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of Napoleon’s doctor, +Larrey, was much more likely to end in death than in convalescence. + +“He is a nervous, bilious subject,” said Larrey, “and will not +recover.” + +And Prince Andrew, with others fatally wounded, was left to the care of +the inhabitants of the district. + + + + + +BOOK FOUR: 1806 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +Early in the year 1806 Nicholas Rostóv returned home on leave. Denísov +was going home to Vorónezh and Rostóv persuaded him to travel with him +as far as Moscow and to stay with him there. Meeting a comrade at +the last post station but one before Moscow, Denísov had drunk three +bottles of wine with him and, despite the jolting ruts across the +snow-covered road, did not once wake up on the way to Moscow, but lay +at the bottom of the sleigh beside Rostóv, who grew more and more +impatient the nearer they got to Moscow. + +“How much longer? How much longer? Oh, these insufferable streets, +shops, bakers’ signboards, street lamps, and sleighs!” thought +Rostóv, when their leave permits had been passed at the town gate and +they had entered Moscow. + +“Denísov! We’re here! He’s asleep,” he added, leaning forward +with his whole body as if in that position he hoped to hasten the speed +of the sleigh. + +Denísov gave no answer. + +“There’s the corner at the crossroads, where the cabman, Zakhár, +has his stand, and there’s Zakhár himself and still the same horse! +And here’s the little shop where we used to buy gingerbread! Can’t +you hurry up? Now then!” + +“Which house is it?” asked the driver. + +“Why, that one, right at the end, the big one. Don’t you see? +That’s our house,” said Rostóv. “Of course, it’s our house! +Denísov, Denísov! We’re almost there!” + +Denísov raised his head, coughed, and made no answer. + +“Dmítri,” said Rostóv to his valet on the box, “those lights are +in our house, aren’t they?” + +“Yes, sir, and there’s a light in your father’s study.” + +“Then they’ve not gone to bed yet? What do you think? Mind now, +don’t forget to put out my new coat,” added Rostóv, fingering his +new mustache. “Now then, get on,” he shouted to the driver. “Do +wake up, Váska!” he went on, turning to Denísov, whose head +was again nodding. “Come, get on! You shall have three rubles for +vodka—get on!” Rostóv shouted, when the sleigh was only three +houses from his door. It seemed to him the horses were not moving at +all. At last the sleigh bore to the right, drew up at an entrance, and +Rostóv saw overhead the old familiar cornice with a bit of plaster +broken off, the porch, and the post by the side of the pavement. He +sprang out before the sleigh stopped, and ran into the hall. The house +stood cold and silent, as if quite regardless of who had come to it. +There was no one in the hall. “Oh God! Is everyone all right?” +he thought, stopping for a moment with a sinking heart, and then +immediately starting to run along the hall and up the warped steps of +the familiar staircase. The well-known old door handle, which always +angered the countess when it was not properly cleaned, turned as loosely +as ever. A solitary tallow candle burned in the anteroom. + +Old Michael was asleep on the chest. Prokófy, the footman, who was +so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat +plaiting slippers out of cloth selvedges. He looked up at the opening +door and his expression of sleepy indifference suddenly changed to one +of delighted amazement. + +“Gracious heavens! The young count!” he cried, recognizing his +young master. “Can it be? My treasure!” and Prokófy, trembling with +excitement, rushed toward the drawing room door, probably in order to +announce him, but, changing his mind, came back and stooped to kiss the +young man’s shoulder. + +“All well?” asked Rostóv, drawing away his arm. + +“Yes, God be thanked! Yes! They’ve just finished supper. Let me have +a look at you, your excellency.” + +“Is everything quite all right?” + +“The Lord be thanked, yes!” + +Rostóv, who had completely forgotten Denísov, not wishing anyone to +forestall him, threw off his fur coat and ran on tiptoe through the +large dark ballroom. All was the same: there were the same old card +tables and the same chandelier with a cover over it; but someone had +already seen the young master, and, before he had reached the drawing +room, something flew out from a side door like a tornado and began +hugging and kissing him. Another and yet another creature of the same +kind sprang from a second door and a third; more hugging, more kissing, +more outcries, and tears of joy. He could not distinguish which was +Papa, which Natásha, and which Pétya. Everyone shouted, talked, and +kissed him at the same time. Only his mother was not there, he noticed +that. + +“And I did not know... Nicholas... My darling!...” + +“Here he is... our own... Kólya, * dear fellow... How he has +changed!... Where are the candles?... Tea!...” + + * Nicholas. + +“And me, kiss me!” + +“Dearest... and me!” + +Sónya, Natásha, Pétya, Anna Mikháylovna, Véra, and the old count +were all hugging him, and the serfs, men and maids, flocked into the +room, exclaiming and oh-ing and ah-ing. + +Pétya, clinging to his legs, kept shouting, “And me too!” + +Natásha, after she had pulled him down toward her and covered his face +with kisses, holding him tight by the skirt of his coat, sprang away and +pranced up and down in one place like a goat and shrieked piercingly. + +All around were loving eyes glistening with tears of joy, and all around +were lips seeking a kiss. + +Sónya too, all rosy red, clung to his arm and, radiant with bliss, +looked eagerly toward his eyes, waiting for the look for which she +longed. Sónya now was sixteen and she was very pretty, especially at +this moment of happy, rapturous excitement. She gazed at him, not taking +her eyes off him, and smiling and holding her breath. He gave her a +grateful look, but was still expectant and looking for someone. The old +countess had not yet come. But now steps were heard at the door, steps +so rapid that they could hardly be his mother’s. + +Yet it was she, dressed in a new gown which he did not know, made since +he had left. All the others let him go, and he ran to her. When they +met, she fell on his breast, sobbing. She could not lift her face, but +only pressed it to the cold braiding of his hussar’s jacket. Denísov, +who had come into the room unnoticed by anyone, stood there and wiped +his eyes at the sight. + +“Vasíli Denísov, your son’s friend,” he said, introducing +himself to the count, who was looking inquiringly at him. + +“You are most welcome! I know, I know,” said the count, kissing and +embracing Denísov. “Nicholas wrote us... Natásha, Véra, look! Here +is Denísov!” + +The same happy, rapturous faces turned to the shaggy figure of Denísov. + +“Darling Denísov!” screamed Natásha, beside herself with rapture, +springing to him, putting her arms round him, and kissing him. This +escapade made everybody feel confused. Denísov blushed too, but smiled +and, taking Natásha’s hand, kissed it. + +Denísov was shown to the room prepared for him, and the Rostóvs all +gathered round Nicholas in the sitting room. + +The old countess, not letting go of his hand and kissing it every +moment, sat beside him: the rest, crowding round him, watched every +movement, word, or look of his, never taking their blissfully adoring +eyes off him. His brother and sisters struggled for the places nearest +to him and disputed with one another who should bring him his tea, +handkerchief, and pipe. + +Rostóv was very happy in the love they showed him; but the first +moment of meeting had been so beatific that his present joy seemed +insufficient, and he kept expecting something more, more and yet more. + +Next morning, after the fatigues of their journey, the travelers slept +till ten o’clock. + +In the room next their bedroom there was a confusion of sabers, +satchels, sabretaches, open portmanteaus, and dirty boots. Two freshly +cleaned pairs with spurs had just been placed by the wall. The servants +were bringing in jugs and basins, hot water for shaving, and their +well-brushed clothes. There was a masculine odor and a smell of tobacco. + +“Hallo, Gwíska—my pipe!” came Vasíli Denísov’s husky voice. +“Wostóv, get up!” + +Rostóv, rubbing his eyes that seemed glued together, raised his +disheveled head from the hot pillow. + +“Why, is it late?” + +“Late! It’s nearly ten o’clock,” answered Natásha’s voice. +A rustle of starched petticoats and the whispering and laughter of +girls’ voices came from the adjoining room. The door was opened a +crack and there was a glimpse of something blue, of ribbons, black hair, +and merry faces. It was Natásha, Sónya, and Pétya, who had come to +see whether they were getting up. + +“Nicholas! Get up!” Natásha’s voice was again heard at the door. + +“Directly!” + +Meanwhile, Pétya, having found and seized the sabers in the outer room, +with the delight boys feel at the sight of a military elder brother, and +forgetting that it was unbecoming for the girls to see men undressed, +opened the bedroom door. + +“Is this your saber?” he shouted. + +The girls sprang aside. Denísov hid his hairy legs under the blanket, +looking with a scared face at his comrade for help. The door, having let +Pétya in, closed again. A sound of laughter came from behind it. + +“Nicholas! Come out in your dressing gown!” said Natásha’s voice. + +“Is this your saber?” asked Pétya. “Or is it yours?” he said, +addressing the black-mustached Denísov with servile deference. + +Rostóv hurriedly put something on his feet, drew on his dressing gown, +and went out. Natásha had put on one spurred boot and was just getting +her foot into the other. Sónya, when he came in, was twirling round and +was about to expand her dresses into a balloon and sit down. They were +dressed alike, in new pale-blue frocks, and were both fresh, rosy, and +bright. Sónya ran away, but Natásha, taking her brother’s arm, led +him into the sitting room, where they began talking. They hardly gave +one another time to ask questions and give replies concerning a thousand +little matters which could not interest anyone but themselves. Natásha +laughed at every word he said or that she said herself, not because what +they were saying was amusing, but because she felt happy and was unable +to control her joy which expressed itself by laughter. + +“Oh, how nice, how splendid!” she said to everything. + +Rostóv felt that, under the influence of the warm rays of love, that +childlike smile which had not once appeared on his face since he left +home now for the first time after eighteen months again brightened his +soul and his face. + +“No, but listen,” she said, “now you are quite a man, aren’t +you? I’m awfully glad you’re my brother.” She touched his +mustache. “I want to know what you men are like. Are you the same as +we? No?” + +“Why did Sónya run away?” asked Rostóv. + +“Ah, yes! That’s a whole long story! How are you going to speak to +her—thou or you?” + +“As may happen,” said Rostóv. + +“No, call her you, please! I’ll tell you all about it some other +time. No, I’ll tell you now. You know Sónya’s my dearest friend. +Such a friend that I burned my arm for her sake. Look here!” + +She pulled up her muslin sleeve and showed him a red scar on her long, +slender, delicate arm, high above the elbow on that part that is covered +even by a ball dress. + +“I burned this to prove my love for her. I just heated a ruler in the +fire and pressed it there!” + +Sitting on the sofa with the little cushions on its arms, in what used +to be his old schoolroom, and looking into Natásha’s wildly bright +eyes, Rostóv re-entered that world of home and childhood which had no +meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the best joys of his life; +and the burning of an arm with a ruler as a proof of love did not seem +to him senseless, he understood and was not surprised at it. + +“Well, and is that all?” he asked. + +“We are such friends, such friends! All that ruler business was just +nonsense, but we are friends forever. She, if she loves anyone, does it +for life, but I don’t understand that, I forget quickly.” + +“Well, what then?” + +“Well, she loves me and you like that.” + +Natásha suddenly flushed. + +“Why, you remember before you went away?... Well, she says you are to +forget all that.... She says: ‘I shall love him always, but let him be +free.’ Isn’t that lovely and noble! Yes, very noble? Isn’t it?” +asked Natásha, so seriously and excitedly that it was evident that what +she was now saying she had talked of before, with tears. + +Rostóv became thoughtful. + +“I never go back on my word,” he said. “Besides, Sónya is so +charming that only a fool would renounce such happiness.” + +“No, no!” cried Natásha, “she and I have already talked it over. +We knew you’d say so. But it won’t do, because you see, if you say +that—if you consider yourself bound by your promise—it will seem as +if she had not meant it seriously. It makes it as if you were marrying +her because you must, and that wouldn’t do at all.” + +Rostóv saw that it had been well considered by them. Sónya had already +struck him by her beauty on the preceding day. Today, when he had caught +a glimpse of her, she seemed still more lovely. She was a charming girl +of sixteen, evidently passionately in love with him (he did not doubt +that for an instant). Why should he not love her now, and even marry +her, Rostóv thought, but just now there were so many other pleasures +and interests before him! “Yes, they have taken a wise decision,” he +thought, “I must remain free.” + +“Well then, that’s excellent,” said he. “We’ll talk it over +later on. Oh, how glad I am to have you!” + +“Well, and are you still true to Borís?” he continued. + +“Oh, what nonsense!” cried Natásha, laughing. “I don’t think +about him or anyone else, and I don’t want anything of the kind.” + +“Dear me! Then what are you up to now?” + +“Now?” repeated Natásha, and a happy smile lit up her face. “Have +you seen Duport?” + +“No.” + +“Not seen Duport—the famous dancer? Well then, you won’t +understand. That’s what I’m up to.” + +Curving her arms, Natásha held out her skirts as dancers do, ran back +a few steps, turned, cut a caper, brought her little feet sharply +together, and made some steps on the very tips of her toes. + +“See, I’m standing! See!” she said, but could not maintain herself +on her toes any longer. “So that’s what I’m up to! I’ll never +marry anyone, but will be a dancer. Only don’t tell anyone.” + +Rostóv laughed so loud and merrily that Denísov, in his bedroom, felt +envious and Natásha could not help joining in. + +“No, but don’t you think it’s nice?” she kept repeating. + +“Nice! And so you no longer wish to marry Borís?” + +Natásha flared up. “I don’t want to marry anyone. And I’ll tell +him so when I see him!” + +“Dear me!” said Rostóv. + +“But that’s all rubbish,” Natásha chattered on. “And is +Denísov nice?” she asked. + +“Yes, indeed!” + +“Oh, well then, good-by: go and dress. Is he very terrible, +Denísov?” + +“Why terrible?” asked Nicholas. “No, Váska is a splendid +fellow.” + +“You call him Váska? That’s funny! And is he very nice?” + +“Very.” + +“Well then, be quick. We’ll all have breakfast together.” + +And Natásha rose and went out of the room on tiptoe, like a ballet +dancer, but smiling as only happy girls of fifteen can smile. When +Rostóv met Sónya in the drawing room, he reddened. He did not know +how to behave with her. The evening before, in the first happy moment of +meeting, they had kissed each other, but today they felt it could not +be done; he felt that everybody, including his mother and sisters, was +looking inquiringly at him and watching to see how he would behave +with her. He kissed her hand and addressed her not as thou but as +you—Sónya. But their eyes met and said thou, and exchanged tender +kisses. Her looks asked him to forgive her for having dared, by +Natásha’s intermediacy, to remind him of his promise, and then +thanked him for his love. His looks thanked her for offering him his +freedom and told her that one way or another he would never cease to +love her, for that would be impossible. + +“How strange it is,” said Véra, selecting a moment when all were +silent, “that Sónya and Nicholas now say you to one another and meet +like strangers.” + +Véra’s remark was correct, as her remarks always were, but, like +most of her observations, it made everyone feel uncomfortable, not +only Sónya, Nicholas, and Natásha, but even the old countess, +who—dreading this love affair which might hinder Nicholas from making +a brilliant match—blushed like a girl. + +Denísov, to Rostóv’s surprise, appeared in the drawing room with +pomaded hair, perfumed, and in a new uniform, looking just as smart as +he made himself when going into battle, and he was more amiable to the +ladies and gentlemen than Rostóv had ever expected to see him. + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +On his return to Moscow from the army, Nicholas Rostóv was welcomed +by his home circle as the best of sons, a hero, and their darling +Nikólenka; by his relations as a charming, attractive, and polite young +man; by his acquaintances as a handsome lieutenant of hussars, a good +dancer, and one of the best matches in the city. + +The Rostóvs knew everybody in Moscow. The old count had money enough +that year, as all his estates had been remortgaged, and so Nicholas, +acquiring a trotter of his own, very stylish riding breeches of the +latest cut, such as no one else yet had in Moscow, and boots of the +latest fashion, with extremely pointed toes and small silver spurs, +passed his time very gaily. After a short period of adapting himself +to the old conditions of life, Nicholas found it very pleasant to be +at home again. He felt that he had grown up and matured very much. His +despair at failing in a Scripture examination, his borrowing money from +Gavríl to pay a sleigh driver, his kissing Sónya on the sly—he now +recalled all this as childishness he had left immeasurably behind. +Now he was a lieutenant of hussars, in a jacket laced with silver, and +wearing the Cross of St. George, awarded to soldiers for bravery in +action, and in the company of well-known, elderly, and respected racing +men was training a trotter of his own for a race. He knew a lady on one +of the boulevards whom he visited of an evening. He led the mazurka +at the Arkhárovs’ ball, talked about the war with Field Marshal +Kámenski, visited the English Club, and was on intimate terms with a +colonel of forty to whom Denísov had introduced him. + +His passion for the Emperor had cooled somewhat in Moscow. But still, as +he did not see him and had no opportunity of seeing him, he often spoke +about him and about his love for him, letting it be understood that he +had not told all and that there was something in his feelings for the +Emperor not everyone could understand, and with his whole soul he shared +the adoration then common in Moscow for the Emperor, who was spoken of +as the “angel incarnate.” + +During Rostóv’s short stay in Moscow, before rejoining the army, he +did not draw closer to Sónya, but rather drifted away from her. She was +very pretty and sweet, and evidently deeply in love with him, but he was +at the period of youth when there seems so much to do that there is no +time for that sort of thing and a young man fears to bind himself and +prizes his freedom which he needs for so many other things. When he +thought of Sónya, during this stay in Moscow, he said to himself, +“Ah, there will be, and there are, many more such girls somewhere whom +I do not yet know. There will be time enough to think about love when I +want to, but now I have no time.” Besides, it seemed to him that the +society of women was rather derogatory to his manhood. He went to balls +and into ladies’ society with an affectation of doing so against his +will. The races, the English Club, sprees with Denísov, and visits to +a certain house—that was another matter and quite the thing for a +dashing young hussar! + +At the beginning of March, old Count Ilyá Rostóv was very busy +arranging a dinner in honor of Prince Bagratión at the English Club. + +The count walked up and down the hall in his dressing gown, giving +orders to the club steward and to the famous Feoktíst, the club’s +head cook, about asparagus, fresh cucumbers, strawberries, veal, and +fish for this dinner. The count had been a member and on the committee +of the club from the day it was founded. To him the club entrusted the +arrangement of the festival in honor of Bagratión, for few men knew +so well how to arrange a feast on an open-handed, hospitable scale, +and still fewer men would be so well able and willing to make up out of +their own resources what might be needed for the success of the fete. +The club cook and the steward listened to the count’s orders with +pleased faces, for they knew that under no other management could they +so easily extract a good profit for themselves from a dinner costing +several thousand rubles. + +“Well then, mind and have cocks’ comb in the turtle soup, you +know!” + +“Shall we have three cold dishes then?” asked the cook. + +The count considered. + +“We can’t have less—yes, three... the mayonnaise, that’s one,” +said he, bending down a finger. + +“Then am I to order those large sterlets?” asked the steward. + +“Yes, it can’t be helped if they won’t take less. Ah, dear me! I +was forgetting. We must have another entrée. Ah, goodness gracious!” +he clutched at his head. “Who is going to get me the flowers? Dmítri! +Eh, Dmítri! Gallop off to our Moscow estate,” he said to the factotum +who appeared at his call. “Hurry off and tell Maksím, the gardener, +to set the serfs to work. Say that everything out of the hothouses must +be brought here well wrapped up in felt. I must have two hundred pots +here on Friday.” + +Having given several more orders, he was about to go to his “little +countess” to have a rest, but remembering something else of +importance, he returned again, called back the cook and the club +steward, and again began giving orders. A light footstep and the +clinking of spurs were heard at the door, and the young count, handsome, +rosy, with a dark little mustache, evidently rested and made sleeker by +his easy life in Moscow, entered the room. + +“Ah, my boy, my head’s in a whirl!” said the old man with a smile, +as if he felt a little confused before his son. “Now, if you would +only help a bit! I must have singers too. I shall have my own orchestra, +but shouldn’t we get the gypsy singers as well? You military men like +that sort of thing.” + +“Really, Papa, I believe Prince Bagratión worried himself less before +the battle of Schön Grabern than you do now,” said his son with a +smile. + +The old count pretended to be angry. + +“Yes, you talk, but try it yourself!” + +And the count turned to the cook, who, with a shrewd and respectful +expression, looked observantly and sympathetically at the father and +son. + +“What have the young people come to nowadays, eh, Feoktíst?” said +he. “Laughing at us old fellows!” + +“That’s so, your excellency, all they have to do is to eat a good +dinner, but providing it and serving it all up, that’s not their +business!” + +“That’s it, that’s it!” exclaimed the count, and gaily seizing +his son by both hands, he cried, “Now I’ve got you, so take the +sleigh and pair at once, and go to Bezúkhov’s, and tell him ‘Count +Ilyá has sent you to ask for strawberries and fresh pineapples.’ We +can’t get them from anyone else. He’s not there himself, so you’ll +have to go in and ask the princesses; and from there go on to the +Rasgulyáy—the coachman Ipátka knows—and look up the gypsy +Ilyúshka, the one who danced at Count Orlóv’s, you remember, in a +white Cossack coat, and bring him along to me.” + +“And am I to bring the gypsy girls along with him?” asked Nicholas, +laughing. “Dear, dear!...” + +At that moment, with noiseless footsteps and with the businesslike, +preoccupied, yet meekly Christian look which never left her face, Anna +Mikháylovna entered the hall. Though she came upon the count in his +dressing gown every day, he invariably became confused and begged her to +excuse his costume. + +“No matter at all, my dear count,” she said, meekly closing her +eyes. “But I’ll go to Bezúkhov’s myself. Pierre has arrived, and +now we shall get anything we want from his hothouses. I have to see him +in any case. He has forwarded me a letter from Borís. Thank God, Borís +is now on the staff.” + +The count was delighted at Anna Mikháylovna’s taking upon herself one +of his commissions and ordered the small closed carriage for her. + +“Tell Bezúkhov to come. I’ll put his name down. Is his wife with +him?” he asked. + +Anna Mikháylovna turned up her eyes, and profound sadness was depicted +on her face. + +“Ah, my dear friend, he is very unfortunate,” she said. “If what +we hear is true, it is dreadful. How little we dreamed of such a thing +when we were rejoicing at his happiness! And such a lofty angelic soul +as young Bezúkhov! Yes, I pity him from my heart, and shall try to give +him what consolation I can.” + +“Wh-what is the matter?” asked both the young and old Rostóv. + +Anna Mikháylovna sighed deeply. + +“Dólokhov, Mary Ivánovna’s son,” she said in a mysterious +whisper, “has compromised her completely, they say. Pierre took him +up, invited him to his house in Petersburg, and now... she has come here +and that daredevil after her!” said Anna Mikháylovna, wishing to show +her sympathy for Pierre, but by involuntary intonations and a half smile +betraying her sympathy for the “daredevil,” as she called Dólokhov. +“They say Pierre is quite broken by his misfortune.” + +“Dear, dear! But still tell him to come to the club—it will all blow +over. It will be a tremendous banquet.” + +Next day, the third of March, soon after one o’clock, two hundred and +fifty members of the English Club and fifty guests were awaiting the +guest of honor and hero of the Austrian campaign, Prince Bagratión, to +dinner. + +On the first arrival of the news of the battle of Austerlitz, Moscow had +been bewildered. At that time, the Russians were so used to victories +that on receiving news of the defeat some would simply not believe it, +while others sought some extraordinary explanation of so strange an +event. In the English Club, where all who were distinguished, important, +and well informed foregathered when the news began to arrive in +December, nothing was said about the war and the last battle, as +though all were in a conspiracy of silence. The men who set the tone +in conversation—Count Rostopchín, Prince Yúri Dolgorúkov, Valúev, +Count Markóv, and Prince Vyázemski—did not show themselves at the +club, but met in private houses in intimate circles, and the +Moscovites who took their opinions from others—Ilyá Rostóv among +them—remained for a while without any definite opinion on the subject +of the war and without leaders. The Moscovites felt that something was +wrong and that to discuss the bad news was difficult, and so it was best +to be silent. But after a while, just as a jury comes out of its room, +the bigwigs who guided the club’s opinion reappeared, and everybody +began speaking clearly and definitely. Reasons were found for the +incredible, unheard-of, and impossible event of a Russian defeat, +everything became clear, and in all corners of Moscow the same things +began to be said. These reasons were the treachery of the Austrians, a +defective commissariat, the treachery of the Pole Przebyszéwski and of +the Frenchman Langeron, Kutúzov’s incapacity, and (it was whispered) +the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless +and insignificant people. But the army, the Russian army, everyone +declared, was extraordinary and had achieved miracles of valor. The +soldiers, officers, and generals were heroes. But the hero of heroes was +Prince Bagratión, distinguished by his Schön Grabern affair and by +the retreat from Austerlitz, where he alone had withdrawn his column +unbroken and had all day beaten back an enemy force twice as numerous +as his own. What also conduced to Bagratión’s being selected as +Moscow’s hero was the fact that he had no connections in the city +and was a stranger there. In his person, honor was shown to a simple +fighting Russian soldier without connections and intrigues, and to one +who was associated by memories of the Italian campaign with the name of +Suvórov. Moreover, paying such honor to Bagratión was the best way of +expressing disapproval and dislike of Kutúzov. + +“Had there been no Bagratión, it would have been necessary to +invent him,” said the wit Shinshín, parodying the words of Voltaire. +Kutúzov no one spoke of, except some who abused him in whispers, +calling him a court weathercock and an old satyr. + +All Moscow repeated Prince Dolgorúkov’s saying: “If you go on +modeling and modeling you must get smeared with clay,” suggesting +consolation for our defeat by the memory of former victories; and the +words of Rostopchín, that French soldiers have to be incited to battle +by highfalutin words, and Germans by logical arguments to show them +that it is more dangerous to run away than to advance, but that Russian +soldiers only need to be restrained and held back! On all sides, new and +fresh anecdotes were heard of individual examples of heroism shown by +our officers and men at Austerlitz. One had saved a standard, another +had killed five Frenchmen, a third had loaded five cannon singlehanded. +Berg was mentioned, by those who did not know him, as having, when +wounded in the right hand, taken his sword in the left, and gone +forward. Of Bolkónski, nothing was said, and only those who knew him +intimately regretted that he had died so young, leaving a pregnant wife +with his eccentric father. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +On that third of March, all the rooms in the English Club were filled +with a hum of conversation, like the hum of bees swarming in springtime. +The members and guests of the club wandered hither and thither, sat, +stood, met, and separated, some in uniform and some in evening dress, +and a few here and there with powdered hair and in Russian kaftáns. +Powdered footmen, in livery with buckled shoes and smart stockings, +stood at every door anxiously noting visitors’ every movement in order +to offer their services. Most of those present were elderly, respected +men with broad, self-confident faces, fat fingers, and resolute gestures +and voices. This class of guests and members sat in certain habitual +places and met in certain habitual groups. A minority of those present +were casual guests—chiefly young men, among whom were Denísov, +Rostóv, and Dólokhov—who was now again an officer in the Semënov +regiment. The faces of these young people, especially those who were +military men, bore that expression of condescending respect for their +elders which seems to say to the older generation, “We are prepared to +respect and honor you, but all the same remember that the future belongs +to us.” + +Nesvítski was there as an old member of the club. Pierre, who at his +wife’s command had let his hair grow and abandoned his spectacles, +went about the rooms fashionably dressed but looking sad and dull. Here, +as elsewhere, he was surrounded by an atmosphere of subservience to +his wealth, and being in the habit of lording it over these people, he +treated them with absent-minded contempt. + +By his age he should have belonged to the younger men, but by his wealth +and connections he belonged to the groups of old and honored guests, and +so he went from one group to another. Some of the most important old men +were the center of groups which even strangers approached respectfully +to hear the voices of well-known men. The largest circles formed round +Count Rostopchín, Valúev, and Narýshkin. Rostopchín was describing +how the Russians had been overwhelmed by flying Austrians and had had to +force their way through them with bayonets. + +Valúev was confidentially telling that Uvárov had been sent from +Petersburg to ascertain what Moscow was thinking about Austerlitz. + +In the third circle, Narýshkin was speaking of the meeting of the +Austrian Council of War at which Suvórov crowed like a cock in reply to +the nonsense talked by the Austrian generals. Shinshín, standing close +by, tried to make a joke, saying that Kutúzov had evidently failed to +learn from Suvórov even so simple a thing as the art of crowing like a +cock, but the elder members glanced severely at the wit, making him +feel that in that place and on that day, it was improper to speak so of +Kutúzov. + +Count Ilyá Rostóv, hurried and preoccupied, went about in his soft +boots between the dining and drawing rooms, hastily greeting the +important and unimportant, all of whom he knew, as if they were all +equals, while his eyes occasionally sought out his fine well-set-up +young son, resting on him and winking joyfully at him. Young Rostóv +stood at a window with Dólokhov, whose acquaintance he had lately +made and highly valued. The old count came up to them and pressed +Dólokhov’s hand. + +“Please come and visit us... you know my brave boy... been together +out there... both playing the hero... Ah, Vasíli Ignátovich... +How d’ye do, old fellow?” he said, turning to an old man who was +passing, but before he had finished his greeting there was a general +stir, and a footman who had run in announced, with a frightened face: +“He’s arrived!” + +Bells rang, the stewards rushed forward, and—like rye shaken together +in a shovel—the guests who had been scattered about in different rooms +came together and crowded in the large drawing room by the door of the +ballroom. + +Bagratión appeared in the doorway of the anteroom without hat or sword, +which, in accord with the club custom, he had given up to the hall +porter. He had no lambskin cap on his head, nor had he a loaded whip +over his shoulder, as when Rostóv had seen him on the eve of the battle +of Austerlitz, but wore a tight new uniform with Russian and foreign +Orders, and the Star of St. George on his left breast. Evidently just +before coming to the dinner he had had his hair and whiskers trimmed, +which changed his appearance for the worse. There was something naïvely +festive in his air, which, in conjunction with his firm and virile +features, gave him a rather comical expression. Bekleshëv and Theodore +Uvárov, who had arrived with him, paused at the doorway to allow him, +as the guest of honor, to enter first. Bagratión was embarrassed, not +wishing to avail himself of their courtesy, and this caused some delay +at the doors, but after all he did at last enter first. He walked shyly +and awkwardly over the parquet floor of the reception room, not knowing +what to do with his hands; he was more accustomed to walk over a plowed +field under fire, as he had done at the head of the Kursk regiment at +Schön Grabern—and he would have found that easier. The committeemen +met him at the first door and, expressing their delight at seeing such a +highly honored guest, took possession of him as it were, without waiting +for his reply, surrounded him, and led him to the drawing room. It was +at first impossible to enter the drawing room door for the crowd of +members and guests jostling one another and trying to get a good look +at Bagratión over each other’s shoulders, as if he were some rare +animal. Count Ilyá Rostóv, laughing and repeating the words, “Make +way, dear boy! Make way, make way!” pushed through the crowd more +energetically than anyone, led the guests into the drawing room, and +seated them on the center sofa. The bigwigs, the most respected members +of the club, beset the new arrivals. Count Ilyá, again thrusting his +way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a +minute later with another committeeman, carrying a large silver salver +which he presented to Prince Bagratión. On the salver lay some verses +composed and printed in the hero’s honor. Bagratión, on seeing the +salver, glanced around in dismay, as though seeking help. But all eyes +demanded that he should submit. Feeling himself in their power, he +resolutely took the salver with both hands and looked sternly and +reproachfully at the count who had presented it to him. Someone +obligingly took the dish from Bagratión (or he would, it seemed, have +held it till evening and have gone in to dinner with it) and drew his +attention to the verses. + +“Well, I will read them, then!” Bagratión seemed to say, and, +fixing his weary eyes on the paper, began to read them with a fixed and +serious expression. But the author himself took the verses and began +reading them aloud. Bagratión bowed his head and listened: + + Bring glory then to Alexander’s reign + And on the throne our Titus shield. + A dreaded foe be thou, kindhearted as a man, + A Rhipheus at home, a Caesar in the field! + E’en fortunate Napoleon + Knows by experience, now, Bagratión, + And dare not Herculean Russians trouble... + +But before he had finished reading, a stentorian major-domo announced +that dinner was ready! The door opened, and from the dining room came +the resounding strains of the polonaise: + + Conquest’s joyful thunder waken, + Triumph, valiant Russians, now!... + +and Count Rostóv, glancing angrily at the author who went on reading +his verses, bowed to Bagratión. Everyone rose, feeling that dinner +was more important than verses, and Bagratión, again preceding all the +rest, went in to dinner. He was seated in the place of honor between +two Alexanders—Bekleshëv and Narýshkin—which was a significant +allusion to the name of the sovereign. Three hundred persons took their +seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the +more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows +deepest where the land lies lowest. + +Just before dinner, Count Ilyá Rostóv presented his son to Bagratión, +who recognized him and said a few words to him, disjointed and awkward, +as were all the words he spoke that day, and Count Ilyá looked joyfully +and proudly around while Bagratión spoke to his son. + +Nicholas Rostóv, with Denísov and his new acquaintance, Dólokhov, sat +almost at the middle of the table. Facing them sat Pierre, beside Prince +Nesvítski. Count Ilyá Rostóv with the other members of the committee +sat facing Bagratión and, as the very personification of Moscow +hospitality, did the honors to the prince. + +His efforts had not been in vain. The dinner, both the Lenten and the +other fare, was splendid, yet he could not feel quite at ease till the +end of the meal. He winked at the butler, whispered directions to the +footmen, and awaited each expected dish with some anxiety. Everything +was excellent. With the second course, a gigantic sterlet (at sight of +which Ilyá Rostóv blushed with self-conscious pleasure), the footmen +began popping corks and filling the champagne glasses. After the fish, +which made a certain sensation, the count exchanged glances with +the other committeemen. “There will be many toasts, it’s time to +begin,” he whispered, and taking up his glass, he rose. All were +silent, waiting for what he would say. + +“To the health of our Sovereign, the Emperor!” he cried, and at the +same moment his kindly eyes grew moist with tears of joy and enthusiasm. +The band immediately struck up “Conquest’s joyful thunder +waken...” All rose and cried “Hurrah!” Bagratión also rose and +shouted “Hurrah!” in exactly the same voice in which he had shouted +it on the field at Schön Grabern. Young Rostóv’s ecstatic voice +could be heard above the three hundred others. He nearly wept. “To the +health of our Sovereign, the Emperor!” he roared, “Hurrah!” and +emptying his glass at one gulp he dashed it to the floor. Many followed +his example, and the loud shouting continued for a long time. When the +voices subsided, the footmen cleared away the broken glass and everybody +sat down again, smiling at the noise they had made and exchanging +remarks. The old count rose once more, glanced at a note lying beside +his plate, and proposed a toast, “To the health of the hero of our +last campaign, Prince Peter Ivánovich Bagratión!” and again his blue +eyes grew moist. “Hurrah!” cried the three hundred voices again, +but instead of the band a choir began singing a cantata composed by Paul +Ivánovich Kutúzov: + + Russians! O’er all barriers on! + Courage conquest guarantees; + Have we not Bagratión? + He brings foemen to their knees,... etc. + +As soon as the singing was over, another and another toast was proposed +and Count Ilyá Rostóv became more and more moved, more glass was +smashed, and the shouting grew louder. They drank to Bekleshëv, +Narýshkin, Uvárov, Dolgorúkov, Apráksin, Valúev, to the committee, +to all the club members and to all the club guests, and finally to +Count Ilyá Rostóv separately, as the organizer of the banquet. At that +toast, the count took out his handkerchief and, covering his face, wept +outright. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +Pierre sat opposite Dólokhov and Nicholas Rostóv. As usual, he ate and +drank much, and eagerly. But those who knew him intimately noticed that +some great change had come over him that day. He was silent all through +dinner and looked about, blinking and scowling, or, with fixed eyes and +a look of complete absent-mindedness, kept rubbing the bridge of his +nose. His face was depressed and gloomy. He seemed to see and hear +nothing of what was going on around him and to be absorbed by some +depressing and unsolved problem. + +The unsolved problem that tormented him was caused by hints given by the +princess, his cousin, at Moscow, concerning Dólokhov’s intimacy with +his wife, and by an anonymous letter he had received that morning, which +in the mean jocular way common to anonymous letters said that he saw +badly through his spectacles, but that his wife’s connection with +Dólokhov was a secret to no one but himself. Pierre absolutely +disbelieved both the princess’ hints and the letter, but he feared +now to look at Dólokhov, who was sitting opposite him. Every time +he chanced to meet Dólokhov’s handsome insolent eyes, Pierre felt +something terrible and monstrous rising in his soul and turned quickly +away. Involuntarily recalling his wife’s past and her relations with +Dólokhov, Pierre saw clearly that what was said in the letter might be +true, or might at least seem to be true had it not referred to his wife. +He involuntarily remembered how Dólokhov, who had fully recovered his +former position after the campaign, had returned to Petersburg and come +to him. Availing himself of his friendly relations with Pierre as a boon +companion, Dólokhov had come straight to his house, and Pierre had put +him up and lent him money. Pierre recalled how Hélène had smilingly +expressed disapproval of Dólokhov’s living at their house, and how +cynically Dólokhov had praised his wife’s beauty to him and from that +time till they came to Moscow had not left them for a day. + +“Yes, he is very handsome,” thought Pierre, “and I know him. It +would be particularly pleasant to him to dishonor my name and ridicule +me, just because I have exerted myself on his behalf, befriended him, +and helped him. I know and understand what a spice that would add to the +pleasure of deceiving me, if it really were true. Yes, if it were true, +but I do not believe it. I have no right to, and can’t, believe it.” +He remembered the expression Dólokhov’s face assumed in his moments +of cruelty, as when tying the policeman to the bear and dropping them +into the water, or when he challenged a man to a duel without any +reason, or shot a post-boy’s horse with a pistol. That expression +was often on Dólokhov’s face when looking at him. “Yes, he is a +bully,” thought Pierre, “to kill a man means nothing to him. It must +seem to him that everyone is afraid of him, and that must please him. +He must think that I, too, am afraid of him—and in fact I am afraid of +him,” he thought, and again he felt something terrible and monstrous +rising in his soul. Dólokhov, Denísov, and Rostóv were now sitting +opposite Pierre and seemed very gay. Rostóv was talking merrily to his +two friends, one of whom was a dashing hussar and the other a notorious +duelist and rake, and every now and then he glanced ironically at +Pierre, whose preoccupied, absent-minded, and massive figure was a very +noticeable one at the dinner. Rostóv looked inimically at Pierre, +first because Pierre appeared to his hussar eyes as a rich civilian, the +husband of a beauty, and in a word—an old woman; and secondly because +Pierre in his preoccupation and absent-mindedness had not recognized +Rostóv and had not responded to his greeting. When the Emperor’s +health was drunk, Pierre, lost in thought, did not rise or lift his +glass. + +“What are you about?” shouted Rostóv, looking at him in an ecstasy +of exasperation. “Don’t you hear it’s His Majesty the Emperor’s +health?” + +Pierre sighed, rose submissively, emptied his glass, and, waiting till +all were seated again, turned with his kindly smile to Rostóv. + +“Why, I didn’t recognize you!” he said. But Rostóv was otherwise +engaged; he was shouting “Hurrah!” + +“Why don’t you renew the acquaintance?” said Dólokhov to Rostóv. + +“Confound him, he’s a fool!” said Rostóv. + +“One should make up to the husbands of pretty women,” said Denísov. + +Pierre did not catch what they were saying, but knew they were talking +about him. He reddened and turned away. + +“Well, now to the health of handsome women!” said Dólokhov, and +with a serious expression, but with a smile lurking at the corners of +his mouth, he turned with his glass to Pierre. + +“Here’s to the health of lovely women, Peterkin—and their +lovers!” he added. + +Pierre, with downcast eyes, drank out of his glass without looking at +Dólokhov or answering him. The footman, who was distributing leaflets +with Kutúzov’s cantata, laid one before Pierre as one of the +principal guests. He was just going to take it when Dólokhov, leaning +across, snatched it from his hand and began reading it. Pierre looked +at Dólokhov and his eyes dropped, the something terrible and monstrous +that had tormented him all dinnertime rose and took possession of him. +He leaned his whole massive body across the table. + +“How dare you take it?” he shouted. + +Hearing that cry and seeing to whom it was addressed, Nesvítski and the +neighbor on his right quickly turned in alarm to Bezúkhov. + +“Don’t! Don’t! What are you about?” whispered their frightened +voices. + +Dólokhov looked at Pierre with clear, mirthful, cruel eyes, and that +smile of his which seemed to say, “Ah! This is what I like!” + +“You shan’t have it!” he said distinctly. + +Pale, with quivering lips, Pierre snatched the copy. + +“You...! you... scoundrel! I challenge you!” he ejaculated, and, +pushing back his chair, he rose from the table. + +At the very instant he did this and uttered those words, Pierre felt +that the question of his wife’s guilt which had been tormenting him +the whole day was finally and indubitably answered in the affirmative. +He hated her and was forever sundered from her. Despite Denísov’s +request that he would take no part in the matter, Rostóv agreed to be +Dólokhov’s second, and after dinner he discussed the arrangements for +the duel with Nesvítski, Bezúkhov’s second. Pierre went home, but +Rostóv with Dólokhov and Denísov stayed on at the club till late, +listening to the gypsies and other singers. + +“Well then, till tomorrow at Sokólniki,” said Dólokhov, as he took +leave of Rostóv in the club porch. + +“And do you feel quite calm?” Rostóv asked. + +Dólokhov paused. + +“Well, you see, I’ll tell you the whole secret of dueling in two +words. If you are going to fight a duel, and you make a will and write +affectionate letters to your parents, and if you think you may be +killed, you are a fool and are lost for certain. But go with the firm +intention of killing your man as quickly and surely as possible, and +then all will be right, as our bear huntsman at Kostromá used to tell +me. ‘Everyone fears a bear,’ he says, ‘but when you see one your +fear’s all gone, and your only thought is not to let him get away!’ +And that’s how it is with me. À demain, mon cher.” * + + * Till tomorrow, my dear fellow. + +Next day, at eight in the morning, Pierre and Nesvítski drove to the +Sokólniki forest and found Dólokhov, Denísov, and Rostóv already +there. Pierre had the air of a man preoccupied with considerations which +had no connection with the matter in hand. His haggard face was yellow. +He had evidently not slept that night. He looked about distractedly and +screwed up his eyes as if dazzled by the sun. He was entirely absorbed +by two considerations: his wife’s guilt, of which after his sleepless +night he had not the slightest doubt, and the guiltlessness of +Dólokhov, who had no reason to preserve the honor of a man who was +nothing to him.... “I should perhaps have done the same thing in his +place,” thought Pierre. “It’s even certain that I should have done +the same, then why this duel, this murder? Either I shall kill him, or +he will hit me in the head, or elbow, or knee. Can’t I go away from +here, run away, bury myself somewhere?” passed through his mind. But +just at moments when such thoughts occurred to him, he would ask in a +particularly calm and absent-minded way, which inspired the respect of +the onlookers, “Will it be long? Are things ready?” + +When all was ready, the sabers stuck in the snow to mark the barriers, +and the pistols loaded, Nesvítski went up to Pierre. + +“I should not be doing my duty, Count,” he said in timid tones, +“and should not justify your confidence and the honor you have done +me in choosing me for your second, if at this grave, this very +grave, moment I did not tell you the whole truth. I think there is no +sufficient ground for this affair, or for blood to be shed over it.... +You were not right, not quite in the right, you were impetuous...” + +“Oh yes, it is horribly stupid,” said Pierre. + +“Then allow me to express your regrets, and I am sure your opponent +will accept them,” said Nesvítski (who like the others concerned in +the affair, and like everyone in similar cases, did not yet believe that +the affair had come to an actual duel). “You know, Count, it is much +more honorable to admit one’s mistake than to let matters become +irreparable. There was no insult on either side. Allow me to +convey....” + +“No! What is there to talk about?” said Pierre. “It’s all the +same.... Is everything ready?” he added. “Only tell me where to go +and where to shoot,” he said with an unnaturally gentle smile. + +He took the pistol in his hand and began asking about the working of the +trigger, as he had not before held a pistol in his hand—a fact that he +did not wish to confess. + +“Oh yes, like that, I know, I only forgot,” said he. + +“No apologies, none whatever,” said Dólokhov to Denísov (who on +his side had been attempting a reconciliation), and he also went up to +the appointed place. + +The spot chosen for the duel was some eighty paces from the road, +where the sleighs had been left, in a small clearing in the pine forest +covered with melting snow, the frost having begun to break up during the +last few days. The antagonists stood forty paces apart at the farther +edge of the clearing. The seconds, measuring the paces, left tracks in +the deep wet snow between the place where they had been standing and +Nesvítski’s and Dólokhov’s sabers, which were stuck into the +ground ten paces apart to mark the barrier. It was thawing and misty; at +forty paces’ distance nothing could be seen. For three minutes all had +been ready, but they still delayed and all were silent. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +“Well begin!” said Dólokhov. + +“All right,” said Pierre, still smiling in the same way. A feeling +of dread was in the air. It was evident that the affair so lightly begun +could no longer be averted but was taking its course independently of +men’s will. + +Denísov first went to the barrier and announced: “As the +adve’sawies have wefused a weconciliation, please pwoceed. Take your +pistols, and at the word thwee begin to advance. + +“O-ne! T-wo! Thwee!” he shouted angrily and stepped aside. + +The combatants advanced along the trodden tracks, nearer and nearer to +one another, beginning to see one another through the mist. They had the +right to fire when they liked as they approached the barrier. Dólokhov +walked slowly without raising his pistol, looking intently with his +bright, sparkling blue eyes into his antagonist’s face. His mouth wore +its usual semblance of a smile. + +“So I can fire when I like!” said Pierre, and at the word +“three,” he went quickly forward, missing the trodden path and +stepping into the deep snow. He held the pistol in his right hand at +arm’s length, apparently afraid of shooting himself with it. His left +hand he held carefully back, because he wished to support his right +hand with it and knew he must not do so. Having advanced six paces and +strayed off the track into the snow, Pierre looked down at his feet, +then quickly glanced at Dólokhov and, bending his finger as he had been +shown, fired. Not at all expecting so loud a report, Pierre shuddered +at the sound and then, smiling at his own sensations, stood still. The +smoke, rendered denser by the mist, prevented him from seeing anything +for an instant, but there was no second report as he had expected. He +only heard Dólokhov’s hurried steps, and his figure came in view +through the smoke. He was pressing one hand to his left side, while +the other clutched his drooping pistol. His face was pale. Rostóv ran +toward him and said something. + +“No-o-o!” muttered Dólokhov through his teeth, “no, it’s not +over.” And after stumbling a few staggering steps right up to the +saber, he sank on the snow beside it. His left hand was bloody; he wiped +it on his coat and supported himself with it. His frowning face was +pallid and quivered. + +“Plea...” began Dólokhov, but could not at first pronounce the +word. + +“Please,” he uttered with an effort. + +Pierre, hardly restraining his sobs, began running toward Dólokhov and +was about to cross the space between the barriers, when Dólokhov cried: + +“To your barrier!” and Pierre, grasping what was meant, stopped by +his saber. Only ten paces divided them. Dólokhov lowered his head to +the snow, greedily bit at it, again raised his head, adjusted himself, +drew in his legs and sat up, seeking a firm center of gravity. He sucked +and swallowed the cold snow, his lips quivered but his eyes, still +smiling, glittered with effort and exasperation as he mustered his +remaining strength. He raised his pistol and aimed. + +“Sideways! Cover yourself with your pistol!” ejaculated Nesvítski. + +“Cover yourself!” even Denísov cried to his adversary. + +Pierre, with a gentle smile of pity and remorse, his arms and legs +helplessly spread out, stood with his broad chest directly facing +Dólokhov and looked sorrowfully at him. Denísov, Rostóv, and +Nesvítski closed their eyes. At the same instant they heard a report +and Dólokhov’s angry cry. + +“Missed!” shouted Dólokhov, and he lay helplessly, face downwards +on the snow. + +Pierre clutched his temples, and turning round went into the forest, +trampling through the deep snow, and muttering incoherent words: + +“Folly... folly! Death... lies...” he repeated, puckering his face. + +Nesvítski stopped him and took him home. + +Rostóv and Denísov drove away with the wounded Dólokhov. + +The latter lay silent in the sleigh with closed eyes and did not answer +a word to the questions addressed to him. But on entering Moscow he +suddenly came to and, lifting his head with an effort, took Rostóv, who +was sitting beside him, by the hand. Rostóv was struck by the +totally altered and unexpectedly rapturous and tender expression on +Dólokhov’s face. + +“Well? How do you feel?” he asked. + +“Bad! But it’s not that, my friend—” said Dólokhov with a +gasping voice. “Where are we? In Moscow, I know. I don’t matter, +but I have killed her, killed... She won’t get over it! She won’t +survive....” + +“Who?” asked Rostóv. + +“My mother! My mother, my angel, my adored angel mother,” and +Dólokhov pressed Rostóv’s hand and burst into tears. + +When he had become a little quieter, he explained to Rostóv that he was +living with his mother, who, if she saw him dying, would not survive it. +He implored Rostóv to go on and prepare her. + +Rostóv went on ahead to do what was asked, and to his great surprise +learned that Dólokhov the brawler, Dólokhov the bully, lived in Moscow +with an old mother and a hunchback sister, and was the most affectionate +of sons and brothers. + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +Pierre had of late rarely seen his wife alone. Both in Petersburg and in +Moscow their house was always full of visitors. The night after the +duel he did not go to his bedroom but, as he often did, remained in his +father’s room, that huge room in which Count Bezúkhov had died. + +He lay down on the sofa meaning to fall asleep and forget all that +had happened to him, but could not do so. Such a storm of feelings, +thoughts, and memories suddenly arose within him that he could not fall +asleep, nor even remain in one place, but had to jump up and pace the +room with rapid steps. Now he seemed to see her in the early days of +their marriage, with bare shoulders and a languid, passionate look on +her face, and then immediately he saw beside her Dólokhov’s handsome, +insolent, hard, and mocking face as he had seen it at the banquet, and +then that same face pale, quivering, and suffering, as it had been when +he reeled and sank on the snow. + +“What has happened?” he asked himself. “I have killed her lover, +yes, killed my wife’s lover. Yes, that was it! And why? How did I come +to do it?”—“Because you married her,” answered an inner voice. + +“But in what was I to blame?” he asked. “In marrying her without +loving her; in deceiving yourself and her.” And he vividly recalled +that moment after supper at Prince Vasíli’s, when he spoke those +words he had found so difficult to utter: “I love you.” “It all +comes from that! Even then I felt it,” he thought. “I felt then that +it was not so, that I had no right to do it. And so it turns out.” + +He remembered his honeymoon and blushed at the recollection. +Particularly vivid, humiliating, and shameful was the recollection of +how one day soon after his marriage he came out of the bedroom into his +study a little before noon in his silk dressing gown and found his head +steward there, who, bowing respectfully, looked into his face and at +his dressing gown and smiled slightly, as if expressing respectful +understanding of his employer’s happiness. + +“But how often I have felt proud of her, proud of her majestic beauty +and social tact,” thought he; “been proud of my house, in which she +received all Petersburg, proud of her unapproachability and beauty. So +this is what I was proud of! I then thought that I did not understand +her. How often when considering her character I have told myself that +I was to blame for not understanding her, for not understanding that +constant composure and complacency and lack of all interests or desires, +and the whole secret lies in the terrible truth that she is a depraved +woman. Now I have spoken that terrible word to myself all has become +clear. + +“Anatole used to come to borrow money from her and used to kiss her +naked shoulders. She did not give him the money, but let herself be +kissed. Her father in jest tried to rouse her jealousy, and she replied +with a calm smile that she was not so stupid as to be jealous: ‘Let +him do what he pleases,’ she used to say of me. One day I asked her if +she felt any symptoms of pregnancy. She laughed contemptuously and said +she was not a fool to want to have children, and that she was not going +to have any children by me.” + +Then he recalled the coarseness and bluntness of her thoughts and the +vulgarity of the expressions that were natural to her, though she had +been brought up in the most aristocratic circles. + +“I’m not such a fool.... Just you try it on.... Allez-vous +promener,” * she used to say. Often seeing the success she had with +young and old men and women Pierre could not understand why he did not +love her. + + * “You clear out of this.” + + +“Yes, I never loved her,” said he to himself; “I knew she was a +depraved woman,” he repeated, “but dared not admit it to myself. +And now there’s Dólokhov sitting in the snow with a forced smile and +perhaps dying, while meeting my remorse with some forced bravado!” + +Pierre was one of those people who, in spite of an appearance of what +is called weak character, do not seek a confidant in their troubles. He +digested his sufferings alone. + +“It is all, all her fault,” he said to himself; “but what of that? +Why did I bind myself to her? Why did I say ‘Je vous aime’ * to her, +which was a lie, and worse than a lie? I am guilty and must endure... +what? A slur on my name? A misfortune for life? Oh, that’s +nonsense,” he thought. “The slur on my name and honor—that’s all +apart from myself.” + + * I love you. + +“Louis XVI was executed because they said he was dishonorable and a +criminal,” came into Pierre’s head, “and from their point of +view they were right, as were those too who canonized him and died a +martyr’s death for his sake. Then Robespierre was beheaded for being +a despot. Who is right and who is wrong? No one! But if you are +alive—live: tomorrow you’ll die as I might have died an hour ago. +And is it worth tormenting oneself, when one has only a moment of life +in comparison with eternity?” + +But at the moment when he imagined himself calmed by such reflections, +she suddenly came into his mind as she was at the moments when he had +most strongly expressed his insincere love for her, and he felt the +blood rush to his heart and had again to get up and move about and break +and tear whatever came to his hand. “Why did I tell her that ‘Je +vous aime’?” he kept repeating to himself. And when he had said it +for the tenth time, Molière’s words: “Mais que diable allait-il +faire dans cette galère?” * occurred to him, and he began to laugh at +himself. + + * “But what the devil was he doing in that galley?” + + +In the night he called his valet and told him to pack up to go to +Petersburg. He could not imagine how he could speak to her now. He +resolved to go away next day and leave a letter informing her of his +intention to part from her forever. + +Next morning when the valet came into the room with his coffee, Pierre +was lying asleep on the ottoman with an open book in his hand. + +He woke up and looked round for a while with a startled expression, +unable to realize where he was. + +“The countess told me to inquire whether your excellency was at +home,” said the valet. + +But before Pierre could decide what answer he would send, the countess +herself in a white satin dressing gown embroidered with silver and with +simply dressed hair (two immense plaits twice round her lovely head like +a coronet) entered the room, calm and majestic, except that there was +a wrathful wrinkle on her rather prominent marble brow. With her +imperturbable calm she did not begin to speak in front of the valet. +She knew of the duel and had come to speak about it. She waited till the +valet had set down the coffee things and left the room. Pierre looked +at her timidly over his spectacles, and like a hare surrounded by hounds +who lays back her ears and continues to crouch motionless before her +enemies, he tried to continue reading. But feeling this to be senseless +and impossible, he again glanced timidly at her. She did not sit down +but looked at him with a contemptuous smile, waiting for the valet to +go. + +“Well, what’s this now? What have you been up to now, I should like +to know?” she asked sternly. + +“I? What have I...?” stammered Pierre. + +“So it seems you’re a hero, eh? Come now, what was this duel about? +What is it meant to prove? What? I ask you.” + +Pierre turned over heavily on the ottoman and opened his mouth, but +could not reply. + +“If you won’t answer, I’ll tell you...” Hélène went on. “You +believe everything you’re told. You were told...” Hélène laughed, +“that Dólokhov was my lover,” she said in French with her coarse +plainness of speech, uttering the word amant as casually as any other +word, “and you believed it! Well, what have you proved? What does this +duel prove? That you’re a fool, que vous êtes un sot, but everybody +knew that. What will be the result? That I shall be the laughingstock of +all Moscow, that everyone will say that you, drunk and not knowing what +you were about, challenged a man you are jealous of without cause.” +Hélène raised her voice and became more and more excited, “A man +who’s a better man than you in every way...” + +“Hm... Hm...!” growled Pierre, frowning without looking at her, and +not moving a muscle. + +“And how could you believe he was my lover? Why? Because I like +his company? If you were cleverer and more agreeable, I should prefer +yours.” + +“Don’t speak to me... I beg you,” muttered Pierre hoarsely. + +“Why shouldn’t I speak? I can speak as I like, and I tell you +plainly that there are not many wives with husbands such as you who +would not have taken lovers (des amants), but I have not done so,” +said she. + +Pierre wished to say something, looked at her with eyes whose strange +expression she did not understand, and lay down again. He was suffering +physically at that moment, there was a weight on his chest and he could +not breathe. He knew that he must do something to put an end to this +suffering, but what he wanted to do was too terrible. + +“We had better separate,” he muttered in a broken voice. + +“Separate? Very well, but only if you give me a fortune,” said +Hélène. “Separate! That’s a thing to frighten me with!” + +Pierre leaped up from the sofa and rushed staggering toward her. + +“I’ll kill you!” he shouted, and seizing the marble top of a table +with a strength he had never before felt, he made a step toward her +brandishing the slab. + +Hélène’s face became terrible, she shrieked and sprang aside. His +father’s nature showed itself in Pierre. He felt the fascination and +delight of frenzy. He flung down the slab, broke it, and swooping +down on her with outstretched hands shouted, “Get out!” in such a +terrible voice that the whole house heard it with horror. God knows what +he would have done at that moment had Hélène not fled from the room. + + +A week later Pierre gave his wife full power to control all his estates +in Great Russia, which formed the larger part of his property, and left +for Petersburg alone. + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +Two months had elapsed since the news of the battle of Austerlitz and +the loss of Prince Andrew had reached Bald Hills, and in spite of the +letters sent through the embassy and all the searches made, his body had +not been found nor was he on the list of prisoners. What was worst of +all for his relations was the fact that there was still a possibility of +his having been picked up on the battlefield by the people of the +place and that he might now be lying, recovering or dying, alone among +strangers and unable to send news of himself. The gazettes from which +the old prince first heard of the defeat at Austerlitz stated, as usual +very briefly and vaguely, that after brilliant engagements the Russians +had had to retreat and had made their withdrawal in perfect order. The +old prince understood from this official report that our army had been +defeated. A week after the gazette report of the battle of Austerlitz +came a letter from Kutúzov informing the prince of the fate that had +befallen his son. + +“Your son,” wrote Kutúzov, “fell before my eyes, a standard in +his hand and at the head of a regiment—he fell as a hero, worthy of +his father and his fatherland. To the great regret of myself and of the +whole army it is still uncertain whether he is alive or not. I comfort +myself and you with the hope that your son is alive, for otherwise +he would have been mentioned among the officers found on the field of +battle, a list of whom has been sent me under flag of truce.” + +After receiving this news late in the evening, when he was alone in his +study, the old prince went for his walk as usual next morning, but he +was silent with his steward, the gardener, and the architect, and though +he looked very grim he said nothing to anyone. + +When Princess Mary went to him at the usual hour he was working at his +lathe and, as usual, did not look round at her. + +“Ah, Princess Mary!” he said suddenly in an unnatural voice, +throwing down his chisel. (The wheel continued to revolve by its own +impetus, and Princess Mary long remembered the dying creak of that +wheel, which merged in her memory with what followed.) + +She approached him, saw his face, and something gave way within her. Her +eyes grew dim. By the expression of her father’s face, not sad, not +crushed, but angry and working unnaturally, she saw that hanging over +her and about to crush her was some terrible misfortune, the worst +in life, one she had not yet experienced, irreparable and +incomprehensible—the death of one she loved. + +“Father! Andrew!”—said the ungraceful, awkward princess with such +an indescribable charm of sorrow and self-forgetfulness that her father +could not bear her look but turned away with a sob. + +“Bad news! He’s not among the prisoners nor among the killed! +Kutúzov writes...” and he screamed as piercingly as if he wished to +drive the princess away by that scream... “Killed!” + +The princess did not fall down or faint. She was already pale, but on +hearing these words her face changed and something brightened in her +beautiful, radiant eyes. It was as if joy—a supreme joy apart from the +joys and sorrows of this world—overflowed the great grief within her. +She forgot all fear of her father, went up to him, took his hand, and +drawing him down put her arm round his thin, scraggy neck. + +“Father,” she said, “do not turn away from me, let us weep +together.” + +“Scoundrels! Blackguards!” shrieked the old man, turning his face +away from her. “Destroying the army, destroying the men! And why? Go, +go and tell Lise.” + +The princess sank helplessly into an armchair beside her father and +wept. She saw her brother now as he had been at the moment when he took +leave of her and of Lise, his look tender yet proud. She saw him tender +and amused as he was when he put on the little icon. “Did he believe? +Had he repented of his unbelief? Was he now there? There in the realms +of eternal peace and blessedness?” she thought. + +“Father, tell me how it happened,” she asked through her tears. + +“Go! Go! Killed in battle, where the best of Russian men and +Russia’s glory were led to destruction. Go, Princess Mary. Go and tell +Lise. I will follow.” + +When Princess Mary returned from her father, the little princess sat +working and looked up with that curious expression of inner, happy calm +peculiar to pregnant women. It was evident that her eyes did not see +Princess Mary but were looking within... into herself... at something +joyful and mysterious taking place within her. + +“Mary,” she said, moving away from the embroidery frame and lying +back, “give me your hand.” She took her sister-in-law’s hand and +held it below her waist. + +Her eyes were smiling expectantly, her downy lip rose and remained +lifted in childlike happiness. + +Princess Mary knelt down before her and hid her face in the folds of her +sister-in-law’s dress. + +“There, there! Do you feel it? I feel so strange. And do you know, +Mary, I am going to love him very much,” said Lise, looking with +bright and happy eyes at her sister-in-law. + +Princess Mary could not lift her head, she was weeping. + +“What is the matter, Mary?” + +“Nothing... only I feel sad... sad about Andrew,” she said, wiping +away her tears on her sister-in-law’s knee. + +Several times in the course of the morning Princess Mary began trying to +prepare her sister-in-law, and every time began to cry. Unobservant as +was the little princess, these tears, the cause of which she did not +understand, agitated her. She said nothing but looked about uneasily as +if in search of something. Before dinner the old prince, of whom she was +always afraid, came into her room with a peculiarly restless and malign +expression and went out again without saying a word. She looked at +Princess Mary, then sat thinking for a while with that expression of +attention to something within her that is only seen in pregnant women, +and suddenly began to cry. + +“Has anything come from Andrew?” she asked. + +“No, you know it’s too soon for news. But my father is anxious and I +feel afraid.” + +“So there’s nothing?” + +“Nothing,” answered Princess Mary, looking firmly with her radiant +eyes at her sister-in-law. + +She had determined not to tell her and persuaded her father to hide the +terrible news from her till after her confinement, which was expected +within a few days. Princess Mary and the old prince each bore and hid +their grief in their own way. The old prince would not cherish any hope: +he made up his mind that Prince Andrew had been killed, and though he +sent an official to Austria to seek for traces of his son, he ordered a +monument from Moscow which he intended to erect in his own garden to his +memory, and he told everybody that his son had been killed. He tried not +to change his former way of life, but his strength failed him. He walked +less, ate less, slept less, and became weaker every day. Princess Mary +hoped. She prayed for her brother as living and was always awaiting news +of his return. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +“Dearest,” said the little princess after breakfast on the morning +of the nineteenth March, and her downy little lip rose from old habit, +but as sorrow was manifest in every smile, the sound of every word, and +even every footstep in that house since the terrible news had come, so +now the smile of the little princess—influenced by the general mood +though without knowing its cause—was such as to remind one still more +of the general sorrow. + +“Dearest, I’m afraid this morning’s fruschtique *—as Fóka the +cook calls it—has disagreed with me.” + + * Frühstück: breakfast. + +“What is the matter with you, my darling? You look pale. Oh, you +are very pale!” said Princess Mary in alarm, running with her soft, +ponderous steps up to her sister-in-law. + +“Your excellency, should not Mary Bogdánovna be sent for?” said one +of the maids who was present. (Mary Bogdánovna was a midwife from the +neighboring town, who had been at Bald Hills for the last fortnight.) + +“Oh yes,” assented Princess Mary, “perhaps that’s it. I’ll go. +Courage, my angel.” She kissed Lise and was about to leave the room. + +“Oh, no, no!” And besides the pallor and the physical suffering +on the little princess’ face, an expression of childish fear of +inevitable pain showed itself. + +“No, it’s only indigestion?... Say it’s only indigestion, say so, +Mary! Say...” And the little princess began to cry capriciously like +a suffering child and to wring her little hands even with some +affectation. Princess Mary ran out of the room to fetch Mary +Bogdánovna. + +“Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu! Oh!” she heard as she left the room. + +The midwife was already on her way to meet her, rubbing her small, plump +white hands with an air of calm importance. + +“Mary Bogdánovna, I think it’s beginning!” said Princess Mary +looking at the midwife with wide-open eyes of alarm. + +“Well, the Lord be thanked, Princess,” said Mary Bogdánovna, not +hastening her steps. “You young ladies should not know anything about +it.” + +“But how is it the doctor from Moscow is not here yet?” said the +princess. (In accordance with Lise’s and Prince Andrew’s wishes they +had sent in good time to Moscow for a doctor and were expecting him at +any moment.) + +“No matter, Princess, don’t be alarmed,” said Mary Bogdánovna. +“We’ll manage very well without a doctor.” + +Five minutes later Princess Mary from her room heard something heavy +being carried by. She looked out. The men servants were carrying the +large leather sofa from Prince Andrew’s study into the bedroom. On +their faces was a quiet and solemn look. + +Princess Mary sat alone in her room listening to the sounds in the +house, now and then opening her door when someone passed and watching +what was going on in the passage. Some women passing with quiet steps in +and out of the bedroom glanced at the princess and turned away. She did +not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting +down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before +the icon stand. To her surprise and distress she found that her prayers +did not calm her excitement. Suddenly her door opened softly and her old +nurse, Praskóvya Sávishna, who hardly ever came to that room as the +old prince had forbidden it, appeared on the threshold with a shawl +round her head. + +“I’ve come to sit with you a bit, Másha,” said the nurse, “and +here I’ve brought the prince’s wedding candles to light before his +saint, my angel,” she said with a sigh. + +“Oh, nurse, I’m so glad!” + +“God is merciful, birdie.” + +The nurse lit the gilt candles before the icons and sat down by the door +with her knitting. Princess Mary took a book and began reading. Only +when footsteps or voices were heard did they look at one another, the +princess anxious and inquiring, the nurse encouraging. Everyone in the +house was dominated by the same feeling that Princess Mary experienced +as she sat in her room. But owing to the superstition that the fewer +the people who know of it the less a woman in travail suffers, everyone +tried to pretend not to know; no one spoke of it, but apart from the +ordinary staid and respectful good manners habitual in the prince’s +household, a common anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a +consciousness that something great and mysterious was being accomplished +at that moment made itself felt. + +There was no laughter in the maids’ large hall. In the men servants’ +hall all sat waiting, silently and alert. In the outlying serfs’ +quarters torches and candles were burning and no one slept. The old +prince, stepping on his heels, paced up and down his study and sent +Tíkhon to ask Mary Bogdánovna what news.—“Say only that ‘the +prince told me to ask,’ and come and tell me her answer.” + +“Inform the prince that labor has begun,” said Mary Bogdánovna, +giving the messenger a significant look. + +Tíkhon went and told the prince. + +“Very good!” said the prince closing the door behind him, and +Tíkhon did not hear the slightest sound from the study after that. + +After a while he re-entered it as if to snuff the candles, and, seeing +the prince was lying on the sofa, looked at him, noticed his perturbed +face, shook his head, and going up to him silently kissed him on the +shoulder and left the room without snuffing the candles or saying why he +had entered. The most solemn mystery in the world continued its course. +Evening passed, night came, and the feeling of suspense and softening of +heart in the presence of the unfathomable did not lessen but increased. +No one slept. + +It was one of those March nights when winter seems to wish to resume its +sway and scatters its last snows and storms with desperate fury. A relay +of horses had been sent up the highroad to meet the German doctor from +Moscow who was expected every moment, and men on horseback with lanterns +were sent to the crossroads to guide him over the country road with its +hollows and snow-covered pools of water. + +Princess Mary had long since put aside her book: she sat silent, her +luminous eyes fixed on her nurse’s wrinkled face (every line of which +she knew so well), on the lock of gray hair that escaped from under the +kerchief, and the loose skin that hung under her chin. + +Nurse Sávishna, knitting in hand, was telling in low tones, scarcely +hearing or understanding her own words, what she had told hundreds of +times before: how the late princess had given birth to Princess Mary +in Kishenëv with only a Moldavian peasant woman to help instead of a +midwife. + +“God is merciful, doctors are never needed,” she said. + +Suddenly a gust of wind beat violently against the casement of the +window, from which the double frame had been removed (by order of the +prince, one window frame was removed in each room as soon as the larks +returned), and, forcing open a loosely closed latch, set the damask +curtain flapping and blew out the candle with its chill, snowy draft. +Princess Mary shuddered; her nurse, putting down the stocking she was +knitting, went to the window and leaning out tried to catch the open +casement. The cold wind flapped the ends of her kerchief and her loose +locks of gray hair. + +“Princess, my dear, there’s someone driving up the avenue!” she +said, holding the casement and not closing it. “With lanterns. Most +likely the doctor.” + +“Oh, my God! thank God!” said Princess Mary. “I must go and meet +him, he does not know Russian.” + +Princess Mary threw a shawl over her head and ran to meet the newcomer. +As she was crossing the anteroom she saw through the window a carriage +with lanterns, standing at the entrance. She went out on the stairs. On +a banister post stood a tallow candle which guttered in the draft. On +the landing below, Philip, the footman, stood looking scared and holding +another candle. Still lower, beyond the turn of the staircase, one +could hear the footstep of someone in thick felt boots, and a voice that +seemed familiar to Princess Mary was saying something. + +“Thank God!” said the voice. “And Father?” + +“Gone to bed,” replied the voice of Demyán the house steward, who +was downstairs. + +Then the voice said something more, Demyán replied, and the steps in +the felt boots approached the unseen bend of the staircase more rapidly. + +“It’s Andrew!” thought Princess Mary. “No it can’t be, that +would be too extraordinary,” and at the very moment she thought this, +the face and figure of Prince Andrew, in a fur cloak the deep collar of +which covered with snow, appeared on the landing where the footman +stood with the candle. Yes, it was he, pale, thin, with a changed and +strangely softened but agitated expression on his face. He came up the +stairs and embraced his sister. + +“You did not get my letter?” he asked, and not waiting for a +reply—which he would not have received, for the princess was unable to +speak—he turned back, rapidly mounted the stairs again with the +doctor who had entered the hall after him (they had met at the last post +station), and again embraced his sister. + +“What a strange fate, Másha darling!” And having taken off his +cloak and felt boots, he went to the little princess’ apartment. + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +The little princess lay supported by pillows, with a white cap on her +head (the pains had just left her). Strands of her black hair lay round +her inflamed and perspiring cheeks, her charming rosy mouth with its +downy lip was open and she was smiling joyfully. Prince Andrew entered +and paused facing her at the foot of the sofa on which she was lying. +Her glittering eyes, filled with childlike fear and excitement, rested +on him without changing their expression. “I love you all and have +done no harm to anyone; why must I suffer so? Help me!” her look +seemed to say. She saw her husband, but did not realize the significance +of his appearance before her now. Prince Andrew went round the sofa and +kissed her forehead. + +“My darling!” he said—a word he had never used to her before. +“God is merciful....” + +She looked at him inquiringly and with childlike reproach. + +“I expected help from you and I get none, none from you either!” +said her eyes. She was not surprised at his having come; she did +not realize that he had come. His coming had nothing to do with +her sufferings or with their relief. The pangs began again and Mary +Bogdánovna advised Prince Andrew to leave the room. + +The doctor entered. Prince Andrew went out and, meeting Princess Mary, +again joined her. They began talking in whispers, but their talk broke +off at every moment. They waited and listened. + +“Go, dear,” said Princess Mary. + +Prince Andrew went again to his wife and sat waiting in the room next +to hers. A woman came from the bedroom with a frightened face and became +confused when she saw Prince Andrew. He covered his face with his hands +and remained so for some minutes. Piteous, helpless, animal moans came +through the door. Prince Andrew got up, went to the door, and tried to +open it. Someone was holding it shut. + +“You can’t come in! You can’t!” said a terrified voice from +within. + +He began pacing the room. The screaming ceased, and a few more seconds +went by. Then suddenly a terrible shriek—it could not be hers, she +could not scream like that—came from the bedroom. Prince Andrew ran to +the door; the scream ceased and he heard the wail of an infant. + +“What have they taken a baby in there for?” thought Prince Andrew in +the first second. “A baby? What baby...? Why is there a baby there? Or +is the baby born?” + +Then suddenly he realized the joyful significance of that wail; tears +choked him, and leaning his elbows on the window sill he began to cry, +sobbing like a child. The door opened. The doctor with his shirt sleeves +tucked up, without a coat, pale and with a trembling jaw, came out +of the room. Prince Andrew turned to him, but the doctor gave him a +bewildered look and passed by without a word. A woman rushed out and +seeing Prince Andrew stopped, hesitating on the threshold. He went into +his wife’s room. She was lying dead, in the same position he had seen +her in five minutes before and, despite the fixed eyes and the pallor of +the cheeks, the same expression was on her charming childlike face with +its upper lip covered with tiny black hair. + +“I love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you +done to me?”—said her charming, pathetic, dead face. + +In a corner of the room something red and tiny gave a grunt and squealed +in Mary Bogdánovna’s trembling white hands. + + +Two hours later Prince Andrew, stepping softly, went into his father’s +room. The old man already knew everything. He was standing close to +the door and as soon as it opened his rough old arms closed like a vise +round his son’s neck, and without a word he began to sob like a child. + + +Three days later the little princess was buried, and Prince Andrew went +up the steps to where the coffin stood, to give her the farewell kiss. +And there in the coffin was the same face, though with closed eyes. +“Ah, what have you done to me?” it still seemed to say, and Prince +Andrew felt that something gave way in his soul and that he was guilty +of a sin he could neither remedy nor forget. He could not weep. The +old man too came up and kissed the waxen little hands that lay quietly +crossed one on the other on her breast, and to him, too, her face seemed +to say: “Ah, what have you done to me, and why?” And at the sight +the old man turned angrily away. + + +Another five days passed, and then the young Prince Nicholas Andréevich +was baptized. The wet nurse supported the coverlet with her chin, while +the priest with a goose feather anointed the boy’s little red and +wrinkled soles and palms. + +His grandfather, who was his godfather, trembling and afraid of dropping +him, carried the infant round the battered tin font and handed him over +to the godmother, Princess Mary. Prince Andrew sat in another room, +faint with fear lest the baby should be drowned in the font, and awaited +the termination of the ceremony. He looked up joyfully at the baby when +the nurse brought it to him and nodded approval when she told him that +the wax with the baby’s hair had not sunk in the font but had floated. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +Rostóv’s share in Dólokhov’s duel with Bezúkhov was hushed up by +the efforts of the old count, and instead of being degraded to the ranks +as he expected he was appointed an adjutant to the governor general of +Moscow. As a result he could not go to the country with the rest of the +family, but was kept all summer in Moscow by his new duties. Dólokhov +recovered, and Rostóv became very friendly with him during his +convalescence. Dólokhov lay ill at his mother’s who loved him +passionately and tenderly, and old Mary Ivánovna, who had grown fond of +Rostóv for his friendship to her Fédya, often talked to him about her +son. + +“Yes, Count,” she would say, “he is too noble and pure-souled for +our present, depraved world. No one now loves virtue; it seems like +a reproach to everyone. Now tell me, Count, was it right, was it +honorable, of Bezúkhov? And Fédya, with his noble spirit, loved him +and even now never says a word against him. Those pranks in Petersburg +when they played some tricks on a policeman, didn’t they do it +together? And there! Bezúkhov got off scotfree, while Fédya had to +bear the whole burden on his shoulders. Fancy what he had to go through! +It’s true he has been reinstated, but how could they fail to do that? +I think there were not many such gallant sons of the fatherland out +there as he. And now—this duel! Have these people no feeling, or +honor? Knowing him to be an only son, to challenge him and shoot so +straight! It’s well God had mercy on us. And what was it for? Who +doesn’t have intrigues nowadays? Why, if he was so jealous, as I see +things he should have shown it sooner, but he lets it go on for months. +And then to call him out, reckoning on Fédya not fighting because he +owed him money! What baseness! What meanness! I know you understand +Fédya, my dear count; that, believe me, is why I am so fond of you. Few +people do understand him. He is such a lofty, heavenly soul!” + +Dólokhov himself during his convalescence spoke to Rostóv in a way no +one would have expected of him. + +“I know people consider me a bad man!” he said. “Let them! I +don’t care a straw about anyone but those I love; but those I love, +I love so that I would give my life for them, and the others I’d +throttle if they stood in my way. I have an adored, a priceless mother, +and two or three friends—you among them—and as for the rest I only +care about them in so far as they are harmful or useful. And most of +them are harmful, especially the women. Yes, dear boy,” he continued, +“I have met loving, noble, high-minded men, but I have not yet met +any women—countesses or cooks—who were not venal. I have not yet met +that divine purity and devotion I look for in women. If I found such a +one I’d give my life for her! But those!...” and he made a gesture +of contempt. “And believe me, if I still value my life it is +only because I still hope to meet such a divine creature, who will +regenerate, purify, and elevate me. But you don’t understand it.” + +“Oh, yes, I quite understand,” answered Rostóv, who was under his +new friend’s influence. + +In the autumn the Rostóvs returned to Moscow. Early in the winter +Denísov also came back and stayed with them. The first half of the +winter of 1806, which Nicholas Rostóv spent in Moscow, was one of the +happiest, merriest times for him and the whole family. Nicholas brought +many young men to his parents’ house. Véra was a handsome girl +of twenty; Sónya a girl of sixteen with all the charm of an opening +flower; Natásha, half grown up and half child, was now childishly +amusing, now girlishly enchanting. + +At that time in the Rostóvs’ house there prevailed an amorous +atmosphere characteristic of homes where there are very young and very +charming girls. Every young man who came to the house—seeing those +impressionable, smiling young faces (smiling probably at their own +happiness), feeling the eager bustle around him, and hearing the fitful +bursts of song and music and the inconsequent but friendly prattle of +young girls ready for anything and full of hope—experienced the same +feeling; sharing with the young folk of the Rostóvs’ household a +readiness to fall in love and an expectation of happiness. + +Among the young men introduced by Rostóv one of the first was +Dólokhov, whom everyone in the house liked except Natásha. She almost +quarreled with her brother about him. She insisted that he was a bad +man, and that in the duel with Bezúkhov, Pierre was right and Dólokhov +wrong, and further that he was disagreeable and unnatural. + +“There’s nothing for me to understand,” she cried out with +resolute self-will, “he is wicked and heartless. There now, I like +your Denísov though he is a rake and all that, still I like him; so +you see I do understand. I don’t know how to put it... with this one +everything is calculated, and I don’t like that. But Denísov...” + +“Oh, Denísov is quite different,” replied Nicholas, implying that +even Denísov was nothing compared to Dólokhov—“you must understand +what a soul there is in Dólokhov, you should see him with his mother. +What a heart!” + +“Well, I don’t know about that, but I am uncomfortable with him. And +do you know he has fallen in love with Sónya?” + +“What nonsense...” + +“I’m certain of it; you’ll see.” + +Natásha’s prediction proved true. Dólokhov, who did not usually care +for the society of ladies, began to come often to the house, and the +question for whose sake he came (though no one spoke of it) was soon +settled. He came because of Sónya. And Sónya, though she would never +have dared to say so, knew it and blushed scarlet every time Dólokhov +appeared. + +Dólokhov often dined at the Rostóvs’, never missed a performance at +which they were present, and went to Iogel’s balls for young people +which the Rostóvs always attended. He was pointedly attentive to Sónya +and looked at her in such a way that not only could she not bear his +glances without coloring, but even the old countess and Natásha blushed +when they saw his looks. + +It was evident that this strange, strong man was under the irresistible +influence of the dark, graceful girl who loved another. + +Rostóv noticed something new in Dólokhov’s relations with Sónya, +but he did not explain to himself what these new relations were. +“They’re always in love with someone,” he thought of Sónya and +Natásha. But he was not as much at ease with Sónya and Dólokhov as +before and was less frequently at home. + +In the autumn of 1806 everybody had again begun talking of the war with +Napoleon with even greater warmth than the year before. Orders were +given to raise recruits, ten men in every thousand for the regular army, +and besides this, nine men in every thousand for the militia. Everywhere +Bonaparte was anathematized and in Moscow nothing but the coming war +was talked of. For the Rostóv family the whole interest of these +preparations for war lay in the fact that Nicholas would not hear of +remaining in Moscow, and only awaited the termination of Denísov’s +furlough after Christmas to return with him to their regiment. His +approaching departure did not prevent his amusing himself, but rather +gave zest to his pleasures. He spent the greater part of his time away +from home, at dinners, parties, and balls. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +On the third day after Christmas Nicholas dined at home, a thing he had +rarely done of late. It was a grand farewell dinner, as he and Denísov +were leaving to join their regiment after Epiphany. About twenty people +were present, including Dólokhov and Denísov. + +Never had love been so much in the air, and never had the amorous +atmosphere made itself so strongly felt in the Rostóvs’ house as at +this holiday time. “Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! +That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one +thing we are interested in here,” said the spirit of the place. + +Nicholas, having as usual exhausted two pairs of horses, without +visiting all the places he meant to go to and where he had been invited, +returned home just before dinner. As soon as he entered he noticed and +felt the tension of the amorous air in the house, and also noticed a +curious embarrassment among some of those present. Sónya, Dólokhov, +and the old countess were especially disturbed, and to a lesser degree +Natásha. Nicholas understood that something must have happened between +Sónya and Dólokhov before dinner, and with the kindly sensitiveness +natural to him was very gentle and wary with them both at dinner. On +that same evening there was to be one of the balls that Iogel (the +dancing master) gave for his pupils during the holidays. + +“Nicholas, will you come to Iogel’s? Please do!” said Natásha. +“He asked you, and Vasíli Dmítrich * is also going.” + + * Denísov. + +“Where would I not go at the countess’ command!” said Denísov, +who at the Rostóvs’ had jocularly assumed the role of Natásha’s +knight. “I’m even weady to dance the pas de châle.” + +“If I have time,” answered Nicholas. “But I promised the +Arkhárovs; they have a party.” + +“And you?” he asked Dólokhov, but as soon as he had asked the +question he noticed that it should not have been put. + +“Perhaps,” coldly and angrily replied Dólokhov, glancing at Sónya, +and, scowling, he gave Nicholas just such a look as he had given Pierre +at the club dinner. + +“There is something up,” thought Nicholas, and he was further +confirmed in this conclusion by the fact that Dólokhov left immediately +after dinner. He called Natásha and asked her what was the matter. + +“And I was looking for you,” said Natásha running out to him. “I +told you, but you would not believe it,” she said triumphantly. “He +has proposed to Sónya!” + +Little as Nicholas had occupied himself with Sónya of late, something +seemed to give way within him at this news. Dólokhov was a suitable and +in some respects a brilliant match for the dowerless, orphan girl. From +the point of view of the old countess and of society it was out of the +question for her to refuse him. And therefore Nicholas’ first feeling +on hearing the news was one of anger with Sónya.... He tried to say, +“That’s capital; of course she’ll forget her childish promises +and accept the offer,” but before he had time to say it Natásha began +again. + +“And fancy! she refused him quite definitely!” adding, after a +pause, “she told him she loved another.” + +“Yes, my Sónya could not have done otherwise!” thought Nicholas. + +“Much as Mamma pressed her, she refused, and I know she won’t change +once she has said...” + +“And Mamma pressed her!” said Nicholas reproachfully. + +“Yes,” said Natásha. “Do you know, Nicholas—don’t be +angry—but I know you will not marry her. I know, heaven knows how, but +I know for certain that you won’t marry her.” + +“Now you don’t know that at all!” said Nicholas. “But I must +talk to her. What a darling Sónya is!” he added with a smile. + +“Ah, she is indeed a darling! I’ll send her to you.” + +And Natásha kissed her brother and ran away. + +A minute later Sónya came in with a frightened, guilty, and scared +look. Nicholas went up to her and kissed her hand. This was the first +time since his return that they had talked alone and about their love. + +“Sophie,” he began, timidly at first and then more and more +boldly, “if you wish to refuse one who is not only a brilliant and +advantageous match but a splendid, noble fellow... he is my friend...” + +Sónya interrupted him. + +“I have already refused,” she said hurriedly. + +“If you are refusing for my sake, I am afraid that I...” + +Sónya again interrupted. She gave him an imploring, frightened look. + +“Nicholas, don’t tell me that!” she said. + +“No, but I must. It may be arrogant of me, but still it is best to say +it. If you refuse him on my account, I must tell you the whole truth. I +love you, and I think I love you more than anyone else....” + +“That is enough for me,” said Sónya, blushing. + +“No, but I have been in love a thousand times and shall fall in +love again, though for no one have I such a feeling of friendship, +confidence, and love as I have for you. Then I am young. Mamma does +not wish it. In a word, I make no promise. And I beg you to consider +Dólokhov’s offer,” he said, articulating his friend’s name with +difficulty. + +“Don’t say that to me! I want nothing. I love you as a brother and +always shall, and I want nothing more.” + +“You are an angel: I am not worthy of you, but I am afraid of +misleading you.” + +And Nicholas again kissed her hand. + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +Iogel’s were the most enjoyable balls in Moscow. So said the mothers +as they watched their young people executing their newly learned steps, +and so said the youths and maidens themselves as they danced till they +were ready to drop, and so said the grown-up young men and women who +came to these balls with an air of condescension and found them most +enjoyable. That year two marriages had come of these balls. The two +pretty young Princesses Gorchakóv met suitors there and were married +and so further increased the fame of these dances. What distinguished +them from others was the absence of host or hostess and the presence of +the good-natured Iogel, flying about like a feather and bowing according +to the rules of his art, as he collected the tickets from all his +visitors. There was the fact that only those came who wished to dance +and amuse themselves as girls of thirteen and fourteen do who are +wearing long dresses for the first time. With scarcely any exceptions +they all were, or seemed to be, pretty—so rapturous were their smiles +and so sparkling their eyes. Sometimes the best of the pupils, of whom +Natásha, who was exceptionally graceful, was first, even danced the pas +de châle, but at this last ball only the écossaise, the anglaise, and +the mazurka, which was just coming into fashion, were danced. Iogel had +taken a ballroom in Bezúkhov’s house, and the ball, as everyone said, +was a great success. There were many pretty girls and the Rostóv girls +were among the prettiest. They were both particularly happy and gay. +That evening, proud of Dólokhov’s proposal, her refusal, and her +explanation with Nicholas, Sónya twirled about before she left home +so that the maid could hardly get her hair plaited, and she was +transparently radiant with impulsive joy. + +Natásha no less proud of her first long dress and of being at a real +ball was even happier. They were both dressed in white muslin with pink +ribbons. + +Natásha fell in love the very moment she entered the ballroom. She +was not in love with anyone in particular, but with everyone. Whatever +person she happened to look at she was in love with for that moment. + +“Oh, how delightful it is!” she kept saying, running up to Sónya. + +Nicholas and Denísov were walking up and down, looking with kindly +patronage at the dancers. + +“How sweet she is—she will be a weal beauty!” said Denísov. + +“Who?” + +“Countess Natásha,” answered Denísov. + +“And how she dances! What gwace!” he said again after a pause. + +“Who are you talking about?” + +“About your sister,” ejaculated Denísov testily. + +Rostóv smiled. + +“My dear count, you were one of my best pupils—you must dance,” +said little Iogel coming up to Nicholas. “Look how many charming young +ladies—” He turned with the same request to Denísov who was also a +former pupil of his. + +“No, my dear fellow, I’ll be a wallflower,” said Denísov. +“Don’t you wecollect what bad use I made of your lessons?” + +“Oh no!” said Iogel, hastening to reassure him. “You were only +inattentive, but you had talent—oh yes, you had talent!” + +The band struck up the newly introduced mazurka. Nicholas could not +refuse Iogel and asked Sónya to dance. Denísov sat down by the old +ladies and, leaning on his saber and beating time with his foot, told +them something funny and kept them amused, while he watched the young +people dancing, Iogel with Natásha, his pride and his best pupil, were +the first couple. Noiselessly, skillfully stepping with his little +feet in low shoes, Iogel flew first across the hall with Natásha, who, +though shy, went on carefully executing her steps. Denísov did not +take his eyes off her and beat time with his saber in a way that clearly +indicated that if he was not dancing it was because he would not and not +because he could not. In the middle of a figure he beckoned to Rostóv +who was passing: + +“This is not at all the thing,” he said. “What sort of Polish +mazuwka is this? But she does dance splendidly.” + +Knowing that Denísov had a reputation even in Poland for the masterly +way in which he danced the mazurka, Nicholas ran up to Natásha: + +“Go and choose Denísov. He is a real dancer, a wonder!” he said. + +When it came to Natásha’s turn to choose a partner, she rose and, +tripping rapidly across in her little shoes trimmed with bows, ran +timidly to the corner where Denísov sat. She saw that everybody was +looking at her and waiting. Nicholas saw that Denísov was refusing +though he smiled delightedly. He ran up to them. + +“Please, Vasíli Dmítrich,” Natásha was saying, “do come!” + +“Oh no, let me off, Countess,” Denísov replied. + +“Now then, Váska,” said Nicholas. + +“They coax me as if I were Váska the cat!” said Denísov jokingly. + +“I’ll sing for you a whole evening,” said Natásha. + +“Oh, the faiwy! She can do anything with me!” said Denísov, and +he unhooked his saber. He came out from behind the chairs, clasped his +partner’s hand firmly, threw back his head, and advanced his foot, +waiting for the beat. Only on horse back and in the mazurka was +Denísov’s short stature not noticeable and he looked the fine fellow +he felt himself to be. At the right beat of the music he looked sideways +at his partner with a merry and triumphant air, suddenly stamped with +one foot, bounded from the floor like a ball, and flew round the room +taking his partner with him. He glided silently on one foot half across +the room, and seeming not to notice the chairs was dashing straight at +them, when suddenly, clinking his spurs and spreading out his legs, +he stopped short on his heels, stood so a second, stamped on the spot +clanking his spurs, whirled rapidly round, and, striking his left heel +against his right, flew round again in a circle. Natásha guessed what +he meant to do, and abandoning herself to him followed his lead hardly +knowing how. First he spun her round, holding her now with his left, now +with his right hand, then falling on one knee he twirled her round him, +and again jumping up, dashed so impetuously forward that it seemed as if +he would rush through the whole suite of rooms without drawing breath, +and then he suddenly stopped and performed some new and unexpected +steps. When at last, smartly whirling his partner round in front of her +chair, he drew up with a click of his spurs and bowed to her, Natásha +did not even make him a curtsy. She fixed her eyes on him in amazement, +smiling as if she did not recognize him. + +“What does this mean?” she brought out. + +Although Iogel did not acknowledge this to be the real mazurka, everyone +was delighted with Denísov’s skill, he was asked again and again as +a partner, and the old men began smilingly to talk about Poland and the +good old days. Denísov, flushed after the mazurka and mopping himself +with his handkerchief, sat down by Natásha and did not leave her for +the rest of the evening. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIII + +For two days after that Rostóv did not see Dólokhov at his own or at +Dólokhov’s home: on the third day he received a note from him: + +As I do not intend to be at your house again for reasons you know +of, and am going to rejoin my regiment, I am giving a farewell supper +tonight to my friends—come to the English Hotel. + +About ten o’clock Rostóv went to the English Hotel straight from the +theater, where he had been with his family and Denísov. He was at once +shown to the best room, which Dólokhov had taken for that evening. Some +twenty men were gathered round a table at which Dólokhov sat between +two candles. On the table was a pile of gold and paper money, and he +was keeping the bank. Rostóv had not seen him since his proposal and +Sónya’s refusal and felt uncomfortable at the thought of how they +would meet. + +Dólokhov’s clear, cold glance met Rostóv as soon as he entered the +door, as though he had long expected him. + +“It’s a long time since we met,” he said. “Thanks for coming. +I’ll just finish dealing, and then Ilyúshka will come with his +chorus.” + +“I called once or twice at your house,” said Rostóv, reddening. + +Dólokhov made no reply. + +“You may punt,” he said. + +Rostóv recalled at that moment a strange conversation he had once had +with Dólokhov. “None but fools trust to luck in play,” Dólokhov +had then said. + +“Or are you afraid to play with me?” Dólokhov now asked as if +guessing Rostóv’s thought. + +Beneath his smile Rostóv saw in him the mood he had shown at the club +dinner and at other times, when as if tired of everyday life he had felt +a need to escape from it by some strange, and usually cruel, action. + +Rostóv felt ill at ease. He tried, but failed, to find some joke with +which to reply to Dólokhov’s words. But before he had thought of +anything, Dólokhov, looking straight in his face, said slowly and +deliberately so that everyone could hear: + +“Do you remember we had a talk about cards... ‘He’s a fool who +trusts to luck, one should make certain,’ and I want to try.” + +“To try his luck or the certainty?” Rostóv asked himself. + +“Well, you’d better not play,” Dólokhov added, and springing a +new pack of cards said: “Bank, gentlemen!” + +Moving the money forward he prepared to deal. Rostóv sat down by his +side and at first did not play. Dólokhov kept glancing at him. + +“Why don’t you play?” he asked. + +And strange to say Nicholas felt that he could not help taking up a +card, putting a small stake on it, and beginning to play. + +“I have no money with me,” he said. + +“I’ll trust you.” + +Rostóv staked five rubles on a card and lost, staked again, and again +lost. Dólokhov “killed,” that is, beat, ten cards of Rostóv’s +running. + +“Gentlemen,” said Dólokhov after he had dealt for some time. +“Please place your money on the cards or I may get muddled in the +reckoning.” + +One of the players said he hoped he might be trusted. + +“Yes, you might, but I am afraid of getting the accounts mixed. So I +ask you to put the money on your cards,” replied Dólokhov. “Don’t +stint yourself, we’ll settle afterwards,” he added, turning to +Rostóv. + +The game continued; a waiter kept handing round champagne. + +All Rostóv’s cards were beaten and he had eight hundred rubles scored +up against him. He wrote “800 rubles” on a card, but while the +waiter filled his glass he changed his mind and altered it to his usual +stake of twenty rubles. + +“Leave it,” said Dólokhov, though he did not seem to be even +looking at Rostóv, “you’ll win it back all the sooner. I lose to +the others but win from you. Or are you afraid of me?” he asked again. + +Rostóv submitted. He let the eight hundred remain and laid down a seven +of hearts with a torn corner, which he had picked up from the floor. He +well remembered that seven afterwards. He laid down the seven of hearts, +on which with a broken bit of chalk he had written “800 rubles” in +clear upright figures; he emptied the glass of warm champagne that was +handed him, smiled at Dólokhov’s words, and with a sinking heart, +waiting for a seven to turn up, gazed at Dólokhov’s hands which held +the pack. Much depended on Rostóv’s winning or losing on that seven +of hearts. On the previous Sunday the old count had given his son +two thousand rubles, and though he always disliked speaking of money +difficulties had told Nicholas that this was all he could let him have +till May, and asked him to be more economical this time. Nicholas had +replied that it would be more than enough for him and that he gave his +word of honor not to take anything more till the spring. Now only twelve +hundred rubles was left of that money, so that this seven of hearts +meant for him not only the loss of sixteen hundred rubles, but the +necessity of going back on his word. With a sinking heart he watched +Dólokhov’s hands and thought, “Now then, make haste and let me have +this card and I’ll take my cap and drive home to supper with Denísov, +Natásha, and Sónya, and will certainly never touch a card again.” At +that moment his home life, jokes with Pétya, talks with Sónya, duets +with Natásha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed +in the house on the Povarskáya rose before him with such vividness, +clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and +unappreciated bliss, long past. He could not conceive that a stupid +chance, letting the seven be dealt to the right rather than to the left, +might deprive him of all this happiness, newly appreciated and newly +illumined, and plunge him into the depths of unknown and undefined +misery. That could not be, yet he awaited with a sinking heart the +movement of Dólokhov’s hands. Those broad, reddish hands, with hairy +wrists visible from under the shirt cuffs, laid down the pack and took +up a glass and a pipe that were handed him. + +“So you are not afraid to play with me?” repeated Dólokhov, and as +if about to tell a good story he put down the cards, leaned back in his +chair, and began deliberately with a smile: + +“Yes, gentlemen, I’ve been told there’s a rumor going about Moscow +that I’m a sharper, so I advise you to be careful.” + +“Come now, deal!” exclaimed Rostóv. + +“Oh, those Moscow gossips!” said Dólokhov, and he took up the cards +with a smile. + +“Aah!” Rostóv almost screamed lifting both hands to his head. The +seven he needed was lying uppermost, the first card in the pack. He had +lost more than he could pay. + +“Still, don’t ruin yourself!” said Dólokhov with a side glance at +Rostóv as he continued to deal. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +An hour and a half later most of the players were but little interested +in their own play. + +The whole interest was concentrated on Rostóv. Instead of sixteen +hundred rubles he had a long column of figures scored against him, +which he had reckoned up to ten thousand, but that now, as he vaguely +supposed, must have risen to fifteen thousand. In reality it already +exceeded twenty thousand rubles. Dólokhov was no longer listening to +stories or telling them, but followed every movement of Rostóv’s +hands and occasionally ran his eyes over the score against him. He had +decided to play until that score reached forty-three thousand. He +had fixed on that number because forty-three was the sum of his and +Sónya’s joint ages. Rostóv, leaning his head on both hands, sat at +the table which was scrawled over with figures, wet with spilled wine, +and littered with cards. One tormenting impression did not leave him: +that those broad-boned reddish hands with hairy wrists visible from +under the shirt sleeves, those hands which he loved and hated, held him +in their power. + +“Six hundred rubles, ace, a corner, a nine... winning it back’s +impossible... Oh, how pleasant it was at home!... The knave, double or +quits... it can’t be!... And why is he doing this to me?” Rostóv +pondered. Sometimes he staked a large sum, but Dólokhov refused to +accept it and fixed the stake himself. Nicholas submitted to him, and at +one moment prayed to God as he had done on the battlefield at the bridge +over the Enns, and then guessed that the card that came first to hand +from the crumpled heap under the table would save him, now counted the +cords on his coat and took a card with that number and tried staking the +total of his losses on it, then he looked round for aid from the other +players, or peered at the now cold face of Dólokhov and tried to read +what was passing in his mind. + +“He knows of course what this loss means to me. He can’t want my +ruin. Wasn’t he my friend? Wasn’t I fond of him? But it’s not his +fault. What’s he to do if he has such luck?... And it’s not my fault +either,” he thought to himself, “I have done nothing wrong. Have I +killed anyone, or insulted or wished harm to anyone? Why such a terrible +misfortune? And when did it begin? Such a little while ago I came to +this table with the thought of winning a hundred rubles to buy that +casket for Mamma’s name day and then going home. I was so happy, so +free, so lighthearted! And I did not realize how happy I was! When did +that end and when did this new, terrible state of things begin? What +marked the change? I sat all the time in this same place at this table, +chose and placed cards, and watched those broad-boned agile hands in the +same way. When did it happen and what has happened? I am well and strong +and still the same and in the same place. No, it can’t be! Surely it +will all end in nothing!” + +He was flushed and bathed in perspiration, though the room was not hot. +His face was terrible and piteous to see, especially from its helpless +efforts to seem calm. + +The score against him reached the fateful sum of forty-three thousand. +Rostóv had just prepared a card, by bending the corner of which he +meant to double the three thousand just put down to his score, when +Dólokhov, slamming down the pack of cards, put it aside and began +rapidly adding up the total of Rostóv’s debt, breaking the chalk as +he marked the figures in his clear, bold hand. + +“Supper, it’s time for supper! And here are the gypsies!” + +Some swarthy men and women were really entering from the cold outside +and saying something in their gypsy accents. Nicholas understood that it +was all over; but he said in an indifferent tone: + +“Well, won’t you go on? I had a splendid card all ready,” as if it +were the fun of the game which interested him most. + +“It’s all up! I’m lost!” thought he. “Now a bullet through my +brain—that’s all that’s left me!” And at the same time he said +in a cheerful voice: + +“Come now, just this one more little card!” + +“All right!” said Dólokhov, having finished the addition. “All +right! Twenty-one rubles,” he said, pointing to the figure twenty-one +by which the total exceeded the round sum of forty-three thousand; and +taking up a pack he prepared to deal. Rostóv submissively unbent the +corner of his card and, instead of the six thousand he had intended, +carefully wrote twenty-one. + +“It’s all the same to me,” he said. “I only want to see whether +you will let me win this ten, or beat it.” + +Dólokhov began to deal seriously. Oh, how Rostóv detested at that +moment those hands with their short reddish fingers and hairy wrists, +which held him in their power.... The ten fell to him. + +“You owe forty-three thousand, Count,” said Dólokhov, and +stretching himself he rose from the table. “One does get tired sitting +so long,” he added. + +“Yes, I’m tired too,” said Rostóv. + +Dólokhov cut him short, as if to remind him that it was not for him to +jest. + +“When am I to receive the money, Count?” + +Rostóv, flushing, drew Dólokhov into the next room. + +“I cannot pay it all immediately. Will you take an I.O.U.?” he said. + +“I say, Rostóv,” said Dólokhov clearly, smiling and looking +Nicholas straight in the eyes, “you know the saying, ‘Lucky in love, +unlucky at cards.’ Your cousin is in love with you, I know.” + +“Oh, it’s terrible to feel oneself so in this man’s power,” +thought Rostóv. He knew what a shock he would inflict on his father and +mother by the news of this loss, he knew what a relief it would be to +escape it all, and felt that Dólokhov knew that he could save him from +all this shame and sorrow, but wanted now to play with him as a cat does +with a mouse. + +“Your cousin...” Dólokhov started to say, but Nicholas interrupted +him. + +“My cousin has nothing to do with this and it’s not necessary to +mention her!” he exclaimed fiercely. + +“Then when am I to have it?” + +“Tomorrow,” replied Rostóv and left the room. + + + + + +CHAPTER XV + +To say “tomorrow” and keep up a dignified tone was not difficult, +but to go home alone, see his sisters, brother, mother, and father, +confess and ask for money he had no right to after giving his word of +honor, was terrible. + +At home, they had not yet gone to bed. The young people, after returning +from the theater, had had supper and were grouped round the clavichord. +As soon as Nicholas entered, he was enfolded in that poetic atmosphere +of love which pervaded the Rostóv household that winter and, now after +Dólokhov’s proposal and Iogel’s ball, seemed to have grown thicker +round Sónya and Natásha as the air does before a thunderstorm. Sónya +and Natásha, in the light-blue dresses they had worn at the theater, +looking pretty and conscious of it, were standing by the clavichord, +happy and smiling. Véra was playing chess with Shinshín in the drawing +room. The old countess, waiting for the return of her husband and son, +sat playing patience with the old gentlewoman who lived in their house. +Denísov, with sparkling eyes and ruffled hair, sat at the clavichord +striking chords with his short fingers, his legs thrown back and his +eyes rolling as he sang, with his small, husky, but true voice, some +verses called “Enchantress,” which he had composed, and to which he +was trying to fit music: + + Enchantress, say, to my forsaken lyre + What magic power is this recalls me still? + What spark has set my inmost soul on fire, + What is this bliss that makes my fingers thrill? + +He was singing in passionate tones, gazing with his sparkling +black-agate eyes at the frightened and happy Natásha. + +“Splendid! Excellent!” exclaimed Natásha. “Another verse,” she +said, without noticing Nicholas. + +“Everything’s still the same with them,” thought Nicholas, +glancing into the drawing room, where he saw Véra and his mother with +the old lady. + +“Ah, and here’s Nicholas!” cried Natásha, running up to him. + +“Is Papa at home?” he asked. + +“I am so glad you’ve come!” said Natásha, without answering him. +“We are enjoying ourselves! Vasíli Dmítrich is staying a day longer +for my sake! Did you know?” + +“No, Papa is not back yet,” said Sónya. + +“Nicholas, have you come? Come here, dear!” called the old countess +from the drawing room. + +Nicholas went to her, kissed her hand, and sitting down silently at her +table began to watch her hands arranging the cards. From the dancing +room, they still heard the laughter and merry voices trying to persuade +Natásha to sing. + +“All wight! All wight!” shouted Denísov. “It’s no good making +excuses now! It’s your turn to sing the ba’cawolla—I entweat +you!” + +The countess glanced at her silent son. + +“What is the matter?” she asked. + +“Oh, nothing,” said he, as if weary of being continually asked the +same question. “Will Papa be back soon?” + +“I expect so.” + +“Everything’s the same with them. They know nothing about it! Where +am I to go?” thought Nicholas, and went again into the dancing room +where the clavichord stood. + +Sónya was sitting at the clavichord, playing the prelude to +Denísov’s favorite barcarolle. Natásha was preparing to sing. +Denísov was looking at her with enraptured eyes. + +Nicholas began pacing up and down the room. + +“Why do they want to make her sing? How can she sing? There’s +nothing to be happy about!” thought he. + +Sónya struck the first chord of the prelude. + +“My God, I’m a ruined and dishonored man! A bullet through my brain +is the only thing left me—not singing!” his thoughts ran on. “Go +away? But where to? It’s one—let them sing!” + +He continued to pace the room, looking gloomily at Denísov and the +girls and avoiding their eyes. + +“Nikólenka, what is the matter?” Sónya’s eyes fixed on him +seemed to ask. She noticed at once that something had happened to him. + +Nicholas turned away from her. Natásha too, with her quick instinct, +had instantly noticed her brother’s condition. But, though she noticed +it, she was herself in such high spirits at that moment, so far from +sorrow, sadness, or self-reproach, that she purposely deceived herself +as young people often do. “No, I am too happy now to spoil my +enjoyment by sympathy with anyone’s sorrow,” she felt, and she said +to herself: “No, I must be mistaken, he must be feeling happy, just as +I am.” + +“Now, Sónya!” she said, going to the very middle of the room, where +she considered the resonance was best. + +Having lifted her head and let her arms droop lifelessly, as ballet +dancers do, Natásha, rising energetically from her heels to her toes, +stepped to the middle of the room and stood still. + +“Yes, that’s me!” she seemed to say, answering the rapt gaze with +which Denísov followed her. + +“And what is she so pleased about?” thought Nicholas, looking at his +sister. “Why isn’t she dull and ashamed?” + +Natásha took the first note, her throat swelled, her chest rose, +her eyes became serious. At that moment she was oblivious of her +surroundings, and from her smiling lips flowed sounds which anyone may +produce at the same intervals and hold for the same time, but which +leave you cold a thousand times and the thousand and first time thrill +you and make you weep. + +Natásha, that winter, had for the first time begun to sing seriously, +mainly because Denísov so delighted in her singing. She no longer sang +as a child, there was no longer in her singing that comical, childish, +painstaking effect that had been in it before; but she did not yet sing +well, as all the connoisseurs who heard her said: “It is not trained, +but it is a beautiful voice that must be trained.” Only they generally +said this some time after she had finished singing. While that untrained +voice, with its incorrect breathing and labored transitions, was +sounding, even the connoisseurs said nothing, but only delighted in +it and wished to hear it again. In her voice there was a virginal +freshness, an unconsciousness of her own powers, and an as yet untrained +velvety softness, which so mingled with her lack of art in singing that +it seemed as if nothing in that voice could be altered without spoiling +it. + +“What is this?” thought Nicholas, listening to her with widely +opened eyes. “What has happened to her? How she is singing today!” +And suddenly the whole world centered for him on anticipation of the +next note, the next phrase, and everything in the world was divided into +three beats: “Oh mio crudele affetto.”... One, two, three... one, +two, three... One... “Oh mio crudele affetto.”... One, two, three... +One. “Oh, this senseless life of ours!” thought Nicholas. “All +this misery, and money, and Dólokhov, and anger, and honor—it’s all +nonsense... but this is real.... Now then, Natásha, now then, dearest! +Now then, darling! How will she take that si? She’s taken it! Thank +God!” And without noticing that he was singing, to strengthen the si +he sung a second, a third below the high note. “Ah, God! How fine! Did +I really take it? How fortunate!” he thought. + +Oh, how that chord vibrated, and how moved was something that was finest +in Rostóv’s soul! And this something was apart from everything else +in the world and above everything in the world. “What were losses, and +Dólokhov, and words of honor?... All nonsense! One might kill and rob +and yet be happy....” + + + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +It was long since Rostóv had felt such enjoyment from music as he +did that day. But no sooner had Natásha finished her barcarolle than +reality again presented itself. He got up without saying a word and went +downstairs to his own room. A quarter of an hour later the old count +came in from his club, cheerful and contented. Nicholas, hearing him +drive up, went to meet him. + +“Well—had a good time?” said the old count, smiling gaily and +proudly at his son. + +Nicholas tried to say “Yes,” but could not: and he nearly burst into +sobs. The count was lighting his pipe and did not notice his son’s +condition. + +“Ah, it can’t be avoided!” thought Nicholas, for the first and +last time. And suddenly, in the most casual tone, which made him feel +ashamed of himself, he said, as if merely asking his father to let him +have the carriage to drive to town: + +“Papa, I have come on a matter of business. I was nearly forgetting. I +need some money.” + +“Dear me!” said his father, who was in a specially good humor. “I +told you it would not be enough. How much?” + +“Very much,” said Nicholas flushing, and with a stupid careless +smile, for which he was long unable to forgive himself, “I have lost a +little, I mean a good deal, a great deal—forty three thousand.” + +“What! To whom?... Nonsense!” cried the count, suddenly reddening +with an apoplectic flush over neck and nape as old people do. + +“I promised to pay tomorrow,” said Nicholas. + +“Well!...” said the old count, spreading out his arms and sinking +helplessly on the sofa. + +“It can’t be helped! It happens to everyone!” said the son, with +a bold, free, and easy tone, while in his soul he regarded himself as a +worthless scoundrel whose whole life could not atone for his crime. He +longed to kiss his father’s hands and kneel to beg his forgiveness, +but said, in a careless and even rude voice, that it happens to +everyone! + +The old count cast down his eyes on hearing his son’s words and began +bustlingly searching for something. + +“Yes, yes,” he muttered, “it will be difficult, I fear, difficult +to raise... happens to everybody! Yes, who has not done it?” + +And with a furtive glance at his son’s face, the count went out of the +room.... Nicholas had been prepared for resistance, but had not at all +expected this. + +“Papa! Pa-pa!” he called after him, sobbing, “forgive me!” And +seizing his father’s hand, he pressed it to his lips and burst into +tears. + +While father and son were having their explanation, the mother and +daughter were having one not less important. Natásha came running to +her mother, quite excited. + +“Mamma!... Mamma!... He has made me...” + +“Made what?” + +“Made, made me an offer, Mamma! Mamma!” she exclaimed. + +The countess did not believe her ears. Denísov had proposed. To whom? +To this chit of a girl, Natásha, who not so long ago was playing with +dolls and who was still having lessons. + +“Don’t, Natásha! What nonsense!” she said, hoping it was a joke. + +“Nonsense, indeed! I am telling you the fact,” said Natásha +indignantly. “I come to ask you what to do, and you call it +‘nonsense!’” + +The countess shrugged her shoulders. + +“If it is true that Monsieur Denísov has made you a proposal, tell +him he is a fool, that’s all!” + +“No, he’s not a fool!” replied Natásha indignantly and seriously. + +“Well then, what do you want? You’re all in love nowadays. Well, +if you are in love, marry him!” said the countess, with a laugh of +annoyance. “Good luck to you!” + +“No, Mamma, I’m not in love with him, I suppose I’m not in love +with him.” + +“Well then, tell him so.” + +“Mamma, are you cross? Don’t be cross, dear! Is it my fault?” + +“No, but what is it, my dear? Do you want me to go and tell him?” +said the countess smiling. + +“No, I will do it myself, only tell me what to say. It’s all very +well for you,” said Natásha, with a responsive smile. “You should +have seen how he said it! I know he did not mean to say it, but it came +out accidently.” + +“Well, all the same, you must refuse him.” + +“No, I mustn’t. I am so sorry for him! He’s so nice.” + +“Well then, accept his offer. It’s high time for you to be +married,” answered the countess sharply and sarcastically. + +“No, Mamma, but I’m so sorry for him. I don’t know how I’m to +say it.” + +“And there’s nothing for you to say. I shall speak to him myself,” +said the countess, indignant that they should have dared to treat this +little Natásha as grown up. + +“No, not on any account! I will tell him myself, and you’ll listen +at the door,” and Natásha ran across the drawing room to the dancing +hall, where Denísov was sitting on the same chair by the clavichord +with his face in his hands. + +He jumped up at the sound of her light step. + +“Nataly,” he said, moving with rapid steps toward her, “decide my +fate. It is in your hands.” + +“Vasíli Dmítrich, I’m so sorry for you!... No, but you are so +nice... but it won’t do...not that... but as a friend, I shall always +love you.” + +Denísov bent over her hand and she heard strange sounds she did not +understand. She kissed his rough curly black head. At this instant, they +heard the quick rustle of the countess’ dress. She came up to them. + +“Vasíli Dmítrich, I thank you for the honor,” she said, with an +embarrassed voice, though it sounded severe to Denísov—“but my +daughter is so young, and I thought that, as my son’s friend, you +would have addressed yourself first to me. In that case you would not +have obliged me to give this refusal.” + +“Countess...” said Denísov, with downcast eyes and a guilty face. +He tried to say more, but faltered. + +Natásha could not remain calm, seeing him in such a plight. She began +to sob aloud. + +“Countess, I have done w’ong,” Denísov went on in an unsteady +voice, “but believe me, I so adore your daughter and all your family +that I would give my life twice over...” He looked at the countess, +and seeing her severe face said: “Well, good-by, Countess,” and +kissing her hand, he left the room with quick resolute strides, without +looking at Natásha. + + +Next day Rostóv saw Denísov off. He did not wish to stay another +day in Moscow. All Denísov’s Moscow friends gave him a farewell +entertainment at the gypsies’, with the result that he had no +recollection of how he was put in the sleigh or of the first three +stages of his journey. + +After Denísov’s departure, Rostóv spent another fortnight in Moscow, +without going out of the house, waiting for the money his father could +not at once raise, and he spent most of his time in the girls’ room. + +Sónya was more tender and devoted to him than ever. It was as if she +wanted to show him that his losses were an achievement that made her +love him all the more, but Nicholas now considered himself unworthy of +her. + +He filled the girls’ albums with verses and music, and having at last +sent Dólokhov the whole forty-three thousand rubles and received his +receipt, he left at the end of November, without taking leave of any of +his acquaintances, to overtake his regiment which was already in Poland. + + + + + +BOOK FIVE: 1806 - 07 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +After his interview with his wife Pierre left for Petersburg. At the +Torzhók post station, either there were no horses or the postmaster +would not supply them. Pierre was obliged to wait. Without undressing, +he lay down on the leather sofa in front of a round table, put his big +feet in their overboots on the table, and began to reflect. + +“Will you have the portmanteaus brought in? And a bed got ready, and +tea?” asked his valet. + +Pierre gave no answer, for he neither heard nor saw anything. He had +begun to think of the last station and was still pondering on the same +question—one so important that he took no notice of what went +on around him. Not only was he indifferent as to whether he got to +Petersburg earlier or later, or whether he secured accommodation at this +station, but compared to the thoughts that now occupied him it was a +matter of indifference whether he remained there for a few hours or for +the rest of his life. + +The postmaster, his wife, the valet, and a peasant woman selling +Torzhók embroidery came into the room offering their services. +Without changing his careless attitude, Pierre looked at them over his +spectacles unable to understand what they wanted or how they could go on +living without having solved the problems that so absorbed him. He had +been engrossed by the same thoughts ever since the day he returned from +Sokólniki after the duel and had spent that first agonizing, sleepless +night. But now, in the solitude of the journey, they seized him with +special force. No matter what he thought about, he always returned to +these same questions which he could not solve and yet could not cease to +ask himself. It was as if the thread of the chief screw which held his +life together were stripped, so that the screw could not get in or out, +but went on turning uselessly in the same place. + +The postmaster came in and began obsequiously to beg his excellency to +wait only two hours, when, come what might, he would let his excellency +have the courier horses. It was plain that he was lying and only wanted +to get more money from the traveler. + +“Is this good or bad?” Pierre asked himself. “It is good for me, +bad for another traveler, and for himself it’s unavoidable, because +he needs money for food; the man said an officer had once given him a +thrashing for letting a private traveler have the courier horses. +But the officer thrashed him because he had to get on as quickly as +possible. And I,” continued Pierre, “shot Dólokhov because I +considered myself injured, and Louis XVI was executed because they +considered him a criminal, and a year later they executed those who +executed him—also for some reason. What is bad? What is good? What +should one love and what hate? What does one live for? And what am I? +What is life, and what is death? What power governs all?” + +There was no answer to any of these questions, except one, and that +not a logical answer and not at all a reply to them. The answer was: +“You’ll die and all will end. You’ll die and know all, or cease +asking.” But dying was also dreadful. + +The Torzhók peddler woman, in a whining voice, went on offering her +wares, especially a pair of goatskin slippers. “I have hundreds of +rubles I don’t know what to do with, and she stands in her tattered +cloak looking timidly at me,” he thought. “And what does she +want the money for? As if that money could add a hair’s breadth to +happiness or peace of mind. Can anything in the world make her or me +less a prey to evil and death?—death which ends all and must come +today or tomorrow—at any rate, in an instant as compared with +eternity.” And again he twisted the screw with the stripped thread, +and again it turned uselessly in the same place. + +His servant handed him a half-cut novel, in the form of letters, by +Madame de Souza. He began reading about the sufferings and virtuous +struggles of a certain Emilie de Mansfeld. “And why did she resist +her seducer when she loved him?” he thought. “God could not have put +into her heart an impulse that was against His will. My wife—as she +once was—did not struggle, and perhaps she was right. Nothing has been +found out, nothing discovered,” Pierre again said to himself. “All +we can know is that we know nothing. And that’s the height of human +wisdom.” + +Everything within and around him seemed confused, senseless, and +repellent. Yet in this very repugnance to all his circumstances Pierre +found a kind of tantalizing satisfaction. + +“I make bold to ask your excellency to move a little for this +gentleman,” said the postmaster, entering the room followed by another +traveler, also detained for lack of horses. + +The newcomer was a short, large-boned, yellow-faced, wrinkled old +man, with gray bushy eyebrows overhanging bright eyes of an indefinite +grayish color. + +Pierre took his feet off the table, stood up, and lay down on a bed that +had been got ready for him, glancing now and then at the newcomer, who, +with a gloomy and tired face, was wearily taking off his wraps with the +aid of his servant, and not looking at Pierre. With a pair of felt boots +on his thin bony legs, and keeping on a worn, nankeen-covered, sheepskin +coat, the traveler sat down on the sofa, leaned back his big head with +its broad temples and close-cropped hair, and looked at Bezúkhov. The +stern, shrewd, and penetrating expression of that look struck Pierre. He +felt a wish to speak to the stranger, but by the time he had made up his +mind to ask him a question about the roads, the traveler had closed his +eyes. His shriveled old hands were folded and on the finger of one of +them Pierre noticed a large cast iron ring with a seal representing a +death’s head. The stranger sat without stirring, either resting or, as +it seemed to Pierre, sunk in profound and calm meditation. His servant +was also a yellow, wrinkled old man, without beard or mustache, +evidently not because he was shaven but because they had never grown. +This active old servant was unpacking the traveler’s canteen and +preparing tea. He brought in a boiling samovar. When everything was +ready, the stranger opened his eyes, moved to the table, filled a +tumbler with tea for himself and one for the beardless old man to whom +he passed it. Pierre began to feel a sense of uneasiness, and the +need, even the inevitability, of entering into conversation with this +stranger. + +The servant brought back his tumbler turned upside down, * with an +unfinished bit of nibbled sugar, and asked if anything more would be +wanted. + + * To indicate he did not want more tea. + +“No. Give me the book,” said the stranger. + +The servant handed him a book which Pierre took to be a devotional work, +and the traveler became absorbed in it. Pierre looked at him. All at +once the stranger closed the book, putting in a marker, and again, +leaning with his arms on the back of the sofa, sat in his former +position with his eyes shut. Pierre looked at him and had not time +to turn away when the old man, opening his eyes, fixed his steady and +severe gaze straight on Pierre’s face. + +Pierre felt confused and wished to avoid that look, but the bright old +eyes attracted him irresistibly. + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +“I have the pleasure of addressing Count Bezúkhov, if I am not +mistaken,” said the stranger in a deliberate and loud voice. + +Pierre looked silently and inquiringly at him over his spectacles. + +“I have heard of you, my dear sir,” continued the stranger, “and +of your misfortune.” He seemed to emphasize the last word, as if to +say—“Yes, misfortune! Call it what you please, I know that what +happened to you in Moscow was a misfortune.”—“I regret it very +much, my dear sir.” + +Pierre flushed and, hurriedly putting his legs down from the bed, bent +forward toward the old man with a forced and timid smile. + +“I have not referred to this out of curiosity, my dear sir, but for +greater reasons.” + +He paused, his gaze still on Pierre, and moved aside on the sofa by way +of inviting the other to take a seat beside him. Pierre felt reluctant +to enter into conversation with this old man, but, submitting to him +involuntarily, came up and sat down beside him. + +“You are unhappy, my dear sir,” the stranger continued. “You +are young and I am old. I should like to help you as far as lies in my +power.” + +“Oh, yes!” said Pierre, with a forced smile. “I am very grateful +to you. Where are you traveling from?” + +The stranger’s face was not genial, it was even cold and severe, but +in spite of this, both the face and words of his new acquaintance were +irresistibly attractive to Pierre. + +“But if for any reason you don’t feel inclined to talk to me,” +said the old man, “say so, my dear sir.” And he suddenly smiled, in +an unexpected and tenderly paternal way. + +“Oh no, not at all! On the contrary, I am very glad to make your +acquaintance,” said Pierre. And again, glancing at the stranger’s +hands, he looked more closely at the ring, with its skull—a Masonic +sign. + +“Allow me to ask,” he said, “are you a Mason?” + +“Yes, I belong to the Brotherhood of the Freemasons,” said the +stranger, looking deeper and deeper into Pierre’s eyes. “And in +their name and my own I hold out a brotherly hand to you.” + +“I am afraid,” said Pierre, smiling, and wavering between the +confidence the personality of the Freemason inspired in him and his own +habit of ridiculing the Masonic beliefs—“I am afraid I am very far +from understanding—how am I to put it?—I am afraid my way of looking +at the world is so opposed to yours that we shall not understand one +another.” + +“I know your outlook,” said the Mason, “and the view of life you +mention, and which you think is the result of your own mental efforts, +is the one held by the majority of people, and is the invariable fruit +of pride, indolence, and ignorance. Forgive me, my dear sir, but if I +had not known it I should not have addressed you. Your view of life is a +regrettable delusion.” + +“Just as I may suppose you to be deluded,” said Pierre, with a faint +smile. + +“I should never dare to say that I know the truth,” said the Mason, +whose words struck Pierre more and more by their precision and firmness. +“No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone +with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our +forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be +a worthy dwelling place of the Great God,” he added, and closed his +eyes. + +“I ought to tell you that I do not believe... do not believe in +God,” said Pierre, regretfully and with an effort, feeling it +essential to speak the whole truth. + +The Mason looked intently at Pierre and smiled as a rich man with +millions in hand might smile at a poor fellow who told him that he, poor +man, had not the five rubles that would make him happy. + +“Yes, you do not know Him, my dear sir,” said the Mason. “You +cannot know Him. You do not know Him and that is why you are unhappy.” + +“Yes, yes, I am unhappy,” assented Pierre. “But what am I to +do?” + +“You know Him not, my dear sir, and so you are very unhappy. You do +not know Him, but He is here, He is in me, He is in my words, He is in +thee, and even in those blasphemous words thou hast just uttered!” +pronounced the Mason in a stern and tremulous voice. + +He paused and sighed, evidently trying to calm himself. + +“If He were not,” he said quietly, “you and I would not be +speaking of Him, my dear sir. Of what, of whom, are we speaking? Whom +hast thou denied?” he suddenly asked with exulting austerity and +authority in his voice. “Who invented Him, if He did not exist? Whence +came thy conception of the existence of such an incomprehensible Being? +didst thou, and why did the whole world, conceive the idea of the +existence of such an incomprehensible Being, a Being all-powerful, +eternal, and infinite in all His attributes?...” + +He stopped and remained silent for a long time. + +Pierre could not and did not wish to break this silence. + +“He exists, but to understand Him is hard,” the Mason began again, +looking not at Pierre but straight before him, and turning the leaves +of his book with his old hands which from excitement he could not keep +still. “If it were a man whose existence thou didst doubt I could +bring him to thee, could take him by the hand and show him to thee. But +how can I, an insignificant mortal, show His omnipotence, His infinity, +and all His mercy to one who is blind, or who shuts his eyes that he may +not see or understand Him and may not see or understand his own vileness +and sinfulness?” He paused again. “Who art thou? Thou dreamest that +thou art wise because thou couldst utter those blasphemous words,” he +went on, with a somber and scornful smile. “And thou art more foolish +and unreasonable than a little child, who, playing with the parts of a +skillfully made watch, dares to say that, as he does not understand +its use, he does not believe in the master who made it. To know Him is +hard.... For ages, from our forefather Adam to our own day, we labor to +attain that knowledge and are still infinitely far from our aim; but +in our lack of understanding we see only our weakness and His +greatness....” + +Pierre listened with swelling heart, gazing into the Mason’s face with +shining eyes, not interrupting or questioning him, but believing with +his whole soul what the stranger said. Whether he accepted the wise +reasoning contained in the Mason’s words, or believed as a child +believes, in the speaker’s tone of conviction and earnestness, or +the tremor of the speaker’s voice—which sometimes almost broke—or +those brilliant aged eyes grown old in this conviction, or the calm +firmness and certainty of his vocation, which radiated from his whole +being (and which struck Pierre especially by contrast with his own +dejection and hopelessness)—at any rate, Pierre longed with his whole +soul to believe and he did believe, and felt a joyful sense of comfort, +regeneration, and return to life. + +“He is not to be apprehended by reason, but by life,” said the +Mason. + +“I do not understand,” said Pierre, feeling with dismay doubts +reawakening. He was afraid of any want of clearness, any weakness, in +the Mason’s arguments; he dreaded not to be able to believe in him. +“I don’t understand,” he said, “how it is that the mind of man +cannot attain the knowledge of which you speak.” + +The Mason smiled with his gentle fatherly smile. + +“The highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish +to imbibe,” he said. “Can I receive that pure liquid into an impure +vessel and judge of its purity? Only by the inner purification of myself +can I retain in some degree of purity the liquid I receive.” + +“Yes, yes, that is so,” said Pierre joyfully. + +“The highest wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those +worldly sciences of physics, history, chemistry, and the like, into +which intellectual knowledge is divided. The highest wisdom is one. +The highest wisdom has but one science—the science of the whole—the +science explaining the whole creation and man’s place in it. To +receive that science it is necessary to purify and renew one’s inner +self, and so before one can know, it is necessary to believe and to +perfect one’s self. And to attain this end, we have the light called +conscience that God has implanted in our souls.” + +“Yes, yes,” assented Pierre. + +“Look then at thy inner self with the eyes of the spirit, and ask +thyself whether thou art content with thyself. What hast thou attained +relying on reason only? What art thou? You are young, you are rich, you +are clever, you are well educated. And what have you done with all these +good gifts? Are you content with yourself and with your life?” + +“No, I hate my life,” Pierre muttered, wincing. + +“Thou hatest it. Then change it, purify thyself; and as thou art +purified, thou wilt gain wisdom. Look at your life, my dear sir. +How have you spent it? In riotous orgies and debauchery, receiving +everything from society and giving nothing in return. You have become +the possessor of wealth. How have you used it? What have you done +for your neighbor? Have you ever thought of your tens of thousands +of slaves? Have you helped them physically and morally? No! You have +profited by their toil to lead a profligate life. That is what you have +done. Have you chosen a post in which you might be of service to your +neighbor? No! You have spent your life in idleness. Then you married, my +dear sir—took on yourself responsibility for the guidance of a young +woman; and what have you done? You have not helped her to find the way +of truth, my dear sir, but have thrust her into an abyss of deceit and +misery. A man offended you and you shot him, and you say you do not +know God and hate your life. There is nothing strange in that, my dear +sir!” + +After these words, the Mason, as if tired by his long discourse, again +leaned his arms on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes. Pierre +looked at that aged, stern, motionless, almost lifeless face and moved +his lips without uttering a sound. He wished to say, “Yes, a vile, +idle, vicious life!” but dared not break the silence. + +The Mason cleared his throat huskily, as old men do, and called his +servant. + +“How about the horses?” he asked, without looking at Pierre. + +“The exchange horses have just come,” answered the servant. “Will +you not rest here?” + +“No, tell them to harness.” + +“Can he really be going away leaving me alone without having told me +all, and without promising to help me?” thought Pierre, rising with +downcast head; and he began to pace the room, glancing occasionally at +the Mason. “Yes, I never thought of it, but I have led a contemptible +and profligate life, though I did not like it and did not want to,” +thought Pierre. “But this man knows the truth and, if he wished to, +could disclose it to me.” + +Pierre wished to say this to the Mason, but did not dare to. The +traveler, having packed his things with his practiced hands, began +fastening his coat. When he had finished, he turned to Bezúkhov, and +said in a tone of indifferent politeness: + +“Where are you going to now, my dear sir?” + +“I?... I’m going to Petersburg,” answered Pierre, in a childlike, +hesitating voice. “I thank you. I agree with all you have said. But +do not suppose me to be so bad. With my whole soul I wish to be what you +would have me be, but I have never had help from anyone.... But it is +I, above all, who am to blame for everything. Help me, teach me, and +perhaps I may...” + +Pierre could not go on. He gulped and turned away. + +The Mason remained silent for a long time, evidently considering. + +“Help comes from God alone,” he said, “but such measure of help as +our Order can bestow it will render you, my dear sir. You are going to +Petersburg. Hand this to Count Willarski” (he took out his notebook +and wrote a few words on a large sheet of paper folded in four). +“Allow me to give you a piece of advice. When you reach the capital, +first of all devote some time to solitude and self-examination and do +not resume your former way of life. And now I wish you a good journey, +my dear sir,” he added, seeing that his servant had entered... “and +success.” + +The traveler was Joseph Alexéevich Bazdéev, as Pierre saw from the +postmaster’s book. Bazdéev had been one of the best-known Freemasons +and Martinists, even in Novíkov’s time. For a long while after he had +gone, Pierre did not go to bed or order horses but paced up and down +the room, pondering over his vicious past, and with a rapturous sense +of beginning anew pictured to himself the blissful, irreproachable, +virtuous future that seemed to him so easy. It seemed to him that he had +been vicious only because he had somehow forgotten how good it is to +be virtuous. Not a trace of his former doubts remained in his soul. He +firmly believed in the possibility of the brotherhood of men united in +the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that is how +Freemasonry presented itself to him. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +On reaching Petersburg Pierre did not let anyone know of his arrival, +he went nowhere and spent whole days in reading Thomas à Kempis, whose +book had been sent him by someone unknown. One thing he continually +realized as he read that book: the joy, hitherto unknown to him, +of believing in the possibility of attaining perfection, and in the +possibility of active brotherly love among men, which Joseph Alexéevich +had revealed to him. A week after his arrival, the young Polish count, +Willarski, whom Pierre had known slightly in Petersburg society, came +into his room one evening in the official and ceremonious manner in +which Dólokhov’s second had called on him, and, having closed the +door behind him and satisfied himself that there was nobody else in the +room, addressed Pierre. + +“I have come to you with a message and an offer, Count,” he +said without sitting down. “A person of very high standing in our +Brotherhood has made application for you to be received into our Order +before the usual term and has proposed to me to be your sponsor. I +consider it a sacred duty to fulfill that person’s wishes. Do you wish +to enter the Brotherhood of Freemasons under my sponsorship?” + +The cold, austere tone of this man, whom he had almost always before met +at balls, amiably smiling in the society of the most brilliant women, +surprised Pierre. + +“Yes, I do wish it,” said he. + +Willarski bowed his head. + +“One more question, Count,” he said, “which I beg you to answer +in all sincerity—not as a future Mason but as an honest man: have you +renounced your former convictions—do you believe in God?” + +Pierre considered. + +“Yes... yes, I believe in God,” he said. + +“In that case...” began Willarski, but Pierre interrupted him. + +“Yes, I do believe in God,” he repeated. + +“In that case we can go,” said Willarski. “My carriage is at your +service.” + +Willarski was silent throughout the drive. To Pierre’s inquiries as +to what he must do and how he should answer, Willarski only replied that +brothers more worthy than he would test him and that Pierre had only to +tell the truth. + +Having entered the courtyard of a large house where the Lodge had its +headquarters, and having ascended a dark staircase, they entered a small +well-lit anteroom where they took off their cloaks without the aid of +a servant. From there they passed into another room. A man in strange +attire appeared at the door. Willarski, stepping toward him, said +something to him in French in an undertone and then went up to a small +wardrobe in which Pierre noticed garments such as he had never seen +before. Having taken a kerchief from the cupboard, Willarski bound +Pierre’s eyes with it and tied it in a knot behind, catching some +hairs painfully in the knot. Then he drew his face down, kissed him, and +taking him by the hand led him forward. The hairs tied in the knot hurt +Pierre and there were lines of pain on his face and a shamefaced smile. +His huge figure, with arms hanging down and with a puckered, though +smiling face, moved after Willarski with uncertain, timid steps. + +Having led him about ten paces, Willarski stopped. + +“Whatever happens to you,” he said, “you must bear it all manfully +if you have firmly resolved to join our Brotherhood.” (Pierre nodded +affirmatively.) “When you hear a knock at the door, you will uncover +your eyes,” added Willarski. “I wish you courage and success,” +and, pressing Pierre’s hand, he went out. + +Left alone, Pierre went on smiling in the same way. Once or twice +he shrugged his shoulders and raised his hand to the kerchief, as if +wishing to take it off, but let it drop again. The five minutes spent +with his eyes bandaged seemed to him an hour. His arms felt numb, +his legs almost gave way, it seemed to him that he was tired out. He +experienced a variety of most complex sensations. He felt afraid of what +would happen to him and still more afraid of showing his fear. He felt +curious to know what was going to happen and what would be revealed to +him; but most of all, he felt joyful that the moment had come when he +would at last start on that path of regeneration and on the actively +virtuous life of which he had been dreaming since he met Joseph +Alexéevich. Loud knocks were heard at the door. Pierre took the bandage +off his eyes and glanced around him. The room was in black darkness, +only a small lamp was burning inside something white. Pierre went nearer +and saw that the lamp stood on a black table on which lay an open book. +The book was the Gospel, and the white thing with the lamp inside was a +human skull with its cavities and teeth. After reading the first words +of the Gospel: “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with +God,” Pierre went round the table and saw a large open box filled +with something. It was a coffin with bones inside. He was not at all +surprised by what he saw. Hoping to enter on an entirely new life quite +unlike the old one, he expected everything to be unusual, even more +unusual than what he was seeing. A skull, a coffin, the Gospel—it +seemed to him that he had expected all this and even more. Trying +to stimulate his emotions he looked around. “God, death, love, the +brotherhood of man,” he kept saying to himself, associating these +words with vague yet joyful ideas. The door opened and someone came in. + +By the dim light, to which Pierre had already become accustomed, he +saw a rather short man. Having evidently come from the light into the +darkness, the man paused, then moved with cautious steps toward the +table and placed on it his small leather-gloved hands. + +This short man had on a white leather apron which covered his chest and +part of his legs; he had on a kind of necklace above which rose a high +white ruffle, outlining his rather long face which was lit up from +below. + +“For what have you come hither?” asked the newcomer, turning in +Pierre’s direction at a slight rustle made by the latter. “Why have +you, who do not believe in the truth of the light and who have not +seen the light, come here? What do you seek from us? Wisdom, virtue, +enlightenment?” + +At the moment the door opened and the stranger came in, Pierre felt a +sense of awe and veneration such as he had experienced in his boyhood at +confession; he felt himself in the presence of one socially a complete +stranger, yet nearer to him through the brotherhood of man. With bated +breath and beating heart he moved toward the Rhetor (by which name the +brother who prepared a seeker for entrance into the Brotherhood was +known). Drawing nearer, he recognized in the Rhetor a man he knew, +Smolyanínov, and it mortified him to think that the newcomer was an +acquaintance—he wished him simply a brother and a virtuous instructor. +For a long time he could not utter a word, so that the Rhetor had to +repeat his question. + +“Yes... I... I... desire regeneration,” Pierre uttered with +difficulty. + +“Very well,” said Smolyanínov, and went on at once: “Have you any +idea of the means by which our holy Order will help you to reach your +aim?” said he quietly and quickly. + +“I... hope... for guidance... help... in regeneration,” said Pierre, +with a trembling voice and some difficulty in utterance due to his +excitement and to being unaccustomed to speak of abstract matters in +Russian. + +“What is your conception of Freemasonry?” + +“I imagine that Freemasonry is the fraternity and equality of men who +have virtuous aims,” said Pierre, feeling ashamed of the inadequacy +of his words for the solemnity of the moment, as he spoke. “I +imagine...” + +“Good!” said the Rhetor quickly, apparently satisfied with +this answer. “Have you sought for means of attaining your aim in +religion?” + +“No, I considered it erroneous and did not follow it,” said Pierre, +so softly that the Rhetor did not hear him and asked him what he was +saying. “I have been an atheist,” answered Pierre. + +“You are seeking for truth in order to follow its laws in your life, +therefore you seek wisdom and virtue. Is that not so?” said the +Rhetor, after a moment’s pause. + +“Yes, yes,” assented Pierre. + +The Rhetor cleared his throat, crossed his gloved hands on his breast, +and began to speak. + +“Now I must disclose to you the chief aim of our Order,” he said, +“and if this aim coincides with yours, you may enter our Brotherhood +with profit. The first and chief object of our Order, the foundation on +which it rests and which no human power can destroy, is the preservation +and handing on to posterity of a certain important mystery... which +has come down to us from the remotest ages, even from the first man—a +mystery on which perhaps the fate of mankind depends. But since this +mystery is of such a nature that nobody can know or use it unless he be +prepared by long and diligent self-purification, not everyone can hope +to attain it quickly. Hence we have a secondary aim, that of preparing +our members as much as possible to reform their hearts, to purify and +enlighten their minds, by means handed on to us by tradition from those +who have striven to attain this mystery, and thereby to render them +capable of receiving it. + +“By purifying and regenerating our members we try, thirdly, to improve +the whole human race, offering it in our members an example of piety +and virtue, and thereby try with all our might to combat the evil which +sways the world. Think this over and I will come to you again.” + +“To combat the evil which sways the world...” Pierre repeated, and a +mental image of his future activity in this direction rose in his mind. +He imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he +addressed an edifying exhortation to them. He imagined to himself +vicious and unfortunate people whom he would assist by word and deed, +imagined oppressors whose victims he would rescue. Of the three +objects mentioned by the Rhetor, this last, that of improving mankind, +especially appealed to Pierre. The important mystery mentioned by the +Rhetor, though it aroused his curiosity, did not seem to him essential, +and the second aim, that of purifying and regenerating himself, did not +much interest him because at that moment he felt with delight that he +was already perfectly cured of his former faults and was ready for all +that was good. + +Half an hour later, the Rhetor returned to inform the seeker of the +seven virtues, corresponding to the seven steps of Solomon’s temple, +which every Freemason should cultivate in himself. These virtues were: +1. Discretion, the keeping of the secrets of the Order. 2. Obedience to +those of higher ranks in the Order. 3. Morality. 4. Love of mankind. 5. +Courage. 6. Generosity. 7. The love of death. + +“In the seventh place, try, by the frequent thought of death,” the +Rhetor said, “to bring yourself to regard it not as a dreaded foe, but +as a friend that frees the soul grown weary in the labors of virtue +from this distressful life, and leads it to its place of recompense and +peace.” + +“Yes, that must be so,” thought Pierre, when after these words the +Rhetor went away, leaving him to solitary meditation. “It must be so, +but I am still so weak that I love my life, the meaning of which is only +now gradually opening before me.” But five of the other virtues which +Pierre recalled, counting them on his fingers, he felt already in his +soul: courage, generosity, morality, love of mankind, and especially +obedience—which did not even seem to him a virtue, but a joy. (He now +felt so glad to be free from his own lawlessness and to submit his will +to those who knew the indubitable truth.) He forgot what the seventh +virtue was and could not recall it. + +The third time the Rhetor came back more quickly and asked Pierre +whether he was still firm in his intention and determined to submit to +all that would be required of him. + +“I am ready for everything,” said Pierre. + +“I must also inform you,” said the Rhetor, “that our Order +delivers its teaching not in words only but also by other means, which +may perhaps have a stronger effect on the sincere seeker after wisdom +and virtue than mere words. This chamber with what you see therein +should already have suggested to your heart, if it is sincere, more than +words could do. You will perhaps also see in your further initiation a +like method of enlightenment. Our Order imitates the ancient societies +that explained their teaching by hieroglyphics. A hieroglyph,” said +the Rhetor, “is an emblem of something not cognizable by the senses +but which possesses qualities resembling those of the symbol.” + +Pierre knew very well what a hieroglyph was, but dared not speak. He +listened to the Rhetor in silence, feeling from all he said that his +ordeal was about to begin. + +“If you are resolved, I must begin your initiation,” said the Rhetor +coming closer to Pierre. “In token of generosity I ask you to give me +all your valuables.” + +“But I have nothing here,” replied Pierre, supposing that he was +asked to give up all he possessed. + +“What you have with you: watch, money, rings....” + +Pierre quickly took out his purse and watch, but could not manage for +some time to get the wedding ring off his fat finger. When that had been +done, the Rhetor said: + +“In token of obedience, I ask you to undress.” + +Pierre took off his coat, waistcoat, and left boot according to the +Rhetor’s instructions. The Mason drew the shirt back from Pierre’s +left breast, and stooping down pulled up the left leg of his trousers +to above the knee. Pierre hurriedly began taking off his right boot also +and was going to tuck up the other trouser leg to save this stranger the +trouble, but the Mason told him that was not necessary and gave him +a slipper for his left foot. With a childlike smile of embarrassment, +doubt, and self-derision, which appeared on his face against his will, +Pierre stood with his arms hanging down and legs apart, before his +brother Rhetor, and awaited his further commands. + +“And now, in token of candor, I ask you to reveal to me your chief +passion,” said the latter. + +“My passion! I have had so many,” replied Pierre. + +“That passion which more than all others caused you to waver on the +path of virtue,” said the Mason. + +Pierre paused, seeking a reply. + +“Wine? Gluttony? Idleness? Laziness? Irritability? Anger? Women?” +He went over his vices in his mind, not knowing to which of them to give +the pre-eminence. + +“Women,” he said in a low, scarcely audible voice. + +The Mason did not move and for a long time said nothing after this +answer. At last he moved up to Pierre and, taking the kerchief that lay +on the table, again bound his eyes. + +“For the last time I say to you—turn all your attention upon +yourself, put a bridle on your senses, and seek blessedness, not in +passion but in your own heart. The source of blessedness is not without +us but within....” + +Pierre had already long been feeling in himself that refreshing source +of blessedness which now flooded his heart with glad emotion. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +Soon after this there came into the dark chamber to fetch Pierre, not +the Rhetor but Pierre’s sponsor, Willarski, whom he recognized by his +voice. To fresh questions as to the firmness of his resolution Pierre +replied: “Yes, yes, I agree,” and with a beaming, childlike smile, +his fat chest uncovered, stepping unevenly and timidly in one slippered +and one booted foot, he advanced, while Willarski held a sword to his +bare chest. He was conducted from that room along passages that turned +backwards and forwards and was at last brought to the doors of the +Lodge. Willarski coughed, he was answered by the Masonic knock with +mallets, the doors opened before them. A bass voice (Pierre was still +blindfolded) questioned him as to who he was, when and where he was +born, and so on. Then he was again led somewhere still blindfolded, +and as they went along he was told allegories of the toils of his +pilgrimage, of holy friendship, of the Eternal Architect of the +universe, and of the courage with which he should endure toils and +dangers. During these wanderings, Pierre noticed that he was spoken +of now as the “Seeker,” now as the “Sufferer,” and now as the +“Postulant,” to the accompaniment of various knockings with +mallets and swords. As he was being led up to some object he noticed a +hesitation and uncertainty among his conductors. He heard those around +him disputing in whispers and one of them insisting that he should be +led along a certain carpet. After that they took his right hand, placed +it on something, and told him to hold a pair of compasses to his left +breast with the other hand and to repeat after someone who read aloud +an oath of fidelity to the laws of the Order. The candles were then +extinguished and some spirit lighted, as Pierre knew by the smell, and +he was told that he would now see the lesser light. The bandage was +taken off his eyes and, by the faint light of the burning spirit, +Pierre, as in a dream, saw several men standing before him, wearing +aprons like the Rhetor’s and holding swords in their hands pointed at +his breast. Among them stood a man whose white shirt was stained with +blood. On seeing this, Pierre moved forward with his breast toward the +swords, meaning them to pierce it. But the swords were drawn back from +him and he was at once blindfolded again. + +“Now thou hast seen the lesser light,” uttered a voice. Then the +candles were relit and he was told that he would see the full light; the +bandage was again removed and more than ten voices said together: “Sic +transit gloria mundi.” + +Pierre gradually began to recover himself and looked about at the room +and at the people in it. Round a long table covered with black sat some +twelve men in garments like those he had already seen. Some of them +Pierre had met in Petersburg society. In the President’s chair sat a +young man he did not know, with a peculiar cross hanging from his +neck. On his right sat the Italian abbé whom Pierre had met at +Anna Pávlovna’s two years before. There were also present a very +distinguished dignitary and a Swiss who had formerly been tutor at the +Kurágins’. All maintained a solemn silence, listening to the words +of the President, who held a mallet in his hand. Let into the wall was +a star-shaped light. At one side of the table was a small carpet with +various figures worked upon it, at the other was something resembling an +altar on which lay a Testament and a skull. Round it stood seven large +candlesticks like those used in churches. Two of the brothers led Pierre +up to the altar, placed his feet at right angles, and bade him lie down, +saying that he must prostrate himself at the Gates of the Temple. + +“He must first receive the trowel,” whispered one of the brothers. + +“Oh, hush, please!” said another. + +Pierre, perplexed, looked round with his shortsighted eyes without +obeying, and suddenly doubts arose in his mind. “Where am I? What am +I doing? Aren’t they laughing at me? Shan’t I be ashamed to remember +this?” But these doubts only lasted a moment. Pierre glanced at +the serious faces of those around, remembered all he had already gone +through, and realized that he could not stop halfway. He was aghast +at his hesitation and, trying to arouse his former devotional feeling, +prostrated himself before the Gates of the Temple. And really, the +feeling of devotion returned to him even more strongly than before. When +he had lain there some time, he was told to get up, and a white leather +apron, such as the others wore, was put on him: he was given a trowel +and three pairs of gloves, and then the Grand Master addressed him. He +told him that he should try to do nothing to stain the whiteness of that +apron, which symbolized strength and purity; then of the unexplained +trowel, he told him to toil with it to cleanse his own heart from vice, +and indulgently to smooth with it the heart of his neighbor. As to the +first pair of gloves, a man’s, he said that Pierre could not know +their meaning but must keep them. The second pair of man’s gloves +he was to wear at the meetings, and finally of the third, a pair of +women’s gloves, he said: “Dear brother, these woman’s gloves are +intended for you too. Give them to the woman whom you shall honor most +of all. This gift will be a pledge of your purity of heart to her whom +you select to be your worthy helpmeet in Masonry.” And after a pause, +he added: “But beware, dear brother, that these gloves do not deck +hands that are unclean.” While the Grand Master said these last words +it seemed to Pierre that he grew embarrassed. Pierre himself grew still +more confused, blushed like a child till tears came to his eyes, began +looking about him uneasily, and an awkward pause followed. + +This silence was broken by one of the brethren, who led Pierre up to the +rug and began reading to him from a manuscript book an explanation of +all the figures on it: the sun, the moon, a hammer, a plumb line, a +trowel, a rough stone and a squared stone, a pillar, three windows, and +so on. Then a place was assigned to Pierre, he was shown the signs of +the Lodge, told the password, and at last was permitted to sit down. +The Grand Master began reading the statutes. They were very long, and +Pierre, from joy, agitation, and embarrassment, was not in a state to +understand what was being read. He managed to follow only the last words +of the statutes and these remained in his mind. + +“In our temples we recognize no other distinctions,” read the Grand +Master, “but those between virtue and vice. Beware of making any +distinctions which may infringe equality. Fly to a brother’s aid +whoever he may be, exhort him who goeth astray, raise him that falleth, +never bear malice or enmity toward thy brother. Be kindly and courteous. +Kindle in all hearts the flame of virtue. Share thy happiness with thy +neighbor, and may envy never dim the purity of that bliss. Forgive thy +enemy, do not avenge thyself except by doing him good. Thus fulfilling +the highest law thou shalt regain traces of the ancient dignity which +thou hast lost.” + +He finished and, getting up, embraced and kissed Pierre, who, with tears +of joy in his eyes, looked round him, not knowing how to answer the +congratulations and greetings from acquaintances that met him on all +sides. He acknowledged no acquaintances but saw in all these men only +brothers, and burned with impatience to set to work with them. + +The Grand Master rapped with his mallet. All the Masons sat down in +their places, and one of them read an exhortation on the necessity of +humility. + +The Grand Master proposed that the last duty should be performed, +and the distinguished dignitary who bore the title of “Collector +of Alms” went round to all the brothers. Pierre would have liked +to subscribe all he had, but fearing that it might look like pride +subscribed the same amount as the others. + +The meeting was at an end, and on reaching home Pierre felt as if he had +returned from a long journey on which he had spent dozens of years, had +become completely changed, and had quite left behind his former habits +and way of life. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +The day after he had been received into the Lodge, Pierre was sitting at +home reading a book and trying to fathom the significance of the Square, +one side of which symbolized God, another moral things, a third +physical things, and the fourth a combination of these. Now and then +his attention wandered from the book and the Square and he formed in +imagination a new plan of life. On the previous evening at the Lodge, he +had heard that a rumor of his duel had reached the Emperor and that it +would be wiser for him to leave Petersburg. Pierre proposed going to his +estates in the south and there attending to the welfare of his serfs. +He was joyfully planning this new life, when Prince Vasíli suddenly +entered the room. + +“My dear fellow, what have you been up to in Moscow? Why have you +quarreled with Hélène, mon cher? You are under a delusion,” said +Prince Vasíli, as he entered. “I know all about it, and I can tell +you positively that Hélène is as innocent before you as Christ was +before the Jews.” + +Pierre was about to reply, but Prince Vasíli interrupted him. + +“And why didn’t you simply come straight to me as to a friend? I +know all about it and understand it all,” he said. “You behaved as +becomes a man who values his honor, perhaps too hastily, but we won’t +go into that. But consider the position in which you are placing her and +me in the eyes of society, and even of the court,” he added, lowering +his voice. “She is living in Moscow and you are here. Remember, +dear boy,” and he drew Pierre’s arm downwards, “it is simply a +misunderstanding. I expect you feel it so yourself. Let us write her +a letter at once, and she’ll come here and all will be explained, or +else, my dear boy, let me tell you it’s quite likely you’ll have to +suffer for it.” + +Prince Vasíli gave Pierre a significant look. + +“I know from reliable sources that the Dowager Empress is taking a +keen interest in the whole affair. You know she is very gracious to +Hélène.” + +Pierre tried several times to speak, but, on one hand, Prince Vasíli +did not let him and, on the other, Pierre himself feared to begin to +speak in the tone of decided refusal and disagreement in which he had +firmly resolved to answer his father-in-law. Moreover, the words of the +Masonic statutes, “be kindly and courteous,” recurred to him. He +blinked, went red, got up and sat down again, struggling with himself +to do what was for him the most difficult thing in life—to say an +unpleasant thing to a man’s face, to say what the other, whoever +he might be, did not expect. He was so used to submitting to Prince +Vasíli’s tone of careless self-assurance that he felt he would be +unable to withstand it now, but he also felt that on what he said now +his future depended—whether he would follow the same old road, or that +new path so attractively shown him by the Masons, on which he firmly +believed he would be reborn to a new life. + +“Now, dear boy,” said Prince Vasíli playfully, “say ‘yes,’ +and I’ll write to her myself, and we will kill the fatted calf.” + +But before Prince Vasíli had finished his playful speech, Pierre, +without looking at him, and with a kind of fury that made him like his +father, muttered in a whisper: + +“Prince, I did not ask you here. Go, please go!” And he jumped up +and opened the door for him. + +“Go!” he repeated, amazed at himself and glad to see the look of +confusion and fear that showed itself on Prince Vasíli’s face. + +“What’s the matter with you? Are you ill?” + +“Go!” the quivering voice repeated. And Prince Vasíli had to go +without receiving any explanation. + +A week later, Pierre, having taken leave of his new friends, the Masons, +and leaving large sums of money with them for alms, went away to his +estates. His new brethren gave him letters to the Kiev and Odessa Masons +and promised to write to him and guide him in his new activity. + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +The duel between Pierre and Dólokhov was hushed up and, in spite of +the Emperor’s severity regarding duels at that time, neither the +principals nor their seconds suffered for it. But the story of the duel, +confirmed by Pierre’s rupture with his wife, was the talk of society. +Pierre who had been regarded with patronizing condescension when he was +an illegitimate son, and petted and extolled when he was the best +match in Russia, had sunk greatly in the esteem of society after his +marriage—when the marriageable daughters and their mothers had nothing +to hope from him—especially as he did not know how, and did not +wish, to court society’s favor. Now he alone was blamed for what had +happened, he was said to be insanely jealous and subject like his +father to fits of bloodthirsty rage. And when after Pierre’s +departure Hélène returned to Petersburg, she was received by all her +acquaintances not only cordially, but even with a shade of deference +due to her misfortune. When conversation turned on her husband Hélène +assumed a dignified expression, which with characteristic tact she had +acquired though she did not understand its significance. This expression +suggested that she had resolved to endure her troubles uncomplainingly +and that her husband was a cross laid upon her by God. Prince Vasíli +expressed his opinion more openly. He shrugged his shoulders when Pierre +was mentioned and, pointing to his forehead, remarked: + +“A bit touched—I always said so.” + +“I said from the first,” declared Anna Pávlovna referring to +Pierre, “I said at the time and before anyone else” (she insisted +on her priority) “that that senseless young man was spoiled by the +depraved ideas of these days. I said so even at the time when everybody +was in raptures about him, when he had just returned from abroad, and +when, if you remember, he posed as a sort of Marat at one of my soirees. +And how has it ended? I was against this marriage even then and foretold +all that has happened.” + +Anna Pávlovna continued to give on free evenings the same kind of +soirees as before—such as she alone had the gift of arranging—at +which was to be found “the cream of really good society, the bloom +of the intellectual essence of Petersburg,” as she herself put it. +Besides this refined selection of society Anna Pávlovna’s receptions +were also distinguished by the fact that she always presented some new +and interesting person to the visitors and that nowhere else was the +state of the political thermometer of legitimate Petersburg court +society so dearly and distinctly indicated. + +Toward the end of 1806, when all the sad details of Napoleon’s +destruction of the Prussian army at Jena and Auerstädt and the +surrender of most of the Prussian fortresses had been received, when our +troops had already entered Prussia and our second war with Napoleon +was beginning, Anna Pávlovna gave one of her soirees. The “cream of +really good society” consisted of the fascinating Hélène, forsaken +by her husband, Mortemart, the delightful Prince Hippolyte who had +just returned from Vienna, two diplomatists, the old aunt, a young man +referred to in that drawing room as “a man of great merit” (un homme +de beaucoup de mérite), a newly appointed maid of honor and her mother, +and several other less noteworthy persons. + +The novelty Anna Pávlovna was setting before her guests that evening +was Borís Drubetskóy, who had just arrived as a special messenger from +the Prussian army and was aide-de-camp to a very important personage. + +The temperature shown by the political thermometer to the company that +evening was this: + +“Whatever the European sovereigns and commanders may do to +countenance Bonaparte, and to cause me, and us in general, annoyance and +mortification, our opinion of Bonaparte cannot alter. We shall not cease +to express our sincere views on that subject, and can only say to the +King of Prussia and others: ‘So much the worse for you. Tu l’as +voulu, George Dandin,’ that’s all we have to say about it!” + +When Borís, who was to be served up to the guests, entered the drawing +room, almost all the company had assembled, and the conversation, guided +by Anna Pávlovna, was about our diplomatic relations with Austria and +the hope of an alliance with her. + +Borís, grown more manly and looking fresh, rosy and self-possessed, +entered the drawing room elegantly dressed in the uniform of an +aide-de-camp and was duly conducted to pay his respects to the aunt and +then brought back to the general circle. + +Anna Pávlovna gave him her shriveled hand to kiss and introduced him to +several persons whom he did not know, giving him a whispered description +of each. + +“Prince Hippolyte Kurágin—charming young fellow; M. +Kronq,—chargé d’affaires from Copenhagen—a profound intellect,” +and simply, “Mr. Shítov—a man of great merit”—this of the man +usually so described. + +Thanks to Anna Mikháylovna’s efforts, his own tastes, and the +peculiarities of his reserved nature, Borís had managed during his +service to place himself very advantageously. He was aide-de-camp to a +very important personage, had been sent on a very important mission to +Prussia, and had just returned from there as a special messenger. He had +become thoroughly conversant with that unwritten code with which he had +been so pleased at Olmütz and according to which an ensign might rank +incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was +needed for success in the service was not effort or work, or courage, or +perseverance, but only the knowledge of how to get on with those who can +grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his +success and at the inability of others to understand these things. +In consequence of this discovery his whole manner of life, all +his relations with old friends, all his plans for his future, were +completely altered. He was not rich, but would spend his last groat to +be better dressed than others, and would rather deprive himself of many +pleasures than allow himself to be seen in a shabby equipage or appear +in the streets of Petersburg in an old uniform. He made friends with +and sought the acquaintance of only those above him in position and +who could therefore be of use to him. He liked Petersburg and despised +Moscow. The remembrance of the Rostóvs’ house and of his childish +love for Natásha was unpleasant to him and he had not once been to see +the Rostóvs since the day of his departure for the army. To be in Anna +Pávlovna’s drawing room he considered an important step up in the +service, and he at once understood his role, letting his hostess make +use of whatever interest he had to offer. He himself carefully scanned +each face, appraising the possibilities of establishing intimacy with +each of those present, and the advantages that might accrue. He took +the seat indicated to him beside the fair Hélène and listened to the +general conversation. + +“Vienna considers the bases of the proposed treaty so unattainable +that not even a continuity of most brilliant successes would secure +them, and she doubts the means we have of gaining them. That is the +actual phrase used by the Vienna cabinet,” said the Danish chargé +d’affaires. + +“The doubt is flattering,” said “the man of profound intellect,” +with a subtle smile. + +“We must distinguish between the Vienna cabinet and the Emperor of +Austria,” said Mortemart. “The Emperor of Austria can never have +thought of such a thing, it is only the cabinet that says it.” + +“Ah, my dear vicomte,” put in Anna Pávlovna, “L’Urope” (for +some reason she called it Urope as if that were a specially refined +French pronunciation which she could allow herself when conversing with +a Frenchman), “L’Urope ne sera jamais notre alliée sincère.” * + + * “Europe will never be our sincere ally.” + + +After that Anna Pávlovna led up to the courage and firmness of the King +of Prussia, in order to draw Borís into the conversation. + +Borís listened attentively to each of the speakers, awaiting his turn, +but managed meanwhile to look round repeatedly at his neighbor, the +beautiful Hélène, whose eyes several times met those of the handsome +young aide-de-camp with a smile. + +Speaking of the position of Prussia, Anna Pávlovna very naturally asked +Borís to tell them about his journey to Glogau and in what state he +found the Prussian army. Borís, speaking with deliberation, told them +in pure, correct French many interesting details about the armies and +the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his +own about the facts he was recounting. For some time he engrossed the +general attention, and Anna Pávlovna felt that the novelty she had +served up was received with pleasure by all her visitors. The greatest +attention of all to Borís’ narrative was shown by Hélène. She asked +him several questions about his journey and seemed greatly interested in +the state of the Prussian army. As soon as he had finished she turned to +him with her usual smile. + +“You absolutely must come and see me,” she said in a tone that +implied that, for certain considerations he could not know of, this was +absolutely necessary. + +“On Tuesday between eight and nine. It will give me great pleasure.” + +Borís promised to fulfill her wish and was about to begin a +conversation with her, when Anna Pávlovna called him away on the +pretext that her aunt wished to hear him. + +“You know her husband, of course?” said Anna Pávlovna, closing her +eyes and indicating Hélène with a sorrowful gesture. “Ah, she is +such an unfortunate and charming woman! Don’t mention him before +her—please don’t! It is too painful for her!” + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +When Borís and Anna Pávlovna returned to the others Prince Hippolyte +had the ear of the company. + +Bending forward in his armchair he said: “Le Roi de Prusse!” and +having said this laughed. Everyone turned toward him. + +“Le Roi de Prusse?” Hippolyte said interrogatively, again laughing, +and then calmly and seriously sat back in his chair. Anna Pávlovna +waited for him to go on, but as he seemed quite decided to say no more +she began to tell of how at Potsdam the impious Bonaparte had stolen the +sword of Frederick the Great. + +“It is the sword of Frederick the Great which I...” she began, but +Hippolyte interrupted her with the words: “Le Roi de Prusse...” and +again, as soon as all turned toward him, excused himself and said no +more. + +Anna Pávlovna frowned. Mortemart, Hippolyte’s friend, addressed him +firmly. + +“Come now, what about your Roi de Prusse?” + +Hippolyte laughed as if ashamed of laughing. + +“Oh, it’s nothing. I only wished to say...” (he wanted to repeat +a joke he had heard in Vienna and which he had been trying all that +evening to get in) “I only wished to say that we are wrong to fight +pour le Roi de Prusse!” + +Borís smiled circumspectly, so that it might be taken as ironical +or appreciative according to the way the joke was received. Everybody +laughed. + +“Your joke is too bad, it’s witty but unjust,” said Anna +Pávlovna, shaking her little shriveled finger at him. + +“We are not fighting pour le Roi de Prusse, but for right principles. +Oh, that wicked Prince Hippolyte!” she said. + +The conversation did not flag all evening and turned chiefly on the +political news. It became particularly animated toward the end of the +evening when the rewards bestowed by the Emperor were mentioned. + +“You know N— N— received a snuffbox with the portrait last +year?” said “the man of profound intellect.” “Why shouldn’t +S— S— get the same distinction?” + +“Pardon me! A snuffbox with the Emperor’s portrait is a reward but +not a distinction,” said the diplomatist—“a gift, rather.” + +“There are precedents, I may mention Schwarzenberg.” + +“It’s impossible,” replied another. + +“Will you bet? The ribbon of the order is a different matter....” + +When everybody rose to go, Hélène who had spoken very little all +the evening again turned to Borís, asking him in a tone of caressing +significant command to come to her on Tuesday. + +“It is of great importance to me,” she said, turning with a smile +toward Anna Pávlovna, and Anna Pávlovna, with the same sad smile with +which she spoke of her exalted patroness, supported Hélène’s wish. + +It seemed as if from some words Borís had spoken that evening about the +Prussian army, Hélène had suddenly found it necessary to see him. +She seemed to promise to explain that necessity to him when he came on +Tuesday. + +But on Tuesday evening, having come to Hélène’s splendid salon, +Borís received no clear explanation of why it had been necessary for +him to come. There were other guests and the countess talked little to +him, and only as he kissed her hand on taking leave said unexpectedly +and in a whisper, with a strangely unsmiling face: “Come to dinner +tomorrow... in the evening. You must come.... Come!” + +During that stay in Petersburg, Borís became an intimate in the +countess’ house. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +The war was flaming up and nearing the Russian frontier. Everywhere one +heard curses on Bonaparte, “the enemy of mankind.” Militiamen and +recruits were being enrolled in the villages, and from the seat of +war came contradictory news, false as usual and therefore variously +interpreted. The life of old Prince Bolkónski, Prince Andrew, and +Princess Mary had greatly changed since 1805. + +In 1806 the old prince was made one of the eight commanders in chief +then appointed to supervise the enrollment decreed throughout Russia. +Despite the weakness of age, which had become particularly noticeable +since the time when he thought his son had been killed, he did not think +it right to refuse a duty to which he had been appointed by the Emperor +himself, and this fresh opportunity for action gave him new energy +and strength. He was continually traveling through the three provinces +entrusted to him, was pedantic in the fulfillment of his duties, severe +to cruel with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the +minutest details himself. Princess Mary had ceased taking lessons in +mathematics from her father, and when the old prince was at home went +to his study with the wet nurse and little Prince Nicholas (as his +grandfather called him). The baby Prince Nicholas lived with his wet +nurse and nurse Sávishna in the late princess’ rooms and Princess +Mary spent most of the day in the nursery, taking a mother’s place to +her little nephew as best she could. Mademoiselle Bourienne, too, seemed +passionately fond of the boy, and Princess Mary often deprived herself +to give her friend the pleasure of dandling the little angel—as she +called her nephew—and playing with him. + +Near the altar of the church at Bald Hills there was a chapel over the +tomb of the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument +brought from Italy, representing an angel with outspread wings ready to +fly upwards. The angel’s upper lip was slightly raised as though +about to smile, and once on coming out of the chapel Prince Andrew and +Princess Mary admitted to one another that the angel’s face reminded +them strangely of the little princess. But what was still stranger, +though of this Prince Andrew said nothing to his sister, was that in the +expression the sculptor had happened to give the angel’s face, Prince +Andrew read the same mild reproach he had read on the face of his dead +wife: “Ah, why have you done this to me?” + +Soon after Prince Andrew’s return the old prince made over to him a +large estate, Boguchárovo, about twenty-five miles from Bald Hills. +Partly because of the depressing memories associated with Bald Hills, +partly because Prince Andrew did not always feel equal to bearing with +his father’s peculiarities, and partly because he needed solitude, +Prince Andrew made use of Boguchárovo, began building and spent most of +his time there. + +After the Austerlitz campaign Prince Andrew had firmly resolved not +to continue his military service, and when the war recommenced +and everybody had to serve, he took a post under his father in the +recruitment so as to avoid active service. The old prince and his son +seemed to have changed roles since the campaign of 1805. The old man, +roused by activity, expected the best results from the new campaign, +while Prince Andrew on the contrary, taking no part in the war and +secretly regretting this, saw only the dark side. + +On February 26, 1807, the old prince set off on one of his circuits. +Prince Andrew remained at Bald Hills as usual during his father’s +absence. Little Nicholas had been unwell for four days. The coachman who +had driven the old prince to town returned bringing papers and letters +for Prince Andrew. + +Not finding the young prince in his study the valet went with the +letters to Princess Mary’s apartments, but did not find him there. He +was told that the prince had gone to the nursery. + +“If you please, your excellency, Pétrusha has brought some papers,” +said one of the nursemaids to Prince Andrew who was sitting on a +child’s little chair while, frowning and with trembling hands, he +poured drops from a medicine bottle into a wineglass half full of water. + +“What is it?” he said crossly, and, his hand shaking +unintentionally, he poured too many drops into the glass. He threw the +mixture onto the floor and asked for some more water. The maid brought +it. + +There were in the room a child’s cot, two boxes, two armchairs, a +table, a child’s table, and the little chair on which Prince Andrew +was sitting. The curtains were drawn, and a single candle was burning on +the table, screened by a bound music book so that the light did not fall +on the cot. + +“My dear,” said Princess Mary, addressing her brother from beside +the cot where she was standing, “better wait a bit... later...” + +“Oh, leave off, you always talk nonsense and keep putting things +off—and this is what comes of it!” said Prince Andrew in an +exasperated whisper, evidently meaning to wound his sister. + +“My dear, really... it’s better not to wake him... he’s asleep,” +said the princess in a tone of entreaty. + +Prince Andrew got up and went on tiptoe up to the little bed, wineglass +in hand. + +“Perhaps we’d really better not wake him,” he said hesitating. + +“As you please... really... I think so... but as you please,” said +Princess Mary, evidently intimidated and confused that her opinion +had prevailed. She drew her brother’s attention to the maid who was +calling him in a whisper. + +It was the second night that neither of them had slept, watching the boy +who was in a high fever. These last days, mistrusting their household +doctor and expecting another for whom they had sent to town, they had +been trying first one remedy and then another. Worn out by sleeplessness +and anxiety they threw their burden of sorrow on one another and +reproached and disputed with each other. + +“Pétrusha has come with papers from your father,” whispered the +maid. + +Prince Andrew went out. + +“Devil take them!” he muttered, and after listening to the verbal +instructions his father had sent and taking the correspondence and his +father’s letter, he returned to the nursery. + +“Well?” he asked. + +“Still the same. Wait, for heaven’s sake. Karl Ivánich always says +that sleep is more important than anything,” whispered Princess Mary +with a sigh. + +Prince Andrew went up to the child and felt him. He was burning hot. + +“Confound you and your Karl Ivánich!” He took the glass with the +drops and again went up to the cot. + +“Andrew, don’t!” said Princess Mary. + +But he scowled at her angrily though also with suffering in his eyes, +and stooped glass in hand over the infant. + +“But I wish it,” he said. “I beg you—give it him!” + +Princess Mary shrugged her shoulders but took the glass submissively +and calling the nurse began giving the medicine. The child screamed +hoarsely. Prince Andrew winced and, clutching his head, went out and sat +down on a sofa in the next room. + +He still had all the letters in his hand. Opening them mechanically he +began reading. The old prince, now and then using abbreviations, wrote +in his large elongated hand on blue paper as follows: + +Have just this moment received by special messenger very joyful +news—if it’s not false. Bennigsen seems to have obtained a complete +victory over Buonaparte at Eylau. In Petersburg everyone is rejoicing, +and the rewards sent to the army are innumerable. Though he is a +German—I congratulate him! I can’t make out what the commander at +Kórchevo—a certain Khandrikóv—is up to; till now the additional +men and provisions have not arrived. Gallop off to him at once and +say I’ll have his head off if everything is not here in a week. +Have received another letter about the Preussisch-Eylau battle +from Pétenka—he took part in it—and it’s all true. When +mischief-makers don’t meddle even a German beats Buonaparte. He is +said to be fleeing in great disorder. Mind you gallop off to Kórchevo +without delay and carry out instructions! + +Prince Andrew sighed and broke the seal of another envelope. It was +a closely written letter of two sheets from Bilíbin. He folded it up +without reading it and reread his father’s letter, ending with the +words: “Gallop off to Kórchevo and carry out instructions!” + +“No, pardon me, I won’t go now till the child is better,” thought +he, going to the door and looking into the nursery. + +Princess Mary was still standing by the cot, gently rocking the baby. + +“Ah yes, and what else did he say that’s unpleasant?” thought +Prince Andrew, recalling his father’s letter. “Yes, we have gained +a victory over Bonaparte, just when I’m not serving. Yes, yes, he’s +always poking fun at me.... Ah, well! Let him!” And he began reading +Bilíbin’s letter which was written in French. He read without +understanding half of it, read only to forget, if but for a moment, what +he had too long been thinking of so painfully to the exclusion of all +else. + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +Bilíbin was now at army headquarters in a diplomatic capacity, and +though he wrote in French and used French jests and French idioms, +he described the whole campaign with a fearless self-censure and +self-derision genuinely Russian. Bilíbin wrote that the obligation of +diplomatic discretion tormented him, and he was happy to have in Prince +Andrew a reliable correspondent to whom he could pour out the bile he +had accumulated at the sight of all that was being done in the army. +The letter was old, having been written before the battle at +Preussisch-Eylau. + +“Since the day of our brilliant success at Austerlitz,” wrote +Bilíbin, “as you know, my dear prince, I never leave headquarters. I +have certainly acquired a taste for war, and it is just as well for me; +what I have seen during these last three months is incredible. + +“I begin ab ovo. ‘The enemy of the human race,’ as you know, +attacks the Prussians. The Prussians are our faithful allies who have +only betrayed us three times in three years. We take up their cause, but +it turns out that ‘the enemy of the human race’ pays no heed to +our fine speeches and in his rude and savage way throws himself on the +Prussians without giving them time to finish the parade they had begun, +and in two twists of the hand he breaks them to smithereens and installs +himself in the palace at Potsdam. + +“‘I most ardently desire,’ writes the King of Prussia to +Bonaparte, ‘that Your Majesty should be received and treated in my +palace in a manner agreeable to yourself, and in so far as circumstances +allowed, I have hastened to take all steps to that end. May I have +succeeded!’ The Prussian generals pride themselves on being polite to +the French and lay down their arms at the first demand. + +“The head of the garrison at Glogau, with ten thousand men, asks the +King of Prussia what he is to do if he is summoned to surrender.... All +this is absolutely true. + +“In short, hoping to settle matters by taking up a warlike attitude, +it turns out that we have landed ourselves in war, and what is more, +in war on our own frontiers, with and for the King of Prussia. We have +everything in perfect order, only one little thing is lacking, namely, +a commander in chief. As it was considered that the Austerlitz success +might have been more decisive had the commander in chief not been so +young, all our octogenarians were reviewed, and of Prozoróvski +and Kámenski the latter was preferred. The general comes to us, +Suvórov-like, in a kibítka, and is received with acclamations of joy +and triumph. + +“On the 4th, the first courier arrives from Petersburg. The mails +are taken to the field marshal’s room, for he likes to do everything +himself. I am called in to help sort the letters and take those meant +for us. The field marshal looks on and waits for letters addressed +to him. We search, but none are to be found. The field marshal grows +impatient and sets to work himself and finds letters from the Emperor +to Count T., Prince V., and others. Then he bursts into one of his wild +furies and rages at everyone and everything, seizes the letters, opens +them, and reads those from the Emperor addressed to others. ‘Ah! So +that’s the way they treat me! No confidence in me! Ah, ordered to keep +an eye on me! Very well then! Get along with you!’ So he writes the +famous order of the day to General Bennigsen: + +“‘I am wounded and cannot ride and consequently cannot command the +army. You have brought your army corps to Pultúsk, routed: here it is +exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as +you yourself reported to Count Buxhöwden yesterday, you must think of +retreating to our frontier—which do today.’ + +“‘From all my riding,’ he writes to the Emperor, ‘I have got a +saddle sore which, coming after all my previous journeys, quite prevents +my riding and commanding so vast an army, so I have passed on the +command to the general next in seniority, Count Buxhöwden, having sent +him my whole staff and all that belongs to it, advising him if there is +a lack of bread, to move farther into the interior of Prussia, for only +one day’s ration of bread remains, and in some regiments none at all, +as reported by the division commanders, Ostermann and Sedmorétzki, and +all that the peasants had has been eaten up. I myself will remain in +hospital at Ostrolenka till I recover. In regard to which I humbly +submit my report, with the information that if the army remains in its +present bivouac another fortnight there will not be a healthy man left +in it by spring. + +“‘Grant leave to retire to his country seat to an old man who is +already in any case dishonored by being unable to fulfill the great and +glorious task for which he was chosen. I shall await your most gracious +permission here in hospital, that I may not have to play the part of a +secretary rather than commander in the army. My removal from the army +does not produce the slightest stir—a blind man has left it. There are +thousands such as I in Russia.’ + +“The field marshal is angry with the Emperor and he punishes us all, +isn’t it logical? + +“This is the first act. Those that follow are naturally increasingly +interesting and entertaining. After the field marshal’s departure +it appears that we are within sight of the enemy and must give battle. +Buxhöwden is commander in chief by seniority, but General Bennigsen +does not quite see it; more particularly as it is he and his corps who +are within sight of the enemy and he wishes to profit by the opportunity +to fight a battle ‘on his own hand’ as the Germans say. He does so. +This is the battle of Pultúsk, which is considered a great victory but +in my opinion was nothing of the kind. We civilians, as you know, have +a very bad way of deciding whether a battle was won or lost. Those who +retreat after a battle have lost it is what we say; and according to +that it is we who lost the battle of Pultúsk. In short, we retreat +after the battle but send a courier to Petersburg with news of a +victory, and General Bennigsen, hoping to receive from Petersburg the +post of commander in chief as a reward for his victory, does not give up +the command of the army to General Buxhöwden. During this interregnum +we begin a very original and interesting series of maneuvers. Our aim is +no longer, as it should be, to avoid or attack the enemy, but solely to +avoid General Buxhöwden who by right of seniority should be our chief. +So energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable +river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at +the moment is not Bonaparte but Buxhöwden. General Buxhöwden was all +but attacked and captured by a superior enemy force as a result of one +of these maneuvers that enabled us to escape him. Buxhöwden pursues +us—we scuttle. He hardly crosses the river to our side before we +recross to the other. At last our enemy, Buxhöwden, catches us and +attacks. Both generals are angry, and the result is a challenge on +Buxhöwden’s part and an epileptic fit on Bennigsen’s. But at the +critical moment the courier who carried the news of our victory at +Pultúsk to Petersburg returns bringing our appointment as commander in +chief, and our first foe, Buxhöwden, is vanquished; we can now turn +our thoughts to the second, Bonaparte. But as it turns out, just at +that moment a third enemy rises before us—namely the Orthodox Russian +soldiers, loudly demanding bread, meat, biscuits, fodder, and whatnot! +The stores are empty, the roads impassable. The Orthodox begin looting, +and in a way of which our last campaign can give you no idea. Half the +regiments form bands and scour the countryside and put everything +to fire and sword. The inhabitants are totally ruined, the hospitals +overflow with sick, and famine is everywhere. Twice the marauders even +attack our headquarters, and the commander in chief has to ask for a +battalion to disperse them. During one of these attacks they carried off +my empty portmanteau and my dressing gown. The Emperor proposes to give +all commanders of divisions the right to shoot marauders, but I much +fear this will oblige one half the army to shoot the other.” + +At first Prince Andrew read with his eyes only, but after a while, +in spite of himself (although he knew how far it was safe to trust +Bilíbin), what he had read began to interest him more and more. When he +had read thus far, he crumpled the letter up and threw it away. It was +not what he had read that vexed him, but the fact that the life out +there in which he had now no part could perturb him. He shut his eyes, +rubbed his forehead as if to rid himself of all interest in what he +had read, and listened to what was passing in the nursery. Suddenly he +thought he heard a strange noise through the door. He was seized with +alarm lest something should have happened to the child while he was +reading the letter. He went on tiptoe to the nursery door and opened it. + +Just as he went in he saw that the nurse was hiding something from him +with a scared look and that Princess Mary was no longer by the cot. + +“My dear,” he heard what seemed to him her despairing whisper behind +him. + +As often happens after long sleeplessness and long anxiety, he was +seized by an unreasoning panic—it occurred to him that the child was +dead. All that he saw and heard seemed to confirm this terror. + +“All is over,” he thought, and a cold sweat broke out on his +forehead. He went to the cot in confusion, sure that he would find it +empty and that the nurse had been hiding the dead baby. He drew the +curtain aside and for some time his frightened, restless eyes could not +find the baby. At last he saw him: the rosy boy had tossed about till he +lay across the bed with his head lower than the pillow, and was smacking +his lips in his sleep and breathing evenly. + +Prince Andrew was as glad to find the boy like that, as if he had +already lost him. He bent over him and, as his sister had taught him, +tried with his lips whether the child was still feverish. The soft +forehead was moist. Prince Andrew touched the head with his hand; even +the hair was wet, so profusely had the child perspired. He was not dead, +but evidently the crisis was over and he was convalescent. Prince Andrew +longed to snatch up, to squeeze, to hold to his heart, this helpless +little creature, but dared not do so. He stood over him, gazing at his +head and at the little arms and legs which showed under the blanket. He +heard a rustle behind him and a shadow appeared under the curtain of +the cot. He did not look round, but still gazing at the infant’s face +listened to his regular breathing. The dark shadow was Princess Mary, +who had come up to the cot with noiseless steps, lifted the curtain, +and dropped it again behind her. Prince Andrew recognized her without +looking and held out his hand to her. She pressed it. + +“He has perspired,” said Prince Andrew. + +“I was coming to tell you so.” + +The child moved slightly in his sleep, smiled, and rubbed his forehead +against the pillow. + +Prince Andrew looked at his sister. In the dim shadow of the curtain her +luminous eyes shone more brightly than usual from the tears of joy that +were in them. She leaned over to her brother and kissed him, slightly +catching the curtain of the cot. Each made the other a warning gesture +and stood still in the dim light beneath the curtain as if not wishing +to leave that seclusion where they three were shut off from all the +world. Prince Andrew was the first to move away, ruffling his hair +against the muslin of the curtain. + +“Yes, this is the one thing left me now,” he said with a sigh. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +Soon after his admission to the Masonic Brotherhood, Pierre went to the +Kiev province, where he had the greatest number of serfs, taking with +him full directions which he had written down for his own guidance as to +what he should do on his estates. + +When he reached Kiev he sent for all his stewards to the head office +and explained to them his intentions and wishes. He told them that steps +would be taken immediately to free his serfs—and that till then they +were not to be overburdened with labor, women while nursing their babies +were not to be sent to work, assistance was to be given to the serfs, +punishments were to be admonitory and not corporal, and hospitals, +asylums, and schools were to be established on all the estates. Some of +the stewards (there were semiliterate foremen among them) listened with +alarm, supposing these words to mean that the young count was displeased +with their management and embezzlement of money, some after their first +fright were amused by Pierre’s lisp and the new words they had not +heard before, others simply enjoyed hearing how the master talked, while +the cleverest among them, including the chief steward, understood from +this speech how they could best handle the master for their own ends. + +The chief steward expressed great sympathy with Pierre’s intentions, +but remarked that besides these changes it would be necessary to go into +the general state of affairs which was far from satisfactory. + +Despite Count Bezúkhov’s enormous wealth, since he had come into an +income which was said to amount to five hundred thousand rubles a year, +Pierre felt himself far poorer than when his father had made him +an allowance of ten thousand rubles. He had a dim perception of the +following budget: + +About 80,000 went in payments on all the estates to the Land Bank, about +30,000 went for the upkeep of the estate near Moscow, the town house, +and the allowance to the three princesses; about 15,000 was given in +pensions and the same amount for asylums; 150,000 alimony was sent to +the countess; about 70,000 went for interest on debts. The building of a +new church, previously begun, had cost about 10,000 in each of the last +two years, and he did not know how the rest, about 100,000 rubles, was +spent, and almost every year he was obliged to borrow. Besides this the +chief steward wrote every year telling him of fires and bad harvests, +or of the necessity of rebuilding factories and workshops. So the first +task Pierre had to face was one for which he had very little aptitude or +inclination—practical business. + +He discussed estate affairs every day with his chief steward. But +he felt that this did not forward matters at all. He felt that these +consultations were detached from real affairs and did not link up with +them or make them move. On the one hand, the chief steward put the state +of things to him in the very worst light, pointing out the necessity of +paying off the debts and undertaking new activities with serf labor, +to which Pierre did not agree. On the other hand, Pierre demanded that +steps should be taken to liberate the serfs, which the steward met by +showing the necessity of first paying off the loans from the Land Bank, +and the consequent impossibility of a speedy emancipation. + +The steward did not say it was quite impossible, but suggested selling +the forests in the province of Kostromá, the land lower down the river, +and the Crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which +operations according to him were connected with such complicated +measures—the removal of injunctions, petitions, permits, and so +on—that Pierre became quite bewildered and only replied: + +“Yes, yes, do so.” + +Pierre had none of the practical persistence that would have enabled him +to attend to the business himself and so he disliked it and only tried +to pretend to the steward that he was attending to it. The steward +for his part tried to pretend to the count that he considered these +consultations very valuable for the proprietor and troublesome to +himself. + +In Kiev Pierre found some people he knew, and strangers hastened to make +his acquaintance and joyfully welcomed the rich newcomer, the +largest landowner of the province. Temptations to Pierre’s greatest +weakness—the one to which he had confessed when admitted to the +Lodge—were so strong that he could not resist them. Again whole days, +weeks, and months of his life passed in as great a rush and were as much +occupied with evening parties, dinners, lunches, and balls, giving him +no time for reflection, as in Petersburg. Instead of the new life he had +hoped to lead he still lived the old life, only in new surroundings. + +Of the three precepts of Freemasonry Pierre realized that he did not +fulfill the one which enjoined every Mason to set an example of moral +life, and that of the seven virtues he lacked two—morality and the +love of death. He consoled himself with the thought that he fulfilled +another of the precepts—that of reforming the human race—and had +other virtues—love of his neighbor, and especially generosity. + +In the spring of 1807 he decided to return to Petersburg. On the way he +intended to visit all his estates and see for himself how far his orders +had been carried out and in what state were the serfs whom God had +entrusted to his care and whom he intended to benefit. + +The chief steward, who considered the young count’s attempts almost +insane—unprofitable to himself, to the count, and to the serfs—made +some concessions. Continuing to represent the liberation of the serfs +as impracticable, he arranged for the erection of large +buildings—schools, hospitals, and asylums—on all the estates +before the master arrived. Everywhere preparations were made not for +ceremonious welcomes (which he knew Pierre would not like), but for just +such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread +and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his +master, would touch and delude him. + +The southern spring, the comfortable rapid traveling in a Vienna +carriage, and the solitude of the road, all had a gladdening effect on +Pierre. The estates he had not before visited were each more picturesque +than the other; the serfs everywhere seemed thriving and touchingly +grateful for the benefits conferred on them. Everywhere were receptions, +which though they embarrassed Pierre awakened a joyful feeling in the +depth of his heart. In one place the peasants presented him with bread +and salt and an icon of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, asking permission, +as a mark of their gratitude for the benefits he had conferred on them, +to build a new chantry to the church at their own expense in honor +of Peter and Paul, his patron saints. In another place the women with +infants in arms met him to thank him for releasing them from hard +work. On a third estate the priest, bearing a cross, came to meet +him surrounded by children whom, by the count’s generosity, he was +instructing in reading, writing, and religion. On all his estates Pierre +saw with his own eyes brick buildings erected or in course of erection, +all on one plan, for hospitals, schools, and almshouses, which were soon +to be opened. Everywhere he saw the stewards’ accounts, according to +which the serfs’ manorial labor had been diminished, and heard the +touching thanks of deputations of serfs in their full-skirted blue +coats. + +What Pierre did not know was that the place where they presented him +with bread and salt and wished to build a chantry in honor of Peter and +Paul was a market village where a fair was held on St. Peter’s day, +and that the richest peasants (who formed the deputation) had begun +the chantry long before, but that nine tenths of the peasants in that +villages were in a state of the greatest poverty. He did not know that +since the nursing mothers were no longer sent to work on his land, they +did still harder work on their own land. He did not know that the priest +who met him with the cross oppressed the peasants by his exactions, and +that the pupils’ parents wept at having to let him take their children +and secured their release by heavy payments. He did not know that the +brick buildings, built to plan, were being built by serfs whose manorial +labor was thus increased, though lessened on paper. He did not know +that where the steward had shown him in the accounts that the serfs’ +payments had been diminished by a third, their obligatory manorial work +had been increased by a half. And so Pierre was delighted with his visit +to his estates and quite recovered the philanthropic mood in which +he had left Petersburg, and wrote enthusiastic letters to his +“brother-instructor” as he called the Grand Master. + +“How easy it is, how little effort it needs, to do so much good,” +thought Pierre, “and how little attention we pay to it!” + +He was pleased at the gratitude he received, but felt abashed at +receiving it. This gratitude reminded him of how much more he might do +for these simple, kindly people. + +The chief steward, a very stupid but cunning man who saw perfectly +through the naïve and intelligent count and played with him as with +a toy, seeing the effect these prearranged receptions had on Pierre, +pressed him still harder with proofs of the impossibility and above all +the uselessness of freeing the serfs, who were quite happy as it was. + +Pierre in his secret soul agreed with the steward that it would be +difficult to imagine happier people, and that God only knew what would +happen to them when they were free, but he insisted, though reluctantly, +on what he thought right. The steward promised to do all in his power to +carry out the count’s wishes, seeing clearly that not only would the +count never be able to find out whether all measures had been taken for +the sale of the land and forests and to release them from the Land Bank, +but would probably never even inquire and would never know that the +newly erected buildings were standing empty and that the serfs continued +to give in money and work all that other people’s serfs gave—that is +to say, all that could be got out of them. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +Returning from his journey through South Russia in the happiest state +of mind, Pierre carried out an intention he had long had of visiting his +friend Bolkónski, whom he had not seen for two years. + +Boguchárovo lay in a flat uninteresting part of the country among +fields and forests of fir and birch, which were partly cut down. The +house lay behind a newly dug pond filled with water to the brink and +with banks still bare of grass. It was at the end of a village that +stretched along the highroad in the midst of a young copse in which were +a few fir trees. + +The homestead consisted of a threshing floor, outhouses, stables, a +bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular façade +still in course of construction. Round the house was a garden newly laid +out. The fences and gates were new and solid; two fire pumps and a +water cart, painted green, stood in a shed; the paths were straight, +the bridges were strong and had handrails. Everything bore an impress of +tidiness and good management. Some domestic serfs Pierre met, in reply +to inquiries as to where the prince lived, pointed out a small newly +built lodge close to the pond. Antón, a man who had looked after Prince +Andrew in his boyhood, helped Pierre out of his carriage, said that the +prince was at home, and showed him into a clean little anteroom. + +Pierre was struck by the modesty of the small though clean house after +the brilliant surroundings in which he had last met his friend in +Petersburg. + +He quickly entered the small reception room with its still-unplastered +wooden walls redolent of pine, and would have gone farther, but Antón +ran ahead on tiptoe and knocked at a door. + +“Well, what is it?” came a sharp, unpleasant voice. + +“A visitor,” answered Antón. + +“Ask him to wait,” and the sound was heard of a chair being pushed +back. + +Pierre went with rapid steps to the door and suddenly came face to +face with Prince Andrew, who came out frowning and looking old. Pierre +embraced him and lifting his spectacles kissed his friend on the cheek +and looked at him closely. + +“Well, I did not expect you, I am very glad,” said Prince Andrew. + +Pierre said nothing; he looked fixedly at his friend with surprise. He +was struck by the change in him. His words were kindly and there was a +smile on his lips and face, but his eyes were dull and lifeless and in +spite of his evident wish to do so he could not give them a joyous +and glad sparkle. Prince Andrew had grown thinner, paler, and more +manly-looking, but what amazed and estranged Pierre till he got used +to it were his inertia and a wrinkle on his brow indicating prolonged +concentration on some one thought. + +As is usually the case with people meeting after a prolonged separation, +it was long before their conversation could settle on anything. They +put questions and gave brief replies about things they knew ought to +be talked over at length. At last the conversation gradually settled on +some of the topics at first lightly touched on: their past life, plans +for the future, Pierre’s journeys and occupations, the war, and so +on. The preoccupation and despondency which Pierre had noticed in his +friend’s look was now still more clearly expressed in the smile +with which he listened to Pierre, especially when he spoke with joyful +animation of the past or the future. It was as if Prince Andrew would +have liked to sympathize with what Pierre was saying, but could not. +The latter began to feel that it was in bad taste to speak of his +enthusiasms, dreams, and hopes of happiness or goodness, in Prince +Andrew’s presence. He was ashamed to express his new Masonic views, +which had been particularly revived and strengthened by his late tour. +He checked himself, fearing to seem naïve, yet he felt an irresistible +desire to show his friend as soon as possible that he was now a quite +different, and better, Pierre than he had been in Petersburg. + +“I can’t tell you how much I have lived through since then. I hardly +know myself again.” + +“Yes, we have altered much, very much, since then,” said Prince +Andrew. + +“Well, and you? What are your plans?” + +“Plans!” repeated Prince Andrew ironically. “My plans?” he said, +as if astonished at the word. “Well, you see, I’m building. I mean +to settle here altogether next year....” + +Pierre looked silently and searchingly into Prince Andrew’s face, +which had grown much older. + +“No, I meant to ask...” Pierre began, but Prince Andrew interrupted +him. + +“But why talk of me?... Talk to me, yes, tell me about your travels +and all you have been doing on your estates.” + +Pierre began describing what he had done on his estates, trying as far +as possible to conceal his own part in the improvements that had been +made. Prince Andrew several times prompted Pierre’s story of what he +had been doing, as though it were all an old-time story, and he listened +not only without interest but even as if ashamed of what Pierre was +telling him. + +Pierre felt uncomfortable and even depressed in his friend’s company +and at last became silent. + +“I’ll tell you what, my dear fellow,” said Prince Andrew, who +evidently also felt depressed and constrained with his visitor, “I am +only bivouacking here and have just come to look round. I am going back +to my sister today. I will introduce you to her. But of course you know +her already,” he said, evidently trying to entertain a visitor with +whom he now found nothing in common. “We will go after dinner. And +would you now like to look round my place?” + +They went out and walked about till dinnertime, talking of the political +news and common acquaintances like people who do not know each other +intimately. Prince Andrew spoke with some animation and interest only of +the new homestead he was constructing and its buildings, but even here, +while on the scaffolding, in the midst of a talk explaining the future +arrangements of the house, he interrupted himself: + +“However, this is not at all interesting. Let us have dinner, and then +we’ll set off.” + +At dinner, conversation turned on Pierre’s marriage. + +“I was very much surprised when I heard of it,” said Prince Andrew. + +Pierre blushed, as he always did when it was mentioned, and said +hurriedly: “I will tell you some time how it all happened. But you +know it is all over, and forever.” + +“Forever?” said Prince Andrew. “Nothing’s forever.” + +“But you know how it all ended, don’t you? You heard of the duel?” + +“And so you had to go through that too!” + +“One thing I thank God for is that I did not kill that man,” said +Pierre. + +“Why so?” asked Prince Andrew. “To kill a vicious dog is a very +good thing really.” + +“No, to kill a man is bad—wrong.” + +“Why is it wrong?” urged Prince Andrew. “It is not given to man +to know what is right and what is wrong. Men always did and always will +err, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.” + +“What does harm to another is wrong,” said Pierre, feeling with +pleasure that for the first time since his arrival Prince Andrew was +roused, had begun to talk, and wanted to express what had brought him to +his present state. + +“And who has told you what is bad for another man?” he asked. + +“Bad! Bad!” exclaimed Pierre. “We all know what is bad for +ourselves.” + +“Yes, we know that, but the harm I am conscious of in myself is +something I cannot inflict on others,” said Prince Andrew, growing +more and more animated and evidently wishing to express his new outlook +to Pierre. He spoke in French. “I only know two very real evils in +life: remorse and illness. The only good is the absence of those evils. +To live for myself avoiding those two evils is my whole philosophy +now.” + +“And love of one’s neighbor, and self-sacrifice?” began Pierre. +“No, I can’t agree with you! To live only so as not to do evil and +not to have to repent is not enough. I lived like that, I lived for +myself and ruined my life. And only now when I am living, or at least +trying” (Pierre’s modesty made him correct himself) “to live for +others, only now have I understood all the happiness of life. No, I +shall not agree with you, and you do not really believe what you are +saying.” Prince Andrew looked silently at Pierre with an ironic smile. + +“When you see my sister, Princess Mary, you’ll get on with her,” +he said. “Perhaps you are right for yourself,” he added after +a short pause, “but everyone lives in his own way. You lived for +yourself and say you nearly ruined your life and only found happiness +when you began living for others. I experienced just the reverse. I +lived for glory.—And after all what is glory? The same love of others, +a desire to do something for them, a desire for their approval.—So I +lived for others, and not almost, but quite, ruined my life. And I have +become calmer since I began to live only for myself.” + +“But what do you mean by living only for yourself?” asked Pierre, +growing excited. “What about your son, your sister, and your +father?” + +“But that’s just the same as myself—they are not others,” +explained Prince Andrew. “The others, one’s neighbors, le prochain, +as you and Princess Mary call it, are the chief source of all error and +evil. Le prochain—your Kiev peasants to whom you want to do good.” + +And he looked at Pierre with a mocking, challenging expression. He +evidently wished to draw him on. + +“You are joking,” replied Pierre, growing more and more excited. +“What error or evil can there be in my wishing to do good, and even +doing a little—though I did very little and did it very badly? What +evil can there be in it if unfortunate people, our serfs, people like +ourselves, were growing up and dying with no idea of God and truth +beyond ceremonies and meaningless prayers and are now instructed in +a comforting belief in future life, retribution, recompense, and +consolation? What evil and error are there in it, if people were dying +of disease without help while material assistance could so easily be +rendered, and I supplied them with a doctor, a hospital, and an asylum +for the aged? And is it not a palpable, unquestionable good if a +peasant, or a woman with a baby, has no rest day or night and I give +them rest and leisure?” said Pierre, hurrying and lisping. “And +I have done that though badly and to a small extent; but I have done +something toward it and you cannot persuade me that it was not a good +action, and more than that, you can’t make me believe that you do not +think so yourself. And the main thing is,” he continued, “that I +know, and know for certain, that the enjoyment of doing this good is the +only sure happiness in life.” + +“Yes, if you put it like that it’s quite a different matter,” said +Prince Andrew. “I build a house and lay out a garden, and you build +hospitals. The one and the other may serve as a pastime. But what’s +right and what’s good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by +us. Well, you want an argument,” he added, “come on then.” + +They rose from the table and sat down in the entrance porch which served +as a veranda. + +“Come, let’s argue then,” said Prince Andrew, “You talk of +schools,” he went on, crooking a finger, “education and so forth; +that is, you want to raise him” (pointing to a peasant who passed by +them taking off his cap) “from his animal condition and awaken in him +spiritual needs, while it seems to me that animal happiness is the only +happiness possible, and that is just what you want to deprive him of. +I envy him, but you want to make him what I am, without giving him my +means. Then you say, ‘lighten his toil.’ But as I see it, physical +labor is as essential to him, as much a condition of his existence, as +mental activity is to you or me. You can’t help thinking. I go to bed +after two in the morning, thoughts come and I can’t sleep but toss +about till dawn, because I think and can’t help thinking, just as +he can’t help plowing and mowing; if he didn’t, he would go to the +drink shop or fall ill. Just as I could not stand his terrible physical +labor but should die of it in a week, so he could not stand my physical +idleness, but would grow fat and die. The third thing—what else was +it you talked about?” and Prince Andrew crooked a third finger. “Ah, +yes, hospitals, medicine. He has a fit, he is dying, and you come and +bleed him and patch him up. He will drag about as a cripple, a burden to +everybody, for another ten years. It would be far easier and simpler for +him to die. Others are being born and there are plenty of them as it is. +It would be different if you grudged losing a laborer—that’s how I +regard him—but you want to cure him from love of him. And he does not +want that. And besides, what a notion that medicine ever cured anyone! +Killed them, yes!” said he, frowning angrily and turning away from +Pierre. + +Prince Andrew expressed his ideas so clearly and distinctly that it was +evident he had reflected on this subject more than once, and he spoke +readily and rapidly like a man who has not talked for a long time. His +glance became more animated as his conclusions became more hopeless. + +“Oh, that is dreadful, dreadful!” said Pierre. “I don’t +understand how one can live with such ideas. I had such moments +myself not long ago, in Moscow and when traveling, but at such times I +collapsed so that I don’t live at all—everything seems hateful to +me... myself most of all. Then I don’t eat, don’t wash... and how is +it with you?...” + +“Why not wash? That is not cleanly,” said Prince Andrew; “on the +contrary one must try to make one’s life as pleasant as possible. +I’m alive, that is not my fault, so I must live out my life as best I +can without hurting others.” + +“But with such ideas what motive have you for living? One would sit +without moving, undertaking nothing....” + +“Life as it is leaves one no peace. I should be thankful to do +nothing, but here on the one hand the local nobility have done me the +honor to choose me to be their marshal; it was all I could do to get +out of it. They could not understand that I have not the necessary +qualifications for it—the kind of good-natured, fussy shallowness +necessary for the position. Then there’s this house, which must be +built in order to have a nook of one’s own in which to be quiet. And +now there’s this recruiting.” + +“Why aren’t you serving in the army?” + +“After Austerlitz!” said Prince Andrew gloomily. “No, thank you +very much! I have promised myself not to serve again in the active +Russian army. And I won’t—not even if Bonaparte were here at +Smolénsk threatening Bald Hills—even then I wouldn’t serve in the +Russian army! Well, as I was saying,” he continued, recovering his +composure, “now there’s this recruiting. My father is chief in +command of the Third District, and my only way of avoiding active +service is to serve under him.” + +“Then you are serving?” + +“I am.” + +He paused a little while. + +“And why do you serve?” + +“Why, for this reason! My father is one of the most remarkable men of +his time. But he is growing old, and though not exactly cruel he has too +energetic a character. He is so accustomed to unlimited power that he is +terrible, and now he has this authority of a commander in chief of +the recruiting, granted by the Emperor. If I had been two hours late +a fortnight ago he would have had a paymaster’s clerk at Yúkhnovna +hanged,” said Prince Andrew with a smile. “So I am serving because +I alone have any influence with my father, and now and then can save him +from actions which would torment him afterwards.” + +“Well, there you see!” + +“Yes, but it is not as you imagine,” Prince Andrew continued. “I +did not, and do not, in the least care about that scoundrel of a clerk +who had stolen some boots from the recruits; I should even have been +very glad to see him hanged, but I was sorry for my father—that again +is for myself.” + +Prince Andrew grew more and more animated. His eyes glittered feverishly +while he tried to prove to Pierre that in his actions there was no +desire to do good to his neighbor. + +“There now, you wish to liberate your serfs,” he continued; “that +is a very good thing, but not for you—I don’t suppose you ever had +anyone flogged or sent to Siberia—and still less for your serfs. If +they are beaten, flogged, or sent to Siberia, I don’t suppose they are +any the worse off. In Siberia they lead the same animal life, and the +stripes on their bodies heal, and they are happy as before. But it is +a good thing for proprietors who perish morally, bring remorse upon +themselves, stifle this remorse and grow callous, as a result of being +able to inflict punishments justly and unjustly. It is those people I +pity, and for their sake I should like to liberate the serfs. You +may not have seen, but I have seen, how good men brought up in those +traditions of unlimited power, in time when they grow more irritable, +become cruel and harsh, are conscious of it, but cannot restrain +themselves and grow more and more miserable.” + +Prince Andrew spoke so earnestly that Pierre could not help thinking +that these thoughts had been suggested to Prince Andrew by his +father’s case. + +He did not reply. + +“So that’s what I’m sorry for—human dignity, peace of mind, +purity, and not the serfs’ backs and foreheads, which, beat and shave +as you may, always remain the same backs and foreheads.” + +“No, no! A thousand times no! I shall never agree with you,” said +Pierre. + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +In the evening Andrew and Pierre got into the open carriage and drove to +Bald Hills. 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+author: leo tolstoy + +translators: louise and aylmer maude + +posting date: january 10, 2009 [ebook #2600] + +last updated: january 21, 2019 + +language: english + +character set encoding: utf-8 + +*** start of this project gutenberg ebook war and peace *** + + + + +an anonymous volunteer, and david widger + + + + + + +war and peace + + +by leo tolstoy/tolstoi + + + + + + contents + + + book one: 1805 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + chapter xvii + + chapter xviii + + chapter xix + + chapter xx + + chapter xxi + + chapter xxii + + chapter xxiii + + chapter xxiv + + chapter xxv + + chapter xxvi + + chapter xxvii + + chapter xxviii + + + book two: 1805 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + chapter xvii + + chapter xviii + + chapter xix + + chapter xx + + chapter xxi + + + book three: 1805 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + chapter xvii + + chapter xviii + + chapter xix + + + book four: 1806 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + + book five: 1806 - 07 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + chapter xvii + + chapter xviii + + chapter xix + + chapter xx + + chapter xxi + + chapter xxii + + + book six: 1808 - 10 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + chapter xvii + + chapter xviii + + chapter xix + + chapter xx + + chapter xxi + + chapter xxii + + chapter xxiii + + chapter xxiv + + chapter xxv + + chapter xxvi + + + book seven: 1810 - 11 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + + book eight: 1811 - 12 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + 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ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + + book thirteen: 1812 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + chapter xvii + + chapter xviii + + chapter xix + + + book fourteen: 1812 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + chapter xvii + + chapter xviii + + chapter xix + + + book fifteen: 1812 - 13 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + chapter xvii + + chapter xviii + + chapter xix + + chapter xx + + + first epilogue: 1813 - 20 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + + second epilogue + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + + + + + + + + + +book one: 1805 + + + + + +chapter i + +“well, prince, so genoa and lucca are now just family estates of the +buonapartes. but i warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, +if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that +antichrist—i really believe he is antichrist—i will have nothing +more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my +‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! but how do you do? i see i +have frightened you—sit down and tell me all the news.” + +it was in july, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known anna pávlovna +schérer, maid of honor and favorite of the empress márya fëdorovna. +with these words she greeted prince vasíli kurágin, a man of high +rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. anna +pávlovna had had a cough for some days. she was, as she said, suffering +from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in st. petersburg, used +only by the elite. + +all her invitations without exception, written in french, and delivered +by a scarlet-liveried footman that morning, ran as follows: + +“if you have nothing better to do, count (or prince), and if the +prospect of spending an evening with a poor invalid is not too terrible, +i shall be very charmed to see you tonight between 7 and 10—annette +schérer.” + +“heavens! what a virulent attack!” replied the prince, not in the +least disconcerted by this reception. he had just entered, wearing an +embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on +his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. he spoke in that +refined french in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and +with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance +who had grown old in society and at court. he went up to anna pávlovna, +kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, +and complacently seated himself on the sofa. + +“first of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. set your friend’s +mind at rest,” said he without altering his tone, beneath the +politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony +could be discerned. + +“can one be well while suffering morally? can one be calm in times +like these if one has any feeling?” said anna pávlovna. “you are +staying the whole evening, i hope?” + +“and the fete at the english ambassador’s? today is wednesday. i +must put in an appearance there,” said the prince. “my daughter is +coming for me to take me there.” + +“i thought today’s fete had been canceled. i confess all these +festivities and fireworks are becoming wearisome.” + +“if they had known that you wished it, the entertainment would have +been put off,” said the prince, who, like a wound-up clock, by force +of habit said things he did not even wish to be believed. + +“don’t tease! well, and what has been decided about novosíltsev’s +dispatch? you know everything.” + +“what can one say about it?” replied the prince in a cold, listless +tone. “what has been decided? they have decided that buonaparte has +burnt his boats, and i believe that we are ready to burn ours.” + +prince vasíli always spoke languidly, like an actor repeating a stale +part. anna pávlovna schérer on the contrary, despite her forty years, +overflowed with animation and impulsiveness. to be an enthusiast had +become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not +feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the +expectations of those who knew her. the subdued smile which, though it +did not suit her faded features, always played round her lips expressed, +as in a spoiled child, a continual consciousness of her charming defect, +which she neither wished, nor could, nor considered it necessary, to +correct. + +in the midst of a conversation on political matters anna pávlovna burst +out: + +“oh, don’t speak to me of austria. perhaps i don’t understand +things, but austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war. she +is betraying us! russia alone must save europe. our gracious sovereign +recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it. that is the one +thing i have faith in! our good and wonderful sovereign has to perform +the noblest role on earth, and he is so virtuous and noble that god will +not forsake him. he will fulfill his vocation and crush the hydra of +revolution, which has become more terrible than ever in the person of +this murderer and villain! we alone must avenge the blood of the just +one.... whom, i ask you, can we rely on?... england with her commercial +spirit will not and cannot understand the emperor alexander’s +loftiness of soul. she has refused to evacuate malta. she wanted to +find, and still seeks, some secret motive in our actions. what answer +did novosíltsev get? none. the english have not understood and cannot +understand the self-abnegation of our emperor who wants nothing for +himself, but only desires the good of mankind. and what have they +promised? nothing! and what little they have promised they will not +perform! prussia has always declared that buonaparte is invincible, and +that all europe is powerless before him.... and i don’t believe a +word that hardenburg says, or haugwitz either. this famous prussian +neutrality is just a trap. i have faith only in god and the lofty +destiny of our adored monarch. he will save europe!” + +she suddenly paused, smiling at her own impetuosity. + +“i think,” said the prince with a smile, “that if you had been +sent instead of our dear wintzingerode you would have captured the king +of prussia’s consent by assault. you are so eloquent. will you give me +a cup of tea?” + +“in a moment. À propos,” she added, becoming calm again, “i am +expecting two very interesting men tonight, le vicomte de mortemart, who +is connected with the montmorencys through the rohans, one of the best +french families. he is one of the genuine émigrés, the good ones. and +also the abbé morio. do you know that profound thinker? he has been +received by the emperor. had you heard?” + +“i shall be delighted to meet them,” said the prince. “but +tell me,” he added with studied carelessness as if it had only just +occurred to him, though the question he was about to ask was the chief +motive of his visit, “is it true that the dowager empress wants +baron funke to be appointed first secretary at vienna? the baron by all +accounts is a poor creature.” + +prince vasíli wished to obtain this post for his son, but others were +trying through the dowager empress márya fëdorovna to secure it for +the baron. + +anna pávlovna almost closed her eyes to indicate that neither she nor +anyone else had a right to criticize what the empress desired or was +pleased with. + +“baron funke has been recommended to the dowager empress by her +sister,” was all she said, in a dry and mournful tone. + +as she named the empress, anna pávlovna’s face suddenly assumed an +expression of profound and sincere devotion and respect mingled with +sadness, and this occurred every time she mentioned her illustrious +patroness. she added that her majesty had deigned to show baron funke +beaucoup d’estime, and again her face clouded over with sadness. + +the prince was silent and looked indifferent. but, with the womanly and +courtierlike quickness and tact habitual to her, anna pávlovna +wished both to rebuke him (for daring to speak as he had done of a man +recommended to the empress) and at the same time to console him, so she +said: + +“now about your family. do you know that since your daughter came +out everyone has been enraptured by her? they say she is amazingly +beautiful.” + +the prince bowed to signify his respect and gratitude. + +“i often think,” she continued after a short pause, drawing nearer +to the prince and smiling amiably at him as if to show that political +and social topics were ended and the time had come for intimate +conversation—“i often think how unfairly sometimes the joys of life +are distributed. why has fate given you two such splendid children? +i don’t speak of anatole, your youngest. i don’t like him,” she +added in a tone admitting of no rejoinder and raising her eyebrows. +“two such charming children. and really you appreciate them less than +anyone, and so you don’t deserve to have them.” + +and she smiled her ecstatic smile. + +“i can’t help it,” said the prince. “lavater would have said i +lack the bump of paternity.” + +“don’t joke; i mean to have a serious talk with you. do you know +i am dissatisfied with your younger son? between ourselves” (and her +face assumed its melancholy expression), “he was mentioned at her +majesty’s and you were pitied....” + +the prince answered nothing, but she looked at him significantly, +awaiting a reply. he frowned. + +“what would you have me do?” he said at last. “you know i did all +a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools. +hippolyte is at least a quiet fool, but anatole is an active one. that +is the only difference between them.” he said this smiling in a way +more natural and animated than usual, so that the wrinkles round +his mouth very clearly revealed something unexpectedly coarse and +unpleasant. + +“and why are children born to such men as you? if you were not a +father there would be nothing i could reproach you with,” said anna +pávlovna, looking up pensively. + +“i am your faithful slave and to you alone i can confess that my +children are the bane of my life. it is the cross i have to bear. that +is how i explain it to myself. it can’t be helped!” + +he said no more, but expressed his resignation to cruel fate by a +gesture. anna pávlovna meditated. + +“have you never thought of marrying your prodigal son anatole?” she +asked. “they say old maids have a mania for matchmaking, and though i +don’t feel that weakness in myself as yet, i know a little person who +is very unhappy with her father. she is a relation of yours, princess +mary bolkónskaya.” + +prince vasíli did not reply, though, with the quickness of memory and +perception befitting a man of the world, he indicated by a movement of +the head that he was considering this information. + +“do you know,” he said at last, evidently unable to check the sad +current of his thoughts, “that anatole is costing me forty thousand +rubles a year? and,” he went on after a pause, “what will it be in +five years, if he goes on like this?” presently he added: “that’s +what we fathers have to put up with.... is this princess of yours +rich?” + +“her father is very rich and stingy. he lives in the country. he is +the well-known prince bolkónski who had to retire from the army under +the late emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the king of prussia.’ he is +very clever but eccentric, and a bore. the poor girl is very unhappy. +she has a brother; i think you know him, he married lise meinen lately. +he is an aide-de-camp of kutúzov’s and will be here tonight.” + +“listen, dear annette,” said the prince, suddenly taking anna +pávlovna’s hand and for some reason drawing it downwards. “arrange +that affair for me and i shall always be your most devoted slave-slafe +with an f, as a village elder of mine writes in his reports. she is rich +and of good family and that’s all i want.” + +and with the familiarity and easy grace peculiar to him, he raised the +maid of honor’s hand to his lips, kissed it, and swung it to and fro +as he lay back in his armchair, looking in another direction. + +“attendez,” said anna pávlovna, reflecting, “i’ll speak to +lise, young bolkónski’s wife, this very evening, and perhaps the +thing can be arranged. it shall be on your family’s behalf that i’ll +start my apprenticeship as old maid.” + + + + + +chapter ii + +anna pávlovna’s drawing room was gradually filling. the highest +petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age +and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. +prince vasíli’s daughter, the beautiful hélène, came to take her +father to the ambassador’s entertainment; she wore a ball dress and +her badge as maid of honor. the youthful little princess bolkónskaya, +known as la femme la plus séduisante de pétersbourg, * was also there. +she had been married during the previous winter, and being pregnant did +not go to any large gatherings, but only to small receptions. prince +vasíli’s son, hippolyte, had come with mortemart, whom he introduced. +the abbé morio and many others had also come. + + * the most fascinating woman in petersburg. + +to each new arrival anna pávlovna said, “you have not yet seen my +aunt,” or “you do not know my aunt?” and very gravely conducted +him or her to a little old lady, wearing large bows of ribbon in her +cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests +began to arrive; and slowly turning her eyes from the visitor to her +aunt, anna pávlovna mentioned each one’s name and then left them. + +each visitor performed the ceremony of greeting this old aunt whom not +one of them knew, not one of them wanted to know, and not one of them +cared about; anna pávlovna observed these greetings with mournful and +solemn interest and silent approval. the aunt spoke to each of them in +the same words, about their health and her own, and the health of her +majesty, “who, thank god, was better today.” and each visitor, +though politeness prevented his showing impatience, left the old woman +with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not +return to her the whole evening. + +the young princess bolkónskaya had brought some work in a +gold-embroidered velvet bag. her pretty little upper lip, on which a +delicate dark down was just perceptible, was too short for her teeth, +but it lifted all the more sweetly, and was especially charming when she +occasionally drew it down to meet the lower lip. as is always the case +with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her +upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to be her own special and +peculiar form of beauty. everyone brightened at the sight of this pretty +young woman, so soon to become a mother, so full of life and health, and +carrying her burden so lightly. old men and dull dispirited young ones +who looked at her, after being in her company and talking to her a +little while, felt as if they too were becoming, like her, full of life +and health. all who talked to her, and at each word saw her bright smile +and the constant gleam of her white teeth, thought that they were in a +specially amiable mood that day. + +the little princess went round the table with quick, short, swaying +steps, her workbag on her arm, and gaily spreading out her dress sat +down on a sofa near the silver samovar, as if all she was doing was a +pleasure to herself and to all around her. “i have brought my work,” +said she in french, displaying her bag and addressing all present. +“mind, annette, i hope you have not played a wicked trick on me,” +she added, turning to her hostess. “you wrote that it was to be quite +a small reception, and just see how badly i am dressed.” and she +spread out her arms to show her short-waisted, lace-trimmed, dainty gray +dress, girdled with a broad ribbon just below the breast. + +“soyez tranquille, lise, you will always be prettier than anyone +else,” replied anna pávlovna. + +“you know,” said the princess in the same tone of voice and still in +french, turning to a general, “my husband is deserting me? he is going +to get himself killed. tell me what this wretched war is for?” she +added, addressing prince vasíli, and without waiting for an answer she +turned to speak to his daughter, the beautiful hélène. + +“what a delightful woman this little princess is!” said prince +vasíli to anna pávlovna. + +one of the next arrivals was a stout, heavily built young man with +close-cropped hair, spectacles, the light-colored breeches fashionable +at that time, a very high ruffle, and a brown dress coat. this stout +young man was an illegitimate son of count bezúkhov, a well-known +grandee of catherine’s time who now lay dying in moscow. the young man +had not yet entered either the military or civil service, as he had only +just returned from abroad where he had been educated, and this was his +first appearance in society. anna pávlovna greeted him with the nod she +accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room. but in spite of +this lowest-grade greeting, a look of anxiety and fear, as at the sight +of something too large and unsuited to the place, came over her face +when she saw pierre enter. though he was certainly rather bigger than +the other men in the room, her anxiety could only have reference to +the clever though shy, but observant and natural, expression which +distinguished him from everyone else in that drawing room. + +“it is very good of you, monsieur pierre, to come and visit a poor +invalid,” said anna pávlovna, exchanging an alarmed glance with her +aunt as she conducted him to her. + +pierre murmured something unintelligible, and continued to look round as +if in search of something. on his way to the aunt he bowed to the little +princess with a pleased smile, as to an intimate acquaintance. + +anna pávlovna’s alarm was justified, for pierre turned away from the +aunt without waiting to hear her speech about her majesty’s health. +anna pávlovna in dismay detained him with the words: “do you know the +abbé morio? he is a most interesting man.” + +“yes, i have heard of his scheme for perpetual peace, and it is very +interesting but hardly feasible.” + +“you think so?” rejoined anna pávlovna in order to say something +and get away to attend to her duties as hostess. but pierre now +committed a reverse act of impoliteness. first he had left a lady before +she had finished speaking to him, and now he continued to speak to +another who wished to get away. with his head bent, and his big feet +spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbé’s +plan chimerical. + +“we will talk of it later,” said anna pávlovna with a smile. + +and having got rid of this young man who did not know how to behave, she +resumed her duties as hostess and continued to listen and watch, ready +to help at any point where the conversation might happen to flag. as +the foreman of a spinning mill, when he has set the hands to work, goes +round and notices here a spindle that has stopped or there one that +creaks or makes more noise than it should, and hastens to check the +machine or set it in proper motion, so anna pávlovna moved about her +drawing room, approaching now a silent, now a too-noisy group, and by a +word or slight rearrangement kept the conversational machine in steady, +proper, and regular motion. but amid these cares her anxiety about +pierre was evident. she kept an anxious watch on him when he approached +the group round mortemart to listen to what was being said there, and +again when he passed to another group whose center was the abbé. + +pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception at anna +pávlovna’s was the first he had attended in russia. he knew that all +the intellectual lights of petersburg were gathered there and, like a +child in a toyshop, did not know which way to look, afraid of missing +any clever conversation that was to be heard. seeing the self-confident +and refined expression on the faces of those present he was always +expecting to hear something very profound. at last he came up to morio. +here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an +opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. + + + + + +chapter iii + +anna pávlovna’s reception was in full swing. the spindles hummed +steadily and ceaselessly on all sides. with the exception of the aunt, +beside whom sat only one elderly lady, who with her thin careworn face +was rather out of place in this brilliant society, the whole company had +settled into three groups. one, chiefly masculine, had formed round +the abbé. another, of young people, was grouped round the beautiful +princess hélène, prince vasíli’s daughter, and the little princess +bolkónskaya, very pretty and rosy, though rather too plump for her age. +the third group was gathered round mortemart and anna pávlovna. + +the vicomte was a nice-looking young man with soft features and polished +manners, who evidently considered himself a celebrity but out of +politeness modestly placed himself at the disposal of the circle in +which he found himself. anna pávlovna was obviously serving him up as +a treat to her guests. as a clever maître d’hôtel serves up as a +specially choice delicacy a piece of meat that no one who had seen it in +the kitchen would have cared to eat, so anna pávlovna served up to +her guests, first the vicomte and then the abbé, as peculiarly choice +morsels. the group about mortemart immediately began discussing the +murder of the duc d’enghien. the vicomte said that the duc d’enghien +had perished by his own magnanimity, and that there were particular +reasons for buonaparte’s hatred of him. + +“ah, yes! do tell us all about it, vicomte,” said anna pávlovna, +with a pleasant feeling that there was something à la louis xv in the +sound of that sentence: “contez nous çela, vicomte.” + +the vicomte bowed and smiled courteously in token of his willingness to +comply. anna pávlovna arranged a group round him, inviting everyone to +listen to his tale. + +“the vicomte knew the duc personally,” whispered anna pávlovna to +one of the guests. “the vicomte is a wonderful raconteur,” said she +to another. “how evidently he belongs to the best society,” said she +to a third; and the vicomte was served up to the company in the choicest +and most advantageous style, like a well-garnished joint of roast beef +on a hot dish. + +the vicomte wished to begin his story and gave a subtle smile. + +“come over here, hélène, dear,” said anna pávlovna to the +beautiful young princess who was sitting some way off, the center of +another group. + +the princess smiled. she rose with the same unchanging smile with which +she had first entered the room—the smile of a perfectly beautiful +woman. with a slight rustle of her white dress trimmed with moss +and ivy, with a gleam of white shoulders, glossy hair, and sparkling +diamonds, she passed between the men who made way for her, not looking +at any of them but smiling on all, as if graciously allowing each the +privilege of admiring her beautiful figure and shapely shoulders, +back, and bosom—which in the fashion of those days were very much +exposed—and she seemed to bring the glamour of a ballroom with her as +she moved toward anna pávlovna. hélène was so lovely that not only +did she not show any trace of coquetry, but on the contrary she even +appeared shy of her unquestionable and all too victorious beauty. she +seemed to wish, but to be unable, to diminish its effect. + +“how lovely!” said everyone who saw her; and the vicomte lifted his +shoulders and dropped his eyes as if startled by something extraordinary +when she took her seat opposite and beamed upon him also with her +unchanging smile. + +“madame, i doubt my ability before such an audience,” said he, +smilingly inclining his head. + +the princess rested her bare round arm on a little table and considered +a reply unnecessary. she smilingly waited. all the time the story was +being told she sat upright, glancing now at her beautiful round arm, +altered in shape by its pressure on the table, now at her still more +beautiful bosom, on which she readjusted a diamond necklace. from time +to time she smoothed the folds of her dress, and whenever the story +produced an effect she glanced at anna pávlovna, at once adopted just +the expression she saw on the maid of honor’s face, and again relapsed +into her radiant smile. + +the little princess had also left the tea table and followed hélène. + +“wait a moment, i’ll get my work.... now then, what are you +thinking of?” she went on, turning to prince hippolyte. “fetch me my +workbag.” + +there was a general movement as the princess, smiling and talking +merrily to everyone at once, sat down and gaily arranged herself in her +seat. + +“now i am all right,” she said, and asking the vicomte to begin, she +took up her work. + +prince hippolyte, having brought the workbag, joined the circle and +moving a chair close to hers seated himself beside her. + +le charmant hippolyte was surprising by his extraordinary resemblance +to his beautiful sister, but yet more by the fact that in spite of +this resemblance he was exceedingly ugly. his features were like his +sister’s, but while in her case everything was lit up by a joyous, +self-satisfied, youthful, and constant smile of animation, and by the +wonderful classic beauty of her figure, his face on the contrary +was dulled by imbecility and a constant expression of sullen +self-confidence, while his body was thin and weak. his eyes, nose, and +mouth all seemed puckered into a vacant, wearied grimace, and his arms +and legs always fell into unnatural positions. + +“it’s not going to be a ghost story?” said he, sitting down beside +the princess and hastily adjusting his lorgnette, as if without this +instrument he could not begin to speak. + +“why no, my dear fellow,” said the astonished narrator, shrugging +his shoulders. + +“because i hate ghost stories,” said prince hippolyte in a tone +which showed that he only understood the meaning of his words after he +had uttered them. + +he spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure +whether what he said was very witty or very stupid. he was dressed in +a dark-green dress coat, knee breeches of the color of cuisse de nymphe +effrayée, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings. + +the vicomte told his tale very neatly. it was an anecdote, then current, +to the effect that the duc d’enghien had gone secretly to paris to +visit mademoiselle george; that at her house he came upon bonaparte, +who also enjoyed the famous actress’ favors, and that in his presence +napoleon happened to fall into one of the fainting fits to which he was +subject, and was thus at the duc’s mercy. the latter spared him, and +this magnanimity bonaparte subsequently repaid by death. + +the story was very pretty and interesting, especially at the point +where the rivals suddenly recognized one another; and the ladies looked +agitated. + +“charming!” said anna pávlovna with an inquiring glance at the +little princess. + +“charming!” whispered the little princess, sticking the needle into +her work as if to testify that the interest and fascination of the story +prevented her from going on with it. + +the vicomte appreciated this silent praise and smiling gratefully +prepared to continue, but just then anna pávlovna, who had kept a +watchful eye on the young man who so alarmed her, noticed that he was +talking too loudly and vehemently with the abbé, so she hurried to the +rescue. pierre had managed to start a conversation with the abbé about +the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young +man’s simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory. both +were talking and listening too eagerly and too naturally, which was why +anna pávlovna disapproved. + +“the means are ... the balance of power in europe and the rights of +the people,” the abbé was saying. “it is only necessary for one +powerful nation like russia—barbaric as she is said to be—to place +herself disinterestedly at the head of an alliance having for its object +the maintenance of the balance of power of europe, and it would save the +world!” + +“but how are you to get that balance?” pierre was beginning. + +at that moment anna pávlovna came up and, looking severely at pierre, +asked the italian how he stood russian climate. the italian’s +face instantly changed and assumed an offensively affected, sugary +expression, evidently habitual to him when conversing with women. + +“i am so enchanted by the brilliancy of the wit and culture of the +society, more especially of the feminine society, in which i have had +the honor of being received, that i have not yet had time to think of +the climate,” said he. + +not letting the abbé and pierre escape, anna pávlovna, the more +conveniently to keep them under observation, brought them into the +larger circle. + + + + + +chapter iv + +just then another visitor entered the drawing room: prince andrew +bolkónski, the little princess’ husband. he was a very handsome young +man, of medium height, with firm, clearcut features. everything about +him, from his weary, bored expression to his quiet, measured step, +offered a most striking contrast to his quiet, little wife. it was +evident that he not only knew everyone in the drawing room, but had +found them to be so tiresome that it wearied him to look at or listen to +them. and among all these faces that he found so tedious, none seemed +to bore him so much as that of his pretty wife. he turned away from +her with a grimace that distorted his handsome face, kissed anna +pávlovna’s hand, and screwing up his eyes scanned the whole company. + +“you are off to the war, prince?” said anna pávlovna. + +“general kutúzov,” said bolkónski, speaking french and stressing +the last syllable of the general’s name like a frenchman, “has been +pleased to take me as an aide-de-camp....” + +“and lise, your wife?” + +“she will go to the country.” + +“are you not ashamed to deprive us of your charming wife?” + +“andré,” said his wife, addressing her husband in the same +coquettish manner in which she spoke to other men, “the vicomte has +been telling us such a tale about mademoiselle george and buonaparte!” + +prince andrew screwed up his eyes and turned away. pierre, who from +the moment prince andrew entered the room had watched him with glad, +affectionate eyes, now came up and took his arm. before he looked round +prince andrew frowned again, expressing his annoyance with whoever was +touching his arm, but when he saw pierre’s beaming face he gave him an +unexpectedly kind and pleasant smile. + +“there now!... so you, too, are in the great world?” said he to +pierre. + +“i knew you would be here,” replied pierre. “i will come to supper +with you. may i?” he added in a low voice so as not to disturb the +vicomte who was continuing his story. + +“no, impossible!” said prince andrew, laughing and pressing +pierre’s hand to show that there was no need to ask the question. he +wished to say something more, but at that moment prince vasíli and his +daughter got up to go and the two young men rose to let them pass. + +“you must excuse me, dear vicomte,” said prince vasíli to the +frenchman, holding him down by the sleeve in a friendly way to prevent +his rising. “this unfortunate fete at the ambassador’s deprives me +of a pleasure, and obliges me to interrupt you. i am very sorry to leave +your enchanting party,” said he, turning to anna pávlovna. + +his daughter, princess hélène, passed between the chairs, lightly +holding up the folds of her dress, and the smile shone still more +radiantly on her beautiful face. pierre gazed at her with rapturous, +almost frightened, eyes as she passed him. + +“very lovely,” said prince andrew. + +“very,” said pierre. + +in passing prince vasíli seized pierre’s hand and said to anna +pávlovna: “educate this bear for me! he has been staying with me +a whole month and this is the first time i have seen him in society. +nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever +women.” + + +anna pávlovna smiled and promised to take pierre in hand. she knew his +father to be a connection of prince vasíli’s. the elderly lady who +had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook prince +vasíli in the anteroom. all the affectation of interest she had assumed +had left her kindly and tear-worn face and it now expressed only anxiety +and fear. + +“how about my son borís, prince?” said she, hurrying after him into +the anteroom. “i can’t remain any longer in petersburg. tell me what +news i may take back to my poor boy.” + +although prince vasíli listened reluctantly and not very politely +to the elderly lady, even betraying some impatience, she gave him an +ingratiating and appealing smile, and took his hand that he might not go +away. + +“what would it cost you to say a word to the emperor, and then he +would be transferred to the guards at once?” said she. + +“believe me, princess, i am ready to do all i can,” answered prince +vasíli, “but it is difficult for me to ask the emperor. i should +advise you to appeal to rumyántsev through prince golítsyn. that would +be the best way.” + +the elderly lady was a princess drubetskáya, belonging to one of the +best families in russia, but she was poor, and having long been out of +society had lost her former influential connections. she had now come to +petersburg to procure an appointment in the guards for her only son. +it was, in fact, solely to meet prince vasíli that she had obtained an +invitation to anna pávlovna’s reception and had sat listening to +the vicomte’s story. prince vasíli’s words frightened her, an +embittered look clouded her once handsome face, but only for a moment; +then she smiled again and clutched prince vasíli’s arm more tightly. + +“listen to me, prince,” said she. “i have never yet asked you +for anything and i never will again, nor have i ever reminded you of my +father’s friendship for you; but now i entreat you for god’s sake to +do this for my son—and i shall always regard you as a benefactor,” +she added hurriedly. “no, don’t be angry, but promise! i have asked +golítsyn and he has refused. be the kindhearted man you always were,” +she said, trying to smile though tears were in her eyes. + +“papa, we shall be late,” said princess hélène, turning her +beautiful head and looking over her classically molded shoulder as she +stood waiting by the door. + +influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized +if it is to last. prince vasíli knew this, and having once realized +that if he asked on behalf of all who begged of him, he would soon be +unable to ask for himself, he became chary of using his influence. but +in princess drubetskáya’s case he felt, after her second appeal, +something like qualms of conscience. she had reminded him of what was +quite true; he had been indebted to her father for the first steps in +his career. moreover, he could see by her manners that she was one of +those women—mostly mothers—who, having once made up their minds, +will not rest until they have gained their end, and are prepared if +necessary to go on insisting day after day and hour after hour, and even +to make scenes. this last consideration moved him. + +“my dear anna mikháylovna,” said he with his usual familiarity and +weariness of tone, “it is almost impossible for me to do what you +ask; but to prove my devotion to you and how i respect your father’s +memory, i will do the impossible—your son shall be transferred to the +guards. here is my hand on it. are you satisfied?” + +“my dear benefactor! this is what i expected from you—i knew your +kindness!” he turned to go. + +“wait—just a word! when he has been transferred to the guards...” +she faltered. “you are on good terms with michael ilariónovich +kutúzov ... recommend borís to him as adjutant! then i shall be at +rest, and then...” + +prince vasíli smiled. + +“no, i won’t promise that. you don’t know how kutúzov is pestered +since his appointment as commander in chief. he told me himself that +all the moscow ladies have conspired to give him all their sons as +adjutants.” + +“no, but do promise! i won’t let you go! my dear benefactor...” + +“papa,” said his beautiful daughter in the same tone as before, +“we shall be late.” + +“well, au revoir! good-by! you hear her?” + +“then tomorrow you will speak to the emperor?” + +“certainly; but about kutúzov, i don’t promise.” + +“do promise, do promise, vasíli!” cried anna mikháylovna as he +went, with the smile of a coquettish girl, which at one time probably +came naturally to her, but was now very ill-suited to her careworn face. + +apparently she had forgotten her age and by force of habit employed +all the old feminine arts. but as soon as the prince had gone her face +resumed its former cold, artificial expression. she returned to the +group where the vicomte was still talking, and again pretended to +listen, while waiting till it would be time to leave. her task was +accomplished. + + + + + +chapter v + +“and what do you think of this latest comedy, the coronation at +milan?” asked anna pávlovna, “and of the comedy of the people of +genoa and lucca laying their petitions before monsieur buonaparte, and +monsieur buonaparte sitting on a throne and granting the petitions of +the nations? adorable! it is enough to make one’s head whirl! it is as +if the whole world had gone crazy.” + +prince andrew looked anna pávlovna straight in the face with a +sarcastic smile. + +“‘dieu me la donne, gare à qui la touche!’’ * they say he was +very fine when he said that,” he remarked, repeating the words in +italian: “‘dio mi l’ha dato. guai a chi la tocchi!’’ + + * god has given it to me, let him who touches it beware! + +“i hope this will prove the last drop that will make the glass run +over,” anna pávlovna continued. “the sovereigns will not be able to +endure this man who is a menace to everything.” + +“the sovereigns? i do not speak of russia,” said the vicomte, polite +but hopeless: “the sovereigns, madame... what have they done for louis +xvii, for the queen, or for madame elizabeth? nothing!” and he became +more animated. “and believe me, they are reaping the reward of their +betrayal of the bourbon cause. the sovereigns! why, they are sending +ambassadors to compliment the usurper.” + +and sighing disdainfully, he again changed his position. + +prince hippolyte, who had been gazing at the vicomte for some time +through his lorgnette, suddenly turned completely round toward the +little princess, and having asked for a needle began tracing the condé +coat of arms on the table. he explained this to her with as much gravity +as if she had asked him to do it. + +“bâton de gueules, engrêlé de gueules d’azur—maison condé,” +said he. + +the princess listened, smiling. + +“if buonaparte remains on the throne of france a year longer,” the +vicomte continued, with the air of a man who, in a matter with which +he is better acquainted than anyone else, does not listen to others but +follows the current of his own thoughts, “things will have gone too +far. by intrigues, violence, exile, and executions, french society—i +mean good french society—will have been forever destroyed, and +then....” + +he shrugged his shoulders and spread out his hands. pierre wished to +make a remark, for the conversation interested him, but anna pávlovna, +who had him under observation, interrupted: + +“the emperor alexander,” said she, with the melancholy which +always accompanied any reference of hers to the imperial family, “has +declared that he will leave it to the french people themselves to choose +their own form of government; and i believe that once free from the +usurper, the whole nation will certainly throw itself into the arms +of its rightful king,” she concluded, trying to be amiable to the +royalist emigrant. + +“that is doubtful,” said prince andrew. “monsieur le vicomte quite +rightly supposes that matters have already gone too far. i think it will +be difficult to return to the old regime.” + +“from what i have heard,” said pierre, blushing and breaking into +the conversation, “almost all the aristocracy has already gone over to +bonaparte’s side.” + +“it is the buonapartists who say that,” replied the vicomte without +looking at pierre. “at the present time it is difficult to know the +real state of french public opinion.” + +“bonaparte has said so,” remarked prince andrew with a sarcastic +smile. + +it was evident that he did not like the vicomte and was aiming his +remarks at him, though without looking at him. + +“‘i showed them the path to glory, but they did not follow +it,’” prince andrew continued after a short silence, again quoting +napoleon’s words. “‘i opened my antechambers and they crowded +in.’ i do not know how far he was justified in saying so.” + +“not in the least,” replied the vicomte. “after the murder of the +duc even the most partial ceased to regard him as a hero. if to some +people,” he went on, turning to anna pávlovna, “he ever was a hero, +after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one +hero less on earth.” + +before anna pávlovna and the others had time to smile their +appreciation of the vicomte’s epigram, pierre again broke into the +conversation, and though anna pávlovna felt sure he would say something +inappropriate, she was unable to stop him. + +“the execution of the duc d’enghien,” declared monsieur pierre, +“was a political necessity, and it seems to me that napoleon +showed greatness of soul by not fearing to take on himself the whole +responsibility of that deed.” + +“dieu! mon dieu!” muttered anna pávlovna in a terrified whisper. + +“what, monsieur pierre... do you consider that assassination shows +greatness of soul?” said the little princess, smiling and drawing her +work nearer to her. + +“oh! oh!” exclaimed several voices. + +“capital!” said prince hippolyte in english, and began slapping his +knee with the palm of his hand. + +the vicomte merely shrugged his shoulders. pierre looked solemnly at his +audience over his spectacles and continued. + +“i say so,” he continued desperately, “because the bourbons fled +from the revolution leaving the people to anarchy, and napoleon alone +understood the revolution and quelled it, and so for the general good, +he could not stop short for the sake of one man’s life.” + +“won’t you come over to the other table?” suggested anna +pávlovna. + +but pierre continued his speech without heeding her. + +“no,” cried he, becoming more and more eager, “napoleon is great +because he rose superior to the revolution, suppressed its abuses, +preserved all that was good in it—equality of citizenship and freedom +of speech and of the press—and only for that reason did he obtain +power.” + +“yes, if having obtained power, without availing himself of it to +commit murder he had restored it to the rightful king, i should have +called him a great man,” remarked the vicomte. + +“he could not do that. the people only gave him power that he might +rid them of the bourbons and because they saw that he was a great +man. the revolution was a grand thing!” continued monsieur pierre, +betraying by this desperate and provocative proposition his extreme +youth and his wish to express all that was in his mind. + +“what? revolution and regicide a grand thing?... well, after that... +but won’t you come to this other table?” repeated anna pávlovna. + +“rousseau’s contrat social,” said the vicomte with a tolerant +smile. + +“i am not speaking of regicide, i am speaking about ideas.” + +“yes: ideas of robbery, murder, and regicide,” again interjected an +ironical voice. + +“those were extremes, no doubt, but they are not what is most +important. what is important are the rights of man, emancipation from +prejudices, and equality of citizenship, and all these ideas napoleon +has retained in full force.” + +“liberty and equality,” said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at +last deciding seriously to prove to this youth how foolish his words +were, “high-sounding words which have long been discredited. who does +not love liberty and equality? even our saviour preached liberty and +equality. have people since the revolution become happier? on the +contrary. we wanted liberty, but buonaparte has destroyed it.” + +prince andrew kept looking with an amused smile from pierre to the +vicomte and from the vicomte to their hostess. in the first moment of +pierre’s outburst anna pávlovna, despite her social experience, was +horror-struck. but when she saw that pierre’s sacrilegious words +had not exasperated the vicomte, and had convinced herself that it was +impossible to stop him, she rallied her forces and joined the vicomte in +a vigorous attack on the orator. + +“but, my dear monsieur pierre,” said she, “how do you explain the +fact of a great man executing a duc—or even an ordinary man who—is +innocent and untried?” + +“i should like,” said the vicomte, “to ask how monsieur explains +the 18th brumaire; was not that an imposture? it was a swindle, and not +at all like the conduct of a great man!” + +“and the prisoners he killed in africa? that was horrible!” said the +little princess, shrugging her shoulders. + +“he’s a low fellow, say what you will,” remarked prince hippolyte. + +pierre, not knowing whom to answer, looked at them all and smiled. his +smile was unlike the half-smile of other people. when he smiled, +his grave, even rather gloomy, look was instantaneously replaced by +another—a childlike, kindly, even rather silly look, which seemed to +ask forgiveness. + +the vicomte who was meeting him for the first time saw clearly that +this young jacobin was not so terrible as his words suggested. all were +silent. + +“how do you expect him to answer you all at once?” said prince +andrew. “besides, in the actions of a statesman one has to distinguish +between his acts as a private person, as a general, and as an emperor. +so it seems to me.” + +“yes, yes, of course!” pierre chimed in, pleased at the arrival of +this reinforcement. + +“one must admit,” continued prince andrew, “that napoleon as a man +was great on the bridge of arcola, and in the hospital at jaffa where he +gave his hand to the plague-stricken; but ... but there are other acts +which it is difficult to justify.” + +prince andrew, who had evidently wished to tone down the awkwardness of +pierre’s remarks, rose and made a sign to his wife that it was time to +go. + +suddenly prince hippolyte started up making signs to everyone to attend, +and asking them all to be seated began: + +“i was told a charming moscow story today and must treat you to it. +excuse me, vicomte—i must tell it in russian or the point will be +lost....” and prince hippolyte began to tell his story in such russian +as a frenchman would speak after spending about a year in russia. +everyone waited, so emphatically and eagerly did he demand their +attention to his story. + +“there is in moscow a lady, une dame, and she is very stingy. she must +have two footmen behind her carriage, and very big ones. that was her +taste. and she had a lady’s maid, also big. she said....” + +here prince hippolyte paused, evidently collecting his ideas with +difficulty. + +“she said.... oh yes! she said, ‘girl,’ to the maid, ‘put on a +livery, get up behind the carriage, and come with me while i make some +calls.’” + +here prince hippolyte spluttered and burst out laughing long before his +audience, which produced an effect unfavorable to the narrator. several +persons, among them the elderly lady and anna pávlovna, did however +smile. + +“she went. suddenly there was a great wind. the girl lost her hat and +her long hair came down....” here he could contain himself no +longer and went on, between gasps of laughter: “and the whole world +knew....” + +and so the anecdote ended. though it was unintelligible why he had told +it, or why it had to be told in russian, still anna pávlovna and the +others appreciated prince hippolyte’s social tact in so agreeably +ending pierre’s unpleasant and unamiable outburst. after the anecdote +the conversation broke up into insignificant small talk about the last +and next balls, about theatricals, and who would meet whom, and when and +where. + + + + + +chapter vi + +having thanked anna pávlovna for her charming soiree, the guests began +to take their leave. + +pierre was ungainly. stout, about the average height, broad, with huge +red hands; he did not know, as the saying is, how to enter a drawing +room and still less how to leave one; that is, how to say something +particularly agreeable before going away. besides this he was +absent-minded. when he rose to go, he took up instead of his own, the +general’s three-cornered hat, and held it, pulling at the plume, +till the general asked him to restore it. all his absent-mindedness and +inability to enter a room and converse in it was, however, redeemed by +his kindly, simple, and modest expression. anna pávlovna turned toward +him and, with a christian mildness that expressed forgiveness of his +indiscretion, nodded and said: “i hope to see you again, but i also +hope you will change your opinions, my dear monsieur pierre.” + +when she said this, he did not reply and only bowed, but again everybody +saw his smile, which said nothing, unless perhaps, “opinions are +opinions, but you see what a capital, good-natured fellow i am.” and +everyone, including anna pávlovna, felt this. + +prince andrew had gone out into the hall, and, turning his shoulders +to the footman who was helping him on with his cloak, listened +indifferently to his wife’s chatter with prince hippolyte who had also +come into the hall. prince hippolyte stood close to the pretty, pregnant +princess, and stared fixedly at her through his eyeglass. + +“go in, annette, or you will catch cold,” said the little princess, +taking leave of anna pávlovna. “it is settled,” she added in a low +voice. + +anna pávlovna had already managed to speak to lise about the match she +contemplated between anatole and the little princess’ sister-in-law. + +“i rely on you, my dear,” said anna pávlovna, also in a low tone. +“write to her and let me know how her father looks at the matter. au +revoir! ”—and she left the hall. + +prince hippolyte approached the little princess and, bending his face +close to her, began to whisper something. + +two footmen, the princess’ and his own, stood holding a shawl and +a cloak, waiting for the conversation to finish. they listened to +the french sentences which to them were meaningless, with an air of +understanding but not wishing to appear to do so. the princess as usual +spoke smilingly and listened with a laugh. + +“i am very glad i did not go to the ambassador’s,” said prince +hippolyte “—so dull—. it has been a delightful evening, has it +not? delightful!” + +“they say the ball will be very good,” replied the princess, drawing +up her downy little lip. “all the pretty women in society will be +there.” + +“not all, for you will not be there; not all,” said prince hippolyte +smiling joyfully; and snatching the shawl from the footman, whom he +even pushed aside, he began wrapping it round the princess. either from +awkwardness or intentionally (no one could have said which) after the +shawl had been adjusted he kept his arm around her for a long time, as +though embracing her. + +still smiling, she gracefully moved away, turning and glancing at her +husband. prince andrew’s eyes were closed, so weary and sleepy did he +seem. + +“are you ready?” he asked his wife, looking past her. + +prince hippolyte hurriedly put on his cloak, which in the latest fashion +reached to his very heels, and, stumbling in it, ran out into the porch +following the princess, whom a footman was helping into the carriage. + +“princesse, au revoir,” cried he, stumbling with his tongue as well +as with his feet. + +the princess, picking up her dress, was taking her seat in the dark +carriage, her husband was adjusting his saber; prince hippolyte, under +pretense of helping, was in everyone’s way. + +“allow me, sir,” said prince andrew in russian in a cold, +disagreeable tone to prince hippolyte who was blocking his path. + +“i am expecting you, pierre,” said the same voice, but gently and +affectionately. + +the postilion started, the carriage wheels rattled. prince hippolyte +laughed spasmodically as he stood in the porch waiting for the vicomte +whom he had promised to take home. + +“well, mon cher,” said the vicomte, having seated himself beside +hippolyte in the carriage, “your little princess is very nice, very +nice indeed, quite french,” and he kissed the tips of his fingers. +hippolyte burst out laughing. + +“do you know, you are a terrible chap for all your innocent airs,” +continued the vicomte. “i pity the poor husband, that little officer +who gives himself the airs of a monarch.” + +hippolyte spluttered again, and amid his laughter said, “and you were +saying that the russian ladies are not equal to the french? one has to +know how to deal with them.” + +pierre reaching the house first went into prince andrew’s study like +one quite at home, and from habit immediately lay down on the sofa, took +from the shelf the first book that came to his hand (it was caesar’s +commentaries), and resting on his elbow, began reading it in the middle. + +“what have you done to mlle schérer? she will be quite ill now,” +said prince andrew, as he entered the study, rubbing his small white +hands. + +pierre turned his whole body, making the sofa creak. he lifted his eager +face to prince andrew, smiled, and waved his hand. + +“that abbé is very interesting but he does not see the thing in the +right light.... in my opinion perpetual peace is possible but—i do not +know how to express it ... not by a balance of political power....” + +it was evident that prince andrew was not interested in such abstract +conversation. + +“one can’t everywhere say all one thinks, mon cher. well, have +you at last decided on anything? are you going to be a guardsman or a +diplomatist?” asked prince andrew after a momentary silence. + +pierre sat up on the sofa, with his legs tucked under him. + +“really, i don’t yet know. i don’t like either the one or the +other.” + +“but you must decide on something! your father expects it.” + +pierre at the age of ten had been sent abroad with an abbé as tutor, +and had remained away till he was twenty. when he returned to moscow +his father dismissed the abbé and said to the young man, “now go +to petersburg, look round, and choose your profession. i will agree to +anything. here is a letter to prince vasíli, and here is money. write +to me all about it, and i will help you in everything.” pierre had +already been choosing a career for three months, and had not decided +on anything. it was about this choice that prince andrew was speaking. +pierre rubbed his forehead. + +“but he must be a freemason,” said he, referring to the abbé whom +he had met that evening. + +“that is all nonsense.” prince andrew again interrupted him, “let +us talk business. have you been to the horse guards?” + +“no, i have not; but this is what i have been thinking and wanted +to tell you. there is a war now against napoleon. if it were a war for +freedom i could understand it and should be the first to enter the army; +but to help england and austria against the greatest man in the world is +not right.” + +prince andrew only shrugged his shoulders at pierre’s childish words. +he put on the air of one who finds it impossible to reply to such +nonsense, but it would in fact have been difficult to give any other +answer than the one prince andrew gave to this naïve question. + +“if no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no +wars,” he said. + +“and that would be splendid,” said pierre. + +prince andrew smiled ironically. + +“very likely it would be splendid, but it will never come about....” + +“well, why are you going to the war?” asked pierre. + +“what for? i don’t know. i must. besides that i am going....” he +paused. “i am going because the life i am leading here does not suit +me!” + + + + + +chapter vii + +the rustle of a woman’s dress was heard in the next room. prince +andrew shook himself as if waking up, and his face assumed the look it +had had in anna pávlovna’s drawing room. pierre removed his feet from +the sofa. the princess came in. she had changed her gown for a house +dress as fresh and elegant as the other. prince andrew rose and politely +placed a chair for her. + +“how is it,” she began, as usual in french, settling down briskly +and fussily in the easy chair, “how is it annette never got married? +how stupid you men all are not to have married her! excuse me for saying +so, but you have no sense about women. what an argumentative fellow you +are, monsieur pierre!” + +“and i am still arguing with your husband. i can’t understand why he +wants to go to the war,” replied pierre, addressing the princess +with none of the embarrassment so commonly shown by young men in their +intercourse with young women. + +the princess started. evidently pierre’s words touched her to the +quick. + +“ah, that is just what i tell him!” said she. “i don’t +understand it; i don’t in the least understand why men can’t live +without wars. how is it that we women don’t want anything of the kind, +don’t need it? now you shall judge between us. i always tell him: here +he is uncle’s aide-de-camp, a most brilliant position. he is so +well known, so much appreciated by everyone. the other day at the +apráksins’ i heard a lady asking, ‘is that the famous prince +andrew?’ i did indeed.” she laughed. “he is so well received +everywhere. he might easily become aide-de-camp to the emperor. you know +the emperor spoke to him most graciously. annette and i were speaking of +how to arrange it. what do you think?” + +pierre looked at his friend and, noticing that he did not like the +conversation, gave no reply. + +“when are you starting?” he asked. + +“oh, don’t speak of his going, don’t! i won’t hear it spoken +of,” said the princess in the same petulantly playful tone in which +she had spoken to hippolyte in the drawing room and which was so plainly +ill-suited to the family circle of which pierre was almost a member. +“today when i remembered that all these delightful associations +must be broken off ... and then you know, andré...” (she looked +significantly at her husband) “i’m afraid, i’m afraid!” she +whispered, and a shudder ran down her back. + +her husband looked at her as if surprised to notice that someone besides +pierre and himself was in the room, and addressed her in a tone of +frigid politeness. + +“what is it you are afraid of, lise? i don’t understand,” said he. + +“there, what egotists men all are: all, all egotists! just for a whim +of his own, goodness only knows why, he leaves me and locks me up alone +in the country.” + +“with my father and sister, remember,” said prince andrew gently. + +“alone all the same, without my friends.... and he expects me not to +be afraid.” + +her tone was now querulous and her lip drawn up, giving her not a +joyful, but an animal, squirrel-like expression. she paused as if she +felt it indecorous to speak of her pregnancy before pierre, though the +gist of the matter lay in that. + +“i still can’t understand what you are afraid of,” said prince +andrew slowly, not taking his eyes off his wife. + +the princess blushed, and raised her arms with a gesture of despair. + +“no, andrew, i must say you have changed. oh, how you have....” + +“your doctor tells you to go to bed earlier,” said prince andrew. +“you had better go.” + +the princess said nothing, but suddenly her short downy lip quivered. +prince andrew rose, shrugged his shoulders, and walked about the room. + +pierre looked over his spectacles with naïve surprise, now at him and +now at her, moved as if about to rise too, but changed his mind. + +“why should i mind monsieur pierre being here?” exclaimed the little +princess suddenly, her pretty face all at once distorted by a tearful +grimace. “i have long wanted to ask you, andrew, why you have changed +so to me? what have i done to you? you are going to the war and have no +pity for me. why is it?” + +“lise!” was all prince andrew said. but that one word expressed +an entreaty, a threat, and above all conviction that she would herself +regret her words. but she went on hurriedly: + +“you treat me like an invalid or a child. i see it all! did you behave +like that six months ago?” + +“lise, i beg you to desist,” said prince andrew still more +emphatically. + +pierre, who had been growing more and more agitated as he listened to +all this, rose and approached the princess. he seemed unable to bear the +sight of tears and was ready to cry himself. + +“calm yourself, princess! it seems so to you because.... i assure you +i myself have experienced ... and so ... because ... no, excuse me! +an outsider is out of place here.... no, don’t distress yourself.... +good-by!” + +prince andrew caught him by the hand. + +“no, wait, pierre! the princess is too kind to wish to deprive me of +the pleasure of spending the evening with you.” + +“no, he thinks only of himself,” muttered the princess without +restraining her angry tears. + +“lise!” said prince andrew dryly, raising his voice to the pitch +which indicates that patience is exhausted. + +suddenly the angry, squirrel-like expression of the princess’ pretty +face changed into a winning and piteous look of fear. her beautiful eyes +glanced askance at her husband’s face, and her own assumed the timid, +deprecating expression of a dog when it rapidly but feebly wags its +drooping tail. + +“mon dieu, mon dieu!” she muttered, and lifting her dress with one +hand she went up to her husband and kissed him on the forehead. + +“good night, lise,” said he, rising and courteously kissing her hand +as he would have done to a stranger. + + + + + +chapter viii + +the friends were silent. neither cared to begin talking. pierre +continually glanced at prince andrew; prince andrew rubbed his forehead +with his small hand. + +“let us go and have supper,” he said with a sigh, going to the door. + +they entered the elegant, newly decorated, and luxurious dining room. +everything from the table napkins to the silver, china, and glass bore +that imprint of newness found in the households of the newly married. +halfway through supper prince andrew leaned his elbows on the table and, +with a look of nervous agitation such as pierre had never before seen on +his face, began to talk—as one who has long had something on his mind +and suddenly determines to speak out. + +“never, never marry, my dear fellow! that’s my advice: never marry +till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are capable of, +and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen +her plainly as she is, or else you will make a cruel and irrevocable +mistake. marry when you are old and good for nothing—or all that is +good and noble in you will be lost. it will all be wasted on trifles. +yes! yes! yes! don’t look at me with such surprise. if you marry +expecting anything from yourself in the future, you will feel at every +step that for you all is ended, all is closed except the drawing +room, where you will be ranged side by side with a court lackey and an +idiot!... but what’s the good?...” and he waved his arm. + +pierre took off his spectacles, which made his face seem different and +the good-natured expression still more apparent, and gazed at his friend +in amazement. + +“my wife,” continued prince andrew, “is an excellent woman, one +of those rare women with whom a man’s honor is safe; but, o god, what +would i not give now to be unmarried! you are the first and only one to +whom i mention this, because i like you.” + +as he said this prince andrew was less than ever like that bolkónski +who had lolled in anna pávlovna’s easy chairs and with half-closed +eyes had uttered french phrases between his teeth. every muscle of his +thin face was now quivering with nervous excitement; his eyes, in which +the fire of life had seemed extinguished, now flashed with brilliant +light. it was evident that the more lifeless he seemed at ordinary +times, the more impassioned he became in these moments of almost morbid +irritation. + +“you don’t understand why i say this,” he continued, “but it is +the whole story of life. you talk of bonaparte and his career,” said +he (though pierre had not mentioned bonaparte), “but bonaparte when +he worked went step by step toward his goal. he was free, he had nothing +but his aim to consider, and he reached it. but tie yourself up with +a woman and, like a chained convict, you lose all freedom! and all you +have of hope and strength merely weighs you down and torments you with +regret. drawing rooms, gossip, balls, vanity, and triviality—these are +the enchanted circle i cannot escape from. i am now going to the war, +the greatest war there ever was, and i know nothing and am fit for +nothing. i am very amiable and have a caustic wit,” continued prince +andrew, “and at anna pávlovna’s they listen to me. and that stupid +set without whom my wife cannot exist, and those women.... if you only +knew what those society women are, and women in general! my father is +right. selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that’s what +women are when you see them in their true colors! when you meet them +in society it seems as if there were something in them, but there’s +nothing, nothing, nothing! no, don’t marry, my dear fellow; don’t +marry!” concluded prince andrew. + +“it seems funny to me,” said pierre, “that you, you should +consider yourself incapable and your life a spoiled life. you have +everything before you, everything. and you....” + +he did not finish his sentence, but his tone showed how highly he +thought of his friend and how much he expected of him in the future. + +“how can he talk like that?” thought pierre. he considered his +friend a model of perfection because prince andrew possessed in the +highest degree just the very qualities pierre lacked, and which might +be best described as strength of will. pierre was always astonished at +prince andrew’s calm manner of treating everybody, his extraordinary +memory, his extensive reading (he had read everything, knew everything, +and had an opinion about everything), but above all at his capacity for +work and study. and if pierre was often struck by andrew’s lack +of capacity for philosophical meditation (to which he himself was +particularly addicted), he regarded even this not as a defect but as a +sign of strength. + +even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise +and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels +that they may run smoothly. + +“my part is played out,” said prince andrew. “what’s the use of +talking about me? let us talk about you,” he added after a silence, +smiling at his reassuring thoughts. + +that smile was immediately reflected on pierre’s face. + +“but what is there to say about me?” said pierre, his face relaxing +into a careless, merry smile. “what am i? an illegitimate son!” +he suddenly blushed crimson, and it was plain that he had made a great +effort to say this. “without a name and without means... and it +really...” but he did not say what “it really” was. “for the +present i am free and am all right. only i haven’t the least idea what +i am to do; i wanted to consult you seriously.” + +prince andrew looked kindly at him, yet his glance—friendly and +affectionate as it was—expressed a sense of his own superiority. + +“i am fond of you, especially as you are the one live man among our +whole set. yes, you’re all right! choose what you will; it’s all the +same. you’ll be all right anywhere. but look here: give up visiting +those kurágins and leading that sort of life. it suits you so +badly—all this debauchery, dissipation, and the rest of it!” + +“what would you have, my dear fellow?” answered pierre, shrugging +his shoulders. “women, my dear fellow; women!” + +“i don’t understand it,” replied prince andrew. “women who are +comme il faut, that’s a different matter; but the kurágins’ set of +women, ‘women and wine’ i don’t understand!” + +pierre was staying at prince vasíli kurágin’s and sharing the +dissipated life of his son anatole, the son whom they were planning to +reform by marrying him to prince andrew’s sister. + +“do you know?” said pierre, as if suddenly struck by a happy +thought, “seriously, i have long been thinking of it.... leading such +a life i can’t decide or think properly about anything. one’s head +aches, and one spends all one’s money. he asked me for tonight, but i +won’t go.” + +“you give me your word of honor not to go?” + +“on my honor!” + + + + + +chapter ix + +it was past one o’clock when pierre left his friend. it was a +cloudless, northern, summer night. pierre took an open cab intending +to drive straight home. but the nearer he drew to the house the more he +felt the impossibility of going to sleep on such a night. it was light +enough to see a long way in the deserted street and it seemed more like +morning or evening than night. on the way pierre remembered that anatole +kurágin was expecting the usual set for cards that evening, after which +there was generally a drinking bout, finishing with visits of a kind +pierre was very fond of. + +“i should like to go to kurágin’s,” thought he. + +but he immediately recalled his promise to prince andrew not to go +there. then, as happens to people of weak character, he desired so +passionately once more to enjoy that dissipation he was so accustomed to +that he decided to go. the thought immediately occurred to him that his +promise to prince andrew was of no account, because before he gave it +he had already promised prince anatole to come to his gathering; +“besides,” thought he, “all such ‘words of honor’ are +conventional things with no definite meaning, especially if +one considers that by tomorrow one may be dead, or something so +extraordinary may happen to one that honor and dishonor will be all the +same!” pierre often indulged in reflections of this sort, nullifying +all his decisions and intentions. he went to kurágin’s. + +reaching the large house near the horse guards’ barracks, in which +anatole lived, pierre entered the lighted porch, ascended the stairs, +and went in at the open door. there was no one in the anteroom; empty +bottles, cloaks, and overshoes were lying about; there was a smell of +alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance. + +cards and supper were over, but the visitors had not yet dispersed. +pierre threw off his cloak and entered the first room, in which were the +remains of supper. a footman, thinking no one saw him, was drinking on +the sly what was left in the glasses. from the third room came sounds of +laughter, the shouting of familiar voices, the growling of a bear, and +general commotion. some eight or nine young men were crowding anxiously +round an open window. three others were romping with a young bear, one +pulling him by the chain and trying to set him at the others. + +“i bet a hundred on stevens!” shouted one. + +“mind, no holding on!” cried another. + +“i bet on dólokhov!” cried a third. “kurágin, you part our +hands.” + +“there, leave bruin alone; here’s a bet on.” + +“at one draught, or he loses!” shouted a fourth. + +“jacob, bring a bottle!” shouted the host, a tall, handsome fellow +who stood in the midst of the group, without a coat, and with his fine +linen shirt unfastened in front. “wait a bit, you fellows.... here is +pétya! good man!” cried he, addressing pierre. + +another voice, from a man of medium height with clear blue eyes, +particularly striking among all these drunken voices by its sober +ring, cried from the window: “come here; part the bets!” this was +dólokhov, an officer of the semënov regiment, a notorious gambler and +duelist, who was living with anatole. pierre smiled, looking about him +merrily. + +“i don’t understand. what’s it all about?” + +“wait a bit, he is not drunk yet! a bottle here,” said anatole, and +taking a glass from the table he went up to pierre. + +“first of all you must drink!” + +pierre drank one glass after another, looking from under his brows at +the tipsy guests who were again crowding round the window, and listening +to their chatter. anatole kept on refilling pierre’s glass while +explaining that dólokhov was betting with stevens, an english naval +officer, that he would drink a bottle of rum sitting on the outer ledge +of the third floor window with his legs hanging out. + +“go on, you must drink it all,” said anatole, giving pierre the last +glass, “or i won’t let you go!” + +“no, i won’t,” said pierre, pushing anatole aside, and he went up +to the window. + +dólokhov was holding the englishman’s hand and clearly and distinctly +repeating the terms of the bet, addressing himself particularly to +anatole and pierre. + +dólokhov was of medium height, with curly hair and light-blue eyes. he +was about twenty-five. like all infantry officers he wore no mustache, +so that his mouth, the most striking feature of his face, was clearly +seen. the lines of that mouth were remarkably finely curved. the middle +of the upper lip formed a sharp wedge and closed firmly on the firm +lower one, and something like two distinct smiles played continually +round the two corners of the mouth; this, together with the resolute, +insolent intelligence of his eyes, produced an effect which made it +impossible not to notice his face. dólokhov was a man of small means +and no connections. yet, though anatole spent tens of thousands of +rubles, dólokhov lived with him and had placed himself on such a +footing that all who knew them, including anatole himself, respected him +more than they did anatole. dólokhov could play all games and nearly +always won. however much he drank, he never lost his clearheadedness. +both kurágin and dólokhov were at that time notorious among the rakes +and scapegraces of petersburg. + +the bottle of rum was brought. the window frame which prevented anyone +from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who +were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of +the gentlemen around. + +anatole with his swaggering air strode up to the window. he wanted to +smash something. pushing away the footmen he tugged at the frame, but +could not move it. he smashed a pane. + +“you have a try, hercules,” said he, turning to pierre. + +pierre seized the crossbeam, tugged, and wrenched the oak frame out with +a crash. + +“take it right out, or they’ll think i’m holding on,” said +dólokhov. + +“is the englishman bragging?... eh? is it all right?” said anatole. + +“first-rate,” said pierre, looking at dólokhov, who with a bottle +of rum in his hand was approaching the window, from which the light of +the sky, the dawn merging with the afterglow of sunset, was visible. + +dólokhov, the bottle of rum still in his hand, jumped onto the window +sill. “listen!” cried he, standing there and addressing those in the +room. all were silent. + +“i bet fifty imperials”—he spoke french that the englishman might +understand him, but he did not speak it very well—“i bet fifty +imperials ... or do you wish to make it a hundred?” added he, +addressing the englishman. + +“no, fifty,” replied the latter. + +“all right. fifty imperials ... that i will drink a whole bottle of +rum without taking it from my mouth, sitting outside the window on this +spot” (he stooped and pointed to the sloping ledge outside the window) +“and without holding on to anything. is that right?” + +“quite right,” said the englishman. + +anatole turned to the englishman and taking him by one of the buttons +of his coat and looking down at him—the englishman was short—began +repeating the terms of the wager to him in english. + +“wait!” cried dólokhov, hammering with the bottle on the window +sill to attract attention. “wait a bit, kurágin. listen! if +anyone else does the same, i will pay him a hundred imperials. do you +understand?” + +the englishman nodded, but gave no indication whether he intended to +accept this challenge or not. anatole did not release him, and though +he kept nodding to show that he understood, anatole went on translating +dólokhov’s words into english. a thin young lad, an hussar of the +life guards, who had been losing that evening, climbed on the window +sill, leaned over, and looked down. + +“oh! oh! oh!” he muttered, looking down from the window at the +stones of the pavement. + +“shut up!” cried dólokhov, pushing him away from the window. the +lad jumped awkwardly back into the room, tripping over his spurs. + +placing the bottle on the window sill where he could reach it easily, +dólokhov climbed carefully and slowly through the window and lowered +his legs. pressing against both sides of the window, he adjusted himself +on his seat, lowered his hands, moved a little to the right and then to +the left, and took up the bottle. anatole brought two candles and +placed them on the window sill, though it was already quite light. +dólokhov’s back in his white shirt, and his curly head, were lit +up from both sides. everyone crowded to the window, the englishman in +front. pierre stood smiling but silent. one man, older than the others +present, suddenly pushed forward with a scared and angry look and wanted +to seize hold of dólokhov’s shirt. + +“i say, this is folly! he’ll be killed,” said this more sensible +man. + +anatole stopped him. + +“don’t touch him! you’ll startle him and then he’ll be killed. +eh?... what then?... eh?” + +dólokhov turned round and, again holding on with both hands, arranged +himself on his seat. + +“if anyone comes meddling again,” said he, emitting the words +separately through his thin compressed lips, “i will throw him down +there. now then!” + +saying this he again turned round, dropped his hands, took the bottle +and lifted it to his lips, threw back his head, and raised his free hand +to balance himself. one of the footmen who had stooped to pick up some +broken glass remained in that position without taking his eyes from the +window and from dólokhov’s back. anatole stood erect with staring +eyes. the englishman looked on sideways, pursing up his lips. the man +who had wished to stop the affair ran to a corner of the room and threw +himself on a sofa with his face to the wall. pierre hid his face, from +which a faint smile forgot to fade though his features now expressed +horror and fear. all were still. pierre took his hands from his eyes. +dólokhov still sat in the same position, only his head was thrown +further back till his curly hair touched his shirt collar, and the hand +holding the bottle was lifted higher and higher and trembled with the +effort. the bottle was emptying perceptibly and rising still higher +and his head tilting yet further back. “why is it so long?” thought +pierre. it seemed to him that more than half an hour had elapsed. +suddenly dólokhov made a backward movement with his spine, and his arm +trembled nervously; this was sufficient to cause his whole body to slip +as he sat on the sloping ledge. as he began slipping down, his head and +arm wavered still more with the strain. one hand moved as if to clutch +the window sill, but refrained from touching it. pierre again covered +his eyes and thought he would never open them again. suddenly he was +aware of a stir all around. he looked up: dólokhov was standing on the +window sill, with a pale but radiant face. + +“it’s empty.” + +he threw the bottle to the englishman, who caught it neatly. dólokhov +jumped down. he smelt strongly of rum. + +“well done!... fine fellow!... there’s a bet for you!... devil take +you!” came from different sides. + +the englishman took out his purse and began counting out the money. +dólokhov stood frowning and did not speak. pierre jumped upon the +window sill. + +“gentlemen, who wishes to bet with me? i’ll do the same thing!” +he suddenly cried. “even without a bet, there! tell them to bring me a +bottle. i’ll do it.... bring a bottle!” + +“let him do it, let him do it,” said dólokhov, smiling. + +“what next? have you gone mad?... no one would let you!... why, you go +giddy even on a staircase,” exclaimed several voices. + +“i’ll drink it! let’s have a bottle of rum!” shouted pierre, +banging the table with a determined and drunken gesture and preparing to +climb out of the window. + +they seized him by his arms; but he was so strong that everyone who +touched him was sent flying. + +“no, you’ll never manage him that way,” said anatole. “wait a +bit and i’ll get round him.... listen! i’ll take your bet tomorrow, +but now we are all going to ——’s.” + +“come on then,” cried pierre. “come on!... and we’ll take bruin +with us.” + +and he caught the bear, took it in his arms, lifted it from the ground, +and began dancing round the room with it. + + + + + +chapter x + +prince vasíli kept the promise he had given to princess drubetskáya +who had spoken to him on behalf of her only son borís on the evening of +anna pávlovna’s soiree. the matter was mentioned to the emperor, an +exception made, and borís transferred into the regiment of semënov +guards with the rank of cornet. he received, however, no appointment +to kutúzov’s staff despite all anna mikháylovna’s endeavors and +entreaties. soon after anna pávlovna’s reception anna mikháylovna +returned to moscow and went straight to her rich relations, the +rostóvs, with whom she stayed when in the town and where her darling +bóry, who had only just entered a regiment of the line and was being +at once transferred to the guards as a cornet, had been educated from +childhood and lived for years at a time. the guards had already left +petersburg on the tenth of august, and her son, who had remained in +moscow for his equipment, was to join them on the march to radzivílov. + +it was st. natalia’s day and the name day of two of the rostóvs—the +mother and the youngest daughter—both named nataly. ever since +the morning, carriages with six horses had been coming and going +continually, bringing visitors to the countess rostóva’s big house on +the povarskáya, so well known to all moscow. the countess herself and +her handsome eldest daughter were in the drawing room with the visitors +who came to congratulate, and who constantly succeeded one another in +relays. + +the countess was a woman of about forty-five, with a thin oriental type +of face, evidently worn out with childbearing—she had had twelve. +a languor of motion and speech, resulting from weakness, gave her a +distinguished air which inspired respect. princess anna mikháylovna +drubetskáya, who as a member of the household was also seated in the +drawing room, helped to receive and entertain the visitors. the young +people were in one of the inner rooms, not considering it necessary to +take part in receiving the visitors. the count met the guests and saw +them off, inviting them all to dinner. + +“i am very, very grateful to you, mon cher,” or “ma chère”—he +called everyone without exception and without the slightest variation +in his tone, “my dear,” whether they were above or below him in +rank—“i thank you for myself and for our two dear ones whose name +day we are keeping. but mind you come to dinner or i shall be offended, +ma chère! on behalf of the whole family i beg you to come, mon cher!” +these words he repeated to everyone without exception or variation, and +with the same expression on his full, cheerful, clean-shaven face, the +same firm pressure of the hand and the same quick, repeated bows. as +soon as he had seen a visitor off he returned to one of those who were +still in the drawing room, drew a chair toward him or her, and jauntily +spreading out his legs and putting his hands on his knees with the air +of a man who enjoys life and knows how to live, he swayed to and +fro with dignity, offered surmises about the weather, or touched on +questions of health, sometimes in russian and sometimes in very bad but +self-confident french; then again, like a man weary but unflinching in +the fulfillment of duty, he rose to see some visitors off and, stroking +his scanty gray hairs over his bald patch, also asked them to dinner. +sometimes on his way back from the anteroom he would pass through the +conservatory and pantry into the large marble dining hall, where tables +were being set out for eighty people; and looking at the footmen, who +were bringing in silver and china, moving tables, and unfolding damask +table linen, he would call dmítri vasílevich, a man of good family and +the manager of all his affairs, and while looking with pleasure at the +enormous table would say: “well, dmítri, you’ll see that things are +all as they should be? that’s right! the great thing is the serving, +that’s it.” and with a complacent sigh he would return to the +drawing room. + +“márya lvóvna karágina and her daughter!” announced the +countess’ gigantic footman in his bass voice, entering the drawing +room. the countess reflected a moment and took a pinch from a gold +snuffbox with her husband’s portrait on it. + +“i’m quite worn out by these callers. however, i’ll see her and +no more. she is so affected. ask her in,” she said to the footman in a +sad voice, as if saying: “very well, finish me off.” + +a tall, stout, and proud-looking woman, with a round-faced smiling +daughter, entered the drawing room, their dresses rustling. + +“dear countess, what an age... she has been laid up, poor child ... +at the razumóvski’s ball ... and countess apráksina ... i was +so delighted...” came the sounds of animated feminine voices, +interrupting one another and mingling with the rustling of dresses and +the scraping of chairs. then one of those conversations began which last +out until, at the first pause, the guests rise with a rustle of dresses +and say, “i am so delighted... mamma’s health... and countess +apráksina...” and then, again rustling, pass into the anteroom, put +on cloaks or mantles, and drive away. the conversation was on the chief +topic of the day: the illness of the wealthy and celebrated beau of +catherine’s day, count bezúkhov, and about his illegitimate son +pierre, the one who had behaved so improperly at anna pávlovna’s +reception. + +“i am so sorry for the poor count,” said the visitor. “he is in +such bad health, and now this vexation about his son is enough to kill +him!” + +“what is that?” asked the countess as if she did not know what the +visitor alluded to, though she had already heard about the cause of +count bezúkhov’s distress some fifteen times. + +“that’s what comes of a modern education,” exclaimed the visitor. +“it seems that while he was abroad this young man was allowed to do +as he liked, now in petersburg i hear he has been doing such terrible +things that he has been expelled by the police.” + +“you don’t say so!” replied the countess. + +“he chose his friends badly,” interposed anna mikháylovna. +“prince vasíli’s son, he, and a certain dólokhov have, it is said, +been up to heaven only knows what! and they have had to suffer for it. +dólokhov has been degraded to the ranks and bezúkhov’s son sent +back to moscow. anatole kurágin’s father managed somehow to get his +son’s affair hushed up, but even he was ordered out of petersburg.” + +“but what have they been up to?” asked the countess. + +“they are regular brigands, especially dólokhov,” replied the +visitor. “he is a son of márya ivánovna dólokhova, such a worthy +woman, but there, just fancy! those three got hold of a bear somewhere, +put it in a carriage, and set off with it to visit some actresses! the +police tried to interfere, and what did the young men do? they tied +a policeman and the bear back to back and put the bear into the moyka +canal. and there was the bear swimming about with the policeman on his +back!” + +“what a nice figure the policeman must have cut, my dear!” shouted +the count, dying with laughter. + +“oh, how dreadful! how can you laugh at it, count?” + +yet the ladies themselves could not help laughing. + +“it was all they could do to rescue the poor man,” continued the +visitor. “and to think it is cyril vladímirovich bezúkhov’s son +who amuses himself in this sensible manner! and he was said to be so +well educated and clever. this is all that his foreign education has +done for him! i hope that here in moscow no one will receive him, in +spite of his money. they wanted to introduce him to me, but i quite +declined: i have my daughters to consider.” + +“why do you say this young man is so rich?” asked the countess, +turning away from the girls, who at once assumed an air of inattention. +“his children are all illegitimate. i think pierre also is +illegitimate.” + +the visitor made a gesture with her hand. + +“i should think he has a score of them.” + +princess anna mikháylovna intervened in the conversation, evidently +wishing to show her connections and knowledge of what went on in +society. + +“the fact of the matter is,” said she significantly, and also in a +half whisper, “everyone knows count cyril’s reputation.... he has +lost count of his children, but this pierre was his favorite.” + +“how handsome the old man still was only a year ago!” remarked the +countess. “i have never seen a handsomer man.” + +“he is very much altered now,” said anna mikháylovna. “well, as +i was saying, prince vasíli is the next heir through his wife, but the +count is very fond of pierre, looked after his education, and wrote to +the emperor about him; so that in the case of his death—and he is +so ill that he may die at any moment, and dr. lorrain has come from +petersburg—no one knows who will inherit his immense fortune, pierre +or prince vasíli. forty thousand serfs and millions of rubles! i know +it all very well for prince vasíli told me himself. besides, cyril +vladímirovich is my mother’s second cousin. he’s also my bóry’s +godfather,” she added, as if she attached no importance at all to the +fact. + +“prince vasíli arrived in moscow yesterday. i hear he has come on +some inspection business,” remarked the visitor. + +“yes, but between ourselves,” said the princess, “that is a +pretext. the fact is he has come to see count cyril vladímirovich, +hearing how ill he is.” + +“but do you know, my dear, that was a capital joke,” said the count; +and seeing that the elder visitor was not listening, he turned to the +young ladies. “i can just imagine what a funny figure that policeman +cut!” + +and as he waved his arms to impersonate the policeman, his portly form +again shook with a deep ringing laugh, the laugh of one who always eats +well and, in particular, drinks well. “so do come and dine with us!” +he said. + + + + + +chapter xi + +silence ensued. the countess looked at her callers, smiling affably, +but not concealing the fact that she would not be distressed if they +now rose and took their leave. the visitor’s daughter was already +smoothing down her dress with an inquiring look at her mother, when +suddenly from the next room were heard the footsteps of boys and girls +running to the door and the noise of a chair falling over, and a girl +of thirteen, hiding something in the folds of her short muslin frock, +darted in and stopped short in the middle of the room. it was evident +that she had not intended her flight to bring her so far. behind her in +the doorway appeared a student with a crimson coat collar, an officer +of the guards, a girl of fifteen, and a plump rosy-faced boy in a short +jacket. + +the count jumped up and, swaying from side to side, spread his arms wide +and threw them round the little girl who had run in. + +“ah, here she is!” he exclaimed laughing. “my pet, whose name day +it is. my dear pet!” + +“ma chère, there is a time for everything,” said the countess with +feigned severity. “you spoil her, ilyá,” she added, turning to her +husband. + +“how do you do, my dear? i wish you many happy returns of your name +day,” said the visitor. “what a charming child,” she added, +addressing the mother. + +this black-eyed, wide-mouthed girl, not pretty but full of life—with +childish bare shoulders which after her run heaved and shook her +bodice, with black curls tossed backward, thin bare arms, little legs +in lace-frilled drawers, and feet in low slippers—was just at that +charming age when a girl is no longer a child, though the child is not +yet a young woman. escaping from her father she ran to hide her flushed +face in the lace of her mother’s mantilla—not paying the least +attention to her severe remark—and began to laugh. she laughed, and in +fragmentary sentences tried to explain about a doll which she produced +from the folds of her frock. + +“do you see?... my doll... mimi... you see...” was all natásha +managed to utter (to her everything seemed funny). she leaned against +her mother and burst into such a loud, ringing fit of laughter that even +the prim visitor could not help joining in. + +“now then, go away and take your monstrosity with you,” said the +mother, pushing away her daughter with pretended sternness, and turning +to the visitor she added: “she is my youngest girl.” + +natásha, raising her face for a moment from her mother’s mantilla, +glanced up at her through tears of laughter, and again hid her face. + +the visitor, compelled to look on at this family scene, thought it +necessary to take some part in it. + +“tell me, my dear,” said she to natásha, “is mimi a relation of +yours? a daughter, i suppose?” + +natásha did not like the visitor’s tone of condescension to childish +things. she did not reply, but looked at her seriously. + +meanwhile the younger generation: borís, the officer, anna +mikháylovna’s son; nicholas, the undergraduate, the count’s eldest +son; sónya, the count’s fifteen-year-old niece, and little pétya, +his youngest boy, had all settled down in the drawing room and were +obviously trying to restrain within the bounds of decorum the excitement +and mirth that shone in all their faces. evidently in the back rooms, +from which they had dashed out so impetuously, the conversation had +been more amusing than the drawing room talk of society scandals, the +weather, and countess apráksina. now and then they glanced at one +another, hardly able to suppress their laughter. + +the two young men, the student and the officer, friends from childhood, +were of the same age and both handsome fellows, though not alike. borís +was tall and fair, and his calm and handsome face had regular, delicate +features. nicholas was short with curly hair and an open expression. +dark hairs were already showing on his upper lip, and his whole face +expressed impetuosity and enthusiasm. nicholas blushed when he entered +the drawing room. he evidently tried to find something to say, but +failed. borís on the contrary at once found his footing, and related +quietly and humorously how he had known that doll mimi when she was +still quite a young lady, before her nose was broken; how she had aged +during the five years he had known her, and how her head had cracked +right across the skull. having said this he glanced at natásha. +she turned away from him and glanced at her younger brother, who was +screwing up his eyes and shaking with suppressed laughter, and unable +to control herself any longer, she jumped up and rushed from the room as +fast as her nimble little feet would carry her. borís did not laugh. + +“you were meaning to go out, weren’t you, mamma? do you want the +carriage?” he asked his mother with a smile. + +“yes, yes, go and tell them to get it ready,” she answered, +returning his smile. + +borís quietly left the room and went in search of natásha. the plump +boy ran after them angrily, as if vexed that their program had been +disturbed. + + + + + +chapter xii + +the only young people remaining in the drawing room, not counting the +young lady visitor and the countess’ eldest daughter (who was four +years older than her sister and behaved already like a grown-up person), +were nicholas and sónya, the niece. sónya was a slender little +brunette with a tender look in her eyes which were veiled by long +lashes, thick black plaits coiling twice round her head, and a tawny +tint in her complexion and especially in the color of her slender but +graceful and muscular arms and neck. by the grace of her movements, +by the softness and flexibility of her small limbs, and by a certain +coyness and reserve of manner, she reminded one of a pretty, half-grown +kitten which promises to become a beautiful little cat. she evidently +considered it proper to show an interest in the general conversation by +smiling, but in spite of herself her eyes under their thick long lashes +watched her cousin who was going to join the army, with such passionate +girlish adoration that her smile could not for a single instant impose +upon anyone, and it was clear that the kitten had settled down only to +spring up with more energy and again play with her cousin as soon as +they too could, like natásha and borís, escape from the drawing room. + +“ah yes, my dear,” said the count, addressing the visitor and +pointing to nicholas, “his friend borís has become an officer, and +so for friendship’s sake he is leaving the university and me, his +old father, and entering the military service, my dear. and there was a +place and everything waiting for him in the archives department! isn’t +that friendship?” remarked the count in an inquiring tone. + +“but they say that war has been declared,” replied the visitor. + +“they’ve been saying so a long while,” said the count, “and +they’ll say so again and again, and that will be the end of it. my +dear, there’s friendship for you,” he repeated. “he’s joining +the hussars.” + +the visitor, not knowing what to say, shook her head. + +“it’s not at all from friendship,” declared nicholas, flaring +up and turning away as if from a shameful aspersion. “it is not from +friendship at all; i simply feel that the army is my vocation.” + +he glanced at his cousin and the young lady visitor; and they were both +regarding him with a smile of approbation. + +“schubert, the colonel of the pávlograd hussars, is dining with us +today. he has been here on leave and is taking nicholas back with him. +it can’t be helped!” said the count, shrugging his shoulders and +speaking playfully of a matter that evidently distressed him. + +“i have already told you, papa,” said his son, “that if you +don’t wish to let me go, i’ll stay. but i know i am no use anywhere +except in the army; i am not a diplomat or a government clerk.—i +don’t know how to hide what i feel.” as he spoke he kept glancing +with the flirtatiousness of a handsome youth at sónya and the young +lady visitor. + +the little kitten, feasting her eyes on him, seemed ready at any moment +to start her gambols again and display her kittenish nature. + +“all right, all right!” said the old count. “he always flares up! +this buonaparte has turned all their heads; they all think of how he +rose from an ensign and became emperor. well, well, god grant it,” he +added, not noticing his visitor’s sarcastic smile. + +the elders began talking about bonaparte. julie karágina turned to +young rostóv. + +“what a pity you weren’t at the arkhárovs’ on thursday. it was so +dull without you,” said she, giving him a tender smile. + +the young man, flattered, sat down nearer to her with a coquettish +smile, and engaged the smiling julie in a confidential conversation +without at all noticing that his involuntary smile had stabbed the heart +of sónya, who blushed and smiled unnaturally. in the midst of his talk +he glanced round at her. she gave him a passionately angry glance, and +hardly able to restrain her tears and maintain the artificial smile +on her lips, she got up and left the room. all nicholas’ animation +vanished. he waited for the first pause in the conversation, and then +with a distressed face left the room to find sónya. + +“how plainly all these young people wear their hearts on their +sleeves!” said anna mikháylovna, pointing to nicholas as he went out. +“cousinage—dangereux voisinage,” * she added. + + * cousinhood is a dangerous neighborhood. + +“yes,” said the countess when the brightness these young people had +brought into the room had vanished; and as if answering a question no +one had put but which was always in her mind, “and how much suffering, +how much anxiety one has had to go through that we might rejoice in +them now! and yet really the anxiety is greater now than the joy. one is +always, always anxious! especially just at this age, so dangerous both +for girls and boys.” + +“it all depends on the bringing up,” remarked the visitor. + +“yes, you’re quite right,” continued the countess. “till now i +have always, thank god, been my children’s friend and had their full +confidence,” said she, repeating the mistake of so many parents who +imagine that their children have no secrets from them. “i know i shall +always be my daughters’ first confidante, and that if nicholas, with +his impulsive nature, does get into mischief (a boy can’t help it), he +will all the same never be like those petersburg young men.” + +“yes, they are splendid, splendid youngsters,” chimed in the count, +who always solved questions that seemed to him perplexing by deciding +that everything was splendid. “just fancy: wants to be an hussar. +what’s one to do, my dear?” + +“what a charming creature your younger girl is,” said the visitor; +“a little volcano!” + +“yes, a regular volcano,” said the count. “takes after me! and +what a voice she has; though she’s my daughter, i tell the truth +when i say she’ll be a singer, a second salomoni! we have engaged an +italian to give her lessons.” + +“isn’t she too young? i have heard that it harms the voice to train +it at that age.” + +“oh no, not at all too young!” replied the count. “why, our +mothers used to be married at twelve or thirteen.” + +“and she’s in love with borís already. just fancy!” said the +countess with a gentle smile, looking at borís and went on, evidently +concerned with a thought that always occupied her: “now you see if i +were to be severe with her and to forbid it ... goodness knows what they +might be up to on the sly” (she meant that they would be kissing), +“but as it is, i know every word she utters. she will come running to +me of her own accord in the evening and tell me everything. perhaps i +spoil her, but really that seems the best plan. with her elder sister i +was stricter.” + +“yes, i was brought up quite differently,” remarked the handsome +elder daughter, countess véra, with a smile. + +but the smile did not enhance véra’s beauty as smiles generally do; +on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, +expression. véra was good-looking, not at all stupid, quick at +learning, was well brought up, and had a pleasant voice; what she said +was true and appropriate, yet, strange to say, everyone—the visitors +and countess alike—turned to look at her as if wondering why she had +said it, and they all felt awkward. + +“people are always too clever with their eldest children and try to +make something exceptional of them,” said the visitor. + +“what’s the good of denying it, my dear? our dear countess was too +clever with véra,” said the count. “well, what of that? she’s +turned out splendidly all the same,” he added, winking at véra. + +the guests got up and took their leave, promising to return to dinner. + +“what manners! i thought they would never go,” said the countess, +when she had seen her guests out. + + + + + +chapter xiii + +when natásha ran out of the drawing room she only went as far as the +conservatory. there she paused and stood listening to the conversation +in the drawing room, waiting for borís to come out. she was already +growing impatient, and stamped her foot, ready to cry at his not coming +at once, when she heard the young man’s discreet steps approaching +neither quickly nor slowly. at this natásha dashed swiftly among the +flower tubs and hid there. + +borís paused in the middle of the room, looked round, brushed a little +dust from the sleeve of his uniform, and going up to a mirror examined +his handsome face. natásha, very still, peered out from her ambush, +waiting to see what he would do. he stood a little while before the +glass, smiled, and walked toward the other door. natásha was about to +call him but changed her mind. “let him look for me,” thought she. +hardly had borís gone than sónya, flushed, in tears, and muttering +angrily, came in at the other door. natásha checked her first impulse +to run out to her, and remained in her hiding place, watching—as +under an invisible cap—to see what went on in the world. she was +experiencing a new and peculiar pleasure. sónya, muttering to herself, +kept looking round toward the drawing room door. it opened and nicholas +came in. + +“sónya, what is the matter with you? how can you?” said he, running +up to her. + +“it’s nothing, nothing; leave me alone!” sobbed sónya. + +“ah, i know what it is.” + +“well, if you do, so much the better, and you can go back to her!” + +“só-o-onya! look here! how can you torture me and yourself like that, +for a mere fancy?” said nicholas taking her hand. + +sónya did not pull it away, and left off crying. natásha, not stirring +and scarcely breathing, watched from her ambush with sparkling eyes. +“what will happen now?” thought she. + +“sónya! what is anyone in the world to me? you alone are +everything!” said nicholas. “and i will prove it to you.” + +“i don’t like you to talk like that.” + +“well, then, i won’t; only forgive me, sónya!” he drew her to him +and kissed her. + +“oh, how nice,” thought natásha; and when sónya and nicholas had +gone out of the conservatory she followed and called borís to her. + +“borís, come here,” said she with a sly and significant look. “i +have something to tell you. here, here!” and she led him into the +conservatory to the place among the tubs where she had been hiding. + +borís followed her, smiling. + +“what is the something?” asked he. + +she grew confused, glanced round, and, seeing the doll she had thrown +down on one of the tubs, picked it up. + +“kiss the doll,” said she. + +borís looked attentively and kindly at her eager face, but did not +reply. + +“don’t you want to? well, then, come here,” said she, and +went further in among the plants and threw down the doll. “closer, +closer!” she whispered. + +she caught the young officer by his cuffs, and a look of solemnity and +fear appeared on her flushed face. + +“and me? would you like to kiss me?” she whispered almost inaudibly, +glancing up at him from under her brows, smiling, and almost crying from +excitement. + +borís blushed. + +“how funny you are!” he said, bending down to her and blushing still +more, but he waited and did nothing. + +suddenly she jumped up onto a tub to be higher than he, embraced him so +that both her slender bare arms clasped him above his neck, and, tossing +back her hair, kissed him full on the lips. + +then she slipped down among the flowerpots on the other side of the tubs +and stood, hanging her head. + +“natásha,” he said, “you know that i love you, but....” + +“you are in love with me?” natásha broke in. + +“yes, i am, but please don’t let us do like that.... in another four +years ... then i will ask for your hand.” + +natásha considered. + +“thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,” she counted on her slender +little fingers. “all right! then it’s settled?” + +a smile of joy and satisfaction lit up her eager face. + +“settled!” replied borís. + +“forever?” said the little girl. “till death itself?” + +she took his arm and with a happy face went with him into the adjoining +sitting room. + + + + + +chapter xiv + +after receiving her visitors, the countess was so tired that she gave +orders to admit no more, but the porter was told to be sure to invite to +dinner all who came “to congratulate.” the countess wished to have +a tête-à-tête talk with the friend of her childhood, princess anna +mikháylovna, whom she had not seen properly since she returned from +petersburg. anna mikháylovna, with her tear-worn but pleasant face, +drew her chair nearer to that of the countess. + +“with you i will be quite frank,” said anna mikháylovna. “there +are not many left of us old friends! that’s why i so value your +friendship.” + +anna mikháylovna looked at véra and paused. the countess pressed her +friend’s hand. + +“véra,” she said to her eldest daughter who was evidently not a +favorite, “how is it you have so little tact? don’t you see you are +not wanted here? go to the other girls, or...” + +the handsome véra smiled contemptuously but did not seem at all hurt. + +“if you had told me sooner, mamma, i would have gone,” she replied +as she rose to go to her own room. + +but as she passed the sitting room she noticed two couples sitting, +one pair at each window. she stopped and smiled scornfully. sónya was +sitting close to nicholas who was copying out some verses for her, the +first he had ever written. borís and natásha were at the other window +and ceased talking when véra entered. sónya and natásha looked at +véra with guilty, happy faces. + +it was pleasant and touching to see these little girls in love; but +apparently the sight of them roused no pleasant feeling in véra. + +“how often have i asked you not to take my things?” she said. “you +have a room of your own,” and she took the inkstand from nicholas. + +“in a minute, in a minute,” he said, dipping his pen. + +“you always manage to do things at the wrong time,” continued véra. +“you came rushing into the drawing room so that everyone felt ashamed +of you.” + +though what she said was quite just, perhaps for that very reason no one +replied, and the four simply looked at one another. she lingered in the +room with the inkstand in her hand. + +“and at your age what secrets can there be between natásha and +borís, or between you two? it’s all nonsense!” + +“now, véra, what does it matter to you?” said natásha in defense, +speaking very gently. + +she seemed that day to be more than ever kind and affectionate to +everyone. + +“very silly,” said véra. “i am ashamed of you. secrets indeed!” + +“all have secrets of their own,” answered natásha, getting warmer. +“we don’t interfere with you and berg.” + +“i should think not,” said véra, “because there can never be +anything wrong in my behavior. but i’ll just tell mamma how you are +behaving with borís.” + +“natálya ilyníchna behaves very well to me,” remarked borís. “i +have nothing to complain of.” + +“don’t, borís! you are such a diplomat that it is really +tiresome,” said natásha in a mortified voice that trembled slightly. +(she used the word “diplomat,” which was just then much in vogue +among the children, in the special sense they attached to it.) “why +does she bother me?” and she added, turning to véra, “you’ll +never understand it, because you’ve never loved anyone. you have no +heart! you are a madame de genlis and nothing more” (this nickname, +bestowed on véra by nicholas, was considered very stinging), “and +your greatest pleasure is to be unpleasant to people! go and flirt with +berg as much as you please,” she finished quickly. + +“i shall at any rate not run after a young man before visitors...” + +“well, now you’ve done what you wanted,” put in nicholas—“said +unpleasant things to everyone and upset them. let’s go to the +nursery.” + +all four, like a flock of scared birds, got up and left the room. + +“the unpleasant things were said to me,” remarked véra, “i said +none to anyone.” + +“madame de genlis! madame de genlis!” shouted laughing voices +through the door. + +the handsome véra, who produced such an irritating and unpleasant +effect on everyone, smiled and, evidently unmoved by what had been +said to her, went to the looking glass and arranged her hair and scarf. +looking at her own handsome face she seemed to become still colder and +calmer. + + +in the drawing room the conversation was still going on. + +“ah, my dear,” said the countess, “my life is not all roses +either. don’t i know that at the rate we are living our means won’t +last long? it’s all the club and his easygoing nature. even in the +country do we get any rest? theatricals, hunting, and heaven knows what +besides! but don’t let’s talk about me; tell me how you managed +everything. i often wonder at you, annette—how at your age you +can rush off alone in a carriage to moscow, to petersburg, to those +ministers and great people, and know how to deal with them all! it’s +quite astonishing. how did you get things settled? i couldn’t possibly +do it.” + +“ah, my love,” answered anna mikháylovna, “god grant you never +know what it is to be left a widow without means and with a son you love +to distraction! one learns many things then,” she added with a certain +pride. “that lawsuit taught me much. when i want to see one of those +big people i write a note: ‘princess so-and-so desires an interview +with so and-so,’ and then i take a cab and go myself two, three, or +four times—till i get what i want. i don’t mind what they think of +me.” + +“well, and to whom did you apply about bóry?” asked the countess. +“you see yours is already an officer in the guards, while my nicholas +is going as a cadet. there’s no one to interest himself for him. to +whom did you apply?” + +“to prince vasíli. he was so kind. he at once agreed to everything, +and put the matter before the emperor,” said princess anna +mikháylovna enthusiastically, quite forgetting all the humiliation she +had endured to gain her end. + +“has prince vasíli aged much?” asked the countess. “i have not +seen him since we acted together at the rumyántsovs’ theatricals. i +expect he has forgotten me. he paid me attentions in those days,” said +the countess, with a smile. + +“he is just the same as ever,” replied anna mikháylovna, +“overflowing with amiability. his position has not turned his head +at all. he said to me, ‘i am sorry i can do so little for you, dear +princess. i am at your command.’ yes, he is a fine fellow and a very +kind relation. but, nataly, you know my love for my son: i would do +anything for his happiness! and my affairs are in such a bad way that my +position is now a terrible one,” continued anna mikháylovna, sadly, +dropping her voice. “my wretched lawsuit takes all i have and makes no +progress. would you believe it, i have literally not a penny and don’t +know how to equip borís.” she took out her handkerchief and began to +cry. “i need five hundred rubles, and have only one twenty-five-ruble +note. i am in such a state.... my only hope now is in count cyril +vladímirovich bezúkhov. if he will not assist his godson—you know +he is bóry’s godfather—and allow him something for his maintenance, +all my trouble will have been thrown away.... i shall not be able to +equip him.” + +the countess’ eyes filled with tears and she pondered in silence. + +“i often think, though, perhaps it’s a sin,” said the princess, +“that here lives count cyril vladímirovich bezúkhov so rich, all +alone... that tremendous fortune... and what is his life worth? it’s a +burden to him, and bóry’s life is only just beginning....” + +“surely he will leave something to borís,” said the countess. + +“heaven only knows, my dear! these rich grandees are so selfish. +still, i will take borís and go to see him at once, and i shall speak +to him straight out. let people think what they will of me, it’s +really all the same to me when my son’s fate is at stake.” the +princess rose. “it’s now two o’clock and you dine at four. there +will just be time.” + +and like a practical petersburg lady who knows how to make the most of +time, anna mikháylovna sent someone to call her son, and went into the +anteroom with him. + +“good-by, my dear,” said she to the countess who saw her to the +door, and added in a whisper so that her son should not hear, “wish me +good luck.” + +“are you going to count cyril vladímirovich, my dear?” said the +count coming out from the dining hall into the anteroom, and he added: +“if he is better, ask pierre to dine with us. he has been to the +house, you know, and danced with the children. be sure to invite him, my +dear. we will see how tarás distinguishes himself today. he says count +orlóv never gave such a dinner as ours will be!” + + + + + +chapter xv + +“my dear borís,” said princess anna mikháylovna to her son as +countess rostóva’s carriage in which they were seated drove over the +straw covered street and turned into the wide courtyard of count cyril +vladímirovich bezúkhov’s house. “my dear borís,” said the +mother, drawing her hand from beneath her old mantle and laying +it timidly and tenderly on her son’s arm, “be affectionate and +attentive to him. count cyril vladímirovich is your godfather after +all, and your future depends on him. remember that, my dear, and be nice +to him, as you so well know how to be.” + +“if only i knew that anything besides humiliation would come of +it...” answered her son coldly. “but i have promised and will do it +for your sake.” + +although the hall porter saw someone’s carriage standing at the +entrance, after scrutinizing the mother and son (who without asking to +be announced had passed straight through the glass porch between the +rows of statues in niches) and looking significantly at the lady’s old +cloak, he asked whether they wanted the count or the princesses, and, +hearing that they wished to see the count, said his excellency was worse +today, and that his excellency was not receiving anyone. + +“we may as well go back,” said the son in french. + +“my dear!” exclaimed his mother imploringly, again laying her hand +on his arm as if that touch might soothe or rouse him. + +borís said no more, but looked inquiringly at his mother without taking +off his cloak. + +“my friend,” said anna mikháylovna in gentle tones, addressing +the hall porter, “i know count cyril vladímirovich is very ill... +that’s why i have come... i am a relation. i shall not disturb him, +my friend... i only need see prince vasíli sergéevich: he is staying +here, is he not? please announce me.” + +the hall porter sullenly pulled a bell that rang upstairs, and turned +away. + +“princess drubetskáya to see prince vasíli sergéevich,” he called +to a footman dressed in knee breeches, shoes, and a swallow-tail coat, +who ran downstairs and looked over from the halfway landing. + +the mother smoothed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large +venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly +ascended the carpeted stairs. + +“my dear,” she said to her son, once more stimulating him by a +touch, “you promised me!” + +the son, lowering his eyes, followed her quietly. + +they entered the large hall, from which one of the doors led to the +apartments assigned to prince vasíli. + +just as the mother and son, having reached the middle of the hall, were +about to ask their way of an elderly footman who had sprung up as they +entered, the bronze handle of one of the doors turned and prince vasíli +came out—wearing a velvet coat with a single star on his breast, +as was his custom when at home—taking leave of a good-looking, +dark-haired man. this was the celebrated petersburg doctor, lorrain. + +“then it is certain?” said the prince. + +“prince, humanum est errare, * but...” replied the doctor, +swallowing his r’s, and pronouncing the latin words with a french +accent. + + * to err is human. + +“very well, very well...” + +seeing anna mikháylovna and her son, prince vasíli dismissed the +doctor with a bow and approached them silently and with a look of +inquiry. the son noticed that an expression of profound sorrow suddenly +clouded his mother’s face, and he smiled slightly. + +“ah, prince! in what sad circumstances we meet again! and how is our +dear invalid?” said she, as though unaware of the cold offensive look +fixed on her. + +prince vasíli stared at her and at borís questioningly and perplexed. +borís bowed politely. prince vasíli without acknowledging the bow +turned to anna mikháylovna, answering her query by a movement of the +head and lips indicating very little hope for the patient. + +“is it possible?” exclaimed anna mikháylovna. “oh, how awful! +it is terrible to think.... this is my son,” she added, indicating +borís. “he wanted to thank you himself.” + +borís bowed again politely. + +“believe me, prince, a mother’s heart will never forget what you +have done for us.” + +“i am glad i was able to do you a service, my dear anna +mikháylovna,” said prince vasíli, arranging his lace frill, and in +tone and manner, here in moscow to anna mikháylovna whom he had placed +under an obligation, assuming an air of much greater importance than he +had done in petersburg at anna schérer’s reception. + +“try to serve well and show yourself worthy,” added he, addressing +borís with severity. “i am glad.... are you here on leave?” he went +on in his usual tone of indifference. + +“i am awaiting orders to join my new regiment, your excellency,” +replied borís, betraying neither annoyance at the prince’s brusque +manner nor a desire to enter into conversation, but speaking so quietly +and respectfully that the prince gave him a searching glance. + +“are you living with your mother?” + +“i am living at countess rostóva’s,” replied borís, again +adding, “your excellency.” + +“that is, with ilyá rostóv who married nataly shinshiná,” said +anna mikháylovna. + +“i know, i know,” answered prince vasíli in his monotonous voice. +“i never could understand how nataly made up her mind to marry that +unlicked bear! a perfectly absurd and stupid fellow, and a gambler too, +i am told.” + +“but a very kind man, prince,” said anna mikháylovna with a +pathetic smile, as though she too knew that count rostóv deserved this +censure, but asked him not to be too hard on the poor old man. “what +do the doctors say?” asked the princess after a pause, her worn face +again expressing deep sorrow. + +“they give little hope,” replied the prince. + +“and i should so like to thank uncle once for all his kindness to me +and borís. he is his godson,” she added, her tone suggesting that +this fact ought to give prince vasíli much satisfaction. + +prince vasíli became thoughtful and frowned. anna mikháylovna saw that +he was afraid of finding in her a rival for count bezúkhov’s fortune, +and hastened to reassure him. + +“if it were not for my sincere affection and devotion to uncle,” +said she, uttering the word with peculiar assurance and unconcern, “i +know his character: noble, upright ... but you see he has no one with +him except the young princesses.... they are still young....” she bent +her head and continued in a whisper: “has he performed his final duty, +prince? how priceless are those last moments! it can make things no +worse, and it is absolutely necessary to prepare him if he is so ill. +we women, prince,” and she smiled tenderly, “always know how to say +these things. i absolutely must see him, however painful it may be for +me. i am used to suffering.” + +evidently the prince understood her, and also understood, as he had done +at anna pávlovna’s, that it would be difficult to get rid of anna +mikháylovna. + +“would not such a meeting be too trying for him, dear anna +mikháylovna?” said he. “let us wait until evening. the doctors are +expecting a crisis.” + +“but one cannot delay, prince, at such a moment! consider that the +welfare of his soul is at stake. ah, it is awful: the duties of a +christian...” + +a door of one of the inner rooms opened and one of the princesses, the +count’s niece, entered with a cold, stern face. the length of her +body was strikingly out of proportion to her short legs. prince vasíli +turned to her. + +“well, how is he?” + +“still the same; but what can you expect, this noise...” said the +princess, looking at anna mikháylovna as at a stranger. + +“ah, my dear, i hardly knew you,” said anna mikháylovna with a +happy smile, ambling lightly up to the count’s niece. “i have come, +and am at your service to help you nurse my uncle. i imagine what you +have gone through,” and she sympathetically turned up her eyes. + +the princess gave no reply and did not even smile, but left the room as +anna mikháylovna took off her gloves and, occupying the position she +had conquered, settled down in an armchair, inviting prince vasíli to +take a seat beside her. + +“borís,” she said to her son with a smile, “i shall go in to see +the count, my uncle; but you, my dear, had better go to pierre meanwhile +and don’t forget to give him the rostóvs’ invitation. they ask him +to dinner. i suppose he won’t go?” she continued, turning to the +prince. + +“on the contrary,” replied the prince, who had plainly become +depressed, “i shall be only too glad if you relieve me of that young +man.... here he is, and the count has not once asked for him.” + +he shrugged his shoulders. a footman conducted borís down one flight of +stairs and up another, to pierre’s rooms. + + + + + +chapter xvi + +pierre, after all, had not managed to choose a career for himself in +petersburg, and had been expelled from there for riotous conduct and +sent to moscow. the story told about him at count rostóv’s was true. +pierre had taken part in tying a policeman to a bear. he had now been +for some days in moscow and was staying as usual at his father’s +house. though he expected that the story of his escapade would be +already known in moscow and that the ladies about his father—who were +never favorably disposed toward him—would have used it to turn the +count against him, he nevertheless on the day of his arrival went to +his father’s part of the house. entering the drawing room, where the +princesses spent most of their time, he greeted the ladies, two of whom +were sitting at embroidery frames while a third read aloud. it was the +eldest who was reading—the one who had met anna mikháylovna. the +two younger ones were embroidering: both were rosy and pretty and they +differed only in that one had a little mole on her lip which made her +much prettier. pierre was received as if he were a corpse or a leper. +the eldest princess paused in her reading and silently stared at him +with frightened eyes; the second assumed precisely the same expression; +while the youngest, the one with the mole, who was of a cheerful and +lively disposition, bent over her frame to hide a smile probably evoked +by the amusing scene she foresaw. she drew her wool down through the +canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying +to make out the pattern. + +“how do you do, cousin?” said pierre. “you don’t recognize +me?” + +“i recognize you only too well, too well.” + +“how is the count? can i see him?” asked pierre, awkwardly as usual, +but unabashed. + +“the count is suffering physically and mentally, and apparently you +have done your best to increase his mental sufferings.” + +“can i see the count?” pierre again asked. + +“hm.... if you wish to kill him, to kill him outright, you can see +him... olga, go and see whether uncle’s beef tea is ready—it is +almost time,” she added, giving pierre to understand that they were +busy, and busy making his father comfortable, while evidently he, +pierre, was only busy causing him annoyance. + +olga went out. pierre stood looking at the sisters; then he bowed and +said: “then i will go to my rooms. you will let me know when i can see +him.” + +and he left the room, followed by the low but ringing laughter of the +sister with the mole. + +next day prince vasíli had arrived and settled in the count’s house. +he sent for pierre and said to him: “my dear fellow, if you are going +to behave here as you did in petersburg, you will end very badly; that +is all i have to say to you. the count is very, very ill, and you must +not see him at all.” + +since then pierre had not been disturbed and had spent the whole time in +his rooms upstairs. + +when borís appeared at his door pierre was pacing up and down his room, +stopping occasionally at a corner to make menacing gestures at the wall, +as if running a sword through an invisible foe, and glaring savagely +over his spectacles, and then again resuming his walk, muttering +indistinct words, shrugging his shoulders and gesticulating. + +“england is done for,” said he, scowling and pointing his finger +at someone unseen. “mr. pitt, as a traitor to the nation and to the +rights of man, is sentenced to...” but before pierre—who at that +moment imagined himself to be napoleon in person and to have just +effected the dangerous crossing of the straits of dover and captured +london—could pronounce pitt’s sentence, he saw a well-built and +handsome young officer entering his room. pierre paused. he had left +moscow when borís was a boy of fourteen, and had quite forgotten him, +but in his usual impulsive and hearty way he took borís by the hand +with a friendly smile. + +“do you remember me?” asked borís quietly with a pleasant smile. +“i have come with my mother to see the count, but it seems he is not +well.” + +“yes, it seems he is ill. people are always disturbing him,” +answered pierre, trying to remember who this young man was. + +borís felt that pierre did not recognize him but did not consider +it necessary to introduce himself, and without experiencing the least +embarrassment looked pierre straight in the face. + +“count rostóv asks you to come to dinner today,” said he, after a +considerable pause which made pierre feel uncomfortable. + +“ah, count rostóv!” exclaimed pierre joyfully. “then you are his +son, ilyá? only fancy, i didn’t know you at first. do you remember +how we went to the sparrow hills with madame jacquot?... it’s such an +age...” + +“you are mistaken,” said borís deliberately, with a bold and +slightly sarcastic smile. “i am borís, son of princess anna +mikháylovna drubetskáya. rostóv, the father, is ilyá, and his son is +nicholas. i never knew any madame jacquot.” + +pierre shook his head and arms as if attacked by mosquitoes or bees. + +“oh dear, what am i thinking about? i’ve mixed everything up. one +has so many relatives in moscow! so you are borís? of course. well, now +we know where we are. and what do you think of the boulogne expedition? +the english will come off badly, you know, if napoleon gets across the +channel. i think the expedition is quite feasible. if only villeneuve +doesn’t make a mess of things!” + +borís knew nothing about the boulogne expedition; he did not read the +papers and it was the first time he had heard villeneuve’s name. + +“we here in moscow are more occupied with dinner parties and scandal +than with politics,” said he in his quiet ironical tone. “i know +nothing about it and have not thought about it. moscow is chiefly busy +with gossip,” he continued. “just now they are talking about you and +your father.” + +pierre smiled in his good-natured way as if afraid for his companion’s +sake that the latter might say something he would afterwards regret. +but borís spoke distinctly, clearly, and dryly, looking straight into +pierre’s eyes. + +“moscow has nothing else to do but gossip,” borís went on. +“everybody is wondering to whom the count will leave his fortune, +though he may perhaps outlive us all, as i sincerely hope he will...” + +“yes, it is all very horrid,” interrupted pierre, “very horrid.” + +pierre was still afraid that this officer might inadvertently say +something disconcerting to himself. + +“and it must seem to you,” said borís flushing slightly, but not +changing his tone or attitude, “it must seem to you that everyone is +trying to get something out of the rich man?” + +“so it does,” thought pierre. + +“but i just wish to say, to avoid misunderstandings, that you are +quite mistaken if you reckon me or my mother among such people. we are +very poor, but for my own part at any rate, for the very reason that +your father is rich, i don’t regard myself as a relation of his, and +neither i nor my mother would ever ask or take anything from him.” + +for a long time pierre could not understand, but when he did, he jumped +up from the sofa, seized borís under the elbow in his quick, clumsy +way, and, blushing far more than borís, began to speak with a feeling +of mingled shame and vexation. + +“well, this is strange! do you suppose i... who could think?... i know +very well...” + +but borís again interrupted him. + +“i am glad i have spoken out fully. perhaps you did not like it? you +must excuse me,” said he, putting pierre at ease instead of being put +at ease by him, “but i hope i have not offended you. i always make it +a rule to speak out... well, what answer am i to take? will you come to +dinner at the rostóvs’?” + +and borís, having apparently relieved himself of an onerous duty and +extricated himself from an awkward situation and placed another in it, +became quite pleasant again. + +“no, but i say,” said pierre, calming down, “you are a wonderful +fellow! what you have just said is good, very good. of course you +don’t know me. we have not met for such a long time... not since we +were children. you might think that i... i understand, quite understand. +i could not have done it myself, i should not have had the courage, but +it’s splendid. i am very glad to have made your acquaintance. it’s +queer,” he added after a pause, “that you should have suspected +me!” he began to laugh. “well, what of it! i hope we’ll get better +acquainted,” and he pressed borís’ hand. “do you know, i have not +once been in to see the count. he has not sent for me.... i am sorry for +him as a man, but what can one do?” + +“and so you think napoleon will manage to get an army across?” asked +borís with a smile. + +pierre saw that borís wished to change the subject, and being of the +same mind he began explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the +boulogne expedition. + +a footman came in to summon borís—the princess was going. pierre, in +order to make borís’ better acquaintance, promised to come to dinner, +and warmly pressing his hand looked affectionately over his spectacles +into borís’ eyes. after he had gone pierre continued pacing up and +down the room for a long time, no longer piercing an imaginary foe with +his imaginary sword, but smiling at the remembrance of that pleasant, +intelligent, and resolute young man. + +as often happens in early youth, especially to one who leads a lonely +life, he felt an unaccountable tenderness for this young man and made up +his mind that they would be friends. + +prince vasíli saw the princess off. she held a handkerchief to her eyes +and her face was tearful. + +“it is dreadful, dreadful!” she was saying, “but cost me what it +may i shall do my duty. i will come and spend the night. he must not be +left like this. every moment is precious. i can’t think why his nieces +put it off. perhaps god will help me to find a way to prepare him!... +adieu, prince! may god support you...” + +“adieu, ma bonne,” answered prince vasíli turning away from her. + +“oh, he is in a dreadful state,” said the mother to her son when +they were in the carriage. “he hardly recognizes anybody.” + +“i don’t understand, mamma—what is his attitude to pierre?” +asked the son. + +“the will will show that, my dear; our fate also depends on it.” + +“but why do you expect that he will leave us anything?” + +“ah, my dear! he is so rich, and we are so poor!” + +“well, that is hardly a sufficient reason, mamma...” + +“oh, heaven! how ill he is!” exclaimed the mother. + + + + + +chapter xvii + +after anna mikháylovna had driven off with her son to visit count cyril +vladímirovich bezúkhov, countess rostóva sat for a long time all +alone applying her handkerchief to her eyes. at last she rang. + +“what is the matter with you, my dear?” she said crossly to the maid +who kept her waiting some minutes. “don’t you wish to serve me? then +i’ll find you another place.” + +the countess was upset by her friend’s sorrow and humiliating poverty, +and was therefore out of sorts, a state of mind which with her always +found expression in calling her maid “my dear” and speaking to her +with exaggerated politeness. + +“i am very sorry, ma’am,” answered the maid. + +“ask the count to come to me.” + +the count came waddling in to see his wife with a rather guilty look as +usual. + +“well, little countess? what a sauté of game au madère we are to +have, my dear! i tasted it. the thousand rubles i paid for tarás were +not ill-spent. he is worth it!” + +he sat down by his wife, his elbows on his knees and his hands ruffling +his gray hair. + +“what are your commands, little countess?” + +“you see, my dear... what’s that mess?” she said, pointing to his +waistcoat. “it’s the sauté, most likely,” she added with a smile. +“well, you see, count, i want some money.” + +her face became sad. + +“oh, little countess!” ... and the count began bustling to get out +his pocketbook. + +“i want a great deal, count! i want five hundred rubles,” and taking +out her cambric handkerchief she began wiping her husband’s waistcoat. + +“yes, immediately, immediately! hey, who’s there?” he called out +in a tone only used by persons who are certain that those they call will +rush to obey the summons. “send dmítri to me!” + +dmítri, a man of good family who had been brought up in the count’s +house and now managed all his affairs, stepped softly into the room. + +“this is what i want, my dear fellow,” said the count to the +deferential young man who had entered. “bring me...” he reflected +a moment, “yes, bring me seven hundred rubles, yes! but mind, don’t +bring me such tattered and dirty notes as last time, but nice clean ones +for the countess.” + +“yes, dmítri, clean ones, please,” said the countess, sighing +deeply. + +“when would you like them, your excellency?” asked dmítri. “allow +me to inform you... but, don’t be uneasy,” he added, noticing that +the count was beginning to breathe heavily and quickly which was always +a sign of approaching anger. “i was forgetting... do you wish it +brought at once?” + +“yes, yes; just so! bring it. give it to the countess.” + +“what a treasure that dmítri is,” added the count with a smile when +the young man had departed. “there is never any ‘impossible’ with +him. that’s a thing i hate! everything is possible.” + +“ah, money, count, money! how much sorrow it causes in the world,” +said the countess. “but i am in great need of this sum.” + +“you, my little countess, are a notorious spendthrift,” said the +count, and having kissed his wife’s hand he went back to his study. + +when anna mikháylovna returned from count bezúkhov’s the money, all +in clean notes, was lying ready under a handkerchief on the countess’ +little table, and anna mikháylovna noticed that something was agitating +her. + +“well, my dear?” asked the countess. + +“oh, what a terrible state he is in! one would not know him, he is so +ill! i was only there a few moments and hardly said a word...” + +“annette, for heaven’s sake don’t refuse me,” the countess +began, with a blush that looked very strange on her thin, dignified, +elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief. + +anna mikháylovna instantly guessed her intention and stooped to be +ready to embrace the countess at the appropriate moment. + +“this is for borís from me, for his outfit.” + +anna mikháylovna was already embracing her and weeping. the countess +wept too. they wept because they were friends, and because they were +kindhearted, and because they—friends from childhood—had to think +about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over.... +but those tears were pleasant to them both. + + + + + +chapter xviii + +countess rostóva, with her daughters and a large number of guests, was +already seated in the drawing room. the count took the gentlemen into +his study and showed them his choice collection of turkish pipes. from +time to time he went out to ask: “hasn’t she come yet?” they +were expecting márya dmítrievna akhrosímova, known in society as le +terrible dragon, a lady distinguished not for wealth or rank, but for +common sense and frank plainness of speech. márya dmítrievna was known +to the imperial family as well as to all moscow and petersburg, and both +cities wondered at her, laughed privately at her rudenesses, and told +good stories about her, while none the less all without exception +respected and feared her. + +in the count’s room, which was full of tobacco smoke, they talked +of the war that had been announced in a manifesto, and about the +recruiting. none of them had yet seen the manifesto, but they all knew +it had appeared. the count sat on the sofa between two guests who were +smoking and talking. he neither smoked nor talked, but bending his head +first to one side and then to the other watched the smokers with evident +pleasure and listened to the conversation of his two neighbors, whom he +egged on against each other. + +one of them was a sallow, clean-shaven civilian with a thin and wrinkled +face, already growing old, though he was dressed like a most fashionable +young man. he sat with his legs up on the sofa as if quite at home and, +having stuck an amber mouthpiece far into his mouth, was inhaling the +smoke spasmodically and screwing up his eyes. this was an old bachelor, +shinshín, a cousin of the countess’, a man with “a sharp tongue” +as they said in moscow society. he seemed to be condescending to +his companion. the latter, a fresh, rosy officer of the guards, +irreproachably washed, brushed, and buttoned, held his pipe in the +middle of his mouth and with red lips gently inhaled the smoke, letting +it escape from his handsome mouth in rings. this was lieutenant berg, an +officer in the semënov regiment with whom borís was to travel to join +the army, and about whom natásha had teased her elder sister véra, +speaking of berg as her “intended.” the count sat between them and +listened attentively. his favorite occupation when not playing boston, a +card game he was very fond of, was that of listener, especially when he +succeeded in setting two loquacious talkers at one another. + +“well, then, old chap, mon très honorable alphonse kárlovich,” +said shinshín, laughing ironically and mixing the most ordinary russian +expressions with the choicest french phrases—which was a peculiarity +of his speech. “vous comptez vous faire des rentes sur l’état; * +you want to make something out of your company?” + + * you expect to make an income out of the government. + +“no, peter nikoláevich; i only want to show that in the cavalry +the advantages are far less than in the infantry. just consider my own +position now, peter nikoláevich...” + +berg always spoke quietly, politely, and with great precision. his +conversation always related entirely to himself; he would remain calm +and silent when the talk related to any topic that had no direct bearing +on himself. he could remain silent for hours without being at all put +out of countenance himself or making others uncomfortable, but as +soon as the conversation concerned himself he would begin to talk +circumstantially and with evident satisfaction. + +“consider my position, peter nikoláevich. were i in the cavalry i +should get not more than two hundred rubles every four months, even +with the rank of lieutenant; but as it is i receive two hundred and +thirty,” said he, looking at shinshín and the count with a joyful, +pleasant smile, as if it were obvious to him that his success must +always be the chief desire of everyone else. + +“besides that, peter nikoláevich, by exchanging into the guards +i shall be in a more prominent position,” continued berg, “and +vacancies occur much more frequently in the foot guards. then just think +what can be done with two hundred and thirty rubles! i even manage to +put a little aside and to send something to my father,” he went on, +emitting a smoke ring. + +“la balance y est... * a german knows how to skin a flint, as the +proverb says,” remarked shinshín, moving his pipe to the other side +of his mouth and winking at the count. + + * so that squares matters. + +the count burst out laughing. the other guests seeing that shinshín +was talking came up to listen. berg, oblivious of irony or indifference, +continued to explain how by exchanging into the guards he had already +gained a step on his old comrades of the cadet corps; how in wartime +the company commander might get killed and he, as senior in the company, +might easily succeed to the post; how popular he was with everyone in +the regiment, and how satisfied his father was with him. berg evidently +enjoyed narrating all this, and did not seem to suspect that others, +too, might have their own interests. but all he said was so prettily +sedate, and the naïveté of his youthful egotism was so obvious, that +he disarmed his hearers. + +“well, my boy, you’ll get along wherever you go—foot or +horse—that i’ll warrant,” said shinshín, patting him on the +shoulder and taking his feet off the sofa. + +berg smiled joyously. the count, followed by his guests, went into the +drawing room. + +it was just the moment before a big dinner when the assembled guests, +expecting the summons to zakúska, * avoid engaging in any long +conversation but think it necessary to move about and talk, in order +to show that they are not at all impatient for their food. the host and +hostess look toward the door, and now and then glance at one another, +and the visitors try to guess from these glances who, or what, they are +waiting for—some important relation who has not yet arrived, or a dish +that is not yet ready. + + * hors d’oeuvres. + +pierre had come just at dinnertime and was sitting awkwardly in the +middle of the drawing room on the first chair he had come across, +blocking the way for everyone. the countess tried to make him talk, +but he went on naïvely looking around through his spectacles as if in +search of somebody and answered all her questions in monosyllables. he +was in the way and was the only one who did not notice the fact. most of +the guests, knowing of the affair with the bear, looked with curiosity +at this big, stout, quiet man, wondering how such a clumsy, modest +fellow could have played such a prank on a policeman. + +“you have only lately arrived?” the countess asked him. + +“oui, madame,” replied he, looking around him. + +“you have not yet seen my husband?” + +“non, madame.” he smiled quite inappropriately. + +“you have been in paris recently, i believe? i suppose it’s very +interesting.” + +“very interesting.” + +the countess exchanged glances with anna mikháylovna. the latter +understood that she was being asked to entertain this young man, and +sitting down beside him she began to speak about his father; but he +answered her, as he had the countess, only in monosyllables. the other +guests were all conversing with one another. “the razumóvskis... it +was charming... you are very kind... countess apráksina...” was heard +on all sides. the countess rose and went into the ballroom. + +“márya dmítrievna?” came her voice from there. + +“herself,” came the answer in a rough voice, and márya dmítrievna +entered the room. + +all the unmarried ladies and even the married ones except the very +oldest rose. márya dmítrievna paused at the door. tall and stout, +holding high her fifty-year-old head with its gray curls, she stood +surveying the guests, and leisurely arranged her wide sleeves as if +rolling them up. márya dmítrievna always spoke in russian. + +“health and happiness to her whose name day we are keeping and to her +children,” she said, in her loud, full-toned voice which drowned all +others. “well, you old sinner,” she went on, turning to the count +who was kissing her hand, “you’re feeling dull in moscow, i daresay? +nowhere to hunt with your dogs? but what is to be done, old man? just +see how these nestlings are growing up,” and she pointed to the girls. +“you must look for husbands for them whether you like it or not....” + +“well,” said she, “how’s my cossack?” (márya dmítrievna +always called natásha a cossack) and she stroked the child’s arm as +she came up fearless and gay to kiss her hand. “i know she’s a scamp +of a girl, but i like her.” + +she took a pair of pear-shaped ruby earrings from her huge reticule and, +having given them to the rosy natásha, who beamed with the pleasure +of her saint’s-day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to +pierre. + +“eh, eh, friend! come here a bit,” said she, assuming a soft high +tone of voice. “come here, my friend...” and she ominously tucked +up her sleeves still higher. pierre approached, looking at her in a +childlike way through his spectacles. + +“come nearer, come nearer, friend! i used to be the only one to tell +your father the truth when he was in favor, and in your case it’s my +evident duty.” she paused. all were silent, expectant of what was to +follow, for this was clearly only a prelude. + +“a fine lad! my word! a fine lad!... his father lies on his deathbed +and he amuses himself setting a policeman astride a bear! for shame, +sir, for shame! it would be better if you went to the war.” + +she turned away and gave her hand to the count, who could hardly keep +from laughing. + +“well, i suppose it is time we were at table?” said márya +dmítrievna. + +the count went in first with márya dmítrievna, the countess followed +on the arm of a colonel of hussars, a man of importance to them because +nicholas was to go with him to the regiment; then came anna mikháylovna +with shinshín. berg gave his arm to véra. the smiling julie karágina +went in with nicholas. after them other couples followed, filling the +whole dining hall, and last of all the children, tutors, and governesses +followed singly. the footmen began moving about, chairs scraped, the +band struck up in the gallery, and the guests settled down in their +places. then the strains of the count’s household band were replaced +by the clatter of knives and forks, the voices of visitors, and the +soft steps of the footmen. at one end of the table sat the countess with +márya dmítrievna on her right and anna mikháylovna on her left, the +other lady visitors were farther down. at the other end sat the count, +with the hussar colonel on his left and shinshín and the other male +visitors on his right. midway down the long table on one side sat the +grown-up young people: véra beside berg, and pierre beside borís; and +on the other side, the children, tutors, and governesses. from behind +the crystal decanters and fruit vases, the count kept glancing at his +wife and her tall cap with its light-blue ribbons, and busily filled +his neighbors’ glasses, not neglecting his own. the countess in turn, +without omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from +behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed +by their redness to contrast more than usual with his gray hair. at the +ladies’ end an even chatter of voices was heard all the time, at the +men’s end the voices sounded louder and louder, especially that of the +colonel of hussars who, growing more and more flushed, ate and drank so +much that the count held him up as a pattern to the other guests. berg +with tender smiles was saying to véra that love is not an earthly but +a heavenly feeling. borís was telling his new friend pierre who the +guests were and exchanging glances with natásha, who was sitting +opposite. pierre spoke little but examined the new faces, and ate a +great deal. of the two soups he chose turtle with savory patties and +went on to the game without omitting a single dish or one of the wines. +these latter the butler thrust mysteriously forward, wrapped in a +napkin, from behind the next man’s shoulders and whispered: “dry +madeira”... “hungarian”... or “rhine wine” as the case might +be. of the four crystal glasses engraved with the count’s monogram +that stood before his plate, pierre held out one at random and drank +with enjoyment, gazing with ever-increasing amiability at the other +guests. natásha, who sat opposite, was looking at borís as girls of +thirteen look at the boy they are in love with and have just kissed for +the first time. sometimes that same look fell on pierre, and that funny +lively little girl’s look made him inclined to laugh without knowing +why. + +nicholas sat at some distance from sónya, beside julie karágina, to +whom he was again talking with the same involuntary smile. sónya wore +a company smile but was evidently tormented by jealousy; now she turned +pale, now blushed and strained every nerve to overhear what nicholas +and julie were saying to one another. the governess kept looking round +uneasily as if preparing to resent any slight that might be put upon the +children. the german tutor was trying to remember all the dishes, wines, +and kinds of dessert, in order to send a full description of the dinner +to his people in germany; and he felt greatly offended when the butler +with a bottle wrapped in a napkin passed him by. he frowned, trying to +appear as if he did not want any of that wine, but was mortified because +no one would understand that it was not to quench his thirst or from +greediness that he wanted it, but simply from a conscientious desire for +knowledge. + + + + + +chapter xix + +at the men’s end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. +the colonel told them that the declaration of war had already appeared +in petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day +been forwarded by courier to the commander in chief. + +“and why the deuce are we going to fight bonaparte?” remarked +shinshín. “he has stopped austria’s cackle and i fear it will be +our turn next.” + +the colonel was a stout, tall, plethoric german, evidently devoted to +the service and patriotically russian. he resented shinshín’s remark. + +“it is for the reasson, my goot sir,” said he, speaking with a +german accent, “for the reasson zat ze emperor knows zat. he +declares in ze manifessto zat he cannot fiew wiz indifference ze danger +vreatening russia and zat ze safety and dignity of ze empire as vell +as ze sanctity of its alliances...” he spoke this last word with +particular emphasis as if in it lay the gist of the matter. + +then with the unerring official memory that characterized him he +repeated from the opening words of the manifesto: + +... and the wish, which constitutes the emperor’s sole and absolute +aim—to establish peace in europe on firm foundations—has now decided +him to despatch part of the army abroad and to create a new condition +for the attainment of that purpose. + +“zat, my dear sir, is vy...” he concluded, drinking a tumbler of +wine with dignity and looking to the count for approval. + +“connaissez-vous le proverbe:* ‘jerome, jerome, do not roam, but +turn spindles at home!’?” said shinshín, puckering his brows and +smiling. “cela nous convient à merveille.*(2) suvórov now—he knew +what he was about; yet they beat him à plate couture,*(3) and where +are we to find suvórovs now? je vous demande un peu,” *(4) said he, +continually changing from french to russian. + + *do you know the proverb? + + *(2) that suits us down to the ground. + + *(3) hollow. + + *(4) i just ask you that. + +“ve must vight to the last tr-r-op of our plood!” said the colonel, +thumping the table; “and ve must tie for our emperor, and zen all vill +pe vell. and ve must discuss it as little as po-o-ossible”... he dwelt +particularly on the word possible... “as po-o-ossible,” he ended, +again turning to the count. “zat is how ve old hussars look at it, and +zere’s an end of it! and how do you, a young man and a young hussar, +how do you judge of it?” he added, addressing nicholas, who when he +heard that the war was being discussed had turned from his partner with +eyes and ears intent on the colonel. + +“i am quite of your opinion,” replied nicholas, flaming up, turning +his plate round and moving his wineglasses about with as much decision +and desperation as though he were at that moment facing some great +danger. “i am convinced that we russians must die or conquer,” he +concluded, conscious—as were others—after the words were uttered +that his remarks were too enthusiastic and emphatic for the occasion and +were therefore awkward. + +“what you said just now was splendid!” said his partner julie. + +sónya trembled all over and blushed to her ears and behind them and +down to her neck and shoulders while nicholas was speaking. + +pierre listened to the colonel’s speech and nodded approvingly. + +“that’s fine,” said he. + +“the young man’s a real hussar!” shouted the colonel, again +thumping the table. + +“what are you making such a noise about over there?” márya +dmítrievna’s deep voice suddenly inquired from the other end of the +table. “what are you thumping the table for?” she demanded of the +hussar, “and why are you exciting yourself? do you think the french +are here?” + +“i am speaking ze truce,” replied the hussar with a smile. + +“it’s all about the war,” the count shouted down the table. “you +know my son’s going, márya dmítrievna? my son is going.” + +“i have four sons in the army but still i don’t fret. it is all +in god’s hands. you may die in your bed or god may spare you in a +battle,” replied márya dmítrievna’s deep voice, which easily +carried the whole length of the table. + +“that’s true!” + +once more the conversations concentrated, the ladies’ at the one end +and the men’s at the other. + +“you won’t ask,” natásha’s little brother was saying; “i know +you won’t ask!” + +“i will,” replied natásha. + +her face suddenly flushed with reckless and joyous resolution. she half +rose, by a glance inviting pierre, who sat opposite, to listen to what +was coming, and turning to her mother: + +“mamma!” rang out the clear contralto notes of her childish voice, +audible the whole length of the table. + +“what is it?” asked the countess, startled; but seeing by her +daughter’s face that it was only mischief, she shook a finger at her +sternly with a threatening and forbidding movement of her head. + +the conversation was hushed. + +“mamma! what sweets are we going to have?” and natásha’s voice +sounded still more firm and resolute. + +the countess tried to frown, but could not. márya dmítrievna shook her +fat finger. + +“cossack!” she said threateningly. + +most of the guests, uncertain how to regard this sally, looked at the +elders. + +“you had better take care!” said the countess. + +“mamma! what sweets are we going to have?” natásha again cried +boldly, with saucy gaiety, confident that her prank would be taken in +good part. + +sónya and fat little pétya doubled up with laughter. + +“you see! i have asked,” whispered natásha to her little brother +and to pierre, glancing at him again. + +“ice pudding, but you won’t get any,” said márya dmítrievna. + +natásha saw there was nothing to be afraid of and so she braved even +márya dmítrievna. + +“márya dmítrievna! what kind of ice pudding? i don’t like ice +cream.” + +“carrot ices.” + +“no! what kind, márya dmítrievna? what kind?” she almost screamed; +“i want to know!” + +márya dmítrievna and the countess burst out laughing, and all the +guests joined in. everyone laughed, not at márya dmítrievna’s answer +but at the incredible boldness and smartness of this little girl who had +dared to treat márya dmítrievna in this fashion. + +natásha only desisted when she had been told that there would be +pineapple ice. before the ices, champagne was served round. the band +again struck up, the count and countess kissed, and the guests, leaving +their seats, went up to “congratulate” the countess, and reached +across the table to clink glasses with the count, with the children, and +with one another. again the footmen rushed about, chairs scraped, and +in the same order in which they had entered but with redder faces, the +guests returned to the drawing room and to the count’s study. + + + + + +chapter xx + +the card tables were drawn out, sets made up for boston, and the +count’s visitors settled themselves, some in the two drawing rooms, +some in the sitting room, some in the library. + +the count, holding his cards fanwise, kept himself with difficulty from +dropping into his usual after-dinner nap, and laughed at everything. +the young people, at the countess’ instigation, gathered round the +clavichord and harp. julie by general request played first. after she +had played a little air with variations on the harp, she joined the +other young ladies in begging natásha and nicholas, who were noted for +their musical talent, to sing something. natásha, who was treated as +though she were grown up, was evidently very proud of this but at the +same time felt shy. + +“what shall we sing?” she said. + +“‘the brook,’” suggested nicholas. + +“well, then, let’s be quick. borís, come here,” said natásha. +“but where is sónya?” + +she looked round and seeing that her friend was not in the room ran to +look for her. + +running into sónya’s room and not finding her there, natásha ran to +the nursery, but sónya was not there either. natásha concluded that +she must be on the chest in the passage. the chest in the passage was +the place of mourning for the younger female generation in the rostóv +household. and there in fact was sónya lying face downward on nurse’s +dirty feather bed on the top of the chest, crumpling her gauzy pink +dress under her, hiding her face with her slender fingers, and sobbing +so convulsively that her bare little shoulders shook. natásha’s +face, which had been so radiantly happy all that saint’s day, suddenly +changed: her eyes became fixed, and then a shiver passed down her broad +neck and the corners of her mouth drooped. + +“sónya! what is it? what is the matter?... oo... oo... oo...!” and +natásha’s large mouth widened, making her look quite ugly, and she +began to wail like a baby without knowing why, except that sónya was +crying. sónya tried to lift her head to answer but could not, and +hid her face still deeper in the bed. natásha wept, sitting on the +blue-striped feather bed and hugging her friend. with an effort sónya +sat up and began wiping her eyes and explaining. + +“nicholas is going away in a week’s time, his... papers... have +come... he told me himself... but still i should not cry,” and she +showed a paper she held in her hand—with the verses nicholas had +written, “still, i should not cry, but you can’t... no one can +understand... what a soul he has!” + +and she began to cry again because he had such a noble soul. + +“it’s all very well for you... i am not envious... i love you and +borís also,” she went on, gaining a little strength; “he is nice... +there are no difficulties in your way.... but nicholas is my cousin... +one would have to... the metropolitan himself... and even then it +can’t be done. and besides, if she tells mamma” (sónya looked upon +the countess as her mother and called her so) “that i am spoiling +nicholas’ career and am heartless and ungrateful, while truly... god +is my witness,” and she made the sign of the cross, “i love her so +much, and all of you, only véra... and what for? what have i done +to her? i am so grateful to you that i would willingly sacrifice +everything, only i have nothing....” + +sónya could not continue, and again hid her face in her hands and in +the feather bed. natásha began consoling her, but her face showed that +she understood all the gravity of her friend’s trouble. + +“sónya,” she suddenly exclaimed, as if she had guessed the true +reason of her friend’s sorrow, “i’m sure véra has said something +to you since dinner? hasn’t she?” + +“yes, these verses nicholas wrote himself and i copied some others, +and she found them on my table and said she’d show them to mamma, and +that i was ungrateful, and that mamma would never allow him to marry +me, but that he’ll marry julie. you see how he’s been with her all +day... natásha, what have i done to deserve it?...” + +and again she began to sob, more bitterly than before. natásha lifted +her up, hugged her, and, smiling through her tears, began comforting +her. + +“sónya, don’t believe her, darling! don’t believe her! do you +remember how we and nicholas, all three of us, talked in the sitting +room after supper? why, we settled how everything was to be. i don’t +quite remember how, but don’t you remember that it could all be +arranged and how nice it all was? there’s uncle shinshín’s brother +has married his first cousin. and we are only second cousins, you know. +and borís says it is quite possible. you know i have told him all about +it. and he is so clever and so good!” said natásha. “don’t +you cry, sónya, dear love, darling sónya!” and she kissed her and +laughed. “véra’s spiteful; never mind her! and all will come right +and she won’t say anything to mamma. nicholas will tell her himself, +and he doesn’t care at all for julie.” + +natásha kissed her on the hair. + +sónya sat up. the little kitten brightened, its eyes shone, and it +seemed ready to lift its tail, jump down on its soft paws, and begin +playing with the ball of worsted as a kitten should. + +“do you think so?... really? truly?” she said, quickly smoothing her +frock and hair. + +“really, truly!” answered natásha, pushing in a crisp lock that had +strayed from under her friend’s plaits. + +both laughed. + +“well, let’s go and sing ‘the brook.’” + +“come along!” + +“do you know, that fat pierre who sat opposite me is so funny!” said +natásha, stopping suddenly. “i feel so happy!” + +and she set off at a run along the passage. + +sónya, shaking off some down which clung to her and tucking away the +verses in the bosom of her dress close to her bony little chest, ran +after natásha down the passage into the sitting room with flushed face +and light, joyous steps. at the visitors’ request the young people +sang the quartette, “the brook,” with which everyone was delighted. +then nicholas sang a song he had just learned: + + at nighttime in the moon’s fair glow + how sweet, as fancies wander free, + to feel that in this world there’s one + who still is thinking but of thee! + + that while her fingers touch the harp + wafting sweet music o’er the lea, + it is for thee thus swells her heart, + sighing its message out to thee... + + a day or two, then bliss unspoilt, + but oh! till then i cannot live!... + +he had not finished the last verse before the young people began to +get ready to dance in the large hall, and the sound of the feet and the +coughing of the musicians were heard from the gallery. + + +pierre was sitting in the drawing room where shinshín had engaged him, +as a man recently returned from abroad, in a political conversation in +which several others joined but which bored pierre. when the music began +natásha came in and walking straight up to pierre said, laughing and +blushing: + +“mamma told me to ask you to join the dancers.” + +“i am afraid of mixing the figures,” pierre replied; “but if you +will be my teacher...” and lowering his big arm he offered it to the +slender little girl. + +while the couples were arranging themselves and the musicians tuning up, +pierre sat down with his little partner. natásha was perfectly happy; +she was dancing with a grown-up man, who had been abroad. she was +sitting in a conspicuous place and talking to him like a grown-up lady. +she had a fan in her hand that one of the ladies had given her to hold. +assuming quite the pose of a society woman (heaven knows when and where +she had learned it) she talked with her partner, fanning herself and +smiling over the fan. + +“dear, dear! just look at her!” exclaimed the countess as she +crossed the ballroom, pointing to natásha. + +natásha blushed and laughed. + +“well, really, mamma! why should you? what is there to be surprised +at?” + + +in the midst of the third écossaise there was a clatter of chairs being +pushed back in the sitting room where the count and márya dmítrievna +had been playing cards with the majority of the more distinguished and +older visitors. they now, stretching themselves after sitting so long, +and replacing their purses and pocketbooks, entered the ballroom. first +came márya dmítrievna and the count, both with merry countenances. the +count, with playful ceremony somewhat in ballet style, offered his +bent arm to márya dmítrievna. he drew himself up, a smile of debonair +gallantry lit up his face and as soon as the last figure of the +écossaise was ended, he clapped his hands to the musicians and shouted +up to their gallery, addressing the first violin: + +“semën! do you know the daniel cooper?” + +this was the count’s favorite dance, which he had danced in his youth. +(strictly speaking, daniel cooper was one figure of the anglaise.) + +“look at papa!” shouted natásha to the whole company, and quite +forgetting that she was dancing with a grown-up partner she bent her +curly head to her knees and made the whole room ring with her laughter. + +and indeed everybody in the room looked with a smile of pleasure at the +jovial old gentleman, who standing beside his tall and stout partner, +márya dmítrievna, curved his arms, beat time, straightened his +shoulders, turned out his toes, tapped gently with his foot, and, by +a smile that broadened his round face more and more, prepared the +onlookers for what was to follow. as soon as the provocatively gay +strains of daniel cooper (somewhat resembling those of a merry peasant +dance) began to sound, all the doorways of the ballroom were suddenly +filled by the domestic serfs—the men on one side and the women on +the other—who with beaming faces had come to see their master making +merry. + +“just look at the master! a regular eagle he is!” loudly remarked +the nurse, as she stood in one of the doorways. + +the count danced well and knew it. but his partner could not and did not +want to dance well. her enormous figure stood erect, her powerful arms +hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her +stern but handsome face really joined in the dance. what was expressed +by the whole of the count’s plump figure, in márya dmítrievna found +expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose. +but if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed +the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and +the agility with which he capered about on his light feet, márya +dmítrievna produced no less impression by slight exertions—the least +effort to move her shoulders or bend her arms when turning, or stamp +her foot—which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual +severity. the dance grew livelier and livelier. the other couples could +not attract a moment’s attention to their own evolutions and did not +even try to do so. all were watching the count and márya dmítrievna. +natásha kept pulling everyone by sleeve or dress, urging them to +“look at papa!” though as it was they never took their eyes off the +couple. in the intervals of the dance the count, breathing deeply, waved +and shouted to the musicians to play faster. faster, faster, and faster; +lightly, more lightly, and yet more lightly whirled the count, flying +round márya dmítrievna, now on his toes, now on his heels; until, +turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, +raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspiring head, smiling +and making a wide sweep with his arm, amid a thunder of applause and +laughter led by natásha. both partners stood still, breathing heavily +and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs. + +“that’s how we used to dance in our time, ma chère,” said the +count. + +“that was a daniel cooper!” exclaimed márya dmítrievna, tucking up +her sleeves and puffing heavily. + + + + + +chapter xxi + +while in the rostóvs’ ballroom the sixth anglaise was being danced, +to a tune in which the weary musicians blundered, and while tired +footmen and cooks were getting the supper, count bezúkhov had a +sixth stroke. the doctors pronounced recovery impossible. after a mute +confession, communion was administered to the dying man, preparations +made for the sacrament of unction, and in his house there was the bustle +and thrill of suspense usual at such moments. outside the house, beyond +the gates, a group of undertakers, who hid whenever a carriage drove up, +waited in expectation of an important order for an expensive funeral. +the military governor of moscow, who had been assiduous in sending +aides-de-camp to inquire after the count’s health, came himself +that evening to bid a last farewell to the celebrated grandee of +catherine’s court, count bezúkhov. + +the magnificent reception room was crowded. everyone stood up +respectfully when the military governor, having stayed about half an +hour alone with the dying man, passed out, slightly acknowledging their +bows and trying to escape as quickly as possible from the glances fixed +on him by the doctors, clergy, and relatives of the family. prince +vasíli, who had grown thinner and paler during the last few days, +escorted him to the door, repeating something to him several times in +low tones. + +when the military governor had gone, prince vasíli sat down all alone +on a chair in the ballroom, crossing one leg high over the other, +leaning his elbow on his knee and covering his face with his hand. after +sitting so for a while he rose, and, looking about him with frightened +eyes, went with unusually hurried steps down the long corridor leading +to the back of the house, to the room of the eldest princess. + +those who were in the dimly lit reception room spoke in nervous +whispers, and, whenever anyone went into or came from the dying man’s +room, grew silent and gazed with eyes full of curiosity or expectancy at +his door, which creaked slightly when opened. + +“the limits of human life ... are fixed and may not be +o’erpassed,” said an old priest to a lady who had taken a seat +beside him and was listening naïvely to his words. + +“i wonder, is it not too late to administer unction?” asked the +lady, adding the priest’s clerical title, as if she had no opinion of +her own on the subject. + +“ah, madam, it is a great sacrament,” replied the priest, passing +his hand over the thin grizzled strands of hair combed back across his +bald head. + +“who was that? the military governor himself?” was being asked at +the other side of the room. “how young-looking he is!” + +“yes, and he is over sixty. i hear the count no longer recognizes +anyone. they wished to administer the sacrament of unction.” + +“i knew someone who received that sacrament seven times.” + +the second princess had just come from the sickroom with her eyes red +from weeping and sat down beside dr. lorrain, who was sitting in a +graceful pose under a portrait of catherine, leaning his elbow on a +table. + +“beautiful,” said the doctor in answer to a remark about the +weather. “the weather is beautiful, princess; and besides, in moscow +one feels as if one were in the country.” + +“yes, indeed,” replied the princess with a sigh. “so he may have +something to drink?” + +lorrain considered. + +“has he taken his medicine?” + +“yes.” + +the doctor glanced at his watch. + +“take a glass of boiled water and put a pinch of cream of tartar,” +and he indicated with his delicate fingers what he meant by a pinch. + +“dere has neffer been a gase,” a german doctor was saying to an +aide-de-camp, “dat one liffs after de sird stroke.” + +“and what a well-preserved man he was!” remarked the aide-de-camp. +“and who will inherit his wealth?” he added in a whisper. + +“it von’t go begging,” replied the german with a smile. + +everyone again looked toward the door, which creaked as the second +princess went in with the drink she had prepared according to +lorrain’s instructions. the german doctor went up to lorrain. + +“do you think he can last till morning?” asked the german, +addressing lorrain in french which he pronounced badly. + +lorrain, pursing up his lips, waved a severely negative finger before +his nose. + +“tonight, not later,” said he in a low voice, and he moved away +with a decorous smile of self-satisfaction at being able clearly to +understand and state the patient’s condition. + +meanwhile prince vasíli had opened the door into the princess’ room. + +in this room it was almost dark; only two tiny lamps were burning before +the icons and there was a pleasant scent of flowers and burnt pastilles. +the room was crowded with small pieces of furniture, whatnots, +cupboards, and little tables. the quilt of a high, white feather bed was +just visible behind a screen. a small dog began to bark. + +“ah, is it you, cousin?” + +she rose and smoothed her hair, which was as usual so extremely smooth +that it seemed to be made of one piece with her head and covered with +varnish. + +“has anything happened?” she asked. “i am so terrified.” + +“no, there is no change. i only came to have a talk about business, +catiche,” * muttered the prince, seating himself wearily on the chair +she had just vacated. “you have made the place warm, i must say,” he +remarked. “well, sit down: let’s have a talk.” + + *catherine. + +“i thought perhaps something had happened,” she said with her +unchanging stonily severe expression; and, sitting down opposite the +prince, she prepared to listen. + +“i wished to get a nap, mon cousin, but i can’t.” + +“well, my dear?” said prince vasíli, taking her hand and bending it +downwards as was his habit. + +it was plain that this “well?” referred to much that they both +understood without naming. + +the princess, who had a straight, rigid body, abnormally long for her +legs, looked directly at prince vasíli with no sign of emotion in her +prominent gray eyes. then she shook her head and glanced up at the icons +with a sigh. this might have been taken as an expression of sorrow +and devotion, or of weariness and hope of resting before long. prince +vasíli understood it as an expression of weariness. + +“and i?” he said; “do you think it is easier for me? i am as worn +out as a post horse, but still i must have a talk with you, catiche, a +very serious talk.” + +prince vasíli said no more and his cheeks began to twitch nervously, +now on one side, now on the other, giving his face an unpleasant +expression which was never to be seen on it in a drawing room. his eyes +too seemed strange; at one moment they looked impudently sly and at the +next glanced round in alarm. + +the princess, holding her little dog on her lap with her thin bony +hands, looked attentively into prince vasíli’s eyes evidently +resolved not to be the first to break silence, if she had to wait till +morning. + +“well, you see, my dear princess and cousin, catherine semënovna,” +continued prince vasíli, returning to his theme, apparently not +without an inner struggle; “at such a moment as this one must think +of everything. one must think of the future, of all of you... i love you +all, like children of my own, as you know.” + +the princess continued to look at him without moving, and with the same +dull expression. + +“and then of course my family has also to be considered,” prince +vasíli went on, testily pushing away a little table without looking at +her. “you know, catiche, that we—you three sisters, mámontov, and +my wife—are the count’s only direct heirs. i know, i know how hard +it is for you to talk or think of such matters. it is no easier for +me; but, my dear, i am getting on for sixty and must be prepared for +anything. do you know i have sent for pierre? the count,” pointing to +his portrait, “definitely demanded that he should be called.” + +prince vasíli looked questioningly at the princess, but could not make +out whether she was considering what he had just said or whether she was +simply looking at him. + +“there is one thing i constantly pray god to grant, mon cousin,” she +replied, “and it is that he would be merciful to him and would allow +his noble soul peacefully to leave this...” + +“yes, yes, of course,” interrupted prince vasíli impatiently, +rubbing his bald head and angrily pulling back toward him the little +table that he had pushed away. “but... in short, the fact is... you +know yourself that last winter the count made a will by which he left +all his property, not to us his direct heirs, but to pierre.” + +“he has made wills enough!” quietly remarked the princess. “but he +cannot leave the estate to pierre. pierre is illegitimate.” + +“but, my dear,” said prince vasíli suddenly, clutching the little +table and becoming more animated and talking more rapidly: “what if +a letter has been written to the emperor in which the count asks for +pierre’s legitimation? do you understand that in consideration of the +count’s services, his request would be granted?...” + +the princess smiled as people do who think they know more about the +subject under discussion than those they are talking with. + +“i can tell you more,” continued prince vasíli, seizing her hand, +“that letter was written, though it was not sent, and the emperor knew +of it. the only question is, has it been destroyed or not? if not, then +as soon as all is over,” and prince vasíli sighed to intimate what he +meant by the words all is over, “and the count’s papers are opened, +the will and letter will be delivered to the emperor, and the petition +will certainly be granted. pierre will get everything as the legitimate +son.” + +“and our share?” asked the princess smiling ironically, as if +anything might happen, only not that. + +“but, my poor catiche, it is as clear as daylight! he will then be the +legal heir to everything and you won’t get anything. you must know, +my dear, whether the will and letter were written, and whether they have +been destroyed or not. and if they have somehow been overlooked, you +ought to know where they are, and must find them, because...” + +“what next?” the princess interrupted, smiling sardonically and not +changing the expression of her eyes. “i am a woman, and you think we +are all stupid; but i know this: an illegitimate son cannot inherit... +un bâtard!”* she added, as if supposing that this translation of the +word would effectively prove to prince vasíli the invalidity of his +contention. + + * a bastard. + +“well, really, catiche! can’t you understand! you are so +intelligent, how is it you don’t see that if the count has written a +letter to the emperor begging him to recognize pierre as legitimate, it +follows that pierre will not be pierre but will become count bezúkhov, +and will then inherit everything under the will? and if the will and +letter are not destroyed, then you will have nothing but the consolation +of having been dutiful et tout ce qui s’ensuit!* that’s certain.” + + * and all that follows therefrom. + +“i know the will was made, but i also know that it is invalid; +and you, mon cousin, seem to consider me a perfect fool,” said the +princess with the expression women assume when they suppose they are +saying something witty and stinging. + +“my dear princess catherine semënovna,” began prince vasíli +impatiently, “i came here not to wrangle with you, but to talk about +your interests as with a kinswoman, a good, kind, true relation. and i +tell you for the tenth time that if the letter to the emperor and the +will in pierre’s favor are among the count’s papers, then, my dear +girl, you and your sisters are not heiresses! if you don’t believe me, +then believe an expert. i have just been talking to dmítri onúfrich” +(the family solicitor) “and he says the same.” + +at this a sudden change evidently took place in the princess’ ideas; +her thin lips grew white, though her eyes did not change, and her voice +when she began to speak passed through such transitions as she herself +evidently did not expect. + +“that would be a fine thing!” said she. “i never wanted anything +and i don’t now.” + +she pushed the little dog off her lap and smoothed her dress. + +“and this is gratitude—this is recognition for those who have +sacrificed everything for his sake!” she cried. “it’s splendid! +fine! i don’t want anything, prince.” + +“yes, but you are not the only one. there are your sisters...” +replied prince vasíli. + +but the princess did not listen to him. + +“yes, i knew it long ago but had forgotten. i knew that i could expect +nothing but meanness, deceit, envy, intrigue, and ingratitude—the +blackest ingratitude—in this house...” + +“do you or do you not know where that will is?” insisted prince +vasíli, his cheeks twitching more than ever. + +“yes, i was a fool! i still believed in people, loved them, and +sacrificed myself. but only the base, the vile succeed! i know who has +been intriguing!” + +the princess wished to rise, but the prince held her by the hand. she +had the air of one who has suddenly lost faith in the whole human race. +she gave her companion an angry glance. + +“there is still time, my dear. you must remember, catiche, that it was +all done casually in a moment of anger, of illness, and was afterwards +forgotten. our duty, my dear, is to rectify his mistake, to ease his +last moments by not letting him commit this injustice, and not to let +him die feeling that he is rendering unhappy those who...” + +“who sacrificed everything for him,” chimed in the princess, who +would again have risen had not the prince still held her fast, “though +he never could appreciate it. no, mon cousin,” she added with a sigh, +“i shall always remember that in this world one must expect no reward, +that in this world there is neither honor nor justice. in this world one +has to be cunning and cruel.” + +“now come, come! be reasonable. i know your excellent heart.” + +“no, i have a wicked heart.” + +“i know your heart,” repeated the prince. “i value your friendship +and wish you to have as good an opinion of me. don’t upset yourself, +and let us talk sensibly while there is still time, be it a day or be it +but an hour.... tell me all you know about the will, and above all where +it is. you must know. we will take it at once and show it to the +count. he has, no doubt, forgotten it and will wish to destroy it. +you understand that my sole desire is conscientiously to carry out his +wishes; that is my only reason for being here. i came simply to help him +and you.” + +“now i see it all! i know who has been intriguing—i know!” cried +the princess. + +“that’s not the point, my dear.” + +“it’s that protégé of yours, that sweet princess drubetskáya, +that anna mikháylovna whom i would not take for a housemaid... the +infamous, vile woman!” + +“do not let us lose any time...” + +“ah, don’t talk to me! last winter she wheedled herself in here and +told the count such vile, disgraceful things about us, especially about +sophie—i can’t repeat them—that it made the count quite ill and he +would not see us for a whole fortnight. i know it was then he wrote this +vile, infamous paper, but i thought the thing was invalid.” + +“we’ve got to it at last—why did you not tell me about it +sooner?” + +“it’s in the inlaid portfolio that he keeps under his pillow,” +said the princess, ignoring his question. “now i know! yes; if i have +a sin, a great sin, it is hatred of that vile woman!” almost shrieked +the princess, now quite changed. “and what does she come worming +herself in here for? but i will give her a piece of my mind. the time +will come!” + + + + + +chapter xxii + +while these conversations were going on in the reception room and the +princess’ room, a carriage containing pierre (who had been sent for) +and anna mikháylovna (who found it necessary to accompany him) was +driving into the court of count bezúkhov’s house. as the wheels +rolled softly over the straw beneath the windows, anna mikháylovna, +having turned with words of comfort to her companion, realized that +he was asleep in his corner and woke him up. rousing himself, pierre +followed anna mikháylovna out of the carriage, and only then began +to think of the interview with his dying father which awaited him. he +noticed that they had not come to the front entrance but to the back +door. while he was getting down from the carriage steps two men, who +looked like tradespeople, ran hurriedly from the entrance and hid in the +shadow of the wall. pausing for a moment, pierre noticed several other +men of the same kind hiding in the shadow of the house on both sides. +but neither anna mikháylovna nor the footman nor the coachman, who +could not help seeing these people, took any notice of them. “it seems +to be all right,” pierre concluded, and followed anna mikháylovna. +she hurriedly ascended the narrow dimly lit stone staircase, calling to +pierre, who was lagging behind, to follow. though he did not see why it +was necessary for him to go to the count at all, still less why he had +to go by the back stairs, yet judging by anna mikháylovna’s air +of assurance and haste, pierre concluded that it was all absolutely +necessary. halfway up the stairs they were almost knocked over by +some men who, carrying pails, came running downstairs, their boots +clattering. these men pressed close to the wall to let pierre and anna +mikháylovna pass and did not evince the least surprise at seeing them +there. + +“is this the way to the princesses’ apartments?” asked anna +mikháylovna of one of them. + +“yes,” replied a footman in a bold loud voice, as if anything were +now permissible; “the door to the left, ma’am.” + +“perhaps the count did not ask for me,” said pierre when he reached +the landing. “i’d better go to my own room.” + +anna mikháylovna paused and waited for him to come up. + +“ah, my friend!” she said, touching his arm as she had done her +son’s when speaking to him that afternoon, “believe me i suffer no +less than you do, but be a man!” + +“but really, hadn’t i better go away?” he asked, looking kindly at +her over his spectacles. + +“ah, my dear friend! forget the wrongs that may have been done you. +think that he is your father ... perhaps in the agony of death.” she +sighed. “i have loved you like a son from the first. trust yourself to +me, pierre. i shall not forget your interests.” + +pierre did not understand a word, but the conviction that all this had +to be grew stronger, and he meekly followed anna mikháylovna who was +already opening a door. + +this door led into a back anteroom. an old man, a servant of the +princesses, sat in a corner knitting a stocking. pierre had never been +in this part of the house and did not even know of the existence of +these rooms. anna mikháylovna, addressing a maid who was hurrying past +with a decanter on a tray as “my dear” and “my sweet,” asked +about the princess’ health and then led pierre along a stone passage. +the first door on the left led into the princesses’ apartments. the +maid with the decanter in her haste had not closed the door (everything +in the house was done in haste at that time), and pierre and anna +mikháylovna in passing instinctively glanced into the room, where +prince vasíli and the eldest princess were sitting close together +talking. seeing them pass, prince vasíli drew back with obvious +impatience, while the princess jumped up and with a gesture of +desperation slammed the door with all her might. + +this action was so unlike her usual composure and the fear depicted on +prince vasíli’s face so out of keeping with his dignity that pierre +stopped and glanced inquiringly over his spectacles at his guide. anna +mikháylovna evinced no surprise, she only smiled faintly and sighed, as +if to say that this was no more than she had expected. + +“be a man, my friend. i will look after your interests,” said she in +reply to his look, and went still faster along the passage. + +pierre could not make out what it was all about, and still less what +“watching over his interests” meant, but he decided that all these +things had to be. from the passage they went into a large, dimly +lit room adjoining the count’s reception room. it was one of those +sumptuous but cold apartments known to pierre only from the front +approach, but even in this room there now stood an empty bath, and water +had been spilled on the carpet. they were met by a deacon with a censer +and by a servant who passed out on tiptoe without heeding them. they +went into the reception room familiar to pierre, with two italian +windows opening into the conservatory, with its large bust and full +length portrait of catherine the great. the same people were still +sitting here in almost the same positions as before, whispering to one +another. all became silent and turned to look at the pale tear-worn anna +mikháylovna as she entered, and at the big stout figure of pierre who, +hanging his head, meekly followed her. + +anna mikháylovna’s face expressed a consciousness that the decisive +moment had arrived. with the air of a practical petersburg lady she now, +keeping pierre close beside her, entered the room even more boldly than +that afternoon. she felt that as she brought with her the person the +dying man wished to see, her own admission was assured. casting a rapid +glance at all those in the room and noticing the count’s confessor +there, she glided up to him with a sort of amble, not exactly bowing yet +seeming to grow suddenly smaller, and respectfully received the blessing +first of one and then of another priest. + +“god be thanked that you are in time,” said she to one of the +priests; “all we relatives have been in such anxiety. this young +man is the count’s son,” she added more softly. “what a terrible +moment!” + +having said this she went up to the doctor. + +“dear doctor,” said she, “this young man is the count’s son. is +there any hope?” + +the doctor cast a rapid glance upwards and silently shrugged his +shoulders. anna mikháylovna with just the same movement raised her +shoulders and eyes, almost closing the latter, sighed, and moved away +from the doctor to pierre. to him, in a particularly respectful and +tenderly sad voice, she said: + +“trust in his mercy!” and pointing out a small sofa for him to sit +and wait for her, she went silently toward the door that everyone was +watching and it creaked very slightly as she disappeared behind it. + +pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved +toward the sofa she had indicated. as soon as anna mikháylovna had +disappeared he noticed that the eyes of all in the room turned to him +with something more than curiosity and sympathy. he noticed that they +whispered to one another, casting significant looks at him with a kind +of awe and even servility. a deference such as he had never before +received was shown him. a strange lady, the one who had been talking to +the priests, rose and offered him her seat; an aide-de-camp picked up +and returned a glove pierre had dropped; the doctors became respectfully +silent as he passed by, and moved to make way for him. at first pierre +wished to take another seat so as not to trouble the lady, and also to +pick up the glove himself and to pass round the doctors who were not +even in his way; but all at once he felt that this would not do, and +that tonight he was a person obliged to perform some sort of awful +rite which everyone expected of him, and that he was therefore bound +to accept their services. he took the glove in silence from the +aide-de-camp, and sat down in the lady’s chair, placing his huge hands +symmetrically on his knees in the naïve attitude of an egyptian statue, +and decided in his own mind that all was as it should be, and that in +order not to lose his head and do foolish things he must not act on his +own ideas tonight, but must yield himself up entirely to the will of +those who were guiding him. + +not two minutes had passed before prince vasíli with head erect +majestically entered the room. he was wearing his long coat with three +stars on his breast. he seemed to have grown thinner since the morning; +his eyes seemed larger than usual when he glanced round and noticed +pierre. he went up to him, took his hand (a thing he never used to do), +and drew it downwards as if wishing to ascertain whether it was firmly +fixed on. + +“courage, courage, my friend! he has asked to see you. that is +well!” and he turned to go. + +but pierre thought it necessary to ask: “how is...” and hesitated, +not knowing whether it would be proper to call the dying man “the +count,” yet ashamed to call him “father.” + +“he had another stroke about half an hour ago. courage, my +friend...” + +pierre’s mind was in such a confused state that the word “stroke” +suggested to him a blow from something. he looked at prince vasíli +in perplexity, and only later grasped that a stroke was an attack of +illness. prince vasíli said something to lorrain in passing and went +through the door on tiptoe. he could not walk well on tiptoe and his +whole body jerked at each step. the eldest princess followed him, and +the priests and deacons and some servants also went in at the door. +through that door was heard a noise of things being moved about, and +at last anna mikháylovna, still with the same expression, pale but +resolute in the discharge of duty, ran out and touching pierre lightly +on the arm said: + +“the divine mercy is inexhaustible! unction is about to be +administered. come.” + +pierre went in at the door, stepping on the soft carpet, and noticed +that the strange lady, the aide-de-camp, and some of the servants, all +followed him in, as if there were now no further need for permission to +enter that room. + + + + + +chapter xxiii + +pierre well knew this large room divided by columns and an arch, its +walls hung round with persian carpets. the part of the room behind the +columns, with a high silk-curtained mahogany bedstead on one side and +on the other an immense case containing icons, was brightly illuminated +with red light like a russian church during evening service. under +the gleaming icons stood a long invalid chair, and in that chair +on snowy-white smooth pillows, evidently freshly changed, pierre +saw—covered to the waist by a bright green quilt—the familiar, +majestic figure of his father, count bezúkhov, with that gray mane of +hair above his broad forehead which reminded one of a lion, and the deep +characteristically noble wrinkles of his handsome, ruddy face. he lay +just under the icons; his large thick hands outside the quilt. into the +right hand, which was lying palm downwards, a wax taper had been thrust +between forefinger and thumb, and an old servant, bending over from +behind the chair, held it in position. by the chair stood the priests, +their long hair falling over their magnificent glittering vestments, +with lighted tapers in their hands, slowly and solemnly conducting the +service. a little behind them stood the two younger princesses holding +handkerchiefs to their eyes, and just in front of them their eldest +sister, catiche, with a vicious and determined look steadily fixed on +the icons, as though declaring to all that she could not answer for +herself should she glance round. anna mikháylovna, with a meek, +sorrowful, and all-forgiving expression on her face, stood by the door +near the strange lady. prince vasíli in front of the door, near the +invalid chair, a wax taper in his left hand, was leaning his left arm on +the carved back of a velvet chair he had turned round for the purpose, +and was crossing himself with his right hand, turning his eyes upward +each time he touched his forehead. his face wore a calm look of piety +and resignation to the will of god. “if you do not understand these +sentiments,” he seemed to be saying, “so much the worse for you!” + +behind him stood the aide-de-camp, the doctors, and the menservants; +the men and women had separated as in church. all were silently crossing +themselves, and the reading of the church service, the subdued chanting +of deep bass voices, and in the intervals sighs and the shuffling of +feet were the only sounds that could be heard. anna mikháylovna, with +an air of importance that showed that she felt she quite knew what she +was about, went across the room to where pierre was standing and gave +him a taper. he lit it and, distracted by observing those around him, +began crossing himself with the hand that held the taper. + +sophie, the rosy, laughter-loving, youngest princess with the mole, +watched him. she smiled, hid her face in her handkerchief, and remained +with it hidden for awhile; then looking up and seeing pierre she +again began to laugh. she evidently felt unable to look at him +without laughing, but could not resist looking at him: so to be out of +temptation she slipped quietly behind one of the columns. in the midst +of the service the voices of the priests suddenly ceased, they whispered +to one another, and the old servant who was holding the count’s hand +got up and said something to the ladies. anna mikháylovna stepped +forward and, stooping over the dying man, beckoned to lorrain from +behind her back. the french doctor held no taper; he was leaning +against one of the columns in a respectful attitude implying that he, +a foreigner, in spite of all differences of faith, understood the full +importance of the rite now being performed and even approved of it. he +now approached the sick man with the noiseless step of one in full vigor +of life, with his delicate white fingers raised from the green quilt the +hand that was free, and turning sideways felt the pulse and reflected +a moment. the sick man was given something to drink, there was a +stir around him, then the people resumed their places and the service +continued. during this interval pierre noticed that prince vasíli +left the chair on which he had been leaning, and—with an air +which intimated that he knew what he was about and if others did not +understand him it was so much the worse for them—did not go up to the +dying man, but passed by him, joined the eldest princess, and moved +with her to the side of the room where stood the high bedstead with its +silken hangings. on leaving the bed both prince vasíli and the princess +passed out by a back door, but returned to their places one after the +other before the service was concluded. pierre paid no more attention +to this occurrence than to the rest of what went on, having made up his +mind once for all that what he saw happening around him that evening was +in some way essential. + +the chanting of the service ceased, and the voice of the priest was +heard respectfully congratulating the dying man on having received the +sacrament. the dying man lay as lifeless and immovable as before. around +him everyone began to stir: steps were audible and whispers, among which +anna mikháylovna’s was the most distinct. + +pierre heard her say: + +“certainly he must be moved onto the bed; here it will be +impossible...” + +the sick man was so surrounded by doctors, princesses, and servants +that pierre could no longer see the reddish-yellow face with its gray +mane—which, though he saw other faces as well, he had not lost sight +of for a single moment during the whole service. he judged by the +cautious movements of those who crowded round the invalid chair that +they had lifted the dying man and were moving him. + +“catch hold of my arm or you’ll drop him!” he heard one of the +servants say in a frightened whisper. “catch hold from underneath. +here!” exclaimed different voices; and the heavy breathing of the +bearers and the shuffling of their feet grew more hurried, as if the +weight they were carrying were too much for them. + +as the bearers, among whom was anna mikháylovna, passed the young man +he caught a momentary glimpse between their heads and backs of the dying +man’s high, stout, uncovered chest and powerful shoulders, raised by +those who were holding him under the armpits, and of his gray, curly, +leonine head. this head, with its remarkably broad brow and cheekbones, +its handsome, sensual mouth, and its cold, majestic expression, was +not disfigured by the approach of death. it was the same as pierre +remembered it three months before, when the count had sent him to +petersburg. but now this head was swaying helplessly with the uneven +movements of the bearers, and the cold listless gaze fixed itself upon +nothing. + +after a few minutes’ bustle beside the high bedstead, those who had +carried the sick man dispersed. anna mikháylovna touched pierre’s +hand and said, “come.” pierre went with her to the bed on which the +sick man had been laid in a stately pose in keeping with the ceremony +just completed. he lay with his head propped high on the pillows. his +hands were symmetrically placed on the green silk quilt, the palms +downward. when pierre came up the count was gazing straight at him, but +with a look the significance of which could not be understood by mortal +man. either this look meant nothing but that as long as one has eyes +they must look somewhere, or it meant too much. pierre hesitated, +not knowing what to do, and glanced inquiringly at his guide. anna +mikháylovna made a hurried sign with her eyes, glancing at the sick +man’s hand and moving her lips as if to send it a kiss. pierre, +carefully stretching his neck so as not to touch the quilt, followed her +suggestion and pressed his lips to the large boned, fleshy hand. neither +the hand nor a single muscle of the count’s face stirred. once more +pierre looked questioningly at anna mikháylovna to see what he was to +do next. anna mikháylovna with her eyes indicated a chair that stood +beside the bed. pierre obediently sat down, his eyes asking if he were +doing right. anna mikháylovna nodded approvingly. again pierre fell +into the naïvely symmetrical pose of an egyptian statue, evidently +distressed that his stout and clumsy body took up so much room and doing +his utmost to look as small as possible. he looked at the count, who +still gazed at the spot where pierre’s face had been before he sat +down. anna mikháylovna indicated by her attitude her consciousness of +the pathetic importance of these last moments of meeting between the +father and son. this lasted about two minutes, which to pierre seemed an +hour. suddenly the broad muscles and lines of the count’s face began +to twitch. the twitching increased, the handsome mouth was drawn to one +side (only now did pierre realize how near death his father was), and +from that distorted mouth issued an indistinct, hoarse sound. anna +mikháylovna looked attentively at the sick man’s eyes, trying to +guess what he wanted; she pointed first to pierre, then to some drink, +then named prince vasíli in an inquiring whisper, then pointed to the +quilt. the eyes and face of the sick man showed impatience. he made an +effort to look at the servant who stood constantly at the head of the +bed. + +“wants to turn on the other side,” whispered the servant, and got up +to turn the count’s heavy body toward the wall. + +pierre rose to help him. + +while the count was being turned over, one of his arms fell back +helplessly and he made a fruitless effort to pull it forward. whether he +noticed the look of terror with which pierre regarded that lifeless arm, +or whether some other thought flitted across his dying brain, at any +rate he glanced at the refractory arm, at pierre’s terror-stricken +face, and again at the arm, and on his face a feeble, piteous smile +appeared, quite out of keeping with his features, that seemed to deride +his own helplessness. at sight of this smile pierre felt an unexpected +quivering in his breast and a tickling in his nose, and tears dimmed his +eyes. the sick man was turned on to his side with his face to the wall. +he sighed. + +“he is dozing,” said anna mikháylovna, observing that one of the +princesses was coming to take her turn at watching. “let us go.” + +pierre went out. + + + + + +chapter xxiv + +there was now no one in the reception room except prince vasíli and the +eldest princess, who were sitting under the portrait of catherine the +great and talking eagerly. as soon as they saw pierre and his companion +they became silent, and pierre thought he saw the princess hide +something as she whispered: + +“i can’t bear the sight of that woman.” + +“catiche has had tea served in the small drawing room,” said prince +vasíli to anna mikháylovna. “go and take something, my poor anna +mikháylovna, or you will not hold out.” + +to pierre he said nothing, merely giving his arm a sympathetic squeeze +below the shoulder. pierre went with anna mikháylovna into the small +drawing room. + +“there is nothing so refreshing after a sleepless night as a cup +of this delicious russian tea,” lorrain was saying with an air of +restrained animation as he stood sipping tea from a delicate chinese +handleless cup before a table on which tea and a cold supper were laid +in the small circular room. around the table all who were at count +bezúkhov’s house that night had gathered to fortify themselves. +pierre well remembered this small circular drawing room with its mirrors +and little tables. during balls given at the house pierre, who did not +know how to dance, had liked sitting in this room to watch the ladies +who, as they passed through in their ball dresses with diamonds and +pearls on their bare shoulders, looked at themselves in the brilliantly +lighted mirrors which repeated their reflections several times. now +this same room was dimly lighted by two candles. on one small table tea +things and supper dishes stood in disorder, and in the middle of the +night a motley throng of people sat there, not merrymaking, but somberly +whispering, and betraying by every word and movement that they none +of them forgot what was happening and what was about to happen in the +bedroom. pierre did not eat anything though he would very much have +liked to. he looked inquiringly at his monitress and saw that she was +again going on tiptoe to the reception room where they had left prince +vasíli and the eldest princess. pierre concluded that this also was +essential, and after a short interval followed her. anna mikháylovna +was standing beside the princess, and they were both speaking in excited +whispers. + +“permit me, princess, to know what is necessary and what is not +necessary,” said the younger of the two speakers, evidently in the +same state of excitement as when she had slammed the door of her room. + +“but, my dear princess,” answered anna mikháylovna blandly but +impressively, blocking the way to the bedroom and preventing the other +from passing, “won’t this be too much for poor uncle at a moment +when he needs repose? worldly conversation at a moment when his soul is +already prepared...” + +prince vasíli was seated in an easy chair in his familiar attitude, +with one leg crossed high above the other. his cheeks, which were so +flabby that they looked heavier below, were twitching violently; but +he wore the air of a man little concerned in what the two ladies were +saying. + +“come, my dear anna mikháylovna, let catiche do as she pleases. you +know how fond the count is of her.” + +“i don’t even know what is in this paper,” said the younger of +the two ladies, addressing prince vasíli and pointing to an inlaid +portfolio she held in her hand. “all i know is that his real will is +in his writing table, and this is a paper he has forgotten....” + +she tried to pass anna mikháylovna, but the latter sprang so as to bar +her path. + +“i know, my dear, kind princess,” said anna mikháylovna, seizing +the portfolio so firmly that it was plain she would not let go easily. +“dear princess, i beg and implore you, have some pity on him! je vous +en conjure...” + +the princess did not reply. their efforts in the struggle for the +portfolio were the only sounds audible, but it was evident that if +the princess did speak, her words would not be flattering to anna +mikháylovna. though the latter held on tenaciously, her voice lost none +of its honeyed firmness and softness. + +“pierre, my dear, come here. i think he will not be out of place in a +family consultation; is it not so, prince?” + +“why don’t you speak, cousin?” suddenly shrieked the princess so +loud that those in the drawing room heard her and were startled. “why +do you remain silent when heaven knows who permits herself to +interfere, making a scene on the very threshold of a dying man’s room? +intriguer!” she hissed viciously, and tugged with all her might at the +portfolio. + +but anna mikháylovna went forward a step or two to keep her hold on the +portfolio, and changed her grip. + +prince vasíli rose. “oh!” said he with reproach and surprise, +“this is absurd! come, let go i tell you.” + +the princess let go. + +“and you too!” + +but anna mikháylovna did not obey him. + +“let go, i tell you! i will take the responsibility. i myself will go +and ask him, i!... does that satisfy you?” + +“but, prince,” said anna mikháylovna, “after such a solemn +sacrament, allow him a moment’s peace! here, pierre, tell them your +opinion,” said she, turning to the young man who, having come quite +close, was gazing with astonishment at the angry face of the princess +which had lost all dignity, and at the twitching cheeks of prince +vasíli. + +“remember that you will answer for the consequences,” said prince +vasíli severely. “you don’t know what you are doing.” + +“vile woman!” shouted the princess, darting unexpectedly at anna +mikháylovna and snatching the portfolio from her. + +prince vasíli bent his head and spread out his hands. + +at this moment that terrible door, which pierre had watched so long +and which had always opened so quietly, burst noisily open and banged +against the wall, and the second of the three sisters rushed out +wringing her hands. + +“what are you doing!” she cried vehemently. “he is dying and you +leave me alone with him!” + +her sister dropped the portfolio. anna mikháylovna, stooping, quickly +caught up the object of contention and ran into the bedroom. the eldest +princess and prince vasíli, recovering themselves, followed her. a few +minutes later the eldest sister came out with a pale hard face, again +biting her underlip. at sight of pierre her expression showed an +irrepressible hatred. + +“yes, now you may be glad!” said she; “this is what you have +been waiting for.” and bursting into tears she hid her face in her +handkerchief and rushed from the room. + +prince vasíli came next. he staggered to the sofa on which pierre was +sitting and dropped onto it, covering his face with his hand. pierre +noticed that he was pale and that his jaw quivered and shook as if in an +ague. + +“ah, my friend!” said he, taking pierre by the elbow; and there was +in his voice a sincerity and weakness pierre had never observed in it +before. “how often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? i am +near sixty, dear friend... i too... all will end in death, all! death is +awful...” and he burst into tears. + +anna mikháylovna came out last. she approached pierre with slow, quiet +steps. + +“pierre!” she said. + +pierre gave her an inquiring look. she kissed the young man on his +forehead, wetting him with her tears. then after a pause she said: + +“he is no more....” + +pierre looked at her over his spectacles. + +“come, i will go with you. try to weep, nothing gives such relief as +tears.” + +she led him into the dark drawing room and pierre was glad no one could +see his face. anna mikháylovna left him, and when she returned he was +fast asleep with his head on his arm. + +in the morning anna mikháylovna said to pierre: + +“yes, my dear, this is a great loss for us all, not to speak of you. +but god will support you: you are young, and are now, i hope, in command +of an immense fortune. the will has not yet been opened. i know you +well enough to be sure that this will not turn your head, but it imposes +duties on you, and you must be a man.” + +pierre was silent. + +“perhaps later on i may tell you, my dear boy, that if i had not been +there, god only knows what would have happened! you know, uncle promised +me only the day before yesterday not to forget borís. but he had +no time. i hope, my dear friend, you will carry out your father’s +wish?” + +pierre understood nothing of all this and coloring shyly looked in +silence at princess anna mikháylovna. after her talk with pierre, anna +mikháylovna returned to the rostóvs’ and went to bed. on waking in +the morning she told the rostóvs and all her acquaintances the details +of count bezúkhov’s death. she said the count had died as she would +herself wish to die, that his end was not only touching but edifying. as +to the last meeting between father and son, it was so touching that she +could not think of it without tears, and did not know which had behaved +better during those awful moments—the father who so remembered +everything and everybody at last and had spoken such pathetic words to +the son, or pierre, whom it had been pitiful to see, so stricken was he +with grief, though he tried hard to hide it in order not to sadden his +dying father. “it is painful, but it does one good. it uplifts the +soul to see such men as the old count and his worthy son,” said she. +of the behavior of the eldest princess and prince vasíli she spoke +disapprovingly, but in whispers and as a great secret. + + + + + +chapter xxv + +at bald hills, prince nicholas andréevich bolkónski’s estate, the +arrival of young prince andrew and his wife was daily expected, but +this expectation did not upset the regular routine of life in the old +prince’s household. general in chief prince nicholas andréevich +(nicknamed in society, “the king of prussia”) ever since the emperor +paul had exiled him to his country estate had lived there continuously +with his daughter, princess mary, and her companion, mademoiselle +bourienne. though in the new reign he was free to return to the +capitals, he still continued to live in the country, remarking that +anyone who wanted to see him could come the hundred miles from moscow to +bald hills, while he himself needed no one and nothing. he used to +say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and +superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence. he +himself undertook his daughter’s education, and to develop these two +cardinal virtues in her gave her lessons in algebra and geometry +till she was twenty, and arranged her life so that her whole time was +occupied. he was himself always occupied: writing his memoirs, solving +problems in higher mathematics, turning snuffboxes on a lathe, working +in the garden, or superintending the building that was always going on +at his estate. as regularity is a prime condition facilitating activity, +regularity in his household was carried to the highest point of +exactitude. he always came to table under precisely the same conditions, +and not only at the same hour but at the same minute. with those about +him, from his daughter to his serfs, the prince was sharp and invariably +exacting, so that without being a hardhearted man he inspired such fear +and respect as few hardhearted men would have aroused. although he was +in retirement and had now no influence in political affairs, every high +official appointed to the province in which the prince’s estate lay +considered it his duty to visit him and waited in the lofty antechamber +just as the architect, gardener, or princess mary did, till the prince +appeared punctually to the appointed hour. everyone sitting in this +antechamber experienced the same feeling of respect and even fear when +the enormously high study door opened and showed the figure of a rather +small old man, with powdered wig, small withered hands, and bushy gray +eyebrows which, when he frowned, sometimes hid the gleam of his shrewd, +youthfully glittering eyes. + +on the morning of the day that the young couple were to arrive, princess +mary entered the antechamber as usual at the time appointed for the +morning greeting, crossing herself with trepidation and repeating a +silent prayer. every morning she came in like that, and every morning +prayed that the daily interview might pass off well. + +an old powdered manservant who was sitting in the antechamber rose +quietly and said in a whisper: “please walk in.” + +through the door came the regular hum of a lathe. the princess timidly +opened the door which moved noiselessly and easily. she paused at the +entrance. the prince was working at the lathe and after glancing round +continued his work. + +the enormous study was full of things evidently in constant use. +the large table covered with books and plans, the tall glass-fronted +bookcases with keys in the locks, the high desk for writing while +standing up, on which lay an open exercise book, and the lathe with +tools laid ready to hand and shavings scattered around—all indicated +continuous, varied, and orderly activity. the motion of the small foot +shod in a tartar boot embroidered with silver, and the firm pressure +of the lean sinewy hand, showed that the prince still possessed the +tenacious endurance and vigor of hardy old age. after a few more turns +of the lathe he removed his foot from the pedal, wiped his chisel, +dropped it into a leather pouch attached to the lathe, and, approaching +the table, summoned his daughter. he never gave his children a blessing, +so he simply held out his bristly cheek (as yet unshaven) and, regarding +her tenderly and attentively, said severely: + +“quite well? all right then, sit down.” he took the exercise book +containing lessons in geometry written by himself and drew up a chair +with his foot. + +“for tomorrow!” said he, quickly finding the page and making a +scratch from one paragraph to another with his hard nail. + +the princess bent over the exercise book on the table. + +“wait a bit, here’s a letter for you,” said the old man suddenly, +taking a letter addressed in a woman’s hand from a bag hanging above +the table, onto which he threw it. + +at the sight of the letter red patches showed themselves on the +princess’ face. she took it quickly and bent her head over it. + +“from héloïse?” asked the prince with a cold smile that showed his +still sound, yellowish teeth. + +“yes, it’s from julie,” replied the princess with a timid glance +and a timid smile. + +“i’ll let two more letters pass, but the third i’ll read,” said +the prince sternly; “i’m afraid you write much nonsense. i’ll read +the third!” + +“read this if you like, father,” said the princess, blushing still +more and holding out the letter. + +“the third, i said the third!” cried the prince abruptly, pushing +the letter away, and leaning his elbows on the table he drew toward him +the exercise book containing geometrical figures. + +“well, madam,” he began, stooping over the book close to his +daughter and placing an arm on the back of the chair on which she sat, +so that she felt herself surrounded on all sides by the acrid scent of +old age and tobacco, which she had known so long. “now, madam, these +triangles are equal; please note that the angle abc...” + +the princess looked in a scared way at her father’s eyes glittering +close to her; the red patches on her face came and went, and it was +plain that she understood nothing and was so frightened that her +fear would prevent her understanding any of her father’s further +explanations, however clear they might be. whether it was the +teacher’s fault or the pupil’s, this same thing happened every day: +the princess’ eyes grew dim, she could not see and could not hear +anything, but was only conscious of her stern father’s withered face +close to her, of his breath and the smell of him, and could think only +of how to get away quickly to her own room to make out the problem in +peace. the old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was +sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself +and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, +and sometimes flung the exercise book away. + +the princess gave a wrong answer. + +“well now, isn’t she a fool!” shouted the prince, pushing the book +aside and turning sharply away; but rising immediately, he paced up and +down, lightly touched his daughter’s hair and sat down again. + +he drew up his chair, and continued to explain. + +“this won’t do, princess; it won’t do,” said he, when princess +mary, having taken and closed the exercise book with the next day’s +lesson, was about to leave: “mathematics are most important, madam! +i don’t want to have you like our silly ladies. get used to it and +you’ll like it,” and he patted her cheek. “it will drive all the +nonsense out of your head.” + +she turned to go, but he stopped her with a gesture and took an uncut +book from the high desk. + +“here is some sort of key to the mysteries that your héloïse has +sent you. religious! i don’t interfere with anyone’s belief... i +have looked at it. take it. well, now go. go.” + +he patted her on the shoulder and himself closed the door after her. + +princess mary went back to her room with the sad, scared expression that +rarely left her and which made her plain, sickly face yet plainer. she +sat down at her writing table, on which stood miniature portraits and +which was littered with books and papers. the princess was as untidy as +her father was tidy. she put down the geometry book and eagerly broke +the seal of her letter. it was from her most intimate friend from +childhood; that same julie karágina who had been at the rostóvs’ +name-day party. + +julie wrote in french: + +dear and precious friend, how terrible and frightful a thing is +separation! though i tell myself that half my life and half my happiness +are wrapped up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us +our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against +fate and in spite of the pleasures and distractions around me i cannot +overcome a certain secret sorrow that has been in my heart ever since +we parted. why are we not together as we were last summer, in your big +study, on the blue sofa, the confidential sofa? why cannot i now, as +three months ago, draw fresh moral strength from your look, so gentle, +calm, and penetrating, a look i loved so well and seem to see before me +as i write? + +having read thus far, princess mary sighed and glanced into the mirror +which stood on her right. it reflected a weak, ungraceful figure and +thin face. her eyes, always sad, now looked with particular hopelessness +at her reflection in the glass. “she flatters me,” thought the +princess, turning away and continuing to read. but julie did not flatter +her friend, the princess’ eyes—large, deep and luminous (it seemed +as if at times there radiated from them shafts of warm light)—were +so beautiful that very often in spite of the plainness of her face +they gave her an attraction more powerful than that of beauty. but the +princess never saw the beautiful expression of her own eyes—the look +they had when she was not thinking of herself. as with everyone, her +face assumed a forced unnatural expression as soon as she looked in a +glass. she went on reading: + +all moscow talks of nothing but war. one of my two brothers is already +abroad, the other is with the guards, who are starting on their march +to the frontier. our dear emperor has left petersburg and it is thought +intends to expose his precious person to the chances of war. god grant +that the corsican monster who is destroying the peace of europe may +be overthrown by the angel whom it has pleased the almighty, in his +goodness, to give us as sovereign! to say nothing of my brothers, this +war has deprived me of one of the associations nearest my heart. i mean +young nicholas rostóv, who with his enthusiasm could not bear to remain +inactive and has left the university to join the army. i will confess to +you, dear mary, that in spite of his extreme youth his departure for +the army was a great grief to me. this young man, of whom i spoke to you +last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which +one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, +he is so frank and has so much heart. he is so pure and poetic that +my relations with him, transient as they were, have been one of the +sweetest comforts to my poor heart, which has already suffered so much. +someday i will tell you about our parting and all that was said then. +that is still too fresh. ah, dear friend, you are happy not to know +these poignant joys and sorrows. you are fortunate, for the latter are +generally the stronger! i know very well that count nicholas is too +young ever to be more to me than a friend, but this sweet friendship, +this poetic and pure intimacy, were what my heart needed. but enough of +this! the chief news, about which all moscow gossips, is the death of +old count bezúkhov, and his inheritance. fancy! the three princesses +have received very little, prince vasíli nothing, and it is monsieur +pierre who has inherited all the property and has besides been +recognized as legitimate; so that he is now count bezúkhov and +possessor of the finest fortune in russia. it is rumored that prince +vasíli played a very despicable part in this affair and that he +returned to petersburg quite crestfallen. + +i confess i understand very little about all these matters of wills and +inheritance; but i do know that since this young man, whom we all used +to know as plain monsieur pierre, has become count bezúkhov and the +owner of one of the largest fortunes in russia, i am much amused to +watch the change in the tone and manners of the mammas burdened by +marriageable daughters, and of the young ladies themselves, toward +him, though, between you and me, he always seemed to me a poor sort +of fellow. as for the past two years people have amused themselves +by finding husbands for me (most of whom i don’t even know), the +matchmaking chronicles of moscow now speak of me as the future countess +bezúkhova. but you will understand that i have no desire for the post. +À propos of marriages: do you know that a while ago that universal +auntie anna mikháylovna told me, under the seal of strict secrecy, of +a plan of marriage for you. it is neither more nor less than with prince +vasíli’s son anatole, whom they wish to reform by marrying him to +someone rich and distinguée, and it is on you that his relations’ +choice has fallen. i don’t know what you will think of it, but +i consider it my duty to let you know of it. he is said to be very +handsome and a terrible scapegrace. that is all i have been able to find +out about him. + +but enough of gossip. i am at the end of my second sheet of paper, and +mamma has sent for me to go and dine at the apráksins’. read the +mystical book i am sending you; it has an enormous success here. though +there are things in it difficult for the feeble human mind to grasp, it +is an admirable book which calms and elevates the soul. adieu! give +my respects to monsieur your father and my compliments to mademoiselle +bourienne. i embrace you as i love you. + +julie + +p.s. let me have news of your brother and his charming little wife. + +the princess pondered awhile with a thoughtful smile and her luminous +eyes lit up so that her face was entirely transformed. then she suddenly +rose and with her heavy tread went up to the table. she took a sheet of +paper and her hand moved rapidly over it. this is the reply she wrote, +also in french: + +dear and precious friend, your letter of the 13th has given me great +delight. so you still love me, my romantic julie? separation, of which +you say so much that is bad, does not seem to have had its usual effect +on you. you complain of our separation. what then should i say, if i +dared complain, i who am deprived of all who are dear to me? ah, if +we had not religion to console us life would be very sad. why do you +suppose that i should look severely on your affection for that young +man? on such matters i am only severe with myself. i understand such +feelings in others, and if never having felt them i cannot approve of +them, neither do i condemn them. only it seems to me that christian +love, love of one’s neighbor, love of one’s enemy, is worthier, +sweeter, and better than the feelings which the beautiful eyes of a +young man can inspire in a romantic and loving young girl like yourself. + +the news of count bezúkhov’s death reached us before your letter +and my father was much affected by it. he says the count was the last +representative but one of the great century, and that it is his own +turn now, but that he will do all he can to let his turn come as late as +possible. god preserve us from that terrible misfortune! + +i cannot agree with you about pierre, whom i knew as a child. he always +seemed to me to have an excellent heart, and that is the quality i value +most in people. as to his inheritance and the part played by prince +vasíli, it is very sad for both. ah, my dear friend, our divine +saviour’s words, that it is easier for a camel to go through the +eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of god, are +terribly true. i pity prince vasíli but am still more sorry for pierre. +so young, and burdened with such riches—to what temptations he will be +exposed! if i were asked what i desire most on earth, it would be to be +poorer than the poorest beggar. a thousand thanks, dear friend, for the +volume you have sent me and which has such success in moscow. yet since +you tell me that among some good things it contains others which our +weak human understanding cannot grasp, it seems to me rather useless to +spend time in reading what is unintelligible and can therefore bear +no fruit. i never could understand the fondness some people have for +confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken +their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for +exaggeration quite contrary to christian simplicity. let us rather read +the epistles and gospels. let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries +they contain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, know the +terrible and holy secrets of providence while we remain in this flesh +which forms an impenetrable veil between us and the eternal? let us +rather confine ourselves to studying those sublime rules which our +divine saviour has left for our guidance here below. let us try to +conform to them and follow them, and let us be persuaded that the less +we let our feeble human minds roam, the better we shall please god, who +rejects all knowledge that does not come from him; and the less we seek +to fathom what he has been pleased to conceal from us, the sooner will +he vouchsafe its revelation to us through his divine spirit. + +my father has not spoken to me of a suitor, but has only told me that he +has received a letter and is expecting a visit from prince vasíli. in +regard to this project of marriage for me, i will tell you, dear sweet +friend, that i look on marriage as a divine institution to which we must +conform. however painful it may be to me, should the almighty lay +the duties of wife and mother upon me i shall try to perform them as +faithfully as i can, without disquieting myself by examining my feelings +toward him whom he may give me for husband. + +i have had a letter from my brother, who announces his speedy arrival +at bald hills with his wife. this pleasure will be but a brief one, +however, for he will leave us again to take part in this unhappy war +into which we have been drawn, god knows how or why. not only where you +are—at the heart of affairs and of the world—is the talk all of +war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature—which townsfolk +consider characteristic of the country—rumors of war are heard +and painfully felt. my father talks of nothing but marches and +countermarches, things of which i understand nothing; and the day +before yesterday during my daily walk through the village i witnessed a +heartrending scene.... it was a convoy of conscripts enrolled from our +people and starting to join the army. you should have seen the state of +the mothers, wives, and children of the men who were going and should +have heard the sobs. it seems as though mankind has forgotten the +laws of its divine saviour, who preached love and forgiveness of +injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing +one another. + +adieu, dear and kind friend; may our divine saviour and his most holy +mother keep you in their holy and all-powerful care! + +mary + +“ah, you are sending off a letter, princess? i have already dispatched +mine. i have written to my poor mother,” said the smiling mademoiselle +bourienne rapidly, in her pleasant mellow tones and with guttural r’s. +she brought into princess mary’s strenuous, mournful, and gloomy +world a quite different atmosphere, careless, lighthearted, and +self-satisfied. + +“princess, i must warn you,” she added, lowering her voice and +evidently listening to herself with pleasure, and speaking with +exaggerated grasseyement, “the prince has been scolding michael +ivánovich. he is in a very bad humor, very morose. be prepared.” + +“ah, dear friend,” replied princess mary, “i have asked you never +to warn me of the humor my father is in. i do not allow myself to judge +him and would not have others do so.” + +the princess glanced at her watch and, seeing that she was five minutes +late in starting her practice on the clavichord, went into the sitting +room with a look of alarm. between twelve and two o’clock, as the +day was mapped out, the prince rested and the princess played the +clavichord. + + + + + +chapter xxvi + +the gray-haired valet was sitting drowsily listening to the snoring of +the prince, who was in his large study. from the far side of the house +through the closed doors came the sound of difficult passages—twenty +times repeated—of a sonata by dussek. + +just then a closed carriage and another with a hood drove up to the +porch. prince andrew got out of the carriage, helped his little wife to +alight, and let her pass into the house before him. old tíkhon, wearing +a wig, put his head out of the door of the antechamber, reported in +a whisper that the prince was sleeping, and hastily closed the door. +tíkhon knew that neither the son’s arrival nor any other unusual +event must be allowed to disturb the appointed order of the day. prince +andrew apparently knew this as well as tíkhon; he looked at his watch +as if to ascertain whether his father’s habits had changed since he +was at home last, and, having assured himself that they had not, he +turned to his wife. + +“he will get up in twenty minutes. let us go across to mary’s +room,” he said. + +the little princess had grown stouter during this time, but her eyes +and her short, downy, smiling lip lifted when she began to speak just as +merrily and prettily as ever. + +“why, this is a palace!” she said to her husband, looking around +with the expression with which people compliment their host at a ball. +“let’s come, quick, quick!” and with a glance round, she smiled at +tíkhon, at her husband, and at the footman who accompanied them. + +“is that mary practicing? let’s go quietly and take her by +surprise.” + +prince andrew followed her with a courteous but sad expression. + +“you’ve grown older, tíkhon,” he said in passing to the old man, +who kissed his hand. + +before they reached the room from which the sounds of the clavichord +came, the pretty, fair-haired frenchwoman, mademoiselle bourienne, +rushed out apparently beside herself with delight. + +“ah! what joy for the princess!” exclaimed she: “at last! i must +let her know.” + +“no, no, please not... you are mademoiselle bourienne,” said +the little princess, kissing her. “i know you already through my +sister-in-law’s friendship for you. she was not expecting us?” + +they went up to the door of the sitting room from which came the sound +of the oft-repeated passage of the sonata. prince andrew stopped and +made a grimace, as if expecting something unpleasant. + +the little princess entered the room. the passage broke off in the +middle, a cry was heard, then princess mary’s heavy tread and the +sound of kissing. when prince andrew went in the two princesses, who +had only met once before for a short time at his wedding, were in +each other’s arms warmly pressing their lips to whatever place they +happened to touch. mademoiselle bourienne stood near them pressing her +hand to her heart, with a beatific smile and obviously equally ready to +cry or to laugh. prince andrew shrugged his shoulders and frowned, as +lovers of music do when they hear a false note. the two women let go +of one another, and then, as if afraid of being too late, seized each +other’s hands, kissing them and pulling them away, and again began +kissing each other on the face, and then to prince andrew’s surprise +both began to cry and kissed again. mademoiselle bourienne also began to +cry. prince andrew evidently felt ill at ease, but to the two women +it seemed quite natural that they should cry, and apparently it never +entered their heads that it could have been otherwise at this meeting. + +“ah! my dear!... ah! mary!...” they suddenly exclaimed, and then +laughed. “i dreamed last night...”—“you were not expecting +us?...” “ah! mary, you have got thinner?...” “and you have grown +stouter!...” + +“i knew the princess at once,” put in mademoiselle bourienne. + +“and i had no idea!...” exclaimed princess mary. “ah, andrew, i +did not see you.” + +prince andrew and his sister, hand in hand, kissed one another, and +he told her she was still the same crybaby as ever. princess mary had +turned toward her brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, +gentle look of her large luminous eyes, very beautiful at that moment, +rested on prince andrew’s face. + +the little princess talked incessantly, her short, downy upper lip +continually and rapidly touching her rosy nether lip when necessary +and drawing up again next moment when her face broke into a smile of +glittering teeth and sparkling eyes. she told of an accident they had +had on the spásski hill which might have been serious for her in her +condition, and immediately after that informed them that she had left +all her clothes in petersburg and that heaven knew what she would have +to dress in here; and that andrew had quite changed, and that kitty +odýntsova had married an old man, and that there was a suitor for mary, +a real one, but that they would talk of that later. princess mary was +still looking silently at her brother and her beautiful eyes were full +of love and sadness. it was plain that she was following a train of +thought independent of her sister-in-law’s words. in the midst of a +description of the last petersburg fete she addressed her brother: + +“so you are really going to the war, andrew?” she said sighing. + +lise sighed too. + +“yes, and even tomorrow,” replied her brother. + +“he is leaving me here, god knows why, when he might have had +promotion...” + +princess mary did not listen to the end, but continuing her train of +thought turned to her sister-in-law with a tender glance at her figure. + +“is it certain?” she said. + +the face of the little princess changed. she sighed and said: “yes, +quite certain. ah! it is very dreadful...” + +her lip descended. she brought her face close to her sister-in-law’s +and unexpectedly again began to cry. + +“she needs rest,” said prince andrew with a frown. “don’t you, +lise? take her to your room and i’ll go to father. how is he? just the +same?” + +“yes, just the same. though i don’t know what your opinion will +be,” answered the princess joyfully. + +“and are the hours the same? and the walks in the avenues? and the +lathe?” asked prince andrew with a scarcely perceptible smile which +showed that, in spite of all his love and respect for his father, he was +aware of his weaknesses. + +“the hours are the same, and the lathe, and also the mathematics and +my geometry lessons,” said princess mary gleefully, as if her lessons +in geometry were among the greatest delights of her life. + +when the twenty minutes had elapsed and the time had come for the old +prince to get up, tíkhon came to call the young prince to his father. +the old man made a departure from his usual routine in honor of his +son’s arrival: he gave orders to admit him to his apartments while +he dressed for dinner. the old prince always dressed in old-fashioned +style, wearing an antique coat and powdered hair; and when prince andrew +entered his father’s dressing room (not with the contemptuous look and +manner he wore in drawing rooms, but with the animated face with which +he talked to pierre), the old man was sitting on a large leather-covered +chair, wrapped in a powdering mantle, entrusting his head to tíkhon. + +“ah! here’s the warrior! wants to vanquish buonaparte?” said the +old man, shaking his powdered head as much as the tail, which tíkhon +was holding fast to plait, would allow. + +“you at least must tackle him properly, or else if he goes on like +this he’ll soon have us, too, for his subjects! how are you?” and he +held out his cheek. + +the old man was in a good temper after his nap before dinner. (he +used to say that a nap “after dinner was silver—before dinner, +golden.”) he cast happy, sidelong glances at his son from under his +thick, bushy eyebrows. prince andrew went up and kissed his father on +the spot indicated to him. he made no reply on his father’s favorite +topic—making fun of the military men of the day, and more particularly +of bonaparte. + +“yes, father, i have come to you and brought my wife who is +pregnant,” said prince andrew, following every movement of his +father’s face with an eager and respectful look. “how is your +health?” + +“only fools and rakes fall ill, my boy. you know me: i am busy from +morning till night and abstemious, so of course i am well.” + +“thank god,” said his son smiling. + +“god has nothing to do with it! well, go on,” he continued, +returning to his hobby; “tell me how the germans have taught you to +fight bonaparte by this new science you call ‘strategy.’” + +prince andrew smiled. + +“give me time to collect my wits, father,” said he, with a smile +that showed that his father’s foibles did not prevent his son from +loving and honoring him. “why, i have not yet had time to settle +down!” + +“nonsense, nonsense!” cried the old man, shaking his pigtail to +see whether it was firmly plaited, and grasping his by the hand. “the +house for your wife is ready. princess mary will take her there and +show her over, and they’ll talk nineteen to the dozen. that’s +their woman’s way! i am glad to have her. sit down and talk. about +mikhelson’s army i understand—tolstóy ‘s too... a simultaneous +expedition.... but what’s the southern army to do? prussia is +neutral... i know that. what about austria?” said he, rising from his +chair and pacing up and down the room followed by tíkhon, who ran after +him, handing him different articles of clothing. “what of sweden? how +will they cross pomerania?” + +prince andrew, seeing that his father insisted, began—at first +reluctantly, but gradually with more and more animation, and from habit +changing unconsciously from russian to french as he went on—to explain +the plan of operation for the coming campaign. he explained how an army, +ninety thousand strong, was to threaten prussia so as to bring her out +of her neutrality and draw her into the war; how part of that army was +to join some swedish forces at stralsund; how two hundred and twenty +thousand austrians, with a hundred thousand russians, were to operate in +italy and on the rhine; how fifty thousand russians and as many english +were to land at naples, and how a total force of five hundred thousand +men was to attack the french from different sides. the old prince did +not evince the least interest during this explanation, but as if he were +not listening to it continued to dress while walking about, and three +times unexpectedly interrupted. once he stopped it by shouting: “the +white one, the white one!” + +this meant that tíkhon was not handing him the waistcoat he wanted. +another time he interrupted, saying: + +“and will she soon be confined?” and shaking his head reproachfully +said: “that’s bad! go on, go on.” + +the third interruption came when prince andrew was finishing his +description. the old man began to sing, in the cracked voice of old age: +“malbrook s’en va-t-en guerre. dieu sait quand reviendra.” * + + * “marlborough is going to the wars; god knows when he’ll + return.” + + +his son only smiled. + +“i don’t say it’s a plan i approve of,” said the son; “i am +only telling you what it is. napoleon has also formed his plan by now, +not worse than this one.” + +“well, you’ve told me nothing new,” and the old man repeated, +meditatively and rapidly: + +“dieu sait quand reviendra. go to the dining room.” + + + + + +chapter xxvii + +at the appointed hour the prince, powdered and shaven, entered the +dining room where his daughter-in-law, princess mary, and mademoiselle +bourienne were already awaiting him together with his architect, who by +a strange caprice of his employer’s was admitted to table though the +position of that insignificant individual was such as could certainly +not have caused him to expect that honor. the prince, who generally kept +very strictly to social distinctions and rarely admitted even important +government officials to his table, had unexpectedly selected michael +ivánovich (who always went into a corner to blow his nose on his +checked handkerchief) to illustrate the theory that all men are equals, +and had more than once impressed on his daughter that michael ivánovich +was “not a whit worse than you or i.” at dinner the prince usually +spoke to the taciturn michael ivánovich more often than to anyone else. + +in the dining room, which like all the rooms in the house was +exceedingly lofty, the members of the household and the footmen—one +behind each chair—stood waiting for the prince to enter. the head +butler, napkin on arm, was scanning the setting of the table, making +signs to the footmen, and anxiously glancing from the clock to the door +by which the prince was to enter. prince andrew was looking at a large +gilt frame, new to him, containing the genealogical tree of the princes +bolkónski, opposite which hung another such frame with a badly painted +portrait (evidently by the hand of the artist belonging to the estate) +of a ruling prince, in a crown—an alleged descendant of rúrik and +ancestor of the bolkónskis. prince andrew, looking again at that +genealogical tree, shook his head, laughing as a man laughs who looks at +a portrait so characteristic of the original as to be amusing. + +“how thoroughly like him that is!” he said to princess mary, who had +come up to him. + +princess mary looked at her brother in surprise. she did not understand +what he was laughing at. everything her father did inspired her with +reverence and was beyond question. + +“everyone has his achilles’ heel,” continued prince andrew. +“fancy, with his powerful mind, indulging in such nonsense!” + +princess mary could not understand the boldness of her brother’s +criticism and was about to reply, when the expected footsteps were heard +coming from the study. the prince walked in quickly and jauntily as was +his wont, as if intentionally contrasting the briskness of his manners +with the strict formality of his house. at that moment the great clock +struck two and another with a shrill tone joined in from the drawing +room. the prince stood still; his lively glittering eyes from under +their thick, bushy eyebrows sternly scanned all present and rested on +the little princess. she felt, as courtiers do when the tsar enters, the +sensation of fear and respect which the old man inspired in all around +him. he stroked her hair and then patted her awkwardly on the back of +her neck. + +“i’m glad, glad, to see you,” he said, looking attentively into +her eyes, and then quickly went to his place and sat down. “sit down, +sit down! sit down, michael ivánovich!” + +he indicated a place beside him to his daughter-in-law. a footman moved +the chair for her. + +“ho, ho!” said the old man, casting his eyes on her rounded figure. +“you’ve been in a hurry. that’s bad!” + +he laughed in his usual dry, cold, unpleasant way, with his lips only +and not with his eyes. + +“you must walk, walk as much as possible, as much as possible,” he +said. + +the little princess did not, or did not wish to, hear his words. she was +silent and seemed confused. the prince asked her about her father, and +she began to smile and talk. he asked about mutual acquaintances, and +she became still more animated and chattered away giving him greetings +from various people and retelling the town gossip. + +“countess apráksina, poor thing, has lost her husband and she has +cried her eyes out,” she said, growing more and more lively. + +as she became animated the prince looked at her more and more sternly, +and suddenly, as if he had studied her sufficiently and had formed a +definite idea of her, he turned away and addressed michael ivánovich. + +“well, michael ivánovich, our bonaparte will be having a bad time +of it. prince andrew” (he always spoke thus of his son) “has been +telling me what forces are being collected against him! while you and i +never thought much of him.” + +michael ivánovich did not at all know when “you and i” had said +such things about bonaparte, but understanding that he was wanted as +a peg on which to hang the prince’s favorite topic, he looked +inquiringly at the young prince, wondering what would follow. + +“he is a great tactician!” said the prince to his son, pointing to +the architect. + +and the conversation again turned on the war, on bonaparte, and the +generals and statesmen of the day. the old prince seemed convinced not +only that all the men of the day were mere babies who did not know the +a b c of war or of politics, and that bonaparte was an insignificant +little frenchy, successful only because there were no longer any +potëmkins or suvórovs left to oppose him; but he was also convinced +that there were no political difficulties in europe and no real war, +but only a sort of puppet show at which the men of the day were playing, +pretending to do something real. prince andrew gaily bore with his +father’s ridicule of the new men, and drew him on and listened to him +with evident pleasure. + +“the past always seems good,” said he, “but did not suvórov +himself fall into a trap moreau set him, and from which he did not know +how to escape?” + +“who told you that? who?” cried the prince. “suvórov!” and he +jerked away his plate, which tíkhon briskly caught. “suvórov!... +consider, prince andrew. two... frederick and suvórov; moreau!... +moreau would have been a prisoner if suvórov had had a free hand; but +he had the hofs-kriegs-wurst-schnapps-rath on his hands. it would have +puzzled the devil himself! when you get there you’ll find out what +those hofs-kriegs-wurst-raths are! suvórov couldn’t manage them so +what chance has michael kutúzov? no, my dear boy,” he continued, +“you and your generals won’t get on against buonaparte; you’ll +have to call in the french, so that birds of a feather may fight +together. the german, pahlen, has been sent to new york in america, to +fetch the frenchman, moreau,” he said, alluding to the invitation made +that year to moreau to enter the russian service.... “wonderful!... +were the potëmkins, suvórovs, and orlóvs germans? no, lad, either you +fellows have all lost your wits, or i have outlived mine. may god help +you, but we’ll see what will happen. buonaparte has become a great +commander among them! hm!...” + +“i don’t at all say that all the plans are good,” said prince +andrew, “i am only surprised at your opinion of bonaparte. you +may laugh as much as you like, but all the same bonaparte is a great +general!” + +“michael ivánovich!” cried the old prince to the architect who, +busy with his roast meat, hoped he had been forgotten: “didn’t +i tell you buonaparte was a great tactician? here, he says the same +thing.” + +“to be sure, your excellency,” replied the architect. + +the prince again laughed his frigid laugh. + +“buonaparte was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. he has got +splendid soldiers. besides he began by attacking germans. and only +idlers have failed to beat the germans. since the world began everybody +has beaten the germans. they beat no one—except one another. he made +his reputation fighting them.” + +and the prince began explaining all the blunders which, according to +him, bonaparte had made in his campaigns and even in politics. his +son made no rejoinder, but it was evident that whatever arguments were +presented he was as little able as his father to change his opinion. he +listened, refraining from a reply, and involuntarily wondered how this +old man, living alone in the country for so many years, could know and +discuss so minutely and acutely all the recent european military and +political events. + +“you think i’m an old man and don’t understand the present state +of affairs?” concluded his father. “but it troubles me. i don’t +sleep at night. come now, where has this great commander of yours shown +his skill?” he concluded. + +“that would take too long to tell,” answered the son. + +“well, then go off to your buonaparte! mademoiselle bourienne, +here’s another admirer of that powder-monkey emperor of yours,” he +exclaimed in excellent french. + +“you know, prince, i am not a bonapartist!” + +“dieu sait quand reviendra.” hummed the prince out of tune and, with +a laugh still more so, he quitted the table. + +the little princess during the whole discussion and the rest of +the dinner sat silent, glancing with a frightened look now at her +father-in-law and now at princess mary. when they left the table she +took her sister-in-law’s arm and drew her into another room. + +“what a clever man your father is,” said she; “perhaps that is why +i am afraid of him.” + +“oh, he is so kind!” answered princess mary. + + + + + +chapter xxviii + +prince andrew was to leave next evening. the old prince, not altering +his routine, retired as usual after dinner. the little princess was in +her sister-in-law’s room. prince andrew in a traveling coat without +epaulettes had been packing with his valet in the rooms assigned to him. +after inspecting the carriage himself and seeing the trunks put in, he +ordered the horses to be harnessed. only those things he always kept +with him remained in his room; a small box, a large canteen fitted +with silver plate, two turkish pistols and a saber—a present from +his father who had brought it from the siege of ochákov. all these +traveling effects of prince andrew’s were in very good order: new, +clean, and in cloth covers carefully tied with tapes. + +when starting on a journey or changing their mode of life, men capable +of reflection are generally in a serious frame of mind. at such moments +one reviews the past and plans for the future. prince andrew’s face +looked very thoughtful and tender. with his hands behind him he paced +briskly from corner to corner of the room, looking straight before him +and thoughtfully shaking his head. did he fear going to the war, or was +he sad at leaving his wife?—perhaps both, but evidently he did not +wish to be seen in that mood, for hearing footsteps in the passage he +hurriedly unclasped his hands, stopped at a table as if tying the +cover of the small box, and assumed his usual tranquil and impenetrable +expression. it was the heavy tread of princess mary that he heard. + +“i hear you have given orders to harness,” she cried, panting (she +had apparently been running), “and i did so wish to have another talk +with you alone! god knows how long we may again be parted. you are not +angry with me for coming? you have changed so, andrúsha,” she added, +as if to explain such a question. + +she smiled as she uttered his pet name, “andrúsha.” it was +obviously strange to her to think that this stern handsome man should be +andrúsha—the slender mischievous boy who had been her playfellow in +childhood. + +“and where is lise?” he asked, answering her question only by a +smile. + +“she was so tired that she has fallen asleep on the sofa in my room. +oh, andrew! what a treasure of a wife you have,” said she, sitting +down on the sofa, facing her brother. “she is quite a child: such a +dear, merry child. i have grown so fond of her.” + +prince andrew was silent, but the princess noticed the ironical and +contemptuous look that showed itself on his face. + +“one must be indulgent to little weaknesses; who is free from them, +andrew? don’t forget that she has grown up and been educated in +society, and so her position now is not a rosy one. we should enter into +everyone’s situation. tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner. * think +what it must be for her, poor thing, after what she has been used to, +to be parted from her husband and be left alone in the country, in her +condition! it’s very hard.” + + * to understand all is to forgive all. + +prince andrew smiled as he looked at his sister, as we smile at those we +think we thoroughly understand. + +“you live in the country and don’t think the life terrible,” he +replied. + +“i... that’s different. why speak of me? i don’t want any other +life, and can’t, for i know no other. but think, andrew: for a young +society woman to be buried in the country during the best years of her +life, all alone—for papa is always busy, and i... well, you know what +poor resources i have for entertaining a woman used to the best society. +there is only mademoiselle bourienne....” + +“i don’t like your mademoiselle bourienne at all,” said prince +andrew. + +“no? she is very nice and kind and, above all, she’s much to be +pitied. she has no one, no one. to tell the truth, i don’t need her, +and she’s even in my way. you know i always was a savage, and now am +even more so. i like being alone.... father likes her very much. she and +michael ivánovich are the two people to whom he is always gentle and +kind, because he has been a benefactor to them both. as sterne says: +‘we don’t love people so much for the good they have done us, as +for the good we have done them.’ father took her when she was homeless +after losing her own father. she is very good-natured, and my father +likes her way of reading. she reads to him in the evenings and reads +splendidly.” + +“to be quite frank, mary, i expect father’s character sometimes +makes things trying for you, doesn’t it?” prince andrew asked +suddenly. + +princess mary was first surprised and then aghast at this question. + +“for me? for me?... trying for me!...” said she. + +“he always was rather harsh; and now i should think he’s getting +very trying,” said prince andrew, apparently speaking lightly of their +father in order to puzzle or test his sister. + +“you are good in every way, andrew, but you have a kind of +intellectual pride,” said the princess, following the train of her own +thoughts rather than the trend of the conversation—“and that’s a +great sin. how can one judge father? but even if one might, what feeling +except veneration could such a man as my father evoke? and i am so +contented and happy with him. i only wish you were all as happy as i +am.” + +her brother shook his head incredulously. + +“the only thing that is hard for me... i will tell you the truth, +andrew... is father’s way of treating religious subjects. i don’t +understand how a man of his immense intellect can fail to see what is +as clear as day, and can go so far astray. that is the only thing +that makes me unhappy. but even in this i can see lately a shade of +improvement. his satire has been less bitter of late, and there was a +monk he received and had a long talk with.” + +“ah! my dear, i am afraid you and your monk are wasting your +powder,” said prince andrew banteringly yet tenderly. + +“ah! mon ami, i only pray, and hope that god will hear me. +andrew...” she said timidly after a moment’s silence, “i have a +great favor to ask of you.” + +“what is it, dear?” + +“no—promise that you will not refuse! it will give you no trouble +and is nothing unworthy of you, but it will comfort me. promise, +andrúsha!...” said she, putting her hand in her reticule but not yet +taking out what she was holding inside it, as if what she held were +the subject of her request and must not be shown before the request was +granted. + +she looked timidly at her brother. + +“even if it were a great deal of trouble...” answered prince andrew, +as if guessing what it was about. + +“think what you please! i know you are just like father. think as +you please, but do this for my sake! please do! father’s father, our +grandfather, wore it in all his wars.” (she still did not take out +what she was holding in her reticule.) “so you promise?” + +“of course. what is it?” + +“andrew, i bless you with this icon and you must promise me you will +never take it off. do you promise?” + +“if it does not weigh a hundredweight and won’t break my neck... +to please you...” said prince andrew. but immediately, noticing +the pained expression his joke had brought to his sister’s face, he +repented and added: “i am glad; really, dear, i am very glad.” + +“against your will he will save and have mercy on you and bring you +to himself, for in him alone is truth and peace,” said she in a voice +trembling with emotion, solemnly holding up in both hands before her +brother a small, oval, antique, dark-faced icon of the saviour in a gold +setting, on a finely wrought silver chain. + +she crossed herself, kissed the icon, and handed it to andrew. + +“please, andrew, for my sake!...” + +rays of gentle light shone from her large, timid eyes. those eyes lit +up the whole of her thin, sickly face and made it beautiful. her brother +would have taken the icon, but she stopped him. andrew understood, +crossed himself and kissed the icon. there was a look of tenderness, for +he was touched, but also a gleam of irony on his face. + +“thank you, my dear.” she kissed him on the forehead and sat down +again on the sofa. they were silent for a while. + +“as i was saying to you, andrew, be kind and generous as you always +used to be. don’t judge lise harshly,” she began. “she is so +sweet, so good-natured, and her position now is a very hard one.” + +“i do not think i have complained of my wife to you, másha, or blamed +her. why do you say all this to me?” + +red patches appeared on princess mary’s face and she was silent as if +she felt guilty. + +“i have said nothing to you, but you have already been talked to. and +i am sorry for that,” he went on. + +the patches grew deeper on her forehead, neck, and cheeks. she tried to +say something but could not. her brother had guessed right: the little +princess had been crying after dinner and had spoken of her forebodings +about her confinement, and how she dreaded it, and had complained of her +fate, her father-in-law, and her husband. after crying she had fallen +asleep. prince andrew felt sorry for his sister. + +“know this, másha: i can’t reproach, have not reproached, and never +shall reproach my wife with anything, and i cannot reproach myself +with anything in regard to her; and that always will be so in whatever +circumstances i may be placed. but if you want to know the truth... if +you want to know whether i am happy? no! is she happy? no! but why this +is so i don’t know...” + +as he said this he rose, went to his sister, and, stooping, kissed +her forehead. his fine eyes lit up with a thoughtful, kindly, and +unaccustomed brightness, but he was looking not at his sister but over +her head toward the darkness of the open doorway. + +“let us go to her, i must say good-by. or—go and wake and i’ll +come in a moment. petrúshka!” he called to his valet: “come here, +take these away. put this on the seat and this to the right.” + +princess mary rose and moved to the door, then stopped and said: +“andrew, if you had faith you would have turned to god and asked him +to give you the love you do not feel, and your prayer would have been +answered.” + +“well, maybe!” said prince andrew. “go, másha; i’ll come +immediately.” + +on the way to his sister’s room, in the passage which connected one +wing with the other, prince andrew met mademoiselle bourienne smiling +sweetly. it was the third time that day that, with an ecstatic and +artless smile, she had met him in secluded passages. + +“oh! i thought you were in your room,” she said, for some reason +blushing and dropping her eyes. + +prince andrew looked sternly at her and an expression of anger suddenly +came over his face. he said nothing to her but looked at her forehead +and hair, without looking at her eyes, with such contempt that the +frenchwoman blushed and went away without a word. when he reached his +sister’s room his wife was already awake and her merry voice, hurrying +one word after another, came through the open door. she was speaking as +usual in french, and as if after long self-restraint she wished to make +up for lost time. + +“no, but imagine the old countess zúbova, with false curls and her +mouth full of false teeth, as if she were trying to cheat old age.... +ha, ha, ha! mary!” + +this very sentence about countess zúbova and this same laugh prince +andrew had already heard from his wife in the presence of others some +five times. he entered the room softly. the little princess, plump and +rosy, was sitting in an easy chair with her work in her hands, talking +incessantly, repeating petersburg reminiscences and even phrases. prince +andrew came up, stroked her hair, and asked if she felt rested after +their journey. she answered him and continued her chatter. + +the coach with six horses was waiting at the porch. it was an autumn +night, so dark that the coachman could not see the carriage pole. +servants with lanterns were bustling about in the porch. the immense +house was brilliant with lights shining through its lofty windows. the +domestic serfs were crowding in the hall, waiting to bid good-by to +the young prince. the members of the household were all gathered in the +reception hall: michael ivánovich, mademoiselle bourienne, princess +mary, and the little princess. prince andrew had been called to his +father’s study as the latter wished to say good-by to him alone. all +were waiting for them to come out. + +when prince andrew entered the study the old man in his old-age +spectacles and white dressing gown, in which he received no one but his +son, sat at the table writing. he glanced round. + +“going?” and he went on writing. + +“i’ve come to say good-by.” + +“kiss me here,” and he touched his cheek: “thanks, thanks!” + +“what do you thank me for?” + +“for not dilly-dallying and not hanging to a woman’s apron strings. +the service before everything. thanks, thanks!” and he went on +writing, so that his quill spluttered and squeaked. “if you have +anything to say, say it. these two things can be done together,” he +added. + +“about my wife... i am ashamed as it is to leave her on your +hands....” + +“why talk nonsense? say what you want.” + +“when her confinement is due, send to moscow for an accoucheur.... let +him be here....” + +the old prince stopped writing and, as if not understanding, fixed his +stern eyes on his son. + +“i know that no one can help if nature does not do her work,” said +prince andrew, evidently confused. “i know that out of a million +cases only one goes wrong, but it is her fancy and mine. they have been +telling her things. she has had a dream and is frightened.” + +“hm... hm...” muttered the old prince to himself, finishing what he +was writing. “i’ll do it.” + +he signed with a flourish and suddenly turning to his son began to +laugh. + +“it’s a bad business, eh?” + +“what is bad, father?” + +“the wife!” said the old prince, briefly and significantly. + +“i don’t understand!” said prince andrew. + +“no, it can’t be helped, lad,” said the prince. “they’re +all like that; one can’t unmarry. don’t be afraid; i won’t tell +anyone, but you know it yourself.” + +he seized his son by the hand with small bony fingers, shook it, looked +straight into his son’s face with keen eyes which seemed to see +through him, and again laughed his frigid laugh. + +the son sighed, thus admitting that his father had understood him. the +old man continued to fold and seal his letter, snatching up and throwing +down the wax, the seal, and the paper, with his accustomed rapidity. + +“what’s to be done? she’s pretty! i will do everything. make your +mind easy,” said he in abrupt sentences while sealing his letter. + +andrew did not speak; he was both pleased and displeased that his father +understood him. the old man got up and gave the letter to his son. + +“listen!” said he; “don’t worry about your wife: what can be +done shall be. now listen! give this letter to michael ilariónovich. * +i have written that he should make use of you in proper places and not +keep you long as an adjutant: a bad position! tell him i remember +and like him. write and tell me how he receives you. if he is all +right—serve him. nicholas bolkónski’s son need not serve under +anyone if he is in disfavor. now come here.” + + *kutúzov. + +he spoke so rapidly that he did not finish half his words, but his son +was accustomed to understand him. he led him to the desk, raised the +lid, drew out a drawer, and took out an exercise book filled with his +bold, tall, close handwriting. + +“i shall probably die before you. so remember, these are my memoirs; +hand them to the emperor after my death. now here is a lombard bond +and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of +suvórov’s wars. send it to the academy. here are some jottings for +you to read when i am gone. you will find them useful.” + +andrew did not tell his father that he would no doubt live a long time +yet. he felt that he must not say it. + +“i will do it all, father,” he said. + +“well, now, good-by!” he gave his son his hand to kiss, and embraced +him. “remember this, prince andrew, if they kill you it will hurt me, +your old father...” he paused unexpectedly, and then in a querulous +voice suddenly shrieked: “but if i hear that you have not behaved like +a son of nicholas bolkónski, i shall be ashamed!” + +“you need not have said that to me, father,” said the son with a +smile. + +the old man was silent. + +“i also wanted to ask you,” continued prince andrew, “if i’m +killed and if i have a son, do not let him be taken away from you—as i +said yesterday... let him grow up with you.... please.” + +“not let the wife have him?” said the old man, and laughed. + +they stood silent, facing one another. the old man’s sharp eyes were +fixed straight on his son’s. something twitched in the lower part of +the old prince’s face. + +“we’ve said good-by. go!” he suddenly shouted in a loud, angry +voice, opening his door. + +“what is it? what?” asked both princesses when they saw for a moment +at the door prince andrew and the figure of the old man in a white +dressing gown, spectacled and wigless, shouting in an angry voice. + +prince andrew sighed and made no reply. + +“well!” he said, turning to his wife. + +and this “well!” sounded coldly ironic, as if he were saying: “now +go through your performance.” + +“andrew, already!” said the little princess, turning pale and +looking with dismay at her husband. + +he embraced her. she screamed and fell unconscious on his shoulder. + +he cautiously released the shoulder she leaned on, looked into her face, +and carefully placed her in an easy chair. + +“adieu, mary,” said he gently to his sister, taking her by the hand +and kissing her, and then he left the room with rapid steps. + +the little princess lay in the armchair, mademoiselle bourienne chafing +her temples. princess mary, supporting her sister-in-law, still looked +with her beautiful eyes full of tears at the door through which prince +andrew had gone and made the sign of the cross in his direction. from +the study, like pistol shots, came the frequent sound of the old man +angrily blowing his nose. hardly had prince andrew gone when the study +door opened quickly and the stern figure of the old man in the white +dressing gown looked out. + +“gone? that’s all right!” said he; and looking angrily at the +unconscious little princess, he shook his head reprovingly and slammed +the door. + + + + + +book two: 1805 + + + + + +chapter i + +in october, 1805, a russian army was occupying the villages and towns of +the archduchy of austria, and yet other regiments freshly arriving from +russia were settling near the fortress of braunau and burdening the +inhabitants on whom they were quartered. braunau was the headquarters of +the commander in chief, kutúzov. + +on october 11, 1805, one of the infantry regiments that had just reached +braunau had halted half a mile from the town, waiting to be inspected +by the commander in chief. despite the un-russian appearance of the +locality and surroundings—fruit gardens, stone fences, tiled roofs, +and hills in the distance—and despite the fact that the inhabitants +(who gazed with curiosity at the soldiers) were not russians, the +regiment had just the appearance of any russian regiment preparing for +an inspection anywhere in the heart of russia. + +on the evening of the last day’s march an order had been received that +the commander in chief would inspect the regiment on the march. though +the words of the order were not clear to the regimental commander, and +the question arose whether the troops were to be in marching order or +not, it was decided at a consultation between the battalion commanders +to present the regiment in parade order, on the principle that it is +always better to “bow too low than not bow low enough.” so the +soldiers, after a twenty-mile march, were kept mending and cleaning all +night long without closing their eyes, while the adjutants and +company commanders calculated and reckoned, and by morning the +regiment—instead of the straggling, disorderly crowd it had been on +its last march the day before—presented a well-ordered array of two +thousand men each of whom knew his place and his duty, had every button +and every strap in place, and shone with cleanliness. and not only +externally was all in order, but had it pleased the commander in chief +to look under the uniforms he would have found on every man a clean +shirt, and in every knapsack the appointed number of articles, “awl, +soap, and all,” as the soldiers say. there was only one circumstance +concerning which no one could be at ease. it was the state of the +soldiers’ boots. more than half the men’s boots were in holes. but +this defect was not due to any fault of the regimental commander, for +in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the austrian +commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred miles. + +the commander of the regiment was an elderly, choleric, stout, and +thick-set general with grizzled eyebrows and whiskers, and wider from +chest to back than across the shoulders. he had on a brand-new uniform +showing the creases where it had been folded and thick gold epaulettes +which seemed to stand rather than lie down on his massive shoulders. he +had the air of a man happily performing one of the most solemn duties of +his life. he walked about in front of the line and at every step pulled +himself up, slightly arching his back. it was plain that the commander +admired his regiment, rejoiced in it, and that his whole mind was +engrossed by it, yet his strut seemed to indicate that, besides military +matters, social interests and the fair sex occupied no small part of his +thoughts. + +“well, michael mítrich, sir?” he said, addressing one of the +battalion commanders who smilingly pressed forward (it was plain that +they both felt happy). “we had our hands full last night. however, i +think the regiment is not a bad one, eh?” + +the battalion commander perceived the jovial irony and laughed. + +“it would not be turned off the field even on the tsarítsin +meadow.” + +“what?” asked the commander. + +at that moment, on the road from the town on which signalers had been +posted, two men appeared on horse back. they were an aide-de-camp +followed by a cossack. + +the aide-de-camp was sent to confirm the order which had not been +clearly worded the day before, namely, that the commander in chief +wished to see the regiment just in the state in which it had been on +the march: in their greatcoats, and packs, and without any preparation +whatever. + +a member of the hofkriegsrath from vienna had come to kutúzov the day +before with proposals and demands for him to join up with the army of +the archduke ferdinand and mack, and kutúzov, not considering this +junction advisable, meant, among other arguments in support of his view, +to show the austrian general the wretched state in which the troops +arrived from russia. with this object he intended to meet the regiment; +so the worse the condition it was in, the better pleased the commander +in chief would be. though the aide-de-camp did not know these +circumstances, he nevertheless delivered the definite order that the +men should be in their greatcoats and in marching order, and that the +commander in chief would otherwise be dissatisfied. on hearing this the +regimental commander hung his head, silently shrugged his shoulders, and +spread out his arms with a choleric gesture. + +“a fine mess we’ve made of it!” he remarked. + +“there now! didn’t i tell you, michael mítrich, that if it was said +‘on the march’ it meant in greatcoats?” said he reproachfully to +the battalion commander. “oh, my god!” he added, stepping resolutely +forward. “company commanders!” he shouted in a voice accustomed to +command. “sergeants major!... how soon will he be here?” he asked +the aide-de-camp with a respectful politeness evidently relating to the +personage he was referring to. + +“in an hour’s time, i should say.” + +“shall we have time to change clothes?” + +“i don’t know, general....” + +the regimental commander, going up to the line himself, ordered the +soldiers to change into their greatcoats. the company commanders ran off +to their companies, the sergeants major began bustling (the greatcoats +were not in very good condition), and instantly the squares that had up +to then been in regular order and silent began to sway and stretch and +hum with voices. on all sides soldiers were running to and fro, throwing +up their knapsacks with a jerk of their shoulders and pulling the straps +over their heads, unstrapping their overcoats and drawing the sleeves on +with upraised arms. + +in half an hour all was again in order, only the squares had become gray +instead of black. the regimental commander walked with his jerky steps +to the front of the regiment and examined it from a distance. + +“whatever is this? this!” he shouted and stood still. “commander +of the third company!” + +“commander of the third company wanted by the general!... commander to +the general... third company to the commander.” the words passed along +the lines and an adjutant ran to look for the missing officer. + +when the eager but misrepeated words had reached their destination in +a cry of: “the general to the third company,” the missing officer +appeared from behind his company and, though he was a middle-aged man +and not in the habit of running, trotted awkwardly stumbling on his +toes toward the general. the captain’s face showed the uneasiness of +a schoolboy who is told to repeat a lesson he has not learned. spots +appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to +intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously. the general looked the +captain up and down as he came up panting, slackening his pace as he +approached. + +“you will soon be dressing your men in petticoats! what is this?” +shouted the regimental commander, thrusting forward his jaw and pointing +at a soldier in the ranks of the third company in a greatcoat of bluish +cloth, which contrasted with the others. “what have you been after? +the commander in chief is expected and you leave your place? eh? i’ll +teach you to dress the men in fancy coats for a parade.... eh...?” + +the commander of the company, with his eyes fixed on his superior, +pressed two fingers more and more rigidly to his cap, as if in this +pressure lay his only hope of salvation. + +“well, why don’t you speak? whom have you got there dressed up as a +hungarian?” said the commander with an austere gibe. + +“your excellency...” + +“well, your excellency, what? your excellency! but what about your +excellency?... nobody knows.” + +“your excellency, it’s the officer dólokhov, who has been reduced +to the ranks,” said the captain softly. + +“well? has he been degraded into a field marshal, or into a soldier? +if a soldier, he should be dressed in regulation uniform like the +others.” + +“your excellency, you gave him leave yourself, on the march.” + +“gave him leave? leave? that’s just like you young men,” said the +regimental commander cooling down a little. “leave indeed.... one says +a word to you and you... what?” he added with renewed irritation, “i +beg you to dress your men decently.” + +and the commander, turning to look at the adjutant, directed his jerky +steps down the line. he was evidently pleased at his own display of +anger and walking up to the regiment wished to find a further excuse for +wrath. having snapped at an officer for an unpolished badge, at another +because his line was not straight, he reached the third company. + +“h-o-o-w are you standing? where’s your leg? your leg?” shouted +the commander with a tone of suffering in his voice, while there were +still five men between him and dólokhov with his bluish-gray uniform. + +dólokhov slowly straightened his bent knee, looking straight with his +clear, insolent eyes in the general’s face. + +“why a blue coat? off with it... sergeant major! change his coat... +the ras...” he did not finish. + +“general, i must obey orders, but i am not bound to endure...” +dólokhov hurriedly interrupted. + +“no talking in the ranks!... no talking, no talking!” + +“not bound to endure insults,” dólokhov concluded in loud, ringing +tones. + +the eyes of the general and the soldier met. the general became silent, +angrily pulling down his tight scarf. + +“i request you to have the goodness to change your coat,” he said as +he turned away. + + + + + +chapter ii + +“he’s coming!” shouted the signaler at that moment. + +the regimental commander, flushing, ran to his horse, seized the stirrup +with trembling hands, threw his body across the saddle, righted himself, +drew his saber, and with a happy and resolute countenance, opening +his mouth awry, prepared to shout. the regiment fluttered like a bird +preening its plumage and became motionless. + +“att-ention!” shouted the regimental commander in a soul-shaking +voice which expressed joy for himself, severity for the regiment, and +welcome for the approaching chief. + +along the broad country road, edged on both sides by trees, came a high, +light blue viennese calèche, slightly creaking on its springs and drawn +by six horses at a smart trot. behind the calèche galloped the suite +and a convoy of croats. beside kutúzov sat an austrian general, in +a white uniform that looked strange among the russian black ones. the +calèche stopped in front of the regiment. kutúzov and the austrian +general were talking in low voices and kutúzov smiled slightly as +treading heavily he stepped down from the carriage just as if those two +thousand men breathlessly gazing at him and the regimental commander did +not exist. + +the word of command rang out, and again the regiment quivered, as with a +jingling sound it presented arms. then amidst a dead silence the +feeble voice of the commander in chief was heard. the regiment roared, +“health to your ex... len... len... lency!” and again all became +silent. at first kutúzov stood still while the regiment moved; then he +and the general in white, accompanied by the suite, walked between the +ranks. + +from the way the regimental commander saluted the commander in chief and +devoured him with his eyes, drawing himself up obsequiously, and from +the way he walked through the ranks behind the generals, bending forward +and hardly able to restrain his jerky movements, and from the way he +darted forward at every word or gesture of the commander in chief, +it was evident that he performed his duty as a subordinate with even +greater zeal than his duty as a commander. thanks to the strictness and +assiduity of its commander the regiment, in comparison with others that +had reached braunau at the same time, was in splendid condition. there +were only 217 sick and stragglers. everything was in good order except +the boots. + +kutúzov walked through the ranks, sometimes stopping to say a few +friendly words to officers he had known in the turkish war, sometimes +also to the soldiers. looking at their boots he several times shook his +head sadly, pointing them out to the austrian general with an expression +which seemed to say that he was not blaming anyone, but could not help +noticing what a bad state of things it was. the regimental commander +ran forward on each such occasion, fearing to miss a single word of the +commander in chief’s regarding the regiment. behind kutúzov, at a +distance that allowed every softly spoken word to be heard, followed +some twenty men of his suite. these gentlemen talked among themselves +and sometimes laughed. nearest of all to the commander in chief walked +a handsome adjutant. this was prince bolkónski. beside him was his +comrade nesvítski, a tall staff officer, extremely stout, with a +kindly, smiling, handsome face and moist eyes. nesvítski could hardly +keep from laughter provoked by a swarthy hussar officer who walked +beside him. this hussar, with a grave face and without a smile or a +change in the expression of his fixed eyes, watched the regimental +commander’s back and mimicked his every movement. each time the +commander started and bent forward, the hussar started and bent forward +in exactly the same manner. nesvítski laughed and nudged the others to +make them look at the wag. + +kutúzov walked slowly and languidly past thousands of eyes which were +starting from their sockets to watch their chief. on reaching the +third company he suddenly stopped. his suite, not having expected this, +involuntarily came closer to him. + +“ah, timókhin!” said he, recognizing the red-nosed captain who had +been reprimanded on account of the blue greatcoat. + +one would have thought it impossible for a man to stretch himself +more than timókhin had done when he was reprimanded by the regimental +commander, but now that the commander in chief addressed him he drew +himself up to such an extent that it seemed he could not have sustained +it had the commander in chief continued to look at him, and so kutúzov, +who evidently understood his case and wished him nothing but good, +quickly turned away, a scarcely perceptible smile flitting over his +scarred and puffy face. + +“another ismail comrade,” said he. “a brave officer! are you +satisfied with him?” he asked the regimental commander. + +and the latter—unconscious that he was being reflected in the hussar +officer as in a looking glass—started, moved forward, and answered: +“highly satisfied, your excellency!” + +“we all have our weaknesses,” said kutúzov smiling and walking away +from him. “he used to have a predilection for bacchus.” + +the regimental commander was afraid he might be blamed for this and did +not answer. the hussar at that moment noticed the face of the red-nosed +captain and his drawn-in stomach, and mimicked his expression and pose +with such exactitude that nesvítski could not help laughing. kutúzov +turned round. the officer evidently had complete control of his face, +and while kutúzov was turning managed to make a grimace and then assume +a most serious, deferential, and innocent expression. + +the third company was the last, and kutúzov pondered, apparently trying +to recollect something. prince andrew stepped forward from among the +suite and said in french: + +“you told me to remind you of the officer dólokhov, reduced to the +ranks in this regiment.” + +“where is dólokhov?” asked kutúzov. + +dólokhov, who had already changed into a soldier’s gray greatcoat, +did not wait to be called. the shapely figure of the fair-haired +soldier, with his clear blue eyes, stepped forward from the ranks, went +up to the commander in chief, and presented arms. + +“have you a complaint to make?” kutúzov asked with a slight frown. + +“this is dólokhov,” said prince andrew. + +“ah!” said kutúzov. “i hope this will be a lesson to you. do your +duty. the emperor is gracious, and i shan’t forget you if you deserve +well.” + +the clear blue eyes looked at the commander in chief just as boldly as +they had looked at the regimental commander, seeming by their expression +to tear open the veil of convention that separates a commander in chief +so widely from a private. + +“one thing i ask of your excellency,” dólokhov said in his firm, +ringing, deliberate voice. “i ask an opportunity to atone for my fault +and prove my devotion to his majesty the emperor and to russia!” + +kutúzov turned away. the same smile of the eyes with which he had +turned from captain timókhin again flitted over his face. he turned +away with a grimace as if to say that everything dólokhov had said to +him and everything he could say had long been known to him, that he was +weary of it and it was not at all what he wanted. he turned away and +went to the carriage. + +the regiment broke up into companies, which went to their appointed +quarters near braunau, where they hoped to receive boots and clothes and +to rest after their hard marches. + +“you won’t bear me a grudge, prokhór ignátych?” said the +regimental commander, overtaking the third company on its way to its +quarters and riding up to captain timókhin who was walking in front. +(the regimental commander’s face now that the inspection was happily +over beamed with irrepressible delight.) “it’s in the emperor’s +service... it can’t be helped... one is sometimes a bit hasty on +parade... i am the first to apologize, you know me!... he was very +pleased!” and he held out his hand to the captain. + +“don’t mention it, general, as if i’d be so bold!” replied the +captain, his nose growing redder as he gave a smile which showed where +two front teeth were missing that had been knocked out by the butt end +of a gun at ismail. + +“and tell mr. dólokhov that i won’t forget him—he may be quite +easy. and tell me, please—i’ve been meaning to ask—how is he +behaving himself, and in general...” + +“as far as the service goes he is quite punctilious, your excellency; +but his character...” said timókhin. + +“and what about his character?” asked the regimental commander. + +“it’s different on different days,” answered the captain. “one +day he is sensible, well educated, and good-natured, and the next he’s +a wild beast.... in poland, if you please, he nearly killed a jew.” + +“oh, well, well!” remarked the regimental commander. “still, one +must have pity on a young man in misfortune. you know he has important +connections... well, then, you just...” + +“i will, your excellency,” said timókhin, showing by his smile that +he understood his commander’s wish. + +“well, of course, of course!” + +the regimental commander sought out dólokhov in the ranks and, reining +in his horse, said to him: + +“after the next affair... epaulettes.” + +dólokhov looked round but did not say anything, nor did the mocking +smile on his lips change. + +“well, that’s all right,” continued the regimental commander. “a +cup of vodka for the men from me,” he added so that the soldiers +could hear. “i thank you all! god be praised!” and he rode past that +company and overtook the next one. + +“well, he’s really a good fellow, one can serve under him,” said +timókhin to the subaltern beside him. + +“in a word, a hearty one...” said the subaltern, laughing (the +regimental commander was nicknamed king of hearts). + +the cheerful mood of their officers after the inspection infected the +soldiers. the company marched on gaily. the soldiers’ voices could be +heard on every side. + +“and they said kutúzov was blind of one eye?” + +“and so he is! quite blind!” + +“no, friend, he is sharper-eyed than you are. boots and leg bands... +he noticed everything...” + +“when he looked at my feet, friend... well, thinks i...” + +“and that other one with him, the austrian, looked as if he were +smeared with chalk—as white as flour! i suppose they polish him up as +they do the guns.” + +“i say, fédeshon!... did he say when the battles are to begin? you +were near him. everybody said that buonaparte himself was at braunau.” + +“buonaparte himself!... just listen to the fool, what he doesn’t +know! the prussians are up in arms now. the austrians, you see, are +putting them down. when they’ve been put down, the war with buonaparte +will begin. and he says buonaparte is in braunau! shows you’re a fool. +you’d better listen more carefully!” + +“what devils these quartermasters are! see, the fifth company is +turning into the village already... they will have their buckwheat +cooked before we reach our quarters.” + +“give me a biscuit, you devil!” + +“and did you give me tobacco yesterday? that’s just it, friend! ah, +well, never mind, here you are.” + +“they might call a halt here or we’ll have to do another four miles +without eating.” + +“wasn’t it fine when those germans gave us lifts! you just sit still +and are drawn along.” + +“and here, friend, the people are quite beggarly. there they all +seemed to be poles—all under the russian crown—but here they’re +all regular germans.” + +“singers to the front” came the captain’s order. + +and from the different ranks some twenty men ran to the front. a +drummer, their leader, turned round facing the singers, and flourishing +his arm, began a long-drawn-out soldiers’ song, commencing with the +words: “morning dawned, the sun was rising,” and concluding: “on +then, brothers, on to glory, led by father kámenski.” this song had +been composed in the turkish campaign and now being sung in austria, the +only change being that the words “father kámenski” were replaced by +“father kutúzov.” + +having jerked out these last words as soldiers do and waved his arms +as if flinging something to the ground, the drummer—a lean, handsome +soldier of forty—looked sternly at the singers and screwed up his +eyes. then having satisfied himself that all eyes were fixed on him, +he raised both arms as if carefully lifting some invisible but precious +object above his head and, holding it there for some seconds, suddenly +flung it down and began: + +“oh, my bower, oh, my bower...!” + +“oh, my bower new...!” chimed in twenty voices, and the castanet +player, in spite of the burden of his equipment, rushed out to the front +and, walking backwards before the company, jerked his shoulders and +flourished his castanets as if threatening someone. the soldiers, +swinging their arms and keeping time spontaneously, marched with long +steps. behind the company the sound of wheels, the creaking of springs, +and the tramp of horses’ hoofs were heard. kutúzov and his suite were +returning to the town. the commander in chief made a sign that the +men should continue to march at ease, and he and all his suite showed +pleasure at the sound of the singing and the sight of the dancing +soldier and the gay and smartly marching men. in the second file +from the right flank, beside which the carriage passed the company, +a blue-eyed soldier involuntarily attracted notice. it was dólokhov +marching with particular grace and boldness in time to the song and +looking at those driving past as if he pitied all who were not at that +moment marching with the company. the hussar cornet of kutúzov’s +suite who had mimicked the regimental commander, fell back from the +carriage and rode up to dólokhov. + +hussar cornet zherkóv had at one time, in petersburg, belonged to +the wild set led by dólokhov. zherkóv had met dólokhov abroad as a +private and had not seen fit to recognize him. but now that kutúzov had +spoken to the gentleman ranker, he addressed him with the cordiality of +an old friend. + +“my dear fellow, how are you?” said he through the singing, making +his horse keep pace with the company. + +“how am i?” dólokhov answered coldly. “i am as you see.” + +the lively song gave a special flavor to the tone of free and easy +gaiety with which zherkóv spoke, and to the intentional coldness of +dólokhov’s reply. + +“and how do you get on with the officers?” inquired zherkóv. + +“all right. they are good fellows. and how have you wriggled onto the +staff?” + +“i was attached; i’m on duty.” + +both were silent. + +“she let the hawk fly upward from her wide right sleeve,” went the +song, arousing an involuntary sensation of courage and cheerfulness. +their conversation would probably have been different but for the effect +of that song. + +“is it true that austrians have been beaten?” asked dólokhov. + +“the devil only knows! they say so.” + +“i’m glad,” answered dólokhov briefly and clearly, as the song +demanded. + +“i say, come round some evening and we’ll have a game of faro!” +said zherkóv. + +“why, have you too much money?” + +“do come.” + +“i can’t. i’ve sworn not to. i won’t drink and won’t play till +i get reinstated.” + +“well, that’s only till the first engagement.” + +“we shall see.” + +they were again silent. + +“come if you need anything. one can at least be of use on the +staff...” + +dólokhov smiled. “don’t trouble. if i want anything, i won’t +beg—i’ll take it!” + +“well, never mind; i only...” + +“and i only...” + +“good-by.” + +“good health...” + + “it’s a long, long way. + to my native land...” + + +zherkóv touched his horse with the spurs; it pranced excitedly from +foot to foot uncertain with which to start, then settled down, galloped +past the company, and overtook the carriage, still keeping time to the +song. + + + + + +chapter iii + +on returning from the review, kutúzov took the austrian general into +his private room and, calling his adjutant, asked for some papers +relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the +letters that had come from the archduke ferdinand, who was in command of +the advanced army. prince andrew bolkónski came into the room with the +required papers. kutúzov and the austrian member of the hofkriegsrath +were sitting at the table on which a plan was spread out. + +“ah!...” said kutúzov glancing at bolkónski as if by this +exclamation he was asking the adjutant to wait, and he went on with the +conversation in french. + +“all i can say, general,” said he with a pleasant elegance +of expression and intonation that obliged one to listen to each +deliberately spoken word. it was evident that kutúzov himself listened +with pleasure to his own voice. “all i can say, general, is that if +the matter depended on my personal wishes, the will of his majesty the +emperor francis would have been fulfilled long ago. i should long +ago have joined the archduke. and believe me on my honour that to me +personally it would be a pleasure to hand over the supreme command +of the army into the hands of a better informed and more skillful +general—of whom austria has so many—and to lay down all this heavy +responsibility. but circumstances are sometimes too strong for us, +general.” + +and kutúzov smiled in a way that seemed to say, “you are quite at +liberty not to believe me and i don’t even care whether you do or +not, but you have no grounds for telling me so. and that is the whole +point.” + +the austrian general looked dissatisfied, but had no option but to reply +in the same tone. + +“on the contrary,” he said, in a querulous and angry tone that +contrasted with his flattering words, “on the contrary, your +excellency’s participation in the common action is highly valued by +his majesty; but we think the present delay is depriving the splendid +russian troops and their commander of the laurels they have been +accustomed to win in their battles,” he concluded his evidently +prearranged sentence. + +kutúzov bowed with the same smile. + +“but that is my conviction, and judging by the last letter with which +his highness the archduke ferdinand has honored me, i imagine that the +austrian troops, under the direction of so skillful a leader as general +mack, have by now already gained a decisive victory and no longer need +our aid,” said kutúzov. + +the general frowned. though there was no definite news of an austrian +defeat, there were many circumstances confirming the unfavorable rumors +that were afloat, and so kutúzov’s suggestion of an austrian victory +sounded much like irony. but kutúzov went on blandly smiling with the +same expression, which seemed to say that he had a right to suppose +so. and, in fact, the last letter he had received from mack’s army +informed him of a victory and stated strategically the position of the +army was very favorable. + +“give me that letter,” said kutúzov turning to prince andrew. +“please have a look at it”—and kutúzov with an ironical smile +about the corners of his mouth read to the austrian general the +following passage, in german, from the archduke ferdinand’s letter: + +we have fully concentrated forces of nearly seventy thousand men with +which to attack and defeat the enemy should he cross the lech. also, +as we are masters of ulm, we cannot be deprived of the advantage of +commanding both sides of the danube, so that should the enemy not +cross the lech, we can cross the danube, throw ourselves on his line +of communications, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his +intention should he try to direct his whole force against our faithful +ally. we shall therefore confidently await the moment when the imperial +russian army will be fully equipped, and shall then, in conjunction with +it, easily find a way to prepare for the enemy the fate he deserves. + +kutúzov sighed deeply on finishing this paragraph and looked at the +member of the hofkriegsrath mildly and attentively. + +“but you know the wise maxim your excellency, advising one to expect +the worst,” said the austrian general, evidently wishing to have done +with jests and to come to business. he involuntarily looked round at the +aide-de-camp. + +“excuse me, general,” interrupted kutúzov, also turning to prince +andrew. “look here, my dear fellow, get from kozlóvski all the +reports from our scouts. here are two letters from count nostitz and +here is one from his highness the archduke ferdinand and here are +these,” he said, handing him several papers, “make a neat memorandum +in french out of all this, showing all the news we have had of the +movements of the austrian army, and then give it to his excellency.” + +prince andrew bowed his head in token of having understood from the +first not only what had been said but also what kutúzov would have +liked to tell him. he gathered up the papers and with a bow to both, +stepped softly over the carpet and went out into the waiting room. + +though not much time had passed since prince andrew had left russia, he +had changed greatly during that period. in the expression of his face, +in his movements, in his walk, scarcely a trace was left of his former +affected languor and indolence. he now looked like a man who has time +to think of the impression he makes on others, but is occupied with +agreeable and interesting work. his face expressed more satisfaction +with himself and those around him, his smile and glance were brighter +and more attractive. + +kutúzov, whom he had overtaken in poland, had received him very kindly, +promised not to forget him, distinguished him above the other adjutants, +and had taken him to vienna and given him the more serious commissions. +from vienna kutúzov wrote to his old comrade, prince andrew’s father. + +your son bids fair to become an officer distinguished by his industry, +firmness, and expedition. i consider myself fortunate to have such a +subordinate by me. + +on kutúzov’s staff, among his fellow officers and in the army +generally, prince andrew had, as he had had in petersburg society, two +quite opposite reputations. some, a minority, acknowledged him to be +different from themselves and from everyone else, expected great things +of him, listened to him, admired, and imitated him, and with them prince +andrew was natural and pleasant. others, the majority, disliked him and +considered him conceited, cold, and disagreeable. but among these people +prince andrew knew how to take his stand so that they respected and even +feared him. + +coming out of kutúzov’s room into the waiting room with the papers in +his hand prince andrew came up to his comrade, the aide-de-camp on duty, +kozlóvski, who was sitting at the window with a book. + +“well, prince?” asked kozlóvski. + +“i am ordered to write a memorandum explaining why we are not +advancing.” + +“and why is it?” + +prince andrew shrugged his shoulders. + +“any news from mack?” + +“no.” + +“if it were true that he has been beaten, news would have come.” + +“probably,” said prince andrew moving toward the outer door. + +but at that instant a tall austrian general in a greatcoat, with the +order of maria theresa on his neck and a black bandage round his head, +who had evidently just arrived, entered quickly, slamming the door. +prince andrew stopped short. + +“commander in chief kutúzov?” said the newly arrived general +speaking quickly with a harsh german accent, looking to both sides and +advancing straight toward the inner door. + +“the commander in chief is engaged,” said kozlóvski, going +hurriedly up to the unknown general and blocking his way to the door. +“whom shall i announce?” + +the unknown general looked disdainfully down at kozlóvski, who was +rather short, as if surprised that anyone should not know him. + +“the commander in chief is engaged,” repeated kozlóvski calmly. + +the general’s face clouded, his lips quivered and trembled. he took +out a notebook, hurriedly scribbled something in pencil, tore out the +leaf, gave it to kozlóvski, stepped quickly to the window, and threw +himself into a chair, gazing at those in the room as if asking, “why +do they look at me?” then he lifted his head, stretched his neck as +if he intended to say something, but immediately, with affected +indifference, began to hum to himself, producing a queer sound which +immediately broke off. the door of the private room opened and kutúzov +appeared in the doorway. the general with the bandaged head bent forward +as though running away from some danger, and, making long, quick strides +with his thin legs, went up to kutúzov. + +“vous voyez le malheureux mack,” he uttered in a broken voice. + +kutúzov’s face as he stood in the open doorway remained perfectly +immobile for a few moments. then wrinkles ran over his face like a wave +and his forehead became smooth again, he bowed his head respectfully, +closed his eyes, silently let mack enter his room before him, and closed +the door himself behind him. + +the report which had been circulated that the austrians had been beaten +and that the whole army had surrendered at ulm proved to be correct. +within half an hour adjutants had been sent in various directions with +orders which showed that the russian troops, who had hitherto been +inactive, would also soon have to meet the enemy. + +prince andrew was one of those rare staff officers whose chief interest +lay in the general progress of the war. when he saw mack and heard the +details of his disaster he understood that half the campaign was lost, +understood all the difficulties of the russian army’s position, and +vividly imagined what awaited it and the part he would have to +play. involuntarily he felt a joyful agitation at the thought of the +humiliation of arrogant austria and that in a week’s time he might, +perhaps, see and take part in the first russian encounter with the +french since suvórov met them. he feared that bonaparte’s genius +might outweigh all the courage of the russian troops, and at the same +time could not admit the idea of his hero being disgraced. + +excited and irritated by these thoughts prince andrew went toward his +room to write to his father, to whom he wrote every day. in the corridor +he met nesvítski, with whom he shared a room, and the wag zherkóv; +they were as usual laughing. + +“why are you so glum?” asked nesvítski noticing prince andrew’s +pale face and glittering eyes. + +“there’s nothing to be gay about,” answered bolkónski. + +just as prince andrew met nesvítski and zherkóv, there came toward +them from the other end of the corridor, strauch, an austrian general +who on kutúzov’s staff in charge of the provisioning of the russian +army, and the member of the hofkriegsrath who had arrived the previous +evening. there was room enough in the wide corridor for the generals to +pass the three officers quite easily, but zherkóv, pushing nesvítski +aside with his arm, said in a breathless voice, + +“they’re coming!... they’re coming!... stand aside, make way, +please make way!” + +the generals were passing by, looking as if they wished to avoid +embarrassing attentions. on the face of the wag zherkóv there suddenly +appeared a stupid smile of glee which he seemed unable to suppress. + +“your excellency,” said he in german, stepping forward and +addressing the austrian general, “i have the honor to congratulate +you.” + +he bowed his head and scraped first with one foot and then with the +other, awkwardly, like a child at a dancing lesson. + +the member of the hofkriegsrath looked at him severely but, seeing the +seriousness of his stupid smile, could not but give him a moment’s +attention. he screwed up his eyes showing that he was listening. + +“i have the honor to congratulate you. general mack has arrived, quite +well, only a little bruised just here,” he added, pointing with a +beaming smile to his head. + +the general frowned, turned away, and went on. + +“gott, wie naiv!” * said he angrily, after he had gone a few steps. + + * “good god, what simplicity!” + + +nesvítski with a laugh threw his arms round prince andrew, but +bolkónski, turning still paler, pushed him away with an angry look and +turned to zherkóv. the nervous irritation aroused by the appearance +of mack, the news of his defeat, and the thought of what lay before the +russian army found vent in anger at zherkóv’s untimely jest. + +“if you, sir, choose to make a buffoon of yourself,” he said +sharply, with a slight trembling of the lower jaw, “i can’t prevent +your doing so; but i warn you that if you dare to play the fool in my +presence, i will teach you to behave yourself.” + +nesvítski and zherkóv were so surprised by this outburst that they +gazed at bolkónski silently with wide-open eyes. + +“what’s the matter? i only congratulated them,” said zherkóv. + +“i am not jesting with you; please be silent!” cried bolkónski, +and taking nesvítski’s arm he left zherkóv, who did not know what to +say. + +“come, what’s the matter, old fellow?” said nesvítski trying to +soothe him. + +“what’s the matter?” exclaimed prince andrew standing still in +his excitement. “don’t you understand that either we are officers +serving our tsar and our country, rejoicing in the successes and +grieving at the misfortunes of our common cause, or we are merely +lackeys who care nothing for their master’s business. quarante mille +hommes massacrés et l’armée de nos alliés détruite, et vous +trouvez là le mot pour rire,” * he said, as if strengthening his +views by this french sentence. “c’est bien pour un garçon de rien +comme cet individu dont vous avez fait un ami, mais pas pour vous, pas +pour vous. *(2) only a hobbledehoy could amuse himself in this +way,” he added in russian—but pronouncing the word with a french +accent—having noticed that zherkóv could still hear him. + + * “forty thousand men massacred and the army of our allies + destroyed, and you find that a cause for jesting!” + + * (2) “it is all very well for that good-for-nothing fellow + of whom you have made a friend, but not for you, not for + you.” + + +he waited a moment to see whether the cornet would answer, but he turned +and went out of the corridor. + + + + + +chapter iv + +the pávlograd hussars were stationed two miles from braunau. the +squadron in which nicholas rostóv served as a cadet was quartered in +the german village of salzeneck. the best quarters in the village were +assigned to cavalry-captain denísov, the squadron commander, known +throughout the whole cavalry division as váska denísov. cadet rostóv, +ever since he had overtaken the regiment in poland, had lived with the +squadron commander. + +on october 11, the day when all was astir at headquarters over the news +of mack’s defeat, the camp life of the officers of this squadron was +proceeding as usual. denísov, who had been losing at cards all night, +had not yet come home when rostóv rode back early in the morning from +a foraging expedition. rostóv in his cadet uniform, with a jerk to his +horse, rode up to the porch, swung his leg over the saddle with a supple +youthful movement, stood for a moment in the stirrup as if loathe to +part from his horse, and at last sprang down and called to his orderly. + +“ah, bondarénko, dear friend!” said he to the hussar who rushed up +headlong to the horse. “walk him up and down, my dear fellow,” he +continued, with that gay brotherly cordiality which goodhearted young +people show to everyone when they are happy. + +“yes, your excellency,” answered the ukrainian gaily, tossing his +head. + +“mind, walk him up and down well!” + +another hussar also rushed toward the horse, but bondarénko had already +thrown the reins of the snaffle bridle over the horse’s head. it was +evident that the cadet was liberal with his tips and that it paid to +serve him. rostóv patted the horse’s neck and then his flank, and +lingered for a moment. + +“splendid! what a horse he will be!” he thought with a smile, and +holding up his saber, his spurs jingling, he ran up the steps of the +porch. his landlord, who in a waistcoat and a pointed cap, pitchfork in +hand, was clearing manure from the cowhouse, looked out, and his face +immediately brightened on seeing rostóv. “schön gut morgen! schön +gut morgen!” * he said winking with a merry smile, evidently pleased +to greet the young man. + + * “a very good morning! a very good morning!” + + +“schon fleissig?” * said rostóv with the same gay brotherly smile +which did not leave his eager face. “hoch oestreicher! hoch russen! +kaiser alexander hoch!” *(2) said he, quoting words often repeated by +the german landlord. + + * “busy already?” + + * (2) “hurrah for the austrians! hurrah for the russians! + hurrah for emperor alexander!” + + +the german laughed, came out of the cowshed, pulled off his cap, and +waving it above his head cried: + +“und die ganze welt hoch!” * + + * “and hurrah for the whole world!” + + +rostóv waved his cap above his head like the german and cried laughing, +“und vivat die ganze welt!” though neither the german cleaning his +cowshed nor rostóv back with his platoon from foraging for hay had any +reason for rejoicing, they looked at each other with joyful delight and +brotherly love, wagged their heads in token of their mutual affection, +and parted smiling, the german returning to his cowshed and rostóv +going to the cottage he occupied with denísov. + +“what about your master?” he asked lavrúshka, denísov’s orderly, +whom all the regiment knew for a rogue. + +“hasn’t been in since the evening. must have been losing,” +answered lavrúshka. “i know by now, if he wins he comes back early to +brag about it, but if he stays out till morning it means he’s lost and +will come back in a rage. will you have coffee?” + +“yes, bring some.” + +ten minutes later lavrúshka brought the coffee. “he’s coming!” +said he. “now for trouble!” rostóv looked out of the window and +saw denísov coming home. denísov was a small man with a red face, +sparkling black eyes, and black tousled mustache and hair. he wore an +unfastened cloak, wide breeches hanging down in creases, and a crumpled +shako on the back of his head. he came up to the porch gloomily, hanging +his head. + +“lavwúska!” he shouted loudly and angrily, “take it off, +blockhead!” + +“well, i am taking it off,” replied lavrúshka’s voice. + +“ah, you’re up already,” said denísov, entering the room. + +“long ago,” answered rostóv, “i have already been for the hay, +and have seen fräulein mathilde.” + +“weally! and i’ve been losing, bwother. i lost yesterday like a +damned fool!” cried denísov, not pronouncing his r’s. “such ill +luck! such ill luck. as soon as you left, it began and went on. hullo +there! tea!” + +puckering up his face though smiling, and showing his short strong +teeth, he began with stubby fingers of both hands to ruffle up his thick +tangled black hair. + +“and what devil made me go to that wat?” (an officer nicknamed +“the rat”) he said, rubbing his forehead and whole face with both +hands. “just fancy, he didn’t let me win a single cahd, not one +cahd.” + +he took the lighted pipe that was offered to him, gripped it in his +fist, and tapped it on the floor, making the sparks fly, while he +continued to shout. + +“he lets one win the singles and collahs it as soon as one doubles it; +gives the singles and snatches the doubles!” + +he scattered the burning tobacco, smashed the pipe, and threw it away. +then he remained silent for a while, and all at once looked cheerfully +with his glittering, black eyes at rostóv. + +“if at least we had some women here; but there’s nothing foh one +to do but dwink. if we could only get to fighting soon. hullo, who’s +there?” he said, turning to the door as he heard a tread of heavy +boots and the clinking of spurs that came to a stop, and a respectful +cough. + +“the squadron quartermaster!” said lavrúshka. + +denísov’s face puckered still more. + +“wetched!” he muttered, throwing down a purse with some gold in it. +“wostóv, deah fellow, just see how much there is left and shove the +purse undah the pillow,” he said, and went out to the quartermaster. + +rostóv took the money and, mechanically arranging the old and new coins +in separate piles, began counting them. + +“ah! telyánin! how d’ye do? they plucked me last night,” came +denísov’s voice from the next room. + +“where? at bykov’s, at the rat’s... i knew it,” replied a piping +voice, and lieutenant telyánin, a small officer of the same squadron, +entered the room. + +rostóv thrust the purse under the pillow and shook the damp little hand +which was offered him. telyánin for some reason had been transferred +from the guards just before this campaign. he behaved very well in the +regiment but was not liked; rostóv especially detested him and was +unable to overcome or conceal his groundless antipathy to the man. + +“well, young cavalryman, how is my rook behaving?” he asked. (rook +was a young horse telyánin had sold to rostóv.) + +the lieutenant never looked the man he was speaking to straight in the +face; his eyes continually wandered from one object to another. + +“i saw you riding this morning...” he added. + +“oh, he’s all right, a good horse,” answered rostóv, though the +horse for which he had paid seven hundred rubbles was not worth half +that sum. “he’s begun to go a little lame on the left foreleg,” he +added. + +“the hoof’s cracked! that’s nothing. i’ll teach you what to do +and show you what kind of rivet to use.” + +“yes, please do,” said rostóv. + +“i’ll show you, i’ll show you! it’s not a secret. and it’s a +horse you’ll thank me for.” + +“then i’ll have it brought round,” said rostóv wishing to avoid +telyánin, and he went out to give the order. + +in the passage denísov, with a pipe, was squatting on the threshold +facing the quartermaster who was reporting to him. on seeing rostóv, +denísov screwed up his face and pointing over his shoulder with his +thumb to the room where telyánin was sitting, he frowned and gave a +shudder of disgust. + +“ugh! i don’t like that fellow,” he said, regardless of the +quartermaster’s presence. + +rostóv shrugged his shoulders as much as to say: “nor do i, but +what’s one to do?” and, having given his order, he returned to +telyánin. + +telyánin was sitting in the same indolent pose in which rostóv had +left him, rubbing his small white hands. + +“well there certainly are disgusting people,” thought rostóv as he +entered. + +“have you told them to bring the horse?” asked telyánin, getting up +and looking carelessly about him. + +“i have.” + +“let us go ourselves. i only came round to ask denísov about +yesterday’s order. have you got it, denísov?” + +“not yet. but where are you off to?” + +“i want to teach this young man how to shoe a horse,” said +telyánin. + +they went through the porch and into the stable. the lieutenant +explained how to rivet the hoof and went away to his own quarters. + +when rostóv went back there was a bottle of vodka and a sausage on the +table. denísov was sitting there scratching with his pen on a sheet of +paper. he looked gloomily in rostóv’s face and said: “i am witing +to her.” + +he leaned his elbows on the table with his pen in his hand and, +evidently glad of a chance to say quicker in words what he wanted to +write, told rostóv the contents of his letter. + +“you see, my fwiend,” he said, “we sleep when we don’t love. we +are childwen of the dust... but one falls in love and one is a god, one +is pua’ as on the fihst day of cweation... who’s that now? send him +to the devil, i’m busy!” he shouted to lavrúshka, who went up to +him not in the least abashed. + +“who should it be? you yourself told him to come. it’s the +quartermaster for the money.” + +denísov frowned and was about to shout some reply but stopped. + +“wetched business,” he muttered to himself. “how much is left in +the puhse?” he asked, turning to rostóv. + +“seven new and three old imperials.” + +“oh, it’s wetched! well, what are you standing there for, you +sca’cwow? call the quahtehmasteh,” he shouted to lavrúshka. + +“please, denísov, let me lend you some: i have some, you know,” +said rostóv, blushing. + +“don’t like bowwowing from my own fellows, i don’t,” growled +denísov. + +“but if you won’t accept money from me like a comrade, you will +offend me. really i have some,” rostóv repeated. + +“no, i tell you.” + +and denísov went to the bed to get the purse from under the pillow. + +“where have you put it, wostóv?” + +“under the lower pillow.” + +“it’s not there.” + +denísov threw both pillows on the floor. the purse was not there. + +“that’s a miwacle.” + +“wait, haven’t you dropped it?” said rostóv, picking up the +pillows one at a time and shaking them. + +he pulled off the quilt and shook it. the purse was not there. + +“dear me, can i have forgotten? no, i remember thinking that you kept +it under your head like a treasure,” said rostóv. “i put it just +here. where is it?” he asked, turning to lavrúshka. + +“i haven’t been in the room. it must be where you put it.” + +“but it isn’t?...” + +“you’re always like that; you thwow a thing down anywhere and forget +it. feel in your pockets.” + +“no, if i hadn’t thought of it being a treasure,” said rostóv, +“but i remember putting it there.” + +lavrúshka turned all the bedding over, looked under the bed and under +the table, searched everywhere, and stood still in the middle of the +room. denísov silently watched lavrúshka’s movements, and when the +latter threw up his arms in surprise saying it was nowhere to be found +denísov glanced at rostóv. + +“wostóv, you’ve not been playing schoolboy twicks...” + +rostóv felt denísov’s gaze fixed on him, raised his eyes, and +instantly dropped them again. all the blood which had seemed congested +somewhere below his throat rushed to his face and eyes. he could not +draw breath. + +“and there hasn’t been anyone in the room except the lieutenant and +yourselves. it must be here somewhere,” said lavrúshka. + +“now then, you devil’s puppet, look alive and hunt for it!” +shouted denísov, suddenly, turning purple and rushing at the man with +a threatening gesture. “if the purse isn’t found i’ll flog you, +i’ll flog you all.” + +rostóv, his eyes avoiding denísov, began buttoning his coat, buckled +on his saber, and put on his cap. + +“i must have that purse, i tell you,” shouted denísov, shaking his +orderly by the shoulders and knocking him against the wall. + +“denísov, let him alone, i know who has taken it,” said rostóv, +going toward the door without raising his eyes. denísov paused, thought +a moment, and, evidently understanding what rostóv hinted at, seized +his arm. + +“nonsense!” he cried, and the veins on his forehead and neck stood +out like cords. “you are mad, i tell you. i won’t allow it. +the purse is here! i’ll flay this scoundwel alive, and it will be +found.” + +“i know who has taken it,” repeated rostóv in an unsteady voice, +and went to the door. + +“and i tell you, don’t you dahe to do it!” shouted denísov, +rushing at the cadet to restrain him. + +but rostóv pulled away his arm and, with as much anger as though +denísov were his worst enemy, firmly fixed his eyes directly on his +face. + +“do you understand what you’re saying?” he said in a trembling +voice. “there was no one else in the room except myself. so that if it +is not so, then...” + +he could not finish, and ran out of the room. + +“ah, may the devil take you and evewybody,” were the last words +rostóv heard. + +rostóv went to telyánin’s quarters. + +“the master is not in, he’s gone to headquarters,” said +telyánin’s orderly. “has something happened?” he added, surprised +at the cadet’s troubled face. + +“no, nothing.” + +“you’ve only just missed him,” said the orderly. + +the headquarters were situated two miles away from salzeneck, and +rostóv, without returning home, took a horse and rode there. there was +an inn in the village which the officers frequented. rostóv rode up to +it and saw telyánin’s horse at the porch. + +in the second room of the inn the lieutenant was sitting over a dish of +sausages and a bottle of wine. + +“ah, you’ve come here too, young man!” he said, smiling and +raising his eyebrows. + +“yes,” said rostóv as if it cost him a great deal to utter the +word; and he sat down at the nearest table. + +both were silent. there were two germans and a russian officer in the +room. no one spoke and the only sounds heard were the clatter of knives +and the munching of the lieutenant. + +when telyánin had finished his lunch he took out of his pocket a double +purse and, drawing its rings aside with his small, white, turned-up +fingers, drew out a gold imperial, and lifting his eyebrows gave it to +the waiter. + +“please be quick,” he said. + +the coin was a new one. rostóv rose and went up to telyánin. + +“allow me to look at your purse,” he said in a low, almost +inaudible, voice. + +with shifting eyes but eyebrows still raised, telyánin handed him the +purse. + +“yes, it’s a nice purse. yes, yes,” he said, growing suddenly +pale, and added, “look at it, young man.” + +rostóv took the purse in his hand, examined it and the money in it, and +looked at telyánin. the lieutenant was looking about in his usual way +and suddenly seemed to grow very merry. + +“if we get to vienna i’ll get rid of it there but in these wretched +little towns there’s nowhere to spend it,” said he. “well, let me +have it, young man, i’m going.” + +rostóv did not speak. + +“and you? are you going to have lunch too? they feed you quite +decently here,” continued telyánin. “now then, let me have it.” + +he stretched out his hand to take hold of the purse. rostóv let go of +it. telyánin took the purse and began carelessly slipping it into the +pocket of his riding breeches, with his eyebrows lifted and his mouth +slightly open, as if to say, “yes, yes, i am putting my purse in my +pocket and that’s quite simple and is no one else’s business.” + +“well, young man?” he said with a sigh, and from under his lifted +brows he glanced into rostóv’s eyes. + +some flash as of an electric spark shot from telyánin’s eyes to +rostóv’s and back, and back again and again in an instant. + +“come here,” said rostóv, catching hold of telyánin’s arm and +almost dragging him to the window. “that money is denísov’s; you +took it...” he whispered just above telyánin’s ear. + +“what? what? how dare you? what?” said telyánin. + +but these words came like a piteous, despairing cry and an entreaty for +pardon. as soon as rostóv heard them, an enormous load of doubt +fell from him. he was glad, and at the same instant began to pity the +miserable man who stood before him, but the task he had begun had to be +completed. + +“heaven only knows what the people here may imagine,” muttered +telyánin, taking up his cap and moving toward a small empty room. “we +must have an explanation...” + +“i know it and shall prove it,” said rostóv. + +“i...” + +every muscle of telyánin’s pale, terrified face began to quiver, his +eyes still shifted from side to side but with a downward look not rising +to rostóv’s face, and his sobs were audible. + +“count!... don’t ruin a young fellow... here is this wretched money, +take it...” he threw it on the table. “i have an old father and +mother!...” + +rostóv took the money, avoiding telyánin’s eyes, and went out of the +room without a word. but at the door he stopped and then retraced his +steps. “o god,” he said with tears in his eyes, “how could you do +it?” + +“count...” said telyánin drawing nearer to him. + +“don’t touch me,” said rostóv, drawing back. “if you need it, +take the money,” and he threw the purse to him and ran out of the inn. + + + + + +chapter v + +that same evening there was an animated discussion among the +squadron’s officers in denísov’s quarters. + +“and i tell you, rostóv, that you must apologize to the colonel!” +said a tall, grizzly-haired staff captain, with enormous mustaches and +many wrinkles on his large features, to rostóv who was crimson with +excitement. + +the staff captain, kírsten, had twice been reduced to the ranks for +affairs of honor and had twice regained his commission. + +“i will allow no one to call me a liar!” cried rostóv. “he told +me i lied, and i told him he lied. and there it rests. he may keep me +on duty every day, or may place me under arrest, but no one can make +me apologize, because if he, as commander of this regiment, thinks it +beneath his dignity to give me satisfaction, then...” + +“you just wait a moment, my dear fellow, and listen,” interrupted +the staff captain in his deep bass, calmly stroking his long mustache. +“you tell the colonel in the presence of other officers that an +officer has stolen...” + +“i’m not to blame that the conversation began in the presence of +other officers. perhaps i ought not to have spoken before them, but i am +not a diplomatist. that’s why i joined the hussars, thinking that here +one would not need finesse; and he tells me that i am lying—so let him +give me satisfaction...” + +“that’s all right. no one thinks you a coward, but that’s not the +point. ask denísov whether it is not out of the question for a cadet to +demand satisfaction of his regimental commander?” + +denísov sat gloomily biting his mustache and listening to the +conversation, evidently with no wish to take part in it. he answered the +staff captain’s question by a disapproving shake of his head. + +“you speak to the colonel about this nasty business before other +officers,” continued the staff captain, “and bogdánich” (the +colonel was called bogdánich) “shuts you up.” + +“he did not shut me up, he said i was telling an untruth.” + +“well, have it so, and you talked a lot of nonsense to him and must +apologize.” + +“not on any account!” exclaimed rostóv. + +“i did not expect this of you,” said the staff captain seriously and +severely. “you don’t wish to apologize, but, man, it’s not only to +him but to the whole regiment—all of us—you’re to blame all round. +the case is this: you ought to have thought the matter over and +taken advice; but no, you go and blurt it all straight out before the +officers. now what was the colonel to do? have the officer tried and +disgrace the whole regiment? disgrace the whole regiment because of one +scoundrel? is that how you look at it? we don’t see it like that. and +bogdánich was a brick: he told you you were saying what was not true. +it’s not pleasant, but what’s to be done, my dear fellow? you landed +yourself in it. and now, when one wants to smooth the thing over, some +conceit prevents your apologizing, and you wish to make the whole +affair public. you are offended at being put on duty a bit, but why not +apologize to an old and honorable officer? whatever bogdánich may +be, anyway he is an honorable and brave old colonel! you’re quick at +taking offense, but you don’t mind disgracing the whole regiment!” +the staff captain’s voice began to tremble. “you have been in the +regiment next to no time, my lad, you’re here today and tomorrow +you’ll be appointed adjutant somewhere and can snap your fingers when +it is said ‘there are thieves among the pávlograd officers!’ but +it’s not all the same to us! am i not right, denísov? it’s not the +same!” + +denísov remained silent and did not move, but occasionally looked with +his glittering black eyes at rostóv. + +“you value your own pride and don’t wish to apologize,” continued +the staff captain, “but we old fellows, who have grown up in and, god +willing, are going to die in the regiment, we prize the honor of the +regiment, and bogdánich knows it. oh, we do prize it, old fellow! and +all this is not right, it’s not right! you may take offense or not but +i always stick to mother truth. it’s not right!” + +and the staff captain rose and turned away from rostóv. + +“that’s twue, devil take it!” shouted denísov, jumping up. “now +then, wostóv, now then!” + +rostóv, growing red and pale alternately, looked first at one officer +and then at the other. + +“no, gentlemen, no... you mustn’t think... i quite understand. +you’re wrong to think that of me... i... for me... for the honor of +the regiment i’d... ah well, i’ll show that in action, and for me +the honor of the flag... well, never mind, it’s true i’m to blame, +to blame all round. well, what else do you want?...” + +“come, that’s right, count!” cried the staff captain, turning +round and clapping rostóv on the shoulder with his big hand. + +“i tell you,” shouted denísov, “he’s a fine fellow.” + +“that’s better, count,” said the staff captain, beginning to +address rostóv by his title, as if in recognition of his confession. +“go and apologize, your excellency. yes, go!” + +“gentlemen, i’ll do anything. no one shall hear a word from me,” +said rostóv in an imploring voice, “but i can’t apologize, by god i +can’t, do what you will! how can i go and apologize like a little boy +asking forgiveness?” + +denísov began to laugh. + +“it’ll be worse for you. bogdánich is vindictive and you’ll pay +for your obstinacy,” said kírsten. + +“no, on my word it’s not obstinacy! i can’t describe the feeling. +i can’t...” + +“well, it’s as you like,” said the staff captain. “and what has +become of that scoundrel?” he asked denísov. + +“he has weported himself sick, he’s to be stwuck off the list +tomowwow,” muttered denísov. + +“it is an illness, there’s no other way of explaining it,” said +the staff captain. + +“illness or not, he’d better not cwoss my path. i’d kill him!” +shouted denísov in a bloodthirsty tone. + +just then zherkóv entered the room. + +“what brings you here?” cried the officers turning to the newcomer. + +“we’re to go into action, gentlemen! mack has surrendered with his +whole army.” + +“it’s not true!” + +“i’ve seen him myself!” + +“what? saw the real mack? with hands and feet?” + +“into action! into action! bring him a bottle for such news! but how +did you come here?” + +“i’ve been sent back to the regiment all on account of that devil, +mack. an austrian general complained of me. i congratulated him on +mack’s arrival... what’s the matter, rostóv? you look as if you’d +just come out of a hot bath.” + +“oh, my dear fellow, we’re in such a stew here these last two +days.” + +the regimental adjutant came in and confirmed the news brought by +zherkóv. they were under orders to advance next day. + +“we’re going into action, gentlemen!” + +“well, thank god! we’ve been sitting here too long!” + + + + + +chapter vi + +kutúzov fell back toward vienna, destroying behind him the bridges over +the rivers inn (at braunau) and traun (near linz). on october 23 the +russian troops were crossing the river enns. at midday the russian +baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling +through the town of enns on both sides of the bridge. + +it was a warm, rainy, autumnal day. the wide expanse that opened out +before the heights on which the russian batteries stood guarding the +bridge was at times veiled by a diaphanous curtain of slanting rain, and +then, suddenly spread out in the sunlight, far-distant objects could +be clearly seen glittering as though freshly varnished. down below, +the little town could be seen with its white, red-roofed houses, its +cathedral, and its bridge, on both sides of which streamed jostling +masses of russian troops. at the bend of the danube, vessels, an island, +and a castle with a park surrounded by the waters of the confluence of +the enns and the danube became visible, and the rocky left bank of the +danube covered with pine forests, with a mystic background of green +treetops and bluish gorges. the turrets of a convent stood out beyond a +wild virgin pine forest, and far away on the other side of the enns the +enemy’s horse patrols could be discerned. + +among the field guns on the brow of the hill the general in command of +the rearguard stood with a staff officer, scanning the country through +his fieldglass. a little behind them nesvítski, who had been sent to +the rearguard by the commander in chief, was sitting on the trail of a +gun carriage. a cossack who accompanied him had handed him a knapsack +and a flask, and nesvítski was treating some officers to pies and real +doppelkümmel. the officers gladly gathered round him, some on their +knees, some squatting turkish fashion on the wet grass. + +“yes, the austrian prince who built that castle was no fool. it’s +a fine place! why are you not eating anything, gentlemen?” nesvítski +was saying. + +“thank you very much, prince,” answered one of the officers, pleased +to be talking to a staff officer of such importance. “it’s a lovely +place! we passed close to the park and saw two deer... and what a +splendid house!” + +“look, prince,” said another, who would have dearly liked to take +another pie but felt shy, and therefore pretended to be examining the +countryside—“see, our infantrymen have already got there. look there +in the meadow behind the village, three of them are dragging something. +they’ll ransack that castle,” he remarked with evident approval. + +“so they will,” said nesvítski. “no, but what i should like,” +added he, munching a pie in his moist-lipped handsome mouth, “would be +to slip in over there.” + +he pointed with a smile to a turreted nunnery, and his eyes narrowed and +gleamed. + +“that would be fine, gentlemen!” + +the officers laughed. + +“just to flutter the nuns a bit. they say there are italian girls +among them. on my word i’d give five years of my life for it!” + +“they must be feeling dull, too,” said one of the bolder officers, +laughing. + +meanwhile the staff officer standing in front pointed out something to +the general, who looked through his field glass. + +“yes, so it is, so it is,” said the general angrily, lowering the +field glass and shrugging his shoulders, “so it is! they’ll be fired +on at the crossing. and why are they dawdling there?” + +on the opposite side the enemy could be seen by the naked eye, and from +their battery a milk-white cloud arose. then came the distant report of +a shot, and our troops could be seen hurrying to the crossing. + +nesvítski rose, puffing, and went up to the general, smiling. + +“would not your excellency like a little refreshment?” he said. + +“it’s a bad business,” said the general without answering him, +“our men have been wasting time.” + +“hadn’t i better ride over, your excellency?” asked nesvítski. + +“yes, please do,” answered the general, and he repeated the order +that had already once been given in detail: “and tell the hussars +that they are to cross last and to fire the bridge as i ordered; and the +inflammable material on the bridge must be reinspected.” + +“very good,” answered nesvítski. + +he called the cossack with his horse, told him to put away the knapsack +and flask, and swung his heavy person easily into the saddle. + +“i’ll really call in on the nuns,” he said to the officers who +watched him smilingly, and he rode off by the winding path down the +hill. + +“now then, let’s see how far it will carry, captain. just try!” +said the general, turning to an artillery officer. “have a little fun +to pass the time.” + +“crew, to your guns!” commanded the officer. + +in a moment the men came running gaily from their campfires and began +loading. + +“one!” came the command. + +number one jumped briskly aside. the gun rang out with a deafening +metallic roar, and a whistling grenade flew above the heads of our +troops below the hill and fell far short of the enemy, a little smoke +showing the spot where it burst. + +the faces of officers and men brightened up at the sound. everyone got +up and began watching the movements of our troops below, as plainly +visible as if but a stone’s throw away, and the movements of the +approaching enemy farther off. at the same instant the sun came fully +out from behind the clouds, and the clear sound of the solitary shot +and the brilliance of the bright sunshine merged in a single joyous and +spirited impression. + + + + + +chapter vii + +two of the enemy’s shots had already flown across the bridge, where +there was a crush. halfway across stood prince nesvítski, who had +alighted from his horse and whose big body was jammed against the +railings. he looked back laughing to the cossack who stood a few +steps behind him holding two horses by their bridles. each time prince +nesvítski tried to move on, soldiers and carts pushed him back again +and pressed him against the railings, and all he could do was to smile. + +“what a fine fellow you are, friend!” said the cossack to a convoy +soldier with a wagon, who was pressing onto the infantrymen who were +crowded together close to his wheels and his horses. “what a fellow! +you can’t wait a moment! don’t you see the general wants to pass?” + +but the convoyman took no notice of the word “general” and shouted +at the soldiers who were blocking his way. “hi there, boys! keep to +the left! wait a bit.” but the soldiers, crowded together shoulder to +shoulder, their bayonets interlocking, moved over the bridge in a dense +mass. looking down over the rails prince nesvítski saw the rapid, noisy +little waves of the enns, which rippling and eddying round the piles of +the bridge chased each other along. looking on the bridge he saw equally +uniform living waves of soldiers, shoulder straps, covered shakos, +knapsacks, bayonets, long muskets, and, under the shakos, faces with +broad cheekbones, sunken cheeks, and listless tired expressions, and +feet that moved through the sticky mud that covered the planks of the +bridge. sometimes through the monotonous waves of men, like a fleck of +white foam on the waves of the enns, an officer, in a cloak and with +a type of face different from that of the men, squeezed his way along; +sometimes like a chip of wood whirling in the river, an hussar on foot, +an orderly, or a townsman was carried through the waves of infantry; +and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers’ or +company’s baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered, and hemmed in on +all sides, moved across the bridge. + +“it’s as if a dam had burst,” said the cossack hopelessly. “are +there many more of you to come?” + +“a million all but one!” replied a waggish soldier in a torn coat, +with a wink, and passed on followed by another, an old man. + +“if he” (he meant the enemy) “begins popping at the bridge now,” +said the old soldier dismally to a comrade, “you’ll forget to +scratch yourself.” + +that soldier passed on, and after him came another sitting on a cart. + +“where the devil have the leg bands been shoved to?” said an +orderly, running behind the cart and fumbling in the back of it. + +and he also passed on with the wagon. then came some merry soldiers who +had evidently been drinking. + +“and then, old fellow, he gives him one in the teeth with the butt +end of his gun...” a soldier whose greatcoat was well tucked up said +gaily, with a wide swing of his arm. + +“yes, the ham was just delicious...” answered another with a loud +laugh. and they, too, passed on, so that nesvítski did not learn who +had been struck on the teeth, or what the ham had to do with it. + +“bah! how they scurry. he just sends a ball and they think they’ll +all be killed,” a sergeant was saying angrily and reproachfully. + +“as it flies past me, daddy, the ball i mean,” said a young soldier +with an enormous mouth, hardly refraining from laughing, “i felt like +dying of fright. i did, ‘pon my word, i got that frightened!” said +he, as if bragging of having been frightened. + +that one also passed. then followed a cart unlike any that had gone +before. it was a german cart with a pair of horses led by a german, and +seemed loaded with a whole houseful of effects. a fine brindled cow with +a large udder was attached to the cart behind. a woman with an unweaned +baby, an old woman, and a healthy german girl with bright red cheeks +were sitting on some feather beds. evidently these fugitives were +allowed to pass by special permission. the eyes of all the soldiers +turned toward the women, and while the vehicle was passing at foot pace +all the soldiers’ remarks related to the two young ones. every face +bore almost the same smile, expressing unseemly thoughts about the +women. + +“just see, the german sausage is making tracks, too!” + +“sell me the missis,” said another soldier, addressing the german, +who, angry and frightened, strode energetically along with downcast +eyes. + +“see how smart she’s made herself! oh, the devils!” + +“there, fedótov, you should be quartered on them!” + +“i have seen as much before now, mate!” + +“where are you going?” asked an infantry officer who was eating an +apple, also half smiling as he looked at the handsome girl. + +the german closed his eyes, signifying that he did not understand. + +“take it if you like,” said the officer, giving the girl an apple. + +the girl smiled and took it. nesvítski like the rest of the men on the +bridge did not take his eyes off the women till they had passed. when +they had gone by, the same stream of soldiers followed, with the same +kind of talk, and at last all stopped. as often happens, the horses of +a convoy wagon became restive at the end of the bridge, and the whole +crowd had to wait. + +“and why are they stopping? there’s no proper order!” said the +soldiers. “where are you shoving to? devil take you! can’t you wait? +it’ll be worse if he fires the bridge. see, here’s an officer jammed +in too”—different voices were saying in the crowd, as the men looked +at one another, and all pressed toward the exit from the bridge. + +looking down at the waters of the enns under the bridge, nesvítski +suddenly heard a sound new to him, of something swiftly approaching... +something big, that splashed into the water. + +“just see where it carries to!” a soldier near by said sternly, +looking round at the sound. + +“encouraging us to get along quicker,” said another uneasily. + +the crowd moved on again. nesvítski realized that it was a cannon ball. + +“hey, cossack, my horse!” he said. “now, then, you there! get out +of the way! make way!” + +with great difficulty he managed to get to his horse, and shouting +continually he moved on. the soldiers squeezed themselves to make way +for him, but again pressed on him so that they jammed his leg, and those +nearest him were not to blame for they were themselves pressed still +harder from behind. + +“nesvítski, nesvítski! you numskull!” came a hoarse voice from +behind him. + +nesvítski looked round and saw, some fifteen paces away but separated +by the living mass of moving infantry, váska denísov, red and shaggy, +with his cap on the back of his black head and a cloak hanging jauntily +over his shoulder. + +“tell these devils, these fiends, to let me pass!” shouted denísov +evidently in a fit of rage, his coal-black eyes with their bloodshot +whites glittering and rolling as he waved his sheathed saber in a small +bare hand as red as his face. + +“ah, váska!” joyfully replied nesvítski. “what’s up with +you?” + +“the squadwon can’t pass,” shouted váska denísov, showing his +white teeth fiercely and spurring his black thoroughbred arab, which +twitched its ears as the bayonets touched it, and snorted, spurting +white foam from his bit, tramping the planks of the bridge with his +hoofs, and apparently ready to jump over the railings had his rider let +him. “what is this? they’re like sheep! just like sheep! out of the +way!... let us pass!... stop there, you devil with the cart! i’ll hack +you with my saber!” he shouted, actually drawing his saber from its +scabbard and flourishing it. + +the soldiers crowded against one another with terrified faces, and +denísov joined nesvítski. + +“how’s it you’re not drunk today?” said nesvítski when the +other had ridden up to him. + +“they don’t even give one time to dwink!” answered váska +denísov. “they keep dwagging the wegiment to and fwo all day. if they +mean to fight, let’s fight. but the devil knows what this is.” + +“what a dandy you are today!” said nesvítski, looking at +denísov’s new cloak and saddlecloth. + +denísov smiled, took out of his sabretache a handkerchief that diffused +a smell of perfume, and put it to nesvítski’s nose. + +“of course. i’m going into action! i’ve shaved, bwushed my teeth, +and scented myself.” + +the imposing figure of nesvítski followed by his cossack, and +the determination of denísov who flourished his sword and shouted +frantically, had such an effect that they managed to squeeze through +to the farther side of the bridge and stopped the infantry. beside the +bridge nesvítski found the colonel to whom he had to deliver the order, +and having done this he rode back. + +having cleared the way denísov stopped at the end of the bridge. +carelessly holding in his stallion that was neighing and pawing the +ground, eager to rejoin its fellows, he watched his squadron draw +nearer. then the clang of hoofs, as of several horses galloping, +resounded on the planks of the bridge, and the squadron, officers in +front and men four abreast, spread across the bridge and began to emerge +on his side of it. + +the infantry who had been stopped crowded near the bridge in the +trampled mud and gazed with that particular feeling of ill-will, +estrangement, and ridicule with which troops of different arms usually +encounter one another at the clean, smart hussars who moved past them in +regular order. + +“smart lads! only fit for a fair!” said one. + +“what good are they? they’re led about just for show!” remarked +another. + +“don’t kick up the dust, you infantry!” jested an hussar whose +prancing horse had splashed mud over some foot soldiers. + +“i’d like to put you on a two days’ march with a knapsack! your +fine cords would soon get a bit rubbed,” said an infantryman, wiping +the mud off his face with his sleeve. “perched up there, you’re more +like a bird than a man.” + +“there now, zíkin, they ought to put you on a horse. you’d look +fine,” said a corporal, chaffing a thin little soldier who bent under +the weight of his knapsack. + +“take a stick between your legs, that’ll suit you for a horse!” +the hussar shouted back. + + + + + +chapter viii + +the last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing +together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel. at last +the baggage wagons had all crossed, the crush was less, and the last +battalion came onto the bridge. only denísov’s squadron of hussars +remained on the farther side of the bridge facing the enemy, who could +be seen from the hill on the opposite bank but was not yet visible from +the bridge, for the horizon as seen from the valley through which the +river flowed was formed by the rising ground only half a mile away. +at the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our +cossack scouts were moving. suddenly on the road at the top of the high +ground, artillery and troops in blue uniform were seen. these were the +french. a group of cossack scouts retired down the hill at a trot. all +the officers and men of denísov’s squadron, though they tried to talk +of other things and to look in other directions, thought only of what +was there on the hilltop, and kept constantly looking at the patches +appearing on the skyline, which they knew to be the enemy’s troops. +the weather had cleared again since noon and the sun was descending +brightly upon the danube and the dark hills around it. it was calm, and +at intervals the bugle calls and the shouts of the enemy could be heard +from the hill. there was no one now between the squadron and the enemy +except a few scattered skirmishers. an empty space of some seven hundred +yards was all that separated them. the enemy ceased firing, and that +stern, threatening, inaccessible, and intangible line which separates +two hostile armies was all the more clearly felt. + +“one step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing +the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. and +what is there? who is there?—there beyond that field, that tree, that +roof lit up by the sun? no one knows, but one wants to know. you fear +and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must +be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will +inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. but you are +strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and are surrounded by other such +excitedly animated and healthy men.” so thinks, or at any rate +feels, anyone who comes in sight of the enemy, and that feeling gives +a particular glamour and glad keenness of impression to everything that +takes place at such moments. + +on the high ground where the enemy was, the smoke of a cannon rose, +and a ball flew whistling over the heads of the hussar squadron. the +officers who had been standing together rode off to their places. the +hussars began carefully aligning their horses. silence fell on the whole +squadron. all were looking at the enemy in front and at the squadron +commander, awaiting the word of command. a second and a third cannon +ball flew past. evidently they were firing at the hussars, but the balls +with rapid rhythmic whistle flew over the heads of the horsemen and fell +somewhere beyond them. the hussars did not look round, but at the sound +of each shot, as at the word of command, the whole squadron with its +rows of faces so alike yet so different, holding its breath while the +ball flew past, rose in the stirrups and sank back again. the soldiers +without turning their heads glanced at one another, curious to see their +comrades’ impression. every face, from denísov’s to that of the +bugler, showed one common expression of conflict, irritation, and +excitement, around chin and mouth. the quartermaster frowned, looking +at the soldiers as if threatening to punish them. cadet mirónov ducked +every time a ball flew past. rostóv on the left flank, mounted on his +rook—a handsome horse despite its game leg—had the happy air of a +schoolboy called up before a large audience for an examination in which +he feels sure he will distinguish himself. he was glancing at everyone +with a clear, bright expression, as if asking them to notice how calmly +he sat under fire. but despite himself, on his face too that same +indication of something new and stern showed round the mouth. + +“who’s that curtseying there? cadet miwónov! that’s not wight! +look at me,” cried denísov who, unable to keep still on one spot, +kept turning his horse in front of the squadron. + +the black, hairy, snub-nosed face of váska denísov, and his whole +short sturdy figure with the sinewy hairy hand and stumpy fingers in +which he held the hilt of his naked saber, looked just as it usually +did, especially toward evening when he had emptied his second bottle; he +was only redder than usual. with his shaggy head thrown back like birds +when they drink, pressing his spurs mercilessly into the sides of his +good horse, bedouin, and sitting as though falling backwards in the +saddle, he galloped to the other flank of the squadron and shouted in +a hoarse voice to the men to look to their pistols. he rode up to +kírsten. the staff captain on his broad-backed, steady mare came at a +walk to meet him. his face with its long mustache was serious as always, +only his eyes were brighter than usual. + +“well, what about it?” said he to denísov. “it won’t come to a +fight. you’ll see—we shall retire.” + +“the devil only knows what they’re about!” muttered denísov. +“ah, wostóv,” he cried noticing the cadet’s bright face, +“you’ve got it at last.” + +and he smiled approvingly, evidently pleased with the cadet. rostóv +felt perfectly happy. just then the commander appeared on the bridge. +denísov galloped up to him. + +“your excellency! let us attack them! i’ll dwive them off.” + +“attack indeed!” said the colonel in a bored voice, puckering up his +face as if driving off a troublesome fly. “and why are you stopping +here? don’t you see the skirmishers are retreating? lead the squadron +back.” + +the squadron crossed the bridge and drew out of range of fire without +having lost a single man. the second squadron that had been in the front +line followed them across and the last cossacks quitted the farther side +of the river. + +the two pávlograd squadrons, having crossed the bridge, retired up the +hill one after the other. their colonel, karl bogdánich schubert, came +up to denísov’s squadron and rode at a footpace not far from rostóv, +without taking any notice of him although they were now meeting for the +first time since their encounter concerning telyánin. rostóv, feeling +that he was at the front and in the power of a man toward whom he now +admitted that he had been to blame, did not lift his eyes from the +colonel’s athletic back, his nape covered with light hair, and his red +neck. it seemed to rostóv that bogdánich was only pretending not +to notice him, and that his whole aim now was to test the cadet’s +courage, so he drew himself up and looked around him merrily; then it +seemed to him that bogdánich rode so near in order to show him his +courage. next he thought that his enemy would send the squadron on a +desperate attack just to punish him—rostóv. then he imagined how, +after the attack, bogdánich would come up to him as he lay wounded and +would magnanimously extend the hand of reconciliation. + +the high-shouldered figure of zherkóv, familiar to the pávlograds as +he had but recently left their regiment, rode up to the colonel. +after his dismissal from headquarters zherkóv had not remained in the +regiment, saying he was not such a fool as to slave at the front when he +could get more rewards by doing nothing on the staff, and had succeeded +in attaching himself as an orderly officer to prince bagratión. he now +came to his former chief with an order from the commander of the rear +guard. + +“colonel,” he said, addressing rostóv’s enemy with an air of +gloomy gravity and glancing round at his comrades, “there is an order +to stop and fire the bridge.” + +“an order to who?” asked the colonel morosely. + +“i don’t myself know ‘to who,’” replied the cornet in a +serious tone, “but the prince told me to ‘go and tell the colonel +that the hussars must return quickly and fire the bridge.’” + +zherkóv was followed by an officer of the suite who rode up to the +colonel of hussars with the same order. after him the stout nesvítski +came galloping up on a cossack horse that could scarcely carry his +weight. + +“how’s this, colonel?” he shouted as he approached. “i told you +to fire the bridge, and now someone has gone and blundered; they are all +beside themselves over there and one can’t make anything out.” + +the colonel deliberately stopped the regiment and turned to nesvítski. + +“you spoke to me of inflammable material,” said he, “but you said +nothing about firing it.” + +“but, my dear sir,” said nesvítski as he drew up, taking off his +cap and smoothing his hair wet with perspiration with his plump hand, +“wasn’t i telling you to fire the bridge, when inflammable material +had been put in position?” + +“i am not your ‘dear sir,’ mr. staff officer, and you did not tell +me to burn the bridge! i know the service, and it is my habit orders +strictly to obey. you said the bridge would be burned, but who would it +burn, i could not know by the holy spirit!” + +“ah, that’s always the way!” said nesvítski with a wave of the +hand. “how did you get here?” said he, turning to zherkóv. + +“on the same business. but you are damp! let me wring you out!” + +“you were saying, mr. staff officer...” continued the colonel in an +offended tone. + +“colonel,” interrupted the officer of the suite, “you must be +quick or the enemy will bring up his guns to use grapeshot.” + +the colonel looked silently at the officer of the suite, at the stout +staff officer, and at zherkóv, and he frowned. + +“i will the bridge fire,” he said in a solemn tone as if to announce +that in spite of all the unpleasantness he had to endure he would still +do the right thing. + +striking his horse with his long muscular legs as if it were to blame +for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second +squadron, that in which rostóv was serving under denísov, to return to +the bridge. + +“there, it’s just as i thought,” said rostóv to himself. “he +wishes to test me!” his heart contracted and the blood rushed to his +face. “let him see whether i am a coward!” he thought. + +again on all the bright faces of the squadron the serious expression +appeared that they had worn when under fire. rostóv watched his enemy, +the colonel, closely—to find in his face confirmation of his own +conjecture, but the colonel did not once glance at rostóv, and looked +as he always did when at the front, solemn and stern. then came the word +of command. + +“look sharp! look sharp!” several voices repeated around him. + +their sabers catching in the bridles and their spurs jingling, the +hussars hastily dismounted, not knowing what they were to do. the men +were crossing themselves. rostóv no longer looked at the colonel, he +had no time. he was afraid of falling behind the hussars, so much afraid +that his heart stood still. his hand trembled as he gave his horse into +an orderly’s charge, and he felt the blood rush to his heart with +a thud. denísov rode past him, leaning back and shouting something. +rostóv saw nothing but the hussars running all around him, their spurs +catching and their sabers clattering. + +“stretchers!” shouted someone behind him. + +rostóv did not think what this call for stretchers meant; he ran on, +trying only to be ahead of the others; but just at the bridge, not +looking at the ground, he came on some sticky, trodden mud, stumbled, +and fell on his hands. the others outstripped him. + +“at boss zides, captain,” he heard the voice of the colonel, who, +having ridden ahead, had pulled up his horse near the bridge, with a +triumphant, cheerful face. + +rostóv wiping his muddy hands on his breeches looked at his enemy and +was about to run on, thinking that the farther he went to the front +the better. but bogdánich, without looking at or recognizing rostóv, +shouted to him: + +“who’s that running on the middle of the bridge? to the right! come +back, cadet!” he cried angrily; and turning to denísov, who, showing +off his courage, had ridden on to the planks of the bridge: + +“why run risks, captain? you should dismount,” he said. + +“oh, every bullet has its billet,” answered váska denísov, turning +in his saddle. + + +meanwhile nesvítski, zherkóv, and the officer of the suite were +standing together out of range of the shots, watching, now the small +group of men with yellow shakos, dark-green jackets braided with cord, +and blue riding breeches, who were swarming near the bridge, and then at +what was approaching in the distance from the opposite side—the blue +uniforms and groups with horses, easily recognizable as artillery. + +“will they burn the bridge or not? who’ll get there first? will they +get there and fire the bridge or will the french get within grapeshot +range and wipe them out?” these were the questions each man of the +troops on the high ground above the bridge involuntarily asked himself +with a sinking heart—watching the bridge and the hussars in the bright +evening light and the blue tunics advancing from the other side with +their bayonets and guns. + +“ugh. the hussars will get it hot!” said nesvítski; “they are +within grapeshot range now.” + +“he shouldn’t have taken so many men,” said the officer of the +suite. + +“true enough,” answered nesvítski; “two smart fellows could have +done the job just as well.” + +“ah, your excellency,” put in zherkóv, his eyes fixed on the +hussars, but still with that naïve air that made it impossible to know +whether he was speaking in jest or in earnest. “ah, your excellency! +how you look at things! send two men? and who then would give us the +vladímir medal and ribbon? but now, even if they do get peppered, the +squadron may be recommended for honors and he may get a ribbon. our +bogdánich knows how things are done.” + +“there now!” said the officer of the suite, “that’s +grapeshot.” + +he pointed to the french guns, the limbers of which were being detached +and hurriedly removed. + +on the french side, amid the groups with cannon, a cloud of smoke +appeared, then a second and a third almost simultaneously, and at the +moment when the first report was heard a fourth was seen. then two +reports one after another, and a third. + +“oh! oh!” groaned nesvítski as if in fierce pain, seizing the +officer of the suite by the arm. “look! a man has fallen! fallen, +fallen!” + +“two, i think.” + +“if i were tsar i would never go to war,” said nesvítski, turning +away. + +the french guns were hastily reloaded. the infantry in their blue +uniforms advanced toward the bridge at a run. smoke appeared again +but at irregular intervals, and grapeshot cracked and rattled onto the +bridge. but this time nesvítski could not see what was happening there, +as a dense cloud of smoke arose from it. the hussars had succeeded in +setting it on fire and the french batteries were now firing at them, no +longer to hinder them but because the guns were trained and there was +someone to fire at. + +the french had time to fire three rounds of grapeshot before the hussars +got back to their horses. two were misdirected and the shot went too +high, but the last round fell in the midst of a group of hussars and +knocked three of them over. + +rostóv, absorbed by his relations with bogdánich, had paused on the +bridge not knowing what to do. there was no one to hew down (as he +had always imagined battles to himself), nor could he help to fire the +bridge because he had not brought any burning straw with him like the +other soldiers. he stood looking about him, when suddenly he heard a +rattle on the bridge as if nuts were being spilt, and the hussar nearest +to him fell against the rails with a groan. rostóv ran up to him with +the others. again someone shouted, “stretchers!” four men seized the +hussar and began lifting him. + +“oooh! for christ’s sake let me alone!” cried the wounded man, but +still he was lifted and laid on the stretcher. + +nicholas rostóv turned away and, as if searching for something, gazed +into the distance, at the waters of the danube, at the sky, and at the +sun. how beautiful the sky looked; how blue, how calm, and how deep! +how bright and glorious was the setting sun! with what soft glitter the +waters of the distant danube shone. and fairer still were the faraway +blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and +the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits... there was peace +and happiness... “i should wish for nothing else, nothing, if only i +were there,” thought rostóv. “in myself alone and in that sunshine +there is so much happiness; but here... groans, suffering, fear, and +this uncertainty and hurry... there—they are shouting again, and +again are all running back somewhere, and i shall run with them, and it, +death, is here above me and around... another instant and i shall never +again see the sun, this water, that gorge!...” + +at that instant the sun began to hide behind the clouds, and other +stretchers came into view before rostóv. and the fear of death and of +the stretchers, and love of the sun and of life, all merged into one +feeling of sickening agitation. + +“o lord god! thou who art in that heaven, save, forgive, and protect +me!” rostóv whispered. + +the hussars ran back to the men who held their horses; their voices +sounded louder and calmer, the stretchers disappeared from sight. + +“well, fwiend? so you’ve smelt powdah!” shouted váska denísov +just above his ear. + +“it’s all over; but i am a coward—yes, a coward!” thought +rostóv, and sighing deeply he took rook, his horse, which stood resting +one foot, from the orderly and began to mount. + +“was that grapeshot?” he asked denísov. + +“yes and no mistake!” cried denísov. “you worked like wegular +bwicks and it’s nasty work! an attack’s pleasant work! hacking +away at the dogs! but this sort of thing is the very devil, with them +shooting at you like a target.” + +and denísov rode up to a group that had stopped near rostóv, composed +of the colonel, nesvítski, zherkóv, and the officer from the suite. + +“well, it seems that no one has noticed,” thought rostóv. and this +was true. no one had taken any notice, for everyone knew the sensation +which the cadet under fire for the first time had experienced. + +“here’s something for you to report,” said zherkóv. “see if i +don’t get promoted to a sublieutenancy.” + +“inform the prince that i the bridge fired!” said the colonel +triumphantly and gaily. + +“and if he asks about the losses?” + +“a trifle,” said the colonel in his bass voice: “two hussars +wounded, and one knocked out,” he added, unable to restrain a happy +smile, and pronouncing the phrase “knocked out” with ringing +distinctness. + + + + + +chapter ix + +pursued by the french army of a hundred thousand men under the command +of bonaparte, encountering a population that was unfriendly to it, +losing confidence in its allies, suffering from shortness of supplies, +and compelled to act under conditions of war unlike anything that had +been foreseen, the russian army of thirty-five thousand men commanded +by kutúzov was hurriedly retreating along the danube, stopping where +overtaken by the enemy and fighting rearguard actions only as far as +necessary to enable it to retreat without losing its heavy equipment. +there had been actions at lambach, amstetten, and melk; but despite the +courage and endurance—acknowledged even by the enemy—with which the +russians fought, the only consequence of these actions was a yet more +rapid retreat. austrian troops that had escaped capture at ulm and had +joined kutúzov at braunau now separated from the russian army, and +kutúzov was left with only his own weak and exhausted forces. the +defense of vienna was no longer to be thought of. instead of an +offensive, the plan of which, carefully prepared in accord with the +modern science of strategics, had been handed to kutúzov when he was in +vienna by the austrian hofkriegsrath, the sole and almost unattainable +aim remaining for him was to effect a junction with the forces that were +advancing from russia, without losing his army as mack had done at ulm. + +on the twenty-eighth of october kutúzov with his army crossed to the +left bank of the danube and took up a position for the first time +with the river between himself and the main body of the french. on the +thirtieth he attacked mortier’s division, which was on the left bank, +and broke it up. in this action for the first time trophies were taken: +banners, cannon, and two enemy generals. for the first time, after a +fortnight’s retreat, the russian troops had halted and after a fight +had not only held the field but had repulsed the french. though the +troops were ill-clad, exhausted, and had lost a third of their number +in killed, wounded, sick, and stragglers; though a number of sick and +wounded had been abandoned on the other side of the danube with a letter +in which kutúzov entrusted them to the humanity of the enemy; and +though the big hospitals and the houses in krems converted into military +hospitals could no longer accommodate all the sick and wounded, yet the +stand made at krems and the victory over mortier raised the spirits of +the army considerably. throughout the whole army and at headquarters +most joyful though erroneous rumors were rife of the imaginary approach +of columns from russia, of some victory gained by the austrians, and of +the retreat of the frightened bonaparte. + +prince andrew during the battle had been in attendance on the austrian +general schmidt, who was killed in the action. his horse had been +wounded under him and his own arm slightly grazed by a bullet. as a mark +of the commander in chief’s special favor he was sent with the news of +this victory to the austrian court, now no longer at vienna (which was +threatened by the french) but at brünn. despite his apparently delicate +build prince andrew could endure physical fatigue far better than many +very muscular men, and on the night of the battle, having arrived +at krems excited but not weary, with dispatches from dokhtúrov to +kutúzov, he was sent immediately with a special dispatch to brünn. +to be so sent meant not only a reward but an important step toward +promotion. + +the night was dark but starry, the road showed black in the snow that +had fallen the previous day—the day of the battle. reviewing his +impressions of the recent battle, picturing pleasantly to himself the +impression his news of a victory would create, or recalling the send-off +given him by the commander in chief and his fellow officers, prince +andrew was galloping along in a post chaise enjoying the feelings of a +man who has at length begun to attain a long-desired happiness. as soon +as he closed his eyes his ears seemed filled with the rattle of the +wheels and the sensation of victory. then he began to imagine that +the russians were running away and that he himself was killed, but he +quickly roused himself with a feeling of joy, as if learning afresh that +this was not so but that on the contrary the french had run away. he +again recalled all the details of the victory and his own calm courage +during the battle, and feeling reassured he dozed off.... the dark +starry night was followed by a bright cheerful morning. the snow was +thawing in the sunshine, the horses galloped quickly, and on both sides +of the road were forests of different kinds, fields, and villages. + +at one of the post stations he overtook a convoy of russian wounded. +the russian officer in charge of the transport lolled back in the front +cart, shouting and scolding a soldier with coarse abuse. in each of +the long german carts six or more pale, dirty, bandaged men were being +jolted over the stony road. some of them were talking (he heard russian +words), others were eating bread; the more severely wounded looked +silently, with the languid interest of sick children, at the envoy +hurrying past them. + +prince andrew told his driver to stop, and asked a soldier in what +action they had been wounded. “day before yesterday, on the danube,” +answered the soldier. prince andrew took out his purse and gave the +soldier three gold pieces. + +“that’s for them all,” he said to the officer who came up. + +“get well soon, lads!” he continued, turning to the soldiers. +“there’s plenty to do still.” + +“what news, sir?” asked the officer, evidently anxious to start a +conversation. + +“good news!... go on!” he shouted to the driver, and they galloped +on. + +it was already quite dark when prince andrew rattled over the paved +streets of brünn and found himself surrounded by high buildings, the +lights of shops, houses, and street lamps, fine carriages, and all that +atmosphere of a large and active town which is always so attractive to a +soldier after camp life. despite his rapid journey and sleepless night, +prince andrew when he drove up to the palace felt even more vigorous and +alert than he had done the day before. only his eyes gleamed feverishly +and his thoughts followed one another with extraordinary clearness and +rapidity. he again vividly recalled the details of the battle, no longer +dim, but definite and in the concise form in which he imagined himself +stating them to the emperor francis. he vividly imagined the casual +questions that might be put to him and the answers he would give. he +expected to be at once presented to the emperor. at the chief entrance +to the palace, however, an official came running out to meet him, and +learning that he was a special messenger led him to another entrance. + +“to the right from the corridor, euer hochgeboren! there you will find +the adjutant on duty,” said the official. “he will conduct you to +the minister of war.” + +the adjutant on duty, meeting prince andrew, asked him to wait, and went +in to the minister of war. five minutes later he returned and bowing +with particular courtesy ushered prince andrew before him along a +corridor to the cabinet where the minister of war was at work. the +adjutant by his elaborate courtesy appeared to wish to ward off any +attempt at familiarity on the part of the russian messenger. + +prince andrew’s joyous feeling was considerably weakened as he +approached the door of the minister’s room. he felt offended, and +without his noticing it the feeling of offense immediately turned into +one of disdain which was quite uncalled for. his fertile mind instantly +suggested to him a point of view which gave him a right to despise +the adjutant and the minister. “away from the smell of powder, they +probably think it easy to gain victories!” he thought. his eyes +narrowed disdainfully, he entered the room of the minister of war with +peculiarly deliberate steps. this feeling of disdain was heightened +when he saw the minister seated at a large table reading some papers +and making pencil notes on them, and for the first two or three minutes +taking no notice of his arrival. a wax candle stood at each side of the +minister’s bent bald head with its gray temples. he went on reading +to the end, without raising his eyes at the opening of the door and the +sound of footsteps. + +“take this and deliver it,” said he to his adjutant, handing him the +papers and still taking no notice of the special messenger. + +prince andrew felt that either the actions of kutúzov’s army +interested the minister of war less than any of the other matters he was +concerned with, or he wanted to give the russian special messenger that +impression. “but that is a matter of perfect indifference to me,” he +thought. the minister drew the remaining papers together, arranged them +evenly, and then raised his head. he had an intellectual and distinctive +head, but the instant he turned to prince andrew the firm, intelligent +expression on his face changed in a way evidently deliberate and +habitual to him. his face took on the stupid artificial smile (which +does not even attempt to hide its artificiality) of a man who is +continually receiving many petitioners one after another. + +“from general field marshal kutúzov?” he asked. “i hope it is +good news? there has been an encounter with mortier? a victory? it was +high time!” + +he took the dispatch which was addressed to him and began to read it +with a mournful expression. + +“oh, my god! my god! schmidt!” he exclaimed in german. “what a +calamity! what a calamity!” + +having glanced through the dispatch he laid it on the table and looked +at prince andrew, evidently considering something. + +“ah what a calamity! you say the affair was decisive? but mortier is +not captured.” again he pondered. “i am very glad you have brought +good news, though schmidt’s death is a heavy price to pay for the +victory. his majesty will no doubt wish to see you, but not today. i +thank you! you must have a rest. be at the levee tomorrow after the +parade. however, i will let you know.” + +the stupid smile, which had left his face while he was speaking, +reappeared. + +“au revoir! thank you very much. his majesty will probably desire to +see you,” he added, bowing his head. + +when prince andrew left the palace he felt that all the interest +and happiness the victory had afforded him had been now left in the +indifferent hands of the minister of war and the polite adjutant. the +whole tenor of his thoughts instantaneously changed; the battle seemed +the memory of a remote event long past. + + + + + +chapter x + +prince andrew stayed at brünn with bilíbin, a russian acquaintance of +his in the diplomatic service. + +“ah, my dear prince! i could not have a more welcome visitor,” +said bilíbin as he came out to meet prince andrew. “franz, put the +prince’s things in my bedroom,” said he to the servant who was +ushering bolkónski in. “so you’re a messenger of victory, eh? +splendid! and i am sitting here ill, as you see.” + +after washing and dressing, prince andrew came into the diplomat’s +luxurious study and sat down to the dinner prepared for him. bilíbin +settled down comfortably beside the fire. + +after his journey and the campaign during which he had been deprived of +all the comforts of cleanliness and all the refinements of life, prince +andrew felt a pleasant sense of repose among luxurious surroundings such +as he had been accustomed to from childhood. besides it was pleasant, +after his reception by the austrians, to speak if not in russian +(for they were speaking french) at least with a russian who would, he +supposed, share the general russian antipathy to the austrians which was +then particularly strong. + +bilíbin was a man of thirty-five, a bachelor, and of the same circle as +prince andrew. they had known each other previously in petersburg, but +had become more intimate when prince andrew was in vienna with kutúzov. +just as prince andrew was a young man who gave promise of rising high +in the military profession, so to an even greater extent bilíbin gave +promise of rising in his diplomatic career. he was still a young man but +no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age +of sixteen, had been in paris and copenhagen, and now held a rather +important post in vienna. both the foreign minister and our ambassador +in vienna knew him and valued him. he was not one of those many +diplomats who are esteemed because they have certain negative qualities, +avoid doing certain things, and speak french. he was one of those, +who, liking work, knew how to do it, and despite his indolence would +sometimes spend a whole night at his writing table. he worked well +whatever the import of his work. it was not the question “what for?” +but the question “how?” that interested him. what the diplomatic +matter might be he did not care, but it gave him great pleasure to +prepare a circular, memorandum, or report, skillfully, pointedly, and +elegantly. bilíbin’s services were valued not only for what he wrote, +but also for his skill in dealing and conversing with those in the +highest spheres. + +bilíbin liked conversation as he liked work, only when it could be +made elegantly witty. in society he always awaited an opportunity to say +something striking and took part in a conversation only when that was +possible. his conversation was always sprinkled with wittily original, +finished phrases of general interest. these sayings were prepared in the +inner laboratory of his mind in a portable form as if intentionally, so +that insignificant society people might carry them from drawing room to +drawing room. and, in fact, bilíbin’s witticisms were hawked about +in the viennese drawing rooms and often had an influence on matters +considered important. + +his thin, worn, sallow face was covered with deep wrinkles, which always +looked as clean and well washed as the tips of one’s fingers after a +russian bath. the movement of these wrinkles formed the principal play +of expression on his face. now his forehead would pucker into deep folds +and his eyebrows were lifted, then his eyebrows would descend and +deep wrinkles would crease his cheeks. his small, deep-set eyes always +twinkled and looked out straight. + +“well, now tell me about your exploits,” said he. + +bolkónski, very modestly without once mentioning himself, described the +engagement and his reception by the minister of war. + +“they received me and my news as one receives a dog in a game of +skittles,” said he in conclusion. + +bilíbin smiled and the wrinkles on his face disappeared. + +“cependant, mon cher,” he remarked, examining his nails from a +distance and puckering the skin above his left eye, “malgré la haute +estime que je professe pour the orthodox russian army, j’avoue que +votre victoire n’est pas des plus victorieuses.” * + + * “but my dear fellow, with all my respect for the orthodox + russian army, i must say that your victory was not + particularly victorious.” + + +he went on talking in this way in french, uttering only those words in +russian on which he wished to put a contemptuous emphasis. + +“come now! you with all your forces fall on the unfortunate mortier +and his one division, and even then mortier slips through your fingers! +where’s the victory?” + +“but seriously,” said prince andrew, “we can at any rate say +without boasting that it was a little better than at ulm...” + +“why didn’t you capture one, just one, marshal for us?” + +“because not everything happens as one expects or with the smoothness +of a parade. we had expected, as i told you, to get at their rear by +seven in the morning but had not reached it by five in the afternoon.” + +“and why didn’t you do it at seven in the morning? you ought to have +been there at seven in the morning,” returned bilíbin with a smile. +“you ought to have been there at seven in the morning.” + +“why did you not succeed in impressing on bonaparte by diplomatic +methods that he had better leave genoa alone?” retorted prince andrew +in the same tone. + +“i know,” interrupted bilíbin, “you’re thinking it’s very +easy to take marshals, sitting on a sofa by the fire! that is true, but +still why didn’t you capture him? so don’t be surprised if not only +the minister of war but also his most august majesty the emperor and +king francis is not much delighted by your victory. even i, a poor +secretary of the russian embassy, do not feel any need in token of my +joy to give my franz a thaler, or let him go with his liebchen to the +prater... true, we have no prater here...” + +he looked straight at prince andrew and suddenly unwrinkled his +forehead. + +“it is now my turn to ask you ‘why?’ mon cher,” said bolkónski. +“i confess i do not understand: perhaps there are diplomatic +subtleties here beyond my feeble intelligence, but i can’t make it +out. mack loses a whole army, the archduke ferdinand and the archduke +karl give no signs of life and make blunder after blunder. kutúzov +alone at last gains a real victory, destroying the spell of the +invincibility of the french, and the minister of war does not even care +to hear the details.” + +“that’s just it, my dear fellow. you see it’s hurrah for the tsar, +for russia, for the orthodox greek faith! all that is beautiful, but +what do we, i mean the austrian court, care for your victories? bring +us nice news of a victory by the archduke karl or ferdinand (one +archduke’s as good as another, as you know) and even if it is only +over a fire brigade of bonaparte’s, that will be another story and +we’ll fire off some cannon! but this sort of thing seems done +on purpose to vex us. the archduke karl does nothing, the archduke +ferdinand disgraces himself. you abandon vienna, give up its +defense—as much as to say: ‘heaven is with us, but heaven help you +and your capital!’ the one general whom we all loved, schmidt, you +expose to a bullet, and then you congratulate us on the victory! admit +that more irritating news than yours could not have been conceived. +it’s as if it had been done on purpose, on purpose. besides, suppose +you did gain a brilliant victory, if even the archduke karl gained a +victory, what effect would that have on the general course of events? +it’s too late now when vienna is occupied by the french army!” + +“what? occupied? vienna occupied?” + +“not only occupied, but bonaparte is at schönbrunn, and the count, +our dear count vrbna, goes to him for orders.” + +after the fatigues and impressions of the journey, his reception, and +especially after having dined, bolkónski felt that he could not take in +the full significance of the words he heard. + +“count lichtenfels was here this morning,” bilíbin continued, +“and showed me a letter in which the parade of the french in vienna +was fully described: prince murat et tout le tremblement... you see that +your victory is not a matter for great rejoicing and that you can’t be +received as a savior.” + +“really i don’t care about that, i don’t care at all,” said +prince andrew, beginning to understand that his news of the battle +before krems was really of small importance in view of such events as +the fall of austria’s capital. “how is it vienna was taken? what of +the bridge and its celebrated bridgehead and prince auersperg? we heard +reports that prince auersperg was defending vienna?” he said. + +“prince auersperg is on this, on our side of the river, and is +defending us—doing it very badly, i think, but still he is defending +us. but vienna is on the other side. no, the bridge has not yet been +taken and i hope it will not be, for it is mined and orders have been +given to blow it up. otherwise we should long ago have been in the +mountains of bohemia, and you and your army would have spent a bad +quarter of an hour between two fires.” + +“but still this does not mean that the campaign is over,” said +prince andrew. + +“well, i think it is. the bigwigs here think so too, but they +daren’t say so. it will be as i said at the beginning of the campaign, +it won’t be your skirmishing at dürrenstein, or gunpowder at all, +that will decide the matter, but those who devised it,” said bilíbin +quoting one of his own mots, releasing the wrinkles on his forehead, and +pausing. “the only question is what will come of the meeting between +the emperor alexander and the king of prussia in berlin? if prussia +joins the allies, austria’s hand will be forced and there will be war. +if not it is merely a question of settling where the preliminaries of +the new campo formio are to be drawn up.” + +“what an extraordinary genius!” prince andrew suddenly exclaimed, +clenching his small hand and striking the table with it, “and what +luck the man has!” + +“buonaparte?” said bilíbin inquiringly, puckering up his forehead +to indicate that he was about to say something witty. “buonaparte?” +he repeated, accentuating the u: “i think, however, now that he lays +down laws for austria at schönbrunn, il faut lui faire grâce de +l’u! * i shall certainly adopt an innovation and call him simply +bonaparte!” + + * “we must let him off the u!” + + +“but joking apart,” said prince andrew, “do you really think the +campaign is over?” + +“this is what i think. austria has been made a fool of, and she is +not used to it. she will retaliate. and she has been fooled in the +first place because her provinces have been pillaged—they say the holy +russian army loots terribly—her army is destroyed, her capital +taken, and all this for the beaux yeux * of his sardinian majesty. and +therefore—this is between ourselves—i instinctively feel that we +are being deceived, my instinct tells me of negotiations with france and +projects for peace, a secret peace concluded separately.” + + * fine eyes. + +“impossible!” cried prince andrew. “that would be too base.” + +“if we live we shall see,” replied bilíbin, his face again becoming +smooth as a sign that the conversation was at an end. + +when prince andrew reached the room prepared for him and lay down in a +clean shirt on the feather bed with its warmed and fragrant pillows, he +felt that the battle of which he had brought tidings was far, far +away from him. the alliance with prussia, austria’s treachery, +bonaparte’s new triumph, tomorrow’s levee and parade, and the +audience with the emperor francis occupied his thoughts. + +he closed his eyes, and immediately a sound of cannonading, of musketry +and the rattling of carriage wheels seemed to fill his ears, and now +again drawn out in a thin line the musketeers were descending the hill, +the french were firing, and he felt his heart palpitating as he rode +forward beside schmidt with the bullets merrily whistling all around, +and he experienced tenfold the joy of living, as he had not done since +childhood. + +he woke up... + +“yes, that all happened!” he said, and, smiling happily to himself +like a child, he fell into a deep, youthful slumber. + + + + + +chapter xi + +next day he woke late. recalling his recent impressions, the first +thought that came into his mind was that today he had to be presented +to the emperor francis; he remembered the minister of war, the polite +austrian adjutant, bilíbin, and last night’s conversation. having +dressed for his attendance at court in full parade uniform, which he +had not worn for a long time, he went into bilíbin’s study fresh, +animated, and handsome, with his hand bandaged. in the study were four +gentlemen of the diplomatic corps. with prince hippolyte kurágin, +who was a secretary to the embassy, bolkónski was already acquainted. +bilíbin introduced him to the others. + +the gentlemen assembled at bilíbin’s were young, wealthy, gay society +men, who here, as in vienna, formed a special set which bilíbin, their +leader, called les nôtres. * this set, consisting almost exclusively of +diplomats, evidently had its own interests which had nothing to do with +war or politics but related to high society, to certain women, and to +the official side of the service. these gentlemen received prince +andrew as one of themselves, an honor they did not extend to many. from +politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions +about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry +jests and gossip. + + * ours. + +“but the best of it was,” said one, telling of the misfortune of +a fellow diplomat, “that the chancellor told him flatly that his +appointment to london was a promotion and that he was so to regard it. +can you fancy the figure he cut?...” + +“but the worst of it, gentlemen—i am giving kurágin away to +you—is that that man suffers, and this don juan, wicked fellow, is +taking advantage of it!” + +prince hippolyte was lolling in a lounge chair with his legs over its +arm. he began to laugh. + +“tell me about that!” he said. + +“oh, you don juan! you serpent!” cried several voices. + +“you, bolkónski, don’t know,” said bilíbin turning to prince +andrew, “that all the atrocities of the french army (i nearly said of +the russian army) are nothing compared to what this man has been doing +among the women!” + +“la femme est la compagne de l’homme,” * announced prince +hippolyte, and began looking through a lorgnette at his elevated legs. + + * “woman is man’s companion.” + + +bilíbin and the rest of “ours” burst out laughing in hippolyte’s +face, and prince andrew saw that hippolyte, of whom—he had to +admit—he had almost been jealous on his wife’s account, was the butt +of this set. + +“oh, i must give you a treat,” bilíbin whispered to bolkónski. +“kurágin is exquisite when he discusses politics—you should see his +gravity!” + +he sat down beside hippolyte and wrinkling his forehead began talking +to him about politics. prince andrew and the others gathered round these +two. + +“the berlin cabinet cannot express a feeling of alliance,” began +hippolyte gazing round with importance at the others, “without +expressing... as in its last note... you understand... besides, unless +his majesty the emperor derogates from the principle of our alliance... + +“wait, i have not finished...” he said to prince andrew, seizing +him by the arm, “i believe that intervention will be stronger than +nonintervention. and...” he paused. “finally one cannot impute the +nonreceipt of our dispatch of november 18. that is how it will end.” +and he released bolkónski’s arm to indicate that he had now quite +finished. + +“demosthenes, i know thee by the pebble thou secretest in thy golden +mouth!” said bilíbin, and the mop of hair on his head moved with +satisfaction. + +everybody laughed, and hippolyte louder than anyone. he was evidently +distressed, and breathed painfully, but could not restrain the wild +laughter that convulsed his usually impassive features. + +“well now, gentlemen,” said bilíbin, “bolkónski is my guest in +this house and in brünn itself. i want to entertain him as far as i +can, with all the pleasures of life here. if we were in vienna it would +be easy, but here, in this wretched moravian hole, it is more difficult, +and i beg you all to help me. brünn’s attractions must be shown him. +you can undertake the theater, i society, and you, hippolyte, of course +the women.” + +“we must let him see amelie, she’s exquisite!” said one of +“ours,” kissing his finger tips. + +“in general we must turn this bloodthirsty soldier to more humane +interests,” said bilíbin. + +“i shall scarcely be able to avail myself of your hospitality, +gentlemen, it is already time for me to go,” replied prince andrew +looking at his watch. + +“where to?” + +“to the emperor.” + +“oh! oh! oh!” + +“well, au revoir, bolkónski! au revoir, prince! come back early to +dinner,” cried several voices. “we’ll take you in hand.” + +“when speaking to the emperor, try as far as you can to praise the way +that provisions are supplied and the routes indicated,” said bilíbin, +accompanying him to the hall. + +“i should like to speak well of them, but as far as i know the facts, +i can’t,” replied bolkónski, smiling. + +“well, talk as much as you can, anyway. he has a passion for giving +audiences, but he does not like talking himself and can’t do it, as +you will see.” + + + + + +chapter xii + +at the levee prince andrew stood among the austrian officers as he had +been told to, and the emperor francis merely looked fixedly into his +face and just nodded to him with his long head. but after it was +over, the adjutant he had seen the previous day ceremoniously informed +bolkónski that the emperor desired to give him an audience. the emperor +francis received him standing in the middle of the room. before the +conversation began prince andrew was struck by the fact that the emperor +seemed confused and blushed as if not knowing what to say. + +“tell me, when did the battle begin?” he asked hurriedly. + +prince andrew replied. then followed other questions just as simple: +“was kutúzov well? when had he left krems?” and so on. the emperor +spoke as if his sole aim were to put a given number of questions—the +answers to these questions, as was only too evident, did not interest +him. + +“at what o’clock did the battle begin?” asked the emperor. + +“i cannot inform your majesty at what o’clock the battle began at +the front, but at dürrenstein, where i was, our attack began after +five in the afternoon,” replied bolkónski growing more animated and +expecting that he would have a chance to give a reliable account, which +he had ready in his mind, of all he knew and had seen. but the emperor +smiled and interrupted him. + +“how many miles?” + +“from where to where, your majesty?” + +“from dürrenstein to krems.” + +“three and a half miles, your majesty.” + +“the french have abandoned the left bank?” + +“according to the scouts the last of them crossed on rafts during the +night.” + +“is there sufficient forage in krems?” + +“forage has not been supplied to the extent...” + +the emperor interrupted him. + +“at what o’clock was general schmidt killed?” + +“at seven o’clock, i believe.” + +“at seven o’clock? it’s very sad, very sad!” + +the emperor thanked prince andrew and bowed. prince andrew withdrew and +was immediately surrounded by courtiers on all sides. everywhere he +saw friendly looks and heard friendly words. yesterday’s adjutant +reproached him for not having stayed at the palace, and offered him +his own house. the minister of war came up and congratulated him on the +maria theresa order of the third grade, which the emperor was conferring +on him. the empress’ chamberlain invited him to see her majesty. the +archduchess also wished to see him. he did not know whom to answer, and +for a few seconds collected his thoughts. then the russian ambassador +took him by the shoulder, led him to the window, and began to talk to +him. + +contrary to bilíbin’s forecast the news he had brought was joyfully +received. a thanksgiving service was arranged, kutúzov was awarded +the grand cross of maria theresa, and the whole army received rewards. +bolkónski was invited everywhere, and had to spend the whole morning +calling on the principal austrian dignitaries. between four and five +in the afternoon, having made all his calls, he was returning to +bilíbin’s house thinking out a letter to his father about the battle +and his visit to brünn. at the door he found a vehicle half full of +luggage. franz, bilíbin’s man, was dragging a portmanteau with some +difficulty out of the front door. + +before returning to bilíbin’s prince andrew had gone to a bookshop +to provide himself with some books for the campaign, and had spent some +time in the shop. + +“what is it?” he asked. + +“oh, your excellency!” said franz, with difficulty rolling the +portmanteau into the vehicle, “we are to move on still farther. the +scoundrel is again at our heels!” + +“eh? what?” asked prince andrew. + +bilíbin came out to meet him. his usually calm face showed excitement. + +“there now! confess that this is delightful,” said he. “this +affair of the thabor bridge, at vienna.... they have crossed without +striking a blow!” + +prince andrew could not understand. + +“but where do you come from not to know what every coachman in the +town knows?” + +“i come from the archduchess’. i heard nothing there.” + +“and you didn’t see that everybody is packing up?” + +“i did not... what is it all about?” inquired prince andrew +impatiently. + +“what’s it all about? why, the french have crossed the bridge that +auersperg was defending, and the bridge was not blown up: so murat +is now rushing along the road to brünn and will be here in a day or +two.” + +“what? here? but why did they not blow up the bridge, if it was +mined?” + +“that is what i ask you. no one, not even bonaparte, knows why.” + +bolkónski shrugged his shoulders. + +“but if the bridge is crossed it means that the army too is lost? it +will be cut off,” said he. + +“that’s just it,” answered bilíbin. “listen! the french entered +vienna as i told you. very well. next day, which was yesterday, those +gentlemen, messieurs les maréchaux, * murat, lannes, and belliard, +mount and ride to the bridge. (observe that all three are gascons.) +‘gentlemen,’ says one of them, ‘you know the thabor bridge is +mined and doubly mined and that there are menacing fortifications at its +head and an army of fifteen thousand men has been ordered to blow up +the bridge and not let us cross? but it will please our sovereign the +emperor napoleon if we take this bridge, so let us three go and take +it!’ ‘yes, let’s!’ say the others. and off they go and take the +bridge, cross it, and now with their whole army are on this side of the +danube, marching on us, you, and your lines of communication.” + + * the marshalls. + +“stop jesting,” said prince andrew sadly and seriously. this news +grieved him and yet he was pleased. + +as soon as he learned that the russian army was in such a hopeless +situation it occurred to him that it was he who was destined to lead it +out of this position; that here was the toulon that would lift him from +the ranks of obscure officers and offer him the first step to fame! +listening to bilíbin he was already imagining how on reaching the army +he would give an opinion at the war council which would be the only one +that could save the army, and how he alone would be entrusted with the +executing of the plan. + +“stop this jesting,” he said. + +“i am not jesting,” bilíbin went on. “nothing is truer or sadder. +these gentlemen ride onto the bridge alone and wave white handkerchiefs; +they assure the officer on duty that they, the marshals, are on +their way to negotiate with prince auersperg. he lets them enter the +tête-de-pont. * they spin him a thousand gasconades, saying that +the war is over, that the emperor francis is arranging a meeting with +bonaparte, that they desire to see prince auersperg, and so on. the +officer sends for auersperg; these gentlemen embrace the officers, crack +jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a french battalion gets to +the bridge unobserved, flings the bags of incendiary material into +the water, and approaches the tête-de-pont. at length appears the +lieutenant general, our dear prince auersperg von mautern himself. +‘dearest foe! flower of the austrian army, hero of the turkish wars! +hostilities are ended, we can shake one another’s hand.... the +emperor napoleon burns with impatience to make prince auersperg’s +acquaintance.’ in a word, those gentlemen, gascons indeed, so +bewildered him with fine words, and he is so flattered by his rapidly +established intimacy with the french marshals, and so dazzled by the +sight of murat’s mantle and ostrich plumes, qu’il n’y voit que du +feu, et oublie celui qu’il devait faire faire sur l’ennemi!” *(2) +in spite of the animation of his speech, bilíbin did not forget to +pause after this mot to give time for its due appreciation. “the +french battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the +bridge is taken! but what is best of all,” he went on, his excitement +subsiding under the delightful interest of his own story, “is that the +sergeant in charge of the cannon which was to give the signal to fire +the mines and blow up the bridge, this sergeant, seeing that the french +troops were running onto the bridge, was about to fire, but lannes +stayed his hand. the sergeant, who was evidently wiser than his general, +goes up to auersperg and says: ‘prince, you are being deceived, here +are the french!’ murat, seeing that all is lost if the sergeant is +allowed to speak, turns to auersperg with feigned astonishment (he is a +true gascon) and says: ‘i don’t recognize the world-famous austrian +discipline, if you allow a subordinate to address you like that!’ it +was a stroke of genius. prince auersperg feels his dignity at stake and +orders the sergeant to be arrested. come, you must own that this affair +of the thabor bridge is delightful! it is not exactly stupidity, nor +rascality....” + + * bridgehead. + + * (2) that their fire gets into his eyes and he forgets that + he ought to be firing at the enemy. + +“it may be treachery,” said prince andrew, vividly imagining the +gray overcoats, wounds, the smoke of gunpowder, the sounds of firing, +and the glory that awaited him. + +“not that either. that puts the court in too bad a light,” replied +bilíbin. “it’s not treachery nor rascality nor stupidity: it is +just as at ulm... it is...”—he seemed to be trying to find the right +expression. “c’est... c’est du mack. nous sommes mackés (it is... +it is a bit of mack. we are macked),” he concluded, feeling that he +had produced a good epigram, a fresh one that would be repeated. his +hitherto puckered brow became smooth as a sign of pleasure, and with a +slight smile he began to examine his nails. + +“where are you off to?” he said suddenly to prince andrew who had +risen and was going toward his room. + +“i am going away.” + +“where to?” + +“to the army.” + +“but you meant to stay another two days?” + +“but now i am off at once.” + +and prince andrew after giving directions about his departure went to +his room. + +“do you know, mon cher,” said bilíbin following him, “i have been +thinking about you. why are you going?” + +and in proof of the conclusiveness of his opinion all the wrinkles +vanished from his face. + +prince andrew looked inquiringly at him and gave no reply. + +“why are you going? i know you think it your duty to gallop back to +the army now that it is in danger. i understand that. mon cher, it is +heroism!” + +“not at all,” said prince andrew. + +“but as you are a philosopher, be a consistent one, look at the other +side of the question and you will see that your duty, on the contrary, +is to take care of yourself. leave it to those who are no longer fit for +anything else.... you have not been ordered to return and have not been +dismissed from here; therefore, you can stay and go with us wherever our +ill luck takes us. they say we are going to olmütz, and olmütz is a +very decent town. you and i will travel comfortably in my calèche.” + +“do stop joking, bilíbin,” cried bolkónski. + +“i am speaking sincerely as a friend! consider! where and why are +you going, when you might remain here? you are faced by one of two +things,” and the skin over his left temple puckered, “either you +will not reach your regiment before peace is concluded, or you will +share defeat and disgrace with kutúzov’s whole army.” + +and bilíbin unwrinkled his temple, feeling that the dilemma was +insoluble. + +“i cannot argue about it,” replied prince andrew coldly, but he +thought: “i am going to save the army.” + +“my dear fellow, you are a hero!” said bilíbin. + + + + + +chapter xiii + +that same night, having taken leave of the minister of war, bolkónski +set off to rejoin the army, not knowing where he would find it and +fearing to be captured by the french on the way to krems. + +in brünn everybody attached to the court was packing up, and the heavy +baggage was already being dispatched to olmütz. near hetzelsdorf prince +andrew struck the high road along which the russian army was moving with +great haste and in the greatest disorder. the road was so obstructed +with carts that it was impossible to get by in a carriage. prince andrew +took a horse and a cossack from a cossack commander, and hungry and +weary, making his way past the baggage wagons, rode in search of the +commander in chief and of his own luggage. very sinister reports of the +position of the army reached him as he went along, and the appearance of +the troops in their disorderly flight confirmed these rumors. + +“cette armée russe que l’or de l’angleterre a transportée des +extrémités de l’univers, nous allons lui faire éprouver le même +sort—(le sort de l’armée d’ulm).” * he remembered these words +in bonaparte’s address to his army at the beginning of the campaign, +and they awoke in him astonishment at the genius of his hero, a feeling +of wounded pride, and a hope of glory. “and should there be nothing +left but to die?” he thought. “well, if need be, i shall do it no +worse than others.” + + * “that russian army which has been brought from the ends of + the earth by english gold, we shall cause to share the same + fate—(the fate of the army at ulm).” + + +he looked with disdain at the endless confused mass of detachments, +carts, guns, artillery, and again baggage wagons and vehicles of all +kinds overtaking one another and blocking the muddy road, three and +sometimes four abreast. from all sides, behind and before, as far as ear +could reach, there were the rattle of wheels, the creaking of carts +and gun carriages, the tramp of horses, the crack of whips, shouts, the +urging of horses, and the swearing of soldiers, orderlies, and officers. +all along the sides of the road fallen horses were to be seen, some +flayed, some not, and broken-down carts beside which solitary soldiers +sat waiting for something, and again soldiers straggling from their +companies, crowds of whom set off to the neighboring villages, or +returned from them dragging sheep, fowls, hay, and bulging sacks. at +each ascent or descent of the road the crowds were yet denser and the +din of shouting more incessant. soldiers floundering knee-deep in mud +pushed the guns and wagons themselves. whips cracked, hoofs slipped, +traces broke, and lungs were strained with shouting. the officers +directing the march rode backward and forward between the carts. their +voices were but feebly heard amid the uproar and one saw by their faces +that they despaired of the possibility of checking this disorder. + +“here is our dear orthodox russian army,” thought bolkónski, +recalling bilíbin’s words. + +wishing to find out where the commander in chief was, he rode up to +a convoy. directly opposite to him came a strange one-horse vehicle, +evidently rigged up by soldiers out of any available materials and +looking like something between a cart, a cabriolet, and a calèche. +a soldier was driving, and a woman enveloped in shawls sat behind the +apron under the leather hood of the vehicle. prince andrew rode up +and was just putting his question to a soldier when his attention +was diverted by the desperate shrieks of the woman in the vehicle. an +officer in charge of transport was beating the soldier who was driving +the woman’s vehicle for trying to get ahead of others, and the strokes +of his whip fell on the apron of the equipage. the woman screamed +piercingly. seeing prince andrew she leaned out from behind the apron +and, waving her thin arms from under the woolen shawl, cried: + +“mr. aide-de-camp! mr. aide-de-camp!... for heaven’s sake... protect +me! what will become of us? i am the wife of the doctor of the seventh +chasseurs.... they won’t let us pass, we are left behind and have lost +our people...” + +“i’ll flatten you into a pancake!” shouted the angry officer to +the soldier. “turn back with your slut!” + +“mr. aide-de-camp! help me!... what does it all mean?” screamed the +doctor’s wife. + +“kindly let this cart pass. don’t you see it’s a woman?” said +prince andrew riding up to the officer. + +the officer glanced at him, and without replying turned again to the +soldier. “i’ll teach you to push on!... back!” + +“let them pass, i tell you!” repeated prince andrew, compressing his +lips. + +“and who are you?” cried the officer, turning on him with tipsy +rage, “who are you? are you in command here? eh? i am commander here, +not you! go back or i’ll flatten you into a pancake,” repeated he. +this expression evidently pleased him. + +“that was a nice snub for the little aide-de-camp,” came a voice +from behind. + +prince andrew saw that the officer was in that state of senseless, +tipsy rage when a man does not know what he is saying. he saw that his +championship of the doctor’s wife in her queer trap might expose him +to what he dreaded more than anything in the world—to ridicule; but +his instinct urged him on. before the officer finished his sentence +prince andrew, his face distorted with fury, rode up to him and raised +his riding whip. + +“kind...ly let—them—pass!” + +the officer flourished his arm and hastily rode away. + +“it’s all the fault of these fellows on the staff that there’s +this disorder,” he muttered. “do as you like.” + +prince andrew without lifting his eyes rode hastily away from the +doctor’s wife, who was calling him her deliverer, and recalling with +a sense of disgust the minutest details of this humiliating scene he +galloped on to the village where he was told that the commander in chief +was. + +on reaching the village he dismounted and went to the nearest house, +intending to rest if but for a moment, eat something, and try to sort +out the stinging and tormenting thoughts that confused his mind. “this +is a mob of scoundrels and not an army,” he was thinking as he went +up to the window of the first house, when a familiar voice called him by +name. + +he turned round. nesvítski’s handsome face looked out of the little +window. nesvítski, moving his moist lips as he chewed something, and +flourishing his arm, called him to enter. + +“bolkónski! bolkónski!... don’t you hear? eh? come quick...” he +shouted. + +entering the house, prince andrew saw nesvítski and another adjutant +having something to eat. they hastily turned round to him asking if he +had any news. on their familiar faces he read agitation and alarm. +this was particularly noticeable on nesvítski’s usually laughing +countenance. + +“where is the commander in chief?” asked bolkónski. + +“here, in that house,” answered the adjutant. + +“well, is it true that it’s peace and capitulation?” asked +nesvítski. + +“i was going to ask you. i know nothing except that it was all i could +do to get here.” + +“and we, my dear boy! it’s terrible! i was wrong to laugh at mack, +we’re getting it still worse,” said nesvítski. “but sit down and +have something to eat.” + +“you won’t be able to find either your baggage or anything else now, +prince. and god only knows where your man peter is,” said the other +adjutant. + +“where are headquarters?” + +“we are to spend the night in znaim.” + +“well, i have got all i need into packs for two horses,” said +nesvítski. “they’ve made up splendid packs for me—fit to cross +the bohemian mountains with. it’s a bad lookout, old fellow! but +what’s the matter with you? you must be ill to shiver like that,” he +added, noticing that prince andrew winced as at an electric shock. + +“it’s nothing,” replied prince andrew. + +he had just remembered his recent encounter with the doctor’s wife and +the convoy officer. + +“what is the commander in chief doing here?” he asked. + +“i can’t make out at all,” said nesvítski. + +“well, all i can make out is that everything is abominable, +abominable, quite abominable!” said prince andrew, and he went off to +the house where the commander in chief was. + +passing by kutúzov’s carriage and the exhausted saddle horses of +his suite, with their cossacks who were talking loudly together, prince +andrew entered the passage. kutúzov himself, he was told, was in the +house with prince bagratión and weyrother. weyrother was the austrian +general who had succeeded schmidt. in the passage little kozlóvski was +squatting on his heels in front of a clerk. the clerk, with cuffs turned +up, was hastily writing at a tub turned bottom upwards. kozlóvski’s +face looked worn—he too had evidently not slept all night. he glanced +at prince andrew and did not even nod to him. + +“second line... have you written it?” he continued dictating to the +clerk. “the kiev grenadiers, podolian...” + +“one can’t write so fast, your honor,” said the clerk, glancing +angrily and disrespectfully at kozlóvski. + +through the door came the sounds of kutúzov’s voice, excited and +dissatisfied, interrupted by another, an unfamiliar voice. from the +sound of these voices, the inattentive way kozlóvski looked at him, the +disrespectful manner of the exhausted clerk, the fact that the clerk and +kozlóvski were squatting on the floor by a tub so near to the commander +in chief, and from the noisy laughter of the cossacks holding the +horses near the window, prince andrew felt that something important and +disastrous was about to happen. + +he turned to kozlóvski with urgent questions. + +“immediately, prince,” said kozlóvski. “dispositions for +bagratión.” + +“what about capitulation?” + +“nothing of the sort. orders are issued for a battle.” + +prince andrew moved toward the door from whence voices were heard. +just as he was going to open it the sounds ceased, the door opened, and +kutúzov with his eagle nose and puffy face appeared in the doorway. +prince andrew stood right in front of kutúzov but the expression of +the commander in chief’s one sound eye showed him to be so preoccupied +with thoughts and anxieties as to be oblivious of his presence. he +looked straight at his adjutant’s face without recognizing him. + +“well, have you finished?” said he to kozlóvski. + +“one moment, your excellency.” + +bagratión, a gaunt middle-aged man of medium height with a firm, +impassive face of oriental type, came out after the commander in chief. + +“i have the honor to present myself,” repeated prince andrew rather +loudly, handing kutúzov an envelope. + +“ah, from vienna? very good. later, later!” + +kutúzov went out into the porch with bagratión. + +“well, good-by, prince,” said he to bagratión. “my blessing, and +may christ be with you in your great endeavor!” + +his face suddenly softened and tears came into his eyes. with his left +hand he drew bagratión toward him, and with his right, on which he wore +a ring, he made the sign of the cross over him with a gesture evidently +habitual, offering his puffy cheek, but bagratión kissed him on the +neck instead. + +“christ be with you!” kutúzov repeated and went toward his +carriage. “get in with me,” said he to bolkónski. + +“your excellency, i should like to be of use here. allow me to remain +with prince bagratión’s detachment.” + +“get in,” said kutúzov, and noticing that bolkónski still delayed, +he added: “i need good officers myself, need them myself!” + +they got into the carriage and drove for a few minutes in silence. + +“there is still much, much before us,” he said, as if with an old +man’s penetration he understood all that was passing in bolkónski’s +mind. “if a tenth part of his detachment returns i shall thank god,” +he added as if speaking to himself. + +prince andrew glanced at kutúzov’s face only a foot distant from him +and involuntarily noticed the carefully washed seams of the scar near +his temple, where an ismail bullet had pierced his skull, and the empty +eye socket. “yes, he has a right to speak so calmly of those men’s +death,” thought bolkónski. + +“that is why i beg to be sent to that detachment,” he said. + +kutúzov did not reply. he seemed to have forgotten what he had been +saying, and sat plunged in thought. five minutes later, gently swaying +on the soft springs of the carriage, he turned to prince andrew. +there was not a trace of agitation on his face. with delicate irony he +questioned prince andrew about the details of his interview with the +emperor, about the remarks he had heard at court concerning the krems +affair, and about some ladies they both knew. + + + + + +chapter xiv + +on november 1 kutúzov had received, through a spy, news that the army +he commanded was in an almost hopeless position. the spy reported that +the french, after crossing the bridge at vienna, were advancing in +immense force upon kutúzov’s line of communication with the troops +that were arriving from russia. if kutúzov decided to remain at krems, +napoleon’s army of one hundred and fifty thousand men would cut him +off completely and surround his exhausted army of forty thousand, and he +would find himself in the position of mack at ulm. if kutúzov decided +to abandon the road connecting him with the troops arriving from russia, +he would have to march with no road into unknown parts of the bohemian +mountains, defending himself against superior forces of the enemy and +abandoning all hope of a junction with buxhöwden. if kutúzov decided +to retreat along the road from krems to olmütz, to unite with the +troops arriving from russia, he risked being forestalled on that road +by the french who had crossed the vienna bridge, and encumbered by his +baggage and transport, having to accept battle on the march against an +enemy three times as strong, who would hem him in from two sides. + +kutúzov chose this latter course. + +the french, the spy reported, having crossed the vienna bridge, were +advancing by forced marches toward znaim, which lay sixty-six miles +off on the line of kutúzov’s retreat. if he reached znaim before the +french, there would be great hope of saving the army; to let the +french forestall him at znaim meant the exposure of his whole army to a +disgrace such as that of ulm, or to utter destruction. but to forestall +the french with his whole army was impossible. the road for the french +from vienna to znaim was shorter and better than the road for the +russians from krems to znaim. + +the night he received the news, kutúzov sent bagratión’s vanguard, +four thousand strong, to the right across the hills from the krems-znaim +to the vienna-znaim road. bagratión was to make this march without +resting, and to halt facing vienna with znaim to his rear, and if he +succeeded in forestalling the french he was to delay them as long as +possible. kutúzov himself with all his transport took the road to +znaim. + +marching thirty miles that stormy night across roadless hills, with his +hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers +by the way, bagratión came out on the vienna-znaim road at hollabrünn +a few hours ahead of the french who were approaching hollabrünn from +vienna. kutúzov with his transport had still to march for some days +before he could reach znaim. hence bagratión with his four thousand +hungry, exhausted men would have to detain for days the whole enemy army +that came upon him at hollabrünn, which was clearly impossible. but +a freak of fate made the impossible possible. the success of the trick +that had placed the vienna bridge in the hands of the french without +a fight led murat to try to deceive kutúzov in a similar way. meeting +bagratión’s weak detachment on the znaim road he supposed it to be +kutúzov’s whole army. to be able to crush it absolutely he awaited +the arrival of the rest of the troops who were on their way from vienna, +and with this object offered a three days’ truce on condition that +both armies should remain in position without moving. murat declared +that negotiations for peace were already proceeding, and that he +therefore offered this truce to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. count +nostitz, the austrian general occupying the advanced posts, believed +murat’s emissary and retired, leaving bagratión’s division +exposed. another emissary rode to the russian line to announce the peace +negotiations and to offer the russian army the three days’ truce. +bagratión replied that he was not authorized either to accept or refuse +a truce and sent his adjutant to kutúzov to report the offer he had +received. + +a truce was kutúzov’s sole chance of gaining time, giving +bagratión’s exhausted troops some rest, and letting the transport and +heavy convoys (whose movements were concealed from the french) advance +if but one stage nearer znaim. the offer of a truce gave the only, and +a quite unexpected, chance of saving the army. on receiving the news +he immediately dispatched adjutant general wintzingerode, who was in +attendance on him, to the enemy camp. wintzingerode was not merely +to agree to the truce but also to offer terms of capitulation, and +meanwhile kutúzov sent his adjutants back to hasten to the utmost the +movements of the baggage trains of the entire army along the krems-znaim +road. bagratión’s exhausted and hungry detachment, which alone +covered this movement of the transport and of the whole army, had to +remain stationary in face of an enemy eight times as strong as itself. + +kutúzov’s expectations that the proposals of capitulation (which were +in no way binding) might give time for part of the transport to pass, +and also that murat’s mistake would very soon be discovered, proved +correct. as soon as bonaparte (who was at schönbrunn, sixteen miles +from hollabrünn) received murat’s dispatch with the proposal of a +truce and a capitulation, he detected a ruse and wrote the following +letter to murat: + +schönbrunn, 25th brumaire, 1805, + +at eight o’clock in the morning + +to prince murat, + +i cannot find words to express to you my displeasure. you command only +my advance guard, and have no right to arrange an armistice without my +order. you are causing me to lose the fruits of a campaign. break +the armistice immediately and march on the enemy. inform him that the +general who signed that capitulation had no right to do so, and that no +one but the emperor of russia has that right. + +if, however, the emperor of russia ratifies that convention, i will +ratify it; but it is only a trick. march on, destroy the russian +army.... you are in a position to seize its baggage and artillery. + +the russian emperor’s aide-de-camp is an impostor. officers are +nothing when they have no powers; this one had none.... the austrians +let themselves be tricked at the crossing of the vienna bridge, you are +letting yourself be tricked by an aide-de-camp of the emperor. + +napoleon + +bonaparte’s adjutant rode full gallop with this menacing letter to +murat. bonaparte himself, not trusting to his generals, moved with all +the guards to the field of battle, afraid of letting a ready victim +escape, and bagratión’s four thousand men merrily lighted campfires, +dried and warmed themselves, cooked their porridge for the first time +for three days, and not one of them knew or imagined what was in store +for him. + + + + + +chapter xv + +between three and four o’clock in the afternoon prince andrew, who +had persisted in his request to kutúzov, arrived at grunth and reported +himself to bagratión. bonaparte’s adjutant had not yet reached +murat’s detachment and the battle had not yet begun. in bagratión’s +detachment no one knew anything of the general position of affairs. they +talked of peace but did not believe in its possibility; others talked +of a battle but also disbelieved in the nearness of an engagement. +bagratión, knowing bolkónski to be a favorite and trusted adjutant, +received him with distinction and special marks of favor, explaining to +him that there would probably be an engagement that day or the next, and +giving him full liberty to remain with him during the battle or to join +the rearguard and have an eye on the order of retreat, “which is also +very important.” + +“however, there will hardly be an engagement today,” said bagratión +as if to reassure prince andrew. + +“if he is one of the ordinary little staff dandies sent to earn a +medal he can get his reward just as well in the rearguard, but if he +wishes to stay with me, let him... he’ll be of use here if he’s a +brave officer,” thought bagratión. prince andrew, without replying, +asked the prince’s permission to ride round the position to see the +disposition of the forces, so as to know his bearings should he be sent +to execute an order. the officer on duty, a handsome, elegantly dressed +man with a diamond ring on his forefinger, who was fond of speaking +french though he spoke it badly, offered to conduct prince andrew. + +on all sides they saw rain-soaked officers with dejected faces who +seemed to be seeking something, and soldiers dragging doors, benches, +and fencing from the village. + +“there now, prince! we can’t stop those fellows,” said the staff +officer pointing to the soldiers. “the officers don’t keep them in +hand. and there,” he pointed to a sutler’s tent, “they crowd in +and sit. this morning i turned them all out and now look, it’s full +again. i must go there, prince, and scare them a bit. it won’t take a +moment.” + +“yes, let’s go in and i will get myself a roll and some cheese,” +said prince andrew who had not yet had time to eat anything. + +“why didn’t you mention it, prince? i would have offered you +something.” + +they dismounted and entered the tent. several officers, with flushed and +weary faces, were sitting at the table eating and drinking. + +“now what does this mean, gentlemen?” said the staff officer, in +the reproachful tone of a man who has repeated the same thing more +than once. “you know it won’t do to leave your posts like this. +the prince gave orders that no one should leave his post. now you, +captain,” and he turned to a thin, dirty little artillery officer who +without his boots (he had given them to the canteen keeper to dry), +in only his stockings, rose when they entered, smiling not altogether +comfortably. + +“well, aren’t you ashamed of yourself, captain túshin?” he +continued. “one would think that as an artillery officer you would set +a good example, yet here you are without your boots! the alarm will be +sounded and you’ll be in a pretty position without your boots!” (the +staff officer smiled.) “kindly return to your posts, gentlemen, all of +you, all!” he added in a tone of command. + +prince andrew smiled involuntarily as he looked at the artillery officer +túshin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to +the other, glanced inquiringly with his large, intelligent, kindly eyes +from prince andrew to the staff officer. + +“the soldiers say it feels easier without boots,” said captain +túshin smiling shyly in his uncomfortable position, evidently wishing +to adopt a jocular tone. but before he had finished he felt that his +jest was unacceptable and had not come off. he grew confused. + +“kindly return to your posts,” said the staff officer trying to +preserve his gravity. + +prince andrew glanced again at the artillery officer’s small figure. +there was something peculiar about it, quite unsoldierly, rather comic, +but extremely attractive. + +the staff officer and prince andrew mounted their horses and rode on. + +having ridden beyond the village, continually meeting and overtaking +soldiers and officers of various regiments, they saw on their left some +entrenchments being thrown up, the freshly dug clay of which showed up +red. several battalions of soldiers, in their shirt sleeves despite +the cold wind, swarmed in these earthworks like a host of white ants; +spadefuls of red clay were continually being thrown up from behind the +bank by unseen hands. prince andrew and the officer rode up, looked at +the entrenchment, and went on again. just behind it they came upon some +dozens of soldiers, continually replaced by others, who ran from the +entrenchment. they had to hold their noses and put their horses to a +trot to escape from the poisoned atmosphere of these latrines. + +“voilà l’agrément des camps, monsieur le prince,” * said the +staff officer. + + * “this is a pleasure one gets in camp, prince.” + + +they rode up the opposite hill. from there the french could already be +seen. prince andrew stopped and began examining the position. + +“that’s our battery,” said the staff officer indicating the +highest point. “it’s in charge of the queer fellow we saw without +his boots. you can see everything from there; let’s go there, +prince.” + +“thank you very much, i will go on alone,” said prince andrew, +wishing to rid himself of this staff officer’s company, “please +don’t trouble yourself further.” + +the staff officer remained behind and prince andrew rode on alone. + +the farther forward and nearer the enemy he went, the more orderly and +cheerful were the troops. the greatest disorder and depression had been +in the baggage train he had passed that morning on the znaim road seven +miles away from the french. at grunth also some apprehension and alarm +could be felt, but the nearer prince andrew came to the french lines the +more confident was the appearance of our troops. the soldiers in +their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company +officers were counting the men, poking the last man in each section in +the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up. soldiers scattered over +the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building +shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, +dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending +boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers. +in one company dinner was ready, and the soldiers were gazing eagerly +at the steaming boiler, waiting till the sample, which a quartermaster +sergeant was carrying in a wooden bowl to an officer who sat on a log +before his shelter, had been tasted. + +another company, a lucky one for not all the companies had vodka, +crowded round a pockmarked, broad-shouldered sergeant major who, tilting +a keg, filled one after another the canteen lids held out to him. the +soldiers lifted the canteen lids to their lips with reverential faces, +emptied them, rolling the vodka in their mouths, and walked away from +the sergeant major with brightened expressions, licking their lips and +wiping them on the sleeves of their greatcoats. all their faces were +as serene as if all this were happening at home awaiting peaceful +encampment, and not within sight of the enemy before an action in +which at least half of them would be left on the field. after passing a +chasseur regiment and in the lines of the kiev grenadiers—fine fellows +busy with similar peaceful affairs—near the shelter of the regimental +commander, higher than and different from the others, prince andrew came +out in front of a platoon of grenadiers before whom lay a naked man. two +soldiers held him while two others were flourishing their switches and +striking him regularly on his bare back. the man shrieked unnaturally. +a stout major was pacing up and down the line, and regardless of the +screams kept repeating: + +“it’s a shame for a soldier to steal; a soldier must be honest, +honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in +him, he’s a scoundrel. go on! go on!” + +so the swishing sound of the strokes, and the desperate but unnatural +screams, continued. + +“go on, go on!” said the major. + +a young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face +stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant +as he rode by. + +prince andrew, having reached the front line, rode along it. our front +line and that of the enemy were far apart on the right and left flanks, +but in the center where the men with a flag of truce had passed that +morning, the lines were so near together that the men could see one +another’s faces and speak to one another. besides the soldiers who +formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers +who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies. + +since early morning—despite an injunction not to approach the picket +line—the officers had been unable to keep sight-seers away. the +soldiers forming the picket line, like showmen exhibiting a curiosity, +no longer looked at the french but paid attention to the sight-seers and +grew weary waiting to be relieved. prince andrew halted to have a look +at the french. + +“look! look there!” one soldier was saying to another, pointing to a +russian musketeer who had gone up to the picket line with an officer and +was rapidly and excitedly talking to a french grenadier. “hark to him +jabbering! fine, isn’t it? it’s all the frenchy can do to keep up +with him. there now, sídorov!” + +“wait a bit and listen. it’s fine!” answered sídorov, who was +considered an adept at french. + +the soldier to whom the laughers referred was dólokhov. prince andrew +recognized him and stopped to listen to what he was saying. dólokhov +had come from the left flank where their regiment was stationed, with +his captain. + +“now then, go on, go on!” incited the officer, bending forward and +trying not to lose a word of the speech which was incomprehensible to +him. “more, please: more! what’s he saying?” + +dólokhov did not answer the captain; he had been drawn into a hot +dispute with the french grenadier. they were naturally talking about the +campaign. the frenchman, confusing the austrians with the russians, was +trying to prove that the russians had surrendered and had fled all +the way from ulm, while dólokhov maintained that the russians had not +surrendered but had beaten the french. + +“we have orders to drive you off here, and we shall drive you off,” +said dólokhov. + +“only take care you and your cossacks are not all captured!” said +the french grenadier. + +the french onlookers and listeners laughed. + +“we’ll make you dance as we did under suvórov...,” * said +dólokhov. + + * “on vous fera danser.” + + +“qu’ est-ce qu’il chante?” * asked a frenchman. + + * “what’s he singing about?” + + +“it’s ancient history,” said another, guessing that it referred to +a former war. “the emperor will teach your suvara as he has taught the +others...” + +“bonaparte...” began dólokhov, but the frenchman interrupted him. + +“not bonaparte. he is the emperor! sacré nom...!” cried he angrily. + +“the devil skin your emperor.” + +and dólokhov swore at him in coarse soldier’s russian and shouldering +his musket walked away. + +“let us go, iván lukích,” he said to the captain. + +“ah, that’s the way to talk french,” said the picket soldiers. +“now, sídorov, you have a try!” + +sídorov, turning to the french, winked, and began to jabber meaningless +sounds very fast: “kari, mala, tafa, safi, muter, kaská,” he said, +trying to give an expressive intonation to his voice. + +“ho! ho! ho! ha! ha! ha! ha! ouh! ouh!” came peals of such healthy +and good-humored laughter from the soldiers that it infected the french +involuntarily, so much so that the only thing left to do seemed to be +to unload the muskets, explode the ammunition, and all return home as +quickly as possible. + +but the guns remained loaded, the loopholes in blockhouses and +entrenchments looked out just as menacingly, and the unlimbered cannon +confronted one another as before. + + + + + +chapter xvi + +having ridden round the whole line from right flank to left, prince +andrew made his way up to the battery from which the staff officer had +told him the whole field could be seen. here he dismounted, and stopped +beside the farthest of the four unlimbered cannon. before the guns an +artillery sentry was pacing up and down; he stood at attention when the +officer arrived, but at a sign resumed his measured, monotonous pacing. +behind the guns were their limbers and still farther back picket ropes +and artillerymen’s bonfires. to the left, not far from the farthest +cannon, was a small, newly constructed wattle shed from which came the +sound of officers’ voices in eager conversation. + +it was true that a view over nearly the whole russian position and the +greater part of the enemy’s opened out from this battery. just facing +it, on the crest of the opposite hill, the village of schön grabern +could be seen, and in three places to left and right the french troops +amid the smoke of their campfires, the greater part of whom were +evidently in the village itself and behind the hill. to the left from +that village, amid the smoke, was something resembling a battery, but it +was impossible to see it clearly with the naked eye. our right flank was +posted on a rather steep incline which dominated the french position. +our infantry were stationed there, and at the farthest point the +dragoons. in the center, where túshin’s battery stood and from which +prince andrew was surveying the position, was the easiest and most +direct descent and ascent to the brook separating us from schön +grabern. on the left our troops were close to a copse, in which smoked +the bonfires of our infantry who were felling wood. the french line was +wider than ours, and it was plain that they could easily outflank us +on both sides. behind our position was a steep and deep dip, making it +difficult for artillery and cavalry to retire. prince andrew took +out his notebook and, leaning on the cannon, sketched a plan of the +position. he made some notes on two points, intending to mention them to +bagratión. his idea was, first, to concentrate all the artillery in the +center, and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the +dip. prince andrew, being always near the commander in chief, closely +following the mass movements and general orders, and constantly studying +historical accounts of battles, involuntarily pictured to himself the +course of events in the forthcoming action in broad outline. he +imagined only important possibilities: “if the enemy attacks the right +flank,” he said to himself, “the kiev grenadiers and the podólsk +chasseurs must hold their position till reserves from the center +come up. in that case the dragoons could successfully make a flank +counterattack. if they attack our center we, having the center battery +on this high ground, shall withdraw the left flank under its cover, and +retreat to the dip by echelons.” so he reasoned.... all the time +he had been beside the gun, he had heard the voices of the officers +distinctly, but as often happens had not understood a word of what they +were saying. suddenly, however, he was struck by a voice coming from the +shed, and its tone was so sincere that he could not but listen. + +“no, friend,” said a pleasant and, as it seemed to prince andrew, a +familiar voice, “what i say is that if it were possible to know +what is beyond death, none of us would be afraid of it. that’s so, +friend.” + +another, a younger voice, interrupted him: “afraid or not, you can’t +escape it anyhow.” + +“all the same, one is afraid! oh, you clever people,” said a third +manly voice interrupting them both. “of course you artillery men are +very wise, because you can take everything along with you—vodka and +snacks.” + +and the owner of the manly voice, evidently an infantry officer, +laughed. + +“yes, one is afraid,” continued the first speaker, he of the +familiar voice. “one is afraid of the unknown, that’s what it is. +whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is +no sky but only an atmosphere.” + +the manly voice again interrupted the artillery officer. + +“well, stand us some of your herb vodka, túshin,” it said. + +“why,” thought prince andrew, “that’s the captain who stood up +in the sutler’s hut without his boots.” he recognized the agreeable, +philosophizing voice with pleasure. + +“some herb vodka? certainly!” said túshin. “but still, to +conceive a future life...” + +he did not finish. just then there was a whistle in the air; nearer and +nearer, faster and louder, louder and faster, a cannon ball, as if it +had not finished saying what was necessary, thudded into the ground near +the shed with super human force, throwing up a mass of earth. the ground +seemed to groan at the terrible impact. + +and immediately túshin, with a short pipe in the corner of his mouth +and his kind, intelligent face rather pale, rushed out of the shed +followed by the owner of the manly voice, a dashing infantry officer who +hurried off to his company, buttoning up his coat as he ran. + + + + + +chapter xvii + +mounting his horse again prince andrew lingered with the battery, +looking at the puff from the gun that had sent the ball. his eyes +ran rapidly over the wide space, but he only saw that the hitherto +motionless masses of the french now swayed and that there really was +a battery to their left. the smoke above it had not yet dispersed. two +mounted frenchmen, probably adjutants, were galloping up the hill. a +small but distinctly visible enemy column was moving down the hill, +probably to strengthen the front line. the smoke of the first shot had +not yet dispersed before another puff appeared, followed by a report. +the battle had begun! prince andrew turned his horse and galloped back +to grunth to find prince bagratión. he heard the cannonade behind him +growing louder and more frequent. evidently our guns had begun to reply. +from the bottom of the slope, where the parleys had taken place, came +the report of musketry. + +lemarrois had just arrived at a gallop with bonaparte’s stern letter, +and murat, humiliated and anxious to expiate his fault, had at once +moved his forces to attack the center and outflank both the russian +wings, hoping before evening and before the arrival of the emperor to +crush the contemptible detachment that stood before him. + +“it has begun. here it is!” thought prince andrew, feeling the +blood rush to his heart. “but where and how will my toulon present +itself?” + +passing between the companies that had been eating porridge and drinking +vodka a quarter of an hour before, he saw everywhere the same rapid +movement of soldiers forming ranks and getting their muskets ready, +and on all their faces he recognized the same eagerness that filled his +heart. “it has begun! here it is, dreadful but enjoyable!” was what +the face of each soldier and each officer seemed to say. + +before he had reached the embankments that were being thrown up, he saw, +in the light of the dull autumn evening, mounted men coming toward him. +the foremost, wearing a cossack cloak and lambskin cap and riding a +white horse, was prince bagratión. prince andrew stopped, waiting for +him to come up; prince bagratión reined in his horse and recognizing +prince andrew nodded to him. he still looked ahead while prince andrew +told him what he had seen. + +the feeling, “it has begun! here it is!” was seen even on prince +bagratión’s hard brown face with its half-closed, dull, sleepy eyes. +prince andrew gazed with anxious curiosity at that impassive face +and wished he could tell what, if anything, this man was thinking +and feeling at that moment. “is there anything at all behind that +impassive face?” prince andrew asked himself as he looked. prince +bagratión bent his head in sign of agreement with what prince andrew +told him, and said, “very good!” in a tone that seemed to imply that +everything that took place and was reported to him was exactly what he +had foreseen. prince andrew, out of breath with his rapid ride, spoke +quickly. prince bagratión, uttering his words with an oriental accent, +spoke particularly slowly, as if to impress the fact that there was no +need to hurry. however, he put his horse to a trot in the direction +of túshin’s battery. prince andrew followed with the suite. behind +prince bagratión rode an officer of the suite, the prince’s personal +adjutant, zherkóv, an orderly officer, the staff officer on duty, +riding a fine bobtailed horse, and a civilian—an accountant who had +asked permission to be present at the battle out of curiosity. the +accountant, a stout, full-faced man, looked around him with a naïve +smile of satisfaction and presented a strange appearance among the +hussars, cossacks, and adjutants, in his camlet coat, as he jolted on +his horse with a convoy officer’s saddle. + +“he wants to see a battle,” said zherkóv to bolkónski, pointing +to the accountant, “but he feels a pain in the pit of his stomach +already.” + +“oh, leave off!” said the accountant with a beaming but rather +cunning smile, as if flattered at being made the subject of zherkóv’s +joke, and purposely trying to appear stupider than he really was. + +“it is very strange, mon monsieur prince,” said the staff officer. +(he remembered that in french there is some peculiar way of addressing a +prince, but could not get it quite right.) + +by this time they were all approaching túshin’s battery, and a ball +struck the ground in front of them. + +“what’s that that has fallen?” asked the accountant with a naïve +smile. + +“a french pancake,” answered zherkóv. + +“so that’s what they hit with?” asked the accountant. “how +awful!” + +he seemed to swell with satisfaction. he had hardly finished speaking +when they again heard an unexpectedly violent whistling which suddenly +ended with a thud into something soft... f-f-flop! and a cossack, riding +a little to their right and behind the accountant, crashed to earth with +his horse. zherkóv and the staff officer bent over their saddles and +turned their horses away. the accountant stopped, facing the cossack, +and examined him with attentive curiosity. the cossack was dead, but the +horse still struggled. + +prince bagratión screwed up his eyes, looked round, and, seeing the +cause of the confusion, turned away with indifference, as if to say, +“is it worth while noticing trifles?” he reined in his horse with +the care of a skillful rider and, slightly bending over, disengaged his +saber which had caught in his cloak. it was an old-fashioned saber of +a kind no longer in general use. prince andrew remembered the story of +suvórov giving his saber to bagratión in italy, and the recollection +was particularly pleasant at that moment. they had reached the battery +at which prince andrew had been when he examined the battlefield. + +“whose company?” asked prince bagratión of an artilleryman standing +by the ammunition wagon. + +he asked, “whose company?” but he really meant, “are you +frightened here?” and the artilleryman understood him. + +“captain túshin’s, your excellency!” shouted the red-haired, +freckled gunner in a merry voice, standing to attention. + +“yes, yes,” muttered bagratión as if considering something, and he +rode past the limbers to the farthest cannon. + +as he approached, a ringing shot issued from it deafening him and his +suite, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the gun they could see +the gunners who had seized it straining to roll it quickly back to its +former position. a huge, broad-shouldered gunner, number one, holding +a mop, his legs far apart, sprang to the wheel; while number two with +a trembling hand placed a charge in the cannon’s mouth. the short, +round-shouldered captain túshin, stumbling over the tail of the gun +carriage, moved forward and, not noticing the general, looked out +shading his eyes with his small hand. + +“lift it two lines more and it will be just right,” cried he in a +feeble voice to which he tried to impart a dashing note, ill-suited to +his weak figure. “number two!” he squeaked. “fire, medvédev!” + +bagratión called to him, and túshin, raising three fingers to his cap +with a bashful and awkward gesture not at all like a military salute +but like a priest’s benediction, approached the general. though +túshin’s guns had been intended to cannonade the valley, he was +firing incendiary balls at the village of schön grabern visible just +opposite, in front of which large masses of french were advancing. + +no one had given túshin orders where and at what to fire, but after +consulting his sergeant major, zakharchénko, for whom he had great +respect, he had decided that it would be a good thing to set fire to the +village. “very good!” said bagratión in reply to the officer’s +report, and began deliberately to examine the whole battlefield extended +before him. the french had advanced nearest on our right. below the +height on which the kiev regiment was stationed, in the hollow where the +rivulet flowed, the soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was +heard, and much farther to the right beyond the dragoons, the officer of +the suite pointed out to bagratión a french column that was outflanking +us. to the left the horizon bounded by the adjacent wood. prince +bagratión ordered two battalions from the center to be sent to +reinforce the right flank. the officer of the suite ventured to remark +to the prince that if these battalions went away, the guns would remain +without support. prince bagratión turned to the officer and with his +dull eyes looked at him in silence. it seemed to prince andrew that the +officer’s remark was just and that really no answer could be made to +it. but at that moment an adjutant galloped up with a message from the +commander of the regiment in the hollow and news that immense masses +of the french were coming down upon them and that his regiment was in +disorder and was retreating upon the kiev grenadiers. prince bagratión +bowed his head in sign of assent and approval. he rode off at a walk to +the right and sent an adjutant to the dragoons with orders to attack the +french. but this adjutant returned half an hour later with the news that +the commander of the dragoons had already retreated beyond the dip in +the ground, as a heavy fire had been opened on him and he was losing +men uselessly, and so had hastened to throw some sharpshooters into the +wood. + +“very good!” said bagratión. + +as he was leaving the battery, firing was heard on the left also, and +as it was too far to the left flank for him to have time to go there +himself, prince bagratión sent zherkóv to tell the general in command +(the one who had paraded his regiment before kutúzov at braunau) that +he must retreat as quickly as possible behind the hollow in the rear, +as the right flank would probably not be able to withstand the enemy’s +attack very long. about túshin and the battalion that had been in +support of his battery all was forgotten. prince andrew listened +attentively to bagratión’s colloquies with the commanding officers +and the orders he gave them and, to his surprise, found that no orders +were really given, but that prince bagratión tried to make it appear +that everything done by necessity, by accident, or by the will of +subordinate commanders was done, if not by his direct command, at least +in accord with his intentions. prince andrew noticed, however, that +though what happened was due to chance and was independent of the +commander’s will, owing to the tact bagratión showed, his presence +was very valuable. officers who approached him with disturbed +countenances became calm; soldiers and officers greeted him gaily, grew +more cheerful in his presence, and were evidently anxious to display +their courage before him. + + + + + +chapter xviii + +prince bagratión, having reached the highest point of our right flank, +began riding downhill to where the roll of musketry was heard but where +on account of the smoke nothing could be seen. the nearer they got to +the hollow the less they could see but the more they felt the nearness +of the actual battlefield. they began to meet wounded men. one with a +bleeding head and no cap was being dragged along by two soldiers who +supported him under the arms. there was a gurgle in his throat and he +was spitting blood. a bullet had evidently hit him in the throat or +mouth. another was walking sturdily by himself but without his musket, +groaning aloud and swinging his arm which had just been hurt, while +blood from it was streaming over his greatcoat as from a bottle. he had +that moment been wounded and his face showed fear rather than suffering. +crossing a road they descended a steep incline and saw several men +lying on the ground; they also met a crowd of soldiers some of whom were +unwounded. the soldiers were ascending the hill breathing heavily, and +despite the general’s presence were talking loudly and gesticulating. +in front of them rows of gray cloaks were already visible through the +smoke, and an officer catching sight of bagratión rushed shouting after +the crowd of retreating soldiers, ordering them back. bagratión rode up +to the ranks along which shots crackled now here and now there, drowning +the sound of voices and the shouts of command. the whole air reeked with +smoke. the excited faces of the soldiers were blackened with it. some +were using their ramrods, others putting powder on the touchpans or +taking charges from their pouches, while others were firing, though who +they were firing at could not be seen for the smoke which there was no +wind to carry away. a pleasant humming and whistling of bullets were +often heard. “what is this?” thought prince andrew approaching the +crowd of soldiers. “it can’t be an attack, for they are not moving; +it can’t be a square—for they are not drawn up for that.” + +the commander of the regiment, a thin, feeble-looking old man with a +pleasant smile—his eyelids drooping more than half over his old eyes, +giving him a mild expression, rode up to bagratión and welcomed him as +a host welcomes an honored guest. he reported that his regiment had +been attacked by french cavalry and that, though the attack had been +repulsed, he had lost more than half his men. he said the attack +had been repulsed, employing this military term to describe what had +occurred to his regiment, but in reality he did not himself know what +had happened during that half-hour to the troops entrusted to him, and +could not say with certainty whether the attack had been repulsed or his +regiment had been broken up. all he knew was that at the commencement +of the action balls and shells began flying all over his regiment and +hitting men and that afterwards someone had shouted “cavalry!” and +our men had begun firing. they were still firing, not at the cavalry +which had disappeared, but at french infantry who had come into the +hollow and were firing at our men. prince bagratión bowed his head as a +sign that this was exactly what he had desired and expected. turning +to his adjutant he ordered him to bring down the two battalions of the +sixth chasseurs whom they had just passed. prince andrew was struck by +the changed expression on prince bagratión’s face at this moment. it +expressed the concentrated and happy resolution you see on the face of +a man who on a hot day takes a final run before plunging into the water. +the dull, sleepy expression was no longer there, nor the affectation +of profound thought. the round, steady, hawk’s eyes looked before him +eagerly and rather disdainfully, not resting on anything although his +movements were still slow and measured. + +the commander of the regiment turned to prince bagratión, entreating +him to go back as it was too dangerous to remain where they were. +“please, your excellency, for god’s sake!” he kept saying, +glancing for support at an officer of the suite who turned away +from him. “there, you see!” and he drew attention to the bullets +whistling, singing, and hissing continually around them. he spoke in the +tone of entreaty and reproach that a carpenter uses to a gentleman who +has picked up an ax: “we are used to it, but you, sir, will blister +your hands.” he spoke as if those bullets could not kill him, and his +half-closed eyes gave still more persuasiveness to his words. the staff +officer joined in the colonel’s appeals, but bagratión did not reply; +he only gave an order to cease firing and re-form, so as to give room +for the two approaching battalions. while he was speaking, the curtain +of smoke that had concealed the hollow, driven by a rising wind, began +to move from right to left as if drawn by an invisible hand, and the +hill opposite, with the french moving about on it, opened out before +them. all eyes fastened involuntarily on this french column advancing +against them and winding down over the uneven ground. one could already +see the soldiers’ shaggy caps, distinguish the officers from the men, +and see the standard flapping against its staff. + +“they march splendidly,” remarked someone in bagratión’s suite. + +the head of the column had already descended into the hollow. the clash +would take place on this side of it... + +the remains of our regiment which had been in action rapidly formed up +and moved to the right; from behind it, dispersing the laggards, came +two battalions of the sixth chasseurs in fine order. before they had +reached bagratión, the weighty tread of the mass of men marching in +step could be heard. on their left flank, nearest to bagratión, marched +a company commander, a fine round-faced man, with a stupid and happy +expression—the same man who had rushed out of the wattle shed. at that +moment he was clearly thinking of nothing but how dashing a fellow he +would appear as he passed the commander. + +with the self-satisfaction of a man on parade, he stepped lightly with +his muscular legs as if sailing along, stretching himself to his full +height without the smallest effort, his ease contrasting with the heavy +tread of the soldiers who were keeping step with him. he carried close +to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real +weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men +without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly. it was as +if all the powers of his soul were concentrated on passing the commander +in the best possible manner, and feeling that he was doing it well he +was happy. “left... left... left...” he seemed to repeat to himself +at each alternate step; and in time to this, with stern but varied +faces, the wall of soldiers burdened with knapsacks and muskets marched +in step, and each one of these hundreds of soldiers seemed to be +repeating to himself at each alternate step, “left... left... +left...” a fat major skirted a bush, puffing and falling out of +step; a soldier who had fallen behind, his face showing alarm at his +defection, ran at a trot, panting to catch up with his company. a cannon +ball, cleaving the air, flew over the heads of bagratión and his suite, +and fell into the column to the measure of “left... left!” “close +up!” came the company commander’s voice in jaunty tones. the +soldiers passed in a semicircle round something where the ball had +fallen, and an old trooper on the flank, a noncommissioned officer who +had stopped beside the dead men, ran to catch up his line and, falling +into step with a hop, looked back angrily, and through the ominous +silence and the regular tramp of feet beating the ground in unison, one +seemed to hear left... left... left. + +“well done, lads!” said prince bagratión. + +“glad to do our best, your ex’len-lency!” came a confused shout +from the ranks. a morose soldier marching on the left turned his eyes on +bagratión as he shouted, with an expression that seemed to say: “we +know that ourselves!” another, without looking round, as though +fearing to relax, shouted with his mouth wide open and passed on. + +the order was given to halt and down knapsacks. + +bagratión rode round the ranks that had marched past him and +dismounted. he gave the reins to a cossack, took off and handed over his diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-2/1M-tr-seq/1M-tr-seq-01 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(he distinctly saw an old french officer who, with gaitered +legs and turned-out toes, climbed the hill with difficulty.) prince +bagratión gave no further orders and silently continued to walk on in +front of the ranks. suddenly one shot after another rang out from the +french, smoke appeared all along their uneven ranks, and musket shots +sounded. several of our men fell, among them the round-faced officer +who had marched so gaily and complacently. but at the moment the first +report was heard, bagratión looked round and shouted, “hurrah!” + +“hurrah—ah!—ah!” rang a long-drawn shout from our ranks, and +passing bagratión and racing one another they rushed in an irregular +but joyous and eager crowd down the hill at their disordered foe. + + + + + +chapter xix + +the attack of the sixth chasseurs secured the retreat of our right +flank. in the center túshin’s forgotten battery, which had managed to +set fire to the schön grabern village, delayed the french advance. the +french were putting out the fire which the wind was spreading, and thus +gave us time to retreat. the retirement of the center to the other side +of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the +different companies did not get mixed. but our left—which consisted +of the azóv and podólsk infantry and the pávlograd hussars—was +simultaneously attacked and outflanked by superior french forces under +lannes and was thrown into confusion. bagratión had sent zherkóv +to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat +immediately. + +zherkóv, not removing his hand from his cap, turned his horse about +and galloped off. but no sooner had he left bagratión than his courage +failed him. he was seized by panic and could not go where it was +dangerous. + +having reached the left flank, instead of going to the front where the +firing was, he began to look for the general and his staff where they +could not possibly be, and so did not deliver the order. + +the command of the left flank belonged by seniority to the commander of +the regiment kutúzov had reviewed at braunau and in which dólokhov was +serving as a private. but the command of the extreme left flank had been +assigned to the commander of the pávlograd regiment in which rostóv +was serving, and a misunderstanding arose. the two commanders were much +exasperated with one another and, long after the action had begun on +the right flank and the french were already advancing, were engaged +in discussion with the sole object of offending one another. but the +regiments, both cavalry and infantry, were by no means ready for the +impending action. from privates to general they were not expecting a +battle and were engaged in peaceful occupations, the cavalry feeding the +horses and the infantry collecting wood. + +“he higher iss dan i in rank,” said the german colonel of the +hussars, flushing and addressing an adjutant who had ridden up, “so +let him do what he vill, but i cannot sacrifice my hussars... bugler, +sount ze retreat!” + +but haste was becoming imperative. cannon and musketry, mingling +together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes +of lannes’ sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and +forming up within twice the range of a musket shot. the general in +command of the infantry went toward his horse with jerky steps, and +having mounted drew himself up very straight and tall and rode to the +pávlograd commander. the commanders met with polite bows but with +secret malevolence in their hearts. + +“once again, colonel,” said the general, “i can’t leave half +my men in the wood. i beg of you, i beg of you,” he repeated, “to +occupy the position and prepare for an attack.” + +“i peg of you yourself not to mix in vot is not your business!” +suddenly replied the irate colonel. “if you vere in the cavalry...” + +“i am not in the cavalry, colonel, but i am a russian general and if +you are not aware of the fact...” + +“quite avare, your excellency,” suddenly shouted the colonel, +touching his horse and turning purple in the face. “vill you be so +goot to come to ze front and see dat zis position iss no goot? i don’t +vish to destroy my men for your pleasure!” + +“you forget yourself, colonel. i am not considering my own pleasure +and i won’t allow it to be said!” + +taking the colonel’s outburst as a challenge to his courage, the +general expanded his chest and rode, frowning, beside him to the +front line, as if their differences would be settled there amongst the +bullets. they reached the front, several bullets sped over them, and +they halted in silence. there was nothing fresh to be seen from the +line, for from where they had been before it had been evident that it +was impossible for cavalry to act among the bushes and broken ground, +as well as that the french were outflanking our left. the general +and colonel looked sternly and significantly at one another like two +fighting cocks preparing for battle, each vainly trying to detect signs +of cowardice in the other. both passed the examination successfully. as +there was nothing to be said, and neither wished to give occasion for +it to be alleged that he had been the first to leave the range of fire, +they would have remained there for a long time testing each other’s +courage had it not been that just then they heard the rattle of musketry +and a muffled shout almost behind them in the wood. the french had +attacked the men collecting wood in the copse. it was no longer possible +for the hussars to retreat with the infantry. they were cut off from +the line of retreat on the left by the french. however inconvenient the +position, it was now necessary to attack in order to cut a way through +for themselves. + +the squadron in which rostóv was serving had scarcely time to mount +before it was halted facing the enemy. again, as at the enns bridge, +there was nothing between the squadron and the enemy, and again that +terrible dividing line of uncertainty and fear—resembling the line +separating the living from the dead—lay between them. all were +conscious of this unseen line, and the question whether they would cross +it or not, and how they would cross it, agitated them all. + +the colonel rode to the front, angrily gave some reply to questions put +to him by the officers, and, like a man desperately insisting on having +his own way, gave an order. no one said anything definite, but the rumor +of an attack spread through the squadron. the command to form up rang +out and the sabers whizzed as they were drawn from their scabbards. +still no one moved. the troops of the left flank, infantry and hussars +alike, felt that the commander did not himself know what to do, and this +irresolution communicated itself to the men. + +“if only they would be quick!” thought rostóv, feeling that at last +the time had come to experience the joy of an attack of which he had so +often heard from his fellow hussars. + +“fo’ward, with god, lads!” rang out denísov’s voice. “at a +twot fo’ward!” + +the horses’ croups began to sway in the front line. rook pulled at the +reins and started of his own accord. + +before him, on the right, rostóv saw the front lines of his hussars and +still farther ahead a dark line which he could not see distinctly but +took to be the enemy. shots could be heard, but some way off. + +“faster!” came the word of command, and rostóv felt rook’s flanks +drooping as he broke into a gallop. + +rostóv anticipated his horse’s movements and became more and more +elated. he had noticed a solitary tree ahead of him. this tree had been +in the middle of the line that had seemed so terrible—and now he +had crossed that line and not only was there nothing terrible, but +everything was becoming more and more happy and animated. “oh, how i +will slash at him!” thought rostóv, gripping the hilt of his saber. + +“hur-a-a-a-ah!” came a roar of voices. “let anyone come my way +now,” thought rostóv driving his spurs into rook and letting him go +at a full gallop so that he outstripped the others. ahead, the enemy was +already visible. suddenly something like a birch broom seemed to sweep +over the squadron. rostóv raised his saber, ready to strike, but at +that instant the trooper nikítenko, who was galloping ahead, shot away +from him, and rostóv felt as in a dream that he continued to be carried +forward with unnatural speed but yet stayed on the same spot. from +behind him bondarchúk, an hussar he knew, jolted against him and looked +angrily at him. bondarchúk’s horse swerved and galloped past. + +“how is it i am not moving? i have fallen, i am killed!” rostóv +asked and answered at the same instant. he was alone in the middle of a +field. instead of the moving horses and hussars’ backs, he saw nothing +before him but the motionless earth and the stubble around him. there +was warm blood under his arm. “no, i am wounded and the horse is +killed.” rook tried to rise on his forelegs but fell back, pinning his +rider’s leg. blood was flowing from his head; he struggled but could +not rise. rostóv also tried to rise but fell back, his sabretache +having become entangled in the saddle. where our men were, and where the +french, he did not know. there was no one near. + +having disentangled his leg, he rose. “where, on which side, was now +the line that had so sharply divided the two armies?” he asked himself +and could not answer. “can something bad have happened to me?” +he wondered as he got up: and at that moment he felt that something +superfluous was hanging on his benumbed left arm. the wrist felt as if +it were not his. he examined his hand carefully, vainly trying to find +blood on it. “ah, here are people coming,” he thought joyfully, +seeing some men running toward him. “they will help me!” in front +came a man wearing a strange shako and a blue cloak, swarthy, sunburned, +and with a hooked nose. then came two more, and many more running +behind. one of them said something strange, not in russian. in among the +hindmost of these men wearing similar shakos was a russian hussar. he +was being held by the arms and his horse was being led behind him. + +“it must be one of ours, a prisoner. yes. can it be that they will +take me too? who are these men?” thought rostóv, scarcely believing +his eyes. “can they be french?” he looked at the approaching +frenchmen, and though but a moment before he had been galloping to get +at them and hack them to pieces, their proximity now seemed so awful +that he could not believe his eyes. “who are they? why are they +running? can they be coming at me? and why? to kill me? me whom everyone +is so fond of?” he remembered his mother’s love for him, and his +family’s, and his friends’, and the enemy’s intention to kill him +seemed impossible. “but perhaps they may do it!” for more than ten +seconds he stood not moving from the spot or realizing the situation. +the foremost frenchman, the one with the hooked nose, was already so +close that the expression of his face could be seen. and the excited, +alien face of that man, his bayonet hanging down, holding his breath, +and running so lightly, frightened rostóv. he seized his pistol and, +instead of firing it, flung it at the frenchman and ran with all his +might toward the bushes. he did not now run with the feeling of doubt +and conflict with which he had trodden the enns bridge, but with the +feeling of a hare fleeing from the hounds. one single sentiment, that +of fear for his young and happy life, possessed his whole being. rapidly +leaping the furrows, he fled across the field with the impetuosity he +used to show at catchplay, now and then turning his good-natured, pale, +young face to look back. a shudder of terror went through him: “no, +better not look,” he thought, but having reached the bushes he glanced +round once more. the french had fallen behind, and just as he looked +round the first man changed his run to a walk and, turning, shouted +something loudly to a comrade farther back. rostóv paused. “no, +there’s some mistake,” thought he. “they can’t have wanted to +kill me.” but at the same time, his left arm felt as heavy as if +a seventy-pound weight were tied to it. he could run no more. the +frenchman also stopped and took aim. rostóv closed his eyes and stooped +down. one bullet and then another whistled past him. he mustered his +last remaining strength, took hold of his left hand with his right, and +reached the bushes. behind these were some russian sharpshooters. + + + + + +chapter xx + +the infantry regiments that had been caught unawares in the outskirts +of the wood ran out of it, the different companies getting mixed, and +retreated as a disorderly crowd. one soldier, in his fear, uttered the +senseless cry, “cut off!” that is so terrible in battle, and that +word infected the whole crowd with a feeling of panic. + +“surrounded! cut off? we’re lost!” shouted the fugitives. + +the moment he heard the firing and the cry from behind, the general +realized that something dreadful had happened to his regiment, and the +thought that he, an exemplary officer of many years’ service who +had never been to blame, might be held responsible at headquarters +for negligence or inefficiency so staggered him that, forgetting the +recalcitrant cavalry colonel, his own dignity as a general, and above +all quite forgetting the danger and all regard for self-preservation, he +clutched the crupper of his saddle and, spurring his horse, galloped to +the regiment under a hail of bullets which fell around, but fortunately +missed him. his one desire was to know what was happening and at any +cost correct, or remedy, the mistake if he had made one, so that he, +an exemplary officer of twenty-two years’ service, who had never been +censured, should not be held to blame. + +having galloped safely through the french, he reached a field behind +the copse across which our men, regardless of orders, were running and +descending the valley. that moment of moral hesitation which decides +the fate of battles had arrived. would this disorderly crowd of soldiers +attend to the voice of their commander, or would they, disregarding him, +continue their flight? despite his desperate shouts that used to seem +so terrible to the soldiers, despite his furious purple countenance +distorted out of all likeness to his former self, and the flourishing of +his saber, the soldiers all continued to run, talking, firing into the +air, and disobeying orders. the moral hesitation which decided the fate +of battles was evidently culminating in a panic. + +the general had a fit of coughing as a result of shouting and of the +powder smoke and stopped in despair. everything seemed lost. but at that +moment the french who were attacking, suddenly and without any apparent +reason, ran back and disappeared from the outskirts, and russian +sharpshooters showed themselves in the copse. it was timókhin’s +company, which alone had maintained its order in the wood and, having +lain in ambush in a ditch, now attacked the french unexpectedly. +timókhin, armed only with a sword, had rushed at the enemy with such +a desperate cry and such mad, drunken determination that, taken by +surprise, the french had thrown down their muskets and run. dólokhov, +running beside timókhin, killed a frenchman at close quarters and was +the first to seize the surrendering french officer by his collar. our +fugitives returned, the battalions re-formed, and the french who had +nearly cut our left flank in half were for the moment repulsed. our +reserve units were able to join up, and the fight was at an end. the +regimental commander and major ekonómov had stopped beside a bridge, +letting the retreating companies pass by them, when a soldier came up +and took hold of the commander’s stirrup, almost leaning against him. +the man was wearing a bluish coat of broadcloth, he had no knapsack +or cap, his head was bandaged, and over his shoulder a french munition +pouch was slung. he had an officer’s sword in his hand. the soldier +was pale, his blue eyes looked impudently into the commander’s face, +and his lips were smiling. though the commander was occupied in giving +instructions to major ekonómov, he could not help taking notice of the +soldier. + +“your excellency, here are two trophies,” said dólokhov, pointing +to the french sword and pouch. “i have taken an officer prisoner. i +stopped the company.” dólokhov breathed heavily from weariness and +spoke in abrupt sentences. “the whole company can bear witness. i beg +you will remember this, your excellency!” + +“all right, all right,” replied the commander, and turned to major +ekonómov. + +but dólokhov did not go away; he untied the handkerchief around his +head, pulled it off, and showed the blood congealed on his hair. + +“a bayonet wound. i remained at the front. remember, your +excellency!” + + +túshin’s battery had been forgotten and only at the very end of the +action did prince bagratión, still hearing the cannonade in the center, +send his orderly staff officer, and later prince andrew also, to order +the battery to retire as quickly as possible. when the supports attached +to túshin’s battery had been moved away in the middle of the action +by someone’s order, the battery had continued firing and was only not +captured by the french because the enemy could not surmise that anyone +could have the effrontery to continue firing from four quite undefended +guns. on the contrary, the energetic action of that battery led the +french to suppose that here—in the center—the main russian forces +were concentrated. twice they had attempted to attack this point, but on +each occasion had been driven back by grapeshot from the four isolated +guns on the hillock. + +soon after prince bagratión had left him, túshin had succeeded in +setting fire to schön grabern. + +“look at them scurrying! it’s burning! just see the smoke! fine! +grand! look at the smoke, the smoke!” exclaimed the artillerymen, +brightening up. + +all the guns, without waiting for orders, were being fired in the +direction of the conflagration. as if urging each other on, the soldiers +cried at each shot: “fine! that’s good! look at it... grand!” the +fire, fanned by the breeze, was rapidly spreading. the french columns +that had advanced beyond the village went back; but as though in revenge +for this failure, the enemy placed ten guns to the right of the village +and began firing them at túshin’s battery. + +in their childlike glee, aroused by the fire and their luck in +successfully cannonading the french, our artillerymen only noticed this +battery when two balls, and then four more, fell among our guns, one +knocking over two horses and another tearing off a munition-wagon +driver’s leg. their spirits once roused were, however, not diminished, +but only changed character. the horses were replaced by others from a +reserve gun carriage, the wounded were carried away, and the four guns +were turned against the ten-gun battery. túshin’s companion officer +had been killed at the beginning of the engagement and within an hour +seventeen of the forty men of the guns’ crews had been disabled, but +the artillerymen were still as merry and lively as ever. twice they +noticed the french appearing below them, and then they fired grapeshot +at them. + +little túshin, moving feebly and awkwardly, kept telling his orderly to +“refill my pipe for that one!” and then, scattering sparks from it, +ran forward shading his eyes with his small hand to look at the french. + +“smack at ‘em, lads!” he kept saying, seizing the guns by the +wheels and working the screws himself. + +amid the smoke, deafened by the incessant reports which always made him +jump, túshin not taking his pipe from his mouth ran from gun to gun, +now aiming, now counting the charges, now giving orders about replacing +dead or wounded horses and harnessing fresh ones, and shouting in his +feeble voice, so high pitched and irresolute. his face grew more and +more animated. only when a man was killed or wounded did he frown and +turn away from the sight, shouting angrily at the men who, as is always +the case, hesitated about lifting the injured or dead. the soldiers, +for the most part handsome fellows and, as is always the case in an +artillery company, a head and shoulders taller and twice as broad +as their officer—all looked at their commander like children in an +embarrassing situation, and the expression on his face was invariably +reflected on theirs. + +owing to the terrible uproar and the necessity for concentration and +activity, túshin did not experience the slightest unpleasant sense of +fear, and the thought that he might be killed or badly wounded never +occurred to him. on the contrary, he became more and more elated. it +seemed to him that it was a very long time ago, almost a day, since he +had first seen the enemy and fired the first shot, and that the corner +of the field he stood on was well-known and familiar ground. though he +thought of everything, considered everything, and did everything the +best of officers could do in his position, he was in a state akin to +feverish delirium or drunkenness. + +from the deafening sounds of his own guns around him, the whistle and +thud of the enemy’s cannon balls, from the flushed and perspiring +faces of the crew bustling round the guns, from the sight of the blood +of men and horses, from the little puffs of smoke on the enemy’s side +(always followed by a ball flying past and striking the earth, a man, a +gun, a horse), from the sight of all these things a fantastic world of +his own had taken possession of his brain and at that moment afforded +him pleasure. the enemy’s guns were in his fancy not guns but pipes +from which occasional puffs were blown by an invisible smoker. + +“there... he’s puffing again,” muttered túshin to himself, as a +small cloud rose from the hill and was borne in a streak to the left by +the wind. + +“now look out for the ball... we’ll throw it back.” + +“what do you want, your honor?” asked an artilleryman, standing +close by, who heard him muttering. + +“nothing... only a shell...” he answered. + +“come along, our matvévna!” he said to himself. “matvévna” * +was the name his fancy gave to the farthest gun of the battery, which +was large and of an old pattern. the french swarming round their guns +seemed to him like ants. in that world, the handsome drunkard number one +of the second gun’s crew was “uncle”; túshin looked at him more +often than at anyone else and took delight in his every movement. +the sound of musketry at the foot of the hill, now diminishing, now +increasing, seemed like someone’s breathing. he listened intently to +the ebb and flow of these sounds. + + * daughter of matthew. + +“ah! breathing again, breathing!” he muttered to himself. + +he imagined himself as an enormously tall, powerful man who was throwing +cannon balls at the french with both hands. + +“now then, matvévna, dear old lady, don’t let me down!” he was +saying as he moved from the gun, when a strange, unfamiliar voice called +above his head: “captain túshin! captain!” + +túshin turned round in dismay. it was the staff officer who had turned +him out of the booth at grunth. he was shouting in a gasping voice: + +“are you mad? you have twice been ordered to retreat, and you...” + +“why are they down on me?” thought túshin, looking in alarm at his +superior. + +“i... don’t...” he muttered, holding up two fingers to his cap. +“i...” + +but the staff officer did not finish what he wanted to say. a cannon +ball, flying close to him, caused him to duck and bend over his horse. +he paused, and just as he was about to say something more, another ball +stopped him. he turned his horse and galloped off. + +“retire! all to retire!” he shouted from a distance. + +the soldiers laughed. a moment later, an adjutant arrived with the same +order. + +it was prince andrew. the first thing he saw on riding up to the space +where túshin’s guns were stationed was an unharnessed horse with a +broken leg, that lay screaming piteously beside the harnessed horses. +blood was gushing from its leg as from a spring. among the limbers lay +several dead men. one ball after another passed over as he approached +and he felt a nervous shudder run down his spine. but the mere thought +of being afraid roused him again. “i cannot be afraid,” thought he, +and dismounted slowly among the guns. he delivered the order and did +not leave the battery. he decided to have the guns removed from their +positions and withdrawn in his presence. together with túshin, stepping +across the bodies and under a terrible fire from the french, he attended +to the removal of the guns. + +“a staff officer was here a minute ago, but skipped off,” said an +artilleryman to prince andrew. “not like your honor!” + +prince andrew said nothing to túshin. they were both so busy as to seem +not to notice one another. when having limbered up the only two cannon +that remained uninjured out of the four, they began moving down the hill +(one shattered gun and one unicorn were left behind), prince andrew rode +up to túshin. + +“well, till we meet again...” he said, holding out his hand to +túshin. + +“good-by, my dear fellow,” said túshin. “dear soul! good-by, my +dear fellow!” and for some unknown reason tears suddenly filled his +eyes. + + + + + +chapter xxi + +the wind had fallen and black clouds, merging with the powder smoke, +hung low over the field of battle on the horizon. it was growing +dark and the glow of two conflagrations was the more conspicuous. the +cannonade was dying down, but the rattle of musketry behind and on the +right sounded oftener and nearer. as soon as túshin with his guns, +continually driving round or coming upon wounded men, was out of range +of fire and had descended into the dip, he was met by some of the staff, +among them the staff officer and zherkóv, who had been twice sent to +túshin’s battery but had never reached it. interrupting one +another, they all gave, and transmitted, orders as to how to proceed, +reprimanding and reproaching him. túshin gave no orders, and, +silently—fearing to speak because at every word he felt ready to +weep without knowing why—rode behind on his artillery nag. though +the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves +after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages. the jaunty +infantry officer who just before the battle had rushed out of +túshin’s wattle shed was laid, with a bullet in his stomach, on +“matvévna’s” carriage. at the foot of the hill, a pale hussar +cadet, supporting one hand with the other, came up to túshin and asked +for a seat. + +“captain, for god’s sake! i’ve hurt my arm,” he said timidly. +“for god’s sake... i can’t walk. for god’s sake!” + +it was plain that this cadet had already repeatedly asked for a lift and +been refused. he asked in a hesitating, piteous voice. + +“tell them to give me a seat, for god’s sake!” + +“give him a seat,” said túshin. “lay a cloak for him to sit on, +lad,” he said, addressing his favorite soldier. “and where is the +wounded officer?” + +“he has been set down. he died,” replied someone. + +“help him up. sit down, dear fellow, sit down! spread out the cloak, +antónov.” + +the cadet was rostóv. with one hand he supported the other; he was +pale and his jaw trembled, shivering feverishly. he was placed on +“matvévna,” the gun from which they had removed the dead officer. +the cloak they spread under him was wet with blood which stained his +breeches and arm. + +“what, are you wounded, my lad?” said túshin, approaching the gun +on which rostóv sat. + +“no, it’s a sprain.” + +“then what is this blood on the gun carriage?” inquired túshin. + +“it was the officer, your honor, stained it,” answered the +artilleryman, wiping away the blood with his coat sleeve, as if +apologizing for the state of his gun. + +it was all that they could do to get the guns up the rise aided by the +infantry, and having reached the village of gruntersdorf they halted. it +had grown so dark that one could not distinguish the uniforms ten paces +off, and the firing had begun to subside. suddenly, near by on the +right, shouting and firing were again heard. flashes of shot gleamed in +the darkness. this was the last french attack and was met by soldiers +who had sheltered in the village houses. they all rushed out of +the village again, but túshin’s guns could not move, and the +artillerymen, túshin, and the cadet exchanged silent glances as they +awaited their fate. the firing died down and soldiers, talking eagerly, +streamed out of a side street. + +“not hurt, petróv?” asked one. + +“we’ve given it ‘em hot, mate! they won’t make another push +now,” said another. + +“you couldn’t see a thing. how they shot at their own fellows! +nothing could be seen. pitch-dark, brother! isn’t there something to +drink?” + +the french had been repulsed for the last time. and again and again in +the complete darkness túshin’s guns moved forward, surrounded by the +humming infantry as by a frame. + +in the darkness, it seemed as though a gloomy unseen river was flowing +always in one direction, humming with whispers and talk and the sound of +hoofs and wheels. amid the general rumble, the groans and voices of the +wounded were more distinctly heard than any other sound in the darkness +of the night. the gloom that enveloped the army was filled with their +groans, which seemed to melt into one with the darkness of the night. +after a while the moving mass became agitated, someone rode past on +a white horse followed by his suite, and said something in passing: +“what did he say? where to, now? halt, is it? did he thank us?” came +eager questions from all sides. the whole moving mass began pressing +closer together and a report spread that they were ordered to halt: +evidently those in front had halted. all remained where they were in the +middle of the muddy road. + +fires were lighted and the talk became more audible. captain túshin, +having given orders to his company, sent a soldier to find a dressing +station or a doctor for the cadet, and sat down by a bonfire the +soldiers had kindled on the road. rostóv, too, dragged himself to the +fire. from pain, cold, and damp, a feverish shivering shook his whole +body. drowsiness was irresistibly mastering him, but he kept awake by +an excruciating pain in his arm, for which he could find no satisfactory +position. he kept closing his eyes and then again looking at the fire, +which seemed to him dazzlingly red, and at the feeble, round-shouldered +figure of túshin who was sitting cross-legged like a turk beside him. +túshin’s large, kind, intelligent eyes were fixed with sympathy and +commiseration on rostóv, who saw that túshin with his whole heart +wished to help him but could not. + +from all sides were heard the footsteps and talk of the infantry, who +were walking, driving past, and settling down all around. the sound +of voices, the tramping feet, the horses’ hoofs moving in mud, the +crackling of wood fires near and afar, merged into one tremulous rumble. + +it was no longer, as before, a dark, unseen river flowing through the +gloom, but a dark sea swelling and gradually subsiding after a storm. +rostóv looked at and listened listlessly to what passed before and +around him. an infantryman came to the fire, squatted on his heels, held +his hands to the blaze, and turned away his face. + +“you don’t mind your honor?” he asked túshin. “i’ve lost my +company, your honor. i don’t know where... such bad luck!” + +with the soldier, an infantry officer with a bandaged cheek came up to +the bonfire, and addressing túshin asked him to have the guns moved a +trifle to let a wagon go past. after he had gone, two soldiers rushed to +the campfire. they were quarreling and fighting desperately, each trying +to snatch from the other a boot they were both holding on to. + +“you picked it up?... i dare say! you’re very smart!” one of them +shouted hoarsely. + +then a thin, pale soldier, his neck bandaged with a bloodstained leg +band, came up and in angry tones asked the artillerymen for water. + +“must one die like a dog?” said he. + +túshin told them to give the man some water. then a cheerful soldier +ran up, begging a little fire for the infantry. + +“a nice little hot torch for the infantry! good luck to you, fellow +countrymen. thanks for the fire—we’ll return it with interest,” +said he, carrying away into the darkness a glowing stick. + +next came four soldiers, carrying something heavy on a cloak, and passed +by the fire. one of them stumbled. + +“who the devil has put the logs on the road?” snarled he. + +“he’s dead—why carry him?” said another. + +“shut up!” + +and they disappeared into the darkness with their load. + +“still aching?” túshin asked rostóv in a whisper. + +“yes.” + +“your honor, you’re wanted by the general. he is in the hut here,” +said a gunner, coming up to túshin. + +“coming, friend.” + +túshin rose and, buttoning his greatcoat and pulling it straight, +walked away from the fire. + +not far from the artillery campfire, in a hut that had been prepared +for him, prince bagratión sat at dinner, talking with some commanding +officers who had gathered at his quarters. the little old man with +the half-closed eyes was there greedily gnawing a mutton bone, and the +general who had served blamelessly for twenty-two years, flushed by a +glass of vodka and the dinner; and the staff officer with the signet +ring, and zherkóv, uneasily glancing at them all, and prince andrew, +pale, with compressed lips and feverishly glittering eyes. + +in a corner of the hut stood a standard captured from the french, and +the accountant with the naïve face was feeling its texture, shaking his +head in perplexity—perhaps because the banner really interested him, +perhaps because it was hard for him, hungry as he was, to look on at +a dinner where there was no place for him. in the next hut there was a +french colonel who had been taken prisoner by our dragoons. our officers +were flocking in to look at him. prince bagratión was thanking the +individual commanders and inquiring into details of the action and our +losses. the general whose regiment had been inspected at braunau was +informing the prince that as soon as the action began he had withdrawn +from the wood, mustered the men who were woodcutting, and, allowing the +french to pass him, had made a bayonet charge with two battalions and +had broken up the french troops. + +“when i saw, your excellency, that their first battalion was +disorganized, i stopped in the road and thought: ‘i’ll let them +come on and will meet them with the fire of the whole battalion’—and +that’s what i did.” + +the general had so wished to do this and was so sorry he had not managed +to do it that it seemed to him as if it had really happened. perhaps +it might really have been so? could one possibly make out amid all that +confusion what did or did not happen? + +“by the way, your excellency, i should inform you,” he +continued—remembering dólokhov’s conversation with kutúzov and his +last interview with the gentleman-ranker—“that private dólokhov, +who was reduced to the ranks, took a french officer prisoner in my +presence and particularly distinguished himself.” + +“i saw the pávlograd hussars attack there, your excellency,” chimed +in zherkóv, looking uneasily around. he had not seen the hussars all +that day, but had heard about them from an infantry officer. “they +broke up two squares, your excellency.” + +several of those present smiled at zherkóv’s words, expecting one of +his usual jokes, but noticing that what he was saying redounded to +the glory of our arms and of the day’s work, they assumed a serious +expression, though many of them knew that what he was saying was a lie +devoid of any foundation. prince bagratión turned to the old colonel: + +“gentlemen, i thank you all; all arms have behaved heroically: +infantry, cavalry, and artillery. how was it that two guns were +abandoned in the center?” he inquired, searching with his eyes for +someone. (prince bagratión did not ask about the guns on the left +flank; he knew that all the guns there had been abandoned at the very +beginning of the action.) “i think i sent you?” he added, turning to +the staff officer on duty. + +“one was damaged,” answered the staff officer, “and the other i +can’t understand. i was there all the time giving orders and had only +just left.... it is true that it was hot there,” he added, modestly. + +someone mentioned that captain túshin was bivouacking close to the +village and had already been sent for. + +“oh, but you were there?” said prince bagratión, addressing prince +andrew. + +“of course, we only just missed one another,” said the staff +officer, with a smile to bolkónski. + +“i had not the pleasure of seeing you,” said prince andrew, coldly +and abruptly. + +all were silent. túshin appeared at the threshold and made his way +timidly from behind the backs of the generals. as he stepped past the +generals in the crowded hut, feeling embarrassed as he always was by the +sight of his superiors, he did not notice the staff of the banner and +stumbled over it. several of those present laughed. + +“how was it a gun was abandoned?” asked bagratión, frowning, not so +much at the captain as at those who were laughing, among whom zherkóv +laughed loudest. + +only now, when he was confronted by the stern authorities, did his guilt +and the disgrace of having lost two guns and yet remaining alive present +themselves to túshin in all their horror. he had been so excited that +he had not thought about it until that moment. the officers’ laughter +confused him still more. he stood before bagratión with his lower +jaw trembling and was hardly able to mutter: “i don’t know... your +excellency... i had no men... your excellency.” + +“you might have taken some from the covering troops.” + +túshin did not say that there were no covering troops, though that +was perfectly true. he was afraid of getting some other officer into +trouble, and silently fixed his eyes on bagratión as a schoolboy who +has blundered looks at an examiner. + +the silence lasted some time. prince bagratión, apparently not wishing +to be severe, found nothing to say; the others did not venture to +intervene. prince andrew looked at túshin from under his brows and his +fingers twitched nervously. + +“your excellency!” prince andrew broke the silence with his abrupt +voice, “you were pleased to send me to captain túshin’s battery. i +went there and found two thirds of the men and horses knocked out, two +guns smashed, and no supports at all.” + +prince bagratión and túshin looked with equal intentness at +bolkónski, who spoke with suppressed agitation. + +“and, if your excellency will allow me to express my opinion,” he +continued, “we owe today’s success chiefly to the action of that +battery and the heroic endurance of captain túshin and his company,” +and without awaiting a reply, prince andrew rose and left the table. + +prince bagratión looked at túshin, evidently reluctant to show +distrust in bolkónski’s emphatic opinion yet not feeling able fully +to credit it, bent his head, and told túshin that he could go. prince +andrew went out with him. + +“thank you; you saved me, my dear fellow!” said túshin. + +prince andrew gave him a look, but said nothing and went away. he felt +sad and depressed. it was all so strange, so unlike what he had hoped. + + +“who are they? why are they here? what do they want? and when will +all this end?” thought rostóv, looking at the changing shadows before +him. the pain in his arm became more and more intense. irresistible +drowsiness overpowered him, red rings danced before his eyes, and the +impression of those voices and faces and a sense of loneliness merged +with the physical pain. it was they, these soldiers—wounded and +unwounded—it was they who were crushing, weighing down, and twisting +the sinews and scorching the flesh of his sprained arm and shoulder. to +rid himself of them he closed his eyes. + +for a moment he dozed, but in that short interval innumerable things +appeared to him in a dream: his mother and her large white hand, +sónya’s thin little shoulders, natásha’s eyes and laughter, +denísov with his voice and mustache, and telyánin and all that affair +with telyánin and bogdánich. that affair was the same thing as this +soldier with the harsh voice, and it was that affair and this soldier +that were so agonizingly, incessantly pulling and pressing his arm and +always dragging it in one direction. he tried to get away from them, but +they would not for an instant let his shoulder move a hair’s breadth. +it would not ache—it would be well—if only they did not pull it, but +it was impossible to get rid of them. + +he opened his eyes and looked up. the black canopy of night hung less +than a yard above the glow of the charcoal. flakes of falling snow were +fluttering in that light. túshin had not returned, the doctor had not +come. he was alone now, except for a soldier who was sitting naked at +the other side of the fire, warming his thin yellow body. + +“nobody wants me!” thought rostóv. “there is no one to help me or +pity me. yet i was once at home, strong, happy, and loved.” he sighed +and, doing so, groaned involuntarily. + +“eh, is anything hurting you?” asked the soldier, shaking his shirt +out over the fire, and not waiting for an answer he gave a grunt and +added: “what a lot of men have been crippled today—frightful!” + +rostóv did not listen to the soldier. he looked at the snowflakes +fluttering above the fire and remembered a russian winter at his warm, +bright home, his fluffy fur coat, his quickly gliding sleigh, his +healthy body, and all the affection and care of his family. “and why +did i come here?” he wondered. + +next day the french army did not renew their attack, and the remnant of +bagratión’s detachment was reunited to kutúzov’s army. + + + + + +book three: 1805 + + + + + +chapter i + +prince vasíli was not a man who deliberately thought out his plans. +still less did he think of injuring anyone for his own advantage. he +was merely a man of the world who had got on and to whom getting on had +become a habit. schemes and devices for which he never rightly accounted +to himself, but which formed the whole interest of his life, +were constantly shaping themselves in his mind, arising from the +circumstances and persons he met. of these plans he had not merely one +or two in his head but dozens, some only beginning to form themselves, +some approaching achievement, and some in course of disintegration. he +did not, for instance, say to himself: “this man now has influence, i +must gain his confidence and friendship and through him obtain a special +grant.” nor did he say to himself: “pierre is a rich man, i must +entice him to marry my daughter and lend me the forty thousand rubles +i need.” but when he came across a man of position his instinct +immediately told him that this man could be useful, and without any +premeditation prince vasíli took the first opportunity to gain his +confidence, flatter him, become intimate with him, and finally make his +request. + +he had pierre at hand in moscow and procured for him an appointment as +gentleman of the bedchamber, which at that time conferred the status of +councilor of state, and insisted on the young man accompanying him to +petersburg and staying at his house. with apparent absent-mindedness, +yet with unhesitating assurance that he was doing the right thing, +prince vasíli did everything to get pierre to marry his daughter. had +he thought out his plans beforehand he could not have been so natural +and shown such unaffected familiarity in intercourse with everybody both +above and below him in social standing. something always drew him toward +those richer and more powerful than himself and he had rare skill in +seizing the most opportune moment for making use of people. + +pierre, on unexpectedly becoming count bezúkhov and a rich man, felt +himself after his recent loneliness and freedom from cares so beset and +preoccupied that only in bed was he able to be by himself. he had to +sign papers, to present himself at government offices, the purpose of +which was not clear to him, to question his chief steward, to visit his +estate near moscow, and to receive many people who formerly did not +even wish to know of his existence but would now have been offended +and grieved had he chosen not to see them. these different +people—businessmen, relations, and acquaintances alike—were all +disposed to treat the young heir in the most friendly and flattering +manner: they were all evidently firmly convinced of pierre’s noble +qualities. he was always hearing such words as: “with your remarkable +kindness,” or, “with your excellent heart,” “you are yourself so +honorable, count,” or, “were he as clever as you,” and so on, +till he began sincerely to believe in his own exceptional kindness and +extraordinary intelligence, the more so as in the depth of his heart it +had always seemed to him that he really was very kind and intelligent. +even people who had formerly been spiteful toward him and evidently +unfriendly now became gentle and affectionate. the angry eldest +princess, with the long waist and hair plastered down like a doll’s, +had come into pierre’s room after the funeral. with drooping eyes +and frequent blushes she told him she was very sorry about their past +misunderstandings and did not now feel she had a right to ask him for +anything, except only for permission, after the blow she had received, +to remain for a few weeks longer in the house she so loved and where +she had sacrificed so much. she could not refrain from weeping at these +words. touched that this statuesque princess could so change, pierre +took her hand and begged her forgiveness, without knowing what for. +from that day the eldest princess quite changed toward pierre and began +knitting a striped scarf for him. + +“do this for my sake, mon cher; after all, she had to put up with a +great deal from the deceased,” said prince vasíli to him, handing him +a deed to sign for the princess’ benefit. + +prince vasíli had come to the conclusion that it was necessary to throw +this bone—a bill for thirty thousand rubles—to the poor princess +that it might not occur to her to speak of his share in the affair of +the inlaid portfolio. pierre signed the deed and after that the princess +grew still kinder. the younger sisters also became affectionate to him, +especially the youngest, the pretty one with the mole, who often made +him feel confused by her smiles and her own confusion when meeting him. + +it seemed so natural to pierre that everyone should like him, and it +would have seemed so unnatural had anyone disliked him, that he could +not but believe in the sincerity of those around him. besides, he had +no time to ask himself whether these people were sincere or not. he +was always busy and always felt in a state of mild and cheerful +intoxication. he felt as though he were the center of some important and +general movement; that something was constantly expected of him, that if +he did not do it he would grieve and disappoint many people, but if he +did this and that, all would be well; and he did what was demanded of +him, but still that happy result always remained in the future. + +more than anyone else, prince vasíli took possession of pierre’s +affairs and of pierre himself in those early days. from the death of +count bezúkhov he did not let go his hold of the lad. he had the air of +a man oppressed by business, weary and suffering, who yet would not, for +pity’s sake, leave this helpless youth who, after all, was the son of +his old friend and the possessor of such enormous wealth, to the caprice +of fate and the designs of rogues. during the few days he spent in +moscow after the death of count bezúkhov, he would call pierre, or +go to him himself, and tell him what ought to be done in a tone of +weariness and assurance, as if he were adding every time: “you know +i am overwhelmed with business and it is purely out of charity that +i trouble myself about you, and you also know quite well that what i +propose is the only thing possible.” + +“well, my dear fellow, tomorrow we are off at last,” said prince +vasíli one day, closing his eyes and fingering pierre’s elbow, +speaking as if he were saying something which had long since been agreed +upon and could not now be altered. “we start tomorrow and i’m giving +you a place in my carriage. i am very glad. all our important business +here is now settled, and i ought to have been off long ago. here is +something i have received from the chancellor. i asked him for you, and +you have been entered in the diplomatic corps and made a gentleman of +the bedchamber. the diplomatic career now lies open before you.” + +notwithstanding the tone of wearied assurance with which these words +were pronounced, pierre, who had so long been considering his career, +wished to make some suggestion. but prince vasíli interrupted him in +the special deep cooing tone, precluding the possibility of interrupting +his speech, which he used in extreme cases when special persuasion was +needed. + +“mais, mon cher, i did this for my own sake, to satisfy my conscience, +and there is nothing to thank me for. no one has ever complained yet of +being too much loved; and besides, you are free, you could throw it +up tomorrow. but you will see everything for yourself when you get to +petersburg. it is high time for you to get away from these terrible +recollections.” prince vasíli sighed. “yes, yes, my boy. and my +valet can go in your carriage. ah! i was nearly forgetting,” he added. +“you know, mon cher, your father and i had some accounts to settle, so +i have received what was due from the ryazán estate and will keep it; +you won’t require it. we’ll go into the accounts later.” + +by “what was due from the ryazán estate” prince vasíli meant +several thousand rubles quitrent received from pierre’s peasants, +which the prince had retained for himself. + +in petersburg, as in moscow, pierre found the same atmosphere of +gentleness and affection. he could not refuse the post, or rather the +rank (for he did nothing), that prince vasíli had procured for him, +and acquaintances, invitations, and social occupations were so numerous +that, even more than in moscow, he felt a sense of bewilderment, bustle, +and continual expectation of some good, always in front of him but never +attained. + +of his former bachelor acquaintances many were no longer in petersburg. +the guards had gone to the front; dólokhov had been reduced to the +ranks; anatole was in the army somewhere in the provinces; prince andrew +was abroad; so pierre had not the opportunity to spend his nights as he +used to like to spend them, or to open his mind by intimate talks with +a friend older than himself and whom he respected. his whole time +was taken up with dinners and balls and was spent chiefly at prince +vasíli’s house in the company of the stout princess, his wife, and +his beautiful daughter hélène. + +like the others, anna pávlovna schérer showed pierre the change of +attitude toward him that had taken place in society. + +formerly in anna pávlovna’s presence, pierre had always felt that +what he was saying was out of place, tactless and unsuitable, that +remarks which seemed to him clever while they formed in his mind became +foolish as soon as he uttered them, while on the contrary hippolyte’s +stupidest remarks came out clever and apt. now everything pierre said +was charmant. even if anna pávlovna did not say so, he could see that +she wished to and only refrained out of regard for his modesty. + +in the beginning of the winter of 1805-6 pierre received one of anna +pávlovna’s usual pink notes with an invitation to which was added: +“you will find the beautiful hélène here, whom it is always +delightful to see.” + +when he read that sentence, pierre felt for the first time that some +link which other people recognized had grown up between himself and +hélène, and that thought both alarmed him, as if some obligation were +being imposed on him which he could not fulfill, and pleased him as an +entertaining supposition. + +anna pávlovna’s “at home” was like the former one, only the +novelty she offered her guests this time was not mortemart, but a +diplomatist fresh from berlin with the very latest details of the +emperor alexander’s visit to potsdam, and of how the two august +friends had pledged themselves in an indissoluble alliance to uphold +the cause of justice against the enemy of the human race. anna pávlovna +received pierre with a shade of melancholy, evidently relating to the +young man’s recent loss by the death of count bezúkhov (everyone +constantly considered it a duty to assure pierre that he was greatly +afflicted by the death of the father he had hardly known), and her +melancholy was just like the august melancholy she showed at the mention +of her most august majesty the empress márya fëdorovna. pierre felt +flattered by this. anna pávlovna arranged the different groups in her +drawing room with her habitual skill. the large group, in which were +prince vasíli and the generals, had the benefit of the diplomat. +another group was at the tea table. pierre wished to join the former, +but anna pávlovna—who was in the excited condition of a commander on +a battlefield to whom thousands of new and brilliant ideas occur which +there is hardly time to put in action—seeing pierre, touched his +sleeve with her finger, saying: + +“wait a bit, i have something in view for you this evening.” +(she glanced at hélène and smiled at her.) “my dear hélène, be +charitable to my poor aunt who adores you. go and keep her company for +ten minutes. and that it will not be too dull, here is the dear count +who will not refuse to accompany you.” + +the beauty went to the aunt, but anna pávlovna detained pierre, looking +as if she had to give some final necessary instructions. + +“isn’t she exquisite?” she said to pierre, pointing to the stately +beauty as she glided away. “and how she carries herself! for so young +a girl, such tact, such masterly perfection of manner! it comes from +her heart. happy the man who wins her! with her the least worldly of men +would occupy a most brilliant position in society. don’t you think so? +i only wanted to know your opinion,” and anna pávlovna let pierre go. + +pierre, in reply, sincerely agreed with her as to hélène’s +perfection of manner. if he ever thought of hélène, it was just of +her beauty and her remarkable skill in appearing silently dignified in +society. + +the old aunt received the two young people in her corner, but seemed +desirous of hiding her adoration for hélène and inclined rather +to show her fear of anna pávlovna. she looked at her niece, as if +inquiring what she was to do with these people. on leaving them, anna +pávlovna again touched pierre’s sleeve, saying: “i hope you won’t +say that it is dull in my house again,” and she glanced at hélène. + +hélène smiled, with a look implying that she did not admit the +possibility of anyone seeing her without being enchanted. the aunt +coughed, swallowed, and said in french that she was very pleased to see +hélène, then she turned to pierre with the same words of welcome +and the same look. in the middle of a dull and halting conversation, +hélène turned to pierre with the beautiful bright smile that she gave +to everyone. pierre was so used to that smile, and it had so little +meaning for him, that he paid no attention to it. the aunt was just +speaking of a collection of snuffboxes that had belonged to pierre’s +father, count bezúkhov, and showed them her own box. princess hélène +asked to see the portrait of the aunt’s husband on the box lid. + +“that is probably the work of vinesse,” said pierre, mentioning +a celebrated miniaturist, and he leaned over the table to take the +snuffbox while trying to hear what was being said at the other table. + +he half rose, meaning to go round, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox, +passing it across hélène’s back. hélène stooped forward to make +room, and looked round with a smile. she was, as always at evening +parties, wearing a dress such as was then fashionable, cut very low at +front and back. her bust, which had always seemed like marble to pierre, +was so close to him that his shortsighted eyes could not but perceive +the living charm of her neck and shoulders, so near to his lips that +he need only have bent his head a little to have touched them. he was +conscious of the warmth of her body, the scent of perfume, and the +creaking of her corset as she moved. he did not see her marble beauty +forming a complete whole with her dress, but all the charm of her body +only covered by her garments. and having once seen this he could not +help being aware of it, just as we cannot renew an illusion we have once +seen through. + +“so you have never noticed before how beautiful i am?” hélène +seemed to say. “you had not noticed that i am a woman? yes, i am a +woman who may belong to anyone—to you too,” said her glance. and at +that moment pierre felt that hélène not only could, but must, be his +wife, and that it could not be otherwise. + +he knew this at that moment as surely as if he had been standing at the +altar with her. how and when this would be he did not know, he did not +even know if it would be a good thing (he even felt, he knew not why, +that it would be a bad thing), but he knew it would happen. + +pierre dropped his eyes, lifted them again, and wished once more to see +her as a distant beauty far removed from him, as he had seen her every +day until then, but he could no longer do it. he could not, any more +than a man who has been looking at a tuft of steppe grass through the +mist and taking it for a tree can again take it for a tree after he has +once recognized it to be a tuft of grass. she was terribly close to him. +she already had power over him, and between them there was no longer any +barrier except the barrier of his own will. + +“well, i will leave you in your little corner,” came anna +pávlovna’s voice, “i see you are all right there.” + +and pierre, anxiously trying to remember whether he had done anything +reprehensible, looked round with a blush. it seemed to him that everyone +knew what had happened to him as he knew it himself. + +a little later when he went up to the large circle, anna pávlovna said +to him: “i hear you are refitting your petersburg house?” + +this was true. the architect had told him that it was necessary, and +pierre, without knowing why, was having his enormous petersburg house +done up. + +“that’s a good thing, but don’t move from prince vasíli’s. it +is good to have a friend like the prince,” she said, smiling at prince +vasíli. “i know something about that. don’t i? and you are still so +young. you need advice. don’t be angry with me for exercising an old +woman’s privilege.” + +she paused, as women always do, expecting something after they have +mentioned their age. “if you marry it will be a different thing,” +she continued, uniting them both in one glance. pierre did not look at +hélène nor she at him. but she was just as terribly close to him. he +muttered something and colored. + +when he got home he could not sleep for a long time for thinking of what +had happened. what had happened? nothing. he had merely understood that +the woman he had known as a child, of whom when her beauty was mentioned +he had said absent-mindedly: “yes, she’s good looking,” he had +understood that this woman might belong to him. + +“but she’s stupid. i have myself said she is stupid,” he thought. +“there is something nasty, something wrong, in the feeling she excites +in me. i have been told that her brother anatole was in love with her +and she with him, that there was quite a scandal and that that’s why +he was sent away. hippolyte is her brother... prince vasíli is her +father... it’s bad....” he reflected, but while he was thinking this +(the reflection was still incomplete), he caught himself smiling and was +conscious that another line of thought had sprung up, and while thinking +of her worthlessness he was also dreaming of how she would be his +wife, how she would love him become quite different, and how all he had +thought and heard of her might be false. and he again saw her not as the +daughter of prince vasíli, but visualized her whole body only veiled +by its gray dress. “but no! why did this thought never occur to me +before?” and again he told himself that it was impossible, that there +would be something unnatural, and as it seemed to him dishonorable, in +this marriage. he recalled her former words and looks and the words +and looks of those who had seen them together. he recalled anna +pávlovna’s words and looks when she spoke to him about his house, +recalled thousands of such hints from prince vasíli and others, and was +seized by terror lest he had already, in some way, bound himself to do +something that was evidently wrong and that he ought not to do. but at +the very time he was expressing this conviction to himself, in another +part of his mind her image rose in all its womanly beauty. + + + + + +chapter ii + +in november, 1805, prince vasíli had to go on a tour of inspection +in four different provinces. he had arranged this for himself so as to +visit his neglected estates at the same time and pick up his son anatole +where his regiment was stationed, and take him to visit prince nicholas +bolkónski in order to arrange a match for him with the daughter of that +rich old man. but before leaving home and undertaking these new affairs, +prince vasíli had to settle matters with pierre, who, it is true, had +latterly spent whole days at home, that is, in prince vasíli’s house +where he was staying, and had been absurd, excited, and foolish in +hélène’s presence (as a lover should be), but had not yet proposed +to her. + +“this is all very fine, but things must be settled,” said prince +vasíli to himself, with a sorrowful sigh, one morning, feeling that +pierre who was under such obligations to him (“but never mind that”) +was not behaving very well in this matter. “youth, frivolity... well, +god be with him,” thought he, relishing his own goodness of heart, +“but it must be brought to a head. the day after tomorrow will be +lëlya’s name day. i will invite two or three people, and if he does +not understand what he ought to do then it will be my affair—yes, my +affair. i am her father.” + +six weeks after anna pávlovna’s “at home” and after the sleepless +night when he had decided that to marry hélène would be a calamity and +that he ought to avoid her and go away, pierre, despite that decision, +had not left prince vasíli’s and felt with terror that in people’s +eyes he was every day more and more connected with her, that it was +impossible for him to return to his former conception of her, that he +could not break away from her, and that though it would be a terrible +thing he would have to unite his fate with hers. he might perhaps have +been able to free himself but that prince vasíli (who had rarely before +given receptions) now hardly let a day go by without having an evening +party at which pierre had to be present unless he wished to spoil +the general pleasure and disappoint everyone’s expectation. prince +vasíli, in the rare moments when he was at home, would take pierre’s +hand in passing and draw it downwards, or absent-mindedly hold out his +wrinkled, clean-shaven cheek for pierre to kiss and would say: “till +tomorrow,” or, “be in to dinner or i shall not see you,” or, “i +am staying in for your sake,” and so on. and though prince vasíli, +when he stayed in (as he said) for pierre’s sake, hardly exchanged a +couple of words with him, pierre felt unable to disappoint him. +every day he said to himself one and the same thing: “it is time i +understood her and made up my mind what she really is. was i mistaken +before, or am i mistaken now? no, she is not stupid, she is an excellent +girl,” he sometimes said to himself “she never makes a mistake, +never says anything stupid. she says little, but what she does say is +always clear and simple, so she is not stupid. she never was abashed and +is not abashed now, so she cannot be a bad woman!” he had often begun +to make reflections or think aloud in her company, and she had always +answered him either by a brief but appropriate remark—showing that it +did not interest her—or by a silent look and smile which more palpably +than anything else showed pierre her superiority. she was right in +regarding all arguments as nonsense in comparison with that smile. + +she always addressed him with a radiantly confiding smile meant for him +alone, in which there was something more significant than in the general +smile that usually brightened her face. pierre knew that everyone was +waiting for him to say a word and cross a certain line, and he knew that +sooner or later he would step across it, but an incomprehensible terror +seized him at the thought of that dreadful step. a thousand times during +that month and a half while he felt himself drawn nearer and nearer to +that dreadful abyss, pierre said to himself: “what am i doing? i need +resolution. can it be that i have none?” + +he wished to take a decision, but felt with dismay that in this matter +he lacked that strength of will which he had known in himself and really +possessed. pierre was one of those who are only strong when they feel +themselves quite innocent, and since that day when he was overpowered +by a feeling of desire while stooping over the snuffbox at anna +pávlovna’s, an unacknowledged sense of the guilt of that desire +paralyzed his will. + +on hélène’s name day, a small party of just their own people—as +his wife said—met for supper at prince vasíli’s. all these friends +and relations had been given to understand that the fate of the young +girl would be decided that evening. the visitors were seated at supper. +princess kurágina, a portly imposing woman who had once been handsome, +was sitting at the head of the table. on either side of her sat the +more important guests—an old general and his wife, and anna pávlovna +schérer. at the other end sat the younger and less important guests, +and there too sat the members of the family, and pierre and hélène, +side by side. prince vasíli was not having any supper: he went round +the table in a merry mood, sitting down now by one, now by another, of +the guests. to each of them he made some careless and agreeable remark +except to pierre and hélène, whose presence he seemed not to notice. +he enlivened the whole party. the wax candles burned brightly, the +silver and crystal gleamed, so did the ladies’ toilets and the gold +and silver of the men’s epaulets; servants in scarlet liveries moved +round the table, the clatter of plates, knives, and glasses mingled with +the animated hum of several conversations. at one end of the table, the +old chamberlain was heard assuring an old baroness that he loved her +passionately, at which she laughed; at the other could be heard the +story of the misfortunes of some mary víktorovna or other. at the +center of the table, prince vasíli attracted everybody’s attention. +with a facetious smile on his face, he was telling the ladies about last +wednesday’s meeting of the imperial council, at which sergéy kuzmích +vyazmítinov, the new military governor general of petersburg, had +received and read the then famous rescript of the emperor alexander +from the army to sergéy kuzmích, in which the emperor said that he was +receiving from all sides declarations of the people’s loyalty, that +the declaration from petersburg gave him particular pleasure, and that +he was proud to be at the head of such a nation and would endeavor to be +worthy of it. this rescript began with the words: “sergéy kuzmích, +from all sides reports reach me,” etc. + +“well, and so he never got farther than: ‘sergéy kuzmích’?” +asked one of the ladies. + +“exactly, not a hair’s breadth farther,” answered prince vasíli, +laughing, “‘sergéy kuzmích... from all sides... from all sides... +sergéy kuzmích...’ poor vyazmítinov could not get any farther! +he began the rescript again and again, but as soon as he uttered +‘sergéy’ he sobbed, ‘kuz-mí-ch,’ tears, and ‘from all +sides’ was smothered in sobs and he could get no farther. and again +his handkerchief, and again: ‘sergéy kuzmích, from all sides,’... +and tears, till at last somebody else was asked to read it.” + +“kuzmích... from all sides... and then tears,” someone repeated +laughing. + +“don’t be unkind,” cried anna pávlovna from her end of the table +holding up a threatening finger. “he is such a worthy and excellent +man, our dear vyazmítinov....” + +everybody laughed a great deal. at the head of the table, where the +honored guests sat, everyone seemed to be in high spirits and under the +influence of a variety of exciting sensations. only pierre and +hélène sat silently side by side almost at the bottom of the table, a +suppressed smile brightening both their faces, a smile that had nothing +to do with sergéy kuzmích—a smile of bashfulness at their own +feelings. but much as all the rest laughed, talked, and joked, much +as they enjoyed their rhine wine, sauté, and ices, and however they +avoided looking at the young couple, and heedless and unobservant as +they seemed of them, one could feel by the occasional glances they gave +that the story about sergéy kuzmích, the laughter, and the food +were all a pretense, and that the whole attention of that company was +directed to—pierre and hélène. prince vasíli mimicked the sobbing +of sergéy kuzmích and at the same time his eyes glanced toward his +daughter, and while he laughed the expression on his face clearly said: +“yes... it’s getting on, it will all be settled today.” anna +pávlovna threatened him on behalf of “our dear vyazmítinov,” and +in her eyes, which, for an instant, glanced at pierre, prince vasíli +read a congratulation on his future son-in-law and on his daughter’s +happiness. the old princess sighed sadly as she offered some wine to the +old lady next to her and glanced angrily at her daughter, and her sigh +seemed to say: “yes, there’s nothing left for you and me but to sip +sweet wine, my dear, now that the time has come for these young ones to +be thus boldly, provocatively happy.” “and what nonsense all this is +that i am saying!” thought a diplomatist, glancing at the happy faces +of the lovers. “that’s happiness!” + +into the insignificant, trifling, and artificial interests uniting that +society had entered the simple feeling of the attraction of a healthy +and handsome young man and woman for one another. and this human feeling +dominated everything else and soared above all their affected chatter. +jests fell flat, news was not interesting, and the animation was +evidently forced. not only the guests but even the footmen waiting at +table seemed to feel this, and they forgot their duties as they looked +at the beautiful hélène with her radiant face and at the red, broad, +and happy though uneasy face of pierre. it seemed as if the very light +of the candles was focused on those two happy faces alone. + +pierre felt that he was the center of it all, and this both pleased and +embarrassed him. he was like a man entirely absorbed in some occupation. +he did not see, hear, or understand anything clearly. only now and +then detached ideas and impressions from the world of reality shot +unexpectedly through his mind. + +“so it is all finished!” he thought. “and how has it all happened? +how quickly! now i know that not because of her alone, nor of myself +alone, but because of everyone, it must inevitably come about. they are +all expecting it, they are so sure that it will happen that i cannot, i +cannot, disappoint them. but how will it be? i do not know, but it +will certainly happen!” thought pierre, glancing at those dazzling +shoulders close to his eyes. + +or he would suddenly feel ashamed of he knew not what. he felt it +awkward to attract everyone’s attention and to be considered a +lucky man and, with his plain face, to be looked on as a sort of paris +possessed of a helen. “but no doubt it always is and must be so!” +he consoled himself. “and besides, what have i done to bring it about? +how did it begin? i traveled from moscow with prince vasíli. then there +was nothing. so why should i not stay at his house? then i played cards +with her and picked up her reticule and drove out with her. how did it +begin, when did it all come about?” and here he was sitting by her +side as her betrothed, seeing, hearing, feeling her nearness, her +breathing, her movements, her beauty. then it would suddenly seem to him +that it was not she but he was so unusually beautiful, and that that was +why they all looked so at him, and flattered by this general admiration +he would expand his chest, raise his head, and rejoice at his good +fortune. suddenly he heard a familiar voice repeating something to him a +second time. but pierre was so absorbed that he did not understand what +was said. + +“i am asking you when you last heard from bolkónski,” repeated +prince vasíli a third time. “how absent-minded you are, my dear +fellow.” + +prince vasíli smiled, and pierre noticed that everyone was smiling at +him and hélène. “well, what of it, if you all know it?” thought +pierre. “what of it? it’s the truth!” and he himself smiled his +gentle childlike smile, and hélène smiled too. + +“when did you get the letter? was it from olmütz?” repeated +prince vasíli, who pretended to want to know this in order to settle a +dispute. + +“how can one talk or think of such trifles?” thought pierre. + +“yes, from olmütz,” he answered, with a sigh. + +after supper pierre with his partner followed the others into the +drawing room. the guests began to disperse, some without taking leave +of hélène. some, as if unwilling to distract her from an important +occupation, came up to her for a moment and made haste to go away, +refusing to let her see them off. the diplomatist preserved a mournful +silence as he left the drawing room. he pictured the vanity of his +diplomatic career in comparison with pierre’s happiness. the old +general grumbled at his wife when she asked how his leg was. “oh, the +old fool,” he thought. “that princess hélène will be beautiful +still when she’s fifty.” + +“i think i may congratulate you,” whispered anna pávlovna to the +old princess, kissing her soundly. “if i hadn’t this headache i’d +have stayed longer.” + +the old princess did not reply, she was tormented by jealousy of her +daughter’s happiness. + +while the guests were taking their leave pierre remained for a long time +alone with hélène in the little drawing room where they were sitting. +he had often before, during the last six weeks, remained alone with her, +but had never spoken to her of love. now he felt that it was inevitable, +but he could not make up his mind to take the final step. he felt +ashamed; he felt that he was occupying someone else’s place here +beside hélène. “this happiness is not for you,” some inner voice +whispered to him. “this happiness is for those who have not in them +what there is in you.” + +but, as he had to say something, he began by asking her whether she was +satisfied with the party. she replied in her usual simple manner that +this name day of hers had been one of the pleasantest she had ever had. + +some of the nearest relatives had not yet left. they were sitting in +the large drawing room. prince vasíli came up to pierre with languid +footsteps. pierre rose and said it was getting late. prince vasíli gave +him a look of stern inquiry, as though what pierre had just said was +so strange that one could not take it in. but then the expression of +severity changed, and he drew pierre’s hand downwards, made him sit +down, and smiled affectionately. + +“well, lëlya?” he asked, turning instantly to his daughter and +addressing her with the careless tone of habitual tenderness natural to +parents who have petted their children from babyhood, but which prince +vasíli had only acquired by imitating other parents. + +and he again turned to pierre. + +“sergéy kuzmích—from all sides—” he said, unbuttoning the top +button of his waistcoat. + +pierre smiled, but his smile showed that he knew it was not the story +about sergéy kuzmích that interested prince vasíli just then, and +prince vasíli saw that pierre knew this. he suddenly muttered +something and went away. it seemed to pierre that even the prince was +disconcerted. the sight of the discomposure of that old man of the world +touched pierre: he looked at hélène and she too seemed disconcerted, +and her look seemed to say: “well, it is your own fault.” + +“the step must be taken but i cannot, i cannot!” thought pierre, +and he again began speaking about indifferent matters, about sergéy +kuzmích, asking what the point of the story was as he had not heard it +properly. hélène answered with a smile that she too had missed it. + +when prince vasíli returned to the drawing room, the princess, his +wife, was talking in low tones to the elderly lady about pierre. + +“of course, it is a very brilliant match, but happiness, my dear...” + +“marriages are made in heaven,” replied the elderly lady. + +prince vasíli passed by, seeming not to hear the ladies, and sat down +on a sofa in a far corner of the room. he closed his eyes and seemed to +be dozing. his head sank forward and then he roused himself. + +“aline,” he said to his wife, “go and see what they are about.” + +the princess went up to the door, passed by it with a dignified and +indifferent air, and glanced into the little drawing room. pierre and +hélène still sat talking just as before. + +“still the same,” she said to her husband. + +prince vasíli frowned, twisting his mouth, his cheeks quivered and his +face assumed the coarse, unpleasant expression peculiar to him. shaking +himself, he rose, threw back his head, and with resolute steps went +past the ladies into the little drawing room. with quick steps he went +joyfully up to pierre. his face was so unusually triumphant that pierre +rose in alarm on seeing it. + +“thank god!” said prince vasíli. “my wife has told me +everything!” (he put one arm around pierre and the other around his +daughter.)—“my dear boy... lëlya... i am very pleased.” (his +voice trembled.) “i loved your father... and she will make you a good +wife... god bless you!...” + +he embraced his daughter, and then again pierre, and kissed him with his +malodorous mouth. tears actually moistened his cheeks. + +“princess, come here!” he shouted. + +the old princess came in and also wept. the elderly lady was using +her handkerchief too. pierre was kissed, and he kissed the beautiful +hélène’s hand several times. after a while they were left alone +again. + +“all this had to be and could not be otherwise,” thought pierre, +“so it is useless to ask whether it is good or bad. it is good because +it’s definite and one is rid of the old tormenting doubt.” pierre +held the hand of his betrothed in silence, looking at her beautiful +bosom as it rose and fell. + +“hélène!” he said aloud and paused. + +“something special is always said in such cases,” he thought, but +could not remember what it was that people say. he looked at her face. +she drew nearer to him. her face flushed. + +“oh, take those off... those...” she said, pointing to his +spectacles. + +pierre took them off, and his eyes, besides the strange look eyes have +from which spectacles have just been removed, had also a frightened and +inquiring look. he was about to stoop over her hand and kiss it, but +with a rapid, almost brutal movement of her head, she intercepted his +lips and met them with her own. her face struck pierre, by its altered, +unpleasantly excited expression. + +“it is too late now, it’s done; besides i love her,” thought +pierre. + +“je vous aime!” * he said, remembering what has to be said at such +moments: but his words sounded so weak that he felt ashamed of himself. + + * “i love you.” + + +six weeks later he was married, and settled in count bezúkhov’s +large, newly furnished petersburg house, the happy possessor, as people +said, of a wife who was a celebrated beauty and of millions of money. + + + + + +chapter iii + +old prince nicholas bolkónski received a letter from prince vasíli +in november, 1805, announcing that he and his son would be paying him +a visit. “i am starting on a journey of inspection, and of course i +shall think nothing of an extra seventy miles to come and see you at +the same time, my honored benefactor,” wrote prince vasíli. “my son +anatole is accompanying me on his way to the army, so i hope you will +allow him personally to express the deep respect that, emulating his +father, he feels for you.” + +“it seems that there will be no need to bring mary out, suitors are +coming to us of their own accord,” incautiously remarked the little +princess on hearing the news. + +prince nicholas frowned, but said nothing. + +a fortnight after the letter prince vasíli’s servants came one +evening in advance of him, and he and his son arrived next day. + +old bolkónski had always had a poor opinion of prince vasíli’s +character, but more so recently, since in the new reigns of paul and +alexander prince vasíli had risen to high position and honors. and now, +from the hints contained in his letter and given by the little princess, +he saw which way the wind was blowing, and his low opinion changed into +a feeling of contemptuous ill will. he snorted whenever he mentioned +him. on the day of prince vasíli’s arrival, prince bolkónski was +particularly discontented and out of temper. whether he was in a bad +temper because prince vasíli was coming, or whether his being in a bad +temper made him specially annoyed at prince vasíli’s visit, he was +in a bad temper, and in the morning tíkhon had already advised the +architect not to go to the prince with his report. + +“do you hear how he’s walking?” said tíkhon, drawing the +architect’s attention to the sound of the prince’s footsteps. +“stepping flat on his heels—we know what that means....” + +however, at nine o’clock the prince, in his velvet coat with a sable +collar and cap, went out for his usual walk. it had snowed the day +before and the path to the hothouse, along which the prince was in the +habit of walking, had been swept: the marks of the broom were still +visible in the snow and a shovel had been left sticking in one of the +soft snowbanks that bordered both sides of the path. the prince went +through the conservatories, the serfs’ quarters, and the outbuildings, +frowning and silent. + +“can a sleigh pass?” he asked his overseer, a venerable man, +resembling his master in manners and looks, who was accompanying him +back to the house. + +“the snow is deep. i am having the avenue swept, your honor.” + +the prince bowed his head and went up to the porch. “god be +thanked,” thought the overseer, “the storm has blown over!” + +“it would have been hard to drive up, your honor,” he added. “i +heard, your honor, that a minister is coming to visit your honor.” + +the prince turned round to the overseer and fixed his eyes on him, +frowning. + +“what? a minister? what minister? who gave orders?” he said in +his shrill, harsh voice. “the road is not swept for the princess my +daughter, but for a minister! for me, there are no ministers!” + +“your honor, i thought...” + +“you thought!” shouted the prince, his words coming more and more +rapidly and indistinctly. “you thought!... rascals! blackguards!... +i’ll teach you to think!” and lifting his stick he swung it and +would have hit alpátych, the overseer, had not the latter instinctively +avoided the blow. “thought... blackguards...” shouted the prince +rapidly. + +but although alpátych, frightened at his own temerity in avoiding the +stroke, came up to the prince, bowing his bald head resignedly before +him, or perhaps for that very reason, the prince, though he continued +to shout: “blackguards!... throw the snow back on the road!” did not +lift his stick again but hurried into the house. + +before dinner, princess mary and mademoiselle bourienne, who knew +that the prince was in a bad humor, stood awaiting him; mademoiselle +bourienne with a radiant face that said: “i know nothing, i am the +same as usual,” and princess mary pale, frightened, and with downcast +eyes. what she found hardest to bear was to know that on such occasions +she ought to behave like mademoiselle bourienne, but could not. +she thought: “if i seem not to notice he will think that i do not +sympathize with him; if i seem sad and out of spirits myself, he will +say (as he has done before) that i’m in the dumps.” + +the prince looked at his daughter’s frightened face and snorted. + +“fool... or dummy!” he muttered. + +“and the other one is not here. they’ve been telling tales,” he +thought—referring to the little princess who was not in the dining +room. + +“where is the princess?” he asked. “hiding?” + +“she is not very well,” answered mademoiselle bourienne with +a bright smile, “so she won’t come down. it is natural in her +state.” + +“hm! hm!” muttered the prince, sitting down. + +his plate seemed to him not quite clean, and pointing to a spot he +flung it away. tíkhon caught it and handed it to a footman. the little +princess was not unwell, but had such an overpowering fear of the prince +that, hearing he was in a bad humor, she had decided not to appear. + +“i am afraid for the baby,” she said to mademoiselle bourienne: +“heaven knows what a fright might do.” + +in general at bald hills the little princess lived in constant fear, and +with a sense of antipathy to the old prince which she did not +realize because the fear was so much the stronger feeling. the prince +reciprocated this antipathy, but it was overpowered by his contempt +for her. when the little princess had grown accustomed to life at bald +hills, she took a special fancy to mademoiselle bourienne, spent whole +days with her, asked her to sleep in her room, and often talked with her +about the old prince and criticized him. + +“so we are to have visitors, mon prince?” remarked mademoiselle +bourienne, unfolding her white napkin with her rosy fingers. “his +excellency prince vasíli kurágin and his son, i understand?” she +said inquiringly. + +“hm!—his excellency is a puppy.... i got him his appointment in the +service,” said the prince disdainfully. “why his son is coming i +don’t understand. perhaps princess elizabeth and princess mary know. +i don’t want him.” (he looked at his blushing daughter.) “are you +unwell today? eh? afraid of the ‘minister’ as that idiot alpátych +called him this morning?” + +“no, mon père.” + +though mademoiselle bourienne had been so unsuccessful in her choice +of a subject, she did not stop talking, but chattered about the +conservatories and the beauty of a flower that had just opened, and +after the soup the prince became more genial. + +after dinner, he went to see his daughter-in-law. the little princess +was sitting at a small table, chattering with másha, her maid. she grew +pale on seeing her father-in-law. + +she was much altered. she was now plain rather than pretty. her cheeks +had sunk, her lip was drawn up, and her eyes drawn down. + +“yes, i feel a kind of oppression,” she said in reply to the +prince’s question as to how she felt. + +“do you want anything?” + +“no, merci, mon père.” + +“well, all right, all right.” + +he left the room and went to the waiting room where alpátych stood with +bowed head. + +“has the snow been shoveled back?” + +“yes, your excellency. forgive me for heaven’s sake... it was only +my stupidity.” + +“all right, all right,” interrupted the prince, and laughing his +unnatural way, he stretched out his hand for alpátych to kiss, and then +proceeded to his study. + +prince vasíli arrived that evening. he was met in the avenue by +coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to +one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow. + +prince vasíli and anatole had separate rooms assigned to them. + +anatole, having taken off his overcoat, sat with arms akimbo before a +table on a corner of which he smilingly and absent-mindedly fixed his +large and handsome eyes. he regarded his whole life as a continual round +of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him. +and he looked on this visit to a churlish old man and a rich and ugly +heiress in the same way. all this might, he thought, turn out very well +and amusingly. “and why not marry her if she really has so much money? +that never does any harm,” thought anatole. + +he shaved and scented himself with the care and elegance which had +become habitual to him and, his handsome head held high, entered his +father’s room with the good-humored and victorious air natural to +him. prince vasíli’s two valets were busy dressing him, and he looked +round with much animation and cheerfully nodded to his son as the latter +entered, as if to say: “yes, that’s how i want you to look.” + +“i say, father, joking apart, is she very hideous?” anatole asked, +as if continuing a conversation the subject of which had often been +mentioned during the journey. + +“enough! what nonsense! above all, try to be respectful and cautious +with the old prince.” + +“if he starts a row i’ll go away,” said prince anatole. “i +can’t bear those old men! eh?” + +“remember, for you everything depends on this.” + +in the meantime, not only was it known in the maidservants’ rooms that +the minister and his son had arrived, but the appearance of both had +been minutely described. princess mary was sitting alone in her room, +vainly trying to master her agitation. + +“why did they write, why did lise tell me about it? it can never +happen!” she said, looking at herself in the glass. “how shall i +enter the drawing room? even if i like him i can’t now be myself with +him.” the mere thought of her father’s look filled her with terror. +the little princess and mademoiselle bourienne had already received +from másha, the lady’s maid, the necessary report of how handsome the +minister’s son was, with his rosy cheeks and dark eyebrows, and with +what difficulty the father had dragged his legs upstairs while the son +had followed him like an eagle, three steps at a time. having received +this information, the little princess and mademoiselle bourienne, whose +chattering voices had reached her from the corridor, went into princess +mary’s room. + +“you know they’ve come, marie?” said the little princess, waddling +in, and sinking heavily into an armchair. + +she was no longer in the loose gown she generally wore in the morning, +but had on one of her best dresses. her hair was carefully done and her +face was animated, which, however, did not conceal its sunken and faded +outlines. dressed as she used to be in petersburg society, it was still +more noticeable how much plainer she had become. some unobtrusive touch +had been added to mademoiselle bourienne’s toilet which rendered her +fresh and pretty face yet more attractive. + +“what! are you going to remain as you are, dear princess?” she +began. “they’ll be announcing that the gentlemen are in the drawing +room and we shall have to go down, and you have not smartened yourself +up at all!” + +the little princess got up, rang for the maid, and hurriedly and merrily +began to devise and carry out a plan of how princess mary should be +dressed. princess mary’s self-esteem was wounded by the fact that +the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both +her companions’ not having the least conception that it could be +otherwise. to tell them that she felt ashamed for herself and for them +would be to betray her agitation, while to decline their offers to +dress her would prolong their banter and insistence. she flushed, her +beautiful eyes grew dim, red blotches came on her face, and it took +on the unattractive martyrlike expression it so often wore, as she +submitted herself to mademoiselle bourienne and lise. both these women +quite sincerely tried to make her look pretty. she was so plain that +neither of them could think of her as a rival, so they began dressing +her with perfect sincerity, and with the naïve and firm conviction +women have that dress can make a face pretty. + +“no really, my dear, this dress is not pretty,” said lise, looking +sideways at princess mary from a little distance. “you have a maroon +dress, have it fetched. really! you know the fate of your whole life may +be at stake. but this one is too light, it’s not becoming!” + +it was not the dress, but the face and whole figure of princess mary +that was not pretty, but neither mademoiselle bourienne nor the little +princess felt this; they still thought that if a blue ribbon were placed +in the hair, the hair combed up, and the blue scarf arranged lower on +the best maroon dress, and so on, all would be well. they forgot that +the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that +however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it +would still remain piteous and plain. after two or three changes to +which princess mary meekly submitted, just as her hair had been arranged +on the top of her head (a style that quite altered and spoiled her +looks) and she had put on a maroon dress with a pale-blue scarf, the +little princess walked twice round her, now adjusting a fold of the +dress with her little hand, now arranging the scarf and looking at her +with her head bent first on one side and then on the other. + +“no, it will not do,” she said decidedly, clasping her hands. “no, +mary, really this dress does not suit you. i prefer you in your little +gray everyday dress. now please, do it for my sake. katie,” she said +to the maid, “bring the princess her gray dress, and you’ll see, +mademoiselle bourienne, how i shall arrange it,” she added, smiling +with a foretaste of artistic pleasure. + +but when katie brought the required dress, princess mary remained +sitting motionless before the glass, looking at her face, and saw in the +mirror her eyes full of tears and her mouth quivering, ready to burst +into sobs. + +“come, dear princess,” said mademoiselle bourienne, “just one more +little effort.” + +the little princess, taking the dress from the maid, came up to princess +mary. + +“well, now we’ll arrange something quite simple and becoming,” she +said. + +the three voices, hers, mademoiselle bourienne’s, and katie’s, who +was laughing at something, mingled in a merry sound, like the chirping +of birds. + +“no, leave me alone,” said princess mary. + +her voice sounded so serious and so sad that the chirping of the birds +was silenced at once. they looked at the beautiful, large, thoughtful +eyes full of tears and of thoughts, gazing shiningly and imploringly at +them, and understood that it was useless and even cruel to insist. + +“at least, change your coiffure,” said the little princess. +“didn’t i tell you,” she went on, turning reproachfully to +mademoiselle bourienne, “mary’s is a face which such a coiffure does +not suit in the least. not in the least! please change it.” + +“leave me alone, please leave me alone! it is all quite the same to +me,” answered a voice struggling with tears. + +mademoiselle bourienne and the little princess had to own to themselves +that princess mary in this guise looked very plain, worse than usual, +but it was too late. she was looking at them with an expression they +both knew, an expression thoughtful and sad. this expression in princess +mary did not frighten them (she never inspired fear in anyone), but they +knew that when it appeared on her face, she became mute and was not to +be shaken in her determination. + +“you will change it, won’t you?” said lise. and as princess mary +gave no answer, she left the room. + +princess mary was left alone. she did not comply with lise’s request, +she not only left her hair as it was, but did not even look in her +glass. letting her arms fall helplessly, she sat with downcast eyes and +pondered. a husband, a man, a strong dominant and strangely attractive +being rose in her imagination, and carried her into a totally different +happy world of his own. she fancied a child, her own—such as she had +seen the day before in the arms of her nurse’s daughter—at her +own breast, the husband standing by and gazing tenderly at her and the +child. “but no, it is impossible, i am too ugly,” she thought. + +“please come to tea. the prince will be out in a moment,” came the +maid’s voice at the door. + +she roused herself, and felt appalled at what she had been thinking, and +before going down she went into the room where the icons hung and, her +eyes fixed on the dark face of a large icon of the saviour lit by a +lamp, she stood before it with folded hands for a few moments. a painful +doubt filled her soul. could the joy of love, of earthly love for a +man, be for her? in her thoughts of marriage princess mary dreamed of +happiness and of children, but her strongest, most deeply hidden longing +was for earthly love. the more she tried to hide this feeling from +others and even from herself, the stronger it grew. “o god,” she +said, “how am i to stifle in my heart these temptations of the devil? +how am i to renounce forever these vile fancies, so as peacefully to +fulfill thy will?” and scarcely had she put that question than god +gave her the answer in her own heart. “desire nothing for thyself, +seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. man’s future and thy own fate +must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for +anything. if it be god’s will to prove thee in the duties of marriage, +be ready to fulfill his will.” with this consoling thought (but +yet with a hope for the fulfillment of her forbidden earthly longing) +princess mary sighed, and having crossed herself went down, thinking +neither of her gown and coiffure nor of how she would go in nor of what +she would say. what could all that matter in comparison with the will of +god, without whose care not a hair of man’s head can fall? + + + + + +chapter iv + +when princess mary came down, prince vasíli and his son were already +in the drawing room, talking to the little princess and mademoiselle +bourienne. when she entered with her heavy step, treading on her heels, +the gentlemen and mademoiselle bourienne rose and the little princess, +indicating her to the gentlemen, said: “voilà marie!” princess mary +saw them all and saw them in detail. she saw prince vasíli’s face, +serious for an instant at the sight of her, but immediately smiling +again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression +“marie” produced on the visitors. and she saw mademoiselle +bourienne, with her ribbon and pretty face, and her unusually animated +look which was fixed on him, but him she could not see, she only saw +something large, brilliant, and handsome moving toward her as she +entered the room. prince vasíli approached first, and she kissed the +bold forehead that bent over her hand and answered his question by +saying that, on the contrary, she remembered him quite well. then +anatole came up to her. she still could not see him. she only felt a +soft hand taking hers firmly, and she touched with her lips a white +forehead, over which was beautiful light-brown hair smelling of pomade. +when she looked up at him she was struck by his beauty. anatole stood +with his right thumb under a button of his uniform, his chest expanded +and his back drawn in, slightly swinging one foot, and, with his head a +little bent, looked with beaming face at the princess without +speaking and evidently not thinking about her at all. anatole was not +quick-witted, nor ready or eloquent in conversation, but he had the +faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable +self-possession. if a man lacking in self-confidence remains dumb on +a first introduction and betrays a consciousness of the impropriety of +such silence and an anxiety to find something to say, the effect is +bad. but anatole was dumb, swung his foot, and smilingly examined the +princess’ hair. it was evident that he could be silent in this way for +a very long time. “if anyone finds this silence inconvenient, let him +talk, but i don’t want to,” he seemed to say. besides this, in his +behavior to women anatole had a manner which particularly inspires in +them curiosity, awe, and even love—a supercilious consciousness of +his own superiority. it was as if he said to them: “i know you, i know +you, but why should i bother about you? you’d be only too glad, of +course.” perhaps he did not really think this when he met women—even +probably he did not, for in general he thought very little—but his +looks and manner gave that impression. the princess felt this, and as if +wishing to show him that she did not even dare expect to interest him, +she turned to his father. the conversation was general and animated, +thanks to princess lise’s voice and little downy lip that lifted over +her white teeth. she met prince vasíli with that playful manner often +employed by lively chatty people, and consisting in the assumption +that between the person they so address and themselves there are some +semi-private, long-established jokes and amusing reminiscences, though +no such reminiscences really exist—just as none existed in this case. +prince vasíli readily adopted her tone and the little princess also +drew anatole, whom she hardly knew, into these amusing recollections of +things that had never occurred. mademoiselle bourienne also shared them +and even princess mary felt herself pleasantly made to share in these +merry reminiscences. + +“here at least we shall have the benefit of your company all to +ourselves, dear prince,” said the little princess (of course, in +french) to prince vasíli. “it’s not as at annette’s * receptions +where you always ran away; you remember cette chère annette!” + + * anna pávlovna. + +“ah, but you won’t talk politics to me like annette!” + +“and our little tea table?” + +“oh, yes!” + +“why is it you were never at annette’s?” the little princess asked +anatole. “ah, i know, i know,” she said with a sly glance, “your +brother hippolyte told me about your goings on. oh!” and she shook her +finger at him, “i have even heard of your doings in paris!” + +“and didn’t hippolyte tell you?” asked prince vasíli, turning to +his son and seizing the little princess’ arm as if she would have run +away and he had just managed to catch her, “didn’t he tell you how +he himself was pining for the dear princess, and how she showed him the +door? oh, she is a pearl among women, princess,” he added, turning to +princess mary. + +when paris was mentioned, mademoiselle bourienne for her part seized the +opportunity of joining in the general current of recollections. + +she took the liberty of inquiring whether it was long since anatole +had left paris and how he had liked that city. anatole answered the +frenchwoman very readily and, looking at her with a smile, talked to her +about her native land. when he saw the pretty little bourienne, anatole +came to the conclusion that he would not find bald hills dull either. +“not at all bad!” he thought, examining her, “not at all bad, that +little companion! i hope she will bring her along with her when we’re +married, la petite est gentille.” * + + * the little one is charming. + +the old prince dressed leisurely in his study, frowning and considering +what he was to do. the coming of these visitors annoyed him. “what are +prince vasíli and that son of his to me? prince vasíli is a shallow +braggart and his son, no doubt, is a fine specimen,” he grumbled to +himself. what angered him was that the coming of these visitors revived +in his mind an unsettled question he always tried to stifle, one about +which he always deceived himself. the question was whether he could ever +bring himself to part from his daughter and give her to a husband. the +prince never directly asked himself that question, knowing beforehand +that he would have to answer it justly, and justice clashed not only +with his feelings but with the very possibility of life. life without +princess mary, little as he seemed to value her, was unthinkable to +him. “and why should she marry?” he thought. “to be unhappy for +certain. there’s lise, married to andrew—a better husband one would +think could hardly be found nowadays—but is she contented with her +lot? and who would marry marie for love? plain and awkward! they’ll +take her for her connections and wealth. are there no women living +unmarried, and even the happier for it?” so thought prince bolkónski +while dressing, and yet the question he was always putting off demanded +an immediate answer. prince vasíli had brought his son with the evident +intention of proposing, and today or tomorrow he would probably ask +for an answer. his birth and position in society were not bad. “well, +i’ve nothing against it,” the prince said to himself, “but he must +be worthy of her. and that is what we shall see.” + +“that is what we shall see! that is what we shall see!” he added +aloud. + +he entered the drawing room with his usual alert step, glancing rapidly +round the company. he noticed the change in the little princess’ +dress, mademoiselle bourienne’s ribbon, princess mary’s unbecoming +coiffure, mademoiselle bourienne’s and anatole’s smiles, and the +loneliness of his daughter amid the general conversation. “got herself +up like a fool!” he thought, looking irritably at her. “she is +shameless, and he ignores her!” + +he went straight up to prince vasíli. + +“well! how d’ye do? how d’ye do? glad to see you!” + +“friendship laughs at distance,” began prince vasíli in his usual +rapid, self-confident, familiar tone. “here is my second son; please +love and befriend him.” + +prince bolkónski surveyed anatole. + +“fine young fellow! fine young fellow!” he said. “well, come and +kiss me,” and he offered his cheek. + +anatole kissed the old man, and looked at him with curiosity and perfect +composure, waiting for a display of the eccentricities his father had +told him to expect. + +prince bolkónski sat down in his usual place in the corner of the sofa +and, drawing up an armchair for prince vasíli, pointed to it and began +questioning him about political affairs and news. he seemed to listen +attentively to what prince vasíli said, but kept glancing at princess +mary. + +“and so they are writing from potsdam already?” he said, repeating +prince vasíli’s last words. then rising, he suddenly went up to his +daughter. + +“is it for visitors you’ve got yourself up like that, eh?” said +he. “fine, very fine! you have done up your hair in this new way for +the visitors, and before the visitors i tell you that in future you are +never to dare to change your way of dress without my consent.” + +“it was my fault, mon père,” interceded the little princess, with a +blush. + +“you must do as you please,” said prince bolkónski, bowing to his +daughter-in-law, “but she need not make a fool of herself, she’s +plain enough as it is.” + +and he sat down again, paying no more attention to his daughter, who was +reduced to tears. + +“on the contrary, that coiffure suits the princess very well,” said +prince vasíli. + +“now you, young prince, what’s your name?” said prince bolkónski, +turning to anatole, “come here, let us talk and get acquainted.” + +“now the fun begins,” thought anatole, sitting down with a smile +beside the old prince. + +“well, my dear boy, i hear you’ve been educated abroad, not taught +to read and write by the deacon, like your father and me. now tell me, +my dear boy, are you serving in the horse guards?” asked the old man, +scrutinizing anatole closely and intently. + +“no, i have been transferred to the line,” said anatole, hardly able +to restrain his laughter. + +“ah! that’s a good thing. so, my dear boy, you wish to serve the +tsar and the country? it is wartime. such a fine fellow must serve. +well, are you off to the front?” + +“no, prince, our regiment has gone to the front, but i am attached... +what is it i am attached to, papa?” said anatole, turning to his +father with a laugh. + +“a splendid soldier, splendid! ‘what am i attached to!’ ha, ha, +ha!” laughed prince bolkónski, and anatole laughed still louder. +suddenly prince bolkónski frowned. + +“you may go,” he said to anatole. + +anatole returned smiling to the ladies. + +“and so you’ve had him educated abroad, prince vasíli, haven’t +you?” said the old prince to prince vasíli. + +“i have done my best for him, and i can assure you the education there +is much better than ours.” + +“yes, everything is different nowadays, everything is changed. the +lad’s a fine fellow, a fine fellow! well, come with me now.” he took +prince vasíli’s arm and led him to his study. as soon as they were +alone together, prince vasíli announced his hopes and wishes to the old +prince. + +“well, do you think i shall prevent her, that i can’t part from +her?” said the old prince angrily. “what an idea! i’m ready for it +tomorrow! only let me tell you, i want to know my son-in-law better. you +know my principles—everything aboveboard! i will ask her tomorrow in +your presence; if she is willing, then he can stay on. he can stay and +i’ll see.” the old prince snorted. “let her marry, it’s all the +same to me!” he screamed in the same piercing tone as when parting +from his son. + +“i will tell you frankly,” said prince vasíli in the tone of +a crafty man convinced of the futility of being cunning with so +keen-sighted a companion. “you know, you see right through people. +anatole is no genius, but he is an honest, goodhearted lad; an excellent +son or kinsman.” + +“all right, all right, we’ll see!” + +as always happens when women lead lonely lives for any length of time +without male society, on anatole’s appearance all the three women of +prince bolkónski’s household felt that their life had not been real +till then. their powers of reasoning, feeling, and observing immediately +increased tenfold, and their life, which seemed to have been passed in +darkness, was suddenly lit up by a new brightness, full of significance. + +princess mary grew quite unconscious of her face and coiffure. the +handsome open face of the man who might perhaps be her husband absorbed +all her attention. he seemed to her kind, brave, determined, manly, and +magnanimous. she felt convinced of that. thousands of dreams of a future +family life continually rose in her imagination. she drove them away and +tried to conceal them. + +“but am i not too cold with him?” thought the princess. “i try +to be reserved because in the depth of my soul i feel too near to him +already, but then he cannot know what i think of him and may imagine +that i do not like him.” + +and princess mary tried, but could not manage, to be cordial to her new +guest. “poor girl, she’s devilish ugly!” thought anatole. + +mademoiselle bourienne, also roused to great excitement by anatole’s +arrival, thought in another way. of course, she, a handsome young woman +without any definite position, without relations or even a country, did +not intend to devote her life to serving prince bolkónski, to reading +aloud to him and being friends with princess mary. mademoiselle +bourienne had long been waiting for a russian prince who, able to +appreciate at a glance her superiority to the plain, badly dressed, +ungainly russian princesses, would fall in love with her and carry her +off; and here at last was a russian prince. mademoiselle bourienne knew +a story, heard from her aunt but finished in her own way, which she +liked to repeat to herself. it was the story of a girl who had been +seduced, and to whom her poor mother (sa pauvre mère) appeared, and +reproached her for yielding to a man without being married. mademoiselle +bourienne was often touched to tears as in imagination she told this +story to him, her seducer. and now he, a real russian prince, had +appeared. he would carry her away and then sa pauvre mère would appear +and he would marry her. so her future shaped itself in mademoiselle +bourienne’s head at the very time she was talking to anatole about +paris. it was not calculation that guided her (she did not even for a +moment consider what she should do), but all this had long been familiar +to her, and now that anatole had appeared it just grouped itself around +him and she wished and tried to please him as much as possible. + +the little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, +unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the +familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any +struggle, but with naïve and lighthearted gaiety. + +although in female society anatole usually assumed the role of a man +tired of being run after by women, his vanity was flattered by the +spectacle of his power over these three women. besides that, he was +beginning to feel for the pretty and provocative mademoiselle bourienne +that passionate animal feeling which was apt to master him with great +suddenness and prompt him to the coarsest and most reckless actions. + +after tea, the company went into the sitting room and princess mary was +asked to play on the clavichord. anatole, laughing and in high spirits, +came and leaned on his elbows, facing her and beside mademoiselle +bourienne. princess mary felt his look with a painfully joyous emotion. +her favorite sonata bore her into a most intimately poetic world and +the look she felt upon her made that world still more poetic. but +anatole’s expression, though his eyes were fixed on her, referred not +to her but to the movements of mademoiselle bourienne’s little +foot, which he was then touching with his own under the clavichord. +mademoiselle bourienne was also looking at princess mary, and in her +lovely eyes there was a look of fearful joy and hope that was also new +to the princess. + +“how she loves me!” thought princess mary. “how happy i am now, +and how happy i may be with such a friend and such a husband! husband? +can it be possible?” she thought, not daring to look at his face, but +still feeling his eyes gazing at her. + +in the evening, after supper, when all were about to retire, anatole +kissed princess mary’s hand. she did not know how she found the +courage, but she looked straight into his handsome face as it came near +to her shortsighted eyes. turning from princess mary he went up and +kissed mademoiselle bourienne’s hand. (this was not etiquette, but +then he did everything so simply and with such assurance!) mademoiselle +bourienne flushed, and gave the princess a frightened look. + +“what delicacy!” thought the princess. “is it possible that +amélie” (mademoiselle bourienne) “thinks i could be jealous of her, +and not value her pure affection and devotion to me?” she went up +to her and kissed her warmly. anatole went up to kiss the little +princess’ hand. + +“no! no! no! when your father writes to tell me that you are behaving +well i will give you my hand to kiss. not till then!” she said. and +smilingly raising a finger at him, she left the room. + + + + + +chapter v + +they all separated, but, except anatole who fell asleep as soon as he +got into bed, all kept awake a long time that night. + +“is he really to be my husband, this stranger who is so kind—yes, +kind, that is the chief thing,” thought princess mary; and fear, which +she had seldom experienced, came upon her. she feared to look round, it +seemed to her that someone was there standing behind the screen in the +dark corner. and this someone was he—the devil—and he was also this +man with the white forehead, black eyebrows, and red lips. + +she rang for her maid and asked her to sleep in her room. + +mademoiselle bourienne walked up and down the conservatory for a long +time that evening, vainly expecting someone, now smiling at someone, now +working herself up to tears with the imaginary words of her pauvre mère +rebuking her for her fall. + +the little princess grumbled to her maid that her bed was badly made. +she could not lie either on her face or on her side. every position was +awkward and uncomfortable, and her burden oppressed her now more than +ever because anatole’s presence had vividly recalled to her the time +when she was not like that and when everything was light and gay. she +sat in an armchair in her dressing jacket and nightcap and katie, sleepy +and disheveled, beat and turned the heavy feather bed for the third +time, muttering to herself. + +“i told you it was all lumps and holes!” the little princess +repeated. “i should be glad enough to fall asleep, so it’s not my +fault!” and her voice quivered like that of a child about to cry. + +the old prince did not sleep either. tíkhon, half asleep, heard him +pacing angrily about and snorting. the old prince felt as though he +had been insulted through his daughter. the insult was the more pointed +because it concerned not himself but another, his daughter, whom he +loved more than himself. he kept telling himself that he would consider +the whole matter and decide what was right and how he should act, but +instead of that he only excited himself more and more. + +“the first man that turns up—she forgets her father and everything +else, runs upstairs and does up her hair and wags her tail and is unlike +herself! glad to throw her father over! and she knew i should notice +it. fr... fr... fr! and don’t i see that that idiot had eyes only for +bourienne—i shall have to get rid of her. and how is it she has not +pride enough to see it? if she has no pride for herself she might at +least have some for my sake! she must be shown that the blockhead thinks +nothing of her and looks only at bourienne. no, she has no pride... but +i’ll let her see....” + +the old prince knew that if he told his daughter she was making a +mistake and that anatole meant to flirt with mademoiselle bourienne, +princess mary’s self-esteem would be wounded and his point (not to +be parted from her) would be gained, so pacifying himself with this +thought, he called tíkhon and began to undress. + +“what devil brought them here?” thought he, while tíkhon was +putting the nightshirt over his dried-up old body and gray-haired chest. +“i never invited them. they came to disturb my life—and there is not +much of it left.” + +“devil take ‘em!” he muttered, while his head was still covered by +the shirt. + +tíkhon knew his master’s habit of sometimes thinking aloud, and +therefore met with unaltered looks the angrily inquisitive expression of +the face that emerged from the shirt. + +“gone to bed?” asked the prince. + +tíkhon, like all good valets, instinctively knew the direction of his +master’s thoughts. he guessed that the question referred to prince +vasíli and his son. + +“they have gone to bed and put out their lights, your excellency.” + +“no good... no good...” said the prince rapidly, and thrusting his +feet into his slippers and his arms into the sleeves of his dressing +gown, he went to the couch on which he slept. + +though no words had passed between anatole and mademoiselle bourienne, +they quite understood one another as to the first part of their romance, +up to the appearance of the pauvre mère; they understood that they had +much to say to one another in private and so they had been seeking an +opportunity since morning to meet one another alone. when princess mary +went to her father’s room at the usual hour, mademoiselle bourienne +and anatole met in the conservatory. + +princess mary went to the door of the study with special trepidation. +it seemed to her that not only did everybody know that her fate would be +decided that day, but that they also knew what she thought about it. she +read this in tíkhon’s face and in that of prince vasíli’s valet, +who made her a low bow when she met him in the corridor carrying hot +water. + +the old prince was very affectionate and careful in his treatment of +his daughter that morning. princess mary well knew this painstaking +expression of her father’s. his face wore that expression when his +dry hands clenched with vexation at her not understanding a sum in +arithmetic, when rising from his chair he would walk away from her, +repeating in a low voice the same words several times over. + +he came to the point at once, treating her ceremoniously. + +“i have had a proposition made me concerning you,” he said with an +unnatural smile. “i expect you have guessed that prince vasíli has +not come and brought his pupil with him” (for some reason prince +bolkónski referred to anatole as a “pupil”) “for the sake of my +beautiful eyes. last night a proposition was made me on your account +and, as you know my principles, i refer it to you.” + +“how am i to understand you, mon père?” said the princess, growing +pale and then blushing. + +“how understand me!” cried her father angrily. “prince vasíli +finds you to his taste as a daughter-in-law and makes a proposal to you +on his pupil’s behalf. that’s how it’s to be understood! ‘how +understand it’!... and i ask you!” + +“i do not know what you think, father,” whispered the princess. + +“i? i? what of me? leave me out of the question. i’m not going to +get married. what about you? that’s what i want to know.” + +the princess saw that her father regarded the matter with disapproval, +but at that moment the thought occurred to her that her fate would be +decided now or never. she lowered her eyes so as not to see the gaze +under which she felt that she could not think, but would only be able to +submit from habit, and she said: “i wish only to do your will, but if +i had to express my own desire...” she had no time to finish. the old +prince interrupted her. + +“that’s admirable!” he shouted. “he will take you with your +dowry and take mademoiselle bourienne into the bargain. she’ll be the +wife, while you...” + +the prince stopped. he saw the effect these words had produced on his +daughter. she lowered her head and was ready to burst into tears. + +“now then, now then, i’m only joking!” he said. “remember this, +princess, i hold to the principle that a maiden has a full right to +choose. i give you freedom. only remember that your life’s happiness +depends on your decision. never mind me!” + +“but i do not know, father!” + +“there’s no need to talk! he receives his orders and will marry you +or anybody; but you are free to choose.... go to your room, think it +over, and come back in an hour and tell me in his presence: yes or no. +i know you will pray over it. well, pray if you like, but you had better +think it over. go! yes or no, yes or no, yes or no!” he still shouted +when the princess, as if lost in a fog, had already staggered out of the +study. + +her fate was decided and happily decided. but what her father had said +about mademoiselle bourienne was dreadful. it was untrue to be sure, but +still it was terrible, and she could not help thinking of it. she was +going straight on through the conservatory, neither seeing nor hearing +anything, when suddenly the well-known whispering of mademoiselle +bourienne aroused her. she raised her eyes, and two steps away saw +anatole embracing the frenchwoman and whispering something to her. with +a horrified expression on his handsome face, anatole looked at princess +mary, but did not at once take his arm from the waist of mademoiselle +bourienne who had not yet seen her. + +“who’s that? why? wait a moment!” anatole’s face seemed to say. +princess mary looked at them in silence. she could not understand it. at +last mademoiselle bourienne gave a scream and ran away. anatole bowed to +princess mary with a gay smile, as if inviting her to join in a laugh at +this strange incident, and then shrugging his shoulders went to the door +that led to his own apartments. + +an hour later, tíkhon came to call princess mary to the old prince; +he added that prince vasíli was also there. when tíkhon came to her +princess mary was sitting on the sofa in her room, holding the weeping +mademoiselle bourienne in her arms and gently stroking her hair. the +princess’ beautiful eyes with all their former calm radiance were +looking with tender affection and pity at mademoiselle bourienne’s +pretty face. + +“no, princess, i have lost your affection forever!” said +mademoiselle bourienne. + +“why? i love you more than ever,” said princess mary, “and i will +try to do all i can for your happiness.” + +“but you despise me. you who are so pure can never understand being so +carried away by passion. oh, only my poor mother...” + +“i quite understand,” answered princess mary, with a sad smile. +“calm yourself, my dear. i will go to my father,” she said, and went +out. + +prince vasíli, with one leg thrown high over the other and a snuffbox +in his hand, was sitting there with a smile of deep emotion on his face, +as if stirred to his heart’s core and himself regretting and laughing +at his own sensibility, when princess mary entered. he hurriedly took a +pinch of snuff. + +“ah, my dear, my dear!” he began, rising and taking her by both +hands. then, sighing, he added: “my son’s fate is in your hands. +decide, my dear, good, gentle marie, whom i have always loved as a +daughter!” + +he drew back and a real tear appeared in his eye. + +“fr... fr...” snorted prince bolkónski. “the prince is making a +proposition to you in his pupil’s—i mean, his son’s—name. do you +wish or not to be prince anatole kurágin’s wife? reply: yes or no,” +he shouted, “and then i shall reserve the right to state my opinion +also. yes, my opinion, and only my opinion,” added prince bolkónski, +turning to prince vasíli and answering his imploring look. “yes, or +no?” + +“my desire is never to leave you, father, never to separate my +life from yours. i don’t wish to marry,” she answered positively, +glancing at prince vasíli and at her father with her beautiful eyes. + +“humbug! nonsense! humbug, humbug, humbug!” cried prince bolkónski, +frowning and taking his daughter’s hand; he did not kiss her, but only +bending his forehead to hers just touched it, and pressed her hand so +that she winced and uttered a cry. + +prince vasíli rose. + +“my dear, i must tell you that this is a moment i shall never, never +forget. but, my dear, will you not give us a little hope of touching +this heart, so kind and generous? say ‘perhaps’... the future is so +long. say ‘perhaps.’” + +“prince, what i have said is all there is in my heart. i thank you for +the honor, but i shall never be your son’s wife.” + +“well, so that’s finished, my dear fellow! i am very glad to have +seen you. very glad! go back to your rooms, princess. go!” said +the old prince. “very, very glad to have seen you,” repeated he, +embracing prince vasíli. + +“my vocation is a different one,” thought princess mary. “my +vocation is to be happy with another kind of happiness, the happiness +of love and self-sacrifice. and cost what it may, i will arrange +poor amélie’s happiness, she loves him so passionately, and so +passionately repents. i will do all i can to arrange the match between +them. if he is not rich i will give her the means; i will ask my +father and andrew. i shall be so happy when she is his wife. she is so +unfortunate, a stranger, alone, helpless! and, oh god, how passionately +she must love him if she could so far forget herself! perhaps i might +have done the same!...” thought princess mary. + + + + + +chapter vi + +it was long since the rostóvs had news of nicholas. not till midwinter +was the count at last handed a letter addressed in his son’s +handwriting. on receiving it, he ran on tiptoe to his study in alarm and +haste, trying to escape notice, closed the door, and began to read the +letter. + +anna mikháylovna, who always knew everything that passed in the house, +on hearing of the arrival of the letter went softly into the room and +found the count with it in his hand, sobbing and laughing at the same +time. + +anna mikháylovna, though her circumstances had improved, was still +living with the rostóvs. + +“my dear friend?” said she, in a tone of pathetic inquiry, prepared +to sympathize in any way. + +the count sobbed yet more. + +“nikólenka... a letter... wa... a... s... wounded... my darling +boy... the countess... promoted to be an officer... thank god... how +tell the little countess!” + +anna mikháylovna sat down beside him, with her own handkerchief wiped +the tears from his eyes and from the letter, then having dried her +own eyes she comforted the count, and decided that at dinner and till +teatime she would prepare the countess, and after tea, with god’s +help, would inform her. + +at dinner anna mikháylovna talked the whole time about the war news +and about nikólenka, twice asked when the last letter had been received +from him, though she knew that already, and remarked that they might +very likely be getting a letter from him that day. each time that these +hints began to make the countess anxious and she glanced uneasily at +the count and at anna mikháylovna, the latter very adroitly turned +the conversation to insignificant matters. natásha, who, of the whole +family, was the most gifted with a capacity to feel any shades of +intonation, look, and expression, pricked up her ears from the beginning +of the meal and was certain that there was some secret between her +father and anna mikháylovna, that it had something to do with her +brother, and that anna mikháylovna was preparing them for it. bold as +she was, natásha, who knew how sensitive her mother was to anything +relating to nikólenka, did not venture to ask any questions at dinner, +but she was too excited to eat anything and kept wriggling about on her +chair regardless of her governess’ remarks. after dinner, she rushed +headlong after anna mikháylovna and, dashing at her, flung herself on +her neck as soon as she overtook her in the sitting room. + +“auntie, darling, do tell me what it is!” + +“nothing, my dear.” + +“no, dearest, sweet one, honey, i won’t give up—i know you know +something.” + +anna mikháylovna shook her head. + +“you are a little slyboots,” she said. + +“a letter from nikólenka! i’m sure of it!” exclaimed natásha, +reading confirmation in anna mikháylovna’s face. + +“but for god’s sake, be careful, you know how it may affect your +mamma.” + +“i will, i will, only tell me! you won’t? then i will go and tell at +once.” + +anna mikháylovna, in a few words, told her the contents of the letter, +on condition that she should tell no one. + +“no, on my true word of honor,” said natásha, crossing herself, +“i won’t tell anyone!” and she ran off at once to sónya. + +“nikólenka... wounded... a letter,” she announced in gleeful +triumph. + +“nicholas!” was all sónya said, instantly turning white. + +natásha, seeing the impression the news of her brother’s wound +produced on sónya, felt for the first time the sorrowful side of the +news. + +she rushed to sónya, hugged her, and began to cry. + +“a little wound, but he has been made an officer; he is well now, he +wrote himself,” said she through her tears. + +“there now! it’s true that all you women are crybabies,” remarked +pétya, pacing the room with large, resolute strides. “now i’m very +glad, very glad indeed, that my brother has distinguished himself so. +you are all blubberers and understand nothing.” + +natásha smiled through her tears. + +“you haven’t read the letter?” asked sónya. + +“no, but she said that it was all over and that he’s now an +officer.” + +“thank god!” said sónya, crossing herself. “but perhaps she +deceived you. let us go to mamma.” + +pétya paced the room in silence for a time. + +“if i’d been in nikólenka’s place i would have killed even more +of those frenchmen,” he said. “what nasty brutes they are! i’d +have killed so many that there’d have been a heap of them.” + +“hold your tongue, pétya, what a goose you are!” + +“i’m not a goose, but they are who cry about trifles,” said +pétya. + +“do you remember him?” natásha suddenly asked, after a moment’s +silence. + +sónya smiled. + +“do i remember nicholas?” + +“no, sónya, but do you remember so that you remember him perfectly, +remember everything?” said natásha, with an expressive gesture, +evidently wishing to give her words a very definite meaning. “i +remember nikólenka too, i remember him well,” she said. “but i +don’t remember borís. i don’t remember him a bit.” + +“what! you don’t remember borís?” asked sónya in surprise. + +“it’s not that i don’t remember—i know what he is like, but not +as i remember nikólenka. him—i just shut my eyes and remember, +but borís... no!” (she shut her eyes.) “no! there’s nothing at +all.” + +“oh, natásha!” said sónya, looking ecstatically and earnestly at +her friend as if she did not consider her worthy to hear what she meant +to say and as if she were saying it to someone else, with whom joking +was out of the question, “i am in love with your brother once for all +and, whatever may happen to him or to me, shall never cease to love him +as long as i live.” + +natásha looked at sónya with wondering and inquisitive eyes, and said +nothing. she felt that sónya was speaking the truth, that there was +such love as sónya was speaking of. but natásha had not yet felt +anything like it. she believed it could be, but did not understand it. + +“shall you write to him?” she asked. + +sónya became thoughtful. the question of how to write to nicholas, and +whether she ought to write, tormented her. now that he was already an +officer and a wounded hero, would it be right to remind him of herself +and, as it might seem, of the obligations to her he had taken on +himself? + +“i don’t know. i think if he writes, i will write too,” she said, +blushing. + +“and you won’t feel ashamed to write to him?” + +sónya smiled. + +“no.” + +“and i should be ashamed to write to borís. i’m not going to.” + +“why should you be ashamed?” + +“well, i don’t know. it’s awkward and would make me ashamed.” + +“and i know why she’d be ashamed,” said pétya, offended by +natásha’s previous remark. “it’s because she was in love with +that fat one in spectacles” (that was how pétya described his +namesake, the new count bezúkhov) “and now she’s in love with that +singer” (he meant natásha’s italian singing master), “that’s +why she’s ashamed!” + +“pétya, you’re a stupid!” said natásha. + +“not more stupid than you, madam,” said the nine-year-old pétya, +with the air of an old brigadier. + +the countess had been prepared by anna mikháylovna’s hints at dinner. +on retiring to her own room, she sat in an armchair, her eyes fixed on a +miniature portrait of her son on the lid of a snuffbox, while the tears +kept coming into her eyes. anna mikháylovna, with the letter, came on +tiptoe to the countess’ door and paused. + +“don’t come in,” she said to the old count who was following her. +“come later.” and she went in, closing the door behind her. + +the count put his ear to the keyhole and listened. + +at first he heard the sound of indifferent voices, then anna +mikháylovna’s voice alone in a long speech, then a cry, then silence, +then both voices together with glad intonations, and then footsteps. +anna mikháylovna opened the door. her face wore the proud expression +of a surgeon who has just performed a difficult operation and admits the +public to appreciate his skill. + +“it is done!” she said to the count, pointing triumphantly to the +countess, who sat holding in one hand the snuffbox with its portrait and +in the other the letter, and pressing them alternately to her lips. + +when she saw the count, she stretched out her arms to him, embraced his +bald head, over which she again looked at the letter and the portrait, +and in order to press them again to her lips, she slightly pushed away +the bald head. véra, natásha, sónya, and pétya now entered the room, +and the reading of the letter began. after a brief description of +the campaign and the two battles in which he had taken part, and his +promotion, nicholas said that he kissed his father’s and mother’s +hands asking for their blessing, and that he kissed véra, natásha, and +pétya. besides that, he sent greetings to monsieur schelling, madame +schoss, and his old nurse, and asked them to kiss for him “dear +sónya, whom he loved and thought of just the same as ever.” when she +heard this sónya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable +to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, +whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, +and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor. the countess was +crying. + +“why are you crying, mamma?” asked véra. “from all he says one +should be glad and not cry.” + +this was quite true, but the count, the countess, and natásha looked +at her reproachfully. “and who is it she takes after?” thought the +countess. + +nicholas’ letter was read over hundreds of times, and those who were +considered worthy to hear it had to come to the countess, for she +did not let it out of her hands. the tutors came, and the nurses, and +dmítri, and several acquaintances, and the countess reread the letter +each time with fresh pleasure and each time discovered in it fresh +proofs of nikólenka’s virtues. how strange, how extraordinary, how +joyful it seemed, that her son, the scarcely perceptible motion of whose +tiny limbs she had felt twenty years ago within her, that son about whom +she used to have quarrels with the too indulgent count, that son who +had first learned to say “pear” and then “granny,” that this son +should now be away in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, a manly +warrior doing some kind of man’s work of his own, without help or +guidance. the universal experience of ages, showing that children do +grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the +countess. her son’s growth toward manhood, at each of its stages, +had seemed as extraordinary to her as if there had never existed the +millions of human beings who grew up in the same way. as twenty +years before, it seemed impossible that the little creature who lived +somewhere under her heart would ever cry, suck her breast, and begin to +speak, so now she could not believe that that little creature could be +this strong, brave man, this model son and officer that, judging by this +letter, he now was. + +“what a style! how charmingly he describes!” said she, reading the +descriptive part of the letter. “and what a soul! not a word about +himself.... not a word! about some denísov or other, though he himself, +i dare say, is braver than any of them. he says nothing about his +sufferings. what a heart! how like him it is! and how he has remembered +everybody! not forgetting anyone. i always said when he was only so +high—i always said....” + +for more than a week preparations were being made, rough drafts of +letters to nicholas from all the household were written and copied out, +while under the supervision of the countess and the solicitude of the +count, money and all things necessary for the uniform and equipment +of the newly commissioned officer were collected. anna mikháylovna, +practical woman that she was, had even managed by favor with army +authorities to secure advantageous means of communication for herself +and her son. she had opportunities of sending her letters to the grand +duke constantine pávlovich, who commanded the guards. the rostóvs +supposed that the russian guards, abroad, was quite a definite address, +and that if a letter reached the grand duke in command of the guards +there was no reason why it should not reach the pávlograd regiment, +which was presumably somewhere in the same neighborhood. and so it was +decided to send the letters and money by the grand duke’s courier to +borís and borís was to forward them to nicholas. the letters were from +the old count, the countess, pétya, véra, natásha, and sónya, and +finally there were six thousand rubles for his outfit and various other +things the old count sent to his son. + + + + + +chapter vii + +on the twelfth of november, kutúzov’s active army, in camp before +olmütz, was preparing to be reviewed next day by the two emperors—the +russian and the austrian. the guards, just arrived from russia, spent +the night ten miles from olmütz and next morning were to come straight +to the review, reaching the field at olmütz by ten o’clock. + +that day nicholas rostóv received a letter from borís, telling him +that the ismáylov regiment was quartered for the night ten miles from +olmütz and that he wanted to see him as he had a letter and money for +him. rostóv was particularly in need of money now that the troops, +after their active service, were stationed near olmütz and the camp +swarmed with well-provisioned sutlers and austrian jews offering +all sorts of tempting wares. the pávlograds held feast after feast, +celebrating awards they had received for the campaign, and made +expeditions to olmütz to visit a certain caroline the hungarian, +who had recently opened a restaurant there with girls as waitresses. +rostóv, who had just celebrated his promotion to a cornetcy and bought +denísov’s horse, bedouin, was in debt all round, to his comrades and +the sutlers. on receiving borís’ letter he rode with a fellow officer +to olmütz, dined there, drank a bottle of wine, and then set off alone +to the guards’ camp to find his old playmate. rostóv had not yet had +time to get his uniform. he had on a shabby cadet jacket, decorated with +a soldier’s cross, equally shabby cadet’s riding breeches lined with +worn leather, and an officer’s saber with a sword knot. the don horse +he was riding was one he had bought from a cossack during the campaign, +and he wore a crumpled hussar cap stuck jauntily back on one side of his +head. as he rode up to the camp he thought how he would impress borís +and all his comrades of the guards by his appearance—that of a +fighting hussar who had been under fire. + +the guards had made their whole march as if on a pleasure trip, parading +their cleanliness and discipline. they had come by easy stages, their +knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the austrian authorities had provided +excellent dinners for the officers at every halting place. the regiments +had entered and left the town with their bands playing, and by the grand +duke’s orders the men had marched all the way in step (a practice on +which the guards prided themselves), the officers on foot and at their +proper posts. borís had been quartered, and had marched all the +way, with berg who was already in command of a company. berg, who had +obtained his captaincy during the campaign, had gained the confidence of +his superiors by his promptitude and accuracy and had arranged his money +matters very satisfactorily. borís, during the campaign, had made the +acquaintance of many persons who might prove useful to him, and by +a letter of recommendation he had brought from pierre had become +acquainted with prince andrew bolkónski, through whom he hoped to +obtain a post on the commander in chief’s staff. berg and borís, +having rested after yesterday’s march, were sitting, clean and neatly +dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, +playing chess. berg held a smoking pipe between his knees. borís, in +the accurate way characteristic of him, was building a little pyramid of +chessmen with his delicate white fingers while awaiting berg’s move, +and watched his opponent’s face, evidently thinking about the game as +he always thought only of whatever he was engaged on. + +“well, how are you going to get out of that?” he remarked. + +“we’ll try to,” replied berg, touching a pawn and then removing +his hand. + +at that moment the door opened. + +“here he is at last!” shouted rostóv. “and berg too! oh, you +petisenfans, allay cushay dormir!” he exclaimed, imitating his russian +nurse’s french, at which he and borís used to laugh long ago. + +“dear me, how you have changed!” + +borís rose to meet rostóv, but in doing so did not omit to steady and +replace some chessmen that were falling. he was about to embrace his +friend, but nicholas avoided him. with that peculiar feeling of youth, +that dread of beaten tracks, and wish to express itself in a manner +different from that of its elders which is often insincere, nicholas +wished to do something special on meeting his friend. he wanted to pinch +him, push him, do anything but kiss him—a thing everybody did. but +notwithstanding this, borís embraced him in a quiet, friendly way and +kissed him three times. + +they had not met for nearly half a year and, being at the age when young +men take their first steps on life’s road, each saw immense changes in +the other, quite a new reflection of the society in which they had taken +those first steps. both had changed greatly since they last met and both +were in a hurry to show the changes that had taken place in them. + +“oh, you damned dandies! clean and fresh as if you’d been to a fete, +not like us sinners of the line,” cried rostóv, with martial swagger +and with baritone notes in his voice, new to borís, pointing to his own +mud-bespattered breeches. the german landlady, hearing rostóv’s loud +voice, popped her head in at the door. + +“eh, is she pretty?” he asked with a wink. + +“why do you shout so? you’ll frighten them!” said borís. “i did +not expect you today,” he added. “i only sent you the note yesterday +by bolkónski—an adjutant of kutúzov’s, who’s a friend of mine. +i did not think he would get it to you so quickly.... well, how are you? +been under fire already?” asked borís. + +without answering, rostóv shook the soldier’s cross of st. george +fastened to the cording of his uniform and, indicating a bandaged arm, +glanced at berg with a smile. + +“as you see,” he said. + +“indeed? yes, yes!” said borís, with a smile. “and we too have +had a splendid march. you know, of course, that his imperial highness +rode with our regiment all the time, so that we had every comfort and +every advantage. what receptions we had in poland! what dinners and +balls! i can’t tell you. and the tsarévich was very gracious to all +our officers.” + +and the two friends told each other of their doings, the one of his +hussar revels and life in the fighting line, the other of the pleasures +and advantages of service under members of the imperial family. + +“oh, you guards!” said rostóv. “i say, send for some wine.” + +borís made a grimace. + +“if you really want it,” said he. + +he went to his bed, drew a purse from under the clean pillow, and sent +for wine. + +“yes, and i have some money and a letter to give you,” he added. + +rostóv took the letter and, throwing the money on the sofa, put both +arms on the table and began to read. after reading a few lines, he +glanced angrily at berg, then, meeting his eyes, hid his face behind the +letter. + +“well, they’ve sent you a tidy sum,” said berg, eying the heavy +purse that sank into the sofa. “as for us, count, we get along on our +pay. i can tell you for myself...” + +“i say, berg, my dear fellow,” said rostóv, “when you get a +letter from home and meet one of your own people whom you want to talk +everything over with, and i happen to be there, i’ll go at once, to +be out of your way! do go somewhere, anywhere... to the devil!” he +exclaimed, and immediately seizing him by the shoulder and looking +amiably into his face, evidently wishing to soften the rudeness of his +words, he added, “don’t be hurt, my dear fellow; you know i speak +from my heart as to an old acquaintance.” + +“oh, don’t mention it, count! i quite understand,” said berg, +getting up and speaking in a muffled and guttural voice. + +“go across to our hosts: they invited you,” added borís. + +berg put on the cleanest of coats, without a spot or speck of dust, +stood before a looking glass and brushed the hair on his temples +upwards, in the way affected by the emperor alexander, and, having +assured himself from the way rostóv looked at it that his coat had been +noticed, left the room with a pleasant smile. + +“oh dear, what a beast i am!” muttered rostóv, as he read the +letter. + +“why?” + +“oh, what a pig i am, not to have written and to have given them +such a fright! oh, what a pig i am!” he repeated, flushing suddenly. +“well, have you sent gabriel for some wine? all right let’s have +some!” + +in the letter from his parents was enclosed a letter of recommendation +to bagratión which the old countess at anna mikháylovna’s advice had +obtained through an acquaintance and sent to her son, asking him to take +it to its destination and make use of it. + +“what nonsense! much i need it!” said rostóv, throwing the letter +under the table. + +“why have you thrown that away?” asked borís. + +“it is some letter of recommendation... what the devil do i want it +for!” + +“why ‘what the devil’?” said borís, picking it up and reading +the address. “this letter would be of great use to you.” + +“i want nothing, and i won’t be anyone’s adjutant.” + +“why not?” inquired borís. + +“it’s a lackey’s job!” + +“you are still the same dreamer, i see,” remarked borís, shaking +his head. + +“and you’re still the same diplomatist! but that’s not the +point... come, how are you?” asked rostóv. + +“well, as you see. so far everything’s all right, but i confess i +should much like to be an adjutant and not remain at the front.” + +“why?” + +“because when once a man starts on military service, he should try to +make as successful a career of it as possible.” + +“oh, that’s it!” said rostóv, evidently thinking of something +else. + +he looked intently and inquiringly into his friend’s eyes, evidently +trying in vain to find the answer to some question. + +old gabriel brought in the wine. + +“shouldn’t we now send for berg?” asked borís. “he would drink +with you. i can’t.” + +“well, send for him... and how do you get on with that german?” +asked rostóv, with a contemptuous smile. + +“he is a very, very nice, honest, and pleasant fellow,” answered +borís. + +again rostóv looked intently into borís’ eyes and sighed. berg +returned, and over the bottle of wine conversation between the three +officers became animated. the guardsmen told rostóv of their march and +how they had been made much of in russia, poland, and abroad. they spoke +of the sayings and doings of their commander, the grand duke, and told +stories of his kindness and irascibility. berg, as usual, kept silent +when the subject did not relate to himself, but in connection with the +stories of the grand duke’s quick temper he related with gusto how in +galicia he had managed to deal with the grand duke when the latter +made a tour of the regiments and was annoyed at the irregularity of +a movement. with a pleasant smile berg related how the grand duke +had ridden up to him in a violent passion, shouting: “arnauts!” +(“arnauts” was the tsarévich’s favorite expression when he was in +a rage) and called for the company commander. + +“would you believe it, count, i was not at all alarmed, because i knew +i was right. without boasting, you know, i may say that i know the army +orders by heart and know the regulations as well as i do the lord’s +prayer. so, count, there never is any negligence in my company, and +so my conscience was at ease. i came forward....” (berg stood up and +showed how he presented himself, with his hand to his cap, and really +it would have been difficult for a face to express greater respect and +self-complacency than his did.) “well, he stormed at me, as the saying +is, stormed and stormed and stormed! it was not a matter of life but +rather of death, as the saying is. ‘albanians!’ and ‘devils!’ +and ‘to siberia!’” said berg with a sagacious smile. “i knew i +was in the right so i kept silent; was not that best, count?... ‘hey, +are you dumb?’ he shouted. still i remained silent. and what do you +think, count? the next day it was not even mentioned in the orders of +the day. that’s what keeping one’s head means. that’s the way, +count,” said berg, lighting his pipe and emitting rings of smoke. + +“yes, that was fine,” said rostóv, smiling. + +but borís noticed that he was preparing to make fun of berg, and +skillfully changed the subject. he asked him to tell them how and where +he got his wound. this pleased rostóv and he began talking about it, +and as he went on became more and more animated. he told them of his +schön grabern affair, just as those who have taken part in a battle +generally do describe it, that is, as they would like it to have been, +as they have heard it described by others, and as sounds well, but not +at all as it really was. rostóv was a truthful young man and would on +no account have told a deliberate lie. he began his story meaning to +tell everything just as it happened, but imperceptibly, involuntarily, +and inevitably he lapsed into falsehood. if he had told the truth to his +hearers—who like himself had often heard stories of attacks and had +formed a definite idea of what an attack was and were expecting to hear +just such a story—they would either not have believed him or, still +worse, would have thought that rostóv was himself to blame since what +generally happens to the narrators of cavalry attacks had not happened +to him. he could not tell them simply that everyone went at a trot and +that he fell off his horse and sprained his arm and then ran as hard as +he could from a frenchman into the wood. besides, to tell everything as +it really happened, it would have been necessary to make an effort of +will to tell only what happened. it is very difficult to tell the truth, +and young people are rarely capable of it. his hearers expected a story +of how beside himself and all aflame with excitement, he had flown like +a storm at the square, cut his way in, slashed right and left, how his +saber had tasted flesh and he had fallen exhausted, and so on. and so he +told them all that. + +in the middle of his story, just as he was saying: “you cannot imagine +what a strange frenzy one experiences during an attack,” prince +andrew, whom borís was expecting, entered the room. prince andrew, who +liked to help young men, was flattered by being asked for his assistance +and being well disposed toward borís, who had managed to please him the +day before, he wished to do what the young man wanted. having been sent +with papers from kutúzov to the tsarévich, he looked in on borís, +hoping to find him alone. when he came in and saw an hussar of the line +recounting his military exploits (prince andrew could not endure +that sort of man), he gave borís a pleasant smile, frowned as with +half-closed eyes he looked at rostóv, bowed slightly and wearily, and +sat down languidly on the sofa: he felt it unpleasant to have dropped +in on bad company. rostóv flushed up on noticing this, but he did not +care, this was a mere stranger. glancing, however, at borís, he saw +that he too seemed ashamed of the hussar of the line. + +in spite of prince andrew’s disagreeable, ironical tone, in spite of +the contempt with which rostóv, from his fighting army point of view, +regarded all these little adjutants on the staff of whom the newcomer +was evidently one, rostóv felt confused, blushed, and became silent. +borís inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without +indiscretion, one might ask about our plans. + +“we shall probably advance,” replied bolkónski, evidently reluctant +to say more in the presence of a stranger. + +berg took the opportunity to ask, with great politeness, whether, as was +rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be +doubled. to this prince andrew answered with a smile that he could +give no opinion on such an important government order, and berg laughed +gaily. + +“as to your business,” prince andrew continued, addressing borís, +“we will talk of it later” (and he looked round at rostóv). “come +to me after the review and we will do what is possible.” + +and, having glanced round the room, prince andrew turned to rostóv, +whose state of unconquerable childish embarrassment now changing to +anger he did not condescend to notice, and said: “i think you were +talking of the schön grabern affair? were you there?” + +“i was there,” said rostóv angrily, as if intending to insult the +aide-de-camp. + +bolkónski noticed the hussar’s state of mind, and it amused him. with +a slightly contemptuous smile, he said: “yes, there are many stories +now told about that affair!” + +“yes, stories!” repeated rostóv loudly, looking with eyes suddenly +grown furious, now at borís, now at bolkónski. “yes, many stories! +but our stories are the stories of men who have been under the enemy’s +fire! our stories have some weight, not like the stories of those +fellows on the staff who get rewards without doing anything!” + +“of whom you imagine me to be one?” said prince andrew, with a quiet +and particularly amiable smile. + +a strange feeling of exasperation and yet of respect for this man’s +self-possession mingled at that moment in rostóv’s soul. + +“i am not talking about you,” he said, “i don’t know you and, +frankly, i don’t want to. i am speaking of the staff in general.” + +“and i will tell you this,” prince andrew interrupted in a tone of +quiet authority, “you wish to insult me, and i am ready to agree with +you that it would be very easy to do so if you haven’t sufficient +self-respect, but admit that the time and place are very badly chosen. +in a day or two we shall all have to take part in a greater and more +serious duel, and besides, drubetskóy, who says he is an old friend +of yours, is not at all to blame that my face has the misfortune to +displease you. however,” he added rising, “you know my name and +where to find me, but don’t forget that i do not regard either myself +or you as having been at all insulted, and as a man older than you, my +advice is to let the matter drop. well then, on friday after the review +i shall expect you, drubetskóy. au revoir!” exclaimed prince andrew, +and with a bow to them both he went out. + +only when prince andrew was gone did rostóv think of what he ought to +have said. and he was still more angry at having omitted to say it. he +ordered his horse at once and, coldly taking leave of borís, rode +home. should he go to headquarters next day and challenge that affected +adjutant, or really let the matter drop, was the question that worried +him all the way. he thought angrily of the pleasure he would have at +seeing the fright of that small and frail but proud man when covered by +his pistol, and then he felt with surprise that of all the men he knew +there was none he would so much like to have for a friend as that very +adjutant whom he so hated. + + + + + +chapter viii + +the day after rostóv had been to see borís, a review was held of the +austrian and russian troops, both those freshly arrived from russia and +those who had been campaigning under kutúzov. the two emperors, +the russian with his heir the tsarévich, and the austrian with the +archduke, inspected the allied army of eighty thousand men. + +from early morning the smart clean troops were on the move, forming up +on the field before the fortress. now thousands of feet and bayonets +moved and halted at the officers’ command, turned with banners flying, +formed up at intervals, and wheeled round other similar masses of +infantry in different uniforms; now was heard the rhythmic beat of +hoofs and the jingling of showy cavalry in blue, red, and green braided +uniforms, with smartly dressed bandsmen in front mounted on black, roan, +or gray horses; then again, spreading out with the brazen clatter of the +polished shining cannon that quivered on the gun carriages and with +the smell of linstocks, came the artillery which crawled between the +infantry and cavalry and took up its appointed position. not only the +generals in full parade uniforms, with their thin or thick waists drawn +in to the utmost, their red necks squeezed into their stiff collars, and +wearing scarves and all their decorations, not only the elegant, pomaded +officers, but every soldier with his freshly washed and shaven face and +his weapons clean and polished to the utmost, and every horse groomed +till its coat shone like satin and every hair of its wetted mane lay +smooth—felt that no small matter was happening, but an important and +solemn affair. every general and every soldier was conscious of his own +insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and +yet at the same time was conscious of his strength as a part of that +enormous whole. + +from early morning strenuous activities and efforts had begun and by ten +o’clock all had been brought into due order. the ranks were drawn +up on the vast field. the whole army was extended in three lines: the +cavalry in front, behind it the artillery, and behind that again the +infantry. + +a space like a street was left between each two lines of troops. the +three parts of that army were sharply distinguished: kutúzov’s +fighting army (with the pávlograds on the right flank of the front); +those recently arrived from russia, both guards and regiments of the +line; and the austrian troops. but they all stood in the same lines, +under one command, and in a like order. + +like wind over leaves ran an excited whisper: “they’re coming! +they’re coming!” alarmed voices were heard, and a stir of final +preparation swept over all the troops. + +from the direction of olmütz in front of them, a group was seen +approaching. and at that moment, though the day was still, a light gust +of wind blowing over the army slightly stirred the streamers on the +lances and the unfolded standards fluttered against their staffs. it +looked as if by that slight motion the army itself was expressing its +joy at the approach of the emperors. one voice was heard shouting: +“eyes front!” then, like the crowing of cocks at sunrise, this was +repeated by others from various sides and all became silent. + +in the deathlike stillness only the tramp of horses was heard. this +was the emperors’ suites. the emperors rode up to the flank, and the +trumpets of the first cavalry regiment played the general march. it +seemed as though not the trumpeters were playing, but as if the army +itself, rejoicing at the emperors’ approach, had naturally burst into +music. amid these sounds, only the youthful kindly voice of the emperor +alexander was clearly heard. he gave the words of greeting, and the +first regiment roared “hurrah!” so deafeningly, continuously, and +joyfully that the men themselves were awed by their multitude and the +immensity of the power they constituted. + +rostóv, standing in the front lines of kutúzov’s army which the tsar +approached first, experienced the same feeling as every other man in +that army: a feeling of self-forgetfulness, a proud consciousness of +might, and a passionate attraction to him who was the cause of this +triumph. + +he felt that at a single word from that man all this vast mass (and he +himself an insignificant atom in it) would go through fire and water, +commit crime, die, or perform deeds of highest heroism, and so he could +not but tremble and his heart stand still at the imminence of that word. + +“hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!” thundered from all sides, one regiment +after another greeting the tsar with the strains of the march, and then +“hurrah!”... then the general march, and again “hurrah! hurrah!” +growing ever stronger and fuller and merging into a deafening roar. + +till the tsar reached it, each regiment in its silence and immobility +seemed like a lifeless body, but as soon as he came up it became alive, +its thunder joining the roar of the whole line along which he had +already passed. through the terrible and deafening roar of those voices, +amid the square masses of troops standing motionless as if turned to +stone, hundreds of riders composing the suites moved carelessly but +symmetrically and above all freely, and in front of them two men—the +emperors. upon them the undivided, tensely passionate attention of that +whole mass of men was concentrated. + +the handsome young emperor alexander, in the uniform of the horse +guards, wearing a cocked hat with its peaks front and back, with his +pleasant face and resonant though not loud voice, attracted everyone’s +attention. + +rostóv was not far from the trumpeters, and with his keen sight had +recognized the tsar and watched his approach. when he was within twenty +paces, and nicholas could clearly distinguish every detail of his +handsome, happy young face, he experienced a feeling of tenderness +and ecstasy such as he had never before known. every trait and every +movement of the tsar’s seemed to him enchanting. + +stopping in front of the pávlograds, the tsar said something in french +to the austrian emperor and smiled. + +seeing that smile, rostóv involuntarily smiled himself and felt a still +stronger flow of love for his sovereign. he longed to show that love in +some way and knowing that this was impossible was ready to cry. the tsar +called the colonel of the regiment and said a few words to him. + +“oh god, what would happen to me if the emperor spoke to me?” +thought rostóv. “i should die of happiness!” + +the tsar addressed the officers also: “i thank you all, gentlemen, i +thank you with my whole heart.” to rostóv every word sounded like a +voice from heaven. how gladly would he have died at once for his tsar! + +“you have earned the st. george’s standards and will be worthy of +them.” + +“oh, to die, to die for him,” thought rostóv. + +the tsar said something more which rostóv did not hear, and the +soldiers, straining their lungs, shouted “hurrah!” + +rostóv too, bending over his saddle, shouted “hurrah!” with all his +might, feeling that he would like to injure himself by that shout, if +only to express his rapture fully. + +the tsar stopped a few minutes in front of the hussars as if undecided. + +“how can the emperor be undecided?” thought rostóv, but then even +this indecision appeared to him majestic and enchanting, like everything +else the tsar did. + +that hesitation lasted only an instant. the tsar’s foot, in the narrow +pointed boot then fashionable, touched the groin of the bobtailed bay +mare he rode, his hand in a white glove gathered up the reins, and he +moved off accompanied by an irregularly swaying sea of aides-de-camp. +farther and farther he rode away, stopping at other regiments, till at +last only his white plumes were visible to rostóv from amid the suites +that surrounded the emperors. + +among the gentlemen of the suite, rostóv noticed bolkónski, sitting +his horse indolently and carelessly. rostóv recalled their quarrel of +yesterday and the question presented itself whether he ought or ought +not to challenge bolkónski. “of course not!” he now thought. “is +it worth thinking or speaking of it at such a moment? at a time of such +love, such rapture, and such self-sacrifice, what do any of our quarrels +and affronts matter? i love and forgive everybody now.” + +when the emperor had passed nearly all the regiments, the troops began +a ceremonial march past him, and rostóv on bedouin, recently purchased +from denísov, rode past too, at the rear of his squadron—that is, +alone and in full view of the emperor. + +before he reached him, rostóv, who was a splendid horseman, spurred +bedouin twice and successfully put him to the showy trot in which the +animal went when excited. bending his foaming muzzle to his chest, his +tail extended, bedouin, as if also conscious of the emperor’s eye +upon him, passed splendidly, lifting his feet with a high and graceful +action, as if flying through the air without touching the ground. + +rostóv himself, his legs well back and his stomach drawn in and feeling +himself one with his horse, rode past the emperor with a frowning but +blissful face “like a vewy devil,” as denísov expressed it. + +“fine fellows, the pávlograds!” remarked the emperor. + +“my god, how happy i should be if he ordered me to leap into the fire +this instant!” thought rostóv. + +when the review was over, the newly arrived officers, and also +kutúzov’s, collected in groups and began to talk about the awards, +about the austrians and their uniforms, about their lines, about +bonaparte, and how badly the latter would fare now, especially if the +essen corps arrived and prussia took our side. + +but the talk in every group was chiefly about the emperor alexander. his +every word and movement was described with ecstasy. + +they all had but one wish: to advance as soon as possible against the +enemy under the emperor’s command. commanded by the emperor himself +they could not fail to vanquish anyone, be it whom it might: so thought +rostóv and most of the officers after the review. + +all were then more confident of victory than the winning of two battles +would have made them. + + + + + +chapter ix + +the day after the review, borís, in his best uniform and with his +comrade berg’s best wishes for success, rode to olmütz to see +bolkónski, wishing to profit by his friendliness and obtain for himself +the best post he could—preferably that of adjutant to some important +personage, a position in the army which seemed to him most attractive. +“it is all very well for rostóv, whose father sends him ten thousand +rubles at a time, to talk about not wishing to cringe to anybody and not +be anyone’s lackey, but i who have nothing but my brains have to +make a career and must not miss opportunities, but must avail myself of +them!” he reflected. + +he did not find prince andrew in olmütz that day, but the appearance of +the town where the headquarters and the diplomatic corps were stationed +and the two emperors were living with their suites, households, and +courts only strengthened his desire to belong to that higher world. + +he knew no one, and despite his smart guardsman’s uniform, all these +exalted personages passing in the streets in their elegant carriages +with their plumes, ribbons, and medals, both courtiers and military +men, seemed so immeasurably above him, an insignificant officer of the +guards, that they not only did not wish to, but simply could not, be +aware of his existence. at the quarters of the commander in chief, +kutúzov, where he inquired for bolkónski, all the adjutants and even +the orderlies looked at him as if they wished to impress on him that a +great many officers like him were always coming there and that everybody +was heartily sick of them. in spite of this, or rather because of +it, next day, november 15, after dinner he again went to olmütz and, +entering the house occupied by kutúzov, asked for bolkónski. prince +andrew was in and borís was shown into a large hall probably formerly +used for dancing, but in which five beds now stood, and furniture of +various kinds: a table, chairs, and a clavichord. one adjutant, nearest +the door, was sitting at the table in a persian dressing gown, writing. +another, the red, stout nesvítski, lay on a bed with his arms under his +head, laughing with an officer who had sat down beside him. a third was +playing a viennese waltz on the clavichord, while a fourth, lying on +the clavichord, sang the tune. bolkónski was not there. none of these +gentlemen changed his position on seeing borís. the one who was writing +and whom borís addressed turned round crossly and told him bolkónski +was on duty and that he should go through the door on the left into the +reception room if he wished to see him. borís thanked him and went to +the reception room, where he found some ten officers and generals. + +when he entered, prince andrew, his eyes drooping contemptuously (with +that peculiar expression of polite weariness which plainly says, “if +it were not my duty i would not talk to you for a moment”), was +listening to an old russian general with decorations, who stood very +erect, almost on tiptoe, with a soldier’s obsequious expression on his +purple face, reporting something. + +“very well, then, be so good as to wait,” said prince andrew to the +general, in russian, speaking with the french intonation he affected +when he wished to speak contemptuously, and noticing borís, prince +andrew, paying no more heed to the general who ran after him imploring +him to hear something more, nodded and turned to him with a cheerful +smile. + +at that moment borís clearly realized what he had before surmised, that +in the army, besides the subordination and discipline prescribed in the +military code, which he and the others knew in the regiment, there was +another, more important, subordination, which made this tight-laced, +purple-faced general wait respectfully while captain prince andrew, for +his own pleasure, chose to chat with lieutenant drubetskóy. more than +ever was borís resolved to serve in future not according to the written +code, but under this unwritten law. he felt now that merely by having +been recommended to prince andrew he had already risen above the general +who at the front had the power to annihilate him, a lieutenant of the +guards. prince andrew came up to him and took his hand. + +“i am very sorry you did not find me in yesterday. i was fussing about +with germans all day. we went with weyrother to survey the dispositions. +when germans start being accurate, there’s no end to it!” + +borís smiled, as if he understood what prince andrew was alluding to +as something generally known. but it was the first time he had heard +weyrother’s name, or even the term “dispositions.” + +“well, my dear fellow, so you still want to be an adjutant? i have +been thinking about you.” + +“yes, i was thinking”—for some reason borís could not help +blushing—“of asking the commander in chief. he has had a letter from +prince kurágin about me. i only wanted to ask because i fear the guards +won’t be in action,” he added as if in apology. + +“all right, all right. we’ll talk it over,” replied prince andrew. +“only let me report this gentleman’s business, and i shall be at +your disposal.” + +while prince andrew went to report about the purple-faced general, that +gentleman—evidently not sharing borís’ conception of the advantages +of the unwritten code of subordination—looked so fixedly at the +presumptuous lieutenant who had prevented his finishing what he had to +say to the adjutant that borís felt uncomfortable. he turned away and +waited impatiently for prince andrew’s return from the commander in +chief’s room. + +“you see, my dear fellow, i have been thinking about you,” +said prince andrew when they had gone into the large room where the +clavichord was. “it’s no use your going to the commander in chief. +he would say a lot of pleasant things, ask you to dinner” (“that +would not be bad as regards the unwritten code,” thought borís), +“but nothing more would come of it. there will soon be a battalion of +us aides-de-camp and adjutants! but this is what we’ll do: i have +a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, prince +dolgorúkov; and though you may not know it, the fact is that now +kutúzov with his staff and all of us count for nothing. everything is +now centered round the emperor. so we will go to dolgorúkov; i have to +go there anyhow and i have already spoken to him about you. we shall +see whether he cannot attach you to himself or find a place for you +somewhere nearer the sun.” + +prince andrew always became specially keen when he had to guide a young +man and help him to worldly success. under cover of obtaining help +of this kind for another, which from pride he would never accept for +himself, he kept in touch with the circle which confers success and +which attracted him. he very readily took up borís’ cause and went +with him to dolgorúkov. + +it was late in the evening when they entered the palace at olmütz +occupied by the emperors and their retinues. + +that same day a council of war had been held in which all the members of +the hofkriegsrath and both emperors took part. at that council, contrary +to the views of the old generals kutúzov and prince schwartzenberg, it +had been decided to advance immediately and give battle to bonaparte. +the council of war was just over when prince andrew accompanied +by borís arrived at the palace to find dolgorúkov. everyone at +headquarters was still under the spell of the day’s council, at which +the party of the young had triumphed. the voices of those who counseled +delay and advised waiting for something else before advancing had been +so completely silenced and their arguments confuted by such conclusive +evidence of the advantages of attacking that what had been discussed +at the council—the coming battle and the victory that would certainly +result from it—no longer seemed to be in the future but in the past. +all the advantages were on our side. our enormous forces, undoubtedly +superior to napoleon’s, were concentrated in one place, the troops +inspired by the emperors’ presence were eager for action. the +strategic position where the operations would take place was familiar in +all its details to the austrian general weyrother: a lucky accident had +ordained that the austrian army should maneuver the previous year on the +very fields where the french had now to be fought; the adjacent +locality was known and shown in every detail on the maps, and bonaparte, +evidently weakened, was undertaking nothing. + +dolgorúkov, one of the warmest advocates of an attack, had just +returned from the council, tired and exhausted but eager and proud +of the victory that had been gained. prince andrew introduced his +protégé, but prince dolgorúkov politely and firmly pressing his hand +said nothing to borís and, evidently unable to suppress the thoughts +which were uppermost in his mind at that moment, addressed prince andrew +in french. + +“ah, my dear fellow, what a battle we have gained! god grant that +the one that will result from it will be as victorious! however, dear +fellow,” he said abruptly and eagerly, “i must confess to having +been unjust to the austrians and especially to weyrother. what +exactitude, what minuteness, what knowledge of the locality, what +foresight for every eventuality, every possibility even to the smallest +detail! no, my dear fellow, no conditions better than our present ones +could have been devised. this combination of austrian precision with +russian valor—what more could be wished for?” + +“so the attack is definitely resolved on?” asked bolkónski. + +“and do you know, my dear fellow, it seems to me that bonaparte has +decidedly lost bearings, you know that a letter was received from him +today for the emperor.” dolgorúkov smiled significantly. + +“is that so? and what did he say?” inquired bolkónski. + +“what can he say? tra-di-ri-di-ra and so on... merely to gain time. +i tell you he is in our hands, that’s certain! but what was most +amusing,” he continued, with a sudden, good-natured laugh, “was that +we could not think how to address the reply! if not as ‘consul’ +and of course not as ‘emperor,’ it seemed to me it should be to +‘general bonaparte.’” + +“but between not recognizing him as emperor and calling him general +bonaparte, there is a difference,” remarked bolkónski. + +“that’s just it,” interrupted dolgorúkov quickly, laughing. +“you know bilíbin—he’s a very clever fellow. he suggested +addressing him as ‘usurper and enemy of mankind.’” + +dolgorúkov laughed merrily. + +“only that?” said bolkónski. + +“all the same, it was bilíbin who found a suitable form for the +address. he is a wise and clever fellow.” + +“what was it?” + +“to the head of the french government... au chef du gouvernement +français,” said dolgorúkov, with grave satisfaction. “good, +wasn’t it?” + +“yes, but he will dislike it extremely,” said bolkónski. + +“oh yes, very much! my brother knows him, he’s dined with him—the +present emperor—more than once in paris, and tells me he never met a +more cunning or subtle diplomatist—you know, a combination of french +adroitness and italian play-acting! do you know the tale about him and +count markóv? count markóv was the only man who knew how to handle +him. you know the story of the handkerchief? it is delightful!” + +and the talkative dolgorúkov, turning now to borís, now to prince +andrew, told how bonaparte wishing to test markóv, our ambassador, +purposely dropped a handkerchief in front of him and stood looking +at markóv, probably expecting markóv to pick it up for him, and how +markóv immediately dropped his own beside it and picked it up without +touching bonaparte’s. + +“delightful!” said bolkónski. “but i have come to you, prince, +as a petitioner on behalf of this young man. you see...” but +before prince andrew could finish, an aide-de-camp came in to summon +dolgorúkov to the emperor. + +“oh, what a nuisance,” said dolgorúkov, getting up hurriedly and +pressing the hands of prince andrew and borís. “you know i should +be very glad to do all in my power both for you and for this dear young +man.” again he pressed the hand of the latter with an expression of +good-natured, sincere, and animated levity. “but you see... another +time!” + +borís was excited by the thought of being so close to the higher powers +as he felt himself to be at that moment. he was conscious that here +he was in contact with the springs that set in motion the enormous +movements of the mass of which in his regiment he felt himself a tiny, +obedient, and insignificant atom. they followed prince dolgorúkov out +into the corridor and met—coming out of the door of the emperor’s +room by which dolgorúkov had entered—a short man in civilian clothes +with a clever face and sharply projecting jaw which, without spoiling +his face, gave him a peculiar vivacity and shiftiness of expression. +this short man nodded to dolgorúkov as to an intimate friend and stared +at prince andrew with cool intensity, walking straight toward him and +evidently expecting him to bow or to step out of his way. prince andrew +did neither: a look of animosity appeared on his face and the other +turned away and went down the side of the corridor. + +“who was that?” asked borís. + +“he is one of the most remarkable, but to me most unpleasant of +men—the minister of foreign affairs, prince adam czartorýski.... it +is such men as he who decide the fate of nations,” added bolkónski +with a sigh he could not suppress, as they passed out of the palace. + +next day, the army began its campaign, and up to the very battle of +austerlitz, borís was unable to see either prince andrew or dolgorúkov +again and remained for a while with the ismáylov regiment. + + + + + +chapter x + +at dawn on the sixteenth of november, denísov’s squadron, in +which nicholas rostóv served and which was in prince bagratión’s +detachment, moved from the place where it had spent the night, advancing +into action as arranged, and after going behind other columns for +about two thirds of a mile was stopped on the highroad. rostóv saw the +cossacks and then the first and second squadrons of hussars and infantry +battalions and artillery pass by and go forward and then generals +bagratión and dolgorúkov ride past with their adjutants. all the fear +before action which he had experienced as previously, all the inner +struggle to conquer that fear, all his dreams of distinguishing himself +as a true hussar in this battle, had been wasted. their squadron +remained in reserve and nicholas rostóv spent that day in a dull and +wretched mood. at nine in the morning, he heard firing in front and +shouts of hurrah, and saw wounded being brought back (there were not +many of them), and at last he saw how a whole detachment of french +cavalry was brought in, convoyed by a sótnya of cossacks. evidently the +affair was over and, though not big, had been a successful engagement. +the men and officers returning spoke of a brilliant victory, of the +occupation of the town of wischau and the capture of a whole french +squadron. the day was bright and sunny after a sharp night frost, and +the cheerful glitter of that autumn day was in keeping with the news of +victory which was conveyed, not only by the tales of those who had taken +part in it, but also by the joyful expression on the faces of soldiers, +officers, generals, and adjutants, as they passed rostóv going or +coming. and nicholas, who had vainly suffered all the dread that +precedes a battle and had spent that happy day in inactivity, was all +the more depressed. + +“come here, wostóv. let’s dwink to dwown our gwief!” shouted +denísov, who had settled down by the roadside with a flask and some +food. + +the officers gathered round denísov’s canteen, eating and talking. + +“there! they are bringing another!” cried one of the officers, +indicating a captive french dragoon who was being brought in on foot by +two cossacks. + +one of them was leading by the bridle a fine large french horse he had +taken from the prisoner. + +“sell us that horse!” denísov called out to the cossacks. + +“if you like, your honor!” + +the officers got up and stood round the cossacks and their prisoner. +the french dragoon was a young alsatian who spoke french with a german +accent. he was breathless with agitation, his face was red, and when +he heard some french spoken he at once began speaking to the officers, +addressing first one, then another. he said he would not have been +taken, it was not his fault but the corporal’s who had sent him to +seize some horsecloths, though he had told him the russians were there. +and at every word he added: “but don’t hurt my little horse!” and +stroked the animal. it was plain that he did not quite grasp where he +was. now he excused himself for having been taken prisoner and now, +imagining himself before his own officers, insisted on his soldierly +discipline and zeal in the service. he brought with him into our +rearguard all the freshness of atmosphere of the french army, which was +so alien to us. + +the cossacks sold the horse for two gold pieces, and rostóv, being the +richest of the officers now that he had received his money, bought it. + +“but don’t hurt my little horse!” said the alsatian good-naturedly +to rostóv when the animal was handed over to the hussar. + +rostóv smilingly reassured the dragoon and gave him money. + +“alley! alley!” said the cossack, touching the prisoner’s arm to +make him go on. + +“the emperor! the emperor!” was suddenly heard among the hussars. + +all began to run and bustle, and rostóv saw coming up the road behind +him several riders with white plumes in their hats. in a moment everyone +was in his place, waiting. + +rostóv did not know or remember how he ran to his place and mounted. +instantly his regret at not having been in action and his dejected mood +amid people of whom he was weary had gone, instantly every thought of +himself had vanished. he was filled with happiness at his nearness to +the emperor. he felt that this nearness by itself made up to him for the +day he had lost. he was happy as a lover when the longed-for moment of +meeting arrives. not daring to look round and without looking round, he +was ecstatically conscious of his approach. he felt it not only from the +sound of the hoofs of the approaching cavalcade, but because as he drew +near everything grew brighter, more joyful, more significant, and more +festive around him. nearer and nearer to rostóv came that sun shedding +beams of mild and majestic light around, and already he felt himself +enveloped in those beams, he heard his voice, that kindly, calm, +and majestic voice that was yet so simple! and as if in accord with +rostóv’s feeling, there was a deathly stillness amid which was heard +the emperor’s voice. + +“the pávlograd hussars?” he inquired. + +“the reserves, sire!” replied a voice, a very human one compared to +that which had said: “the pávlograd hussars?” + +the emperor drew level with rostóv and halted. alexander’s face was +even more beautiful than it had been three days before at the review. it +shone with such gaiety and youth, such innocent youth, that it suggested +the liveliness of a fourteen-year-old boy, and yet it was the face +of the majestic emperor. casually, while surveying the squadron, the +emperor’s eyes met rostóv’s and rested on them for not more than +two seconds. whether or no the emperor understood what was going on in +rostóv’s soul (it seemed to rostóv that he understood everything), +at any rate his light-blue eyes gazed for about two seconds into +rostóv’s face. a gentle, mild light poured from them. then all at +once he raised his eyebrows, abruptly touched his horse with his left +foot, and galloped on. + +the younger emperor could not restrain his wish to be present at the +battle and, in spite of the remonstrances of his courtiers, at twelve +o’clock left the third column with which he had been and galloped +toward the vanguard. before he came up with the hussars, several +adjutants met him with news of the successful result of the action. + +this battle, which consisted in the capture of a french squadron, was +represented as a brilliant victory over the french, and so the +emperor and the whole army, especially while the smoke hung over +the battlefield, believed that the french had been defeated and were +retreating against their will. a few minutes after the emperor had +passed, the pávlograd division was ordered to advance. in wischau +itself, a petty german town, rostóv saw the emperor again. in the +market place, where there had been some rather heavy firing before the +emperor’s arrival, lay several killed and wounded soldiers whom there +had not been time to move. the emperor, surrounded by his suite +of officers and courtiers, was riding a bobtailed chestnut mare, a +different one from that which he had ridden at the review, and bending +to one side he gracefully held a gold lorgnette to his eyes and looked +at a soldier who lay prone, with blood on his uncovered head. the +wounded soldier was so dirty, coarse, and revolting that his proximity +to the emperor shocked rostóv. rostóv saw how the emperor’s rather +round shoulders shuddered as if a cold shiver had run down them, how his +left foot began convulsively tapping the horse’s side with the spur, +and how the well-trained horse looked round unconcerned and did not +stir. an adjutant, dismounting, lifted the soldier under the arms to +place him on a stretcher that had been brought. the soldier groaned. + +“gently, gently! can’t you do it more gently?” said the emperor +apparently suffering more than the dying soldier, and he rode away. + +rostóv saw tears filling the emperor’s eyes and heard him, as he was +riding away, say to czartorýski: “what a terrible thing war is: what +a terrible thing! quelle terrible chose que la guerre!” + +the troops of the vanguard were stationed before wischau, within sight +of the enemy’s lines, which all day long had yielded ground to us +at the least firing. the emperor’s gratitude was announced to the +vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of +vodka. the campfires crackled and the soldiers’ songs resounded +even more merrily than on the previous night. denísov celebrated his +promotion to the rank of major, and rostóv, who had already drunk +enough, at the end of the feast proposed the emperor’s health. “not +‘our sovereign, the emperor,’ as they say at official dinners,” +said he, “but the health of our sovereign, that good, enchanting, and +great man! let us drink to his health and to the certain defeat of the +french!” + +“if we fought before,” he said, “not letting the french pass, as +at schön grabern, what shall we not do now when he is at the front? we +will all die for him gladly! is it not so, gentlemen? perhaps i am not +saying it right, i have drunk a good deal—but that is how i feel, and +so do you too! to the health of alexander the first! hurrah!” + +“hurrah!” rang the enthusiastic voices of the officers. + +and the old cavalry captain, kírsten, shouted enthusiastically and no +less sincerely than the twenty-year-old rostóv. + +when the officers had emptied and smashed their glasses, kírsten filled +others and, in shirt sleeves and breeches, went glass in hand to the +soldiers’ bonfires and with his long gray mustache, his white chest +showing under his open shirt, he stood in a majestic pose in the light +of the campfire, waving his uplifted arm. + +“lads! here’s to our sovereign, the emperor, and victory over +our enemies! hurrah!” he exclaimed in his dashing, old, hussar’s +baritone. + +the hussars crowded round and responded heartily with loud shouts. + +late that night, when all had separated, denísov with his short hand +patted his favorite, rostóv, on the shoulder. + +“as there’s no one to fall in love with on campaign, he’s fallen +in love with the tsar,” he said. + +“denísov, don’t make fun of it!” cried rostóv. “it is such a +lofty, beautiful feeling, such a...” + +“i believe it, i believe it, fwiend, and i share and appwove...” + +“no, you don’t understand!” + +and rostóv got up and went wandering among the campfires, dreaming of +what happiness it would be to die—not in saving the emperor’s life +(he did not even dare to dream of that), but simply to die before his +eyes. he really was in love with the tsar and the glory of the russian +arms and the hope of future triumph. and he was not the only man to +experience that feeling during those memorable days preceding the battle +of austerlitz: nine tenths of the men in the russian army were then in +love, though less ecstatically, with their tsar and the glory of the +russian arms. + + + + + +chapter xi + +the next day the emperor stopped at wischau, and villier, his physician, +was repeatedly summoned to see him. at headquarters and among the troops +near by the news spread that the emperor was unwell. he ate nothing and +had slept badly that night, those around him reported. the cause of this +indisposition was the strong impression made on his sensitive mind by +the sight of the killed and wounded. + +at daybreak on the seventeenth, a french officer who had come with +a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the russian emperor, was +brought into wischau from our outposts. this officer was savary. the +emperor had only just fallen asleep and so savary had to wait. at midday +he was admitted to the emperor, and an hour later he rode off with +prince dolgorúkov to the advanced post of the french army. + +it was rumored that savary had been sent to propose to alexander +a meeting with napoleon. to the joy and pride of the whole army, a +personal interview was refused, and instead of the sovereign, prince +dolgorúkov, the victor at wischau, was sent with savary to negotiate +with napoleon if, contrary to expectations, these negotiations were +actuated by a real desire for peace. + +toward evening dolgorúkov came back, went straight to the tsar, and +remained alone with him for a long time. + +on the eighteenth and nineteenth of november, the army advanced two +days’ march and the enemy’s outposts after a brief interchange +of shots retreated. in the highest army circles from midday on the +nineteenth, a great, excitedly bustling activity began which lasted till +the morning of the twentieth, when the memorable battle of austerlitz +was fought. + +till midday on the nineteenth, the activity—the eager talk, running to +and fro, and dispatching of adjutants—was confined to the emperor’s +headquarters. but on the afternoon of that day, this activity reached +kutúzov’s headquarters and the staffs of the commanders of columns. +by evening, the adjutants had spread it to all ends and parts of the +army, and in the night from the nineteenth to the twentieth, the whole +eighty thousand allied troops rose from their bivouacs to the hum of +voices, and the army swayed and started in one enormous mass six miles +long. + +the concentrated activity which had begun at the emperor’s +headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that +followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower +clock. one wheel slowly moved, another was set in motion, and a third, +and wheels began to revolve faster and faster, levers and cogwheels to +work, chimes to play, figures to pop out, and the hands to advance with +regular motion as a result of all that activity. + +just as in the mechanism of a clock, so in the mechanism of the military +machine, an impulse once given leads to the final result; and just as +indifferently quiescent till the moment when motion is transmitted +to them are the parts of the mechanism which the impulse has not yet +reached. wheels creak on their axles as the cogs engage one another and +the revolving pulleys whirr with the rapidity of their movement, but a +neighboring wheel is as quiet and motionless as though it were prepared +to remain so for a hundred years; but the moment comes when the lever +catches it and obeying the impulse that wheel begins to creak and joins +in the common motion the result and aim of which are beyond its ken. + +just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable +wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular movement of the +hands which show the time, so the result of all the complicated human +activities of 160,000 russians and french—all their passions, desires, +remorse, humiliations, sufferings, outbursts of pride, fear, and +enthusiasm—was only the loss of the battle of austerlitz, the +so-called battle of the three emperors—that is to say, a slow movement +of the hand on the dial of human history. + +prince andrew was on duty that day and in constant attendance on the +commander in chief. + +at six in the evening, kutúzov went to the emperor’s headquarters +and after staying but a short time with the tsar went to see the grand +marshal of the court, count tolstóy. + +bolkónski took the opportunity to go in to get some details of the +coming action from dolgorúkov. he felt that kutúzov was upset +and dissatisfied about something and that at headquarters they were +dissatisfied with him, and also that at the emperor’s headquarters +everyone adopted toward him the tone of men who know something others do +not know: he therefore wished to speak to dolgorúkov. + +“well, how d’you do, my dear fellow?” said dolgorúkov, who was +sitting at tea with bilíbin. “the fete is for tomorrow. how is your +old fellow? out of sorts?” + +“i won’t say he is out of sorts, but i fancy he would like to be +heard.” + +“but they heard him at the council of war and will hear him when he +talks sense, but to temporize and wait for something now when bonaparte +fears nothing so much as a general battle is impossible.” + +“yes, you have seen him?” said prince andrew. “well, what is +bonaparte like? how did he impress you?” + +“yes, i saw him, and am convinced that he fears nothing so much as +a general engagement,” repeated dolgorúkov, evidently prizing this +general conclusion which he had arrived at from his interview with +napoleon. “if he weren’t afraid of a battle why did he ask for that +interview? why negotiate, and above all why retreat, when to retreat is +so contrary to his method of conducting war? believe me, he is afraid, +afraid of a general battle. his hour has come! mark my words!” + +“but tell me, what is he like, eh?” said prince andrew again. + +“he is a man in a gray overcoat, very anxious that i should call +him ‘your majesty,’ but who, to his chagrin, got no title from +me! that’s the sort of man he is, and nothing more,” replied +dolgorúkov, looking round at bilíbin with a smile. + +“despite my great respect for old kutúzov,” he continued, “we +should be a nice set of fellows if we were to wait about and so give him +a chance to escape, or to trick us, now that we certainly have him in +our hands! no, we mustn’t forget suvórov and his rule—not to put +yourself in a position to be attacked, but yourself to attack. believe +me in war the energy of young men often shows the way better than all +the experience of old cunctators.” + +“but in what position are we going to attack him? i have been at the +outposts today and it is impossible to say where his chief forces are +situated,” said prince andrew. + +he wished to explain to dolgorúkov a plan of attack he had himself +formed. + +“oh, that is all the same,” dolgorúkov said quickly, and getting up +he spread a map on the table. “all eventualities have been foreseen. +if he is standing before brünn...” + +and prince dolgorúkov rapidly but indistinctly explained weyrother’s +plan of a flanking movement. + +prince andrew began to reply and to state his own plan, which might +have been as good as weyrother’s, but for the disadvantage that +weyrother’s had already been approved. as soon as prince andrew began +to demonstrate the defects of the latter and the merits of his own plan, +prince dolgorúkov ceased to listen to him and gazed absent-mindedly not +at the map, but at prince andrew’s face. + +“there will be a council of war at kutúzov’s tonight, though; you +can say all this there,” remarked dolgorúkov. + +“i will do so,” said prince andrew, moving away from the map. + +“whatever are you bothering about, gentlemen?” said bilíbin, who, +till then, had listened with an amused smile to their conversation and +now was evidently ready with a joke. “whether tomorrow brings +victory or defeat, the glory of our russian arms is secure. except your +kutúzov, there is not a single russian in command of a column! the +commanders are: herr general wimpfen, le comte de langeron, le prince de +lichtenstein, le prince, de hohenlohe, and finally prishprish, and so on +like all those polish names.” + +“be quiet, backbiter!” said dolgorúkov. “it is not true; there +are now two russians, milorádovich, and dokhtúrov, and there would be +a third, count arakchéev, if his nerves were not too weak.” + +“however, i think general kutúzov has come out,” said prince +andrew. “i wish you good luck and success, gentlemen!” he added and +went out after shaking hands with dolgorúkov and bilíbin. + +on the way home, prince andrew could not refrain from asking kutúzov, +who was sitting silently beside him, what he thought of tomorrow’s +battle. + +kutúzov looked sternly at his adjutant and, after a pause, replied: +“i think the battle will be lost, and so i told count tolstóy and +asked him to tell the emperor. what do you think he replied? ‘but, my +dear general, i am engaged with rice and cutlets, look after military +matters yourself!’ yes... that was the answer i got!” + + + + + +chapter xii + +shortly after nine o’clock that evening, weyrother drove with his +plans to kutúzov’s quarters where the council of war was to be +held. all the commanders of columns were summoned to the commander in +chief’s and with the exception of prince bagratión, who declined to +come, were all there at the appointed time. + +weyrother, who was in full control of the proposed battle, by his +eagerness and briskness presented a marked contrast to the dissatisfied +and drowsy kutúzov, who reluctantly played the part of chairman and +president of the council of war. weyrother evidently felt himself to be +at the head of a movement that had already become unrestrainable. he was +like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. whether he was +pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at +headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead +to. weyrother had been twice that evening to the enemy’s picket +line to reconnoiter personally, and twice to the emperors, russian and +austrian, to report and explain, and to his headquarters where he had +dictated the dispositions in german, and now, much exhausted, he arrived +at kutúzov’s. + +he was evidently so busy that he even forgot to be polite to the +commander in chief. he interrupted him, talked rapidly and indistinctly, +without looking at the man he was addressing, and did not reply to +questions put to him. he was bespattered with mud and had a pitiful, +weary, and distracted air, though at the same time he was haughty and +self-confident. + +kutúzov was occupying a nobleman’s castle of modest dimensions near +ostralitz. in the large drawing room which had become the commander +in chief’s office were gathered kutúzov himself, weyrother, and the +members of the council of war. they were drinking tea, and only awaited +prince bagratión to begin the council. at last bagratión’s orderly +came with the news that the prince could not attend. prince andrew came +in to inform the commander in chief of this and, availing himself +of permission previously given him by kutúzov to be present at the +council, he remained in the room. + +“since prince bagratión is not coming, we may begin,” said +weyrother, hurriedly rising from his seat and going up to the table on +which an enormous map of the environs of brünn was spread out. + +kutúzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over +his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, +with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. at the sound +of weyrother’s voice, he opened his one eye with an effort. + +“yes, yes, if you please! it is already late,” said he, and nodding +his head he let it droop and again closed his eye. + +if at first the members of the council thought that kutúzov was +pretending to sleep, the sounds his nose emitted during the reading that +followed proved that the commander in chief at that moment was absorbed +by a far more serious matter than a desire to show his contempt for +the dispositions or anything else—he was engaged in satisfying the +irresistible human need for sleep. he really was asleep. weyrother, with +the gesture of a man too busy to lose a moment, glanced at kutúzov and, +having convinced himself that he was asleep, took up a paper and in +a loud, monotonous voice began to read out the dispositions for the +impending battle, under a heading which he also read out: + +“dispositions for an attack on the enemy position behind kobelnitz and +sokolnitz, november 30, 1805.” + +the dispositions were very complicated and difficult. they began as +follows: + +“as the enemy’s left wing rests on wooded hills and his right +extends along kobelnitz and sokolnitz behind the ponds that are there, +while we, on the other hand, with our left wing by far outflank his +right, it is advantageous to attack the enemy’s latter wing especially +if we occupy the villages of sokolnitz and kobelnitz, whereby we +can both fall on his flank and pursue him over the plain between +schlappanitz and the thuerassa forest, avoiding the defiles of +schlappanitz and bellowitz which cover the enemy’s front. for this +object it is necessary that... the first column marches... the second +column marches... the third column marches...” and so on, read +weyrother. + +the generals seemed to listen reluctantly to the difficult dispositions. +the tall, fair-haired general buxhöwden stood, leaning his back against +the wall, his eyes fixed on a burning candle, and seemed not to listen +or even to wish to be thought to listen. exactly opposite weyrother, +with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache +twisted upwards, sat the ruddy milorádovich in a military pose, his +elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders +raised. he remained stubbornly silent, gazing at weyrother’s face, +and only turned away his eyes when the austrian chief of staff finished +reading. then milorádovich looked round significantly at the other +generals. but one could not tell from that significant look whether he +agreed or disagreed and was satisfied or not with the arrangements. next +to weyrother sat count langeron who, with a subtle smile that never left +his typically southern french face during the whole time of the reading, +gazed at his delicate fingers which rapidly twirled by its corners +a gold snuffbox on which was a portrait. in the middle of one of the +longest sentences, he stopped the rotary motion of the snuffbox, raised +his head, and with inimical politeness lurking in the corners of his +thin lips interrupted weyrother, wishing to say something. but the +austrian general, continuing to read, frowned angrily and jerked his +elbows, as if to say: “you can tell me your views later, but now be so +good as to look at the map and listen.” langeron lifted his eyes with +an expression of perplexity, turned round to milorádovich as if seeking +an explanation, but meeting the latter’s impressive but meaningless +gaze drooped his eyes sadly and again took to twirling his snuffbox. + +“a geography lesson!” he muttered as if to himself, but loud enough +to be heard. + +przebyszéwski, with respectful but dignified politeness, held his +hand to his ear toward weyrother, with the air of a man absorbed in +attention. dohktúrov, a little man, sat opposite weyrother, with +an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the outspread map +conscientiously studied the dispositions and the unfamiliar locality. he +asked weyrother several times to repeat words he had not clearly heard +and the difficult names of villages. weyrother complied and dohktúrov +noted them down. + +when the reading which lasted more than an hour was over, langeron again +brought his snuffbox to rest and, without looking at weyrother or at +anyone in particular, began to say how difficult it was to carry out +such a plan in which the enemy’s position was assumed to be known, +whereas it was perhaps not known, since the enemy was in movement. +langeron’s objections were valid but it was obvious that their chief +aim was to show general weyrother—who had read his dispositions with +as much self-confidence as if he were addressing school children—that +he had to do, not with fools, but with men who could teach him something +in military matters. + +when the monotonous sound of weyrother’s voice ceased, kutúzov opened +his eye as a miller wakes up when the soporific drone of the mill wheel +is interrupted. he listened to what langeron said, as if remarking, +“so you are still at that silly business!” quickly closed his eye +again, and let his head sink still lower. + +langeron, trying as virulently as possible to sting weyrother’s vanity +as author of the military plan, argued that bonaparte might easily +attack instead of being attacked, and so render the whole of this +plan perfectly worthless. weyrother met all objections with a firm and +contemptuous smile, evidently prepared beforehand to meet all objections +be they what they might. + +“if he could attack us, he would have done so today,” said he. + +“so you think he is powerless?” said langeron. + +“he has forty thousand men at most,” replied weyrother, with the +smile of a doctor to whom an old wife wishes to explain the treatment of +a case. + +“in that case he is inviting his doom by awaiting our attack,” said +langeron, with a subtly ironical smile, again glancing round for support +to milorádovich who was near him. + +but milorádovich was at that moment evidently thinking of anything +rather than of what the generals were disputing about. + +“ma foi!” said he, “tomorrow we shall see all that on the +battlefield.” + +weyrother again gave that smile which seemed to say that to him it was +strange and ridiculous to meet objections from russian generals and to +have to prove to them what he had not merely convinced himself of, but +had also convinced the sovereign emperors of. + +“the enemy has quenched his fires and a continual noise is heard from +his camp,” said he. “what does that mean? either he is retreating, +which is the only thing we need fear, or he is changing his position.” +(he smiled ironically.) “but even if he also took up a position in +the thuerassa, he merely saves us a great deal of trouble and all our +arrangements to the minutest detail remain the same.” + +“how is that?...” began prince andrew, who had for long been waiting +an opportunity to express his doubts. + +kutúzov here woke up, coughed heavily, and looked round at the +generals. + +“gentlemen, the dispositions for tomorrow—or rather for today, for +it is past midnight—cannot now be altered,” said he. “you have +heard them, and we shall all do our duty. but before a battle, there is +nothing more important...” he paused, “than to have a good sleep.” + +he moved as if to rise. the generals bowed and retired. it was past +midnight. prince andrew went out. + +the council of war, at which prince andrew had not been able to +express his opinion as he had hoped to, left on him a vague and uneasy +impression. whether dolgorúkov and weyrother, or kutúzov, langeron, +and the others who did not approve of the plan of attack, were +right—he did not know. “but was it really not possible for kutúzov +to state his views plainly to the emperor? is it possible that on +account of court and personal considerations tens of thousands of lives, +and my life, my life,” he thought, “must be risked?” + +“yes, it is very likely that i shall be killed tomorrow,” he +thought. and suddenly, at this thought of death, a whole series of most +distant, most intimate, memories rose in his imagination: he remembered +his last parting from his father and his wife; he remembered the days +when he first loved her. he thought of her pregnancy and felt sorry for +her and for himself, and in a nervously emotional and softened mood he +went out of the hut in which he was billeted with nesvítski and began +to walk up and down before it. + +the night was foggy and through the fog the moonlight gleamed +mysteriously. “yes, tomorrow, tomorrow!” he thought. “tomorrow +everything may be over for me! all these memories will be no more, none +of them will have any meaning for me. tomorrow perhaps, even certainly, +i have a presentiment that for the first time i shall have to show all +i can do.” and his fancy pictured the battle, its loss, the +concentration of fighting at one point, and the hesitation of all the +commanders. and then that happy moment, that toulon for which he had +so long waited, presents itself to him at last. he firmly and clearly +expresses his opinion to kutúzov, to weyrother, and to the emperors. +all are struck by the justness of his views, but no one undertakes to +carry them out, so he takes a regiment, a division—stipulates that no +one is to interfere with his arrangements—leads his division to +the decisive point, and gains the victory alone. “but death and +suffering?” suggested another voice. prince andrew, however, did not +answer that voice and went on dreaming of his triumphs. the dispositions +for the next battle are planned by him alone. nominally he is only an +adjutant on kutúzov’s staff, but he does everything alone. the next +battle is won by him alone. kutúzov is removed and he is appointed... +“well and then?” asked the other voice. “if before that you are +not ten times wounded, killed, or betrayed, well... what then?...” +“well then,” prince andrew answered himself, “i don’t know +what will happen and don’t want to know, and can’t, but if i want +this—want glory, want to be known to men, want to be loved by them, it +is not my fault that i want it and want nothing but that and live only +for that. yes, for that alone! i shall never tell anyone, but, oh god! +what am i to do if i love nothing but fame and men’s esteem? death, +wounds, the loss of family—i fear nothing. and precious and dear +as many persons are to me—father, sister, wife—those dearest to +me—yet dreadful and unnatural as it seems, i would give them all at +once for a moment of glory, of triumph over men, of love from men i +don’t know and never shall know, for the love of these men here,” he +thought, as he listened to voices in kutúzov’s courtyard. the voices +were those of the orderlies who were packing up; one voice, probably a +coachman’s, was teasing kutúzov’s old cook whom prince andrew knew, +and who was called tit. he was saying, “tit, i say, tit!” + +“well?” returned the old man. + +“go, tit, thresh a bit!” said the wag. + +“oh, go to the devil!” called out a voice, drowned by the laughter +of the orderlies and servants. + +“all the same, i love and value nothing but triumph over them all, i +value this mystic power and glory that is floating here above me in this +mist!” + + + + + +chapter xiii + +that same night, rostóv was with a platoon on skirmishing duty in front +of bagratión’s detachment. his hussars were placed along the line +in couples and he himself rode along the line trying to master the +sleepiness that kept coming over him. an enormous space, with our +army’s campfires dimly glowing in the fog, could be seen behind him; +in front of him was misty darkness. rostóv could see nothing, peer as +he would into that foggy distance: now something gleamed gray, now there +was something black, now little lights seemed to glimmer where the enemy +ought to be, now he fancied it was only something in his own eyes. his +eyes kept closing, and in his fancy appeared—now the emperor, now +denísov, and now moscow memories—and he again hurriedly opened his +eyes and saw close before him the head and ears of the horse he was +riding, and sometimes, when he came within six paces of them, the +black figures of hussars, but in the distance was still the same misty +darkness. “why not?... it might easily happen,” thought rostóv, +“that the emperor will meet me and give me an order as he would to any +other officer; he’ll say: ‘go and find out what’s there.’ there +are many stories of his getting to know an officer in just such a chance +way and attaching him to himself! what if he gave me a place near him? +oh, how i would guard him, how i would tell him the truth, how i would +unmask his deceivers!” and in order to realize vividly his love +devotion to the sovereign, rostóv pictured to himself an enemy or a +deceitful german, whom he would not only kill with pleasure but whom +he would slap in the face before the emperor. suddenly a distant shout +aroused him. he started and opened his eyes. + +“where am i? oh yes, in the skirmishing line... pass and +watchword—shaft, olmütz. what a nuisance that our squadron will be in +reserve tomorrow,” he thought. “i’ll ask leave to go to the front, +this may be my only chance of seeing the emperor. it won’t be long +now before i am off duty. i’ll take another turn and when i get back +i’ll go to the general and ask him.” he readjusted himself in the +saddle and touched up his horse to ride once more round his hussars. it +seemed to him that it was getting lighter. to the left he saw a sloping +descent lit up, and facing it a black knoll that seemed as steep as a +wall. on this knoll there was a white patch that rostóv could not at +all make out: was it a glade in the wood lit up by the moon, or some +unmelted snow, or some white houses? he even thought something moved on +that white spot. “i expect it’s snow... that spot... a spot—une +tache,” he thought. “there now... it’s not a tache... natásha... +sister, black eyes... na... tasha... (won’t she be surprised when +i tell her how i’ve seen the emperor?) natásha... take my +sabretache...”—“keep to the right, your honor, there are bushes +here,” came the voice of an hussar, past whom rostóv was riding in +the act of falling asleep. rostóv lifted his head that had sunk almost +to his horse’s mane and pulled up beside the hussar. he was succumbing +to irresistible, youthful, childish drowsiness. “but what was i +thinking? i mustn’t forget. how shall i speak to the emperor? no, +that’s not it—that’s tomorrow. oh yes! natásha... sabretache... +saber them... whom? the hussars... ah, the hussars with mustaches. along +the tverskáya street rode the hussar with mustaches... i thought about +him too, just opposite gúryev’s house... old gúryev.... oh, but +denísov’s a fine fellow. but that’s all nonsense. the chief thing +is that the emperor is here. how he looked at me and wished to say +something, but dared not.... no, it was i who dared not. but that’s +nonsense, the chief thing is not to forget the important thing i +was thinking of. yes, na-tásha, sabretache, oh, yes, yes! that’s +right!” and his head once more sank to his horse’s neck. all at once +it seemed to him that he was being fired at. “what? what? what?... cut +them down! what?...” said rostóv, waking up. at the moment he opened +his eyes he heard in front of him, where the enemy was, the long-drawn +shouts of thousands of voices. his horse and the horse of the hussar +near him pricked their ears at these shouts. over there, where the +shouting came from, a fire flared up and went out again, then another, +and all along the french line on the hill fires flared up and the +shouting grew louder and louder. rostóv could hear the sound of french +words but could not distinguish them. the din of many voices was too +great; all he could hear was: “ahahah!” and “rrrr!” + +“what’s that? what do you make of it?” said rostóv to the hussar +beside him. “that must be the enemy’s camp!” + +the hussar did not reply. + +“why, don’t you hear it?” rostóv asked again, after waiting for a +reply. + +“who can tell, your honor?” replied the hussar reluctantly. + +“from the direction, it must be the enemy,” repeated rostóv. + +“it may be he or it may be nothing,” muttered the hussar. “it’s +dark... steady!” he cried to his fidgeting horse. + +rostóv’s horse was also getting restive: it pawed the frozen ground, +pricking its ears at the noise and looking at the lights. the shouting +grew still louder and merged into a general roar that only an army +of several thousand men could produce. the lights spread farther and +farther, probably along the line of the french camp. rostóv no longer +wanted to sleep. the gay triumphant shouting of the enemy army had a +stimulating effect on him. “vive l’empereur! l’empereur!” he now +heard distinctly. + +“they can’t be far off, probably just beyond the stream,” he said +to the hussar beside him. + +the hussar only sighed without replying and coughed angrily. the sound +of horse’s hoofs approaching at a trot along the line of hussars was +heard, and out of the foggy darkness the figure of a sergeant of hussars +suddenly appeared, looming huge as an elephant. + +“your honor, the generals!” said the sergeant, riding up to rostóv. + +rostóv, still looking round toward the fires and the shouts, rode with +the sergeant to meet some mounted men who were riding along the line. +one was on a white horse. prince bagratión and prince dolgorúkov with +their adjutants had come to witness the curious phenomenon of the +lights and shouts in the enemy’s camp. rostóv rode up to bagratión, +reported to him, and then joined the adjutants listening to what the +generals were saying. + +“believe me,” said prince dolgorúkov, addressing bagratión, “it +is nothing but a trick! he has retreated and ordered the rearguard to +kindle fires and make a noise to deceive us.” + +“hardly,” said bagratión. “i saw them this evening on that +knoll; if they had retreated they would have withdrawn from that too.... +officer!” said bagratión to rostóv, “are the enemy’s skirmishers +still there?” + +“they were there this evening, but now i don’t know, your +excellency. shall i go with some of my hussars to see?” replied +rostóv. + +bagratión stopped and, before replying, tried to see rostóv’s face +in the mist. + +“well, go and see,” he said, after a pause. + +“yes, sir.” + +rostóv spurred his horse, called to sergeant fédchenko and two other +hussars, told them to follow him, and trotted downhill in the direction +from which the shouting came. he felt both frightened and pleased to be +riding alone with three hussars into that mysterious and dangerous misty +distance where no one had been before him. bagratión called to him from +the hill not to go beyond the stream, but rostóv pretended not to hear +him and did not stop but rode on and on, continually mistaking bushes +for trees and gullies for men and continually discovering his mistakes. +having descended the hill at a trot, he no longer saw either our own or +the enemy’s fires, but heard the shouting of the french more loudly +and distinctly. in the valley he saw before him something like a river, +but when he reached it he found it was a road. having come out onto +the road he reined in his horse, hesitating whether to ride along it or +cross it and ride over the black field up the hillside. to keep to the +road which gleamed white in the mist would have been safer because it +would be easier to see people coming along it. “follow me!” said he, +crossed the road, and began riding up the hill at a gallop toward the +point where the french pickets had been standing that evening. + +“your honor, there he is!” cried one of the hussars behind him. and +before rostóv had time to make out what the black thing was that had +suddenly appeared in the fog, there was a flash, followed by a report, +and a bullet whizzing high up in the mist with a plaintive sound passed +out of hearing. another musket missed fire but flashed in the pan. +rostóv turned his horse and galloped back. four more reports followed +at intervals, and the bullets passed somewhere in the fog singing in +different tones. rostóv reined in his horse, whose spirits had risen, +like his own, at the firing, and went back at a footpace. “well, some +more! some more!” a merry voice was saying in his soul. but no more +shots came. + +only when approaching bagratión did rostóv let his horse gallop again, +and with his hand at the salute rode up to the general. + +dolgorúkov was still insisting that the french had retreated and had +only lit fires to deceive us. + +“what does that prove?” he was saying as rostóv rode up. “they +might retreat and leave the pickets.” + +“it’s plain that they have not all gone yet, prince,” said +bagratión. “wait till tomorrow morning, we’ll find out everything +tomorrow.” + +“the picket is still on the hill, your excellency, just where it was +in the evening,” reported rostóv, stooping forward with his hand at +the salute and unable to repress the smile of delight induced by his +ride and especially by the sound of the bullets. + +“very good, very good,” said bagratión. “thank you, officer.” + +“your excellency,” said rostóv, “may i ask a favor?” + +“what is it?” + +“tomorrow our squadron is to be in reserve. may i ask to be attached +to the first squadron?” + +“what’s your name?” + +“count rostóv.” + +“oh, very well, you may stay in attendance on me.” + +“count ilyá rostóv’s son?” asked dolgorúkov. + +but rostóv did not reply. + +“then i may reckon on it, your excellency?” + +“i will give the order.” + +“tomorrow very likely i may be sent with some message to the +emperor,” thought rostóv. + +“thank god!” + +the fires and shouting in the enemy’s army were occasioned by the fact +that while napoleon’s proclamation was being read to the troops the +emperor himself rode round his bivouacs. the soldiers, on seeing him, +lit wisps of straw and ran after him, shouting, “vive l’empereur!” +napoleon’s proclamation was as follows: + +soldiers! the russian army is advancing against you to avenge the +austrian army of ulm. they are the same battalions you broke at +hollabrünn and have pursued ever since to this place. the position we +occupy is a strong one, and while they are marching to go round me on +the right they will expose a flank to me. soldiers! i will myself direct +your battalions. i will keep out of fire if you with your habitual +valor carry disorder and confusion into the enemy’s ranks, but should +victory be in doubt, even for a moment, you will see your emperor +exposing himself to the first blows of the enemy, for there must be no +doubt of victory, especially on this day when what is at stake is the +honor of the french infantry, so necessary to the honor of our nation. + +do not break your ranks on the plea of removing the wounded! let every +man be fully imbued with the thought that we must defeat these hirelings +of england, inspired by such hatred of our nation! this victory will +conclude our campaign and we can return to winter quarters, where fresh +french troops who are being raised in france will join us, and the peace +i shall conclude will be worthy of my people, of you, and of myself. + +napoleon + + + + +chapter xiv + +at five in the morning it was still quite dark. the troops of the +center, the reserves, and bagratión’s right flank had not yet moved, +but on the left flank the columns of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, +which were to be the first to descend the heights to attack the french +right flank and drive it into the bohemian mountains according to plan, +were already up and astir. the smoke of the campfires, into which they +were throwing everything superfluous, made the eyes smart. it was cold +and dark. the officers were hurriedly drinking tea and breakfasting, the +soldiers, munching biscuit and beating a tattoo with their feet to +warm themselves, gathering round the fires throwing into the flames the +remains of sheds, chairs, tables, wheels, tubs, and everything that they +did not want or could not carry away with them. austrian column guides +were moving in and out among the russian troops and served as heralds +of the advance. as soon as an austrian officer showed himself near +a commanding officer’s quarters, the regiment began to move: the +soldiers ran from the fires, thrust their pipes into their boots, their +bags into the carts, got their muskets ready, and formed rank. the +officers buttoned up their coats, buckled on their swords and pouches, +and moved along the ranks shouting. the train drivers and orderlies +harnessed and packed the wagons and tied on the loads. the adjutants and +battalion and regimental commanders mounted, crossed themselves, gave +final instructions, orders, and commissions to the baggage men +who remained behind, and the monotonous tramp of thousands of feet +resounded. the column moved forward without knowing where and unable, +from the masses around them, the smoke and the increasing fog, to see +either the place they were leaving or that to which they were going. + +a soldier on the march is hemmed in and borne along by his regiment as +much as a sailor is by his ship. however far he has walked, whatever +strange, unknown, and dangerous places he reaches, just as a sailor is +always surrounded by the same decks, masts, and rigging of his ship, so +the soldier always has around him the same comrades, the same ranks, the +same sergeant major iván mítrich, the same company dog jack, and the +same commanders. the sailor rarely cares to know the latitude in which +his ship is sailing, but on the day of battle—heaven knows how and +whence—a stern note of which all are conscious sounds in the moral +atmosphere of an army, announcing the approach of something decisive +and solemn, and awakening in the men an unusual curiosity. on the day of +battle the soldiers excitedly try to get beyond the interests of their +regiment, they listen intently, look about, and eagerly ask concerning +what is going on around them. + +the fog had grown so dense that though it was growing light they could +not see ten paces ahead. bushes looked like gigantic trees and level +ground like cliffs and slopes. anywhere, on any side, one might +encounter an enemy invisible ten paces off. but the columns advanced +for a long time, always in the same fog, descending and ascending hills, +avoiding gardens and enclosures, going over new and unknown ground, and +nowhere encountering the enemy. on the contrary, the soldiers became +aware that in front, behind, and on all sides, other russian columns +were moving in the same direction. every soldier felt glad to know that +to the unknown place where he was going, many more of our men were going +too. + +“there now, the kúrskies have also gone past,” was being said in +the ranks. + +“it’s wonderful what a lot of our troops have gathered, lads! last +night i looked at the campfires and there was no end of them. a regular +moscow!” + +though none of the column commanders rode up to the ranks or talked to +the men (the commanders, as we saw at the council of war, were out of +humor and dissatisfied with the affair, and so did not exert themselves +to cheer the men but merely carried out the orders), yet the troops +marched gaily, as they always do when going into action, especially to +an attack. but when they had marched for about an hour in the dense fog, +the greater part of the men had to halt and an unpleasant consciousness +of some dislocation and blunder spread through the ranks. how such +a consciousness is communicated is very difficult to define, but it +certainly is communicated very surely, and flows rapidly, imperceptibly, +and irrepressibly, as water does in a creek. had the russian army been +alone without any allies, it might perhaps have been a long time before +this consciousness of mismanagement became a general conviction, but as +it was, the disorder was readily and naturally attributed to the stupid +germans, and everyone was convinced that a dangerous muddle had been +occasioned by the sausage eaters. + +“why have we stopped? is the way blocked? or have we already come up +against the french?” + +“no, one can’t hear them. they’d be firing if we had.” + +“they were in a hurry enough to start us, and now here we stand in +the middle of a field without rhyme or reason. it’s all those damned +germans’ muddling! what stupid devils!” + +“yes, i’d send them on in front, but no fear, they’re crowding up +behind. and now here we stand hungry.” + +“i say, shall we soon be clear? they say the cavalry are blocking the +way,” said an officer. + +“ah, those damned germans! they don’t know their own country!” +said another. + +“what division are you?” shouted an adjutant, riding up. + +“the eighteenth.” + +“then why are you here? you should have gone on long ago, now you +won’t get there till evening.” + +“what stupid orders! they don’t themselves know what they are +doing!” said the officer and rode off. + +then a general rode past shouting something angrily, not in russian. + +“tafa-lafa! but what he’s jabbering no one can make out,” said a +soldier, mimicking the general who had ridden away. “i’d shoot them, +the scoundrels!” + +“we were ordered to be at the place before nine, but we haven’t got +halfway. fine orders!” was being repeated on different sides. + +and the feeling of energy with which the troops had started began to +turn into vexation and anger at the stupid arrangements and at the +germans. + +the cause of the confusion was that while the austrian cavalry was +moving toward our left flank, the higher command found that our center +was too far separated from our right flank and the cavalry were all +ordered to turn back to the right. several thousand cavalry crossed in +front of the infantry, who had to wait. + +at the front an altercation occurred between an austrian guide and a +russian general. the general shouted a demand that the cavalry should be +halted, the austrian argued that not he, but the higher command, was to +blame. the troops meanwhile stood growing listless and dispirited. after +an hour’s delay they at last moved on, descending the hill. the fog +that was dispersing on the hill lay still more densely below, where they +were descending. in front in the fog a shot was heard and then another, +at first irregularly at varying intervals—trata...tat—and then more +and more regularly and rapidly, and the action at the goldbach stream +began. + +not expecting to come on the enemy down by the stream, and having +stumbled on him in the fog, hearing no encouraging word from their +commanders, and with a consciousness of being too late spreading through +the ranks, and above all being unable to see anything in front or around +them in the thick fog, the russians exchanged shots with the enemy +lazily and advanced and again halted, receiving no timely orders from +the officers or adjutants who wandered about in the fog in those unknown +surroundings unable to find their own regiments. in this way the action +began for the first, second, and third columns, which had gone down into +the valley. the fourth column, with which kutúzov was, stood on the +pratzen heights. + +below, where the fight was beginning, there was still thick fog; on the +higher ground it was clearing, but nothing could be seen of what was +going on in front. whether all the enemy forces were, as we supposed, +six miles away, or whether they were near by in that sea of mist, no one +knew till after eight o’clock. + +it was nine o’clock in the morning. the fog lay unbroken like a sea +down below, but higher up at the village of schlappanitz where napoleon +stood with his marshals around him, it was quite light. above him was +a clear blue sky, and the sun’s vast orb quivered like a huge hollow, +crimson float on the surface of that milky sea of mist. the whole french +army, and even napoleon himself with his staff, were not on the far side +of the streams and hollows of sokolnitz and schlappanitz beyond which we +intended to take up our position and begin the action, but were on this +side, so close to our own forces that napoleon with the naked eye could +distinguish a mounted man from one on foot. napoleon, in the blue cloak +which he had worn on his italian campaign, sat on his small gray arab +horse a little in front of his marshals. he gazed silently at the hills +which seemed to rise out of the sea of mist and on which the russian +troops were moving in the distance, and he listened to the sounds of +firing in the valley. not a single muscle of his face—which in those +days was still thin—moved. his gleaming eyes were fixed intently on +one spot. his predictions were being justified. part of the russian +force had already descended into the valley toward the ponds and lakes +and part were leaving these pratzen heights which he intended to attack +and regarded as the key to the position. he saw over the mist that in +a hollow between two hills near the village of pratzen, the russian +columns, their bayonets glittering, were moving continuously in one +direction toward the valley and disappearing one after another into +the mist. from information he had received the evening before, from the +sound of wheels and footsteps heard by the outposts during the night, +by the disorderly movement of the russian columns, and from all +indications, he saw clearly that the allies believed him to be far away +in front of them, and that the columns moving near pratzen constituted +the center of the russian army, and that that center was already +sufficiently weakened to be successfully attacked. but still he did not +begin the engagement. + +today was a great day for him—the anniversary of his coronation. +before dawn he had slept for a few hours, and refreshed, vigorous, and +in good spirits, he mounted his horse and rode out into the field +in that happy mood in which everything seems possible and everything +succeeds. he sat motionless, looking at the heights visible above +the mist, and his cold face wore that special look of confident, +self-complacent happiness that one sees on the face of a boy happily +in love. the marshals stood behind him not venturing to distract his +attention. he looked now at the pratzen heights, now at the sun floating +up out of the mist. + +when the sun had entirely emerged from the fog, and fields and mist were +aglow with dazzling light—as if he had only awaited this to begin the +action—he drew the glove from his shapely white hand, made a sign +with it to the marshals, and ordered the action to begin. the marshals, +accompanied by adjutants, galloped off in different directions, and +a few minutes later the chief forces of the french army moved rapidly +toward those pratzen heights which were being more and more denuded by +russian troops moving down the valley to their left. + + + + + +chapter xv + +at eight o’clock kutúzov rode to pratzen at the head of the fourth +column, milorádovich’s, the one that was to take the place of +przebyszéwski’s and langeron’s columns which had already gone down +into the valley. he greeted the men of the foremost regiment and gave +them the order to march, thereby indicating that he intended to lead +that column himself. when he had reached the village of pratzen he +halted. prince andrew was behind, among the immense number forming the +commander in chief’s suite. he was in a state of suppressed excitement +and irritation, though controlledly calm as a man is at the approach of +a long-awaited moment. he was firmly convinced that this was the day of +his toulon, or his bridge of arcola. how it would come about he did not +know, but he felt sure it would do so. the locality and the position of +our troops were known to him as far as they could be known to anyone +in our army. his own strategic plan, which obviously could not now +be carried out, was forgotten. now, entering into weyrother’s plan, +prince andrew considered possible contingencies and formed new projects +such as might call for his rapidity of perception and decision. + +to the left down below in the mist, the musketry fire of unseen forces +could be heard. it was there prince andrew thought the fight would +concentrate. “there we shall encounter difficulties, and there,” +thought he, “i shall be sent with a brigade or division, and there, +standard in hand, i shall go forward and break whatever is in front of +me.” + +he could not look calmly at the standards of the passing battalions. +seeing them he kept thinking, “that may be the very standard with +which i shall lead the army.” + +in the morning all that was left of the night mist on the heights was +a hoar frost now turning to dew, but in the valleys it still lay like a +milk-white sea. nothing was visible in the valley to the left into which +our troops had descended and from whence came the sounds of firing. +above the heights was the dark clear sky, and to the right the vast orb +of the sun. in front, far off on the farther shore of that sea of mist, +some wooded hills were discernible, and it was there the enemy probably +was, for something could be descried. on the right the guards were +entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and +then a gleam of bayonets; to the left beyond the village similar masses +of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist. in front and +behind moved infantry. the commander in chief was standing at the end of +the village letting the troops pass by him. that morning kutúzov seemed +worn and irritable. the infantry passing before him came to a halt +without any command being given, apparently obstructed by something in +front. + +“do order them to form into battalion columns and go round the +village!” he said angrily to a general who had ridden up. “don’t +you understand, your excellency, my dear sir, that you must not +defile through narrow village streets when we are marching against the +enemy?” + +“i intended to re-form them beyond the village, your excellency,” +answered the general. + +kutúzov laughed bitterly. + +“you’ll make a fine thing of it, deploying in sight of the enemy! +very fine!” + +“the enemy is still far away, your excellency. according to the +dispositions...” + +“the dispositions!” exclaimed kutúzov bitterly. “who told you +that?... kindly do as you are ordered.” + +“yes, sir.” + +“my dear fellow,” nesvítski whispered to prince andrew, “the old +man is as surly as a dog.” + +an austrian officer in a white uniform with green plumes in his hat +galloped up to kutúzov and asked in the emperor’s name had the fourth +column advanced into action. + +kutúzov turned round without answering and his eye happened to fall +upon prince andrew, who was beside him. seeing him, kutúzov’s +malevolent and caustic expression softened, as if admitting that what +was being done was not his adjutant’s fault, and still not answering +the austrian adjutant, he addressed bolkónski. + +“go, my dear fellow, and see whether the third division has passed the +village. tell it to stop and await my orders.” + +hardly had prince andrew started than he stopped him. + +“and ask whether sharpshooters have been posted,” he added. “what +are they doing? what are they doing?” he murmured to himself, still +not replying to the austrian. + +prince andrew galloped off to execute the order. + +overtaking the battalions that continued to advance, he stopped +the third division and convinced himself that there really were no +sharpshooters in front of our columns. the colonel at the head of the +regiment was much surprised at the commander in chief’s order to throw +out skirmishers. he had felt perfectly sure that there were other troops +in front of him and that the enemy must be at least six miles away. +there was really nothing to be seen in front except a barren descent +hidden by dense mist. having given orders in the commander in chief’s +name to rectify this omission, prince andrew galloped back. kutúzov +still in the same place, his stout body resting heavily in the saddle +with the lassitude of age, sat yawning wearily with closed eyes. the +troops were no longer moving, but stood with the butts of their muskets +on the ground. + +“all right, all right!” he said to prince andrew, and turned to a +general who, watch in hand, was saying it was time they started as all +the left-flank columns had already descended. + +“plenty of time, your excellency,” muttered kutúzov in the midst of +a yawn. “plenty of time,” he repeated. + +just then at a distance behind kutúzov was heard the sound of regiments +saluting, and this sound rapidly came nearer along the whole extended +line of the advancing russian columns. evidently the person they were +greeting was riding quickly. when the soldiers of the regiment in front +of which kutúzov was standing began to shout, he rode a little to one +side and looked round with a frown. along the road from pratzen galloped +what looked like a squadron of horsemen in various uniforms. two of them +rode side by side in front, at full gallop. one in a black uniform with +white plumes in his hat rode a bobtailed chestnut horse, the other who +was in a white uniform rode a black one. these were the two emperors +followed by their suites. kutúzov, affecting the manners of an old +soldier at the front, gave the command “attention!” and rode up +to the emperors with a salute. his whole appearance and manner were +suddenly transformed. he put on the air of a subordinate who obeys +without reasoning. with an affectation of respect which evidently struck +alexander unpleasantly, he rode up and saluted. + +this unpleasant impression merely flitted over the young and happy face +of the emperor like a cloud of haze across a clear sky and vanished. +after his illness he looked rather thinner that day than on the field +of olmütz where bolkónski had seen him for the first time abroad, but +there was still the same bewitching combination of majesty and mildness +in his fine gray eyes, and on his delicate lips the same capacity for +varying expression and the same prevalent appearance of goodhearted +innocent youth. + +at the olmütz review he had seemed more majestic; here he seemed +brighter and more energetic. he was slightly flushed after galloping two +miles, and reining in his horse he sighed restfully and looked round +at the faces of his suite, young and animated as his own. czartorýski, +novosíltsev, prince volkónsky, strógonov, and the others, all richly +dressed gay young men on splendid, well-groomed, fresh, only slightly +heated horses, exchanging remarks and smiling, had stopped behind the +emperor. the emperor francis, a rosy, long faced young man, sat very +erect on his handsome black horse, looking about him in a leisurely and +preoccupied manner. he beckoned to one of his white adjutants and asked +some question—“most likely he is asking at what o’clock they +started,” thought prince andrew, watching his old acquaintance with +a smile he could not repress as he recalled his reception at brünn. +in the emperors’ suite were the picked young orderly officers of the +guard and line regiments, russian and austrian. among them were grooms +leading the tsar’s beautiful relay horses covered with embroidered +cloths. + +as when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters +a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of +success reached kutúzov’s cheerless staff with the galloping advent +of all these brilliant young men. + +“why aren’t you beginning, michael ilariónovich?” said the +emperor alexander hurriedly to kutúzov, glancing courteously at the +same time at the emperor francis. + +“i am waiting, your majesty,” answered kutúzov, bending forward +respectfully. + +the emperor, frowning slightly, bent his ear forward as if he had not +quite heard. + +“waiting, your majesty,” repeated kutúzov. (prince andrew noted +that kutúzov’s upper lip twitched unnaturally as he said the +word “waiting.”) “not all the columns have formed up yet, your +majesty.” + +the tsar heard but obviously did not like the reply; he shrugged his +rather round shoulders and glanced at novosíltsev who was near him, as +if complaining of kutúzov. + +“you know, michael ilariónovich, we are not on the empress’ field +where a parade does not begin till all the troops are assembled,” said +the tsar with another glance at the emperor francis, as if inviting +him if not to join in at least to listen to what he was saying. but the +emperor francis continued to look about him and did not listen. + +“that is just why i do not begin, sire,” said kutúzov in a +resounding voice, apparently to preclude the possibility of not being +heard, and again something in his face twitched—“that is just why +i do not begin, sire, because we are not on parade and not on the +empress’ field,” said he clearly and distinctly. + +in the emperor’s suite all exchanged rapid looks that expressed +dissatisfaction and reproach. “old though he may be, he should not, he +certainly should not, speak like that,” their glances seemed to say. + +the tsar looked intently and observantly into kutúzov’s eye +waiting to hear whether he would say anything more. but kutúzov, with +respectfully bowed head, seemed also to be waiting. the silence lasted +for about a minute. + +“however, if you command it, your majesty,” said kutúzov, lifting +his head and again assuming his former tone of a dull, unreasoning, but +submissive general. + +he touched his horse and having called milorádovich, the commander of +the column, gave him the order to advance. + +the troops again began to move, and two battalions of the nóvgorod and +one of the Ápsheron regiment went forward past the emperor. + +as this Ápsheron battalion marched by, the red-faced milorádovich, +without his greatcoat, with his orders on his breast and an enormous +tuft of plumes in his cocked hat worn on one side with its corners front +and back, galloped strenuously forward, and with a dashing salute reined +in his horse before the emperor. + +“god be with you, general!” said the emperor. + +“ma foi, sire, nous ferons ce qui sera dans notre possibilité, +sire,” * he answered gaily, raising nevertheless ironic smiles among +the gentlemen of the tsar’s suite by his poor french. + + * “indeed, sire, we shall do everything it is possible to + do, sire.” + + +milorádovich wheeled his horse sharply and stationed himself a little +behind the emperor. the Ápsheron men, excited by the tsar’s presence, +passed in step before the emperors and their suites at a bold, brisk +pace. + +“lads!” shouted milorádovich in a loud, self-confident, and cheery +voice, obviously so elated by the sound of firing, by the prospect of +battle, and by the sight of the gallant Ápsherons, his comrades in +suvórov’s time, now passing so gallantly before the emperors, that he +forgot the sovereigns’ presence. “lads, it’s not the first village +you’ve had to take,” cried he. + +“glad to do our best!” shouted the soldiers. + +the emperor’s horse started at the sudden cry. this horse that had +carried the sovereign at reviews in russia bore him also here on the +field of austerlitz, enduring the heedless blows of his left foot and +pricking its ears at the sound of shots just as it had done on the +empress’ field, not understanding the significance of the firing, nor +of the nearness of the emperor francis’ black cob, nor of all that was +being said, thought, and felt that day by its rider. + +the emperor turned with a smile to one of his followers and made a +remark to him, pointing to the gallant Ápsherons. + + + + + +chapter xvi + +kutúzov accompanied by his adjutants rode at a walking pace behind the +carabineers. + +when he had gone less than half a mile in the rear of the column he +stopped at a solitary, deserted house that had probably once been an +inn, where two roads parted. both of them led downhill and troops were +marching along both. + +the fog had begun to clear and enemy troops were already dimly visible +about a mile and a half off on the opposite heights. down below, on +the left, the firing became more distinct. kutúzov had stopped and was +speaking to an austrian general. prince andrew, who was a little behind +looking at them, turned to an adjutant to ask him for a field glass. + +“look, look!” said this adjutant, looking not at the troops in the +distance, but down the hill before him. “it’s the french!” + +the two generals and the adjutant took hold of the field glass, trying +to snatch it from one another. the expression on all their faces +suddenly changed to one of horror. the french were supposed to be a +mile and a half away, but had suddenly and unexpectedly appeared just in +front of us. + +“it’s the enemy?... no!... yes, see it is!... for certain.... but +how is that?” said different voices. + +with the naked eye prince andrew saw below them to the right, not more +than five hundred paces from where kutúzov was standing, a dense french +column coming up to meet the Ápsherons. + +“here it is! the decisive moment has arrived. my turn has come,” +thought prince andrew, and striking his horse he rode up to kutúzov. + +“the Ápsherons must be stopped, your excellency,” cried he. but at +that very instant a cloud of smoke spread all round, firing was heard +quite close at hand, and a voice of naïve terror barely two steps from +prince andrew shouted, “brothers! all’s lost!” and at this as if +at a command, everyone began to run. + +confused and ever-increasing crowds were running back to where five +minutes before the troops had passed the emperors. not only would it +have been difficult to stop that crowd, it was even impossible not to +be carried back with it oneself. bolkónski only tried not to lose +touch with it, and looked around bewildered and unable to grasp what was +happening in front of him. nesvítski with an angry face, red and unlike +himself, was shouting to kutúzov that if he did not ride away at once +he would certainly be taken prisoner. kutúzov remained in the same +place and without answering drew out a handkerchief. blood was flowing +from his cheek. prince andrew forced his way to him. + +“you are wounded?” he asked, hardly able to master the trembling of +his lower jaw. + +“the wound is not here, it is there!” said kutúzov, pressing the +handkerchief to his wounded cheek and pointing to the fleeing soldiers. +“stop them!” he shouted, and at the same moment, probably realizing +that it was impossible to stop them, spurred his horse and rode to the +right. + +a fresh wave of the flying mob caught him and bore him back with it. + +the troops were running in such a dense mass that once surrounded by +them it was difficult to get out again. one was shouting, “get on! +why are you hindering us?” another in the same place turned round and +fired in the air; a third was striking the horse kutúzov himself rode. +having by a great effort got away to the left from that flood of men, +kutúzov, with his suite diminished by more than half, rode toward a +sound of artillery fire near by. having forced his way out of the crowd +of fugitives, prince andrew, trying to keep near kutúzov, saw on the +slope of the hill amid the smoke a russian battery that was still firing +and frenchmen running toward it. higher up stood some russian infantry, +neither moving forward to protect the battery nor backward with the +fleeing crowd. a mounted general separated himself from the infantry and +approached kutúzov. of kutúzov’s suite only four remained. they were +all pale and exchanged looks in silence. + +“stop those wretches!” gasped kutúzov to the regimental commander, +pointing to the flying soldiers; but at that instant, as if to punish +him for those words, bullets flew hissing across the regiment and across +kutúzov’s suite like a flock of little birds. + +the french had attacked the battery and, seeing kutúzov, were firing +at him. after this volley the regimental commander clutched at his leg; +several soldiers fell, and a second lieutenant who was holding the +flag let it fall from his hands. it swayed and fell, but caught on the +muskets of the nearest soldiers. the soldiers started firing without +orders. + +“oh! oh! oh!” groaned kutúzov despairingly and looked around.... +“bolkónski!” he whispered, his voice trembling from a consciousness +of the feebleness of age, “bolkónski!” he whispered, pointing to +the disordered battalion and at the enemy, “what’s that?” + +but before he had finished speaking, prince andrew, feeling tears of +shame and anger choking him, had already leapt from his horse and run to +the standard. + +“forward, lads!” he shouted in a voice piercing as a child’s. + +“here it is!” thought he, seizing the staff of the standard and +hearing with pleasure the whistle of bullets evidently aimed at him. +several soldiers fell. + +“hurrah!” shouted prince andrew, and, scarcely able to hold up +the heavy standard, he ran forward with full confidence that the whole +battalion would follow him. + +and really he only ran a few steps alone. one soldier moved and then +another and soon the whole battalion ran forward shouting “hurrah!” +and overtook him. a sergeant of the battalion ran up and took the flag +that was swaying from its weight in prince andrew’s hands, but he +was immediately killed. prince andrew again seized the standard and, +dragging it by the staff, ran on with the battalion. in front he saw our +artillerymen, some of whom were fighting, while others, having abandoned +their guns, were running toward him. he also saw french infantry +soldiers who were seizing the artillery horses and turning the guns +round. prince andrew and the battalion were already within twenty paces +of the cannon. he heard the whistle of bullets above him unceasingly and +to right and left of him soldiers continually groaned and dropped. but +he did not look at them: he looked only at what was going on in front +of him—at the battery. he now saw clearly the figure of a red-haired +gunner with his shako knocked awry, pulling one end of a mop while +a french soldier tugged at the other. he could distinctly see the +distraught yet angry expression on the faces of these two men, who +evidently did not realize what they were doing. + +“what are they about?” thought prince andrew as he gazed at them. +“why doesn’t the red-haired gunner run away as he is unarmed? +why doesn’t the frenchman stab him? he will not get away before the +frenchman remembers his bayonet and stabs him....” + +and really another french soldier, trailing his musket, ran up to +the struggling men, and the fate of the red-haired gunner, who had +triumphantly secured the mop and still did not realize what awaited him, +was about to be decided. but prince andrew did not see how it ended. it +seemed to him as though one of the soldiers near him hit him on the head +with the full swing of a bludgeon. it hurt a little, but the worst of +it was that the pain distracted him and prevented his seeing what he had +been looking at. + +“what’s this? am i falling? my legs are giving way,” thought he, +and fell on his back. he opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle +of the frenchmen with the gunners ended, whether the red-haired gunner +had been killed or not and whether the cannon had been captured or +saved. but he saw nothing. above him there was now nothing but the +sky—the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray +clouds gliding slowly across it. “how quiet, peaceful, and solemn; not +at all as i ran,” thought prince andrew—“not as we ran, shouting +and fighting, not at all as the gunner and the frenchman with frightened +and angry faces struggled for the mop: how differently do those clouds +glide across that lofty infinite sky! how was it i did not see that +lofty sky before? and how happy i am to have found it at last! yes! all +is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. there is nothing, +nothing, but that. but even it does not exist, there is nothing but +quiet and peace. thank god!...” + + + + + +chapter xvii + +on our right flank commanded by bagratión, at nine o’clock the battle +had not yet begun. not wishing to agree to dolgorúkov’s demand to +commence the action, and wishing to avert responsibility from himself, +prince bagratión proposed to dolgorúkov to send to inquire of the +commander in chief. bagratión knew that as the distance between the two +flanks was more than six miles, even if the messenger were not killed +(which he very likely would be), and found the commander in chief +(which would be very difficult), he would not be able to get back before +evening. + +bagratión cast his large, expressionless, sleepy eyes round his suite, +and the boyish face rostóv, breathless with excitement and hope, was +the first to catch his eye. he sent him. + +“and if i should meet his majesty before i meet the commander in +chief, your excellency?” said rostóv, with his hand to his cap. + +“you can give the message to his majesty,” said dolgorúkov, +hurriedly interrupting bagratión. + +on being relieved from picket duty rostóv had managed to get a few +hours’ sleep before morning and felt cheerful, bold, and resolute, +with elasticity of movement, faith in his good fortune, and generally in +that state of mind which makes everything seem possible, pleasant, and +easy. + +all his wishes were being fulfilled that morning: there was to be a +general engagement in which he was taking part, more than that, he was +orderly to the bravest general, and still more, he was going with a +message to kutúzov, perhaps even to the sovereign himself. the morning +was bright, he had a good horse under him, and his heart was full of +joy and happiness. on receiving the order he gave his horse the rein +and galloped along the line. at first he rode along the line of +bagratión’s troops, which had not yet advanced into action but were +standing motionless; then he came to the region occupied by uvárov’s +cavalry and here he noticed a stir and signs of preparation for battle; +having passed uvárov’s cavalry he clearly heard the sound of cannon +and musketry ahead of him. the firing grew louder and louder. + +in the fresh morning air were now heard, not two or three musket shots +at irregular intervals as before, followed by one or two cannon shots, +but a roll of volleys of musketry from the slopes of the hill before +pratzen, interrupted by such frequent reports of cannon that sometimes +several of them were not separated from one another but merged into a +general roar. + +he could see puffs of musketry smoke that seemed to chase one another +down the hillsides, and clouds of cannon smoke rolling, spreading, +and mingling with one another. he could also, by the gleam of bayonets +visible through the smoke, make out moving masses of infantry and narrow +lines of artillery with green caissons. + +rostóv stopped his horse for a moment on a hillock to see what was +going on, but strain his attention as he would he could not understand +or make out anything of what was happening: there in the smoke men of +some sort were moving about, in front and behind moved lines of troops; +but why, whither, and who they were, it was impossible to make out. +these sights and sounds had no depressing or intimidating effect on him; +on the contrary, they stimulated his energy and determination. + +“go on! go on! give it them!” he mentally exclaimed at these sounds, +and again proceeded to gallop along the line, penetrating farther and +farther into the region where the army was already in action. + +“how it will be there i don’t know, but all will be well!” thought +rostóv. + +after passing some austrian troops he noticed that the next part of the +line (the guards) was already in action. + +“so much the better! i shall see it close,” he thought. + +he was riding almost along the front line. a handful of men came +galloping toward him. they were our uhlans who with disordered +ranks were returning from the attack. rostóv got out of their way, +involuntarily noticed that one of them was bleeding, and galloped on. + +“that is no business of mine,” he thought. he had not ridden many +hundred yards after that before he saw to his left, across the whole +width of the field, an enormous mass of cavalry in brilliant white +uniforms, mounted on black horses, trotting straight toward him and +across his path. rostóv put his horse to full gallop to get out of the +way of these men, and he would have got clear had they continued at the +same speed, but they kept increasing their pace, so that some of the +horses were already galloping. rostóv heard the thud of their hoofs +and the jingle of their weapons and saw their horses, their figures, and +even their faces, more and more distinctly. they were our horse guards, +advancing to attack the french cavalry that was coming to meet them. + +the horse guards were galloping, but still holding in their horses. +rostóv could already see their faces and heard the command: +“charge!” shouted by an officer who was urging his thoroughbred to +full speed. rostóv, fearing to be crushed or swept into the attack on +the french, galloped along the front as hard as his horse could go, but +still was not in time to avoid them. + +the last of the horse guards, a huge pockmarked fellow, frowned angrily +on seeing rostóv before him, with whom he would inevitably collide. +this guardsman would certainly have bowled rostóv and his bedouin over +(rostóv felt himself quite tiny and weak compared to these gigantic men +and horses) had it not occurred to rostóv to flourish his whip before +the eyes of the guardsman’s horse. the heavy black horse, sixteen +hands high, shied, throwing back its ears; but the pockmarked guardsman +drove his huge spurs in violently, and the horse, flourishing its tail +and extending its neck, galloped on yet faster. hardly had the horse +guards passed rostóv before he heard them shout, “hurrah!” and +looking back saw that their foremost ranks were mixed up with some +foreign cavalry with red epaulets, probably french. he could see nothing +more, for immediately afterwards cannon began firing from somewhere and +smoke enveloped everything. + +at that moment, as the horse guards, having passed him, disappeared in +the smoke, rostóv hesitated whether to gallop after them or to go where +he was sent. this was the brilliant charge of the horse guards that +amazed the french themselves. rostóv was horrified to hear later that +of all that mass of huge and handsome men, of all those brilliant, +rich youths, officers and cadets, who had galloped past him on their +thousand-ruble horses, only eighteen were left after the charge. + +“why should i envy them? my chance is not lost, and maybe i shall see +the emperor immediately!” thought rostóv and galloped on. + +when he came level with the foot guards he noticed that about them and +around them cannon balls were flying, of which he was aware not so +much because he heard their sound as because he saw uneasiness on +the soldiers’ faces and unnatural warlike solemnity on those of the +officers. + +passing behind one of the lines of a regiment of foot guards he heard a +voice calling him by name. + +“rostóv!” + +“what?” he answered, not recognizing borís. + +“i say, we’ve been in the front line! our regiment attacked!” said +borís with the happy smile seen on the faces of young men who have been +under fire for the first time. + +rostóv stopped. + +“have you?” he said. “well, how did it go?” + +“we drove them back!” said borís with animation, growing talkative. +“can you imagine it?” and he began describing how the guards, having +taken up their position and seeing troops before them, thought they were +austrians, and all at once discovered from the cannon balls discharged +by those troops that they were themselves in the front line and had +unexpectedly to go into action. rostóv without hearing borís to the +end spurred his horse. + +“where are you off to?” asked borís. + +“with a message to his majesty.” + +“there he is!” said borís, thinking rostóv had said “his +highness,” and pointing to the grand duke who with his high shoulders +and frowning brows stood a hundred paces away from them in his helmet +and horse guards’ jacket, shouting something to a pale, white +uniformed austrian officer. + +“but that’s the grand duke, and i want the commander in chief or the +emperor,” said rostóv, and was about to spur his horse. + +“count! count!” shouted berg who ran up from the other side as eager +as borís. “count! i am wounded in my right hand” (and he showed his +bleeding hand with a handkerchief tied round it) “and i remained at +the front. i held my sword in my left hand, count. all our family—the +von bergs—have been knights!” + +he said something more, but rostóv did not wait to hear it and rode +away. + +having passed the guards and traversed an empty space, rostóv, to avoid +again getting in front of the first line as he had done when the horse +guards charged, followed the line of reserves, going far round the place +where the hottest musket fire and cannonade were heard. suddenly he +heard musket fire quite close in front of him and behind our troops, +where he could never have expected the enemy to be. + +“what can it be?” he thought. “the enemy in the rear of our army? +impossible!” and suddenly he was seized by a panic of fear for himself +and for the issue of the whole battle. “but be that what it may,” +he reflected, “there is no riding round it now. i must look for the +commander in chief here, and if all is lost it is for me to perish with +the rest.” + +the foreboding of evil that had suddenly come over rostóv was more and +more confirmed the farther he rode into the region behind the village of +pratzen, which was full of troops of all kinds. + +“what does it mean? what is it? whom are they firing at? who is +firing?” rostóv kept asking as he came up to russian and austrian +soldiers running in confused crowds across his path. + +“the devil knows! they’ve killed everybody! it’s all up now!” +he was told in russian, german, and czech by the crowd of fugitives who +understood what was happening as little as he did. + +“kill the germans!” shouted one. + +“may the devil take them—the traitors!” + +“zum henker diese russen!” * muttered a german. + + * “hang these russians!” + + +several wounded men passed along the road, and words of abuse, screams, +and groans mingled in a general hubbub, then the firing died down. +rostóv learned later that russian and austrian soldiers had been firing +at one another. + +“my god! what does it all mean?” thought he. “and here, where at +any moment the emperor may see them.... but no, these must be only a +handful of scoundrels. it will soon be over, it can’t be that, it +can’t be! only to get past them quicker, quicker!” + +the idea of defeat and flight could not enter rostóv’s head. though +he saw french cannon and french troops on the pratzen heights just where +he had been ordered to look for the commander in chief, he could not, +did not wish to, believe that. + + + + + +chapter xviii + +rostóv had been ordered to look for kutúzov and the emperor near the +village of pratzen. but neither they nor a single commanding officer +were there, only disorganized crowds of troops of various kinds. he +urged on his already weary horse to get quickly past these crowds, but +the farther he went the more disorganized they were. the highroad on +which he had come out was thronged with calèches, carriages of all +sorts, and russian and austrian soldiers of all arms, some wounded and +some not. this whole mass droned and jostled in confusion under the +dismal influence of cannon balls flying from the french batteries +stationed on the pratzen heights. + +“where is the emperor? where is kutúzov?” rostóv kept asking +everyone he could stop, but got no answer from anyone. + +at last seizing a soldier by his collar he forced him to answer. + +“eh, brother! they’ve all bolted long ago!” said the soldier, +laughing for some reason and shaking himself free. + +having left that soldier who was evidently drunk, rostóv stopped the +horse of a batman or groom of some important personage and began to +question him. the man announced that the tsar had been driven in a +carriage at full speed about an hour before along that very road and +that he was dangerously wounded. + +“it can’t be!” said rostóv. “it must have been someone else.” + +“i saw him myself,” replied the man with a self-confident smile of +derision. “i ought to know the emperor by now, after the times i’ve +seen him in petersburg. i saw him just as i see you.... there he sat in +the carriage as pale as anything. how they made the four black horses +fly! gracious me, they did rattle past! it’s time i knew the imperial +horses and ilyá iványch. i don’t think ilyá drives anyone except +the tsar!” + +rostóv let go of the horse and was about to ride on, when a wounded +officer passing by addressed him: + +“who is it you want?” he asked. “the commander in chief? he was +killed by a cannon ball—struck in the breast before our regiment.” + +“not killed—wounded!” another officer corrected him. + +“who? kutúzov?” asked rostóv. + +“not kutúzov, but what’s his name—well, never mind... there are +not many left alive. go that way, to that village, all the commanders +are there,” said the officer, pointing to the village of hosjeradek, +and he walked on. + +rostóv rode on at a footpace not knowing why or to whom he was now +going. the emperor was wounded, the battle lost. it was impossible to +doubt it now. rostóv rode in the direction pointed out to him, in which +he saw turrets and a church. what need to hurry? what was he now to say +to the tsar or to kutúzov, even if they were alive and unwounded? + +“take this road, your honor, that way you will be killed at once!” a +soldier shouted to him. “they’d kill you there!” + +“oh, what are you talking about?” said another. “where is he to +go? that way is nearer.” + +rostóv considered, and then went in the direction where they said he +would be killed. + +“it’s all the same now. if the emperor is wounded, am i to try to +save myself?” he thought. he rode on to the region where the greatest +number of men had perished in fleeing from pratzen. the french had not +yet occupied that region, and the russians—the uninjured and slightly +wounded—had left it long ago. all about the field, like heaps of +manure on well-kept plowland, lay from ten to fifteen dead and wounded +to each couple of acres. the wounded crept together in twos and threes +and one could hear their distressing screams and groans, sometimes +feigned—or so it seemed to rostóv. he put his horse to a trot to +avoid seeing all these suffering men, and he felt afraid—afraid not +for his life, but for the courage he needed and which he knew would not +stand the sight of these unfortunates. + +the french, who had ceased firing at this field strewn with dead and +wounded where there was no one left to fire at, on seeing an adjutant +riding over it trained a gun on him and fired several shots. the +sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around +him merged in rostóv’s mind into a single feeling of terror and pity +for himself. he remembered his mother’s last letter. “what would she +feel,” thought he, “if she saw me here now on this field with the +cannon aimed at me?” + +in the village of hosjeradek there were russian troops retiring from +the field of battle, who though still in some confusion were less +disordered. the french cannon did not reach there and the musketry fire +sounded far away. here everyone clearly saw and said that the battle +was lost. no one whom rostóv asked could tell him where the emperor +or kutúzov was. some said the report that the emperor was wounded was +correct, others that it was not, and explained the false rumor that had +spread by the fact that the emperor’s carriage had really galloped +from the field of battle with the pale and terrified ober-hofmarschal +count tolstóy, who had ridden out to the battlefield with others in +the emperor’s suite. one officer told rostóv that he had seen someone +from headquarters behind the village to the left, and thither rostóv +rode, not hoping to find anyone but merely to ease his conscience. when +he had ridden about two miles and had passed the last of the russian +troops, he saw, near a kitchen garden with a ditch round it, two men +on horseback facing the ditch. one with a white plume in his hat seemed +familiar to rostóv; the other on a beautiful chestnut horse (which +rostóv fancied he had seen before) rode up to the ditch, struck his +horse with his spurs, and giving it the rein leaped lightly over. only +a little earth crumbled from the bank under the horse’s hind hoofs. +turning the horse sharply, he again jumped the ditch, and deferentially +addressed the horseman with the white plumes, evidently suggesting +that he should do the same. the rider, whose figure seemed familiar +to rostóv and involuntarily riveted his attention, made a gesture of +refusal with his head and hand and by that gesture rostóv instantly +recognized his lamented and adored monarch. + +“but it can’t be he, alone in the midst of this empty field!” +thought rostóv. at that moment alexander turned his head and rostóv +saw the beloved features that were so deeply engraved on his memory. the +emperor was pale, his cheeks sunken and his eyes hollow, but the charm, +the mildness of his features, was all the greater. rostóv was happy +in the assurance that the rumors about the emperor being wounded were +false. he was happy to be seeing him. he knew that he might and even +ought to go straight to him and give the message dolgorúkov had ordered +him to deliver. + +but as a youth in love trembles, is unnerved, and dares not utter the +thoughts he has dreamed of for nights, but looks around for help or a +chance of delay and flight when the longed-for moment comes and he is +alone with her, so rostóv, now that he had attained what he had longed +for more than anything else in the world, did not know how to approach +the emperor, and a thousand reasons occurred to him why it would be +inconvenient, unseemly, and impossible to do so. + +“what! it is as if i were glad of a chance to take advantage of +his being alone and despondent! a strange face may seem unpleasant or +painful to him at this moment of sorrow; besides, what can i say to him +now, when my heart fails me and my mouth feels dry at the mere sight +of him?” not one of the innumerable speeches addressed to the emperor +that he had composed in his imagination could he now recall. those +speeches were intended for quite other conditions, they were for the +most part to be spoken at a moment of victory and triumph, generally +when he was dying of wounds and the sovereign had thanked him for heroic +deeds, and while dying he expressed the love his actions had proved. + +“besides how can i ask the emperor for his instructions for the right +flank now that it is nearly four o’clock and the battle is lost? +no, certainly i must not approach him, i must not intrude on his +reflections. better die a thousand times than risk receiving an unkind +look or bad opinion from him,” rostóv decided; and sorrowfully and +with a heart full despair he rode away, continually looking back at the +tsar, who still remained in the same attitude of indecision. + +while rostóv was thus arguing with himself and riding sadly away, +captain von toll chanced to ride to the same spot, and seeing the +emperor at once rode up to him, offered his services, and assisted him +to cross the ditch on foot. the emperor, wishing to rest and feeling +unwell, sat down under an apple tree and von toll remained beside him. +rostóv from a distance saw with envy and remorse how von toll spoke +long and warmly to the emperor and how the emperor, evidently weeping, +covered his eyes with his hand and pressed von toll’s hand. + +“and i might have been in his place!” thought rostóv, and hardly +restraining his tears of pity for the emperor, he rode on in utter +despair, not knowing where to or why he was now riding. + +his despair was all the greater from feeling that his own weakness was +the cause of his grief. + +he might... not only might but should, have gone up to the sovereign. it +was a unique chance to show his devotion to the emperor and he had not +made use of it.... “what have i done?” thought he. and he turned +round and galloped back to the place where he had seen the emperor, but +there was no one beyond the ditch now. only some carts and carriages +were passing by. from one of the drivers he learned that kutúzov’s +staff were not far off, in the village the vehicles were going to. +rostóv followed them. in front of him walked kutúzov’s groom leading +horses in horsecloths. then came a cart, and behind that walked an old, +bandy-legged domestic serf in a peaked cap and sheepskin coat. + +“tit! i say, tit!” said the groom. + +“what?” answered the old man absent-mindedly. + +“go, tit! thresh a bit!” + +“oh, you fool!” said the old man, spitting angrily. some time passed +in silence, and then the same joke was repeated. + + +before five in the evening the battle had been lost at all points. more +than a hundred cannon were already in the hands of the french. + +przebyszéwski and his corps had laid down their arms. other columns +after losing half their men were retreating in disorderly confused +masses. + +the remains of langeron’s and dokhtúrov’s mingled forces were +crowding around the dams and banks of the ponds near the village of +augesd. + +after five o’clock it was only at the augesd dam that a hot cannonade +(delivered by the french alone) was still to be heard from numerous +batteries ranged on the slopes of the pratzen heights, directed at our +retreating forces. + +in the rearguard, dokhtúrov and others rallying some battalions kept up +a musketry fire at the french cavalry that was pursuing our troops. it +was growing dusk. on the narrow augesd dam where for so many years the +old miller had been accustomed to sit in his tasseled cap peacefully +angling, while his grandson, with shirt sleeves rolled up, handled the +floundering silvery fish in the watering can, on that dam over which for +so many years moravians in shaggy caps and blue jackets had peacefully +driven their two-horse carts loaded with wheat and had returned dusty +with flour whitening their carts—on that narrow dam amid the wagons +and the cannon, under the horses’ hoofs and between the wagon wheels, +men disfigured by fear of death now crowded together, crushing one +another, dying, stepping over the dying and killing one another, only to +move on a few steps and be killed themselves in the same way. + +every ten seconds a cannon ball flew compressing the air around, or +a shell burst in the midst of that dense throng, killing some and +splashing with blood those near them. + +dólokhov—now an officer—wounded in the arm, and on foot, with +the regimental commander on horseback and some ten men of his company, +represented all that was left of that whole regiment. impelled by the +crowd, they had got wedged in at the approach to the dam and, jammed in +on all sides, had stopped because a horse in front had fallen under a +cannon and the crowd were dragging it out. a cannon ball killed someone +behind them, another fell in front and splashed dólokhov with blood. +the crowd, pushing forward desperately, squeezed together, moved a few +steps, and again stopped. + +“move on a hundred yards and we are certainly saved, remain here +another two minutes and it is certain death,” thought each one. + +dólokhov who was in the midst of the crowd forced his way to the edge +of the dam, throwing two soldiers off their feet, and ran onto the +slippery ice that covered the millpool. + +“turn this way!” he shouted, jumping over the ice which creaked +under him; “turn this way!” he shouted to those with the gun. “it +bears!...” + +the ice bore him but it swayed and creaked, and it was plain that it +would give way not only under a cannon or a crowd, but very soon even +under his weight alone. the men looked at him and pressed to the +bank, hesitating to step onto the ice. the general on horseback at the +entrance to the dam raised his hand and opened his mouth to address +dólokhov. suddenly a cannon ball hissed so low above the crowd that +everyone ducked. it flopped into something moist, and the general fell +from his horse in a pool of blood. nobody gave him a look or thought of +raising him. + +“get onto the ice, over the ice! go on! turn! don’t you hear? go +on!” innumerable voices suddenly shouted after the ball had struck +the general, the men themselves not knowing what, or why, they were +shouting. + +one of the hindmost guns that was going onto the dam turned off onto the +ice. crowds of soldiers from the dam began running onto the frozen pond. +the ice gave way under one of the foremost soldiers, and one leg slipped +into the water. he tried to right himself but fell in up to his waist. +the nearest soldiers shrank back, the gun driver stopped his horse, but +from behind still came the shouts: “onto the ice, why do you stop? go +on! go on!” and cries of horror were heard in the crowd. the soldiers +near the gun waved their arms and beat the horses to make them turn and +move on. the horses moved off the bank. the ice, that had held under +those on foot, collapsed in a great mass, and some forty men who were on +it dashed, some forward and some back, drowning one another. + +still the cannon balls continued regularly to whistle and flop onto the +ice and into the water and oftenest of all among the crowd that covered +the dam, the pond, and the bank. + + + + + +chapter xix + +on the pratzen heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his +hand, lay prince andrew bolkónski bleeding profusely and unconsciously +uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan. + +toward evening he ceased moaning and became quite still. he did not know +how long his unconsciousness lasted. suddenly he again felt that he was +alive and suffering from a burning, lacerating pain in his head. + +“where is it, that lofty sky that i did not know till now, but saw +today?” was his first thought. “and i did not know this suffering +either,” he thought. “yes, i did not know anything, anything at all +till now. but where am i?” + +he listened and heard the sound of approaching horses, and voices +speaking french. he opened his eyes. above him again was the same lofty +sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and +between them gleamed blue infinity. he did not turn his head and did not +see those who, judging by the sound of hoofs and voices, had ridden up +and stopped near him. + +it was napoleon accompanied by two aides-de-camp. bonaparte riding +over the battlefield had given final orders to strengthen the batteries +firing at the augesd dam and was looking at the killed and wounded left +on the field. + +“fine men!” remarked napoleon, looking at a dead russian grenadier, +who, with his face buried in the ground and a blackened nape, lay on his +stomach with an already stiffened arm flung wide. + +“the ammunition for the guns in position is exhausted, your +majesty,” said an adjutant who had come from the batteries that were +firing at augesd. + +“have some brought from the reserve,” said napoleon, and having gone +on a few steps he stopped before prince andrew, who lay on his back with +the flagstaff that had been dropped beside him. (the flag had already +been taken by the french as a trophy.) + +“that’s a fine death!” said napoleon as he gazed at bolkónski. + +prince andrew understood that this was said of him and that it was +napoleon who said it. he heard the speaker addressed as sire. but he +heard the words as he might have heard the buzzing of a fly. not only +did they not interest him, but he took no notice of them and at once +forgot them. his head was burning, he felt himself bleeding to death, +and he saw above him the remote, lofty, and everlasting sky. he knew it +was napoleon—his hero—but at that moment napoleon seemed to him +such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was passing now +between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over +it. at that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over +him, or what was said of him; he was only glad that people were standing +near him and only wished that they would help him and bring him back to +life, which seemed to him so beautiful now that he had today learned to +understand it so differently. he collected all his strength, to stir and +utter a sound. he feebly moved his leg and uttered a weak, sickly groan +which aroused his own pity. + +“ah! he is alive,” said napoleon. “lift this young man up and +carry him to the dressing station.” + +having said this, napoleon rode on to meet marshal lannes, who, hat in +hand, rode up smiling to the emperor to congratulate him on the victory. + +prince andrew remembered nothing more: he lost consciousness from the +terrible pain of being lifted onto the stretcher, the jolting while +being moved, and the probing of his wound at the dressing station. +he did not regain consciousness till late in the day, when with other +wounded and captured russian officers he was carried to the hospital. +during this transfer he felt a little stronger and was able to look +about him and even speak. + +the first words he heard on coming to his senses were those of a french +convoy officer, who said rapidly: “we must halt here: the emperor +will pass here immediately; it will please him to see these gentlemen +prisoners.” + +“there are so many prisoners today, nearly the whole russian army, +that he is probably tired of them,” said another officer. + +“all the same! they say this one is the commander of all the emperor +alexander’s guards,” said the first one, indicating a russian +officer in the white uniform of the horse guards. + +bolkónski recognized prince repnín whom he had met in petersburg +society. beside him stood a lad of nineteen, also a wounded officer of +the horse guards. + +bonaparte, having come up at a gallop, stopped his horse. + +“which is the senior?” he asked, on seeing the prisoners. + +they named the colonel, prince repnín. + +“you are the commander of the emperor alexander’s regiment of horse +guards?” asked napoleon. + +“i commanded a squadron,” replied repnín. + +“your regiment fulfilled its duty honorably,” said napoleon. + +“the praise of a great commander is a soldier’s highest reward,” +said repnín. + +“i bestow it with pleasure,” said napoleon. “and who is that young +man beside you?” + +prince repnín named lieutenant sukhtélen. + +after looking at him napoleon smiled. + +“he’s very young to come to meddle with us.” + +“youth is no hindrance to courage,” muttered sukhtélen in a failing +voice. + +“a splendid reply!” said napoleon. “young man, you will go far!” + +prince andrew, who had also been brought forward before the emperor’s +eyes to complete the show of prisoners, could not fail to attract his +attention. napoleon apparently remembered seeing him on the battlefield +and, addressing him, again used the epithet “young man” that was +connected in his memory with prince andrew. + +“well, and you, young man,” said he. “how do you feel, mon +brave?” + +though five minutes before, prince andrew had been able to say a few +words to the soldiers who were carrying him, now with his eyes fixed +straight on napoleon, he was silent.... so insignificant at that moment +seemed to him all the interests that engrossed napoleon, so mean did his +hero himself with his paltry vanity and joy in victory appear, +compared to the lofty, equitable, and kindly sky which he had seen and +understood, that he could not answer him. + +everything seemed so futile and insignificant in comparison with the +stern and solemn train of thought that weakness from loss of blood, +suffering, and the nearness of death aroused in him. looking into +napoleon’s eyes prince andrew thought of the insignificance of +greatness, the unimportance of life which no one could understand, and +the still greater unimportance of death, the meaning of which no one +alive could understand or explain. + +the emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of +the officers as he went: “have these gentlemen attended to and taken +to my bivouac; let my doctor, larrey, examine their wounds. au revoir, +prince repnín!” and he spurred his horse and galloped away. + +his face shone with self-satisfaction and pleasure. + +the soldiers who had carried prince andrew had noticed and taken the +little gold icon princess mary had hung round her brother’s neck, but +seeing the favor the emperor showed the prisoners, they now hastened to +return the holy image. + +prince andrew did not see how and by whom it was replaced, but the +little icon with its thin gold chain suddenly appeared upon his chest +outside his uniform. + +“it would be good,” thought prince andrew, glancing at the icon his +sister had hung round his neck with such emotion and reverence, “it +would be good if everything were as clear and simple as it seems to +mary. how good it would be to know where to seek for help in this life, +and what to expect after it beyond the grave! how happy and calm i +should be if i could now say: ‘lord, have mercy on me!’... but to +whom should i say that? either to a power indefinable, incomprehensible, +which i not only cannot address but which i cannot even express in +words—the great all or nothing-” said he to himself, “or to +that god who has been sewn into this amulet by mary! there is nothing +certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything i +understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but +all-important.” + +the stretchers moved on. at every jolt he again felt unendurable pain; +his feverishness increased and he grew delirious. visions of his father, +wife, sister, and future son, and the tenderness he had felt the night +before the battle, the figure of the insignificant little napoleon, and +above all this the lofty sky, formed the chief subjects of his delirious +fancies. + +the quiet home life and peaceful happiness of bald hills presented +itself to him. he was already enjoying that happiness when that +little napoleon had suddenly appeared with his unsympathizing look of +shortsighted delight at the misery of others, and doubts and torments +had followed, and only the heavens promised peace. toward morning +all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of +unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of napoleon’s doctor, +larrey, was much more likely to end in death than in convalescence. + +“he is a nervous, bilious subject,” said larrey, “and will not +recover.” + +and prince andrew, with others fatally wounded, was left to the care of +the inhabitants of the district. + + + + + +book four: 1806 + + + + + +chapter i + +early in the year 1806 nicholas rostóv returned home on leave. denísov +was going home to vorónezh and rostóv persuaded him to travel with him +as far as moscow and to stay with him there. meeting a comrade at +the last post station but one before moscow, denísov had drunk three +bottles of wine with him and, despite the jolting ruts across the +snow-covered road, did not once wake up on the way to moscow, but lay +at the bottom of the sleigh beside rostóv, who grew more and more +impatient the nearer they got to moscow. + +“how much longer? how much longer? oh, these insufferable streets, +shops, bakers’ signboards, street lamps, and sleighs!” thought +rostóv, when their leave permits had been passed at the town gate and +they had entered moscow. + +“denísov! we’re here! he’s asleep,” he added, leaning forward +with his whole body as if in that position he hoped to hasten the speed +of the sleigh. + +denísov gave no answer. + +“there’s the corner at the crossroads, where the cabman, zakhár, +has his stand, and there’s zakhár himself and still the same horse! +and here’s the little shop where we used to buy gingerbread! can’t +you hurry up? now then!” + +“which house is it?” asked the driver. + +“why, that one, right at the end, the big one. don’t you see? +that’s our house,” said rostóv. “of course, it’s our house! +denísov, denísov! we’re almost there!” + +denísov raised his head, coughed, and made no answer. + +“dmítri,” said rostóv to his valet on the box, “those lights are +in our house, aren’t they?” + +“yes, sir, and there’s a light in your father’s study.” + +“then they’ve not gone to bed yet? what do you think? mind now, +don’t forget to put out my new coat,” added rostóv, fingering his +new mustache. “now then, get on,” he shouted to the driver. “do +wake up, váska!” he went on, turning to denísov, whose head +was again nodding. “come, get on! you shall have three rubles for +vodka—get on!” rostóv shouted, when the sleigh was only three +houses from his door. it seemed to him the horses were not moving at +all. at last the sleigh bore to the right, drew up at an entrance, and +rostóv saw overhead the old familiar cornice with a bit of plaster +broken off, the porch, and the post by the side of the pavement. he +sprang out before the sleigh stopped, and ran into the hall. the house +stood cold and silent, as if quite regardless of who had come to it. +there was no one in the hall. “oh god! is everyone all right?” +he thought, stopping for a moment with a sinking heart, and then +immediately starting to run along the hall and up the warped steps of +the familiar staircase. the well-known old door handle, which always +angered the countess when it was not properly cleaned, turned as loosely +as ever. a solitary tallow candle burned in the anteroom. + +old michael was asleep on the chest. prokófy, the footman, who was +so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat +plaiting slippers out of cloth selvedges. he looked up at the opening +door and his expression of sleepy indifference suddenly changed to one +of delighted amazement. + +“gracious heavens! the young count!” he cried, recognizing his +young master. “can it be? my treasure!” and prokófy, trembling with +excitement, rushed toward the drawing room door, probably in order to +announce him, but, changing his mind, came back and stooped to kiss the +young man’s shoulder. + +“all well?” asked rostóv, drawing away his arm. + +“yes, god be thanked! yes! they’ve just finished supper. let me have +a look at you, your excellency.” + +“is everything quite all right?” + +“the lord be thanked, yes!” + +rostóv, who had completely forgotten denísov, not wishing anyone to +forestall him, threw off his fur coat and ran on tiptoe through the +large dark ballroom. all was the same: there were the same old card +tables and the same chandelier with a cover over it; but someone had +already seen the young master, and, before he had reached the drawing +room, something flew out from a side door like a tornado and began +hugging and kissing him. another and yet another creature of the same +kind sprang from a second door and a third; more hugging, more kissing, +more outcries, and tears of joy. he could not distinguish which was +papa, which natásha, and which pétya. everyone shouted, talked, and +kissed him at the same time. only his mother was not there, he noticed +that. + +“and i did not know... nicholas... my darling!...” + +“here he is... our own... kólya, * dear fellow... how he has +changed!... where are the candles?... tea!...” + + * nicholas. + +“and me, kiss me!” + +“dearest... and me!” + +sónya, natásha, pétya, anna mikháylovna, véra, and the old count +were all hugging him, and the serfs, men and maids, flocked into the +room, exclaiming and oh-ing and ah-ing. + +pétya, clinging to his legs, kept shouting, “and me too!” + +natásha, after she had pulled him down toward her and covered his face +with kisses, holding him tight by the skirt of his coat, sprang away and +pranced up and down in one place like a goat and shrieked piercingly. + +all around were loving eyes glistening with tears of joy, and all around +were lips seeking a kiss. + +sónya too, all rosy red, clung to his arm and, radiant with bliss, +looked eagerly toward his eyes, waiting for the look for which she +longed. sónya now was sixteen and she was very pretty, especially at +this moment of happy, rapturous excitement. she gazed at him, not taking +her eyes off him, and smiling and holding her breath. he gave her a +grateful look, but was still expectant and looking for someone. the old +countess had not yet come. but now steps were heard at the door, steps +so rapid that they could hardly be his mother’s. + +yet it was she, dressed in a new gown which he did not know, made since +he had left. all the others let him go, and he ran to her. when they +met, she fell on his breast, sobbing. she could not lift her face, but +only pressed it to the cold braiding of his hussar’s jacket. denísov, +who had come into the room unnoticed by anyone, stood there and wiped +his eyes at the sight. + +“vasíli denísov, your son’s friend,” he said, introducing +himself to the count, who was looking inquiringly at him. + +“you are most welcome! i know, i know,” said the count, kissing and +embracing denísov. “nicholas wrote us... natásha, véra, look! here +is denísov!” + +the same happy, rapturous faces turned to the shaggy figure of denísov. + +“darling denísov!” screamed natásha, beside herself with rapture, +springing to him, putting her arms round him, and kissing him. this +escapade made everybody feel confused. denísov blushed too, but smiled +and, taking natásha’s hand, kissed it. + +denísov was shown to the room prepared for him, and the rostóvs all +gathered round nicholas in the sitting room. + +the old countess, not letting go of his hand and kissing it every +moment, sat beside him: the rest, crowding round him, watched every +movement, word, or look of his, never taking their blissfully adoring +eyes off him. his brother and sisters struggled for the places nearest +to him and disputed with one another who should bring him his tea, +handkerchief, and pipe. + +rostóv was very happy in the love they showed him; but the first +moment of meeting had been so beatific that his present joy seemed +insufficient, and he kept expecting something more, more and yet more. + +next morning, after the fatigues of their journey, the travelers slept +till ten o’clock. + +in the room next their bedroom there was a confusion of sabers, +satchels, sabretaches, open portmanteaus, and dirty boots. two freshly +cleaned pairs with spurs had just been placed by the wall. the servants +were bringing in jugs and basins, hot water for shaving, and their +well-brushed clothes. there was a masculine odor and a smell of tobacco. + +“hallo, gwíska—my pipe!” came vasíli denísov’s husky voice. +“wostóv, get up!” + +rostóv, rubbing his eyes that seemed glued together, raised his +disheveled head from the hot pillow. + +“why, is it late?” + +“late! it’s nearly ten o’clock,” answered natásha’s voice. +a rustle of starched petticoats and the whispering and laughter of +girls’ voices came from the adjoining room. the door was opened a +crack and there was a glimpse of something blue, of ribbons, black hair, +and merry faces. it was natásha, sónya, and pétya, who had come to +see whether they were getting up. + +“nicholas! get up!” natásha’s voice was again heard at the door. + +“directly!” + +meanwhile, pétya, having found and seized the sabers in the outer room, +with the delight boys feel at the sight of a military elder brother, and +forgetting that it was unbecoming for the girls to see men undressed, +opened the bedroom door. + +“is this your saber?” he shouted. + +the girls sprang aside. denísov hid his hairy legs under the blanket, +looking with a scared face at his comrade for help. the door, having let +pétya in, closed again. a sound of laughter came from behind it. + +“nicholas! come out in your dressing gown!” said natásha’s voice. + +“is this your saber?” asked pétya. “or is it yours?” he said, +addressing the black-mustached denísov with servile deference. + +rostóv hurriedly put something on his feet, drew on his dressing gown, +and went out. natásha had put on one spurred boot and was just getting +her foot into the other. sónya, when he came in, was twirling round and +was about to expand her dresses into a balloon and sit down. they were +dressed alike, in new pale-blue frocks, and were both fresh, rosy, and +bright. sónya ran away, but natásha, taking her brother’s arm, led +him into the sitting room, where they began talking. they hardly gave +one another time to ask questions and give replies concerning a thousand +little matters which could not interest anyone but themselves. natásha +laughed at every word he said or that she said herself, not because what +they were saying was amusing, but because she felt happy and was unable +to control her joy which expressed itself by laughter. + +“oh, how nice, how splendid!” she said to everything. + +rostóv felt that, under the influence of the warm rays of love, that +childlike smile which had not once appeared on his face since he left +home now for the first time after eighteen months again brightened his +soul and his face. + +“no, but listen,” she said, “now you are quite a man, aren’t +you? i’m awfully glad you’re my brother.” she touched his +mustache. “i want to know what you men are like. are you the same as +we? no?” + +“why did sónya run away?” asked rostóv. + +“ah, yes! that’s a whole long story! how are you going to speak to +her—thou or you?” + +“as may happen,” said rostóv. + +“no, call her you, please! i’ll tell you all about it some other +time. no, i’ll tell you now. you know sónya’s my dearest friend. +such a friend that i burned my arm for her sake. look here!” + +she pulled up her muslin sleeve and showed him a red scar on her long, +slender, delicate arm, high above the elbow on that part that is covered +even by a ball dress. + +“i burned this to prove my love for her. i just heated a ruler in the +fire and pressed it there!” + +sitting on the sofa with the little cushions on its arms, in what used +to be his old schoolroom, and looking into natásha’s wildly bright +eyes, rostóv re-entered that world of home and childhood which had no +meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the best joys of his life; +and the burning of an arm with a ruler as a proof of love did not seem +to him senseless, he understood and was not surprised at it. + +“well, and is that all?” he asked. + +“we are such friends, such friends! all that ruler business was just +nonsense, but we are friends forever. she, if she loves anyone, does it +for life, but i don’t understand that, i forget quickly.” + +“well, what then?” + +“well, she loves me and you like that.” + +natásha suddenly flushed. + +“why, you remember before you went away?... well, she says you are to +forget all that.... she says: ‘i shall love him always, but let him be +free.’ isn’t that lovely and noble! yes, very noble? isn’t it?” +asked natásha, so seriously and excitedly that it was evident that what +she was now saying she had talked of before, with tears. + +rostóv became thoughtful. + +“i never go back on my word,” he said. “besides, sónya is so +charming that only a fool would renounce such happiness.” + +“no, no!” cried natásha, “she and i have already talked it over. +we knew you’d say so. but it won’t do, because you see, if you say +that—if you consider yourself bound by your promise—it will seem as +if she had not meant it seriously. it makes it as if you were marrying +her because you must, and that wouldn’t do at all.” + +rostóv saw that it had been well considered by them. sónya had already +struck him by her beauty on the preceding day. today, when he had caught +a glimpse of her, she seemed still more lovely. she was a charming girl +of sixteen, evidently passionately in love with him (he did not doubt +that for an instant). why should he not love her now, and even marry +her, rostóv thought, but just now there were so many other pleasures +and interests before him! “yes, they have taken a wise decision,” he +thought, “i must remain free.” + +“well then, that’s excellent,” said he. “we’ll talk it over +later on. oh, how glad i am to have you!” + +“well, and are you still true to borís?” he continued. + +“oh, what nonsense!” cried natásha, laughing. “i don’t think +about him or anyone else, and i don’t want anything of the kind.” + +“dear me! then what are you up to now?” + +“now?” repeated natásha, and a happy smile lit up her face. “have +you seen duport?” + +“no.” + +“not seen duport—the famous dancer? well then, you won’t +understand. that’s what i’m up to.” + +curving her arms, natásha held out her skirts as dancers do, ran back +a few steps, turned, cut a caper, brought her little feet sharply +together, and made some steps on the very tips of her toes. + +“see, i’m standing! see!” she said, but could not maintain herself +on her toes any longer. “so that’s what i’m up to! i’ll never +marry anyone, but will be a dancer. only don’t tell anyone.” + +rostóv laughed so loud and merrily that denísov, in his bedroom, felt +envious and natásha could not help joining in. + +“no, but don’t you think it’s nice?” she kept repeating. + +“nice! and so you no longer wish to marry borís?” + +natásha flared up. “i don’t want to marry anyone. and i’ll tell +him so when i see him!” + +“dear me!” said rostóv. + +“but that’s all rubbish,” natásha chattered on. “and is +denísov nice?” she asked. + +“yes, indeed!” + +“oh, well then, good-by: go and dress. is he very terrible, +denísov?” + +“why terrible?” asked nicholas. “no, váska is a splendid +fellow.” + +“you call him váska? that’s funny! and is he very nice?” + +“very.” + +“well then, be quick. we’ll all have breakfast together.” + +and natásha rose and went out of the room on tiptoe, like a ballet +dancer, but smiling as only happy girls of fifteen can smile. when +rostóv met sónya in the drawing room, he reddened. he did not know +how to behave with her. the evening before, in the first happy moment of +meeting, they had kissed each other, but today they felt it could not +be done; he felt that everybody, including his mother and sisters, was +looking inquiringly at him and watching to see how he would behave +with her. he kissed her hand and addressed her not as thou but as +you—sónya. but their eyes met and said thou, and exchanged tender +kisses. her looks asked him to forgive her for having dared, by +natásha’s intermediacy, to remind him of his promise, and then +thanked him for his love. his looks thanked her for offering him his +freedom and told her that one way or another he would never cease to +love her, for that would be impossible. + +“how strange it is,” said véra, selecting a moment when all were +silent, “that sónya and nicholas now say you to one another and meet +like strangers.” + +véra’s remark was correct, as her remarks always were, but, like +most of her observations, it made everyone feel uncomfortable, not +only sónya, nicholas, and natásha, but even the old countess, +who—dreading this love affair which might hinder nicholas from making +a brilliant match—blushed like a girl. + +denísov, to rostóv’s surprise, appeared in the drawing room with +pomaded hair, perfumed, and in a new uniform, looking just as smart as +he made himself when going into battle, and he was more amiable to the +ladies and gentlemen than rostóv had ever expected to see him. + + + + + +chapter ii + +on his return to moscow from the army, nicholas rostóv was welcomed +by his home circle as the best of sons, a hero, and their darling +nikólenka; by his relations as a charming, attractive, and polite young +man; by his acquaintances as a handsome lieutenant of hussars, a good +dancer, and one of the best matches in the city. + +the rostóvs knew everybody in moscow. the old count had money enough +that year, as all his estates had been remortgaged, and so nicholas, +acquiring a trotter of his own, very stylish riding breeches of the +latest cut, such as no one else yet had in moscow, and boots of the +latest fashion, with extremely pointed toes and small silver spurs, +passed his time very gaily. after a short period of adapting himself +to the old conditions of life, nicholas found it very pleasant to be +at home again. he felt that he had grown up and matured very much. his +despair at failing in a scripture examination, his borrowing money from +gavríl to pay a sleigh driver, his kissing sónya on the sly—he now +recalled all this as childishness he had left immeasurably behind. +now he was a lieutenant of hussars, in a jacket laced with silver, and +wearing the cross of st. george, awarded to soldiers for bravery in +action, and in the company of well-known, elderly, and respected racing +men was training a trotter of his own for a race. he knew a lady on one +of the boulevards whom he visited of an evening. he led the mazurka +at the arkhárovs’ ball, talked about the war with field marshal +kámenski, visited the english club, and was on intimate terms with a +colonel of forty to whom denísov had introduced him. + +his passion for the emperor had cooled somewhat in moscow. but still, as +he did not see him and had no opportunity of seeing him, he often spoke +about him and about his love for him, letting it be understood that he +had not told all and that there was something in his feelings for the +emperor not everyone could understand, and with his whole soul he shared +the adoration then common in moscow for the emperor, who was spoken of +as the “angel incarnate.” + +during rostóv’s short stay in moscow, before rejoining the army, he +did not draw closer to sónya, but rather drifted away from her. she was +very pretty and sweet, and evidently deeply in love with him, but he was +at the period of youth when there seems so much to do that there is no +time for that sort of thing and a young man fears to bind himself and +prizes his freedom which he needs for so many other things. when he +thought of sónya, during this stay in moscow, he said to himself, +“ah, there will be, and there are, many more such girls somewhere whom +i do not yet know. there will be time enough to think about love when i +want to, but now i have no time.” besides, it seemed to him that the +society of women was rather derogatory to his manhood. he went to balls +and into ladies’ society with an affectation of doing so against his +will. the races, the english club, sprees with denísov, and visits to +a certain house—that was another matter and quite the thing for a +dashing young hussar! + +at the beginning of march, old count ilyá rostóv was very busy +arranging a dinner in honor of prince bagratión at the english club. + +the count walked up and down the hall in his dressing gown, giving +orders to the club steward and to the famous feoktíst, the club’s +head cook, about asparagus, fresh cucumbers, strawberries, veal, and +fish for this dinner. the count had been a member and on the committee +of the club from the day it was founded. to him the club entrusted the +arrangement of the festival in honor of bagratión, for few men knew +so well how to arrange a feast on an open-handed, hospitable scale, +and still fewer men would be so well able and willing to make up out of +their own resources what might be needed for the success of the fete. +the club cook and the steward listened to the count’s orders with +pleased faces, for they knew that under no other management could they +so easily extract a good profit for themselves from a dinner costing +several thousand rubles. + +“well then, mind and have cocks’ comb in the turtle soup, you +know!” + +“shall we have three cold dishes then?” asked the cook. + +the count considered. + +“we can’t have less—yes, three... the mayonnaise, that’s one,” +said he, bending down a finger. + +“then am i to order those large sterlets?” asked the steward. + +“yes, it can’t be helped if they won’t take less. ah, dear me! i +was forgetting. we must have another entrée. ah, goodness gracious!” +he clutched at his head. “who is going to get me the flowers? dmítri! +eh, dmítri! gallop off to our moscow estate,” he said to the factotum +who appeared at his call. “hurry off and tell maksím, the gardener, +to set the serfs to work. say that everything out of the hothouses must +be brought here well wrapped up in felt. i must have two hundred pots +here on friday.” + +having given several more orders, he was about to go to his “little +countess” to have a rest, but remembering something else of +importance, he returned again, called back the cook and the club +steward, and again began giving orders. a light footstep and the +clinking of spurs were heard at the door, and the young count, handsome, +rosy, with a dark little mustache, evidently rested and made sleeker by +his easy life in moscow, entered the room. + +“ah, my boy, my head’s in a whirl!” said the old man with a smile, +as if he felt a little confused before his son. “now, if you would +only help a bit! i must have singers too. i shall have my own orchestra, +but shouldn’t we get the gypsy singers as well? you military men like +that sort of thing.” + +“really, papa, i believe prince bagratión worried himself less before +the battle of schön grabern than you do now,” said his son with a +smile. + +the old count pretended to be angry. + +“yes, you talk, but try it yourself!” + +and the count turned to the cook, who, with a shrewd and respectful +expression, looked observantly and sympathetically at the father and +son. + +“what have the young people come to nowadays, eh, feoktíst?” said +he. “laughing at us old fellows!” + +“that’s so, your excellency, all they have to do is to eat a good +dinner, but providing it and serving it all up, that’s not their +business!” + +“that’s it, that’s it!” exclaimed the count, and gaily seizing +his son by both hands, he cried, “now i’ve got you, so take the +sleigh and pair at once, and go to bezúkhov’s, and tell him ‘count +ilyá has sent you to ask for strawberries and fresh pineapples.’ we +can’t get them from anyone else. he’s not there himself, so you’ll +have to go in and ask the princesses; and from there go on to the +rasgulyáy—the coachman ipátka knows—and look up the gypsy +ilyúshka, the one who danced at count orlóv’s, you remember, in a +white cossack coat, and bring him along to me.” + +“and am i to bring the gypsy girls along with him?” asked nicholas, +laughing. “dear, dear!...” + +at that moment, with noiseless footsteps and with the businesslike, +preoccupied, yet meekly christian look which never left her face, anna +mikháylovna entered the hall. though she came upon the count in his +dressing gown every day, he invariably became confused and begged her to +excuse his costume. + +“no matter at all, my dear count,” she said, meekly closing her +eyes. “but i’ll go to bezúkhov’s myself. pierre has arrived, and +now we shall get anything we want from his hothouses. i have to see him +in any case. he has forwarded me a letter from borís. thank god, borís +is now on the staff.” + +the count was delighted at anna mikháylovna’s taking upon herself one +of his commissions and ordered the small closed carriage for her. + +“tell bezúkhov to come. i’ll put his name down. is his wife with +him?” he asked. + +anna mikháylovna turned up her eyes, and profound sadness was depicted +on her face. + +“ah, my dear friend, he is very unfortunate,” she said. “if what +we hear is true, it is dreadful. how little we dreamed of such a thing +when we were rejoicing at his happiness! and such a lofty angelic soul +as young bezúkhov! yes, i pity him from my heart, and shall try to give +him what consolation i can.” + +“wh-what is the matter?” asked both the young and old rostóv. + +anna mikháylovna sighed deeply. + +“dólokhov, mary ivánovna’s son,” she said in a mysterious +whisper, “has compromised her completely, they say. pierre took him +up, invited him to his house in petersburg, and now... she has come here +and that daredevil after her!” said anna mikháylovna, wishing to show +her sympathy for pierre, but by involuntary intonations and a half smile +betraying her sympathy for the “daredevil,” as she called dólokhov. +“they say pierre is quite broken by his misfortune.” + +“dear, dear! but still tell him to come to the club—it will all blow +over. it will be a tremendous banquet.” + +next day, the third of march, soon after one o’clock, two hundred and +fifty members of the english club and fifty guests were awaiting the +guest of honor and hero of the austrian campaign, prince bagratión, to +dinner. + +on the first arrival of the news of the battle of austerlitz, moscow had +been bewildered. at that time, the russians were so used to victories +that on receiving news of the defeat some would simply not believe it, +while others sought some extraordinary explanation of so strange an +event. in the english club, where all who were distinguished, important, +and well informed foregathered when the news began to arrive in +december, nothing was said about the war and the last battle, as +though all were in a conspiracy of silence. the men who set the tone +in conversation—count rostopchín, prince yúri dolgorúkov, valúev, +count markóv, and prince vyázemski—did not show themselves at the +club, but met in private houses in intimate circles, and the +moscovites who took their opinions from others—ilyá rostóv among +them—remained for a while without any definite opinion on the subject +of the war and without leaders. the moscovites felt that something was +wrong and that to discuss the bad news was difficult, and so it was best +to be silent. but after a while, just as a jury comes out of its room, +the bigwigs who guided the club’s opinion reappeared, and everybody +began speaking clearly and definitely. reasons were found for the +incredible, unheard-of, and impossible event of a russian defeat, +everything became clear, and in all corners of moscow the same things +began to be said. these reasons were the treachery of the austrians, a +defective commissariat, the treachery of the pole przebyszéwski and of +the frenchman langeron, kutúzov’s incapacity, and (it was whispered) +the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless +and insignificant people. but the army, the russian army, everyone +declared, was extraordinary and had achieved miracles of valor. the +soldiers, officers, and generals were heroes. but the hero of heroes was +prince bagratión, distinguished by his schön grabern affair and by +the retreat from austerlitz, where he alone had withdrawn his column +unbroken and had all day beaten back an enemy force twice as numerous +as his own. what also conduced to bagratión’s being selected as +moscow’s hero was the fact that he had no connections in the city +and was a stranger there. in his person, honor was shown to a simple +fighting russian soldier without connections and intrigues, and to one +who was associated by memories of the italian campaign with the name of +suvórov. moreover, paying such honor to bagratión was the best way of +expressing disapproval and dislike of kutúzov. + +“had there been no bagratión, it would have been necessary to +invent him,” said the wit shinshín, parodying the words of voltaire. +kutúzov no one spoke of, except some who abused him in whispers, +calling him a court weathercock and an old satyr. + +all moscow repeated prince dolgorúkov’s saying: “if you go on +modeling and modeling you must get smeared with clay,” suggesting +consolation for our defeat by the memory of former victories; and the +words of rostopchín, that french soldiers have to be incited to battle +by highfalutin words, and germans by logical arguments to show them +that it is more dangerous to run away than to advance, but that russian +soldiers only need to be restrained and held back! on all sides, new and +fresh anecdotes were heard of individual examples of heroism shown by +our officers and men at austerlitz. one had saved a standard, another +had killed five frenchmen, a third had loaded five cannon singlehanded. +berg was mentioned, by those who did not know him, as having, when +wounded in the right hand, taken his sword in the left, and gone +forward. of bolkónski, nothing was said, and only those who knew him +intimately regretted that he had died so young, leaving a pregnant wife +with his eccentric father. + + + + + +chapter iii + +on that third of march, all the rooms in the english club were filled +with a hum of conversation, like the hum of bees swarming in springtime. +the members and guests of the club wandered hither and thither, sat, +stood, met, and separated, some in uniform and some in evening dress, +and a few here and there with powdered hair and in russian kaftáns. +powdered footmen, in livery with buckled shoes and smart stockings, +stood at every door anxiously noting visitors’ every movement in order +to offer their services. most of those present were elderly, respected +men with broad, self-confident faces, fat fingers, and resolute gestures +and voices. this class of guests and members sat in certain habitual +places and met in certain habitual groups. a minority of those present +were casual guests—chiefly young men, among whom were denísov, +rostóv, and dólokhov—who was now again an officer in the semënov +regiment. the faces of these young people, especially those who were +military men, bore that expression of condescending respect for their +elders which seems to say to the older generation, “we are prepared to +respect and honor you, but all the same remember that the future belongs +to us.” + +nesvítski was there as an old member of the club. pierre, who at his +wife’s command had let his hair grow and abandoned his spectacles, +went about the rooms fashionably dressed but looking sad and dull. here, +as elsewhere, he was surrounded by an atmosphere of subservience to +his wealth, and being in the habit of lording it over these people, he +treated them with absent-minded contempt. + +by his age he should have belonged to the younger men, but by his wealth +and connections he belonged to the groups of old and honored guests, and +so he went from one group to another. some of the most important old men +were the center of groups which even strangers approached respectfully +to hear the voices of well-known men. the largest circles formed round +count rostopchín, valúev, and narýshkin. rostopchín was describing +how the russians had been overwhelmed by flying austrians and had had to +force their way through them with bayonets. + +valúev was confidentially telling that uvárov had been sent from +petersburg to ascertain what moscow was thinking about austerlitz. + +in the third circle, narýshkin was speaking of the meeting of the +austrian council of war at which suvórov crowed like a cock in reply to +the nonsense talked by the austrian generals. shinshín, standing close +by, tried to make a joke, saying that kutúzov had evidently failed to +learn from suvórov even so simple a thing as the art of crowing like a +cock, but the elder members glanced severely at the wit, making him +feel that in that place and on that day, it was improper to speak so of +kutúzov. + +count ilyá rostóv, hurried and preoccupied, went about in his soft +boots between the dining and drawing rooms, hastily greeting the +important and unimportant, all of whom he knew, as if they were all +equals, while his eyes occasionally sought out his fine well-set-up +young son, resting on him and winking joyfully at him. young rostóv +stood at a window with dólokhov, whose acquaintance he had lately +made and highly valued. the old count came up to them and pressed +dólokhov’s hand. + +“please come and visit us... you know my brave boy... been together +out there... both playing the hero... ah, vasíli ignátovich... +how d’ye do, old fellow?” he said, turning to an old man who was +passing, but before he had finished his greeting there was a general +stir, and a footman who had run in announced, with a frightened face: +“he’s arrived!” + +bells rang, the stewards rushed forward, and—like rye shaken together +in a shovel—the guests who had been scattered about in different rooms +came together and crowded in the large drawing room by the door of the +ballroom. + +bagratión appeared in the doorway of the anteroom without hat or sword, +which, in accord with the club custom, he had given up to the hall +porter. he had no lambskin cap on his head, nor had he a loaded whip +over his shoulder, as when rostóv had seen him on the eve of the battle +of austerlitz, but wore a tight new uniform with russian and foreign +orders, and the star of st. george on his left breast. evidently just +before coming to the dinner he had had his hair and whiskers trimmed, +which changed his appearance for the worse. there was something naïvely +festive in his air, which, in conjunction with his firm and virile +features, gave him a rather comical expression. bekleshëv and theodore +uvárov, who had arrived with him, paused at the doorway to allow him, +as the guest of honor, to enter first. bagratión was embarrassed, not +wishing to avail himself of their courtesy, and this caused some delay +at the doors, but after all he did at last enter first. he walked shyly +and awkwardly over the parquet floor of the reception room, not knowing +what to do with his hands; he was more accustomed to walk over a plowed +field under fire, as he had done at the head of the kursk regiment at +schön grabern—and he would have found that easier. the committeemen +met him at the first door and, expressing their delight at seeing such a +highly honored guest, took possession of him as it were, without waiting +for his reply, surrounded him, and led him to the drawing room. it was +at first impossible to enter the drawing room door for the crowd of +members and guests jostling one another and trying to get a good look +at bagratión over each other’s shoulders, as if he were some rare +animal. count ilyá rostóv, laughing and repeating the words, “make +way, dear boy! make way, make way!” pushed through the crowd more +energetically than anyone, led the guests into the drawing room, and +seated them on the center sofa. the bigwigs, the most respected members +of the club, beset the new arrivals. count ilyá, again thrusting his +way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a +minute later with another committeeman, carrying a large silver salver +which he presented to prince bagratión. on the salver lay some verses +composed and printed in the hero’s honor. bagratión, on seeing the +salver, glanced around in dismay, as though seeking help. but all eyes +demanded that he should submit. feeling himself in their power, he +resolutely took the salver with both hands and looked sternly and +reproachfully at the count who had presented it to him. someone +obligingly took the dish from bagratión (or he would, it seemed, have +held it till evening and have gone in to dinner with it) and drew his +attention to the verses. + +“well, i will read them, then!” bagratión seemed to say, and, +fixing his weary eyes on the paper, began to read them with a fixed and +serious expression. but the author himself took the verses and began +reading them aloud. bagratión bowed his head and listened: + + bring glory then to alexander’s reign + and on the throne our titus shield. + a dreaded foe be thou, kindhearted as a man, + a rhipheus at home, a caesar in the field! + e’en fortunate napoleon + knows by experience, now, bagratión, + and dare not herculean russians trouble... + +but before he had finished reading, a stentorian major-domo announced +that dinner was ready! the door opened, and from the dining room came +the resounding strains of the polonaise: + + conquest’s joyful thunder waken, + triumph, valiant russians, now!... + +and count rostóv, glancing angrily at the author who went on reading +his verses, bowed to bagratión. everyone rose, feeling that dinner +was more important than verses, and bagratión, again preceding all the +rest, went in to dinner. he was seated in the place of honor between +two alexanders—bekleshëv and narýshkin—which was a significant +allusion to the name of the sovereign. three hundred persons took their +seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the +more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows +deepest where the land lies lowest. + +just before dinner, count ilyá rostóv presented his son to bagratión, +who recognized him and said a few words to him, disjointed and awkward, +as were all the words he spoke that day, and count ilyá looked joyfully +and proudly around while bagratión spoke to his son. + +nicholas rostóv, with denísov and his new acquaintance, dólokhov, sat +almost at the middle of the table. facing them sat pierre, beside prince +nesvítski. count ilyá rostóv with the other members of the committee +sat facing bagratión and, as the very personification of moscow +hospitality, did the honors to the prince. + +his efforts had not been in vain. the dinner, both the lenten and the +other fare, was splendid, yet he could not feel quite at ease till the +end of the meal. he winked at the butler, whispered directions to the +footmen, and awaited each expected dish with some anxiety. everything +was excellent. with the second course, a gigantic sterlet (at sight of +which ilyá rostóv blushed with self-conscious pleasure), the footmen +began popping corks and filling the champagne glasses. after the fish, +which made a certain sensation, the count exchanged glances with +the other committeemen. “there will be many toasts, it’s time to +begin,” he whispered, and taking up his glass, he rose. all were +silent, waiting for what he would say. + +“to the health of our sovereign, the emperor!” he cried, and at the +same moment his kindly eyes grew moist with tears of joy and enthusiasm. +the band immediately struck up “conquest’s joyful thunder +waken...” all rose and cried “hurrah!” bagratión also rose and +shouted “hurrah!” in exactly the same voice in which he had shouted +it on the field at schön grabern. young rostóv’s ecstatic voice +could be heard above the three hundred others. he nearly wept. “to the +health of our sovereign, the emperor!” he roared, “hurrah!” and +emptying his glass at one gulp he dashed it to the floor. many followed +his example, and the loud shouting continued for a long time. when the +voices subsided, the footmen cleared away the broken glass and everybody +sat down again, smiling at the noise they had made and exchanging +remarks. the old count rose once more, glanced at a note lying beside +his plate, and proposed a toast, “to the health of the hero of our +last campaign, prince peter ivánovich bagratión!” and again his blue +eyes grew moist. “hurrah!” cried the three hundred voices again, +but instead of the band a choir began singing a cantata composed by paul +ivánovich kutúzov: + + russians! o’er all barriers on! + courage conquest guarantees; + have we not bagratión? + he brings foemen to their knees,... etc. + +as soon as the singing was over, another and another toast was proposed +and count ilyá rostóv became more and more moved, more glass was +smashed, and the shouting grew louder. they drank to bekleshëv, +narýshkin, uvárov, dolgorúkov, apráksin, valúev, to the committee, +to all the club members and to all the club guests, and finally to +count ilyá rostóv separately, as the organizer of the banquet. at that +toast, the count took out his handkerchief and, covering his face, wept +outright. + + + + + +chapter iv + +pierre sat opposite dólokhov and nicholas rostóv. as usual, he ate and +drank much, and eagerly. but those who knew him intimately noticed that +some great change had come over him that day. he was silent all through +dinner and looked about, blinking and scowling, or, with fixed eyes and +a look of complete absent-mindedness, kept rubbing the bridge of his +nose. his face was depressed and gloomy. he seemed to see and hear +nothing of what was going on around him and to be absorbed by some +depressing and unsolved problem. + +the unsolved problem that tormented him was caused by hints given by the +princess, his cousin, at moscow, concerning dólokhov’s intimacy with +his wife, and by an anonymous letter he had received that morning, which +in the mean jocular way common to anonymous letters said that he saw +badly through his spectacles, but that his wife’s connection with +dólokhov was a secret to no one but himself. pierre absolutely +disbelieved both the princess’ hints and the letter, but he feared +now to look at dólokhov, who was sitting opposite him. every time +he chanced to meet dólokhov’s handsome insolent eyes, pierre felt +something terrible and monstrous rising in his soul and turned quickly +away. involuntarily recalling his wife’s past and her relations with +dólokhov, pierre saw clearly that what was said in the letter might be +true, or might at least seem to be true had it not referred to his wife. +he involuntarily remembered how dólokhov, who had fully recovered his +former position after the campaign, had returned to petersburg and come +to him. availing himself of his friendly relations with pierre as a boon +companion, dólokhov had come straight to his house, and pierre had put +him up and lent him money. pierre recalled how hélène had smilingly +expressed disapproval of dólokhov’s living at their house, and how +cynically dólokhov had praised his wife’s beauty to him and from that +time till they came to moscow had not left them for a day. + +“yes, he is very handsome,” thought pierre, “and i know him. it +would be particularly pleasant to him to dishonor my name and ridicule +me, just because i have exerted myself on his behalf, befriended him, +and helped him. i know and understand what a spice that would add to the +pleasure of deceiving me, if it really were true. yes, if it were true, +but i do not believe it. i have no right to, and can’t, believe it.” +he remembered the expression dólokhov’s face assumed in his moments +of cruelty, as when tying the policeman to the bear and dropping them +into the water, or when he challenged a man to a duel without any +reason, or shot a post-boy’s horse with a pistol. that expression +was often on dólokhov’s face when looking at him. “yes, he is a +bully,” thought pierre, “to kill a man means nothing to him. it must +seem to him that everyone is afraid of him, and that must please him. +he must think that i, too, am afraid of him—and in fact i am afraid of +him,” he thought, and again he felt something terrible and monstrous +rising in his soul. dólokhov, denísov, and rostóv were now sitting +opposite pierre and seemed very gay. rostóv was talking merrily to his +two friends, one of whom was a dashing hussar and the other a notorious +duelist and rake, and every now and then he glanced ironically at +pierre, whose preoccupied, absent-minded, and massive figure was a very +noticeable one at the dinner. rostóv looked inimically at pierre, +first because pierre appeared to his hussar eyes as a rich civilian, the +husband of a beauty, and in a word—an old woman; and secondly because +pierre in his preoccupation and absent-mindedness had not recognized +rostóv and had not responded to his greeting. when the emperor’s +health was drunk, pierre, lost in thought, did not rise or lift his +glass. + +“what are you about?” shouted rostóv, looking at him in an ecstasy +of exasperation. “don’t you hear it’s his majesty the emperor’s +health?” + +pierre sighed, rose submissively, emptied his glass, and, waiting till +all were seated again, turned with his kindly smile to rostóv. + +“why, i didn’t recognize you!” he said. but rostóv was otherwise +engaged; he was shouting “hurrah!” + +“why don’t you renew the acquaintance?” said dólokhov to rostóv. + +“confound him, he’s a fool!” said rostóv. + +“one should make up to the husbands of pretty women,” said denísov. + +pierre did not catch what they were saying, but knew they were talking +about him. he reddened and turned away. + +“well, now to the health of handsome women!” said dólokhov, and +with a serious expression, but with a smile lurking at the corners of +his mouth, he turned with his glass to pierre. + +“here’s to the health of lovely women, peterkin—and their +lovers!” he added. + +pierre, with downcast eyes, drank out of his glass without looking at +dólokhov or answering him. the footman, who was distributing leaflets +with kutúzov’s cantata, laid one before pierre as one of the +principal guests. he was just going to take it when dólokhov, leaning +across, snatched it from his hand and began reading it. pierre looked +at dólokhov and his eyes dropped, the something terrible and monstrous +that had tormented him all dinnertime rose and took possession of him. +he leaned his whole massive body across the table. + +“how dare you take it?” he shouted. + +hearing that cry and seeing to whom it was addressed, nesvítski and the +neighbor on his right quickly turned in alarm to bezúkhov. + +“don’t! don’t! what are you about?” whispered their frightened +voices. + +dólokhov looked at pierre with clear, mirthful, cruel eyes, and that +smile of his which seemed to say, “ah! this is what i like!” + +“you shan’t have it!” he said distinctly. + +pale, with quivering lips, pierre snatched the copy. + +“you...! you... scoundrel! i challenge you!” he ejaculated, and, +pushing back his chair, he rose from the table. + +at the very instant he did this and uttered those words, pierre felt +that the question of his wife’s guilt which had been tormenting him +the whole day was finally and indubitably answered in the affirmative. +he hated her and was forever sundered from her. despite denísov’s +request that he would take no part in the matter, rostóv agreed to be +dólokhov’s second, and after dinner he discussed the arrangements for +the duel with nesvítski, bezúkhov’s second. pierre went home, but +rostóv with dólokhov and denísov stayed on at the club till late, +listening to the gypsies and other singers. + +“well then, till tomorrow at sokólniki,” said dólokhov, as he took +leave of rostóv in the club porch. + +“and do you feel quite calm?” rostóv asked. + +dólokhov paused. + +“well, you see, i’ll tell you the whole secret of dueling in two +words. if you are going to fight a duel, and you make a will and write +affectionate letters to your parents, and if you think you may be +killed, you are a fool and are lost for certain. but go with the firm +intention of killing your man as quickly and surely as possible, and +then all will be right, as our bear huntsman at kostromá used to tell +me. ‘everyone fears a bear,’ he says, ‘but when you see one your +fear’s all gone, and your only thought is not to let him get away!’ +and that’s how it is with me. À demain, mon cher.” * + + * till tomorrow, my dear fellow. + +next day, at eight in the morning, pierre and nesvítski drove to the +sokólniki forest and found dólokhov, denísov, and rostóv already +there. pierre had the air of a man preoccupied with considerations which +had no connection with the matter in hand. his haggard face was yellow. +he had evidently not slept that night. he looked about distractedly and +screwed up his eyes as if dazzled by the sun. he was entirely absorbed +by two considerations: his wife’s guilt, of which after his sleepless +night he had not the slightest doubt, and the guiltlessness of +dólokhov, who had no reason to preserve the honor of a man who was +nothing to him.... “i should perhaps have done the same thing in his +place,” thought pierre. “it’s even certain that i should have done +the same, then why this duel, this murder? either i shall kill him, or +he will hit me in the head, or elbow, or knee. can’t i go away from +here, run away, bury myself somewhere?” passed through his mind. but +just at moments when such thoughts occurred to him, he would ask in a +particularly calm and absent-minded way, which inspired the respect of +the onlookers, “will it be long? are things ready?” + +when all was ready, the sabers stuck in the snow to mark the barriers, +and the pistols loaded, nesvítski went up to pierre. + +“i should not be doing my duty, count,” he said in timid tones, +“and should not justify your confidence and the honor you have done +me in choosing me for your second, if at this grave, this very +grave, moment i did not tell you the whole truth. i think there is no +sufficient ground for this affair, or for blood to be shed over it.... +you were not right, not quite in the right, you were impetuous...” + +“oh yes, it is horribly stupid,” said pierre. + +“then allow me to express your regrets, and i am sure your opponent +will accept them,” said nesvítski (who like the others concerned in +the affair, and like everyone in similar cases, did not yet believe that +the affair had come to an actual duel). “you know, count, it is much +more honorable to admit one’s mistake than to let matters become +irreparable. there was no insult on either side. allow me to +convey....” + +“no! what is there to talk about?” said pierre. “it’s all the +same.... is everything ready?” he added. “only tell me where to go +and where to shoot,” he said with an unnaturally gentle smile. + +he took the pistol in his hand and began asking about the working of the +trigger, as he had not before held a pistol in his hand—a fact that he +did not wish to confess. + +“oh yes, like that, i know, i only forgot,” said he. + +“no apologies, none whatever,” said dólokhov to denísov (who on +his side had been attempting a reconciliation), and he also went up to +the appointed place. + +the spot chosen for the duel was some eighty paces from the road, +where the sleighs had been left, in a small clearing in the pine forest +covered with melting snow, the frost having begun to break up during the +last few days. the antagonists stood forty paces apart at the farther +edge of the clearing. the seconds, measuring the paces, left tracks in +the deep wet snow between the place where they had been standing and +nesvítski’s and dólokhov’s sabers, which were stuck into the +ground ten paces apart to mark the barrier. it was thawing and misty; at +forty paces’ distance nothing could be seen. for three minutes all had +been ready, but they still delayed and all were silent. + + + + + +chapter v + +“well begin!” said dólokhov. + +“all right,” said pierre, still smiling in the same way. a feeling +of dread was in the air. it was evident that the affair so lightly begun +could no longer be averted but was taking its course independently of +men’s will. + +denísov first went to the barrier and announced: “as the +adve’sawies have wefused a weconciliation, please pwoceed. take your +pistols, and at the word thwee begin to advance. + +“o-ne! t-wo! thwee!” he shouted angrily and stepped aside. + +the combatants advanced along the trodden tracks, nearer and nearer to +one another, beginning to see one another through the mist. they had the +right to fire when they liked as they approached the barrier. dólokhov +walked slowly without raising his pistol, looking intently with his +bright, sparkling blue eyes into his antagonist’s face. his mouth wore +its usual semblance of a smile. + +“so i can fire when i like!” said pierre, and at the word +“three,” he went quickly forward, missing the trodden path and +stepping into the deep snow. he held the pistol in his right hand at +arm’s length, apparently afraid of shooting himself with it. his left +hand he held carefully back, because he wished to support his right +hand with it and knew he must not do so. having advanced six paces and +strayed off the track into the snow, pierre looked down at his feet, +then quickly glanced at dólokhov and, bending his finger as he had been +shown, fired. not at all expecting so loud a report, pierre shuddered +at the sound and then, smiling at his own sensations, stood still. the +smoke, rendered denser by the mist, prevented him from seeing anything +for an instant, but there was no second report as he had expected. he +only heard dólokhov’s hurried steps, and his figure came in view +through the smoke. he was pressing one hand to his left side, while +the other clutched his drooping pistol. his face was pale. rostóv ran +toward him and said something. + +“no-o-o!” muttered dólokhov through his teeth, “no, it’s not +over.” and after stumbling a few staggering steps right up to the +saber, he sank on the snow beside it. his left hand was bloody; he wiped +it on his coat and supported himself with it. his frowning face was +pallid and quivered. + +“plea...” began dólokhov, but could not at first pronounce the +word. + +“please,” he uttered with an effort. + +pierre, hardly restraining his sobs, began running toward dólokhov and +was about to cross the space between the barriers, when dólokhov cried: + +“to your barrier!” and pierre, grasping what was meant, stopped by +his saber. only ten paces divided them. dólokhov lowered his head to +the snow, greedily bit at it, again raised his head, adjusted himself, +drew in his legs and sat up, seeking a firm center of gravity. he sucked +and swallowed the cold snow, his lips quivered but his eyes, still +smiling, glittered with effort and exasperation as he mustered his +remaining strength. he raised his pistol and aimed. + +“sideways! cover yourself with your pistol!” ejaculated nesvítski. + +“cover yourself!” even denísov cried to his adversary. + +pierre, with a gentle smile of pity and remorse, his arms and legs +helplessly spread out, stood with his broad chest directly facing +dólokhov and looked sorrowfully at him. denísov, rostóv, and +nesvítski closed their eyes. at the same instant they heard a report +and dólokhov’s angry cry. + +“missed!” shouted dólokhov, and he lay helplessly, face downwards +on the snow. + +pierre clutched his temples, and turning round went into the forest, +trampling through the deep snow, and muttering incoherent words: + +“folly... folly! death... lies...” he repeated, puckering his face. + +nesvítski stopped him and took him home. + +rostóv and denísov drove away with the wounded dólokhov. + +the latter lay silent in the sleigh with closed eyes and did not answer +a word to the questions addressed to him. but on entering moscow he +suddenly came to and, lifting his head with an effort, took rostóv, who +was sitting beside him, by the hand. rostóv was struck by the +totally altered and unexpectedly rapturous and tender expression on +dólokhov’s face. + +“well? how do you feel?” he asked. + +“bad! but it’s not that, my friend—” said dólokhov with a +gasping voice. “where are we? in moscow, i know. i don’t matter, +but i have killed her, killed... she won’t get over it! she won’t +survive....” + +“who?” asked rostóv. + +“my mother! my mother, my angel, my adored angel mother,” and +dólokhov pressed rostóv’s hand and burst into tears. + +when he had become a little quieter, he explained to rostóv that he was +living with his mother, who, if she saw him dying, would not survive it. +he implored rostóv to go on and prepare her. + +rostóv went on ahead to do what was asked, and to his great surprise +learned that dólokhov the brawler, dólokhov the bully, lived in moscow +with an old mother and a hunchback sister, and was the most affectionate +of sons and brothers. + + + + + +chapter vi + +pierre had of late rarely seen his wife alone. both in petersburg and in +moscow their house was always full of visitors. the night after the +duel he did not go to his bedroom but, as he often did, remained in his +father’s room, that huge room in which count bezúkhov had died. + +he lay down on the sofa meaning to fall asleep and forget all that +had happened to him, but could not do so. such a storm of feelings, +thoughts, and memories suddenly arose within him that he could not fall +asleep, nor even remain in one place, but had to jump up and pace the +room with rapid steps. now he seemed to see her in the early days of +their marriage, with bare shoulders and a languid, passionate look on +her face, and then immediately he saw beside her dólokhov’s handsome, +insolent, hard, and mocking face as he had seen it at the banquet, and +then that same face pale, quivering, and suffering, as it had been when +he reeled and sank on the snow. + +“what has happened?” he asked himself. “i have killed her lover, +yes, killed my wife’s lover. yes, that was it! and why? how did i come +to do it?”—“because you married her,” answered an inner voice. + +“but in what was i to blame?” he asked. “in marrying her without +loving her; in deceiving yourself and her.” and he vividly recalled +that moment after supper at prince vasíli’s, when he spoke those +words he had found so difficult to utter: “i love you.” “it all +comes from that! even then i felt it,” he thought. “i felt then that +it was not so, that i had no right to do it. and so it turns out.” + +he remembered his honeymoon and blushed at the recollection. +particularly vivid, humiliating, and shameful was the recollection of +how one day soon after his marriage he came out of the bedroom into his +study a little before noon in his silk dressing gown and found his head +steward there, who, bowing respectfully, looked into his face and at +his dressing gown and smiled slightly, as if expressing respectful +understanding of his employer’s happiness. + +“but how often i have felt proud of her, proud of her majestic beauty +and social tact,” thought he; “been proud of my house, in which she +received all petersburg, proud of her unapproachability and beauty. so +this is what i was proud of! i then thought that i did not understand +her. how often when considering her character i have told myself that +i was to blame for not understanding her, for not understanding that +constant composure and complacency and lack of all interests or desires, +and the whole secret lies in the terrible truth that she is a depraved +woman. now i have spoken that terrible word to myself all has become +clear. + +“anatole used to come to borrow money from her and used to kiss her +naked shoulders. she did not give him the money, but let herself be +kissed. her father in jest tried to rouse her jealousy, and she replied +with a calm smile that she was not so stupid as to be jealous: ‘let +him do what he pleases,’ she used to say of me. one day i asked her if +she felt any symptoms of pregnancy. she laughed contemptuously and said +she was not a fool to want to have children, and that she was not going +to have any children by me.” + +then he recalled the coarseness and bluntness of her thoughts and the +vulgarity of the expressions that were natural to her, though she had +been brought up in the most aristocratic circles. + +“i’m not such a fool.... just you try it on.... allez-vous +promener,” * she used to say. often seeing the success she had with +young and old men and women pierre could not understand why he did not +love her. + + * “you clear out of this.” + + +“yes, i never loved her,” said he to himself; “i knew she was a +depraved woman,” he repeated, “but dared not admit it to myself. +and now there’s dólokhov sitting in the snow with a forced smile and +perhaps dying, while meeting my remorse with some forced bravado!” + +pierre was one of those people who, in spite of an appearance of what +is called weak character, do not seek a confidant in their troubles. he +digested his sufferings alone. + +“it is all, all her fault,” he said to himself; “but what of that? +why did i bind myself to her? why did i say ‘je vous aime’ * to her, +which was a lie, and worse than a lie? i am guilty and must endure... +what? a slur on my name? a misfortune for life? oh, that’s +nonsense,” he thought. “the slur on my name and honor—that’s all +apart from myself.” + + * i love you. + +“louis xvi was executed because they said he was dishonorable and a +criminal,” came into pierre’s head, “and from their point of +view they were right, as were those too who canonized him and died a +martyr’s death for his sake. then robespierre was beheaded for being +a despot. who is right and who is wrong? no one! but if you are +alive—live: tomorrow you’ll die as i might have died an hour ago. +and is it worth tormenting oneself, when one has only a moment of life +in comparison with eternity?” + +but at the moment when he imagined himself calmed by such reflections, +she suddenly came into his mind as she was at the moments when he had +most strongly expressed his insincere love for her, and he felt the +blood rush to his heart and had again to get up and move about and break +and tear whatever came to his hand. “why did i tell her that ‘je +vous aime’?” he kept repeating to himself. and when he had said it +for the tenth time, molière’s words: “mais que diable allait-il +faire dans cette galère?” * occurred to him, and he began to laugh at +himself. + + * “but what the devil was he doing in that galley?” + + +in the night he called his valet and told him to pack up to go to +petersburg. he could not imagine how he could speak to her now. he +resolved to go away next day and leave a letter informing her of his +intention to part from her forever. + +next morning when the valet came into the room with his coffee, pierre +was lying asleep on the ottoman with an open book in his hand. + +he woke up and looked round for a while with a startled expression, +unable to realize where he was. + +“the countess told me to inquire whether your excellency was at +home,” said the valet. + +but before pierre could decide what answer he would send, the countess +herself in a white satin dressing gown embroidered with silver and with +simply dressed hair (two immense plaits twice round her lovely head like +a coronet) entered the room, calm and majestic, except that there was +a wrathful wrinkle on her rather prominent marble brow. with her +imperturbable calm she did not begin to speak in front of the valet. +she knew of the duel and had come to speak about it. she waited till the +valet had set down the coffee things and left the room. pierre looked +at her timidly over his spectacles, and like a hare surrounded by hounds +who lays back her ears and continues to crouch motionless before her +enemies, he tried to continue reading. but feeling this to be senseless +and impossible, he again glanced timidly at her. she did not sit down +but looked at him with a contemptuous smile, waiting for the valet to +go. + +“well, what’s this now? what have you been up to now, i should like +to know?” she asked sternly. + +“i? what have i...?” stammered pierre. + +“so it seems you’re a hero, eh? come now, what was this duel about? +what is it meant to prove? what? i ask you.” + +pierre turned over heavily on the ottoman and opened his mouth, but +could not reply. + +“if you won’t answer, i’ll tell you...” hélène went on. “you +believe everything you’re told. you were told...” hélène laughed, +“that dólokhov was my lover,” she said in french with her coarse +plainness of speech, uttering the word amant as casually as any other +word, “and you believed it! well, what have you proved? what does this +duel prove? that you’re a fool, que vous êtes un sot, but everybody +knew that. what will be the result? that i shall be the laughingstock of +all moscow, that everyone will say that you, drunk and not knowing what +you were about, challenged a man you are jealous of without cause.” +hélène raised her voice and became more and more excited, “a man +who’s a better man than you in every way...” + +“hm... hm...!” growled pierre, frowning without looking at her, and +not moving a muscle. + +“and how could you believe he was my lover? why? because i like +his company? if you were cleverer and more agreeable, i should prefer +yours.” + +“don’t speak to me... i beg you,” muttered pierre hoarsely. + +“why shouldn’t i speak? i can speak as i like, and i tell you +plainly that there are not many wives with husbands such as you who +would not have taken lovers (des amants), but i have not done so,” +said she. + +pierre wished to say something, looked at her with eyes whose strange +expression she did not understand, and lay down again. he was suffering +physically at that moment, there was a weight on his chest and he could +not breathe. he knew that he must do something to put an end to this +suffering, but what he wanted to do was too terrible. + +“we had better separate,” he muttered in a broken voice. + +“separate? very well, but only if you give me a fortune,” said +hélène. “separate! that’s a thing to frighten me with!” + +pierre leaped up from the sofa and rushed staggering toward her. + +“i’ll kill you!” he shouted, and seizing the marble top of a table +with a strength he had never before felt, he made a step toward her +brandishing the slab. + +hélène’s face became terrible, she shrieked and sprang aside. his +father’s nature showed itself in pierre. he felt the fascination and +delight of frenzy. he flung down the slab, broke it, and swooping +down on her with outstretched hands shouted, “get out!” in such a +terrible voice that the whole house heard it with horror. god knows what +he would have done at that moment had hélène not fled from the room. + + +a week later pierre gave his wife full power to control all his estates +in great russia, which formed the larger part of his property, and left +for petersburg alone. + + + + + +chapter vii + +two months had elapsed since the news of the battle of austerlitz and +the loss of prince andrew had reached bald hills, and in spite of the +letters sent through the embassy and all the searches made, his body had +not been found nor was he on the list of prisoners. what was worst of +all for his relations was the fact that there was still a possibility of +his having been picked up on the battlefield by the people of the +place and that he might now be lying, recovering or dying, alone among +strangers and unable to send news of himself. the gazettes from which +the old prince first heard of the defeat at austerlitz stated, as usual +very briefly and vaguely, that after brilliant engagements the russians +had had to retreat and had made their withdrawal in perfect order. the +old prince understood from this official report that our army had been +defeated. a week after the gazette report of the battle of austerlitz +came a letter from kutúzov informing the prince of the fate that had +befallen his son. + +“your son,” wrote kutúzov, “fell before my eyes, a standard in +his hand and at the head of a regiment—he fell as a hero, worthy of +his father and his fatherland. to the great regret of myself and of the +whole army it is still uncertain whether he is alive or not. i comfort +myself and you with the hope that your son is alive, for otherwise +he would have been mentioned among the officers found on the field of +battle, a list of whom has been sent me under flag of truce.” + +after receiving this news late in the evening, when he was alone in his +study, the old prince went for his walk as usual next morning, but he +was silent with his steward, the gardener, and the architect, and though +he looked very grim he said nothing to anyone. + +when princess mary went to him at the usual hour he was working at his +lathe and, as usual, did not look round at her. + +“ah, princess mary!” he said suddenly in an unnatural voice, +throwing down his chisel. (the wheel continued to revolve by its own +impetus, and princess mary long remembered the dying creak of that +wheel, which merged in her memory with what followed.) + +she approached him, saw his face, and something gave way within her. her +eyes grew dim. by the expression of her father’s face, not sad, not +crushed, but angry and working unnaturally, she saw that hanging over +her and about to crush her was some terrible misfortune, the worst +in life, one she had not yet experienced, irreparable and +incomprehensible—the death of one she loved. + +“father! andrew!”—said the ungraceful, awkward princess with such +an indescribable charm of sorrow and self-forgetfulness that her father +could not bear her look but turned away with a sob. + +“bad news! he’s not among the prisoners nor among the killed! +kutúzov writes...” and he screamed as piercingly as if he wished to +drive the princess away by that scream... “killed!” + +the princess did not fall down or faint. she was already pale, but on +hearing these words her face changed and something brightened in her +beautiful, radiant eyes. it was as if joy—a supreme joy apart from the +joys and sorrows of this world—overflowed the great grief within her. +she forgot all fear of her father, went up to him, took his hand, and +drawing him down put her arm round his thin, scraggy neck. + +“father,” she said, “do not turn away from me, let us weep +together.” + +“scoundrels! blackguards!” shrieked the old man, turning his face +away from her. “destroying the army, destroying the men! and why? go, +go and tell lise.” + +the princess sank helplessly into an armchair beside her father and +wept. she saw her brother now as he had been at the moment when he took +leave of her and of lise, his look tender yet proud. she saw him tender +and amused as he was when he put on the little icon. “did he believe? +had he repented of his unbelief? was he now there? there in the realms +of eternal peace and blessedness?” she thought. + +“father, tell me how it happened,” she asked through her tears. + +“go! go! killed in battle, where the best of russian men and +russia’s glory were led to destruction. go, princess mary. go and tell +lise. i will follow.” + +when princess mary returned from her father, the little princess sat +working and looked up with that curious expression of inner, happy calm +peculiar to pregnant women. it was evident that her eyes did not see +princess mary but were looking within... into herself... at something +joyful and mysterious taking place within her. + +“mary,” she said, moving away from the embroidery frame and lying +back, “give me your hand.” she took her sister-in-law’s hand and +held it below her waist. + +her eyes were smiling expectantly, her downy lip rose and remained +lifted in childlike happiness. + +princess mary knelt down before her and hid her face in the folds of her +sister-in-law’s dress. + +“there, there! do you feel it? i feel so strange. and do you know, +mary, i am going to love him very much,” said lise, looking with +bright and happy eyes at her sister-in-law. + +princess mary could not lift her head, she was weeping. + +“what is the matter, mary?” + +“nothing... only i feel sad... sad about andrew,” she said, wiping +away her tears on her sister-in-law’s knee. + +several times in the course of the morning princess mary began trying to +prepare her sister-in-law, and every time began to cry. unobservant as +was the little princess, these tears, the cause of which she did not +understand, agitated her. she said nothing but looked about uneasily as +if in search of something. before dinner the old prince, of whom she was +always afraid, came into her room with a peculiarly restless and malign +expression and went out again without saying a word. she looked at +princess mary, then sat thinking for a while with that expression of +attention to something within her that is only seen in pregnant women, +and suddenly began to cry. + +“has anything come from andrew?” she asked. + +“no, you know it’s too soon for news. but my father is anxious and i +feel afraid.” + +“so there’s nothing?” + +“nothing,” answered princess mary, looking firmly with her radiant +eyes at her sister-in-law. + +she had determined not to tell her and persuaded her father to hide the +terrible news from her till after her confinement, which was expected +within a few days. princess mary and the old prince each bore and hid +their grief in their own way. the old prince would not cherish any hope: +he made up his mind that prince andrew had been killed, and though he +sent an official to austria to seek for traces of his son, he ordered a +monument from moscow which he intended to erect in his own garden to his +memory, and he told everybody that his son had been killed. he tried not +to change his former way of life, but his strength failed him. he walked +less, ate less, slept less, and became weaker every day. princess mary +hoped. she prayed for her brother as living and was always awaiting news +of his return. + + + + + +chapter viii + +“dearest,” said the little princess after breakfast on the morning +of the nineteenth march, and her downy little lip rose from old habit, +but as sorrow was manifest in every smile, the sound of every word, and +even every footstep in that house since the terrible news had come, so +now the smile of the little princess—influenced by the general mood +though without knowing its cause—was such as to remind one still more +of the general sorrow. + +“dearest, i’m afraid this morning’s fruschtique *—as fóka the +cook calls it—has disagreed with me.” + + * frühstück: breakfast. + +“what is the matter with you, my darling? you look pale. oh, you +are very pale!” said princess mary in alarm, running with her soft, +ponderous steps up to her sister-in-law. + +“your excellency, should not mary bogdánovna be sent for?” said one +of the maids who was present. (mary bogdánovna was a midwife from the +neighboring town, who had been at bald hills for the last fortnight.) + +“oh yes,” assented princess mary, “perhaps that’s it. i’ll go. +courage, my angel.” she kissed lise and was about to leave the room. + +“oh, no, no!” and besides the pallor and the physical suffering +on the little princess’ face, an expression of childish fear of +inevitable pain showed itself. + +“no, it’s only indigestion?... say it’s only indigestion, say so, +mary! say...” and the little princess began to cry capriciously like +a suffering child and to wring her little hands even with some +affectation. princess mary ran out of the room to fetch mary +bogdánovna. + +“mon dieu! mon dieu! oh!” she heard as she left the room. + +the midwife was already on her way to meet her, rubbing her small, plump +white hands with an air of calm importance. + +“mary bogdánovna, i think it’s beginning!” said princess mary +looking at the midwife with wide-open eyes of alarm. + +“well, the lord be thanked, princess,” said mary bogdánovna, not +hastening her steps. “you young ladies should not know anything about +it.” + +“but how is it the doctor from moscow is not here yet?” said the +princess. (in accordance with lise’s and prince andrew’s wishes they +had sent in good time to moscow for a doctor and were expecting him at +any moment.) + +“no matter, princess, don’t be alarmed,” said mary bogdánovna. +“we’ll manage very well without a doctor.” + +five minutes later princess mary from her room heard something heavy +being carried by. she looked out. the men servants were carrying the +large leather sofa from prince andrew’s study into the bedroom. on +their faces was a quiet and solemn look. + +princess mary sat alone in her room listening to the sounds in the +house, now and then opening her door when someone passed and watching +what was going on in the passage. some women passing with quiet steps in +and out of the bedroom glanced at the princess and turned away. she did +not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting +down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before +the icon stand. to her surprise and distress she found that her prayers +did not calm her excitement. suddenly her door opened softly and her old +nurse, praskóvya sávishna, who hardly ever came to that room as the +old prince had forbidden it, appeared on the threshold with a shawl +round her head. + +“i’ve come to sit with you a bit, másha,” said the nurse, “and +here i’ve brought the prince’s wedding candles to light before his +saint, my angel,” she said with a sigh. + +“oh, nurse, i’m so glad!” + +“god is merciful, birdie.” + +the nurse lit the gilt candles before the icons and sat down by the door +with her knitting. princess mary took a book and began reading. only +when footsteps or voices were heard did they look at one another, the +princess anxious and inquiring, the nurse encouraging. everyone in the +house was dominated by the same feeling that princess mary experienced +as she sat in her room. but owing to the superstition that the fewer +the people who know of it the less a woman in travail suffers, everyone +tried to pretend not to know; no one spoke of it, but apart from the +ordinary staid and respectful good manners habitual in the prince’s +household, a common anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a +consciousness that something great and mysterious was being accomplished +at that moment made itself felt. + +there was no laughter in the maids’ large hall. in the men servants’ +hall all sat waiting, silently and alert. in the outlying serfs’ +quarters torches and candles were burning and no one slept. the old +prince, stepping on his heels, paced up and down his study and sent +tíkhon to ask mary bogdánovna what news.—“say only that ‘the +prince told me to ask,’ and come and tell me her answer.” + +“inform the prince that labor has begun,” said mary bogdánovna, +giving the messenger a significant look. + +tíkhon went and told the prince. + +“very good!” said the prince closing the door behind him, and +tíkhon did not hear the slightest sound from the study after that. + +after a while he re-entered it as if to snuff the candles, and, seeing +the prince was lying on the sofa, looked at him, noticed his perturbed +face, shook his head, and going up to him silently kissed him on the +shoulder and left the room without snuffing the candles or saying why he +had entered. the most solemn mystery in the world continued its course. +evening passed, night came, and the feeling of suspense and softening of +heart in the presence of the unfathomable did not lessen but increased. +no one slept. + +it was one of those march nights when winter seems to wish to resume its +sway and scatters its last snows and storms with desperate fury. a relay +of horses had been sent up the highroad to meet the german doctor from +moscow who was expected every moment, and men on horseback with lanterns +were sent to the crossroads to guide him over the country road with its +hollows and snow-covered pools of water. + +princess mary had long since put aside her book: she sat silent, her +luminous eyes fixed on her nurse’s wrinkled face (every line of which +she knew so well), on the lock of gray hair that escaped from under the +kerchief, and the loose skin that hung under her chin. + +nurse sávishna, knitting in hand, was telling in low tones, scarcely +hearing or understanding her own words, what she had told hundreds of +times before: how the late princess had given birth to princess mary +in kishenëv with only a moldavian peasant woman to help instead of a +midwife. + +“god is merciful, doctors are never needed,” she said. + +suddenly a gust of wind beat violently against the casement of the +window, from which the double frame had been removed (by order of the +prince, one window frame was removed in each room as soon as the larks +returned), and, forcing open a loosely closed latch, set the damask +curtain flapping and blew out the candle with its chill, snowy draft. +princess mary shuddered; her nurse, putting down the stocking she was +knitting, went to the window and leaning out tried to catch the open +casement. the cold wind flapped the ends of her kerchief and her loose +locks of gray hair. + +“princess, my dear, there’s someone driving up the avenue!” she +said, holding the casement and not closing it. “with lanterns. most +likely the doctor.” + +“oh, my god! thank god!” said princess mary. “i must go and meet +him, he does not know russian.” + +princess mary threw a shawl over her head and ran to meet the newcomer. +as she was crossing the anteroom she saw through the window a carriage +with lanterns, standing at the entrance. she went out on the stairs. on +a banister post stood a tallow candle which guttered in the draft. on +the landing below, philip, the footman, stood looking scared and holding +another candle. still lower, beyond the turn of the staircase, one +could hear the footstep of someone in thick felt boots, and a voice that +seemed familiar to princess mary was saying something. + +“thank god!” said the voice. “and father?” + +“gone to bed,” replied the voice of demyán the house steward, who +was downstairs. + +then the voice said something more, demyán replied, and the steps in +the felt boots approached the unseen bend of the staircase more rapidly. + +“it’s andrew!” thought princess mary. “no it can’t be, that +would be too extraordinary,” and at the very moment she thought this, +the face and figure of prince andrew, in a fur cloak the deep collar of +which covered with snow, appeared on the landing where the footman +stood with the candle. yes, it was he, pale, thin, with a changed and +strangely softened but agitated expression on his face. he came up the +stairs and embraced his sister. + +“you did not get my letter?” he asked, and not waiting for a +reply—which he would not have received, for the princess was unable to +speak—he turned back, rapidly mounted the stairs again with the +doctor who had entered the hall after him (they had met at the last post +station), and again embraced his sister. + +“what a strange fate, másha darling!” and having taken off his +cloak and felt boots, he went to the little princess’ apartment. + + + + + +chapter ix + +the little princess lay supported by pillows, with a white cap on her +head (the pains had just left her). strands of her black hair lay round +her inflamed and perspiring cheeks, her charming rosy mouth with its +downy lip was open and she was smiling joyfully. prince andrew entered +and paused facing her at the foot of the sofa on which she was lying. +her glittering eyes, filled with childlike fear and excitement, rested +on him without changing their expression. “i love you all and have +done no harm to anyone; why must i suffer so? help me!” her look +seemed to say. she saw her husband, but did not realize the significance +of his appearance before her now. prince andrew went round the sofa and +kissed her forehead. + +“my darling!” he said—a word he had never used to her before. +“god is merciful....” + +she looked at him inquiringly and with childlike reproach. + +“i expected help from you and i get none, none from you either!” +said her eyes. she was not surprised at his having come; she did +not realize that he had come. his coming had nothing to do with +her sufferings or with their relief. the pangs began again and mary +bogdánovna advised prince andrew to leave the room. + +the doctor entered. prince andrew went out and, meeting princess mary, +again joined her. they began talking in whispers, but their talk broke +off at every moment. they waited and listened. + +“go, dear,” said princess mary. + +prince andrew went again to his wife and sat waiting in the room next +to hers. a woman came from the bedroom with a frightened face and became +confused when she saw prince andrew. he covered his face with his hands +and remained so for some minutes. piteous, helpless, animal moans came +through the door. prince andrew got up, went to the door, and tried to +open it. someone was holding it shut. + +“you can’t come in! you can’t!” said a terrified voice from +within. + +he began pacing the room. the screaming ceased, and a few more seconds +went by. then suddenly a terrible shriek—it could not be hers, she +could not scream like that—came from the bedroom. prince andrew ran to +the door; the scream ceased and he heard the wail of an infant. + +“what have they taken a baby in there for?” thought prince andrew in +the first second. “a baby? what baby...? why is there a baby there? or +is the baby born?” + +then suddenly he realized the joyful significance of that wail; tears +choked him, and leaning his elbows on the window sill he began to cry, +sobbing like a child. the door opened. the doctor with his shirt sleeves +tucked up, without a coat, pale and with a trembling jaw, came out +of the room. prince andrew turned to him, but the doctor gave him a +bewildered look and passed by without a word. a woman rushed out and +seeing prince andrew stopped, hesitating on the threshold. he went into +his wife’s room. she was lying dead, in the same position he had seen +her in five minutes before and, despite the fixed eyes and the pallor of +the cheeks, the same expression was on her charming childlike face with +its upper lip covered with tiny black hair. + +“i love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you +done to me?”—said her charming, pathetic, dead face. + +in a corner of the room something red and tiny gave a grunt and squealed +in mary bogdánovna’s trembling white hands. + + +two hours later prince andrew, stepping softly, went into his father’s +room. the old man already knew everything. he was standing close to +the door and as soon as it opened his rough old arms closed like a vise +round his son’s neck, and without a word he began to sob like a child. + + +three days later the little princess was buried, and prince andrew went +up the steps to where the coffin stood, to give her the farewell kiss. +and there in the coffin was the same face, though with closed eyes. +“ah, what have you done to me?” it still seemed to say, and prince +andrew felt that something gave way in his soul and that he was guilty +of a sin he could neither remedy nor forget. he could not weep. the +old man too came up and kissed the waxen little hands that lay quietly +crossed one on the other on her breast, and to him, too, her face seemed +to say: “ah, what have you done to me, and why?” and at the sight +the old man turned angrily away. + + +another five days passed, and then the young prince nicholas andréevich +was baptized. the wet nurse supported the coverlet with her chin, while +the priest with a goose feather anointed the boy’s little red and +wrinkled soles and palms. + +his grandfather, who was his godfather, trembling and afraid of dropping +him, carried the infant round the battered tin font and handed him over +to the godmother, princess mary. prince andrew sat in another room, +faint with fear lest the baby should be drowned in the font, and awaited +the termination of the ceremony. he looked up joyfully at the baby when +the nurse brought it to him and nodded approval when she told him that +the wax with the baby’s hair had not sunk in the font but had floated. + + + + + +chapter x + +rostóv’s share in dólokhov’s duel with bezúkhov was hushed up by +the efforts of the old count, and instead of being degraded to the ranks +as he expected he was appointed an adjutant to the governor general of +moscow. as a result he could not go to the country with the rest of the +family, but was kept all summer in moscow by his new duties. dólokhov +recovered, and rostóv became very friendly with him during his +convalescence. dólokhov lay ill at his mother’s who loved him +passionately and tenderly, and old mary ivánovna, who had grown fond of +rostóv for his friendship to her fédya, often talked to him about her +son. + +“yes, count,” she would say, “he is too noble and pure-souled for +our present, depraved world. no one now loves virtue; it seems like +a reproach to everyone. now tell me, count, was it right, was it +honorable, of bezúkhov? and fédya, with his noble spirit, loved him +and even now never says a word against him. those pranks in petersburg +when they played some tricks on a policeman, didn’t they do it +together? and there! bezúkhov got off scotfree, while fédya had to +bear the whole burden on his shoulders. fancy what he had to go through! +it’s true he has been reinstated, but how could they fail to do that? +i think there were not many such gallant sons of the fatherland out +there as he. and now—this duel! have these people no feeling, or +honor? knowing him to be an only son, to challenge him and shoot so +straight! it’s well god had mercy on us. and what was it for? who +doesn’t have intrigues nowadays? why, if he was so jealous, as i see +things he should have shown it sooner, but he lets it go on for months. +and then to call him out, reckoning on fédya not fighting because he +owed him money! what baseness! what meanness! i know you understand +fédya, my dear count; that, believe me, is why i am so fond of you. few +people do understand him. he is such a lofty, heavenly soul!” + +dólokhov himself during his convalescence spoke to rostóv in a way no +one would have expected of him. + +“i know people consider me a bad man!” he said. “let them! i +don’t care a straw about anyone but those i love; but those i love, +i love so that i would give my life for them, and the others i’d +throttle if they stood in my way. i have an adored, a priceless mother, +and two or three friends—you among them—and as for the rest i only +care about them in so far as they are harmful or useful. and most of +them are harmful, especially the women. yes, dear boy,” he continued, +“i have met loving, noble, high-minded men, but i have not yet met +any women—countesses or cooks—who were not venal. i have not yet met +that divine purity and devotion i look for in women. if i found such a +one i’d give my life for her! but those!...” and he made a gesture +of contempt. “and believe me, if i still value my life it is +only because i still hope to meet such a divine creature, who will +regenerate, purify, and elevate me. but you don’t understand it.” + +“oh, yes, i quite understand,” answered rostóv, who was under his +new friend’s influence. + +in the autumn the rostóvs returned to moscow. early in the winter +denísov also came back and stayed with them. the first half of the +winter of 1806, which nicholas rostóv spent in moscow, was one of the +happiest, merriest times for him and the whole family. nicholas brought +many young men to his parents’ house. véra was a handsome girl +of twenty; sónya a girl of sixteen with all the charm of an opening +flower; natásha, half grown up and half child, was now childishly +amusing, now girlishly enchanting. + +at that time in the rostóvs’ house there prevailed an amorous +atmosphere characteristic of homes where there are very young and very +charming girls. every young man who came to the house—seeing those +impressionable, smiling young faces (smiling probably at their own +happiness), feeling the eager bustle around him, and hearing the fitful +bursts of song and music and the inconsequent but friendly prattle of +young girls ready for anything and full of hope—experienced the same +feeling; sharing with the young folk of the rostóvs’ household a +readiness to fall in love and an expectation of happiness. + +among the young men introduced by rostóv one of the first was +dólokhov, whom everyone in the house liked except natásha. she almost +quarreled with her brother about him. she insisted that he was a bad +man, and that in the duel with bezúkhov, pierre was right and dólokhov +wrong, and further that he was disagreeable and unnatural. + +“there’s nothing for me to understand,” she cried out with +resolute self-will, “he is wicked and heartless. there now, i like +your denísov though he is a rake and all that, still i like him; so +you see i do understand. i don’t know how to put it... with this one +everything is calculated, and i don’t like that. but denísov...” + +“oh, denísov is quite different,” replied nicholas, implying that +even denísov was nothing compared to dólokhov—“you must understand +what a soul there is in dólokhov, you should see him with his mother. +what a heart!” + +“well, i don’t know about that, but i am uncomfortable with him. and +do you know he has fallen in love with sónya?” + +“what nonsense...” + +“i’m certain of it; you’ll see.” + +natásha’s prediction proved true. dólokhov, who did not usually care +for the society of ladies, began to come often to the house, and the +question for whose sake he came (though no one spoke of it) was soon +settled. he came because of sónya. and sónya, though she would never +have dared to say so, knew it and blushed scarlet every time dólokhov +appeared. + +dólokhov often dined at the rostóvs’, never missed a performance at +which they were present, and went to iogel’s balls for young people +which the rostóvs always attended. he was pointedly attentive to sónya +and looked at her in such a way that not only could she not bear his +glances without coloring, but even the old countess and natásha blushed +when they saw his looks. + +it was evident that this strange, strong man was under the irresistible +influence of the dark, graceful girl who loved another. + +rostóv noticed something new in dólokhov’s relations with sónya, +but he did not explain to himself what these new relations were. +“they’re always in love with someone,” he thought of sónya and +natásha. but he was not as much at ease with sónya and dólokhov as +before and was less frequently at home. + +in the autumn of 1806 everybody had again begun talking of the war with +napoleon with even greater warmth than the year before. orders were +given to raise recruits, ten men in every thousand for the regular army, +and besides this, nine men in every thousand for the militia. everywhere +bonaparte was anathematized and in moscow nothing but the coming war +was talked of. for the rostóv family the whole interest of these +preparations for war lay in the fact that nicholas would not hear of +remaining in moscow, and only awaited the termination of denísov’s +furlough after christmas to return with him to their regiment. his +approaching departure did not prevent his amusing himself, but rather +gave zest to his pleasures. he spent the greater part of his time away +from home, at dinners, parties, and balls. + + + + + +chapter xi + +on the third day after christmas nicholas dined at home, a thing he had +rarely done of late. it was a grand farewell dinner, as he and denísov +were leaving to join their regiment after epiphany. about twenty people +were present, including dólokhov and denísov. + +never had love been so much in the air, and never had the amorous +atmosphere made itself so strongly felt in the rostóvs’ house as at +this holiday time. “seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! +that is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. it is the one +thing we are interested in here,” said the spirit of the place. + +nicholas, having as usual exhausted two pairs of horses, without +visiting all the places he meant to go to and where he had been invited, +returned home just before dinner. as soon as he entered he noticed and +felt the tension of the amorous air in the house, and also noticed a +curious embarrassment among some of those present. sónya, dólokhov, +and the old countess were especially disturbed, and to a lesser degree +natásha. nicholas understood that something must have happened between +sónya and dólokhov before dinner, and with the kindly sensitiveness +natural to him was very gentle and wary with them both at dinner. on +that same evening there was to be one of the balls that iogel (the +dancing master) gave for his pupils during the holidays. + +“nicholas, will you come to iogel’s? please do!” said natásha. +“he asked you, and vasíli dmítrich * is also going.” + + * denísov. + +“where would i not go at the countess’ command!” said denísov, +who at the rostóvs’ had jocularly assumed the role of natásha’s +knight. “i’m even weady to dance the pas de châle.” + +“if i have time,” answered nicholas. “but i promised the +arkhárovs; they have a party.” + +“and you?” he asked dólokhov, but as soon as he had asked the +question he noticed that it should not have been put. + +“perhaps,” coldly and angrily replied dólokhov, glancing at sónya, +and, scowling, he gave nicholas just such a look as he had given pierre +at the club dinner. + +“there is something up,” thought nicholas, and he was further +confirmed in this conclusion by the fact that dólokhov left immediately +after dinner. he called natásha and asked her what was the matter. + +“and i was looking for you,” said natásha running out to him. “i +told you, but you would not believe it,” she said triumphantly. “he +has proposed to sónya!” + +little as nicholas had occupied himself with sónya of late, something +seemed to give way within him at this news. dólokhov was a suitable and +in some respects a brilliant match for the dowerless, orphan girl. from +the point of view of the old countess and of society it was out of the +question for her to refuse him. and therefore nicholas’ first feeling +on hearing the news was one of anger with sónya.... he tried to say, +“that’s capital; of course she’ll forget her childish promises +and accept the offer,” but before he had time to say it natásha began +again. + +“and fancy! she refused him quite definitely!” adding, after a +pause, “she told him she loved another.” + +“yes, my sónya could not have done otherwise!” thought nicholas. + +“much as mamma pressed her, she refused, and i know she won’t change +once she has said...” + +“and mamma pressed her!” said nicholas reproachfully. + +“yes,” said natásha. “do you know, nicholas—don’t be +angry—but i know you will not marry her. i know, heaven knows how, but +i know for certain that you won’t marry her.” + +“now you don’t know that at all!” said nicholas. “but i must +talk to her. what a darling sónya is!” he added with a smile. + +“ah, she is indeed a darling! i’ll send her to you.” + +and natásha kissed her brother and ran away. + +a minute later sónya came in with a frightened, guilty, and scared +look. nicholas went up to her and kissed her hand. this was the first +time since his return that they had talked alone and about their love. + +“sophie,” he began, timidly at first and then more and more +boldly, “if you wish to refuse one who is not only a brilliant and +advantageous match but a splendid, noble fellow... he is my friend...” + +sónya interrupted him. + +“i have already refused,” she said hurriedly. + +“if you are refusing for my sake, i am afraid that i...” + +sónya again interrupted. she gave him an imploring, frightened look. + +“nicholas, don’t tell me that!” she said. + +“no, but i must. it may be arrogant of me, but still it is best to say +it. if you refuse him on my account, i must tell you the whole truth. i +love you, and i think i love you more than anyone else....” + +“that is enough for me,” said sónya, blushing. + +“no, but i have been in love a thousand times and shall fall in +love again, though for no one have i such a feeling of friendship, +confidence, and love as i have for you. then i am young. mamma does +not wish it. in a word, i make no promise. and i beg you to consider +dólokhov’s offer,” he said, articulating his friend’s name with +difficulty. + +“don’t say that to me! i want nothing. i love you as a brother and +always shall, and i want nothing more.” + +“you are an angel: i am not worthy of you, but i am afraid of +misleading you.” + +and nicholas again kissed her hand. + + + + + +chapter xii + +iogel’s were the most enjoyable balls in moscow. so said the mothers +as they watched their young people executing their newly learned steps, +and so said the youths and maidens themselves as they danced till they +were ready to drop, and so said the grown-up young men and women who +came to these balls with an air of condescension and found them most +enjoyable. that year two marriages had come of these balls. the two +pretty young princesses gorchakóv met suitors there and were married +and so further increased the fame of these dances. what distinguished +them from others was the absence of host or hostess and the presence of +the good-natured iogel, flying about like a feather and bowing according +to the rules of his art, as he collected the tickets from all his +visitors. there was the fact that only those came who wished to dance +and amuse themselves as girls of thirteen and fourteen do who are +wearing long dresses for the first time. with scarcely any exceptions +they all were, or seemed to be, pretty—so rapturous were their smiles +and so sparkling their eyes. sometimes the best of the pupils, of whom +natásha, who was exceptionally graceful, was first, even danced the pas +de châle, but at this last ball only the écossaise, the anglaise, and +the mazurka, which was just coming into fashion, were danced. iogel had +taken a ballroom in bezúkhov’s house, and the ball, as everyone said, +was a great success. there were many pretty girls and the rostóv girls +were among the prettiest. they were both particularly happy and gay. +that evening, proud of dólokhov’s proposal, her refusal, and her +explanation with nicholas, sónya twirled about before she left home +so that the maid could hardly get her hair plaited, and she was +transparently radiant with impulsive joy. + +natásha no less proud of her first long dress and of being at a real +ball was even happier. they were both dressed in white muslin with pink +ribbons. + +natásha fell in love the very moment she entered the ballroom. she +was not in love with anyone in particular, but with everyone. whatever +person she happened to look at she was in love with for that moment. + +“oh, how delightful it is!” she kept saying, running up to sónya. + +nicholas and denísov were walking up and down, looking with kindly +patronage at the dancers. + +“how sweet she is—she will be a weal beauty!” said denísov. + +“who?” + +“countess natásha,” answered denísov. + +“and how she dances! what gwace!” he said again after a pause. + +“who are you talking about?” + +“about your sister,” ejaculated denísov testily. + +rostóv smiled. + +“my dear count, you were one of my best pupils—you must dance,” +said little iogel coming up to nicholas. “look how many charming young +ladies—” he turned with the same request to denísov who was also a +former pupil of his. + +“no, my dear fellow, i’ll be a wallflower,” said denísov. +“don’t you wecollect what bad use i made of your lessons?” + +“oh no!” said iogel, hastening to reassure him. “you were only +inattentive, but you had talent—oh yes, you had talent!” + +the band struck up the newly introduced mazurka. nicholas could not +refuse iogel and asked sónya to dance. denísov sat down by the old +ladies and, leaning on his saber and beating time with his foot, told +them something funny and kept them amused, while he watched the young +people dancing, iogel with natásha, his pride and his best pupil, were +the first couple. noiselessly, skillfully stepping with his little +feet in low shoes, iogel flew first across the hall with natásha, who, +though shy, went on carefully executing her steps. denísov did not +take his eyes off her and beat time with his saber in a way that clearly +indicated that if he was not dancing it was because he would not and not +because he could not. in the middle of a figure he beckoned to rostóv +who was passing: + +“this is not at all the thing,” he said. “what sort of polish +mazuwka is this? but she does dance splendidly.” + +knowing that denísov had a reputation even in poland for the masterly +way in which he danced the mazurka, nicholas ran up to natásha: + +“go and choose denísov. he is a real dancer, a wonder!” he said. + +when it came to natásha’s turn to choose a partner, she rose and, +tripping rapidly across in her little shoes trimmed with bows, ran +timidly to the corner where denísov sat. she saw that everybody was +looking at her and waiting. nicholas saw that denísov was refusing +though he smiled delightedly. he ran up to them. + +“please, vasíli dmítrich,” natásha was saying, “do come!” + +“oh no, let me off, countess,” denísov replied. + +“now then, váska,” said nicholas. + +“they coax me as if i were váska the cat!” said denísov jokingly. + +“i’ll sing for you a whole evening,” said natásha. + +“oh, the faiwy! she can do anything with me!” said denísov, and +he unhooked his saber. he came out from behind the chairs, clasped his +partner’s hand firmly, threw back his head, and advanced his foot, +waiting for the beat. only on horse back and in the mazurka was +denísov’s short stature not noticeable and he looked the fine fellow +he felt himself to be. at the right beat of the music he looked sideways +at his partner with a merry and triumphant air, suddenly stamped with +one foot, bounded from the floor like a ball, and flew round the room +taking his partner with him. he glided silently on one foot half across +the room, and seeming not to notice the chairs was dashing straight at +them, when suddenly, clinking his spurs and spreading out his legs, +he stopped short on his heels, stood so a second, stamped on the spot +clanking his spurs, whirled rapidly round, and, striking his left heel +against his right, flew round again in a circle. natásha guessed what +he meant to do, and abandoning herself to him followed his lead hardly +knowing how. first he spun her round, holding her now with his left, now +with his right hand, then falling on one knee he twirled her round him, +and again jumping up, dashed so impetuously forward that it seemed as if +he would rush through the whole suite of rooms without drawing breath, +and then he suddenly stopped and performed some new and unexpected +steps. when at last, smartly whirling his partner round in front of her +chair, he drew up with a click of his spurs and bowed to her, natásha +did not even make him a curtsy. she fixed her eyes on him in amazement, +smiling as if she did not recognize him. + +“what does this mean?” she brought out. + +although iogel did not acknowledge this to be the real mazurka, everyone +was delighted with denísov’s skill, he was asked again and again as +a partner, and the old men began smilingly to talk about poland and the +good old days. denísov, flushed after the mazurka and mopping himself +with his handkerchief, sat down by natásha and did not leave her for +the rest of the evening. + + + + + +chapter xiii + +for two days after that rostóv did not see dólokhov at his own or at +dólokhov’s home: on the third day he received a note from him: + +as i do not intend to be at your house again for reasons you know +of, and am going to rejoin my regiment, i am giving a farewell supper +tonight to my friends—come to the english hotel. + +about ten o’clock rostóv went to the english hotel straight from the +theater, where he had been with his family and denísov. he was at once +shown to the best room, which dólokhov had taken for that evening. some +twenty men were gathered round a table at which dólokhov sat between +two candles. on the table was a pile of gold and paper money, and he +was keeping the bank. rostóv had not seen him since his proposal and +sónya’s refusal and felt uncomfortable at the thought of how they +would meet. + +dólokhov’s clear, cold glance met rostóv as soon as he entered the +door, as though he had long expected him. + +“it’s a long time since we met,” he said. “thanks for coming. +i’ll just finish dealing, and then ilyúshka will come with his +chorus.” + +“i called once or twice at your house,” said rostóv, reddening. + +dólokhov made no reply. + +“you may punt,” he said. + +rostóv recalled at that moment a strange conversation he had once had +with dólokhov. “none but fools trust to luck in play,” dólokhov +had then said. + +“or are you afraid to play with me?” dólokhov now asked as if +guessing rostóv’s thought. + +beneath his smile rostóv saw in him the mood he had shown at the club +dinner and at other times, when as if tired of everyday life he had felt +a need to escape from it by some strange, and usually cruel, action. + +rostóv felt ill at ease. he tried, but failed, to find some joke with +which to reply to dólokhov’s words. but before he had thought of +anything, dólokhov, looking straight in his face, said slowly and +deliberately so that everyone could hear: + +“do you remember we had a talk about cards... ‘he’s a fool who +trusts to luck, one should make certain,’ and i want to try.” + +“to try his luck or the certainty?” rostóv asked himself. + +“well, you’d better not play,” dólokhov added, and springing a +new pack of cards said: “bank, gentlemen!” + +moving the money forward he prepared to deal. rostóv sat down by his +side and at first did not play. dólokhov kept glancing at him. + +“why don’t you play?” he asked. + +and strange to say nicholas felt that he could not help taking up a +card, putting a small stake on it, and beginning to play. + +“i have no money with me,” he said. + +“i’ll trust you.” + +rostóv staked five rubles on a card and lost, staked again, and again +lost. dólokhov “killed,” that is, beat, ten cards of rostóv’s +running. + +“gentlemen,” said dólokhov after he had dealt for some time. +“please place your money on the cards or i may get muddled in the +reckoning.” + +one of the players said he hoped he might be trusted. + +“yes, you might, but i am afraid of getting the accounts mixed. so i +ask you to put the money on your cards,” replied dólokhov. “don’t +stint yourself, we’ll settle afterwards,” he added, turning to +rostóv. + +the game continued; a waiter kept handing round champagne. + +all rostóv’s cards were beaten and he had eight hundred rubles scored +up against him. he wrote “800 rubles” on a card, but while the +waiter filled his glass he changed his mind and altered it to his usual +stake of twenty rubles. + +“leave it,” said dólokhov, though he did not seem to be even +looking at rostóv, “you’ll win it back all the sooner. i lose to +the others but win from you. or are you afraid of me?” he asked again. + +rostóv submitted. he let the eight hundred remain and laid down a seven +of hearts with a torn corner, which he had picked up from the floor. he +well remembered that seven afterwards. he laid down the seven of hearts, +on which with a broken bit of chalk he had written “800 rubles” in +clear upright figures; he emptied the glass of warm champagne that was +handed him, smiled at dólokhov’s words, and with a sinking heart, +waiting for a seven to turn up, gazed at dólokhov’s hands which held +the pack. much depended on rostóv’s winning or losing on that seven +of hearts. on the previous sunday the old count had given his son +two thousand rubles, and though he always disliked speaking of money +difficulties had told nicholas that this was all he could let him have +till may, and asked him to be more economical this time. nicholas had +replied that it would be more than enough for him and that he gave his +word of honor not to take anything more till the spring. now only twelve +hundred rubles was left of that money, so that this seven of hearts +meant for him not only the loss of sixteen hundred rubles, but the +necessity of going back on his word. with a sinking heart he watched +dólokhov’s hands and thought, “now then, make haste and let me have +this card and i’ll take my cap and drive home to supper with denísov, +natásha, and sónya, and will certainly never touch a card again.” at +that moment his home life, jokes with pétya, talks with sónya, duets +with natásha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed +in the house on the povarskáya rose before him with such vividness, +clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and +unappreciated bliss, long past. he could not conceive that a stupid +chance, letting the seven be dealt to the right rather than to the left, +might deprive him of all this happiness, newly appreciated and newly +illumined, and plunge him into the depths of unknown and undefined +misery. that could not be, yet he awaited with a sinking heart the +movement of dólokhov’s hands. those broad, reddish hands, with hairy +wrists visible from under the shirt cuffs, laid down the pack and took +up a glass and a pipe that were handed him. + +“so you are not afraid to play with me?” repeated dólokhov, and as +if about to tell a good story he put down the cards, leaned back in his +chair, and began deliberately with a smile: + +“yes, gentlemen, i’ve been told there’s a rumor going about moscow +that i’m a sharper, so i advise you to be careful.” + +“come now, deal!” exclaimed rostóv. + +“oh, those moscow gossips!” said dólokhov, and he took up the cards +with a smile. + +“aah!” rostóv almost screamed lifting both hands to his head. the +seven he needed was lying uppermost, the first card in the pack. he had +lost more than he could pay. + +“still, don’t ruin yourself!” said dólokhov with a side glance at +rostóv as he continued to deal. + + + + + +chapter xiv + +an hour and a half later most of the players were but little interested +in their own play. + +the whole interest was concentrated on rostóv. instead of sixteen +hundred rubles he had a long column of figures scored against him, +which he had reckoned up to ten thousand, but that now, as he vaguely +supposed, must have risen to fifteen thousand. in reality it already +exceeded twenty thousand rubles. dólokhov was no longer listening to +stories or telling them, but followed every movement of rostóv’s +hands and occasionally ran his eyes over the score against him. he had +decided to play until that score reached forty-three thousand. he +had fixed on that number because forty-three was the sum of his and +sónya’s joint ages. rostóv, leaning his head on both hands, sat at +the table which was scrawled over with figures, wet with spilled wine, +and littered with cards. one tormenting impression did not leave him: +that those broad-boned reddish hands with hairy wrists visible from +under the shirt sleeves, those hands which he loved and hated, held him +in their power. + +“six hundred rubles, ace, a corner, a nine... winning it back’s +impossible... oh, how pleasant it was at home!... the knave, double or +quits... it can’t be!... and why is he doing this to me?” rostóv +pondered. sometimes he staked a large sum, but dólokhov refused to +accept it and fixed the stake himself. nicholas submitted to him, and at +one moment prayed to god as he had done on the battlefield at the bridge +over the enns, and then guessed that the card that came first to hand +from the crumpled heap under the table would save him, now counted the +cords on his coat and took a card with that number and tried staking the +total of his losses on it, then he looked round for aid from the other +players, or peered at the now cold face of dólokhov and tried to read +what was passing in his mind. + +“he knows of course what this loss means to me. he can’t want my +ruin. wasn’t he my friend? wasn’t i fond of him? but it’s not his +fault. what’s he to do if he has such luck?... and it’s not my fault +either,” he thought to himself, “i have done nothing wrong. have i +killed anyone, or insulted or wished harm to anyone? why such a terrible +misfortune? and when did it begin? such a little while ago i came to +this table with the thought of winning a hundred rubles to buy that +casket for mamma’s name day and then going home. i was so happy, so +free, so lighthearted! and i did not realize how happy i was! when did +that end and when did this new, terrible state of things begin? what +marked the change? i sat all the time in this same place at this table, +chose and placed cards, and watched those broad-boned agile hands in the +same way. when did it happen and what has happened? i am well and strong +and still the same and in the same place. no, it can’t be! surely it +will all end in nothing!” + +he was flushed and bathed in perspiration, though the room was not hot. +his face was terrible and piteous to see, especially from its helpless +efforts to seem calm. + +the score against him reached the fateful sum of forty-three thousand. +rostóv had just prepared a card, by bending the corner of which he +meant to double the three thousand just put down to his score, when +dólokhov, slamming down the pack of cards, put it aside and began +rapidly adding up the total of rostóv’s debt, breaking the chalk as +he marked the figures in his clear, bold hand. + +“supper, it’s time for supper! and here are the gypsies!” + +some swarthy men and women were really entering from the cold outside +and saying something in their gypsy accents. nicholas understood that it +was all over; but he said in an indifferent tone: + +“well, won’t you go on? i had a splendid card all ready,” as if it +were the fun of the game which interested him most. + +“it’s all up! i’m lost!” thought he. “now a bullet through my +brain—that’s all that’s left me!” and at the same time he said +in a cheerful voice: + +“come now, just this one more little card!” + +“all right!” said dólokhov, having finished the addition. “all +right! twenty-one rubles,” he said, pointing to the figure twenty-one +by which the total exceeded the round sum of forty-three thousand; and +taking up a pack he prepared to deal. rostóv submissively unbent the +corner of his card and, instead of the six thousand he had intended, +carefully wrote twenty-one. + +“it’s all the same to me,” he said. “i only want to see whether +you will let me win this ten, or beat it.” + +dólokhov began to deal seriously. oh, how rostóv detested at that +moment those hands with their short reddish fingers and hairy wrists, +which held him in their power.... the ten fell to him. + +“you owe forty-three thousand, count,” said dólokhov, and +stretching himself he rose from the table. “one does get tired sitting +so long,” he added. + +“yes, i’m tired too,” said rostóv. + +dólokhov cut him short, as if to remind him that it was not for him to +jest. + +“when am i to receive the money, count?” + +rostóv, flushing, drew dólokhov into the next room. + +“i cannot pay it all immediately. will you take an i.o.u.?” he said. + +“i say, rostóv,” said dólokhov clearly, smiling and looking +nicholas straight in the eyes, “you know the saying, ‘lucky in love, +unlucky at cards.’ your cousin is in love with you, i know.” + +“oh, it’s terrible to feel oneself so in this man’s power,” +thought rostóv. he knew what a shock he would inflict on his father and +mother by the news of this loss, he knew what a relief it would be to +escape it all, and felt that dólokhov knew that he could save him from +all this shame and sorrow, but wanted now to play with him as a cat does +with a mouse. + +“your cousin...” dólokhov started to say, but nicholas interrupted +him. + +“my cousin has nothing to do with this and it’s not necessary to +mention her!” he exclaimed fiercely. + +“then when am i to have it?” + +“tomorrow,” replied rostóv and left the room. + + + + + +chapter xv + +to say “tomorrow” and keep up a dignified tone was not difficult, +but to go home alone, see his sisters, brother, mother, and father, +confess and ask for money he had no right to after giving his word of +honor, was terrible. + +at home, they had not yet gone to bed. the young people, after returning +from the theater, had had supper and were grouped round the clavichord. +as soon as nicholas entered, he was enfolded in that poetic atmosphere +of love which pervaded the rostóv household that winter and, now after +dólokhov’s proposal and iogel’s ball, seemed to have grown thicker +round sónya and natásha as the air does before a thunderstorm. sónya +and natásha, in the light-blue dresses they had worn at the theater, +looking pretty and conscious of it, were standing by the clavichord, +happy and smiling. véra was playing chess with shinshín in the drawing +room. the old countess, waiting for the return of her husband and son, +sat playing patience with the old gentlewoman who lived in their house. +denísov, with sparkling eyes and ruffled hair, sat at the clavichord +striking chords with his short fingers, his legs thrown back and his +eyes rolling as he sang, with his small, husky, but true voice, some +verses called “enchantress,” which he had composed, and to which he +was trying to fit music: + + enchantress, say, to my forsaken lyre + what magic power is this recalls me still? + what spark has set my inmost soul on fire, + what is this bliss that makes my fingers thrill? + +he was singing in passionate tones, gazing with his sparkling +black-agate eyes at the frightened and happy natásha. + +“splendid! excellent!” exclaimed natásha. “another verse,” she +said, without noticing nicholas. + +“everything’s still the same with them,” thought nicholas, +glancing into the drawing room, where he saw véra and his mother with +the old lady. + +“ah, and here’s nicholas!” cried natásha, running up to him. + +“is papa at home?” he asked. + +“i am so glad you’ve come!” said natásha, without answering him. +“we are enjoying ourselves! vasíli dmítrich is staying a day longer +for my sake! did you know?” + +“no, papa is not back yet,” said sónya. + +“nicholas, have you come? come here, dear!” called the old countess +from the drawing room. + +nicholas went to her, kissed her hand, and sitting down silently at her +table began to watch her hands arranging the cards. from the dancing +room, they still heard the laughter and merry voices trying to persuade +natásha to sing. + +“all wight! all wight!” shouted denísov. “it’s no good making +excuses now! it’s your turn to sing the ba’cawolla—i entweat +you!” + +the countess glanced at her silent son. + +“what is the matter?” she asked. + +“oh, nothing,” said he, as if weary of being continually asked the +same question. “will papa be back soon?” + +“i expect so.” + +“everything’s the same with them. they know nothing about it! where +am i to go?” thought nicholas, and went again into the dancing room +where the clavichord stood. + +sónya was sitting at the clavichord, playing the prelude to +denísov’s favorite barcarolle. natásha was preparing to sing. +denísov was looking at her with enraptured eyes. + +nicholas began pacing up and down the room. + +“why do they want to make her sing? how can she sing? there’s +nothing to be happy about!” thought he. + +sónya struck the first chord of the prelude. + +“my god, i’m a ruined and dishonored man! a bullet through my brain +is the only thing left me—not singing!” his thoughts ran on. “go +away? but where to? it’s one—let them sing!” + +he continued to pace the room, looking gloomily at denísov and the +girls and avoiding their eyes. + +“nikólenka, what is the matter?” sónya’s eyes fixed on him +seemed to ask. she noticed at once that something had happened to him. + +nicholas turned away from her. natásha too, with her quick instinct, +had instantly noticed her brother’s condition. but, though she noticed +it, she was herself in such high spirits at that moment, so far from +sorrow, sadness, or self-reproach, that she purposely deceived herself +as young people often do. “no, i am too happy now to spoil my +enjoyment by sympathy with anyone’s sorrow,” she felt, and she said +to herself: “no, i must be mistaken, he must be feeling happy, just as +i am.” + +“now, sónya!” she said, going to the very middle of the room, where +she considered the resonance was best. + +having lifted her head and let her arms droop lifelessly, as ballet +dancers do, natásha, rising energetically from her heels to her toes, +stepped to the middle of the room and stood still. + +“yes, that’s me!” she seemed to say, answering the rapt gaze with +which denísov followed her. + +“and what is she so pleased about?” thought nicholas, looking at his +sister. “why isn’t she dull and ashamed?” + +natásha took the first note, her throat swelled, her chest rose, +her eyes became serious. at that moment she was oblivious of her +surroundings, and from her smiling lips flowed sounds which anyone may +produce at the same intervals and hold for the same time, but which +leave you cold a thousand times and the thousand and first time thrill +you and make you weep. + +natásha, that winter, had for the first time begun to sing seriously, +mainly because denísov so delighted in her singing. she no longer sang +as a child, there was no longer in her singing that comical, childish, +painstaking effect that had been in it before; but she did not yet sing +well, as all the connoisseurs who heard her said: “it is not trained, +but it is a beautiful voice that must be trained.” only they generally +said this some time after she had finished singing. while that untrained +voice, with its incorrect breathing and labored transitions, was +sounding, even the connoisseurs said nothing, but only delighted in +it and wished to hear it again. in her voice there was a virginal +freshness, an unconsciousness of her own powers, and an as yet untrained +velvety softness, which so mingled with her lack of art in singing that +it seemed as if nothing in that voice could be altered without spoiling +it. + +“what is this?” thought nicholas, listening to her with widely +opened eyes. “what has happened to her? how she is singing today!” +and suddenly the whole world centered for him on anticipation of the +next note, the next phrase, and everything in the world was divided into +three beats: “oh mio crudele affetto.”... one, two, three... one, +two, three... one... “oh mio crudele affetto.”... one, two, three... +one. “oh, this senseless life of ours!” thought nicholas. “all +this misery, and money, and dólokhov, and anger, and honor—it’s all +nonsense... but this is real.... now then, natásha, now then, dearest! +now then, darling! how will she take that si? she’s taken it! thank +god!” and without noticing that he was singing, to strengthen the si +he sung a second, a third below the high note. “ah, god! how fine! did +i really take it? how fortunate!” he thought. + +oh, how that chord vibrated, and how moved was something that was finest +in rostóv’s soul! and this something was apart from everything else +in the world and above everything in the world. “what were losses, and +dólokhov, and words of honor?... all nonsense! one might kill and rob +and yet be happy....” + + + + + +chapter xvi + +it was long since rostóv had felt such enjoyment from music as he +did that day. but no sooner had natásha finished her barcarolle than +reality again presented itself. he got up without saying a word and went +downstairs to his own room. a quarter of an hour later the old count +came in from his club, cheerful and contented. nicholas, hearing him +drive up, went to meet him. + +“well—had a good time?” said the old count, smiling gaily and +proudly at his son. + +nicholas tried to say “yes,” but could not: and he nearly burst into +sobs. the count was lighting his pipe and did not notice his son’s +condition. + +“ah, it can’t be avoided!” thought nicholas, for the first and +last time. and suddenly, in the most casual tone, which made him feel +ashamed of himself, he said, as if merely asking his father to let him +have the carriage to drive to town: + +“papa, i have come on a matter of business. i was nearly forgetting. i +need some money.” + +“dear me!” said his father, who was in a specially good humor. “i +told you it would not be enough. how much?” + +“very much,” said nicholas flushing, and with a stupid careless +smile, for which he was long unable to forgive himself, “i have lost a +little, i mean a good deal, a great deal—forty three thousand.” + +“what! to whom?... nonsense!” cried the count, suddenly reddening +with an apoplectic flush over neck and nape as old people do. + +“i promised to pay tomorrow,” said nicholas. + +“well!...” said the old count, spreading out his arms and sinking +helplessly on the sofa. + +“it can’t be helped! it happens to everyone!” said the son, with +a bold, free, and easy tone, while in his soul he regarded himself as a +worthless scoundrel whose whole life could not atone for his crime. he +longed to kiss his father’s hands and kneel to beg his forgiveness, +but said, in a careless and even rude voice, that it happens to +everyone! + +the old count cast down his eyes on hearing his son’s words and began +bustlingly searching for something. + +“yes, yes,” he muttered, “it will be difficult, i fear, difficult +to raise... happens to everybody! yes, who has not done it?” + +and with a furtive glance at his son’s face, the count went out of the +room.... nicholas had been prepared for resistance, but had not at all +expected this. + +“papa! pa-pa!” he called after him, sobbing, “forgive me!” and +seizing his father’s hand, he pressed it to his lips and burst into +tears. + +while father and son were having their explanation, the mother and +daughter were having one not less important. natásha came running to +her mother, quite excited. + +“mamma!... mamma!... he has made me...” + +“made what?” + +“made, made me an offer, mamma! mamma!” she exclaimed. + +the countess did not believe her ears. denísov had proposed. to whom? +to this chit of a girl, natásha, who not so long ago was playing with +dolls and who was still having lessons. + +“don’t, natásha! what nonsense!” she said, hoping it was a joke. + +“nonsense, indeed! i am telling you the fact,” said natásha +indignantly. “i come to ask you what to do, and you call it +‘nonsense!’” + +the countess shrugged her shoulders. + +“if it is true that monsieur denísov has made you a proposal, tell +him he is a fool, that’s all!” + +“no, he’s not a fool!” replied natásha indignantly and seriously. + +“well then, what do you want? you’re all in love nowadays. well, +if you are in love, marry him!” said the countess, with a laugh of +annoyance. “good luck to you!” + +“no, mamma, i’m not in love with him, i suppose i’m not in love +with him.” + +“well then, tell him so.” + +“mamma, are you cross? don’t be cross, dear! is it my fault?” + +“no, but what is it, my dear? do you want me to go and tell him?” +said the countess smiling. + +“no, i will do it myself, only tell me what to say. it’s all very +well for you,” said natásha, with a responsive smile. “you should +have seen how he said it! i know he did not mean to say it, but it came +out accidently.” + +“well, all the same, you must refuse him.” + +“no, i mustn’t. i am so sorry for him! he’s so nice.” + +“well then, accept his offer. it’s high time for you to be +married,” answered the countess sharply and sarcastically. + +“no, mamma, but i’m so sorry for him. i don’t know how i’m to +say it.” + +“and there’s nothing for you to say. i shall speak to him myself,” +said the countess, indignant that they should have dared to treat this +little natásha as grown up. + +“no, not on any account! i will tell him myself, and you’ll listen +at the door,” and natásha ran across the drawing room to the dancing +hall, where denísov was sitting on the same chair by the clavichord +with his face in his hands. + +he jumped up at the sound of her light step. + +“nataly,” he said, moving with rapid steps toward her, “decide my +fate. it is in your hands.” + +“vasíli dmítrich, i’m so sorry for you!... no, but you are so +nice... but it won’t do...not that... but as a friend, i shall always +love you.” + +denísov bent over her hand and she heard strange sounds she did not +understand. she kissed his rough curly black head. at this instant, they +heard the quick rustle of the countess’ dress. she came up to them. + +“vasíli dmítrich, i thank you for the honor,” she said, with an +embarrassed voice, though it sounded severe to denísov—“but my +daughter is so young, and i thought that, as my son’s friend, you +would have addressed yourself first to me. in that case you would not +have obliged me to give this refusal.” + +“countess...” said denísov, with downcast eyes and a guilty face. +he tried to say more, but faltered. + +natásha could not remain calm, seeing him in such a plight. she began +to sob aloud. + +“countess, i have done w’ong,” denísov went on in an unsteady +voice, “but believe me, i so adore your daughter and all your family +that i would give my life twice over...” he looked at the countess, +and seeing her severe face said: “well, good-by, countess,” and +kissing her hand, he left the room with quick resolute strides, without +looking at natásha. + + +next day rostóv saw denísov off. he did not wish to stay another +day in moscow. all denísov’s moscow friends gave him a farewell +entertainment at the gypsies’, with the result that he had no +recollection of how he was put in the sleigh or of the first three +stages of his journey. + +after denísov’s departure, rostóv spent another fortnight in moscow, +without going out of the house, waiting for the money his father could +not at once raise, and he spent most of his time in the girls’ room. + +sónya was more tender and devoted to him than ever. it was as if she +wanted to show him that his losses were an achievement that made her +love him all the more, but nicholas now considered himself unworthy of +her. + +he filled the girls’ albums with verses and music, and having at last +sent dólokhov the whole forty-three thousand rubles and received his +receipt, he left at the end of november, without taking leave of any of +his acquaintances, to overtake his regiment which was already in poland. + + + + + +book five: 1806 - 07 + + + + + +chapter i + +after his interview with his wife pierre left for petersburg. at the +torzhók post station, either there were no horses or the postmaster +would not supply them. pierre was obliged to wait. without undressing, +he lay down on the leather sofa in front of a round table, put his big +feet in their overboots on the table, and began to reflect. + +“will you have the portmanteaus brought in? and a bed got ready, and +tea?” asked his valet. + +pierre gave no answer, for he neither heard nor saw anything. he had +begun to think of the last station and was still pondering on the same +question—one so important that he took no notice of what went +on around him. not only was he indifferent as to whether he got to +petersburg earlier or later, or whether he secured accommodation at this +station, but compared to the thoughts that now occupied him it was a +matter of indifference whether he remained there for a few hours or for +the rest of his life. + +the postmaster, his wife, the valet, and a peasant woman selling +torzhók embroidery came into the room offering their services. +without changing his careless attitude, pierre looked at them over his +spectacles unable to understand what they wanted or how they could go on +living without having solved the problems that so absorbed him. he had +been engrossed by the same thoughts ever since the day he returned from +sokólniki after the duel and had spent that first agonizing, sleepless +night. but now, in the solitude of the journey, they seized him with +special force. no matter what he thought about, he always returned to +these same questions which he could not solve and yet could not cease to +ask himself. it was as if the thread of the chief screw which held his +life together were stripped, so that the screw could not get in or out, +but went on turning uselessly in the same place. + +the postmaster came in and began obsequiously to beg his excellency to +wait only two hours, when, come what might, he would let his excellency +have the courier horses. it was plain that he was lying and only wanted +to get more money from the traveler. + +“is this good or bad?” pierre asked himself. “it is good for me, +bad for another traveler, and for himself it’s unavoidable, because +he needs money for food; the man said an officer had once given him a +thrashing for letting a private traveler have the courier horses. +but the officer thrashed him because he had to get on as quickly as +possible. and i,” continued pierre, “shot dólokhov because i +considered myself injured, and louis xvi was executed because they +considered him a criminal, and a year later they executed those who +executed him—also for some reason. what is bad? what is good? what +should one love and what hate? what does one live for? and what am i? +what is life, and what is death? what power governs all?” + +there was no answer to any of these questions, except one, and that +not a logical answer and not at all a reply to them. the answer was: +“you’ll die and all will end. you’ll die and know all, or cease +asking.” but dying was also dreadful. + +the torzhók peddler woman, in a whining voice, went on offering her +wares, especially a pair of goatskin slippers. “i have hundreds of +rubles i don’t know what to do with, and she stands in her tattered +cloak looking timidly at me,” he thought. “and what does she +want the money for? as if that money could add a hair’s breadth to +happiness or peace of mind. can anything in the world make her or me +less a prey to evil and death?—death which ends all and must come +today or tomorrow—at any rate, in an instant as compared with +eternity.” and again he twisted the screw with the stripped thread, +and again it turned uselessly in the same place. + +his servant handed him a half-cut novel, in the form of letters, by +madame de souza. he began reading about the sufferings and virtuous +struggles of a certain emilie de mansfeld. “and why did she resist +her seducer when she loved him?” he thought. “god could not have put +into her heart an impulse that was against his will. my wife—as she +once was—did not struggle, and perhaps she was right. nothing has been +found out, nothing discovered,” pierre again said to himself. “all +we can know is that we know nothing. and that’s the height of human +wisdom.” + +everything within and around him seemed confused, senseless, and +repellent. yet in this very repugnance to all his circumstances pierre +found a kind of tantalizing satisfaction. + +“i make bold to ask your excellency to move a little for this +gentleman,” said the postmaster, entering the room followed by another +traveler, also detained for lack of horses. + +the newcomer was a short, large-boned, yellow-faced, wrinkled old +man, with gray bushy eyebrows overhanging bright eyes of an indefinite +grayish color. + +pierre took his feet off the table, stood up, and lay down on a bed that +had been got ready for him, glancing now and then at the newcomer, who, +with a gloomy and tired face, was wearily taking off his wraps with the +aid of his servant, and not looking at pierre. with a pair of felt boots +on his thin bony legs, and keeping on a worn, nankeen-covered, sheepskin +coat, the traveler sat down on the sofa, leaned back his big head with +its broad temples and close-cropped hair, and looked at bezúkhov. the +stern, shrewd, and penetrating expression of that look struck pierre. he +felt a wish to speak to the stranger, but by the time he had made up his +mind to ask him a question about the roads, the traveler had closed his +eyes. his shriveled old hands were folded and on the finger of one of +them pierre noticed a large cast iron ring with a seal representing a +death’s head. the stranger sat without stirring, either resting or, as +it seemed to pierre, sunk in profound and calm meditation. his servant +was also a yellow, wrinkled old man, without beard or mustache, +evidently not because he was shaven but because they had never grown. +this active old servant was unpacking the traveler’s canteen and +preparing tea. he brought in a boiling samovar. when everything was +ready, the stranger opened his eyes, moved to the table, filled a +tumbler with tea for himself and one for the beardless old man to whom +he passed it. pierre began to feel a sense of uneasiness, and the +need, even the inevitability, of entering into conversation with this +stranger. + +the servant brought back his tumbler turned upside down, * with an +unfinished bit of nibbled sugar, and asked if anything more would be +wanted. + + * to indicate he did not want more tea. + +“no. give me the book,” said the stranger. + +the servant handed him a book which pierre took to be a devotional work, +and the traveler became absorbed in it. pierre looked at him. all at +once the stranger closed the book, putting in a marker, and again, +leaning with his arms on the back of the sofa, sat in his former +position with his eyes shut. pierre looked at him and had not time +to turn away when the old man, opening his eyes, fixed his steady and +severe gaze straight on pierre’s face. + +pierre felt confused and wished to avoid that look, but the bright old +eyes attracted him irresistibly. + + + + + +chapter ii + +“i have the pleasure of addressing count bezúkhov, if i am not +mistaken,” said the stranger in a deliberate and loud voice. + +pierre looked silently and inquiringly at him over his spectacles. + +“i have heard of you, my dear sir,” continued the stranger, “and +of your misfortune.” he seemed to emphasize the last word, as if to +say—“yes, misfortune! call it what you please, i know that what +happened to you in moscow was a misfortune.”—“i regret it very +much, my dear sir.” + +pierre flushed and, hurriedly putting his legs down from the bed, bent +forward toward the old man with a forced and timid smile. + +“i have not referred to this out of curiosity, my dear sir, but for +greater reasons.” + +he paused, his gaze still on pierre, and moved aside on the sofa by way +of inviting the other to take a seat beside him. pierre felt reluctant +to enter into conversation with this old man, but, submitting to him +involuntarily, came up and sat down beside him. + +“you are unhappy, my dear sir,” the stranger continued. “you +are young and i am old. i should like to help you as far as lies in my +power.” + +“oh, yes!” said pierre, with a forced smile. “i am very grateful +to you. where are you traveling from?” + +the stranger’s face was not genial, it was even cold and severe, but +in spite of this, both the face and words of his new acquaintance were +irresistibly attractive to pierre. + +“but if for any reason you don’t feel inclined to talk to me,” +said the old man, “say so, my dear sir.” and he suddenly smiled, in +an unexpected and tenderly paternal way. + +“oh no, not at all! on the contrary, i am very glad to make your +acquaintance,” said pierre. and again, glancing at the stranger’s +hands, he looked more closely at the ring, with its skull—a masonic +sign. + +“allow me to ask,” he said, “are you a mason?” + +“yes, i belong to the brotherhood of the freemasons,” said the +stranger, looking deeper and deeper into pierre’s eyes. “and in +their name and my own i hold out a brotherly hand to you.” + +“i am afraid,” said pierre, smiling, and wavering between the +confidence the personality of the freemason inspired in him and his own +habit of ridiculing the masonic beliefs—“i am afraid i am very far +from understanding—how am i to put it?—i am afraid my way of looking +at the world is so opposed to yours that we shall not understand one +another.” + +“i know your outlook,” said the mason, “and the view of life you +mention, and which you think is the result of your own mental efforts, +is the one held by the majority of people, and is the invariable fruit +of pride, indolence, and ignorance. forgive me, my dear sir, but if i +had not known it i should not have addressed you. your view of life is a +regrettable delusion.” + +“just as i may suppose you to be deluded,” said pierre, with a faint +smile. + +“i should never dare to say that i know the truth,” said the mason, +whose words struck pierre more and more by their precision and firmness. +“no one can attain to truth by himself. only by laying stone on stone +with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our +forefather adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be +a worthy dwelling place of the great god,” he added, and closed his +eyes. + +“i ought to tell you that i do not believe... do not believe in +god,” said pierre, regretfully and with an effort, feeling it +essential to speak the whole truth. + +the mason looked intently at pierre and smiled as a rich man with +millions in hand might smile at a poor fellow who told him that he, poor +man, had not the five rubles that would make him happy. + +“yes, you do not know him, my dear sir,” said the mason. “you +cannot know him. you do not know him and that is why you are unhappy.” + +“yes, yes, i am unhappy,” assented pierre. “but what am i to +do?” + +“you know him not, my dear sir, and so you are very unhappy. you do +not know him, but he is here, he is in me, he is in my words, he is in +thee, and even in those blasphemous words thou hast just uttered!” +pronounced the mason in a stern and tremulous voice. + +he paused and sighed, evidently trying to calm himself. + +“if he were not,” he said quietly, “you and i would not be +speaking of him, my dear sir. of what, of whom, are we speaking? whom +hast thou denied?” he suddenly asked with exulting austerity and +authority in his voice. “who invented him, if he did not exist? whence +came thy conception of the existence of such an incomprehensible being? +didst thou, and why did the whole world, conceive the idea of the +existence of such an incomprehensible being, a being all-powerful, +eternal, and infinite in all his attributes?...” + +he stopped and remained silent for a long time. + +pierre could not and did not wish to break this silence. + +“he exists, but to understand him is hard,” the mason began again, +looking not at pierre but straight before him, and turning the leaves +of his book with his old hands which from excitement he could not keep +still. “if it were a man whose existence thou didst doubt i could +bring him to thee, could take him by the hand and show him to thee. but +how can i, an insignificant mortal, show his omnipotence, his infinity, +and all his mercy to one who is blind, or who shuts his eyes that he may +not see or understand him and may not see or understand his own vileness +and sinfulness?” he paused again. “who art thou? thou dreamest that +thou art wise because thou couldst utter those blasphemous words,” he +went on, with a somber and scornful smile. “and thou art more foolish +and unreasonable than a little child, who, playing with the parts of a +skillfully made watch, dares to say that, as he does not understand +its use, he does not believe in the master who made it. to know him is +hard.... for ages, from our forefather adam to our own day, we labor to +attain that knowledge and are still infinitely far from our aim; but +in our lack of understanding we see only our weakness and his +greatness....” + +pierre listened with swelling heart, gazing into the mason’s face with +shining eyes, not interrupting or questioning him, but believing with +his whole soul what the stranger said. whether he accepted the wise +reasoning contained in the mason’s words, or believed as a child +believes, in the speaker’s tone of conviction and earnestness, or +the tremor of the speaker’s voice—which sometimes almost broke—or +those brilliant aged eyes grown old in this conviction, or the calm +firmness and certainty of his vocation, which radiated from his whole +being (and which struck pierre especially by contrast with his own +dejection and hopelessness)—at any rate, pierre longed with his whole +soul to believe and he did believe, and felt a joyful sense of comfort, +regeneration, and return to life. + +“he is not to be apprehended by reason, but by life,” said the +mason. + +“i do not understand,” said pierre, feeling with dismay doubts +reawakening. he was afraid of any want of clearness, any weakness, in +the mason’s arguments; he dreaded not to be able to believe in him. +“i don’t understand,” he said, “how it is that the mind of man +cannot attain the knowledge of which you speak.” + +the mason smiled with his gentle fatherly smile. + +“the highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish +to imbibe,” he said. “can i receive that pure liquid into an impure +vessel and judge of its purity? only by the inner purification of myself +can i retain in some degree of purity the liquid i receive.” + +“yes, yes, that is so,” said pierre joyfully. + +“the highest wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those +worldly sciences of physics, history, chemistry, and the like, into +which intellectual knowledge is divided. the highest wisdom is one. +the highest wisdom has but one science—the science of the whole—the +science explaining the whole creation and man’s place in it. to +receive that science it is necessary to purify and renew one’s inner +self, and so before one can know, it is necessary to believe and to +perfect one’s self. and to attain this end, we have the light called +conscience that god has implanted in our souls.” + +“yes, yes,” assented pierre. + +“look then at thy inner self with the eyes of the spirit, and ask +thyself whether thou art content with thyself. what hast thou attained +relying on reason only? what art thou? you are young, you are rich, you +are clever, you are well educated. and what have you done with all these +good gifts? are you content with yourself and with your life?” + +“no, i hate my life,” pierre muttered, wincing. + +“thou hatest it. then change it, purify thyself; and as thou art +purified, thou wilt gain wisdom. look at your life, my dear sir. +how have you spent it? in riotous orgies and debauchery, receiving +everything from society and giving nothing in return. you have become +the possessor of wealth. how have you used it? what have you done +for your neighbor? have you ever thought of your tens of thousands +of slaves? have you helped them physically and morally? no! you have +profited by their toil to lead a profligate life. that is what you have +done. have you chosen a post in which you might be of service to your +neighbor? no! you have spent your life in idleness. then you married, my +dear sir—took on yourself responsibility for the guidance of a young +woman; and what have you done? you have not helped her to find the way +of truth, my dear sir, but have thrust her into an abyss of deceit and +misery. a man offended you and you shot him, and you say you do not +know god and hate your life. there is nothing strange in that, my dear +sir!” + +after these words, the mason, as if tired by his long discourse, again +leaned his arms on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes. pierre +looked at that aged, stern, motionless, almost lifeless face and moved +his lips without uttering a sound. he wished to say, “yes, a vile, +idle, vicious life!” but dared not break the silence. + +the mason cleared his throat huskily, as old men do, and called his +servant. + +“how about the horses?” he asked, without looking at pierre. + +“the exchange horses have just come,” answered the servant. “will +you not rest here?” + +“no, tell them to harness.” + +“can he really be going away leaving me alone without having told me +all, and without promising to help me?” thought pierre, rising with +downcast head; and he began to pace the room, glancing occasionally at +the mason. “yes, i never thought of it, but i have led a contemptible +and profligate life, though i did not like it and did not want to,” +thought pierre. “but this man knows the truth and, if he wished to, +could disclose it to me.” + +pierre wished to say this to the mason, but did not dare to. the +traveler, having packed his things with his practiced hands, began +fastening his coat. when he had finished, he turned to bezúkhov, and +said in a tone of indifferent politeness: + +“where are you going to now, my dear sir?” + +“i?... i’m going to petersburg,” answered pierre, in a childlike, +hesitating voice. “i thank you. i agree with all you have said. but +do not suppose me to be so bad. with my whole soul i wish to be what you +would have me be, but i have never had help from anyone.... but it is +i, above all, who am to blame for everything. help me, teach me, and +perhaps i may...” + +pierre could not go on. he gulped and turned away. + +the mason remained silent for a long time, evidently considering. + +“help comes from god alone,” he said, “but such measure of help as +our order can bestow it will render you, my dear sir. you are going to +petersburg. hand this to count willarski” (he took out his notebook +and wrote a few words on a large sheet of paper folded in four). +“allow me to give you a piece of advice. when you reach the capital, +first of all devote some time to solitude and self-examination and do +not resume your former way of life. and now i wish you a good journey, +my dear sir,” he added, seeing that his servant had entered... “and +success.” + +the traveler was joseph alexéevich bazdéev, as pierre saw from the +postmaster’s book. bazdéev had been one of the best-known freemasons +and martinists, even in novíkov’s time. for a long while after he had +gone, pierre did not go to bed or order horses but paced up and down +the room, pondering over his vicious past, and with a rapturous sense +of beginning anew pictured to himself the blissful, irreproachable, +virtuous future that seemed to him so easy. it seemed to him that he had +been vicious only because he had somehow forgotten how good it is to +be virtuous. not a trace of his former doubts remained in his soul. he +firmly believed in the possibility of the brotherhood of men united in +the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that is how +freemasonry presented itself to him. + + + + + +chapter iii + +on reaching petersburg pierre did not let anyone know of his arrival, +he went nowhere and spent whole days in reading thomas à kempis, whose +book had been sent him by someone unknown. one thing he continually +realized as he read that book: the joy, hitherto unknown to him, +of believing in the possibility of attaining perfection, and in the +possibility of active brotherly love among men, which joseph alexéevich +had revealed to him. a week after his arrival, the young polish count, +willarski, whom pierre had known slightly in petersburg society, came +into his room one evening in the official and ceremonious manner in +which dólokhov’s second had called on him, and, having closed the +door behind him and satisfied himself that there was nobody else in the +room, addressed pierre. + +“i have come to you with a message and an offer, count,” he +said without sitting down. “a person of very high standing in our +brotherhood has made application for you to be received into our order +before the usual term and has proposed to me to be your sponsor. i +consider it a sacred duty to fulfill that person’s wishes. do you wish +to enter the brotherhood of freemasons under my sponsorship?” + +the cold, austere tone of this man, whom he had almost always before met +at balls, amiably smiling in the society of the most brilliant women, +surprised pierre. + +“yes, i do wish it,” said he. + +willarski bowed his head. + +“one more question, count,” he said, “which i beg you to answer +in all sincerity—not as a future mason but as an honest man: have you +renounced your former convictions—do you believe in god?” + +pierre considered. + +“yes... yes, i believe in god,” he said. + +“in that case...” began willarski, but pierre interrupted him. + +“yes, i do believe in god,” he repeated. + +“in that case we can go,” said willarski. “my carriage is at your +service.” + +willarski was silent throughout the drive. to pierre’s inquiries as +to what he must do and how he should answer, willarski only replied that +brothers more worthy than he would test him and that pierre had only to +tell the truth. + +having entered the courtyard of a large house where the lodge had its +headquarters, and having ascended a dark staircase, they entered a small +well-lit anteroom where they took off their cloaks without the aid of +a servant. from there they passed into another room. a man in strange +attire appeared at the door. willarski, stepping toward him, said +something to him in french in an undertone and then went up to a small +wardrobe in which pierre noticed garments such as he had never seen +before. having taken a kerchief from the cupboard, willarski bound +pierre’s eyes with it and tied it in a knot behind, catching some +hairs painfully in the knot. then he drew his face down, kissed him, and +taking him by the hand led him forward. the hairs tied in the knot hurt +pierre and there were lines of pain on his face and a shamefaced smile. +his huge figure, with arms hanging down and with a puckered, though +smiling face, moved after willarski with uncertain, timid steps. + +having led him about ten paces, willarski stopped. + +“whatever happens to you,” he said, “you must bear it all manfully +if you have firmly resolved to join our brotherhood.” (pierre nodded +affirmatively.) “when you hear a knock at the door, you will uncover +your eyes,” added willarski. “i wish you courage and success,” +and, pressing pierre’s hand, he went out. + +left alone, pierre went on smiling in the same way. once or twice +he shrugged his shoulders and raised his hand to the kerchief, as if +wishing to take it off, but let it drop again. the five minutes spent +with his eyes bandaged seemed to him an hour. his arms felt numb, +his legs almost gave way, it seemed to him that he was tired out. he +experienced a variety of most complex sensations. he felt afraid of what +would happen to him and still more afraid of showing his fear. he felt +curious to know what was going to happen and what would be revealed to +him; but most of all, he felt joyful that the moment had come when he +would at last start on that path of regeneration and on the actively +virtuous life of which he had been dreaming since he met joseph +alexéevich. loud knocks were heard at the door. pierre took the bandage +off his eyes and glanced around him. the room was in black darkness, +only a small lamp was burning inside something white. pierre went nearer +and saw that the lamp stood on a black table on which lay an open book. +the book was the gospel, and the white thing with the lamp inside was a +human skull with its cavities and teeth. after reading the first words +of the gospel: “in the beginning was the word and the word was with +god,” pierre went round the table and saw a large open box filled +with something. it was a coffin with bones inside. he was not at all +surprised by what he saw. hoping to enter on an entirely new life quite +unlike the old one, he expected everything to be unusual, even more +unusual than what he was seeing. a skull, a coffin, the gospel—it +seemed to him that he had expected all this and even more. trying +to stimulate his emotions he looked around. “god, death, love, the +brotherhood of man,” he kept saying to himself, associating these +words with vague yet joyful ideas. the door opened and someone came in. + +by the dim light, to which pierre had already become accustomed, he +saw a rather short man. having evidently come from the light into the +darkness, the man paused, then moved with cautious steps toward the +table and placed on it his small leather-gloved hands. + +this short man had on a white leather apron which covered his chest and +part of his legs; he had on a kind of necklace above which rose a high +white ruffle, outlining his rather long face which was lit up from +below. + +“for what have you come hither?” asked the newcomer, turning in +pierre’s direction at a slight rustle made by the latter. “why have +you, who do not believe in the truth of the light and who have not +seen the light, come here? what do you seek from us? wisdom, virtue, +enlightenment?” + +at the moment the door opened and the stranger came in, pierre felt a +sense of awe and veneration such as he had experienced in his boyhood at +confession; he felt himself in the presence of one socially a complete +stranger, yet nearer to him through the brotherhood of man. with bated +breath and beating heart he moved toward the rhetor (by which name the +brother who prepared a seeker for entrance into the brotherhood was +known). drawing nearer, he recognized in the rhetor a man he knew, +smolyanínov, and it mortified him to think that the newcomer was an +acquaintance—he wished him simply a brother and a virtuous instructor. +for a long time he could not utter a word, so that the rhetor had to +repeat his question. + +“yes... i... i... desire regeneration,” pierre uttered with +difficulty. + +“very well,” said smolyanínov, and went on at once: “have you any +idea of the means by which our holy order will help you to reach your +aim?” said he quietly and quickly. + +“i... hope... for guidance... help... in regeneration,” said pierre, +with a trembling voice and some difficulty in utterance due to his +excitement and to being unaccustomed to speak of abstract matters in +russian. + +“what is your conception of freemasonry?” + +“i imagine that freemasonry is the fraternity and equality of men who +have virtuous aims,” said pierre, feeling ashamed of the inadequacy +of his words for the solemnity of the moment, as he spoke. “i +imagine...” + +“good!” said the rhetor quickly, apparently satisfied with +this answer. “have you sought for means of attaining your aim in +religion?” + +“no, i considered it erroneous and did not follow it,” said pierre, +so softly that the rhetor did not hear him and asked him what he was +saying. “i have been an atheist,” answered pierre. + +“you are seeking for truth in order to follow its laws in your life, +therefore you seek wisdom and virtue. is that not so?” said the +rhetor, after a moment’s pause. + +“yes, yes,” assented pierre. + +the rhetor cleared his throat, crossed his gloved hands on his breast, +and began to speak. + +“now i must disclose to you the chief aim of our order,” he said, +“and if this aim coincides with yours, you may enter our brotherhood +with profit. the first and chief object of our order, the foundation on +which it rests and which no human power can destroy, is the preservation +and handing on to posterity of a certain important mystery... which +has come down to us from the remotest ages, even from the first man—a +mystery on which perhaps the fate of mankind depends. but since this +mystery is of such a nature that nobody can know or use it unless he be +prepared by long and diligent self-purification, not everyone can hope +to attain it quickly. hence we have a secondary aim, that of preparing +our members as much as possible to reform their hearts, to purify and +enlighten their minds, by means handed on to us by tradition from those +who have striven to attain this mystery, and thereby to render them +capable of receiving it. + +“by purifying and regenerating our members we try, thirdly, to improve +the whole human race, offering it in our members an example of piety +and virtue, and thereby try with all our might to combat the evil which +sways the world. think this over and i will come to you again.” + +“to combat the evil which sways the world...” pierre repeated, and a +mental image of his future activity in this direction rose in his mind. +he imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he +addressed an edifying exhortation to them. he imagined to himself +vicious and unfortunate people whom he would assist by word and deed, +imagined oppressors whose victims he would rescue. of the three +objects mentioned by the rhetor, this last, that of improving mankind, +especially appealed to pierre. the important mystery mentioned by the +rhetor, though it aroused his curiosity, did not seem to him essential, +and the second aim, that of purifying and regenerating himself, did not +much interest him because at that moment he felt with delight that he +was already perfectly cured of his former faults and was ready for all +that was good. + +half an hour later, the rhetor returned to inform the seeker of the +seven virtues, corresponding to the seven steps of solomon’s temple, +which every freemason should cultivate in himself. these virtues were: +1. discretion, the keeping of the secrets of the order. 2. obedience to +those of higher ranks in the order. 3. morality. 4. love of mankind. 5. +courage. 6. generosity. 7. the love of death. + +“in the seventh place, try, by the frequent thought of death,” the +rhetor said, “to bring yourself to regard it not as a dreaded foe, but +as a friend that frees the soul grown weary in the labors of virtue +from this distressful life, and leads it to its place of recompense and +peace.” + +“yes, that must be so,” thought pierre, when after these words the +rhetor went away, leaving him to solitary meditation. “it must be so, +but i am still so weak that i love my life, the meaning of which is only +now gradually opening before me.” but five of the other virtues which +pierre recalled, counting them on his fingers, he felt already in his +soul: courage, generosity, morality, love of mankind, and especially +obedience—which did not even seem to him a virtue, but a joy. (he now +felt so glad to be free from his own lawlessness and to submit his will +to those who knew the indubitable truth.) he forgot what the seventh +virtue was and could not recall it. + +the third time the rhetor came back more quickly and asked pierre +whether he was still firm in his intention and determined to submit to +all that would be required of him. + +“i am ready for everything,” said pierre. + +“i must also inform you,” said the rhetor, “that our order +delivers its teaching not in words only but also by other means, which +may perhaps have a stronger effect on the sincere seeker after wisdom +and virtue than mere words. this chamber with what you see therein +should already have suggested to your heart, if it is sincere, more than +words could do. you will perhaps also see in your further initiation a +like method of enlightenment. our order imitates the ancient societies +that explained their teaching by hieroglyphics. a hieroglyph,” said +the rhetor, “is an emblem of something not cognizable by the senses +but which possesses qualities resembling those of the symbol.” + +pierre knew very well what a hieroglyph was, but dared not speak. he +listened to the rhetor in silence, feeling from all he said that his +ordeal was about to begin. + +“if you are resolved, i must begin your initiation,” said the rhetor +coming closer to pierre. “in token of generosity i ask you to give me +all your valuables.” + +“but i have nothing here,” replied pierre, supposing that he was +asked to give up all he possessed. + +“what you have with you: watch, money, rings....” + +pierre quickly took out his purse and watch, but could not manage for +some time to get the wedding ring off his fat finger. when that had been +done, the rhetor said: + +“in token of obedience, i ask you to undress.” + +pierre took off his coat, waistcoat, and left boot according to the +rhetor’s instructions. the mason drew the shirt back from pierre’s +left breast, and stooping down pulled up the left leg of his trousers +to above the knee. pierre hurriedly began taking off his right boot also +and was going to tuck up the other trouser leg to save this stranger the +trouble, but the mason told him that was not necessary and gave him +a slipper for his left foot. with a childlike smile of embarrassment, +doubt, and self-derision, which appeared on his face against his will, +pierre stood with his arms hanging down and legs apart, before his +brother rhetor, and awaited his further commands. + +“and now, in token of candor, i ask you to reveal to me your chief +passion,” said the latter. + +“my passion! i have had so many,” replied pierre. + +“that passion which more than all others caused you to waver on the +path of virtue,” said the mason. + +pierre paused, seeking a reply. + +“wine? gluttony? idleness? laziness? irritability? anger? women?” +he went over his vices in his mind, not knowing to which of them to give +the pre-eminence. + +“women,” he said in a low, scarcely audible voice. + +the mason did not move and for a long time said nothing after this +answer. at last he moved up to pierre and, taking the kerchief that lay +on the table, again bound his eyes. + +“for the last time i say to you—turn all your attention upon +yourself, put a bridle on your senses, and seek blessedness, not in +passion but in your own heart. the source of blessedness is not without +us but within....” + +pierre had already long been feeling in himself that refreshing source +of blessedness which now flooded his heart with glad emotion. + + + + + +chapter iv + +soon after this there came into the dark chamber to fetch pierre, not +the rhetor but pierre’s sponsor, willarski, whom he recognized by his +voice. to fresh questions as to the firmness of his resolution pierre +replied: “yes, yes, i agree,” and with a beaming, childlike smile, +his fat chest uncovered, stepping unevenly and timidly in one slippered +and one booted foot, he advanced, while willarski held a sword to his +bare chest. he was conducted from that room along passages that turned +backwards and forwards and was at last brought to the doors of the +lodge. willarski coughed, he was answered by the masonic knock with +mallets, the doors opened before them. a bass voice (pierre was still +blindfolded) questioned him as to who he was, when and where he was +born, and so on. then he was again led somewhere still blindfolded, +and as they went along he was told allegories of the toils of his +pilgrimage, of holy friendship, of the eternal architect of the +universe, and of the courage with which he should endure toils and +dangers. during these wanderings, pierre noticed that he was spoken +of now as the “seeker,” now as the “sufferer,” and now as the +“postulant,” to the accompaniment of various knockings with +mallets and swords. as he was being led up to some object he noticed a +hesitation and uncertainty among his conductors. he heard those around +him disputing in whispers and one of them insisting that he should be +led along a certain carpet. after that they took his right hand, placed +it on something, and told him to hold a pair of compasses to his left +breast with the other hand and to repeat after someone who read aloud +an oath of fidelity to the laws of the order. the candles were then +extinguished and some spirit lighted, as pierre knew by the smell, and +he was told that he would now see the lesser light. the bandage was +taken off his eyes and, by the faint light of the burning spirit, +pierre, as in a dream, saw several men standing before him, wearing +aprons like the rhetor’s and holding swords in their hands pointed at +his breast. among them stood a man whose white shirt was stained with +blood. on seeing this, pierre moved forward with his breast toward the +swords, meaning them to pierce it. but the swords were drawn back from +him and he was at once blindfolded again. + +“now thou hast seen the lesser light,” uttered a voice. then the +candles were relit and he was told that he would see the full light; the +bandage was again removed and more than ten voices said together: “sic +transit gloria mundi.” + +pierre gradually began to recover himself and looked about at the room +and at the people in it. round a long table covered with black sat some +twelve men in garments like those he had already seen. some of them +pierre had met in petersburg society. in the president’s chair sat a +young man he did not know, with a peculiar cross hanging from his +neck. on his right sat the italian abbé whom pierre had met at +anna pávlovna’s two years before. there were also present a very +distinguished dignitary and a swiss who had formerly been tutor at the +kurágins’. all maintained a solemn silence, listening to the words +of the president, who held a mallet in his hand. let into the wall was +a star-shaped light. at one side of the table was a small carpet with +various figures worked upon it, at the other was something resembling an +altar on which lay a testament and a skull. round it stood seven large +candlesticks like those used in churches. two of the brothers led pierre +up to the altar, placed his feet at right angles, and bade him lie down, +saying that he must prostrate himself at the gates of the temple. + +“he must first receive the trowel,” whispered one of the brothers. + +“oh, hush, please!” said another. + +pierre, perplexed, looked round with his shortsighted eyes without +obeying, and suddenly doubts arose in his mind. “where am i? what am +i doing? aren’t they laughing at me? shan’t i be ashamed to remember +this?” but these doubts only lasted a moment. pierre glanced at +the serious faces of those around, remembered all he had already gone +through, and realized that he could not stop halfway. he was aghast +at his hesitation and, trying to arouse his former devotional feeling, +prostrated himself before the gates of the temple. and really, the +feeling of devotion returned to him even more strongly than before. when +he had lain there some time, he was told to get up, and a white leather +apron, such as the others wore, was put on him: he was given a trowel +and three pairs of gloves, and then the grand master addressed him. he +told him that he should try to do nothing to stain the whiteness of that +apron, which symbolized strength and purity; then of the unexplained +trowel, he told him to toil with it to cleanse his own heart from vice, +and indulgently to smooth with it the heart of his neighbor. as to the +first pair of gloves, a man’s, he said that pierre could not know +their meaning but must keep them. the second pair of man’s gloves +he was to wear at the meetings, and finally of the third, a pair of +women’s gloves, he said: “dear brother, these woman’s gloves are +intended for you too. give them to the woman whom you shall honor most +of all. this gift will be a pledge of your purity of heart to her whom +you select to be your worthy helpmeet in masonry.” and after a pause, +he added: “but beware, dear brother, that these gloves do not deck +hands that are unclean.” while the grand master said these last words +it seemed to pierre that he grew embarrassed. pierre himself grew still +more confused, blushed like a child till tears came to his eyes, began +looking about him uneasily, and an awkward pause followed. + +this silence was broken by one of the brethren, who led pierre up to the +rug and began reading to him from a manuscript book an explanation of +all the figures on it: the sun, the moon, a hammer, a plumb line, a +trowel, a rough stone and a squared stone, a pillar, three windows, and +so on. then a place was assigned to pierre, he was shown the signs of +the lodge, told the password, and at last was permitted to sit down. +the grand master began reading the statutes. they were very long, and +pierre, from joy, agitation, and embarrassment, was not in a state to +understand what was being read. he managed to follow only the last words +of the statutes and these remained in his mind. + +“in our temples we recognize no other distinctions,” read the grand +master, “but those between virtue and vice. beware of making any +distinctions which may infringe equality. fly to a brother’s aid +whoever he may be, exhort him who goeth astray, raise him that falleth, +never bear malice or enmity toward thy brother. be kindly and courteous. +kindle in all hearts the flame of virtue. share thy happiness with thy +neighbor, and may envy never dim the purity of that bliss. forgive thy +enemy, do not avenge thyself except by doing him good. thus fulfilling +the highest law thou shalt regain traces of the ancient dignity which +thou hast lost.” + +he finished and, getting up, embraced and kissed pierre, who, with tears +of joy in his eyes, looked round him, not knowing how to answer the +congratulations and greetings from acquaintances that met him on all +sides. he acknowledged no acquaintances but saw in all these men only +brothers, and burned with impatience to set to work with them. + +the grand master rapped with his mallet. all the masons sat down in +their places, and one of them read an exhortation on the necessity of +humility. + +the grand master proposed that the last duty should be performed, +and the distinguished dignitary who bore the title of “collector +of alms” went round to all the brothers. pierre would have liked +to subscribe all he had, but fearing that it might look like pride +subscribed the same amount as the others. + +the meeting was at an end, and on reaching home pierre felt as if he had +returned from a long journey on which he had spent dozens of years, had +become completely changed, and had quite left behind his former habits +and way of life. + + + + + +chapter v + +the day after he had been received into the lodge, pierre was sitting at +home reading a book and trying to fathom the significance of the square, +one side of which symbolized god, another moral things, a third +physical things, and the fourth a combination of these. now and then +his attention wandered from the book and the square and he formed in +imagination a new plan of life. on the previous evening at the lodge, he +had heard that a rumor of his duel had reached the emperor and that it +would be wiser for him to leave petersburg. pierre proposed going to his +estates in the south and there attending to the welfare of his serfs. +he was joyfully planning this new life, when prince vasíli suddenly +entered the room. + +“my dear fellow, what have you been up to in moscow? why have you +quarreled with hélène, mon cher? you are under a delusion,” said +prince vasíli, as he entered. “i know all about it, and i can tell +you positively that hélène is as innocent before you as christ was +before the jews.” + +pierre was about to reply, but prince vasíli interrupted him. + +“and why didn’t you simply come straight to me as to a friend? i +know all about it and understand it all,” he said. “you behaved as +becomes a man who values his honor, perhaps too hastily, but we won’t +go into that. but consider the position in which you are placing her and +me in the eyes of society, and even of the court,” he added, lowering +his voice. “she is living in moscow and you are here. remember, +dear boy,” and he drew pierre’s arm downwards, “it is simply a +misunderstanding. i expect you feel it so yourself. let us write her +a letter at once, and she’ll come here and all will be explained, or +else, my dear boy, let me tell you it’s quite likely you’ll have to +suffer for it.” + +prince vasíli gave pierre a significant look. + +“i know from reliable sources that the dowager empress is taking a +keen interest in the whole affair. you know she is very gracious to +hélène.” + +pierre tried several times to speak, but, on one hand, prince vasíli +did not let him and, on the other, pierre himself feared to begin to +speak in the tone of decided refusal and disagreement in which he had +firmly resolved to answer his father-in-law. moreover, the words of the +masonic statutes, “be kindly and courteous,” recurred to him. he +blinked, went red, got up and sat down again, struggling with himself +to do what was for him the most difficult thing in life—to say an +unpleasant thing to a man’s face, to say what the other, whoever +he might be, did not expect. he was so used to submitting to prince +vasíli’s tone of careless self-assurance that he felt he would be +unable to withstand it now, but he also felt that on what he said now +his future depended—whether he would follow the same old road, or that +new path so attractively shown him by the masons, on which he firmly +believed he would be reborn to a new life. + +“now, dear boy,” said prince vasíli playfully, “say ‘yes,’ +and i’ll write to her myself, and we will kill the fatted calf.” + +but before prince vasíli had finished his playful speech, pierre, +without looking at him, and with a kind of fury that made him like his +father, muttered in a whisper: + +“prince, i did not ask you here. go, please go!” and he jumped up +and opened the door for him. + +“go!” he repeated, amazed at himself and glad to see the look of +confusion and fear that showed itself on prince vasíli’s face. + +“what’s the matter with you? are you ill?” + +“go!” the quivering voice repeated. and prince vasíli had to go +without receiving any explanation. + +a week later, pierre, having taken leave of his new friends, the masons, +and leaving large sums of money with them for alms, went away to his +estates. his new brethren gave him letters to the kiev and odessa masons +and promised to write to him and guide him in his new activity. + + + + + +chapter vi + +the duel between pierre and dólokhov was hushed up and, in spite of +the emperor’s severity regarding duels at that time, neither the +principals nor their seconds suffered for it. but the story of the duel, +confirmed by pierre’s rupture with his wife, was the talk of society. +pierre who had been regarded with patronizing condescension when he was +an illegitimate son, and petted and extolled when he was the best +match in russia, had sunk greatly in the esteem of society after his +marriage—when the marriageable daughters and their mothers had nothing +to hope from him—especially as he did not know how, and did not +wish, to court society’s favor. now he alone was blamed for what had +happened, he was said to be insanely jealous and subject like his +father to fits of bloodthirsty rage. and when after pierre’s +departure hélène returned to petersburg, she was received by all her +acquaintances not only cordially, but even with a shade of deference +due to her misfortune. when conversation turned on her husband hélène +assumed a dignified expression, which with characteristic tact she had +acquired though she did not understand its significance. this expression +suggested that she had resolved to endure her troubles uncomplainingly +and that her husband was a cross laid upon her by god. prince vasíli +expressed his opinion more openly. he shrugged his shoulders when pierre +was mentioned and, pointing to his forehead, remarked: + +“a bit touched—i always said so.” + +“i said from the first,” declared anna pávlovna referring to +pierre, “i said at the time and before anyone else” (she insisted +on her priority) “that that senseless young man was spoiled by the +depraved ideas of these days. i said so even at the time when everybody +was in raptures about him, when he had just returned from abroad, and +when, if you remember, he posed as a sort of marat at one of my soirees. +and how has it ended? i was against this marriage even then and foretold +all that has happened.” + +anna pávlovna continued to give on free evenings the same kind of +soirees as before—such as she alone had the gift of arranging—at +which was to be found “the cream of really good society, the bloom +of the intellectual essence of petersburg,” as she herself put it. +besides this refined selection of society anna pávlovna’s receptions +were also distinguished by the fact that she always presented some new +and interesting person to the visitors and that nowhere else was the +state of the political thermometer of legitimate petersburg court +society so dearly and distinctly indicated. + +toward the end of 1806, when all the sad details of napoleon’s +destruction of the prussian army at jena and auerstädt and the +surrender of most of the prussian fortresses had been received, when our +troops had already entered prussia and our second war with napoleon +was beginning, anna pávlovna gave one of her soirees. the “cream of +really good society” consisted of the fascinating hélène, forsaken +by her husband, mortemart, the delightful prince hippolyte who had +just returned from vienna, two diplomatists, the old aunt, a young man +referred to in that drawing room as “a man of great merit” (un homme +de beaucoup de mérite), a newly appointed maid of honor and her mother, +and several other less noteworthy persons. + +the novelty anna pávlovna was setting before her guests that evening +was borís drubetskóy, who had just arrived as a special messenger from +the prussian army and was aide-de-camp to a very important personage. + +the temperature shown by the political thermometer to the company that +evening was this: + +“whatever the european sovereigns and commanders may do to +countenance bonaparte, and to cause me, and us in general, annoyance and +mortification, our opinion of bonaparte cannot alter. we shall not cease +to express our sincere views on that subject, and can only say to the +king of prussia and others: ‘so much the worse for you. tu l’as +voulu, george dandin,’ that’s all we have to say about it!” + +when borís, who was to be served up to the guests, entered the drawing +room, almost all the company had assembled, and the conversation, guided +by anna pávlovna, was about our diplomatic relations with austria and +the hope of an alliance with her. + +borís, grown more manly and looking fresh, rosy and self-possessed, +entered the drawing room elegantly dressed in the uniform of an +aide-de-camp and was duly conducted to pay his respects to the aunt and +then brought back to the general circle. + +anna pávlovna gave him her shriveled hand to kiss and introduced him to +several persons whom he did not know, giving him a whispered description +of each. + +“prince hippolyte kurágin—charming young fellow; m. +kronq,—chargé d’affaires from copenhagen—a profound intellect,” +and simply, “mr. shítov—a man of great merit”—this of the man +usually so described. + +thanks to anna mikháylovna’s efforts, his own tastes, and the +peculiarities of his reserved nature, borís had managed during his +service to place himself very advantageously. he was aide-de-camp to a +very important personage, had been sent on a very important mission to +prussia, and had just returned from there as a special messenger. he had +become thoroughly conversant with that unwritten code with which he had +been so pleased at olmütz and according to which an ensign might rank +incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was +needed for success in the service was not effort or work, or courage, or +perseverance, but only the knowledge of how to get on with those who can +grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his +success and at the inability of others to understand these things. +in consequence of this discovery his whole manner of life, all +his relations with old friends, all his plans for his future, were +completely altered. he was not rich, but would spend his last groat to +be better dressed than others, and would rather deprive himself of many +pleasures than allow himself to be seen in a shabby equipage or appear +in the streets of petersburg in an old uniform. he made friends with +and sought the acquaintance of only those above him in position and +who could therefore be of use to him. he liked petersburg and despised +moscow. the remembrance of the rostóvs’ house and of his childish +love for natásha was unpleasant to him and he had not once been to see +the rostóvs since the day of his departure for the army. to be in anna +pávlovna’s drawing room he considered an important step up in the +service, and he at once understood his role, letting his hostess make +use of whatever interest he had to offer. he himself carefully scanned +each face, appraising the possibilities of establishing intimacy with +each of those present, and the advantages that might accrue. he took +the seat indicated to him beside the fair hélène and listened to the +general conversation. + +“vienna considers the bases of the proposed treaty so unattainable +that not even a continuity of most brilliant successes would secure +them, and she doubts the means we have of gaining them. that is the +actual phrase used by the vienna cabinet,” said the danish chargé +d’affaires. + +“the doubt is flattering,” said “the man of profound intellect,” +with a subtle smile. + +“we must distinguish between the vienna cabinet and the emperor of +austria,” said mortemart. “the emperor of austria can never have +thought of such a thing, it is only the cabinet that says it.” + +“ah, my dear vicomte,” put in anna pávlovna, “l’urope” (for +some reason she called it urope as if that were a specially refined +french pronunciation which she could allow herself when conversing with +a frenchman), “l’urope ne sera jamais notre alliée sincère.” * + + * “europe will never be our sincere ally.” + + +after that anna pávlovna led up to the courage and firmness of the king +of prussia, in order to draw borís into the conversation. + +borís listened attentively to each of the speakers, awaiting his turn, +but managed meanwhile to look round repeatedly at his neighbor, the +beautiful hélène, whose eyes several times met those of the handsome +young aide-de-camp with a smile. + +speaking of the position of prussia, anna pávlovna very naturally asked +borís to tell them about his journey to glogau and in what state he +found the prussian army. borís, speaking with deliberation, told them +in pure, correct french many interesting details about the armies and +the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his +own about the facts he was recounting. for some time he engrossed the +general attention, and anna pávlovna felt that the novelty she had +served up was received with pleasure by all her visitors. the greatest +attention of all to borís’ narrative was shown by hélène. she asked +him several questions about his journey and seemed greatly interested in +the state of the prussian army. as soon as he had finished she turned to +him with her usual smile. + +“you absolutely must come and see me,” she said in a tone that +implied that, for certain considerations he could not know of, this was +absolutely necessary. + +“on tuesday between eight and nine. it will give me great pleasure.” + +borís promised to fulfill her wish and was about to begin a +conversation with her, when anna pávlovna called him away on the +pretext that her aunt wished to hear him. + +“you know her husband, of course?” said anna pávlovna, closing her +eyes and indicating hélène with a sorrowful gesture. “ah, she is +such an unfortunate and charming woman! don’t mention him before +her—please don’t! it is too painful for her!” + + + + + +chapter vii + +when borís and anna pávlovna returned to the others prince hippolyte +had the ear of the company. + +bending forward in his armchair he said: “le roi de prusse!” and +having said this laughed. everyone turned toward him. + +“le roi de prusse?” hippolyte said interrogatively, again laughing, +and then calmly and seriously sat back in his chair. anna pávlovna +waited for him to go on, but as he seemed quite decided to say no more +she began to tell of how at potsdam the impious bonaparte had stolen the +sword of frederick the great. + +“it is the sword of frederick the great which i...” she began, but +hippolyte interrupted her with the words: “le roi de prusse...” and +again, as soon as all turned toward him, excused himself and said no +more. + +anna pávlovna frowned. mortemart, hippolyte’s friend, addressed him +firmly. + +“come now, what about your roi de prusse?” + +hippolyte laughed as if ashamed of laughing. + +“oh, it’s nothing. i only wished to say...” (he wanted to repeat +a joke he had heard in vienna and which he had been trying all that +evening to get in) “i only wished to say that we are wrong to fight +pour le roi de prusse!” + +borís smiled circumspectly, so that it might be taken as ironical +or appreciative according to the way the joke was received. everybody +laughed. + +“your joke is too bad, it’s witty but unjust,” said anna +pávlovna, shaking her little shriveled finger at him. + +“we are not fighting pour le roi de prusse, but for right principles. +oh, that wicked prince hippolyte!” she said. + +the conversation did not flag all evening and turned chiefly on the +political news. it became particularly animated toward the end of the +evening when the rewards bestowed by the emperor were mentioned. + +“you know n— n— received a snuffbox with the portrait last +year?” said “the man of profound intellect.” “why shouldn’t +s— s— get the same distinction?” + +“pardon me! a snuffbox with the emperor’s portrait is a reward but +not a distinction,” said the diplomatist—“a gift, rather.” + +“there are precedents, i may mention schwarzenberg.” + +“it’s impossible,” replied another. + +“will you bet? the ribbon of the order is a different matter....” + +when everybody rose to go, hélène who had spoken very little all +the evening again turned to borís, asking him in a tone of caressing +significant command to come to her on tuesday. + +“it is of great importance to me,” she said, turning with a smile +toward anna pávlovna, and anna pávlovna, with the same sad smile with +which she spoke of her exalted patroness, supported hélène’s wish. + +it seemed as if from some words borís had spoken that evening about the +prussian army, hélène had suddenly found it necessary to see him. +she seemed to promise to explain that necessity to him when he came on +tuesday. + +but on tuesday evening, having come to hélène’s splendid salon, +borís received no clear explanation of why it had been necessary for +him to come. there were other guests and the countess talked little to +him, and only as he kissed her hand on taking leave said unexpectedly +and in a whisper, with a strangely unsmiling face: “come to dinner +tomorrow... in the evening. you must come.... come!” + +during that stay in petersburg, borís became an intimate in the +countess’ house. + + + + + +chapter viii + +the war was flaming up and nearing the russian frontier. everywhere one +heard curses on bonaparte, “the enemy of mankind.” militiamen and +recruits were being enrolled in the villages, and from the seat of +war came contradictory news, false as usual and therefore variously +interpreted. the life of old prince bolkónski, prince andrew, and +princess mary had greatly changed since 1805. + +in 1806 the old prince was made one of the eight commanders in chief +then appointed to supervise the enrollment decreed throughout russia. +despite the weakness of age, which had become particularly noticeable +since the time when he thought his son had been killed, he did not think +it right to refuse a duty to which he had been appointed by the emperor +himself, and this fresh opportunity for action gave him new energy +and strength. he was continually traveling through the three provinces +entrusted to him, was pedantic in the fulfillment of his duties, severe +to cruel with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the +minutest details himself. princess mary had ceased taking lessons in +mathematics from her father, and when the old prince was at home went +to his study with the wet nurse and little prince nicholas (as his +grandfather called him). the baby prince nicholas lived with his wet +nurse and nurse sávishna in the late princess’ rooms and princess +mary spent most of the day in the nursery, taking a mother’s place to +her little nephew as best she could. mademoiselle bourienne, too, seemed +passionately fond of the boy, and princess mary often deprived herself +to give her friend the pleasure of dandling the little angel—as she +called her nephew—and playing with him. + +near the altar of the church at bald hills there was a chapel over the +tomb of the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument +brought from italy, representing an angel with outspread wings ready to +fly upwards. the angel’s upper lip was slightly raised as though +about to smile, and once on coming out of the chapel prince andrew and +princess mary admitted to one another that the angel’s face reminded +them strangely of the little princess. but what was still stranger, +though of this prince andrew said nothing to his sister, was that in the +expression the sculptor had happened to give the angel’s face, prince +andrew read the same mild reproach he had read on the face of his dead +wife: “ah, why have you done this to me?” + +soon after prince andrew’s return the old prince made over to him a +large estate, boguchárovo, about twenty-five miles from bald hills. +partly because of the depressing memories associated with bald hills, +partly because prince andrew did not always feel equal to bearing with +his father’s peculiarities, and partly because he needed solitude, +prince andrew made use of boguchárovo, began building and spent most of +his time there. + +after the austerlitz campaign prince andrew had firmly resolved not +to continue his military service, and when the war recommenced +and everybody had to serve, he took a post under his father in the +recruitment so as to avoid active service. the old prince and his son +seemed to have changed roles since the campaign of 1805. the old man, +roused by activity, expected the best results from the new campaign, +while prince andrew on the contrary, taking no part in the war and +secretly regretting this, saw only the dark side. + +on february 26, 1807, the old prince set off on one of his circuits. +prince andrew remained at bald hills as usual during his father’s +absence. little nicholas had been unwell for four days. the coachman who +had driven the old prince to town returned bringing papers and letters +for prince andrew. + +not finding the young prince in his study the valet went with the +letters to princess mary’s apartments, but did not find him there. he +was told that the prince had gone to the nursery. + +“if you please, your excellency, pétrusha has brought some papers,” +said one of the nursemaids to prince andrew who was sitting on a +child’s little chair while, frowning and with trembling hands, he +poured drops from a medicine bottle into a wineglass half full of water. + +“what is it?” he said crossly, and, his hand shaking +unintentionally, he poured too many drops into the glass. he threw the +mixture onto the floor and asked for some more water. the maid brought +it. + +there were in the room a child’s cot, two boxes, two armchairs, a +table, a child’s table, and the little chair on which prince andrew +was sitting. the curtains were drawn, and a single candle was burning on +the table, screened by a bound music book so that the light did not fall +on the cot. + +“my dear,” said princess mary, addressing her brother from beside +the cot where she was standing, “better wait a bit... later...” + +“oh, leave off, you always talk nonsense and keep putting things +off—and this is what comes of it!” said prince andrew in an +exasperated whisper, evidently meaning to wound his sister. + +“my dear, really... it’s better not to wake him... he’s asleep,” +said the princess in a tone of entreaty. + +prince andrew got up and went on tiptoe up to the little bed, wineglass +in hand. + +“perhaps we’d really better not wake him,” he said hesitating. + +“as you please... really... i think so... but as you please,” said +princess mary, evidently intimidated and confused that her opinion +had prevailed. she drew her brother’s attention to the maid who was +calling him in a whisper. + +it was the second night that neither of them had slept, watching the boy +who was in a high fever. these last days, mistrusting their household +doctor and expecting another for whom they had sent to town, they had +been trying first one remedy and then another. worn out by sleeplessness +and anxiety they threw their burden of sorrow on one another and +reproached and disputed with each other. + +“pétrusha has come with papers from your father,” whispered the +maid. + +prince andrew went out. + +“devil take them!” he muttered, and after listening to the verbal +instructions his father had sent and taking the correspondence and his +father’s letter, he returned to the nursery. + +“well?” he asked. + +“still the same. wait, for heaven’s sake. karl ivánich always says +that sleep is more important than anything,” whispered princess mary +with a sigh. + +prince andrew went up to the child and felt him. he was burning hot. + +“confound you and your karl ivánich!” he took the glass with the +drops and again went up to the cot. + +“andrew, don’t!” said princess mary. + +but he scowled at her angrily though also with suffering in his eyes, +and stooped glass in hand over the infant. + +“but i wish it,” he said. “i beg you—give it him!” + +princess mary shrugged her shoulders but took the glass submissively +and calling the nurse began giving the medicine. the child screamed +hoarsely. prince andrew winced and, clutching his head, went out and sat +down on a sofa in the next room. + +he still had all the letters in his hand. opening them mechanically he +began reading. the old prince, now and then using abbreviations, wrote +in his large elongated hand on blue paper as follows: + +have just this moment received by special messenger very joyful +news—if it’s not false. bennigsen seems to have obtained a complete +victory over buonaparte at eylau. in petersburg everyone is rejoicing, +and the rewards sent to the army are innumerable. though he is a +german—i congratulate him! i can’t make out what the commander at +kórchevo—a certain khandrikóv—is up to; till now the additional +men and provisions have not arrived. gallop off to him at once and +say i’ll have his head off if everything is not here in a week. +have received another letter about the preussisch-eylau battle +from pétenka—he took part in it—and it’s all true. when +mischief-makers don’t meddle even a german beats buonaparte. he is +said to be fleeing in great disorder. mind you gallop off to kórchevo +without delay and carry out instructions! + +prince andrew sighed and broke the seal of another envelope. it was +a closely written letter of two sheets from bilíbin. he folded it up +without reading it and reread his father’s letter, ending with the +words: “gallop off to kórchevo and carry out instructions!” + +“no, pardon me, i won’t go now till the child is better,” thought +he, going to the door and looking into the nursery. + +princess mary was still standing by the cot, gently rocking the baby. + +“ah yes, and what else did he say that’s unpleasant?” thought +prince andrew, recalling his father’s letter. “yes, we have gained +a victory over bonaparte, just when i’m not serving. yes, yes, he’s +always poking fun at me.... ah, well! let him!” and he began reading +bilíbin’s letter which was written in french. he read without +understanding half of it, read only to forget, if but for a moment, what +he had too long been thinking of so painfully to the exclusion of all +else. + + + + + +chapter ix + +bilíbin was now at army headquarters in a diplomatic capacity, and +though he wrote in french and used french jests and french idioms, +he described the whole campaign with a fearless self-censure and +self-derision genuinely russian. bilíbin wrote that the obligation of +diplomatic discretion tormented him, and he was happy to have in prince +andrew a reliable correspondent to whom he could pour out the bile he +had accumulated at the sight of all that was being done in the army. +the letter was old, having been written before the battle at +preussisch-eylau. + +“since the day of our brilliant success at austerlitz,” wrote +bilíbin, “as you know, my dear prince, i never leave headquarters. i +have certainly acquired a taste for war, and it is just as well for me; +what i have seen during these last three months is incredible. + +“i begin ab ovo. ‘the enemy of the human race,’ as you know, +attacks the prussians. the prussians are our faithful allies who have +only betrayed us three times in three years. we take up their cause, but +it turns out that ‘the enemy of the human race’ pays no heed to +our fine speeches and in his rude and savage way throws himself on the +prussians without giving them time to finish the parade they had begun, +and in two twists of the hand he breaks them to smithereens and installs +himself in the palace at potsdam. + +“‘i most ardently desire,’ writes the king of prussia to +bonaparte, ‘that your majesty should be received and treated in my +palace in a manner agreeable to yourself, and in so far as circumstances +allowed, i have hastened to take all steps to that end. may i have +succeeded!’ the prussian generals pride themselves on being polite to +the french and lay down their arms at the first demand. + +“the head of the garrison at glogau, with ten thousand men, asks the +king of prussia what he is to do if he is summoned to surrender.... all +this is absolutely true. + +“in short, hoping to settle matters by taking up a warlike attitude, +it turns out that we have landed ourselves in war, and what is more, +in war on our own frontiers, with and for the king of prussia. we have +everything in perfect order, only one little thing is lacking, namely, +a commander in chief. as it was considered that the austerlitz success +might have been more decisive had the commander in chief not been so +young, all our octogenarians were reviewed, and of prozoróvski +and kámenski the latter was preferred. the general comes to us, +suvórov-like, in a kibítka, and is received with acclamations of joy +and triumph. + +“on the 4th, the first courier arrives from petersburg. the mails +are taken to the field marshal’s room, for he likes to do everything +himself. i am called in to help sort the letters and take those meant +for us. the field marshal looks on and waits for letters addressed +to him. we search, but none are to be found. the field marshal grows +impatient and sets to work himself and finds letters from the emperor +to count t., prince v., and others. then he bursts into one of his wild +furies and rages at everyone and everything, seizes the letters, opens +them, and reads those from the emperor addressed to others. ‘ah! so +that’s the way they treat me! no confidence in me! ah, ordered to keep +an eye on me! very well then! get along with you!’ so he writes the +famous order of the day to general bennigsen: + +“‘i am wounded and cannot ride and consequently cannot command the +army. you have brought your army corps to pultúsk, routed: here it is +exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as +you yourself reported to count buxhöwden yesterday, you must think of +retreating to our frontier—which do today.’ + +“‘from all my riding,’ he writes to the emperor, ‘i have got a +saddle sore which, coming after all my previous journeys, quite prevents +my riding and commanding so vast an army, so i have passed on the +command to the general next in seniority, count buxhöwden, having sent +him my whole staff and all that belongs to it, advising him if there is +a lack of bread, to move farther into the interior of prussia, for only +one day’s ration of bread remains, and in some regiments none at all, +as reported by the division commanders, ostermann and sedmorétzki, and +all that the peasants had has been eaten up. i myself will remain in +hospital at ostrolenka till i recover. in regard to which i humbly +submit my report, with the information that if the army remains in its +present bivouac another fortnight there will not be a healthy man left +in it by spring. + +“‘grant leave to retire to his country seat to an old man who is +already in any case dishonored by being unable to fulfill the great and +glorious task for which he was chosen. i shall await your most gracious +permission here in hospital, that i may not have to play the part of a +secretary rather than commander in the army. my removal from the army +does not produce the slightest stir—a blind man has left it. there are +thousands such as i in russia.’ + +“the field marshal is angry with the emperor and he punishes us all, +isn’t it logical? + +“this is the first act. those that follow are naturally increasingly +interesting and entertaining. after the field marshal’s departure +it appears that we are within sight of the enemy and must give battle. +buxhöwden is commander in chief by seniority, but general bennigsen +does not quite see it; more particularly as it is he and his corps who +are within sight of the enemy and he wishes to profit by the opportunity +to fight a battle ‘on his own hand’ as the germans say. he does so. +this is the battle of pultúsk, which is considered a great victory but +in my opinion was nothing of the kind. we civilians, as you know, have +a very bad way of deciding whether a battle was won or lost. those who +retreat after a battle have lost it is what we say; and according to +that it is we who lost the battle of pultúsk. in short, we retreat +after the battle but send a courier to petersburg with news of a +victory, and general bennigsen, hoping to receive from petersburg the +post of commander in chief as a reward for his victory, does not give up +the command of the army to general buxhöwden. during this interregnum +we begin a very original and interesting series of maneuvers. our aim is +no longer, as it should be, to avoid or attack the enemy, but solely to +avoid general buxhöwden who by right of seniority should be our chief. +so energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable +river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at +the moment is not bonaparte but buxhöwden. general buxhöwden was all +but attacked and captured by a superior enemy force as a result of one +of these maneuvers that enabled us to escape him. buxhöwden pursues +us—we scuttle. he hardly crosses the river to our side before we +recross to the other. at last our enemy, buxhöwden, catches us and +attacks. both generals are angry, and the result is a challenge on +buxhöwden’s part and an epileptic fit on bennigsen’s. but at the +critical moment the courier who carried the news of our victory at +pultúsk to petersburg returns bringing our appointment as commander in +chief, and our first foe, buxhöwden, is vanquished; we can now turn +our thoughts to the second, bonaparte. but as it turns out, just at +that moment a third enemy rises before us—namely the orthodox russian +soldiers, loudly demanding bread, meat, biscuits, fodder, and whatnot! +the stores are empty, the roads impassable. the orthodox begin looting, +and in a way of which our last campaign can give you no idea. half the +regiments form bands and scour the countryside and put everything +to fire and sword. the inhabitants are totally ruined, the hospitals +overflow with sick, and famine is everywhere. twice the marauders even +attack our headquarters, and the commander in chief has to ask for a +battalion to disperse them. during one of these attacks they carried off +my empty portmanteau and my dressing gown. the emperor proposes to give +all commanders of divisions the right to shoot marauders, but i much +fear this will oblige one half the army to shoot the other.” + +at first prince andrew read with his eyes only, but after a while, +in spite of himself (although he knew how far it was safe to trust +bilíbin), what he had read began to interest him more and more. when he +had read thus far, he crumpled the letter up and threw it away. it was +not what he had read that vexed him, but the fact that the life out +there in which he had now no part could perturb him. he shut his eyes, +rubbed his forehead as if to rid himself of all interest in what he +had read, and listened to what was passing in the nursery. suddenly he +thought he heard a strange noise through the door. he was seized with +alarm lest something should have happened to the child while he was +reading the letter. he went on tiptoe to the nursery door and opened it. + +just as he went in he saw that the nurse was hiding something from him +with a scared look and that princess mary was no longer by the cot. + +“my dear,” he heard what seemed to him her despairing whisper behind +him. + +as often happens after long sleeplessness and long anxiety, he was +seized by an unreasoning panic—it occurred to him that the child was +dead. all that he saw and heard seemed to confirm this terror. + +“all is over,” he thought, and a cold sweat broke out on his +forehead. he went to the cot in confusion, sure that he would find it +empty and that the nurse had been hiding the dead baby. he drew the +curtain aside and for some time his frightened, restless eyes could not +find the baby. at last he saw him: the rosy boy had tossed about till he +lay across the bed with his head lower than the pillow, and was smacking +his lips in his sleep and breathing evenly. + +prince andrew was as glad to find the boy like that, as if he had +already lost him. he bent over him and, as his sister had taught him, +tried with his lips whether the child was still feverish. the soft +forehead was moist. prince andrew touched the head with his hand; even +the hair was wet, so profusely had the child perspired. he was not dead, +but evidently the crisis was over and he was convalescent. prince andrew +longed to snatch up, to squeeze, to hold to his heart, this helpless +little creature, but dared not do so. he stood over him, gazing at his +head and at the little arms and legs which showed under the blanket. he +heard a rustle behind him and a shadow appeared under the curtain of +the cot. he did not look round, but still gazing at the infant’s face +listened to his regular breathing. the dark shadow was princess mary, +who had come up to the cot with noiseless steps, lifted the curtain, +and dropped it again behind her. prince andrew recognized her without +looking and held out his hand to her. she pressed it. + +“he has perspired,” said prince andrew. + +“i was coming to tell you so.” + +the child moved slightly in his sleep, smiled, and rubbed his forehead +against the pillow. + +prince andrew looked at his sister. in the dim shadow of the curtain her +luminous eyes shone more brightly than usual from the tears of joy that +were in them. she leaned over to her brother and kissed him, slightly +catching the curtain of the cot. each made the other a warning gesture +and stood still in the dim light beneath the curtain as if not wishing +to leave that seclusion where they three were shut off from all the +world. prince andrew was the first to move away, ruffling his hair +against the muslin of the curtain. + +“yes, this is the one thing left me now,” he said with a sigh. + + + + + +chapter x + +soon after his admission to the masonic brotherhood, pierre went to the +kiev province, where he had the greatest number of serfs, taking with +him full directions which he had written down for his own guidance as to +what he should do on his estates. + +when he reached kiev he sent for all his stewards to the head office +and explained to them his intentions and wishes. he told them that steps +would be taken immediately to free his serfs—and that till then they +were not to be overburdened with labor, women while nursing their babies +were not to be sent to work, assistance was to be given to the serfs, +punishments were to be admonitory and not corporal, and hospitals, +asylums, and schools were to be established on all the estates. some of +the stewards (there were semiliterate foremen among them) listened with +alarm, supposing these words to mean that the young count was displeased +with their management and embezzlement of money, some after their first +fright were amused by pierre’s lisp and the new words they had not +heard before, others simply enjoyed hearing how the master talked, while +the cleverest among them, including the chief steward, understood from +this speech how they could best handle the master for their own ends. + +the chief steward expressed great sympathy with pierre’s intentions, +but remarked that besides these changes it would be necessary to go into +the general state of affairs which was far from satisfactory. + +despite count bezúkhov’s enormous wealth, since he had come into an +income which was said to amount to five hundred thousand rubles a year, +pierre felt himself far poorer than when his father had made him +an allowance of ten thousand rubles. he had a dim perception of the +following budget: + +about 80,000 went in payments on all the estates to the land bank, about +30,000 went for the upkeep of the estate near moscow, the town house, +and the allowance to the three princesses; about 15,000 was given in +pensions and the same amount for asylums; 150,000 alimony was sent to +the countess; about 70,000 went for interest on debts. the building of a +new church, previously begun, had cost about 10,000 in each of the last +two years, and he did not know how the rest, about 100,000 rubles, was +spent, and almost every year he was obliged to borrow. besides this the +chief steward wrote every year telling him of fires and bad harvests, +or of the necessity of rebuilding factories and workshops. so the first +task pierre had to face was one for which he had very little aptitude or +inclination—practical business. + +he discussed estate affairs every day with his chief steward. but +he felt that this did not forward matters at all. he felt that these +consultations were detached from real affairs and did not link up with +them or make them move. on the one hand, the chief steward put the state +of things to him in the very worst light, pointing out the necessity of +paying off the debts and undertaking new activities with serf labor, +to which pierre did not agree. on the other hand, pierre demanded that +steps should be taken to liberate the serfs, which the steward met by +showing the necessity of first paying off the loans from the land bank, +and the consequent impossibility of a speedy emancipation. + +the steward did not say it was quite impossible, but suggested selling +the forests in the province of kostromá, the land lower down the river, +and the crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which +operations according to him were connected with such complicated +measures—the removal of injunctions, petitions, permits, and so +on—that pierre became quite bewildered and only replied: + +“yes, yes, do so.” + +pierre had none of the practical persistence that would have enabled him +to attend to the business himself and so he disliked it and only tried +to pretend to the steward that he was attending to it. the steward +for his part tried to pretend to the count that he considered these +consultations very valuable for the proprietor and troublesome to +himself. + +in kiev pierre found some people he knew, and strangers hastened to make +his acquaintance and joyfully welcomed the rich newcomer, the +largest landowner of the province. temptations to pierre’s greatest +weakness—the one to which he had confessed when admitted to the +lodge—were so strong that he could not resist them. again whole days, +weeks, and months of his life passed in as great a rush and were as much +occupied with evening parties, dinners, lunches, and balls, giving him +no time for reflection, as in petersburg. instead of the new life he had +hoped to lead he still lived the old life, only in new surroundings. + +of the three precepts of freemasonry pierre realized that he did not +fulfill the one which enjoined every mason to set an example of moral +life, and that of the seven virtues he lacked two—morality and the +love of death. he consoled himself with the thought that he fulfilled +another of the precepts—that of reforming the human race—and had +other virtues—love of his neighbor, and especially generosity. + +in the spring of 1807 he decided to return to petersburg. on the way he +intended to visit all his estates and see for himself how far his orders +had been carried out and in what state were the serfs whom god had +entrusted to his care and whom he intended to benefit. + +the chief steward, who considered the young count’s attempts almost +insane—unprofitable to himself, to the count, and to the serfs—made +some concessions. continuing to represent the liberation of the serfs +as impracticable, he arranged for the erection of large +buildings—schools, hospitals, and asylums—on all the estates +before the master arrived. everywhere preparations were made not for +ceremonious welcomes (which he knew pierre would not like), but for just +such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread +and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his +master, would touch and delude him. + +the southern spring, the comfortable rapid traveling in a vienna +carriage, and the solitude of the road, all had a gladdening effect on +pierre. the estates he had not before visited were each more picturesque +than the other; the serfs everywhere seemed thriving and touchingly +grateful for the benefits conferred on them. everywhere were receptions, +which though they embarrassed pierre awakened a joyful feeling in the +depth of his heart. in one place the peasants presented him with bread +and salt and an icon of saint peter and saint paul, asking permission, +as a mark of their gratitude for the benefits he had conferred on them, +to build a new chantry to the church at their own expense in honor +of peter and paul, his patron saints. in another place the women with +infants in arms met him to thank him for releasing them from hard +work. on a third estate the priest, bearing a cross, came to meet +him surrounded by children whom, by the count’s generosity, he was +instructing in reading, writing, and religion. on all his estates pierre +saw with his own eyes brick buildings erected or in course of erection, +all on one plan, for hospitals, schools, and almshouses, which were soon +to be opened. everywhere he saw the stewards’ accounts, according to +which the serfs’ manorial labor had been diminished, and heard the +touching thanks of deputations of serfs in their full-skirted blue +coats. + +what pierre did not know was that the place where they presented him +with bread and salt and wished to build a chantry in honor of peter and +paul was a market village where a fair was held on st. peter’s day, +and that the richest peasants (who formed the deputation) had begun +the chantry long before, but that nine tenths of the peasants in that +villages were in a state of the greatest poverty. he did not know that +since the nursing mothers were no longer sent to work on his land, they +did still harder work on their own land. he did not know that the priest +who met him with the cross oppressed the peasants by his exactions, and +that the pupils’ parents wept at having to let him take their children +and secured their release by heavy payments. he did not know that the +brick buildings, built to plan, were being built by serfs whose manorial +labor was thus increased, though lessened on paper. he did not know +that where the steward had shown him in the accounts that the serfs’ +payments had been diminished by a third, their obligatory manorial work +had been increased by a half. and so pierre was delighted with his visit +to his estates and quite recovered the philanthropic mood in which +he had left petersburg, and wrote enthusiastic letters to his +“brother-instructor” as he called the grand master. + +“how easy it is, how little effort it needs, to do so much good,” +thought pierre, “and how little attention we pay to it!” + +he was pleased at the gratitude he received, but felt abashed at +receiving it. this gratitude reminded him of how much more he might do +for these simple, kindly people. + +the chief steward, a very stupid but cunning man who saw perfectly +through the naïve and intelligent count and played with him as with +a toy, seeing the effect these prearranged receptions had on pierre, +pressed him still harder with proofs of the impossibility and above all +the uselessness of freeing the serfs, who were quite happy as it was. + +pierre in his secret soul agreed with the steward that it would be +difficult to imagine happier people, and that god only knew what would +happen to them when they were free, but he insisted, though reluctantly, +on what he thought right. the steward promised to do all in his power to +carry out the count’s wishes, seeing clearly that not only would the +count never be able to find out whether all measures had been taken for +the sale of the land and forests and to release them from the land bank, +but would probably never even inquire and would never know that the +newly erected buildings were standing empty and that the serfs continued +to give in money and work all that other people’s serfs gave—that is +to say, all that could be got out of them. + + + + + +chapter xi + +returning from his journey through south russia in the happiest state +of mind, pierre carried out an intention he had long had of visiting his +friend bolkónski, whom he had not seen for two years. + +boguchárovo lay in a flat uninteresting part of the country among +fields and forests of fir and birch, which were partly cut down. the +house lay behind a newly dug pond filled with water to the brink and +with banks still bare of grass. it was at the end of a village that +stretched along the highroad in the midst of a young copse in which were +a few fir trees. + +the homestead consisted of a threshing floor, outhouses, stables, a +bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular façade +still in course of construction. round the house was a garden newly laid +out. the fences and gates were new and solid; two fire pumps and a +water cart, painted green, stood in a shed; the paths were straight, +the bridges were strong and had handrails. everything bore an impress of +tidiness and good management. some domestic serfs pierre met, in reply +to inquiries as to where the prince lived, pointed out a small newly +built lodge close to the pond. antón, a man who had looked after prince +andrew in his boyhood, helped pierre out of his carriage, said that the +prince was at home, and showed him into a clean little anteroom. + +pierre was struck by the modesty of the small though clean house after +the brilliant surroundings in which he had last met his friend in +petersburg. + +he quickly entered the small reception room with its still-unplastered +wooden walls redolent of pine, and would have gone farther, but antón +ran ahead on tiptoe and knocked at a door. + +“well, what is it?” came a sharp, unpleasant voice. + +“a visitor,” answered antón. + +“ask him to wait,” and the sound was heard of a chair being pushed +back. + +pierre went with rapid steps to the door and suddenly came face to +face with prince andrew, who came out frowning and looking old. pierre +embraced him and lifting his spectacles kissed his friend on the cheek +and looked at him closely. + +“well, i did not expect you, i am very glad,” said prince andrew. + +pierre said nothing; he looked fixedly at his friend with surprise. he +was struck by the change in him. his words were kindly and there was a +smile on his lips and face, but his eyes were dull and lifeless and in +spite of his evident wish to do so he could not give them a joyous +and glad sparkle. prince andrew had grown thinner, paler, and more +manly-looking, but what amazed and estranged pierre till he got used +to it were his inertia and a wrinkle on his brow indicating prolonged +concentration on some one thought. + +as is usually the case with people meeting after a prolonged separation, +it was long before their conversation could settle on anything. they +put questions and gave brief replies about things they knew ought to +be talked over at length. at last the conversation gradually settled on +some of the topics at first lightly touched on: their past life, plans +for the future, pierre’s journeys and occupations, the war, and so +on. the preoccupation and despondency which pierre had noticed in his +friend’s look was now still more clearly expressed in the smile +with which he listened to pierre, especially when he spoke with joyful +animation of the past or the future. it was as if prince andrew would +have liked to sympathize with what pierre was saying, but could not. +the latter began to feel that it was in bad taste to speak of his +enthusiasms, dreams, and hopes of happiness or goodness, in prince +andrew’s presence. he was ashamed to express his new masonic views, +which had been particularly revived and strengthened by his late tour. +he checked himself, fearing to seem naïve, yet he felt an irresistible +desire to show his friend as soon as possible that he was now a quite +different, and better, pierre than he had been in petersburg. + +“i can’t tell you how much i have lived through since then. i hardly +know myself again.” + +“yes, we have altered much, very much, since then,” said prince +andrew. + +“well, and you? what are your plans?” + +“plans!” repeated prince andrew ironically. “my plans?” he said, +as if astonished at the word. “well, you see, i’m building. i mean +to settle here altogether next year....” + +pierre looked silently and searchingly into prince andrew’s face, +which had grown much older. + +“no, i meant to ask...” pierre began, but prince andrew interrupted +him. + +“but why talk of me?... talk to me, yes, tell me about your travels +and all you have been doing on your estates.” + +pierre began describing what he had done on his estates, trying as far +as possible to conceal his own part in the improvements that had been +made. prince andrew several times prompted pierre’s story of what he +had been doing, as though it were all an old-time story, and he listened +not only without interest but even as if ashamed of what pierre was +telling him. + +pierre felt uncomfortable and even depressed in his friend’s company +and at last became silent. + +“i’ll tell you what, my dear fellow,” said prince andrew, who +evidently also felt depressed and constrained with his visitor, “i am +only bivouacking here and have just come to look round. i am going back +to my sister today. i will introduce you to her. but of course you know +her already,” he said, evidently trying to entertain a visitor with +whom he now found nothing in common. “we will go after dinner. and +would you now like to look round my place?” + +they went out and walked about till dinnertime, talking of the political +news and common acquaintances like people who do not know each other +intimately. prince andrew spoke with some animation and interest only of +the new homestead he was constructing and its buildings, but even here, +while on the scaffolding, in the midst of a talk explaining the future +arrangements of the house, he interrupted himself: + +“however, this is not at all interesting. let us have dinner, and then +we’ll set off.” + +at dinner, conversation turned on pierre’s marriage. + +“i was very much surprised when i heard of it,” said prince andrew. + +pierre blushed, as he always did when it was mentioned, and said +hurriedly: “i will tell you some time how it all happened. but you +know it is all over, and forever.” + +“forever?” said prince andrew. “nothing’s forever.” + +“but you know how it all ended, don’t you? you heard of the duel?” + +“and so you had to go through that too!” + +“one thing i thank god for is that i did not kill that man,” said +pierre. + +“why so?” asked prince andrew. “to kill a vicious dog is a very +good thing really.” + +“no, to kill a man is bad—wrong.” + +“why is it wrong?” urged prince andrew. “it is not given to man +to know what is right and what is wrong. men always did and always will +err, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.” + +“what does harm to another is wrong,” said pierre, feeling with +pleasure that for the first time since his arrival prince andrew was +roused, had begun to talk, and wanted to express what had brought him to +his present state. + +“and who has told you what is bad for another man?” he asked. + +“bad! bad!” exclaimed pierre. “we all know what is bad for +ourselves.” + +“yes, we know that, but the harm i am conscious of in myself is +something i cannot inflict on others,” said prince andrew, growing +more and more animated and evidently wishing to express his new outlook +to pierre. he spoke in french. “i only know two very real evils in +life: remorse and illness. the only good is the absence of those evils. +to live for myself avoiding those two evils is my whole philosophy +now.” + +“and love of one’s neighbor, and self-sacrifice?” began pierre. +“no, i can’t agree with you! to live only so as not to do evil and +not to have to repent is not enough. i lived like that, i lived for +myself and ruined my life. and only now when i am living, or at least +trying” (pierre’s modesty made him correct himself) “to live for +others, only now have i understood all the happiness of life. no, i +shall not agree with you, and you do not really believe what you are +saying.” prince andrew looked silently at pierre with an ironic smile. + +“when you see my sister, princess mary, you’ll get on with her,” +he said. “perhaps you are right for yourself,” he added after +a short pause, “but everyone lives in his own way. you lived for +yourself and say you nearly ruined your life and only found happiness +when you began living for others. i experienced just the reverse. i +lived for glory.—and after all what is glory? the same love of others, +a desire to do something for them, a desire for their approval.—so i +lived for others, and not almost, but quite, ruined my life. and i have +become calmer since i began to live only for myself.” + +“but what do you mean by living only for yourself?” asked pierre, +growing excited. “what about your son, your sister, and your +father?” + +“but that’s just the same as myself—they are not others,” +explained prince andrew. “the others, one’s neighbors, le prochain, +as you and princess mary call it, are the chief source of all error and +evil. le prochain—your kiev peasants to whom you want to do good.” + +and he looked at pierre with a mocking, challenging expression. he +evidently wished to draw him on. + +“you are joking,” replied pierre, growing more and more excited. +“what error or evil can there be in my wishing to do good, and even +doing a little—though i did very little and did it very badly? what +evil can there be in it if unfortunate people, our serfs, people like +ourselves, were growing up and dying with no idea of god and truth +beyond ceremonies and meaningless prayers and are now instructed in +a comforting belief in future life, retribution, recompense, and +consolation? what evil and error are there in it, if people were dying +of disease without help while material assistance could so easily be +rendered, and i supplied them with a doctor, a hospital, and an asylum +for the aged? and is it not a palpable, unquestionable good if a +peasant, or a woman with a baby, has no rest day or night and i give +them rest and leisure?” said pierre, hurrying and lisping. “and +i have done that though badly and to a small extent; but i have done +something toward it and you cannot persuade me that it was not a good +action, and more than that, you can’t make me believe that you do not +think so yourself. and the main thing is,” he continued, “that i +know, and know for certain, that the enjoyment of doing this good is the +only sure happiness in life.” + +“yes, if you put it like that it’s quite a different matter,” said +prince andrew. “i build a house and lay out a garden, and you build +hospitals. the one and the other may serve as a pastime. but what’s +right and what’s good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by +us. well, you want an argument,” he added, “come on then.” + +they rose from the table and sat down in the entrance porch which served +as a veranda. + +“come, let’s argue then,” said prince andrew, “you talk of +schools,” he went on, crooking a finger, “education and so forth; +that is, you want to raise him” (pointing to a peasant who passed by +them taking off his cap) “from his animal condition and awaken in him +spiritual needs, while it seems to me that animal happiness is the only +happiness possible, and that is just what you want to deprive him of. +i envy him, but you want to make him what i am, without giving him my +means. then you say, ‘lighten his toil.’ but as i see it, physical +labor is as essential to him, as much a condition of his existence, as +mental activity is to you or me. you can’t help thinking. i go to bed +after two in the morning, thoughts come and i can’t sleep but toss +about till dawn, because i think and can’t help thinking, just as +he can’t help plowing and mowing; if he didn’t, he would go to the +drink shop or fall ill. just as i could not stand his terrible physical +labor but should die of it in a week, so he could not stand my physical +idleness, but would grow fat and die. the third thing—what else was +it you talked about?” and prince andrew crooked a third finger. “ah, +yes, hospitals, medicine. he has a fit, he is dying, and you come and +bleed him and patch him up. he will drag about as a cripple, a burden to +everybody, for another ten years. it would be far easier and simpler for +him to die. others are being born and there are plenty of them as it is. +it would be different if you grudged losing a laborer—that’s how i +regard him—but you want to cure him from love of him. and he does not +want that. and besides, what a notion that medicine ever cured anyone! +killed them, yes!” said he, frowning angrily and turning away from +pierre. + +prince andrew expressed his ideas so clearly and distinctly that it was +evident he had reflected on this subject more than once, and he spoke +readily and rapidly like a man who has not talked for a long time. his +glance became more animated as his conclusions became more hopeless. + +“oh, that is dreadful, dreadful!” said pierre. “i don’t +understand how one can live with such ideas. i had such moments +myself not long ago, in moscow and when traveling, but at such times i +collapsed so that i don’t live at all—everything seems hateful to +me... myself most of all. then i don’t eat, don’t wash... and how is +it with you?...” + +“why not wash? that is not cleanly,” said prince andrew; “on the +contrary one must try to make one’s life as pleasant as possible. +i’m alive, that is not my fault, so i must live out my life as best i +can without hurting others.” + +“but with such ideas what motive have you for living? one would sit +without moving, undertaking nothing....” + +“life as it is leaves one no peace. i should be thankful to do +nothing, but here on the one hand the local nobility have done me the +honor to choose me to be their marshal; it was all i could do to get +out of it. they could not understand that i have not the necessary +qualifications for it—the kind of good-natured, fussy shallowness +necessary for the position. then there’s this house, which must be +built in order to have a nook of one’s own in which to be quiet. and +now there’s this recruiting.” + +“why aren’t you serving in the army?” + +“after austerlitz!” said prince andrew gloomily. “no, thank you +very much! i have promised myself not to serve again in the active +russian army. and i won’t—not even if bonaparte were here at +smolénsk threatening bald hills—even then i wouldn’t serve in the +russian army! well, as i was saying,” he continued, recovering his +composure, “now there’s this recruiting. my father is chief in +command of the third district, and my only way of avoiding active +service is to serve under him.” + +“then you are serving?” + +“i am.” + +he paused a little while. + +“and why do you serve?” + +“why, for this reason! my father is one of the most remarkable men of +his time. but he is growing old, and though not exactly cruel he has too +energetic a character. he is so accustomed to unlimited power that he is +terrible, and now he has this authority of a commander in chief of +the recruiting, granted by the emperor. if i had been two hours late +a fortnight ago he would have had a paymaster’s clerk at yúkhnovna +hanged,” said prince andrew with a smile. “so i am serving because +i alone have any influence with my father, and now and then can save him +from actions which would torment him afterwards.” + +“well, there you see!” + +“yes, but it is not as you imagine,” prince andrew continued. “i +did not, and do not, in the least care about that scoundrel of a clerk +who had stolen some boots from the recruits; i should even have been +very glad to see him hanged, but i was sorry for my father—that again +is for myself.” + +prince andrew grew more and more animated. his eyes glittered feverishly +while he tried to prove to pierre that in his actions there was no +desire to do good to his neighbor. + +“there now, you wish to liberate your serfs,” he continued; “that +is a very good thing, but not for you—i don’t suppose you ever had +anyone flogged or sent to siberia—and still less for your serfs. if +they are beaten, flogged, or sent to siberia, i don’t suppose they are +any the worse off. in siberia they lead the same animal life, and the +stripes on their bodies heal, and they are happy as before. but it is +a good thing for proprietors who perish morally, bring remorse upon +themselves, stifle this remorse and grow callous, as a result of being +able to inflict punishments justly and unjustly. it is those people i +pity, and for their sake i should like to liberate the serfs. you +may not have seen, but i have seen, how good men brought up in those +traditions of unlimited power, in time when they grow more irritable, +become cruel and harsh, are conscious of it, but cannot restrain +themselves and grow more and more miserable.” + +prince andrew spoke so earnestly that pierre could not help thinking +that these thoughts had been suggested to prince andrew by his +father’s case. + +he did not reply. + +“so that’s what i’m sorry for—human dignity, peace of mind, +purity, and not the serfs’ backs and foreheads, which, beat and shave +as you may, always remain the same backs and foreheads.” + +“no, no! a thousand times no! i shall never agree with you,” said +pierre. + + + + + +chapter xii + +in the evening andrew and pierre got into the open carriage and drove to +bald hills. prince andrew, glancing at pierre, broke the silence now and +then with remarks which showed that he was in a good temper. + +pointing to the fields, he spoke of the improvements he was making in +his husbandry. + +pierre remained gloomily silent, answering in monosyllables and +apparently immersed in his own thoughts. + +he was thinking that prince andrew was unhappy, had gone astray, did not +see the true light, and that he, pierre, ought to aid, enlighten, and diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-2/1M-tr-seq/1M-tr-seq-02 b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-2/1M-tr-seq/1M-tr-seq-02 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3ff26a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-2/1M-tr-seq/1M-tr-seq-02 @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +raise him. but as soon as he thought of what he should say, he felt that +prince andrew with one word, one argument, \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-2/1M-tr-seq/grep-1M-tr-seq-00 b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-2/1M-tr-seq/grep-1M-tr-seq-00 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2887883 --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-2/1M-tr-seq/grep-1M-tr-seq-00 @@ -0,0 +1,6576 @@ +the project gutenberg ebook of war and peace, by leo tolstoy +this ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost +no restrictions whatsoever. you may copy it, give it away or re-use +it under the terms of the project gutenberg license included with this +ebook or online at www.gutenberg.org +*** start of this project gutenberg ebook war and peace *** +an anonymous volunteer, and david widger + chapter xxii + chapter xxiii + chapter xxii + chapter xxii + chapter xxiii + book eight: 1811 - 12 + chapter xxii + chapter xxii + chapter xxiii + chapter xxii + chapter xxiii + chapter xxxii + chapter xxxiii + chapter xxxix + chapter xxii + chapter xxiii + chapter xxxii + chapter xxxiii + book thirteen: 1812 +“well, prince, so genoa and lucca are now just family estates of the +buonapartes. but i warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, +if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that +antichrist—i really believe he is antichrist—i will have nothing +more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my +‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! but how do you do? i see i +have frightened you—sit down and tell me all the news.” +it was in july, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known anna pávlovna +schérer, maid of honor and favorite of the empress márya fëdorovna. +with these words she greeted prince vasíli kurágin, a man of high +rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. anna +pávlovna had had a cough for some days. she was, as she said, suffering +from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in st. petersburg, used +all her invitations without exception, written in french, and delivered +by a scarlet-liveried footman that morning, ran as follows: +“if you have nothing better to do, count (or prince), and if the +prospect of spending an evening with a poor invalid is not too terrible, +i shall be very charmed to see you tonight between 7 and 10—annette +“heavens! what a virulent attack!” replied the prince, not in the +least disconcerted by this reception. he had just entered, wearing an +embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on +his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. he spoke in that +refined french in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and +with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance +who had grown old in society and at court. he went up to anna pávlovna, +kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, +“first of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. set your friend’s +mind at rest,” said he without altering his tone, beneath the +politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony +“can one be well while suffering morally? can one be calm in times +like these if one has any feeling?” said anna pávlovna. “you are +“and the fete at the english ambassador’s? today is wednesday. i +must put in an appearance there,” said the prince. “my daughter is +“i thought today’s fete had been canceled. i confess all these +festivities and fireworks are becoming wearisome.” +“if they had known that you wished it, the entertainment would have +been put off,” said the prince, who, like a wound-up clock, by force +of habit said things he did not even wish to be believed. +“don’t tease! well, and what has been decided about novosíltsev’s +“what can one say about it?” replied the prince in a cold, listless +tone. “what has been decided? they have decided that buonaparte has +burnt his boats, and i believe that we are ready to burn ours.” +prince vasíli always spoke languidly, like an actor repeating a stale +part. anna pávlovna schérer on the contrary, despite her forty years, +overflowed with animation and impulsiveness. to be an enthusiast had +become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not +feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the +expectations of those who knew her. the subdued smile which, though it +did not suit her faded features, always played round her lips expressed, +as in a spoiled child, a continual consciousness of her charming defect, +which she neither wished, nor could, nor considered it necessary, to +in the midst of a conversation on political matters anna pávlovna burst +“oh, don’t speak to me of austria. perhaps i don’t understand +things, but austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war. she +is betraying us! russia alone must save europe. our gracious sovereign +recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it. that is the one +thing i have faith in! our good and wonderful sovereign has to perform +the noblest role on earth, and he is so virtuous and noble that god will +not forsake him. he will fulfill his vocation and crush the hydra of +revolution, which has become more terrible than ever in the person of +this murderer and villain! we alone must avenge the blood of the just +one.... whom, i ask you, can we rely on?... england with her commercial +spirit will not and cannot understand the emperor alexander’s +loftiness of soul. she has refused to evacuate malta. she wanted to +find, and still seeks, some secret motive in our actions. what answer +did novosíltsev get? none. the english have not understood and cannot +understand the self-abnegation of our emperor who wants nothing for +himself, but only desires the good of mankind. and what have they +promised? nothing! and what little they have promised they will not +perform! prussia has always declared that buonaparte is invincible, and +that all europe is powerless before him.... and i don’t believe a +word that hardenburg says, or haugwitz either. this famous prussian +neutrality is just a trap. i have faith only in god and the lofty +destiny of our adored monarch. he will save europe!” +she suddenly paused, smiling at her own impetuosity. +“i think,” said the prince with a smile, “that if you had been +sent instead of our dear wintzingerode you would have captured the king +of prussia’s consent by assault. you are so eloquent. will you give me +“in a moment. À propos,” she added, becoming calm again, “i am +expecting two very interesting men tonight, le vicomte de mortemart, who +is connected with the montmorencys through the rohans, one of the best +french families. he is one of the genuine émigrés, the good ones. and +also the abbé morio. do you know that profound thinker? he has been +“i shall be delighted to meet them,” said the prince. “but +tell me,” he added with studied carelessness as if it had only just +occurred to him, though the question he was about to ask was the chief +motive of his visit, “is it true that the dowager empress wants +baron funke to be appointed first secretary at vienna? the baron by all +accounts is a poor creature.” +prince vasíli wished to obtain this post for his son, but others were +trying through the dowager empress márya fëdorovna to secure it for +anna pávlovna almost closed her eyes to indicate that neither she nor +anyone else had a right to criticize what the empress desired or was +“baron funke has been recommended to the dowager empress by her +sister,” was all she said, in a dry and mournful tone. +as she named the empress, anna pávlovna’s face suddenly assumed an +expression of profound and sincere devotion and respect mingled with +sadness, and this occurred every time she mentioned her illustrious +patroness. she added that her majesty had deigned to show baron funke +beaucoup d’estime, and again her face clouded over with sadness. +the prince was silent and looked indifferent. but, with the womanly and +courtierlike quickness and tact habitual to her, anna pávlovna +wished both to rebuke him (for daring to speak as he had done of a man +recommended to the empress) and at the same time to console him, so she +“now about your family. do you know that since your daughter came +out everyone has been enraptured by her? they say she is amazingly +the prince bowed to signify his respect and gratitude. +“i often think,” she continued after a short pause, drawing nearer +to the prince and smiling amiably at him as if to show that political +and social topics were ended and the time had come for intimate +conversation—“i often think how unfairly sometimes the joys of life +are distributed. why has fate given you two such splendid children? +i don’t speak of anatole, your youngest. i don’t like him,” she +added in a tone admitting of no rejoinder and raising her eyebrows. +“two such charming children. and really you appreciate them less than +anyone, and so you don’t deserve to have them.” +and she smiled her ecstatic smile. +“i can’t help it,” said the prince. “lavater would have said i +“don’t joke; i mean to have a serious talk with you. do you know +i am dissatisfied with your younger son? between ourselves” (and her +face assumed its melancholy expression), “he was mentioned at her +the prince answered nothing, but she looked at him significantly, +“what would you have me do?” he said at last. “you know i did all +a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools. +hippolyte is at least a quiet fool, but anatole is an active one. that +is the only difference between them.” he said this smiling in a way +more natural and animated than usual, so that the wrinkles round +his mouth very clearly revealed something unexpectedly coarse and +“and why are children born to such men as you? if you were not a +father there would be nothing i could reproach you with,” said anna +“i am your faithful slave and to you alone i can confess that my +children are the bane of my life. it is the cross i have to bear. that +is how i explain it to myself. it can’t be helped!” +he said no more, but expressed his resignation to cruel fate by a +“have you never thought of marrying your prodigal son anatole?” she +asked. “they say old maids have a mania for matchmaking, and though i +don’t feel that weakness in myself as yet, i know a little person who +is very unhappy with her father. she is a relation of yours, princess +prince vasíli did not reply, though, with the quickness of memory and +perception befitting a man of the world, he indicated by a movement of +the head that he was considering this information. +“do you know,” he said at last, evidently unable to check the sad +current of his thoughts, “that anatole is costing me forty thousand +rubles a year? and,” he went on after a pause, “what will it be in +five years, if he goes on like this?” presently he added: “that’s +what we fathers have to put up with.... is this princess of yours +“her father is very rich and stingy. he lives in the country. he is +the well-known prince bolkónski who had to retire from the army under +the late emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the king of prussia.’ he is +very clever but eccentric, and a bore. the poor girl is very unhappy. +she has a brother; i think you know him, he married lise meinen lately. +he is an aide-de-camp of kutúzov’s and will be here tonight.” +“listen, dear annette,” said the prince, suddenly taking anna +pávlovna’s hand and for some reason drawing it downwards. “arrange +that affair for me and i shall always be your most devoted slave-slafe +with an f, as a village elder of mine writes in his reports. she is rich +and of good family and that’s all i want.” +and with the familiarity and easy grace peculiar to him, he raised the +maid of honor’s hand to his lips, kissed it, and swung it to and fro +as he lay back in his armchair, looking in another direction. +“attendez,” said anna pávlovna, reflecting, “i’ll speak to +lise, young bolkónski’s wife, this very evening, and perhaps the +thing can be arranged. it shall be on your family’s behalf that i’ll +start my apprenticeship as old maid.” +anna pávlovna’s drawing room was gradually filling. the highest +petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age +and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. +prince vasíli’s daughter, the beautiful hélène, came to take her +father to the ambassador’s entertainment; she wore a ball dress and +her badge as maid of honor. the youthful little princess bolkónskaya, +known as la femme la plus séduisante de pétersbourg, * was also there. +she had been married during the previous winter, and being pregnant did +not go to any large gatherings, but only to small receptions. prince +vasíli’s son, hippolyte, had come with mortemart, whom he introduced. + * the most fascinating woman in petersburg. +to each new arrival anna pávlovna said, “you have not yet seen my +aunt,” or “you do not know my aunt?” and very gravely conducted +him or her to a little old lady, wearing large bows of ribbon in her +cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests +began to arrive; and slowly turning her eyes from the visitor to her +aunt, anna pávlovna mentioned each one’s name and then left them. +each visitor performed the ceremony of greeting this old aunt whom not +one of them knew, not one of them wanted to know, and not one of them +cared about; anna pávlovna observed these greetings with mournful and +solemn interest and silent approval. the aunt spoke to each of them in +the same words, about their health and her own, and the health of her +majesty, “who, thank god, was better today.” and each visitor, +though politeness prevented his showing impatience, left the old woman +with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not +return to her the whole evening. +the young princess bolkónskaya had brought some work in a +gold-embroidered velvet bag. her pretty little upper lip, on which a +delicate dark down was just perceptible, was too short for her teeth, +but it lifted all the more sweetly, and was especially charming when she +occasionally drew it down to meet the lower lip. as is always the case +with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her +upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to be her own special and +peculiar form of beauty. everyone brightened at the sight of this pretty +young woman, so soon to become a mother, so full of life and health, and +carrying her burden so lightly. old men and dull dispirited young ones +who looked at her, after being in her company and talking to her a +little while, felt as if they too were becoming, like her, full of life +and health. all who talked to her, and at each word saw her bright smile +and the constant gleam of her white teeth, thought that they were in a +specially amiable mood that day. +the little princess went round the table with quick, short, swaying +steps, her workbag on her arm, and gaily spreading out her dress sat +down on a sofa near the silver samovar, as if all she was doing was a +pleasure to herself and to all around her. “i have brought my work,” +said she in french, displaying her bag and addressing all present. +“mind, annette, i hope you have not played a wicked trick on me,” +she added, turning to her hostess. “you wrote that it was to be quite +a small reception, and just see how badly i am dressed.” and she +spread out her arms to show her short-waisted, lace-trimmed, dainty gray +dress, girdled with a broad ribbon just below the breast. +“soyez tranquille, lise, you will always be prettier than anyone +“you know,” said the princess in the same tone of voice and still in +french, turning to a general, “my husband is deserting me? he is going +to get himself killed. tell me what this wretched war is for?” she +added, addressing prince vasíli, and without waiting for an answer she +turned to speak to his daughter, the beautiful hélène. +“what a delightful woman this little princess is!” said prince +one of the next arrivals was a stout, heavily built young man with +close-cropped hair, spectacles, the light-colored breeches fashionable +at that time, a very high ruffle, and a brown dress coat. this stout +young man was an illegitimate son of count bezúkhov, a well-known +grandee of catherine’s time who now lay dying in moscow. the young man +had not yet entered either the military or civil service, as he had only +just returned from abroad where he had been educated, and this was his +first appearance in society. anna pávlovna greeted him with the nod she +accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room. but in spite of +this lowest-grade greeting, a look of anxiety and fear, as at the sight +of something too large and unsuited to the place, came over her face +when she saw pierre enter. though he was certainly rather bigger than +the other men in the room, her anxiety could only have reference to +the clever though shy, but observant and natural, expression which +distinguished him from everyone else in that drawing room. +“it is very good of you, monsieur pierre, to come and visit a poor +invalid,” said anna pávlovna, exchanging an alarmed glance with her +pierre murmured something unintelligible, and continued to look round as +if in search of something. on his way to the aunt he bowed to the little +princess with a pleased smile, as to an intimate acquaintance. +anna pávlovna’s alarm was justified, for pierre turned away from the +aunt without waiting to hear her speech about her majesty’s health. +anna pávlovna in dismay detained him with the words: “do you know the +abbé morio? he is a most interesting man.” +“yes, i have heard of his scheme for perpetual peace, and it is very +“you think so?” rejoined anna pávlovna in order to say something +and get away to attend to her duties as hostess. but pierre now +committed a reverse act of impoliteness. first he had left a lady before +she had finished speaking to him, and now he continued to speak to +another who wished to get away. with his head bent, and his big feet +spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbé’s +“we will talk of it later,” said anna pávlovna with a smile. +and having got rid of this young man who did not know how to behave, she +resumed her duties as hostess and continued to listen and watch, ready +to help at any point where the conversation might happen to flag. as +the foreman of a spinning mill, when he has set the hands to work, goes +round and notices here a spindle that has stopped or there one that +creaks or makes more noise than it should, and hastens to check the +machine or set it in proper motion, so anna pávlovna moved about her +drawing room, approaching now a silent, now a too-noisy group, and by a +word or slight rearrangement kept the conversational machine in steady, +proper, and regular motion. but amid these cares her anxiety about +pierre was evident. she kept an anxious watch on him when he approached +the group round mortemart to listen to what was being said there, and +again when he passed to another group whose center was the abbé. +pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception at anna +pávlovna’s was the first he had attended in russia. he knew that all +the intellectual lights of petersburg were gathered there and, like a +child in a toyshop, did not know which way to look, afraid of missing +any clever conversation that was to be heard. seeing the self-confident +and refined expression on the faces of those present he was always +expecting to hear something very profound. at last he came up to morio. +here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an +opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. +anna pávlovna’s reception was in full swing. the spindles hummed +steadily and ceaselessly on all sides. with the exception of the aunt, +beside whom sat only one elderly lady, who with her thin careworn face +was rather out of place in this brilliant society, the whole company had +settled into three groups. one, chiefly masculine, had formed round +the abbé. another, of young people, was grouped round the beautiful +princess hélène, prince vasíli’s daughter, and the little princess +bolkónskaya, very pretty and rosy, though rather too plump for her age. +the third group was gathered round mortemart and anna pávlovna. +the vicomte was a nice-looking young man with soft features and polished +manners, who evidently considered himself a celebrity but out of +politeness modestly placed himself at the disposal of the circle in +which he found himself. anna pávlovna was obviously serving him up as +a treat to her guests. as a clever maître d’hôtel serves up as a +specially choice delicacy a piece of meat that no one who had seen it in +the kitchen would have cared to eat, so anna pávlovna served up to +her guests, first the vicomte and then the abbé, as peculiarly choice +morsels. the group about mortemart immediately began discussing the +murder of the duc d’enghien. the vicomte said that the duc d’enghien +had perished by his own magnanimity, and that there were particular +“ah, yes! do tell us all about it, vicomte,” said anna pávlovna, +with a pleasant feeling that there was something à la louis xv in the +sound of that sentence: “contez nous çela, vicomte.” +the vicomte bowed and smiled courteously in token of his willingness to +comply. anna pávlovna arranged a group round him, inviting everyone to +“the vicomte knew the duc personally,” whispered anna pávlovna to +one of the guests. “the vicomte is a wonderful raconteur,” said she +to another. “how evidently he belongs to the best society,” said she +to a third; and the vicomte was served up to the company in the choicest +and most advantageous style, like a well-garnished joint of roast beef +the vicomte wished to begin his story and gave a subtle smile. +“come over here, hélène, dear,” said anna pávlovna to the +beautiful young princess who was sitting some way off, the center of +the princess smiled. she rose with the same unchanging smile with which +she had first entered the room—the smile of a perfectly beautiful +woman. with a slight rustle of her white dress trimmed with moss +and ivy, with a gleam of white shoulders, glossy hair, and sparkling +diamonds, she passed between the men who made way for her, not looking +at any of them but smiling on all, as if graciously allowing each the +privilege of admiring her beautiful figure and shapely shoulders, +back, and bosom—which in the fashion of those days were very much +exposed—and she seemed to bring the glamour of a ballroom with her as +she moved toward anna pávlovna. hélène was so lovely that not only +did she not show any trace of coquetry, but on the contrary she even +appeared shy of her unquestionable and all too victorious beauty. she +seemed to wish, but to be unable, to diminish its effect. +“how lovely!” said everyone who saw her; and the vicomte lifted his +shoulders and dropped his eyes as if startled by something extraordinary +when she took her seat opposite and beamed upon him also with her +“madame, i doubt my ability before such an audience,” said he, +the princess rested her bare round arm on a little table and considered +a reply unnecessary. she smilingly waited. all the time the story was +being told she sat upright, glancing now at her beautiful round arm, +altered in shape by its pressure on the table, now at her still more +beautiful bosom, on which she readjusted a diamond necklace. from time +to time she smoothed the folds of her dress, and whenever the story +produced an effect she glanced at anna pávlovna, at once adopted just +the expression she saw on the maid of honor’s face, and again relapsed +the little princess had also left the tea table and followed hélène. +“wait a moment, i’ll get my work.... now then, what are you +thinking of?” she went on, turning to prince hippolyte. “fetch me my +there was a general movement as the princess, smiling and talking +merrily to everyone at once, sat down and gaily arranged herself in her +“now i am all right,” she said, and asking the vicomte to begin, she +prince hippolyte, having brought the workbag, joined the circle and +moving a chair close to hers seated himself beside her. +le charmant hippolyte was surprising by his extraordinary resemblance +to his beautiful sister, but yet more by the fact that in spite of +this resemblance he was exceedingly ugly. his features were like his +sister’s, but while in her case everything was lit up by a joyous, +self-satisfied, youthful, and constant smile of animation, and by the +wonderful classic beauty of her figure, his face on the contrary +was dulled by imbecility and a constant expression of sullen +self-confidence, while his body was thin and weak. his eyes, nose, and +mouth all seemed puckered into a vacant, wearied grimace, and his arms +and legs always fell into unnatural positions. +“it’s not going to be a ghost story?” said he, sitting down beside +the princess and hastily adjusting his lorgnette, as if without this +instrument he could not begin to speak. +“why no, my dear fellow,” said the astonished narrator, shrugging +“because i hate ghost stories,” said prince hippolyte in a tone +which showed that he only understood the meaning of his words after he +he spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure +whether what he said was very witty or very stupid. he was dressed in +a dark-green dress coat, knee breeches of the color of cuisse de nymphe +effrayée, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings. +the vicomte told his tale very neatly. it was an anecdote, then current, +to the effect that the duc d’enghien had gone secretly to paris to +visit mademoiselle george; that at her house he came upon bonaparte, +who also enjoyed the famous actress’ favors, and that in his presence +napoleon happened to fall into one of the fainting fits to which he was +subject, and was thus at the duc’s mercy. the latter spared him, and +this magnanimity bonaparte subsequently repaid by death. +the story was very pretty and interesting, especially at the point +where the rivals suddenly recognized one another; and the ladies looked +“charming!” said anna pávlovna with an inquiring glance at the +“charming!” whispered the little princess, sticking the needle into +her work as if to testify that the interest and fascination of the story +prevented her from going on with it. +the vicomte appreciated this silent praise and smiling gratefully +prepared to continue, but just then anna pávlovna, who had kept a +watchful eye on the young man who so alarmed her, noticed that he was +talking too loudly and vehemently with the abbé, so she hurried to the +rescue. pierre had managed to start a conversation with the abbé about +the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young +man’s simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory. both +were talking and listening too eagerly and too naturally, which was why +“the means are ... the balance of power in europe and the rights of +the people,” the abbé was saying. “it is only necessary for one +powerful nation like russia—barbaric as she is said to be—to place +herself disinterestedly at the head of an alliance having for its object +the maintenance of the balance of power of europe, and it would save the +“but how are you to get that balance?” pierre was beginning. +at that moment anna pávlovna came up and, looking severely at pierre, +asked the italian how he stood russian climate. the italian’s +face instantly changed and assumed an offensively affected, sugary +expression, evidently habitual to him when conversing with women. +“i am so enchanted by the brilliancy of the wit and culture of the +society, more especially of the feminine society, in which i have had +the honor of being received, that i have not yet had time to think of +not letting the abbé and pierre escape, anna pávlovna, the more +conveniently to keep them under observation, brought them into the +just then another visitor entered the drawing room: prince andrew +bolkónski, the little princess’ husband. he was a very handsome young +man, of medium height, with firm, clearcut features. everything about +him, from his weary, bored expression to his quiet, measured step, +offered a most striking contrast to his quiet, little wife. it was +evident that he not only knew everyone in the drawing room, but had +found them to be so tiresome that it wearied him to look at or listen to +them. and among all these faces that he found so tedious, none seemed +to bore him so much as that of his pretty wife. he turned away from +her with a grimace that distorted his handsome face, kissed anna +pávlovna’s hand, and screwing up his eyes scanned the whole company. +“you are off to the war, prince?” said anna pávlovna. +“general kutúzov,” said bolkónski, speaking french and stressing +the last syllable of the general’s name like a frenchman, “has been +“are you not ashamed to deprive us of your charming wife?” +“andré,” said his wife, addressing her husband in the same +coquettish manner in which she spoke to other men, “the vicomte has +been telling us such a tale about mademoiselle george and buonaparte!” +prince andrew screwed up his eyes and turned away. pierre, who from +the moment prince andrew entered the room had watched him with glad, +affectionate eyes, now came up and took his arm. before he looked round +prince andrew frowned again, expressing his annoyance with whoever was +touching his arm, but when he saw pierre’s beaming face he gave him an +“there now!... so you, too, are in the great world?” said he to +“i knew you would be here,” replied pierre. “i will come to supper +with you. may i?” he added in a low voice so as not to disturb the +“no, impossible!” said prince andrew, laughing and pressing +pierre’s hand to show that there was no need to ask the question. he +wished to say something more, but at that moment prince vasíli and his +daughter got up to go and the two young men rose to let them pass. +“you must excuse me, dear vicomte,” said prince vasíli to the +frenchman, holding him down by the sleeve in a friendly way to prevent +his rising. “this unfortunate fete at the ambassador’s deprives me +of a pleasure, and obliges me to interrupt you. i am very sorry to leave +your enchanting party,” said he, turning to anna pávlovna. +his daughter, princess hélène, passed between the chairs, lightly +holding up the folds of her dress, and the smile shone still more +radiantly on her beautiful face. pierre gazed at her with rapturous, +almost frightened, eyes as she passed him. +in passing prince vasíli seized pierre’s hand and said to anna +pávlovna: “educate this bear for me! he has been staying with me +a whole month and this is the first time i have seen him in society. +nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever +anna pávlovna smiled and promised to take pierre in hand. she knew his +father to be a connection of prince vasíli’s. the elderly lady who +had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook prince +vasíli in the anteroom. all the affectation of interest she had assumed +had left her kindly and tear-worn face and it now expressed only anxiety +“how about my son borís, prince?” said she, hurrying after him into +the anteroom. “i can’t remain any longer in petersburg. tell me what +news i may take back to my poor boy.” +although prince vasíli listened reluctantly and not very politely +to the elderly lady, even betraying some impatience, she gave him an +ingratiating and appealing smile, and took his hand that he might not go +“what would it cost you to say a word to the emperor, and then he +would be transferred to the guards at once?” said she. +“believe me, princess, i am ready to do all i can,” answered prince +vasíli, “but it is difficult for me to ask the emperor. i should +advise you to appeal to rumyántsev through prince golítsyn. that would +the elderly lady was a princess drubetskáya, belonging to one of the +best families in russia, but she was poor, and having long been out of +society had lost her former influential connections. she had now come to +petersburg to procure an appointment in the guards for her only son. +it was, in fact, solely to meet prince vasíli that she had obtained an +invitation to anna pávlovna’s reception and had sat listening to +the vicomte’s story. prince vasíli’s words frightened her, an +embittered look clouded her once handsome face, but only for a moment; +then she smiled again and clutched prince vasíli’s arm more tightly. +“listen to me, prince,” said she. “i have never yet asked you +for anything and i never will again, nor have i ever reminded you of my +father’s friendship for you; but now i entreat you for god’s sake to +do this for my son—and i shall always regard you as a benefactor,” +she added hurriedly. “no, don’t be angry, but promise! i have asked +golítsyn and he has refused. be the kindhearted man you always were,” +she said, trying to smile though tears were in her eyes. +“papa, we shall be late,” said princess hélène, turning her +beautiful head and looking over her classically molded shoulder as she +influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized +if it is to last. prince vasíli knew this, and having once realized +that if he asked on behalf of all who begged of him, he would soon be +unable to ask for himself, he became chary of using his influence. but +in princess drubetskáya’s case he felt, after her second appeal, +something like qualms of conscience. she had reminded him of what was +quite true; he had been indebted to her father for the first steps in +his career. moreover, he could see by her manners that she was one of +those women—mostly mothers—who, having once made up their minds, +will not rest until they have gained their end, and are prepared if +necessary to go on insisting day after day and hour after hour, and even +to make scenes. this last consideration moved him. +“my dear anna mikháylovna,” said he with his usual familiarity and +weariness of tone, “it is almost impossible for me to do what you +ask; but to prove my devotion to you and how i respect your father’s +memory, i will do the impossible—your son shall be transferred to the +guards. here is my hand on it. are you satisfied?” +“my dear benefactor! this is what i expected from you—i knew your +“wait—just a word! when he has been transferred to the guards...” +she faltered. “you are on good terms with michael ilariónovich +kutúzov ... recommend borís to him as adjutant! then i shall be at +“no, i won’t promise that. you don’t know how kutúzov is pestered +since his appointment as commander in chief. he told me himself that +all the moscow ladies have conspired to give him all their sons as +“no, but do promise! i won’t let you go! my dear benefactor...” +“papa,” said his beautiful daughter in the same tone as before, +“well, au revoir! good-by! you hear her?” +“then tomorrow you will speak to the emperor?” +“do promise, do promise, vasíli!” cried anna mikháylovna as he +went, with the smile of a coquettish girl, which at one time probably +came naturally to her, but was now very ill-suited to her careworn face. +apparently she had forgotten her age and by force of habit employed +all the old feminine arts. but as soon as the prince had gone her face +resumed its former cold, artificial expression. she returned to the +group where the vicomte was still talking, and again pretended to +listen, while waiting till it would be time to leave. her task was +“and what do you think of this latest comedy, the coronation at +milan?” asked anna pávlovna, “and of the comedy of the people of +genoa and lucca laying their petitions before monsieur buonaparte, and +monsieur buonaparte sitting on a throne and granting the petitions of +the nations? adorable! it is enough to make one’s head whirl! it is as +prince andrew looked anna pávlovna straight in the face with a +“‘dieu me la donne, gare à qui la touche!’’ * they say he was +very fine when he said that,” he remarked, repeating the words in +italian: “‘dio mi l’ha dato. guai a chi la tocchi!’’ + * god has given it to me, let him who touches it beware! +“i hope this will prove the last drop that will make the glass run +over,” anna pávlovna continued. “the sovereigns will not be able to +endure this man who is a menace to everything.” +“the sovereigns? i do not speak of russia,” said the vicomte, polite +but hopeless: “the sovereigns, madame... what have they done for louis +xvii, for the queen, or for madame elizabeth? nothing!” and he became +more animated. “and believe me, they are reaping the reward of their +betrayal of the bourbon cause. the sovereigns! why, they are sending +ambassadors to compliment the usurper.” +and sighing disdainfully, he again changed his position. +prince hippolyte, who had been gazing at the vicomte for some time +through his lorgnette, suddenly turned completely round toward the +little princess, and having asked for a needle began tracing the condé +coat of arms on the table. he explained this to her with as much gravity +as if she had asked him to do it. +“bâton de gueules, engrêlé de gueules d’azur—maison condé,” +“if buonaparte remains on the throne of france a year longer,” the +vicomte continued, with the air of a man who, in a matter with which +he is better acquainted than anyone else, does not listen to others but +follows the current of his own thoughts, “things will have gone too +far. by intrigues, violence, exile, and executions, french society—i +mean good french society—will have been forever destroyed, and +he shrugged his shoulders and spread out his hands. pierre wished to +make a remark, for the conversation interested him, but anna pávlovna, +who had him under observation, interrupted: +“the emperor alexander,” said she, with the melancholy which +always accompanied any reference of hers to the imperial family, “has +declared that he will leave it to the french people themselves to choose +their own form of government; and i believe that once free from the +usurper, the whole nation will certainly throw itself into the arms +of its rightful king,” she concluded, trying to be amiable to the +“that is doubtful,” said prince andrew. “monsieur le vicomte quite +rightly supposes that matters have already gone too far. i think it will +“from what i have heard,” said pierre, blushing and breaking into +the conversation, “almost all the aristocracy has already gone over to +“it is the buonapartists who say that,” replied the vicomte without +looking at pierre. “at the present time it is difficult to know the +real state of french public opinion.” +“bonaparte has said so,” remarked prince andrew with a sarcastic +it was evident that he did not like the vicomte and was aiming his +remarks at him, though without looking at him. +“‘i showed them the path to glory, but they did not follow +it,’” prince andrew continued after a short silence, again quoting +napoleon’s words. “‘i opened my antechambers and they crowded +in.’ i do not know how far he was justified in saying so.” +“not in the least,” replied the vicomte. “after the murder of the +duc even the most partial ceased to regard him as a hero. if to some +people,” he went on, turning to anna pávlovna, “he ever was a hero, +after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one +before anna pávlovna and the others had time to smile their +appreciation of the vicomte’s epigram, pierre again broke into the +conversation, and though anna pávlovna felt sure he would say something +“the execution of the duc d’enghien,” declared monsieur pierre, +“was a political necessity, and it seems to me that napoleon +showed greatness of soul by not fearing to take on himself the whole +“dieu! mon dieu!” muttered anna pávlovna in a terrified whisper. +“what, monsieur pierre... do you consider that assassination shows +greatness of soul?” said the little princess, smiling and drawing her +“capital!” said prince hippolyte in english, and began slapping his +the vicomte merely shrugged his shoulders. pierre looked solemnly at his +audience over his spectacles and continued. +“i say so,” he continued desperately, “because the bourbons fled +from the revolution leaving the people to anarchy, and napoleon alone +understood the revolution and quelled it, and so for the general good, +he could not stop short for the sake of one man’s life.” +“won’t you come over to the other table?” suggested anna +but pierre continued his speech without heeding her. +“no,” cried he, becoming more and more eager, “napoleon is great +because he rose superior to the revolution, suppressed its abuses, +preserved all that was good in it—equality of citizenship and freedom +of speech and of the press—and only for that reason did he obtain +“yes, if having obtained power, without availing himself of it to +commit murder he had restored it to the rightful king, i should have +“he could not do that. the people only gave him power that he might +rid them of the bourbons and because they saw that he was a great +man. the revolution was a grand thing!” continued monsieur pierre, +betraying by this desperate and provocative proposition his extreme +youth and his wish to express all that was in his mind. +“what? revolution and regicide a grand thing?... well, after that... +but won’t you come to this other table?” repeated anna pávlovna. +“rousseau’s contrat social,” said the vicomte with a tolerant +“i am not speaking of regicide, i am speaking about ideas.” +“yes: ideas of robbery, murder, and regicide,” again interjected an +“those were extremes, no doubt, but they are not what is most +important. what is important are the rights of man, emancipation from +prejudices, and equality of citizenship, and all these ideas napoleon +“liberty and equality,” said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at +last deciding seriously to prove to this youth how foolish his words +were, “high-sounding words which have long been discredited. who does +not love liberty and equality? even our saviour preached liberty and +equality. have people since the revolution become happier? on the +contrary. we wanted liberty, but buonaparte has destroyed it.” +prince andrew kept looking with an amused smile from pierre to the +vicomte and from the vicomte to their hostess. in the first moment of +pierre’s outburst anna pávlovna, despite her social experience, was +horror-struck. but when she saw that pierre’s sacrilegious words +had not exasperated the vicomte, and had convinced herself that it was +impossible to stop him, she rallied her forces and joined the vicomte in +“but, my dear monsieur pierre,” said she, “how do you explain the +fact of a great man executing a duc—or even an ordinary man who—is +“i should like,” said the vicomte, “to ask how monsieur explains +the 18th brumaire; was not that an imposture? it was a swindle, and not +at all like the conduct of a great man!” +“and the prisoners he killed in africa? that was horrible!” said the +little princess, shrugging her shoulders. +“he’s a low fellow, say what you will,” remarked prince hippolyte. +pierre, not knowing whom to answer, looked at them all and smiled. his +smile was unlike the half-smile of other people. when he smiled, +his grave, even rather gloomy, look was instantaneously replaced by +another—a childlike, kindly, even rather silly look, which seemed to +the vicomte who was meeting him for the first time saw clearly that +this young jacobin was not so terrible as his words suggested. all were +“how do you expect him to answer you all at once?” said prince +andrew. “besides, in the actions of a statesman one has to distinguish +between his acts as a private person, as a general, and as an emperor. +“yes, yes, of course!” pierre chimed in, pleased at the arrival of +“one must admit,” continued prince andrew, “that napoleon as a man +was great on the bridge of arcola, and in the hospital at jaffa where he +gave his hand to the plague-stricken; but ... but there are other acts +which it is difficult to justify.” +prince andrew, who had evidently wished to tone down the awkwardness of +pierre’s remarks, rose and made a sign to his wife that it was time to +suddenly prince hippolyte started up making signs to everyone to attend, +and asking them all to be seated began: +“i was told a charming moscow story today and must treat you to it. +excuse me, vicomte—i must tell it in russian or the point will be +lost....” and prince hippolyte began to tell his story in such russian +as a frenchman would speak after spending about a year in russia. +everyone waited, so emphatically and eagerly did he demand their +“there is in moscow a lady, une dame, and she is very stingy. she must +have two footmen behind her carriage, and very big ones. that was her +taste. and she had a lady’s maid, also big. she said....” +here prince hippolyte paused, evidently collecting his ideas with +“she said.... oh yes! she said, ‘girl,’ to the maid, ‘put on a +livery, get up behind the carriage, and come with me while i make some +here prince hippolyte spluttered and burst out laughing long before his +audience, which produced an effect unfavorable to the narrator. several +persons, among them the elderly lady and anna pávlovna, did however +“she went. suddenly there was a great wind. the girl lost her hat and +her long hair came down....” here he could contain himself no +longer and went on, between gasps of laughter: “and the whole world +and so the anecdote ended. though it was unintelligible why he had told +it, or why it had to be told in russian, still anna pávlovna and the +others appreciated prince hippolyte’s social tact in so agreeably +ending pierre’s unpleasant and unamiable outburst. after the anecdote +the conversation broke up into insignificant small talk about the last +and next balls, about theatricals, and who would meet whom, and when and +having thanked anna pávlovna for her charming soiree, the guests began +pierre was ungainly. stout, about the average height, broad, with huge +red hands; he did not know, as the saying is, how to enter a drawing +room and still less how to leave one; that is, how to say something +particularly agreeable before going away. besides this he was +absent-minded. when he rose to go, he took up instead of his own, the +general’s three-cornered hat, and held it, pulling at the plume, +till the general asked him to restore it. all his absent-mindedness and +inability to enter a room and converse in it was, however, redeemed by +his kindly, simple, and modest expression. anna pávlovna turned toward +him and, with a christian mildness that expressed forgiveness of his +indiscretion, nodded and said: “i hope to see you again, but i also +hope you will change your opinions, my dear monsieur pierre.” +when she said this, he did not reply and only bowed, but again everybody +saw his smile, which said nothing, unless perhaps, “opinions are +opinions, but you see what a capital, good-natured fellow i am.” and +prince andrew had gone out into the hall, and, turning his shoulders +to the footman who was helping him on with his cloak, listened +indifferently to his wife’s chatter with prince hippolyte who had also +come into the hall. prince hippolyte stood close to the pretty, pregnant +princess, and stared fixedly at her through his eyeglass. +“go in, annette, or you will catch cold,” said the little princess, +taking leave of anna pávlovna. “it is settled,” she added in a low +anna pávlovna had already managed to speak to lise about the match she +contemplated between anatole and the little princess’ sister-in-law. +“i rely on you, my dear,” said anna pávlovna, also in a low tone. +“write to her and let me know how her father looks at the matter. au +prince hippolyte approached the little princess and, bending his face +two footmen, the princess’ and his own, stood holding a shawl and +a cloak, waiting for the conversation to finish. they listened to +the french sentences which to them were meaningless, with an air of +understanding but not wishing to appear to do so. the princess as usual +spoke smilingly and listened with a laugh. +“i am very glad i did not go to the ambassador’s,” said prince +hippolyte “—so dull—. it has been a delightful evening, has it +“they say the ball will be very good,” replied the princess, drawing +up her downy little lip. “all the pretty women in society will be +“not all, for you will not be there; not all,” said prince hippolyte +smiling joyfully; and snatching the shawl from the footman, whom he +even pushed aside, he began wrapping it round the princess. either from +awkwardness or intentionally (no one could have said which) after the +shawl had been adjusted he kept his arm around her for a long time, as +still smiling, she gracefully moved away, turning and glancing at her +husband. prince andrew’s eyes were closed, so weary and sleepy did he +“are you ready?” he asked his wife, looking past her. +prince hippolyte hurriedly put on his cloak, which in the latest fashion +reached to his very heels, and, stumbling in it, ran out into the porch +following the princess, whom a footman was helping into the carriage. +“princesse, au revoir,” cried he, stumbling with his tongue as well +the princess, picking up her dress, was taking her seat in the dark +carriage, her husband was adjusting his saber; prince hippolyte, under +“allow me, sir,” said prince andrew in russian in a cold, +disagreeable tone to prince hippolyte who was blocking his path. +“i am expecting you, pierre,” said the same voice, but gently and +the postilion started, the carriage wheels rattled. prince hippolyte +laughed spasmodically as he stood in the porch waiting for the vicomte +“well, mon cher,” said the vicomte, having seated himself beside +hippolyte in the carriage, “your little princess is very nice, very +nice indeed, quite french,” and he kissed the tips of his fingers. +hippolyte burst out laughing. +“do you know, you are a terrible chap for all your innocent airs,” +continued the vicomte. “i pity the poor husband, that little officer +who gives himself the airs of a monarch.” +hippolyte spluttered again, and amid his laughter said, “and you were +saying that the russian ladies are not equal to the french? one has to +pierre reaching the house first went into prince andrew’s study like +one quite at home, and from habit immediately lay down on the sofa, took +from the shelf the first book that came to his hand (it was caesar’s +commentaries), and resting on his elbow, began reading it in the middle. +said prince andrew, as he entered the study, rubbing his small white +pierre turned his whole body, making the sofa creak. he lifted his eager +face to prince andrew, smiled, and waved his hand. +“that abbé is very interesting but he does not see the thing in the +right light.... in my opinion perpetual peace is possible but—i do not +know how to express it ... not by a balance of political power....” +it was evident that prince andrew was not interested in such abstract +“one can’t everywhere say all one thinks, mon cher. well, have +you at last decided on anything? are you going to be a guardsman or a +diplomatist?” asked prince andrew after a momentary silence. +pierre sat up on the sofa, with his legs tucked under him. +“really, i don’t yet know. i don’t like either the one or the +“but you must decide on something! your father expects it.” +pierre at the age of ten had been sent abroad with an abbé as tutor, +and had remained away till he was twenty. when he returned to moscow +his father dismissed the abbé and said to the young man, “now go +to petersburg, look round, and choose your profession. i will agree to +anything. here is a letter to prince vasíli, and here is money. write +to me all about it, and i will help you in everything.” pierre had +already been choosing a career for three months, and had not decided +on anything. it was about this choice that prince andrew was speaking. +“but he must be a freemason,” said he, referring to the abbé whom +“that is all nonsense.” prince andrew again interrupted him, “let +us talk business. have you been to the horse guards?” +“no, i have not; but this is what i have been thinking and wanted +to tell you. there is a war now against napoleon. if it were a war for +freedom i could understand it and should be the first to enter the army; +but to help england and austria against the greatest man in the world is +prince andrew only shrugged his shoulders at pierre’s childish words. +he put on the air of one who finds it impossible to reply to such +nonsense, but it would in fact have been difficult to give any other +answer than the one prince andrew gave to this naïve question. +“if no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no +“very likely it would be splendid, but it will never come about....” +“well, why are you going to the war?” asked pierre. +“what for? i don’t know. i must. besides that i am going....” he +paused. “i am going because the life i am leading here does not suit +the rustle of a woman’s dress was heard in the next room. prince +andrew shook himself as if waking up, and his face assumed the look it +had had in anna pávlovna’s drawing room. pierre removed his feet from +the sofa. the princess came in. she had changed her gown for a house +dress as fresh and elegant as the other. prince andrew rose and politely +“how is it,” she began, as usual in french, settling down briskly +and fussily in the easy chair, “how is it annette never got married? +how stupid you men all are not to have married her! excuse me for saying +so, but you have no sense about women. what an argumentative fellow you +“and i am still arguing with your husband. i can’t understand why he +wants to go to the war,” replied pierre, addressing the princess +with none of the embarrassment so commonly shown by young men in their +the princess started. evidently pierre’s words touched her to the +“ah, that is just what i tell him!” said she. “i don’t +understand it; i don’t in the least understand why men can’t live +without wars. how is it that we women don’t want anything of the kind, +don’t need it? now you shall judge between us. i always tell him: here +he is uncle’s aide-de-camp, a most brilliant position. he is so +well known, so much appreciated by everyone. the other day at the +apráksins’ i heard a lady asking, ‘is that the famous prince +andrew?’ i did indeed.” she laughed. “he is so well received +everywhere. he might easily become aide-de-camp to the emperor. you know +the emperor spoke to him most graciously. annette and i were speaking of +pierre looked at his friend and, noticing that he did not like the +“oh, don’t speak of his going, don’t! i won’t hear it spoken +of,” said the princess in the same petulantly playful tone in which +she had spoken to hippolyte in the drawing room and which was so plainly +ill-suited to the family circle of which pierre was almost a member. +“today when i remembered that all these delightful associations +must be broken off ... and then you know, andré...” (she looked +significantly at her husband) “i’m afraid, i’m afraid!” she +whispered, and a shudder ran down her back. +her husband looked at her as if surprised to notice that someone besides +pierre and himself was in the room, and addressed her in a tone of +“what is it you are afraid of, lise? i don’t understand,” said he. +“there, what egotists men all are: all, all egotists! just for a whim +of his own, goodness only knows why, he leaves me and locks me up alone +“with my father and sister, remember,” said prince andrew gently. +“alone all the same, without my friends.... and he expects me not to +her tone was now querulous and her lip drawn up, giving her not a +joyful, but an animal, squirrel-like expression. she paused as if she +felt it indecorous to speak of her pregnancy before pierre, though the +“i still can’t understand what you are afraid of,” said prince +andrew slowly, not taking his eyes off his wife. +the princess blushed, and raised her arms with a gesture of despair. +“no, andrew, i must say you have changed. oh, how you have....” +“your doctor tells you to go to bed earlier,” said prince andrew. +the princess said nothing, but suddenly her short downy lip quivered. +prince andrew rose, shrugged his shoulders, and walked about the room. +pierre looked over his spectacles with naïve surprise, now at him and +now at her, moved as if about to rise too, but changed his mind. +“why should i mind monsieur pierre being here?” exclaimed the little +princess suddenly, her pretty face all at once distorted by a tearful +grimace. “i have long wanted to ask you, andrew, why you have changed +so to me? what have i done to you? you are going to the war and have no +“lise!” was all prince andrew said. but that one word expressed +an entreaty, a threat, and above all conviction that she would herself +regret her words. but she went on hurriedly: +“you treat me like an invalid or a child. i see it all! did you behave +“lise, i beg you to desist,” said prince andrew still more +pierre, who had been growing more and more agitated as he listened to +all this, rose and approached the princess. he seemed unable to bear the +“calm yourself, princess! it seems so to you because.... i assure you +i myself have experienced ... and so ... because ... no, excuse me! +an outsider is out of place here.... no, don’t distress yourself.... +“no, wait, pierre! the princess is too kind to wish to deprive me of +the pleasure of spending the evening with you.” +“no, he thinks only of himself,” muttered the princess without +“lise!” said prince andrew dryly, raising his voice to the pitch +which indicates that patience is exhausted. +suddenly the angry, squirrel-like expression of the princess’ pretty +face changed into a winning and piteous look of fear. her beautiful eyes +glanced askance at her husband’s face, and her own assumed the timid, +deprecating expression of a dog when it rapidly but feebly wags its +“mon dieu, mon dieu!” she muttered, and lifting her dress with one +hand she went up to her husband and kissed him on the forehead. +“good night, lise,” said he, rising and courteously kissing her hand +as he would have done to a stranger. +the friends were silent. neither cared to begin talking. pierre +continually glanced at prince andrew; prince andrew rubbed his forehead +“let us go and have supper,” he said with a sigh, going to the door. +they entered the elegant, newly decorated, and luxurious dining room. +everything from the table napkins to the silver, china, and glass bore +that imprint of newness found in the households of the newly married. +halfway through supper prince andrew leaned his elbows on the table and, +with a look of nervous agitation such as pierre had never before seen on +his face, began to talk—as one who has long had something on his mind +and suddenly determines to speak out. +“never, never marry, my dear fellow! that’s my advice: never marry +till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are capable of, +and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen +her plainly as she is, or else you will make a cruel and irrevocable +mistake. marry when you are old and good for nothing—or all that is +good and noble in you will be lost. it will all be wasted on trifles. +yes! yes! yes! don’t look at me with such surprise. if you marry +expecting anything from yourself in the future, you will feel at every +step that for you all is ended, all is closed except the drawing +room, where you will be ranged side by side with a court lackey and an +idiot!... but what’s the good?...” and he waved his arm. +pierre took off his spectacles, which made his face seem different and +the good-natured expression still more apparent, and gazed at his friend +“my wife,” continued prince andrew, “is an excellent woman, one +of those rare women with whom a man’s honor is safe; but, o god, what +would i not give now to be unmarried! you are the first and only one to +as he said this prince andrew was less than ever like that bolkónski +who had lolled in anna pávlovna’s easy chairs and with half-closed +eyes had uttered french phrases between his teeth. every muscle of his +thin face was now quivering with nervous excitement; his eyes, in which +the fire of life had seemed extinguished, now flashed with brilliant +light. it was evident that the more lifeless he seemed at ordinary +times, the more impassioned he became in these moments of almost morbid +“you don’t understand why i say this,” he continued, “but it is +the whole story of life. you talk of bonaparte and his career,” said +he (though pierre had not mentioned bonaparte), “but bonaparte when +he worked went step by step toward his goal. he was free, he had nothing +but his aim to consider, and he reached it. but tie yourself up with +a woman and, like a chained convict, you lose all freedom! and all you +have of hope and strength merely weighs you down and torments you with +regret. drawing rooms, gossip, balls, vanity, and triviality—these are +the enchanted circle i cannot escape from. i am now going to the war, +the greatest war there ever was, and i know nothing and am fit for +nothing. i am very amiable and have a caustic wit,” continued prince +andrew, “and at anna pávlovna’s they listen to me. and that stupid +set without whom my wife cannot exist, and those women.... if you only +knew what those society women are, and women in general! my father is +right. selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that’s what +women are when you see them in their true colors! when you meet them +in society it seems as if there were something in them, but there’s +nothing, nothing, nothing! no, don’t marry, my dear fellow; don’t +“it seems funny to me,” said pierre, “that you, you should +consider yourself incapable and your life a spoiled life. you have +everything before you, everything. and you....” +he did not finish his sentence, but his tone showed how highly he +thought of his friend and how much he expected of him in the future. +“how can he talk like that?” thought pierre. he considered his +friend a model of perfection because prince andrew possessed in the +highest degree just the very qualities pierre lacked, and which might +be best described as strength of will. pierre was always astonished at +prince andrew’s calm manner of treating everybody, his extraordinary +memory, his extensive reading (he had read everything, knew everything, +and had an opinion about everything), but above all at his capacity for +work and study. and if pierre was often struck by andrew’s lack +of capacity for philosophical meditation (to which he himself was +particularly addicted), he regarded even this not as a defect but as a +even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise +and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels +that they may run smoothly. +“my part is played out,” said prince andrew. “what’s the use of +talking about me? let us talk about you,” he added after a silence, +that smile was immediately reflected on pierre’s face. +“but what is there to say about me?” said pierre, his face relaxing +into a careless, merry smile. “what am i? an illegitimate son!” +he suddenly blushed crimson, and it was plain that he had made a great +effort to say this. “without a name and without means... and it +really...” but he did not say what “it really” was. “for the +present i am free and am all right. only i haven’t the least idea what +i am to do; i wanted to consult you seriously.” +prince andrew looked kindly at him, yet his glance—friendly and +affectionate as it was—expressed a sense of his own superiority. +“i am fond of you, especially as you are the one live man among our +whole set. yes, you’re all right! choose what you will; it’s all the +same. you’ll be all right anywhere. but look here: give up visiting +those kurágins and leading that sort of life. it suits you so +badly—all this debauchery, dissipation, and the rest of it!” +“what would you have, my dear fellow?” answered pierre, shrugging +his shoulders. “women, my dear fellow; women!” +“i don’t understand it,” replied prince andrew. “women who are +comme il faut, that’s a different matter; but the kurágins’ set of +women, ‘women and wine’ i don’t understand!” +pierre was staying at prince vasíli kurágin’s and sharing the +dissipated life of his son anatole, the son whom they were planning to +reform by marrying him to prince andrew’s sister. +“do you know?” said pierre, as if suddenly struck by a happy +thought, “seriously, i have long been thinking of it.... leading such +a life i can’t decide or think properly about anything. one’s head +aches, and one spends all one’s money. he asked me for tonight, but i +“you give me your word of honor not to go?” +it was past one o’clock when pierre left his friend. it was a +cloudless, northern, summer night. pierre took an open cab intending +to drive straight home. but the nearer he drew to the house the more he +felt the impossibility of going to sleep on such a night. it was light +enough to see a long way in the deserted street and it seemed more like +morning or evening than night. on the way pierre remembered that anatole +kurágin was expecting the usual set for cards that evening, after which +there was generally a drinking bout, finishing with visits of a kind +“i should like to go to kurágin’s,” thought he. +but he immediately recalled his promise to prince andrew not to go +there. then, as happens to people of weak character, he desired so +passionately once more to enjoy that dissipation he was so accustomed to +that he decided to go. the thought immediately occurred to him that his +promise to prince andrew was of no account, because before he gave it +he had already promised prince anatole to come to his gathering; +“besides,” thought he, “all such ‘words of honor’ are +conventional things with no definite meaning, especially if +one considers that by tomorrow one may be dead, or something so +extraordinary may happen to one that honor and dishonor will be all the +same!” pierre often indulged in reflections of this sort, nullifying +all his decisions and intentions. he went to kurágin’s. +reaching the large house near the horse guards’ barracks, in which +anatole lived, pierre entered the lighted porch, ascended the stairs, +and went in at the open door. there was no one in the anteroom; empty +bottles, cloaks, and overshoes were lying about; there was a smell of +alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance. +cards and supper were over, but the visitors had not yet dispersed. +pierre threw off his cloak and entered the first room, in which were the +remains of supper. a footman, thinking no one saw him, was drinking on +the sly what was left in the glasses. from the third room came sounds of +laughter, the shouting of familiar voices, the growling of a bear, and +general commotion. some eight or nine young men were crowding anxiously +round an open window. three others were romping with a young bear, one +pulling him by the chain and trying to set him at the others. +“i bet on dólokhov!” cried a third. “kurágin, you part our +“there, leave bruin alone; here’s a bet on.” +“at one draught, or he loses!” shouted a fourth. +“jacob, bring a bottle!” shouted the host, a tall, handsome fellow +who stood in the midst of the group, without a coat, and with his fine +linen shirt unfastened in front. “wait a bit, you fellows.... here is +pétya! good man!” cried he, addressing pierre. +another voice, from a man of medium height with clear blue eyes, +particularly striking among all these drunken voices by its sober +ring, cried from the window: “come here; part the bets!” this was +dólokhov, an officer of the semënov regiment, a notorious gambler and +duelist, who was living with anatole. pierre smiled, looking about him +“i don’t understand. what’s it all about?” +“wait a bit, he is not drunk yet! a bottle here,” said anatole, and +taking a glass from the table he went up to pierre. +pierre drank one glass after another, looking from under his brows at +the tipsy guests who were again crowding round the window, and listening +to their chatter. anatole kept on refilling pierre’s glass while +explaining that dólokhov was betting with stevens, an english naval +officer, that he would drink a bottle of rum sitting on the outer ledge +of the third floor window with his legs hanging out. +“go on, you must drink it all,” said anatole, giving pierre the last +“no, i won’t,” said pierre, pushing anatole aside, and he went up +dólokhov was holding the englishman’s hand and clearly and distinctly +repeating the terms of the bet, addressing himself particularly to +dólokhov was of medium height, with curly hair and light-blue eyes. he +was about twenty-five. like all infantry officers he wore no mustache, +so that his mouth, the most striking feature of his face, was clearly +seen. the lines of that mouth were remarkably finely curved. the middle +of the upper lip formed a sharp wedge and closed firmly on the firm +lower one, and something like two distinct smiles played continually +round the two corners of the mouth; this, together with the resolute, +insolent intelligence of his eyes, produced an effect which made it +impossible not to notice his face. dólokhov was a man of small means +and no connections. yet, though anatole spent tens of thousands of +rubles, dólokhov lived with him and had placed himself on such a +footing that all who knew them, including anatole himself, respected him +more than they did anatole. dólokhov could play all games and nearly +always won. however much he drank, he never lost his clearheadedness. +both kurágin and dólokhov were at that time notorious among the rakes +and scapegraces of petersburg. +the bottle of rum was brought. the window frame which prevented anyone +from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who +were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of +anatole with his swaggering air strode up to the window. he wanted to +smash something. pushing away the footmen he tugged at the frame, but +“you have a try, hercules,” said he, turning to pierre. +pierre seized the crossbeam, tugged, and wrenched the oak frame out with +“take it right out, or they’ll think i’m holding on,” said +“is the englishman bragging?... eh? is it all right?” said anatole. +“first-rate,” said pierre, looking at dólokhov, who with a bottle +of rum in his hand was approaching the window, from which the light of +the sky, the dawn merging with the afterglow of sunset, was visible. +dólokhov, the bottle of rum still in his hand, jumped onto the window +sill. “listen!” cried he, standing there and addressing those in the +“i bet fifty imperials”—he spoke french that the englishman might +understand him, but he did not speak it very well—“i bet fifty +imperials ... or do you wish to make it a hundred?” added he, +“all right. fifty imperials ... that i will drink a whole bottle of +rum without taking it from my mouth, sitting outside the window on this +spot” (he stooped and pointed to the sloping ledge outside the window) +“and without holding on to anything. is that right?” +anatole turned to the englishman and taking him by one of the buttons +of his coat and looking down at him—the englishman was short—began +repeating the terms of the wager to him in english. +“wait!” cried dólokhov, hammering with the bottle on the window +sill to attract attention. “wait a bit, kurágin. listen! if +anyone else does the same, i will pay him a hundred imperials. do you +the englishman nodded, but gave no indication whether he intended to +accept this challenge or not. anatole did not release him, and though +he kept nodding to show that he understood, anatole went on translating +dólokhov’s words into english. a thin young lad, an hussar of the +life guards, who had been losing that evening, climbed on the window +sill, leaned over, and looked down. +“oh! oh! oh!” he muttered, looking down from the window at the +“shut up!” cried dólokhov, pushing him away from the window. the +lad jumped awkwardly back into the room, tripping over his spurs. +placing the bottle on the window sill where he could reach it easily, +dólokhov climbed carefully and slowly through the window and lowered +his legs. pressing against both sides of the window, he adjusted himself +on his seat, lowered his hands, moved a little to the right and then to +the left, and took up the bottle. anatole brought two candles and +placed them on the window sill, though it was already quite light. +dólokhov’s back in his white shirt, and his curly head, were lit +up from both sides. everyone crowded to the window, the englishman in +front. pierre stood smiling but silent. one man, older than the others +present, suddenly pushed forward with a scared and angry look and wanted +“i say, this is folly! he’ll be killed,” said this more sensible +“don’t touch him! you’ll startle him and then he’ll be killed. +dólokhov turned round and, again holding on with both hands, arranged +“if anyone comes meddling again,” said he, emitting the words +separately through his thin compressed lips, “i will throw him down +saying this he again turned round, dropped his hands, took the bottle +and lifted it to his lips, threw back his head, and raised his free hand +to balance himself. one of the footmen who had stooped to pick up some +broken glass remained in that position without taking his eyes from the +window and from dólokhov’s back. anatole stood erect with staring +eyes. the englishman looked on sideways, pursing up his lips. the man +who had wished to stop the affair ran to a corner of the room and threw +himself on a sofa with his face to the wall. pierre hid his face, from +which a faint smile forgot to fade though his features now expressed +horror and fear. all were still. pierre took his hands from his eyes. +dólokhov still sat in the same position, only his head was thrown +further back till his curly hair touched his shirt collar, and the hand +holding the bottle was lifted higher and higher and trembled with the +effort. the bottle was emptying perceptibly and rising still higher +and his head tilting yet further back. “why is it so long?” thought +pierre. it seemed to him that more than half an hour had elapsed. +suddenly dólokhov made a backward movement with his spine, and his arm +trembled nervously; this was sufficient to cause his whole body to slip +as he sat on the sloping ledge. as he began slipping down, his head and +arm wavered still more with the strain. one hand moved as if to clutch +the window sill, but refrained from touching it. pierre again covered +his eyes and thought he would never open them again. suddenly he was +aware of a stir all around. he looked up: dólokhov was standing on the +he threw the bottle to the englishman, who caught it neatly. dólokhov +“well done!... fine fellow!... there’s a bet for you!... devil take +the englishman took out his purse and began counting out the money. +dólokhov stood frowning and did not speak. pierre jumped upon the +“gentlemen, who wishes to bet with me? i’ll do the same thing!” +he suddenly cried. “even without a bet, there! tell them to bring me a +bottle. i’ll do it.... bring a bottle!” +“let him do it, let him do it,” said dólokhov, smiling. +“what next? have you gone mad?... no one would let you!... why, you go +giddy even on a staircase,” exclaimed several voices. +“i’ll drink it! let’s have a bottle of rum!” shouted pierre, +banging the table with a determined and drunken gesture and preparing to +they seized him by his arms; but he was so strong that everyone who +“no, you’ll never manage him that way,” said anatole. “wait a +bit and i’ll get round him.... listen! i’ll take your bet tomorrow, +but now we are all going to ——’s.” +“come on then,” cried pierre. “come on!... and we’ll take bruin +and he caught the bear, took it in his arms, lifted it from the ground, +and began dancing round the room with it. +prince vasíli kept the promise he had given to princess drubetskáya +who had spoken to him on behalf of her only son borís on the evening of +anna pávlovna’s soiree. the matter was mentioned to the emperor, an +exception made, and borís transferred into the regiment of semënov +guards with the rank of cornet. he received, however, no appointment +to kutúzov’s staff despite all anna mikháylovna’s endeavors and +entreaties. soon after anna pávlovna’s reception anna mikháylovna +returned to moscow and went straight to her rich relations, the +rostóvs, with whom she stayed when in the town and where her darling +bóry, who had only just entered a regiment of the line and was being +at once transferred to the guards as a cornet, had been educated from +childhood and lived for years at a time. the guards had already left +petersburg on the tenth of august, and her son, who had remained in +moscow for his equipment, was to join them on the march to radzivílov. +it was st. natalia’s day and the name day of two of the rostóvs—the +mother and the youngest daughter—both named nataly. ever since +the morning, carriages with six horses had been coming and going +continually, bringing visitors to the countess rostóva’s big house on +the povarskáya, so well known to all moscow. the countess herself and +her handsome eldest daughter were in the drawing room with the visitors +who came to congratulate, and who constantly succeeded one another in +the countess was a woman of about forty-five, with a thin oriental type +of face, evidently worn out with childbearing—she had had twelve. +a languor of motion and speech, resulting from weakness, gave her a +distinguished air which inspired respect. princess anna mikháylovna +drubetskáya, who as a member of the household was also seated in the +drawing room, helped to receive and entertain the visitors. the young +people were in one of the inner rooms, not considering it necessary to +take part in receiving the visitors. the count met the guests and saw +“i am very, very grateful to you, mon cher,” or “ma chère”—he +called everyone without exception and without the slightest variation +in his tone, “my dear,” whether they were above or below him in +rank—“i thank you for myself and for our two dear ones whose name +day we are keeping. but mind you come to dinner or i shall be offended, +ma chère! on behalf of the whole family i beg you to come, mon cher!” +these words he repeated to everyone without exception or variation, and +with the same expression on his full, cheerful, clean-shaven face, the +same firm pressure of the hand and the same quick, repeated bows. as +soon as he had seen a visitor off he returned to one of those who were +still in the drawing room, drew a chair toward him or her, and jauntily +spreading out his legs and putting his hands on his knees with the air +of a man who enjoys life and knows how to live, he swayed to and +fro with dignity, offered surmises about the weather, or touched on +questions of health, sometimes in russian and sometimes in very bad but +self-confident french; then again, like a man weary but unflinching in +the fulfillment of duty, he rose to see some visitors off and, stroking +his scanty gray hairs over his bald patch, also asked them to dinner. +sometimes on his way back from the anteroom he would pass through the +conservatory and pantry into the large marble dining hall, where tables +were being set out for eighty people; and looking at the footmen, who +were bringing in silver and china, moving tables, and unfolding damask +table linen, he would call dmítri vasílevich, a man of good family and +the manager of all his affairs, and while looking with pleasure at the +enormous table would say: “well, dmítri, you’ll see that things are +all as they should be? that’s right! the great thing is the serving, +that’s it.” and with a complacent sigh he would return to the +“márya lvóvna karágina and her daughter!” announced the +countess’ gigantic footman in his bass voice, entering the drawing +room. the countess reflected a moment and took a pinch from a gold +snuffbox with her husband’s portrait on it. +“i’m quite worn out by these callers. however, i’ll see her and +no more. she is so affected. ask her in,” she said to the footman in a +sad voice, as if saying: “very well, finish me off.” +a tall, stout, and proud-looking woman, with a round-faced smiling +daughter, entered the drawing room, their dresses rustling. +“dear countess, what an age... she has been laid up, poor child ... +at the razumóvski’s ball ... and countess apráksina ... i was +so delighted...” came the sounds of animated feminine voices, +interrupting one another and mingling with the rustling of dresses and +the scraping of chairs. then one of those conversations began which last +out until, at the first pause, the guests rise with a rustle of dresses +and say, “i am so delighted... mamma’s health... and countess +apráksina...” and then, again rustling, pass into the anteroom, put +on cloaks or mantles, and drive away. the conversation was on the chief +topic of the day: the illness of the wealthy and celebrated beau of +catherine’s day, count bezúkhov, and about his illegitimate son +pierre, the one who had behaved so improperly at anna pávlovna’s +“i am so sorry for the poor count,” said the visitor. “he is in +such bad health, and now this vexation about his son is enough to kill +“what is that?” asked the countess as if she did not know what the +visitor alluded to, though she had already heard about the cause of +count bezúkhov’s distress some fifteen times. +“that’s what comes of a modern education,” exclaimed the visitor. +“it seems that while he was abroad this young man was allowed to do +as he liked, now in petersburg i hear he has been doing such terrible +things that he has been expelled by the police.” +“he chose his friends badly,” interposed anna mikháylovna. +“prince vasíli’s son, he, and a certain dólokhov have, it is said, +been up to heaven only knows what! and they have had to suffer for it. +dólokhov has been degraded to the ranks and bezúkhov’s son sent +back to moscow. anatole kurágin’s father managed somehow to get his +son’s affair hushed up, but even he was ordered out of petersburg.” +“but what have they been up to?” asked the countess. +“they are regular brigands, especially dólokhov,” replied the +visitor. “he is a son of márya ivánovna dólokhova, such a worthy +woman, but there, just fancy! those three got hold of a bear somewhere, +put it in a carriage, and set off with it to visit some actresses! the +police tried to interfere, and what did the young men do? they tied +a policeman and the bear back to back and put the bear into the moyka +canal. and there was the bear swimming about with the policeman on his +“what a nice figure the policeman must have cut, my dear!” shouted +yet the ladies themselves could not help laughing. +“it was all they could do to rescue the poor man,” continued the +visitor. “and to think it is cyril vladímirovich bezúkhov’s son +who amuses himself in this sensible manner! and he was said to be so +well educated and clever. this is all that his foreign education has +done for him! i hope that here in moscow no one will receive him, in +spite of his money. they wanted to introduce him to me, but i quite +declined: i have my daughters to consider.” +“why do you say this young man is so rich?” asked the countess, +turning away from the girls, who at once assumed an air of inattention. +“his children are all illegitimate. i think pierre also is +“i should think he has a score of them.” +princess anna mikháylovna intervened in the conversation, evidently +wishing to show her connections and knowledge of what went on in +“the fact of the matter is,” said she significantly, and also in a +half whisper, “everyone knows count cyril’s reputation.... he has +lost count of his children, but this pierre was his favorite.” +“how handsome the old man still was only a year ago!” remarked the +countess. “i have never seen a handsomer man.” +“he is very much altered now,” said anna mikháylovna. “well, as +i was saying, prince vasíli is the next heir through his wife, but the +count is very fond of pierre, looked after his education, and wrote to +the emperor about him; so that in the case of his death—and he is +so ill that he may die at any moment, and dr. lorrain has come from +petersburg—no one knows who will inherit his immense fortune, pierre +or prince vasíli. forty thousand serfs and millions of rubles! i know +it all very well for prince vasíli told me himself. besides, cyril +vladímirovich is my mother’s second cousin. he’s also my bóry’s +godfather,” she added, as if she attached no importance at all to the +“prince vasíli arrived in moscow yesterday. i hear he has come on +“yes, but between ourselves,” said the princess, “that is a +pretext. the fact is he has come to see count cyril vladímirovich, +“but do you know, my dear, that was a capital joke,” said the count; +and seeing that the elder visitor was not listening, he turned to the +young ladies. “i can just imagine what a funny figure that policeman +and as he waved his arms to impersonate the policeman, his portly form +again shook with a deep ringing laugh, the laugh of one who always eats +well and, in particular, drinks well. “so do come and dine with us!” +silence ensued. the countess looked at her callers, smiling affably, +but not concealing the fact that she would not be distressed if they +now rose and took their leave. the visitor’s daughter was already +smoothing down her dress with an inquiring look at her mother, when +suddenly from the next room were heard the footsteps of boys and girls +running to the door and the noise of a chair falling over, and a girl +of thirteen, hiding something in the folds of her short muslin frock, +darted in and stopped short in the middle of the room. it was evident +that she had not intended her flight to bring her so far. behind her in +the doorway appeared a student with a crimson coat collar, an officer +of the guards, a girl of fifteen, and a plump rosy-faced boy in a short +the count jumped up and, swaying from side to side, spread his arms wide +and threw them round the little girl who had run in. +“ah, here she is!” he exclaimed laughing. “my pet, whose name day +“ma chère, there is a time for everything,” said the countess with +feigned severity. “you spoil her, ilyá,” she added, turning to her +“how do you do, my dear? i wish you many happy returns of your name +day,” said the visitor. “what a charming child,” she added, +this black-eyed, wide-mouthed girl, not pretty but full of life—with +childish bare shoulders which after her run heaved and shook her +bodice, with black curls tossed backward, thin bare arms, little legs +in lace-frilled drawers, and feet in low slippers—was just at that +charming age when a girl is no longer a child, though the child is not +yet a young woman. escaping from her father she ran to hide her flushed +face in the lace of her mother’s mantilla—not paying the least +attention to her severe remark—and began to laugh. she laughed, and in +fragmentary sentences tried to explain about a doll which she produced +“do you see?... my doll... mimi... you see...” was all natásha +managed to utter (to her everything seemed funny). she leaned against +her mother and burst into such a loud, ringing fit of laughter that even +the prim visitor could not help joining in. +“now then, go away and take your monstrosity with you,” said the +mother, pushing away her daughter with pretended sternness, and turning +to the visitor she added: “she is my youngest girl.” +natásha, raising her face for a moment from her mother’s mantilla, +glanced up at her through tears of laughter, and again hid her face. +the visitor, compelled to look on at this family scene, thought it +“tell me, my dear,” said she to natásha, “is mimi a relation of +natásha did not like the visitor’s tone of condescension to childish +things. she did not reply, but looked at her seriously. +meanwhile the younger generation: borís, the officer, anna +mikháylovna’s son; nicholas, the undergraduate, the count’s eldest +son; sónya, the count’s fifteen-year-old niece, and little pétya, +his youngest boy, had all settled down in the drawing room and were +obviously trying to restrain within the bounds of decorum the excitement +and mirth that shone in all their faces. evidently in the back rooms, +from which they had dashed out so impetuously, the conversation had +been more amusing than the drawing room talk of society scandals, the +weather, and countess apráksina. now and then they glanced at one +another, hardly able to suppress their laughter. +the two young men, the student and the officer, friends from childhood, +were of the same age and both handsome fellows, though not alike. borís +was tall and fair, and his calm and handsome face had regular, delicate +features. nicholas was short with curly hair and an open expression. +dark hairs were already showing on his upper lip, and his whole face +expressed impetuosity and enthusiasm. nicholas blushed when he entered +the drawing room. he evidently tried to find something to say, but +failed. borís on the contrary at once found his footing, and related +quietly and humorously how he had known that doll mimi when she was +still quite a young lady, before her nose was broken; how she had aged +during the five years he had known her, and how her head had cracked +right across the skull. having said this he glanced at natásha. +she turned away from him and glanced at her younger brother, who was +screwing up his eyes and shaking with suppressed laughter, and unable +to control herself any longer, she jumped up and rushed from the room as +fast as her nimble little feet would carry her. borís did not laugh. +“you were meaning to go out, weren’t you, mamma? do you want the +carriage?” he asked his mother with a smile. +“yes, yes, go and tell them to get it ready,” she answered, +borís quietly left the room and went in search of natásha. the plump +boy ran after them angrily, as if vexed that their program had been +the only young people remaining in the drawing room, not counting the +young lady visitor and the countess’ eldest daughter (who was four +years older than her sister and behaved already like a grown-up person), +were nicholas and sónya, the niece. sónya was a slender little +brunette with a tender look in her eyes which were veiled by long +lashes, thick black plaits coiling twice round her head, and a tawny +tint in her complexion and especially in the color of her slender but +graceful and muscular arms and neck. by the grace of her movements, +by the softness and flexibility of her small limbs, and by a certain +coyness and reserve of manner, she reminded one of a pretty, half-grown +kitten which promises to become a beautiful little cat. she evidently +considered it proper to show an interest in the general conversation by +smiling, but in spite of herself her eyes under their thick long lashes +watched her cousin who was going to join the army, with such passionate +girlish adoration that her smile could not for a single instant impose +upon anyone, and it was clear that the kitten had settled down only to +spring up with more energy and again play with her cousin as soon as +they too could, like natásha and borís, escape from the drawing room. +“ah yes, my dear,” said the count, addressing the visitor and +pointing to nicholas, “his friend borís has become an officer, and +so for friendship’s sake he is leaving the university and me, his +old father, and entering the military service, my dear. and there was a +place and everything waiting for him in the archives department! isn’t +that friendship?” remarked the count in an inquiring tone. +“but they say that war has been declared,” replied the visitor. +“they’ve been saying so a long while,” said the count, “and +they’ll say so again and again, and that will be the end of it. my +dear, there’s friendship for you,” he repeated. “he’s joining +the visitor, not knowing what to say, shook her head. +“it’s not at all from friendship,” declared nicholas, flaring +up and turning away as if from a shameful aspersion. “it is not from +friendship at all; i simply feel that the army is my vocation.” +he glanced at his cousin and the young lady visitor; and they were both +regarding him with a smile of approbation. +“schubert, the colonel of the pávlograd hussars, is dining with us +today. he has been here on leave and is taking nicholas back with him. +it can’t be helped!” said the count, shrugging his shoulders and +speaking playfully of a matter that evidently distressed him. +“i have already told you, papa,” said his son, “that if you +don’t wish to let me go, i’ll stay. but i know i am no use anywhere +except in the army; i am not a diplomat or a government clerk.—i +don’t know how to hide what i feel.” as he spoke he kept glancing +with the flirtatiousness of a handsome youth at sónya and the young +the little kitten, feasting her eyes on him, seemed ready at any moment +to start her gambols again and display her kittenish nature. +“all right, all right!” said the old count. “he always flares up! +this buonaparte has turned all their heads; they all think of how he +rose from an ensign and became emperor. well, well, god grant it,” he +added, not noticing his visitor’s sarcastic smile. +the elders began talking about bonaparte. julie karágina turned to +“what a pity you weren’t at the arkhárovs’ on thursday. it was so +dull without you,” said she, giving him a tender smile. +the young man, flattered, sat down nearer to her with a coquettish +smile, and engaged the smiling julie in a confidential conversation +without at all noticing that his involuntary smile had stabbed the heart +of sónya, who blushed and smiled unnaturally. in the midst of his talk +he glanced round at her. she gave him a passionately angry glance, and +hardly able to restrain her tears and maintain the artificial smile +on her lips, she got up and left the room. all nicholas’ animation +vanished. he waited for the first pause in the conversation, and then +with a distressed face left the room to find sónya. +“how plainly all these young people wear their hearts on their +sleeves!” said anna mikháylovna, pointing to nicholas as he went out. +“cousinage—dangereux voisinage,” * she added. + * cousinhood is a dangerous neighborhood. +“yes,” said the countess when the brightness these young people had +brought into the room had vanished; and as if answering a question no +one had put but which was always in her mind, “and how much suffering, +how much anxiety one has had to go through that we might rejoice in +them now! and yet really the anxiety is greater now than the joy. one is +always, always anxious! especially just at this age, so dangerous both +“it all depends on the bringing up,” remarked the visitor. +“yes, you’re quite right,” continued the countess. “till now i +have always, thank god, been my children’s friend and had their full +confidence,” said she, repeating the mistake of so many parents who +imagine that their children have no secrets from them. “i know i shall +always be my daughters’ first confidante, and that if nicholas, with +his impulsive nature, does get into mischief (a boy can’t help it), he +will all the same never be like those petersburg young men.” +“yes, they are splendid, splendid youngsters,” chimed in the count, +who always solved questions that seemed to him perplexing by deciding +that everything was splendid. “just fancy: wants to be an hussar. +“what a charming creature your younger girl is,” said the visitor; +“yes, a regular volcano,” said the count. “takes after me! and +what a voice she has; though she’s my daughter, i tell the truth +when i say she’ll be a singer, a second salomoni! we have engaged an +“isn’t she too young? i have heard that it harms the voice to train +“oh no, not at all too young!” replied the count. “why, our +mothers used to be married at twelve or thirteen.” +“and she’s in love with borís already. just fancy!” said the +countess with a gentle smile, looking at borís and went on, evidently +concerned with a thought that always occupied her: “now you see if i +were to be severe with her and to forbid it ... goodness knows what they +might be up to on the sly” (she meant that they would be kissing), +“but as it is, i know every word she utters. she will come running to +me of her own accord in the evening and tell me everything. perhaps i +spoil her, but really that seems the best plan. with her elder sister i +“yes, i was brought up quite differently,” remarked the handsome +elder daughter, countess véra, with a smile. +but the smile did not enhance véra’s beauty as smiles generally do; +on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, +expression. véra was good-looking, not at all stupid, quick at +learning, was well brought up, and had a pleasant voice; what she said +was true and appropriate, yet, strange to say, everyone—the visitors +and countess alike—turned to look at her as if wondering why she had +said it, and they all felt awkward. +“people are always too clever with their eldest children and try to +“what’s the good of denying it, my dear? our dear countess was too +clever with véra,” said the count. “well, what of that? she’s +turned out splendidly all the same,” he added, winking at véra. +the guests got up and took their leave, promising to return to dinner. +“what manners! i thought they would never go,” said the countess, +when she had seen her guests out. +when natásha ran out of the drawing room she only went as far as the +conservatory. there she paused and stood listening to the conversation +in the drawing room, waiting for borís to come out. she was already +growing impatient, and stamped her foot, ready to cry at his not coming +at once, when she heard the young man’s discreet steps approaching +neither quickly nor slowly. at this natásha dashed swiftly among the +borís paused in the middle of the room, looked round, brushed a little +dust from the sleeve of his uniform, and going up to a mirror examined +his handsome face. natásha, very still, peered out from her ambush, +waiting to see what he would do. he stood a little while before the +glass, smiled, and walked toward the other door. natásha was about to +call him but changed her mind. “let him look for me,” thought she. +hardly had borís gone than sónya, flushed, in tears, and muttering +angrily, came in at the other door. natásha checked her first impulse +to run out to her, and remained in her hiding place, watching—as +under an invisible cap—to see what went on in the world. she was +experiencing a new and peculiar pleasure. sónya, muttering to herself, +kept looking round toward the drawing room door. it opened and nicholas +“sónya, what is the matter with you? how can you?” said he, running +“it’s nothing, nothing; leave me alone!” sobbed sónya. +“well, if you do, so much the better, and you can go back to her!” +“só-o-onya! look here! how can you torture me and yourself like that, +for a mere fancy?” said nicholas taking her hand. +sónya did not pull it away, and left off crying. natásha, not stirring +and scarcely breathing, watched from her ambush with sparkling eyes. +“sónya! what is anyone in the world to me? you alone are +everything!” said nicholas. “and i will prove it to you.” +“i don’t like you to talk like that.” +“well, then, i won’t; only forgive me, sónya!” he drew her to him +“oh, how nice,” thought natásha; and when sónya and nicholas had +gone out of the conservatory she followed and called borís to her. +“borís, come here,” said she with a sly and significant look. “i +have something to tell you. here, here!” and she led him into the +conservatory to the place among the tubs where she had been hiding. +she grew confused, glanced round, and, seeing the doll she had thrown +down on one of the tubs, picked it up. +borís looked attentively and kindly at her eager face, but did not +“don’t you want to? well, then, come here,” said she, and +went further in among the plants and threw down the doll. “closer, +she caught the young officer by his cuffs, and a look of solemnity and +fear appeared on her flushed face. +“and me? would you like to kiss me?” she whispered almost inaudibly, +glancing up at him from under her brows, smiling, and almost crying from +“how funny you are!” he said, bending down to her and blushing still +more, but he waited and did nothing. +suddenly she jumped up onto a tub to be higher than he, embraced him so +that both her slender bare arms clasped him above his neck, and, tossing +back her hair, kissed him full on the lips. +then she slipped down among the flowerpots on the other side of the tubs +“natásha,” he said, “you know that i love you, but....” +“yes, i am, but please don’t let us do like that.... in another four +years ... then i will ask for your hand.” +“thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,” she counted on her slender +little fingers. “all right! then it’s settled?” +a smile of joy and satisfaction lit up her eager face. +“forever?” said the little girl. “till death itself?” +she took his arm and with a happy face went with him into the adjoining +after receiving her visitors, the countess was so tired that she gave +orders to admit no more, but the porter was told to be sure to invite to +dinner all who came “to congratulate.” the countess wished to have +a tête-à-tête talk with the friend of her childhood, princess anna +mikháylovna, whom she had not seen properly since she returned from +petersburg. anna mikháylovna, with her tear-worn but pleasant face, +drew her chair nearer to that of the countess. +“with you i will be quite frank,” said anna mikháylovna. “there +are not many left of us old friends! that’s why i so value your +anna mikháylovna looked at véra and paused. the countess pressed her +“véra,” she said to her eldest daughter who was evidently not a +favorite, “how is it you have so little tact? don’t you see you are +not wanted here? go to the other girls, or...” +the handsome véra smiled contemptuously but did not seem at all hurt. +“if you had told me sooner, mamma, i would have gone,” she replied +as she rose to go to her own room. +but as she passed the sitting room she noticed two couples sitting, +one pair at each window. she stopped and smiled scornfully. sónya was +sitting close to nicholas who was copying out some verses for her, the +first he had ever written. borís and natásha were at the other window +and ceased talking when véra entered. sónya and natásha looked at +it was pleasant and touching to see these little girls in love; but +apparently the sight of them roused no pleasant feeling in véra. +“how often have i asked you not to take my things?” she said. “you +have a room of your own,” and she took the inkstand from nicholas. +“in a minute, in a minute,” he said, dipping his pen. +“you always manage to do things at the wrong time,” continued véra. +“you came rushing into the drawing room so that everyone felt ashamed +though what she said was quite just, perhaps for that very reason no one +replied, and the four simply looked at one another. she lingered in the +“and at your age what secrets can there be between natásha and +borís, or between you two? it’s all nonsense!” +“now, véra, what does it matter to you?” said natásha in defense, +she seemed that day to be more than ever kind and affectionate to +“very silly,” said véra. “i am ashamed of you. secrets indeed!” +“all have secrets of their own,” answered natásha, getting warmer. +“i should think not,” said véra, “because there can never be +anything wrong in my behavior. but i’ll just tell mamma how you are +“natálya ilyníchna behaves very well to me,” remarked borís. “i +“don’t, borís! you are such a diplomat that it is really +tiresome,” said natásha in a mortified voice that trembled slightly. +(she used the word “diplomat,” which was just then much in vogue +among the children, in the special sense they attached to it.) “why +does she bother me?” and she added, turning to véra, “you’ll +never understand it, because you’ve never loved anyone. you have no +heart! you are a madame de genlis and nothing more” (this nickname, +bestowed on véra by nicholas, was considered very stinging), “and +your greatest pleasure is to be unpleasant to people! go and flirt with +berg as much as you please,” she finished quickly. +“i shall at any rate not run after a young man before visitors...” +“well, now you’ve done what you wanted,” put in nicholas—“said +unpleasant things to everyone and upset them. let’s go to the +all four, like a flock of scared birds, got up and left the room. +“the unpleasant things were said to me,” remarked véra, “i said +“madame de genlis! madame de genlis!” shouted laughing voices +the handsome véra, who produced such an irritating and unpleasant +effect on everyone, smiled and, evidently unmoved by what had been +said to her, went to the looking glass and arranged her hair and scarf. +looking at her own handsome face she seemed to become still colder and +in the drawing room the conversation was still going on. +“ah, my dear,” said the countess, “my life is not all roses +either. don’t i know that at the rate we are living our means won’t +last long? it’s all the club and his easygoing nature. even in the +country do we get any rest? theatricals, hunting, and heaven knows what +besides! but don’t let’s talk about me; tell me how you managed +everything. i often wonder at you, annette—how at your age you +can rush off alone in a carriage to moscow, to petersburg, to those +ministers and great people, and know how to deal with them all! it’s +quite astonishing. how did you get things settled? i couldn’t possibly +“ah, my love,” answered anna mikháylovna, “god grant you never +know what it is to be left a widow without means and with a son you love +to distraction! one learns many things then,” she added with a certain +pride. “that lawsuit taught me much. when i want to see one of those +big people i write a note: ‘princess so-and-so desires an interview +with so and-so,’ and then i take a cab and go myself two, three, or +four times—till i get what i want. i don’t mind what they think of +“well, and to whom did you apply about bóry?” asked the countess. +“you see yours is already an officer in the guards, while my nicholas +is going as a cadet. there’s no one to interest himself for him. to +“to prince vasíli. he was so kind. he at once agreed to everything, +and put the matter before the emperor,” said princess anna +mikháylovna enthusiastically, quite forgetting all the humiliation she +“has prince vasíli aged much?” asked the countess. “i have not +seen him since we acted together at the rumyántsovs’ theatricals. i +expect he has forgotten me. he paid me attentions in those days,” said +“he is just the same as ever,” replied anna mikháylovna, +“overflowing with amiability. his position has not turned his head +at all. he said to me, ‘i am sorry i can do so little for you, dear +princess. i am at your command.’ yes, he is a fine fellow and a very +kind relation. but, nataly, you know my love for my son: i would do +anything for his happiness! and my affairs are in such a bad way that my +position is now a terrible one,” continued anna mikháylovna, sadly, +dropping her voice. “my wretched lawsuit takes all i have and makes no +progress. would you believe it, i have literally not a penny and don’t +know how to equip borís.” she took out her handkerchief and began to +cry. “i need five hundred rubles, and have only one twenty-five-ruble +note. i am in such a state.... my only hope now is in count cyril +vladímirovich bezúkhov. if he will not assist his godson—you know +he is bóry’s godfather—and allow him something for his maintenance, +all my trouble will have been thrown away.... i shall not be able to +the countess’ eyes filled with tears and she pondered in silence. +“i often think, though, perhaps it’s a sin,” said the princess, +“that here lives count cyril vladímirovich bezúkhov so rich, all +alone... that tremendous fortune... and what is his life worth? it’s a +burden to him, and bóry’s life is only just beginning....” +“surely he will leave something to borís,” said the countess. +“heaven only knows, my dear! these rich grandees are so selfish. +still, i will take borís and go to see him at once, and i shall speak +to him straight out. let people think what they will of me, it’s +really all the same to me when my son’s fate is at stake.” the +princess rose. “it’s now two o’clock and you dine at four. there +and like a practical petersburg lady who knows how to make the most of +time, anna mikháylovna sent someone to call her son, and went into the +“good-by, my dear,” said she to the countess who saw her to the +door, and added in a whisper so that her son should not hear, “wish me +“are you going to count cyril vladímirovich, my dear?” said the +count coming out from the dining hall into the anteroom, and he added: +“if he is better, ask pierre to dine with us. he has been to the +house, you know, and danced with the children. be sure to invite him, my +dear. we will see how tarás distinguishes himself today. he says count +orlóv never gave such a dinner as ours will be!” +“my dear borís,” said princess anna mikháylovna to her son as +countess rostóva’s carriage in which they were seated drove over the +straw covered street and turned into the wide courtyard of count cyril +mother, drawing her hand from beneath her old mantle and laying +it timidly and tenderly on her son’s arm, “be affectionate and +attentive to him. count cyril vladímirovich is your godfather after +all, and your future depends on him. remember that, my dear, and be nice +to him, as you so well know how to be.” +“if only i knew that anything besides humiliation would come of +it...” answered her son coldly. “but i have promised and will do it +although the hall porter saw someone’s carriage standing at the +entrance, after scrutinizing the mother and son (who without asking to +be announced had passed straight through the glass porch between the +rows of statues in niches) and looking significantly at the lady’s old +cloak, he asked whether they wanted the count or the princesses, and, +hearing that they wished to see the count, said his excellency was worse +today, and that his excellency was not receiving anyone. +“we may as well go back,” said the son in french. +“my dear!” exclaimed his mother imploringly, again laying her hand +on his arm as if that touch might soothe or rouse him. +borís said no more, but looked inquiringly at his mother without taking +“my friend,” said anna mikháylovna in gentle tones, addressing +the hall porter, “i know count cyril vladímirovich is very ill... +that’s why i have come... i am a relation. i shall not disturb him, +my friend... i only need see prince vasíli sergéevich: he is staying +here, is he not? please announce me.” +the hall porter sullenly pulled a bell that rang upstairs, and turned +“princess drubetskáya to see prince vasíli sergéevich,” he called +to a footman dressed in knee breeches, shoes, and a swallow-tail coat, +who ran downstairs and looked over from the halfway landing. +the mother smoothed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large +venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly +“my dear,” she said to her son, once more stimulating him by a +they entered the large hall, from which one of the doors led to the +just as the mother and son, having reached the middle of the hall, were +about to ask their way of an elderly footman who had sprung up as they +entered, the bronze handle of one of the doors turned and prince vasíli +came out—wearing a velvet coat with a single star on his breast, +as was his custom when at home—taking leave of a good-looking, +dark-haired man. this was the celebrated petersburg doctor, lorrain. +“prince, humanum est errare, * but...” replied the doctor, +swallowing his r’s, and pronouncing the latin words with a french +“very well, very well...” +seeing anna mikháylovna and her son, prince vasíli dismissed the +doctor with a bow and approached them silently and with a look of +inquiry. the son noticed that an expression of profound sorrow suddenly +clouded his mother’s face, and he smiled slightly. +“ah, prince! in what sad circumstances we meet again! and how is our +dear invalid?” said she, as though unaware of the cold offensive look +prince vasíli stared at her and at borís questioningly and perplexed. +borís bowed politely. prince vasíli without acknowledging the bow +turned to anna mikháylovna, answering her query by a movement of the +head and lips indicating very little hope for the patient. +“is it possible?” exclaimed anna mikháylovna. “oh, how awful! +it is terrible to think.... this is my son,” she added, indicating +“believe me, prince, a mother’s heart will never forget what you +“i am glad i was able to do you a service, my dear anna +mikháylovna,” said prince vasíli, arranging his lace frill, and in +tone and manner, here in moscow to anna mikháylovna whom he had placed +under an obligation, assuming an air of much greater importance than he +had done in petersburg at anna schérer’s reception. +“try to serve well and show yourself worthy,” added he, addressing +borís with severity. “i am glad.... are you here on leave?” he went +on in his usual tone of indifference. +“i am awaiting orders to join my new regiment, your excellency,” +replied borís, betraying neither annoyance at the prince’s brusque +manner nor a desire to enter into conversation, but speaking so quietly +and respectfully that the prince gave him a searching glance. +“that is, with ilyá rostóv who married nataly shinshiná,” said +“i know, i know,” answered prince vasíli in his monotonous voice. +“i never could understand how nataly made up her mind to marry that +unlicked bear! a perfectly absurd and stupid fellow, and a gambler too, +“but a very kind man, prince,” said anna mikháylovna with a +pathetic smile, as though she too knew that count rostóv deserved this +censure, but asked him not to be too hard on the poor old man. “what +do the doctors say?” asked the princess after a pause, her worn face +“they give little hope,” replied the prince. +“and i should so like to thank uncle once for all his kindness to me +and borís. he is his godson,” she added, her tone suggesting that +this fact ought to give prince vasíli much satisfaction. +prince vasíli became thoughtful and frowned. anna mikháylovna saw that +he was afraid of finding in her a rival for count bezúkhov’s fortune, +“if it were not for my sincere affection and devotion to uncle,” +said she, uttering the word with peculiar assurance and unconcern, “i +know his character: noble, upright ... but you see he has no one with +him except the young princesses.... they are still young....” she bent +her head and continued in a whisper: “has he performed his final duty, +prince? how priceless are those last moments! it can make things no +worse, and it is absolutely necessary to prepare him if he is so ill. +we women, prince,” and she smiled tenderly, “always know how to say +these things. i absolutely must see him, however painful it may be for +evidently the prince understood her, and also understood, as he had done +at anna pávlovna’s, that it would be difficult to get rid of anna +“would not such a meeting be too trying for him, dear anna +mikháylovna?” said he. “let us wait until evening. the doctors are +“but one cannot delay, prince, at such a moment! consider that the +welfare of his soul is at stake. ah, it is awful: the duties of a +a door of one of the inner rooms opened and one of the princesses, the +count’s niece, entered with a cold, stern face. the length of her +body was strikingly out of proportion to her short legs. prince vasíli +“still the same; but what can you expect, this noise...” said the +princess, looking at anna mikháylovna as at a stranger. +“ah, my dear, i hardly knew you,” said anna mikháylovna with a +happy smile, ambling lightly up to the count’s niece. “i have come, +and am at your service to help you nurse my uncle. i imagine what you +have gone through,” and she sympathetically turned up her eyes. +the princess gave no reply and did not even smile, but left the room as +anna mikháylovna took off her gloves and, occupying the position she +had conquered, settled down in an armchair, inviting prince vasíli to +“borís,” she said to her son with a smile, “i shall go in to see +the count, my uncle; but you, my dear, had better go to pierre meanwhile +and don’t forget to give him the rostóvs’ invitation. they ask him +to dinner. i suppose he won’t go?” she continued, turning to the +“on the contrary,” replied the prince, who had plainly become +depressed, “i shall be only too glad if you relieve me of that young +man.... here he is, and the count has not once asked for him.” +he shrugged his shoulders. a footman conducted borís down one flight of +stairs and up another, to pierre’s rooms. +pierre, after all, had not managed to choose a career for himself in +petersburg, and had been expelled from there for riotous conduct and +sent to moscow. the story told about him at count rostóv’s was true. +pierre had taken part in tying a policeman to a bear. he had now been +for some days in moscow and was staying as usual at his father’s +house. though he expected that the story of his escapade would be +already known in moscow and that the ladies about his father—who were +never favorably disposed toward him—would have used it to turn the +count against him, he nevertheless on the day of his arrival went to +his father’s part of the house. entering the drawing room, where the +princesses spent most of their time, he greeted the ladies, two of whom +were sitting at embroidery frames while a third read aloud. it was the +eldest who was reading—the one who had met anna mikháylovna. the +two younger ones were embroidering: both were rosy and pretty and they +differed only in that one had a little mole on her lip which made her +much prettier. pierre was received as if he were a corpse or a leper. +the eldest princess paused in her reading and silently stared at him +with frightened eyes; the second assumed precisely the same expression; +while the youngest, the one with the mole, who was of a cheerful and +lively disposition, bent over her frame to hide a smile probably evoked +by the amusing scene she foresaw. she drew her wool down through the +canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying +“how do you do, cousin?” said pierre. “you don’t recognize +“i recognize you only too well, too well.” +“how is the count? can i see him?” asked pierre, awkwardly as usual, +“the count is suffering physically and mentally, and apparently you +have done your best to increase his mental sufferings.” +“hm.... if you wish to kill him, to kill him outright, you can see +him... olga, go and see whether uncle’s beef tea is ready—it is +almost time,” she added, giving pierre to understand that they were +busy, and busy making his father comfortable, while evidently he, +olga went out. pierre stood looking at the sisters; then he bowed and +said: “then i will go to my rooms. you will let me know when i can see +and he left the room, followed by the low but ringing laughter of the +sister with the mole. +next day prince vasíli had arrived and settled in the count’s house. +he sent for pierre and said to him: “my dear fellow, if you are going +to behave here as you did in petersburg, you will end very badly; that +is all i have to say to you. the count is very, very ill, and you must +not see him at all.” +since then pierre had not been disturbed and had spent the whole time in +when borís appeared at his door pierre was pacing up and down his room, +stopping occasionally at a corner to make menacing gestures at the wall, +as if running a sword through an invisible foe, and glaring savagely +over his spectacles, and then again resuming his walk, muttering +indistinct words, shrugging his shoulders and gesticulating. +“england is done for,” said he, scowling and pointing his finger +at someone unseen. “mr. pitt, as a traitor to the nation and to the +rights of man, is sentenced to...” but before pierre—who at that +moment imagined himself to be napoleon in person and to have just +effected the dangerous crossing of the straits of dover and captured +london—could pronounce pitt’s sentence, he saw a well-built and +handsome young officer entering his room. pierre paused. he had left +moscow when borís was a boy of fourteen, and had quite forgotten him, +but in his usual impulsive and hearty way he took borís by the hand +“do you remember me?” asked borís quietly with a pleasant smile. +“i have come with my mother to see the count, but it seems he is not +“yes, it seems he is ill. people are always disturbing him,” +answered pierre, trying to remember who this young man was. +borís felt that pierre did not recognize him but did not consider +it necessary to introduce himself, and without experiencing the least +embarrassment looked pierre straight in the face. +“count rostóv asks you to come to dinner today,” said he, after a +considerable pause which made pierre feel uncomfortable. +“ah, count rostóv!” exclaimed pierre joyfully. “then you are his +son, ilyá? only fancy, i didn’t know you at first. do you remember +how we went to the sparrow hills with madame jacquot?... it’s such an +“you are mistaken,” said borís deliberately, with a bold and +slightly sarcastic smile. “i am borís, son of princess anna +mikháylovna drubetskáya. rostóv, the father, is ilyá, and his son is +pierre shook his head and arms as if attacked by mosquitoes or bees. +“oh dear, what am i thinking about? i’ve mixed everything up. one +has so many relatives in moscow! so you are borís? of course. well, now +we know where we are. and what do you think of the boulogne expedition? +the english will come off badly, you know, if napoleon gets across the +channel. i think the expedition is quite feasible. if only villeneuve +borís knew nothing about the boulogne expedition; he did not read the +papers and it was the first time he had heard villeneuve’s name. +“we here in moscow are more occupied with dinner parties and scandal +than with politics,” said he in his quiet ironical tone. “i know +nothing about it and have not thought about it. moscow is chiefly busy +with gossip,” he continued. “just now they are talking about you and +pierre smiled in his good-natured way as if afraid for his companion’s +sake that the latter might say something he would afterwards regret. +but borís spoke distinctly, clearly, and dryly, looking straight into +“moscow has nothing else to do but gossip,” borís went on. +“everybody is wondering to whom the count will leave his fortune, +though he may perhaps outlive us all, as i sincerely hope he will...” +“yes, it is all very horrid,” interrupted pierre, “very horrid.” +pierre was still afraid that this officer might inadvertently say +“and it must seem to you,” said borís flushing slightly, but not +changing his tone or attitude, “it must seem to you that everyone is +trying to get something out of the rich man?” +“but i just wish to say, to avoid misunderstandings, that you are +quite mistaken if you reckon me or my mother among such people. we are +very poor, but for my own part at any rate, for the very reason that +your father is rich, i don’t regard myself as a relation of his, and +neither i nor my mother would ever ask or take anything from him.” +for a long time pierre could not understand, but when he did, he jumped +up from the sofa, seized borís under the elbow in his quick, clumsy +way, and, blushing far more than borís, began to speak with a feeling +“well, this is strange! do you suppose i... who could think?... i know +“i am glad i have spoken out fully. perhaps you did not like it? you +must excuse me,” said he, putting pierre at ease instead of being put +at ease by him, “but i hope i have not offended you. i always make it +a rule to speak out... well, what answer am i to take? will you come to +and borís, having apparently relieved himself of an onerous duty and +extricated himself from an awkward situation and placed another in it, +“no, but i say,” said pierre, calming down, “you are a wonderful +fellow! what you have just said is good, very good. of course you +don’t know me. we have not met for such a long time... not since we +were children. you might think that i... i understand, quite understand. +i could not have done it myself, i should not have had the courage, but +it’s splendid. i am very glad to have made your acquaintance. it’s +queer,” he added after a pause, “that you should have suspected +me!” he began to laugh. “well, what of it! i hope we’ll get better +acquainted,” and he pressed borís’ hand. “do you know, i have not +once been in to see the count. he has not sent for me.... i am sorry for +him as a man, but what can one do?” +“and so you think napoleon will manage to get an army across?” asked +pierre saw that borís wished to change the subject, and being of the +same mind he began explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the +a footman came in to summon borís—the princess was going. pierre, in +order to make borís’ better acquaintance, promised to come to dinner, +and warmly pressing his hand looked affectionately over his spectacles +into borís’ eyes. after he had gone pierre continued pacing up and +down the room for a long time, no longer piercing an imaginary foe with +his imaginary sword, but smiling at the remembrance of that pleasant, +as often happens in early youth, especially to one who leads a lonely +life, he felt an unaccountable tenderness for this young man and made up +prince vasíli saw the princess off. she held a handkerchief to her eyes +“it is dreadful, dreadful!” she was saying, “but cost me what it +may i shall do my duty. i will come and spend the night. he must not be +left like this. every moment is precious. i can’t think why his nieces +put it off. perhaps god will help me to find a way to prepare him!... +“adieu, ma bonne,” answered prince vasíli turning away from her. +“oh, he is in a dreadful state,” said the mother to her son when +they were in the carriage. “he hardly recognizes anybody.” +“i don’t understand, mamma—what is his attitude to pierre?” +“the will will show that, my dear; our fate also depends on it.” +“but why do you expect that he will leave us anything?” +“ah, my dear! he is so rich, and we are so poor!” +“well, that is hardly a sufficient reason, mamma...” +“oh, heaven! how ill he is!” exclaimed the mother. +after anna mikháylovna had driven off with her son to visit count cyril +vladímirovich bezúkhov, countess rostóva sat for a long time all +alone applying her handkerchief to her eyes. at last she rang. +“what is the matter with you, my dear?” she said crossly to the maid +who kept her waiting some minutes. “don’t you wish to serve me? then +the countess was upset by her friend’s sorrow and humiliating poverty, +and was therefore out of sorts, a state of mind which with her always +found expression in calling her maid “my dear” and speaking to her +with exaggerated politeness. +the count came waddling in to see his wife with a rather guilty look as +“well, little countess? what a sauté of game au madère we are to +have, my dear! i tasted it. the thousand rubles i paid for tarás were +he sat down by his wife, his elbows on his knees and his hands ruffling +“what are your commands, little countess?” +“you see, my dear... what’s that mess?” she said, pointing to his +waistcoat. “it’s the sauté, most likely,” she added with a smile. +“oh, little countess!” ... and the count began bustling to get out +“i want a great deal, count! i want five hundred rubles,” and taking +out her cambric handkerchief she began wiping her husband’s waistcoat. +“yes, immediately, immediately! hey, who’s there?” he called out +in a tone only used by persons who are certain that those they call will +rush to obey the summons. “send dmítri to me!” +dmítri, a man of good family who had been brought up in the count’s +house and now managed all his affairs, stepped softly into the room. +“this is what i want, my dear fellow,” said the count to the +deferential young man who had entered. “bring me...” he reflected +a moment, “yes, bring me seven hundred rubles, yes! but mind, don’t +bring me such tattered and dirty notes as last time, but nice clean ones +“yes, dmítri, clean ones, please,” said the countess, sighing +“when would you like them, your excellency?” asked dmítri. “allow +me to inform you... but, don’t be uneasy,” he added, noticing that +the count was beginning to breathe heavily and quickly which was always +a sign of approaching anger. “i was forgetting... do you wish it +“yes, yes; just so! bring it. give it to the countess.” +“what a treasure that dmítri is,” added the count with a smile when +the young man had departed. “there is never any ‘impossible’ with +him. that’s a thing i hate! everything is possible.” +“ah, money, count, money! how much sorrow it causes in the world,” +said the countess. “but i am in great need of this sum.” +“you, my little countess, are a notorious spendthrift,” said the +count, and having kissed his wife’s hand he went back to his study. +when anna mikháylovna returned from count bezúkhov’s the money, all +in clean notes, was lying ready under a handkerchief on the countess’ +little table, and anna mikháylovna noticed that something was agitating +“oh, what a terrible state he is in! one would not know him, he is so +ill! i was only there a few moments and hardly said a word...” +“annette, for heaven’s sake don’t refuse me,” the countess +began, with a blush that looked very strange on her thin, dignified, +elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief. +anna mikháylovna instantly guessed her intention and stooped to be +ready to embrace the countess at the appropriate moment. +“this is for borís from me, for his outfit.” +anna mikháylovna was already embracing her and weeping. the countess +wept too. they wept because they were friends, and because they were +kindhearted, and because they—friends from childhood—had to think +about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over.... +but those tears were pleasant to them both. +countess rostóva, with her daughters and a large number of guests, was +already seated in the drawing room. the count took the gentlemen into +his study and showed them his choice collection of turkish pipes. from +time to time he went out to ask: “hasn’t she come yet?” they +were expecting márya dmítrievna akhrosímova, known in society as le +terrible dragon, a lady distinguished not for wealth or rank, but for +common sense and frank plainness of speech. márya dmítrievna was known +to the imperial family as well as to all moscow and petersburg, and both +cities wondered at her, laughed privately at her rudenesses, and told +good stories about her, while none the less all without exception +in the count’s room, which was full of tobacco smoke, they talked +of the war that had been announced in a manifesto, and about the +recruiting. none of them had yet seen the manifesto, but they all knew +it had appeared. the count sat on the sofa between two guests who were +smoking and talking. he neither smoked nor talked, but bending his head +first to one side and then to the other watched the smokers with evident +pleasure and listened to the conversation of his two neighbors, whom he +one of them was a sallow, clean-shaven civilian with a thin and wrinkled +face, already growing old, though he was dressed like a most fashionable +young man. he sat with his legs up on the sofa as if quite at home and, +having stuck an amber mouthpiece far into his mouth, was inhaling the +smoke spasmodically and screwing up his eyes. this was an old bachelor, +shinshín, a cousin of the countess’, a man with “a sharp tongue” +as they said in moscow society. he seemed to be condescending to +his companion. the latter, a fresh, rosy officer of the guards, +irreproachably washed, brushed, and buttoned, held his pipe in the +middle of his mouth and with red lips gently inhaled the smoke, letting +it escape from his handsome mouth in rings. this was lieutenant berg, an +officer in the semënov regiment with whom borís was to travel to join +the army, and about whom natásha had teased her elder sister véra, +speaking of berg as her “intended.” the count sat between them and +listened attentively. his favorite occupation when not playing boston, a +card game he was very fond of, was that of listener, especially when he +succeeded in setting two loquacious talkers at one another. +“well, then, old chap, mon très honorable alphonse kárlovich,” +said shinshín, laughing ironically and mixing the most ordinary russian +expressions with the choicest french phrases—which was a peculiarity +of his speech. “vous comptez vous faire des rentes sur l’état; * +you want to make something out of your company?” + * you expect to make an income out of the government. +“no, peter nikoláevich; i only want to show that in the cavalry +the advantages are far less than in the infantry. just consider my own +berg always spoke quietly, politely, and with great precision. his +conversation always related entirely to himself; he would remain calm +and silent when the talk related to any topic that had no direct bearing +on himself. he could remain silent for hours without being at all put +out of countenance himself or making others uncomfortable, but as +soon as the conversation concerned himself he would begin to talk +circumstantially and with evident satisfaction. +“consider my position, peter nikoláevich. were i in the cavalry i +should get not more than two hundred rubles every four months, even +with the rank of lieutenant; but as it is i receive two hundred and +thirty,” said he, looking at shinshín and the count with a joyful, +pleasant smile, as if it were obvious to him that his success must +always be the chief desire of everyone else. +“besides that, peter nikoláevich, by exchanging into the guards +i shall be in a more prominent position,” continued berg, “and +vacancies occur much more frequently in the foot guards. then just think +what can be done with two hundred and thirty rubles! i even manage to +put a little aside and to send something to my father,” he went on, +“la balance y est... * a german knows how to skin a flint, as the +proverb says,” remarked shinshín, moving his pipe to the other side + * so that squares matters. +the count burst out laughing. the other guests seeing that shinshín +was talking came up to listen. berg, oblivious of irony or indifference, +continued to explain how by exchanging into the guards he had already +gained a step on his old comrades of the cadet corps; how in wartime +the company commander might get killed and he, as senior in the company, +might easily succeed to the post; how popular he was with everyone in +the regiment, and how satisfied his father was with him. berg evidently +enjoyed narrating all this, and did not seem to suspect that others, +too, might have their own interests. but all he said was so prettily +sedate, and the naïveté of his youthful egotism was so obvious, that +“well, my boy, you’ll get along wherever you go—foot or +horse—that i’ll warrant,” said shinshín, patting him on the +shoulder and taking his feet off the sofa. +berg smiled joyously. the count, followed by his guests, went into the +it was just the moment before a big dinner when the assembled guests, +expecting the summons to zakúska, * avoid engaging in any long +conversation but think it necessary to move about and talk, in order +to show that they are not at all impatient for their food. the host and +hostess look toward the door, and now and then glance at one another, +and the visitors try to guess from these glances who, or what, they are +waiting for—some important relation who has not yet arrived, or a dish +pierre had come just at dinnertime and was sitting awkwardly in the +middle of the drawing room on the first chair he had come across, +blocking the way for everyone. the countess tried to make him talk, +but he went on naïvely looking around through his spectacles as if in +search of somebody and answered all her questions in monosyllables. he +was in the way and was the only one who did not notice the fact. most of +the guests, knowing of the affair with the bear, looked with curiosity +at this big, stout, quiet man, wondering how such a clumsy, modest +fellow could have played such a prank on a policeman. +“you have only lately arrived?” the countess asked him. +“non, madame.” he smiled quite inappropriately. +“you have been in paris recently, i believe? i suppose it’s very +the countess exchanged glances with anna mikháylovna. the latter +understood that she was being asked to entertain this young man, and +sitting down beside him she began to speak about his father; but he +answered her, as he had the countess, only in monosyllables. the other +guests were all conversing with one another. “the razumóvskis... it +was charming... you are very kind... countess apráksina...” was heard +on all sides. the countess rose and went into the ballroom. +“herself,” came the answer in a rough voice, and márya dmítrievna +all the unmarried ladies and even the married ones except the very +oldest rose. márya dmítrievna paused at the door. tall and stout, +holding high her fifty-year-old head with its gray curls, she stood +surveying the guests, and leisurely arranged her wide sleeves as if +rolling them up. márya dmítrievna always spoke in russian. +“health and happiness to her whose name day we are keeping and to her +children,” she said, in her loud, full-toned voice which drowned all +others. “well, you old sinner,” she went on, turning to the count +who was kissing her hand, “you’re feeling dull in moscow, i daresay? +nowhere to hunt with your dogs? but what is to be done, old man? just +see how these nestlings are growing up,” and she pointed to the girls. +“you must look for husbands for them whether you like it or not....” +“well,” said she, “how’s my cossack?” (márya dmítrievna +always called natásha a cossack) and she stroked the child’s arm as +she came up fearless and gay to kiss her hand. “i know she’s a scamp +she took a pair of pear-shaped ruby earrings from her huge reticule and, +having given them to the rosy natásha, who beamed with the pleasure +of her saint’s-day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to +“eh, eh, friend! come here a bit,” said she, assuming a soft high +tone of voice. “come here, my friend...” and she ominously tucked +up her sleeves still higher. pierre approached, looking at her in a +“come nearer, come nearer, friend! i used to be the only one to tell +your father the truth when he was in favor, and in your case it’s my +evident duty.” she paused. all were silent, expectant of what was to +follow, for this was clearly only a prelude. +“a fine lad! my word! a fine lad!... his father lies on his deathbed +and he amuses himself setting a policeman astride a bear! for shame, +sir, for shame! it would be better if you went to the war.” +she turned away and gave her hand to the count, who could hardly keep +“well, i suppose it is time we were at table?” said márya +the count went in first with márya dmítrievna, the countess followed +on the arm of a colonel of hussars, a man of importance to them because +nicholas was to go with him to the regiment; then came anna mikháylovna +with shinshín. berg gave his arm to véra. the smiling julie karágina +went in with nicholas. after them other couples followed, filling the +whole dining hall, and last of all the children, tutors, and governesses +followed singly. the footmen began moving about, chairs scraped, the +band struck up in the gallery, and the guests settled down in their +places. then the strains of the count’s household band were replaced +by the clatter of knives and forks, the voices of visitors, and the +soft steps of the footmen. at one end of the table sat the countess with +márya dmítrievna on her right and anna mikháylovna on her left, the +other lady visitors were farther down. at the other end sat the count, +with the hussar colonel on his left and shinshín and the other male +visitors on his right. midway down the long table on one side sat the +grown-up young people: véra beside berg, and pierre beside borís; and +on the other side, the children, tutors, and governesses. from behind +the crystal decanters and fruit vases, the count kept glancing at his +wife and her tall cap with its light-blue ribbons, and busily filled +his neighbors’ glasses, not neglecting his own. the countess in turn, +without omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from +behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed +by their redness to contrast more than usual with his gray hair. at the +ladies’ end an even chatter of voices was heard all the time, at the +men’s end the voices sounded louder and louder, especially that of the +colonel of hussars who, growing more and more flushed, ate and drank so +much that the count held him up as a pattern to the other guests. berg +with tender smiles was saying to véra that love is not an earthly but +a heavenly feeling. borís was telling his new friend pierre who the +guests were and exchanging glances with natásha, who was sitting +opposite. pierre spoke little but examined the new faces, and ate a +great deal. of the two soups he chose turtle with savory patties and +went on to the game without omitting a single dish or one of the wines. +these latter the butler thrust mysteriously forward, wrapped in a +napkin, from behind the next man’s shoulders and whispered: “dry +madeira”... “hungarian”... or “rhine wine” as the case might +be. of the four crystal glasses engraved with the count’s monogram +that stood before his plate, pierre held out one at random and drank +with enjoyment, gazing with ever-increasing amiability at the other +guests. natásha, who sat opposite, was looking at borís as girls of +thirteen look at the boy they are in love with and have just kissed for +the first time. sometimes that same look fell on pierre, and that funny +lively little girl’s look made him inclined to laugh without knowing +nicholas sat at some distance from sónya, beside julie karágina, to +whom he was again talking with the same involuntary smile. sónya wore +a company smile but was evidently tormented by jealousy; now she turned +pale, now blushed and strained every nerve to overhear what nicholas +and julie were saying to one another. the governess kept looking round +uneasily as if preparing to resent any slight that might be put upon the +children. the german tutor was trying to remember all the dishes, wines, +and kinds of dessert, in order to send a full description of the dinner +to his people in germany; and he felt greatly offended when the butler +with a bottle wrapped in a napkin passed him by. he frowned, trying to +appear as if he did not want any of that wine, but was mortified because +no one would understand that it was not to quench his thirst or from +greediness that he wanted it, but simply from a conscientious desire for +at the men’s end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. +the colonel told them that the declaration of war had already appeared +in petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day +been forwarded by courier to the commander in chief. +“and why the deuce are we going to fight bonaparte?” remarked +shinshín. “he has stopped austria’s cackle and i fear it will be +the colonel was a stout, tall, plethoric german, evidently devoted to +the service and patriotically russian. he resented shinshín’s remark. +“it is for the reasson, my goot sir,” said he, speaking with a +german accent, “for the reasson zat ze emperor knows zat. he +declares in ze manifessto zat he cannot fiew wiz indifference ze danger +vreatening russia and zat ze safety and dignity of ze empire as vell +as ze sanctity of its alliances...” he spoke this last word with +particular emphasis as if in it lay the gist of the matter. +then with the unerring official memory that characterized him he +... and the wish, which constitutes the emperor’s sole and absolute +aim—to establish peace in europe on firm foundations—has now decided +him to despatch part of the army abroad and to create a new condition +for the attainment of that purpose. +“zat, my dear sir, is vy...” he concluded, drinking a tumbler of +wine with dignity and looking to the count for approval. +“connaissez-vous le proverbe:* ‘jerome, jerome, do not roam, but +turn spindles at home!’?” said shinshín, puckering his brows and +smiling. “cela nous convient à merveille.*(2) suvórov now—he knew +what he was about; yet they beat him à plate couture,*(3) and where +are we to find suvórovs now? je vous demande un peu,” *(4) said he, + *(2) that suits us down to the ground. + *(4) i just ask you that. +“ve must vight to the last tr-r-op of our plood!” said the colonel, +thumping the table; “and ve must tie for our emperor, and zen all vill +pe vell. and ve must discuss it as little as po-o-ossible”... he dwelt +particularly on the word possible... “as po-o-ossible,” he ended, +again turning to the count. “zat is how ve old hussars look at it, and +zere’s an end of it! and how do you, a young man and a young hussar, +how do you judge of it?” he added, addressing nicholas, who when he +heard that the war was being discussed had turned from his partner with +eyes and ears intent on the colonel. +“i am quite of your opinion,” replied nicholas, flaming up, turning +his plate round and moving his wineglasses about with as much decision +and desperation as though he were at that moment facing some great +danger. “i am convinced that we russians must die or conquer,” he +concluded, conscious—as were others—after the words were uttered +that his remarks were too enthusiastic and emphatic for the occasion and +“what you said just now was splendid!” said his partner julie. +sónya trembled all over and blushed to her ears and behind them and +down to her neck and shoulders while nicholas was speaking. +pierre listened to the colonel’s speech and nodded approvingly. +“the young man’s a real hussar!” shouted the colonel, again +“what are you making such a noise about over there?” márya +dmítrievna’s deep voice suddenly inquired from the other end of the +table. “what are you thumping the table for?” she demanded of the +hussar, “and why are you exciting yourself? do you think the french +“i am speaking ze truce,” replied the hussar with a smile. +“it’s all about the war,” the count shouted down the table. “you +know my son’s going, márya dmítrievna? my son is going.” +“i have four sons in the army but still i don’t fret. it is all +in god’s hands. you may die in your bed or god may spare you in a +battle,” replied márya dmítrievna’s deep voice, which easily +once more the conversations concentrated, the ladies’ at the one end +“you won’t ask,” natásha’s little brother was saying; “i know +her face suddenly flushed with reckless and joyous resolution. she half +rose, by a glance inviting pierre, who sat opposite, to listen to what +“mamma!” rang out the clear contralto notes of her childish voice, +“what is it?” asked the countess, startled; but seeing by her +daughter’s face that it was only mischief, she shook a finger at her +sternly with a threatening and forbidding movement of her head. +“mamma! what sweets are we going to have?” and natásha’s voice +sounded still more firm and resolute. +the countess tried to frown, but could not. márya dmítrievna shook her +most of the guests, uncertain how to regard this sally, looked at the +“you had better take care!” said the countess. +“mamma! what sweets are we going to have?” natásha again cried +boldly, with saucy gaiety, confident that her prank would be taken in +sónya and fat little pétya doubled up with laughter. +“you see! i have asked,” whispered natásha to her little brother +and to pierre, glancing at him again. +“ice pudding, but you won’t get any,” said márya dmítrievna. +natásha saw there was nothing to be afraid of and so she braved even +“márya dmítrievna! what kind of ice pudding? i don’t like ice +márya dmítrievna and the countess burst out laughing, and all the +guests joined in. everyone laughed, not at márya dmítrievna’s answer +but at the incredible boldness and smartness of this little girl who had +dared to treat márya dmítrievna in this fashion. +natásha only desisted when she had been told that there would be +pineapple ice. before the ices, champagne was served round. the band +again struck up, the count and countess kissed, and the guests, leaving +their seats, went up to “congratulate” the countess, and reached +across the table to clink glasses with the count, with the children, and +with one another. again the footmen rushed about, chairs scraped, and +in the same order in which they had entered but with redder faces, the +guests returned to the drawing room and to the count’s study. +the card tables were drawn out, sets made up for boston, and the +count’s visitors settled themselves, some in the two drawing rooms, +some in the sitting room, some in the library. +the count, holding his cards fanwise, kept himself with difficulty from +dropping into his usual after-dinner nap, and laughed at everything. +the young people, at the countess’ instigation, gathered round the +clavichord and harp. julie by general request played first. after she +had played a little air with variations on the harp, she joined the +other young ladies in begging natásha and nicholas, who were noted for +their musical talent, to sing something. natásha, who was treated as +though she were grown up, was evidently very proud of this but at the +“what shall we sing?” she said. +“well, then, let’s be quick. borís, come here,” said natásha. +she looked round and seeing that her friend was not in the room ran to +running into sónya’s room and not finding her there, natásha ran to +the nursery, but sónya was not there either. natásha concluded that +she must be on the chest in the passage. the chest in the passage was +the place of mourning for the younger female generation in the rostóv +household. and there in fact was sónya lying face downward on nurse’s +dirty feather bed on the top of the chest, crumpling her gauzy pink +dress under her, hiding her face with her slender fingers, and sobbing +so convulsively that her bare little shoulders shook. natásha’s +face, which had been so radiantly happy all that saint’s day, suddenly +changed: her eyes became fixed, and then a shiver passed down her broad +neck and the corners of her mouth drooped. +“sónya! what is it? what is the matter?... oo... oo... oo...!” and +natásha’s large mouth widened, making her look quite ugly, and she +began to wail like a baby without knowing why, except that sónya was +crying. sónya tried to lift her head to answer but could not, and +hid her face still deeper in the bed. natásha wept, sitting on the +blue-striped feather bed and hugging her friend. with an effort sónya +sat up and began wiping her eyes and explaining. +“nicholas is going away in a week’s time, his... papers... have +come... he told me himself... but still i should not cry,” and she +showed a paper she held in her hand—with the verses nicholas had +written, “still, i should not cry, but you can’t... no one can +understand... what a soul he has!” +and she began to cry again because he had such a noble soul. +“it’s all very well for you... i am not envious... i love you and +borís also,” she went on, gaining a little strength; “he is nice... +there are no difficulties in your way.... but nicholas is my cousin... +one would have to... the metropolitan himself... and even then it +can’t be done. and besides, if she tells mamma” (sónya looked upon +the countess as her mother and called her so) “that i am spoiling +nicholas’ career and am heartless and ungrateful, while truly... god +is my witness,” and she made the sign of the cross, “i love her so +much, and all of you, only véra... and what for? what have i done +to her? i am so grateful to you that i would willingly sacrifice +sónya could not continue, and again hid her face in her hands and in +the feather bed. natásha began consoling her, but her face showed that +she understood all the gravity of her friend’s trouble. +“sónya,” she suddenly exclaimed, as if she had guessed the true +reason of her friend’s sorrow, “i’m sure véra has said something +“yes, these verses nicholas wrote himself and i copied some others, +and she found them on my table and said she’d show them to mamma, and +that i was ungrateful, and that mamma would never allow him to marry +me, but that he’ll marry julie. you see how he’s been with her all +day... natásha, what have i done to deserve it?...” +and again she began to sob, more bitterly than before. natásha lifted +her up, hugged her, and, smiling through her tears, began comforting +“sónya, don’t believe her, darling! don’t believe her! do you +remember how we and nicholas, all three of us, talked in the sitting +room after supper? why, we settled how everything was to be. i don’t +quite remember how, but don’t you remember that it could all be +arranged and how nice it all was? there’s uncle shinshín’s brother +has married his first cousin. and we are only second cousins, you know. +and borís says it is quite possible. you know i have told him all about +it. and he is so clever and so good!” said natásha. “don’t +you cry, sónya, dear love, darling sónya!” and she kissed her and +laughed. “véra’s spiteful; never mind her! and all will come right +and she won’t say anything to mamma. nicholas will tell her himself, +and he doesn’t care at all for julie.” +sónya sat up. the little kitten brightened, its eyes shone, and it +seemed ready to lift its tail, jump down on its soft paws, and begin +playing with the ball of worsted as a kitten should. +“do you think so?... really? truly?” she said, quickly smoothing her +“really, truly!” answered natásha, pushing in a crisp lock that had +strayed from under her friend’s plaits. +“do you know, that fat pierre who sat opposite me is so funny!” said +and she set off at a run along the passage. +sónya, shaking off some down which clung to her and tucking away the +verses in the bosom of her dress close to her bony little chest, ran +after natásha down the passage into the sitting room with flushed face +and light, joyous steps. at the visitors’ request the young people +sang the quartette, “the brook,” with which everyone was delighted. +then nicholas sang a song he had just learned: + at nighttime in the moon’s fair glow + how sweet, as fancies wander free, + to feel that in this world there’s one + who still is thinking but of thee! + that while her fingers touch the harp + wafting sweet music o’er the lea, + it is for thee thus swells her heart, + sighing its message out to thee... + a day or two, then bliss unspoilt, + but oh! till then i cannot live!... +he had not finished the last verse before the young people began to +get ready to dance in the large hall, and the sound of the feet and the +coughing of the musicians were heard from the gallery. +pierre was sitting in the drawing room where shinshín had engaged him, +as a man recently returned from abroad, in a political conversation in +which several others joined but which bored pierre. when the music began +natásha came in and walking straight up to pierre said, laughing and +“mamma told me to ask you to join the dancers.” +“i am afraid of mixing the figures,” pierre replied; “but if you +will be my teacher...” and lowering his big arm he offered it to the +while the couples were arranging themselves and the musicians tuning up, +pierre sat down with his little partner. natásha was perfectly happy; +she was dancing with a grown-up man, who had been abroad. she was +sitting in a conspicuous place and talking to him like a grown-up lady. +she had a fan in her hand that one of the ladies had given her to hold. +assuming quite the pose of a society woman (heaven knows when and where +she had learned it) she talked with her partner, fanning herself and +“dear, dear! just look at her!” exclaimed the countess as she +crossed the ballroom, pointing to natásha. +“well, really, mamma! why should you? what is there to be surprised +in the midst of the third écossaise there was a clatter of chairs being +pushed back in the sitting room where the count and márya dmítrievna +had been playing cards with the majority of the more distinguished and +older visitors. they now, stretching themselves after sitting so long, +and replacing their purses and pocketbooks, entered the ballroom. first +came márya dmítrievna and the count, both with merry countenances. the +count, with playful ceremony somewhat in ballet style, offered his +bent arm to márya dmítrievna. he drew himself up, a smile of debonair +gallantry lit up his face and as soon as the last figure of the +écossaise was ended, he clapped his hands to the musicians and shouted +up to their gallery, addressing the first violin: +this was the count’s favorite dance, which he had danced in his youth. +(strictly speaking, daniel cooper was one figure of the anglaise.) +“look at papa!” shouted natásha to the whole company, and quite +forgetting that she was dancing with a grown-up partner she bent her +curly head to her knees and made the whole room ring with her laughter. +and indeed everybody in the room looked with a smile of pleasure at the +jovial old gentleman, who standing beside his tall and stout partner, +márya dmítrievna, curved his arms, beat time, straightened his +shoulders, turned out his toes, tapped gently with his foot, and, by +a smile that broadened his round face more and more, prepared the +onlookers for what was to follow. as soon as the provocatively gay +strains of daniel cooper (somewhat resembling those of a merry peasant +dance) began to sound, all the doorways of the ballroom were suddenly +filled by the domestic serfs—the men on one side and the women on +the other—who with beaming faces had come to see their master making +“just look at the master! a regular eagle he is!” loudly remarked +the nurse, as she stood in one of the doorways. +the count danced well and knew it. but his partner could not and did not +want to dance well. her enormous figure stood erect, her powerful arms +hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her +stern but handsome face really joined in the dance. what was expressed +by the whole of the count’s plump figure, in márya dmítrievna found +expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose. +but if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed +the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and +the agility with which he capered about on his light feet, márya +dmítrievna produced no less impression by slight exertions—the least +effort to move her shoulders or bend her arms when turning, or stamp +her foot—which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual +severity. the dance grew livelier and livelier. the other couples could +not attract a moment’s attention to their own evolutions and did not +even try to do so. all were watching the count and márya dmítrievna. +natásha kept pulling everyone by sleeve or dress, urging them to +“look at papa!” though as it was they never took their eyes off the +couple. in the intervals of the dance the count, breathing deeply, waved +and shouted to the musicians to play faster. faster, faster, and faster; +lightly, more lightly, and yet more lightly whirled the count, flying +round márya dmítrievna, now on his toes, now on his heels; until, +turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, +raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspiring head, smiling +and making a wide sweep with his arm, amid a thunder of applause and +laughter led by natásha. both partners stood still, breathing heavily +and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs. +“that’s how we used to dance in our time, ma chère,” said the +“that was a daniel cooper!” exclaimed márya dmítrievna, tucking up +while in the rostóvs’ ballroom the sixth anglaise was being danced, +to a tune in which the weary musicians blundered, and while tired +footmen and cooks were getting the supper, count bezúkhov had a +sixth stroke. the doctors pronounced recovery impossible. after a mute +confession, communion was administered to the dying man, preparations +made for the sacrament of unction, and in his house there was the bustle +and thrill of suspense usual at such moments. outside the house, beyond +the gates, a group of undertakers, who hid whenever a carriage drove up, +waited in expectation of an important order for an expensive funeral. +the military governor of moscow, who had been assiduous in sending +aides-de-camp to inquire after the count’s health, came himself +that evening to bid a last farewell to the celebrated grandee of +the magnificent reception room was crowded. everyone stood up +respectfully when the military governor, having stayed about half an +hour alone with the dying man, passed out, slightly acknowledging their +bows and trying to escape as quickly as possible from the glances fixed +on him by the doctors, clergy, and relatives of the family. prince +vasíli, who had grown thinner and paler during the last few days, +escorted him to the door, repeating something to him several times in +when the military governor had gone, prince vasíli sat down all alone +on a chair in the ballroom, crossing one leg high over the other, +leaning his elbow on his knee and covering his face with his hand. after +sitting so for a while he rose, and, looking about him with frightened +eyes, went with unusually hurried steps down the long corridor leading +to the back of the house, to the room of the eldest princess. +those who were in the dimly lit reception room spoke in nervous +whispers, and, whenever anyone went into or came from the dying man’s +room, grew silent and gazed with eyes full of curiosity or expectancy at +his door, which creaked slightly when opened. +“the limits of human life ... are fixed and may not be +o’erpassed,” said an old priest to a lady who had taken a seat +beside him and was listening naïvely to his words. +“i wonder, is it not too late to administer unction?” asked the +lady, adding the priest’s clerical title, as if she had no opinion of +“ah, madam, it is a great sacrament,” replied the priest, passing +his hand over the thin grizzled strands of hair combed back across his +“who was that? the military governor himself?” was being asked at +“yes, and he is over sixty. i hear the count no longer recognizes +anyone. they wished to administer the sacrament of unction.” +“i knew someone who received that sacrament seven times.” +the second princess had just come from the sickroom with her eyes red +from weeping and sat down beside dr. lorrain, who was sitting in a +graceful pose under a portrait of catherine, leaning his elbow on a +“beautiful,” said the doctor in answer to a remark about the +weather. “the weather is beautiful, princess; and besides, in moscow +one feels as if one were in the country.” +“yes, indeed,” replied the princess with a sigh. “so he may have +“take a glass of boiled water and put a pinch of cream of tartar,” +and he indicated with his delicate fingers what he meant by a pinch. +“dere has neffer been a gase,” a german doctor was saying to an +aide-de-camp, “dat one liffs after de sird stroke.” +“and what a well-preserved man he was!” remarked the aide-de-camp. +“and who will inherit his wealth?” he added in a whisper. +“it von’t go begging,” replied the german with a smile. +everyone again looked toward the door, which creaked as the second +princess went in with the drink she had prepared according to +lorrain’s instructions. the german doctor went up to lorrain. +“do you think he can last till morning?” asked the german, +addressing lorrain in french which he pronounced badly. +lorrain, pursing up his lips, waved a severely negative finger before +“tonight, not later,” said he in a low voice, and he moved away +with a decorous smile of self-satisfaction at being able clearly to +understand and state the patient’s condition. +meanwhile prince vasíli had opened the door into the princess’ room. +in this room it was almost dark; only two tiny lamps were burning before +the icons and there was a pleasant scent of flowers and burnt pastilles. +the room was crowded with small pieces of furniture, whatnots, +cupboards, and little tables. the quilt of a high, white feather bed was +just visible behind a screen. a small dog began to bark. +she rose and smoothed her hair, which was as usual so extremely smooth +that it seemed to be made of one piece with her head and covered with +“has anything happened?” she asked. “i am so terrified.” +“no, there is no change. i only came to have a talk about business, +catiche,” * muttered the prince, seating himself wearily on the chair +she had just vacated. “you have made the place warm, i must say,” he +remarked. “well, sit down: let’s have a talk.” +“i thought perhaps something had happened,” she said with her +unchanging stonily severe expression; and, sitting down opposite the +“i wished to get a nap, mon cousin, but i can’t.” +“well, my dear?” said prince vasíli, taking her hand and bending it +downwards as was his habit. +it was plain that this “well?” referred to much that they both +the princess, who had a straight, rigid body, abnormally long for her +legs, looked directly at prince vasíli with no sign of emotion in her +prominent gray eyes. then she shook her head and glanced up at the icons +with a sigh. this might have been taken as an expression of sorrow +and devotion, or of weariness and hope of resting before long. prince +vasíli understood it as an expression of weariness. +“and i?” he said; “do you think it is easier for me? i am as worn +out as a post horse, but still i must have a talk with you, catiche, a +prince vasíli said no more and his cheeks began to twitch nervously, +now on one side, now on the other, giving his face an unpleasant +expression which was never to be seen on it in a drawing room. his eyes +too seemed strange; at one moment they looked impudently sly and at the +next glanced round in alarm. +the princess, holding her little dog on her lap with her thin bony +hands, looked attentively into prince vasíli’s eyes evidently +resolved not to be the first to break silence, if she had to wait till +“well, you see, my dear princess and cousin, catherine semënovna,” +continued prince vasíli, returning to his theme, apparently not +without an inner struggle; “at such a moment as this one must think +of everything. one must think of the future, of all of you... i love you +the princess continued to look at him without moving, and with the same +“and then of course my family has also to be considered,” prince +vasíli went on, testily pushing away a little table without looking at +her. “you know, catiche, that we—you three sisters, mámontov, and +my wife—are the count’s only direct heirs. i know, i know how hard +it is for you to talk or think of such matters. it is no easier for +me; but, my dear, i am getting on for sixty and must be prepared for +anything. do you know i have sent for pierre? the count,” pointing to +his portrait, “definitely demanded that he should be called.” +prince vasíli looked questioningly at the princess, but could not make +out whether she was considering what he had just said or whether she was +“there is one thing i constantly pray god to grant, mon cousin,” she +replied, “and it is that he would be merciful to him and would allow +his noble soul peacefully to leave this...” +“yes, yes, of course,” interrupted prince vasíli impatiently, +rubbing his bald head and angrily pulling back toward him the little +table that he had pushed away. “but... in short, the fact is... you +know yourself that last winter the count made a will by which he left +all his property, not to us his direct heirs, but to pierre.” +“he has made wills enough!” quietly remarked the princess. “but he +cannot leave the estate to pierre. pierre is illegitimate.” +“but, my dear,” said prince vasíli suddenly, clutching the little +table and becoming more animated and talking more rapidly: “what if +a letter has been written to the emperor in which the count asks for +pierre’s legitimation? do you understand that in consideration of the +count’s services, his request would be granted?...” +the princess smiled as people do who think they know more about the +subject under discussion than those they are talking with. +“i can tell you more,” continued prince vasíli, seizing her hand, +“that letter was written, though it was not sent, and the emperor knew +of it. the only question is, has it been destroyed or not? if not, then +as soon as all is over,” and prince vasíli sighed to intimate what he +meant by the words all is over, “and the count’s papers are opened, +the will and letter will be delivered to the emperor, and the petition +will certainly be granted. pierre will get everything as the legitimate +“and our share?” asked the princess smiling ironically, as if +anything might happen, only not that. +“but, my poor catiche, it is as clear as daylight! he will then be the +legal heir to everything and you won’t get anything. you must know, +my dear, whether the will and letter were written, and whether they have +been destroyed or not. and if they have somehow been overlooked, you +ought to know where they are, and must find them, because...” +“what next?” the princess interrupted, smiling sardonically and not +changing the expression of her eyes. “i am a woman, and you think we +are all stupid; but i know this: an illegitimate son cannot inherit... +un bâtard!”* she added, as if supposing that this translation of the +word would effectively prove to prince vasíli the invalidity of his + * a bastard. +“well, really, catiche! can’t you understand! you are so +intelligent, how is it you don’t see that if the count has written a +letter to the emperor begging him to recognize pierre as legitimate, it +follows that pierre will not be pierre but will become count bezúkhov, +and will then inherit everything under the will? and if the will and +letter are not destroyed, then you will have nothing but the consolation +of having been dutiful et tout ce qui s’ensuit!* that’s certain.” + * and all that follows therefrom. +“i know the will was made, but i also know that it is invalid; +and you, mon cousin, seem to consider me a perfect fool,” said the +princess with the expression women assume when they suppose they are +“my dear princess catherine semënovna,” began prince vasíli +impatiently, “i came here not to wrangle with you, but to talk about +your interests as with a kinswoman, a good, kind, true relation. and i +tell you for the tenth time that if the letter to the emperor and the +will in pierre’s favor are among the count’s papers, then, my dear +girl, you and your sisters are not heiresses! if you don’t believe me, +then believe an expert. i have just been talking to dmítri onúfrich” +at this a sudden change evidently took place in the princess’ ideas; +her thin lips grew white, though her eyes did not change, and her voice +when she began to speak passed through such transitions as she herself +“that would be a fine thing!” said she. “i never wanted anything +she pushed the little dog off her lap and smoothed her dress. +“and this is gratitude—this is recognition for those who have +sacrificed everything for his sake!” she cried. “it’s splendid! +“yes, but you are not the only one. there are your sisters...” +but the princess did not listen to him. +“yes, i knew it long ago but had forgotten. i knew that i could expect +nothing but meanness, deceit, envy, intrigue, and ingratitude—the +“do you or do you not know where that will is?” insisted prince +vasíli, his cheeks twitching more than ever. +“yes, i was a fool! i still believed in people, loved them, and +sacrificed myself. but only the base, the vile succeed! i know who has +the princess wished to rise, but the prince held her by the hand. she +had the air of one who has suddenly lost faith in the whole human race. +she gave her companion an angry glance. +“there is still time, my dear. you must remember, catiche, that it was +all done casually in a moment of anger, of illness, and was afterwards +forgotten. our duty, my dear, is to rectify his mistake, to ease his +last moments by not letting him commit this injustice, and not to let +him die feeling that he is rendering unhappy those who...” +“who sacrificed everything for him,” chimed in the princess, who +would again have risen had not the prince still held her fast, “though +he never could appreciate it. no, mon cousin,” she added with a sigh, +“i shall always remember that in this world one must expect no reward, +that in this world there is neither honor nor justice. in this world one +“now come, come! be reasonable. i know your excellent heart.” +“i know your heart,” repeated the prince. “i value your friendship +and wish you to have as good an opinion of me. don’t upset yourself, +and let us talk sensibly while there is still time, be it a day or be it +but an hour.... tell me all you know about the will, and above all where +it is. you must know. we will take it at once and show it to the +count. he has, no doubt, forgotten it and will wish to destroy it. +you understand that my sole desire is conscientiously to carry out his +wishes; that is my only reason for being here. i came simply to help him +“now i see it all! i know who has been intriguing—i know!” cried +“it’s that protégé of yours, that sweet princess drubetskáya, +that anna mikháylovna whom i would not take for a housemaid... the +“ah, don’t talk to me! last winter she wheedled herself in here and +told the count such vile, disgraceful things about us, especially about +sophie—i can’t repeat them—that it made the count quite ill and he +would not see us for a whole fortnight. i know it was then he wrote this +vile, infamous paper, but i thought the thing was invalid.” +“we’ve got to it at last—why did you not tell me about it +“it’s in the inlaid portfolio that he keeps under his pillow,” +said the princess, ignoring his question. “now i know! yes; if i have +a sin, a great sin, it is hatred of that vile woman!” almost shrieked +the princess, now quite changed. “and what does she come worming +herself in here for? but i will give her a piece of my mind. the time +while these conversations were going on in the reception room and the +princess’ room, a carriage containing pierre (who had been sent for) +and anna mikháylovna (who found it necessary to accompany him) was +driving into the court of count bezúkhov’s house. as the wheels +rolled softly over the straw beneath the windows, anna mikháylovna, +having turned with words of comfort to her companion, realized that +he was asleep in his corner and woke him up. rousing himself, pierre +followed anna mikháylovna out of the carriage, and only then began +to think of the interview with his dying father which awaited him. he +noticed that they had not come to the front entrance but to the back +door. while he was getting down from the carriage steps two men, who +looked like tradespeople, ran hurriedly from the entrance and hid in the +shadow of the wall. pausing for a moment, pierre noticed several other +men of the same kind hiding in the shadow of the house on both sides. +but neither anna mikháylovna nor the footman nor the coachman, who +could not help seeing these people, took any notice of them. “it seems +to be all right,” pierre concluded, and followed anna mikháylovna. +she hurriedly ascended the narrow dimly lit stone staircase, calling to +pierre, who was lagging behind, to follow. though he did not see why it +was necessary for him to go to the count at all, still less why he had +to go by the back stairs, yet judging by anna mikháylovna’s air +of assurance and haste, pierre concluded that it was all absolutely +necessary. halfway up the stairs they were almost knocked over by +some men who, carrying pails, came running downstairs, their boots +clattering. these men pressed close to the wall to let pierre and anna +mikháylovna pass and did not evince the least surprise at seeing them +“is this the way to the princesses’ apartments?” asked anna +“yes,” replied a footman in a bold loud voice, as if anything were +now permissible; “the door to the left, ma’am.” +“perhaps the count did not ask for me,” said pierre when he reached +the landing. “i’d better go to my own room.” +anna mikháylovna paused and waited for him to come up. +“ah, my friend!” she said, touching his arm as she had done her +son’s when speaking to him that afternoon, “believe me i suffer no +“but really, hadn’t i better go away?” he asked, looking kindly at +“ah, my dear friend! forget the wrongs that may have been done you. +think that he is your father ... perhaps in the agony of death.” she +sighed. “i have loved you like a son from the first. trust yourself to +me, pierre. i shall not forget your interests.” +pierre did not understand a word, but the conviction that all this had +to be grew stronger, and he meekly followed anna mikháylovna who was +this door led into a back anteroom. an old man, a servant of the +princesses, sat in a corner knitting a stocking. pierre had never been +in this part of the house and did not even know of the existence of +these rooms. anna mikháylovna, addressing a maid who was hurrying past +with a decanter on a tray as “my dear” and “my sweet,” asked +about the princess’ health and then led pierre along a stone passage. +the first door on the left led into the princesses’ apartments. the +maid with the decanter in her haste had not closed the door (everything +in the house was done in haste at that time), and pierre and anna +mikháylovna in passing instinctively glanced into the room, where +prince vasíli and the eldest princess were sitting close together +talking. seeing them pass, prince vasíli drew back with obvious +impatience, while the princess jumped up and with a gesture of +desperation slammed the door with all her might. +this action was so unlike her usual composure and the fear depicted on +prince vasíli’s face so out of keeping with his dignity that pierre +stopped and glanced inquiringly over his spectacles at his guide. anna +mikháylovna evinced no surprise, she only smiled faintly and sighed, as +if to say that this was no more than she had expected. +“be a man, my friend. i will look after your interests,” said she in +reply to his look, and went still faster along the passage. +pierre could not make out what it was all about, and still less what +“watching over his interests” meant, but he decided that all these +things had to be. from the passage they went into a large, dimly +lit room adjoining the count’s reception room. it was one of those +sumptuous but cold apartments known to pierre only from the front +approach, but even in this room there now stood an empty bath, and water +had been spilled on the carpet. they were met by a deacon with a censer +and by a servant who passed out on tiptoe without heeding them. they +went into the reception room familiar to pierre, with two italian +windows opening into the conservatory, with its large bust and full +length portrait of catherine the great. the same people were still +sitting here in almost the same positions as before, whispering to one +another. all became silent and turned to look at the pale tear-worn anna +mikháylovna as she entered, and at the big stout figure of pierre who, +anna mikháylovna’s face expressed a consciousness that the decisive +moment had arrived. with the air of a practical petersburg lady she now, +keeping pierre close beside her, entered the room even more boldly than +that afternoon. she felt that as she brought with her the person the +dying man wished to see, her own admission was assured. casting a rapid +glance at all those in the room and noticing the count’s confessor +there, she glided up to him with a sort of amble, not exactly bowing yet +seeming to grow suddenly smaller, and respectfully received the blessing +first of one and then of another priest. +“god be thanked that you are in time,” said she to one of the +priests; “all we relatives have been in such anxiety. this young +man is the count’s son,” she added more softly. “what a terrible +having said this she went up to the doctor. +“dear doctor,” said she, “this young man is the count’s son. is +the doctor cast a rapid glance upwards and silently shrugged his +shoulders. anna mikháylovna with just the same movement raised her +shoulders and eyes, almost closing the latter, sighed, and moved away +from the doctor to pierre. to him, in a particularly respectful and +“trust in his mercy!” and pointing out a small sofa for him to sit +and wait for her, she went silently toward the door that everyone was +watching and it creaked very slightly as she disappeared behind it. +pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved +toward the sofa she had indicated. as soon as anna mikháylovna had +disappeared he noticed that the eyes of all in the room turned to him +with something more than curiosity and sympathy. he noticed that they +whispered to one another, casting significant looks at him with a kind +of awe and even servility. a deference such as he had never before +received was shown him. a strange lady, the one who had been talking to +the priests, rose and offered him her seat; an aide-de-camp picked up +and returned a glove pierre had dropped; the doctors became respectfully +silent as he passed by, and moved to make way for him. at first pierre +wished to take another seat so as not to trouble the lady, and also to +pick up the glove himself and to pass round the doctors who were not +even in his way; but all at once he felt that this would not do, and +that tonight he was a person obliged to perform some sort of awful +rite which everyone expected of him, and that he was therefore bound +to accept their services. he took the glove in silence from the +aide-de-camp, and sat down in the lady’s chair, placing his huge hands +symmetrically on his knees in the naïve attitude of an egyptian statue, +and decided in his own mind that all was as it should be, and that in +order not to lose his head and do foolish things he must not act on his +own ideas tonight, but must yield himself up entirely to the will of +not two minutes had passed before prince vasíli with head erect +majestically entered the room. he was wearing his long coat with three +stars on his breast. he seemed to have grown thinner since the morning; +his eyes seemed larger than usual when he glanced round and noticed +pierre. he went up to him, took his hand (a thing he never used to do), +and drew it downwards as if wishing to ascertain whether it was firmly +“courage, courage, my friend! he has asked to see you. that is +but pierre thought it necessary to ask: “how is...” and hesitated, +not knowing whether it would be proper to call the dying man “the +count,” yet ashamed to call him “father.” +“he had another stroke about half an hour ago. courage, my +pierre’s mind was in such a confused state that the word “stroke” +suggested to him a blow from something. he looked at prince vasíli +in perplexity, and only later grasped that a stroke was an attack of +illness. prince vasíli said something to lorrain in passing and went +through the door on tiptoe. he could not walk well on tiptoe and his +whole body jerked at each step. the eldest princess followed him, and +the priests and deacons and some servants also went in at the door. +through that door was heard a noise of things being moved about, and +at last anna mikháylovna, still with the same expression, pale but +resolute in the discharge of duty, ran out and touching pierre lightly +“the divine mercy is inexhaustible! unction is about to be +pierre went in at the door, stepping on the soft carpet, and noticed +that the strange lady, the aide-de-camp, and some of the servants, all +followed him in, as if there were now no further need for permission to +pierre well knew this large room divided by columns and an arch, its +walls hung round with persian carpets. the part of the room behind the +columns, with a high silk-curtained mahogany bedstead on one side and +on the other an immense case containing icons, was brightly illuminated +with red light like a russian church during evening service. under +the gleaming icons stood a long invalid chair, and in that chair +on snowy-white smooth pillows, evidently freshly changed, pierre +saw—covered to the waist by a bright green quilt—the familiar, +majestic figure of his father, count bezúkhov, with that gray mane of +hair above his broad forehead which reminded one of a lion, and the deep +characteristically noble wrinkles of his handsome, ruddy face. he lay +just under the icons; his large thick hands outside the quilt. into the +right hand, which was lying palm downwards, a wax taper had been thrust +between forefinger and thumb, and an old servant, bending over from +behind the chair, held it in position. by the chair stood the priests, +their long hair falling over their magnificent glittering vestments, +with lighted tapers in their hands, slowly and solemnly conducting the +service. a little behind them stood the two younger princesses holding +handkerchiefs to their eyes, and just in front of them their eldest +sister, catiche, with a vicious and determined look steadily fixed on +the icons, as though declaring to all that she could not answer for +herself should she glance round. anna mikháylovna, with a meek, +sorrowful, and all-forgiving expression on her face, stood by the door +near the strange lady. prince vasíli in front of the door, near the +invalid chair, a wax taper in his left hand, was leaning his left arm on +the carved back of a velvet chair he had turned round for the purpose, +and was crossing himself with his right hand, turning his eyes upward +each time he touched his forehead. his face wore a calm look of piety +and resignation to the will of god. “if you do not understand these +sentiments,” he seemed to be saying, “so much the worse for you!” +behind him stood the aide-de-camp, the doctors, and the menservants; +the men and women had separated as in church. all were silently crossing +themselves, and the reading of the church service, the subdued chanting +of deep bass voices, and in the intervals sighs and the shuffling of +feet were the only sounds that could be heard. anna mikháylovna, with +an air of importance that showed that she felt she quite knew what she +was about, went across the room to where pierre was standing and gave +him a taper. he lit it and, distracted by observing those around him, +began crossing himself with the hand that held the taper. +sophie, the rosy, laughter-loving, youngest princess with the mole, +watched him. she smiled, hid her face in her handkerchief, and remained +with it hidden for awhile; then looking up and seeing pierre she +again began to laugh. she evidently felt unable to look at him +without laughing, but could not resist looking at him: so to be out of +temptation she slipped quietly behind one of the columns. in the midst +of the service the voices of the priests suddenly ceased, they whispered +to one another, and the old servant who was holding the count’s hand +got up and said something to the ladies. anna mikháylovna stepped +forward and, stooping over the dying man, beckoned to lorrain from +behind her back. the french doctor held no taper; he was leaning +against one of the columns in a respectful attitude implying that he, +a foreigner, in spite of all differences of faith, understood the full +importance of the rite now being performed and even approved of it. he +now approached the sick man with the noiseless step of one in full vigor +of life, with his delicate white fingers raised from the green quilt the +hand that was free, and turning sideways felt the pulse and reflected +a moment. the sick man was given something to drink, there was a +stir around him, then the people resumed their places and the service +continued. during this interval pierre noticed that prince vasíli +left the chair on which he had been leaning, and—with an air +which intimated that he knew what he was about and if others did not +understand him it was so much the worse for them—did not go up to the +dying man, but passed by him, joined the eldest princess, and moved +with her to the side of the room where stood the high bedstead with its +silken hangings. on leaving the bed both prince vasíli and the princess +passed out by a back door, but returned to their places one after the +other before the service was concluded. pierre paid no more attention +to this occurrence than to the rest of what went on, having made up his +mind once for all that what he saw happening around him that evening was +the chanting of the service ceased, and the voice of the priest was +heard respectfully congratulating the dying man on having received the +sacrament. the dying man lay as lifeless and immovable as before. around +him everyone began to stir: steps were audible and whispers, among which +anna mikháylovna’s was the most distinct. +“certainly he must be moved onto the bed; here it will be +the sick man was so surrounded by doctors, princesses, and servants +that pierre could no longer see the reddish-yellow face with its gray +mane—which, though he saw other faces as well, he had not lost sight +of for a single moment during the whole service. he judged by the +cautious movements of those who crowded round the invalid chair that +they had lifted the dying man and were moving him. +“catch hold of my arm or you’ll drop him!” he heard one of the +servants say in a frightened whisper. “catch hold from underneath. +here!” exclaimed different voices; and the heavy breathing of the +bearers and the shuffling of their feet grew more hurried, as if the +weight they were carrying were too much for them. +as the bearers, among whom was anna mikháylovna, passed the young man +he caught a momentary glimpse between their heads and backs of the dying +man’s high, stout, uncovered chest and powerful shoulders, raised by +those who were holding him under the armpits, and of his gray, curly, +leonine head. this head, with its remarkably broad brow and cheekbones, +its handsome, sensual mouth, and its cold, majestic expression, was +not disfigured by the approach of death. it was the same as pierre +remembered it three months before, when the count had sent him to +petersburg. but now this head was swaying helplessly with the uneven +movements of the bearers, and the cold listless gaze fixed itself upon +after a few minutes’ bustle beside the high bedstead, those who had +carried the sick man dispersed. anna mikháylovna touched pierre’s +hand and said, “come.” pierre went with her to the bed on which the +sick man had been laid in a stately pose in keeping with the ceremony +just completed. he lay with his head propped high on the pillows. his +hands were symmetrically placed on the green silk quilt, the palms +downward. when pierre came up the count was gazing straight at him, but +with a look the significance of which could not be understood by mortal +man. either this look meant nothing but that as long as one has eyes +they must look somewhere, or it meant too much. pierre hesitated, +not knowing what to do, and glanced inquiringly at his guide. anna +mikháylovna made a hurried sign with her eyes, glancing at the sick +man’s hand and moving her lips as if to send it a kiss. pierre, +carefully stretching his neck so as not to touch the quilt, followed her +suggestion and pressed his lips to the large boned, fleshy hand. neither +the hand nor a single muscle of the count’s face stirred. once more +pierre looked questioningly at anna mikháylovna to see what he was to +do next. anna mikháylovna with her eyes indicated a chair that stood +beside the bed. pierre obediently sat down, his eyes asking if he were +doing right. anna mikháylovna nodded approvingly. again pierre fell +into the naïvely symmetrical pose of an egyptian statue, evidently +distressed that his stout and clumsy body took up so much room and doing +his utmost to look as small as possible. he looked at the count, who +still gazed at the spot where pierre’s face had been before he sat +down. anna mikháylovna indicated by her attitude her consciousness of +the pathetic importance of these last moments of meeting between the +father and son. this lasted about two minutes, which to pierre seemed an +hour. suddenly the broad muscles and lines of the count’s face began +to twitch. the twitching increased, the handsome mouth was drawn to one +side (only now did pierre realize how near death his father was), and +from that distorted mouth issued an indistinct, hoarse sound. anna +mikháylovna looked attentively at the sick man’s eyes, trying to +guess what he wanted; she pointed first to pierre, then to some drink, +then named prince vasíli in an inquiring whisper, then pointed to the +quilt. the eyes and face of the sick man showed impatience. he made an +effort to look at the servant who stood constantly at the head of the +“wants to turn on the other side,” whispered the servant, and got up +pierre rose to help him. +while the count was being turned over, one of his arms fell back +helplessly and he made a fruitless effort to pull it forward. whether he +noticed the look of terror with which pierre regarded that lifeless arm, +or whether some other thought flitted across his dying brain, at any +rate he glanced at the refractory arm, at pierre’s terror-stricken +face, and again at the arm, and on his face a feeble, piteous smile +appeared, quite out of keeping with his features, that seemed to deride +his own helplessness. at sight of this smile pierre felt an unexpected +quivering in his breast and a tickling in his nose, and tears dimmed his +eyes. the sick man was turned on to his side with his face to the wall. +“he is dozing,” said anna mikháylovna, observing that one of the +princesses was coming to take her turn at watching. “let us go.” +there was now no one in the reception room except prince vasíli and the +eldest princess, who were sitting under the portrait of catherine the +great and talking eagerly. as soon as they saw pierre and his companion +they became silent, and pierre thought he saw the princess hide +“i can’t bear the sight of that woman.” +“catiche has had tea served in the small drawing room,” said prince +vasíli to anna mikháylovna. “go and take something, my poor anna +to pierre he said nothing, merely giving his arm a sympathetic squeeze +below the shoulder. pierre went with anna mikháylovna into the small +“there is nothing so refreshing after a sleepless night as a cup +of this delicious russian tea,” lorrain was saying with an air of +restrained animation as he stood sipping tea from a delicate chinese +handleless cup before a table on which tea and a cold supper were laid +in the small circular room. around the table all who were at count +bezúkhov’s house that night had gathered to fortify themselves. +pierre well remembered this small circular drawing room with its mirrors +and little tables. during balls given at the house pierre, who did not +know how to dance, had liked sitting in this room to watch the ladies +who, as they passed through in their ball dresses with diamonds and +pearls on their bare shoulders, looked at themselves in the brilliantly +lighted mirrors which repeated their reflections several times. now +this same room was dimly lighted by two candles. on one small table tea +things and supper dishes stood in disorder, and in the middle of the +night a motley throng of people sat there, not merrymaking, but somberly +whispering, and betraying by every word and movement that they none +of them forgot what was happening and what was about to happen in the +bedroom. pierre did not eat anything though he would very much have +liked to. he looked inquiringly at his monitress and saw that she was +again going on tiptoe to the reception room where they had left prince +vasíli and the eldest princess. pierre concluded that this also was +essential, and after a short interval followed her. anna mikháylovna +was standing beside the princess, and they were both speaking in excited +“permit me, princess, to know what is necessary and what is not +necessary,” said the younger of the two speakers, evidently in the +same state of excitement as when she had slammed the door of her room. +“but, my dear princess,” answered anna mikháylovna blandly but +impressively, blocking the way to the bedroom and preventing the other +from passing, “won’t this be too much for poor uncle at a moment +when he needs repose? worldly conversation at a moment when his soul is +prince vasíli was seated in an easy chair in his familiar attitude, +with one leg crossed high above the other. his cheeks, which were so +flabby that they looked heavier below, were twitching violently; but +he wore the air of a man little concerned in what the two ladies were +“come, my dear anna mikháylovna, let catiche do as she pleases. you +know how fond the count is of her.” +“i don’t even know what is in this paper,” said the younger of +the two ladies, addressing prince vasíli and pointing to an inlaid +portfolio she held in her hand. “all i know is that his real will is +in his writing table, and this is a paper he has forgotten....” +she tried to pass anna mikháylovna, but the latter sprang so as to bar +“i know, my dear, kind princess,” said anna mikháylovna, seizing +the portfolio so firmly that it was plain she would not let go easily. +“dear princess, i beg and implore you, have some pity on him! je vous +the princess did not reply. their efforts in the struggle for the +portfolio were the only sounds audible, but it was evident that if +the princess did speak, her words would not be flattering to anna +mikháylovna. though the latter held on tenaciously, her voice lost none +of its honeyed firmness and softness. +“pierre, my dear, come here. i think he will not be out of place in a +family consultation; is it not so, prince?” +“why don’t you speak, cousin?” suddenly shrieked the princess so +loud that those in the drawing room heard her and were startled. “why +do you remain silent when heaven knows who permits herself to +interfere, making a scene on the very threshold of a dying man’s room? +intriguer!” she hissed viciously, and tugged with all her might at the +but anna mikháylovna went forward a step or two to keep her hold on the +prince vasíli rose. “oh!” said he with reproach and surprise, +but anna mikháylovna did not obey him. +“let go, i tell you! i will take the responsibility. i myself will go +and ask him, i!... does that satisfy you?” +“but, prince,” said anna mikháylovna, “after such a solemn +sacrament, allow him a moment’s peace! here, pierre, tell them your +opinion,” said she, turning to the young man who, having come quite +close, was gazing with astonishment at the angry face of the princess +which had lost all dignity, and at the twitching cheeks of prince +“remember that you will answer for the consequences,” said prince +vasíli severely. “you don’t know what you are doing.” +“vile woman!” shouted the princess, darting unexpectedly at anna +mikháylovna and snatching the portfolio from her. +prince vasíli bent his head and spread out his hands. +at this moment that terrible door, which pierre had watched so long +and which had always opened so quietly, burst noisily open and banged +against the wall, and the second of the three sisters rushed out +“what are you doing!” she cried vehemently. “he is dying and you +her sister dropped the portfolio. anna mikháylovna, stooping, quickly +caught up the object of contention and ran into the bedroom. the eldest +princess and prince vasíli, recovering themselves, followed her. a few +minutes later the eldest sister came out with a pale hard face, again +biting her underlip. at sight of pierre her expression showed an +“yes, now you may be glad!” said she; “this is what you have +been waiting for.” and bursting into tears she hid her face in her +handkerchief and rushed from the room. +prince vasíli came next. he staggered to the sofa on which pierre was +sitting and dropped onto it, covering his face with his hand. pierre +noticed that he was pale and that his jaw quivered and shook as if in an +“ah, my friend!” said he, taking pierre by the elbow; and there was +in his voice a sincerity and weakness pierre had never observed in it +before. “how often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? i am +near sixty, dear friend... i too... all will end in death, all! death is +anna mikháylovna came out last. she approached pierre with slow, quiet +pierre gave her an inquiring look. she kissed the young man on his +forehead, wetting him with her tears. then after a pause she said: +pierre looked at her over his spectacles. +“come, i will go with you. try to weep, nothing gives such relief as +she led him into the dark drawing room and pierre was glad no one could +see his face. anna mikháylovna left him, and when she returned he was +in the morning anna mikháylovna said to pierre: +“yes, my dear, this is a great loss for us all, not to speak of you. +but god will support you: you are young, and are now, i hope, in command +of an immense fortune. the will has not yet been opened. i know you +well enough to be sure that this will not turn your head, but it imposes +duties on you, and you must be a man.” +“perhaps later on i may tell you, my dear boy, that if i had not been +there, god only knows what would have happened! you know, uncle promised +me only the day before yesterday not to forget borís. but he had +no time. i hope, my dear friend, you will carry out your father’s +pierre understood nothing of all this and coloring shyly looked in +silence at princess anna mikháylovna. after her talk with pierre, anna +mikháylovna returned to the rostóvs’ and went to bed. on waking in +the morning she told the rostóvs and all her acquaintances the details +of count bezúkhov’s death. she said the count had died as she would +herself wish to die, that his end was not only touching but edifying. as +to the last meeting between father and son, it was so touching that she +could not think of it without tears, and did not know which had behaved +better during those awful moments—the father who so remembered +everything and everybody at last and had spoken such pathetic words to +the son, or pierre, whom it had been pitiful to see, so stricken was he +with grief, though he tried hard to hide it in order not to sadden his +dying father. “it is painful, but it does one good. it uplifts the +soul to see such men as the old count and his worthy son,” said she. +of the behavior of the eldest princess and prince vasíli she spoke +disapprovingly, but in whispers and as a great secret. +at bald hills, prince nicholas andréevich bolkónski’s estate, the +arrival of young prince andrew and his wife was daily expected, but +this expectation did not upset the regular routine of life in the old +prince’s household. general in chief prince nicholas andréevich +(nicknamed in society, “the king of prussia”) ever since the emperor +paul had exiled him to his country estate had lived there continuously +with his daughter, princess mary, and her companion, mademoiselle +bourienne. though in the new reign he was free to return to the +capitals, he still continued to live in the country, remarking that +anyone who wanted to see him could come the hundred miles from moscow to +bald hills, while he himself needed no one and nothing. he used to +say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and +superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence. he +himself undertook his daughter’s education, and to develop these two +cardinal virtues in her gave her lessons in algebra and geometry +till she was twenty, and arranged her life so that her whole time was +occupied. he was himself always occupied: writing his memoirs, solving +problems in higher mathematics, turning snuffboxes on a lathe, working +in the garden, or superintending the building that was always going on +at his estate. as regularity is a prime condition facilitating activity, +regularity in his household was carried to the highest point of +exactitude. he always came to table under precisely the same conditions, +and not only at the same hour but at the same minute. with those about +him, from his daughter to his serfs, the prince was sharp and invariably +exacting, so that without being a hardhearted man he inspired such fear +and respect as few hardhearted men would have aroused. although he was +in retirement and had now no influence in political affairs, every high +official appointed to the province in which the prince’s estate lay +considered it his duty to visit him and waited in the lofty antechamber +just as the architect, gardener, or princess mary did, till the prince +appeared punctually to the appointed hour. everyone sitting in this +antechamber experienced the same feeling of respect and even fear when +the enormously high study door opened and showed the figure of a rather +small old man, with powdered wig, small withered hands, and bushy gray +eyebrows which, when he frowned, sometimes hid the gleam of his shrewd, +on the morning of the day that the young couple were to arrive, princess +mary entered the antechamber as usual at the time appointed for the +morning greeting, crossing herself with trepidation and repeating a +silent prayer. every morning she came in like that, and every morning +prayed that the daily interview might pass off well. +an old powdered manservant who was sitting in the antechamber rose +quietly and said in a whisper: “please walk in.” +through the door came the regular hum of a lathe. the princess timidly +opened the door which moved noiselessly and easily. she paused at the +entrance. the prince was working at the lathe and after glancing round +the enormous study was full of things evidently in constant use. +the large table covered with books and plans, the tall glass-fronted +bookcases with keys in the locks, the high desk for writing while +standing up, on which lay an open exercise book, and the lathe with +tools laid ready to hand and shavings scattered around—all indicated +continuous, varied, and orderly activity. the motion of the small foot +shod in a tartar boot embroidered with silver, and the firm pressure +of the lean sinewy hand, showed that the prince still possessed the +tenacious endurance and vigor of hardy old age. after a few more turns +of the lathe he removed his foot from the pedal, wiped his chisel, +dropped it into a leather pouch attached to the lathe, and, approaching +the table, summoned his daughter. he never gave his children a blessing, +so he simply held out his bristly cheek (as yet unshaven) and, regarding +her tenderly and attentively, said severely: +“quite well? all right then, sit down.” he took the exercise book +containing lessons in geometry written by himself and drew up a chair +“for tomorrow!” said he, quickly finding the page and making a +scratch from one paragraph to another with his hard nail. +the princess bent over the exercise book on the table. +“wait a bit, here’s a letter for you,” said the old man suddenly, +taking a letter addressed in a woman’s hand from a bag hanging above +the table, onto which he threw it. +at the sight of the letter red patches showed themselves on the +princess’ face. she took it quickly and bent her head over it. +“from héloïse?” asked the prince with a cold smile that showed his +“yes, it’s from julie,” replied the princess with a timid glance +“i’ll let two more letters pass, but the third i’ll read,” said +the prince sternly; “i’m afraid you write much nonsense. i’ll read +“read this if you like, father,” said the princess, blushing still +more and holding out the letter. +“the third, i said the third!” cried the prince abruptly, pushing +the letter away, and leaning his elbows on the table he drew toward him +the exercise book containing geometrical figures. +“well, madam,” he began, stooping over the book close to his +daughter and placing an arm on the back of the chair on which she sat, +so that she felt herself surrounded on all sides by the acrid scent of +old age and tobacco, which she had known so long. “now, madam, these +triangles are equal; please note that the angle abc...” +the princess looked in a scared way at her father’s eyes glittering +close to her; the red patches on her face came and went, and it was +plain that she understood nothing and was so frightened that her +fear would prevent her understanding any of her father’s further +explanations, however clear they might be. whether it was the +teacher’s fault or the pupil’s, this same thing happened every day: +the princess’ eyes grew dim, she could not see and could not hear +anything, but was only conscious of her stern father’s withered face +close to her, of his breath and the smell of him, and could think only +of how to get away quickly to her own room to make out the problem in +peace. the old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was +sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself +and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, +and sometimes flung the exercise book away. +the princess gave a wrong answer. +“well now, isn’t she a fool!” shouted the prince, pushing the book +aside and turning sharply away; but rising immediately, he paced up and +down, lightly touched his daughter’s hair and sat down again. +he drew up his chair, and continued to explain. +“this won’t do, princess; it won’t do,” said he, when princess +mary, having taken and closed the exercise book with the next day’s +lesson, was about to leave: “mathematics are most important, madam! +i don’t want to have you like our silly ladies. get used to it and +you’ll like it,” and he patted her cheek. “it will drive all the +she turned to go, but he stopped her with a gesture and took an uncut +“here is some sort of key to the mysteries that your héloïse has +sent you. religious! i don’t interfere with anyone’s belief... i +have looked at it. take it. well, now go. go.” +he patted her on the shoulder and himself closed the door after her. +princess mary went back to her room with the sad, scared expression that +rarely left her and which made her plain, sickly face yet plainer. she +sat down at her writing table, on which stood miniature portraits and +which was littered with books and papers. the princess was as untidy as +her father was tidy. she put down the geometry book and eagerly broke +the seal of her letter. it was from her most intimate friend from +childhood; that same julie karágina who had been at the rostóvs’ +dear and precious friend, how terrible and frightful a thing is +separation! though i tell myself that half my life and half my happiness +are wrapped up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us +our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against +fate and in spite of the pleasures and distractions around me i cannot +overcome a certain secret sorrow that has been in my heart ever since +we parted. why are we not together as we were last summer, in your big +study, on the blue sofa, the confidential sofa? why cannot i now, as +three months ago, draw fresh moral strength from your look, so gentle, +calm, and penetrating, a look i loved so well and seem to see before me +having read thus far, princess mary sighed and glanced into the mirror +which stood on her right. it reflected a weak, ungraceful figure and +thin face. her eyes, always sad, now looked with particular hopelessness +at her reflection in the glass. “she flatters me,” thought the +princess, turning away and continuing to read. but julie did not flatter +her friend, the princess’ eyes—large, deep and luminous (it seemed +as if at times there radiated from them shafts of warm light)—were +so beautiful that very often in spite of the plainness of her face +they gave her an attraction more powerful than that of beauty. but the +princess never saw the beautiful expression of her own eyes—the look +they had when she was not thinking of herself. as with everyone, her +face assumed a forced unnatural expression as soon as she looked in a +all moscow talks of nothing but war. one of my two brothers is already +abroad, the other is with the guards, who are starting on their march +to the frontier. our dear emperor has left petersburg and it is thought +intends to expose his precious person to the chances of war. god grant +that the corsican monster who is destroying the peace of europe may +be overthrown by the angel whom it has pleased the almighty, in his +goodness, to give us as sovereign! to say nothing of my brothers, this +war has deprived me of one of the associations nearest my heart. i mean +young nicholas rostóv, who with his enthusiasm could not bear to remain +inactive and has left the university to join the army. i will confess to +you, dear mary, that in spite of his extreme youth his departure for +the army was a great grief to me. this young man, of whom i spoke to you +last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which +one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, +he is so frank and has so much heart. he is so pure and poetic that +my relations with him, transient as they were, have been one of the +sweetest comforts to my poor heart, which has already suffered so much. +someday i will tell you about our parting and all that was said then. +that is still too fresh. ah, dear friend, you are happy not to know +these poignant joys and sorrows. you are fortunate, for the latter are +generally the stronger! i know very well that count nicholas is too +young ever to be more to me than a friend, but this sweet friendship, +this poetic and pure intimacy, were what my heart needed. but enough of +this! the chief news, about which all moscow gossips, is the death of +old count bezúkhov, and his inheritance. fancy! the three princesses +have received very little, prince vasíli nothing, and it is monsieur +pierre who has inherited all the property and has besides been +recognized as legitimate; so that he is now count bezúkhov and +possessor of the finest fortune in russia. it is rumored that prince +vasíli played a very despicable part in this affair and that he +i confess i understand very little about all these matters of wills and +inheritance; but i do know that since this young man, whom we all used +to know as plain monsieur pierre, has become count bezúkhov and the +owner of one of the largest fortunes in russia, i am much amused to +watch the change in the tone and manners of the mammas burdened by +marriageable daughters, and of the young ladies themselves, toward +him, though, between you and me, he always seemed to me a poor sort +of fellow. as for the past two years people have amused themselves +by finding husbands for me (most of whom i don’t even know), the +matchmaking chronicles of moscow now speak of me as the future countess +bezúkhova. but you will understand that i have no desire for the post. +À propos of marriages: do you know that a while ago that universal +auntie anna mikháylovna told me, under the seal of strict secrecy, of +a plan of marriage for you. it is neither more nor less than with prince +vasíli’s son anatole, whom they wish to reform by marrying him to +someone rich and distinguée, and it is on you that his relations’ +choice has fallen. i don’t know what you will think of it, but +i consider it my duty to let you know of it. he is said to be very +handsome and a terrible scapegrace. that is all i have been able to find +but enough of gossip. i am at the end of my second sheet of paper, and +mamma has sent for me to go and dine at the apráksins’. read the +mystical book i am sending you; it has an enormous success here. though +there are things in it difficult for the feeble human mind to grasp, it +is an admirable book which calms and elevates the soul. adieu! give +my respects to monsieur your father and my compliments to mademoiselle +p.s. let me have news of your brother and his charming little wife. +the princess pondered awhile with a thoughtful smile and her luminous +eyes lit up so that her face was entirely transformed. then she suddenly +rose and with her heavy tread went up to the table. she took a sheet of +paper and her hand moved rapidly over it. this is the reply she wrote, +dear and precious friend, your letter of the 13th has given me great +delight. so you still love me, my romantic julie? separation, of which +you say so much that is bad, does not seem to have had its usual effect +on you. you complain of our separation. what then should i say, if i +dared complain, i who am deprived of all who are dear to me? ah, if +we had not religion to console us life would be very sad. why do you +suppose that i should look severely on your affection for that young +man? on such matters i am only severe with myself. i understand such +feelings in others, and if never having felt them i cannot approve of +them, neither do i condemn them. only it seems to me that christian +love, love of one’s neighbor, love of one’s enemy, is worthier, +sweeter, and better than the feelings which the beautiful eyes of a +young man can inspire in a romantic and loving young girl like yourself. +the news of count bezúkhov’s death reached us before your letter +and my father was much affected by it. he says the count was the last +representative but one of the great century, and that it is his own +turn now, but that he will do all he can to let his turn come as late as +possible. god preserve us from that terrible misfortune! +i cannot agree with you about pierre, whom i knew as a child. he always +seemed to me to have an excellent heart, and that is the quality i value +most in people. as to his inheritance and the part played by prince +vasíli, it is very sad for both. ah, my dear friend, our divine +saviour’s words, that it is easier for a camel to go through the +eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of god, are +terribly true. i pity prince vasíli but am still more sorry for pierre. +so young, and burdened with such riches—to what temptations he will be +exposed! if i were asked what i desire most on earth, it would be to be +poorer than the poorest beggar. a thousand thanks, dear friend, for the +volume you have sent me and which has such success in moscow. yet since +you tell me that among some good things it contains others which our +weak human understanding cannot grasp, it seems to me rather useless to +spend time in reading what is unintelligible and can therefore bear +no fruit. i never could understand the fondness some people have for +confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken +their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for +exaggeration quite contrary to christian simplicity. let us rather read +the epistles and gospels. let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries +they contain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, know the +terrible and holy secrets of providence while we remain in this flesh +which forms an impenetrable veil between us and the eternal? let us +rather confine ourselves to studying those sublime rules which our +divine saviour has left for our guidance here below. let us try to +conform to them and follow them, and let us be persuaded that the less +we let our feeble human minds roam, the better we shall please god, who +rejects all knowledge that does not come from him; and the less we seek +to fathom what he has been pleased to conceal from us, the sooner will +he vouchsafe its revelation to us through his divine spirit. +my father has not spoken to me of a suitor, but has only told me that he +has received a letter and is expecting a visit from prince vasíli. in +regard to this project of marriage for me, i will tell you, dear sweet +friend, that i look on marriage as a divine institution to which we must +conform. however painful it may be to me, should the almighty lay +the duties of wife and mother upon me i shall try to perform them as +faithfully as i can, without disquieting myself by examining my feelings +toward him whom he may give me for husband. +i have had a letter from my brother, who announces his speedy arrival +at bald hills with his wife. this pleasure will be but a brief one, +however, for he will leave us again to take part in this unhappy war +into which we have been drawn, god knows how or why. not only where you +are—at the heart of affairs and of the world—is the talk all of +war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature—which townsfolk +consider characteristic of the country—rumors of war are heard +and painfully felt. my father talks of nothing but marches and +countermarches, things of which i understand nothing; and the day +before yesterday during my daily walk through the village i witnessed a +heartrending scene.... it was a convoy of conscripts enrolled from our +people and starting to join the army. you should have seen the state of +the mothers, wives, and children of the men who were going and should +have heard the sobs. it seems as though mankind has forgotten the +laws of its divine saviour, who preached love and forgiveness of +injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing +adieu, dear and kind friend; may our divine saviour and his most holy +mother keep you in their holy and all-powerful care! +“ah, you are sending off a letter, princess? i have already dispatched +mine. i have written to my poor mother,” said the smiling mademoiselle +bourienne rapidly, in her pleasant mellow tones and with guttural r’s. +she brought into princess mary’s strenuous, mournful, and gloomy +world a quite different atmosphere, careless, lighthearted, and +“princess, i must warn you,” she added, lowering her voice and +evidently listening to herself with pleasure, and speaking with +exaggerated grasseyement, “the prince has been scolding michael +ivánovich. he is in a very bad humor, very morose. be prepared.” +“ah, dear friend,” replied princess mary, “i have asked you never +to warn me of the humor my father is in. i do not allow myself to judge +the princess glanced at her watch and, seeing that she was five minutes +late in starting her practice on the clavichord, went into the sitting +room with a look of alarm. between twelve and two o’clock, as the +day was mapped out, the prince rested and the princess played the +the gray-haired valet was sitting drowsily listening to the snoring of +the prince, who was in his large study. from the far side of the house +through the closed doors came the sound of difficult passages—twenty +just then a closed carriage and another with a hood drove up to the +porch. prince andrew got out of the carriage, helped his little wife to +alight, and let her pass into the house before him. old tíkhon, wearing +a wig, put his head out of the door of the antechamber, reported in +a whisper that the prince was sleeping, and hastily closed the door. +tíkhon knew that neither the son’s arrival nor any other unusual +event must be allowed to disturb the appointed order of the day. prince +andrew apparently knew this as well as tíkhon; he looked at his watch +as if to ascertain whether his father’s habits had changed since he +was at home last, and, having assured himself that they had not, he +“he will get up in twenty minutes. let us go across to mary’s +the little princess had grown stouter during this time, but her eyes +and her short, downy, smiling lip lifted when she began to speak just as +“why, this is a palace!” she said to her husband, looking around +with the expression with which people compliment their host at a ball. +“let’s come, quick, quick!” and with a glance round, she smiled at +tíkhon, at her husband, and at the footman who accompanied them. +“is that mary practicing? let’s go quietly and take her by +prince andrew followed her with a courteous but sad expression. +“you’ve grown older, tíkhon,” he said in passing to the old man, +before they reached the room from which the sounds of the clavichord +came, the pretty, fair-haired frenchwoman, mademoiselle bourienne, +rushed out apparently beside herself with delight. +“ah! what joy for the princess!” exclaimed she: “at last! i must +“no, no, please not... you are mademoiselle bourienne,” said +the little princess, kissing her. “i know you already through my +sister-in-law’s friendship for you. she was not expecting us?” +they went up to the door of the sitting room from which came the sound +of the oft-repeated passage of the sonata. prince andrew stopped and +made a grimace, as if expecting something unpleasant. +the little princess entered the room. the passage broke off in the +middle, a cry was heard, then princess mary’s heavy tread and the +sound of kissing. when prince andrew went in the two princesses, who +had only met once before for a short time at his wedding, were in +each other’s arms warmly pressing their lips to whatever place they +happened to touch. mademoiselle bourienne stood near them pressing her +hand to her heart, with a beatific smile and obviously equally ready to +cry or to laugh. prince andrew shrugged his shoulders and frowned, as +lovers of music do when they hear a false note. the two women let go +of one another, and then, as if afraid of being too late, seized each +other’s hands, kissing them and pulling them away, and again began +kissing each other on the face, and then to prince andrew’s surprise +both began to cry and kissed again. mademoiselle bourienne also began to +cry. prince andrew evidently felt ill at ease, but to the two women +it seemed quite natural that they should cry, and apparently it never +entered their heads that it could have been otherwise at this meeting. +“ah! my dear!... ah! mary!...” they suddenly exclaimed, and then +laughed. “i dreamed last night...”—“you were not expecting +us?...” “ah! mary, you have got thinner?...” “and you have grown +“i knew the princess at once,” put in mademoiselle bourienne. +“and i had no idea!...” exclaimed princess mary. “ah, andrew, i +prince andrew and his sister, hand in hand, kissed one another, and +he told her she was still the same crybaby as ever. princess mary had +turned toward her brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, +gentle look of her large luminous eyes, very beautiful at that moment, +the little princess talked incessantly, her short, downy upper lip +continually and rapidly touching her rosy nether lip when necessary +and drawing up again next moment when her face broke into a smile of +glittering teeth and sparkling eyes. she told of an accident they had +had on the spásski hill which might have been serious for her in her +condition, and immediately after that informed them that she had left +all her clothes in petersburg and that heaven knew what she would have +to dress in here; and that andrew had quite changed, and that kitty +odýntsova had married an old man, and that there was a suitor for mary, +a real one, but that they would talk of that later. princess mary was +still looking silently at her brother and her beautiful eyes were full +of love and sadness. it was plain that she was following a train of +thought independent of her sister-in-law’s words. in the midst of a +description of the last petersburg fete she addressed her brother: +“so you are really going to the war, andrew?” she said sighing. +“yes, and even tomorrow,” replied her brother. +“he is leaving me here, god knows why, when he might have had +princess mary did not listen to the end, but continuing her train of +thought turned to her sister-in-law with a tender glance at her figure. +the face of the little princess changed. she sighed and said: “yes, +her lip descended. she brought her face close to her sister-in-law’s +“she needs rest,” said prince andrew with a frown. “don’t you, +lise? take her to your room and i’ll go to father. how is he? just the +“yes, just the same. though i don’t know what your opinion will +“and are the hours the same? and the walks in the avenues? and the +lathe?” asked prince andrew with a scarcely perceptible smile which +showed that, in spite of all his love and respect for his father, he was +“the hours are the same, and the lathe, and also the mathematics and +my geometry lessons,” said princess mary gleefully, as if her lessons +in geometry were among the greatest delights of her life. +when the twenty minutes had elapsed and the time had come for the old +prince to get up, tíkhon came to call the young prince to his father. +the old man made a departure from his usual routine in honor of his +son’s arrival: he gave orders to admit him to his apartments while +he dressed for dinner. the old prince always dressed in old-fashioned +style, wearing an antique coat and powdered hair; and when prince andrew +entered his father’s dressing room (not with the contemptuous look and +manner he wore in drawing rooms, but with the animated face with which +he talked to pierre), the old man was sitting on a large leather-covered +chair, wrapped in a powdering mantle, entrusting his head to tíkhon. +“ah! here’s the warrior! wants to vanquish buonaparte?” said the +old man, shaking his powdered head as much as the tail, which tíkhon +“you at least must tackle him properly, or else if he goes on like +this he’ll soon have us, too, for his subjects! how are you?” and he +the old man was in a good temper after his nap before dinner. (he +used to say that a nap “after dinner was silver—before dinner, +golden.”) he cast happy, sidelong glances at his son from under his +thick, bushy eyebrows. prince andrew went up and kissed his father on +the spot indicated to him. he made no reply on his father’s favorite +topic—making fun of the military men of the day, and more particularly +“yes, father, i have come to you and brought my wife who is +pregnant,” said prince andrew, following every movement of his +father’s face with an eager and respectful look. “how is your +“only fools and rakes fall ill, my boy. you know me: i am busy from +morning till night and abstemious, so of course i am well.” +“god has nothing to do with it! well, go on,” he continued, +returning to his hobby; “tell me how the germans have taught you to +fight bonaparte by this new science you call ‘strategy.’” +“give me time to collect my wits, father,” said he, with a smile +that showed that his father’s foibles did not prevent his son from +loving and honoring him. “why, i have not yet had time to settle +“nonsense, nonsense!” cried the old man, shaking his pigtail to +see whether it was firmly plaited, and grasping his by the hand. “the +house for your wife is ready. princess mary will take her there and +show her over, and they’ll talk nineteen to the dozen. that’s +their woman’s way! i am glad to have her. sit down and talk. about +mikhelson’s army i understand—tolstóy ‘s too... a simultaneous +expedition.... but what’s the southern army to do? prussia is +neutral... i know that. what about austria?” said he, rising from his +chair and pacing up and down the room followed by tíkhon, who ran after +him, handing him different articles of clothing. “what of sweden? how +prince andrew, seeing that his father insisted, began—at first +reluctantly, but gradually with more and more animation, and from habit +changing unconsciously from russian to french as he went on—to explain +the plan of operation for the coming campaign. he explained how an army, +ninety thousand strong, was to threaten prussia so as to bring her out +of her neutrality and draw her into the war; how part of that army was +to join some swedish forces at stralsund; how two hundred and twenty +thousand austrians, with a hundred thousand russians, were to operate in +italy and on the rhine; how fifty thousand russians and as many english +were to land at naples, and how a total force of five hundred thousand +men was to attack the french from different sides. the old prince did +not evince the least interest during this explanation, but as if he were +not listening to it continued to dress while walking about, and three +times unexpectedly interrupted. once he stopped it by shouting: “the +this meant that tíkhon was not handing him the waistcoat he wanted. +“and will she soon be confined?” and shaking his head reproachfully +said: “that’s bad! go on, go on.” +the third interruption came when prince andrew was finishing his +description. the old man began to sing, in the cracked voice of old age: +“malbrook s’en va-t-en guerre. dieu sait quand reviendra.” * + * “marlborough is going to the wars; god knows when he’ll +“i don’t say it’s a plan i approve of,” said the son; “i am +only telling you what it is. napoleon has also formed his plan by now, +“well, you’ve told me nothing new,” and the old man repeated, +“dieu sait quand reviendra. go to the dining room.” +at the appointed hour the prince, powdered and shaven, entered the +dining room where his daughter-in-law, princess mary, and mademoiselle +bourienne were already awaiting him together with his architect, who by +a strange caprice of his employer’s was admitted to table though the +position of that insignificant individual was such as could certainly +not have caused him to expect that honor. the prince, who generally kept +very strictly to social distinctions and rarely admitted even important +government officials to his table, had unexpectedly selected michael +ivánovich (who always went into a corner to blow his nose on his +checked handkerchief) to illustrate the theory that all men are equals, +and had more than once impressed on his daughter that michael ivánovich +was “not a whit worse than you or i.” at dinner the prince usually +spoke to the taciturn michael ivánovich more often than to anyone else. +in the dining room, which like all the rooms in the house was +exceedingly lofty, the members of the household and the footmen—one +behind each chair—stood waiting for the prince to enter. the head +butler, napkin on arm, was scanning the setting of the table, making +signs to the footmen, and anxiously glancing from the clock to the door +by which the prince was to enter. prince andrew was looking at a large +gilt frame, new to him, containing the genealogical tree of the princes +bolkónski, opposite which hung another such frame with a badly painted +portrait (evidently by the hand of the artist belonging to the estate) +of a ruling prince, in a crown—an alleged descendant of rúrik and +ancestor of the bolkónskis. prince andrew, looking again at that +genealogical tree, shook his head, laughing as a man laughs who looks at +a portrait so characteristic of the original as to be amusing. +“how thoroughly like him that is!” he said to princess mary, who had +princess mary looked at her brother in surprise. she did not understand +what he was laughing at. everything her father did inspired her with +“everyone has his achilles’ heel,” continued prince andrew. +“fancy, with his powerful mind, indulging in such nonsense!” +princess mary could not understand the boldness of her brother’s +criticism and was about to reply, when the expected footsteps were heard +coming from the study. the prince walked in quickly and jauntily as was +his wont, as if intentionally contrasting the briskness of his manners +with the strict formality of his house. at that moment the great clock +struck two and another with a shrill tone joined in from the drawing +room. the prince stood still; his lively glittering eyes from under +their thick, bushy eyebrows sternly scanned all present and rested on +the little princess. she felt, as courtiers do when the tsar enters, the +sensation of fear and respect which the old man inspired in all around +him. he stroked her hair and then patted her awkwardly on the back of +“i’m glad, glad, to see you,” he said, looking attentively into +her eyes, and then quickly went to his place and sat down. “sit down, +he indicated a place beside him to his daughter-in-law. a footman moved +“ho, ho!” said the old man, casting his eyes on her rounded figure. +“you’ve been in a hurry. that’s bad!” +he laughed in his usual dry, cold, unpleasant way, with his lips only +“you must walk, walk as much as possible, as much as possible,” he +the little princess did not, or did not wish to, hear his words. she was +silent and seemed confused. the prince asked her about her father, and +she began to smile and talk. he asked about mutual acquaintances, and +she became still more animated and chattered away giving him greetings +from various people and retelling the town gossip. +“countess apráksina, poor thing, has lost her husband and she has +cried her eyes out,” she said, growing more and more lively. +as she became animated the prince looked at her more and more sternly, +and suddenly, as if he had studied her sufficiently and had formed a +definite idea of her, he turned away and addressed michael ivánovich. +“well, michael ivánovich, our bonaparte will be having a bad time +of it. prince andrew” (he always spoke thus of his son) “has been +telling me what forces are being collected against him! while you and i +michael ivánovich did not at all know when “you and i” had said +such things about bonaparte, but understanding that he was wanted as +a peg on which to hang the prince’s favorite topic, he looked +inquiringly at the young prince, wondering what would follow. +“he is a great tactician!” said the prince to his son, pointing to +and the conversation again turned on the war, on bonaparte, and the +generals and statesmen of the day. the old prince seemed convinced not +only that all the men of the day were mere babies who did not know the +a b c of war or of politics, and that bonaparte was an insignificant +little frenchy, successful only because there were no longer any +potëmkins or suvórovs left to oppose him; but he was also convinced +that there were no political difficulties in europe and no real war, +but only a sort of puppet show at which the men of the day were playing, +pretending to do something real. prince andrew gaily bore with his +father’s ridicule of the new men, and drew him on and listened to him +“the past always seems good,” said he, “but did not suvórov +himself fall into a trap moreau set him, and from which he did not know +“who told you that? who?” cried the prince. “suvórov!” and he +jerked away his plate, which tíkhon briskly caught. “suvórov!... +consider, prince andrew. two... frederick and suvórov; moreau!... +moreau would have been a prisoner if suvórov had had a free hand; but +he had the hofs-kriegs-wurst-schnapps-rath on his hands. it would have +puzzled the devil himself! when you get there you’ll find out what +those hofs-kriegs-wurst-raths are! suvórov couldn’t manage them so +what chance has michael kutúzov? no, my dear boy,” he continued, +“you and your generals won’t get on against buonaparte; you’ll +have to call in the french, so that birds of a feather may fight +together. the german, pahlen, has been sent to new york in america, to +fetch the frenchman, moreau,” he said, alluding to the invitation made +that year to moreau to enter the russian service.... “wonderful!... +were the potëmkins, suvórovs, and orlóvs germans? no, lad, either you +fellows have all lost your wits, or i have outlived mine. may god help +you, but we’ll see what will happen. buonaparte has become a great +commander among them! hm!...” +“i don’t at all say that all the plans are good,” said prince +andrew, “i am only surprised at your opinion of bonaparte. you +may laugh as much as you like, but all the same bonaparte is a great +“michael ivánovich!” cried the old prince to the architect who, +busy with his roast meat, hoped he had been forgotten: “didn’t +i tell you buonaparte was a great tactician? here, he says the same +“to be sure, your excellency,” replied the architect. +the prince again laughed his frigid laugh. +“buonaparte was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. he has got +splendid soldiers. besides he began by attacking germans. and only +idlers have failed to beat the germans. since the world began everybody +has beaten the germans. they beat no one—except one another. he made +and the prince began explaining all the blunders which, according to +him, bonaparte had made in his campaigns and even in politics. his +son made no rejoinder, but it was evident that whatever arguments were +presented he was as little able as his father to change his opinion. he +listened, refraining from a reply, and involuntarily wondered how this +old man, living alone in the country for so many years, could know and +discuss so minutely and acutely all the recent european military and +“you think i’m an old man and don’t understand the present state +of affairs?” concluded his father. “but it troubles me. i don’t +sleep at night. come now, where has this great commander of yours shown +“that would take too long to tell,” answered the son. +“well, then go off to your buonaparte! mademoiselle bourienne, +here’s another admirer of that powder-monkey emperor of yours,” he +exclaimed in excellent french. +“you know, prince, i am not a bonapartist!” +“dieu sait quand reviendra.” hummed the prince out of tune and, with +a laugh still more so, he quitted the table. +the little princess during the whole discussion and the rest of +the dinner sat silent, glancing with a frightened look now at her +father-in-law and now at princess mary. when they left the table she +took her sister-in-law’s arm and drew her into another room. +“what a clever man your father is,” said she; “perhaps that is why +“oh, he is so kind!” answered princess mary. +prince andrew was to leave next evening. the old prince, not altering +his routine, retired as usual after dinner. the little princess was in +her sister-in-law’s room. prince andrew in a traveling coat without +epaulettes had been packing with his valet in the rooms assigned to him. +after inspecting the carriage himself and seeing the trunks put in, he +ordered the horses to be harnessed. only those things he always kept +with him remained in his room; a small box, a large canteen fitted +with silver plate, two turkish pistols and a saber—a present from +his father who had brought it from the siege of ochákov. all these +traveling effects of prince andrew’s were in very good order: new, +clean, and in cloth covers carefully tied with tapes. +when starting on a journey or changing their mode of life, men capable +of reflection are generally in a serious frame of mind. at such moments +one reviews the past and plans for the future. prince andrew’s face +looked very thoughtful and tender. with his hands behind him he paced +briskly from corner to corner of the room, looking straight before him +and thoughtfully shaking his head. did he fear going to the war, or was +he sad at leaving his wife?—perhaps both, but evidently he did not +wish to be seen in that mood, for hearing footsteps in the passage he +hurriedly unclasped his hands, stopped at a table as if tying the +cover of the small box, and assumed his usual tranquil and impenetrable +expression. it was the heavy tread of princess mary that he heard. +“i hear you have given orders to harness,” she cried, panting (she +had apparently been running), “and i did so wish to have another talk +with you alone! god knows how long we may again be parted. you are not +angry with me for coming? you have changed so, andrúsha,” she added, +she smiled as she uttered his pet name, “andrúsha.” it was +obviously strange to her to think that this stern handsome man should be +andrúsha—the slender mischievous boy who had been her playfellow in +“and where is lise?” he asked, answering her question only by a +“she was so tired that she has fallen asleep on the sofa in my room. +oh, andrew! what a treasure of a wife you have,” said she, sitting +down on the sofa, facing her brother. “she is quite a child: such a +dear, merry child. i have grown so fond of her.” +prince andrew was silent, but the princess noticed the ironical and +contemptuous look that showed itself on his face. +“one must be indulgent to little weaknesses; who is free from them, +andrew? don’t forget that she has grown up and been educated in +society, and so her position now is not a rosy one. we should enter into +everyone’s situation. tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner. * think +what it must be for her, poor thing, after what she has been used to, +to be parted from her husband and be left alone in the country, in her + * to understand all is to forgive all. +prince andrew smiled as he looked at his sister, as we smile at those we +think we thoroughly understand. +“you live in the country and don’t think the life terrible,” he +“i... that’s different. why speak of me? i don’t want any other +life, and can’t, for i know no other. but think, andrew: for a young +society woman to be buried in the country during the best years of her +life, all alone—for papa is always busy, and i... well, you know what +poor resources i have for entertaining a woman used to the best society. +there is only mademoiselle bourienne....” +“i don’t like your mademoiselle bourienne at all,” said prince +“no? she is very nice and kind and, above all, she’s much to be +pitied. she has no one, no one. to tell the truth, i don’t need her, +and she’s even in my way. you know i always was a savage, and now am +even more so. i like being alone.... father likes her very much. she and +michael ivánovich are the two people to whom he is always gentle and +kind, because he has been a benefactor to them both. as sterne says: +‘we don’t love people so much for the good they have done us, as +for the good we have done them.’ father took her when she was homeless +after losing her own father. she is very good-natured, and my father +likes her way of reading. she reads to him in the evenings and reads +“to be quite frank, mary, i expect father’s character sometimes +makes things trying for you, doesn’t it?” prince andrew asked +princess mary was first surprised and then aghast at this question. +“for me? for me?... trying for me!...” said she. +“he always was rather harsh; and now i should think he’s getting +very trying,” said prince andrew, apparently speaking lightly of their +father in order to puzzle or test his sister. +“you are good in every way, andrew, but you have a kind of +intellectual pride,” said the princess, following the train of her own +thoughts rather than the trend of the conversation—“and that’s a +great sin. how can one judge father? but even if one might, what feeling +except veneration could such a man as my father evoke? and i am so +contented and happy with him. i only wish you were all as happy as i +her brother shook his head incredulously. +“the only thing that is hard for me... i will tell you the truth, +andrew... is father’s way of treating religious subjects. i don’t +understand how a man of his immense intellect can fail to see what is +as clear as day, and can go so far astray. that is the only thing +that makes me unhappy. but even in this i can see lately a shade of +improvement. his satire has been less bitter of late, and there was a +monk he received and had a long talk with.” +“ah! my dear, i am afraid you and your monk are wasting your +powder,” said prince andrew banteringly yet tenderly. +“ah! mon ami, i only pray, and hope that god will hear me. +andrew...” she said timidly after a moment’s silence, “i have a +“no—promise that you will not refuse! it will give you no trouble +and is nothing unworthy of you, but it will comfort me. promise, +andrúsha!...” said she, putting her hand in her reticule but not yet +taking out what she was holding inside it, as if what she held were +the subject of her request and must not be shown before the request was +“even if it were a great deal of trouble...” answered prince andrew, +“think what you please! i know you are just like father. think as +you please, but do this for my sake! please do! father’s father, our +grandfather, wore it in all his wars.” (she still did not take out +what she was holding in her reticule.) “so you promise?” +“andrew, i bless you with this icon and you must promise me you will +never take it off. do you promise?” +“if it does not weigh a hundredweight and won’t break my neck... +to please you...” said prince andrew. but immediately, noticing +the pained expression his joke had brought to his sister’s face, he +repented and added: “i am glad; really, dear, i am very glad.” +“against your will he will save and have mercy on you and bring you +to himself, for in him alone is truth and peace,” said she in a voice +trembling with emotion, solemnly holding up in both hands before her +brother a small, oval, antique, dark-faced icon of the saviour in a gold +she crossed herself, kissed the icon, and handed it to andrew. +rays of gentle light shone from her large, timid eyes. those eyes lit +up the whole of her thin, sickly face and made it beautiful. her brother +would have taken the icon, but she stopped him. andrew understood, +crossed himself and kissed the icon. there was a look of tenderness, for +he was touched, but also a gleam of irony on his face. +“thank you, my dear.” she kissed him on the forehead and sat down +again on the sofa. they were silent for a while. +“as i was saying to you, andrew, be kind and generous as you always +used to be. don’t judge lise harshly,” she began. “she is so +sweet, so good-natured, and her position now is a very hard one.” +“i do not think i have complained of my wife to you, másha, or blamed +her. why do you say all this to me?” +red patches appeared on princess mary’s face and she was silent as if +“i have said nothing to you, but you have already been talked to. and +the patches grew deeper on her forehead, neck, and cheeks. she tried to +say something but could not. her brother had guessed right: the little +princess had been crying after dinner and had spoken of her forebodings +about her confinement, and how she dreaded it, and had complained of her +fate, her father-in-law, and her husband. after crying she had fallen +asleep. prince andrew felt sorry for his sister. +“know this, másha: i can’t reproach, have not reproached, and never +shall reproach my wife with anything, and i cannot reproach myself +with anything in regard to her; and that always will be so in whatever +circumstances i may be placed. but if you want to know the truth... if +you want to know whether i am happy? no! is she happy? no! but why this +as he said this he rose, went to his sister, and, stooping, kissed +her forehead. his fine eyes lit up with a thoughtful, kindly, and +unaccustomed brightness, but he was looking not at his sister but over +her head toward the darkness of the open doorway. +“let us go to her, i must say good-by. or—go and wake and i’ll +come in a moment. petrúshka!” he called to his valet: “come here, +take these away. put this on the seat and this to the right.” +princess mary rose and moved to the door, then stopped and said: +“andrew, if you had faith you would have turned to god and asked him +to give you the love you do not feel, and your prayer would have been +on the way to his sister’s room, in the passage which connected one +wing with the other, prince andrew met mademoiselle bourienne smiling +sweetly. it was the third time that day that, with an ecstatic and +artless smile, she had met him in secluded passages. +“oh! i thought you were in your room,” she said, for some reason +prince andrew looked sternly at her and an expression of anger suddenly +came over his face. he said nothing to her but looked at her forehead +and hair, without looking at her eyes, with such contempt that the +frenchwoman blushed and went away without a word. when he reached his +sister’s room his wife was already awake and her merry voice, hurrying +one word after another, came through the open door. she was speaking as +usual in french, and as if after long self-restraint she wished to make +“no, but imagine the old countess zúbova, with false curls and her +mouth full of false teeth, as if she were trying to cheat old age.... +this very sentence about countess zúbova and this same laugh prince +andrew had already heard from his wife in the presence of others some +five times. he entered the room softly. the little princess, plump and +rosy, was sitting in an easy chair with her work in her hands, talking +incessantly, repeating petersburg reminiscences and even phrases. prince +andrew came up, stroked her hair, and asked if she felt rested after +their journey. she answered him and continued her chatter. +the coach with six horses was waiting at the porch. it was an autumn +night, so dark that the coachman could not see the carriage pole. +servants with lanterns were bustling about in the porch. the immense +house was brilliant with lights shining through its lofty windows. the +domestic serfs were crowding in the hall, waiting to bid good-by to +the young prince. the members of the household were all gathered in the +reception hall: michael ivánovich, mademoiselle bourienne, princess +mary, and the little princess. prince andrew had been called to his +father’s study as the latter wished to say good-by to him alone. all +were waiting for them to come out. +when prince andrew entered the study the old man in his old-age +spectacles and white dressing gown, in which he received no one but his +son, sat at the table writing. he glanced round. +“kiss me here,” and he touched his cheek: “thanks, thanks!” +“for not dilly-dallying and not hanging to a woman’s apron strings. +the service before everything. thanks, thanks!” and he went on +writing, so that his quill spluttered and squeaked. “if you have +anything to say, say it. these two things can be done together,” he +“about my wife... i am ashamed as it is to leave her on your +“why talk nonsense? say what you want.” +“when her confinement is due, send to moscow for an accoucheur.... let +him be here....” +the old prince stopped writing and, as if not understanding, fixed his +“i know that no one can help if nature does not do her work,” said +prince andrew, evidently confused. “i know that out of a million +cases only one goes wrong, but it is her fancy and mine. they have been +telling her things. she has had a dream and is frightened.” +“hm... hm...” muttered the old prince to himself, finishing what he +he signed with a flourish and suddenly turning to his son began to +“the wife!” said the old prince, briefly and significantly. +“i don’t understand!” said prince andrew. +“no, it can’t be helped, lad,” said the prince. “they’re +all like that; one can’t unmarry. don’t be afraid; i won’t tell +he seized his son by the hand with small bony fingers, shook it, looked +straight into his son’s face with keen eyes which seemed to see +through him, and again laughed his frigid laugh. +the son sighed, thus admitting that his father had understood him. the +old man continued to fold and seal his letter, snatching up and throwing +down the wax, the seal, and the paper, with his accustomed rapidity. +“what’s to be done? she’s pretty! i will do everything. make your +mind easy,” said he in abrupt sentences while sealing his letter. +andrew did not speak; he was both pleased and displeased that his father +understood him. the old man got up and gave the letter to his son. +“listen!” said he; “don’t worry about your wife: what can be +done shall be. now listen! give this letter to michael ilariónovich. * +i have written that he should make use of you in proper places and not +keep you long as an adjutant: a bad position! tell him i remember +and like him. write and tell me how he receives you. if he is all +right—serve him. nicholas bolkónski’s son need not serve under +anyone if he is in disfavor. now come here.” +he spoke so rapidly that he did not finish half his words, but his son +was accustomed to understand him. he led him to the desk, raised the +lid, drew out a drawer, and took out an exercise book filled with his +“i shall probably die before you. so remember, these are my memoirs; +hand them to the emperor after my death. now here is a lombard bond +and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of +suvórov’s wars. send it to the academy. here are some jottings for +you to read when i am gone. you will find them useful.” +andrew did not tell his father that he would no doubt live a long time +yet. he felt that he must not say it. +“i will do it all, father,” he said. +“well, now, good-by!” he gave his son his hand to kiss, and embraced +him. “remember this, prince andrew, if they kill you it will hurt me, +your old father...” he paused unexpectedly, and then in a querulous +voice suddenly shrieked: “but if i hear that you have not behaved like +a son of nicholas bolkónski, i shall be ashamed!” +“you need not have said that to me, father,” said the son with a +“i also wanted to ask you,” continued prince andrew, “if i’m +killed and if i have a son, do not let him be taken away from you—as i +said yesterday... let him grow up with you.... please.” +“not let the wife have him?” said the old man, and laughed. +they stood silent, facing one another. the old man’s sharp eyes were +fixed straight on his son’s. something twitched in the lower part of +“we’ve said good-by. go!” he suddenly shouted in a loud, angry +“what is it? what?” asked both princesses when they saw for a moment +at the door prince andrew and the figure of the old man in a white +dressing gown, spectacled and wigless, shouting in an angry voice. +prince andrew sighed and made no reply. +and this “well!” sounded coldly ironic, as if he were saying: “now +“andrew, already!” said the little princess, turning pale and +he embraced her. she screamed and fell unconscious on his shoulder. +he cautiously released the shoulder she leaned on, looked into her face, +and carefully placed her in an easy chair. +“adieu, mary,” said he gently to his sister, taking her by the hand +and kissing her, and then he left the room with rapid steps. +the little princess lay in the armchair, mademoiselle bourienne chafing +her temples. princess mary, supporting her sister-in-law, still looked +with her beautiful eyes full of tears at the door through which prince +andrew had gone and made the sign of the cross in his direction. from +the study, like pistol shots, came the frequent sound of the old man +angrily blowing his nose. hardly had prince andrew gone when the study +door opened quickly and the stern figure of the old man in the white +“gone? that’s all right!” said he; and looking angrily at the +unconscious little princess, he shook his head reprovingly and slammed +in october, 1805, a russian army was occupying the villages and towns of +the archduchy of austria, and yet other regiments freshly arriving from +russia were settling near the fortress of braunau and burdening the +inhabitants on whom they were quartered. braunau was the headquarters of +on october 11, 1805, one of the infantry regiments that had just reached +braunau had halted half a mile from the town, waiting to be inspected +by the commander in chief. despite the un-russian appearance of the +locality and surroundings—fruit gardens, stone fences, tiled roofs, +and hills in the distance—and despite the fact that the inhabitants +(who gazed with curiosity at the soldiers) were not russians, the +regiment had just the appearance of any russian regiment preparing for +an inspection anywhere in the heart of russia. +on the evening of the last day’s march an order had been received that +the commander in chief would inspect the regiment on the march. though +the words of the order were not clear to the regimental commander, and +the question arose whether the troops were to be in marching order or +not, it was decided at a consultation between the battalion commanders +to present the regiment in parade order, on the principle that it is +always better to “bow too low than not bow low enough.” so the +soldiers, after a twenty-mile march, were kept mending and cleaning all +night long without closing their eyes, while the adjutants and +company commanders calculated and reckoned, and by morning the +regiment—instead of the straggling, disorderly crowd it had been on +its last march the day before—presented a well-ordered array of two +thousand men each of whom knew his place and his duty, had every button +and every strap in place, and shone with cleanliness. and not only +externally was all in order, but had it pleased the commander in chief +to look under the uniforms he would have found on every man a clean +shirt, and in every knapsack the appointed number of articles, “awl, +soap, and all,” as the soldiers say. there was only one circumstance +concerning which no one could be at ease. it was the state of the +soldiers’ boots. more than half the men’s boots were in holes. but +this defect was not due to any fault of the regimental commander, for +in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the austrian +commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred miles. +the commander of the regiment was an elderly, choleric, stout, and +thick-set general with grizzled eyebrows and whiskers, and wider from +chest to back than across the shoulders. he had on a brand-new uniform +showing the creases where it had been folded and thick gold epaulettes +which seemed to stand rather than lie down on his massive shoulders. he +had the air of a man happily performing one of the most solemn duties of +his life. he walked about in front of the line and at every step pulled +himself up, slightly arching his back. it was plain that the commander +admired his regiment, rejoiced in it, and that his whole mind was +engrossed by it, yet his strut seemed to indicate that, besides military +matters, social interests and the fair sex occupied no small part of his +“well, michael mítrich, sir?” he said, addressing one of the +battalion commanders who smilingly pressed forward (it was plain that +they both felt happy). “we had our hands full last night. however, i +think the regiment is not a bad one, eh?” +the battalion commander perceived the jovial irony and laughed. +“it would not be turned off the field even on the tsarítsin +at that moment, on the road from the town on which signalers had been +posted, two men appeared on horse back. they were an aide-de-camp +the aide-de-camp was sent to confirm the order which had not been +clearly worded the day before, namely, that the commander in chief +wished to see the regiment just in the state in which it had been on +the march: in their greatcoats, and packs, and without any preparation +a member of the hofkriegsrath from vienna had come to kutúzov the day +before with proposals and demands for him to join up with the army of +the archduke ferdinand and mack, and kutúzov, not considering this +junction advisable, meant, among other arguments in support of his view, +to show the austrian general the wretched state in which the troops +arrived from russia. with this object he intended to meet the regiment; +so the worse the condition it was in, the better pleased the commander +in chief would be. though the aide-de-camp did not know these +circumstances, he nevertheless delivered the definite order that the +men should be in their greatcoats and in marching order, and that the +commander in chief would otherwise be dissatisfied. on hearing this the +regimental commander hung his head, silently shrugged his shoulders, and +spread out his arms with a choleric gesture. +“a fine mess we’ve made of it!” he remarked. +“there now! didn’t i tell you, michael mítrich, that if it was said +‘on the march’ it meant in greatcoats?” said he reproachfully to +the battalion commander. “oh, my god!” he added, stepping resolutely +forward. “company commanders!” he shouted in a voice accustomed to +command. “sergeants major!... how soon will he be here?” he asked +the aide-de-camp with a respectful politeness evidently relating to the +“shall we have time to change clothes?” +the regimental commander, going up to the line himself, ordered the +soldiers to change into their greatcoats. the company commanders ran off +to their companies, the sergeants major began bustling (the greatcoats +were not in very good condition), and instantly the squares that had up +to then been in regular order and silent began to sway and stretch and +hum with voices. on all sides soldiers were running to and fro, throwing +up their knapsacks with a jerk of their shoulders and pulling the straps +over their heads, unstrapping their overcoats and drawing the sleeves on +in half an hour all was again in order, only the squares had become gray +instead of black. the regimental commander walked with his jerky steps +to the front of the regiment and examined it from a distance. +“whatever is this? this!” he shouted and stood still. “commander +“commander of the third company wanted by the general!... commander to +the general... third company to the commander.” the words passed along +the lines and an adjutant ran to look for the missing officer. +when the eager but misrepeated words had reached their destination in +a cry of: “the general to the third company,” the missing officer +appeared from behind his company and, though he was a middle-aged man +and not in the habit of running, trotted awkwardly stumbling on his +toes toward the general. the captain’s face showed the uneasiness of +a schoolboy who is told to repeat a lesson he has not learned. spots +appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to +intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously. the general looked the +captain up and down as he came up panting, slackening his pace as he +“you will soon be dressing your men in petticoats! what is this?” +shouted the regimental commander, thrusting forward his jaw and pointing +at a soldier in the ranks of the third company in a greatcoat of bluish +cloth, which contrasted with the others. “what have you been after? +the commander in chief is expected and you leave your place? eh? i’ll +teach you to dress the men in fancy coats for a parade.... eh...?” +the commander of the company, with his eyes fixed on his superior, +pressed two fingers more and more rigidly to his cap, as if in this +pressure lay his only hope of salvation. +“well, why don’t you speak? whom have you got there dressed up as a +hungarian?” said the commander with an austere gibe. +“well, your excellency, what? your excellency! but what about your +“your excellency, it’s the officer dólokhov, who has been reduced +“well? has he been degraded into a field marshal, or into a soldier? +if a soldier, he should be dressed in regulation uniform like the +“your excellency, you gave him leave yourself, on the march.” +“gave him leave? leave? that’s just like you young men,” said the +regimental commander cooling down a little. “leave indeed.... one says +a word to you and you... what?” he added with renewed irritation, “i +and the commander, turning to look at the adjutant, directed his jerky +steps down the line. he was evidently pleased at his own display of +anger and walking up to the regiment wished to find a further excuse for +wrath. having snapped at an officer for an unpolished badge, at another +because his line was not straight, he reached the third company. +“h-o-o-w are you standing? where’s your leg? your leg?” shouted +the commander with a tone of suffering in his voice, while there were +still five men between him and dólokhov with his bluish-gray uniform. +dólokhov slowly straightened his bent knee, looking straight with his +“why a blue coat? off with it... sergeant major! change his coat... +“general, i must obey orders, but i am not bound to endure...” +“no talking in the ranks!... no talking, no talking!” +“not bound to endure insults,” dólokhov concluded in loud, ringing +the eyes of the general and the soldier met. the general became silent, +angrily pulling down his tight scarf. +“i request you to have the goodness to change your coat,” he said as +“he’s coming!” shouted the signaler at that moment. +the regimental commander, flushing, ran to his horse, seized the stirrup +with trembling hands, threw his body across the saddle, righted himself, +drew his saber, and with a happy and resolute countenance, opening +his mouth awry, prepared to shout. the regiment fluttered like a bird +preening its plumage and became motionless. +“att-ention!” shouted the regimental commander in a soul-shaking +voice which expressed joy for himself, severity for the regiment, and +welcome for the approaching chief. +along the broad country road, edged on both sides by trees, came a high, +light blue viennese calèche, slightly creaking on its springs and drawn +by six horses at a smart trot. behind the calèche galloped the suite +and a convoy of croats. beside kutúzov sat an austrian general, in +a white uniform that looked strange among the russian black ones. the +calèche stopped in front of the regiment. kutúzov and the austrian +general were talking in low voices and kutúzov smiled slightly as +treading heavily he stepped down from the carriage just as if those two +thousand men breathlessly gazing at him and the regimental commander did +the word of command rang out, and again the regiment quivered, as with a +jingling sound it presented arms. then amidst a dead silence the +feeble voice of the commander in chief was heard. the regiment roared, +“health to your ex... len... len... lency!” and again all became +silent. at first kutúzov stood still while the regiment moved; then he +and the general in white, accompanied by the suite, walked between the +from the way the regimental commander saluted the commander in chief and +devoured him with his eyes, drawing himself up obsequiously, and from +the way he walked through the ranks behind the generals, bending forward +and hardly able to restrain his jerky movements, and from the way he +darted forward at every word or gesture of the commander in chief, +it was evident that he performed his duty as a subordinate with even +greater zeal than his duty as a commander. thanks to the strictness and +assiduity of its commander the regiment, in comparison with others that +had reached braunau at the same time, was in splendid condition. there +were only 217 sick and stragglers. everything was in good order except +kutúzov walked through the ranks, sometimes stopping to say a few +friendly words to officers he had known in the turkish war, sometimes +also to the soldiers. looking at their boots he several times shook his +head sadly, pointing them out to the austrian general with an expression +which seemed to say that he was not blaming anyone, but could not help +noticing what a bad state of things it was. the regimental commander +ran forward on each such occasion, fearing to miss a single word of the +commander in chief’s regarding the regiment. behind kutúzov, at a +distance that allowed every softly spoken word to be heard, followed +some twenty men of his suite. these gentlemen talked among themselves +and sometimes laughed. nearest of all to the commander in chief walked +a handsome adjutant. this was prince bolkónski. beside him was his +comrade nesvítski, a tall staff officer, extremely stout, with a +kindly, smiling, handsome face and moist eyes. nesvítski could hardly +keep from laughter provoked by a swarthy hussar officer who walked +beside him. this hussar, with a grave face and without a smile or a +change in the expression of his fixed eyes, watched the regimental +commander’s back and mimicked his every movement. each time the +commander started and bent forward, the hussar started and bent forward +in exactly the same manner. nesvítski laughed and nudged the others to +kutúzov walked slowly and languidly past thousands of eyes which were +starting from their sockets to watch their chief. on reaching the +third company he suddenly stopped. his suite, not having expected this, +“ah, timókhin!” said he, recognizing the red-nosed captain who had +been reprimanded on account of the blue greatcoat. +one would have thought it impossible for a man to stretch himself +more than timókhin had done when he was reprimanded by the regimental +commander, but now that the commander in chief addressed him he drew +himself up to such an extent that it seemed he could not have sustained +it had the commander in chief continued to look at him, and so kutúzov, +who evidently understood his case and wished him nothing but good, +quickly turned away, a scarcely perceptible smile flitting over his +“another ismail comrade,” said he. “a brave officer! are you +satisfied with him?” he asked the regimental commander. +and the latter—unconscious that he was being reflected in the hussar +officer as in a looking glass—started, moved forward, and answered: +“we all have our weaknesses,” said kutúzov smiling and walking away +from him. “he used to have a predilection for bacchus.” +the regimental commander was afraid he might be blamed for this and did +not answer. the hussar at that moment noticed the face of the red-nosed +captain and his drawn-in stomach, and mimicked his expression and pose +with such exactitude that nesvítski could not help laughing. kutúzov +turned round. the officer evidently had complete control of his face, +and while kutúzov was turning managed to make a grimace and then assume +a most serious, deferential, and innocent expression. +the third company was the last, and kutúzov pondered, apparently trying +to recollect something. prince andrew stepped forward from among the +“you told me to remind you of the officer dólokhov, reduced to the +dólokhov, who had already changed into a soldier’s gray greatcoat, +did not wait to be called. the shapely figure of the fair-haired +soldier, with his clear blue eyes, stepped forward from the ranks, went +up to the commander in chief, and presented arms. +“have you a complaint to make?” kutúzov asked with a slight frown. +“ah!” said kutúzov. “i hope this will be a lesson to you. do your +duty. the emperor is gracious, and i shan’t forget you if you deserve +the clear blue eyes looked at the commander in chief just as boldly as +they had looked at the regimental commander, seeming by their expression +to tear open the veil of convention that separates a commander in chief +“one thing i ask of your excellency,” dólokhov said in his firm, +ringing, deliberate voice. “i ask an opportunity to atone for my fault +and prove my devotion to his majesty the emperor and to russia!” +kutúzov turned away. the same smile of the eyes with which he had +turned from captain timókhin again flitted over his face. he turned +away with a grimace as if to say that everything dólokhov had said to +him and everything he could say had long been known to him, that he was +weary of it and it was not at all what he wanted. he turned away and +the regiment broke up into companies, which went to their appointed +quarters near braunau, where they hoped to receive boots and clothes and +“you won’t bear me a grudge, prokhór ignátych?” said the +regimental commander, overtaking the third company on its way to its +quarters and riding up to captain timókhin who was walking in front. +(the regimental commander’s face now that the inspection was happily +over beamed with irrepressible delight.) “it’s in the emperor’s +service... it can’t be helped... one is sometimes a bit hasty on +parade... i am the first to apologize, you know me!... he was very +pleased!” and he held out his hand to the captain. +“don’t mention it, general, as if i’d be so bold!” replied the +captain, his nose growing redder as he gave a smile which showed where +two front teeth were missing that had been knocked out by the butt end +“and tell mr. dólokhov that i won’t forget him—he may be quite +easy. and tell me, please—i’ve been meaning to ask—how is he +“as far as the service goes he is quite punctilious, your excellency; +but his character...” said timókhin. +“and what about his character?” asked the regimental commander. +“it’s different on different days,” answered the captain. “one +day he is sensible, well educated, and good-natured, and the next he’s +a wild beast.... in poland, if you please, he nearly killed a jew.” +“oh, well, well!” remarked the regimental commander. “still, one +must have pity on a young man in misfortune. you know he has important +connections... well, then, you just...” +“i will, your excellency,” said timókhin, showing by his smile that +the regimental commander sought out dólokhov in the ranks and, reining +“after the next affair... epaulettes.” +dólokhov looked round but did not say anything, nor did the mocking +“well, that’s all right,” continued the regimental commander. “a +cup of vodka for the men from me,” he added so that the soldiers +could hear. “i thank you all! god be praised!” and he rode past that +“well, he’s really a good fellow, one can serve under him,” said +“in a word, a hearty one...” said the subaltern, laughing (the +regimental commander was nicknamed king of hearts). +the cheerful mood of their officers after the inspection infected the +soldiers. the company marched on gaily. the soldiers’ voices could be +“and they said kutúzov was blind of one eye?” +“no, friend, he is sharper-eyed than you are. boots and leg bands... +“when he looked at my feet, friend... well, thinks i...” +“and that other one with him, the austrian, looked as if he were +smeared with chalk—as white as flour! i suppose they polish him up as +“i say, fédeshon!... did he say when the battles are to begin? you +were near him. everybody said that buonaparte himself was at braunau.” +“buonaparte himself!... just listen to the fool, what he doesn’t +know! the prussians are up in arms now. the austrians, you see, are +putting them down. when they’ve been put down, the war with buonaparte +will begin. and he says buonaparte is in braunau! shows you’re a fool. +“what devils these quartermasters are! see, the fifth company is +turning into the village already... they will have their buckwheat +“and did you give me tobacco yesterday? that’s just it, friend! ah, +“they might call a halt here or we’ll have to do another four miles +“wasn’t it fine when those germans gave us lifts! you just sit still +“and here, friend, the people are quite beggarly. there they all +seemed to be poles—all under the russian crown—but here they’re +“singers to the front” came the captain’s order. +and from the different ranks some twenty men ran to the front. a +drummer, their leader, turned round facing the singers, and flourishing +his arm, began a long-drawn-out soldiers’ song, commencing with the +words: “morning dawned, the sun was rising,” and concluding: “on +then, brothers, on to glory, led by father kámenski.” this song had +been composed in the turkish campaign and now being sung in austria, the +only change being that the words “father kámenski” were replaced by +having jerked out these last words as soldiers do and waved his arms +as if flinging something to the ground, the drummer—a lean, handsome +soldier of forty—looked sternly at the singers and screwed up his +eyes. then having satisfied himself that all eyes were fixed on him, +he raised both arms as if carefully lifting some invisible but precious +object above his head and, holding it there for some seconds, suddenly +“oh, my bower new...!” chimed in twenty voices, and the castanet +player, in spite of the burden of his equipment, rushed out to the front +and, walking backwards before the company, jerked his shoulders and +flourished his castanets as if threatening someone. the soldiers, +swinging their arms and keeping time spontaneously, marched with long +steps. behind the company the sound of wheels, the creaking of springs, +and the tramp of horses’ hoofs were heard. kutúzov and his suite were +returning to the town. the commander in chief made a sign that the +men should continue to march at ease, and he and all his suite showed +pleasure at the sound of the singing and the sight of the dancing +soldier and the gay and smartly marching men. in the second file +from the right flank, beside which the carriage passed the company, +a blue-eyed soldier involuntarily attracted notice. it was dólokhov +marching with particular grace and boldness in time to the song and +looking at those driving past as if he pitied all who were not at that +moment marching with the company. the hussar cornet of kutúzov’s +suite who had mimicked the regimental commander, fell back from the +hussar cornet zherkóv had at one time, in petersburg, belonged to +the wild set led by dólokhov. zherkóv had met dólokhov abroad as a +private and had not seen fit to recognize him. but now that kutúzov had +spoken to the gentleman ranker, he addressed him with the cordiality of +“my dear fellow, how are you?” said he through the singing, making +his horse keep pace with the company. +“how am i?” dólokhov answered coldly. “i am as you see.” +the lively song gave a special flavor to the tone of free and easy +gaiety with which zherkóv spoke, and to the intentional coldness of +“and how do you get on with the officers?” inquired zherkóv. +“all right. they are good fellows. and how have you wriggled onto the +“she let the hawk fly upward from her wide right sleeve,” went the +song, arousing an involuntary sensation of courage and cheerfulness. +their conversation would probably have been different but for the effect +“is it true that austrians have been beaten?” asked dólokhov. +“i’m glad,” answered dólokhov briefly and clearly, as the song +“i say, come round some evening and we’ll have a game of faro!” +“i can’t. i’ve sworn not to. i won’t drink and won’t play till +“come if you need anything. one can at least be of use on the +dólokhov smiled. “don’t trouble. if i want anything, i won’t + “it’s a long, long way. + to my native land...” +zherkóv touched his horse with the spurs; it pranced excitedly from +foot to foot uncertain with which to start, then settled down, galloped +past the company, and overtook the carriage, still keeping time to the +on returning from the review, kutúzov took the austrian general into +his private room and, calling his adjutant, asked for some papers +relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the +letters that had come from the archduke ferdinand, who was in command of +the advanced army. prince andrew bolkónski came into the room with the +required papers. kutúzov and the austrian member of the hofkriegsrath +were sitting at the table on which a plan was spread out. +“ah!...” said kutúzov glancing at bolkónski as if by this +exclamation he was asking the adjutant to wait, and he went on with the +“all i can say, general,” said he with a pleasant elegance +of expression and intonation that obliged one to listen to each +deliberately spoken word. it was evident that kutúzov himself listened +with pleasure to his own voice. “all i can say, general, is that if +the matter depended on my personal wishes, the will of his majesty the +emperor francis would have been fulfilled long ago. i should long +ago have joined the archduke. and believe me on my honour that to me +personally it would be a pleasure to hand over the supreme command +of the army into the hands of a better informed and more skillful +general—of whom austria has so many—and to lay down all this heavy +responsibility. but circumstances are sometimes too strong for us, +and kutúzov smiled in a way that seemed to say, “you are quite at +liberty not to believe me and i don’t even care whether you do or +not, but you have no grounds for telling me so. and that is the whole +the austrian general looked dissatisfied, but had no option but to reply +“on the contrary,” he said, in a querulous and angry tone that +contrasted with his flattering words, “on the contrary, your +excellency’s participation in the common action is highly valued by +his majesty; but we think the present delay is depriving the splendid +russian troops and their commander of the laurels they have been +accustomed to win in their battles,” he concluded his evidently +“but that is my conviction, and judging by the last letter with which +his highness the archduke ferdinand has honored me, i imagine that the +austrian troops, under the direction of so skillful a leader as general +mack, have by now already gained a decisive victory and no longer need +the general frowned. though there was no definite news of an austrian +defeat, there were many circumstances confirming the unfavorable rumors +that were afloat, and so kutúzov’s suggestion of an austrian victory +sounded much like irony. but kutúzov went on blandly smiling with the +same expression, which seemed to say that he had a right to suppose +so. and, in fact, the last letter he had received from mack’s army +informed him of a victory and stated strategically the position of the +“give me that letter,” said kutúzov turning to prince andrew. +“please have a look at it”—and kutúzov with an ironical smile +about the corners of his mouth read to the austrian general the +following passage, in german, from the archduke ferdinand’s letter: +we have fully concentrated forces of nearly seventy thousand men with +which to attack and defeat the enemy should he cross the lech. also, +as we are masters of ulm, we cannot be deprived of the advantage of +commanding both sides of the danube, so that should the enemy not +cross the lech, we can cross the danube, throw ourselves on his line +of communications, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his +intention should he try to direct his whole force against our faithful +ally. we shall therefore confidently await the moment when the imperial +russian army will be fully equipped, and shall then, in conjunction with +it, easily find a way to prepare for the enemy the fate he deserves. +kutúzov sighed deeply on finishing this paragraph and looked at the +member of the hofkriegsrath mildly and attentively. +“but you know the wise maxim your excellency, advising one to expect +the worst,” said the austrian general, evidently wishing to have done +with jests and to come to business. he involuntarily looked round at the +“excuse me, general,” interrupted kutúzov, also turning to prince +andrew. “look here, my dear fellow, get from kozlóvski all the +reports from our scouts. here are two letters from count nostitz and +here is one from his highness the archduke ferdinand and here are +these,” he said, handing him several papers, “make a neat memorandum +in french out of all this, showing all the news we have had of the +movements of the austrian army, and then give it to his excellency.” +prince andrew bowed his head in token of having understood from the +first not only what had been said but also what kutúzov would have +liked to tell him. he gathered up the papers and with a bow to both, +stepped softly over the carpet and went out into the waiting room. +though not much time had passed since prince andrew had left russia, he +had changed greatly during that period. in the expression of his face, +in his movements, in his walk, scarcely a trace was left of his former +affected languor and indolence. he now looked like a man who has time +to think of the impression he makes on others, but is occupied with +agreeable and interesting work. his face expressed more satisfaction +with himself and those around him, his smile and glance were brighter +kutúzov, whom he had overtaken in poland, had received him very kindly, +promised not to forget him, distinguished him above the other adjutants, +and had taken him to vienna and given him the more serious commissions. +from vienna kutúzov wrote to his old comrade, prince andrew’s father. +your son bids fair to become an officer distinguished by his industry, +firmness, and expedition. i consider myself fortunate to have such a +on kutúzov’s staff, among his fellow officers and in the army +generally, prince andrew had, as he had had in petersburg society, two +quite opposite reputations. some, a minority, acknowledged him to be +different from themselves and from everyone else, expected great things +of him, listened to him, admired, and imitated him, and with them prince +andrew was natural and pleasant. others, the majority, disliked him and +considered him conceited, cold, and disagreeable. but among these people +prince andrew knew how to take his stand so that they respected and even +coming out of kutúzov’s room into the waiting room with the papers in +his hand prince andrew came up to his comrade, the aide-de-camp on duty, +kozlóvski, who was sitting at the window with a book. +“i am ordered to write a memorandum explaining why we are not +prince andrew shrugged his shoulders. +“if it were true that he has been beaten, news would have come.” +“probably,” said prince andrew moving toward the outer door. +but at that instant a tall austrian general in a greatcoat, with the +order of maria theresa on his neck and a black bandage round his head, +who had evidently just arrived, entered quickly, slamming the door. +“commander in chief kutúzov?” said the newly arrived general +speaking quickly with a harsh german accent, looking to both sides and +advancing straight toward the inner door. +“the commander in chief is engaged,” said kozlóvski, going +hurriedly up to the unknown general and blocking his way to the door. +the unknown general looked disdainfully down at kozlóvski, who was +rather short, as if surprised that anyone should not know him. +“the commander in chief is engaged,” repeated kozlóvski calmly. +the general’s face clouded, his lips quivered and trembled. he took +out a notebook, hurriedly scribbled something in pencil, tore out the +leaf, gave it to kozlóvski, stepped quickly to the window, and threw +himself into a chair, gazing at those in the room as if asking, “why +do they look at me?” then he lifted his head, stretched his neck as +if he intended to say something, but immediately, with affected +indifference, began to hum to himself, producing a queer sound which +immediately broke off. the door of the private room opened and kutúzov +appeared in the doorway. the general with the bandaged head bent forward +as though running away from some danger, and, making long, quick strides +with his thin legs, went up to kutúzov. +“vous voyez le malheureux mack,” he uttered in a broken voice. +kutúzov’s face as he stood in the open doorway remained perfectly +immobile for a few moments. then wrinkles ran over his face like a wave +and his forehead became smooth again, he bowed his head respectfully, +closed his eyes, silently let mack enter his room before him, and closed +the report which had been circulated that the austrians had been beaten +and that the whole army had surrendered at ulm proved to be correct. +within half an hour adjutants had been sent in various directions with +orders which showed that the russian troops, who had hitherto been +inactive, would also soon have to meet the enemy. +prince andrew was one of those rare staff officers whose chief interest +lay in the general progress of the war. when he saw mack and heard the +details of his disaster he understood that half the campaign was lost, +understood all the difficulties of the russian army’s position, and +vividly imagined what awaited it and the part he would have to +play. involuntarily he felt a joyful agitation at the thought of the +humiliation of arrogant austria and that in a week’s time he might, +perhaps, see and take part in the first russian encounter with the +french since suvórov met them. he feared that bonaparte’s genius +might outweigh all the courage of the russian troops, and at the same +time could not admit the idea of his hero being disgraced. +excited and irritated by these thoughts prince andrew went toward his +room to write to his father, to whom he wrote every day. in the corridor +he met nesvítski, with whom he shared a room, and the wag zherkóv; +they were as usual laughing. +“why are you so glum?” asked nesvítski noticing prince andrew’s +“there’s nothing to be gay about,” answered bolkónski. +just as prince andrew met nesvítski and zherkóv, there came toward +them from the other end of the corridor, strauch, an austrian general +who on kutúzov’s staff in charge of the provisioning of the russian +army, and the member of the hofkriegsrath who had arrived the previous +evening. there was room enough in the wide corridor for the generals to +pass the three officers quite easily, but zherkóv, pushing nesvítski +aside with his arm, said in a breathless voice, +“they’re coming!... they’re coming!... stand aside, make way, +the generals were passing by, looking as if they wished to avoid +embarrassing attentions. on the face of the wag zherkóv there suddenly +appeared a stupid smile of glee which he seemed unable to suppress. +“your excellency,” said he in german, stepping forward and +addressing the austrian general, “i have the honor to congratulate +he bowed his head and scraped first with one foot and then with the +other, awkwardly, like a child at a dancing lesson. +the member of the hofkriegsrath looked at him severely but, seeing the +seriousness of his stupid smile, could not but give him a moment’s +attention. he screwed up his eyes showing that he was listening. +“i have the honor to congratulate you. general mack has arrived, quite +well, only a little bruised just here,” he added, pointing with a +the general frowned, turned away, and went on. +“gott, wie naiv!” * said he angrily, after he had gone a few steps. +nesvítski with a laugh threw his arms round prince andrew, but +bolkónski, turning still paler, pushed him away with an angry look and +turned to zherkóv. the nervous irritation aroused by the appearance +of mack, the news of his defeat, and the thought of what lay before the +russian army found vent in anger at zherkóv’s untimely jest. +“if you, sir, choose to make a buffoon of yourself,” he said +sharply, with a slight trembling of the lower jaw, “i can’t prevent +your doing so; but i warn you that if you dare to play the fool in my +presence, i will teach you to behave yourself.” +nesvítski and zherkóv were so surprised by this outburst that they +gazed at bolkónski silently with wide-open eyes. +“what’s the matter? i only congratulated them,” said zherkóv. +“i am not jesting with you; please be silent!” cried bolkónski, +and taking nesvítski’s arm he left zherkóv, who did not know what to +“come, what’s the matter, old fellow?” said nesvítski trying to +“what’s the matter?” exclaimed prince andrew standing still in +his excitement. “don’t you understand that either we are officers +serving our tsar and our country, rejoicing in the successes and +grieving at the misfortunes of our common cause, or we are merely +lackeys who care nothing for their master’s business. quarante mille +hommes massacrés et l’armée de nos alliés détruite, et vous +trouvez là le mot pour rire,” * he said, as if strengthening his +views by this french sentence. “c’est bien pour un garçon de rien +comme cet individu dont vous avez fait un ami, mais pas pour vous, pas +pour vous. *(2) only a hobbledehoy could amuse himself in this +way,” he added in russian—but pronouncing the word with a french +accent—having noticed that zherkóv could still hear him. + * “forty thousand men massacred and the army of our allies + destroyed, and you find that a cause for jesting!” + * (2) “it is all very well for that good-for-nothing fellow + of whom you have made a friend, but not for you, not for +he waited a moment to see whether the cornet would answer, but he turned +the pávlograd hussars were stationed two miles from braunau. the +squadron in which nicholas rostóv served as a cadet was quartered in +the german village of salzeneck. the best quarters in the village were +assigned to cavalry-captain denísov, the squadron commander, known +throughout the whole cavalry division as váska denísov. cadet rostóv, +ever since he had overtaken the regiment in poland, had lived with the +on october 11, the day when all was astir at headquarters over the news +of mack’s defeat, the camp life of the officers of this squadron was +proceeding as usual. denísov, who had been losing at cards all night, +had not yet come home when rostóv rode back early in the morning from +a foraging expedition. rostóv in his cadet uniform, with a jerk to his +horse, rode up to the porch, swung his leg over the saddle with a supple +youthful movement, stood for a moment in the stirrup as if loathe to +part from his horse, and at last sprang down and called to his orderly. +“ah, bondarénko, dear friend!” said he to the hussar who rushed up +headlong to the horse. “walk him up and down, my dear fellow,” he +continued, with that gay brotherly cordiality which goodhearted young +people show to everyone when they are happy. +“yes, your excellency,” answered the ukrainian gaily, tossing his +another hussar also rushed toward the horse, but bondarénko had already +thrown the reins of the snaffle bridle over the horse’s head. it was +evident that the cadet was liberal with his tips and that it paid to +serve him. rostóv patted the horse’s neck and then his flank, and +“splendid! what a horse he will be!” he thought with a smile, and +holding up his saber, his spurs jingling, he ran up the steps of the +porch. his landlord, who in a waistcoat and a pointed cap, pitchfork in +hand, was clearing manure from the cowhouse, looked out, and his face +immediately brightened on seeing rostóv. “schön gut morgen! schön +gut morgen!” * he said winking with a merry smile, evidently pleased + * “a very good morning! a very good morning!” +“schon fleissig?” * said rostóv with the same gay brotherly smile +which did not leave his eager face. “hoch oestreicher! hoch russen! +kaiser alexander hoch!” *(2) said he, quoting words often repeated by + * (2) “hurrah for the austrians! hurrah for the russians! + hurrah for emperor alexander!” +the german laughed, came out of the cowshed, pulled off his cap, and + * “and hurrah for the whole world!” +rostóv waved his cap above his head like the german and cried laughing, +“und vivat die ganze welt!” though neither the german cleaning his +cowshed nor rostóv back with his platoon from foraging for hay had any +reason for rejoicing, they looked at each other with joyful delight and +brotherly love, wagged their heads in token of their mutual affection, +and parted smiling, the german returning to his cowshed and rostóv +going to the cottage he occupied with denísov. +“what about your master?” he asked lavrúshka, denísov’s orderly, +whom all the regiment knew for a rogue. +“hasn’t been in since the evening. must have been losing,” +answered lavrúshka. “i know by now, if he wins he comes back early to +brag about it, but if he stays out till morning it means he’s lost and +will come back in a rage. will you have coffee?” +ten minutes later lavrúshka brought the coffee. “he’s coming!” +said he. “now for trouble!” rostóv looked out of the window and +saw denísov coming home. denísov was a small man with a red face, +sparkling black eyes, and black tousled mustache and hair. he wore an +unfastened cloak, wide breeches hanging down in creases, and a crumpled +shako on the back of his head. he came up to the porch gloomily, hanging +“lavwúska!” he shouted loudly and angrily, “take it off, +“well, i am taking it off,” replied lavrúshka’s voice. +“ah, you’re up already,” said denísov, entering the room. +“long ago,” answered rostóv, “i have already been for the hay, +“weally! and i’ve been losing, bwother. i lost yesterday like a +damned fool!” cried denísov, not pronouncing his r’s. “such ill +luck! such ill luck. as soon as you left, it began and went on. hullo +puckering up his face though smiling, and showing his short strong +teeth, he began with stubby fingers of both hands to ruffle up his thick +“and what devil made me go to that wat?” (an officer nicknamed +“the rat”) he said, rubbing his forehead and whole face with both +hands. “just fancy, he didn’t let me win a single cahd, not one +he took the lighted pipe that was offered to him, gripped it in his +fist, and tapped it on the floor, making the sparks fly, while he +“he lets one win the singles and collahs it as soon as one doubles it; +gives the singles and snatches the doubles!” +he scattered the burning tobacco, smashed the pipe, and threw it away. +then he remained silent for a while, and all at once looked cheerfully +with his glittering, black eyes at rostóv. +“if at least we had some women here; but there’s nothing foh one +to do but dwink. if we could only get to fighting soon. hullo, who’s +there?” he said, turning to the door as he heard a tread of heavy +boots and the clinking of spurs that came to a stop, and a respectful +“the squadron quartermaster!” said lavrúshka. +“wetched!” he muttered, throwing down a purse with some gold in it. +“wostóv, deah fellow, just see how much there is left and shove the +purse undah the pillow,” he said, and went out to the quartermaster. +rostóv took the money and, mechanically arranging the old and new coins +“ah! telyánin! how d’ye do? they plucked me last night,” came +“where? at bykov’s, at the rat’s... i knew it,” replied a piping +voice, and lieutenant telyánin, a small officer of the same squadron, +rostóv thrust the purse under the pillow and shook the damp little hand +which was offered him. telyánin for some reason had been transferred +from the guards just before this campaign. he behaved very well in the +regiment but was not liked; rostóv especially detested him and was +unable to overcome or conceal his groundless antipathy to the man. +“well, young cavalryman, how is my rook behaving?” he asked. (rook +was a young horse telyánin had sold to rostóv.) +the lieutenant never looked the man he was speaking to straight in the +face; his eyes continually wandered from one object to another. +“oh, he’s all right, a good horse,” answered rostóv, though the +horse for which he had paid seven hundred rubbles was not worth half +that sum. “he’s begun to go a little lame on the left foreleg,” he +“the hoof’s cracked! that’s nothing. i’ll teach you what to do +“i’ll show you, i’ll show you! it’s not a secret. and it’s a +“then i’ll have it brought round,” said rostóv wishing to avoid +telyánin, and he went out to give the order. +in the passage denísov, with a pipe, was squatting on the threshold +facing the quartermaster who was reporting to him. on seeing rostóv, +denísov screwed up his face and pointing over his shoulder with his +thumb to the room where telyánin was sitting, he frowned and gave a +“ugh! i don’t like that fellow,” he said, regardless of the +rostóv shrugged his shoulders as much as to say: “nor do i, but +what’s one to do?” and, having given his order, he returned to +telyánin was sitting in the same indolent pose in which rostóv had +“well there certainly are disgusting people,” thought rostóv as he +“have you told them to bring the horse?” asked telyánin, getting up +“let us go ourselves. i only came round to ask denísov about +“i want to teach this young man how to shoe a horse,” said +they went through the porch and into the stable. the lieutenant +explained how to rivet the hoof and went away to his own quarters. +when rostóv went back there was a bottle of vodka and a sausage on the +table. denísov was sitting there scratching with his pen on a sheet of +paper. he looked gloomily in rostóv’s face and said: “i am witing +he leaned his elbows on the table with his pen in his hand and, +evidently glad of a chance to say quicker in words what he wanted to +write, told rostóv the contents of his letter. +“you see, my fwiend,” he said, “we sleep when we don’t love. we +are childwen of the dust... but one falls in love and one is a god, one +is pua’ as on the fihst day of cweation... who’s that now? send him +to the devil, i’m busy!” he shouted to lavrúshka, who went up to +“who should it be? you yourself told him to come. it’s the +denísov frowned and was about to shout some reply but stopped. +“wetched business,” he muttered to himself. “how much is left in +the puhse?” he asked, turning to rostóv. +“seven new and three old imperials.” +“oh, it’s wetched! well, what are you standing there for, you +sca’cwow? call the quahtehmasteh,” he shouted to lavrúshka. +“please, denísov, let me lend you some: i have some, you know,” +“don’t like bowwowing from my own fellows, i don’t,” growled +“but if you won’t accept money from me like a comrade, you will +offend me. really i have some,” rostóv repeated. +and denísov went to the bed to get the purse from under the pillow. +denísov threw both pillows on the floor. the purse was not there. +“wait, haven’t you dropped it?” said rostóv, picking up the +pillows one at a time and shaking them. +he pulled off the quilt and shook it. the purse was not there. +“dear me, can i have forgotten? no, i remember thinking that you kept +it under your head like a treasure,” said rostóv. “i put it just +here. where is it?” he asked, turning to lavrúshka. +“i haven’t been in the room. it must be where you put it.” +“you’re always like that; you thwow a thing down anywhere and forget +“no, if i hadn’t thought of it being a treasure,” said rostóv, +“but i remember putting it there.” +lavrúshka turned all the bedding over, looked under the bed and under +the table, searched everywhere, and stood still in the middle of the +room. denísov silently watched lavrúshka’s movements, and when the +latter threw up his arms in surprise saying it was nowhere to be found +“wostóv, you’ve not been playing schoolboy twicks...” +rostóv felt denísov’s gaze fixed on him, raised his eyes, and +instantly dropped them again. all the blood which had seemed congested +somewhere below his throat rushed to his face and eyes. he could not +“and there hasn’t been anyone in the room except the lieutenant and +yourselves. it must be here somewhere,” said lavrúshka. +“now then, you devil’s puppet, look alive and hunt for it!” +shouted denísov, suddenly, turning purple and rushing at the man with +a threatening gesture. “if the purse isn’t found i’ll flog you, +rostóv, his eyes avoiding denísov, began buttoning his coat, buckled +on his saber, and put on his cap. +“i must have that purse, i tell you,” shouted denísov, shaking his +orderly by the shoulders and knocking him against the wall. +“denísov, let him alone, i know who has taken it,” said rostóv, +going toward the door without raising his eyes. denísov paused, thought +a moment, and, evidently understanding what rostóv hinted at, seized +“nonsense!” he cried, and the veins on his forehead and neck stood +out like cords. “you are mad, i tell you. i won’t allow it. +the purse is here! i’ll flay this scoundwel alive, and it will be +“i know who has taken it,” repeated rostóv in an unsteady voice, +“and i tell you, don’t you dahe to do it!” shouted denísov, +rushing at the cadet to restrain him. +but rostóv pulled away his arm and, with as much anger as though +denísov were his worst enemy, firmly fixed his eyes directly on his +“do you understand what you’re saying?” he said in a trembling +voice. “there was no one else in the room except myself. so that if it +he could not finish, and ran out of the room. +“ah, may the devil take you and evewybody,” were the last words +“the master is not in, he’s gone to headquarters,” said +telyánin’s orderly. “has something happened?” he added, surprised +“you’ve only just missed him,” said the orderly. +the headquarters were situated two miles away from salzeneck, and +rostóv, without returning home, took a horse and rode there. there was +an inn in the village which the officers frequented. rostóv rode up to +in the second room of the inn the lieutenant was sitting over a dish of +“ah, you’ve come here too, young man!” he said, smiling and +“yes,” said rostóv as if it cost him a great deal to utter the +word; and he sat down at the nearest table. +both were silent. there were two germans and a russian officer in the +room. no one spoke and the only sounds heard were the clatter of knives +and the munching of the lieutenant. +when telyánin had finished his lunch he took out of his pocket a double +purse and, drawing its rings aside with his small, white, turned-up +fingers, drew out a gold imperial, and lifting his eyebrows gave it to +the coin was a new one. rostóv rose and went up to telyánin. +“allow me to look at your purse,” he said in a low, almost +with shifting eyes but eyebrows still raised, telyánin handed him the +“yes, it’s a nice purse. yes, yes,” he said, growing suddenly +pale, and added, “look at it, young man.” +rostóv took the purse in his hand, examined it and the money in it, and +looked at telyánin. the lieutenant was looking about in his usual way +and suddenly seemed to grow very merry. +“if we get to vienna i’ll get rid of it there but in these wretched +little towns there’s nowhere to spend it,” said he. “well, let me +“and you? are you going to have lunch too? they feed you quite +decently here,” continued telyánin. “now then, let me have it.” +he stretched out his hand to take hold of the purse. rostóv let go of +it. telyánin took the purse and began carelessly slipping it into the +pocket of his riding breeches, with his eyebrows lifted and his mouth +slightly open, as if to say, “yes, yes, i am putting my purse in my +pocket and that’s quite simple and is no one else’s business.” +“well, young man?” he said with a sigh, and from under his lifted +some flash as of an electric spark shot from telyánin’s eyes to +rostóv’s and back, and back again and again in an instant. +“come here,” said rostóv, catching hold of telyánin’s arm and +almost dragging him to the window. “that money is denísov’s; you +took it...” he whispered just above telyánin’s ear. +“what? what? how dare you? what?” said telyánin. +but these words came like a piteous, despairing cry and an entreaty for +pardon. as soon as rostóv heard them, an enormous load of doubt +fell from him. he was glad, and at the same instant began to pity the +miserable man who stood before him, but the task he had begun had to be +“heaven only knows what the people here may imagine,” muttered +telyánin, taking up his cap and moving toward a small empty room. “we +must have an explanation...” +“i know it and shall prove it,” said rostóv. +every muscle of telyánin’s pale, terrified face began to quiver, his +eyes still shifted from side to side but with a downward look not rising +to rostóv’s face, and his sobs were audible. +“count!... don’t ruin a young fellow... here is this wretched money, +take it...” he threw it on the table. “i have an old father and +rostóv took the money, avoiding telyánin’s eyes, and went out of the +room without a word. but at the door he stopped and then retraced his +steps. “o god,” he said with tears in his eyes, “how could you do +“count...” said telyánin drawing nearer to him. +take the money,” and he threw the purse to him and ran out of the inn. +that same evening there was an animated discussion among the +squadron’s officers in denísov’s quarters. +“and i tell you, rostóv, that you must apologize to the colonel!” +said a tall, grizzly-haired staff captain, with enormous mustaches and +many wrinkles on his large features, to rostóv who was crimson with +the staff captain, kírsten, had twice been reduced to the ranks for +affairs of honor and had twice regained his commission. +“i will allow no one to call me a liar!” cried rostóv. “he told +me i lied, and i told him he lied. and there it rests. he may keep me +on duty every day, or may place me under arrest, but no one can make +me apologize, because if he, as commander of this regiment, thinks it +beneath his dignity to give me satisfaction, then...” +“you just wait a moment, my dear fellow, and listen,” interrupted +the staff captain in his deep bass, calmly stroking his long mustache. +“you tell the colonel in the presence of other officers that an +“i’m not to blame that the conversation began in the presence of +other officers. perhaps i ought not to have spoken before them, but i am +not a diplomatist. that’s why i joined the hussars, thinking that here +one would not need finesse; and he tells me that i am lying—so let him +“that’s all right. no one thinks you a coward, but that’s not the +point. ask denísov whether it is not out of the question for a cadet to +demand satisfaction of his regimental commander?” +denísov sat gloomily biting his mustache and listening to the +conversation, evidently with no wish to take part in it. he answered the +staff captain’s question by a disapproving shake of his head. +“you speak to the colonel about this nasty business before other +officers,” continued the staff captain, “and bogdánich” (the +colonel was called bogdánich) “shuts you up.” +“he did not shut me up, he said i was telling an untruth.” +“well, have it so, and you talked a lot of nonsense to him and must +“not on any account!” exclaimed rostóv. +“i did not expect this of you,” said the staff captain seriously and +severely. “you don’t wish to apologize, but, man, it’s not only to +him but to the whole regiment—all of us—you’re to blame all round. +the case is this: you ought to have thought the matter over and +taken advice; but no, you go and blurt it all straight out before the +officers. now what was the colonel to do? have the officer tried and +disgrace the whole regiment? disgrace the whole regiment because of one +scoundrel? is that how you look at it? we don’t see it like that. and +bogdánich was a brick: he told you you were saying what was not true. +it’s not pleasant, but what’s to be done, my dear fellow? you landed +yourself in it. and now, when one wants to smooth the thing over, some +conceit prevents your apologizing, and you wish to make the whole +affair public. you are offended at being put on duty a bit, but why not +apologize to an old and honorable officer? whatever bogdánich may +be, anyway he is an honorable and brave old colonel! you’re quick at +taking offense, but you don’t mind disgracing the whole regiment!” +the staff captain’s voice began to tremble. “you have been in the +regiment next to no time, my lad, you’re here today and tomorrow +you’ll be appointed adjutant somewhere and can snap your fingers when +it is said ‘there are thieves among the pávlograd officers!’ but +it’s not all the same to us! am i not right, denísov? it’s not the +denísov remained silent and did not move, but occasionally looked with +his glittering black eyes at rostóv. +“you value your own pride and don’t wish to apologize,” continued +the staff captain, “but we old fellows, who have grown up in and, god +willing, are going to die in the regiment, we prize the honor of the +regiment, and bogdánich knows it. oh, we do prize it, old fellow! and +all this is not right, it’s not right! you may take offense or not but +i always stick to mother truth. it’s not right!” +and the staff captain rose and turned away from rostóv. +“that’s twue, devil take it!” shouted denísov, jumping up. “now +rostóv, growing red and pale alternately, looked first at one officer +“no, gentlemen, no... you mustn’t think... i quite understand. +you’re wrong to think that of me... i... for me... for the honor of +the regiment i’d... ah well, i’ll show that in action, and for me +the honor of the flag... well, never mind, it’s true i’m to blame, +to blame all round. well, what else do you want?...” +“come, that’s right, count!” cried the staff captain, turning +round and clapping rostóv on the shoulder with his big hand. +“i tell you,” shouted denísov, “he’s a fine fellow.” +“that’s better, count,” said the staff captain, beginning to +address rostóv by his title, as if in recognition of his confession. +“go and apologize, your excellency. yes, go!” +“gentlemen, i’ll do anything. no one shall hear a word from me,” +said rostóv in an imploring voice, “but i can’t apologize, by god i +can’t, do what you will! how can i go and apologize like a little boy +“it’ll be worse for you. bogdánich is vindictive and you’ll pay +“no, on my word it’s not obstinacy! i can’t describe the feeling. +“well, it’s as you like,” said the staff captain. “and what has +become of that scoundrel?” he asked denísov. +“he has weported himself sick, he’s to be stwuck off the list +“it is an illness, there’s no other way of explaining it,” said +“illness or not, he’d better not cwoss my path. i’d kill him!” +just then zherkóv entered the room. +“what brings you here?” cried the officers turning to the newcomer. +“we’re to go into action, gentlemen! mack has surrendered with his +“what? saw the real mack? with hands and feet?” +“into action! into action! bring him a bottle for such news! but how +“i’ve been sent back to the regiment all on account of that devil, +mack. an austrian general complained of me. i congratulated him on +mack’s arrival... what’s the matter, rostóv? you look as if you’d +“oh, my dear fellow, we’re in such a stew here these last two +the regimental adjutant came in and confirmed the news brought by +zherkóv. they were under orders to advance next day. +“well, thank god! we’ve been sitting here too long!” +kutúzov fell back toward vienna, destroying behind him the bridges over +the rivers inn (at braunau) and traun (near linz). on october 23 the +russian troops were crossing the river enns. at midday the russian +baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling +through the town of enns on both sides of the bridge. +it was a warm, rainy, autumnal day. the wide expanse that opened out +before the heights on which the russian batteries stood guarding the +bridge was at times veiled by a diaphanous curtain of slanting rain, and +then, suddenly spread out in the sunlight, far-distant objects could +be clearly seen glittering as though freshly varnished. down below, +the little town could be seen with its white, red-roofed houses, its +cathedral, and its bridge, on both sides of which streamed jostling +masses of russian troops. at the bend of the danube, vessels, an island, +and a castle with a park surrounded by the waters of the confluence of +the enns and the danube became visible, and the rocky left bank of the +danube covered with pine forests, with a mystic background of green +treetops and bluish gorges. the turrets of a convent stood out beyond a +wild virgin pine forest, and far away on the other side of the enns the +enemy’s horse patrols could be discerned. +among the field guns on the brow of the hill the general in command of +the rearguard stood with a staff officer, scanning the country through +his fieldglass. a little behind them nesvítski, who had been sent to +the rearguard by the commander in chief, was sitting on the trail of a +gun carriage. a cossack who accompanied him had handed him a knapsack +and a flask, and nesvítski was treating some officers to pies and real +doppelkümmel. the officers gladly gathered round him, some on their +knees, some squatting turkish fashion on the wet grass. +“yes, the austrian prince who built that castle was no fool. it’s +a fine place! why are you not eating anything, gentlemen?” nesvítski +“thank you very much, prince,” answered one of the officers, pleased +to be talking to a staff officer of such importance. “it’s a lovely +place! we passed close to the park and saw two deer... and what a +“look, prince,” said another, who would have dearly liked to take +another pie but felt shy, and therefore pretended to be examining the +countryside—“see, our infantrymen have already got there. look there +in the meadow behind the village, three of them are dragging something. +they’ll ransack that castle,” he remarked with evident approval. +“so they will,” said nesvítski. “no, but what i should like,” +added he, munching a pie in his moist-lipped handsome mouth, “would be +he pointed with a smile to a turreted nunnery, and his eyes narrowed and +“just to flutter the nuns a bit. they say there are italian girls +among them. on my word i’d give five years of my life for it!” +“they must be feeling dull, too,” said one of the bolder officers, +meanwhile the staff officer standing in front pointed out something to +“yes, so it is, so it is,” said the general angrily, lowering the +field glass and shrugging his shoulders, “so it is! they’ll be fired +on at the crossing. and why are they dawdling there?” +on the opposite side the enemy could be seen by the naked eye, and from +their battery a milk-white cloud arose. then came the distant report of +a shot, and our troops could be seen hurrying to the crossing. +nesvítski rose, puffing, and went up to the general, smiling. +“would not your excellency like a little refreshment?” he said. +“it’s a bad business,” said the general without answering him, +“hadn’t i better ride over, your excellency?” asked nesvítski. +“yes, please do,” answered the general, and he repeated the order +that had already once been given in detail: “and tell the hussars +that they are to cross last and to fire the bridge as i ordered; and the +inflammable material on the bridge must be reinspected.” +he called the cossack with his horse, told him to put away the knapsack +and flask, and swung his heavy person easily into the saddle. +“i’ll really call in on the nuns,” he said to the officers who +watched him smilingly, and he rode off by the winding path down the +“now then, let’s see how far it will carry, captain. just try!” +said the general, turning to an artillery officer. “have a little fun +“crew, to your guns!” commanded the officer. +in a moment the men came running gaily from their campfires and began +number one jumped briskly aside. the gun rang out with a deafening +metallic roar, and a whistling grenade flew above the heads of our +troops below the hill and fell far short of the enemy, a little smoke +the faces of officers and men brightened up at the sound. everyone got +up and began watching the movements of our troops below, as plainly +visible as if but a stone’s throw away, and the movements of the +approaching enemy farther off. at the same instant the sun came fully +out from behind the clouds, and the clear sound of the solitary shot +and the brilliance of the bright sunshine merged in a single joyous and +two of the enemy’s shots had already flown across the bridge, where +there was a crush. halfway across stood prince nesvítski, who had +alighted from his horse and whose big body was jammed against the +railings. he looked back laughing to the cossack who stood a few +steps behind him holding two horses by their bridles. each time prince +nesvítski tried to move on, soldiers and carts pushed him back again +and pressed him against the railings, and all he could do was to smile. +“what a fine fellow you are, friend!” said the cossack to a convoy +soldier with a wagon, who was pressing onto the infantrymen who were +crowded together close to his wheels and his horses. “what a fellow! +you can’t wait a moment! don’t you see the general wants to pass?” +but the convoyman took no notice of the word “general” and shouted +at the soldiers who were blocking his way. “hi there, boys! keep to +the left! wait a bit.” but the soldiers, crowded together shoulder to +shoulder, their bayonets interlocking, moved over the bridge in a dense +mass. looking down over the rails prince nesvítski saw the rapid, noisy +little waves of the enns, which rippling and eddying round the piles of +the bridge chased each other along. looking on the bridge he saw equally +uniform living waves of soldiers, shoulder straps, covered shakos, +knapsacks, bayonets, long muskets, and, under the shakos, faces with +broad cheekbones, sunken cheeks, and listless tired expressions, and +feet that moved through the sticky mud that covered the planks of the +bridge. sometimes through the monotonous waves of men, like a fleck of +white foam on the waves of the enns, an officer, in a cloak and with +a type of face different from that of the men, squeezed his way along; +sometimes like a chip of wood whirling in the river, an hussar on foot, +an orderly, or a townsman was carried through the waves of infantry; +and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers’ or +company’s baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered, and hemmed in on +“it’s as if a dam had burst,” said the cossack hopelessly. “are +“a million all but one!” replied a waggish soldier in a torn coat, +with a wink, and passed on followed by another, an old man. +“if he” (he meant the enemy) “begins popping at the bridge now,” +said the old soldier dismally to a comrade, “you’ll forget to +that soldier passed on, and after him came another sitting on a cart. +“where the devil have the leg bands been shoved to?” said an +orderly, running behind the cart and fumbling in the back of it. +and he also passed on with the wagon. then came some merry soldiers who +“and then, old fellow, he gives him one in the teeth with the butt +end of his gun...” a soldier whose greatcoat was well tucked up said +“yes, the ham was just delicious...” answered another with a loud +laugh. and they, too, passed on, so that nesvítski did not learn who +had been struck on the teeth, or what the ham had to do with it. +“bah! how they scurry. he just sends a ball and they think they’ll +all be killed,” a sergeant was saying angrily and reproachfully. +“as it flies past me, daddy, the ball i mean,” said a young soldier +with an enormous mouth, hardly refraining from laughing, “i felt like +dying of fright. i did, ‘pon my word, i got that frightened!” said +he, as if bragging of having been frightened. +that one also passed. then followed a cart unlike any that had gone +before. it was a german cart with a pair of horses led by a german, and +seemed loaded with a whole houseful of effects. a fine brindled cow with +a large udder was attached to the cart behind. a woman with an unweaned +baby, an old woman, and a healthy german girl with bright red cheeks +were sitting on some feather beds. evidently these fugitives were +allowed to pass by special permission. the eyes of all the soldiers +turned toward the women, and while the vehicle was passing at foot pace +all the soldiers’ remarks related to the two young ones. every face +bore almost the same smile, expressing unseemly thoughts about the +“just see, the german sausage is making tracks, too!” +“sell me the missis,” said another soldier, addressing the german, +who, angry and frightened, strode energetically along with downcast +“see how smart she’s made herself! oh, the devils!” +“where are you going?” asked an infantry officer who was eating an +apple, also half smiling as he looked at the handsome girl. +the german closed his eyes, signifying that he did not understand. +“take it if you like,” said the officer, giving the girl an apple. +the girl smiled and took it. nesvítski like the rest of the men on the +bridge did not take his eyes off the women till they had passed. when +they had gone by, the same stream of soldiers followed, with the same +kind of talk, and at last all stopped. as often happens, the horses of +a convoy wagon became restive at the end of the bridge, and the whole +“and why are they stopping? there’s no proper order!” said the +soldiers. “where are you shoving to? devil take you! can’t you wait? +it’ll be worse if he fires the bridge. see, here’s an officer jammed +in too”—different voices were saying in the crowd, as the men looked +at one another, and all pressed toward the exit from the bridge. +looking down at the waters of the enns under the bridge, nesvítski +suddenly heard a sound new to him, of something swiftly approaching... +something big, that splashed into the water. +“just see where it carries to!” a soldier near by said sternly, +“encouraging us to get along quicker,” said another uneasily. +the crowd moved on again. nesvítski realized that it was a cannon ball. +“hey, cossack, my horse!” he said. “now, then, you there! get out +with great difficulty he managed to get to his horse, and shouting +continually he moved on. the soldiers squeezed themselves to make way +for him, but again pressed on him so that they jammed his leg, and those +nearest him were not to blame for they were themselves pressed still +“nesvítski, nesvítski! you numskull!” came a hoarse voice from +nesvítski looked round and saw, some fifteen paces away but separated +by the living mass of moving infantry, váska denísov, red and shaggy, +with his cap on the back of his black head and a cloak hanging jauntily +“tell these devils, these fiends, to let me pass!” shouted denísov +evidently in a fit of rage, his coal-black eyes with their bloodshot +whites glittering and rolling as he waved his sheathed saber in a small +“the squadwon can’t pass,” shouted váska denísov, showing his +white teeth fiercely and spurring his black thoroughbred arab, which +twitched its ears as the bayonets touched it, and snorted, spurting +white foam from his bit, tramping the planks of the bridge with his +hoofs, and apparently ready to jump over the railings had his rider let +him. “what is this? they’re like sheep! just like sheep! out of the +way!... let us pass!... stop there, you devil with the cart! i’ll hack +you with my saber!” he shouted, actually drawing his saber from its +the soldiers crowded against one another with terrified faces, and +“how’s it you’re not drunk today?” said nesvítski when the +“they don’t even give one time to dwink!” answered váska +denísov. “they keep dwagging the wegiment to and fwo all day. if they +mean to fight, let’s fight. but the devil knows what this is.” +“what a dandy you are today!” said nesvítski, looking at +denísov’s new cloak and saddlecloth. +denísov smiled, took out of his sabretache a handkerchief that diffused +a smell of perfume, and put it to nesvítski’s nose. +“of course. i’m going into action! i’ve shaved, bwushed my teeth, +the imposing figure of nesvítski followed by his cossack, and +the determination of denísov who flourished his sword and shouted +frantically, had such an effect that they managed to squeeze through +to the farther side of the bridge and stopped the infantry. beside the +bridge nesvítski found the colonel to whom he had to deliver the order, +having cleared the way denísov stopped at the end of the bridge. +carelessly holding in his stallion that was neighing and pawing the +ground, eager to rejoin its fellows, he watched his squadron draw +nearer. then the clang of hoofs, as of several horses galloping, +resounded on the planks of the bridge, and the squadron, officers in +front and men four abreast, spread across the bridge and began to emerge +the infantry who had been stopped crowded near the bridge in the +trampled mud and gazed with that particular feeling of ill-will, +estrangement, and ridicule with which troops of different arms usually +encounter one another at the clean, smart hussars who moved past them in +“smart lads! only fit for a fair!” said one. +“what good are they? they’re led about just for show!” remarked +“don’t kick up the dust, you infantry!” jested an hussar whose +prancing horse had splashed mud over some foot soldiers. +“i’d like to put you on a two days’ march with a knapsack! your +fine cords would soon get a bit rubbed,” said an infantryman, wiping +the mud off his face with his sleeve. “perched up there, you’re more +“there now, zíkin, they ought to put you on a horse. you’d look +fine,” said a corporal, chaffing a thin little soldier who bent under +“take a stick between your legs, that’ll suit you for a horse!” +the last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing +together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel. at last +the baggage wagons had all crossed, the crush was less, and the last +battalion came onto the bridge. only denísov’s squadron of hussars +remained on the farther side of the bridge facing the enemy, who could +be seen from the hill on the opposite bank but was not yet visible from +the bridge, for the horizon as seen from the valley through which the +river flowed was formed by the rising ground only half a mile away. +at the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our +cossack scouts were moving. suddenly on the road at the top of the high +ground, artillery and troops in blue uniform were seen. these were the +french. a group of cossack scouts retired down the hill at a trot. all +the officers and men of denísov’s squadron, though they tried to talk +of other things and to look in other directions, thought only of what +was there on the hilltop, and kept constantly looking at the patches +appearing on the skyline, which they knew to be the enemy’s troops. +the weather had cleared again since noon and the sun was descending +brightly upon the danube and the dark hills around it. it was calm, and +at intervals the bugle calls and the shouts of the enemy could be heard +from the hill. there was no one now between the squadron and the enemy +except a few scattered skirmishers. an empty space of some seven hundred +yards was all that separated them. the enemy ceased firing, and that +stern, threatening, inaccessible, and intangible line which separates +two hostile armies was all the more clearly felt. +“one step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing +the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. and +what is there? who is there?—there beyond that field, that tree, that +roof lit up by the sun? no one knows, but one wants to know. you fear +and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must +be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will +inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. but you are +strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and are surrounded by other such +excitedly animated and healthy men.” so thinks, or at any rate +feels, anyone who comes in sight of the enemy, and that feeling gives +a particular glamour and glad keenness of impression to everything that +on the high ground where the enemy was, the smoke of a cannon rose, +and a ball flew whistling over the heads of the hussar squadron. the +officers who had been standing together rode off to their places. the +hussars began carefully aligning their horses. silence fell on the whole +squadron. all were looking at the enemy in front and at the squadron +commander, awaiting the word of command. a second and a third cannon +ball flew past. evidently they were firing at the hussars, but the balls +with rapid rhythmic whistle flew over the heads of the horsemen and fell +somewhere beyond them. the hussars did not look round, but at the sound +of each shot, as at the word of command, the whole squadron with its +rows of faces so alike yet so different, holding its breath while the +ball flew past, rose in the stirrups and sank back again. the soldiers +without turning their heads glanced at one another, curious to see their +comrades’ impression. every face, from denísov’s to that of the +bugler, showed one common expression of conflict, irritation, and +excitement, around chin and mouth. the quartermaster frowned, looking +at the soldiers as if threatening to punish them. cadet mirónov ducked +every time a ball flew past. rostóv on the left flank, mounted on his +rook—a handsome horse despite its game leg—had the happy air of a +schoolboy called up before a large audience for an examination in which +he feels sure he will distinguish himself. he was glancing at everyone +with a clear, bright expression, as if asking them to notice how calmly +he sat under fire. but despite himself, on his face too that same +indication of something new and stern showed round the mouth. +“who’s that curtseying there? cadet miwónov! that’s not wight! +look at me,” cried denísov who, unable to keep still on one spot, +kept turning his horse in front of the squadron. +the black, hairy, snub-nosed face of váska denísov, and his whole +short sturdy figure with the sinewy hairy hand and stumpy fingers in +which he held the hilt of his naked saber, looked just as it usually +did, especially toward evening when he had emptied his second bottle; he +was only redder than usual. with his shaggy head thrown back like birds +when they drink, pressing his spurs mercilessly into the sides of his +good horse, bedouin, and sitting as though falling backwards in the +saddle, he galloped to the other flank of the squadron and shouted in +a hoarse voice to the men to look to their pistols. he rode up to +kírsten. the staff captain on his broad-backed, steady mare came at a +walk to meet him. his face with its long mustache was serious as always, +only his eyes were brighter than usual. +“well, what about it?” said he to denísov. “it won’t come to a +“the devil only knows what they’re about!” muttered denísov. +“ah, wostóv,” he cried noticing the cadet’s bright face, +and he smiled approvingly, evidently pleased with the cadet. rostóv +felt perfectly happy. just then the commander appeared on the bridge. +“your excellency! let us attack them! i’ll dwive them off.” +“attack indeed!” said the colonel in a bored voice, puckering up his +face as if driving off a troublesome fly. “and why are you stopping +here? don’t you see the skirmishers are retreating? lead the squadron +the squadron crossed the bridge and drew out of range of fire without +having lost a single man. the second squadron that had been in the front +line followed them across and the last cossacks quitted the farther side +the two pávlograd squadrons, having crossed the bridge, retired up the +hill one after the other. their colonel, karl bogdánich schubert, came +up to denísov’s squadron and rode at a footpace not far from rostóv, +without taking any notice of him although they were now meeting for the +first time since their encounter concerning telyánin. rostóv, feeling +that he was at the front and in the power of a man toward whom he now +admitted that he had been to blame, did not lift his eyes from the +colonel’s athletic back, his nape covered with light hair, and his red +neck. it seemed to rostóv that bogdánich was only pretending not +to notice him, and that his whole aim now was to test the cadet’s +courage, so he drew himself up and looked around him merrily; then it +seemed to him that bogdánich rode so near in order to show him his +courage. next he thought that his enemy would send the squadron on a +desperate attack just to punish him—rostóv. then he imagined how, +after the attack, bogdánich would come up to him as he lay wounded and +would magnanimously extend the hand of reconciliation. +the high-shouldered figure of zherkóv, familiar to the pávlograds as +he had but recently left their regiment, rode up to the colonel. +after his dismissal from headquarters zherkóv had not remained in the +regiment, saying he was not such a fool as to slave at the front when he +could get more rewards by doing nothing on the staff, and had succeeded +in attaching himself as an orderly officer to prince bagratión. he now +came to his former chief with an order from the commander of the rear +“colonel,” he said, addressing rostóv’s enemy with an air of +gloomy gravity and glancing round at his comrades, “there is an order +“i don’t myself know ‘to who,’” replied the cornet in a +serious tone, “but the prince told me to ‘go and tell the colonel +that the hussars must return quickly and fire the bridge.’” +zherkóv was followed by an officer of the suite who rode up to the +colonel of hussars with the same order. after him the stout nesvítski +came galloping up on a cossack horse that could scarcely carry his +“how’s this, colonel?” he shouted as he approached. “i told you +to fire the bridge, and now someone has gone and blundered; they are all +beside themselves over there and one can’t make anything out.” +the colonel deliberately stopped the regiment and turned to nesvítski. +“you spoke to me of inflammable material,” said he, “but you said +“but, my dear sir,” said nesvítski as he drew up, taking off his +cap and smoothing his hair wet with perspiration with his plump hand, +“wasn’t i telling you to fire the bridge, when inflammable material +“i am not your ‘dear sir,’ mr. staff officer, and you did not tell +me to burn the bridge! i know the service, and it is my habit orders +strictly to obey. you said the bridge would be burned, but who would it +“ah, that’s always the way!” said nesvítski with a wave of the +hand. “how did you get here?” said he, turning to zherkóv. +“on the same business. but you are damp! let me wring you out!” +“you were saying, mr. staff officer...” continued the colonel in an +“colonel,” interrupted the officer of the suite, “you must be +quick or the enemy will bring up his guns to use grapeshot.” +the colonel looked silently at the officer of the suite, at the stout +staff officer, and at zherkóv, and he frowned. +“i will the bridge fire,” he said in a solemn tone as if to announce +that in spite of all the unpleasantness he had to endure he would still +striking his horse with his long muscular legs as if it were to blame +for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second +squadron, that in which rostóv was serving under denísov, to return to +“there, it’s just as i thought,” said rostóv to himself. “he +wishes to test me!” his heart contracted and the blood rushed to his +face. “let him see whether i am a coward!” he thought. +again on all the bright faces of the squadron the serious expression +appeared that they had worn when under fire. rostóv watched his enemy, +the colonel, closely—to find in his face confirmation of his own +conjecture, but the colonel did not once glance at rostóv, and looked +as he always did when at the front, solemn and stern. then came the word +“look sharp! look sharp!” several voices repeated around him. +their sabers catching in the bridles and their spurs jingling, the +hussars hastily dismounted, not knowing what they were to do. the men +were crossing themselves. rostóv no longer looked at the colonel, he +had no time. he was afraid of falling behind the hussars, so much afraid +that his heart stood still. his hand trembled as he gave his horse into +an orderly’s charge, and he felt the blood rush to his heart with +a thud. denísov rode past him, leaning back and shouting something. +rostóv saw nothing but the hussars running all around him, their spurs +catching and their sabers clattering. +“stretchers!” shouted someone behind him. +rostóv did not think what this call for stretchers meant; he ran on, +trying only to be ahead of the others; but just at the bridge, not +looking at the ground, he came on some sticky, trodden mud, stumbled, +and fell on his hands. the others outstripped him. +“at boss zides, captain,” he heard the voice of the colonel, who, +having ridden ahead, had pulled up his horse near the bridge, with a +rostóv wiping his muddy hands on his breeches looked at his enemy and +was about to run on, thinking that the farther he went to the front +the better. but bogdánich, without looking at or recognizing rostóv, +“who’s that running on the middle of the bridge? to the right! come +back, cadet!” he cried angrily; and turning to denísov, who, showing +off his courage, had ridden on to the planks of the bridge: +“oh, every bullet has its billet,” answered váska denísov, turning +meanwhile nesvítski, zherkóv, and the officer of the suite were +standing together out of range of the shots, watching, now the small +group of men with yellow shakos, dark-green jackets braided with cord, +and blue riding breeches, who were swarming near the bridge, and then at +what was approaching in the distance from the opposite side—the blue +uniforms and groups with horses, easily recognizable as artillery. +“will they burn the bridge or not? who’ll get there first? will they +get there and fire the bridge or will the french get within grapeshot +range and wipe them out?” these were the questions each man of the +troops on the high ground above the bridge involuntarily asked himself +with a sinking heart—watching the bridge and the hussars in the bright +evening light and the blue tunics advancing from the other side with +“ugh. the hussars will get it hot!” said nesvítski; “they are +“he shouldn’t have taken so many men,” said the officer of the +“true enough,” answered nesvítski; “two smart fellows could have +“ah, your excellency,” put in zherkóv, his eyes fixed on the +hussars, but still with that naïve air that made it impossible to know +whether he was speaking in jest or in earnest. “ah, your excellency! +how you look at things! send two men? and who then would give us the +vladímir medal and ribbon? but now, even if they do get peppered, the +squadron may be recommended for honors and he may get a ribbon. our +“there now!” said the officer of the suite, “that’s +he pointed to the french guns, the limbers of which were being detached +on the french side, amid the groups with cannon, a cloud of smoke +appeared, then a second and a third almost simultaneously, and at the +moment when the first report was heard a fourth was seen. then two +reports one after another, and a third. +“oh! oh!” groaned nesvítski as if in fierce pain, seizing the +officer of the suite by the arm. “look! a man has fallen! fallen, +“if i were tsar i would never go to war,” said nesvítski, turning +the french guns were hastily reloaded. the infantry in their blue +uniforms advanced toward the bridge at a run. smoke appeared again +but at irregular intervals, and grapeshot cracked and rattled onto the +bridge. but this time nesvítski could not see what was happening there, +as a dense cloud of smoke arose from it. the hussars had succeeded in +setting it on fire and the french batteries were now firing at them, no +longer to hinder them but because the guns were trained and there was +the french had time to fire three rounds of grapeshot before the hussars +got back to their horses. two were misdirected and the shot went too +high, but the last round fell in the midst of a group of hussars and +rostóv, absorbed by his relations with bogdánich, had paused on the +bridge not knowing what to do. there was no one to hew down (as he +had always imagined battles to himself), nor could he help to fire the +bridge because he had not brought any burning straw with him like the +other soldiers. he stood looking about him, when suddenly he heard a +rattle on the bridge as if nuts were being spilt, and the hussar nearest +to him fell against the rails with a groan. rostóv ran up to him with +the others. again someone shouted, “stretchers!” four men seized the +hussar and began lifting him. +“oooh! for christ’s sake let me alone!” cried the wounded man, but +still he was lifted and laid on the stretcher. +nicholas rostóv turned away and, as if searching for something, gazed +into the distance, at the waters of the danube, at the sky, and at the +sun. how beautiful the sky looked; how blue, how calm, and how deep! +how bright and glorious was the setting sun! with what soft glitter the +waters of the distant danube shone. and fairer still were the faraway +blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and +the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits... there was peace +and happiness... “i should wish for nothing else, nothing, if only i +were there,” thought rostóv. “in myself alone and in that sunshine +there is so much happiness; but here... groans, suffering, fear, and +this uncertainty and hurry... there—they are shouting again, and +again are all running back somewhere, and i shall run with them, and it, +death, is here above me and around... another instant and i shall never +again see the sun, this water, that gorge!...” +at that instant the sun began to hide behind the clouds, and other +stretchers came into view before rostóv. and the fear of death and of +the stretchers, and love of the sun and of life, all merged into one +feeling of sickening agitation. +“o lord god! thou who art in that heaven, save, forgive, and protect +the hussars ran back to the men who held their horses; their voices +sounded louder and calmer, the stretchers disappeared from sight. +“it’s all over; but i am a coward—yes, a coward!” thought +rostóv, and sighing deeply he took rook, his horse, which stood resting +one foot, from the orderly and began to mount. +“was that grapeshot?” he asked denísov. +bwicks and it’s nasty work! an attack’s pleasant work! hacking +away at the dogs! but this sort of thing is the very devil, with them +shooting at you like a target.” +and denísov rode up to a group that had stopped near rostóv, composed +of the colonel, nesvítski, zherkóv, and the officer from the suite. +“well, it seems that no one has noticed,” thought rostóv. and this +was true. no one had taken any notice, for everyone knew the sensation +which the cadet under fire for the first time had experienced. +“here’s something for you to report,” said zherkóv. “see if i +“inform the prince that i the bridge fired!” said the colonel +“a trifle,” said the colonel in his bass voice: “two hussars +wounded, and one knocked out,” he added, unable to restrain a happy +pursued by the french army of a hundred thousand men under the command +of bonaparte, encountering a population that was unfriendly to it, +losing confidence in its allies, suffering from shortness of supplies, +and compelled to act under conditions of war unlike anything that had +been foreseen, the russian army of thirty-five thousand men commanded +by kutúzov was hurriedly retreating along the danube, stopping where +overtaken by the enemy and fighting rearguard actions only as far as +necessary to enable it to retreat without losing its heavy equipment. +there had been actions at lambach, amstetten, and melk; but despite the +courage and endurance—acknowledged even by the enemy—with which the +russians fought, the only consequence of these actions was a yet more +rapid retreat. austrian troops that had escaped capture at ulm and had +joined kutúzov at braunau now separated from the russian army, and +kutúzov was left with only his own weak and exhausted forces. the +defense of vienna was no longer to be thought of. instead of an +offensive, the plan of which, carefully prepared in accord with the +modern science of strategics, had been handed to kutúzov when he was in +vienna by the austrian hofkriegsrath, the sole and almost unattainable +aim remaining for him was to effect a junction with the forces that were +advancing from russia, without losing his army as mack had done at ulm. +on the twenty-eighth of october kutúzov with his army crossed to the +left bank of the danube and took up a position for the first time +with the river between himself and the main body of the french. on the +thirtieth he attacked mortier’s division, which was on the left bank, +and broke it up. in this action for the first time trophies were taken: +banners, cannon, and two enemy generals. for the first time, after a +fortnight’s retreat, the russian troops had halted and after a fight +had not only held the field but had repulsed the french. though the +troops were ill-clad, exhausted, and had lost a third of their number +in killed, wounded, sick, and stragglers; though a number of sick and +wounded had been abandoned on the other side of the danube with a letter +in which kutúzov entrusted them to the humanity of the enemy; and +though the big hospitals and the houses in krems converted into military +hospitals could no longer accommodate all the sick and wounded, yet the +stand made at krems and the victory over mortier raised the spirits of +the army considerably. throughout the whole army and at headquarters +most joyful though erroneous rumors were rife of the imaginary approach +of columns from russia, of some victory gained by the austrians, and of +the retreat of the frightened bonaparte. +prince andrew during the battle had been in attendance on the austrian +general schmidt, who was killed in the action. his horse had been +wounded under him and his own arm slightly grazed by a bullet. as a mark +of the commander in chief’s special favor he was sent with the news of +this victory to the austrian court, now no longer at vienna (which was +threatened by the french) but at brünn. despite his apparently delicate +build prince andrew could endure physical fatigue far better than many +very muscular men, and on the night of the battle, having arrived +at krems excited but not weary, with dispatches from dokhtúrov to +kutúzov, he was sent immediately with a special dispatch to brünn. +to be so sent meant not only a reward but an important step toward +the night was dark but starry, the road showed black in the snow that +had fallen the previous day—the day of the battle. reviewing his +impressions of the recent battle, picturing pleasantly to himself the +impression his news of a victory would create, or recalling the send-off +given him by the commander in chief and his fellow officers, prince +andrew was galloping along in a post chaise enjoying the feelings of a +man who has at length begun to attain a long-desired happiness. as soon +as he closed his eyes his ears seemed filled with the rattle of the +wheels and the sensation of victory. then he began to imagine that +the russians were running away and that he himself was killed, but he +quickly roused himself with a feeling of joy, as if learning afresh that +this was not so but that on the contrary the french had run away. he +again recalled all the details of the victory and his own calm courage +during the battle, and feeling reassured he dozed off.... the dark +starry night was followed by a bright cheerful morning. the snow was +thawing in the sunshine, the horses galloped quickly, and on both sides +of the road were forests of different kinds, fields, and villages. +at one of the post stations he overtook a convoy of russian wounded. +the russian officer in charge of the transport lolled back in the front +cart, shouting and scolding a soldier with coarse abuse. in each of +the long german carts six or more pale, dirty, bandaged men were being +jolted over the stony road. some of them were talking (he heard russian +words), others were eating bread; the more severely wounded looked +silently, with the languid interest of sick children, at the envoy +prince andrew told his driver to stop, and asked a soldier in what +action they had been wounded. “day before yesterday, on the danube,” +answered the soldier. prince andrew took out his purse and gave the +“that’s for them all,” he said to the officer who came up. +“get well soon, lads!” he continued, turning to the soldiers. +“what news, sir?” asked the officer, evidently anxious to start a +“good news!... go on!” he shouted to the driver, and they galloped +it was already quite dark when prince andrew rattled over the paved +streets of brünn and found himself surrounded by high buildings, the +lights of shops, houses, and street lamps, fine carriages, and all that +atmosphere of a large and active town which is always so attractive to a +soldier after camp life. despite his rapid journey and sleepless night, +prince andrew when he drove up to the palace felt even more vigorous and +alert than he had done the day before. only his eyes gleamed feverishly +and his thoughts followed one another with extraordinary clearness and +rapidity. he again vividly recalled the details of the battle, no longer +dim, but definite and in the concise form in which he imagined himself +stating them to the emperor francis. he vividly imagined the casual +questions that might be put to him and the answers he would give. he +expected to be at once presented to the emperor. at the chief entrance +to the palace, however, an official came running out to meet him, and +learning that he was a special messenger led him to another entrance. +“to the right from the corridor, euer hochgeboren! there you will find +the adjutant on duty,” said the official. “he will conduct you to +the adjutant on duty, meeting prince andrew, asked him to wait, and went +in to the minister of war. five minutes later he returned and bowing +with particular courtesy ushered prince andrew before him along a +corridor to the cabinet where the minister of war was at work. the +adjutant by his elaborate courtesy appeared to wish to ward off any +attempt at familiarity on the part of the russian messenger. +prince andrew’s joyous feeling was considerably weakened as he +approached the door of the minister’s room. he felt offended, and +without his noticing it the feeling of offense immediately turned into +one of disdain which was quite uncalled for. his fertile mind instantly +suggested to him a point of view which gave him a right to despise +the adjutant and the minister. “away from the smell of powder, they +probably think it easy to gain victories!” he thought. his eyes +narrowed disdainfully, he entered the room of the minister of war with +peculiarly deliberate steps. this feeling of disdain was heightened +when he saw the minister seated at a large table reading some papers +and making pencil notes on them, and for the first two or three minutes +taking no notice of his arrival. a wax candle stood at each side of the +minister’s bent bald head with its gray temples. he went on reading +to the end, without raising his eyes at the opening of the door and the +sound of footsteps. +“take this and deliver it,” said he to his adjutant, handing him the +papers and still taking no notice of the special messenger. +prince andrew felt that either the actions of kutúzov’s army +interested the minister of war less than any of the other matters he was +concerned with, or he wanted to give the russian special messenger that +impression. “but that is a matter of perfect indifference to me,” he +thought. the minister drew the remaining papers together, arranged them +evenly, and then raised his head. he had an intellectual and distinctive +head, but the instant he turned to prince andrew the firm, intelligent +expression on his face changed in a way evidently deliberate and +habitual to him. his face took on the stupid artificial smile (which +does not even attempt to hide its artificiality) of a man who is +continually receiving many petitioners one after another. +“from general field marshal kutúzov?” he asked. “i hope it is +good news? there has been an encounter with mortier? a victory? it was +he took the dispatch which was addressed to him and began to read it +“oh, my god! my god! schmidt!” he exclaimed in german. “what a +having glanced through the dispatch he laid it on the table and looked +at prince andrew, evidently considering something. +“ah what a calamity! you say the affair was decisive? but mortier is +not captured.” again he pondered. “i am very glad you have brought +good news, though schmidt’s death is a heavy price to pay for the +victory. his majesty will no doubt wish to see you, but not today. i +thank you! you must have a rest. be at the levee tomorrow after the +parade. however, i will let you know.” +the stupid smile, which had left his face while he was speaking, +“au revoir! thank you very much. his majesty will probably desire to +when prince andrew left the palace he felt that all the interest +and happiness the victory had afforded him had been now left in the +indifferent hands of the minister of war and the polite adjutant. the +whole tenor of his thoughts instantaneously changed; the battle seemed +the memory of a remote event long past. +prince andrew stayed at brünn with bilíbin, a russian acquaintance of +“ah, my dear prince! i could not have a more welcome visitor,” +said bilíbin as he came out to meet prince andrew. “franz, put the +prince’s things in my bedroom,” said he to the servant who was +ushering bolkónski in. “so you’re a messenger of victory, eh? +splendid! and i am sitting here ill, as you see.” +after washing and dressing, prince andrew came into the diplomat’s +luxurious study and sat down to the dinner prepared for him. bilíbin +settled down comfortably beside the fire. +after his journey and the campaign during which he had been deprived of +all the comforts of cleanliness and all the refinements of life, prince +andrew felt a pleasant sense of repose among luxurious surroundings such +as he had been accustomed to from childhood. besides it was pleasant, +after his reception by the austrians, to speak if not in russian +(for they were speaking french) at least with a russian who would, he +supposed, share the general russian antipathy to the austrians which was +bilíbin was a man of thirty-five, a bachelor, and of the same circle as +prince andrew. they had known each other previously in petersburg, but +had become more intimate when prince andrew was in vienna with kutúzov. +just as prince andrew was a young man who gave promise of rising high +in the military profession, so to an even greater extent bilíbin gave +promise of rising in his diplomatic career. he was still a young man but +no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age +of sixteen, had been in paris and copenhagen, and now held a rather +important post in vienna. both the foreign minister and our ambassador +in vienna knew him and valued him. he was not one of those many +diplomats who are esteemed because they have certain negative qualities, +avoid doing certain things, and speak french. he was one of those, +who, liking work, knew how to do it, and despite his indolence would +sometimes spend a whole night at his writing table. he worked well +whatever the import of his work. it was not the question “what for?” +but the question “how?” that interested him. what the diplomatic +matter might be he did not care, but it gave him great pleasure to +prepare a circular, memorandum, or report, skillfully, pointedly, and +elegantly. bilíbin’s services were valued not only for what he wrote, +but also for his skill in dealing and conversing with those in the +bilíbin liked conversation as he liked work, only when it could be +made elegantly witty. in society he always awaited an opportunity to say +something striking and took part in a conversation only when that was +possible. his conversation was always sprinkled with wittily original, +finished phrases of general interest. these sayings were prepared in the +inner laboratory of his mind in a portable form as if intentionally, so +that insignificant society people might carry them from drawing room to +drawing room. and, in fact, bilíbin’s witticisms were hawked about +in the viennese drawing rooms and often had an influence on matters +his thin, worn, sallow face was covered with deep wrinkles, which always +looked as clean and well washed as the tips of one’s fingers after a +russian bath. the movement of these wrinkles formed the principal play +of expression on his face. now his forehead would pucker into deep folds +and his eyebrows were lifted, then his eyebrows would descend and +deep wrinkles would crease his cheeks. his small, deep-set eyes always +“well, now tell me about your exploits,” said he. +bolkónski, very modestly without once mentioning himself, described the +engagement and his reception by the minister of war. +“they received me and my news as one receives a dog in a game of +bilíbin smiled and the wrinkles on his face disappeared. +“cependant, mon cher,” he remarked, examining his nails from a +distance and puckering the skin above his left eye, “malgré la haute +estime que je professe pour the orthodox russian army, j’avoue que +votre victoire n’est pas des plus victorieuses.” * + * “but my dear fellow, with all my respect for the orthodox + russian army, i must say that your victory was not +he went on talking in this way in french, uttering only those words in +russian on which he wished to put a contemptuous emphasis. +“come now! you with all your forces fall on the unfortunate mortier +and his one division, and even then mortier slips through your fingers! +“but seriously,” said prince andrew, “we can at any rate say +without boasting that it was a little better than at ulm...” +“because not everything happens as one expects or with the smoothness +of a parade. we had expected, as i told you, to get at their rear by +seven in the morning but had not reached it by five in the afternoon.” +“and why didn’t you do it at seven in the morning? you ought to have +been there at seven in the morning,” returned bilíbin with a smile. +“you ought to have been there at seven in the morning.” +“why did you not succeed in impressing on bonaparte by diplomatic +methods that he had better leave genoa alone?” retorted prince andrew +“i know,” interrupted bilíbin, “you’re thinking it’s very +easy to take marshals, sitting on a sofa by the fire! that is true, but +still why didn’t you capture him? so don’t be surprised if not only +the minister of war but also his most august majesty the emperor and +king francis is not much delighted by your victory. even i, a poor +secretary of the russian embassy, do not feel any need in token of my +joy to give my franz a thaler, or let him go with his liebchen to the +prater... true, we have no prater here...” +he looked straight at prince andrew and suddenly unwrinkled his +“it is now my turn to ask you ‘why?’ mon cher,” said bolkónski. +“i confess i do not understand: perhaps there are diplomatic +subtleties here beyond my feeble intelligence, but i can’t make it +out. mack loses a whole army, the archduke ferdinand and the archduke +karl give no signs of life and make blunder after blunder. kutúzov +alone at last gains a real victory, destroying the spell of the +invincibility of the french, and the minister of war does not even care +“that’s just it, my dear fellow. you see it’s hurrah for the tsar, +for russia, for the orthodox greek faith! all that is beautiful, but +what do we, i mean the austrian court, care for your victories? bring +us nice news of a victory by the archduke karl or ferdinand (one +archduke’s as good as another, as you know) and even if it is only +over a fire brigade of bonaparte’s, that will be another story and +we’ll fire off some cannon! but this sort of thing seems done +on purpose to vex us. the archduke karl does nothing, the archduke +ferdinand disgraces himself. you abandon vienna, give up its +defense—as much as to say: ‘heaven is with us, but heaven help you +and your capital!’ the one general whom we all loved, schmidt, you +expose to a bullet, and then you congratulate us on the victory! admit +that more irritating news than yours could not have been conceived. +it’s as if it had been done on purpose, on purpose. besides, suppose +you did gain a brilliant victory, if even the archduke karl gained a +victory, what effect would that have on the general course of events? +it’s too late now when vienna is occupied by the french army!” +“not only occupied, but bonaparte is at schönbrunn, and the count, +after the fatigues and impressions of the journey, his reception, and +especially after having dined, bolkónski felt that he could not take in +the full significance of the words he heard. +“count lichtenfels was here this morning,” bilíbin continued, +“and showed me a letter in which the parade of the french in vienna +was fully described: prince murat et tout le tremblement... you see that +your victory is not a matter for great rejoicing and that you can’t be +“really i don’t care about that, i don’t care at all,” said +prince andrew, beginning to understand that his news of the battle +before krems was really of small importance in view of such events as +the fall of austria’s capital. “how is it vienna was taken? what of +the bridge and its celebrated bridgehead and prince auersperg? we heard +reports that prince auersperg was defending vienna?” he said. +“prince auersperg is on this, on our side of the river, and is +defending us—doing it very badly, i think, but still he is defending +us. but vienna is on the other side. no, the bridge has not yet been +taken and i hope it will not be, for it is mined and orders have been +given to blow it up. otherwise we should long ago have been in the +mountains of bohemia, and you and your army would have spent a bad +“but still this does not mean that the campaign is over,” said +“well, i think it is. the bigwigs here think so too, but they +daren’t say so. it will be as i said at the beginning of the campaign, +it won’t be your skirmishing at dürrenstein, or gunpowder at all, +that will decide the matter, but those who devised it,” said bilíbin +quoting one of his own mots, releasing the wrinkles on his forehead, and +pausing. “the only question is what will come of the meeting between +the emperor alexander and the king of prussia in berlin? if prussia +joins the allies, austria’s hand will be forced and there will be war. +if not it is merely a question of settling where the preliminaries of +the new campo formio are to be drawn up.” +“what an extraordinary genius!” prince andrew suddenly exclaimed, +clenching his small hand and striking the table with it, “and what +“buonaparte?” said bilíbin inquiringly, puckering up his forehead +to indicate that he was about to say something witty. “buonaparte?” +he repeated, accentuating the u: “i think, however, now that he lays +down laws for austria at schönbrunn, il faut lui faire grâce de +l’u! * i shall certainly adopt an innovation and call him simply + * “we must let him off the u!” +“but joking apart,” said prince andrew, “do you really think the +“this is what i think. austria has been made a fool of, and she is +not used to it. she will retaliate. and she has been fooled in the +first place because her provinces have been pillaged—they say the holy +russian army loots terribly—her army is destroyed, her capital +taken, and all this for the beaux yeux * of his sardinian majesty. and +therefore—this is between ourselves—i instinctively feel that we +are being deceived, my instinct tells me of negotiations with france and +projects for peace, a secret peace concluded separately.” +“impossible!” cried prince andrew. “that would be too base.” +“if we live we shall see,” replied bilíbin, his face again becoming +smooth as a sign that the conversation was at an end. +when prince andrew reached the room prepared for him and lay down in a +clean shirt on the feather bed with its warmed and fragrant pillows, he +felt that the battle of which he had brought tidings was far, far +away from him. the alliance with prussia, austria’s treachery, +bonaparte’s new triumph, tomorrow’s levee and parade, and the +audience with the emperor francis occupied his thoughts. +he closed his eyes, and immediately a sound of cannonading, of musketry +and the rattling of carriage wheels seemed to fill his ears, and now +again drawn out in a thin line the musketeers were descending the hill, +the french were firing, and he felt his heart palpitating as he rode +forward beside schmidt with the bullets merrily whistling all around, +and he experienced tenfold the joy of living, as he had not done since +“yes, that all happened!” he said, and, smiling happily to himself +like a child, he fell into a deep, youthful slumber. +next day he woke late. recalling his recent impressions, the first +thought that came into his mind was that today he had to be presented +to the emperor francis; he remembered the minister of war, the polite +austrian adjutant, bilíbin, and last night’s conversation. having +dressed for his attendance at court in full parade uniform, which he +had not worn for a long time, he went into bilíbin’s study fresh, +animated, and handsome, with his hand bandaged. in the study were four +gentlemen of the diplomatic corps. with prince hippolyte kurágin, +who was a secretary to the embassy, bolkónski was already acquainted. +bilíbin introduced him to the others. +the gentlemen assembled at bilíbin’s were young, wealthy, gay society +men, who here, as in vienna, formed a special set which bilíbin, their +leader, called les nôtres. * this set, consisting almost exclusively of +diplomats, evidently had its own interests which had nothing to do with +war or politics but related to high society, to certain women, and to +the official side of the service. these gentlemen received prince +andrew as one of themselves, an honor they did not extend to many. from +politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions +about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry +“but the best of it was,” said one, telling of the misfortune of +a fellow diplomat, “that the chancellor told him flatly that his +appointment to london was a promotion and that he was so to regard it. +“but the worst of it, gentlemen—i am giving kurágin away to +you—is that that man suffers, and this don juan, wicked fellow, is +prince hippolyte was lolling in a lounge chair with his legs over its +“oh, you don juan! you serpent!” cried several voices. +“you, bolkónski, don’t know,” said bilíbin turning to prince +andrew, “that all the atrocities of the french army (i nearly said of +the russian army) are nothing compared to what this man has been doing +“la femme est la compagne de l’homme,” * announced prince +hippolyte, and began looking through a lorgnette at his elevated legs. +bilíbin and the rest of “ours” burst out laughing in hippolyte’s +face, and prince andrew saw that hippolyte, of whom—he had to +admit—he had almost been jealous on his wife’s account, was the butt +“oh, i must give you a treat,” bilíbin whispered to bolkónski. +“kurágin is exquisite when he discusses politics—you should see his +he sat down beside hippolyte and wrinkling his forehead began talking +to him about politics. prince andrew and the others gathered round these +“the berlin cabinet cannot express a feeling of alliance,” began +hippolyte gazing round with importance at the others, “without +expressing... as in its last note... you understand... besides, unless +his majesty the emperor derogates from the principle of our alliance... +“wait, i have not finished...” he said to prince andrew, seizing +him by the arm, “i believe that intervention will be stronger than +nonintervention. and...” he paused. “finally one cannot impute the +nonreceipt of our dispatch of november 18. that is how it will end.” +and he released bolkónski’s arm to indicate that he had now quite +“demosthenes, i know thee by the pebble thou secretest in thy golden +mouth!” said bilíbin, and the mop of hair on his head moved with +everybody laughed, and hippolyte louder than anyone. he was evidently +distressed, and breathed painfully, but could not restrain the wild +laughter that convulsed his usually impassive features. +“well now, gentlemen,” said bilíbin, “bolkónski is my guest in +this house and in brünn itself. i want to entertain him as far as i +can, with all the pleasures of life here. if we were in vienna it would +be easy, but here, in this wretched moravian hole, it is more difficult, +and i beg you all to help me. brünn’s attractions must be shown him. +you can undertake the theater, i society, and you, hippolyte, of course +“we must let him see amelie, she’s exquisite!” said one of +“in general we must turn this bloodthirsty soldier to more humane +“i shall scarcely be able to avail myself of your hospitality, +gentlemen, it is already time for me to go,” replied prince andrew +“well, au revoir, bolkónski! au revoir, prince! come back early to +dinner,” cried several voices. “we’ll take you in hand.” +“when speaking to the emperor, try as far as you can to praise the way +that provisions are supplied and the routes indicated,” said bilíbin, +“i should like to speak well of them, but as far as i know the facts, +“well, talk as much as you can, anyway. he has a passion for giving +audiences, but he does not like talking himself and can’t do it, as +at the levee prince andrew stood among the austrian officers as he had +been told to, and the emperor francis merely looked fixedly into his +face and just nodded to him with his long head. but after it was +over, the adjutant he had seen the previous day ceremoniously informed +bolkónski that the emperor desired to give him an audience. the emperor +francis received him standing in the middle of the room. before the +conversation began prince andrew was struck by the fact that the emperor +seemed confused and blushed as if not knowing what to say. +“tell me, when did the battle begin?” he asked hurriedly. +prince andrew replied. then followed other questions just as simple: +“was kutúzov well? when had he left krems?” and so on. the emperor +spoke as if his sole aim were to put a given number of questions—the +answers to these questions, as was only too evident, did not interest +“at what o’clock did the battle begin?” asked the emperor. +“i cannot inform your majesty at what o’clock the battle began at +the front, but at dürrenstein, where i was, our attack began after +five in the afternoon,” replied bolkónski growing more animated and +expecting that he would have a chance to give a reliable account, which +he had ready in his mind, of all he knew and had seen. but the emperor +“three and a half miles, your majesty.” +“the french have abandoned the left bank?” +“according to the scouts the last of them crossed on rafts during the +“is there sufficient forage in krems?” +“forage has not been supplied to the extent...” +the emperor thanked prince andrew and bowed. prince andrew withdrew and +was immediately surrounded by courtiers on all sides. everywhere he +saw friendly looks and heard friendly words. yesterday’s adjutant +reproached him for not having stayed at the palace, and offered him +his own house. the minister of war came up and congratulated him on the +maria theresa order of the third grade, which the emperor was conferring +on him. the empress’ chamberlain invited him to see her majesty. the +archduchess also wished to see him. he did not know whom to answer, and +for a few seconds collected his thoughts. then the russian ambassador +took him by the shoulder, led him to the window, and began to talk to +contrary to bilíbin’s forecast the news he had brought was joyfully +received. a thanksgiving service was arranged, kutúzov was awarded +the grand cross of maria theresa, and the whole army received rewards. +bolkónski was invited everywhere, and had to spend the whole morning +calling on the principal austrian dignitaries. between four and five +in the afternoon, having made all his calls, he was returning to +bilíbin’s house thinking out a letter to his father about the battle +and his visit to brünn. at the door he found a vehicle half full of +luggage. franz, bilíbin’s man, was dragging a portmanteau with some +before returning to bilíbin’s prince andrew had gone to a bookshop +to provide himself with some books for the campaign, and had spent some +“oh, your excellency!” said franz, with difficulty rolling the +portmanteau into the vehicle, “we are to move on still farther. the +bilíbin came out to meet him. his usually calm face showed excitement. +“there now! confess that this is delightful,” said he. “this +affair of the thabor bridge, at vienna.... they have crossed without +“but where do you come from not to know what every coachman in the +“i come from the archduchess’. i heard nothing there.” +“and you didn’t see that everybody is packing up?” +“i did not... what is it all about?” inquired prince andrew +“what’s it all about? why, the french have crossed the bridge that +auersperg was defending, and the bridge was not blown up: so murat +is now rushing along the road to brünn and will be here in a day or +“what? here? but why did they not blow up the bridge, if it was +“that is what i ask you. no one, not even bonaparte, knows why.” +“but if the bridge is crossed it means that the army too is lost? it +“that’s just it,” answered bilíbin. “listen! the french entered +vienna as i told you. very well. next day, which was yesterday, those +gentlemen, messieurs les maréchaux, * murat, lannes, and belliard, +mount and ride to the bridge. (observe that all three are gascons.) +‘gentlemen,’ says one of them, ‘you know the thabor bridge is +mined and doubly mined and that there are menacing fortifications at its +head and an army of fifteen thousand men has been ordered to blow up +the bridge and not let us cross? but it will please our sovereign the +emperor napoleon if we take this bridge, so let us three go and take +it!’ ‘yes, let’s!’ say the others. and off they go and take the +bridge, cross it, and now with their whole army are on this side of the +danube, marching on us, you, and your lines of communication.” +“stop jesting,” said prince andrew sadly and seriously. this news +as soon as he learned that the russian army was in such a hopeless +situation it occurred to him that it was he who was destined to lead it +out of this position; that here was the toulon that would lift him from +the ranks of obscure officers and offer him the first step to fame! +listening to bilíbin he was already imagining how on reaching the army +he would give an opinion at the war council which would be the only one +that could save the army, and how he alone would be entrusted with the +“i am not jesting,” bilíbin went on. “nothing is truer or sadder. +these gentlemen ride onto the bridge alone and wave white handkerchiefs; +they assure the officer on duty that they, the marshals, are on +their way to negotiate with prince auersperg. he lets them enter the +tête-de-pont. * they spin him a thousand gasconades, saying that +the war is over, that the emperor francis is arranging a meeting with +bonaparte, that they desire to see prince auersperg, and so on. the +officer sends for auersperg; these gentlemen embrace the officers, crack +jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a french battalion gets to +the bridge unobserved, flings the bags of incendiary material into +the water, and approaches the tête-de-pont. at length appears the +lieutenant general, our dear prince auersperg von mautern himself. +‘dearest foe! flower of the austrian army, hero of the turkish wars! +hostilities are ended, we can shake one another’s hand.... the +emperor napoleon burns with impatience to make prince auersperg’s +acquaintance.’ in a word, those gentlemen, gascons indeed, so +bewildered him with fine words, and he is so flattered by his rapidly +established intimacy with the french marshals, and so dazzled by the +sight of murat’s mantle and ostrich plumes, qu’il n’y voit que du +feu, et oublie celui qu’il devait faire faire sur l’ennemi!” *(2) +in spite of the animation of his speech, bilíbin did not forget to +pause after this mot to give time for its due appreciation. “the +french battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the +bridge is taken! but what is best of all,” he went on, his excitement +subsiding under the delightful interest of his own story, “is that the +sergeant in charge of the cannon which was to give the signal to fire +the mines and blow up the bridge, this sergeant, seeing that the french +troops were running onto the bridge, was about to fire, but lannes +stayed his hand. the sergeant, who was evidently wiser than his general, +goes up to auersperg and says: ‘prince, you are being deceived, here +are the french!’ murat, seeing that all is lost if the sergeant is +allowed to speak, turns to auersperg with feigned astonishment (he is a +true gascon) and says: ‘i don’t recognize the world-famous austrian +discipline, if you allow a subordinate to address you like that!’ it +was a stroke of genius. prince auersperg feels his dignity at stake and +orders the sergeant to be arrested. come, you must own that this affair +of the thabor bridge is delightful! it is not exactly stupidity, nor + * (2) that their fire gets into his eyes and he forgets that + he ought to be firing at the enemy. +“it may be treachery,” said prince andrew, vividly imagining the +gray overcoats, wounds, the smoke of gunpowder, the sounds of firing, +“not that either. that puts the court in too bad a light,” replied +bilíbin. “it’s not treachery nor rascality nor stupidity: it is +just as at ulm... it is...”—he seemed to be trying to find the right +expression. “c’est... c’est du mack. nous sommes mackés (it is... +it is a bit of mack. we are macked),” he concluded, feeling that he +had produced a good epigram, a fresh one that would be repeated. his +hitherto puckered brow became smooth as a sign of pleasure, and with a +slight smile he began to examine his nails. +“where are you off to?” he said suddenly to prince andrew who had +“but you meant to stay another two days?” +and prince andrew after giving directions about his departure went to +“do you know, mon cher,” said bilíbin following him, “i have been +thinking about you. why are you going?” +and in proof of the conclusiveness of his opinion all the wrinkles +prince andrew looked inquiringly at him and gave no reply. +“why are you going? i know you think it your duty to gallop back to +the army now that it is in danger. i understand that. mon cher, it is +“not at all,” said prince andrew. +“but as you are a philosopher, be a consistent one, look at the other +side of the question and you will see that your duty, on the contrary, +is to take care of yourself. leave it to those who are no longer fit for +anything else.... you have not been ordered to return and have not been +dismissed from here; therefore, you can stay and go with us wherever our +ill luck takes us. they say we are going to olmütz, and olmütz is a +very decent town. you and i will travel comfortably in my calèche.” +“i am speaking sincerely as a friend! consider! where and why are +you going, when you might remain here? you are faced by one of two +things,” and the skin over his left temple puckered, “either you +will not reach your regiment before peace is concluded, or you will +and bilíbin unwrinkled his temple, feeling that the dilemma was +“i cannot argue about it,” replied prince andrew coldly, but he +“my dear fellow, you are a hero!” said bilíbin. +that same night, having taken leave of the minister of war, bolkónski +set off to rejoin the army, not knowing where he would find it and +fearing to be captured by the french on the way to krems. +in brünn everybody attached to the court was packing up, and the heavy +baggage was already being dispatched to olmütz. near hetzelsdorf prince +andrew struck the high road along which the russian army was moving with +great haste and in the greatest disorder. the road was so obstructed +with carts that it was impossible to get by in a carriage. prince andrew +took a horse and a cossack from a cossack commander, and hungry and +weary, making his way past the baggage wagons, rode in search of the +commander in chief and of his own luggage. very sinister reports of the +position of the army reached him as he went along, and the appearance of +the troops in their disorderly flight confirmed these rumors. +“cette armée russe que l’or de l’angleterre a transportée des +extrémités de l’univers, nous allons lui faire éprouver le même +sort—(le sort de l’armée d’ulm).” * he remembered these words +in bonaparte’s address to his army at the beginning of the campaign, +and they awoke in him astonishment at the genius of his hero, a feeling +of wounded pride, and a hope of glory. “and should there be nothing +left but to die?” he thought. “well, if need be, i shall do it no + * “that russian army which has been brought from the ends of + the earth by english gold, we shall cause to share the same + fate—(the fate of the army at ulm).” +he looked with disdain at the endless confused mass of detachments, +carts, guns, artillery, and again baggage wagons and vehicles of all +kinds overtaking one another and blocking the muddy road, three and +sometimes four abreast. from all sides, behind and before, as far as ear +could reach, there were the rattle of wheels, the creaking of carts +and gun carriages, the tramp of horses, the crack of whips, shouts, the +urging of horses, and the swearing of soldiers, orderlies, and officers. +all along the sides of the road fallen horses were to be seen, some +flayed, some not, and broken-down carts beside which solitary soldiers +sat waiting for something, and again soldiers straggling from their +companies, crowds of whom set off to the neighboring villages, or +returned from them dragging sheep, fowls, hay, and bulging sacks. at +each ascent or descent of the road the crowds were yet denser and the +din of shouting more incessant. soldiers floundering knee-deep in mud +pushed the guns and wagons themselves. whips cracked, hoofs slipped, +traces broke, and lungs were strained with shouting. the officers +directing the march rode backward and forward between the carts. their +voices were but feebly heard amid the uproar and one saw by their faces +that they despaired of the possibility of checking this disorder. +“here is our dear orthodox russian army,” thought bolkónski, +wishing to find out where the commander in chief was, he rode up to +a convoy. directly opposite to him came a strange one-horse vehicle, +evidently rigged up by soldiers out of any available materials and +looking like something between a cart, a cabriolet, and a calèche. +a soldier was driving, and a woman enveloped in shawls sat behind the +apron under the leather hood of the vehicle. prince andrew rode up +and was just putting his question to a soldier when his attention +was diverted by the desperate shrieks of the woman in the vehicle. an +officer in charge of transport was beating the soldier who was driving +the woman’s vehicle for trying to get ahead of others, and the strokes +of his whip fell on the apron of the equipage. the woman screamed +piercingly. seeing prince andrew she leaned out from behind the apron +and, waving her thin arms from under the woolen shawl, cried: +“mr. aide-de-camp! mr. aide-de-camp!... for heaven’s sake... protect +me! what will become of us? i am the wife of the doctor of the seventh +chasseurs.... they won’t let us pass, we are left behind and have lost +“i’ll flatten you into a pancake!” shouted the angry officer to +“mr. aide-de-camp! help me!... what does it all mean?” screamed the +“kindly let this cart pass. don’t you see it’s a woman?” said +the officer glanced at him, and without replying turned again to the +“let them pass, i tell you!” repeated prince andrew, compressing his +“and who are you?” cried the officer, turning on him with tipsy +rage, “who are you? are you in command here? eh? i am commander here, +not you! go back or i’ll flatten you into a pancake,” repeated he. +this expression evidently pleased him. +“that was a nice snub for the little aide-de-camp,” came a voice +prince andrew saw that the officer was in that state of senseless, +tipsy rage when a man does not know what he is saying. he saw that his +championship of the doctor’s wife in her queer trap might expose him +to what he dreaded more than anything in the world—to ridicule; but +his instinct urged him on. before the officer finished his sentence +prince andrew, his face distorted with fury, rode up to him and raised +the officer flourished his arm and hastily rode away. +“it’s all the fault of these fellows on the staff that there’s +this disorder,” he muttered. “do as you like.” +prince andrew without lifting his eyes rode hastily away from the +doctor’s wife, who was calling him her deliverer, and recalling with +a sense of disgust the minutest details of this humiliating scene he +galloped on to the village where he was told that the commander in chief +on reaching the village he dismounted and went to the nearest house, +intending to rest if but for a moment, eat something, and try to sort +out the stinging and tormenting thoughts that confused his mind. “this +is a mob of scoundrels and not an army,” he was thinking as he went +up to the window of the first house, when a familiar voice called him by +he turned round. nesvítski’s handsome face looked out of the little +window. nesvítski, moving his moist lips as he chewed something, and +flourishing his arm, called him to enter. +“bolkónski! bolkónski!... don’t you hear? eh? come quick...” he +entering the house, prince andrew saw nesvítski and another adjutant +having something to eat. they hastily turned round to him asking if he +had any news. on their familiar faces he read agitation and alarm. +this was particularly noticeable on nesvítski’s usually laughing +“where is the commander in chief?” asked bolkónski. +“here, in that house,” answered the adjutant. +“well, is it true that it’s peace and capitulation?” asked +“i was going to ask you. i know nothing except that it was all i could +“and we, my dear boy! it’s terrible! i was wrong to laugh at mack, +we’re getting it still worse,” said nesvítski. “but sit down and +“you won’t be able to find either your baggage or anything else now, +prince. and god only knows where your man peter is,” said the other +“where are headquarters?” +“we are to spend the night in znaim.” +“well, i have got all i need into packs for two horses,” said +nesvítski. “they’ve made up splendid packs for me—fit to cross +the bohemian mountains with. it’s a bad lookout, old fellow! but +what’s the matter with you? you must be ill to shiver like that,” he +added, noticing that prince andrew winced as at an electric shock. +he had just remembered his recent encounter with the doctor’s wife and +“what is the commander in chief doing here?” he asked. +“i can’t make out at all,” said nesvítski. +“well, all i can make out is that everything is abominable, +abominable, quite abominable!” said prince andrew, and he went off to +the house where the commander in chief was. +passing by kutúzov’s carriage and the exhausted saddle horses of +his suite, with their cossacks who were talking loudly together, prince +andrew entered the passage. kutúzov himself, he was told, was in the +house with prince bagratión and weyrother. weyrother was the austrian +general who had succeeded schmidt. in the passage little kozlóvski was +squatting on his heels in front of a clerk. the clerk, with cuffs turned +up, was hastily writing at a tub turned bottom upwards. kozlóvski’s +face looked worn—he too had evidently not slept all night. he glanced +at prince andrew and did not even nod to him. +“second line... have you written it?” he continued dictating to the +“one can’t write so fast, your honor,” said the clerk, glancing +through the door came the sounds of kutúzov’s voice, excited and +dissatisfied, interrupted by another, an unfamiliar voice. from the +sound of these voices, the inattentive way kozlóvski looked at him, the +disrespectful manner of the exhausted clerk, the fact that the clerk and +kozlóvski were squatting on the floor by a tub so near to the commander +in chief, and from the noisy laughter of the cossacks holding the +horses near the window, prince andrew felt that something important and +disastrous was about to happen. +he turned to kozlóvski with urgent questions. +“immediately, prince,” said kozlóvski. “dispositions for +“nothing of the sort. orders are issued for a battle.” +prince andrew moved toward the door from whence voices were heard. +just as he was going to open it the sounds ceased, the door opened, and +kutúzov with his eagle nose and puffy face appeared in the doorway. +prince andrew stood right in front of kutúzov but the expression of +the commander in chief’s one sound eye showed him to be so preoccupied +with thoughts and anxieties as to be oblivious of his presence. he +looked straight at his adjutant’s face without recognizing him. +“well, have you finished?” said he to kozlóvski. +bagratión, a gaunt middle-aged man of medium height with a firm, +impassive face of oriental type, came out after the commander in chief. +“i have the honor to present myself,” repeated prince andrew rather +“ah, from vienna? very good. later, later!” +kutúzov went out into the porch with bagratión. +“well, good-by, prince,” said he to bagratión. “my blessing, and +his face suddenly softened and tears came into his eyes. with his left +hand he drew bagratión toward him, and with his right, on which he wore +a ring, he made the sign of the cross over him with a gesture evidently +habitual, offering his puffy cheek, but bagratión kissed him on the +“christ be with you!” kutúzov repeated and went toward his +carriage. “get in with me,” said he to bolkónski. +“your excellency, i should like to be of use here. allow me to remain +“get in,” said kutúzov, and noticing that bolkónski still delayed, +he added: “i need good officers myself, need them myself!” +they got into the carriage and drove for a few minutes in silence. +“there is still much, much before us,” he said, as if with an old +man’s penetration he understood all that was passing in bolkónski’s +mind. “if a tenth part of his detachment returns i shall thank god,” +prince andrew glanced at kutúzov’s face only a foot distant from him +and involuntarily noticed the carefully washed seams of the scar near +his temple, where an ismail bullet had pierced his skull, and the empty +eye socket. “yes, he has a right to speak so calmly of those men’s +“that is why i beg to be sent to that detachment,” he said. +kutúzov did not reply. he seemed to have forgotten what he had been +saying, and sat plunged in thought. five minutes later, gently swaying +on the soft springs of the carriage, he turned to prince andrew. +there was not a trace of agitation on his face. with delicate irony he +questioned prince andrew about the details of his interview with the +emperor, about the remarks he had heard at court concerning the krems +on november 1 kutúzov had received, through a spy, news that the army +he commanded was in an almost hopeless position. the spy reported that +the french, after crossing the bridge at vienna, were advancing in +immense force upon kutúzov’s line of communication with the troops +that were arriving from russia. if kutúzov decided to remain at krems, +napoleon’s army of one hundred and fifty thousand men would cut him +off completely and surround his exhausted army of forty thousand, and he +would find himself in the position of mack at ulm. if kutúzov decided +to abandon the road connecting him with the troops arriving from russia, +he would have to march with no road into unknown parts of the bohemian +mountains, defending himself against superior forces of the enemy and +abandoning all hope of a junction with buxhöwden. if kutúzov decided +to retreat along the road from krems to olmütz, to unite with the +troops arriving from russia, he risked being forestalled on that road +by the french who had crossed the vienna bridge, and encumbered by his +baggage and transport, having to accept battle on the march against an +enemy three times as strong, who would hem him in from two sides. +the french, the spy reported, having crossed the vienna bridge, were +advancing by forced marches toward znaim, which lay sixty-six miles +off on the line of kutúzov’s retreat. if he reached znaim before the +french, there would be great hope of saving the army; to let the +french forestall him at znaim meant the exposure of his whole army to a +disgrace such as that of ulm, or to utter destruction. but to forestall +the french with his whole army was impossible. the road for the french +from vienna to znaim was shorter and better than the road for the +the night he received the news, kutúzov sent bagratión’s vanguard, +four thousand strong, to the right across the hills from the krems-znaim +to the vienna-znaim road. bagratión was to make this march without +resting, and to halt facing vienna with znaim to his rear, and if he +succeeded in forestalling the french he was to delay them as long as +possible. kutúzov himself with all his transport took the road to +marching thirty miles that stormy night across roadless hills, with his +hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers +by the way, bagratión came out on the vienna-znaim road at hollabrünn +a few hours ahead of the french who were approaching hollabrünn from +vienna. kutúzov with his transport had still to march for some days +before he could reach znaim. hence bagratión with his four thousand +hungry, exhausted men would have to detain for days the whole enemy army +that came upon him at hollabrünn, which was clearly impossible. but +a freak of fate made the impossible possible. the success of the trick +that had placed the vienna bridge in the hands of the french without +a fight led murat to try to deceive kutúzov in a similar way. meeting +bagratión’s weak detachment on the znaim road he supposed it to be +kutúzov’s whole army. to be able to crush it absolutely he awaited +the arrival of the rest of the troops who were on their way from vienna, +and with this object offered a three days’ truce on condition that +both armies should remain in position without moving. murat declared +that negotiations for peace were already proceeding, and that he +therefore offered this truce to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. count +nostitz, the austrian general occupying the advanced posts, believed +murat’s emissary and retired, leaving bagratión’s division +exposed. another emissary rode to the russian line to announce the peace +negotiations and to offer the russian army the three days’ truce. +bagratión replied that he was not authorized either to accept or refuse +a truce and sent his adjutant to kutúzov to report the offer he had +a truce was kutúzov’s sole chance of gaining time, giving +bagratión’s exhausted troops some rest, and letting the transport and +heavy convoys (whose movements were concealed from the french) advance +if but one stage nearer znaim. the offer of a truce gave the only, and +a quite unexpected, chance of saving the army. on receiving the news +he immediately dispatched adjutant general wintzingerode, who was in +attendance on him, to the enemy camp. wintzingerode was not merely +to agree to the truce but also to offer terms of capitulation, and +meanwhile kutúzov sent his adjutants back to hasten to the utmost the +movements of the baggage trains of the entire army along the krems-znaim +road. bagratión’s exhausted and hungry detachment, which alone +covered this movement of the transport and of the whole army, had to +remain stationary in face of an enemy eight times as strong as itself. +kutúzov’s expectations that the proposals of capitulation (which were +in no way binding) might give time for part of the transport to pass, +and also that murat’s mistake would very soon be discovered, proved +correct. as soon as bonaparte (who was at schönbrunn, sixteen miles +from hollabrünn) received murat’s dispatch with the proposal of a +truce and a capitulation, he detected a ruse and wrote the following +i cannot find words to express to you my displeasure. you command only +my advance guard, and have no right to arrange an armistice without my +order. you are causing me to lose the fruits of a campaign. break +the armistice immediately and march on the enemy. inform him that the +general who signed that capitulation had no right to do so, and that no +one but the emperor of russia has that right. +if, however, the emperor of russia ratifies that convention, i will +ratify it; but it is only a trick. march on, destroy the russian +army.... you are in a position to seize its baggage and artillery. +the russian emperor’s aide-de-camp is an impostor. officers are +nothing when they have no powers; this one had none.... the austrians +let themselves be tricked at the crossing of the vienna bridge, you are +letting yourself be tricked by an aide-de-camp of the emperor. +bonaparte’s adjutant rode full gallop with this menacing letter to +murat. bonaparte himself, not trusting to his generals, moved with all +the guards to the field of battle, afraid of letting a ready victim +escape, and bagratión’s four thousand men merrily lighted campfires, +dried and warmed themselves, cooked their porridge for the first time +for three days, and not one of them knew or imagined what was in store +between three and four o’clock in the afternoon prince andrew, who +had persisted in his request to kutúzov, arrived at grunth and reported +himself to bagratión. bonaparte’s adjutant had not yet reached +murat’s detachment and the battle had not yet begun. in bagratión’s +detachment no one knew anything of the general position of affairs. they +talked of peace but did not believe in its possibility; others talked +of a battle but also disbelieved in the nearness of an engagement. +bagratión, knowing bolkónski to be a favorite and trusted adjutant, +received him with distinction and special marks of favor, explaining to +him that there would probably be an engagement that day or the next, and +giving him full liberty to remain with him during the battle or to join +the rearguard and have an eye on the order of retreat, “which is also +“however, there will hardly be an engagement today,” said bagratión +“if he is one of the ordinary little staff dandies sent to earn a +medal he can get his reward just as well in the rearguard, but if he +wishes to stay with me, let him... he’ll be of use here if he’s a +brave officer,” thought bagratión. prince andrew, without replying, +asked the prince’s permission to ride round the position to see the +disposition of the forces, so as to know his bearings should he be sent +to execute an order. the officer on duty, a handsome, elegantly dressed +man with a diamond ring on his forefinger, who was fond of speaking +french though he spoke it badly, offered to conduct prince andrew. +on all sides they saw rain-soaked officers with dejected faces who +seemed to be seeking something, and soldiers dragging doors, benches, +“there now, prince! we can’t stop those fellows,” said the staff +officer pointing to the soldiers. “the officers don’t keep them in +hand. and there,” he pointed to a sutler’s tent, “they crowd in +and sit. this morning i turned them all out and now look, it’s full +again. i must go there, prince, and scare them a bit. it won’t take a +“yes, let’s go in and i will get myself a roll and some cheese,” +said prince andrew who had not yet had time to eat anything. +“why didn’t you mention it, prince? i would have offered you +they dismounted and entered the tent. several officers, with flushed and +weary faces, were sitting at the table eating and drinking. +“now what does this mean, gentlemen?” said the staff officer, in +the reproachful tone of a man who has repeated the same thing more +than once. “you know it won’t do to leave your posts like this. +the prince gave orders that no one should leave his post. now you, +captain,” and he turned to a thin, dirty little artillery officer who +without his boots (he had given them to the canteen keeper to dry), +in only his stockings, rose when they entered, smiling not altogether +continued. “one would think that as an artillery officer you would set +a good example, yet here you are without your boots! the alarm will be +sounded and you’ll be in a pretty position without your boots!” (the +staff officer smiled.) “kindly return to your posts, gentlemen, all of +you, all!” he added in a tone of command. +prince andrew smiled involuntarily as he looked at the artillery officer +túshin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to +the other, glanced inquiringly with his large, intelligent, kindly eyes +“the soldiers say it feels easier without boots,” said captain +túshin smiling shyly in his uncomfortable position, evidently wishing +to adopt a jocular tone. but before he had finished he felt that his +jest was unacceptable and had not come off. he grew confused. +“kindly return to your posts,” said the staff officer trying to +prince andrew glanced again at the artillery officer’s small figure. +there was something peculiar about it, quite unsoldierly, rather comic, +the staff officer and prince andrew mounted their horses and rode on. +having ridden beyond the village, continually meeting and overtaking +soldiers and officers of various regiments, they saw on their left some +entrenchments being thrown up, the freshly dug clay of which showed up +red. several battalions of soldiers, in their shirt sleeves despite +the cold wind, swarmed in these earthworks like a host of white ants; +spadefuls of red clay were continually being thrown up from behind the +bank by unseen hands. prince andrew and the officer rode up, looked at +the entrenchment, and went on again. just behind it they came upon some +dozens of soldiers, continually replaced by others, who ran from the +entrenchment. they had to hold their noses and put their horses to a +trot to escape from the poisoned atmosphere of these latrines. + * “this is a pleasure one gets in camp, prince.” +they rode up the opposite hill. from there the french could already be +seen. prince andrew stopped and began examining the position. +“that’s our battery,” said the staff officer indicating the +highest point. “it’s in charge of the queer fellow we saw without +his boots. you can see everything from there; let’s go there, +“thank you very much, i will go on alone,” said prince andrew, +wishing to rid himself of this staff officer’s company, “please +the staff officer remained behind and prince andrew rode on alone. +the farther forward and nearer the enemy he went, the more orderly and +cheerful were the troops. the greatest disorder and depression had been +in the baggage train he had passed that morning on the znaim road seven +miles away from the french. at grunth also some apprehension and alarm +could be felt, but the nearer prince andrew came to the french lines the +more confident was the appearance of our troops. the soldiers in +their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company +officers were counting the men, poking the last man in each section in +the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up. soldiers scattered over +the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building +shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, +dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending +boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers. +in one company dinner was ready, and the soldiers were gazing eagerly +at the steaming boiler, waiting till the sample, which a quartermaster +sergeant was carrying in a wooden bowl to an officer who sat on a log +another company, a lucky one for not all the companies had vodka, +crowded round a pockmarked, broad-shouldered sergeant major who, tilting +a keg, filled one after another the canteen lids held out to him. the +soldiers lifted the canteen lids to their lips with reverential faces, +emptied them, rolling the vodka in their mouths, and walked away from +the sergeant major with brightened expressions, licking their lips and +wiping them on the sleeves of their greatcoats. all their faces were +as serene as if all this were happening at home awaiting peaceful +encampment, and not within sight of the enemy before an action in +which at least half of them would be left on the field. after passing a +chasseur regiment and in the lines of the kiev grenadiers—fine fellows +busy with similar peaceful affairs—near the shelter of the regimental +commander, higher than and different from the others, prince andrew came +out in front of a platoon of grenadiers before whom lay a naked man. two +soldiers held him while two others were flourishing their switches and +striking him regularly on his bare back. the man shrieked unnaturally. +a stout major was pacing up and down the line, and regardless of the +“it’s a shame for a soldier to steal; a soldier must be honest, +honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in +so the swishing sound of the strokes, and the desperate but unnatural +a young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face +stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant +prince andrew, having reached the front line, rode along it. our front +line and that of the enemy were far apart on the right and left flanks, +but in the center where the men with a flag of truce had passed that +morning, the lines were so near together that the men could see one +another’s faces and speak to one another. besides the soldiers who +formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers +who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies. +since early morning—despite an injunction not to approach the picket +line—the officers had been unable to keep sight-seers away. the +soldiers forming the picket line, like showmen exhibiting a curiosity, +no longer looked at the french but paid attention to the sight-seers and +grew weary waiting to be relieved. prince andrew halted to have a look +“look! look there!” one soldier was saying to another, pointing to a +russian musketeer who had gone up to the picket line with an officer and +was rapidly and excitedly talking to a french grenadier. “hark to him +jabbering! fine, isn’t it? it’s all the frenchy can do to keep up +“wait a bit and listen. it’s fine!” answered sídorov, who was +the soldier to whom the laughers referred was dólokhov. prince andrew +recognized him and stopped to listen to what he was saying. dólokhov +had come from the left flank where their regiment was stationed, with +“now then, go on, go on!” incited the officer, bending forward and +trying not to lose a word of the speech which was incomprehensible to +dólokhov did not answer the captain; he had been drawn into a hot +dispute with the french grenadier. they were naturally talking about the +campaign. the frenchman, confusing the austrians with the russians, was +trying to prove that the russians had surrendered and had fled all +the way from ulm, while dólokhov maintained that the russians had not +surrendered but had beaten the french. +“we have orders to drive you off here, and we shall drive you off,” +“only take care you and your cossacks are not all captured!” said +“we’ll make you dance as we did under suvórov...,” * said +“it’s ancient history,” said another, guessing that it referred to +a former war. “the emperor will teach your suvara as he has taught the +“bonaparte...” began dólokhov, but the frenchman interrupted him. +“not bonaparte. he is the emperor! sacré nom...!” cried he angrily. +and dólokhov swore at him in coarse soldier’s russian and shouldering +“ah, that’s the way to talk french,” said the picket soldiers. +sídorov, turning to the french, winked, and began to jabber meaningless +sounds very fast: “kari, mala, tafa, safi, muter, kaská,” he said, +trying to give an expressive intonation to his voice. +“ho! ho! ho! ha! ha! ha! ha! ouh! ouh!” came peals of such healthy +and good-humored laughter from the soldiers that it infected the french +involuntarily, so much so that the only thing left to do seemed to be +to unload the muskets, explode the ammunition, and all return home as +but the guns remained loaded, the loopholes in blockhouses and +entrenchments looked out just as menacingly, and the unlimbered cannon +confronted one another as before. +having ridden round the whole line from right flank to left, prince +andrew made his way up to the battery from which the staff officer had +told him the whole field could be seen. here he dismounted, and stopped +beside the farthest of the four unlimbered cannon. before the guns an +artillery sentry was pacing up and down; he stood at attention when the +officer arrived, but at a sign resumed his measured, monotonous pacing. +behind the guns were their limbers and still farther back picket ropes +and artillerymen’s bonfires. to the left, not far from the farthest +cannon, was a small, newly constructed wattle shed from which came the +sound of officers’ voices in eager conversation. +it was true that a view over nearly the whole russian position and the +greater part of the enemy’s opened out from this battery. just facing +it, on the crest of the opposite hill, the village of schön grabern +could be seen, and in three places to left and right the french troops +amid the smoke of their campfires, the greater part of whom were +evidently in the village itself and behind the hill. to the left from +that village, amid the smoke, was something resembling a battery, but it +was impossible to see it clearly with the naked eye. our right flank was +posted on a rather steep incline which dominated the french position. +our infantry were stationed there, and at the farthest point the +dragoons. in the center, where túshin’s battery stood and from which +prince andrew was surveying the position, was the easiest and most +direct descent and ascent to the brook separating us from schön +grabern. on the left our troops were close to a copse, in which smoked +the bonfires of our infantry who were felling wood. the french line was +wider than ours, and it was plain that they could easily outflank us +on both sides. behind our position was a steep and deep dip, making it +difficult for artillery and cavalry to retire. prince andrew took +out his notebook and, leaning on the cannon, sketched a plan of the +position. he made some notes on two points, intending to mention them to +bagratión. his idea was, first, to concentrate all the artillery in the +center, and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the +dip. prince andrew, being always near the commander in chief, closely +following the mass movements and general orders, and constantly studying +historical accounts of battles, involuntarily pictured to himself the +course of events in the forthcoming action in broad outline. he +imagined only important possibilities: “if the enemy attacks the right +flank,” he said to himself, “the kiev grenadiers and the podólsk +chasseurs must hold their position till reserves from the center +come up. in that case the dragoons could successfully make a flank +counterattack. if they attack our center we, having the center battery +on this high ground, shall withdraw the left flank under its cover, and +retreat to the dip by echelons.” so he reasoned.... all the time +he had been beside the gun, he had heard the voices of the officers +distinctly, but as often happens had not understood a word of what they +were saying. suddenly, however, he was struck by a voice coming from the +shed, and its tone was so sincere that he could not but listen. +“no, friend,” said a pleasant and, as it seemed to prince andrew, a +familiar voice, “what i say is that if it were possible to know +what is beyond death, none of us would be afraid of it. that’s so, +another, a younger voice, interrupted him: “afraid or not, you can’t +“all the same, one is afraid! oh, you clever people,” said a third +manly voice interrupting them both. “of course you artillery men are +very wise, because you can take everything along with you—vodka and +and the owner of the manly voice, evidently an infantry officer, +“yes, one is afraid,” continued the first speaker, he of the +familiar voice. “one is afraid of the unknown, that’s what it is. +whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is +the manly voice again interrupted the artillery officer. +“well, stand us some of your herb vodka, túshin,” it said. +“why,” thought prince andrew, “that’s the captain who stood up +in the sutler’s hut without his boots.” he recognized the agreeable, +“some herb vodka? certainly!” said túshin. “but still, to +conceive a future life...” +he did not finish. just then there was a whistle in the air; nearer and +nearer, faster and louder, louder and faster, a cannon ball, as if it +had not finished saying what was necessary, thudded into the ground near +the shed with super human force, throwing up a mass of earth. the ground +seemed to groan at the terrible impact. +and immediately túshin, with a short pipe in the corner of his mouth +and his kind, intelligent face rather pale, rushed out of the shed +followed by the owner of the manly voice, a dashing infantry officer who +hurried off to his company, buttoning up his coat as he ran. +mounting his horse again prince andrew lingered with the battery, +looking at the puff from the gun that had sent the ball. his eyes +ran rapidly over the wide space, but he only saw that the hitherto +motionless masses of the french now swayed and that there really was +a battery to their left. the smoke above it had not yet dispersed. two +mounted frenchmen, probably adjutants, were galloping up the hill. a +small but distinctly visible enemy column was moving down the hill, +probably to strengthen the front line. the smoke of the first shot had +not yet dispersed before another puff appeared, followed by a report. +the battle had begun! prince andrew turned his horse and galloped back +to grunth to find prince bagratión. he heard the cannonade behind him +growing louder and more frequent. evidently our guns had begun to reply. +from the bottom of the slope, where the parleys had taken place, came +lemarrois had just arrived at a gallop with bonaparte’s stern letter, +and murat, humiliated and anxious to expiate his fault, had at once +moved his forces to attack the center and outflank both the russian +wings, hoping before evening and before the arrival of the emperor to +crush the contemptible detachment that stood before him. +“it has begun. here it is!” thought prince andrew, feeling the +blood rush to his heart. “but where and how will my toulon present +passing between the companies that had been eating porridge and drinking +vodka a quarter of an hour before, he saw everywhere the same rapid +movement of soldiers forming ranks and getting their muskets ready, +and on all their faces he recognized the same eagerness that filled his +heart. “it has begun! here it is, dreadful but enjoyable!” was what +the face of each soldier and each officer seemed to say. +before he had reached the embankments that were being thrown up, he saw, +in the light of the dull autumn evening, mounted men coming toward him. +the foremost, wearing a cossack cloak and lambskin cap and riding a +white horse, was prince bagratión. prince andrew stopped, waiting for +him to come up; prince bagratión reined in his horse and recognizing +prince andrew nodded to him. he still looked ahead while prince andrew +the feeling, “it has begun! here it is!” was seen even on prince +bagratión’s hard brown face with its half-closed, dull, sleepy eyes. +prince andrew gazed with anxious curiosity at that impassive face +and wished he could tell what, if anything, this man was thinking +and feeling at that moment. “is there anything at all behind that +impassive face?” prince andrew asked himself as he looked. prince +bagratión bent his head in sign of agreement with what prince andrew +told him, and said, “very good!” in a tone that seemed to imply that +everything that took place and was reported to him was exactly what he +had foreseen. prince andrew, out of breath with his rapid ride, spoke +quickly. prince bagratión, uttering his words with an oriental accent, +spoke particularly slowly, as if to impress the fact that there was no +need to hurry. however, he put his horse to a trot in the direction +of túshin’s battery. prince andrew followed with the suite. behind +prince bagratión rode an officer of the suite, the prince’s personal +adjutant, zherkóv, an orderly officer, the staff officer on duty, +riding a fine bobtailed horse, and a civilian—an accountant who had +asked permission to be present at the battle out of curiosity. the +accountant, a stout, full-faced man, looked around him with a naïve +smile of satisfaction and presented a strange appearance among the +hussars, cossacks, and adjutants, in his camlet coat, as he jolted on +his horse with a convoy officer’s saddle. +“he wants to see a battle,” said zherkóv to bolkónski, pointing +to the accountant, “but he feels a pain in the pit of his stomach +“oh, leave off!” said the accountant with a beaming but rather +cunning smile, as if flattered at being made the subject of zherkóv’s +joke, and purposely trying to appear stupider than he really was. +“it is very strange, mon monsieur prince,” said the staff officer. +(he remembered that in french there is some peculiar way of addressing a +prince, but could not get it quite right.) +by this time they were all approaching túshin’s battery, and a ball +“what’s that that has fallen?” asked the accountant with a naïve +“so that’s what they hit with?” asked the accountant. “how +he seemed to swell with satisfaction. he had hardly finished speaking +when they again heard an unexpectedly violent whistling which suddenly +ended with a thud into something soft... f-f-flop! and a cossack, riding +a little to their right and behind the accountant, crashed to earth with +his horse. zherkóv and the staff officer bent over their saddles and +turned their horses away. the accountant stopped, facing the cossack, +and examined him with attentive curiosity. the cossack was dead, but the +prince bagratión screwed up his eyes, looked round, and, seeing the +cause of the confusion, turned away with indifference, as if to say, +“is it worth while noticing trifles?” he reined in his horse with +the care of a skillful rider and, slightly bending over, disengaged his +saber which had caught in his cloak. it was an old-fashioned saber of +a kind no longer in general use. prince andrew remembered the story of +suvórov giving his saber to bagratión in italy, and the recollection +was particularly pleasant at that moment. they had reached the battery +at which prince andrew had been when he examined the battlefield. +“whose company?” asked prince bagratión of an artilleryman standing +he asked, “whose company?” but he really meant, “are you +frightened here?” and the artilleryman understood him. +“captain túshin’s, your excellency!” shouted the red-haired, +freckled gunner in a merry voice, standing to attention. +“yes, yes,” muttered bagratión as if considering something, and he +rode past the limbers to the farthest cannon. +as he approached, a ringing shot issued from it deafening him and his +suite, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the gun they could see +the gunners who had seized it straining to roll it quickly back to its +former position. a huge, broad-shouldered gunner, number one, holding +a mop, his legs far apart, sprang to the wheel; while number two with +a trembling hand placed a charge in the cannon’s mouth. the short, +round-shouldered captain túshin, stumbling over the tail of the gun +carriage, moved forward and, not noticing the general, looked out +shading his eyes with his small hand. +“lift it two lines more and it will be just right,” cried he in a +feeble voice to which he tried to impart a dashing note, ill-suited to +his weak figure. “number two!” he squeaked. “fire, medvédev!” +bagratión called to him, and túshin, raising three fingers to his cap +with a bashful and awkward gesture not at all like a military salute +but like a priest’s benediction, approached the general. though +túshin’s guns had been intended to cannonade the valley, he was +firing incendiary balls at the village of schön grabern visible just +opposite, in front of which large masses of french were advancing. +no one had given túshin orders where and at what to fire, but after +consulting his sergeant major, zakharchénko, for whom he had great +respect, he had decided that it would be a good thing to set fire to the +village. “very good!” said bagratión in reply to the officer’s +report, and began deliberately to examine the whole battlefield extended +before him. the french had advanced nearest on our right. below the +height on which the kiev regiment was stationed, in the hollow where the +rivulet flowed, the soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was +heard, and much farther to the right beyond the dragoons, the officer of +the suite pointed out to bagratión a french column that was outflanking +us. to the left the horizon bounded by the adjacent wood. prince +bagratión ordered two battalions from the center to be sent to +reinforce the right flank. the officer of the suite ventured to remark +to the prince that if these battalions went away, the guns would remain +without support. prince bagratión turned to the officer and with his +dull eyes looked at him in silence. it seemed to prince andrew that the +officer’s remark was just and that really no answer could be made to +it. but at that moment an adjutant galloped up with a message from the +commander of the regiment in the hollow and news that immense masses +of the french were coming down upon them and that his regiment was in +disorder and was retreating upon the kiev grenadiers. prince bagratión +bowed his head in sign of assent and approval. he rode off at a walk to +the right and sent an adjutant to the dragoons with orders to attack the +french. but this adjutant returned half an hour later with the news that +the commander of the dragoons had already retreated beyond the dip in +the ground, as a heavy fire had been opened on him and he was losing +men uselessly, and so had hastened to throw some sharpshooters into the +as he was leaving the battery, firing was heard on the left also, and +as it was too far to the left flank for him to have time to go there +himself, prince bagratión sent zherkóv to tell the general in command +(the one who had paraded his regiment before kutúzov at braunau) that +he must retreat as quickly as possible behind the hollow in the rear, +as the right flank would probably not be able to withstand the enemy’s +attack very long. about túshin and the battalion that had been in +support of his battery all was forgotten. prince andrew listened +attentively to bagratión’s colloquies with the commanding officers +and the orders he gave them and, to his surprise, found that no orders +were really given, but that prince bagratión tried to make it appear +that everything done by necessity, by accident, or by the will of +subordinate commanders was done, if not by his direct command, at least +in accord with his intentions. prince andrew noticed, however, that +though what happened was due to chance and was independent of the +commander’s will, owing to the tact bagratión showed, his presence +was very valuable. officers who approached him with disturbed +countenances became calm; soldiers and officers greeted him gaily, grew +more cheerful in his presence, and were evidently anxious to display +prince bagratión, having reached the highest point of our right flank, +began riding downhill to where the roll of musketry was heard but where +on account of the smoke nothing could be seen. the nearer they got to +the hollow the less they could see but the more they felt the nearness +of the actual battlefield. they began to meet wounded men. one with a +bleeding head and no cap was being dragged along by two soldiers who +supported him under the arms. there was a gurgle in his throat and he +was spitting blood. a bullet had evidently hit him in the throat or +mouth. another was walking sturdily by himself but without his musket, +groaning aloud and swinging his arm which had just been hurt, while +blood from it was streaming over his greatcoat as from a bottle. he had +that moment been wounded and his face showed fear rather than suffering. +crossing a road they descended a steep incline and saw several men +lying on the ground; they also met a crowd of soldiers some of whom were +unwounded. the soldiers were ascending the hill breathing heavily, and +despite the general’s presence were talking loudly and gesticulating. +in front of them rows of gray cloaks were already visible through the +smoke, and an officer catching sight of bagratión rushed shouting after +the crowd of retreating soldiers, ordering them back. bagratión rode up +to the ranks along which shots crackled now here and now there, drowning +the sound of voices and the shouts of command. the whole air reeked with +smoke. the excited faces of the soldiers were blackened with it. some +were using their ramrods, others putting powder on the touchpans or +taking charges from their pouches, while others were firing, though who +they were firing at could not be seen for the smoke which there was no +wind to carry away. a pleasant humming and whistling of bullets were +often heard. “what is this?” thought prince andrew approaching the +crowd of soldiers. “it can’t be an attack, for they are not moving; +it can’t be a square—for they are not drawn up for that.” +the commander of the regiment, a thin, feeble-looking old man with a +pleasant smile—his eyelids drooping more than half over his old eyes, +giving him a mild expression, rode up to bagratión and welcomed him as +a host welcomes an honored guest. he reported that his regiment had +been attacked by french cavalry and that, though the attack had been +repulsed, he had lost more than half his men. he said the attack +had been repulsed, employing this military term to describe what had +occurred to his regiment, but in reality he did not himself know what +had happened during that half-hour to the troops entrusted to him, and +could not say with certainty whether the attack had been repulsed or his +regiment had been broken up. all he knew was that at the commencement +of the action balls and shells began flying all over his regiment and +hitting men and that afterwards someone had shouted “cavalry!” and +our men had begun firing. they were still firing, not at the cavalry +which had disappeared, but at french infantry who had come into the +hollow and were firing at our men. prince bagratión bowed his head as a +sign that this was exactly what he had desired and expected. turning +to his adjutant he ordered him to bring down the two battalions of the +sixth chasseurs whom they had just passed. prince andrew was struck by +the changed expression on prince bagratión’s face at this moment. it +expressed the concentrated and happy resolution you see on the face of +a man who on a hot day takes a final run before plunging into the water. +the dull, sleepy expression was no longer there, nor the affectation +of profound thought. the round, steady, hawk’s eyes looked before him +eagerly and rather disdainfully, not resting on anything although his +movements were still slow and measured. +the commander of the regiment turned to prince bagratión, entreating +him to go back as it was too dangerous to remain where they were. +“please, your excellency, for god’s sake!” he kept saying, +glancing for support at an officer of the suite who turned away +from him. “there, you see!” and he drew attention to the bullets +whistling, singing, and hissing continually around them. he spoke in the +tone of entreaty and reproach that a carpenter uses to a gentleman who +has picked up an ax: “we are used to it, but you, sir, will blister +your hands.” he spoke as if those bullets could not kill him, and his +half-closed eyes gave still more persuasiveness to his words. the staff +officer joined in the colonel’s appeals, but bagratión did not reply; +he only gave an order to cease firing and re-form, so as to give room +for the two approaching battalions. while he was speaking, the curtain +of smoke that had concealed the hollow, driven by a rising wind, began +to move from right to left as if drawn by an invisible hand, and the +hill opposite, with the french moving about on it, opened out before +them. all eyes fastened involuntarily on this french column advancing +against them and winding down over the uneven ground. one could already +see the soldiers’ shaggy caps, distinguish the officers from the men, +and see the standard flapping against its staff. +“they march splendidly,” remarked someone in bagratión’s suite. +the head of the column had already descended into the hollow. the clash +would take place on this side of it... +the remains of our regiment which had been in action rapidly formed up +and moved to the right; from behind it, dispersing the laggards, came +two battalions of the sixth chasseurs in fine order. before they had +reached bagratión, the weighty tread of the mass of men marching in +step could be heard. on their left flank, nearest to bagratión, marched +a company commander, a fine round-faced man, with a stupid and happy +expression—the same man who had rushed out of the wattle shed. at that +moment he was clearly thinking of nothing but how dashing a fellow he +would appear as he passed the commander. +with the self-satisfaction of a man on parade, he stepped lightly with +his muscular legs as if sailing along, stretching himself to his full +height without the smallest effort, his ease contrasting with the heavy +tread of the soldiers who were keeping step with him. he carried close +to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real +weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men +without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly. it was as +if all the powers of his soul were concentrated on passing the commander +in the best possible manner, and feeling that he was doing it well he +was happy. “left... left... left...” he seemed to repeat to himself +at each alternate step; and in time to this, with stern but varied +faces, the wall of soldiers burdened with knapsacks and muskets marched +in step, and each one of these hundreds of soldiers seemed to be +repeating to himself at each alternate step, “left... left... +left...” a fat major skirted a bush, puffing and falling out of +step; a soldier who had fallen behind, his face showing alarm at his +defection, ran at a trot, panting to catch up with his company. a cannon +ball, cleaving the air, flew over the heads of bagratión and his suite, +and fell into the column to the measure of “left... left!” “close +up!” came the company commander’s voice in jaunty tones. the +soldiers passed in a semicircle round something where the ball had +fallen, and an old trooper on the flank, a noncommissioned officer who +had stopped beside the dead men, ran to catch up his line and, falling +into step with a hop, looked back angrily, and through the ominous +silence and the regular tramp of feet beating the ground in unison, one +seemed to hear left... left... left. +“well done, lads!” said prince bagratión. +“glad to do our best, your ex’len-lency!” came a confused shout +from the ranks. a morose soldier marching on the left turned his eyes on +bagratión as he shouted, with an expression that seemed to say: “we +know that ourselves!” another, without looking round, as though +fearing to relax, shouted with his mouth wide open and passed on. +the order was given to halt and down knapsacks. +bagratión rode round the ranks that had marched past him and +dismounted. he gave the reins to a cossack, took off and handed over his diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-2/1M-tr-seq/grep-1M-tr-seq-01 b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-2/1M-tr-seq/grep-1M-tr-seq-01 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d17c431 --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-2/1M-tr-seq/grep-1M-tr-seq-01 @@ -0,0 +1,7585 @@ +felt coat, stretched his legs, and set his cap straight. the head of the +french column, with its officers leading, appeared from below the hill. +“forward, with god!” said bagratión, in a resolute, sonorous voice, +turning for a moment to the front line, and slightly swinging his arms, +he went forward uneasily over the rough field with the awkward gait of +a cavalryman. prince andrew felt that an invisible power was leading him +forward, and experienced great happiness. +the french were already near. prince andrew, walking beside bagratión, +could clearly distinguish their bandoliers, red epaulets, and even their +faces. (he distinctly saw an old french officer who, with gaitered +legs and turned-out toes, climbed the hill with difficulty.) prince +bagratión gave no further orders and silently continued to walk on in +front of the ranks. suddenly one shot after another rang out from the +french, smoke appeared all along their uneven ranks, and musket shots +sounded. several of our men fell, among them the round-faced officer +who had marched so gaily and complacently. but at the moment the first +report was heard, bagratión looked round and shouted, “hurrah!” +“hurrah—ah!—ah!” rang a long-drawn shout from our ranks, and +passing bagratión and racing one another they rushed in an irregular +but joyous and eager crowd down the hill at their disordered foe. +the attack of the sixth chasseurs secured the retreat of our right +flank. in the center túshin’s forgotten battery, which had managed to +set fire to the schön grabern village, delayed the french advance. the +french were putting out the fire which the wind was spreading, and thus +gave us time to retreat. the retirement of the center to the other side +of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the +different companies did not get mixed. but our left—which consisted +of the azóv and podólsk infantry and the pávlograd hussars—was +simultaneously attacked and outflanked by superior french forces under +lannes and was thrown into confusion. bagratión had sent zherkóv +to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat +zherkóv, not removing his hand from his cap, turned his horse about +and galloped off. but no sooner had he left bagratión than his courage +failed him. he was seized by panic and could not go where it was +having reached the left flank, instead of going to the front where the +firing was, he began to look for the general and his staff where they +could not possibly be, and so did not deliver the order. +the command of the left flank belonged by seniority to the commander of +the regiment kutúzov had reviewed at braunau and in which dólokhov was +serving as a private. but the command of the extreme left flank had been +assigned to the commander of the pávlograd regiment in which rostóv +was serving, and a misunderstanding arose. the two commanders were much +exasperated with one another and, long after the action had begun on +the right flank and the french were already advancing, were engaged +in discussion with the sole object of offending one another. but the +regiments, both cavalry and infantry, were by no means ready for the +impending action. from privates to general they were not expecting a +battle and were engaged in peaceful occupations, the cavalry feeding the +“he higher iss dan i in rank,” said the german colonel of the +hussars, flushing and addressing an adjutant who had ridden up, “so +let him do what he vill, but i cannot sacrifice my hussars... bugler, +but haste was becoming imperative. cannon and musketry, mingling +together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes +of lannes’ sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and +forming up within twice the range of a musket shot. the general in +command of the infantry went toward his horse with jerky steps, and +having mounted drew himself up very straight and tall and rode to the +pávlograd commander. the commanders met with polite bows but with +secret malevolence in their hearts. +“once again, colonel,” said the general, “i can’t leave half +my men in the wood. i beg of you, i beg of you,” he repeated, “to +occupy the position and prepare for an attack.” +“i peg of you yourself not to mix in vot is not your business!” +suddenly replied the irate colonel. “if you vere in the cavalry...” +“i am not in the cavalry, colonel, but i am a russian general and if +you are not aware of the fact...” +“quite avare, your excellency,” suddenly shouted the colonel, +touching his horse and turning purple in the face. “vill you be so +goot to come to ze front and see dat zis position iss no goot? i don’t +“you forget yourself, colonel. i am not considering my own pleasure +and i won’t allow it to be said!” +taking the colonel’s outburst as a challenge to his courage, the +general expanded his chest and rode, frowning, beside him to the +front line, as if their differences would be settled there amongst the +bullets. they reached the front, several bullets sped over them, and +they halted in silence. there was nothing fresh to be seen from the +line, for from where they had been before it had been evident that it +was impossible for cavalry to act among the bushes and broken ground, +as well as that the french were outflanking our left. the general +and colonel looked sternly and significantly at one another like two +fighting cocks preparing for battle, each vainly trying to detect signs +of cowardice in the other. both passed the examination successfully. as +there was nothing to be said, and neither wished to give occasion for +it to be alleged that he had been the first to leave the range of fire, +they would have remained there for a long time testing each other’s +courage had it not been that just then they heard the rattle of musketry +and a muffled shout almost behind them in the wood. the french had +attacked the men collecting wood in the copse. it was no longer possible +for the hussars to retreat with the infantry. they were cut off from +the line of retreat on the left by the french. however inconvenient the +position, it was now necessary to attack in order to cut a way through +the squadron in which rostóv was serving had scarcely time to mount +before it was halted facing the enemy. again, as at the enns bridge, +there was nothing between the squadron and the enemy, and again that +terrible dividing line of uncertainty and fear—resembling the line +separating the living from the dead—lay between them. all were +conscious of this unseen line, and the question whether they would cross +it or not, and how they would cross it, agitated them all. +the colonel rode to the front, angrily gave some reply to questions put +to him by the officers, and, like a man desperately insisting on having +his own way, gave an order. no one said anything definite, but the rumor +of an attack spread through the squadron. the command to form up rang +out and the sabers whizzed as they were drawn from their scabbards. +still no one moved. the troops of the left flank, infantry and hussars +alike, felt that the commander did not himself know what to do, and this +irresolution communicated itself to the men. +“if only they would be quick!” thought rostóv, feeling that at last +the time had come to experience the joy of an attack of which he had so +“fo’ward, with god, lads!” rang out denísov’s voice. “at a +the horses’ croups began to sway in the front line. rook pulled at the +reins and started of his own accord. +before him, on the right, rostóv saw the front lines of his hussars and +still farther ahead a dark line which he could not see distinctly but +took to be the enemy. shots could be heard, but some way off. +“faster!” came the word of command, and rostóv felt rook’s flanks +drooping as he broke into a gallop. +rostóv anticipated his horse’s movements and became more and more +elated. he had noticed a solitary tree ahead of him. this tree had been +in the middle of the line that had seemed so terrible—and now he +had crossed that line and not only was there nothing terrible, but +everything was becoming more and more happy and animated. “oh, how i +will slash at him!” thought rostóv, gripping the hilt of his saber. +“hur-a-a-a-ah!” came a roar of voices. “let anyone come my way +now,” thought rostóv driving his spurs into rook and letting him go +at a full gallop so that he outstripped the others. ahead, the enemy was +already visible. suddenly something like a birch broom seemed to sweep +over the squadron. rostóv raised his saber, ready to strike, but at +that instant the trooper nikítenko, who was galloping ahead, shot away +from him, and rostóv felt as in a dream that he continued to be carried +forward with unnatural speed but yet stayed on the same spot. from +behind him bondarchúk, an hussar he knew, jolted against him and looked +angrily at him. bondarchúk’s horse swerved and galloped past. +“how is it i am not moving? i have fallen, i am killed!” rostóv +asked and answered at the same instant. he was alone in the middle of a +field. instead of the moving horses and hussars’ backs, he saw nothing +before him but the motionless earth and the stubble around him. there +was warm blood under his arm. “no, i am wounded and the horse is +killed.” rook tried to rise on his forelegs but fell back, pinning his +rider’s leg. blood was flowing from his head; he struggled but could +not rise. rostóv also tried to rise but fell back, his sabretache +having become entangled in the saddle. where our men were, and where the +french, he did not know. there was no one near. +having disentangled his leg, he rose. “where, on which side, was now +the line that had so sharply divided the two armies?” he asked himself +and could not answer. “can something bad have happened to me?” +he wondered as he got up: and at that moment he felt that something +superfluous was hanging on his benumbed left arm. the wrist felt as if +it were not his. he examined his hand carefully, vainly trying to find +blood on it. “ah, here are people coming,” he thought joyfully, +seeing some men running toward him. “they will help me!” in front +came a man wearing a strange shako and a blue cloak, swarthy, sunburned, +and with a hooked nose. then came two more, and many more running +behind. one of them said something strange, not in russian. in among the +hindmost of these men wearing similar shakos was a russian hussar. he +was being held by the arms and his horse was being led behind him. +“it must be one of ours, a prisoner. yes. can it be that they will +take me too? who are these men?” thought rostóv, scarcely believing +his eyes. “can they be french?” he looked at the approaching +frenchmen, and though but a moment before he had been galloping to get +at them and hack them to pieces, their proximity now seemed so awful +that he could not believe his eyes. “who are they? why are they +running? can they be coming at me? and why? to kill me? me whom everyone +is so fond of?” he remembered his mother’s love for him, and his +family’s, and his friends’, and the enemy’s intention to kill him +seemed impossible. “but perhaps they may do it!” for more than ten +seconds he stood not moving from the spot or realizing the situation. +the foremost frenchman, the one with the hooked nose, was already so +close that the expression of his face could be seen. and the excited, +alien face of that man, his bayonet hanging down, holding his breath, +and running so lightly, frightened rostóv. he seized his pistol and, +instead of firing it, flung it at the frenchman and ran with all his +might toward the bushes. he did not now run with the feeling of doubt +and conflict with which he had trodden the enns bridge, but with the +feeling of a hare fleeing from the hounds. one single sentiment, that +of fear for his young and happy life, possessed his whole being. rapidly +leaping the furrows, he fled across the field with the impetuosity he +used to show at catchplay, now and then turning his good-natured, pale, +young face to look back. a shudder of terror went through him: “no, +better not look,” he thought, but having reached the bushes he glanced +round once more. the french had fallen behind, and just as he looked +round the first man changed his run to a walk and, turning, shouted +something loudly to a comrade farther back. rostóv paused. “no, +there’s some mistake,” thought he. “they can’t have wanted to +kill me.” but at the same time, his left arm felt as heavy as if +a seventy-pound weight were tied to it. he could run no more. the +frenchman also stopped and took aim. rostóv closed his eyes and stooped +down. one bullet and then another whistled past him. he mustered his +last remaining strength, took hold of his left hand with his right, and +reached the bushes. behind these were some russian sharpshooters. +the infantry regiments that had been caught unawares in the outskirts +of the wood ran out of it, the different companies getting mixed, and +retreated as a disorderly crowd. one soldier, in his fear, uttered the +senseless cry, “cut off!” that is so terrible in battle, and that +word infected the whole crowd with a feeling of panic. +“surrounded! cut off? we’re lost!” shouted the fugitives. +the moment he heard the firing and the cry from behind, the general +realized that something dreadful had happened to his regiment, and the +thought that he, an exemplary officer of many years’ service who +had never been to blame, might be held responsible at headquarters +for negligence or inefficiency so staggered him that, forgetting the +recalcitrant cavalry colonel, his own dignity as a general, and above +all quite forgetting the danger and all regard for self-preservation, he +clutched the crupper of his saddle and, spurring his horse, galloped to +the regiment under a hail of bullets which fell around, but fortunately +missed him. his one desire was to know what was happening and at any +cost correct, or remedy, the mistake if he had made one, so that he, +an exemplary officer of twenty-two years’ service, who had never been +censured, should not be held to blame. +having galloped safely through the french, he reached a field behind +the copse across which our men, regardless of orders, were running and +descending the valley. that moment of moral hesitation which decides +the fate of battles had arrived. would this disorderly crowd of soldiers +attend to the voice of their commander, or would they, disregarding him, +continue their flight? despite his desperate shouts that used to seem +so terrible to the soldiers, despite his furious purple countenance +distorted out of all likeness to his former self, and the flourishing of +his saber, the soldiers all continued to run, talking, firing into the +air, and disobeying orders. the moral hesitation which decided the fate +of battles was evidently culminating in a panic. +the general had a fit of coughing as a result of shouting and of the +powder smoke and stopped in despair. everything seemed lost. but at that +moment the french who were attacking, suddenly and without any apparent +reason, ran back and disappeared from the outskirts, and russian +sharpshooters showed themselves in the copse. it was timókhin’s +company, which alone had maintained its order in the wood and, having +lain in ambush in a ditch, now attacked the french unexpectedly. +timókhin, armed only with a sword, had rushed at the enemy with such +a desperate cry and such mad, drunken determination that, taken by +surprise, the french had thrown down their muskets and run. dólokhov, +running beside timókhin, killed a frenchman at close quarters and was +the first to seize the surrendering french officer by his collar. our +fugitives returned, the battalions re-formed, and the french who had +nearly cut our left flank in half were for the moment repulsed. our +reserve units were able to join up, and the fight was at an end. the +regimental commander and major ekonómov had stopped beside a bridge, +letting the retreating companies pass by them, when a soldier came up +and took hold of the commander’s stirrup, almost leaning against him. +the man was wearing a bluish coat of broadcloth, he had no knapsack +or cap, his head was bandaged, and over his shoulder a french munition +pouch was slung. he had an officer’s sword in his hand. the soldier +was pale, his blue eyes looked impudently into the commander’s face, +and his lips were smiling. though the commander was occupied in giving +instructions to major ekonómov, he could not help taking notice of the +“your excellency, here are two trophies,” said dólokhov, pointing +to the french sword and pouch. “i have taken an officer prisoner. i +stopped the company.” dólokhov breathed heavily from weariness and +spoke in abrupt sentences. “the whole company can bear witness. i beg +you will remember this, your excellency!” +“all right, all right,” replied the commander, and turned to major +but dólokhov did not go away; he untied the handkerchief around his +head, pulled it off, and showed the blood congealed on his hair. +“a bayonet wound. i remained at the front. remember, your +túshin’s battery had been forgotten and only at the very end of the +action did prince bagratión, still hearing the cannonade in the center, +send his orderly staff officer, and later prince andrew also, to order +the battery to retire as quickly as possible. when the supports attached +to túshin’s battery had been moved away in the middle of the action +by someone’s order, the battery had continued firing and was only not +captured by the french because the enemy could not surmise that anyone +could have the effrontery to continue firing from four quite undefended +guns. on the contrary, the energetic action of that battery led the +french to suppose that here—in the center—the main russian forces +were concentrated. twice they had attempted to attack this point, but on +each occasion had been driven back by grapeshot from the four isolated +soon after prince bagratión had left him, túshin had succeeded in +“look at them scurrying! it’s burning! just see the smoke! fine! +grand! look at the smoke, the smoke!” exclaimed the artillerymen, +all the guns, without waiting for orders, were being fired in the +direction of the conflagration. as if urging each other on, the soldiers +cried at each shot: “fine! that’s good! look at it... grand!” the +fire, fanned by the breeze, was rapidly spreading. the french columns +that had advanced beyond the village went back; but as though in revenge +for this failure, the enemy placed ten guns to the right of the village +and began firing them at túshin’s battery. +in their childlike glee, aroused by the fire and their luck in +successfully cannonading the french, our artillerymen only noticed this +battery when two balls, and then four more, fell among our guns, one +knocking over two horses and another tearing off a munition-wagon +driver’s leg. their spirits once roused were, however, not diminished, +but only changed character. the horses were replaced by others from a +reserve gun carriage, the wounded were carried away, and the four guns +were turned against the ten-gun battery. túshin’s companion officer +had been killed at the beginning of the engagement and within an hour +seventeen of the forty men of the guns’ crews had been disabled, but +the artillerymen were still as merry and lively as ever. twice they +noticed the french appearing below them, and then they fired grapeshot +little túshin, moving feebly and awkwardly, kept telling his orderly to +“refill my pipe for that one!” and then, scattering sparks from it, +ran forward shading his eyes with his small hand to look at the french. +“smack at ‘em, lads!” he kept saying, seizing the guns by the +amid the smoke, deafened by the incessant reports which always made him +jump, túshin not taking his pipe from his mouth ran from gun to gun, +now aiming, now counting the charges, now giving orders about replacing +dead or wounded horses and harnessing fresh ones, and shouting in his +feeble voice, so high pitched and irresolute. his face grew more and +more animated. only when a man was killed or wounded did he frown and +turn away from the sight, shouting angrily at the men who, as is always +the case, hesitated about lifting the injured or dead. the soldiers, +for the most part handsome fellows and, as is always the case in an +artillery company, a head and shoulders taller and twice as broad +as their officer—all looked at their commander like children in an +embarrassing situation, and the expression on his face was invariably +owing to the terrible uproar and the necessity for concentration and +activity, túshin did not experience the slightest unpleasant sense of +fear, and the thought that he might be killed or badly wounded never +occurred to him. on the contrary, he became more and more elated. it +seemed to him that it was a very long time ago, almost a day, since he +had first seen the enemy and fired the first shot, and that the corner +of the field he stood on was well-known and familiar ground. though he +thought of everything, considered everything, and did everything the +best of officers could do in his position, he was in a state akin to +from the deafening sounds of his own guns around him, the whistle and +thud of the enemy’s cannon balls, from the flushed and perspiring +faces of the crew bustling round the guns, from the sight of the blood +of men and horses, from the little puffs of smoke on the enemy’s side +(always followed by a ball flying past and striking the earth, a man, a +gun, a horse), from the sight of all these things a fantastic world of +his own had taken possession of his brain and at that moment afforded +him pleasure. the enemy’s guns were in his fancy not guns but pipes +from which occasional puffs were blown by an invisible smoker. +“there... he’s puffing again,” muttered túshin to himself, as a +small cloud rose from the hill and was borne in a streak to the left by +“now look out for the ball... we’ll throw it back.” +“what do you want, your honor?” asked an artilleryman, standing +“nothing... only a shell...” he answered. +“come along, our matvévna!” he said to himself. “matvévna” * +was the name his fancy gave to the farthest gun of the battery, which +was large and of an old pattern. the french swarming round their guns +seemed to him like ants. in that world, the handsome drunkard number one +of the second gun’s crew was “uncle”; túshin looked at him more +often than at anyone else and took delight in his every movement. +the sound of musketry at the foot of the hill, now diminishing, now +increasing, seemed like someone’s breathing. he listened intently to +the ebb and flow of these sounds. +“ah! breathing again, breathing!” he muttered to himself. +he imagined himself as an enormously tall, powerful man who was throwing +cannon balls at the french with both hands. +“now then, matvévna, dear old lady, don’t let me down!” he was +saying as he moved from the gun, when a strange, unfamiliar voice called +above his head: “captain túshin! captain!” +túshin turned round in dismay. it was the staff officer who had turned +him out of the booth at grunth. he was shouting in a gasping voice: +“are you mad? you have twice been ordered to retreat, and you...” +“why are they down on me?” thought túshin, looking in alarm at his +“i... don’t...” he muttered, holding up two fingers to his cap. +but the staff officer did not finish what he wanted to say. a cannon +ball, flying close to him, caused him to duck and bend over his horse. +he paused, and just as he was about to say something more, another ball +stopped him. he turned his horse and galloped off. +“retire! all to retire!” he shouted from a distance. +the soldiers laughed. a moment later, an adjutant arrived with the same +it was prince andrew. the first thing he saw on riding up to the space +where túshin’s guns were stationed was an unharnessed horse with a +broken leg, that lay screaming piteously beside the harnessed horses. +blood was gushing from its leg as from a spring. among the limbers lay +several dead men. one ball after another passed over as he approached +and he felt a nervous shudder run down his spine. but the mere thought +of being afraid roused him again. “i cannot be afraid,” thought he, +and dismounted slowly among the guns. he delivered the order and did +not leave the battery. he decided to have the guns removed from their +positions and withdrawn in his presence. together with túshin, stepping +across the bodies and under a terrible fire from the french, he attended +“a staff officer was here a minute ago, but skipped off,” said an +prince andrew said nothing to túshin. they were both so busy as to seem +not to notice one another. when having limbered up the only two cannon +that remained uninjured out of the four, they began moving down the hill +(one shattered gun and one unicorn were left behind), prince andrew rode +“well, till we meet again...” he said, holding out his hand to +“good-by, my dear fellow,” said túshin. “dear soul! good-by, my +dear fellow!” and for some unknown reason tears suddenly filled his +the wind had fallen and black clouds, merging with the powder smoke, +hung low over the field of battle on the horizon. it was growing +dark and the glow of two conflagrations was the more conspicuous. the +cannonade was dying down, but the rattle of musketry behind and on the +right sounded oftener and nearer. as soon as túshin with his guns, +continually driving round or coming upon wounded men, was out of range +of fire and had descended into the dip, he was met by some of the staff, +among them the staff officer and zherkóv, who had been twice sent to +túshin’s battery but had never reached it. interrupting one +another, they all gave, and transmitted, orders as to how to proceed, +reprimanding and reproaching him. túshin gave no orders, and, +silently—fearing to speak because at every word he felt ready to +weep without knowing why—rode behind on his artillery nag. though +the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves +after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages. the jaunty +infantry officer who just before the battle had rushed out of +túshin’s wattle shed was laid, with a bullet in his stomach, on +“matvévna’s” carriage. at the foot of the hill, a pale hussar +cadet, supporting one hand with the other, came up to túshin and asked +“captain, for god’s sake! i’ve hurt my arm,” he said timidly. +it was plain that this cadet had already repeatedly asked for a lift and +been refused. he asked in a hesitating, piteous voice. +“tell them to give me a seat, for god’s sake!” +“give him a seat,” said túshin. “lay a cloak for him to sit on, +lad,” he said, addressing his favorite soldier. “and where is the +“he has been set down. he died,” replied someone. +“help him up. sit down, dear fellow, sit down! spread out the cloak, +the cadet was rostóv. with one hand he supported the other; he was +pale and his jaw trembled, shivering feverishly. he was placed on +“matvévna,” the gun from which they had removed the dead officer. +the cloak they spread under him was wet with blood which stained his +“what, are you wounded, my lad?” said túshin, approaching the gun +“then what is this blood on the gun carriage?” inquired túshin. +“it was the officer, your honor, stained it,” answered the +artilleryman, wiping away the blood with his coat sleeve, as if +apologizing for the state of his gun. +it was all that they could do to get the guns up the rise aided by the +infantry, and having reached the village of gruntersdorf they halted. it +had grown so dark that one could not distinguish the uniforms ten paces +off, and the firing had begun to subside. suddenly, near by on the +right, shouting and firing were again heard. flashes of shot gleamed in +the darkness. this was the last french attack and was met by soldiers +who had sheltered in the village houses. they all rushed out of +the village again, but túshin’s guns could not move, and the +artillerymen, túshin, and the cadet exchanged silent glances as they +awaited their fate. the firing died down and soldiers, talking eagerly, +streamed out of a side street. +“we’ve given it ‘em hot, mate! they won’t make another push +“you couldn’t see a thing. how they shot at their own fellows! +nothing could be seen. pitch-dark, brother! isn’t there something to +the french had been repulsed for the last time. and again and again in +the complete darkness túshin’s guns moved forward, surrounded by the +in the darkness, it seemed as though a gloomy unseen river was flowing +always in one direction, humming with whispers and talk and the sound of +hoofs and wheels. amid the general rumble, the groans and voices of the +wounded were more distinctly heard than any other sound in the darkness +of the night. the gloom that enveloped the army was filled with their +groans, which seemed to melt into one with the darkness of the night. +after a while the moving mass became agitated, someone rode past on +a white horse followed by his suite, and said something in passing: +“what did he say? where to, now? halt, is it? did he thank us?” came +eager questions from all sides. the whole moving mass began pressing +closer together and a report spread that they were ordered to halt: +evidently those in front had halted. all remained where they were in the +fires were lighted and the talk became more audible. captain túshin, +having given orders to his company, sent a soldier to find a dressing +station or a doctor for the cadet, and sat down by a bonfire the +soldiers had kindled on the road. rostóv, too, dragged himself to the +fire. from pain, cold, and damp, a feverish shivering shook his whole +body. drowsiness was irresistibly mastering him, but he kept awake by +an excruciating pain in his arm, for which he could find no satisfactory +position. he kept closing his eyes and then again looking at the fire, +which seemed to him dazzlingly red, and at the feeble, round-shouldered +figure of túshin who was sitting cross-legged like a turk beside him. +túshin’s large, kind, intelligent eyes were fixed with sympathy and +commiseration on rostóv, who saw that túshin with his whole heart +from all sides were heard the footsteps and talk of the infantry, who +were walking, driving past, and settling down all around. the sound +of voices, the tramping feet, the horses’ hoofs moving in mud, the +crackling of wood fires near and afar, merged into one tremulous rumble. +it was no longer, as before, a dark, unseen river flowing through the +gloom, but a dark sea swelling and gradually subsiding after a storm. +rostóv looked at and listened listlessly to what passed before and +around him. an infantryman came to the fire, squatted on his heels, held +his hands to the blaze, and turned away his face. +“you don’t mind your honor?” he asked túshin. “i’ve lost my +company, your honor. i don’t know where... such bad luck!” +with the soldier, an infantry officer with a bandaged cheek came up to +the bonfire, and addressing túshin asked him to have the guns moved a +trifle to let a wagon go past. after he had gone, two soldiers rushed to +the campfire. they were quarreling and fighting desperately, each trying +to snatch from the other a boot they were both holding on to. +“you picked it up?... i dare say! you’re very smart!” one of them +then a thin, pale soldier, his neck bandaged with a bloodstained leg +band, came up and in angry tones asked the artillerymen for water. +túshin told them to give the man some water. then a cheerful soldier +ran up, begging a little fire for the infantry. +“a nice little hot torch for the infantry! good luck to you, fellow +countrymen. thanks for the fire—we’ll return it with interest,” +said he, carrying away into the darkness a glowing stick. +next came four soldiers, carrying something heavy on a cloak, and passed +“who the devil has put the logs on the road?” snarled he. +and they disappeared into the darkness with their load. +“still aching?” túshin asked rostóv in a whisper. +“your honor, you’re wanted by the general. he is in the hut here,” +said a gunner, coming up to túshin. +túshin rose and, buttoning his greatcoat and pulling it straight, +not far from the artillery campfire, in a hut that had been prepared +for him, prince bagratión sat at dinner, talking with some commanding +officers who had gathered at his quarters. the little old man with +the half-closed eyes was there greedily gnawing a mutton bone, and the +general who had served blamelessly for twenty-two years, flushed by a +glass of vodka and the dinner; and the staff officer with the signet +ring, and zherkóv, uneasily glancing at them all, and prince andrew, +pale, with compressed lips and feverishly glittering eyes. +in a corner of the hut stood a standard captured from the french, and +the accountant with the naïve face was feeling its texture, shaking his +head in perplexity—perhaps because the banner really interested him, +perhaps because it was hard for him, hungry as he was, to look on at +a dinner where there was no place for him. in the next hut there was a +french colonel who had been taken prisoner by our dragoons. our officers +were flocking in to look at him. prince bagratión was thanking the +individual commanders and inquiring into details of the action and our +losses. the general whose regiment had been inspected at braunau was +informing the prince that as soon as the action began he had withdrawn +from the wood, mustered the men who were woodcutting, and, allowing the +french to pass him, had made a bayonet charge with two battalions and +“when i saw, your excellency, that their first battalion was +disorganized, i stopped in the road and thought: ‘i’ll let them +come on and will meet them with the fire of the whole battalion’—and +the general had so wished to do this and was so sorry he had not managed +to do it that it seemed to him as if it had really happened. perhaps +it might really have been so? could one possibly make out amid all that +confusion what did or did not happen? +“by the way, your excellency, i should inform you,” he +continued—remembering dólokhov’s conversation with kutúzov and his +last interview with the gentleman-ranker—“that private dólokhov, +who was reduced to the ranks, took a french officer prisoner in my +presence and particularly distinguished himself.” +“i saw the pávlograd hussars attack there, your excellency,” chimed +in zherkóv, looking uneasily around. he had not seen the hussars all +that day, but had heard about them from an infantry officer. “they +broke up two squares, your excellency.” +several of those present smiled at zherkóv’s words, expecting one of +his usual jokes, but noticing that what he was saying redounded to +the glory of our arms and of the day’s work, they assumed a serious +expression, though many of them knew that what he was saying was a lie +devoid of any foundation. prince bagratión turned to the old colonel: +“gentlemen, i thank you all; all arms have behaved heroically: +infantry, cavalry, and artillery. how was it that two guns were +abandoned in the center?” he inquired, searching with his eyes for +someone. (prince bagratión did not ask about the guns on the left +flank; he knew that all the guns there had been abandoned at the very +beginning of the action.) “i think i sent you?” he added, turning to +“one was damaged,” answered the staff officer, “and the other i +can’t understand. i was there all the time giving orders and had only +just left.... it is true that it was hot there,” he added, modestly. +someone mentioned that captain túshin was bivouacking close to the +village and had already been sent for. +“oh, but you were there?” said prince bagratión, addressing prince +“of course, we only just missed one another,” said the staff +officer, with a smile to bolkónski. +“i had not the pleasure of seeing you,” said prince andrew, coldly +all were silent. túshin appeared at the threshold and made his way +timidly from behind the backs of the generals. as he stepped past the +generals in the crowded hut, feeling embarrassed as he always was by the +sight of his superiors, he did not notice the staff of the banner and +stumbled over it. several of those present laughed. +“how was it a gun was abandoned?” asked bagratión, frowning, not so +much at the captain as at those who were laughing, among whom zherkóv +only now, when he was confronted by the stern authorities, did his guilt +and the disgrace of having lost two guns and yet remaining alive present +themselves to túshin in all their horror. he had been so excited that +he had not thought about it until that moment. the officers’ laughter +confused him still more. he stood before bagratión with his lower +jaw trembling and was hardly able to mutter: “i don’t know... your +excellency... i had no men... your excellency.” +“you might have taken some from the covering troops.” +túshin did not say that there were no covering troops, though that +was perfectly true. he was afraid of getting some other officer into +trouble, and silently fixed his eyes on bagratión as a schoolboy who +has blundered looks at an examiner. +the silence lasted some time. prince bagratión, apparently not wishing +to be severe, found nothing to say; the others did not venture to +intervene. prince andrew looked at túshin from under his brows and his +“your excellency!” prince andrew broke the silence with his abrupt +voice, “you were pleased to send me to captain túshin’s battery. i +went there and found two thirds of the men and horses knocked out, two +guns smashed, and no supports at all.” +prince bagratión and túshin looked with equal intentness at +“and, if your excellency will allow me to express my opinion,” he +continued, “we owe today’s success chiefly to the action of that +battery and the heroic endurance of captain túshin and his company,” +and without awaiting a reply, prince andrew rose and left the table. +prince bagratión looked at túshin, evidently reluctant to show +distrust in bolkónski’s emphatic opinion yet not feeling able fully +to credit it, bent his head, and told túshin that he could go. prince +“thank you; you saved me, my dear fellow!” said túshin. +prince andrew gave him a look, but said nothing and went away. he felt +sad and depressed. it was all so strange, so unlike what he had hoped. +“who are they? why are they here? what do they want? and when will +all this end?” thought rostóv, looking at the changing shadows before +him. the pain in his arm became more and more intense. irresistible +drowsiness overpowered him, red rings danced before his eyes, and the +impression of those voices and faces and a sense of loneliness merged +with the physical pain. it was they, these soldiers—wounded and +unwounded—it was they who were crushing, weighing down, and twisting +the sinews and scorching the flesh of his sprained arm and shoulder. to +rid himself of them he closed his eyes. +for a moment he dozed, but in that short interval innumerable things +appeared to him in a dream: his mother and her large white hand, +sónya’s thin little shoulders, natásha’s eyes and laughter, +denísov with his voice and mustache, and telyánin and all that affair +with telyánin and bogdánich. that affair was the same thing as this +soldier with the harsh voice, and it was that affair and this soldier +that were so agonizingly, incessantly pulling and pressing his arm and +always dragging it in one direction. he tried to get away from them, but +they would not for an instant let his shoulder move a hair’s breadth. +it would not ache—it would be well—if only they did not pull it, but +he opened his eyes and looked up. the black canopy of night hung less +than a yard above the glow of the charcoal. flakes of falling snow were +fluttering in that light. túshin had not returned, the doctor had not +come. he was alone now, except for a soldier who was sitting naked at +the other side of the fire, warming his thin yellow body. +“nobody wants me!” thought rostóv. “there is no one to help me or +pity me. yet i was once at home, strong, happy, and loved.” he sighed +“eh, is anything hurting you?” asked the soldier, shaking his shirt +out over the fire, and not waiting for an answer he gave a grunt and +added: “what a lot of men have been crippled today—frightful!” +rostóv did not listen to the soldier. he looked at the snowflakes +fluttering above the fire and remembered a russian winter at his warm, +bright home, his fluffy fur coat, his quickly gliding sleigh, his +healthy body, and all the affection and care of his family. “and why +did i come here?” he wondered. +next day the french army did not renew their attack, and the remnant of +bagratión’s detachment was reunited to kutúzov’s army. +prince vasíli was not a man who deliberately thought out his plans. +still less did he think of injuring anyone for his own advantage. he +was merely a man of the world who had got on and to whom getting on had +become a habit. schemes and devices for which he never rightly accounted +to himself, but which formed the whole interest of his life, +were constantly shaping themselves in his mind, arising from the +circumstances and persons he met. of these plans he had not merely one +or two in his head but dozens, some only beginning to form themselves, +some approaching achievement, and some in course of disintegration. he +did not, for instance, say to himself: “this man now has influence, i +must gain his confidence and friendship and through him obtain a special +grant.” nor did he say to himself: “pierre is a rich man, i must +entice him to marry my daughter and lend me the forty thousand rubles +i need.” but when he came across a man of position his instinct +immediately told him that this man could be useful, and without any +premeditation prince vasíli took the first opportunity to gain his +confidence, flatter him, become intimate with him, and finally make his +he had pierre at hand in moscow and procured for him an appointment as +gentleman of the bedchamber, which at that time conferred the status of +councilor of state, and insisted on the young man accompanying him to +petersburg and staying at his house. with apparent absent-mindedness, +yet with unhesitating assurance that he was doing the right thing, +prince vasíli did everything to get pierre to marry his daughter. had +he thought out his plans beforehand he could not have been so natural +and shown such unaffected familiarity in intercourse with everybody both +above and below him in social standing. something always drew him toward +those richer and more powerful than himself and he had rare skill in +seizing the most opportune moment for making use of people. +pierre, on unexpectedly becoming count bezúkhov and a rich man, felt +himself after his recent loneliness and freedom from cares so beset and +preoccupied that only in bed was he able to be by himself. he had to +sign papers, to present himself at government offices, the purpose of +which was not clear to him, to question his chief steward, to visit his +estate near moscow, and to receive many people who formerly did not +even wish to know of his existence but would now have been offended +and grieved had he chosen not to see them. these different +people—businessmen, relations, and acquaintances alike—were all +disposed to treat the young heir in the most friendly and flattering +manner: they were all evidently firmly convinced of pierre’s noble +qualities. he was always hearing such words as: “with your remarkable +kindness,” or, “with your excellent heart,” “you are yourself so +honorable, count,” or, “were he as clever as you,” and so on, +till he began sincerely to believe in his own exceptional kindness and +extraordinary intelligence, the more so as in the depth of his heart it +had always seemed to him that he really was very kind and intelligent. +even people who had formerly been spiteful toward him and evidently +unfriendly now became gentle and affectionate. the angry eldest +princess, with the long waist and hair plastered down like a doll’s, +had come into pierre’s room after the funeral. with drooping eyes +and frequent blushes she told him she was very sorry about their past +misunderstandings and did not now feel she had a right to ask him for +anything, except only for permission, after the blow she had received, +to remain for a few weeks longer in the house she so loved and where +she had sacrificed so much. she could not refrain from weeping at these +words. touched that this statuesque princess could so change, pierre +took her hand and begged her forgiveness, without knowing what for. +from that day the eldest princess quite changed toward pierre and began +“do this for my sake, mon cher; after all, she had to put up with a +great deal from the deceased,” said prince vasíli to him, handing him +prince vasíli had come to the conclusion that it was necessary to throw +this bone—a bill for thirty thousand rubles—to the poor princess +that it might not occur to her to speak of his share in the affair of +the inlaid portfolio. pierre signed the deed and after that the princess +grew still kinder. the younger sisters also became affectionate to him, +especially the youngest, the pretty one with the mole, who often made +him feel confused by her smiles and her own confusion when meeting him. +it seemed so natural to pierre that everyone should like him, and it +would have seemed so unnatural had anyone disliked him, that he could +not but believe in the sincerity of those around him. besides, he had +no time to ask himself whether these people were sincere or not. he +was always busy and always felt in a state of mild and cheerful +intoxication. he felt as though he were the center of some important and +general movement; that something was constantly expected of him, that if +he did not do it he would grieve and disappoint many people, but if he +did this and that, all would be well; and he did what was demanded of +him, but still that happy result always remained in the future. +more than anyone else, prince vasíli took possession of pierre’s +affairs and of pierre himself in those early days. from the death of +count bezúkhov he did not let go his hold of the lad. he had the air of +a man oppressed by business, weary and suffering, who yet would not, for +pity’s sake, leave this helpless youth who, after all, was the son of +his old friend and the possessor of such enormous wealth, to the caprice +of fate and the designs of rogues. during the few days he spent in +moscow after the death of count bezúkhov, he would call pierre, or +go to him himself, and tell him what ought to be done in a tone of +weariness and assurance, as if he were adding every time: “you know +i am overwhelmed with business and it is purely out of charity that +i trouble myself about you, and you also know quite well that what i +propose is the only thing possible.” +“well, my dear fellow, tomorrow we are off at last,” said prince +vasíli one day, closing his eyes and fingering pierre’s elbow, +speaking as if he were saying something which had long since been agreed +upon and could not now be altered. “we start tomorrow and i’m giving +you a place in my carriage. i am very glad. all our important business +here is now settled, and i ought to have been off long ago. here is +something i have received from the chancellor. i asked him for you, and +you have been entered in the diplomatic corps and made a gentleman of +the bedchamber. the diplomatic career now lies open before you.” +notwithstanding the tone of wearied assurance with which these words +were pronounced, pierre, who had so long been considering his career, +wished to make some suggestion. but prince vasíli interrupted him in +the special deep cooing tone, precluding the possibility of interrupting +his speech, which he used in extreme cases when special persuasion was +“mais, mon cher, i did this for my own sake, to satisfy my conscience, +and there is nothing to thank me for. no one has ever complained yet of +being too much loved; and besides, you are free, you could throw it +up tomorrow. but you will see everything for yourself when you get to +petersburg. it is high time for you to get away from these terrible +recollections.” prince vasíli sighed. “yes, yes, my boy. and my +valet can go in your carriage. ah! i was nearly forgetting,” he added. +“you know, mon cher, your father and i had some accounts to settle, so +i have received what was due from the ryazán estate and will keep it; +you won’t require it. we’ll go into the accounts later.” +by “what was due from the ryazán estate” prince vasíli meant +several thousand rubles quitrent received from pierre’s peasants, +which the prince had retained for himself. +in petersburg, as in moscow, pierre found the same atmosphere of +gentleness and affection. he could not refuse the post, or rather the +rank (for he did nothing), that prince vasíli had procured for him, +and acquaintances, invitations, and social occupations were so numerous +that, even more than in moscow, he felt a sense of bewilderment, bustle, +and continual expectation of some good, always in front of him but never +of his former bachelor acquaintances many were no longer in petersburg. +the guards had gone to the front; dólokhov had been reduced to the +ranks; anatole was in the army somewhere in the provinces; prince andrew +was abroad; so pierre had not the opportunity to spend his nights as he +used to like to spend them, or to open his mind by intimate talks with +a friend older than himself and whom he respected. his whole time +was taken up with dinners and balls and was spent chiefly at prince +vasíli’s house in the company of the stout princess, his wife, and +like the others, anna pávlovna schérer showed pierre the change of +attitude toward him that had taken place in society. +formerly in anna pávlovna’s presence, pierre had always felt that +what he was saying was out of place, tactless and unsuitable, that +remarks which seemed to him clever while they formed in his mind became +foolish as soon as he uttered them, while on the contrary hippolyte’s +stupidest remarks came out clever and apt. now everything pierre said +was charmant. even if anna pávlovna did not say so, he could see that +she wished to and only refrained out of regard for his modesty. +in the beginning of the winter of 1805-6 pierre received one of anna +pávlovna’s usual pink notes with an invitation to which was added: +“you will find the beautiful hélène here, whom it is always +when he read that sentence, pierre felt for the first time that some +link which other people recognized had grown up between himself and +hélène, and that thought both alarmed him, as if some obligation were +being imposed on him which he could not fulfill, and pleased him as an +anna pávlovna’s “at home” was like the former one, only the +novelty she offered her guests this time was not mortemart, but a +diplomatist fresh from berlin with the very latest details of the +emperor alexander’s visit to potsdam, and of how the two august +friends had pledged themselves in an indissoluble alliance to uphold +the cause of justice against the enemy of the human race. anna pávlovna +received pierre with a shade of melancholy, evidently relating to the +young man’s recent loss by the death of count bezúkhov (everyone +constantly considered it a duty to assure pierre that he was greatly +afflicted by the death of the father he had hardly known), and her +melancholy was just like the august melancholy she showed at the mention +of her most august majesty the empress márya fëdorovna. pierre felt +flattered by this. anna pávlovna arranged the different groups in her +drawing room with her habitual skill. the large group, in which were +prince vasíli and the generals, had the benefit of the diplomat. +another group was at the tea table. pierre wished to join the former, +but anna pávlovna—who was in the excited condition of a commander on +a battlefield to whom thousands of new and brilliant ideas occur which +there is hardly time to put in action—seeing pierre, touched his +“wait a bit, i have something in view for you this evening.” +(she glanced at hélène and smiled at her.) “my dear hélène, be +charitable to my poor aunt who adores you. go and keep her company for +ten minutes. and that it will not be too dull, here is the dear count +the beauty went to the aunt, but anna pávlovna detained pierre, looking +as if she had to give some final necessary instructions. +“isn’t she exquisite?” she said to pierre, pointing to the stately +beauty as she glided away. “and how she carries herself! for so young +a girl, such tact, such masterly perfection of manner! it comes from +her heart. happy the man who wins her! with her the least worldly of men +would occupy a most brilliant position in society. don’t you think so? +i only wanted to know your opinion,” and anna pávlovna let pierre go. +pierre, in reply, sincerely agreed with her as to hélène’s +perfection of manner. if he ever thought of hélène, it was just of +her beauty and her remarkable skill in appearing silently dignified in +the old aunt received the two young people in her corner, but seemed +desirous of hiding her adoration for hélène and inclined rather +to show her fear of anna pávlovna. she looked at her niece, as if +inquiring what she was to do with these people. on leaving them, anna +pávlovna again touched pierre’s sleeve, saying: “i hope you won’t +say that it is dull in my house again,” and she glanced at hélène. +hélène smiled, with a look implying that she did not admit the +possibility of anyone seeing her without being enchanted. the aunt +coughed, swallowed, and said in french that she was very pleased to see +hélène, then she turned to pierre with the same words of welcome +and the same look. in the middle of a dull and halting conversation, +hélène turned to pierre with the beautiful bright smile that she gave +to everyone. pierre was so used to that smile, and it had so little +meaning for him, that he paid no attention to it. the aunt was just +speaking of a collection of snuffboxes that had belonged to pierre’s +father, count bezúkhov, and showed them her own box. princess hélène +asked to see the portrait of the aunt’s husband on the box lid. +“that is probably the work of vinesse,” said pierre, mentioning +a celebrated miniaturist, and he leaned over the table to take the +snuffbox while trying to hear what was being said at the other table. +he half rose, meaning to go round, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox, +passing it across hélène’s back. hélène stooped forward to make +room, and looked round with a smile. she was, as always at evening +parties, wearing a dress such as was then fashionable, cut very low at +front and back. her bust, which had always seemed like marble to pierre, +was so close to him that his shortsighted eyes could not but perceive +the living charm of her neck and shoulders, so near to his lips that +he need only have bent his head a little to have touched them. he was +conscious of the warmth of her body, the scent of perfume, and the +creaking of her corset as she moved. he did not see her marble beauty +forming a complete whole with her dress, but all the charm of her body +only covered by her garments. and having once seen this he could not +help being aware of it, just as we cannot renew an illusion we have once +“so you have never noticed before how beautiful i am?” hélène +seemed to say. “you had not noticed that i am a woman? yes, i am a +woman who may belong to anyone—to you too,” said her glance. and at +that moment pierre felt that hélène not only could, but must, be his +he knew this at that moment as surely as if he had been standing at the +altar with her. how and when this would be he did not know, he did not +even know if it would be a good thing (he even felt, he knew not why, +that it would be a bad thing), but he knew it would happen. +pierre dropped his eyes, lifted them again, and wished once more to see +her as a distant beauty far removed from him, as he had seen her every +day until then, but he could no longer do it. he could not, any more +than a man who has been looking at a tuft of steppe grass through the +mist and taking it for a tree can again take it for a tree after he has +once recognized it to be a tuft of grass. she was terribly close to him. +she already had power over him, and between them there was no longer any +barrier except the barrier of his own will. +“well, i will leave you in your little corner,” came anna +pávlovna’s voice, “i see you are all right there.” +and pierre, anxiously trying to remember whether he had done anything +reprehensible, looked round with a blush. it seemed to him that everyone +knew what had happened to him as he knew it himself. +a little later when he went up to the large circle, anna pávlovna said +to him: “i hear you are refitting your petersburg house?” +this was true. the architect had told him that it was necessary, and +pierre, without knowing why, was having his enormous petersburg house +“that’s a good thing, but don’t move from prince vasíli’s. it +is good to have a friend like the prince,” she said, smiling at prince +vasíli. “i know something about that. don’t i? and you are still so +young. you need advice. don’t be angry with me for exercising an old +she paused, as women always do, expecting something after they have +mentioned their age. “if you marry it will be a different thing,” +she continued, uniting them both in one glance. pierre did not look at +hélène nor she at him. but she was just as terribly close to him. he +when he got home he could not sleep for a long time for thinking of what +had happened. what had happened? nothing. he had merely understood that +the woman he had known as a child, of whom when her beauty was mentioned +he had said absent-mindedly: “yes, she’s good looking,” he had +understood that this woman might belong to him. +“but she’s stupid. i have myself said she is stupid,” he thought. +“there is something nasty, something wrong, in the feeling she excites +in me. i have been told that her brother anatole was in love with her +and she with him, that there was quite a scandal and that that’s why +he was sent away. hippolyte is her brother... prince vasíli is her +father... it’s bad....” he reflected, but while he was thinking this +(the reflection was still incomplete), he caught himself smiling and was +conscious that another line of thought had sprung up, and while thinking +of her worthlessness he was also dreaming of how she would be his +wife, how she would love him become quite different, and how all he had +thought and heard of her might be false. and he again saw her not as the +daughter of prince vasíli, but visualized her whole body only veiled +by its gray dress. “but no! why did this thought never occur to me +before?” and again he told himself that it was impossible, that there +would be something unnatural, and as it seemed to him dishonorable, in +this marriage. he recalled her former words and looks and the words +and looks of those who had seen them together. he recalled anna +pávlovna’s words and looks when she spoke to him about his house, +recalled thousands of such hints from prince vasíli and others, and was +seized by terror lest he had already, in some way, bound himself to do +something that was evidently wrong and that he ought not to do. but at +the very time he was expressing this conviction to himself, in another +part of his mind her image rose in all its womanly beauty. +in november, 1805, prince vasíli had to go on a tour of inspection +in four different provinces. he had arranged this for himself so as to +visit his neglected estates at the same time and pick up his son anatole +where his regiment was stationed, and take him to visit prince nicholas +bolkónski in order to arrange a match for him with the daughter of that +rich old man. but before leaving home and undertaking these new affairs, +prince vasíli had to settle matters with pierre, who, it is true, had +latterly spent whole days at home, that is, in prince vasíli’s house +where he was staying, and had been absurd, excited, and foolish in +hélène’s presence (as a lover should be), but had not yet proposed +“this is all very fine, but things must be settled,” said prince +vasíli to himself, with a sorrowful sigh, one morning, feeling that +pierre who was under such obligations to him (“but never mind that”) +was not behaving very well in this matter. “youth, frivolity... well, +god be with him,” thought he, relishing his own goodness of heart, +“but it must be brought to a head. the day after tomorrow will be +lëlya’s name day. i will invite two or three people, and if he does +not understand what he ought to do then it will be my affair—yes, my +affair. i am her father.” +six weeks after anna pávlovna’s “at home” and after the sleepless +night when he had decided that to marry hélène would be a calamity and +that he ought to avoid her and go away, pierre, despite that decision, +had not left prince vasíli’s and felt with terror that in people’s +eyes he was every day more and more connected with her, that it was +impossible for him to return to his former conception of her, that he +could not break away from her, and that though it would be a terrible +thing he would have to unite his fate with hers. he might perhaps have +been able to free himself but that prince vasíli (who had rarely before +given receptions) now hardly let a day go by without having an evening +party at which pierre had to be present unless he wished to spoil +the general pleasure and disappoint everyone’s expectation. prince +vasíli, in the rare moments when he was at home, would take pierre’s +hand in passing and draw it downwards, or absent-mindedly hold out his +wrinkled, clean-shaven cheek for pierre to kiss and would say: “till +tomorrow,” or, “be in to dinner or i shall not see you,” or, “i +am staying in for your sake,” and so on. and though prince vasíli, +when he stayed in (as he said) for pierre’s sake, hardly exchanged a +couple of words with him, pierre felt unable to disappoint him. +every day he said to himself one and the same thing: “it is time i +understood her and made up my mind what she really is. was i mistaken +before, or am i mistaken now? no, she is not stupid, she is an excellent +girl,” he sometimes said to himself “she never makes a mistake, +never says anything stupid. she says little, but what she does say is +always clear and simple, so she is not stupid. she never was abashed and +is not abashed now, so she cannot be a bad woman!” he had often begun +to make reflections or think aloud in her company, and she had always +answered him either by a brief but appropriate remark—showing that it +did not interest her—or by a silent look and smile which more palpably +than anything else showed pierre her superiority. she was right in +regarding all arguments as nonsense in comparison with that smile. +she always addressed him with a radiantly confiding smile meant for him +alone, in which there was something more significant than in the general +smile that usually brightened her face. pierre knew that everyone was +waiting for him to say a word and cross a certain line, and he knew that +sooner or later he would step across it, but an incomprehensible terror +seized him at the thought of that dreadful step. a thousand times during +that month and a half while he felt himself drawn nearer and nearer to +that dreadful abyss, pierre said to himself: “what am i doing? i need +resolution. can it be that i have none?” +he wished to take a decision, but felt with dismay that in this matter +he lacked that strength of will which he had known in himself and really +possessed. pierre was one of those who are only strong when they feel +themselves quite innocent, and since that day when he was overpowered +by a feeling of desire while stooping over the snuffbox at anna +pávlovna’s, an unacknowledged sense of the guilt of that desire +on hélène’s name day, a small party of just their own people—as +his wife said—met for supper at prince vasíli’s. all these friends +and relations had been given to understand that the fate of the young +girl would be decided that evening. the visitors were seated at supper. +princess kurágina, a portly imposing woman who had once been handsome, +was sitting at the head of the table. on either side of her sat the +more important guests—an old general and his wife, and anna pávlovna +schérer. at the other end sat the younger and less important guests, +and there too sat the members of the family, and pierre and hélène, +side by side. prince vasíli was not having any supper: he went round +the table in a merry mood, sitting down now by one, now by another, of +the guests. to each of them he made some careless and agreeable remark +except to pierre and hélène, whose presence he seemed not to notice. +he enlivened the whole party. the wax candles burned brightly, the +silver and crystal gleamed, so did the ladies’ toilets and the gold +and silver of the men’s epaulets; servants in scarlet liveries moved +round the table, the clatter of plates, knives, and glasses mingled with +the animated hum of several conversations. at one end of the table, the +old chamberlain was heard assuring an old baroness that he loved her +passionately, at which she laughed; at the other could be heard the +story of the misfortunes of some mary víktorovna or other. at the +center of the table, prince vasíli attracted everybody’s attention. +with a facetious smile on his face, he was telling the ladies about last +wednesday’s meeting of the imperial council, at which sergéy kuzmích +vyazmítinov, the new military governor general of petersburg, had +received and read the then famous rescript of the emperor alexander +from the army to sergéy kuzmích, in which the emperor said that he was +receiving from all sides declarations of the people’s loyalty, that +the declaration from petersburg gave him particular pleasure, and that +he was proud to be at the head of such a nation and would endeavor to be +worthy of it. this rescript began with the words: “sergéy kuzmích, +from all sides reports reach me,” etc. +“well, and so he never got farther than: ‘sergéy kuzmích’?” +“exactly, not a hair’s breadth farther,” answered prince vasíli, +laughing, “‘sergéy kuzmích... from all sides... from all sides... +sergéy kuzmích...’ poor vyazmítinov could not get any farther! +he began the rescript again and again, but as soon as he uttered +‘sergéy’ he sobbed, ‘kuz-mí-ch,’ tears, and ‘from all +sides’ was smothered in sobs and he could get no farther. and again +and tears, till at last somebody else was asked to read it.” +“kuzmích... from all sides... and then tears,” someone repeated +“don’t be unkind,” cried anna pávlovna from her end of the table +holding up a threatening finger. “he is such a worthy and excellent +man, our dear vyazmítinov....” +everybody laughed a great deal. at the head of the table, where the +honored guests sat, everyone seemed to be in high spirits and under the +influence of a variety of exciting sensations. only pierre and +hélène sat silently side by side almost at the bottom of the table, a +suppressed smile brightening both their faces, a smile that had nothing +to do with sergéy kuzmích—a smile of bashfulness at their own +feelings. but much as all the rest laughed, talked, and joked, much +as they enjoyed their rhine wine, sauté, and ices, and however they +avoided looking at the young couple, and heedless and unobservant as +they seemed of them, one could feel by the occasional glances they gave +that the story about sergéy kuzmích, the laughter, and the food +were all a pretense, and that the whole attention of that company was +directed to—pierre and hélène. prince vasíli mimicked the sobbing +of sergéy kuzmích and at the same time his eyes glanced toward his +daughter, and while he laughed the expression on his face clearly said: +“yes... it’s getting on, it will all be settled today.” anna +pávlovna threatened him on behalf of “our dear vyazmítinov,” and +in her eyes, which, for an instant, glanced at pierre, prince vasíli +read a congratulation on his future son-in-law and on his daughter’s +happiness. the old princess sighed sadly as she offered some wine to the +old lady next to her and glanced angrily at her daughter, and her sigh +seemed to say: “yes, there’s nothing left for you and me but to sip +sweet wine, my dear, now that the time has come for these young ones to +be thus boldly, provocatively happy.” “and what nonsense all this is +that i am saying!” thought a diplomatist, glancing at the happy faces +into the insignificant, trifling, and artificial interests uniting that +society had entered the simple feeling of the attraction of a healthy +and handsome young man and woman for one another. and this human feeling +dominated everything else and soared above all their affected chatter. +jests fell flat, news was not interesting, and the animation was +evidently forced. not only the guests but even the footmen waiting at +table seemed to feel this, and they forgot their duties as they looked +at the beautiful hélène with her radiant face and at the red, broad, +and happy though uneasy face of pierre. it seemed as if the very light +of the candles was focused on those two happy faces alone. +pierre felt that he was the center of it all, and this both pleased and +embarrassed him. he was like a man entirely absorbed in some occupation. +he did not see, hear, or understand anything clearly. only now and +then detached ideas and impressions from the world of reality shot +“so it is all finished!” he thought. “and how has it all happened? +how quickly! now i know that not because of her alone, nor of myself +alone, but because of everyone, it must inevitably come about. they are +all expecting it, they are so sure that it will happen that i cannot, i +cannot, disappoint them. but how will it be? i do not know, but it +will certainly happen!” thought pierre, glancing at those dazzling +shoulders close to his eyes. +or he would suddenly feel ashamed of he knew not what. he felt it +awkward to attract everyone’s attention and to be considered a +lucky man and, with his plain face, to be looked on as a sort of paris +possessed of a helen. “but no doubt it always is and must be so!” +he consoled himself. “and besides, what have i done to bring it about? +how did it begin? i traveled from moscow with prince vasíli. then there +was nothing. so why should i not stay at his house? then i played cards +with her and picked up her reticule and drove out with her. how did it +begin, when did it all come about?” and here he was sitting by her +side as her betrothed, seeing, hearing, feeling her nearness, her +breathing, her movements, her beauty. then it would suddenly seem to him +that it was not she but he was so unusually beautiful, and that that was +why they all looked so at him, and flattered by this general admiration +he would expand his chest, raise his head, and rejoice at his good +fortune. suddenly he heard a familiar voice repeating something to him a +second time. but pierre was so absorbed that he did not understand what +“i am asking you when you last heard from bolkónski,” repeated +prince vasíli a third time. “how absent-minded you are, my dear +prince vasíli smiled, and pierre noticed that everyone was smiling at +him and hélène. “well, what of it, if you all know it?” thought +pierre. “what of it? it’s the truth!” and he himself smiled his +“when did you get the letter? was it from olmütz?” repeated +prince vasíli, who pretended to want to know this in order to settle a +“how can one talk or think of such trifles?” thought pierre. +after supper pierre with his partner followed the others into the +drawing room. the guests began to disperse, some without taking leave +of hélène. some, as if unwilling to distract her from an important +occupation, came up to her for a moment and made haste to go away, +refusing to let her see them off. the diplomatist preserved a mournful +silence as he left the drawing room. he pictured the vanity of his +diplomatic career in comparison with pierre’s happiness. the old +general grumbled at his wife when she asked how his leg was. “oh, the +old fool,” he thought. “that princess hélène will be beautiful +“i think i may congratulate you,” whispered anna pávlovna to the +old princess, kissing her soundly. “if i hadn’t this headache i’d +the old princess did not reply, she was tormented by jealousy of her +while the guests were taking their leave pierre remained for a long time +alone with hélène in the little drawing room where they were sitting. +he had often before, during the last six weeks, remained alone with her, +but had never spoken to her of love. now he felt that it was inevitable, +but he could not make up his mind to take the final step. he felt +ashamed; he felt that he was occupying someone else’s place here +beside hélène. “this happiness is not for you,” some inner voice +whispered to him. “this happiness is for those who have not in them +but, as he had to say something, he began by asking her whether she was +satisfied with the party. she replied in her usual simple manner that +this name day of hers had been one of the pleasantest she had ever had. +some of the nearest relatives had not yet left. they were sitting in +the large drawing room. prince vasíli came up to pierre with languid +footsteps. pierre rose and said it was getting late. prince vasíli gave +him a look of stern inquiry, as though what pierre had just said was +so strange that one could not take it in. but then the expression of +severity changed, and he drew pierre’s hand downwards, made him sit +“well, lëlya?” he asked, turning instantly to his daughter and +addressing her with the careless tone of habitual tenderness natural to +parents who have petted their children from babyhood, but which prince +vasíli had only acquired by imitating other parents. +and he again turned to pierre. +“sergéy kuzmích—from all sides—” he said, unbuttoning the top +pierre smiled, but his smile showed that he knew it was not the story +about sergéy kuzmích that interested prince vasíli just then, and +prince vasíli saw that pierre knew this. he suddenly muttered +something and went away. it seemed to pierre that even the prince was +disconcerted. the sight of the discomposure of that old man of the world +touched pierre: he looked at hélène and she too seemed disconcerted, +and her look seemed to say: “well, it is your own fault.” +“the step must be taken but i cannot, i cannot!” thought pierre, +and he again began speaking about indifferent matters, about sergéy +kuzmích, asking what the point of the story was as he had not heard it +properly. hélène answered with a smile that she too had missed it. +when prince vasíli returned to the drawing room, the princess, his +wife, was talking in low tones to the elderly lady about pierre. +“of course, it is a very brilliant match, but happiness, my dear...” +“marriages are made in heaven,” replied the elderly lady. +prince vasíli passed by, seeming not to hear the ladies, and sat down +on a sofa in a far corner of the room. he closed his eyes and seemed to +be dozing. his head sank forward and then he roused himself. +“aline,” he said to his wife, “go and see what they are about.” +the princess went up to the door, passed by it with a dignified and +indifferent air, and glanced into the little drawing room. pierre and +hélène still sat talking just as before. +“still the same,” she said to her husband. +prince vasíli frowned, twisting his mouth, his cheeks quivered and his +face assumed the coarse, unpleasant expression peculiar to him. shaking +himself, he rose, threw back his head, and with resolute steps went +past the ladies into the little drawing room. with quick steps he went +joyfully up to pierre. his face was so unusually triumphant that pierre +everything!” (he put one arm around pierre and the other around his +daughter.)—“my dear boy... lëlya... i am very pleased.” (his +voice trembled.) “i loved your father... and she will make you a good +he embraced his daughter, and then again pierre, and kissed him with his +malodorous mouth. tears actually moistened his cheeks. +the old princess came in and also wept. the elderly lady was using +her handkerchief too. pierre was kissed, and he kissed the beautiful +hélène’s hand several times. after a while they were left alone +“all this had to be and could not be otherwise,” thought pierre, +“so it is useless to ask whether it is good or bad. it is good because +it’s definite and one is rid of the old tormenting doubt.” pierre +held the hand of his betrothed in silence, looking at her beautiful +“something special is always said in such cases,” he thought, but +could not remember what it was that people say. he looked at her face. +she drew nearer to him. her face flushed. +“oh, take those off... those...” she said, pointing to his +pierre took them off, and his eyes, besides the strange look eyes have +from which spectacles have just been removed, had also a frightened and +inquiring look. he was about to stoop over her hand and kiss it, but +with a rapid, almost brutal movement of her head, she intercepted his +lips and met them with her own. her face struck pierre, by its altered, +unpleasantly excited expression. +“it is too late now, it’s done; besides i love her,” thought +“je vous aime!” * he said, remembering what has to be said at such +moments: but his words sounded so weak that he felt ashamed of himself. +six weeks later he was married, and settled in count bezúkhov’s +large, newly furnished petersburg house, the happy possessor, as people +said, of a wife who was a celebrated beauty and of millions of money. +old prince nicholas bolkónski received a letter from prince vasíli +in november, 1805, announcing that he and his son would be paying him +a visit. “i am starting on a journey of inspection, and of course i +shall think nothing of an extra seventy miles to come and see you at +the same time, my honored benefactor,” wrote prince vasíli. “my son +anatole is accompanying me on his way to the army, so i hope you will +allow him personally to express the deep respect that, emulating his +“it seems that there will be no need to bring mary out, suitors are +coming to us of their own accord,” incautiously remarked the little +princess on hearing the news. +a fortnight after the letter prince vasíli’s servants came one +evening in advance of him, and he and his son arrived next day. +old bolkónski had always had a poor opinion of prince vasíli’s +character, but more so recently, since in the new reigns of paul and +alexander prince vasíli had risen to high position and honors. and now, +from the hints contained in his letter and given by the little princess, +he saw which way the wind was blowing, and his low opinion changed into +a feeling of contemptuous ill will. he snorted whenever he mentioned +him. on the day of prince vasíli’s arrival, prince bolkónski was +particularly discontented and out of temper. whether he was in a bad +temper because prince vasíli was coming, or whether his being in a bad +temper made him specially annoyed at prince vasíli’s visit, he was +in a bad temper, and in the morning tíkhon had already advised the +architect not to go to the prince with his report. +“do you hear how he’s walking?” said tíkhon, drawing the +architect’s attention to the sound of the prince’s footsteps. +“stepping flat on his heels—we know what that means....” +however, at nine o’clock the prince, in his velvet coat with a sable +collar and cap, went out for his usual walk. it had snowed the day +before and the path to the hothouse, along which the prince was in the +habit of walking, had been swept: the marks of the broom were still +visible in the snow and a shovel had been left sticking in one of the +soft snowbanks that bordered both sides of the path. the prince went +through the conservatories, the serfs’ quarters, and the outbuildings, +“can a sleigh pass?” he asked his overseer, a venerable man, +resembling his master in manners and looks, who was accompanying him +“the snow is deep. i am having the avenue swept, your honor.” +the prince bowed his head and went up to the porch. “god be +thanked,” thought the overseer, “the storm has blown over!” +“it would have been hard to drive up, your honor,” he added. “i +heard, your honor, that a minister is coming to visit your honor.” +the prince turned round to the overseer and fixed his eyes on him, +“what? a minister? what minister? who gave orders?” he said in +his shrill, harsh voice. “the road is not swept for the princess my +daughter, but for a minister! for me, there are no ministers!” +“you thought!” shouted the prince, his words coming more and more +rapidly and indistinctly. “you thought!... rascals! blackguards!... +i’ll teach you to think!” and lifting his stick he swung it and +would have hit alpátych, the overseer, had not the latter instinctively +avoided the blow. “thought... blackguards...” shouted the prince +but although alpátych, frightened at his own temerity in avoiding the +stroke, came up to the prince, bowing his bald head resignedly before +him, or perhaps for that very reason, the prince, though he continued +to shout: “blackguards!... throw the snow back on the road!” did not +lift his stick again but hurried into the house. +before dinner, princess mary and mademoiselle bourienne, who knew +that the prince was in a bad humor, stood awaiting him; mademoiselle +bourienne with a radiant face that said: “i know nothing, i am the +same as usual,” and princess mary pale, frightened, and with downcast +eyes. what she found hardest to bear was to know that on such occasions +she ought to behave like mademoiselle bourienne, but could not. +she thought: “if i seem not to notice he will think that i do not +sympathize with him; if i seem sad and out of spirits myself, he will +say (as he has done before) that i’m in the dumps.” +the prince looked at his daughter’s frightened face and snorted. +“and the other one is not here. they’ve been telling tales,” he +thought—referring to the little princess who was not in the dining +“where is the princess?” he asked. “hiding?” +“she is not very well,” answered mademoiselle bourienne with +a bright smile, “so she won’t come down. it is natural in her +his plate seemed to him not quite clean, and pointing to a spot he +flung it away. tíkhon caught it and handed it to a footman. the little +princess was not unwell, but had such an overpowering fear of the prince +that, hearing he was in a bad humor, she had decided not to appear. +“i am afraid for the baby,” she said to mademoiselle bourienne: +in general at bald hills the little princess lived in constant fear, and +with a sense of antipathy to the old prince which she did not +realize because the fear was so much the stronger feeling. the prince +reciprocated this antipathy, but it was overpowered by his contempt +for her. when the little princess had grown accustomed to life at bald +hills, she took a special fancy to mademoiselle bourienne, spent whole +days with her, asked her to sleep in her room, and often talked with her +about the old prince and criticized him. +“so we are to have visitors, mon prince?” remarked mademoiselle +bourienne, unfolding her white napkin with her rosy fingers. “his +excellency prince vasíli kurágin and his son, i understand?” she +“hm!—his excellency is a puppy.... i got him his appointment in the +service,” said the prince disdainfully. “why his son is coming i +don’t understand. perhaps princess elizabeth and princess mary know. +i don’t want him.” (he looked at his blushing daughter.) “are you +unwell today? eh? afraid of the ‘minister’ as that idiot alpátych +though mademoiselle bourienne had been so unsuccessful in her choice +of a subject, she did not stop talking, but chattered about the +conservatories and the beauty of a flower that had just opened, and +after the soup the prince became more genial. +after dinner, he went to see his daughter-in-law. the little princess +was sitting at a small table, chattering with másha, her maid. she grew +pale on seeing her father-in-law. +she was much altered. she was now plain rather than pretty. her cheeks +had sunk, her lip was drawn up, and her eyes drawn down. +“yes, i feel a kind of oppression,” she said in reply to the +prince’s question as to how she felt. +he left the room and went to the waiting room where alpátych stood with +“yes, your excellency. forgive me for heaven’s sake... it was only +“all right, all right,” interrupted the prince, and laughing his +unnatural way, he stretched out his hand for alpátych to kiss, and then +prince vasíli arrived that evening. he was met in the avenue by +coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to +one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow. +prince vasíli and anatole had separate rooms assigned to them. +anatole, having taken off his overcoat, sat with arms akimbo before a +table on a corner of which he smilingly and absent-mindedly fixed his +large and handsome eyes. he regarded his whole life as a continual round +of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him. +and he looked on this visit to a churlish old man and a rich and ugly +heiress in the same way. all this might, he thought, turn out very well +and amusingly. “and why not marry her if she really has so much money? +that never does any harm,” thought anatole. +he shaved and scented himself with the care and elegance which had +become habitual to him and, his handsome head held high, entered his +father’s room with the good-humored and victorious air natural to +him. prince vasíli’s two valets were busy dressing him, and he looked +round with much animation and cheerfully nodded to his son as the latter +entered, as if to say: “yes, that’s how i want you to look.” +“i say, father, joking apart, is she very hideous?” anatole asked, +as if continuing a conversation the subject of which had often been +“enough! what nonsense! above all, try to be respectful and cautious +“if he starts a row i’ll go away,” said prince anatole. “i +“remember, for you everything depends on this.” +in the meantime, not only was it known in the maidservants’ rooms that +the minister and his son had arrived, but the appearance of both had +been minutely described. princess mary was sitting alone in her room, +“why did they write, why did lise tell me about it? it can never +happen!” she said, looking at herself in the glass. “how shall i +enter the drawing room? even if i like him i can’t now be myself with +him.” the mere thought of her father’s look filled her with terror. +the little princess and mademoiselle bourienne had already received +from másha, the lady’s maid, the necessary report of how handsome the +minister’s son was, with his rosy cheeks and dark eyebrows, and with +what difficulty the father had dragged his legs upstairs while the son +had followed him like an eagle, three steps at a time. having received +this information, the little princess and mademoiselle bourienne, whose +chattering voices had reached her from the corridor, went into princess +“you know they’ve come, marie?” said the little princess, waddling +she was no longer in the loose gown she generally wore in the morning, +but had on one of her best dresses. her hair was carefully done and her +face was animated, which, however, did not conceal its sunken and faded +outlines. dressed as she used to be in petersburg society, it was still +more noticeable how much plainer she had become. some unobtrusive touch +had been added to mademoiselle bourienne’s toilet which rendered her +fresh and pretty face yet more attractive. +“what! are you going to remain as you are, dear princess?” she +began. “they’ll be announcing that the gentlemen are in the drawing +room and we shall have to go down, and you have not smartened yourself +the little princess got up, rang for the maid, and hurriedly and merrily +began to devise and carry out a plan of how princess mary should be +dressed. princess mary’s self-esteem was wounded by the fact that +the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both +her companions’ not having the least conception that it could be +otherwise. to tell them that she felt ashamed for herself and for them +would be to betray her agitation, while to decline their offers to +dress her would prolong their banter and insistence. she flushed, her +beautiful eyes grew dim, red blotches came on her face, and it took +on the unattractive martyrlike expression it so often wore, as she +submitted herself to mademoiselle bourienne and lise. both these women +quite sincerely tried to make her look pretty. she was so plain that +neither of them could think of her as a rival, so they began dressing +her with perfect sincerity, and with the naïve and firm conviction +women have that dress can make a face pretty. +“no really, my dear, this dress is not pretty,” said lise, looking +sideways at princess mary from a little distance. “you have a maroon +dress, have it fetched. really! you know the fate of your whole life may +be at stake. but this one is too light, it’s not becoming!” +it was not the dress, but the face and whole figure of princess mary +that was not pretty, but neither mademoiselle bourienne nor the little +princess felt this; they still thought that if a blue ribbon were placed +in the hair, the hair combed up, and the blue scarf arranged lower on +the best maroon dress, and so on, all would be well. they forgot that +the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that +however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it +would still remain piteous and plain. after two or three changes to +which princess mary meekly submitted, just as her hair had been arranged +on the top of her head (a style that quite altered and spoiled her +looks) and she had put on a maroon dress with a pale-blue scarf, the +little princess walked twice round her, now adjusting a fold of the +dress with her little hand, now arranging the scarf and looking at her +with her head bent first on one side and then on the other. +“no, it will not do,” she said decidedly, clasping her hands. “no, +mary, really this dress does not suit you. i prefer you in your little +gray everyday dress. now please, do it for my sake. katie,” she said +to the maid, “bring the princess her gray dress, and you’ll see, +mademoiselle bourienne, how i shall arrange it,” she added, smiling +but when katie brought the required dress, princess mary remained +sitting motionless before the glass, looking at her face, and saw in the +mirror her eyes full of tears and her mouth quivering, ready to burst +“come, dear princess,” said mademoiselle bourienne, “just one more +the little princess, taking the dress from the maid, came up to princess +“well, now we’ll arrange something quite simple and becoming,” she +the three voices, hers, mademoiselle bourienne’s, and katie’s, who +was laughing at something, mingled in a merry sound, like the chirping +“no, leave me alone,” said princess mary. +her voice sounded so serious and so sad that the chirping of the birds +was silenced at once. they looked at the beautiful, large, thoughtful +eyes full of tears and of thoughts, gazing shiningly and imploringly at +them, and understood that it was useless and even cruel to insist. +“at least, change your coiffure,” said the little princess. +“didn’t i tell you,” she went on, turning reproachfully to +mademoiselle bourienne, “mary’s is a face which such a coiffure does +not suit in the least. not in the least! please change it.” +“leave me alone, please leave me alone! it is all quite the same to +mademoiselle bourienne and the little princess had to own to themselves +that princess mary in this guise looked very plain, worse than usual, +but it was too late. she was looking at them with an expression they +both knew, an expression thoughtful and sad. this expression in princess +mary did not frighten them (she never inspired fear in anyone), but they +knew that when it appeared on her face, she became mute and was not to +“you will change it, won’t you?” said lise. and as princess mary +princess mary was left alone. she did not comply with lise’s request, +she not only left her hair as it was, but did not even look in her +glass. letting her arms fall helplessly, she sat with downcast eyes and +pondered. a husband, a man, a strong dominant and strangely attractive +being rose in her imagination, and carried her into a totally different +happy world of his own. she fancied a child, her own—such as she had +seen the day before in the arms of her nurse’s daughter—at her +own breast, the husband standing by and gazing tenderly at her and the +child. “but no, it is impossible, i am too ugly,” she thought. +“please come to tea. the prince will be out in a moment,” came the +she roused herself, and felt appalled at what she had been thinking, and +before going down she went into the room where the icons hung and, her +eyes fixed on the dark face of a large icon of the saviour lit by a +lamp, she stood before it with folded hands for a few moments. a painful +doubt filled her soul. could the joy of love, of earthly love for a +man, be for her? in her thoughts of marriage princess mary dreamed of +happiness and of children, but her strongest, most deeply hidden longing +was for earthly love. the more she tried to hide this feeling from +others and even from herself, the stronger it grew. “o god,” she +said, “how am i to stifle in my heart these temptations of the devil? +how am i to renounce forever these vile fancies, so as peacefully to +fulfill thy will?” and scarcely had she put that question than god +gave her the answer in her own heart. “desire nothing for thyself, +seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. man’s future and thy own fate +must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for +anything. if it be god’s will to prove thee in the duties of marriage, +be ready to fulfill his will.” with this consoling thought (but +yet with a hope for the fulfillment of her forbidden earthly longing) +princess mary sighed, and having crossed herself went down, thinking +neither of her gown and coiffure nor of how she would go in nor of what +she would say. what could all that matter in comparison with the will of +god, without whose care not a hair of man’s head can fall? +when princess mary came down, prince vasíli and his son were already +in the drawing room, talking to the little princess and mademoiselle +bourienne. when she entered with her heavy step, treading on her heels, +the gentlemen and mademoiselle bourienne rose and the little princess, +indicating her to the gentlemen, said: “voilà marie!” princess mary +saw them all and saw them in detail. she saw prince vasíli’s face, +serious for an instant at the sight of her, but immediately smiling +again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression +“marie” produced on the visitors. and she saw mademoiselle +bourienne, with her ribbon and pretty face, and her unusually animated +look which was fixed on him, but him she could not see, she only saw +something large, brilliant, and handsome moving toward her as she +entered the room. prince vasíli approached first, and she kissed the +bold forehead that bent over her hand and answered his question by +saying that, on the contrary, she remembered him quite well. then +anatole came up to her. she still could not see him. she only felt a +soft hand taking hers firmly, and she touched with her lips a white +forehead, over which was beautiful light-brown hair smelling of pomade. +when she looked up at him she was struck by his beauty. anatole stood +with his right thumb under a button of his uniform, his chest expanded +and his back drawn in, slightly swinging one foot, and, with his head a +little bent, looked with beaming face at the princess without +speaking and evidently not thinking about her at all. anatole was not +quick-witted, nor ready or eloquent in conversation, but he had the +faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable +self-possession. if a man lacking in self-confidence remains dumb on +a first introduction and betrays a consciousness of the impropriety of +such silence and an anxiety to find something to say, the effect is +bad. but anatole was dumb, swung his foot, and smilingly examined the +princess’ hair. it was evident that he could be silent in this way for +a very long time. “if anyone finds this silence inconvenient, let him +talk, but i don’t want to,” he seemed to say. besides this, in his +behavior to women anatole had a manner which particularly inspires in +them curiosity, awe, and even love—a supercilious consciousness of +his own superiority. it was as if he said to them: “i know you, i know +you, but why should i bother about you? you’d be only too glad, of +course.” perhaps he did not really think this when he met women—even +probably he did not, for in general he thought very little—but his +looks and manner gave that impression. the princess felt this, and as if +wishing to show him that she did not even dare expect to interest him, +she turned to his father. the conversation was general and animated, +thanks to princess lise’s voice and little downy lip that lifted over +her white teeth. she met prince vasíli with that playful manner often +employed by lively chatty people, and consisting in the assumption +that between the person they so address and themselves there are some +semi-private, long-established jokes and amusing reminiscences, though +no such reminiscences really exist—just as none existed in this case. +prince vasíli readily adopted her tone and the little princess also +drew anatole, whom she hardly knew, into these amusing recollections of +things that had never occurred. mademoiselle bourienne also shared them +and even princess mary felt herself pleasantly made to share in these +“here at least we shall have the benefit of your company all to +ourselves, dear prince,” said the little princess (of course, in +french) to prince vasíli. “it’s not as at annette’s * receptions +where you always ran away; you remember cette chère annette!” +“ah, but you won’t talk politics to me like annette!” +“and our little tea table?” +“why is it you were never at annette’s?” the little princess asked +anatole. “ah, i know, i know,” she said with a sly glance, “your +brother hippolyte told me about your goings on. oh!” and she shook her +finger at him, “i have even heard of your doings in paris!” +“and didn’t hippolyte tell you?” asked prince vasíli, turning to +his son and seizing the little princess’ arm as if she would have run +away and he had just managed to catch her, “didn’t he tell you how +he himself was pining for the dear princess, and how she showed him the +door? oh, she is a pearl among women, princess,” he added, turning to +when paris was mentioned, mademoiselle bourienne for her part seized the +opportunity of joining in the general current of recollections. +she took the liberty of inquiring whether it was long since anatole +had left paris and how he had liked that city. anatole answered the +frenchwoman very readily and, looking at her with a smile, talked to her +about her native land. when he saw the pretty little bourienne, anatole +came to the conclusion that he would not find bald hills dull either. +“not at all bad!” he thought, examining her, “not at all bad, that +little companion! i hope she will bring her along with her when we’re +married, la petite est gentille.” * + * the little one is charming. +the old prince dressed leisurely in his study, frowning and considering +what he was to do. the coming of these visitors annoyed him. “what are +prince vasíli and that son of his to me? prince vasíli is a shallow +braggart and his son, no doubt, is a fine specimen,” he grumbled to +himself. what angered him was that the coming of these visitors revived +in his mind an unsettled question he always tried to stifle, one about +which he always deceived himself. the question was whether he could ever +bring himself to part from his daughter and give her to a husband. the +prince never directly asked himself that question, knowing beforehand +that he would have to answer it justly, and justice clashed not only +with his feelings but with the very possibility of life. life without +princess mary, little as he seemed to value her, was unthinkable to +him. “and why should she marry?” he thought. “to be unhappy for +certain. there’s lise, married to andrew—a better husband one would +think could hardly be found nowadays—but is she contented with her +lot? and who would marry marie for love? plain and awkward! they’ll +take her for her connections and wealth. are there no women living +unmarried, and even the happier for it?” so thought prince bolkónski +while dressing, and yet the question he was always putting off demanded +an immediate answer. prince vasíli had brought his son with the evident +intention of proposing, and today or tomorrow he would probably ask +for an answer. his birth and position in society were not bad. “well, +i’ve nothing against it,” the prince said to himself, “but he must +be worthy of her. and that is what we shall see.” +“that is what we shall see! that is what we shall see!” he added +he entered the drawing room with his usual alert step, glancing rapidly +round the company. he noticed the change in the little princess’ +dress, mademoiselle bourienne’s ribbon, princess mary’s unbecoming +coiffure, mademoiselle bourienne’s and anatole’s smiles, and the +loneliness of his daughter amid the general conversation. “got herself +up like a fool!” he thought, looking irritably at her. “she is +“well! how d’ye do? how d’ye do? glad to see you!” +“friendship laughs at distance,” began prince vasíli in his usual +rapid, self-confident, familiar tone. “here is my second son; please +“fine young fellow! fine young fellow!” he said. “well, come and +kiss me,” and he offered his cheek. +anatole kissed the old man, and looked at him with curiosity and perfect +composure, waiting for a display of the eccentricities his father had +prince bolkónski sat down in his usual place in the corner of the sofa +and, drawing up an armchair for prince vasíli, pointed to it and began +questioning him about political affairs and news. he seemed to listen +attentively to what prince vasíli said, but kept glancing at princess +“and so they are writing from potsdam already?” he said, repeating +prince vasíli’s last words. then rising, he suddenly went up to his +“is it for visitors you’ve got yourself up like that, eh?” said +he. “fine, very fine! you have done up your hair in this new way for +the visitors, and before the visitors i tell you that in future you are +never to dare to change your way of dress without my consent.” +“it was my fault, mon père,” interceded the little princess, with a +“you must do as you please,” said prince bolkónski, bowing to his +daughter-in-law, “but she need not make a fool of herself, she’s +and he sat down again, paying no more attention to his daughter, who was +“on the contrary, that coiffure suits the princess very well,” said +“now you, young prince, what’s your name?” said prince bolkónski, +turning to anatole, “come here, let us talk and get acquainted.” +“now the fun begins,” thought anatole, sitting down with a smile +“well, my dear boy, i hear you’ve been educated abroad, not taught +to read and write by the deacon, like your father and me. now tell me, +my dear boy, are you serving in the horse guards?” asked the old man, +scrutinizing anatole closely and intently. +“no, i have been transferred to the line,” said anatole, hardly able +“ah! that’s a good thing. so, my dear boy, you wish to serve the +tsar and the country? it is wartime. such a fine fellow must serve. +well, are you off to the front?” +“no, prince, our regiment has gone to the front, but i am attached... +what is it i am attached to, papa?” said anatole, turning to his +“a splendid soldier, splendid! ‘what am i attached to!’ ha, ha, +ha!” laughed prince bolkónski, and anatole laughed still louder. +“and so you’ve had him educated abroad, prince vasíli, haven’t +“i have done my best for him, and i can assure you the education there +“yes, everything is different nowadays, everything is changed. the +lad’s a fine fellow, a fine fellow! well, come with me now.” he took +prince vasíli’s arm and led him to his study. as soon as they were +alone together, prince vasíli announced his hopes and wishes to the old +“well, do you think i shall prevent her, that i can’t part from +her?” said the old prince angrily. “what an idea! i’m ready for it +tomorrow! only let me tell you, i want to know my son-in-law better. you +know my principles—everything aboveboard! i will ask her tomorrow in +your presence; if she is willing, then he can stay on. he can stay and +i’ll see.” the old prince snorted. “let her marry, it’s all the +same to me!” he screamed in the same piercing tone as when parting +“i will tell you frankly,” said prince vasíli in the tone of +a crafty man convinced of the futility of being cunning with so +keen-sighted a companion. “you know, you see right through people. +anatole is no genius, but he is an honest, goodhearted lad; an excellent +as always happens when women lead lonely lives for any length of time +without male society, on anatole’s appearance all the three women of +prince bolkónski’s household felt that their life had not been real +till then. their powers of reasoning, feeling, and observing immediately +increased tenfold, and their life, which seemed to have been passed in +darkness, was suddenly lit up by a new brightness, full of significance. +princess mary grew quite unconscious of her face and coiffure. the +handsome open face of the man who might perhaps be her husband absorbed +all her attention. he seemed to her kind, brave, determined, manly, and +magnanimous. she felt convinced of that. thousands of dreams of a future +family life continually rose in her imagination. she drove them away and +“but am i not too cold with him?” thought the princess. “i try +to be reserved because in the depth of my soul i feel too near to him +already, but then he cannot know what i think of him and may imagine +and princess mary tried, but could not manage, to be cordial to her new +guest. “poor girl, she’s devilish ugly!” thought anatole. +mademoiselle bourienne, also roused to great excitement by anatole’s +arrival, thought in another way. of course, she, a handsome young woman +without any definite position, without relations or even a country, did +not intend to devote her life to serving prince bolkónski, to reading +aloud to him and being friends with princess mary. mademoiselle +bourienne had long been waiting for a russian prince who, able to +appreciate at a glance her superiority to the plain, badly dressed, +ungainly russian princesses, would fall in love with her and carry her +off; and here at last was a russian prince. mademoiselle bourienne knew +a story, heard from her aunt but finished in her own way, which she +liked to repeat to herself. it was the story of a girl who had been +seduced, and to whom her poor mother (sa pauvre mère) appeared, and +reproached her for yielding to a man without being married. mademoiselle +bourienne was often touched to tears as in imagination she told this +story to him, her seducer. and now he, a real russian prince, had +appeared. he would carry her away and then sa pauvre mère would appear +and he would marry her. so her future shaped itself in mademoiselle +bourienne’s head at the very time she was talking to anatole about +paris. it was not calculation that guided her (she did not even for a +moment consider what she should do), but all this had long been familiar +to her, and now that anatole had appeared it just grouped itself around +him and she wished and tried to please him as much as possible. +the little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, +unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the +familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any +struggle, but with naïve and lighthearted gaiety. +although in female society anatole usually assumed the role of a man +tired of being run after by women, his vanity was flattered by the +spectacle of his power over these three women. besides that, he was +beginning to feel for the pretty and provocative mademoiselle bourienne +that passionate animal feeling which was apt to master him with great +suddenness and prompt him to the coarsest and most reckless actions. +after tea, the company went into the sitting room and princess mary was +asked to play on the clavichord. anatole, laughing and in high spirits, +came and leaned on his elbows, facing her and beside mademoiselle +bourienne. princess mary felt his look with a painfully joyous emotion. +her favorite sonata bore her into a most intimately poetic world and +the look she felt upon her made that world still more poetic. but +anatole’s expression, though his eyes were fixed on her, referred not +to her but to the movements of mademoiselle bourienne’s little +foot, which he was then touching with his own under the clavichord. +mademoiselle bourienne was also looking at princess mary, and in her +lovely eyes there was a look of fearful joy and hope that was also new +“how she loves me!” thought princess mary. “how happy i am now, +and how happy i may be with such a friend and such a husband! husband? +can it be possible?” she thought, not daring to look at his face, but +still feeling his eyes gazing at her. +in the evening, after supper, when all were about to retire, anatole +kissed princess mary’s hand. she did not know how she found the +courage, but she looked straight into his handsome face as it came near +to her shortsighted eyes. turning from princess mary he went up and +kissed mademoiselle bourienne’s hand. (this was not etiquette, but +then he did everything so simply and with such assurance!) mademoiselle +bourienne flushed, and gave the princess a frightened look. +“what delicacy!” thought the princess. “is it possible that +amélie” (mademoiselle bourienne) “thinks i could be jealous of her, +and not value her pure affection and devotion to me?” she went up +to her and kissed her warmly. anatole went up to kiss the little +“no! no! no! when your father writes to tell me that you are behaving +well i will give you my hand to kiss. not till then!” she said. and +smilingly raising a finger at him, she left the room. +they all separated, but, except anatole who fell asleep as soon as he +got into bed, all kept awake a long time that night. +“is he really to be my husband, this stranger who is so kind—yes, +kind, that is the chief thing,” thought princess mary; and fear, which +she had seldom experienced, came upon her. she feared to look round, it +seemed to her that someone was there standing behind the screen in the +dark corner. and this someone was he—the devil—and he was also this +man with the white forehead, black eyebrows, and red lips. +she rang for her maid and asked her to sleep in her room. +mademoiselle bourienne walked up and down the conservatory for a long +time that evening, vainly expecting someone, now smiling at someone, now +working herself up to tears with the imaginary words of her pauvre mère +the little princess grumbled to her maid that her bed was badly made. +she could not lie either on her face or on her side. every position was +awkward and uncomfortable, and her burden oppressed her now more than +ever because anatole’s presence had vividly recalled to her the time +when she was not like that and when everything was light and gay. she +sat in an armchair in her dressing jacket and nightcap and katie, sleepy +and disheveled, beat and turned the heavy feather bed for the third +“i told you it was all lumps and holes!” the little princess +repeated. “i should be glad enough to fall asleep, so it’s not my +fault!” and her voice quivered like that of a child about to cry. +the old prince did not sleep either. tíkhon, half asleep, heard him +pacing angrily about and snorting. the old prince felt as though he +had been insulted through his daughter. the insult was the more pointed +because it concerned not himself but another, his daughter, whom he +loved more than himself. he kept telling himself that he would consider +the whole matter and decide what was right and how he should act, but +instead of that he only excited himself more and more. +“the first man that turns up—she forgets her father and everything +else, runs upstairs and does up her hair and wags her tail and is unlike +herself! glad to throw her father over! and she knew i should notice +it. fr... fr... fr! and don’t i see that that idiot had eyes only for +bourienne—i shall have to get rid of her. and how is it she has not +pride enough to see it? if she has no pride for herself she might at +least have some for my sake! she must be shown that the blockhead thinks +nothing of her and looks only at bourienne. no, she has no pride... but +i’ll let her see....” +the old prince knew that if he told his daughter she was making a +mistake and that anatole meant to flirt with mademoiselle bourienne, +princess mary’s self-esteem would be wounded and his point (not to +be parted from her) would be gained, so pacifying himself with this +thought, he called tíkhon and began to undress. +“what devil brought them here?” thought he, while tíkhon was +putting the nightshirt over his dried-up old body and gray-haired chest. +“i never invited them. they came to disturb my life—and there is not +“devil take ‘em!” he muttered, while his head was still covered by +tíkhon knew his master’s habit of sometimes thinking aloud, and +therefore met with unaltered looks the angrily inquisitive expression of +the face that emerged from the shirt. +tíkhon, like all good valets, instinctively knew the direction of his +master’s thoughts. he guessed that the question referred to prince +“they have gone to bed and put out their lights, your excellency.” +“no good... no good...” said the prince rapidly, and thrusting his +feet into his slippers and his arms into the sleeves of his dressing +gown, he went to the couch on which he slept. +though no words had passed between anatole and mademoiselle bourienne, +they quite understood one another as to the first part of their romance, +up to the appearance of the pauvre mère; they understood that they had +much to say to one another in private and so they had been seeking an +opportunity since morning to meet one another alone. when princess mary +went to her father’s room at the usual hour, mademoiselle bourienne +and anatole met in the conservatory. +princess mary went to the door of the study with special trepidation. +it seemed to her that not only did everybody know that her fate would be +decided that day, but that they also knew what she thought about it. she +read this in tíkhon’s face and in that of prince vasíli’s valet, +who made her a low bow when she met him in the corridor carrying hot +the old prince was very affectionate and careful in his treatment of +his daughter that morning. princess mary well knew this painstaking +expression of her father’s. his face wore that expression when his +dry hands clenched with vexation at her not understanding a sum in +arithmetic, when rising from his chair he would walk away from her, +repeating in a low voice the same words several times over. +he came to the point at once, treating her ceremoniously. +“i have had a proposition made me concerning you,” he said with an +unnatural smile. “i expect you have guessed that prince vasíli has +not come and brought his pupil with him” (for some reason prince +bolkónski referred to anatole as a “pupil”) “for the sake of my +beautiful eyes. last night a proposition was made me on your account +and, as you know my principles, i refer it to you.” +“how am i to understand you, mon père?” said the princess, growing +“how understand me!” cried her father angrily. “prince vasíli +finds you to his taste as a daughter-in-law and makes a proposal to you +on his pupil’s behalf. that’s how it’s to be understood! ‘how +“i do not know what you think, father,” whispered the princess. +“i? i? what of me? leave me out of the question. i’m not going to +get married. what about you? that’s what i want to know.” +the princess saw that her father regarded the matter with disapproval, +but at that moment the thought occurred to her that her fate would be +decided now or never. she lowered her eyes so as not to see the gaze +under which she felt that she could not think, but would only be able to +submit from habit, and she said: “i wish only to do your will, but if +i had to express my own desire...” she had no time to finish. the old +“that’s admirable!” he shouted. “he will take you with your +dowry and take mademoiselle bourienne into the bargain. she’ll be the +the prince stopped. he saw the effect these words had produced on his +daughter. she lowered her head and was ready to burst into tears. +“now then, now then, i’m only joking!” he said. “remember this, +princess, i hold to the principle that a maiden has a full right to +choose. i give you freedom. only remember that your life’s happiness +depends on your decision. never mind me!” +“there’s no need to talk! he receives his orders and will marry you +or anybody; but you are free to choose.... go to your room, think it +over, and come back in an hour and tell me in his presence: yes or no. +i know you will pray over it. well, pray if you like, but you had better +think it over. go! yes or no, yes or no, yes or no!” he still shouted +when the princess, as if lost in a fog, had already staggered out of the +her fate was decided and happily decided. but what her father had said +about mademoiselle bourienne was dreadful. it was untrue to be sure, but +still it was terrible, and she could not help thinking of it. she was +going straight on through the conservatory, neither seeing nor hearing +anything, when suddenly the well-known whispering of mademoiselle +bourienne aroused her. she raised her eyes, and two steps away saw +anatole embracing the frenchwoman and whispering something to her. with +a horrified expression on his handsome face, anatole looked at princess +mary, but did not at once take his arm from the waist of mademoiselle +“who’s that? why? wait a moment!” anatole’s face seemed to say. +princess mary looked at them in silence. she could not understand it. at +last mademoiselle bourienne gave a scream and ran away. anatole bowed to +princess mary with a gay smile, as if inviting her to join in a laugh at +this strange incident, and then shrugging his shoulders went to the door +an hour later, tíkhon came to call princess mary to the old prince; +he added that prince vasíli was also there. when tíkhon came to her +princess mary was sitting on the sofa in her room, holding the weeping +mademoiselle bourienne in her arms and gently stroking her hair. the +princess’ beautiful eyes with all their former calm radiance were +looking with tender affection and pity at mademoiselle bourienne’s +“no, princess, i have lost your affection forever!” said +mademoiselle bourienne. +“why? i love you more than ever,” said princess mary, “and i will +try to do all i can for your happiness.” +“but you despise me. you who are so pure can never understand being so +carried away by passion. oh, only my poor mother...” +“i quite understand,” answered princess mary, with a sad smile. +“calm yourself, my dear. i will go to my father,” she said, and went +prince vasíli, with one leg thrown high over the other and a snuffbox +in his hand, was sitting there with a smile of deep emotion on his face, +as if stirred to his heart’s core and himself regretting and laughing +at his own sensibility, when princess mary entered. he hurriedly took a +“ah, my dear, my dear!” he began, rising and taking her by both +hands. then, sighing, he added: “my son’s fate is in your hands. +decide, my dear, good, gentle marie, whom i have always loved as a +he drew back and a real tear appeared in his eye. +“fr... fr...” snorted prince bolkónski. “the prince is making a +proposition to you in his pupil’s—i mean, his son’s—name. do you +wish or not to be prince anatole kurágin’s wife? reply: yes or no,” +he shouted, “and then i shall reserve the right to state my opinion +also. yes, my opinion, and only my opinion,” added prince bolkónski, +turning to prince vasíli and answering his imploring look. “yes, or +“my desire is never to leave you, father, never to separate my +life from yours. i don’t wish to marry,” she answered positively, +glancing at prince vasíli and at her father with her beautiful eyes. +“humbug! nonsense! humbug, humbug, humbug!” cried prince bolkónski, +frowning and taking his daughter’s hand; he did not kiss her, but only +bending his forehead to hers just touched it, and pressed her hand so +that she winced and uttered a cry. +“my dear, i must tell you that this is a moment i shall never, never +forget. but, my dear, will you not give us a little hope of touching +this heart, so kind and generous? say ‘perhaps’... the future is so +“prince, what i have said is all there is in my heart. i thank you for +the honor, but i shall never be your son’s wife.” +“well, so that’s finished, my dear fellow! i am very glad to have +seen you. very glad! go back to your rooms, princess. go!” said +the old prince. “very, very glad to have seen you,” repeated he, +“my vocation is a different one,” thought princess mary. “my +vocation is to be happy with another kind of happiness, the happiness +of love and self-sacrifice. and cost what it may, i will arrange +poor amélie’s happiness, she loves him so passionately, and so +passionately repents. i will do all i can to arrange the match between +them. if he is not rich i will give her the means; i will ask my +father and andrew. i shall be so happy when she is his wife. she is so +unfortunate, a stranger, alone, helpless! and, oh god, how passionately +she must love him if she could so far forget herself! perhaps i might +have done the same!...” thought princess mary. +it was long since the rostóvs had news of nicholas. not till midwinter +was the count at last handed a letter addressed in his son’s +handwriting. on receiving it, he ran on tiptoe to his study in alarm and +haste, trying to escape notice, closed the door, and began to read the +anna mikháylovna, who always knew everything that passed in the house, +on hearing of the arrival of the letter went softly into the room and +found the count with it in his hand, sobbing and laughing at the same +anna mikháylovna, though her circumstances had improved, was still +“my dear friend?” said she, in a tone of pathetic inquiry, prepared +“nikólenka... a letter... wa... a... s... wounded... my darling +boy... the countess... promoted to be an officer... thank god... how +tell the little countess!” +anna mikháylovna sat down beside him, with her own handkerchief wiped +the tears from his eyes and from the letter, then having dried her +own eyes she comforted the count, and decided that at dinner and till +teatime she would prepare the countess, and after tea, with god’s +at dinner anna mikháylovna talked the whole time about the war news +and about nikólenka, twice asked when the last letter had been received +from him, though she knew that already, and remarked that they might +very likely be getting a letter from him that day. each time that these +hints began to make the countess anxious and she glanced uneasily at +the count and at anna mikháylovna, the latter very adroitly turned +the conversation to insignificant matters. natásha, who, of the whole +family, was the most gifted with a capacity to feel any shades of +intonation, look, and expression, pricked up her ears from the beginning +of the meal and was certain that there was some secret between her +father and anna mikháylovna, that it had something to do with her +brother, and that anna mikháylovna was preparing them for it. bold as +she was, natásha, who knew how sensitive her mother was to anything +relating to nikólenka, did not venture to ask any questions at dinner, +but she was too excited to eat anything and kept wriggling about on her +chair regardless of her governess’ remarks. after dinner, she rushed +headlong after anna mikháylovna and, dashing at her, flung herself on +her neck as soon as she overtook her in the sitting room. +“auntie, darling, do tell me what it is!” +“no, dearest, sweet one, honey, i won’t give up—i know you know +anna mikháylovna shook her head. +“a letter from nikólenka! i’m sure of it!” exclaimed natásha, +reading confirmation in anna mikháylovna’s face. +“but for god’s sake, be careful, you know how it may affect your +“i will, i will, only tell me! you won’t? then i will go and tell at +anna mikháylovna, in a few words, told her the contents of the letter, +on condition that she should tell no one. +“no, on my true word of honor,” said natásha, crossing herself, +“i won’t tell anyone!” and she ran off at once to sónya. +“nikólenka... wounded... a letter,” she announced in gleeful +“nicholas!” was all sónya said, instantly turning white. +natásha, seeing the impression the news of her brother’s wound +produced on sónya, felt for the first time the sorrowful side of the +she rushed to sónya, hugged her, and began to cry. +“a little wound, but he has been made an officer; he is well now, he +wrote himself,” said she through her tears. +“there now! it’s true that all you women are crybabies,” remarked +pétya, pacing the room with large, resolute strides. “now i’m very +glad, very glad indeed, that my brother has distinguished himself so. +you are all blubberers and understand nothing.” +“you haven’t read the letter?” asked sónya. +“no, but she said that it was all over and that he’s now an +“thank god!” said sónya, crossing herself. “but perhaps she +“if i’d been in nikólenka’s place i would have killed even more +of those frenchmen,” he said. “what nasty brutes they are! i’d +have killed so many that there’d have been a heap of them.” +“hold your tongue, pétya, what a goose you are!” +“i’m not a goose, but they are who cry about trifles,” said +“do you remember him?” natásha suddenly asked, after a moment’s +“no, sónya, but do you remember so that you remember him perfectly, +remember everything?” said natásha, with an expressive gesture, +evidently wishing to give her words a very definite meaning. “i +remember nikólenka too, i remember him well,” she said. “but i +don’t remember borís. i don’t remember him a bit.” +“what! you don’t remember borís?” asked sónya in surprise. +“it’s not that i don’t remember—i know what he is like, but not +as i remember nikólenka. him—i just shut my eyes and remember, +but borís... no!” (she shut her eyes.) “no! there’s nothing at +“oh, natásha!” said sónya, looking ecstatically and earnestly at +her friend as if she did not consider her worthy to hear what she meant +to say and as if she were saying it to someone else, with whom joking +was out of the question, “i am in love with your brother once for all +and, whatever may happen to him or to me, shall never cease to love him +natásha looked at sónya with wondering and inquisitive eyes, and said +nothing. she felt that sónya was speaking the truth, that there was +such love as sónya was speaking of. but natásha had not yet felt +anything like it. she believed it could be, but did not understand it. +“shall you write to him?” she asked. +sónya became thoughtful. the question of how to write to nicholas, and +whether she ought to write, tormented her. now that he was already an +officer and a wounded hero, would it be right to remind him of herself +and, as it might seem, of the obligations to her he had taken on +“i don’t know. i think if he writes, i will write too,” she said, +“and i should be ashamed to write to borís. i’m not going to.” +“well, i don’t know. it’s awkward and would make me ashamed.” +“and i know why she’d be ashamed,” said pétya, offended by +natásha’s previous remark. “it’s because she was in love with +that fat one in spectacles” (that was how pétya described his +namesake, the new count bezúkhov) “and now she’s in love with that +singer” (he meant natásha’s italian singing master), “that’s +“not more stupid than you, madam,” said the nine-year-old pétya, +the countess had been prepared by anna mikháylovna’s hints at dinner. +on retiring to her own room, she sat in an armchair, her eyes fixed on a +miniature portrait of her son on the lid of a snuffbox, while the tears +kept coming into her eyes. anna mikháylovna, with the letter, came on +tiptoe to the countess’ door and paused. +“don’t come in,” she said to the old count who was following her. +“come later.” and she went in, closing the door behind her. +the count put his ear to the keyhole and listened. +at first he heard the sound of indifferent voices, then anna +mikháylovna’s voice alone in a long speech, then a cry, then silence, +then both voices together with glad intonations, and then footsteps. +anna mikháylovna opened the door. her face wore the proud expression +of a surgeon who has just performed a difficult operation and admits the +“it is done!” she said to the count, pointing triumphantly to the +countess, who sat holding in one hand the snuffbox with its portrait and +in the other the letter, and pressing them alternately to her lips. +when she saw the count, she stretched out her arms to him, embraced his +bald head, over which she again looked at the letter and the portrait, +and in order to press them again to her lips, she slightly pushed away +the bald head. véra, natásha, sónya, and pétya now entered the room, +and the reading of the letter began. after a brief description of +the campaign and the two battles in which he had taken part, and his +promotion, nicholas said that he kissed his father’s and mother’s +hands asking for their blessing, and that he kissed véra, natásha, and +pétya. besides that, he sent greetings to monsieur schelling, madame +schoss, and his old nurse, and asked them to kiss for him “dear +sónya, whom he loved and thought of just the same as ever.” when she +heard this sónya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable +to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, +whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, +and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor. the countess was +“why are you crying, mamma?” asked véra. “from all he says one +this was quite true, but the count, the countess, and natásha looked +at her reproachfully. “and who is it she takes after?” thought the +nicholas’ letter was read over hundreds of times, and those who were +considered worthy to hear it had to come to the countess, for she +did not let it out of her hands. the tutors came, and the nurses, and +dmítri, and several acquaintances, and the countess reread the letter +each time with fresh pleasure and each time discovered in it fresh +proofs of nikólenka’s virtues. how strange, how extraordinary, how +joyful it seemed, that her son, the scarcely perceptible motion of whose +tiny limbs she had felt twenty years ago within her, that son about whom +she used to have quarrels with the too indulgent count, that son who +had first learned to say “pear” and then “granny,” that this son +should now be away in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, a manly +warrior doing some kind of man’s work of his own, without help or +guidance. the universal experience of ages, showing that children do +grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the +countess. her son’s growth toward manhood, at each of its stages, +had seemed as extraordinary to her as if there had never existed the +millions of human beings who grew up in the same way. as twenty +years before, it seemed impossible that the little creature who lived +somewhere under her heart would ever cry, suck her breast, and begin to +speak, so now she could not believe that that little creature could be +this strong, brave man, this model son and officer that, judging by this +“what a style! how charmingly he describes!” said she, reading the +descriptive part of the letter. “and what a soul! not a word about +himself.... not a word! about some denísov or other, though he himself, +i dare say, is braver than any of them. he says nothing about his +sufferings. what a heart! how like him it is! and how he has remembered +everybody! not forgetting anyone. i always said when he was only so +for more than a week preparations were being made, rough drafts of +letters to nicholas from all the household were written and copied out, +while under the supervision of the countess and the solicitude of the +count, money and all things necessary for the uniform and equipment +of the newly commissioned officer were collected. anna mikháylovna, +practical woman that she was, had even managed by favor with army +authorities to secure advantageous means of communication for herself +and her son. she had opportunities of sending her letters to the grand +duke constantine pávlovich, who commanded the guards. the rostóvs +supposed that the russian guards, abroad, was quite a definite address, +and that if a letter reached the grand duke in command of the guards +there was no reason why it should not reach the pávlograd regiment, +which was presumably somewhere in the same neighborhood. and so it was +decided to send the letters and money by the grand duke’s courier to +borís and borís was to forward them to nicholas. the letters were from +the old count, the countess, pétya, véra, natásha, and sónya, and +finally there were six thousand rubles for his outfit and various other +on the twelfth of november, kutúzov’s active army, in camp before +olmütz, was preparing to be reviewed next day by the two emperors—the +russian and the austrian. the guards, just arrived from russia, spent +the night ten miles from olmütz and next morning were to come straight +to the review, reaching the field at olmütz by ten o’clock. +that day nicholas rostóv received a letter from borís, telling him +that the ismáylov regiment was quartered for the night ten miles from +olmütz and that he wanted to see him as he had a letter and money for +him. rostóv was particularly in need of money now that the troops, +after their active service, were stationed near olmütz and the camp +swarmed with well-provisioned sutlers and austrian jews offering +all sorts of tempting wares. the pávlograds held feast after feast, +celebrating awards they had received for the campaign, and made +expeditions to olmütz to visit a certain caroline the hungarian, +who had recently opened a restaurant there with girls as waitresses. +rostóv, who had just celebrated his promotion to a cornetcy and bought +denísov’s horse, bedouin, was in debt all round, to his comrades and +the sutlers. on receiving borís’ letter he rode with a fellow officer +to olmütz, dined there, drank a bottle of wine, and then set off alone +to the guards’ camp to find his old playmate. rostóv had not yet had +time to get his uniform. he had on a shabby cadet jacket, decorated with +a soldier’s cross, equally shabby cadet’s riding breeches lined with +worn leather, and an officer’s saber with a sword knot. the don horse +he was riding was one he had bought from a cossack during the campaign, +and he wore a crumpled hussar cap stuck jauntily back on one side of his +head. as he rode up to the camp he thought how he would impress borís +and all his comrades of the guards by his appearance—that of a +fighting hussar who had been under fire. +the guards had made their whole march as if on a pleasure trip, parading +their cleanliness and discipline. they had come by easy stages, their +knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the austrian authorities had provided +excellent dinners for the officers at every halting place. the regiments +had entered and left the town with their bands playing, and by the grand +duke’s orders the men had marched all the way in step (a practice on +which the guards prided themselves), the officers on foot and at their +proper posts. borís had been quartered, and had marched all the +way, with berg who was already in command of a company. berg, who had +obtained his captaincy during the campaign, had gained the confidence of +his superiors by his promptitude and accuracy and had arranged his money +matters very satisfactorily. borís, during the campaign, had made the +acquaintance of many persons who might prove useful to him, and by +a letter of recommendation he had brought from pierre had become +acquainted with prince andrew bolkónski, through whom he hoped to +obtain a post on the commander in chief’s staff. berg and borís, +having rested after yesterday’s march, were sitting, clean and neatly +dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, +playing chess. berg held a smoking pipe between his knees. borís, in +the accurate way characteristic of him, was building a little pyramid of +chessmen with his delicate white fingers while awaiting berg’s move, +and watched his opponent’s face, evidently thinking about the game as +he always thought only of whatever he was engaged on. +“well, how are you going to get out of that?” he remarked. +“we’ll try to,” replied berg, touching a pawn and then removing +at that moment the door opened. +“here he is at last!” shouted rostóv. “and berg too! oh, you +petisenfans, allay cushay dormir!” he exclaimed, imitating his russian +nurse’s french, at which he and borís used to laugh long ago. +borís rose to meet rostóv, but in doing so did not omit to steady and +replace some chessmen that were falling. he was about to embrace his +friend, but nicholas avoided him. with that peculiar feeling of youth, +that dread of beaten tracks, and wish to express itself in a manner +different from that of its elders which is often insincere, nicholas +wished to do something special on meeting his friend. he wanted to pinch +him, push him, do anything but kiss him—a thing everybody did. but +notwithstanding this, borís embraced him in a quiet, friendly way and +they had not met for nearly half a year and, being at the age when young +men take their first steps on life’s road, each saw immense changes in +the other, quite a new reflection of the society in which they had taken +those first steps. both had changed greatly since they last met and both +were in a hurry to show the changes that had taken place in them. +“oh, you damned dandies! clean and fresh as if you’d been to a fete, +not like us sinners of the line,” cried rostóv, with martial swagger +and with baritone notes in his voice, new to borís, pointing to his own +mud-bespattered breeches. the german landlady, hearing rostóv’s loud +voice, popped her head in at the door. +“eh, is she pretty?” he asked with a wink. +“why do you shout so? you’ll frighten them!” said borís. “i did +not expect you today,” he added. “i only sent you the note yesterday +i did not think he would get it to you so quickly.... well, how are you? +been under fire already?” asked borís. +without answering, rostóv shook the soldier’s cross of st. george +fastened to the cording of his uniform and, indicating a bandaged arm, +“indeed? yes, yes!” said borís, with a smile. “and we too have +had a splendid march. you know, of course, that his imperial highness +rode with our regiment all the time, so that we had every comfort and +every advantage. what receptions we had in poland! what dinners and +balls! i can’t tell you. and the tsarévich was very gracious to all +and the two friends told each other of their doings, the one of his +hussar revels and life in the fighting line, the other of the pleasures +and advantages of service under members of the imperial family. +“oh, you guards!” said rostóv. “i say, send for some wine.” +he went to his bed, drew a purse from under the clean pillow, and sent +“yes, and i have some money and a letter to give you,” he added. +rostóv took the letter and, throwing the money on the sofa, put both +arms on the table and began to read. after reading a few lines, he +glanced angrily at berg, then, meeting his eyes, hid his face behind the +“well, they’ve sent you a tidy sum,” said berg, eying the heavy +purse that sank into the sofa. “as for us, count, we get along on our +pay. i can tell you for myself...” +“i say, berg, my dear fellow,” said rostóv, “when you get a +letter from home and meet one of your own people whom you want to talk +everything over with, and i happen to be there, i’ll go at once, to +be out of your way! do go somewhere, anywhere... to the devil!” he +exclaimed, and immediately seizing him by the shoulder and looking +amiably into his face, evidently wishing to soften the rudeness of his +words, he added, “don’t be hurt, my dear fellow; you know i speak +“oh, don’t mention it, count! i quite understand,” said berg, +getting up and speaking in a muffled and guttural voice. +“go across to our hosts: they invited you,” added borís. +berg put on the cleanest of coats, without a spot or speck of dust, +stood before a looking glass and brushed the hair on his temples +upwards, in the way affected by the emperor alexander, and, having +assured himself from the way rostóv looked at it that his coat had been +noticed, left the room with a pleasant smile. +“oh dear, what a beast i am!” muttered rostóv, as he read the +“oh, what a pig i am, not to have written and to have given them +such a fright! oh, what a pig i am!” he repeated, flushing suddenly. +“well, have you sent gabriel for some wine? all right let’s have +in the letter from his parents was enclosed a letter of recommendation +to bagratión which the old countess at anna mikháylovna’s advice had +obtained through an acquaintance and sent to her son, asking him to take +it to its destination and make use of it. +“what nonsense! much i need it!” said rostóv, throwing the letter +“why have you thrown that away?” asked borís. +“it is some letter of recommendation... what the devil do i want it +“why ‘what the devil’?” said borís, picking it up and reading +the address. “this letter would be of great use to you.” +“you are still the same dreamer, i see,” remarked borís, shaking +“and you’re still the same diplomatist! but that’s not the +point... come, how are you?” asked rostóv. +“well, as you see. so far everything’s all right, but i confess i +should much like to be an adjutant and not remain at the front.” +“because when once a man starts on military service, he should try to +make as successful a career of it as possible.” +“oh, that’s it!” said rostóv, evidently thinking of something +he looked intently and inquiringly into his friend’s eyes, evidently +trying in vain to find the answer to some question. +“shouldn’t we now send for berg?” asked borís. “he would drink +“well, send for him... and how do you get on with that german?” +asked rostóv, with a contemptuous smile. +“he is a very, very nice, honest, and pleasant fellow,” answered +again rostóv looked intently into borís’ eyes and sighed. berg +returned, and over the bottle of wine conversation between the three +officers became animated. the guardsmen told rostóv of their march and +how they had been made much of in russia, poland, and abroad. they spoke +of the sayings and doings of their commander, the grand duke, and told +stories of his kindness and irascibility. berg, as usual, kept silent +when the subject did not relate to himself, but in connection with the +stories of the grand duke’s quick temper he related with gusto how in +galicia he had managed to deal with the grand duke when the latter +made a tour of the regiments and was annoyed at the irregularity of +a movement. with a pleasant smile berg related how the grand duke +had ridden up to him in a violent passion, shouting: “arnauts!” +(“arnauts” was the tsarévich’s favorite expression when he was in +a rage) and called for the company commander. +“would you believe it, count, i was not at all alarmed, because i knew +i was right. without boasting, you know, i may say that i know the army +orders by heart and know the regulations as well as i do the lord’s +prayer. so, count, there never is any negligence in my company, and +so my conscience was at ease. i came forward....” (berg stood up and +showed how he presented himself, with his hand to his cap, and really +it would have been difficult for a face to express greater respect and +self-complacency than his did.) “well, he stormed at me, as the saying +is, stormed and stormed and stormed! it was not a matter of life but +rather of death, as the saying is. ‘albanians!’ and ‘devils!’ +and ‘to siberia!’” said berg with a sagacious smile. “i knew i +was in the right so i kept silent; was not that best, count?... ‘hey, +are you dumb?’ he shouted. still i remained silent. and what do you +think, count? the next day it was not even mentioned in the orders of +the day. that’s what keeping one’s head means. that’s the way, +count,” said berg, lighting his pipe and emitting rings of smoke. +but borís noticed that he was preparing to make fun of berg, and +skillfully changed the subject. he asked him to tell them how and where +he got his wound. this pleased rostóv and he began talking about it, +and as he went on became more and more animated. he told them of his +schön grabern affair, just as those who have taken part in a battle +generally do describe it, that is, as they would like it to have been, +as they have heard it described by others, and as sounds well, but not +at all as it really was. rostóv was a truthful young man and would on +no account have told a deliberate lie. he began his story meaning to +tell everything just as it happened, but imperceptibly, involuntarily, +and inevitably he lapsed into falsehood. if he had told the truth to his +hearers—who like himself had often heard stories of attacks and had +formed a definite idea of what an attack was and were expecting to hear +just such a story—they would either not have believed him or, still +worse, would have thought that rostóv was himself to blame since what +generally happens to the narrators of cavalry attacks had not happened +to him. he could not tell them simply that everyone went at a trot and +that he fell off his horse and sprained his arm and then ran as hard as +he could from a frenchman into the wood. besides, to tell everything as +it really happened, it would have been necessary to make an effort of +will to tell only what happened. it is very difficult to tell the truth, +and young people are rarely capable of it. his hearers expected a story +of how beside himself and all aflame with excitement, he had flown like +a storm at the square, cut his way in, slashed right and left, how his +saber had tasted flesh and he had fallen exhausted, and so on. and so he +in the middle of his story, just as he was saying: “you cannot imagine +what a strange frenzy one experiences during an attack,” prince +andrew, whom borís was expecting, entered the room. prince andrew, who +liked to help young men, was flattered by being asked for his assistance +and being well disposed toward borís, who had managed to please him the +day before, he wished to do what the young man wanted. having been sent +with papers from kutúzov to the tsarévich, he looked in on borís, +hoping to find him alone. when he came in and saw an hussar of the line +recounting his military exploits (prince andrew could not endure +that sort of man), he gave borís a pleasant smile, frowned as with +half-closed eyes he looked at rostóv, bowed slightly and wearily, and +sat down languidly on the sofa: he felt it unpleasant to have dropped +in on bad company. rostóv flushed up on noticing this, but he did not +care, this was a mere stranger. glancing, however, at borís, he saw +that he too seemed ashamed of the hussar of the line. +in spite of prince andrew’s disagreeable, ironical tone, in spite of +the contempt with which rostóv, from his fighting army point of view, +regarded all these little adjutants on the staff of whom the newcomer +was evidently one, rostóv felt confused, blushed, and became silent. +borís inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without +“we shall probably advance,” replied bolkónski, evidently reluctant +to say more in the presence of a stranger. +berg took the opportunity to ask, with great politeness, whether, as was +rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be +doubled. to this prince andrew answered with a smile that he could +give no opinion on such an important government order, and berg laughed +“as to your business,” prince andrew continued, addressing borís, +“we will talk of it later” (and he looked round at rostóv). “come +to me after the review and we will do what is possible.” +and, having glanced round the room, prince andrew turned to rostóv, +whose state of unconquerable childish embarrassment now changing to +anger he did not condescend to notice, and said: “i think you were +“i was there,” said rostóv angrily, as if intending to insult the +bolkónski noticed the hussar’s state of mind, and it amused him. with +a slightly contemptuous smile, he said: “yes, there are many stories +“yes, stories!” repeated rostóv loudly, looking with eyes suddenly +grown furious, now at borís, now at bolkónski. “yes, many stories! +but our stories are the stories of men who have been under the enemy’s +fire! our stories have some weight, not like the stories of those +fellows on the staff who get rewards without doing anything!” +“of whom you imagine me to be one?” said prince andrew, with a quiet +and particularly amiable smile. +a strange feeling of exasperation and yet of respect for this man’s +self-possession mingled at that moment in rostóv’s soul. +“i am not talking about you,” he said, “i don’t know you and, +frankly, i don’t want to. i am speaking of the staff in general.” +“and i will tell you this,” prince andrew interrupted in a tone of +quiet authority, “you wish to insult me, and i am ready to agree with +you that it would be very easy to do so if you haven’t sufficient +self-respect, but admit that the time and place are very badly chosen. +in a day or two we shall all have to take part in a greater and more +serious duel, and besides, drubetskóy, who says he is an old friend +of yours, is not at all to blame that my face has the misfortune to +displease you. however,” he added rising, “you know my name and +where to find me, but don’t forget that i do not regard either myself +or you as having been at all insulted, and as a man older than you, my +advice is to let the matter drop. well then, on friday after the review +i shall expect you, drubetskóy. au revoir!” exclaimed prince andrew, +and with a bow to them both he went out. +only when prince andrew was gone did rostóv think of what he ought to +have said. and he was still more angry at having omitted to say it. he +ordered his horse at once and, coldly taking leave of borís, rode +home. should he go to headquarters next day and challenge that affected +adjutant, or really let the matter drop, was the question that worried +him all the way. he thought angrily of the pleasure he would have at +seeing the fright of that small and frail but proud man when covered by +his pistol, and then he felt with surprise that of all the men he knew +there was none he would so much like to have for a friend as that very +the day after rostóv had been to see borís, a review was held of the +austrian and russian troops, both those freshly arrived from russia and +those who had been campaigning under kutúzov. the two emperors, +the russian with his heir the tsarévich, and the austrian with the +archduke, inspected the allied army of eighty thousand men. +from early morning the smart clean troops were on the move, forming up +on the field before the fortress. now thousands of feet and bayonets +moved and halted at the officers’ command, turned with banners flying, +formed up at intervals, and wheeled round other similar masses of +infantry in different uniforms; now was heard the rhythmic beat of +hoofs and the jingling of showy cavalry in blue, red, and green braided +uniforms, with smartly dressed bandsmen in front mounted on black, roan, +or gray horses; then again, spreading out with the brazen clatter of the +polished shining cannon that quivered on the gun carriages and with +the smell of linstocks, came the artillery which crawled between the +infantry and cavalry and took up its appointed position. not only the +generals in full parade uniforms, with their thin or thick waists drawn +in to the utmost, their red necks squeezed into their stiff collars, and +wearing scarves and all their decorations, not only the elegant, pomaded +officers, but every soldier with his freshly washed and shaven face and +his weapons clean and polished to the utmost, and every horse groomed +till its coat shone like satin and every hair of its wetted mane lay +smooth—felt that no small matter was happening, but an important and +solemn affair. every general and every soldier was conscious of his own +insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and +yet at the same time was conscious of his strength as a part of that +from early morning strenuous activities and efforts had begun and by ten +o’clock all had been brought into due order. the ranks were drawn +up on the vast field. the whole army was extended in three lines: the +cavalry in front, behind it the artillery, and behind that again the +a space like a street was left between each two lines of troops. the +three parts of that army were sharply distinguished: kutúzov’s +fighting army (with the pávlograds on the right flank of the front); +those recently arrived from russia, both guards and regiments of the +line; and the austrian troops. but they all stood in the same lines, +under one command, and in a like order. +like wind over leaves ran an excited whisper: “they’re coming! +they’re coming!” alarmed voices were heard, and a stir of final +preparation swept over all the troops. +from the direction of olmütz in front of them, a group was seen +approaching. and at that moment, though the day was still, a light gust +of wind blowing over the army slightly stirred the streamers on the +lances and the unfolded standards fluttered against their staffs. it +looked as if by that slight motion the army itself was expressing its +joy at the approach of the emperors. one voice was heard shouting: +“eyes front!” then, like the crowing of cocks at sunrise, this was +repeated by others from various sides and all became silent. +in the deathlike stillness only the tramp of horses was heard. this +was the emperors’ suites. the emperors rode up to the flank, and the +trumpets of the first cavalry regiment played the general march. it +seemed as though not the trumpeters were playing, but as if the army +itself, rejoicing at the emperors’ approach, had naturally burst into +music. amid these sounds, only the youthful kindly voice of the emperor +alexander was clearly heard. he gave the words of greeting, and the +first regiment roared “hurrah!” so deafeningly, continuously, and +joyfully that the men themselves were awed by their multitude and the +immensity of the power they constituted. +rostóv, standing in the front lines of kutúzov’s army which the tsar +approached first, experienced the same feeling as every other man in +that army: a feeling of self-forgetfulness, a proud consciousness of +might, and a passionate attraction to him who was the cause of this +he felt that at a single word from that man all this vast mass (and he +himself an insignificant atom in it) would go through fire and water, +commit crime, die, or perform deeds of highest heroism, and so he could +not but tremble and his heart stand still at the imminence of that word. +“hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!” thundered from all sides, one regiment +after another greeting the tsar with the strains of the march, and then +“hurrah!”... then the general march, and again “hurrah! hurrah!” +growing ever stronger and fuller and merging into a deafening roar. +till the tsar reached it, each regiment in its silence and immobility +seemed like a lifeless body, but as soon as he came up it became alive, +its thunder joining the roar of the whole line along which he had +already passed. through the terrible and deafening roar of those voices, +amid the square masses of troops standing motionless as if turned to +stone, hundreds of riders composing the suites moved carelessly but +symmetrically and above all freely, and in front of them two men—the +emperors. upon them the undivided, tensely passionate attention of that +whole mass of men was concentrated. +the handsome young emperor alexander, in the uniform of the horse +guards, wearing a cocked hat with its peaks front and back, with his +pleasant face and resonant though not loud voice, attracted everyone’s +rostóv was not far from the trumpeters, and with his keen sight had +recognized the tsar and watched his approach. when he was within twenty +paces, and nicholas could clearly distinguish every detail of his +handsome, happy young face, he experienced a feeling of tenderness +and ecstasy such as he had never before known. every trait and every +movement of the tsar’s seemed to him enchanting. +stopping in front of the pávlograds, the tsar said something in french +to the austrian emperor and smiled. +seeing that smile, rostóv involuntarily smiled himself and felt a still +stronger flow of love for his sovereign. he longed to show that love in +some way and knowing that this was impossible was ready to cry. the tsar +called the colonel of the regiment and said a few words to him. +“oh god, what would happen to me if the emperor spoke to me?” +the tsar addressed the officers also: “i thank you all, gentlemen, i +thank you with my whole heart.” to rostóv every word sounded like a +voice from heaven. how gladly would he have died at once for his tsar! +“you have earned the st. george’s standards and will be worthy of +“oh, to die, to die for him,” thought rostóv. +the tsar said something more which rostóv did not hear, and the +soldiers, straining their lungs, shouted “hurrah!” +rostóv too, bending over his saddle, shouted “hurrah!” with all his +might, feeling that he would like to injure himself by that shout, if +only to express his rapture fully. +the tsar stopped a few minutes in front of the hussars as if undecided. +“how can the emperor be undecided?” thought rostóv, but then even +this indecision appeared to him majestic and enchanting, like everything +that hesitation lasted only an instant. the tsar’s foot, in the narrow +pointed boot then fashionable, touched the groin of the bobtailed bay +mare he rode, his hand in a white glove gathered up the reins, and he +moved off accompanied by an irregularly swaying sea of aides-de-camp. +farther and farther he rode away, stopping at other regiments, till at +last only his white plumes were visible to rostóv from amid the suites +that surrounded the emperors. +among the gentlemen of the suite, rostóv noticed bolkónski, sitting +his horse indolently and carelessly. rostóv recalled their quarrel of +yesterday and the question presented itself whether he ought or ought +not to challenge bolkónski. “of course not!” he now thought. “is +it worth thinking or speaking of it at such a moment? at a time of such +love, such rapture, and such self-sacrifice, what do any of our quarrels +and affronts matter? i love and forgive everybody now.” +when the emperor had passed nearly all the regiments, the troops began +a ceremonial march past him, and rostóv on bedouin, recently purchased +from denísov, rode past too, at the rear of his squadron—that is, +alone and in full view of the emperor. +before he reached him, rostóv, who was a splendid horseman, spurred +bedouin twice and successfully put him to the showy trot in which the +animal went when excited. bending his foaming muzzle to his chest, his +tail extended, bedouin, as if also conscious of the emperor’s eye +upon him, passed splendidly, lifting his feet with a high and graceful +action, as if flying through the air without touching the ground. +rostóv himself, his legs well back and his stomach drawn in and feeling +himself one with his horse, rode past the emperor with a frowning but +blissful face “like a vewy devil,” as denísov expressed it. +“fine fellows, the pávlograds!” remarked the emperor. +“my god, how happy i should be if he ordered me to leap into the fire +this instant!” thought rostóv. +when the review was over, the newly arrived officers, and also +kutúzov’s, collected in groups and began to talk about the awards, +about the austrians and their uniforms, about their lines, about +bonaparte, and how badly the latter would fare now, especially if the +essen corps arrived and prussia took our side. +but the talk in every group was chiefly about the emperor alexander. his +every word and movement was described with ecstasy. +they all had but one wish: to advance as soon as possible against the +enemy under the emperor’s command. commanded by the emperor himself +they could not fail to vanquish anyone, be it whom it might: so thought +rostóv and most of the officers after the review. +all were then more confident of victory than the winning of two battles +the day after the review, borís, in his best uniform and with his +comrade berg’s best wishes for success, rode to olmütz to see +bolkónski, wishing to profit by his friendliness and obtain for himself +the best post he could—preferably that of adjutant to some important +personage, a position in the army which seemed to him most attractive. +“it is all very well for rostóv, whose father sends him ten thousand +rubles at a time, to talk about not wishing to cringe to anybody and not +be anyone’s lackey, but i who have nothing but my brains have to +make a career and must not miss opportunities, but must avail myself of +he did not find prince andrew in olmütz that day, but the appearance of +the town where the headquarters and the diplomatic corps were stationed +and the two emperors were living with their suites, households, and +courts only strengthened his desire to belong to that higher world. +he knew no one, and despite his smart guardsman’s uniform, all these +exalted personages passing in the streets in their elegant carriages +with their plumes, ribbons, and medals, both courtiers and military +men, seemed so immeasurably above him, an insignificant officer of the +guards, that they not only did not wish to, but simply could not, be +aware of his existence. at the quarters of the commander in chief, +kutúzov, where he inquired for bolkónski, all the adjutants and even +the orderlies looked at him as if they wished to impress on him that a +great many officers like him were always coming there and that everybody +was heartily sick of them. in spite of this, or rather because of +it, next day, november 15, after dinner he again went to olmütz and, +entering the house occupied by kutúzov, asked for bolkónski. prince +andrew was in and borís was shown into a large hall probably formerly +used for dancing, but in which five beds now stood, and furniture of +various kinds: a table, chairs, and a clavichord. one adjutant, nearest +the door, was sitting at the table in a persian dressing gown, writing. +another, the red, stout nesvítski, lay on a bed with his arms under his +head, laughing with an officer who had sat down beside him. a third was +playing a viennese waltz on the clavichord, while a fourth, lying on +the clavichord, sang the tune. bolkónski was not there. none of these +gentlemen changed his position on seeing borís. the one who was writing +and whom borís addressed turned round crossly and told him bolkónski +was on duty and that he should go through the door on the left into the +reception room if he wished to see him. borís thanked him and went to +the reception room, where he found some ten officers and generals. +when he entered, prince andrew, his eyes drooping contemptuously (with +that peculiar expression of polite weariness which plainly says, “if +it were not my duty i would not talk to you for a moment”), was +listening to an old russian general with decorations, who stood very +erect, almost on tiptoe, with a soldier’s obsequious expression on his +“very well, then, be so good as to wait,” said prince andrew to the +general, in russian, speaking with the french intonation he affected +when he wished to speak contemptuously, and noticing borís, prince +andrew, paying no more heed to the general who ran after him imploring +him to hear something more, nodded and turned to him with a cheerful +at that moment borís clearly realized what he had before surmised, that +in the army, besides the subordination and discipline prescribed in the +military code, which he and the others knew in the regiment, there was +another, more important, subordination, which made this tight-laced, +purple-faced general wait respectfully while captain prince andrew, for +his own pleasure, chose to chat with lieutenant drubetskóy. more than +ever was borís resolved to serve in future not according to the written +code, but under this unwritten law. he felt now that merely by having +been recommended to prince andrew he had already risen above the general +who at the front had the power to annihilate him, a lieutenant of the +guards. prince andrew came up to him and took his hand. +“i am very sorry you did not find me in yesterday. i was fussing about +with germans all day. we went with weyrother to survey the dispositions. +when germans start being accurate, there’s no end to it!” +borís smiled, as if he understood what prince andrew was alluding to +as something generally known. but it was the first time he had heard +weyrother’s name, or even the term “dispositions.” +“well, my dear fellow, so you still want to be an adjutant? i have +“yes, i was thinking”—for some reason borís could not help +blushing—“of asking the commander in chief. he has had a letter from +prince kurágin about me. i only wanted to ask because i fear the guards +won’t be in action,” he added as if in apology. +“all right, all right. we’ll talk it over,” replied prince andrew. +“only let me report this gentleman’s business, and i shall be at +while prince andrew went to report about the purple-faced general, that +gentleman—evidently not sharing borís’ conception of the advantages +of the unwritten code of subordination—looked so fixedly at the +presumptuous lieutenant who had prevented his finishing what he had to +say to the adjutant that borís felt uncomfortable. he turned away and +waited impatiently for prince andrew’s return from the commander in +“you see, my dear fellow, i have been thinking about you,” +said prince andrew when they had gone into the large room where the +clavichord was. “it’s no use your going to the commander in chief. +he would say a lot of pleasant things, ask you to dinner” (“that +would not be bad as regards the unwritten code,” thought borís), +“but nothing more would come of it. there will soon be a battalion of +us aides-de-camp and adjutants! but this is what we’ll do: i have +a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, prince +dolgorúkov; and though you may not know it, the fact is that now +kutúzov with his staff and all of us count for nothing. everything is +now centered round the emperor. so we will go to dolgorúkov; i have to +go there anyhow and i have already spoken to him about you. we shall +see whether he cannot attach you to himself or find a place for you +prince andrew always became specially keen when he had to guide a young +man and help him to worldly success. under cover of obtaining help +of this kind for another, which from pride he would never accept for +himself, he kept in touch with the circle which confers success and +which attracted him. he very readily took up borís’ cause and went +it was late in the evening when they entered the palace at olmütz +occupied by the emperors and their retinues. +that same day a council of war had been held in which all the members of +the hofkriegsrath and both emperors took part. at that council, contrary +to the views of the old generals kutúzov and prince schwartzenberg, it +had been decided to advance immediately and give battle to bonaparte. +the council of war was just over when prince andrew accompanied +by borís arrived at the palace to find dolgorúkov. everyone at +headquarters was still under the spell of the day’s council, at which +the party of the young had triumphed. the voices of those who counseled +delay and advised waiting for something else before advancing had been +so completely silenced and their arguments confuted by such conclusive +evidence of the advantages of attacking that what had been discussed +at the council—the coming battle and the victory that would certainly +result from it—no longer seemed to be in the future but in the past. +all the advantages were on our side. our enormous forces, undoubtedly +superior to napoleon’s, were concentrated in one place, the troops +inspired by the emperors’ presence were eager for action. the +strategic position where the operations would take place was familiar in +all its details to the austrian general weyrother: a lucky accident had +ordained that the austrian army should maneuver the previous year on the +very fields where the french had now to be fought; the adjacent +locality was known and shown in every detail on the maps, and bonaparte, +dolgorúkov, one of the warmest advocates of an attack, had just +returned from the council, tired and exhausted but eager and proud +of the victory that had been gained. prince andrew introduced his +protégé, but prince dolgorúkov politely and firmly pressing his hand +said nothing to borís and, evidently unable to suppress the thoughts +which were uppermost in his mind at that moment, addressed prince andrew +“ah, my dear fellow, what a battle we have gained! god grant that +the one that will result from it will be as victorious! however, dear +fellow,” he said abruptly and eagerly, “i must confess to having +been unjust to the austrians and especially to weyrother. what +exactitude, what minuteness, what knowledge of the locality, what +foresight for every eventuality, every possibility even to the smallest +detail! no, my dear fellow, no conditions better than our present ones +could have been devised. this combination of austrian precision with +“so the attack is definitely resolved on?” asked bolkónski. +“and do you know, my dear fellow, it seems to me that bonaparte has +decidedly lost bearings, you know that a letter was received from him +today for the emperor.” dolgorúkov smiled significantly. +“is that so? and what did he say?” inquired bolkónski. +“what can he say? tra-di-ri-di-ra and so on... merely to gain time. +i tell you he is in our hands, that’s certain! but what was most +amusing,” he continued, with a sudden, good-natured laugh, “was that +we could not think how to address the reply! if not as ‘consul’ +and of course not as ‘emperor,’ it seemed to me it should be to +“but between not recognizing him as emperor and calling him general +bonaparte, there is a difference,” remarked bolkónski. +“that’s just it,” interrupted dolgorúkov quickly, laughing. +“you know bilíbin—he’s a very clever fellow. he suggested +addressing him as ‘usurper and enemy of mankind.’” +“all the same, it was bilíbin who found a suitable form for the +“to the head of the french government... au chef du gouvernement +français,” said dolgorúkov, with grave satisfaction. “good, +“yes, but he will dislike it extremely,” said bolkónski. +“oh yes, very much! my brother knows him, he’s dined with him—the +present emperor—more than once in paris, and tells me he never met a +more cunning or subtle diplomatist—you know, a combination of french +adroitness and italian play-acting! do you know the tale about him and +count markóv? count markóv was the only man who knew how to handle +him. you know the story of the handkerchief? it is delightful!” +and the talkative dolgorúkov, turning now to borís, now to prince +andrew, told how bonaparte wishing to test markóv, our ambassador, +purposely dropped a handkerchief in front of him and stood looking +at markóv, probably expecting markóv to pick it up for him, and how +markóv immediately dropped his own beside it and picked it up without +“delightful!” said bolkónski. “but i have come to you, prince, +as a petitioner on behalf of this young man. you see...” but +before prince andrew could finish, an aide-de-camp came in to summon +dolgorúkov to the emperor. +“oh, what a nuisance,” said dolgorúkov, getting up hurriedly and +pressing the hands of prince andrew and borís. “you know i should +be very glad to do all in my power both for you and for this dear young +man.” again he pressed the hand of the latter with an expression of +good-natured, sincere, and animated levity. “but you see... another +borís was excited by the thought of being so close to the higher powers +as he felt himself to be at that moment. he was conscious that here +he was in contact with the springs that set in motion the enormous +movements of the mass of which in his regiment he felt himself a tiny, +obedient, and insignificant atom. they followed prince dolgorúkov out +into the corridor and met—coming out of the door of the emperor’s +room by which dolgorúkov had entered—a short man in civilian clothes +with a clever face and sharply projecting jaw which, without spoiling +his face, gave him a peculiar vivacity and shiftiness of expression. +this short man nodded to dolgorúkov as to an intimate friend and stared +at prince andrew with cool intensity, walking straight toward him and +evidently expecting him to bow or to step out of his way. prince andrew +did neither: a look of animosity appeared on his face and the other +turned away and went down the side of the corridor. +“he is one of the most remarkable, but to me most unpleasant of +men—the minister of foreign affairs, prince adam czartorýski.... it +is such men as he who decide the fate of nations,” added bolkónski +with a sigh he could not suppress, as they passed out of the palace. +next day, the army began its campaign, and up to the very battle of +austerlitz, borís was unable to see either prince andrew or dolgorúkov +again and remained for a while with the ismáylov regiment. +at dawn on the sixteenth of november, denísov’s squadron, in +which nicholas rostóv served and which was in prince bagratión’s +detachment, moved from the place where it had spent the night, advancing +into action as arranged, and after going behind other columns for +about two thirds of a mile was stopped on the highroad. rostóv saw the +cossacks and then the first and second squadrons of hussars and infantry +battalions and artillery pass by and go forward and then generals +bagratión and dolgorúkov ride past with their adjutants. all the fear +before action which he had experienced as previously, all the inner +struggle to conquer that fear, all his dreams of distinguishing himself +as a true hussar in this battle, had been wasted. their squadron +remained in reserve and nicholas rostóv spent that day in a dull and +wretched mood. at nine in the morning, he heard firing in front and +shouts of hurrah, and saw wounded being brought back (there were not +many of them), and at last he saw how a whole detachment of french +cavalry was brought in, convoyed by a sótnya of cossacks. evidently the +affair was over and, though not big, had been a successful engagement. +the men and officers returning spoke of a brilliant victory, of the +occupation of the town of wischau and the capture of a whole french +squadron. the day was bright and sunny after a sharp night frost, and +the cheerful glitter of that autumn day was in keeping with the news of +victory which was conveyed, not only by the tales of those who had taken +part in it, but also by the joyful expression on the faces of soldiers, +officers, generals, and adjutants, as they passed rostóv going or +coming. and nicholas, who had vainly suffered all the dread that +precedes a battle and had spent that happy day in inactivity, was all +“come here, wostóv. let’s dwink to dwown our gwief!” shouted +denísov, who had settled down by the roadside with a flask and some +the officers gathered round denísov’s canteen, eating and talking. +“there! they are bringing another!” cried one of the officers, +indicating a captive french dragoon who was being brought in on foot by +one of them was leading by the bridle a fine large french horse he had +“sell us that horse!” denísov called out to the cossacks. +the officers got up and stood round the cossacks and their prisoner. +the french dragoon was a young alsatian who spoke french with a german +accent. he was breathless with agitation, his face was red, and when +he heard some french spoken he at once began speaking to the officers, +addressing first one, then another. he said he would not have been +taken, it was not his fault but the corporal’s who had sent him to +seize some horsecloths, though he had told him the russians were there. +and at every word he added: “but don’t hurt my little horse!” and +stroked the animal. it was plain that he did not quite grasp where he +was. now he excused himself for having been taken prisoner and now, +imagining himself before his own officers, insisted on his soldierly +discipline and zeal in the service. he brought with him into our +rearguard all the freshness of atmosphere of the french army, which was +the cossacks sold the horse for two gold pieces, and rostóv, being the +richest of the officers now that he had received his money, bought it. +“but don’t hurt my little horse!” said the alsatian good-naturedly +to rostóv when the animal was handed over to the hussar. +rostóv smilingly reassured the dragoon and gave him money. +“alley! alley!” said the cossack, touching the prisoner’s arm to +“the emperor! the emperor!” was suddenly heard among the hussars. +all began to run and bustle, and rostóv saw coming up the road behind +him several riders with white plumes in their hats. in a moment everyone +rostóv did not know or remember how he ran to his place and mounted. +instantly his regret at not having been in action and his dejected mood +amid people of whom he was weary had gone, instantly every thought of +himself had vanished. he was filled with happiness at his nearness to +the emperor. he felt that this nearness by itself made up to him for the +day he had lost. he was happy as a lover when the longed-for moment of +meeting arrives. not daring to look round and without looking round, he +was ecstatically conscious of his approach. he felt it not only from the +sound of the hoofs of the approaching cavalcade, but because as he drew +near everything grew brighter, more joyful, more significant, and more +festive around him. nearer and nearer to rostóv came that sun shedding +beams of mild and majestic light around, and already he felt himself +enveloped in those beams, he heard his voice, that kindly, calm, +and majestic voice that was yet so simple! and as if in accord with +rostóv’s feeling, there was a deathly stillness amid which was heard +“the reserves, sire!” replied a voice, a very human one compared to +that which had said: “the pávlograd hussars?” +the emperor drew level with rostóv and halted. alexander’s face was +even more beautiful than it had been three days before at the review. it +shone with such gaiety and youth, such innocent youth, that it suggested +the liveliness of a fourteen-year-old boy, and yet it was the face +of the majestic emperor. casually, while surveying the squadron, the +emperor’s eyes met rostóv’s and rested on them for not more than +two seconds. whether or no the emperor understood what was going on in +rostóv’s soul (it seemed to rostóv that he understood everything), +at any rate his light-blue eyes gazed for about two seconds into +rostóv’s face. a gentle, mild light poured from them. then all at +once he raised his eyebrows, abruptly touched his horse with his left +the younger emperor could not restrain his wish to be present at the +battle and, in spite of the remonstrances of his courtiers, at twelve +o’clock left the third column with which he had been and galloped +toward the vanguard. before he came up with the hussars, several +adjutants met him with news of the successful result of the action. +this battle, which consisted in the capture of a french squadron, was +represented as a brilliant victory over the french, and so the +emperor and the whole army, especially while the smoke hung over +the battlefield, believed that the french had been defeated and were +retreating against their will. a few minutes after the emperor had +passed, the pávlograd division was ordered to advance. in wischau +itself, a petty german town, rostóv saw the emperor again. in the +market place, where there had been some rather heavy firing before the +emperor’s arrival, lay several killed and wounded soldiers whom there +had not been time to move. the emperor, surrounded by his suite +of officers and courtiers, was riding a bobtailed chestnut mare, a +different one from that which he had ridden at the review, and bending +to one side he gracefully held a gold lorgnette to his eyes and looked +at a soldier who lay prone, with blood on his uncovered head. the +wounded soldier was so dirty, coarse, and revolting that his proximity +to the emperor shocked rostóv. rostóv saw how the emperor’s rather +round shoulders shuddered as if a cold shiver had run down them, how his +left foot began convulsively tapping the horse’s side with the spur, +and how the well-trained horse looked round unconcerned and did not +stir. an adjutant, dismounting, lifted the soldier under the arms to +place him on a stretcher that had been brought. the soldier groaned. +“gently, gently! can’t you do it more gently?” said the emperor +apparently suffering more than the dying soldier, and he rode away. +rostóv saw tears filling the emperor’s eyes and heard him, as he was +riding away, say to czartorýski: “what a terrible thing war is: what +a terrible thing! quelle terrible chose que la guerre!” +the troops of the vanguard were stationed before wischau, within sight +of the enemy’s lines, which all day long had yielded ground to us +at the least firing. the emperor’s gratitude was announced to the +vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of +vodka. the campfires crackled and the soldiers’ songs resounded +even more merrily than on the previous night. denísov celebrated his +promotion to the rank of major, and rostóv, who had already drunk +enough, at the end of the feast proposed the emperor’s health. “not +‘our sovereign, the emperor,’ as they say at official dinners,” +said he, “but the health of our sovereign, that good, enchanting, and +great man! let us drink to his health and to the certain defeat of the +“if we fought before,” he said, “not letting the french pass, as +at schön grabern, what shall we not do now when he is at the front? we +will all die for him gladly! is it not so, gentlemen? perhaps i am not +saying it right, i have drunk a good deal—but that is how i feel, and +so do you too! to the health of alexander the first! hurrah!” +“hurrah!” rang the enthusiastic voices of the officers. +and the old cavalry captain, kírsten, shouted enthusiastically and no +less sincerely than the twenty-year-old rostóv. +when the officers had emptied and smashed their glasses, kírsten filled +others and, in shirt sleeves and breeches, went glass in hand to the +soldiers’ bonfires and with his long gray mustache, his white chest +showing under his open shirt, he stood in a majestic pose in the light +“lads! here’s to our sovereign, the emperor, and victory over +our enemies! hurrah!” he exclaimed in his dashing, old, hussar’s +the hussars crowded round and responded heartily with loud shouts. +late that night, when all had separated, denísov with his short hand +patted his favorite, rostóv, on the shoulder. +“as there’s no one to fall in love with on campaign, he’s fallen +“denísov, don’t make fun of it!” cried rostóv. “it is such a +“i believe it, i believe it, fwiend, and i share and appwove...” +and rostóv got up and went wandering among the campfires, dreaming of +what happiness it would be to die—not in saving the emperor’s life +(he did not even dare to dream of that), but simply to die before his +eyes. he really was in love with the tsar and the glory of the russian +arms and the hope of future triumph. and he was not the only man to +experience that feeling during those memorable days preceding the battle +of austerlitz: nine tenths of the men in the russian army were then in +love, though less ecstatically, with their tsar and the glory of the +the next day the emperor stopped at wischau, and villier, his physician, +was repeatedly summoned to see him. at headquarters and among the troops +near by the news spread that the emperor was unwell. he ate nothing and +had slept badly that night, those around him reported. the cause of this +indisposition was the strong impression made on his sensitive mind by +at daybreak on the seventeenth, a french officer who had come with +a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the russian emperor, was +brought into wischau from our outposts. this officer was savary. the +emperor had only just fallen asleep and so savary had to wait. at midday +he was admitted to the emperor, and an hour later he rode off with +prince dolgorúkov to the advanced post of the french army. +it was rumored that savary had been sent to propose to alexander +a meeting with napoleon. to the joy and pride of the whole army, a +personal interview was refused, and instead of the sovereign, prince +dolgorúkov, the victor at wischau, was sent with savary to negotiate +with napoleon if, contrary to expectations, these negotiations were +toward evening dolgorúkov came back, went straight to the tsar, and +on the eighteenth and nineteenth of november, the army advanced two +days’ march and the enemy’s outposts after a brief interchange +of shots retreated. in the highest army circles from midday on the +nineteenth, a great, excitedly bustling activity began which lasted till +the morning of the twentieth, when the memorable battle of austerlitz +till midday on the nineteenth, the activity—the eager talk, running to +and fro, and dispatching of adjutants—was confined to the emperor’s +headquarters. but on the afternoon of that day, this activity reached +kutúzov’s headquarters and the staffs of the commanders of columns. +by evening, the adjutants had spread it to all ends and parts of the +army, and in the night from the nineteenth to the twentieth, the whole +eighty thousand allied troops rose from their bivouacs to the hum of +voices, and the army swayed and started in one enormous mass six miles +the concentrated activity which had begun at the emperor’s +headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that +followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower +clock. one wheel slowly moved, another was set in motion, and a third, +and wheels began to revolve faster and faster, levers and cogwheels to +work, chimes to play, figures to pop out, and the hands to advance with +regular motion as a result of all that activity. +just as in the mechanism of a clock, so in the mechanism of the military +machine, an impulse once given leads to the final result; and just as +indifferently quiescent till the moment when motion is transmitted +to them are the parts of the mechanism which the impulse has not yet +reached. wheels creak on their axles as the cogs engage one another and +the revolving pulleys whirr with the rapidity of their movement, but a +neighboring wheel is as quiet and motionless as though it were prepared +to remain so for a hundred years; but the moment comes when the lever +catches it and obeying the impulse that wheel begins to creak and joins +in the common motion the result and aim of which are beyond its ken. +just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable +wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular movement of the +hands which show the time, so the result of all the complicated human +activities of 160,000 russians and french—all their passions, desires, +remorse, humiliations, sufferings, outbursts of pride, fear, and +enthusiasm—was only the loss of the battle of austerlitz, the +so-called battle of the three emperors—that is to say, a slow movement +prince andrew was on duty that day and in constant attendance on the +at six in the evening, kutúzov went to the emperor’s headquarters +and after staying but a short time with the tsar went to see the grand +bolkónski took the opportunity to go in to get some details of the +coming action from dolgorúkov. he felt that kutúzov was upset +and dissatisfied about something and that at headquarters they were +dissatisfied with him, and also that at the emperor’s headquarters +everyone adopted toward him the tone of men who know something others do +not know: he therefore wished to speak to dolgorúkov. +“well, how d’you do, my dear fellow?” said dolgorúkov, who was +sitting at tea with bilíbin. “the fete is for tomorrow. how is your +“i won’t say he is out of sorts, but i fancy he would like to be +“but they heard him at the council of war and will hear him when he +talks sense, but to temporize and wait for something now when bonaparte +fears nothing so much as a general battle is impossible.” +“yes, you have seen him?” said prince andrew. “well, what is +bonaparte like? how did he impress you?” +“yes, i saw him, and am convinced that he fears nothing so much as +a general engagement,” repeated dolgorúkov, evidently prizing this +general conclusion which he had arrived at from his interview with +napoleon. “if he weren’t afraid of a battle why did he ask for that +interview? why negotiate, and above all why retreat, when to retreat is +so contrary to his method of conducting war? believe me, he is afraid, +afraid of a general battle. his hour has come! mark my words!” +“but tell me, what is he like, eh?” said prince andrew again. +“he is a man in a gray overcoat, very anxious that i should call +him ‘your majesty,’ but who, to his chagrin, got no title from +me! that’s the sort of man he is, and nothing more,” replied +dolgorúkov, looking round at bilíbin with a smile. +“despite my great respect for old kutúzov,” he continued, “we +should be a nice set of fellows if we were to wait about and so give him +a chance to escape, or to trick us, now that we certainly have him in +our hands! no, we mustn’t forget suvórov and his rule—not to put +yourself in a position to be attacked, but yourself to attack. believe +me in war the energy of young men often shows the way better than all +the experience of old cunctators.” +“but in what position are we going to attack him? i have been at the +outposts today and it is impossible to say where his chief forces are +he wished to explain to dolgorúkov a plan of attack he had himself +“oh, that is all the same,” dolgorúkov said quickly, and getting up +he spread a map on the table. “all eventualities have been foreseen. +if he is standing before brünn...” +and prince dolgorúkov rapidly but indistinctly explained weyrother’s +prince andrew began to reply and to state his own plan, which might +have been as good as weyrother’s, but for the disadvantage that +weyrother’s had already been approved. as soon as prince andrew began +to demonstrate the defects of the latter and the merits of his own plan, +prince dolgorúkov ceased to listen to him and gazed absent-mindedly not +at the map, but at prince andrew’s face. +“there will be a council of war at kutúzov’s tonight, though; you +can say all this there,” remarked dolgorúkov. +“i will do so,” said prince andrew, moving away from the map. +“whatever are you bothering about, gentlemen?” said bilíbin, who, +till then, had listened with an amused smile to their conversation and +now was evidently ready with a joke. “whether tomorrow brings +victory or defeat, the glory of our russian arms is secure. except your +kutúzov, there is not a single russian in command of a column! the +commanders are: herr general wimpfen, le comte de langeron, le prince de +lichtenstein, le prince, de hohenlohe, and finally prishprish, and so on +“be quiet, backbiter!” said dolgorúkov. “it is not true; there +are now two russians, milorádovich, and dokhtúrov, and there would be +a third, count arakchéev, if his nerves were not too weak.” +“however, i think general kutúzov has come out,” said prince +andrew. “i wish you good luck and success, gentlemen!” he added and +went out after shaking hands with dolgorúkov and bilíbin. +on the way home, prince andrew could not refrain from asking kutúzov, +who was sitting silently beside him, what he thought of tomorrow’s +kutúzov looked sternly at his adjutant and, after a pause, replied: +“i think the battle will be lost, and so i told count tolstóy and +asked him to tell the emperor. what do you think he replied? ‘but, my +dear general, i am engaged with rice and cutlets, look after military +matters yourself!’ yes... that was the answer i got!” +shortly after nine o’clock that evening, weyrother drove with his +plans to kutúzov’s quarters where the council of war was to be +held. all the commanders of columns were summoned to the commander in +chief’s and with the exception of prince bagratión, who declined to +come, were all there at the appointed time. +weyrother, who was in full control of the proposed battle, by his +eagerness and briskness presented a marked contrast to the dissatisfied +and drowsy kutúzov, who reluctantly played the part of chairman and +president of the council of war. weyrother evidently felt himself to be +at the head of a movement that had already become unrestrainable. he was +like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. whether he was +pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at +headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead +to. weyrother had been twice that evening to the enemy’s picket +line to reconnoiter personally, and twice to the emperors, russian and +austrian, to report and explain, and to his headquarters where he had +dictated the dispositions in german, and now, much exhausted, he arrived +he was evidently so busy that he even forgot to be polite to the +commander in chief. he interrupted him, talked rapidly and indistinctly, +without looking at the man he was addressing, and did not reply to +questions put to him. he was bespattered with mud and had a pitiful, +weary, and distracted air, though at the same time he was haughty and +kutúzov was occupying a nobleman’s castle of modest dimensions near +ostralitz. in the large drawing room which had become the commander +in chief’s office were gathered kutúzov himself, weyrother, and the +members of the council of war. they were drinking tea, and only awaited +prince bagratión to begin the council. at last bagratión’s orderly +came with the news that the prince could not attend. prince andrew came +in to inform the commander in chief of this and, availing himself +of permission previously given him by kutúzov to be present at the +council, he remained in the room. +“since prince bagratión is not coming, we may begin,” said +weyrother, hurriedly rising from his seat and going up to the table on +which an enormous map of the environs of brünn was spread out. +kutúzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over +his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, +with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. at the sound +of weyrother’s voice, he opened his one eye with an effort. +“yes, yes, if you please! it is already late,” said he, and nodding +his head he let it droop and again closed his eye. +if at first the members of the council thought that kutúzov was +pretending to sleep, the sounds his nose emitted during the reading that +followed proved that the commander in chief at that moment was absorbed +by a far more serious matter than a desire to show his contempt for +the dispositions or anything else—he was engaged in satisfying the +irresistible human need for sleep. he really was asleep. weyrother, with +the gesture of a man too busy to lose a moment, glanced at kutúzov and, +having convinced himself that he was asleep, took up a paper and in +a loud, monotonous voice began to read out the dispositions for the +impending battle, under a heading which he also read out: +“dispositions for an attack on the enemy position behind kobelnitz and +the dispositions were very complicated and difficult. they began as +“as the enemy’s left wing rests on wooded hills and his right +extends along kobelnitz and sokolnitz behind the ponds that are there, +while we, on the other hand, with our left wing by far outflank his +right, it is advantageous to attack the enemy’s latter wing especially +if we occupy the villages of sokolnitz and kobelnitz, whereby we +can both fall on his flank and pursue him over the plain between +schlappanitz and the thuerassa forest, avoiding the defiles of +schlappanitz and bellowitz which cover the enemy’s front. for this +object it is necessary that... the first column marches... the second +column marches... the third column marches...” and so on, read +the generals seemed to listen reluctantly to the difficult dispositions. +the tall, fair-haired general buxhöwden stood, leaning his back against +the wall, his eyes fixed on a burning candle, and seemed not to listen +or even to wish to be thought to listen. exactly opposite weyrother, +with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache +twisted upwards, sat the ruddy milorádovich in a military pose, his +elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders +raised. he remained stubbornly silent, gazing at weyrother’s face, +and only turned away his eyes when the austrian chief of staff finished +reading. then milorádovich looked round significantly at the other +generals. but one could not tell from that significant look whether he +agreed or disagreed and was satisfied or not with the arrangements. next +to weyrother sat count langeron who, with a subtle smile that never left +his typically southern french face during the whole time of the reading, +gazed at his delicate fingers which rapidly twirled by its corners +a gold snuffbox on which was a portrait. in the middle of one of the +longest sentences, he stopped the rotary motion of the snuffbox, raised +his head, and with inimical politeness lurking in the corners of his +thin lips interrupted weyrother, wishing to say something. but the +austrian general, continuing to read, frowned angrily and jerked his +elbows, as if to say: “you can tell me your views later, but now be so +good as to look at the map and listen.” langeron lifted his eyes with +an expression of perplexity, turned round to milorádovich as if seeking +an explanation, but meeting the latter’s impressive but meaningless +gaze drooped his eyes sadly and again took to twirling his snuffbox. +“a geography lesson!” he muttered as if to himself, but loud enough +przebyszéwski, with respectful but dignified politeness, held his +hand to his ear toward weyrother, with the air of a man absorbed in +attention. dohktúrov, a little man, sat opposite weyrother, with +an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the outspread map +conscientiously studied the dispositions and the unfamiliar locality. he +asked weyrother several times to repeat words he had not clearly heard +and the difficult names of villages. weyrother complied and dohktúrov +when the reading which lasted more than an hour was over, langeron again +brought his snuffbox to rest and, without looking at weyrother or at +anyone in particular, began to say how difficult it was to carry out +such a plan in which the enemy’s position was assumed to be known, +whereas it was perhaps not known, since the enemy was in movement. +langeron’s objections were valid but it was obvious that their chief +aim was to show general weyrother—who had read his dispositions with +as much self-confidence as if he were addressing school children—that +he had to do, not with fools, but with men who could teach him something +when the monotonous sound of weyrother’s voice ceased, kutúzov opened +his eye as a miller wakes up when the soporific drone of the mill wheel +is interrupted. he listened to what langeron said, as if remarking, +“so you are still at that silly business!” quickly closed his eye +again, and let his head sink still lower. +langeron, trying as virulently as possible to sting weyrother’s vanity +as author of the military plan, argued that bonaparte might easily +attack instead of being attacked, and so render the whole of this +plan perfectly worthless. weyrother met all objections with a firm and +contemptuous smile, evidently prepared beforehand to meet all objections +“if he could attack us, he would have done so today,” said he. +“so you think he is powerless?” said langeron. +“he has forty thousand men at most,” replied weyrother, with the +smile of a doctor to whom an old wife wishes to explain the treatment of +“in that case he is inviting his doom by awaiting our attack,” said +langeron, with a subtly ironical smile, again glancing round for support +but milorádovich was at that moment evidently thinking of anything +rather than of what the generals were disputing about. +“ma foi!” said he, “tomorrow we shall see all that on the +weyrother again gave that smile which seemed to say that to him it was +strange and ridiculous to meet objections from russian generals and to +have to prove to them what he had not merely convinced himself of, but +had also convinced the sovereign emperors of. +“the enemy has quenched his fires and a continual noise is heard from +his camp,” said he. “what does that mean? either he is retreating, +which is the only thing we need fear, or he is changing his position.” +(he smiled ironically.) “but even if he also took up a position in +the thuerassa, he merely saves us a great deal of trouble and all our +arrangements to the minutest detail remain the same.” +“how is that?...” began prince andrew, who had for long been waiting +an opportunity to express his doubts. +kutúzov here woke up, coughed heavily, and looked round at the +“gentlemen, the dispositions for tomorrow—or rather for today, for +it is past midnight—cannot now be altered,” said he. “you have +heard them, and we shall all do our duty. but before a battle, there is +nothing more important...” he paused, “than to have a good sleep.” +he moved as if to rise. the generals bowed and retired. it was past +the council of war, at which prince andrew had not been able to +express his opinion as he had hoped to, left on him a vague and uneasy +impression. whether dolgorúkov and weyrother, or kutúzov, langeron, +and the others who did not approve of the plan of attack, were +right—he did not know. “but was it really not possible for kutúzov +to state his views plainly to the emperor? is it possible that on +account of court and personal considerations tens of thousands of lives, +and my life, my life,” he thought, “must be risked?” +“yes, it is very likely that i shall be killed tomorrow,” he +thought. and suddenly, at this thought of death, a whole series of most +distant, most intimate, memories rose in his imagination: he remembered +his last parting from his father and his wife; he remembered the days +when he first loved her. he thought of her pregnancy and felt sorry for +her and for himself, and in a nervously emotional and softened mood he +went out of the hut in which he was billeted with nesvítski and began +the night was foggy and through the fog the moonlight gleamed +mysteriously. “yes, tomorrow, tomorrow!” he thought. “tomorrow +everything may be over for me! all these memories will be no more, none +of them will have any meaning for me. tomorrow perhaps, even certainly, +i have a presentiment that for the first time i shall have to show all +i can do.” and his fancy pictured the battle, its loss, the +concentration of fighting at one point, and the hesitation of all the +commanders. and then that happy moment, that toulon for which he had +so long waited, presents itself to him at last. he firmly and clearly +expresses his opinion to kutúzov, to weyrother, and to the emperors. +all are struck by the justness of his views, but no one undertakes to +carry them out, so he takes a regiment, a division—stipulates that no +one is to interfere with his arrangements—leads his division to +the decisive point, and gains the victory alone. “but death and +suffering?” suggested another voice. prince andrew, however, did not +answer that voice and went on dreaming of his triumphs. the dispositions +for the next battle are planned by him alone. nominally he is only an +adjutant on kutúzov’s staff, but he does everything alone. the next +battle is won by him alone. kutúzov is removed and he is appointed... +“well and then?” asked the other voice. “if before that you are +not ten times wounded, killed, or betrayed, well... what then?...” +“well then,” prince andrew answered himself, “i don’t know +what will happen and don’t want to know, and can’t, but if i want +this—want glory, want to be known to men, want to be loved by them, it +is not my fault that i want it and want nothing but that and live only +for that. yes, for that alone! i shall never tell anyone, but, oh god! +what am i to do if i love nothing but fame and men’s esteem? death, +wounds, the loss of family—i fear nothing. and precious and dear +as many persons are to me—father, sister, wife—those dearest to +me—yet dreadful and unnatural as it seems, i would give them all at +once for a moment of glory, of triumph over men, of love from men i +don’t know and never shall know, for the love of these men here,” he +thought, as he listened to voices in kutúzov’s courtyard. the voices +were those of the orderlies who were packing up; one voice, probably a +coachman’s, was teasing kutúzov’s old cook whom prince andrew knew, +and who was called tit. he was saying, “tit, i say, tit!” +“oh, go to the devil!” called out a voice, drowned by the laughter +“all the same, i love and value nothing but triumph over them all, i +value this mystic power and glory that is floating here above me in this +that same night, rostóv was with a platoon on skirmishing duty in front +of bagratión’s detachment. his hussars were placed along the line +in couples and he himself rode along the line trying to master the +sleepiness that kept coming over him. an enormous space, with our +army’s campfires dimly glowing in the fog, could be seen behind him; +in front of him was misty darkness. rostóv could see nothing, peer as +he would into that foggy distance: now something gleamed gray, now there +was something black, now little lights seemed to glimmer where the enemy +ought to be, now he fancied it was only something in his own eyes. his +eyes kept closing, and in his fancy appeared—now the emperor, now +denísov, and now moscow memories—and he again hurriedly opened his +eyes and saw close before him the head and ears of the horse he was +riding, and sometimes, when he came within six paces of them, the +black figures of hussars, but in the distance was still the same misty +darkness. “why not?... it might easily happen,” thought rostóv, +“that the emperor will meet me and give me an order as he would to any +other officer; he’ll say: ‘go and find out what’s there.’ there +are many stories of his getting to know an officer in just such a chance +way and attaching him to himself! what if he gave me a place near him? +oh, how i would guard him, how i would tell him the truth, how i would +unmask his deceivers!” and in order to realize vividly his love +devotion to the sovereign, rostóv pictured to himself an enemy or a +deceitful german, whom he would not only kill with pleasure but whom +he would slap in the face before the emperor. suddenly a distant shout +aroused him. he started and opened his eyes. +“where am i? oh yes, in the skirmishing line... pass and +watchword—shaft, olmütz. what a nuisance that our squadron will be in +reserve tomorrow,” he thought. “i’ll ask leave to go to the front, +this may be my only chance of seeing the emperor. it won’t be long +now before i am off duty. i’ll take another turn and when i get back +i’ll go to the general and ask him.” he readjusted himself in the +saddle and touched up his horse to ride once more round his hussars. it +seemed to him that it was getting lighter. to the left he saw a sloping +descent lit up, and facing it a black knoll that seemed as steep as a +wall. on this knoll there was a white patch that rostóv could not at +all make out: was it a glade in the wood lit up by the moon, or some +unmelted snow, or some white houses? he even thought something moved on +that white spot. “i expect it’s snow... that spot... a spot—une +tache,” he thought. “there now... it’s not a tache... natásha... +sister, black eyes... na... tasha... (won’t she be surprised when +i tell her how i’ve seen the emperor?) natásha... take my +sabretache...”—“keep to the right, your honor, there are bushes +here,” came the voice of an hussar, past whom rostóv was riding in +the act of falling asleep. rostóv lifted his head that had sunk almost +to his horse’s mane and pulled up beside the hussar. he was succumbing +to irresistible, youthful, childish drowsiness. “but what was i +thinking? i mustn’t forget. how shall i speak to the emperor? no, +that’s not it—that’s tomorrow. oh yes! natásha... sabretache... +saber them... whom? the hussars... ah, the hussars with mustaches. along +the tverskáya street rode the hussar with mustaches... i thought about +him too, just opposite gúryev’s house... old gúryev.... oh, but +denísov’s a fine fellow. but that’s all nonsense. the chief thing +is that the emperor is here. how he looked at me and wished to say +something, but dared not.... no, it was i who dared not. but that’s +nonsense, the chief thing is not to forget the important thing i +was thinking of. yes, na-tásha, sabretache, oh, yes, yes! that’s +right!” and his head once more sank to his horse’s neck. all at once +it seemed to him that he was being fired at. “what? what? what?... cut +them down! what?...” said rostóv, waking up. at the moment he opened +his eyes he heard in front of him, where the enemy was, the long-drawn +shouts of thousands of voices. his horse and the horse of the hussar +near him pricked their ears at these shouts. over there, where the +shouting came from, a fire flared up and went out again, then another, +and all along the french line on the hill fires flared up and the +shouting grew louder and louder. rostóv could hear the sound of french +words but could not distinguish them. the din of many voices was too +great; all he could hear was: “ahahah!” and “rrrr!” +“what’s that? what do you make of it?” said rostóv to the hussar +beside him. “that must be the enemy’s camp!” +“why, don’t you hear it?” rostóv asked again, after waiting for a +“who can tell, your honor?” replied the hussar reluctantly. +“from the direction, it must be the enemy,” repeated rostóv. +“it may be he or it may be nothing,” muttered the hussar. “it’s +dark... steady!” he cried to his fidgeting horse. +rostóv’s horse was also getting restive: it pawed the frozen ground, +pricking its ears at the noise and looking at the lights. the shouting +grew still louder and merged into a general roar that only an army +of several thousand men could produce. the lights spread farther and +farther, probably along the line of the french camp. rostóv no longer +wanted to sleep. the gay triumphant shouting of the enemy army had a +stimulating effect on him. “vive l’empereur! l’empereur!” he now +“they can’t be far off, probably just beyond the stream,” he said +the hussar only sighed without replying and coughed angrily. the sound +of horse’s hoofs approaching at a trot along the line of hussars was +heard, and out of the foggy darkness the figure of a sergeant of hussars +suddenly appeared, looming huge as an elephant. +“your honor, the generals!” said the sergeant, riding up to rostóv. +rostóv, still looking round toward the fires and the shouts, rode with +the sergeant to meet some mounted men who were riding along the line. +one was on a white horse. prince bagratión and prince dolgorúkov with +their adjutants had come to witness the curious phenomenon of the +lights and shouts in the enemy’s camp. rostóv rode up to bagratión, +reported to him, and then joined the adjutants listening to what the +“believe me,” said prince dolgorúkov, addressing bagratión, “it +is nothing but a trick! he has retreated and ordered the rearguard to +“hardly,” said bagratión. “i saw them this evening on that +knoll; if they had retreated they would have withdrawn from that too.... +officer!” said bagratión to rostóv, “are the enemy’s skirmishers +“they were there this evening, but now i don’t know, your +excellency. shall i go with some of my hussars to see?” replied +bagratión stopped and, before replying, tried to see rostóv’s face +“well, go and see,” he said, after a pause. +rostóv spurred his horse, called to sergeant fédchenko and two other +hussars, told them to follow him, and trotted downhill in the direction +from which the shouting came. he felt both frightened and pleased to be +riding alone with three hussars into that mysterious and dangerous misty +distance where no one had been before him. bagratión called to him from +the hill not to go beyond the stream, but rostóv pretended not to hear +him and did not stop but rode on and on, continually mistaking bushes +for trees and gullies for men and continually discovering his mistakes. +having descended the hill at a trot, he no longer saw either our own or +the enemy’s fires, but heard the shouting of the french more loudly +and distinctly. in the valley he saw before him something like a river, +but when he reached it he found it was a road. having come out onto +the road he reined in his horse, hesitating whether to ride along it or +cross it and ride over the black field up the hillside. to keep to the +road which gleamed white in the mist would have been safer because it +would be easier to see people coming along it. “follow me!” said he, +crossed the road, and began riding up the hill at a gallop toward the +point where the french pickets had been standing that evening. +“your honor, there he is!” cried one of the hussars behind him. and +before rostóv had time to make out what the black thing was that had +suddenly appeared in the fog, there was a flash, followed by a report, +and a bullet whizzing high up in the mist with a plaintive sound passed +out of hearing. another musket missed fire but flashed in the pan. +rostóv turned his horse and galloped back. four more reports followed +at intervals, and the bullets passed somewhere in the fog singing in +different tones. rostóv reined in his horse, whose spirits had risen, +like his own, at the firing, and went back at a footpace. “well, some +more! some more!” a merry voice was saying in his soul. but no more +only when approaching bagratión did rostóv let his horse gallop again, +and with his hand at the salute rode up to the general. +dolgorúkov was still insisting that the french had retreated and had +“what does that prove?” he was saying as rostóv rode up. “they +“it’s plain that they have not all gone yet, prince,” said +bagratión. “wait till tomorrow morning, we’ll find out everything +“the picket is still on the hill, your excellency, just where it was +in the evening,” reported rostóv, stooping forward with his hand at +the salute and unable to repress the smile of delight induced by his +ride and especially by the sound of the bullets. +“very good, very good,” said bagratión. “thank you, officer.” +“your excellency,” said rostóv, “may i ask a favor?” +“tomorrow our squadron is to be in reserve. may i ask to be attached +“oh, very well, you may stay in attendance on me.” +“then i may reckon on it, your excellency?” +“tomorrow very likely i may be sent with some message to the +the fires and shouting in the enemy’s army were occasioned by the fact +that while napoleon’s proclamation was being read to the troops the +emperor himself rode round his bivouacs. the soldiers, on seeing him, +lit wisps of straw and ran after him, shouting, “vive l’empereur!” +soldiers! the russian army is advancing against you to avenge the +austrian army of ulm. they are the same battalions you broke at +hollabrünn and have pursued ever since to this place. the position we +occupy is a strong one, and while they are marching to go round me on +the right they will expose a flank to me. soldiers! i will myself direct +your battalions. i will keep out of fire if you with your habitual +valor carry disorder and confusion into the enemy’s ranks, but should +victory be in doubt, even for a moment, you will see your emperor +exposing himself to the first blows of the enemy, for there must be no +doubt of victory, especially on this day when what is at stake is the +honor of the french infantry, so necessary to the honor of our nation. +do not break your ranks on the plea of removing the wounded! let every +man be fully imbued with the thought that we must defeat these hirelings +of england, inspired by such hatred of our nation! this victory will +conclude our campaign and we can return to winter quarters, where fresh +french troops who are being raised in france will join us, and the peace +i shall conclude will be worthy of my people, of you, and of myself. +at five in the morning it was still quite dark. the troops of the +center, the reserves, and bagratión’s right flank had not yet moved, +but on the left flank the columns of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, +which were to be the first to descend the heights to attack the french +right flank and drive it into the bohemian mountains according to plan, +were already up and astir. the smoke of the campfires, into which they +were throwing everything superfluous, made the eyes smart. it was cold +and dark. the officers were hurriedly drinking tea and breakfasting, the +soldiers, munching biscuit and beating a tattoo with their feet to +warm themselves, gathering round the fires throwing into the flames the +remains of sheds, chairs, tables, wheels, tubs, and everything that they +did not want or could not carry away with them. austrian column guides +were moving in and out among the russian troops and served as heralds +of the advance. as soon as an austrian officer showed himself near +a commanding officer’s quarters, the regiment began to move: the +soldiers ran from the fires, thrust their pipes into their boots, their +bags into the carts, got their muskets ready, and formed rank. the +officers buttoned up their coats, buckled on their swords and pouches, +and moved along the ranks shouting. the train drivers and orderlies +harnessed and packed the wagons and tied on the loads. the adjutants and +battalion and regimental commanders mounted, crossed themselves, gave +final instructions, orders, and commissions to the baggage men +who remained behind, and the monotonous tramp of thousands of feet +resounded. the column moved forward without knowing where and unable, +from the masses around them, the smoke and the increasing fog, to see +either the place they were leaving or that to which they were going. +a soldier on the march is hemmed in and borne along by his regiment as +much as a sailor is by his ship. however far he has walked, whatever +strange, unknown, and dangerous places he reaches, just as a sailor is +always surrounded by the same decks, masts, and rigging of his ship, so +the soldier always has around him the same comrades, the same ranks, the +same sergeant major iván mítrich, the same company dog jack, and the +same commanders. the sailor rarely cares to know the latitude in which +his ship is sailing, but on the day of battle—heaven knows how and +whence—a stern note of which all are conscious sounds in the moral +atmosphere of an army, announcing the approach of something decisive +and solemn, and awakening in the men an unusual curiosity. on the day of +battle the soldiers excitedly try to get beyond the interests of their +regiment, they listen intently, look about, and eagerly ask concerning +the fog had grown so dense that though it was growing light they could +not see ten paces ahead. bushes looked like gigantic trees and level +ground like cliffs and slopes. anywhere, on any side, one might +encounter an enemy invisible ten paces off. but the columns advanced +for a long time, always in the same fog, descending and ascending hills, +avoiding gardens and enclosures, going over new and unknown ground, and +nowhere encountering the enemy. on the contrary, the soldiers became +aware that in front, behind, and on all sides, other russian columns +were moving in the same direction. every soldier felt glad to know that +to the unknown place where he was going, many more of our men were going +“there now, the kúrskies have also gone past,” was being said in +“it’s wonderful what a lot of our troops have gathered, lads! last +night i looked at the campfires and there was no end of them. a regular +though none of the column commanders rode up to the ranks or talked to +the men (the commanders, as we saw at the council of war, were out of +humor and dissatisfied with the affair, and so did not exert themselves +to cheer the men but merely carried out the orders), yet the troops +marched gaily, as they always do when going into action, especially to +an attack. but when they had marched for about an hour in the dense fog, +the greater part of the men had to halt and an unpleasant consciousness +of some dislocation and blunder spread through the ranks. how such +a consciousness is communicated is very difficult to define, but it +certainly is communicated very surely, and flows rapidly, imperceptibly, +and irrepressibly, as water does in a creek. had the russian army been +alone without any allies, it might perhaps have been a long time before +this consciousness of mismanagement became a general conviction, but as +it was, the disorder was readily and naturally attributed to the stupid +germans, and everyone was convinced that a dangerous muddle had been +“why have we stopped? is the way blocked? or have we already come up +“no, one can’t hear them. they’d be firing if we had.” +“they were in a hurry enough to start us, and now here we stand in +the middle of a field without rhyme or reason. it’s all those damned +“yes, i’d send them on in front, but no fear, they’re crowding up +“i say, shall we soon be clear? they say the cavalry are blocking the +“ah, those damned germans! they don’t know their own country!” +“what division are you?” shouted an adjutant, riding up. +“then why are you here? you should have gone on long ago, now you +won’t get there till evening.” +“what stupid orders! they don’t themselves know what they are +doing!” said the officer and rode off. +then a general rode past shouting something angrily, not in russian. +“tafa-lafa! but what he’s jabbering no one can make out,” said a +soldier, mimicking the general who had ridden away. “i’d shoot them, +“we were ordered to be at the place before nine, but we haven’t got +halfway. fine orders!” was being repeated on different sides. +and the feeling of energy with which the troops had started began to +turn into vexation and anger at the stupid arrangements and at the +the cause of the confusion was that while the austrian cavalry was +moving toward our left flank, the higher command found that our center +was too far separated from our right flank and the cavalry were all +ordered to turn back to the right. several thousand cavalry crossed in +at the front an altercation occurred between an austrian guide and a +russian general. the general shouted a demand that the cavalry should be +halted, the austrian argued that not he, but the higher command, was to +blame. the troops meanwhile stood growing listless and dispirited. after +an hour’s delay they at last moved on, descending the hill. the fog +that was dispersing on the hill lay still more densely below, where they +were descending. in front in the fog a shot was heard and then another, +at first irregularly at varying intervals—trata...tat—and then more +and more regularly and rapidly, and the action at the goldbach stream +not expecting to come on the enemy down by the stream, and having +stumbled on him in the fog, hearing no encouraging word from their +commanders, and with a consciousness of being too late spreading through +the ranks, and above all being unable to see anything in front or around +them in the thick fog, the russians exchanged shots with the enemy +lazily and advanced and again halted, receiving no timely orders from +the officers or adjutants who wandered about in the fog in those unknown +surroundings unable to find their own regiments. in this way the action +began for the first, second, and third columns, which had gone down into +the valley. the fourth column, with which kutúzov was, stood on the +below, where the fight was beginning, there was still thick fog; on the +higher ground it was clearing, but nothing could be seen of what was +going on in front. whether all the enemy forces were, as we supposed, +six miles away, or whether they were near by in that sea of mist, no one +it was nine o’clock in the morning. the fog lay unbroken like a sea +down below, but higher up at the village of schlappanitz where napoleon +stood with his marshals around him, it was quite light. above him was +a clear blue sky, and the sun’s vast orb quivered like a huge hollow, +crimson float on the surface of that milky sea of mist. the whole french +army, and even napoleon himself with his staff, were not on the far side +of the streams and hollows of sokolnitz and schlappanitz beyond which we +intended to take up our position and begin the action, but were on this +side, so close to our own forces that napoleon with the naked eye could +distinguish a mounted man from one on foot. napoleon, in the blue cloak +which he had worn on his italian campaign, sat on his small gray arab +horse a little in front of his marshals. he gazed silently at the hills +which seemed to rise out of the sea of mist and on which the russian +troops were moving in the distance, and he listened to the sounds of +firing in the valley. not a single muscle of his face—which in those +days was still thin—moved. his gleaming eyes were fixed intently on +one spot. his predictions were being justified. part of the russian +force had already descended into the valley toward the ponds and lakes +and part were leaving these pratzen heights which he intended to attack +and regarded as the key to the position. he saw over the mist that in +a hollow between two hills near the village of pratzen, the russian +columns, their bayonets glittering, were moving continuously in one +direction toward the valley and disappearing one after another into +the mist. from information he had received the evening before, from the +sound of wheels and footsteps heard by the outposts during the night, +by the disorderly movement of the russian columns, and from all +indications, he saw clearly that the allies believed him to be far away +in front of them, and that the columns moving near pratzen constituted +the center of the russian army, and that that center was already +sufficiently weakened to be successfully attacked. but still he did not +today was a great day for him—the anniversary of his coronation. +before dawn he had slept for a few hours, and refreshed, vigorous, and +in good spirits, he mounted his horse and rode out into the field +in that happy mood in which everything seems possible and everything +succeeds. he sat motionless, looking at the heights visible above +the mist, and his cold face wore that special look of confident, +self-complacent happiness that one sees on the face of a boy happily +in love. the marshals stood behind him not venturing to distract his +attention. he looked now at the pratzen heights, now at the sun floating +when the sun had entirely emerged from the fog, and fields and mist were +aglow with dazzling light—as if he had only awaited this to begin the +action—he drew the glove from his shapely white hand, made a sign +with it to the marshals, and ordered the action to begin. the marshals, +accompanied by adjutants, galloped off in different directions, and +a few minutes later the chief forces of the french army moved rapidly +toward those pratzen heights which were being more and more denuded by +russian troops moving down the valley to their left. +at eight o’clock kutúzov rode to pratzen at the head of the fourth +column, milorádovich’s, the one that was to take the place of +przebyszéwski’s and langeron’s columns which had already gone down +into the valley. he greeted the men of the foremost regiment and gave +them the order to march, thereby indicating that he intended to lead +that column himself. when he had reached the village of pratzen he +halted. prince andrew was behind, among the immense number forming the +commander in chief’s suite. he was in a state of suppressed excitement +and irritation, though controlledly calm as a man is at the approach of +a long-awaited moment. he was firmly convinced that this was the day of +his toulon, or his bridge of arcola. how it would come about he did not +know, but he felt sure it would do so. the locality and the position of +our troops were known to him as far as they could be known to anyone +in our army. his own strategic plan, which obviously could not now +be carried out, was forgotten. now, entering into weyrother’s plan, +prince andrew considered possible contingencies and formed new projects +such as might call for his rapidity of perception and decision. +to the left down below in the mist, the musketry fire of unseen forces +could be heard. it was there prince andrew thought the fight would +concentrate. “there we shall encounter difficulties, and there,” +thought he, “i shall be sent with a brigade or division, and there, +standard in hand, i shall go forward and break whatever is in front of +he could not look calmly at the standards of the passing battalions. +seeing them he kept thinking, “that may be the very standard with +in the morning all that was left of the night mist on the heights was +a hoar frost now turning to dew, but in the valleys it still lay like a +milk-white sea. nothing was visible in the valley to the left into which +our troops had descended and from whence came the sounds of firing. +above the heights was the dark clear sky, and to the right the vast orb +of the sun. in front, far off on the farther shore of that sea of mist, +some wooded hills were discernible, and it was there the enemy probably +was, for something could be descried. on the right the guards were +entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and +then a gleam of bayonets; to the left beyond the village similar masses +of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist. in front and +behind moved infantry. the commander in chief was standing at the end of +the village letting the troops pass by him. that morning kutúzov seemed +worn and irritable. the infantry passing before him came to a halt +without any command being given, apparently obstructed by something in +“do order them to form into battalion columns and go round the +village!” he said angrily to a general who had ridden up. “don’t +you understand, your excellency, my dear sir, that you must not +defile through narrow village streets when we are marching against the +“i intended to re-form them beyond the village, your excellency,” +“you’ll make a fine thing of it, deploying in sight of the enemy! +“the enemy is still far away, your excellency. according to the +“the dispositions!” exclaimed kutúzov bitterly. “who told you +that?... kindly do as you are ordered.” +“my dear fellow,” nesvítski whispered to prince andrew, “the old +an austrian officer in a white uniform with green plumes in his hat +galloped up to kutúzov and asked in the emperor’s name had the fourth +kutúzov turned round without answering and his eye happened to fall +upon prince andrew, who was beside him. seeing him, kutúzov’s +malevolent and caustic expression softened, as if admitting that what +was being done was not his adjutant’s fault, and still not answering +“go, my dear fellow, and see whether the third division has passed the +village. tell it to stop and await my orders.” +hardly had prince andrew started than he stopped him. +“and ask whether sharpshooters have been posted,” he added. “what +are they doing? what are they doing?” he murmured to himself, still +prince andrew galloped off to execute the order. +overtaking the battalions that continued to advance, he stopped +the third division and convinced himself that there really were no +sharpshooters in front of our columns. the colonel at the head of the +regiment was much surprised at the commander in chief’s order to throw +out skirmishers. he had felt perfectly sure that there were other troops +in front of him and that the enemy must be at least six miles away. +there was really nothing to be seen in front except a barren descent +hidden by dense mist. having given orders in the commander in chief’s +name to rectify this omission, prince andrew galloped back. kutúzov +still in the same place, his stout body resting heavily in the saddle +with the lassitude of age, sat yawning wearily with closed eyes. the +troops were no longer moving, but stood with the butts of their muskets +“all right, all right!” he said to prince andrew, and turned to a +general who, watch in hand, was saying it was time they started as all +the left-flank columns had already descended. +“plenty of time, your excellency,” muttered kutúzov in the midst of +just then at a distance behind kutúzov was heard the sound of regiments +saluting, and this sound rapidly came nearer along the whole extended +line of the advancing russian columns. evidently the person they were +greeting was riding quickly. when the soldiers of the regiment in front +of which kutúzov was standing began to shout, he rode a little to one +side and looked round with a frown. along the road from pratzen galloped +what looked like a squadron of horsemen in various uniforms. two of them +rode side by side in front, at full gallop. one in a black uniform with +white plumes in his hat rode a bobtailed chestnut horse, the other who +was in a white uniform rode a black one. these were the two emperors +followed by their suites. kutúzov, affecting the manners of an old +soldier at the front, gave the command “attention!” and rode up +to the emperors with a salute. his whole appearance and manner were +suddenly transformed. he put on the air of a subordinate who obeys +without reasoning. with an affectation of respect which evidently struck +alexander unpleasantly, he rode up and saluted. +this unpleasant impression merely flitted over the young and happy face +of the emperor like a cloud of haze across a clear sky and vanished. +after his illness he looked rather thinner that day than on the field +of olmütz where bolkónski had seen him for the first time abroad, but +there was still the same bewitching combination of majesty and mildness +in his fine gray eyes, and on his delicate lips the same capacity for +varying expression and the same prevalent appearance of goodhearted +at the olmütz review he had seemed more majestic; here he seemed +brighter and more energetic. he was slightly flushed after galloping two +miles, and reining in his horse he sighed restfully and looked round +at the faces of his suite, young and animated as his own. czartorýski, +novosíltsev, prince volkónsky, strógonov, and the others, all richly +dressed gay young men on splendid, well-groomed, fresh, only slightly +heated horses, exchanging remarks and smiling, had stopped behind the +emperor. the emperor francis, a rosy, long faced young man, sat very +erect on his handsome black horse, looking about him in a leisurely and +preoccupied manner. he beckoned to one of his white adjutants and asked +some question—“most likely he is asking at what o’clock they +started,” thought prince andrew, watching his old acquaintance with +a smile he could not repress as he recalled his reception at brünn. +in the emperors’ suite were the picked young orderly officers of the +guard and line regiments, russian and austrian. among them were grooms +leading the tsar’s beautiful relay horses covered with embroidered +as when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters +a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of +success reached kutúzov’s cheerless staff with the galloping advent +“why aren’t you beginning, michael ilariónovich?” said the +emperor alexander hurriedly to kutúzov, glancing courteously at the +same time at the emperor francis. +“i am waiting, your majesty,” answered kutúzov, bending forward +the emperor, frowning slightly, bent his ear forward as if he had not +“waiting, your majesty,” repeated kutúzov. (prince andrew noted +that kutúzov’s upper lip twitched unnaturally as he said the +word “waiting.”) “not all the columns have formed up yet, your +the tsar heard but obviously did not like the reply; he shrugged his +rather round shoulders and glanced at novosíltsev who was near him, as +“you know, michael ilariónovich, we are not on the empress’ field +where a parade does not begin till all the troops are assembled,” said +the tsar with another glance at the emperor francis, as if inviting +him if not to join in at least to listen to what he was saying. but the +emperor francis continued to look about him and did not listen. +“that is just why i do not begin, sire,” said kutúzov in a +resounding voice, apparently to preclude the possibility of not being +heard, and again something in his face twitched—“that is just why +i do not begin, sire, because we are not on parade and not on the +empress’ field,” said he clearly and distinctly. +in the emperor’s suite all exchanged rapid looks that expressed +dissatisfaction and reproach. “old though he may be, he should not, he +certainly should not, speak like that,” their glances seemed to say. +the tsar looked intently and observantly into kutúzov’s eye +waiting to hear whether he would say anything more. but kutúzov, with +respectfully bowed head, seemed also to be waiting. the silence lasted +“however, if you command it, your majesty,” said kutúzov, lifting +his head and again assuming his former tone of a dull, unreasoning, but +he touched his horse and having called milorádovich, the commander of +the column, gave him the order to advance. +the troops again began to move, and two battalions of the nóvgorod and +one of the Ápsheron regiment went forward past the emperor. +as this Ápsheron battalion marched by, the red-faced milorádovich, +without his greatcoat, with his orders on his breast and an enormous +tuft of plumes in his cocked hat worn on one side with its corners front +and back, galloped strenuously forward, and with a dashing salute reined +in his horse before the emperor. +“god be with you, general!” said the emperor. +“ma foi, sire, nous ferons ce qui sera dans notre possibilité, +sire,” * he answered gaily, raising nevertheless ironic smiles among +the gentlemen of the tsar’s suite by his poor french. + * “indeed, sire, we shall do everything it is possible to +milorádovich wheeled his horse sharply and stationed himself a little +behind the emperor. the Ápsheron men, excited by the tsar’s presence, +passed in step before the emperors and their suites at a bold, brisk +“lads!” shouted milorádovich in a loud, self-confident, and cheery +voice, obviously so elated by the sound of firing, by the prospect of +battle, and by the sight of the gallant Ápsherons, his comrades in +suvórov’s time, now passing so gallantly before the emperors, that he +forgot the sovereigns’ presence. “lads, it’s not the first village +“glad to do our best!” shouted the soldiers. +the emperor’s horse started at the sudden cry. this horse that had +carried the sovereign at reviews in russia bore him also here on the +field of austerlitz, enduring the heedless blows of his left foot and +pricking its ears at the sound of shots just as it had done on the +empress’ field, not understanding the significance of the firing, nor +of the nearness of the emperor francis’ black cob, nor of all that was +being said, thought, and felt that day by its rider. +the emperor turned with a smile to one of his followers and made a +remark to him, pointing to the gallant Ápsherons. +kutúzov accompanied by his adjutants rode at a walking pace behind the +when he had gone less than half a mile in the rear of the column he +stopped at a solitary, deserted house that had probably once been an +inn, where two roads parted. both of them led downhill and troops were +the fog had begun to clear and enemy troops were already dimly visible +about a mile and a half off on the opposite heights. down below, on +the left, the firing became more distinct. kutúzov had stopped and was +speaking to an austrian general. prince andrew, who was a little behind +looking at them, turned to an adjutant to ask him for a field glass. +“look, look!” said this adjutant, looking not at the troops in the +distance, but down the hill before him. “it’s the french!” +the two generals and the adjutant took hold of the field glass, trying +to snatch it from one another. the expression on all their faces +suddenly changed to one of horror. the french were supposed to be a +mile and a half away, but had suddenly and unexpectedly appeared just in +“it’s the enemy?... no!... yes, see it is!... for certain.... but +how is that?” said different voices. +with the naked eye prince andrew saw below them to the right, not more +than five hundred paces from where kutúzov was standing, a dense french +column coming up to meet the Ápsherons. +“here it is! the decisive moment has arrived. my turn has come,” +thought prince andrew, and striking his horse he rode up to kutúzov. +“the Ápsherons must be stopped, your excellency,” cried he. but at +that very instant a cloud of smoke spread all round, firing was heard +quite close at hand, and a voice of naïve terror barely two steps from +prince andrew shouted, “brothers! all’s lost!” and at this as if +at a command, everyone began to run. +confused and ever-increasing crowds were running back to where five +minutes before the troops had passed the emperors. not only would it +have been difficult to stop that crowd, it was even impossible not to +be carried back with it oneself. bolkónski only tried not to lose +touch with it, and looked around bewildered and unable to grasp what was +happening in front of him. nesvítski with an angry face, red and unlike +himself, was shouting to kutúzov that if he did not ride away at once +he would certainly be taken prisoner. kutúzov remained in the same +place and without answering drew out a handkerchief. blood was flowing +from his cheek. prince andrew forced his way to him. +“you are wounded?” he asked, hardly able to master the trembling of +“the wound is not here, it is there!” said kutúzov, pressing the +handkerchief to his wounded cheek and pointing to the fleeing soldiers. +“stop them!” he shouted, and at the same moment, probably realizing +that it was impossible to stop them, spurred his horse and rode to the +a fresh wave of the flying mob caught him and bore him back with it. +the troops were running in such a dense mass that once surrounded by +them it was difficult to get out again. one was shouting, “get on! +why are you hindering us?” another in the same place turned round and +fired in the air; a third was striking the horse kutúzov himself rode. +having by a great effort got away to the left from that flood of men, +kutúzov, with his suite diminished by more than half, rode toward a +sound of artillery fire near by. having forced his way out of the crowd +of fugitives, prince andrew, trying to keep near kutúzov, saw on the +slope of the hill amid the smoke a russian battery that was still firing +and frenchmen running toward it. higher up stood some russian infantry, +neither moving forward to protect the battery nor backward with the +fleeing crowd. a mounted general separated himself from the infantry and +approached kutúzov. of kutúzov’s suite only four remained. they were +all pale and exchanged looks in silence. +“stop those wretches!” gasped kutúzov to the regimental commander, +pointing to the flying soldiers; but at that instant, as if to punish +him for those words, bullets flew hissing across the regiment and across +kutúzov’s suite like a flock of little birds. +the french had attacked the battery and, seeing kutúzov, were firing +at him. after this volley the regimental commander clutched at his leg; +several soldiers fell, and a second lieutenant who was holding the +flag let it fall from his hands. it swayed and fell, but caught on the +muskets of the nearest soldiers. the soldiers started firing without +“oh! oh! oh!” groaned kutúzov despairingly and looked around.... +“bolkónski!” he whispered, his voice trembling from a consciousness +of the feebleness of age, “bolkónski!” he whispered, pointing to +the disordered battalion and at the enemy, “what’s that?” +but before he had finished speaking, prince andrew, feeling tears of +shame and anger choking him, had already leapt from his horse and run to +“forward, lads!” he shouted in a voice piercing as a child’s. +“here it is!” thought he, seizing the staff of the standard and +hearing with pleasure the whistle of bullets evidently aimed at him. +“hurrah!” shouted prince andrew, and, scarcely able to hold up +the heavy standard, he ran forward with full confidence that the whole +and really he only ran a few steps alone. one soldier moved and then +another and soon the whole battalion ran forward shouting “hurrah!” +and overtook him. a sergeant of the battalion ran up and took the flag +that was swaying from its weight in prince andrew’s hands, but he +was immediately killed. prince andrew again seized the standard and, +dragging it by the staff, ran on with the battalion. in front he saw our +artillerymen, some of whom were fighting, while others, having abandoned +their guns, were running toward him. he also saw french infantry +soldiers who were seizing the artillery horses and turning the guns +round. prince andrew and the battalion were already within twenty paces +of the cannon. he heard the whistle of bullets above him unceasingly and +to right and left of him soldiers continually groaned and dropped. but +he did not look at them: he looked only at what was going on in front +of him—at the battery. he now saw clearly the figure of a red-haired +gunner with his shako knocked awry, pulling one end of a mop while +a french soldier tugged at the other. he could distinctly see the +distraught yet angry expression on the faces of these two men, who +evidently did not realize what they were doing. +“what are they about?” thought prince andrew as he gazed at them. +“why doesn’t the red-haired gunner run away as he is unarmed? +why doesn’t the frenchman stab him? he will not get away before the +frenchman remembers his bayonet and stabs him....” +and really another french soldier, trailing his musket, ran up to +the struggling men, and the fate of the red-haired gunner, who had +triumphantly secured the mop and still did not realize what awaited him, +was about to be decided. but prince andrew did not see how it ended. it +seemed to him as though one of the soldiers near him hit him on the head +with the full swing of a bludgeon. it hurt a little, but the worst of +it was that the pain distracted him and prevented his seeing what he had +“what’s this? am i falling? my legs are giving way,” thought he, +and fell on his back. he opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle +of the frenchmen with the gunners ended, whether the red-haired gunner +had been killed or not and whether the cannon had been captured or +saved. but he saw nothing. above him there was now nothing but the +sky—the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray +clouds gliding slowly across it. “how quiet, peaceful, and solemn; not +at all as i ran,” thought prince andrew—“not as we ran, shouting +and fighting, not at all as the gunner and the frenchman with frightened +and angry faces struggled for the mop: how differently do those clouds +glide across that lofty infinite sky! how was it i did not see that +lofty sky before? and how happy i am to have found it at last! yes! all +is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. there is nothing, +nothing, but that. but even it does not exist, there is nothing but +on our right flank commanded by bagratión, at nine o’clock the battle +had not yet begun. not wishing to agree to dolgorúkov’s demand to +commence the action, and wishing to avert responsibility from himself, +prince bagratión proposed to dolgorúkov to send to inquire of the +commander in chief. bagratión knew that as the distance between the two +flanks was more than six miles, even if the messenger were not killed +(which he very likely would be), and found the commander in chief +(which would be very difficult), he would not be able to get back before +bagratión cast his large, expressionless, sleepy eyes round his suite, +and the boyish face rostóv, breathless with excitement and hope, was +the first to catch his eye. he sent him. +“and if i should meet his majesty before i meet the commander in +chief, your excellency?” said rostóv, with his hand to his cap. +“you can give the message to his majesty,” said dolgorúkov, +hurriedly interrupting bagratión. +on being relieved from picket duty rostóv had managed to get a few +hours’ sleep before morning and felt cheerful, bold, and resolute, +with elasticity of movement, faith in his good fortune, and generally in +that state of mind which makes everything seem possible, pleasant, and +all his wishes were being fulfilled that morning: there was to be a +general engagement in which he was taking part, more than that, he was +orderly to the bravest general, and still more, he was going with a +message to kutúzov, perhaps even to the sovereign himself. the morning +was bright, he had a good horse under him, and his heart was full of +joy and happiness. on receiving the order he gave his horse the rein +and galloped along the line. at first he rode along the line of +bagratión’s troops, which had not yet advanced into action but were +standing motionless; then he came to the region occupied by uvárov’s +cavalry and here he noticed a stir and signs of preparation for battle; +having passed uvárov’s cavalry he clearly heard the sound of cannon +and musketry ahead of him. the firing grew louder and louder. +in the fresh morning air were now heard, not two or three musket shots +at irregular intervals as before, followed by one or two cannon shots, +but a roll of volleys of musketry from the slopes of the hill before +pratzen, interrupted by such frequent reports of cannon that sometimes +several of them were not separated from one another but merged into a +he could see puffs of musketry smoke that seemed to chase one another +down the hillsides, and clouds of cannon smoke rolling, spreading, +and mingling with one another. he could also, by the gleam of bayonets +visible through the smoke, make out moving masses of infantry and narrow +lines of artillery with green caissons. +rostóv stopped his horse for a moment on a hillock to see what was +going on, but strain his attention as he would he could not understand +or make out anything of what was happening: there in the smoke men of +some sort were moving about, in front and behind moved lines of troops; +but why, whither, and who they were, it was impossible to make out. +these sights and sounds had no depressing or intimidating effect on him; +on the contrary, they stimulated his energy and determination. +“go on! go on! give it them!” he mentally exclaimed at these sounds, +and again proceeded to gallop along the line, penetrating farther and +farther into the region where the army was already in action. +“how it will be there i don’t know, but all will be well!” thought +after passing some austrian troops he noticed that the next part of the +“so much the better! i shall see it close,” he thought. +he was riding almost along the front line. a handful of men came +galloping toward him. they were our uhlans who with disordered +ranks were returning from the attack. rostóv got out of their way, +involuntarily noticed that one of them was bleeding, and galloped on. +“that is no business of mine,” he thought. he had not ridden many +hundred yards after that before he saw to his left, across the whole +width of the field, an enormous mass of cavalry in brilliant white +uniforms, mounted on black horses, trotting straight toward him and +across his path. rostóv put his horse to full gallop to get out of the +way of these men, and he would have got clear had they continued at the +same speed, but they kept increasing their pace, so that some of the +horses were already galloping. rostóv heard the thud of their hoofs +and the jingle of their weapons and saw their horses, their figures, and +even their faces, more and more distinctly. they were our horse guards, +advancing to attack the french cavalry that was coming to meet them. +the horse guards were galloping, but still holding in their horses. +rostóv could already see their faces and heard the command: +“charge!” shouted by an officer who was urging his thoroughbred to +full speed. rostóv, fearing to be crushed or swept into the attack on +the french, galloped along the front as hard as his horse could go, but +still was not in time to avoid them. +the last of the horse guards, a huge pockmarked fellow, frowned angrily +on seeing rostóv before him, with whom he would inevitably collide. +this guardsman would certainly have bowled rostóv and his bedouin over +(rostóv felt himself quite tiny and weak compared to these gigantic men +and horses) had it not occurred to rostóv to flourish his whip before +the eyes of the guardsman’s horse. the heavy black horse, sixteen +hands high, shied, throwing back its ears; but the pockmarked guardsman +drove his huge spurs in violently, and the horse, flourishing its tail +and extending its neck, galloped on yet faster. hardly had the horse +guards passed rostóv before he heard them shout, “hurrah!” and +looking back saw that their foremost ranks were mixed up with some +foreign cavalry with red epaulets, probably french. he could see nothing +more, for immediately afterwards cannon began firing from somewhere and +at that moment, as the horse guards, having passed him, disappeared in +the smoke, rostóv hesitated whether to gallop after them or to go where +he was sent. this was the brilliant charge of the horse guards that +amazed the french themselves. rostóv was horrified to hear later that +of all that mass of huge and handsome men, of all those brilliant, +rich youths, officers and cadets, who had galloped past him on their +thousand-ruble horses, only eighteen were left after the charge. +“why should i envy them? my chance is not lost, and maybe i shall see +the emperor immediately!” thought rostóv and galloped on. +when he came level with the foot guards he noticed that about them and +around them cannon balls were flying, of which he was aware not so +much because he heard their sound as because he saw uneasiness on +the soldiers’ faces and unnatural warlike solemnity on those of the +passing behind one of the lines of a regiment of foot guards he heard a +“what?” he answered, not recognizing borís. +“i say, we’ve been in the front line! our regiment attacked!” said +borís with the happy smile seen on the faces of young men who have been +“have you?” he said. “well, how did it go?” +“we drove them back!” said borís with animation, growing talkative. +“can you imagine it?” and he began describing how the guards, having +taken up their position and seeing troops before them, thought they were +austrians, and all at once discovered from the cannon balls discharged +by those troops that they were themselves in the front line and had +unexpectedly to go into action. rostóv without hearing borís to the +“there he is!” said borís, thinking rostóv had said “his +highness,” and pointing to the grand duke who with his high shoulders +and frowning brows stood a hundred paces away from them in his helmet +and horse guards’ jacket, shouting something to a pale, white +“but that’s the grand duke, and i want the commander in chief or the +emperor,” said rostóv, and was about to spur his horse. +“count! count!” shouted berg who ran up from the other side as eager +as borís. “count! i am wounded in my right hand” (and he showed his +bleeding hand with a handkerchief tied round it) “and i remained at +the front. i held my sword in my left hand, count. all our family—the +he said something more, but rostóv did not wait to hear it and rode +having passed the guards and traversed an empty space, rostóv, to avoid +again getting in front of the first line as he had done when the horse +guards charged, followed the line of reserves, going far round the place +where the hottest musket fire and cannonade were heard. suddenly he +heard musket fire quite close in front of him and behind our troops, +where he could never have expected the enemy to be. +“what can it be?” he thought. “the enemy in the rear of our army? +impossible!” and suddenly he was seized by a panic of fear for himself +and for the issue of the whole battle. “but be that what it may,” +he reflected, “there is no riding round it now. i must look for the +commander in chief here, and if all is lost it is for me to perish with +the foreboding of evil that had suddenly come over rostóv was more and +more confirmed the farther he rode into the region behind the village of +pratzen, which was full of troops of all kinds. +“what does it mean? what is it? whom are they firing at? who is +firing?” rostóv kept asking as he came up to russian and austrian +soldiers running in confused crowds across his path. +“the devil knows! they’ve killed everybody! it’s all up now!” +he was told in russian, german, and czech by the crowd of fugitives who +understood what was happening as little as he did. +“zum henker diese russen!” * muttered a german. +several wounded men passed along the road, and words of abuse, screams, +and groans mingled in a general hubbub, then the firing died down. +rostóv learned later that russian and austrian soldiers had been firing +“my god! what does it all mean?” thought he. “and here, where at +any moment the emperor may see them.... but no, these must be only a +handful of scoundrels. it will soon be over, it can’t be that, it +can’t be! only to get past them quicker, quicker!” +the idea of defeat and flight could not enter rostóv’s head. though +he saw french cannon and french troops on the pratzen heights just where +he had been ordered to look for the commander in chief, he could not, +rostóv had been ordered to look for kutúzov and the emperor near the +village of pratzen. but neither they nor a single commanding officer +were there, only disorganized crowds of troops of various kinds. he +urged on his already weary horse to get quickly past these crowds, but +the farther he went the more disorganized they were. the highroad on +which he had come out was thronged with calèches, carriages of all +sorts, and russian and austrian soldiers of all arms, some wounded and +some not. this whole mass droned and jostled in confusion under the +dismal influence of cannon balls flying from the french batteries +“where is the emperor? where is kutúzov?” rostóv kept asking +everyone he could stop, but got no answer from anyone. +at last seizing a soldier by his collar he forced him to answer. +“eh, brother! they’ve all bolted long ago!” said the soldier, +laughing for some reason and shaking himself free. +having left that soldier who was evidently drunk, rostóv stopped the +horse of a batman or groom of some important personage and began to +question him. the man announced that the tsar had been driven in a +carriage at full speed about an hour before along that very road and +“it can’t be!” said rostóv. “it must have been someone else.” +“i saw him myself,” replied the man with a self-confident smile of +derision. “i ought to know the emperor by now, after the times i’ve +seen him in petersburg. i saw him just as i see you.... there he sat in +the carriage as pale as anything. how they made the four black horses +fly! gracious me, they did rattle past! it’s time i knew the imperial +horses and ilyá iványch. i don’t think ilyá drives anyone except +rostóv let go of the horse and was about to ride on, when a wounded +“who is it you want?” he asked. “the commander in chief? he was +killed by a cannon ball—struck in the breast before our regiment.” +“not killed—wounded!” another officer corrected him. +“not kutúzov, but what’s his name—well, never mind... there are +not many left alive. go that way, to that village, all the commanders +are there,” said the officer, pointing to the village of hosjeradek, +rostóv rode on at a footpace not knowing why or to whom he was now +going. the emperor was wounded, the battle lost. it was impossible to +doubt it now. rostóv rode in the direction pointed out to him, in which +he saw turrets and a church. what need to hurry? what was he now to say +to the tsar or to kutúzov, even if they were alive and unwounded? +“take this road, your honor, that way you will be killed at once!” a +soldier shouted to him. “they’d kill you there!” +“oh, what are you talking about?” said another. “where is he to +rostóv considered, and then went in the direction where they said he +“it’s all the same now. if the emperor is wounded, am i to try to +save myself?” he thought. he rode on to the region where the greatest +number of men had perished in fleeing from pratzen. the french had not +yet occupied that region, and the russians—the uninjured and slightly +wounded—had left it long ago. all about the field, like heaps of +manure on well-kept plowland, lay from ten to fifteen dead and wounded +to each couple of acres. the wounded crept together in twos and threes +and one could hear their distressing screams and groans, sometimes +feigned—or so it seemed to rostóv. he put his horse to a trot to +avoid seeing all these suffering men, and he felt afraid—afraid not +for his life, but for the courage he needed and which he knew would not +the french, who had ceased firing at this field strewn with dead and +wounded where there was no one left to fire at, on seeing an adjutant +riding over it trained a gun on him and fired several shots. the +sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around +him merged in rostóv’s mind into a single feeling of terror and pity +for himself. he remembered his mother’s last letter. “what would she +feel,” thought he, “if she saw me here now on this field with the +in the village of hosjeradek there were russian troops retiring from +the field of battle, who though still in some confusion were less +disordered. the french cannon did not reach there and the musketry fire +sounded far away. here everyone clearly saw and said that the battle +was lost. no one whom rostóv asked could tell him where the emperor +or kutúzov was. some said the report that the emperor was wounded was +correct, others that it was not, and explained the false rumor that had +spread by the fact that the emperor’s carriage had really galloped +from the field of battle with the pale and terrified ober-hofmarschal +count tolstóy, who had ridden out to the battlefield with others in +the emperor’s suite. one officer told rostóv that he had seen someone +from headquarters behind the village to the left, and thither rostóv +rode, not hoping to find anyone but merely to ease his conscience. when +he had ridden about two miles and had passed the last of the russian +troops, he saw, near a kitchen garden with a ditch round it, two men +on horseback facing the ditch. one with a white plume in his hat seemed +familiar to rostóv; the other on a beautiful chestnut horse (which +rostóv fancied he had seen before) rode up to the ditch, struck his +horse with his spurs, and giving it the rein leaped lightly over. only +a little earth crumbled from the bank under the horse’s hind hoofs. +turning the horse sharply, he again jumped the ditch, and deferentially +addressed the horseman with the white plumes, evidently suggesting +that he should do the same. the rider, whose figure seemed familiar +to rostóv and involuntarily riveted his attention, made a gesture of +refusal with his head and hand and by that gesture rostóv instantly +recognized his lamented and adored monarch. +“but it can’t be he, alone in the midst of this empty field!” +thought rostóv. at that moment alexander turned his head and rostóv +saw the beloved features that were so deeply engraved on his memory. the +emperor was pale, his cheeks sunken and his eyes hollow, but the charm, +the mildness of his features, was all the greater. rostóv was happy +in the assurance that the rumors about the emperor being wounded were +false. he was happy to be seeing him. he knew that he might and even +ought to go straight to him and give the message dolgorúkov had ordered +but as a youth in love trembles, is unnerved, and dares not utter the +thoughts he has dreamed of for nights, but looks around for help or a +chance of delay and flight when the longed-for moment comes and he is +alone with her, so rostóv, now that he had attained what he had longed +for more than anything else in the world, did not know how to approach +the emperor, and a thousand reasons occurred to him why it would be +inconvenient, unseemly, and impossible to do so. +“what! it is as if i were glad of a chance to take advantage of +his being alone and despondent! a strange face may seem unpleasant or +painful to him at this moment of sorrow; besides, what can i say to him +now, when my heart fails me and my mouth feels dry at the mere sight +of him?” not one of the innumerable speeches addressed to the emperor +that he had composed in his imagination could he now recall. those +speeches were intended for quite other conditions, they were for the +most part to be spoken at a moment of victory and triumph, generally +when he was dying of wounds and the sovereign had thanked him for heroic +deeds, and while dying he expressed the love his actions had proved. +“besides how can i ask the emperor for his instructions for the right +flank now that it is nearly four o’clock and the battle is lost? +no, certainly i must not approach him, i must not intrude on his +reflections. better die a thousand times than risk receiving an unkind +look or bad opinion from him,” rostóv decided; and sorrowfully and +with a heart full despair he rode away, continually looking back at the +tsar, who still remained in the same attitude of indecision. +while rostóv was thus arguing with himself and riding sadly away, +captain von toll chanced to ride to the same spot, and seeing the +emperor at once rode up to him, offered his services, and assisted him +to cross the ditch on foot. the emperor, wishing to rest and feeling +unwell, sat down under an apple tree and von toll remained beside him. +rostóv from a distance saw with envy and remorse how von toll spoke +long and warmly to the emperor and how the emperor, evidently weeping, +covered his eyes with his hand and pressed von toll’s hand. +“and i might have been in his place!” thought rostóv, and hardly +restraining his tears of pity for the emperor, he rode on in utter +despair, not knowing where to or why he was now riding. +his despair was all the greater from feeling that his own weakness was +he might... not only might but should, have gone up to the sovereign. it +was a unique chance to show his devotion to the emperor and he had not +made use of it.... “what have i done?” thought he. and he turned +round and galloped back to the place where he had seen the emperor, but +there was no one beyond the ditch now. only some carts and carriages +were passing by. from one of the drivers he learned that kutúzov’s +staff were not far off, in the village the vehicles were going to. +rostóv followed them. in front of him walked kutúzov’s groom leading +horses in horsecloths. then came a cart, and behind that walked an old, +bandy-legged domestic serf in a peaked cap and sheepskin coat. +“what?” answered the old man absent-mindedly. +“oh, you fool!” said the old man, spitting angrily. some time passed +before five in the evening the battle had been lost at all points. more +than a hundred cannon were already in the hands of the french. +przebyszéwski and his corps had laid down their arms. other columns +after losing half their men were retreating in disorderly confused +the remains of langeron’s and dokhtúrov’s mingled forces were +crowding around the dams and banks of the ponds near the village of +after five o’clock it was only at the augesd dam that a hot cannonade +(delivered by the french alone) was still to be heard from numerous +batteries ranged on the slopes of the pratzen heights, directed at our +in the rearguard, dokhtúrov and others rallying some battalions kept up +a musketry fire at the french cavalry that was pursuing our troops. it +was growing dusk. on the narrow augesd dam where for so many years the +old miller had been accustomed to sit in his tasseled cap peacefully +angling, while his grandson, with shirt sleeves rolled up, handled the +floundering silvery fish in the watering can, on that dam over which for +so many years moravians in shaggy caps and blue jackets had peacefully +driven their two-horse carts loaded with wheat and had returned dusty +with flour whitening their carts—on that narrow dam amid the wagons +and the cannon, under the horses’ hoofs and between the wagon wheels, +men disfigured by fear of death now crowded together, crushing one +another, dying, stepping over the dying and killing one another, only to +move on a few steps and be killed themselves in the same way. +every ten seconds a cannon ball flew compressing the air around, or +a shell burst in the midst of that dense throng, killing some and +splashing with blood those near them. +dólokhov—now an officer—wounded in the arm, and on foot, with +the regimental commander on horseback and some ten men of his company, +represented all that was left of that whole regiment. impelled by the +crowd, they had got wedged in at the approach to the dam and, jammed in +on all sides, had stopped because a horse in front had fallen under a +cannon and the crowd were dragging it out. a cannon ball killed someone +behind them, another fell in front and splashed dólokhov with blood. +the crowd, pushing forward desperately, squeezed together, moved a few +“move on a hundred yards and we are certainly saved, remain here +another two minutes and it is certain death,” thought each one. +dólokhov who was in the midst of the crowd forced his way to the edge +of the dam, throwing two soldiers off their feet, and ran onto the +“turn this way!” he shouted, jumping over the ice which creaked +under him; “turn this way!” he shouted to those with the gun. “it +the ice bore him but it swayed and creaked, and it was plain that it +would give way not only under a cannon or a crowd, but very soon even +under his weight alone. the men looked at him and pressed to the +bank, hesitating to step onto the ice. the general on horseback at the +entrance to the dam raised his hand and opened his mouth to address +dólokhov. suddenly a cannon ball hissed so low above the crowd that +everyone ducked. it flopped into something moist, and the general fell +from his horse in a pool of blood. nobody gave him a look or thought of +“get onto the ice, over the ice! go on! turn! don’t you hear? go +on!” innumerable voices suddenly shouted after the ball had struck +the general, the men themselves not knowing what, or why, they were +one of the hindmost guns that was going onto the dam turned off onto the +ice. crowds of soldiers from the dam began running onto the frozen pond. +the ice gave way under one of the foremost soldiers, and one leg slipped +into the water. he tried to right himself but fell in up to his waist. +the nearest soldiers shrank back, the gun driver stopped his horse, but +from behind still came the shouts: “onto the ice, why do you stop? go +on! go on!” and cries of horror were heard in the crowd. the soldiers +near the gun waved their arms and beat the horses to make them turn and +move on. the horses moved off the bank. the ice, that had held under +those on foot, collapsed in a great mass, and some forty men who were on +it dashed, some forward and some back, drowning one another. +still the cannon balls continued regularly to whistle and flop onto the +ice and into the water and oftenest of all among the crowd that covered +on the pratzen heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his +hand, lay prince andrew bolkónski bleeding profusely and unconsciously +uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan. +toward evening he ceased moaning and became quite still. he did not know +how long his unconsciousness lasted. suddenly he again felt that he was +alive and suffering from a burning, lacerating pain in his head. +“where is it, that lofty sky that i did not know till now, but saw +today?” was his first thought. “and i did not know this suffering +either,” he thought. “yes, i did not know anything, anything at all +he listened and heard the sound of approaching horses, and voices +speaking french. he opened his eyes. above him again was the same lofty +sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and +between them gleamed blue infinity. he did not turn his head and did not +see those who, judging by the sound of hoofs and voices, had ridden up +it was napoleon accompanied by two aides-de-camp. bonaparte riding +over the battlefield had given final orders to strengthen the batteries +firing at the augesd dam and was looking at the killed and wounded left +“fine men!” remarked napoleon, looking at a dead russian grenadier, +who, with his face buried in the ground and a blackened nape, lay on his +stomach with an already stiffened arm flung wide. +“the ammunition for the guns in position is exhausted, your +majesty,” said an adjutant who had come from the batteries that were +“have some brought from the reserve,” said napoleon, and having gone +on a few steps he stopped before prince andrew, who lay on his back with +the flagstaff that had been dropped beside him. (the flag had already +been taken by the french as a trophy.) +“that’s a fine death!” said napoleon as he gazed at bolkónski. +prince andrew understood that this was said of him and that it was +napoleon who said it. he heard the speaker addressed as sire. but he +heard the words as he might have heard the buzzing of a fly. not only +did they not interest him, but he took no notice of them and at once +forgot them. his head was burning, he felt himself bleeding to death, +and he saw above him the remote, lofty, and everlasting sky. he knew it +was napoleon—his hero—but at that moment napoleon seemed to him +such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was passing now +between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over +it. at that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over +him, or what was said of him; he was only glad that people were standing +near him and only wished that they would help him and bring him back to +life, which seemed to him so beautiful now that he had today learned to +understand it so differently. he collected all his strength, to stir and +utter a sound. he feebly moved his leg and uttered a weak, sickly groan +“ah! he is alive,” said napoleon. “lift this young man up and +carry him to the dressing station.” +having said this, napoleon rode on to meet marshal lannes, who, hat in +hand, rode up smiling to the emperor to congratulate him on the victory. +prince andrew remembered nothing more: he lost consciousness from the +terrible pain of being lifted onto the stretcher, the jolting while +being moved, and the probing of his wound at the dressing station. +he did not regain consciousness till late in the day, when with other +wounded and captured russian officers he was carried to the hospital. +during this transfer he felt a little stronger and was able to look +the first words he heard on coming to his senses were those of a french +convoy officer, who said rapidly: “we must halt here: the emperor +will pass here immediately; it will please him to see these gentlemen +“there are so many prisoners today, nearly the whole russian army, +that he is probably tired of them,” said another officer. +“all the same! they say this one is the commander of all the emperor +alexander’s guards,” said the first one, indicating a russian +officer in the white uniform of the horse guards. +bolkónski recognized prince repnín whom he had met in petersburg +society. beside him stood a lad of nineteen, also a wounded officer of +bonaparte, having come up at a gallop, stopped his horse. +“which is the senior?” he asked, on seeing the prisoners. +they named the colonel, prince repnín. +“you are the commander of the emperor alexander’s regiment of horse +“i commanded a squadron,” replied repnín. +“your regiment fulfilled its duty honorably,” said napoleon. +“the praise of a great commander is a soldier’s highest reward,” +“i bestow it with pleasure,” said napoleon. “and who is that young +prince repnín named lieutenant sukhtélen. +“he’s very young to come to meddle with us.” +“youth is no hindrance to courage,” muttered sukhtélen in a failing +“a splendid reply!” said napoleon. “young man, you will go far!” +prince andrew, who had also been brought forward before the emperor’s +eyes to complete the show of prisoners, could not fail to attract his +attention. napoleon apparently remembered seeing him on the battlefield +and, addressing him, again used the epithet “young man” that was +“well, and you, young man,” said he. “how do you feel, mon +though five minutes before, prince andrew had been able to say a few +words to the soldiers who were carrying him, now with his eyes fixed +straight on napoleon, he was silent.... so insignificant at that moment +seemed to him all the interests that engrossed napoleon, so mean did his +hero himself with his paltry vanity and joy in victory appear, +compared to the lofty, equitable, and kindly sky which he had seen and +everything seemed so futile and insignificant in comparison with the +stern and solemn train of thought that weakness from loss of blood, +suffering, and the nearness of death aroused in him. looking into +napoleon’s eyes prince andrew thought of the insignificance of +greatness, the unimportance of life which no one could understand, and +the still greater unimportance of death, the meaning of which no one +the emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of +the officers as he went: “have these gentlemen attended to and taken +to my bivouac; let my doctor, larrey, examine their wounds. au revoir, +prince repnín!” and he spurred his horse and galloped away. +his face shone with self-satisfaction and pleasure. +the soldiers who had carried prince andrew had noticed and taken the +little gold icon princess mary had hung round her brother’s neck, but +seeing the favor the emperor showed the prisoners, they now hastened to +prince andrew did not see how and by whom it was replaced, but the +little icon with its thin gold chain suddenly appeared upon his chest +“it would be good,” thought prince andrew, glancing at the icon his +sister had hung round his neck with such emotion and reverence, “it +would be good if everything were as clear and simple as it seems to +mary. how good it would be to know where to seek for help in this life, +and what to expect after it beyond the grave! how happy and calm i +should be if i could now say: ‘lord, have mercy on me!’... but to +whom should i say that? either to a power indefinable, incomprehensible, +which i not only cannot address but which i cannot even express in +words—the great all or nothing-” said he to himself, “or to +that god who has been sewn into this amulet by mary! there is nothing +certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything i +understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but +the stretchers moved on. at every jolt he again felt unendurable pain; +his feverishness increased and he grew delirious. visions of his father, +wife, sister, and future son, and the tenderness he had felt the night +before the battle, the figure of the insignificant little napoleon, and +above all this the lofty sky, formed the chief subjects of his delirious +the quiet home life and peaceful happiness of bald hills presented +itself to him. he was already enjoying that happiness when that +little napoleon had suddenly appeared with his unsympathizing look of +shortsighted delight at the misery of others, and doubts and torments +had followed, and only the heavens promised peace. toward morning +all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of +unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of napoleon’s doctor, +larrey, was much more likely to end in death than in convalescence. +“he is a nervous, bilious subject,” said larrey, “and will not +and prince andrew, with others fatally wounded, was left to the care of +the inhabitants of the district. +early in the year 1806 nicholas rostóv returned home on leave. denísov +was going home to vorónezh and rostóv persuaded him to travel with him +as far as moscow and to stay with him there. meeting a comrade at +the last post station but one before moscow, denísov had drunk three +bottles of wine with him and, despite the jolting ruts across the +snow-covered road, did not once wake up on the way to moscow, but lay +at the bottom of the sleigh beside rostóv, who grew more and more +impatient the nearer they got to moscow. +“how much longer? how much longer? oh, these insufferable streets, +shops, bakers’ signboards, street lamps, and sleighs!” thought +rostóv, when their leave permits had been passed at the town gate and +“denísov! we’re here! he’s asleep,” he added, leaning forward +with his whole body as if in that position he hoped to hasten the speed +“there’s the corner at the crossroads, where the cabman, zakhár, +has his stand, and there’s zakhár himself and still the same horse! +and here’s the little shop where we used to buy gingerbread! can’t +“which house is it?” asked the driver. +“why, that one, right at the end, the big one. don’t you see? +that’s our house,” said rostóv. “of course, it’s our house! +denísov raised his head, coughed, and made no answer. +“dmítri,” said rostóv to his valet on the box, “those lights are +“yes, sir, and there’s a light in your father’s study.” +“then they’ve not gone to bed yet? what do you think? mind now, +don’t forget to put out my new coat,” added rostóv, fingering his +new mustache. “now then, get on,” he shouted to the driver. “do +wake up, váska!” he went on, turning to denísov, whose head +was again nodding. “come, get on! you shall have three rubles for +vodka—get on!” rostóv shouted, when the sleigh was only three +houses from his door. it seemed to him the horses were not moving at +all. at last the sleigh bore to the right, drew up at an entrance, and +rostóv saw overhead the old familiar cornice with a bit of plaster +broken off, the porch, and the post by the side of the pavement. he +sprang out before the sleigh stopped, and ran into the hall. the house +stood cold and silent, as if quite regardless of who had come to it. +there was no one in the hall. “oh god! is everyone all right?” +he thought, stopping for a moment with a sinking heart, and then +immediately starting to run along the hall and up the warped steps of +the familiar staircase. the well-known old door handle, which always +angered the countess when it was not properly cleaned, turned as loosely +as ever. a solitary tallow candle burned in the anteroom. +old michael was asleep on the chest. prokófy, the footman, who was +so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat +plaiting slippers out of cloth selvedges. he looked up at the opening +door and his expression of sleepy indifference suddenly changed to one +“gracious heavens! the young count!” he cried, recognizing his +excitement, rushed toward the drawing room door, probably in order to +announce him, but, changing his mind, came back and stooped to kiss the +“all well?” asked rostóv, drawing away his arm. +“yes, god be thanked! yes! they’ve just finished supper. let me have +rostóv, who had completely forgotten denísov, not wishing anyone to +forestall him, threw off his fur coat and ran on tiptoe through the +large dark ballroom. all was the same: there were the same old card +tables and the same chandelier with a cover over it; but someone had +already seen the young master, and, before he had reached the drawing +room, something flew out from a side door like a tornado and began +hugging and kissing him. another and yet another creature of the same +kind sprang from a second door and a third; more hugging, more kissing, +more outcries, and tears of joy. he could not distinguish which was +papa, which natásha, and which pétya. everyone shouted, talked, and +kissed him at the same time. only his mother was not there, he noticed +“and i did not know... nicholas... my darling!...” +“here he is... our own... kólya, * dear fellow... how he has +changed!... where are the candles?... tea!...” +sónya, natásha, pétya, anna mikháylovna, véra, and the old count +were all hugging him, and the serfs, men and maids, flocked into the +room, exclaiming and oh-ing and ah-ing. +pétya, clinging to his legs, kept shouting, “and me too!” +natásha, after she had pulled him down toward her and covered his face +with kisses, holding him tight by the skirt of his coat, sprang away and +pranced up and down in one place like a goat and shrieked piercingly. +all around were loving eyes glistening with tears of joy, and all around +sónya too, all rosy red, clung to his arm and, radiant with bliss, +looked eagerly toward his eyes, waiting for the look for which she +longed. sónya now was sixteen and she was very pretty, especially at +this moment of happy, rapturous excitement. she gazed at him, not taking +her eyes off him, and smiling and holding her breath. he gave her a +grateful look, but was still expectant and looking for someone. the old +countess had not yet come. but now steps were heard at the door, steps +so rapid that they could hardly be his mother’s. +yet it was she, dressed in a new gown which he did not know, made since +he had left. all the others let him go, and he ran to her. when they +met, she fell on his breast, sobbing. she could not lift her face, but +only pressed it to the cold braiding of his hussar’s jacket. denísov, +who had come into the room unnoticed by anyone, stood there and wiped +“vasíli denísov, your son’s friend,” he said, introducing +himself to the count, who was looking inquiringly at him. +“you are most welcome! i know, i know,” said the count, kissing and +embracing denísov. “nicholas wrote us... natásha, véra, look! here +the same happy, rapturous faces turned to the shaggy figure of denísov. +“darling denísov!” screamed natásha, beside herself with rapture, +springing to him, putting her arms round him, and kissing him. this +escapade made everybody feel confused. denísov blushed too, but smiled +denísov was shown to the room prepared for him, and the rostóvs all +gathered round nicholas in the sitting room. +the old countess, not letting go of his hand and kissing it every +moment, sat beside him: the rest, crowding round him, watched every +movement, word, or look of his, never taking their blissfully adoring +eyes off him. his brother and sisters struggled for the places nearest +to him and disputed with one another who should bring him his tea, +rostóv was very happy in the love they showed him; but the first +moment of meeting had been so beatific that his present joy seemed +insufficient, and he kept expecting something more, more and yet more. +next morning, after the fatigues of their journey, the travelers slept +in the room next their bedroom there was a confusion of sabers, +satchels, sabretaches, open portmanteaus, and dirty boots. two freshly +cleaned pairs with spurs had just been placed by the wall. the servants +were bringing in jugs and basins, hot water for shaving, and their +well-brushed clothes. there was a masculine odor and a smell of tobacco. +“hallo, gwíska—my pipe!” came vasíli denísov’s husky voice. +rostóv, rubbing his eyes that seemed glued together, raised his +disheveled head from the hot pillow. +“late! it’s nearly ten o’clock,” answered natásha’s voice. +a rustle of starched petticoats and the whispering and laughter of +girls’ voices came from the adjoining room. the door was opened a +crack and there was a glimpse of something blue, of ribbons, black hair, +and merry faces. it was natásha, sónya, and pétya, who had come to +see whether they were getting up. +“nicholas! get up!” natásha’s voice was again heard at the door. +meanwhile, pétya, having found and seized the sabers in the outer room, +with the delight boys feel at the sight of a military elder brother, and +forgetting that it was unbecoming for the girls to see men undressed, +the girls sprang aside. denísov hid his hairy legs under the blanket, +looking with a scared face at his comrade for help. the door, having let +pétya in, closed again. a sound of laughter came from behind it. +“nicholas! come out in your dressing gown!” said natásha’s voice. +“is this your saber?” asked pétya. “or is it yours?” he said, +addressing the black-mustached denísov with servile deference. +rostóv hurriedly put something on his feet, drew on his dressing gown, +and went out. natásha had put on one spurred boot and was just getting +her foot into the other. sónya, when he came in, was twirling round and +was about to expand her dresses into a balloon and sit down. they were +dressed alike, in new pale-blue frocks, and were both fresh, rosy, and +bright. sónya ran away, but natásha, taking her brother’s arm, led +him into the sitting room, where they began talking. they hardly gave +one another time to ask questions and give replies concerning a thousand +little matters which could not interest anyone but themselves. natásha +laughed at every word he said or that she said herself, not because what +they were saying was amusing, but because she felt happy and was unable +to control her joy which expressed itself by laughter. +“oh, how nice, how splendid!” she said to everything. +rostóv felt that, under the influence of the warm rays of love, that +childlike smile which had not once appeared on his face since he left +home now for the first time after eighteen months again brightened his +“no, but listen,” she said, “now you are quite a man, aren’t +you? i’m awfully glad you’re my brother.” she touched his +mustache. “i want to know what you men are like. are you the same as +“why did sónya run away?” asked rostóv. +“ah, yes! that’s a whole long story! how are you going to speak to +“no, call her you, please! i’ll tell you all about it some other +time. no, i’ll tell you now. you know sónya’s my dearest friend. +such a friend that i burned my arm for her sake. look here!” +she pulled up her muslin sleeve and showed him a red scar on her long, +slender, delicate arm, high above the elbow on that part that is covered +“i burned this to prove my love for her. i just heated a ruler in the +sitting on the sofa with the little cushions on its arms, in what used +to be his old schoolroom, and looking into natásha’s wildly bright +eyes, rostóv re-entered that world of home and childhood which had no +meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the best joys of his life; +and the burning of an arm with a ruler as a proof of love did not seem +to him senseless, he understood and was not surprised at it. +“we are such friends, such friends! all that ruler business was just +nonsense, but we are friends forever. she, if she loves anyone, does it +for life, but i don’t understand that, i forget quickly.” +“why, you remember before you went away?... well, she says you are to +forget all that.... she says: ‘i shall love him always, but let him be +free.’ isn’t that lovely and noble! yes, very noble? isn’t it?” +asked natásha, so seriously and excitedly that it was evident that what +she was now saying she had talked of before, with tears. +“i never go back on my word,” he said. “besides, sónya is so +charming that only a fool would renounce such happiness.” +“no, no!” cried natásha, “she and i have already talked it over. +we knew you’d say so. but it won’t do, because you see, if you say +that—if you consider yourself bound by your promise—it will seem as +if she had not meant it seriously. it makes it as if you were marrying +her because you must, and that wouldn’t do at all.” +rostóv saw that it had been well considered by them. sónya had already +struck him by her beauty on the preceding day. today, when he had caught +a glimpse of her, she seemed still more lovely. she was a charming girl +of sixteen, evidently passionately in love with him (he did not doubt +that for an instant). why should he not love her now, and even marry +her, rostóv thought, but just now there were so many other pleasures +and interests before him! “yes, they have taken a wise decision,” he +“well then, that’s excellent,” said he. “we’ll talk it over +later on. oh, how glad i am to have you!” +“well, and are you still true to borís?” he continued. +“oh, what nonsense!” cried natásha, laughing. “i don’t think +about him or anyone else, and i don’t want anything of the kind.” +“now?” repeated natásha, and a happy smile lit up her face. “have +curving her arms, natásha held out her skirts as dancers do, ran back +a few steps, turned, cut a caper, brought her little feet sharply +together, and made some steps on the very tips of her toes. +“see, i’m standing! see!” she said, but could not maintain herself +on her toes any longer. “so that’s what i’m up to! i’ll never +marry anyone, but will be a dancer. only don’t tell anyone.” +rostóv laughed so loud and merrily that denísov, in his bedroom, felt +envious and natásha could not help joining in. +“no, but don’t you think it’s nice?” she kept repeating. +natásha flared up. “i don’t want to marry anyone. and i’ll tell +“but that’s all rubbish,” natásha chattered on. “and is +“oh, well then, good-by: go and dress. is he very terrible, +“why terrible?” asked nicholas. “no, váska is a splendid +“you call him váska? that’s funny! and is he very nice?” +“well then, be quick. we’ll all have breakfast together.” +and natásha rose and went out of the room on tiptoe, like a ballet +dancer, but smiling as only happy girls of fifteen can smile. when +rostóv met sónya in the drawing room, he reddened. he did not know +how to behave with her. the evening before, in the first happy moment of +meeting, they had kissed each other, but today they felt it could not +be done; he felt that everybody, including his mother and sisters, was +looking inquiringly at him and watching to see how he would behave +with her. he kissed her hand and addressed her not as thou but as +you—sónya. but their eyes met and said thou, and exchanged tender +kisses. her looks asked him to forgive her for having dared, by +natásha’s intermediacy, to remind him of his promise, and then +thanked him for his love. his looks thanked her for offering him his +freedom and told her that one way or another he would never cease to +love her, for that would be impossible. +“how strange it is,” said véra, selecting a moment when all were +silent, “that sónya and nicholas now say you to one another and meet +véra’s remark was correct, as her remarks always were, but, like +most of her observations, it made everyone feel uncomfortable, not +only sónya, nicholas, and natásha, but even the old countess, +who—dreading this love affair which might hinder nicholas from making +denísov, to rostóv’s surprise, appeared in the drawing room with +pomaded hair, perfumed, and in a new uniform, looking just as smart as +he made himself when going into battle, and he was more amiable to the +ladies and gentlemen than rostóv had ever expected to see him. +on his return to moscow from the army, nicholas rostóv was welcomed +by his home circle as the best of sons, a hero, and their darling +nikólenka; by his relations as a charming, attractive, and polite young +man; by his acquaintances as a handsome lieutenant of hussars, a good +dancer, and one of the best matches in the city. +the rostóvs knew everybody in moscow. the old count had money enough +that year, as all his estates had been remortgaged, and so nicholas, +acquiring a trotter of his own, very stylish riding breeches of the +latest cut, such as no one else yet had in moscow, and boots of the +latest fashion, with extremely pointed toes and small silver spurs, +passed his time very gaily. after a short period of adapting himself +to the old conditions of life, nicholas found it very pleasant to be +at home again. he felt that he had grown up and matured very much. his +despair at failing in a scripture examination, his borrowing money from +gavríl to pay a sleigh driver, his kissing sónya on the sly—he now +recalled all this as childishness he had left immeasurably behind. +now he was a lieutenant of hussars, in a jacket laced with silver, and +wearing the cross of st. george, awarded to soldiers for bravery in +action, and in the company of well-known, elderly, and respected racing +men was training a trotter of his own for a race. he knew a lady on one +of the boulevards whom he visited of an evening. he led the mazurka +at the arkhárovs’ ball, talked about the war with field marshal +kámenski, visited the english club, and was on intimate terms with a +colonel of forty to whom denísov had introduced him. +his passion for the emperor had cooled somewhat in moscow. but still, as +he did not see him and had no opportunity of seeing him, he often spoke +about him and about his love for him, letting it be understood that he +had not told all and that there was something in his feelings for the +emperor not everyone could understand, and with his whole soul he shared +the adoration then common in moscow for the emperor, who was spoken of +during rostóv’s short stay in moscow, before rejoining the army, he +did not draw closer to sónya, but rather drifted away from her. she was +very pretty and sweet, and evidently deeply in love with him, but he was +at the period of youth when there seems so much to do that there is no +time for that sort of thing and a young man fears to bind himself and +prizes his freedom which he needs for so many other things. when he +thought of sónya, during this stay in moscow, he said to himself, +“ah, there will be, and there are, many more such girls somewhere whom +i do not yet know. there will be time enough to think about love when i +want to, but now i have no time.” besides, it seemed to him that the +society of women was rather derogatory to his manhood. he went to balls +and into ladies’ society with an affectation of doing so against his +will. the races, the english club, sprees with denísov, and visits to +a certain house—that was another matter and quite the thing for a +at the beginning of march, old count ilyá rostóv was very busy +arranging a dinner in honor of prince bagratión at the english club. +the count walked up and down the hall in his dressing gown, giving +orders to the club steward and to the famous feoktíst, the club’s +head cook, about asparagus, fresh cucumbers, strawberries, veal, and +fish for this dinner. the count had been a member and on the committee +of the club from the day it was founded. to him the club entrusted the +arrangement of the festival in honor of bagratión, for few men knew +so well how to arrange a feast on an open-handed, hospitable scale, +and still fewer men would be so well able and willing to make up out of +their own resources what might be needed for the success of the fete. +the club cook and the steward listened to the count’s orders with +pleased faces, for they knew that under no other management could they +so easily extract a good profit for themselves from a dinner costing +“well then, mind and have cocks’ comb in the turtle soup, you +“shall we have three cold dishes then?” asked the cook. +“we can’t have less—yes, three... the mayonnaise, that’s one,” +“then am i to order those large sterlets?” asked the steward. +“yes, it can’t be helped if they won’t take less. ah, dear me! i +was forgetting. we must have another entrée. ah, goodness gracious!” +he clutched at his head. “who is going to get me the flowers? dmítri! +eh, dmítri! gallop off to our moscow estate,” he said to the factotum +who appeared at his call. “hurry off and tell maksím, the gardener, +to set the serfs to work. say that everything out of the hothouses must +be brought here well wrapped up in felt. i must have two hundred pots +having given several more orders, he was about to go to his “little +countess” to have a rest, but remembering something else of +importance, he returned again, called back the cook and the club +steward, and again began giving orders. a light footstep and the +clinking of spurs were heard at the door, and the young count, handsome, +rosy, with a dark little mustache, evidently rested and made sleeker by +his easy life in moscow, entered the room. +“ah, my boy, my head’s in a whirl!” said the old man with a smile, +as if he felt a little confused before his son. “now, if you would +only help a bit! i must have singers too. i shall have my own orchestra, +but shouldn’t we get the gypsy singers as well? you military men like +“really, papa, i believe prince bagratión worried himself less before +the battle of schön grabern than you do now,” said his son with a +and the count turned to the cook, who, with a shrewd and respectful +expression, looked observantly and sympathetically at the father and +“what have the young people come to nowadays, eh, feoktíst?” said +“that’s so, your excellency, all they have to do is to eat a good +dinner, but providing it and serving it all up, that’s not their +“that’s it, that’s it!” exclaimed the count, and gaily seizing +his son by both hands, he cried, “now i’ve got you, so take the +sleigh and pair at once, and go to bezúkhov’s, and tell him ‘count +ilyá has sent you to ask for strawberries and fresh pineapples.’ we +can’t get them from anyone else. he’s not there himself, so you’ll +have to go in and ask the princesses; and from there go on to the +ilyúshka, the one who danced at count orlóv’s, you remember, in a +white cossack coat, and bring him along to me.” +“and am i to bring the gypsy girls along with him?” asked nicholas, +at that moment, with noiseless footsteps and with the businesslike, +preoccupied, yet meekly christian look which never left her face, anna +mikháylovna entered the hall. though she came upon the count in his +dressing gown every day, he invariably became confused and begged her to +“no matter at all, my dear count,” she said, meekly closing her +eyes. “but i’ll go to bezúkhov’s myself. pierre has arrived, and +now we shall get anything we want from his hothouses. i have to see him +in any case. he has forwarded me a letter from borís. thank god, borís +the count was delighted at anna mikháylovna’s taking upon herself one +of his commissions and ordered the small closed carriage for her. +“tell bezúkhov to come. i’ll put his name down. is his wife with +anna mikháylovna turned up her eyes, and profound sadness was depicted +“ah, my dear friend, he is very unfortunate,” she said. “if what +we hear is true, it is dreadful. how little we dreamed of such a thing +when we were rejoicing at his happiness! and such a lofty angelic soul +as young bezúkhov! yes, i pity him from my heart, and shall try to give +“wh-what is the matter?” asked both the young and old rostóv. +“dólokhov, mary ivánovna’s son,” she said in a mysterious +whisper, “has compromised her completely, they say. pierre took him +up, invited him to his house in petersburg, and now... she has come here +and that daredevil after her!” said anna mikháylovna, wishing to show +her sympathy for pierre, but by involuntary intonations and a half smile +betraying her sympathy for the “daredevil,” as she called dólokhov. +“they say pierre is quite broken by his misfortune.” +“dear, dear! but still tell him to come to the club—it will all blow +over. it will be a tremendous banquet.” +next day, the third of march, soon after one o’clock, two hundred and +fifty members of the english club and fifty guests were awaiting the +guest of honor and hero of the austrian campaign, prince bagratión, to +on the first arrival of the news of the battle of austerlitz, moscow had +been bewildered. at that time, the russians were so used to victories +that on receiving news of the defeat some would simply not believe it, +while others sought some extraordinary explanation of so strange an +event. in the english club, where all who were distinguished, important, +and well informed foregathered when the news began to arrive in +december, nothing was said about the war and the last battle, as +though all were in a conspiracy of silence. the men who set the tone +in conversation—count rostopchín, prince yúri dolgorúkov, valúev, +count markóv, and prince vyázemski—did not show themselves at the +club, but met in private houses in intimate circles, and the +moscovites who took their opinions from others—ilyá rostóv among +them—remained for a while without any definite opinion on the subject +of the war and without leaders. the moscovites felt that something was +wrong and that to discuss the bad news was difficult, and so it was best +to be silent. but after a while, just as a jury comes out of its room, +the bigwigs who guided the club’s opinion reappeared, and everybody +began speaking clearly and definitely. reasons were found for the +incredible, unheard-of, and impossible event of a russian defeat, +everything became clear, and in all corners of moscow the same things +began to be said. these reasons were the treachery of the austrians, a +defective commissariat, the treachery of the pole przebyszéwski and of +the frenchman langeron, kutúzov’s incapacity, and (it was whispered) +the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless +and insignificant people. but the army, the russian army, everyone +declared, was extraordinary and had achieved miracles of valor. the +soldiers, officers, and generals were heroes. but the hero of heroes was +prince bagratión, distinguished by his schön grabern affair and by +the retreat from austerlitz, where he alone had withdrawn his column +unbroken and had all day beaten back an enemy force twice as numerous +as his own. what also conduced to bagratión’s being selected as +moscow’s hero was the fact that he had no connections in the city +and was a stranger there. in his person, honor was shown to a simple +fighting russian soldier without connections and intrigues, and to one +who was associated by memories of the italian campaign with the name of +suvórov. moreover, paying such honor to bagratión was the best way of +expressing disapproval and dislike of kutúzov. +“had there been no bagratión, it would have been necessary to +invent him,” said the wit shinshín, parodying the words of voltaire. +kutúzov no one spoke of, except some who abused him in whispers, +calling him a court weathercock and an old satyr. +all moscow repeated prince dolgorúkov’s saying: “if you go on +modeling and modeling you must get smeared with clay,” suggesting +consolation for our defeat by the memory of former victories; and the +words of rostopchín, that french soldiers have to be incited to battle +by highfalutin words, and germans by logical arguments to show them +that it is more dangerous to run away than to advance, but that russian +soldiers only need to be restrained and held back! on all sides, new and +fresh anecdotes were heard of individual examples of heroism shown by +our officers and men at austerlitz. one had saved a standard, another +had killed five frenchmen, a third had loaded five cannon singlehanded. +berg was mentioned, by those who did not know him, as having, when +wounded in the right hand, taken his sword in the left, and gone +forward. of bolkónski, nothing was said, and only those who knew him +intimately regretted that he had died so young, leaving a pregnant wife +on that third of march, all the rooms in the english club were filled +with a hum of conversation, like the hum of bees swarming in springtime. +the members and guests of the club wandered hither and thither, sat, +stood, met, and separated, some in uniform and some in evening dress, +and a few here and there with powdered hair and in russian kaftáns. +powdered footmen, in livery with buckled shoes and smart stockings, +stood at every door anxiously noting visitors’ every movement in order +to offer their services. most of those present were elderly, respected +men with broad, self-confident faces, fat fingers, and resolute gestures +and voices. this class of guests and members sat in certain habitual +places and met in certain habitual groups. a minority of those present +were casual guests—chiefly young men, among whom were denísov, +rostóv, and dólokhov—who was now again an officer in the semënov +regiment. the faces of these young people, especially those who were +military men, bore that expression of condescending respect for their +elders which seems to say to the older generation, “we are prepared to +respect and honor you, but all the same remember that the future belongs +nesvítski was there as an old member of the club. pierre, who at his +wife’s command had let his hair grow and abandoned his spectacles, +went about the rooms fashionably dressed but looking sad and dull. here, +as elsewhere, he was surrounded by an atmosphere of subservience to +his wealth, and being in the habit of lording it over these people, he +treated them with absent-minded contempt. +by his age he should have belonged to the younger men, but by his wealth +and connections he belonged to the groups of old and honored guests, and +so he went from one group to another. some of the most important old men +were the center of groups which even strangers approached respectfully +to hear the voices of well-known men. the largest circles formed round +count rostopchín, valúev, and narýshkin. rostopchín was describing +how the russians had been overwhelmed by flying austrians and had had to +force their way through them with bayonets. +valúev was confidentially telling that uvárov had been sent from +petersburg to ascertain what moscow was thinking about austerlitz. +in the third circle, narýshkin was speaking of the meeting of the +austrian council of war at which suvórov crowed like a cock in reply to +the nonsense talked by the austrian generals. shinshín, standing close +by, tried to make a joke, saying that kutúzov had evidently failed to +learn from suvórov even so simple a thing as the art of crowing like a +cock, but the elder members glanced severely at the wit, making him +feel that in that place and on that day, it was improper to speak so of +count ilyá rostóv, hurried and preoccupied, went about in his soft +boots between the dining and drawing rooms, hastily greeting the +important and unimportant, all of whom he knew, as if they were all +equals, while his eyes occasionally sought out his fine well-set-up +young son, resting on him and winking joyfully at him. young rostóv +stood at a window with dólokhov, whose acquaintance he had lately +made and highly valued. the old count came up to them and pressed +“please come and visit us... you know my brave boy... been together +out there... both playing the hero... ah, vasíli ignátovich... +how d’ye do, old fellow?” he said, turning to an old man who was +passing, but before he had finished his greeting there was a general +stir, and a footman who had run in announced, with a frightened face: +bells rang, the stewards rushed forward, and—like rye shaken together +in a shovel—the guests who had been scattered about in different rooms +came together and crowded in the large drawing room by the door of the +bagratión appeared in the doorway of the anteroom without hat or sword, +which, in accord with the club custom, he had given up to the hall +porter. he had no lambskin cap on his head, nor had he a loaded whip +over his shoulder, as when rostóv had seen him on the eve of the battle +of austerlitz, but wore a tight new uniform with russian and foreign +orders, and the star of st. george on his left breast. evidently just +before coming to the dinner he had had his hair and whiskers trimmed, +which changed his appearance for the worse. there was something naïvely +festive in his air, which, in conjunction with his firm and virile +features, gave him a rather comical expression. bekleshëv and theodore +uvárov, who had arrived with him, paused at the doorway to allow him, +as the guest of honor, to enter first. bagratión was embarrassed, not +wishing to avail himself of their courtesy, and this caused some delay +at the doors, but after all he did at last enter first. he walked shyly +and awkwardly over the parquet floor of the reception room, not knowing +what to do with his hands; he was more accustomed to walk over a plowed +field under fire, as he had done at the head of the kursk regiment at +schön grabern—and he would have found that easier. the committeemen +met him at the first door and, expressing their delight at seeing such a +highly honored guest, took possession of him as it were, without waiting +for his reply, surrounded him, and led him to the drawing room. it was +at first impossible to enter the drawing room door for the crowd of +members and guests jostling one another and trying to get a good look +at bagratión over each other’s shoulders, as if he were some rare +animal. count ilyá rostóv, laughing and repeating the words, “make +way, dear boy! make way, make way!” pushed through the crowd more +energetically than anyone, led the guests into the drawing room, and +seated them on the center sofa. the bigwigs, the most respected members +of the club, beset the new arrivals. count ilyá, again thrusting his +way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a +minute later with another committeeman, carrying a large silver salver +which he presented to prince bagratión. on the salver lay some verses +composed and printed in the hero’s honor. bagratión, on seeing the +salver, glanced around in dismay, as though seeking help. but all eyes +demanded that he should submit. feeling himself in their power, he +resolutely took the salver with both hands and looked sternly and +reproachfully at the count who had presented it to him. someone +obligingly took the dish from bagratión (or he would, it seemed, have +held it till evening and have gone in to dinner with it) and drew his +“well, i will read them, then!” bagratión seemed to say, and, +fixing his weary eyes on the paper, began to read them with a fixed and +serious expression. but the author himself took the verses and began +reading them aloud. bagratión bowed his head and listened: + bring glory then to alexander’s reign + and on the throne our titus shield. + a dreaded foe be thou, kindhearted as a man, + a rhipheus at home, a caesar in the field! + e’en fortunate napoleon + knows by experience, now, bagratión, + and dare not herculean russians trouble... +but before he had finished reading, a stentorian major-domo announced +that dinner was ready! the door opened, and from the dining room came +and count rostóv, glancing angrily at the author who went on reading +his verses, bowed to bagratión. everyone rose, feeling that dinner +was more important than verses, and bagratión, again preceding all the +rest, went in to dinner. he was seated in the place of honor between +two alexanders—bekleshëv and narýshkin—which was a significant +allusion to the name of the sovereign. three hundred persons took their +seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the +more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows +just before dinner, count ilyá rostóv presented his son to bagratión, +who recognized him and said a few words to him, disjointed and awkward, +as were all the words he spoke that day, and count ilyá looked joyfully +and proudly around while bagratión spoke to his son. +nicholas rostóv, with denísov and his new acquaintance, dólokhov, sat +almost at the middle of the table. facing them sat pierre, beside prince +nesvítski. count ilyá rostóv with the other members of the committee +sat facing bagratión and, as the very personification of moscow +hospitality, did the honors to the prince. +his efforts had not been in vain. the dinner, both the lenten and the +other fare, was splendid, yet he could not feel quite at ease till the +end of the meal. he winked at the butler, whispered directions to the +footmen, and awaited each expected dish with some anxiety. everything +was excellent. with the second course, a gigantic sterlet (at sight of +which ilyá rostóv blushed with self-conscious pleasure), the footmen +began popping corks and filling the champagne glasses. after the fish, +which made a certain sensation, the count exchanged glances with +the other committeemen. “there will be many toasts, it’s time to +begin,” he whispered, and taking up his glass, he rose. all were +“to the health of our sovereign, the emperor!” he cried, and at the +same moment his kindly eyes grew moist with tears of joy and enthusiasm. +the band immediately struck up “conquest’s joyful thunder +waken...” all rose and cried “hurrah!” bagratión also rose and +shouted “hurrah!” in exactly the same voice in which he had shouted +it on the field at schön grabern. young rostóv’s ecstatic voice +could be heard above the three hundred others. he nearly wept. “to the +health of our sovereign, the emperor!” he roared, “hurrah!” and +emptying his glass at one gulp he dashed it to the floor. many followed +his example, and the loud shouting continued for a long time. when the +voices subsided, the footmen cleared away the broken glass and everybody +sat down again, smiling at the noise they had made and exchanging +remarks. the old count rose once more, glanced at a note lying beside +his plate, and proposed a toast, “to the health of the hero of our +last campaign, prince peter ivánovich bagratión!” and again his blue +eyes grew moist. “hurrah!” cried the three hundred voices again, +but instead of the band a choir began singing a cantata composed by paul + russians! o’er all barriers on! + he brings foemen to their knees,... etc. +as soon as the singing was over, another and another toast was proposed +and count ilyá rostóv became more and more moved, more glass was +smashed, and the shouting grew louder. they drank to bekleshëv, +narýshkin, uvárov, dolgorúkov, apráksin, valúev, to the committee, +to all the club members and to all the club guests, and finally to +count ilyá rostóv separately, as the organizer of the banquet. at that +toast, the count took out his handkerchief and, covering his face, wept +pierre sat opposite dólokhov and nicholas rostóv. as usual, he ate and +drank much, and eagerly. but those who knew him intimately noticed that +some great change had come over him that day. he was silent all through +dinner and looked about, blinking and scowling, or, with fixed eyes and +a look of complete absent-mindedness, kept rubbing the bridge of his +nose. his face was depressed and gloomy. he seemed to see and hear +nothing of what was going on around him and to be absorbed by some +the unsolved problem that tormented him was caused by hints given by the +princess, his cousin, at moscow, concerning dólokhov’s intimacy with +his wife, and by an anonymous letter he had received that morning, which +in the mean jocular way common to anonymous letters said that he saw +badly through his spectacles, but that his wife’s connection with +dólokhov was a secret to no one but himself. pierre absolutely +disbelieved both the princess’ hints and the letter, but he feared +now to look at dólokhov, who was sitting opposite him. every time +he chanced to meet dólokhov’s handsome insolent eyes, pierre felt +something terrible and monstrous rising in his soul and turned quickly +away. involuntarily recalling his wife’s past and her relations with +dólokhov, pierre saw clearly that what was said in the letter might be +true, or might at least seem to be true had it not referred to his wife. +he involuntarily remembered how dólokhov, who had fully recovered his +former position after the campaign, had returned to petersburg and come +to him. availing himself of his friendly relations with pierre as a boon +companion, dólokhov had come straight to his house, and pierre had put +him up and lent him money. pierre recalled how hélène had smilingly +expressed disapproval of dólokhov’s living at their house, and how +cynically dólokhov had praised his wife’s beauty to him and from that +time till they came to moscow had not left them for a day. +“yes, he is very handsome,” thought pierre, “and i know him. it +would be particularly pleasant to him to dishonor my name and ridicule +me, just because i have exerted myself on his behalf, befriended him, +and helped him. i know and understand what a spice that would add to the +pleasure of deceiving me, if it really were true. yes, if it were true, +but i do not believe it. i have no right to, and can’t, believe it.” +he remembered the expression dólokhov’s face assumed in his moments +of cruelty, as when tying the policeman to the bear and dropping them +into the water, or when he challenged a man to a duel without any +reason, or shot a post-boy’s horse with a pistol. that expression +was often on dólokhov’s face when looking at him. “yes, he is a +bully,” thought pierre, “to kill a man means nothing to him. it must +seem to him that everyone is afraid of him, and that must please him. +he must think that i, too, am afraid of him—and in fact i am afraid of +him,” he thought, and again he felt something terrible and monstrous +rising in his soul. dólokhov, denísov, and rostóv were now sitting +opposite pierre and seemed very gay. rostóv was talking merrily to his +two friends, one of whom was a dashing hussar and the other a notorious +duelist and rake, and every now and then he glanced ironically at +pierre, whose preoccupied, absent-minded, and massive figure was a very +noticeable one at the dinner. rostóv looked inimically at pierre, +first because pierre appeared to his hussar eyes as a rich civilian, the +husband of a beauty, and in a word—an old woman; and secondly because +pierre in his preoccupation and absent-mindedness had not recognized +rostóv and had not responded to his greeting. when the emperor’s +health was drunk, pierre, lost in thought, did not rise or lift his +“what are you about?” shouted rostóv, looking at him in an ecstasy +of exasperation. “don’t you hear it’s his majesty the emperor’s +pierre sighed, rose submissively, emptied his glass, and, waiting till +all were seated again, turned with his kindly smile to rostóv. +“why, i didn’t recognize you!” he said. but rostóv was otherwise +“why don’t you renew the acquaintance?” said dólokhov to rostóv. +“one should make up to the husbands of pretty women,” said denísov. +pierre did not catch what they were saying, but knew they were talking +about him. he reddened and turned away. +“well, now to the health of handsome women!” said dólokhov, and +with a serious expression, but with a smile lurking at the corners of +his mouth, he turned with his glass to pierre. +“here’s to the health of lovely women, peterkin—and their +pierre, with downcast eyes, drank out of his glass without looking at +dólokhov or answering him. the footman, who was distributing leaflets +with kutúzov’s cantata, laid one before pierre as one of the +principal guests. he was just going to take it when dólokhov, leaning +across, snatched it from his hand and began reading it. pierre looked +at dólokhov and his eyes dropped, the something terrible and monstrous +that had tormented him all dinnertime rose and took possession of him. +he leaned his whole massive body across the table. +hearing that cry and seeing to whom it was addressed, nesvítski and the +neighbor on his right quickly turned in alarm to bezúkhov. +“don’t! don’t! what are you about?” whispered their frightened +dólokhov looked at pierre with clear, mirthful, cruel eyes, and that +smile of his which seemed to say, “ah! this is what i like!” +“you shan’t have it!” he said distinctly. +pale, with quivering lips, pierre snatched the copy. +“you...! you... scoundrel! i challenge you!” he ejaculated, and, +pushing back his chair, he rose from the table. +at the very instant he did this and uttered those words, pierre felt +that the question of his wife’s guilt which had been tormenting him +the whole day was finally and indubitably answered in the affirmative. +he hated her and was forever sundered from her. despite denísov’s +request that he would take no part in the matter, rostóv agreed to be +dólokhov’s second, and after dinner he discussed the arrangements for +the duel with nesvítski, bezúkhov’s second. pierre went home, but +rostóv with dólokhov and denísov stayed on at the club till late, +“well then, till tomorrow at sokólniki,” said dólokhov, as he took +“well, you see, i’ll tell you the whole secret of dueling in two +words. if you are going to fight a duel, and you make a will and write +affectionate letters to your parents, and if you think you may be +killed, you are a fool and are lost for certain. but go with the firm +intention of killing your man as quickly and surely as possible, and +then all will be right, as our bear huntsman at kostromá used to tell +me. ‘everyone fears a bear,’ he says, ‘but when you see one your +fear’s all gone, and your only thought is not to let him get away!’ +and that’s how it is with me. À demain, mon cher.” * + * till tomorrow, my dear fellow. +next day, at eight in the morning, pierre and nesvítski drove to the +sokólniki forest and found dólokhov, denísov, and rostóv already +there. pierre had the air of a man preoccupied with considerations which +had no connection with the matter in hand. his haggard face was yellow. +he had evidently not slept that night. he looked about distractedly and +screwed up his eyes as if dazzled by the sun. he was entirely absorbed +by two considerations: his wife’s guilt, of which after his sleepless +night he had not the slightest doubt, and the guiltlessness of +dólokhov, who had no reason to preserve the honor of a man who was +nothing to him.... “i should perhaps have done the same thing in his +place,” thought pierre. “it’s even certain that i should have done +the same, then why this duel, this murder? either i shall kill him, or +he will hit me in the head, or elbow, or knee. can’t i go away from +here, run away, bury myself somewhere?” passed through his mind. but +just at moments when such thoughts occurred to him, he would ask in a +particularly calm and absent-minded way, which inspired the respect of +when all was ready, the sabers stuck in the snow to mark the barriers, +and the pistols loaded, nesvítski went up to pierre. +“i should not be doing my duty, count,” he said in timid tones, +“and should not justify your confidence and the honor you have done +me in choosing me for your second, if at this grave, this very +grave, moment i did not tell you the whole truth. i think there is no +sufficient ground for this affair, or for blood to be shed over it.... +you were not right, not quite in the right, you were impetuous...” +“oh yes, it is horribly stupid,” said pierre. +“then allow me to express your regrets, and i am sure your opponent +will accept them,” said nesvítski (who like the others concerned in +the affair, and like everyone in similar cases, did not yet believe that +the affair had come to an actual duel). “you know, count, it is much +more honorable to admit one’s mistake than to let matters become +irreparable. there was no insult on either side. allow me to +“no! what is there to talk about?” said pierre. “it’s all the +same.... is everything ready?” he added. “only tell me where to go +and where to shoot,” he said with an unnaturally gentle smile. +he took the pistol in his hand and began asking about the working of the +trigger, as he had not before held a pistol in his hand—a fact that he +“oh yes, like that, i know, i only forgot,” said he. +“no apologies, none whatever,” said dólokhov to denísov (who on +his side had been attempting a reconciliation), and he also went up to +the spot chosen for the duel was some eighty paces from the road, +where the sleighs had been left, in a small clearing in the pine forest +covered with melting snow, the frost having begun to break up during the +last few days. the antagonists stood forty paces apart at the farther +edge of the clearing. the seconds, measuring the paces, left tracks in +the deep wet snow between the place where they had been standing and +nesvítski’s and dólokhov’s sabers, which were stuck into the +ground ten paces apart to mark the barrier. it was thawing and misty; at +forty paces’ distance nothing could be seen. for three minutes all had +been ready, but they still delayed and all were silent. +“all right,” said pierre, still smiling in the same way. a feeling +of dread was in the air. it was evident that the affair so lightly begun +could no longer be averted but was taking its course independently of +denísov first went to the barrier and announced: “as the +adve’sawies have wefused a weconciliation, please pwoceed. take your +pistols, and at the word thwee begin to advance. +“o-ne! t-wo! thwee!” he shouted angrily and stepped aside. +the combatants advanced along the trodden tracks, nearer and nearer to +one another, beginning to see one another through the mist. they had the +right to fire when they liked as they approached the barrier. dólokhov +walked slowly without raising his pistol, looking intently with his +bright, sparkling blue eyes into his antagonist’s face. his mouth wore +“so i can fire when i like!” said pierre, and at the word +“three,” he went quickly forward, missing the trodden path and +stepping into the deep snow. he held the pistol in his right hand at +arm’s length, apparently afraid of shooting himself with it. his left +hand he held carefully back, because he wished to support his right +hand with it and knew he must not do so. having advanced six paces and +strayed off the track into the snow, pierre looked down at his feet, +then quickly glanced at dólokhov and, bending his finger as he had been +shown, fired. not at all expecting so loud a report, pierre shuddered +at the sound and then, smiling at his own sensations, stood still. the +smoke, rendered denser by the mist, prevented him from seeing anything +for an instant, but there was no second report as he had expected. he +only heard dólokhov’s hurried steps, and his figure came in view +through the smoke. he was pressing one hand to his left side, while +the other clutched his drooping pistol. his face was pale. rostóv ran +“no-o-o!” muttered dólokhov through his teeth, “no, it’s not +over.” and after stumbling a few staggering steps right up to the +saber, he sank on the snow beside it. his left hand was bloody; he wiped +it on his coat and supported himself with it. his frowning face was +“plea...” began dólokhov, but could not at first pronounce the +pierre, hardly restraining his sobs, began running toward dólokhov and +was about to cross the space between the barriers, when dólokhov cried: +“to your barrier!” and pierre, grasping what was meant, stopped by +his saber. only ten paces divided them. dólokhov lowered his head to +the snow, greedily bit at it, again raised his head, adjusted himself, +drew in his legs and sat up, seeking a firm center of gravity. he sucked +and swallowed the cold snow, his lips quivered but his eyes, still +smiling, glittered with effort and exasperation as he mustered his +remaining strength. he raised his pistol and aimed. +“sideways! cover yourself with your pistol!” ejaculated nesvítski. +“cover yourself!” even denísov cried to his adversary. +pierre, with a gentle smile of pity and remorse, his arms and legs +helplessly spread out, stood with his broad chest directly facing +dólokhov and looked sorrowfully at him. denísov, rostóv, and +nesvítski closed their eyes. at the same instant they heard a report +“missed!” shouted dólokhov, and he lay helplessly, face downwards +pierre clutched his temples, and turning round went into the forest, +trampling through the deep snow, and muttering incoherent words: +“folly... folly! death... lies...” he repeated, puckering his face. +nesvítski stopped him and took him home. +rostóv and denísov drove away with the wounded dólokhov. +the latter lay silent in the sleigh with closed eyes and did not answer +a word to the questions addressed to him. but on entering moscow he +suddenly came to and, lifting his head with an effort, took rostóv, who +was sitting beside him, by the hand. rostóv was struck by the +totally altered and unexpectedly rapturous and tender expression on +“bad! but it’s not that, my friend—” said dólokhov with a +gasping voice. “where are we? in moscow, i know. i don’t matter, +but i have killed her, killed... she won’t get over it! she won’t +“my mother! my mother, my angel, my adored angel mother,” and +dólokhov pressed rostóv’s hand and burst into tears. +when he had become a little quieter, he explained to rostóv that he was +living with his mother, who, if she saw him dying, would not survive it. +he implored rostóv to go on and prepare her. +rostóv went on ahead to do what was asked, and to his great surprise +learned that dólokhov the brawler, dólokhov the bully, lived in moscow +with an old mother and a hunchback sister, and was the most affectionate +pierre had of late rarely seen his wife alone. both in petersburg and in +moscow their house was always full of visitors. the night after the +duel he did not go to his bedroom but, as he often did, remained in his +father’s room, that huge room in which count bezúkhov had died. +he lay down on the sofa meaning to fall asleep and forget all that +had happened to him, but could not do so. such a storm of feelings, +thoughts, and memories suddenly arose within him that he could not fall +asleep, nor even remain in one place, but had to jump up and pace the +room with rapid steps. now he seemed to see her in the early days of +their marriage, with bare shoulders and a languid, passionate look on +her face, and then immediately he saw beside her dólokhov’s handsome, +insolent, hard, and mocking face as he had seen it at the banquet, and +then that same face pale, quivering, and suffering, as it had been when +he reeled and sank on the snow. +“what has happened?” he asked himself. “i have killed her lover, +yes, killed my wife’s lover. yes, that was it! and why? how did i come +to do it?”—“because you married her,” answered an inner voice. +“but in what was i to blame?” he asked. “in marrying her without +loving her; in deceiving yourself and her.” and he vividly recalled +that moment after supper at prince vasíli’s, when he spoke those +words he had found so difficult to utter: “i love you.” “it all +comes from that! even then i felt it,” he thought. “i felt then that +it was not so, that i had no right to do it. and so it turns out.” +he remembered his honeymoon and blushed at the recollection. +particularly vivid, humiliating, and shameful was the recollection of +how one day soon after his marriage he came out of the bedroom into his +study a little before noon in his silk dressing gown and found his head +steward there, who, bowing respectfully, looked into his face and at +his dressing gown and smiled slightly, as if expressing respectful +“but how often i have felt proud of her, proud of her majestic beauty +and social tact,” thought he; “been proud of my house, in which she +received all petersburg, proud of her unapproachability and beauty. so +this is what i was proud of! i then thought that i did not understand +her. how often when considering her character i have told myself that +i was to blame for not understanding her, for not understanding that +constant composure and complacency and lack of all interests or desires, +and the whole secret lies in the terrible truth that she is a depraved +woman. now i have spoken that terrible word to myself all has become +“anatole used to come to borrow money from her and used to kiss her +naked shoulders. she did not give him the money, but let herself be +kissed. her father in jest tried to rouse her jealousy, and she replied +with a calm smile that she was not so stupid as to be jealous: ‘let +him do what he pleases,’ she used to say of me. one day i asked her if +she felt any symptoms of pregnancy. she laughed contemptuously and said +she was not a fool to want to have children, and that she was not going +then he recalled the coarseness and bluntness of her thoughts and the +vulgarity of the expressions that were natural to her, though she had +been brought up in the most aristocratic circles. +“i’m not such a fool.... just you try it on.... allez-vous +promener,” * she used to say. often seeing the success she had with +young and old men and women pierre could not understand why he did not +“yes, i never loved her,” said he to himself; “i knew she was a +depraved woman,” he repeated, “but dared not admit it to myself. +and now there’s dólokhov sitting in the snow with a forced smile and +perhaps dying, while meeting my remorse with some forced bravado!” +pierre was one of those people who, in spite of an appearance of what +is called weak character, do not seek a confidant in their troubles. he +“it is all, all her fault,” he said to himself; “but what of that? +why did i bind myself to her? why did i say ‘je vous aime’ * to her, +which was a lie, and worse than a lie? i am guilty and must endure... +what? a slur on my name? a misfortune for life? oh, that’s +nonsense,” he thought. “the slur on my name and honor—that’s all +“louis xvi was executed because they said he was dishonorable and a +criminal,” came into pierre’s head, “and from their point of +view they were right, as were those too who canonized him and died a +martyr’s death for his sake. then robespierre was beheaded for being +a despot. who is right and who is wrong? no one! but if you are +alive—live: tomorrow you’ll die as i might have died an hour ago. +and is it worth tormenting oneself, when one has only a moment of life +but at the moment when he imagined himself calmed by such reflections, +she suddenly came into his mind as she was at the moments when he had +most strongly expressed his insincere love for her, and he felt the +blood rush to his heart and had again to get up and move about and break +and tear whatever came to his hand. “why did i tell her that ‘je +vous aime’?” he kept repeating to himself. and when he had said it +for the tenth time, molière’s words: “mais que diable allait-il +faire dans cette galère?” * occurred to him, and he began to laugh at + * “but what the devil was he doing in that galley?” +in the night he called his valet and told him to pack up to go to +petersburg. he could not imagine how he could speak to her now. he +resolved to go away next day and leave a letter informing her of his +intention to part from her forever. +next morning when the valet came into the room with his coffee, pierre +was lying asleep on the ottoman with an open book in his hand. +he woke up and looked round for a while with a startled expression, +“the countess told me to inquire whether your excellency was at +but before pierre could decide what answer he would send, the countess +herself in a white satin dressing gown embroidered with silver and with +simply dressed hair (two immense plaits twice round her lovely head like +a coronet) entered the room, calm and majestic, except that there was +a wrathful wrinkle on her rather prominent marble brow. with her +imperturbable calm she did not begin to speak in front of the valet. +she knew of the duel and had come to speak about it. she waited till the +valet had set down the coffee things and left the room. pierre looked +at her timidly over his spectacles, and like a hare surrounded by hounds +who lays back her ears and continues to crouch motionless before her +enemies, he tried to continue reading. but feeling this to be senseless +and impossible, he again glanced timidly at her. she did not sit down +but looked at him with a contemptuous smile, waiting for the valet to +“well, what’s this now? what have you been up to now, i should like +“i? what have i...?” stammered pierre. +“so it seems you’re a hero, eh? come now, what was this duel about? +pierre turned over heavily on the ottoman and opened his mouth, but +“if you won’t answer, i’ll tell you...” hélène went on. “you +believe everything you’re told. you were told...” hélène laughed, +“that dólokhov was my lover,” she said in french with her coarse +plainness of speech, uttering the word amant as casually as any other +word, “and you believed it! well, what have you proved? what does this +duel prove? that you’re a fool, que vous êtes un sot, but everybody +knew that. what will be the result? that i shall be the laughingstock of +all moscow, that everyone will say that you, drunk and not knowing what +you were about, challenged a man you are jealous of without cause.” +hélène raised her voice and became more and more excited, “a man +who’s a better man than you in every way...” +“hm... hm...!” growled pierre, frowning without looking at her, and +“and how could you believe he was my lover? why? because i like +his company? if you were cleverer and more agreeable, i should prefer +“don’t speak to me... i beg you,” muttered pierre hoarsely. +“why shouldn’t i speak? i can speak as i like, and i tell you +plainly that there are not many wives with husbands such as you who +would not have taken lovers (des amants), but i have not done so,” +pierre wished to say something, looked at her with eyes whose strange +expression she did not understand, and lay down again. he was suffering +physically at that moment, there was a weight on his chest and he could +not breathe. he knew that he must do something to put an end to this +suffering, but what he wanted to do was too terrible. +“we had better separate,” he muttered in a broken voice. +“separate? very well, but only if you give me a fortune,” said +hélène. “separate! that’s a thing to frighten me with!” +pierre leaped up from the sofa and rushed staggering toward her. +“i’ll kill you!” he shouted, and seizing the marble top of a table +with a strength he had never before felt, he made a step toward her +hélène’s face became terrible, she shrieked and sprang aside. his +father’s nature showed itself in pierre. he felt the fascination and +delight of frenzy. he flung down the slab, broke it, and swooping +down on her with outstretched hands shouted, “get out!” in such a +terrible voice that the whole house heard it with horror. god knows what +he would have done at that moment had hélène not fled from the room. +a week later pierre gave his wife full power to control all his estates +in great russia, which formed the larger part of his property, and left +two months had elapsed since the news of the battle of austerlitz and +the loss of prince andrew had reached bald hills, and in spite of the +letters sent through the embassy and all the searches made, his body had +not been found nor was he on the list of prisoners. what was worst of +all for his relations was the fact that there was still a possibility of +his having been picked up on the battlefield by the people of the +place and that he might now be lying, recovering or dying, alone among +strangers and unable to send news of himself. the gazettes from which +the old prince first heard of the defeat at austerlitz stated, as usual +very briefly and vaguely, that after brilliant engagements the russians +had had to retreat and had made their withdrawal in perfect order. the +old prince understood from this official report that our army had been +defeated. a week after the gazette report of the battle of austerlitz +came a letter from kutúzov informing the prince of the fate that had +“your son,” wrote kutúzov, “fell before my eyes, a standard in +his hand and at the head of a regiment—he fell as a hero, worthy of +his father and his fatherland. to the great regret of myself and of the +whole army it is still uncertain whether he is alive or not. i comfort +myself and you with the hope that your son is alive, for otherwise +he would have been mentioned among the officers found on the field of +battle, a list of whom has been sent me under flag of truce.” +after receiving this news late in the evening, when he was alone in his +study, the old prince went for his walk as usual next morning, but he +was silent with his steward, the gardener, and the architect, and though +he looked very grim he said nothing to anyone. +when princess mary went to him at the usual hour he was working at his +lathe and, as usual, did not look round at her. +“ah, princess mary!” he said suddenly in an unnatural voice, +throwing down his chisel. (the wheel continued to revolve by its own +impetus, and princess mary long remembered the dying creak of that +wheel, which merged in her memory with what followed.) +she approached him, saw his face, and something gave way within her. her +eyes grew dim. by the expression of her father’s face, not sad, not +crushed, but angry and working unnaturally, she saw that hanging over +her and about to crush her was some terrible misfortune, the worst +in life, one she had not yet experienced, irreparable and +“father! andrew!”—said the ungraceful, awkward princess with such +an indescribable charm of sorrow and self-forgetfulness that her father +could not bear her look but turned away with a sob. +“bad news! he’s not among the prisoners nor among the killed! +kutúzov writes...” and he screamed as piercingly as if he wished to +drive the princess away by that scream... “killed!” +the princess did not fall down or faint. she was already pale, but on +hearing these words her face changed and something brightened in her +beautiful, radiant eyes. it was as if joy—a supreme joy apart from the +joys and sorrows of this world—overflowed the great grief within her. +she forgot all fear of her father, went up to him, took his hand, and +drawing him down put her arm round his thin, scraggy neck. +“father,” she said, “do not turn away from me, let us weep +“scoundrels! blackguards!” shrieked the old man, turning his face +away from her. “destroying the army, destroying the men! and why? go, +the princess sank helplessly into an armchair beside her father and +wept. she saw her brother now as he had been at the moment when he took +leave of her and of lise, his look tender yet proud. she saw him tender +and amused as he was when he put on the little icon. “did he believe? +had he repented of his unbelief? was he now there? there in the realms +of eternal peace and blessedness?” she thought. +“father, tell me how it happened,” she asked through her tears. +“go! go! killed in battle, where the best of russian men and +russia’s glory were led to destruction. go, princess mary. go and tell +when princess mary returned from her father, the little princess sat +working and looked up with that curious expression of inner, happy calm +peculiar to pregnant women. it was evident that her eyes did not see +princess mary but were looking within... into herself... at something +“mary,” she said, moving away from the embroidery frame and lying +back, “give me your hand.” she took her sister-in-law’s hand and +her eyes were smiling expectantly, her downy lip rose and remained +princess mary knelt down before her and hid her face in the folds of her +“there, there! do you feel it? i feel so strange. and do you know, +mary, i am going to love him very much,” said lise, looking with +bright and happy eyes at her sister-in-law. +princess mary could not lift her head, she was weeping. +“nothing... only i feel sad... sad about andrew,” she said, wiping +away her tears on her sister-in-law’s knee. +several times in the course of the morning princess mary began trying to +prepare her sister-in-law, and every time began to cry. unobservant as +was the little princess, these tears, the cause of which she did not +understand, agitated her. she said nothing but looked about uneasily as +if in search of something. before dinner the old prince, of whom she was +always afraid, came into her room with a peculiarly restless and malign +expression and went out again without saying a word. she looked at +princess mary, then sat thinking for a while with that expression of +attention to something within her that is only seen in pregnant women, +“no, you know it’s too soon for news. but my father is anxious and i +“nothing,” answered princess mary, looking firmly with her radiant +she had determined not to tell her and persuaded her father to hide the +terrible news from her till after her confinement, which was expected +within a few days. princess mary and the old prince each bore and hid +their grief in their own way. the old prince would not cherish any hope: +he made up his mind that prince andrew had been killed, and though he +sent an official to austria to seek for traces of his son, he ordered a +monument from moscow which he intended to erect in his own garden to his +memory, and he told everybody that his son had been killed. he tried not +to change his former way of life, but his strength failed him. he walked +less, ate less, slept less, and became weaker every day. princess mary +hoped. she prayed for her brother as living and was always awaiting news +“dearest,” said the little princess after breakfast on the morning +of the nineteenth march, and her downy little lip rose from old habit, +but as sorrow was manifest in every smile, the sound of every word, and +even every footstep in that house since the terrible news had come, so +now the smile of the little princess—influenced by the general mood +though without knowing its cause—was such as to remind one still more +“dearest, i’m afraid this morning’s fruschtique *—as fóka the +“what is the matter with you, my darling? you look pale. oh, you +are very pale!” said princess mary in alarm, running with her soft, +ponderous steps up to her sister-in-law. +“your excellency, should not mary bogdánovna be sent for?” said one +of the maids who was present. (mary bogdánovna was a midwife from the +neighboring town, who had been at bald hills for the last fortnight.) +“oh yes,” assented princess mary, “perhaps that’s it. i’ll go. +courage, my angel.” she kissed lise and was about to leave the room. +“oh, no, no!” and besides the pallor and the physical suffering +on the little princess’ face, an expression of childish fear of +“no, it’s only indigestion?... say it’s only indigestion, say so, +mary! say...” and the little princess began to cry capriciously like +a suffering child and to wring her little hands even with some +affectation. princess mary ran out of the room to fetch mary +“mon dieu! mon dieu! oh!” she heard as she left the room. +the midwife was already on her way to meet her, rubbing her small, plump +“mary bogdánovna, i think it’s beginning!” said princess mary +looking at the midwife with wide-open eyes of alarm. +“well, the lord be thanked, princess,” said mary bogdánovna, not +hastening her steps. “you young ladies should not know anything about +“but how is it the doctor from moscow is not here yet?” said the +princess. (in accordance with lise’s and prince andrew’s wishes they +had sent in good time to moscow for a doctor and were expecting him at +“no matter, princess, don’t be alarmed,” said mary bogdánovna. +five minutes later princess mary from her room heard something heavy +being carried by. she looked out. the men servants were carrying the +large leather sofa from prince andrew’s study into the bedroom. on +princess mary sat alone in her room listening to the sounds in the +house, now and then opening her door when someone passed and watching +what was going on in the passage. some women passing with quiet steps in +and out of the bedroom glanced at the princess and turned away. she did +not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting +down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before +the icon stand. to her surprise and distress she found that her prayers +did not calm her excitement. suddenly her door opened softly and her old +nurse, praskóvya sávishna, who hardly ever came to that room as the +old prince had forbidden it, appeared on the threshold with a shawl +“i’ve come to sit with you a bit, másha,” said the nurse, “and +here i’ve brought the prince’s wedding candles to light before his +the nurse lit the gilt candles before the icons and sat down by the door +with her knitting. princess mary took a book and began reading. only +when footsteps or voices were heard did they look at one another, the +princess anxious and inquiring, the nurse encouraging. everyone in the +house was dominated by the same feeling that princess mary experienced +as she sat in her room. but owing to the superstition that the fewer +the people who know of it the less a woman in travail suffers, everyone +tried to pretend not to know; no one spoke of it, but apart from the +ordinary staid and respectful good manners habitual in the prince’s +household, a common anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a +consciousness that something great and mysterious was being accomplished +at that moment made itself felt. +there was no laughter in the maids’ large hall. in the men servants’ +hall all sat waiting, silently and alert. in the outlying serfs’ +quarters torches and candles were burning and no one slept. the old +prince, stepping on his heels, paced up and down his study and sent +tíkhon to ask mary bogdánovna what news.—“say only that ‘the +prince told me to ask,’ and come and tell me her answer.” +“inform the prince that labor has begun,” said mary bogdánovna, +giving the messenger a significant look. +“very good!” said the prince closing the door behind him, and +tíkhon did not hear the slightest sound from the study after that. +after a while he re-entered it as if to snuff the candles, and, seeing +the prince was lying on the sofa, looked at him, noticed his perturbed +face, shook his head, and going up to him silently kissed him on the +shoulder and left the room without snuffing the candles or saying why he +had entered. the most solemn mystery in the world continued its course. +evening passed, night came, and the feeling of suspense and softening of +heart in the presence of the unfathomable did not lessen but increased. +it was one of those march nights when winter seems to wish to resume its +sway and scatters its last snows and storms with desperate fury. a relay +of horses had been sent up the highroad to meet the german doctor from +moscow who was expected every moment, and men on horseback with lanterns +were sent to the crossroads to guide him over the country road with its +princess mary had long since put aside her book: she sat silent, her +luminous eyes fixed on her nurse’s wrinkled face (every line of which +she knew so well), on the lock of gray hair that escaped from under the +kerchief, and the loose skin that hung under her chin. +nurse sávishna, knitting in hand, was telling in low tones, scarcely +hearing or understanding her own words, what she had told hundreds of +times before: how the late princess had given birth to princess mary +in kishenëv with only a moldavian peasant woman to help instead of a +“god is merciful, doctors are never needed,” she said. +suddenly a gust of wind beat violently against the casement of the +window, from which the double frame had been removed (by order of the +prince, one window frame was removed in each room as soon as the larks +returned), and, forcing open a loosely closed latch, set the damask +curtain flapping and blew out the candle with its chill, snowy draft. +princess mary shuddered; her nurse, putting down the stocking she was +knitting, went to the window and leaning out tried to catch the open +casement. the cold wind flapped the ends of her kerchief and her loose +“princess, my dear, there’s someone driving up the avenue!” she +said, holding the casement and not closing it. “with lanterns. most +“oh, my god! thank god!” said princess mary. “i must go and meet +princess mary threw a shawl over her head and ran to meet the newcomer. +as she was crossing the anteroom she saw through the window a carriage +with lanterns, standing at the entrance. she went out on the stairs. on +a banister post stood a tallow candle which guttered in the draft. on +the landing below, philip, the footman, stood looking scared and holding +another candle. still lower, beyond the turn of the staircase, one +could hear the footstep of someone in thick felt boots, and a voice that +seemed familiar to princess mary was saying something. +“gone to bed,” replied the voice of demyán the house steward, who +then the voice said something more, demyán replied, and the steps in +the felt boots approached the unseen bend of the staircase more rapidly. +“it’s andrew!” thought princess mary. “no it can’t be, that +would be too extraordinary,” and at the very moment she thought this, +the face and figure of prince andrew, in a fur cloak the deep collar of +which covered with snow, appeared on the landing where the footman +stood with the candle. yes, it was he, pale, thin, with a changed and +strangely softened but agitated expression on his face. he came up the +“you did not get my letter?” he asked, and not waiting for a +reply—which he would not have received, for the princess was unable to +speak—he turned back, rapidly mounted the stairs again with the +doctor who had entered the hall after him (they had met at the last post +station), and again embraced his sister. +“what a strange fate, másha darling!” and having taken off his +cloak and felt boots, he went to the little princess’ apartment. +the little princess lay supported by pillows, with a white cap on her +head (the pains had just left her). strands of her black hair lay round +her inflamed and perspiring cheeks, her charming rosy mouth with its +downy lip was open and she was smiling joyfully. prince andrew entered +and paused facing her at the foot of the sofa on which she was lying. +her glittering eyes, filled with childlike fear and excitement, rested +on him without changing their expression. “i love you all and have +done no harm to anyone; why must i suffer so? help me!” her look +seemed to say. she saw her husband, but did not realize the significance +of his appearance before her now. prince andrew went round the sofa and +kissed her forehead. +“my darling!” he said—a word he had never used to her before. +she looked at him inquiringly and with childlike reproach. +“i expected help from you and i get none, none from you either!” +said her eyes. she was not surprised at his having come; she did +not realize that he had come. his coming had nothing to do with +her sufferings or with their relief. the pangs began again and mary +bogdánovna advised prince andrew to leave the room. +the doctor entered. prince andrew went out and, meeting princess mary, +again joined her. they began talking in whispers, but their talk broke +off at every moment. they waited and listened. +prince andrew went again to his wife and sat waiting in the room next +to hers. a woman came from the bedroom with a frightened face and became +confused when she saw prince andrew. he covered his face with his hands +and remained so for some minutes. piteous, helpless, animal moans came +through the door. prince andrew got up, went to the door, and tried to +“you can’t come in! you can’t!” said a terrified voice from +he began pacing the room. the screaming ceased, and a few more seconds +went by. then suddenly a terrible shriek—it could not be hers, she +could not scream like that—came from the bedroom. prince andrew ran to +the door; the scream ceased and he heard the wail of an infant. +“what have they taken a baby in there for?” thought prince andrew in +the first second. “a baby? what baby...? why is there a baby there? or +then suddenly he realized the joyful significance of that wail; tears +choked him, and leaning his elbows on the window sill he began to cry, +sobbing like a child. the door opened. the doctor with his shirt sleeves +tucked up, without a coat, pale and with a trembling jaw, came out +of the room. prince andrew turned to him, but the doctor gave him a +bewildered look and passed by without a word. a woman rushed out and +seeing prince andrew stopped, hesitating on the threshold. he went into +his wife’s room. she was lying dead, in the same position he had seen +her in five minutes before and, despite the fixed eyes and the pallor of +the cheeks, the same expression was on her charming childlike face with +“i love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you +done to me?”—said her charming, pathetic, dead face. +in a corner of the room something red and tiny gave a grunt and squealed +two hours later prince andrew, stepping softly, went into his father’s +room. the old man already knew everything. he was standing close to +the door and as soon as it opened his rough old arms closed like a vise +round his son’s neck, and without a word he began to sob like a child. +three days later the little princess was buried, and prince andrew went +up the steps to where the coffin stood, to give her the farewell kiss. +and there in the coffin was the same face, though with closed eyes. +“ah, what have you done to me?” it still seemed to say, and prince +andrew felt that something gave way in his soul and that he was guilty +of a sin he could neither remedy nor forget. he could not weep. the +old man too came up and kissed the waxen little hands that lay quietly +crossed one on the other on her breast, and to him, too, her face seemed +to say: “ah, what have you done to me, and why?” and at the sight +another five days passed, and then the young prince nicholas andréevich +was baptized. the wet nurse supported the coverlet with her chin, while +the priest with a goose feather anointed the boy’s little red and +his grandfather, who was his godfather, trembling and afraid of dropping +him, carried the infant round the battered tin font and handed him over +to the godmother, princess mary. prince andrew sat in another room, +faint with fear lest the baby should be drowned in the font, and awaited +the termination of the ceremony. he looked up joyfully at the baby when +the nurse brought it to him and nodded approval when she told him that +the wax with the baby’s hair had not sunk in the font but had floated. +rostóv’s share in dólokhov’s duel with bezúkhov was hushed up by +the efforts of the old count, and instead of being degraded to the ranks +as he expected he was appointed an adjutant to the governor general of +moscow. as a result he could not go to the country with the rest of the +family, but was kept all summer in moscow by his new duties. dólokhov +recovered, and rostóv became very friendly with him during his +convalescence. dólokhov lay ill at his mother’s who loved him +passionately and tenderly, and old mary ivánovna, who had grown fond of +rostóv for his friendship to her fédya, often talked to him about her +“yes, count,” she would say, “he is too noble and pure-souled for +our present, depraved world. no one now loves virtue; it seems like +a reproach to everyone. now tell me, count, was it right, was it +honorable, of bezúkhov? and fédya, with his noble spirit, loved him +and even now never says a word against him. those pranks in petersburg +when they played some tricks on a policeman, didn’t they do it +together? and there! bezúkhov got off scotfree, while fédya had to +bear the whole burden on his shoulders. fancy what he had to go through! +it’s true he has been reinstated, but how could they fail to do that? +i think there were not many such gallant sons of the fatherland out +there as he. and now—this duel! have these people no feeling, or +honor? knowing him to be an only son, to challenge him and shoot so +straight! it’s well god had mercy on us. and what was it for? who +doesn’t have intrigues nowadays? why, if he was so jealous, as i see +things he should have shown it sooner, but he lets it go on for months. +and then to call him out, reckoning on fédya not fighting because he +owed him money! what baseness! what meanness! i know you understand +fédya, my dear count; that, believe me, is why i am so fond of you. few +people do understand him. he is such a lofty, heavenly soul!” +dólokhov himself during his convalescence spoke to rostóv in a way no +“i know people consider me a bad man!” he said. “let them! i +don’t care a straw about anyone but those i love; but those i love, +i love so that i would give my life for them, and the others i’d +throttle if they stood in my way. i have an adored, a priceless mother, +and two or three friends—you among them—and as for the rest i only +care about them in so far as they are harmful or useful. and most of +them are harmful, especially the women. yes, dear boy,” he continued, +“i have met loving, noble, high-minded men, but i have not yet met +any women—countesses or cooks—who were not venal. i have not yet met +that divine purity and devotion i look for in women. if i found such a +one i’d give my life for her! but those!...” and he made a gesture +of contempt. “and believe me, if i still value my life it is +only because i still hope to meet such a divine creature, who will +regenerate, purify, and elevate me. but you don’t understand it.” +“oh, yes, i quite understand,” answered rostóv, who was under his +in the autumn the rostóvs returned to moscow. early in the winter +denísov also came back and stayed with them. the first half of the +winter of 1806, which nicholas rostóv spent in moscow, was one of the +happiest, merriest times for him and the whole family. nicholas brought +many young men to his parents’ house. véra was a handsome girl +of twenty; sónya a girl of sixteen with all the charm of an opening +flower; natásha, half grown up and half child, was now childishly +at that time in the rostóvs’ house there prevailed an amorous +atmosphere characteristic of homes where there are very young and very +charming girls. every young man who came to the house—seeing those +impressionable, smiling young faces (smiling probably at their own +happiness), feeling the eager bustle around him, and hearing the fitful +bursts of song and music and the inconsequent but friendly prattle of +young girls ready for anything and full of hope—experienced the same +feeling; sharing with the young folk of the rostóvs’ household a +readiness to fall in love and an expectation of happiness. +among the young men introduced by rostóv one of the first was +dólokhov, whom everyone in the house liked except natásha. she almost +quarreled with her brother about him. she insisted that he was a bad +man, and that in the duel with bezúkhov, pierre was right and dólokhov +wrong, and further that he was disagreeable and unnatural. +“there’s nothing for me to understand,” she cried out with +resolute self-will, “he is wicked and heartless. there now, i like +your denísov though he is a rake and all that, still i like him; so +you see i do understand. i don’t know how to put it... with this one +everything is calculated, and i don’t like that. but denísov...” +“oh, denísov is quite different,” replied nicholas, implying that +even denísov was nothing compared to dólokhov—“you must understand +what a soul there is in dólokhov, you should see him with his mother. +“well, i don’t know about that, but i am uncomfortable with him. and +do you know he has fallen in love with sónya?” +natásha’s prediction proved true. dólokhov, who did not usually care +for the society of ladies, began to come often to the house, and the +question for whose sake he came (though no one spoke of it) was soon +settled. he came because of sónya. and sónya, though she would never +have dared to say so, knew it and blushed scarlet every time dólokhov +dólokhov often dined at the rostóvs’, never missed a performance at +which they were present, and went to iogel’s balls for young people +which the rostóvs always attended. he was pointedly attentive to sónya +and looked at her in such a way that not only could she not bear his +glances without coloring, but even the old countess and natásha blushed +it was evident that this strange, strong man was under the irresistible +rostóv noticed something new in dólokhov’s relations with sónya, +but he did not explain to himself what these new relations were. +“they’re always in love with someone,” he thought of sónya and +natásha. but he was not as much at ease with sónya and dólokhov as +in the autumn of 1806 everybody had again begun talking of the war with +napoleon with even greater warmth than the year before. orders were +given to raise recruits, ten men in every thousand for the regular army, +and besides this, nine men in every thousand for the militia. everywhere +bonaparte was anathematized and in moscow nothing but the coming war +was talked of. for the rostóv family the whole interest of these +preparations for war lay in the fact that nicholas would not hear of +remaining in moscow, and only awaited the termination of denísov’s +furlough after christmas to return with him to their regiment. his +approaching departure did not prevent his amusing himself, but rather +gave zest to his pleasures. he spent the greater part of his time away +from home, at dinners, parties, and balls. +on the third day after christmas nicholas dined at home, a thing he had +rarely done of late. it was a grand farewell dinner, as he and denísov +were leaving to join their regiment after epiphany. about twenty people +were present, including dólokhov and denísov. +never had love been so much in the air, and never had the amorous +atmosphere made itself so strongly felt in the rostóvs’ house as at +this holiday time. “seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! +that is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. it is the one +thing we are interested in here,” said the spirit of the place. +nicholas, having as usual exhausted two pairs of horses, without +visiting all the places he meant to go to and where he had been invited, +returned home just before dinner. as soon as he entered he noticed and +felt the tension of the amorous air in the house, and also noticed a +curious embarrassment among some of those present. sónya, dólokhov, +and the old countess were especially disturbed, and to a lesser degree +natásha. nicholas understood that something must have happened between +sónya and dólokhov before dinner, and with the kindly sensitiveness +natural to him was very gentle and wary with them both at dinner. on +that same evening there was to be one of the balls that iogel (the +dancing master) gave for his pupils during the holidays. +“nicholas, will you come to iogel’s? please do!” said natásha. +“he asked you, and vasíli dmítrich * is also going.” +“where would i not go at the countess’ command!” said denísov, +who at the rostóvs’ had jocularly assumed the role of natásha’s +knight. “i’m even weady to dance the pas de châle.” +“if i have time,” answered nicholas. “but i promised the +“and you?” he asked dólokhov, but as soon as he had asked the +question he noticed that it should not have been put. +“perhaps,” coldly and angrily replied dólokhov, glancing at sónya, +and, scowling, he gave nicholas just such a look as he had given pierre +“there is something up,” thought nicholas, and he was further +confirmed in this conclusion by the fact that dólokhov left immediately +after dinner. he called natásha and asked her what was the matter. +“and i was looking for you,” said natásha running out to him. “i +told you, but you would not believe it,” she said triumphantly. “he +little as nicholas had occupied himself with sónya of late, something +seemed to give way within him at this news. dólokhov was a suitable and +in some respects a brilliant match for the dowerless, orphan girl. from +the point of view of the old countess and of society it was out of the +question for her to refuse him. and therefore nicholas’ first feeling +on hearing the news was one of anger with sónya.... he tried to say, +“that’s capital; of course she’ll forget her childish promises +and accept the offer,” but before he had time to say it natásha began +“and fancy! she refused him quite definitely!” adding, after a +pause, “she told him she loved another.” +“yes, my sónya could not have done otherwise!” thought nicholas. +“much as mamma pressed her, she refused, and i know she won’t change +“and mamma pressed her!” said nicholas reproachfully. +angry—but i know you will not marry her. i know, heaven knows how, but +i know for certain that you won’t marry her.” +“now you don’t know that at all!” said nicholas. “but i must +talk to her. what a darling sónya is!” he added with a smile. +“ah, she is indeed a darling! i’ll send her to you.” +and natásha kissed her brother and ran away. +a minute later sónya came in with a frightened, guilty, and scared +look. nicholas went up to her and kissed her hand. this was the first +time since his return that they had talked alone and about their love. +“sophie,” he began, timidly at first and then more and more +boldly, “if you wish to refuse one who is not only a brilliant and +advantageous match but a splendid, noble fellow... he is my friend...” +“if you are refusing for my sake, i am afraid that i...” +sónya again interrupted. she gave him an imploring, frightened look. +“nicholas, don’t tell me that!” she said. +“no, but i must. it may be arrogant of me, but still it is best to say +it. if you refuse him on my account, i must tell you the whole truth. i +love you, and i think i love you more than anyone else....” +“that is enough for me,” said sónya, blushing. +“no, but i have been in love a thousand times and shall fall in +love again, though for no one have i such a feeling of friendship, +confidence, and love as i have for you. then i am young. mamma does +not wish it. in a word, i make no promise. and i beg you to consider +dólokhov’s offer,” he said, articulating his friend’s name with +“don’t say that to me! i want nothing. i love you as a brother and +always shall, and i want nothing more.” +“you are an angel: i am not worthy of you, but i am afraid of +and nicholas again kissed her hand. +iogel’s were the most enjoyable balls in moscow. so said the mothers +as they watched their young people executing their newly learned steps, +and so said the youths and maidens themselves as they danced till they +were ready to drop, and so said the grown-up young men and women who +came to these balls with an air of condescension and found them most +enjoyable. that year two marriages had come of these balls. the two +pretty young princesses gorchakóv met suitors there and were married +and so further increased the fame of these dances. what distinguished +them from others was the absence of host or hostess and the presence of +the good-natured iogel, flying about like a feather and bowing according +to the rules of his art, as he collected the tickets from all his +visitors. there was the fact that only those came who wished to dance +and amuse themselves as girls of thirteen and fourteen do who are +wearing long dresses for the first time. with scarcely any exceptions +they all were, or seemed to be, pretty—so rapturous were their smiles +and so sparkling their eyes. sometimes the best of the pupils, of whom +natásha, who was exceptionally graceful, was first, even danced the pas +de châle, but at this last ball only the écossaise, the anglaise, and +the mazurka, which was just coming into fashion, were danced. iogel had +taken a ballroom in bezúkhov’s house, and the ball, as everyone said, +was a great success. there were many pretty girls and the rostóv girls +were among the prettiest. they were both particularly happy and gay. +that evening, proud of dólokhov’s proposal, her refusal, and her +explanation with nicholas, sónya twirled about before she left home +so that the maid could hardly get her hair plaited, and she was +transparently radiant with impulsive joy. +natásha no less proud of her first long dress and of being at a real +ball was even happier. they were both dressed in white muslin with pink +natásha fell in love the very moment she entered the ballroom. she +was not in love with anyone in particular, but with everyone. whatever +person she happened to look at she was in love with for that moment. +“oh, how delightful it is!” she kept saying, running up to sónya. +nicholas and denísov were walking up and down, looking with kindly +“how sweet she is—she will be a weal beauty!” said denísov. +“and how she dances! what gwace!” he said again after a pause. +“about your sister,” ejaculated denísov testily. +“my dear count, you were one of my best pupils—you must dance,” +said little iogel coming up to nicholas. “look how many charming young +ladies—” he turned with the same request to denísov who was also a +“no, my dear fellow, i’ll be a wallflower,” said denísov. +“don’t you wecollect what bad use i made of your lessons?” +“oh no!” said iogel, hastening to reassure him. “you were only +inattentive, but you had talent—oh yes, you had talent!” +the band struck up the newly introduced mazurka. nicholas could not +refuse iogel and asked sónya to dance. denísov sat down by the old +ladies and, leaning on his saber and beating time with his foot, told +them something funny and kept them amused, while he watched the young +people dancing, iogel with natásha, his pride and his best pupil, were +the first couple. noiselessly, skillfully stepping with his little +feet in low shoes, iogel flew first across the hall with natásha, who, +though shy, went on carefully executing her steps. denísov did not +take his eyes off her and beat time with his saber in a way that clearly +indicated that if he was not dancing it was because he would not and not +because he could not. in the middle of a figure he beckoned to rostóv +“this is not at all the thing,” he said. “what sort of polish +mazuwka is this? but she does dance splendidly.” +knowing that denísov had a reputation even in poland for the masterly +way in which he danced the mazurka, nicholas ran up to natásha: +“go and choose denísov. he is a real dancer, a wonder!” he said. +when it came to natásha’s turn to choose a partner, she rose and, +tripping rapidly across in her little shoes trimmed with bows, ran +timidly to the corner where denísov sat. she saw that everybody was +looking at her and waiting. nicholas saw that denísov was refusing +though he smiled delightedly. he ran up to them. +“oh no, let me off, countess,” denísov replied. +“they coax me as if i were váska the cat!” said denísov jokingly. +“i’ll sing for you a whole evening,” said natásha. +“oh, the faiwy! she can do anything with me!” said denísov, and +he unhooked his saber. he came out from behind the chairs, clasped his +partner’s hand firmly, threw back his head, and advanced his foot, +waiting for the beat. only on horse back and in the mazurka was +denísov’s short stature not noticeable and he looked the fine fellow +he felt himself to be. at the right beat of the music he looked sideways +at his partner with a merry and triumphant air, suddenly stamped with +one foot, bounded from the floor like a ball, and flew round the room +taking his partner with him. he glided silently on one foot half across +the room, and seeming not to notice the chairs was dashing straight at +them, when suddenly, clinking his spurs and spreading out his legs, +he stopped short on his heels, stood so a second, stamped on the spot +clanking his spurs, whirled rapidly round, and, striking his left heel +against his right, flew round again in a circle. natásha guessed what +he meant to do, and abandoning herself to him followed his lead hardly +knowing how. first he spun her round, holding her now with his left, now +with his right hand, then falling on one knee he twirled her round him, +and again jumping up, dashed so impetuously forward that it seemed as if +he would rush through the whole suite of rooms without drawing breath, +and then he suddenly stopped and performed some new and unexpected +steps. when at last, smartly whirling his partner round in front of her +chair, he drew up with a click of his spurs and bowed to her, natásha +did not even make him a curtsy. she fixed her eyes on him in amazement, +smiling as if she did not recognize him. +although iogel did not acknowledge this to be the real mazurka, everyone +was delighted with denísov’s skill, he was asked again and again as +a partner, and the old men began smilingly to talk about poland and the +good old days. denísov, flushed after the mazurka and mopping himself +with his handkerchief, sat down by natásha and did not leave her for +the rest of the evening. +for two days after that rostóv did not see dólokhov at his own or at +dólokhov’s home: on the third day he received a note from him: +as i do not intend to be at your house again for reasons you know +of, and am going to rejoin my regiment, i am giving a farewell supper +tonight to my friends—come to the english hotel. +about ten o’clock rostóv went to the english hotel straight from the +theater, where he had been with his family and denísov. he was at once +shown to the best room, which dólokhov had taken for that evening. some +twenty men were gathered round a table at which dólokhov sat between +two candles. on the table was a pile of gold and paper money, and he +was keeping the bank. rostóv had not seen him since his proposal and +sónya’s refusal and felt uncomfortable at the thought of how they +dólokhov’s clear, cold glance met rostóv as soon as he entered the +“it’s a long time since we met,” he said. “thanks for coming. +i’ll just finish dealing, and then ilyúshka will come with his +“i called once or twice at your house,” said rostóv, reddening. +rostóv recalled at that moment a strange conversation he had once had +with dólokhov. “none but fools trust to luck in play,” dólokhov +“or are you afraid to play with me?” dólokhov now asked as if +beneath his smile rostóv saw in him the mood he had shown at the club +dinner and at other times, when as if tired of everyday life he had felt +a need to escape from it by some strange, and usually cruel, action. +rostóv felt ill at ease. he tried, but failed, to find some joke with +which to reply to dólokhov’s words. but before he had thought of +anything, dólokhov, looking straight in his face, said slowly and +“do you remember we had a talk about cards... ‘he’s a fool who +trusts to luck, one should make certain,’ and i want to try.” +“to try his luck or the certainty?” rostóv asked himself. +“well, you’d better not play,” dólokhov added, and springing a +moving the money forward he prepared to deal. rostóv sat down by his +side and at first did not play. dólokhov kept glancing at him. +and strange to say nicholas felt that he could not help taking up a +card, putting a small stake on it, and beginning to play. +rostóv staked five rubles on a card and lost, staked again, and again +lost. dólokhov “killed,” that is, beat, ten cards of rostóv’s +“gentlemen,” said dólokhov after he had dealt for some time. +“please place your money on the cards or i may get muddled in the +one of the players said he hoped he might be trusted. +“yes, you might, but i am afraid of getting the accounts mixed. so i +ask you to put the money on your cards,” replied dólokhov. “don’t +stint yourself, we’ll settle afterwards,” he added, turning to +the game continued; a waiter kept handing round champagne. +all rostóv’s cards were beaten and he had eight hundred rubles scored +up against him. he wrote “800 rubles” on a card, but while the +waiter filled his glass he changed his mind and altered it to his usual +“leave it,” said dólokhov, though he did not seem to be even +looking at rostóv, “you’ll win it back all the sooner. i lose to +the others but win from you. or are you afraid of me?” he asked again. +rostóv submitted. he let the eight hundred remain and laid down a seven +of hearts with a torn corner, which he had picked up from the floor. he +well remembered that seven afterwards. he laid down the seven of hearts, +on which with a broken bit of chalk he had written “800 rubles” in +clear upright figures; he emptied the glass of warm champagne that was +handed him, smiled at dólokhov’s words, and with a sinking heart, +waiting for a seven to turn up, gazed at dólokhov’s hands which held +the pack. much depended on rostóv’s winning or losing on that seven +of hearts. on the previous sunday the old count had given his son +two thousand rubles, and though he always disliked speaking of money +difficulties had told nicholas that this was all he could let him have +till may, and asked him to be more economical this time. nicholas had +replied that it would be more than enough for him and that he gave his +word of honor not to take anything more till the spring. now only twelve +hundred rubles was left of that money, so that this seven of hearts +meant for him not only the loss of sixteen hundred rubles, but the +necessity of going back on his word. with a sinking heart he watched +dólokhov’s hands and thought, “now then, make haste and let me have +this card and i’ll take my cap and drive home to supper with denísov, +natásha, and sónya, and will certainly never touch a card again.” at +that moment his home life, jokes with pétya, talks with sónya, duets +with natásha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed +in the house on the povarskáya rose before him with such vividness, +clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and +unappreciated bliss, long past. he could not conceive that a stupid +chance, letting the seven be dealt to the right rather than to the left, +might deprive him of all this happiness, newly appreciated and newly +illumined, and plunge him into the depths of unknown and undefined +misery. that could not be, yet he awaited with a sinking heart the +movement of dólokhov’s hands. those broad, reddish hands, with hairy +wrists visible from under the shirt cuffs, laid down the pack and took +up a glass and a pipe that were handed him. +“so you are not afraid to play with me?” repeated dólokhov, and as +if about to tell a good story he put down the cards, leaned back in his +chair, and began deliberately with a smile: +“yes, gentlemen, i’ve been told there’s a rumor going about moscow +that i’m a sharper, so i advise you to be careful.” +“oh, those moscow gossips!” said dólokhov, and he took up the cards +“aah!” rostóv almost screamed lifting both hands to his head. the +seven he needed was lying uppermost, the first card in the pack. he had +“still, don’t ruin yourself!” said dólokhov with a side glance at +an hour and a half later most of the players were but little interested +the whole interest was concentrated on rostóv. instead of sixteen +hundred rubles he had a long column of figures scored against him, +which he had reckoned up to ten thousand, but that now, as he vaguely +supposed, must have risen to fifteen thousand. in reality it already +exceeded twenty thousand rubles. dólokhov was no longer listening to +stories or telling them, but followed every movement of rostóv’s +hands and occasionally ran his eyes over the score against him. he had +decided to play until that score reached forty-three thousand. he +had fixed on that number because forty-three was the sum of his and +sónya’s joint ages. rostóv, leaning his head on both hands, sat at +the table which was scrawled over with figures, wet with spilled wine, +and littered with cards. one tormenting impression did not leave him: +that those broad-boned reddish hands with hairy wrists visible from +under the shirt sleeves, those hands which he loved and hated, held him +“six hundred rubles, ace, a corner, a nine... winning it back’s +impossible... oh, how pleasant it was at home!... the knave, double or +quits... it can’t be!... and why is he doing this to me?” rostóv +pondered. sometimes he staked a large sum, but dólokhov refused to +accept it and fixed the stake himself. nicholas submitted to him, and at +one moment prayed to god as he had done on the battlefield at the bridge +over the enns, and then guessed that the card that came first to hand +from the crumpled heap under the table would save him, now counted the +cords on his coat and took a card with that number and tried staking the +total of his losses on it, then he looked round for aid from the other +players, or peered at the now cold face of dólokhov and tried to read +what was passing in his mind. +“he knows of course what this loss means to me. he can’t want my +ruin. wasn’t he my friend? wasn’t i fond of him? but it’s not his +fault. what’s he to do if he has such luck?... and it’s not my fault +either,” he thought to himself, “i have done nothing wrong. have i +killed anyone, or insulted or wished harm to anyone? why such a terrible +misfortune? and when did it begin? such a little while ago i came to +this table with the thought of winning a hundred rubles to buy that +casket for mamma’s name day and then going home. i was so happy, so +free, so lighthearted! and i did not realize how happy i was! when did +that end and when did this new, terrible state of things begin? what +marked the change? i sat all the time in this same place at this table, +chose and placed cards, and watched those broad-boned agile hands in the +same way. when did it happen and what has happened? i am well and strong +and still the same and in the same place. no, it can’t be! surely it +he was flushed and bathed in perspiration, though the room was not hot. +his face was terrible and piteous to see, especially from its helpless +the score against him reached the fateful sum of forty-three thousand. +rostóv had just prepared a card, by bending the corner of which he +meant to double the three thousand just put down to his score, when +dólokhov, slamming down the pack of cards, put it aside and began +rapidly adding up the total of rostóv’s debt, breaking the chalk as +he marked the figures in his clear, bold hand. +“supper, it’s time for supper! and here are the gypsies!” +some swarthy men and women were really entering from the cold outside +and saying something in their gypsy accents. nicholas understood that it +was all over; but he said in an indifferent tone: +“well, won’t you go on? i had a splendid card all ready,” as if it +were the fun of the game which interested him most. +“it’s all up! i’m lost!” thought he. “now a bullet through my +brain—that’s all that’s left me!” and at the same time he said +“all right!” said dólokhov, having finished the addition. “all +right! twenty-one rubles,” he said, pointing to the figure twenty-one +by which the total exceeded the round sum of forty-three thousand; and +taking up a pack he prepared to deal. rostóv submissively unbent the +corner of his card and, instead of the six thousand he had intended, +“it’s all the same to me,” he said. “i only want to see whether +you will let me win this ten, or beat it.” +dólokhov began to deal seriously. oh, how rostóv detested at that +moment those hands with their short reddish fingers and hairy wrists, +which held him in their power.... the ten fell to him. +“you owe forty-three thousand, count,” said dólokhov, and +stretching himself he rose from the table. “one does get tired sitting +dólokhov cut him short, as if to remind him that it was not for him to +rostóv, flushing, drew dólokhov into the next room. +“i cannot pay it all immediately. will you take an i.o.u.?” he said. +“i say, rostóv,” said dólokhov clearly, smiling and looking +nicholas straight in the eyes, “you know the saying, ‘lucky in love, +unlucky at cards.’ your cousin is in love with you, i know.” +“oh, it’s terrible to feel oneself so in this man’s power,” +thought rostóv. he knew what a shock he would inflict on his father and +mother by the news of this loss, he knew what a relief it would be to +escape it all, and felt that dólokhov knew that he could save him from +all this shame and sorrow, but wanted now to play with him as a cat does +“your cousin...” dólokhov started to say, but nicholas interrupted +“my cousin has nothing to do with this and it’s not necessary to +“tomorrow,” replied rostóv and left the room. +to say “tomorrow” and keep up a dignified tone was not difficult, +but to go home alone, see his sisters, brother, mother, and father, +confess and ask for money he had no right to after giving his word of +at home, they had not yet gone to bed. the young people, after returning +from the theater, had had supper and were grouped round the clavichord. +as soon as nicholas entered, he was enfolded in that poetic atmosphere +of love which pervaded the rostóv household that winter and, now after +dólokhov’s proposal and iogel’s ball, seemed to have grown thicker +round sónya and natásha as the air does before a thunderstorm. sónya +and natásha, in the light-blue dresses they had worn at the theater, +looking pretty and conscious of it, were standing by the clavichord, +happy and smiling. véra was playing chess with shinshín in the drawing +room. the old countess, waiting for the return of her husband and son, +sat playing patience with the old gentlewoman who lived in their house. +denísov, with sparkling eyes and ruffled hair, sat at the clavichord +striking chords with his short fingers, his legs thrown back and his +eyes rolling as he sang, with his small, husky, but true voice, some +verses called “enchantress,” which he had composed, and to which he + enchantress, say, to my forsaken lyre + what magic power is this recalls me still? + what spark has set my inmost soul on fire, + what is this bliss that makes my fingers thrill? +he was singing in passionate tones, gazing with his sparkling +black-agate eyes at the frightened and happy natásha. +“splendid! excellent!” exclaimed natásha. “another verse,” she +said, without noticing nicholas. +“everything’s still the same with them,” thought nicholas, +glancing into the drawing room, where he saw véra and his mother with +“is papa at home?” he asked. +“i am so glad you’ve come!” said natásha, without answering him. +“we are enjoying ourselves! vasíli dmítrich is staying a day longer +“nicholas, have you come? come here, dear!” called the old countess +nicholas went to her, kissed her hand, and sitting down silently at her +table began to watch her hands arranging the cards. from the dancing +room, they still heard the laughter and merry voices trying to persuade +“all wight! all wight!” shouted denísov. “it’s no good making +excuses now! it’s your turn to sing the ba’cawolla—i entweat +the countess glanced at her silent son. +“oh, nothing,” said he, as if weary of being continually asked the +same question. “will papa be back soon?” +“everything’s the same with them. they know nothing about it! where +am i to go?” thought nicholas, and went again into the dancing room +sónya was sitting at the clavichord, playing the prelude to +denísov’s favorite barcarolle. natásha was preparing to sing. +denísov was looking at her with enraptured eyes. +nicholas began pacing up and down the room. +“why do they want to make her sing? how can she sing? there’s +sónya struck the first chord of the prelude. +“my god, i’m a ruined and dishonored man! a bullet through my brain +is the only thing left me—not singing!” his thoughts ran on. “go +he continued to pace the room, looking gloomily at denísov and the +“nikólenka, what is the matter?” sónya’s eyes fixed on him +seemed to ask. she noticed at once that something had happened to him. +nicholas turned away from her. natásha too, with her quick instinct, +had instantly noticed her brother’s condition. but, though she noticed +it, she was herself in such high spirits at that moment, so far from +sorrow, sadness, or self-reproach, that she purposely deceived herself +as young people often do. “no, i am too happy now to spoil my +enjoyment by sympathy with anyone’s sorrow,” she felt, and she said +to herself: “no, i must be mistaken, he must be feeling happy, just as +“now, sónya!” she said, going to the very middle of the room, where +she considered the resonance was best. +having lifted her head and let her arms droop lifelessly, as ballet +dancers do, natásha, rising energetically from her heels to her toes, +stepped to the middle of the room and stood still. +“yes, that’s me!” she seemed to say, answering the rapt gaze with +“and what is she so pleased about?” thought nicholas, looking at his +sister. “why isn’t she dull and ashamed?” +natásha took the first note, her throat swelled, her chest rose, +her eyes became serious. at that moment she was oblivious of her +surroundings, and from her smiling lips flowed sounds which anyone may +produce at the same intervals and hold for the same time, but which +leave you cold a thousand times and the thousand and first time thrill +natásha, that winter, had for the first time begun to sing seriously, +mainly because denísov so delighted in her singing. she no longer sang +as a child, there was no longer in her singing that comical, childish, +painstaking effect that had been in it before; but she did not yet sing +well, as all the connoisseurs who heard her said: “it is not trained, +but it is a beautiful voice that must be trained.” only they generally +said this some time after she had finished singing. while that untrained +voice, with its incorrect breathing and labored transitions, was +sounding, even the connoisseurs said nothing, but only delighted in +it and wished to hear it again. in her voice there was a virginal +freshness, an unconsciousness of her own powers, and an as yet untrained +velvety softness, which so mingled with her lack of art in singing that +it seemed as if nothing in that voice could be altered without spoiling +“what is this?” thought nicholas, listening to her with widely +opened eyes. “what has happened to her? how she is singing today!” +and suddenly the whole world centered for him on anticipation of the +next note, the next phrase, and everything in the world was divided into +three beats: “oh mio crudele affetto.”... one, two, three... one, +two, three... one... “oh mio crudele affetto.”... one, two, three... +one. “oh, this senseless life of ours!” thought nicholas. “all +this misery, and money, and dólokhov, and anger, and honor—it’s all +nonsense... but this is real.... now then, natásha, now then, dearest! +now then, darling! how will she take that si? she’s taken it! thank +god!” and without noticing that he was singing, to strengthen the si +he sung a second, a third below the high note. “ah, god! how fine! did +oh, how that chord vibrated, and how moved was something that was finest +in rostóv’s soul! and this something was apart from everything else +in the world and above everything in the world. “what were losses, and +dólokhov, and words of honor?... all nonsense! one might kill and rob +it was long since rostóv had felt such enjoyment from music as he +did that day. but no sooner had natásha finished her barcarolle than +reality again presented itself. he got up without saying a word and went +downstairs to his own room. a quarter of an hour later the old count +came in from his club, cheerful and contented. nicholas, hearing him +“well—had a good time?” said the old count, smiling gaily and +nicholas tried to say “yes,” but could not: and he nearly burst into +sobs. the count was lighting his pipe and did not notice his son’s +“ah, it can’t be avoided!” thought nicholas, for the first and +last time. and suddenly, in the most casual tone, which made him feel +ashamed of himself, he said, as if merely asking his father to let him +have the carriage to drive to town: +“papa, i have come on a matter of business. i was nearly forgetting. i +“dear me!” said his father, who was in a specially good humor. “i +told you it would not be enough. how much?” +“very much,” said nicholas flushing, and with a stupid careless +smile, for which he was long unable to forgive himself, “i have lost a +little, i mean a good deal, a great deal—forty three thousand.” +“what! to whom?... nonsense!” cried the count, suddenly reddening +with an apoplectic flush over neck and nape as old people do. +“i promised to pay tomorrow,” said nicholas. +“well!...” said the old count, spreading out his arms and sinking +“it can’t be helped! it happens to everyone!” said the son, with +a bold, free, and easy tone, while in his soul he regarded himself as a +worthless scoundrel whose whole life could not atone for his crime. he +longed to kiss his father’s hands and kneel to beg his forgiveness, +but said, in a careless and even rude voice, that it happens to +the old count cast down his eyes on hearing his son’s words and began +“yes, yes,” he muttered, “it will be difficult, i fear, difficult +to raise... happens to everybody! yes, who has not done it?” +and with a furtive glance at his son’s face, the count went out of the +room.... nicholas had been prepared for resistance, but had not at all +“papa! pa-pa!” he called after him, sobbing, “forgive me!” and +seizing his father’s hand, he pressed it to his lips and burst into +while father and son were having their explanation, the mother and +daughter were having one not less important. natásha came running to +“mamma!... mamma!... he has made me...” +“made, made me an offer, mamma! mamma!” she exclaimed. +the countess did not believe her ears. denísov had proposed. to whom? +to this chit of a girl, natásha, who not so long ago was playing with +dolls and who was still having lessons. +“don’t, natásha! what nonsense!” she said, hoping it was a joke. +“nonsense, indeed! i am telling you the fact,” said natásha +indignantly. “i come to ask you what to do, and you call it +the countess shrugged her shoulders. +“if it is true that monsieur denísov has made you a proposal, tell +“no, he’s not a fool!” replied natásha indignantly and seriously. +“well then, what do you want? you’re all in love nowadays. well, +if you are in love, marry him!” said the countess, with a laugh of +“no, mamma, i’m not in love with him, i suppose i’m not in love +“mamma, are you cross? don’t be cross, dear! is it my fault?” +“no, but what is it, my dear? do you want me to go and tell him?” +“no, i will do it myself, only tell me what to say. it’s all very +well for you,” said natásha, with a responsive smile. “you should +have seen how he said it! i know he did not mean to say it, but it came +“well, all the same, you must refuse him.” +“no, i mustn’t. i am so sorry for him! he’s so nice.” +“well then, accept his offer. it’s high time for you to be +married,” answered the countess sharply and sarcastically. +“no, mamma, but i’m so sorry for him. i don’t know how i’m to +“and there’s nothing for you to say. i shall speak to him myself,” +said the countess, indignant that they should have dared to treat this +“no, not on any account! i will tell him myself, and you’ll listen +at the door,” and natásha ran across the drawing room to the dancing +hall, where denísov was sitting on the same chair by the clavichord +he jumped up at the sound of her light step. +“nataly,” he said, moving with rapid steps toward her, “decide my +“vasíli dmítrich, i’m so sorry for you!... no, but you are so +nice... but it won’t do...not that... but as a friend, i shall always +denísov bent over her hand and she heard strange sounds she did not +understand. she kissed his rough curly black head. at this instant, they +heard the quick rustle of the countess’ dress. she came up to them. +“vasíli dmítrich, i thank you for the honor,” she said, with an +embarrassed voice, though it sounded severe to denísov—“but my +daughter is so young, and i thought that, as my son’s friend, you +would have addressed yourself first to me. in that case you would not +“countess...” said denísov, with downcast eyes and a guilty face. +natásha could not remain calm, seeing him in such a plight. she began +“countess, i have done w’ong,” denísov went on in an unsteady +voice, “but believe me, i so adore your daughter and all your family +that i would give my life twice over...” he looked at the countess, +and seeing her severe face said: “well, good-by, countess,” and +kissing her hand, he left the room with quick resolute strides, without +next day rostóv saw denísov off. he did not wish to stay another +day in moscow. all denísov’s moscow friends gave him a farewell +entertainment at the gypsies’, with the result that he had no +recollection of how he was put in the sleigh or of the first three +after denísov’s departure, rostóv spent another fortnight in moscow, +without going out of the house, waiting for the money his father could +not at once raise, and he spent most of his time in the girls’ room. +sónya was more tender and devoted to him than ever. it was as if she +wanted to show him that his losses were an achievement that made her +love him all the more, but nicholas now considered himself unworthy of +he filled the girls’ albums with verses and music, and having at last +sent dólokhov the whole forty-three thousand rubles and received his +receipt, he left at the end of november, without taking leave of any of +his acquaintances, to overtake his regiment which was already in poland. +after his interview with his wife pierre left for petersburg. at the +torzhók post station, either there were no horses or the postmaster +would not supply them. pierre was obliged to wait. without undressing, +he lay down on the leather sofa in front of a round table, put his big +feet in their overboots on the table, and began to reflect. +“will you have the portmanteaus brought in? and a bed got ready, and +pierre gave no answer, for he neither heard nor saw anything. he had +begun to think of the last station and was still pondering on the same +question—one so important that he took no notice of what went +on around him. not only was he indifferent as to whether he got to +petersburg earlier or later, or whether he secured accommodation at this +station, but compared to the thoughts that now occupied him it was a +matter of indifference whether he remained there for a few hours or for +the postmaster, his wife, the valet, and a peasant woman selling +torzhók embroidery came into the room offering their services. +without changing his careless attitude, pierre looked at them over his +spectacles unable to understand what they wanted or how they could go on +living without having solved the problems that so absorbed him. he had +been engrossed by the same thoughts ever since the day he returned from +sokólniki after the duel and had spent that first agonizing, sleepless +night. but now, in the solitude of the journey, they seized him with +special force. no matter what he thought about, he always returned to +these same questions which he could not solve and yet could not cease to +ask himself. it was as if the thread of the chief screw which held his +life together were stripped, so that the screw could not get in or out, +but went on turning uselessly in the same place. +the postmaster came in and began obsequiously to beg his excellency to +wait only two hours, when, come what might, he would let his excellency +have the courier horses. it was plain that he was lying and only wanted +to get more money from the traveler. +“is this good or bad?” pierre asked himself. “it is good for me, +bad for another traveler, and for himself it’s unavoidable, because +he needs money for food; the man said an officer had once given him a +thrashing for letting a private traveler have the courier horses. +but the officer thrashed him because he had to get on as quickly as +possible. and i,” continued pierre, “shot dólokhov because i +considered myself injured, and louis xvi was executed because they +considered him a criminal, and a year later they executed those who +executed him—also for some reason. what is bad? what is good? what +should one love and what hate? what does one live for? and what am i? +what is life, and what is death? what power governs all?” +there was no answer to any of these questions, except one, and that +not a logical answer and not at all a reply to them. the answer was: +“you’ll die and all will end. you’ll die and know all, or cease +the torzhók peddler woman, in a whining voice, went on offering her +wares, especially a pair of goatskin slippers. “i have hundreds of +rubles i don’t know what to do with, and she stands in her tattered +cloak looking timidly at me,” he thought. “and what does she +want the money for? as if that money could add a hair’s breadth to +happiness or peace of mind. can anything in the world make her or me +less a prey to evil and death?—death which ends all and must come +today or tomorrow—at any rate, in an instant as compared with +eternity.” and again he twisted the screw with the stripped thread, +and again it turned uselessly in the same place. +his servant handed him a half-cut novel, in the form of letters, by +madame de souza. he began reading about the sufferings and virtuous +struggles of a certain emilie de mansfeld. “and why did she resist +her seducer when she loved him?” he thought. “god could not have put +into her heart an impulse that was against his will. my wife—as she +once was—did not struggle, and perhaps she was right. nothing has been +found out, nothing discovered,” pierre again said to himself. “all +we can know is that we know nothing. and that’s the height of human +everything within and around him seemed confused, senseless, and +repellent. yet in this very repugnance to all his circumstances pierre +found a kind of tantalizing satisfaction. +“i make bold to ask your excellency to move a little for this +gentleman,” said the postmaster, entering the room followed by another +traveler, also detained for lack of horses. +the newcomer was a short, large-boned, yellow-faced, wrinkled old +man, with gray bushy eyebrows overhanging bright eyes of an indefinite +pierre took his feet off the table, stood up, and lay down on a bed that +had been got ready for him, glancing now and then at the newcomer, who, +with a gloomy and tired face, was wearily taking off his wraps with the +aid of his servant, and not looking at pierre. with a pair of felt boots +on his thin bony legs, and keeping on a worn, nankeen-covered, sheepskin +coat, the traveler sat down on the sofa, leaned back his big head with +its broad temples and close-cropped hair, and looked at bezúkhov. the +stern, shrewd, and penetrating expression of that look struck pierre. he +felt a wish to speak to the stranger, but by the time he had made up his +mind to ask him a question about the roads, the traveler had closed his +eyes. his shriveled old hands were folded and on the finger of one of +them pierre noticed a large cast iron ring with a seal representing a +death’s head. the stranger sat without stirring, either resting or, as +it seemed to pierre, sunk in profound and calm meditation. his servant +was also a yellow, wrinkled old man, without beard or mustache, +evidently not because he was shaven but because they had never grown. +this active old servant was unpacking the traveler’s canteen and +preparing tea. he brought in a boiling samovar. when everything was +ready, the stranger opened his eyes, moved to the table, filled a +tumbler with tea for himself and one for the beardless old man to whom +he passed it. pierre began to feel a sense of uneasiness, and the +need, even the inevitability, of entering into conversation with this +the servant brought back his tumbler turned upside down, * with an +unfinished bit of nibbled sugar, and asked if anything more would be + * to indicate he did not want more tea. +“no. give me the book,” said the stranger. +the servant handed him a book which pierre took to be a devotional work, +and the traveler became absorbed in it. pierre looked at him. all at +once the stranger closed the book, putting in a marker, and again, +leaning with his arms on the back of the sofa, sat in his former +position with his eyes shut. pierre looked at him and had not time +to turn away when the old man, opening his eyes, fixed his steady and +pierre felt confused and wished to avoid that look, but the bright old +“i have the pleasure of addressing count bezúkhov, if i am not +mistaken,” said the stranger in a deliberate and loud voice. +pierre looked silently and inquiringly at him over his spectacles. +“i have heard of you, my dear sir,” continued the stranger, “and +of your misfortune.” he seemed to emphasize the last word, as if to +say—“yes, misfortune! call it what you please, i know that what +happened to you in moscow was a misfortune.”—“i regret it very +pierre flushed and, hurriedly putting his legs down from the bed, bent +forward toward the old man with a forced and timid smile. +“i have not referred to this out of curiosity, my dear sir, but for +he paused, his gaze still on pierre, and moved aside on the sofa by way +of inviting the other to take a seat beside him. pierre felt reluctant +to enter into conversation with this old man, but, submitting to him +“you are unhappy, my dear sir,” the stranger continued. “you +are young and i am old. i should like to help you as far as lies in my +“oh, yes!” said pierre, with a forced smile. “i am very grateful +the stranger’s face was not genial, it was even cold and severe, but +in spite of this, both the face and words of his new acquaintance were +irresistibly attractive to pierre. +“but if for any reason you don’t feel inclined to talk to me,” +said the old man, “say so, my dear sir.” and he suddenly smiled, in +an unexpected and tenderly paternal way. +“oh no, not at all! on the contrary, i am very glad to make your +acquaintance,” said pierre. and again, glancing at the stranger’s +hands, he looked more closely at the ring, with its skull—a masonic +“allow me to ask,” he said, “are you a mason?” +“yes, i belong to the brotherhood of the freemasons,” said the +stranger, looking deeper and deeper into pierre’s eyes. “and in +their name and my own i hold out a brotherly hand to you.” +“i am afraid,” said pierre, smiling, and wavering between the +confidence the personality of the freemason inspired in him and his own +habit of ridiculing the masonic beliefs—“i am afraid i am very far +from understanding—how am i to put it?—i am afraid my way of looking +at the world is so opposed to yours that we shall not understand one +“i know your outlook,” said the mason, “and the view of life you +mention, and which you think is the result of your own mental efforts, +is the one held by the majority of people, and is the invariable fruit +of pride, indolence, and ignorance. forgive me, my dear sir, but if i +had not known it i should not have addressed you. your view of life is a +“just as i may suppose you to be deluded,” said pierre, with a faint +“i should never dare to say that i know the truth,” said the mason, +whose words struck pierre more and more by their precision and firmness. +“no one can attain to truth by himself. only by laying stone on stone +with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our +forefather adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be +a worthy dwelling place of the great god,” he added, and closed his +“i ought to tell you that i do not believe... do not believe in +god,” said pierre, regretfully and with an effort, feeling it +essential to speak the whole truth. +the mason looked intently at pierre and smiled as a rich man with +millions in hand might smile at a poor fellow who told him that he, poor +man, had not the five rubles that would make him happy. +“yes, you do not know him, my dear sir,” said the mason. “you +cannot know him. you do not know him and that is why you are unhappy.” +“yes, yes, i am unhappy,” assented pierre. “but what am i to +“you know him not, my dear sir, and so you are very unhappy. you do +not know him, but he is here, he is in me, he is in my words, he is in +thee, and even in those blasphemous words thou hast just uttered!” +pronounced the mason in a stern and tremulous voice. +he paused and sighed, evidently trying to calm himself. +“if he were not,” he said quietly, “you and i would not be +speaking of him, my dear sir. of what, of whom, are we speaking? whom +hast thou denied?” he suddenly asked with exulting austerity and +authority in his voice. “who invented him, if he did not exist? whence +came thy conception of the existence of such an incomprehensible being? +didst thou, and why did the whole world, conceive the idea of the +existence of such an incomprehensible being, a being all-powerful, +eternal, and infinite in all his attributes?...” +he stopped and remained silent for a long time. +pierre could not and did not wish to break this silence. +“he exists, but to understand him is hard,” the mason began again, +looking not at pierre but straight before him, and turning the leaves +of his book with his old hands which from excitement he could not keep +still. “if it were a man whose existence thou didst doubt i could +bring him to thee, could take him by the hand and show him to thee. but +how can i, an insignificant mortal, show his omnipotence, his infinity, +and all his mercy to one who is blind, or who shuts his eyes that he may +not see or understand him and may not see or understand his own vileness +and sinfulness?” he paused again. “who art thou? thou dreamest that +thou art wise because thou couldst utter those blasphemous words,” he +went on, with a somber and scornful smile. “and thou art more foolish +and unreasonable than a little child, who, playing with the parts of a +skillfully made watch, dares to say that, as he does not understand +its use, he does not believe in the master who made it. to know him is +hard.... for ages, from our forefather adam to our own day, we labor to +attain that knowledge and are still infinitely far from our aim; but +in our lack of understanding we see only our weakness and his +greatness....” +pierre listened with swelling heart, gazing into the mason’s face with +shining eyes, not interrupting or questioning him, but believing with +his whole soul what the stranger said. whether he accepted the wise +reasoning contained in the mason’s words, or believed as a child +believes, in the speaker’s tone of conviction and earnestness, or +the tremor of the speaker’s voice—which sometimes almost broke—or +those brilliant aged eyes grown old in this conviction, or the calm +firmness and certainty of his vocation, which radiated from his whole +being (and which struck pierre especially by contrast with his own +dejection and hopelessness)—at any rate, pierre longed with his whole +soul to believe and he did believe, and felt a joyful sense of comfort, +regeneration, and return to life. +“he is not to be apprehended by reason, but by life,” said the +“i do not understand,” said pierre, feeling with dismay doubts +reawakening. he was afraid of any want of clearness, any weakness, in +the mason’s arguments; he dreaded not to be able to believe in him. +“i don’t understand,” he said, “how it is that the mind of man +cannot attain the knowledge of which you speak.” +the mason smiled with his gentle fatherly smile. +“the highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish +to imbibe,” he said. “can i receive that pure liquid into an impure +vessel and judge of its purity? only by the inner purification of myself +can i retain in some degree of purity the liquid i receive.” +“yes, yes, that is so,” said pierre joyfully. +“the highest wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those +worldly sciences of physics, history, chemistry, and the like, into +which intellectual knowledge is divided. the highest wisdom is one. +the highest wisdom has but one science—the science of the whole—the +science explaining the whole creation and man’s place in it. to +receive that science it is necessary to purify and renew one’s inner +self, and so before one can know, it is necessary to believe and to +perfect one’s self. and to attain this end, we have the light called +conscience that god has implanted in our souls.” +“yes, yes,” assented pierre. +“look then at thy inner self with the eyes of the spirit, and ask +thyself whether thou art content with thyself. what hast thou attained +relying on reason only? what art thou? you are young, you are rich, you +are clever, you are well educated. and what have you done with all these +good gifts? are you content with yourself and with your life?” +“thou hatest it. then change it, purify thyself; and as thou art +purified, thou wilt gain wisdom. look at your life, my dear sir. +how have you spent it? in riotous orgies and debauchery, receiving +everything from society and giving nothing in return. you have become +the possessor of wealth. how have you used it? what have you done +for your neighbor? have you ever thought of your tens of thousands +of slaves? have you helped them physically and morally? no! you have +profited by their toil to lead a profligate life. that is what you have +done. have you chosen a post in which you might be of service to your +neighbor? no! you have spent your life in idleness. then you married, my +dear sir—took on yourself responsibility for the guidance of a young +woman; and what have you done? you have not helped her to find the way +of truth, my dear sir, but have thrust her into an abyss of deceit and +misery. a man offended you and you shot him, and you say you do not +know god and hate your life. there is nothing strange in that, my dear +after these words, the mason, as if tired by his long discourse, again +leaned his arms on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes. pierre +looked at that aged, stern, motionless, almost lifeless face and moved +his lips without uttering a sound. he wished to say, “yes, a vile, +the mason cleared his throat huskily, as old men do, and called his +“how about the horses?” he asked, without looking at pierre. +“the exchange horses have just come,” answered the servant. “will +“can he really be going away leaving me alone without having told me +all, and without promising to help me?” thought pierre, rising with +downcast head; and he began to pace the room, glancing occasionally at +the mason. “yes, i never thought of it, but i have led a contemptible +and profligate life, though i did not like it and did not want to,” +thought pierre. “but this man knows the truth and, if he wished to, +pierre wished to say this to the mason, but did not dare to. the +traveler, having packed his things with his practiced hands, began +fastening his coat. when he had finished, he turned to bezúkhov, and +said in a tone of indifferent politeness: +“where are you going to now, my dear sir?” +“i?... i’m going to petersburg,” answered pierre, in a childlike, +hesitating voice. “i thank you. i agree with all you have said. but +do not suppose me to be so bad. with my whole soul i wish to be what you +would have me be, but i have never had help from anyone.... but it is +i, above all, who am to blame for everything. help me, teach me, and +pierre could not go on. he gulped and turned away. +the mason remained silent for a long time, evidently considering. +“help comes from god alone,” he said, “but such measure of help as +our order can bestow it will render you, my dear sir. you are going to +petersburg. hand this to count willarski” (he took out his notebook +and wrote a few words on a large sheet of paper folded in four). +“allow me to give you a piece of advice. when you reach the capital, +first of all devote some time to solitude and self-examination and do +not resume your former way of life. and now i wish you a good journey, +my dear sir,” he added, seeing that his servant had entered... “and +the traveler was joseph alexéevich bazdéev, as pierre saw from the +postmaster’s book. bazdéev had been one of the best-known freemasons +and martinists, even in novíkov’s time. for a long while after he had +gone, pierre did not go to bed or order horses but paced up and down +the room, pondering over his vicious past, and with a rapturous sense +of beginning anew pictured to himself the blissful, irreproachable, +virtuous future that seemed to him so easy. it seemed to him that he had +been vicious only because he had somehow forgotten how good it is to +be virtuous. not a trace of his former doubts remained in his soul. he +firmly believed in the possibility of the brotherhood of men united in +the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that is how +on reaching petersburg pierre did not let anyone know of his arrival, +he went nowhere and spent whole days in reading thomas à kempis, whose +book had been sent him by someone unknown. one thing he continually +realized as he read that book: the joy, hitherto unknown to him, +of believing in the possibility of attaining perfection, and in the +possibility of active brotherly love among men, which joseph alexéevich +had revealed to him. a week after his arrival, the young polish count, +willarski, whom pierre had known slightly in petersburg society, came +into his room one evening in the official and ceremonious manner in +which dólokhov’s second had called on him, and, having closed the +door behind him and satisfied himself that there was nobody else in the +“i have come to you with a message and an offer, count,” he +said without sitting down. “a person of very high standing in our +brotherhood has made application for you to be received into our order +before the usual term and has proposed to me to be your sponsor. i +consider it a sacred duty to fulfill that person’s wishes. do you wish +to enter the brotherhood of freemasons under my sponsorship?” +the cold, austere tone of this man, whom he had almost always before met +at balls, amiably smiling in the society of the most brilliant women, +“one more question, count,” he said, “which i beg you to answer +in all sincerity—not as a future mason but as an honest man: have you +renounced your former convictions—do you believe in god?” +“yes... yes, i believe in god,” he said. +“in that case...” began willarski, but pierre interrupted him. +“in that case we can go,” said willarski. “my carriage is at your +willarski was silent throughout the drive. to pierre’s inquiries as +to what he must do and how he should answer, willarski only replied that +brothers more worthy than he would test him and that pierre had only to +having entered the courtyard of a large house where the lodge had its +headquarters, and having ascended a dark staircase, they entered a small +well-lit anteroom where they took off their cloaks without the aid of +a servant. from there they passed into another room. a man in strange +attire appeared at the door. willarski, stepping toward him, said +something to him in french in an undertone and then went up to a small +wardrobe in which pierre noticed garments such as he had never seen +before. having taken a kerchief from the cupboard, willarski bound +pierre’s eyes with it and tied it in a knot behind, catching some +hairs painfully in the knot. then he drew his face down, kissed him, and +taking him by the hand led him forward. the hairs tied in the knot hurt +pierre and there were lines of pain on his face and a shamefaced smile. +his huge figure, with arms hanging down and with a puckered, though +smiling face, moved after willarski with uncertain, timid steps. +“whatever happens to you,” he said, “you must bear it all manfully +if you have firmly resolved to join our brotherhood.” (pierre nodded +affirmatively.) “when you hear a knock at the door, you will uncover +your eyes,” added willarski. “i wish you courage and success,” +and, pressing pierre’s hand, he went out. +left alone, pierre went on smiling in the same way. once or twice +he shrugged his shoulders and raised his hand to the kerchief, as if +wishing to take it off, but let it drop again. the five minutes spent +with his eyes bandaged seemed to him an hour. his arms felt numb, +his legs almost gave way, it seemed to him that he was tired out. he +experienced a variety of most complex sensations. he felt afraid of what +would happen to him and still more afraid of showing his fear. he felt +curious to know what was going to happen and what would be revealed to +him; but most of all, he felt joyful that the moment had come when he +would at last start on that path of regeneration and on the actively +virtuous life of which he had been dreaming since he met joseph +alexéevich. loud knocks were heard at the door. pierre took the bandage +off his eyes and glanced around him. the room was in black darkness, +only a small lamp was burning inside something white. pierre went nearer +and saw that the lamp stood on a black table on which lay an open book. +the book was the gospel, and the white thing with the lamp inside was a +human skull with its cavities and teeth. after reading the first words +of the gospel: “in the beginning was the word and the word was with +god,” pierre went round the table and saw a large open box filled +with something. it was a coffin with bones inside. he was not at all +surprised by what he saw. hoping to enter on an entirely new life quite +unlike the old one, he expected everything to be unusual, even more +unusual than what he was seeing. a skull, a coffin, the gospel—it +seemed to him that he had expected all this and even more. trying +to stimulate his emotions he looked around. “god, death, love, the +brotherhood of man,” he kept saying to himself, associating these +words with vague yet joyful ideas. the door opened and someone came in. +by the dim light, to which pierre had already become accustomed, he +saw a rather short man. having evidently come from the light into the +darkness, the man paused, then moved with cautious steps toward the +table and placed on it his small leather-gloved hands. +this short man had on a white leather apron which covered his chest and +part of his legs; he had on a kind of necklace above which rose a high +white ruffle, outlining his rather long face which was lit up from +“for what have you come hither?” asked the newcomer, turning in +pierre’s direction at a slight rustle made by the latter. “why have +you, who do not believe in the truth of the light and who have not +seen the light, come here? what do you seek from us? wisdom, virtue, +at the moment the door opened and the stranger came in, pierre felt a +sense of awe and veneration such as he had experienced in his boyhood at +confession; he felt himself in the presence of one socially a complete +stranger, yet nearer to him through the brotherhood of man. with bated +breath and beating heart he moved toward the rhetor (by which name the +brother who prepared a seeker for entrance into the brotherhood was +known). drawing nearer, he recognized in the rhetor a man he knew, +smolyanínov, and it mortified him to think that the newcomer was an +acquaintance—he wished him simply a brother and a virtuous instructor. +for a long time he could not utter a word, so that the rhetor had to +“yes... i... i... desire regeneration,” pierre uttered with +“very well,” said smolyanínov, and went on at once: “have you any +idea of the means by which our holy order will help you to reach your +“i... hope... for guidance... help... in regeneration,” said pierre, +with a trembling voice and some difficulty in utterance due to his +excitement and to being unaccustomed to speak of abstract matters in +“what is your conception of freemasonry?” +“i imagine that freemasonry is the fraternity and equality of men who +have virtuous aims,” said pierre, feeling ashamed of the inadequacy +of his words for the solemnity of the moment, as he spoke. “i +“good!” said the rhetor quickly, apparently satisfied with +this answer. “have you sought for means of attaining your aim in +“no, i considered it erroneous and did not follow it,” said pierre, +so softly that the rhetor did not hear him and asked him what he was +saying. “i have been an atheist,” answered pierre. +“you are seeking for truth in order to follow its laws in your life, +therefore you seek wisdom and virtue. is that not so?” said the +rhetor, after a moment’s pause. +“yes, yes,” assented pierre. +the rhetor cleared his throat, crossed his gloved hands on his breast, +“now i must disclose to you the chief aim of our order,” he said, +“and if this aim coincides with yours, you may enter our brotherhood +with profit. the first and chief object of our order, the foundation on +which it rests and which no human power can destroy, is the preservation +and handing on to posterity of a certain important mystery... which +has come down to us from the remotest ages, even from the first man—a +mystery on which perhaps the fate of mankind depends. but since this +mystery is of such a nature that nobody can know or use it unless he be +prepared by long and diligent self-purification, not everyone can hope +to attain it quickly. hence we have a secondary aim, that of preparing +our members as much as possible to reform their hearts, to purify and +enlighten their minds, by means handed on to us by tradition from those +who have striven to attain this mystery, and thereby to render them +“by purifying and regenerating our members we try, thirdly, to improve +the whole human race, offering it in our members an example of piety +and virtue, and thereby try with all our might to combat the evil which +sways the world. think this over and i will come to you again.” +“to combat the evil which sways the world...” pierre repeated, and a +mental image of his future activity in this direction rose in his mind. +he imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he +addressed an edifying exhortation to them. he imagined to himself +vicious and unfortunate people whom he would assist by word and deed, +imagined oppressors whose victims he would rescue. of the three +objects mentioned by the rhetor, this last, that of improving mankind, +especially appealed to pierre. the important mystery mentioned by the +rhetor, though it aroused his curiosity, did not seem to him essential, +and the second aim, that of purifying and regenerating himself, did not +much interest him because at that moment he felt with delight that he +was already perfectly cured of his former faults and was ready for all +half an hour later, the rhetor returned to inform the seeker of the +seven virtues, corresponding to the seven steps of solomon’s temple, +which every freemason should cultivate in himself. these virtues were: +1. discretion, the keeping of the secrets of the order. 2. obedience to +those of higher ranks in the order. 3. morality. 4. love of mankind. 5. +“in the seventh place, try, by the frequent thought of death,” the +rhetor said, “to bring yourself to regard it not as a dreaded foe, but +as a friend that frees the soul grown weary in the labors of virtue +from this distressful life, and leads it to its place of recompense and +“yes, that must be so,” thought pierre, when after these words the +rhetor went away, leaving him to solitary meditation. “it must be so, +but i am still so weak that i love my life, the meaning of which is only +now gradually opening before me.” but five of the other virtues which +pierre recalled, counting them on his fingers, he felt already in his +soul: courage, generosity, morality, love of mankind, and especially +obedience—which did not even seem to him a virtue, but a joy. (he now +felt so glad to be free from his own lawlessness and to submit his will +to those who knew the indubitable truth.) he forgot what the seventh +the third time the rhetor came back more quickly and asked pierre +whether he was still firm in his intention and determined to submit to +“i must also inform you,” said the rhetor, “that our order +delivers its teaching not in words only but also by other means, which +may perhaps have a stronger effect on the sincere seeker after wisdom +and virtue than mere words. this chamber with what you see therein +should already have suggested to your heart, if it is sincere, more than +words could do. you will perhaps also see in your further initiation a +like method of enlightenment. our order imitates the ancient societies +that explained their teaching by hieroglyphics. a hieroglyph,” said +the rhetor, “is an emblem of something not cognizable by the senses +but which possesses qualities resembling those of the symbol.” +pierre knew very well what a hieroglyph was, but dared not speak. he +listened to the rhetor in silence, feeling from all he said that his +“if you are resolved, i must begin your initiation,” said the rhetor +coming closer to pierre. “in token of generosity i ask you to give me +“but i have nothing here,” replied pierre, supposing that he was +pierre quickly took out his purse and watch, but could not manage for +some time to get the wedding ring off his fat finger. when that had been +“in token of obedience, i ask you to undress.” +pierre took off his coat, waistcoat, and left boot according to the +rhetor’s instructions. the mason drew the shirt back from pierre’s +left breast, and stooping down pulled up the left leg of his trousers +to above the knee. pierre hurriedly began taking off his right boot also +and was going to tuck up the other trouser leg to save this stranger the +trouble, but the mason told him that was not necessary and gave him +a slipper for his left foot. with a childlike smile of embarrassment, +doubt, and self-derision, which appeared on his face against his will, +pierre stood with his arms hanging down and legs apart, before his +brother rhetor, and awaited his further commands. +“and now, in token of candor, i ask you to reveal to me your chief +“my passion! i have had so many,” replied pierre. +“that passion which more than all others caused you to waver on the +“wine? gluttony? idleness? laziness? irritability? anger? women?” +he went over his vices in his mind, not knowing to which of them to give +“women,” he said in a low, scarcely audible voice. +the mason did not move and for a long time said nothing after this +answer. at last he moved up to pierre and, taking the kerchief that lay +on the table, again bound his eyes. +“for the last time i say to you—turn all your attention upon +yourself, put a bridle on your senses, and seek blessedness, not in +passion but in your own heart. the source of blessedness is not without +pierre had already long been feeling in himself that refreshing source +of blessedness which now flooded his heart with glad emotion. +soon after this there came into the dark chamber to fetch pierre, not +the rhetor but pierre’s sponsor, willarski, whom he recognized by his +voice. to fresh questions as to the firmness of his resolution pierre +replied: “yes, yes, i agree,” and with a beaming, childlike smile, +his fat chest uncovered, stepping unevenly and timidly in one slippered +and one booted foot, he advanced, while willarski held a sword to his +bare chest. he was conducted from that room along passages that turned +backwards and forwards and was at last brought to the doors of the +lodge. willarski coughed, he was answered by the masonic knock with +mallets, the doors opened before them. a bass voice (pierre was still +blindfolded) questioned him as to who he was, when and where he was +born, and so on. then he was again led somewhere still blindfolded, +and as they went along he was told allegories of the toils of his +pilgrimage, of holy friendship, of the eternal architect of the +universe, and of the courage with which he should endure toils and +dangers. during these wanderings, pierre noticed that he was spoken +of now as the “seeker,” now as the “sufferer,” and now as the +“postulant,” to the accompaniment of various knockings with +mallets and swords. as he was being led up to some object he noticed a +hesitation and uncertainty among his conductors. he heard those around +him disputing in whispers and one of them insisting that he should be +led along a certain carpet. after that they took his right hand, placed +it on something, and told him to hold a pair of compasses to his left +breast with the other hand and to repeat after someone who read aloud +an oath of fidelity to the laws of the order. the candles were then +extinguished and some spirit lighted, as pierre knew by the smell, and +he was told that he would now see the lesser light. the bandage was +taken off his eyes and, by the faint light of the burning spirit, +pierre, as in a dream, saw several men standing before him, wearing +aprons like the rhetor’s and holding swords in their hands pointed at +his breast. among them stood a man whose white shirt was stained with +blood. on seeing this, pierre moved forward with his breast toward the +swords, meaning them to pierce it. but the swords were drawn back from +him and he was at once blindfolded again. +“now thou hast seen the lesser light,” uttered a voice. then the +candles were relit and he was told that he would see the full light; the +bandage was again removed and more than ten voices said together: “sic +pierre gradually began to recover himself and looked about at the room +and at the people in it. round a long table covered with black sat some +twelve men in garments like those he had already seen. some of them +pierre had met in petersburg society. in the president’s chair sat a +young man he did not know, with a peculiar cross hanging from his +neck. on his right sat the italian abbé whom pierre had met at +anna pávlovna’s two years before. there were also present a very +distinguished dignitary and a swiss who had formerly been tutor at the +kurágins’. all maintained a solemn silence, listening to the words +of the president, who held a mallet in his hand. let into the wall was +a star-shaped light. at one side of the table was a small carpet with +various figures worked upon it, at the other was something resembling an +altar on which lay a testament and a skull. round it stood seven large +candlesticks like those used in churches. two of the brothers led pierre +up to the altar, placed his feet at right angles, and bade him lie down, +saying that he must prostrate himself at the gates of the temple. +“he must first receive the trowel,” whispered one of the brothers. +pierre, perplexed, looked round with his shortsighted eyes without +obeying, and suddenly doubts arose in his mind. “where am i? what am +i doing? aren’t they laughing at me? shan’t i be ashamed to remember +this?” but these doubts only lasted a moment. pierre glanced at +the serious faces of those around, remembered all he had already gone +through, and realized that he could not stop halfway. he was aghast +at his hesitation and, trying to arouse his former devotional feeling, +prostrated himself before the gates of the temple. and really, the +feeling of devotion returned to him even more strongly than before. when +he had lain there some time, he was told to get up, and a white leather +apron, such as the others wore, was put on him: he was given a trowel +and three pairs of gloves, and then the grand master addressed him. he +told him that he should try to do nothing to stain the whiteness of that +apron, which symbolized strength and purity; then of the unexplained +trowel, he told him to toil with it to cleanse his own heart from vice, +and indulgently to smooth with it the heart of his neighbor. as to the +first pair of gloves, a man’s, he said that pierre could not know +their meaning but must keep them. the second pair of man’s gloves +he was to wear at the meetings, and finally of the third, a pair of +women’s gloves, he said: “dear brother, these woman’s gloves are +intended for you too. give them to the woman whom you shall honor most +of all. this gift will be a pledge of your purity of heart to her whom +you select to be your worthy helpmeet in masonry.” and after a pause, +he added: “but beware, dear brother, that these gloves do not deck +hands that are unclean.” while the grand master said these last words +it seemed to pierre that he grew embarrassed. pierre himself grew still +more confused, blushed like a child till tears came to his eyes, began +looking about him uneasily, and an awkward pause followed. +this silence was broken by one of the brethren, who led pierre up to the +rug and began reading to him from a manuscript book an explanation of +all the figures on it: the sun, the moon, a hammer, a plumb line, a +trowel, a rough stone and a squared stone, a pillar, three windows, and +so on. then a place was assigned to pierre, he was shown the signs of +the lodge, told the password, and at last was permitted to sit down. +the grand master began reading the statutes. they were very long, and +pierre, from joy, agitation, and embarrassment, was not in a state to +understand what was being read. he managed to follow only the last words +of the statutes and these remained in his mind. +“in our temples we recognize no other distinctions,” read the grand +master, “but those between virtue and vice. beware of making any +distinctions which may infringe equality. fly to a brother’s aid +whoever he may be, exhort him who goeth astray, raise him that falleth, +never bear malice or enmity toward thy brother. be kindly and courteous. +kindle in all hearts the flame of virtue. share thy happiness with thy +neighbor, and may envy never dim the purity of that bliss. forgive thy +enemy, do not avenge thyself except by doing him good. thus fulfilling +the highest law thou shalt regain traces of the ancient dignity which +he finished and, getting up, embraced and kissed pierre, who, with tears +of joy in his eyes, looked round him, not knowing how to answer the +congratulations and greetings from acquaintances that met him on all +sides. he acknowledged no acquaintances but saw in all these men only +brothers, and burned with impatience to set to work with them. +the grand master rapped with his mallet. all the masons sat down in +their places, and one of them read an exhortation on the necessity of +the grand master proposed that the last duty should be performed, +and the distinguished dignitary who bore the title of “collector +of alms” went round to all the brothers. pierre would have liked +to subscribe all he had, but fearing that it might look like pride +subscribed the same amount as the others. +the meeting was at an end, and on reaching home pierre felt as if he had +returned from a long journey on which he had spent dozens of years, had +become completely changed, and had quite left behind his former habits +the day after he had been received into the lodge, pierre was sitting at +home reading a book and trying to fathom the significance of the square, +one side of which symbolized god, another moral things, a third +physical things, and the fourth a combination of these. now and then +his attention wandered from the book and the square and he formed in +imagination a new plan of life. on the previous evening at the lodge, he +had heard that a rumor of his duel had reached the emperor and that it +would be wiser for him to leave petersburg. pierre proposed going to his +estates in the south and there attending to the welfare of his serfs. +he was joyfully planning this new life, when prince vasíli suddenly +“my dear fellow, what have you been up to in moscow? why have you +quarreled with hélène, mon cher? you are under a delusion,” said +prince vasíli, as he entered. “i know all about it, and i can tell +you positively that hélène is as innocent before you as christ was +pierre was about to reply, but prince vasíli interrupted him. +“and why didn’t you simply come straight to me as to a friend? i +know all about it and understand it all,” he said. “you behaved as +becomes a man who values his honor, perhaps too hastily, but we won’t +go into that. but consider the position in which you are placing her and +me in the eyes of society, and even of the court,” he added, lowering +his voice. “she is living in moscow and you are here. remember, +dear boy,” and he drew pierre’s arm downwards, “it is simply a +misunderstanding. i expect you feel it so yourself. let us write her +a letter at once, and she’ll come here and all will be explained, or +else, my dear boy, let me tell you it’s quite likely you’ll have to +“i know from reliable sources that the dowager empress is taking a +keen interest in the whole affair. you know she is very gracious to +pierre tried several times to speak, but, on one hand, prince vasíli +did not let him and, on the other, pierre himself feared to begin to +speak in the tone of decided refusal and disagreement in which he had +firmly resolved to answer his father-in-law. moreover, the words of the +masonic statutes, “be kindly and courteous,” recurred to him. he +blinked, went red, got up and sat down again, struggling with himself +to do what was for him the most difficult thing in life—to say an +unpleasant thing to a man’s face, to say what the other, whoever +he might be, did not expect. he was so used to submitting to prince +vasíli’s tone of careless self-assurance that he felt he would be +unable to withstand it now, but he also felt that on what he said now +his future depended—whether he would follow the same old road, or that +new path so attractively shown him by the masons, on which he firmly +believed he would be reborn to a new life. +“now, dear boy,” said prince vasíli playfully, “say ‘yes,’ +and i’ll write to her myself, and we will kill the fatted calf.” +but before prince vasíli had finished his playful speech, pierre, +without looking at him, and with a kind of fury that made him like his +“prince, i did not ask you here. go, please go!” and he jumped up +and opened the door for him. +“go!” he repeated, amazed at himself and glad to see the look of +confusion and fear that showed itself on prince vasíli’s face. +“what’s the matter with you? are you ill?” +“go!” the quivering voice repeated. and prince vasíli had to go +without receiving any explanation. +a week later, pierre, having taken leave of his new friends, the masons, +and leaving large sums of money with them for alms, went away to his +estates. his new brethren gave him letters to the kiev and odessa masons +and promised to write to him and guide him in his new activity. +the duel between pierre and dólokhov was hushed up and, in spite of +the emperor’s severity regarding duels at that time, neither the +principals nor their seconds suffered for it. but the story of the duel, +confirmed by pierre’s rupture with his wife, was the talk of society. +pierre who had been regarded with patronizing condescension when he was +an illegitimate son, and petted and extolled when he was the best +match in russia, had sunk greatly in the esteem of society after his +marriage—when the marriageable daughters and their mothers had nothing +to hope from him—especially as he did not know how, and did not +wish, to court society’s favor. now he alone was blamed for what had +happened, he was said to be insanely jealous and subject like his +father to fits of bloodthirsty rage. and when after pierre’s +departure hélène returned to petersburg, she was received by all her +acquaintances not only cordially, but even with a shade of deference +due to her misfortune. when conversation turned on her husband hélène +assumed a dignified expression, which with characteristic tact she had +acquired though she did not understand its significance. this expression +suggested that she had resolved to endure her troubles uncomplainingly +and that her husband was a cross laid upon her by god. prince vasíli +expressed his opinion more openly. he shrugged his shoulders when pierre +was mentioned and, pointing to his forehead, remarked: +“i said from the first,” declared anna pávlovna referring to +pierre, “i said at the time and before anyone else” (she insisted +on her priority) “that that senseless young man was spoiled by the +depraved ideas of these days. i said so even at the time when everybody +was in raptures about him, when he had just returned from abroad, and +when, if you remember, he posed as a sort of marat at one of my soirees. +and how has it ended? i was against this marriage even then and foretold +all that has happened.” +anna pávlovna continued to give on free evenings the same kind of +soirees as before—such as she alone had the gift of arranging—at +which was to be found “the cream of really good society, the bloom +of the intellectual essence of petersburg,” as she herself put it. +besides this refined selection of society anna pávlovna’s receptions +were also distinguished by the fact that she always presented some new +and interesting person to the visitors and that nowhere else was the +state of the political thermometer of legitimate petersburg court +society so dearly and distinctly indicated. +toward the end of 1806, when all the sad details of napoleon’s +destruction of the prussian army at jena and auerstädt and the +surrender of most of the prussian fortresses had been received, when our +troops had already entered prussia and our second war with napoleon +was beginning, anna pávlovna gave one of her soirees. the “cream of +really good society” consisted of the fascinating hélène, forsaken +by her husband, mortemart, the delightful prince hippolyte who had +just returned from vienna, two diplomatists, the old aunt, a young man +referred to in that drawing room as “a man of great merit” (un homme +de beaucoup de mérite), a newly appointed maid of honor and her mother, +and several other less noteworthy persons. +the novelty anna pávlovna was setting before her guests that evening +was borís drubetskóy, who had just arrived as a special messenger from +the prussian army and was aide-de-camp to a very important personage. +the temperature shown by the political thermometer to the company that +“whatever the european sovereigns and commanders may do to +countenance bonaparte, and to cause me, and us in general, annoyance and +mortification, our opinion of bonaparte cannot alter. we shall not cease +to express our sincere views on that subject, and can only say to the +king of prussia and others: ‘so much the worse for you. tu l’as +voulu, george dandin,’ that’s all we have to say about it!” +when borís, who was to be served up to the guests, entered the drawing +room, almost all the company had assembled, and the conversation, guided +by anna pávlovna, was about our diplomatic relations with austria and +the hope of an alliance with her. +borís, grown more manly and looking fresh, rosy and self-possessed, +entered the drawing room elegantly dressed in the uniform of an +aide-de-camp and was duly conducted to pay his respects to the aunt and +anna pávlovna gave him her shriveled hand to kiss and introduced him to +several persons whom he did not know, giving him a whispered description +“prince hippolyte kurágin—charming young fellow; m. +kronq,—chargé d’affaires from copenhagen—a profound intellect,” +and simply, “mr. shítov—a man of great merit”—this of the man +thanks to anna mikháylovna’s efforts, his own tastes, and the +peculiarities of his reserved nature, borís had managed during his +service to place himself very advantageously. he was aide-de-camp to a +very important personage, had been sent on a very important mission to +prussia, and had just returned from there as a special messenger. he had +become thoroughly conversant with that unwritten code with which he had +been so pleased at olmütz and according to which an ensign might rank +incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was +needed for success in the service was not effort or work, or courage, or +perseverance, but only the knowledge of how to get on with those who can +grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his +success and at the inability of others to understand these things. +in consequence of this discovery his whole manner of life, all +his relations with old friends, all his plans for his future, were +completely altered. he was not rich, but would spend his last groat to +be better dressed than others, and would rather deprive himself of many +pleasures than allow himself to be seen in a shabby equipage or appear +in the streets of petersburg in an old uniform. he made friends with +and sought the acquaintance of only those above him in position and +who could therefore be of use to him. he liked petersburg and despised +moscow. the remembrance of the rostóvs’ house and of his childish +love for natásha was unpleasant to him and he had not once been to see +the rostóvs since the day of his departure for the army. to be in anna +pávlovna’s drawing room he considered an important step up in the +service, and he at once understood his role, letting his hostess make +use of whatever interest he had to offer. he himself carefully scanned +each face, appraising the possibilities of establishing intimacy with +each of those present, and the advantages that might accrue. he took +the seat indicated to him beside the fair hélène and listened to the +“vienna considers the bases of the proposed treaty so unattainable +that not even a continuity of most brilliant successes would secure +them, and she doubts the means we have of gaining them. that is the +actual phrase used by the vienna cabinet,” said the danish chargé +“the doubt is flattering,” said “the man of profound intellect,” +“we must distinguish between the vienna cabinet and the emperor of +austria,” said mortemart. “the emperor of austria can never have +thought of such a thing, it is only the cabinet that says it.” +“ah, my dear vicomte,” put in anna pávlovna, “l’urope” (for +some reason she called it urope as if that were a specially refined +french pronunciation which she could allow herself when conversing with +a frenchman), “l’urope ne sera jamais notre alliée sincère.” * +after that anna pávlovna led up to the courage and firmness of the king +of prussia, in order to draw borís into the conversation. +borís listened attentively to each of the speakers, awaiting his turn, +but managed meanwhile to look round repeatedly at his neighbor, the +beautiful hélène, whose eyes several times met those of the handsome +speaking of the position of prussia, anna pávlovna very naturally asked +borís to tell them about his journey to glogau and in what state he +found the prussian army. borís, speaking with deliberation, told them +in pure, correct french many interesting details about the armies and +the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his +own about the facts he was recounting. for some time he engrossed the +general attention, and anna pávlovna felt that the novelty she had +served up was received with pleasure by all her visitors. the greatest +attention of all to borís’ narrative was shown by hélène. she asked +him several questions about his journey and seemed greatly interested in +the state of the prussian army. as soon as he had finished she turned to +“you absolutely must come and see me,” she said in a tone that +implied that, for certain considerations he could not know of, this was +“on tuesday between eight and nine. it will give me great pleasure.” +borís promised to fulfill her wish and was about to begin a +conversation with her, when anna pávlovna called him away on the +pretext that her aunt wished to hear him. +“you know her husband, of course?” said anna pávlovna, closing her +eyes and indicating hélène with a sorrowful gesture. “ah, she is +such an unfortunate and charming woman! don’t mention him before +when borís and anna pávlovna returned to the others prince hippolyte +bending forward in his armchair he said: “le roi de prusse!” and +having said this laughed. everyone turned toward him. +“le roi de prusse?” hippolyte said interrogatively, again laughing, +and then calmly and seriously sat back in his chair. anna pávlovna +waited for him to go on, but as he seemed quite decided to say no more +she began to tell of how at potsdam the impious bonaparte had stolen the +“it is the sword of frederick the great which i...” she began, but +hippolyte interrupted her with the words: “le roi de prusse...” and +again, as soon as all turned toward him, excused himself and said no +anna pávlovna frowned. mortemart, hippolyte’s friend, addressed him +hippolyte laughed as if ashamed of laughing. +“oh, it’s nothing. i only wished to say...” (he wanted to repeat +a joke he had heard in vienna and which he had been trying all that +evening to get in) “i only wished to say that we are wrong to fight +borís smiled circumspectly, so that it might be taken as ironical +or appreciative according to the way the joke was received. everybody +“your joke is too bad, it’s witty but unjust,” said anna +pávlovna, shaking her little shriveled finger at him. +“we are not fighting pour le roi de prusse, but for right principles. +the conversation did not flag all evening and turned chiefly on the +political news. it became particularly animated toward the end of the +evening when the rewards bestowed by the emperor were mentioned. +“you know n— n— received a snuffbox with the portrait last +year?” said “the man of profound intellect.” “why shouldn’t +s— s— get the same distinction?” +“pardon me! a snuffbox with the emperor’s portrait is a reward but +not a distinction,” said the diplomatist—“a gift, rather.” +“there are precedents, i may mention schwarzenberg.” +“will you bet? the ribbon of the order is a different matter....” +when everybody rose to go, hélène who had spoken very little all +the evening again turned to borís, asking him in a tone of caressing +significant command to come to her on tuesday. +“it is of great importance to me,” she said, turning with a smile +toward anna pávlovna, and anna pávlovna, with the same sad smile with +which she spoke of her exalted patroness, supported hélène’s wish. +it seemed as if from some words borís had spoken that evening about the +prussian army, hélène had suddenly found it necessary to see him. +she seemed to promise to explain that necessity to him when he came on +but on tuesday evening, having come to hélène’s splendid salon, +borís received no clear explanation of why it had been necessary for +him to come. there were other guests and the countess talked little to +him, and only as he kissed her hand on taking leave said unexpectedly +and in a whisper, with a strangely unsmiling face: “come to dinner +tomorrow... in the evening. you must come.... come!” +during that stay in petersburg, borís became an intimate in the +the war was flaming up and nearing the russian frontier. everywhere one +heard curses on bonaparte, “the enemy of mankind.” militiamen and +recruits were being enrolled in the villages, and from the seat of +war came contradictory news, false as usual and therefore variously +interpreted. the life of old prince bolkónski, prince andrew, and +princess mary had greatly changed since 1805. +in 1806 the old prince was made one of the eight commanders in chief +then appointed to supervise the enrollment decreed throughout russia. +despite the weakness of age, which had become particularly noticeable +since the time when he thought his son had been killed, he did not think +it right to refuse a duty to which he had been appointed by the emperor +himself, and this fresh opportunity for action gave him new energy +and strength. he was continually traveling through the three provinces +entrusted to him, was pedantic in the fulfillment of his duties, severe +to cruel with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the +minutest details himself. princess mary had ceased taking lessons in +mathematics from her father, and when the old prince was at home went +to his study with the wet nurse and little prince nicholas (as his +grandfather called him). the baby prince nicholas lived with his wet +nurse and nurse sávishna in the late princess’ rooms and princess +mary spent most of the day in the nursery, taking a mother’s place to +her little nephew as best she could. mademoiselle bourienne, too, seemed +passionately fond of the boy, and princess mary often deprived herself +to give her friend the pleasure of dandling the little angel—as she +called her nephew—and playing with him. +near the altar of the church at bald hills there was a chapel over the +tomb of the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument +brought from italy, representing an angel with outspread wings ready to +fly upwards. the angel’s upper lip was slightly raised as though +about to smile, and once on coming out of the chapel prince andrew and +princess mary admitted to one another that the angel’s face reminded +them strangely of the little princess. but what was still stranger, +though of this prince andrew said nothing to his sister, was that in the +expression the sculptor had happened to give the angel’s face, prince +andrew read the same mild reproach he had read on the face of his dead +soon after prince andrew’s return the old prince made over to him a +large estate, boguchárovo, about twenty-five miles from bald hills. +partly because of the depressing memories associated with bald hills, +partly because prince andrew did not always feel equal to bearing with +his father’s peculiarities, and partly because he needed solitude, +prince andrew made use of boguchárovo, began building and spent most of +after the austerlitz campaign prince andrew had firmly resolved not +to continue his military service, and when the war recommenced +and everybody had to serve, he took a post under his father in the +recruitment so as to avoid active service. the old prince and his son +seemed to have changed roles since the campaign of 1805. the old man, +roused by activity, expected the best results from the new campaign, +while prince andrew on the contrary, taking no part in the war and +secretly regretting this, saw only the dark side. +on february 26, 1807, the old prince set off on one of his circuits. +prince andrew remained at bald hills as usual during his father’s +absence. little nicholas had been unwell for four days. the coachman who +had driven the old prince to town returned bringing papers and letters +not finding the young prince in his study the valet went with the +letters to princess mary’s apartments, but did not find him there. he +was told that the prince had gone to the nursery. +“if you please, your excellency, pétrusha has brought some papers,” +said one of the nursemaids to prince andrew who was sitting on a +child’s little chair while, frowning and with trembling hands, he +poured drops from a medicine bottle into a wineglass half full of water. +“what is it?” he said crossly, and, his hand shaking +unintentionally, he poured too many drops into the glass. he threw the +mixture onto the floor and asked for some more water. the maid brought +there were in the room a child’s cot, two boxes, two armchairs, a +table, a child’s table, and the little chair on which prince andrew +was sitting. the curtains were drawn, and a single candle was burning on +the table, screened by a bound music book so that the light did not fall +“my dear,” said princess mary, addressing her brother from beside +the cot where she was standing, “better wait a bit... later...” +“oh, leave off, you always talk nonsense and keep putting things +off—and this is what comes of it!” said prince andrew in an +exasperated whisper, evidently meaning to wound his sister. +“my dear, really... it’s better not to wake him... he’s asleep,” +said the princess in a tone of entreaty. +prince andrew got up and went on tiptoe up to the little bed, wineglass +“perhaps we’d really better not wake him,” he said hesitating. +“as you please... really... i think so... but as you please,” said +princess mary, evidently intimidated and confused that her opinion +had prevailed. she drew her brother’s attention to the maid who was +it was the second night that neither of them had slept, watching the boy +who was in a high fever. these last days, mistrusting their household +doctor and expecting another for whom they had sent to town, they had +been trying first one remedy and then another. worn out by sleeplessness +and anxiety they threw their burden of sorrow on one another and +reproached and disputed with each other. +“pétrusha has come with papers from your father,” whispered the +“devil take them!” he muttered, and after listening to the verbal +instructions his father had sent and taking the correspondence and his +father’s letter, he returned to the nursery. +“still the same. wait, for heaven’s sake. karl ivánich always says +that sleep is more important than anything,” whispered princess mary +prince andrew went up to the child and felt him. he was burning hot. +“confound you and your karl ivánich!” he took the glass with the +but he scowled at her angrily though also with suffering in his eyes, +and stooped glass in hand over the infant. +“but i wish it,” he said. “i beg you—give it him!” +princess mary shrugged her shoulders but took the glass submissively +and calling the nurse began giving the medicine. the child screamed +hoarsely. prince andrew winced and, clutching his head, went out and sat +down on a sofa in the next room. +he still had all the letters in his hand. opening them mechanically he +began reading. the old prince, now and then using abbreviations, wrote +in his large elongated hand on blue paper as follows: +have just this moment received by special messenger very joyful +news—if it’s not false. bennigsen seems to have obtained a complete +victory over buonaparte at eylau. in petersburg everyone is rejoicing, +and the rewards sent to the army are innumerable. though he is a +german—i congratulate him! i can’t make out what the commander at +kórchevo—a certain khandrikóv—is up to; till now the additional +men and provisions have not arrived. gallop off to him at once and +say i’ll have his head off if everything is not here in a week. +have received another letter about the preussisch-eylau battle +from pétenka—he took part in it—and it’s all true. when +mischief-makers don’t meddle even a german beats buonaparte. he is +said to be fleeing in great disorder. mind you gallop off to kórchevo +without delay and carry out instructions! +prince andrew sighed and broke the seal of another envelope. it was +a closely written letter of two sheets from bilíbin. he folded it up +without reading it and reread his father’s letter, ending with the +words: “gallop off to kórchevo and carry out instructions!” +“no, pardon me, i won’t go now till the child is better,” thought +he, going to the door and looking into the nursery. +princess mary was still standing by the cot, gently rocking the baby. +“ah yes, and what else did he say that’s unpleasant?” thought +prince andrew, recalling his father’s letter. “yes, we have gained +a victory over bonaparte, just when i’m not serving. yes, yes, he’s +always poking fun at me.... ah, well! let him!” and he began reading +bilíbin’s letter which was written in french. he read without +understanding half of it, read only to forget, if but for a moment, what +he had too long been thinking of so painfully to the exclusion of all +bilíbin was now at army headquarters in a diplomatic capacity, and +though he wrote in french and used french jests and french idioms, +he described the whole campaign with a fearless self-censure and +self-derision genuinely russian. bilíbin wrote that the obligation of +diplomatic discretion tormented him, and he was happy to have in prince +andrew a reliable correspondent to whom he could pour out the bile he +had accumulated at the sight of all that was being done in the army. +the letter was old, having been written before the battle at +“since the day of our brilliant success at austerlitz,” wrote +bilíbin, “as you know, my dear prince, i never leave headquarters. i +have certainly acquired a taste for war, and it is just as well for me; +what i have seen during these last three months is incredible. +“i begin ab ovo. ‘the enemy of the human race,’ as you know, +attacks the prussians. the prussians are our faithful allies who have +only betrayed us three times in three years. we take up their cause, but +it turns out that ‘the enemy of the human race’ pays no heed to +our fine speeches and in his rude and savage way throws himself on the +prussians without giving them time to finish the parade they had begun, +and in two twists of the hand he breaks them to smithereens and installs +“‘i most ardently desire,’ writes the king of prussia to +bonaparte, ‘that your majesty should be received and treated in my +palace in a manner agreeable to yourself, and in so far as circumstances +allowed, i have hastened to take all steps to that end. may i have +succeeded!’ the prussian generals pride themselves on being polite to +the french and lay down their arms at the first demand. +“the head of the garrison at glogau, with ten thousand men, asks the +king of prussia what he is to do if he is summoned to surrender.... all +“in short, hoping to settle matters by taking up a warlike attitude, +it turns out that we have landed ourselves in war, and what is more, +in war on our own frontiers, with and for the king of prussia. we have +everything in perfect order, only one little thing is lacking, namely, +a commander in chief. as it was considered that the austerlitz success +might have been more decisive had the commander in chief not been so +young, all our octogenarians were reviewed, and of prozoróvski +and kámenski the latter was preferred. the general comes to us, +suvórov-like, in a kibítka, and is received with acclamations of joy +“on the 4th, the first courier arrives from petersburg. the mails +are taken to the field marshal’s room, for he likes to do everything +himself. i am called in to help sort the letters and take those meant +for us. the field marshal looks on and waits for letters addressed +to him. we search, but none are to be found. the field marshal grows +impatient and sets to work himself and finds letters from the emperor +to count t., prince v., and others. then he bursts into one of his wild +furies and rages at everyone and everything, seizes the letters, opens +them, and reads those from the emperor addressed to others. ‘ah! so +that’s the way they treat me! no confidence in me! ah, ordered to keep +an eye on me! very well then! get along with you!’ so he writes the +famous order of the day to general bennigsen: +“‘i am wounded and cannot ride and consequently cannot command the +army. you have brought your army corps to pultúsk, routed: here it is +exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as +you yourself reported to count buxhöwden yesterday, you must think of +“‘from all my riding,’ he writes to the emperor, ‘i have got a +saddle sore which, coming after all my previous journeys, quite prevents +my riding and commanding so vast an army, so i have passed on the +command to the general next in seniority, count buxhöwden, having sent +him my whole staff and all that belongs to it, advising him if there is +a lack of bread, to move farther into the interior of prussia, for only +one day’s ration of bread remains, and in some regiments none at all, +as reported by the division commanders, ostermann and sedmorétzki, and +all that the peasants had has been eaten up. i myself will remain in +hospital at ostrolenka till i recover. in regard to which i humbly +submit my report, with the information that if the army remains in its +present bivouac another fortnight there will not be a healthy man left +“‘grant leave to retire to his country seat to an old man who is +already in any case dishonored by being unable to fulfill the great and +glorious task for which he was chosen. i shall await your most gracious +permission here in hospital, that i may not have to play the part of a +secretary rather than commander in the army. my removal from the army +does not produce the slightest stir—a blind man has left it. there are +“the field marshal is angry with the emperor and he punishes us all, +“this is the first act. those that follow are naturally increasingly +interesting and entertaining. after the field marshal’s departure +it appears that we are within sight of the enemy and must give battle. +buxhöwden is commander in chief by seniority, but general bennigsen +does not quite see it; more particularly as it is he and his corps who +are within sight of the enemy and he wishes to profit by the opportunity +to fight a battle ‘on his own hand’ as the germans say. he does so. +this is the battle of pultúsk, which is considered a great victory but +in my opinion was nothing of the kind. we civilians, as you know, have +a very bad way of deciding whether a battle was won or lost. those who +retreat after a battle have lost it is what we say; and according to +that it is we who lost the battle of pultúsk. in short, we retreat +after the battle but send a courier to petersburg with news of a +victory, and general bennigsen, hoping to receive from petersburg the +post of commander in chief as a reward for his victory, does not give up +the command of the army to general buxhöwden. during this interregnum +we begin a very original and interesting series of maneuvers. our aim is +no longer, as it should be, to avoid or attack the enemy, but solely to +avoid general buxhöwden who by right of seniority should be our chief. +so energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable +river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at +the moment is not bonaparte but buxhöwden. general buxhöwden was all +but attacked and captured by a superior enemy force as a result of one +of these maneuvers that enabled us to escape him. buxhöwden pursues +us—we scuttle. he hardly crosses the river to our side before we +recross to the other. at last our enemy, buxhöwden, catches us and +attacks. both generals are angry, and the result is a challenge on +buxhöwden’s part and an epileptic fit on bennigsen’s. but at the +critical moment the courier who carried the news of our victory at +pultúsk to petersburg returns bringing our appointment as commander in +chief, and our first foe, buxhöwden, is vanquished; we can now turn +our thoughts to the second, bonaparte. but as it turns out, just at +that moment a third enemy rises before us—namely the orthodox russian +soldiers, loudly demanding bread, meat, biscuits, fodder, and whatnot! +the stores are empty, the roads impassable. the orthodox begin looting, +and in a way of which our last campaign can give you no idea. half the +regiments form bands and scour the countryside and put everything +to fire and sword. the inhabitants are totally ruined, the hospitals +overflow with sick, and famine is everywhere. twice the marauders even +attack our headquarters, and the commander in chief has to ask for a +battalion to disperse them. during one of these attacks they carried off +my empty portmanteau and my dressing gown. the emperor proposes to give +all commanders of divisions the right to shoot marauders, but i much +fear this will oblige one half the army to shoot the other.” +at first prince andrew read with his eyes only, but after a while, +in spite of himself (although he knew how far it was safe to trust +bilíbin), what he had read began to interest him more and more. when he +had read thus far, he crumpled the letter up and threw it away. it was +not what he had read that vexed him, but the fact that the life out +there in which he had now no part could perturb him. he shut his eyes, +rubbed his forehead as if to rid himself of all interest in what he +had read, and listened to what was passing in the nursery. suddenly he +thought he heard a strange noise through the door. he was seized with +alarm lest something should have happened to the child while he was +reading the letter. he went on tiptoe to the nursery door and opened it. +just as he went in he saw that the nurse was hiding something from him +with a scared look and that princess mary was no longer by the cot. +“my dear,” he heard what seemed to him her despairing whisper behind +as often happens after long sleeplessness and long anxiety, he was +seized by an unreasoning panic—it occurred to him that the child was +dead. all that he saw and heard seemed to confirm this terror. +“all is over,” he thought, and a cold sweat broke out on his +forehead. he went to the cot in confusion, sure that he would find it +empty and that the nurse had been hiding the dead baby. he drew the +curtain aside and for some time his frightened, restless eyes could not +find the baby. at last he saw him: the rosy boy had tossed about till he +lay across the bed with his head lower than the pillow, and was smacking +his lips in his sleep and breathing evenly. +prince andrew was as glad to find the boy like that, as if he had +already lost him. he bent over him and, as his sister had taught him, +tried with his lips whether the child was still feverish. the soft +forehead was moist. prince andrew touched the head with his hand; even +the hair was wet, so profusely had the child perspired. he was not dead, +but evidently the crisis was over and he was convalescent. prince andrew +longed to snatch up, to squeeze, to hold to his heart, this helpless +little creature, but dared not do so. he stood over him, gazing at his +head and at the little arms and legs which showed under the blanket. he +heard a rustle behind him and a shadow appeared under the curtain of +the cot. he did not look round, but still gazing at the infant’s face +listened to his regular breathing. the dark shadow was princess mary, +who had come up to the cot with noiseless steps, lifted the curtain, +and dropped it again behind her. prince andrew recognized her without +looking and held out his hand to her. she pressed it. +“he has perspired,” said prince andrew. +the child moved slightly in his sleep, smiled, and rubbed his forehead +prince andrew looked at his sister. in the dim shadow of the curtain her +luminous eyes shone more brightly than usual from the tears of joy that +were in them. she leaned over to her brother and kissed him, slightly +catching the curtain of the cot. each made the other a warning gesture +and stood still in the dim light beneath the curtain as if not wishing +to leave that seclusion where they three were shut off from all the +world. prince andrew was the first to move away, ruffling his hair +“yes, this is the one thing left me now,” he said with a sigh. +soon after his admission to the masonic brotherhood, pierre went to the +kiev province, where he had the greatest number of serfs, taking with +him full directions which he had written down for his own guidance as to +what he should do on his estates. +when he reached kiev he sent for all his stewards to the head office +and explained to them his intentions and wishes. he told them that steps +would be taken immediately to free his serfs—and that till then they +were not to be overburdened with labor, women while nursing their babies +were not to be sent to work, assistance was to be given to the serfs, +punishments were to be admonitory and not corporal, and hospitals, +asylums, and schools were to be established on all the estates. some of +the stewards (there were semiliterate foremen among them) listened with +alarm, supposing these words to mean that the young count was displeased +with their management and embezzlement of money, some after their first +fright were amused by pierre’s lisp and the new words they had not +heard before, others simply enjoyed hearing how the master talked, while +the cleverest among them, including the chief steward, understood from +this speech how they could best handle the master for their own ends. +the chief steward expressed great sympathy with pierre’s intentions, +but remarked that besides these changes it would be necessary to go into +the general state of affairs which was far from satisfactory. +despite count bezúkhov’s enormous wealth, since he had come into an +income which was said to amount to five hundred thousand rubles a year, +pierre felt himself far poorer than when his father had made him +an allowance of ten thousand rubles. he had a dim perception of the +about 80,000 went in payments on all the estates to the land bank, about +30,000 went for the upkeep of the estate near moscow, the town house, +and the allowance to the three princesses; about 15,000 was given in +pensions and the same amount for asylums; 150,000 alimony was sent to +the countess; about 70,000 went for interest on debts. the building of a +new church, previously begun, had cost about 10,000 in each of the last +two years, and he did not know how the rest, about 100,000 rubles, was +spent, and almost every year he was obliged to borrow. besides this the +chief steward wrote every year telling him of fires and bad harvests, +or of the necessity of rebuilding factories and workshops. so the first +task pierre had to face was one for which he had very little aptitude or +he discussed estate affairs every day with his chief steward. but +he felt that this did not forward matters at all. he felt that these +consultations were detached from real affairs and did not link up with +them or make them move. on the one hand, the chief steward put the state +of things to him in the very worst light, pointing out the necessity of +paying off the debts and undertaking new activities with serf labor, +to which pierre did not agree. on the other hand, pierre demanded that +steps should be taken to liberate the serfs, which the steward met by +showing the necessity of first paying off the loans from the land bank, +and the consequent impossibility of a speedy emancipation. +the steward did not say it was quite impossible, but suggested selling +the forests in the province of kostromá, the land lower down the river, +and the crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which +operations according to him were connected with such complicated +measures—the removal of injunctions, petitions, permits, and so +on—that pierre became quite bewildered and only replied: +pierre had none of the practical persistence that would have enabled him +to attend to the business himself and so he disliked it and only tried +to pretend to the steward that he was attending to it. the steward +for his part tried to pretend to the count that he considered these +consultations very valuable for the proprietor and troublesome to +in kiev pierre found some people he knew, and strangers hastened to make +his acquaintance and joyfully welcomed the rich newcomer, the +largest landowner of the province. temptations to pierre’s greatest +weakness—the one to which he had confessed when admitted to the +lodge—were so strong that he could not resist them. again whole days, +weeks, and months of his life passed in as great a rush and were as much +occupied with evening parties, dinners, lunches, and balls, giving him +no time for reflection, as in petersburg. instead of the new life he had +hoped to lead he still lived the old life, only in new surroundings. +of the three precepts of freemasonry pierre realized that he did not +fulfill the one which enjoined every mason to set an example of moral +life, and that of the seven virtues he lacked two—morality and the +love of death. he consoled himself with the thought that he fulfilled +another of the precepts—that of reforming the human race—and had +other virtues—love of his neighbor, and especially generosity. +in the spring of 1807 he decided to return to petersburg. on the way he +intended to visit all his estates and see for himself how far his orders +had been carried out and in what state were the serfs whom god had +entrusted to his care and whom he intended to benefit. +the chief steward, who considered the young count’s attempts almost +insane—unprofitable to himself, to the count, and to the serfs—made +some concessions. continuing to represent the liberation of the serfs +as impracticable, he arranged for the erection of large +buildings—schools, hospitals, and asylums—on all the estates +before the master arrived. everywhere preparations were made not for +ceremonious welcomes (which he knew pierre would not like), but for just +such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread +and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his +the southern spring, the comfortable rapid traveling in a vienna +carriage, and the solitude of the road, all had a gladdening effect on +pierre. the estates he had not before visited were each more picturesque +than the other; the serfs everywhere seemed thriving and touchingly +grateful for the benefits conferred on them. everywhere were receptions, +which though they embarrassed pierre awakened a joyful feeling in the +depth of his heart. in one place the peasants presented him with bread +and salt and an icon of saint peter and saint paul, asking permission, +as a mark of their gratitude for the benefits he had conferred on them, +to build a new chantry to the church at their own expense in honor +of peter and paul, his patron saints. in another place the women with +infants in arms met him to thank him for releasing them from hard +work. on a third estate the priest, bearing a cross, came to meet +him surrounded by children whom, by the count’s generosity, he was +instructing in reading, writing, and religion. on all his estates pierre +saw with his own eyes brick buildings erected or in course of erection, +all on one plan, for hospitals, schools, and almshouses, which were soon +to be opened. everywhere he saw the stewards’ accounts, according to +which the serfs’ manorial labor had been diminished, and heard the +touching thanks of deputations of serfs in their full-skirted blue +what pierre did not know was that the place where they presented him +with bread and salt and wished to build a chantry in honor of peter and +paul was a market village where a fair was held on st. peter’s day, +and that the richest peasants (who formed the deputation) had begun +the chantry long before, but that nine tenths of the peasants in that +villages were in a state of the greatest poverty. he did not know that +since the nursing mothers were no longer sent to work on his land, they +did still harder work on their own land. he did not know that the priest +who met him with the cross oppressed the peasants by his exactions, and +that the pupils’ parents wept at having to let him take their children +and secured their release by heavy payments. he did not know that the +brick buildings, built to plan, were being built by serfs whose manorial +labor was thus increased, though lessened on paper. he did not know +that where the steward had shown him in the accounts that the serfs’ +payments had been diminished by a third, their obligatory manorial work +had been increased by a half. and so pierre was delighted with his visit +to his estates and quite recovered the philanthropic mood in which +he had left petersburg, and wrote enthusiastic letters to his +“brother-instructor” as he called the grand master. +“how easy it is, how little effort it needs, to do so much good,” +thought pierre, “and how little attention we pay to it!” +he was pleased at the gratitude he received, but felt abashed at +receiving it. this gratitude reminded him of how much more he might do +the chief steward, a very stupid but cunning man who saw perfectly +through the naïve and intelligent count and played with him as with +a toy, seeing the effect these prearranged receptions had on pierre, +pressed him still harder with proofs of the impossibility and above all +the uselessness of freeing the serfs, who were quite happy as it was. +pierre in his secret soul agreed with the steward that it would be +difficult to imagine happier people, and that god only knew what would +happen to them when they were free, but he insisted, though reluctantly, +on what he thought right. the steward promised to do all in his power to +carry out the count’s wishes, seeing clearly that not only would the +count never be able to find out whether all measures had been taken for +the sale of the land and forests and to release them from the land bank, +but would probably never even inquire and would never know that the +newly erected buildings were standing empty and that the serfs continued +to give in money and work all that other people’s serfs gave—that is +to say, all that could be got out of them. +returning from his journey through south russia in the happiest state +of mind, pierre carried out an intention he had long had of visiting his +friend bolkónski, whom he had not seen for two years. +boguchárovo lay in a flat uninteresting part of the country among +fields and forests of fir and birch, which were partly cut down. the +house lay behind a newly dug pond filled with water to the brink and +with banks still bare of grass. it was at the end of a village that +stretched along the highroad in the midst of a young copse in which were +the homestead consisted of a threshing floor, outhouses, stables, a +bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular façade +still in course of construction. round the house was a garden newly laid +out. the fences and gates were new and solid; two fire pumps and a +water cart, painted green, stood in a shed; the paths were straight, +the bridges were strong and had handrails. everything bore an impress of +tidiness and good management. some domestic serfs pierre met, in reply +to inquiries as to where the prince lived, pointed out a small newly +built lodge close to the pond. antón, a man who had looked after prince +andrew in his boyhood, helped pierre out of his carriage, said that the +prince was at home, and showed him into a clean little anteroom. +pierre was struck by the modesty of the small though clean house after +the brilliant surroundings in which he had last met his friend in +he quickly entered the small reception room with its still-unplastered +wooden walls redolent of pine, and would have gone farther, but antón +ran ahead on tiptoe and knocked at a door. +“ask him to wait,” and the sound was heard of a chair being pushed +pierre went with rapid steps to the door and suddenly came face to +face with prince andrew, who came out frowning and looking old. pierre +embraced him and lifting his spectacles kissed his friend on the cheek +“well, i did not expect you, i am very glad,” said prince andrew. +pierre said nothing; he looked fixedly at his friend with surprise. he +was struck by the change in him. his words were kindly and there was a +smile on his lips and face, but his eyes were dull and lifeless and in +spite of his evident wish to do so he could not give them a joyous +and glad sparkle. prince andrew had grown thinner, paler, and more +manly-looking, but what amazed and estranged pierre till he got used +to it were his inertia and a wrinkle on his brow indicating prolonged +concentration on some one thought. +as is usually the case with people meeting after a prolonged separation, +it was long before their conversation could settle on anything. they +put questions and gave brief replies about things they knew ought to +be talked over at length. at last the conversation gradually settled on +some of the topics at first lightly touched on: their past life, plans +for the future, pierre’s journeys and occupations, the war, and so +on. the preoccupation and despondency which pierre had noticed in his +friend’s look was now still more clearly expressed in the smile +with which he listened to pierre, especially when he spoke with joyful +animation of the past or the future. it was as if prince andrew would +have liked to sympathize with what pierre was saying, but could not. +the latter began to feel that it was in bad taste to speak of his +enthusiasms, dreams, and hopes of happiness or goodness, in prince +andrew’s presence. he was ashamed to express his new masonic views, +which had been particularly revived and strengthened by his late tour. +he checked himself, fearing to seem naïve, yet he felt an irresistible +desire to show his friend as soon as possible that he was now a quite +different, and better, pierre than he had been in petersburg. +“i can’t tell you how much i have lived through since then. i hardly +“yes, we have altered much, very much, since then,” said prince +“plans!” repeated prince andrew ironically. “my plans?” he said, +as if astonished at the word. “well, you see, i’m building. i mean +to settle here altogether next year....” +pierre looked silently and searchingly into prince andrew’s face, +“no, i meant to ask...” pierre began, but prince andrew interrupted +“but why talk of me?... talk to me, yes, tell me about your travels +and all you have been doing on your estates.” +pierre began describing what he had done on his estates, trying as far +as possible to conceal his own part in the improvements that had been +made. prince andrew several times prompted pierre’s story of what he +had been doing, as though it were all an old-time story, and he listened +not only without interest but even as if ashamed of what pierre was +pierre felt uncomfortable and even depressed in his friend’s company +“i’ll tell you what, my dear fellow,” said prince andrew, who +evidently also felt depressed and constrained with his visitor, “i am +only bivouacking here and have just come to look round. i am going back +to my sister today. i will introduce you to her. but of course you know +her already,” he said, evidently trying to entertain a visitor with +whom he now found nothing in common. “we will go after dinner. and +would you now like to look round my place?” +they went out and walked about till dinnertime, talking of the political +news and common acquaintances like people who do not know each other +intimately. prince andrew spoke with some animation and interest only of +the new homestead he was constructing and its buildings, but even here, +while on the scaffolding, in the midst of a talk explaining the future +arrangements of the house, he interrupted himself: +“however, this is not at all interesting. let us have dinner, and then +at dinner, conversation turned on pierre’s marriage. +“i was very much surprised when i heard of it,” said prince andrew. +pierre blushed, as he always did when it was mentioned, and said +hurriedly: “i will tell you some time how it all happened. but you +“forever?” said prince andrew. “nothing’s forever.” +“but you know how it all ended, don’t you? you heard of the duel?” +“and so you had to go through that too!” +“one thing i thank god for is that i did not kill that man,” said +“why so?” asked prince andrew. “to kill a vicious dog is a very +“no, to kill a man is bad—wrong.” +“why is it wrong?” urged prince andrew. “it is not given to man +to know what is right and what is wrong. men always did and always will +err, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.” +“what does harm to another is wrong,” said pierre, feeling with +pleasure that for the first time since his arrival prince andrew was +roused, had begun to talk, and wanted to express what had brought him to +“and who has told you what is bad for another man?” he asked. +“bad! bad!” exclaimed pierre. “we all know what is bad for +“yes, we know that, but the harm i am conscious of in myself is +something i cannot inflict on others,” said prince andrew, growing +more and more animated and evidently wishing to express his new outlook +to pierre. he spoke in french. “i only know two very real evils in +life: remorse and illness. the only good is the absence of those evils. +to live for myself avoiding those two evils is my whole philosophy +“and love of one’s neighbor, and self-sacrifice?” began pierre. +“no, i can’t agree with you! to live only so as not to do evil and +not to have to repent is not enough. i lived like that, i lived for +myself and ruined my life. and only now when i am living, or at least +trying” (pierre’s modesty made him correct himself) “to live for +others, only now have i understood all the happiness of life. no, i +shall not agree with you, and you do not really believe what you are +saying.” prince andrew looked silently at pierre with an ironic smile. +“when you see my sister, princess mary, you’ll get on with her,” +he said. “perhaps you are right for yourself,” he added after +a short pause, “but everyone lives in his own way. you lived for +yourself and say you nearly ruined your life and only found happiness +when you began living for others. i experienced just the reverse. i +lived for glory.—and after all what is glory? the same love of others, +a desire to do something for them, a desire for their approval.—so i +lived for others, and not almost, but quite, ruined my life. and i have +become calmer since i began to live only for myself.” +“but what do you mean by living only for yourself?” asked pierre, +growing excited. “what about your son, your sister, and your +“but that’s just the same as myself—they are not others,” +explained prince andrew. “the others, one’s neighbors, le prochain, +as you and princess mary call it, are the chief source of all error and +evil. le prochain—your kiev peasants to whom you want to do good.” +and he looked at pierre with a mocking, challenging expression. he +“you are joking,” replied pierre, growing more and more excited. +“what error or evil can there be in my wishing to do good, and even +doing a little—though i did very little and did it very badly? what +evil can there be in it if unfortunate people, our serfs, people like +ourselves, were growing up and dying with no idea of god and truth +beyond ceremonies and meaningless prayers and are now instructed in +a comforting belief in future life, retribution, recompense, and +consolation? what evil and error are there in it, if people were dying +of disease without help while material assistance could so easily be +rendered, and i supplied them with a doctor, a hospital, and an asylum +for the aged? and is it not a palpable, unquestionable good if a +peasant, or a woman with a baby, has no rest day or night and i give +them rest and leisure?” said pierre, hurrying and lisping. “and +i have done that though badly and to a small extent; but i have done +something toward it and you cannot persuade me that it was not a good +action, and more than that, you can’t make me believe that you do not +think so yourself. and the main thing is,” he continued, “that i +know, and know for certain, that the enjoyment of doing this good is the +“yes, if you put it like that it’s quite a different matter,” said +prince andrew. “i build a house and lay out a garden, and you build +hospitals. the one and the other may serve as a pastime. but what’s +right and what’s good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by +us. well, you want an argument,” he added, “come on then.” +they rose from the table and sat down in the entrance porch which served +“come, let’s argue then,” said prince andrew, “you talk of +schools,” he went on, crooking a finger, “education and so forth; +that is, you want to raise him” (pointing to a peasant who passed by +them taking off his cap) “from his animal condition and awaken in him +spiritual needs, while it seems to me that animal happiness is the only +happiness possible, and that is just what you want to deprive him of. +i envy him, but you want to make him what i am, without giving him my +means. then you say, ‘lighten his toil.’ but as i see it, physical +labor is as essential to him, as much a condition of his existence, as +mental activity is to you or me. you can’t help thinking. i go to bed +after two in the morning, thoughts come and i can’t sleep but toss +about till dawn, because i think and can’t help thinking, just as +he can’t help plowing and mowing; if he didn’t, he would go to the +drink shop or fall ill. just as i could not stand his terrible physical +labor but should die of it in a week, so he could not stand my physical +idleness, but would grow fat and die. the third thing—what else was +it you talked about?” and prince andrew crooked a third finger. “ah, +yes, hospitals, medicine. he has a fit, he is dying, and you come and +bleed him and patch him up. he will drag about as a cripple, a burden to +everybody, for another ten years. it would be far easier and simpler for +him to die. others are being born and there are plenty of them as it is. +it would be different if you grudged losing a laborer—that’s how i +regard him—but you want to cure him from love of him. and he does not +want that. and besides, what a notion that medicine ever cured anyone! +killed them, yes!” said he, frowning angrily and turning away from +prince andrew expressed his ideas so clearly and distinctly that it was +evident he had reflected on this subject more than once, and he spoke +readily and rapidly like a man who has not talked for a long time. his +glance became more animated as his conclusions became more hopeless. +“oh, that is dreadful, dreadful!” said pierre. “i don’t +understand how one can live with such ideas. i had such moments +myself not long ago, in moscow and when traveling, but at such times i +collapsed so that i don’t live at all—everything seems hateful to +me... myself most of all. then i don’t eat, don’t wash... and how is +“why not wash? that is not cleanly,” said prince andrew; “on the +contrary one must try to make one’s life as pleasant as possible. +i’m alive, that is not my fault, so i must live out my life as best i +“but with such ideas what motive have you for living? one would sit +without moving, undertaking nothing....” +“life as it is leaves one no peace. i should be thankful to do +nothing, but here on the one hand the local nobility have done me the +honor to choose me to be their marshal; it was all i could do to get +out of it. they could not understand that i have not the necessary +qualifications for it—the kind of good-natured, fussy shallowness +necessary for the position. then there’s this house, which must be +built in order to have a nook of one’s own in which to be quiet. and +“after austerlitz!” said prince andrew gloomily. “no, thank you +very much! i have promised myself not to serve again in the active +russian army. and i won’t—not even if bonaparte were here at +smolénsk threatening bald hills—even then i wouldn’t serve in the +russian army! well, as i was saying,” he continued, recovering his +composure, “now there’s this recruiting. my father is chief in +command of the third district, and my only way of avoiding active +service is to serve under him.” +“why, for this reason! my father is one of the most remarkable men of +his time. but he is growing old, and though not exactly cruel he has too +energetic a character. he is so accustomed to unlimited power that he is +terrible, and now he has this authority of a commander in chief of +the recruiting, granted by the emperor. if i had been two hours late +a fortnight ago he would have had a paymaster’s clerk at yúkhnovna +hanged,” said prince andrew with a smile. “so i am serving because +i alone have any influence with my father, and now and then can save him +from actions which would torment him afterwards.” +“yes, but it is not as you imagine,” prince andrew continued. “i +did not, and do not, in the least care about that scoundrel of a clerk +who had stolen some boots from the recruits; i should even have been +very glad to see him hanged, but i was sorry for my father—that again +prince andrew grew more and more animated. his eyes glittered feverishly +while he tried to prove to pierre that in his actions there was no +desire to do good to his neighbor. +“there now, you wish to liberate your serfs,” he continued; “that +is a very good thing, but not for you—i don’t suppose you ever had +anyone flogged or sent to siberia—and still less for your serfs. if +they are beaten, flogged, or sent to siberia, i don’t suppose they are +any the worse off. in siberia they lead the same animal life, and the +stripes on their bodies heal, and they are happy as before. but it is +a good thing for proprietors who perish morally, bring remorse upon +themselves, stifle this remorse and grow callous, as a result of being +able to inflict punishments justly and unjustly. it is those people i +pity, and for their sake i should like to liberate the serfs. you +may not have seen, but i have seen, how good men brought up in those +traditions of unlimited power, in time when they grow more irritable, +become cruel and harsh, are conscious of it, but cannot restrain +prince andrew spoke so earnestly that pierre could not help thinking +that these thoughts had been suggested to prince andrew by his +“so that’s what i’m sorry for—human dignity, peace of mind, +purity, and not the serfs’ backs and foreheads, which, beat and shave +as you may, always remain the same backs and foreheads.” +“no, no! a thousand times no! i shall never agree with you,” said +in the evening andrew and pierre got into the open carriage and drove to +bald hills. prince andrew, glancing at pierre, broke the silence now and +then with remarks which showed that he was in a good temper. +pointing to the fields, he spoke of the improvements he was making in +pierre remained gloomily silent, answering in monosyllables and +apparently immersed in his own thoughts. +he was thinking that prince andrew was unhappy, had gone astray, did not +see the true light, and that he, pierre, ought to aid, enlighten, and diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-2/1M-tr-seq/grep-1M-tr-seq-02 b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-2/1M-tr-seq/grep-1M-tr-seq-02 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4d873c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-2/1M-tr-seq/grep-1M-tr-seq-02 @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +raise him. but as soon as he thought of what he should say, he felt that +prince andrew with 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Hurrah for the Russians! + * (2) “It is all very well for that good-for-nothing fellow + *(2) That suits us down to the ground. + * (2) That their fire gets into his eyes and he forgets that + *(3) Hollow. + *(4) I just ask you that. +abandoning all hope of a junction with Buxhöwden. If Kutúzov decided + * A bastard. +a battery to their left. The smoke above it had not yet dispersed. Two +Abbé Morio? He is a most interesting man.” +A B C of war or of politics, and that Bonaparte was an insignificant +a blue-eyed soldier involuntarily attracted notice. It was Dólokhov +abominable, quite abominable!” said Prince Andrew, and he went off to +about her confinement, and how she dreaded it, and had complained of her +“About my wife... I am ashamed as it is to leave her on your +about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over.... +about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry +about the corners of his mouth read to the Austrian general the +about the princess’ health and then led Pierre along a stone passage. +about to ask their way of an elderly footman who had sprung up as they +abroad, the other is with the Guards, who are starting on their march +absent-minded. When he rose to go, he took up instead of his own, the +accent. +accent—having noticed that Zherkóv could still hear him. +accept this challenge or not. Anatole did not release him, and though +accompanying him to the hall. +accomplished. +accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room. But in spite of +“According to the scouts the last of them crossed on rafts during the +accountant, a stout, full-faced man, looked around him with a naïve +accounts is a poor creature.” +accustomed to win in their battles,” he concluded his evidently +aches, and one spends all one’s money. He asked me for tonight, but I +a cloak, waiting for the conversation to finish. They listened to +a company commander, a fine round-faced man, with a stupid and happy +a company smile but was evidently tormented by jealousy; now she turned +a convoy. Directly opposite to him came a strange one-horse vehicle, +a convoy wagon became restive at the end of the bridge, and the whole +acquaintance.’ In a word, those gentlemen, Gascons indeed, so +acquainted,” and he pressed Borís’ hand. “Do you know, I have not +a crash. +across the table to clink glasses with the count, with the children, and +a cry of: “The general to the third company,” the missing officer +action they had been wounded. “Day before yesterday, on the Danube,” +a cup of tea?” +a dark-green dress coat, knee breeches of the color of cuisse de nymphe + A day or two, then bliss unspoilt, +added. +added. +added, addressing Prince Vasíli, and without waiting for an answer she +added he, munching a pie in his moist-lipped handsome mouth, “would be +added in a tone admitting of no rejoinder and raising her eyebrows. +added, noticing that Prince Andrew winced as at an electric shock. +added, not noticing his visitor’s sarcastic smile. +adding, “your excellency.” +addressing Lorrain in French which he pronounced badly. +addressing the Austrian general, “I have the honor to congratulate +addressing the Englishman. +addressing the mother. +address Rostóv by his title, as if in recognition of his confession. +Adieu, dear and kind friend; may our divine Saviour and His most Holy +“Adieu, ma bonne,” answered Prince Vasíli turning away from her. +“Adieu, Mary,” said he gently to his sister, taking her by the hand +Adieu, Prince! May God support you...” +adjutant. +adjutant by his elaborate courtesy appeared to wish to ward off any +adjutants.” +adjutant, Zherkóv, an orderly officer, the staff officer on duty, +administered. Come.” +admired his regiment, rejoiced in it, and that his whole mind was +admit—he had almost been jealous on his wife’s account, was the butt +admitted that he had been to blame, did not lift his eyes from the +A door of one of the inner rooms opened and one of the princesses, the +advancing.” +advancing by forced marches toward Znaim, which lay sixty-six miles +advancing from Russia, without losing his army as Mack had done at Ulm. +advancing straight toward the inner door. +advise you to appeal to Rumyántsev through Prince Golítsyn. That would +a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools. +a fellow diplomat, “that the Chancellor told him flatly that his +a few hours ahead of the French who were approaching Hollabrünn from +affair, and about some ladies they both knew. +affair of the Thabor Bridge, at Vienna.... They have crossed without +affair public. You are offended at being put on duty a bit, but why not +affairs of honor and had twice regained his commission. +affected languor and indolence. He now looked like a man who has time +affectionate as it was—expressed a sense of his own superiority. +affectionate eyes, now came up and took his arm. Before he looked round +affectionately. +a fight led Murat to try to deceive Kutúzov in a similar way. Meeting +“A fine lad! My word! A fine lad!... His father lies on his deathbed +“A fine mess we’ve made of it!” he remarked. +a fine place! Why are you not eating anything, gentlemen?” Nesvítski +A footman came in to summon Borís—the princess was going. Pierre, in +a foraging expedition. Rostóv in his cadet uniform, with a jerk to his +a foreigner, in spite of all differences of faith, understood the full +a former war. “The Emperor will teach your Suvara as he has taught the +a freak of fate made the impossible possible. The success of the trick +“A French pancake,” answered Zherkóv. +After a few minutes’ bustle beside the high bedstead, those who had +After Anna Mikháylovna had driven off with her son to visit Count Cyril +After his dismissal from headquarters Zherkóv had not remained in the +After his journey and the campaign during which he had been deprived of +after his reception by the Austrians, to speak if not in Russian +After inspecting the carriage himself and seeing the trunks put in, he +after losing her own father. She is very good-natured, and my father +after Natásha down the passage into the sitting room with flushed face +After receiving her visitors, the countess was so tired that she gave +after the attack, Bogdánich would come up to him as he lay wounded and +After the fatigues and impressions of the journey, his reception, and +after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one +“After the next affair... epaulettes.” +After washing and dressing, Prince Andrew came into the diplomat’s +again are all running back somewhere, and I shall run with them, and it, +again began to laugh. She evidently felt unable to look at him +again drawn out in a thin line the musketeers were descending the hill, +again expressing deep sorrow. +again going on tiptoe to the reception room where they had left Prince +again. I must go there, Prince, and scare them a bit. It won’t take a +Again on all the bright faces of the squadron the serious expression +again on the sofa. They were silent for a while. +again recalled all the details of the victory and his own calm courage +again see the sun, this water, that gorge!...” +again shook with a deep ringing laugh, the laugh of one who always eats +against one of the columns in a respectful attitude implying that he, +again struck up, the count and countess kissed, and the guests, leaving +against them and winding down over the uneven ground. One could already +against the wall, and the second of the three sisters rushed out +“Against your will He will save and have mercy on you and bring you +again turning to the count. “Zat is how ve old hussars look at it, and +again when he passed to another group whose center was the abbé. +age...” +agitated. +ago have joined the archduke. And believe me on my honour that to me +a good example, yet here you are without your boots! The alarm will be +agreeable and interesting work. His face expressed more satisfaction +ague. +a handsome adjutant. This was Prince Bolkónski. Beside him was his +“Ah, Bondarénko, dear friend!” said he to the hussar who rushed up +“Ah, Count Rostóv!” exclaimed Pierre joyfully. “Then you are his +“Ah, dear friend,” replied Princess Mary, “I have asked you never +“Ah, don’t talk to me! Last winter she wheedled herself in here and +a heavenly feeling. Borís was telling his new friend Pierre who the +“Ah, from Vienna? Very good. Later, later!” +“Ah, here she is!” he exclaimed laughing. “My pet, whose name day +“Ah! here’s the warrior! Wants to vanquish Buonaparte?” said the +“Ah, I know what it is.” +“Ah, is it you, cousin?” +“Ah, madam, it is a great sacrament,” replied the priest, passing +“Ah, may the devil take you and evewybody,” were the last words +“Ah! mon ami, I only pray, and hope that God will hear me. +“Ah, money, Count, money! How much sorrow it causes in the world,” +“Ah! my dear!... Ah! Mary!...” they suddenly exclaimed, and then +“Ah, my dear friend! Forget the wrongs that may have been done you. +“Ah, my dear! He is so rich, and we are so poor!” +“Ah! my dear, I am afraid you and your monk are wasting your +“Ah, my dear, I hardly knew you,” said Anna Mikháylovna with a +“Ah, my dear prince! I could not have a more welcome visitor,” +“Ah, my dear,” said the countess, “my life is not all roses +“Ah, my friend!” said he, taking Pierre by the elbow; and there was +“Ah, my friend!” she said, touching his arm as she had done her +“Ah, my love,” answered Anna Mikháylovna, “God grant you never +a hoarse voice to the men to look to their pistols. He rode up to +a host welcomes an honored guest. He reported that his regiment had +“Ah, Prince! In what sad circumstances we meet again! And how is our +“Ah!...” said Kutúzov glancing at Bolkónski as if by this +“Ah!” said Kutúzov. “I hope this will be a lesson to you. Do your +“Ah! Telyánin! How d’ye do? They plucked me last night,” came +“Ah, that is just what I tell him!” said she. “I don’t +“Ah, that’s always the way!” said Nesvítski with a wave of the +“Ah, that’s the way to talk French,” said the picket soldiers. +“Ah, Timókhin!” said he, recognizing the red-nosed captain who had +“Ah, Váska!” joyfully replied Nesvítski. “What’s up with +“Ah what a calamity! You say the affair was decisive? But Mortier is +“Ah! what joy for the princess!” exclaimed she: “At last! I must +“Ah, Wostóv,” he cried noticing the cadet’s bright face, +“Ah, yes! Do tell us all about it, Vicomte,” said Anna Pávlovna, +“Ah yes, my dear,” said the count, addressing the visitor and +“Ah, you are sending off a letter, Princess? I have already dispatched +“Ah, you’re up already,” said Denísov, entering the room. +“Ah, your excellency,” put in Zherkóv, his eyes fixed on the +“Ah, you’ve come here too, young man!” he said, smiling and +aide-de-camp. +aide-de-camp, and sat down in the lady’s chair, placing his huge hands +aide-de-camp, “dat one liffs after de sird stroke.” +aides-de-camp to inquire after the count’s health, came himself +aim remaining for him was to effect a junction with the forces that were +aim—to establish peace in Europe on firm foundations—has now decided +a keg, filled one after another the canteen lids held out to him. The +a kind no longer in general use. Prince Andrew remembered the story of +A languor of motion and speech, resulting from weakness, gave her a +a large udder was attached to the cart behind. A woman with an unweaned +a laugh still more so, he quitted the table. +alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance. +alert than he had done the day before. Only his eyes gleamed feverishly +a letter has been written to the Emperor in which the count asks for +a life I can’t decide or think properly about anything. One’s head +alight, and let her pass into the house before him. Old Tíkhon, wearing +alighted from his horse and whose big body was jammed against the +a little to their right and behind the accountant, crashed to earth with +“a little volcano!” +All along the sides of the road fallen horses were to be seen, some +all, and your future depends on him. Remember that, my dear, and be nice +all as they should be? That’s right! The great thing is the serving, +all be killed,” a sergeant was saying angrily and reproachfully. +all done casually in a moment of anger, of illness, and was afterwards +All four, like a flock of scared birds, got up and left the room. +“All have secrets of their own,” answered Natásha, getting warmer. +all her clothes in Petersburg and that heaven knew what she would have +All her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered +all his decisions and intentions. He went to Kurágin’s. +all his property, not to us his direct heirs, but to Pierre.” +“All I can say, General,” said he with a pleasant elegance +all, like children of my own, as you know.” +all like that; one can’t unmarry. Don’t be afraid; I won’t tell +All Moscow talks of nothing but war. One of my two brothers is already +all my trouble will have been thrown away.... I shall not be able to +allowed to pass by special permission. The eyes of all the soldiers +allowed to speak, turns to Auersperg with feigned astonishment (he is a +“Allow me, sir,” said Prince Andrew in Russian in a cold, +“Allow me to look at your purse,” he said in a low, almost +all regular Germans.” +“All right, all right!” said the old count. “He always flares up! +“All right. Fifty imperials ... that I will drink a whole bottle of +“All right. They are good fellows. And how have you wriggled onto the +all sides, moved across the bridge. +all the comforts of cleanliness and all the refinements of life, Prince +all the Moscow ladies have conspired to give him all their sons as +all the old feminine arts. But as soon as the prince had gone her face +“All the same, one is afraid! Oh, you clever people,” said a third +all the soldiers’ remarks related to the two young ones. Every face +All the unmarried ladies and even the married ones except the very +all this is not right, it’s not right! You may take offense or not but +all this, rose and approached the princess. He seemed unable to bear the +ally. We shall therefore confidently await the moment when the Imperial +almost dragging him to the window. “That money is Denísov’s; you +almost frightened, eyes as she passed him. +almost time,” she added, giving Pierre to understand that they were +“Alone all the same, without my friends.... And he expects me not to +alone applying her handkerchief to her eyes. At last she rang. +alone at last gains a real victory, destroying the spell of the +alone... that tremendous fortune... and what is his life worth? It’s a +Along the broad country road, edged on both sides by trees, came a high, +already.” +already been choosing a career for three months, and had not decided +already known in Moscow and that the ladies about his father—who were +already opening a door. +already prepared...” +already seated in the drawing room. The count took the gentlemen into +also in French: +also the Abbé Morio. Do you know that profound thinker? He has been +also to the soldiers. Looking at their boots he several times shook his +altered in shape by its pressure on the table, now at her still more +Although Prince Vasíli listened reluctantly and not very politely +Although the hall porter saw someone’s carriage standing at the +always accompanied any reference of hers to the Imperial family, “has +always, always anxious! Especially just at this age, so dangerous both +always be my daughters’ first confidante, and that if Nicholas, with +always be the chief desire of everyone else. +always better to “bow too low than not bow low enough.” So the +always called Natásha a Cossack) and she stroked the child’s arm as +always won. However much he drank, he never lost his clearheadedness. +am.” +a man who on a hot day takes a final run before plunging into the water. +ambassadors to compliment the usurper.” +A member of the Hofkriegsrath from Vienna had come to Kutúzov the day +amid the smoke of their campfires, the greater part of whom were +“A million all but one!” replied a waggish soldier in a torn coat, +a moment, and, evidently understanding what Rostóv hinted at, seized +a moment. The sick man was given something to drink, there was a +a moment, “yes, bring me seven hundred rubles, yes! But mind, don’t +among the children, in the special sense they attached to it.) “Why +Among the field guns on the brow of the hill the general in command of +among them. On my word I’d give five years of my life for it!” +among the women!” +a mop, his legs far apart, sprang to the wheel; while Number Two with +a most serious, deferential, and innocent expression. +an air of importance that showed that she felt she quite knew what she +An Anonymous Volunteer, and David Widger +Anatole and Pierre. +Anatole lived, Pierre entered the lighted porch, ascended the stairs, +Anatole stopped him. +Anatole turned to the Englishman and taking him by one of the buttons +Anatole with his swaggering air strode up to the window. He wanted to +ancestor of the Bolkónskis. Prince Andrew, looking again at that +and a ball flew whistling over the heads of the hussar squadron. The +and a castle with a park surrounded by the waters of the confluence of +and a convoy of Croats. Beside Kutúzov sat an Austrian general, in +and a flask, and Nesvítski was treating some officers to pies and real +And again she began to sob, more bitterly than before. Natásha lifted +and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of + * And all that follows therefrom. +and also that Murat’s mistake would very soon be discovered, proved +and am at your service to help you nurse my uncle. I imagine what you +and Anna Mikháylovna (who found it necessary to accompany him) was +and are drawn along.” +“And are the hours the same? And the walks in the avenues? And the +and artillerymen’s bonfires. To the left, not far from the farthest +And as he waved his arms to impersonate the policeman, his portly form +and ask him, I!... does that satisfy you?” +and asking them all to be seated began: +and a timid smile. +“And at your age what secrets can there be between Natásha and +and began dancing round the room with it. +And Bilíbin unwrinkled his temple, feeling that the dilemma was +and blue riding breeches, who were swarming near the bridge, and then at +And Borís, having apparently relieved himself of an onerous duty and +and Borís. He is his godson,” she added, her tone suggesting that +And Borís says it is quite possible. You know I have told him all about +and broke it up. In this action for the first time trophies were taken: +and by a servant who passed out on tiptoe without heeding them. They +and carefully placed her in an easy chair. +and ceased talking when Véra entered. Sónya and Natásha looked at +and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. +and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels +and compelled to act under conditions of war unlike anything that had +and complacently seated himself on the sofa. +and countess alike—turned to look at her as if wondering why she had +and decided in his own mind that all was as it should be, and that in +And Denísov rode up to a group that had stopped near Rostóv, composed +And Denísov went to the bed to get the purse from under the pillow. +and desperation as though he were at that moment facing some great +and devotion, or of weariness and hope of resting before long. Prince +“And did you give me tobacco yesterday? That’s just it, friend! Ah, +And Dólokhov swore at him in coarse soldier’s Russian and shouldering +and don’t forget to give him the Rostóvs’ invitation. They ask him +and drawing up again next moment when her face broke into a smile of +and drew it downwards as if wishing to ascertain whether it was firmly +and every strap in place, and shone with cleanliness. And not only +and examined him with attentive curiosity. The Cossack was dead, but the +and fear. +and feeling at that moment. “Is there anything at all behind that +and fell into the column to the measure of “Left... left!” “Close +and fell on his hands. The others outstripped him. +and fencing from the village. +and flask, and swung his heavy person easily into the saddle. +And from the different ranks some twenty men ran to the front. A +and fussily in the easy chair, “how is it Annette never got married? +and get away to attend to her duties as hostess. But Pierre now +and good-humored laughter from the soldiers that it infected the French +and gun carriages, the tramp of horses, the crack of whips, shouts, the +and had an opinion about everything), but above all at his capacity for +and had more than once impressed on his daughter that Michael Ivánovich +and had remained away till he was twenty. When he returned to Moscow +and had taken him to Vienna and given him the more serious commissions. +and hair, without looking at her eyes, with such contempt that the +and happiness... “I should wish for nothing else, nothing, if only I +and happiness the victory had afforded him had been now left in the +and hardly able to restrain his jerky movements, and from the way he +and hastened to reassure him. +and have seen Fräulein Mathilde.” +and having done this he rode back. +And having got rid of this young man who did not know how to behave, she +And he also passed on with the wagon. Then came some merry soldiers who +and health. All who talked to her, and at each word saw her bright smile +and he amuses himself setting a policeman astride a bear! For shame, +And he caught the bear, took it in his arms, lifted it from the ground, +and he doesn’t care at all for Julie.” +and he experienced tenfold the joy of living, as he had not done since +and he indicated with his delicate fingers what he meant by a pinch. +And he left the room, followed by the low but ringing laughter of the +“And here, friend, the people are quite beggarly. There they all +And he released Bolkónski’s arm to indicate that he had now quite +and her face was tearful. +and her short, downy, smiling lip lifted when she began to speak just as +And he smiled approvingly, evidently pleased with the cadet. Rostóv +and hills in the distance—and despite the fact that the inhabitants +and his eyebrows were lifted, then his eyebrows would descend and +and his forehead became smooth again, he bowed his head respectfully, +and his head tilting yet further back. “Why is it so long?” thought +and his kind, intelligent face rather pale, rushed out of the shed +and his one division, and even then Mortier slips through your fingers! +and his thoughts followed one another with extraordinary clearness and +and his visit to Brünn. At the door he found a vehicle half full of +“And how do you get on with the officers?” inquired Zherkóv. + * “And hurrah for the whole world!” +and hurriedly removed. +“And I am still arguing with your husband. I can’t understand why he +and I beg you all to help me. Brünn’s attractions must be shown him. +and I don’t now.” +“And if he asks about the losses?” +“And I had no idea!...” exclaimed Princess Mary. “Ah, Andrew, I +“And I?” he said; “do you think it is easier for me? I am as worn +And immediately Túshin, with a short pipe in the corner of his mouth +And indeed everybody in the room looked with a smile of pleasure at the +And in proof of the conclusiveness of his opinion all the wrinkles +and involuntarily noticed the carefully washed seams of the scar near +“And I only...” +“And I should so like to thank Uncle once for all his kindness to me +and is nothing unworthy of you, but it will comfort me. Promise, +“And I tell you, don’t you dahe to do it!” shouted Denísov, +“And I tell you, Rostóv, that you must apologize to the colonel!” +“And it must seem to you,” said Borís flushing slightly, but not +and ivy, with a gleam of white shoulders, glossy hair, and sparkling +and Julie were saying to one another. The governess kept looking round +and kinds of dessert, in order to send a full description of the dinner +and kissed her. +and kissing her, and then he left the room with rapid steps. +And Kutúzov smiled in a way that seemed to say, “You are quite at +and legs always fell into unnatural positions. +and let us talk sensibly while there is still time, be it a day or be it +and lifted it to his lips, threw back his head, and raised his free hand +and light, joyous steps. At the visitors’ request the young people +And like a practical Petersburg lady who knows how to make the most of +and like him. Write and tell me how he receives you. If he is all +“And Lise, your wife?” +and little tables. During balls given at the house Pierre, who did not +and looking carelessly about him. +and making a wide sweep with his arm, amid a thunder of applause and +and making pencil notes on them, and for the first two or three minutes +“And me? Would you like to kiss me?” she whispered almost inaudibly, +and mirth that shone in all their faces. Evidently in the back rooms, +and more attractive. +and most advantageous style, like a well-garnished joint of roast beef +and moved to the right; from behind it, dispersing the laggards, came +and Murat, humiliated and anxious to expiate his fault, had at once +and my father was much affected by it. He says the count was the last +and next balls, about theatricals, and who would meet whom, and when and +and no connections. Yet, though Anatole spent tens of thousands of +and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, +and not in the habit of running, trotted awkwardly stumbling on his +and not only at the same hour but at the same minute. With those about +and not with his eyes. +and of good family and that’s all I want.” +and on all their faces he recognized the same eagerness that filled his +“And our share?” asked the princess smiling ironically, as if +and painfully felt. My father talks of nothing but marches and +and parted smiling, the German returning to his cowshed and Rostóv +and pressed him against the railings, and all he could do was to smile. +And Prince Andrew after giving directions about his departure went to +and prove my devotion to His Majesty the Emperor and to Russia!” +and put the matter before the Emperor,” said Princess Anna +and refined expression on the faces of those present he was always +and replacing their purses and pocketbooks, entered the ballroom. First +“André,” said his wife, addressing her husband in the same +and resignation to the will of God. “If you do not understand these +and respect as few hardhearted men would have aroused. Although he was +and respectfully that the prince gave him a searching glance. +and returned a glove Pierre had dropped; the doctors became respectfully +Andrew. +“Andrew, already!” said the little princess, turning pale and +Andrew, “and at Anna Pávlovna’s they listen to me. And that stupid +Andrew apparently knew this as well as Tíkhon; he looked at his watch +Andrew as one of themselves, an honor they did not extend to many. From +Andrew. “Besides, in the actions of a statesman one has to distinguish +Andrew came up, stroked her hair, and asked if she felt rested after +Andrew did not speak; he was both pleased and displeased that his father +Andrew did not tell his father that he would no doubt live a long time +Andrew? Don’t forget that she has grown up and been educated in +Andrew entered the passage. Kutúzov himself, he was told, was in the +Andrew felt a pleasant sense of repose among luxurious surroundings such +Andrew had already heard from his wife in the presence of others some +Andrew had gone and made the sign of the cross in his direction. From +Andrew, “I am only surprised at your opinion of Bonaparte. You +“Andrew, I bless you with this icon and you must promise me you will +Andrew?’ I did indeed.” She laughed. “He is so well received +“Andrew, if you had faith you would have turned to God and asked Him +Andrew... is Father’s way of treating religious subjects. I don’t +Andrew. “Look here, my dear fellow, get from Kozlóvski all the +Andrew made his way up to the battery from which the staff officer had +Andrew...” she said timidly after a moment’s silence, “I have a +Andrew shook himself as if waking up, and his face assumed the look it +Andrew slowly, not taking his eyes off his wife. +Andrew struck the high road along which the Russian army was moving with +Andrew, “that all the atrocities of the French army (I nearly said of +Andrew was galloping along in a post chaise enjoying the feelings of a +Andrew was natural and pleasant. Others, the majority, disliked him and +Andrúsha!...” said she, putting her hand in her reticule but not yet +Andrúsha—the slender mischievous boy who had been her playfellow in +and say, “I am so delighted... Mamma’s health... and Countess +and scapegraces of Petersburg. +and scarcely breathing, watched from her ambush with sparkling eyes. +and scented myself.” +and seeing that the elder visitor was not listening, he turned to the +and see the standard flapping against its staff. +And she began to cry again because he had such a noble soul. +and she found them on my table and said she’d show them to Mamma, and +And she set off at a run along the passage. +and she’s even in my way. You know I always was a savage, and now am +“And she’s in love with Borís already. Just fancy!” said the +And she smiled her ecstatic smile. +and she won’t say anything to Mamma. Nicholas will tell her himself, +and shouted to the musicians to play faster. Faster, faster, and faster; +“and showed me a letter in which the parade of the French in Vienna +and show you what kind of rivet to use.” +And sighing disdainfully, he again changed his position. +and silent when the talk related to any topic that had no direct bearing +and sit. This morning I turned them all out and now look, it’s full +and social topics were ended and the time had come for intimate +“And so he is! Quite blind!” +and sometimes flung the exercise book away. +and sometimes laughed. Nearest of all to the commander in chief walked +and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers’ or +And so the anecdote ended. Though it was unintelligible why he had told +“And so you think Napoleon will manage to get an army across?” asked +and stood, hanging her head. +and suddenly, as if he had studied her sufficiently and had formed a +and suddenly determines to speak out. +and suddenly seemed to grow very merry. +and taking Nesvítski’s arm he left Zherkóv, who did not know what to +“And tell Mr. Dólokhov that I won’t forget him—he may be quite +“And that other one with him, the Austrian, looked as if he were +and that the whole army had surrendered at Ulm proved to be correct. +“And that would be splendid,” said Pierre. +and the brilliance of the bright sunshine merged in a single joyous and +And the commander, turning to look at the adjutant, directed his jerky +and the constant gleam of her white teeth, thought that they were in a +And the conversation again turned on the war, on Bonaparte, and the +“And the fete at the English ambassador’s? Today is Wednesday. I +and the general in white, accompanied by the suite, walked between the +and the glory that awaited him. +And the latter—unconscious that he was being reflected in the hussar +and the men’s at the other. +and the munching of the lieutenant. +and then at the other. +“And then of course my family has also to be considered,” Prince +“And then, old fellow, he gives him one in the teeth with the butt +and the orders he gave them and, to his surprise, found that no orders +And the owner of the manly voice, evidently an infantry officer, +And the prince began explaining all the blunders which, according to +“And the prisoners he killed in Africa? That was horrible!” said the +and the rattling of carriage wheels seemed to fill his ears, and now +“And there hasn’t been anyone in the room except the lieutenant and +And the staff captain rose and turned away from Rostóv. +and the tramp of horses’ hoofs were heard. Kutúzov and his suite were +and the visitors try to guess from these glances who, or what, they are +... and the wish, which constitutes the Emperor’s sole and absolute +and they awoke in him astonishment at the genius of his hero, a feeling +“And they said Kutúzov was blind of one eye?” +“And this is gratitude—this is recognition for those who have +And this “Well!” sounded coldly ironic, as if he were saying: “Now +and thoughtfully shaking his head. Did he fear going to the war, or was +and threw them round the little girl who had run in. +and thrill of suspense usual at such moments. Outside the house, beyond +and to Pierre, glancing at him again. +and unexpectedly again began to cry. +and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen +and wait for her, she went silently toward the door that everyone was +and, walking backwards before the company, jerked his shoulders and +and warmly pressing his hand looked affectionately over his spectacles +and was crossing himself with his right hand, turning his eyes upward +and was just putting his question to a soldier when his attention +and was therefore out of sorts, a state of mind which with her always +and, waving her thin arms from under the woolen shawl, cried: +“And we, my dear boy! It’s terrible! I was wrong to laugh at Mack, +and went in at the open door. There was no one in the anteroom; empty +and went out of the corridor. +and went to the door. +“And what about his character?” asked the regimental commander. +“And what a well-preserved man he was!” remarked the aide-de-camp. +“And what devil made me go to that wat?” (an officer nicknamed +“And what do you think of this latest comedy, the coronation at +“And where is Lise?” he asked, answering her question only by a +and which had always opened so quietly, burst noisily open and banged +and while Kutúzov was turning managed to make a grimace and then assume +“And who are you?” cried the officer, turning on him with tipsy +“And who will inherit his wealth?” he added in a whisper. +“And why are children born to such men as you? If you were not a +“And why are they stopping? There’s no proper order!” said the +“And why didn’t you do it at seven in the morning? You ought to have +“And why is it?” +“And why the deuce are we going to fight Bonaparte?” remarked +“And will she soon be confined?” and shaking his head reproachfully +and will then inherit everything under the will? And if the will and +and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs. +and wished he could tell what, if anything, this man was thinking +and wish you to have as good an opinion of me. Don’t upset yourself, +“and without holding on to anything. Is that right?” +And with the familiarity and easy grace peculiar to him, he raised the +and with this object offered a three days’ truce on condition that +and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must +and you.” +“And you? Are you going to have lunch too? They feed you quite +“And you didn’t see that everybody is packing up?” +and you, mon cousin, seem to consider me a perfect fool,” said the +and your capital!’ The one general whom we all loved, Schmidt, you +“And you too!” +an entreaty, a threat, and above all conviction that she would herself +anger and walking up to the regiment wished to find a further excuse for +angrily and disrespectfully at Kozlóvski. +angrily blowing his nose. Hardly had Prince Andrew gone when the study +angrily, came in at the other door. Natásha checked her first impulse +angrily pulling down his tight scarf. +angry with me for coming? You have changed so, Andrúsha,” she added, +animated, and handsome, with his hand bandaged. In the study were four +an inn in the village which the officers frequented. Rostóv rode up to +an inspection anywhere in the heart of Russia. +Anna Mikháylovna. +Anna Mikháylovna came out last. She approached Pierre with slow, quiet +Anna Mikháylovna instantly guessed her intention and stooped to be +Anna Mikháylovna looked at Véra and paused. The countess pressed her +Anna Mikháylovna paused and waited for him to come up. +Anna Mikháylovna’s face expressed a consciousness that the decisive +Anna Mikháylovna’s was the most distinct. +Anna Mikháylovna took off her gloves and, occupying the position she +Anna Mikháylovna was already embracing her and weeping. The countess +Anna Pávlovna almost closed her eyes to indicate that neither she nor +Anna Pávlovna disapproved. +Anna Pávlovna had already managed to speak to Lise about the match she +Anna Pávlovna in dismay detained him with the words: “Do you know the +Anna Pávlovna’s alarm was justified, for Pierre turned away from the +Anna Pávlovna’s drawing room was gradually filling. The highest +Anna Pávlovna smiled and promised to take Pierre in hand. She knew his +Anna Pávlovna’s reception was in full swing. The spindles hummed +Anna Pávlovna’s soiree. The matter was mentioned to the Emperor, an +“Annette, for heaven’s sake don’t refuse me,” the countess +an old friend. +An old powdered manservant who was sitting in the antechamber rose +an orderly, or a townsman was carried through the waves of infantry; +an orderly’s charge, and he felt the blood rush to his heart with +“An order to who?” asked the colonel morosely. +another. +another—a childlike, kindly, even rather silly look, which seemed to +another. All became silent and turned to look at the pale tear-worn Anna +Another, a younger voice, interrupted him: “Afraid or not, you can’t +Another company, a lucky one for not all the companies had vodka, +another group. +another, hardly able to suppress their laughter. +Another hussar also rushed toward the horse, but Bondarénko had already +“Another Ismail comrade,” said he. “A brave officer! Are you +another pie but felt shy, and therefore pretended to be examining the +another’s faces and speak to one another. Besides the soldiers who +Another time he interrupted, saying: +Another voice, from a man of medium height with clear blue eyes, +another who wished to get away. With his head bent, and his big feet +An outsider is out of place here.... No, don’t distress yourself.... +answered.” +answered her, as he had the countess, only in monosyllables. The other +answered Lavrúshka. “I know by now, if he wins he comes back early to +answered Pierre, trying to remember who this young man was. +answered the soldier. Prince Andrew took out his purse and gave the +answers to these questions, as was only too evident, did not interest +answer than the one Prince Andrew gave to this naïve question. +antechamber experienced the same feeling of respect and even fear when +anteroom with him. +Antichrist—I really believe he is Antichrist—I will have nothing +any clever conversation that was to be heard. Seeing the self-confident +“Any news from Mack?” +anyone, and so you don’t deserve to have them.” +anyone, but you know it yourself.” +anyone else does the same, I will pay him a hundred imperials. Do you +anyone else had a right to criticize what the Empress desired or was +anyone if he is in disfavor. Now come here.” +anyone. They wished to administer the sacrament of unction.” +anyone who wanted to see him could come the hundred miles from Moscow to +anything, but was only conscious of her stern father’s withered face +anything. Do you know I have sent for Pierre? The count,” pointing to +anything else.... You have not been ordered to return and have not been +anything for his happiness! And my affairs are in such a bad way that my +anything. Here is a letter to Prince Vasíli, and here is money. Write +anything might happen, only not that. +anything to say, say it. These two things can be done together,” he +anything wrong in my behavior. But I’ll just tell Mamma how you are +a particular glamour and glad keenness of impression to everything that +apartments assigned to Prince Vasíli. +a peg on which to hang the prince’s favorite topic, he looked +a plan of marriage for you. It is neither more nor less than with Prince +a policeman and the bear back to back and put the bear into the Moyka +apologize.” +apologize to an old and honorable officer? Whatever Bogdánich may +a portrait so characteristic of the original as to be amusing. +Apparently she had forgotten her age and by force of habit employed +apparently the sight of them roused no pleasant feeling in Véra. +appear as if he did not want any of that wine, but was mortified because +appeared a stupid smile of glee which he seemed unable to suppress. +appeared from behind his company and, though he was a middle-aged man +appeared in the doorway. The general with the bandaged head bent forward +appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to +appeared punctually to the appointed hour. Everyone sitting in this +appeared, quite out of keeping with his features, that seemed to deride +appeared shy of her unquestionable and all too victorious beauty. She +appeared that they had worn when under fire. Rostóv watched his enemy, +appeared, then a second and a third almost simultaneously, and at the +appearing on the skyline, which they knew to be the enemy’s troops. +apple, also half smiling as he looked at the handsome girl. +appointment to London was a promotion and that he was so to regard it. +appreciation of the vicomte’s epigram, Pierre again broke into the +approach, but even in this room there now stood an empty bath, and water +approached. +approached the door of the minister’s room. He felt offended, and +approaching enemy farther off. At the same instant the sun came fully +Apráksina...” and then, again rustling, pass into the anteroom, put +Apráksins’ I heard a lady asking, ‘Is that the famous Prince +apron under the leather hood of the vehicle. Prince Andrew rode up +À propos of marriages: do you know that a while ago that universal +a quite unexpected, chance of saving the army. On receiving the news +archduchess also wished to see him. He did not know whom to answer, and +archduke’s as good as another, as you know) and even if it is only +are all stupid; but I know this: an illegitimate son cannot inherit... +a real one, but that they would talk of that later. Princess Mary was +are—at the heart of affairs and of the world—is the talk all of +are being deceived, my instinct tells me of negotiations with France and +are childwen of the dust... but one falls in love and one is a God, one +are distributed. Why has fate given you two such splendid children? +are here?” +are, Monsieur Pierre!” +are not many left of us old friends! That’s why I so value your +a reply unnecessary. She smilingly waited. All the time the story was +are the French!’ Murat, seeing that all is lost if the sergeant is +are we to find Suvórovs now? Je vous demande un peu,” *(4) said he, +are wrapped up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us +“Are you going to Count Cyril Vladímirovich, my dear?” said the +“Are you living with your mother?” +“Are you not ashamed to deprive us of your charming wife?” +“Are you ready?” he asked his wife, looking past her. +a ring, he made the sign of the cross over him with a gesture evidently +arm. He began to laugh. +arm wavered still more with the strain. One hand moved as if to clutch +army, and the member of the Hofkriegsrath who had arrived the previous +army was very favorable. +army.... You are in a position to seize its baggage and artillery. +arranged and how nice it all was? There’s Uncle Shinshín’s brother +arrival of young Prince Andrew and his wife was daily expected, but +arrived from Russia. With this object he intended to meet the regiment; +artillery sentry was pacing up and down; he stood at attention when the +artless smile, she had met him in secluded passages. +a rule to speak out... Well, what answer am I to take? Will you come to +as a dense cloud of smoke arose from it. The hussars had succeeded in +as a Frenchman would speak after spending about a year in Russia. +as a man recently returned from abroad, in a political conversation in +ascended the carpeted stairs. +a schoolboy who is told to repeat a lesson he has not learned. Spots +as clear as day, and can go so far astray. That is the only thing +a sense of disgust the minutest details of this humiliating scene he +“As far as the service goes he is quite punctilious, your excellency; +as he always did when at the front, solemn and stern. Then came the word +As he approached, a ringing shot issued from it deafening him and his +as he closed his eyes his ears seemed filled with the rattle of the +as he had been accustomed to from childhood. Besides it was pleasant, +as he lay back in his armchair, looking in another direction. +as he liked, now in Petersburg I hear he has been doing such terrible +as he rode by. +As he said this he rose, went to his sister, and, stooping, kissed +As he said this Prince Andrew was less than ever like that Bolkónski +as he sat on the sloping ledge. As he began slipping down, his head and +As he was leaving the battery, firing was heard on the left also, and +as he would have done to a stranger. +a shot, and our troops could be seen hurrying to the crossing. +aside and turning sharply away; but rising immediately, he paced up and +aside with his arm, said in a breathless voice, +as if at times there radiated from them shafts of warm light)—were +as if flinging something to the ground, the drummer—a lean, handsome +as if guessing what it was about. +as if running a sword through an invisible foe, and glaring savagely +as if she had asked him to do it. +as if to ascertain whether his father’s habits had changed since he +as if to explain such a question. +as if to reassure Prince Andrew. +a sign of approaching anger. “I was forgetting... Do you wish it +a sin, a great sin, it is hatred of that vile woman!” almost shrieked +as in a spoiled child, a continual consciousness of her charming defect, +“As it flies past me, Daddy, the ball I mean,” said a young soldier +as it was too far to the left flank for him to have time to go there +“As I was saying to you, Andrew, be kind and generous as you always +as I write? +ask; but to prove my devotion to you and how I respect your father’s +asked permission to be present at the battle out of curiosity. The +asked the Italian how he stood Russian climate. The Italian’s +asked the prince’s permission to ride round the position to see the +asked the son. +asked. “They say old maids have a mania for matchmaking, and though I +ask forgiveness. +asking forgiveness?” +“Ask the count to come to me.” +asleep. Prince Andrew felt sorry for his sister. +a small reception, and just see how badly I am dressed.” And she +a smell of perfume, and put it to Nesvítski’s nose. +A smile of joy and satisfaction lit up her eager face. +a smile that broadened his round face more and more, prepared the +As often happens in early youth, especially to one who leads a lonely +A soldier was driving, and a woman enveloped in shawls sat behind the +a son of Nicholas Bolkónski, I shall be ashamed!” +as serene as if all this were happening at home awaiting peaceful +As she became animated the prince looked at her more and more sternly, +As she named the Empress, Anna Pávlovna’s face suddenly assumed an +as she rose to go to her own room. +assiduity of its commander the regiment, in comparison with others that +assigned to cavalry-captain Denísov, the squadron commander, known +as soon as all is over,” and Prince Vasíli sighed to intimate what he +As soon as he learned that the Russian army was in such a hopeless +Assuming quite the pose of a society woman (heaven knows when and where +As the bearers, among whom was Anna Mikháylovna, passed the young man +as the right flank would probably not be able to withstand the enemy’s +as they said in Moscow society. He seemed to be condescending to +as though running away from some danger, and, making long, quick strides +A stout major was pacing up and down the line, and regardless of the +a strange caprice of his employer’s was admitted to table though the +as was his custom when at home—taking leave of a good-looking, +as we are masters of Ulm, we cannot be deprived of the advantage of +as with his feet. +as ze sanctity of its alliances...” he spoke this last word with +at?” +at all. He said to me, ‘I am sorry I can do so little for you, dear +at all like the conduct of a great man!” +A tall, stout, and proud-looking woman, with a round-faced smiling +at Anna Pávlovna’s, that it would be difficult to get rid of Anna +at any of them but smiling on all, as if graciously allowing each the +at a soldier in the ranks of the third company in a greatcoat of bluish +At Bald Hills, Prince Nicholas Andréevich Bolkónski’s estate, the +at Bald Hills with his wife. This pleasure will be but a brief one, +“At boss zides, Captain,” he heard the voice of the colonel, who, +at each alternate step; and in time to this, with stern but varied +at ease by him, “but I hope I have not offended you. I always make it +at eight o’clock in the morning +a tête-à-tête talk with the friend of her childhood, Princess Anna +at her reflection in the glass. “She flatters me,” thought the +at his estate. As regularity is a prime condition facilitating activity, +a threatening gesture. “If the purse isn’t found I’ll flog you, +a thud. Denísov rode past him, leaning back and shouting something. +at intervals the bugle calls and the shouts of the enemy could be heard +at Krems excited but not weary, with dispatches from Dokhtúrov to +at last Anna Mikháylovna, still with the same expression, pale but +atmosphere of a large and active town which is always so attractive to a + At nighttime in the moon’s fair glow +at once transferred to the Guards as a cornet, had been educated from +at once, when she heard the young man’s discreet steps approaching +at one another, and all pressed toward the exit from the bridge. +“At one draught, or he loses!” shouted a fourth. +At one of the post stations he overtook a convoy of Russian wounded. +at Prince Andrew and did not even nod to him. +at Prince Andrew, evidently considering something. +a treat to her guests. As a clever maître d’hôtel serves up as a +a trembling hand placed a charge in the cannon’s mouth. The short, +“A trifle,” said the colonel in his bass voice: “two hussars +a truce and sent his adjutant to Kutúzov to report the offer he had +A truce was Kutúzov’s sole chance of gaining time, giving +“At seven o’clock, I believe.” +“At seven o’clock? It’s very sad, very sad!” +at someone unseen. “Mr. Pitt, as a traitor to the nation and to the +“Attack indeed!” said the colonel in a bored voice, puckering up his +attack very long. About Túshin and the battalion that had been in +attempt at familiarity on the part of the Russian messenger. +attendance on him, to the enemy camp. Wintzingerode was not merely +“Attendez,” said Anna Pávlovna, reflecting, “I’ll speak to +attention. He screwed up his eyes showing that he was listening. +“Att-ention!” shouted the regimental commander in a soul-shaking +attention to her severe remark—and began to laugh. She laughed, and in +attention to his story. +attentively to Bagratión’s colloquies with the commanding officers +attentive to him. Count Cyril Vladímirovich is your godfather after +At that instant the sun began to hide behind the clouds, and other +At that moment Anna Pávlovna came up and, looking severely at Pierre, +At that moment, on the road from the town on which signalers had been +at that time, a very high ruffle, and a brown dress coat. This stout +At the appointed hour the prince, powdered and shaven, entered the +at the cadet’s troubled face. +at the door Prince Andrew and the figure of the old man in a white +At the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our +at the French. +At the levee Prince Andrew stood among the Austrian officers as he had +At the men’s end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. +at the Razumóvski’s ball ... and Countess Apráksina ... I was +At the sight of the letter red patches showed themselves on the +at the soldiers as if threatening to punish them. Cadet Mirónov ducked +at the soldiers who were blocking his way. “Hi there, boys! Keep to +at the steaming boiler, waiting till the sample, which a quartermaster +At this a sudden change evidently took place in the princess’ ideas; +at this big, stout, quiet man, wondering how such a clumsy, modest +At this moment that terrible door, which Pierre had watched so long +“At what o’clock did the battle begin?” asked the Emperor. +“At what o’clock was General Schmidt killed?” +at which Prince Andrew had been when he examined the battlefield. +a type of face different from that of the men, squeezed his way along; +audible the whole length of the table. +audience over his spectacles and continued. +audiences, but he does not like talking himself and can’t do it, as +audience, which produced an effect unfavorable to the narrator. Several +audience with the Emperor Francis occupied his thoughts. +Auersperg was defending, and the bridge was not blown up: so Murat +aunt, Anna Pávlovna mentioned each one’s name and then left them. +aunt as she conducted him to her. +auntie Anna Mikháylovna told me, under the seal of strict secrecy, of +aunt,” or “You do not know my aunt?” and very gravely conducted +aunt without waiting to hear her speech about Her Majesty’s health. +“Au revoir! Thank you very much. His Majesty will probably desire to +Austrian adjutant, Bilíbin, and last night’s conversation. Having +Austrian troops, under the direction of so skillful a leader as General +Author: Leo Tolstoy + * “A very good morning! A very good morning!” +a vigorous attack on the orator. +avoid doing certain things, and speak French. He was one of those, +awaiting a reply. He frowned. +aware of a stir all around. He looked up: Dólokhov was standing on the +aware of his weaknesses. +away. +away. +away. +away at the dogs! But this sort of thing is the very devil, with them +away from him. The alliance with Prussia, Austria’s treachery, +away with a grimace as if to say that everything Dólokhov had said to +awful!” +awful...” and he burst into tears. +a whisper that the prince was sleeping, and hastily closed the door. +a white uniform that looked strange among the Russian black ones. The +a whole month and this is the first time I have seen him in society. +a wig, put his head out of the door of the antechamber, reported in +a wild beast.... In Poland, if you please, he nearly killed a Jew.” +awkwardness or intentionally (no one could have said which) after the +a woman and, like a chained convict, you lose all freedom! And all you +a word to you and you... What?” he added with renewed irritation, “I +A young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face +baby, an old woman, and a healthy German girl with bright red cheeks +back!” +back.” +back, and bosom—which in the fashion of those days were very much +back, Cadet!” he cried angrily; and turning to Denísov, who, showing +back her hair, kissed him full on the lips. +back to Moscow. Anatole Kurágin’s father managed somehow to get his +badly—all this debauchery, dissipation, and the rest of it!” +baggage and transport, having to accept battle on the march against an +baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling +baggage was already being dispatched to Olmütz. Near Hetzelsdorf Prince +Bagratión.” +Bagratión, a gaunt middle-aged man of medium height with a firm, +Bagratión as he shouted, with an expression that seemed to say: “We +Bagratión bent his head in sign of agreement with what Prince Andrew +Bagratión called to him, and Túshin, raising three fingers to his cap +Bagratión. His idea was, first, to concentrate all the artillery in the +Bagratión, knowing Bolkónski to be a favorite and trusted adjutant, +Bagratión ordered two battalions from the center to be sent to +Bagratión replied that he was not authorized either to accept or refuse +Bagratión rode round the ranks that had marched past him and +Bagratión’s exhausted troops some rest, and letting the transport and +Bagratión’s hard brown face with its half-closed, dull, sleepy eyes. +Bagratión’s weak detachment on the Znaim road he supposed it to be +“Bah! How they scurry. He just sends a ball and they think they’ll +bald head. +Bald Hills, while he himself needed no one and nothing. He used to +ball, cleaving the air, flew over the heads of Bagratión and his suite, +ball flew past. Evidently they were firing at the hussars, but the balls +ball flew past, rose in the stirrups and sank back again. The soldiers +band struck up in the gallery, and the guests settled down in their +banging the table with a determined and drunken gesture and preparing to +bank by unseen hands. Prince Andrew and the officer rode up, looked at +banners, cannon, and two enemy generals. For the first time, after a +bare hand as red as his face. +“Baron Funke has been recommended to the Dowager Empress by her +Baron Funke to be appointed first secretary at Vienna? The baron by all +“Bâton de gueules, engrêlé de gueules d’azur—maison Condé,” +battalion came onto the bridge. Only Denísov’s squadron of hussars +battalion commanders who smilingly pressed forward (it was plain that +battle,” replied Márya Dmítrievna’s deep voice, which easily +be afraid.” +“Be a man, my friend. I will look after your interests,” said she in +beaming smile to his head. +be announced had passed straight through the glass porch between the +be,” answered the princess joyfully. +be, anyway he is an honorable and brave old colonel! You’re quick at +bearers and the shuffling of their feet grew more hurried, as if the +beaucoup d’estime, and again her face clouded over with sadness. +beautiful.” +beautiful bosom, on which she readjusted a diamond necklace. From time +beautiful head and looking over her classically molded shoulder as she +“Beautiful,” said the doctor in answer to a remark about the +beautiful young princess who was sitting some way off, the center of +be best described as strength of will. Pierre was always astonished at +became quite pleasant again. +because he rose superior to the Revolution, suppressed its abuses, +because his line was not straight, he reached the third company. +“Because I hate ghost stories,” said Prince Hippolyte in a tone +“Because not everything happens as one expects or with the smoothness +be clearly seen glittering as though freshly varnished. Down below, +become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not +become of that scoundrel?” he asked Denísov. +be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will +bed. +be difficult to return to the old regime.” +bedroom. Pierre did not eat anything though he would very much have +be easy, but here, in this wretched Moravian hole, it is more difficult, +been attacked by French cavalry and that, though the attack had been +been composed in the Turkish campaign and now being sung in Austria, the +been destroyed or not. And if they have somehow been overlooked, you +been foreseen, the Russian army of thirty-five thousand men commanded +been forwarded by courier to the commander in chief. +been intriguing!” +been more amusing than the drawing room talk of society scandals, the +been put off,” said the prince, who, like a wound-up clock, by force +been reprimanded on account of the blue greatcoat. +been telling us such a tale about Mademoiselle George and Buonaparte!” +been there at seven in the morning,” returned Bilíbin with a smile. +been told to, and the Emperor Francis merely looked fixedly into his +been up to heaven only knows what! And they have had to suffer for it. +been waiting for.” And bursting into tears she hid her face in her +Before Anna Pávlovna and the others had time to smile their +before he could reach Znaim. Hence Bagratión with his four thousand +Before he had reached the embankments that were being thrown up, he saw, +before him. The French had advanced nearest on our right. Below the +before his shelter, had been tasted. +before. “How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? I am +before. It was a German cart with a pair of horses led by a German, and +before Krems was really of small importance in view of such events as +Before returning to Bilíbin’s Prince Andrew had gone to a bookshop +before the heights on which the Russian batteries stood guarding the +Before they reached the room from which the sounds of the clavichord +before with proposals and demands for him to join up with the army of +before yesterday during my daily walk through the village I witnessed a +began crossing himself with the hand that held the taper. +began riding downhill to where the roll of musketry was heard but where +began to arrive; and slowly turning her eyes from the visitor to her +began to wail like a baby without knowing why, except that Sónya was +began, with a blush that looked very strange on her thin, dignified, +beg—I’ll take it!” +beg you to dress your men decently.” +behaving himself, and in general...” +behaving with Borís.” +behind each chair—stood waiting for the prince to enter. The head +behind her back. The French doctor held no taper; he was leaning +behind him. +Behind him stood the aide-de-camp, the doctors, and the menservants; +behind the chair, held it in position. By the chair stood the priests, +Behind the guns were their limbers and still farther back picket ropes +behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed +being told she sat upright, glancing now at her beautiful round arm, +“Believe me, Prince, a mother’s heart will never forget what you +“Believe me, Princess, I am ready to do all I can,” answered Prince +below the shoulder. Pierre went with Anna Mikháylovna into the small +beneath his dignity to give me satisfaction, then...” +bent arm to Márya Dmítrievna. He drew himself up, a smile of debonair +be. Of the four crystal glasses engraved with the count’s monogram +be overthrown by the angel whom it has pleased the Almighty, in His +Berg always spoke quietly, politely, and with great precision. His +Berg as much as you please,” she finished quickly. +Berg smiled joyously. The count, followed by his guests, went into the +be seen from the hill on the opposite bank but was not yet visible from +beside him and was listening naïvely to his words. +beside him. This hussar, with a grave face and without a smile or a +besides! But don’t let’s talk about me; tell me how you managed +“Besides that, Peter Nikoláevich, by exchanging into the Guards +“besides,” thought he, “all such ‘words of honor’ are +beside the bed. Pierre obediently sat down, his eyes asking if he were +beside the farthest of the four unlimbered cannon. Before the guns an +beside themselves over there and one can’t make anything out.” +beside whom sat only one elderly lady, who with her thin careworn face +best families in Russia, but she was poor, and having long been out of +bestowed on Véra by Nicholas, was considered very stinging), “and +be the best way.” +betrayal of the Bourbon cause. The sovereigns! Why, they are sending +betraying by this desperate and provocative proposition his extreme +better during those awful moments—the father who so remembered +between forefinger and thumb, and an old servant, bending over from +between his acts as a private person, as a general, and as an emperor. +Between three and four o’clock in the afternoon Prince Andrew, who +bewildered him with fine words, and he is so flattered by his rapidly +Bezúkhova. But you will understand that I have no desire for the post. +Bezúkhov’s house that night had gathered to fortify themselves. +big people I write a note: ‘Princess So-and-So desires an interview +Bilíbin and the rest of “ours” burst out laughing in Hippolyte’s +Bilíbin came out to meet him. His usually calm face showed excitement. +Bilíbin introduced him to the others. +Bilíbin. “It’s not treachery nor rascality nor stupidity: it is +Bilíbin liked conversation as he liked work, only when it could be +Bilíbin’s house thinking out a letter to his father about the battle +Bilíbin smiled and the wrinkles on his face disappeared. +Bilíbin was a man of thirty-five, a bachelor, and of the same circle as +bit and I’ll get round him.... Listen! I’ll take your bet tomorrow, +biting her underlip. At sight of Pierre her expression showed an +blackest ingratitude—in this house...” +bleeding head and no cap was being dragged along by two soldiers who +blockhead!” +blocking the way for everyone. The countess tried to make him talk, +blood from it was streaming over his greatcoat as from a bottle. He had +blood rush to his heart. “But where and how will my Toulon present +blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and +blue-striped feather bed and hugging her friend. With an effort Sónya +blushing: +blushing and dropping her eyes. +bodice, with black curls tossed backward, thin bare arms, little legs +body was strikingly out of proportion to her short legs. Prince Vasíli +Bogdánich knows how things are done.” +Bogdánich was a brick: he told you you were saying what was not true. +boldly, with saucy gaiety, confident that her prank would be taken in +bold, tall, close handwriting. +Bolkónskaya, very pretty and rosy, though rather too plump for her age. +“Bolkónski! Bolkónski!... Don’t you hear? Eh? Come quick...” he +Bolkónski, opposite which hung another such frame with a badly painted +Bolkónski shrugged his shoulders. +Bolkónski that the Emperor desired to give him an audience. The Emperor +Bolkónski, the little princess’ husband. He was a very handsome young +Bolkónski, turning still paler, pushed him away with an angry look and +Bolkónski, very modestly without once mentioning himself, described the +Bolkónski was invited everywhere, and had to spend the whole morning +Bonaparte!” +“Bonaparte...” began Dólokhov, but the Frenchman interrupted him. +“Bonaparte has said so,” remarked Prince Andrew with a sarcastic +Bonaparte’s adjutant rode full gallop with this menacing letter to +Bonaparte’s new triumph, tomorrow’s levee and parade, and the +Bonaparte’s side.” +Bonaparte, that they desire to see Prince Auersperg, and so on. The +bookcases with keys in the locks, the high desk for writing while + BOOK EIGHT: 1811 - 12 + BOOK ELEVEN: 1812 + BOOK FIFTEEN: 1812 - 13 + BOOK FIVE: 1806 - 07 + BOOK FOUR: 1806 + BOOK FOURTEEN: 1812 +book from the high desk. + BOOK NINE: 1812 + BOOK ONE: 1805 +BOOK ONE: 1805 + BOOK SEVEN: 1810 - 11 + BOOK SIX: 1808 - 10 + BOOK TEN: 1812 + BOOK THIRTEEN: 1812 + BOOK THREE: 1805 + BOOK TWELVE: 1812 + BOOK TWO: 1805 +BOOK TWO: 1805 +boots and the clinking of spurs that came to a stop, and a respectful +boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers. +bore almost the same smile, expressing unseemly thoughts about the +Borís also,” she went on, gaining a little strength; “he is nice... +Borís blushed. +Borís bowed again politely. +Borís bowed politely. Prince Vasíli without acknowledging the bow +“Borís, come here,” said she with a sly and significant look. “I +Borís felt that Pierre did not recognize him but did not consider +Borís followed her, smiling. +Borís. “He wanted to thank you himself.” +Borís knew nothing about the Boulogne expedition; he did not read the +Borís looked attentively and kindly at her eager face, but did not +Borís, or between you two? It’s all nonsense!” +Borís paused in the middle of the room, looked round, brushed a little +Borís quietly left the room and went in search of Natásha. The plump +Borís said no more, but looked inquiringly at his mother without taking +“Borís,” she said to her son with a smile, “I shall go in to see +Borís with a smile. +Borís with severity. “I am glad.... Are you here on leave?” he went +Bóry, who had only just entered a regiment of the line and was being +both armies should remain in position without moving. Murat declared +both began to cry and kissed again. Mademoiselle Bourienne also began to +Both Kurágin and Dólokhov were at that time notorious among the rakes +Both laughed. +Both were silent. +Both were silent. There were two Germans and a Russian officer in the +bottle. I’ll do it.... Bring a bottle!” +bottles, cloaks, and overshoes were lying about; there was a smell of +Boulogne expedition. +Bourienne. I embrace you as I love you. +Bourienne rapidly, in her pleasant mellow tones and with guttural r’s. +Bourienne. Though in the new reign he was free to return to the +Bourienne were already awaiting him together with his architect, who by +bowed his head in sign of assent and approval. He rode off at a walk to +bows and trying to escape as quickly as possible from the glances fixed +boy ran after them angrily, as if vexed that their program had been +brag about it, but if he stays out till morning it means he’s lost and +Braunau had halted half a mile from the town, waiting to be inspected +brave officer,” thought Bagratión. Prince Andrew, without replying, +bridge because he had not brought any burning straw with him like the +bridge. But this time Nesvítski could not see what was happening there, +bridge, cross it, and now with their whole army are on this side of the +bridge did not take his eyes off the women till they had passed. When + * Bridgehead. +bridge is taken! But what is best of all,” he went on, his excitement +bridge Nesvítski found the colonel to whom he had to deliver the order, +bridge not knowing what to do. There was no one to hew down (as he +bridge. Sometimes through the monotonous waves of men, like a fleck of +bridge was at times veiled by a diaphanous curtain of slanting rain, and +brightly upon the Danube and the dark hills around it. It was calm, and +bring me such tattered and dirty notes as last time, but nice clean ones +briskly from corner to corner of the room, looking straight before him +broad cheekbones, sunken cheeks, and listless tired expressions, and +broken glass remained in that position without taking his eyes from the +brother a small, oval, antique, dark-faced icon of the Saviour in a gold +brotherly love, wagged their heads in token of their mutual affection, +brought at once?” +brought into the room had vanished; and as if answering a question no +brows he glanced into Rostóv’s eyes. +brunette with a tender look in her eyes which were veiled by long +bugler, showed one common expression of conflict, irritation, and +build Prince Andrew could endure physical fatigue far better than many +“Buonaparte himself!... Just listen to the fool, what he doesn’t +“Buonaparte?” said Bilíbin inquiringly, puckering up his forehead +Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, +“Buonaparte was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He has got +burden to him, and Bóry’s life is only just beginning....” +burn, I could not know by the holy spirit!” +burnt his boats, and I believe that we are ready to burn ours.” + * “Busy already?” +busy, and busy making his father comfortable, while evidently he, +busy with his roast meat, hoped he had been forgotten: “Didn’t +busy with similar peaceful affairs—near the shelter of the regimental +but also for his skill in dealing and conversing with those in the +but an hour.... Tell me all you know about the will, and above all where +But Anna Mikháylovna did not obey him. +But Anna Mikháylovna went forward a step or two to keep her hold on the +“but as it is, I know every word she utters. She will come running to +But as she passed the sitting room she noticed two couples sitting, +“But as you are a philosopher, be a consistent one, look at the other +but at irregular intervals, and grapeshot cracked and rattled onto the +But at that instant a tall Austrian general in a greatcoat, with the +but at the incredible boldness and smartness of this little girl who had +“But a very kind man, Prince,” said Anna Mikháylovna with a +But Borís again interrupted him. +But Borís spoke distinctly, clearly, and dryly, looking straight into +“But do you know, my dear, that was a capital joke,” said the count; +But enough of gossip. I am at the end of my second sheet of paper, and +but extremely attractive. +But God will support you: you are young, and are now, I hope, in command +But he immediately recalled his promise to Prince Andrew not to go +“But he must be a Freemason,” said he, referring to the abbé whom +but he went on naïvely looking around through his spectacles as if in +but his aim to consider, and he reached it. But tie yourself up with +but his character...” said Timókhin. +but hopeless: “The sovereigns, madame... What have they done for Louis +“But how are you to get that balance?” Pierre was beginning. +“But if the bridge is crossed it means that the army too is lost? It +But if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed +“But if you won’t accept money from me like a comrade, you will +“But I just wish to say, to avoid misunderstandings, that you are +but in his usual impulsive and hearty way he took Borís by the hand +but in the center where the men with a flag of truce had passed that +“but I remember putting it there.” +“But it isn’t?...” +but it lifted all the more sweetly, and was especially charming when she +“But joking apart,” said Prince Andrew, “do you really think the +butler, napkin on arm, was scanning the setting of the table, making +but like a priest’s benediction, approached the general. Though + * “But my dear fellow, with all my respect for the Orthodox +“But, my dear Monsieur Pierre,” said she, “how do you explain the +“But, my dear princess,” answered Anna Mikháylovna blandly but +“But, my dear,” said Prince Vasíli suddenly, clutching the little +“But, my dear sir,” said Nesvítski as he drew up, taking off his +“But, my poor Catiche, it is as clear as daylight! He will then be the +But neither Anna Mikháylovna nor the footman nor the coachman, who +but not concealing the fact that she would not be distressed if they +“But now I am off at once.” +but now we are all going to ——’s.” + But oh! till then I cannot live!... +“But one cannot delay, Prince, at such a moment! Consider that the +but only a sort of puppet show at which the men of the day were playing, +But Pierre continued his speech without heeding her. +But Pierre thought it necessary to ask: “How is...” and hesitated, +“But, Prince,” said Anna Mikháylovna, “after such a solemn +“But really, hadn’t I better go away?” he asked, looking kindly at +But Rostóv pulled away his arm and, with as much anger as though +“But seriously,” said Prince Andrew, “we can at any rate say +“But still this does not mean that the campaign is over,” said +“But that is my conviction, and judging by the last letter with which +“But the best of it was,” said one, telling of the misfortune of +But the convoyman took no notice of the word “general” and shouted +But the guns remained loaded, the loopholes in blockhouses and +But the princess did not listen to him. +but the question “How?” that interested him. What the diplomatic +But these words came like a piteous, despairing cry and an entreaty for +But the smile did not enhance Véra’s beauty as smiles generally do; +“But the worst of it, gentlemen—I am giving Kurágin away to +“But they say that war has been declared,” replied the visitor. +But those tears were pleasant to them both. +but to help England and Austria against the greatest man in the world is +but unabashed. +“But what have they been up to?” asked the countess. +“But what is there to say about me?” said Pierre, his face relaxing +“But where do you come from not to know what every coachman in the +“But where is Sónya?” +“But why do you expect that he will leave us anything?” +But won’t you come to this other table?” repeated Anna Pávlovna. +“But you know the wise maxim your excellency, advising one to expect +“But you meant to stay another two days?” +“But you must decide on something! Your father expects it.” +bwicks and it’s nasty work! An attack’s pleasant work! Hacking +by a scarlet-liveried footman that morning, ran as follows: +by finding husbands for me (most of whom I don’t even know), the +by Kutúzov was hurriedly retreating along the Danube, stopping where +By Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi +by six horses at a smart trot. Behind the calèche galloped the suite +by the ammunition wagon. +by the amusing scene she foresaw. She drew her wool down through the +by the clatter of knives and forks, the voices of visitors, and the +by the commander in chief. Despite the un-Russian appearance of the +by the French who had crossed the Vienna bridge, and encumbered by his +by their redness to contrast more than usual with his gray hair. At the +by the living mass of moving infantry, Váska Denísov, red and shaggy, +by the softness and flexibility of her small limbs, and by a certain +by the way, Bagratión came out on the Vienna-Znaim road at Hollabrünn +by the whole of the count’s plump figure, in Márya Dmítrievna found +By this time they were all approaching Túshin’s battery, and a ball +by which the prince was to enter. Prince Andrew was looking at a large +cahd.” +calamity! What a calamity!” +calèche stopped in front of the regiment. Kutúzov and the Austrian +called everyone without exception and without the slightest variation +called him a great man,” remarked the vicomte. +call him but changed her mind. “Let him look for me,” thought she. +calling on the principal Austrian dignitaries. Between four and five +calls.’” +calm, and penetrating, a look I loved so well and seem to see before me +calmer. +“Calm yourself, Princess! It seems so to you because.... I assure you +came galloping up on a Cossack horse that could scarcely carry his +came in. +came Márya Dmítrievna and the count, both with merry countenances. The +came naturally to her, but was now very ill-suited to her careworn face. +came out—wearing a velvet coat with a single star on his breast, +came over his face. He said nothing to her but looked at her forehead +came, the pretty, fair-haired Frenchwoman, Mademoiselle Bourienne, +came to his former chief with an order from the commander of the rear +campaign is over?” +campaign. The Frenchman, confusing the Austrians with the Russians, was +Canal. And there was the bear swimming about with the policeman on his +“Can I see the count?” Pierre again asked. +cannon, was a small, newly constructed wattle shed from which came the +cannot leave the estate to Pierre. Pierre is illegitimate.” +“Can one be well while suffering morally? Can one be calm in times +can rush off alone in a carriage to Moscow, to Petersburg, to those +can’t be done. And besides, if she tells Mamma” (Sónya looked upon +can’t, do what you will! How can I go and apologize like a little boy +canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying +can, with all the pleasures of life here. If we were in Vienna it would +Can you fancy the figure he cut?...” +cap and smoothing his hair wet with perspiration with his plump hand, +“Capital!” said Prince Hippolyte in English, and began slapping his +capitals, he still continued to live in the country, remarking that +Captain,” and he turned to a thin, dirty little artillery officer who +captain and his drawn-in stomach, and mimicked his expression and pose +captain, his nose growing redder as he gave a smile which showed where +“Captain Túshin’s, your excellency!” shouted the red-haired, +captain up and down as he came up panting, slackening his pace as he +cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests +card game he was very fond of, was that of listener, especially when he +cardinal virtues in her gave her lessons in algebra and geometry +Cards and supper were over, but the visitors had not yet dispersed. +cared about; Anna Pávlovna observed these greetings with mournful and +carefully stretching his neck so as not to touch the quilt, followed her +Carelessly holding in his stallion that was neighing and pawing the +carriage and rode up to Dólokhov. +carriage. “Get in with me,” said he to Bolkónski. +carriage?” he asked his mother with a smile. +carriage, her husband was adjusting his saber; Prince Hippolyte, under +carriage, moved forward and, not noticing the general, looked out +carried the sick man dispersed. Anna Mikháylovna touched Pierre’s +carried the whole length of the table. +“Carrot ices.” +carrying her burden so lightly. Old men and dull dispirited young ones +carts, guns, artillery, and again baggage wagons and vehicles of all +cart, shouting and scolding a soldier with coarse abuse. In each of +cases only one goes wrong, but it is her fancy and mine. They have been +“Catch hold of my arm or you’ll drop him!” he heard one of the +catching and their sabers clattering. +cathedral, and its bridge, on both sides of which streamed jostling + *Catherine. +Catherine’s court, Count Bezúkhov. +Catherine’s day, Count Bezúkhov, and about his illegitimate son +“Catiche has had tea served in the small drawing room,” said Prince +Catiche,” * muttered the prince, seating himself wearily on the chair +caught up the object of contention and ran into the bedroom. The eldest +cause of the confusion, turned away with indifference, as if to say, +cautious movements of those who crowded round the invalid chair that +censure, but asked him not to be too hard on the poor old man. “What +center, and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the +“Cependant, mon cher,” he remarked, examining his nails from a +“Certainly; but about Kutúzov, I don’t promise.” +“Certainly he must be moved onto the bed; here it will be +“Cette armée russe que l’or de l’Angleterre a transportée des +chair and pacing up and down the room followed by Tíkhon, who ran after +chair, wrapped in a powdering mantle, entrusting his head to Tíkhon. +championship of the doctor’s wife in her queer trap might expose him +changed: her eyes became fixed, and then a shiver passed down her broad +change in the expression of his fixed eyes, watched the regimental +changing his tone or attitude, “it must seem to you that everyone is +changing the expression of her eyes. “I am a woman, and you think we +changing unconsciously from Russian to French as he went on—to explain +Channel. 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He lay +Character set encoding: UTF-8 +charming age when a girl is no longer a child, though the child is not +“Charming!” said Anna Pávlovna with an inquiring glance at the +“Charming!” whispered the little princess, sticking the needle into +chasseur regiment and in the lines of the Kiev grenadiers—fine fellows +chasseurs must hold their position till reserves from the center +Chasseurs.... They won’t let us pass, we are left behind and have lost +checked handkerchief) to illustrate the theory that all men are equals, +cheerful were the troops. The greatest disorder and depression had been +chest to back than across the shoulders. He had on a brand-new uniform +childhood. +childhood. +childhood and lived for years at a time. The Guards had already left +childhood; that same Julie Karágina who had been at the Rostóvs’ +child in a toyshop, did not know which way to look, afraid of missing +childish bare shoulders which after her run heaved and shook her +childlike way through his spectacles. +children are the bane of my life. It is the cross I have to bear. That +children,” she said, in her loud, full-toned voice which drowned all +children. The German tutor was trying to remember all the dishes, wines, +choice has fallen. I don’t know what you will think of it, but +“Christ be with you!” Kutúzov repeated and went toward his +Christian...” +circumstances, he nevertheless delivered the definite order that the +circumstances I may be placed. But if you want to know the truth... if +circumstantially and with evident satisfaction. +cities wondered at her, laughed privately at her rudenesses, and told +clattering. These men pressed close to the wall to let Pierre and Anna +clavichord. +clavichord and harp. Julie by general request played first. After she +clean, and in cloth covers carefully tied with tapes. +clean shirt on the feather bed with its warmed and fragrant pillows, he +clear, insolent eyes in the general’s face. +clearly worded the day before, namely, that the commander in chief +clenching his small hand and striking the table with it, “and what +clerk. “The Kiev Grenadiers, Podolian...” +clever with Véra,” said the count. “Well, what of that? She’s +climb out of the window. +cloak, he asked whether they wanted the count or the princesses, and, +close-cropped hair, spectacles, the light-colored breeches fashionable +closed his eyes, silently let Mack enter his room before him, and closed +closer!” she whispered. +close to her, began to whisper something. +close to her, of his breath and the smell of him, and could think only +close to her; the red patches on her face came and went, and it was +close, was gazing with astonishment at the angry face of the princess +cloth, which contrasted with the others. “What have you been after? +clouded his mother’s face, and he smiled slightly. +cloudless, northern, summer night. Pierre took an open cab intending +coat of arms on the table. He explained this to her with as much gravity +“Colonel,” he said, addressing Rostóv’s enemy with an air of +“Colonel,” interrupted the officer of the suite, “You must be +colonel of hussars who, growing more and more flushed, ate and drank so +colonel of hussars with the same order. After him the stout Nesvítski +colonel’s athletic back, his nape covered with light hair, and his red +colonel was called Bogdánich) “shuts you up.” +columns, with a high silk-curtained mahogany bedstead on one side and +“Come along!” +“Come here,” said Rostóv, catching hold of Telyánin’s arm and +come... he told me himself... but still I should not cry,” and she +“Come if you need anything. One can at least be of use on the +come in a moment. Petrúshka!” he called to his valet: “Come here, +come into the hall. Prince Hippolyte stood close to the pretty, pregnant +“Come, I will go with you. Try to weep, nothing gives such relief as +“Come, my dear Anna Mikháylovna, let Catiche do as she pleases. You +“Come nearer, come nearer, friend! I used to be the only one to tell +“Come now! You with all your forces fall on the unfortunate Mortier +“Come on then,” cried Pierre. “Come on!... And we’ll take Bruin +“Come over here, Hélène, dear,” said Anna Pávlovna to the +“Come, that’s right, Count!” cried the staff captain, turning +come up. In that case the dragoons could successfully make a flank +come up to him. +“Come, what’s the matter, old fellow?” said Nesvítski trying to +comfortably. +coming for me to take me there.” +coming from the study. The prince walked in quickly and jauntily as was +Coming out of Kutúzov’s room into the waiting room with the papers in +commander among them! Hm!...” +commander, awaiting the word of command. A second and a third cannon +commander, but now that the commander in chief addressed him he drew +commander, higher than and different from the others, Prince Andrew came +commander in chief and of his own luggage. Very sinister reports of the +“Commander in Chief Kutúzov?” said the newly arrived general +commander in chief’s regarding the regiment. Behind Kutúzov, at a +commander in chief would otherwise be dissatisfied. On hearing this the +commander of the regiment in the hollow and news that immense masses +“Commander of the third company wanted by the general!... commander to +commander’s back and mimicked his every movement. Each time the +commander started and bent forward, the hussar started and bent forward +commander’s will, owing to the tact Bagratión showed, his presence +commanding both sides of the Danube, so that should the enemy not +command. “Sergeants major!... How soon will he be here?” he asked +comme cet individu dont vous avez fait un ami, mais pas pour vous, pas +comme il faut, that’s a different matter; but the Kurágins’ set of +Commentaries), and resting on his elbow, began reading it in the middle. +commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred miles. +commit murder he had restored it to the rightful king, I should have +committed a reverse act of impoliteness. First he had left a lady before +common sense and frank plainness of speech. Márya Dmítrievna was known +companies, crowds of whom set off to the neighboring villages, or +company and overtook the next one. +company commanders calculated and reckoned, and by morning the +company’s baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered, and hemmed in on +completed. +comply. Anna Pávlovna arranged a group round him, inviting everyone to +comrade Nesvítski, a tall staff officer, extremely stout, with a +comrades’ impression. Every face, from Denísov’s to that of the +conceit prevents your apologizing, and you wish to make the whole +conceive a future life...” +concerned with a thought that always occupied her: “Now you see if I +concerned with, or he wanted to give the Russian special messenger that +concerning which no one could be at ease. It was the state of the +concluded, conscious—as were others—after the words were uttered +condition, and immediately after that informed them that she had left +condition! It’s very hard.” +confession, communion was administered to the dying man, preparations +confidence,” said she, repeating the mistake of so many parents who +conform. However painful it may be to me, should the Almighty lay +conform to them and follow them, and let us be persuaded that the less +confronted one another as before. +confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken +conjecture, but the colonel did not once glance at Rostóv, and looked +“Connaissez-vous le Proverbe:* ‘Jerome, Jerome, do not roam, but +connections... Well, then, you just...” +conservatory and pantry into the large marble dining hall, where tables +conservatory. There she paused and stood listening to the conversation +conservatory to the place among the tubs where she had been hiding. +considerable pause which made Pierre feel uncomfortable. +consider characteristic of the country—rumors of war are heard +considered an adept at French. +considered him conceited, cold, and disagreeable. But among these people +considered important. +considered it his duty to visit him and waited in the lofty antechamber +considered it proper to show an interest in the general conversation by +“Consider my position, Peter Nikoláevich. Were I in the cavalry I +Consider, Prince Andrew. Two... Frederick and Suvórov; Moreau!... +consider yourself incapable and your life a spoiled life. You have +consulting his sergeant major, Zakharchénko, for whom he had great +containing lessons in geometry written by himself and drew up a chair +contemplated between Anatole and the little princess’ sister-in-law. +contemptuous look that showed itself on his face. +contented and happy with him. I only wish you were all as happy as I +contention. + CONTENTS +continually and rapidly touching her rosy nether lip when necessary +continually, bringing visitors to the Countess Rostóva’s big house on +continually changing from French to Russian. +continually glanced at Prince Andrew; Prince Andrew rubbed his forehead +continually he moved on. The soldiers squeezed themselves to make way +continually receiving many petitioners one after another. +continued. During this interval Pierre noticed that Prince Vasíli +continued his work. +continued. “One would think that as an artillery officer you would set +continued Prince Vasíli, returning to his theme, apparently not +continued the vicomte. “I pity the poor husband, that little officer +continued to explain how by exchanging into the Guards he had already +continued to shout. +continued, with that gay brotherly cordiality which goodhearted young +continuous, varied, and orderly activity. The motion of the small foot +Contrary to Bilíbin’s forecast the news he had brought was joyfully +contrary. We wanted liberty, but Buonaparte has destroyed it.” +contrasted with his flattering words, “on the contrary, your +conveniently to keep them under observation, brought them into the +conventional things with no definite meaning, especially if +conversation. +conversation. +conversation always related entirely to himself; he would remain calm +conversation, and though Anna Pávlovna felt sure he would say something +conversation began Prince Andrew was struck by the fact that the Emperor +conversation but think it necessary to move about and talk, in order +conversation, evidently with no wish to take part in it. He answered the +conversation, gave no reply. +conversation in French. +conversation—“I often think how unfairly sometimes the joys of life +cooked before we reach our quarters.” +coquettish manner in which she spoke to other men, “the vicomte has +correct. +correct. As soon as Bonaparte (who was at Schönbrunn, sixteen miles +corridor to the cabinet where the Minister of War was at work. The +Cossack scouts were moving. Suddenly on the road at the top of the high +“Cossack!” she said threateningly. +cough. +coughing of the musicians were heard from the gallery. +could be discerned. +could be felt, but the nearer Prince Andrew came to the French lines the +could be seen, and in three places to left and right the French troops +could get more rewards by doing nothing on the staff, and had succeeded +could hear. “I thank you all! God be praised!” and he rode past that +could not help seeing these people, took any notice of them. “It seems +could not move it. He smashed a pane. +could not say with certainty whether the attack had been repulsed or his +could not think of it without tears, and did not know which had behaved +could reach, there were the rattle of wheels, the creaking of carts +count. +count against him, he nevertheless on the day of his arrival went to +count, and having kissed his wife’s hand he went back to his study. +Count Bezúkhov’s distress some fifteen times. +count coming out from the dining hall into the anteroom, and he added: +“Count!... Don’t ruin a young fellow... here is this wretched money, +countenance. +countenances became calm; soldiers and officers greeted him gaily, grew +counterattack. If they attack our center we, having the center battery +countermarches, things of which I understand nothing; and the day +“Countess Apráksina, poor thing, has lost her husband and she has +countess’ gigantic footman in his bass voice, entering the drawing +countess. “I have never seen a handsomer man.” +Countess Rostóva’s carriage in which they were seated drove over the +Countess Rostóva, with her daughters and a large number of guests, was +countess with a gentle smile, looking at Borís and went on, evidently +count. He has, no doubt, forgotten it and will wish to destroy it. +count is very fond of Pierre, looked after his education, and wrote to +“Count Lichtenfels was here this morning,” Bilíbin continued, +“Count Rostóv asks you to come to dinner today,” said he, after a +country do we get any rest? Theatricals, hunting, and heaven knows what +countryside—“See, our infantrymen have already got there. Look there +“Count...” said Telyánin drawing nearer to him. +count’s niece, entered with a cold, stern face. The length of her +count’s services, his request would be granted?...” +count’s visitors settled themselves, some in the two drawing rooms, +count, with playful ceremony somewhat in ballet style, offered his +count,” yet ashamed to call him “father.” +couple. In the intervals of the dance the count, breathing deeply, waved +courage and endurance—acknowledged even by the enemy—with which the +“Courage, courage, my friend! He has asked to see you. That is +courage. Next he thought that his enemy would send the squadron on a +courage, so he drew himself up and looked around him merrily; then it +course of events in the forthcoming action in broad outline. He +courtierlike quickness and tact habitual to her, Anna Pávlovna +“Cousinage—dangereux voisinage,” * she added. + * Cousinhood is a dangerous neighborhood. +covered this movement of the transport and of the whole army, had to +cover of the small box, and assumed his usual tranquil and impenetrable +cowshed nor Rostóv back with his platoon from foraging for hay had any +coyness and reserve of manner, she reminded one of a pretty, half-grown +creaks or makes more noise than it should, and hastens to check the +cream.” +“Crew, to your guns!” commanded the officer. +cried her eyes out,” she said, growing more and more lively. +criticism and was about to reply, when the expected footsteps were heard +crossed himself and kissed the icon. There was a look of tenderness, for +crossed the ballroom, pointing to Natásha. +Crossing a road they descended a steep incline and saw several men +cross the Lech, we can cross the Danube, throw ourselves on his line +crowded round a pockmarked, broad-shouldered sergeant major who, tilting +crowded together close to his wheels and his horses. “What a fellow! +crowd had to wait. +crowd of soldiers. “It can’t be an attack, for they are not moving; +crush the contemptible detachment that stood before him. +cry. “I need five hundred rubles, and have only one twenty-five-ruble +crying. Sónya tried to lift her head to answer but could not, and +cry or to laugh. Prince Andrew shrugged his shoulders and frowned, as +cry. Prince Andrew evidently felt ill at ease, but to the two women +cunning smile, as if flattered at being made the subject of Zherkóv’s +cupboards, and little tables. The quilt of a high, white feather bed was +cup of vodka for the men from me,” he added so that the soldiers +curly head to her knees and made the whole room ring with her laughter. +current of his thoughts, “that Anatole is costing me forty thousand +cut!” +damned fool!” cried Denísov, not pronouncing his r’s. “Such ill +dance) began to sound, all the doorways of the ballroom were suddenly +danger. “I am convinced that we Russians must die or conquer,” he +Danube covered with pine forests, with a mystic background of green +Danube, marching on us, you, and your lines of communication.” +dared complain, I who am deprived of all who are dear to me? Ah, if +dared to treat Márya Dmítrievna in this fashion. +daren’t say so. It will be as I said at the beginning of the campaign, +dark-haired man. This was the celebrated Petersburg doctor, Lorrain. +Dark hairs were already showing on his upper lip, and his whole face +darted forward at every word or gesture of the commander in chief, +darted in and stopped short in the middle of the room. It was evident +daughter and placing an arm on the back of the chair on which she sat, +daughter, entered the drawing room, their dresses rustling. +daughter got up to go and the two young men rose to let them pass. +daughter’s face that it was only mischief, she shook a finger at her +day he is sensible, well educated, and good-natured, and the next he’s +day... Natásha, what have I done to deserve it?...” +days.” +day,” said the visitor. “What a charming child,” she added, +day was mapped out, the prince rested and the princess played the +day we are keeping. But mind you come to dinner or I shall be offended, +Dear and precious Friend, How terrible and frightful a thing is +Dear and precious Friend, Your letter of the 13th has given me great +“Dear Countess, what an age... She has been laid up, poor child ... +“Dear, dear! Just look at her!” exclaimed the countess as she +“Dear doctor,” said she, “this young man is the count’s son. Is +‘Dearest foe! Flower of the Austrian army, hero of the Turkish wars! +dear invalid?” said she, as though unaware of the cold offensive look +“Dear me, can I have forgotten? No, I remember thinking that you kept +dear, merry child. I have grown so fond of her.” +“Dear princess, I beg and implore you, have some pity on him! Je vous +dear, there’s friendship for you,” he repeated. “He’s joining +dear. We will see how Tarás distinguishes himself today. He says Count +death, is here above me and around... Another instant and I shall never +death,” thought Bolkónski. +decently here,” continued Telyánin. “Now then, let me have it.” +declared that he will leave it to the French people themselves to choose +declares in ze manifessto zat he cannot fiew wiz indifference ze danger +declined: I have my daughters to consider.” +deeply. +deep wrinkles would crease his cheeks. His small, deep-set eyes always +defeat, there were many circumstances confirming the unfavorable rumors +defection, ran at a trot, panting to catch up with his company. A cannon +defending us—doing it very badly, I think, but still he is defending +defense—as much as to say: ‘Heaven is with us, but heaven help you +defense of Vienna was no longer to be thought of. Instead of an +deferential young man who had entered. “Bring me...” he reflected +definite idea of her, he turned away and addressed Michael Ivánovich. +deliberately spoken word. It was evident that Kutúzov himself listened +delicate dark down was just perceptible, was too short for her teeth, +delight. So you still love me, my romantic Julie? Separation, of which +demanded. +demand satisfaction of his regimental commander?” +“Demosthenes, I know thee by the pebble thou secretest in thy golden +Denísov. +Denísov began to laugh. +Denísov frowned and was about to shout some reply but stopped. +Denísov galloped up to him. +Denísov glanced at Rostóv. +Denísov joined Nesvítski. +“Denísov, let him alone, I know who has taken it,” said Rostóv, +Denísov remained silent and did not move, but occasionally looked with +Denísov sat gloomily biting his mustache and listening to the +Denísov screwed up his face and pointing over his shoulder with his +Denísov’s face puckered still more. +Denísov smiled, took out of his sabretache a handkerchief that diffused +Denísov’s new cloak and saddlecloth. +Denísov’s voice from the next room. +Denísov. “They keep dwagging the wegiment to and fwo all day. If they +Denísov threw both pillows on the floor. The purse was not there. +Denísov were his worst enemy, firmly fixed his eyes directly on his +deprecating expression of a dog when it rapidly but feebly wags its +depressed, “I shall be only too glad if you relieve me of that young +“Dere has neffer been a gase,” a German doctor was saying to an +description of the last Petersburg fete she addressed her brother: +description. The old man began to sing, in the cracked voice of old age: +desperate attack just to punish him—Rostóv. Then he imagined how, +desperation slammed the door with all her might. +despite the general’s presence were talking loudly and gesticulating. +destiny of our adored monarch. He will save Europe!” + destroyed, and you find that a cause for jesting!” +detachment no one knew anything of the general position of affairs. They +details of his disaster he understood that half the campaign was lost, +devoured him with his eyes, drawing himself up obsequiously, and from +diamonds, she passed between the men who made way for her, not looking +did, especially toward evening when he had emptied his second bottle; he +did not see you.” +did not suit her faded features, always played round her lips expressed, +did not wait to be called. The shapely figure of the fair-haired +did Novosíltsev get? None. The English have not understood and cannot +did she not show any trace of coquetry, but on the contrary she even +did you come here?” +“‘Dieu me la donne, gare à qui la touche!’’ * They say he was +“Dieu! Mon Dieu!” muttered Anna Pávlovna in a terrified whisper. +“Dieu sait quand reviendra. Go to the dining room.” +“Dieu sait quand reviendra.” hummed the prince out of tune and, with +differed only in that one had a little mole on her lip which made her +different from themselves and from everyone else, expected great things +difficult for artillery and cavalry to retire. Prince Andrew took +difficulty. +difficulty out of the front door. +dim, but definite and in the concise form in which he imagined himself +dining room where his daughter-in-law, Princess Mary, and Mademoiselle +dinner all who came “to congratulate.” The countess wished to have +dinner at the Rostóvs’?” +dinner,” cried several voices. “We’ll take you in hand.” +din of shouting more incessant. Soldiers floundering knee-deep in mud +diplomatist?” asked Prince Andrew after a momentary silence. +diplomats, evidently had its own interests which had nothing to do with +diplomats who are esteemed because they have certain negative qualities, +dip. Prince Andrew, being always near the commander in chief, closely +direct descent and ascent to the brook separating us from Schön +directing the march rode backward and forward between the carts. Their +dirty feather bed on the top of the chest, crumpling her gauzy pink +disagreeable tone to Prince Hippolyte who was blocking his path. +disappeared he noticed that the eyes of all in the room turned to him +disapprovingly, but in whispers and as a great secret. +disastrous was about to happen. +discipline, if you allow a subordinate to address you like that!’ It +discuss so minutely and acutely all the recent European military and +disgrace such as that of Ulm, or to utter destruction. But to forestall +disgrace the whole regiment? Disgrace the whole regiment because of one +dismissed from here; therefore, you can stay and go with us wherever our +dismounted. He gave the reins to a Cossack, took off and handed over his +disorder and was retreating upon the Kiev grenadiers. Prince Bagratión +dispatch? You know everything.” +disposition of the forces, so as to know his bearings should he be sent +dispute with the French grenadier. They were naturally talking about the +disrespectful manner of the exhausted clerk, the fact that the clerk and +dissatisfied, interrupted by another, an unfamiliar voice. From the +dissipated life of his son Anatole, the son whom they were planning to +distance and puckering the skin above his left eye, “malgré la haute +distance that allowed every softly spoken word to be heard, followed +distinctly, but as often happens had not understood a word of what they +distinctness. +distinguished air which inspired respect. Princess Anna Mikháylovna +distinguished him from everyone else in that drawing room. +distressed, and breathed painfully, but could not restrain the wild +distressed that his stout and clumsy body took up so much room and doing +disturbed. +divine Saviour has left for our guidance here below. Let us try to +Dmítri, a man of good family who had been brought up in the count’s +Dmítrievna. +Dmítrievna produced no less impression by slight exertions—the least +Dmítrievna’s deep voice suddenly inquired from the other end of the +“Do come.” +doctor’s wife. +doctor’s wife, who was calling him her deliverer, and recalling with +doctor with a bow and approached them silently and with a look of +does not even attempt to hide its artificiality) of a man who is +doesn’t make a mess of things!” +does she bother me?” And she added, turning to Véra, “You’ll +doing right. Anna Mikháylovna nodded approvingly. Again Pierre fell +do it.” +Dólokhov. +Dólokhov. +Dólokhov, an officer of the Semënov regiment, a notorious gambler and +Dólokhov climbed carefully and slowly through the window and lowered +Dólokhov did not answer the captain; he had been drawn into a hot +Dólokhov has been degraded to the ranks and Bezúkhov’s son sent +Dólokhov hurriedly interrupted. +Dólokhov looked round but did not say anything, nor did the mocking +Dólokhov’s back in his white shirt, and his curly head, were lit +Dólokhov slowly straightened his bent knee, looking straight with his +Dólokhov smiled. “Don’t trouble. If I want anything, I won’t +Dólokhov’s reply. +Dólokhov still sat in the same position, only his head was thrown +Dólokhov stood frowning and did not speak. Pierre jumped upon the +Dólokhov’s words into English. A thin young lad, an hussar of the +Dólokhov, the bottle of rum still in his hand, jumped onto the window +Dólokhov turned round and, again holding on with both hands, arranged +Dólokhov was holding the Englishman’s hand and clearly and distinctly +Dólokhov was of medium height, with curly hair and light-blue eyes. He +Dólokhov, who had already changed into a soldier’s gray greatcoat, +domestic serfs were crowding in the hall, waiting to bid good-by to +done for him! I hope that here in Moscow no one will receive him, in +done shall be. Now listen! Give this letter to Michael Ilariónovich. * +done the job just as well.” +do next. Anna Mikháylovna with her eyes indicated a chair that stood +“Do not let us lose any time...” +“Don’t, Borís! You are such a diplomat that it is really +don’t feel that weakness in myself as yet, I know a little person who +don’t get promoted to a sublieutenancy.” +“Don’t joke; I mean to have a serious talk with you. Do you know +“Don’t kick up the dust, you infantry!” jested an hussar whose +don’t know how to hide what I feel.” As he spoke he kept glancing +don’t know me. We have not met for such a long time... not since we +“Don’t like bowwowing from my own fellows, I don’t,” growled +“Don’t mention it, General, as if I’d be so bold!” replied the +don’t need it? Now you shall judge between us. I always tell him: Here +“Don’t tease! Well, and what has been decided about Novosíltsev’s +“Don’t touch him! You’ll startle him and then he’ll be killed. +“Don’t touch me,” said Rostóv, drawing back. “If you need it, +don’t trouble yourself further.” +don’t wish to let me go, I’ll stay. But I know I am no use anywhere +“Don’t you want to? Well, then, come here,” said she, and +door, and added in a whisper so that her son should not hear, “Wish me +door opened quickly and the stern figure of the old man in the white +door. While he was getting down from the carriage steps two men, who +doppelkümmel. The officers gladly gathered round him, some on their +“Do promise, do promise, Vasíli!” cried Anna Mikháylovna as he +“Do stop joking, Bilíbin,” cried Bolkónski. +do the doctors say?” asked the princess after a pause, her worn face +do the right thing. +do they look at me?” Then he lifted his head, stretched his neck as +do this for my son—and I shall always regard you as a benefactor,” +do to get here.” +down!” +down. Anna Mikháylovna indicated by her attitude her consciousness of +down laws for Austria at Schönbrunn, il faut lui faire grâce de +down, lightly touched his daughter’s hair and sat down again. +down on a sofa near the silver samovar, as if all she was doing was a +down on one of the tubs, picked it up. +down on the sofa, facing her brother. “She is quite a child: such a +down the room for a long time, no longer piercing an imaginary foe with +down the wax, the seal, and the paper, with his accustomed rapidity. +down to her neck and shoulders while Nicholas was speaking. +downwards as was his habit. +downward. When Pierre came up the count was gazing straight at him, but +“Do you know,” he said at last, evidently unable to check the sad +“Do you know, mon cher,” said Bilíbin following him, “I have been +“Do you know?” said Pierre, as if suddenly struck by a happy +“Do you know, that fat Pierre who sat opposite me is so funny!” said + *Do you know the proverb? +“Do you know, you are a terrible chap for all your innocent airs,” +“Do you or do you not know where that will is?” insisted Prince +do you remain silent when heaven knows who permits herself to +“Do you remember me?” asked Borís quietly with a pleasant smile. +“Do you see?... My doll... Mimi... You see...” was all Natásha +“Do you think he can last till morning?” asked the German, +“Do you think so?... Really? Truly?” she said, quickly smoothing her +“Do you understand what you’re saying?” he said in a trembling +dozens of soldiers, continually replaced by others, who ran from the +dragoons. In the center, where Túshin’s battery stood and from which +draw breath. +drawing room. +drawing room. +drawing room. +drawing room. And, in fact, Bilíbin’s witticisms were hawked about +drawing room, approaching now a silent, now a too-noisy group, and by a +drawing room, helped to receive and entertain the visitors. The young +dress as fresh and elegant as the other. Prince Andrew rose and politely +dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending +dressed for his attendance at court in full parade uniform, which he +dress, girdled with a broad ribbon just below the breast. +dressing gown looked out. +dressing gown, spectacled and wigless, shouting in an angry voice. +dress under her, hiding her face with her slender fingers, and sobbing +drew her chair nearer to that of the countess. +drew his saber, and with a happy and resolute countenance, opening +dried and warmed themselves, cooked their porridge for the first time +driving into the court of Count Bezúkhov’s house. As the wheels +drooping tail. +dropped it into a leather pouch attached to the lathe, and, approaching +dropping her voice. “My wretched lawsuit takes all I have and makes no +dropping into his usual after-dinner nap, and laughed at everything. +Drubetskáya, who as a member of the household was also seated in the +drummer, their leader, turned round facing the singers, and flourishing +duc even the most partial ceased to regard him as a hero. If to some +duelist, who was living with Anatole. Pierre smiled, looking about him +dull expression. +dull eyes looked at him in silence. It seemed to Prince Andrew that the +dull without you,” said she, giving him a tender smile. +during the battle, and feeling reassured he dozed off.... The dark +during the five years he had known her, and how her head had cracked +dust from the sleeve of his uniform, and going up to a mirror examined +duties on you, and you must be a man.” +duty. The Emperor is gracious, and I shan’t forget you if you deserve +dying father. “It is painful, but it does one good. It uplifts the +dying man, but passed by him, joined the eldest princess, and moved +dying man wished to see, her own admission was assured. Casting a rapid +dying of fright. I did, ‘pon my word, I got that frightened!” said +each ascent or descent of the road the crowds were yet denser and the +each other’s arms warmly pressing their lips to whatever place they +each time he touched his forehead. His face wore a calm look of piety +Each visitor performed the ceremony of greeting this old aunt whom not +eagerly and rather disdainfully, not resting on anything although his +easy. And tell me, please—I’ve been meaning to ask—how is he +easy to take marshals, sitting on a sofa by the fire! That is true, but +eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org +écossaise was ended, he clapped his hands to the musicians and shouted +effected the dangerous crossing of the Straits of Dover and captured +effect on everyone, smiled and, evidently unmoved by what had been +effort. The bottle was emptying perceptibly and rising still higher +effort to look at the servant who stood constantly at the head of the +effort to move her shoulders or bend her arms when turning, or stamp +effort to say this. “Without a name and without means... And it +effrayée, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings. +egged on against each other. +“Eh, eh, friend! Come here a bit,” said she, assuming a soft high +“Eh? What?” asked Prince Andrew. +Eh?... What then?... Eh?” +either. Don’t I know that at the rate we are living our means won’t +elder daughter, Countess Véra, with a smile. +elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief. +elders. +eldest princess, who were sitting under the portrait of Catherine the +eldest who was reading—the one who had met Anna Mikháylovna. The +elegantly. Bilíbin’s services were valued not only for what he wrote, +else,” replied Anna Pávlovna. +embarrassing attentions. On the face of the wag Zherkóv there suddenly +embarrassment looked Pierre straight in the face. +embittered look clouded her once handsome face, but only for a moment; +embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on +emitting a smoke ring. +Emperor, about the remarks he had heard at court concerning the Krems +Emperor Francis would have been fulfilled long ago. I should long +Emperor Napoleon burns with impatience to make Prince Auersperg’s +Emperor Napoleon if we take this bridge, so let us three go and take +emphatically. +emptied them, rolling the vodka in their mouths, and walked away from +encampment, and not within sight of the enemy before an action in +en conjure...” +encounter one another at the clean, smart hussars who moved past them in +“Encouraging us to get along quicker,” said another uneasily. +ended with a thud into something soft... f-f-flop! and a Cossack, riding +ending Pierre’s unpleasant and unamiable outburst. After the anecdote +end of his gun...” a soldier whose greatcoat was well tucked up said +endure this man who is a menace to everything.” +enemy’s horse patrols could be discerned. +enemy three times as strong, who would hem him in from two sides. +engagement and his reception by the Minister of War. +“England is done for,” said he, scowling and pointing his finger +engrossed by it, yet his strut seemed to indicate that, besides military +enjoyed narrating all this, and did not seem to suspect that others, +enormous table would say: “Well, Dmítri, you’ll see that things are +enough to see a long way in the deserted street and it seemed more like +entered. +entered his father’s dressing room (not with the contemptuous look and +entered, the bronze handle of one of the doors turned and Prince Vasíli +entered their heads that it could have been otherwise at this meeting. +entered the room. +entered the room. +Entering the house, Prince Andrew saw Nesvítski and another adjutant +enter that room. +entrance, after scrutinizing the mother and son (who without asking to +entrance. The prince was working at the lathe and after glancing round +entreaties. Soon after Anna Pávlovna’s reception Anna Mikháylovna +entrenchments being thrown up, the freshly dug clay of which showed up +entrenchments looked out just as menacingly, and the unlimbered cannon +entrenchment. They had to hold their noses and put their horses to a +epaulettes had been packing with his valet in the rooms assigned to him. +equality. Have people since the Revolution become happier? On the +equip him.” +escape, and Bagratión’s four thousand men merrily lighted campfires, +escape it anyhow.” +escorted him to the door, repeating something to him several times in +especially after having dined, Bolkónski felt that he could not take in +essential, and after a short interval followed her. Anna Mikháylovna +established intimacy with the French marshals, and so dazzled by the +estime que je professe pour the Orthodox Russian army, j’avoue que +estrangement, and ridicule with which troops of different arms usually +“Even if it were a great deal of trouble...” answered Prince Andrew, +evening light and the blue tunics advancing from the other side with +evening. There was room enough in the wide corridor for the generals to +even in his way; but all at once he felt that this would not do, and +Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise +evenly, and then raised his head. He had an intellectual and distinctive +even more so. I like being alone.... Father likes her very much. She and +even pushed aside, he began wrapping it round the princess. Either from +event must be allowed to disturb the appointed order of the day. Prince +even try to do so. All were watching the count and Márya Dmítrievna. +ever since he had overtaken the regiment in Poland, had lived with the +“Everybody is wondering to whom the count will leave his fortune, +Everybody laughed, and Hippolyte louder than anyone. He was evidently +Every muscle of Telyánin’s pale, terrified face began to quiver, his +everyone. +Everyone again looked toward the door, which creaked as the second +“Everyone has his Achilles’ heel,” continued Prince Andrew. +everyone, including Anna Pávlovna, felt this. +everyone’s situation. Tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner. * Think +Everyone waited, so emphatically and eagerly did he demand their +everything and everybody at last and had spoken such pathetic words to +everything before you, everything. And you....” +Everything from the table napkins to the silver, china, and glass bore +everything. I often wonder at you, Annette—how at your age you +everything, only I have nothing....” +everything!” said Nicholas. “And I will prove it to you.” +everything that took place and was reported to him was exactly what he +every time a ball flew past. Rostóv on the left flank, mounted on his +everywhere. He might easily become aide-de-camp to the Emperor. You know +evident duty.” She paused. All were silent, expectant of what was to +evidently did not expect. +evidently glad of a chance to say quicker in words what he wanted to +evidently in a fit of rage, his coal-black eyes with their bloodshot +evidently in the village itself and behind the hill. To the left from +evidently listening to herself with pleasure, and speaking with +evidently rigged up by soldiers out of any available materials and +Evidently the prince understood her, and also understood, as he had done +evident that he not only knew everyone in the drawing room, but had +evident that the cadet was liberal with his tips and that it paid to +exacting, so that without being a hardhearted man he inspired such fear +exactitude. He always came to table under precisely the same conditions, +exaggerated grasseyement, “the prince has been scolding Michael +exaggeration quite contrary to Christian simplicity. Let us rather read +exceedingly lofty, the members of the household and the footmen—one +excellency?... nobody knows.” +excellency’s participation in the common action is highly valued by +except a few scattered skirmishers. An empty space of some seven hundred +except in the army; I am not a diplomat or a government clerk.—I +exception made, and Borís transferred into the regiment of Semënov +except veneration could such a man as my father evoke? And I am so +Excited and irritated by these thoughts Prince Andrew went toward his +excitedly animated and healthy men.” So thinks, or at any rate +excitement. +excitement. +excitement, around chin and mouth. The quartermaster frowned, looking +exclaimed in excellent French. +exclamation he was asking the adjutant to wait, and he went on with the +“Excuse me, General,” interrupted Kutúzov, also turning to Prince +Excuse me, Vicomte—I must tell it in Russian or the point will be +executing of the plan. +expectations of those who knew her. The subdued smile which, though it +expected to be at once presented to the Emperor. At the chief entrance +expect he has forgotten me. He paid me attentions in those days,” said +expecting a crisis.” +expecting anything from yourself in the future, you will feel at every +expecting that he would have a chance to give a reliable account, which +expecting the summons to zakúska, * avoid engaging in any long +expecting to hear something very profound. At last he came up to Morio. +expecting two very interesting men tonight, le Vicomte de Mortemart, who +expedition.... But what’s the southern army to do? Prussia is +experiencing a new and peculiar pleasure. Sónya, muttering to herself, +explained how to rivet the hoof and went away to his own quarters. +explaining that Dólokhov was betting with Stevens, an English naval +explanations, however clear they might be. Whether it was the +exposed—and she seemed to bring the glamour of a ballroom with her as +exposed. Another emissary rode to the Russian line to announce the peace +exposed! If I were asked what I desire most on earth, it would be to be +expose to a bullet, and then you congratulate us on the victory! Admit +expressed impetuosity and enthusiasm. Nicholas blushed when he entered +expressed the concentrated and happy resolution you see on the face of +expressing... as in its last note... you understand... Besides, unless +expression. “C’est... c’est du Mack. Nous sommes mackés (It is... +expression, evidently habitual to him when conversing with women. +expression. It was the heavy tread of Princess Mary that he heard. +expression of profound and sincere devotion and respect mingled with +expression on his face changed in a way evidently deliberate and +expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose. +expressions with the choicest French phrases—which was a peculiarity +expression—the same man who had rushed out of the wattle shed. At that +expression. Véra was good-looking, not at all stupid, quick at +expression which was never to be seen on it in a drawing room. His eyes +externally was all in order, but had it pleased the commander in chief +extraordinary may happen to one that honor and dishonor will be all the +extrémités de l’univers, nous allons lui faire éprouver le même +extricated himself from an awkward situation and placed another in it, +eyebrows which, when he frowned, sometimes hid the gleam of his shrewd, +eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God, are +eyes. +eyes and ears intent on the colonel. +eyes had uttered French phrases between his teeth. Every muscle of his +eyes lit up so that her face was entirely transformed. Then she suddenly +eye socket. “Yes, he has a right to speak so calmly of those men’s +eyes still shifted from side to side but with a downward look not rising +eyes. The Englishman looked on sideways, pursing up his lips. The man +eyes. Then having satisfied himself that all eyes were fixed on him, +eyes. The sick man was turned on to his side with his face to the wall. +eyes, went with unusually hurried steps down the long corridor leading +face. +face, already growing old, though he was dressed like a most fashionable +face, and again at the arm, and on his face a feeble, piteous smile +face and just nodded to him with his long head. But after it was +face, and Prince Andrew saw that Hippolyte, of whom—he had to +face as if driving off a troublesome fly. “And why are you stopping +face assumed a forced unnatural expression as soon as she looked in a +face assumed its melancholy expression), “he was mentioned at Her +face changed into a winning and piteous look of fear. Her beautiful eyes +face; his eyes continually wandered from one object to another. +face instantly changed and assumed an offensively affected, sugary +face in the lace of her mother’s mantilla—not paying the least +face. “Let him see whether I am a coward!” he thought. +face looked worn—he too had evidently not slept all night. He glanced +faces, the wall of soldiers burdened with knapsacks and muskets marched +face to Prince Andrew, smiled, and waved his hand. +face, which had been so radiantly happy all that saint’s day, suddenly +facing the quartermaster who was reporting to him. On seeing Rostóv, +fact. +fact of a great man executing a duc—or even an ordinary man who—is +failed. Borís on the contrary at once found his footing, and related +faithfully as I can, without disquieting myself by examining my feelings +‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I +fallen!” +fallen, and an old trooper on the flank, a noncommissioned officer who +familiar voice. “One is afraid of the unknown, that’s what it is. +familiar voice, “what I say is that if it were possible to know +family consultation; is it not so, Prince?” +“Fancy, with his powerful mind, indulging in such nonsense!” +far. By intrigues, violence, exile, and executions, French society—I +fast as her nimble little feet would carry her. Borís did not laugh. +fast asleep with his head on his arm. +fate and in spite of the pleasures and distractions around me I cannot +fate, her father-in-law, and her husband. After crying she had fallen + fate—(the fate of the army at Ulm).” +fat finger. +father and son. This lasted about two minutes, which to Pierre seemed an +father-in-law and now at Princess Mary. When they left the table she +father in order to puzzle or test his sister. +“Father Kutúzov.” +father’s face with an eager and respectful look. “How is your +father’s friendship for you; but now I entreat you for God’s sake to +father’s ridicule of the new men, and drew him on and listened to him +father’s study as the latter wished to say good-by to him alone. All +father there would be nothing I could reproach you with,” said Anna +father to be a connection of Prince Vasíli’s. The elderly lady who +father to the ambassador’s entertainment; she wore a ball dress and +favorite, “how is it you have so little tact? Don’t you see you are +fear appeared on her flushed face. +feared him. +fearing to be captured by the French on the way to Krems. +fearing to relax, shouted with his mouth wide open and passed on. +fear would prevent her understanding any of her father’s further +features. Nicholas was short with curly hair and an open expression. +feeble voice of the commander in chief was heard. The regiment roared, +feeble voice to which he tried to impart a dashing note, ill-suited to +feeling of sickening agitation. +feelings in others, and if never having felt them I cannot approve of +feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the +feels, anyone who comes in sight of the enemy, and that feeling gives +feet that moved through the sticky mud that covered the planks of the +feet were the only sounds that could be heard. Anna Mikháylovna, with +feigned severity. “You spoil her, Ilyá,” she added, turning to her +fell from him. He was glad, and at the same instant began to pity the +fellow could have played such a prank on a policeman. +fellows have all lost your wits, or I have outlived mine. May God help +fellow! What you have just said is good, very good. Of course you +felt it indecorous to speak of her pregnancy before Pierre, though the +felt perfectly happy. Just then the commander appeared on the bridge. +felt that the battle of which he had brought tidings was far, far +felt the impossibility of going to sleep on such a night. It was light +Ferdinand disgraces himself. You abandon Vienna, give up its +festivities and fireworks are becoming wearisome.” +fetch the Frenchman, Moreau,” he said, alluding to the invitation made +feu, et oublie celui qu’il devait faire faire sur l’ennemi!” *(2) +field glass and shrugging his shoulders, “so it is! They’ll be fired +fight Bonaparte by this new science you call ‘strategy.’” +fight. You’ll see—we shall retire.” +filled by the domestic serfs—the men on one side and the women on +find, and still seeks, some secret motive in our actions. What answer +fine cords would soon get a bit rubbed,” said an infantryman, wiping + * Fine eyes. +Fine! I don’t want anything, Prince.” +fine,” said a corporal, chaffing a thin little soldier who bent under +fingers, drew out a gold imperial, and lifting his eyebrows gave it to +finished. +finished phrases of general interest. These sayings were prepared in the +firing incendiary balls at the village of Schön Grabern visible just +firmness, and expedition. I consider myself fortunate to have such a +first appearance in society. Anna Pávlovna greeted him with the nod she + FIRST EPILOGUE: 1813 - 20 +first he had ever written. Borís and Natásha were at the other window +first not only what had been said but also what Kutúzov would have +“First of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. Set your friend’s +“First of all you must drink!” +first of one and then of another priest. +first place because her provinces have been pillaged—they say the Holy +“First-rate,” said Pierre, looking at Dólokhov, who with a bottle +first time since their encounter concerning Telyánin. Rostóv, feeling +first to one side and then to the other watched the smokers with evident +fist, and tapped it on the floor, making the sparks fly, while he +five in the afternoon,” replied Bolkónski growing more animated and +five times. He entered the room softly. The little princess, plump and +five years, if he goes on like this?” Presently he added: “That’s +fixed on. +fixed on her. +fixed straight on his son’s. Something twitched in the lower part of +flabby that they looked heavier below, were twitching violently; but +flank,” he said to himself, “the Kiev grenadiers and the Podólsk +flayed, some not, and broken-down carts beside which solitary soldiers +flourished his castanets as if threatening someone. The soldiers, +flourishing his arm, called him to enter. +flower tubs and hid there. +flung it down and began: +followed Anna Mikháylovna out of the carriage, and only then began +followed by a Cossack. +followed by the owner of the manly voice, a dashing infantry officer who +followed him in, as if there were now no further need for permission to +followed singly. The footmen began moving about, chairs scraped, the +follow, for this was clearly only a prelude. +following passage, in German, from the Archduke Ferdinand’s letter: +following the mass movements and general orders, and constantly studying +following the princess, whom a footman was helping into the carriage. +follows that Pierre will not be Pierre but will become Count Bezúkhov, +follows the current of his own thoughts, “things will have gone too +footing that all who knew them, including Anatole himself, respected him +footmen and cooks were getting the supper, Count Bezúkhov had a +foot to foot uncertain with which to start, then settled down, galloped +for a few seconds collected his thoughts. Then the Russian ambassador +“Forage has not been supplied to the extent...” +For a long time Pierre could not understand, but when he did, he jumped +for a mere fancy?” said Nicholas taking her hand. +for anything and I never will again, nor have I ever reminded you of my +forehead. +forehead, wetting him with her tears. Then after a pause she said: +“Forever?” said the little girl. “Till death itself?” +for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second +forgetting that she was dancing with a grown-up partner she bent her +for girls and boys.” +forgotten. Our duty, my dear, is to rectify his mistake, to ease his +for him. +for him, but again pressed on him so that they jammed his leg, and those +formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers +“For me? For me?... Trying for me!...” said she. +former position. A huge, broad-shouldered gunner, Number One, holding +“For not dilly-dallying and not hanging to a woman’s apron strings. +for Russia, for the Orthodox Greek faith! All that is beautiful, but +for some days in Moscow and was staying as usual at his father’s +for the attainment of that purpose. +for the countess.” +for the good we have done them.’ Father took her when she was homeless +for the two approaching battalions. While he was speaking, the curtain +(for they were speaking French) at least with a Russian who would, he +for three days, and not one of them knew or imagined what was in store +fortnight’s retreat, the Russian troops had halted and after a fight +“For tomorrow!” said he, quickly finding the page and making a + * “Forty thousand men massacred and the army of our allies +forward and, stooping over the dying man, beckoned to Lorrain from +forward beside Schmidt with the bullets merrily whistling all around, +forward. “Company commanders!” he shouted in a voice accustomed to +for your obstinacy,” said Kírsten. +for your sake.” +found.” +found expression in calling her maid “my dear” and speaking to her +found them to be so tiresome that it wearied him to look at or listen to +four thousand strong, to the right across the hills from the Krems-Znaim +four times—till I get what I want. I don’t mind what they think of +fragmentary sentences tried to explain about a doll which she produced +Francis received him standing in the middle of the room. Before the +frantically, had such an effect that they managed to squeeze through +freckled gunner in a merry voice, standing to attention. +freedom I could understand it and should be the first to enter the army; +French. A group of Cossack scouts retired down the hill at a trot. All +French battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the +French. But this adjutant returned half an hour later with the news that +French families. He is one of the genuine émigrés, the good ones. And +French forestall him at Znaim meant the exposure of his whole army to a +Frenchman, holding him down by the sleeve in a friendly way to prevent +French since Suvórov met them. He feared that Bonaparte’s genius +French, there would be great hope of saving the army; to let the +French though he spoke it badly, offered to conduct Prince Andrew. +French, turning to a general, “my husband is deserting me? He is going +Frenchwoman blushed and went away without a word. When he reached his +friend...” +friend.” +friend a model of perfection because Prince Andrew possessed in the +friendly words to officers he had known in the Turkish war, sometimes +friend’s hand. +friendship.” +friendship at all; I simply feel that the army is my vocation.” +friend, that I look on marriage as a divine institution to which we must +frightened here?” and the artilleryman understood him. +frigid politeness. +frock and hair. +from behind. +“From Dürrenstein to Krems.” +“From General Field Marshal Kutúzov?” he asked. “I hope it is +“From Héloïse?” asked the prince with a cold smile that showed his +from him. “He used to have a predilection for Bacchus.” +from him. “There, you see!” and he drew attention to the bullets +from Hollabrünn) received Murat’s dispatch with the proposal of a +from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used +from laughing. +from passing, “won’t this be too much for poor Uncle at a moment +from Prince Andrew to the staff officer. +from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who +from that distorted mouth issued an indistinct, hoarse sound. Anna +From the bottom of the slope, where the parleys had taken place, came +from the doctor to Pierre. To him, in a particularly respectful and +from the folds of her frock. +from the Guards just before this campaign. He behaved very well in the +from the hill. There was no one now between the squadron and the enemy +from the ranks. A morose soldier marching on the left turned his eyes on +from the Revolution leaving the people to anarchy, and Napoleon alone +from the right flank, beside which the carriage passed the company, +from the shelf the first book that came to his hand (it was Caesar’s +From the way the regimental commander saluted the commander in chief and +from various people and retelling the town gossip. +From Vienna Kutúzov wrote to his old comrade, Prince Andrew’s father. +from Vienna to Znaim was shorter and better than the road for the +from weeping and sat down beside Dr. Lorrain, who was sitting in a +“From what I have heard,” said Pierre, blushing and breaking into +“From where to where, Your Majesty?” +from which they had dashed out so impetuously, the conversation had +front and men four abreast, spread across the bridge and began to emerge +front. Pierre stood smiling but silent. One man, older than the others +fro with dignity, offered surmises about the weather, or touched on +further back till his curly hair touched his shirt collar, and the hand +gaiety with which Zherkóv spoke, and to the intentional coldness of +gaily, with a wide swing of his arm. +gained a step on his old comrades of the Cadet Corps; how in wartime +gallantry lit up his face and as soon as the last figure of the +galloped on to the village where he was told that the commander in chief +“Gave him leave? Leave? That’s just like you young men,” said the +gave his hand to the plague-stricken; but ... but there are other acts +gazed at Bolkónski silently with wide-open eyes. +genealogical tree, shook his head, laughing as a man laughs who looks at +general!” +General.” +general commotion. Some eight or nine young men were crowding anxiously +“General, I must obey orders, but I am not bound to endure...” +“General Kutúzov,” said Bolkónski, speaking French and stressing +generally, Prince Andrew had, as he had had in Petersburg society, two +generally the stronger! I know very well that Count Nicholas is too +general—of whom Austria has so many—and to lay down all this heavy +generals and statesmen of the day. The old prince seemed convinced not +General Schmidt, who was killed in the action. His horse had been +general’s three-cornered hat, and held it, pulling at the plume, +general were talking in low voices and Kutúzov smiled slightly as +general who had succeeded Schmidt. In the passage little Kozlóvski was +general who signed that capitulation had no right to do so, and that no +Genoa and Lucca laying their petitions before Monsieur Buonaparte, and +gentle look of her large luminous eyes, very beautiful at that moment, +“Gentlemen, I’ll do anything. No one shall hear a word from me,” +gentlemen, it is already time for me to go,” replied Prince Andrew +gentlemen, messieurs les maréchaux, * Murat, Lannes, and Belliard, +gentlemen of the diplomatic corps. With Prince Hippolyte Kurágin, +‘Gentlemen,’ says one of them, ‘you know the Thabor Bridge is +“Gentlemen, who wishes to bet with me? I’ll do the same thing!” +German accent, “for the reasson zat ze Emperor knows zat. He +gesture. Anna Pávlovna meditated. +“Get in,” said Kutúzov, and noticing that Bolkónski still delayed, +get ready to dance in the large hall, and the sound of the feet and the +get there and fire the bridge or will the French get within grapeshot +“Get well soon, lads!” he continued, turning to the soldiers. +giddy even on a staircase,” exclaimed several voices. +gilt frame, new to him, containing the genealogical tree of the Princes +girlish adoration that her smile could not for a single instant impose +girl, you and your sisters are not heiresses! If you don’t believe me, +gist of the matter lay in that. +“Give me a biscuit, you devil!” +give me satisfaction...” +“Give me that letter,” said Kutúzov turning to Prince Andrew. +“Give me time to collect my wits, Father,” said he, with a smile +given him by the commander in chief and his fellow officers, Prince +given to blow it up. Otherwise we should long ago have been in the +gives the singles and snatches the doubles!” +giving him a mild expression, rode up to Bagratión and welcomed him as +giving him full liberty to remain with him during the battle or to join +“Glad to do our best, your ex’len-lency!” came a confused shout +glance at all those in the room and noticing the count’s confessor +glanced askance at her husband’s face, and her own assumed the timid, +glanced up at her through tears of laughter, and again hid her face. +glancing for support at an officer of the suite who turned away +glancing up at him from under her brows, smiling, and almost crying from +glass, “or I won’t let you go!” +glass. She went on reading: +glass, smiled, and walked toward the other door. Natásha was about to +gleamed. +glittering teeth and sparkling eyes. She told of an accident they had +gloomy gravity and glancing round at his comrades, “there is an order +go. +“Go and apologize, your excellency. Yes, go!” +“God be thanked that you are in time,” said she to one of the +godfather,” she added, as if she attached no importance at all to the + * God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware! +“God has nothing to do with it! Well, go on,” he continued, +goes up to Auersperg and says: ‘Prince, you are being deceived, here +“Go in, Annette, or you will catch cold,” said the little princess, +“Going?” And he went on writing. +going to the cottage he occupied with Denísov. +going toward the door without raising his eyes. Denísov paused, thought +gold-embroidered velvet bag. Her pretty little upper lip, on which a +golden.”) He cast happy, sidelong glances at his son from under his +Golítsyn and he has refused. Be the kindhearted man you always were,” +gone out of the conservatory she followed and called Borís to her. +“Gone? That’s all right!” said he; and looking angrily at the +good and noble in you will be lost. It will all be wasted on trifles. +“Good-by.” +Good-by!” +“Good-by, my dear,” said she to the countess who saw her to the + * “Good God, what simplicity!” +“Good health...” +good horse, Bedouin, and sitting as though falling backwards in the +good luck.” +goodness, to give us as sovereign! To say nothing of my brothers, this +“Good news!... Go on!” he shouted to the driver, and they galloped +good news? There has been an encounter with Mortier? A victory? It was +good news, though Schmidt’s death is a heavy price to pay for the +“Good night, Lise,” said he, rising and courteously kissing her hand +good part. +good stories about her, while none the less all without exception +“Go on, go on!” said the major. +“Go on, you must drink it all,” said Anatole, giving Pierre the last +got back to their horses. Two were misdirected and the shot went too +go through your performance.” +“Gott, wie naiv!” * said he angrily, after he had gone a few steps. +got up and said something to the ladies. Anna Mikháylovna stepped +government officials to his table, had unexpectedly selected Michael +Grabern. On the left our troops were close to a copse, in which smoked +graceful and muscular arms and neck. By the grace of her movements, +graceful pose under a portrait of Catherine, leaning his elbow on a +grandee of Catherine’s time who now lay dying in Moscow. The young man +grandfather, wore it in all his wars.” (She still did not take out +granted. +grapeshot.” +gravity!” +gray overcoats, wounds, the smoke of gunpowder, the sounds of firing, +Great and talking eagerly. As soon as they saw Pierre and his companion +great deal. Of the two soups he chose turtle with savory patties and +greater part of the enemy’s opened out from this battery. Just facing +greater zeal than his duty as a commander. Thanks to the strictness and +great favor to ask of you.” +great haste and in the greatest disorder. The road was so obstructed +greatness of soul?” said the little princess, smiling and drawing her +great sin. How can one judge Father? But even if one might, what feeling +greediness that he wanted it, but simply from a conscientious desire for +grew weary waiting to be relieved. Prince Andrew halted to have a look +grieved him and yet he was pleased. +grieving at the misfortunes of our common cause, or we are merely +grimace. “I have long wanted to ask you, Andrew, why you have changed +groaning aloud and swinging his arm which had just been hurt, while +ground, artillery and troops in blue uniform were seen. These were the +ground, eager to rejoin its fellows, he watched his squadron draw +group of men with yellow shakos, dark-green jackets braided with cord, +group where the vicomte was still talking, and again pretended to +growing impatient, and stamped her foot, ready to cry at his not coming +growing louder and more frequent. Evidently our guns had begun to reply. +grown-up young people: Véra beside Berg, and Pierre beside Borís; and +guard. +Guards. Here is my hand on it. Are you satisfied?” +Guards with the rank of cornet. He received, however, no appointment +guess what he wanted; she pointed first to Pierre, then to some drink, +guests joined in. Everyone laughed, not at Márya Dmítrievna’s answer +guests. Natásha, who sat opposite, was looking at Borís as girls of +guests returned to the drawing room and to the count’s study. +guests were all conversing with one another. “The Razumóvskis... It +guests were and exchanging glances with Natásha, who was sitting +gun carriage. A Cossack who accompanied him had handed him a knapsack +gut Morgen!” * he said winking with a merry smile, evidently pleased +habitual, offering his puffy cheek, but Bagratión kissed him on the +habitual to him. His face took on the stupid artificial smile (which +had always imagined battles to himself), nor could he help to fire the +had any news. On their familiar faces he read agitation and alarm. +had apparently been running), “and I did so wish to have another talk +had become more intimate when Prince Andrew was in Vienna with Kutúzov. +had been playing cards with the majority of the more distinguished and +had been put in position?” +had been repulsed, employing this military term to describe what had +had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook Prince +had been spilled on the carpet. They were met by a deacon with a censer +had been struck on the teeth, or what the ham had to do with it. +had changed greatly during that period. In the expression of his face, +had come from the left flank where their regiment was stationed, with +had conquered, settled down in an armchair, inviting Prince Vasíli to +had done in Petersburg at Anna Schérer’s reception. +had endured to gain her end. +had evidently been drinking. +had fallen the previous day—the day of the battle. Reviewing his +had foreseen. Prince Andrew, out of breath with his rapid ride, spoke +had had in Anna Pávlovna’s drawing room. Pierre removed his feet from +had happened during that half-hour to the troops entrusted to him, and +had left her kindly and tear-worn face and it now expressed only anxiety +had not exasperated the vicomte, and had convinced herself that it was +had not finished saying what was necessary, thudded into the ground near +had no time. He was afraid of falling behind the hussars, so much afraid +had not only held the field but had repulsed the French. Though the +had not worn for a long time, he went into Bilíbin’s study fresh, +had not yet come home when Rostóv rode back early in the morning from +had not yet entered either the military or civil service, as he had only +“Hadn’t I better ride over, your excellency?” asked Nesvítski. +had only met once before for a short time at his wedding, were in +had on the Spásski Hill which might have been serious for her in her +had perished by his own magnanimity, and that there were particular +had persisted in his request to Kutúzov, arrived at Grunth and reported +had played a little air with variations on the harp, she joined the +had produced a good epigram, a fresh one that would be repeated. His +had reached Braunau at the same time, was in splendid condition. There +had stopped beside the dead men, ran to catch up his line and, falling +had the air of a man happily performing one of the most solemn duties of +had the air of one who has suddenly lost faith in the whole human race. +had uttered them. +Ha, ha, ha! Mary!” +hair above his broad forehead which reminded one of a lion, and the deep +half-closed eyes gave still more persuasiveness to his words. The staff +Halfway through supper Prince Andrew leaned his elbows on the table and, +half whisper, “everyone knows Count Cyril’s reputation.... He has +hand and said, “Come.” Pierre went with her to the bed on which the +hand. And there,” he pointed to a sutler’s tent, “they crowd in +hand he drew Bagratión toward him, and with his right, on which he wore +hand. “How did you get here?” said he, turning to Zherkóv. +handkerchief and rushed from the room. +handkerchiefs to their eyes, and just in front of them their eldest +handleless cup before a table on which tea and a cold supper were laid +hands. +hands....” +hands.” +hand she went up to her husband and kissed him on the forehead. +hands. “Just fancy, he didn’t let me win a single cahd, not one +hands, looked attentively into Prince Vasíli’s eyes evidently +handsome and a terrible scapegrace. That is all I have been able to find +handsome young officer entering his room. Pierre paused. He had left +hands were symmetrically placed on the green silk quilt, the palms +hand that was free, and turning sideways felt the pulse and reflected +hand them to the Emperor after my death. Now here is a Lombard bond +hand to her heart, with a beatific smile and obviously equally ready to +hand, was clearing manure from the cowhouse, looked out, and his face +hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her +hanging his head, meekly followed her. +happened to touch. Mademoiselle Bourienne stood near them pressing her +happy smile, ambling lightly up to the count’s niece. “I have come, +harder from behind. +hardly able to restrain her tears and maintain the artificial smile +Hardly had Borís gone than Sónya, flushed, in tears, and muttering +“Has anything happened?” she asked. “I am so terrified.” +has beaten the Germans. They beat no one—except one another. He made +“Has he taken his medicine?” +has married his first cousin. And we are only second cousins, you know. +“Hasn’t been in since the evening. Must have been losing,” +has picked up an ax: “We are used to it, but you, sir, will blister +“Has Prince Vasíli aged much?” asked the countess. “I have not +has received a letter and is expecting a visit from Prince Vasíli. In +has retained in full force.” +has so many relatives in Moscow! So you are Borís? Of course. Well, now +has to be cunning and cruel.” +have always, thank God, been my children’s friend and had their full +have a room of your own,” and she took the inkstand from Nicholas. +have done for us.” +have done your best to increase his mental sufferings.” +have frightened you—sit down and tell me all the news.” +have gone through,” and she sympathetically turned up her eyes. +have heard the sobs. It seems as though mankind has forgotten the +have it, young man, I’m going.” +have looked at it. Take it. Well, now go. Go.” +have, my dear! I tasted it. The thousand rubles I paid for Tarás were +have nothing to complain of.” +have of hope and strength merely weighs you down and torments you with +have received very little, Prince Vasíli nothing, and it is Monsieur +have something to eat.” +have something to tell you. Here, here!” and she led him into the +have to call in the French, so that birds of a feather may fight +have two footmen behind her carriage, and very big ones. That was her +“Have you a complaint to make?” Kutúzov asked with a slight frown. +“Have you never thought of marrying your prodigal son Anatole?” she +“Have you told them to bring the horse?” asked Telyánin, getting up +Having cleared the way Denísov stopped at the end of the bridge. +having given them to the rosy Natásha, who beamed with the pleasure +Having glanced through the dispatch he laid it on the table and looked +Having jerked out these last words as soldiers do and waved his arms +having lost a single man. The second squadron that had been in the front +Having read thus far, Princess Mary sighed and glanced into the mirror +having ridden ahead, had pulled up his horse near the bridge, with a +Having ridden beyond the village, continually meeting and overtaking +Having ridden round the whole line from right flank to left, Prince +Having said this she went up to the doctor. +having something to eat. They hastily turned round to him asking if he +having stuck an amber mouthpiece far into his mouth, was inhaling the +Having thanked Anna Pávlovna for her charming soiree, the guests began +having turned with words of comfort to her companion, realized that +head. +head and an army of fifteen thousand men has been ordered to blow up +head and lips indicating very little hope for the patient. +head, but the instant he turned to Prince Andrew the firm, intelligent +he added as if speaking to himself. +he added: “I need good officers myself, need them myself!” +headlong to the horse. “Walk him up and down, my dear fellow,” he +head sadly, pointing them out to the Austrian general with an expression +health?” +“Health and happiness to her whose name day we are keeping and to her +“Health to your ex... len... len... lency!” and again all became +“He always was rather harsh; and now I should think he’s getting +heard, and much farther to the right beyond the dragoons, the officer of +heard on every side. +heard respectfully congratulating the dying man on having received the +heard that the war was being discussed had turned from his partner with +hearing how ill he is.” +hearing that they wished to see the count, said his excellency was worse +heart. “It has begun! Here it is, dreadful but enjoyable!” was what +heartrending scene.... It was a convoy of conscripts enrolled from our +heart! You are a Madame de Genlis and nothing more” (this nickname, +he, as if bragging of having been frightened. +He asked, “Whose company?” but he really meant, “Are you +“Heaven only knows, my dear! These rich grandees are so selfish. +“Heaven only knows what the people here may imagine,” muttered +“Heavens! what a virulent attack!” replied the prince, not in the +heavy convoys (whose movements were concealed from the French) advance +He bowed his head and scraped first with one foot and then with the +He called the Cossack with his horse, told him to put away the knapsack +he caught a momentary glimpse between their heads and backs of the dying +He cautiously released the shoulder she leaned on, looked into her face, +“He chose his friends badly,” interposed Anna Mikháylovna. +He closed his eyes, and immediately a sound of cannonading, of musketry +he commanded was in an almost hopeless position. The spy reported that +“He could not do that. The people only gave him power that he might +He could not finish, and ran out of the room. +he could not stop short for the sake of one man’s life.” +He did not finish his sentence, but his tone showed how highly he +He did not finish. Just then there was a whistle in the air; nearer and +“He did not shut me up, he said I was telling an untruth.” +he disarmed his hearers. +he dressed for dinner. The old prince always dressed in old-fashioned +He drew up his chair, and continued to explain. +He embraced her. She screamed and fell unconscious on his shoulder. +he feels sure he will distinguish himself. He was glancing at everyone +He glanced at his cousin and the young lady visitor; and they were both +he glanced round at her. She gave him a passionately angry glance, and +he had already promised Prince Anatole to come to his gathering; +“He had another stroke about half an hour ago. Courage, my +he had been beside the gun, he had heard the voices of the officers +he had but recently left their regiment, rode up to the colonel. +He had just remembered his recent encounter with the doctor’s wife and +he had met that evening. +He had not finished the last verse before the young people began to +he had ready in his mind, of all he knew and had seen. But the Emperor +he had the Hofs-kriegs-wurst-schnapps-Rath on his hands. It would have +“He has made wills enough!” quietly remarked the princess. “But he +“He has weported himself sick, he’s to be stwuck off the list +height on which the Kiev regiment was stationed, in the hollow where the +height without the smallest effort, his ease contrasting with the heavy +he immediately dispatched Adjutant General Wintzingerode, who was in +He indicated a place beside him to his daughter-in-law. A footman moved +“He is a great tactician!” said the prince to his son, pointing to +He is an aide-de-camp of Kutúzov’s and will be here tonight.” +he is better acquainted than anyone else, does not listen to others but +he is Bóry’s godfather—and allow him something for his maintenance, +“He is dozing,” said Anna Mikháylovna, observing that one of the +“He is just the same as ever,” replied Anna Mikháylovna, +“He is leaving me here, God knows why, when he might have had +“He is no more....” +he is so frank and has so much heart. He is so pure and poetic that +he is Uncle’s aide-de-camp, a most brilliant position. He is so +“He is very much altered now,” said Anna Mikháylovna. “Well, as +he kept nodding to show that he understood, Anatole went on translating +He laughed in his usual dry, cold, unpleasant way, with his lips only +held out his cheek. +He leaned his elbows on the table with his pen in his hand and, +“He lets one win the singles and collahs it as soon as one doubles it; +He looked straight at Prince Andrew and suddenly unwrinkled his +He looked with disdain at the endless confused mass of detachments, +helplessly and he made a fruitless effort to pull it forward. Whether he +he met Nesvítski, with whom he shared a room, and the wag Zherkóv; +he must retreat as quickly as possible behind the hollow in the rear, +he never could appreciate it. No, mon cousin,” she added with a sigh, +he noticed everything...” +he only gave an order to cease firing and re-form, so as to give room + he ought to be firing at the enemy. +He patted her on the shoulder and himself closed the door after her. +He pointed to the French guns, the limbers of which were being detached +He pointed with a smile to a turreted nunnery, and his eyes narrowed and +He pulled off the quilt and shook it. The purse was not there. +He put on the air of one who finds it impossible to reply to such +her. +her. +he raised both arms as if carefully lifting some invisible but precious +her badge as maid of honor. The youthful little Princess Bolkónskaya, +Her brother shook his head incredulously. +here? Don’t you see the skirmishers are retreating? Lead the squadron +Here!” exclaimed different voices; and the heavy breathing of the +“Here, in that house,” answered the adjutant. +here, is he not? Please announce me.” +here is one from His Highness the Archduke Ferdinand and here are +“Here is our dear Orthodox Russian army,” thought Bolkónski, +“Here is some sort of Key to the Mysteries that your Héloïse has +(He remembered that in French there is some peculiar way of addressing a +he repeated, accentuating the u: “I think, however, now that he lays +Here Prince Hippolyte paused, evidently collecting his ideas with +Here Prince Hippolyte spluttered and burst out laughing long before his +here’s another admirer of that powder-monkey emperor of yours,” he +“Here’s something for you to report,” said Zherkóv. “See if I +Here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an +here. Where is it?” he asked, turning to Lavrúshka. +her eyes, and then quickly went to his place and sat down. “Sit down, +Her face became sad. +Her face suddenly flushed with reckless and joyous resolution. She half +“Her father is very rich and stingy. He lives in the country. He is +her father was tidy. She put down the geometry book and eagerly broke +her foot—which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual +her forehead. His fine eyes lit up with a thoughtful, kindly, and +her friend, the princess’ eyes—large, deep and luminous (it seemed +her guests, first the vicomte and then the abbé, as peculiarly choice +her handsome eldest daughter were in the drawing room with the visitors +her head and continued in a whisper: “Has he performed his final duty, +her head toward the darkness of the open doorway. +Her husband looked at her as if surprised to notice that someone besides +Her lip descended. She brought her face close to her sister-in-law’s +her long hair came down....” Here he could contain himself no +her mother and burst into such a loud, ringing fit of laughter that even +her neck. +heroism!” +hero less on earth.” +her over his spectacles. +her own on the subject. +her path. +her plainly as she is, or else you will make a cruel and irrevocable +“Herself,” came the answer in a rough voice, and Márya Dmítrievna +herself disinterestedly at the head of an alliance having for its object +herself in here for? But I will give her a piece of my mind. The time +herself should she glance round. Anna Mikháylovna, with a meek, +herself wish to die, that his end was not only touching but edifying. As +Her sister dropped the portfolio. Anna Mikháylovna, stooping, quickly +her sister-in-law’s room. Prince Andrew in a traveling coat without +her sleeves and puffing heavily. +her temples. Princess Mary, supporting her sister-in-law, still looked +her tenderly and attentively, said severely: +her thin lips grew white, though her eyes did not change, and her voice +Her tone was now querulous and her lip drawn up, giving her not a +her up, hugged her, and, smiling through her tears, began comforting +her. Why do you say all this to me?” +her with a grimace that distorted his handsome face, kissed Anna +her work as if to testify that the interest and fascination of the story +her. “You know, Catiche, that we—you three sisters, Mámontov, and +he sad at leaving his wife?—perhaps both, but evidently he did not +he said. +He said no more, but expressed his resignation to cruel fate by a +“He’s a low fellow, say what you will,” remarked Prince Hippolyte. +He sat down beside Hippolyte and wrinkling his forehead began talking +He sat down by his wife, his elbows on his knees and his hands ruffling +he sat under fire. But despite himself, on his face too that same +He scattered the burning tobacco, smashed the pipe, and threw it away. +“He’s coming!” shouted the signaler at that moment. +He seemed to swell with satisfaction. He had hardly finished speaking +He seized his son by the hand with small bony fingers, shook it, looked +He sent for Pierre and said to him: “My dear fellow, if you are going +“He shouldn’t have taken so many men,” said the officer of the +He shrugged his shoulders. A footman conducted Borís down one flight of +He shrugged his shoulders and spread out his hands. Pierre wished to +He sighed. +He signed with a flourish and suddenly turning to his son began to +He spoke so rapidly that he did not finish half his words, but his son +He spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure +He stretched out his hand to take hold of the purse. Rostóv let go of +He suddenly blushed crimson, and it was plain that he had made a great +he suddenly cried. “Even without a bet, there! Tell them to bring me a +he talked to Pierre), the old man was sitting on a large leather-covered +he (though Pierre had not mentioned Bonaparte), “but Bonaparte when +He threw the bottle to the Englishman, who caught it neatly. Dólokhov +he told her she was still the same crybaby as ever. Princess Mary had +He took the dispatch which was addressed to him and began to read it +He took the lighted pipe that was offered to him, gripped it in his +he turned away. +He turned round. Nesvítski’s handsome face looked out of the little +He turned to Kozlóvski with urgent questions. +he understood his commander’s wish. +He vouchsafe its revelation to us through His divine Spirit. +He waited a moment to see whether the cornet would answer, but he turned +“He wants to see a battle,” said Zherkóv to Bolkónski, pointing +he was afraid of finding in her a rival for Count Bezúkhov’s fortune, +he was asleep in his corner and woke him up. Rousing himself, Pierre +he was touched, but also a gleam of irony on his face. +He went on talking in this way in French, uttering only those words in +“He will get up in twenty minutes. Let us go across to Mary’s +He woke up... +he wore the air of a man little concerned in what the two ladies were +he worked went step by step toward his goal. He was free, he had nothing +he would give an opinion at the war council which would be the only one +he would have to march with no road into unknown parts of the Bohemian +“Hey, Cossack, my horse!” he said. “Now, then, you there! get out +hid her face still deeper in the bed. Natásha wept, sitting on the +high, but the last round fell in the midst of a group of hussars and +highest degree just the very qualities Pierre lacked, and which might +highest point. “It’s in charge of the queer fellow we saw without +highest spheres. +“Highly satisfied, your excellency!” +high time!” +hill. +hill one after the other. Their colonel, Karl Bogdánich Schubert, came +hill opposite, with the French moving about on it, opened out before +him!” +him. +him. +him.” +him and everything he could say had long been known to him, that he was +him and, with a Christian mildness that expressed forgiveness of his +him and would not have others do so.” +him as a man, but what can one do?” +him a taper. He lit it and, distracted by observing those around him, +him be here....” +him, Bonaparte had made in his campaigns and even in politics. His +him but to the whole regiment—all of us—you’re to blame all round. +him by the arm, “I believe that intervention will be stronger than +him die feeling that he is rendering unhappy those who...” +him everyone began to stir: steps were audible and whispers, among which +him except the young princesses.... They are still young....” She bent +him, from his daughter to his serfs, the prince was sharp and invariably +him, from his weary, bored expression to his quiet, measured step, +him, handing him different articles of clothing. “What of Sweden? How +him, he’s a scoundrel. Go on! Go on!” +him. He stroked her hair and then patted her awkwardly on the back of +him. “More, please: more! What’s he saying?” +him not in the least abashed. +him... Olga, go and see whether Uncle’s beef tea is ready—it is +him or her to a little old lady, wearing large bows of ribbon in her +him. “Remember this, Prince Andrew, if they kill you it will hurt me, +himself, but only desires the good of mankind. And what have they +himself fall into a trap Moreau set him, and from which he did not know +himself into a chair, gazing at those in the room as if asking, “Why +himself on a sofa with his face to the wall. Pierre hid his face, from +himself on his seat. +himself, Prince Bagratión sent Zherkóv to tell the general in command +himself to Bagratión. Bonaparte’s adjutant had not yet reached +himself undertook his daughter’s education, and to develop these two +himself up, slightly arching his back. It was plain that the commander +himself up to such an extent that it seemed he could not have sustained +him. That’s a thing I hate! Everything is possible.” +him that there would probably be an engagement that day or the next, and +him, though, between you and me, he always seemed to me a poor sort +him to come up; Prince Bagratión reined in his horse and recognizing +him to despatch part of the army abroad and to create a new condition +him to go back as it was too dangerous to remain where they were. +him. “What is this? They’re like sheep! Just like sheep! Out of the +Hippolyte, and began looking through a lorgnette at his elevated legs. +Hippolyte burst out laughing. +Hippolyte gazing round with importance at the others, “without +Hippolyte in the carriage, “your little princess is very nice, very +Hippolyte is at least a quiet fool, but Anatole is an active one. That +Hippolyte “—so dull—. It has been a delightful evening, has it +Hippolyte spluttered again, and amid his laughter said, “And you were +his arm. +his arm, began a long-drawn-out soldiers’ song, commencing with the +his boots. You can see everything from there; let’s go there, +his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that +his captain. +his career. Moreover, he could see by her manners that she was one of +“His children are all illegitimate. I think Pierre also is +his companion. The latter, a fresh, rosy officer of the Guards, +His daughter, Princess Hélène, passed between the chairs, lightly +his door, which creaked slightly when opened. +his excitement. “Don’t you understand that either we are officers +his eyes and thought he would never open them again. Suddenly he was +his eyes seemed larger than usual when he glanced round and noticed +his face, began to talk—as one who has long had something on his mind +His face suddenly softened and tears came into his eyes. With his left +his father dismissed the abbé and said to the young man, “Now go +his father’s part of the house. Entering the drawing room, where the +his father who had brought it from the siege of Ochákov. All these +his fieldglass. A little behind them Nesvítski, who had been sent to +his glittering black eyes at Rostóv. +his grave, even rather gloomy, look was instantaneously replaced by +his gray hair. +his hand over the thin grizzled strands of hair combed back across his +his hand Prince Andrew came up to his comrade, the aide-de-camp on duty, +his handsome face. Natásha, very still, peered out from her ambush, +his head. +His Highness the Archduke Ferdinand has honored me, I imagine that the +his horse keep pace with the company. +his horse with a convoy officer’s saddle. +his horse. Zherkóv and the staff officer bent over their saddles and +his imaginary sword, but smiling at the remembrance of that pleasant, +his impulsive nature, does get into mischief (a boy can’t help it), he +his instinct urged him on. Before the officer finished his sentence +his in the diplomatic service. +his kindly, simple, and modest expression. Anna Pávlovna turned toward +his legs. Pressing against both sides of the window, he adjusted himself +his life. He walked about in front of the line and at every step pulled +His Majesty; but we think the present delay is depriving the splendid +His Majesty the Emperor derogates from the principle of our alliance... +his mind that they would be friends. +his mouth awry, prepared to shout. The regiment fluttered like a bird +his mouth very clearly revealed something unexpectedly coarse and +his muscular legs as if sailing along, stretching himself to his full +his musket walked away. +his neighbors’ glasses, not neglecting his own. The countess in turn, +his noble soul peacefully to leave this...” +his nose. +his own helplessness. At sight of this smile Pierre felt an unexpected +his own house. The Minister of War came up and congratulated him on the +his plate round and moving his wineglasses about with as much decision +his pocketbook. +his portrait, “definitely demanded that he should be called.” +his private room and, calling his adjutant, asked for some papers +his reputation fighting them.” +his riding whip. +his rising. “This unfortunate fete at the ambassador’s deprives me +his room. +his rooms upstairs. +his routine, retired as usual after dinner. The little princess was in +his scanty gray hairs over his bald patch, also asked them to dinner. +his shoulders. +his shoulders. “Women, my dear fellow; women!” +his skill?” he concluded. +His son only smiled. +his study and showed them his choice collection of Turkish pipes. From +his suite, with their Cossacks who were talking loudly together, Prince +his temple, where an Ismail bullet had pierced his skull, and the empty +His thin, worn, sallow face was covered with deep wrinkles, which always +historical accounts of battles, involuntarily pictured to himself the +his utmost to look as small as possible. He looked at the count, who +his weak figure. “Number Two!” he squeaked. “Fire, Medvédev!” +his wont, as if intentionally contrasting the briskness of his manners +his youngest boy, had all settled down in the drawing room and were +hitherto puckered brow became smooth as a sign of pleasure, and with a +hitting men and that afterwards someone had shouted “Cavalry!” and +“Hm... Hm...” muttered the old prince to himself, finishing what he +“Hm.... If you wish to kill him, to kill him outright, you can see +“Ho! ho! ho! Ha! ha! ha! ha! Ouh! ouh!” came peals of such healthy +“Ho, ho!” said the old man, casting his eyes on her rounded figure. +holding high her fifty-year-old head with its gray curls, she stood +holding the bottle was lifted higher and higher and trembled with the +holding up his saber, his spurs jingling, he ran up the steps of the +holding up the folds of her dress, and the smile shone still more +hollow and were firing at our men. Prince Bagratión bowed his head as a +hommes massacrés et l’armée de nos alliés détruite, et vous +honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in +hoofs, and apparently ready to jump over the railings had his rider let +“H-o-o-w are you standing? Where’s your leg? Your leg?” shouted +hope you will change your opinions, my dear Monsieur Pierre.” +horror and fear. All were still. Pierre took his hands from his eyes. +horror-struck. But when she saw that Pierre’s sacrilegious words + * Hors d’oeuvres. +horse for which he had paid seven hundred rubbles was not worth half +horse, rode up to the porch, swung his leg over the saddle with a supple +horses near the window, Prince Andrew felt that something important and +horse still struggled. +horse—that I’ll warrant,” said Shinshín, patting him on the +horse you’ll thank me for.” +hospitals could no longer accommodate all the sick and wounded, yet the +hostess look toward the door, and now and then glance at one another, +Hostilities are ended, we can shake one another’s hand.... The +hour alone with the dying man, passed out, slightly acknowledging their +hour. Suddenly the broad muscles and lines of the count’s face began +house and now managed all his affairs, stepped softly into the room. +house for your wife is ready. Princess Mary will take her there and +household. And there in fact was Sónya lying face downward on Nurse’s +house. Though he expected that the story of his escapade would be +house was brilliant with lights shining through its lofty windows. The +house with Prince Bagratión and Weyrother. Weyrother was the Austrian +house, you know, and danced with the children. Be sure to invite him, my +“How about my son Borís, Prince?” said she, hurrying after him into +“How am I?” Dólokhov answered coldly. “I am as you see.” +How bright and glorious was the setting sun! With what soft glitter the +“How can he talk like that?” thought Pierre. He considered his +“How do you do, cousin?” said Pierre. “You don’t recognize +“How do you do, my dear? I wish you many happy returns of your name +“How do you expect him to answer you all at once?” said Prince +how do you judge of it?” he added, addressing Nicholas, who when he +however, for he will leave us again to take part in this unhappy war +“However, there will hardly be an engagement today,” said Bagratión +“How funny you are!” he said, bending down to her and blushing still +“How handsome the old man still was only a year ago!” remarked the +“How is it,” she began, as usual in French, settling down briskly +“How is the count? Can I see him?” asked Pierre, awkwardly as usual, +“How lovely!” said everyone who saw her; and the vicomte lifted his +“How many miles?” +how much anxiety one has had to go through that we might rejoice in +“How often have I asked you not to take my things?” she said. “You +“How plainly all these young people wear their hearts on their +“How’s it you’re not drunk today?” said Nesvítski when the +“How’s this, Colonel?” he shouted as he approached. “I told you +How stupid you men all are not to have married her! Excuse me for saying + How sweet, as fancies wander free, +“How thoroughly like him that is!” he said to Princess Mary, who had +how to arrange it. What do you think?” +how to escape?” +how we went to the Sparrow Hills with Madame Jacquot?... It’s such an +How you look at things! Send two men? And who then would give us the +humiliation of arrogant Austria and that in a week’s time he might, +hum with voices. On all sides soldiers were running to and fro, throwing +Hungarian?” said the commander with an austere gibe. +hungry, exhausted men would have to detain for days the whole enemy army +hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers + Hurrah for Emperor Alexander!” +hurriedly unclasped his hands, stopped at a table as if tying the +hurriedly up to the unknown general and blocking his way to the door. +hurried off to his company, buttoning up his coat as he ran. +hurrying past them. +husband. +husband. Prince Andrew’s eyes were closed, so weary and sleepy did he +hussar and began lifting him. +hussar, “and why are you exciting yourself? Do you think the French +Hussar cornet Zherkóv had at one time, in Petersburg, belonged to +hussars began carefully aligning their horses. Silence fell on the whole +hussars, but still with that naïve air that made it impossible to know +hussars, Cossacks, and adjutants, in his camlet coat, as he jolted on +hussars hastily dismounted, not knowing what they were to do. The men +“I...” +“I also wanted to ask you,” continued Prince Andrew, “if I’m +I always stick to mother truth. It’s not right!” +I am afraid of him.” +“I am afraid of mixing the figures,” Pierre replied; “but if you +“I am awaiting orders to join my new regiment, your excellency,” +I am dissatisfied with your younger son? Between ourselves” (and her +“I am expecting you, Pierre,” said the same voice, but gently and +“I am fond of you, especially as you are the one live man among our +“I am glad I have spoken out fully. Perhaps you did not like it? You +“I am glad I was able to do you a service, my dear Anna +“I am going away.” +“I am living at Countess Rostóva’s,” replied Borís, again +“I am not jesting,” Bilíbin went on. “Nothing is truer or sadder. +“I am not jesting with you; please be silent!” cried Bolkónski, +“I am not speaking of regicide, I am speaking about ideas.” +“I am not your ‘dear sir,’ Mr. Staff Officer, and you did not tell +“I am ordered to write a memorandum explaining why we are not +“I am quite of your opinion,” replied Nicholas, flaming up, turning +“I am so enchanted by the brilliancy of the wit and culture of the +I am sorry for that,” he went on. +“I am so sorry for the poor count,” said the visitor. “He is in +“I am speaking sincerely as a friend! Consider! Where and why are +“I am speaking ze truce,” replied the hussar with a smile. +I am to do; I wanted to consult you seriously.” +I am told.” +“I am very glad I did not go to the ambassador’s,” said Prince +“I am very sorry, ma’am,” answered the maid. +“I am very, very grateful to you, mon cher,” or “ma chère”—he +“I am your faithful slave and to you alone I can confess that my +“I bet a hundred on Stevens!” shouted one. +“I bet fifty imperials”—he spoke French that the Englishman might +“I bet on Dólokhov!” cried a third. “Kurágin, you part our +I cannot agree with you about Pierre, whom I knew as a child. He always +“I cannot argue about it,” replied Prince Andrew coldly, but he +I cannot find words to express to you my displeasure. You command only +“I cannot inform Your Majesty at what o’clock the battle began at +I can’t...” +“I can’t bear the sight of that woman.” +“I can tell you more,” continued Prince Vasíli, seizing her hand, +“I can’t help it,” said the prince. “Lavater would have said I +“I can’t. I’ve sworn not to. I won’t drink and won’t play till +“I can’t make out at all,” said Nesvítski. +I can’t,” replied Bolkónski, smiling. +“Ice pudding, but you won’t get any,” said Márya Dmítrievna. +“I come from the archduchess’. I heard nothing there.” +“I confess I do not understand: perhaps there are diplomatic +I confess I understand very little about all these matters of wills and +I consider it my duty to let you know of it. He is said to be very +I could not have done it myself, I should not have had the courage, but +“I did not expect this of you,” said the staff captain seriously and +“I did not... What is it all about?” inquired Prince Andrew +idiot!... But what’s the good?...” and he waved his arm. +idlers have failed to beat the Germans. Since the world began everybody +“I’d like to put you on a two days’ march with a knapsack! Your +“I do not think I have complained of my wife to you, Másha, or blamed +“I don’t at all say that all the plans are good,” said Prince +“I don’t even know what is in this paper,” said the younger of +“I don’t know, General....” +“I don’t like your Mademoiselle Bourienne at all,” said Prince +“I don’t like you to talk like that.” +“I don’t myself know ‘to who,’” replied the cornet in a +“I don’t say it’s a plan I approve of,” said the son; “I am +I don’t speak of Anatole, your youngest. I don’t like him,” she +“I don’t understand it,” replied Prince Andrew. “Women who are +“I don’t understand, Mamma—what is his attitude to Pierre?” +“I don’t understand!” said Prince Andrew. +“I don’t understand. What’s it all about?” +I don’t want to have you like our silly ladies. Get used to it and +if all the powers of his soul were concentrated on passing the commander +“If anyone comes meddling again,” said he, emitting the words +If a soldier, he should be dressed in regulation uniform like the +“If at least we had some women here; but there’s nothing foh one +“If Buonaparte remains on the throne of France a year longer,” the +if but one stage nearer Znaim. The offer of a truce gave the only, and +“If he” (he meant the enemy) “begins popping at the bridge now,” +if he intended to say something, but immediately, with affected +“If he is better, ask Pierre to dine with us. He has been to the +“If he is one of the ordinary little staff dandies sent to earn a +If, however, the Emperor of Russia ratifies that convention, I will +if in search of something. On his way to the aunt he bowed to the little +“If it does not weigh a hundredweight and won’t break my neck... +if it is to last. Prince Vasíli knew this, and having once realized +“If it were not for my sincere affection and devotion to Uncle,” +“If it were true that he has been beaten, news would have come.” +“If I were Tsar I would never go to war,” said Nesvítski, turning +“If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no +If not it is merely a question of settling where the preliminaries of +“If only I knew that anything besides humiliation would come of +if the whole world had gone crazy.” +“If they had known that you wished it, the entertainment would have +if to say that this was no more than she had expected. +“If we get to Vienna I’ll get rid of it there but in these wretched +“If we live we shall see,” replied Bilíbin, his face again becoming +“If you had told me sooner, Mamma, I would have gone,” she replied +“If you have nothing better to do, Count (or Prince), and if the +“If you, sir, choose to make a buffoon of yourself,” he said +if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that +I get reinstated.” +“I have.” +“I have already told you, Papa,” said his son, “that if you +“I have come with my mother to see the count, but it seems he is not +“I have four sons in the army but still I don’t fret. It is all +I have had a letter from my brother, who announces his speedy arrival +“I haven’t been in the room. It must be where you put it.” +“I have said nothing to you, but you have already been talked to. And +“I have seen as much before now, mate!” +“I have the honor to congratulate you. General Mack has arrived, quite +“I have the honor to present myself,” repeated Prince Andrew rather +I have written that he should make use of you in proper places and not +“I hear you have given orders to harness,” she cried, panting (she +“I hope this will prove the last drop that will make the glass run +“I knew someone who received that sacrament seven times.” +“I knew the princess at once,” put in Mademoiselle Bourienne. +“I knew you would be here,” replied Pierre. “I will come to supper +“I know, I know,” answered Prince Vasíli in his monotonous voice. +“I know,” interrupted Bilíbin, “you’re thinking it’s very +“I know it and shall prove it,” said Rostóv. +“I know, my dear, kind princess,” said Anna Mikháylovna, seizing +“I know that no one can help if nature does not do her work,” said +“I know the will was made, but I also know that it is invalid; +“I know who has taken it,” repeated Rostóv in an unsteady voice, +“I know your heart,” repeated the prince. “I value your friendship +“I’ll drink it! Let’s have a bottle of rum!” shouted Pierre, +illegitimate.” +I’ll find you another place.” +“I’ll flatten you into a pancake!” shouted the angry officer to +I’ll flog you all.” +ill! I was only there a few moments and hardly said a word...” +“I’ll let two more letters pass, but the third I’ll read,” said +ill luck takes us. They say we are going to Olmütz, and Olmütz is a +“Illness or not, he’d better not cwoss my path. I’d kill him!” +illness. Prince Vasíli said something to Lorrain in passing and went +“I’ll really call in on the nuns,” he said to the officers who +“I’ll show you, I’ll show you! It’s not a secret. And it’s a +ill-suited to the family circle of which Pierre was almost a member. +imagined only important possibilities: “If the enemy attacks the right +imagine that their children have no secrets from them. “I know I shall +“I’m glad,” answered Dólokhov briefly and clearly, as the song +“I’m glad, glad, to see you,” he said, looking attentively into +immediately.” +immediately brightened on seeing Rostóv. “Schön gut Morgen! Schön +immediately broke off. The door of the private room opened and Kutúzov +“Immediately, Prince,” said Kozlóvski. “Dispositions for +immense force upon Kutúzov’s line of communication with the troops +immobile for a few moments. Then wrinkles ran over his face like a wave +“I’m not to blame that the conversation began in the presence of +impassive face of Oriental type, came out after the commander in chief. +impassive face?” Prince Andrew asked himself as he looked. Prince +impatience, while the princess jumped up and with a gesture of +impatiently. +impatiently, “I came here not to wrangle with you, but to talk about +imperials ... or do you wish to make it a hundred?” added he, +importance of the rite now being performed and even approved of it. He +important post in Vienna. Both the foreign minister and our ambassador +important. What is important are the rights of man, emancipation from +impossible...” +“Impossible!” cried Prince Andrew. “That would be too base.” +impossible not to notice his face. Dólokhov was a man of small means +impossible to stop him, she rallied her forces and joined the vicomte in +impression. “But that is a matter of perfect indifference to me,” he +impression his news of a victory would create, or recalling the send-off +impressions of the recent battle, picturing pleasantly to himself the +impressively, blocking the way to the bedroom and preventing the other +improvement. His satire has been less bitter of late, and there was a +“I’m quite worn out by these callers. However, I’ll see her and +“I must have that purse, I tell you,” shouted Denísov, shaking his +I myself have experienced ... and so ... because ... No, excuse me! +inability to enter a room and converse in it was, however, redeemed by +in accord with his intentions. Prince Andrew noticed, however, that +inactive and has left the university to join the army. I will confess to +inactive, would also soon have to meet the enemy. +in amazement. +“In a minute, in a minute,” he said, dipping his pen. +“In a moment. À propos,” she added, becoming calm again, “I am +In a moment the men came running gaily from their campfires and began +“In an hour’s time, I should say.” +inappropriate, she was unable to stop him. +in a tone only used by persons who are certain that those they call will +in attaching himself as an orderly officer to Prince Bagratión. He now +inaudible, voice. +“In a word, a hearty one...” said the subaltern, laughing (the +in Bonaparte’s address to his army at the beginning of the campaign, +In Brünn everybody attached to the court was packing up, and the heavy +incessantly, repeating Petersburg reminiscences and even phrases. Prince +in chief, and from the noisy laughter of the Cossacks holding the +in chief would be. Though the aide-de-camp did not know these +in clean notes, was lying ready under a handkerchief on the countess’ +indication of something new and stern showed round the mouth. +indifference, began to hum to himself, producing a queer sound which +indifferent hands of the Minister of War and the polite adjutant. The +indifferently to his wife’s chatter with Prince Hippolyte who had also +indiscretion, nodded and said: “I hope to see you again, but I also +indistinct words, shrugging his shoulders and gesticulating. +“I never could understand how Nataly made up her mind to marry that +inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. But you are +in exactly the same manner. Nesvítski laughed and nudged the others to +infamous, vile woman!” +inflammable material on the bridge must be reinspected.” +Influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized +informed him of a victory and stated strategically the position of the +“Inform the prince that I the bridge fired!” said the colonel +in French out of all this, showing all the news we have had of the +In front of them rows of gray cloaks were already visible through the +“In general we must turn this bloodthirsty soldier to more humane +in geometry were among the greatest delights of her life. +in God’s hands. You may die in your bed or God may spare you in a +ingratiating and appealing smile, and took his hand that he might not go +inhabitants on whom they were quartered. Braunau was the headquarters of +In half an hour all was again in order, only the squares had become gray +inheritance; but I do know that since this young man, whom we all used +in his horse, said to him: +in his movements, in his walk, scarcely a trace was left of his former +in his saddle. +in his tone, “my dear,” whether they were above or below him in +in his voice a sincerity and weakness Pierre had never observed in it +in his writing table, and this is a paper he has forgotten....” +in.’ I do not know how far he was justified in saying so.” +injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing +in killed, wounded, sick, and stragglers; though a number of sick and +in lace-frilled drawers, and feet in low slippers—was just at that +inner laboratory of his mind in a portable form as if intentionally, so +innocent and untried?” +in no way binding) might give time for part of the transport to pass, +In October, 1805, a Russian army was occupying the villages and towns of +In one company dinner was ready, and the soldiers were gazing eagerly +in only his stockings, rose when they entered, smiling not altogether +In passing Prince Vasíli seized Pierre’s hand and said to Anna +in perplexity, and only later grasped that a stroke was an attack of +in Petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day +in Princess Drubetskáya’s case he felt, after her second appeal, +inquiringly at the young prince, wondering what would follow. +inquiry. The son noticed that an expression of profound sorrow suddenly +in retirement and had now no influence in political affairs, every high +in separate piles, began counting them. +in society it seems as if there were something in them, but there’s +insolent intelligence of his eyes, produced an effect which made it +insoluble. +in some way essential. +in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the Austrian +In spite of the animation of his speech, Bilíbin did not forget to +instantly dropped them again. All the blood which had seemed congested +instead of black. The regimental commander walked with his jerky steps +in step, and each one of these hundreds of soldiers seemed to be +instrument he could not begin to speak. +intellectual pride,” said the princess, following the train of her own +intelligent, and resolute young man. +intelligent, how is it you don’t see that if the count has written a +intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously. The general looked the +intending to rest if but for a moment, eat something, and try to sort +intends to expose his precious person to the chances of war. God grant +intention should he try to direct his whole force against our faithful +intercourse with young women. +interested the Minister of War less than any of the other matters he was +interesting.” +interesting but hardly feasible.” +interests,” said Bilíbin. +interfere, making a scene on the very threshold of a dying man’s room? +interrupting one another and mingling with the rustling of dresses and +in the afternoon, having made all his calls, he was returning to +in the baggage train he had passed that morning on the Znaim road seven +in the best possible manner, and feeling that he was doing it well he +in the country.” +In the count’s room, which was full of tobacco smoke, they talked +In the dining room, which like all the rooms in the house was +In the drawing room the conversation was still going on. +in the drawing room, waiting for Borís to come out. She was already +in the garden, or superintending the building that was always going on +in the house was done in haste at that time), and Pierre and Anna +in the light of the dull autumn evening, mounted men coming toward him. +in the meadow behind the village, three of them are dragging something. +In the midst of a conversation on political matters Anna Pávlovna burst +In the midst of the third écossaise there was a clatter of chairs being +in the military profession, so to an even greater extent Bilíbin gave +In the morning Anna Mikháylovna said to Pierre: +In the passage Denísov, with a pipe, was squatting on the threshold +in the same order in which they had entered but with redder faces, the +in the same tone. +in the same tone. +In the second room of the inn the lieutenant was sitting over a dish of +in the small circular room. Around the table all who were at Count +in the sutler’s hut without his boots.” He recognized the agreeable, +in the Viennese drawing rooms and often had an influence on matters +in this part of the house and did not even know of the existence of +In this room it was almost dark; only two tiny lamps were burning before +into a careless, merry smile. “What am I? An illegitimate son!” +“Into action! Into action! Bring him a bottle for such news! But how +into Borís’ eyes. After he had gone Pierre continued pacing up and +into her radiant smile. +in too”—different voices were saying in the crowd, as the men looked +into step with a hop, looked back angrily, and through the ominous +into the distance, at the waters of the Danube, at the sky, and at the +in to the Minister of War. Five minutes later he returned and bowing +into the naïvely symmetrical pose of an Egyptian statue, evidently +into which we have been drawn, God knows how or why. Not only where you +Intriguer!” she hissed viciously, and tugged with all her might at the +invalid chair, a wax taper in his left hand, was leaning his left arm on +invalid,” said Anna Pávlovna, exchanging an alarmed glance with her +in Vienna knew him and valued him. He was not one of those many +invincibility of the French, and the Minister of War does not even care +invitation to Anna Pávlovna’s reception and had sat listening to +involuntarily came closer to him. +involuntarily, so much so that the only thing left to do seemed to be +in which Kutúzov entrusted them to the humanity of the enemy; and +“I often think,” she continued after a short pause, drawing nearer +“I often think, though, perhaps it’s a sin,” said the princess, +“I recognize you only too well, too well.” +“I rely on you, my dear,” said Anna Pávlovna, also in a low tone. +“I request you to have the goodness to change your coat,” he said as +ironical voice. +irrepressible hatred. +irreproachably washed, brushed, and buttoned, held his pipe in the +irritation. +is all I have to say to you. The count is very, very ill, and you must +is a mob of scoundrels and not an army,” he was thinking as he went +is an admirable book which calms and elevates the soul. Adieu! Give +“I saw you riding this morning...” he added. +“I say, come round some evening and we’ll have a game of faro!” +“I say, Fédeshon!... Did he say when the battles are to begin? You +“I say so,” he continued desperately, “because the Bourbons fled +“I say, this is folly! He’ll be killed,” said this more sensible +is betraying us! Russia alone must save Europe. Our gracious sovereign +is connected with the Montmorencys through the Rohans, one of the best +is going as a cadet. There’s no one to interest himself for him. To +“I shall always remember that in this world one must expect no reward, +“I shall at any rate not run after a young man before visitors...” +“I shall be delighted to meet them,” said the prince. “But +I shall be in a more prominent position,” continued Berg, “and +I shall be very charmed to see you tonight between 7 and 10—Annette +“I shall probably die before you. So remember, these are my memoirs; +“I shall scarcely be able to avail myself of your hospitality, +“I should like,” said the vicomte, “to ask how monsieur explains +“I should like to go to Kurágin’s,” thought he. +“I should like to speak well of them, but as far as I know the facts, +“I should think he has a score of them.” +“I should think not,” said Véra, “because there can never be +“‘I showed them the path to glory, but they did not follow +is how I explain it to myself. It can’t be helped!” +“Is it certain?” she said. +“Is it possible?” exclaimed Anna Mikháylovna. “Oh, how awful! +“Is it true that Austrians have been beaten?” asked Dólokhov. +“Is it worth while noticing trifles?” He reined in his horse with +is my witness,” and she made the sign of the cross, “I love her so +is not so, then...” +is now rushing along the road to Brünn and will be here in a day or +“Isn’t she too young? I have heard that it harms the voice to train +is pua’ as on the fihst day of cweation... Who’s that now? Send him +is so I don’t know...” +“Is that Mary practicing? Let’s go quietly and take her by +“Is the Englishman bragging?... Eh? Is it all right?” said Anatole. +is the only difference between them.” He said this smiling in a way +“Is there sufficient forage in Krems?” +“Is this the way to the princesses’ apartments?” asked Anna +“I still can’t understand what you are afraid of,” said Prince +is to take care of yourself. Leave it to those who are no longer fit for +is very unhappy with her father. She is a relation of yours, Princess +it?” +Italian: “‘Dio mi l’ha dato. Guai a chi la tocchi!’’ +Italian to give her lessons.” +“It all depends on the bringing up,” remarked the visitor. +it all very well for Prince Vasíli told me himself. Besides, Cyril +Italy and on the Rhine; how fifty thousand Russians and as many English +it. And he is so clever and so good!” said Natásha. “Don’t +it and saw Telyánin’s horse at the porch. +it...” answered her son coldly. “But I have promised and will do it +it at that age.” +it. But at that moment an adjutant galloped up with a message from the +it can’t be a square—for they are not drawn up for that.” +It can’t be helped!” said the count, shrugging his shoulders and +it, easily find a way to prepare for the enemy the fate he deserves. +I tell you Buonaparte was a great tactician? Here, he says the same +“I tell you,” shouted Denísov, “he’s a fine fellow.” +it escape from his handsome mouth in rings. This was Lieutenant Berg, an +it. Feel in your pockets.” +it had appeared. The count sat on the sofa between two guests who were +it had the commander in chief continued to look at him, and so Kutúzov, +“It has begun. Here it is!” thought Prince Andrew, feeling the +“I... that’s different. Why speak of me? I don’t want any other +“I think,” said the prince with a smile, “that if you had been +“I thought perhaps something had happened,” she said with her +“I thought today’s fete had been canceled. I confess all these +it is a bit of Mack. We are Macked),” he concluded, feeling that he +“It is an illness, there’s no other way of explaining it,” said +“It is dreadful, dreadful!” she was saying, “but cost me what it + It is for thee thus swells her heart, +“It is for the reasson, my goot sir,” said he, speaking with a +it is for you to talk or think of such matters. It is no easier for +it is. My dear pet!” +“It is now my turn to ask you ‘why?’ mon cher,” said Bolkónski. +it is said ‘There are thieves among the Pávlograd officers!’ But +It is terrible to think.... This is my son,” she added, indicating +“It is the Buonapartists who say that,” replied the vicomte without +“It is very good of you, Monsieur Pierre, to come and visit a poor +“It is very strange, mon Monsieur Prince,” said the staff officer. +it is. You must know. We will take it at once and show it to the +“It’ll be worse for you. Bogdánich is vindictive and you’ll pay +It’ll be worse if he fires the bridge. See, here’s an officer jammed +“It may be treachery,” said Prince Andrew, vividly imagining the +it necessary to introduce himself, and without experiencing the least +it, on the crest of the opposite hill, the village of Schön Grabern +it, or why it had to be told in Russian, still Anna Pávlovna and the +it,’” Prince Andrew continued after a short silence, again quoting +“It’s a bad business, eh?” +“It’s a bad business,” said the general without answering him, +“It’s all about the war,” the count shouted down the table. “You +“It’s all over; but I am a coward—yes, a coward!” thought +“It’s all the fault of these fellows on the staff that there’s +“It’s all very well for you... I am not envious... I love you and + “It’s a long, long way. +“It’s ancient history,” said another, guessing that it referred to +“It’s a shame for a soldier to steal; a soldier must be honest, +“It’s as if a dam had burst,” said the Cossack hopelessly. “Are +It’s as if it had been done on purpose, on purpose. Besides, suppose +“It’s different on different days,” answered the captain. “One +it seemed quite natural that they should cry, and apparently it never +“It seems funny to me,” said Pierre, “that you, you should +“It seems that while he was abroad this young man was allowed to do +itself?” +“It’s empty.” +its handsome, sensual mouth, and its cold, majestic expression, was +“It’s in the inlaid portfolio that he keeps under his pillow,” +its last march the day before—presented a well-ordered array of two +it’s not all the same to us! Am I not right, Denísov? It’s not the +“It’s not at all from friendship,” declared Nicholas, flaring +“It’s not going to be a ghost story?” said he, sitting down beside +“It’s nothing, nothing; leave me alone!” sobbed Sónya. +“It’s nothing,” replied Prince Andrew. +It’s not pleasant, but what’s to be done, my dear fellow? You landed +“It’s not there.” +“It’s not true!” +it’s splendid. I am very glad to have made your acquaintance. It’s +“It’s that protégé of yours, that sweet Princess Drubetskáya, +It’s too late now when Vienna is occupied by the French army!” +it. Telyánin took the purse and began carelessly slipping it into the +it timidly and tenderly on her son’s arm, “be affectionate and +it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this +it under your head like a treasure,” said Rostóv. “I put it just +“It von’t go begging,” replied the German with a smile. +“It was all they could do to rescue the poor man,” continued the +It was already quite dark when Prince Andrew rattled over the paved +It was a warm, rainy, autumnal day. The wide expanse that opened out +It was evident that he did not like the vicomte and was aiming his +it was evident that he performed his duty as a subordinate with even +It was evident that Prince Andrew was not interested in such abstract +It was, in fact, solely to meet Prince Vasíli that she had obtained an +It was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna Pávlovna +It was just the moment before a big dinner when the assembled guests, +It was past one o’clock when Pierre left his friend. It was a +It was plain that this “well?” referred to much that they both +It was pleasant and touching to see these little girls in love; but +It was St. Natalia’s day and the name day of two of the Rostóvs—the +It was true that a view over nearly the whole Russian position and the +it won’t be your skirmishing at Dürrenstein, or gunpowder at all, +“It would not be turned off the field even on the Tsarítsin +it!’ ‘Yes, let’s!’ say the others. And off they go and take the +Ivánovich. He is in a very bad humor, very morose. Be prepared.” +Ivánovich (who always went into a corner to blow his nose on his +“I’ve been sent back to the regiment all on account of that devil, +“I’ve come to say good-by.” +“I’ve seen him myself!” +“I want a great deal, Count! I want five hundred rubles,” and taking +“I want to know!” +“I want to teach this young man how to shoe a horse,” said +“I was attached; I’m on duty.” +“I was going to ask you. I know nothing except that it was all I could +I was saying, Prince Vasíli is the next heir through his wife, but the +“I was told a charming Moscow story today and must treat you to it. +“I will allow no one to call me a liar!” cried Rostóv. “He told +“I will do it all, Father,” he said. +“I will,” replied Natásha. +“I will the bridge fire,” he said in a solemn tone as if to announce +“I will, your excellency,” said Timókhin, showing by his smile that +“I wished to get a nap, mon cousin, but I can’t.” +“I wonder, is it not too late to administer unction?” asked the +jabbering! Fine, isn’t it? It’s all the Frenchy can do to keep up +jacket. +“Jacob, bring a bottle!” shouted the host, a tall, handsome fellow +jerked away his plate, which Tíkhon briskly caught. “Suvórov!... +jests and gossip. +jest was unacceptable and had not come off. He grew confused. +jingling sound it presented arms. Then amidst a dead silence the +joined Kutúzov at Braunau now separated from the Russian army, and +joins the Allies, Austria’s hand will be forced and there will be war. +joke, and purposely trying to appear stupider than he really was. +jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a French battalion gets to +jolted over the stony road. Some of them were talking (he heard Russian +jovial old gentleman, who standing beside his tall and stout partner, +joyful, but an animal, squirrel-like expression. She paused as if she +joy to give my Franz a thaler, or let him go with his Liebchen to the +JULIE +Julie wrote in French: +jumped down. He smelt strongly of rum. +junction advisable, meant, among other arguments in support of his view, +just above his ear. +just as at Ulm... it is...”—he seemed to be trying to find the right +Just as he was going to open it the sounds ceased, the door opened, and +Just as Prince Andrew met Nesvítski and Zherkóv, there came toward +Just as Prince Andrew was a young man who gave promise of rising high +just as the architect, gardener, or Princess Mary did, till the prince +Just as the mother and son, having reached the middle of the hall, were +just come out of a hot bath.” +just completed. He lay with his head propped high on the pillows. His +“Just look at the master! A regular eagle he is!” loudly remarked +just returned from abroad where he had been educated, and this was his +“Just see, the German sausage is making tracks, too!” +“Just see where it carries to!” a soldier near by said sternly, +Just then a closed carriage and another with a hood drove up to the +Just then another visitor entered the drawing room: Prince Andrew +Just then Zherkóv entered the room. +“Just to flutter the nuns a bit. They say there are Italian girls +just under the icons; his large thick hands outside the quilt. Into the +just visible behind a screen. A small dog began to bark. +Kaiser Alexander hoch!” *(2) said he, quoting words often repeated by +Karl give no signs of life and make blunder after blunder. Kutúzov +keep from laughter provoked by a swarthy hussar officer who walked +keeping Pierre close beside her, entered the room even more boldly than +keep you long as an adjutant: a bad position! Tell him I remember +kept looking round toward the drawing room door. It opened and Nicholas +kept turning his horse in front of the squadron. +killed and if I have a son, do not let him be taken away from you—as I +kind, because he has been a benefactor to them both. As Sterne says: +kindhearted, and because they—friends from childhood—had to think +“Kind...ly let—them—pass!” +“Kindly let this cart pass. Don’t you see it’s a woman?” said +“Kindly return to your posts,” said the staff officer trying to +kindly, smiling, handsome face and moist eyes. Nesvítski could hardly +kindness!” He turned to go. +kind of talk, and at last all stopped. As often happens, the horses of +kind relation. But, Nataly, you know my love for my son: I would do +kinds overtaking one another and blocking the muddy road, three and +King Francis is not much delighted by your victory. Even I, a poor +Kírsten. The staff captain on his broad-backed, steady mare came at a +kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, +kissing each other on the face, and then to Prince Andrew’s surprise +“Kiss me here,” and he touched his cheek: “Thanks, thanks!” +“Kiss the doll,” said she. +kitten which promises to become a beautiful little cat. She evidently +knapsacks, bayonets, long muskets, and, under the shakos, faces with +knees, some squatting Turkish fashion on the wet grass. +knee with the palm of his hand. +knew....” +knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is +knocked three of them over. +know his character: noble, upright ... but you see he has no one with +know how fond the count is of her.” +know how to dance, had liked sitting in this room to watch the ladies +know how to deal with them.” +know how to equip Borís.” She took out her handkerchief and began to +know how to express it ... not by a balance of political power....” +knowledge. +know my son’s going, Márya Dmítrievna? My son is going.” +known as la femme la plus séduisante de Pétersbourg, * was also there. +know that ourselves!” Another, without looking round, as though +know! The Prussians are up in arms now. The Austrians, you see, are +“Know this, Másha: I can’t reproach, have not reproached, and never +know what it is to be left a widow without means and with a son you love +know yourself that last winter the count made a will by which he left +Kozlóvski were squatting on the floor by a tub so near to the commander +Kozlóvski, who was sitting at the window with a book. +“Kurágin is exquisite when he discusses politics—you should see his +Kurágin was expecting the usual set for cards that evening, after which + *Kutúzov. +Kutúzov bowed with the same smile. +Kutúzov chose this latter course. +Kutúzov did not reply. He seemed to have forgotten what he had been +Kutúzov fell back toward Vienna, destroying behind him the bridges over +Kutúzov, he was sent immediately with a special dispatch to Brünn. +Kutúzov ... recommend Borís to him as adjutant! Then I shall be at +Kutúzov’s expectations that the proposals of capitulation (which were +Kutúzov’s face as he stood in the open doorway remained perfectly +Kutúzov sighed deeply on finishing this paragraph and looked at the +Kutúzov’s whole army. To be able to crush it absolutely he awaited +Kutúzov turned away. The same smile of the eyes with which he had +Kutúzov walked slowly and languidly past thousands of eyes which were +Kutúzov walked through the ranks, sometimes stopping to say a few +Kutúzov was left with only his own weak and exhausted forces. The +Kutúzov went out into the porch with Bagratión. +Kutúzov, whom he had overtaken in Poland, had received him very kindly, +Kutúzov with his eagle nose and puffy face appeared in the doorway. +“La balance y est... * A German knows how to skin a flint, as the +lackeys who care nothing for their master’s business. Quarante mille +lack the bump of paternity.” +ladies’ end an even chatter of voices was heard all the time, at the +lad jumped awkwardly back into the room, tripping over his spurs. +lady, adding the priest’s clerical title, as if she had no opinion of +lady visitor. +“La femme est la compagne de l’homme,” * announced Prince +Language: English +larger circle. +lashes, thick black plaits coiling twice round her head, and a tawny +last deciding seriously to prove to this youth how foolish his words +last long? It’s all the Club and his easygoing nature. Even in the +last moments by not letting him commit this injustice, and not to let +last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which +Last Updated: January 21, 2019 +late in starting her practice on the clavichord, went into the sitting +lathe?” asked Prince Andrew with a scarcely perceptible smile which +latter threw up his arms in surprise saying it was nowhere to be found +laugh. +laugh. And they, too, passed on, so that Nesvítski did not learn who +laughed. +laughed. “I dreamed last night...”—“You were not expecting +laughed spasmodically as he stood in the porch waiting for the vicomte +laughed. “Véra’s spiteful; never mind her! And all will come right +laughing. +laughter led by Natásha. Both partners stood still, breathing heavily +laughter that convulsed his usually impassive features. +laughter, the shouting of familiar voices, the growling of a bear, and +Lavrúshka turned all the bedding over, looked under the bed and under +“Lavwúska!” he shouted loudly and angrily, “take it off, +laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of +lay in the general progress of the war. When he saw Mack and heard the +leader, called les nôtres. * This set, consisting almost exclusively of +leaf, gave it to Kozlóvski, stepped quickly to the window, and threw +leaning his elbow on his knee and covering his face with his hand. After +learning that he was a special messenger led him to another entrance. +learning, was well brought up, and had a pleasant voice; what she said +least disconcerted by this reception. He had just entered, wearing an +leave me alone with him!” +Le charmant Hippolyte was surprising by his extraordinary resemblance +left...” A fat major skirted a bush, puffing and falling out of +left bank of the Danube and took up a position for the first time +left but to die?” he thought. “Well, if need be, I shall do it no +left him, rubbing his small white hands. +left like this. Every moment is precious. I can’t think why his nieces +left the chair on which he had been leaning, and—with an air +legal heir to everything and you won’t get anything. You must know, +legs, looked directly at Prince Vasíli with no sign of emotion in her +Lemarrois had just arrived at a gallop with Bonaparte’s stern letter, +length portrait of Catherine the Great. The same people were still +leonine head. This head, with its remarkably broad brow and cheekbones, +lesson, was about to leave: “Mathematics are most important, madam! +less than you do, but be a man!” +“Let go, I tell you! I will take the responsibility. I myself will go +let her know.” +“Let him do it, let him do it,” said Dólokhov, smiling. +“Let’s come, quick, quick!” And with a glance round, she smiled at +letter are not destroyed, then you will have nothing but the consolation +letters that had come from the Archduke Ferdinand, who was in command of +letter to Murat: +letter to the Emperor begging him to recognize Pierre as legitimate, it +“Let them pass, I tell you!” repeated Prince Andrew, compressing his +let themselves be tricked at the crossing of the Vienna bridge, you are +letting yourself be tricked by an aide-de-camp of the Emperor. +“Let us go and have supper,” he said with a sigh, going to the door. +“Let us go, Iván Lukích,” he said to the captain. +“Let us go ourselves. I only came round to ask Denísov about +“Let us go to her, I must say good-by. Or—go and wake and I’ll +“Liberty and equality,” said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at +liberty not to believe me and I don’t even care whether you do or +lid, drew out a drawer, and took out an exercise book filled with his +lieutenant general, our dear Prince Auersperg von Mautern himself. +life, all alone—for Papa is always busy, and I... well, you know what +life, and can’t, for I know no other. But think, Andrew: for a young +Life Guards, who had been losing that evening, climbed on the window +life, he felt an unaccountable tenderness for this young man and made up +“Lift it two lines more and it will be just right,” cried he in a +light blue Viennese calèche, slightly creaking on its springs and drawn +lighted mirrors which repeated their reflections several times. Now +light. It was evident that the more lifeless he seemed at ordinary +lightly, more lightly, and yet more lightly whirled the count, flying +lights of shops, houses, and street lamps, fine carriages, and all that +like a bird than a man.” +like a child, he fell into a deep, youthful slumber. +liked to. He looked inquiringly at his monitress and saw that she was +liked to tell him. He gathered up the papers and with a bow to both, +likes her way of reading. She reads to him in the evenings and reads +like that six months ago?” +like these if one has any feeling?” said Anna Pávlovna. “You are +line and that of the enemy were far apart on the right and left flanks, +line followed them across and the last Cossacks quitted the farther side +linen shirt unfastened in front. “Wait a bit, you fellows.... Here is +line—the officers had been unable to keep sight-seers away. The +lingered for a moment. +lips. +“Lise, I beg you to desist,” said Prince Andrew still more +“Lise!” said Prince Andrew dryly, raising his voice to the pitch +Lise sighed too. +Lise? Take her to your room and I’ll go to Father. How is he? Just the +“Lise!” was all Prince Andrew said. But that one word expressed +Lise, young Bolkónski’s wife, this very evening, and perhaps the +“Listen, dear Annette,” said the prince, suddenly taking Anna +listened attentively. His favorite occupation when not playing boston, a +listened, refraining from a reply, and involuntarily wondered how this +Listening to Bilíbin he was already imagining how on reaching the army +“Listen!” said he; “don’t worry about your wife: what can be +listen to his tale. +“Listen to me, Prince,” said she. “I have never yet asked you +listen, while waiting till it would be time to leave. Her task was +lit room adjoining the count’s reception room. It was one of those +little fingers. “All right! Then it’s settled?” +little Frenchy, successful only because there were no longer any +little princess. +little princess, and having asked for a needle began tracing the Condé +little princess, shrugging her shoulders. +little table, and Anna Mikháylovna noticed that something was agitating +little towns there’s nowhere to spend it,” said he. “Well, let me +little waves of the Enns, which rippling and eddying round the piles of +little while, felt as if they too were becoming, like her, full of life +lively disposition, bent over her frame to hide a smile probably evoked +lively little girl’s look made him inclined to laugh without knowing +livery, get up behind the carriage, and come with me while I make some +loading. +locality and surroundings—fruit gardens, stone fences, tiled roofs, +loftiness of soul. She has refused to evacuate Malta. She wanted to +London—could pronounce Pitt’s sentence, he saw a well-built and +“Long ago,” answered Rostóv, “I have already been for the hay, +longer and went on, between gasps of laughter: “And the whole world +longer to hinder them but because the guns were trained and there was +Look at me,” cried Denísov who, unable to keep still on one spot, +“Look at Papa!” shouted Natásha to the whole company, and quite +“look at Papa!” though as it was they never took their eyes off the +looked as clean and well washed as the tips of one’s fingers after a +looked at Telyánin. The lieutenant was looking about in his usual way +looked like tradespeople, ran hurriedly from the entrance and hid in the +looked straight at his adjutant’s face without recognizing him. +looked very thoughtful and tender. With his hands behind him he paced +look for her. +Looking at her own handsome face she seemed to become still colder and +looking at his watch. +looking at Pierre. “At the present time it is difficult to know the +looking at the ground, he came on some sticky, trodden mud, stumbled, +looking at the puff from the gun that had sent the ball. His eyes +looking at those driving past as if he pitied all who were not at that +Looking down at the waters of the Enns under the bridge, Nesvítski +looking like something between a cart, a cabriolet, and a calèche. +looking round at the sound. +looking with dismay at her husband. +“Look! Look there!” one soldier was saying to another, pointing to a +“Look, Prince,” said another, who would have dearly liked to take +“Look sharp! Look sharp!” several voices repeated around him. +Lorrain considered. +Lorrain, pursing up his lips, waved a severely negative finger before +Lorrain’s instructions. The German doctor went up to Lorrain. +losing confidence in its allies, suffering from shortness of supplies, +lost....” And Prince Hippolyte began to tell his story in such Russian +lost count of his children, but this Pierre was his favorite.” +loudly, handing Kutúzov an envelope. +loud that those in the drawing room heard her and were startled. “Why +love, love of one’s neighbor, love of one’s enemy, is worthier, +lovers of music do when they hear a false note. The two women let go +loving and honoring him. “Why, I have not yet had time to settle +lower one, and something like two distinct smiles played continually +low tones. +luck! Such ill luck. As soon as you left, it began and went on. Hullo +luck the man has!” +luggage. Franz, Bilíbin’s man, was dragging a portmanteau with some +l’u! * I shall certainly adopt an innovation and call him simply +luxurious study and sat down to the dinner prepared for him. Bilíbin +lying on the ground; they also met a crowd of soldiers some of whom were +ma chère! On behalf of the whole family I beg you to come, mon cher!” +“Ma chère, there is a time for everything,” said the countess with +machine or set it in proper motion, so Anna Pávlovna moved about her +Mack. An Austrian general complained of me. I congratulated him on +Mack, have by now already gained a decisive victory and no longer need +Mack’s arrival... What’s the matter, Rostóv? You look as if you’d +“Madame de Genlis! Madame de Genlis!” shouted laughing voices +“Madame, I doubt my ability before such an audience,” said he, +made a grimace, as if expecting something unpleasant. +made elegantly witty. In society he always awaited an opportunity to say +made for the sacrament of unction, and in his house there was the bustle +Madeira”... “Hungarian”... or “Rhine wine” as the case might +maid of honor’s hand to his lips, kissed it, and swung it to and fro +maid with the decanter in her haste had not closed the door (everything +majestically entered the room. He was wearing his long coat with three +majestic figure of his father, Count Bezúkhov, with that gray mane of +Majesty’s and you were pitied....” +Majesty, “who, thank God, was better today.” And each visitor, +make a remark, for the conversation interested him, but Anna Pávlovna, +make something exceptional of them,” said the visitor. +makes things trying for you, doesn’t it?” Prince Andrew asked +make them look at the wag. +“Malbrook s’en va-t-en guerre. Dieu sait quand reviendra.” * +Mamma has sent for me to go and dine at the Apráksins’. Read the +“Mamma!” rang out the clear contralto notes of her childish voice, +“Mamma told me to ask you to join the dancers.” +“Mamma! What sweets are we going to have?” and Natásha’s voice +“Mamma! What sweets are we going to have?” Natásha again cried +man. +managed to utter (to her everything seemed funny). She leaned against +man. Either this look meant nothing but that as long as one has eyes +mane—which, though he saw other faces as well, he had not lost sight +man.... Here he is, and the count has not once asked for him.” +man is the count’s son,” she added more softly. “What a terrible +manly voice interrupting them both. “Of course you artillery men are +manner he wore in drawing rooms, but with the animated face with which +manner nor a desire to enter into conversation, but speaking so quietly +manners, who evidently considered himself a celebrity but out of +man, of medium height, with firm, clearcut features. Everything about +man? On such matters I am only severe with myself. I understand such +man’s hand and moving her lips as if to send it a kiss. Pierre, +man’s high, stout, uncovered chest and powerful shoulders, raised by +man’s penetration he understood all that was passing in Bolkónski’s +man’s simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory. Both +man. The Revolution was a grand thing!” continued Monsieur Pierre, +man who has at length begun to attain a long-desired happiness. As soon +man with a diamond ring on his forefinger, who was fond of speaking +many wrinkles on his large features, to Rostóv who was crimson with +Marching thirty miles that stormy night across roadless hills, with his +marching with particular grace and boldness in time to the song and +Maria Theresa Order of the third grade, which the Emperor was conferring + * “Marlborough is going to the wars; God knows when he’ll +marriageable daughters, and of the young ladies themselves, toward +marry!” concluded Prince Andrew. +MARY +Márya Dmítrievna. +Márya Dmítrievna and the countess burst out laughing, and all the +“Márya Dmítrievna?” came her voice from there. +Márya Dmítrievna, curved his arms, beat time, straightened his +Márya Dmítrievna on her right and Anna Mikháylovna on her left, the +“Márya Dmítrievna! What kind of ice pudding? I don’t like ice +“Márya Lvóvna Karágina and her daughter!” announced the +Mary, and the little princess. Prince Andrew had been called to his +Mary Bolkónskaya.” +Mary entered the antechamber as usual at the time appointed for the +Mary, having taken and closed the exercise book with the next day’s +masses of Russian troops. At the bend of the Danube, vessels, an island, +mass. Looking down over the rails Prince Nesvítski saw the rapid, noisy +matchmaking chronicles of Moscow now speak of me as the future Countess +matter might be he did not care, but it gave him great pleasure to +matters, social interests and the fair sex occupied no small part of his +may Christ be with you in your great endeavor!” +may I shall do my duty. I will come and spend the night. He must not be +may laugh as much as you like, but all the same Bonaparte is a great +me!” +me.” +me?” +Meadow.” +mean good French society—will have been forever destroyed, and +meant by the words all is over, “and the count’s papers are opened, +mean to fight, let’s fight. But the devil knows what this is.” +meanwhile Kutúzov sent his adjutants back to hasten to the utmost the +Meanwhile Nesvítski, Zherkóv, and the officer of the suite were +Meanwhile Prince Vasíli had opened the door into the princess’ room. +Meanwhile the staff officer standing in front pointed out something to +Meanwhile the younger generation: Borís, the officer, Anna +me apologize, because if he, as commander of this regiment, thinks it +me; but, my dear, I am getting on for sixty and must be prepared for +me, but that he’ll marry Julie. You see how he’s been with her all +medal he can get his reward just as well in the rearguard, but if he +meditatively and rapidly: +me!” He began to laugh. “Well, what of it! I hope we’ll get better +me. I am used to suffering.” +me I lied, and I told him he lied. And there it rests. He may keep me +member of the Hofkriegsrath mildly and attentively. +memory, his extensive reading (he had read everything, knew everything, +memory, I will do the impossible—your son shall be transferred to the +men of the same kind hiding in the shadow of the house on both sides. +men’s end the voices sounded louder and louder, especially that of the +men should be in their greatcoats and in marching order, and that the +men should continue to march at ease, and he and all his suite showed +men uselessly, and so had hastened to throw some sharpshooters into the +men was to attack the French from different sides. The old prince did +men, who here, as in Vienna, formed a special set which Bilíbin, their +me of her own accord in the evening and tell me everything. Perhaps I +me only the day before yesterday not to forget Borís. But he had +me, Pierre. I shall not forget your interests.” +me!” Rostóv whispered. +merrily. +merrily and prettily as ever. +merrily to everyone at once, sat down and gaily arranged herself in her +merry. +metallic roar, and a whistling grenade flew above the heads of our +methods that he had better leave Genoa alone?” retorted Prince Andrew +me to burn the bridge! I know the service, and it is my habit orders +me to inform you... But, don’t be uneasy,” he added, noticing that +me! What will become of us? I am the wife of the doctor of the Seventh +Michael Ivánovich are the two people to whom he is always gentle and +“Michael Ivánovich!” cried the old prince to the architect who, +Michael Ivánovich did not at all know when “you and I” had said +middle, a cry was heard, then Princess Mary’s heavy tread and the +middle of his mouth and with red lips gently inhaled the smoke, letting +middle of the drawing room on the first chair he had come across, +might be up to on the sly” (she meant that they would be kissing), +might easily succeed to the post; how popular he was with everyone in +might outweigh all the courage of the Russian troops, and at the same +Mikháylovna. +Mikháylovna and snatching the portfolio from her. +Mikháylovna as she entered, and at the big stout figure of Pierre who, +Mikháylovna Drubetskáya. Rostóv, the father, is Ilyá, and his son is +Mikháylovna enthusiastically, quite forgetting all the humiliation she +Mikháylovna evinced no surprise, she only smiled faintly and sighed, as +Mikháylovna in passing instinctively glanced into the room, where +Mikháylovna looked attentively at the sick man’s eyes, trying to +Mikháylovna made a hurried sign with her eyes, glancing at the sick +Mikháylovna of one of them. +Mikháylovna, or you will not hold out.” +Mikháylovna pass and did not evince the least surprise at seeing them +Mikháylovna returned to the Rostóvs’ and went to bed. On waking in +Mikháylovna?” said he. “Let us wait until evening. The doctors are +Mikháylovna,” said Prince Vasíli, arranging his lace frill, and in +Mikháylovna’s son; Nicholas, the undergraduate, the count’s eldest +Mikháylovna. Though the latter held on tenaciously, her voice lost none +Mikháylovna, whom she had not seen properly since she returned from +Mikhelson’s army I understand—Tolstóy ‘s too... a simultaneous +Milan?” asked Anna Pávlovna, “and of the comedy of the people of +miles away from the French. At Grunth also some apprehension and alarm +“Mind, Annette, I hope you have not played a wicked trick on me,” +mind at rest,” said he without altering his tone, beneath the +mind easy,” said he in abrupt sentences while sealing his letter. +mind. “If a tenth part of his detachment returns I shall thank God,” +“Mind, no holding on!” cried another. +mind once for all that what he saw happening around him that evening was +“Mind, walk him up and down well!” +mined?” +mined and doubly mined and that there are menacing fortifications at its +mine. I have written to my poor mother,” said the smiling Mademoiselle +ministers and great people, and know how to deal with them all! It’s +minister’s bent bald head with its gray temples. He went on reading +minutes later the eldest sister came out with a pale hard face, again +miserable man who stood before him, but the task he had begun had to be +mistake. Marry when you are old and good for nothing—or all that is +modern science of strategics, had been handed to Kutúzov when he was in +moment!” +moment.” +moment had arrived. With the air of a practical Petersburg lady she now, +moment he was clearly thinking of nothing but how dashing a fellow he +moment imagined himself to be Napoleon in person and to have just +moment marching with the company. The hussar cornet of Kutúzov’s +moment when the first report was heard a fourth was seen. Then two +“Mon Dieu, mon Dieu!” she muttered, and lifting her dress with one +monk he received and had a long talk with.” +Monsieur Buonaparte sitting on a throne and granting the petitions of +more and holding out the letter. +more animated. “And believe me, they are reaping the reward of their +Moreau would have been a prisoner if Suvórov had had a free hand; but +more, but he waited and did nothing. +more cheerful in his presence, and were evidently anxious to display +more confident was the appearance of our troops. The soldiers in +more natural and animated than usual, so that the wrinkles round +more than they did Anatole. Dólokhov could play all games and nearly +more than Timókhin had done when he was reprimanded by the regimental +more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my +morning. +morning greeting, crossing herself with trepidation and repeating a +morning or evening than night. On the way Pierre remembered that Anatole +morning, the lines were so near together that the men could see one +morning till night and abstemious, so of course I am well.” +morsels. The group about Mortemart immediately began discussing the +Moscow for his equipment, was to join them on the march to Radzivílov. +“Moscow has nothing else to do but gossip,” Borís went on. +Moscow when Borís was a boy of fourteen, and had quite forgotten him, +most in people. As to his inheritance and the part played by Prince +most joyful though erroneous rumors were rife of the imaginary approach +Most of the guests, uncertain how to regard this sally, looked at the +mother!...” +mother and the youngest daughter—both named Nataly. Ever since +mother, drawing her hand from beneath her old mantle and laying +Mother keep you in their holy and all-powerful care! +mother, pushing away her daughter with pretended sternness, and turning +mothers used to be married at twelve or thirteen.” +motionless masses of the French now swayed and that there really was +motive of his visit, “is it true that the Dowager Empress wants +mountains, defending himself against superior forces of the enemy and +mountains of Bohemia, and you and your army would have spent a bad +mount and ride to the bridge. (Observe that all three are Gascons.) +mounted Frenchmen, probably adjutants, were galloping up the hill. A +Mounting his horse again Prince Andrew lingered with the battery, +mouth all seemed puckered into a vacant, wearied grimace, and his arms +mouth. Another was walking sturdily by himself but without his musket, +mouth full of false teeth, as if she were trying to cheat old age.... +mouth!” said Bilíbin, and the mop of hair on his head moved with +moved his forces to attack the center and outflank both the Russian +movement of soldiers forming ranks and getting their muskets ready, +movements of the Austrian army, and then give it to his excellency.” +movements of the baggage trains of the entire army along the Krems-Znaim +movements of the bearers, and the cold listless gaze fixed itself upon +movements were still slow and measured. +moving a chair close to hers seated himself beside her. +“Mr. Aide-de-camp! Help me!... What does it all mean?” screamed the +“Mr. Aide-de-camp! Mr. Aide-de-camp!... For heaven’s sake... Protect +much, and all of you, only Véra... And what for? What have I done +much prettier. Pierre was received as if he were a corpse or a leper. +much that the count held him up as a pattern to the other guests. Berg +Murat. Bonaparte himself, not trusting to his generals, moved with all +Murat’s detachment and the battle had not yet begun. In Bagratión’s +Murat’s emissary and retired, leaving Bagratión’s division +murder of the Duc d’Enghien. The vicomte said that the Duc d’Enghien +must be broken off ... and then you know, André...” (she looked +must excuse me,” said he, putting Pierre at ease instead of being put +must have an explanation...” +must have pity on a young man in misfortune. You know he has important +must put in an appearance there,” said the prince. “My daughter is +my advance guard, and have no right to arrange an armistice without my +“My dear Anna Mikháylovna,” said he with his usual familiarity and +“My dear benefactor! This is what I expected from you—I knew your +“My dear Borís,” said Princess Anna Mikháylovna to her son as +“My dear!” exclaimed his mother imploringly, again laying her hand +“My dear fellow, how are you?” said he through the singing, making +“My dear fellow, you are a hero!” said Bilíbin. +“My dear Princess Catherine Semënovna,” began Prince Vasíli +“My dear,” she said to her son, once more stimulating him by a +my dear, whether the will and letter were written, and whether they have +My father has not spoken to me of a suitor, but has only told me that he +my friend... I only need see Prince Vasíli Sergéevich: he is staying +“My friend,” said Anna Mikháylovna in gentle tones, addressing +my geometry lessons,” said Princess Mary gleefully, as if her lessons +“My part is played out,” said Prince Andrew. “What’s the use of +my relations with him, transient as they were, have been one of the +my respects to monsieur your father and my compliments to Mademoiselle +mystical book I am sending you; it has an enormous success here. Though +my wife—are the count’s only direct heirs. I know, I know how hard +“My wife,” continued Prince Andrew, “is an excellent woman, one +name. +name-day party. +napkin, from behind the next man’s shoulders and whispered: “Dry +NAPOLEON +Napoleon happened to fall into one of the fainting fits to which he was +Napoleon’s army of one hundred and fifty thousand men would cut him +Napoleon’s words. “‘I opened my antechambers and they crowded +narrowed disdainfully, he entered the room of the Minister of War with +“Natálya Ilyníchna behaves very well to me,” remarked Borís. “I +Natásha blushed and laughed. +Natásha came in and walking straight up to Pierre said, laughing and +Natásha considered. +Natásha did not like the visitor’s tone of condescension to childish +“Natásha,” he said, “you know that I love you, but....” +Natásha kept pulling everyone by sleeve or dress, urging them to +Natásha kissed her on the hair. +Natásha only desisted when she had been told that there would be +Natásha, raising her face for a moment from her mother’s mantilla, +Natásha saw there was nothing to be afraid of and so she braved even +Natásha’s large mouth widened, making her look quite ugly, and she +Natásha, stopping suddenly. “I feel so happy!” +nearer, faster and louder, louder and faster, a cannon ball, as if it +nearer. Then the clang of hoofs, as of several horses galloping, +nearest him were not to blame for they were themselves pressed still +near sixty, dear friend... I too... All will end in death, all! Death is +near the strange lady. Prince Vasíli in front of the door, near the +necessary. Halfway up the stairs they were almost knocked over by +necessary,” said the younger of the two speakers, evidently in the +necessary to enable it to retreat without losing its heavy equipment. +necessary to go on insisting day after day and hour after hour, and even +necessary to take some part in it. +neck and the corners of her mouth drooped. +neck instead. +neck. It seemed to Rostóv that Bogdánich was only pretending not +need to hurry. However, he put his horse to a trot in the direction +negotiations and to offer the Russian army the three days’ truce. +neither I nor my mother would ever ask or take anything from him.” +neither quickly nor slowly. At this Natásha dashed swiftly among the +Nesvítski. +Nesvítski and Zherkóv were so surprised by this outburst that they +Nesvítski looked round and saw, some fifteen paces away but separated +“Nesvítski, Nesvítski! you numskull!” came a hoarse voice from +Nesvítski rose, puffing, and went up to the general, smiling. +Nesvítski. “They’ve made up splendid packs for me—fit to cross +Nesvítski tried to move on, soldiers and carts pushed him back again +Nesvítski with a laugh threw his arms round Prince Andrew, but +neutral... I know that. What about Austria?” said he, rising from his +neutrality is just a trap. I have faith only in God and the lofty +never favorably disposed toward him—would have used it to turn the +“Never, never marry, my dear fellow! That’s my advice: never marry +never take it off. Do you promise?” +never thought much of him.” +never understand it, because you’ve never loved anyone. You have no +news I may take back to my poor boy.” +Next day he woke late. Recalling his recent impressions, the first +Next day Prince Vasíli had arrived and settled in the count’s house. +next glanced round in alarm. +nice indeed, quite French,” and he kissed the tips of his fingers. +Nicholas’ career and am heartless and ungrateful, while truly... God +Nicholas. I never knew any Madame Jacquot.” +“Nicholas is going away in a week’s time, his... papers... have +Nicholas Rostóv turned away and, as if searching for something, gazed +Nicholas sat at some distance from Sónya, beside Julie Karágina, to +Nicholas was to go with him to the regiment; then came Anna Mikháylovna +(nicknamed in society, “the King of Prussia”) ever since the Emperor +night.” +night a motley throng of people sat there, not merrymaking, but somberly +night long without closing their eyes, while the adjutants and +night, so dark that the coachman could not see the carriage pole. +ninety thousand strong, was to threaten Prussia so as to bring her out +“No.” +“No, Andrew, I must say you have changed. Oh, how you have....” +“No, but do promise! I won’t let you go! My dear benefactor...” +“No, but imagine the old Countess Zúbova, with false curls and her +“No, but I say,” said Pierre, calming down, “you are a wonderful +“No,” cried he, becoming more and more eager, “Napoleon is great +“No, fifty,” replied the latter. +“No, friend, he is sharper-eyed than you are. Boots and leg bands... +“No, friend,” said a pleasant and, as it seemed to Prince Andrew, a +no fruit. I never could understand the fondness some people have for +“No, gentlemen, no... you mustn’t think... I quite understand. +“No, he thinks only of himself,” muttered the princess without +“No, if I hadn’t thought of it being a treasure,” said Rostóv, +“No, I have a wicked heart.” +“No, I have not; but this is what I have been thinking and wanted +“No, impossible!” said Prince Andrew, laughing and pressing +“No, it can’t be helped, lad,” said the prince. “They’re +“No, I tell you.” +“No, I won’t promise that. You don’t know how Kutúzov is pestered +“No, I won’t,” said Pierre, pushing Anatole aside, and he went up +no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age +no longer looked at the French but paid attention to the sight-seers and +no more. She is so affected. Ask her in,” she said to the footman in a +none to anyone.” +nonintervention. And...” he paused. “Finally one cannot impute the +“Non, madame.” He smiled quite inappropriately. +“No, no, please not... You are Mademoiselle Bourienne,” said +“No, nothing.” +nonreceipt of our dispatch of November 18. That is how it will end.” +nonsense, but it would in fact have been difficult to give any other +“Nonsense!” he cried, and the veins on his forehead and neck stood +“Nonsense, nonsense!” cried the old man, shaking his pigtail to +nonsense out of your head.” +No one had given Túshin orders where and at what to fire, but after +no one would understand that it was not to quench his thirst or from +“No, on my word it’s not obstinacy! I can’t describe the feeling. +“No, Peter Nikoláevich; I only want to show that in the cavalry +“No—promise that you will not refuse! It will give you no trouble +no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use +“No? She is very nice and kind and, above all, she’s much to be +no sky but only an atmosphere.” +Nostitz, the Austrian general occupying the advanced posts, believed +not a diplomatist. That’s why I joined the hussars, thinking that here +“No talking in the ranks!... No talking, no talking!” +“Not all, for you will not be there; not all,” said Prince Hippolyte +not answer. The hussar at that moment noticed the face of the red-nosed +“Not at all,” said Prince Andrew. +not attract a moment’s attention to their own evolutions and did not +“Not Bonaparte. He is the Emperor! Sacré nom...!” cried he angrily. +“Not bound to endure insults,” Dólokhov concluded in loud, ringing +not, but you have no grounds for telling me so. And that is the whole +not captured.” Again he pondered. “I am very glad you have brought +not? Delightful!” +not disfigured by the approach of death. It was the same as Pierre +note. I am in such a state.... My only hope now is in Count Cyril +not evince the least interest during this explanation, but as if he were +not exist. +not forsake him. He will fulfill his vocation and crush the hydra of +not go to any large gatherings, but only to small receptions. Prince +not have caused him to expect that honor. The prince, who generally kept +“No, there is no change. I only came to have a talk about business, +nothing. +nothing about firing it.” +nothing about it and have not thought about it. Moscow is chiefly busy +nothing but meanness, deceit, envy, intrigue, and ingratitude—the +nothing. I am very amiable and have a caustic wit,” continued Prince +Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever +nothing, nothing, nothing! No, don’t marry, my dear fellow; don’t +“Nothing of the sort. Orders are issued for a battle.” +nothing when they have no powers; this one had none.... The Austrians +noticed that he was pale and that his jaw quivered and shook as if in an +noticed that they had not come to the front entrance but to the back +noticed the look of terror with which Pierre regarded that lifeless arm, +noticing what a bad state of things it was. The regimental commander +not ill-spent. He is worth it!” +no time. I hope, my dear friend, you will carry out your father’s +“Not in the least,” replied the vicomte. “After the murder of the +not, it was decided at a consultation between the battalion commanders +not knowing what to do, and glanced inquiringly at his guide. Anna +not knowing whether it would be proper to call the dying man “the +“Not let the wife have him?” said the old man, and laughed. +Not letting the abbé and Pierre escape, Anna Pávlovna, the more +not listening to it continued to dress while walking about, and three +not love liberty and equality? Even our Saviour preached liberty and +“Not on any account!” exclaimed Rostóv. +“Not only occupied, but Bonaparte is at Schönbrunn, and the count, +not right.” +not see him at all.” +“Not that either. That puts the court in too bad a light,” replied +Not two minutes had passed before Prince Vasíli with head erect +not used to it. She will retaliate. And she has been fooled in the +not wanted here? Go to the other girls, or...” +not worse than this one.” +“Not yet. But where are you off to?” +not yet dispersed before another puff appeared, followed by a report. +not you! Go back or I’ll flatten you into a pancake,” repeated he. +“Now about your family. Do you know that since your daughter came +“No, wait, Pierre! The princess is too kind to wish to deprive me of +now approached the sick man with the noiseless step of one in full vigor +now at her, moved as if about to rise too, but changed his mind. +“Now come, come! Be reasonable. I know your excellent heart.” +“No! What kind, Márya Dmítrievna? What kind?” she almost screamed; +Nowhere to hunt with your dogs? But what is to be done, old man? Just +“Now I am all right,” she said, and asking the vicomte to begin, she +“Now I see it all! I know who has been intriguing—I know!” cried +now on one side, now on the other, giving his face an unpleasant +now permissible; “the door to the left, ma’am.” +now rose and took their leave. The visitor’s daughter was already +“Now, Sídorov, you have a try!” +“Now then, go away and take your monstrosity with you,” said the +“Now then, go on, go on!” incited the officer, bending forward and +“Now then, let’s see how far it will carry, Captain. Just try!” +“Now then, you devil’s puppet, look alive and hunt for it!” +“Now, Véra, what does it matter to you?” said Natásha in defense, +“Now what does this mean, gentlemen?” said the staff officer, in +“No, you’ll never manage him that way,” said Anatole. “Wait a +Number one jumped briskly aside. The gun rang out with a deafening +nursery.” +object above his head and, holding it there for some seconds, suddenly +obviously strange to her to think that this stern handsome man should be +obviously trying to restrain within the bounds of decorum the excitement +occasionally drew it down to meet the lower lip. As is always the case +occupied. He was himself always occupied: writing his memoirs, solving +occurred to him, though the question he was about to ask was the chief +occurred to his regiment, but in reality he did not himself know what +Odýntsova had married an old man, and that there was a suitor for Mary, +o’erpassed,” said an old priest to a lady who had taken a seat +of a battle but also disbelieved in the nearness of an engagement. +of affairs?” concluded his father. “But it troubles me. I don’t +of a girl, but I like her.” +of a gun at Ismail. +of a man who enjoys life and knows how to live, he swayed to and +of an immense fortune. The will has not yet been opened. I know you +of a parade. We had expected, as I told you, to get at their rear by +of a pleasure, and obliges me to interrupt you. I am very sorry to leave +of a ruling prince, in a crown—an alleged descendant of Rúrik and +of assurance and haste, Pierre concluded that it was all absolutely +of awe and even servility. A deference such as he had never before +of Bonaparte. +of Bonaparte, encountering a population that was unfriendly to it, +of capacity for philosophical meditation (to which he himself was +of columns from Russia, of some victory gained by the Austrians, and of +of command. +of communications, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his +of Count Bezúkhov’s death. She said the count had died as she would +“Of course. I’m going into action! I’ve shaved, bwushed my teeth, +“Of course. What is it?” +of deep bass voices, and in the intervals sighs and the shuffling of +of each shot, as at the word of command, the whole squadron with its +of everything. One must think of the future, of all of you... I love you +of expression and intonation that obliged one to listen to each +of expression on his face. Now his forehead would pucker into deep folds +of face, evidently worn out with childbearing—she had had twelve. +off completely and surround his exhausted army of forty thousand, and he +of fellow. As for the past two years people have amused themselves +offended tone. +offend me. Really I have some,” Rostóv repeated. +offensive, the plan of which, carefully prepared in accord with the +offered a most striking contrast to his quiet, little wife. It was +off his cloak. +off his courage, had ridden on to the planks of the bridge: +officer arrived, but at a sign resumed his measured, monotonous pacing. +officer as in a looking glass—started, moved forward, and answered: +officer has stolen...” +officer in charge of transport was beating the soldier who was driving +officer in the Semënov regiment with whom Borís was to travel to join +officer joined in the colonel’s appeals, but Bagratión did not reply; +officer of the suite by the arm. “Look! A man has fallen! Fallen, +officer pointing to the soldiers. “The officers don’t keep them in +officers,” continued the staff captain, “and Bogdánich” (the +officer sends for Auersperg; these gentlemen embrace the officers, crack +officers. Now what was the colonel to do? Have the officer tried and +officer’s remark was just and that really no answer could be made to +officers were counting the men, poking the last man in each section in +officers who had been standing together rode off to their places. The +officer, that he would drink a bottle of rum sitting on the outer ledge +official appointed to the province in which the prince’s estate lay +off on the line of Kutúzov’s retreat. If he reached Znaim before the +of for a single moment during the whole service. He judged by the +of habit said things he did not even wish to be believed. +of having been dutiful et tout ce qui s’ensuit!* That’s certain.” +of her neutrality and draw her into the war; how part of that army was +of her saint’s-day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to +of him, listened to him, admired, and imitated him, and with them Prince +of his coat and looking down at him—the Englishman was short—began +of his mouth and winking at the count. +of his own, goodness only knows why, he leaves me and locks me up alone +of his speech. “Vous comptez vous faire des rentes sur l’état; * +of his whip fell on the apron of the equipage. The woman screamed +of how to get away quickly to her own room to make out the problem in +of it. Prince Andrew” (he always spoke thus of his son) “has been +of its honeyed firmness and softness. +of its rightful king,” she concluded, trying to be amiable to the +of it. The only question is, has it been destroyed or not? If not, then +of life, with his delicate white fingers raised from the green quilt the +of love and sadness. It was plain that she was following a train of +of Mack’s defeat, the camp life of the officers of this squadron was +of Mack, the news of his defeat, and the thought of what lay before the +of mingled shame and vexation. +of one another, and then, as if afraid of being too late, seized each +of other things and to look in other directions, thought only of what +of profound thought. The round, steady, hawk’s eyes looked before him +of Prussia’s consent by assault. You are so eloquent. Will you give me +of reflection are generally in a serious frame of mind. At such moments +of rum in his hand was approaching the window, from which the light of +of,” said the princess in the same petulantly playful tone in which +of sixteen, had been in Paris and Copenhagen, and now held a rather +of smoke that had concealed the hollow, driven by a rising wind, began +of something too large and unsuited to the place, came over her face +of Sónya, who blushed and smiled unnaturally. In the midst of his talk +of speech and of the press—and only for that reason did he obtain +often heard. “What is this?” thought Prince Andrew approaching the +of that song. +of the action balls and shells began flying all over his regiment and +of the actual battlefield. They began to meet wounded men. One with a +of the army into the hands of a better informed and more skillful +Of the behavior of the eldest princess and Prince Vasíli she spoke +of the colonel, Nesvítski, Zherkóv, and the officer from the suite. +of the commander in chief’s special favor he was sent with the news of +of the French were coming down upon them and that his regiment was in +of the Guards, a girl of fifteen, and a plump rosy-faced boy in a short +of the lathe he removed his foot from the pedal, wiped his chisel, +of the lean sinewy hand, showed that the prince still possessed the +of them forgot what was happening and what was about to happen in the +of the oft-repeated passage of the sonata. Prince Andrew stopped and +of the river. +of the road were forests of different kinds, fields, and villages. +of the service the voices of the priests suddenly ceased, they whispered +of the Thabor Bridge is delightful! It is not exactly stupidity, nor +of the third company!” +of the third floor window with his legs hanging out. +of the upper lip formed a sharp wedge and closed firmly on the firm +of the war that had been announced in a manifesto, and about the +of the way! Make way!” +of thirteen, hiding something in the folds of her short muslin frock, +of this delicious Russian tea,” Lorrain was saying with an air of +of this set. +of those rare women with whom a man’s honor is safe; but, O God, what +of Túshin’s battery. Prince Andrew followed with the suite. Behind + of whom you have made a friend, but not for you, not for +of wounded pride, and a hope of glory. “And should there be nothing +of you.” +Oh, Andrew! What a treasure of a wife you have,” said she, sitting +“Oh dear, what am I thinking about? I’ve mixed everything up. One +“Oh, don’t speak of his going, don’t! I won’t hear it spoken +“Oh, don’t speak to me of Austria. Perhaps I don’t understand +“Oh, every bullet has its billet,” answered Váska Denísov, turning +“Oh, Heaven! How ill he is!” exclaimed the mother. +“Oh, he is in a dreadful state,” said the mother to her son when +“Oh, he is so kind!” answered Princess Mary. +“Oh, he’s all right, a good horse,” answered Rostóv, though the +“Oh, how dreadful! How can you laugh at it, Count?” +“Oh, how nice,” thought Natásha; and when Sónya and Nicholas had +“Oh, I must give you a treat,” Bilíbin whispered to Bolkónski. +“Oh! I thought you were in your room,” she said, for some reason +“Oh, it’s wetched! Well, what are you standing there for, you +“Oh, leave off!” said the accountant with a beaming but rather +“Oh, little countess!” ... and the count began bustling to get out +“Oh, my bower new...!” chimed in twenty voices, and the castanet +“Oh, my bower, oh, my bower...!” +“Oh, my dear fellow, we’re in such a stew here these last two +“Oh, my God! My God! Schmidt!” he exclaimed in German. “What a +“Oh no, not at all too young!” replied the count. “Why, our +“Oh! Oh!” exclaimed several voices. +“Oh! Oh!” groaned Nesvítski as if in fierce pain, seizing the +“Oh! Oh! Oh!” +“Oh! Oh! Oh!” he muttered, looking down from the window at the +“Oh, well, well!” remarked the regimental commander. “Still, one +“Oh, what a terrible state he is in! One would not know him, he is so +“Oh, you Don Juan! You serpent!” cried several voices. +“Oh, your excellency!” said Franz, with difficulty rolling the +old age and tobacco, which she had known so long. “Now, madam, these +old Count Bezúkhov, and his inheritance. Fancy! The three princesses +older visitors. They now, stretching themselves after sitting so long, +oldest rose. Márya Dmítrievna paused at the door. Tall and stout, +old father, and entering the military service, my dear. And there was a +old man continued to fold and seal his letter, snatching up and throwing +old man, living alone in the country for so many years, could know and +old man, shaking his powdered head as much as the tail, which Tíkhon +Olga went out. Pierre stood looking at the sisters; then he bowed and +“O Lord God! Thou who art in that heaven, save, forgive, and protect +on. +on account of the smoke nothing could be seen. The nearer they got to +on a chair in the ballroom, crossing one leg high over the other, +on a hot dish. +on all sides. The countess rose and went into the ballroom. +On all sides they saw rain-soaked officers with dejected faces who +on anything. It was about this choice that Prince Andrew was speaking. +on at the crossing. And why are they dawdling there?” +on both sides. Behind our position was a steep and deep dip, making it +once been in to see the count. He has not sent for me.... I am sorry for +Once more the conversations concentrated, the ladies’ at the one end +on cloaks or mantles, and drive away. The conversation was on the chief +on duty every day, or may place me under arrest, but no one can make +one another. +one but the Emperor of Russia has that right. +“One!” came the command. +“One can’t everywhere say all one thinks, mon cher. Well, have +“One can’t write so fast, your honor,” said the clerk, glancing +one considers that by tomorrow one may be dead, or something so +one feels as if one were in the country.” +one foot, from the orderly and began to mount. +one had put but which was always in her mind, “and how much suffering, +“One moment, your excellency.” +“One must admit,” continued Prince Andrew, “that Napoleon as a man +“One must be indulgent to little weaknesses; who is free from them, +one of disdain which was quite uncalled for. His fertile mind instantly +one of the guests. “The vicomte is a wonderful raconteur,” said she +one of them knew, not one of them wanted to know, and not one of them +One of them was a sallow, clean-shaven civilian with a thin and wrinkled +One of the next arrivals was a stout, heavily built young man with +one pair at each window. She stopped and smiled scornfully. Sónya was +one quite at home, and from habit immediately lay down on the sofa, took +one reviews the past and plans for the future. Prince Andrew’s face +one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, +“One step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing +“One thing I ask of your excellency,” Dólokhov said in his firm, +one.... Whom, I ask you, can we rely on?... England with her commercial +one word after another, came through the open door. She was speaking as +One would have thought it impossible for a man to stretch himself +one would have to... the Metropolitan himself... and even then it +one would not need finesse; and he tells me that I am lying—so let him +on her lips, she got up and left the room. All Nicholas’ animation +on him by the doctors, clergy, and relatives of the family. Prince +on himself. He could remain silent for hours without being at all put +on him. The Empress’ chamberlain invited him to see Her Majesty. The +on his arm as if that touch might soothe or rouse him. +on his saber, and put on his cap. +on his seat, lowered his hands, moved a little to the right and then to +on his side of it. +on in his usual tone of indifference. +On Kutúzov’s staff, among his fellow officers and in the army +onlookers for what was to follow. As soon as the provocatively gay +only by the elite. +only change being that the words “Father Kámenski” were replaced by +“Only fools and rakes fall ill, my boy. You know me: I am busy from +only his eyes were brighter than usual. +“Only take care you and your Cossacks are not all captured!” said +only telling you what it is. Napoleon has also formed his plan by now, +only that all the men of the day were mere babies who did not know the +“On my honor!” +On November 1 Kutúzov had received, through a spy, news that the army +On October 11, 1805, one of the infantry regiments that had just reached +On October 11, the day when all was astir at headquarters over the news +on purpose to vex us. The Archduke Karl does nothing, the Archduke +On reaching the village he dismounted and went to the nearest house, +On returning from the review, Kutúzov took the Austrian general into +on snowy-white smooth pillows, evidently freshly changed, Pierre +on the arm of a colonel of hussars, a man of importance to them because +on the arm said: +“On the contrary,” he said, in a querulous and angry tone that +on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, +“On the contrary,” replied the prince, who had plainly become +On the evening of the last day’s march an order had been received that +On the French side, amid the groups with cannon, a cloud of smoke +On the high ground where the enemy was, the smoke of a cannon rose, +‘on the march’ it meant in greatcoats?” said he reproachfully to +On the morning of the day that the young couple were to arrive, Princess +On the opposite side the enemy could be seen by the naked eye, and from +on the other an immense case containing icons, was brightly illuminated +on the other side, the children, tutors, and governesses. From behind +“On the same business. But you are damp! Let me wring you out!” +on the soft springs of the carriage, he turned to Prince Andrew. +On the twenty-eighth of October Kutúzov with his army crossed to the +On the way to his sister’s room, in the passage which connected one +on this high ground, shall withdraw the left flank under its cover, and + * “On vous fera danser.” +on you. You complain of our separation. What then should I say, if I +“Oooh! For Christ’s sake let me alone!” cried the wounded man, but +opened the door which moved noiselessly and easily. She paused at the +opinion,” said she, turning to the young man who, having come quite +opinions, but you see what a capital, good-natured fellow I am.” And +opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. +opposite, in front of which large masses of French were advancing. +opposite. Pierre spoke little but examined the new faces, and ate a +ordered the horses to be harnessed. Only those things he always kept +orderly by the shoulders and knocking him against the wall. +orderly, running behind the cart and fumbling in the back of it. +order not to lose his head and do foolish things he must not act on his +order of Maria Theresa on his neck and a black bandage round his head, +orders the sergeant to be arrested. Come, you must own that this affair +orders to admit no more, but the porter was told to be sure to invite to +orders which showed that the Russian troops, who had hitherto been +order to make Borís’ better acquaintance, promised to come to dinner, +order. You are causing me to lose the fruits of a campaign. Break +Orlóv never gave such a dinner as ours will be!” +or Prince Vasíli. Forty thousand serfs and millions of rubles! I know +or whether some other thought flitted across his dying brain, at any +other.” +other, awkwardly, like a child at a dancing lesson. +other before the service was concluded. Pierre paid no more attention +other had ridden up to him. +other lady visitors were farther down. At the other end sat the count, +other officers. Perhaps I ought not to have spoken before them, but I am +others...” +others.” +others appreciated Prince Hippolyte’s social tact in so agreeably +other’s hands, kissing them and pulling them away, and again began +other soldiers. He stood looking about him, when suddenly he heard a +others. “Well, you old sinner,” she went on, turning to the count +other young ladies in begging Natásha and Nicholas, who were noted for +ought to know where they are, and must find them, because...” +“Oui, madame,” replied he, looking around him. +our aid,” said Kutúzov. +our dear Count Vrbna, goes to him for orders.” +our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against +Our infantry were stationed there, and at the farthest point the +our men had begun firing. They were still firing, not at the cavalry +“our men have been wasting time.” +our people...” + * Ours. +“ours,” kissing his finger tips. +our turn next.” +out: +out about him. +out a notebook, hurriedly scribbled something in pencil, tore out the +out as a post horse, but still I must have a talk with you, Catiche, a +out everyone has been enraptured by her? They say she is amazingly +out from behind the clouds, and the clear sound of the solitary shot +out her cambric handkerchief she began wiping her husband’s waistcoat. +out his notebook and, leaning on the cannon, sketched a plan of the +out in front of a platoon of grenadiers before whom lay a naked man. Two +out like cords. “You are mad, I tell you. I won’t allow it. +out. Mack loses a whole army, the Archduke Ferdinand and the Archduke +out of countenance himself or making others uncomfortable, but as +out of this position; that here was the Toulon that would lift him from +out the stinging and tormenting thoughts that confused his mind. “This +out until, at the first pause, the guests rise with a rustle of dresses +out whether she was considering what he had just said or whether she was +over a fire brigade of Bonaparte’s, that will be another story and +over,” Anna Pávlovna continued. “The sovereigns will not be able to +over beamed with irrepressible delight.) “It’s in the Emperor’s +overcome a certain secret sorrow that has been in my heart ever since +overflowed with animation and impulsiveness. To be an enthusiast had +“overflowing with amiability. His position has not turned his head +over his shoulder. +over his spectacles, and then again resuming his walk, muttering +overtaken by the enemy and fighting rearguard actions only as far as +over, the adjutant he had seen the previous day ceremoniously informed +over their heads, unstrapping their overcoats and drawing the sleeves on +owner of one of the largest fortunes in Russia, I am much amused to +own ideas tonight, but must yield himself up entirely to the will of +pale, and added, “Look at it, young man.” +pale face and glittering eyes. +pale, now blushed and strained every nerve to overhear what Nicholas +“Papa,” said his beautiful daughter in the same tone as before, +“Papa, we shall be late,” said Princess Hélène, turning her +paper and her hand moved rapidly over it. This is the reply she wrote, +paper. He looked gloomily in Rostóv’s face and said: “I am witing +papers and it was the first time he had heard Villeneuve’s name. +papers and still taking no notice of the special messenger. +parade. However, I will let you know.” +parade... I am the first to apologize, you know me!... He was very +pardon. As soon as Rostóv heard them, an enormous load of doubt +part. Anna Pávlovna Schérer on the contrary, despite her forty years, +part from his horse, and at last sprang down and called to his orderly. +particular emphasis as if in it lay the gist of the matter. +particularly addicted), he regarded even this not as a defect but as a +particularly agreeable before going away. Besides this he was +particularly on the word possible... “as po-o-ossible,” he ended, +particularly striking among all these drunken voices by its sober + particularly victorious.” +passed out by a back door, but returned to their places one after the +Passing between the companies that had been eating porridge and drinking +Passing by Kutúzov’s carriage and the exhausted saddle horses of +passionately once more to enjoy that dissipation he was so accustomed to +pass the three officers quite easily, but Zherkóv, pushing Nesvítski +past the company, and overtook the carriage, still keeping time to the +pathetic smile, as though she too knew that Count Rostóv deserved this +patroness. She added that Her Majesty had deigned to show Baron Funke +Paul had exiled him to his country estate had lived there continuously +pause after this mot to give time for its due appreciation. “The +paused. “I am going because the life I am leading here does not suit +pausing. “The only question is what will come of the meeting between +Pávlovna. +Pávlovna: “Educate this bear for me! He has been staying with me +Pávlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering +Pávlovna, looking up pensively. +Pávlovna’s hand and for some reason drawing it downwards. “Arrange +Pávlovna’s hand, and screwing up his eyes scanned the whole company. +Pávlovna’s was the first he had attended in Russia. He knew that all +peace. The old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was +pearls on their bare shoulders, looked at themselves in the brilliantly +peculiar form of beauty. Everyone brightened at the sight of this pretty +peculiarly deliberate steps. This feeling of disdain was heightened +people and starting to join the army. You should have seen the state of +“People are always too clever with their eldest children and try to +people,” he went on, turning to Anna Pávlovna, “he ever was a hero, +people show to everyone when they are happy. +people were in one of the inner rooms, not considering it necessary to +perception befitting a man of the world, he indicated by a movement of +perform! Prussia has always declared that Buonaparte is invincible, and +“Perhaps later on I may tell you, my dear boy, that if I had not been +perhaps, see and take part in the first Russian encounter with the +“Perhaps the count did not ask for me,” said Pierre when he reached +“Permit me, Princess, to know what is necessary and what is not +personage he was referring to. +personally it would be a pleasure to hand over the supreme command +persons, among them the elderly lady and Anna Pávlovna, did however +Petersburg, and had been expelled from there for riotous conduct and +Petersburg. Anna Mikháylovna, with her tear-worn but pleasant face, +Petersburg. But now this head was swaying helplessly with the uneven +Petersburg—no one knows who will inherit his immense fortune, Pierre +Petersburg on the tenth of August, and her son, who had remained in +Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age +Petersburg to procure an appointment in the Guards for her only son. +Pétya! Good man!” cried he, addressing Pierre. +pe vell. And ve must discuss it as little as po-o-ossible”... he dwelt +philosophizing voice with pleasure. +pick up the glove himself and to pass round the doctors who were not +piercingly. Seeing Prince Andrew she leaned out from behind the apron +Pierre. +Pierre. +Pierre, after all, had not managed to choose a career for himself in +Pierre and himself was in the room, and addressed her in a tone of +Pierre at the age of ten had been sent abroad with an abbé as tutor, +Pierre could not make out what it was all about, and still less what +Pierre did not understand a word, but the conviction that all this had +Pierre drank one glass after another, looking from under his brows at +Pierre gave her an inquiring look. She kissed the young man on his +Pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception at Anna +Pierre had come just at dinnertime and was sitting awkwardly in the +Pierre had taken part in tying a policeman to a bear. He had now been +Pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved +Pierre heard her say: +Pierre. He went up to him, took his hand (a thing he never used to do), +Pierre. It seemed to him that more than half an hour had elapsed. +Pierre listened to the colonel’s speech and nodded approvingly. +Pierre looked at her over his spectacles. +Pierre looked at his friend and, noticing that he did not like the +Pierre looked over his spectacles with naïve surprise, now at him and +Pierre looked questioningly at Anna Mikháylovna to see what he was to +Pierre murmured something unintelligible, and continued to look round as +“Pierre, my dear, come here. I think he will not be out of place in a +Pierre, not knowing whom to answer, looked at them all and smiled. His +Pierre reaching the house first went into Prince Andrew’s study like +Pierre rose to help him. +Pierre rubbed his forehead. +Pierre sat down with his little partner. Natásha was perfectly happy; +Pierre sat up on the sofa, with his legs tucked under him. +Pierre saw that Borís wished to change the subject, and being of the +Pierre seized the crossbeam, tugged, and wrenched the oak frame out with +Pierre’s eyes. +Pierre’s hand to show that there was no need to ask the question. He +“Pierre!” she said. +Pierre shook his head and arms as if attacked by mosquitoes or bees. +Pierre’s legitimation? Do you understand that in consideration of the +Pierre smiled in his good-natured way as if afraid for his companion’s +Pierre’s mind was in such a confused state that the word “stroke” +Pierre’s outburst Anna Pávlovna, despite her social experience, was +Pierre’s remarks, rose and made a sign to his wife that it was time to +Pierre, the one who had behaved so improperly at Anna Pávlovna’s +Pierre threw off his cloak and entered the first room, in which were the +Pierre took off his spectacles, which made his face seem different and +Pierre turned his whole body, making the sofa creak. He lifted his eager +Pierre understood nothing of all this and coloring shyly looked in +Pierre was evident. She kept an anxious watch on him when he approached +Pierre, was only busy causing him annoyance. +Pierre was silent. +Pierre was sitting in the drawing room where Shinshín had engaged him, +Pierre was staying at Prince Vasíli Kurágin’s and sharing the +Pierre was still afraid that this officer might inadvertently say +Pierre was ungainly. Stout, about the average height, broad, with huge +Pierre was very fond of. +Pierre well knew this large room divided by columns and an arch, its +Pierre well remembered this small circular drawing room with its mirrors +Pierre went in at the door, stepping on the soft carpet, and noticed +Pierre went out. +Pierre, who had been growing more and more agitated as he listened to +Pierre who has inherited all the property and has besides been +Pierre, who was lagging behind, to follow. Though he did not see why it +pillows one at a time and shaking them. +pineapple ice. Before the ices, champagne was served round. The band +pitied. She has no one, no one. To tell the truth, I don’t need her, +pity for me. Why is it?” +place and everything waiting for him in the Archives Department! Isn’t +placed a chair for her. +placed them on the window sill, though it was already quite light. +places. Then the strains of the count’s household band were replaced +place! We passed close to the park and saw two deer... and what a +Placing the bottle on the window sill where he could reach it easily, +plain that she understood nothing and was so frightened that her +plan chimerical. +player, in spite of the burden of his equipment, rushed out to the front +playing with the ball of worsted as a kitten should. +play. Involuntarily he felt a joyful agitation at the thought of the +pleasant smile, as if it were obvious to him that his success must +pleasant smile—his eyelids drooping more than half over his old eyes, +“Please, Andrew, for my sake!...” +“Please be quick,” he said. +pleased!” And he held out his hand to the captain. +“Please, Denísov, let me lend you some: I have some, you know,” +pleased to take me as an aide-de-camp....” +pleased with. +“Please have a look at it”—and Kutúzov with an ironical smile +please make way!” +“Please, your excellency, for God’s sake!” he kept saying, +pleasure and listened to the conversation of his two neighbors, whom he +pleasure at the sound of the singing and the sight of the dancing +pleasure to herself and to all around her. “I have brought my work,” +pocket and that’s quite simple and is no one else’s business.” +pocket of his riding breeches, with his eyebrows lifted and his mouth +point.” +point. Ask Denísov whether it is not out of the question for a cadet to +pointing to Nicholas, “his friend Borís has become an officer, and +police tried to interfere, and what did the young men do? They tied +politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony +politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions +politeness modestly placed himself at the disposal of the circle in +political events. +poorer than the poorest beggar. A thousand thanks, dear friend, for the +poor resources I have for entertaining a woman used to the best society. +porch. His landlord, who in a waistcoat and a pointed cap, pitchfork in +porch. Prince Andrew got out of the carriage, helped his little wife to +portfolio. +portfolio, and changed her grip. +portfolio she held in her hand. “All I know is that his real will is +portfolio were the only sounds audible, but it was evident that if +portmanteau into the vehicle, “we are to move on still farther. The +portrait (evidently by the hand of the artist belonging to the estate) +position. He made some notes on two points, intending to mention them to +position is now a terrible one,” continued Anna Mikháylovna, sadly, +position now, Peter Nikoláevich...” +position of that insignificant individual was such as could certainly +position of the army reached him as he went along, and the appearance of +possessor of the finest fortune in Russia. It is rumored that Prince +possible. God preserve us from that terrible misfortune! +possible. His conversation was always sprinkled with wittily original, +possible. Kutúzov himself with all his transport took the road to +posted on a rather steep incline which dominated the French position. +posted, two men appeared on horse back. They were an aide-de-camp +Posting Date: January 10, 2009 [EBook #2600] +Potëmkins or Suvórovs left to oppose him; but he was also convinced +pour vous. *(2) Only a hobbledehoy could amuse himself in this +powder,” said Prince Andrew banteringly yet tenderly. +power.” +powerful nation like Russia—barbaric as she is said to be—to place +prancing horse had splashed mud over some foot soldiers. +Prater... True, we have no Prater here...” +prayed that the daily interview might pass off well. +prearranged sentence. +preening its plumage and became motionless. +pregnant,” said Prince Andrew, following every movement of his +prejudices, and equality of citizenship, and all these ideas Napoleon +prepare a circular, memorandum, or report, skillfully, pointedly, and +prepared to continue, but just then Anna Pávlovna, who had kept a +presence, I will teach you to behave yourself.” +presented he was as little able as his father to change his opinion. He +present I am free and am all right. Only I haven’t the least idea what +present, suddenly pushed forward with a scared and angry look and wanted +preserved all that was good in it—equality of citizenship and freedom +preserve his gravity. +pressed two fingers more and more rigidly to his cap, as if in this +pressure lay his only hope of salvation. +pretending to do something real. Prince Andrew gaily bore with his +pretense of helping, was in everyone’s way. +pretext. The fact is he has come to see Count Cyril Vladímirovich, +prevented her from going on with it. +pride. “That lawsuit taught me much. When I want to see one of those +priests; “all we relatives have been in such anxiety. This young +prince. +Prince.” +Prince. And God only knows where your man Peter is,” said the other +Prince Andrew. +Prince Andrew and his sister, hand in hand, kissed one another, and +Prince Andrew, beginning to understand that his news of the battle +Prince Andrew bowed his head in token of having understood from the +Prince Andrew caught him by the hand. +Prince Andrew could not understand. +Prince Andrew during the battle had been in attendance on the Austrian +Prince Andrew, evidently confused. “I know that out of a million +Prince Andrew felt that either the actions of Kutúzov’s army +Prince Andrew followed her with a courteous but sad expression. +Prince Andrew frowned again, expressing his annoyance with whoever was +Prince Andrew gazed with anxious curiosity at that impassive face +Prince Andrew glanced again at the artillery officer’s small figure. +Prince Andrew glanced at Kutúzov’s face only a foot distant from him +Prince Andrew had gone out into the hall, and, turning his shoulders +Prince Andrew, having reached the front line, rode along it. Our front +Prince Andrew, his face distorted with fury, rode up to him and raised +Prince Andrew kept looking with an amused smile from Pierre to the +Prince Andrew knew how to take his stand so that they respected and even +Prince Andrew looked Anna Pávlovna straight in the face with a +Prince Andrew looked inquiringly at him and gave no reply. +Prince Andrew looked kindly at him, yet his glance—friendly and +Prince Andrew looked sternly at her and an expression of anger suddenly +Prince Andrew moved toward the door from whence voices were heard. +Prince Andrew nodded to him. He still looked ahead while Prince Andrew +Prince Andrew only shrugged his shoulders at Pierre’s childish words. +Prince Andrew replied. Then followed other questions just as simple: +Prince Andrew riding up to the officer. +Prince Andrew rose, shrugged his shoulders, and walked about the room. +Prince Andrew saw that the officer was in that state of senseless, +Prince Andrew’s calm manner of treating everybody, his extraordinary +Prince Andrew screwed up his eyes and turned away. Pierre, who from +Prince Andrew, seeing that his father insisted, began—at first +Prince Andrew shrugged his shoulders. +Prince Andrew sighed and made no reply. +Prince Andrew’s joyous feeling was considerably weakened as he +Prince Andrew smiled. +Prince Andrew smiled as he looked at his sister, as we smile at those we +Prince Andrew smiled involuntarily as he looked at the artillery officer +Prince Andrew smiled ironically. +Prince Andrew stayed at Brünn with Bilíbin, a Russian acquaintance of +Prince Andrew stood right in front of Kutúzov but the expression of +Prince Andrew stopped short. +Prince Andrew. They had known each other previously in Petersburg, but +Prince Andrew told his driver to stop, and asked a soldier in what +Prince Andrew was one of those rare staff officers whose chief interest +Prince Andrew was silent, but the princess noticed the ironical and +Prince Andrew was surveying the position, was the easiest and most +Prince Andrew was to leave next evening. The old prince, not altering +Prince Andrew when he drove up to the palace felt even more vigorous and +Prince Andrew, who had evidently wished to tone down the awkwardness of +Prince Andrew without lifting his eyes rode hastily away from the +“Prince Auersperg is on this, on our side of the river, and is +Prince Bagratión, having reached the highest point of our right flank, +Prince Bagratión rode an officer of the suite, the prince’s personal +Prince Bagratión screwed up his eyes, looked round, and, seeing the +prince, but could not get it quite right.) +Prince Hippolyte approached the little princess and, bending his face +Prince Hippolyte, having brought the workbag, joined the circle and +Prince Hippolyte hurriedly put on his cloak, which in the latest fashion +Prince Hippolyte was lolling in a lounge chair with his legs over its +Prince Hippolyte, who had been gazing at the vicomte for some time +Prince? How priceless are those last moments! It can make things no +“Prince, humanum est errare, * but...” replied the doctor, +prince, she prepared to listen. +prince’s household. General in Chief Prince Nicholas Andréevich +princess and Prince Vasíli, recovering themselves, followed her. A few +princess, and stared fixedly at her through his eyeglass. +Princess Anna Mikháylovna intervened in the conversation, evidently +“Princess Drubetskáya to see Prince Vasíli Sergéevich,” he called +“Princesse, au revoir,” cried he, stumbling with his tongue as well +princesses, sat in a corner knitting a stocking. Pierre had never been +princesses spent most of their time, he greeted the ladies, two of whom +princesses was coming to take her turn at watching. “Let us go.” +princess’ face. She took it quickly and bent her head over it. +princess had been crying after dinner and had spoken of her forebodings +Princess Hélène, Prince Vasíli’s daughter, and the little Princess +Princess. I am at your command.’ Yes, he is a fine fellow and a very +“Princess, I must warn you,” she added, lowering her voice and +princess, looking at Anna Mikháylovna as at a stranger. +Princess Mary could not understand the boldness of her brother’s +Princess Mary did not listen to the end, but continuing her train of +Princess Mary looked at her brother in surprise. She did not understand +Princess Mary rose and moved to the door, then stopped and said: +Princess Mary was first surprised and then aghast at this question. +Princess Mary went back to her room with the sad, scared expression that +princess never saw the beautiful expression of her own eyes—the look +princess’ room, a carriage containing Pierre (who had been sent for) +princess rose. “It’s now two o’clock and you dine at four. There +princess suddenly, her pretty face all at once distorted by a tearful +princess, turning away and continuing to read. But Julie did not flatter +princess went in with the drink she had prepared according to +princess with a pleased smile, as to an intimate acquaintance. +princess with the expression women assume when they suppose they are +prince’s things in my bedroom,” said he to the servant who was +prince to get up, Tíkhon came to call the young prince to his father. +Prince Vasíli always spoke languidly, like an actor repeating a stale +Prince Vasíli and the eldest princess were sitting close together +“Prince Vasíli arrived in Moscow yesterday. I hear he has come on +Prince Vasíli became thoughtful and frowned. Anna Mikháylovna saw that +Prince Vasíli bent his head and spread out his hands. +Prince Vasíli came next. He staggered to the sofa on which Pierre was +Prince Vasíli did not reply, though, with the quickness of memory and +Prince Vasíli kept the promise he had given to Princess Drubetskáya +Prince Vasíli looked questioningly at the princess, but could not make +Prince Vasíli rose. “Oh!” said he with reproach and surprise, +Prince Vasíli said no more and his cheeks began to twitch nervously, +Prince Vasíli saw the princess off. She held a handkerchief to her eyes +Prince Vasíli’s daughter, the beautiful Hélène, came to take her +Prince Vasíli’s face so out of keeping with his dignity that Pierre +Prince Vasíli smiled. +“Prince Vasíli’s son, he, and a certain Dólokhov have, it is said, +Prince Vasíli stared at her and at Borís questioningly and perplexed. +Prince Vasíli was seated in an easy chair in his familiar attitude, +Prince Vasíli wished to obtain this post for his son, but others were +private and had not seen fit to recognize him. But now that Kutúzov had +privilege of admiring her beautiful figure and shapely shoulders, +“Probably,” said Prince Andrew moving toward the outer door. +probably think it easy to gain victories!” he thought. His eyes +probably to strengthen the front line. The smoke of the first shot had +problems in higher mathematics, turning snuffboxes on a lathe, working +proceeding as usual. Denísov, who had been losing at cards all night, +produced an effect she glanced at Anna Pávlovna, at once adopted just +progress. Would you believe it, I have literally not a penny and don’t +projects for peace, a secret peace concluded separately.” +prominent gray eyes. Then she shook her head and glanced up at the icons +promised? Nothing! And what little they have promised they will not +promised not to forget him, distinguished him above the other adjutants, +promise of rising in his diplomatic career. He was still a young man but +promise to Prince Andrew was of no account, because before he gave it +promotion. +promotion...” +proper, and regular motion. But amid these cares her anxiety about +prospect of spending an evening with a poor invalid is not too terrible, +proverb says,” remarked Shinshín, moving his pipe to the other side +P.S. Let me have news of your brother and his charming little wife. +Puckering up his face though smiling, and showing his short strong +pulling him by the chain and trying to set him at the others. +purse. +purse and, drawing its rings aside with his small, white, turned-up +purse undah the pillow,” he said, and went out to the quartermaster. +Pursued by the French army of a hundred thousand men under the command +pushed back in the sitting room where the count and Márya Dmítrievna +pushed the guns and wagons themselves. Whips cracked, hoofs slipped, +put a little aside and to send something to my father,” he went on, +put it in a carriage, and set off with it to visit some actresses! The +put it off. Perhaps God will help me to find a way to prepare him!... +putting them down. When they’ve been put down, the war with Buonaparte +puzzled the devil himself! When you get there you’ll find out what +quartermaster for the money.” +quartermaster’s presence. +quarter of an hour between two fires.” +quarters and riding up to Captain Timókhin who was walking in front. +quarters near Braunau, where they hoped to receive boots and clothes and +queer,” he added after a pause, “that you should have suspected +“Qu’ est-ce qu’il chante?” * asked a Frenchman. +questioned Prince Andrew about the details of his interview with the +questions of health, sometimes in Russian and sometimes in very bad but +questions that might be put to him and the answers he would give. He +quick. +quickly as possible. +quickly. Prince Bagratión, uttering his words with an Oriental accent, +quickly roused himself with a feeling of joy, as if learning afresh that +quickly turned away, a scarcely perceptible smile flitting over his +quick or the enemy will bring up his guns to use grapeshot.” +quietly and humorously how he had known that doll Mimi when she was +quietly and said in a whisper: “Please walk in.” +quilt. The eyes and face of the sick man showed impatience. He made an +quite astonishing. How did you get things settled? I couldn’t possibly +quite certain. Ah! it is very dreadful...” +quite mistaken if you reckon me or my mother among such people. We are +quite opposite reputations. Some, a minority, acknowledged him to be +quite remember how, but don’t you remember that it could all be +“Quite right,” said the Englishman. +quite true; he had been indebted to her father for the first steps in +“Quite well? All right then, sit down.” He took the exercise book +quivering in his breast and a tickling in his nose, and tears dimmed his +quoting one of his own mots, releasing the wrinkles on his forehead, and +radiantly on her beautiful face. Pierre gazed at her with rapturous, +rage, “who are you? Are you in command here? Eh? I am commander here, +railings. He looked back laughing to the Cossack who stood a few +raising his eyebrows. +raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspiring head, smiling +ran forward on each such occasion, fearing to miss a single word of the +range and wipe them out?” These were the questions each man of the +rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna +rank—“I thank you for myself and for our two dear ones whose name +ranks. +ranks in this regiment.” +ran rapidly over the wide space, but he only saw that the hitherto +rapidity. He again vividly recalled the details of the battle, no longer +rapid retreat. Austrian troops that had escaped capture at Ulm and had +rarely left her and which made her plain, sickly face yet plainer. She +rascality....” +rate he glanced at the refractory arm, at Pierre’s terror-stricken +rather confine ourselves to studying those sublime rules which our +rather short, as if surprised that anyone should not know him. +ratify it; but it is only a trick. March on, destroy the Russian +rattle on the bridge as if nuts were being spilt, and the hussar nearest +Rays of gentle light shone from her large, timid eyes. Those eyes lit +reached Bagratión, the weighty tread of the mass of men marching in +reached to his very heels, and, stumbling in it, ran out into the porch +Reaching the large house near the Horse Guards’ barracks, in which +“Read this if you like, Father,” said the princess, blushing still +ready to embrace the countess at the appropriate moment. +really all the same to me when my son’s fate is at stake.” The +really...” But he did not say what “it really” was. “For the +“Really I don’t care about that, I don’t care at all,” said +“Really, I don’t yet know. I don’t like either the one or the +“Really, truly!” answered Natásha, pushing in a crisp lock that had +real state of French public opinion.” +reappeared. +reason for rejoicing, they looked at each other with joyful delight and +reason of her friend’s sorrow, “I’m sure Véra has said something +reasons for Buonaparte’s hatred of him. +recalling Bilíbin’s words. +received. +received as a savior.” +received. A thanksgiving service was arranged, Kutúzov was awarded +received by the Emperor. Had you heard?” +received him with distinction and special marks of favor, explaining to +received was shown him. A strange lady, the one who had been talking to +reception. +reception hall: Michael Ivánovich, Mademoiselle Bourienne, Princess +recognized as legitimate; so that he is now Count Bezúkhov and +recognized him and stopped to listen to what he was saying. Dólokhov +recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it. That is the one +recommended to the Empress) and at the same time to console him, so she +recruiting. None of them had yet seen the manifesto, but they all knew +red hands; he did not know, as the saying is, how to enter a drawing +Red patches appeared on Princess Mary’s face and she was silent as if +red. Several battalions of soldiers, in their shirt sleeves despite +refined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and +reform by marrying him to Prince Andrew’s sister. +regarding him with a smile of approbation. +regard to this project of marriage for me, I will tell you, dear sweet +regimental commander cooling down a little. “Leave indeed.... One says +regimental commander hung his head, silently shrugged his shoulders, and +regimental commander, overtaking the third company on its way to its +regimental commander was nicknamed King of Hearts). +regiment, and Bogdánich knows it. Oh, we do prize it, old fellow! And +regiment but was not liked; Rostóv especially detested him and was +regiment had been broken up. All he knew was that at the commencement +regiment had just the appearance of any Russian regiment preparing for +regiment—instead of the straggling, disorderly crowd it had been on +regiment next to no time, my lad, you’re here today and tomorrow +regiment, saying he was not such a fool as to slave at the front when he +regret. Drawing rooms, gossip, balls, vanity, and triviality—these are +regret her words. But she went on hurriedly: +regularity in his household was carried to the highest point of +regular order. +reinforce the right flank. The officer of the suite ventured to remark +rejects all knowledge that does not come from Him; and the less we seek +relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the +relays. +reluctantly, but gradually with more and more animation, and from habit +remained on the farther side of the bridge facing the enemy, who could +remains of supper. A footman, thinking no one saw him, was drinking on +remain stationary in face of an enemy eight times as strong as itself. +remarked. “Well, sit down: let’s have a talk.” +remarks at him, though without looking at him. +remembered it three months before, when the count had sent him to +remember how we and Nicholas, all three of us, talked in the sitting +“Remember that you will answer for the consequences,” said Prince +repeated from the opening words of the manifesto: +repeating the terms of the bet, addressing himself particularly to +repeating the terms of the wager to him in English. +repeating to himself at each alternate step, “Left... left... +repented and added: “I am glad; really, dear, I am very glad.” +replied. +replied, “and it is that He would be merciful to him and would allow +replied, and the four simply looked at one another. She lingered in the +replied Borís, betraying neither annoyance at the prince’s brusque +replied Prince Vasíli. +reply. +reply to his look, and went still faster along the passage. +report, and began deliberately to examine the whole battlefield extended +reports from our scouts. Here are two letters from Count Nostitz and +reports one after another, and a third. +reports that Prince Auersperg was defending Vienna?” he said. +representative but one of the great century, and that it is his own +reproached him for not having stayed at the palace, and offered him +repulsed, he had lost more than half his men. He said the attack +required papers. Kutúzov and the Austrian member of the Hofkriegsrath +rescue. Pierre had managed to start a conversation with the abbé about +resolute in the discharge of duty, ran out and touching Pierre lightly +resolved not to be the first to break silence, if she had to wait till +resounded on the planks of the bridge, and the squadron, officers in +respected and feared her. +respectfully when the Military Governor, having stayed about half an +respect, he had decided that it would be a good thing to set fire to the +responsibility. But circumstances are sometimes too strong for us, +responsibility of that deed.” +rest, and then...” +rested on Prince Andrew’s face. +resting, and to halt facing Vienna with Znaim to his rear, and if he +restrained animation as he stood sipping tea from a delicate Chinese +restraining her angry tears. +resumed her duties as hostess and continued to listen and watch, ready +resumed its former cold, artificial expression. She returned to the +retreat to the dip by echelons.” So he reasoned.... All the time + return.” +returned from them dragging sheep, fowls, hay, and bulging sacks. At +returned to Moscow and went straight to her rich relations, the +returned to Petersburg quite crestfallen. +returning his smile. +returning to his hobby; “tell me how the Germans have taught you to +returning to the town. The commander in chief made a sign that the +return to her the whole evening. +reverence and was beyond question. +revoir! ”—and she left the hall. +revolution, which has become more terrible than ever in the person of +rich?” +riding a fine bobtailed horse, and a civilian—an accountant who had +rid them of the Bourbons and because they saw that he was a great +right across the skull. Having said this he glanced at Natásha. +right hand, which was lying palm downwards, a wax taper had been thrust +right light.... In my opinion perpetual peace is possible but—I do not +rightly supposes that matters have already gone too far. I think it will +right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that’s what +right—serve him. Nicholas Bolkónski’s son need not serve under +rights of man, is sentenced to...” But before Pierre—who at that +ring, cried from the window: “Come here; part the bets!” This was +ringing, deliberate voice. “I ask an opportunity to atone for my fault +risen and was going toward his room. +rite which everyone expected of him, and that he was therefore bound +river flowed was formed by the rising ground only half a mile away. +rivulet flowed, the soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was +road. Bagratión’s exhausted and hungry detachment, which alone +rode past the limbers to the farthest cannon. +rolled softly over the straw beneath the windows, Anna Mikháylovna, +rolling them up. Márya Dmítrievna always spoke in Russian. +roof lit up by the sun? No one knows, but one wants to know. You fear +Rook—a handsome horse despite its game leg—had the happy air of a +room after supper? Why, we settled how everything was to be. I don’t +room. All were silent. +room and still less how to leave one; that is, how to say something +room. Denísov silently watched Lavrúshka’s movements, and when the +room, grew silent and gazed with eyes full of curiosity or expectancy at +room,” he said. +room. No one spoke and the only sounds heard were the clatter of knives +room. The countess reflected a moment and took a pinch from a gold +room. The prince stood still; his lively glittering eyes from under +room to write to his father, to whom he wrote every day. In the corridor +room, where you will be ranged side by side with a court lackey and an +room with a look of alarm. Between twelve and two o’clock, as the +room without a word. But at the door he stopped and then retraced his +room with the inkstand in her hand. +rose and with her heavy tread went up to the table. She took a sheet of +rose, by a glance inviting Pierre, who sat opposite, to listen to what +rose from an ensign and became Emperor. Well, well, God grant it,” he +Rostóv, absorbed by his relations with Bogdánich, had paused on the +Rostóv, and sighing deeply he took Rook, his horse, which stood resting +Rostóv did not speak. +Rostóv did not think what this call for stretchers meant; he ran on, +Rostóv felt Denísov’s gaze fixed on him, raised his eyes, and +Rostóv, growing red and pale alternately, looked first at one officer +Rostóv heard. +Rostóv, his eyes avoiding Denísov, began buttoning his coat, buckled +Rostóv’s and back, and back again and again in an instant. +Rostóv saw nothing but the hussars running all around him, their spurs +Rostóv shrugged his shoulders as much as to say: “Nor do I, but +Rostóvs, with whom she stayed when in the town and where her darling +Rostóv thrust the purse under the pillow and shook the damp little hand +Rostóv took the money and, mechanically arranging the old and new coins +Rostóv took the money, avoiding Telyánin’s eyes, and went out of the +Rostóv took the purse in his hand, examined it and the money in it, and +Rostóv waved his cap above his head like the German and cried laughing, +Rostóv went to Telyánin’s quarters. +Rostóv wiping his muddy hands on his breeches looked at his enemy and +Rostóv, without returning home, took a horse and rode there. There was +rosy, was sitting in an easy chair with her work in her hands, talking +round and clapping Rostóv on the shoulder with his big hand. +round and notices here a spindle that has stopped or there one that +round an open window. Three others were romping with a young bear, one +round Márya Dmítrievna, now on his toes, now on his heels; until, +round-shouldered Captain Túshin, stumbling over the tail of the gun +round the two corners of the mouth; this, together with the resolute, +“Rousseau’s Contrat Social,” said the vicomte with a tolerant +rows of faces so alike yet so different, holding its breath while the +rows of statues in niches) and looking significantly at the lady’s old +royalist emigrant. +rubbing his bald head and angrily pulling back toward him the little +rubles a year? And,” he went on after a pause, “what will it be in +rubles, Dólokhov lived with him and had placed himself on such a +rum without taking it from my mouth, sitting outside the window on this +Running into Sónya’s room and not finding her there, Natásha ran to +running to the door and the noise of a chair falling over, and a girl +rushed out apparently beside herself with delight. +rushing at the cadet to restrain him. +rush to obey the summons. “Send Dmítri to me!” +Russian army found vent in anger at Zherkóv’s untimely jest. + Russian army, I must say that your victory was not +Russian army loots terribly—her army is destroyed, her capital +Russian army will be fully equipped, and shall then, in conjunction with +Russian bath. The movement of these wrinkles formed the principal play +Russian musketeer who had gone up to the picket line with an officer and +Russian on which he wished to put a contemptuous emphasis. +Russians fought, the only consequence of these actions was a yet more +Russians from Krems to Znaim. +Russian troops and their commander of the laurels they have been +Russian troops were crossing the river Enns. At midday the Russian +Russia were settling near the fortress of Braunau and burdening the +saber which had caught in his cloak. It was an old-fashioned saber of +sacrament, allow him a moment’s peace! Here, Pierre, tell them your +sacrament. The dying man lay as lifeless and immovable as before. Around +sacrificed everything for his sake!” she cried. “It’s splendid! +sacrificed myself. But only the base, the vile succeed! I know who has +saddle, he galloped to the other flank of the squadron and shouted in +sadness, and this occurred every time she mentioned her illustrious +sad voice, as if saying: “Very well, finish me off.” +said. +said: +said a tall, grizzly-haired staff captain, with enormous mustaches and +said Bilíbin as he came out to meet Prince Andrew. “Franz, put the +said Dólokhov. +said he. +said he. “Now for trouble!” Rostóv looked out of the window and +said it, and they all felt awkward. +said Prince Andrew, as he entered the study, rubbing his small white +said Prince Andrew who had not yet had time to eat anything. +said Rostóv, blushing. +said Rostóv in an imploring voice, “but I can’t apologize, by God I +said she in French, displaying her bag and addressing all present. +said she, uttering the word with peculiar assurance and unconcern, “I +said Shinshín, laughing ironically and mixing the most ordinary Russian +said: “That’s bad! Go on, go on.” +said the countess. “But I am in great need of this sum.” +said the general, turning to an artillery officer. “Have a little fun +said: “Then I will go to my rooms. You will let me know when I can see +said the old soldier dismally to a comrade, “you’ll forget to +said the princess, ignoring his question. “Now I know! Yes; if I have +said to her, went to the looking glass and arranged her hair and scarf. +said yesterday... let him grow up with you.... Please.” +said Zherkóv. +sake that the latter might say something he would afterwards regret. +same!” +same?” +same expression, which seemed to say that he had a right to suppose +same firm pressure of the hand and the same quick, repeated bows. As +same mind he began explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the +same!” Pierre often indulged in reflections of this sort, nullifying +same state of excitement as when she had slammed the door of her room. +same time felt shy. +same. You’ll be all right anywhere. But look here: give up visiting +sang the quartette, “The Brook,” with which everyone was delighted. +sarcastic smile. +sat down at her writing table, on which stood miniature portraits and +satisfaction. +satisfied with him?” he asked the regimental commander. +sat up and began wiping her eyes and explaining. +sat waiting for something, and again soldiers straggling from their +sausages and a bottle of wine. +Saviour’s words, that it is easier for a camel to go through the +saw—covered to the waist by a bright green quilt—the familiar, +saw Denísov coming home. Denísov was a small man with a red face, +saw friendly looks and heard friendly words. Yesterday’s adjutant +saw his smile, which said nothing, unless perhaps, “Opinions are +say. +saying. +saying, and sat plunged in thought. Five minutes later, gently swaying +saying something witty and stinging. +saying that the Russian ladies are not equal to the French? One has to +Saying this he again turned round, dropped his hands, took the bottle +say something but could not. Her brother had guessed right: the little +say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and +scabbard and flourishing it. +sca’cwow? Call the quahtehmasteh,” he shouted to Lavrúshka. +scarred and puffy face. +Schérer.” +Schérer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Márya Fëdorovna. +Schönbrunn, 25th Brumaire, 1805, +“Schon fleissig?” * said Rostóv with the same gay brotherly smile +schoolboy called up before a large audience for an examination in which +“Schubert, the colonel of the Pávlograd Hussars, is dining with us +scoundrel is again at our heels!” +scoundrel? Is that how you look at it? We don’t see it like that. And +scratch from one paragraph to another with his hard nail. +scratch yourself.” +screams, continued. +screams kept repeating: +screwing up his eyes and shaking with suppressed laughter, and unable +search of somebody and answered all her questions in monosyllables. He +seat. + SECOND EPILOGUE +“Second line... have you written it?” he continued dictating to the +secretary of the Russian Embassy, do not feel any need in token of my +sedate, and the naïveté of his youthful egotism was so obvious, that +see his face. Anna Mikháylovna left him, and when she returned he was +“See how smart she’s made herself! Oh, the devils!” +see how these nestlings are growing up,” and she pointed to the girls. +Seeing Anna Mikháylovna and her son, Prince Vasíli dismissed the +seem. +seemed confused and blushed as if not knowing what to say. +seemed loaded with a whole houseful of effects. A fine brindled cow with +seemed ready to lift its tail, jump down on its soft paws, and begin +seemed to be Poles—all under the Russian crown—but here they’re +seemed to be seeking something, and soldiers dragging doors, benches, +seemed to groan at the terrible impact. +seemed to hear left... left... left. +seemed to him that Bogdánich rode so near in order to show him his +seemed to me to have an excellent heart, and that is the quality I value +seemed to wish, but to be unable, to diminish its effect. +seeming to grow suddenly smaller, and respectfully received the blessing +seen him since we acted together at the Rumyántsovs’ theatricals. I +seen. Prince Andrew stopped and began examining the position. +seen. The lines of that mouth were remarkably finely curved. The middle +see the soldiers’ shaggy caps, distinguish the officers from the men, +see whether it was firmly plaited, and grasping his by the hand. “The +see you,” he added, bowing his head. +self-confidence, while his body was thin and weak. His eyes, nose, and +self-confident French; then again, like a man weary but unflinching in +self-satisfied. +self-satisfied, youthful, and constant smile of animation, and by the +“Sell me the missis,” said another soldier, addressing the German, +“Semën! Do you know the Daniel Cooper?” +sensation of fear and respect which the old man inspired in all around +sentiments,” he seemed to be saying, “so much the worse for you!” +sent instead of our dear Wintzingerode you would have captured the King +sent to Moscow. The story told about him at Count Rostóv’s was true. +sent you. Religious! I don’t interfere with anyone’s belief... I +separately through his thin compressed lips, “I will throw him down +separation! Though I tell myself that half my life and half my happiness +sergeant in charge of the cannon which was to give the signal to fire +sergeant was carrying in a wooden bowl to an officer who sat on a log +seriousness of his stupid smile, could not but give him a moment’s +serious tone, “but the prince told me to ‘go and tell the colonel +servants say in a frightened whisper. “Catch hold from underneath. +Servants with lanterns were bustling about in the porch. The immense +serve him. Rostóv patted the horse’s neck and then his flank, and +service. A little behind them stood the two younger princesses holding +service... it can’t be helped... one is sometimes a bit hasty on +serving our Tsar and our country, rejoicing in the successes and +set off to rejoin the army, not knowing where he would find it and +setting it on fire and the French batteries were now firing at them, no +setting, on a finely wrought silver chain. +settled down comfortably beside the fire. +settled into three groups. One, chiefly masculine, had formed round +“Settled!” replied Borís. +set without whom my wife cannot exist, and those women.... If you only +seven in the morning but had not reached it by five in the afternoon.” +“Seven new and three old imperials.” +severely. “You don’t wish to apologize, but, man, it’s not only to +severity. The dance grew livelier and livelier. The other couples could +shading his eyes with his small hand. +shadow of the wall. Pausing for a moment, Pierre noticed several other +shako on the back of his head. He came up to the porch gloomily, hanging +shall reproach my wife with anything, and I cannot reproach myself +“Shall we have time to change clothes?” +share defeat and disgrace with Kutúzov’s whole army.” +sharply, with a slight trembling of the lower jaw, “I can’t prevent +shawl had been adjusted he kept his arm around her for a long time, as +she added hurriedly. “No, don’t be angry, but promise! I have asked +she added, turning to her hostess. “You wrote that it was to be quite +she became still more animated and chattered away giving him greetings +she began to smile and talk. He asked about mutual acquaintances, and +She brought into Princess Mary’s strenuous, mournful, and gloomy +she came up fearless and gay to kiss her hand. “I know she’s a scamp +She caught the young officer by his cuffs, and a look of solemnity and +She crossed herself, kissed the icon, and handed it to Andrew. +shed, and its tone was so sincere that he could not but listen. +she faltered. “You are on good terms with Michael Ilariónovich +she felt guilty. +She gave her companion an angry glance. +She grew confused, glanced round, and, seeing the doll she had thrown +She had a fan in her hand that one of the ladies had given her to hold. +She had been married during the previous winter, and being pregnant did +she had finished speaking to him, and now he continued to speak to +she had first entered the room—the smile of a perfectly beautiful +she had just vacated. “You have made the place warm, I must say,” he +she had learned it) she talked with her partner, fanning herself and +she had spoken to Hippolyte in the drawing room and which was so plainly +She has a brother; I think you know him, he married Lise Meinen lately. +She hurriedly ascended the narrow dimly lit stone staircase, calling to +She led him into the dark drawing room and Pierre was glad no one could +“She let the hawk fly upward from her wide right sleeve,” went the +She looked round and seeing that her friend was not in the room ran to +She looked timidly at her brother. +shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, +she moved toward Anna Pávlovna. Hélène was so lovely that not only +she must be on the chest in the passage. The chest in the passage was +“She needs rest,” said Prince Andrew with a frown. “Don’t you, +She pushed the little dog off her lap and smoothed her dress. +She rose and smoothed her hair, which was as usual so extremely smooth +“She said.... Oh yes! She said, ‘Girl,’ to the maid, ‘put on a +she said, trying to smile though tears were in her eyes. +She seemed that day to be more than ever kind and affectionate to +She smiled as she uttered his pet name, “Andrúsha.” It was +She suddenly paused, smiling at her own impetuosity. +She took a pair of pear-shaped ruby earrings from her huge reticule and, +She took his arm and with a happy face went with him into the adjoining +She tried to pass Anna Mikháylovna, but the latter sprang so as to bar +She turned away and gave her hand to the count, who could hardly keep +She turned away from him and glanced at her younger brother, who was +She turned to go, but he stopped her with a gesture and took an uncut +she understood all the gravity of her friend’s trouble. +(She used the word “diplomat,” which was just then much in vogue +she was dancing with a grown-up man, who had been abroad. She was +“She was so tired that she has fallen asleep on the sofa in my room. +“She went. Suddenly there was a great wind. The girl lost her hat and +“She will go to the country.” +Shinshín, a cousin of the countess’, a man with “a sharp tongue” +Shinshín. “He has stopped Austria’s cackle and I fear it will be +shirt, and in every knapsack the appointed number of articles, “awl, +shod in a Tartar boot embroidered with silver, and the firm pressure +shooting at you like a target.” +short sturdy figure with the sinewy hairy hand and stumpy fingers in +shoulder and taking his feet off the sofa. +shoulders and dropped his eyes as if startled by something extraordinary +shoulders and eyes, almost closing the latter, sighed, and moved away +shoulders. Anna Mikháylovna with just the same movement raised her +shoulders, turned out his toes, tapped gently with his foot, and, by +shoulder, their bayonets interlocking, moved over the bridge in a dense +should get not more than two hundred rubles every four months, even +shouted. +shouted Denísov in a bloodthirsty tone. +shouted Denísov, suddenly, turning purple and rushing at the man with +shouted the regimental commander, thrusting forward his jaw and pointing +shouted to him: +showed a paper she held in her hand—with the verses Nicholas had +showed greatness of soul by not fearing to take on himself the whole +showed that, in spite of all his love and respect for his father, he was +show her over, and they’ll talk nineteen to the dozen. That’s +showing the creases where it had been folded and thick gold epaulettes +showing the spot where it burst. +shudder of disgust. +“Shut up!” cried Dólokhov, pushing him away from the window. The +sick man had been laid in a stately pose in keeping with the ceremony +side of the question and you will see that your duty, on the contrary, +side (only now did Pierre realize how near death his father was), and +Sídorov, turning to the French, winked, and began to jabber meaningless +sighed. “I have loved you like a son from the first. Trust yourself to + Sighing its message out to thee... +sight of Murat’s mantle and ostrich plumes, qu’il n’y voit que du +sight of tears and was ready to cry himself. +significantly at her husband) “I’m afraid, I’m afraid!” she +sign of strength. +signs to the footmen, and anxiously glancing from the clock to the door +sign that this was exactly what he had desired and expected. Turning +silence and the regular tramp of feet beating the ground in unison, one +silence at Princess Anna Mikháylovna. After her talk with Pierre, Anna +Silence ensued. The countess looked at her callers, smiling affably, +silent. +silent and seemed confused. The prince asked her about her father, and +silent as he passed by, and moved to make way for him. At first Pierre +silent. At first Kutúzov stood still while the regiment moved; then he +silently, with the languid interest of sick children, at the envoy +silent prayer. Every morning she came in like that, and every morning +silken hangings. On leaving the bed both Prince Vasíli and the princess +sill, leaned over, and looked down. +sill. “Listen!” cried he, standing there and addressing those in the +sill to attract attention. “Wait a bit, Kurágin. Listen! If +simply looking at him. +Since early morning—despite an injunction not to approach the picket +since his appointment as Commander in Chief. He told me himself that +Since then Pierre had not been disturbed and had spent the whole time in +“Singers to the front” came the captain’s order. +sir, for shame! It would be better if you went to the war.” +sister, Catiche, with a vicious and determined look steadily fixed on +sister-in-law’s friendship for you. She was not expecting us?” +sister’s, but while in her case everything was lit up by a joyous, +sister’s room his wife was already awake and her merry voice, hurrying +sister,” was all she said, in a dry and mournful tone. +sister with the mole. +sit down! Sit down, Michael Ivánovich!” +sitting and dropped onto it, covering his face with his hand. Pierre +sitting close to Nicholas who was copying out some verses for her, the +sitting down beside him she began to speak about his father; but he +sitting here in almost the same positions as before, whispering to one +sitting in a conspicuous place and talking to him like a grown-up lady. +sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself +sitting room. +sitting so for a while he rose, and, looking about him with frightened +situation it occurred to him that it was he who was destined to lead it +Sixth Chasseurs whom they had just passed. Prince Andrew was struck by +sixth stroke. The doctors pronounced recovery impossible. After a mute +skittles,” said he in conclusion. +sleep at night. Come now, where has this great commander of yours shown +sleeves!” said Anna Mikháylovna, pointing to Nicholas as he went out. +slender little girl. +slightly open, as if to say, “Yes, yes, I am putting my purse in my +slightly sarcastic smile. “I am Borís, son of Princess Anna +slight smile he began to examine his nails. +small but distinctly visible enemy column was moving down the hill, +small old man, with powdered wig, small withered hands, and bushy gray +“Smart lads! Only fit for a fair!” said one. +smash something. Pushing away the footmen he tugged at the frame, but +smeared with chalk—as white as flour! I suppose they polish him up as +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile, and engaged the smiling Julie in a confidential conversation +smile, and pronouncing the phrase “knocked out” with ringing +smiled and interrupted him. +smile of satisfaction and presented a strange appearance among the +smile on his lips change. +smile was unlike the half-smile of other people. When he smiled, +smiling at his reassuring thoughts. +smiling, but in spite of herself her eyes under their thick long lashes +smiling. “Cela nous convient à merveille.*(2) Suvórov now—he knew +smiling joyfully; and snatching the shawl from the footman, whom he +smilingly inclining his head. +smiling over the fan. +smoke, and an officer catching sight of Bagratión rushed shouting after +smoke spasmodically and screwing up his eyes. This was an old bachelor, +smoke. The excited faces of the soldiers were blackened with it. Some +smoking and talking. He neither smoked nor talked, but bending his head +smooth as a sign that the conversation was at an end. +smoothing down her dress with an inquiring look at her mother, when +snacks.” +snuffbox with her husband’s portrait on it. +so. And, in fact, the last letter he had received from Mack’s army +soap, and all,” as the soldiers say. There was only one circumstance +so beautiful that very often in spite of the plainness of her face +so, but you have no sense about women. What an argumentative fellow you +society. +society, and so her position now is not a rosy one. We should enter into +society had lost her former influential connections. She had now come to +society, more especially of the feminine society, in which I have had +society woman to be buried in the country during the best years of her +so convulsively that her bare little shoulders shook. Natásha’s +so delighted...” came the sounds of animated feminine voices, +so for friendship’s sake he is leaving the university and me, his +soft steps of the footmen. At one end of the table sat the countess with +so he simply held out his bristly cheek (as yet unshaven) and, regarding +so ill that he may die at any moment, and Dr. Lorrain has come from +“So it does,” thought Pierre. +So it seems to me.” +soldier after camp life. Despite his rapid journey and sleepless night, +soldier and the gay and smartly marching men. In the second file +soldier. “I’ll teach you to push on!... Back!” +soldier of forty—looked sternly at the singers and screwed up his +soldiers, after a twenty-mile march, were kept mending and cleaning all +soldiers and officers of various regiments, they saw on their left some +soldiers’ boots. More than half the men’s boots were in holes. But +soldiers forming the picket line, like showmen exhibiting a curiosity, +soldiers held him while two others were flourishing their switches and +soldiers lifted the canteen lids to their lips with reverential faces, +soldiers passed in a semicircle round something where the ball had +soldiers. The company marched on gaily. The soldiers’ voices could be +soldiers to change into their greatcoats. The company commanders ran off +soldiers. “Where are you shoving to? Devil take you! Can’t you wait? +soldier three gold pieces. +soldier with a wagon, who was pressing onto the infantrymen who were +soldier, with his clear blue eyes, stepped forward from the ranks, went +solemn interest and silent approval. The aunt spoke to each of them in +Someday I will tell you about our parting and all that was said then. +Some flash as of an electric spark shot from Telyánin’s eyes to +“Some herb vodka? Certainly!” said Túshin. “But still, to +some inspection business,” remarked the visitor. +some in the sitting room, some in the library. +some men who, carrying pails, came running downstairs, their boots +someone rich and distinguée, and it is on you that his relations’ +someone to fire at. +something.” +something as she whispered: +something big, that splashed into the water. +something disconcerting to himself. +something like qualms of conscience. She had reminded him of what was +something striking and took part in a conversation only when that was +something to drink?” +sometimes four abreast. From all sides, behind and before, as far as ear +sometimes like a chip of wood whirling in the river, an hussar on foot, +Sometimes on his way back from the anteroom he would pass through the +sometimes spend a whole night at his writing table. He worked well +some twenty men of his suite. These gentlemen talked among themselves +somewhere below his throat rushed to his face and eyes. He could not +somewhere beyond them. The hussars did not look round, but at the sound +son.” +song. +song, arousing an involuntary sensation of courage and cheerfulness. +son, Ilyá? Only fancy, I didn’t know you at first. Do you remember +son made no rejoinder, but it was evident that whatever arguments were +son’s affair hushed up, but even he was ordered out of Petersburg.” +son’s arrival: he gave orders to admit him to his apartments while +son, sat at the table writing. He glanced round. +son; Sónya, the count’s fifteen-year-old niece, and little Pétya, +son’s when speaking to him that afternoon, “believe me I suffer no +Sónya and fat little Pétya doubled up with laughter. +Sónya could not continue, and again hid her face in her hands and in +Sónya did not pull it away, and left off crying. Natásha, not stirring +“Sónya, don’t believe her, darling! Don’t believe her! Do you +Sónya sat up. The little kitten brightened, its eyes shone, and it +Sónya, shaking off some down which clung to her and tucking away the +“Sónya,” she suddenly exclaimed, as if she had guessed the true +Sónya trembled all over and blushed to her ears and behind them and +“Sónya! What is anyone in the world to me? You alone are +“Sónya! What is it? What is the matter?... Oo... Oo... Oo...!” And +“Sónya, what is the matter with you? How can you?” said he, running +soon as he had seen a visitor off he returned to one of those who were +soon as the conversation concerned himself he would begin to talk +sooner?” +“Só-o-onya! Look here! How can you torture me and yourself like that, +soothe him. +Sophie—I can’t repeat them—that it made the count quite ill and he +Sophie, the rosy, laughter-loving, youngest princess with the mole, +sorrowful, and all-forgiving expression on her face, stood by the door +sort—(le sort de l’armée d’Ulm).” * He remembered these words +so that his mouth, the most striking feature of his face, was clearly +so that she felt herself surrounded on all sides by the acrid scent of + * So that squares matters. +“So that’s what they hit with?” asked the accountant. “How +So the swishing sound of the strokes, and the desperate but unnatural +so the worse the condition it was in, the better pleased the commander +“So they will,” said Nesvítski. “No, but what I should like,” +so to me? What have I done to you? You are going to the war and have no +soul to see such men as the old count and his worthy son,” said she. +sounded and you’ll be in a pretty position without your boots!” (The +sounded louder and calmer, the stretchers disappeared from sight. +sounded much like irony. But Kutúzov went on blandly smiling with the +sounded still more firm and resolute. +sound of footsteps. +sound of kissing. When Prince Andrew went in the two princesses, who +sound of officers’ voices in eager conversation. +sound of that sentence: “Contez nous çela, Vicomte.” +sound of these voices, the inattentive way Kozlóvski looked at him, the +sounds very fast: “Kari, mala, tafa, safi, muter, Kaská,” he said, +so widely from a private. +“Soyez tranquille, Lise, you will always be prettier than anyone +“So you are really going to the war, Andrew?” she said sighing. +So young, and burdened with such riches—to what temptations he will be +spadefuls of red clay were continually being thrown up from behind the +sparkling black eyes, and black tousled mustache and hair. He wore an +speaking of Berg as her “intended.” The count sat between them and +speaking playfully of a matter that evidently distressed him. +speaking quickly with a harsh German accent, looking to both sides and +speaking very gently. +specially amiable mood that day. +specially choice delicacy a piece of meat that no one who had seen it in +spectacles and white dressing gown, in which he received no one but his +spend time in reading what is unintelligible and can therefore bear +spirited impression. +spirit will not and cannot understand the Emperor Alexander’s +spite of his money. They wanted to introduce him to me, but I quite +Splendid! And I am sitting here ill, as you see.” +splendid house!” +splendidly.” +splendid soldiers. Besides he began by attacking Germans. And only +“Splendid! What a horse he will be!” he thought with a smile, and +spoil her, but really that seems the best plan. With her elder sister I +spoke as if his sole aim were to put a given number of questions—the +spoken to the gentleman ranker, he addressed him with the cordiality of +spoke particularly slowly, as if to impress the fact that there was no +spoke smilingly and listened with a laugh. +spoke to the taciturn Michael Ivánovich more often than to anyone else. +spot” (he stooped and pointed to the sloping ledge outside the window) +spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbé’s +spreading out his legs and putting his hands on his knees with the air +spread out her arms to show her short-waisted, lace-trimmed, dainty gray +spread out his arms with a choleric gesture. +spring up with more energy and again play with her cousin as soon as +squadron. All were looking at the enemy in front and at the squadron +squadron commander. +squadron in which Nicholas Rostóv served as a cadet was quartered in +squadron may be recommended for honors and he may get a ribbon. Our +squadron’s officers in Denísov’s quarters. +squadron, that in which Rostóv was serving under Denísov, to return to +squatting on his heels in front of a clerk. The clerk, with cuffs turned +staff...” +staff?” +staff captain’s question by a disapproving shake of his head. +staff officer. +staff officer, and at Zherkóv, and he frowned. +staff officer smiled.) “Kindly return to your posts, gentlemen, all of +stairs and up another, to Pierre’s rooms. +standing together out of range of the shots, watching, now the small +standing up, on which lay an open exercise book, and the lathe with +stand made at Krems and the victory over Mortier raised the spirits of +starry night was followed by a bright cheerful morning. The snow was +stars on his breast. He seemed to have grown thinner since the morning; +starting from their sockets to watch their chief. On reaching the +start my apprenticeship as old maid.” +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WAR AND PEACE *** +stating them to the Emperor Francis. He vividly imagined the casual +stayed his hand. The sergeant, who was evidently wiser than his general, +staying the whole evening, I hope?” +steadily and ceaselessly on all sides. With the exception of the aunt, +step; a soldier who had fallen behind, his face showing alarm at his +step could be heard. On their left flank, nearest to Bagratión, marched +stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant +stepped softly over the carpet and went out into the waiting room. +steps. +steps behind him holding two horses by their bridles. Each time Prince +steps. Behind the company the sound of wheels, the creaking of springs, +steps down the line. He was evidently pleased at his own display of +steps, her workbag on her arm, and gaily spreading out her dress sat +steps. “O God,” he said with tears in his eyes, “how could you do +step that for you all is ended, all is closed except the drawing +stern but handsome face really joined in the dance. What was expressed +stern eyes on his son. +sternly with a threatening and forbidding movement of her head. +stern, threatening, inaccessible, and intangible line which separates +still five men between him and Dólokhov with his bluish-gray uniform. +still gazed at the spot where Pierre’s face had been before he sat +still he was lifted and laid on the stretcher. +still in the drawing room, drew a chair toward him or her, and jauntily +Still, I will take Borís and go to see him at once, and I shall speak +still looking silently at her brother and her beautiful eyes were full +still quite a young lady, before her nose was broken; how she had aged +Still smiling, she gracefully moved away, turning and glancing at her +still sound, yellowish teeth. +“Still the same; but what can you expect, this noise...” said the +still why didn’t you capture him? So don’t be surprised if not only +stir around him, then the people resumed their places and the service +stones of the pavement. +stood waiting by the door. +“Stop jesting,” said Prince Andrew sadly and seriously. This news +stopped and glanced inquiringly over his spectacles at his guide. Anna +stopping occasionally at a corner to make menacing gestures at the wall, +“Stop this jesting,” he said. +stouter!...” +straight into his son’s face with keen eyes which seemed to see +strains of Daniel Cooper (somewhat resembling those of a merry peasant +straw covered street and turned into the wide courtyard of Count Cyril +strayed from under her friend’s plaits. +streets of Brünn and found himself surrounded by high buildings, the +stretchers came into view before Rostóv. And the fear of death and of +“Stretchers!” shouted someone behind him. +(Strictly speaking, Daniel Cooper was one figure of the anglaise.) +strictly to obey. You said the bridge would be burned, but who would it +striking a blow!” +striking him regularly on his bare back. The man shrieked unnaturally. +Striking his horse with his long muscular legs as if it were to blame +strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and are surrounded by other such +struck the ground in front of them. +struck two and another with a shrill tone joined in from the drawing +study, on the blue sofa, the confidential sofa? Why cannot I now, as +style, wearing an antique coat and powdered hair; and when Prince Andrew +subject, and was thus at the duc’s mercy. The latter spared him, and +subject under discussion than those they are talking with. +subordinate by me. +subordinate commanders was done, if not by his direct command, at least +subsiding under the delightful interest of his own story, “is that the +subtleties here beyond my feeble intelligence, but I can’t make it +succeeded in forestalling the French he was to delay them as long as +succeeded in setting two loquacious talkers at one another. +such bad health, and now this vexation about his son is enough to kill +such things about Bonaparte, but understanding that he was wanted as +suddenly. +Suddenly Dólokhov made a backward movement with his spine, and his arm +suddenly from the next room were heard the footsteps of boys and girls +suddenly heard a sound new to him, of something swiftly approaching... +Suddenly Prince Hippolyte started up making signs to everyone to attend, +Suddenly she jumped up onto a tub to be higher than he, embraced him so +Suddenly the angry, squirrel-like expression of the princess’ pretty +suggested to him a blow from something. He looked at Prince Vasíli +suggested to him a point of view which gave him a right to despise +suggestion and pressed his lips to the large boned, fleshy hand. Neither +suite. +suite, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the gun they could see +suite and said in French: +suite who had mimicked the regimental commander, fell back from the +sumptuous but cold apartments known to Pierre only from the front +sun. How beautiful the sky looked; how blue, how calm, and how deep! +superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence. He +supported him under the arms. There was a gurgle in his throat and he +support of his battery all was forgotten. Prince Andrew listened +supposed, share the general Russian antipathy to the Austrians which was +suppose that I should look severely on your affection for that young +“Surely he will leave something to Borís,” said the countess. +surprise.” +surrendered but had beaten the French. +surveying the guests, and leisurely arranged her wide sleeves as if +Suvórov giving his saber to Bagratión in Italy, and the recollection +Suvórov’s wars. Send it to the Academy. Here are some jottings for +swallowing his r’s, and pronouncing the Latin words with a French +sweeter, and better than the feelings which the beautiful eyes of a +sweetest comforts to my poor heart, which has already suffered so much. +sweetly. It was the third time that day that, with an ecstatic and +sweet, so good-natured, and her position now is a very hard one.” +swinging their arms and keeping time spontaneously, marched with long +symmetrically on his knees in the naïve attitude of an Egyptian statue, +table. +table and becoming more animated and talking more rapidly: “what if +table. Denísov was sitting there scratching with his pen on a sheet of +table linen, he would call Dmítri Vasílevich, a man of good family and +table that he had pushed away. “But... in short, the fact is... you +table. “What are you thumping the table for?” she demanded of the +“Take a glass of boiled water and put a pinch of cream of tartar,” +take a seat beside her. +“Take a stick between your legs, that’ll suit you for a horse!” +take it...” He threw it on the table. “I have an old father and +“Take it if you like,” said the officer, giving the girl an apple. +“Take it right out, or they’ll think I’m holding on,” said +taken advice; but no, you go and blurt it all straight out before the +taken, and all this for the beaux yeux * of His Sardinian Majesty. And +taken and I hope it will not be, for it is mined and orders have been +take part in receiving the visitors. The count met the guests and saw +takes place at such moments. +take the money,” and he threw the purse to him and ran out of the inn. +take these away. Put this on the seat and this to the right.” +“Take this and deliver it,” said he to his adjutant, handing him the +taking advantage of it!” +taking a glass from the table he went up to Pierre. +taking a letter addressed in a woman’s hand from a bag hanging above +taking charges from their pouches, while others were firing, though who +taking leave of Anna Pávlovna. “It is settled,” she added in a low +taking no notice of his arrival. A wax candle stood at each side of the +taking offense, but you don’t mind disgracing the whole regiment!” +taking out what she was holding inside it, as if what she held were +talked of peace but did not believe in its possibility; others talked +talking about me? Let us talk about you,” he added after a silence, +talking. Seeing them pass, Prince Vasíli drew back with obvious +talking too loudly and vehemently with the abbé, so she hurried to the +tangled black hair. +taste. And she had a lady’s maid, also big. She said....” +teacher’s fault or the pupil’s, this same thing happened every day: +teach you to dress the men in fancy coats for a parade.... Eh...?” +tears.” +teeth, he began with stubby fingers of both hands to ruffle up his thick +telling her things. She has had a dream and is frightened.” +telling me what forces are being collected against him! While you and I +“Tell me about that!” he said. +tell me,” he added with studied carelessness as if it had only just +“Tell me, my dear,” said she to Natásha, “is Mimi a relation of +“Tell me, when did the battle begin?” he asked hurriedly. +“Tell these devils, these fiends, to let me pass!” shouted Denísov +tell you for the tenth time that if the letter to the Emperor and the +Telyánin. +Telyánin. +Telyánin, and he went out to give the order. +Telyánin’s orderly. “Has something happened?” he added, surprised +Telyánin, taking up his cap and moving toward a small empty room. “We +Telyánin was sitting in the same indolent pose in which Rostóv had +temptation she slipped quietly behind one of the columns. In the midst +tenacious endurance and vigor of hardy old age. After a few more turns +tenderly sad voice, she said: +Ten minutes later Lavrúshka brought the coffee. “He’s coming!” +terrible and holy secrets of Providence while we remain in this flesh +terrible dragon, a lady distinguished not for wealth or rank, but for +terribly true. I pity Prince Vasíli but am still more sorry for Pierre. +tête-de-pont. * They spin him a thousand gasconades, saying that +“Thank God,” said his son smiling. +“Thank you, my dear.” She kissed him on the forehead and sat down +“Thank you very much, I will go on alone,” said Prince Andrew, +“Thank you very much, Prince,” answered one of the officers, pleased +thank you! You must have a rest. Be at the levee tomorrow after the +than once. “You know it won’t do to leave your posts like this. +than with politics,” said he in his quiet ironical tone. “I know +“That abbé is very interesting but he does not see the thing in the +that affair for me and I shall always be your most devoted slave-slafe +that afternoon. She felt that as she brought with her the person the +that all Europe is powerless before him.... And I don’t believe a +that Anna Mikháylovna whom I would not take for a housemaid... the +that both her slender bare arms clasped him above his neck, and, tossing +that came upon him at Hollabrünn, which was clearly impossible. But +that could save the army, and how he alone would be entrusted with the +that evening to bid a last farewell to the celebrated grandee of +that everything done by necessity, by accident, or by the will of +that everything was splendid. “Just fancy: wants to be an hussar. +that friendship?” remarked the count in an inquiring tone. +that had already once been given in detail: “and tell the hussars +that had placed the Vienna bridge in the hands of the French without +that he decided to go. The thought immediately occurred to him that his +“that here lives Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov so rich, all +that he was at the front and in the power of a man toward whom he now +that his heart stood still. His hand trembled as he gave his horse into +that his remarks were too enthusiastic and emphatic for the occasion and +that if he asked on behalf of all who begged of him, he would soon be +that imprint of newness found in the households of the newly married. +that insignificant society people might carry them from drawing room to +that in spite of all the unpleasantness he had to endure he would still +that in this world there is neither honor nor justice. In this world one +“That is all nonsense.” Prince Andrew again interrupted him, “let +“That is doubtful,” said Prince Andrew. “Monsieur le Vicomte quite +that is not yet ready. +That is still too fresh. Ah, dear friend, you are happy not to know +“That is what I ask you. No one, not even Bonaparte, knows why.” +“That is why I beg to be sent to that detachment,” he said. +“That is, with Ilyá Rostóv who married Nataly Shinshiná,” said +that it seemed to be made of one piece with her head and covered with +that I was ungrateful, and that Mamma would never allow him to marry +“that letter was written, though it was not sent, and the Emperor knew +that makes me unhappy. But even in this I can see lately a shade of +that moment been wounded and his face showed fear rather than suffering. +that more irritating news than yours could not have been conceived. +that negotiations for peace were already proceeding, and that he +That one also passed. Then followed a cart unlike any that had gone +that Pierre could no longer see the reddish-yellow face with its gray +that provisions are supplied and the routes indicated,” said Bilíbin, + * “That Russian army which has been brought from the ends of +“That’s all right. No one thinks you a coward, but that’s not the +That same evening there was an animated discussion among the +That same night, having taken leave of the Minister of War, Bolkónski +“That’s a miwacle.” +“That’s better, Count,” said the staff captain, beginning to +“That’s fine,” said he. +“That’s for them all,” he said to the officer who came up. +that she had not intended her flight to bring her so far. Behind her in +that showed that his father’s foibles did not prevent his son from +“That’s how we used to dance in our time, ma chère,” said the +that’s it.” And with a complacent sigh he would return to the +“That’s just it,” answered Bilíbin. “Listen! The French entered +“That’s just it, my dear fellow. You see it’s hurrah for the Tsar, +That smile was immediately reflected on Pierre’s face. +“That’s not the point, my dear.” +That soldier passed on, and after him came another sitting on a cart. +“That’s our battery,” said the staff officer indicating the +that stood before his plate, Pierre held out one at random and drank +“That’s true!” +“That’s twue, devil take it!” shouted Denísov, jumping up. “Now +that sum. “He’s begun to go a little lame on the left foreleg,” he +“That’s what comes of a modern education,” exclaimed the visitor. +that’s why I have come... I am a relation. I shall not disturb him, +that the Corsican monster who is destroying the peace of Europe may +that the hussars must return quickly and fire the bridge.’” +that there were no political difficulties in Europe and no real war, +that the strange lady, the aide-de-camp, and some of the servants, all +that they are to cross last and to fire the bridge as I ordered; and the +that they despaired of the possibility of checking this disorder. +that they may run smoothly. +that tonight he was a person obliged to perform some sort of awful +that village, amid the smoke, was something resembling a battery, but it +“That was a Daniel Cooper!” exclaimed Márya Dmítrievna, tucking up +“That was a nice snub for the little aide-de-camp,” came a voice +that were afloat, and so Kutúzov’s suggestion of an Austrian victory +that were arriving from Russia. If Kutúzov decided to remain at Krems, + That while her fingers touch the harp +that will decide the matter, but those who devised it,” said Bilíbin +“That would be a fine thing!” said she. “I never wanted anything +“That would be fine, gentlemen!” +“That would take too long to tell,” answered the son. +that year to Moreau to enter the Russian service.... “Wonderful!... +thawing in the sunshine, the horses galloped quickly, and on both sides +the 18th Brumaire; was not that an imposture? It was a swindle, and not +the abbé. Another, of young people, was grouped round the beautiful +The Abbé Morio and many others had also come. +the adjutant and the minister. “Away from the smell of powder, they +The adjutant on duty, meeting Prince Andrew, asked him to wait, and went +the adjutant on duty,” said the official. “He will conduct you to +the advanced army. Prince Andrew Bolkónski came into the room with the +the advantages are far less than in the infantry. Just consider my own +the agility with which he capered about on his light feet, Márya +The aide-de-camp was sent to confirm the order which had not been +the aide-de-camp with a respectful politeness evidently relating to the +the anteroom. “I can’t remain any longer in Petersburg. Tell me what +the Archduchy of Austria, and yet other regiments freshly arriving from +the Archduke Ferdinand and Mack, and Kutúzov, not considering this +the architect. +the armistice immediately and march on the enemy. Inform him that the +the army, and about whom Natásha had teased her elder sister Véra, +the army considerably. Throughout the whole army and at headquarters +the army now that it is in danger. I understand that. Mon cher, it is +the army was a great grief to me. This young man, of whom I spoke to you +the arrival of the rest of the troops who were on their way from Vienna, +The Austrian general looked dissatisfied, but had no option but to reply +the baggage wagons had all crossed, the crush was less, and the last +the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young +the baron. +the battalion commander. “Oh, my God!” he added, stepping resolutely +The battalion commander perceived the jovial irony and laughed. +The battle had begun! Prince Andrew turned his horse and galloped back +“The Berlin cabinet cannot express a feeling of alliance,” began +the better. But Bogdánich, without looking at or recognizing Rostóv, +The black, hairy, snub-nosed face of Váska Denísov, and his whole +the Bohemian mountains with. It’s a bad lookout, old fellow! But +the bonfires of our infantry who were felling wood. The French line was +the boots. +The bottle of rum was brought. The window frame which prevented anyone +the bridge. +the bridge and its celebrated bridgehead and Prince Auersperg? We heard +the bridge and not let us cross? But it will please our sovereign the +the bridge chased each other along. Looking on the bridge he saw equally +the bridge, for the horizon as seen from the valley through which the +the bridge unobserved, flings the bags of incendiary material into +“‘The Brook,’” suggested Nicholas. +The card tables were drawn out, sets made up for boston, and the +the care of a skillful rider and, slightly bending over, disengaged his +the carved back of a velvet chair he had turned round for the purpose, +The case is this: you ought to have thought the matter over and +the chair for her. +the changed expression on Prince Bagratión’s face at this moment. It +The chanting of the service ceased, and the voice of the priest was +The cheerful mood of their officers after the inspection infected the +The clear blue eyes looked at the commander in chief just as boldly as +the clever though shy, but observant and natural, expression which +the climate,” said he. +The coach with six horses was waiting at the porch. It was an autumn +The coin was a new one. Rostóv rose and went up to Telyánin. +the cold wind, swarmed in these earthworks like a host of white ants; +the colonel, closely—to find in his face confirmation of his own +The colonel deliberately stopped the regiment and turned to Nesvítski. +The colonel looked silently at the officer of the suite, at the stout +The colonel told them that the declaration of war had already appeared +The colonel was a stout, tall, plethoric German, evidently devoted to +“The commander in chief is engaged,” repeated Kozlóvski calmly. +“The commander in chief is engaged,” said Kozlóvski, going +The commander in chief is expected and you leave your place? Eh? I’ll +the commander in chief, Kutúzov. +the commander in chief’s one sound eye showed him to be so preoccupied +the commander in chief would inspect the regiment on the march. Though +The commander of the company, with his eyes fixed on his superior, +the commander of the dragoons had already retreated beyond the dip in +The commander of the regiment, a thin, feeble-looking old man with a +The commander of the regiment turned to Prince Bagratión, entreating +The commander of the regiment was an elderly, choleric, stout, and +the commander with a tone of suffering in his voice, while there were +the company commander might get killed and he, as senior in the company, +the conversation, “almost all the aristocracy has already gone over to +the conversation broke up into insignificant small talk about the last +The conversation was hushed. +the convoy officer. +The count burst out laughing. The other guests seeing that Shinshín +The count came waddling in to see his wife with a rather guilty look as +The count danced well and knew it. But his partner could not and did not +the count, dying with laughter. +the countess as her mother and called her so) “that I am spoiling +The countess exchanged glances with Anna Mikháylovna. The latter +The countess’ eyes filled with tears and she pondered in silence. +The countess tried to frown, but could not. Márya Dmítrievna shook her +The countess was a woman of about forty-five, with a thin Oriental type +The countess was upset by her friend’s sorrow and humiliating poverty, +the countess, with a smile. +The count, holding his cards fanwise, kept himself with difficulty from +“The count is suffering physically and mentally, and apparently you +The count jumped up and, swaying from side to side, spread his arms wide +the count, my uncle; but you, my dear, had better go to Pierre meanwhile +the count was beginning to breathe heavily and quickly which was always +The count went in first with Márya Dmítrievna, the countess followed +The crowd moved on again. Nesvítski realized that it was a cannon ball. +the crowd of retreating soldiers, ordering them back. Bagratión rode up +the crystal decanters and fruit vases, the count kept glancing at his +the determination of Denísov who flourished his sword and shouted +“The devil only knows! They say so.” +“The devil only knows what they’re about!” muttered Denísov. +“The devil skin your Emperor.” +the dinner sat silent, glancing with a frightened look now at her +“The divine mercy is inexhaustible! Unction is about to be +The doctor cast a rapid glance upwards and silently shrugged his +The doctor glanced at his watch. +the door. +the door himself behind him. +the doorway appeared a student with a crimson coat collar, an officer +the drawing room. He evidently tried to find something to say, but +The dull, sleepy expression was no longer there, nor the affectation +the duties of wife and mother upon me I shall try to perform them as + the earth by English gold, we shall cause to share the same +The elderly lady was a Princess Drubetskáya, belonging to one of the +The elders began talking about Bonaparte. Julie Karágina turned to +The eldest princess paused in her reading and silently stared at him +the Emperor about him; so that in the case of his death—and he is +the Emperor Alexander and the King of Prussia in Berlin? If Prussia +“The Emperor Alexander,” said she, with the melancholy which +The Emperor interrupted him. +the Emperor spoke to him most graciously. Annette and I were speaking of +The Emperor thanked Prince Andrew and bowed. Prince Andrew withdrew and +the enchanted circle I cannot escape from. I am now going to the war, +The Englishman nodded, but gave no indication whether he intended to +The Englishman took out his purse and began counting out the money. +The English will come off badly, you know, if Napoleon gets across the +the Enns and the Danube became visible, and the rocky left bank of the +the enormously high study door opened and showed the figure of a rather +The enormous study was full of things evidently in constant use. +the entrenchment, and went on again. Just behind it they came upon some +the Epistles and Gospels. Let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries +“The execution of the Duc d’Enghien,” declared Monsieur Pierre, +the exercise book containing geometrical figures. +the expression she saw on the maid of honor’s face, and again relapsed +The eyes of the general and the soldier met. The general became silent, +the face of each soldier and each officer seemed to say. +The face of the little princess changed. She sighed and said: “Yes, +The faces of officers and men brightened up at the sound. Everyone got +“The fact of the matter is,” said she significantly, and also in a +the fall of Austria’s capital. “How is it Vienna was taken? What of +(the family solicitor) “and he says the same.” +The farther forward and nearer the enemy he went, the more orderly and +the feather bed. Natásha began consoling her, but her face showed that +The feeling, “It has begun! Here it is!” was seen even on Prince +the fire of life had seemed extinguished, now flashed with brilliant +The first door on the left led into the princesses’ apartments. The +the first time. Sometimes that same look fell on Pierre, and that funny +the foreman of a spinning mill, when he has set the hands to work, goes +The foremost, wearing a Cossack cloak and lambskin cap and riding a +the French, after crossing the bridge at Vienna, were advancing in +the French grenadier. +The French guns were hastily reloaded. The infantry in their blue +The French had time to fire three rounds of grapeshot before the hussars +“The French have abandoned the left bank?” +The French onlookers and listeners laughed. +the French sentences which to them were meaningless, with an air of +The French, the spy reported, having crossed the Vienna bridge, were +the French were firing, and he felt his heart palpitating as he rode +the French with his whole army was impossible. The road for the French +The friends were silent. Neither cared to begin talking. Pierre +the front, but at Dürrenstein, where I was, our attack began after +the fulfillment of duty, he rose to see some visitors off and, stroking +the full significance of the words he heard. +the gates, a group of undertakers, who hid whenever a carriage drove up, +The general frowned. Though there was no definite news of an Austrian +The general frowned, turned away, and went on. +The general’s face clouded, his lips quivered and trembled. He took +The generals were passing by, looking as if they wished to avoid +the general... third company to the commander.” The words passed along +the general, who looked through his field glass. +the gentlemen around. +The gentlemen assembled at Bilíbin’s were young, wealthy, gay society +The German closed his eyes, signifying that he did not understand. +the German landlord. +The German laughed, came out of the cowshed, pulled off his cap, and +the German village of Salzeneck. The best quarters in the village were +The girl smiled and took it. Nesvítski like the rest of the men on the +the gleaming icons stood a long invalid chair, and in that chair +the good-natured expression still more apparent, and gazed at his friend +the Grand Cross of Maria Theresa, and the whole army received rewards. +The gray-haired valet was sitting drowsily listening to the snoring of +the greatest war there ever was, and I know nothing and am fit for +the ground, as a heavy fire had been opened on him and he was losing +the group round Mortemart to listen to what was being said there, and +the Guards to the field of battle, afraid of letting a ready victim +The guests got up and took their leave, promising to return to dinner. +the guests, knowing of the affair with the bear, looked with curiosity +the gunners who had seized it straining to roll it quickly back to its +the hall porter, “I know Count Cyril Vladímirovich is very ill... +The hall porter sullenly pulled a bell that rang upstairs, and turned +the hand nor a single muscle of the count’s face stirred. Once more +The handsome Véra smiled contemptuously but did not seem at all hurt. +The handsome Véra, who produced such an irritating and unpleasant +The head of the column had already descended into the hollow. The clash +The headquarters were situated two miles away from Salzeneck, and +the head that he was considering this information. +The high-shouldered figure of Zherkóv, familiar to the Pávlograds as +the hollow the less they could see but the more they felt the nearness +the honor of being received, that I have not yet had time to think of +the honor of the flag... Well, never mind, it’s true I’m to blame, +“The hoof’s cracked! That’s nothing. I’ll teach you what to do +“The hours are the same, and the lathe, and also the mathematics and +the house where the commander in chief was. +the hussars.” +the hussar shouted back. +The hussars ran back to the men who held their horses; their voices +the icons and there was a pleasant scent of flowers and burnt pastilles. +the icons, as though declaring to all that she could not answer for +The imposing figure of Nesvítski followed by his Cossack, and +The infantry who had been stopped crowded near the bridge in the +the intellectual lights of Petersburg were gathered there and, like a +their battery a milk-white cloud arose. Then came the distant report of +their bayonets and guns. +Their conversation would probably have been different but for the effect +their courage before him. +their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for +their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company +their journey. She answered him and continued her chatter. +their long hair falling over their magnificent glittering vestments, +their musical talent, to sing something. Natásha, who was treated as +their own form of government; and I believe that once free from the +Their sabers catching in the bridles and their spurs jingling, the +their seats, went up to “congratulate” the countess, and reached +their thick, bushy eyebrows sternly scanned all present and rested on +their way to negotiate with Prince Auersperg. He lets them enter the +their woman’s way! I am glad to have her. Sit down and talk. About +the kitchen would have cared to eat, so Anna Pávlovna served up to +the landing. “I’d better go to my own room.” +The large table covered with books and plans, the tall glass-fronted +The last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing +the last syllable of the general’s name like a Frenchman, “has been +the late Emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the King of Prussia.’ He is +the left, and took up the bottle. Anatole brought two candles and +the left! Wait a bit.” But the soldiers, crowded together shoulder to +the letter away, and leaning his elbows on the table he drew toward him +The lieutenant never looked the man he was speaking to straight in the +“The limits of human life ... are fixed and may not be +the lines and an adjutant ran to look for the missing officer. +The little kitten, feasting her eyes on him, seemed ready at any moment +The little princess did not, or did not wish to, hear his words. She was +The little princess during the whole discussion and the rest of +The little princess entered the room. The passage broke off in the +The little princess had also left the tea table and followed Hélène. +The little princess had grown stouter during this time, but her eyes +the little princess, kissing her. “I know you already through my +The little princess lay in the armchair, Mademoiselle Bourienne chafing +the little princess. She felt, as courtiers do when the Tsar enters, the +The little princess talked incessantly, her short, downy upper lip +The little princess went round the table with quick, short, swaying +the little town could be seen with its white, red-roofed houses, its +The lively song gave a special flavor to the tone of free and easy +the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. And +the long German carts six or more pale, dirty, bandaged men were being +The magnificent reception room was crowded. Everyone stood up +the maintenance of the balance of power of Europe, and it would save the +them. All eyes fastened involuntarily on this French column advancing +the manager of all his affairs, and while looking with pleasure at the +them. And among all these faces that he found so tedious, none seemed +The manly voice again interrupted the artillery officer. +the march: in their greatcoats, and packs, and without any preparation + * The marshalls. +“The master is not in, he’s gone to headquarters,” said +the matter depended on my personal wishes, the will of His Majesty the +“The means are ... the balance of power in Europe and the rights of +The member of the Hofkriegsrath looked at him severely but, seeing the +the memory of a remote event long past. +the men and women had separated as in church. All were silently crossing +them from the other end of the corridor, Strauch, an Austrian general +The Military Governor of Moscow, who had been assiduous in sending +the mines and blow up the bridge, this sergeant, seeing that the French +the Minister of War.” +the Minister of War but also his Most August Majesty the Emperor and +them, neither do I condemn them. Only it seems to me that Christian +them now! And yet really the anxiety is greater now than the joy. One is +them off, inviting them all to dinner. +the moment Prince Andrew entered the room had watched him with glad, +the morning, carriages with six horses had been coming and going +the morning she told the Rostóvs and all her acquaintances the details + * The most fascinating woman in Petersburg. +The mother smoothed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large +the mothers, wives, and children of the men who were going and should +themselves, and the reading of the church service, the subdued chanting +the mud off his face with his sleeve. “Perched up there, you’re more +then....” +the nations? Adorable! It is enough to make one’s head whirl! It is as +then believe an expert. I have just been talking to Dmítri Onúfrich” +then, brothers, on to glory, led by Father Kámenski.” This song had +the new Campo Formio are to be drawn up.” +The news of Count Bezúkhov’s death reached us before your letter +Then he remained silent for a while, and all at once looked cheerfully +The night he received the news, Kutúzov sent Bagratión’s vanguard, +The night was dark but starry, the road showed black in the snow that +“Then I’ll have it brought round,” said Rostóv wishing to avoid +“Then it is certain?” said the prince. +then named Prince Vasíli in an inquiring whisper, then pointed to the +Then Nicholas sang a song he had just learned: +the noblest role on earth, and he is so virtuous and noble that God will +then particularly strong. +Then she slipped down among the flowerpots on the other side of the tubs +then she smiled again and clutched Prince Vasíli’s arm more tightly. +then, suddenly spread out in the sunlight, far-distant objects could +“Then tomorrow you will speak to the Emperor?” +the nurse, as she stood in one of the doorways. +the nursery, but Sónya was not there either. Natásha concluded that +Then with the unerring official memory that characterized him he +then, Wostóv, now then!” +The officer flourished his arm and hastily rode away. +The officer glanced at him, and without replying turned again to the +the officers and men of Denísov’s squadron, though they tried to talk +The officers laughed. +the official side of the service. These gentlemen received Prince +The old man made a departure from his usual routine in honor of his +The old man was in a good temper after his nap before dinner. (He +The old man was silent. +the old prince’s face. +The old prince stopped writing and, as if not understanding, fixed his +(the one who had paraded his regiment before Kutúzov at Braunau) that +“The only thing that is hard for me... I will tell you the truth, +The only young people remaining in the drawing room, not counting the +The order was given to halt and down knapsacks. +the other, glanced inquiringly with his large, intelligent, kindly eyes +the other men in the room, her anxiety could only have reference to +the others. Again someone shouted, “Stretchers!” Four men seized the +the other side of the room. “How young-looking he is!” +the other—who with beaming faces had come to see their master making +the pained expression his joke had brought to his sister’s face, he +“The past always seems good,” said he, “but did not Suvórov +The patches grew deeper on her forehead, neck, and cheeks. She tried to +the pathetic importance of these last moments of meeting between the +The Pávlograd Hussars were stationed two miles from Braunau. The +the people,” the abbé was saying. “It is only necessary for one +the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits... There was peace +the place of mourning for the younger female generation in the Rostóv +the plan of operation for the coming campaign. He explained how an army, +the pleasure of spending the evening with you.” +the portfolio so firmly that it was plain she would not let go easily. +The postilion started, the carriage wheels rattled. Prince Hippolyte +the Povarskáya, so well known to all Moscow. The countess herself and +the priests and deacons and some servants also went in at the door. +the priests, rose and offered him her seat; an aide-de-camp picked up +the prim visitor could not help joining in. +The prince again laughed his frigid laugh. +The prince answered nothing, but she looked at him significantly, +The prince bowed to signify his respect and gratitude. +The prince gave orders that no one should leave his post. Now you, +the princess. +the princess and hastily adjusting his lorgnette, as if without this +The princess bent over the exercise book on the table. +The princess blushed, and raised her arms with a gesture of despair. +The princess continued to look at him without moving, and with the same +The princess did not reply. Their efforts in the struggle for the +the princess did speak, her words would not be flattering to Anna +the princess’ eyes grew dim, she could not see and could not hear +The princess gave a wrong answer. +The princess gave no reply and did not even smile, but left the room as +The princess glanced at her watch and, seeing that she was five minutes +The princess, holding her little dog on her lap with her thin bony +The princess let go. +The princess listened, smiling. +The princess looked in a scared way at her father’s eyes glittering +the princess, now quite changed. “And what does she come worming +The princess, picking up her dress, was taking her seat in the dark +The princess pondered awhile with a thoughtful smile and her luminous +The princess rested her bare round arm on a little table and considered +The princess said nothing, but suddenly her short downy lip quivered. +The princess smiled as people do who think they know more about the +The princess smiled. She rose with the same unchanging smile with which +The princess started. Evidently Pierre’s words touched her to the +The princess, who had a straight, rigid body, abnormally long for her +The princess wished to rise, but the prince held her by the hand. She +the prince sternly; “I’m afraid you write much nonsense. I’ll read +The prince was silent and looked indifferent. But, with the womanly and +the prince, who was in his large study. From the far side of the house +The Project Gutenberg EBook of War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy +the puhse?” he asked, turning to Rostóv. +The purse is here! I’ll flay this scoundwel alive, and it will be +the question arose whether the troops were to be in marching order or +the ranks of obscure officers and offer him the first step to fame! +the ras...” he did not finish. +“the rat”) he said, rubbing his forehead and whole face with both +there. +there.” +there any hope?” +there are no difficulties in your way.... But Nicholas is my cousin... +there are things in it difficult for the feeble human mind to grasp, it +the rearguard and have an eye on the order of retreat, “which is also +the rearguard by the commander in chief, was sitting on the trail of a +the rearguard stood with a staff officer, scanning the country through +“There, Fedótov, you should be quartered on them!” +therefore offered this truce to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. Count +therefore—this is between ourselves—I instinctively feel that we +The regimental adjutant came in and confirmed the news brought by +The regimental commander, flushing, ran to his horse, seized the stirrup +The regimental commander, going up to the line himself, ordered the +(The regimental commander’s face now that the inspection was happily +The regimental commander sought out Dólokhov in the ranks and, reining +The regimental commander was afraid he might be blamed for this and did +the regiment, and how satisfied his father was with him. Berg evidently +The regiment broke up into companies, which went to their appointed +the regiment I’d... Ah well, I’ll show that in action, and for me +there, God only knows what would have happened! You know, Uncle promised +There had been actions at Lambach, Amstetten, and Melk; but despite the +there?” he said, turning to the door as he heard a tread of heavy +“There is in Moscow a lady, une dame, and she is very stingy. She must +“There is nothing so refreshing after a sleepless night as a cup +“There is one thing I constantly pray God to grant, mon cousin,” she +There is only Mademoiselle Bourienne....” +there is so much happiness; but here... groans, suffering, fear, and +“There is still much, much before us,” he said, as if with an old +“There is still time, my dear. You must remember, Catiche, that it was +“There, it’s just as I thought,” said Rostóv to himself. “He +“There, leave Bruin alone; here’s a bet on.” +The remains of our regiment which had been in action rapidly formed up +there many more of you to come?” +“There now! Confess that this is delightful,” said he. “This +“There now! Didn’t I tell you, Michael Mítrich, that if it was said +“There now, Prince! We can’t stop those fellows,” said the staff +“There now!” said the officer of the suite, “that’s +“There now!... So you, too, are in the great world?” said he to +there. Now then!” +“There now, Zíkin, they ought to put you on a horse. You’d look +the report of musketry. +The report which had been circulated that the Austrians had been beaten +the reproachful tone of a man who has repeated the same thing more +there, she glided up to him with a sort of amble, not exactly bowing yet +“There’s nothing to be gay about,” answered Bolkónski. +“There’s plenty to do still.” +there! Tea!” +there. Then, as happens to people of weak character, he desired so +the retreat of the frightened Bonaparte. +there was a crush. Halfway across stood Prince Nesvítski, who had +There was a general movement as the princess, smiling and talking +there was generally a drinking bout, finishing with visits of a kind +There was not a trace of agitation on his face. With delicate irony he +There was now no one in the reception room except Prince Vasíli and the +There was something peculiar about it, quite unsoldierly, rather comic, +“There, what egotists men all are: all, all egotists! Just for a whim +the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up. Soldiers scattered over +the right and sent an adjutant to the dragoons with orders to attack the +the rivers Inn (at Braunau) and Traun (near Linz). On October 23 the +The room was crowded with small pieces of furniture, whatnots, +the Russian army) are nothing compared to what this man has been doing +The Russian Emperor’s aide-de-camp is an impostor. Officers are +The Russian officer in charge of the transport lolled back in the front +the Russians were running away and that he himself was killed, but he +The rustle of a woman’s dress was heard in the next room. Prince +the same words, about their health and her own, and the health of Her +the scraping of chairs. Then one of those conversations began which last +the seal of her letter. It was from her most intimate friend from +The second princess had just come from the sickroom with her eyes red +These gentlemen ride onto the bridge alone and wave white handkerchiefs; +these,” he said, handing him several papers, “make a neat memorandum +These latter the butler thrust mysteriously forward, wrapped in a +these poignant joys and sorrows. You are fortunate, for the latter are +the sergeant major with brightened expressions, licking their lips and +these rooms. Anna Mikháylovna, addressing a maid who was hurrying past +the service and patriotically Russian. He resented Shinshín’s remark. +The Service before everything. Thanks, thanks!” And he went on +these things. I absolutely must see him, however painful it may be for +These words he repeated to everyone without exception or variation, and +the shed with super human force, throwing up a mass of earth. The ground +The sick man was so surrounded by doctors, princesses, and servants +the sky, the dawn merging with the afterglow of sunset, was visible. +the sly what was left in the glasses. From the third room came sounds of +the sofa. The princess came in. She had changed her gown for a house +The soldiers crowded against one another with terrified faces, and +“The soldiers say it feels easier without boots,” said Captain +The soldier to whom the laughers referred was Dólokhov. Prince Andrew +the soldier. “Turn back with your slut!” +The son, lowering his eyes, followed her quietly. +the son, or Pierre, whom it had been pitiful to see, so stricken was he +The son sighed, thus admitting that his father had understood him. The +the sound of voices and the shouts of command. The whole air reeked with +“The sovereigns? I do not speak of Russia,” said the vicomte, polite +the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and +the spot indicated to him. He made no reply on his father’s favorite +The squadron crossed the bridge and drew out of range of fire without +“The squadron quartermaster!” said Lavrúshka. +“The squadwon can’t pass,” shouted Váska Denísov, showing his +the staff captain. +the staff captain, “but we old fellows, who have grown up in and, God +the staff captain in his deep bass, calmly stroking his long mustache. +The staff captain, Kírsten, had twice been reduced to the ranks for +The staff captain’s voice began to tremble. “You have been in the +The staff officer and Prince Andrew mounted their horses and rode on. +The staff officer remained behind and Prince Andrew rode on alone. +The story was very pretty and interesting, especially at the point +the stretchers, and love of the sun and of life, all merged into one +the study, like pistol shots, came the frequent sound of the old man +The stupid smile, which had left his face while he was speaking, +the subject of her request and must not be shown before the request was +the suite pointed out to Bagratión a French column that was outflanking +the table, onto which he threw it. +the table, searched everywhere, and stood still in the middle of the +the table, summoned his daughter. He never gave his children a blessing, +the third!” +The third company was the last, and Kutúzov pondered, apparently trying +The third group was gathered round Mortemart and Anna Pávlovna. +The third interruption came when Prince Andrew was finishing his +“The third, I said the third!” cried the prince abruptly, pushing +the tipsy guests who were again crowding round the window, and listening +the troops in their disorderly flight confirmed these rumors. +the two ladies, addressing Prince Vasíli and pointing to an inlaid +The two Pávlograd squadrons, having crossed the bridge, retired up the +The two young men, the student and the officer, friends from childhood, +The unknown general looked disdainfully down at Kozlóvski, who was +“The unpleasant things were said to me,” remarked Véra, “I said +The vicomte appreciated this silent praise and smiling gratefully +The vicomte bowed and smiled courteously in token of his willingness to +“The vicomte knew the duc personally,” whispered Anna Pávlovna to +The vicomte merely shrugged his shoulders. Pierre looked solemnly at his +the vicomte’s story. Prince Vasíli’s words frightened her, an +The vicomte told his tale very neatly. It was an anecdote, then current, +The vicomte was a nice-looking young man with soft features and polished +The vicomte who was meeting him for the first time saw clearly that +The vicomte wished to begin his story and gave a subtle smile. +The visitor, compelled to look on at this family scene, thought it +The visitor made a gesture with her hand. +The visitor, not knowing what to say, shook her head. +the waiter. +the war is over, that the Emperor Francis is arranging a meeting with +the water, and approaches the tête-de-pont. At length appears the +the way from Ulm, while Dólokhov maintained that the Russians had not +the way he walked through the ranks behind the generals, bending forward +The weather had cleared again since noon and the sun was descending +the weight of his knapsack. +the well-known Prince Bolkónski who had to retire from the army under +the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building +the whole story of life. You talk of Bonaparte and his career,” said +“The wife!” said the old prince, briefly and significantly. +the wild set led by Dólokhov. Zherkóv had met Dólokhov abroad as a +the will and letter will be delivered to the Emperor, and the petition +“The will will show that, my dear; our fate also depends on it.” +the window sill, but refrained from touching it. Pierre again covered +the woman’s vehicle for trying to get ahead of others, and the strokes +the women.” +The word of command rang out, and again the regiment quivered, as with a +the words of the order were not clear to the regimental commander, and +the worst,” said the Austrian general, evidently wishing to have done +“They are regular brigands, especially Dólokhov,” replied the +they assure the officer on duty that they, the marshals, are on +they became silent, and Pierre thought he saw the princess hide +they both felt happy). “We had our hands full last night. However, I +they contain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, know the +They dismounted and entered the tent. Several officers, with flushed and +“They don’t even give one time to dwink!” answered Váska +they do the guns.” +They entered the elegant, newly decorated, and luxurious dining room. +They entered the large hall, from which one of the doors led to the +they gave her an attraction more powerful than that of beauty. But the +“They give little hope,” replied the prince. +They got into the carriage and drove for a few minutes in silence. +they had gone by, the same stream of soldiers followed, with the same +they had lifted the dying man and were moving him. +they had looked at the regimental commander, seeming by their expression +they had when she was not thinking of herself. As with everyone, her +They’ll ransack that castle,” he remarked with evident approval. +they’ll say so again and again, and that will be the end of it. My +“They march splendidly,” remarked someone in Bagratión’s suite. +“They might call a halt here or we’ll have to do another four miles +“They must be feeling dull, too,” said one of the bolder officers, +they must look somewhere, or it meant too much. Pierre hesitated, +The young man, flattered, sat down nearer to her with a coquettish +the young man had departed. “There is never any ‘impossible’ with +“The young man’s a real hussar!” shouted the colonel, again +The young people, at the countess’ instigation, gathered round the +The young Princess Bolkónskaya had brought some work in a +the young prince. The members of the household were all gathered in the +“They received me and my news as one receives a dog in a game of +“They’re coming!... they’re coming!... Stand aside, make way, +They rode up the opposite hill. From there the French could already be +“They say the ball will be very good,” replied the princess, drawing +They seized him by his arms; but he was so strong that everyone who +They stood silent, facing one another. The old man’s sharp eyes were +they too could, like Natásha and Borís, escape from the drawing room. +“They’ve been saying so a long while,” said the count, “and +They went through the porch and into the stable. The lieutenant +They went up to the door of the sitting room from which came the sound +They were again silent. +they were as usual laughing. +they were firing at could not be seen for the smoke which there was no +they were in the carriage. “He hardly recognizes anybody.” +thick, bushy eyebrows. Prince Andrew went up and kissed his father on +thick-set general with grizzled eyebrows and whiskers, and wider from +thin face. Her eyes, always sad, now looked with particular hopelessness +thin face was now quivering with nervous excitement; his eyes, in which +thing.” +thing can be arranged. It shall be on your family’s behalf that I’ll +thing I have faith in! Our good and wonderful sovereign has to perform +things and supper dishes stood in disorder, and in the middle of the +things,” and the skin over his left temple puckered, “either you +things, but Austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war. She +things had to be. From the passage they went into a large, dimly +things. She did not reply, but looked at her seriously. +things that he has been expelled by the police.” +thinking about you. Why are you going?” +thinking of?” she went on, turning to Prince Hippolyte. “Fetch me my +Think that he is your father ... perhaps in the agony of death.” She +think the regiment is not a bad one, eh?” +think we thoroughly understand. +“Think what you please! I know you are just like Father. Think as +third company he suddenly stopped. His suite, not having expected this, +“Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,” she counted on her slender +thirteen look at the boy they are in love with and have just kissed for +thirtieth he attacked Mortier’s division, which was on the left bank, +thirty,” said he, looking at Shinshín and the count with a joyful, +This action was so unlike her usual composure and the fear depicted on +This black-eyed, wide-mouthed girl, not pretty but full of life—with +This Buonaparte has turned all their heads; they all think of how he +this defect was not due to any fault of the regimental commander, for +this disorder,” he muttered. “Do as you like.” +This door led into a back anteroom. An old man, a servant of the +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost +this expectation did not upset the regular routine of life in the old +This expression evidently pleased him. +this fact ought to give Prince Vasíli much satisfaction. +this he’ll soon have us, too, for his subjects! How are you?” And he +this house and in Brünn itself. I want to entertain him as far as I +“this is absurd! Come, let go I tell you.” + * “This is a pleasure one gets in camp, Prince.” +“This is Dólokhov,” said Prince Andrew. +“This is for Borís from me, for his outfit.” +“This is what I think. Austria has been made a fool of, and she is +“This is what I want, my dear fellow,” said the count to the +this lowest-grade greeting, a look of anxiety and fear, as at the sight +this magnanimity Bonaparte subsequently repaid by death. +This meant that Tíkhon was not handing him the waistcoat he wanted. +this murderer and villain! We alone must avenge the blood of the just +this poetic and pure intimacy, were what my heart needed. But enough of +this reinforcement. +this resemblance he was exceedingly ugly. His features were like his +this same room was dimly lighted by two candles. On one small table tea +this! The chief news, about which all Moscow gossips, is the death of +this uncertainty and hurry... There—they are shouting again, and +This very sentence about Countess Zúbova and this same laugh Prince +this victory to the Austrian court, now no longer at Vienna (which was +this was not so but that on the contrary the French had run away. He +This was particularly noticeable on Nesvítski’s usually laughing +This was the count’s favorite dance, which he had danced in his youth. +“This won’t do, Princess; it won’t do,” said he, when Princess +this young Jacobin was not so terrible as his words suggested. All were +those Hofs-kriegs-wurst-Raths are! Suvórov couldn’t manage them so +those Kurágins and leading that sort of life. It suits you so +“Those were extremes, no doubt, but they are not what is most +those who were guiding him. +those who were holding him under the armpits, and of his gray, curly, +Those who were in the dimly lit reception room spoke in nervous +those women—mostly mothers—who, having once made up their minds, +though embracing her. +though he may perhaps outlive us all, as I sincerely hope he will...” +Though not much time had passed since Prince Andrew had left Russia, he +though politeness prevented his showing impatience, left the old woman +though she were grown up, was evidently very proud of this but at the +though the big hospitals and the houses in Krems converted into military +thought: “I am going to save the army.” +thought independent of her sister-in-law’s words. In the midst of a +thought of his friend and how much he expected of him in the future. +thoughts. +thought, “seriously, I have long been thinking of it.... Leading such +thoughts rather than the trend of the conversation—“and that’s a +thought that came into his mind was that today he had to be presented +thought. The minister drew the remaining papers together, arranged them +thought turned to her sister-in-law with a tender glance at her figure. +though what happened was due to chance and was independent of the +Though what she said was quite just, perhaps for that very reason no one +thousand Austrians, with a hundred thousand Russians, were to operate in +thousand men breathlessly gazing at him and the regimental commander did +thousand men each of whom knew his place and his duty, had every button +threatened by the French) but at Brünn. Despite his apparently delicate +“Three and a half miles, Your Majesty.” +three months ago, draw fresh moral strength from your look, so gentle, +through him, and again laughed his frigid laugh. +through his lorgnette, suddenly turned completely round toward the +throughout the whole cavalry division as Váska Denísov. Cadet Rostóv, +Through that door was heard a noise of things being moved about, and +through the closed doors came the sound of difficult passages—twenty +through the door. +Through the door came the regular hum of a lathe. The princess timidly +Through the door came the sounds of Kutúzov’s voice, excited and +through the door on tiptoe. He could not walk well on tiptoe and his +through the town of Enns on both sides of the bridge. +thrown the reins of the snaffle bridle over the horse’s head. It was +thumb to the room where Telyánin was sitting, he frowned and gave a +thumping the table. +thumping the table; “and ve must tie for our Emperor, and zen all vill +Tíkhon, at her husband, and at the footman who accompanied them. +Tíkhon knew that neither the son’s arrival nor any other unusual +till she was twenty, and arranged her life so that her whole time was +till the general asked him to restore it. All his absent-mindedness and +till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are capable of, +time, Anna Mikháylovna sent someone to call her son, and went into the +time could not admit the idea of his hero being disgraced. +time in the shop. +times repeated—of a sonata by Dussek. +times, the more impassioned he became in these moments of almost morbid +times unexpectedly interrupted. Once he stopped it by shouting: “The +time to time he went out to ask: “Hasn’t she come yet?” They +Timókhin to the subaltern beside him. +tint in her complexion and especially in the color of her slender but +tipsy rage when a man does not know what he is saying. He saw that his +tiresome,” said Natásha in a mortified voice that trembled slightly. +Title: War and Peace +to abandon the road connecting him with the troops arriving from Russia, +to accept their services. He took the glove in silence from the +to adopt a jocular tone. But before he had finished he felt that his +to a footman dressed in knee breeches, shoes, and a swallow-tail coat, +to agree to the truce but also to offer terms of capitulation, and +to another. “How evidently he belongs to the best society,” said she +to a third; and the vicomte was served up to the company in the choicest +to a tune in which the weary musicians blundered, and while tired +to balance himself. One of the footmen who had stooped to pick up some +to be all right,” Pierre concluded, and followed Anna Mikháylovna. +to be grew stronger, and he meekly followed Anna Mikháylovna who was +to behave here as you did in Petersburg, you will end very badly; that +to be parted from her husband and be left alone in the country, in her +“To be quite frank, Mary, I expect Father’s character sometimes +To be so sent meant not only a reward but an important step toward +“To be sure, your excellency,” replied the architect. +to be talking to a staff officer of such importance. “It’s a lovely +to blame all round. Well, what else do you want?...” +to bore him so much as that of his pretty wife. He turned away from +to control herself any longer, she jumped up and rushed from the room as +today, and that his excellency was not receiving anyone. +today. He has been here on leave and is taking Nicholas back with him. +“Today when I remembered that all these delightful associations +to dinner. I suppose he won’t go?” she continued, turning to the +to distraction! One learns many things then,” she added with a certain +to do but dwink. If we could only get to fighting soon. Hullo, who’s +to dress in here; and that Andrew had quite changed, and that Kitty +to drive straight home. But the nearer he drew to the house the more he +To each new arrival Anna Pávlovna said, “You have not yet seen my + * To err is human. +toes toward the general. The captain’s face showed the uneasiness of +to execute an order. The officer on duty, a handsome, elegantly dressed +to fathom what He has been pleased to conceal from us, the sooner will + To feel that in this world there’s one +to fire the bridge, and now someone has gone and blundered; they are all +together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel. At last +together. The German, Pahlen, has been sent to New York in America, to +to get himself killed. Tell me what this wretched war is for?” she +to give you the love you do not feel, and your prayer would have been +to go by the back stairs, yet judging by Anna Mikháylovna’s air +to greet the young man. +to Grunth to find Prince Bagratión. He heard the cannonade behind him +to hear the details.” +to help at any point where the conversation might happen to flag. As +to her.” +to her? I am so grateful to you that I would willingly sacrifice +to him about politics. Prince Andrew and the others gathered round these +to him, as you so well know how to be.” +to him fell against the rails with a groan. Rostóv ran up to him with +to Himself, for in Him alone is truth and peace,” said she in a voice +to him straight out. Let people think what they will of me, it’s +to his adjutant he ordered him to bring down the two battalions of the +to his beautiful sister, but yet more by the fact that in spite of +to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real +to his people in Germany; and he felt greatly offended when the butler +to indicate that he was about to say something witty. “Buonaparte?” +to join some Swedish forces at Stralsund; how two hundred and twenty +to know as plain Monsieur Pierre, has become Count Bezúkhov and the +to Kutúzov’s staff despite all Anna Mikháylovna’s endeavors and +told him, and said, “Very good!” in a tone that seemed to imply that +told him the whole field could be seen. Here he dismounted, and stopped +told him what he had seen. +told the count such vile, disgraceful things about us, especially about +to look under the uniforms he would have found on every man a clean +to make out the pattern. +to make scenes. This last consideration moved him. +to me all about it, and I will help you in everything.” Pierre had +to move from right to left as if drawn by an invisible hand, and the +tomowwow,” muttered Denísov. + To my native land...” +tone and manner, here in Moscow to Anna Mikháylovna whom he had placed +tone of entreaty and reproach that a carpenter uses to a gentleman who +tone of voice. “Come here, my friend...” and she ominously tucked +tones. +tone. “What has been decided? They have decided that Buonaparte has +“Tonight, not later,” said he in a low voice, and he moved away +to notice him, and that his whole aim now was to test the cadet’s +took a horse and a Cossack from a Cossack commander, and hungry and +took her sister-in-law’s arm and drew her into another room. +took him by the shoulder, led him to the window, and began to talk to +took it...” he whispered just above Telyánin’s ear. +took up her work. +tools laid ready to hand and shavings scattered around—all indicated +too, might have their own interests. But all he said was so prettily +to one another, and the old servant who was holding the count’s hand +too seemed strange; at one moment they looked impudently sly and at the +to pass the time.” +to Petersburg, look round, and choose your profession. I will agree to +topic—making fun of the military men of the day, and more particularly +topic of the day: the illness of the wealthy and celebrated beau of +To Pierre he said nothing, merely giving his arm a sympathetic squeeze +To please you...” said Prince Andrew. But immediately, noticing +to present the regiment in parade order, on the principle that it is +To PRINCE MURAT, +“To Prince Vasíli. He was so kind. He at once agreed to everything, +to provide himself with some books for the campaign, and had spent some +to recollect something. Prince Andrew stepped forward from among the +to rest after their hard marches. +to retreat along the road from Krems to Olmütz, to unite with the +to Rostóv’s face, and his sobs were audible. +to run out to her, and remained in her hiding place, watching—as +to seize hold of Dólokhov’s shirt. +to show that they are not at all impatient for their food. The host and +to show the Austrian general the wretched state in which the troops +to slip in over there.” +to start her gambols again and display her kittenish nature. +to stop and fire the bridge.” +to take their leave. +to tear open the veil of convention that separates a commander in chief +to tell you. There is a war now against Napoleon. If it were a war for +to the accountant, “but he feels a pain in the pit of his stomach +“To the army.” +to the back of the house, to the room of the eldest princess. +to the devil, I’m busy!” he shouted to Lavrúshka, who went up to +to the effect that the Duc d’Enghien had gone secretly to Paris to +to the elderly lady, even betraying some impatience, she gave him an +“To the Emperor.” +to the Emperor Francis; he remembered the Minister of War, the polite +to the end, without raising his eyes at the opening of the door and the +to the farther side of the bridge and stopped the infantry. Beside the +to the footman who was helping him on with his cloak, listened +to the frontier. Our dear Emperor has left Petersburg and it is thought +to the front of the regiment and examined it from a distance. +to the Imperial family as well as to all Moscow and Petersburg, and both +to their chatter. Anatole kept on refilling Pierre’s glass while +to their companies, the sergeants major began bustling (the greatcoats +to the last meeting between father and son, it was so touching that she +to then been in regular order and silent began to sway and stretch and +to the palace, however, an official came running out to meet him, and +to the prince and smiling amiably at him as if to show that political +to the prince that if these battalions went away, the guns would remain +to the ranks along which shots crackled now here and now there, drowning +to the ranks,” said the captain softly. +“To the right from the corridor, Euer Hochgeboren! There you will find +to the Vienna-Znaim road. Bagratión was to make this march without +to the visitor she added: “She is my youngest girl.” +to the window. +to think of the impression he makes on others, but is occupied with +to think of the interview with his dying father which awaited him. He +to this occurrence than to the rest of what went on, having made up his +to time she smoothed the folds of her dress, and whenever the story +to turn the count’s heavy body toward the wall. +to twitch. The twitching increased, the handsome mouth was drawn to one +touched him was sent flying. +touching his arm, but when he saw Pierre’s beaming face he gave him an +touch, “you promised me!” + * To understand all is to forgive all. +to unload the muskets, explode the ammunition, and all return home as +toward him whom He may give me for husband. +toward the sofa she had indicated. As soon as Anna Mikháylovna had +to warn me of the humor my father is in. I do not allow myself to judge +to what he dreaded more than anything in the world—to ridicule; but +town knows?” +to you since dinner? Hasn’t she?” +traces broke, and lungs were strained with shouting. The officers +trampled mud and gazed with that particular feeling of ill-will, +Translators: Louise and Aylmer Maude +traveling effects of Prince Andrew’s were in very good order: new, +treading heavily he stepped down from the carriage just as if those two +tread of the soldiers who were keeping step with him. He carried close +treetops and bluish gorges. The turrets of a convent stood out beyond a +trembled nervously; this was sufficient to cause his whole body to slip +trembling with emotion, solemnly holding up in both hands before her +triangles are equal; please note that the angle ABC...” +triumphant, cheerful face. +triumphantly and gaily. +troops arriving from Russia, he risked being forestalled on that road +troops below the hill and fell far short of the enemy, a little smoke +troops on the high ground above the bridge involuntarily asked himself +troops were ill-clad, exhausted, and had lost a third of their number +troops were running onto the bridge, was about to fire, but Lannes +trot to escape from the poisoned atmosphere of these latrines. +trouvez là le mot pour rire,” * he said, as if strengthening his +truce and a capitulation, he detected a ruse and wrote the following +“True enough,” answered Nesvítski; “two smart fellows could have +true Gascon) and says: ‘I don’t recognize the world-famous Austrian +“Trust in His mercy!” and pointing out a small sofa for him to sit +trying not to lose a word of the speech which was incomprehensible to +trying only to be ahead of the others; but just at the bridge, not +trying through the Dowager Empress Márya Fëdorovna to secure it for +trying to get something out of the rich man?” +trying to give an expressive intonation to his voice. +trying to prove that the Russians had surrendered and had fled all +“Try to serve well and show yourself worthy,” added he, addressing +turned from Captain Timókhin again flitted over his face. He turned +turned out splendidly all the same,” he added, winking at Véra. +turned round. The officer evidently had complete control of his face, +turned their horses away. The accountant stopped, facing the Cossack, +turned to Anna Mikháylovna, answering her query by a movement of the +turned to her. +turned to his wife. +turned to speak to his daughter, the beautiful Hélène. +turned toward her brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, +turned toward the women, and while the vehicle was passing at foot pace +turned to Zherkóv. The nervous irritation aroused by the appearance +turning away from the girls, who at once assumed an air of inattention. +turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, +turning into the village already... they will have their buckwheat +turn now, but that he will do all he can to let his turn come as late as +turn spindles at home!’?” said Shinshín, puckering his brows and +Túshin’s guns had been intended to cannonade the valley, he was +Túshin smiling shyly in his uncomfortable position, evidently wishing +Túshin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to +twinkled and looked out straight. +twitched its ears as the bayonets touched it, and snorted, spurting +two. +two.” +two battalions of the Sixth Chasseurs in fine order. Before they had +Two footmen, the princess’ and his own, stood holding a shawl and +two front teeth were missing that had been knocked out by the butt end +two hostile armies was all the more clearly felt. +“Two, I think.” +Two of the enemy’s shots had already flown across the bridge, where +“Two such charming children. And really you appreciate them less than +two younger ones were embroidering: both were rosy and pretty and they +“Ugh! I don’t like that fellow,” he said, regardless of the +“Ugh. The hussars will get it hot!” said Nesvítski; “they are +unable to ask for himself, he became chary of using his influence. But +unable to overcome or conceal his groundless antipathy to the man. +unaccustomed brightness, but he was looking not at his sister but over +un bâtard!”* she added, as if supposing that this translation of the +unchanging smile. +unchanging stonily severe expression; and, sitting down opposite the +unconscious little princess, he shook his head reprovingly and slammed +“Und die ganze Welt hoch!” * +under an invisible cap—to see what went on in the world. She was +under an obligation, assuming an air of much greater importance than he +understand?” +understand and state the patient’s condition. +understand him, but he did not speak it very well—“I bet fifty +understand him it was so much the worse for them—did not go up to the +understand how a man of his immense intellect can fail to see what is +understanding but not wishing to appear to do so. The princess as usual +understand it; I don’t in the least understand why men can’t live +understand the self-abnegation of our Emperor who wants nothing for +understand... what a soul he has!” +understood all the difficulties of the Russian army’s position, and +understood him. The old man got up and gave the letter to his son. +understood that she was being asked to entertain this young man, and +understood the Revolution and quelled it, and so for the general good, +understood without naming. +“Under the lower pillow.” +“Und vivat die ganze Welt!” Though neither the German cleaning his +uneasily as if preparing to resent any slight that might be put upon the +unexpectedly kind and pleasant smile. +unfastened cloak, wide breeches hanging down in creases, and a crumpled +uniform living waves of soldiers, shoulder straps, covered shakos, +uniforms advanced toward the bridge at a run. Smoke appeared again +uniforms and groups with horses, easily recognizable as artillery. +unlicked bear! A perfectly absurd and stupid fellow, and a gambler too, +unpleasant. +unpleasant things to everyone and upset them. Let’s go to the +unwounded. The soldiers were ascending the hill breathing heavily, and +up and began watching the movements of our troops below, as plainly +up and turning away as if from a shameful aspersion. “It is not from +up!” came the company commander’s voice in jaunty tones. The +up for lost time. +up from both sides. Everyone crowded to the window, the Englishman in +up from the sofa, seized Borís under the elbow in his quick, clumsy +up her downy little lip. “All the pretty women in society will be +up her sleeves still higher. Pierre approached, looking at her in a +upon anyone, and it was clear that the kitten had settled down only to +upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to be her own special and +up their knapsacks with a jerk of their shoulders and pulling the straps +up the whole of her thin, sickly face and made it beautiful. Her brother +up to Denísov’s squadron and rode at a footpace not far from Rostóv, +up to her. +up to the commander in chief, and presented arms. +up to their gallery, addressing the first violin: +up to the window of the first house, when a familiar voice called him by +up, was hastily writing at a tub turned bottom upwards. Kozlóvski’s +urging of horses, and the swearing of soldiers, orderlies, and officers. +us?...” “Ah! Mary, you have got thinner?...” “And you have grown +us. But Vienna is on the other side. No, the bridge has not yet been +used to be. Don’t judge Lise harshly,” she began. “She is so +used to say that a nap “after dinner was silver—before dinner, +ushering Bolkónski in. “So you’re a messenger of victory, eh? +us nice news of a victory by the Archduke Karl or Ferdinand (one +us talk business. Have you been to the Horse Guards?” +us. To the left the horizon bounded by the adjacent wood. Prince +usual. +usual in French, and as if after long self-restraint she wished to make +usurper, the whole nation will certainly throw itself into the arms +vacancies occur much more frequently in the Foot Guards. Then just think +vanished from his face. +vanished. He waited for the first pause in the conversation, and then +varnish. +Vasíli. +Vasíli and the eldest princess. Pierre concluded that this also was +Vasíli, “but it is difficult for me to ask the Emperor. I should +Vasíli, his cheeks twitching more than ever. +Vasíli in the anteroom. All the affectation of interest she had assumed +Vasíli, it is very sad for both. Ah, my dear friend, our divine +Vasíli played a very despicable part in this affair and that he +Vasíli severely. “You don’t know what you are doing.” +Vasíli’s son Anatole, whom they wish to reform by marrying him to +Vasíli’s son, Hippolyte, had come with Mortemart, whom he introduced. +Vasíli to Anna Mikháylovna. “Go and take something, my poor Anna +Vasíli to Anna Pávlovna. +Vasíli understood it as an expression of weariness. +Vasíli went on, testily pushing away a little table without looking at +Vasíli, who had grown thinner and paler during the last few days, +“Ve must vight to the last tr-r-op of our plood!” said the colonel, +Venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly +“Véra,” she said to her eldest daughter who was evidently not a +Véra with guilty, happy faces. +verses in the bosom of her dress close to her bony little chest, ran +very clever but eccentric, and a bore. The poor girl is very unhappy. +very decent town. You and I will travel comfortably in my calèche.” +very fine when he said that,” he remarked, repeating the words in +“Very good,” answered Nesvítski. +“Very good!” said Bagratión. +very important.” +“Very interesting.” +“Very likely it would be splendid, but it will never come about....” +“Very lovely,” said Prince Andrew. +very muscular men, and on the night of the battle, having arrived +very poor, but for my own part at any rate, for the very reason that +“Very,” said Pierre. +very serious talk.” +“Very silly,” said Véra. “I am ashamed of you. Secrets indeed!” +very strictly to social distinctions and rarely admitted even important +very trying,” said Prince Andrew, apparently speaking lightly of their +very well...” +“Very well, very well...” +very wise, because you can take everything along with you—vodka and +vicomte and from the vicomte to their hostess. In the first moment of +vicomte continued, with the air of a man who, in a matter with which +vicomte who was continuing his story. +victory. His Majesty will no doubt wish to see you, but not today. I +victory, what effect would that have on the general course of events? +Vienna as I told you. Very well. Next day, which was yesterday, those +Vienna by the Austrian Hofkriegsrath, the sole and almost unattainable +Vienna. Kutúzov with his transport had still to march for some days +views by this French sentence. “C’est bien pour un garçon de rien +vile, infamous paper, but I thought the thing was invalid.” +“Vile woman!” shouted the princess, darting unexpectedly at Anna +village. “Very good!” said Bagratión in reply to the officer’s +visible as if but a stone’s throw away, and the movements of the +visit Mademoiselle George; that at her house he came upon Bonaparte, +visitor alluded to, though she had already heard about the cause of +visitor. “And to think it is Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov’s son +visitor. “He is a son of Márya Ivánovna Dólokhova, such a worthy +visitors on his right. Midway down the long table on one side sat the +vividly imagined what awaited it and the part he would have to +Vladímir medal and ribbon? But now, even if they do get peppered, the +Vladímirovich Bezúkhov, Countess Rostóva sat for a long time all +Vladímirovich Bezúkhov. If he will not assist his godson—you know +Vladímirovich Bezúkhov’s house. “My dear Borís,” said the +Vladímirovich is my mother’s second cousin. He’s also my Bóry’s +vodka a quarter of an hour before, he saw everywhere the same rapid +voice. +voice, and Lieutenant Telyánin, a small officer of the same squadron, +voice, opening his door. +voice suddenly shrieked: “but if I hear that you have not behaved like +voices were but feebly heard amid the uproar and one saw by their faces +voice. “There was no one else in the room except myself. So that if it +voice which expressed joy for himself, severity for the regiment, and +“Voilà l’agrément des camps, monsieur le prince,” * said the +volume you have sent me and which has such success in Moscow. Yet since +votre victoire n’est pas des plus victorieuses.” * +“Vous voyez le malheureux Mack,” he uttered in a broken voice. +vreatening Russia and zat ze safety and dignity of ze Empire as vell + Wafting sweet music o’er the lea, +waistcoat. “It’s the sauté, most likely,” she added with a smile. +“Wait a bit and listen. It’s fine!” answered Sídorov, who was +“Wait a bit, he is not drunk yet! A bottle here,” said Anatole, and +“Wait a bit, here’s a letter for you,” said the old man suddenly, +“Wait a moment, I’ll get my work.... Now then, what are you +“Wait!” cried Dólokhov, hammering with the bottle on the window +waited in expectation of an important order for an expensive funeral. +“Wait, haven’t you dropped it?” said Rostóv, picking up the +“Wait, I have not finished...” he said to Prince Andrew, seizing +waiting for—some important relation who has not yet arrived, or a dish +waiting to see what he would do. He stood a little while before the +“Wait—just a word! When he has been transferred to the Guards...” +walk to meet him. His face with its long mustache was serious as always, +walls hung round with Persian carpets. The part of the room behind the +wants to go to the war,” replied Pierre, addressing the princess +“Wants to turn on the other side,” whispered the servant, and got up +want to dance well. Her enormous figure stood erect, her powerful arms +WAR AND PEACE +war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature—which townsfolk +war has deprived me of one of the associations nearest my heart. I mean +war or politics but related to high society, to certain women, and to +wars,” he said. +was. +was about to run on, thinking that the farther he went to the front +was about twenty-five. Like all infantry officers he wore no mustache, +was about, went across the room to where Pierre was standing and gave +was accustomed to understand him. He led him to the desk, raised the +“was a political necessity, and it seems to me that Napoleon +was a stroke of genius. Prince Auersperg feels his dignity at stake and +was at home last, and, having assured himself that they had not, he +was a young horse Telyánin had sold to Rostóv.) +was charming... You are very kind... Countess Apráksina...” was heard +was coming, and turning to her mother: +was diverted by the desperate shrieks of the woman in the vehicle. An +was dulled by imbecility and a constant expression of sullen +was fully described: Prince Murat et tout le tremblement... You see that +was great on the bridge of Arcola, and in the hospital at Jaffa where he +was happy. “Left... left... left...” he seemed to repeat to himself +was holding fast to plait, would allow. +was immediately surrounded by courtiers on all sides. Everywhere he +was impossible to see it clearly with the naked eye. Our right flank was +was in the way and was the only one who did not notice the fact. Most of +“Was Kutúzov well? When had he left Krems?” and so on. The Emperor +was necessary for him to go to the count at all, still less why he had +was “not a whit worse than you or I.” At dinner the prince usually +“wasn’t I telling you to fire the bridge, when inflammable material +“Wasn’t it fine when those Germans gave us lifts! You just sit still +was only redder than usual. With his shaggy head thrown back like birds +was particularly pleasant at that moment. They had reached the battery +was rapidly and excitedly talking to a French grenadier. “Hark to him +was rather out of place in this brilliant society, the whole company had +was saying. +was spitting blood. A bullet had evidently hit him in the throat or +was standing beside the princess, and they were both speaking in excited +was stricter.” +was talking came up to listen. Berg, oblivious of irony or indifference, +was tall and fair, and his calm and handsome face had regular, delicate +“Was that grapeshot?” he asked Denísov. +was there on the hilltop, and kept constantly looking at the patches +was true and appropriate, yet, strange to say, everyone—the visitors +was true. No one had taken any notice, for everyone knew the sensation +was very valuable. Officers who approached him with disturbed +was writing. “I’ll do it.” +watched her cousin who was going to join the army, with such passionate +watched him. She smiled, hid her face in her handkerchief, and remained +watched him smilingly, and he rode off by the winding path down the +watchful eye on the young man who so alarmed her, noticed that he was +watching and it creaked very slightly as she disappeared behind it. +“watching over his interests” meant, but he decided that all these +watch the change in the tone and manners of the mammas burdened by +waters of the distant Danube shone. And fairer still were the faraway +waving it above his head cried: +way, and, blushing far more than Borís, began to speak with a feeling +way,” he added in Russian—but pronouncing the word with a French +way!... Let us pass!... Stop there, you devil with the cart! I’ll hack +weak human understanding cannot grasp, it seems to me rather useless to +“We all have our weaknesses,” said Kutúzov smiling and walking away +“Weally! And I’ve been losing, bwother. I lost yesterday like a +weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men +“We are to spend the night in Znaim.” +weariness of tone, “it is almost impossible for me to do what you +weary faces, were sitting at the table eating and drinking. +weary, making his way past the baggage wagons, rode in search of the +weary of it and it was not at all what he wanted. He turned away and +weather, and Countess Apráksina. Now and then they glanced at one +weather. “The weather is beautiful, Princess; and besides, in Moscow +“We don’t interfere with you and Berg.” +‘We don’t love people so much for the good they have done us, as +we had not religion to console us life would be very sad. Why do you +We have fully concentrated forces of nearly seventy thousand men with +“We have orders to drive you off here, and we shall drive you off,” +“We here in Moscow are more occupied with dinner parties and scandal +weight. +weight they were carrying were too much for them. +we know where we are. And what do you think of the Boulogne expedition? +welcome for the approaching chief. +we let our feeble human minds roam, the better we shall please God, who +welfare of his soul is at stake. Ah, it is awful: the duties of a +well.” +well.” +“Well, all I can make out is that everything is abominable, +well!” and he turned to go. +well and, in particular, drinks well. “So do come and dine with us!” +“Well, and to whom did you apply about Bóry?” asked the countess. +“Well, aren’t you ashamed of yourself, Captain Túshin?” he +“Well, au revoir, Bolkónski! Au revoir, Prince! Come back early to +“Well, au revoir! Good-by! You hear her?” +“Well done!... Fine fellow!... There’s a bet for you!... Devil take +“Well done, lads!” said Prince Bagratión. +well educated and clever. This is all that his foreign education has +well enough to be sure that this will not turn your head, but it imposes +we’ll fire off some cannon! But this sort of thing seems done +“Well, fwiend? So you’ve smelt powdah!” shouted Váska Denísov +“Well, good-by, Prince,” said he to Bagratión. “My blessing, and +“Well? Has he been degraded into a field marshal, or into a soldier? +“Well, have it so, and you talked a lot of nonsense to him and must +“Well, have you finished?” said he to Kozlóvski. +“Well!” he said, turning to his wife. +“Well, he’s really a good fellow, one can serve under him,” said +“Well, how is he?” +“Well, I am taking it off,” replied Lavrúshka’s voice. +“Well, if you do, so much the better, and you can go back to her!” +“Well, I have got all I need into packs for two horses,” said +“Well, is it true that it’s peace and capitulation?” asked +“Well, I suppose it is time we were at table?” said Márya +“Well, I think it is. The bigwigs here think so too, but they +“Well, it’s as you like,” said the staff captain. “And what has +“Well, it seems that no one has noticed,” thought Rostóv. And this +well known, so much appreciated by everyone. The other day at the +“Well, let’s go and sing ‘The Brook.’” +“Well, little countess? What a sauté of game au madère we are to +“Well, madam,” he began, stooping over the book close to his +“We’ll make you dance as we did under Suvórov...,” * said +“Well, maybe!” said Prince Andrew. “Go, Másha; I’ll come +“Well, Michael Ivánovich, our Bonaparte will be having a bad time +“Well, Michael Mítrich, sir?” he said, addressing one of the +“Well, mon cher,” said the vicomte, having seated himself beside +“Well, my boy, you’ll get along wherever you go—foot or +“Well, my dear?” asked the countess. +“Well, my dear?” said Prince Vasíli, taking her hand and bending it +well, never mind, here you are.” +“Well, never mind; I only...” +“Well now, gentlemen,” said Bilíbin, “Bolkónski is my guest in +“Well, now, good-by!” He gave his son his hand to kiss, and embraced +“Well now, isn’t she a fool!” shouted the prince, pushing the book +“Well, now tell me about your exploits,” said he. +“Well, now you’ve done what you wanted,” put in Nicholas—“said +“Well, of course, of course!” +well, only a little bruised just here,” he added, pointing with a +“Well, Prince?” asked Kozlóvski. +“Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the +“Well, really, Catiche! Can’t you understand! You are so +“Well, really, Mamma! Why should you? What is there to be surprised +“Well,” said she, “how’s my Cossack?” (Márya Dmítrievna +“Well, stand us some of your herb vodka, Túshin,” it said. +“Well, talk as much as you can, anyway. He has a passion for giving +“Well, thank God! We’ve been sitting here too long!” +“Well, that is hardly a sufficient reason, Mamma...” +“Well, that’s all right,” continued the regimental commander. “A +“Well, that’s only till the first engagement.” +“Well, then go off to your Buonaparte! Mademoiselle Bourienne, +“Well, then, I won’t; only forgive me, Sónya!” He drew her to him +“Well, then, let’s be quick. Borís, come here,” said Natásha. +“Well, then, old chap, mon très honorable Alphonse Kárlovich,” +“Well there certainly are disgusting people,” thought Rostóv as he +“Well, this is strange! Do you suppose I... who could think?... I know +“Well, what about it?” said he to Denísov. “It won’t come to a +“Well, why are you going to the war?” asked Pierre. +“Well, why don’t you speak? Whom have you got there dressed up as a +“Well, young cavalryman, how is my Rook behaving?” he asked. (Rook +“Well, young man?” he said with a sigh, and from under his lifted +“Well, your excellency, what? Your excellency! But what about your +“Well, you see, Count, I want some money.” +“Well, you see, my dear princess and cousin, Catherine Semënovna,” +“Well, you’ve told me nothing new,” and the old man repeated, +“We may as well go back,” said the son in French. + * “We must let him off the u!” +“We must let him see Amelie, she’s exquisite!” said one of +went further in among the plants and threw down the doll. “Closer, +went into the reception room familiar to Pierre, with two Italian +went in with Nicholas. After them other couples followed, filling the +went on to the game without omitting a single dish or one of the wines. +went to the carriage. +went, with the smile of a coquettish girl, which at one time probably +we parted. Why are we not together as we were last summer, in your big +wept too. They wept because they were friends, and because they were +were being set out for eighty people; and looking at the footmen, who +were bringing in silver and china, moving tables, and unfolding damask +were children. You might think that I... I understand, quite understand. +were crossing themselves. Rostóv no longer looked at the colonel, he +were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of +were expecting Márya Dmítrievna Akhrosímova, known in society as le +we’re getting it still worse,” said Nesvítski. “But sit down and +“We’re going into action, gentlemen!” +were, “high-sounding words which have long been discredited. Who does +were near him. Everybody said that Buonaparte himself was at Braunau.” +were Nicholas and Sónya, the niece. Sónya was a slender little +were not in very good condition), and instantly the squares that had up +were of the same age and both handsome fellows, though not alike. Borís +were only 217 sick and stragglers. Everything was in good order except +were really given, but that Prince Bagratión tried to make it appear +were saying. Suddenly, however, he was struck by a voice coming from the +were sitting at embroidery frames while a third read aloud. It was the +were sitting at the table on which a plan was spread out. +were sitting on some feather beds. Evidently these fugitives were +were talking and listening too eagerly and too naturally, which was why +Were the Potëmkins, Suvórovs, and Orlóvs Germans? No, lad, either you +were therefore awkward. +were there,” thought Rostóv. “In myself alone and in that sunshine +were to be severe with her and to forbid it ... goodness knows what they +“We’re to go into action, gentlemen! Mack has surrendered with his +were to land at Naples, and how a total force of five hundred thousand +were using their ramrods, others putting powder on the touchpans or +were waiting for them to come out. +“we shall be late.” +“We shall see.” +“Wetched business,” he muttered to himself. “How much is left in +“Wetched!” he muttered, throwing down a purse with some gold in it. +“We’ve got to it at last—why did you not tell me about it +“We’ve said good-by. Go!” he suddenly shouted in a loud, angry +“We will talk of it later,” said Anna Pávlovna with a smile. +We women, Prince,” and she smiled tenderly, “always know how to say +“What about capitulation?” +“What about your master?” he asked Lavrúshka, Denísov’s orderly, +“What a charming creature your younger girl is,” said the visitor; +“What a clever man your father is,” said she; “perhaps that is why +“What a dandy you are today!” said Nesvítski, looking at +“What a delightful woman this little princess is!” said Prince +“What a fine fellow you are, friend!” said the Cossack to a convoy +“What an extraordinary genius!” Prince Andrew suddenly exclaimed, +“What a nice figure the policeman must have cut, my dear!” shouted +“What a pity you weren’t at the Arkhárovs’ on Thursday. It was so +“What are you doing!” she cried vehemently. “He is dying and you +“What are you making such a noise about over there?” Márya +“What are your commands, little countess?” +“What?” asked the commander. +“What a treasure that Dmítri is,” added the count with a smile when +what a voice she has; though she’s my daughter, I tell the truth +“What brings you here?” cried the officers turning to the newcomer. +what can be done with two hundred and thirty rubles! I even manage to +“What can one say about it?” replied the prince in a cold, listless +what chance has Michael Kutúzov? No, my dear boy,” he continued, +“What devils these quartermasters are! See, the fifth company is +what do we, I mean the Austrian court, care for your victories? Bring +“What do you thank me for?” +whatever. +“Whatever is this? This!” he shouted and stood still. “Commander +whatever the import of his work. It was not the question “What for?” +Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is +“What for? I don’t know. I must. Besides that I am going....” He +“What good are they? They’re led about just for show!” remarked +“What have you done to Mlle Schérer? She will be quite ill now,” +“What? Here? But why did they not blow up the bridge, if it was +what he was about; yet they beat him à plate couture,*(3) and where +what he was laughing at. Everything her father did inspired her with +“What is bad, Father?” +what is beyond death, none of us would be afraid of it. That’s so, +“What is it?” asked the countess, startled; but seeing by her +“What is it, dear?” +“What is it?” he asked. +“What is it? What?” asked both princesses when they saw for a moment +“What is it you are afraid of, Lise? I don’t understand,” said he. +“What is that?” asked the countess as if she did not know what the +“What is the commander in chief doing here?” he asked. +“What is the matter with you, my dear?” she said crossly to the maid +what is there? Who is there?—there beyond that field, that tree, that +“What is the something?” asked he. +what it must be for her, poor thing, after what she has been used to, +“What manners! I thought they would never go,” said the countess, +“What, Monsieur Pierre... Do you consider that assassination shows +“What news, sir?” asked the officer, evidently anxious to start a +“What next? Have you gone mad?... No one would let you!... Why, you go +“What next?” the princess interrupted, smiling sardonically and not +“What? Occupied? Vienna occupied?” +“What? Revolution and regicide a grand thing?... Well, after that... +“What? Saw the real Mack? With hands and feet?” +“What shall we sing?” she said. + * “What’s he singing about?” +what she was holding in her reticule.) “So you promise?” +“What’s it all about? Why, the French have crossed the bridge that +what’s one to do?” and, having given his order, he returned to +What’s one to do, my dear?” +“What’s that that has fallen?” asked the accountant with a naïve +“What’s the good of denying it, my dear? Our dear countess was too +“What’s the matter?” exclaimed Prince Andrew standing still in +“What’s the matter? I only congratulated them,” said Zherkóv. +what’s the matter with you? You must be ill to shiver like that,” he +“What’s to be done? She’s pretty! I will do everything. Make your +what was approaching in the distance from the opposite side—the blue +what we fathers have to put up with.... Is this princess of yours +“What? What? How dare you? What?” said Telyánin. +“What will happen now?” thought she. +“What would it cost you to say a word to the Emperor, and then he +“What would you have me do?” he said at last. “You know I did all +“What would you have, my dear fellow?” answered Pierre, shrugging +“What you said just now was splendid!” said his partner Julie. +wheels and the sensation of victory. Then he began to imagine that +When Anna Mikháylovna returned from Count Bezúkhov’s the money, all +“When are you starting?” he asked. +When Borís appeared at his door Pierre was pacing up and down his room, +“When he looked at my feet, friend... well, thinks I...” +when he needs repose? Worldly conversation at a moment when his soul is +“When her confinement is due, send to Moscow for an accoucheur.... Let +when he saw the minister seated at a large table reading some papers +when I say she’ll be a singer, a second Salomoni! We have engaged an +When Natásha ran out of the drawing room she only went as far as the +When Prince Andrew entered the study the old man in his old-age +When Prince Andrew left the palace he felt that all the interest +When Prince Andrew reached the room prepared for him and lay down in a +When Rostóv went back there was a bottle of vodka and a sausage on the +when she began to speak passed through such transitions as she herself +when she had seen her guests out. +When she said this, he did not reply and only bowed, but again everybody +when she saw Pierre enter. Though he was certainly rather bigger than +when she took her seat opposite and beamed upon him also with her +“When speaking to the Emperor, try as far as you can to praise the way +When starting on a journey or changing their mode of life, men capable +When Telyánin had finished his lunch he took out of his pocket a double +When the eager but misrepeated words had reached their destination in +When the Military Governor had gone, Prince Vasíli sat down all alone +When the twenty minutes had elapsed and the time had come for the old +when they again heard an unexpectedly violent whistling which suddenly +when they drink, pressing his spurs mercilessly into the sides of his +“When would you like them, your excellency?” asked Dmítri. “Allow +where. +“Where are headquarters?” +“Where are you going?” asked an infantry officer who was eating an +“Where are you off to?” he said suddenly to Prince Andrew who had +“Where? At Bykov’s, at the rat’s... I knew it,” replied a piping +“Where have you put it, Wostóv?” +“Where is Dólokhov?” asked Kutúzov. +“Where is the commander in chief?” asked Bolkónski. +Where’s the victory?” +“Where the devil have the leg bands been shoved to?” said an +where the rivals suddenly recognized one another; and the ladies looked +“Where to?” +“Where to?” +whether he was speaking in jest or in earnest. “Ah, your excellency! +whether what he said was very witty or very stupid. He was dressed in +which a faint smile forgot to fade though his features now expressed +which at least half of them would be left on the field. After passing a +which did not leave his eager face. “Hoch Oestreicher! Hoch Russen! +which forms an impenetrable veil between us and the Eternal? Let us +which had disappeared, but at French infantry who had come into the +which had lost all dignity, and at the twitching cheeks of Prince +which he found himself. Anna Pávlovna was obviously serving him up as +which he held the hilt of his naked saber, looked just as it usually +which indicates that patience is exhausted. +which intimated that he knew what he was about and if others did not +which it is difficult to justify.” +which seemed to say that he was not blaming anyone, but could not help +which seemed to stand rather than lie down on his massive shoulders. He +which several others joined but which bored Pierre. When the music began +which she neither wished, nor could, nor considered it necessary, to +which showed that he only understood the meaning of his words after he +which stood on her right. It reflected a weak, ungraceful figure and +which the cadet under fire for the first time had experienced. +which to attack and defeat the enemy should he cross the Lech. Also, +which was littered with books and papers. The princess was as untidy as +which was offered him. Telyánin for some reason had been transferred +While in the Rostóvs’ ballroom the sixth anglaise was being danced, +While the count was being turned over, one of his arms fell back +While the couples were arranging themselves and the musicians tuning up, +While these conversations were going on in the reception room and the +while the youngest, the one with the mole, who was of a cheerful and +whispered, and a shudder ran down her back. +whispered to one another, casting significant looks at him with a kind +whispering, and betraying by every word and movement that they none +whispers. +whispers, and, whenever anyone went into or came from the dying man’s +whistling, singing, and hissing continually around them. He spoke in the +white foam from his bit, tramping the planks of the bridge with his +white foam on the waves of the Enns, an officer, in a cloak and with +white horse, was Prince Bagratión. Prince Andrew stopped, waiting for +white one, the white one!” +whites glittering and rolling as he waved his sheathed saber in a small +white teeth fiercely and spurring his black thoroughbred Arab, which +who also enjoyed the famous actress’ favors, and that in his presence +who always solved questions that seemed to him perplexing by deciding +who amuses himself in this sensible manner! And he was said to be so +who, angry and frightened, strode energetically along with downcast +who, as they passed through in their ball dresses with diamonds and +who came to congratulate, and who constantly succeeded one another in +who evidently understood his case and wished him nothing but good, +(who gazed with curiosity at the soldiers) were not Russians, the +who gives himself the airs of a monarch.” +who had evidently just arrived, entered quickly, slamming the door. +who had grown old in society and at court. He went up to Anna Pávlovna, +who had him under observation, interrupted: +who had lolled in Anna Pávlovna’s easy chairs and with half-closed +who had spoken to him on behalf of her only son Borís on the evening of +who had wished to stop the affair ran to a corner of the room and threw +who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies. +who kept her waiting some minutes. “Don’t you wish to serve me? Then +who kissed his hand. +whole army.” +whole body jerked at each step. The eldest princess followed him, and +whole dining hall, and last of all the children, tutors, and governesses +whole set. Yes, you’re all right! Choose what you will; it’s all the +whole tenor of his thoughts instantaneously changed; the battle seemed +who, liking work, knew how to do it, and despite his indolence would +who looked at her, after being in her company and talking to her a +whom all the regiment knew for a rogue. +whom did you apply?” +whom he had promised to take home. +whom he was again talking with the same involuntary smile. Sónya wore +whom I mention this, because I like you.” +“Whom shall I announce?” +who on Kutúzov’s staff in charge of the provisioning of the Russian +who ran downstairs and looked over from the halfway landing. +“Who sacrificed everything for him,” chimed in the princess, who +“Whose company?” asked Prince Bagratión of an artilleryman standing +“Who should it be? You yourself told him to come. It’s the +“Who’s that curtseying there? Cadet Miwónov! That’s not wight! +“Who’s that running on the middle of the bridge? To the right! Come + Who still is thinking but of thee! +who stood in the midst of the group, without a coat, and with his fine +“Who told you that? Who?” cried the prince. “Suvórov!” And he +who was a secretary to the embassy, Bolkónski was already acquainted. +who was kissing her hand, “you’re feeling dull in Moscow, I daresay? +“Who was that? The Military Governor himself?” was being asked at +why. +“Why a blue coat? Off with it... Sergeant major! Change his coat... +“Why are you going? I know you think it your duty to gallop back to +“Why are you so glum?” asked Nesvítski noticing Prince Andrew’s +“Why didn’t you capture one, just one, marshal for us?” +“Why didn’t you mention it, Prince? I would have offered you +“Why did you not succeed in impressing on Bonaparte by diplomatic +“Why don’t you speak, cousin?” suddenly shrieked the princess so +“Why do you say this young man is so rich?” asked the countess, +“Why, have you too much money?” +“Why no, my dear fellow,” said the astonished narrator, shrugging +“Why run risks, Captain? You should dismount,” he said. +“Why should I mind Monsieur Pierre being here?” exclaimed the little +“Why talk nonsense? Say what you want.” +“Why, this is a palace!” she said to her husband, looking around +“Why,” thought Prince Andrew, “that’s the captain who stood up +wider than ours, and it was plain that they could easily outflank us +wife and her tall cap with its light-blue ribbons, and busily filled +wild virgin pine forest, and far away on the other side of the Enns the +will all the same never be like those Petersburg young men.” +will be cut off,” said he. +will begin. And he says Buonaparte is in Braunau! Shows you’re a fool. +will be my teacher...” And lowering his big arm he offered it to the +will certainly be granted. Pierre will get everything as the legitimate +will come!” +will come back in a rage. Will you have coffee?” +willing, are going to die in the regiment, we prize the honor of the +will in Pierre’s favor are among the count’s papers, then, my dear +will just be time.” +will not reach your regiment before peace is concluded, or you will +will not rest until they have gained their end, and are prepared if +“Will they burn the bridge or not? Who’ll get there first? Will they +will they cross Pomerania?” +window and from Dólokhov’s back. Anatole stood erect with staring +window. Nesvítski, moving his moist lips as he chewed something, and +window sill. +window sill, with a pale but radiant face. +windows opening into the conservatory, with its large bust and full +wind to carry away. A pleasant humming and whistling of bullets were +wine with dignity and looking to the count for approval. +wings, hoping before evening and before the arrival of the Emperor to +wing with the other, Prince Andrew met Mademoiselle Bourienne smiling +wiping them on the sleeves of their greatcoats. All their faces were +wish?” +wished both to rebuke him (for daring to speak as he had done of a man +wished to say something more, but at that moment Prince Vasíli and his +wished to see the regiment just in the state in which it had been on +wished to take another seat so as not to trouble the lady, and also to +wishes; that is my only reason for being here. I came simply to help him +wishes to stay with me, let him... he’ll be of use here if he’s a +wishes to test me!” His heart contracted and the blood rushed to his +Wishing to find out where the commander in chief was, he rode up to +wishing to rid himself of this staff officer’s company, “please +wishing to show her connections and knowledge of what went on in +wish to be seen in that mood, for hearing footsteps in the passage he +with a bashful and awkward gesture not at all like a military salute +with a bottle wrapped in a napkin passed him by. He frowned, trying to +with a clear, bright expression, as if asking them to notice how calmly +with a decanter on a tray as “my dear” and “my sweet,” asked +with a decorous smile of self-satisfaction at being able clearly to +with a distressed face left the room to find Sónya. +with a friendly smile. +with a look of nervous agitation such as Pierre had never before seen on +with a look the significance of which could not be understood by mortal +with a mournful expression. +with an enormous mouth, hardly refraining from laughing, “I felt like +with an f, as a village elder of mine writes in his reports. She is rich +with anything in regard to her; and that always will be so in whatever +with a pleasant feeling that there was something à la Louis XV in the +with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not +with a sigh. This might have been taken as an expression of sorrow +with a sinking heart—watching the bridge and the hussars in the bright +with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her +with a wink, and passed on followed by another, an old man. +with carts that it was impossible to get by in a carriage. Prince Andrew +with enjoyment, gazing with ever-increasing amiability at the other +with evident pleasure. +with exaggerated politeness. +with frightened eyes; the second assumed precisely the same expression; +with gossip,” he continued. “Just now they are talking about you and +With great difficulty he managed to get to his horse, and shouting +with grief, though he tried hard to hide it in order not to sadden his +with her beautiful eyes full of tears at the door through which Prince +with her to the side of the room where stood the high bedstead with its +with him remained in his room; a small box, a large canteen fitted +with himself and those around him, his smile and glance were brighter +with him. There now, Sídorov!” +with his cap on the back of his black head and a cloak hanging jauntily +with his daughter, Princess Mary, and her companion, Mademoiselle +with his foot. +with his glittering, black eyes at Rostóv. +with his small hand. +with his thin legs, went up to Kutúzov. +within grapeshot range now.” +Within half an hour adjutants had been sent in various directions with +with it hidden for awhile; then looking up and seeing Pierre she +with jests and to come to business. He involuntarily looked round at the +with lighted tapers in their hands, slowly and solemnly conducting the +“With my father and sister, remember,” said Prince Andrew gently. +with none of the embarrassment so commonly shown by young men in their +with one another. Again the footmen rushed about, chairs scraped, and +with one leg crossed high above the other. His cheeks, which were so +without an inner struggle; “at such a moment as this one must think +without at all noticing that his involuntary smile had stabbed the heart +without boasting that it was a little better than at Ulm...” +without eating.” +without his boots (he had given them to the canteen keeper to dry), +without his noticing it the feeling of offense immediately turned into +without laughing, but could not resist looking at him: so to be out of +without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly. It was as +without omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from +without support. Prince Bagratión turned to the officer and with his +without taking any notice of him although they were now meeting for the +without turning their heads glanced at one another, curious to see their +without wars. How is it that we women don’t want anything of the kind, +with particular courtesy ushered Prince Andrew before him along a +with pleasure to his own voice. “All I can say, General, is that if +with Prince Bagratión’s detachment.” +with rapid rhythmic whistle flew over the heads of the horsemen and fell +with red light like a Russian church during evening service. Under +With shifting eyes but eyebrows still raised, Telyánin handed him the +with Shinshín. Berg gave his arm to Véra. The smiling Julie Karágina +with silver plate, two Turkish pistols and a saber—a present from +with So and-So,’ and then I take a cab and go myself two, three, or +with something more than curiosity and sympathy. He noticed that they +with such exactitude that Nesvítski could not help laughing. Kutúzov +with tender smiles was saying to Véra that love is not an earthly but +with the expression with which people compliment their host at a ball. +with the flirtatiousness of a handsome youth at Sónya and the young +with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance +with the hussar colonel on his left and Shinshín and the other male +with the rank of lieutenant; but as it is I receive two hundred and +with the river between himself and the main body of the French. On the +with the same expression on his full, cheerful, clean-shaven face, the +With the self-satisfaction of a man on parade, he stepped lightly with +With these words she greeted Prince Vasíli Kurágin, a man of high +with the strict formality of his house. At that moment the great clock +with thoughts and anxieties as to be oblivious of his presence. He +with trembling hands, threw his body across the saddle, righted himself, +with upraised arms. +with us.” +with you alone! God knows how long we may again be parted. You are not +“With you I will be quite frank,” said Anna Mikháylovna. “There +with you. May I?” he added in a low voice so as not to disturb the +woman, but there, just fancy! Those three got hold of a bear somewhere, + * “Woman is man’s companion.” +woman. With a slight rustle of her white dress trimmed with moss +women. +women.” +women are when you see them in their true colors! When you meet them +women, ‘women and wine’ I don’t understand!” +wonderful classic beauty of her figure, his face on the contrary +won’t go.” +“Won’t you come over to the other table?” suggested Anna +wood. +word; and he sat down at the nearest table. +word or slight rearrangement kept the conversational machine in steady, +words: “Morning dawned, the sun was rising,” and concluding: “On +words), others were eating bread; the more severely wounded looked +word that Hardenburg says, or Haugwitz either. This famous Prussian +word would effectively prove to Prince Vasíli the invalidity of his +work and study. And if Pierre was often struck by Andrew’s lack +workbag.” +work nearer to her. +world!” +world a quite different atmosphere, careless, lighthearted, and +worse, and it is absolutely necessary to prepare him if he is so ill. +worse than others.” +“Wostóv, deah fellow, just see how much there is left and shove the +“Wostóv, you’ve not been playing schoolboy twicks...” +would again have risen had not the prince still held her fast, “though +would appear as he passed the commander. +would be transferred to the Guards at once?” said she. +would find himself in the position of Mack at Ulm. If Kutúzov decided +would have taken the icon, but she stopped him. Andrew understood, +would I not give now to be unmarried! You are the first and only one to +would magnanimously extend the hand of reconciliation. +would not see us for a whole fortnight. I know it was then he wrote this +“Would not such a meeting be too trying for him, dear Anna +“Would not your excellency like a little refreshment?” he said. +would take place on this side of it... +wounded, and one knocked out,” he added, unable to restrain a happy +wounded had been abandoned on the other side of the Danube with a letter +wounded under him and his own arm slightly grazed by a bullet. As a mark +wrath. Having snapped at an officer for an unpolished badge, at another +wringing her hands. +“Write to her and let me know how her father looks at the matter. Au +write, told Rostóv the contents of his letter. +writing, so that his quill spluttered and squeaked. “If you have +written, “still, I should not cry, but you can’t... no one can +XVII, for the Queen, or for Madame Elizabeth? Nothing!” and he became +yards was all that separated them. The enemy ceased firing, and that +years older than her sister and behaved already like a grown-up person), +years ... then I will ask for your hand.” +“Yes.” +“Yes, and even tomorrow,” replied her brother. +“Yes, and he is over sixty. I hear the count no longer recognizes +“Yes and no mistake!” cried Denísov. “You worked like wegular +“Yes, a regular volcano,” said the count. “Takes after me! And +“Yes, bring some.” +“Yes, but between ourselves,” said the princess, “that is a +“Yes, but you are not the only one. There are your sisters...” +“Yes, Dmítri, clean ones, please,” said the countess, sighing +“Yes, Father, I have come to you and brought my wife who is +“Yes, I am, but please don’t let us do like that.... In another four +“Yes: ideas of robbery, murder, and regicide,” again interjected an +“Yes, if having obtained power, without availing himself of it to +“Yes, I have heard of his scheme for perpetual peace, and it is very +“Yes, I knew it long ago but had forgotten. I knew that I could expect +“Yes, immediately, immediately! Hey, who’s there?” he called out +“Yes, indeed,” replied the princess with a sigh. “So he may have +“Yes, it is all very horrid,” interrupted Pierre, “very horrid.” +“Yes, it’s a nice purse. Yes, yes,” he said, growing suddenly +“Yes, it seems he is ill. People are always disturbing him,” +“Yes, it’s from Julie,” replied the princess with a timid glance +“Yes, I was a fool! I still believed in people, loved them, and +“Yes, I was brought up quite differently,” remarked the handsome +“Yes, just the same. Though I don’t know what your opinion will +“Yes, let’s go in and I will get myself a roll and some cheese,” +“Yes, my dear, this is a great loss for us all, not to speak of you. +“Yes, now you may be glad!” said she; “this is what you have +“Yes, one is afraid,” continued the first speaker, he of the +“Yes, please do,” answered the general, and he repeated the order +“Yes, please do,” said Rostóv. +“Yes,” replied a footman in a bold loud voice, as if anything were +“Yes,” said Rostóv as if it cost him a great deal to utter the +“Yes,” said the countess when the brightness these young people had +“Yes, so it is, so it is,” said the general angrily, lowering the +yesterday’s order. Have you got it, Denísov?” +“Yes, that all happened!” he said, and, smiling happily to himself +“Yes, the Austrian prince who built that castle was no fool. It’s +“Yes, the ham was just delicious...” answered another with a loud +“Yes, these verses Nicholas wrote himself and I copied some others, +“Yes, they are splendid, splendid youngsters,” chimed in the count, +“Yes, yes, go and tell them to get it ready,” she answered, +“Yes, yes; just so! Bring it. Give it to the countess.” +“Yes, yes,” muttered Bagratión as if considering something, and he +“Yes, yes, of course,” interrupted Prince Vasíli impatiently, +“Yes, yes, of course!” Pierre chimed in, pleased at the arrival of +Yes! Yes! Yes! Don’t look at me with such surprise. If you marry +“Yes, you’re quite right,” continued the countess. “Till now I +“Yes, your excellency,” answered the Ukrainian gaily, tossing his +yet a young woman. Escaping from her father she ran to hide her flushed +yet. He felt that he must not say it. +Yet the ladies themselves could not help laughing. + you.” +you.” +you?” +you, all!” he added in a tone of command. +“You always manage to do things at the wrong time,” continued Véra. +“you and your generals won’t get on against Buonaparte; you’ll +“You are good in every way, Andrew, but you have a kind of +“You are in love with me?” Natásha broke in. +“You are mistaken,” said Borís deliberately, with a bold and +“You are off to the war, Prince?” said Anna Pávlovna. +you at last decided on anything? Are you going to be a guardsman or a +“You at least must tackle him properly, or else if he goes on like +“You, Bolkónski, don’t know,” said Bilíbin turning to Prince +you, but we’ll see what will happen. Buonaparte has become a great +you!” came from different sides. +“You came rushing into the drawing room so that everyone felt ashamed +You can’t wait a moment! Don’t you see the general wants to pass?” +You can undertake the theater, I society, and you, Hippolyte, of course +you cry, Sónya, dear love, darling Sónya!” and she kissed her and +You’d better listen more carefully!” +you, dear Mary, that in spite of his extreme youth his departure for +you did gain a brilliant victory, if even the Archduke Karl gained a +“You don’t say so!” replied the countess. +“You don’t understand why I say this,” he continued, “but it is + * You expect to make an income out of the government. +“You give me your word of honor not to go?” +you going, when you might remain here? You are faced by one of two +“You had better go.” +“You had better take care!” said the countess. +“You have a try, Hercules,” said he, turning to Pierre. +“You have been in Paris recently, I believe? I suppose it’s very +“You have not yet seen my husband?” +“You have only lately arrived?” the countess asked him. +you—is that that man suffers, and this Don Juan, wicked fellow, is +“You just wait a moment, my dear fellow, and listen,” interrupted +“You know, Prince, I am not a Bonapartist!” +“You know,” said the princess in the same tone of voice and still in +“You live in the country and don’t think the life terrible,” he +you’ll be appointed adjutant somewhere and can snap your fingers when +you’ll like it,” and he patted her cheek. “It will drive all the +“You must excuse me, dear Vicomte,” said Prince Vasíli to the +“You must look for husbands for them whether you like it or not....” +“You must walk, walk as much as possible, as much as possible,” he +“You, my little countess, are a notorious spendthrift,” said the +“You need not have said that to me, Father,” said the son with a +young ever to be more to me than a friend, but this sweet friendship, +young ladies. “I can just imagine what a funny figure that policeman +young lady visitor and the countess’ eldest daughter (who was four +young man can inspire in a romantic and loving young girl like yourself. +young man. He sat with his legs up on the sofa as if quite at home and, +young man was an illegitimate son of Count Bezúkhov, a well-known +young Nicholas Rostóv, who with his enthusiasm could not bear to remain +young Rostóv. +young woman, so soon to become a mother, so full of life and health, and +“You ought to have been there at seven in the morning.” +you please, but do this for my sake! Please do! Father’s father, our +“Your doctor tells you to go to bed earlier,” said Prince Andrew. +your doing so; but I warn you that if you dare to play the fool in my +“You’re always like that; you thwow a thing down anywhere and forget +your enchanting party,” said he, turning to Anna Pávlovna. +You’re wrong to think that of me... I... for me... for the honor of +“Your excellency...” +“Your excellency, I should like to be of use here. Allow me to remain +“Your excellency, it’s the officer Dólokhov, who has been reduced +“Your excellency! Let us attack them! I’ll dwive them off.” +“Your excellency,” said he in German, stepping forward and +“Your excellency, you gave him leave yourself, on the march.” +your father.” +your father is rich, I don’t regard myself as a relation of his, and +your father the truth when he was in favor, and in your case it’s my +your greatest pleasure is to be unpleasant to people! Go and flirt with +your hands.” He spoke as if those bullets could not kill him, and his +your interests as with a kinswoman, a good, kind, true relation. And I +your old father...” he paused unexpectedly, and then in a querulous +yours? A daughter, I suppose?” +yourself in it. And now, when one wants to smooth the thing over, some +yourselves. It must be here somewhere,” said Lavrúshka. +Your son bids fair to become an officer distinguished by his industry, +your victory is not a matter for great rejoicing and that you can’t be +you say so much that is bad, does not seem to have had its usual effect +“You see! I have asked,” whispered Natásha to her little brother +“You see, my dear... What’s that mess?” she said, pointing to his +“You see, my fwiend,” he said, “we sleep when we don’t love. We +“You see yours is already an officer in the Guards, while my Nicholas +“You speak to the colonel about this nasty business before other +“You spoke to me of inflammable material,” said he, “but you said +you tell me that among some good things it contains others which our +“You tell the colonel in the presence of other officers that an +youth and his wish to express all that was in his mind. +youthfully glittering eyes. +youthful movement, stood for a moment in the stirrup as if loathe to +“You think I’m an old man and don’t understand the present state +“You think so?” rejoined Anna Pávlovna in order to say something +“You told me to remind you of the officer Dólokhov, reduced to the +you to read when I am gone. You will find them useful.” +“You treat me like an invalid or a child. I see it all! Did you behave +You understand that my sole desire is conscientiously to carry out his +“You value your own pride and don’t wish to apologize,” continued +“You’ve been in a hurry. That’s bad!” +“you’ve got it at last.” +“You’ve grown older, Tíkhon,” he said in passing to the old man, +“You’ve only just missed him,” said the orderly. +you want to know whether I am happy? No! Is she happy? No! But why this +you want to make something out of your company?” +“You were meaning to go out, weren’t you, Mamma? Do you want the +“You were saying, Mr. Staff Officer...” continued the colonel in an +you will see.” +“You will soon be dressing your men in petticoats! What is this?” +you with my saber!” he shouted, actually drawing his saber from its +you won’t ask!” +“You won’t ask,” Natásha’s little brother was saying; “I know +“You won’t be able to find either your baggage or anything else now, +“You won’t bear me a grudge, Prokhór Ignátych?” said the +“Zat, my dear sir, is vy...” he concluded, drinking a tumbler of +zere’s an end of it! And how do you, a young man and a young hussar, +Zherkóv. They were under orders to advance next day. +Zherkóv touched his horse with the spurs; it pranced excitedly from +Zherkóv was followed by an officer of the suite who rode up to the +Znaim. diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-3/1M.txt/sort-1M-01 b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-3/1M.txt/sort-1M-01 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..af7c17e --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-3/1M.txt/sort-1M-01 @@ -0,0 +1,10785 @@ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +1. Discretion, the keeping of the secrets of the Order. 2. Obedience to +30,000 went for the upkeep of the estate near Moscow, the town house, +“Aah!” Rostóv almost screamed lifting both hands to his head. The +abandoned in the center?” he inquired, searching with his eyes for +a banister post stood a tallow candle which guttered in the draft. On +a battlefield to whom thousands of new and brilliant ideas occur which +“A bayonet wound. I remained at the front. Remember, your +“A bit touched—I always said so.” +able to inflict punishments justly and unjustly. It is those people I +a bold, free, and easy tone, while in his soul he regarded himself as a +About 80,000 went in payments on all the estates to the Land Bank, about +about a mile and a half off on the opposite heights. Down below, on +about her native land. When he saw the pretty little Bourienne, Anatole +about him and about his love for him, letting it be understood that he +about him and even speak. +about him. He reddened and turned away. +about him or anyone else, and I don’t want anything of the kind.” +about Mademoiselle Bourienne was dreadful. It was untrue to be sure, but +about Sergéy Kuzmích that interested Prince Vasíli just then, and +About ten o’clock Rostóv went to the English Hotel straight from the +about the Austrians and their uniforms, about their lines, about +about the old prince and criticized him. +about till dawn, because I think and can’t help thinking, just as +about to smile, and once on coming out of the chapel Prince Andrew and +about two thirds of a mile was stopped on the highroad. Rostóv saw the +“About your sister,” ejaculated Denísov testily. +above all this the lofty sky, formed the chief subjects of his delirious +above and below him in social standing. Something always drew him toward +above his head: “Captain Túshin! Captain!” +Above the heights was the dark clear sky, and to the right the vast orb +a bright smile, “so she won’t come down. It is natural in her +a brilliant match—blushed like a girl. +absence. Little Nicholas had been unwell for four days. The coachman who +absolutely necessary. +a case. +a cavalryman. Prince Andrew felt that an invisible power was leading him +accent. He was breathless with agitation, his face was red, and when +accept it and fixed the stake himself. Nicholas submitted to him, and at +accompanied by adjutants, galloped off in different directions, and +account of court and personal considerations tens of thousands of lives, +a celebrated miniaturist, and he leaned over the table to take the +a ceremonial march past him, and Rostóv on Bedouin, recently purchased +a certain house—that was another matter and quite the thing for a +a chance to escape, or to trick us, now that we certainly have him in +a clear blue sky, and the sun’s vast orb quivered like a huge hollow, +a closely written letter of two sheets from Bilíbin. He folded it up +a comforting belief in future life, retribution, recompense, and +a commander in chief. As it was considered that the Austerlitz success +a commanding officer’s quarters, the regiment began to move: the +a consciousness is communicated is very difficult to define, but it +a coronet) entered the room, calm and majestic, except that there was +acquaintance—he wished him simply a brother and a virtuous instructor. +acquaintance of many persons who might prove useful to him, and by +acquaintance,” said Pierre. And again, glancing at the stranger’s +acquaintances not only cordially, but even with a shade of deference +acquainted with Prince Andrew Bolkónski, through whom he hoped to +acquired though she did not understand its significance. This expression +acquiring a trotter of his own, very stylish riding breeches of the +a crafty man convinced of the futility of being cunning with so +across his path. Rostóv put his horse to full gallop to get out of the +across, snatched it from his hand and began reading it. Pierre looked +across the bodies and under a terrible fire from the French, he attended +action, and in the company of well-known, elderly, and respected racing +action, and more than that, you can’t make me believe that you do not +action, as if flying through the air without touching the ground. +action did Prince Bagratión, still hearing the cannonade in the center, +action—he drew the glove from his shapely white hand, made a sign +activities of 160,000 Russians and French—all their passions, desires, +activity, Túshin did not experience the slightest unpleasant sense of +actual phrase used by the Vienna cabinet,” said the Danish chargé +actuated by a real desire for peace. +added: “What a lot of men have been crippled today—frightful!” +addressed an edifying exhortation to them. He imagined to himself +addressed the horseman with the white plumes, evidently suggesting +address. He is a wise and clever fellow.” +addressing first one, then another. He said he would not have been +addressing her with the careless tone of habitual tenderness natural to +addressing him as ‘Usurper and Enemy of Mankind.’” +addressing the black-mustached Denísov with servile deference. +a deed to sign for the princess’ benefit. +a desire to do something for them, a desire for their approval.—So I +a desperate cry and such mad, drunken determination that, taken by +a despot. Who is right and who is wrong? No one! But if you are +a dinner where there was no place for him. In the next hut there was a +adjutant on Kutúzov’s staff, but he does everything alone. The next +adjutant, or really let the matter drop, was the question that worried +adjutants met him with news of the successful result of the action. +adjutant whom he so hated. + A dreaded foe be thou, kindhearted as a man, +adroitness and Italian play-acting! Do you know the tale about him and +advancing to attack the French cavalry that was coming to meet them. +advantageous match but a splendid, noble fellow... he is my friend...” +adve’sawies have wefused a weconciliation, please pwoceed. Take your +advice is to let the matter drop. Well then, on Friday after the review +a feeling of contemptuous ill will. He snorted whenever he mentioned +a few fir trees. +a few minutes later the chief forces of the French army moved rapidly +a few steps, turned, cut a caper, brought her little feet sharply +affair. I am her father.” +affairs and of Pierre himself in those early days. From the death of +affair was over and, though not big, had been a successful engagement. +affectation. Princess Mary ran out of the room to fetch Mary +affectionate letters to your parents, and if you think you may be +affirmatively.) “When you hear a knock at the door, you will uncover +afflicted by the death of the father he had hardly known), and her +a first introduction and betrays a consciousness of the impropriety of +a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the Russian Emperor, was +A fortnight after the letter Prince Vasíli’s servants came one +a fortnight ago he would have had a paymaster’s clerk at Yúkhnovna +afraid of a general battle. His hour has come! Mark my words!” +a Frenchman), “L’Urope ne sera jamais notre alliée sincère.” * +a French soldier tugged at the other. He could distinctly see the +A fresh wave of the flying mob caught him and bore him back with it. +a friend older than himself and whom he respected. His whole time +after another greeting the Tsar with the strains of the march, and then +“After Austerlitz!” said Prince Andrew gloomily. “No, thank you +After a while he re-entered it as if to snuff the candles, and, seeing +After a while the moving mass became agitated, someone rode past on +After Denísov’s departure, Rostóv spent another fortnight in Moscow, +after dinner. He called Natásha and asked her what was the matter. +After dinner, he went to see his daughter-in-law. The little princess +After five o’clock it was only at the Augesd Dam that a hot cannonade +After his illness he looked rather thinner that day than on the field +After his interview with his wife Pierre left for Petersburg. At the +After looking at him Napoleon smiled. +after losing half their men were retreating in disorderly confused +After passing some Austrian troops he noticed that the next part of the +After receiving this news late in the evening, when he was alone in his +After supper Pierre with his partner followed the others into the +After tea, the company went into the sitting room and Princess Mary was +After that Anna Pávlovna led up to the courage and firmness of the King +After the Austerlitz campaign Prince Andrew had firmly resolved not +after the battle but send a courier to Petersburg with news of a +after their active service, were stationed near Olmütz and the camp +After these words, the Mason, as if tired by his long discourse, again +after the soup the prince became more genial. +after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages. The jaunty +after two in the morning, thoughts come and I can’t sleep but toss +again. +again. +again, and let his head sink still lower. +again and remained for a while with the Ismáylov regiment. +again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression +again, as soon as all turned toward him, excused himself and said no +again getting in front of the first line as he had done when the Horse +again joined her. They began talking in whispers, but their talk broke +Again Rostóv looked intently into Borís’ eyes and sighed. Berg +against his right, flew round again in a circle. Natásha guessed what +against the French?” +against the muslin of the curtain. +against the pillow. +a general engagement,” repeated Dolgorúkov, evidently prizing this +“A geography lesson!” he muttered as if to himself, but loud enough +a girl, such tact, such masterly perfection of manner! It comes from +a glimpse of her, she seemed still more lovely. She was a charming girl +aglow with dazzling light—as if he had only awaited this to begin the +a gold snuffbox on which was a portrait. In the middle of one of the +a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, Prince +a good thing for proprietors who perish morally, bring remorse upon +agreed or disagreed and was satisfied or not with the arrangements. Next +“Ah, and here’s Nicholas!” cried Natásha, running up to him. +“Ah! Breathing again, breathing!” he muttered to himself. +“Ah, but you won’t talk politics to me like Annette!” +“Ah! He is alive,” said Napoleon. “Lift this young man up and +“Ah, it can’t be avoided!” thought Nicholas, for the first and +“Ah, my boy, my head’s in a whirl!” said the old man with a smile, +“Ah, my dear fellow, what a battle we have gained! God grant that +“Ah, my dear friend, he is very unfortunate,” she said. “If what +“Ah, my dear, my dear!” he began, rising and taking her by both +“Ah, my dear vicomte,” put in Anna Pávlovna, “L’Urope” (for +a hoar frost now turning to dew, but in the valleys it still lay like a +a hollow between two hills near the village of Pratzen, the Russian +a horrified expression on his handsome face, Anatole looked at Princess +“Ah, Princess Mary!” he said suddenly in an unnatural voice, +“Ah, she is indeed a darling! I’ll send her to you.” +“Ah! That’s a good thing. So, my dear boy, you wish to serve the +“Ah, there will be, and there are, many more such girls somewhere whom +“Ah, those damned Germans! They don’t know their own country!” +“Ah, what have you done to me?” it still seemed to say, and Prince +“Ah yes, and what else did he say that’s unpleasant?” thought +“Ah, yes! That’s a whole long story! How are you going to speak to +aide-de-camp. +aide-de-camp and was duly conducted to pay his respects to the aunt and +aid of his servant, and not looking at Pierre. With a pair of felt boots +aim?” said he quietly and quickly. +aim was to show General Weyrother—who had read his dispositions with +air, and disobeying orders. The moral hesitation which decided the fate +a joke he had heard in Vienna and which he had been trying all that +a lack of bread, to move farther into the interior of Prussia, for only +alarm lest something should have happened to the child while he was +alarm, supposing these words to mean that the young count was displeased +a letter at once, and she’ll come here and all will be explained, or +“A letter from Nikólenka! I’m sure of it!” exclaimed Natásha, +a letter of recommendation he had brought from Pierre had become +Alexander Prince Vasíli had risen to high position and honors. And now, +Alexander’s Guards,” said the first one, indicating a Russian +Alexander unpleasantly, he rode up and saluted. +Alexander was clearly heard. He gave the words of greeting, and the +Alexéevich. Loud knocks were heard at the door. Pierre took the bandage +alien face of that man, his bayonet hanging down, holding his breath, +alike, felt that the commander did not himself know what to do, and this +“Aline,” he said to his wife, “go and see what they are about.” +a little earth crumbled from the bank under the horse’s hind hoofs. +A little later when he went up to the large circle, Anna Pávlovna said +“A little wound, but he has been made an officer; he is well now, he +alive and suffering from a burning, lacerating pain in his head. +alive could understand or explain. +alive—live: tomorrow you’ll die as I might have died an hour ago. +all.” +all, and without promising to help me?” thought Pierre, rising with +All are struck by the justness of his views, but no one undertakes to +All around were loving eyes glistening with tears of joy, and all around +all. At last the sleigh bore to the right, drew up at an entrance, and +All began to run and bustle, and Rostóv saw coming up the road behind +all commanders of divisions the right to shoot marauders, but I much +all expecting it, they are so sure that it will happen that I cannot, I +“Alley! Alley!” said the Cossack, touching the prisoner’s arm to +all for his relations was the fact that there was still a possibility of +all her attention. He seemed to her kind, brave, determined, manly, and +All his wishes were being fulfilled that morning: there was to be a +all-important.” +“All is over,” he thought, and a cold sweat broke out on his +all its details to the Austrian General Weyrother: a lucky accident had +all make out: was it a glade in the wood lit up by the moon, or some +All Moscow repeated Prince Dolgorúkov’s saying: “If you go on +all Moscow, that everyone will say that you, drunk and not knowing what +all on one plan, for hospitals, schools, and almshouses, which were soon +allowed, I have hastened to take all steps to that end. May I have +allow him personally to express the deep respect that, emulating his +“Allow me to ask,” he said, “are you a Mason?” +“Allow me to give you a piece of advice. When you reach the capital, +all pale and exchanged looks in silence. +all quite forgetting the danger and all regard for self-preservation, he +“All right, all right!” he said to Prince Andrew, and turned to a +“All right, all right,” interrupted the prince, and laughing his +“All right, all right,” replied the commander, and turned to Major +“All right, all right, we’ll see!” +“All right, all right. We’ll talk it over,” replied Prince Andrew. +“All right!” said Dólokhov, having finished the addition. “All +“All right,” said Pierre, still smiling in the same way. A feeling +All Rostóv’s cards were beaten and he had eight hundred rubles scored +all sorts of tempting wares. The Pávlograds held feast after feast, +all that has happened.” +all that the peasants had has been eaten up. I myself will remain in +all that would be required of him. +All the advantages were on our side. Our enormous forces, undoubtedly +all the figures on it: the sun, the moon, a hammer, a plumb line, a +All the guns, without waiting for orders, were being fired in the +“All the same, I love and value nothing but triumph over them all, I +“All the same, it was Bilíbin who found a suitable form for the +“All the same! They say this one is the commander of all the Emperor +all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of +all this end?” thought Rostóv, looking at the changing shadows before +“All this had to be and could not be otherwise,” thought Pierre, +all this shame and sorrow, but wanted now to play with him as a cat does +allusion to the name of the sovereign. Three hundred persons took their +“All well?” asked Rostóv, drawing away his arm. +all were seated again, turned with his kindly smile to Rostóv. +All were silent. Túshin appeared at the threshold and made his way +All were then more confident of victory than the winning of two battles +“All wight! All wight!” shouted Denísov. “It’s no good making +all your valuables.” +almost at the middle of the table. Facing them sat Pierre, beside Prince +alone and in full view of the Emperor. +alone, but because of everyone, it must inevitably come about. They are +alone, in which there was something more significant than in the general +alone together, Prince Vasíli announced his hopes and wishes to the old +alone with Hélène in the little drawing room where they were sitting. +alone with her, so Rostóv, now that he had attained what he had longed +alone without any allies, it might perhaps have been a long time before +a long-awaited moment. He was firmly convinced that this was the day of +a look at you, your excellency.” +a look of complete absent-mindedness, kept rubbing the bridge of his +aloud. +a loud, monotonous voice began to read out the dispositions for the +aloud to him and being friends with Princess Mary. Mademoiselle +already, but then he cannot know what I think of him and may imagine +already in any case dishonored by being unable to fulfill the great and +already lost him. He bent over him and, as his sister had taught him, +already passed. Through the terrible and deafening roar of those voices, +already seen the young master, and, before he had reached the drawing +already visible. Suddenly something like a birch broom seemed to sweep +also. Yes, my opinion, and only my opinion,” added Prince Bolkónski, +altar on which lay a Testament and a skull. Round it stood seven large +altar with her. How and when this would be he did not know, he did not +Although in female society Anatole usually assumed the role of a man +Although Iogel did not acknowledge this to be the real mazurka, everyone +always afraid, came into her room with a peculiarly restless and malign +always clear and simple, so she is not stupid. She never was abashed and +always dragging it in one direction. He tried to get away from them, but +(always followed by a ball flying past and striking the earth, a man, a +always in one direction, humming with whispers and talk and the sound of +always poking fun at me.... Ah, well! Let him!” And he began reading +always shall, and I want nothing more.” +always surrounded by the same decks, masts, and rigging of his ship, so +a man oppressed by business, weary and suffering, who yet would not, for +amazed the French themselves. Rostóv was horrified to hear later that +a meeting with Napoleon. To the joy and pride of the whole army, a +Amélie” (Mademoiselle Bourienne) “thinks I could be jealous of her, +amiably into his face, evidently wishing to soften the rudeness of his +amid people of whom he was weary had gone, instantly every thought of +Amid the smoke, deafened by the incessant reports which always made him +amid the square masses of troops standing motionless as if turned to +A minute later Sónya came in with a frightened, guilty, and scared +am I to go?” thought Nicholas, and went again into the dancing room +Among the gentlemen of the suite, Rostóv noticed Bolkónski, sitting +among them the staff officer and Zherkóv, who had been twice sent to +Among the young men introduced by Rostóv one of the first was +a movement. With a pleasant smile Berg related how the Grand Duke +am staying in for your sake,” and so on. And though Prince Vasíli, +amusing,” he continued, with a sudden, good-natured laugh, “was that +amusing, now girlishly enchanting. +a musketry fire at the French cavalry that was pursuing our troops. It +an allowance of ten thousand rubles. He had a dim perception of the +an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the outspread map +Anatole. “Ah, I know, I know,” she said with a sly glance, “your +Anatole came up to her. She still could not see him. She only felt a +Anatole embracing the Frenchwoman and whispering something to her. With +Anatole, having taken off his overcoat, sat with arms akimbo before a +Anatole is accompanying me on his way to the army, so I hope you will +Anatole is no genius, but he is an honest, goodhearted lad; an excellent +Anatole kissed the old man, and looked at him with curiosity and perfect +Anatole returned smiling to the ladies. +Anatole’s expression, though his eyes were fixed on her, referred not +“Anatole used to come to borrow money from her and used to kiss her +an attack. But when they had marched for about an hour in the dense fog, +An Austrian officer in a white uniform with green plumes in his hat +and about Nikólenka, twice asked when the last letter had been received +and abruptly. +and a bullet whizzing high up in the mist with a plaintive sound passed +and accept the offer,” but before he had time to say it Natásha began +and acquaintances, invitations, and social occupations were so numerous +and, addressing him, again used the epithet “young man” that was +and advantages of service under members of the Imperial family. +and a few here and there with powdered hair and in Russian kaftáns. +and affronts matter? I love and forgive everybody now.” +and after staying but a short time with the Tsar went to see the grand +and again it turned uselessly in the same place. +and again jumping up, dashed so impetuously forward that it seemed as if +and again proceeded to gallop along the line, penetrating farther and +and all along the French line on the hill fires flared up and the +and all his comrades of the Guards by his appearance—that of a +and all His mercy to one who is blind, or who shuts his eyes that he may +and all you have been doing on your estates.” +“And am I to bring the gypsy girls along with him?” asked Nicholas, +and a muffled shout almost behind them in the wood. The French had +and amused as he was when he put on the little icon. “Did he believe? +and amuse themselves as girls of thirteen and fourteen do who are +and amusingly. “And why not marry her if she really has so much money? +and Anatole met in the conservatory. +and angry faces struggled for the mop: how differently do those clouds +and anxiety they threw their burden of sorrow on one another and +and as he went on became more and more animated. He told them of his +and, as it might seem, of the obligations to her he had taken on +“And ask whether sharpshooters have been posted,” he added. “What +and as they went along he was told allegories of the toils of his +and, as you know my principles, I refer it to you.” +And at every word he added: “But don’t hurt my little horse!” and +and at last became silent. +and at the people in it. Round a long table covered with black sat some +and awkwardly over the parquet floor of the reception room, not knowing +and back, galloped strenuously forward, and with a dashing salute reined +and began firing them at Túshin’s battery. +and began to speak. +and being well disposed toward Borís, who had managed to please him the +and besides this, nine men in every thousand for the militia. Everywhere +and calling the nurse began giving the medicine. The child screamed +and colonel looked sternly and significantly at one another like two +and conflict with which he had trodden the Enns bridge, but with the +and connections he belonged to the groups of old and honored guests, and +and continual expectation of some good, always in front of him but never +and could not answer. “Can something bad have happened to me?” +and Count Ilyá Rostóv became more and more moved, more glass was +and Count Rostóv, glancing angrily at the author who went on reading + And dare not Herculean Russians trouble... +and dark. The officers were hurriedly drinking tea and breakfasting, the +“And didn’t Hippolyte tell you?” asked Prince Vasíli, turning to +and disheveled, beat and turned the heavy feather bed for the third +and dismounted slowly among the guns. He delivered the order and did +and dissatisfied about something and that at headquarters they were +and distinctly. In the valley he saw before him something like a river, +and, doing so, groaned involuntarily. +and Dólokhov’s angry cry. +“And do you feel quite calm?” Rostóv asked. +“And do you know, my dear fellow, it seems to me that Bonaparte has +and, drawing up an armchair for Prince Vasíli, pointed to it and began +and dropped it again behind her. Prince Andrew recognized her without +and drowsy Kutúzov, who reluctantly played the part of chairman and +and ecstasy such as he had never before known. Every trait and every +and even now never says a word against him. Those pranks in Petersburg +and even Princess Mary felt herself pleasantly made to share in these +and everybody had to serve, he took a post under his father in the +and explained to them his intentions and wishes. He told them that steps +and extending its neck, galloped on yet faster. Hardly had the Horse +“And fancy! she refused him quite definitely!” adding, after a +and fell on his back. He opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle +and fighting, not at all as the gunner and the Frenchman with frightened +and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor. The countess was +and for the issue of the whole battle. “But be that what it may,” +and Frenchmen running toward it. Higher up stood some Russian infantry, +and frequent blushes she told him she was very sorry about their past +and fro, and dispatching of adjutants—was confined to the Emperor’s +and frowning brows stood a hundred paces away from them in his helmet +and galloped along the line. At first he rode along the line of +and galloped off. But no sooner had he left Bagratión than his courage +and glad sparkle. Prince Andrew had grown thinner, paler, and more +and grieved had he chosen not to see them. These different +and groans mingled in a general hubbub, then the firing died down. +and handing on to posterity of a certain important mystery... which +and handsome young man and woman for one another. And this human feeling +and happy though uneasy face of Pierre. It seemed as if the very light +And, having glanced round the room, Prince Andrew turned to Rostóv, +and he again began speaking about indifferent matters, about Sergéy +And he again turned to Pierre. +and he felt a nervous shudder run down his spine. But the mere thought +And he looked at Pierre with a mocking, challenging expression. He +And he looked on this visit to a churlish old man and a rich and ugly +and helped him. I know and understand what a spice that would add to the +And here’s the little shop where we used to buy gingerbread! Can’t +and her look seemed to say: “Well, it is your own fault.” +and her son. She had opportunities of sending her letters to the Grand +And he sat down again, paying no more attention to his daughter, who was +and he saw above him the remote, lofty, and everlasting sky. He knew it +and he walked on. +and he wore a crumpled hussar cap stuck jauntily back on one side of his +and he would marry her. So her future shaped itself in Mademoiselle +and his back drawn in, slightly swinging one foot, and, with his head a +and his lips were smiling. Though the commander was occupied in giving +and Horse Guards’ jacket, shouting something to a pale, white +and horses) had it not occurred to Rostóv to flourish his whip before +“And how could you believe he was my lover? Why? Because I like +and how happy I may be with such a friend and such a husband! Husband? +And how has it ended? I was against this marriage even then and foretold +“And how she dances! What gwace!” he said again after a pause. +and how the well-trained horse looked round unconcerned and did not +“And I did not know... Nicholas... My darling!...” +“And if I should meet His Majesty before I meet the commander in +“and if this aim coincides with yours, you may enter our Brotherhood +“And, if your excellency will allow me to express my opinion,” he +“And I know why she’d be ashamed,” said Pétya, offended by +and I’ll write to her myself, and we will kill the fatted calf.” +“And I might have been in his place!” thought Rostóv, and hardly +and impossible, he again glanced timidly at her. She did not sit down +and in a way of which our last campaign can give you no idea. Half the +and in a whisper, with a strangely unsmiling face: “Come to dinner +and indulgently to smooth with it the heart of his neighbor. As to the +and inevitably he lapsed into falsehood. If he had told the truth to his +and in order to press them again to her lips, she slightly pushed away +and insignificant people. But the army, the Russian army, everyone +and interesting person to the visitors and that nowhere else was the +and interests before him! “Yes, they have taken a wise decision,” he +and into ladies’ society with an affectation of doing so against his +and in two twists of the hand he breaks them to smithereens and installs +and irrepressibly, as water does in a creek. Had the Russian army been +and irritation, though controlledly calm as a man is at the approach of +“And I should be ashamed to write to Borís. I’m not going to.” +And is it worth tormenting oneself, when one has only a moment of life +“And I was looking for you,” said Natásha running out to him. “I +“And I will tell you this,” Prince Andrew interrupted in a tone of +and I won’t allow it to be said!” +and Kámenski the latter was preferred. The general comes to us, +and leaving large sums of money with them for alms, went away to his +and littered with cards. One tormenting impression did not leave him: +and looked at her in such a way that not only could she not bear his +and looked at him closely. +and looks of those who had seen them together. He recalled Anna +“And love of one’s neighbor, and self-sacrifice?” began Pierre. +and majestic voice that was yet so simple! And as if in accord with +“And Mamma pressed her!” said Nicholas reproachfully. +and Martinists, even in Novíkov’s time. For a long while after he had +“And me, kiss me!” +and merry faces. It was Natásha, Sónya, and Pétya, who had come to +and mingling with one another. He could also, by the gleam of bayonets +and more regularly and rapidly, and the action at the Goldbach Stream +and moved along the ranks shouting. The train drivers and orderlies +and musketry ahead of him. The firing grew louder and louder. +and my life, my life,” he thought, “must be risked?” +and Natásha, in the light-blue dresses they had worn at the theater, +And Natásha kissed her brother and ran away. +And Natásha rose and went out of the room on tiptoe, like a ballet +And Nicholas again kissed her hand. +and not value her pure affection and devotion to me?” She went up +“And now, in token of candor, I ask you to reveal to me your chief +And now there’s Dólokhov sitting in the snow with a forced smile and +and of course not as ‘Emperor,’ it seemed to me it should be to +and one booted foot, he advanced, while Willarski held a sword to his +and one could hear their distressing screams and groans, sometimes +and only turned away his eyes when the Austrian chief of staff finished + And on the throne our Titus shield. +and opened the door for him. +“And our little tea table?” +and out of the bedroom glanced at the princess and turned away. She did +and overtook him. A sergeant of the battalion ran up and took the flag +and particularly amiable smile. +and part were leaving these Pratzen Heights which he intended to attack +and paused facing her at the foot of the sofa on which she was lying. +And Pierre, anxiously trying to remember whether he had done anything +and, pressing Pierre’s hand, he went out. +And Prince Andrew, with others fatally wounded, was left to the care of +And Prince Dolgorúkov rapidly but indistinctly explained Weyrother’s +And Princess Mary tried, but could not manage, to be cordial to her new +and profligate life, though I did not like it and did not want to,” +and promised to write to him and guide him in his new activity. +and proudly around while Bagratión spoke to his son. +And really another French soldier, trailing his musket, ran up to +And really he only ran a few steps alone. One soldier moved and then +and regarded as the key to the position. He saw over the mist that in +and relations had been given to understand that the fate of the young +and remained so for some minutes. Piteous, helpless, animal moans came +Andrew. +Andrew. +Andrew a reliable correspondent to whom he could pour out the bile he +“Andrew, don’t!” said Princess Mary. +Andrew felt that something gave way in his soul and that he was guilty +Andrew in his boyhood, helped Pierre out of his carriage, said that the +Andrew. “I wish you good luck and success, gentlemen!” he added and +Andrew, paying no more heed to the general who ran after him imploring +Andrew read the same mild reproach he had read on the face of his dead +Andrew’s presence. He was ashamed to express his new Masonic views, +Andrew, told how Bonaparte wishing to test Markóv, our ambassador, +Andrew was in and Borís was shown into a large hall probably formerly +Andrew went out with him. +Andrew, whom Borís was expecting, entered the room. Prince Andrew, who +And Rostóv got up and went wandering among the campfires, dreaming of +and running so lightly, frightened Rostóv. He seized his pistol and, +and salt and an icon of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, asking permission, +and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his +and saw that the lamp stood on a black table on which lay an open book. +and saying something in their gypsy accents. Nicholas understood that it +and, scowling, he gave Nicholas just such a look as he had given Pierre +and secured their release by heavy payments. He did not know that the +and seeing her severe face said: “Well, good-by, Countess,” and +and several other less noteworthy persons. +and she with him, that there was quite a scandal and that that’s why +“and should not justify your confidence and the honor you have done +and shown such unaffected familiarity in intercourse with everybody both +and silver of the men’s epaulets; servants in scarlet liveries moved +and simply, “Mr. Shítov—a man of great merit”—this of the man +and sinfulness?” He paused again. “Who art thou? Thou dreamest that +and social tact,” thought he; “been proud of my house, in which she +and so further increased the fame of these dances. What distinguished +and solemn, and awakening in the men an unusual curiosity. On the day of +and so said the youths and maidens themselves as they danced till they +and so sparkling their eyes. Sometimes the best of the pupils, of whom +“And so they are writing from Potsdam already?” he said, repeating +and sought the acquaintance of only those above him in position and +“And so you had to go through that too!” +“And so you’ve had him educated abroad, Prince Vasíli, haven’t +and still fewer men would be so well able and willing to make up out of +and still the same and in the same place. No, it can’t be! Surely it +and stood still in the dim light beneath the curtain as if not wishing +and stooped glass in hand over the infant. +and stopped near him. +And strange to say Nicholas felt that he could not help taking up a +and strength. He was continually traveling through the three provinces +and suddenly began to cry. +And suddenly the whole world centered for him on anticipation of the +and swallowed the cold snow, his lips quivered but his eyes, still +and, taking Natásha’s hand, kissed it. +and tears, till at last somebody else was asked to read it.” +and tear whatever came to his hand. “Why did I tell her that ‘Je +and that daredevil after her!” said Anna Mikháylovna, wishing to show +and that her husband was a cross laid upon her by God. Prince Vasíli +and that if a letter reached the Grand Duke in command of the Guards +And that’s how it is with me. À demain, mon cher.” * +and that the richest peasants (who formed the deputation) had begun +and the allowance to the three princesses; about 15,000 was given in +and the boyish face Rostóv, breathless with excitement and hope, was +and the burning of an arm with a ruler as a proof of love did not seem +and the cannon, under the horses’ hoofs and between the wagon wheels, +and the consequent impossibility of a speedy emancipation. +And the count turned to the cook, who, with a shrewd and respectful +and the Crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which +and the difficult names of villages. Weyrother complied and Dohktúrov +and the disgrace of having lost two guns and yet remaining alive present +and the distinguished dignitary who bore the title of “Collector +And the feeling of energy with which the troops had started began to +and the jingle of their weapons and saw their horses, their figures, and +and then calmly and seriously sat back in his chair. Anna Pávlovna +and then he suddenly stopped and performed some new and unexpected +And then to call him out, reckoning on Fédya not fighting because he +And the old cavalry captain, Kírsten, shouted enthusiastically and no +and the old countess were especially disturbed, and to a lesser degree +“And the other one is not here. They’ve been telling tales,” he +and the others who did not approve of the plan of attack, were +and the pistols loaded, Nesvítski went up to Pierre. +and the reading of the letter began. After a brief description of +And there in the coffin was the same face, though with closed eyes. +and there is nothing to thank me for. No one has ever complained yet of +“And there’s nothing for you to say. I shall speak to him myself,” +and there too sat the members of the family, and Pierre and Hélène, +and the rewards sent to the army are innumerable. Though he is a +and the same look. In the middle of a dull and halting conversation, +and the second aim, that of purifying and regenerating himself, did not +And the talkative Dolgorúkov, turning now to Borís, now to Prince +and the traveler became absorbed in it. Pierre looked at him. All at +and the two Emperors were living with their suites, households, and +And the two friends told each other of their doings, the one of his +and the whole secret lies in the terrible truth that she is a depraved +And they disappeared into the darkness with their load. +and three pairs of gloves, and then the Grand Master addressed him. He +and took hold of the commander’s stirrup, almost leaning against him. +and ‘To Siberia!’” said Berg with a sagacious smile. “I knew I +and triumph. +and two or three friends—you among them—and as for the rest I only +and unreasonable than a little child, who, playing with the parts of a +and virtue, and thereby try with all our might to combat the evil which +and virtue than mere words. This chamber with what you see therein +and voices. This class of guests and members sat in certain habitual +and was a stranger there. In his person, honor was shown to a simple +and was going to tuck up the other trouser leg to save this stranger the +and watched his opponent’s face, evidently thinking about the game as +and way of life. +and well informed foregathered when the news began to arrive in +and went out. Natásha had put on one spurred boot and was just getting +and, whatever may happen to him or to me, shall never cease to love him +“And what is she so pleased about?” thought Nicholas, looking at his +and what to expect after it beyond the grave! How happy and calm I +and wheels began to revolve faster and faster, levers and cogwheels to +and where to shoot,” he said with an unnaturally gentle smile. +“And who has told you what is bad for another man?” he asked. +and whom Borís addressed turned round crossly and told him Bolkónski +and who was called Tit. He was saying, “Tit, I say, Tit!” +“And why didn’t you simply come straight to me as to a friend? I +“And why do you serve?” +and with a bow to them both he went out. +And with a furtive glance at his son’s face, the count went out of the +and with a hooked nose. Then came two more, and many more running +and with baritone notes in his voice, new to Borís, pointing to his own +and with his hand at the salute rode up to the general. +and without awaiting a reply, Prince Andrew rose and left the table. +and wrote a few words on a large sheet of paper folded in four). +and yet be happy....” +“And you?” he asked Dólokhov, but as soon as he had asked the +and young people are rarely capable of it. His hearers expected a story +“And you’re still the same diplomatist! But that’s not the +“And you won’t feel ashamed to write to him?” +a need to escape from it by some strange, and usually cruel, action. +an excruciating pain in his arm, for which he could find no satisfactory +an exemplary officer of twenty-two years’ service, who had never been +an explanation, but meeting the latter’s impressive but meaningless +an expression of perplexity, turned round to Milorádovich as if seeking +an eye on me! Very well then! Get along with you!’ So he writes the +angered the countess when it was not properly cleaned, turned as loosely +anger he did not condescend to notice, and said: “I think you were +angling, while his grandson, with shirt sleeves rolled up, handled the +angrily at him. Bondarchúk’s horse swerved and galloped past. +angry—but I know you will not marry her. I know, heaven knows how, but +An hour and a half later most of the players were but little interested +An hour later, Tíkhon came to call Princess Mary to the old prince; +an hour’s delay they at last moved on, descending the hill. The fog +“A nice little hot torch for the infantry! Good luck to you, fellow +an illegitimate son, and petted and extolled when he was the best +animal. Count Ilyá Rostóv, laughing and repeating the words, “Make +animal went when excited. Bending his foaming muzzle to his chest, his +animation of the past or the future. It was as if Prince Andrew would +an immediate answer. Prince Vasíli had brought his son with the evident +an indescribable charm of sorrow and self-forgetfulness that her father +Anna Mikháylovna, in a few words, told her the contents of the letter, +Anna Mikháylovna opened the door. Her face wore the proud expression +Anna Mikháylovna sat down beside him, with her own handkerchief wiped +Anna Mikháylovna shook her head. +Anna Mikháylovna sighed deeply. +Anna Mikháylovna, though her circumstances had improved, was still +Anna Mikháylovna turned up her eyes, and profound sadness was depicted +Anna Mikháylovna, who always knew everything that passed in the house, + * Anna Pávlovna. +Anna Pávlovna continued to give on free evenings the same kind of +Anna Pávlovna frowned. Mortemart, Hippolyte’s friend, addressed him +Anna Pávlovna gave him her shriveled hand to kiss and introduced him to +Anna Pávlovna’s “At Home” was like the former one, only the +Anna Pávlovna’s two years before. There were also present a very +announce him, but, changing his mind, came back and stooped to kiss the +annoyance. “Good luck to you!” +an oath of fidelity to the laws of the Order. The candles were then +an opportunity to express his doubts. +another.” +another and soon the whole battalion ran forward shouting “Hurrah!” +another candle. Still lower, beyond the turn of the staircase, one +another, dying, stepping over the dying and killing one another, only to +Another five days passed, and then the young Prince Nicholas Andréevich +Another group was at the tea table. Pierre wished to join the former, +another, more important, subordination, which made this tight-laced, +another of the precepts—that of reforming the human race—and had +Another, the red, stout Nesvítski, lay on a bed with his arms under his +another, they all gave, and transmitted, orders as to how to proceed, +another two minutes and it is certain death,” thought each one. +answer. At last he moved up to Pierre and, taking the kerchief that lay +answered him either by a brief but appropriate remark—showing that it +answered the general. +answer that voice and went on dreaming of his triumphs. The dispositions +Antónov.” +an unexpected and tenderly paternal way. +any moment.) +any moment the Emperor may see them.... But no, these must be only a +anyone flogged or sent to Siberia—and still less for your serfs. If +anyone in particular, began to say how difficult it was to carry out +any the worse off. In Siberia they lead the same animal life, and the +anything, Dólokhov, looking straight in his face, said slowly and +anything, except only for permission, after the blow she had received, +anything. If it be God’s will to prove thee in the duties of marriage, +anything like it. She believed it could be, but did not understand it. +anything, when suddenly the well-known whispering of Mademoiselle +any women—countesses or cooks—who were not venal. I have not yet met +apart from myself.” +a partner, and the old men began smilingly to talk about Poland and the +apologizing for the state of his gun. +apparently immersed in his own thoughts. +apparently suffering more than the dying soldier, and he rode away. +appeared. +appeared. He would carry her away and then sa pauvre mère would appear +appeared to him in a dream: his mother and her large white hand, +appreciate at a glance her superiority to the plain, badly dressed, +approached first, experienced the same feeling as every other man in +approached Kutúzov. Of Kutúzov’s suite only four remained. They were +approaching. And at that moment, though the day was still, a light gust +approaching departure did not prevent his amusing himself, but rather +aprons like the Rhetor’s and holding swords in their hands pointed at +apron, such as the others wore, was put on him: he was given a trowel +apron, which symbolized strength and purity; then of the unexplained +a rage) and called for the company commander. +Archduke, inspected the allied army of eighty thousand men. +architect not to go to the prince with his report. +architect’s attention to the sound of the prince’s footsteps. +are clever, you are well educated. And what have you done with all these +are many stories of his getting to know an officer in just such a chance +are now two Russians, Milorádovich, and Dokhtúrov, and there would be +a reproach to everyone. Now tell me, Count, was it right, was it +are taken to the field marshal’s room, for he likes to do everything +are there,” said the officer, pointing to the village of Hosjeradek, +are they doing? What are they doing?” he murmured to himself, still +are very pale!” said Princess Mary in alarm, running with her soft, +are within sight of the enemy and he wishes to profit by the opportunity +are you dumb?’ he shouted. Still I remained silent. And what do you +“Are you mad? You have twice been ordered to retreat, and you...” +are young and I am old. I should like to help you as far as lies in my + A Rhipheus at home, a Caesar in the field! +arithmetic, when rising from his chair he would walk away from her, +Arkhárovs; they have a party.” +arms and the hope of future triumph. And he was not the only man to +arm’s length, apparently afraid of shooting himself with it. His left +arms on the table and began to read. After reading a few lines, he +army, and even Napoleon himself with his staff, were not on the far side +army, and in the night from the nineteenth to the twentieth, the whole +army’s campfires dimly glowing in the fog, could be seen behind him; +army. You have brought your army corps to Pultúsk, routed: here it is +(“Arnauts” was the Tsarévich’s favorite expression when he was in +around him. An infantryman came to the fire, squatted on his heels, held +around them cannon balls were flying, of which he was aware not so +aroused him. He started and opened his eyes. +arrangement of the festival in honor of Bagratión, for few men knew +arrangements of the house, he interrupted himself: +arrangements to the minutest detail remain the same.” +arranging a dinner in honor of Prince Bagratión at the English Club. +arrival, thought in another way. Of course, she, a handsome young woman +artillery company, a head and shoulders taller and twice as broad +artilleryman to Prince Andrew. “Not like your honor!” +artilleryman, wiping away the blood with his coat sleeve, as if +artillerymen, some of whom were fighting, while others, having abandoned +artillerymen, Túshin, and the cadet exchanged silent glances as they +A rustle of starched petticoats and the whispering and laughter of +as a child, there was no longer in her singing that comical, childish, +as a friend that frees the soul grown weary in the labors of virtue +As always happens when women lead lonely lives for any length of time +as a mark of their gratitude for the benefits he had conferred on them, +as a petitioner on behalf of this young man. You see...” but +as a true hussar in this battle, had been wasted. Their squadron +as author of the military plan, argued that Bonaparte might easily +as a veranda. +as Borís. “Count! I am wounded in my right hand” (and he showed his +as elsewhere, he was surrounded by an atmosphere of subservience to +a servant. From there they passed into another room. A man in strange +a seventy-pound weight were tied to it. He could run no more. The +as ever. A solitary tallow candle burned in the anteroom. +as far as Moscow and to stay with him there. Meeting a comrade at +ashamed; he felt that he was occupying someone else’s place here +ashamed of himself, he said, as if merely asking his father to let him +as he expected he was appointed an adjutant to the governor general of +as he felt himself to be at that moment. He was conscious that here +a shell burst in the midst of that dense throng, killing some and +as his own. What also conduced to Bagratión’s being selected as +a short pause, “but everyone lives in his own way. You lived for +As I do not intend to be at your house again for reasons you know +as if astonished at the word. “Well, you see, I’m building. I mean +as if continuing a conversation the subject of which had often been +as if he felt a little confused before his son. “Now, if you would +as if she had to give some final necessary instructions. +as if stirred to his heart’s core and himself regretting and laughing +as impracticable, he arranged for the erection of large +as I remember Nikólenka. Him—I just shut my eyes and remember, +As is usually the case with people meeting after a prolonged separation, +asked and answered at the same instant. He was alone in the middle of a +asked him to tell the Emperor. What do you think he replied? ‘But, my +asked Natásha, so seriously and excitedly that it was evident that what +asked one of the ladies. +asked Rostóv, with a contemptuous smile. +asked to give up all he possessed. +asked to play on the clavichord. Anatole, laughing and in high spirits, +asked to see the portrait of the aunt’s husband on the box lid. +asked Weyrother several times to repeat words he had not clearly heard +ask himself. It was as if the thread of the chief screw which held his +“Ask him to wait,” and the sound was heard of a chair being pushed +asking.” But dying was also dreadful. +ask you to put the money on your cards,” replied Dólokhov. “Don’t +asleep, nor even remain in one place, but had to jump up and pace the +a slightly contemptuous smile, he said: “Yes, there are many stories +a slipper for his left foot. With a childlike smile of embarrassment, +as long as I live.” +as many persons are to me—father, sister, wife—those dearest to +“As may happen,” said Rostóv. +a smile he could not repress as he recalled his reception at Brünn. +as much self-confidence as if he were addressing school children—that +As often happens after long sleeplessness and long anxiety, he was +A soldier on the march is hemmed in and borne along by his regiment as +a soldier’s cross, equally shabby cadet’s riding breeches lined with +A space like a street was left between each two lines of troops. The +“A splendid reply!” said Napoleon. “Young man, you will go far!” +“A splendid soldier, splendid! ‘What am I attached to!’ Ha, ha, +as possible to conceal his own part in the improvements that had been +as reported by the division commanders, Ostermann and Sedmorétzki, and +as she sat in her room. But owing to the superstition that the fewer +As she was crossing the anteroom she saw through the window a carriage +assigned to the commander of the Pávlograd regiment in which Rostóv +as something generally known. But it was the first time he had heard +As soon as Nicholas entered, he was enfolded in that poetic atmosphere +As soon as the singing was over, another and another toast was proposed +assumed a dignified expression, which with characteristic tact she had +assured himself from the way Rostóv looked at it that his coat had been +“A staff officer was here a minute ago, but skipped off,” said an +a star-shaped light. At one side of the table was a small carpet with +as the “angel incarnate.” +“As the enemy’s left wing rests on wooded hills and his right +as the guest of honor, to enter first. Bagratión was embarrassed, not +as their officer—all looked at their commander like children in an +“As there’s no one to fall in love with on campaign, he’s fallen +as they enjoyed their Rhine wine, sauté, and ices, and however they +as they have heard it described by others, and as sounds well, but not +as they watched their young people executing their newly learned steps, +As this Ápsheron battalion marched by, the red-faced Milorádovich, +a storm at the square, cut his way in, slashed right and left, how his +a story, heard from her aunt but finished in her own way, which she +“As to your business,” Prince Andrew continued, addressing Borís, +A strange feeling of exasperation and yet of respect for this man’s +a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of +a suffering child and to wring her little hands even with some +as well as that the French were outflanking our left. The general +as were all the words he spoke that day, and Count Ilyá looked joyfully +As when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters +asylums, and schools were to be established on all the estates. Some of +as you and Princess Mary call it, are the chief source of all error and +as you may, always remain the same backs and foreheads.” +as young Bezúkhov! Yes, I pity him from my heart, and shall try to give +as young people often do. “No, I am too happy now to spoil my +“As you please... really... I think so... but as you please,” said +“As you see,” he said. +at a command, everyone began to run. +at a full gallop so that he outstripped the others. Ahead, the enemy was +at all as I ran,” thought Prince Andrew—“not as we ran, shouting +at all as it really was. Rostóv was a truthful young man and would on +at any rate his light-blue eyes gazed for about two seconds into +at a soldier who lay prone, with blood on his uncovered head. The +at Bagratión over each other’s shoulders, as if he were some rare +at balls, amiably smiling in the society of the most brilliant women, +At dawn on the sixteenth of November, Denísov’s squadron, in +At daybreak on the seventeenth, a French officer who had come with +At dinner Anna Mikháylovna talked the whole time about the war news +At dinner, conversation turned on Pierre’s marriage. +at Dólokhov and his eyes dropped, the something terrible and monstrous +At eight o’clock Kutúzov rode to Pratzen at the head of the fourth +a terrible thing! Quelle terrible chose que la guerre!” +At first he heard the sound of indifferent voices, then Anna +at first impossible to enter the drawing room door for the crowd of +at first irregularly at varying intervals—trata...tat—and then more +At first Prince Andrew read with his eyes only, but after a while, +At five in the morning it was still quite dark. The troops of the +at her reproachfully. “And who is it she takes after?” thought the +at her timidly over his spectacles, and like a hare surrounded by hounds +at him. After this volley the regimental commander clutched at his leg; +a third, Count Arakchéev, if his nerves were not too weak.” +at his hesitation and, trying to arouse his former devotional feeling, +at his own sensibility, when Princess Mary entered. He hurriedly took a +at his partner with a merry and triumphant air, suddenly stamped with +at home again. He felt that he had grown up and matured very much. His +At home, they had not yet gone to bed. The young people, after returning +at intervals, and the bullets passed somewhere in the fog singing in +at irregular intervals as before, followed by one or two cannon shots, +at Kutúzov’s. +At last seizing a soldier by his collar he forced him to answer. +“At least, change your coiffure,” said the little princess. +at Markóv, probably expecting Markóv to pick it up for him, and how +atmosphere characteristic of homes where there are very young and very +atmosphere made itself so strongly felt in the Rostóvs’ house as at +atmosphere of an army, announcing the approach of something decisive +at one another. +a toy, seeing the effect these prearranged receptions had on Pierre, +at Prince Andrew with cool intensity, walking straight toward him and +at Schön Grabern, what shall we not do now when he is at the front? We +At six in the evening, Kutúzov went to the Emperor’s headquarters +attacked the men collecting wood in the copse. It was no longer possible +attack instead of being attacked, and so render the whole of this +attack our headquarters, and the commander in chief has to ask for a +attacks. Both generals are angry, and the result is a challenge on +attacks the Prussians. The Prussians are our faithful allies who have +attained. +attain that knowledge and are still infinitely far from our aim; but +attend to the voice of their commander, or would they, disregarding him, +attention. +attention. Dohktúrov, a little man, sat opposite Weyrother, with +attention. He looked now at the Pratzen Heights, now at the sun floating +attention. Napoleon apparently remembered seeing him on the battlefield +attention of all to Borís’ narrative was shown by Hélène. She asked +attention to something within her that is only seen in pregnant women, +attention to the verses. +attentively to what Prince Vasíli said, but kept glancing at Princess +At that moment, as the Horse Guards, having passed him, disappeared in +At that moment Borís clearly realized what he had before surmised, that +at that moment made itself felt. +At that moment the door opened. +At that moment, with noiseless footsteps and with the businesslike, +At that time in the Rostóvs’ house there prevailed an amorous +at the Arkhárovs’ ball, talked about the war with Field Marshal +at the beautiful Hélène with her radiant face and at the red, broad, +At the beginning of March, old Count Ilyá Rostóv was very busy +at the bottom of the sleigh beside Rostóv, who grew more and more +at the club dinner. +at the council—the coming battle and the victory that would certainly +at the door,” and Natásha ran across the drawing room to the dancing +at the doors, but after all he did at last enter first. He walked shyly +at the faces of his suite, young and animated as his own. Czartorýski, +At the front an altercation occurred between an Austrian guide and a +at the head of a movement that had already become unrestrainable. He was +at the least firing. The Emperor’s gratitude was announced to the +at them. +at them and hack them to pieces, their proximity now seemed so awful +at the map, but at Prince Andrew’s face. +At the moment the door opened and the stranger came in, Pierre felt a +At the Olmütz review he had seemed more majestic; here he seemed +at the period of youth when there seems so much to do that there is no +at the sound and then, smiling at his own sensations, stood still. The +At the very instant he did this and uttered those words, Pierre felt +at the world is so opposed to yours that we shall not understand one +attire appeared at the door. Willarski, stepping toward him, said +attitude toward him that had taken place in society. +Augesd. +“Auntie, darling, do tell me what it is!” +Austerlitz, Borís was unable to see either Prince Andrew or Dolgorúkov +Austrian and Russian troops, both those freshly arrived from Russia and +Austrian army of Ulm. They are the same battalions you broke at +Austrian Council of War at which Suvórov crowed like a cock in reply to +Austrian general, continuing to read, frowned angrily and jerked his +Austrians, and all at once discovered from the cannon balls discharged +Austrian, to report and explain, and to his headquarters where he had +Austria,” said Mortemart. “The Emperor of Austria can never have +authorities to secure advantageous means of communication for herself +authority in his voice. “Who invented Him, if He did not exist? Whence +a very bad way of deciding whether a battle was won or lost. Those who +a very long time. “If anyone finds this silence inconvenient, let him +a victory over Bonaparte, just when I’m not serving. Yes, yes, he’s +a visit. “I am starting on a journey of inspection, and of course I +“A visitor,” answered Antón. +avoided looking at the young couple, and heedless and unobservant as +avoided the blow. “Thought... Blackguards...” shouted the prince +avoid General Buxhöwden who by right of seniority should be our chief. +avoiding gardens and enclosures, going over new and unknown ground, and +avoid seeing all these suffering men, and he felt afraid—afraid not +awaited their fate. The firing died down and soldiers, talking eagerly, +aware of his existence. At the quarters of the commander in chief, +aware that in front, behind, and on all sides, other Russian columns +away. +away and he had just managed to catch her, “didn’t he tell you how +away? But where to? It’s one—let them sing!” +away from her. “Destroying the army, destroying the men! And why? Go, +away her tears on her sister-in-law’s knee. +away. Involuntarily recalling his wife’s past and her relations with +A week later Pierre gave his wife full power to control all his estates +A week later, Pierre, having taken leave of his new friends, the Masons, +a white horse followed by his suite, and said something in passing: +awkward and uncomfortable, and her burden oppressed her now more than +awkward to attract everyone’s attention and to be considered a +a word to the questions addressed to him. But on entering Moscow he +a worthy dwelling place of the Great God,” he added, and closed his +a wrathful wrinkle on her rather prominent marble brow. With her +a yawn. “Plenty of time,” he repeated. +back. +back, “give me your hand.” She took her sister-in-law’s hand and +back to the house. +backwards and forwards and was at last brought to the doors of the +“Bad! Bad!” exclaimed Pierre. “We all know what is bad for +bad. But Anatole was dumb, swung his foot, and smilingly examined the +“Bad! But it’s not that, my friend—” said Dólokhov with a +bad for another traveler, and for himself it’s unavoidable, because +badly through his spectacles, but that his wife’s connection with +“Bad news! He’s not among the prisoners nor among the killed! +Bagratión and Dolgorúkov ride past with their adjutants. All the fear +Bagratión appeared in the doorway of the anteroom without hat or sword, +Bagratión cast his large, expressionless, sleepy eyes round his suite, +Bagratión gave no further orders and silently continued to walk on in +Bagratión’s detachment was reunited to Kutúzov’s army. +Bagratión stopped and, before replying, tried to see Rostóv’s face +Bagratión’s troops, which had not yet advanced into action but were +Bagratión. “Wait till tomorrow morning, we’ll find out everything +bags into the carts, got their muskets ready, and formed rank. The +bald head, over which she again looked at the letter and the portrait, +Bald Hills. Prince Andrew, glancing at Pierre, broke the silence now and +ball, flying close to him, caused him to duck and bend over his horse. +ballroom. +balls! I can’t tell you. And the Tsarévich was very gracious to all +ball was even happier. They were both dressed in white muslin with pink +bandage was again removed and more than ten voices said together: “Sic +band, came up and in angry tones asked the artillerymen for water. +bandy-legged domestic serf in a peaked cap and sheepskin coat. +bank, hesitating to step onto the ice. The general on horseback at the +bare chest. He was conducted from that room along passages that turned +baritone. +barrier except the barrier of his own will. +bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular façade +battalion and regimental commanders mounted, crossed themselves, gave +battalions and artillery pass by and go forward and then Generals +battalion to disperse them. During one of these attacks they carried off +battalion would follow him. +batteries ranged on the slopes of the Pratzen Heights, directed at our +battery and the heroic endurance of Captain Túshin and his company,” +battery when two balls, and then four more, fell among our guns, one +battle. +battle, a list of whom has been sent me under flag of truce.” +battle, and by the sight of the gallant Ápsherons, his comrades in +battle and, in spite of the remonstrances of his courtiers, at twelve +battle and were engaged in peaceful occupations, the cavalry feeding the +battlefield.” +battle is won by him alone. Kutúzov is removed and he is appointed... +battle the soldiers excitedly try to get beyond the interests of their +beams of mild and majestic light around, and already he felt himself +be anyone’s lackey, but I who have nothing but my brains have to +bears!...” +bear the whole burden on his shoulders. Fancy what he had to go through! +be at stake. But this one is too light, it’s not becoming!” +beautiful eyes grew dim, red blotches came on her face, and it took +beautiful eyes. Last night a proposition was made me on your account +beautiful Hélène, whose eyes several times met those of the handsome +beautiful, radiant eyes. It was as if joy—a supreme joy apart from the +beauty as she glided away. “And how she carries herself! For so young +be better dressed than others, and would rather deprive himself of many +be brought here well wrapped up in felt. I must have two hundred pots +be carried back with it oneself. Bolkónski only tried not to lose +be carried out, was forgotten. Now, entering into Weyrother’s plan, +because he could not. In the middle of a figure he beckoned to Rostóv +because it concerned not himself but another, his daughter, whom he +“Because when once a man starts on military service, he should try to +become a habit. Schemes and devices for which he never rightly accounted +become calmer since I began to live only for myself.” +become completely changed, and had quite left behind his former habits +become cruel and harsh, are conscious of it, but cannot restrain +become habitual to him and, his handsome head held high, entered his +becomes a man who values his honor, perhaps too hastily, but we won’t +become thoroughly conversant with that unwritten code with which he had +be done; he felt that everybody, including his mother and sisters, was +Bedouin twice and successfully put him to the showy trot in which the +be dozing. His head sank forward and then he roused himself. +been able to free himself but that Prince Vasíli (who had rarely before +been bewildered. At that time, the Russians were so used to victories +been brought up in the most aristocratic circles. +been engrossed by the same thoughts ever since the day he returned from +been looking at. +been minutely described. Princess Mary was sitting alone in her room, +been ready, but they still delayed and all were silent. +been recommended to Prince Andrew he had already risen above the general +been refused. He asked in a hesitating, piteous voice. +been so pleased at Olmütz and according to which an ensign might rank +been taken by the French as a trophy.) +been thinking about you.” +been trying first one remedy and then another. Worn out by sleeplessness +Been under fire already?” asked Borís. +been unjust to the Austrians and especially to Weyrother. What +been vicious only because he had somehow forgotten how good it is to +befallen his son. +before action which he had experienced as previously, all the inner +before?” and again he told himself that it was impossible, that there +before and the path to the hothouse, along which the prince was in the +before and was less frequently at home. +before coming to the dinner he had had his hair and whiskers trimmed, +Before dawn he had slept for a few hours, and refreshed, vigorous, and +Before dinner, Princess Mary and Mademoiselle Bourienne, who knew +Before five in the evening the battle had been lost at all points. More +before going down she went into the room where the icons hung and, her +before. Having taken a kerchief from the cupboard, Willarski bound +Before he reached him, Rostóv, who was a splendid horseman, spurred +before him but the motionless earth and the stubble around him. There +Before him, on the right, Rostóv saw the front lines of his hussars and +before it was halted facing the enemy. Again, as at the Enns bridge, +before, or am I mistaken now? No, she is not stupid, she is an excellent +before Prince Andrew could finish, an aide-de-camp came in to summon +before Rostóv had time to make out what the black thing was that had +before the battle, the figure of the insignificant little Napoleon, and +before the Jews.” +before the master arrived. Everywhere preparations were made not for +before the usual term and has proposed to me to be your sponsor. I +began. +began for the first, second, and third columns, which had gone down into +began popping corks and filling the champagne glasses. After the fish, +began reading. The old prince, now and then using abbreviations, wrote +began speaking clearly and definitely. Reasons were found for the +began. “They’ll be announcing that the gentlemen are in the drawing +began to be said. These reasons were the treachery of the Austrians, a +began to devise and carry out a plan of how Princess Mary should be +begin,” he whispered, and taking up his glass, he rose. All were +beginning of the action.) “I think I sent you?” he added, turning to +beginning to feel for the pretty and provocative Mademoiselle Bourienne +begin the engagement. +begin, when did it all come about?” And here he was sitting by her +begun to think of the last station and was still pondering on the same +behavior to women Anatole had a manner which particularly inspires in +behind. And now here we stand hungry.” +behind him Bondarchúk, an hussar he knew, jolted against him and looked +behind moved infantry. The commander in chief was standing at the end of +behind. One of them said something strange, not in Russian. In among the +behind the Emperor. The Ápsheron men, excited by the Tsar’s presence, +behind them, another fell in front and splashed Dólokhov with blood. +being (and which struck Pierre especially by contrast with his own +being carried by. She looked out. The men servants were carrying the +being imposed on him which he could not fulfill, and pleased him as an +being moved, and the probing of his wound at the dressing station. +being rose in her imagination, and carried her into a totally different +being said, thought, and felt that day by its rider. +being too much loved; and besides, you are free, you could throw it +believed he would be reborn to a new life. +believe everything you’re told. You were told...” Hélène laughed, +“Believe me,” said Prince Dolgorúkov, addressing Bagratión, “it +believes, in the speaker’s tone of conviction and earnestness, or +Bells rang, the stewards rushed forward, and—like rye shaken together +below. +Below, where the fight was beginning, there was still thick fog; on the +Bending forward in his armchair he said: “Le Roi de Prusse!” and +bending his forehead to hers just touched it, and pressed her hand so +Beneath his smile Rostóv saw in him the mood he had shown at the club +be out of your way! Do go somewhere, anywhere... to the devil!” he +be parted from her) would be gained, so pacifying himself with this +“Be quiet, backbiter!” said Dolgorúkov. “It is not true; there +be ready to fulfill His will.” With this consoling thought (but +Berg put on the cleanest of coats, without a spot or speck of dust, +Berg took the opportunity to ask, with great politeness, whether, as was +Berg was mentioned, by those who did not know him, as having, when +be shaken in her determination. +beside Hélène. “This happiness is not for you,” some inner voice +beside him. “That must be the enemy’s camp!” +“Besides how can I ask the Emperor for his instructions for the right +Besides this refined selection of society Anna Pávlovna’s receptions +beside the old prince. +best of officers could do in his position, he was in a state akin to +be talked over at length. At last the conversation gradually settled on +be they what they might. +be thus boldly, provocatively happy.” “And what nonsense all this is +betraying her sympathy for the “daredevil,” as she called Dólokhov. +better not look,” he thought, but having reached the bushes he glanced +between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over +between them gleamed blue infinity. He did not turn his head and did not +be very glad to do all in my power both for you and for this dear young +be virtuous. Not a trace of his former doubts remained in his soul. He +bewildered look and passed by without a word. A woman rushed out and +be worthy of her. And that is what we shall see.” +beyond ceremonies and meaningless prayers and are now instructed in +Bilíbin, “as you know, my dear prince, I never leave headquarters. I +Bilíbin’s letter which was written in French. He read without +Bilíbin was now at army headquarters in a diplomatic capacity, and +Bilíbin), what he had read began to interest him more and more. When he +black-agate eyes at the frightened and happy Natásha. +black figures of hussars, but in the distance was still the same misty +blame. The troops meanwhile stood growing listless and dispirited. After +bleed him and patch him up. He will drag about as a cripple, a burden to +bleeding hand with a handkerchief tied round it) “and I remained at +blindfolded) questioned him as to who he was, when and where he was +blinked, went red, got up and sat down again, struggling with himself +blissful face “like a vewy devil,” as Denísov expressed it. +blood on it. “Ah, here are people coming,” he thought joyfully, +blood. On seeing this, Pierre moved forward with his breast toward the +blood rush to his heart and had again to get up and move about and break +Blood was gushing from its leg as from a spring. Among the limbers lay +blush. +blushing. +blushing—“of asking the commander in chief. He has had a letter from +body. Drowsiness was irresistibly mastering him, but he kept awake by +Bogdánovna. +Bogdánovna advised Prince Andrew to leave the room. +Boguchárovo lay in a flat uninteresting part of the country among +bold forehead that bent over her hand and answered his question by +boldly, “if you wish to refuse one who is not only a brilliant and +“Bolkónski!” he whispered, his voice trembling from a consciousness +Bolkónski in order to arrange a match for him with the daughter of that +Bolkónski noticed the hussar’s state of mind, and it amused him. With +Bolkónski recognized Prince Repnín whom he had met in Petersburg +Bolkónski referred to Anatole as a “pupil”) “for the sake of my +Bolkónski took the opportunity to go in to get some details of the +Bolkónski, who spoke with suppressed agitation. +Bolkónski, wishing to profit by his friendliness and obtain for himself +Bonaparte, and how badly the latter would fare now, especially if the +Bonaparte, having come up at a gallop, stopped his horse. +Bonaparte like? How did he impress you?” +Bonaparte, ‘that Your Majesty should be received and treated in my +Bonaparte, there is a difference,” remarked Bolkónski. +Bonaparte was anathematized and in Moscow nothing but the coming war +BOOK FIVE: 1806 - 07 +BOOK FOUR: 1806 +book had been sent him by someone unknown. One thing he continually +BOOK THREE: 1805 +boots between the dining and drawing rooms, hastily greeting the +Borís. +Borís and Borís was to forward them to Nicholas. The letters were from +Borís, grown more manly and looking fresh, rosy and self-possessed, +Borís inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without +Borís listened attentively to each of the speakers, awaiting his turn, +Borís made a grimace. +Borís promised to fulfill her wish and was about to begin a +Borís received no clear explanation of why it had been necessary for +Borís rose to meet Rostóv, but in doing so did not omit to steady and +Borís smiled, as if he understood what Prince Andrew was alluding to +Borís smiled circumspectly, so that it might be taken as ironical +Borís to tell them about his journey to Glogau and in what state he +Borís was excited by the thought of being so close to the higher powers +Borís with the happy smile seen on the faces of young men who have been +born, and so on. Then he was again led somewhere still blindfolded, +bosom as it rose and fell. +both knew, an expression thoughtful and sad. This expression in Princess +bottles of wine with him and, despite the jolting ruts across the +Bourienne aroused her. She raised her eyes, and two steps away saw +Bourienne flushed, and gave the princess a frightened look. +Bourienne had long been waiting for a Russian prince who, able to +Bourienne—I shall have to get rid of her. And how is it she has not +Bourienne. Princess Mary felt his look with a painfully joyous emotion. +Bourienne’s head at the very time she was talking to Anatole about +Bourienne, unfolding her white napkin with her rosy fingers. “His +Bourienne was often touched to tears as in imagination she told this +Bourienne. When she entered with her heavy step, treading on her heels, +Bourienne who had not yet seen her. +Bourienne with a radiant face that said: “I know nothing, I am the +Bourienne, with her ribbon and pretty face, and her unusually animated +bowed head. +boy... the countess... promoted to be an officer... thank God... How +braggart and his son, no doubt, is a fine specimen,” he grumbled to +brain—that’s all that’s left me!” And at the same time he said +brandishing the slab. +brave?” +breast with the other hand and to repeat after someone who read aloud +breath and beating heart he moved toward the Rhetor (by which name the +breathing, her movements, her beauty. Then it would suddenly seem to him +breeches and arm. +brick buildings, built to plan, were being built by serfs whose manorial +bright and happy eyes at her sister-in-law. +brightening up. +brighter and more energetic. He was slightly flushed after galloping two +bright home, his fluffy fur coat, his quickly gliding sleigh, his +bright. Sónya ran away, but Natásha, taking her brother’s arm, led +bright, sparkling blue eyes into his antagonist’s face. His mouth wore + Bring glory then to Alexander’s reign +bring himself to part from his daughter and give her to a husband. The +bring him to thee, could take him by the hand and show him to thee. But +broken leg, that lay screaming piteously beside the harnessed horses. +broken off, the porch, and the post by the side of the pavement. He +broke up two squares, your excellency.” +brother, and that Anna Mikháylovna was preparing them for it. Bold as +brother Hippolyte told me about your goings on. Oh!” and she shook her +Brotherhood has made application for you to be received into our Order +brotherhood of man,” he kept saying to himself, associating these +“brother-instructor” as he called the Grand Master. +brother Rhetor, and awaited his further commands. +brothers, and burned with impatience to set to work with them. +brothers more worthy than he would test him and that Pierre had only to +brother who prepared a seeker for entrance into the Brotherhood was +brought from Italy, representing an angel with outspread wings ready to +brought his snuffbox to rest and, without looking at Weyrother or at +brought into Wischau from our outposts. This officer was Savary. The +buildings—schools, hospitals, and asylums—on all the estates +built in order to have a nook of one’s own in which to be quiet. And +built lodge close to the pond. Antón, a man who had looked after Prince +bullets. They reached the front, several bullets sped over them, and +bully,” thought Pierre, “to kill a man means nothing to him. It must +bursts of song and music and the inconsequent but friendly prattle of +business!” +bustlingly searching for something. +But although Alpátych, frightened at his own temerity in avoiding the +“But am I not too cold with him?” thought the princess. “I try +but Anna Pávlovna—who was in the excited condition of a commander on +but a roll of volleys of musketry from the slopes of the hill before +But as a youth in love trembles, is unnerved, and dares not utter the +But, as he had to say something, he began by asking her whether she was +but as sorrow was manifest in every smile, the sound of every word, and +but attacked and captured by a superior enemy force as a result of one +but at that moment the thought occurred to her that her fate would be +But at the moment when he imagined himself calmed by such reflections, +But before he had finished reading, a stentorian major-domo announced +But before he had finished speaking, Prince Andrew, feeling tears of +But before Pierre could decide what answer he would send, the countess +But before Prince Vasíli had finished his playful speech, Pierre, +“But between not recognizing him as Emperor and calling him General +but Borís... No!” (She shut her eyes.) “No! there’s nothing at +But Borís noticed that he was preparing to make fun of Berg, and +But Dólokhov did not go away; he untied the handkerchief around his +“But don’t hurt my little horse!” said the Alsatian good-naturedly +but evidently the crisis was over and he was convalescent. Prince Andrew +“But for God’s sake, be careful, you know how it may affect your +but had never spoken to her of love. Now he felt that it was inevitable, +but had on one of her best dresses. Her hair was carefully done and her +But haste was becoming imperative. Cannon and musketry, mingling +but he could not make up his mind to take the final step. He felt +but he did not explain to himself what these new relations were. +But he scowled at her angrily though also with suffering in his eyes, +“But how is it the doctor from Moscow is not here yet?” said the +“But how often I have felt proud of her, proud of her majestic beauty +but I am still so weak that I love my life, the meaning of which is only +but I do not believe it. I have no right to, and can’t, believe it.” +“But I do not know, Father!” +“But if for any reason you don’t feel inclined to talk to me,” +but I have killed her, killed... She won’t get over it! She won’t +“But I have nothing here,” replied Pierre, supposing that he was +but instead of the band a choir began singing a cantata composed by Paul +“But in what position are we going to attack him? I have been at the +“But in what was I to blame?” he asked. “In marrying her without +“But it can’t be he, alone in the midst of this empty field!” +but it is a beautiful voice that must be trained.” Only they generally +“but it must be brought to a head. The day after tomorrow will be +but it was too late. She was looking at them with an expression they +“But I wish it,” he said. “I beg you—give it him!” +but joyous and eager crowd down the hill at their disordered foe. +but looked at him with a contemptuous smile, waiting for the valet to +but managed meanwhile to look round repeatedly at his neighbor, the +But Milorádovich was at that moment evidently thinking of anything +“but nothing more would come of it. There will soon be a battalion of +but only changed character. The horses were replaced by others from a +but on the left flank the columns of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, +But on Tuesday evening, having come to Hélène’s splendid salon, +But our stories are the stories of men who have been under the enemy’s +but remarked that besides these changes it would be necessary to go into +But Rostóv did not reply. +but said, in a careless and even rude voice, that it happens to +“But she’s stupid. I have myself said she is stupid,” he thought. +but she was too excited to eat anything and kept wriggling about on her +but shouldn’t we get the gypsy singers as well? You military men like +“But tell me, what is he like, eh?” said Prince Andrew again. +“But that’s all rubbish,” Natásha chattered on. “And is +“But that’s just the same as myself—they are not others,” +“But that’s the Grand Duke, and I want the commander in chief or the +But the officer thrashed him because he had to get on as quickly as +But the staff officer did not finish what he wanted to say. A cannon +But the talk in every group was chiefly about the Emperor Alexander. His +“But they heard him at the council of war and will hear him when he +but to go home alone, see his sisters, brother, mother, and father, +button of his waistcoat. +but went on turning uselessly in the same place. +“But what do you mean by living only for yourself?” asked Pierre, + * “But what the devil was he doing in that galley?” +but when he reached it he found it was a road. Having come out onto +But when Katie brought the required dress, Princess Mary remained +but which possesses qualities resembling those of the symbol.” +“But why talk of me?... Talk to me, yes, tell me about your travels +but why, whither, and who they were, it was impossible to make out. +“But with such ideas what motive have you for living? One would sit +but would probably never even inquire and would never know that the +“But you despise me. You who are so pure can never understand being so +“But you know how it all ended, don’t you? You heard of the duel?” +Buxhöwden is commander in chief by seniority, but General Bennigsen +Buxhöwden’s part and an epileptic fit on Bennigsen’s. But at the +by a far more serious matter than a desire to show his contempt for +by a feeling of desire while stooping over the snuffbox at Anna +by Anna Pávlovna, was about our diplomatic relations with Austria and +by Bolkónski—an adjutant of Kutúzov’s, who’s a friend of mine. +by Borís arrived at the palace to find Dolgorúkov. Everyone at +By evening, the adjutants had spread it to all ends and parts of the +by her husband, Mortemart, the delightful Prince Hippolyte who had +by highfalutin words, and Germans by logical arguments to show them +By his age he should have belonged to the younger men, but by his wealth +by his home circle as the best of sons, a hero, and their darling +by its gray dress. “But no! Why did this thought never occur to me +“By purifying and regenerating our members we try, thirdly, to improve +by someone’s order, the battery had continued firing and was only not +By the dim light, to which Pierre had already become accustomed, he +by the disorderly movement of the Russian columns, and from all +by the fire. One of them stumbled. +“By the way, your excellency, I should inform you,” he +by those troops that they were themselves in the front line and had +by, tried to make a joke, saying that Kutúzov had evidently failed to +by two considerations: his wife’s guilt, of which after his sleepless +By “what was due from the Ryazán estate” Prince Vasíli meant +by which the total exceeded the round sum of forty-three thousand; and +cadet, supporting one hand with the other, came up to Túshin and asked +called her nephew—and playing with him. +called him this morning?” +called the colonel of the regiment and said a few words to him. +calling him a court weathercock and an old satyr. +calling him in a whisper. +“Calm yourself, my dear. I will go to my father,” she said, and went +came a letter from Kutúzov informing the prince of the fate that had +came a man wearing a strange shako and a blue cloak, swarthy, sunburned, +came and leaned on his elbows, facing her and beside Mademoiselle +came in from his club, cheerful and contented. Nicholas, hearing him +came thy conception of the existence of such an incomprehensible Being? +came together and crowded in the large drawing room by the door of the +came to the conclusion that he would not find Bald Hills dull either. +came to these balls with an air of condescension and found them most +came with the news that the prince could not attend. Prince Andrew came +“Can a sleigh pass?” he asked his overseer, a venerable man, +can both fall on his flank and pursue him over the plain between +candlesticks like those used in churches. Two of the brothers led Pierre +candles were relit and he was told that he would see the full light; the +“Can he really be going away leaving me alone without having told me +can I retain in some degree of purity the liquid I receive.” +Can it be possible?” she thought, not daring to look at his face, but +cannonade was dying down, but the rattle of musketry behind and on the +cannon aimed at me?” +cannon and the crowd were dragging it out. A cannon ball killed someone +cannon balls at the French with both hands. +cannot attain the knowledge of which you speak.” +cannot, disappoint them. But how will it be? I do not know, but it +cannot know Him. You do not know Him and that is why you are unhappy.” +can say all this there,” remarked Dolgorúkov. +can’t bear those old men! Eh?” +can’t be! Only to get past them quicker, quicker!” +can’t get them from anyone else. He’s not there himself, so you’ll +can’t understand. I was there all the time giving orders and had only +can without hurting others.” +“Can you imagine it?” and he began describing how the Guards, having +capable of receiving it. +“Captain, for God’s sake! I’ve hurt my arm,” he said timidly. +Captain von Toll chanced to ride to the same spot, and seeing the +captured by the French because the enemy could not surmise that anyone +carabineers. +card, putting a small stake on it, and beginning to play. +care about them in so far as they are harmful or useful. And most of +carefully wrote twenty-one. +care, this was a mere stranger. Glancing, however, at Borís, he saw +carriage, and the solitude of the road, all had a gladdening effect on +carriage at full speed about an hour before along that very road and +carried away by passion. Oh, only my poor mother...” +carried the sovereign at reviews in Russia bore him also here on the +carry him to the dressing station.” +carry out the count’s wishes, seeing clearly that not only would the +carry them out, so he takes a regiment, a division—stipulates that no +casement. The cold wind flapped the ends of her kerchief and her loose +casket for Mamma’s name day and then going home. I was so happy, so +catches it and obeying the impulse that wheel begins to creak and joins +catching the curtain of the cot. Each made the other a warning gesture +cavalry and here he noticed a stir and signs of preparation for battle; +cavalry in front, behind it the artillery, and behind that again the +cavalry was brought in, convoyed by a sótnya of Cossacks. Evidently the +celebrating awards they had received for the campaign, and made +censured, should not be held to blame. +center of the table, Prince Vasíli attracted everybody’s attention. +center, the reserves, and Bagratión’s right flank had not yet moved, +ceremonious welcomes (which he knew Pierre would not like), but for just +certainly is communicated very surely, and flows rapidly, imperceptibly, +certainly should not, speak like that,” their glances seemed to say. +certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything I +certain. There’s Lise, married to Andrew—a better husband one would +chair, and began deliberately with a smile: +chair, he drew up with a click of his spurs and bowed to her, Natásha +chair regardless of her governess’ remarks. After dinner, she rushed +chance, letting the seven be dealt to the right rather than to the left, +chance of delay and flight when the longed-for moment comes and he is +changed!... Where are the candles?... Tea!...” +CHAPTER I +CHAPTER I +CHAPTER I +CHAPTER II +CHAPTER II +CHAPTER II +CHAPTER III +CHAPTER III +CHAPTER III +CHAPTER IV +CHAPTER IV +CHAPTER IV +CHAPTER IX +CHAPTER IX +CHAPTER IX +CHAPTER V +CHAPTER V +CHAPTER V +CHAPTER VI +CHAPTER VI +CHAPTER VI +CHAPTER VII +CHAPTER VII +CHAPTER VII +CHAPTER VIII +CHAPTER VIII +CHAPTER VIII +CHAPTER X +CHAPTER X +CHAPTER X +CHAPTER XI +CHAPTER XI +CHAPTER XI +CHAPTER XII +CHAPTER XII +CHAPTER XII +CHAPTER XIII +CHAPTER XIII +CHAPTER XIV +CHAPTER XIV +CHAPTER XIX +CHAPTER XIX +CHAPTER XV +CHAPTER XV +CHAPTER XVI +CHAPTER XVI +CHAPTER XVII +CHAPTER XVIII +CHAPTER XX +CHAPTER XXI +character, but more so recently, since in the new reigns of Paul and +“Charge!” shouted by an officer who was urging his thoroughbred to +charitable to my poor aunt who adores you. Go and keep her company for +charming girls. Every young man who came to the house—seeing those +charming that only a fool would renounce such happiness.” +chattering voices had reached her from the corridor, went into Princess +chessmen with his delicate white fingers while awaiting Berg’s move, +chief, and our first foe, Buxhöwden, is vanquished; we can now turn +chief’s and with the exception of Prince Bagratión, who declined to +chief’s room. +chief steward wrote every year telling him of fires and bad harvests, +chief, your excellency?” said Rostóv, with his hand to his cap. +child. “But no, it is impossible, I am too ugly,” she thought. +childlike smile which had not once appeared on his face since he left +child’s little chair while, frowning and with trembling hands, he +choked him, and leaning his elbows on the window sill he began to cry, +choose. I give you freedom. Only remember that your life’s happiness +chorus.” +chose and placed cards, and watched those broad-boned agile hands in the +circumstances and persons he met. Of these plans he had not merely one +clanking his spurs, whirled rapidly round, and, striking his left heel +clavichord was. “It’s no use your going to the commander in chief. +cleaned pairs with spurs had just been placed by the wall. The servants +clear. +clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and +clear upright figures; he emptied the glass of warm champagne that was +clinking of spurs were heard at the door, and the young count, handsome, +cloak and felt boots, he went to the little princess’ apartment. +cloak looking timidly at me,” he thought. “And what does she +clock. One wheel slowly moved, another was set in motion, and a third, +close by, who heard him muttering. +closer together and a report spread that they were ordered to halt: +close that the expression of his face could be seen. And the excited, +cloths. +clouds gliding slowly across it. “How quiet, peaceful, and solemn; not +club, but met in private houses in intimate circles, and the +clutched the crupper of his saddle and, spurring his horse, galloped to +coachman’s, was teasing Kutúzov’s old cook whom Prince Andrew knew, +coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to +coats. +coat, the traveler sat down on the sofa, leaned back his big head with +cock, but the elder members glanced severely at the wit, making him +code, but under this unwritten law. He felt now that merely by having +coiffure, Mademoiselle Bourienne’s and Anatole’s smiles, and the +collapsed so that I don’t live at all—everything seems hateful to +collar and cap, went out for his usual walk. It had snowed the day +colonel of forty to whom Denísov had introduced him. +column advanced into action. +column coming up to meet the Ápsherons. +column marches... The third column marches...” and so on, read +column, Milorádovich’s, the one that was to take the place of +columns, their bayonets glittering, were moving continuously in one +“Come along, our Matvévna!” he said to himself. “Matvévna” * +“Come, dear princess,” said Mademoiselle Bourienne, “just one more +“Come here, Wostóv. Let’s dwink to dwown our gwief!” shouted +come. He was alone now, except for a soldier who was sitting naked at +“Come later.” And she went in, closing the door behind her. +“Come, let’s argue then,” said Prince Andrew, “You talk of +“Come now, deal!” exclaimed Rostóv. +“Come now, just this one more little card!” +“Come now, what about your Roi de Prusse?” +come on and will meet them with the fire of the whole battalion’—and +comes from that! Even then I felt it,” he thought. “I felt then that +come, were all there at the appointed time. +coming action from Dolgorúkov. He felt that Kutúzov was upset +coming. And Nicholas, who had vainly suffered all the dread that +coming closer to Pierre. “In token of generosity I ask you to give me +“Coming, friend.” +coming to us of their own accord,” incautiously remarked the little +commander in chief. +commander in chief. Bagratión knew that as the distance between the two +commander in chief. He interrupted him, talked rapidly and indistinctly, +commander in chief here, and if all is lost it is for me to perish with +commander in chief’s suite. He was in a state of suppressed excitement +commanders. And then that happy moment, that Toulon for which he had +commanders, and with a consciousness of being too late spreading through +commanders are: Herr General Wimpfen, le Comte de Langeron, le Prince de +command of the infantry went toward his horse with jerky steps, and +command of the Third District, and my only way of avoiding active +command to the general next in seniority, Count Buxhöwden, having sent +commence the action, and wishing to avert responsibility from himself, +commiseration on Rostóv, who saw that Túshin with his whole heart +commit crime, die, or perform deeds of highest heroism, and so he could +companion, Dólokhov had come straight to his house, and Pierre had put +company, which alone had maintained its order in the wood and, having +company, your honor. I don’t know where... such bad luck!” +compared to the lofty, equitable, and kindly sky which he had seen and +completely altered. He was not rich, but would spend his last groat to +composed and printed in the hero’s honor. Bagratión, on seeing the +composure, “now there’s this recruiting. My father is chief in +composure, waiting for a display of the eccentricities his father had +comrade Berg’s best wishes for success, rode to Olmütz to see +concentrate. “There we shall encounter difficulties, and there,” +concentration of fighting at one point, and the hesitation of all the +concentration on some one thought. +conclude our campaign and we can return to winter quarters, where fresh +condition. +confess and ask for money he had no right to after giving his word of +confession; he felt himself in the presence of one socially a complete +confidence, and love as I have for you. Then I am young. Mamma does +confidence, flatter him, become intimate with him, and finally make his +confidence the personality of the Freemason inspired in him and his own +confirmed by Pierre’s rupture with his wife, was the talk of society. +confirmed in this conclusion by the fact that Dólokhov left immediately +“Confound him, he’s a fool!” said Rostóv. +“Confound you and your Karl Ivánich!” He took the glass with the +Confused and ever-increasing crowds were running back to where five +confused him still more. He stood before Bagratión with his lower +confused when she saw Prince Andrew. He covered his face with his hands +confusion and fear that showed itself on Prince Vasíli’s face. +confusion what did or did not happen? +congratulations and greetings from acquaintances that met him on all +connected in his memory with Prince Andrew. + Conquest’s joyful thunder waken, +conscience that God has implanted in our souls.” +conscientiously studied the dispositions and the unfamiliar locality. He +consciousness that something great and mysterious was being accomplished +conscious of the warmth of her body, the scent of perfume, and the +conscious of this unseen line, and the question whether they would cross +conscious that another line of thought had sprung up, and while thinking +conservatories and the beauty of a flower that had just opened, and +considered him a criminal, and a year later they executed those who +considered myself injured, and Louis XVI was executed because they +considered worthy to hear it had to come to the countess, for she +consider it a sacred duty to fulfill that person’s wishes. Do you wish +consolation for our defeat by the memory of former victories; and the +consolation? What evil and error are there in it, if people were dying +constant composure and complacency and lack of all interests or desires, +constantly considered it a duty to assure Pierre that he was greatly +consultations very valuable for the proprietor and troublesome to +consultations were detached from real affairs and did not link up with +contemptuous smile, evidently prepared beforehand to meet all objections +continually driving round or coming upon wounded men, was out of range +continued—remembering Dólokhov’s conversation with Kutúzov and his +continued, “we owe today’s success chiefly to the action of that +continue their flight? Despite his desperate shouts that used to seem +contrary one must try to make one’s life as pleasant as possible. +convalescence. Dólokhov lay ill at his mother’s who loved him +conversation with her, when Anna Pávlovna called him away on the +convey....” +convoy officer, who said rapidly: “We must halt here: the Emperor +cook calls it—has disagreed with me.” +cords on his coat and took a card with that number and tried staking the +corner of his card and, instead of the six thousand he had intended, +correct, others that it was not, and explained the false rumor that had +Cossacks and then the first and second squadrons of hussars and infantry +cost correct, or remedy, the mistake if he had made one, so that he, +coughed, swallowed, and said in French that she was very pleased to see +could be heard above the three hundred others. He nearly wept. “To the +could be heard. It was there Prince Andrew thought the fight would +could clearly distinguish their bandoliers, red epaulets, and even their +could disclose it to me.” +could have been devised. This combination of Austrian precision with +could have the effrontery to continue firing from four quite undefended +could hear the footstep of someone in thick felt boots, and a voice that +could no longer be averted but was taking its course independently of +could not bear her look but turned away with a sob. +could not break away from her, and that though it would be a terrible +could not possibly be, and so did not deliver the order. +could not remember what it was that people say. He looked at her face. +could not reply. +could not scream like that—came from the bedroom. Prince Andrew ran to +council, he remained in the room. +Councilor of State, and insisted on the young man accompanying him to +Count Bezúkhov he did not let go his hold of the lad. He had the air of +“Count! Count!” shouted Berg who ran up from the other side as eager +countenance Bonaparte, and to cause me, and us in general, annoyance and +countess. +countess had not yet come. But now steps were heard at the door, steps +countess. Her son’s growth toward manhood, at each of its stages, +countess’ house. +“Countess, I have done w’ong,” Denísov went on in an unsteady +“Countess Natásha,” answered Denísov. +“Countess...” said Denísov, with downcast eyes and a guilty face. +countess” to have a rest, but remembering something else of +countess, who sat holding in one hand the snuffbox with its portrait and +Count Ilyá Rostóv, hurried and preoccupied, went about in his soft +Count Ilyá Rostóv separately, as the organizer of the banquet. At that +“Count Ilyá Rostóv’s son?” asked Dolgorúkov. +Count Markóv, and Prince Vyázemski—did not show themselves at the +Count Markóv? Count Markóv was the only man who knew how to handle +count, money and all things necessary for the uniform and equipment +count never be able to find out whether all measures had been taken for +Count Rostopchín, Valúev, and Narýshkin. Rostopchín was describing +“Count Rostóv.” +countrymen. Thanks for the fire—we’ll return it with interest,” +Count,” said Berg, lighting his pipe and emitting rings of smoke. +Count Tolstóy, who had ridden out to the battlefield with others in +couple of words with him, Pierre felt unable to disappoint him. +Courage. 6. Generosity. 7. The love of death. +courage, but she looked straight into his handsome face as it came near + Courage conquest guarantees; +courage had it not been that just then they heard the rattle of musketry +Courage, my angel.” She kissed Lise and was about to leave the room. +course.” Perhaps he did not really think this when he met women—even +courts only strengthened his desire to belong to that higher world. +covered his eyes with his hand and pressed von Toll’s hand. +covered with melting snow, the frost having begun to break up during the +“Cover yourself!” even Denísov cried to his adversary. +crack and there was a glimpse of something blue, of ribbons, black hair, +crackling of wood fires near and afar, merged into one tremulous rumble. +creaking of her corset as she moved. He did not see her marble beauty +cried at each shot: “Fine! That’s good! Look at it... Grand!” The +criminal,” came into Pierre’s head, “and from their point of +crimson float on the surface of that milky sea of mist. The whole French +critical moment the courier who carried the news of our victory at +crossed one on the other on her breast, and to him, too, her face seemed +crossed the road, and began riding up the hill at a gallop toward the +cross it and ride over the black field up the hillside. To keep to the +crowding around the dams and banks of the ponds near the village of +crowd, they had got wedged in at the approach to the dam and, jammed in +crushed, but angry and working unnaturally, she saw that hanging over +crying. +curious embarrassment among some of those present. Sónya, Dólokhov, +curious to know what was going to happen and what would be revealed to +curtain aside and for some time his frightened, restless eyes could not +curtain flapping and blew out the candle with its chill, snowy draft. +Curving her arms, Natásha held out her skirts as dancers do, ran back +cynically Dólokhov had praised his wife’s beauty to him and from that +d’affaires. +dancer, and one of the best matches in the city. +dancer, but smiling as only happy girls of fifteen can smile. When +dancers do, Natásha, rising energetically from her heels to her toes, +dancing master) gave for his pupils during the holidays. +dangerous. +dangers. During these wanderings, Pierre noticed that he was spoken +dark and the glow of two conflagrations was the more conspicuous. The +dark corner. And this someone was he—the devil—and he was also this +darkness, the man paused, then moved with cautious steps toward the +darkness, was suddenly lit up by a new brightness, full of significance. +darkness. “Why not?... It might easily happen,” thought Rostóv, +dark... Steady!” he cried to his fidgeting horse. +“Darling Denísov!” screamed Natásha, beside herself with rapture, +dashing young hussar! +daughter!” +daughter. +daughter, and while he laughed the expression on his face clearly said: +daughter, but for a minister! For me, there are no ministers!” +daughter-in-law, “but she need not make a fool of herself, she’s +daughter is so young, and I thought that, as my son’s friend, you +daughter.)—“My dear boy... Lëlya... I am very pleased.” (His + * Daughter of Matthew. +daughter of Prince Vasíli, but visualized her whole body only veiled +daughter’s happiness. +daughter. She lowered her head and was ready to burst into tears. +daughter were having one not less important. Natásha came running to +day before, he wished to do what the young man wanted. Having been sent +day he had lost. He was happy as a lover when the longed-for moment of +day in Moscow. All Denísov’s Moscow friends gave him a farewell +days’ march and the enemy’s outposts after a brief interchange +days was still thin—moved. His gleaming eyes were fixed intently on +days with her, asked her to sleep in her room, and often talked with her +day until then, but he could no longer do it. He could not, any more +dead. All that he saw and heard seemed to confirm this terror. +dead or wounded horses and harnessing fresh ones, and shouting in his +dear boy,” and he drew Pierre’s arm downwards, “it is simply a +“Dear, dear! But still tell him to come to the club—it will all blow +“Dearest... and me!” +“Dearest, I’m afraid this morning’s fruschtique *—as Fóka the +“Dearest,” said the little princess after breakfast on the morning +dear fellow!” and for some unknown reason tears suddenly filled his +dear general, I am engaged with rice and cutlets, look after military +“Dear me, how you have changed!” +“Dear me!” said his father, who was in a specially good humor. “I +“Dear me!” said Rostóv. +“Dear me! Then what are you up to now?” +dear sir—took on yourself responsibility for the guidance of a young +death’s head. The stranger sat without stirring, either resting or, as +de beaucoup de mérite), a newly appointed maid of honor and her mother, +deceitful German, whom he would not only kill with pleasure but whom +deceived you. Let us go to Mamma.” +December, nothing was said about the war and the last battle, as +de châle, but at this last ball only the écossaise, the anglaise, and +decidedly lost bearings, you know that a letter was received from him +decided now or never. She lowered her eyes so as not to see the gaze +decided that day, but that they also knew what she thought about it. She +decided to play until that score reached forty-three thousand. He +decided to send the letters and money by the Grand Duke’s courier to +Decide, my dear, good, gentle Marie, whom I have always loved as a +declared, was extraordinary and had achieved miracles of valor. The +deeds, and while dying he expressed the love his actions had proved. +deepest where the land lies lowest. +defeated. A week after the gazette report of the battle of Austerlitz +defective commissariat, the treachery of the Pole Przebyszéwski and of +defile through narrow village streets when we are marching against the +dejection and hopelessness)—at any rate, Pierre longed with his whole +delay and advised waiting for something else before advancing had been +deliberately so that everyone could hear: +“Delightful!” said Bolkónski. “But I have come to you, Prince, +delightful to see.” +delight of frenzy. He flung down the slab, broke it, and swooping +(delivered by the French alone) was still to be heard from numerous +delivers its teaching not in words only but also by other means, which +demanded that he should submit. Feeling himself in their power, he + * Denísov. +Denísov?” +Denísov also came back and stayed with them. The first half of the +Denísov, and now Moscow memories—and he again hurriedly opened his +Denísov bent over her hand and she heard strange sounds she did not +Denísov, Denísov! We’re almost there!” +“Denísov, don’t make fun of it!” cried Rostóv. “It is such a +Denísov first went to the barrier and announced: “As the +Denísov gave no answer. +Denísov nice?” she asked. +Denísov raised his head, coughed, and made no answer. +Denísov’s a fine fellow. But that’s all nonsense. The chief thing +Denísov’s favorite barcarolle. Natásha was preparing to sing. +Denísov’s horse, Bedouin, was in debt all round, to his comrades and +Denísov’s short stature not noticeable and he looked the fine fellow +Denísov, to Rostóv’s surprise, appeared in the drawing room with +Denísov was looking at her with enraptured eyes. +Denísov was shown to the room prepared for him, and the Rostóvs all +“Denísov! We’re here! He’s asleep,” he added, leaning forward +Denísov, who had settled down by the roadside with a flask and some +Denísov with his voice and mustache, and Telyánin and all that affair +Denísov, with sparkling eyes and ruffled hair, sat at the clavichord +departure Hélène returned to Petersburg, she was received by all her +depends on your decision. Never mind me!” +depraved ideas of these days. I said so even at the time when everybody +depraved woman,” he repeated, “but dared not admit it to myself. +depressing and unsolved problem. +depth of his heart. In one place the peasants presented him with bread +derision. “I ought to know the Emperor by now, after the times I’ve +descending the valley. That moment of moral hesitation which decides +descent lit up, and facing it a black knoll that seemed as steep as a +descriptive part of the letter. “And what a soul! Not a word about +desire to do good to his neighbor. +desire to show his friend as soon as possible that he was now a quite +desirous of hiding her adoration for Hélène and inclined rather +despair at failing in a Scripture examination, his borrowing money from +despair, not knowing where to or why he was now riding. +Despite Count Bezúkhov’s enormous wealth, since he had come into an +“Despite my great respect for old Kutúzov,” he continued, “we +Despite the weakness of age, which had become particularly noticeable +destruction of the Prussian army at Jena and Auerstädt and the +detachment, moved from the place where it had spent the night, advancing +detail! No, my dear fellow, no conditions better than our present ones +“Devil take ‘em!” he muttered, while his head was still covered by +“Devil take them!” he muttered, and after listening to the verbal +devoid of any foundation. Prince Bagratión turned to the old colonel: +devotion to the sovereign, Rostóv pictured to himself an enemy or a +dictated the dispositions in German, and now, much exhausted, he arrived +did I come here?” he wondered. +did neither: a look of animosity appeared on his face and the other +did not, and do not, in the least care about that scoundrel of a clerk +did not calm her excitement. Suddenly her door opened softly and her old +did not draw closer to Sónya, but rather drifted away from her. She was +did not even make him a curtsy. She fixed her eyes on him in amazement, +did not, for instance, say to himself: “This man now has influence, I +did not interest her—or by a silent look and smile which more palpably +did not let him and, on the other, Pierre himself feared to begin to +did not let it out of her hands. The tutors came, and the nurses, and +did not want or could not carry away with them. Austrian column guides +did not wish to, believe that. +did not wish to confess. +“Didn’t I tell you,” she went on, turning reproachfully to +did still harder work on their own land. He did not know that the priest +didst thou, and why did the whole world, conceive the idea of the +did that day. But no sooner had Natásha finished her barcarolle than +did they not interest him, but he took no notice of them and at once +did this and that, all would be well; and he did what was demanded of +different, and better, Pierre than he had been in Petersburg. +different companies did not get mixed. But our left—which consisted +different from that of its elders which is often insincere, Nicholas +different one from that which he had ridden at the review, and bending +different tones. Rostóv reined in his horse, whose spirits had risen, +difficulties had told Nicholas that this was all he could let him have +difficult to imagine happier people, and that God only knew what would +difficulty. +difficulty. +digested his sufferings alone. +dinner. +dinner and at other times, when as if tired of everyday life he had felt +dinner and looked about, blinking and scowling, or, with fixed eyes and +dinner, but providing it and serving it all up, that’s not their +diplomatic career in comparison with Pierre’s happiness. The old +diplomatic discretion tormented him, and he was happy to have in Prince +diplomatist fresh from Berlin with the very latest details of the +directed to—Pierre and Hélène. Prince Vasíli mimicked the sobbing +direction of the conflagration. As if urging each other on, the soldiers +direction toward the valley and disappearing one after another into +“Directly!” +disbelieved both the princess’ hints and the letter, but he feared +discipline and zeal in the service. He brought with him into our +disconcerted. The sight of the discomposure of that old man of the world +disheveled head from the hot pillow. +dismal influence of cannon balls flying from the French batteries +disordered. The French cannon did not reach there and the musketry fire +disorganized, I stopped in the road and thought: ‘I’ll let them +displease you. However,” he added rising, “you know my name and +disposed to treat the young heir in the most friendly and flattering +dispositions...” +“Dispositions for an attack on the enemy position behind Kobelnitz and +dispute. +dissatisfaction and reproach. “Old though he may be, he should not, he +dissatisfied with him, and also that at the Emperor’s headquarters +distance, but down the hill before him. “It’s the French!” +distance where no one had been before him. Bagratión called to him from +distant, most intimate, memories rose in his imagination: he remembered +distinctions which may infringe equality. Fly to a brother’s aid +distinguish a mounted man from one on foot. Napoleon, in the blue cloak +distinguished dignitary and a Swiss who had formerly been tutor at the +distorted out of all likeness to his former self, and the flourishing of +distraught yet angry expression on the faces of these two men, who +distrust in Bolkónski’s emphatic opinion yet not feeling able fully +Dmítri, and several acquaintances, and the countess reread the letter +“Dmítri,” said Rostóv to his valet on the box, “those lights are +do?” +doctor and expecting another for whom they had sent to town, they had +doctor who had entered the hall after him (they had met at the last post +does not produce the slightest stir—a blind man has left it. There are +does not quite see it; more particularly as it is he and his corps who +doesn’t have intrigues nowadays? Why, if he was so jealous, as I see +doing a little—though I did very little and did it very badly? What +doing!” said the officer and rode off. +“Do I remember Nicholas?” +Dolgorúkov; and though you may not know it, the fact is that now +Dolgorúkov laughed merrily. +Dolgorúkov, looking round at Bilíbin with a smile. +Dolgorúkov, one of the warmest advocates of an attack, had just +Dolgorúkov, the victor at Wischau, was sent with Savary to negotiate +Dolgorúkov to the Emperor. +Dolgorúkov was still insisting that the French had retreated and had +dolls and who was still having lessons. +Dólokhov and looked sorrowfully at him. Denísov, Rostóv, and +Dólokhov, and words of honor?... All nonsense! One might kill and rob +Dólokhov began to deal seriously. Oh, how Rostóv detested at that +Dólokhov cut him short, as if to remind him that it was not for him to +Dólokhov himself during his convalescence spoke to Rostóv in a way no +Dólokhov looked at Pierre with clear, mirthful, cruel eyes, and that +Dólokhov made no reply. +“Dólokhov, Mary Ivánovna’s son,” she said in a mysterious +Dólokhov—now an officer—wounded in the arm, and on foot, with +Dólokhov often dined at the Rostóvs’, never missed a performance at +Dólokhov or answering him. The footman, who was distributing leaflets +Dólokhov paused. +Dólokhov, Pierre saw clearly that what was said in the letter might be +Dólokhov pressed Rostóv’s hand and burst into tears. +Dólokhov’s clear, cold glance met Rostóv as soon as he entered the +Dólokhov’s face. +Dólokhov’s hand. +Dólokhov’s hands and thought, “Now then, make haste and let me have +Dólokhov’s home: on the third day he received a note from him: +Dólokhov, slamming down the pack of cards, put it aside and began +Dólokhov’s offer,” he said, articulating his friend’s name with +Dólokhov’s proposal and Iogel’s ball, seemed to have grown thicker +Dólokhov’s second, and after dinner he discussed the arrangements for +Dólokhov. Suddenly a cannon ball hissed so low above the crowd that +Dólokhov was a secret to no one but himself. Pierre absolutely +Dólokhov, who had no reason to preserve the honor of a man who was +Dólokhov, whom everyone in the house liked except Natásha. She almost +Dólokhov who was in the midst of the crowd forced his way to the edge +dominated everything else and soared above all their affected chatter. +done. Have you chosen a post in which you might be of service to your +done no harm to anyone; why must I suffer so? Help me!” her look +done, the Rhetor said: +done to me?”—said her charming, pathetic, dead face. +done up. +Do not break your ranks on the plea of removing the wounded! Let every +do not suppose me to be so bad. With my whole soul I wish to be what you +“Don’t be unkind,” cried Anna Pávlovna from her end of the table +don’t care a straw about anyone but those I love; but those I love, +“Don’t come in,” she said to the old count who was following her. +“Don’t! Don’t! What are you about?” whispered their frightened +don’t forget to put out my new coat,” added Rostóv, fingering his +don’t know and never shall know, for the love of these men here,” he +“Don’t, Natásha! What nonsense!” she said, hoping it was a joke. +don’t remember Borís. I don’t remember him a bit.” +“Don’t say that to me! I want nothing. I love you as a brother and +“Don’t speak to me... I beg you,” muttered Pierre hoarsely. +don’t understand. Perhaps Princess Elizabeth and Princess Mary know. +“Don’t you wecollect what bad use I made of your lessons?” +door and his expression of sleepy indifference suddenly changed to one +door, as though he had long expected him. +door behind him and satisfied himself that there was nobody else in the +“Do order them to form into battalion columns and go round the +door? Oh, she is a pearl among women, Princess,” he added, turning to + do, Sire.” +“Do this for my sake, mon cher; after all, she had to put up with a +doubled. To this Prince Andrew answered with a smile that he could +doubt, and self-derision, which appeared on his face against his will, +doubt filled her soul. Could the joy of love, of earthly love for a +doubt it now. Rostóv rode in the direction pointed out to him, in which +doubt of victory, especially on this day when what is at stake is the +down, and smiled affectionately. +down below, but higher up at the village of Schlappanitz where Napoleon +downcast head; and he began to pace the room, glancing occasionally at +down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before +down on a sofa in the next room. +down. One bullet and then another whistled past him. He mustered his +down on her with outstretched hands shouted, “Get out!” in such a +downstairs to his own room. A quarter of an hour later the old count +down the hillsides, and clouds of cannon smoke rolling, spreading, +downy lip was open and she was smiling joyfully. Prince Andrew entered +dowry and take Mademoiselle Bourienne into the bargain. She’ll be the +“Do you hear how he’s walking?” said Tíkhon, drawing the +do you know he has fallen in love with Sónya?” +“Do you remember him?” Natásha suddenly asked, after a moment’s +“Do you remember we had a talk about cards... ‘He’s a fool who +“Do you want anything?” +dragging it by the staff, ran on with the battalion. In front he saw our +drank much, and eagerly. But those who knew him intimately noticed that +drawing him down put her arm round his thin, scraggy neck. +drawing room. The guests began to disperse, some without taking leave +drawing room with her habitual skill. The large group, in which were +dressed alike, in new pale-blue frocks, and were both fresh, rosy, and +dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, +dressed gay young men on splendid, well-groomed, fresh, only slightly +dressed. Princess Mary’s self-esteem was wounded by the fact that +dress, have it fetched. Really! You know the fate of your whole life may +dress her would prolong their banter and insistence. She flushed, her +dressing gown every day, he invariably became confused and begged her to +dress, Mademoiselle Bourienne’s ribbon, Princess Mary’s unbecoming +dress with her little hand, now arranging the scarf and looking at her +drew Anatole, whom she hardly knew, into these amusing recollections of +drew in his legs and sat up, seeking a firm center of gravity. He sucked +drink?” +drink shop or fall ill. Just as I could not stand his terrible physical +driven their two-horse carts loaded with wheat and had returned dusty +driver’s leg. Their spirits once roused were, however, not diminished, +drive the princess away by that scream... “Killed!” +drive up, went to meet him. +drooping as he broke into a gallop. +drops and again went up to the cot. +drove his huge spurs in violently, and the horse, flourishing its tail +drowsiness overpowered him, red rings danced before his eyes, and the +dry hands clenched with vexation at her not understanding a sum in +duel he did not go to his bedroom but, as he often did, remained in his +duelist and rake, and every now and then he glanced ironically at +duel prove? That you’re a fool, que vous êtes un sot, but everybody +due to her misfortune. When conversation turned on her husband Hélène +Duke Constantine Pávlovich, who commanded the Guards. The Rostóvs +Duke’s orders the men had marched all the way in step (a practice on +During Rostóv’s short stay in Moscow, before rejoining the army, he +During that stay in Petersburg, Borís became an intimate in the +During this transfer he felt a little stronger and was able to look +each face, appraising the possibilities of establishing intimacy with +each occasion had been driven back by grapeshot from the four isolated +each of those present, and the advantages that might accrue. He took +each time with fresh pleasure and each time discovered in it fresh +eagerness and briskness presented a marked contrast to the dissatisfied +eager questions from all sides. The whole moving mass began pressing +Early in the year 1806 Nicholas Rostóv returned home on leave. Denísov +easy. +edge of the clearing. The seconds, measuring the paces, left tracks in + E’en fortunate Napoleon +efforts to seem calm. +“Eh, brother! They’ve all bolted long ago!” said the soldier, +Eh, Dmítri! Gallop off to our Moscow estate,” he said to the factotum +“Eh, is anything hurting you?” asked the soldier, shaking his shirt +“Eh, is she pretty?” he asked with a wink. +eighty thousand allied troops rose from their bivouacs to the hum of +either,” he thought to himself, “I have done nothing wrong. Have I +either,” he thought. “Yes, I did not know anything, anything at all +either the place they were leaving or that to which they were going. +Ekonómov. +elated. He had noticed a solitary tree ahead of him. This tree had been +elbows, as if to say: “You can tell me your views later, but now be so +elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders +elders which seems to say to the older generation, “We are prepared to +else. +else. +else, my dear boy, let me tell you it’s quite likely you’ll have to +else, runs upstairs and does up her hair and wags her tail and is unlike +else the Tsar did. +embarrassed him. He was like a man entirely absorbed in some occupation. +embarrassed voice, though it sounded severe to Denísov—“but my +embarrassing situation, and the expression on his face was invariably +embraced him and lifting his spectacles kissed his friend on the cheek +embracing Denísov. “Nicholas wrote us... Natásha, Véra, look! Here +embracing Prince Vasíli. +Emperor Alexander hurriedly to Kutúzov, glancing courteously at the +Emperor Alexander’s visit to Potsdam, and of how the two august +Emperor and the whole army, especially while the smoke hung over +Emperor at once rode up to him, offered his services, and assisted him +Emperor Francis continued to look about him and did not listen. +Emperor had only just fallen asleep and so Savary had to wait. At midday +Emperor himself rode round his bivouacs. The soldiers, on seeing him, +Emperor not everyone could understand, and with his whole soul he shared +Emperor,” said Rostóv, and was about to spur his horse. +Emperor’s arrival, lay several killed and wounded soldiers whom there +Emperor’s eyes met Rostóv’s and rested on them for not more than +Emperors. Upon them the undivided, tensely passionate attention of that +Emperor. The Emperor Francis, a rosy, long faced young man, sat very +Emperor,” thought Rostóv. +Emperor was pale, his cheeks sunken and his eyes hollow, but the charm, +employed by lively chatty people, and consisting in the assumption +Empress’ Field, not understanding the significance of the firing, nor +Empress’ Field,” said he clearly and distinctly. +empty and that the nurse had been hiding the dead baby. He drew the +emptying his glass at one gulp he dashed it to the floor. Many followed + Enchantress, say, to my forsaken lyre +encounter an enemy invisible ten paces off. But the columns advanced +end of the meal. He winked at the butler, whispered directions to the +end spurred his horse. +enemies, he tried to continue reading. But feeling this to be senseless +enemy?” +enemy, do not avenge thyself except by doing him good. Thus fulfilling +enemy under the Emperor’s command. Commanded by the Emperor himself +energetic a character. He is so accustomed to unlimited power that he is +energetically than anyone, led the guests into the drawing room, and +engaged; he was shouting “Hurrah!” +enjoyable. That year two marriages had come of these balls. The two +enjoyment by sympathy with anyone’s sorrow,” she felt, and she said +enlightenment?” +enlighten their minds, by means handed on to us by tradition from those +enormous whole. +enough, at the end of the feast proposed the Emperor’s health. “Not +“Enough! What nonsense! Above all, try to be respectful and cautious +entered, as if to say: “Yes, that’s how I want you to look.” +entered the drawing room elegantly dressed in the uniform of an +entered the room. +entered the room. Prince Vasíli approached first, and she kissed the +entering the house occupied by Kutúzov, asked for Bolkónski. Prince +entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and +entertaining supposition. +entertainment at the gypsies’, with the result that he had no +enter the drawing room? Even if I like him I can’t now be myself with +enthusiasms, dreams, and hopes of happiness or goodness, in Prince +enthusiasm—was only the loss of the battle of Austerlitz, the +entice him to marry my daughter and lend me the forty thousand rubles +entrance to the dam raised his hand and opened his mouth to address +entrusted to him, was pedantic in the fulfillment of his duties, severe +entrusted to his care and whom he intended to benefit. +enveloped in those beams, he heard his voice, that kindly, calm, +envious and Natásha could not help joining in. +equals, while his eyes occasionally sought out his fine well-set-up +erect, almost on tiptoe, with a soldier’s obsequious expression on his +erect on his handsome black horse, looking about him in a leisurely and +err, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.” +escapade made everybody feel confused. Denísov blushed too, but smiled +escape it all, and felt that Dólokhov knew that he could save him from +especially appealed to Pierre. The important mystery mentioned by the +especially the youngest, the pretty one with the mole, who often made +Essen corps arrived and Prussia took our side. +essential to speak the whole truth. +estate near Moscow, and to receive many people who formerly did not +estates. His new brethren gave him letters to the Kiev and Odessa Masons +estates in the south and there attending to the welfare of his serfs. +eternal, and infinite in all His attributes?...” +eternity.” And again he twisted the screw with the stripped thread, + * “Europe will never be our sincere ally.” +even by a ball dress. +even Denísov was nothing compared to Dólokhov—“you must understand +even every footstep in that house since the terrible news had come, so +evening. +evening in advance of him, and he and his son arrived next day. +Evening passed, night came, and the feeling of suspense and softening of +evening to get in) “I only wished to say that we are wrong to fight +evening was this: +evening when the rewards bestowed by the Emperor were mentioned. +even know if it would be a good thing (he even felt, he knew not why, +even more beautiful than it had been three days before at the review. It +even more merrily than on the previous night. Denísov celebrated his +Even people who had formerly been spiteful toward him and evidently +even their faces, more and more distinctly. They were our Horse Guards, +event. In the English Club, where all who were distinguished, important, +even wish to know of his existence but would now have been offended +ever because Anatole’s presence had vividly recalled to her the time +ever was Borís resolved to serve in future not according to the written +every advantage. What receptions we had in Poland! What dinners and +everybody, for another ten years. It would be far easier and simpler for +Everybody laughed a great deal. At the head of the table, where the +everybody! Not forgetting anyone. I always said when he was only so +Every day he said to himself one and the same thing: “It is time I +everyone! +everyone adopted toward him the tone of men who know something others do +everyone ducked. It flopped into something moist, and the general fell +everyone he could stop, but got no answer from anyone. +Every ten seconds a cannon ball flew compressing the air around, or +everything became clear, and in all corners of Moscow the same things +everything from society and giving nothing in return. You have become +everything!” (He put one arm around Pierre and the other around his +everything in perfect order, only one little thing is lacking, namely, +everything is calculated, and I don’t like that. But Denísov...” +everything may be over for me! All these memories will be no more, none +everything over with, and I happen to be there, I’ll go at once, to +Everything seemed so futile and insignificant in comparison with the +“Everything’s still the same with them,” thought Nicholas, +“Everything’s the same with them. They know nothing about it! Where +everything was becoming more and more happy and animated. “Oh, how I +Everything within and around him seemed confused, senseless, and +every word and movement was described with ecstasy. +evidence of the advantages of attacking that what had been discussed +evident he had reflected on this subject more than once, and he spoke +evidently also felt depressed and constrained with his visitor, “I am +evidently did not realize what they were doing. +evidently expecting him to bow or to step out of his way. Prince Andrew +evidently forced. Not only the guests but even the footmen waiting at +evidently not because he was shaven but because they had never grown. +evidently those in front had halted. All remained where they were in the +evidently weakened, was undertaking nothing. +evidently wished to draw him on. +evidently wishing to give her words a very definite meaning. “I +evil can there be in it if unfortunate people, our serfs, people like +evil. Le prochain—your Kiev peasants to whom you want to do good.” +exactitude, what minuteness, what knowledge of the locality, what +“Exactly, not a hair’s breadth farther,” answered Prince Vasíli, +exalted personages passing in the streets in their elegant carriages +exasperated whisper, evidently meaning to wound his sister. +exasperated with one another and, long after the action had begun on +exceeded twenty thousand rubles. Dólokhov was no longer listening to +excellency!” +excellency... I had no men... your excellency.” +Excellency Prince Vasíli Kurágin and his son, I understand?” she +excellency. Shall I go with some of my hussars to see?” replied +excellent dinners for the officers at every halting place. The regiments +except to Pierre and Hélène, whose presence he seemed not to notice. +excitement and to being unaccustomed to speak of abstract matters in +excitement, rushed toward the drawing room door, probably in order to +exclaimed, and immediately seizing him by the shoulder and looking +excuse his costume. +excuses now! It’s your turn to sing the ba’cawolla—I entweat +executed him—also for some reason. What is bad? What is good? What +existence of such an incomprehensible Being, a Being all-powerful, +expected this. +expeditions to Olmütz to visit a certain Caroline the Hungarian, +experienced a variety of most complex sensations. He felt afraid of what +experience that feeling during those memorable days preceding the battle +explained Prince Andrew. “The others, one’s neighbors, le prochain, +explanation with Nicholas, Sónya twirled about before she left home +exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as +exposing himself to the first blows of the enemy, for there must be no +expressed disapproval of Dólokhov’s living at their house, and how +expressed his opinion more openly. He shrugged his shoulders when Pierre +expresses his opinion to Kutúzov, to Weyrother, and to the Emperors. +express his opinion as he had hoped to, left on him a vague and uneasy +expressing disapproval and dislike of Kutúzov. +expression and went out again without saying a word. She looked at +expression, looked observantly and sympathetically at the father and +expression of her father’s. His face wore that expression when his +expression she did not understand, and lay down again. He was suffering +expression the sculptor had happened to give the angel’s face, Prince +expression, though many of them knew that what he was saying was a lie +extends along Kobelnitz and Sokolnitz behind the ponds that are there, +extinguished and some spirit lighted, as Pierre knew by the smell, and +extraordinary intelligence, the more so as in the depth of his heart it +eyes. +eyes. +eyes and indicating Hélène with a sorrowful gesture. “Ah, she is +eyes and saw close before him the head and ears of the horse he was +eyes at her sister-in-law. +eyes attracted him irresistibly. +eyes. “But I’ll go to Bezúkhov’s myself. Pierre has arrived, and +eyes fixed on the dark face of a large icon of the Saviour lit by a +“Eyes front!” Then, like the crowing of cocks at sunrise, this was +eyes full of tears and of thoughts, gazing shiningly and imploringly at +eyes grew dim. By the expression of her father’s face, not sad, not +eyes grew moist. “Hurrah!” cried the three hundred voices again, +eyes. He really was in love with the Tsar and the glory of the Russian +eyes he was every day more and more connected with her, that it was +eyes. His shriveled old hands were folded and on the finger of one of +eyes kept closing, and in his fancy appeared—now the Emperor, now +eyes off him. His brother and sisters struggled for the places nearest +eyes rolling as he sang, with his small, husky, but true voice, some +eyes, Rostóv re-entered that world of home and childhood which had no +eyes to complete the show of prisoners, could not fail to attract his +eyes. What she found hardest to bear was to know that on such occasions +face assumed the coarse, unpleasant expression peculiar to him. Shaking +faces. (He distinctly saw an old French officer who, with gaitered +face, shook his head, and going up to him silently kissed him on the +faces of the crew bustling round the guns, from the sight of the blood +face was animated, which, however, did not conceal its sunken and faded +face with Prince Andrew, who came out frowning and looking old. Pierre +faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable +failed him. He was seized by panic and could not go where it was +faint with fear lest the baby should be drowned in the font, and awaited +faire dans cette galère?” * occurred to him, and he began to laugh at +false. He was happy to be seeing him. He knew that he might and even +familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any +familiar to Rostóv; the other on a beautiful chestnut horse (which +family, but was kept all summer in Moscow by his new duties. Dólokhov +family life continually rose in her imagination. She drove them away and +family’s, and his friends’, and the enemy’s intention to kill him +family, was the most gifted with a capacity to feel any shades of +famous order of the day to General Bennigsen: +fancies. +Farther and farther he rode away, stopping at other regiments, till at +farther into the region where the army was already in action. +farther, probably along the line of the French camp. Rostóv no longer +fastened to the cording of his uniform and, indicating a bandaged arm, +fastening his coat. When he had finished, he turned to Bezúkhov, and +“Faster!” came the word of command, and Rostóv felt Rook’s flanks +fate. It is in your hands.” +father?” +father and Andrew. I shall be so happy when she is his wife. She is so +father and Anna Mikháylovna, that it had something to do with her +“Father! Andrew!”—said the ungraceful, awkward princess with such +father, Count Bezúkhov, and showed them her own box. Princess Hélène +father, he feels for you.” +father... It’s bad....” he reflected, but while he was thinking this +father, muttered in a whisper: +father’s case. +“Father,” she said, “do not turn away from me, let us weep +father’s letter, he returned to the nursery. +father’s nature showed itself in Pierre. He felt the fascination and +father’s room, that huge room in which Count Bezúkhov had died. +father’s room with the good-humored and victorious air natural to +“Father, tell me how it happened,” she asked through her tears. +father to fits of bloodthirsty rage. And when after Pierre’s +father with a laugh. +fault!” and her voice quivered like that of a child about to cry. +fault. What’s he to do if he has such luck?... And it’s not my fault +fear, and the thought that he might be killed or badly wounded never +fear’s all gone, and your only thought is not to let him get away!’ +fears nothing so much as a general battle is impossible.” +fear this will oblige one half the army to shoot the other.” +features, gave him a rather comical expression. Bekleshëv and Theodore +Fédya, my dear count; that, believe me, is why I am so fond of you. Few +feeble voice, so high pitched and irresolute. His face grew more and +feel afraid.” +feeling of a hare fleeing from the hounds. One single sentiment, that +feeling of devotion returned to him even more strongly than before. When +feelings. But much as all the rest laughed, talked, and joked, much +feeling; sharing with the young folk of the Rostóvs’ household a +feel that in that place and on that day, it was improper to speak so of +feel,” thought he, “if she saw me here now on this field with the +feet in low shoes, Iogel flew first across the hall with Natásha, who, +feet in their overboots on the table, and began to reflect. +feet into his slippers and his arms into the sleeves of his dressing +feigned—or so it seemed to Rostóv. He put his horse to a trot to +fellow.” +fellow.” +fellow,” he said abruptly and eagerly, “I must confess to having +fellows on the staff who get rewards without doing anything!” +felt a wish to speak to the stranger, but by the time he had made up his +felt coat, stretched his legs, and set his cap straight. The head of the +felt so glad to be free from his own lawlessness and to submit his will +felt the tension of the amorous air in the house, and also noticed a +festive around him. Nearer and nearer to Rostóv came that sun shedding +festive in his air, which, in conjunction with his firm and virile +feverish delirium or drunkenness. +field. Instead of the moving horses and hussars’ backs, he saw nothing +field of Austerlitz, enduring the heedless blows of his left foot and +fields and forests of fir and birch, which were partly cut down. The +field under fire, as he had done at the head of the Kursk regiment at +fifty members of the English Club and fifty guests were awaiting the +fighting army (with the Pávlograds on the right flank of the front); +fighting cocks preparing for battle, each vainly trying to detect signs +fighting hussar who had been under fire. +fighting Russian soldier without connections and intrigues, and to one +figure of Túshin who was sitting cross-legged like a Turk beside him. +final instructions, orders, and commissions to the baggage men +finally there were six thousand rubles for his outfit and various other +finds you to his taste as a daughter-in-law and makes a proposal to you +find the baby. At last he saw him: the rosy boy had tossed about till he +“Fine fellows, the Pávlograds!” remarked the Emperor. +“Fine men!” remarked Napoleon, looking at a dead Russian grenadier, +“Fine young fellow! Fine young fellow!” he said. “Well, come and +finger at him, “I have even heard of your doings in Paris!” +fingers twitched nervously. +fire and pressed it there!” +fired in the air; a third was striking the horse Kutúzov himself rode. +fire, fanned by the breeze, was rapidly spreading. The French columns +fire. From pain, cold, and damp, a feverish shivering shook his whole +fire! Our stories have some weight, not like the stories of those +Fires were lighted and the talk became more audible. Captain Túshin, +firing at Augesd. +firing at the Augesd Dam and was looking at the killed and wounded left +firing in the valley. Not a single muscle of his face—which in those +firing?” Rostóv kept asking as he came up to Russian and Austrian +firing was, he began to look for the general and his staff where they +firmly. +firmly believed in the possibility of the brotherhood of men united in +firmly resolved to answer his father-in-law. Moreover, the words of the +firmness and certainty of his vocation, which radiated from his whole +first because Pierre appeared to his hussar eyes as a rich civilian, the +first of all devote some time to solitude and self-examination and do +first pair of gloves, a man’s, he said that Pierre could not know +first regiment roared “Hurrah!” so deafeningly, continuously, and +fish for this dinner. The count had been a member and on the committee +Five minutes later Princess Mary from her room heard something heavy +fixing his weary eyes on the paper, began to read them with a fixed and +flag let it fall from his hands. It swayed and fell, but caught on the +flank; he knew that all the guns there had been abandoned at the very +flank. In the center Túshin’s forgotten battery, which had managed to +flank now that it is nearly four o’clock and the battle is lost? +flanks was more than six miles, even if the messenger were not killed +flattered by this. Anna Pávlovna arranged the different groups in her +fleeing crowd. A mounted general separated himself from the infantry and +floundering silvery fish in the watering can, on that dam over which for +flower; Natásha, half grown up and half child, was now childishly +flung it away. Tíkhon caught it and handed it to a footman. The little +fluttering above the fire and remembered a Russian winter at his warm, +fluttering in that light. Túshin had not returned, the doctor had not +fly! Gracious me, they did rattle past! It’s time I knew the Imperial +fly upwards. The angel’s upper lip was slightly raised as though +followed by their suites. Kutúzov, affecting the manners of an old +followed proved that the commander in chief at that moment was absorbed +followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower +following budget: +follows: +“Folly... folly! Death... lies...” he repeated, puckering his face. +food. +foolish as soon as he uttered them, while on the contrary Hippolyte’s +“Fool... or dummy!” he muttered. +foot, and galloped on. +footmen, and awaited each expected dish with some anxiety. Everything +footsteps. Pierre rose and said it was getting late. Prince Vasíli gave +foot, which he was then touching with his own under the clavichord. +for!” +for about a minute. +for a long time, always in the same fog, descending and ascending hills, +For a long time he could not utter a word, so that the Rhetor had to +For a moment he dozed, but in that short interval innumerable things +for an answer. His birth and position in society were not bad. “Well, +for an instant, but there was no second report as he had expected. He +for a seat. +force had already descended into the valley toward the ponds and lakes +force their way through them with bayonets. +forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be +forehead. He went to the cot in confusion, sure that he would find it +forehead, over which was beautiful light-brown hair smelling of pomade. +forehead was moist. Prince Andrew touched the head with his hand; even +foreign cavalry with red epaulets, probably French. He could see nothing +foresight for every eventuality, every possibility even to the smallest +forestall him, threw off his fur coat and ran on tiptoe through the +“Forever?” said Prince Andrew. “Nothing’s forever.” +forget all that.... She says: ‘I shall love him always, but let him be +forget. But, my dear, will you not give us a little hope of touching +forgetting that it was unbecoming for the girls to see men undressed, +“For God’s sake... I can’t walk. For God’s sake!” +forgot them. His head was burning, he felt himself bleeding to death, +forgot the sovereigns’ presence. “Lads, it’s not the first village +for her. When the little princess had grown accustomed to life at Bald +for him, Prince Bagratión sat at dinner, talking with some commanding +for himself. He remembered his mother’s last letter. “What would she +for his life, but for the courage he needed and which he knew would not +for his part tried to pretend to the count that he considered these +for his reply, surrounded him, and led him to the drawing room. It was +for life, but I don’t understand that, I forget quickly.” +formed. +formed a definite idea of what an attack was and were expecting to hear +formed up at intervals, and wheeled round other similar masses of +Formerly in Anna Pávlovna’s presence, Pierre had always felt that +former position after the campaign, had returned to Petersburg and come +former pupil of his. +forming a complete whole with her dress, but all the charm of her body +forming up within twice the range of a musket shot. The general in +for more than anything else in the world, did not know how to approach +For more than a week preparations were being made, rough drafts of +for my sake! Did you know?” +for negligence or inefficiency so staggered him that, forgetting the +for Petersburg alone. +for Prince Andrew. +for that. Yes, for that alone! I shall never tell anyone, but, oh God! +for the aged? And is it not a palpable, unquestionable good if a +for the future, Pierre’s journeys and occupations, the war, and so +for the hussars to retreat with the infantry. They were cut off from +“For the last time I say to you—turn all your attention upon +for the most part handsome fellows and, as is always the case in an +for themselves. +for the next battle are planned by him alone. Nominally he is only an +for these simple, kindly people. +for the society of ladies, began to come often to the house, and the +for the tenth time, Molière’s words: “Mais que diable allait-il +for this failure, the enemy placed ten guns to the right of the village +for trees and gullies for men and continually discovering his mistakes. +fortune. Suddenly he heard a familiar voice repeating something to him a +For two days after that Rostóv did not see Dólokhov at his own or at +forty paces’ distance nothing could be seen. For three minutes all had +for us. The field marshal looks on and waits for letters addressed +forward, and experienced great happiness. +“Forward, lads!” he shouted in a voice piercing as a child’s. +forward. Of Bolkónski, nothing was said, and only those who knew him +forward toward the old man with a forced and timid smile. +“Forward, with God!” said Bagratión, in a resolute, sonorous voice, +forward with unnatural speed but yet stayed on the same spot. From +“For what have you come hither?” asked the newcomer, turning in +for wine. +for your neighbor? Have you ever thought of your tens of thousands +found a kind of tantalizing satisfaction. +found out, nothing discovered,” Pierre again said to himself. “All +found the count with it in his hand, sobbing and laughing at the same +found the Prussian army. Borís, speaking with deliberation, told them +“Fo’ward, with God, lads!” rang out Denísov’s voice. “At a +français,” said Dolgorúkov, with grave satisfaction. “Good, +frankly, I don’t want to. I am speaking of the staff in general.” +freedom and told her that one way or another he would never cease to +free.’ Isn’t that lovely and noble! Yes, very noble? Isn’t it?” +Freemasonry presented itself to him. +free, so lighthearted! And I did not realize how happy I was! When did +French!” +French colonel who had been taken prisoner by our dragoons. Our officers +French column, with its officers leading, appeared from below the hill. +French, he did not know. There was no one near. +Frenchman also stopped and took aim. Rostóv closed his eyes and stooped +Frenchman remembers his bayonet and stabs him....” +Frenchmen, and though but a moment before he had been galloping to get +French pronunciation which she could allow herself when conversing with +French, smoke appeared all along their uneven ranks, and musket shots +French to pass him, had made a bayonet charge with two battalions and +French) to Prince Vasíli. “It’s not as at Annette’s * receptions +French to suppose that here—in the center—the main Russian forces +French troops who are being raised in France will join us, and the peace +French were putting out the fire which the wind was spreading, and thus +Frenchwoman very readily and, looking at her with a smile, talked to her +fresh and pretty face yet more attractive. +fresh anecdotes were heard of individual examples of heroism shown by +freshness, an unconsciousness of her own powers, and an as yet untrained +“Fr... fr...” snorted Prince Bolkónski. “The prince is making a +friend Bolkónski, whom he had not seen for two years. +friend, but Nicholas avoided him. With that peculiar feeling of youth, +friends had pledged themselves in an indissoluble alliance to uphold +“Friendship laughs at distance,” began Prince Vasíli in his usual +friend’s look was now still more clearly expressed in the smile +fright were amused by Pierre’s lisp and the new words they had not +from actions which would torment him afterwards.” +“‘From all my riding,’ he writes to the Emperor, ‘I have got a +From all sides reports reach me,” etc. +From all sides were heard the footsteps and talk of the infantry, who +from behind still came the shouts: “Onto the ice, why do you stop? Go +from Denísov, rode past too, at the rear of his squadron—that is, +From early morning strenuous activities and efforts had begun and by ten +From early morning the smart clean troops were on the move, forming up +from headquarters behind the village to the left, and thither Rostóv +from him, and Rostóv felt as in a dream that he continued to be carried +from him, though she knew that already, and remarked that they might +from his cheek. Prince Andrew forced his way to him. +from his horse in a pool of blood. Nobody gave him a look or thought of +from his son. +from home, at dinners, parties, and balls. +from Másha, the lady’s maid, the necessary report of how handsome the +from my heart as to an old acquaintance.” +from Pétenka—he took part in it—and it’s all true. When +From that day the eldest princess quite changed toward Pierre and began +from the army to Sergéy Kuzmích, in which the Emperor said that he was +from the crumpled heap under the table would save him, now counted the +From the deafening sounds of his own guns around him, the whistle and +“From the direction, it must be the enemy,” repeated Rostóv. +From the direction of Olmütz in front of them, a group was seen +from the drawing room. +from the field of battle with the pale and terrified Ober-Hofmarschal +from the hints contained in his letter and given by the little princess, +from the masses around them, the smoke and the increasing fog, to see +from the theater, had had supper and were grouped round the clavichord. +from the wood, mustered the men who were woodcutting, and, allowing the +from this distressful life, and leads it to its place of recompense and +from understanding—how am I to put it?—I am afraid my way of looking +from which occasional puffs were blown by an invisible smoker. +from which spectacles have just been removed, had also a frightened and +from which the shouting came. He felt both frightened and pleased to be +front. +front and back. Her bust, which had always seemed like marble to Pierre, +front line, as if their differences would be settled there amongst the +front of the infantry, who had to wait. +front of the ranks. Suddenly one shot after another rang out from the +front of us. +frowning. +frowning and silent. +frowning and taking his daughter’s hand; he did not kiss her, but only + * Frühstück: breakfast. +fugitives returned, the battalions re-formed, and the French who had +fulfill the one which enjoined every Mason to set an example of moral +fulfill Thy will?” And scarcely had she put that question than God +full speed. Rostóv, fearing to be crushed or swept into the attack on +furies and rages at everyone and everything, seizes the letters, opens +furlough after Christmas to return with him to their regiment. His +gaily. +Galicia he had managed to deal with the Grand Duke when the latter +galloped up to Kutúzov and asked in the Emperor’s name had the fourth +galloping toward him. They were our Uhlans who with disordered +gasping voice. “Where are we? In Moscow, I know. I don’t matter, +gathered round Nicholas in the sitting room. +gave her the answer in her own heart. “Desire nothing for thyself, +gave no answer, she left the room. +gave us time to retreat. The retirement of the center to the other side +gave zest to his pleasures. He spent the greater part of his time away +Gavríl to pay a sleigh driver, his kissing Sónya on the sly—he now +gazed at his delicate fingers which rapidly twirled by its corners +gaze drooped his eyes sadly and again took to twirling his snuffbox. +general attention, and Anna Pávlovna felt that the novelty she had +‘General Bonaparte.’” +general conclusion which he had arrived at from his interview with +general conversation. +general engagement in which he was taking part, more than that, he was +general expanded his chest and rode, frowning, beside him to the +general grumbled at his wife when she asked how his leg was. “Oh, the +general, in Russian, speaking with the French intonation he affected +generally do describe it, that is, as they would like it to have been, +generally happens to the narrators of cavalry attacks had not happened +general movement; that something was constantly expected of him, that if +general roar. +generals. +generals. But one could not tell from that significant look whether he +generals in full parade uniforms, with their thin or thick waists drawn +generals in the crowded hut, feeling embarrassed as he always was by the +generals were saying. +general who had served blamelessly for twenty-two years, flushed by a +general who, watch in hand, was saying it was time they started as all +gentle childlike smile, and Hélène smiled too. +gentleman—evidently not sharing Borís’ conception of the advantages +Gentleman of the Bedchamber, which at that time conferred the status of +gentleman,” said the postmaster, entering the room followed by another +gentlemen changed his position on seeing Borís. The one who was writing +“Gentlemen, I thank you all; all arms have behaved heroically: +“Gentlemen,” said Dólokhov after he had dealt for some time. +“Gentlemen, the dispositions for tomorrow—or rather for today, for +gentleness and affection. He could not refuse the post, or rather the +“Gently, gently! Can’t you do it more gently?” said the Emperor +German—I congratulate him! I can’t make out what the commander at +Germans. +Germans, and everyone was convinced that a dangerous muddle had been +Germans’ muddling! What stupid devils!” +get married. What about you? That’s what I want to know.” +“Get onto the ice, over the ice! Go on! Turn! Don’t you hear? Go +getting up and speaking in a muffled and guttural voice. +girl,” he sometimes said to himself “she never makes a mistake, +girls and avoiding their eyes. +girls’ voices came from the adjoining room. The door was opened a +girl would be decided that evening. The visitors were seated at supper. +“Give him a seat,” said Túshin. “Lay a cloak for him to sit on, +give no opinion on such an important government order, and Berg laughed +given receptions) now hardly let a day go by without having an evening +given to raise recruits, ten men in every thousand for the regular army, +giving the messenger a significant look. +“Glad to do our best!” shouted the soldiers. +glad, very glad indeed, that my brother has distinguished himself so. +glance became more animated as his conclusions became more hopeless. +glanced angrily at Berg, then, meeting his eyes, hid his face behind the +glanced at Berg with a smile. +glances without coloring, but even the old countess and Natásha blushed +glancing at Prince Vasíli and at her father with her beautiful eyes. +glancing into the drawing room, where he saw Véra and his mother with +glass. +glass. Letting her arms fall helplessly, she sat with downcast eyes and +glass of vodka and the dinner; and the staff officer with the signet +glide across that lofty infinite sky! How was it I did not see that +gloom, but a dark sea swelling and gradually subsiding after a storm. +glorious task for which he was chosen. I shall await your most gracious +go. +“Go across to our hosts: they invited you,” added Borís. +“Go and choose Denísov. He is a real dancer, a wonder!” he said. +go and tell Lise.” +God!” And without noticing that he was singing, to strengthen the si +God be with him,” thought he, relishing his own goodness of heart, +“God be with you, general!” said the Emperor. +“Go, dear,” said Princess Mary. +“God is merciful....” +“God is merciful, birdie.” +“God is merciful, doctors are never needed,” she said. +God,” Pierre went round the table and saw a large open box filled +God,” said Pierre, regretfully and with an effort, feeling it +God, without Whose care not a hair of man’s head can fall? +“Go! Go! Killed in battle, where the best of Russian men and +“Go!” he repeated, amazed at himself and glad to see the look of +going on, but strain his attention as he would he could not understand +going on in front. Whether all the enemy forces were, as we supposed, +going straight on through the conservatory, neither seeing nor hearing +going. The Emperor was wounded, the battle lost. It was impossible to +go into that. But consider the position in which you are placing her and +“Go, my dear fellow, and see whether the third division has passed the +gone, Pierre did not go to bed or order horses but paced up and down +“Gone to bed?” asked the prince. +“Gone to bed,” replied the voice of Demyán the house steward, who +good as to look at the map and listen.” Langeron lifted his eyes with +“Good-by, my dear fellow,” said Túshin. “Dear soul! Good-by, my +good gifts? Are you content with yourself and with your life?” +good-natured, sincere, and animated levity. “But you see... another +good old days. Denísov, flushed after the mazurka and mopping himself +“Good!” said the Rhetor quickly, apparently satisfied with +good thing really.” +“Go on! Go on! Give it them!” he mentally exclaimed at these sounds, +goot to come to ze front and see dat zis position iss no goot? I don’t +go? That way is nearer.” +“Go!” the quivering voice repeated. And Prince Vasíli had to go +go there anyhow and I have already spoken to him about you. We shall +got into bed, all kept awake a long time that night. +“Go, Tit! Thresh a bit!” +“Go, Tit, thresh a bit!” said the wag. +go to him himself, and tell him what ought to be done in a tone of +gown, he went to the couch on which he slept. +“Gracious heavens! The young count!” he cried, recognizing his +grandfather called him). The baby Prince Nicholas lived with his wet +Grand! Look at the smoke, the smoke!” exclaimed the artillerymen, +“‘Grant leave to retire to his country seat to an old man who is +grant.” Nor did he say to himself: “Pierre is a rich man, I must +grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his +grateful for the benefits conferred on them. Everywhere were receptions, +grateful look, but was still expectant and looking for someone. The old +grave, moment I did not tell you the whole truth. I think there is no +gray everyday dress. Now please, do it for my sake. Katie,” she said +grayish color. +great; all he could hear was: “ahahah!” and “rrrr!” +great deal from the deceased,” said Prince Vasíli to him, handing him +greater reasons.” +great man! Let us drink to his health and to the certain defeat of the +great many officers like him were always coming there and that everybody +greatness....” +greatness, the unimportance of life which no one could understand, and +greeting was riding quickly. When the soldiers of the regiment in front +grew still kinder. The younger sisters also became affectionate to him, +grew still louder and merged into a general roar that only an army +groans, which seemed to melt into one with the darkness of the night. +ground like cliffs and slopes. Anywhere, on any side, one might +ground ten paces apart to mark the barrier. It was thawing and misty; at +grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the +growing ever stronger and fuller and merging into a deafening roar. +growing excited. “What about your son, your sister, and your +grown furious, now at Borís, now at Bolkónski. “Yes, many stories! +Guard and line regiments, Russian and Austrian. Among them were grooms +Guards?” asked Napoleon. +Guards charged, followed the line of reserves, going far round the place +Guards passed Rostóv before he heard them shout, “Hurrah!” and +Guards. Prince Andrew came up to him and took his hand. +Guards, that they not only did not wish to, but simply could not, be +Guards, wearing a cocked hat with its peaks front and back, with his +guessing Rostóv’s thought. +guest of honor and hero of the Austrian campaign, Prince Bagratión, to +guest. “Poor girl, she’s devilish ugly!” thought Anatole. +guidance. The universal experience of ages, showing that children do +gun, a horse), from the sight of all these things a fantastic world of +gunner with his shako knocked awry, pulling one end of a mop while +guns. On the contrary, the energetic action of that battery led the +guns on the hillock. +guns smashed, and no supports at all.” +habit of ridiculing the Masonic beliefs—“I am afraid I am very far +habit of walking, had been swept: the marks of the broom were still +had accumulated at the sight of all that was being done in the army. +had also convinced the sovereign Emperors of. +had always seemed to him that he really was very kind and intelligent. +had a splendid march. You know, of course, that His Imperial Highness +had been added to Mademoiselle Bourienne’s toilet which rendered her +had been carried out and in what state were the serfs whom God had +had been decided to advance immediately and give battle to Bonaparte. +had been doing, as though it were all an old-time story, and he listened +had been got ready for him, glancing now and then at the newcomer, who, +had been increased by a half. And so Pierre was delighted with his visit +had been insulted through his daughter. The insult was the more pointed +had been killed at the beginning of the engagement and within an hour +had been killed or not and whether the cannon had been captured or +had broken up the French troops. +had come into Pierre’s room after the funeral. With drooping eyes +had crossed that line and not only was there nothing terrible, but +had driven the old prince to town returned bringing papers and letters +had entered and left the town with their bands playing, and by the Grand +had entered. The most solemn mystery in the world continued its course. +had first learned to say “pear” and then “granny,” that this son +had first seen the enemy and fired the first shot, and that the corner +had fixed on that number because forty-three was the sum of his and +had followed, and only the heavens promised peace. Toward morning +had followed him like an eagle, three steps at a time. Having received +had grown so dark that one could not distinguish the uniforms ten paces +had had to retreat and had made their withdrawal in perfect order. The +had happened to him, but could not do so. Such a storm of feelings, +had happened. What had happened? Nothing. He had merely understood that +had heard that a rumor of his duel had reached the Emperor and that it +Had he repented of his unbelief? Was he now there? There in the realms +had instantly noticed her brother’s condition. But, though she noticed +had killed five Frenchmen, a third had loaded five cannon singlehanded. +had left Paris and how he had liked that city. Anatole answered the +had never been to blame, might be held responsible at headquarters +had no connection with the matter in hand. His haggard face was yellow. +had not been time to move. The Emperor, surrounded by his suite +had not known it I should not have addressed you. Your view of life is a +had not left Prince Vasíli’s and felt with terror that in people’s +had not told all and that there was something in his feelings for the +had not yet begun. Not wishing to agree to Dolgorúkov’s demand to +had prevailed. She drew her brother’s attention to the maid who was +had read, and listened to what was passing in the nursery. Suddenly he +had read thus far, he crumpled the letter up and threw it away. It was +had revealed to him. A week after his arrival, the young Polish count, +had ridden up to him in a violent passion, shouting: “Arnauts!” +had seemed as extraordinary to her as if there had never existed the +had sent in good time to Moscow for a doctor and were expecting him at +had slept badly that night, those around him reported. The cause of this +had sunk, her lip was drawn up, and her eyes drawn down. +had the ear of the company. +had then said. +“Had there been no Bagratión, it would have been necessary to +hairs painfully in the knot. Then he drew his face down, kissed him, and +ha!” laughed Prince Bolkónski, and Anatole laughed still louder. +Half an hour later, the Rhetor returned to inform the seeker of the +half-closed eyes he looked at Rostóv, bowed slightly and wearily, and +halfway. Fine orders!” was being repeated on different sides. +hall all sat waiting, silently and alert. In the outlying serfs’ +“Hallo, Gwíska—my pipe!” came Vasíli Denísov’s husky voice. +hall, where Denísov was sitting on the same chair by the clavichord +halted. Prince Andrew was behind, among the immense number forming the +halted, the Austrian argued that not he, but the higher command, was to +handed him, smiled at Dólokhov’s words, and with a sinking heart, +handful of scoundrels. It will soon be over, it can’t be that, it +hand he held carefully back, because he wished to support his right +hand in passing and draw it downwards, or absent-mindedly hold out his +handkerchief, and pipe. +handkerchief to his wounded cheek and pointing to the fleeing soldiers. +hand, lay Prince Andrew Bolkónski bleeding profusely and unconsciously +hand, rode up smiling to the Emperor to congratulate him on the victory. +hands and occasionally ran his eyes over the score against him. He had +hands asking for their blessing, and that he kissed Véra, Natásha, and +hands, he looked more closely at the ring, with its skull—a Masonic +hands high, shied, throwing back its ears; but the pockmarked Guardsman +handsome, happy young face, he experienced a feeling of tenderness +handsome open face of the man who might perhaps be her husband absorbed +hands that are unclean.” While the Grand Master said these last words +hands. Then, sighing, he added: “My son’s fate is in your hands. +hands which show the time, so the result of all the complicated human +hand to his ear toward Weyrother, with the air of a man absorbed in +hand with it and knew he must not do so. Having advanced six paces and +handwriting. On receiving it, he ran on tiptoe to his study in alarm and +hanged,” said Prince Andrew with a smile. “So I am serving because + * “Hang these Russians!” +happened, he was said to be insanely jealous and subject like his +happened to you in Moscow was a misfortune.”—“I regret it very +happening in front of him. Nesvítski with an angry face, red and unlike +happen!” she said, looking at herself in the glass. “How shall I +happen to them when they were free, but he insisted, though reluctantly, +happiest, merriest times for him and the whole family. Nicholas brought +happiness and of children, but her strongest, most deeply hidden longing +happiness), feeling the eager bustle around him, and hearing the fitful +happiness or peace of mind. Can anything in the world make her or me +happiness possible, and that is just what you want to deprive him of. +happiness. The old princess sighed sadly as she offered some wine to the +happy and smiling. Véra was playing chess with Shinshín in the drawing +happy world of his own. She fancied a child, her own—such as she had +hard.... For ages, from our forefather Adam to our own day, we labor to +Hardly had Prince Andrew started than he stopped him. +“Hardly,” said Bagratión. “I saw them this evening on that +harnessed and packed the wagons and tied on the loads. The adjutants and +“Has anything come from Andrew?” she asked. +has blundered looks at an examiner. +has come down to us from the remotest ages, even from the first man—a +has his stand, and there’s Zakhár himself and still the same horse! +has proposed to Sónya!” +hastening her steps. “You young ladies should not know anything about +haste, trying to escape notice, closed the door, and began to read the +“Has the snow been shoveled back?” +hast thou denied?” he suddenly asked with exulting austerity and +have been as good as Weyrother’s, but for the disadvantage that +have been difficult to stop that crowd, it was even impossible not to +have certainly acquired a taste for war, and it is just as well for me; +have dared to say so, knew it and blushed scarlet every time Dólokhov +have done the same!...” thought Princess Mary. +Have just this moment received by special messenger very joyful +have killed so many that there’d have been a heap of them.” +have liked to sympathize with what Pierre was saying, but could not. +have obliged me to give this refusal.” +Have received another letter about the Preussisch-Eylau battle +have said. And he was still more angry at having omitted to say it. He +have seen how he said it! I know he did not mean to say it, but it came +“Have some brought from the reserve,” said Napoleon, and having gone +have stayed longer.” +have the carriage to drive to town: +have the courier horses. It was plain that he was lying and only wanted +have to go in and ask the princesses; and from there go on to the +have to prove to them what he had not merely convinced himself of, but +have virtuous aims,” said Pierre, feeling ashamed of the inadequacy + Have we not Bagratión? +“Have you?” he said. “Well, how did it go?” +having become entangled in the saddle. Where our men were, and where the +Having by a great effort got away to the left from that flood of men, +having convinced himself that he was asleep, took up a paper and in +Having descended the hill at a trot, he no longer saw either our own or +Having disentangled his leg, he rose. “Where, on which side, was now +Having entered the courtyard of a large house where the Lodge had its +Having galloped safely through the French, he reached a field behind +having given orders to his company, sent a soldier to find a dressing +Having given several more orders, he was about to go to his “little +Having led him about ten paces, Willarski stopped. +Having left that soldier who was evidently drunk, Rostóv stopped the +Having lifted her head and let her arms droop lifelessly, as ballet +having mounted drew himself up very straight and tall and rode to the +Having passed the Guards and traversed an empty space, Rostóv, to avoid +having passed Uvárov’s cavalry he clearly heard the sound of cannon +Having reached the left flank, instead of going to the front where the +having rested after yesterday’s march, were sitting, clean and neatly +having said this laughed. Everyone turned toward him. +Having said this, Napoleon rode on to meet Marshal Lannes, who, hat in +head and at the little arms and legs which showed under the blanket. He +head. As he rode up to the camp he thought how he would impress Borís +head cook, about asparagus, fresh cucumbers, strawberries, veal, and +he added: “But beware, dear brother, that these gloves do not deck +he added that Prince Vasíli was also there. When Tíkhon came to her +head in perplexity—perhaps because the banner really interested him, +head, laughing with an officer who had sat down beside him. A third was +headlong after Anna Mikháylovna and, dashing at her, flung herself on +headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead +head, pulled it off, and showed the blood congealed on his hair. +headquarters, and having ascended a dark staircase, they entered a small +headquarters. But on the afternoon of that day, this activity reached +headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that +headquarters was still under the spell of the day’s council, at which +head (the pains had just left her). Strands of her black hair lay round +health?” +health of our Sovereign, the Emperor!” he roared, “Hurrah!” and +health was drunk, Pierre, lost in thought, did not rise or lift his +healthy body, and all the affection and care of his family. “And why +he always thought only of whatever he was engaged on. +heard.” +heard, and again something in his face twitched—“That is just why +heard, and out of the foggy darkness the figure of a sergeant of hussars +heard a rustle behind him and a shadow appeared under the curtain of +heard before, others simply enjoyed hearing how the master talked, while +heard curses on Bonaparte, “the enemy of mankind.” Militiamen and +heard distinctly. +heard musket fire quite close in front of him and behind our troops, +heard them, and we shall all do our duty. But before a battle, there is +heard the quick rustle of the countess’ dress. She came up to them. +heard the words as he might have heard the buzzing of a fly. Not only +heard this Sónya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable +heard, your honor, that a minister is coming to visit your honor.” +hearers—who like himself had often heard stories of attacks and had +hearing or understanding her own words, what she had told hundreds of +Hearing that cry and seeing to whom it was addressed, Nesvítski and the +hearing these words her face changed and something brightened in her +hearing with pleasure the whistle of bullets evidently aimed at him. +heart in the presence of the unfathomable did not lessen but increased. +“He asked you, and Vasíli Dmítrich * is also going.” +heated horses, exchanging remarks and smiling, had stopped behind the +“Heaven knows what a fright might do.” +He began pacing the room. The screaming ceased, and a few more seconds +He began the rescript again and again, but as soon as he uttered + He brings foemen to their knees,... etc. +He came to the point at once, treating her ceremoniously. +he can’t help plowing and mowing; if he didn’t, he would go to the +he chanced to meet Dólokhov’s handsome insolent eyes, Pierre felt +He checked himself, fearing to seem naïve, yet he felt an irresistible +he clutched at his head. “Who is going to get me the flowers? Dmítri! +he consoled himself. “And besides, what have I done to bring it about? +He continued to pace the room, looking gloomily at Denísov and the +he could from a Frenchman into the wood. Besides, to tell everything as +He could not look calmly at the standards of the passing battalions. +He could see puffs of musketry smoke that seemed to chase one another +he described the whole campaign with a fearless self-censure and +he did not do it he would grieve and disappoint many people, but if he +(he did not even dare to dream of that), but simply to die before his +He did not find Prince Andrew in Olmütz that day, but the appearance of +he did not look at them: he looked only at what was going on in front +He did not regain consciousness till late in the day, when with other +He did not reply. +He did not see, hear, or understand anything clearly. Only now and +he did not see him and had no opportunity of seeing him, he often spoke +He discussed estate affairs every day with his chief steward. But +He drew back and a real tear appeared in his eye. +He embraced his daughter, and then again Pierre, and kissed him with his +He enlivened the whole party. The wax candles burned brightly, the +He entered the drawing room with his usual alert step, glancing rapidly +“He exists, but to understand Him is hard,” the Mason began again, +he felt himself to be. At the right beat of the music he looked sideways +He felt that at a single word from that man all this vast mass (and he +he felt that this did not forward matters at all. He felt that these +He filled the girls’ albums with verses and music, and having at last +he. “Fine, very fine! You have done up your hair in this new way for +He finished and, getting up, embraced and kissed Pierre, who, with tears +he, going to the door and looking into the nursery. +he got his wound. This pleased Rostóv and he began talking about it, +he had been ordered to look for the commander in chief, he could not, +He had evidently not slept that night. He looked about distractedly and +he had lain there some time, he was told to get up, and a white leather +he had left. All the others let him go, and he ran to her. When they +he had left Petersburg, and wrote enthusiastic letters to his +he had not thought about it until that moment. The officers’ laughter +He had often before, during the last six weeks, remained alone with her, +He had Pierre at hand in Moscow and procured for him an appointment as +he had ridden about two miles and had passed the last of the Russian +he had said absent-mindedly: “Yes, she’s good looking,” he had +he had to do, not with fools, but with men who could teach him something +he had too long been thinking of so painfully to the exclusion of all +He half rose, meaning to go round, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox, +“He has been set down. He died,” replied someone. +“He has forty thousand men at most,” replied Weyrother, with the +“He has perspired,” said Prince Andrew. +He hated her and was forever sundered from her. Despite Denísov’s +he heard some French spoken he at once began speaking to the officers, +“He higher iss dan I in rank,” said the German colonel of the +he himself was pining for the dear princess, and how she showed him the +He imagined himself as an enormously tall, powerful man who was throwing +He imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he +He implored Rostóv to go on and prepare her. +He involuntarily remembered how Dólokhov, who had fully recovered his +heiress in the same way. All this might, he thought, turn out very well +“He is a man in a gray overcoat, very anxious that I should call +“He is a nervous, bilious subject,” said Larrey, “and will not +“He is a very, very nice, honest, and pleasant fellow,” answered +“He is not to be apprehended by reason, but by life,” said the +“He is one of the most remarkable, but to me most unpleasant of +He jumped up at the sound of her light step. +He knew no one, and despite his smart Guardsman’s uniform, all these +He knew this at that moment as surely as if he had been standing at the +“He knows of course what this loss means to me. He can’t want my +he lacked that strength of will which he had known in himself and really +he. “Laughing at us old fellows!” +he lay down on the leather sofa in front of a round table, put his big +He lay down on the sofa meaning to fall asleep and forget all that +held. All the commanders of columns were summoned to the commander in +held it below her waist. +held it till evening and have gone in to dinner with it) and drew his +held the hand of his betrothed in silence, looking at her beautiful +He leaned his whole massive body across the table. +He left the room and went to the waiting room where Alpátych stood with +Hélène.” +Hélène, and that thought both alarmed him, as if some obligation were +“Hélène!” he said aloud and paused. +Hélène nor she at him. But she was just as terribly close to him. He +Hélène raised her voice and became more and more excited, “A man +Hélène sat silently side by side almost at the bottom of the table, a +Hélène. “Separate! That’s a thing to frighten me with!” +Hélène’s face became terrible, she shrieked and sprang aside. His +Hélène’s hand several times. After a while they were left alone +Hélène smiled, with a look implying that she did not admit the +Hélène’s presence (as a lover should be), but had not yet proposed +Hélène still sat talking just as before. +Hélène, then she turned to Pierre with the same words of welcome +Hélène turned to Pierre with the beautiful bright smile that she gave +He listened and heard the sound of approaching horses, and voices +He looked intently and inquiringly into his friend’s eyes, evidently +he looked very grim he said nothing to anyone. +help being aware of it, just as we cannot renew an illusion we have once +“Help comes from God alone,” he said, “but such measure of help as +“Help him up. Sit down, dear fellow, sit down! Spread out the cloak, +helplessly on the sofa. +helplessly spread out, stood with his broad chest directly facing +help, would inform her. +he made himself when going into battle, and he was more amiable to the +he made up his mind that Prince Andrew had been killed, and though he +he marked the figures in his clear, bold hand. +he meant to do, and abandoning herself to him followed his lead hardly +he might be, did not expect. He was so used to submitting to Prince +He might... not only might but should, have gone up to the sovereign. It +He moved as if to rise. The generals bowed and retired. It was past +“He must first receive the trowel,” whispered one of the brothers. +He must think that I, too, am afraid of him—and in fact I am afraid of +he need only have bent his head a little to have touched them. He was +he needs money for food; the man said an officer had once given him a +He opened his eyes and looked up. The black canopy of night hung less +he passed it. Pierre began to feel a sense of uneasiness, and the +He paused a little while. +He paused, and just as he was about to say something more, another ball +He paused and sighed, evidently trying to calm himself. +He paused, his gaze still on Pierre, and moved aside on the sofa by way +He quickly entered the small reception room with its still-unplastered +her. +her already,” he said, evidently trying to entertain a visitor with +her and about to crush her was some terrible misfortune, the worst +her and for himself, and in a nervously emotional and softened mood he +her as a distant beauty far removed from him, as he had seen her every +her beauty and her remarkable skill in appearing silently dignified in +her because you must, and that wouldn’t do at all.” +her companions’ not having the least conception that it could be +“Here at least we shall have the benefit of your company all to +here,” came the voice of an hussar, past whom Rostóv was riding in +he reeled and sank on the snow. +he reflected, “there is no riding round it now. I must look for the +“Here he is at last!” shouted Rostóv. “And Berg too! Oh, you +“Here he is... our own... Kólya, * dear fellow... How he has +here is now settled, and I ought to have been off long ago. Here is +“Here it is! The decisive moment has arrived. My turn has come,” +“Here it is!” thought he, seizing the staff of the standard and +here I’ve brought the prince’s wedding candles to light before his +He remembered his honeymoon and blushed at the recollection. +He remembered the expression Dólokhov’s face assumed in his moments +here on Friday.” +here, run away, bury myself somewhere?” passed through his mind. But +“Here’s to the health of lovely women, Peterkin—and their +her eyes became serious. At that moment she was oblivious of her +her eyes off him, and smiling and holding her breath. He gave her a +Her eyes were smiling expectantly, her downy lip rose and remained +her face, and then immediately he saw beside her Dólokhov’s handsome, +Her fate was decided and happily decided. But what her father had said +Her favorite sonata bore her into a most intimately poetic world and +her foot into the other. Sónya, when he came in, was twirling round and +her friend as if she did not consider her worthy to hear what she meant +Her glittering eyes, filled with childlike fear and excitement, rested +her handkerchief too. Pierre was kissed, and he kissed the beautiful +her heart. Happy the man who wins her! With her the least worldly of men +her. How often when considering her character I have told myself that +her in five minutes before and, despite the fixed eyes and the pallor of +her inflamed and perspiring cheeks, her charming rosy mouth with its +her little nephew as best she could. Mademoiselle Bourienne, too, seemed +her mother, quite excited. +her neck as soon as she overtook her in the sitting room. +hero himself with his paltry vanity and joy in victory appear, +her—please don’t! It is too painful for her!” +her, Rostóv thought, but just now there were so many other pleasures +her?” said the old prince angrily. “What an idea! I’m ready for it +her seducer when she loved him?” he thought. “God could not have put +herself! Glad to throw her father over! And she knew I should notice +herself in a white satin dressing gown embroidered with silver and with +her sufferings or with their relief. The pangs began again and Mary +her sympathy for Pierre, but by involuntary intonations and a half smile +her—thou or you?” +Her voice sounded so serious and so sad that the chirping of the birds +her white teeth. She met Prince Vasíli with that playful manner often +her with perfect sincerity, and with the naïve and firm conviction +he said. “Perhaps you are right for yourself,” he added after +He said something more, but Rostóv did not wait to hear it and rode +“He’s arrived!” +he saw French cannon and French troops on the Pratzen Heights just where +he saw turrets and a church. What need to hurry? What was he now to say +he saw which way the wind was blowing, and his low opinion changed into +“He’s dead—why carry him?” said another. +He shaved and scented himself with the care and elegance which had +he shouted, “and then I shall reserve the right to state my opinion +he shrugged his shoulders and raised his hand to the kerchief, as if +hesitating voice. “I thank you. I agree with all you have said. But +hesitation and uncertainty among his conductors. He heard those around +(He smiled ironically.) “But even if he also took up a position in +he spread a map on the table. “All eventualities have been foreseen. +He still had all the letters in his hand. Opening them mechanically he +He stopped and remained silent for a long time. +he stopped short on his heels, stood so a second, stamped on the spot +he sung a second, a third below the high note. “Ah, God! How fine! Did +“He’s very young to come to meddle with us.” +he thought out his plans beforehand he could not have been so natural +he thought, stopping for a moment with a sinking heart, and then +He took the pistol in his hand and began asking about the working of the +He touched his horse and having called Milorádovich, the commander of +He tried to say more, but faltered. +he unhooked his saber. He came out from behind the chairs, clasped his +he was admitted to the Emperor, and an hour later he rode off with +He was evidently so busy that he even forgot to be polite to the +He was flushed and bathed in perspiration, though the room was not hot. +he was in contact with the springs that set in motion the enormous +He was joyfully planning this new life, when Prince Vasíli suddenly +He was pleased at the gratitude he received, but felt abashed at +he was proud to be at the head of such a nation and would endeavor to be +He was riding almost along the front line. A handful of men came +he was riding was one he had bought from a Cossack during the campaign, +he was sent away. Hippolyte is her brother... Prince Vasíli is her +he was sent. This was the brilliant charge of the Horse Guards that +He was singing in passionate tones, gazing with his sparkling +He was thinking that Prince Andrew was unhappy, had gone astray, did not +he was told in Russian, German, and Czech by the crowd of fugitives who +he was told that he would now see the lesser light. The bandage was +he was to wear at the meetings, and finally of the third, a pair of +he went forward uneasily over the rough field with the awkward gait of +he went nowhere and spent whole days in reading Thomas à Kempis, whose +He went over his vices in his mind, not knowing to which of them to give +He went straight up to Prince Vasíli. +He went to his bed, drew a purse from under the clean pillow, and sent +he will hit me in the head, or elbow, or knee. Can’t I go away from +He wished to explain to Dolgorúkov a plan of attack he had himself +He wished to take a decision, but felt with dismay that in this matter +He woke up and looked round for a while with a startled expression, +he wondered as he got up: and at that moment he felt that something +he would certainly be taken prisoner. Kutúzov remained in the same +he would expand his chest, raise his head, and rejoice at his good +he would have been mentioned among the officers found on the field of +he would have done at that moment had Hélène not fled from the room. +he would into that foggy distance: now something gleamed gray, now there +he would rush through the whole suite of rooms without drawing breath, +He would say a lot of pleasant things, ask you to dinner” (“That +he would slap in the face before the Emperor. Suddenly a distant shout +hidden by dense mist. Having given orders in the commander in chief’s +higher ground it was clearing, but nothing could be seen of what was +high—I always said....” +highly honored guest, took possession of him as it were, without waiting +Highness,” and pointing to the Grand Duke who with his high shoulders +Hills, she took a special fancy to Mademoiselle Bourienne, spent whole +him. +him. +him. +him all the way. He thought angrily of the pleasure he would have at +him a look of stern inquiry, as though what Pierre had just said was +him and did not stop but rode on and on, continually mistaking bushes +him and Hélène. “Well, what of it, if you all know it?” thought +him and he was at once blindfolded again. +him, and only as he kissed her hand on taking leave said unexpectedly +him and she wished and tried to please him as much as possible. +him. “And why should she marry?” he thought. “To be unhappy for +him; but most of all, he felt joyful that the moment had come when he +him, but still that happy result always remained in the future. +him, carried the infant round the battered tin font and handed him over +him disputing in whispers and one of them insisting that he should be +him do what he pleases,’ she used to say of me. One day I asked her if +him feel confused by her smiles and her own confusion when meeting him. +him for those words, bullets flew hissing across the regiment and across +him full directions which he had written down for his own guidance as to +him?” he asked. +him, he does not know Russian.” +him he is a fool, that’s all!” +him,” he thought, and again he felt something terrible and monstrous +him if not to join in at least to listen to what he was saying. But the +him into the sitting room, where they began talking. They hardly gave +him merged in Rostóv’s mind into a single feeling of terror and pity +him my whole staff and all that belongs to it, advising him if there is +him. On the day of Prince Vasíli’s arrival, Prince Bolkónski was +him, or perhaps for that very reason, the prince, though he continued +him, or what was said of him; he was only glad that people were standing +him out of the booth at Grunth. He was shouting in a gasping voice: +him pleasure. The enemy’s guns were in his fancy not guns but pipes +him. Prince Vasíli’s two valets were busy dressing him, and he looked +him, push him, do anything but kiss him—a thing everybody did. But +him. Rostóv was particularly in need of money now that the troops, +himself. +himself. +himself? +himself after his recent loneliness and freedom from cares so beset and +himself, and this fresh opportunity for action gave him new energy +himself an insignificant atom in it) would go through fire and water, +himself had vanished. He was filled with happiness at his nearness to +himself, he kept in touch with the circle which confers success and +himself, he rose, threw back his head, and with resolute steps went +himself. I am called in to help sort the letters and take those meant +himself in the palace at Potsdam. +himself.... Not a word! About some Denísov or other, though he himself, +himself one with his horse, rode past the Emperor with a frowning but +himself to the count, who was looking inquiringly at him. +himself, was shouting to Kutúzov that if he did not ride away at once +himself. What angered him was that the coming of these visitors revived +him several questions about his journey and seemed greatly interested in +him several riders with white plumes in their hats. In a moment everyone +him so when I see him!” +him surrounded by children whom, by the count’s generosity, he was +him.” The mere thought of her father’s look filled her with terror. +him. The pain in his arm became more and more intense. Irresistible +him to come. There were other guests and the countess talked little to +him to deliver. +him to die. Others are being born and there are plenty of them as it is. +him to hear something more, nodded and turned to him with a cheerful +him too, just opposite Gúryev’s house... Old Gúryev.... Oh, but +him up and lent him money. Pierre recalled how Hélène had smilingly +him what consolation I can.” +him with her usual smile. +him. You know the story of the handkerchief? It is delightful!” +him ‘Your Majesty,’ but who, to his chagrin, got no title from +hindmost of these men wearing similar shakos was a Russian hussar. He +hints began to make the countess anxious and she glanced uneasily at +Hippolyte interrupted her with the words: “Le Roi de Prusse...” and +Hippolyte laughed as if ashamed of laughing. +his acquaintance and joyfully welcomed the rich newcomer, the +his acquaintances, to overtake his regiment which was already in Poland. +his attention wandered from the book and the Square and he formed in +his beautiful daughter Hélène. +his being alone and despondent! A strange face may seem unpleasant or +his breast. Among them stood a man whose white shirt was stained with +his camp,” said he. “What does that mean? Either he is retreating, +his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, +his company? If you were cleverer and more agreeable, I should prefer +his daughter that morning. Princess Mary well knew this painstaking +His despair was all the greater from feeling that his own weakness was +his dressing gown and smiled slightly, as if expressing respectful +his easy life in Moscow, entered the room. +His efforts had not been in vain. The dinner, both the Lenten and the +his example, and the loud shouting continued for a long time. When the +his eye as a miller wakes up when the soporific drone of the mill wheel +his eyes at the sight. +his eyes. “Can they be French?” He looked at the approaching +his eyes he heard in front of him, where the enemy was, the long-drawn +his face, gave him a peculiar vivacity and shiftiness of expression. +His face shone with self-satisfaction and pleasure. +His face was terrible and piteous to see, especially from its helpless +his fat chest uncovered, stepping unevenly and timidly in one slippered +his father and his fatherland. To the great regret of myself and of the +his father’s peculiarities, and partly because he needed solitude, +his feverishness increased and he grew delirious. Visions of his father, +his future depended—whether he would follow the same old road, or that +His grandfather, who was his godfather, trembling and afraid of dropping +his hand. +his hand and at the head of a regiment—he fell as a hero, worthy of +his handkerchief, and again: ‘Sergéy Kuzmích, From all sides,’... +his hands to the blaze, and turned away his face. +his having been picked up on the battlefield by the people of the +his head. +his head and again assuming his former tone of a dull, unreasoning, but +his head, and with inimical politeness lurking in the corners of his +his head he let it droop and again closed his eye. +his horse indolently and carelessly. Rostóv recalled their quarrel of +His huge figure, with arms hanging down and with a puckered, though +his husbandry. +his last parting from his father and his wife; he remembered the days +his legs almost gave way, it seemed to him that he was tired out. He +his lips in his sleep and breathing evenly. +his lips without uttering a sound. He wished to say, “Yes, a vile, +his lower jaw. +his mouth, he turned with his glass to Pierre. +his old friend and the possessor of such enormous wealth, to the caprice +his own had taken possession of his brain and at that moment afforded +his own pleasure, chose to chat with Lieutenant Drubetskóy. More than +his own superiority. It was as if he said to them: “I know you, I know +his own way, gave an order. No one said anything definite, but the rumor +His passion for the Emperor had cooled somewhat in Moscow. But still, as +his pistol, and then he felt with surprise that of all the men he knew +his plate, and proposed a toast, “To the health of the hero of our +His plate seemed to him not quite clean, and pointing to a spot he +his present state. +his relations with old friends, all his plans for his future, were +his saber. Only ten paces divided them. Dólokhov lowered his head to +his saber, the soldiers all continued to run, talking, firing into the +His servant handed him a half-cut novel, in the form of letters, by +his ship is sailing, but on the day of battle—heaven knows how and +his shrill, harsh voice. “The road is not swept for the princess my +his side had been attempting a reconciliation), and he also went up to +his son and seizing the little princess’ arm as if she would have run +his son by both hands, he cried, “Now I’ve got you, so take the +his speech, which he used in extreme cases when special persuasion was +his superiors by his promptitude and accuracy and had arranged his money +his time. But he is growing old, and though not exactly cruel he has too +his time there. +his Toulon, or his bridge of Arcola. How it would come about he did not +his typically southern French face during the whole time of the reading, +his usual jokes, but noticing that what he was saying redounded to +his verses, bowed to Bagratión. Everyone rose, feeling that dinner +his voice. “She is living in Moscow and you are here. Remember, +his wealth, and being in the habit of lording it over these people, he +his weapons clean and polished to the utmost, and every horse groomed +his whole soul what the stranger said. Whether he accepted the wise +his wife, and by an anonymous letter he had received that morning, which +his wife said—met for supper at Prince Vasíli’s. All these friends +his wife’s room. She was lying dead, in the same position he had seen +“Hm!—his excellency is a puppy.... I got him his appointment in the +“Hm... Hm...!” growled Pierre, frowning without looking at her, and +“Hm! Hm!” muttered the prince, sitting down. +hoarsely. Prince Andrew winced and, clutching his head, went out and sat +holding up a threatening finger. “He is such a worthy and excellent +“Hold your tongue, Pétya, what a goose you are!” +Hollabrünn and have pursued ever since to this place. The position we +hollows and snow-covered pools of water. +home now for the first time after eighteen months again brightened his +home reading a book and trying to fathom the significance of the Square, +home,” said the valet. +home. Should he go to headquarters next day and challenge that affected +honorable, Count,” or, “Were he as clever as you,” and so on, +honorable, of Bezúkhov? And Fédya, with his noble spirit, loved him +honored guests sat, everyone seemed to be in high spirits and under the +honor? Knowing him to be an only son, to challenge him and shoot so +honor of the French infantry, so necessary to the honor of our nation. +honor to choose me to be their marshal; it was all I could do to get +honor, was terrible. +hoofs and the jingling of showy cavalry in blue, red, and green braided +hoofs and wheels. Amid the general rumble, the groans and voices of the +hoped. She prayed for her brother as living and was always awaiting news +hoped to lead he still lived the old life, only in new surroundings. +hoping to find him alone. When he came in and saw an hussar of the line +horse a little in front of his marshals. He gazed silently at the hills +horse of a batman or groom of some important personage and began to +horses and Ilyá Iványch. I don’t think Ilyá drives anyone except +horses and the infantry collecting wood. +horses in horsecloths. Then came a cart, and behind that walked an old, +horses were already galloping. Rostóv heard the thud of their hoofs +horse with his spurs, and giving it the rein leaped lightly over. Only +hospital at Ostrolenka till I recover. In regard to which I humbly +hospitality, did the honors to the prince. +hospitals. The one and the other may serve as a pastime. But what’s +hours’ sleep before morning and felt cheerful, bold, and resolute, +household, a common anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a +house lay behind a newly dug pond filled with water to the brink and +house, now and then opening her door when someone passed and watching +houses from his door. It seemed to him the horses were not moving at +house was dominated by the same feeling that Princess Mary experienced +“How about the horses?” he asked, without looking at Pierre. +How am I to renounce forever these vile fancies, so as peacefully to +“How am I to understand you, mon père?” said the princess, growing +how can I, an insignificant mortal, show His omnipotence, His infinity, +“How can one talk or think of such trifles?” thought Pierre. +“How can the Emperor be undecided?” thought Rostóv, but then even +“How dare you take it?” he shouted. +How did it begin? I traveled from Moscow with Prince Vasíli. Then there +How d’ye do, old fellow?” he said, turning to an old man who was +“How easy it is, how little effort it needs, to do so much good,” +However, at nine o’clock the prince, in his velvet coat with a sable +“However, if you command it, Your Majesty,” said Kutúzov, lifting +“However, I think General Kutúzov has come out,” said Prince +however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it +“However, this is not at all interesting. Let us have dinner, and then +How have you spent it? In riotous orgies and debauchery, receiving +“How is it I am not moving? I have fallen, I am killed!” Rostóv +“How is that?...” began Prince Andrew, who had for long been waiting +how is that?” said different voices. +“How it will be there I don’t know, but all will be well!” thought +how long his unconsciousness lasted. Suddenly he again felt that he was +“How much longer? How much longer? Oh, these insufferable streets, +how one day soon after his marriage he came out of the bedroom into his +How quickly! Now I know that not because of her alone, nor of myself +“How she loves me!” thought Princess Mary. “How happy I am now, +“How strange it is,” said Véra, selecting a moment when all were +“How sweet she is—she will be a weal beauty!” said Denísov. +how the Russians had been overwhelmed by flying Austrians and had had to +how they had been made much of in Russia, Poland, and abroad. They spoke +how to behave with her. The evening before, in the first happy moment of +“How understand me!” cried her father angrily. “Prince Vasíli +“How was it a gun was abandoned?” asked Bagratión, frowning, not so +hugging and kissing him. Another and yet another creature of the same +human skull with its cavities and teeth. After reading the first words +“Humbug! Nonsense! Humbug, humbug, humbug!” cried Prince Bolkónski, +humility. +humming infantry as by a frame. +humor and dissatisfied with the affair, and so did not exert themselves +hundred rubles he had a long column of figures scored against him, +hundred rubles was left of that money, so that this seven of hearts +hundred yards after that before he saw to his left, across the whole +hung low over the field of battle on the horizon. It was growing +“Hur-a-a-a-ah!” came a roar of voices. “Let anyone come my way +“Hurrah—ah!—ah!” rang a long-drawn shout from our ranks, and +“Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!” thundered from all sides, one regiment +“Hurrah!” rang the enthusiastic voices of the officers. +“Hurrah!” shouted Prince Andrew, and, scarcely able to hold up +“Hurrah!”... Then the general march, and again “Hurrah! Hurrah!” +hurriedly interrupting Bagratión. +hurriedly: “I will tell you some time how it all happened. But you +husband of a beauty, and in a word—an old woman; and secondly because +hussar revels and life in the fighting line, the other of the pleasures +hussars, flushing and addressing an adjutant who had ridden up, “so +hussars, told them to follow him, and trotted downhill in the direction +“I...” +I, above all, who am to blame for everything. Help me, teach me, and +I alone have any influence with my father, and now and then can save him +“I am.” +I am.” +“I am afraid for the baby,” she said to Mademoiselle Bourienne: +“I am afraid,” said Pierre, smiling, and wavering between the +“I am asking you when you last heard from Bolkónski,” repeated +“I am not in the cavalry, Colonel, but I am a Russian general and if +“I am not talking about you,” he said, “I don’t know you and, +I am overwhelmed with business and it is purely out of charity that +“I am ready for everything,” said Pierre. +“I am so glad you’ve come!” said Natásha, without answering him. +“I am very sorry you did not find me in yesterday. I was fussing about +“I am waiting, Your Majesty,” answered Kutúzov, bending forward +“‘I am wounded and cannot ride and consequently cannot command the +“I begin ab ovo. ‘The enemy of the human race,’ as you know, +“I believe it, I believe it, fwiend, and I share and appwove...” +“I bestow it with pleasure,” said Napoleon. “And who is that young +“I burned this to prove my love for her. I just heated a ruler in the +“I called once or twice at your house,” said Rostóv, reddening. +I can do.” And his fancy pictured the battle, its loss, the +“I cannot pay it all immediately. Will you take an I.O.U.?” he said. +“I can’t tell you how much I have lived through since then. I hardly +ice and into the water and oftenest of all among the crowd that covered +ice. Crowds of soldiers from the dam began running onto the frozen pond. +“I commanded a squadron,” replied Repnín. +I dare say, is braver than any of them. He says nothing about his +idea of the means by which our holy Order will help you to reach your +I did not think he would get it to you so quickly.... Well, how are you? +idleness, but would grow fat and die. The third thing—what else was +idle, vicious life!” but dared not break the silence. +I doing? Aren’t they laughing at me? Shan’t I be ashamed to remember +I do not begin, sire, because we are not on parade and not on the +“I do not know what you think, Father,” whispered the princess. +“I do not understand,” said Pierre, feeling with dismay doubts +I do not yet know. There will be time enough to think about love when I +“I... don’t...” he muttered, holding up two fingers to his cap. +“I don’t know. I think if he writes, I will write too,” she said, +“I don’t understand,” he said, “how it is that the mind of man +I don’t want him.” (He looked at his blushing daughter.) “Are you +I envy him, but you want to make him what I am, without giving him my +“I expected help from you and I get none, none from you either!” +“I expect so.” +if about to tell a good story he put down the cards, leaned back in his +If at first the members of the council thought that Kutúzov was +if complaining of Kutúzov. +“If he could attack us, he would have done so today,” said he. +If he is standing before Brünn...” +“If he starts a row I’ll go away,” said Prince Anatole. “I +“If He were not,” he said quietly, “you and I would not be +“If I’d been in Nikólenka’s place I would have killed even more +“If I have time,” answered Nicholas. “But I promised the +if in search of something. Before dinner the old prince, of whom she was +“If it is true that Monsieur Denísov has made you a proposal, tell +“If only they would be quick!” thought Rostóv, feeling that at last +if she had not meant it seriously. It makes it as if you were marrying +“If we fought before,” he said, “not letting the French pass, as +if we occupy the villages of Sokolnitz and Kobelnitz, whereby we +if you are in love, marry him!” said the countess, with a laugh of +“If you are refusing for my sake, I am afraid that I...” +“If you are resolved, I must begin your initiation,” said the Rhetor +if you have firmly resolved to join our Brotherhood.” (Pierre nodded +“If you like, your honor!” +“If you please, your excellency, Pétrusha has brought some papers,” +“If you really want it,” said he. +“If you won’t answer, I’ll tell you...” Hélène went on. “You +“I had not the pleasure of seeing you,” said Prince Andrew, coldly +I had to express my own desire...” She had no time to finish. The old +“I have already refused,” she said hurriedly. +I have a presentiment that for the first time I shall have to show all +“I have come to you with a message and an offer, Count,” he +“I have done my best for him, and I can assure you the education there +I have done that though badly and to a small extent; but I have done +“I have had a proposition made me concerning you,” he said with an +“I have heard of you, my dear sir,” continued the stranger, “and +“I have met loving, noble, high-minded men, but I have not yet met +“I have no money with me,” he said. +“I have not referred to this out of curiosity, my dear sir, but for +I have received what was due from the Ryazán estate and will keep it; +“I have the pleasure of addressing Count Bezúkhov, if I am not +“I... hope... for guidance... help... in regeneration,” said Pierre, +“I imagine that Freemasonry is the fraternity and equality of men who +“I?... I’m going to Petersburg,” answered Pierre, in a childlike, +“I intended to re-form them beyond the village, your excellency,” +“I? I? What of me? Leave me out of the question. I’m not going to +I know for certain that you won’t marry her.” +“I know from reliable sources that the Dowager Empress is taking a +“I know people consider me a bad man!” he said. “Let them! I +“I know your outlook,” said the Mason, “and the view of life you +I know you will pray over it. Well, pray if you like, but you had better +I’ll go to the general and ask him.” He readjusted himself in the +I’ll just finish dealing, and then Ilyúshka will come with his +“I’ll kill you!” he shouted, and seizing the marble top of a table +I’ll let her see....” +I’ll see.” The old prince snorted. “Let her marry, it’s all the +“I’ll sing for you a whole evening,” said Natásha. +I’ll teach you to think!” and lifting his stick he swung it and +“I’ll tell you what, my dear fellow,” said Prince Andrew, who +“I’ll trust you.” +illumined, and plunge him into the depths of unknown and undefined +I love so that I would give my life for them, and the others I’d + * “I love you.” + * I love you. +“I love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you +Ilyá has sent you to ask for strawberries and fresh pineapples.’ We +Ilyúshka, the one who danced at Count Orlóv’s, you remember, in a +imagination a new plan of life. On the previous evening at the Lodge, he +imagine...” +imagined oppressors whose victims he would rescue. Of the three +imagining himself before his own officers, insisted on his soldierly +“I make bold to ask your excellency to move a little for this +I’m alive, that is not my fault, so I must live out my life as best I +“I’m certain of it; you’ll see.” +immediately. +immediately starting to run along the hall and up the warped steps of +immediately told him that this man could be useful, and without any +immensity of the power they constituted. +“I’m not a goose, but they are who cry about trifles,” said +“I’m not such a fool.... Just you try it on.... Allez-vous +“‘I most ardently desire,’ writes the King of Prussia to +impatient and sets to work himself and finds letters from the Emperor +impatient the nearer they got to Moscow. +impending action. From privates to general they were not expecting a +impending battle, under a heading which he also read out: +imperturbable calm she did not begin to speak in front of the valet. +impetus, and Princess Mary long remembered the dying creak of that +implied that, for certain considerations he could not know of, this was +importance, he returned again, called back the cook and the club +important and unimportant, all of whom he knew, as if they were all +Impossible!” And suddenly he was seized by a panic of fear for himself +impossible for him to return to his former conception of her, that he +impossible... Oh, how pleasant it was at home!... The knave, double or +impressionable, smiling young faces (smiling probably at their own +impression of those voices and faces and a sense of loneliness merged +impression. Whether Dolgorúkov and Weyrother, or Kutúzov, Langeron, +“I must also inform you,” said the Rhetor, “that our Order +In 1806 the old prince was made one of the eight commanders in chief +in a bad temper, and in the morning Tíkhon had already advised the +in a cheerful voice: +In a corner of the hut stood a standard captured from the French, and +In a corner of the room something red and tiny gave a grunt and squealed +In a day or two we shall all have to take part in a greater and more +in all sincerity—not as a future Mason but as an honest man: have you +in, and sinking heavily into an armchair. +in any case. He has forwarded me a letter from Borís. Thank God, Borís +in a shovel—the guests who had been scattered about in different rooms +inattentive, but you had talent—oh yes, you had talent!” +in chief’s office were gathered Kutúzov himself, Weyrother, and the +inclination—practical business. +income which was said to amount to five hundred thousand rubles a year, +incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was +in comparison with eternity?” +incomprehensible—the death of one she loved. +In consequence of this discovery his whole manner of life, all +inconvenient, unseemly, and impossible to do so. +in conversation—Count Rostopchín, Prince Yúri Dolgorúkov, Valúev, +in couples and he himself rode along the line trying to master the +increased tenfold, and their life, which seemed to have been passed in +increasing, seemed like someone’s breathing. He listened intently to +incredible, unheard-of, and impossible event of a Russian defeat, + * “Indeed, Sire, we shall do everything it is possible to +“Indeed? Yes, yes!” said Borís, with a smile. “And we too have +indicated that if he was not dancing it was because he would not and not +indicating a captive French dragoon who was being brought in on foot by +indicating her to the gentlemen, said: “Voilà Marie!” Princess Mary +indications, he saw clearly that the allies believed him to be far away +indifferent air, and glanced into the little drawing room. Pierre and +indifferently quiescent till the moment when motion is transmitted +indignantly. “I come to ask you what to do, and you call it +indiscretion, one might ask about our plans. +in discussion with the sole object of offending one another. But the +indisposition was the strong impression made on his sensitive mind by +individual commanders and inquiring into details of the action and our +I need.” But when he came across a man of position his instinct +“I never go back on my word,” he said. “Besides, Sónya is so +“I never invited them. They came to disturb my life—and there is not +inevitable pain showed itself. +infantry. +infantry and cavalry and took up its appointed position. Not only the +infantry, and having reached the village of Gruntersdorf they halted. It +infantry, cavalry, and artillery. How was it that two guns were +infantry in different uniforms; now was heard the rhythmic beat of +infantry officer who just before the battle had rushed out of +infants in arms met him to thank him for releasing them from hard +influence of a variety of exciting sensations. Only Pierre and +influence of the dark, graceful girl who loved another. +informing the prince that as soon as the action began he had withdrawn +“Inform the prince that labor has begun,” said Mary Bogdánovna, +in four different provinces. He had arranged this for himself so as to +in French. +in front of him and that the enemy must be at least six miles away. +in front of him was misty darkness. Rostóv could see nothing, peer as +in front of them, and that the columns moving near Pratzen constituted +In general at Bald Hills the little princess lived in constant fear, and +in good spirits, he mounted his horse and rode out into the field +in Great Russia, which formed the larger part of his property, and left +in hand. +in her eyes, which, for an instant, glanced at Pierre, Prince Vasíli +in his fine gray eyes, and on his delicate lips the same capacity for +in his hand, was sitting there with a smile of deep emotion on his face, +in his horse before the Emperor. +in his large elongated hand on blue paper as follows: +in his mind an unsettled question he always tried to stifle, one about +in it by spring. +In Kiev Pierre found some people he knew, and strangers hastened to make +in Kishenëv with only a Moldavian peasant woman to help instead of a +in life, one she had not yet experienced, irreparable and +in love. The marshals stood behind him not venturing to distract his +in love with the Tsar,” he said. +in Mary Bogdánovna’s trembling white hands. +in me. I have been told that her brother Anatole was in love with her +in military matters. +in my opinion was nothing of the kind. We civilians, as you know, have +innocent youth. +in November, 1805, announcing that he and his son would be paying him +In November, 1805, Prince Vasíli had to go on a tour of inspection +inn, where two roads parted. Both of them led downhill and troops were +in on bad company. Rostóv flushed up on noticing this, but he did not +in our army. His own strategic plan, which obviously could not now +in our house, aren’t they?” +in our lack of understanding we see only our weakness and His +“In our temples we recognize no other distinctions,” read the Grand +In Petersburg, as in Moscow, Pierre found the same atmosphere of +in pure, correct French many interesting details about the armies and +inquiring look. He was about to stoop over her hand and kiss it, but +inquiring what she was to do with these people. On leaving them, Anna +in Rostóv’s soul! And this something was apart from everything else +insane—unprofitable to himself, to the count, and to the serfs—made +“In short, hoping to settle matters by taking up a warlike attitude, +insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and +in silence, and then the same joke was repeated. +insolent, hard, and mocking face as he had seen it at the banquet, and +in some respects a brilliant match for the dowerless, orphan girl. From +inspired by the Emperors’ presence were eager for action. The +in spite of himself (although he knew how far it was safe to trust +In spite of Prince Andrew’s disagreeable, ironical tone, in spite of +in spite of this, both the face and words of his new acquaintance were +Instantly his regret at not having been in action and his dejected mood +instead of firing it, flung it at the Frenchman and ran with all his +instead of that he only excited himself more and more. +instructing in reading, writing, and religion. On all his estates Pierre +instructions his father had sent and taking the correspondence and his +instructions to Major Ekonómov, he could not help taking notice of the +insufficient, and he kept expecting something more, more and yet more. +intended for you too. Give them to the woman whom you shall honor most +intended to take up our position and begin the action, but were on this +intended to visit all his estates and see for himself how far his orders +intention of killing your man as quickly and surely as possible, and +intention of proposing, and today or tomorrow he would probably ask +intention to part from her forever. +interesting and entertaining. After the field marshal’s departure +interpreted. The life of old Prince Bolkónski, Prince Andrew, and +intervene. Prince Andrew looked at Túshin from under his brows and his +interview? Why negotiate, and above all why retreat, when to retreat is +“In that case...” began Willarski, but Pierre interrupted him. +“In that case he is inviting his doom by awaiting our attack,” said +“In that case we can go,” said Willarski. “My carriage is at your +in that happy mood in which everything seems possible and everything +in the army, besides the subordination and discipline prescribed in the +in the assurance that the rumors about the Emperor being wounded were +In the autumn of 1806 everybody had again begun talking of the war with +In the autumn the Rostóvs returned to Moscow. Early in the winter +In the beginning of the winter of 1805-6 Pierre received one of Anna +in the common motion the result and aim of which are beyond its ken. +In the darkness, it seemed as though a gloomy unseen river was flowing +In the deathlike stillness only the tramp of horses was heard. This +in the drawing room, talking to the little princess and Mademoiselle +In the Emperor’s suite all exchanged rapid looks that expressed +In the Emperors’ suite were the picked young orderly officers of the +In the evening, after supper, when all were about to retire, Anatole +In the evening Andrew and Pierre got into the open carriage and drove to +in the evening,” reported Rostóv, stooping forward with his hand at +In the fresh morning air were now heard, not two or three musket shots +in the hair, the hair combed up, and the blue scarf arranged lower on +in the house on the Povarskáya rose before him with such vividness, +In their childlike glee, aroused by the fire and their luck in +in their own play. +in their power. +In the letter from his parents was enclosed a letter of recommendation +in the mean jocular way common to anonymous letters said that he saw +In the meantime, not only was it known in the maidservants’ rooms that +In the middle of his story, just as he was saying: “You cannot imagine +in the middle of the line that had seemed so terrible—and now he +in the mist. +In the morning all that was left of the night mist on the heights was +In the night he called his valet and told him to pack up to go to +in the other the letter, and pressing them alternately to her lips. +In the rearguard, Dokhtúrov and others rallying some battalions kept up +In the room next their bedroom there was a confusion of sabers, +“In the seventh place, try, by the frequent thought of death,” the +In the spring of 1807 he decided to return to Petersburg. On the way he +in the streets of Petersburg in an old uniform. He made friends with +In the third circle, Narýshkin was speaking of the meeting of the +In the village of Hosjeradek there were Russian troops retiring from +in the world and above everything in the world. “What were losses, and +intimately. Prince Andrew spoke with some animation and interest only of +intimately regretted that he had died so young, leaving a pregnant wife +into action as arranged, and after going behind other columns for +into her heart an impulse that was against His will. My wife—as she +into his room one evening in the official and ceremonious manner in +in to inform the commander in chief of this and, availing himself +“In token of obedience, I ask you to undress.” +intonation, look, and expression, pricked up her ears from the beginning +into sobs. +into the corridor and met—coming out of the door of the Emperor’s +Into the insignificant, trifling, and artificial interests uniting that +in to the utmost, their red necks squeezed into their stiff collars, and +into the valley. He greeted the men of the foremost regiment and gave +into the water. He tried to right himself but fell in up to his waist. +into the water, or when he challenged a man to a duel without any +intoxication. He felt as though he were the center of some important and +invent him,” said the wit Shinshín, parodying the words of Voltaire. +involuntarily, came up and sat down beside him. +involuntarily noticed that one of them was bleeding, and galloped on. +in war on our own frontiers, with and for the King of Prussia. We have +in Zherkóv, looking uneasily around. He had not seen the hussars all +Iogel’s were the most enjoyable balls in Moscow. So said the mothers +I only wanted to know your opinion,” and Anna Pávlovna let Pierre go. +“I ought to tell you that I do not believe... do not believe in +“I peg of you yourself not to mix in vot is not your business!” +“I promised to pay tomorrow,” said Nicholas. +“I quite understand,” answered Princess Mary, with a sad smile. +I really take it? How fortunate!” he thought. +irreparable. There was no insult on either side. Allow me to +irresistible human need for sleep. He really was asleep. Weyrother, with +irresistibly attractive to Pierre. +irresolution communicated itself to the men. +“I said from the first,” declared Anna Pávlovna referring to +is a very good thing, but not for you—I don’t suppose you ever had +“I saw him myself,” replied the man with a self-confident smile of +“I saw the Pávlograd hussars attack there, your excellency,” chimed +“I say, Berg, my dear fellow,” said Rostóv, “when you get a +“I say, Father, joking apart, is she very hideous?” Anatole asked, +“I say, Rostóv,” said Dólokhov clearly, smiling and looking +“I say, shall we soon be clear? They say the cavalry are blocking the +“I say, we’ve been in the front line! Our regiment attacked!” said +is called weak character, do not seek a confidant in their troubles. He +is Denísov!” +“Is everything quite all right?” +is for myself.” +is good to have a friend like the prince,” she said, smiling at Prince +I shall conclude will be worthy of my people, of you, and of myself. +I shall expect you, Drubetskóy. Au revoir!” exclaimed Prince Andrew, +“Is he really to be my husband, this stranger who is so kind—yes, +“I should never dare to say that I know the truth,” said the Mason, +“I should not be doing my duty, Count,” he said in timid tones, +is interrupted. He listened to what Langeron said, as if remarking, +“Is it for visitors you’ve got yourself up like that, eh?” said +is much better than ours.” +is not abashed now, so she cannot be a bad woman!” He had often begun +is nothing but a trick! He has retreated and ordered the rearguard to +is not my fault that I want it and want nothing but that and live only +is now on the staff.” +isn’t it logical? +“Isn’t she exquisite?” she said to Pierre, pointing to the stately +“Is Papa at home?” he asked. +is so fond of?” He remembered his mother’s love for him, and his +is, stormed and stormed and stormed! It was not a matter of life but +is such men as he who decide the fate of nations,” added Bolkónski +“Is that so? And what did he say?” inquired Bolkónski. +is that the Emperor is here. How he looked at me and wished to say +is the baby born?” +is the one held by the majority of people, and is the invariable fruit +is the only thing left me—not singing!” his thoughts ran on. “Go +“Is this good or bad?” Pierre asked himself. “It is good for me, +“Is this your saber?” asked Pétya. “Or is it yours?” he said, +“Is this your saber?” he shouted. +is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. There is nothing, +it. +it. +it.” +it and wished to hear it again. In her voice there was a virginal +it appears that we are within sight of the enemy and must give battle. +it. At that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over +“It can’t be helped! It happens to everyone!” said the son, with +“It can’t be!” said Rostóv. “It must have been someone else.” +it dashed, some forward and some back, drowning one another. +I tell her how I’ve seen the Emperor?) Natásha... take my +I tell you he is in our hands, that’s certain! But what was most +it. Fr... fr... fr! And don’t I see that that idiot had eyes only for +“I think I may congratulate you,” whispered Anna Pávlovna to the +“I think the battle will be lost, and so I told Count Tolstóy and +I think there were not many such gallant sons of the fatherland out +it. If you refuse him on my account, I must tell you the whole truth. I +“It is all, all her fault,” he said to himself; “but what of that? +“It is all very well for Rostóv, whose father sends him ten thousand +“It is done!” she said to the count, pointing triumphantly to the +“It is of great importance to me,” she said, turning with a smile +it is past midnight—cannot now be altered,” said he. “You have +“It is some letter of recommendation... what the devil do I want it +“It is the sword of Frederick the Great which I...” she began, but +“It is too late now, it’s done; besides I love her,” thought +“It may be he or it may be nothing,” muttered the hussar. “It’s +it might really have been so? Could one possibly make out amid all that +“It must be one of ours, a prisoner. Yes. Can it be that they will +it, next day, November 15, after dinner he again went to Olmütz and, +“I told you it was all lumps and holes!” the little princess +it on his coat and supported himself with it. His frowning face was +it on something, and told him to hold a pair of compasses to his left +it on the field at Schön Grabern. Young Rostóv’s ecstatic voice +it or not, and how they would cross it, agitated them all. +it really happened, it would have been necessary to make an effort of +it right to refuse a duty to which he had been appointed by the Emperor +I trouble myself about you, and you also know quite well that what I +“It’s a lackey’s job!” +“It’s all the same now. If the Emperor is wounded, am I to try to +“It’s all the same to me,” he said. “I only want to see whether +“It’s all up! I’m lost!” thought he. “Now a bullet through my +“It’s a long time since we met,” he said. “Thanks for coming. +“It’s Andrew!” thought Princess Mary. “No it can’t be, that +its broad temples and close-cropped hair, and looked at Bezúkhov. The +it’s definite and one is rid of the old tormenting doubt.” Pierre +It seemed as if from some words Borís had spoken that evening about the +it seemed as if nothing in that voice could be altered without spoiling +It seemed so natural to Pierre that everyone should like him, and it +It seemed to her that not only did everybody know that her fate would be +it seemed to him that he was being fired at. “What? What? What?... Cut +it seemed to Pierre, sunk in profound and calm meditation. His servant +it seemed to Pierre that he grew embarrassed. Pierre himself grew still +“It seems that there will be no need to bring Mary out, suitors are +itself, a petty German town, Rostóv saw the Emperor again. In the +itself, rejoicing at the Emperors’ approach, had naturally burst into +itself to him. He was already enjoying that happiness when that +it, she was herself in such high spirits at that moment, so far from +“It’s impossible,” replied another. +“It’s not that I don’t remember—I know what he is like, but not +“It’s plain that they have not all gone yet, Prince,” said +“It’s the enemy?... No!... Yes, see it is!... for certain.... But +its thunder joining the roar of the whole line along which he had +It’s true he has been reinstated, but how could they fail to do that? +its upper lip covered with tiny black hair. +its use, he does not believe in the master who made it. To know Him is +its usual semblance of a smile. +“It’s wonderful what a lot of our troops have gathered, lads! Last +it to be alleged that he had been the first to leave the range of fire, +it to its destination and make use of it. +it turns out that ‘the enemy of the human race’ pays no heed to +it turns out that we have landed ourselves in war, and what is more, +It was all that they could do to get the guns up the rise aided by the +It was evident that this strange, strong man was under the irresistible +it was impossible to get rid of them. +It was late in the evening when they entered the palace at Olmütz +it was long before their conversation could settle on anything. They +It was long since Rostóv had felt such enjoyment from music as he +It was long since the Rostóvs had news of Nicholas. Not till midwinter +“It was my fault, mon père,” interceded the little princess, with a +It was Napoleon accompanied by two aides-de-camp. Bonaparte riding +It was nine o’clock in the morning. The fog lay unbroken like a sea +It was no longer, as before, a dark, unseen river flowing through the +it was not so, that I had no right to do it. And so it turns out.” +It was not the dress, but the face and whole figure of Princess Mary +It was one of those March nights when winter seems to wish to resume its +It was plain that this cadet had already repeatedly asked for a lift and +It was Prince Andrew. The first thing he saw on riding up to the space +It was rumored that Savary had been sent to propose to Alexander +it was that the pain distracted him and prevented his seeing what he had +it was, the disorder was readily and naturally attributed to the stupid +“It was the officer, your honor, stained it,” answered the +It was the second night that neither of them had slept, watching the boy +it were not his. He examined his hand carefully, vainly trying to find +it were not my duty I would not talk to you for a moment”), was +it with you?...” +it worth thinking or speaking of it at such a moment? At a time of such +It would be different if you grudged losing a laborer—that’s how I +“It would be good,” thought Prince Andrew, glancing at the icon his +it would have been difficult for a face to express greater respect and +“It would have been hard to drive up, your honor,” he added. “I +It would not ache—it would be well—if only they did not pull it, but +it you talked about?” and Prince Andrew crooked a third finger. “Ah, +Ivánovich Kutúzov: +“I’ve come to sit with you a bit, Másha,” said the nurse, “and +I’ve nothing against it,” the prince said to himself, “but he must +“I want nothing, and I won’t be anyone’s adjutant.” +“I was coming to tell you so.” +I was right. Without boasting, you know, I may say that I know the Army +“I was there,” said Rostóv angrily, as if intending to insult the +I was to blame for not understanding her, for not understanding that +“I was very much surprised when I heard of it,” said Prince Andrew. +“I? What have I...?” stammered Pierre. +“I will do so,” said Prince Andrew, moving away from the map. +“I will give the order.” +“I will, I will, only tell me! You won’t? Then I will go and tell at +“I will tell you frankly,” said Prince Vasíli in the tone of +“I won’t say he is out of sorts, but I fancy he would like to be +“I won’t tell anyone!” and she ran off at once to Sónya. +jaw trembling and was hardly able to mutter: “I don’t know... your +jest. +Jests fell flat, news was not interesting, and the animation was +“Je vous aime!” * he said, remembering what has to be said at such +joy and happiness. On receiving the order he gave his horse the rein +joy at the approach of the Emperors. One voice was heard shouting: +joyful and mysterious taking place within her. +joyful it seemed, that her son, the scarcely perceptible motion of whose +joyfully that the men themselves were awed by their multitude and the +joyfully up to Pierre. His face was so unusually triumphant that Pierre +joys and sorrows of this world—overflowed the great grief within her. +jump, Túshin not taking his pipe from his mouth ran from gun to gun, +Just as he went in he saw that the nurse was hiding something from him +“Just as I may suppose you to be deluded,” said Pierre, with a faint +Just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable +Just as in the mechanism of a clock, so in the mechanism of the military +just at moments when such thoughts occurred to him, he would ask in a +Just before dinner, Count Ilyá Rostóv presented his son to Bagratión, +just left.... It is true that it was hot there,” he added, modestly. +just returned from Vienna, two diplomatists, the old aunt, a young man +just such a story—they would either not have believed him or, still +Just then at a distance behind Kutúzov was heard the sound of regiments +Kámenski, visited the English Club, and was on intimate terms with a +keen interest in the whole affair. You know she is very gracious to +keen-sighted a companion. “You know, you see right through people. +kept coming into her eyes. Anna Mikháylovna, with the letter, came on +kerchief, and the loose skin that hung under her chin. +Kiev province, where he had the greatest number of serfs, taking with +killed anyone, or insulted or wished harm to anyone? Why such a terrible +killed by a cannon ball—struck in the breast before our regiment.” +killed.” Rook tried to rise on his forelegs but fell back, pinning his +Killed them, yes!” said he, frowning angrily and turning away from +killed, you are a fool and are lost for certain. But go with the firm +kill me.” But at the same time, his left arm felt as heavy as if +“Kill the Germans!” shouted one. +kindle fires and make a noise to deceive us.” +Kindle in all hearts the flame of virtue. Share thy happiness with thy +kindness,” or, “With your excellent heart,” “You are yourself so +kind sprang from a second door and a third; more hugging, more kissing, +kind, that is the chief thing,” thought Princess Mary; and fear, which +King of Prussia and others: ‘So much the worse for you. Tu l’as +King of Prussia what he is to do if he is summoned to surrender.... All +kissed. Her father in jest tried to rouse her jealousy, and she replied +kissed her forehead. +kissed him at the same time. Only his mother was not there, he noticed +kissed him three times. +kissed Mademoiselle Bourienne’s hand. (This was not etiquette, but +kissed Princess Mary’s hand. She did not know how she found the +kisses. Her looks asked him to forgive her for having dared, by +kissing her hand, he left the room with quick resolute strides, without +kiss me,” and he offered his cheek. +knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the Austrian authorities had provided +knew that. What will be the result? That I shall be the laughingstock of +knew that when it appeared on her face, she became mute and was not to +knew till after eight o’clock. +knew what had happened to him as he knew it himself. +knight. “I’m even weady to dance the pas de châle.” +knitting a striped scarf for him. +knitting, went to the window and leaning out tried to catch the open +knocking over two horses and another tearing off a munition-wagon +knoll; if they had retreated they would have withdrawn from that too.... +know!” +know all about it and understand it all,” he said. “You behaved as +know, and know for certain, that the enjoyment of doing this good is the +know, but he felt sure it would do so. The locality and the position of +know God and hate your life. There is nothing strange in that, my dear +knowing how. First he spun her round, holding her now with his left, now +Knowing that Denísov had a reputation even in Poland for the masterly +know it is all over, and forever.” +know my principles—everything aboveboard! I will ask her tomorrow in +know myself again.” +known). Drawing nearer, he recognized in the Rhetor a man he knew, + Knows by experience, now, Bagratión, +Kórchevo—a certain Khandrikóv—is up to; till now the additional +Kronq,—chargé d’affaires from Copenhagen—a profound intellect,” +Kurágins’. All maintained a solemn silence, listening to the words +Kutúzov. +Kutúzov accompanied by his adjutants rode at a walking pace behind the +Kutúzov here woke up, coughed heavily, and looked round at the +Kutúzov laughed bitterly. +Kutúzov looked sternly at his adjutant and, after a pause, replied: +Kutúzov no one spoke of, except some who abused him in whispers, +Kutúzov’s, collected in groups and began to talk about the awards, +Kutúzov’s headquarters and the staffs of the commanders of columns. +Kutúzov’s suite like a flock of little birds. +Kutúzov, there is not a single Russian in command of a column! The +Kutúzov turned round without answering and his eye happened to fall +Kutúzov was occupying a nobleman’s castle of modest dimensions near +Kutúzov, where he inquired for Bolkónski, all the adjutants and even +Kutúzov with his staff and all of us count for nothing. Everything is +Kutúzov, with his suite diminished by more than half, rode toward a +Kutúzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over +Kutúzov writes...” and he screamed as piercingly as if he wished to +Kuzmích, asking what the point of the story was as he had not heard it +“Kuzmích... From all sides... and then tears,” someone repeated +labor but should die of it in a week, so he could not stand my physical +labor is as essential to him, as much a condition of his existence, as +labor was thus increased, though lessened on paper. He did not know +lad,” he said, addressing his favorite soldier. “And where is the +ladies and gentlemen than Rostóv had ever expected to see him. +ladies and, leaning on his saber and beating time with his foot, told +ladies—” He turned with the same request to Denísov who was also a +lad’s a fine fellow, a fine fellow! Well, come with me now.” He took +“Lads! here’s to our Sovereign, the Emperor, and victory over +“Lads!” shouted Milorádovich in a loud, self-confident, and cheery +lain in ambush in a ditch, now attacked the French unexpectedly. +lamp, she stood before it with folded hands for a few moments. A painful +lances and the unfolded standards fluttered against their staffs. It +Langeron’s objections were valid but it was obvious that their chief +Langeron, trying as virulently as possible to sting Weyrother’s vanity +Langeron, with a subtly ironical smile, again glancing round for support +Lannes and was thrown into confusion. Bagratión had sent Zherkóv +large and handsome eyes. He regarded his whole life as a continual round +large dark ballroom. All was the same: there were the same old card +large estate, Boguchárovo, about twenty-five miles from Bald Hills. +large leather sofa from Prince Andrew’s study into the bedroom. On +large, newly furnished Petersburg house, the happy possessor, as people +largest landowner of the province. Temptations to Pierre’s greatest +Larrey, was much more likely to end in death than in convalescence. +last campaign, Prince Peter Ivánovich Bagratión!” and again his blue +last few days. The antagonists stood forty paces apart at the farther +last interview with the gentleman-ranker—“that Private Dólokhov, +last Mademoiselle Bourienne gave a scream and ran away. Anatole bowed to +last only his white plumes were visible to Rostóv from amid the suites +last remaining strength, took hold of his left hand with his right, and +last time. And suddenly, in the most casual tone, which made him feel +“Late! It’s nearly ten o’clock,” answered Natásha’s voice. +later on. Oh, how glad I am to have you!” +latest cut, such as no one else yet had in Moscow, and boots of the +latest fashion, with extremely pointed toes and small silver spurs, +Late that night, when all had separated, Denísov with his short hand +lathe and, as usual, did not look round at her. +latterly spent whole days at home, that is, in Prince Vasíli’s house +laughed. +laughed at every word he said or that she said herself, not because what +laughed loudest. +laughing. +laughing. “Dear, dear!...” +laughing for some reason and shaking himself free. +laughing, “‘Sergéy Kuzmích... From all sides... From all sides... +lay across the bed with his head lower than the pillow, and was smacking +lazily and advanced and again halted, receiving no timely orders from +leading the Tsar’s beautiful relay horses covered with embroidered +leaned his arms on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes. Pierre +leaning with his arms on the back of the sofa, sat in his former +leaping the furrows, he fled across the field with the impetuosity he +learned that Dólokhov the brawler, Dólokhov the bully, lived in Moscow +learn from Suvórov even so simple a thing as the art of crowing like a +least have some for my sake! She must be shown that the blockhead thinks +“Leave it,” said Dólokhov, though he did not seem to be even +“Leave me alone, please leave me alone! It is all quite the same to +leave of her and of Lise, his look tender yet proud. She saw him tender +leave of Rostóv in the club porch. +leave you cold a thousand times and the thousand and first time thrill +led along a certain carpet. After that they took his right hand, placed +Left alone, Pierre went on smiling in the same way. Once or twice +left breast, and stooping down pulled up the left leg of his trousers +left foot began convulsively tapping the horse’s side with the spur, +legs and turned-out toes, climbed the hill with difficulty.) Prince +Lëlya’s name day. I will invite two or three people, and if he does +“Le Roi de Prusse?” Hippolyte said interrogatively, again laughing, +less a prey to evil and death?—death which ends all and must come +less, ate less, slept less, and became weaker every day. Princess Mary +less sincerely than the twenty-year-old Rostóv. +let him do what he vill, but I cannot sacrifice my hussars... Bugler, +letter. +letter. +letter. +letter from home and meet one of your own people whom you want to talk +letter, he now was. +letters sent through the embassy and all the searches made, his body had +letters to Nicholas from all the household were written and copied out, +letters to Princess Mary’s apartments, but did not find him there. He +letting the retreating companies pass by them, when a soldier came up +Lichtenstein, le Prince, de Hohenlohe, and finally Prishprish, and so on +life, and that of the seven virtues he lacked two—morality and the +“Life as it is leaves one no peace. I should be thankful to do +life from yours. I don’t wish to marry,” she answered positively, +life: remorse and illness. The only good is the absence of those evils. +life together were stripped, so that the screw could not get in or out, +life, which seemed to him so beautiful now that he had today learned to +lifted in childlike happiness. +lift his stick again but hurried into the house. +lights and shouts in the enemy’s camp. Rostóv rode up to Bagratión, +like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. Whether he was +like all those Polish names.” +liked to help young men, was flattered by being asked for his assistance +liked to repeat to herself. It was the story of a girl who had been +like his own, at the firing, and went back at a footpace. “Well, some +likely the doctor.” +like method of enlightenment. Our Order imitates the ancient societies +like strangers.” +Like the others, Anna Pávlovna Schérer showed Pierre the change of +Like wind over leaves ran an excited whisper: “They’re coming! +line; and the Austrian troops. But they all stood in the same lines, +line, for from where they had been before it had been evident that it +line of the advancing Russian columns. Evidently the person they were +lines of artillery with green caissons. +line (the Guards) was already in action. +line to reconnoiter personally, and twice to the Emperors, Russian and +link which other people recognized had grown up between himself and +lips and met them with her own. Her face struck Pierre, by its altered, +Lise. I will follow.” +listened to his regular breathing. The dark shadow was Princess Mary, +listened to the Rhetor in silence, feeling from all he said that his +listening to an old Russian general with decorations, who stood very +listening to the gypsies and other singers. +Little as Nicholas had occupied himself with Sónya of late, something +little bent, looked with beaming face at the princess without +little companion! I hope she will bring her along with her when we’re +little creature, but dared not do so. He stood over him, gazing at his +little effort.” +little gold icon Princess Mary had hung round her brother’s neck, but +little icon with its thin gold chain suddenly appeared upon his chest +little, I mean a good deal, a great deal—forty three thousand.” +little matters which could not interest anyone but themselves. Natásha +little Napoleon had suddenly appeared with his unsympathizing look of +little Natásha as grown up. +little princess walked twice round her, now adjusting a fold of the +Little Túshin, moving feebly and awkwardly, kept telling his orderly to +lit wisps of straw and ran after him, shouting, “Vive l’Empereur!” +lived for glory.—And after all what is glory? The same love of others, +lived for others, and not almost, but quite, ruined my life. And I have +living with his mother, who, if she saw him dying, would not survive it. +living without having solved the problems that so absorbed him. He had +living with the Rostóvs. +locality was known and shown in every detail on the maps, and Bonaparte, +locks of gray hair. +Lodge—were so strong that he could not resist them. Again whole days, +Lodge. Willarski coughed, he was answered by the Masonic knock with +lofty, beautiful feeling, such a...” +lofty sky before? And how happy I am to have found it at last! Yes! All +loneliness of his daughter amid the general conversation. “Got herself +long. +long and warmly to the Emperor and how the Emperor, evidently weeping, +longed. Sónya now was sixteen and she was very pretty, especially at +longed to kiss his father’s hands and kneel to beg his forgiveness, +longed to snatch up, to squeeze, to hold to his heart, this helpless +longest sentences, he stopped the rotary motion of the snuffbox, raised +long. Say ‘perhaps.’” +“Look at them scurrying! It’s burning! Just see the smoke! Fine! +looked as if by that slight motion the army itself was expressing its +looked at that aged, stern, motionless, almost lifeless face and moved +looked eagerly toward his eyes, waiting for the look for which she +looking about him uneasily, and an awkward pause followed. +looking and held out his hand to her. She pressed it. +looking at her and waiting. Nicholas saw that Denísov was refusing +looking at Natásha. +looking at Rostóv, “you’ll win it back all the sooner. I lose to +looking at the midwife with wide-open eyes of alarm. +looking at them, turned to an adjutant to ask him for a field glass. +looking back saw that their foremost ranks were mixed up with some +looking inquiringly at him and watching to see how he would behave +looking not at Pierre but straight before him, and turning the leaves +looking pretty and conscious of it, were standing by the clavichord, +looking with a scared face at his comrade for help. The door, having let +looking with tender affection and pity at Mademoiselle Bourienne’s +“Look, look!” said this adjutant, looking not at the troops in the +look. Nicholas went up to her and kissed her hand. This was the first +look or bad opinion from him,” Rostóv decided; and sorrowfully and +looks and manner gave that impression. The princess felt this, and as if +looks) and she had put on a maroon dress with a pale-blue scarf, the +“Look then at thy inner self with the eyes of the spirit, and ask +look which was fixed on him, but him she could not see, she only saw +losses. The general whose regiment had been inspected at Braunau was +lost. Dólokhov “killed,” that is, beat, ten cards of Rostóv’s +lost more than he could pay. +lot? And who would marry Marie for love? Plain and awkward! They’ll +“Louis XVI was executed because they said he was dishonorable and a +love again, though for no one have I such a feeling of friendship, +love and befriend him.” +loved more than himself. He kept telling himself that he would consider +love for Natásha was unpleasant to him and he had not once been to see +love her. +love her, for that would be impossible. +love him all the more, but Nicholas now considered himself unworthy of +lovely eyes there was a look of fearful joy and hope that was also new +love of death. He consoled himself with the thought that he fulfilled +lovers!” he added. +love, such rapture, and such self-sacrifice, what do any of our quarrels +love, though less ecstatically, with their Tsar and the glory of the +love you.” +love you, and I think I love you more than anyone else....” +loving her; in deceiving yourself and her.” And he vividly recalled +lucky man and, with his plain face, to be looked on as a sort of Paris +luminous eyes fixed on her nurse’s wrinkled face (every line of which +luminous eyes shone more brightly than usual from the tears of joy that +machine, an impulse once given leads to the final result; and just as +Madame de Souza. He began reading about the sufferings and virtuous +made and highly valued. The old count came up to them and pressed +made a tour of the regiments and was annoyed at the irregularity of +“Made, made me an offer, Mamma! Mamma!” she exclaimed. +Mademoiselle Bourienne. +Mademoiselle Bourienne, also roused to great excitement by Anatole’s +Mademoiselle Bourienne and the little princess had to own to themselves +Mademoiselle Bourienne, how I shall arrange it,” she added, smiling +Mademoiselle Bourienne in her arms and gently stroking her hair. The +Mademoiselle Bourienne, “Mary’s is a face which such a coiffure does +Mademoiselle Bourienne walked up and down the conservatory for a long +Mademoiselle Bourienne was also looking at Princess Mary, and in her +made. Prince Andrew several times prompted Pierre’s story of what he +made use of it.... “What have I done?” thought he. And he turned +“Made what?” +“Ma foi!” said he, “tomorrow we shall see all that on the +“Ma foi, sire, nous ferons ce qui sera dans notre possibilité, +magnanimous. She felt convinced of that. Thousands of dreams of a future +maid. +maid’s voice at the door. +mainly because Denísov so delighted in her singing. She no longer sang +“Mais, mon cher, I did this for my own sake, to satisfy my conscience, +Majesty.” +Majesty,” said an adjutant who had come from the batteries that were +make a career and must not miss opportunities, but must avail myself of +make as successful a career of it as possible.” +make him go on. +malevolent and caustic expression softened, as if admitting that what +mallets and swords. As he was being led up to some object he noticed a +mallets, the doors opened before them. A bass voice (Pierre was still +malodorous mouth. Tears actually moistened his cheeks. +mamma.” +“Mamma, are you cross? Don’t be cross, dear! Is it my fault?” +“Mamma!... Mamma!... He has made me...” +man.” Again he pressed the hand of the latter with an expression of +man and help him to worldly success. Under cover of obtaining help +man, and that in the duel with Bezúkhov, Pierre was right and Dólokhov +man, be for her? In her thoughts of marriage Princess Mary dreamed of +man be fully imbued with the thought that we must defeat these hirelings +man beside you?” +man; by his acquaintances as a handsome lieutenant of hussars, a good +man, had not the five rubles that would make him happy. +man is as surly as a dog.” +manly-looking, but what amazed and estranged Pierre till he got used +manner: they were all evidently firmly convinced of Pierre’s noble +man, our dear Vyazmítinov....” +manure on well-kept plowland, lay from ten to fifteen dead and wounded +man, with gray bushy eyebrows overhanging bright eyes of an indefinite +man with the white forehead, black eyebrows, and red lips. +many of them), and at last he saw how a whole detachment of French +many young men to his parents’ house. Véra was a handsome girl +marched gaily, as they always do when going into action, especially to +marching along both. +mare he rode, his hand in a white glove gathered up the reins, and he +“Marie” produced on the visitors. And she saw Mademoiselle +marked the change? I sat all the time in this same place at this table, +market place, where there had been some rather heavy firing before the +Markóv immediately dropped his own beside it and picked it up without +“Marriages are made in heaven,” replied the elderly lady. +marriage—when the marriageable daughters and their mothers had nothing +married,” answered the countess sharply and sarcastically. +married, la petite est gentille.” * +marry anyone, but will be a dancer. Only don’t tell anyone.” +marshal of the court, Count Tolstóy. +martyr’s death for his sake. Then Robespierre was beheaded for being +Mary. +Mary. +“Mary Bogdánovna, I think it’s beginning!” said Princess Mary +Mary, but did not at once take his arm from the waist of Mademoiselle +Mary did not frighten them (she never inspired fear in anyone), but they +Mary. How good it would be to know where to seek for help in this life, +Mary, I am going to love him very much,” said Lise, looking with +Mary, really this dress does not suit you. I prefer you in your little +Mary! Say...” And the little princess began to cry capriciously like +“Mary,” she said, moving away from the embroidery frame and lying +Mary spent most of the day in the nursery, taking a mother’s place to +Mary’s room. +Mason. +Masonic statutes, “be kindly and courteous,” recurred to him. He +masses. +Master, “but those between virtue and vice. Beware of making any +master’s thoughts. He guessed that the question referred to Prince +master, would touch and delude him. +match in Russia, had sunk greatly in the esteem of society after his +mathematics from her father, and when the old prince was at home went +matter of indifference whether he remained there for a few hours or for +matters very satisfactorily. Borís, during the campaign, had made the +matters yourself!’ Yes... That was the answer I got!” +“Matvévna’s” carriage. At the foot of the hill, a pale hussar +“Matvévna,” the gun from which they had removed the dead officer. +may not have seen, but I have seen, how good men brought up in those +may perhaps have a stronger effect on the sincere seeker after wisdom +“May the devil take them—the traitors!” +mazuwka is this? But she does dance splendidly.” +me.” +meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the best joys of his life; +meaning for him, that he paid no attention to it. The aunt was just +means. Then you say, ‘lighten his toil.’ But as I see it, physical +me,” answered a voice struggling with tears. +meant for him not only the loss of sixteen hundred rubles, but the +meant to double the three thousand just put down to his score, when +Meanwhile, Pétya, having found and seized the sabers in the outer room, +measures—the removal of injunctions, petitions, permits, and so +meeting arrives. Not daring to look round and without looking round, he +meeting, they had kissed each other, but today they felt it could not +me. ‘Everyone fears a bear,’ he says, ‘but when you see one your +me in choosing me for your second, if at this grave, this very +me in the eyes of society, and even of the court,” he added, lowering +me in war the energy of young men often shows the way better than all +me, just because I have exerted myself on his behalf, befriended him, +melancholy was just like the august melancholy she showed at the mention +members and guests jostling one another and trying to get a good look +members of the council of war. They were drinking tea, and only awaited +memory, and he told everybody that his son had been killed. He tried not +me... myself most of all. Then I don’t eat, don’t wash... and how is +men and provisions have not arrived. Gallop off to him at once and +men disfigured by fear of death now crowded together, crushing one +men, seemed so immeasurably above him, an insignificant officer of the +men’s will. +men take their first steps on life’s road, each saw immense changes in +mental activity is to you or me. You can’t help thinking. I go to bed +mental image of his future activity in this direction rose in his mind. +men—the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Adam Czartorýski.... It +mention, and which you think is the result of your own mental efforts, +mentioned during the journey. +mentioned their age. “If you marry it will be a different thing,” +mention her!” he exclaimed fiercely. +men was training a trotter of his own for a race. He knew a lady on one +men with broad, self-confident faces, fat fingers, and resolute gestures +merry reminiscences. +message to Kutúzov, perhaps even to the sovereign himself. The morning +me! That’s the sort of man he is, and nothing more,” replied +met him at the first door and, expressing their delight at seeing such a +met, she fell on his breast, sobbing. She could not lift her face, but +me—yet dreadful and unnatural as it seems, I would give them all at +middle of the muddy road. +midnight. Prince Andrew went out. +midwife. +might, and a passionate attraction to him who was the cause of this +might deprive him of all this happiness, newly appreciated and newly +might, feeling that he would like to injure himself by that shout, if +might have been more decisive had the commander in chief not been so +might retreat and leave the pickets.” +might toward the bushes. He did not now run with the feeling of doubt +Mikháylovna entered the hall. Though she came upon the count in his +Mikháylovna’s voice alone in a long speech, then a cry, then silence, +mile and a half away, but had suddenly and unexpectedly appeared just in +miles, and reining in his horse he sighed restfully and looked round +military code, which he and the others knew in the regiment, there was +military men, bore that expression of condescending respect for their +milk-white sea. Nothing was visible in the valley to the left into which +millions in hand might smile at a poor fellow who told him that he, poor +millions of human beings who grew up in the same way. As twenty +Milorádovich wheeled his horse sharply and stationed himself a little +mind to ask him a question about the roads, the traveler had closed his +miniature portrait of her son on the lid of a snuffbox, while the tears +minister’s son was, with his rosy cheeks and dark eyebrows, and with +minute later with another committeeman, carrying a large silver salver +minutes before the troops had passed the Emperors. Not only would it +minutest details himself. Princess Mary had ceased taking lessons in +mirror her eyes full of tears and her mouth quivering, ready to burst +mischief-makers don’t meddle even a German beats Buonaparte. He is +misery. A man offended you and you shot him, and you say you do not +misery. That could not be, yet he awaited with a sinking heart the +misfortune? And when did it begin? Such a little while ago I came to +misleading you.” +missed him. His one desire was to know what was happening and at any +“Missed!” shouted Dólokhov, and he lay helplessly, face downwards +mist!” +mistake and that Anatole meant to flirt with Mademoiselle Bourienne, +mistaken,” said the stranger in a deliberate and loud voice. +mist and taking it for a tree can again take it for a tree after he has +misunderstanding. I expect you feel it so yourself. Let us write her +misunderstandings and did not now feel she had a right to ask him for +mixture onto the floor and asked for some more water. The maid brought +modeling and modeling you must get smeared with clay,” suggesting +moment consider what she should do), but all this had long been familiar +moment of meeting had been so beatific that his present joy seemed +moment, sat beside him: the rest, crowding round him, watched every +moments: but his words sounded so weak that he felt ashamed of himself. +moment the French who were attacking, suddenly and without any apparent +moment those hands with their short reddish fingers and hairy wrists, +“Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu! Oh!” she heard as she left the room. +monument from Moscow which he intended to erect in his own garden to his +more. +more and more animated and evidently wishing to express his new outlook +more animated. Only when a man was killed or wounded did he frown and +more confirmed the farther he rode into the region behind the village of +more confused, blushed like a child till tears came to his eyes, began +more cunning or subtle diplomatist—you know, a combination of French +more, for immediately afterwards cannon began firing from somewhere and +more honorable to admit one’s mistake than to let matters become +more important guests—an old general and his wife, and Anna Pávlovna +more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows +more noticeable how much plainer she had become. Some unobtrusive touch +more outcries, and tears of joy. He could not distinguish which was +more! Some more!” a merry voice was saying in his soul. But no more +More than anyone else, Prince Vasíli took possession of Pierre’s +mortification, our opinion of Bonaparte cannot alter. We shall not cease +Moscovites who took their opinions from others—Ilyá Rostóv among +Moscow!” +Moscow after the death of Count Bezúkhov, he would call Pierre, or +Moscow. As a result he could not go to the country with the rest of the +Moscow’s hero was the fact that he had no connections in the city +Moscow their house was always full of visitors. The night after the +Moscow. The remembrance of the Rostóvs’ house and of his childish +Moscow who was expected every moment, and men on horseback with lanterns +most of her observations, it made everyone feel uncomfortable, not +most part to be spoken at a moment of victory and triumph, generally +most strongly expressed his insincere love for her, and he felt the +mother by the news of this loss, he knew what a relief it would be to +moved and halted at the officers’ command, turned with banners flying, +moved off accompanied by an irregularly swaying sea of aides-de-camp. +movement of Dólokhov’s hands. Those broad, reddish hands, with hairy +movement of the Tsar’s seemed to him enchanting. +movements of the mass of which in his regiment he felt himself a tiny, +movement, word, or look of his, never taking their blissfully adoring +move on a few steps and be killed themselves in the same way. +“Move on a hundred yards and we are certainly saved, remain here +move on. The horses moved off the bank. The ice, that had held under +Moving the money forward he prepared to deal. Rostóv sat down by his +moving toward our left flank, the higher command found that our center +much as a sailor is by his ship. However far he has walked, whatever +“Much as Mamma pressed her, she refused, and I know she won’t change +much at the captain as at those who were laughing, among whom Zherkóv +much because he heard their sound as because he saw uneasiness on +much interest him because at that moment he felt with delight that he +much, my dear sir.” +much of it left.” +much to say to one another in private and so they had been seeking an +mud-bespattered breeches. The German landlady, hearing Rostóv’s loud +music. Amid these sounds, only the youthful kindly voice of the Emperor +muskets of the nearest soldiers. The soldiers started firing without +mustache. “I want to know what you men are like. Are you the same as +must gain his confidence and friendship and through him obtain a special +“Must one die like a dog?” said he. +must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for +muttered something and colored. +“My cousin has nothing to do with this and it’s not necessary to +“My darling!” he said—a word he had never used to her before. +my dear boy, are you serving in the Horse Guards?” asked the old man, +“My dear count, you were one of my best pupils—you must dance,” +“My dear fellow,” Nesvítski whispered to Prince Andrew, “the old +“My dear fellow, what have you been up to in Moscow? Why have you +“My dear friend?” said she, in a tone of pathetic inquiry, prepared +“My dear,” he heard what seemed to him her despairing whisper behind +“My dear, I must tell you that this is a moment I shall never, never +“My dear, really... it’s better not to wake him... he’s asleep,” +“My dear,” said Princess Mary, addressing her brother from beside +my dear sir,” he added, seeing that his servant had entered... “and +“My desire is never to leave you, Father, never to separate my +my empty portmanteau and my dressing gown. The Emperor proposes to give +“My God, how happy I should be if he ordered me to leap into the fire +“My God, I’m a ruined and dishonored man! A bullet through my brain +“My God! What does it all mean?” thought he. “And here, where at +my men in the wood. I beg of you, I beg of you,” he repeated, “to +“My mother! My mother, my angel, my adored angel mother,” and +“My passion! I have had so many,” replied Pierre. +my riding and commanding so vast an army, so I have passed on the +myself and ruined my life. And only now when I am living, or at least +myself and you with the hope that your son is alive, for otherwise +myself not long ago, in Moscow and when traveling, but at such times I +mysteriously. “Yes, tomorrow, tomorrow!” he thought. “Tomorrow +mystery is of such a nature that nobody can know or use it unless he be +mystery on which perhaps the fate of mankind depends. But since this +my stupidity.” +“My vocation is a different one,” thought Princess Mary. “My +naked shoulders. She did not give him the money, but let herself be +namesake, the new Count Bezúkhov) “and now she’s in love with that +name to rectify this omission, Prince Andrew galloped back. Kutúzov +NAPOLEON +Napoleon. “If he weren’t afraid of a battle why did he ask for that +Napoleon’s eyes Prince Andrew thought of the insignificance of +Napoleon’s proclamation was as follows: +Napoleon who said it. He heard the speaker addressed as Sire. But he +Napoleon with even greater warmth than the year before. Orders were +Narýshkin, Uvárov, Dolgorúkov, Apráksin, Valúev, to the committee, +“Nataly,” he said, moving with rapid steps toward her, “decide my +Natásha, after she had pulled him down toward her and covered his face +Natásha, and Sónya, and will certainly never touch a card again.” At +Natásha. But he was not as much at ease with Sónya and Dólokhov as +Natásha could not remain calm, seeing him in such a plight. She began +Natásha fell in love the very moment she entered the ballroom. She +Natásha flared up. “I don’t want to marry anyone. And I’ll tell +Natásha looked at Sónya with wondering and inquisitive eyes, and said +Natásha. Nicholas understood that something must have happened between +Natásha no less proud of her first long dress and of being at a real +Natásha, seeing the impression the news of her brother’s wound +Natásha’s intermediacy, to remind him of his promise, and then +Natásha smiled through her tears. +Natásha’s prediction proved true. Dólokhov, who did not usually care +Natásha’s previous remark. “It’s because she was in love with +Natásha suddenly flushed. +Natásha, that winter, had for the first time begun to sing seriously, +Natásha took the first note, her throat swelled, her chest rose, +Natásha to sing. +Natásha, who was exceptionally graceful, was first, even danced the pas +natural to him was very gentle and wary with them both at dinner. On +near by the news spread that the Emperor was unwell. He ate nothing and +near everything grew brighter, more joyful, more significant, and more +near him and only wished that they would help him and bring him back to +near him pricked their ears at these shouts. Over there, where the +nearly cut our left flank in half were for the moment repulsed. Our +Near the altar of the church at Bald Hills there was a chapel over the +near the gun waved their arms and beat the horses to make them turn and +necessary for the position. Then there’s this house, which must be +necessity of going back on his word. With a sinking heart he watched +neck. On his right sat the Italian abbé whom Pierre had met at +needed. +needed for success in the service was not effort or work, or courage, or +need, even the inevitability, of entering into conversation with this +need some money.” +neighbor, and may envy never dim the purity of that bliss. Forgive thy +neighboring town, who had been at Bald Hills for the last fortnight.) +neighboring wheel is as quiet and motionless as though it were prepared +neighbor? No! You have spent your life in idleness. Then you married, my +neighbor on his right quickly turned in alarm to Bezúkhov. +neither moving forward to protect the battery nor backward with the +neither of her gown and coiffure nor of how she would go in nor of what +neither of them could think of her as a rival, so they began dressing +Nesvítski closed their eyes. At the same instant they heard a report +Nesvítski. Count Ilyá Rostóv with the other members of the committee +Nesvítski’s and Dólokhov’s sabers, which were stuck into the +Nesvítski stopped him and took him home. +Nesvítski was there as an old member of the club. Pierre, who at his +never bear malice or enmity toward thy brother. Be kindly and courteous. +Never had love been so much in the air, and never had the amorous +never says anything stupid. She says little, but what she does say is +never to dare to change your way of dress without my consent.” +new church, previously begun, had cost about 10,000 in each of the last +new friend’s influence. +newly erected buildings were standing empty and that the serfs continued +new mustache. “Now then, get on,” he shouted to the driver. “Do +new pack of cards said: “Bank, gentlemen!” +new path so attractively shown him by the Masons, on which he firmly +news. +news and common acquaintances like people who do not know each other +news—if it’s not false. Bennigsen seems to have obtained a complete +Next came four soldiers, carrying something heavy on a cloak, and passed +Next day, at eight in the morning, Pierre and Nesvítski drove to the +Next day Rostóv saw Denísov off. He did not wish to stay another +Next day, the army began its campaign, and up to the very battle of +Next day the French army did not renew their attack, and the remnant of +Next day, the third of March, soon after one o’clock, two hundred and +Next morning, after the fatigues of their journey, the travelers slept +Next morning when the valet came into the room with his coffee, Pierre +next note, the next phrase, and everything in the world was divided into +“Nice! And so you no longer wish to marry Borís?” +nice... but it won’t do...not that... but as a friend, I shall always + * Nicholas. +Nicholas and Denísov were walking up and down, looking with kindly +Nicholas began pacing up and down the room. +“Nicholas! Come out in your dressing gown!” said Natásha’s voice. +“Nicholas, don’t tell me that!” she said. +“Nicholas! Get up!” Natásha’s voice was again heard at the door. +“Nicholas, have you come? Come here, dear!” called the old countess +Nicholas, having as usual exhausted two pairs of horses, without +Nicholas’ letter was read over hundreds of times, and those who were +Nicholas Rostóv, with Denísov and his new acquaintance, Dólokhov, sat +Nicholas straight in the eyes, “you know the saying, ‘Lucky in love, +Nicholas tried to say “Yes,” but could not: and he nearly burst into +Nicholas turned away from her. Natásha too, with her quick instinct, +“Nicholas!” was all Sónya said, instantly turning white. +Nicholas went to her, kissed her hand, and sitting down silently at her +“Nicholas, will you come to Iogel’s? Please do!” said Natásha. +night. But now, in the solitude of the journey, they seized him with +night he had not the slightest doubt, and the guiltlessness of +night I looked at the campfires and there was no end of them. A regular +night when he had decided that to marry Hélène would be a calamity and +“Nikólenka... a letter... wa... a... s... wounded... my darling +Nikólenka; by his relations as a charming, attractive, and polite young +“Nikólenka, what is the matter?” Sónya’s eyes fixed on him +“Nikólenka... wounded... a letter,” she announced in gleeful +nineteenth, a great, excitedly bustling activity began which lasted till +no?” +“No.” +“No.” +no account have told a deliberate lie. He began his story meaning to +“No apologies, none whatever,” said Dólokhov to Denísov (who on +“Nobody wants me!” thought Rostóv. “There is no one to help me or +“No, but don’t you think it’s nice?” she kept repeating. +“No, but I have been in love a thousand times and shall fall in +“No, but I must. It may be arrogant of me, but still it is best to say +“No, but listen,” she said, “now you are quite a man, aren’t +“No, but she said that it was all over and that he’s now an +“No, but what is it, my dear? Do you want me to go and tell him?” +“No, call her you, please! I’ll tell you all about it some other +No, certainly I must not approach him, I must not intrude on his +“No, dearest, sweet one, honey, I won’t give up—I know you know +“No. Give me the book,” said the stranger. +“No good... no good...” said the prince rapidly, and thrusting his +“No, he’s not a fool!” replied Natásha indignantly and seriously. +“No, I can’t agree with you! To live only so as not to do evil and +“No, I considered it erroneous and did not follow it,” said Pierre, +“No, I hate my life,” Pierre muttered, wincing. +“No, I have been transferred to the line,” said Anatole, hardly able +“No, I meant to ask...” Pierre began, but Prince Andrew interrupted +“No, I mustn’t. I am so sorry for him! He’s so nice.” +“No, it’s a sprain.” +“No, it’s only indigestion?... Say it’s only indigestion, say so, +“No, it will not do,” she said decidedly, clasping her hands. “No, +“No, I will do it myself, only tell me what to say. It’s all very +“No, leave me alone,” said Princess Mary. +no longer, as it should be, to avoid or attack the enemy, but solely to +“No, Mamma, but I’m so sorry for him. I don’t know how I’m to +“No, Mamma, I’m not in love with him, I suppose I’m not in love +“No matter at all, my dear count,” she said, meekly closing her +“No matter, Princess, don’t be alarmed,” said Mary Bogdánovna. +“No, merci, mon père.” +“No, mon père.” +“No, my dear fellow, I’ll be a wallflower,” said Denísov. +“No, no! A thousand times no! I shall never agree with you,” said +“No, no!” cried Natásha, “she and I have already talked it over. +“No! No! No! When your father writes to tell me that you are behaving +“No, not on any account! I will tell him myself, and you’ll listen +‘nonsense!’” +nonsense... but this is real.... Now then, Natásha, now then, dearest! +nonsense, but we are friends forever. She, if she loves anyone, does it +nonsense,” he thought. “The slur on my name and honor—that’s all +“Nonsense, indeed! I am telling you the fact,” said Natásha +nonsense, the chief thing is not to forget the important thing I +“No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone +“No, one can’t hear them. They’d be firing if we had.” +No one slept. +“No, on my true word of honor,” said Natásha, crossing herself, +“No-o-o!” muttered Dólokhov through his teeth, “no, it’s not +“No, Papa is not back yet,” said Sónya. +“No, pardon me, I won’t go now till the child is better,” thought +“No, Prince, our regiment has gone to the front, but I am attached... +“No, Princess, I have lost your affection forever!” said +“No really, my dear, this dress is not pretty,” said Lise, looking +nose. His face was depressed and gloomy. He seemed to see and hear +“No, Sónya, but do you remember so that you remember him perfectly, +no such reminiscences really exist—just as none existed in this case. +not a distinction,” said the diplomatist—“a gift, rather.” +not a logical answer and not at all a reply to them. The answer was: +“Not at all bad!” he thought, examining her, “not at all bad, that +not at once raise, and he spent most of his time in the girls’ room. +not been found nor was he on the list of prisoners. What was worst of +not breathe. He knew that he must do something to put an end to this +not but believe in the sincerity of those around him. Besides, he had +not but tremble and his heart stand still at the imminence of that word. +not come and brought his pupil with him” (for some reason Prince +noted them down. +“No, tell them to harness.” +Not expecting to come on the enemy down by the stream, and having +not expect you today,” he added. “I only sent you the note yesterday +Not far from the artillery campfire, in a hut that had been prepared +Not finding the young prince in his study the valet went with the +“Nothing,” answered Princess Mary, looking firmly with her radiant +nothing, but here on the one hand the local nobility have done me the +nothing, but that. But even it does not exist, there is nothing but +Nothing could be seen. Pitch-dark, brother! Isn’t there something to +nothing more important...” he paused, “than to have a good sleep.” +“Nothing, my dear.” +nothing of her and looks only at Bourienne. No, she has no pride... but +nothing of what was going on around him and to be absorbed by some +“Nothing... only a shell...” he answered. +“Nothing... only I feel sad... sad about Andrew,” she said, wiping +nothing. She felt that Sónya was speaking the truth, that there was +nothing to be happy about!” thought he. +nothing to him.... “I should perhaps have done the same thing in his +“Not hurt, Petróv?” asked one. +noticeable one at the dinner. Rostóv looked inimically at Pierre, +noticed, left the room with a pleasant smile. +noticed the French appearing below them, and then they fired grapeshot +no time for reflection, as in Petersburg. Instead of the new life he had +no time to ask himself whether these people were sincere or not. He +not intend to devote her life to serving Prince Bolkónski, to reading +“Not killed—wounded!” another officer corrected him. +not know: he therefore wished to speak to Dolgorúkov. +not know Him, but He is here, He is in me, He is in my words, He is in +“Not Kutúzov, but what’s his name—well, never mind... there are +not leave the battery. He decided to have the guns removed from their +not like us sinners of the line,” cried Rostóv, with martial swagger +not many left alive. Go that way, to that village, all the commanders +“Not more stupid than you, madam,” said the nine-year-old Pétya, +not moving a muscle. +“No, to kill a man is bad—wrong.” +not only without interest but even as if ashamed of what Pierre was +not realize that he had come. His coming had nothing to do with +not replying to the Austrian. +not resume your former way of life. And now I wish you a good journey, +not rise. Rostóv also tried to rise but fell back, his sabretache +“Not seen Duport—the famous dancer? Well then, you won’t +not see or understand Him and may not see or understand his own vileness +not see ten paces ahead. Bushes looked like gigantic trees and level +not suit in the least. Not in the least! Please change it.” +not ten times wounded, killed, or betrayed, well... what then?...” +not to challenge Bolkónski. “Of course not!” he now thought. “Is +not to have to repent is not enough. I lived like that, I lived for +not to notice one another. When having limbered up the only two cannon +not understand what he ought to do then it will be my affair—yes, my +not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting +not what he had read that vexed him, but the fact that the life out +not wish it. In a word, I make no promise. And I beg you to consider +Notwithstanding the tone of wearied assurance with which these words +notwithstanding this, Borís embraced him in a quiet, friendly way and +novelty she offered her guests this time was not Mortemart, but a +Novosíltsev, Prince Volkónsky, Strógonov, and the others, all richly +now.” +now aiming, now counting the charges, now giving orders about replacing +now before I am off duty. I’ll take another turn and when I get back +now centered round the Emperor. So we will go to Dolgorúkov; I have to +“Now, dear boy,” said Prince Vasíli playfully, “say ‘yes,’ +now gradually opening before me.” But five of the other virtues which +“No! What is there to talk about?” said Pierre. “It’s all the +nowhere encountering the enemy. On the contrary, the soldiers became +Now he was a lieutenant of hussars, in a jacket laced with silver, and +“Now I must disclose to you the chief aim of our Order,” he said, +“Now look out for the ball... we’ll throw it back.” +“Now?” repeated Natásha, and a happy smile lit up her face. “Have +now,” said another. +“Now, Sónya!” she said, going to the very middle of the room, where +“Now the fun begins,” thought Anatole, sitting down with a smile +Now then, darling! How will she take that si? She’s taken it! Thank +“Now then, Matvévna, dear old lady, don’t let me down!” he was +“Now then, now then, I’m only joking!” he said. “Remember this, +“Now then, Váska,” said Nicholas. +now there’s this recruiting.” +now the smile of the little princess—influenced by the general mood +now,” thought Rostóv driving his spurs into Rook and letting him go +“Now thou hast seen the lesser light,” uttered a voice. Then the +now told about that affair!” +now to look at Dólokhov, who was sitting opposite him. Every time +now was evidently ready with a joke. “Whether tomorrow brings +now we shall get anything we want from his hothouses. I have to see him +now, when my heart fails me and my mouth feels dry at the mere sight +“Now you don’t know that at all!” said Nicholas. “But I must +“Now you, young prince, what’s your name?” said Prince Bolkónski, +“No, you don’t understand!” +“No, you know it’s too soon for news. But my father is anxious and I +number of men had perished in fleeing from Pratzen. The French had not +nurse and nurse Sávishna in the late princess’ rooms and Princess +nurse, Praskóvya Sávishna, who hardly ever came to that room as the +Nurse Sávishna, knitting in hand, was telling in low tones, scarcely +nurse’s French, at which he and Borís used to laugh long ago. +obedience—which did not even seem to him a virtue, but a joy. (He now +obedient, and insignificant atom. They followed Prince Dolgorúkov out +obeying, and suddenly doubts arose in his mind. “Where am I? What am +object it is necessary that... The first column marches... The second +objects mentioned by the Rhetor, this last, that of improving mankind, +obligingly took the dish from Bagratión (or he would, it seemed, have +obtain a post on the commander in chief’s staff. Berg and Borís, +obtained his captaincy during the campaign, had gained the confidence of +obtained through an acquaintance and sent to her son, asking him to take +occasioned by the sausage eaters. +occupation, came up to her for a moment and made haste to go away, +occupation of the town of Wischau and the capture of a whole French +occupied by the Emperors and their retinues. +occupied with evening parties, dinners, lunches, and balls, giving him +occupy is a strong one, and while they are marching to go round me on +occupy the position and prepare for an attack.” +occurred to him. On the contrary, he became more and more elated. It +o’clock all had been brought into due order. The ranks were drawn +o’clock left the third column with which he had been and galloped +of all that mass of huge and handsome men, of all those brilliant, +of all these brilliant young men. +of all. This gift will be a pledge of your purity of heart to her whom +of Alms” went round to all the brothers. Pierre would have liked +of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him. +of an attack spread through the squadron. The command to form up rang +of, and am going to rejoin my regiment, I am giving a farewell supper +of a sin he could neither remedy nor forget. He could not weep. The +of a subject, she did not stop talking, but chattered about the +of a surgeon who has just performed a difficult operation and admits the +of Austerlitz, but wore a tight new uniform with Russian and foreign +of Austerlitz: nine tenths of the men in the Russian army were then in +of Bagratión’s detachment. His hussars were placed along the line +of battles was evidently culminating in a panic. +of beginning anew pictured to himself the blissful, irreproachable, +of being afraid roused him again. “I cannot be afraid,” thought he, +of believing in the possibility of attaining perfection, and in the +of birds. +of blessedness which now flooded his heart with glad emotion. +of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist. In front and +of contempt. “And believe me, if I still value my life it is +“Of course, it is a very brilliant match, but happiness, my dear...” +“Of course, we only just missed one another,” said the staff +of cowardice in the other. Both passed the examination successfully. As +of cruelty, as when tying the policeman to the bear and dropping them +of delighted amazement. +of disease without help while material assistance could so easily be +of dread was in the air. It was evident that the affair so lightly begun +of each. +of England, inspired by such hatred of our nation! This victory will +of eternal peace and blessedness?” she thought. +of exasperation. “Don’t you hear it’s His Majesty the Emperor’s +off; and here at last was a Russian prince. Mademoiselle Bourienne knew +off, and the firing had begun to subside. Suddenly, near by on the +off—and this is what comes of it!” said Prince Andrew in an +of fate and the designs of rogues. During the few days he spent in +off at every moment. They waited and listened. +of fear for his young and happy life, possessed his whole being. Rapidly +off his eyes and glanced around him. The room was in black darkness, +officer.” +officer and a wounded hero, would it be right to remind him of herself +officer in the white uniform of the Horse Guards. +officer passing by addressed him: +officers. +Officer!” said Bagratión to Rostóv, “are the enemy’s skirmishers +officers became animated. The Guardsmen told Rostóv of their march and +officers, but every soldier with his freshly washed and shaven face and +officers buttoned up their coats, buckled on their swords and pouches, +officers, generals, and adjutants, as they passed Rostóv going or +officers who had gathered at his quarters. The little old man with +officer, with a smile to Bolkónski. +of fire and had descended into the dip, he was met by some of the staff, +of fugitives, Prince Andrew, trying to keep near Kutúzov, saw on the +of hearts. On the previous Sunday the old count had given his son +of hearts with a torn corner, which he had picked up from the floor. He +of Hélène. Some, as if unwilling to distract her from an important +of her most august Majesty the Empress Márya Fëdorovna. Pierre felt +of her worthlessness he was also dreaming of how she would be his +of him—at the battery. He now saw clearly the figure of a red-haired +of him?” Not one of the innumerable speeches addressed to the Emperor +of his appearance before her now. Prince Andrew went round the sofa and +of his book with his old hands which from excitement he could not keep +of his commissions and ordered the small closed carriage for her. +Of his former bachelor acquaintances many were no longer in Petersburg. +of his return. +of his words for the solemnity of the moment, as he spoke. “I +of horses had been sent up the highroad to meet the German doctor from +of horse’s hoofs approaching at a trot along the line of hussars was +of how beside himself and all aflame with excitement, he had flown like +of inviting the other to take a seat beside him. Pierre felt reluctant +of joy in his eyes, looked round him, not knowing how to answer the +of Lannes’ sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and +of love and self-sacrifice. And cost what it may, I will arrange +of love which pervaded the Rostóv household that winter and, now after +of men and horses, from the little puffs of smoke on the enemy’s side +of mind, Pierre carried out an intention he had long had of visiting his +of now as the “Seeker,” now as the “Sufferer,” and now as the +of officers and courtiers, was riding a bobtailed chestnut mare, a +of Olmütz where Bolkónski had seen him for the first time abroad, but +of permission previously given him by Kutúzov to be present at the +of Peter and Paul, his patron saints. In another place the women with +of pride, indolence, and ignorance. Forgive me, my dear sir, but if I +of Prussia, in order to draw Borís into the conversation. +of Sergéy Kuzmích and at the same time his eyes glanced toward his +of several thousand men could produce. The lights spread farther and +of shots retreated. In the highest army circles from midday on the +of sixteen, evidently passionately in love with him (he did not doubt +of slaves? Have you helped them physically and morally? No! You have +of some dislocation and blunder spread through the ranks. How such +of sons and brothers. +often heard from his fellow hussars. +often than at anyone else and took delight in his every movement. +of the advance. As soon as an Austrian officer showed himself near +of the Azóv and Podólsk infantry and the Pávlograd hussars—was +of the boulevards whom he visited of an evening. He led the mazurka +of the campfire, waving his uplifted arm. +of the candles was focused on those two happy faces alone. +of the cannon. He heard the whistle of bullets above him unceasingly and +of the club, beset the new arrivals. Count Ilyá, again thrusting his +of the club from the day it was founded. To him the club entrusted the +of the dam, throwing two soldiers off their feet, and ran onto the +of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the +of the Emperor like a cloud of haze across a clear sky and vanished. +of the enemy’s lines, which all day long had yielded ground to us +of the feebleness of age, “Bolkónski!” he whispered, pointing to +of the field he stood on was well-known and familiar ground. Though he +of the Frenchmen with the gunners ended, whether the red-haired gunner +of the general sorrow. +of the Gospel: “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with +of the hand on the dial of human history. +of the intellectual essence of Petersburg,” as she herself put it. +of the lovers. “That’s happiness!” +of the maids who was present. (Mary Bogdánovna was a midwife from the +of the majestic Emperor. Casually, while surveying the squadron, the +of the meal and was certain that there was some secret between her +of them will have any meaning for me. Tomorrow perhaps, even certainly, +of the nearness of the Emperor Francis’ black cob, nor of all that was +of the newly commissioned officer were collected. Anna Mikháylovna, +of the night. The gloom that enveloped the army was filled with their +of the nineteenth March, and her downy little lip rose from old habit, +of the orderlies and servants. +of the President, who held a mallet in his hand. Let into the wall was +of the room. Prince Andrew turned to him, but the doctor gave him a +of the sayings and doings of their commander, the Grand Duke, and told +of the second gun’s crew was “uncle”; Túshin looked at him more +of these maneuvers that enabled us to escape him. Buxhöwden pursues +of the sleigh. +of the statutes and these remained in his mind. +of the streams and hollows of Sokolnitz and Schlappanitz beyond which we +of the sun. In front, far off on the farther shore of that sea of mist, +Of the three precepts of Freemasonry Pierre realized that he did not +of the unwritten code of subordination—looked so fixedly at the +of the victory that had been gained. Prince Andrew introduced his +of the war and without leaders. The Moscovites felt that something was +of the wood ran out of it, the different companies getting mixed, and +of things to him in the very worst light, pointing out the necessity of +of this kind for another, which from pride he would never accept for +of those Frenchmen,” he said. “What nasty brutes they are! I’d +of truth, my dear sir, but have thrust her into an abyss of deceit and +of twenty; Sónya a girl of sixteen with all the charm of an opening +of voices, the tramping feet, the horses’ hoofs moving in mud, the +of Weyrother’s voice, he opened his one eye with an effort. +of which Kutúzov was standing began to shout, he rode a little to one +“Of whom you imagine me to be one?” said Prince Andrew, with a quiet +of wind blowing over the army slightly stirred the streamers on the +of your misfortune.” He seemed to emphasize the last word, as if to +of yours, is not at all to blame that my face has the misfortune to +“Oh, but you were there?” said Prince Bagratión, addressing Prince +“Oh dear, what a beast I am!” muttered Rostóv, as he read the +“Oh, Denísov is quite different,” replied Nicholas, implying that +“Oh, don’t mention it, Count! I quite understand,” said Berg, +“Oh God, what would happen to me if the Emperor spoke to me?” +“Oh, go to the devil!” called out a voice, drowned by the laughter +“Oh, how delightful it is!” she kept saying, running up to Sónya. +Oh, how I would guard him, how I would tell him the truth, how I would +“Oh, how nice, how splendid!” she said to everything. +Oh, how that chord vibrated, and how moved was something that was finest +“Oh, hush, please!” said another. +“Oh, it’s nothing. I only wished to say...” (he wanted to repeat +“Oh, it’s terrible to feel oneself so in this man’s power,” +“Oh, leave off, you always talk nonsense and keep putting things +“Oh, my God! thank God!” said Princess Mary. “I must go and meet +“Oh, Natásha!” said Sónya, looking ecstatically and earnestly at +“Oh no, let me off, Countess,” Denísov replied. +“Oh, no, no!” And besides the pallor and the physical suffering +“Oh no, not at all! On the contrary, I am very glad to make your +“Oh no!” said Iogel, hastening to reassure him. “You were only +“Oh, nothing,” said he, as if weary of being continually asked the +“Oh, nurse, I’m so glad!” +“Oh! Oh! Oh!” groaned Kutúzov despairingly and looked around.... +“Oh, take those off... those...” she said, pointing to his +“Oh, that is all the same,” Dolgorúkov said quickly, and getting up +“Oh, that is dreadful, dreadful!” said Pierre. “I don’t +“Oh, that’s it!” said Rostóv, evidently thinking of something +Oh, that wicked Prince Hippolyte!” she said. +“Oh, the faiwy! She can do anything with me!” said Denísov, and +“Oh, those Moscow gossips!” said Dólokhov, and he took up the cards +“Oh, to die, to die for him,” thought Rostóv. +“Oh, very well, you may stay in attendance on me.” +“Oh, well then, good-by: go and dress. Is he very terrible, +“Oh, what a nuisance,” said Dolgorúkov, getting up hurriedly and +“Oh, what a pig I am, not to have written and to have given them +“Oh, what are you talking about?” said another. “Where is he to +“Oh, what nonsense!” cried Natásha, laughing. “I don’t think +“Oh, yes!” +“Oh yes,” assented Princess Mary, “perhaps that’s it. I’ll go. +“Oh, yes, I quite understand,” answered Rostóv, who was under his +“Oh yes, it is horribly stupid,” said Pierre. +“Oh yes, like that, I know, I only forgot,” said he. +“Oh, yes!” said Pierre, with a forced smile. “I am very grateful +“Oh yes, very much! My brother knows him, he’s dined with him—the +“Oh, you damned dandies! Clean and fresh as if you’d been to a fete, +“Oh, you fool!” said the old man, spitting angrily. Some time passed +“Oh, you Guards!” said Rostóv. “I say, send for some wine.” +Old Bolkónski had always had a poor opinion of Prince Vasíli’s +old chamberlain was heard assuring an old baroness that he loved her +old fellow? Out of sorts?” +old fool,” he thought. “That Princess Hélène will be beautiful +Old Gabriel brought in the wine. +old lady next to her and glanced angrily at her daughter, and her sigh +old man too came up and kissed the waxen little hands that lay quietly +Old Michael was asleep on the chest. Prokófy, the footman, who was +old miller had been accustomed to sit in his tasseled cap peacefully +old prince had forbidden it, appeared on the threshold with a shawl +Old Prince Nicholas Bolkónski received a letter from Prince Vasíli +old princess, kissing her soundly. “If I hadn’t this headache I’d +old prince understood from this official report that our army had been +Olmütz and that he wanted to see him as he had a letter and money for +Olmütz, was preparing to be reviewed next day by the two Emperors—the +on a few steps he stopped before Prince Andrew, who lay on his back with +on all sides, had stopped because a horse in front had fallen under a +on around him. Not only was he indifferent as to whether he got to +on a sofa in a far corner of the room. He closed his eyes and seemed to +On being relieved from picket duty Rostóv had managed to get a few +once.” +“Once again, Colonel,” said the general, “I can’t leave half +once for a moment of glory, of triumph over men, of love from men I +once he raised his eyebrows, abruptly touched his horse with his left +once recognized it to be a tuft of grass. She was terribly close to him. +once she has said...” +once the stranger closed the book, putting in a marker, and again, +once was—did not struggle, and perhaps she was right. Nothing has been +on condition that she should tell no one. +one another, beginning to see one another through the mist. They had the +one another time to ask questions and give replies concerning a thousand +one day’s ration of bread remains, and in some regiments none at all, +one foot, bounded from the floor like a ball, and flew round the room +one I’d give my life for her! But those!...” and he made a gesture +one is to interfere with his arrangements—leads his division to +one moment prayed to God as he had done on the battlefield at the bridge +“One more question, Count,” he said, “which I beg you to answer +one of the Ápsheron regiment went forward past the Emperor. +One of the hindmost guns that was going onto the dam turned off onto the +one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow. +One of them was leading by the bridle a fine large French horse he had +One of the players said he hoped he might be trusted. +One. “Oh, this senseless life of ours!” thought Nicholas. “All +(one shattered gun and one unicorn were left behind), Prince Andrew rode +“One should make up to the husbands of pretty women,” said Denísov. +one side of which symbolized God, another moral things, a third +one spot. His predictions were being justified. Part of the Russian +“One thing I thank God for is that I did not kill that man,” said +“O-ne! T-wo! Thwee!” he shouted angrily and stepped aside. +“One was damaged,” answered the staff officer, “and the other I +One was on a white horse. Prince Bagratión and Prince Dolgorúkov with +one would have expected of him. +On February 26, 1807, the old prince set off on one of his circuits. +on! Go on!” And cries of horror were heard in the crowd. The soldiers +on hearing of the arrival of the letter went softly into the room and +on hearing the news was one of anger with Sónya.... He tried to say, +On Hélène’s name day, a small party of just their own people—as +on her face. +on her priority) “that that senseless young man was spoiled by the +on her toes any longer. “So that’s what I’m up to! I’ll never +on him without changing their expression. “I love you all and have +on his pupil’s behalf. That’s how it’s to be understood! ‘How +On his return to Moscow from the army, Nicholas Rostóv was welcomed +on his thin bony legs, and keeping on a worn, nankeen-covered, sheepskin +on horseback facing the ditch. One with a white plume in his hat seemed +on!” innumerable voices suddenly shouted after the ball had struck +only a small lamp was burning inside something white. Pierre went nearer +only because I still hope to meet such a divine creature, who will +only betrayed us three times in three years. We take up their cause, but +only bivouacking here and have just come to look round. I am going back +only covered by her garments. And having once seen this he could not +only heard Dólokhov’s hurried steps, and his figure came in view +only help a bit! I must have singers too. I shall have my own orchestra, +“Only let me report this gentleman’s business, and I shall be at +only lit fires to deceive us. +Only now, when he was confronted by the stern authorities, did his guilt +only pressed it to the cold braiding of his hussar’s jacket. Denísov, +only Sónya, Nicholas, and Natásha, but even the old countess, +only sure happiness in life.” +“Only that?” said Bolkónski. +only to express his rapture fully. +Only when approaching Bagratión did Rostóv let his horse gallop again, +Only when Prince Andrew was gone did Rostóv think of what he ought to +On our right flank commanded by Bagratión, at nine o’clock the battle +On reaching Petersburg Pierre did not let anyone know of his arrival, +On retiring to her own room, she sat in an armchair, her eyes fixed on a +on seeing Rostóv before him, with whom he would inevitably collide. +on—that Pierre became quite bewildered and only replied: +On that third of March, all the rooms in the English Club were filled +“On the 4th, the first courier arrives from Petersburg. The mails +“On the contrary, that coiffure suits the princess very well,” said +on the contrary, they stimulated his energy and determination. +on the cot. +On the eighteenth and nineteenth of November, the army advanced two +on the field. +on the field before the fortress. Now thousands of feet and bayonets +On the first arrival of the news of the battle of Austerlitz, Moscow had +on the ground. +on the little princess’ face, an expression of childish fear of +On the Pratzen Heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his +on. The preoccupation and despondency which Pierre had noticed in his +on the snow. +on the table, again bound his eyes. +On the third day after Christmas Nicholas dined at home, a thing he had +on the top of her head (a style that quite altered and spoiled her +On the twelfth of November, Kutúzov’s active army, in camp before +on the unattractive martyrlike expression it so often wore, as she +On the way home, Prince Andrew could not refrain from asking Kutúzov, +“On Tuesday between eight and nine. It will give me great pleasure.” +on what he thought right. The steward promised to do all in his power to +on which Rostóv sat. +on which with a broken bit of chalk he had written “800 rubles” in +opened eyes. “What has happened to her? How she is singing today!” +opened the bedroom door. +open it. Someone was holding it shut. +operations according to him were connected with such complicated +opportunity of joining in the general current of recollections. +opportunity since morning to meet one another alone. When Princess Mary +opposite Pierre and seemed very gay. Rostóv was talking merrily to his +or anybody; but you are free to choose.... Go to your room, think it +or appreciative according to the way the joke was received. Everybody +“Or are you afraid to play with me?” Dólokhov now asked as if +or cap, his head was bandaged, and over his shoulder a French munition +ordained that the Austrian army should maneuver the previous year on the +ordeal was about to begin. +order. +ordered his horse at once and, coldly taking leave of Borís, rode +ordered to turn back to the right. Several thousand cavalry crossed in +orderly to the bravest general, and still more, he was going with a +orders. +Orders, and the Star of St. George on his left breast. Evidently just +Orders by heart and know the Regulations as well as I do the Lord’s +orders to the club steward and to the famous Feoktíst, the club’s +ordinary staid and respectful good manners habitual in the prince’s +or even to wish to be thought to listen. Exactly opposite Weyrother, +or gray horses; then again, spreading out with the brazen clatter of the +Or he would suddenly feel ashamed of he knew not what. He felt it +or Kutúzov was. Some said the report that the Emperor was wounded was +or make out anything of what was happening: there in the smoke men of +or of the necessity of rebuilding factories and workshops. So the first +or two in his head but dozens, some only beginning to form themselves, +or you as having been at all insulted, and as a man older than you, my +Ostralitz. In the large drawing room which had become the commander +other fare, was splendid, yet he could not feel quite at ease till the +other officer; he’ll say: ‘Go and find out what’s there.’ There +others and even from herself, the stronger it grew. “O God,” she +others and, in shirt sleeves and breeches, went glass in hand to the +others, only now have I understood all the happiness of life. No, I +other virtues—love of his neighbor, and especially generosity. +otherwise. To tell them that she felt ashamed for herself and for them +ought to be, now he fancied it was only something in his own eyes. His +ought to go straight to him and give the message Dolgorúkov had ordered +our enemies! Hurrah!” he exclaimed in his dashing, old, hussar’s +our fine speeches and in his rude and savage way throws himself on the +our hands! No, we mustn’t forget Suvórov and his rule—not to put +our members as much as possible to reform their hearts, to purify and +our officers.” +our officers and men at Austerlitz. One had saved a standard, another +our Order can bestow it will render you, my dear sir. You are going to +our present, depraved world. No one now loves virtue; it seems like +ourselves.” +ourselves, dear prince,” said the little princess (of course, in +ourselves, were growing up and dying with no idea of God and truth +‘our Sovereign, the Emperor,’ as they say at official dinners,” +our thoughts to the second, Bonaparte. But as it turns out, just at +our troops had descended and from whence came the sounds of firing. +our troops were known to him as far as they could be known to anyone +out. +out accidently.” +out and the sabers whizzed as they were drawn from their scabbards. +outlines. Dressed as she used to be in Petersburg society, it was still +out of hearing. Another musket missed fire but flashed in the pan. +out of it. They could not understand that I have not the necessary +out over the fire, and not waiting for an answer he gave a grunt and +outposts today and it is impossible to say where his chief forces are +outright. +outside his uniform. +out skirmishers. He had felt perfectly sure that there were other troops +out. The fences and gates were new and solid; two fire pumps and a +out there... both playing the hero... Ah, Vasíli Ignátovich... +over.” And after stumbling a few staggering steps right up to the +over, and come back in an hour and tell me in his presence: yes or no. +overflow with sick, and famine is everywhere. Twice the marauders even +over his shoulder, as when Rostóv had seen him on the eve of the battle +over. It will be a tremendous banquet.” +Overtaking the battalions that continued to advance, he stopped +over the battlefield had given final orders to strengthen the batteries +over the Enns, and then guessed that the card that came first to hand +over the squadron. Rostóv raised his saber, ready to strike, but at +owed him money! What baseness! What meanness! I know you understand +Owing to the terrible uproar and the necessity for concentration and +own about the facts he was recounting. For some time he engrossed the +own breast, the husband standing by and gazing tenderly at her and the +own eyes she comforted the count, and decided that at dinner and till +pace. +paces, and Nicholas could clearly distinguish every detail of his +pacing angrily about and snorting. The old prince felt as though he +painful to him at this moment of sorrow; besides, what can I say to him +painstaking effect that had been in it before; but she did not yet sing +palace in a manner agreeable to yourself, and in so far as circumstances +pale and his jaw trembled, shivering feverishly. He was placed on +pale and then blushing. +pale on seeing her father-in-law. +pale, with compressed lips and feverishly glittering eyes. +Pale, with quivering lips, Pierre snatched the copy. +pallid and quivered. +“Papa, I have come on a matter of business. I was nearly forgetting. I +“Papa! Pa-pa!” he called after him, sobbing, “forgive me!” And +Papa, which Natásha, and which Pétya. Everyone shouted, talked, and +paralyzed his will. +“Pardon me! A snuffbox with the Emperor’s portrait is a reward but +parents who have petted their children from babyhood, but which Prince +Paris. It was not calculation that guided her (she did not even for a +particularly calm and absent-minded way, which inspired the respect of +particularly discontented and out of temper. Whether he was in a bad +Particularly vivid, humiliating, and shameful was the recollection of +parties, wearing a dress such as was then fashionable, cut very low at +part in it, but also by the joyful expression on the faces of soldiers, +Partly because of the depressing memories associated with Bald Hills, +partly because Prince Andrew did not always feel equal to bearing with +partner’s hand firmly, threw back his head, and advanced his foot, +part of his legs; he had on a kind of necklace above which rose a high +part of his mind her image rose in all its womanly beauty. +party at which Pierre had to be present unless he wished to spoil +passed his time very gaily. After a short period of adapting himself +passed in step before the Emperors and their suites at a bold, brisk +passed, the Pávlograd division was ordered to advance. In Wischau +passing Bagratión and racing one another they rushed in an irregular +Passing behind one of the lines of a regiment of Foot Guards he heard a +passing, but before he had finished his greeting there was a general +passing it across Hélène’s back. Hélène stooped forward to make +passionately and tenderly, and old Mary Ivánovna, who had grown fond of +passionately, at which she laughed; at the other could be heard the +passionately fond of the boy, and Princess Mary often deprived herself +passionately repents. I will do all I can to arrange the match between +passion but in your own heart. The source of blessedness is not without +passion,” said the latter. +past the ladies into the little drawing room. With quick steps he went +path of virtue,” said the Mason. +patronage at the dancers. +patted his favorite, Rostóv, on the shoulder. +Paul was a market village where a fair was held on St. Peter’s day, +pause, “she told him she loved another.” +Pávlograd commander. The commanders met with polite bows but with +Pávlovna again touched Pierre’s sleeve, saying: “I hope you won’t +Pávlovna’s, an unacknowledged sense of the guilt of that desire +Pávlovna’s drawing room he considered an important step up in the +Pávlovna, shaking her little shriveled finger at him. +Pávlovna’s usual pink notes with an invitation to which was added: +Pávlovna’s voice, “I see you are all right there.” +Pávlovna’s words and looks when she spoke to him about his house, +Pávlovna threatened him on behalf of “our dear Vyazmítinov,” and +pay. I can tell you for myself...” +paying off the debts and undertaking new activities with serf labor, +payments had been diminished by a third, their obligatory manorial work +peace.” +peasant, or a woman with a baby, has no rest day or night and I give +peculiarities of his reserved nature, Borís had managed during his +peculiar to pregnant women. It was evident that her eyes did not see +pensions and the same amount for asylums; 150,000 alimony was sent to +people—businessmen, relations, and acquaintances alike—were all +people dancing, Iogel with Natásha, his pride and his best pupil, were +people do understand him. He is such a lofty, heavenly soul!” +perfection of manner. If he ever thought of Hélène, it was just of +perfect one’s self. And to attain this end, we have the light called +perhaps because it was hard for him, hungry as he was, to look on at +“Perhaps,” coldly and angrily replied Dólokhov, glancing at Sónya, +perhaps dying, while meeting my remorse with some forced bravado!” +perhaps I may...” +“Perhaps we’d really better not wake him,” he said hesitating. +permission here in hospital, that I may not have to play the part of a +perseverance, but only the knowledge of how to get on with those who can +personage, a position in the army which seemed to him most attractive. +personal interview was refused, and instead of the Sovereign, Prince +person she happened to look at she was in love with for that moment. +Petersburg. +Petersburg and staying at his house. With apparent absent-mindedness, +Petersburg earlier or later, or whether he secured accommodation at this +Petersburg. Hand this to Count Willarski” (he took out his notebook +Petersburg. He could not imagine how he could speak to her now. He +Petersburg. It is high time for you to get away from these terrible +Petersburg to ascertain what Moscow was thinking about Austerlitz. +petisenfans, allay cushay dormir!” he exclaimed, imitating his Russian +“Pétrusha has come with papers from your father,” whispered the +Pétya. +Pétya. Besides that, he sent greetings to Monsieur Schelling, Madame +Pétya, clinging to his legs, kept shouting, “And me too!” +Pétya in, closed again. A sound of laughter came from behind it. +Pétya paced the room in silence for a time. +Pétya, pacing the room with large, resolute strides. “Now I’m very +“Pétya, you’re a stupid!” said Natásha. +physically at that moment, there was a weight on his chest and he could +physical things, and the fourth a combination of these. Now and then +Pierre. +Pierre. +Pierre. +Pierre. +Pierre and there were lines of pain on his face and a shamefaced smile. +Pierre, as in a dream, saw several men standing before him, wearing +Pierre began describing what he had done on his estates, trying as far +Pierre blushed, as he always did when it was mentioned, and said +Pierre clutched his temples, and turning round went into the forest, +Pierre considered. +Pierre could not and did not wish to break this silence. +Pierre could not go on. He gulped and turned away. +Pierre did not catch what they were saying, but knew they were talking +Pierre dropped his eyes, lifted them again, and wished once more to see +Pierre felt confused and wished to avoid that look, but the bright old +Pierre felt himself far poorer than when his father had made him +Pierre felt that he was the center of it all, and this both pleased and +Pierre felt uncomfortable and even depressed in his friend’s company +Pierre flushed and, hurriedly putting his legs down from the bed, bent +Pierre, from joy, agitation, and embarrassment, was not in a state to +Pierre gave no answer, for he neither heard nor saw anything. He had +Pierre gradually began to recover himself and looked about at the room +Pierre had already long been feeling in himself that refreshing source +Pierre had met in Petersburg society. In the President’s chair sat a +Pierre had none of the practical persistence that would have enabled him +Pierre had of late rarely seen his wife alone. Both in Petersburg and in +Pierre, hardly restraining his sobs, began running toward Dólokhov and +Pierre in his preoccupation and absent-mindedness had not recognized +Pierre in his secret soul agreed with the steward that it would be +Pierre, in reply, sincerely agreed with her as to Hélène’s +Pierre, “I said at the time and before anyone else” (she insisted +Pierre knew very well what a hieroglyph was, but dared not speak. He +Pierre leaped up from the sofa and rushed staggering toward her. +Pierre listened with swelling heart, gazing into the Mason’s face with +Pierre looked silently and inquiringly at him over his spectacles. +Pierre looked silently and searchingly into Prince Andrew’s face, +Pierre, on unexpectedly becoming Count Bezúkhov and a rich man, felt +Pierre paused, seeking a reply. +Pierre, perplexed, looked round with his shortsighted eyes without +Pierre quickly took out his purse and watch, but could not manage for +Pierre recalled, counting them on his fingers, he felt already in his +Pierre remained gloomily silent, answering in monosyllables and +Pierre said nothing; he looked fixedly at his friend with surprise. He +Pierre sat opposite Dólokhov and Nicholas Rostóv. As usual, he ate and +Pierre’s direction at a slight rustle made by the latter. “Why have +Pierre’s eyes with it and tied it in a knot behind, catching some +Pierre sighed, rose submissively, emptied his glass, and, waiting till +Pierre smiled, but his smile showed that he knew it was not the story +Pierre stood with his arms hanging down and legs apart, before his +Pierre. The estates he had not before visited were each more picturesque +Pierre took his feet off the table, stood up, and lay down on a bed that +Pierre took off his coat, waistcoat, and left boot according to the +Pierre took them off, and his eyes, besides the strange look eyes have +Pierre tried several times to speak, but, on one hand, Prince Vasíli +Pierre turned over heavily on the ottoman and opened his mouth, but +Pierre was about to reply, but Prince Vasíli interrupted him. +Pierre was one of those people who, in spite of an appearance of what +Pierre was struck by the modesty of the small though clean house after +Pierre went with rapid steps to the door and suddenly came face to +Pierre. “What of it? It’s the truth!” and he himself smiled his +Pierre who had been regarded with patronizing condescension when he was +Pierre, whose preoccupied, absent-minded, and massive figure was a very +Pierre who was under such obligations to him (“But never mind that”) +Pierre wished to say something, looked at her with eyes whose strange +Pierre wished to say this to the Mason, but did not dare to. The +Pierre, with a gentle smile of pity and remorse, his arms and legs +Pierre, with downcast eyes, drank out of his glass without looking at +Pierre, without knowing why, was having his enormous Petersburg house +pilgrimage, of holy friendship, of the Eternal Architect of the +pinch of snuff. +pistols, and at the word thwee begin to advance. +pity, and for their sake I should like to liberate the serfs. You +pity me. Yet I was once at home, strong, happy, and loved.” He sighed +pity’s sake, leave this helpless youth who, after all, was the son of +place and that he might now be lying, recovering or dying, alone among +place and without answering drew out a handkerchief. Blood was flowing +place him on a stretcher that had been brought. The soldier groaned. +places and met in certain habitual groups. A minority of those present +place,” thought Pierre. “It’s even certain that I should have done +plain enough as it is.” +plainly that there are not many wives with husbands such as you who +plainness of speech, uttering the word amant as casually as any other +plaiting slippers out of cloth selvedges. He looked up at the opening +plan of a flanking movement. +plan perfectly worthless. Weyrother met all objections with a firm and +“Plans!” repeated Prince Andrew ironically. “My plans?” he said, +plans to Kutúzov’s quarters where the council of war was to be +players, or peered at the now cold face of Dólokhov and tried to read +playing a Viennese waltz on the clavichord, while a fourth, lying on +playing chess. Berg held a smoking pipe between his knees. Borís, in +“Plea...” began Dólokhov, but could not at first pronounce the +pleasant face and resonant though not loud voice, attracted everyone’s +“Please come and visit us... you know my brave boy... been together +“Please come to tea. The prince will be out in a moment,” came the +pleased faces, for they knew that under no other management could they +“Please,” he uttered with an effort. +“Please place your money on the cards or I may get muddled in the +“Please, Vasíli Dmítrich,” Natásha was saying, “do come!” +pleasure of deceiving me, if it really were true. Yes, if it were true, +pleasures than allow himself to be seen in a shabby equipage or appear +pleasure that for the first time since his arrival Prince Andrew was +“Plenty of time, your excellency,” muttered Kutúzov in the midst of +point... Come, how are you?” asked Rostóv. +pointed boot then fashionable, touched the groin of the bobtailed bay +Pointing to the fields, he spoke of the improvements he was making in +pointing to the flying soldiers; but at that instant, as if to punish +point where the French pickets had been standing that evening. +polished shining cannon that quivered on the gun carriages and with +political news. It became particularly animated toward the end of the +pomaded hair, perfumed, and in a new uniform, looking just as smart as +pondered. A husband, a man, a strong dominant and strangely attractive +pondered. Sometimes he staked a large sum, but Dólokhov refused to +ponderous steps up to her sister-in-law. +poor Amélie’s happiness, she loves him so passionately, and so +porter. He had no lambskin cap on his head, nor had he a loaded whip +position. He kept closing his eyes and then again looking at the fire, +position, it was now necessary to attack in order to cut a way through +positions and withdrawn in his presence. Together with Túshin, stepping +position with his eyes shut. Pierre looked at him and had not time +possessed of a Helen. “But no doubt it always is and must be so!” +possessed. Pierre was one of those who are only strong when they feel +possibility of active brotherly love among men, which Joseph Alexéevich +possibility of anyone seeing her without being enchanted. The aunt +possible. And I,” continued Pierre, “shot Dólokhov because I +postmaster’s book. Bazdéev had been one of the best-known Freemasons +post of commander in chief as a reward for his victory, does not give up +“Postulant,” to the accompaniment of various knockings with +pouch was slung. He had an officer’s sword in his hand. The soldier +poured drops from a medicine bottle into a wineglass half full of water. +pour le Roi de Prusse!” +Powdered footmen, in livery with buckled shoes and smart stockings, +powder smoke and stopped in despair. Everything seemed lost. But at that +power.” +practical woman that she was, had even managed by favor with army +pranced up and down in one place like a goat and shrieked piercingly. +Pratzen Heights. +Pratzen, interrupted by such frequent reports of cannon that sometimes +Pratzen, which was full of troops of all kinds. +Prayer. So, Count, there never is any negligence in my company, and +precedes a battle and had spent that happy day in inactivity, was all +premeditation Prince Vasíli took the first opportunity to gain his +preoccupied manner. He beckoned to one of his white adjutants and asked +preoccupied that only in bed was he able to be by himself. He had to +preoccupied, yet meekly Christian look which never left her face, Anna +preparations for war lay in the fact that Nicholas would not hear of +preparation swept over all the troops. +prepared by long and diligent self-purification, not everyone can hope +prepare her sister-in-law, and every time began to cry. Unobservant as +preparing tea. He brought in a boiling samovar. When everything was +presence and particularly distinguished himself.” +present bivouac another fortnight there will not be a healthy man left +present Emperor—more than once in Paris, and tells me he never met a +president of the council of war. Weyrother evidently felt himself to be +pressed him still harder with proofs of the impossibility and above all +pressing the hands of Prince Andrew and Borís. “You know I should +presumptuous lieutenant who had prevented his finishing what he had to +pretending to sleep, the sounds his nose emitted during the reading that +pretext that her aunt wished to hear him. +pretty face. +pretty young Princesses Gorchakóv met suitors there and were married +Preussisch-Eylau. +pricking its ears at the noise and looking at the lights. The shouting +pricking its ears at the sound of shots just as it had done on the +pride enough to see it? If she has no pride for herself she might at +prince. +Prince Andrew always became specially keen when he had to guide a young +Prince Andrew began to reply and to state his own plan, which might +Prince Andrew considered possible contingencies and formed new projects +Prince Andrew did not see how and by whom it was replaced, but the +Prince Andrew expressed his ideas so clearly and distinctly that it was +Prince Andrew galloped off to execute the order. +Prince Andrew gave him a look, but said nothing and went away. He felt +Prince Andrew got up and went on tiptoe up to the little bed, wineglass +Prince Andrew grew more and more animated. His eyes glittered feverishly +Prince Andrew. “I build a house and lay out a garden, and you build +Prince Andrew looked at his sister. In the dim shadow of the curtain her +Prince Andrew made use of Boguchárovo, began building and spent most of +Prince Andrew, recalling his father’s letter. “Yes, we have gained +Prince Andrew remained at Bald Hills as usual during his father’s +Prince Andrew remembered nothing more: he lost consciousness from the +Prince Andrew said nothing to Túshin. They were both so busy as to seem +Prince Andrew shouted, “Brothers! All’s lost!” And at this as if +Prince Andrew sighed and broke the seal of another envelope. It was +Prince Andrew spoke so earnestly that Pierre could not help thinking +Prince Andrew understood that this was said of him and that it was +Prince Andrew was as glad to find the boy like that, as if he had +Prince Andrew was on duty that day and in constant attendance on the +Prince Andrew went again to his wife and sat waiting in the room next +Prince Andrew went out. +Prince Andrew went up to the child and felt him. He was burning hot. +Prince Andrew, who had also been brought forward before the Emperor’s +Prince Bagratión and Túshin looked with equal intentness at +Prince Bagratión, distinguished by his Schön Grabern affair and by +Prince Bagratión looked at Túshin, evidently reluctant to show +Prince Bagratión proposed to Dolgorúkov to send to inquire of the +Prince Bagratión to begin the council. At last Bagratión’s orderly +Prince Bolkónski sat down in his usual place in the corner of the sofa +Prince Bolkónski’s household felt that their life had not been real +Prince Bolkónski surveyed Anatole. +Prince Dolgorúkov ceased to listen to him and gazed absent-mindedly not +Prince Dolgorúkov to the advanced post of the French army. +“Prince Hippolyte Kurágin—charming young fellow; M. +“Prince, I did not ask you here. Go, please go!” And he jumped up +prince interrupted her. +Prince Kurágin about me. I only wanted to ask because I fear the Guards +prince never directly asked himself that question, knowing beforehand +Prince Nicholas frowned, but said nothing. +prince, one window frame was removed in each room as soon as the larks +Prince Repnín!” and he spurred his horse and galloped away. +Prince Repnín named Lieutenant Sukhtélen. +prince’s question as to how she felt. +princess anxious and inquiring, the nurse encouraging. Everyone in the +princess’ beautiful eyes with all their former calm radiance were +“Princess, come here!” he shouted. +princess felt this; they still thought that if a blue ribbon were placed +princess’ hair. It was evident that he could be silent in this way for +princess’ hand. +princess, his cousin, at Moscow, concerning Dólokhov’s intimacy with +Princess, I hold to the principle that a maiden has a full right to +princess. (In accordance with Lise’s and Prince Andrew’s wishes they +Princess Kurágina, a portly imposing woman who had once been handsome, +Princess Mary. +Princess Mary admitted to one another that the angel’s face reminded +Princess Mary but were looking within... into herself... at something +Princess Mary could not lift her head, she was weeping. +Princess Mary, evidently intimidated and confused that her opinion +Princess Mary grew quite unconscious of her face and coiffure. The +Princess Mary had greatly changed since 1805. +Princess Mary had long since put aside her book: she sat silent, her +Princess Mary knelt down before her and hid her face in the folds of her +Princess Mary, little as he seemed to value her, was unthinkable to +Princess Mary looked at them in silence. She could not understand it. At +Princess Mary sat alone in her room listening to the sounds in the +Princess Mary shrugged her shoulders but took the glass submissively +Princess Mary shuddered; her nurse, putting down the stocking she was +Princess Mary sighed, and having crossed herself went down, thinking +Princess Mary’s self-esteem would be wounded and his point (not to +Princess Mary, then sat thinking for a while with that expression of +Princess Mary threw a shawl over her head and ran to meet the newcomer. +Princess Mary was left alone. She did not comply with Lise’s request, +Princess Mary was sitting on the sofa in her room, holding the weeping +Princess Mary was still standing by the cot, gently rocking the baby. +Princess Mary went to the door of the study with special trepidation. +Princess Mary with a gay smile, as if inviting her to join in a laugh at +“Princess, my dear, there’s someone driving up the avenue!” she +princess on hearing the news. +princess was not unwell, but had such an overpowering fear of the prince +princess, with the long waist and hair plastered down like a doll’s, +prince, stepping on his heels, paced up and down his study and sent +prince told me to ask,’ and come and tell me her answer.” +Prince Vasíli. +Prince Vasíli and Anatole had separate rooms assigned to them. +Prince Vasíli and that son of his to me? Prince Vasíli is a shallow +Prince Vasíli and the generals, had the benefit of the diplomat. +Prince Vasíli arrived that evening. He was met in the avenue by +Prince Vasíli, as he entered. “I know all about it, and I can tell +Prince Vasíli a third time. “How absent-minded you are, my dear +Prince Vasíli did everything to get Pierre to marry his daughter. Had +Prince Vasíli frowned, twisting his mouth, his cheeks quivered and his +Prince Vasíli gave Pierre a significant look. +Prince Vasíli had come to the conclusion that it was necessary to throw +Prince Vasíli had to settle matters with Pierre, who, it is true, had +Prince Vasíli passed by, seeming not to hear the ladies, and sat down +Prince Vasíli readily adopted her tone and the little princess also +Prince Vasíli rose. +Prince Vasíli’s arm and led him to his study. As soon as they were +Prince Vasíli saw that Pierre knew this. He suddenly muttered +Prince Vasíli’s last words. Then rising, he suddenly went up to his +Prince Vasíli smiled, and Pierre noticed that everyone was smiling at +Prince Vasíli was not a man who deliberately thought out his plans. +Prince Vasíli, who pretended to want to know this in order to settle a +Prince Vasíli, with one leg thrown high over the other and a snuffbox +prince was at home, and showed him into a clean little anteroom. +“Prince, what I have said is all there is in my heart. I thank you for +principal guests. He was just going to take it when Dólokhov, leaning +principals nor their seconds suffered for it. But the story of the duel, +prisoners.” +prizes his freedom which he needs for so many other things. When he +probably he did not, for in general he thought very little—but his +proceeded to his study. +produce at the same intervals and hold for the same time, but which +produced on Sónya, felt for the first time the sorrowful side of the +profited by their toil to lead a profligate life. That is what you have +promener,” * she used to say. Often seeing the success she had with +promotion, Nicholas said that he kissed his father’s and mother’s +promotion to the rank of major, and Rostóv, who had already drunk +pronounced the Mason in a stern and tremulous voice. +proofs of Nikólenka’s virtues. How strange, how extraordinary, how +properly. Hélène answered with a smile that she too had missed it. +proper posts. Borís had been quartered, and had marched all the +propose is the only thing possible.” +proposition to you in his pupil’s—I mean, his son’s—name. Do you +prostrated himself before the Gates of the Temple. And really, the +protégé, but Prince Dolgorúkov politely and firmly pressing his hand +proudly at his son. +Prussia, and had just returned from there as a special messenger. He had +Prussian army, Hélène had suddenly found it necessary to see him. +Prussians without giving them time to finish the parade they had begun, +Przebyszéwski and his corps had laid down their arms. Other columns +Przebyszéwski’s and Langeron’s columns which had already gone down +Przebyszéwski, with respectful but dignified politeness, held his +public to appreciate his skill. +pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at +Pultúsk to Petersburg returns bringing our appointment as commander in +punishments were to be admonitory and not corporal, and hospitals, +purified, thou wilt gain wisdom. Look at your life, my dear sir. +purity, and not the serfs’ backs and foreheads, which, beat and shave +purple-faced general wait respectfully while Captain Prince Andrew, for +purple face, reporting something. +purposely dropped a handkerchief in front of him and stood looking +purse that sank into the sofa. “As for us, Count, we get along on our +pushing back his chair, he rose from the table. +put questions and gave brief replies about things they knew ought to +putting the nightshirt over his dried-up old body and gray-haired chest. +qualifications for it—the kind of good-natured, fussy shallowness +qualities. He was always hearing such words as: “With your remarkable +quarreled with Hélène, mon cher? You are under a delusion,” said +quarreled with her brother about him. She insisted that he was a bad +quarters torches and candles were burning and no one slept. The old +question for her to refuse him. And therefore Nicholas’ first feeling +question for whose sake he came (though no one spoke of it) was soon +question he noticed that it should not have been put. +question him. The man announced that the Tsar had been driven in a +questioning him about political affairs and news. He seemed to listen +question—one so important that he took no notice of what went +questions put to him. He was bespattered with mud and had a pitiful, +quick-witted, nor ready or eloquent in conversation, but he had the +quiet and peace. Thank God!...” +quiet authority, “you wish to insult me, and I am ready to agree with +“Quite avare, your excellency,” suddenly shouted the colonel, +quite close at hand, and a voice of naïve terror barely two steps from +quite heard. +quite sincerely tried to make her look pretty. She was so plain that +quits... it can’t be!... And why is he doing this to me?” Rostóv +raised. He remained stubbornly silent, gazing at Weyrother’s face, +raising him. +ran ahead on tiptoe and knocked at a door. +ran forward shading his eyes with his small hand to look at the French. +rank (for he did nothing), that Prince Vasíli had procured for him, +ranks; Anatole was in the army somewhere in the provinces; Prince Andrew +ranks were returning from the attack. Rostóv got out of their way, +ran up, begging a little fire for the infantry. +rapidly. +rapidly adding up the total of Rostóv’s debt, breaking the chalk as +rapidly and indistinctly. “You thought!... Rascals! Blackguards!... +rapid, self-confident, familiar tone. “Here is my second son; please +rarely done of late. It was a grand farewell dinner, as he and Denísov +Rasgulyáy—the coachman Ipátka knows—and look up the gypsy +rather of death, as the saying is. ‘Albanians!’ and ‘devils!’ +rather round shoulders and glanced at Novosíltsev who was near him, as +rather than of what the generals were disputing about. +reached the bushes. Behind these were some Russian sharpshooters. +reached. Wheels creak on their axles as the cogs engage one another and +read a congratulation on his future son-in-law and on his daughter’s +readily and rapidly like a man who has not talked for a long time. His +readiness to fall in love and an expectation of happiness. +reading confirmation in Anna Mikháylovna’s face. +reading the letter. He went on tiptoe to the nursery door and opened it. +reading them aloud. Bagratión bowed his head and listened: +reading. Then Milorádovich looked round significantly at the other +read this in Tíkhon’s face and in that of Prince Vasíli’s valet, +ready, the stranger opened his eyes, moved to the table, filled a +reality again presented itself. He got up without saying a word and went +realize because the fear was so much the stronger feeling. The prince +realized as he read that book: the joy, hitherto unknown to him, +realized that something dreadful had happened to his regiment, and the +really good society” consisted of the fascinating Hélène, forsaken +“Really, Papa, I believe Prince Bagratión worried himself less before +rearguard all the freshness of atmosphere of the French army, which was +reasoning contained in the Mason’s words, or believed as a child +reason, or shot a post-boy’s horse with a pistol. That expression +reason, ran back and disappeared from the outskirts, and Russian +reawakening. He was afraid of any want of clearness, any weakness, in +rebuking her for her fall. +recalcitrant cavalry colonel, his own dignity as a general, and above +recalled all this as childishness he had left immeasurably behind. +recalled thousands of such hints from Prince Vasíli and others, and was +receipt, he left at the end of November, without taking leave of any of +received all Petersburg, proud of her unapproachability and beauty. So +received and read the then famous rescript of the Emperor Alexander +received Pierre with a shade of melancholy, evidently relating to the +receive that science it is necessary to purify and renew one’s inner +receiving from all sides declarations of the people’s loyalty, that +receiving it. This gratitude reminded him of how much more he might do +reception room if he wished to see him. Borís thanked him and went to +reciprocated this antipathy, but it was overpowered by his contempt +reckoning.” +recognized his lamented and adored monarch. +recognized the Tsar and watched his approach. When he was within twenty +recollection of how he was put in the sleigh or of the first three +recollections.” Prince Vasíli sighed. “Yes, yes, my boy. And my +recounting his military exploits (Prince Andrew could not endure +recover.” +recovered, and Rostóv became very friendly with him during his +recross to the other. At last our enemy, Buxhöwden, catches us and +recruitment so as to avoid active service. The old prince and his son +recruits were being enrolled in the villages, and from the seat of +reduced to tears. +referred to in that drawing room as “a man of great merit” (un homme +“refill my pipe for that one!” and then, scattering sparks from it, +reflected on theirs. +reflections. Better die a thousand times than risk receiving an unkind +refusal with his head and hand and by that gesture Rostóv instantly +refuse Iogel and asked Sónya to dance. Denísov sat down by the old +refusing to let her see them off. The diplomatist preserved a mournful +regarded all these little adjutants on the staff of whom the newcomer +regard him—but you want to cure him from love of him. And he does not +regarding all arguments as nonsense in comparison with that smile. +regenerate, purify, and elevate me. But you don’t understand it.” +regeneration, and return to life. +regimental commander and Major Ekonómov had stopped beside a bridge, +regiments, both cavalry and infantry, were by no means ready for the +regiments form bands and scour the countryside and put everything +regiment. The faces of these young people, especially those who were +regiment, they listen intently, look about, and eagerly ask concerning +regiment was much surprised at the commander in chief’s order to throw +regrettable delusion.” +regular motion as a result of all that activity. +reins and started of his own accord. +relating to Nikólenka, did not venture to ask any questions at dinner, +religion?” +relying on reason only? What art thou? You are young, you are rich, you +remained alone with him for a long time. +remained in reserve and Nicholas Rostóv spent that day in a dull and +remaining in Moscow, and only awaited the termination of Denísov’s +remaining strength. He raised his pistol and aimed. +remains of sheds, chairs, tables, wheels, tubs, and everything that they +remarks. The old count rose once more, glanced at a note lying beside +remarks which seemed to him clever while they formed in his mind became +remark to him, pointing to the gallant Ápsherons. +remember everything?” said Natásha, with an expressive gesture, +“Remember, for you everything depends on this.” +remember Nikólenka too, I remember him well,” she said. “But I +remorse, humiliations, sufferings, outbursts of pride, fear, and +rendered, and I supplied them with a doctor, a hospital, and an asylum +renounced your former convictions—do you believe in God?” +repeated by others from various sides and all became silent. +repeated. “I should be glad enough to fall asleep, so it’s not my +repeat his question. +repeating in a low voice the same words several times over. +repellent. Yet in this very repugnance to all his circumstances Pierre +replace some chessmen that were falling. He was about to embrace his +replied that it would be more than enough for him and that he gave his +replied: “Yes, yes, I agree,” and with a beaming, childlike smile, +reply. +reply—which he would not have received, for the princess was unable to +reported to him, and then joined the adjutants listening to what the +report was heard, Bagratión looked round and shouted, “Hurrah!” +reprehensible, looked round with a blush. It seemed to him that everyone +represented all that was left of that whole regiment. Impelled by the +represented as a brilliant victory over the French, and so the +reprimanding and reproaching him. Túshin gave no orders, and, +reproached and disputed with each other. +reproached her for yielding to a man without being married. Mademoiselle +reproachfully at the count who had presented it to him. Someone +request. +request that he would take no part in the matter, Rostóv agreed to be +resembling his master in manners and looks, who was accompanying him +reserve gun carriage, the wounded were carried away, and the four guns +reserve tomorrow,” he thought. “I’ll ask leave to go to the front, +reserve units were able to join up, and the fight was at an end. The +resolutely took the salver with both hands and looked sternly and +resolute self-will, “he is wicked and heartless. There now, I like +resolution. Can it be that I have none?” +resolved to go away next day and leave a letter informing her of his +resounded. The column moved forward without knowing where and unable, +resounding voice, apparently to preclude the possibility of not being +respect and honor you, but all the same remember that the future belongs +respectfully. +respectfully bowed head, seemed also to be waiting. The silence lasted +restraining his tears of pity for the Emperor, he rode on in utter +rest, went in to dinner. He was seated in the place of honor between +result from it—no longer seemed to be in the future but in the past. +“Retire! All to retire!” he shouted from a distance. +retreat after a battle have lost it is what we say; and according to +retreated as a disorderly crowd. One soldier, in his fear, uttered the +retreating against their will. A few minutes after the Emperor had +retreating forces. +retreating to our frontier—which do today.’ +returned), and, forcing open a loosely closed latch, set the damask +returned, and over the bottle of wine conversation between the three +returned from a long journey on which he had spent dozens of years, had +returned from the council, tired and exhausted but eager and proud +returned home just before dinner. As soon as he entered he noticed and +Returning from his journey through South Russia in the happiest state +return the holy image. +Rhetor, after a moment’s pause. +Rhetor said, “to bring yourself to regard it not as a dreaded foe, but +Rhetor’s instructions. The Mason drew the shirt back from Pierre’s +Rhetor, though it aroused his curiosity, did not seem to him essential, +Rhetor went away, leaving him to solitary meditation. “It must be so, +ribbons. +richest of the officers now that he had received his money, bought it. +rich old man. But before leaving home and undertaking these new affairs, +rich youths, officers and cadets, who had galloped past him on their +ride and especially by the sound of the bullets. +rider’s leg. Blood was flowing from his head; he struggled but could +rid himself of them he closed his eyes. +riding alone with three hussars into that mysterious and dangerous misty +riding, and sometimes, when he came within six paces of them, the +riding away, say to Czartorýski: “What a terrible thing war is: what +riding over it trained a gun on him and fired several shots. The +right. +right!” And his head once more sank to his horse’s neck. All at once +right and what’s good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by +right flank and drive it into the Bohemian mountains according to plan, +right—he did not know. “But was it really not possible for Kutúzov +right, it is advantageous to attack the enemy’s latter wing especially +right, shouting and firing were again heard. Flashes of shot gleamed in +right sounded oftener and nearer. As soon as Túshin with his guns, +right to fire when they liked as they approached the barrier. Dólokhov +right! Twenty-one rubles,” he said, pointing to the figure twenty-one +ring, and Zherkóv, uneasily glancing at them all, and Prince Andrew, +rising in his soul. Dólokhov, Denísov, and Rostóv were now sitting +river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at +road which gleamed white in the mist would have been safer because it +rode, not hoping to find anyone but merely to ease his conscience. When +rode side by side in front, at full gallop. One in a black uniform with +rode with our regiment all the time, so that we had every comfort and +room. +room, addressed Pierre. +room, almost all the company had assembled, and the conversation, guided +room, and looked round with a smile. She was, as always at evening +room and we shall have to go down, and you have not smartened yourself +room by which Dolgorúkov had entered—a short man in civilian clothes +room, exclaiming and oh-ing and ah-ing. +room.... Nicholas had been prepared for resistance, but had not at all +room, something flew out from a side door like a tornado and began +room. The old countess, waiting for the return of her husband and son, +room. The old man already knew everything. He was standing close to +room, they still heard the laughter and merry voices trying to persuade +room with rapid steps. Now he seemed to see her in the early days of +rose in alarm on seeing it. +“Rostóv!” +Rostóv. +Rostóv. +Rostóv. +Rostóv and Denísov drove away with the wounded Dólokhov. +Rostóv, and Dólokhov—who was now again an officer in the Semënov +Rostóv and had not responded to his greeting. When the Emperor’s +Rostóv and most of the officers after the review. +Rostóv anticipated his horse’s movements and became more and more +Rostóv as he continued to deal. +Rostóv became thoughtful. +Rostóv considered, and then went in the direction where they said he +Rostóv could already see their faces and heard the command: +Rostóv did not know or remember how he ran to his place and mounted. +Rostóv did not listen to the soldier. He looked at the snowflakes +Rostóv fancied he had seen before) rode up to the ditch, struck his +(Rostóv felt himself quite tiny and weak compared to these gigantic men +Rostóv felt ill at ease. He tried, but failed, to find some joke with +Rostóv felt that, under the influence of the warm rays of love, that +Rostóv, flushing, drew Dólokhov into the next room. +Rostóv followed them. In front of him walked Kutúzov’s groom leading +Rostóv for his friendship to her Fédya, often talked to him about her +Rostóv from a distance saw with envy and remorse how von Toll spoke +Rostóv had been ordered to look for Kutúzov and the Emperor near the +Rostóv had just prepared a card, by bending the corner of which he +Rostóv himself, his legs well back and his stomach drawn in and feeling +Rostóv hurriedly put something on his feet, drew on his dressing gown, +Rostóv laughed so loud and merrily that Denísov, in his bedroom, felt +Rostóv learned later that Russian and Austrian soldiers had been firing +Rostóv let go of the horse and was about to ride on, when a wounded +Rostóv looked at and listened listlessly to what passed before and +Rostóv met Sónya in the drawing room, he reddened. He did not know +Rostóv noticed something new in Dólokhov’s relations with Sónya, +Rostóv recalled at that moment a strange conversation he had once had +Rostóv rode on at a footpace not knowing why or to whom he was now +Rostóv, rubbing his eyes that seemed glued together, raised his +Rostóv saw overhead the old familiar cornice with a bit of plaster +Rostóv saw tears filling the Emperor’s eyes and heard him, as he was +Rostóv saw that it had been well considered by them. Sónya had already +Rostóv’s face. A gentle, mild light poured from them. Then all at +Rostóv’s feeling, there was a deathly stillness amid which was heard +Rostóv’s horse was also getting restive: it pawed the frozen ground, +Rostóv smiled. +Rostóv smilingly reassured the dragoon and gave him money. +Rostóv spurred his horse, called to Sergeant Fédchenko and two other +Rostóv’s share in Dólokhov’s duel with Bezúkhov was hushed up by +Rostóv’s soul (it seemed to Rostóv that he understood everything), +Rostóv staked five rubles on a card and lost, staked again, and again +Rostóv, standing in the front lines of Kutúzov’s army which the Tsar +Rostóv, still looking round toward the fires and the shouts, rode with +Rostóv stopped. +Rostóv stopped his horse for a moment on a hillock to see what was +Rostóv submitted. He let the eight hundred remain and laid down a seven +Rostóv too, bending over his saddle, shouted “Hurrah!” with all his +Rostóv took the letter and, throwing the money on the sofa, put both +Rostóv turned his horse and galloped back. Four more reports followed +Rostóv was not far from the trumpeters, and with his keen sight had +Rostóv was very happy in the love they showed him; but the first +Rostóv went on ahead to do what was asked, and to his great surprise +Rostóv, when their leave permits had been passed at the town gate and +Rostóv, who had completely forgotten Denísov, not wishing anyone to +Rostóv, who had just celebrated his promotion to a cornetcy and bought +Rostóv with Dólokhov and Denísov stayed on at the club till late, +rosy, with a dark little mustache, evidently rested and made sleeker by +round and galloped back to the place where he had seen the Emperor, but +round her head. +round his son’s neck, and without a word he began to sob like a child. +round once more. The French had fallen behind, and just as he looked +round. Prince Andrew and the battalion were already within twenty paces +round shoulders shuddered as if a cold shiver had run down them, how his +round Sónya and Natásha as the air does before a thunderstorm. Sónya +round the company. He noticed the change in the little princess’ +round the first man changed his run to a walk and, turning, shouted +round the table, the clatter of plates, knives, and glasses mingled with +round with much animation and cheerfully nodded to his son as the latter +roused by activity, expected the best results from the new campaign, +roused, had begun to talk, and wanted to express what had brought him to +rubbed his forehead as if to rid himself of all interest in what he +rubles at a time, to talk about not wishing to cringe to anybody and not +rubles I don’t know what to do with, and she stands in her tattered +rug and began reading to him from a manuscript book an explanation of +ruin. Wasn’t he my friend? Wasn’t I fond of him? But it’s not his +rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be +running. +running beside Timókhin, killed a Frenchman at close quarters and was +running? Can they be coming at me? And why? To kill me? Me whom everyone +Russian. +Russian and the Austrian. The Guards, just arrived from Russia, spent +Russian arms. +Russian army. And I won’t—not even if Bonaparte were here at +Russian army! Well, as I was saying,” he continued, recovering his +Russian general. The general shouted a demand that the cavalry should be + Russians! O’er all barriers on! +Russian troops moving down the valley to their left. +Russian valor—what more could be wished for?” +Russia’s glory were led to destruction. Go, Princess Mary. Go and tell +saber had tasted flesh and he had fallen exhausted, and so on. And so he +saber, he sank on the snow beside it. His left hand was bloody; he wiped +saber them... Whom? The hussars... Ah, the hussars with mustaches. Along +sabretache...”—“Keep to the right, your honor, there are bushes +sad and depressed. It was all so strange, so unlike what he had hoped. +saddle and touched up his horse to ride once more round his hussars. It +saddle sore which, coming after all my previous journeys, quite prevents +said. +said a gunner, coming up to Túshin. +said another. +said he, bending down a finger. +said he, “but the health of our Sovereign, that good, enchanting, and +said he, carrying away into the darkness a glowing stick. +said her eyes. She was not surprised at his having come; she did +said, holding the casement and not closing it. “With lanterns. Most +said, “how am I to stifle in my heart these temptations of the devil? +said in a tone of indifferent politeness: +said inquiringly. +said little Iogel coming up to Nicholas. “Look how many charming young +said nothing to Borís and, evidently unable to suppress the thoughts +said, of a wife who was a celebrated beauty and of millions of money. +said one of the nursemaids to Prince Andrew who was sitting on a +said Prince Andrew when they had gone into the large room where the +said Repnín. +said she. +said the countess, indignant that they should have dared to treat this +said the countess smiling. +said the old man, “say so, my dear sir.” And he suddenly smiled, in +said the princess in a tone of entreaty. +said this some time after she had finished singing. While that untrained +said to be fleeing in great disorder. Mind you gallop off to Kórchevo +said, without noticing Nicholas. +said without sitting down. “A person of very high standing in our +saint, my angel,” she said with a sigh. +saluting, and this sound rapidly came nearer along the whole extended +salver, glanced around in dismay, as though seeking help. But all eyes +same as usual,” and Princess Mary pale, frightened, and with downcast +same commanders. The sailor rarely cares to know the latitude in which +same.... Is everything ready?” he added. “Only tell me where to go +same moment his kindly eyes grew moist with tears of joy and enthusiasm. +same question. “Will Papa be back soon?” +same sergeant major Iván Mítrich, the same company dog Jack, and the +same speed, but they kept increasing their pace, so that some of the +same time at the Emperor Francis. +same to me!” he screamed in the same piercing tone as when parting +same way. When did it happen and what has happened? I am well and strong +satchels, sabretaches, open portmanteaus, and dirty boots. Two freshly +sat down again, smiling at the noise they had made and exchanging +sat down languidly on the sofa: he felt it unpleasant to have dropped +sat facing Bagratión and, as the very personification of Moscow +sat in an armchair in her dressing jacket and nightcap and Katie, sleepy +satisfied with the party. She replied in her usual simple manner that +sat playing patience with the old gentlewoman who lived in their house. +saved. But he saw nothing. Above him there was now nothing but the +save myself?” he thought. He rode on to the region where the greatest +saw a rather short man. Having evidently come from the light into the +saw the beloved features that were so deeply engraved on his memory. The +saw them all and saw them in detail. She saw Prince Vasíli’s face, +saw with his own eyes brick buildings erected or in course of erection, +say (as he has done before) that I’m in the dumps.” +say I’ll have his head off if everything is not here in a week. +saying as he moved from the gun, when a strange, unfamiliar voice called +saying. “I have been an atheist,” answered Pierre. +saying it right, I have drunk a good deal—but that is how I feel, and +saying.” Prince Andrew looked silently at Pierre with an ironic smile. +saying that he must prostrate himself at the Gates of the Temple. +saying that, on the contrary, she remembered him quite well. Then +say it.” +say that it is dull in my house again,” and she glanced at Hélène. +say to the adjutant that Borís felt uncomfortable. He turned away and +say—“Yes, misfortune! Call it what you please, I know that what +Schérer. At the other end sat the younger and less important guests, +Schlappanitz and Bellowitz which cover the enemy’s front. For this +Schlappanitz and the Thuerassa forest, avoiding the defiles of +Schön Grabern affair, just as those who have taken part in a battle +Schön Grabern—and he would have found that easier. The committeemen +schools,” he went on, crooking a finger, “education and so forth; +Schoss, and his old nurse, and asked them to kiss for him “dear +science explaining the whole creation and man’s place in it. To +“Scoundrels! Blackguards!” shrieked the old man, turning his face +screwed up his eyes as if dazzled by the sun. He was entirely absorbed +scrutinizing Anatole closely and intently. +seated them on the center sofa. The bigwigs, the most respected members +seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the +seconds he stood not moving from the spot or realizing the situation. +second time. But Pierre was so absorbed that he did not understand what +secretary rather than commander in the army. My removal from the army +secretly regretting this, saw only the dark side. +secret malevolence in their hearts. +seduced, and to whom her poor mother (sa pauvre mère) appeared, and +“See, I’m standing! See!” she said, but could not maintain herself +seeing Prince Andrew stopped, hesitating on the threshold. He went into +seeing some men running toward him. “They will help me!” In front +Seeing that smile, Rostóv involuntarily smiled himself and felt a still +seeing the favor the Emperor showed the prisoners, they now hastened to +seeing the fright of that small and frail but proud man when covered by +Seeing them he kept thinking, “That may be the very standard with +seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. Man’s future and thy own fate +seemed as though not the trumpeters were playing, but as if the army +seemed familiar to Princess Mary was saying something. +seemed impossible. “But perhaps they may do it!” For more than ten +seemed like a lifeless body, but as soon as he came up it became alive, +seemed to ask. She noticed at once that something had happened to him. +seemed to give way within him at this news. Dólokhov was a suitable and +seemed to have changed roles since the campaign of 1805. The old man, +seemed to her that someone was there standing behind the screen in the +seemed to him all the interests that engrossed Napoleon, so mean did his +seemed to him as though one of the soldiers near him hit him on the head +seemed to him like ants. In that world, the handsome drunkard Number One +seemed to him that he had expected all this and even more. Trying +seemed to him that it was a very long time ago, almost a day, since he +seemed to him that it was getting lighter. To the left he saw a sloping +seemed to say. She saw her husband, but did not realize the significance +seemed to say: “Yes, there’s nothing left for you and me but to sip +seemed to say. “You had not noticed that I am a woman? Yes, I am a +seem to him that everyone is afraid of him, and that must please him. +seen him in Petersburg. I saw him just as I see you.... There he sat in +seen the day before in the arms of her nurse’s daughter—at her +seen the light, come here? What do you seek from us? Wisdom, virtue, +seen through. +seen you. Very glad! Go back to your rooms, Princess. Go!” said +see the true light, and that he, Pierre, ought to aid, enlighten, and +see those who, judging by the sound of hoofs and voices, had ridden up +see whether he cannot attach you to himself or find a place for you +see whether they were getting up. +seized by an unreasoning panic—it occurred to him that the child was +seized by terror lest he had already, in some way, bound himself to do +seized him at the thought of that dreadful step. A thousand times during +seize some horsecloths, though he had told him the Russians were there. +seizing his father’s hand, he pressed it to his lips and burst into +seizing the most opportune moment for making use of people. +self, and so before one can know, it is necessary to believe and to +self-complacency than his did.) “Well, he stormed at me, as the saying +self-complacent happiness that one sees on the face of a boy happily +self-confident. +self-derision genuinely Russian. Bilíbin wrote that the obligation of +self-possession. If a man lacking in self-confidence remains dumb on +self-possession mingled at that moment in Rostóv’s soul. +self-respect, but admit that the time and place are very badly chosen. +“Sell us that horse!” Denísov called out to the Cossacks. +semi-private, long-established jokes and amusing reminiscences, though +send his orderly staff officer, and later Prince Andrew also, to order +sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around +senseless cry, “Cut off!” that is so terrible in battle, and that +sense of awe and veneration such as he had experienced in his boyhood at +sent an official to Austria to seek for traces of his son, he ordered a +sent Dólokhov the whole forty-three thousand rubles and received his +“Separate? Very well, but only if you give me a fortune,” said +separating the living from the dead—lay between them. All were +‘Sergéy’ he sobbed, ‘Kuz-mí-ch,’ tears, and ‘From all +“Sergéy Kuzmích—From all sides—” he said, unbuttoning the top +Sergéy Kuzmích...’ Poor Vyazmítinov could not get any farther! +serious duel, and besides, Drubetskóy, who says he is an old friend +serious expression. But the author himself took the verses and began +serious for an instant at the sight of her, but immediately smiling +servant. +served up was received with pleasure by all her visitors. The greatest +service.” +service, and he at once understood his role, letting his hostess make +service is to serve under him.” +service,” said the prince disdainfully. “Why his son is coming I +service to place himself very advantageously. He was aide-de-camp to a +serving as a private. But the command of the extreme left flank had been +set fire to the Schön Grabern village, delayed the French advance. The +setting fire to Schön Grabern. +settled. He came because of Sónya. And Sónya, though she would never +seven he needed was lying uppermost, the first card in the pack. He had +seventeen of the forty men of the guns’ crews had been disabled, but +seven virtues, corresponding to the seven steps of Solomon’s temple, +several dead men. One ball after another passed over as he approached +several of them were not separated from one another but merged into a +Several of those present smiled at Zherkóv’s words, expecting one of +several persons whom he did not know, giving him a whispered description +Several soldiers fell. +several soldiers fell, and a second lieutenant who was holding the +several thousand rubles. +several thousand rubles quitrent received from Pierre’s peasants, +Several times in the course of the morning Princess Mary began trying to +Several wounded men passed along the road, and words of abuse, screams, +severe gaze straight on Pierre’s face. +severity changed, and he drew Pierre’s hand downwards, made him sit +shall not agree with you, and you do not really believe what you are +shall think nothing of an extra seventy miles to come and see you at +“Shall we have three cold dishes then?” asked the cook. +“Shall you write to him?” she asked. +shame and anger choking him, had already leapt from his horse and run to +shameless, and he ignores her!” +sharpshooters in front of our columns. The colonel at the head of the +sharpshooters showed themselves in the copse. It was Timókhin’s +She already had power over him, and between them there was no longer any +She always addressed him with a radiantly confiding smile meant for him +She approached him, saw his face, and something gave way within her. Her +she began to tell of how at Potsdam the impious Bonaparte had stolen the +she considered the resonance was best. +she continued, uniting them both in one glance. Pierre did not look at +She could not lie either on her face or on her side. Every position was +She drew nearer to him. Her face flushed. +she felt any symptoms of pregnancy. She laughed contemptuously and said +She forgot all fear of her father, went up to him, took his hand, and +(She glanced at Hélène and smiled at her.) “My dear Hélène, be +She had determined not to tell her and persuaded her father to hide the +she had sacrificed so much. She could not refrain from weeping at these +she had seldom experienced, came upon her. She feared to look round, it +“She is not very well,” answered Mademoiselle Bourienne with +She knew of the duel and had come to speak about it. She waited till the +she knew so well), on the lock of gray hair that escaped from under the +She looked at him inquiringly and with childlike reproach. +she must love him if she could so far forget herself! Perhaps I might +she not only left her hair as it was, but did not even look in her +she ought to behave like Mademoiselle Bourienne, but could not. +She paused, as women always do, expecting something after they have +She pulled up her muslin sleeve and showed him a red scar on her long, +She rang for her maid and asked her to sleep in her room. +She roused herself, and felt appalled at what she had been thinking, and +She rushed to Sónya, hugged her, and began to cry. +She seemed to promise to explain that necessity to him when he came on +she suddenly came into his mind as she was at the moments when he had +She thought: “If I seem not to notice he will think that I do not +She took the liberty of inquiring whether it was long since Anatole +she turned to his father. The conversation was general and animated, +she used to have quarrels with the too indulgent count, that son who +She was much altered. She was now plain rather than pretty. Her cheeks +she was, Natásha, who knew how sensitive her mother was to anything +She was no longer in the loose gown she generally wore in the morning, +she was not a fool to want to have children, and that she was not going +she was now saying she had talked of before, with tears. +she wished to and only refrained out of regard for his modesty. +she would say. What could all that matter in comparison with the will of +shining eyes, not interrupting or questioning him, but believing with +shone with such gaiety and youth, such innocent youth, that it suggested +shops, bakers’ signboards, street lamps, and sleighs!” thought +Shortly after nine o’clock that evening, Weyrother drove with his +shortsighted delight at the misery of others, and doubts and torments +shots came. +should already have suggested to your heart, if it is sincere, more than +should be a nice set of fellows if we were to wait about and so give him +should be glad and not cry.” +should be if I could now say: ‘Lord, have mercy on me!’... But to +shoulder and left the room without snuffing the candles or saying why he +shoulders close to his eyes. +should much like to be an adjutant and not remain at the front.” +should now be away in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, a manly +“Shouldn’t we now send for Berg?” asked Borís. “He would drink +should one love and what hate? What does one live for? And what am I? +shouted hoarsely. +shouted “Hurrah!” in exactly the same voice in which he had shouted +shouting. +shouting came from, a fire flared up and went out again, then another, +shouting grew louder and louder. Rostóv could hear the sound of French +shouts of hurrah, and saw wounded being brought back (there were not +shouts of thousands of voices. His horse and the horse of the hussar +showed how he presented himself, with his hand to his cap, and really +showing the necessity of first paying off the loans from the Land Bank, +showing under his open shirt, he stood in a majestic pose in the light +shown, fired. Not at all expecting so loud a report, Pierre shuddered +shown to the best room, which Dólokhov had taken for that evening. Some +“Shut up!” +side and at first did not play. Dólokhov kept glancing at him. +side and looked round with a frown. Along the road from Pratzen galloped +side as her betrothed, seeing, hearing, feeling her nearness, her +side by side. Prince Vasíli was not having any supper: he went round +sides. He acknowledged no acquaintances but saw in all these men only +side, so close to our own forces that Napoleon with the naked eye could +sides’ was smothered in sobs and he could get no farther. And again +sideways at Princess Mary from a little distance. “You have a maroon +“Sideways! Cover yourself with your pistol!” ejaculated Nesvítski. +sight of his superiors, he did not notice the staff of the banner and +sign. +significant command to come to her on Tuesday. +sign papers, to present himself at government offices, the purpose of +silence. +silence as he left the drawing room. He pictured the vanity of his +silently—fearing to speak because at every word he felt ready to +silent, “that Sónya and Nicholas now say you to one another and meet +silent, waiting for what he would say. +silver and crystal gleamed, so did the ladies’ toilets and the gold +simply dressed hair (two immense plaits twice round her lovely head like +simultaneously attacked and outflanked by superior French forces under +“Since Prince Bagratión is not coming, we may begin,” said +“Since the day of our brilliant success at Austerlitz,” wrote +since the nursing mothers were no longer sent to work on his land, they +since the time when he thought his son had been killed, he did not think +singer” (he meant Natásha’s Italian singing master), “that’s +sir!” +sire,” * he answered gaily, raising nevertheless ironic smiles among +sister, black eyes... Na... tasha... (Won’t she be surprised when +sister had hung round his neck with such emotion and reverence, “it +sister-in-law’s dress. +sister. “Why isn’t she dull and ashamed?” +sitting at tea with Bilíbin. “The fete is for tomorrow. How is your +sitting motionless before the glass, looking at her face, and saw in the +Sitting on the sofa with the little cushions on its arms, in what used +situated,” said Prince Andrew. +“Six hundred rubles, ace, a corner, a nine... winning it back’s +six miles away, or whether they were near by in that sea of mist, no one +Six weeks after Anna Pávlovna’s “At Home” and after the sleepless +Six weeks later he was married, and settled in Count Bezúkhov’s +skillfully changed the subject. He asked him to tell them how and where +skillfully made watch, dares to say that, as he does not understand +sky—the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray +sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and +sleepiness that kept coming over him. An enormous space, with our +sleeve with her finger, saying: +sleigh and pair at once, and go to Bezúkhov’s, and tell him ‘Count +slender, delicate arm, high above the elbow on that part that is covered +slippery ice that covered the millpool. +slope of the hill amid the smoke a Russian battery that was still firing +“Smack at ‘em, lads!” he kept saying, seizing the guns by the +small cloud rose from the hill and was borne in a streak to the left by +smashed, and the shouting grew louder. They drank to Bekleshëv, +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile, for which he was long unable to forgive himself, “I have lost a +smile of a doctor to whom an old wife wishes to explain the treatment of +smile of his which seemed to say, “Ah! This is what I like!” +smile on his lips and face, but his eyes were dull and lifeless and in +smile that usually brightened her face. Pierre knew that everyone was +smiling as if she did not recognize him. +smiling face, moved after Willarski with uncertain, timid steps. +smiling, glittered with effort and exasperation as he mustered his +smilingly raising a finger at him, she left the room. +smoke enveloped everything. +smoke, rendered denser by the mist, prevented him from seeing anything +Smolénsk threatening Bald Hills—even then I wouldn’t serve in the +Smolyanínov, and it mortified him to think that the newcomer was an +smooth—felt that no small matter was happening, but an important and +snow-covered road, did not once wake up on the way to Moscow, but lay +snuffbox while trying to hear what was being said at the other table. +so alien to us. +sobbing like a child. The door opened. The doctor with his shirt sleeves +sobs. The count was lighting his pipe and did not notice his son’s +so-called battle of the three Emperors—that is to say, a slow movement +society. +society. Beside him stood a lad of nineteen, also a wounded officer of +society had entered the simple feeling of the attraction of a healthy +society of women was rather derogatory to his manhood. He went to balls +society so dearly and distinctly indicated. +so completely silenced and their arguments confuted by such conclusive +so contrary to his method of conducting war? Believe me, he is afraid, +so do you too! To the health of Alexander the First! Hurrah!” +so easily extract a good profit for themselves from a dinner costing +So energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable +soft hand taking hers firmly, and she touched with her lips a white +soft snowbanks that bordered both sides of the path. The prince went +so he went from one group to another. Some of the most important old men +“So I can fire when I like!” said Pierre, and at the word +soirees as before—such as she alone had the gift of arranging—at +“So it is all finished!” he thought. “And how has it all happened? +“so it is useless to ask whether it is good or bad. It is good because +“So it seems you’re a hero, eh? Come now, what was this duel about? +Sokólniki after the duel and had spent that first agonizing, sleepless +Sokólniki forest and found Dólokhov, Denísov, and Rostóv already +Sokolnitz, November 30, 1805.” +soldier. +soldier at the front, gave the command “Attention!” and rode up +soldier, mimicking the general who had ridden away. “I’d shoot them, +soldiers’ bonfires and with his long gray mustache, his white chest +soldiers had kindled on the road. Rostóv, too, dragged himself to the +soldier shouted to him. “They’d kill you there!” +soldiers, loudly demanding bread, meat, biscuits, fodder, and whatnot! +soldiers, munching biscuit and beating a tattoo with their feet to +soldiers, officers, and generals were heroes. But the hero of heroes was +soldiers only need to be restrained and held back! On all sides, new and +soldiers ran from the fires, thrust their pipes into their boots, their +soldiers running in confused crowds across his path. +soldiers, straining their lungs, shouted “Hurrah!” +Soldiers! The Russian army is advancing against you to avenge the +soldiers who were seizing the artillery horses and turning the guns +soldier with the harsh voice, and it was that affair and this soldier +solemn affair. Every general and every soldier was conscious of his own +so long,” he added. +so long waited, presents itself to him at last. He firmly and clearly +so many years Moravians in shaggy caps and blue jackets had peacefully +some!” +some approaching achievement, and some in course of disintegration. He +some concessions. Continuing to represent the liberation of the serfs +some great change had come over him that day. He was silent all through +some not. This whole mass droned and jostled in confusion under the +Some of the nearest relatives had not yet left. They were sitting in +some of the topics at first lightly touched on: their past life, plans +Someone mentioned that Captain Túshin was bivouacking close to the +someone. (Prince Bagratión did not ask about the guns on the left +some question—“Most likely he is asking at what o’clock they +some reason she called it Urope as if that were a specially refined +some sort were moving about, in front and behind moved lines of troops; +Some swarthy men and women were really entering from the cold outside +something.” +something and went away. It seemed to Pierre that even the prince was +something, but dared not.... No, it was I who dared not. But that’s +something I cannot inflict on others,” said Prince Andrew, growing +something I have received from the chancellor. I asked him for you, and +something large, brilliant, and handsome moving toward her as she +something loudly to a comrade farther back. Rostóv paused. “No, +“Something special is always said in such cases,” he thought, but +something terrible and monstrous rising in his soul and turned quickly +something that was evidently wrong and that he ought not to do. But at +something to him in French in an undertone and then went up to a small +something toward it and you cannot persuade me that it was not a good +some time to get the wedding ring off his fat finger. When that had been +some way and knowing that this was impossible was ready to cry. The Tsar +somewhere nearer the sun.” +somewhere under her heart would ever cry, suck her breast, and begin to +some wooded hills were discernible, and it was there the enemy probably +“So much the better! I shall see it close,” he thought. +so my conscience was at ease. I came forward....” (Berg stood up and +son. +son. +son or kinsman.” +Sónya again interrupted. She gave him an imploring, frightened look. +Sónya and Dólokhov before dinner, and with the kindly sensitiveness +Sónya became thoughtful. The question of how to write to Nicholas, and +Sónya interrupted him. +Sónya, Natásha, Pétya, Anna Mikháylovna, Véra, and the old count +Sónya’s joint ages. Rostóv, leaning his head on both hands, sat at +Sónya smiled. +Sónya smiled. +Sónya’s refusal and felt uncomfortable at the thought of how they +Sónya’s thin little shoulders, Natásha’s eyes and laughter, +Sónya struck the first chord of the prelude. +Sónya too, all rosy red, clung to his arm and, radiant with bliss, +Sónya was more tender and devoted to him than ever. It was as if she +Sónya was sitting at the clavichord, playing the prelude to +Sónya, whom he loved and thought of just the same as ever.” When she +Soon after his admission to the Masonic Brotherhood, Pierre went to the +Soon after Prince Andrew’s return the old prince made over to him a +Soon after Prince Bagratión had left him, Túshin had succeeded in +Soon after this there came into the dark chamber to fetch Pierre, not +sooner or later he would step across it, but an incomprehensible terror +so on. Then a place was assigned to Pierre, he was shown the signs of +“Sophie,” he began, timidly at first and then more and more +so rapid that they could hardly be his mother’s. +sorrow, sadness, or self-reproach, that she purposely deceived herself +sorts, and Russian and Austrian soldiers of all arms, some wounded and +so softly that the Rhetor did not hear him and asked him what he was +so strange that one could not take it in. But then the expression of +so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat +so terrible to the soldiers, despite his furious purple countenance +“So that’s what I’m sorry for—human dignity, peace of mind, +so that the maid could hardly get her hair plaited, and she was +“So the attack is definitely resolved on?” asked Bolkónski. +“So there’s nothing?” +soul and his face. +soul: courage, generosity, morality, love of mankind, and especially +soul to believe and he did believe, and felt a joyful sense of comfort, +sounded far away. Here everyone clearly saw and said that the battle +sounded. Several of our men fell, among them the round-faced officer +sounding, even the connoisseurs said nothing, but only delighted in +sound of artillery fire near by. Having forced his way out of the crowd +sound of the hoofs of the approaching cavalcade, but because as he drew +sound of wheels and footsteps heard by the outposts during the night, +sount ze retreat!” +“So we are to have visitors, mon prince?” remarked Mademoiselle +so well how to arrange a feast on an open-handed, hospitable scale, +“So you are not afraid to play with me?” repeated Dólokhov, and as +“So you are still at that silly business!” quickly closed his eye +“So you have never noticed before how beautiful I am?” Hélène +“So you think he is powerless?” said Langeron. +speak—he turned back, rapidly mounted the stairs again with the +speaking and evidently not thinking about her at all. Anatole was not +speaking as if he were saying something which had long since been agreed +speaking French. He opened his eyes. Above him again was the same lofty +speaking of a collection of snuffboxes that had belonged to Pierre’s +speaking of Him, my dear sir. Of what, of whom, are we speaking? Whom +Speaking of the position of Prussia, Anna Pávlovna very naturally asked +speaking to an Austrian general. Prince Andrew, who was a little behind +speak in the tone of decided refusal and disagreement in which he had +speak, so now she could not believe that that little creature could be +special force. No matter what he thought about, he always returned to +spectacle of his power over these three women. Besides that, he was +spectacles. +spectacles unable to understand what they wanted or how they could go on +speeches were intended for quite other conditions, they were for the +spent, and almost every year he was obliged to borrow. Besides this the +spiritual needs, while it seems to me that animal happiness is the only +spite of his evident wish to do so he could not give them a joyous +splashing with blood those near them. +“Splendid! Excellent!” exclaimed Natásha. “Another verse,” she +spoke in abrupt sentences. “The whole company can bear witness. I beg +sprang out before the sleigh stopped, and ran into the hall. The house +spread by the fact that the Emperor’s carriage had really galloped +springing to him, putting her arms round him, and kissing him. This +squadron. The day was bright and sunny after a sharp night frost, and +S— S— get the same distinction?” +staff were not far off, in the village the vehicles were going to. +stages of his journey. +stairs and embraced his sister. +stake of twenty rubles. +standard in hand, I shall go forward and break whatever is in front of +standing motionless; then he came to the region occupied by Uvárov’s +stand the sight of these unfortunates. +started,” thought Prince Andrew, watching his old acquaintance with +state.” +state of the political thermometer of legitimate Petersburg court +station), and again embraced his sister. +station, but compared to the thoughts that now occupied him it was a +stationed on the Pratzen Heights. +station or a doctor for the cadet, and sat down by a bonfire the +stepped to the middle of the room and stood still. +“Stepping flat on his heels—we know what that means....” +stepping into the deep snow. He held the pistol in his right hand at +steps, and again stopped. +steps should be taken to liberate the serfs, which the steward met by +steps. When at last, smartly whirling his partner round in front of her +stern and solemn train of thought that weakness from loss of blood, +stern, shrewd, and penetrating expression of that look struck Pierre. He +steward, and again began giving orders. A light footstep and the +steward there, who, bowing respectfully, looked into his face and at +“Still aching?” Túshin asked Rostóv in a whisper. +“Still, don’t ruin yourself!” said Dólokhov with a side glance at +still farther ahead a dark line which he could not see distinctly but +still feeling his eyes gazing at her. +still. “If it were a man whose existence thou didst doubt I could +still in course of construction. Round the house was a garden newly laid +still in the same place, his stout body resting heavily in the saddle +still it was terrible, and she could not help thinking of it. She was +Still less did he think of injuring anyone for his own advantage. He +Still no one moved. The troops of the left flank, infantry and hussars +Still the cannon balls continued regularly to whistle and flop onto the +still there?” +“Still the same,” she said to her husband. +“Still the same. Wait, for heaven’s sake. Karl Ivánich always says +still was not in time to avoid them. +still when she’s fifty.” +stimulating effect on him. “Vive l’Empereur! l’Empereur!” he now +stint yourself, we’ll settle afterwards,” he added, turning to +stir. An adjutant, dismounting, lifted the soldier under the arms to +stir, and a footman who had run in announced, with a frightened face: +stomach with an already stiffened arm flung wide. +stone, hundreds of riders composing the suites moved carelessly but +stood at a window with Dólokhov, whose acquaintance he had lately +stood at every door anxiously noting visitors’ every movement in order +stood before a looking glass and brushed the hair on his temples +stood cold and silent, as if quite regardless of who had come to it. +stood, met, and separated, some in uniform and some in evening dress, +stood with his marshals around him, it was quite light. Above him was +stood with the candle. Yes, it was he, pale, thin, with a changed and +stopped at a solitary, deserted house that had probably once been an +stopped him. He turned his horse and galloped off. +stopped the company.” Dólokhov breathed heavily from weariness and +Stopping in front of the Pávlograds, the Tsar said something in French +“Stop them!” he shouted, and at the same moment, probably realizing +“Stop those wretches!” gasped Kutúzov to the regimental commander, +stories of his kindness and irascibility. Berg, as usual, kept silent +stories of the Grand Duke’s quick temper he related with gusto how in +stories or telling them, but followed every movement of Rostóv’s +story of the misfortunes of some Mary Víktorovna or other. At the +story to him, her seducer. And now he, a real Russian prince, had +straight! It’s well God had mercy on us. And what was it for? Who +straight on Napoleon, he was silent.... So insignificant at that moment +strange and ridiculous to meet objections from Russian generals and to +strangely softened but agitated expression on his face. He came up the +stranger. +stranger, looking deeper and deeper into Pierre’s eyes. “And in +strangers and unable to send news of himself. The gazettes from which +stranger, yet nearer to him through the brotherhood of man. With bated +strange, unknown, and dangerous places he reaches, just as a sailor is +strategic position where the operations would take place was familiar in +strayed off the track into the snow, Pierre looked down at his feet, +streamed out of a side street. +stretched along the highroad in the midst of a young copse in which were +stretching himself he rose from the table. “One does get tired sitting +striking chords with his short fingers, his legs thrown back and his +stripes on their bodies heal, and they are happy as before. But it is +stroke, came up to the prince, bowing his bald head resignedly before +stroked the animal. It was plain that he did not quite grasp where he +stronger flow of love for his sovereign. He longed to show that love in +struck him by her beauty on the preceding day. Today, when he had caught +struggle, but with naïve and lighthearted gaiety. +struggles of a certain Emilie de Mansfeld. “And why did she resist +struggle to conquer that fear, all his dreams of distinguishing himself +study. +study a little before noon in his silk dressing gown and found his head +study, the old prince went for his walk as usual next morning, but he +stumbled on him in the fog, hearing no encouraging word from their +stumbled over it. Several of those present laughed. +stupidest remarks came out clever and apt. Now everything Pierre said +submissive general. +submit from habit, and she said: “I wish only to do your will, but if +submit my report, with the information that if the army remains in its +submitted herself to Mademoiselle Bourienne and Lise. Both these women +subscribed the same amount as the others. +succeeded!’ The Prussian generals pride themselves on being polite to +succeeds. He sat motionless, looking at the heights visible above +success.” +success and at the inability of others to understand these things. +successfully cannonading the French, our artillerymen only noticed this +success reached Kutúzov’s cheerless staff with the galloping advent +Such a friend that I burned my arm for her sake. Look here!” +such a fright! Oh, what a pig I am!” he repeated, flushing suddenly. +such an unfortunate and charming woman! Don’t mention him before +such a plan in which the enemy’s position was assumed to be known, +such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was passing now +such as might call for his rapidity of perception and decision. +such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread +such love as Sónya was speaking of. But Natásha had not yet felt +such silence and an anxiety to find something to say, the effect is +Suddenly a gust of wind beat violently against the casement of the +suddenly appeared in the fog, there was a flash, followed by a report, +suddenly appeared, looming huge as an elephant. +suddenly came to and, lifting his head with an effort, took Rostóv, who +suddenly changed to one of horror. The French were supposed to be a +Suddenly Prince Bolkónski frowned. +suddenly replied the irate colonel. “If you vere in the cavalry...” +suddenly transformed. He put on the air of a subordinate who obeys +suddenness and prompt him to the coarsest and most reckless actions. +suffer for it.” +suffering, and the nearness of death aroused in him. Looking into +suffering, but what he wanted to do was too terrible. +suffering?” suggested another voice. Prince Andrew, however, did not +sufferings. What a heart! How like him it is! And how he has remembered +sufficient ground for this affair, or for blood to be shed over it.... +sufficiently weakened to be successfully attacked. But still he did not +suggested that she had resolved to endure her troubles uncomplainingly +superfluous was hanging on his benumbed left arm. The wrist felt as if +superior. +superior to Napoleon’s, were concentrated in one place, the troops +“Supper, it’s time for supper! And here are the gypsies!” +supposed, must have risen to fifteen thousand. In reality it already +supposed that The Russian Guards, Abroad, was quite a definite address, +suppressed smile brightening both their faces, a smile that had nothing +surprised by what he saw. Hoping to enter on an entirely new life quite +surprised Pierre. +surprise, the French had thrown down their muskets and run. Dólokhov, +surrender of most of the Prussian fortresses had been received, when our +“Surrounded! Cut off? We’re lost!” shouted the fugitives. +surroundings, and from her smiling lips flowed sounds which anyone may +surroundings unable to find their own regiments. In this way the action +survive....” +Suvórov-like, in a kibítka, and is received with acclamations of joy +Suvórov. Moreover, paying such honor to Bagratión was the best way of +Suvórov’s time, now passing so gallantly before the Emperors, that he +swarmed with well-provisioned sutlers and Austrian Jews offering +sway and scatters its last snows and storms with desperate fury. A relay +sways the world. Think this over and I will come to you again.” +sweet wine, my dear, now that the time has come for these young ones to +sword of Frederick the Great. +swords, meaning them to pierce it. But the swords were drawn back from +symmetrically and above all freely, and in front of them two men—the +sympathize with him; if I seem sad and out of spirits myself, he will +table, a child’s table, and the little chair on which Prince Andrew +table and placed on it his small leather-gloved hands. +table began to watch her hands arranging the cards. From the dancing +table on a corner of which he smilingly and absent-mindedly fixed his +tables and the same chandelier with a cover over it; but someone had +table seemed to feel this, and they forgot their duties as they looked +tache,” he thought. “There now... it’s not a tache... Natásha... +“Tafa-lafa! But what he’s jabbering no one can make out,” said a +tail extended, Bedouin, as if also conscious of the Emperor’s eye +take her for her connections and wealth. Are there no women living +take his eyes off her and beat time with his saber in a way that clearly +take me too? Who are these men?” thought Rostóv, scarcely believing +taken a ballroom in Bezúkhov’s house, and the ball, as everyone said, +taken from the prisoner. +taken, it was not his fault but the corporal’s who had sent him to +taken off his eyes and, by the faint light of the burning spirit, +taken up their position and seeing troops before them, thought they were +“Take this road, your honor, that way you will be killed at once!” a +taking him by the hand led him forward. The hairs tied in the knot hurt +taking his partner with him. He glided silently on one foot half across +Taking the colonel’s outburst as a challenge to his courage, the +taking up a pack he prepared to deal. Rostóv submissively unbent the +talk, but I don’t want to,” he seemed to say. Besides this, in his +talking of the Schön Grabern affair? Were you there?” +talks sense, but to temporize and wait for something now when Bonaparte +talk to her. What a darling Sónya is!” he added with a smile. +task Pierre had to face was one for which he had very little aptitude or +tea?” asked his valet. +tears. +teatime she would prepare the countess, and after tea, with God’s +“Tell Bezúkhov to come. I’ll put his name down. Is his wife with +tell everything just as it happened, but imperceptibly, involuntarily, +telling him. +tell the little countess!” +“Tell them to give me a seat, for God’s sake!” +tell the truth. +temper because Prince Vasíli was coming, or whether his being in a bad +temper made him specially annoyed at Prince Vasíli’s visit, he was +ten minutes. And that it will not be too dull, here is the dear count +terrible, and now he has this authority of a commander in chief of +terrible dividing line of uncertainty and fear—resembling the line +terrible news from her till after her confinement, which was expected +terrible pain of being lifted onto the stretcher, the jolting while +terrible voice that the whole house heard it with horror. God knows what +than a hundred cannon were already in the hands of the French. +than a man who has been looking at a tuft of steppe grass through the +than anything else showed Pierre her superiority. She was right in +than a yard above the glow of the charcoal. Flakes of falling snow were +than five hundred paces from where Kutúzov was standing, a dense French +thanked him for his love. His looks thanked her for offering him his +thanked,” thought the overseer, “the storm has blown over!” +“Thank God!” +“Thank God!” said Prince Vasíli. “My wife has told me +“Thank God!” said Sónya, crossing herself. “But perhaps she +“Thank God!” said the voice. “And Father?” +Thanks to Anna Mikháylovna’s efforts, his own tastes, and the +thanks to Princess Lise’s voice and little downy lip that lifted over +thank you with my whole heart.” To Rostóv every word sounded like a +“Thank you; you saved me, my dear fellow!” said Túshin. +than the other; the serfs everywhere seemed thriving and touchingly +that. +that army: a feeling of self-forgetfulness, a proud consciousness of +that between the person they so address and themselves there are some +that column himself. When he had reached the village of Pratzen he +that day, but had heard about them from an infantry officer. “They +That day Nicholas Rostóv received a letter from Borís, telling him +that dinner was ready! The door opened, and from the dining room came +that divine purity and devotion I look for in women. If I found such a +“that Dólokhov was my lover,” she said in French with her coarse +that dreadful abyss, Pierre said to himself: “What am I doing? I need +that dread of beaten tracks, and wish to express itself in a manner +that end and when did this new, terrible state of things begin? What +That evening, proud of Dólokhov’s proposal, her refusal, and her +that, even more than in Moscow, he felt a sense of bewilderment, bustle, +that explained their teaching by hieroglyphics. A hieroglyph,” said +that fat one in spectacles” (that was how Pétya described his +that for an instant). Why should he not love her now, and even marry +that God who has been sewn into this amulet by Mary! There is nothing +that had advanced beyond the village went back; but as though in revenge +that had tormented him all dinnertime rose and took possession of him. +that, hearing he was in a bad humor, she had decided not to appear. +that he could not believe his eyes. “Who are they? Why are they +that he fell off his horse and sprained his arm and then ran as hard as +that he had composed in his imagination could he now recall. Those +that he is probably tired of them,” said another officer. +that he ought to avoid her and go away, Pierre, despite that decision, +that he should do the same. The rider, whose figure seemed familiar +That hesitation lasted only an instant. The Tsar’s foot, in the narrow +that he too seemed ashamed of the hussar of the line. +that he was dangerously wounded. +that he would have to answer it justly, and justice clashed not only +that I am saying!” thought a diplomatist, glancing at the happy faces +that I do not like him.” +that—if you consider yourself bound by your promise—it will seem as +that I’m a sharper, so I advise you to be careful.” +that instant the trooper Nikítenko, who was galloping ahead, shot away +“That is enough for me,” said Sónya, blushing. +“That is just why I do not begin, sire,” said Kutúzov in a +“That is no business of mine,” he thought. He had not ridden many +“That is probably the work of Vinesse,” said Pierre, mentioning +That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one +“That is what we shall see! That is what we shall see!” he added +that is, you want to raise him” (pointing to a peasant who passed by +that it is more dangerous to run away than to advance, but that Russian +that it is we who lost the battle of Pultúsk. In short, we retreat +that it might not occur to her to speak of his share in the affair of +that it was impossible to stop them, spurred his horse and rode to the +that it was not she but he was so unusually beautiful, and that that was +that it would be a bad thing), but he knew it would happen. +that I would give my life twice over...” He looked at the countess, +that?... Kindly do as you are ordered.” +that Kutúzov’s upper lip twitched unnaturally as he said the +that led to his own apartments. +that moment after supper at Prince Vasíli’s, when he spoke those +that moment a third enemy rises before us—namely the Orthodox Russian +that moment his home life, jokes with Pétya, talks with Sónya, duets +that moment Pierre felt that Hélène not only could, but must, be his +that month and a half while he felt himself drawn nearer and nearer to +That never does any harm,” thought Anatole. +that not even a continuity of most brilliant successes would secure +that on receiving news of the defeat some would simply not believe it, +that passionate animal feeling which was apt to master him with great +“That passion which more than all others caused you to waver on the +that peculiar expression of polite weariness which plainly says, “If +that Princess Mary in this guise looked very plain, worse than usual, +that remained uninjured out of the four, they began moving down the hill +“That’s admirable!” he shouted. “He will take you with your +“That’s a fine death!” said Napoleon as he gazed at Bolkónski. +“That’s a good thing, but don’t move from Prince Vasíli’s. It +That same day a council of war had been held in which all the members of +that same evening there was to be one of the balls that Iogel (the +That same night, Rostóv was with a platoon on skirmishing duty in front +“That’s capital; of course she’ll forget her childish promises +that she winced and uttered a cry. +“That’s it, that’s it!” exclaimed the count, and gaily seizing +“That’s just it,” interrupted Dolgorúkov quickly, laughing. +that sleep is more important than anything,” whispered Princess Mary +that’s not it—that’s tomorrow. Oh yes! Natásha... sabretache... +that sort of man), he gave Borís a pleasant smile, frowned as with +that sort of thing.” +That’s our house,” said Rostóv. “Of course, it’s our house! +“That’s so, your excellency, all they have to do is to eat a good +that state of mind which makes everything seem possible, pleasant, and +that’s the way they treat me! No confidence in me! Ah, ordered to keep +that surrounded the Emperors. +that’s what I did.” +“that the Emperor will meet me and give me an order as he would to any +that the Ismáylov regiment was quartered for the night ten miles from +that the prince was in a bad humor, stood awaiting him; Mademoiselle +that the pupils’ parents wept at having to let him take their children +that the question of his wife’s guilt which had been tormenting him +that these thoughts had been suggested to Prince Andrew by his +that the story about Sergéy Kuzmích, the laughter, and the food +that those broad-boned reddish hands with hairy wrists visible from +that very instant a cloud of smoke spread all round, firing was heard +that was dispersing on the hill lay still more densely below, where they +that was good. +that was not pretty, but neither Mademoiselle Bourienne nor the little +that was swaying from its weight in Prince Andrew’s hands, but he +that were so agonizingly, incessantly pulling and pressing his arm and +that where the steward had shown him in the accounts that the serfs’ +that which had said: “The Pávlograd hussars?” +that while Napoleon’s proclamation was being read to the troops the +that white spot. “I expect it’s snow... that spot... a spot—une +that year, as all his estates had been remortgaged, and so Nicholas, +the accountant with the naïve face was feeling its texture, shaking his +the accurate way characteristic of him, was building a little pyramid of +the act of falling asleep. Rostóv lifted his head that had sunk almost +the address. “This letter would be of great use to you.” +the adoration then common in Moscow for the Emperor, who was spoken of +the affair, and like everyone in similar cases, did not yet believe that +the affair had come to an actual duel). “You know, Count, it is much +the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that is how +“The ammunition for the guns in position is exhausted, Your +the animated hum of several conversations. At one end of the table, the +the appointed place. +“The Ápsherons must be stopped, your excellency,” cried he. But at +the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both +the artillerymen were still as merry and lively as ever. Twice they +theater, where he had been with his family and Denísov. He was at once +The attack of the Sixth Chasseurs secured the retreat of our right +the Austrian adjutant, he addressed Bolkónski. +the bald head. Véra, Natásha, Sónya, and Pétya now entered the room, +The band immediately struck up “Conquest’s joyful thunder +The band struck up the newly introduced mazurka. Nicholas could not +the battery to retire as quickly as possible. When the supports attached +the battlefield, believed that the French had been defeated and were +the battle of Schön Grabern than you do now,” said his son with a +The beauty went to the aunt, but Anna Pávlovna detained Pierre, looking +the Bedchamber. The diplomatic career now lies open before you.” +the best maroon dress, and so on, all would be well. They forgot that +the best post he could—preferably that of adjutant to some important +the bigwigs who guided the club’s opinion reappeared, and everybody +the bonfire, and addressing Túshin asked him to have the guns moved a +The book was the Gospel, and the white thing with the lamp inside was a +the bridges were strong and had handrails. Everything bore an impress of +the brilliant surroundings in which he had last met his friend in +The cadet was Rostóv. With one hand he supported the other; he was +the campaign and the two battles in which he had taken part, and his +the campfire. They were quarreling and fighting desperately, each trying +the carriage as pale as anything. How they made the four black horses +the case, hesitated about lifting the injured or dead. The soldiers, +the cause of his grief. +the cause of justice against the enemy of the human race. Anna Pávlovna +The cause of the confusion was that while the Austrian cavalry was +the center of the Russian army, and that that center was already +the chantry long before, but that nine tenths of the peasants in that +the cheeks, the same expression was on her charming childlike face with +the cheerful glitter of that autumn day was in keeping with the news of +The chief steward, a very stupid but cunning man who saw perfectly +The chief steward expressed great sympathy with Pierre’s intentions, +The chief steward, who considered the young count’s attempts almost +The child moved slightly in his sleep, smiled, and rubbed his forehead +the clavichord, sang the tune. Bolkónski was not there. None of these +the cleverest among them, including the chief steward, understood from +The cloak they spread under him was wet with blood which stained his +The club cook and the steward listened to the count’s orders with +The cold, austere tone of this man, whom he had almost always before met +The colonel rode to the front, angrily gave some reply to questions put +the column, gave him the order to advance. +The combatants advanced along the trodden tracks, nearer and nearer to +the command of the army to General Buxhöwden. During this interregnum +The command of the left flank belonged by seniority to the commander of +the complete darkness Túshin’s guns moved forward, surrounded by the +The concentrated activity which had begun at the Emperor’s +the contempt with which Rostóv, from his fighting army point of view, +The conversation did not flag all evening and turned chiefly on the +the conversation to insignificant matters. Natásha, who, of the whole +the copse across which our men, regardless of orders, were running and +The Cossacks sold the horse for two gold pieces, and Rostóv, being the +the cot. He did not look round, but still gazing at the infant’s face +the cot where she was standing, “better wait a bit... later...” +The council of war, at which Prince Andrew had not been able to +The council of war was just over when Prince Andrew accompanied +the count and at Anna Mikháylovna, the latter very adroitly turned +The count considered. +the countess; about 70,000 went for interest on debts. The building of a +The countess did not believe her ears. Denísov had proposed. To whom? +The countess glanced at her silent son. +The countess had been prepared by Anna Mikháylovna’s hints at dinner. +The countess shrugged her shoulders. +“The countess told me to inquire whether your excellency was at +The count put his ear to the keyhole and listened. +The count sobbed yet more. +The count walked up and down the hall in his dressing gown, giving +The count was delighted at Anna Mikháylovna’s taking upon herself one +the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his +The crowd, pushing forward desperately, squeezed together, moved a few +the dam, the pond, and the bank. +the darkness. This was the last French attack and was met by soldiers +The day after he had been received into the Lodge, Pierre was sitting at +The day after Rostóv had been to see Borís, a review was held of the +The day after the review, Borís, in his best uniform and with his +the Day. That’s what keeping one’s head means. That’s the way, +the decisive point, and gains the victory alone. “But death and +the declaration from Petersburg gave him particular pleasure, and that +the deep wet snow between the place where they had been standing and +“The devil knows! They’ve killed everybody! It’s all up now!” +the disordered battalion and at the enemy, “what’s that?” +“The dispositions!” exclaimed Kutúzov bitterly. “Who told you +the dispositions or anything else—he was engaged in satisfying the +The dispositions were very complicated and difficult. They began as +The doctor entered. Prince Andrew went out and, meeting Princess Mary, +the door and as soon as it opened his rough old arms closed like a vise +the door; the scream ceased and he heard the wail of an infant. +the door, was sitting at the table in a Persian dressing gown, writing. +“The doubt is flattering,” said “the man of profound intellect,” +The duel between Pierre and Dólokhov was hushed up and, in spite of +the duel with Nesvítski, Bezúkhov’s second. Pierre went home, but +thee, and even in those blasphemous words thou hast just uttered!” +the ebb and flow of these sounds. +the efforts of the old count, and instead of being degraded to the ranks +“The Eighteenth.” +the Emperor, and a thousand reasons occurred to him why it would be +The Emperor drew level with Rostóv and halted. Alexander’s face was +The Emperor, frowning slightly, bent his ear forward as if he had not +the Emperor. He felt that this nearness by itself made up to him for the +the Emperor immediately!” thought Rostóv and galloped on. +The Emperor’s horse started at the sudden cry. This horse that had +the Emperor’s severity regarding duels at that time, neither the +the Emperor’s suite. One officer told Rostóv that he had seen someone +the Emperor’s voice. +“The Emperor! The Emperor!” was suddenly heard among the hussars. +The Emperor turned with a smile to one of his followers and made a +The Emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of +“The enemy has quenched his fires and a continual noise is heard from +“The enemy is still far away, your excellency. According to the +the enemy’s fires, but heard the shouting of the French more loudly +the evening again turned to Borís, asking him in a tone of caressing +“The exchange horses have just come,” answered the servant. “Will +the experience of old Cunctators.” +the eyes of the Guardsman’s horse. The heavy black horse, sixteen +the face and figure of Prince Andrew, in a fur cloak the deep collar of +the face that emerged from the shirt. +the familiar staircase. The well-known old door handle, which always +the farther he went the more disorganized they were. The highroad on +the fate of battles had arrived. Would this disorderly crowd of soldiers +the felt boots approached the unseen bend of the staircase more rapidly. +“The field marshal is angry with the Emperor and he punishes us all, +the field of battle, who though still in some confusion were less +The fires and shouting in the enemy’s army were occasioned by the fact +the first couple. Noiselessly, skillfully stepping with his little +“The first man that turns up—she forgets her father and everything +the first second. “A baby? What baby...? Why is there a baby there? Or +the first to catch his eye. He sent him. +the first to seize the surrendering French officer by his collar. Our +The first words he heard on coming to his senses were those of a French +the flagstaff that had been dropped beside him. (The flag had already +The fog had begun to clear and enemy troops were already dimly visible +The fog had grown so dense that though it was growing light they could +The foreboding of evil that had suddenly come over Rostóv was more and +The foremost Frenchman, the one with the hooked nose, was already so +the forests in the province of Kostromá, the land lower down the river, +the French and lay down their arms at the first demand. +The French dragoon was a young Alsatian who spoke French with a German +the French, galloped along the front as hard as his horse could go, but +The French had attacked the battery and, seeing Kutúzov, were firing +The French had been repulsed for the last time. And again and again in +the Frenchman Langeron, Kutúzov’s incapacity, and (it was whispered) +The French were already near. Prince Andrew, walking beside Bagratión, +The French, who had ceased firing at this field strewn with dead and +the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that +the front. I held my sword in my left hand, Count. All our family—the +The game continued; a waiter kept handing round champagne. +The general had a fit of coughing as a result of shouting and of the +The general had so wished to do this and was so sorry he had not managed +the general pleasure and disappoint everyone’s expectation. Prince +The generals seemed to listen reluctantly to the difficult dispositions. +the general state of affairs which was far from satisfactory. +the general, the men themselves not knowing what, or why, they were +the gentlemen and Mademoiselle Bourienne rose and the little princess, +the gentlemen of the Tsar’s suite by his poor French. +the gesture of a man too busy to lose a moment, glanced at Kutúzov and, +The girls sprang aside. Denísov hid his hairy legs under the blanket, +the glory of our arms and of the day’s work, they assumed a serious +the good-natured Iogel, flying about like a feather and bowing according +The Grand Master began reading the statutes. They were very long, and +The Grand Master proposed that the last duty should be performed, +The Grand Master rapped with his mallet. All the Masons sat down in +the greater part of the men had to halt and an unpleasant consciousness +The Guards had gone to the front; Dólokhov had been reduced to the +The Guards had made their whole march as if on a pleasure trip, parading +the guests. To each of them he made some careless and agreeable remark +the hair was wet, so profusely had the child perspired. He was not dead, +the half-closed eyes was there greedily gnawing a mutton bone, and the +The handsome young Emperor Alexander, in the uniform of the Horse +“The head of the garrison at Glogau, with ten thousand men, asks the +the heavy standard, he ran forward with full confidence that the whole +the highest law thou shalt regain traces of the ancient dignity which +“The highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish +The highest wisdom has but one science—the science of the whole—the +“The highest wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those +the hill not to go beyond the stream, but Rostóv pretended not to hear +the Hofkriegsrath and both Emperors took part. At that council, contrary +The homestead consisted of a threshing floor, outhouses, stables, a +the honor, but I shall never be your son’s wife.” +the hope of an alliance with her. +the Horse Guards. +The Horse Guards were galloping, but still holding in their horses. +The horses’ croups began to sway in the front line. Rook pulled at the +The hussar did not reply. +The hussar only sighed without replying and coughed angrily. The sound +The hussars crowded round and responded heartily with loud shouts. +The ice bore him but it swayed and creaked, and it was plain that it +The ice gave way under one of the foremost soldiers, and one leg slipped +the icon stand. To her surprise and distress she found that her prayers +The idea of defeat and flight could not enter Rostóv’s head. Though +The infantry regiments that had been caught unawares in the outskirts +the inhabitants of the district. +the inlaid portfolio. Pierre signed the deed and after that the princess +their adjutants had come to witness the curious phenomenon of the +their cleanliness and discipline. They had come by easy stages, their +their faces was a quiet and solemn look. +their grief in their own way. The old prince would not cherish any hope: +their guns, were running toward him. He also saw French infantry +their marriage, with bare shoulders and a languid, passionate look on +their meaning but must keep them. The second pair of man’s gloves +their name and my own I hold out a brotherly hand to you.” +their own resources what might be needed for the success of the fete. +their places, and one of them read an exhortation on the necessity of +the landing below, Philip, the footman, stood looking scared and holding +the large drawing room. Prince Vasíli came up to Pierre with languid +The last of the Horse Guards, a huge pockmarked fellow, frowned angrily +the last post station but one before Moscow, Denísov had drunk three +The latter began to feel that it was in bad taste to speak of his +The latter lay silent in the sleigh with closed eyes and did not answer +the left-flank columns had already descended. +the left, the firing became more distinct. Kutúzov had stopped and was +The letter was old, having been written before the battle at +the line of retreat on the left by the French. However inconvenient the +the line that had so sharply divided the two armies?” he asked himself + * The little one is charming. +The little princess and Mademoiselle Bourienne had already received +The little princess got up, rang for the maid, and hurriedly and merrily +The little princess grumbled to her maid that her bed was badly made. +The little princess lay supported by pillows, with a white cap on her +The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, +The little princess, taking the dress from the maid, came up to Princess +the liveliness of a fourteen-year-old boy, and yet it was the face +the living charm of her neck and shoulders, so near to his lips that +the Lodge, told the password, and at last was permitted to sit down. +the look she felt upon her made that world still more poetic. But +“The Lord be thanked, yes!” +the loss of Prince Andrew had reached Bald Hills, and in spite of the +them.” +them, and reads those from the Emperor addressed to others. ‘Ah! So +them, and she doubts the means we have of gaining them. That is the +them, and understood that it was useless and even cruel to insist. +The man was wearing a bluish coat of broadcloth, he had no knapsack +them are harmful, especially the women. Yes, dear boy,” he continued, +The Mason cleared his throat huskily, as old men do, and called his +The Mason did not move and for a long time said nothing after this +The Mason looked intently at Pierre and smiled as a rich man with +The Mason remained silent for a long time, evidently considering. +the Mason’s arguments; he dreaded not to be able to believe in him. +The Mason smiled with his gentle fatherly smile. +the Mason. “Yes, I never thought of it, but I have led a contemptible +the mazurka, which was just coming into fashion, were danced. Iogel had +them curiosity, awe, and even love—a supercilious consciousness of +them down! What?...” said Rostóv, waking up. At the moment he opened +The meeting was at an end, and on reaching home Pierre felt as if he had +The members and guests of the club wandered hither and thither, sat, +The men and officers returning spoke of a brilliant victory, of the +the men (the commanders, as we saw at the council of war, were out of +them from others was the absence of host or hostess and the presence of +them!” he reflected. +the middle of a field without rhyme or reason. It’s all those damned +The midwife was already on her way to meet her, rubbing her small, plump +them. If he is not rich I will give her the means; I will ask my +the mildness of his features, was all the greater. Rostóv was happy +the minister and his son had arrived, but the appearance of both had +them in the thick fog, the Russians exchanged shots with the enemy +the mist, and his cold face wore that special look of confident, +the mist. From information he had received the evening before, from the +them it was difficult to get out again. One was shouting, “Get on! +The moment he heard the firing and the cry from behind, the general +the moment is not Bonaparte but Buxhöwden. General Buxhöwden was all +the more depressed. +them or make them move. On the one hand, the chief steward put the state +the morning of the twentieth, when the memorable battle of Austerlitz +them Pierre noticed a large cast iron ring with a seal representing a +them—remained for a while without any definite opinion on the subject +them rest and leisure?” said Pierre, hurrying and lisping. “And +themselves and grow more and more miserable.” +themselves quite innocent, and since that day when he was overpowered +themselves, stifle this remorse and grow callous, as a result of being +themselves to Túshin in all their horror. He had been so excited that +them something funny and kept them amused, while he watched the young +them strangely of the little princess. But what was still stranger, +them taking off his cap) “from his animal condition and awaken in him +them the order to march, thereby indicating that he intended to lead +them, when suddenly, clinking his spurs and spreading out his legs, +Then a general rode past shouting something angrily, not in Russian. +then a gleam of bayonets; to the left beyond the village similar masses +“Then allow me to express your regrets, and I am sure your opponent +then all will be right, as our bear huntsman at Kostromá used to tell +“Then am I to order those large sterlets?” asked the steward. +then appointed to supervise the enrollment decreed throughout Russia. +Then a thin, pale soldier, his neck bandaged with a bloodstained leg +then both voices together with glad intonations, and then footsteps. +then brought back to the general circle. +then detached ideas and impressions from the world of reality shot +The nearest soldiers shrank back, the gun driver stopped his horse, but +The newcomer was a short, large-boned, yellow-faced, wrinkled old +the new homestead he was constructing and its buildings, but even here, +The next day the Emperor stopped at Wischau, and Villier, his physician, +then he did everything so simply and with such assurance!) Mademoiselle +Then he recalled the coarseness and bluntness of her thoughts and the +the night ten miles from Olmütz and next morning were to come straight +The night was foggy and through the fog the moonlight gleamed +“Then I may reckon on it, your excellency?” +the nonsense talked by the Austrian generals. Shinshín, standing close +The novelty Anna Pávlovna was setting before her guests that evening +then quickly glanced at Dólokhov and, bending his finger as he had been +Then suddenly he realized the joyful significance of that wail; tears +then that same face pale, quivering, and suffering, as it had been when +Then the voice said something more, Demyán replied, and the steps in +“Then they’ve not gone to bed yet? What do you think? Mind now, +the nurse brought it to him and nodded approval when she told him that +The nurse lit the gilt candles before the icons and sat down by the door +“Then what is this blood on the gun carriage?” inquired Túshin. +“Then when am I to have it?” +“Then why are you here? You should have gone on long ago, now you +then with remarks which showed that he was in a good temper. +“Then you are serving?” +the officers as he went: “Have these gentlemen attended to and taken +The officers gathered round Denísov’s canteen, eating and talking. +The officers got up and stood round the Cossacks and their prisoner. +the officers or adjutants who wandered about in the fog in those unknown +The old aunt received the two young people in her corner, but seemed +The old count cast down his eyes on hearing his son’s words and began +The old countess, not letting go of his hand and kissing it every +The old count pretended to be angry. +the old count, the countess, Pétya, Véra, Natásha, and Sónya, and +the old lady. +the old man turned angrily away. +The old prince did not sleep either. Tíkhon, half asleep, heard him +The old prince dressed leisurely in his study, frowning and considering +the old prince first heard of the defeat at Austerlitz stated, as usual +The old prince knew that if he told his daughter she was making a +The old princess came in and also wept. The elderly lady was using +The old princess did not reply, she was tormented by jealousy of her +the old prince. “Very, very glad to have seen you,” repeated he, +The old prince was very affectionate and careful in his treatment of +the one that will result from it will be as victorious! However, dear +the onlookers, “Will it be long? Are things ready?” +the orderlies looked at him as if they wished to impress on him that a +the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves +the other clutched his drooping pistol. His face was pale. Rostóv ran +the other committeemen. “There will be many toasts, it’s time to +the other, quite a new reflection of the society in which they had taken +the others but win from you. Or are you afraid of me?” he asked again. +the other side of the fire, warming his thin yellow body. +the pack. Much depended on Rostóv’s winning or losing on that seven +the party of the young had triumphed. The voices of those who counseled +“The Pávlograd hussars?” he inquired. +the people who know of it the less a woman in travail suffers, everyone +“The picket is still on the hill, your excellency, just where it was +the point of view of the old countess and of society it was out of the +the possessor of wealth. How have you used it? What have you done +The postmaster came in and began obsequiously to beg his excellency to +The postmaster, his wife, the valet, and a peasant woman selling +“The praise of a great commander is a soldier’s highest reward,” +the pre-eminence. +the priest with a goose feather anointed the boy’s little red and +The prince bowed his head and went up to the porch. “God be +The prince looked at his daughter’s frightened face and snorted. +The princess did not fall down or faint. She was already pale, but on +The princess sank helplessly into an armchair beside her father and +The princess saw that her father regarded the matter with disapproval, +The princess went up to the door, passed by it with a dignified and +The prince stopped. He saw the effect these words had produced on his +The prince turned round to the overseer and fixed his eyes on him, +the prince was lying on the sofa, looked at him, noticed his perturbed +the Prussian army and was aide-de-camp to a very important personage. +The quiet home life and peaceful happiness of Bald Hills presented +the ranks. +the ranks, and above all being unable to see anything in front or around +“There are precedents, I may mention Schwarzenberg.” +“There are so many prisoners today, nearly the whole Russian army, +there as he. And now—this duel! Have these people no feeling, or +the reception room, where he found some ten officers and generals. +the recruiting, granted by the Emperor. If I had been two hours late +(the reflection was still incomplete), he caught himself smiling and was +therefore met with unaltered looks the angrily inquisitive expression of +therefore you seek wisdom and virtue. Is that not so?” said the +the regimental commander on horseback and some ten men of his company, +the regiment Kutúzov had reviewed at Braunau and in which Dólokhov was +the regiment under a hail of bullets which fell around, but fortunately +“There he is!” said Borís, thinking Rostóv had said “His +“There... he’s puffing again,” muttered Túshin to himself, as a +there in which he had now no part could perturb him. He shut his eyes, +there is hardly time to put in action—seeing Pierre, touched his +“There is something nasty, something wrong, in the feeling she excites +“There is something up,” thought Nicholas, and he was further +The remains of Langeron’s and Dokhtúrov’s mingled forces were +“There now! It’s true that all you women are crybabies,” remarked +“There now, the Kúrskies have also gone past,” was being said in +“There now, you wish to liberate your serfs,” he continued; “that +there. Pierre had the air of a man preoccupied with considerations which +“The reserves, sire!” replied a voice, a very human one compared to +“There’s no need to talk! He receives his orders and will marry you +“There’s nothing for me to understand,” she cried out with +the resounding strains of the polonaise: +there’s some mistake,” thought he. “They can’t have wanted to +the rest.” +“There’s the corner at the crossroads, where the cabman, Zakhár, +the rest of his life. +the rest of the evening. +“There, there! Do you feel it? I feel so strange. And do you know, +“There! They are bringing another!” cried one of the officers, +the retreat from Austerlitz, where he alone had withdrawn his column +the revolving pulleys whirr with the rapidity of their movement, but a +There was no answer to any of these questions, except one, and that +There was no laughter in the maids’ large hall. In the men servants’ +there was none he would so much like to have for a friend as that very +there was no one beyond the ditch now. Only some carts and carriages +There was no one in the hall. “Oh God! Is everyone all right?” +there was no reason why it should not reach the Pávlograd regiment, +there was nothing between the squadron and the enemy, and again that +there was nothing to be said, and neither wished to give occasion for +There was really nothing to be seen in front except a barren descent +there was still the same bewitching combination of majesty and mildness +There were in the room a child’s cot, two boxes, two armchairs, a +“There will be a council of war at Kutúzov’s tonight, though; you +the Rhetor but Pierre’s sponsor, Willarski, whom he recognized by his +The Rhetor cleared his throat, crossed his gloved hands on his breast, +the Rhetor, “is an emblem of something not cognizable by the senses +the right flank and the French were already advancing, were engaged +the right they will expose a flank to me. Soldiers! I will myself direct +the road he reined in his horse, hesitating whether to ride along it or +the room, and seeming not to notice the chairs was dashing straight at +the room, pondering over his vicious past, and with a rapturous sense +The Rostóvs knew everybody in Moscow. The old count had money enough +the Rostóvs since the day of his departure for the army. To be in Anna +the Russian with his heir the Tsarévich, and the Austrian with the +the sale of the land and forests and to release them from the Land Bank, +the salute and unable to repress the smile of delight induced by his +The same happy, rapturous faces turned to the shaggy figure of Denísov. +the same, then why this duel, this murder? Either I shall kill him, or +the same time, my honored benefactor,” wrote Prince Vasíli. “My son +The score against him reached the fateful sum of forty-three thousand. +the scoundrels!” +the seat indicated to him beside the fair Hélène and listened to the +the sergeant to meet some mounted men who were riding along the line. +the serious faces of those around, remembered all he had already gone +The servant brought back his tumbler turned upside down, * with an +The servant handed him a book which Pierre took to be a devotional work, +these same questions which he could not solve and yet could not cease to +These sights and sounds had no depressing or intimidating effect on him; +the shirt. +the sight of the killed and wounded. +The silence lasted some time. Prince Bagratión, apparently not wishing +the sinews and scorching the flesh of his sprained arm and shoulder. To +the smell of linstocks, came the artillery which crawled between the +the smoke, Rostóv hesitated whether to gallop after them or to go where +the snow, greedily bit at it, again raised his head, adjusted himself, +“The snow is deep. I am having the avenue swept, your honor.” +the soldier always has around him the same comrades, the same ranks, the +the soldiers’ faces and unnatural warlike solemnity on those of the +The soldiers laughed. A moment later, an adjutant arrived with the same +The soldiers who had carried Prince Andrew had noticed and taken the +The sound of musketry at the foot of the hill, now diminishing, now +The southern spring, the comfortable rapid traveling in a Vienna +the special deep cooing tone, precluding the possibility of interrupting +The spot chosen for the duel was some eighty paces from the road, +The squadron in which Rostóv was serving had scarcely time to mount +the staff officer on duty. +the standard. +the state of the Prussian army. As soon as he had finished she turned to +“The step must be taken but I cannot, I cannot!” thought Pierre, +The steward did not say it was quite impossible, but suggested selling +the stewards (there were semiliterate foremen among them) listened with +the still greater unimportance of death, the meaning of which no one +The stores are empty, the roads impassable. The Orthodox begin looting, +The stranger’s face was not genial, it was even cold and severe, but +The stretchers moved on. At every jolt he again felt unendurable pain; +the struggling men, and the fate of the red-haired gunner, who had +the sutlers. On receiving Borís’ letter he rode with a fellow officer +the table in a merry mood, sitting down now by one, now by another, of +the table, screened by a bound music book so that the light did not fall +the table which was scrawled over with figures, wet with spilled wine, +The tall, fair-haired General Buxhöwden stood, leaning his back against +the tears from his eyes and from the letter, then having dried her +The temperature shown by the political thermometer to the company that +the termination of the ceremony. He looked up joyfully at the baby when +the third division and convinced himself that there really were no +The third time the Rhetor came back more quickly and asked Pierre +The three voices, hers, Mademoiselle Bourienne’s, and Katie’s, who +the Thuerassa, he merely saves us a great deal of trouble and all our +the time had come to experience the joy of an attack of which he had so +The Torzhók peddler woman, in a whining voice, went on offering her +the town where the headquarters and the diplomatic corps were stationed +The traveler was Joseph Alexéevich Bazdéev, as Pierre saw from the +the tremor of the speaker’s voice—which sometimes almost broke—or +The troops again began to move, and two battalions of the Nóvgorod and +The troops of the vanguard were stationed before Wischau, within sight +The troops were running in such a dense mass that once surrounded by +the Tsar!” +The Tsar addressed the officers also: “I thank you all, gentlemen, I +The Tsar heard but obviously did not like the reply; he shrugged his +The Tsar looked intently and observantly into Kutúzov’s eye +The Tsar said something more which Rostóv did not hear, and the +The Tsar stopped a few minutes in front of the hussars as if undecided. +the Tsar with another glance at the Emperor Francis, as if inviting +the Tverskáya Street rode the hussar with mustaches... I thought about +The two generals and the adjutant took hold of the field glass, trying +The unsolved problem that tormented him was caused by hints given by the +the uselessness of freeing the serfs, who were quite happy as it was. +the valley. The fourth column, with which Kutúzov was, stood on the +the very time he was expressing this conviction to himself, in another +the village again, but Túshin’s guns could not move, and the +the village letting the troops pass by him. That morning Kutúzov seemed +the visitors, and before the visitors I tell you that in future you are +the wall, his eyes fixed on a burning candle, and seemed not to listen +The war was flaming up and nearing the Russian frontier. Everywhere one +the wax with the baby’s hair had not sunk in the font but had floated. +the whole day was finally and indubitably answered in the affirmative. +the whole human race, offering it in our members an example of piety +The whole interest was concentrated on Rostóv. Instead of sixteen +the whole matter and decide what was right and how he should act, but +the wind. +The wind had fallen and black clouds, merging with the powder smoke, +the woman he had known as a child, of whom when her beauty was mentioned +“The wound is not here, it is there!” said Kutúzov, pressing the +They all had but one wish: to advance as soon as possible against the +They all separated, but, except Anatole who fell asleep as soon as he +they all were, or seemed to be, pretty—so rapturous were their smiles +they are beaten, flogged, or sent to Siberia, I don’t suppose they are +“They can’t be far off, probably just beyond the stream,” he said +“They coax me as if I were Váska the cat!” said Denísov jokingly. +they could not fail to vanquish anyone, be it whom it might: so thought +they had entered Moscow. +They had not met for nearly half a year and, being at the age when young +they halted in silence. There was nothing fresh to be seen from the +“They have gone to bed and put out their lights, your excellency.” +They named the colonel, Prince Repnín. +The younger Emperor could not restrain his wish to be present at the +the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless +they quite understood one another as to the first part of their romance, +“They’re always in love with someone,” he thought of Sónya and +They’re coming!” Alarmed voices were heard, and a stir of final +They rose from the table and sat down in the entrance porch which served +“They say Pierre is quite broken by his misfortune.” +they seemed of them, one could feel by the occasional glances they gave +They went out and walked about till dinnertime, talking of the political +“They were in a hurry enough to start us, and now here we stand in +they were saying was amusing, but because she felt happy and was unable +“They were there this evening, but now I don’t know, your +they would have remained there for a long time testing each other’s +they would not for an instant let his shoulder move a hair’s breadth. +thing he would have to unite his fate with hers. He might perhaps have +things he should have shown it sooner, but he lets it go on for months. +things that had never occurred. Mademoiselle Bourienne also shared them +things the old count sent to his son. +thing we are interested in here,” said the spirit of the place. +think could hardly be found nowadays—but is she contented with her +think, Count? The next day it was not even mentioned in the Orders of +thinking? I mustn’t forget. How shall I speak to the Emperor? No, +think it over. Go! Yes or no, yes or no, yes or no!” he still shouted +think so yourself. And the main thing is,” he continued, “that I +thin lips interrupted Weyrother, wishing to say something. But the +This active old servant was unpacking the traveler’s canteen and +this answer. “Have you sought for means of attaining your aim in +This battle, which consisted in the capture of a French squadron, was +this bone—a bill for thirty thousand rubles—to the poor princess +this?” But these doubts only lasted a moment. Pierre glanced at +this card and I’ll take my cap and drive home to supper with Denísov, +this consciousness of mismanagement became a general conviction, but as +This Guardsman would certainly have bowled Rostóv and his Bedouin over +this heart, so kind and generous? Say ‘perhaps’... The future is so +this holiday time. “Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! +this indecision appeared to him majestic and enchanting, like everything +this information, the little princess and Mademoiselle Bourienne, whose +this instant!” thought Rostóv. +this is absolutely true. +“This is all very fine, but things must be settled,” said Prince +“This is not at all the thing,” he said. “What sort of Polish +This is the battle of Pultúsk, which is considered a great victory but +“This is the first act. Those that follow are naturally increasingly +this is what I was proud of! I then thought that I did not understand +this marriage. He recalled her former words and looks and the words +this may be my only chance of seeing the Emperor. It won’t be long +this misery, and money, and Dólokhov, and anger, and honor—it’s all +this moment of happy, rapturous excitement. She gazed at him, not taking +this name day of hers had been one of the pleasantest she had ever had. +This short man had on a white leather apron which covered his chest and +This short man nodded to Dolgorúkov as to an intimate friend and stared +This silence was broken by one of the brethren, who led Pierre up to the +this speech how they could best handle the master for their own ends. +this strange incident, and then shrugging his shoulders went to the door +this strong, brave man, this model son and officer that, judging by this +this table with the thought of winning a hundred rubles to buy that +This unpleasant impression merely flitted over the young and happy face +this—want glory, want to be known to men, want to be loved by them, it +This was quite true, but the count, the countess, and Natásha looked +This was true. The architect had told him that it was necessary, and +those brilliant aged eyes grown old in this conviction, or the calm +those first steps. Both had changed greatly since they last met and both +those of higher ranks in the Order. 3. Morality. 4. Love of mankind. 5. +those on foot, collapsed in a great mass, and some forty men who were on +those recently arrived from Russia, both Guards and regiments of the +those richer and more powerful than himself and he had rare skill in +those who had been campaigning under Kutúzov. The two Emperors, +thou art wise because thou couldst utter those blasphemous words,” he +though all were in a conspiracy of silence. The men who set the tone +Though five minutes before, Prince Andrew had been able to say a few +though he smiled delightedly. He ran up to them. +though he wrote in French and used French jests and French idioms, +Though Mademoiselle Bourienne had been so unsuccessful in her choice +Though none of the column commanders rode up to the ranks or talked to +Though no words had passed between Anatole and Mademoiselle Bourienne, +though of this Prince Andrew said nothing to his sister, was that in the +though shy, went on carefully executing her steps. Denísov did not +thought and heard of her might be false. And he again saw her not as the +thought. And suddenly, at this thought of death, a whole series of most +thought, as he listened to voices in Kutúzov’s courtyard. The voices +thought, he called Tíkhon and began to undress. +thought he heard a strange noise through the door. He was seized with +thought he, “I shall be sent with a brigade or division, and there, +thought, “I must remain free.” +thought of everything, considered everything, and did everything the +thought of Sónya, during this stay in Moscow, he said to himself, +thought of such a thing, it is only the cabinet that says it.” +thought Pierre, “and how little attention we pay to it!” +thought Pierre. “But this man knows the truth and, if he wished to, +thought Prince Andrew, and striking his horse he rode up to Kutúzov. +thought—referring to the little princess who was not in the dining +thought Rostóv. At that moment Alexander turned his head and Rostóv +thought Rostóv. He knew what a shock he would inflict on his father and +thought Rostóv. “I should die of happiness!” +thoughts, and memories suddenly arose within him that he could not fall +thoughts he has dreamed of for nights, but looks around for help or a +thought that he, an exemplary officer of many years’ service who +though without knowing its cause—was such as to remind one still more +thou hast lost.” +“Thou hatest it. Then change it, purify thyself; and as thou art +thousand-ruble horses, only eighteen were left after the charge. +thousands such as I in Russia.’ +thrashing for letting a private traveler have the courier horses. +three beats: “Oh mio crudele affetto.”... One, two, three... one, +Three days later the little princess was buried, and Prince Andrew went +“three,” he went quickly forward, missing the trodden path and +three parts of that army were sharply distinguished: Kutúzov’s +throttle if they stood in my way. I have an adored, a priceless mother, +through, and realized that he could not stop halfway. He was aghast +through the conservatories, the serfs’ quarters, and the outbuildings, +through the door. Prince Andrew got up, went to the door, and tried to +through the naïve and intelligent count and played with him as with +through the smoke. He was pressing one hand to his left side, while +throwing down his chisel. (The wheel continued to revolve by its own +thud of the enemy’s cannon balls, from the flushed and perspiring +thyself whether thou art content with thyself. What hast thou attained +tidiness and good management. Some domestic serfs Pierre met, in reply +Tíkhon did not hear the slightest sound from the study after that. +Tíkhon knew his master’s habit of sometimes thinking aloud, and +Tíkhon, like all good valets, instinctively knew the direction of his +Tíkhon to ask Mary Bogdánovna what news.—“Say only that ‘the +Tíkhon went and told the prince. +till he began sincerely to believe in his own exceptional kindness and +till its coat shone like satin and every hair of its wetted mane lay +till May, and asked him to be more economical this time. Nicholas had +Till midday on the nineteenth, the activity—the eager talk, running to +till now. But where am I?” +till ten o’clock. +till then, had listened with an amused smile to their conversation and +till then. Their powers of reasoning, feeling, and observing immediately +Till the Tsar reached it, each regiment in its silence and immobility + * Till tomorrow, my dear fellow. +time!” +time. +time for that sort of thing and a young man fears to bind himself and +time, muttering to herself. +time. No, I’ll tell you now. You know Sónya’s my dearest friend. +times before: how the late princess had given birth to Princess Mary +time since his return that they had talked alone and about their love. +time that evening, vainly expecting someone, now smiling at someone, now +time till they came to Moscow had not left them for a day. +time to get his uniform. He had on a shabby cadet jacket, decorated with +timidly from behind the backs of the generals. As he stepped past the +timidly to the corner where Denísov sat. She saw that everybody was +Timókhin, armed only with a sword, had rushed at the enemy with such +tiny limbs she had felt twenty years ago within her, that son about whom +tiptoe to the countess’ door and paused. +tired of being run after by women, his vanity was flattered by the +“Tit! I say, Tit!” said the groom. +to above the knee. Pierre hurriedly began taking off his right boot also +to all the club members and to all the club guests, and finally to +toast, the count took out his handkerchief and, covering his face, wept +to attain it quickly. Hence we have a secondary aim, that of preparing +to attend to the business himself and so he disliked it and only tried +to Bagratión which the old countess at Anna Mikháylovna’s advice had +to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, +to be heard. +to be his old schoolroom, and looking into Natásha’s wildly bright +to be opened. Everywhere he saw the stewards’ accounts, according to +to be reserved because in the depth of my soul I feel too near to him +to be severe, found nothing to say; the others did not venture to +to be silent. But after a while, just as a jury comes out of its room, +to build a new chantry to the church at their own expense in honor +to change his former way of life, but his strength failed him. He walked +to cheer the men but merely carried out the orders), yet the troops +“To combat the evil which sways the world...” Pierre repeated, and a +to continue his military service, and when the war recommenced +to control her joy which expressed itself by laughter. +to Count T., Prince V., and others. Then he bursts into one of his wild +to credit it, bent his head, and told Túshin that he could go. Prince +to cross the ditch on foot. The Emperor, wishing to rest and feeling +to cruel with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the +today for the Emperor.” Dolgorúkov smiled significantly. +today or tomorrow—at any rate, in an instant as compared with +Today was a great day for him—the anniversary of his coronation. +today?” was his first thought. “And I did not know this suffering +to demonstrate the defects of the latter and the merits of his own plan, +to do it?”—“Because you married her,” answered an inner voice. +to do it that it seemed to him as if it had really happened. Perhaps +to do what was for him the most difficult thing in life—to say an +to do with Sergéy Kuzmích—a smile of bashfulness at their own +to each couple of acres. The wounded crept together in twos and threes +to enter into conversation with this old man, but, submitting to him +to enter the Brotherhood of Freemasons under my sponsorship?” +to everyone. Pierre was so used to that smile, and it had so little +to express our sincere views on that subject, and can only say to the +to fight a battle ‘on his own hand’ as the Germans say. He does so. +to fire and sword. The inhabitants are totally ruined, the hospitals +together.” +together, and made some steps on the very tips of her toes. +together? And there! Bezúkhov got off scotfree, while Fédya had to +together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes +to get more money from the traveler. +to give her friend the pleasure of dandling the little angel—as she +to give in money and work all that other people’s serfs gave—that is +to have any children by me.” +to hear the voices of well-known men. The largest circles formed round +to her. +to her and kissed her warmly. Anatole went up to kiss the little +to her, and now that Anatole had appeared it just grouped itself around +to her but to the movements of Mademoiselle Bourienne’s little +to hers. A woman came from the bedroom with a frightened face and became +to herself: “No, I must be mistaken, he must be feeling happy, just as +to her shortsighted eyes. Turning from Princess Mary he went up and +to him and disputed with one another who should bring him his tea, +to him. Availing himself of his friendly relations with Pierre as a boon +to him by the officers, and, like a man desperately insisting on having +to him. He could not tell them simply that everyone went at a trot and +to him: “I hear you are refitting your Petersburg house?” +to himself, but which formed the whole interest of his life, +to him senseless, he understood and was not surprised at it. +to him. We search, but none are to be found. The field marshal grows +to his estates and quite recovered the philanthropic mood in which +to his horse’s mane and pulled up beside the hussar. He was succumbing +to his study with the wet nurse and little Prince Nicholas (as his +to hope from him—especially as he did not know how, and did not +to imbibe,” he said. “Can I receive that pure liquid into an impure + * To indicate he did not want more tea. +to inquiries as to where the prince lived, pointed out a small newly +to irresistible, youthful, childish drowsiness. “But what was I +to it were his inertia and a wrinkle on his brow indicating prolonged +to know?” she asked sternly. +to know what is right and what is wrong. Men always did and always will +told him that he should try to do nothing to stain the whiteness of that +told him to expect. +told them all that. +told you, but you would not believe it,” she said triumphantly. “He +told you it would not be enough. How much?” +to leave that seclusion where they three were shut off from all the +To live for myself avoiding those two evils is my whole philosophy +to make reflections or think aloud in her company, and she had always +tomb of the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument +to me after the review and we will do what is possible.” +to Milorádovich who was near him. +tomorrow.” +tomorrow... in the evening. You must come.... Come!” +tomorrow! Only let me tell you, I want to know my son-in-law better. You +tomorrow,” or, “Be in to dinner or I shall not see you,” or, “I +“Tomorrow our squadron is to be in reserve. May I ask to be attached +“Tomorrow,” replied Rostóv and left the room. +“Tomorrow very likely I may be sent with some message to the +to my bivouac; let my doctor, Larrey, examine their wounds. Au revoir, +to my sister today. I will introduce you to her. But of course you know +tonight to my friends—come to the English Hotel. +too. +to offer their services. Most of those present were elderly, respected +took her hand and begged her forgiveness, without knowing what for. +took to be the enemy. Shots could be heard, but some way off. +to Olmütz, dined there, drank a bottle of wine, and then set off alone +to one side he gracefully held a gold lorgnette to his eyes and looked +to Pierre. He spoke in French. “I only know two very real evils in +to pretend to the steward that he was attending to it. The steward +to raise... happens to everybody! Yes, who has not done it?” +to read and write by the deacon, like your father and me. Now tell me, +to remain for a few weeks longer in the house she so loved and where +to remain so for a hundred years; but the moment comes when the lever +to restrain his laughter. +to right and left of him soldiers continually groaned and dropped. But +to Rostóv and involuntarily riveted his attention, made a gesture of +to Rostóv when the animal was handed over to the hussar. +Torzhók embroidery came into the room offering their services. +Torzhók post station, either there were no horses or the postmaster +to say: “Ah, what have you done to me, and why?” And at the sight +to say, all that could be got out of them. +to say and as if she were saying it to someone else, with whom joking +to say more in the presence of a stranger. +To say “tomorrow” and keep up a dignified tone was not difficult, +to set the serfs to work. Say that everything out of the hothouses must +to settle here altogether next year....” +to shout: “Blackguards!... Throw the snow back on the road!” did not +to show her fear of Anna Pávlovna. She looked at her niece, as if +to snatch from the other a boot they were both holding on to. +to snatch it from one another. The expression on all their faces +to sob aloud. +to state his views plainly to the Emperor? Is it possible that on +to stimulate his emotions he looked around. “God, death, love, the +to subscribe all he had, but fearing that it might look like pride +to sympathize in any way. +totally altered and unexpectedly rapturous and tender expression on +total of his losses on it, then he looked round for aid from the other +to the Austrian Emperor and smiled. +to the Emperor shocked Rostóv. Rostóv saw how the Emperor’s rather +to the Emperors with a salute. His whole appearance and manner were +to the first squadron?” +to the French sword and pouch. “I have taken an officer prisoner. I +to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat +to the godmother, Princess Mary. Prince Andrew sat in another room, +to the Guards’ camp to find his old playmate. Rostóv had not yet had +“To the Head of the French Government... Au chef du gouvernement +“To the health of our Sovereign, the Emperor!” he cried, and at the +to the hussar beside him. +To the left down below in the mist, the musketry fire of unseen forces +to the maid, “bring the princess her gray dress, and you’ll see, +to them are the parts of the mechanism which the impulse has not yet +to the old conditions of life, Nicholas found it very pleasant to be +to the princess. +to the removal of the guns. +to the review, reaching the field at Olmütz by ten o’clock. +to the rules of his art, as he collected the tickets from all his +to the Tsar or to Kutúzov, even if they were alive and unwounded? +to the unknown place where he was going, many more of our men were going +to the views of the old generals Kutúzov and Prince Schwartzenberg, it +To this chit of a girl, Natásha, who not so long ago was playing with +to those who knew the indubitable truth.) He forgot what the seventh +“To try his luck or the certainty?” Rostóv asked himself. +to turn away when the old man, opening his eyes, fixed his steady and +to Túshin’s battery had been moved away in the middle of the action +touched Pierre: he looked at Hélène and she too seemed disconcerted, +touching Bonaparte’s. +touching his horse and turning purple in the face. “Vill you be so +touching thanks of deputations of serfs in their full-skirted blue +touch with it, and looked around bewildered and unable to grasp what was +to us.” +to walk up and down before it. +toward Anna Pávlovna, and Anna Pávlovna, with the same sad smile with +Toward evening Dolgorúkov came back, went straight to the Tsar, and +Toward evening he ceased moaning and became quite still. He did not know +toward him and said something. +Toward the end of 1806, when all the sad details of Napoleon’s +toward the vanguard. Before he came up with the hussars, several +toward those Pratzen Heights which were being more and more denuded by +to. Weyrother had been twice that evening to the enemy’s picket +to Weyrother sat Count Langeron who, with a subtle smile that never left +to what he must do and how he should answer, Willarski only replied that +to which Pierre did not agree. On the other hand, Pierre demanded that +“To your barrier!” and Pierre, grasping what was meant, stopped by +to you. Where are you traveling from?” +traditions of unlimited power, in time when they grow more irritable, +trampling through the deep snow, and muttering incoherent words: +transit gloria mundi.” +transparently radiant with impulsive joy. +traveler, also detained for lack of horses. +traveler, having packed his things with his practiced hands, began +treated them with absent-minded contempt. +tried to conceal them. +tried to pretend not to know; no one spoke of it, but apart from the +tried with his lips whether the child was still feverish. The soft +trifle to let a wagon go past. After he had gone, two soldiers rushed to +trigger, as he had not before held a pistol in his hand—a fact that he +tripping rapidly across in her little shoes trimmed with bows, ran +triumph. +triumph. +triumphantly secured the mop and still did not realize what awaited him, + Triumph, valiant Russians, now!... +troops had already entered Prussia and our second war with Napoleon +troops, he saw, near a kitchen garden with a ditch round it, two men +troops were moving in the distance, and he listened to the sounds of +troops were no longer moving, but stood with the butts of their muskets +trouble, and silently fixed his eyes on Bagratión as a schoolboy who +trouble, but the Mason told him that was not necessary and gave him +trowel, a rough stone and a squared stone, a pillar, three windows, and +trowel, he told him to toil with it to cleanse his own heart from vice, +true, or might at least seem to be true had it not referred to his wife. +trumpets of the first cavalry regiment played the general march. It +trusts to luck, one should make certain,’ and I want to try.” +trying in vain to find the answer to some question. +trying” (Pierre’s modesty made him correct himself) “to live for +try to do all I can for your happiness.” +Tsar and the country? It is wartime. Such a fine fellow must serve. +Tsar, who still remained in the same attitude of indecision. +tucked up, without a coat, pale and with a trembling jaw, came out +Tuesday. +tuft of plumes in his cocked hat worn on one side with its corners front +tumbler with tea for himself and one for the beardless old man to whom +turn away from the sight, shouting angrily at the men who, as is always +turned away and went down the side of the corridor. +turning for a moment to the front line, and slightly swinging his arms, +Turning the horse sharply, he again jumped the ditch, and deferentially +turning to Anatole, “come here, let us talk and get acquainted.” +turning to Prince Vasíli and answering his imploring look. “Yes, or +turn into vexation and anger at the stupid arrangements and at the +“Turn this way!” he shouted, jumping over the ice which creaked +Túshin. +Túshin did not say that there were no covering troops, though that +Túshin rose and, buttoning his greatcoat and pulling it straight, +Túshin’s battery but had never reached it. Interrupting one +Túshin’s battery had been forgotten and only at the very end of the +Túshin’s large, kind, intelligent eyes were fixed with sympathy and +Túshin’s wattle shed was laid, with a bullet in his stomach, on +Túshin told them to give the man some water. Then a cheerful soldier +Túshin turned round in dismay. It was the staff officer who had turned +twelve men in garments like those he had already seen. Some of them +twenty men were gathered round a table at which Dólokhov sat between +twisted upwards, sat the ruddy Milorádovich in a military pose, his +two Alexanders—Bekleshëv and Narýshkin—which was a significant +two candles. On the table was a pile of gold and paper money, and he +two Cossacks. +two friends, one of whom was a dashing hussar and the other a notorious +Two hours later Prince Andrew, stepping softly, went into his father’s +Two months had elapsed since the news of the battle of Austerlitz and +two seconds. Whether or no the Emperor understood what was going on in +twot fo’ward!” +two thousand rubles, and though he always disliked speaking of money +two, three... One... “Oh mio crudele affetto.”... One, two, three... +two years, and he did not know how the rest, about 100,000 rubles, was +unable to realize where he was. +unable to withstand it now, but he also felt that on what he said now +unappreciated bliss, long past. He could not conceive that a stupid +unbroken and had all day beaten back an enemy force twice as numerous +unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of Napoleon’s doctor, +unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the +under fire for the first time. +under him; “turn this way!” he shouted to those with the gun. “It +under his weight alone. The men looked at him and pressed to the +under one command, and in a like order. +understand, agitated her. She said nothing but looked about uneasily as +understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but +understand how one can live with such ideas. I had such moments +understanding half of it, read only to forget, if but for a moment, what +understanding of his employer’s happiness. +understand it’!... And I ask you!” +understand it so differently. He collected all his strength, to stir and +understand. She kissed his rough curly black head. At this instant, they +understand. That’s what I’m up to.” +understand what was being read. He managed to follow only the last words +understood her and made up my mind what she really is. Was I mistaken +understood, that he could not answer him. +understood that this woman might belong to him. +understood what was happening as little as he did. +under the shirt sleeves, those hands which he loved and hated, held him +under the table. +under which she felt that she could not think, but would only be able to +unexpectedly through his mind. +unexpectedly to go into action. Rostóv without hearing Borís to the +unfinished bit of nibbled sugar, and asked if anything more would be +unfortunate, a stranger, alone, helpless! And, oh God, how passionately +unfriendly now became gentle and affectionate. The angry eldest +ungainly Russian princesses, would fall in love with her and carry her +uniformed Austrian officer. +uniforms, mounted on black horses, trotting straight toward him and +uniforms, with smartly dressed bandsmen in front mounted on black, roan, +unintentionally, he poured too many drops into the glass. He threw the +universe, and of the courage with which he should endure toils and +unlike the old one, he expected everything to be unusual, even more +unlucky at cards.’ Your cousin is in love with you, I know.” +unmarried, and even the happier for it?” So thought Prince Bolkónski +unmask his deceivers!” And in order to realize vividly his love +unmelted snow, or some white houses? He even thought something moved on +unnatural smile. “I expect you have guessed that Prince Vasíli has +unnatural way, he stretched out his hand for Alpátych to kiss, and then +unpleasantly excited expression. +unpleasant thing to a man’s face, to say what the other, whoever +unusual than what he was seeing. A skull, a coffin, the Gospel—it +unwell, sat down under an apple tree and von Toll remained beside him. +unwell today? Eh? Afraid of the ‘minister’ as that idiot Alpátych +unwounded—it was they who were crushing, weighing down, and twisting +up against him. He wrote “800 rubles” on a card, but while the +up a glass and a pipe that were handed him. +up at all!” +up, invited him to his house in Petersburg, and now... she has come here +up like a fool!” he thought, looking irritably at her. “She is +upon and could not now be altered. “We start tomorrow and I’m giving +upon him, passed splendidly, lifting his feet with a high and graceful +upon Prince Andrew, who was beside him. Seeing him, Kutúzov’s +up on the vast field. The whole army was extended in three lines: the +up out of the mist. +up the steps to where the coffin stood, to give her the farewell kiss. +up tomorrow. But you will see everything for yourself when you get to +up to the altar, placed his feet at right angles, and bade him lie down, +up to the appearance of the pauvre mère; they understood that they had +up to Túshin. +upwards, in the way affected by the Emperor Alexander, and, having +urged on his already weary horse to get quickly past these crowds, but +us aides-de-camp and adjutants! But this is what we’ll do: I have +us but within....” +used for dancing, but in which five beds now stood, and furniture of +used to like to spend them, or to open his mind by intimate talks with +used to show at catchplay, now and then turning his good-natured, pale, +use of whatever interest he had to offer. He himself carefully scanned +usually so described. +us. Well, you want an argument,” he added, “come on then.” +us—we scuttle. He hardly crosses the river to our side before we +utter a sound. He feebly moved his leg and uttered a weak, sickly groan +uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan. +Uvárov, who had arrived with him, paused at the doorway to allow him, +vainly trying to master her agitation. +valet can go in your carriage. Ah! I was nearly forgetting,” he added. +valet had set down the coffee things and left the room. Pierre looked +valor carry disorder and confusion into the enemy’s ranks, but should +value this mystic power and glory that is floating here above me in this +Valúev was confidentially telling that Uvárov had been sent from +vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of +various figures worked upon it, at the other was something resembling an +various kinds: a table, chairs, and a clavichord. One adjutant, nearest +varying expression and the same prevalent appearance of goodhearted +Vasíli and his son. +“Vasíli Denísov, your son’s friend,” he said, introducing +“Vasíli Dmítrich, I’m so sorry for you!... No, but you are so +“Vasíli Dmítrich, I thank you for the honor,” she said, with an +Vasíli had only acquired by imitating other parents. +Vasíli. “I know something about that. Don’t I? And you are still so +Vasíli, in the rare moments when he was at home, would take Pierre’s +Vasíli one day, closing his eyes and fingering Pierre’s elbow, +Vasíli’s house in the company of the stout princess, his wife, and +Vasíli’s tone of careless self-assurance that he felt he would be +Vasíli to himself, with a sorrowful sigh, one morning, feeling that +velvety softness, which so mingled with her lack of art in singing that +Véra’s remark was correct, as her remarks always were, but, like +verses called “Enchantress,” which he had composed, and to which he +“Very.” +very briefly and vaguely, that after brilliant engagements the Russians +very fields where the French had now to be fought; the adjacent +Very fine!” +very glad to see him hanged, but I was sorry for my father—that again +“Very good!” said the prince closing the door behind him, and +“Very good, very good,” said Bagratión. “Thank you, officer.” +very important personage, had been sent on a very important mission to +very likely be getting a letter from him that day. Each time that these +very much! I have promised myself not to serve again in the active +“Very much,” said Nicholas flushing, and with a stupid careless +very pretty and sweet, and evidently deeply in love with him, but he was +“Very well,” said Smolyanínov, and went on at once: “Have you any +“Very well, then, be so good as to wait,” said Prince Andrew to the +vessel and judge of its purity? Only by the inner purification of myself +vicious and unfortunate people whom he would assist by word and deed, +victory, and General Bennigsen, hoping to receive from Petersburg the +victory be in doubt, even for a moment, you will see your Emperor +victory or defeat, the glory of our Russian arms is secure. Except your +victory over Buonaparte at Eylau. In Petersburg everyone is rejoicing, +victory which was conveyed, not only by the tales of those who had taken +“Vienna considers the bases of the proposed treaty so unattainable +view they were right, as were those too who canonized him and died a +village and had already been sent for. +village!” he said angrily to a general who had ridden up. “Don’t +village of Pratzen. But neither they nor a single commanding officer +villages were in a state of the greatest poverty. He did not know that +village. Tell it to stop and await my orders.” +virtue was and could not recall it. +virtuous future that seemed to him so easy. It seemed to him that he had +virtuous life of which he had been dreaming since he met Joseph +vish to destroy my men for your pleasure!” +visible in the snow and a shovel had been left sticking in one of the +visible through the smoke, make out moving masses of infantry and narrow +visit his neglected estates at the same time and pick up his son Anatole +visiting all the places he meant to go to and where he had been invited, +visitors. There was the fact that only those came who wished to dance +vocation is to be happy with another kind of happiness, the happiness +vodka—get on!” Rostóv shouted, when the sleigh was only three +vodka. The campfires crackled and the soldiers’ songs resounded +voice. +voice, “but believe me, I so adore your daughter and all your family +voice calling him by name. +voice from heaven. How gladly would he have died at once for his Tsar! +voice, obviously so elated by the sound of firing, by the prospect of +voice, popped her head in at the door. +voices. +voices, and the army swayed and started in one enormous mass six miles +voices subsided, the footmen cleared away the broken glass and everybody +voice. To fresh questions as to the firmness of his resolution Pierre +voice trembled.) “I loved your father... and she will make you a good +voice, with its incorrect breathing and labored transitions, was +voice, “you were pleased to send me to Captain Túshin’s battery. I +von Bergs—have been knights!” +voulu, George Dandin,’ that’s all we have to say about it!” +vous aime’?” he kept repeating to himself. And when he had said it +vulgarity of the expressions that were natural to her, though she had +Vyazmítinov, the new military governor general of Petersburg, had +“Wait a bit, I have something in view for you this evening.” +waited for him to go on, but as he seemed quite decided to say no more +waited impatiently for Prince Andrew’s return from the commander in +waiter filled his glass he changed his mind and altered it to his usual +waiting for a seven to turn up, gazed at Dólokhov’s hands which held +waiting for him to say a word and cross a certain line, and he knew that +waiting for the beat. Only on horse back and in the mazurka was +waiting to hear whether he would say anything more. But Kutúzov, with +“Waiting, Your Majesty,” repeated Kutúzov. (Prince Andrew noted +wait only two hours, when, come what might, he would let his excellency +waken...” All rose and cried “Hurrah!” Bagratión also rose and +wake up, Váska!” he went on, turning to Denísov, whose head +walked away from the fire. +walked slowly without raising his pistol, looking intently with his +wall. On this knoll there was a white patch that Rostóv could not at +wanted. +wanted to show him that his losses were an achievement that made her +wanted to sleep. The gay triumphant shouting of the enemy army had a +want that. And besides, what a notion that medicine ever cured anyone! +want the money for? As if that money could add a hair’s breadth to +want to, but now I have no time.” Besides, it seemed to him that the +war came contradictory news, false as usual and therefore variously +wardrobe in which Pierre noticed garments such as he had never seen +wares, especially a pair of goatskin slippers. “I have hundreds of +warm themselves, gathering round the fires throwing into the flames the +warrior doing some kind of man’s work of his own, without help or +was about to be decided. But Prince Andrew did not see how it ended. It +was about to cross the space between the barriers, when Dólokhov cried: +was about to expand her dresses into a balloon and sit down. They were +was abroad; so Pierre had not the opportunity to spend his nights as he +was again nodding. “Come, get on! You shall have three rubles for +was a great success. There were many pretty girls and the Rostóv girls +was all over; but he said in an indifferent tone: +was already perfectly cured of his former faults and was ready for all +was also a yellow, wrinkled old man, without beard or mustache, +was always busy and always felt in a state of mild and cheerful +was a unique chance to show his devotion to the Emperor and he had not +was baptized. The wet nurse supported the coverlet with her chin, while +was beginning, Anna Pávlovna gave one of her soirees. The “cream of +was being done was not his adjutant’s fault, and still not answering +was being held by the arms and his horse was being led behind him. +was Borís Drubetskóy, who had just arrived as a special messenger from +was bright, he had a good horse under him, and his heart was full of +was charmant. Even if Anna Pávlovna did not say so, he could see that +was delighted with Denísov’s skill, he was asked again and again as +was downstairs. +was ecstatically conscious of his approach. He felt it not only from the +was evidently one, Rostóv felt confused, blushed, and became silent. +was excellent. With the second course, a gigantic sterlet (at sight of +was for earthly love. The more she tried to hide this feeling from +was forgetting. We must have another entrée. Ah, goodness gracious!” +was, for something could be descried. On the right the Guards were +was fought. +was going home to Vorónezh and Rostóv persuaded him to travel with him +was growing dusk. On the narrow Augesd Dam where for so many years the +was heartily sick of them. In spite of this, or rather because of +was immediately killed. Prince Andrew again seized the standard and, +was impossible for cavalry to act among the bushes and broken ground, +was in a white uniform rode a black one. These were the two Emperors +was in his place, waiting. +was in raptures about him, when he had just returned from abroad, and +was in the right so I kept silent; was not that best, Count?... ‘Hey, +was keeping the bank. Rostóv had not seen him since his proposal and +was large and of an old pattern. The French swarming round their guns +was laughing at something, mingled in a merry sound, like the chirping +was lost. No one whom Rostóv asked could tell him where the Emperor +was lying asleep on the ottoman with an open book in his hand. +was mentioned and, pointing to his forehead, remarked: +was merely a man of the world who had got on and to whom getting on had +was more important than verses, and Bagratión, again preceding all the +was Napoleon—his hero—but at that moment Napoleon seemed to him +was not behaving very well in this matter. “Youth, frivolity... well, +was nothing. So why should I not stay at his house? Then I played cards +was not in love with anyone in particular, but with everyone. Whatever +was. Now he excused himself for having been taken prisoner and now, +wasn’t it?” +was often on Dólokhov’s face when looking at him. “Yes, he is a +was on duty and that he should go through the door on the left into the +was out of the question, “I am in love with your brother once for all +was pale, his blue eyes looked impudently into the commander’s face, +was perfectly true. He was afraid of getting some other officer into +was repeatedly summoned to see him. At headquarters and among the troops +was said. +was serving, and a misunderstanding arose. The two commanders were much +was silenced at once. They looked at the beautiful, large, thoughtful +was silent with his steward, the gardener, and the architect, and though +was sitting at a small table, chattering with Másha, her maid. She grew +was sitting at the head of the table. On either side of her sat the +was sitting beside him, by the hand. Rostóv was struck by the +was sitting. The curtains were drawn, and a single candle was burning on +was so close to him that his shortsighted eyes could not but perceive +was something black, now little lights seemed to glimmer where the enemy +was struck by the change in him. His words were kindly and there was a +was taken up with dinners and balls and was spent chiefly at Prince +was talked of. For the Rostóv family the whole interest of these +was the count at last handed a letter addressed in his son’s +was the Emperors’ suites. The Emperors rode up to the flank, and the +was the little princess, these tears, the cause of which she did not +was the name his fancy gave to the farthest gun of the battery, which +was thinking of. Yes, Na-tásha, sabretache, oh, yes, yes! That’s +was told that the prince had gone to the nursery. +was too far separated from our right flank and the cavalry were all +was trying to fit music: +was warm blood under his arm. “No, I am wounded and the horse is +watchword—shaft, Olmütz. What a nuisance that our squadron will be in +water. +water cart, painted green, stood in a shed; the paths were straight, +way and attaching him to himself! What if he gave me a place near him? +way, dear boy! Make way, make way!” pushed through the crowd more +way in which he danced the mazurka, Nicholas ran up to Natásha: +way of these men, and he would have got clear had they continued at the +way,” said an officer. +way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a +way, with Berg who was already in command of a company. Berg, who had +weakness—the one to which he had confessed when admitted to the +“We are enjoying ourselves! Vasíli Dmítrich is staying a day longer +“We are not fighting pour le Roi de Prusse, but for right principles. +“We are such friends, such friends! All that ruler business was just +weariness and assurance, as if he were adding every time: “You know +wearing long dresses for the first time. With scarcely any exceptions +wearing scarves and all their decorations, not only the elegant, pomaded +wearing the Cross of St. George, awarded to soldiers for bravery in +weary, and distracted air, though at the same time he was haughty and +we begin a very original and interesting series of maneuvers. Our aim is +we can know is that we know nothing. And that’s the height of human +“We can’t have less—yes, three... the mayonnaise, that’s one,” +we could not think how to address the reply! If not as ‘Consul’ +Wednesday’s meeting of the Imperial Council, at which Sergéy Kuzmích +“We drove them back!” said Borís with animation, growing talkative. +weeks, and months of his life passed in as great a rush and were as much +weep without knowing why—rode behind on his artillery nag. Though +“We had better separate,” he muttered in a broken voice. +we hear is true, it is dreadful. How little we dreamed of such a thing +We knew you’d say so. But it won’t do, because you see, if you say +“Well, all right, all right.” +“Well, all the same, you must refuse him.” +“Well, and are you still true to Borís?” he continued. +“Well, and is that all?” he asked. +“Well, and so he never got farther than: ‘Sergéy Kuzmích’?” +“Well and then?” asked the other voice. “If before that you are +“Well, and you? What are your plans?” +“Well, and you, young man,” said he. “How do you feel, mon +Well, are you off to the front?” +well, as all the connoisseurs who heard her said: “It is not trained, +“Well, as you see. So far everything’s all right, but I confess I +“Well begin!” said Dólokhov. +well-brushed clothes. There was a masculine odor and a smell of tobacco. +“Well, do you think I shall prevent her, that I can’t part from +well for you,” said Natásha, with a responsive smile. “You should +“Well, go and see,” he said, after a pause. +“Well—had a good time?” said the old count, smiling gaily and +“Well, have you sent Gabriel for some wine? All right let’s have +“Well?” he asked. +“Well, how are you going to get out of that?” he remarked. +“Well? How do you feel?” he asked. +“Well! How d’ye do? How d’ye do? Glad to see you!” +“Well, how d’you do, my dear fellow?” said Dolgorúkov, who was +“Well, I did not expect you, I am very glad,” said Prince Andrew. +“Well, I don’t know about that, but I am uncomfortable with him. And +“Well, I don’t know. It’s awkward and would make me ashamed.” +well I will give you my hand to kiss. Not till then!” she said. And +“Well, I will leave you in your little corner,” came Anna +“Well, I will read them, then!” Bagratión seemed to say, and, +“Well, Lëlya?” he asked, turning instantly to his daughter and +well-lit anteroom where they took off their cloaks without the aid of +“We’ll manage very well without a doctor.” +“Well, my dear boy, I hear you’ve been educated abroad, not taught +“Well, my dear fellow, so you still want to be an adjutant? I have +“Well, my dear fellow, tomorrow we are off at last,” said Prince +“Well, now to the health of handsome women!” said Dólokhov, and +“Well, now we’ll arrange something quite simple and becoming,” she +well remembered that seven afterwards. He laid down the seven of hearts, +“Well?” returned the old man. +“Well!...” said the old count, spreading out his arms and sinking +“Well, send for him... and how do you get on with that German?” +we’ll set off.” +“Well, she loves me and you like that.” +“Well, so that’s finished, my dear fellow! I am very glad to have +“Well, the Lord be thanked, Princess,” said Mary Bogdánovna, not +“Well then, accept his offer. It’s high time for you to be +“Well then, be quick. We’ll all have breakfast together.” +“Well then, mind and have cocks’ comb in the turtle soup, you +“Well then,” Prince Andrew answered himself, “I don’t know +“Well then, tell him so.” +“Well then, that’s excellent,” said he. “We’ll talk it over +“Well then, till tomorrow at Sokólniki,” said Dólokhov, as he took +“Well then, what do you want? You’re all in love nowadays. Well, +“Well, there you see!” +“Well, they’ve sent you a tidy sum,” said Berg, eying the heavy +“Well, till we meet again...” he said, holding out his hand to +“We’ll try to,” replied Berg, touching a pawn and then removing +“Well, what is it?” came a sharp, unpleasant voice. +“Well, what’s this now? What have you been up to now, I should like +“Well, what then?” +“Well, won’t you go on? I had a splendid card all ready,” as if it +“Well, you’d better not play,” Dólokhov added, and springing a +“Well, you see, I’ll tell you the whole secret of dueling in two +“We must distinguish between the Vienna cabinet and the Emperor of +we? No?” +went about the rooms fashionably dressed but looking sad and dull. Here, +went by. Then suddenly a terrible shriek—it could not be hers, she +went on, with a somber and scornful smile. “And thou art more foolish +went out after shaking hands with Dolgorúkov and Bilíbin. +went out of the hut in which he was billeted with Nesvítski and began +went there and found two thirds of the men and horses knocked out, two +went to her father’s room at the usual hour, Mademoiselle Bourienne +wept. She saw her brother now as he had been at the moment when he took +were all a pretense, and that the whole attention of that company was +were all hugging him, and the serfs, men and maids, flocked into the +were already up and astir. The smoke of the campfires, into which they +were also distinguished by the fact that she always presented some new +were among the prettiest. They were both particularly happy and gay. +were bringing in jugs and basins, hot water for shaving, and their +were casual guests—chiefly young men, among whom were Denísov, +were concentrated. Twice they had attempted to attack this point, but on +were constantly shaping themselves in his mind, arising from the +were descending. In front in the fog a shot was heard and then another, +were flocking in to look at him. Prince Bagratión was thanking the +were in a hurry to show the changes that had taken place in them. +were in them. She leaned over to her brother and kissed him, slightly +were leaving to join their regiment after Epiphany. About twenty people +were lips seeking a kiss. +were moving in and out among the Russian troops and served as heralds +were moving in the same direction. Every soldier felt glad to know that +were not to be overburdened with labor, women while nursing their babies +were not to be sent to work, assistance was to be given to the serfs, +were passing by. From one of the drivers he learned that Kutúzov’s +were present, including Dólokhov and Denísov. +were pronounced, Pierre, who had so long been considering his career, +were ready to drop, and so said the grown-up young men and women who +were sent to the crossroads to guide him over the country road with its +were the center of groups which even strangers approached respectfully +were the fun of the game which interested him most. +were there, only disorganized crowds of troops of various kinds. He +were those of the orderlies who were packing up; one voice, probably a +were throwing everything superfluous, made the eyes smart. It was cold +were turned against the ten-gun battery. Túshin’s companion officer +were walking, driving past, and settling down all around. The sound +“We shall probably advance,” replied Bolkónski, evidently reluctant +“We’ve given it ‘em hot, mate! They won’t make another push +“We were ordered to be at the place before nine, but we haven’t got +“we will talk of it later” (and he looked round at Rostóv). “Come +Weyrother. +Weyrother again gave that smile which seemed to say that to him it was +Weyrother, hurriedly rising from his seat and going up to the table on +Weyrother’s had already been approved. As soon as Prince Andrew began +Weyrother’s name, or even the term “dispositions.” +Weyrother, who was in full control of the proposed battle, by his +What a heart!” +“What? A minister? What minister? Who gave orders?” he said in +what am I to do if I love nothing but fame and men’s esteem? Death, +“What?” answered the old man absent-mindedly. +“What are they about?” thought Prince Andrew as he gazed at them. +“What are you about?” shouted Rostóv, looking at him in an ecstasy +“What! Are you going to remain as you are, dear princess?” she +“What, are you wounded, my lad?” said Túshin, approaching the gun +what? A slur on my name? A misfortune for life? Oh, that’s +what a soul there is in Dólokhov, you should see him with his mother. +“What a strange fate, Másha darling!” And having taken off his +what a strange frenzy one experiences during an attack,” Prince +“What a style! How charmingly he describes!” said she, reading the +“What can he say? Tra-di-ri-di-ra and so on... merely to gain time. +“What can it be?” he thought. “The enemy in the rear of our army? +“What delicacy!” thought the princess. “Is it possible that +“What devil brought them here?” thought he, while Tíkhon was +“What did he say? Where to, now? Halt, is it? Did he thank us?” came +what difficulty the father had dragged his legs upstairs while the son +“What division are you?” shouted an adjutant, riding up. +“What does harm to another is wrong,” said Pierre, feeling with +“What does it mean? What is it? Whom are they firing at? Who is +“What does that prove?” he was saying as Rostóv rode up. “They +“What does this mean?” she brought out. +“What do you want, your honor?” asked an artilleryman, standing +“What error or evil can there be in my wishing to do good, and even +“Whatever are you bothering about, gentlemen?” said Bilíbin, who, +“Whatever happens to you,” he said, “you must bear it all manfully +“Whatever the European sovereigns and commanders may do to +what happiness it would be to die—not in saving the Emperor’s life +“What has happened?” he asked himself. “I have killed her lover, +“What have the young people come to nowadays, eh, Feoktíst?” said +“What have they taken a baby in there for?” thought Prince Andrew in +“What?” he answered, not recognizing Borís. +what he should do on his estates. +what he was saying was out of place, tactless and unsuitable, that +what he was to do. The coming of these visitors annoyed him. “What are +what I have seen during these last three months is incredible. +what is going on around them. +“What is it?” +“What is it?” he said crossly, and, his hand shaking +what is it I am attached to, Papa?” said Anatole, turning to his +What is it meant to prove? What? I ask you.” +What is life, and what is death? What power governs all?” +“What is the matter, Mary?” +“What is the matter?” she asked. +“What is the matter with you, my darling? You look pale. Oh, you + What is this bliss that makes my fingers thrill? +“What is this?” thought Nicholas, listening to her with widely +“What is your conception of Freemasonry?” +“What! It is as if I were glad of a chance to take advantage of +what looked like a squadron of horsemen in various uniforms. Two of them + What magic power is this recalls me still? +“What nonsense...” +“What nonsense! Much I need it!” said Rostóv, throwing the letter +What Pierre did not know was that the place where they presented him + What spark has set my inmost soul on fire, +“What’s that? What do you make of it?” said Rostóv to the hussar +“What’s the matter with you? Are you ill?” +“What’s this? Am I falling? My legs are giving way,” thought he, +“What stupid orders! They don’t themselves know what they are +“What’s your name?” +what there is in you.” +what to do with his hands; he was more accustomed to walk over a plowed +“What! To whom?... Nonsense!” cried the count, suddenly reddening +what was going on in the passage. Some women passing with quiet steps in +“What was it?” +what was passing in his mind. +what will happen and don’t want to know, and can’t, but if I want +“What! You don’t remember Borís?” asked Sónya in surprise. +“What you have with you: watch, money, rings....” +wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular movement of the +wheels and working the screws himself. +wheel, which merged in her memory with what followed.) +When all was ready, the sabers stuck in the snow to mark the barriers, +“When am I to receive the money, Count?” +When Borís and Anna Pávlovna returned to the others Prince Hippolyte +When Borís, who was to be served up to the guests, entered the drawing +whence—a stern note of which all are conscious sounds in the moral +“When did you get the letter? Was it from Olmütz?” repeated +When everybody rose to go, Hélène who had spoken very little all +when footsteps or voices were heard did they look at one another, the +When Germans start being accurate, there’s no end to it!” +When he came level with the Foot Guards he noticed that about them and +When he entered, Prince Andrew, his eyes drooping contemptuously (with +when he first loved her. He thought of her pregnancy and felt sorry for +When he got home he could not sleep for a long time for thinking of what +When he had become a little quieter, he explained to Rostóv that he was +When he had gone less than half a mile in the rear of the column he +When he reached Kiev he sent for all his stewards to the head office +When he read that sentence, Pierre felt for the first time that some +when he stayed in (as he said) for Pierre’s sake, hardly exchanged a +when he was dying of wounds and the sovereign had thanked him for heroic +when he wished to speak contemptuously, and noticing Borís, Prince +when, if you remember, he posed as a sort of Marat at one of my soirees. +“When I saw, your excellency, that their first battalion was +When it came to Natásha’s turn to choose a partner, she rose and, +When Paris was mentioned, Mademoiselle Bourienne for her part seized the +When Princess Mary came down, Prince Vasíli and his son were already +When Princess Mary returned from her father, the little princess sat +When Princess Mary went to him at the usual hour he was working at his +When Prince Vasíli returned to the drawing room, the princess, his +When she looked up at him she was struck by his beauty. Anatole stood +When she saw the count, she stretched out her arms to him, embraced his +when she was not like that and when everything was light and gay. She +When the Emperor had passed nearly all the regiments, the troops began +When the monotonous sound of Weyrother’s voice ceased, Kutúzov opened +When the officers had emptied and smashed their glasses, Kírsten filled +when the princess, as if lost in a fog, had already staggered out of the +When the reading which lasted more than an hour was over, Langeron again +When the review was over, the newly arrived officers, and also +when the subject did not relate to himself, but in connection with the +When the sun had entirely emerged from the fog, and fields and mist were +when they played some tricks on a policeman, didn’t they do it +when they saw his looks. +when we were rejoicing at his happiness! And such a lofty angelic soul +when you began living for others. I experienced just the reverse. I +“When you see my sister, Princess Mary, you’ll get on with her,” +“Where am I? Oh yes, in the skirmishing line... pass and +where a parade does not begin till all the troops are assembled,” said +“Where are you going to now, my dear sir?” +“Where are you off to?” asked Borís. +whereas it was perhaps not known, since the enemy was in movement. +where he could never have expected the enemy to be. +where he was staying, and had been absurd, excited, and foolish in +where his regiment was stationed, and take him to visit Prince Nicholas +“Where is it, that lofty sky that I did not know till now, but saw +“Where is the Emperor? Where is Kutúzov?” Rostóv kept asking +“Where is the princess?” he asked. “Hiding?” +where the clavichord stood. +where the hottest musket fire and cannonade were heard. Suddenly he +where the sleighs had been left, in a small clearing in the pine forest +where to find me, but don’t forget that I do not regard either myself +where Túshin’s guns were stationed was an unharnessed horse with a +“Where would I not go at the countess’ command!” said Denísov, +where you always ran away; you remember cette chère Annette!” +whether he was still firm in his intention and determined to submit to +whether she ought to write, tormented her. Now that he was already an +which an enormous map of the environs of Brünn was spread out. +which aroused his own pity. +which attracted him. He very readily took up Borís’ cause and went +which changed his appearance for the worse. There was something naïvely +which covered with snow, appeared on the landing where the footman +which Denísov followed her. +which Dólokhov’s second had called on him, and, having closed the +which every Freemason should cultivate in himself. These virtues were: +which had been particularly revived and strengthened by his late tour. +which had grown much older. +which he always deceived himself. The question was whether he could ever +which he had come out was thronged with calèches, carriages of all +which he had reckoned up to ten thousand, but that now, as he vaguely +which he had worn on his Italian campaign, sat on his small gray Arab +which held him in their power.... The ten fell to him. +which he presented to Prince Bagratión. On the salver lay some verses +(which he very likely would be), and found the commander in chief +“Which house is it?” asked the driver. +which Ilyá Rostóv blushed with self-conscious pleasure), the footmen +which, in accord with the club custom, he had given up to the hall +which I not only cannot address but which I cannot even express in +which intellectual knowledge is divided. The highest wisdom is one. +which I shall lead the army.” +which is the only thing we need fear, or he is changing his position.” +“Which is the senior?” he asked, on seeing the prisoners. +which it rests and which no human power can destroy, is the preservation +which made a certain sensation, the count exchanged glances with +which Nicholas Rostóv served and which was in Prince Bagratión’s +which Princess Mary meekly submitted, just as her hair had been arranged +which seemed to him dazzlingly red, and at the feeble, round-shouldered +which seemed to rise out of the sea of mist and on which the Russian +which she spoke of her exalted patroness, supported Hélène’s wish. +which the Guards prided themselves), the officers on foot and at their +which the prince had retained for himself. +which the Rostóvs always attended. He was pointedly attentive to Sónya +which the serfs’ manorial labor had been diminished, and heard the +which they were present, and went to Iogel’s balls for young people +which though they embarrassed Pierre awakened a joyful feeling in the +which to reply to Dólokhov’s words. But before he had thought of +which was a lie, and worse than a lie? I am guilty and must endure... +which was not clear to him, to question his chief steward, to visit his +which was presumably somewhere in the same neighborhood. And so it was +which was to be found “the cream of really good society, the bloom +which were to be the first to descend the heights to attack the French +which were uppermost in his mind at that moment, addressed Prince Andrew +(which would be very difficult), he would not be able to get back before +while dressing, and yet the question he was always putting off demanded +While father and son were having their explanation, the mother and +while he tried to prove to Pierre that in his actions there was no +while on the scaffolding, in the midst of a talk explaining the future +while others sought some extraordinary explanation of so strange an +while Prince Andrew on the contrary, taking no part in the war and +While Prince Andrew went to report about the purple-faced general, that +While Rostóv was thus arguing with himself and riding sadly away, +While the guests were taking their leave Pierre remained for a long time +while under the supervision of the countess and the solicitude of the +while we, on the other hand, with our left wing by far outflank his +whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, +whispered to him. “This happiness is for those who have not in them +whisper, “has compromised her completely, they say. Pierre took him +white Cossack coat, and bring him along to me.” +white hands with an air of calm importance. +white plumes in his hat rode a bobtailed chestnut horse, the other who +white ruffle, outlining his rather long face which was lit up from +“Who?” +who appeared at his call. “Hurry off and tell Maksím, the gardener, +“Who are they? Why are they here? What do they want? And when will +“Who are you talking about?” +“Who?” asked Rostóv. +who at the front had the power to annihilate him, a lieutenant of the +who at the Rostóvs’ had jocularly assumed the role of Natásha’s +“Who can tell, your honor?” replied the hussar reluctantly. +who could therefore be of use to him. He liked Petersburg and despised +who—dreading this love affair which might hinder Nicholas from making +whoever he may be, exhort him who goeth astray, raise him that falleth, +who had come into the room unnoticed by anyone, stood there and wiped +who had come up to the cot with noiseless steps, lifted the curtain, +who had marched so gaily and complacently. But at the moment the first +who had recently opened a restaurant there with girls as waitresses. +who had sheltered in the village houses. They all rushed out of +who had stolen some boots from the recruits; I should even have been +who have striven to attain this mystery, and thereby to render them +“Who is it you want?” he asked. “The commander in chief? He was +“Who? Kutúzov?” asked Rostóv. +who lays back her ears and continues to crouch motionless before her +whole army it is still uncertain whether he is alive or not. I comfort +whole mass of men was concentrated. +who made her a low bow when she met him in the corridor carrying hot +who met him with the cross oppressed the peasants by his exactions, and +whom he now found nothing in common. “We will go after dinner. And +whom should I say that? Either to a Power indefinable, incomprehensible, +who recognized him and said a few words to him, disjointed and awkward, +who remained behind, and the monotonous tramp of thousands of feet +who’s a better man than you in every way...” +whose state of unconquerable childish embarrassment now changing to +whose words struck Pierre more and more by their precision and firmness. +“Who’s that? Why? Wait a moment!” Anatole’s face seemed to say. +“Who the devil has put the logs on the road?” snarled he. +who was associated by memories of the Italian campaign with the name of +who was in a high fever. These last days, mistrusting their household +who was passing: +who was reduced to the ranks, took a French officer prisoner in my +who was sitting silently beside him, what he thought of tomorrow’s +“Who was that?” asked Borís. +who will not refuse to accompany you.” +who, with his face buried in the ground and a blackened nape, lay on his +“Wh-what is the matter?” asked both the young and old Rostóv. +“Why?” +“Why?” +“Why aren’t you beginning, Michael Ilariónovich?” said the +“Why aren’t you serving in the army?” +“Why are they down on me?” thought Túshin, looking in alarm at his +“Why are you crying, Mamma?” asked Véra. “From all he says one +Why are you hindering us?” Another in the same place turned round and +Why did I bind myself to her? Why did I say ‘Je vous aime’ * to her, +“Why did Sónya run away?” asked Rostóv. +“Why did they write, why did Lise tell me about it? It can never +Why doesn’t the Frenchman stab him? He will not get away before the +“Why doesn’t the red-haired gunner run away as he is unarmed? +“Why, don’t you hear it?” Rostóv asked again, after waiting for a +“Why don’t you play?” he asked. +“Why don’t you renew the acquaintance?” said Dólokhov to Rostóv. +“Why do they want to make her sing? How can she sing? There’s +“Why do you shout so? You’ll frighten them!” said Borís. “I did +“Why, for this reason! My father is one of the most remarkable men of +“Why have we stopped? Is the way blocked? Or have we already come up +“Why have you thrown that away?” asked Borís. +“Why, I didn’t recognize you!” he said. But Rostóv was otherwise +“Why? I love you more than ever,” said Princess Mary, “and I will +“Why, is it late?” +“Why is it wrong?” urged Prince Andrew. “It is not given to man +“Why is it you were never at Annette’s?” the little princess asked +“Why not?” inquired Borís. +“Why not wash? That is not cleanly,” said Prince Andrew; “on the +why she’s ashamed!” +“Why should I envy them? My chance is not lost, and maybe I shall see +“Why shouldn’t I speak? I can speak as I like, and I tell you +“Why should you be ashamed?” +“Why so?” asked Prince Andrew. “To kill a vicious dog is a very +“Why terrible?” asked Nicholas. “No, Váska is a splendid +“Why, that one, right at the end, the big one. Don’t you see? +why they all looked so at him, and flattered by this general admiration +“Why ‘What the devil’?” said Borís, picking it up and reading +“Why, you remember before you went away?... Well, she says you are to +width of the field, an enormous mass of cavalry in brilliant white +wife: “Ah, why have you done this to me?” +wife, and that it could not be otherwise. +wife... God bless you!...” +wife, how she would love him become quite different, and how all he had +wife’s command had let his hair grow and abandoned his spectacles, +wife, sister, and future son, and the tenderness he had felt the night +wife, was talking in low tones to the elderly lady about Pierre. +wife, while you...” +will accept them,” said Nesvítski (who like the others concerned in +will all die for him gladly! Is it not so, gentlemen? Perhaps I am not +will all end in nothing!” +Willarski bowed his head. +Willarski was silent throughout the drive. To Pierre’s inquiries as +Willarski, whom Pierre had known slightly in Petersburg society, came +will certainly happen!” thought Pierre, glancing at those dazzling +will pass here immediately; it will please him to see these gentlemen +will slash at him!” thought Rostóv, gripping the hilt of his saber. +will. The races, the English Club, sprees with Denísov, and visits to +will to tell only what happened. It is very difficult to tell the truth, +“Will you bet? The ribbon of the order is a different matter....” +“Will you have the portmanteaus brought in? And a bed got ready, and +window, from which the double frame had been removed (by order of the +“Wine? Gluttony? Idleness? Laziness? Irritability? Anger? Women?” +winter of 1806, which Nicholas Rostóv spent in Moscow, was one of the +wisdom.” +wished to do something special on meeting his friend. He wanted to pinch +wished to help him but could not. +wished to make some suggestion. But Prince Vasíli interrupted him in +wishing to avail himself of their courtesy, and this caused some delay +wishing to show him that she did not even dare expect to interest him, +wishing to take it off, but let it drop again. The five minutes spent +wish or not to be Prince Anatole Kurágin’s wife? Reply: yes or no,” +wish, to court society’s favor. Now he alone was blamed for what had +with a calm smile that she was not so stupid as to be jealous: ‘Let +with a clever face and sharply projecting jaw which, without spoiling +With a facetious smile on his face, he was telling the ladies about last +with a foretaste of artistic pleasure. +with a gloomy and tired face, was wearily taking off his wraps with the +with a heart full despair he rode away, continually looking back at the +with a hum of conversation, like the hum of bees swarming in springtime. +“With a message to His Majesty.” +with a mouse. +with an apoplectic flush over neck and nape as old people do. +with an old mother and a hunchback sister, and was the most affectionate +with a rapid, almost brutal movement of her head, she intercepted his +with a scared look and that Princess Mary was no longer by the cot. +with a sense of antipathy to the old prince which she did not +with a serious expression, but with a smile lurking at the corners of +with a sigh. +with a sigh he could not suppress, as they passed out of the palace. +with a smile. +with a strength he had never before felt, he made a step toward her +with a subtle smile. +with a trembling voice and some difficulty in utterance due to his +with banks still bare of grass. It was at the end of a village that +with bread and salt and wished to build a chantry in honor of Peter and +with Dólokhov. “None but fools trust to luck in play,” Dólokhov +with elasticity of movement, faith in his good fortune, and generally in +with flour whitening their carts—on that narrow dam amid the wagons +with Germans all day. We went with Weyrother to survey the dispositions. +with her and picked up her reticule and drove out with her. How did it +with her head bent first on one side and then on the other. +with her. He kissed her hand and addressed her not as thou but as +with her knitting. Princess Mary took a book and began reading. Only +with him.” +with him to Dolgorúkov. +with his eccentric father. +with his eyes bandaged seemed to him an hour. His arms felt numb, +with his face in his hands. +with his feelings but with the very possibility of life. Life without +with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache +with his handkerchief, sat down by Natásha and did not leave her for +with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. At the sound +with his right hand, then falling on one knee he twirled her round him, +with his right thumb under a button of his uniform, his chest expanded +with his whole body as if in that position he hoped to hasten the speed +within. +within a few days. Princess Mary and the old prince each bore and hid +with it to the marshals, and ordered the action to begin. The marshals, +with kisses, holding him tight by the skirt of his coat, sprang away and +with Kutúzov’s cantata, laid one before Pierre as one of the +with lanterns, standing at the entrance. She went out on the stairs. On +with Napoleon if, contrary to expectations, these negotiations were +with Natásha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed +Without answering, Rostóv shook the soldier’s Cross of St. George +without any command being given, apparently obstructed by something in +without any definite position, without relations or even a country, did +Without changing his careless attitude, Pierre looked at them over his +without delay and carry out instructions! +without going out of the house, waiting for the money his father could +without his greatcoat, with his Orders on his breast and an enormous +without looking at him, and with a kind of fury that made him like his +without looking at the man he was addressing, and did not reply to +without male society, on Anatole’s appearance all the three women of +without moving, undertaking nothing....” +without reading it and reread his father’s letter, ending with the +without reasoning. With an affectation of respect which evidently struck +without receiving any explanation. +with papers from Kutúzov to the Tsarévich, he looked in on Borís, +with profit. The first and chief object of our Order, the foundation on +with something. It was a coffin with bones inside. He was not at all +with Telyánin and Bogdánich. That affair was the same thing as this +with the air of an old brigadier. +with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our +with the delight boys feel at the sight of a military elder brother, and +with the full swing of a bludgeon. It hurt a little, but the worst of +with their management and embezzlement of money, some after their first +with their plumes, ribbons, and medals, both courtiers and military +with the lassitude of age, sat yawning wearily with closed eyes. The +With the naked eye Prince Andrew saw below them to the right, not more +with the old prince.” +with the physical pain. It was they, these soldiers—wounded and +With the soldier, an infantry officer with a bandaged cheek came up to +with which he listened to Pierre, especially when he spoke with joyful +with you. I can’t.” +woman; and what have you done? You have not helped her to find the way +woman. Now I have spoken that terrible word to myself all has become +woman’s privilege.” +woman who may belong to anyone—to you too,” said her glance. And at +women have that dress can make a face pretty. +“Women,” he said in a low, scarcely audible voice. +women’s gloves, he said: “Dear brother, these woman’s gloves are +won’t be in action,” he added as if in apology. +won’t get there till evening.” +wooden walls redolent of pine, and would have gone farther, but Antón +word. +word, “and you believed it! Well, what have you proved? What does this +word infected the whole crowd with a feeling of panic. +word of honor not to take anything more till the spring. Now only twelve +words but could not distinguish them. The din of many voices was too +words could do. You will perhaps also see in your further initiation a +words: “Gallop off to Kórchevo and carry out instructions!” +words, he added, “Don’t be hurt, my dear fellow; you know I speak +words he had found so difficult to utter: “I love you.” “It all +words. If you are going to fight a duel, and you make a will and write +words of Rostopchín, that French soldiers have to be incited to battle +words—the Great All or Nothing-” said he to himself, “or to +words to the soldiers who were carrying him, now with his eyes fixed +words. Touched that this statuesque princess could so change, Pierre +words with vague yet joyful ideas. The door opened and someone came in. +word “waiting.”) “Not all the columns have formed up yet, Your +work, chimes to play, figures to pop out, and the hands to advance with +working and looked up with that curious expression of inner, happy calm +working herself up to tears with the imaginary words of her pauvre mère +work. On a third estate the priest, bearing a cross, came to meet +worldly sciences of physics, history, chemistry, and the like, into +world. Prince Andrew was the first to move away, ruffling his hair +worn and irritable. The infantry passing before him came to a halt +worn leather, and an officer’s saber with a sword knot. The Don horse +worse, would have thought that Rostóv was himself to blame since what +worthless scoundrel whose whole life could not atone for his crime. He +worthy of it. This rescript began with the words: “Sergéy Kuzmích, +“Wostóv, get up!” +would at last start on that path of regeneration and on the actively +would be easier to see people coming along it. “Follow me!” said he, +would be good if everything were as clear and simple as it seems to +would be killed. +would be particularly pleasant to him to dishonor my name and ridicule +would be something unnatural, and as it seemed to him dishonorable, in +would be taken immediately to free his serfs—and that till then they +would be to betray her agitation, while to decline their offers to +would be too extraordinary,” and at the very moment she thought this, +would be wiser for him to leave Petersburg. Pierre proposed going to his +would give way not only under a cannon or a crowd, but very soon even +would happen to him and still more afraid of showing his fear. He felt +would have addressed yourself first to me. In that case you would not +would have hit Alpátych, the overseer, had not the latter instinctively +would have made them. +would have me be, but I have never had help from anyone.... But it is +would have seemed so unnatural had anyone disliked him, that he could +would meet. +would not be bad as regards the unwritten code,” thought Borís), +would not have taken lovers (des amants), but I have not done so,” +would not supply them. Pierre was obliged to wait. Without undressing, +would occupy a most brilliant position in society. Don’t you think so? +would still remain piteous and plain. After two or three changes to +“Would you believe it, Count, I was not at all alarmed, because I knew +would you now like to look round my place?” +wounded and captured Russian officers he was carried to the hospital. +wounded—had left it long ago. All about the field, like heaps of +wounded in the right hand, taken his sword in the left, and gone +wounded officer?” +wounded soldier was so dirty, coarse, and revolting that his proximity +wounded were more distinctly heard than any other sound in the darkness +wounded where there was no one left to fire at, on seeing an adjutant +wounds, the loss of family—I fear nothing. And precious and dear +wretched mood. At nine in the morning, he heard firing in front and +wrinkled, clean-shaven cheek for Pierre to kiss and would say: “Till +wrinkled soles and palms. +wrists visible from under the shirt cuffs, laid down the pack and took +wrong, and further that he was disagreeable and unnatural. +wrong and that to discuss the bad news was difficult, and so it was best +wrote himself,” said she through her tears. +year?” said “the man of profound intellect.” “Why shouldn’t +years before, it seemed impossible that the little creature who lived +“Yes.” +“Yes, and I have some money and a letter to give you,” he added. +“Yes, but he will dislike it extremely,” said Bolkónski. +“Yes, but it is not as you imagine,” Prince Andrew continued. “I +“Yes, Count,” she would say, “he is too noble and pure-souled for +“Yes, everything is different nowadays, everything is changed. The +“Yes, from Olmütz,” he answered, with a sigh. +“Yes, gentlemen, I’ve been told there’s a rumor going about Moscow +“Yes, God be thanked! Yes! They’ve just finished supper. Let me have +“Yes, he is very handsome,” thought Pierre, “and I know him. It +yes, hospitals, medicine. He has a fit, he is dying, and you come and +“Yes, I belong to the Brotherhood of the Freemasons,” said the +“Yes, I do believe in God,” he repeated. +“Yes, I do wish it,” said he. +“Yes, I’d send them on in front, but no fear, they’re crowding up +“Yes, I feel a kind of oppression,” she said in reply to the +“Yes, if you put it like that it’s quite a different matter,” said +“Yes... I... I... desire regeneration,” Pierre uttered with +“Yes, I’m tired too,” said Rostóv. +“Yes, indeed!” +“Yes, I never loved her,” said he to himself; “I knew she was a +“Yes, I saw him, and am convinced that he fears nothing so much as +“Yes, it can’t be helped if they won’t take less. Ah, dear me! I +“Yes, it is very likely that I shall be killed tomorrow,” he +“Yes... it’s getting on, it will all be settled today.” Anna +“Yes, I was thinking”—for some reason Borís could not help +yes, killed my wife’s lover. Yes, that was it! And why? How did I come +“Yes, my Sónya could not have done otherwise!” thought Nicholas. +“Yes,” said Natásha. “Do you know, Nicholas—don’t be +“Yes, sir.” +“Yes, sir.” +“Yes, sir, and there’s a light in your father’s study.” +“Yes, stories!” repeated Rostóv loudly, looking with eyes suddenly +yesterday and the question presented itself whether he ought or ought +“Yes, that must be so,” thought Pierre, when after these words the +“Yes, that’s me!” she seemed to say, answering the rapt gaze with +“Yes, that was fine,” said Rostóv, smiling. +“Yes, this is the one thing left me now,” he said with a sigh. +“Yes, we have altered much, very much, since then,” said Prince +“Yes, we know that, but the harm I am conscious of in myself is +“Yes, yes,” assented Pierre. +“Yes, yes,” assented Pierre. +“Yes, yes, do so.” +“Yes, yes,” he muttered, “it will be difficult, I fear, difficult +“Yes, yes, I am unhappy,” assented Pierre. “But what am I to +“Yes... yes, I believe in God,” he said. +“Yes, yes, if you please! It is already late,” said he, and nodding +“Yes, yes, that is so,” said Pierre joyfully. +“Yes, you do not know Him, my dear sir,” said the Mason. “You +“Yes, you have seen him?” said Prince Andrew. “Well, what is +“Yes, you might, but I am afraid of getting the accounts mixed. So I +“Yes, your excellency. Forgive me for heaven’s sake... It was only +“Yes, you talk, but try it yourself!” +yet at the same time was conscious of his strength as a part of that +Yet it was she, dressed in a new gown which he did not know, made since +yet occupied that region, and the Russians—the uninjured and slightly +yet with a hope for the fulfillment of her forbidden earthly longing) +yet with unhesitating assurance that he was doing the right thing, +you!” +“You absolutely must come and see me,” she said in a tone that +you and make you weep. +you a place in my carriage. I am very glad. All our important business +“You are a little slyboots,” she said. +You are all blubberers and understand nothing.” +“You are an angel: I am not worthy of you, but I am afraid of +“You are joking,” replied Pierre, growing more and more excited. +“You are most welcome! I know, I know,” said the count, kissing and +you are not aware of the fact...” +“You are seeking for truth in order to follow its laws in your life, +“You are still the same dreamer, I see,” remarked Borís, shaking +“You are the commander of the Emperor Alexander’s regiment of Horse +“You are unhappy, my dear sir,” the stranger continued. “You +“You are wounded?” he asked, hardly able to master the trembling of +you, but why should I bother about you? You’d be only too glad, of +“You call him Váska? That’s funny! And is he very nice?” +“You can give the message to His Majesty,” said Dolgorúkov, +“You can’t come in! You can’t!” said a terrified voice from + * “You clear out of this.” +“You couldn’t see a thing. How they shot at their own fellows! +“You did not get my letter?” he asked, and not waiting for a +“You don’t mind your honor?” he asked Túshin. “I’ve lost my +“You forget yourself, Colonel. I am not considering my own pleasure +you have been entered in the diplomatic corps and made a Gentleman of +“You have earned the St. George’s standards and will be worthy of +“You haven’t read the letter?” asked Sónya. +you hurry up? Now then!” +you? I’m awfully glad you’re my brother.” She touched his +“You know Bilíbin—he’s a very clever fellow. He suggested +“You know her husband, of course?” said Anna Pávlovna, closing her +“You know Him not, my dear sir, and so you are very unhappy. You do +“You know, Michael Ilariónovich, we are not on the Empress’ Field +“You know, mon cher, your father and I had some accounts to settle, so +“You know N— N— received a snuffbox with the portrait last +“You know they’ve come, Marie?” said the little princess, waddling +“You’ll die and all will end. You’ll die and know all, or cease +“You’ll make a fine thing of it, deploying in sight of the enemy! +“You may go,” he said to Anatole. +“You may punt,” he said. +“You might have taken some from the covering troops.” +“You must do as you please,” said Prince Bolkónski, bowing to his +young aide-de-camp with a smile. +young, all our octogenarians were reviewed, and of Prozoróvski +young and old men and women Pierre could not understand why he did not +young face to look back. A shudder of terror went through him: “No, +young girls ready for anything and full of hope—experienced the same +young man he did not know, with a peculiar cross hanging from his +young man’s recent loss by the death of Count Bezúkhov (everyone +young man’s shoulder. +young master. “Can it be? My treasure!” and Prokófy, trembling with +young son, resting on him and winking joyfully at him. Young Rostóv +young. You need advice. Don’t be angry with me for exercising an old +you not rest here?” +“You owe forty-three thousand, Count,” said Dólokhov, and +“You picked it up?... I dare say! You’re very smart!” one of them +you positively that Hélène is as innocent before you as Christ was +your battalions. I will keep out of fire if you with your habitual +“Your cousin...” Dólokhov started to say, but Nicholas interrupted +your Denísov though he is a rake and all that, still I like him; so +your disposal.” +“Your excellency, here are two trophies,” said Dólokhov, pointing +“Your excellency!” Prince Andrew broke the silence with his abrupt +“Your excellency,” said Rostóv, “may I ask a favor?” +“Your excellency, should not Mary Bogdánovna be sent for?” said one +your eyes,” added Willarski. “I wish you courage and success,” +“Your honor, I thought...” +“Your honor, the generals!” said the sergeant, riding up to Rostóv. +“Your honor, there he is!” cried one of the hussars behind him. And +“Your honor, you’re wanted by the general. He is in the hut here,” +“Your joke is too bad, it’s witty but unjust,” said Anna +your presence; if she is willing, then he can stay on. He can stay and +“Your regiment fulfilled its duty honorably,” said Napoleon. +yours.” +yourself and say you nearly ruined your life and only found happiness +yourself in a position to be attacked, but yourself to attack. Believe +yourself, put a bridle on your senses, and seek blessedness, not in +“Your son,” wrote Kutúzov, “fell before my eyes, a standard in +you?” said the old prince to Prince Vasíli. +you see I do understand. I don’t know how to put it... with this one +“You see, my dear fellow, I have been thinking about you,” +you seen Duport?” +you select to be your worthy helpmeet in Masonry.” And after a pause, +“You shan’t have it!” he said distinctly. +you—Sónya. But their eyes met and said thou, and exchanged tender +you that it would be very easy to do so if you haven’t sufficient +“Youth is no hindrance to courage,” muttered Sukhtélen in a failing +“You thought!” shouted the prince, his words coming more and more +you understand, your excellency, my dear sir, that you must not +you’ve had to take,” cried he. +you were about, challenged a man you are jealous of without cause.” +You were not right, not quite in the right, you were impetuous...” +you, who do not believe in the truth of the light and who have not +“You will change it, won’t you?” said Lise. And as Princess Mary +“You will find the beautiful Hélène here, whom it is always +you will let me win this ten, or beat it.” +you will remember this, your excellency!” +you won’t require it. We’ll go into the accounts later.” +you yourself reported to Count Buxhöwden yesterday, you must think of +“You...! you... scoundrel! I challenge you!” he ejaculated, and, +Zherkóv, not removing his hand from his cap, turned his horse about +“Zum Henker diese Russen!” * muttered a German. diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-3/1M.txt/sort-1M-02 b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-3/1M.txt/sort-1M-02 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..354f41e --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-3/1M.txt/sort-1M-02 @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Prince Andrew with one word, one argument, +raise him. But as soon as he thought of what he should say, he felt that diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-3/1M/1M-00 b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-3/1M/1M-00 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f9b8d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-3/1M/1M-00 @@ -0,0 +1,10785 @@ + +The Project Gutenberg EBook of War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost +no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use +it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this +eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: War and Peace + +Author: Leo Tolstoy + +Translators: Louise and Aylmer Maude + +Posting Date: January 10, 2009 [EBook #2600] + +Last Updated: January 21, 2019 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WAR AND PEACE *** + + + + +An Anonymous Volunteer, and David Widger + + + + + + +WAR AND PEACE + + +By Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi + + + + + + CONTENTS + + + BOOK ONE: 1805 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + CHAPTER XXIII + + CHAPTER XXIV + + CHAPTER XXV + + CHAPTER XXVI + + CHAPTER XXVII + + CHAPTER XXVIII + + + BOOK TWO: 1805 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + + BOOK THREE: 1805 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + + BOOK FOUR: 1806 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + + BOOK FIVE: 1806 - 07 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + + BOOK SIX: 1808 - 10 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + CHAPTER XXIII + + CHAPTER XXIV + + CHAPTER XXV + + CHAPTER XXVI + + + BOOK SEVEN: 1810 - 11 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + + BOOK EIGHT: 1811 - 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13 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + + FIRST EPILOGUE: 1813 - 20 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + + SECOND EPILOGUE + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + + + + + + + + + +BOOK ONE: 1805 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +“Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the +Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, +if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that +Antichrist—I really believe he is Antichrist—I will have nothing +more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my +‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I +have frightened you—sit down and tell me all the news.” + +It was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna Pávlovna +Schérer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Márya Fëdorovna. +With these words she greeted Prince Vasíli Kurágin, a man of high +rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna +Pávlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering +from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used +only by the elite. + +All her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered +by a scarlet-liveried footman that morning, ran as follows: + +“If you have nothing better to do, Count (or Prince), and if the +prospect of spending an evening with a poor invalid is not too terrible, +I shall be very charmed to see you tonight between 7 and 10—Annette +Schérer.” + +“Heavens! what a virulent attack!” replied the prince, not in the +least disconcerted by this reception. He had just entered, wearing an +embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on +his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that +refined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and +with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance +who had grown old in society and at court. He went up to Anna Pávlovna, +kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, +and complacently seated himself on the sofa. + +“First of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. Set your friend’s +mind at rest,” said he without altering his tone, beneath the +politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony +could be discerned. + +“Can one be well while suffering morally? Can one be calm in times +like these if one has any feeling?” said Anna Pávlovna. “You are +staying the whole evening, I hope?” + +“And the fete at the English ambassador’s? Today is Wednesday. I +must put in an appearance there,” said the prince. “My daughter is +coming for me to take me there.” + +“I thought today’s fete had been canceled. I confess all these +festivities and fireworks are becoming wearisome.” + +“If they had known that you wished it, the entertainment would have +been put off,” said the prince, who, like a wound-up clock, by force +of habit said things he did not even wish to be believed. + +“Don’t tease! Well, and what has been decided about Novosíltsev’s +dispatch? You know everything.” + +“What can one say about it?” replied the prince in a cold, listless +tone. “What has been decided? They have decided that Buonaparte has +burnt his boats, and I believe that we are ready to burn ours.” + +Prince Vasíli always spoke languidly, like an actor repeating a stale +part. Anna Pávlovna Schérer on the contrary, despite her forty years, +overflowed with animation and impulsiveness. To be an enthusiast had +become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not +feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the +expectations of those who knew her. The subdued smile which, though it +did not suit her faded features, always played round her lips expressed, +as in a spoiled child, a continual consciousness of her charming defect, +which she neither wished, nor could, nor considered it necessary, to +correct. + +In the midst of a conversation on political matters Anna Pávlovna burst +out: + +“Oh, don’t speak to me of Austria. Perhaps I don’t understand +things, but Austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war. She +is betraying us! Russia alone must save Europe. Our gracious sovereign +recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it. That is the one +thing I have faith in! Our good and wonderful sovereign has to perform +the noblest role on earth, and he is so virtuous and noble that God will +not forsake him. He will fulfill his vocation and crush the hydra of +revolution, which has become more terrible than ever in the person of +this murderer and villain! We alone must avenge the blood of the just +one.... Whom, I ask you, can we rely on?... England with her commercial +spirit will not and cannot understand the Emperor Alexander’s +loftiness of soul. She has refused to evacuate Malta. She wanted to +find, and still seeks, some secret motive in our actions. What answer +did Novosíltsev get? None. The English have not understood and cannot +understand the self-abnegation of our Emperor who wants nothing for +himself, but only desires the good of mankind. And what have they +promised? Nothing! And what little they have promised they will not +perform! Prussia has always declared that Buonaparte is invincible, and +that all Europe is powerless before him.... And I don’t believe a +word that Hardenburg says, or Haugwitz either. This famous Prussian +neutrality is just a trap. I have faith only in God and the lofty +destiny of our adored monarch. He will save Europe!” + +She suddenly paused, smiling at her own impetuosity. + +“I think,” said the prince with a smile, “that if you had been +sent instead of our dear Wintzingerode you would have captured the King +of Prussia’s consent by assault. You are so eloquent. Will you give me +a cup of tea?” + +“In a moment. À propos,” she added, becoming calm again, “I am +expecting two very interesting men tonight, le Vicomte de Mortemart, who +is connected with the Montmorencys through the Rohans, one of the best +French families. He is one of the genuine émigrés, the good ones. And +also the Abbé Morio. Do you know that profound thinker? He has been +received by the Emperor. Had you heard?” + +“I shall be delighted to meet them,” said the prince. “But +tell me,” he added with studied carelessness as if it had only just +occurred to him, though the question he was about to ask was the chief +motive of his visit, “is it true that the Dowager Empress wants +Baron Funke to be appointed first secretary at Vienna? The baron by all +accounts is a poor creature.” + +Prince Vasíli wished to obtain this post for his son, but others were +trying through the Dowager Empress Márya Fëdorovna to secure it for +the baron. + +Anna Pávlovna almost closed her eyes to indicate that neither she nor +anyone else had a right to criticize what the Empress desired or was +pleased with. + +“Baron Funke has been recommended to the Dowager Empress by her +sister,” was all she said, in a dry and mournful tone. + +As she named the Empress, Anna Pávlovna’s face suddenly assumed an +expression of profound and sincere devotion and respect mingled with +sadness, and this occurred every time she mentioned her illustrious +patroness. She added that Her Majesty had deigned to show Baron Funke +beaucoup d’estime, and again her face clouded over with sadness. + +The prince was silent and looked indifferent. But, with the womanly and +courtierlike quickness and tact habitual to her, Anna Pávlovna +wished both to rebuke him (for daring to speak as he had done of a man +recommended to the Empress) and at the same time to console him, so she +said: + +“Now about your family. Do you know that since your daughter came +out everyone has been enraptured by her? They say she is amazingly +beautiful.” + +The prince bowed to signify his respect and gratitude. + +“I often think,” she continued after a short pause, drawing nearer +to the prince and smiling amiably at him as if to show that political +and social topics were ended and the time had come for intimate +conversation—“I often think how unfairly sometimes the joys of life +are distributed. Why has fate given you two such splendid children? +I don’t speak of Anatole, your youngest. I don’t like him,” she +added in a tone admitting of no rejoinder and raising her eyebrows. +“Two such charming children. And really you appreciate them less than +anyone, and so you don’t deserve to have them.” + +And she smiled her ecstatic smile. + +“I can’t help it,” said the prince. “Lavater would have said I +lack the bump of paternity.” + +“Don’t joke; I mean to have a serious talk with you. Do you know +I am dissatisfied with your younger son? Between ourselves” (and her +face assumed its melancholy expression), “he was mentioned at Her +Majesty’s and you were pitied....” + +The prince answered nothing, but she looked at him significantly, +awaiting a reply. He frowned. + +“What would you have me do?” he said at last. “You know I did all +a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools. +Hippolyte is at least a quiet fool, but Anatole is an active one. That +is the only difference between them.” He said this smiling in a way +more natural and animated than usual, so that the wrinkles round +his mouth very clearly revealed something unexpectedly coarse and +unpleasant. + +“And why are children born to such men as you? If you were not a +father there would be nothing I could reproach you with,” said Anna +Pávlovna, looking up pensively. + +“I am your faithful slave and to you alone I can confess that my +children are the bane of my life. It is the cross I have to bear. That +is how I explain it to myself. It can’t be helped!” + +He said no more, but expressed his resignation to cruel fate by a +gesture. Anna Pávlovna meditated. + +“Have you never thought of marrying your prodigal son Anatole?” she +asked. “They say old maids have a mania for matchmaking, and though I +don’t feel that weakness in myself as yet, I know a little person who +is very unhappy with her father. She is a relation of yours, Princess +Mary Bolkónskaya.” + +Prince Vasíli did not reply, though, with the quickness of memory and +perception befitting a man of the world, he indicated by a movement of +the head that he was considering this information. + +“Do you know,” he said at last, evidently unable to check the sad +current of his thoughts, “that Anatole is costing me forty thousand +rubles a year? And,” he went on after a pause, “what will it be in +five years, if he goes on like this?” Presently he added: “That’s +what we fathers have to put up with.... Is this princess of yours +rich?” + +“Her father is very rich and stingy. He lives in the country. He is +the well-known Prince Bolkónski who had to retire from the army under +the late Emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the King of Prussia.’ He is +very clever but eccentric, and a bore. The poor girl is very unhappy. +She has a brother; I think you know him, he married Lise Meinen lately. +He is an aide-de-camp of Kutúzov’s and will be here tonight.” + +“Listen, dear Annette,” said the prince, suddenly taking Anna +Pávlovna’s hand and for some reason drawing it downwards. “Arrange +that affair for me and I shall always be your most devoted slave-slafe +with an f, as a village elder of mine writes in his reports. She is rich +and of good family and that’s all I want.” + +And with the familiarity and easy grace peculiar to him, he raised the +maid of honor’s hand to his lips, kissed it, and swung it to and fro +as he lay back in his armchair, looking in another direction. + +“Attendez,” said Anna Pávlovna, reflecting, “I’ll speak to +Lise, young Bolkónski’s wife, this very evening, and perhaps the +thing can be arranged. It shall be on your family’s behalf that I’ll +start my apprenticeship as old maid.” + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +Anna Pávlovna’s drawing room was gradually filling. The highest +Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age +and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. +Prince Vasíli’s daughter, the beautiful Hélène, came to take her +father to the ambassador’s entertainment; she wore a ball dress and +her badge as maid of honor. The youthful little Princess Bolkónskaya, +known as la femme la plus séduisante de Pétersbourg, * was also there. +She had been married during the previous winter, and being pregnant did +not go to any large gatherings, but only to small receptions. Prince +Vasíli’s son, Hippolyte, had come with Mortemart, whom he introduced. +The Abbé Morio and many others had also come. + + * The most fascinating woman in Petersburg. + +To each new arrival Anna Pávlovna said, “You have not yet seen my +aunt,” or “You do not know my aunt?” and very gravely conducted +him or her to a little old lady, wearing large bows of ribbon in her +cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests +began to arrive; and slowly turning her eyes from the visitor to her +aunt, Anna Pávlovna mentioned each one’s name and then left them. + +Each visitor performed the ceremony of greeting this old aunt whom not +one of them knew, not one of them wanted to know, and not one of them +cared about; Anna Pávlovna observed these greetings with mournful and +solemn interest and silent approval. The aunt spoke to each of them in +the same words, about their health and her own, and the health of Her +Majesty, “who, thank God, was better today.” And each visitor, +though politeness prevented his showing impatience, left the old woman +with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not +return to her the whole evening. + +The young Princess Bolkónskaya had brought some work in a +gold-embroidered velvet bag. Her pretty little upper lip, on which a +delicate dark down was just perceptible, was too short for her teeth, +but it lifted all the more sweetly, and was especially charming when she +occasionally drew it down to meet the lower lip. As is always the case +with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her +upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to be her own special and +peculiar form of beauty. Everyone brightened at the sight of this pretty +young woman, so soon to become a mother, so full of life and health, and +carrying her burden so lightly. Old men and dull dispirited young ones +who looked at her, after being in her company and talking to her a +little while, felt as if they too were becoming, like her, full of life +and health. All who talked to her, and at each word saw her bright smile +and the constant gleam of her white teeth, thought that they were in a +specially amiable mood that day. + +The little princess went round the table with quick, short, swaying +steps, her workbag on her arm, and gaily spreading out her dress sat +down on a sofa near the silver samovar, as if all she was doing was a +pleasure to herself and to all around her. “I have brought my work,” +said she in French, displaying her bag and addressing all present. +“Mind, Annette, I hope you have not played a wicked trick on me,” +she added, turning to her hostess. “You wrote that it was to be quite +a small reception, and just see how badly I am dressed.” And she +spread out her arms to show her short-waisted, lace-trimmed, dainty gray +dress, girdled with a broad ribbon just below the breast. + +“Soyez tranquille, Lise, you will always be prettier than anyone +else,” replied Anna Pávlovna. + +“You know,” said the princess in the same tone of voice and still in +French, turning to a general, “my husband is deserting me? He is going +to get himself killed. Tell me what this wretched war is for?” she +added, addressing Prince Vasíli, and without waiting for an answer she +turned to speak to his daughter, the beautiful Hélène. + +“What a delightful woman this little princess is!” said Prince +Vasíli to Anna Pávlovna. + +One of the next arrivals was a stout, heavily built young man with +close-cropped hair, spectacles, the light-colored breeches fashionable +at that time, a very high ruffle, and a brown dress coat. This stout +young man was an illegitimate son of Count Bezúkhov, a well-known +grandee of Catherine’s time who now lay dying in Moscow. The young man +had not yet entered either the military or civil service, as he had only +just returned from abroad where he had been educated, and this was his +first appearance in society. Anna Pávlovna greeted him with the nod she +accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room. But in spite of +this lowest-grade greeting, a look of anxiety and fear, as at the sight +of something too large and unsuited to the place, came over her face +when she saw Pierre enter. Though he was certainly rather bigger than +the other men in the room, her anxiety could only have reference to +the clever though shy, but observant and natural, expression which +distinguished him from everyone else in that drawing room. + +“It is very good of you, Monsieur Pierre, to come and visit a poor +invalid,” said Anna Pávlovna, exchanging an alarmed glance with her +aunt as she conducted him to her. + +Pierre murmured something unintelligible, and continued to look round as +if in search of something. On his way to the aunt he bowed to the little +princess with a pleased smile, as to an intimate acquaintance. + +Anna Pávlovna’s alarm was justified, for Pierre turned away from the +aunt without waiting to hear her speech about Her Majesty’s health. +Anna Pávlovna in dismay detained him with the words: “Do you know the +Abbé Morio? He is a most interesting man.” + +“Yes, I have heard of his scheme for perpetual peace, and it is very +interesting but hardly feasible.” + +“You think so?” rejoined Anna Pávlovna in order to say something +and get away to attend to her duties as hostess. But Pierre now +committed a reverse act of impoliteness. First he had left a lady before +she had finished speaking to him, and now he continued to speak to +another who wished to get away. With his head bent, and his big feet +spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbé’s +plan chimerical. + +“We will talk of it later,” said Anna Pávlovna with a smile. + +And having got rid of this young man who did not know how to behave, she +resumed her duties as hostess and continued to listen and watch, ready +to help at any point where the conversation might happen to flag. As +the foreman of a spinning mill, when he has set the hands to work, goes +round and notices here a spindle that has stopped or there one that +creaks or makes more noise than it should, and hastens to check the +machine or set it in proper motion, so Anna Pávlovna moved about her +drawing room, approaching now a silent, now a too-noisy group, and by a +word or slight rearrangement kept the conversational machine in steady, +proper, and regular motion. But amid these cares her anxiety about +Pierre was evident. She kept an anxious watch on him when he approached +the group round Mortemart to listen to what was being said there, and +again when he passed to another group whose center was the abbé. + +Pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception at Anna +Pávlovna’s was the first he had attended in Russia. He knew that all +the intellectual lights of Petersburg were gathered there and, like a +child in a toyshop, did not know which way to look, afraid of missing +any clever conversation that was to be heard. Seeing the self-confident +and refined expression on the faces of those present he was always +expecting to hear something very profound. At last he came up to Morio. +Here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an +opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +Anna Pávlovna’s reception was in full swing. The spindles hummed +steadily and ceaselessly on all sides. With the exception of the aunt, +beside whom sat only one elderly lady, who with her thin careworn face +was rather out of place in this brilliant society, the whole company had +settled into three groups. One, chiefly masculine, had formed round +the abbé. Another, of young people, was grouped round the beautiful +Princess Hélène, Prince Vasíli’s daughter, and the little Princess +Bolkónskaya, very pretty and rosy, though rather too plump for her age. +The third group was gathered round Mortemart and Anna Pávlovna. + +The vicomte was a nice-looking young man with soft features and polished +manners, who evidently considered himself a celebrity but out of +politeness modestly placed himself at the disposal of the circle in +which he found himself. Anna Pávlovna was obviously serving him up as +a treat to her guests. As a clever maître d’hôtel serves up as a +specially choice delicacy a piece of meat that no one who had seen it in +the kitchen would have cared to eat, so Anna Pávlovna served up to +her guests, first the vicomte and then the abbé, as peculiarly choice +morsels. The group about Mortemart immediately began discussing the +murder of the Duc d’Enghien. The vicomte said that the Duc d’Enghien +had perished by his own magnanimity, and that there were particular +reasons for Buonaparte’s hatred of him. + +“Ah, yes! Do tell us all about it, Vicomte,” said Anna Pávlovna, +with a pleasant feeling that there was something à la Louis XV in the +sound of that sentence: “Contez nous çela, Vicomte.” + +The vicomte bowed and smiled courteously in token of his willingness to +comply. Anna Pávlovna arranged a group round him, inviting everyone to +listen to his tale. + +“The vicomte knew the duc personally,” whispered Anna Pávlovna to +one of the guests. “The vicomte is a wonderful raconteur,” said she +to another. “How evidently he belongs to the best society,” said she +to a third; and the vicomte was served up to the company in the choicest +and most advantageous style, like a well-garnished joint of roast beef +on a hot dish. + +The vicomte wished to begin his story and gave a subtle smile. + +“Come over here, Hélène, dear,” said Anna Pávlovna to the +beautiful young princess who was sitting some way off, the center of +another group. + +The princess smiled. She rose with the same unchanging smile with which +she had first entered the room—the smile of a perfectly beautiful +woman. With a slight rustle of her white dress trimmed with moss +and ivy, with a gleam of white shoulders, glossy hair, and sparkling +diamonds, she passed between the men who made way for her, not looking +at any of them but smiling on all, as if graciously allowing each the +privilege of admiring her beautiful figure and shapely shoulders, +back, and bosom—which in the fashion of those days were very much +exposed—and she seemed to bring the glamour of a ballroom with her as +she moved toward Anna Pávlovna. Hélène was so lovely that not only +did she not show any trace of coquetry, but on the contrary she even +appeared shy of her unquestionable and all too victorious beauty. She +seemed to wish, but to be unable, to diminish its effect. + +“How lovely!” said everyone who saw her; and the vicomte lifted his +shoulders and dropped his eyes as if startled by something extraordinary +when she took her seat opposite and beamed upon him also with her +unchanging smile. + +“Madame, I doubt my ability before such an audience,” said he, +smilingly inclining his head. + +The princess rested her bare round arm on a little table and considered +a reply unnecessary. She smilingly waited. All the time the story was +being told she sat upright, glancing now at her beautiful round arm, +altered in shape by its pressure on the table, now at her still more +beautiful bosom, on which she readjusted a diamond necklace. From time +to time she smoothed the folds of her dress, and whenever the story +produced an effect she glanced at Anna Pávlovna, at once adopted just +the expression she saw on the maid of honor’s face, and again relapsed +into her radiant smile. + +The little princess had also left the tea table and followed Hélène. + +“Wait a moment, I’ll get my work.... Now then, what are you +thinking of?” she went on, turning to Prince Hippolyte. “Fetch me my +workbag.” + +There was a general movement as the princess, smiling and talking +merrily to everyone at once, sat down and gaily arranged herself in her +seat. + +“Now I am all right,” she said, and asking the vicomte to begin, she +took up her work. + +Prince Hippolyte, having brought the workbag, joined the circle and +moving a chair close to hers seated himself beside her. + +Le charmant Hippolyte was surprising by his extraordinary resemblance +to his beautiful sister, but yet more by the fact that in spite of +this resemblance he was exceedingly ugly. His features were like his +sister’s, but while in her case everything was lit up by a joyous, +self-satisfied, youthful, and constant smile of animation, and by the +wonderful classic beauty of her figure, his face on the contrary +was dulled by imbecility and a constant expression of sullen +self-confidence, while his body was thin and weak. His eyes, nose, and +mouth all seemed puckered into a vacant, wearied grimace, and his arms +and legs always fell into unnatural positions. + +“It’s not going to be a ghost story?” said he, sitting down beside +the princess and hastily adjusting his lorgnette, as if without this +instrument he could not begin to speak. + +“Why no, my dear fellow,” said the astonished narrator, shrugging +his shoulders. + +“Because I hate ghost stories,” said Prince Hippolyte in a tone +which showed that he only understood the meaning of his words after he +had uttered them. + +He spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure +whether what he said was very witty or very stupid. He was dressed in +a dark-green dress coat, knee breeches of the color of cuisse de nymphe +effrayée, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings. + +The vicomte told his tale very neatly. It was an anecdote, then current, +to the effect that the Duc d’Enghien had gone secretly to Paris to +visit Mademoiselle George; that at her house he came upon Bonaparte, +who also enjoyed the famous actress’ favors, and that in his presence +Napoleon happened to fall into one of the fainting fits to which he was +subject, and was thus at the duc’s mercy. The latter spared him, and +this magnanimity Bonaparte subsequently repaid by death. + +The story was very pretty and interesting, especially at the point +where the rivals suddenly recognized one another; and the ladies looked +agitated. + +“Charming!” said Anna Pávlovna with an inquiring glance at the +little princess. + +“Charming!” whispered the little princess, sticking the needle into +her work as if to testify that the interest and fascination of the story +prevented her from going on with it. + +The vicomte appreciated this silent praise and smiling gratefully +prepared to continue, but just then Anna Pávlovna, who had kept a +watchful eye on the young man who so alarmed her, noticed that he was +talking too loudly and vehemently with the abbé, so she hurried to the +rescue. Pierre had managed to start a conversation with the abbé about +the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young +man’s simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory. Both +were talking and listening too eagerly and too naturally, which was why +Anna Pávlovna disapproved. + +“The means are ... the balance of power in Europe and the rights of +the people,” the abbé was saying. “It is only necessary for one +powerful nation like Russia—barbaric as she is said to be—to place +herself disinterestedly at the head of an alliance having for its object +the maintenance of the balance of power of Europe, and it would save the +world!” + +“But how are you to get that balance?” Pierre was beginning. + +At that moment Anna Pávlovna came up and, looking severely at Pierre, +asked the Italian how he stood Russian climate. The Italian’s +face instantly changed and assumed an offensively affected, sugary +expression, evidently habitual to him when conversing with women. + +“I am so enchanted by the brilliancy of the wit and culture of the +society, more especially of the feminine society, in which I have had +the honor of being received, that I have not yet had time to think of +the climate,” said he. + +Not letting the abbé and Pierre escape, Anna Pávlovna, the more +conveniently to keep them under observation, brought them into the +larger circle. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +Just then another visitor entered the drawing room: Prince Andrew +Bolkónski, the little princess’ husband. He was a very handsome young +man, of medium height, with firm, clearcut features. Everything about +him, from his weary, bored expression to his quiet, measured step, +offered a most striking contrast to his quiet, little wife. It was +evident that he not only knew everyone in the drawing room, but had +found them to be so tiresome that it wearied him to look at or listen to +them. And among all these faces that he found so tedious, none seemed +to bore him so much as that of his pretty wife. He turned away from +her with a grimace that distorted his handsome face, kissed Anna +Pávlovna’s hand, and screwing up his eyes scanned the whole company. + +“You are off to the war, Prince?” said Anna Pávlovna. + +“General Kutúzov,” said Bolkónski, speaking French and stressing +the last syllable of the general’s name like a Frenchman, “has been +pleased to take me as an aide-de-camp....” + +“And Lise, your wife?” + +“She will go to the country.” + +“Are you not ashamed to deprive us of your charming wife?” + +“André,” said his wife, addressing her husband in the same +coquettish manner in which she spoke to other men, “the vicomte has +been telling us such a tale about Mademoiselle George and Buonaparte!” + +Prince Andrew screwed up his eyes and turned away. Pierre, who from +the moment Prince Andrew entered the room had watched him with glad, +affectionate eyes, now came up and took his arm. Before he looked round +Prince Andrew frowned again, expressing his annoyance with whoever was +touching his arm, but when he saw Pierre’s beaming face he gave him an +unexpectedly kind and pleasant smile. + +“There now!... So you, too, are in the great world?” said he to +Pierre. + +“I knew you would be here,” replied Pierre. “I will come to supper +with you. May I?” he added in a low voice so as not to disturb the +vicomte who was continuing his story. + +“No, impossible!” said Prince Andrew, laughing and pressing +Pierre’s hand to show that there was no need to ask the question. He +wished to say something more, but at that moment Prince Vasíli and his +daughter got up to go and the two young men rose to let them pass. + +“You must excuse me, dear Vicomte,” said Prince Vasíli to the +Frenchman, holding him down by the sleeve in a friendly way to prevent +his rising. “This unfortunate fete at the ambassador’s deprives me +of a pleasure, and obliges me to interrupt you. I am very sorry to leave +your enchanting party,” said he, turning to Anna Pávlovna. + +His daughter, Princess Hélène, passed between the chairs, lightly +holding up the folds of her dress, and the smile shone still more +radiantly on her beautiful face. Pierre gazed at her with rapturous, +almost frightened, eyes as she passed him. + +“Very lovely,” said Prince Andrew. + +“Very,” said Pierre. + +In passing Prince Vasíli seized Pierre’s hand and said to Anna +Pávlovna: “Educate this bear for me! He has been staying with me +a whole month and this is the first time I have seen him in society. +Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever +women.” + + +Anna Pávlovna smiled and promised to take Pierre in hand. She knew his +father to be a connection of Prince Vasíli’s. The elderly lady who +had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook Prince +Vasíli in the anteroom. All the affectation of interest she had assumed +had left her kindly and tear-worn face and it now expressed only anxiety +and fear. + +“How about my son Borís, Prince?” said she, hurrying after him into +the anteroom. “I can’t remain any longer in Petersburg. Tell me what +news I may take back to my poor boy.” + +Although Prince Vasíli listened reluctantly and not very politely +to the elderly lady, even betraying some impatience, she gave him an +ingratiating and appealing smile, and took his hand that he might not go +away. + +“What would it cost you to say a word to the Emperor, and then he +would be transferred to the Guards at once?” said she. + +“Believe me, Princess, I am ready to do all I can,” answered Prince +Vasíli, “but it is difficult for me to ask the Emperor. I should +advise you to appeal to Rumyántsev through Prince Golítsyn. That would +be the best way.” + +The elderly lady was a Princess Drubetskáya, belonging to one of the +best families in Russia, but she was poor, and having long been out of +society had lost her former influential connections. She had now come to +Petersburg to procure an appointment in the Guards for her only son. +It was, in fact, solely to meet Prince Vasíli that she had obtained an +invitation to Anna Pávlovna’s reception and had sat listening to +the vicomte’s story. Prince Vasíli’s words frightened her, an +embittered look clouded her once handsome face, but only for a moment; +then she smiled again and clutched Prince Vasíli’s arm more tightly. + +“Listen to me, Prince,” said she. “I have never yet asked you +for anything and I never will again, nor have I ever reminded you of my +father’s friendship for you; but now I entreat you for God’s sake to +do this for my son—and I shall always regard you as a benefactor,” +she added hurriedly. “No, don’t be angry, but promise! I have asked +Golítsyn and he has refused. Be the kindhearted man you always were,” +she said, trying to smile though tears were in her eyes. + +“Papa, we shall be late,” said Princess Hélène, turning her +beautiful head and looking over her classically molded shoulder as she +stood waiting by the door. + +Influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized +if it is to last. Prince Vasíli knew this, and having once realized +that if he asked on behalf of all who begged of him, he would soon be +unable to ask for himself, he became chary of using his influence. But +in Princess Drubetskáya’s case he felt, after her second appeal, +something like qualms of conscience. She had reminded him of what was +quite true; he had been indebted to her father for the first steps in +his career. Moreover, he could see by her manners that she was one of +those women—mostly mothers—who, having once made up their minds, +will not rest until they have gained their end, and are prepared if +necessary to go on insisting day after day and hour after hour, and even +to make scenes. This last consideration moved him. + +“My dear Anna Mikháylovna,” said he with his usual familiarity and +weariness of tone, “it is almost impossible for me to do what you +ask; but to prove my devotion to you and how I respect your father’s +memory, I will do the impossible—your son shall be transferred to the +Guards. Here is my hand on it. Are you satisfied?” + +“My dear benefactor! This is what I expected from you—I knew your +kindness!” He turned to go. + +“Wait—just a word! When he has been transferred to the Guards...” +she faltered. “You are on good terms with Michael Ilariónovich +Kutúzov ... recommend Borís to him as adjutant! Then I shall be at +rest, and then...” + +Prince Vasíli smiled. + +“No, I won’t promise that. You don’t know how Kutúzov is pestered +since his appointment as Commander in Chief. He told me himself that +all the Moscow ladies have conspired to give him all their sons as +adjutants.” + +“No, but do promise! I won’t let you go! My dear benefactor...” + +“Papa,” said his beautiful daughter in the same tone as before, +“we shall be late.” + +“Well, au revoir! Good-by! You hear her?” + +“Then tomorrow you will speak to the Emperor?” + +“Certainly; but about Kutúzov, I don’t promise.” + +“Do promise, do promise, Vasíli!” cried Anna Mikháylovna as he +went, with the smile of a coquettish girl, which at one time probably +came naturally to her, but was now very ill-suited to her careworn face. + +Apparently she had forgotten her age and by force of habit employed +all the old feminine arts. But as soon as the prince had gone her face +resumed its former cold, artificial expression. She returned to the +group where the vicomte was still talking, and again pretended to +listen, while waiting till it would be time to leave. Her task was +accomplished. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +“And what do you think of this latest comedy, the coronation at +Milan?” asked Anna Pávlovna, “and of the comedy of the people of +Genoa and Lucca laying their petitions before Monsieur Buonaparte, and +Monsieur Buonaparte sitting on a throne and granting the petitions of +the nations? Adorable! It is enough to make one’s head whirl! It is as +if the whole world had gone crazy.” + +Prince Andrew looked Anna Pávlovna straight in the face with a +sarcastic smile. + +“‘Dieu me la donne, gare à qui la touche!’’ * They say he was +very fine when he said that,” he remarked, repeating the words in +Italian: “‘Dio mi l’ha dato. Guai a chi la tocchi!’’ + + * God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware! + +“I hope this will prove the last drop that will make the glass run +over,” Anna Pávlovna continued. “The sovereigns will not be able to +endure this man who is a menace to everything.” + +“The sovereigns? I do not speak of Russia,” said the vicomte, polite +but hopeless: “The sovereigns, madame... What have they done for Louis +XVII, for the Queen, or for Madame Elizabeth? Nothing!” and he became +more animated. “And believe me, they are reaping the reward of their +betrayal of the Bourbon cause. The sovereigns! Why, they are sending +ambassadors to compliment the usurper.” + +And sighing disdainfully, he again changed his position. + +Prince Hippolyte, who had been gazing at the vicomte for some time +through his lorgnette, suddenly turned completely round toward the +little princess, and having asked for a needle began tracing the Condé +coat of arms on the table. He explained this to her with as much gravity +as if she had asked him to do it. + +“Bâton de gueules, engrêlé de gueules d’azur—maison Condé,” +said he. + +The princess listened, smiling. + +“If Buonaparte remains on the throne of France a year longer,” the +vicomte continued, with the air of a man who, in a matter with which +he is better acquainted than anyone else, does not listen to others but +follows the current of his own thoughts, “things will have gone too +far. By intrigues, violence, exile, and executions, French society—I +mean good French society—will have been forever destroyed, and +then....” + +He shrugged his shoulders and spread out his hands. Pierre wished to +make a remark, for the conversation interested him, but Anna Pávlovna, +who had him under observation, interrupted: + +“The Emperor Alexander,” said she, with the melancholy which +always accompanied any reference of hers to the Imperial family, “has +declared that he will leave it to the French people themselves to choose +their own form of government; and I believe that once free from the +usurper, the whole nation will certainly throw itself into the arms +of its rightful king,” she concluded, trying to be amiable to the +royalist emigrant. + +“That is doubtful,” said Prince Andrew. “Monsieur le Vicomte quite +rightly supposes that matters have already gone too far. I think it will +be difficult to return to the old regime.” + +“From what I have heard,” said Pierre, blushing and breaking into +the conversation, “almost all the aristocracy has already gone over to +Bonaparte’s side.” + +“It is the Buonapartists who say that,” replied the vicomte without +looking at Pierre. “At the present time it is difficult to know the +real state of French public opinion.” + +“Bonaparte has said so,” remarked Prince Andrew with a sarcastic +smile. + +It was evident that he did not like the vicomte and was aiming his +remarks at him, though without looking at him. + +“‘I showed them the path to glory, but they did not follow +it,’” Prince Andrew continued after a short silence, again quoting +Napoleon’s words. “‘I opened my antechambers and they crowded +in.’ I do not know how far he was justified in saying so.” + +“Not in the least,” replied the vicomte. “After the murder of the +duc even the most partial ceased to regard him as a hero. If to some +people,” he went on, turning to Anna Pávlovna, “he ever was a hero, +after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one +hero less on earth.” + +Before Anna Pávlovna and the others had time to smile their +appreciation of the vicomte’s epigram, Pierre again broke into the +conversation, and though Anna Pávlovna felt sure he would say something +inappropriate, she was unable to stop him. + +“The execution of the Duc d’Enghien,” declared Monsieur Pierre, +“was a political necessity, and it seems to me that Napoleon +showed greatness of soul by not fearing to take on himself the whole +responsibility of that deed.” + +“Dieu! Mon Dieu!” muttered Anna Pávlovna in a terrified whisper. + +“What, Monsieur Pierre... Do you consider that assassination shows +greatness of soul?” said the little princess, smiling and drawing her +work nearer to her. + +“Oh! Oh!” exclaimed several voices. + +“Capital!” said Prince Hippolyte in English, and began slapping his +knee with the palm of his hand. + +The vicomte merely shrugged his shoulders. Pierre looked solemnly at his +audience over his spectacles and continued. + +“I say so,” he continued desperately, “because the Bourbons fled +from the Revolution leaving the people to anarchy, and Napoleon alone +understood the Revolution and quelled it, and so for the general good, +he could not stop short for the sake of one man’s life.” + +“Won’t you come over to the other table?” suggested Anna +Pávlovna. + +But Pierre continued his speech without heeding her. + +“No,” cried he, becoming more and more eager, “Napoleon is great +because he rose superior to the Revolution, suppressed its abuses, +preserved all that was good in it—equality of citizenship and freedom +of speech and of the press—and only for that reason did he obtain +power.” + +“Yes, if having obtained power, without availing himself of it to +commit murder he had restored it to the rightful king, I should have +called him a great man,” remarked the vicomte. + +“He could not do that. The people only gave him power that he might +rid them of the Bourbons and because they saw that he was a great +man. The Revolution was a grand thing!” continued Monsieur Pierre, +betraying by this desperate and provocative proposition his extreme +youth and his wish to express all that was in his mind. + +“What? Revolution and regicide a grand thing?... Well, after that... +But won’t you come to this other table?” repeated Anna Pávlovna. + +“Rousseau’s Contrat Social,” said the vicomte with a tolerant +smile. + +“I am not speaking of regicide, I am speaking about ideas.” + +“Yes: ideas of robbery, murder, and regicide,” again interjected an +ironical voice. + +“Those were extremes, no doubt, but they are not what is most +important. What is important are the rights of man, emancipation from +prejudices, and equality of citizenship, and all these ideas Napoleon +has retained in full force.” + +“Liberty and equality,” said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at +last deciding seriously to prove to this youth how foolish his words +were, “high-sounding words which have long been discredited. Who does +not love liberty and equality? Even our Saviour preached liberty and +equality. Have people since the Revolution become happier? On the +contrary. We wanted liberty, but Buonaparte has destroyed it.” + +Prince Andrew kept looking with an amused smile from Pierre to the +vicomte and from the vicomte to their hostess. In the first moment of +Pierre’s outburst Anna Pávlovna, despite her social experience, was +horror-struck. But when she saw that Pierre’s sacrilegious words +had not exasperated the vicomte, and had convinced herself that it was +impossible to stop him, she rallied her forces and joined the vicomte in +a vigorous attack on the orator. + +“But, my dear Monsieur Pierre,” said she, “how do you explain the +fact of a great man executing a duc—or even an ordinary man who—is +innocent and untried?” + +“I should like,” said the vicomte, “to ask how monsieur explains +the 18th Brumaire; was not that an imposture? It was a swindle, and not +at all like the conduct of a great man!” + +“And the prisoners he killed in Africa? That was horrible!” said the +little princess, shrugging her shoulders. + +“He’s a low fellow, say what you will,” remarked Prince Hippolyte. + +Pierre, not knowing whom to answer, looked at them all and smiled. His +smile was unlike the half-smile of other people. When he smiled, +his grave, even rather gloomy, look was instantaneously replaced by +another—a childlike, kindly, even rather silly look, which seemed to +ask forgiveness. + +The vicomte who was meeting him for the first time saw clearly that +this young Jacobin was not so terrible as his words suggested. All were +silent. + +“How do you expect him to answer you all at once?” said Prince +Andrew. “Besides, in the actions of a statesman one has to distinguish +between his acts as a private person, as a general, and as an emperor. +So it seems to me.” + +“Yes, yes, of course!” Pierre chimed in, pleased at the arrival of +this reinforcement. + +“One must admit,” continued Prince Andrew, “that Napoleon as a man +was great on the bridge of Arcola, and in the hospital at Jaffa where he +gave his hand to the plague-stricken; but ... but there are other acts +which it is difficult to justify.” + +Prince Andrew, who had evidently wished to tone down the awkwardness of +Pierre’s remarks, rose and made a sign to his wife that it was time to +go. + +Suddenly Prince Hippolyte started up making signs to everyone to attend, +and asking them all to be seated began: + +“I was told a charming Moscow story today and must treat you to it. +Excuse me, Vicomte—I must tell it in Russian or the point will be +lost....” And Prince Hippolyte began to tell his story in such Russian +as a Frenchman would speak after spending about a year in Russia. +Everyone waited, so emphatically and eagerly did he demand their +attention to his story. + +“There is in Moscow a lady, une dame, and she is very stingy. She must +have two footmen behind her carriage, and very big ones. That was her +taste. And she had a lady’s maid, also big. She said....” + +Here Prince Hippolyte paused, evidently collecting his ideas with +difficulty. + +“She said.... Oh yes! She said, ‘Girl,’ to the maid, ‘put on a +livery, get up behind the carriage, and come with me while I make some +calls.’” + +Here Prince Hippolyte spluttered and burst out laughing long before his +audience, which produced an effect unfavorable to the narrator. Several +persons, among them the elderly lady and Anna Pávlovna, did however +smile. + +“She went. Suddenly there was a great wind. The girl lost her hat and +her long hair came down....” Here he could contain himself no +longer and went on, between gasps of laughter: “And the whole world +knew....” + +And so the anecdote ended. Though it was unintelligible why he had told +it, or why it had to be told in Russian, still Anna Pávlovna and the +others appreciated Prince Hippolyte’s social tact in so agreeably +ending Pierre’s unpleasant and unamiable outburst. After the anecdote +the conversation broke up into insignificant small talk about the last +and next balls, about theatricals, and who would meet whom, and when and +where. + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +Having thanked Anna Pávlovna for her charming soiree, the guests began +to take their leave. + +Pierre was ungainly. Stout, about the average height, broad, with huge +red hands; he did not know, as the saying is, how to enter a drawing +room and still less how to leave one; that is, how to say something +particularly agreeable before going away. Besides this he was +absent-minded. When he rose to go, he took up instead of his own, the +general’s three-cornered hat, and held it, pulling at the plume, +till the general asked him to restore it. All his absent-mindedness and +inability to enter a room and converse in it was, however, redeemed by +his kindly, simple, and modest expression. Anna Pávlovna turned toward +him and, with a Christian mildness that expressed forgiveness of his +indiscretion, nodded and said: “I hope to see you again, but I also +hope you will change your opinions, my dear Monsieur Pierre.” + +When she said this, he did not reply and only bowed, but again everybody +saw his smile, which said nothing, unless perhaps, “Opinions are +opinions, but you see what a capital, good-natured fellow I am.” And +everyone, including Anna Pávlovna, felt this. + +Prince Andrew had gone out into the hall, and, turning his shoulders +to the footman who was helping him on with his cloak, listened +indifferently to his wife’s chatter with Prince Hippolyte who had also +come into the hall. Prince Hippolyte stood close to the pretty, pregnant +princess, and stared fixedly at her through his eyeglass. + +“Go in, Annette, or you will catch cold,” said the little princess, +taking leave of Anna Pávlovna. “It is settled,” she added in a low +voice. + +Anna Pávlovna had already managed to speak to Lise about the match she +contemplated between Anatole and the little princess’ sister-in-law. + +“I rely on you, my dear,” said Anna Pávlovna, also in a low tone. +“Write to her and let me know how her father looks at the matter. Au +revoir! ”—and she left the hall. + +Prince Hippolyte approached the little princess and, bending his face +close to her, began to whisper something. + +Two footmen, the princess’ and his own, stood holding a shawl and +a cloak, waiting for the conversation to finish. They listened to +the French sentences which to them were meaningless, with an air of +understanding but not wishing to appear to do so. The princess as usual +spoke smilingly and listened with a laugh. + +“I am very glad I did not go to the ambassador’s,” said Prince +Hippolyte “—so dull—. It has been a delightful evening, has it +not? Delightful!” + +“They say the ball will be very good,” replied the princess, drawing +up her downy little lip. “All the pretty women in society will be +there.” + +“Not all, for you will not be there; not all,” said Prince Hippolyte +smiling joyfully; and snatching the shawl from the footman, whom he +even pushed aside, he began wrapping it round the princess. Either from +awkwardness or intentionally (no one could have said which) after the +shawl had been adjusted he kept his arm around her for a long time, as +though embracing her. + +Still smiling, she gracefully moved away, turning and glancing at her +husband. Prince Andrew’s eyes were closed, so weary and sleepy did he +seem. + +“Are you ready?” he asked his wife, looking past her. + +Prince Hippolyte hurriedly put on his cloak, which in the latest fashion +reached to his very heels, and, stumbling in it, ran out into the porch +following the princess, whom a footman was helping into the carriage. + +“Princesse, au revoir,” cried he, stumbling with his tongue as well +as with his feet. + +The princess, picking up her dress, was taking her seat in the dark +carriage, her husband was adjusting his saber; Prince Hippolyte, under +pretense of helping, was in everyone’s way. + +“Allow me, sir,” said Prince Andrew in Russian in a cold, +disagreeable tone to Prince Hippolyte who was blocking his path. + +“I am expecting you, Pierre,” said the same voice, but gently and +affectionately. + +The postilion started, the carriage wheels rattled. Prince Hippolyte +laughed spasmodically as he stood in the porch waiting for the vicomte +whom he had promised to take home. + +“Well, mon cher,” said the vicomte, having seated himself beside +Hippolyte in the carriage, “your little princess is very nice, very +nice indeed, quite French,” and he kissed the tips of his fingers. +Hippolyte burst out laughing. + +“Do you know, you are a terrible chap for all your innocent airs,” +continued the vicomte. “I pity the poor husband, that little officer +who gives himself the airs of a monarch.” + +Hippolyte spluttered again, and amid his laughter said, “And you were +saying that the Russian ladies are not equal to the French? One has to +know how to deal with them.” + +Pierre reaching the house first went into Prince Andrew’s study like +one quite at home, and from habit immediately lay down on the sofa, took +from the shelf the first book that came to his hand (it was Caesar’s +Commentaries), and resting on his elbow, began reading it in the middle. + +“What have you done to Mlle Schérer? She will be quite ill now,” +said Prince Andrew, as he entered the study, rubbing his small white +hands. + +Pierre turned his whole body, making the sofa creak. He lifted his eager +face to Prince Andrew, smiled, and waved his hand. + +“That abbé is very interesting but he does not see the thing in the +right light.... In my opinion perpetual peace is possible but—I do not +know how to express it ... not by a balance of political power....” + +It was evident that Prince Andrew was not interested in such abstract +conversation. + +“One can’t everywhere say all one thinks, mon cher. Well, have +you at last decided on anything? Are you going to be a guardsman or a +diplomatist?” asked Prince Andrew after a momentary silence. + +Pierre sat up on the sofa, with his legs tucked under him. + +“Really, I don’t yet know. I don’t like either the one or the +other.” + +“But you must decide on something! Your father expects it.” + +Pierre at the age of ten had been sent abroad with an abbé as tutor, +and had remained away till he was twenty. When he returned to Moscow +his father dismissed the abbé and said to the young man, “Now go +to Petersburg, look round, and choose your profession. I will agree to +anything. Here is a letter to Prince Vasíli, and here is money. Write +to me all about it, and I will help you in everything.” Pierre had +already been choosing a career for three months, and had not decided +on anything. It was about this choice that Prince Andrew was speaking. +Pierre rubbed his forehead. + +“But he must be a Freemason,” said he, referring to the abbé whom +he had met that evening. + +“That is all nonsense.” Prince Andrew again interrupted him, “let +us talk business. Have you been to the Horse Guards?” + +“No, I have not; but this is what I have been thinking and wanted +to tell you. There is a war now against Napoleon. If it were a war for +freedom I could understand it and should be the first to enter the army; +but to help England and Austria against the greatest man in the world is +not right.” + +Prince Andrew only shrugged his shoulders at Pierre’s childish words. +He put on the air of one who finds it impossible to reply to such +nonsense, but it would in fact have been difficult to give any other +answer than the one Prince Andrew gave to this naïve question. + +“If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no +wars,” he said. + +“And that would be splendid,” said Pierre. + +Prince Andrew smiled ironically. + +“Very likely it would be splendid, but it will never come about....” + +“Well, why are you going to the war?” asked Pierre. + +“What for? I don’t know. I must. Besides that I am going....” He +paused. “I am going because the life I am leading here does not suit +me!” + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +The rustle of a woman’s dress was heard in the next room. Prince +Andrew shook himself as if waking up, and his face assumed the look it +had had in Anna Pávlovna’s drawing room. Pierre removed his feet from +the sofa. The princess came in. She had changed her gown for a house +dress as fresh and elegant as the other. Prince Andrew rose and politely +placed a chair for her. + +“How is it,” she began, as usual in French, settling down briskly +and fussily in the easy chair, “how is it Annette never got married? +How stupid you men all are not to have married her! Excuse me for saying +so, but you have no sense about women. What an argumentative fellow you +are, Monsieur Pierre!” + +“And I am still arguing with your husband. I can’t understand why he +wants to go to the war,” replied Pierre, addressing the princess +with none of the embarrassment so commonly shown by young men in their +intercourse with young women. + +The princess started. Evidently Pierre’s words touched her to the +quick. + +“Ah, that is just what I tell him!” said she. “I don’t +understand it; I don’t in the least understand why men can’t live +without wars. How is it that we women don’t want anything of the kind, +don’t need it? Now you shall judge between us. I always tell him: Here +he is Uncle’s aide-de-camp, a most brilliant position. He is so +well known, so much appreciated by everyone. The other day at the +Apráksins’ I heard a lady asking, ‘Is that the famous Prince +Andrew?’ I did indeed.” She laughed. “He is so well received +everywhere. He might easily become aide-de-camp to the Emperor. You know +the Emperor spoke to him most graciously. Annette and I were speaking of +how to arrange it. What do you think?” + +Pierre looked at his friend and, noticing that he did not like the +conversation, gave no reply. + +“When are you starting?” he asked. + +“Oh, don’t speak of his going, don’t! I won’t hear it spoken +of,” said the princess in the same petulantly playful tone in which +she had spoken to Hippolyte in the drawing room and which was so plainly +ill-suited to the family circle of which Pierre was almost a member. +“Today when I remembered that all these delightful associations +must be broken off ... and then you know, André...” (she looked +significantly at her husband) “I’m afraid, I’m afraid!” she +whispered, and a shudder ran down her back. + +Her husband looked at her as if surprised to notice that someone besides +Pierre and himself was in the room, and addressed her in a tone of +frigid politeness. + +“What is it you are afraid of, Lise? I don’t understand,” said he. + +“There, what egotists men all are: all, all egotists! Just for a whim +of his own, goodness only knows why, he leaves me and locks me up alone +in the country.” + +“With my father and sister, remember,” said Prince Andrew gently. + +“Alone all the same, without my friends.... And he expects me not to +be afraid.” + +Her tone was now querulous and her lip drawn up, giving her not a +joyful, but an animal, squirrel-like expression. She paused as if she +felt it indecorous to speak of her pregnancy before Pierre, though the +gist of the matter lay in that. + +“I still can’t understand what you are afraid of,” said Prince +Andrew slowly, not taking his eyes off his wife. + +The princess blushed, and raised her arms with a gesture of despair. + +“No, Andrew, I must say you have changed. Oh, how you have....” + +“Your doctor tells you to go to bed earlier,” said Prince Andrew. +“You had better go.” + +The princess said nothing, but suddenly her short downy lip quivered. +Prince Andrew rose, shrugged his shoulders, and walked about the room. + +Pierre looked over his spectacles with naïve surprise, now at him and +now at her, moved as if about to rise too, but changed his mind. + +“Why should I mind Monsieur Pierre being here?” exclaimed the little +princess suddenly, her pretty face all at once distorted by a tearful +grimace. “I have long wanted to ask you, Andrew, why you have changed +so to me? What have I done to you? You are going to the war and have no +pity for me. Why is it?” + +“Lise!” was all Prince Andrew said. But that one word expressed +an entreaty, a threat, and above all conviction that she would herself +regret her words. But she went on hurriedly: + +“You treat me like an invalid or a child. I see it all! Did you behave +like that six months ago?” + +“Lise, I beg you to desist,” said Prince Andrew still more +emphatically. + +Pierre, who had been growing more and more agitated as he listened to +all this, rose and approached the princess. He seemed unable to bear the +sight of tears and was ready to cry himself. + +“Calm yourself, Princess! It seems so to you because.... I assure you +I myself have experienced ... and so ... because ... No, excuse me! +An outsider is out of place here.... No, don’t distress yourself.... +Good-by!” + +Prince Andrew caught him by the hand. + +“No, wait, Pierre! The princess is too kind to wish to deprive me of +the pleasure of spending the evening with you.” + +“No, he thinks only of himself,” muttered the princess without +restraining her angry tears. + +“Lise!” said Prince Andrew dryly, raising his voice to the pitch +which indicates that patience is exhausted. + +Suddenly the angry, squirrel-like expression of the princess’ pretty +face changed into a winning and piteous look of fear. Her beautiful eyes +glanced askance at her husband’s face, and her own assumed the timid, +deprecating expression of a dog when it rapidly but feebly wags its +drooping tail. + +“Mon Dieu, mon Dieu!” she muttered, and lifting her dress with one +hand she went up to her husband and kissed him on the forehead. + +“Good night, Lise,” said he, rising and courteously kissing her hand +as he would have done to a stranger. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +The friends were silent. Neither cared to begin talking. Pierre +continually glanced at Prince Andrew; Prince Andrew rubbed his forehead +with his small hand. + +“Let us go and have supper,” he said with a sigh, going to the door. + +They entered the elegant, newly decorated, and luxurious dining room. +Everything from the table napkins to the silver, china, and glass bore +that imprint of newness found in the households of the newly married. +Halfway through supper Prince Andrew leaned his elbows on the table and, +with a look of nervous agitation such as Pierre had never before seen on +his face, began to talk—as one who has long had something on his mind +and suddenly determines to speak out. + +“Never, never marry, my dear fellow! That’s my advice: never marry +till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are capable of, +and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen +her plainly as she is, or else you will make a cruel and irrevocable +mistake. Marry when you are old and good for nothing—or all that is +good and noble in you will be lost. It will all be wasted on trifles. +Yes! Yes! Yes! Don’t look at me with such surprise. If you marry +expecting anything from yourself in the future, you will feel at every +step that for you all is ended, all is closed except the drawing +room, where you will be ranged side by side with a court lackey and an +idiot!... But what’s the good?...” and he waved his arm. + +Pierre took off his spectacles, which made his face seem different and +the good-natured expression still more apparent, and gazed at his friend +in amazement. + +“My wife,” continued Prince Andrew, “is an excellent woman, one +of those rare women with whom a man’s honor is safe; but, O God, what +would I not give now to be unmarried! You are the first and only one to +whom I mention this, because I like you.” + +As he said this Prince Andrew was less than ever like that Bolkónski +who had lolled in Anna Pávlovna’s easy chairs and with half-closed +eyes had uttered French phrases between his teeth. Every muscle of his +thin face was now quivering with nervous excitement; his eyes, in which +the fire of life had seemed extinguished, now flashed with brilliant +light. It was evident that the more lifeless he seemed at ordinary +times, the more impassioned he became in these moments of almost morbid +irritation. + +“You don’t understand why I say this,” he continued, “but it is +the whole story of life. You talk of Bonaparte and his career,” said +he (though Pierre had not mentioned Bonaparte), “but Bonaparte when +he worked went step by step toward his goal. He was free, he had nothing +but his aim to consider, and he reached it. But tie yourself up with +a woman and, like a chained convict, you lose all freedom! And all you +have of hope and strength merely weighs you down and torments you with +regret. Drawing rooms, gossip, balls, vanity, and triviality—these are +the enchanted circle I cannot escape from. I am now going to the war, +the greatest war there ever was, and I know nothing and am fit for +nothing. I am very amiable and have a caustic wit,” continued Prince +Andrew, “and at Anna Pávlovna’s they listen to me. And that stupid +set without whom my wife cannot exist, and those women.... If you only +knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is +right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that’s what +women are when you see them in their true colors! When you meet them +in society it seems as if there were something in them, but there’s +nothing, nothing, nothing! No, don’t marry, my dear fellow; don’t +marry!” concluded Prince Andrew. + +“It seems funny to me,” said Pierre, “that you, you should +consider yourself incapable and your life a spoiled life. You have +everything before you, everything. And you....” + +He did not finish his sentence, but his tone showed how highly he +thought of his friend and how much he expected of him in the future. + +“How can he talk like that?” thought Pierre. He considered his +friend a model of perfection because Prince Andrew possessed in the +highest degree just the very qualities Pierre lacked, and which might +be best described as strength of will. Pierre was always astonished at +Prince Andrew’s calm manner of treating everybody, his extraordinary +memory, his extensive reading (he had read everything, knew everything, +and had an opinion about everything), but above all at his capacity for +work and study. And if Pierre was often struck by Andrew’s lack +of capacity for philosophical meditation (to which he himself was +particularly addicted), he regarded even this not as a defect but as a +sign of strength. + +Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise +and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels +that they may run smoothly. + +“My part is played out,” said Prince Andrew. “What’s the use of +talking about me? Let us talk about you,” he added after a silence, +smiling at his reassuring thoughts. + +That smile was immediately reflected on Pierre’s face. + +“But what is there to say about me?” said Pierre, his face relaxing +into a careless, merry smile. “What am I? An illegitimate son!” +He suddenly blushed crimson, and it was plain that he had made a great +effort to say this. “Without a name and without means... And it +really...” But he did not say what “it really” was. “For the +present I am free and am all right. Only I haven’t the least idea what +I am to do; I wanted to consult you seriously.” + +Prince Andrew looked kindly at him, yet his glance—friendly and +affectionate as it was—expressed a sense of his own superiority. + +“I am fond of you, especially as you are the one live man among our +whole set. Yes, you’re all right! Choose what you will; it’s all the +same. You’ll be all right anywhere. But look here: give up visiting +those Kurágins and leading that sort of life. It suits you so +badly—all this debauchery, dissipation, and the rest of it!” + +“What would you have, my dear fellow?” answered Pierre, shrugging +his shoulders. “Women, my dear fellow; women!” + +“I don’t understand it,” replied Prince Andrew. “Women who are +comme il faut, that’s a different matter; but the Kurágins’ set of +women, ‘women and wine’ I don’t understand!” + +Pierre was staying at Prince Vasíli Kurágin’s and sharing the +dissipated life of his son Anatole, the son whom they were planning to +reform by marrying him to Prince Andrew’s sister. + +“Do you know?” said Pierre, as if suddenly struck by a happy +thought, “seriously, I have long been thinking of it.... Leading such +a life I can’t decide or think properly about anything. One’s head +aches, and one spends all one’s money. He asked me for tonight, but I +won’t go.” + +“You give me your word of honor not to go?” + +“On my honor!” + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +It was past one o’clock when Pierre left his friend. It was a +cloudless, northern, summer night. Pierre took an open cab intending +to drive straight home. But the nearer he drew to the house the more he +felt the impossibility of going to sleep on such a night. It was light +enough to see a long way in the deserted street and it seemed more like +morning or evening than night. On the way Pierre remembered that Anatole +Kurágin was expecting the usual set for cards that evening, after which +there was generally a drinking bout, finishing with visits of a kind +Pierre was very fond of. + +“I should like to go to Kurágin’s,” thought he. + +But he immediately recalled his promise to Prince Andrew not to go +there. Then, as happens to people of weak character, he desired so +passionately once more to enjoy that dissipation he was so accustomed to +that he decided to go. The thought immediately occurred to him that his +promise to Prince Andrew was of no account, because before he gave it +he had already promised Prince Anatole to come to his gathering; +“besides,” thought he, “all such ‘words of honor’ are +conventional things with no definite meaning, especially if +one considers that by tomorrow one may be dead, or something so +extraordinary may happen to one that honor and dishonor will be all the +same!” Pierre often indulged in reflections of this sort, nullifying +all his decisions and intentions. He went to Kurágin’s. + +Reaching the large house near the Horse Guards’ barracks, in which +Anatole lived, Pierre entered the lighted porch, ascended the stairs, +and went in at the open door. There was no one in the anteroom; empty +bottles, cloaks, and overshoes were lying about; there was a smell of +alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance. + +Cards and supper were over, but the visitors had not yet dispersed. +Pierre threw off his cloak and entered the first room, in which were the +remains of supper. A footman, thinking no one saw him, was drinking on +the sly what was left in the glasses. From the third room came sounds of +laughter, the shouting of familiar voices, the growling of a bear, and +general commotion. Some eight or nine young men were crowding anxiously +round an open window. Three others were romping with a young bear, one +pulling him by the chain and trying to set him at the others. + +“I bet a hundred on Stevens!” shouted one. + +“Mind, no holding on!” cried another. + +“I bet on Dólokhov!” cried a third. “Kurágin, you part our +hands.” + +“There, leave Bruin alone; here’s a bet on.” + +“At one draught, or he loses!” shouted a fourth. + +“Jacob, bring a bottle!” shouted the host, a tall, handsome fellow +who stood in the midst of the group, without a coat, and with his fine +linen shirt unfastened in front. “Wait a bit, you fellows.... Here is +Pétya! Good man!” cried he, addressing Pierre. + +Another voice, from a man of medium height with clear blue eyes, +particularly striking among all these drunken voices by its sober +ring, cried from the window: “Come here; part the bets!” This was +Dólokhov, an officer of the Semënov regiment, a notorious gambler and +duelist, who was living with Anatole. Pierre smiled, looking about him +merrily. + +“I don’t understand. What’s it all about?” + +“Wait a bit, he is not drunk yet! A bottle here,” said Anatole, and +taking a glass from the table he went up to Pierre. + +“First of all you must drink!” + +Pierre drank one glass after another, looking from under his brows at +the tipsy guests who were again crowding round the window, and listening +to their chatter. Anatole kept on refilling Pierre’s glass while +explaining that Dólokhov was betting with Stevens, an English naval +officer, that he would drink a bottle of rum sitting on the outer ledge +of the third floor window with his legs hanging out. + +“Go on, you must drink it all,” said Anatole, giving Pierre the last +glass, “or I won’t let you go!” + +“No, I won’t,” said Pierre, pushing Anatole aside, and he went up +to the window. + +Dólokhov was holding the Englishman’s hand and clearly and distinctly +repeating the terms of the bet, addressing himself particularly to +Anatole and Pierre. + +Dólokhov was of medium height, with curly hair and light-blue eyes. He +was about twenty-five. Like all infantry officers he wore no mustache, +so that his mouth, the most striking feature of his face, was clearly +seen. The lines of that mouth were remarkably finely curved. The middle +of the upper lip formed a sharp wedge and closed firmly on the firm +lower one, and something like two distinct smiles played continually +round the two corners of the mouth; this, together with the resolute, +insolent intelligence of his eyes, produced an effect which made it +impossible not to notice his face. Dólokhov was a man of small means +and no connections. Yet, though Anatole spent tens of thousands of +rubles, Dólokhov lived with him and had placed himself on such a +footing that all who knew them, including Anatole himself, respected him +more than they did Anatole. Dólokhov could play all games and nearly +always won. However much he drank, he never lost his clearheadedness. +Both Kurágin and Dólokhov were at that time notorious among the rakes +and scapegraces of Petersburg. + +The bottle of rum was brought. The window frame which prevented anyone +from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who +were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of +the gentlemen around. + +Anatole with his swaggering air strode up to the window. He wanted to +smash something. Pushing away the footmen he tugged at the frame, but +could not move it. He smashed a pane. + +“You have a try, Hercules,” said he, turning to Pierre. + +Pierre seized the crossbeam, tugged, and wrenched the oak frame out with +a crash. + +“Take it right out, or they’ll think I’m holding on,” said +Dólokhov. + +“Is the Englishman bragging?... Eh? Is it all right?” said Anatole. + +“First-rate,” said Pierre, looking at Dólokhov, who with a bottle +of rum in his hand was approaching the window, from which the light of +the sky, the dawn merging with the afterglow of sunset, was visible. + +Dólokhov, the bottle of rum still in his hand, jumped onto the window +sill. “Listen!” cried he, standing there and addressing those in the +room. All were silent. + +“I bet fifty imperials”—he spoke French that the Englishman might +understand him, but he did not speak it very well—“I bet fifty +imperials ... or do you wish to make it a hundred?” added he, +addressing the Englishman. + +“No, fifty,” replied the latter. + +“All right. Fifty imperials ... that I will drink a whole bottle of +rum without taking it from my mouth, sitting outside the window on this +spot” (he stooped and pointed to the sloping ledge outside the window) +“and without holding on to anything. Is that right?” + +“Quite right,” said the Englishman. + +Anatole turned to the Englishman and taking him by one of the buttons +of his coat and looking down at him—the Englishman was short—began +repeating the terms of the wager to him in English. + +“Wait!” cried Dólokhov, hammering with the bottle on the window +sill to attract attention. “Wait a bit, Kurágin. Listen! If +anyone else does the same, I will pay him a hundred imperials. Do you +understand?” + +The Englishman nodded, but gave no indication whether he intended to +accept this challenge or not. Anatole did not release him, and though +he kept nodding to show that he understood, Anatole went on translating +Dólokhov’s words into English. A thin young lad, an hussar of the +Life Guards, who had been losing that evening, climbed on the window +sill, leaned over, and looked down. + +“Oh! Oh! Oh!” he muttered, looking down from the window at the +stones of the pavement. + +“Shut up!” cried Dólokhov, pushing him away from the window. The +lad jumped awkwardly back into the room, tripping over his spurs. + +Placing the bottle on the window sill where he could reach it easily, +Dólokhov climbed carefully and slowly through the window and lowered +his legs. Pressing against both sides of the window, he adjusted himself +on his seat, lowered his hands, moved a little to the right and then to +the left, and took up the bottle. Anatole brought two candles and +placed them on the window sill, though it was already quite light. +Dólokhov’s back in his white shirt, and his curly head, were lit +up from both sides. Everyone crowded to the window, the Englishman in +front. Pierre stood smiling but silent. One man, older than the others +present, suddenly pushed forward with a scared and angry look and wanted +to seize hold of Dólokhov’s shirt. + +“I say, this is folly! He’ll be killed,” said this more sensible +man. + +Anatole stopped him. + +“Don’t touch him! You’ll startle him and then he’ll be killed. +Eh?... What then?... Eh?” + +Dólokhov turned round and, again holding on with both hands, arranged +himself on his seat. + +“If anyone comes meddling again,” said he, emitting the words +separately through his thin compressed lips, “I will throw him down +there. Now then!” + +Saying this he again turned round, dropped his hands, took the bottle +and lifted it to his lips, threw back his head, and raised his free hand +to balance himself. One of the footmen who had stooped to pick up some +broken glass remained in that position without taking his eyes from the +window and from Dólokhov’s back. Anatole stood erect with staring +eyes. The Englishman looked on sideways, pursing up his lips. The man +who had wished to stop the affair ran to a corner of the room and threw +himself on a sofa with his face to the wall. Pierre hid his face, from +which a faint smile forgot to fade though his features now expressed +horror and fear. All were still. Pierre took his hands from his eyes. +Dólokhov still sat in the same position, only his head was thrown +further back till his curly hair touched his shirt collar, and the hand +holding the bottle was lifted higher and higher and trembled with the +effort. The bottle was emptying perceptibly and rising still higher +and his head tilting yet further back. “Why is it so long?” thought +Pierre. It seemed to him that more than half an hour had elapsed. +Suddenly Dólokhov made a backward movement with his spine, and his arm +trembled nervously; this was sufficient to cause his whole body to slip +as he sat on the sloping ledge. As he began slipping down, his head and +arm wavered still more with the strain. One hand moved as if to clutch +the window sill, but refrained from touching it. Pierre again covered +his eyes and thought he would never open them again. Suddenly he was +aware of a stir all around. He looked up: Dólokhov was standing on the +window sill, with a pale but radiant face. + +“It’s empty.” + +He threw the bottle to the Englishman, who caught it neatly. Dólokhov +jumped down. He smelt strongly of rum. + +“Well done!... Fine fellow!... There’s a bet for you!... Devil take +you!” came from different sides. + +The Englishman took out his purse and began counting out the money. +Dólokhov stood frowning and did not speak. Pierre jumped upon the +window sill. + +“Gentlemen, who wishes to bet with me? I’ll do the same thing!” +he suddenly cried. “Even without a bet, there! Tell them to bring me a +bottle. I’ll do it.... Bring a bottle!” + +“Let him do it, let him do it,” said Dólokhov, smiling. + +“What next? Have you gone mad?... No one would let you!... Why, you go +giddy even on a staircase,” exclaimed several voices. + +“I’ll drink it! Let’s have a bottle of rum!” shouted Pierre, +banging the table with a determined and drunken gesture and preparing to +climb out of the window. + +They seized him by his arms; but he was so strong that everyone who +touched him was sent flying. + +“No, you’ll never manage him that way,” said Anatole. “Wait a +bit and I’ll get round him.... Listen! I’ll take your bet tomorrow, +but now we are all going to ——’s.” + +“Come on then,” cried Pierre. “Come on!... And we’ll take Bruin +with us.” + +And he caught the bear, took it in his arms, lifted it from the ground, +and began dancing round the room with it. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +Prince Vasíli kept the promise he had given to Princess Drubetskáya +who had spoken to him on behalf of her only son Borís on the evening of +Anna Pávlovna’s soiree. The matter was mentioned to the Emperor, an +exception made, and Borís transferred into the regiment of Semënov +Guards with the rank of cornet. He received, however, no appointment +to Kutúzov’s staff despite all Anna Mikháylovna’s endeavors and +entreaties. Soon after Anna Pávlovna’s reception Anna Mikháylovna +returned to Moscow and went straight to her rich relations, the +Rostóvs, with whom she stayed when in the town and where her darling +Bóry, who had only just entered a regiment of the line and was being +at once transferred to the Guards as a cornet, had been educated from +childhood and lived for years at a time. The Guards had already left +Petersburg on the tenth of August, and her son, who had remained in +Moscow for his equipment, was to join them on the march to Radzivílov. + +It was St. Natalia’s day and the name day of two of the Rostóvs—the +mother and the youngest daughter—both named Nataly. Ever since +the morning, carriages with six horses had been coming and going +continually, bringing visitors to the Countess Rostóva’s big house on +the Povarskáya, so well known to all Moscow. The countess herself and +her handsome eldest daughter were in the drawing room with the visitors +who came to congratulate, and who constantly succeeded one another in +relays. + +The countess was a woman of about forty-five, with a thin Oriental type +of face, evidently worn out with childbearing—she had had twelve. +A languor of motion and speech, resulting from weakness, gave her a +distinguished air which inspired respect. Princess Anna Mikháylovna +Drubetskáya, who as a member of the household was also seated in the +drawing room, helped to receive and entertain the visitors. The young +people were in one of the inner rooms, not considering it necessary to +take part in receiving the visitors. The count met the guests and saw +them off, inviting them all to dinner. + +“I am very, very grateful to you, mon cher,” or “ma chère”—he +called everyone without exception and without the slightest variation +in his tone, “my dear,” whether they were above or below him in +rank—“I thank you for myself and for our two dear ones whose name +day we are keeping. But mind you come to dinner or I shall be offended, +ma chère! On behalf of the whole family I beg you to come, mon cher!” +These words he repeated to everyone without exception or variation, and +with the same expression on his full, cheerful, clean-shaven face, the +same firm pressure of the hand and the same quick, repeated bows. As +soon as he had seen a visitor off he returned to one of those who were +still in the drawing room, drew a chair toward him or her, and jauntily +spreading out his legs and putting his hands on his knees with the air +of a man who enjoys life and knows how to live, he swayed to and +fro with dignity, offered surmises about the weather, or touched on +questions of health, sometimes in Russian and sometimes in very bad but +self-confident French; then again, like a man weary but unflinching in +the fulfillment of duty, he rose to see some visitors off and, stroking +his scanty gray hairs over his bald patch, also asked them to dinner. +Sometimes on his way back from the anteroom he would pass through the +conservatory and pantry into the large marble dining hall, where tables +were being set out for eighty people; and looking at the footmen, who +were bringing in silver and china, moving tables, and unfolding damask +table linen, he would call Dmítri Vasílevich, a man of good family and +the manager of all his affairs, and while looking with pleasure at the +enormous table would say: “Well, Dmítri, you’ll see that things are +all as they should be? That’s right! The great thing is the serving, +that’s it.” And with a complacent sigh he would return to the +drawing room. + +“Márya Lvóvna Karágina and her daughter!” announced the +countess’ gigantic footman in his bass voice, entering the drawing +room. The countess reflected a moment and took a pinch from a gold +snuffbox with her husband’s portrait on it. + +“I’m quite worn out by these callers. However, I’ll see her and +no more. She is so affected. Ask her in,” she said to the footman in a +sad voice, as if saying: “Very well, finish me off.” + +A tall, stout, and proud-looking woman, with a round-faced smiling +daughter, entered the drawing room, their dresses rustling. + +“Dear Countess, what an age... She has been laid up, poor child ... +at the Razumóvski’s ball ... and Countess Apráksina ... I was +so delighted...” came the sounds of animated feminine voices, +interrupting one another and mingling with the rustling of dresses and +the scraping of chairs. Then one of those conversations began which last +out until, at the first pause, the guests rise with a rustle of dresses +and say, “I am so delighted... Mamma’s health... and Countess +Apráksina...” and then, again rustling, pass into the anteroom, put +on cloaks or mantles, and drive away. The conversation was on the chief +topic of the day: the illness of the wealthy and celebrated beau of +Catherine’s day, Count Bezúkhov, and about his illegitimate son +Pierre, the one who had behaved so improperly at Anna Pávlovna’s +reception. + +“I am so sorry for the poor count,” said the visitor. “He is in +such bad health, and now this vexation about his son is enough to kill +him!” + +“What is that?” asked the countess as if she did not know what the +visitor alluded to, though she had already heard about the cause of +Count Bezúkhov’s distress some fifteen times. + +“That’s what comes of a modern education,” exclaimed the visitor. +“It seems that while he was abroad this young man was allowed to do +as he liked, now in Petersburg I hear he has been doing such terrible +things that he has been expelled by the police.” + +“You don’t say so!” replied the countess. + +“He chose his friends badly,” interposed Anna Mikháylovna. +“Prince Vasíli’s son, he, and a certain Dólokhov have, it is said, +been up to heaven only knows what! And they have had to suffer for it. +Dólokhov has been degraded to the ranks and Bezúkhov’s son sent +back to Moscow. Anatole Kurágin’s father managed somehow to get his +son’s affair hushed up, but even he was ordered out of Petersburg.” + +“But what have they been up to?” asked the countess. + +“They are regular brigands, especially Dólokhov,” replied the +visitor. “He is a son of Márya Ivánovna Dólokhova, such a worthy +woman, but there, just fancy! Those three got hold of a bear somewhere, +put it in a carriage, and set off with it to visit some actresses! The +police tried to interfere, and what did the young men do? They tied +a policeman and the bear back to back and put the bear into the Moyka +Canal. And there was the bear swimming about with the policeman on his +back!” + +“What a nice figure the policeman must have cut, my dear!” shouted +the count, dying with laughter. + +“Oh, how dreadful! How can you laugh at it, Count?” + +Yet the ladies themselves could not help laughing. + +“It was all they could do to rescue the poor man,” continued the +visitor. “And to think it is Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov’s son +who amuses himself in this sensible manner! And he was said to be so +well educated and clever. This is all that his foreign education has +done for him! I hope that here in Moscow no one will receive him, in +spite of his money. They wanted to introduce him to me, but I quite +declined: I have my daughters to consider.” + +“Why do you say this young man is so rich?” asked the countess, +turning away from the girls, who at once assumed an air of inattention. +“His children are all illegitimate. I think Pierre also is +illegitimate.” + +The visitor made a gesture with her hand. + +“I should think he has a score of them.” + +Princess Anna Mikháylovna intervened in the conversation, evidently +wishing to show her connections and knowledge of what went on in +society. + +“The fact of the matter is,” said she significantly, and also in a +half whisper, “everyone knows Count Cyril’s reputation.... He has +lost count of his children, but this Pierre was his favorite.” + +“How handsome the old man still was only a year ago!” remarked the +countess. “I have never seen a handsomer man.” + +“He is very much altered now,” said Anna Mikháylovna. “Well, as +I was saying, Prince Vasíli is the next heir through his wife, but the +count is very fond of Pierre, looked after his education, and wrote to +the Emperor about him; so that in the case of his death—and he is +so ill that he may die at any moment, and Dr. Lorrain has come from +Petersburg—no one knows who will inherit his immense fortune, Pierre +or Prince Vasíli. Forty thousand serfs and millions of rubles! I know +it all very well for Prince Vasíli told me himself. Besides, Cyril +Vladímirovich is my mother’s second cousin. He’s also my Bóry’s +godfather,” she added, as if she attached no importance at all to the +fact. + +“Prince Vasíli arrived in Moscow yesterday. I hear he has come on +some inspection business,” remarked the visitor. + +“Yes, but between ourselves,” said the princess, “that is a +pretext. The fact is he has come to see Count Cyril Vladímirovich, +hearing how ill he is.” + +“But do you know, my dear, that was a capital joke,” said the count; +and seeing that the elder visitor was not listening, he turned to the +young ladies. “I can just imagine what a funny figure that policeman +cut!” + +And as he waved his arms to impersonate the policeman, his portly form +again shook with a deep ringing laugh, the laugh of one who always eats +well and, in particular, drinks well. “So do come and dine with us!” +he said. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +Silence ensued. The countess looked at her callers, smiling affably, +but not concealing the fact that she would not be distressed if they +now rose and took their leave. The visitor’s daughter was already +smoothing down her dress with an inquiring look at her mother, when +suddenly from the next room were heard the footsteps of boys and girls +running to the door and the noise of a chair falling over, and a girl +of thirteen, hiding something in the folds of her short muslin frock, +darted in and stopped short in the middle of the room. It was evident +that she had not intended her flight to bring her so far. Behind her in +the doorway appeared a student with a crimson coat collar, an officer +of the Guards, a girl of fifteen, and a plump rosy-faced boy in a short +jacket. + +The count jumped up and, swaying from side to side, spread his arms wide +and threw them round the little girl who had run in. + +“Ah, here she is!” he exclaimed laughing. “My pet, whose name day +it is. My dear pet!” + +“Ma chère, there is a time for everything,” said the countess with +feigned severity. “You spoil her, Ilyá,” she added, turning to her +husband. + +“How do you do, my dear? I wish you many happy returns of your name +day,” said the visitor. “What a charming child,” she added, +addressing the mother. + +This black-eyed, wide-mouthed girl, not pretty but full of life—with +childish bare shoulders which after her run heaved and shook her +bodice, with black curls tossed backward, thin bare arms, little legs +in lace-frilled drawers, and feet in low slippers—was just at that +charming age when a girl is no longer a child, though the child is not +yet a young woman. Escaping from her father she ran to hide her flushed +face in the lace of her mother’s mantilla—not paying the least +attention to her severe remark—and began to laugh. She laughed, and in +fragmentary sentences tried to explain about a doll which she produced +from the folds of her frock. + +“Do you see?... My doll... Mimi... You see...” was all Natásha +managed to utter (to her everything seemed funny). She leaned against +her mother and burst into such a loud, ringing fit of laughter that even +the prim visitor could not help joining in. + +“Now then, go away and take your monstrosity with you,” said the +mother, pushing away her daughter with pretended sternness, and turning +to the visitor she added: “She is my youngest girl.” + +Natásha, raising her face for a moment from her mother’s mantilla, +glanced up at her through tears of laughter, and again hid her face. + +The visitor, compelled to look on at this family scene, thought it +necessary to take some part in it. + +“Tell me, my dear,” said she to Natásha, “is Mimi a relation of +yours? A daughter, I suppose?” + +Natásha did not like the visitor’s tone of condescension to childish +things. She did not reply, but looked at her seriously. + +Meanwhile the younger generation: Borís, the officer, Anna +Mikháylovna’s son; Nicholas, the undergraduate, the count’s eldest +son; Sónya, the count’s fifteen-year-old niece, and little Pétya, +his youngest boy, had all settled down in the drawing room and were +obviously trying to restrain within the bounds of decorum the excitement +and mirth that shone in all their faces. Evidently in the back rooms, +from which they had dashed out so impetuously, the conversation had +been more amusing than the drawing room talk of society scandals, the +weather, and Countess Apráksina. Now and then they glanced at one +another, hardly able to suppress their laughter. + +The two young men, the student and the officer, friends from childhood, +were of the same age and both handsome fellows, though not alike. Borís +was tall and fair, and his calm and handsome face had regular, delicate +features. Nicholas was short with curly hair and an open expression. +Dark hairs were already showing on his upper lip, and his whole face +expressed impetuosity and enthusiasm. Nicholas blushed when he entered +the drawing room. He evidently tried to find something to say, but +failed. Borís on the contrary at once found his footing, and related +quietly and humorously how he had known that doll Mimi when she was +still quite a young lady, before her nose was broken; how she had aged +during the five years he had known her, and how her head had cracked +right across the skull. Having said this he glanced at Natásha. +She turned away from him and glanced at her younger brother, who was +screwing up his eyes and shaking with suppressed laughter, and unable +to control herself any longer, she jumped up and rushed from the room as +fast as her nimble little feet would carry her. Borís did not laugh. + +“You were meaning to go out, weren’t you, Mamma? Do you want the +carriage?” he asked his mother with a smile. + +“Yes, yes, go and tell them to get it ready,” she answered, +returning his smile. + +Borís quietly left the room and went in search of Natásha. The plump +boy ran after them angrily, as if vexed that their program had been +disturbed. + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +The only young people remaining in the drawing room, not counting the +young lady visitor and the countess’ eldest daughter (who was four +years older than her sister and behaved already like a grown-up person), +were Nicholas and Sónya, the niece. Sónya was a slender little +brunette with a tender look in her eyes which were veiled by long +lashes, thick black plaits coiling twice round her head, and a tawny +tint in her complexion and especially in the color of her slender but +graceful and muscular arms and neck. By the grace of her movements, +by the softness and flexibility of her small limbs, and by a certain +coyness and reserve of manner, she reminded one of a pretty, half-grown +kitten which promises to become a beautiful little cat. She evidently +considered it proper to show an interest in the general conversation by +smiling, but in spite of herself her eyes under their thick long lashes +watched her cousin who was going to join the army, with such passionate +girlish adoration that her smile could not for a single instant impose +upon anyone, and it was clear that the kitten had settled down only to +spring up with more energy and again play with her cousin as soon as +they too could, like Natásha and Borís, escape from the drawing room. + +“Ah yes, my dear,” said the count, addressing the visitor and +pointing to Nicholas, “his friend Borís has become an officer, and +so for friendship’s sake he is leaving the university and me, his +old father, and entering the military service, my dear. And there was a +place and everything waiting for him in the Archives Department! Isn’t +that friendship?” remarked the count in an inquiring tone. + +“But they say that war has been declared,” replied the visitor. + +“They’ve been saying so a long while,” said the count, “and +they’ll say so again and again, and that will be the end of it. My +dear, there’s friendship for you,” he repeated. “He’s joining +the hussars.” + +The visitor, not knowing what to say, shook her head. + +“It’s not at all from friendship,” declared Nicholas, flaring +up and turning away as if from a shameful aspersion. “It is not from +friendship at all; I simply feel that the army is my vocation.” + +He glanced at his cousin and the young lady visitor; and they were both +regarding him with a smile of approbation. + +“Schubert, the colonel of the Pávlograd Hussars, is dining with us +today. He has been here on leave and is taking Nicholas back with him. +It can’t be helped!” said the count, shrugging his shoulders and +speaking playfully of a matter that evidently distressed him. + +“I have already told you, Papa,” said his son, “that if you +don’t wish to let me go, I’ll stay. But I know I am no use anywhere +except in the army; I am not a diplomat or a government clerk.—I +don’t know how to hide what I feel.” As he spoke he kept glancing +with the flirtatiousness of a handsome youth at Sónya and the young +lady visitor. + +The little kitten, feasting her eyes on him, seemed ready at any moment +to start her gambols again and display her kittenish nature. + +“All right, all right!” said the old count. “He always flares up! +This Buonaparte has turned all their heads; they all think of how he +rose from an ensign and became Emperor. Well, well, God grant it,” he +added, not noticing his visitor’s sarcastic smile. + +The elders began talking about Bonaparte. Julie Karágina turned to +young Rostóv. + +“What a pity you weren’t at the Arkhárovs’ on Thursday. It was so +dull without you,” said she, giving him a tender smile. + +The young man, flattered, sat down nearer to her with a coquettish +smile, and engaged the smiling Julie in a confidential conversation +without at all noticing that his involuntary smile had stabbed the heart +of Sónya, who blushed and smiled unnaturally. In the midst of his talk +he glanced round at her. She gave him a passionately angry glance, and +hardly able to restrain her tears and maintain the artificial smile +on her lips, she got up and left the room. All Nicholas’ animation +vanished. He waited for the first pause in the conversation, and then +with a distressed face left the room to find Sónya. + +“How plainly all these young people wear their hearts on their +sleeves!” said Anna Mikháylovna, pointing to Nicholas as he went out. +“Cousinage—dangereux voisinage,” * she added. + + * Cousinhood is a dangerous neighborhood. + +“Yes,” said the countess when the brightness these young people had +brought into the room had vanished; and as if answering a question no +one had put but which was always in her mind, “and how much suffering, +how much anxiety one has had to go through that we might rejoice in +them now! And yet really the anxiety is greater now than the joy. One is +always, always anxious! Especially just at this age, so dangerous both +for girls and boys.” + +“It all depends on the bringing up,” remarked the visitor. + +“Yes, you’re quite right,” continued the countess. “Till now I +have always, thank God, been my children’s friend and had their full +confidence,” said she, repeating the mistake of so many parents who +imagine that their children have no secrets from them. “I know I shall +always be my daughters’ first confidante, and that if Nicholas, with +his impulsive nature, does get into mischief (a boy can’t help it), he +will all the same never be like those Petersburg young men.” + +“Yes, they are splendid, splendid youngsters,” chimed in the count, +who always solved questions that seemed to him perplexing by deciding +that everything was splendid. “Just fancy: wants to be an hussar. +What’s one to do, my dear?” + +“What a charming creature your younger girl is,” said the visitor; +“a little volcano!” + +“Yes, a regular volcano,” said the count. “Takes after me! And +what a voice she has; though she’s my daughter, I tell the truth +when I say she’ll be a singer, a second Salomoni! We have engaged an +Italian to give her lessons.” + +“Isn’t she too young? I have heard that it harms the voice to train +it at that age.” + +“Oh no, not at all too young!” replied the count. “Why, our +mothers used to be married at twelve or thirteen.” + +“And she’s in love with Borís already. Just fancy!” said the +countess with a gentle smile, looking at Borís and went on, evidently +concerned with a thought that always occupied her: “Now you see if I +were to be severe with her and to forbid it ... goodness knows what they +might be up to on the sly” (she meant that they would be kissing), +“but as it is, I know every word she utters. She will come running to +me of her own accord in the evening and tell me everything. Perhaps I +spoil her, but really that seems the best plan. With her elder sister I +was stricter.” + +“Yes, I was brought up quite differently,” remarked the handsome +elder daughter, Countess Véra, with a smile. + +But the smile did not enhance Véra’s beauty as smiles generally do; +on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, +expression. Véra was good-looking, not at all stupid, quick at +learning, was well brought up, and had a pleasant voice; what she said +was true and appropriate, yet, strange to say, everyone—the visitors +and countess alike—turned to look at her as if wondering why she had +said it, and they all felt awkward. + +“People are always too clever with their eldest children and try to +make something exceptional of them,” said the visitor. + +“What’s the good of denying it, my dear? Our dear countess was too +clever with Véra,” said the count. “Well, what of that? She’s +turned out splendidly all the same,” he added, winking at Véra. + +The guests got up and took their leave, promising to return to dinner. + +“What manners! I thought they would never go,” said the countess, +when she had seen her guests out. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIII + +When Natásha ran out of the drawing room she only went as far as the +conservatory. There she paused and stood listening to the conversation +in the drawing room, waiting for Borís to come out. She was already +growing impatient, and stamped her foot, ready to cry at his not coming +at once, when she heard the young man’s discreet steps approaching +neither quickly nor slowly. At this Natásha dashed swiftly among the +flower tubs and hid there. + +Borís paused in the middle of the room, looked round, brushed a little +dust from the sleeve of his uniform, and going up to a mirror examined +his handsome face. Natásha, very still, peered out from her ambush, +waiting to see what he would do. He stood a little while before the +glass, smiled, and walked toward the other door. Natásha was about to +call him but changed her mind. “Let him look for me,” thought she. +Hardly had Borís gone than Sónya, flushed, in tears, and muttering +angrily, came in at the other door. Natásha checked her first impulse +to run out to her, and remained in her hiding place, watching—as +under an invisible cap—to see what went on in the world. She was +experiencing a new and peculiar pleasure. Sónya, muttering to herself, +kept looking round toward the drawing room door. It opened and Nicholas +came in. + +“Sónya, what is the matter with you? How can you?” said he, running +up to her. + +“It’s nothing, nothing; leave me alone!” sobbed Sónya. + +“Ah, I know what it is.” + +“Well, if you do, so much the better, and you can go back to her!” + +“Só-o-onya! Look here! How can you torture me and yourself like that, +for a mere fancy?” said Nicholas taking her hand. + +Sónya did not pull it away, and left off crying. Natásha, not stirring +and scarcely breathing, watched from her ambush with sparkling eyes. +“What will happen now?” thought she. + +“Sónya! What is anyone in the world to me? You alone are +everything!” said Nicholas. “And I will prove it to you.” + +“I don’t like you to talk like that.” + +“Well, then, I won’t; only forgive me, Sónya!” He drew her to him +and kissed her. + +“Oh, how nice,” thought Natásha; and when Sónya and Nicholas had +gone out of the conservatory she followed and called Borís to her. + +“Borís, come here,” said she with a sly and significant look. “I +have something to tell you. Here, here!” and she led him into the +conservatory to the place among the tubs where she had been hiding. + +Borís followed her, smiling. + +“What is the something?” asked he. + +She grew confused, glanced round, and, seeing the doll she had thrown +down on one of the tubs, picked it up. + +“Kiss the doll,” said she. + +Borís looked attentively and kindly at her eager face, but did not +reply. + +“Don’t you want to? Well, then, come here,” said she, and +went further in among the plants and threw down the doll. “Closer, +closer!” she whispered. + +She caught the young officer by his cuffs, and a look of solemnity and +fear appeared on her flushed face. + +“And me? Would you like to kiss me?” she whispered almost inaudibly, +glancing up at him from under her brows, smiling, and almost crying from +excitement. + +Borís blushed. + +“How funny you are!” he said, bending down to her and blushing still +more, but he waited and did nothing. + +Suddenly she jumped up onto a tub to be higher than he, embraced him so +that both her slender bare arms clasped him above his neck, and, tossing +back her hair, kissed him full on the lips. + +Then she slipped down among the flowerpots on the other side of the tubs +and stood, hanging her head. + +“Natásha,” he said, “you know that I love you, but....” + +“You are in love with me?” Natásha broke in. + +“Yes, I am, but please don’t let us do like that.... In another four +years ... then I will ask for your hand.” + +Natásha considered. + +“Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,” she counted on her slender +little fingers. “All right! Then it’s settled?” + +A smile of joy and satisfaction lit up her eager face. + +“Settled!” replied Borís. + +“Forever?” said the little girl. “Till death itself?” + +She took his arm and with a happy face went with him into the adjoining +sitting room. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +After receiving her visitors, the countess was so tired that she gave +orders to admit no more, but the porter was told to be sure to invite to +dinner all who came “to congratulate.” The countess wished to have +a tête-à-tête talk with the friend of her childhood, Princess Anna +Mikháylovna, whom she had not seen properly since she returned from +Petersburg. Anna Mikháylovna, with her tear-worn but pleasant face, +drew her chair nearer to that of the countess. + +“With you I will be quite frank,” said Anna Mikháylovna. “There +are not many left of us old friends! That’s why I so value your +friendship.” + +Anna Mikháylovna looked at Véra and paused. The countess pressed her +friend’s hand. + +“Véra,” she said to her eldest daughter who was evidently not a +favorite, “how is it you have so little tact? Don’t you see you are +not wanted here? Go to the other girls, or...” + +The handsome Véra smiled contemptuously but did not seem at all hurt. + +“If you had told me sooner, Mamma, I would have gone,” she replied +as she rose to go to her own room. + +But as she passed the sitting room she noticed two couples sitting, +one pair at each window. She stopped and smiled scornfully. Sónya was +sitting close to Nicholas who was copying out some verses for her, the +first he had ever written. Borís and Natásha were at the other window +and ceased talking when Véra entered. Sónya and Natásha looked at +Véra with guilty, happy faces. + +It was pleasant and touching to see these little girls in love; but +apparently the sight of them roused no pleasant feeling in Véra. + +“How often have I asked you not to take my things?” she said. “You +have a room of your own,” and she took the inkstand from Nicholas. + +“In a minute, in a minute,” he said, dipping his pen. + +“You always manage to do things at the wrong time,” continued Véra. +“You came rushing into the drawing room so that everyone felt ashamed +of you.” + +Though what she said was quite just, perhaps for that very reason no one +replied, and the four simply looked at one another. She lingered in the +room with the inkstand in her hand. + +“And at your age what secrets can there be between Natásha and +Borís, or between you two? It’s all nonsense!” + +“Now, Véra, what does it matter to you?” said Natásha in defense, +speaking very gently. + +She seemed that day to be more than ever kind and affectionate to +everyone. + +“Very silly,” said Véra. “I am ashamed of you. Secrets indeed!” + +“All have secrets of their own,” answered Natásha, getting warmer. +“We don’t interfere with you and Berg.” + +“I should think not,” said Véra, “because there can never be +anything wrong in my behavior. But I’ll just tell Mamma how you are +behaving with Borís.” + +“Natálya Ilyníchna behaves very well to me,” remarked Borís. “I +have nothing to complain of.” + +“Don’t, Borís! You are such a diplomat that it is really +tiresome,” said Natásha in a mortified voice that trembled slightly. +(She used the word “diplomat,” which was just then much in vogue +among the children, in the special sense they attached to it.) “Why +does she bother me?” And she added, turning to Véra, “You’ll +never understand it, because you’ve never loved anyone. You have no +heart! You are a Madame de Genlis and nothing more” (this nickname, +bestowed on Véra by Nicholas, was considered very stinging), “and +your greatest pleasure is to be unpleasant to people! Go and flirt with +Berg as much as you please,” she finished quickly. + +“I shall at any rate not run after a young man before visitors...” + +“Well, now you’ve done what you wanted,” put in Nicholas—“said +unpleasant things to everyone and upset them. Let’s go to the +nursery.” + +All four, like a flock of scared birds, got up and left the room. + +“The unpleasant things were said to me,” remarked Véra, “I said +none to anyone.” + +“Madame de Genlis! Madame de Genlis!” shouted laughing voices +through the door. + +The handsome Véra, who produced such an irritating and unpleasant +effect on everyone, smiled and, evidently unmoved by what had been +said to her, went to the looking glass and arranged her hair and scarf. +Looking at her own handsome face she seemed to become still colder and +calmer. + + +In the drawing room the conversation was still going on. + +“Ah, my dear,” said the countess, “my life is not all roses +either. Don’t I know that at the rate we are living our means won’t +last long? It’s all the Club and his easygoing nature. Even in the +country do we get any rest? Theatricals, hunting, and heaven knows what +besides! But don’t let’s talk about me; tell me how you managed +everything. I often wonder at you, Annette—how at your age you +can rush off alone in a carriage to Moscow, to Petersburg, to those +ministers and great people, and know how to deal with them all! It’s +quite astonishing. How did you get things settled? I couldn’t possibly +do it.” + +“Ah, my love,” answered Anna Mikháylovna, “God grant you never +know what it is to be left a widow without means and with a son you love +to distraction! One learns many things then,” she added with a certain +pride. “That lawsuit taught me much. When I want to see one of those +big people I write a note: ‘Princess So-and-So desires an interview +with So and-So,’ and then I take a cab and go myself two, three, or +four times—till I get what I want. I don’t mind what they think of +me.” + +“Well, and to whom did you apply about Bóry?” asked the countess. +“You see yours is already an officer in the Guards, while my Nicholas +is going as a cadet. There’s no one to interest himself for him. To +whom did you apply?” + +“To Prince Vasíli. He was so kind. He at once agreed to everything, +and put the matter before the Emperor,” said Princess Anna +Mikháylovna enthusiastically, quite forgetting all the humiliation she +had endured to gain her end. + +“Has Prince Vasíli aged much?” asked the countess. “I have not +seen him since we acted together at the Rumyántsovs’ theatricals. I +expect he has forgotten me. He paid me attentions in those days,” said +the countess, with a smile. + +“He is just the same as ever,” replied Anna Mikháylovna, +“overflowing with amiability. His position has not turned his head +at all. He said to me, ‘I am sorry I can do so little for you, dear +Princess. I am at your command.’ Yes, he is a fine fellow and a very +kind relation. But, Nataly, you know my love for my son: I would do +anything for his happiness! And my affairs are in such a bad way that my +position is now a terrible one,” continued Anna Mikháylovna, sadly, +dropping her voice. “My wretched lawsuit takes all I have and makes no +progress. Would you believe it, I have literally not a penny and don’t +know how to equip Borís.” She took out her handkerchief and began to +cry. “I need five hundred rubles, and have only one twenty-five-ruble +note. I am in such a state.... My only hope now is in Count Cyril +Vladímirovich Bezúkhov. If he will not assist his godson—you know +he is Bóry’s godfather—and allow him something for his maintenance, +all my trouble will have been thrown away.... I shall not be able to +equip him.” + +The countess’ eyes filled with tears and she pondered in silence. + +“I often think, though, perhaps it’s a sin,” said the princess, +“that here lives Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov so rich, all +alone... that tremendous fortune... and what is his life worth? It’s a +burden to him, and Bóry’s life is only just beginning....” + +“Surely he will leave something to Borís,” said the countess. + +“Heaven only knows, my dear! These rich grandees are so selfish. +Still, I will take Borís and go to see him at once, and I shall speak +to him straight out. Let people think what they will of me, it’s +really all the same to me when my son’s fate is at stake.” The +princess rose. “It’s now two o’clock and you dine at four. There +will just be time.” + +And like a practical Petersburg lady who knows how to make the most of +time, Anna Mikháylovna sent someone to call her son, and went into the +anteroom with him. + +“Good-by, my dear,” said she to the countess who saw her to the +door, and added in a whisper so that her son should not hear, “Wish me +good luck.” + +“Are you going to Count Cyril Vladímirovich, my dear?” said the +count coming out from the dining hall into the anteroom, and he added: +“If he is better, ask Pierre to dine with us. He has been to the +house, you know, and danced with the children. Be sure to invite him, my +dear. We will see how Tarás distinguishes himself today. He says Count +Orlóv never gave such a dinner as ours will be!” + + + + + +CHAPTER XV + +“My dear Borís,” said Princess Anna Mikháylovna to her son as +Countess Rostóva’s carriage in which they were seated drove over the +straw covered street and turned into the wide courtyard of Count Cyril +Vladímirovich Bezúkhov’s house. “My dear Borís,” said the +mother, drawing her hand from beneath her old mantle and laying +it timidly and tenderly on her son’s arm, “be affectionate and +attentive to him. Count Cyril Vladímirovich is your godfather after +all, and your future depends on him. Remember that, my dear, and be nice +to him, as you so well know how to be.” + +“If only I knew that anything besides humiliation would come of +it...” answered her son coldly. “But I have promised and will do it +for your sake.” + +Although the hall porter saw someone’s carriage standing at the +entrance, after scrutinizing the mother and son (who without asking to +be announced had passed straight through the glass porch between the +rows of statues in niches) and looking significantly at the lady’s old +cloak, he asked whether they wanted the count or the princesses, and, +hearing that they wished to see the count, said his excellency was worse +today, and that his excellency was not receiving anyone. + +“We may as well go back,” said the son in French. + +“My dear!” exclaimed his mother imploringly, again laying her hand +on his arm as if that touch might soothe or rouse him. + +Borís said no more, but looked inquiringly at his mother without taking +off his cloak. + +“My friend,” said Anna Mikháylovna in gentle tones, addressing +the hall porter, “I know Count Cyril Vladímirovich is very ill... +that’s why I have come... I am a relation. I shall not disturb him, +my friend... I only need see Prince Vasíli Sergéevich: he is staying +here, is he not? Please announce me.” + +The hall porter sullenly pulled a bell that rang upstairs, and turned +away. + +“Princess Drubetskáya to see Prince Vasíli Sergéevich,” he called +to a footman dressed in knee breeches, shoes, and a swallow-tail coat, +who ran downstairs and looked over from the halfway landing. + +The mother smoothed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large +Venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly +ascended the carpeted stairs. + +“My dear,” she said to her son, once more stimulating him by a +touch, “you promised me!” + +The son, lowering his eyes, followed her quietly. + +They entered the large hall, from which one of the doors led to the +apartments assigned to Prince Vasíli. + +Just as the mother and son, having reached the middle of the hall, were +about to ask their way of an elderly footman who had sprung up as they +entered, the bronze handle of one of the doors turned and Prince Vasíli +came out—wearing a velvet coat with a single star on his breast, +as was his custom when at home—taking leave of a good-looking, +dark-haired man. This was the celebrated Petersburg doctor, Lorrain. + +“Then it is certain?” said the prince. + +“Prince, humanum est errare, * but...” replied the doctor, +swallowing his r’s, and pronouncing the Latin words with a French +accent. + + * To err is human. + +“Very well, very well...” + +Seeing Anna Mikháylovna and her son, Prince Vasíli dismissed the +doctor with a bow and approached them silently and with a look of +inquiry. The son noticed that an expression of profound sorrow suddenly +clouded his mother’s face, and he smiled slightly. + +“Ah, Prince! In what sad circumstances we meet again! And how is our +dear invalid?” said she, as though unaware of the cold offensive look +fixed on her. + +Prince Vasíli stared at her and at Borís questioningly and perplexed. +Borís bowed politely. Prince Vasíli without acknowledging the bow +turned to Anna Mikháylovna, answering her query by a movement of the +head and lips indicating very little hope for the patient. + +“Is it possible?” exclaimed Anna Mikháylovna. “Oh, how awful! +It is terrible to think.... This is my son,” she added, indicating +Borís. “He wanted to thank you himself.” + +Borís bowed again politely. + +“Believe me, Prince, a mother’s heart will never forget what you +have done for us.” + +“I am glad I was able to do you a service, my dear Anna +Mikháylovna,” said Prince Vasíli, arranging his lace frill, and in +tone and manner, here in Moscow to Anna Mikháylovna whom he had placed +under an obligation, assuming an air of much greater importance than he +had done in Petersburg at Anna Schérer’s reception. + +“Try to serve well and show yourself worthy,” added he, addressing +Borís with severity. “I am glad.... Are you here on leave?” he went +on in his usual tone of indifference. + +“I am awaiting orders to join my new regiment, your excellency,” +replied Borís, betraying neither annoyance at the prince’s brusque +manner nor a desire to enter into conversation, but speaking so quietly +and respectfully that the prince gave him a searching glance. + +“Are you living with your mother?” + +“I am living at Countess Rostóva’s,” replied Borís, again +adding, “your excellency.” + +“That is, with Ilyá Rostóv who married Nataly Shinshiná,” said +Anna Mikháylovna. + +“I know, I know,” answered Prince Vasíli in his monotonous voice. +“I never could understand how Nataly made up her mind to marry that +unlicked bear! A perfectly absurd and stupid fellow, and a gambler too, +I am told.” + +“But a very kind man, Prince,” said Anna Mikháylovna with a +pathetic smile, as though she too knew that Count Rostóv deserved this +censure, but asked him not to be too hard on the poor old man. “What +do the doctors say?” asked the princess after a pause, her worn face +again expressing deep sorrow. + +“They give little hope,” replied the prince. + +“And I should so like to thank Uncle once for all his kindness to me +and Borís. He is his godson,” she added, her tone suggesting that +this fact ought to give Prince Vasíli much satisfaction. + +Prince Vasíli became thoughtful and frowned. Anna Mikháylovna saw that +he was afraid of finding in her a rival for Count Bezúkhov’s fortune, +and hastened to reassure him. + +“If it were not for my sincere affection and devotion to Uncle,” +said she, uttering the word with peculiar assurance and unconcern, “I +know his character: noble, upright ... but you see he has no one with +him except the young princesses.... They are still young....” She bent +her head and continued in a whisper: “Has he performed his final duty, +Prince? How priceless are those last moments! It can make things no +worse, and it is absolutely necessary to prepare him if he is so ill. +We women, Prince,” and she smiled tenderly, “always know how to say +these things. I absolutely must see him, however painful it may be for +me. I am used to suffering.” + +Evidently the prince understood her, and also understood, as he had done +at Anna Pávlovna’s, that it would be difficult to get rid of Anna +Mikháylovna. + +“Would not such a meeting be too trying for him, dear Anna +Mikháylovna?” said he. “Let us wait until evening. The doctors are +expecting a crisis.” + +“But one cannot delay, Prince, at such a moment! Consider that the +welfare of his soul is at stake. Ah, it is awful: the duties of a +Christian...” + +A door of one of the inner rooms opened and one of the princesses, the +count’s niece, entered with a cold, stern face. The length of her +body was strikingly out of proportion to her short legs. Prince Vasíli +turned to her. + +“Well, how is he?” + +“Still the same; but what can you expect, this noise...” said the +princess, looking at Anna Mikháylovna as at a stranger. + +“Ah, my dear, I hardly knew you,” said Anna Mikháylovna with a +happy smile, ambling lightly up to the count’s niece. “I have come, +and am at your service to help you nurse my uncle. I imagine what you +have gone through,” and she sympathetically turned up her eyes. + +The princess gave no reply and did not even smile, but left the room as +Anna Mikháylovna took off her gloves and, occupying the position she +had conquered, settled down in an armchair, inviting Prince Vasíli to +take a seat beside her. + +“Borís,” she said to her son with a smile, “I shall go in to see +the count, my uncle; but you, my dear, had better go to Pierre meanwhile +and don’t forget to give him the Rostóvs’ invitation. They ask him +to dinner. I suppose he won’t go?” she continued, turning to the +prince. + +“On the contrary,” replied the prince, who had plainly become +depressed, “I shall be only too glad if you relieve me of that young +man.... Here he is, and the count has not once asked for him.” + +He shrugged his shoulders. A footman conducted Borís down one flight of +stairs and up another, to Pierre’s rooms. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +Pierre, after all, had not managed to choose a career for himself in +Petersburg, and had been expelled from there for riotous conduct and +sent to Moscow. The story told about him at Count Rostóv’s was true. +Pierre had taken part in tying a policeman to a bear. He had now been +for some days in Moscow and was staying as usual at his father’s +house. Though he expected that the story of his escapade would be +already known in Moscow and that the ladies about his father—who were +never favorably disposed toward him—would have used it to turn the +count against him, he nevertheless on the day of his arrival went to +his father’s part of the house. Entering the drawing room, where the +princesses spent most of their time, he greeted the ladies, two of whom +were sitting at embroidery frames while a third read aloud. It was the +eldest who was reading—the one who had met Anna Mikháylovna. The +two younger ones were embroidering: both were rosy and pretty and they +differed only in that one had a little mole on her lip which made her +much prettier. Pierre was received as if he were a corpse or a leper. +The eldest princess paused in her reading and silently stared at him +with frightened eyes; the second assumed precisely the same expression; +while the youngest, the one with the mole, who was of a cheerful and +lively disposition, bent over her frame to hide a smile probably evoked +by the amusing scene she foresaw. She drew her wool down through the +canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying +to make out the pattern. + +“How do you do, cousin?” said Pierre. “You don’t recognize +me?” + +“I recognize you only too well, too well.” + +“How is the count? Can I see him?” asked Pierre, awkwardly as usual, +but unabashed. + +“The count is suffering physically and mentally, and apparently you +have done your best to increase his mental sufferings.” + +“Can I see the count?” Pierre again asked. + +“Hm.... If you wish to kill him, to kill him outright, you can see +him... Olga, go and see whether Uncle’s beef tea is ready—it is +almost time,” she added, giving Pierre to understand that they were +busy, and busy making his father comfortable, while evidently he, +Pierre, was only busy causing him annoyance. + +Olga went out. Pierre stood looking at the sisters; then he bowed and +said: “Then I will go to my rooms. You will let me know when I can see +him.” + +And he left the room, followed by the low but ringing laughter of the +sister with the mole. + +Next day Prince Vasíli had arrived and settled in the count’s house. +He sent for Pierre and said to him: “My dear fellow, if you are going +to behave here as you did in Petersburg, you will end very badly; that +is all I have to say to you. The count is very, very ill, and you must +not see him at all.” + +Since then Pierre had not been disturbed and had spent the whole time in +his rooms upstairs. + +When Borís appeared at his door Pierre was pacing up and down his room, +stopping occasionally at a corner to make menacing gestures at the wall, +as if running a sword through an invisible foe, and glaring savagely +over his spectacles, and then again resuming his walk, muttering +indistinct words, shrugging his shoulders and gesticulating. + +“England is done for,” said he, scowling and pointing his finger +at someone unseen. “Mr. Pitt, as a traitor to the nation and to the +rights of man, is sentenced to...” But before Pierre—who at that +moment imagined himself to be Napoleon in person and to have just +effected the dangerous crossing of the Straits of Dover and captured +London—could pronounce Pitt’s sentence, he saw a well-built and +handsome young officer entering his room. Pierre paused. He had left +Moscow when Borís was a boy of fourteen, and had quite forgotten him, +but in his usual impulsive and hearty way he took Borís by the hand +with a friendly smile. + +“Do you remember me?” asked Borís quietly with a pleasant smile. +“I have come with my mother to see the count, but it seems he is not +well.” + +“Yes, it seems he is ill. People are always disturbing him,” +answered Pierre, trying to remember who this young man was. + +Borís felt that Pierre did not recognize him but did not consider +it necessary to introduce himself, and without experiencing the least +embarrassment looked Pierre straight in the face. + +“Count Rostóv asks you to come to dinner today,” said he, after a +considerable pause which made Pierre feel uncomfortable. + +“Ah, Count Rostóv!” exclaimed Pierre joyfully. “Then you are his +son, Ilyá? Only fancy, I didn’t know you at first. Do you remember +how we went to the Sparrow Hills with Madame Jacquot?... It’s such an +age...” + +“You are mistaken,” said Borís deliberately, with a bold and +slightly sarcastic smile. “I am Borís, son of Princess Anna +Mikháylovna Drubetskáya. Rostóv, the father, is Ilyá, and his son is +Nicholas. I never knew any Madame Jacquot.” + +Pierre shook his head and arms as if attacked by mosquitoes or bees. + +“Oh dear, what am I thinking about? I’ve mixed everything up. One +has so many relatives in Moscow! So you are Borís? Of course. Well, now +we know where we are. And what do you think of the Boulogne expedition? +The English will come off badly, you know, if Napoleon gets across the +Channel. I think the expedition is quite feasible. If only Villeneuve +doesn’t make a mess of things!” + +Borís knew nothing about the Boulogne expedition; he did not read the +papers and it was the first time he had heard Villeneuve’s name. + +“We here in Moscow are more occupied with dinner parties and scandal +than with politics,” said he in his quiet ironical tone. “I know +nothing about it and have not thought about it. Moscow is chiefly busy +with gossip,” he continued. “Just now they are talking about you and +your father.” + +Pierre smiled in his good-natured way as if afraid for his companion’s +sake that the latter might say something he would afterwards regret. +But Borís spoke distinctly, clearly, and dryly, looking straight into +Pierre’s eyes. + +“Moscow has nothing else to do but gossip,” Borís went on. +“Everybody is wondering to whom the count will leave his fortune, +though he may perhaps outlive us all, as I sincerely hope he will...” + +“Yes, it is all very horrid,” interrupted Pierre, “very horrid.” + +Pierre was still afraid that this officer might inadvertently say +something disconcerting to himself. + +“And it must seem to you,” said Borís flushing slightly, but not +changing his tone or attitude, “it must seem to you that everyone is +trying to get something out of the rich man?” + +“So it does,” thought Pierre. + +“But I just wish to say, to avoid misunderstandings, that you are +quite mistaken if you reckon me or my mother among such people. We are +very poor, but for my own part at any rate, for the very reason that +your father is rich, I don’t regard myself as a relation of his, and +neither I nor my mother would ever ask or take anything from him.” + +For a long time Pierre could not understand, but when he did, he jumped +up from the sofa, seized Borís under the elbow in his quick, clumsy +way, and, blushing far more than Borís, began to speak with a feeling +of mingled shame and vexation. + +“Well, this is strange! Do you suppose I... who could think?... I know +very well...” + +But Borís again interrupted him. + +“I am glad I have spoken out fully. Perhaps you did not like it? You +must excuse me,” said he, putting Pierre at ease instead of being put +at ease by him, “but I hope I have not offended you. I always make it +a rule to speak out... Well, what answer am I to take? Will you come to +dinner at the Rostóvs’?” + +And Borís, having apparently relieved himself of an onerous duty and +extricated himself from an awkward situation and placed another in it, +became quite pleasant again. + +“No, but I say,” said Pierre, calming down, “you are a wonderful +fellow! What you have just said is good, very good. Of course you +don’t know me. We have not met for such a long time... not since we +were children. You might think that I... I understand, quite understand. +I could not have done it myself, I should not have had the courage, but +it’s splendid. I am very glad to have made your acquaintance. It’s +queer,” he added after a pause, “that you should have suspected +me!” He began to laugh. “Well, what of it! I hope we’ll get better +acquainted,” and he pressed Borís’ hand. “Do you know, I have not +once been in to see the count. He has not sent for me.... I am sorry for +him as a man, but what can one do?” + +“And so you think Napoleon will manage to get an army across?” asked +Borís with a smile. + +Pierre saw that Borís wished to change the subject, and being of the +same mind he began explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the +Boulogne expedition. + +A footman came in to summon Borís—the princess was going. Pierre, in +order to make Borís’ better acquaintance, promised to come to dinner, +and warmly pressing his hand looked affectionately over his spectacles +into Borís’ eyes. After he had gone Pierre continued pacing up and +down the room for a long time, no longer piercing an imaginary foe with +his imaginary sword, but smiling at the remembrance of that pleasant, +intelligent, and resolute young man. + +As often happens in early youth, especially to one who leads a lonely +life, he felt an unaccountable tenderness for this young man and made up +his mind that they would be friends. + +Prince Vasíli saw the princess off. She held a handkerchief to her eyes +and her face was tearful. + +“It is dreadful, dreadful!” she was saying, “but cost me what it +may I shall do my duty. I will come and spend the night. He must not be +left like this. Every moment is precious. I can’t think why his nieces +put it off. Perhaps God will help me to find a way to prepare him!... +Adieu, Prince! May God support you...” + +“Adieu, ma bonne,” answered Prince Vasíli turning away from her. + +“Oh, he is in a dreadful state,” said the mother to her son when +they were in the carriage. “He hardly recognizes anybody.” + +“I don’t understand, Mamma—what is his attitude to Pierre?” +asked the son. + +“The will will show that, my dear; our fate also depends on it.” + +“But why do you expect that he will leave us anything?” + +“Ah, my dear! He is so rich, and we are so poor!” + +“Well, that is hardly a sufficient reason, Mamma...” + +“Oh, Heaven! How ill he is!” exclaimed the mother. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVII + +After Anna Mikháylovna had driven off with her son to visit Count Cyril +Vladímirovich Bezúkhov, Countess Rostóva sat for a long time all +alone applying her handkerchief to her eyes. At last she rang. + +“What is the matter with you, my dear?” she said crossly to the maid +who kept her waiting some minutes. “Don’t you wish to serve me? Then +I’ll find you another place.” + +The countess was upset by her friend’s sorrow and humiliating poverty, +and was therefore out of sorts, a state of mind which with her always +found expression in calling her maid “my dear” and speaking to her +with exaggerated politeness. + +“I am very sorry, ma’am,” answered the maid. + +“Ask the count to come to me.” + +The count came waddling in to see his wife with a rather guilty look as +usual. + +“Well, little countess? What a sauté of game au madère we are to +have, my dear! I tasted it. The thousand rubles I paid for Tarás were +not ill-spent. He is worth it!” + +He sat down by his wife, his elbows on his knees and his hands ruffling +his gray hair. + +“What are your commands, little countess?” + +“You see, my dear... What’s that mess?” she said, pointing to his +waistcoat. “It’s the sauté, most likely,” she added with a smile. +“Well, you see, Count, I want some money.” + +Her face became sad. + +“Oh, little countess!” ... and the count began bustling to get out +his pocketbook. + +“I want a great deal, Count! I want five hundred rubles,” and taking +out her cambric handkerchief she began wiping her husband’s waistcoat. + +“Yes, immediately, immediately! Hey, who’s there?” he called out +in a tone only used by persons who are certain that those they call will +rush to obey the summons. “Send Dmítri to me!” + +Dmítri, a man of good family who had been brought up in the count’s +house and now managed all his affairs, stepped softly into the room. + +“This is what I want, my dear fellow,” said the count to the +deferential young man who had entered. “Bring me...” he reflected +a moment, “yes, bring me seven hundred rubles, yes! But mind, don’t +bring me such tattered and dirty notes as last time, but nice clean ones +for the countess.” + +“Yes, Dmítri, clean ones, please,” said the countess, sighing +deeply. + +“When would you like them, your excellency?” asked Dmítri. “Allow +me to inform you... But, don’t be uneasy,” he added, noticing that +the count was beginning to breathe heavily and quickly which was always +a sign of approaching anger. “I was forgetting... Do you wish it +brought at once?” + +“Yes, yes; just so! Bring it. Give it to the countess.” + +“What a treasure that Dmítri is,” added the count with a smile when +the young man had departed. “There is never any ‘impossible’ with +him. That’s a thing I hate! Everything is possible.” + +“Ah, money, Count, money! How much sorrow it causes in the world,” +said the countess. “But I am in great need of this sum.” + +“You, my little countess, are a notorious spendthrift,” said the +count, and having kissed his wife’s hand he went back to his study. + +When Anna Mikháylovna returned from Count Bezúkhov’s the money, all +in clean notes, was lying ready under a handkerchief on the countess’ +little table, and Anna Mikháylovna noticed that something was agitating +her. + +“Well, my dear?” asked the countess. + +“Oh, what a terrible state he is in! One would not know him, he is so +ill! I was only there a few moments and hardly said a word...” + +“Annette, for heaven’s sake don’t refuse me,” the countess +began, with a blush that looked very strange on her thin, dignified, +elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief. + +Anna Mikháylovna instantly guessed her intention and stooped to be +ready to embrace the countess at the appropriate moment. + +“This is for Borís from me, for his outfit.” + +Anna Mikháylovna was already embracing her and weeping. The countess +wept too. They wept because they were friends, and because they were +kindhearted, and because they—friends from childhood—had to think +about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over.... +But those tears were pleasant to them both. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVIII + +Countess Rostóva, with her daughters and a large number of guests, was +already seated in the drawing room. The count took the gentlemen into +his study and showed them his choice collection of Turkish pipes. From +time to time he went out to ask: “Hasn’t she come yet?” They +were expecting Márya Dmítrievna Akhrosímova, known in society as le +terrible dragon, a lady distinguished not for wealth or rank, but for +common sense and frank plainness of speech. Márya Dmítrievna was known +to the Imperial family as well as to all Moscow and Petersburg, and both +cities wondered at her, laughed privately at her rudenesses, and told +good stories about her, while none the less all without exception +respected and feared her. + +In the count’s room, which was full of tobacco smoke, they talked +of the war that had been announced in a manifesto, and about the +recruiting. None of them had yet seen the manifesto, but they all knew +it had appeared. The count sat on the sofa between two guests who were +smoking and talking. He neither smoked nor talked, but bending his head +first to one side and then to the other watched the smokers with evident +pleasure and listened to the conversation of his two neighbors, whom he +egged on against each other. + +One of them was a sallow, clean-shaven civilian with a thin and wrinkled +face, already growing old, though he was dressed like a most fashionable +young man. He sat with his legs up on the sofa as if quite at home and, +having stuck an amber mouthpiece far into his mouth, was inhaling the +smoke spasmodically and screwing up his eyes. This was an old bachelor, +Shinshín, a cousin of the countess’, a man with “a sharp tongue” +as they said in Moscow society. He seemed to be condescending to +his companion. The latter, a fresh, rosy officer of the Guards, +irreproachably washed, brushed, and buttoned, held his pipe in the +middle of his mouth and with red lips gently inhaled the smoke, letting +it escape from his handsome mouth in rings. This was Lieutenant Berg, an +officer in the Semënov regiment with whom Borís was to travel to join +the army, and about whom Natásha had teased her elder sister Véra, +speaking of Berg as her “intended.” The count sat between them and +listened attentively. His favorite occupation when not playing boston, a +card game he was very fond of, was that of listener, especially when he +succeeded in setting two loquacious talkers at one another. + +“Well, then, old chap, mon très honorable Alphonse Kárlovich,” +said Shinshín, laughing ironically and mixing the most ordinary Russian +expressions with the choicest French phrases—which was a peculiarity +of his speech. “Vous comptez vous faire des rentes sur l’état; * +you want to make something out of your company?” + + * You expect to make an income out of the government. + +“No, Peter Nikoláevich; I only want to show that in the cavalry +the advantages are far less than in the infantry. Just consider my own +position now, Peter Nikoláevich...” + +Berg always spoke quietly, politely, and with great precision. His +conversation always related entirely to himself; he would remain calm +and silent when the talk related to any topic that had no direct bearing +on himself. He could remain silent for hours without being at all put +out of countenance himself or making others uncomfortable, but as +soon as the conversation concerned himself he would begin to talk +circumstantially and with evident satisfaction. + +“Consider my position, Peter Nikoláevich. Were I in the cavalry I +should get not more than two hundred rubles every four months, even +with the rank of lieutenant; but as it is I receive two hundred and +thirty,” said he, looking at Shinshín and the count with a joyful, +pleasant smile, as if it were obvious to him that his success must +always be the chief desire of everyone else. + +“Besides that, Peter Nikoláevich, by exchanging into the Guards +I shall be in a more prominent position,” continued Berg, “and +vacancies occur much more frequently in the Foot Guards. Then just think +what can be done with two hundred and thirty rubles! I even manage to +put a little aside and to send something to my father,” he went on, +emitting a smoke ring. + +“La balance y est... * A German knows how to skin a flint, as the +proverb says,” remarked Shinshín, moving his pipe to the other side +of his mouth and winking at the count. + + * So that squares matters. + +The count burst out laughing. The other guests seeing that Shinshín +was talking came up to listen. Berg, oblivious of irony or indifference, +continued to explain how by exchanging into the Guards he had already +gained a step on his old comrades of the Cadet Corps; how in wartime +the company commander might get killed and he, as senior in the company, +might easily succeed to the post; how popular he was with everyone in +the regiment, and how satisfied his father was with him. Berg evidently +enjoyed narrating all this, and did not seem to suspect that others, +too, might have their own interests. But all he said was so prettily +sedate, and the naïveté of his youthful egotism was so obvious, that +he disarmed his hearers. + +“Well, my boy, you’ll get along wherever you go—foot or +horse—that I’ll warrant,” said Shinshín, patting him on the +shoulder and taking his feet off the sofa. + +Berg smiled joyously. The count, followed by his guests, went into the +drawing room. + +It was just the moment before a big dinner when the assembled guests, +expecting the summons to zakúska, * avoid engaging in any long +conversation but think it necessary to move about and talk, in order +to show that they are not at all impatient for their food. The host and +hostess look toward the door, and now and then glance at one another, +and the visitors try to guess from these glances who, or what, they are +waiting for—some important relation who has not yet arrived, or a dish +that is not yet ready. + + * Hors d’oeuvres. + +Pierre had come just at dinnertime and was sitting awkwardly in the +middle of the drawing room on the first chair he had come across, +blocking the way for everyone. The countess tried to make him talk, +but he went on naïvely looking around through his spectacles as if in +search of somebody and answered all her questions in monosyllables. He +was in the way and was the only one who did not notice the fact. Most of +the guests, knowing of the affair with the bear, looked with curiosity +at this big, stout, quiet man, wondering how such a clumsy, modest +fellow could have played such a prank on a policeman. + +“You have only lately arrived?” the countess asked him. + +“Oui, madame,” replied he, looking around him. + +“You have not yet seen my husband?” + +“Non, madame.” He smiled quite inappropriately. + +“You have been in Paris recently, I believe? I suppose it’s very +interesting.” + +“Very interesting.” + +The countess exchanged glances with Anna Mikháylovna. The latter +understood that she was being asked to entertain this young man, and +sitting down beside him she began to speak about his father; but he +answered her, as he had the countess, only in monosyllables. The other +guests were all conversing with one another. “The Razumóvskis... It +was charming... You are very kind... Countess Apráksina...” was heard +on all sides. The countess rose and went into the ballroom. + +“Márya Dmítrievna?” came her voice from there. + +“Herself,” came the answer in a rough voice, and Márya Dmítrievna +entered the room. + +All the unmarried ladies and even the married ones except the very +oldest rose. Márya Dmítrievna paused at the door. Tall and stout, +holding high her fifty-year-old head with its gray curls, she stood +surveying the guests, and leisurely arranged her wide sleeves as if +rolling them up. Márya Dmítrievna always spoke in Russian. + +“Health and happiness to her whose name day we are keeping and to her +children,” she said, in her loud, full-toned voice which drowned all +others. “Well, you old sinner,” she went on, turning to the count +who was kissing her hand, “you’re feeling dull in Moscow, I daresay? +Nowhere to hunt with your dogs? But what is to be done, old man? Just +see how these nestlings are growing up,” and she pointed to the girls. +“You must look for husbands for them whether you like it or not....” + +“Well,” said she, “how’s my Cossack?” (Márya Dmítrievna +always called Natásha a Cossack) and she stroked the child’s arm as +she came up fearless and gay to kiss her hand. “I know she’s a scamp +of a girl, but I like her.” + +She took a pair of pear-shaped ruby earrings from her huge reticule and, +having given them to the rosy Natásha, who beamed with the pleasure +of her saint’s-day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to +Pierre. + +“Eh, eh, friend! Come here a bit,” said she, assuming a soft high +tone of voice. “Come here, my friend...” and she ominously tucked +up her sleeves still higher. Pierre approached, looking at her in a +childlike way through his spectacles. + +“Come nearer, come nearer, friend! I used to be the only one to tell +your father the truth when he was in favor, and in your case it’s my +evident duty.” She paused. All were silent, expectant of what was to +follow, for this was clearly only a prelude. + +“A fine lad! My word! A fine lad!... His father lies on his deathbed +and he amuses himself setting a policeman astride a bear! For shame, +sir, for shame! It would be better if you went to the war.” + +She turned away and gave her hand to the count, who could hardly keep +from laughing. + +“Well, I suppose it is time we were at table?” said Márya +Dmítrievna. + +The count went in first with Márya Dmítrievna, the countess followed +on the arm of a colonel of hussars, a man of importance to them because +Nicholas was to go with him to the regiment; then came Anna Mikháylovna +with Shinshín. Berg gave his arm to Véra. The smiling Julie Karágina +went in with Nicholas. After them other couples followed, filling the +whole dining hall, and last of all the children, tutors, and governesses +followed singly. The footmen began moving about, chairs scraped, the +band struck up in the gallery, and the guests settled down in their +places. Then the strains of the count’s household band were replaced +by the clatter of knives and forks, the voices of visitors, and the +soft steps of the footmen. At one end of the table sat the countess with +Márya Dmítrievna on her right and Anna Mikháylovna on her left, the +other lady visitors were farther down. At the other end sat the count, +with the hussar colonel on his left and Shinshín and the other male +visitors on his right. Midway down the long table on one side sat the +grown-up young people: Véra beside Berg, and Pierre beside Borís; and +on the other side, the children, tutors, and governesses. From behind +the crystal decanters and fruit vases, the count kept glancing at his +wife and her tall cap with its light-blue ribbons, and busily filled +his neighbors’ glasses, not neglecting his own. The countess in turn, +without omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from +behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed +by their redness to contrast more than usual with his gray hair. At the +ladies’ end an even chatter of voices was heard all the time, at the +men’s end the voices sounded louder and louder, especially that of the +colonel of hussars who, growing more and more flushed, ate and drank so +much that the count held him up as a pattern to the other guests. Berg +with tender smiles was saying to Véra that love is not an earthly but +a heavenly feeling. Borís was telling his new friend Pierre who the +guests were and exchanging glances with Natásha, who was sitting +opposite. Pierre spoke little but examined the new faces, and ate a +great deal. Of the two soups he chose turtle with savory patties and +went on to the game without omitting a single dish or one of the wines. +These latter the butler thrust mysteriously forward, wrapped in a +napkin, from behind the next man’s shoulders and whispered: “Dry +Madeira”... “Hungarian”... or “Rhine wine” as the case might +be. Of the four crystal glasses engraved with the count’s monogram +that stood before his plate, Pierre held out one at random and drank +with enjoyment, gazing with ever-increasing amiability at the other +guests. Natásha, who sat opposite, was looking at Borís as girls of +thirteen look at the boy they are in love with and have just kissed for +the first time. Sometimes that same look fell on Pierre, and that funny +lively little girl’s look made him inclined to laugh without knowing +why. + +Nicholas sat at some distance from Sónya, beside Julie Karágina, to +whom he was again talking with the same involuntary smile. Sónya wore +a company smile but was evidently tormented by jealousy; now she turned +pale, now blushed and strained every nerve to overhear what Nicholas +and Julie were saying to one another. The governess kept looking round +uneasily as if preparing to resent any slight that might be put upon the +children. The German tutor was trying to remember all the dishes, wines, +and kinds of dessert, in order to send a full description of the dinner +to his people in Germany; and he felt greatly offended when the butler +with a bottle wrapped in a napkin passed him by. He frowned, trying to +appear as if he did not want any of that wine, but was mortified because +no one would understand that it was not to quench his thirst or from +greediness that he wanted it, but simply from a conscientious desire for +knowledge. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIX + +At the men’s end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. +The colonel told them that the declaration of war had already appeared +in Petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day +been forwarded by courier to the commander in chief. + +“And why the deuce are we going to fight Bonaparte?” remarked +Shinshín. “He has stopped Austria’s cackle and I fear it will be +our turn next.” + +The colonel was a stout, tall, plethoric German, evidently devoted to +the service and patriotically Russian. He resented Shinshín’s remark. + +“It is for the reasson, my goot sir,” said he, speaking with a +German accent, “for the reasson zat ze Emperor knows zat. He +declares in ze manifessto zat he cannot fiew wiz indifference ze danger +vreatening Russia and zat ze safety and dignity of ze Empire as vell +as ze sanctity of its alliances...” he spoke this last word with +particular emphasis as if in it lay the gist of the matter. + +Then with the unerring official memory that characterized him he +repeated from the opening words of the manifesto: + +... and the wish, which constitutes the Emperor’s sole and absolute +aim—to establish peace in Europe on firm foundations—has now decided +him to despatch part of the army abroad and to create a new condition +for the attainment of that purpose. + +“Zat, my dear sir, is vy...” he concluded, drinking a tumbler of +wine with dignity and looking to the count for approval. + +“Connaissez-vous le Proverbe:* ‘Jerome, Jerome, do not roam, but +turn spindles at home!’?” said Shinshín, puckering his brows and +smiling. “Cela nous convient à merveille.*(2) Suvórov now—he knew +what he was about; yet they beat him à plate couture,*(3) and where +are we to find Suvórovs now? Je vous demande un peu,” *(4) said he, +continually changing from French to Russian. + + *Do you know the proverb? + + *(2) That suits us down to the ground. + + *(3) Hollow. + + *(4) I just ask you that. + +“Ve must vight to the last tr-r-op of our plood!” said the colonel, +thumping the table; “and ve must tie for our Emperor, and zen all vill +pe vell. And ve must discuss it as little as po-o-ossible”... he dwelt +particularly on the word possible... “as po-o-ossible,” he ended, +again turning to the count. “Zat is how ve old hussars look at it, and +zere’s an end of it! And how do you, a young man and a young hussar, +how do you judge of it?” he added, addressing Nicholas, who when he +heard that the war was being discussed had turned from his partner with +eyes and ears intent on the colonel. + +“I am quite of your opinion,” replied Nicholas, flaming up, turning +his plate round and moving his wineglasses about with as much decision +and desperation as though he were at that moment facing some great +danger. “I am convinced that we Russians must die or conquer,” he +concluded, conscious—as were others—after the words were uttered +that his remarks were too enthusiastic and emphatic for the occasion and +were therefore awkward. + +“What you said just now was splendid!” said his partner Julie. + +Sónya trembled all over and blushed to her ears and behind them and +down to her neck and shoulders while Nicholas was speaking. + +Pierre listened to the colonel’s speech and nodded approvingly. + +“That’s fine,” said he. + +“The young man’s a real hussar!” shouted the colonel, again +thumping the table. + +“What are you making such a noise about over there?” Márya +Dmítrievna’s deep voice suddenly inquired from the other end of the +table. “What are you thumping the table for?” she demanded of the +hussar, “and why are you exciting yourself? Do you think the French +are here?” + +“I am speaking ze truce,” replied the hussar with a smile. + +“It’s all about the war,” the count shouted down the table. “You +know my son’s going, Márya Dmítrievna? My son is going.” + +“I have four sons in the army but still I don’t fret. It is all +in God’s hands. You may die in your bed or God may spare you in a +battle,” replied Márya Dmítrievna’s deep voice, which easily +carried the whole length of the table. + +“That’s true!” + +Once more the conversations concentrated, the ladies’ at the one end +and the men’s at the other. + +“You won’t ask,” Natásha’s little brother was saying; “I know +you won’t ask!” + +“I will,” replied Natásha. + +Her face suddenly flushed with reckless and joyous resolution. She half +rose, by a glance inviting Pierre, who sat opposite, to listen to what +was coming, and turning to her mother: + +“Mamma!” rang out the clear contralto notes of her childish voice, +audible the whole length of the table. + +“What is it?” asked the countess, startled; but seeing by her +daughter’s face that it was only mischief, she shook a finger at her +sternly with a threatening and forbidding movement of her head. + +The conversation was hushed. + +“Mamma! What sweets are we going to have?” and Natásha’s voice +sounded still more firm and resolute. + +The countess tried to frown, but could not. Márya Dmítrievna shook her +fat finger. + +“Cossack!” she said threateningly. + +Most of the guests, uncertain how to regard this sally, looked at the +elders. + +“You had better take care!” said the countess. + +“Mamma! What sweets are we going to have?” Natásha again cried +boldly, with saucy gaiety, confident that her prank would be taken in +good part. + +Sónya and fat little Pétya doubled up with laughter. + +“You see! I have asked,” whispered Natásha to her little brother +and to Pierre, glancing at him again. + +“Ice pudding, but you won’t get any,” said Márya Dmítrievna. + +Natásha saw there was nothing to be afraid of and so she braved even +Márya Dmítrievna. + +“Márya Dmítrievna! What kind of ice pudding? I don’t like ice +cream.” + +“Carrot ices.” + +“No! What kind, Márya Dmítrievna? What kind?” she almost screamed; +“I want to know!” + +Márya Dmítrievna and the countess burst out laughing, and all the +guests joined in. Everyone laughed, not at Márya Dmítrievna’s answer +but at the incredible boldness and smartness of this little girl who had +dared to treat Márya Dmítrievna in this fashion. + +Natásha only desisted when she had been told that there would be +pineapple ice. Before the ices, champagne was served round. The band +again struck up, the count and countess kissed, and the guests, leaving +their seats, went up to “congratulate” the countess, and reached +across the table to clink glasses with the count, with the children, and +with one another. Again the footmen rushed about, chairs scraped, and +in the same order in which they had entered but with redder faces, the +guests returned to the drawing room and to the count’s study. + + + + + +CHAPTER XX + +The card tables were drawn out, sets made up for boston, and the +count’s visitors settled themselves, some in the two drawing rooms, +some in the sitting room, some in the library. + +The count, holding his cards fanwise, kept himself with difficulty from +dropping into his usual after-dinner nap, and laughed at everything. +The young people, at the countess’ instigation, gathered round the +clavichord and harp. Julie by general request played first. After she +had played a little air with variations on the harp, she joined the +other young ladies in begging Natásha and Nicholas, who were noted for +their musical talent, to sing something. Natásha, who was treated as +though she were grown up, was evidently very proud of this but at the +same time felt shy. + +“What shall we sing?” she said. + +“‘The Brook,’” suggested Nicholas. + +“Well, then, let’s be quick. Borís, come here,” said Natásha. +“But where is Sónya?” + +She looked round and seeing that her friend was not in the room ran to +look for her. + +Running into Sónya’s room and not finding her there, Natásha ran to +the nursery, but Sónya was not there either. Natásha concluded that +she must be on the chest in the passage. The chest in the passage was +the place of mourning for the younger female generation in the Rostóv +household. And there in fact was Sónya lying face downward on Nurse’s +dirty feather bed on the top of the chest, crumpling her gauzy pink +dress under her, hiding her face with her slender fingers, and sobbing +so convulsively that her bare little shoulders shook. Natásha’s +face, which had been so radiantly happy all that saint’s day, suddenly +changed: her eyes became fixed, and then a shiver passed down her broad +neck and the corners of her mouth drooped. + +“Sónya! What is it? What is the matter?... Oo... Oo... Oo...!” And +Natásha’s large mouth widened, making her look quite ugly, and she +began to wail like a baby without knowing why, except that Sónya was +crying. Sónya tried to lift her head to answer but could not, and +hid her face still deeper in the bed. Natásha wept, sitting on the +blue-striped feather bed and hugging her friend. With an effort Sónya +sat up and began wiping her eyes and explaining. + +“Nicholas is going away in a week’s time, his... papers... have +come... he told me himself... but still I should not cry,” and she +showed a paper she held in her hand—with the verses Nicholas had +written, “still, I should not cry, but you can’t... no one can +understand... what a soul he has!” + +And she began to cry again because he had such a noble soul. + +“It’s all very well for you... I am not envious... I love you and +Borís also,” she went on, gaining a little strength; “he is nice... +there are no difficulties in your way.... But Nicholas is my cousin... +one would have to... the Metropolitan himself... and even then it +can’t be done. And besides, if she tells Mamma” (Sónya looked upon +the countess as her mother and called her so) “that I am spoiling +Nicholas’ career and am heartless and ungrateful, while truly... God +is my witness,” and she made the sign of the cross, “I love her so +much, and all of you, only Véra... And what for? What have I done +to her? I am so grateful to you that I would willingly sacrifice +everything, only I have nothing....” + +Sónya could not continue, and again hid her face in her hands and in +the feather bed. Natásha began consoling her, but her face showed that +she understood all the gravity of her friend’s trouble. + +“Sónya,” she suddenly exclaimed, as if she had guessed the true +reason of her friend’s sorrow, “I’m sure Véra has said something +to you since dinner? Hasn’t she?” + +“Yes, these verses Nicholas wrote himself and I copied some others, +and she found them on my table and said she’d show them to Mamma, and +that I was ungrateful, and that Mamma would never allow him to marry +me, but that he’ll marry Julie. You see how he’s been with her all +day... Natásha, what have I done to deserve it?...” + +And again she began to sob, more bitterly than before. Natásha lifted +her up, hugged her, and, smiling through her tears, began comforting +her. + +“Sónya, don’t believe her, darling! Don’t believe her! Do you +remember how we and Nicholas, all three of us, talked in the sitting +room after supper? Why, we settled how everything was to be. I don’t +quite remember how, but don’t you remember that it could all be +arranged and how nice it all was? There’s Uncle Shinshín’s brother +has married his first cousin. And we are only second cousins, you know. +And Borís says it is quite possible. You know I have told him all about +it. And he is so clever and so good!” said Natásha. “Don’t +you cry, Sónya, dear love, darling Sónya!” and she kissed her and +laughed. “Véra’s spiteful; never mind her! And all will come right +and she won’t say anything to Mamma. Nicholas will tell her himself, +and he doesn’t care at all for Julie.” + +Natásha kissed her on the hair. + +Sónya sat up. The little kitten brightened, its eyes shone, and it +seemed ready to lift its tail, jump down on its soft paws, and begin +playing with the ball of worsted as a kitten should. + +“Do you think so?... Really? Truly?” she said, quickly smoothing her +frock and hair. + +“Really, truly!” answered Natásha, pushing in a crisp lock that had +strayed from under her friend’s plaits. + +Both laughed. + +“Well, let’s go and sing ‘The Brook.’” + +“Come along!” + +“Do you know, that fat Pierre who sat opposite me is so funny!” said +Natásha, stopping suddenly. “I feel so happy!” + +And she set off at a run along the passage. + +Sónya, shaking off some down which clung to her and tucking away the +verses in the bosom of her dress close to her bony little chest, ran +after Natásha down the passage into the sitting room with flushed face +and light, joyous steps. At the visitors’ request the young people +sang the quartette, “The Brook,” with which everyone was delighted. +Then Nicholas sang a song he had just learned: + + At nighttime in the moon’s fair glow + How sweet, as fancies wander free, + To feel that in this world there’s one + Who still is thinking but of thee! + + That while her fingers touch the harp + Wafting sweet music o’er the lea, + It is for thee thus swells her heart, + Sighing its message out to thee... + + A day or two, then bliss unspoilt, + But oh! till then I cannot live!... + +He had not finished the last verse before the young people began to +get ready to dance in the large hall, and the sound of the feet and the +coughing of the musicians were heard from the gallery. + + +Pierre was sitting in the drawing room where Shinshín had engaged him, +as a man recently returned from abroad, in a political conversation in +which several others joined but which bored Pierre. When the music began +Natásha came in and walking straight up to Pierre said, laughing and +blushing: + +“Mamma told me to ask you to join the dancers.” + +“I am afraid of mixing the figures,” Pierre replied; “but if you +will be my teacher...” And lowering his big arm he offered it to the +slender little girl. + +While the couples were arranging themselves and the musicians tuning up, +Pierre sat down with his little partner. Natásha was perfectly happy; +she was dancing with a grown-up man, who had been abroad. She was +sitting in a conspicuous place and talking to him like a grown-up lady. +She had a fan in her hand that one of the ladies had given her to hold. +Assuming quite the pose of a society woman (heaven knows when and where +she had learned it) she talked with her partner, fanning herself and +smiling over the fan. + +“Dear, dear! Just look at her!” exclaimed the countess as she +crossed the ballroom, pointing to Natásha. + +Natásha blushed and laughed. + +“Well, really, Mamma! Why should you? What is there to be surprised +at?” + + +In the midst of the third écossaise there was a clatter of chairs being +pushed back in the sitting room where the count and Márya Dmítrievna +had been playing cards with the majority of the more distinguished and +older visitors. They now, stretching themselves after sitting so long, +and replacing their purses and pocketbooks, entered the ballroom. First +came Márya Dmítrievna and the count, both with merry countenances. The +count, with playful ceremony somewhat in ballet style, offered his +bent arm to Márya Dmítrievna. He drew himself up, a smile of debonair +gallantry lit up his face and as soon as the last figure of the +écossaise was ended, he clapped his hands to the musicians and shouted +up to their gallery, addressing the first violin: + +“Semën! Do you know the Daniel Cooper?” + +This was the count’s favorite dance, which he had danced in his youth. +(Strictly speaking, Daniel Cooper was one figure of the anglaise.) + +“Look at Papa!” shouted Natásha to the whole company, and quite +forgetting that she was dancing with a grown-up partner she bent her +curly head to her knees and made the whole room ring with her laughter. + +And indeed everybody in the room looked with a smile of pleasure at the +jovial old gentleman, who standing beside his tall and stout partner, +Márya Dmítrievna, curved his arms, beat time, straightened his +shoulders, turned out his toes, tapped gently with his foot, and, by +a smile that broadened his round face more and more, prepared the +onlookers for what was to follow. As soon as the provocatively gay +strains of Daniel Cooper (somewhat resembling those of a merry peasant +dance) began to sound, all the doorways of the ballroom were suddenly +filled by the domestic serfs—the men on one side and the women on +the other—who with beaming faces had come to see their master making +merry. + +“Just look at the master! A regular eagle he is!” loudly remarked +the nurse, as she stood in one of the doorways. + +The count danced well and knew it. But his partner could not and did not +want to dance well. Her enormous figure stood erect, her powerful arms +hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her +stern but handsome face really joined in the dance. What was expressed +by the whole of the count’s plump figure, in Márya Dmítrievna found +expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose. +But if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed +the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and +the agility with which he capered about on his light feet, Márya +Dmítrievna produced no less impression by slight exertions—the least +effort to move her shoulders or bend her arms when turning, or stamp +her foot—which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual +severity. The dance grew livelier and livelier. The other couples could +not attract a moment’s attention to their own evolutions and did not +even try to do so. All were watching the count and Márya Dmítrievna. +Natásha kept pulling everyone by sleeve or dress, urging them to +“look at Papa!” though as it was they never took their eyes off the +couple. In the intervals of the dance the count, breathing deeply, waved +and shouted to the musicians to play faster. Faster, faster, and faster; +lightly, more lightly, and yet more lightly whirled the count, flying +round Márya Dmítrievna, now on his toes, now on his heels; until, +turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, +raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspiring head, smiling +and making a wide sweep with his arm, amid a thunder of applause and +laughter led by Natásha. Both partners stood still, breathing heavily +and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs. + +“That’s how we used to dance in our time, ma chère,” said the +count. + +“That was a Daniel Cooper!” exclaimed Márya Dmítrievna, tucking up +her sleeves and puffing heavily. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXI + +While in the Rostóvs’ ballroom the sixth anglaise was being danced, +to a tune in which the weary musicians blundered, and while tired +footmen and cooks were getting the supper, Count Bezúkhov had a +sixth stroke. The doctors pronounced recovery impossible. After a mute +confession, communion was administered to the dying man, preparations +made for the sacrament of unction, and in his house there was the bustle +and thrill of suspense usual at such moments. Outside the house, beyond +the gates, a group of undertakers, who hid whenever a carriage drove up, +waited in expectation of an important order for an expensive funeral. +The Military Governor of Moscow, who had been assiduous in sending +aides-de-camp to inquire after the count’s health, came himself +that evening to bid a last farewell to the celebrated grandee of +Catherine’s court, Count Bezúkhov. + +The magnificent reception room was crowded. Everyone stood up +respectfully when the Military Governor, having stayed about half an +hour alone with the dying man, passed out, slightly acknowledging their +bows and trying to escape as quickly as possible from the glances fixed +on him by the doctors, clergy, and relatives of the family. Prince +Vasíli, who had grown thinner and paler during the last few days, +escorted him to the door, repeating something to him several times in +low tones. + +When the Military Governor had gone, Prince Vasíli sat down all alone +on a chair in the ballroom, crossing one leg high over the other, +leaning his elbow on his knee and covering his face with his hand. After +sitting so for a while he rose, and, looking about him with frightened +eyes, went with unusually hurried steps down the long corridor leading +to the back of the house, to the room of the eldest princess. + +Those who were in the dimly lit reception room spoke in nervous +whispers, and, whenever anyone went into or came from the dying man’s +room, grew silent and gazed with eyes full of curiosity or expectancy at +his door, which creaked slightly when opened. + +“The limits of human life ... are fixed and may not be +o’erpassed,” said an old priest to a lady who had taken a seat +beside him and was listening naïvely to his words. + +“I wonder, is it not too late to administer unction?” asked the +lady, adding the priest’s clerical title, as if she had no opinion of +her own on the subject. + +“Ah, madam, it is a great sacrament,” replied the priest, passing +his hand over the thin grizzled strands of hair combed back across his +bald head. + +“Who was that? The Military Governor himself?” was being asked at +the other side of the room. “How young-looking he is!” + +“Yes, and he is over sixty. I hear the count no longer recognizes +anyone. They wished to administer the sacrament of unction.” + +“I knew someone who received that sacrament seven times.” + +The second princess had just come from the sickroom with her eyes red +from weeping and sat down beside Dr. Lorrain, who was sitting in a +graceful pose under a portrait of Catherine, leaning his elbow on a +table. + +“Beautiful,” said the doctor in answer to a remark about the +weather. “The weather is beautiful, Princess; and besides, in Moscow +one feels as if one were in the country.” + +“Yes, indeed,” replied the princess with a sigh. “So he may have +something to drink?” + +Lorrain considered. + +“Has he taken his medicine?” + +“Yes.” + +The doctor glanced at his watch. + +“Take a glass of boiled water and put a pinch of cream of tartar,” +and he indicated with his delicate fingers what he meant by a pinch. + +“Dere has neffer been a gase,” a German doctor was saying to an +aide-de-camp, “dat one liffs after de sird stroke.” + +“And what a well-preserved man he was!” remarked the aide-de-camp. +“And who will inherit his wealth?” he added in a whisper. + +“It von’t go begging,” replied the German with a smile. + +Everyone again looked toward the door, which creaked as the second +princess went in with the drink she had prepared according to +Lorrain’s instructions. The German doctor went up to Lorrain. + +“Do you think he can last till morning?” asked the German, +addressing Lorrain in French which he pronounced badly. + +Lorrain, pursing up his lips, waved a severely negative finger before +his nose. + +“Tonight, not later,” said he in a low voice, and he moved away +with a decorous smile of self-satisfaction at being able clearly to +understand and state the patient’s condition. + +Meanwhile Prince Vasíli had opened the door into the princess’ room. + +In this room it was almost dark; only two tiny lamps were burning before +the icons and there was a pleasant scent of flowers and burnt pastilles. +The room was crowded with small pieces of furniture, whatnots, +cupboards, and little tables. The quilt of a high, white feather bed was +just visible behind a screen. A small dog began to bark. + +“Ah, is it you, cousin?” + +She rose and smoothed her hair, which was as usual so extremely smooth +that it seemed to be made of one piece with her head and covered with +varnish. + +“Has anything happened?” she asked. “I am so terrified.” + +“No, there is no change. I only came to have a talk about business, +Catiche,” * muttered the prince, seating himself wearily on the chair +she had just vacated. “You have made the place warm, I must say,” he +remarked. “Well, sit down: let’s have a talk.” + + *Catherine. + +“I thought perhaps something had happened,” she said with her +unchanging stonily severe expression; and, sitting down opposite the +prince, she prepared to listen. + +“I wished to get a nap, mon cousin, but I can’t.” + +“Well, my dear?” said Prince Vasíli, taking her hand and bending it +downwards as was his habit. + +It was plain that this “well?” referred to much that they both +understood without naming. + +The princess, who had a straight, rigid body, abnormally long for her +legs, looked directly at Prince Vasíli with no sign of emotion in her +prominent gray eyes. Then she shook her head and glanced up at the icons +with a sigh. This might have been taken as an expression of sorrow +and devotion, or of weariness and hope of resting before long. Prince +Vasíli understood it as an expression of weariness. + +“And I?” he said; “do you think it is easier for me? I am as worn +out as a post horse, but still I must have a talk with you, Catiche, a +very serious talk.” + +Prince Vasíli said no more and his cheeks began to twitch nervously, +now on one side, now on the other, giving his face an unpleasant +expression which was never to be seen on it in a drawing room. His eyes +too seemed strange; at one moment they looked impudently sly and at the +next glanced round in alarm. + +The princess, holding her little dog on her lap with her thin bony +hands, looked attentively into Prince Vasíli’s eyes evidently +resolved not to be the first to break silence, if she had to wait till +morning. + +“Well, you see, my dear princess and cousin, Catherine Semënovna,” +continued Prince Vasíli, returning to his theme, apparently not +without an inner struggle; “at such a moment as this one must think +of everything. One must think of the future, of all of you... I love you +all, like children of my own, as you know.” + +The princess continued to look at him without moving, and with the same +dull expression. + +“And then of course my family has also to be considered,” Prince +Vasíli went on, testily pushing away a little table without looking at +her. “You know, Catiche, that we—you three sisters, Mámontov, and +my wife—are the count’s only direct heirs. I know, I know how hard +it is for you to talk or think of such matters. It is no easier for +me; but, my dear, I am getting on for sixty and must be prepared for +anything. Do you know I have sent for Pierre? The count,” pointing to +his portrait, “definitely demanded that he should be called.” + +Prince Vasíli looked questioningly at the princess, but could not make +out whether she was considering what he had just said or whether she was +simply looking at him. + +“There is one thing I constantly pray God to grant, mon cousin,” she +replied, “and it is that He would be merciful to him and would allow +his noble soul peacefully to leave this...” + +“Yes, yes, of course,” interrupted Prince Vasíli impatiently, +rubbing his bald head and angrily pulling back toward him the little +table that he had pushed away. “But... in short, the fact is... you +know yourself that last winter the count made a will by which he left +all his property, not to us his direct heirs, but to Pierre.” + +“He has made wills enough!” quietly remarked the princess. “But he +cannot leave the estate to Pierre. Pierre is illegitimate.” + +“But, my dear,” said Prince Vasíli suddenly, clutching the little +table and becoming more animated and talking more rapidly: “what if +a letter has been written to the Emperor in which the count asks for +Pierre’s legitimation? Do you understand that in consideration of the +count’s services, his request would be granted?...” + +The princess smiled as people do who think they know more about the +subject under discussion than those they are talking with. + +“I can tell you more,” continued Prince Vasíli, seizing her hand, +“that letter was written, though it was not sent, and the Emperor knew +of it. The only question is, has it been destroyed or not? If not, then +as soon as all is over,” and Prince Vasíli sighed to intimate what he +meant by the words all is over, “and the count’s papers are opened, +the will and letter will be delivered to the Emperor, and the petition +will certainly be granted. Pierre will get everything as the legitimate +son.” + +“And our share?” asked the princess smiling ironically, as if +anything might happen, only not that. + +“But, my poor Catiche, it is as clear as daylight! He will then be the +legal heir to everything and you won’t get anything. You must know, +my dear, whether the will and letter were written, and whether they have +been destroyed or not. And if they have somehow been overlooked, you +ought to know where they are, and must find them, because...” + +“What next?” the princess interrupted, smiling sardonically and not +changing the expression of her eyes. “I am a woman, and you think we +are all stupid; but I know this: an illegitimate son cannot inherit... +un bâtard!”* she added, as if supposing that this translation of the +word would effectively prove to Prince Vasíli the invalidity of his +contention. + + * A bastard. + +“Well, really, Catiche! Can’t you understand! You are so +intelligent, how is it you don’t see that if the count has written a +letter to the Emperor begging him to recognize Pierre as legitimate, it +follows that Pierre will not be Pierre but will become Count Bezúkhov, +and will then inherit everything under the will? And if the will and +letter are not destroyed, then you will have nothing but the consolation +of having been dutiful et tout ce qui s’ensuit!* That’s certain.” + + * And all that follows therefrom. + +“I know the will was made, but I also know that it is invalid; +and you, mon cousin, seem to consider me a perfect fool,” said the +princess with the expression women assume when they suppose they are +saying something witty and stinging. + +“My dear Princess Catherine Semënovna,” began Prince Vasíli +impatiently, “I came here not to wrangle with you, but to talk about +your interests as with a kinswoman, a good, kind, true relation. And I +tell you for the tenth time that if the letter to the Emperor and the +will in Pierre’s favor are among the count’s papers, then, my dear +girl, you and your sisters are not heiresses! If you don’t believe me, +then believe an expert. I have just been talking to Dmítri Onúfrich” +(the family solicitor) “and he says the same.” + +At this a sudden change evidently took place in the princess’ ideas; +her thin lips grew white, though her eyes did not change, and her voice +when she began to speak passed through such transitions as she herself +evidently did not expect. + +“That would be a fine thing!” said she. “I never wanted anything +and I don’t now.” + +She pushed the little dog off her lap and smoothed her dress. + +“And this is gratitude—this is recognition for those who have +sacrificed everything for his sake!” she cried. “It’s splendid! +Fine! I don’t want anything, Prince.” + +“Yes, but you are not the only one. There are your sisters...” +replied Prince Vasíli. + +But the princess did not listen to him. + +“Yes, I knew it long ago but had forgotten. I knew that I could expect +nothing but meanness, deceit, envy, intrigue, and ingratitude—the +blackest ingratitude—in this house...” + +“Do you or do you not know where that will is?” insisted Prince +Vasíli, his cheeks twitching more than ever. + +“Yes, I was a fool! I still believed in people, loved them, and +sacrificed myself. But only the base, the vile succeed! I know who has +been intriguing!” + +The princess wished to rise, but the prince held her by the hand. She +had the air of one who has suddenly lost faith in the whole human race. +She gave her companion an angry glance. + +“There is still time, my dear. You must remember, Catiche, that it was +all done casually in a moment of anger, of illness, and was afterwards +forgotten. Our duty, my dear, is to rectify his mistake, to ease his +last moments by not letting him commit this injustice, and not to let +him die feeling that he is rendering unhappy those who...” + +“Who sacrificed everything for him,” chimed in the princess, who +would again have risen had not the prince still held her fast, “though +he never could appreciate it. No, mon cousin,” she added with a sigh, +“I shall always remember that in this world one must expect no reward, +that in this world there is neither honor nor justice. In this world one +has to be cunning and cruel.” + +“Now come, come! Be reasonable. I know your excellent heart.” + +“No, I have a wicked heart.” + +“I know your heart,” repeated the prince. “I value your friendship +and wish you to have as good an opinion of me. Don’t upset yourself, +and let us talk sensibly while there is still time, be it a day or be it +but an hour.... Tell me all you know about the will, and above all where +it is. You must know. We will take it at once and show it to the +count. He has, no doubt, forgotten it and will wish to destroy it. +You understand that my sole desire is conscientiously to carry out his +wishes; that is my only reason for being here. I came simply to help him +and you.” + +“Now I see it all! I know who has been intriguing—I know!” cried +the princess. + +“That’s not the point, my dear.” + +“It’s that protégé of yours, that sweet Princess Drubetskáya, +that Anna Mikháylovna whom I would not take for a housemaid... the +infamous, vile woman!” + +“Do not let us lose any time...” + +“Ah, don’t talk to me! Last winter she wheedled herself in here and +told the count such vile, disgraceful things about us, especially about +Sophie—I can’t repeat them—that it made the count quite ill and he +would not see us for a whole fortnight. I know it was then he wrote this +vile, infamous paper, but I thought the thing was invalid.” + +“We’ve got to it at last—why did you not tell me about it +sooner?” + +“It’s in the inlaid portfolio that he keeps under his pillow,” +said the princess, ignoring his question. “Now I know! Yes; if I have +a sin, a great sin, it is hatred of that vile woman!” almost shrieked +the princess, now quite changed. “And what does she come worming +herself in here for? But I will give her a piece of my mind. The time +will come!” + + + + + +CHAPTER XXII + +While these conversations were going on in the reception room and the +princess’ room, a carriage containing Pierre (who had been sent for) +and Anna Mikháylovna (who found it necessary to accompany him) was +driving into the court of Count Bezúkhov’s house. As the wheels +rolled softly over the straw beneath the windows, Anna Mikháylovna, +having turned with words of comfort to her companion, realized that +he was asleep in his corner and woke him up. Rousing himself, Pierre +followed Anna Mikháylovna out of the carriage, and only then began +to think of the interview with his dying father which awaited him. He +noticed that they had not come to the front entrance but to the back +door. While he was getting down from the carriage steps two men, who +looked like tradespeople, ran hurriedly from the entrance and hid in the +shadow of the wall. Pausing for a moment, Pierre noticed several other +men of the same kind hiding in the shadow of the house on both sides. +But neither Anna Mikháylovna nor the footman nor the coachman, who +could not help seeing these people, took any notice of them. “It seems +to be all right,” Pierre concluded, and followed Anna Mikháylovna. +She hurriedly ascended the narrow dimly lit stone staircase, calling to +Pierre, who was lagging behind, to follow. Though he did not see why it +was necessary for him to go to the count at all, still less why he had +to go by the back stairs, yet judging by Anna Mikháylovna’s air +of assurance and haste, Pierre concluded that it was all absolutely +necessary. Halfway up the stairs they were almost knocked over by +some men who, carrying pails, came running downstairs, their boots +clattering. These men pressed close to the wall to let Pierre and Anna +Mikháylovna pass and did not evince the least surprise at seeing them +there. + +“Is this the way to the princesses’ apartments?” asked Anna +Mikháylovna of one of them. + +“Yes,” replied a footman in a bold loud voice, as if anything were +now permissible; “the door to the left, ma’am.” + +“Perhaps the count did not ask for me,” said Pierre when he reached +the landing. “I’d better go to my own room.” + +Anna Mikháylovna paused and waited for him to come up. + +“Ah, my friend!” she said, touching his arm as she had done her +son’s when speaking to him that afternoon, “believe me I suffer no +less than you do, but be a man!” + +“But really, hadn’t I better go away?” he asked, looking kindly at +her over his spectacles. + +“Ah, my dear friend! Forget the wrongs that may have been done you. +Think that he is your father ... perhaps in the agony of death.” She +sighed. “I have loved you like a son from the first. Trust yourself to +me, Pierre. I shall not forget your interests.” + +Pierre did not understand a word, but the conviction that all this had +to be grew stronger, and he meekly followed Anna Mikháylovna who was +already opening a door. + +This door led into a back anteroom. An old man, a servant of the +princesses, sat in a corner knitting a stocking. Pierre had never been +in this part of the house and did not even know of the existence of +these rooms. Anna Mikháylovna, addressing a maid who was hurrying past +with a decanter on a tray as “my dear” and “my sweet,” asked +about the princess’ health and then led Pierre along a stone passage. +The first door on the left led into the princesses’ apartments. The +maid with the decanter in her haste had not closed the door (everything +in the house was done in haste at that time), and Pierre and Anna +Mikháylovna in passing instinctively glanced into the room, where +Prince Vasíli and the eldest princess were sitting close together +talking. Seeing them pass, Prince Vasíli drew back with obvious +impatience, while the princess jumped up and with a gesture of +desperation slammed the door with all her might. + +This action was so unlike her usual composure and the fear depicted on +Prince Vasíli’s face so out of keeping with his dignity that Pierre +stopped and glanced inquiringly over his spectacles at his guide. Anna +Mikháylovna evinced no surprise, she only smiled faintly and sighed, as +if to say that this was no more than she had expected. + +“Be a man, my friend. I will look after your interests,” said she in +reply to his look, and went still faster along the passage. + +Pierre could not make out what it was all about, and still less what +“watching over his interests” meant, but he decided that all these +things had to be. From the passage they went into a large, dimly +lit room adjoining the count’s reception room. It was one of those +sumptuous but cold apartments known to Pierre only from the front +approach, but even in this room there now stood an empty bath, and water +had been spilled on the carpet. They were met by a deacon with a censer +and by a servant who passed out on tiptoe without heeding them. They +went into the reception room familiar to Pierre, with two Italian +windows opening into the conservatory, with its large bust and full +length portrait of Catherine the Great. The same people were still +sitting here in almost the same positions as before, whispering to one +another. All became silent and turned to look at the pale tear-worn Anna +Mikháylovna as she entered, and at the big stout figure of Pierre who, +hanging his head, meekly followed her. + +Anna Mikháylovna’s face expressed a consciousness that the decisive +moment had arrived. With the air of a practical Petersburg lady she now, +keeping Pierre close beside her, entered the room even more boldly than +that afternoon. She felt that as she brought with her the person the +dying man wished to see, her own admission was assured. Casting a rapid +glance at all those in the room and noticing the count’s confessor +there, she glided up to him with a sort of amble, not exactly bowing yet +seeming to grow suddenly smaller, and respectfully received the blessing +first of one and then of another priest. + +“God be thanked that you are in time,” said she to one of the +priests; “all we relatives have been in such anxiety. This young +man is the count’s son,” she added more softly. “What a terrible +moment!” + +Having said this she went up to the doctor. + +“Dear doctor,” said she, “this young man is the count’s son. Is +there any hope?” + +The doctor cast a rapid glance upwards and silently shrugged his +shoulders. Anna Mikháylovna with just the same movement raised her +shoulders and eyes, almost closing the latter, sighed, and moved away +from the doctor to Pierre. To him, in a particularly respectful and +tenderly sad voice, she said: + +“Trust in His mercy!” and pointing out a small sofa for him to sit +and wait for her, she went silently toward the door that everyone was +watching and it creaked very slightly as she disappeared behind it. + +Pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved +toward the sofa she had indicated. As soon as Anna Mikháylovna had +disappeared he noticed that the eyes of all in the room turned to him +with something more than curiosity and sympathy. He noticed that they +whispered to one another, casting significant looks at him with a kind +of awe and even servility. A deference such as he had never before +received was shown him. A strange lady, the one who had been talking to +the priests, rose and offered him her seat; an aide-de-camp picked up +and returned a glove Pierre had dropped; the doctors became respectfully +silent as he passed by, and moved to make way for him. At first Pierre +wished to take another seat so as not to trouble the lady, and also to +pick up the glove himself and to pass round the doctors who were not +even in his way; but all at once he felt that this would not do, and +that tonight he was a person obliged to perform some sort of awful +rite which everyone expected of him, and that he was therefore bound +to accept their services. He took the glove in silence from the +aide-de-camp, and sat down in the lady’s chair, placing his huge hands +symmetrically on his knees in the naïve attitude of an Egyptian statue, +and decided in his own mind that all was as it should be, and that in +order not to lose his head and do foolish things he must not act on his +own ideas tonight, but must yield himself up entirely to the will of +those who were guiding him. + +Not two minutes had passed before Prince Vasíli with head erect +majestically entered the room. He was wearing his long coat with three +stars on his breast. He seemed to have grown thinner since the morning; +his eyes seemed larger than usual when he glanced round and noticed +Pierre. He went up to him, took his hand (a thing he never used to do), +and drew it downwards as if wishing to ascertain whether it was firmly +fixed on. + +“Courage, courage, my friend! He has asked to see you. That is +well!” and he turned to go. + +But Pierre thought it necessary to ask: “How is...” and hesitated, +not knowing whether it would be proper to call the dying man “the +count,” yet ashamed to call him “father.” + +“He had another stroke about half an hour ago. Courage, my +friend...” + +Pierre’s mind was in such a confused state that the word “stroke” +suggested to him a blow from something. He looked at Prince Vasíli +in perplexity, and only later grasped that a stroke was an attack of +illness. Prince Vasíli said something to Lorrain in passing and went +through the door on tiptoe. He could not walk well on tiptoe and his +whole body jerked at each step. The eldest princess followed him, and +the priests and deacons and some servants also went in at the door. +Through that door was heard a noise of things being moved about, and +at last Anna Mikháylovna, still with the same expression, pale but +resolute in the discharge of duty, ran out and touching Pierre lightly +on the arm said: + +“The divine mercy is inexhaustible! Unction is about to be +administered. Come.” + +Pierre went in at the door, stepping on the soft carpet, and noticed +that the strange lady, the aide-de-camp, and some of the servants, all +followed him in, as if there were now no further need for permission to +enter that room. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXIII + +Pierre well knew this large room divided by columns and an arch, its +walls hung round with Persian carpets. The part of the room behind the +columns, with a high silk-curtained mahogany bedstead on one side and +on the other an immense case containing icons, was brightly illuminated +with red light like a Russian church during evening service. Under +the gleaming icons stood a long invalid chair, and in that chair +on snowy-white smooth pillows, evidently freshly changed, Pierre +saw—covered to the waist by a bright green quilt—the familiar, +majestic figure of his father, Count Bezúkhov, with that gray mane of +hair above his broad forehead which reminded one of a lion, and the deep +characteristically noble wrinkles of his handsome, ruddy face. He lay +just under the icons; his large thick hands outside the quilt. Into the +right hand, which was lying palm downwards, a wax taper had been thrust +between forefinger and thumb, and an old servant, bending over from +behind the chair, held it in position. By the chair stood the priests, +their long hair falling over their magnificent glittering vestments, +with lighted tapers in their hands, slowly and solemnly conducting the +service. A little behind them stood the two younger princesses holding +handkerchiefs to their eyes, and just in front of them their eldest +sister, Catiche, with a vicious and determined look steadily fixed on +the icons, as though declaring to all that she could not answer for +herself should she glance round. Anna Mikháylovna, with a meek, +sorrowful, and all-forgiving expression on her face, stood by the door +near the strange lady. Prince Vasíli in front of the door, near the +invalid chair, a wax taper in his left hand, was leaning his left arm on +the carved back of a velvet chair he had turned round for the purpose, +and was crossing himself with his right hand, turning his eyes upward +each time he touched his forehead. His face wore a calm look of piety +and resignation to the will of God. “If you do not understand these +sentiments,” he seemed to be saying, “so much the worse for you!” + +Behind him stood the aide-de-camp, the doctors, and the menservants; +the men and women had separated as in church. All were silently crossing +themselves, and the reading of the church service, the subdued chanting +of deep bass voices, and in the intervals sighs and the shuffling of +feet were the only sounds that could be heard. Anna Mikháylovna, with +an air of importance that showed that she felt she quite knew what she +was about, went across the room to where Pierre was standing and gave +him a taper. He lit it and, distracted by observing those around him, +began crossing himself with the hand that held the taper. + +Sophie, the rosy, laughter-loving, youngest princess with the mole, +watched him. She smiled, hid her face in her handkerchief, and remained +with it hidden for awhile; then looking up and seeing Pierre she +again began to laugh. She evidently felt unable to look at him +without laughing, but could not resist looking at him: so to be out of +temptation she slipped quietly behind one of the columns. In the midst +of the service the voices of the priests suddenly ceased, they whispered +to one another, and the old servant who was holding the count’s hand +got up and said something to the ladies. Anna Mikháylovna stepped +forward and, stooping over the dying man, beckoned to Lorrain from +behind her back. The French doctor held no taper; he was leaning +against one of the columns in a respectful attitude implying that he, +a foreigner, in spite of all differences of faith, understood the full +importance of the rite now being performed and even approved of it. He +now approached the sick man with the noiseless step of one in full vigor +of life, with his delicate white fingers raised from the green quilt the +hand that was free, and turning sideways felt the pulse and reflected +a moment. The sick man was given something to drink, there was a +stir around him, then the people resumed their places and the service +continued. During this interval Pierre noticed that Prince Vasíli +left the chair on which he had been leaning, and—with an air +which intimated that he knew what he was about and if others did not +understand him it was so much the worse for them—did not go up to the +dying man, but passed by him, joined the eldest princess, and moved +with her to the side of the room where stood the high bedstead with its +silken hangings. On leaving the bed both Prince Vasíli and the princess +passed out by a back door, but returned to their places one after the +other before the service was concluded. Pierre paid no more attention +to this occurrence than to the rest of what went on, having made up his +mind once for all that what he saw happening around him that evening was +in some way essential. + +The chanting of the service ceased, and the voice of the priest was +heard respectfully congratulating the dying man on having received the +sacrament. The dying man lay as lifeless and immovable as before. Around +him everyone began to stir: steps were audible and whispers, among which +Anna Mikháylovna’s was the most distinct. + +Pierre heard her say: + +“Certainly he must be moved onto the bed; here it will be +impossible...” + +The sick man was so surrounded by doctors, princesses, and servants +that Pierre could no longer see the reddish-yellow face with its gray +mane—which, though he saw other faces as well, he had not lost sight +of for a single moment during the whole service. He judged by the +cautious movements of those who crowded round the invalid chair that +they had lifted the dying man and were moving him. + +“Catch hold of my arm or you’ll drop him!” he heard one of the +servants say in a frightened whisper. “Catch hold from underneath. +Here!” exclaimed different voices; and the heavy breathing of the +bearers and the shuffling of their feet grew more hurried, as if the +weight they were carrying were too much for them. + +As the bearers, among whom was Anna Mikháylovna, passed the young man +he caught a momentary glimpse between their heads and backs of the dying +man’s high, stout, uncovered chest and powerful shoulders, raised by +those who were holding him under the armpits, and of his gray, curly, +leonine head. This head, with its remarkably broad brow and cheekbones, +its handsome, sensual mouth, and its cold, majestic expression, was +not disfigured by the approach of death. It was the same as Pierre +remembered it three months before, when the count had sent him to +Petersburg. But now this head was swaying helplessly with the uneven +movements of the bearers, and the cold listless gaze fixed itself upon +nothing. + +After a few minutes’ bustle beside the high bedstead, those who had +carried the sick man dispersed. Anna Mikháylovna touched Pierre’s +hand and said, “Come.” Pierre went with her to the bed on which the +sick man had been laid in a stately pose in keeping with the ceremony +just completed. He lay with his head propped high on the pillows. His +hands were symmetrically placed on the green silk quilt, the palms +downward. When Pierre came up the count was gazing straight at him, but +with a look the significance of which could not be understood by mortal +man. Either this look meant nothing but that as long as one has eyes +they must look somewhere, or it meant too much. Pierre hesitated, +not knowing what to do, and glanced inquiringly at his guide. Anna +Mikháylovna made a hurried sign with her eyes, glancing at the sick +man’s hand and moving her lips as if to send it a kiss. Pierre, +carefully stretching his neck so as not to touch the quilt, followed her +suggestion and pressed his lips to the large boned, fleshy hand. Neither +the hand nor a single muscle of the count’s face stirred. Once more +Pierre looked questioningly at Anna Mikháylovna to see what he was to +do next. Anna Mikháylovna with her eyes indicated a chair that stood +beside the bed. Pierre obediently sat down, his eyes asking if he were +doing right. Anna Mikháylovna nodded approvingly. Again Pierre fell +into the naïvely symmetrical pose of an Egyptian statue, evidently +distressed that his stout and clumsy body took up so much room and doing +his utmost to look as small as possible. He looked at the count, who +still gazed at the spot where Pierre’s face had been before he sat +down. Anna Mikháylovna indicated by her attitude her consciousness of +the pathetic importance of these last moments of meeting between the +father and son. This lasted about two minutes, which to Pierre seemed an +hour. Suddenly the broad muscles and lines of the count’s face began +to twitch. The twitching increased, the handsome mouth was drawn to one +side (only now did Pierre realize how near death his father was), and +from that distorted mouth issued an indistinct, hoarse sound. Anna +Mikháylovna looked attentively at the sick man’s eyes, trying to +guess what he wanted; she pointed first to Pierre, then to some drink, +then named Prince Vasíli in an inquiring whisper, then pointed to the +quilt. The eyes and face of the sick man showed impatience. He made an +effort to look at the servant who stood constantly at the head of the +bed. + +“Wants to turn on the other side,” whispered the servant, and got up +to turn the count’s heavy body toward the wall. + +Pierre rose to help him. + +While the count was being turned over, one of his arms fell back +helplessly and he made a fruitless effort to pull it forward. Whether he +noticed the look of terror with which Pierre regarded that lifeless arm, +or whether some other thought flitted across his dying brain, at any +rate he glanced at the refractory arm, at Pierre’s terror-stricken +face, and again at the arm, and on his face a feeble, piteous smile +appeared, quite out of keeping with his features, that seemed to deride +his own helplessness. At sight of this smile Pierre felt an unexpected +quivering in his breast and a tickling in his nose, and tears dimmed his +eyes. The sick man was turned on to his side with his face to the wall. +He sighed. + +“He is dozing,” said Anna Mikháylovna, observing that one of the +princesses was coming to take her turn at watching. “Let us go.” + +Pierre went out. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXIV + +There was now no one in the reception room except Prince Vasíli and the +eldest princess, who were sitting under the portrait of Catherine the +Great and talking eagerly. As soon as they saw Pierre and his companion +they became silent, and Pierre thought he saw the princess hide +something as she whispered: + +“I can’t bear the sight of that woman.” + +“Catiche has had tea served in the small drawing room,” said Prince +Vasíli to Anna Mikháylovna. “Go and take something, my poor Anna +Mikháylovna, or you will not hold out.” + +To Pierre he said nothing, merely giving his arm a sympathetic squeeze +below the shoulder. Pierre went with Anna Mikháylovna into the small +drawing room. + +“There is nothing so refreshing after a sleepless night as a cup +of this delicious Russian tea,” Lorrain was saying with an air of +restrained animation as he stood sipping tea from a delicate Chinese +handleless cup before a table on which tea and a cold supper were laid +in the small circular room. Around the table all who were at Count +Bezúkhov’s house that night had gathered to fortify themselves. +Pierre well remembered this small circular drawing room with its mirrors +and little tables. During balls given at the house Pierre, who did not +know how to dance, had liked sitting in this room to watch the ladies +who, as they passed through in their ball dresses with diamonds and +pearls on their bare shoulders, looked at themselves in the brilliantly +lighted mirrors which repeated their reflections several times. Now +this same room was dimly lighted by two candles. On one small table tea +things and supper dishes stood in disorder, and in the middle of the +night a motley throng of people sat there, not merrymaking, but somberly +whispering, and betraying by every word and movement that they none +of them forgot what was happening and what was about to happen in the +bedroom. Pierre did not eat anything though he would very much have +liked to. He looked inquiringly at his monitress and saw that she was +again going on tiptoe to the reception room where they had left Prince +Vasíli and the eldest princess. Pierre concluded that this also was +essential, and after a short interval followed her. Anna Mikháylovna +was standing beside the princess, and they were both speaking in excited +whispers. + +“Permit me, Princess, to know what is necessary and what is not +necessary,” said the younger of the two speakers, evidently in the +same state of excitement as when she had slammed the door of her room. + +“But, my dear princess,” answered Anna Mikháylovna blandly but +impressively, blocking the way to the bedroom and preventing the other +from passing, “won’t this be too much for poor Uncle at a moment +when he needs repose? Worldly conversation at a moment when his soul is +already prepared...” + +Prince Vasíli was seated in an easy chair in his familiar attitude, +with one leg crossed high above the other. His cheeks, which were so +flabby that they looked heavier below, were twitching violently; but +he wore the air of a man little concerned in what the two ladies were +saying. + +“Come, my dear Anna Mikháylovna, let Catiche do as she pleases. You +know how fond the count is of her.” + +“I don’t even know what is in this paper,” said the younger of +the two ladies, addressing Prince Vasíli and pointing to an inlaid +portfolio she held in her hand. “All I know is that his real will is +in his writing table, and this is a paper he has forgotten....” + +She tried to pass Anna Mikháylovna, but the latter sprang so as to bar +her path. + +“I know, my dear, kind princess,” said Anna Mikháylovna, seizing +the portfolio so firmly that it was plain she would not let go easily. +“Dear princess, I beg and implore you, have some pity on him! Je vous +en conjure...” + +The princess did not reply. Their efforts in the struggle for the +portfolio were the only sounds audible, but it was evident that if +the princess did speak, her words would not be flattering to Anna +Mikháylovna. Though the latter held on tenaciously, her voice lost none +of its honeyed firmness and softness. + +“Pierre, my dear, come here. I think he will not be out of place in a +family consultation; is it not so, Prince?” + +“Why don’t you speak, cousin?” suddenly shrieked the princess so +loud that those in the drawing room heard her and were startled. “Why +do you remain silent when heaven knows who permits herself to +interfere, making a scene on the very threshold of a dying man’s room? +Intriguer!” she hissed viciously, and tugged with all her might at the +portfolio. + +But Anna Mikháylovna went forward a step or two to keep her hold on the +portfolio, and changed her grip. + +Prince Vasíli rose. “Oh!” said he with reproach and surprise, +“this is absurd! Come, let go I tell you.” + +The princess let go. + +“And you too!” + +But Anna Mikháylovna did not obey him. + +“Let go, I tell you! I will take the responsibility. I myself will go +and ask him, I!... does that satisfy you?” + +“But, Prince,” said Anna Mikháylovna, “after such a solemn +sacrament, allow him a moment’s peace! Here, Pierre, tell them your +opinion,” said she, turning to the young man who, having come quite +close, was gazing with astonishment at the angry face of the princess +which had lost all dignity, and at the twitching cheeks of Prince +Vasíli. + +“Remember that you will answer for the consequences,” said Prince +Vasíli severely. “You don’t know what you are doing.” + +“Vile woman!” shouted the princess, darting unexpectedly at Anna +Mikháylovna and snatching the portfolio from her. + +Prince Vasíli bent his head and spread out his hands. + +At this moment that terrible door, which Pierre had watched so long +and which had always opened so quietly, burst noisily open and banged +against the wall, and the second of the three sisters rushed out +wringing her hands. + +“What are you doing!” she cried vehemently. “He is dying and you +leave me alone with him!” + +Her sister dropped the portfolio. Anna Mikháylovna, stooping, quickly +caught up the object of contention and ran into the bedroom. The eldest +princess and Prince Vasíli, recovering themselves, followed her. A few +minutes later the eldest sister came out with a pale hard face, again +biting her underlip. At sight of Pierre her expression showed an +irrepressible hatred. + +“Yes, now you may be glad!” said she; “this is what you have +been waiting for.” And bursting into tears she hid her face in her +handkerchief and rushed from the room. + +Prince Vasíli came next. He staggered to the sofa on which Pierre was +sitting and dropped onto it, covering his face with his hand. Pierre +noticed that he was pale and that his jaw quivered and shook as if in an +ague. + +“Ah, my friend!” said he, taking Pierre by the elbow; and there was +in his voice a sincerity and weakness Pierre had never observed in it +before. “How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? I am +near sixty, dear friend... I too... All will end in death, all! Death is +awful...” and he burst into tears. + +Anna Mikháylovna came out last. She approached Pierre with slow, quiet +steps. + +“Pierre!” she said. + +Pierre gave her an inquiring look. She kissed the young man on his +forehead, wetting him with her tears. Then after a pause she said: + +“He is no more....” + +Pierre looked at her over his spectacles. + +“Come, I will go with you. Try to weep, nothing gives such relief as +tears.” + +She led him into the dark drawing room and Pierre was glad no one could +see his face. Anna Mikháylovna left him, and when she returned he was +fast asleep with his head on his arm. + +In the morning Anna Mikháylovna said to Pierre: + +“Yes, my dear, this is a great loss for us all, not to speak of you. +But God will support you: you are young, and are now, I hope, in command +of an immense fortune. The will has not yet been opened. I know you +well enough to be sure that this will not turn your head, but it imposes +duties on you, and you must be a man.” + +Pierre was silent. + +“Perhaps later on I may tell you, my dear boy, that if I had not been +there, God only knows what would have happened! You know, Uncle promised +me only the day before yesterday not to forget Borís. But he had +no time. I hope, my dear friend, you will carry out your father’s +wish?” + +Pierre understood nothing of all this and coloring shyly looked in +silence at Princess Anna Mikháylovna. After her talk with Pierre, Anna +Mikháylovna returned to the Rostóvs’ and went to bed. On waking in +the morning she told the Rostóvs and all her acquaintances the details +of Count Bezúkhov’s death. She said the count had died as she would +herself wish to die, that his end was not only touching but edifying. As +to the last meeting between father and son, it was so touching that she +could not think of it without tears, and did not know which had behaved +better during those awful moments—the father who so remembered +everything and everybody at last and had spoken such pathetic words to +the son, or Pierre, whom it had been pitiful to see, so stricken was he +with grief, though he tried hard to hide it in order not to sadden his +dying father. “It is painful, but it does one good. It uplifts the +soul to see such men as the old count and his worthy son,” said she. +Of the behavior of the eldest princess and Prince Vasíli she spoke +disapprovingly, but in whispers and as a great secret. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXV + +At Bald Hills, Prince Nicholas Andréevich Bolkónski’s estate, the +arrival of young Prince Andrew and his wife was daily expected, but +this expectation did not upset the regular routine of life in the old +prince’s household. General in Chief Prince Nicholas Andréevich +(nicknamed in society, “the King of Prussia”) ever since the Emperor +Paul had exiled him to his country estate had lived there continuously +with his daughter, Princess Mary, and her companion, Mademoiselle +Bourienne. Though in the new reign he was free to return to the +capitals, he still continued to live in the country, remarking that +anyone who wanted to see him could come the hundred miles from Moscow to +Bald Hills, while he himself needed no one and nothing. He used to +say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and +superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence. He +himself undertook his daughter’s education, and to develop these two +cardinal virtues in her gave her lessons in algebra and geometry +till she was twenty, and arranged her life so that her whole time was +occupied. He was himself always occupied: writing his memoirs, solving +problems in higher mathematics, turning snuffboxes on a lathe, working +in the garden, or superintending the building that was always going on +at his estate. As regularity is a prime condition facilitating activity, +regularity in his household was carried to the highest point of +exactitude. He always came to table under precisely the same conditions, +and not only at the same hour but at the same minute. With those about +him, from his daughter to his serfs, the prince was sharp and invariably +exacting, so that without being a hardhearted man he inspired such fear +and respect as few hardhearted men would have aroused. Although he was +in retirement and had now no influence in political affairs, every high +official appointed to the province in which the prince’s estate lay +considered it his duty to visit him and waited in the lofty antechamber +just as the architect, gardener, or Princess Mary did, till the prince +appeared punctually to the appointed hour. Everyone sitting in this +antechamber experienced the same feeling of respect and even fear when +the enormously high study door opened and showed the figure of a rather +small old man, with powdered wig, small withered hands, and bushy gray +eyebrows which, when he frowned, sometimes hid the gleam of his shrewd, +youthfully glittering eyes. + +On the morning of the day that the young couple were to arrive, Princess +Mary entered the antechamber as usual at the time appointed for the +morning greeting, crossing herself with trepidation and repeating a +silent prayer. Every morning she came in like that, and every morning +prayed that the daily interview might pass off well. + +An old powdered manservant who was sitting in the antechamber rose +quietly and said in a whisper: “Please walk in.” + +Through the door came the regular hum of a lathe. The princess timidly +opened the door which moved noiselessly and easily. She paused at the +entrance. The prince was working at the lathe and after glancing round +continued his work. + +The enormous study was full of things evidently in constant use. +The large table covered with books and plans, the tall glass-fronted +bookcases with keys in the locks, the high desk for writing while +standing up, on which lay an open exercise book, and the lathe with +tools laid ready to hand and shavings scattered around—all indicated +continuous, varied, and orderly activity. The motion of the small foot +shod in a Tartar boot embroidered with silver, and the firm pressure +of the lean sinewy hand, showed that the prince still possessed the +tenacious endurance and vigor of hardy old age. After a few more turns +of the lathe he removed his foot from the pedal, wiped his chisel, +dropped it into a leather pouch attached to the lathe, and, approaching +the table, summoned his daughter. He never gave his children a blessing, +so he simply held out his bristly cheek (as yet unshaven) and, regarding +her tenderly and attentively, said severely: + +“Quite well? All right then, sit down.” He took the exercise book +containing lessons in geometry written by himself and drew up a chair +with his foot. + +“For tomorrow!” said he, quickly finding the page and making a +scratch from one paragraph to another with his hard nail. + +The princess bent over the exercise book on the table. + +“Wait a bit, here’s a letter for you,” said the old man suddenly, +taking a letter addressed in a woman’s hand from a bag hanging above +the table, onto which he threw it. + +At the sight of the letter red patches showed themselves on the +princess’ face. She took it quickly and bent her head over it. + +“From Héloïse?” asked the prince with a cold smile that showed his +still sound, yellowish teeth. + +“Yes, it’s from Julie,” replied the princess with a timid glance +and a timid smile. + +“I’ll let two more letters pass, but the third I’ll read,” said +the prince sternly; “I’m afraid you write much nonsense. I’ll read +the third!” + +“Read this if you like, Father,” said the princess, blushing still +more and holding out the letter. + +“The third, I said the third!” cried the prince abruptly, pushing +the letter away, and leaning his elbows on the table he drew toward him +the exercise book containing geometrical figures. + +“Well, madam,” he began, stooping over the book close to his +daughter and placing an arm on the back of the chair on which she sat, +so that she felt herself surrounded on all sides by the acrid scent of +old age and tobacco, which she had known so long. “Now, madam, these +triangles are equal; please note that the angle ABC...” + +The princess looked in a scared way at her father’s eyes glittering +close to her; the red patches on her face came and went, and it was +plain that she understood nothing and was so frightened that her +fear would prevent her understanding any of her father’s further +explanations, however clear they might be. Whether it was the +teacher’s fault or the pupil’s, this same thing happened every day: +the princess’ eyes grew dim, she could not see and could not hear +anything, but was only conscious of her stern father’s withered face +close to her, of his breath and the smell of him, and could think only +of how to get away quickly to her own room to make out the problem in +peace. The old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was +sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself +and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, +and sometimes flung the exercise book away. + +The princess gave a wrong answer. + +“Well now, isn’t she a fool!” shouted the prince, pushing the book +aside and turning sharply away; but rising immediately, he paced up and +down, lightly touched his daughter’s hair and sat down again. + +He drew up his chair, and continued to explain. + +“This won’t do, Princess; it won’t do,” said he, when Princess +Mary, having taken and closed the exercise book with the next day’s +lesson, was about to leave: “Mathematics are most important, madam! +I don’t want to have you like our silly ladies. Get used to it and +you’ll like it,” and he patted her cheek. “It will drive all the +nonsense out of your head.” + +She turned to go, but he stopped her with a gesture and took an uncut +book from the high desk. + +“Here is some sort of Key to the Mysteries that your Héloïse has +sent you. Religious! I don’t interfere with anyone’s belief... I +have looked at it. Take it. Well, now go. Go.” + +He patted her on the shoulder and himself closed the door after her. + +Princess Mary went back to her room with the sad, scared expression that +rarely left her and which made her plain, sickly face yet plainer. She +sat down at her writing table, on which stood miniature portraits and +which was littered with books and papers. The princess was as untidy as +her father was tidy. She put down the geometry book and eagerly broke +the seal of her letter. It was from her most intimate friend from +childhood; that same Julie Karágina who had been at the Rostóvs’ +name-day party. + +Julie wrote in French: + +Dear and precious Friend, How terrible and frightful a thing is +separation! Though I tell myself that half my life and half my happiness +are wrapped up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us +our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against +fate and in spite of the pleasures and distractions around me I cannot +overcome a certain secret sorrow that has been in my heart ever since +we parted. Why are we not together as we were last summer, in your big +study, on the blue sofa, the confidential sofa? Why cannot I now, as +three months ago, draw fresh moral strength from your look, so gentle, +calm, and penetrating, a look I loved so well and seem to see before me +as I write? + +Having read thus far, Princess Mary sighed and glanced into the mirror +which stood on her right. It reflected a weak, ungraceful figure and +thin face. Her eyes, always sad, now looked with particular hopelessness +at her reflection in the glass. “She flatters me,” thought the +princess, turning away and continuing to read. But Julie did not flatter +her friend, the princess’ eyes—large, deep and luminous (it seemed +as if at times there radiated from them shafts of warm light)—were +so beautiful that very often in spite of the plainness of her face +they gave her an attraction more powerful than that of beauty. But the +princess never saw the beautiful expression of her own eyes—the look +they had when she was not thinking of herself. As with everyone, her +face assumed a forced unnatural expression as soon as she looked in a +glass. She went on reading: + +All Moscow talks of nothing but war. One of my two brothers is already +abroad, the other is with the Guards, who are starting on their march +to the frontier. Our dear Emperor has left Petersburg and it is thought +intends to expose his precious person to the chances of war. God grant +that the Corsican monster who is destroying the peace of Europe may +be overthrown by the angel whom it has pleased the Almighty, in His +goodness, to give us as sovereign! To say nothing of my brothers, this +war has deprived me of one of the associations nearest my heart. I mean +young Nicholas Rostóv, who with his enthusiasm could not bear to remain +inactive and has left the university to join the army. I will confess to +you, dear Mary, that in spite of his extreme youth his departure for +the army was a great grief to me. This young man, of whom I spoke to you +last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which +one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, +he is so frank and has so much heart. He is so pure and poetic that +my relations with him, transient as they were, have been one of the +sweetest comforts to my poor heart, which has already suffered so much. +Someday I will tell you about our parting and all that was said then. +That is still too fresh. Ah, dear friend, you are happy not to know +these poignant joys and sorrows. You are fortunate, for the latter are +generally the stronger! I know very well that Count Nicholas is too +young ever to be more to me than a friend, but this sweet friendship, +this poetic and pure intimacy, were what my heart needed. But enough of +this! The chief news, about which all Moscow gossips, is the death of +old Count Bezúkhov, and his inheritance. Fancy! The three princesses +have received very little, Prince Vasíli nothing, and it is Monsieur +Pierre who has inherited all the property and has besides been +recognized as legitimate; so that he is now Count Bezúkhov and +possessor of the finest fortune in Russia. It is rumored that Prince +Vasíli played a very despicable part in this affair and that he +returned to Petersburg quite crestfallen. + +I confess I understand very little about all these matters of wills and +inheritance; but I do know that since this young man, whom we all used +to know as plain Monsieur Pierre, has become Count Bezúkhov and the +owner of one of the largest fortunes in Russia, I am much amused to +watch the change in the tone and manners of the mammas burdened by +marriageable daughters, and of the young ladies themselves, toward +him, though, between you and me, he always seemed to me a poor sort +of fellow. As for the past two years people have amused themselves +by finding husbands for me (most of whom I don’t even know), the +matchmaking chronicles of Moscow now speak of me as the future Countess +Bezúkhova. But you will understand that I have no desire for the post. +À propos of marriages: do you know that a while ago that universal +auntie Anna Mikháylovna told me, under the seal of strict secrecy, of +a plan of marriage for you. It is neither more nor less than with Prince +Vasíli’s son Anatole, whom they wish to reform by marrying him to +someone rich and distinguée, and it is on you that his relations’ +choice has fallen. I don’t know what you will think of it, but +I consider it my duty to let you know of it. He is said to be very +handsome and a terrible scapegrace. That is all I have been able to find +out about him. + +But enough of gossip. I am at the end of my second sheet of paper, and +Mamma has sent for me to go and dine at the Apráksins’. Read the +mystical book I am sending you; it has an enormous success here. Though +there are things in it difficult for the feeble human mind to grasp, it +is an admirable book which calms and elevates the soul. Adieu! Give +my respects to monsieur your father and my compliments to Mademoiselle +Bourienne. I embrace you as I love you. + +JULIE + +P.S. Let me have news of your brother and his charming little wife. + +The princess pondered awhile with a thoughtful smile and her luminous +eyes lit up so that her face was entirely transformed. Then she suddenly +rose and with her heavy tread went up to the table. She took a sheet of +paper and her hand moved rapidly over it. This is the reply she wrote, +also in French: + +Dear and precious Friend, Your letter of the 13th has given me great +delight. So you still love me, my romantic Julie? Separation, of which +you say so much that is bad, does not seem to have had its usual effect +on you. You complain of our separation. What then should I say, if I +dared complain, I who am deprived of all who are dear to me? Ah, if +we had not religion to console us life would be very sad. Why do you +suppose that I should look severely on your affection for that young +man? On such matters I am only severe with myself. I understand such +feelings in others, and if never having felt them I cannot approve of +them, neither do I condemn them. Only it seems to me that Christian +love, love of one’s neighbor, love of one’s enemy, is worthier, +sweeter, and better than the feelings which the beautiful eyes of a +young man can inspire in a romantic and loving young girl like yourself. + +The news of Count Bezúkhov’s death reached us before your letter +and my father was much affected by it. He says the count was the last +representative but one of the great century, and that it is his own +turn now, but that he will do all he can to let his turn come as late as +possible. God preserve us from that terrible misfortune! + +I cannot agree with you about Pierre, whom I knew as a child. He always +seemed to me to have an excellent heart, and that is the quality I value +most in people. As to his inheritance and the part played by Prince +Vasíli, it is very sad for both. Ah, my dear friend, our divine +Saviour’s words, that it is easier for a camel to go through the +eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God, are +terribly true. I pity Prince Vasíli but am still more sorry for Pierre. +So young, and burdened with such riches—to what temptations he will be +exposed! If I were asked what I desire most on earth, it would be to be +poorer than the poorest beggar. A thousand thanks, dear friend, for the +volume you have sent me and which has such success in Moscow. Yet since +you tell me that among some good things it contains others which our +weak human understanding cannot grasp, it seems to me rather useless to +spend time in reading what is unintelligible and can therefore bear +no fruit. I never could understand the fondness some people have for +confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken +their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for +exaggeration quite contrary to Christian simplicity. Let us rather read +the Epistles and Gospels. Let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries +they contain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, know the +terrible and holy secrets of Providence while we remain in this flesh +which forms an impenetrable veil between us and the Eternal? Let us +rather confine ourselves to studying those sublime rules which our +divine Saviour has left for our guidance here below. Let us try to +conform to them and follow them, and let us be persuaded that the less +we let our feeble human minds roam, the better we shall please God, who +rejects all knowledge that does not come from Him; and the less we seek +to fathom what He has been pleased to conceal from us, the sooner will +He vouchsafe its revelation to us through His divine Spirit. + +My father has not spoken to me of a suitor, but has only told me that he +has received a letter and is expecting a visit from Prince Vasíli. In +regard to this project of marriage for me, I will tell you, dear sweet +friend, that I look on marriage as a divine institution to which we must +conform. However painful it may be to me, should the Almighty lay +the duties of wife and mother upon me I shall try to perform them as +faithfully as I can, without disquieting myself by examining my feelings +toward him whom He may give me for husband. + +I have had a letter from my brother, who announces his speedy arrival +at Bald Hills with his wife. This pleasure will be but a brief one, +however, for he will leave us again to take part in this unhappy war +into which we have been drawn, God knows how or why. Not only where you +are—at the heart of affairs and of the world—is the talk all of +war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature—which townsfolk +consider characteristic of the country—rumors of war are heard +and painfully felt. My father talks of nothing but marches and +countermarches, things of which I understand nothing; and the day +before yesterday during my daily walk through the village I witnessed a +heartrending scene.... It was a convoy of conscripts enrolled from our +people and starting to join the army. You should have seen the state of +the mothers, wives, and children of the men who were going and should +have heard the sobs. It seems as though mankind has forgotten the +laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of +injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing +one another. + +Adieu, dear and kind friend; may our divine Saviour and His most Holy +Mother keep you in their holy and all-powerful care! + +MARY + +“Ah, you are sending off a letter, Princess? I have already dispatched +mine. I have written to my poor mother,” said the smiling Mademoiselle +Bourienne rapidly, in her pleasant mellow tones and with guttural r’s. +She brought into Princess Mary’s strenuous, mournful, and gloomy +world a quite different atmosphere, careless, lighthearted, and +self-satisfied. + +“Princess, I must warn you,” she added, lowering her voice and +evidently listening to herself with pleasure, and speaking with +exaggerated grasseyement, “the prince has been scolding Michael +Ivánovich. He is in a very bad humor, very morose. Be prepared.” + +“Ah, dear friend,” replied Princess Mary, “I have asked you never +to warn me of the humor my father is in. I do not allow myself to judge +him and would not have others do so.” + +The princess glanced at her watch and, seeing that she was five minutes +late in starting her practice on the clavichord, went into the sitting +room with a look of alarm. Between twelve and two o’clock, as the +day was mapped out, the prince rested and the princess played the +clavichord. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXVI + +The gray-haired valet was sitting drowsily listening to the snoring of +the prince, who was in his large study. From the far side of the house +through the closed doors came the sound of difficult passages—twenty +times repeated—of a sonata by Dussek. + +Just then a closed carriage and another with a hood drove up to the +porch. Prince Andrew got out of the carriage, helped his little wife to +alight, and let her pass into the house before him. Old Tíkhon, wearing +a wig, put his head out of the door of the antechamber, reported in +a whisper that the prince was sleeping, and hastily closed the door. +Tíkhon knew that neither the son’s arrival nor any other unusual +event must be allowed to disturb the appointed order of the day. Prince +Andrew apparently knew this as well as Tíkhon; he looked at his watch +as if to ascertain whether his father’s habits had changed since he +was at home last, and, having assured himself that they had not, he +turned to his wife. + +“He will get up in twenty minutes. Let us go across to Mary’s +room,” he said. + +The little princess had grown stouter during this time, but her eyes +and her short, downy, smiling lip lifted when she began to speak just as +merrily and prettily as ever. + +“Why, this is a palace!” she said to her husband, looking around +with the expression with which people compliment their host at a ball. +“Let’s come, quick, quick!” And with a glance round, she smiled at +Tíkhon, at her husband, and at the footman who accompanied them. + +“Is that Mary practicing? Let’s go quietly and take her by +surprise.” + +Prince Andrew followed her with a courteous but sad expression. + +“You’ve grown older, Tíkhon,” he said in passing to the old man, +who kissed his hand. + +Before they reached the room from which the sounds of the clavichord +came, the pretty, fair-haired Frenchwoman, Mademoiselle Bourienne, +rushed out apparently beside herself with delight. + +“Ah! what joy for the princess!” exclaimed she: “At last! I must +let her know.” + +“No, no, please not... You are Mademoiselle Bourienne,” said +the little princess, kissing her. “I know you already through my +sister-in-law’s friendship for you. She was not expecting us?” + +They went up to the door of the sitting room from which came the sound +of the oft-repeated passage of the sonata. Prince Andrew stopped and +made a grimace, as if expecting something unpleasant. + +The little princess entered the room. The passage broke off in the +middle, a cry was heard, then Princess Mary’s heavy tread and the +sound of kissing. When Prince Andrew went in the two princesses, who +had only met once before for a short time at his wedding, were in +each other’s arms warmly pressing their lips to whatever place they +happened to touch. Mademoiselle Bourienne stood near them pressing her +hand to her heart, with a beatific smile and obviously equally ready to +cry or to laugh. Prince Andrew shrugged his shoulders and frowned, as +lovers of music do when they hear a false note. The two women let go +of one another, and then, as if afraid of being too late, seized each +other’s hands, kissing them and pulling them away, and again began +kissing each other on the face, and then to Prince Andrew’s surprise +both began to cry and kissed again. Mademoiselle Bourienne also began to +cry. Prince Andrew evidently felt ill at ease, but to the two women +it seemed quite natural that they should cry, and apparently it never +entered their heads that it could have been otherwise at this meeting. + +“Ah! my dear!... Ah! Mary!...” they suddenly exclaimed, and then +laughed. “I dreamed last night...”—“You were not expecting +us?...” “Ah! Mary, you have got thinner?...” “And you have grown +stouter!...” + +“I knew the princess at once,” put in Mademoiselle Bourienne. + +“And I had no idea!...” exclaimed Princess Mary. “Ah, Andrew, I +did not see you.” + +Prince Andrew and his sister, hand in hand, kissed one another, and +he told her she was still the same crybaby as ever. Princess Mary had +turned toward her brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, +gentle look of her large luminous eyes, very beautiful at that moment, +rested on Prince Andrew’s face. + +The little princess talked incessantly, her short, downy upper lip +continually and rapidly touching her rosy nether lip when necessary +and drawing up again next moment when her face broke into a smile of +glittering teeth and sparkling eyes. She told of an accident they had +had on the Spásski Hill which might have been serious for her in her +condition, and immediately after that informed them that she had left +all her clothes in Petersburg and that heaven knew what she would have +to dress in here; and that Andrew had quite changed, and that Kitty +Odýntsova had married an old man, and that there was a suitor for Mary, +a real one, but that they would talk of that later. Princess Mary was +still looking silently at her brother and her beautiful eyes were full +of love and sadness. It was plain that she was following a train of +thought independent of her sister-in-law’s words. In the midst of a +description of the last Petersburg fete she addressed her brother: + +“So you are really going to the war, Andrew?” she said sighing. + +Lise sighed too. + +“Yes, and even tomorrow,” replied her brother. + +“He is leaving me here, God knows why, when he might have had +promotion...” + +Princess Mary did not listen to the end, but continuing her train of +thought turned to her sister-in-law with a tender glance at her figure. + +“Is it certain?” she said. + +The face of the little princess changed. She sighed and said: “Yes, +quite certain. Ah! it is very dreadful...” + +Her lip descended. She brought her face close to her sister-in-law’s +and unexpectedly again began to cry. + +“She needs rest,” said Prince Andrew with a frown. “Don’t you, +Lise? Take her to your room and I’ll go to Father. How is he? Just the +same?” + +“Yes, just the same. Though I don’t know what your opinion will +be,” answered the princess joyfully. + +“And are the hours the same? And the walks in the avenues? And the +lathe?” asked Prince Andrew with a scarcely perceptible smile which +showed that, in spite of all his love and respect for his father, he was +aware of his weaknesses. + +“The hours are the same, and the lathe, and also the mathematics and +my geometry lessons,” said Princess Mary gleefully, as if her lessons +in geometry were among the greatest delights of her life. + +When the twenty minutes had elapsed and the time had come for the old +prince to get up, Tíkhon came to call the young prince to his father. +The old man made a departure from his usual routine in honor of his +son’s arrival: he gave orders to admit him to his apartments while +he dressed for dinner. The old prince always dressed in old-fashioned +style, wearing an antique coat and powdered hair; and when Prince Andrew +entered his father’s dressing room (not with the contemptuous look and +manner he wore in drawing rooms, but with the animated face with which +he talked to Pierre), the old man was sitting on a large leather-covered +chair, wrapped in a powdering mantle, entrusting his head to Tíkhon. + +“Ah! here’s the warrior! Wants to vanquish Buonaparte?” said the +old man, shaking his powdered head as much as the tail, which Tíkhon +was holding fast to plait, would allow. + +“You at least must tackle him properly, or else if he goes on like +this he’ll soon have us, too, for his subjects! How are you?” And he +held out his cheek. + +The old man was in a good temper after his nap before dinner. (He +used to say that a nap “after dinner was silver—before dinner, +golden.”) He cast happy, sidelong glances at his son from under his +thick, bushy eyebrows. Prince Andrew went up and kissed his father on +the spot indicated to him. He made no reply on his father’s favorite +topic—making fun of the military men of the day, and more particularly +of Bonaparte. + +“Yes, Father, I have come to you and brought my wife who is +pregnant,” said Prince Andrew, following every movement of his +father’s face with an eager and respectful look. “How is your +health?” + +“Only fools and rakes fall ill, my boy. You know me: I am busy from +morning till night and abstemious, so of course I am well.” + +“Thank God,” said his son smiling. + +“God has nothing to do with it! Well, go on,” he continued, +returning to his hobby; “tell me how the Germans have taught you to +fight Bonaparte by this new science you call ‘strategy.’” + +Prince Andrew smiled. + +“Give me time to collect my wits, Father,” said he, with a smile +that showed that his father’s foibles did not prevent his son from +loving and honoring him. “Why, I have not yet had time to settle +down!” + +“Nonsense, nonsense!” cried the old man, shaking his pigtail to +see whether it was firmly plaited, and grasping his by the hand. “The +house for your wife is ready. Princess Mary will take her there and +show her over, and they’ll talk nineteen to the dozen. That’s +their woman’s way! I am glad to have her. Sit down and talk. About +Mikhelson’s army I understand—Tolstóy ‘s too... a simultaneous +expedition.... But what’s the southern army to do? Prussia is +neutral... I know that. What about Austria?” said he, rising from his +chair and pacing up and down the room followed by Tíkhon, who ran after +him, handing him different articles of clothing. “What of Sweden? How +will they cross Pomerania?” + +Prince Andrew, seeing that his father insisted, began—at first +reluctantly, but gradually with more and more animation, and from habit +changing unconsciously from Russian to French as he went on—to explain +the plan of operation for the coming campaign. He explained how an army, +ninety thousand strong, was to threaten Prussia so as to bring her out +of her neutrality and draw her into the war; how part of that army was +to join some Swedish forces at Stralsund; how two hundred and twenty +thousand Austrians, with a hundred thousand Russians, were to operate in +Italy and on the Rhine; how fifty thousand Russians and as many English +were to land at Naples, and how a total force of five hundred thousand +men was to attack the French from different sides. The old prince did +not evince the least interest during this explanation, but as if he were +not listening to it continued to dress while walking about, and three +times unexpectedly interrupted. Once he stopped it by shouting: “The +white one, the white one!” + +This meant that Tíkhon was not handing him the waistcoat he wanted. +Another time he interrupted, saying: + +“And will she soon be confined?” and shaking his head reproachfully +said: “That’s bad! Go on, go on.” + +The third interruption came when Prince Andrew was finishing his +description. The old man began to sing, in the cracked voice of old age: +“Malbrook s’en va-t-en guerre. Dieu sait quand reviendra.” * + + * “Marlborough is going to the wars; God knows when he’ll + return.” + + +His son only smiled. + +“I don’t say it’s a plan I approve of,” said the son; “I am +only telling you what it is. Napoleon has also formed his plan by now, +not worse than this one.” + +“Well, you’ve told me nothing new,” and the old man repeated, +meditatively and rapidly: + +“Dieu sait quand reviendra. Go to the dining room.” + + + + + +CHAPTER XXVII + +At the appointed hour the prince, powdered and shaven, entered the +dining room where his daughter-in-law, Princess Mary, and Mademoiselle +Bourienne were already awaiting him together with his architect, who by +a strange caprice of his employer’s was admitted to table though the +position of that insignificant individual was such as could certainly +not have caused him to expect that honor. The prince, who generally kept +very strictly to social distinctions and rarely admitted even important +government officials to his table, had unexpectedly selected Michael +Ivánovich (who always went into a corner to blow his nose on his +checked handkerchief) to illustrate the theory that all men are equals, +and had more than once impressed on his daughter that Michael Ivánovich +was “not a whit worse than you or I.” At dinner the prince usually +spoke to the taciturn Michael Ivánovich more often than to anyone else. + +In the dining room, which like all the rooms in the house was +exceedingly lofty, the members of the household and the footmen—one +behind each chair—stood waiting for the prince to enter. The head +butler, napkin on arm, was scanning the setting of the table, making +signs to the footmen, and anxiously glancing from the clock to the door +by which the prince was to enter. Prince Andrew was looking at a large +gilt frame, new to him, containing the genealogical tree of the Princes +Bolkónski, opposite which hung another such frame with a badly painted +portrait (evidently by the hand of the artist belonging to the estate) +of a ruling prince, in a crown—an alleged descendant of Rúrik and +ancestor of the Bolkónskis. Prince Andrew, looking again at that +genealogical tree, shook his head, laughing as a man laughs who looks at +a portrait so characteristic of the original as to be amusing. + +“How thoroughly like him that is!” he said to Princess Mary, who had +come up to him. + +Princess Mary looked at her brother in surprise. She did not understand +what he was laughing at. Everything her father did inspired her with +reverence and was beyond question. + +“Everyone has his Achilles’ heel,” continued Prince Andrew. +“Fancy, with his powerful mind, indulging in such nonsense!” + +Princess Mary could not understand the boldness of her brother’s +criticism and was about to reply, when the expected footsteps were heard +coming from the study. The prince walked in quickly and jauntily as was +his wont, as if intentionally contrasting the briskness of his manners +with the strict formality of his house. At that moment the great clock +struck two and another with a shrill tone joined in from the drawing +room. The prince stood still; his lively glittering eyes from under +their thick, bushy eyebrows sternly scanned all present and rested on +the little princess. She felt, as courtiers do when the Tsar enters, the +sensation of fear and respect which the old man inspired in all around +him. He stroked her hair and then patted her awkwardly on the back of +her neck. + +“I’m glad, glad, to see you,” he said, looking attentively into +her eyes, and then quickly went to his place and sat down. “Sit down, +sit down! Sit down, Michael Ivánovich!” + +He indicated a place beside him to his daughter-in-law. A footman moved +the chair for her. + +“Ho, ho!” said the old man, casting his eyes on her rounded figure. +“You’ve been in a hurry. That’s bad!” + +He laughed in his usual dry, cold, unpleasant way, with his lips only +and not with his eyes. + +“You must walk, walk as much as possible, as much as possible,” he +said. + +The little princess did not, or did not wish to, hear his words. She was +silent and seemed confused. The prince asked her about her father, and +she began to smile and talk. He asked about mutual acquaintances, and +she became still more animated and chattered away giving him greetings +from various people and retelling the town gossip. + +“Countess Apráksina, poor thing, has lost her husband and she has +cried her eyes out,” she said, growing more and more lively. + +As she became animated the prince looked at her more and more sternly, +and suddenly, as if he had studied her sufficiently and had formed a +definite idea of her, he turned away and addressed Michael Ivánovich. + +“Well, Michael Ivánovich, our Bonaparte will be having a bad time +of it. Prince Andrew” (he always spoke thus of his son) “has been +telling me what forces are being collected against him! While you and I +never thought much of him.” + +Michael Ivánovich did not at all know when “you and I” had said +such things about Bonaparte, but understanding that he was wanted as +a peg on which to hang the prince’s favorite topic, he looked +inquiringly at the young prince, wondering what would follow. + +“He is a great tactician!” said the prince to his son, pointing to +the architect. + +And the conversation again turned on the war, on Bonaparte, and the +generals and statesmen of the day. The old prince seemed convinced not +only that all the men of the day were mere babies who did not know the +A B C of war or of politics, and that Bonaparte was an insignificant +little Frenchy, successful only because there were no longer any +Potëmkins or Suvórovs left to oppose him; but he was also convinced +that there were no political difficulties in Europe and no real war, +but only a sort of puppet show at which the men of the day were playing, +pretending to do something real. Prince Andrew gaily bore with his +father’s ridicule of the new men, and drew him on and listened to him +with evident pleasure. + +“The past always seems good,” said he, “but did not Suvórov +himself fall into a trap Moreau set him, and from which he did not know +how to escape?” + +“Who told you that? Who?” cried the prince. “Suvórov!” And he +jerked away his plate, which Tíkhon briskly caught. “Suvórov!... +Consider, Prince Andrew. Two... Frederick and Suvórov; Moreau!... +Moreau would have been a prisoner if Suvórov had had a free hand; but +he had the Hofs-kriegs-wurst-schnapps-Rath on his hands. It would have +puzzled the devil himself! When you get there you’ll find out what +those Hofs-kriegs-wurst-Raths are! Suvórov couldn’t manage them so +what chance has Michael Kutúzov? No, my dear boy,” he continued, +“you and your generals won’t get on against Buonaparte; you’ll +have to call in the French, so that birds of a feather may fight +together. The German, Pahlen, has been sent to New York in America, to +fetch the Frenchman, Moreau,” he said, alluding to the invitation made +that year to Moreau to enter the Russian service.... “Wonderful!... +Were the Potëmkins, Suvórovs, and Orlóvs Germans? No, lad, either you +fellows have all lost your wits, or I have outlived mine. May God help +you, but we’ll see what will happen. Buonaparte has become a great +commander among them! Hm!...” + +“I don’t at all say that all the plans are good,” said Prince +Andrew, “I am only surprised at your opinion of Bonaparte. You +may laugh as much as you like, but all the same Bonaparte is a great +general!” + +“Michael Ivánovich!” cried the old prince to the architect who, +busy with his roast meat, hoped he had been forgotten: “Didn’t +I tell you Buonaparte was a great tactician? Here, he says the same +thing.” + +“To be sure, your excellency,” replied the architect. + +The prince again laughed his frigid laugh. + +“Buonaparte was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He has got +splendid soldiers. Besides he began by attacking Germans. And only +idlers have failed to beat the Germans. Since the world began everybody +has beaten the Germans. They beat no one—except one another. He made +his reputation fighting them.” + +And the prince began explaining all the blunders which, according to +him, Bonaparte had made in his campaigns and even in politics. His +son made no rejoinder, but it was evident that whatever arguments were +presented he was as little able as his father to change his opinion. He +listened, refraining from a reply, and involuntarily wondered how this +old man, living alone in the country for so many years, could know and +discuss so minutely and acutely all the recent European military and +political events. + +“You think I’m an old man and don’t understand the present state +of affairs?” concluded his father. “But it troubles me. I don’t +sleep at night. Come now, where has this great commander of yours shown +his skill?” he concluded. + +“That would take too long to tell,” answered the son. + +“Well, then go off to your Buonaparte! Mademoiselle Bourienne, +here’s another admirer of that powder-monkey emperor of yours,” he +exclaimed in excellent French. + +“You know, Prince, I am not a Bonapartist!” + +“Dieu sait quand reviendra.” hummed the prince out of tune and, with +a laugh still more so, he quitted the table. + +The little princess during the whole discussion and the rest of +the dinner sat silent, glancing with a frightened look now at her +father-in-law and now at Princess Mary. When they left the table she +took her sister-in-law’s arm and drew her into another room. + +“What a clever man your father is,” said she; “perhaps that is why +I am afraid of him.” + +“Oh, he is so kind!” answered Princess Mary. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXVIII + +Prince Andrew was to leave next evening. The old prince, not altering +his routine, retired as usual after dinner. The little princess was in +her sister-in-law’s room. Prince Andrew in a traveling coat without +epaulettes had been packing with his valet in the rooms assigned to him. +After inspecting the carriage himself and seeing the trunks put in, he +ordered the horses to be harnessed. Only those things he always kept +with him remained in his room; a small box, a large canteen fitted +with silver plate, two Turkish pistols and a saber—a present from +his father who had brought it from the siege of Ochákov. All these +traveling effects of Prince Andrew’s were in very good order: new, +clean, and in cloth covers carefully tied with tapes. + +When starting on a journey or changing their mode of life, men capable +of reflection are generally in a serious frame of mind. At such moments +one reviews the past and plans for the future. Prince Andrew’s face +looked very thoughtful and tender. With his hands behind him he paced +briskly from corner to corner of the room, looking straight before him +and thoughtfully shaking his head. Did he fear going to the war, or was +he sad at leaving his wife?—perhaps both, but evidently he did not +wish to be seen in that mood, for hearing footsteps in the passage he +hurriedly unclasped his hands, stopped at a table as if tying the +cover of the small box, and assumed his usual tranquil and impenetrable +expression. It was the heavy tread of Princess Mary that he heard. + +“I hear you have given orders to harness,” she cried, panting (she +had apparently been running), “and I did so wish to have another talk +with you alone! God knows how long we may again be parted. You are not +angry with me for coming? You have changed so, Andrúsha,” she added, +as if to explain such a question. + +She smiled as she uttered his pet name, “Andrúsha.” It was +obviously strange to her to think that this stern handsome man should be +Andrúsha—the slender mischievous boy who had been her playfellow in +childhood. + +“And where is Lise?” he asked, answering her question only by a +smile. + +“She was so tired that she has fallen asleep on the sofa in my room. +Oh, Andrew! What a treasure of a wife you have,” said she, sitting +down on the sofa, facing her brother. “She is quite a child: such a +dear, merry child. I have grown so fond of her.” + +Prince Andrew was silent, but the princess noticed the ironical and +contemptuous look that showed itself on his face. + +“One must be indulgent to little weaknesses; who is free from them, +Andrew? Don’t forget that she has grown up and been educated in +society, and so her position now is not a rosy one. We should enter into +everyone’s situation. Tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner. * Think +what it must be for her, poor thing, after what she has been used to, +to be parted from her husband and be left alone in the country, in her +condition! It’s very hard.” + + * To understand all is to forgive all. + +Prince Andrew smiled as he looked at his sister, as we smile at those we +think we thoroughly understand. + +“You live in the country and don’t think the life terrible,” he +replied. + +“I... that’s different. Why speak of me? I don’t want any other +life, and can’t, for I know no other. But think, Andrew: for a young +society woman to be buried in the country during the best years of her +life, all alone—for Papa is always busy, and I... well, you know what +poor resources I have for entertaining a woman used to the best society. +There is only Mademoiselle Bourienne....” + +“I don’t like your Mademoiselle Bourienne at all,” said Prince +Andrew. + +“No? She is very nice and kind and, above all, she’s much to be +pitied. She has no one, no one. To tell the truth, I don’t need her, +and she’s even in my way. You know I always was a savage, and now am +even more so. I like being alone.... Father likes her very much. She and +Michael Ivánovich are the two people to whom he is always gentle and +kind, because he has been a benefactor to them both. As Sterne says: +‘We don’t love people so much for the good they have done us, as +for the good we have done them.’ Father took her when she was homeless +after losing her own father. She is very good-natured, and my father +likes her way of reading. She reads to him in the evenings and reads +splendidly.” + +“To be quite frank, Mary, I expect Father’s character sometimes +makes things trying for you, doesn’t it?” Prince Andrew asked +suddenly. + +Princess Mary was first surprised and then aghast at this question. + +“For me? For me?... Trying for me!...” said she. + +“He always was rather harsh; and now I should think he’s getting +very trying,” said Prince Andrew, apparently speaking lightly of their +father in order to puzzle or test his sister. + +“You are good in every way, Andrew, but you have a kind of +intellectual pride,” said the princess, following the train of her own +thoughts rather than the trend of the conversation—“and that’s a +great sin. How can one judge Father? But even if one might, what feeling +except veneration could such a man as my father evoke? And I am so +contented and happy with him. I only wish you were all as happy as I +am.” + +Her brother shook his head incredulously. + +“The only thing that is hard for me... I will tell you the truth, +Andrew... is Father’s way of treating religious subjects. I don’t +understand how a man of his immense intellect can fail to see what is +as clear as day, and can go so far astray. That is the only thing +that makes me unhappy. But even in this I can see lately a shade of +improvement. His satire has been less bitter of late, and there was a +monk he received and had a long talk with.” + +“Ah! my dear, I am afraid you and your monk are wasting your +powder,” said Prince Andrew banteringly yet tenderly. + +“Ah! mon ami, I only pray, and hope that God will hear me. +Andrew...” she said timidly after a moment’s silence, “I have a +great favor to ask of you.” + +“What is it, dear?” + +“No—promise that you will not refuse! It will give you no trouble +and is nothing unworthy of you, but it will comfort me. Promise, +Andrúsha!...” said she, putting her hand in her reticule but not yet +taking out what she was holding inside it, as if what she held were +the subject of her request and must not be shown before the request was +granted. + +She looked timidly at her brother. + +“Even if it were a great deal of trouble...” answered Prince Andrew, +as if guessing what it was about. + +“Think what you please! I know you are just like Father. Think as +you please, but do this for my sake! Please do! Father’s father, our +grandfather, wore it in all his wars.” (She still did not take out +what she was holding in her reticule.) “So you promise?” + +“Of course. What is it?” + +“Andrew, I bless you with this icon and you must promise me you will +never take it off. Do you promise?” + +“If it does not weigh a hundredweight and won’t break my neck... +To please you...” said Prince Andrew. But immediately, noticing +the pained expression his joke had brought to his sister’s face, he +repented and added: “I am glad; really, dear, I am very glad.” + +“Against your will He will save and have mercy on you and bring you +to Himself, for in Him alone is truth and peace,” said she in a voice +trembling with emotion, solemnly holding up in both hands before her +brother a small, oval, antique, dark-faced icon of the Saviour in a gold +setting, on a finely wrought silver chain. + +She crossed herself, kissed the icon, and handed it to Andrew. + +“Please, Andrew, for my sake!...” + +Rays of gentle light shone from her large, timid eyes. Those eyes lit +up the whole of her thin, sickly face and made it beautiful. Her brother +would have taken the icon, but she stopped him. Andrew understood, +crossed himself and kissed the icon. There was a look of tenderness, for +he was touched, but also a gleam of irony on his face. + +“Thank you, my dear.” She kissed him on the forehead and sat down +again on the sofa. They were silent for a while. + +“As I was saying to you, Andrew, be kind and generous as you always +used to be. Don’t judge Lise harshly,” she began. “She is so +sweet, so good-natured, and her position now is a very hard one.” + +“I do not think I have complained of my wife to you, Másha, or blamed +her. Why do you say all this to me?” + +Red patches appeared on Princess Mary’s face and she was silent as if +she felt guilty. + +“I have said nothing to you, but you have already been talked to. And +I am sorry for that,” he went on. + +The patches grew deeper on her forehead, neck, and cheeks. She tried to +say something but could not. Her brother had guessed right: the little +princess had been crying after dinner and had spoken of her forebodings +about her confinement, and how she dreaded it, and had complained of her +fate, her father-in-law, and her husband. After crying she had fallen +asleep. Prince Andrew felt sorry for his sister. + +“Know this, Másha: I can’t reproach, have not reproached, and never +shall reproach my wife with anything, and I cannot reproach myself +with anything in regard to her; and that always will be so in whatever +circumstances I may be placed. But if you want to know the truth... if +you want to know whether I am happy? No! Is she happy? No! But why this +is so I don’t know...” + +As he said this he rose, went to his sister, and, stooping, kissed +her forehead. His fine eyes lit up with a thoughtful, kindly, and +unaccustomed brightness, but he was looking not at his sister but over +her head toward the darkness of the open doorway. + +“Let us go to her, I must say good-by. Or—go and wake and I’ll +come in a moment. Petrúshka!” he called to his valet: “Come here, +take these away. Put this on the seat and this to the right.” + +Princess Mary rose and moved to the door, then stopped and said: +“Andrew, if you had faith you would have turned to God and asked Him +to give you the love you do not feel, and your prayer would have been +answered.” + +“Well, maybe!” said Prince Andrew. “Go, Másha; I’ll come +immediately.” + +On the way to his sister’s room, in the passage which connected one +wing with the other, Prince Andrew met Mademoiselle Bourienne smiling +sweetly. It was the third time that day that, with an ecstatic and +artless smile, she had met him in secluded passages. + +“Oh! I thought you were in your room,” she said, for some reason +blushing and dropping her eyes. + +Prince Andrew looked sternly at her and an expression of anger suddenly +came over his face. He said nothing to her but looked at her forehead +and hair, without looking at her eyes, with such contempt that the +Frenchwoman blushed and went away without a word. When he reached his +sister’s room his wife was already awake and her merry voice, hurrying +one word after another, came through the open door. She was speaking as +usual in French, and as if after long self-restraint she wished to make +up for lost time. + +“No, but imagine the old Countess Zúbova, with false curls and her +mouth full of false teeth, as if she were trying to cheat old age.... +Ha, ha, ha! Mary!” + +This very sentence about Countess Zúbova and this same laugh Prince +Andrew had already heard from his wife in the presence of others some +five times. He entered the room softly. The little princess, plump and +rosy, was sitting in an easy chair with her work in her hands, talking +incessantly, repeating Petersburg reminiscences and even phrases. Prince +Andrew came up, stroked her hair, and asked if she felt rested after +their journey. She answered him and continued her chatter. + +The coach with six horses was waiting at the porch. It was an autumn +night, so dark that the coachman could not see the carriage pole. +Servants with lanterns were bustling about in the porch. The immense +house was brilliant with lights shining through its lofty windows. The +domestic serfs were crowding in the hall, waiting to bid good-by to +the young prince. The members of the household were all gathered in the +reception hall: Michael Ivánovich, Mademoiselle Bourienne, Princess +Mary, and the little princess. Prince Andrew had been called to his +father’s study as the latter wished to say good-by to him alone. All +were waiting for them to come out. + +When Prince Andrew entered the study the old man in his old-age +spectacles and white dressing gown, in which he received no one but his +son, sat at the table writing. He glanced round. + +“Going?” And he went on writing. + +“I’ve come to say good-by.” + +“Kiss me here,” and he touched his cheek: “Thanks, thanks!” + +“What do you thank me for?” + +“For not dilly-dallying and not hanging to a woman’s apron strings. +The Service before everything. Thanks, thanks!” And he went on +writing, so that his quill spluttered and squeaked. “If you have +anything to say, say it. These two things can be done together,” he +added. + +“About my wife... I am ashamed as it is to leave her on your +hands....” + +“Why talk nonsense? Say what you want.” + +“When her confinement is due, send to Moscow for an accoucheur.... Let +him be here....” + +The old prince stopped writing and, as if not understanding, fixed his +stern eyes on his son. + +“I know that no one can help if nature does not do her work,” said +Prince Andrew, evidently confused. “I know that out of a million +cases only one goes wrong, but it is her fancy and mine. They have been +telling her things. She has had a dream and is frightened.” + +“Hm... Hm...” muttered the old prince to himself, finishing what he +was writing. “I’ll do it.” + +He signed with a flourish and suddenly turning to his son began to +laugh. + +“It’s a bad business, eh?” + +“What is bad, Father?” + +“The wife!” said the old prince, briefly and significantly. + +“I don’t understand!” said Prince Andrew. + +“No, it can’t be helped, lad,” said the prince. “They’re +all like that; one can’t unmarry. Don’t be afraid; I won’t tell +anyone, but you know it yourself.” + +He seized his son by the hand with small bony fingers, shook it, looked +straight into his son’s face with keen eyes which seemed to see +through him, and again laughed his frigid laugh. + +The son sighed, thus admitting that his father had understood him. The +old man continued to fold and seal his letter, snatching up and throwing +down the wax, the seal, and the paper, with his accustomed rapidity. + +“What’s to be done? She’s pretty! I will do everything. Make your +mind easy,” said he in abrupt sentences while sealing his letter. + +Andrew did not speak; he was both pleased and displeased that his father +understood him. The old man got up and gave the letter to his son. + +“Listen!” said he; “don’t worry about your wife: what can be +done shall be. Now listen! Give this letter to Michael Ilariónovich. * +I have written that he should make use of you in proper places and not +keep you long as an adjutant: a bad position! Tell him I remember +and like him. Write and tell me how he receives you. If he is all +right—serve him. Nicholas Bolkónski’s son need not serve under +anyone if he is in disfavor. Now come here.” + + *Kutúzov. + +He spoke so rapidly that he did not finish half his words, but his son +was accustomed to understand him. He led him to the desk, raised the +lid, drew out a drawer, and took out an exercise book filled with his +bold, tall, close handwriting. + +“I shall probably die before you. So remember, these are my memoirs; +hand them to the Emperor after my death. Now here is a Lombard bond +and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of +Suvórov’s wars. Send it to the Academy. Here are some jottings for +you to read when I am gone. You will find them useful.” + +Andrew did not tell his father that he would no doubt live a long time +yet. He felt that he must not say it. + +“I will do it all, Father,” he said. + +“Well, now, good-by!” He gave his son his hand to kiss, and embraced +him. “Remember this, Prince Andrew, if they kill you it will hurt me, +your old father...” he paused unexpectedly, and then in a querulous +voice suddenly shrieked: “but if I hear that you have not behaved like +a son of Nicholas Bolkónski, I shall be ashamed!” + +“You need not have said that to me, Father,” said the son with a +smile. + +The old man was silent. + +“I also wanted to ask you,” continued Prince Andrew, “if I’m +killed and if I have a son, do not let him be taken away from you—as I +said yesterday... let him grow up with you.... Please.” + +“Not let the wife have him?” said the old man, and laughed. + +They stood silent, facing one another. The old man’s sharp eyes were +fixed straight on his son’s. Something twitched in the lower part of +the old prince’s face. + +“We’ve said good-by. Go!” he suddenly shouted in a loud, angry +voice, opening his door. + +“What is it? What?” asked both princesses when they saw for a moment +at the door Prince Andrew and the figure of the old man in a white +dressing gown, spectacled and wigless, shouting in an angry voice. + +Prince Andrew sighed and made no reply. + +“Well!” he said, turning to his wife. + +And this “Well!” sounded coldly ironic, as if he were saying: “Now +go through your performance.” + +“Andrew, already!” said the little princess, turning pale and +looking with dismay at her husband. + +He embraced her. She screamed and fell unconscious on his shoulder. + +He cautiously released the shoulder she leaned on, looked into her face, +and carefully placed her in an easy chair. + +“Adieu, Mary,” said he gently to his sister, taking her by the hand +and kissing her, and then he left the room with rapid steps. + +The little princess lay in the armchair, Mademoiselle Bourienne chafing +her temples. Princess Mary, supporting her sister-in-law, still looked +with her beautiful eyes full of tears at the door through which Prince +Andrew had gone and made the sign of the cross in his direction. From +the study, like pistol shots, came the frequent sound of the old man +angrily blowing his nose. Hardly had Prince Andrew gone when the study +door opened quickly and the stern figure of the old man in the white +dressing gown looked out. + +“Gone? That’s all right!” said he; and looking angrily at the +unconscious little princess, he shook his head reprovingly and slammed +the door. + + + + + +BOOK TWO: 1805 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +In October, 1805, a Russian army was occupying the villages and towns of +the Archduchy of Austria, and yet other regiments freshly arriving from +Russia were settling near the fortress of Braunau and burdening the +inhabitants on whom they were quartered. Braunau was the headquarters of +the commander in chief, Kutúzov. + +On October 11, 1805, one of the infantry regiments that had just reached +Braunau had halted half a mile from the town, waiting to be inspected +by the commander in chief. Despite the un-Russian appearance of the +locality and surroundings—fruit gardens, stone fences, tiled roofs, +and hills in the distance—and despite the fact that the inhabitants +(who gazed with curiosity at the soldiers) were not Russians, the +regiment had just the appearance of any Russian regiment preparing for +an inspection anywhere in the heart of Russia. + +On the evening of the last day’s march an order had been received that +the commander in chief would inspect the regiment on the march. Though +the words of the order were not clear to the regimental commander, and +the question arose whether the troops were to be in marching order or +not, it was decided at a consultation between the battalion commanders +to present the regiment in parade order, on the principle that it is +always better to “bow too low than not bow low enough.” So the +soldiers, after a twenty-mile march, were kept mending and cleaning all +night long without closing their eyes, while the adjutants and +company commanders calculated and reckoned, and by morning the +regiment—instead of the straggling, disorderly crowd it had been on +its last march the day before—presented a well-ordered array of two +thousand men each of whom knew his place and his duty, had every button +and every strap in place, and shone with cleanliness. And not only +externally was all in order, but had it pleased the commander in chief +to look under the uniforms he would have found on every man a clean +shirt, and in every knapsack the appointed number of articles, “awl, +soap, and all,” as the soldiers say. There was only one circumstance +concerning which no one could be at ease. It was the state of the +soldiers’ boots. More than half the men’s boots were in holes. But +this defect was not due to any fault of the regimental commander, for +in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the Austrian +commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred miles. + +The commander of the regiment was an elderly, choleric, stout, and +thick-set general with grizzled eyebrows and whiskers, and wider from +chest to back than across the shoulders. He had on a brand-new uniform +showing the creases where it had been folded and thick gold epaulettes +which seemed to stand rather than lie down on his massive shoulders. He +had the air of a man happily performing one of the most solemn duties of +his life. He walked about in front of the line and at every step pulled +himself up, slightly arching his back. It was plain that the commander +admired his regiment, rejoiced in it, and that his whole mind was +engrossed by it, yet his strut seemed to indicate that, besides military +matters, social interests and the fair sex occupied no small part of his +thoughts. + +“Well, Michael Mítrich, sir?” he said, addressing one of the +battalion commanders who smilingly pressed forward (it was plain that +they both felt happy). “We had our hands full last night. However, I +think the regiment is not a bad one, eh?” + +The battalion commander perceived the jovial irony and laughed. + +“It would not be turned off the field even on the Tsarítsin +Meadow.” + +“What?” asked the commander. + +At that moment, on the road from the town on which signalers had been +posted, two men appeared on horse back. They were an aide-de-camp +followed by a Cossack. + +The aide-de-camp was sent to confirm the order which had not been +clearly worded the day before, namely, that the commander in chief +wished to see the regiment just in the state in which it had been on +the march: in their greatcoats, and packs, and without any preparation +whatever. + +A member of the Hofkriegsrath from Vienna had come to Kutúzov the day +before with proposals and demands for him to join up with the army of +the Archduke Ferdinand and Mack, and Kutúzov, not considering this +junction advisable, meant, among other arguments in support of his view, +to show the Austrian general the wretched state in which the troops +arrived from Russia. With this object he intended to meet the regiment; +so the worse the condition it was in, the better pleased the commander +in chief would be. Though the aide-de-camp did not know these +circumstances, he nevertheless delivered the definite order that the +men should be in their greatcoats and in marching order, and that the +commander in chief would otherwise be dissatisfied. On hearing this the +regimental commander hung his head, silently shrugged his shoulders, and +spread out his arms with a choleric gesture. + +“A fine mess we’ve made of it!” he remarked. + +“There now! Didn’t I tell you, Michael Mítrich, that if it was said +‘on the march’ it meant in greatcoats?” said he reproachfully to +the battalion commander. “Oh, my God!” he added, stepping resolutely +forward. “Company commanders!” he shouted in a voice accustomed to +command. “Sergeants major!... How soon will he be here?” he asked +the aide-de-camp with a respectful politeness evidently relating to the +personage he was referring to. + +“In an hour’s time, I should say.” + +“Shall we have time to change clothes?” + +“I don’t know, General....” + +The regimental commander, going up to the line himself, ordered the +soldiers to change into their greatcoats. The company commanders ran off +to their companies, the sergeants major began bustling (the greatcoats +were not in very good condition), and instantly the squares that had up +to then been in regular order and silent began to sway and stretch and +hum with voices. On all sides soldiers were running to and fro, throwing +up their knapsacks with a jerk of their shoulders and pulling the straps +over their heads, unstrapping their overcoats and drawing the sleeves on +with upraised arms. + +In half an hour all was again in order, only the squares had become gray +instead of black. The regimental commander walked with his jerky steps +to the front of the regiment and examined it from a distance. + +“Whatever is this? This!” he shouted and stood still. “Commander +of the third company!” + +“Commander of the third company wanted by the general!... commander to +the general... third company to the commander.” The words passed along +the lines and an adjutant ran to look for the missing officer. + +When the eager but misrepeated words had reached their destination in +a cry of: “The general to the third company,” the missing officer +appeared from behind his company and, though he was a middle-aged man +and not in the habit of running, trotted awkwardly stumbling on his +toes toward the general. The captain’s face showed the uneasiness of +a schoolboy who is told to repeat a lesson he has not learned. Spots +appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to +intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously. The general looked the +captain up and down as he came up panting, slackening his pace as he +approached. + +“You will soon be dressing your men in petticoats! What is this?” +shouted the regimental commander, thrusting forward his jaw and pointing +at a soldier in the ranks of the third company in a greatcoat of bluish +cloth, which contrasted with the others. “What have you been after? +The commander in chief is expected and you leave your place? Eh? I’ll +teach you to dress the men in fancy coats for a parade.... Eh...?” + +The commander of the company, with his eyes fixed on his superior, +pressed two fingers more and more rigidly to his cap, as if in this +pressure lay his only hope of salvation. + +“Well, why don’t you speak? Whom have you got there dressed up as a +Hungarian?” said the commander with an austere gibe. + +“Your excellency...” + +“Well, your excellency, what? Your excellency! But what about your +excellency?... nobody knows.” + +“Your excellency, it’s the officer Dólokhov, who has been reduced +to the ranks,” said the captain softly. + +“Well? Has he been degraded into a field marshal, or into a soldier? +If a soldier, he should be dressed in regulation uniform like the +others.” + +“Your excellency, you gave him leave yourself, on the march.” + +“Gave him leave? Leave? That’s just like you young men,” said the +regimental commander cooling down a little. “Leave indeed.... One says +a word to you and you... What?” he added with renewed irritation, “I +beg you to dress your men decently.” + +And the commander, turning to look at the adjutant, directed his jerky +steps down the line. He was evidently pleased at his own display of +anger and walking up to the regiment wished to find a further excuse for +wrath. Having snapped at an officer for an unpolished badge, at another +because his line was not straight, he reached the third company. + +“H-o-o-w are you standing? Where’s your leg? Your leg?” shouted +the commander with a tone of suffering in his voice, while there were +still five men between him and Dólokhov with his bluish-gray uniform. + +Dólokhov slowly straightened his bent knee, looking straight with his +clear, insolent eyes in the general’s face. + +“Why a blue coat? Off with it... Sergeant major! Change his coat... +the ras...” he did not finish. + +“General, I must obey orders, but I am not bound to endure...” +Dólokhov hurriedly interrupted. + +“No talking in the ranks!... No talking, no talking!” + +“Not bound to endure insults,” Dólokhov concluded in loud, ringing +tones. + +The eyes of the general and the soldier met. The general became silent, +angrily pulling down his tight scarf. + +“I request you to have the goodness to change your coat,” he said as +he turned away. + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +“He’s coming!” shouted the signaler at that moment. + +The regimental commander, flushing, ran to his horse, seized the stirrup +with trembling hands, threw his body across the saddle, righted himself, +drew his saber, and with a happy and resolute countenance, opening +his mouth awry, prepared to shout. The regiment fluttered like a bird +preening its plumage and became motionless. + +“Att-ention!” shouted the regimental commander in a soul-shaking +voice which expressed joy for himself, severity for the regiment, and +welcome for the approaching chief. + +Along the broad country road, edged on both sides by trees, came a high, +light blue Viennese calèche, slightly creaking on its springs and drawn +by six horses at a smart trot. Behind the calèche galloped the suite +and a convoy of Croats. Beside Kutúzov sat an Austrian general, in +a white uniform that looked strange among the Russian black ones. The +calèche stopped in front of the regiment. Kutúzov and the Austrian +general were talking in low voices and Kutúzov smiled slightly as +treading heavily he stepped down from the carriage just as if those two +thousand men breathlessly gazing at him and the regimental commander did +not exist. + +The word of command rang out, and again the regiment quivered, as with a +jingling sound it presented arms. Then amidst a dead silence the +feeble voice of the commander in chief was heard. The regiment roared, +“Health to your ex... len... len... lency!” and again all became +silent. At first Kutúzov stood still while the regiment moved; then he +and the general in white, accompanied by the suite, walked between the +ranks. + +From the way the regimental commander saluted the commander in chief and +devoured him with his eyes, drawing himself up obsequiously, and from +the way he walked through the ranks behind the generals, bending forward +and hardly able to restrain his jerky movements, and from the way he +darted forward at every word or gesture of the commander in chief, +it was evident that he performed his duty as a subordinate with even +greater zeal than his duty as a commander. Thanks to the strictness and +assiduity of its commander the regiment, in comparison with others that +had reached Braunau at the same time, was in splendid condition. There +were only 217 sick and stragglers. Everything was in good order except +the boots. + +Kutúzov walked through the ranks, sometimes stopping to say a few +friendly words to officers he had known in the Turkish war, sometimes +also to the soldiers. Looking at their boots he several times shook his +head sadly, pointing them out to the Austrian general with an expression +which seemed to say that he was not blaming anyone, but could not help +noticing what a bad state of things it was. The regimental commander +ran forward on each such occasion, fearing to miss a single word of the +commander in chief’s regarding the regiment. Behind Kutúzov, at a +distance that allowed every softly spoken word to be heard, followed +some twenty men of his suite. These gentlemen talked among themselves +and sometimes laughed. Nearest of all to the commander in chief walked +a handsome adjutant. This was Prince Bolkónski. Beside him was his +comrade Nesvítski, a tall staff officer, extremely stout, with a +kindly, smiling, handsome face and moist eyes. Nesvítski could hardly +keep from laughter provoked by a swarthy hussar officer who walked +beside him. This hussar, with a grave face and without a smile or a +change in the expression of his fixed eyes, watched the regimental +commander’s back and mimicked his every movement. Each time the +commander started and bent forward, the hussar started and bent forward +in exactly the same manner. Nesvítski laughed and nudged the others to +make them look at the wag. + +Kutúzov walked slowly and languidly past thousands of eyes which were +starting from their sockets to watch their chief. On reaching the +third company he suddenly stopped. His suite, not having expected this, +involuntarily came closer to him. + +“Ah, Timókhin!” said he, recognizing the red-nosed captain who had +been reprimanded on account of the blue greatcoat. + +One would have thought it impossible for a man to stretch himself +more than Timókhin had done when he was reprimanded by the regimental +commander, but now that the commander in chief addressed him he drew +himself up to such an extent that it seemed he could not have sustained +it had the commander in chief continued to look at him, and so Kutúzov, +who evidently understood his case and wished him nothing but good, +quickly turned away, a scarcely perceptible smile flitting over his +scarred and puffy face. + +“Another Ismail comrade,” said he. “A brave officer! Are you +satisfied with him?” he asked the regimental commander. + +And the latter—unconscious that he was being reflected in the hussar +officer as in a looking glass—started, moved forward, and answered: +“Highly satisfied, your excellency!” + +“We all have our weaknesses,” said Kutúzov smiling and walking away +from him. “He used to have a predilection for Bacchus.” + +The regimental commander was afraid he might be blamed for this and did +not answer. The hussar at that moment noticed the face of the red-nosed +captain and his drawn-in stomach, and mimicked his expression and pose +with such exactitude that Nesvítski could not help laughing. Kutúzov +turned round. The officer evidently had complete control of his face, +and while Kutúzov was turning managed to make a grimace and then assume +a most serious, deferential, and innocent expression. + +The third company was the last, and Kutúzov pondered, apparently trying +to recollect something. Prince Andrew stepped forward from among the +suite and said in French: + +“You told me to remind you of the officer Dólokhov, reduced to the +ranks in this regiment.” + +“Where is Dólokhov?” asked Kutúzov. + +Dólokhov, who had already changed into a soldier’s gray greatcoat, +did not wait to be called. The shapely figure of the fair-haired +soldier, with his clear blue eyes, stepped forward from the ranks, went +up to the commander in chief, and presented arms. + +“Have you a complaint to make?” Kutúzov asked with a slight frown. + +“This is Dólokhov,” said Prince Andrew. + +“Ah!” said Kutúzov. “I hope this will be a lesson to you. Do your +duty. The Emperor is gracious, and I shan’t forget you if you deserve +well.” + +The clear blue eyes looked at the commander in chief just as boldly as +they had looked at the regimental commander, seeming by their expression +to tear open the veil of convention that separates a commander in chief +so widely from a private. + +“One thing I ask of your excellency,” Dólokhov said in his firm, +ringing, deliberate voice. “I ask an opportunity to atone for my fault +and prove my devotion to His Majesty the Emperor and to Russia!” + +Kutúzov turned away. The same smile of the eyes with which he had +turned from Captain Timókhin again flitted over his face. He turned +away with a grimace as if to say that everything Dólokhov had said to +him and everything he could say had long been known to him, that he was +weary of it and it was not at all what he wanted. He turned away and +went to the carriage. + +The regiment broke up into companies, which went to their appointed +quarters near Braunau, where they hoped to receive boots and clothes and +to rest after their hard marches. + +“You won’t bear me a grudge, Prokhór Ignátych?” said the +regimental commander, overtaking the third company on its way to its +quarters and riding up to Captain Timókhin who was walking in front. +(The regimental commander’s face now that the inspection was happily +over beamed with irrepressible delight.) “It’s in the Emperor’s +service... it can’t be helped... one is sometimes a bit hasty on +parade... I am the first to apologize, you know me!... He was very +pleased!” And he held out his hand to the captain. + +“Don’t mention it, General, as if I’d be so bold!” replied the +captain, his nose growing redder as he gave a smile which showed where +two front teeth were missing that had been knocked out by the butt end +of a gun at Ismail. + +“And tell Mr. Dólokhov that I won’t forget him—he may be quite +easy. And tell me, please—I’ve been meaning to ask—how is he +behaving himself, and in general...” + +“As far as the service goes he is quite punctilious, your excellency; +but his character...” said Timókhin. + +“And what about his character?” asked the regimental commander. + +“It’s different on different days,” answered the captain. “One +day he is sensible, well educated, and good-natured, and the next he’s +a wild beast.... In Poland, if you please, he nearly killed a Jew.” + +“Oh, well, well!” remarked the regimental commander. “Still, one +must have pity on a young man in misfortune. You know he has important +connections... Well, then, you just...” + +“I will, your excellency,” said Timókhin, showing by his smile that +he understood his commander’s wish. + +“Well, of course, of course!” + +The regimental commander sought out Dólokhov in the ranks and, reining +in his horse, said to him: + +“After the next affair... epaulettes.” + +Dólokhov looked round but did not say anything, nor did the mocking +smile on his lips change. + +“Well, that’s all right,” continued the regimental commander. “A +cup of vodka for the men from me,” he added so that the soldiers +could hear. “I thank you all! God be praised!” and he rode past that +company and overtook the next one. + +“Well, he’s really a good fellow, one can serve under him,” said +Timókhin to the subaltern beside him. + +“In a word, a hearty one...” said the subaltern, laughing (the +regimental commander was nicknamed King of Hearts). + +The cheerful mood of their officers after the inspection infected the +soldiers. The company marched on gaily. The soldiers’ voices could be +heard on every side. + +“And they said Kutúzov was blind of one eye?” + +“And so he is! Quite blind!” + +“No, friend, he is sharper-eyed than you are. Boots and leg bands... +he noticed everything...” + +“When he looked at my feet, friend... well, thinks I...” + +“And that other one with him, the Austrian, looked as if he were +smeared with chalk—as white as flour! I suppose they polish him up as +they do the guns.” + +“I say, Fédeshon!... Did he say when the battles are to begin? You +were near him. Everybody said that Buonaparte himself was at Braunau.” + +“Buonaparte himself!... Just listen to the fool, what he doesn’t +know! The Prussians are up in arms now. The Austrians, you see, are +putting them down. When they’ve been put down, the war with Buonaparte +will begin. And he says Buonaparte is in Braunau! Shows you’re a fool. +You’d better listen more carefully!” + +“What devils these quartermasters are! See, the fifth company is +turning into the village already... they will have their buckwheat +cooked before we reach our quarters.” + +“Give me a biscuit, you devil!” + +“And did you give me tobacco yesterday? That’s just it, friend! Ah, +well, never mind, here you are.” + +“They might call a halt here or we’ll have to do another four miles +without eating.” + +“Wasn’t it fine when those Germans gave us lifts! You just sit still +and are drawn along.” + +“And here, friend, the people are quite beggarly. There they all +seemed to be Poles—all under the Russian crown—but here they’re +all regular Germans.” + +“Singers to the front” came the captain’s order. + +And from the different ranks some twenty men ran to the front. A +drummer, their leader, turned round facing the singers, and flourishing +his arm, began a long-drawn-out soldiers’ song, commencing with the +words: “Morning dawned, the sun was rising,” and concluding: “On +then, brothers, on to glory, led by Father Kámenski.” This song had +been composed in the Turkish campaign and now being sung in Austria, the +only change being that the words “Father Kámenski” were replaced by +“Father Kutúzov.” + +Having jerked out these last words as soldiers do and waved his arms +as if flinging something to the ground, the drummer—a lean, handsome +soldier of forty—looked sternly at the singers and screwed up his +eyes. Then having satisfied himself that all eyes were fixed on him, +he raised both arms as if carefully lifting some invisible but precious +object above his head and, holding it there for some seconds, suddenly +flung it down and began: + +“Oh, my bower, oh, my bower...!” + +“Oh, my bower new...!” chimed in twenty voices, and the castanet +player, in spite of the burden of his equipment, rushed out to the front +and, walking backwards before the company, jerked his shoulders and +flourished his castanets as if threatening someone. The soldiers, +swinging their arms and keeping time spontaneously, marched with long +steps. Behind the company the sound of wheels, the creaking of springs, +and the tramp of horses’ hoofs were heard. Kutúzov and his suite were +returning to the town. The commander in chief made a sign that the +men should continue to march at ease, and he and all his suite showed +pleasure at the sound of the singing and the sight of the dancing +soldier and the gay and smartly marching men. In the second file +from the right flank, beside which the carriage passed the company, +a blue-eyed soldier involuntarily attracted notice. It was Dólokhov +marching with particular grace and boldness in time to the song and +looking at those driving past as if he pitied all who were not at that +moment marching with the company. The hussar cornet of Kutúzov’s +suite who had mimicked the regimental commander, fell back from the +carriage and rode up to Dólokhov. + +Hussar cornet Zherkóv had at one time, in Petersburg, belonged to +the wild set led by Dólokhov. Zherkóv had met Dólokhov abroad as a +private and had not seen fit to recognize him. But now that Kutúzov had +spoken to the gentleman ranker, he addressed him with the cordiality of +an old friend. + +“My dear fellow, how are you?” said he through the singing, making +his horse keep pace with the company. + +“How am I?” Dólokhov answered coldly. “I am as you see.” + +The lively song gave a special flavor to the tone of free and easy +gaiety with which Zherkóv spoke, and to the intentional coldness of +Dólokhov’s reply. + +“And how do you get on with the officers?” inquired Zherkóv. + +“All right. They are good fellows. And how have you wriggled onto the +staff?” + +“I was attached; I’m on duty.” + +Both were silent. + +“She let the hawk fly upward from her wide right sleeve,” went the +song, arousing an involuntary sensation of courage and cheerfulness. +Their conversation would probably have been different but for the effect +of that song. + +“Is it true that Austrians have been beaten?” asked Dólokhov. + +“The devil only knows! They say so.” + +“I’m glad,” answered Dólokhov briefly and clearly, as the song +demanded. + +“I say, come round some evening and we’ll have a game of faro!” +said Zherkóv. + +“Why, have you too much money?” + +“Do come.” + +“I can’t. I’ve sworn not to. I won’t drink and won’t play till +I get reinstated.” + +“Well, that’s only till the first engagement.” + +“We shall see.” + +They were again silent. + +“Come if you need anything. One can at least be of use on the +staff...” + +Dólokhov smiled. “Don’t trouble. If I want anything, I won’t +beg—I’ll take it!” + +“Well, never mind; I only...” + +“And I only...” + +“Good-by.” + +“Good health...” + + “It’s a long, long way. + To my native land...” + + +Zherkóv touched his horse with the spurs; it pranced excitedly from +foot to foot uncertain with which to start, then settled down, galloped +past the company, and overtook the carriage, still keeping time to the +song. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +On returning from the review, Kutúzov took the Austrian general into +his private room and, calling his adjutant, asked for some papers +relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the +letters that had come from the Archduke Ferdinand, who was in command of +the advanced army. Prince Andrew Bolkónski came into the room with the +required papers. Kutúzov and the Austrian member of the Hofkriegsrath +were sitting at the table on which a plan was spread out. + +“Ah!...” said Kutúzov glancing at Bolkónski as if by this +exclamation he was asking the adjutant to wait, and he went on with the +conversation in French. + +“All I can say, General,” said he with a pleasant elegance +of expression and intonation that obliged one to listen to each +deliberately spoken word. It was evident that Kutúzov himself listened +with pleasure to his own voice. “All I can say, General, is that if +the matter depended on my personal wishes, the will of His Majesty the +Emperor Francis would have been fulfilled long ago. I should long +ago have joined the archduke. And believe me on my honour that to me +personally it would be a pleasure to hand over the supreme command +of the army into the hands of a better informed and more skillful +general—of whom Austria has so many—and to lay down all this heavy +responsibility. But circumstances are sometimes too strong for us, +General.” + +And Kutúzov smiled in a way that seemed to say, “You are quite at +liberty not to believe me and I don’t even care whether you do or +not, but you have no grounds for telling me so. And that is the whole +point.” + +The Austrian general looked dissatisfied, but had no option but to reply +in the same tone. + +“On the contrary,” he said, in a querulous and angry tone that +contrasted with his flattering words, “on the contrary, your +excellency’s participation in the common action is highly valued by +His Majesty; but we think the present delay is depriving the splendid +Russian troops and their commander of the laurels they have been +accustomed to win in their battles,” he concluded his evidently +prearranged sentence. + +Kutúzov bowed with the same smile. + +“But that is my conviction, and judging by the last letter with which +His Highness the Archduke Ferdinand has honored me, I imagine that the +Austrian troops, under the direction of so skillful a leader as General +Mack, have by now already gained a decisive victory and no longer need +our aid,” said Kutúzov. + +The general frowned. Though there was no definite news of an Austrian +defeat, there were many circumstances confirming the unfavorable rumors +that were afloat, and so Kutúzov’s suggestion of an Austrian victory +sounded much like irony. But Kutúzov went on blandly smiling with the +same expression, which seemed to say that he had a right to suppose +so. And, in fact, the last letter he had received from Mack’s army +informed him of a victory and stated strategically the position of the +army was very favorable. + +“Give me that letter,” said Kutúzov turning to Prince Andrew. +“Please have a look at it”—and Kutúzov with an ironical smile +about the corners of his mouth read to the Austrian general the +following passage, in German, from the Archduke Ferdinand’s letter: + +We have fully concentrated forces of nearly seventy thousand men with +which to attack and defeat the enemy should he cross the Lech. Also, +as we are masters of Ulm, we cannot be deprived of the advantage of +commanding both sides of the Danube, so that should the enemy not +cross the Lech, we can cross the Danube, throw ourselves on his line +of communications, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his +intention should he try to direct his whole force against our faithful +ally. We shall therefore confidently await the moment when the Imperial +Russian army will be fully equipped, and shall then, in conjunction with +it, easily find a way to prepare for the enemy the fate he deserves. + +Kutúzov sighed deeply on finishing this paragraph and looked at the +member of the Hofkriegsrath mildly and attentively. + +“But you know the wise maxim your excellency, advising one to expect +the worst,” said the Austrian general, evidently wishing to have done +with jests and to come to business. He involuntarily looked round at the +aide-de-camp. + +“Excuse me, General,” interrupted Kutúzov, also turning to Prince +Andrew. “Look here, my dear fellow, get from Kozlóvski all the +reports from our scouts. Here are two letters from Count Nostitz and +here is one from His Highness the Archduke Ferdinand and here are +these,” he said, handing him several papers, “make a neat memorandum +in French out of all this, showing all the news we have had of the +movements of the Austrian army, and then give it to his excellency.” + +Prince Andrew bowed his head in token of having understood from the +first not only what had been said but also what Kutúzov would have +liked to tell him. He gathered up the papers and with a bow to both, +stepped softly over the carpet and went out into the waiting room. + +Though not much time had passed since Prince Andrew had left Russia, he +had changed greatly during that period. In the expression of his face, +in his movements, in his walk, scarcely a trace was left of his former +affected languor and indolence. He now looked like a man who has time +to think of the impression he makes on others, but is occupied with +agreeable and interesting work. His face expressed more satisfaction +with himself and those around him, his smile and glance were brighter +and more attractive. + +Kutúzov, whom he had overtaken in Poland, had received him very kindly, +promised not to forget him, distinguished him above the other adjutants, +and had taken him to Vienna and given him the more serious commissions. +From Vienna Kutúzov wrote to his old comrade, Prince Andrew’s father. + +Your son bids fair to become an officer distinguished by his industry, +firmness, and expedition. I consider myself fortunate to have such a +subordinate by me. + +On Kutúzov’s staff, among his fellow officers and in the army +generally, Prince Andrew had, as he had had in Petersburg society, two +quite opposite reputations. Some, a minority, acknowledged him to be +different from themselves and from everyone else, expected great things +of him, listened to him, admired, and imitated him, and with them Prince +Andrew was natural and pleasant. Others, the majority, disliked him and +considered him conceited, cold, and disagreeable. But among these people +Prince Andrew knew how to take his stand so that they respected and even +feared him. + +Coming out of Kutúzov’s room into the waiting room with the papers in +his hand Prince Andrew came up to his comrade, the aide-de-camp on duty, +Kozlóvski, who was sitting at the window with a book. + +“Well, Prince?” asked Kozlóvski. + +“I am ordered to write a memorandum explaining why we are not +advancing.” + +“And why is it?” + +Prince Andrew shrugged his shoulders. + +“Any news from Mack?” + +“No.” + +“If it were true that he has been beaten, news would have come.” + +“Probably,” said Prince Andrew moving toward the outer door. + +But at that instant a tall Austrian general in a greatcoat, with the +order of Maria Theresa on his neck and a black bandage round his head, +who had evidently just arrived, entered quickly, slamming the door. +Prince Andrew stopped short. + +“Commander in Chief Kutúzov?” said the newly arrived general +speaking quickly with a harsh German accent, looking to both sides and +advancing straight toward the inner door. + +“The commander in chief is engaged,” said Kozlóvski, going +hurriedly up to the unknown general and blocking his way to the door. +“Whom shall I announce?” + +The unknown general looked disdainfully down at Kozlóvski, who was +rather short, as if surprised that anyone should not know him. + +“The commander in chief is engaged,” repeated Kozlóvski calmly. + +The general’s face clouded, his lips quivered and trembled. He took +out a notebook, hurriedly scribbled something in pencil, tore out the +leaf, gave it to Kozlóvski, stepped quickly to the window, and threw +himself into a chair, gazing at those in the room as if asking, “Why +do they look at me?” Then he lifted his head, stretched his neck as +if he intended to say something, but immediately, with affected +indifference, began to hum to himself, producing a queer sound which +immediately broke off. The door of the private room opened and Kutúzov +appeared in the doorway. The general with the bandaged head bent forward +as though running away from some danger, and, making long, quick strides +with his thin legs, went up to Kutúzov. + +“Vous voyez le malheureux Mack,” he uttered in a broken voice. + +Kutúzov’s face as he stood in the open doorway remained perfectly +immobile for a few moments. Then wrinkles ran over his face like a wave +and his forehead became smooth again, he bowed his head respectfully, +closed his eyes, silently let Mack enter his room before him, and closed +the door himself behind him. + +The report which had been circulated that the Austrians had been beaten +and that the whole army had surrendered at Ulm proved to be correct. +Within half an hour adjutants had been sent in various directions with +orders which showed that the Russian troops, who had hitherto been +inactive, would also soon have to meet the enemy. + +Prince Andrew was one of those rare staff officers whose chief interest +lay in the general progress of the war. When he saw Mack and heard the +details of his disaster he understood that half the campaign was lost, +understood all the difficulties of the Russian army’s position, and +vividly imagined what awaited it and the part he would have to +play. Involuntarily he felt a joyful agitation at the thought of the +humiliation of arrogant Austria and that in a week’s time he might, +perhaps, see and take part in the first Russian encounter with the +French since Suvórov met them. He feared that Bonaparte’s genius +might outweigh all the courage of the Russian troops, and at the same +time could not admit the idea of his hero being disgraced. + +Excited and irritated by these thoughts Prince Andrew went toward his +room to write to his father, to whom he wrote every day. In the corridor +he met Nesvítski, with whom he shared a room, and the wag Zherkóv; +they were as usual laughing. + +“Why are you so glum?” asked Nesvítski noticing Prince Andrew’s +pale face and glittering eyes. + +“There’s nothing to be gay about,” answered Bolkónski. + +Just as Prince Andrew met Nesvítski and Zherkóv, there came toward +them from the other end of the corridor, Strauch, an Austrian general +who on Kutúzov’s staff in charge of the provisioning of the Russian +army, and the member of the Hofkriegsrath who had arrived the previous +evening. There was room enough in the wide corridor for the generals to +pass the three officers quite easily, but Zherkóv, pushing Nesvítski +aside with his arm, said in a breathless voice, + +“They’re coming!... they’re coming!... Stand aside, make way, +please make way!” + +The generals were passing by, looking as if they wished to avoid +embarrassing attentions. On the face of the wag Zherkóv there suddenly +appeared a stupid smile of glee which he seemed unable to suppress. + +“Your excellency,” said he in German, stepping forward and +addressing the Austrian general, “I have the honor to congratulate +you.” + +He bowed his head and scraped first with one foot and then with the +other, awkwardly, like a child at a dancing lesson. + +The member of the Hofkriegsrath looked at him severely but, seeing the +seriousness of his stupid smile, could not but give him a moment’s +attention. He screwed up his eyes showing that he was listening. + +“I have the honor to congratulate you. General Mack has arrived, quite +well, only a little bruised just here,” he added, pointing with a +beaming smile to his head. + +The general frowned, turned away, and went on. + +“Gott, wie naiv!” * said he angrily, after he had gone a few steps. + + * “Good God, what simplicity!” + + +Nesvítski with a laugh threw his arms round Prince Andrew, but +Bolkónski, turning still paler, pushed him away with an angry look and +turned to Zherkóv. The nervous irritation aroused by the appearance +of Mack, the news of his defeat, and the thought of what lay before the +Russian army found vent in anger at Zherkóv’s untimely jest. + +“If you, sir, choose to make a buffoon of yourself,” he said +sharply, with a slight trembling of the lower jaw, “I can’t prevent +your doing so; but I warn you that if you dare to play the fool in my +presence, I will teach you to behave yourself.” + +Nesvítski and Zherkóv were so surprised by this outburst that they +gazed at Bolkónski silently with wide-open eyes. + +“What’s the matter? I only congratulated them,” said Zherkóv. + +“I am not jesting with you; please be silent!” cried Bolkónski, +and taking Nesvítski’s arm he left Zherkóv, who did not know what to +say. + +“Come, what’s the matter, old fellow?” said Nesvítski trying to +soothe him. + +“What’s the matter?” exclaimed Prince Andrew standing still in +his excitement. “Don’t you understand that either we are officers +serving our Tsar and our country, rejoicing in the successes and +grieving at the misfortunes of our common cause, or we are merely +lackeys who care nothing for their master’s business. Quarante mille +hommes massacrés et l’armée de nos alliés détruite, et vous +trouvez là le mot pour rire,” * he said, as if strengthening his +views by this French sentence. “C’est bien pour un garçon de rien +comme cet individu dont vous avez fait un ami, mais pas pour vous, pas +pour vous. *(2) Only a hobbledehoy could amuse himself in this +way,” he added in Russian—but pronouncing the word with a French +accent—having noticed that Zherkóv could still hear him. + + * “Forty thousand men massacred and the army of our allies + destroyed, and you find that a cause for jesting!” + + * (2) “It is all very well for that good-for-nothing fellow + of whom you have made a friend, but not for you, not for + you.” + + +He waited a moment to see whether the cornet would answer, but he turned +and went out of the corridor. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +The Pávlograd Hussars were stationed two miles from Braunau. The +squadron in which Nicholas Rostóv served as a cadet was quartered in +the German village of Salzeneck. The best quarters in the village were +assigned to cavalry-captain Denísov, the squadron commander, known +throughout the whole cavalry division as Váska Denísov. Cadet Rostóv, +ever since he had overtaken the regiment in Poland, had lived with the +squadron commander. + +On October 11, the day when all was astir at headquarters over the news +of Mack’s defeat, the camp life of the officers of this squadron was +proceeding as usual. Denísov, who had been losing at cards all night, +had not yet come home when Rostóv rode back early in the morning from +a foraging expedition. Rostóv in his cadet uniform, with a jerk to his +horse, rode up to the porch, swung his leg over the saddle with a supple +youthful movement, stood for a moment in the stirrup as if loathe to +part from his horse, and at last sprang down and called to his orderly. + +“Ah, Bondarénko, dear friend!” said he to the hussar who rushed up +headlong to the horse. “Walk him up and down, my dear fellow,” he +continued, with that gay brotherly cordiality which goodhearted young +people show to everyone when they are happy. + +“Yes, your excellency,” answered the Ukrainian gaily, tossing his +head. + +“Mind, walk him up and down well!” + +Another hussar also rushed toward the horse, but Bondarénko had already +thrown the reins of the snaffle bridle over the horse’s head. It was +evident that the cadet was liberal with his tips and that it paid to +serve him. Rostóv patted the horse’s neck and then his flank, and +lingered for a moment. + +“Splendid! What a horse he will be!” he thought with a smile, and +holding up his saber, his spurs jingling, he ran up the steps of the +porch. His landlord, who in a waistcoat and a pointed cap, pitchfork in +hand, was clearing manure from the cowhouse, looked out, and his face +immediately brightened on seeing Rostóv. “Schön gut Morgen! Schön +gut Morgen!” * he said winking with a merry smile, evidently pleased +to greet the young man. + + * “A very good morning! A very good morning!” + + +“Schon fleissig?” * said Rostóv with the same gay brotherly smile +which did not leave his eager face. “Hoch Oestreicher! Hoch Russen! +Kaiser Alexander hoch!” *(2) said he, quoting words often repeated by +the German landlord. + + * “Busy already?” + + * (2) “Hurrah for the Austrians! Hurrah for the Russians! + Hurrah for Emperor Alexander!” + + +The German laughed, came out of the cowshed, pulled off his cap, and +waving it above his head cried: + +“Und die ganze Welt hoch!” * + + * “And hurrah for the whole world!” + + +Rostóv waved his cap above his head like the German and cried laughing, +“Und vivat die ganze Welt!” Though neither the German cleaning his +cowshed nor Rostóv back with his platoon from foraging for hay had any +reason for rejoicing, they looked at each other with joyful delight and +brotherly love, wagged their heads in token of their mutual affection, +and parted smiling, the German returning to his cowshed and Rostóv +going to the cottage he occupied with Denísov. + +“What about your master?” he asked Lavrúshka, Denísov’s orderly, +whom all the regiment knew for a rogue. + +“Hasn’t been in since the evening. Must have been losing,” +answered Lavrúshka. “I know by now, if he wins he comes back early to +brag about it, but if he stays out till morning it means he’s lost and +will come back in a rage. Will you have coffee?” + +“Yes, bring some.” + +Ten minutes later Lavrúshka brought the coffee. “He’s coming!” +said he. “Now for trouble!” Rostóv looked out of the window and +saw Denísov coming home. Denísov was a small man with a red face, +sparkling black eyes, and black tousled mustache and hair. He wore an +unfastened cloak, wide breeches hanging down in creases, and a crumpled +shako on the back of his head. He came up to the porch gloomily, hanging +his head. + +“Lavwúska!” he shouted loudly and angrily, “take it off, +blockhead!” + +“Well, I am taking it off,” replied Lavrúshka’s voice. + +“Ah, you’re up already,” said Denísov, entering the room. + +“Long ago,” answered Rostóv, “I have already been for the hay, +and have seen Fräulein Mathilde.” + +“Weally! And I’ve been losing, bwother. I lost yesterday like a +damned fool!” cried Denísov, not pronouncing his r’s. “Such ill +luck! Such ill luck. As soon as you left, it began and went on. Hullo +there! Tea!” + +Puckering up his face though smiling, and showing his short strong +teeth, he began with stubby fingers of both hands to ruffle up his thick +tangled black hair. + +“And what devil made me go to that wat?” (an officer nicknamed +“the rat”) he said, rubbing his forehead and whole face with both +hands. “Just fancy, he didn’t let me win a single cahd, not one +cahd.” + +He took the lighted pipe that was offered to him, gripped it in his +fist, and tapped it on the floor, making the sparks fly, while he +continued to shout. + +“He lets one win the singles and collahs it as soon as one doubles it; +gives the singles and snatches the doubles!” + +He scattered the burning tobacco, smashed the pipe, and threw it away. +Then he remained silent for a while, and all at once looked cheerfully +with his glittering, black eyes at Rostóv. + +“If at least we had some women here; but there’s nothing foh one +to do but dwink. If we could only get to fighting soon. Hullo, who’s +there?” he said, turning to the door as he heard a tread of heavy +boots and the clinking of spurs that came to a stop, and a respectful +cough. + +“The squadron quartermaster!” said Lavrúshka. + +Denísov’s face puckered still more. + +“Wetched!” he muttered, throwing down a purse with some gold in it. +“Wostóv, deah fellow, just see how much there is left and shove the +purse undah the pillow,” he said, and went out to the quartermaster. + +Rostóv took the money and, mechanically arranging the old and new coins +in separate piles, began counting them. + +“Ah! Telyánin! How d’ye do? They plucked me last night,” came +Denísov’s voice from the next room. + +“Where? At Bykov’s, at the rat’s... I knew it,” replied a piping +voice, and Lieutenant Telyánin, a small officer of the same squadron, +entered the room. + +Rostóv thrust the purse under the pillow and shook the damp little hand +which was offered him. Telyánin for some reason had been transferred +from the Guards just before this campaign. He behaved very well in the +regiment but was not liked; Rostóv especially detested him and was +unable to overcome or conceal his groundless antipathy to the man. + +“Well, young cavalryman, how is my Rook behaving?” he asked. (Rook +was a young horse Telyánin had sold to Rostóv.) + +The lieutenant never looked the man he was speaking to straight in the +face; his eyes continually wandered from one object to another. + +“I saw you riding this morning...” he added. + +“Oh, he’s all right, a good horse,” answered Rostóv, though the +horse for which he had paid seven hundred rubbles was not worth half +that sum. “He’s begun to go a little lame on the left foreleg,” he +added. + +“The hoof’s cracked! That’s nothing. I’ll teach you what to do +and show you what kind of rivet to use.” + +“Yes, please do,” said Rostóv. + +“I’ll show you, I’ll show you! It’s not a secret. And it’s a +horse you’ll thank me for.” + +“Then I’ll have it brought round,” said Rostóv wishing to avoid +Telyánin, and he went out to give the order. + +In the passage Denísov, with a pipe, was squatting on the threshold +facing the quartermaster who was reporting to him. On seeing Rostóv, +Denísov screwed up his face and pointing over his shoulder with his +thumb to the room where Telyánin was sitting, he frowned and gave a +shudder of disgust. + +“Ugh! I don’t like that fellow,” he said, regardless of the +quartermaster’s presence. + +Rostóv shrugged his shoulders as much as to say: “Nor do I, but +what’s one to do?” and, having given his order, he returned to +Telyánin. + +Telyánin was sitting in the same indolent pose in which Rostóv had +left him, rubbing his small white hands. + +“Well there certainly are disgusting people,” thought Rostóv as he +entered. + +“Have you told them to bring the horse?” asked Telyánin, getting up +and looking carelessly about him. + +“I have.” + +“Let us go ourselves. I only came round to ask Denísov about +yesterday’s order. Have you got it, Denísov?” + +“Not yet. But where are you off to?” + +“I want to teach this young man how to shoe a horse,” said +Telyánin. + +They went through the porch and into the stable. The lieutenant +explained how to rivet the hoof and went away to his own quarters. + +When Rostóv went back there was a bottle of vodka and a sausage on the +table. Denísov was sitting there scratching with his pen on a sheet of +paper. He looked gloomily in Rostóv’s face and said: “I am witing +to her.” + +He leaned his elbows on the table with his pen in his hand and, +evidently glad of a chance to say quicker in words what he wanted to +write, told Rostóv the contents of his letter. + +“You see, my fwiend,” he said, “we sleep when we don’t love. We +are childwen of the dust... but one falls in love and one is a God, one +is pua’ as on the fihst day of cweation... Who’s that now? Send him +to the devil, I’m busy!” he shouted to Lavrúshka, who went up to +him not in the least abashed. + +“Who should it be? You yourself told him to come. It’s the +quartermaster for the money.” + +Denísov frowned and was about to shout some reply but stopped. + +“Wetched business,” he muttered to himself. “How much is left in +the puhse?” he asked, turning to Rostóv. + +“Seven new and three old imperials.” + +“Oh, it’s wetched! Well, what are you standing there for, you +sca’cwow? Call the quahtehmasteh,” he shouted to Lavrúshka. + +“Please, Denísov, let me lend you some: I have some, you know,” +said Rostóv, blushing. + +“Don’t like bowwowing from my own fellows, I don’t,” growled +Denísov. + +“But if you won’t accept money from me like a comrade, you will +offend me. Really I have some,” Rostóv repeated. + +“No, I tell you.” + +And Denísov went to the bed to get the purse from under the pillow. + +“Where have you put it, Wostóv?” + +“Under the lower pillow.” + +“It’s not there.” + +Denísov threw both pillows on the floor. The purse was not there. + +“That’s a miwacle.” + +“Wait, haven’t you dropped it?” said Rostóv, picking up the +pillows one at a time and shaking them. + +He pulled off the quilt and shook it. The purse was not there. + +“Dear me, can I have forgotten? No, I remember thinking that you kept +it under your head like a treasure,” said Rostóv. “I put it just +here. Where is it?” he asked, turning to Lavrúshka. + +“I haven’t been in the room. It must be where you put it.” + +“But it isn’t?...” + +“You’re always like that; you thwow a thing down anywhere and forget +it. Feel in your pockets.” + +“No, if I hadn’t thought of it being a treasure,” said Rostóv, +“but I remember putting it there.” + +Lavrúshka turned all the bedding over, looked under the bed and under +the table, searched everywhere, and stood still in the middle of the +room. Denísov silently watched Lavrúshka’s movements, and when the +latter threw up his arms in surprise saying it was nowhere to be found +Denísov glanced at Rostóv. + +“Wostóv, you’ve not been playing schoolboy twicks...” + +Rostóv felt Denísov’s gaze fixed on him, raised his eyes, and +instantly dropped them again. All the blood which had seemed congested +somewhere below his throat rushed to his face and eyes. He could not +draw breath. + +“And there hasn’t been anyone in the room except the lieutenant and +yourselves. It must be here somewhere,” said Lavrúshka. + +“Now then, you devil’s puppet, look alive and hunt for it!” +shouted Denísov, suddenly, turning purple and rushing at the man with +a threatening gesture. “If the purse isn’t found I’ll flog you, +I’ll flog you all.” + +Rostóv, his eyes avoiding Denísov, began buttoning his coat, buckled +on his saber, and put on his cap. + +“I must have that purse, I tell you,” shouted Denísov, shaking his +orderly by the shoulders and knocking him against the wall. + +“Denísov, let him alone, I know who has taken it,” said Rostóv, +going toward the door without raising his eyes. Denísov paused, thought +a moment, and, evidently understanding what Rostóv hinted at, seized +his arm. + +“Nonsense!” he cried, and the veins on his forehead and neck stood +out like cords. “You are mad, I tell you. I won’t allow it. +The purse is here! I’ll flay this scoundwel alive, and it will be +found.” + +“I know who has taken it,” repeated Rostóv in an unsteady voice, +and went to the door. + +“And I tell you, don’t you dahe to do it!” shouted Denísov, +rushing at the cadet to restrain him. + +But Rostóv pulled away his arm and, with as much anger as though +Denísov were his worst enemy, firmly fixed his eyes directly on his +face. + +“Do you understand what you’re saying?” he said in a trembling +voice. “There was no one else in the room except myself. So that if it +is not so, then...” + +He could not finish, and ran out of the room. + +“Ah, may the devil take you and evewybody,” were the last words +Rostóv heard. + +Rostóv went to Telyánin’s quarters. + +“The master is not in, he’s gone to headquarters,” said +Telyánin’s orderly. “Has something happened?” he added, surprised +at the cadet’s troubled face. + +“No, nothing.” + +“You’ve only just missed him,” said the orderly. + +The headquarters were situated two miles away from Salzeneck, and +Rostóv, without returning home, took a horse and rode there. There was +an inn in the village which the officers frequented. Rostóv rode up to +it and saw Telyánin’s horse at the porch. + +In the second room of the inn the lieutenant was sitting over a dish of +sausages and a bottle of wine. + +“Ah, you’ve come here too, young man!” he said, smiling and +raising his eyebrows. + +“Yes,” said Rostóv as if it cost him a great deal to utter the +word; and he sat down at the nearest table. + +Both were silent. There were two Germans and a Russian officer in the +room. No one spoke and the only sounds heard were the clatter of knives +and the munching of the lieutenant. + +When Telyánin had finished his lunch he took out of his pocket a double +purse and, drawing its rings aside with his small, white, turned-up +fingers, drew out a gold imperial, and lifting his eyebrows gave it to +the waiter. + +“Please be quick,” he said. + +The coin was a new one. Rostóv rose and went up to Telyánin. + +“Allow me to look at your purse,” he said in a low, almost +inaudible, voice. + +With shifting eyes but eyebrows still raised, Telyánin handed him the +purse. + +“Yes, it’s a nice purse. Yes, yes,” he said, growing suddenly +pale, and added, “Look at it, young man.” + +Rostóv took the purse in his hand, examined it and the money in it, and +looked at Telyánin. The lieutenant was looking about in his usual way +and suddenly seemed to grow very merry. + +“If we get to Vienna I’ll get rid of it there but in these wretched +little towns there’s nowhere to spend it,” said he. “Well, let me +have it, young man, I’m going.” + +Rostóv did not speak. + +“And you? Are you going to have lunch too? They feed you quite +decently here,” continued Telyánin. “Now then, let me have it.” + +He stretched out his hand to take hold of the purse. Rostóv let go of +it. Telyánin took the purse and began carelessly slipping it into the +pocket of his riding breeches, with his eyebrows lifted and his mouth +slightly open, as if to say, “Yes, yes, I am putting my purse in my +pocket and that’s quite simple and is no one else’s business.” + +“Well, young man?” he said with a sigh, and from under his lifted +brows he glanced into Rostóv’s eyes. + +Some flash as of an electric spark shot from Telyánin’s eyes to +Rostóv’s and back, and back again and again in an instant. + +“Come here,” said Rostóv, catching hold of Telyánin’s arm and +almost dragging him to the window. “That money is Denísov’s; you +took it...” he whispered just above Telyánin’s ear. + +“What? What? How dare you? What?” said Telyánin. + +But these words came like a piteous, despairing cry and an entreaty for +pardon. As soon as Rostóv heard them, an enormous load of doubt +fell from him. He was glad, and at the same instant began to pity the +miserable man who stood before him, but the task he had begun had to be +completed. + +“Heaven only knows what the people here may imagine,” muttered +Telyánin, taking up his cap and moving toward a small empty room. “We +must have an explanation...” + +“I know it and shall prove it,” said Rostóv. + +“I...” + +Every muscle of Telyánin’s pale, terrified face began to quiver, his +eyes still shifted from side to side but with a downward look not rising +to Rostóv’s face, and his sobs were audible. + +“Count!... Don’t ruin a young fellow... here is this wretched money, +take it...” He threw it on the table. “I have an old father and +mother!...” + +Rostóv took the money, avoiding Telyánin’s eyes, and went out of the +room without a word. But at the door he stopped and then retraced his +steps. “O God,” he said with tears in his eyes, “how could you do +it?” + +“Count...” said Telyánin drawing nearer to him. + +“Don’t touch me,” said Rostóv, drawing back. “If you need it, +take the money,” and he threw the purse to him and ran out of the inn. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +That same evening there was an animated discussion among the +squadron’s officers in Denísov’s quarters. + +“And I tell you, Rostóv, that you must apologize to the colonel!” +said a tall, grizzly-haired staff captain, with enormous mustaches and +many wrinkles on his large features, to Rostóv who was crimson with +excitement. + +The staff captain, Kírsten, had twice been reduced to the ranks for +affairs of honor and had twice regained his commission. + +“I will allow no one to call me a liar!” cried Rostóv. “He told +me I lied, and I told him he lied. And there it rests. He may keep me +on duty every day, or may place me under arrest, but no one can make +me apologize, because if he, as commander of this regiment, thinks it +beneath his dignity to give me satisfaction, then...” + +“You just wait a moment, my dear fellow, and listen,” interrupted +the staff captain in his deep bass, calmly stroking his long mustache. +“You tell the colonel in the presence of other officers that an +officer has stolen...” + +“I’m not to blame that the conversation began in the presence of +other officers. Perhaps I ought not to have spoken before them, but I am +not a diplomatist. That’s why I joined the hussars, thinking that here +one would not need finesse; and he tells me that I am lying—so let him +give me satisfaction...” + +“That’s all right. No one thinks you a coward, but that’s not the +point. Ask Denísov whether it is not out of the question for a cadet to +demand satisfaction of his regimental commander?” + +Denísov sat gloomily biting his mustache and listening to the +conversation, evidently with no wish to take part in it. He answered the +staff captain’s question by a disapproving shake of his head. + +“You speak to the colonel about this nasty business before other +officers,” continued the staff captain, “and Bogdánich” (the +colonel was called Bogdánich) “shuts you up.” + +“He did not shut me up, he said I was telling an untruth.” + +“Well, have it so, and you talked a lot of nonsense to him and must +apologize.” + +“Not on any account!” exclaimed Rostóv. + +“I did not expect this of you,” said the staff captain seriously and +severely. “You don’t wish to apologize, but, man, it’s not only to +him but to the whole regiment—all of us—you’re to blame all round. +The case is this: you ought to have thought the matter over and +taken advice; but no, you go and blurt it all straight out before the +officers. Now what was the colonel to do? Have the officer tried and +disgrace the whole regiment? Disgrace the whole regiment because of one +scoundrel? Is that how you look at it? We don’t see it like that. And +Bogdánich was a brick: he told you you were saying what was not true. +It’s not pleasant, but what’s to be done, my dear fellow? You landed +yourself in it. And now, when one wants to smooth the thing over, some +conceit prevents your apologizing, and you wish to make the whole +affair public. You are offended at being put on duty a bit, but why not +apologize to an old and honorable officer? Whatever Bogdánich may +be, anyway he is an honorable and brave old colonel! You’re quick at +taking offense, but you don’t mind disgracing the whole regiment!” +The staff captain’s voice began to tremble. “You have been in the +regiment next to no time, my lad, you’re here today and tomorrow +you’ll be appointed adjutant somewhere and can snap your fingers when +it is said ‘There are thieves among the Pávlograd officers!’ But +it’s not all the same to us! Am I not right, Denísov? It’s not the +same!” + +Denísov remained silent and did not move, but occasionally looked with +his glittering black eyes at Rostóv. + +“You value your own pride and don’t wish to apologize,” continued +the staff captain, “but we old fellows, who have grown up in and, God +willing, are going to die in the regiment, we prize the honor of the +regiment, and Bogdánich knows it. Oh, we do prize it, old fellow! And +all this is not right, it’s not right! You may take offense or not but +I always stick to mother truth. It’s not right!” + +And the staff captain rose and turned away from Rostóv. + +“That’s twue, devil take it!” shouted Denísov, jumping up. “Now +then, Wostóv, now then!” + +Rostóv, growing red and pale alternately, looked first at one officer +and then at the other. + +“No, gentlemen, no... you mustn’t think... I quite understand. +You’re wrong to think that of me... I... for me... for the honor of +the regiment I’d... Ah well, I’ll show that in action, and for me +the honor of the flag... Well, never mind, it’s true I’m to blame, +to blame all round. Well, what else do you want?...” + +“Come, that’s right, Count!” cried the staff captain, turning +round and clapping Rostóv on the shoulder with his big hand. + +“I tell you,” shouted Denísov, “he’s a fine fellow.” + +“That’s better, Count,” said the staff captain, beginning to +address Rostóv by his title, as if in recognition of his confession. +“Go and apologize, your excellency. Yes, go!” + +“Gentlemen, I’ll do anything. No one shall hear a word from me,” +said Rostóv in an imploring voice, “but I can’t apologize, by God I +can’t, do what you will! How can I go and apologize like a little boy +asking forgiveness?” + +Denísov began to laugh. + +“It’ll be worse for you. Bogdánich is vindictive and you’ll pay +for your obstinacy,” said Kírsten. + +“No, on my word it’s not obstinacy! I can’t describe the feeling. +I can’t...” + +“Well, it’s as you like,” said the staff captain. “And what has +become of that scoundrel?” he asked Denísov. + +“He has weported himself sick, he’s to be stwuck off the list +tomowwow,” muttered Denísov. + +“It is an illness, there’s no other way of explaining it,” said +the staff captain. + +“Illness or not, he’d better not cwoss my path. I’d kill him!” +shouted Denísov in a bloodthirsty tone. + +Just then Zherkóv entered the room. + +“What brings you here?” cried the officers turning to the newcomer. + +“We’re to go into action, gentlemen! Mack has surrendered with his +whole army.” + +“It’s not true!” + +“I’ve seen him myself!” + +“What? Saw the real Mack? With hands and feet?” + +“Into action! Into action! Bring him a bottle for such news! But how +did you come here?” + +“I’ve been sent back to the regiment all on account of that devil, +Mack. An Austrian general complained of me. I congratulated him on +Mack’s arrival... What’s the matter, Rostóv? You look as if you’d +just come out of a hot bath.” + +“Oh, my dear fellow, we’re in such a stew here these last two +days.” + +The regimental adjutant came in and confirmed the news brought by +Zherkóv. They were under orders to advance next day. + +“We’re going into action, gentlemen!” + +“Well, thank God! We’ve been sitting here too long!” + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +Kutúzov fell back toward Vienna, destroying behind him the bridges over +the rivers Inn (at Braunau) and Traun (near Linz). On October 23 the +Russian troops were crossing the river Enns. At midday the Russian +baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling +through the town of Enns on both sides of the bridge. + +It was a warm, rainy, autumnal day. The wide expanse that opened out +before the heights on which the Russian batteries stood guarding the +bridge was at times veiled by a diaphanous curtain of slanting rain, and +then, suddenly spread out in the sunlight, far-distant objects could +be clearly seen glittering as though freshly varnished. Down below, +the little town could be seen with its white, red-roofed houses, its +cathedral, and its bridge, on both sides of which streamed jostling +masses of Russian troops. At the bend of the Danube, vessels, an island, +and a castle with a park surrounded by the waters of the confluence of +the Enns and the Danube became visible, and the rocky left bank of the +Danube covered with pine forests, with a mystic background of green +treetops and bluish gorges. The turrets of a convent stood out beyond a +wild virgin pine forest, and far away on the other side of the Enns the +enemy’s horse patrols could be discerned. + +Among the field guns on the brow of the hill the general in command of +the rearguard stood with a staff officer, scanning the country through +his fieldglass. A little behind them Nesvítski, who had been sent to +the rearguard by the commander in chief, was sitting on the trail of a +gun carriage. A Cossack who accompanied him had handed him a knapsack +and a flask, and Nesvítski was treating some officers to pies and real +doppelkümmel. The officers gladly gathered round him, some on their +knees, some squatting Turkish fashion on the wet grass. + +“Yes, the Austrian prince who built that castle was no fool. It’s +a fine place! Why are you not eating anything, gentlemen?” Nesvítski +was saying. + +“Thank you very much, Prince,” answered one of the officers, pleased +to be talking to a staff officer of such importance. “It’s a lovely +place! We passed close to the park and saw two deer... and what a +splendid house!” + +“Look, Prince,” said another, who would have dearly liked to take +another pie but felt shy, and therefore pretended to be examining the +countryside—“See, our infantrymen have already got there. Look there +in the meadow behind the village, three of them are dragging something. +They’ll ransack that castle,” he remarked with evident approval. + +“So they will,” said Nesvítski. “No, but what I should like,” +added he, munching a pie in his moist-lipped handsome mouth, “would be +to slip in over there.” + +He pointed with a smile to a turreted nunnery, and his eyes narrowed and +gleamed. + +“That would be fine, gentlemen!” + +The officers laughed. + +“Just to flutter the nuns a bit. They say there are Italian girls +among them. On my word I’d give five years of my life for it!” + +“They must be feeling dull, too,” said one of the bolder officers, +laughing. + +Meanwhile the staff officer standing in front pointed out something to +the general, who looked through his field glass. + +“Yes, so it is, so it is,” said the general angrily, lowering the +field glass and shrugging his shoulders, “so it is! They’ll be fired +on at the crossing. And why are they dawdling there?” + +On the opposite side the enemy could be seen by the naked eye, and from +their battery a milk-white cloud arose. Then came the distant report of +a shot, and our troops could be seen hurrying to the crossing. + +Nesvítski rose, puffing, and went up to the general, smiling. + +“Would not your excellency like a little refreshment?” he said. + +“It’s a bad business,” said the general without answering him, +“our men have been wasting time.” + +“Hadn’t I better ride over, your excellency?” asked Nesvítski. + +“Yes, please do,” answered the general, and he repeated the order +that had already once been given in detail: “and tell the hussars +that they are to cross last and to fire the bridge as I ordered; and the +inflammable material on the bridge must be reinspected.” + +“Very good,” answered Nesvítski. + +He called the Cossack with his horse, told him to put away the knapsack +and flask, and swung his heavy person easily into the saddle. + +“I’ll really call in on the nuns,” he said to the officers who +watched him smilingly, and he rode off by the winding path down the +hill. + +“Now then, let’s see how far it will carry, Captain. Just try!” +said the general, turning to an artillery officer. “Have a little fun +to pass the time.” + +“Crew, to your guns!” commanded the officer. + +In a moment the men came running gaily from their campfires and began +loading. + +“One!” came the command. + +Number one jumped briskly aside. The gun rang out with a deafening +metallic roar, and a whistling grenade flew above the heads of our +troops below the hill and fell far short of the enemy, a little smoke +showing the spot where it burst. + +The faces of officers and men brightened up at the sound. Everyone got +up and began watching the movements of our troops below, as plainly +visible as if but a stone’s throw away, and the movements of the +approaching enemy farther off. At the same instant the sun came fully +out from behind the clouds, and the clear sound of the solitary shot +and the brilliance of the bright sunshine merged in a single joyous and +spirited impression. + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +Two of the enemy’s shots had already flown across the bridge, where +there was a crush. Halfway across stood Prince Nesvítski, who had +alighted from his horse and whose big body was jammed against the +railings. He looked back laughing to the Cossack who stood a few +steps behind him holding two horses by their bridles. Each time Prince +Nesvítski tried to move on, soldiers and carts pushed him back again +and pressed him against the railings, and all he could do was to smile. + +“What a fine fellow you are, friend!” said the Cossack to a convoy +soldier with a wagon, who was pressing onto the infantrymen who were +crowded together close to his wheels and his horses. “What a fellow! +You can’t wait a moment! Don’t you see the general wants to pass?” + +But the convoyman took no notice of the word “general” and shouted +at the soldiers who were blocking his way. “Hi there, boys! Keep to +the left! Wait a bit.” But the soldiers, crowded together shoulder to +shoulder, their bayonets interlocking, moved over the bridge in a dense +mass. Looking down over the rails Prince Nesvítski saw the rapid, noisy +little waves of the Enns, which rippling and eddying round the piles of +the bridge chased each other along. Looking on the bridge he saw equally +uniform living waves of soldiers, shoulder straps, covered shakos, +knapsacks, bayonets, long muskets, and, under the shakos, faces with +broad cheekbones, sunken cheeks, and listless tired expressions, and +feet that moved through the sticky mud that covered the planks of the +bridge. Sometimes through the monotonous waves of men, like a fleck of +white foam on the waves of the Enns, an officer, in a cloak and with +a type of face different from that of the men, squeezed his way along; +sometimes like a chip of wood whirling in the river, an hussar on foot, +an orderly, or a townsman was carried through the waves of infantry; +and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers’ or +company’s baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered, and hemmed in on +all sides, moved across the bridge. + +“It’s as if a dam had burst,” said the Cossack hopelessly. “Are +there many more of you to come?” + +“A million all but one!” replied a waggish soldier in a torn coat, +with a wink, and passed on followed by another, an old man. + +“If he” (he meant the enemy) “begins popping at the bridge now,” +said the old soldier dismally to a comrade, “you’ll forget to +scratch yourself.” + +That soldier passed on, and after him came another sitting on a cart. + +“Where the devil have the leg bands been shoved to?” said an +orderly, running behind the cart and fumbling in the back of it. + +And he also passed on with the wagon. Then came some merry soldiers who +had evidently been drinking. + +“And then, old fellow, he gives him one in the teeth with the butt +end of his gun...” a soldier whose greatcoat was well tucked up said +gaily, with a wide swing of his arm. + +“Yes, the ham was just delicious...” answered another with a loud +laugh. And they, too, passed on, so that Nesvítski did not learn who +had been struck on the teeth, or what the ham had to do with it. + +“Bah! How they scurry. He just sends a ball and they think they’ll +all be killed,” a sergeant was saying angrily and reproachfully. + +“As it flies past me, Daddy, the ball I mean,” said a young soldier +with an enormous mouth, hardly refraining from laughing, “I felt like +dying of fright. I did, ‘pon my word, I got that frightened!” said +he, as if bragging of having been frightened. + +That one also passed. Then followed a cart unlike any that had gone +before. It was a German cart with a pair of horses led by a German, and +seemed loaded with a whole houseful of effects. A fine brindled cow with +a large udder was attached to the cart behind. A woman with an unweaned +baby, an old woman, and a healthy German girl with bright red cheeks +were sitting on some feather beds. Evidently these fugitives were +allowed to pass by special permission. The eyes of all the soldiers +turned toward the women, and while the vehicle was passing at foot pace +all the soldiers’ remarks related to the two young ones. Every face +bore almost the same smile, expressing unseemly thoughts about the +women. + +“Just see, the German sausage is making tracks, too!” + +“Sell me the missis,” said another soldier, addressing the German, +who, angry and frightened, strode energetically along with downcast +eyes. + +“See how smart she’s made herself! Oh, the devils!” + +“There, Fedótov, you should be quartered on them!” + +“I have seen as much before now, mate!” + +“Where are you going?” asked an infantry officer who was eating an +apple, also half smiling as he looked at the handsome girl. + +The German closed his eyes, signifying that he did not understand. + +“Take it if you like,” said the officer, giving the girl an apple. + +The girl smiled and took it. Nesvítski like the rest of the men on the +bridge did not take his eyes off the women till they had passed. When +they had gone by, the same stream of soldiers followed, with the same +kind of talk, and at last all stopped. As often happens, the horses of +a convoy wagon became restive at the end of the bridge, and the whole +crowd had to wait. + +“And why are they stopping? There’s no proper order!” said the +soldiers. “Where are you shoving to? Devil take you! Can’t you wait? +It’ll be worse if he fires the bridge. See, here’s an officer jammed +in too”—different voices were saying in the crowd, as the men looked +at one another, and all pressed toward the exit from the bridge. + +Looking down at the waters of the Enns under the bridge, Nesvítski +suddenly heard a sound new to him, of something swiftly approaching... +something big, that splashed into the water. + +“Just see where it carries to!” a soldier near by said sternly, +looking round at the sound. + +“Encouraging us to get along quicker,” said another uneasily. + +The crowd moved on again. Nesvítski realized that it was a cannon ball. + +“Hey, Cossack, my horse!” he said. “Now, then, you there! get out +of the way! Make way!” + +With great difficulty he managed to get to his horse, and shouting +continually he moved on. The soldiers squeezed themselves to make way +for him, but again pressed on him so that they jammed his leg, and those +nearest him were not to blame for they were themselves pressed still +harder from behind. + +“Nesvítski, Nesvítski! you numskull!” came a hoarse voice from +behind him. + +Nesvítski looked round and saw, some fifteen paces away but separated +by the living mass of moving infantry, Váska Denísov, red and shaggy, +with his cap on the back of his black head and a cloak hanging jauntily +over his shoulder. + +“Tell these devils, these fiends, to let me pass!” shouted Denísov +evidently in a fit of rage, his coal-black eyes with their bloodshot +whites glittering and rolling as he waved his sheathed saber in a small +bare hand as red as his face. + +“Ah, Váska!” joyfully replied Nesvítski. “What’s up with +you?” + +“The squadwon can’t pass,” shouted Váska Denísov, showing his +white teeth fiercely and spurring his black thoroughbred Arab, which +twitched its ears as the bayonets touched it, and snorted, spurting +white foam from his bit, tramping the planks of the bridge with his +hoofs, and apparently ready to jump over the railings had his rider let +him. “What is this? They’re like sheep! Just like sheep! Out of the +way!... Let us pass!... Stop there, you devil with the cart! I’ll hack +you with my saber!” he shouted, actually drawing his saber from its +scabbard and flourishing it. + +The soldiers crowded against one another with terrified faces, and +Denísov joined Nesvítski. + +“How’s it you’re not drunk today?” said Nesvítski when the +other had ridden up to him. + +“They don’t even give one time to dwink!” answered Váska +Denísov. “They keep dwagging the wegiment to and fwo all day. If they +mean to fight, let’s fight. But the devil knows what this is.” + +“What a dandy you are today!” said Nesvítski, looking at +Denísov’s new cloak and saddlecloth. + +Denísov smiled, took out of his sabretache a handkerchief that diffused +a smell of perfume, and put it to Nesvítski’s nose. + +“Of course. I’m going into action! I’ve shaved, bwushed my teeth, +and scented myself.” + +The imposing figure of Nesvítski followed by his Cossack, and +the determination of Denísov who flourished his sword and shouted +frantically, had such an effect that they managed to squeeze through +to the farther side of the bridge and stopped the infantry. Beside the +bridge Nesvítski found the colonel to whom he had to deliver the order, +and having done this he rode back. + +Having cleared the way Denísov stopped at the end of the bridge. +Carelessly holding in his stallion that was neighing and pawing the +ground, eager to rejoin its fellows, he watched his squadron draw +nearer. Then the clang of hoofs, as of several horses galloping, +resounded on the planks of the bridge, and the squadron, officers in +front and men four abreast, spread across the bridge and began to emerge +on his side of it. + +The infantry who had been stopped crowded near the bridge in the +trampled mud and gazed with that particular feeling of ill-will, +estrangement, and ridicule with which troops of different arms usually +encounter one another at the clean, smart hussars who moved past them in +regular order. + +“Smart lads! Only fit for a fair!” said one. + +“What good are they? They’re led about just for show!” remarked +another. + +“Don’t kick up the dust, you infantry!” jested an hussar whose +prancing horse had splashed mud over some foot soldiers. + +“I’d like to put you on a two days’ march with a knapsack! Your +fine cords would soon get a bit rubbed,” said an infantryman, wiping +the mud off his face with his sleeve. “Perched up there, you’re more +like a bird than a man.” + +“There now, Zíkin, they ought to put you on a horse. You’d look +fine,” said a corporal, chaffing a thin little soldier who bent under +the weight of his knapsack. + +“Take a stick between your legs, that’ll suit you for a horse!” +the hussar shouted back. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +The last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing +together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel. At last +the baggage wagons had all crossed, the crush was less, and the last +battalion came onto the bridge. Only Denísov’s squadron of hussars +remained on the farther side of the bridge facing the enemy, who could +be seen from the hill on the opposite bank but was not yet visible from +the bridge, for the horizon as seen from the valley through which the +river flowed was formed by the rising ground only half a mile away. +At the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our +Cossack scouts were moving. Suddenly on the road at the top of the high +ground, artillery and troops in blue uniform were seen. These were the +French. A group of Cossack scouts retired down the hill at a trot. All +the officers and men of Denísov’s squadron, though they tried to talk +of other things and to look in other directions, thought only of what +was there on the hilltop, and kept constantly looking at the patches +appearing on the skyline, which they knew to be the enemy’s troops. +The weather had cleared again since noon and the sun was descending +brightly upon the Danube and the dark hills around it. It was calm, and +at intervals the bugle calls and the shouts of the enemy could be heard +from the hill. There was no one now between the squadron and the enemy +except a few scattered skirmishers. An empty space of some seven hundred +yards was all that separated them. The enemy ceased firing, and that +stern, threatening, inaccessible, and intangible line which separates +two hostile armies was all the more clearly felt. + +“One step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing +the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. And +what is there? Who is there?—there beyond that field, that tree, that +roof lit up by the sun? No one knows, but one wants to know. You fear +and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must +be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will +inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. But you are +strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and are surrounded by other such +excitedly animated and healthy men.” So thinks, or at any rate +feels, anyone who comes in sight of the enemy, and that feeling gives +a particular glamour and glad keenness of impression to everything that +takes place at such moments. + +On the high ground where the enemy was, the smoke of a cannon rose, +and a ball flew whistling over the heads of the hussar squadron. The +officers who had been standing together rode off to their places. The +hussars began carefully aligning their horses. Silence fell on the whole +squadron. All were looking at the enemy in front and at the squadron +commander, awaiting the word of command. A second and a third cannon +ball flew past. Evidently they were firing at the hussars, but the balls +with rapid rhythmic whistle flew over the heads of the horsemen and fell +somewhere beyond them. The hussars did not look round, but at the sound +of each shot, as at the word of command, the whole squadron with its +rows of faces so alike yet so different, holding its breath while the +ball flew past, rose in the stirrups and sank back again. The soldiers +without turning their heads glanced at one another, curious to see their +comrades’ impression. Every face, from Denísov’s to that of the +bugler, showed one common expression of conflict, irritation, and +excitement, around chin and mouth. The quartermaster frowned, looking +at the soldiers as if threatening to punish them. Cadet Mirónov ducked +every time a ball flew past. Rostóv on the left flank, mounted on his +Rook—a handsome horse despite its game leg—had the happy air of a +schoolboy called up before a large audience for an examination in which +he feels sure he will distinguish himself. He was glancing at everyone +with a clear, bright expression, as if asking them to notice how calmly +he sat under fire. But despite himself, on his face too that same +indication of something new and stern showed round the mouth. + +“Who’s that curtseying there? Cadet Miwónov! That’s not wight! +Look at me,” cried Denísov who, unable to keep still on one spot, +kept turning his horse in front of the squadron. + +The black, hairy, snub-nosed face of Váska Denísov, and his whole +short sturdy figure with the sinewy hairy hand and stumpy fingers in +which he held the hilt of his naked saber, looked just as it usually +did, especially toward evening when he had emptied his second bottle; he +was only redder than usual. With his shaggy head thrown back like birds +when they drink, pressing his spurs mercilessly into the sides of his +good horse, Bedouin, and sitting as though falling backwards in the +saddle, he galloped to the other flank of the squadron and shouted in +a hoarse voice to the men to look to their pistols. He rode up to +Kírsten. The staff captain on his broad-backed, steady mare came at a +walk to meet him. His face with its long mustache was serious as always, +only his eyes were brighter than usual. + +“Well, what about it?” said he to Denísov. “It won’t come to a +fight. You’ll see—we shall retire.” + +“The devil only knows what they’re about!” muttered Denísov. +“Ah, Wostóv,” he cried noticing the cadet’s bright face, +“you’ve got it at last.” + +And he smiled approvingly, evidently pleased with the cadet. Rostóv +felt perfectly happy. Just then the commander appeared on the bridge. +Denísov galloped up to him. + +“Your excellency! Let us attack them! I’ll dwive them off.” + +“Attack indeed!” said the colonel in a bored voice, puckering up his +face as if driving off a troublesome fly. “And why are you stopping +here? Don’t you see the skirmishers are retreating? Lead the squadron +back.” + +The squadron crossed the bridge and drew out of range of fire without +having lost a single man. The second squadron that had been in the front +line followed them across and the last Cossacks quitted the farther side +of the river. + +The two Pávlograd squadrons, having crossed the bridge, retired up the +hill one after the other. Their colonel, Karl Bogdánich Schubert, came +up to Denísov’s squadron and rode at a footpace not far from Rostóv, +without taking any notice of him although they were now meeting for the +first time since their encounter concerning Telyánin. Rostóv, feeling +that he was at the front and in the power of a man toward whom he now +admitted that he had been to blame, did not lift his eyes from the +colonel’s athletic back, his nape covered with light hair, and his red +neck. It seemed to Rostóv that Bogdánich was only pretending not +to notice him, and that his whole aim now was to test the cadet’s +courage, so he drew himself up and looked around him merrily; then it +seemed to him that Bogdánich rode so near in order to show him his +courage. Next he thought that his enemy would send the squadron on a +desperate attack just to punish him—Rostóv. Then he imagined how, +after the attack, Bogdánich would come up to him as he lay wounded and +would magnanimously extend the hand of reconciliation. + +The high-shouldered figure of Zherkóv, familiar to the Pávlograds as +he had but recently left their regiment, rode up to the colonel. +After his dismissal from headquarters Zherkóv had not remained in the +regiment, saying he was not such a fool as to slave at the front when he +could get more rewards by doing nothing on the staff, and had succeeded +in attaching himself as an orderly officer to Prince Bagratión. He now +came to his former chief with an order from the commander of the rear +guard. + +“Colonel,” he said, addressing Rostóv’s enemy with an air of +gloomy gravity and glancing round at his comrades, “there is an order +to stop and fire the bridge.” + +“An order to who?” asked the colonel morosely. + +“I don’t myself know ‘to who,’” replied the cornet in a +serious tone, “but the prince told me to ‘go and tell the colonel +that the hussars must return quickly and fire the bridge.’” + +Zherkóv was followed by an officer of the suite who rode up to the +colonel of hussars with the same order. After him the stout Nesvítski +came galloping up on a Cossack horse that could scarcely carry his +weight. + +“How’s this, Colonel?” he shouted as he approached. “I told you +to fire the bridge, and now someone has gone and blundered; they are all +beside themselves over there and one can’t make anything out.” + +The colonel deliberately stopped the regiment and turned to Nesvítski. + +“You spoke to me of inflammable material,” said he, “but you said +nothing about firing it.” + +“But, my dear sir,” said Nesvítski as he drew up, taking off his +cap and smoothing his hair wet with perspiration with his plump hand, +“wasn’t I telling you to fire the bridge, when inflammable material +had been put in position?” + +“I am not your ‘dear sir,’ Mr. Staff Officer, and you did not tell +me to burn the bridge! I know the service, and it is my habit orders +strictly to obey. You said the bridge would be burned, but who would it +burn, I could not know by the holy spirit!” + +“Ah, that’s always the way!” said Nesvítski with a wave of the +hand. “How did you get here?” said he, turning to Zherkóv. + +“On the same business. But you are damp! Let me wring you out!” + +“You were saying, Mr. Staff Officer...” continued the colonel in an +offended tone. + +“Colonel,” interrupted the officer of the suite, “You must be +quick or the enemy will bring up his guns to use grapeshot.” + +The colonel looked silently at the officer of the suite, at the stout +staff officer, and at Zherkóv, and he frowned. + +“I will the bridge fire,” he said in a solemn tone as if to announce +that in spite of all the unpleasantness he had to endure he would still +do the right thing. + +Striking his horse with his long muscular legs as if it were to blame +for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second +squadron, that in which Rostóv was serving under Denísov, to return to +the bridge. + +“There, it’s just as I thought,” said Rostóv to himself. “He +wishes to test me!” His heart contracted and the blood rushed to his +face. “Let him see whether I am a coward!” he thought. + +Again on all the bright faces of the squadron the serious expression +appeared that they had worn when under fire. Rostóv watched his enemy, +the colonel, closely—to find in his face confirmation of his own +conjecture, but the colonel did not once glance at Rostóv, and looked +as he always did when at the front, solemn and stern. Then came the word +of command. + +“Look sharp! Look sharp!” several voices repeated around him. + +Their sabers catching in the bridles and their spurs jingling, the +hussars hastily dismounted, not knowing what they were to do. The men +were crossing themselves. Rostóv no longer looked at the colonel, he +had no time. He was afraid of falling behind the hussars, so much afraid +that his heart stood still. His hand trembled as he gave his horse into +an orderly’s charge, and he felt the blood rush to his heart with +a thud. Denísov rode past him, leaning back and shouting something. +Rostóv saw nothing but the hussars running all around him, their spurs +catching and their sabers clattering. + +“Stretchers!” shouted someone behind him. + +Rostóv did not think what this call for stretchers meant; he ran on, +trying only to be ahead of the others; but just at the bridge, not +looking at the ground, he came on some sticky, trodden mud, stumbled, +and fell on his hands. The others outstripped him. + +“At boss zides, Captain,” he heard the voice of the colonel, who, +having ridden ahead, had pulled up his horse near the bridge, with a +triumphant, cheerful face. + +Rostóv wiping his muddy hands on his breeches looked at his enemy and +was about to run on, thinking that the farther he went to the front +the better. But Bogdánich, without looking at or recognizing Rostóv, +shouted to him: + +“Who’s that running on the middle of the bridge? To the right! Come +back, Cadet!” he cried angrily; and turning to Denísov, who, showing +off his courage, had ridden on to the planks of the bridge: + +“Why run risks, Captain? You should dismount,” he said. + +“Oh, every bullet has its billet,” answered Váska Denísov, turning +in his saddle. + + +Meanwhile Nesvítski, Zherkóv, and the officer of the suite were +standing together out of range of the shots, watching, now the small +group of men with yellow shakos, dark-green jackets braided with cord, +and blue riding breeches, who were swarming near the bridge, and then at +what was approaching in the distance from the opposite side—the blue +uniforms and groups with horses, easily recognizable as artillery. + +“Will they burn the bridge or not? Who’ll get there first? Will they +get there and fire the bridge or will the French get within grapeshot +range and wipe them out?” These were the questions each man of the +troops on the high ground above the bridge involuntarily asked himself +with a sinking heart—watching the bridge and the hussars in the bright +evening light and the blue tunics advancing from the other side with +their bayonets and guns. + +“Ugh. The hussars will get it hot!” said Nesvítski; “they are +within grapeshot range now.” + +“He shouldn’t have taken so many men,” said the officer of the +suite. + +“True enough,” answered Nesvítski; “two smart fellows could have +done the job just as well.” + +“Ah, your excellency,” put in Zherkóv, his eyes fixed on the +hussars, but still with that naïve air that made it impossible to know +whether he was speaking in jest or in earnest. “Ah, your excellency! +How you look at things! Send two men? And who then would give us the +Vladímir medal and ribbon? But now, even if they do get peppered, the +squadron may be recommended for honors and he may get a ribbon. Our +Bogdánich knows how things are done.” + +“There now!” said the officer of the suite, “that’s +grapeshot.” + +He pointed to the French guns, the limbers of which were being detached +and hurriedly removed. + +On the French side, amid the groups with cannon, a cloud of smoke +appeared, then a second and a third almost simultaneously, and at the +moment when the first report was heard a fourth was seen. Then two +reports one after another, and a third. + +“Oh! Oh!” groaned Nesvítski as if in fierce pain, seizing the +officer of the suite by the arm. “Look! A man has fallen! Fallen, +fallen!” + +“Two, I think.” + +“If I were Tsar I would never go to war,” said Nesvítski, turning +away. + +The French guns were hastily reloaded. The infantry in their blue +uniforms advanced toward the bridge at a run. Smoke appeared again +but at irregular intervals, and grapeshot cracked and rattled onto the +bridge. But this time Nesvítski could not see what was happening there, +as a dense cloud of smoke arose from it. The hussars had succeeded in +setting it on fire and the French batteries were now firing at them, no +longer to hinder them but because the guns were trained and there was +someone to fire at. + +The French had time to fire three rounds of grapeshot before the hussars +got back to their horses. Two were misdirected and the shot went too +high, but the last round fell in the midst of a group of hussars and +knocked three of them over. + +Rostóv, absorbed by his relations with Bogdánich, had paused on the +bridge not knowing what to do. There was no one to hew down (as he +had always imagined battles to himself), nor could he help to fire the +bridge because he had not brought any burning straw with him like the +other soldiers. He stood looking about him, when suddenly he heard a +rattle on the bridge as if nuts were being spilt, and the hussar nearest +to him fell against the rails with a groan. Rostóv ran up to him with +the others. Again someone shouted, “Stretchers!” Four men seized the +hussar and began lifting him. + +“Oooh! For Christ’s sake let me alone!” cried the wounded man, but +still he was lifted and laid on the stretcher. + +Nicholas Rostóv turned away and, as if searching for something, gazed +into the distance, at the waters of the Danube, at the sky, and at the +sun. How beautiful the sky looked; how blue, how calm, and how deep! +How bright and glorious was the setting sun! With what soft glitter the +waters of the distant Danube shone. And fairer still were the faraway +blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and +the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits... There was peace +and happiness... “I should wish for nothing else, nothing, if only I +were there,” thought Rostóv. “In myself alone and in that sunshine +there is so much happiness; but here... groans, suffering, fear, and +this uncertainty and hurry... There—they are shouting again, and +again are all running back somewhere, and I shall run with them, and it, +death, is here above me and around... Another instant and I shall never +again see the sun, this water, that gorge!...” + +At that instant the sun began to hide behind the clouds, and other +stretchers came into view before Rostóv. And the fear of death and of +the stretchers, and love of the sun and of life, all merged into one +feeling of sickening agitation. + +“O Lord God! Thou who art in that heaven, save, forgive, and protect +me!” Rostóv whispered. + +The hussars ran back to the men who held their horses; their voices +sounded louder and calmer, the stretchers disappeared from sight. + +“Well, fwiend? So you’ve smelt powdah!” shouted Váska Denísov +just above his ear. + +“It’s all over; but I am a coward—yes, a coward!” thought +Rostóv, and sighing deeply he took Rook, his horse, which stood resting +one foot, from the orderly and began to mount. + +“Was that grapeshot?” he asked Denísov. + +“Yes and no mistake!” cried Denísov. “You worked like wegular +bwicks and it’s nasty work! An attack’s pleasant work! Hacking +away at the dogs! But this sort of thing is the very devil, with them +shooting at you like a target.” + +And Denísov rode up to a group that had stopped near Rostóv, composed +of the colonel, Nesvítski, Zherkóv, and the officer from the suite. + +“Well, it seems that no one has noticed,” thought Rostóv. And this +was true. No one had taken any notice, for everyone knew the sensation +which the cadet under fire for the first time had experienced. + +“Here’s something for you to report,” said Zherkóv. “See if I +don’t get promoted to a sublieutenancy.” + +“Inform the prince that I the bridge fired!” said the colonel +triumphantly and gaily. + +“And if he asks about the losses?” + +“A trifle,” said the colonel in his bass voice: “two hussars +wounded, and one knocked out,” he added, unable to restrain a happy +smile, and pronouncing the phrase “knocked out” with ringing +distinctness. + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +Pursued by the French army of a hundred thousand men under the command +of Bonaparte, encountering a population that was unfriendly to it, +losing confidence in its allies, suffering from shortness of supplies, +and compelled to act under conditions of war unlike anything that had +been foreseen, the Russian army of thirty-five thousand men commanded +by Kutúzov was hurriedly retreating along the Danube, stopping where +overtaken by the enemy and fighting rearguard actions only as far as +necessary to enable it to retreat without losing its heavy equipment. +There had been actions at Lambach, Amstetten, and Melk; but despite the +courage and endurance—acknowledged even by the enemy—with which the +Russians fought, the only consequence of these actions was a yet more +rapid retreat. Austrian troops that had escaped capture at Ulm and had +joined Kutúzov at Braunau now separated from the Russian army, and +Kutúzov was left with only his own weak and exhausted forces. The +defense of Vienna was no longer to be thought of. Instead of an +offensive, the plan of which, carefully prepared in accord with the +modern science of strategics, had been handed to Kutúzov when he was in +Vienna by the Austrian Hofkriegsrath, the sole and almost unattainable +aim remaining for him was to effect a junction with the forces that were +advancing from Russia, without losing his army as Mack had done at Ulm. + +On the twenty-eighth of October Kutúzov with his army crossed to the +left bank of the Danube and took up a position for the first time +with the river between himself and the main body of the French. On the +thirtieth he attacked Mortier’s division, which was on the left bank, +and broke it up. In this action for the first time trophies were taken: +banners, cannon, and two enemy generals. For the first time, after a +fortnight’s retreat, the Russian troops had halted and after a fight +had not only held the field but had repulsed the French. Though the +troops were ill-clad, exhausted, and had lost a third of their number +in killed, wounded, sick, and stragglers; though a number of sick and +wounded had been abandoned on the other side of the Danube with a letter +in which Kutúzov entrusted them to the humanity of the enemy; and +though the big hospitals and the houses in Krems converted into military +hospitals could no longer accommodate all the sick and wounded, yet the +stand made at Krems and the victory over Mortier raised the spirits of +the army considerably. Throughout the whole army and at headquarters +most joyful though erroneous rumors were rife of the imaginary approach +of columns from Russia, of some victory gained by the Austrians, and of +the retreat of the frightened Bonaparte. + +Prince Andrew during the battle had been in attendance on the Austrian +General Schmidt, who was killed in the action. His horse had been +wounded under him and his own arm slightly grazed by a bullet. As a mark +of the commander in chief’s special favor he was sent with the news of +this victory to the Austrian court, now no longer at Vienna (which was +threatened by the French) but at Brünn. Despite his apparently delicate +build Prince Andrew could endure physical fatigue far better than many +very muscular men, and on the night of the battle, having arrived +at Krems excited but not weary, with dispatches from Dokhtúrov to +Kutúzov, he was sent immediately with a special dispatch to Brünn. +To be so sent meant not only a reward but an important step toward +promotion. + +The night was dark but starry, the road showed black in the snow that +had fallen the previous day—the day of the battle. Reviewing his +impressions of the recent battle, picturing pleasantly to himself the +impression his news of a victory would create, or recalling the send-off +given him by the commander in chief and his fellow officers, Prince +Andrew was galloping along in a post chaise enjoying the feelings of a +man who has at length begun to attain a long-desired happiness. As soon +as he closed his eyes his ears seemed filled with the rattle of the +wheels and the sensation of victory. Then he began to imagine that +the Russians were running away and that he himself was killed, but he +quickly roused himself with a feeling of joy, as if learning afresh that +this was not so but that on the contrary the French had run away. He +again recalled all the details of the victory and his own calm courage +during the battle, and feeling reassured he dozed off.... The dark +starry night was followed by a bright cheerful morning. The snow was +thawing in the sunshine, the horses galloped quickly, and on both sides +of the road were forests of different kinds, fields, and villages. + +At one of the post stations he overtook a convoy of Russian wounded. +The Russian officer in charge of the transport lolled back in the front +cart, shouting and scolding a soldier with coarse abuse. In each of +the long German carts six or more pale, dirty, bandaged men were being +jolted over the stony road. Some of them were talking (he heard Russian +words), others were eating bread; the more severely wounded looked +silently, with the languid interest of sick children, at the envoy +hurrying past them. + +Prince Andrew told his driver to stop, and asked a soldier in what +action they had been wounded. “Day before yesterday, on the Danube,” +answered the soldier. Prince Andrew took out his purse and gave the +soldier three gold pieces. + +“That’s for them all,” he said to the officer who came up. + +“Get well soon, lads!” he continued, turning to the soldiers. +“There’s plenty to do still.” + +“What news, sir?” asked the officer, evidently anxious to start a +conversation. + +“Good news!... Go on!” he shouted to the driver, and they galloped +on. + +It was already quite dark when Prince Andrew rattled over the paved +streets of Brünn and found himself surrounded by high buildings, the +lights of shops, houses, and street lamps, fine carriages, and all that +atmosphere of a large and active town which is always so attractive to a +soldier after camp life. Despite his rapid journey and sleepless night, +Prince Andrew when he drove up to the palace felt even more vigorous and +alert than he had done the day before. Only his eyes gleamed feverishly +and his thoughts followed one another with extraordinary clearness and +rapidity. He again vividly recalled the details of the battle, no longer +dim, but definite and in the concise form in which he imagined himself +stating them to the Emperor Francis. He vividly imagined the casual +questions that might be put to him and the answers he would give. He +expected to be at once presented to the Emperor. At the chief entrance +to the palace, however, an official came running out to meet him, and +learning that he was a special messenger led him to another entrance. + +“To the right from the corridor, Euer Hochgeboren! There you will find +the adjutant on duty,” said the official. “He will conduct you to +the Minister of War.” + +The adjutant on duty, meeting Prince Andrew, asked him to wait, and went +in to the Minister of War. Five minutes later he returned and bowing +with particular courtesy ushered Prince Andrew before him along a +corridor to the cabinet where the Minister of War was at work. The +adjutant by his elaborate courtesy appeared to wish to ward off any +attempt at familiarity on the part of the Russian messenger. + +Prince Andrew’s joyous feeling was considerably weakened as he +approached the door of the minister’s room. He felt offended, and +without his noticing it the feeling of offense immediately turned into +one of disdain which was quite uncalled for. His fertile mind instantly +suggested to him a point of view which gave him a right to despise +the adjutant and the minister. “Away from the smell of powder, they +probably think it easy to gain victories!” he thought. His eyes +narrowed disdainfully, he entered the room of the Minister of War with +peculiarly deliberate steps. This feeling of disdain was heightened +when he saw the minister seated at a large table reading some papers +and making pencil notes on them, and for the first two or three minutes +taking no notice of his arrival. A wax candle stood at each side of the +minister’s bent bald head with its gray temples. He went on reading +to the end, without raising his eyes at the opening of the door and the +sound of footsteps. + +“Take this and deliver it,” said he to his adjutant, handing him the +papers and still taking no notice of the special messenger. + +Prince Andrew felt that either the actions of Kutúzov’s army +interested the Minister of War less than any of the other matters he was +concerned with, or he wanted to give the Russian special messenger that +impression. “But that is a matter of perfect indifference to me,” he +thought. The minister drew the remaining papers together, arranged them +evenly, and then raised his head. He had an intellectual and distinctive +head, but the instant he turned to Prince Andrew the firm, intelligent +expression on his face changed in a way evidently deliberate and +habitual to him. His face took on the stupid artificial smile (which +does not even attempt to hide its artificiality) of a man who is +continually receiving many petitioners one after another. + +“From General Field Marshal Kutúzov?” he asked. “I hope it is +good news? There has been an encounter with Mortier? A victory? It was +high time!” + +He took the dispatch which was addressed to him and began to read it +with a mournful expression. + +“Oh, my God! My God! Schmidt!” he exclaimed in German. “What a +calamity! What a calamity!” + +Having glanced through the dispatch he laid it on the table and looked +at Prince Andrew, evidently considering something. + +“Ah what a calamity! You say the affair was decisive? But Mortier is +not captured.” Again he pondered. “I am very glad you have brought +good news, though Schmidt’s death is a heavy price to pay for the +victory. His Majesty will no doubt wish to see you, but not today. I +thank you! You must have a rest. Be at the levee tomorrow after the +parade. However, I will let you know.” + +The stupid smile, which had left his face while he was speaking, +reappeared. + +“Au revoir! Thank you very much. His Majesty will probably desire to +see you,” he added, bowing his head. + +When Prince Andrew left the palace he felt that all the interest +and happiness the victory had afforded him had been now left in the +indifferent hands of the Minister of War and the polite adjutant. The +whole tenor of his thoughts instantaneously changed; the battle seemed +the memory of a remote event long past. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +Prince Andrew stayed at Brünn with Bilíbin, a Russian acquaintance of +his in the diplomatic service. + +“Ah, my dear prince! I could not have a more welcome visitor,” +said Bilíbin as he came out to meet Prince Andrew. “Franz, put the +prince’s things in my bedroom,” said he to the servant who was +ushering Bolkónski in. “So you’re a messenger of victory, eh? +Splendid! And I am sitting here ill, as you see.” + +After washing and dressing, Prince Andrew came into the diplomat’s +luxurious study and sat down to the dinner prepared for him. Bilíbin +settled down comfortably beside the fire. + +After his journey and the campaign during which he had been deprived of +all the comforts of cleanliness and all the refinements of life, Prince +Andrew felt a pleasant sense of repose among luxurious surroundings such +as he had been accustomed to from childhood. Besides it was pleasant, +after his reception by the Austrians, to speak if not in Russian +(for they were speaking French) at least with a Russian who would, he +supposed, share the general Russian antipathy to the Austrians which was +then particularly strong. + +Bilíbin was a man of thirty-five, a bachelor, and of the same circle as +Prince Andrew. They had known each other previously in Petersburg, but +had become more intimate when Prince Andrew was in Vienna with Kutúzov. +Just as Prince Andrew was a young man who gave promise of rising high +in the military profession, so to an even greater extent Bilíbin gave +promise of rising in his diplomatic career. He was still a young man but +no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age +of sixteen, had been in Paris and Copenhagen, and now held a rather +important post in Vienna. Both the foreign minister and our ambassador +in Vienna knew him and valued him. He was not one of those many +diplomats who are esteemed because they have certain negative qualities, +avoid doing certain things, and speak French. He was one of those, +who, liking work, knew how to do it, and despite his indolence would +sometimes spend a whole night at his writing table. He worked well +whatever the import of his work. It was not the question “What for?” +but the question “How?” that interested him. What the diplomatic +matter might be he did not care, but it gave him great pleasure to +prepare a circular, memorandum, or report, skillfully, pointedly, and +elegantly. Bilíbin’s services were valued not only for what he wrote, +but also for his skill in dealing and conversing with those in the +highest spheres. + +Bilíbin liked conversation as he liked work, only when it could be +made elegantly witty. In society he always awaited an opportunity to say +something striking and took part in a conversation only when that was +possible. His conversation was always sprinkled with wittily original, +finished phrases of general interest. These sayings were prepared in the +inner laboratory of his mind in a portable form as if intentionally, so +that insignificant society people might carry them from drawing room to +drawing room. And, in fact, Bilíbin’s witticisms were hawked about +in the Viennese drawing rooms and often had an influence on matters +considered important. + +His thin, worn, sallow face was covered with deep wrinkles, which always +looked as clean and well washed as the tips of one’s fingers after a +Russian bath. The movement of these wrinkles formed the principal play +of expression on his face. Now his forehead would pucker into deep folds +and his eyebrows were lifted, then his eyebrows would descend and +deep wrinkles would crease his cheeks. His small, deep-set eyes always +twinkled and looked out straight. + +“Well, now tell me about your exploits,” said he. + +Bolkónski, very modestly without once mentioning himself, described the +engagement and his reception by the Minister of War. + +“They received me and my news as one receives a dog in a game of +skittles,” said he in conclusion. + +Bilíbin smiled and the wrinkles on his face disappeared. + +“Cependant, mon cher,” he remarked, examining his nails from a +distance and puckering the skin above his left eye, “malgré la haute +estime que je professe pour the Orthodox Russian army, j’avoue que +votre victoire n’est pas des plus victorieuses.” * + + * “But my dear fellow, with all my respect for the Orthodox + Russian army, I must say that your victory was not + particularly victorious.” + + +He went on talking in this way in French, uttering only those words in +Russian on which he wished to put a contemptuous emphasis. + +“Come now! You with all your forces fall on the unfortunate Mortier +and his one division, and even then Mortier slips through your fingers! +Where’s the victory?” + +“But seriously,” said Prince Andrew, “we can at any rate say +without boasting that it was a little better than at Ulm...” + +“Why didn’t you capture one, just one, marshal for us?” + +“Because not everything happens as one expects or with the smoothness +of a parade. We had expected, as I told you, to get at their rear by +seven in the morning but had not reached it by five in the afternoon.” + +“And why didn’t you do it at seven in the morning? You ought to have +been there at seven in the morning,” returned Bilíbin with a smile. +“You ought to have been there at seven in the morning.” + +“Why did you not succeed in impressing on Bonaparte by diplomatic +methods that he had better leave Genoa alone?” retorted Prince Andrew +in the same tone. + +“I know,” interrupted Bilíbin, “you’re thinking it’s very +easy to take marshals, sitting on a sofa by the fire! That is true, but +still why didn’t you capture him? So don’t be surprised if not only +the Minister of War but also his Most August Majesty the Emperor and +King Francis is not much delighted by your victory. Even I, a poor +secretary of the Russian Embassy, do not feel any need in token of my +joy to give my Franz a thaler, or let him go with his Liebchen to the +Prater... True, we have no Prater here...” + +He looked straight at Prince Andrew and suddenly unwrinkled his +forehead. + +“It is now my turn to ask you ‘why?’ mon cher,” said Bolkónski. +“I confess I do not understand: perhaps there are diplomatic +subtleties here beyond my feeble intelligence, but I can’t make it +out. Mack loses a whole army, the Archduke Ferdinand and the Archduke +Karl give no signs of life and make blunder after blunder. Kutúzov +alone at last gains a real victory, destroying the spell of the +invincibility of the French, and the Minister of War does not even care +to hear the details.” + +“That’s just it, my dear fellow. You see it’s hurrah for the Tsar, +for Russia, for the Orthodox Greek faith! All that is beautiful, but +what do we, I mean the Austrian court, care for your victories? Bring +us nice news of a victory by the Archduke Karl or Ferdinand (one +archduke’s as good as another, as you know) and even if it is only +over a fire brigade of Bonaparte’s, that will be another story and +we’ll fire off some cannon! But this sort of thing seems done +on purpose to vex us. The Archduke Karl does nothing, the Archduke +Ferdinand disgraces himself. You abandon Vienna, give up its +defense—as much as to say: ‘Heaven is with us, but heaven help you +and your capital!’ The one general whom we all loved, Schmidt, you +expose to a bullet, and then you congratulate us on the victory! Admit +that more irritating news than yours could not have been conceived. +It’s as if it had been done on purpose, on purpose. Besides, suppose +you did gain a brilliant victory, if even the Archduke Karl gained a +victory, what effect would that have on the general course of events? +It’s too late now when Vienna is occupied by the French army!” + +“What? Occupied? Vienna occupied?” + +“Not only occupied, but Bonaparte is at Schönbrunn, and the count, +our dear Count Vrbna, goes to him for orders.” + +After the fatigues and impressions of the journey, his reception, and +especially after having dined, Bolkónski felt that he could not take in +the full significance of the words he heard. + +“Count Lichtenfels was here this morning,” Bilíbin continued, +“and showed me a letter in which the parade of the French in Vienna +was fully described: Prince Murat et tout le tremblement... You see that +your victory is not a matter for great rejoicing and that you can’t be +received as a savior.” + +“Really I don’t care about that, I don’t care at all,” said +Prince Andrew, beginning to understand that his news of the battle +before Krems was really of small importance in view of such events as +the fall of Austria’s capital. “How is it Vienna was taken? What of +the bridge and its celebrated bridgehead and Prince Auersperg? We heard +reports that Prince Auersperg was defending Vienna?” he said. + +“Prince Auersperg is on this, on our side of the river, and is +defending us—doing it very badly, I think, but still he is defending +us. But Vienna is on the other side. No, the bridge has not yet been +taken and I hope it will not be, for it is mined and orders have been +given to blow it up. Otherwise we should long ago have been in the +mountains of Bohemia, and you and your army would have spent a bad +quarter of an hour between two fires.” + +“But still this does not mean that the campaign is over,” said +Prince Andrew. + +“Well, I think it is. The bigwigs here think so too, but they +daren’t say so. It will be as I said at the beginning of the campaign, +it won’t be your skirmishing at Dürrenstein, or gunpowder at all, +that will decide the matter, but those who devised it,” said Bilíbin +quoting one of his own mots, releasing the wrinkles on his forehead, and +pausing. “The only question is what will come of the meeting between +the Emperor Alexander and the King of Prussia in Berlin? If Prussia +joins the Allies, Austria’s hand will be forced and there will be war. +If not it is merely a question of settling where the preliminaries of +the new Campo Formio are to be drawn up.” + +“What an extraordinary genius!” Prince Andrew suddenly exclaimed, +clenching his small hand and striking the table with it, “and what +luck the man has!” + +“Buonaparte?” said Bilíbin inquiringly, puckering up his forehead +to indicate that he was about to say something witty. “Buonaparte?” +he repeated, accentuating the u: “I think, however, now that he lays +down laws for Austria at Schönbrunn, il faut lui faire grâce de +l’u! * I shall certainly adopt an innovation and call him simply +Bonaparte!” + + * “We must let him off the u!” + + +“But joking apart,” said Prince Andrew, “do you really think the +campaign is over?” + +“This is what I think. Austria has been made a fool of, and she is +not used to it. She will retaliate. And she has been fooled in the +first place because her provinces have been pillaged—they say the Holy +Russian army loots terribly—her army is destroyed, her capital +taken, and all this for the beaux yeux * of His Sardinian Majesty. And +therefore—this is between ourselves—I instinctively feel that we +are being deceived, my instinct tells me of negotiations with France and +projects for peace, a secret peace concluded separately.” + + * Fine eyes. + +“Impossible!” cried Prince Andrew. “That would be too base.” + +“If we live we shall see,” replied Bilíbin, his face again becoming +smooth as a sign that the conversation was at an end. + +When Prince Andrew reached the room prepared for him and lay down in a +clean shirt on the feather bed with its warmed and fragrant pillows, he +felt that the battle of which he had brought tidings was far, far +away from him. The alliance with Prussia, Austria’s treachery, +Bonaparte’s new triumph, tomorrow’s levee and parade, and the +audience with the Emperor Francis occupied his thoughts. + +He closed his eyes, and immediately a sound of cannonading, of musketry +and the rattling of carriage wheels seemed to fill his ears, and now +again drawn out in a thin line the musketeers were descending the hill, +the French were firing, and he felt his heart palpitating as he rode +forward beside Schmidt with the bullets merrily whistling all around, +and he experienced tenfold the joy of living, as he had not done since +childhood. + +He woke up... + +“Yes, that all happened!” he said, and, smiling happily to himself +like a child, he fell into a deep, youthful slumber. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +Next day he woke late. Recalling his recent impressions, the first +thought that came into his mind was that today he had to be presented +to the Emperor Francis; he remembered the Minister of War, the polite +Austrian adjutant, Bilíbin, and last night’s conversation. Having +dressed for his attendance at court in full parade uniform, which he +had not worn for a long time, he went into Bilíbin’s study fresh, +animated, and handsome, with his hand bandaged. In the study were four +gentlemen of the diplomatic corps. With Prince Hippolyte Kurágin, +who was a secretary to the embassy, Bolkónski was already acquainted. +Bilíbin introduced him to the others. + +The gentlemen assembled at Bilíbin’s were young, wealthy, gay society +men, who here, as in Vienna, formed a special set which Bilíbin, their +leader, called les nôtres. * This set, consisting almost exclusively of +diplomats, evidently had its own interests which had nothing to do with +war or politics but related to high society, to certain women, and to +the official side of the service. These gentlemen received Prince +Andrew as one of themselves, an honor they did not extend to many. From +politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions +about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry +jests and gossip. + + * Ours. + +“But the best of it was,” said one, telling of the misfortune of +a fellow diplomat, “that the Chancellor told him flatly that his +appointment to London was a promotion and that he was so to regard it. +Can you fancy the figure he cut?...” + +“But the worst of it, gentlemen—I am giving Kurágin away to +you—is that that man suffers, and this Don Juan, wicked fellow, is +taking advantage of it!” + +Prince Hippolyte was lolling in a lounge chair with his legs over its +arm. He began to laugh. + +“Tell me about that!” he said. + +“Oh, you Don Juan! You serpent!” cried several voices. + +“You, Bolkónski, don’t know,” said Bilíbin turning to Prince +Andrew, “that all the atrocities of the French army (I nearly said of +the Russian army) are nothing compared to what this man has been doing +among the women!” + +“La femme est la compagne de l’homme,” * announced Prince +Hippolyte, and began looking through a lorgnette at his elevated legs. + + * “Woman is man’s companion.” + + +Bilíbin and the rest of “ours” burst out laughing in Hippolyte’s +face, and Prince Andrew saw that Hippolyte, of whom—he had to +admit—he had almost been jealous on his wife’s account, was the butt +of this set. + +“Oh, I must give you a treat,” Bilíbin whispered to Bolkónski. +“Kurágin is exquisite when he discusses politics—you should see his +gravity!” + +He sat down beside Hippolyte and wrinkling his forehead began talking +to him about politics. Prince Andrew and the others gathered round these +two. + +“The Berlin cabinet cannot express a feeling of alliance,” began +Hippolyte gazing round with importance at the others, “without +expressing... as in its last note... you understand... Besides, unless +His Majesty the Emperor derogates from the principle of our alliance... + +“Wait, I have not finished...” he said to Prince Andrew, seizing +him by the arm, “I believe that intervention will be stronger than +nonintervention. And...” he paused. “Finally one cannot impute the +nonreceipt of our dispatch of November 18. That is how it will end.” +And he released Bolkónski’s arm to indicate that he had now quite +finished. + +“Demosthenes, I know thee by the pebble thou secretest in thy golden +mouth!” said Bilíbin, and the mop of hair on his head moved with +satisfaction. + +Everybody laughed, and Hippolyte louder than anyone. He was evidently +distressed, and breathed painfully, but could not restrain the wild +laughter that convulsed his usually impassive features. + +“Well now, gentlemen,” said Bilíbin, “Bolkónski is my guest in +this house and in Brünn itself. I want to entertain him as far as I +can, with all the pleasures of life here. If we were in Vienna it would +be easy, but here, in this wretched Moravian hole, it is more difficult, +and I beg you all to help me. Brünn’s attractions must be shown him. +You can undertake the theater, I society, and you, Hippolyte, of course +the women.” + +“We must let him see Amelie, she’s exquisite!” said one of +“ours,” kissing his finger tips. + +“In general we must turn this bloodthirsty soldier to more humane +interests,” said Bilíbin. + +“I shall scarcely be able to avail myself of your hospitality, +gentlemen, it is already time for me to go,” replied Prince Andrew +looking at his watch. + +“Where to?” + +“To the Emperor.” + +“Oh! Oh! Oh!” + +“Well, au revoir, Bolkónski! Au revoir, Prince! Come back early to +dinner,” cried several voices. “We’ll take you in hand.” + +“When speaking to the Emperor, try as far as you can to praise the way +that provisions are supplied and the routes indicated,” said Bilíbin, +accompanying him to the hall. + +“I should like to speak well of them, but as far as I know the facts, +I can’t,” replied Bolkónski, smiling. + +“Well, talk as much as you can, anyway. He has a passion for giving +audiences, but he does not like talking himself and can’t do it, as +you will see.” + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +At the levee Prince Andrew stood among the Austrian officers as he had +been told to, and the Emperor Francis merely looked fixedly into his +face and just nodded to him with his long head. But after it was +over, the adjutant he had seen the previous day ceremoniously informed +Bolkónski that the Emperor desired to give him an audience. The Emperor +Francis received him standing in the middle of the room. Before the +conversation began Prince Andrew was struck by the fact that the Emperor +seemed confused and blushed as if not knowing what to say. + +“Tell me, when did the battle begin?” he asked hurriedly. + +Prince Andrew replied. Then followed other questions just as simple: +“Was Kutúzov well? When had he left Krems?” and so on. The Emperor +spoke as if his sole aim were to put a given number of questions—the +answers to these questions, as was only too evident, did not interest +him. + +“At what o’clock did the battle begin?” asked the Emperor. + +“I cannot inform Your Majesty at what o’clock the battle began at +the front, but at Dürrenstein, where I was, our attack began after +five in the afternoon,” replied Bolkónski growing more animated and +expecting that he would have a chance to give a reliable account, which +he had ready in his mind, of all he knew and had seen. But the Emperor +smiled and interrupted him. + +“How many miles?” + +“From where to where, Your Majesty?” + +“From Dürrenstein to Krems.” + +“Three and a half miles, Your Majesty.” + +“The French have abandoned the left bank?” + +“According to the scouts the last of them crossed on rafts during the +night.” + +“Is there sufficient forage in Krems?” + +“Forage has not been supplied to the extent...” + +The Emperor interrupted him. + +“At what o’clock was General Schmidt killed?” + +“At seven o’clock, I believe.” + +“At seven o’clock? It’s very sad, very sad!” + +The Emperor thanked Prince Andrew and bowed. Prince Andrew withdrew and +was immediately surrounded by courtiers on all sides. Everywhere he +saw friendly looks and heard friendly words. Yesterday’s adjutant +reproached him for not having stayed at the palace, and offered him +his own house. The Minister of War came up and congratulated him on the +Maria Theresa Order of the third grade, which the Emperor was conferring +on him. The Empress’ chamberlain invited him to see Her Majesty. The +archduchess also wished to see him. He did not know whom to answer, and +for a few seconds collected his thoughts. Then the Russian ambassador +took him by the shoulder, led him to the window, and began to talk to +him. + +Contrary to Bilíbin’s forecast the news he had brought was joyfully +received. A thanksgiving service was arranged, Kutúzov was awarded +the Grand Cross of Maria Theresa, and the whole army received rewards. +Bolkónski was invited everywhere, and had to spend the whole morning +calling on the principal Austrian dignitaries. Between four and five +in the afternoon, having made all his calls, he was returning to +Bilíbin’s house thinking out a letter to his father about the battle +and his visit to Brünn. At the door he found a vehicle half full of +luggage. Franz, Bilíbin’s man, was dragging a portmanteau with some +difficulty out of the front door. + +Before returning to Bilíbin’s Prince Andrew had gone to a bookshop +to provide himself with some books for the campaign, and had spent some +time in the shop. + +“What is it?” he asked. + +“Oh, your excellency!” said Franz, with difficulty rolling the +portmanteau into the vehicle, “we are to move on still farther. The +scoundrel is again at our heels!” + +“Eh? What?” asked Prince Andrew. + +Bilíbin came out to meet him. His usually calm face showed excitement. + +“There now! Confess that this is delightful,” said he. “This +affair of the Thabor Bridge, at Vienna.... They have crossed without +striking a blow!” + +Prince Andrew could not understand. + +“But where do you come from not to know what every coachman in the +town knows?” + +“I come from the archduchess’. I heard nothing there.” + +“And you didn’t see that everybody is packing up?” + +“I did not... What is it all about?” inquired Prince Andrew +impatiently. + +“What’s it all about? Why, the French have crossed the bridge that +Auersperg was defending, and the bridge was not blown up: so Murat +is now rushing along the road to Brünn and will be here in a day or +two.” + +“What? Here? But why did they not blow up the bridge, if it was +mined?” + +“That is what I ask you. No one, not even Bonaparte, knows why.” + +Bolkónski shrugged his shoulders. + +“But if the bridge is crossed it means that the army too is lost? It +will be cut off,” said he. + +“That’s just it,” answered Bilíbin. “Listen! The French entered +Vienna as I told you. Very well. Next day, which was yesterday, those +gentlemen, messieurs les maréchaux, * Murat, Lannes, and Belliard, +mount and ride to the bridge. (Observe that all three are Gascons.) +‘Gentlemen,’ says one of them, ‘you know the Thabor Bridge is +mined and doubly mined and that there are menacing fortifications at its +head and an army of fifteen thousand men has been ordered to blow up +the bridge and not let us cross? But it will please our sovereign the +Emperor Napoleon if we take this bridge, so let us three go and take +it!’ ‘Yes, let’s!’ say the others. And off they go and take the +bridge, cross it, and now with their whole army are on this side of the +Danube, marching on us, you, and your lines of communication.” + + * The marshalls. + +“Stop jesting,” said Prince Andrew sadly and seriously. This news +grieved him and yet he was pleased. + +As soon as he learned that the Russian army was in such a hopeless +situation it occurred to him that it was he who was destined to lead it +out of this position; that here was the Toulon that would lift him from +the ranks of obscure officers and offer him the first step to fame! +Listening to Bilíbin he was already imagining how on reaching the army +he would give an opinion at the war council which would be the only one +that could save the army, and how he alone would be entrusted with the +executing of the plan. + +“Stop this jesting,” he said. + +“I am not jesting,” Bilíbin went on. “Nothing is truer or sadder. +These gentlemen ride onto the bridge alone and wave white handkerchiefs; +they assure the officer on duty that they, the marshals, are on +their way to negotiate with Prince Auersperg. He lets them enter the +tête-de-pont. * They spin him a thousand gasconades, saying that +the war is over, that the Emperor Francis is arranging a meeting with +Bonaparte, that they desire to see Prince Auersperg, and so on. The +officer sends for Auersperg; these gentlemen embrace the officers, crack +jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a French battalion gets to +the bridge unobserved, flings the bags of incendiary material into +the water, and approaches the tête-de-pont. At length appears the +lieutenant general, our dear Prince Auersperg von Mautern himself. +‘Dearest foe! Flower of the Austrian army, hero of the Turkish wars! +Hostilities are ended, we can shake one another’s hand.... The +Emperor Napoleon burns with impatience to make Prince Auersperg’s +acquaintance.’ In a word, those gentlemen, Gascons indeed, so +bewildered him with fine words, and he is so flattered by his rapidly +established intimacy with the French marshals, and so dazzled by the +sight of Murat’s mantle and ostrich plumes, qu’il n’y voit que du +feu, et oublie celui qu’il devait faire faire sur l’ennemi!” *(2) +In spite of the animation of his speech, Bilíbin did not forget to +pause after this mot to give time for its due appreciation. “The +French battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the +bridge is taken! But what is best of all,” he went on, his excitement +subsiding under the delightful interest of his own story, “is that the +sergeant in charge of the cannon which was to give the signal to fire +the mines and blow up the bridge, this sergeant, seeing that the French +troops were running onto the bridge, was about to fire, but Lannes +stayed his hand. The sergeant, who was evidently wiser than his general, +goes up to Auersperg and says: ‘Prince, you are being deceived, here +are the French!’ Murat, seeing that all is lost if the sergeant is +allowed to speak, turns to Auersperg with feigned astonishment (he is a +true Gascon) and says: ‘I don’t recognize the world-famous Austrian +discipline, if you allow a subordinate to address you like that!’ It +was a stroke of genius. Prince Auersperg feels his dignity at stake and +orders the sergeant to be arrested. Come, you must own that this affair +of the Thabor Bridge is delightful! It is not exactly stupidity, nor +rascality....” + + * Bridgehead. + + * (2) That their fire gets into his eyes and he forgets that + he ought to be firing at the enemy. + +“It may be treachery,” said Prince Andrew, vividly imagining the +gray overcoats, wounds, the smoke of gunpowder, the sounds of firing, +and the glory that awaited him. + +“Not that either. That puts the court in too bad a light,” replied +Bilíbin. “It’s not treachery nor rascality nor stupidity: it is +just as at Ulm... it is...”—he seemed to be trying to find the right +expression. “C’est... c’est du Mack. Nous sommes mackés (It is... +it is a bit of Mack. We are Macked),” he concluded, feeling that he +had produced a good epigram, a fresh one that would be repeated. His +hitherto puckered brow became smooth as a sign of pleasure, and with a +slight smile he began to examine his nails. + +“Where are you off to?” he said suddenly to Prince Andrew who had +risen and was going toward his room. + +“I am going away.” + +“Where to?” + +“To the army.” + +“But you meant to stay another two days?” + +“But now I am off at once.” + +And Prince Andrew after giving directions about his departure went to +his room. + +“Do you know, mon cher,” said Bilíbin following him, “I have been +thinking about you. Why are you going?” + +And in proof of the conclusiveness of his opinion all the wrinkles +vanished from his face. + +Prince Andrew looked inquiringly at him and gave no reply. + +“Why are you going? I know you think it your duty to gallop back to +the army now that it is in danger. I understand that. Mon cher, it is +heroism!” + +“Not at all,” said Prince Andrew. + +“But as you are a philosopher, be a consistent one, look at the other +side of the question and you will see that your duty, on the contrary, +is to take care of yourself. Leave it to those who are no longer fit for +anything else.... You have not been ordered to return and have not been +dismissed from here; therefore, you can stay and go with us wherever our +ill luck takes us. They say we are going to Olmütz, and Olmütz is a +very decent town. You and I will travel comfortably in my calèche.” + +“Do stop joking, Bilíbin,” cried Bolkónski. + +“I am speaking sincerely as a friend! Consider! Where and why are +you going, when you might remain here? You are faced by one of two +things,” and the skin over his left temple puckered, “either you +will not reach your regiment before peace is concluded, or you will +share defeat and disgrace with Kutúzov’s whole army.” + +And Bilíbin unwrinkled his temple, feeling that the dilemma was +insoluble. + +“I cannot argue about it,” replied Prince Andrew coldly, but he +thought: “I am going to save the army.” + +“My dear fellow, you are a hero!” said Bilíbin. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIII + +That same night, having taken leave of the Minister of War, Bolkónski +set off to rejoin the army, not knowing where he would find it and +fearing to be captured by the French on the way to Krems. + +In Brünn everybody attached to the court was packing up, and the heavy +baggage was already being dispatched to Olmütz. Near Hetzelsdorf Prince +Andrew struck the high road along which the Russian army was moving with +great haste and in the greatest disorder. The road was so obstructed +with carts that it was impossible to get by in a carriage. Prince Andrew +took a horse and a Cossack from a Cossack commander, and hungry and +weary, making his way past the baggage wagons, rode in search of the +commander in chief and of his own luggage. Very sinister reports of the +position of the army reached him as he went along, and the appearance of +the troops in their disorderly flight confirmed these rumors. + +“Cette armée russe que l’or de l’Angleterre a transportée des +extrémités de l’univers, nous allons lui faire éprouver le même +sort—(le sort de l’armée d’Ulm).” * He remembered these words +in Bonaparte’s address to his army at the beginning of the campaign, +and they awoke in him astonishment at the genius of his hero, a feeling +of wounded pride, and a hope of glory. “And should there be nothing +left but to die?” he thought. “Well, if need be, I shall do it no +worse than others.” + + * “That Russian army which has been brought from the ends of + the earth by English gold, we shall cause to share the same + fate—(the fate of the army at Ulm).” + + +He looked with disdain at the endless confused mass of detachments, +carts, guns, artillery, and again baggage wagons and vehicles of all +kinds overtaking one another and blocking the muddy road, three and +sometimes four abreast. From all sides, behind and before, as far as ear +could reach, there were the rattle of wheels, the creaking of carts +and gun carriages, the tramp of horses, the crack of whips, shouts, the +urging of horses, and the swearing of soldiers, orderlies, and officers. +All along the sides of the road fallen horses were to be seen, some +flayed, some not, and broken-down carts beside which solitary soldiers +sat waiting for something, and again soldiers straggling from their +companies, crowds of whom set off to the neighboring villages, or +returned from them dragging sheep, fowls, hay, and bulging sacks. At +each ascent or descent of the road the crowds were yet denser and the +din of shouting more incessant. Soldiers floundering knee-deep in mud +pushed the guns and wagons themselves. Whips cracked, hoofs slipped, +traces broke, and lungs were strained with shouting. The officers +directing the march rode backward and forward between the carts. Their +voices were but feebly heard amid the uproar and one saw by their faces +that they despaired of the possibility of checking this disorder. + +“Here is our dear Orthodox Russian army,” thought Bolkónski, +recalling Bilíbin’s words. + +Wishing to find out where the commander in chief was, he rode up to +a convoy. Directly opposite to him came a strange one-horse vehicle, +evidently rigged up by soldiers out of any available materials and +looking like something between a cart, a cabriolet, and a calèche. +A soldier was driving, and a woman enveloped in shawls sat behind the +apron under the leather hood of the vehicle. Prince Andrew rode up +and was just putting his question to a soldier when his attention +was diverted by the desperate shrieks of the woman in the vehicle. An +officer in charge of transport was beating the soldier who was driving +the woman’s vehicle for trying to get ahead of others, and the strokes +of his whip fell on the apron of the equipage. The woman screamed +piercingly. Seeing Prince Andrew she leaned out from behind the apron +and, waving her thin arms from under the woolen shawl, cried: + +“Mr. Aide-de-camp! Mr. Aide-de-camp!... For heaven’s sake... Protect +me! What will become of us? I am the wife of the doctor of the Seventh +Chasseurs.... They won’t let us pass, we are left behind and have lost +our people...” + +“I’ll flatten you into a pancake!” shouted the angry officer to +the soldier. “Turn back with your slut!” + +“Mr. Aide-de-camp! Help me!... What does it all mean?” screamed the +doctor’s wife. + +“Kindly let this cart pass. Don’t you see it’s a woman?” said +Prince Andrew riding up to the officer. + +The officer glanced at him, and without replying turned again to the +soldier. “I’ll teach you to push on!... Back!” + +“Let them pass, I tell you!” repeated Prince Andrew, compressing his +lips. + +“And who are you?” cried the officer, turning on him with tipsy +rage, “who are you? Are you in command here? Eh? I am commander here, +not you! Go back or I’ll flatten you into a pancake,” repeated he. +This expression evidently pleased him. + +“That was a nice snub for the little aide-de-camp,” came a voice +from behind. + +Prince Andrew saw that the officer was in that state of senseless, +tipsy rage when a man does not know what he is saying. He saw that his +championship of the doctor’s wife in her queer trap might expose him +to what he dreaded more than anything in the world—to ridicule; but +his instinct urged him on. Before the officer finished his sentence +Prince Andrew, his face distorted with fury, rode up to him and raised +his riding whip. + +“Kind...ly let—them—pass!” + +The officer flourished his arm and hastily rode away. + +“It’s all the fault of these fellows on the staff that there’s +this disorder,” he muttered. “Do as you like.” + +Prince Andrew without lifting his eyes rode hastily away from the +doctor’s wife, who was calling him her deliverer, and recalling with +a sense of disgust the minutest details of this humiliating scene he +galloped on to the village where he was told that the commander in chief +was. + +On reaching the village he dismounted and went to the nearest house, +intending to rest if but for a moment, eat something, and try to sort +out the stinging and tormenting thoughts that confused his mind. “This +is a mob of scoundrels and not an army,” he was thinking as he went +up to the window of the first house, when a familiar voice called him by +name. + +He turned round. Nesvítski’s handsome face looked out of the little +window. Nesvítski, moving his moist lips as he chewed something, and +flourishing his arm, called him to enter. + +“Bolkónski! Bolkónski!... Don’t you hear? Eh? Come quick...” he +shouted. + +Entering the house, Prince Andrew saw Nesvítski and another adjutant +having something to eat. They hastily turned round to him asking if he +had any news. On their familiar faces he read agitation and alarm. +This was particularly noticeable on Nesvítski’s usually laughing +countenance. + +“Where is the commander in chief?” asked Bolkónski. + +“Here, in that house,” answered the adjutant. + +“Well, is it true that it’s peace and capitulation?” asked +Nesvítski. + +“I was going to ask you. I know nothing except that it was all I could +do to get here.” + +“And we, my dear boy! It’s terrible! I was wrong to laugh at Mack, +we’re getting it still worse,” said Nesvítski. “But sit down and +have something to eat.” + +“You won’t be able to find either your baggage or anything else now, +Prince. And God only knows where your man Peter is,” said the other +adjutant. + +“Where are headquarters?” + +“We are to spend the night in Znaim.” + +“Well, I have got all I need into packs for two horses,” said +Nesvítski. “They’ve made up splendid packs for me—fit to cross +the Bohemian mountains with. It’s a bad lookout, old fellow! But +what’s the matter with you? You must be ill to shiver like that,” he +added, noticing that Prince Andrew winced as at an electric shock. + +“It’s nothing,” replied Prince Andrew. + +He had just remembered his recent encounter with the doctor’s wife and +the convoy officer. + +“What is the commander in chief doing here?” he asked. + +“I can’t make out at all,” said Nesvítski. + +“Well, all I can make out is that everything is abominable, +abominable, quite abominable!” said Prince Andrew, and he went off to +the house where the commander in chief was. + +Passing by Kutúzov’s carriage and the exhausted saddle horses of +his suite, with their Cossacks who were talking loudly together, Prince +Andrew entered the passage. Kutúzov himself, he was told, was in the +house with Prince Bagratión and Weyrother. Weyrother was the Austrian +general who had succeeded Schmidt. In the passage little Kozlóvski was +squatting on his heels in front of a clerk. The clerk, with cuffs turned +up, was hastily writing at a tub turned bottom upwards. Kozlóvski’s +face looked worn—he too had evidently not slept all night. He glanced +at Prince Andrew and did not even nod to him. + +“Second line... have you written it?” he continued dictating to the +clerk. “The Kiev Grenadiers, Podolian...” + +“One can’t write so fast, your honor,” said the clerk, glancing +angrily and disrespectfully at Kozlóvski. + +Through the door came the sounds of Kutúzov’s voice, excited and +dissatisfied, interrupted by another, an unfamiliar voice. From the +sound of these voices, the inattentive way Kozlóvski looked at him, the +disrespectful manner of the exhausted clerk, the fact that the clerk and +Kozlóvski were squatting on the floor by a tub so near to the commander +in chief, and from the noisy laughter of the Cossacks holding the +horses near the window, Prince Andrew felt that something important and +disastrous was about to happen. + +He turned to Kozlóvski with urgent questions. + +“Immediately, Prince,” said Kozlóvski. “Dispositions for +Bagratión.” + +“What about capitulation?” + +“Nothing of the sort. Orders are issued for a battle.” + +Prince Andrew moved toward the door from whence voices were heard. +Just as he was going to open it the sounds ceased, the door opened, and +Kutúzov with his eagle nose and puffy face appeared in the doorway. +Prince Andrew stood right in front of Kutúzov but the expression of +the commander in chief’s one sound eye showed him to be so preoccupied +with thoughts and anxieties as to be oblivious of his presence. He +looked straight at his adjutant’s face without recognizing him. + +“Well, have you finished?” said he to Kozlóvski. + +“One moment, your excellency.” + +Bagratión, a gaunt middle-aged man of medium height with a firm, +impassive face of Oriental type, came out after the commander in chief. + +“I have the honor to present myself,” repeated Prince Andrew rather +loudly, handing Kutúzov an envelope. + +“Ah, from Vienna? Very good. Later, later!” + +Kutúzov went out into the porch with Bagratión. + +“Well, good-by, Prince,” said he to Bagratión. “My blessing, and +may Christ be with you in your great endeavor!” + +His face suddenly softened and tears came into his eyes. With his left +hand he drew Bagratión toward him, and with his right, on which he wore +a ring, he made the sign of the cross over him with a gesture evidently +habitual, offering his puffy cheek, but Bagratión kissed him on the +neck instead. + +“Christ be with you!” Kutúzov repeated and went toward his +carriage. “Get in with me,” said he to Bolkónski. + +“Your excellency, I should like to be of use here. Allow me to remain +with Prince Bagratión’s detachment.” + +“Get in,” said Kutúzov, and noticing that Bolkónski still delayed, +he added: “I need good officers myself, need them myself!” + +They got into the carriage and drove for a few minutes in silence. + +“There is still much, much before us,” he said, as if with an old +man’s penetration he understood all that was passing in Bolkónski’s +mind. “If a tenth part of his detachment returns I shall thank God,” +he added as if speaking to himself. + +Prince Andrew glanced at Kutúzov’s face only a foot distant from him +and involuntarily noticed the carefully washed seams of the scar near +his temple, where an Ismail bullet had pierced his skull, and the empty +eye socket. “Yes, he has a right to speak so calmly of those men’s +death,” thought Bolkónski. + +“That is why I beg to be sent to that detachment,” he said. + +Kutúzov did not reply. He seemed to have forgotten what he had been +saying, and sat plunged in thought. Five minutes later, gently swaying +on the soft springs of the carriage, he turned to Prince Andrew. +There was not a trace of agitation on his face. With delicate irony he +questioned Prince Andrew about the details of his interview with the +Emperor, about the remarks he had heard at court concerning the Krems +affair, and about some ladies they both knew. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +On November 1 Kutúzov had received, through a spy, news that the army +he commanded was in an almost hopeless position. The spy reported that +the French, after crossing the bridge at Vienna, were advancing in +immense force upon Kutúzov’s line of communication with the troops +that were arriving from Russia. If Kutúzov decided to remain at Krems, +Napoleon’s army of one hundred and fifty thousand men would cut him +off completely and surround his exhausted army of forty thousand, and he +would find himself in the position of Mack at Ulm. If Kutúzov decided +to abandon the road connecting him with the troops arriving from Russia, +he would have to march with no road into unknown parts of the Bohemian +mountains, defending himself against superior forces of the enemy and +abandoning all hope of a junction with Buxhöwden. If Kutúzov decided +to retreat along the road from Krems to Olmütz, to unite with the +troops arriving from Russia, he risked being forestalled on that road +by the French who had crossed the Vienna bridge, and encumbered by his +baggage and transport, having to accept battle on the march against an +enemy three times as strong, who would hem him in from two sides. + +Kutúzov chose this latter course. + +The French, the spy reported, having crossed the Vienna bridge, were +advancing by forced marches toward Znaim, which lay sixty-six miles +off on the line of Kutúzov’s retreat. If he reached Znaim before the +French, there would be great hope of saving the army; to let the +French forestall him at Znaim meant the exposure of his whole army to a +disgrace such as that of Ulm, or to utter destruction. But to forestall +the French with his whole army was impossible. The road for the French +from Vienna to Znaim was shorter and better than the road for the +Russians from Krems to Znaim. + +The night he received the news, Kutúzov sent Bagratión’s vanguard, +four thousand strong, to the right across the hills from the Krems-Znaim +to the Vienna-Znaim road. Bagratión was to make this march without +resting, and to halt facing Vienna with Znaim to his rear, and if he +succeeded in forestalling the French he was to delay them as long as +possible. Kutúzov himself with all his transport took the road to +Znaim. + +Marching thirty miles that stormy night across roadless hills, with his +hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers +by the way, Bagratión came out on the Vienna-Znaim road at Hollabrünn +a few hours ahead of the French who were approaching Hollabrünn from +Vienna. Kutúzov with his transport had still to march for some days +before he could reach Znaim. Hence Bagratión with his four thousand +hungry, exhausted men would have to detain for days the whole enemy army +that came upon him at Hollabrünn, which was clearly impossible. But +a freak of fate made the impossible possible. The success of the trick +that had placed the Vienna bridge in the hands of the French without +a fight led Murat to try to deceive Kutúzov in a similar way. Meeting +Bagratión’s weak detachment on the Znaim road he supposed it to be +Kutúzov’s whole army. To be able to crush it absolutely he awaited +the arrival of the rest of the troops who were on their way from Vienna, +and with this object offered a three days’ truce on condition that +both armies should remain in position without moving. Murat declared +that negotiations for peace were already proceeding, and that he +therefore offered this truce to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. Count +Nostitz, the Austrian general occupying the advanced posts, believed +Murat’s emissary and retired, leaving Bagratión’s division +exposed. Another emissary rode to the Russian line to announce the peace +negotiations and to offer the Russian army the three days’ truce. +Bagratión replied that he was not authorized either to accept or refuse +a truce and sent his adjutant to Kutúzov to report the offer he had +received. + +A truce was Kutúzov’s sole chance of gaining time, giving +Bagratión’s exhausted troops some rest, and letting the transport and +heavy convoys (whose movements were concealed from the French) advance +if but one stage nearer Znaim. The offer of a truce gave the only, and +a quite unexpected, chance of saving the army. On receiving the news +he immediately dispatched Adjutant General Wintzingerode, who was in +attendance on him, to the enemy camp. Wintzingerode was not merely +to agree to the truce but also to offer terms of capitulation, and +meanwhile Kutúzov sent his adjutants back to hasten to the utmost the +movements of the baggage trains of the entire army along the Krems-Znaim +road. Bagratión’s exhausted and hungry detachment, which alone +covered this movement of the transport and of the whole army, had to +remain stationary in face of an enemy eight times as strong as itself. + +Kutúzov’s expectations that the proposals of capitulation (which were +in no way binding) might give time for part of the transport to pass, +and also that Murat’s mistake would very soon be discovered, proved +correct. As soon as Bonaparte (who was at Schönbrunn, sixteen miles +from Hollabrünn) received Murat’s dispatch with the proposal of a +truce and a capitulation, he detected a ruse and wrote the following +letter to Murat: + +Schönbrunn, 25th Brumaire, 1805, + +at eight o’clock in the morning + +To PRINCE MURAT, + +I cannot find words to express to you my displeasure. You command only +my advance guard, and have no right to arrange an armistice without my +order. You are causing me to lose the fruits of a campaign. Break +the armistice immediately and march on the enemy. Inform him that the +general who signed that capitulation had no right to do so, and that no +one but the Emperor of Russia has that right. + +If, however, the Emperor of Russia ratifies that convention, I will +ratify it; but it is only a trick. March on, destroy the Russian +army.... You are in a position to seize its baggage and artillery. + +The Russian Emperor’s aide-de-camp is an impostor. Officers are +nothing when they have no powers; this one had none.... The Austrians +let themselves be tricked at the crossing of the Vienna bridge, you are +letting yourself be tricked by an aide-de-camp of the Emperor. + +NAPOLEON + +Bonaparte’s adjutant rode full gallop with this menacing letter to +Murat. Bonaparte himself, not trusting to his generals, moved with all +the Guards to the field of battle, afraid of letting a ready victim +escape, and Bagratión’s four thousand men merrily lighted campfires, +dried and warmed themselves, cooked their porridge for the first time +for three days, and not one of them knew or imagined what was in store +for him. + + + + + +CHAPTER XV + +Between three and four o’clock in the afternoon Prince Andrew, who +had persisted in his request to Kutúzov, arrived at Grunth and reported +himself to Bagratión. Bonaparte’s adjutant had not yet reached +Murat’s detachment and the battle had not yet begun. In Bagratión’s +detachment no one knew anything of the general position of affairs. They +talked of peace but did not believe in its possibility; others talked +of a battle but also disbelieved in the nearness of an engagement. +Bagratión, knowing Bolkónski to be a favorite and trusted adjutant, +received him with distinction and special marks of favor, explaining to +him that there would probably be an engagement that day or the next, and +giving him full liberty to remain with him during the battle or to join +the rearguard and have an eye on the order of retreat, “which is also +very important.” + +“However, there will hardly be an engagement today,” said Bagratión +as if to reassure Prince Andrew. + +“If he is one of the ordinary little staff dandies sent to earn a +medal he can get his reward just as well in the rearguard, but if he +wishes to stay with me, let him... he’ll be of use here if he’s a +brave officer,” thought Bagratión. Prince Andrew, without replying, +asked the prince’s permission to ride round the position to see the +disposition of the forces, so as to know his bearings should he be sent +to execute an order. The officer on duty, a handsome, elegantly dressed +man with a diamond ring on his forefinger, who was fond of speaking +French though he spoke it badly, offered to conduct Prince Andrew. + +On all sides they saw rain-soaked officers with dejected faces who +seemed to be seeking something, and soldiers dragging doors, benches, +and fencing from the village. + +“There now, Prince! We can’t stop those fellows,” said the staff +officer pointing to the soldiers. “The officers don’t keep them in +hand. And there,” he pointed to a sutler’s tent, “they crowd in +and sit. This morning I turned them all out and now look, it’s full +again. I must go there, Prince, and scare them a bit. It won’t take a +moment.” + +“Yes, let’s go in and I will get myself a roll and some cheese,” +said Prince Andrew who had not yet had time to eat anything. + +“Why didn’t you mention it, Prince? I would have offered you +something.” + +They dismounted and entered the tent. Several officers, with flushed and +weary faces, were sitting at the table eating and drinking. + +“Now what does this mean, gentlemen?” said the staff officer, in +the reproachful tone of a man who has repeated the same thing more +than once. “You know it won’t do to leave your posts like this. +The prince gave orders that no one should leave his post. Now you, +Captain,” and he turned to a thin, dirty little artillery officer who +without his boots (he had given them to the canteen keeper to dry), +in only his stockings, rose when they entered, smiling not altogether +comfortably. + +“Well, aren’t you ashamed of yourself, Captain Túshin?” he +continued. “One would think that as an artillery officer you would set +a good example, yet here you are without your boots! The alarm will be +sounded and you’ll be in a pretty position without your boots!” (The +staff officer smiled.) “Kindly return to your posts, gentlemen, all of +you, all!” he added in a tone of command. + +Prince Andrew smiled involuntarily as he looked at the artillery officer +Túshin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to +the other, glanced inquiringly with his large, intelligent, kindly eyes +from Prince Andrew to the staff officer. + +“The soldiers say it feels easier without boots,” said Captain +Túshin smiling shyly in his uncomfortable position, evidently wishing +to adopt a jocular tone. But before he had finished he felt that his +jest was unacceptable and had not come off. He grew confused. + +“Kindly return to your posts,” said the staff officer trying to +preserve his gravity. + +Prince Andrew glanced again at the artillery officer’s small figure. +There was something peculiar about it, quite unsoldierly, rather comic, +but extremely attractive. + +The staff officer and Prince Andrew mounted their horses and rode on. + +Having ridden beyond the village, continually meeting and overtaking +soldiers and officers of various regiments, they saw on their left some +entrenchments being thrown up, the freshly dug clay of which showed up +red. Several battalions of soldiers, in their shirt sleeves despite +the cold wind, swarmed in these earthworks like a host of white ants; +spadefuls of red clay were continually being thrown up from behind the +bank by unseen hands. Prince Andrew and the officer rode up, looked at +the entrenchment, and went on again. Just behind it they came upon some +dozens of soldiers, continually replaced by others, who ran from the +entrenchment. They had to hold their noses and put their horses to a +trot to escape from the poisoned atmosphere of these latrines. + +“Voilà l’agrément des camps, monsieur le prince,” * said the +staff officer. + + * “This is a pleasure one gets in camp, Prince.” + + +They rode up the opposite hill. From there the French could already be +seen. Prince Andrew stopped and began examining the position. + +“That’s our battery,” said the staff officer indicating the +highest point. “It’s in charge of the queer fellow we saw without +his boots. You can see everything from there; let’s go there, +Prince.” + +“Thank you very much, I will go on alone,” said Prince Andrew, +wishing to rid himself of this staff officer’s company, “please +don’t trouble yourself further.” + +The staff officer remained behind and Prince Andrew rode on alone. + +The farther forward and nearer the enemy he went, the more orderly and +cheerful were the troops. The greatest disorder and depression had been +in the baggage train he had passed that morning on the Znaim road seven +miles away from the French. At Grunth also some apprehension and alarm +could be felt, but the nearer Prince Andrew came to the French lines the +more confident was the appearance of our troops. The soldiers in +their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company +officers were counting the men, poking the last man in each section in +the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up. Soldiers scattered over +the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building +shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, +dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending +boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers. +In one company dinner was ready, and the soldiers were gazing eagerly +at the steaming boiler, waiting till the sample, which a quartermaster +sergeant was carrying in a wooden bowl to an officer who sat on a log +before his shelter, had been tasted. + +Another company, a lucky one for not all the companies had vodka, +crowded round a pockmarked, broad-shouldered sergeant major who, tilting +a keg, filled one after another the canteen lids held out to him. The +soldiers lifted the canteen lids to their lips with reverential faces, +emptied them, rolling the vodka in their mouths, and walked away from +the sergeant major with brightened expressions, licking their lips and +wiping them on the sleeves of their greatcoats. All their faces were +as serene as if all this were happening at home awaiting peaceful +encampment, and not within sight of the enemy before an action in +which at least half of them would be left on the field. After passing a +chasseur regiment and in the lines of the Kiev grenadiers—fine fellows +busy with similar peaceful affairs—near the shelter of the regimental +commander, higher than and different from the others, Prince Andrew came +out in front of a platoon of grenadiers before whom lay a naked man. Two +soldiers held him while two others were flourishing their switches and +striking him regularly on his bare back. The man shrieked unnaturally. +A stout major was pacing up and down the line, and regardless of the +screams kept repeating: + +“It’s a shame for a soldier to steal; a soldier must be honest, +honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in +him, he’s a scoundrel. Go on! Go on!” + +So the swishing sound of the strokes, and the desperate but unnatural +screams, continued. + +“Go on, go on!” said the major. + +A young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face +stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant +as he rode by. + +Prince Andrew, having reached the front line, rode along it. Our front +line and that of the enemy were far apart on the right and left flanks, +but in the center where the men with a flag of truce had passed that +morning, the lines were so near together that the men could see one +another’s faces and speak to one another. Besides the soldiers who +formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers +who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies. + +Since early morning—despite an injunction not to approach the picket +line—the officers had been unable to keep sight-seers away. The +soldiers forming the picket line, like showmen exhibiting a curiosity, +no longer looked at the French but paid attention to the sight-seers and +grew weary waiting to be relieved. Prince Andrew halted to have a look +at the French. + +“Look! Look there!” one soldier was saying to another, pointing to a +Russian musketeer who had gone up to the picket line with an officer and +was rapidly and excitedly talking to a French grenadier. “Hark to him +jabbering! Fine, isn’t it? It’s all the Frenchy can do to keep up +with him. There now, Sídorov!” + +“Wait a bit and listen. It’s fine!” answered Sídorov, who was +considered an adept at French. + +The soldier to whom the laughers referred was Dólokhov. Prince Andrew +recognized him and stopped to listen to what he was saying. Dólokhov +had come from the left flank where their regiment was stationed, with +his captain. + +“Now then, go on, go on!” incited the officer, bending forward and +trying not to lose a word of the speech which was incomprehensible to +him. “More, please: more! What’s he saying?” + +Dólokhov did not answer the captain; he had been drawn into a hot +dispute with the French grenadier. They were naturally talking about the +campaign. The Frenchman, confusing the Austrians with the Russians, was +trying to prove that the Russians had surrendered and had fled all +the way from Ulm, while Dólokhov maintained that the Russians had not +surrendered but had beaten the French. + +“We have orders to drive you off here, and we shall drive you off,” +said Dólokhov. + +“Only take care you and your Cossacks are not all captured!” said +the French grenadier. + +The French onlookers and listeners laughed. + +“We’ll make you dance as we did under Suvórov...,” * said +Dólokhov. + + * “On vous fera danser.” + + +“Qu’ est-ce qu’il chante?” * asked a Frenchman. + + * “What’s he singing about?” + + +“It’s ancient history,” said another, guessing that it referred to +a former war. “The Emperor will teach your Suvara as he has taught the +others...” + +“Bonaparte...” began Dólokhov, but the Frenchman interrupted him. + +“Not Bonaparte. He is the Emperor! Sacré nom...!” cried he angrily. + +“The devil skin your Emperor.” + +And Dólokhov swore at him in coarse soldier’s Russian and shouldering +his musket walked away. + +“Let us go, Iván Lukích,” he said to the captain. + +“Ah, that’s the way to talk French,” said the picket soldiers. +“Now, Sídorov, you have a try!” + +Sídorov, turning to the French, winked, and began to jabber meaningless +sounds very fast: “Kari, mala, tafa, safi, muter, Kaská,” he said, +trying to give an expressive intonation to his voice. + +“Ho! ho! ho! Ha! ha! ha! ha! Ouh! ouh!” came peals of such healthy +and good-humored laughter from the soldiers that it infected the French +involuntarily, so much so that the only thing left to do seemed to be +to unload the muskets, explode the ammunition, and all return home as +quickly as possible. + +But the guns remained loaded, the loopholes in blockhouses and +entrenchments looked out just as menacingly, and the unlimbered cannon +confronted one another as before. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +Having ridden round the whole line from right flank to left, Prince +Andrew made his way up to the battery from which the staff officer had +told him the whole field could be seen. Here he dismounted, and stopped +beside the farthest of the four unlimbered cannon. Before the guns an +artillery sentry was pacing up and down; he stood at attention when the +officer arrived, but at a sign resumed his measured, monotonous pacing. +Behind the guns were their limbers and still farther back picket ropes +and artillerymen’s bonfires. To the left, not far from the farthest +cannon, was a small, newly constructed wattle shed from which came the +sound of officers’ voices in eager conversation. + +It was true that a view over nearly the whole Russian position and the +greater part of the enemy’s opened out from this battery. Just facing +it, on the crest of the opposite hill, the village of Schön Grabern +could be seen, and in three places to left and right the French troops +amid the smoke of their campfires, the greater part of whom were +evidently in the village itself and behind the hill. To the left from +that village, amid the smoke, was something resembling a battery, but it +was impossible to see it clearly with the naked eye. Our right flank was +posted on a rather steep incline which dominated the French position. +Our infantry were stationed there, and at the farthest point the +dragoons. In the center, where Túshin’s battery stood and from which +Prince Andrew was surveying the position, was the easiest and most +direct descent and ascent to the brook separating us from Schön +Grabern. On the left our troops were close to a copse, in which smoked +the bonfires of our infantry who were felling wood. The French line was +wider than ours, and it was plain that they could easily outflank us +on both sides. Behind our position was a steep and deep dip, making it +difficult for artillery and cavalry to retire. Prince Andrew took +out his notebook and, leaning on the cannon, sketched a plan of the +position. He made some notes on two points, intending to mention them to +Bagratión. His idea was, first, to concentrate all the artillery in the +center, and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the +dip. Prince Andrew, being always near the commander in chief, closely +following the mass movements and general orders, and constantly studying +historical accounts of battles, involuntarily pictured to himself the +course of events in the forthcoming action in broad outline. He +imagined only important possibilities: “If the enemy attacks the right +flank,” he said to himself, “the Kiev grenadiers and the Podólsk +chasseurs must hold their position till reserves from the center +come up. In that case the dragoons could successfully make a flank +counterattack. If they attack our center we, having the center battery +on this high ground, shall withdraw the left flank under its cover, and +retreat to the dip by echelons.” So he reasoned.... All the time +he had been beside the gun, he had heard the voices of the officers +distinctly, but as often happens had not understood a word of what they +were saying. Suddenly, however, he was struck by a voice coming from the +shed, and its tone was so sincere that he could not but listen. + +“No, friend,” said a pleasant and, as it seemed to Prince Andrew, a +familiar voice, “what I say is that if it were possible to know +what is beyond death, none of us would be afraid of it. That’s so, +friend.” + +Another, a younger voice, interrupted him: “Afraid or not, you can’t +escape it anyhow.” + +“All the same, one is afraid! Oh, you clever people,” said a third +manly voice interrupting them both. “Of course you artillery men are +very wise, because you can take everything along with you—vodka and +snacks.” + +And the owner of the manly voice, evidently an infantry officer, +laughed. + +“Yes, one is afraid,” continued the first speaker, he of the +familiar voice. “One is afraid of the unknown, that’s what it is. +Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is +no sky but only an atmosphere.” + +The manly voice again interrupted the artillery officer. + +“Well, stand us some of your herb vodka, Túshin,” it said. + +“Why,” thought Prince Andrew, “that’s the captain who stood up +in the sutler’s hut without his boots.” He recognized the agreeable, +philosophizing voice with pleasure. + +“Some herb vodka? Certainly!” said Túshin. “But still, to +conceive a future life...” + +He did not finish. Just then there was a whistle in the air; nearer and +nearer, faster and louder, louder and faster, a cannon ball, as if it +had not finished saying what was necessary, thudded into the ground near +the shed with super human force, throwing up a mass of earth. The ground +seemed to groan at the terrible impact. + +And immediately Túshin, with a short pipe in the corner of his mouth +and his kind, intelligent face rather pale, rushed out of the shed +followed by the owner of the manly voice, a dashing infantry officer who +hurried off to his company, buttoning up his coat as he ran. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVII + +Mounting his horse again Prince Andrew lingered with the battery, +looking at the puff from the gun that had sent the ball. His eyes +ran rapidly over the wide space, but he only saw that the hitherto +motionless masses of the French now swayed and that there really was +a battery to their left. The smoke above it had not yet dispersed. Two +mounted Frenchmen, probably adjutants, were galloping up the hill. A +small but distinctly visible enemy column was moving down the hill, +probably to strengthen the front line. The smoke of the first shot had +not yet dispersed before another puff appeared, followed by a report. +The battle had begun! Prince Andrew turned his horse and galloped back +to Grunth to find Prince Bagratión. He heard the cannonade behind him +growing louder and more frequent. Evidently our guns had begun to reply. +From the bottom of the slope, where the parleys had taken place, came +the report of musketry. + +Lemarrois had just arrived at a gallop with Bonaparte’s stern letter, +and Murat, humiliated and anxious to expiate his fault, had at once +moved his forces to attack the center and outflank both the Russian +wings, hoping before evening and before the arrival of the Emperor to +crush the contemptible detachment that stood before him. + +“It has begun. Here it is!” thought Prince Andrew, feeling the +blood rush to his heart. “But where and how will my Toulon present +itself?” + +Passing between the companies that had been eating porridge and drinking +vodka a quarter of an hour before, he saw everywhere the same rapid +movement of soldiers forming ranks and getting their muskets ready, +and on all their faces he recognized the same eagerness that filled his +heart. “It has begun! Here it is, dreadful but enjoyable!” was what +the face of each soldier and each officer seemed to say. + +Before he had reached the embankments that were being thrown up, he saw, +in the light of the dull autumn evening, mounted men coming toward him. +The foremost, wearing a Cossack cloak and lambskin cap and riding a +white horse, was Prince Bagratión. Prince Andrew stopped, waiting for +him to come up; Prince Bagratión reined in his horse and recognizing +Prince Andrew nodded to him. He still looked ahead while Prince Andrew +told him what he had seen. + +The feeling, “It has begun! Here it is!” was seen even on Prince +Bagratión’s hard brown face with its half-closed, dull, sleepy eyes. +Prince Andrew gazed with anxious curiosity at that impassive face +and wished he could tell what, if anything, this man was thinking +and feeling at that moment. “Is there anything at all behind that +impassive face?” Prince Andrew asked himself as he looked. Prince +Bagratión bent his head in sign of agreement with what Prince Andrew +told him, and said, “Very good!” in a tone that seemed to imply that +everything that took place and was reported to him was exactly what he +had foreseen. Prince Andrew, out of breath with his rapid ride, spoke +quickly. Prince Bagratión, uttering his words with an Oriental accent, +spoke particularly slowly, as if to impress the fact that there was no +need to hurry. However, he put his horse to a trot in the direction +of Túshin’s battery. Prince Andrew followed with the suite. Behind +Prince Bagratión rode an officer of the suite, the prince’s personal +adjutant, Zherkóv, an orderly officer, the staff officer on duty, +riding a fine bobtailed horse, and a civilian—an accountant who had +asked permission to be present at the battle out of curiosity. The +accountant, a stout, full-faced man, looked around him with a naïve +smile of satisfaction and presented a strange appearance among the +hussars, Cossacks, and adjutants, in his camlet coat, as he jolted on +his horse with a convoy officer’s saddle. + +“He wants to see a battle,” said Zherkóv to Bolkónski, pointing +to the accountant, “but he feels a pain in the pit of his stomach +already.” + +“Oh, leave off!” said the accountant with a beaming but rather +cunning smile, as if flattered at being made the subject of Zherkóv’s +joke, and purposely trying to appear stupider than he really was. + +“It is very strange, mon Monsieur Prince,” said the staff officer. +(He remembered that in French there is some peculiar way of addressing a +prince, but could not get it quite right.) + +By this time they were all approaching Túshin’s battery, and a ball +struck the ground in front of them. + +“What’s that that has fallen?” asked the accountant with a naïve +smile. + +“A French pancake,” answered Zherkóv. + +“So that’s what they hit with?” asked the accountant. “How +awful!” + +He seemed to swell with satisfaction. He had hardly finished speaking +when they again heard an unexpectedly violent whistling which suddenly +ended with a thud into something soft... f-f-flop! and a Cossack, riding +a little to their right and behind the accountant, crashed to earth with +his horse. Zherkóv and the staff officer bent over their saddles and +turned their horses away. The accountant stopped, facing the Cossack, +and examined him with attentive curiosity. The Cossack was dead, but the +horse still struggled. + +Prince Bagratión screwed up his eyes, looked round, and, seeing the +cause of the confusion, turned away with indifference, as if to say, +“Is it worth while noticing trifles?” He reined in his horse with +the care of a skillful rider and, slightly bending over, disengaged his +saber which had caught in his cloak. It was an old-fashioned saber of +a kind no longer in general use. Prince Andrew remembered the story of +Suvórov giving his saber to Bagratión in Italy, and the recollection +was particularly pleasant at that moment. They had reached the battery +at which Prince Andrew had been when he examined the battlefield. + +“Whose company?” asked Prince Bagratión of an artilleryman standing +by the ammunition wagon. + +He asked, “Whose company?” but he really meant, “Are you +frightened here?” and the artilleryman understood him. + +“Captain Túshin’s, your excellency!” shouted the red-haired, +freckled gunner in a merry voice, standing to attention. + +“Yes, yes,” muttered Bagratión as if considering something, and he +rode past the limbers to the farthest cannon. + +As he approached, a ringing shot issued from it deafening him and his +suite, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the gun they could see +the gunners who had seized it straining to roll it quickly back to its +former position. A huge, broad-shouldered gunner, Number One, holding +a mop, his legs far apart, sprang to the wheel; while Number Two with +a trembling hand placed a charge in the cannon’s mouth. The short, +round-shouldered Captain Túshin, stumbling over the tail of the gun +carriage, moved forward and, not noticing the general, looked out +shading his eyes with his small hand. + +“Lift it two lines more and it will be just right,” cried he in a +feeble voice to which he tried to impart a dashing note, ill-suited to +his weak figure. “Number Two!” he squeaked. “Fire, Medvédev!” + +Bagratión called to him, and Túshin, raising three fingers to his cap +with a bashful and awkward gesture not at all like a military salute +but like a priest’s benediction, approached the general. Though +Túshin’s guns had been intended to cannonade the valley, he was +firing incendiary balls at the village of Schön Grabern visible just +opposite, in front of which large masses of French were advancing. + +No one had given Túshin orders where and at what to fire, but after +consulting his sergeant major, Zakharchénko, for whom he had great +respect, he had decided that it would be a good thing to set fire to the +village. “Very good!” said Bagratión in reply to the officer’s +report, and began deliberately to examine the whole battlefield extended +before him. The French had advanced nearest on our right. Below the +height on which the Kiev regiment was stationed, in the hollow where the +rivulet flowed, the soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was +heard, and much farther to the right beyond the dragoons, the officer of +the suite pointed out to Bagratión a French column that was outflanking +us. To the left the horizon bounded by the adjacent wood. Prince +Bagratión ordered two battalions from the center to be sent to +reinforce the right flank. The officer of the suite ventured to remark +to the prince that if these battalions went away, the guns would remain +without support. Prince Bagratión turned to the officer and with his +dull eyes looked at him in silence. It seemed to Prince Andrew that the +officer’s remark was just and that really no answer could be made to +it. But at that moment an adjutant galloped up with a message from the +commander of the regiment in the hollow and news that immense masses +of the French were coming down upon them and that his regiment was in +disorder and was retreating upon the Kiev grenadiers. Prince Bagratión +bowed his head in sign of assent and approval. He rode off at a walk to +the right and sent an adjutant to the dragoons with orders to attack the +French. But this adjutant returned half an hour later with the news that +the commander of the dragoons had already retreated beyond the dip in +the ground, as a heavy fire had been opened on him and he was losing +men uselessly, and so had hastened to throw some sharpshooters into the +wood. + +“Very good!” said Bagratión. + +As he was leaving the battery, firing was heard on the left also, and +as it was too far to the left flank for him to have time to go there +himself, Prince Bagratión sent Zherkóv to tell the general in command +(the one who had paraded his regiment before Kutúzov at Braunau) that +he must retreat as quickly as possible behind the hollow in the rear, +as the right flank would probably not be able to withstand the enemy’s +attack very long. About Túshin and the battalion that had been in +support of his battery all was forgotten. Prince Andrew listened +attentively to Bagratión’s colloquies with the commanding officers +and the orders he gave them and, to his surprise, found that no orders +were really given, but that Prince Bagratión tried to make it appear +that everything done by necessity, by accident, or by the will of +subordinate commanders was done, if not by his direct command, at least +in accord with his intentions. Prince Andrew noticed, however, that +though what happened was due to chance and was independent of the +commander’s will, owing to the tact Bagratión showed, his presence +was very valuable. Officers who approached him with disturbed +countenances became calm; soldiers and officers greeted him gaily, grew +more cheerful in his presence, and were evidently anxious to display +their courage before him. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVIII + +Prince Bagratión, having reached the highest point of our right flank, +began riding downhill to where the roll of musketry was heard but where +on account of the smoke nothing could be seen. The nearer they got to +the hollow the less they could see but the more they felt the nearness +of the actual battlefield. They began to meet wounded men. One with a +bleeding head and no cap was being dragged along by two soldiers who +supported him under the arms. There was a gurgle in his throat and he +was spitting blood. A bullet had evidently hit him in the throat or +mouth. Another was walking sturdily by himself but without his musket, +groaning aloud and swinging his arm which had just been hurt, while +blood from it was streaming over his greatcoat as from a bottle. He had +that moment been wounded and his face showed fear rather than suffering. +Crossing a road they descended a steep incline and saw several men +lying on the ground; they also met a crowd of soldiers some of whom were +unwounded. The soldiers were ascending the hill breathing heavily, and +despite the general’s presence were talking loudly and gesticulating. +In front of them rows of gray cloaks were already visible through the +smoke, and an officer catching sight of Bagratión rushed shouting after +the crowd of retreating soldiers, ordering them back. Bagratión rode up +to the ranks along which shots crackled now here and now there, drowning +the sound of voices and the shouts of command. The whole air reeked with +smoke. The excited faces of the soldiers were blackened with it. Some +were using their ramrods, others putting powder on the touchpans or +taking charges from their pouches, while others were firing, though who +they were firing at could not be seen for the smoke which there was no +wind to carry away. A pleasant humming and whistling of bullets were +often heard. “What is this?” thought Prince Andrew approaching the +crowd of soldiers. “It can’t be an attack, for they are not moving; +it can’t be a square—for they are not drawn up for that.” + +The commander of the regiment, a thin, feeble-looking old man with a +pleasant smile—his eyelids drooping more than half over his old eyes, +giving him a mild expression, rode up to Bagratión and welcomed him as +a host welcomes an honored guest. He reported that his regiment had +been attacked by French cavalry and that, though the attack had been +repulsed, he had lost more than half his men. He said the attack +had been repulsed, employing this military term to describe what had +occurred to his regiment, but in reality he did not himself know what +had happened during that half-hour to the troops entrusted to him, and +could not say with certainty whether the attack had been repulsed or his +regiment had been broken up. All he knew was that at the commencement +of the action balls and shells began flying all over his regiment and +hitting men and that afterwards someone had shouted “Cavalry!” and +our men had begun firing. They were still firing, not at the cavalry +which had disappeared, but at French infantry who had come into the +hollow and were firing at our men. Prince Bagratión bowed his head as a +sign that this was exactly what he had desired and expected. Turning +to his adjutant he ordered him to bring down the two battalions of the +Sixth Chasseurs whom they had just passed. Prince Andrew was struck by +the changed expression on Prince Bagratión’s face at this moment. It +expressed the concentrated and happy resolution you see on the face of +a man who on a hot day takes a final run before plunging into the water. +The dull, sleepy expression was no longer there, nor the affectation +of profound thought. The round, steady, hawk’s eyes looked before him +eagerly and rather disdainfully, not resting on anything although his +movements were still slow and measured. + +The commander of the regiment turned to Prince Bagratión, entreating +him to go back as it was too dangerous to remain where they were. +“Please, your excellency, for God’s sake!” he kept saying, +glancing for support at an officer of the suite who turned away +from him. “There, you see!” and he drew attention to the bullets +whistling, singing, and hissing continually around them. He spoke in the +tone of entreaty and reproach that a carpenter uses to a gentleman who +has picked up an ax: “We are used to it, but you, sir, will blister +your hands.” He spoke as if those bullets could not kill him, and his +half-closed eyes gave still more persuasiveness to his words. The staff +officer joined in the colonel’s appeals, but Bagratión did not reply; +he only gave an order to cease firing and re-form, so as to give room +for the two approaching battalions. While he was speaking, the curtain +of smoke that had concealed the hollow, driven by a rising wind, began +to move from right to left as if drawn by an invisible hand, and the +hill opposite, with the French moving about on it, opened out before +them. All eyes fastened involuntarily on this French column advancing +against them and winding down over the uneven ground. One could already +see the soldiers’ shaggy caps, distinguish the officers from the men, +and see the standard flapping against its staff. + +“They march splendidly,” remarked someone in Bagratión’s suite. + +The head of the column had already descended into the hollow. The clash +would take place on this side of it... + +The remains of our regiment which had been in action rapidly formed up +and moved to the right; from behind it, dispersing the laggards, came +two battalions of the Sixth Chasseurs in fine order. Before they had +reached Bagratión, the weighty tread of the mass of men marching in +step could be heard. On their left flank, nearest to Bagratión, marched +a company commander, a fine round-faced man, with a stupid and happy +expression—the same man who had rushed out of the wattle shed. At that +moment he was clearly thinking of nothing but how dashing a fellow he +would appear as he passed the commander. + +With the self-satisfaction of a man on parade, he stepped lightly with +his muscular legs as if sailing along, stretching himself to his full +height without the smallest effort, his ease contrasting with the heavy +tread of the soldiers who were keeping step with him. He carried close +to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real +weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men +without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly. It was as +if all the powers of his soul were concentrated on passing the commander +in the best possible manner, and feeling that he was doing it well he +was happy. “Left... left... left...” he seemed to repeat to himself +at each alternate step; and in time to this, with stern but varied +faces, the wall of soldiers burdened with knapsacks and muskets marched +in step, and each one of these hundreds of soldiers seemed to be +repeating to himself at each alternate step, “Left... left... +left...” A fat major skirted a bush, puffing and falling out of +step; a soldier who had fallen behind, his face showing alarm at his +defection, ran at a trot, panting to catch up with his company. A cannon +ball, cleaving the air, flew over the heads of Bagratión and his suite, +and fell into the column to the measure of “Left... left!” “Close +up!” came the company commander’s voice in jaunty tones. The +soldiers passed in a semicircle round something where the ball had +fallen, and an old trooper on the flank, a noncommissioned officer who +had stopped beside the dead men, ran to catch up his line and, falling +into step with a hop, looked back angrily, and through the ominous +silence and the regular tramp of feet beating the ground in unison, one +seemed to hear left... left... left. + +“Well done, lads!” said Prince Bagratión. + +“Glad to do our best, your ex’len-lency!” came a confused shout +from the ranks. A morose soldier marching on the left turned his eyes on +Bagratión as he shouted, with an expression that seemed to say: “We +know that ourselves!” Another, without looking round, as though +fearing to relax, shouted with his mouth wide open and passed on. + +The order was given to halt and down knapsacks. + +Bagratión rode round the ranks that had marched past him and +dismounted. He gave the reins to a Cossack, took off and handed over his diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-3/1M/1M-01 b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-3/1M/1M-01 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..007ae1c --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-3/1M/1M-01 @@ -0,0 +1,10785 @@ +felt coat, stretched his legs, and set his cap straight. The head of the +French column, with its officers leading, appeared from below the hill. + +“Forward, with God!” said Bagratión, in a resolute, sonorous voice, +turning for a moment to the front line, and slightly swinging his arms, +he went forward uneasily over the rough field with the awkward gait of +a cavalryman. Prince Andrew felt that an invisible power was leading him +forward, and experienced great happiness. + +The French were already near. Prince Andrew, walking beside Bagratión, +could clearly distinguish their bandoliers, red epaulets, and even their +faces. (He distinctly saw an old French officer who, with gaitered +legs and turned-out toes, climbed the hill with difficulty.) Prince +Bagratión gave no further orders and silently continued to walk on in +front of the ranks. Suddenly one shot after another rang out from the +French, smoke appeared all along their uneven ranks, and musket shots +sounded. Several of our men fell, among them the round-faced officer +who had marched so gaily and complacently. But at the moment the first +report was heard, Bagratión looked round and shouted, “Hurrah!” + +“Hurrah—ah!—ah!” rang a long-drawn shout from our ranks, and +passing Bagratión and racing one another they rushed in an irregular +but joyous and eager crowd down the hill at their disordered foe. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIX + +The attack of the Sixth Chasseurs secured the retreat of our right +flank. In the center Túshin’s forgotten battery, which had managed to +set fire to the Schön Grabern village, delayed the French advance. The +French were putting out the fire which the wind was spreading, and thus +gave us time to retreat. The retirement of the center to the other side +of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the +different companies did not get mixed. But our left—which consisted +of the Azóv and Podólsk infantry and the Pávlograd hussars—was +simultaneously attacked and outflanked by superior French forces under +Lannes and was thrown into confusion. Bagratión had sent Zherkóv +to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat +immediately. + +Zherkóv, not removing his hand from his cap, turned his horse about +and galloped off. But no sooner had he left Bagratión than his courage +failed him. He was seized by panic and could not go where it was +dangerous. + +Having reached the left flank, instead of going to the front where the +firing was, he began to look for the general and his staff where they +could not possibly be, and so did not deliver the order. + +The command of the left flank belonged by seniority to the commander of +the regiment Kutúzov had reviewed at Braunau and in which Dólokhov was +serving as a private. But the command of the extreme left flank had been +assigned to the commander of the Pávlograd regiment in which Rostóv +was serving, and a misunderstanding arose. The two commanders were much +exasperated with one another and, long after the action had begun on +the right flank and the French were already advancing, were engaged +in discussion with the sole object of offending one another. But the +regiments, both cavalry and infantry, were by no means ready for the +impending action. From privates to general they were not expecting a +battle and were engaged in peaceful occupations, the cavalry feeding the +horses and the infantry collecting wood. + +“He higher iss dan I in rank,” said the German colonel of the +hussars, flushing and addressing an adjutant who had ridden up, “so +let him do what he vill, but I cannot sacrifice my hussars... Bugler, +sount ze retreat!” + +But haste was becoming imperative. Cannon and musketry, mingling +together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes +of Lannes’ sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and +forming up within twice the range of a musket shot. The general in +command of the infantry went toward his horse with jerky steps, and +having mounted drew himself up very straight and tall and rode to the +Pávlograd commander. The commanders met with polite bows but with +secret malevolence in their hearts. + +“Once again, Colonel,” said the general, “I can’t leave half +my men in the wood. I beg of you, I beg of you,” he repeated, “to +occupy the position and prepare for an attack.” + +“I peg of you yourself not to mix in vot is not your business!” +suddenly replied the irate colonel. “If you vere in the cavalry...” + +“I am not in the cavalry, Colonel, but I am a Russian general and if +you are not aware of the fact...” + +“Quite avare, your excellency,” suddenly shouted the colonel, +touching his horse and turning purple in the face. “Vill you be so +goot to come to ze front and see dat zis position iss no goot? I don’t +vish to destroy my men for your pleasure!” + +“You forget yourself, Colonel. I am not considering my own pleasure +and I won’t allow it to be said!” + +Taking the colonel’s outburst as a challenge to his courage, the +general expanded his chest and rode, frowning, beside him to the +front line, as if their differences would be settled there amongst the +bullets. They reached the front, several bullets sped over them, and +they halted in silence. There was nothing fresh to be seen from the +line, for from where they had been before it had been evident that it +was impossible for cavalry to act among the bushes and broken ground, +as well as that the French were outflanking our left. The general +and colonel looked sternly and significantly at one another like two +fighting cocks preparing for battle, each vainly trying to detect signs +of cowardice in the other. Both passed the examination successfully. As +there was nothing to be said, and neither wished to give occasion for +it to be alleged that he had been the first to leave the range of fire, +they would have remained there for a long time testing each other’s +courage had it not been that just then they heard the rattle of musketry +and a muffled shout almost behind them in the wood. The French had +attacked the men collecting wood in the copse. It was no longer possible +for the hussars to retreat with the infantry. They were cut off from +the line of retreat on the left by the French. However inconvenient the +position, it was now necessary to attack in order to cut a way through +for themselves. + +The squadron in which Rostóv was serving had scarcely time to mount +before it was halted facing the enemy. Again, as at the Enns bridge, +there was nothing between the squadron and the enemy, and again that +terrible dividing line of uncertainty and fear—resembling the line +separating the living from the dead—lay between them. All were +conscious of this unseen line, and the question whether they would cross +it or not, and how they would cross it, agitated them all. + +The colonel rode to the front, angrily gave some reply to questions put +to him by the officers, and, like a man desperately insisting on having +his own way, gave an order. No one said anything definite, but the rumor +of an attack spread through the squadron. The command to form up rang +out and the sabers whizzed as they were drawn from their scabbards. +Still no one moved. The troops of the left flank, infantry and hussars +alike, felt that the commander did not himself know what to do, and this +irresolution communicated itself to the men. + +“If only they would be quick!” thought Rostóv, feeling that at last +the time had come to experience the joy of an attack of which he had so +often heard from his fellow hussars. + +“Fo’ward, with God, lads!” rang out Denísov’s voice. “At a +twot fo’ward!” + +The horses’ croups began to sway in the front line. Rook pulled at the +reins and started of his own accord. + +Before him, on the right, Rostóv saw the front lines of his hussars and +still farther ahead a dark line which he could not see distinctly but +took to be the enemy. Shots could be heard, but some way off. + +“Faster!” came the word of command, and Rostóv felt Rook’s flanks +drooping as he broke into a gallop. + +Rostóv anticipated his horse’s movements and became more and more +elated. He had noticed a solitary tree ahead of him. This tree had been +in the middle of the line that had seemed so terrible—and now he +had crossed that line and not only was there nothing terrible, but +everything was becoming more and more happy and animated. “Oh, how I +will slash at him!” thought Rostóv, gripping the hilt of his saber. + +“Hur-a-a-a-ah!” came a roar of voices. “Let anyone come my way +now,” thought Rostóv driving his spurs into Rook and letting him go +at a full gallop so that he outstripped the others. Ahead, the enemy was +already visible. Suddenly something like a birch broom seemed to sweep +over the squadron. Rostóv raised his saber, ready to strike, but at +that instant the trooper Nikítenko, who was galloping ahead, shot away +from him, and Rostóv felt as in a dream that he continued to be carried +forward with unnatural speed but yet stayed on the same spot. From +behind him Bondarchúk, an hussar he knew, jolted against him and looked +angrily at him. Bondarchúk’s horse swerved and galloped past. + +“How is it I am not moving? I have fallen, I am killed!” Rostóv +asked and answered at the same instant. He was alone in the middle of a +field. Instead of the moving horses and hussars’ backs, he saw nothing +before him but the motionless earth and the stubble around him. There +was warm blood under his arm. “No, I am wounded and the horse is +killed.” Rook tried to rise on his forelegs but fell back, pinning his +rider’s leg. Blood was flowing from his head; he struggled but could +not rise. Rostóv also tried to rise but fell back, his sabretache +having become entangled in the saddle. Where our men were, and where the +French, he did not know. There was no one near. + +Having disentangled his leg, he rose. “Where, on which side, was now +the line that had so sharply divided the two armies?” he asked himself +and could not answer. “Can something bad have happened to me?” +he wondered as he got up: and at that moment he felt that something +superfluous was hanging on his benumbed left arm. The wrist felt as if +it were not his. He examined his hand carefully, vainly trying to find +blood on it. “Ah, here are people coming,” he thought joyfully, +seeing some men running toward him. “They will help me!” In front +came a man wearing a strange shako and a blue cloak, swarthy, sunburned, +and with a hooked nose. Then came two more, and many more running +behind. One of them said something strange, not in Russian. In among the +hindmost of these men wearing similar shakos was a Russian hussar. He +was being held by the arms and his horse was being led behind him. + +“It must be one of ours, a prisoner. Yes. Can it be that they will +take me too? Who are these men?” thought Rostóv, scarcely believing +his eyes. “Can they be French?” He looked at the approaching +Frenchmen, and though but a moment before he had been galloping to get +at them and hack them to pieces, their proximity now seemed so awful +that he could not believe his eyes. “Who are they? Why are they +running? Can they be coming at me? And why? To kill me? Me whom everyone +is so fond of?” He remembered his mother’s love for him, and his +family’s, and his friends’, and the enemy’s intention to kill him +seemed impossible. “But perhaps they may do it!” For more than ten +seconds he stood not moving from the spot or realizing the situation. +The foremost Frenchman, the one with the hooked nose, was already so +close that the expression of his face could be seen. And the excited, +alien face of that man, his bayonet hanging down, holding his breath, +and running so lightly, frightened Rostóv. He seized his pistol and, +instead of firing it, flung it at the Frenchman and ran with all his +might toward the bushes. He did not now run with the feeling of doubt +and conflict with which he had trodden the Enns bridge, but with the +feeling of a hare fleeing from the hounds. One single sentiment, that +of fear for his young and happy life, possessed his whole being. Rapidly +leaping the furrows, he fled across the field with the impetuosity he +used to show at catchplay, now and then turning his good-natured, pale, +young face to look back. A shudder of terror went through him: “No, +better not look,” he thought, but having reached the bushes he glanced +round once more. The French had fallen behind, and just as he looked +round the first man changed his run to a walk and, turning, shouted +something loudly to a comrade farther back. Rostóv paused. “No, +there’s some mistake,” thought he. “They can’t have wanted to +kill me.” But at the same time, his left arm felt as heavy as if +a seventy-pound weight were tied to it. He could run no more. The +Frenchman also stopped and took aim. Rostóv closed his eyes and stooped +down. One bullet and then another whistled past him. He mustered his +last remaining strength, took hold of his left hand with his right, and +reached the bushes. Behind these were some Russian sharpshooters. + + + + + +CHAPTER XX + +The infantry regiments that had been caught unawares in the outskirts +of the wood ran out of it, the different companies getting mixed, and +retreated as a disorderly crowd. One soldier, in his fear, uttered the +senseless cry, “Cut off!” that is so terrible in battle, and that +word infected the whole crowd with a feeling of panic. + +“Surrounded! Cut off? We’re lost!” shouted the fugitives. + +The moment he heard the firing and the cry from behind, the general +realized that something dreadful had happened to his regiment, and the +thought that he, an exemplary officer of many years’ service who +had never been to blame, might be held responsible at headquarters +for negligence or inefficiency so staggered him that, forgetting the +recalcitrant cavalry colonel, his own dignity as a general, and above +all quite forgetting the danger and all regard for self-preservation, he +clutched the crupper of his saddle and, spurring his horse, galloped to +the regiment under a hail of bullets which fell around, but fortunately +missed him. His one desire was to know what was happening and at any +cost correct, or remedy, the mistake if he had made one, so that he, +an exemplary officer of twenty-two years’ service, who had never been +censured, should not be held to blame. + +Having galloped safely through the French, he reached a field behind +the copse across which our men, regardless of orders, were running and +descending the valley. That moment of moral hesitation which decides +the fate of battles had arrived. Would this disorderly crowd of soldiers +attend to the voice of their commander, or would they, disregarding him, +continue their flight? Despite his desperate shouts that used to seem +so terrible to the soldiers, despite his furious purple countenance +distorted out of all likeness to his former self, and the flourishing of +his saber, the soldiers all continued to run, talking, firing into the +air, and disobeying orders. The moral hesitation which decided the fate +of battles was evidently culminating in a panic. + +The general had a fit of coughing as a result of shouting and of the +powder smoke and stopped in despair. Everything seemed lost. But at that +moment the French who were attacking, suddenly and without any apparent +reason, ran back and disappeared from the outskirts, and Russian +sharpshooters showed themselves in the copse. It was Timókhin’s +company, which alone had maintained its order in the wood and, having +lain in ambush in a ditch, now attacked the French unexpectedly. +Timókhin, armed only with a sword, had rushed at the enemy with such +a desperate cry and such mad, drunken determination that, taken by +surprise, the French had thrown down their muskets and run. Dólokhov, +running beside Timókhin, killed a Frenchman at close quarters and was +the first to seize the surrendering French officer by his collar. Our +fugitives returned, the battalions re-formed, and the French who had +nearly cut our left flank in half were for the moment repulsed. Our +reserve units were able to join up, and the fight was at an end. The +regimental commander and Major Ekonómov had stopped beside a bridge, +letting the retreating companies pass by them, when a soldier came up +and took hold of the commander’s stirrup, almost leaning against him. +The man was wearing a bluish coat of broadcloth, he had no knapsack +or cap, his head was bandaged, and over his shoulder a French munition +pouch was slung. He had an officer’s sword in his hand. The soldier +was pale, his blue eyes looked impudently into the commander’s face, +and his lips were smiling. Though the commander was occupied in giving +instructions to Major Ekonómov, he could not help taking notice of the +soldier. + +“Your excellency, here are two trophies,” said Dólokhov, pointing +to the French sword and pouch. “I have taken an officer prisoner. I +stopped the company.” Dólokhov breathed heavily from weariness and +spoke in abrupt sentences. “The whole company can bear witness. I beg +you will remember this, your excellency!” + +“All right, all right,” replied the commander, and turned to Major +Ekonómov. + +But Dólokhov did not go away; he untied the handkerchief around his +head, pulled it off, and showed the blood congealed on his hair. + +“A bayonet wound. I remained at the front. Remember, your +excellency!” + + +Túshin’s battery had been forgotten and only at the very end of the +action did Prince Bagratión, still hearing the cannonade in the center, +send his orderly staff officer, and later Prince Andrew also, to order +the battery to retire as quickly as possible. When the supports attached +to Túshin’s battery had been moved away in the middle of the action +by someone’s order, the battery had continued firing and was only not +captured by the French because the enemy could not surmise that anyone +could have the effrontery to continue firing from four quite undefended +guns. On the contrary, the energetic action of that battery led the +French to suppose that here—in the center—the main Russian forces +were concentrated. Twice they had attempted to attack this point, but on +each occasion had been driven back by grapeshot from the four isolated +guns on the hillock. + +Soon after Prince Bagratión had left him, Túshin had succeeded in +setting fire to Schön Grabern. + +“Look at them scurrying! It’s burning! Just see the smoke! Fine! +Grand! Look at the smoke, the smoke!” exclaimed the artillerymen, +brightening up. + +All the guns, without waiting for orders, were being fired in the +direction of the conflagration. As if urging each other on, the soldiers +cried at each shot: “Fine! That’s good! Look at it... Grand!” The +fire, fanned by the breeze, was rapidly spreading. The French columns +that had advanced beyond the village went back; but as though in revenge +for this failure, the enemy placed ten guns to the right of the village +and began firing them at Túshin’s battery. + +In their childlike glee, aroused by the fire and their luck in +successfully cannonading the French, our artillerymen only noticed this +battery when two balls, and then four more, fell among our guns, one +knocking over two horses and another tearing off a munition-wagon +driver’s leg. Their spirits once roused were, however, not diminished, +but only changed character. The horses were replaced by others from a +reserve gun carriage, the wounded were carried away, and the four guns +were turned against the ten-gun battery. Túshin’s companion officer +had been killed at the beginning of the engagement and within an hour +seventeen of the forty men of the guns’ crews had been disabled, but +the artillerymen were still as merry and lively as ever. Twice they +noticed the French appearing below them, and then they fired grapeshot +at them. + +Little Túshin, moving feebly and awkwardly, kept telling his orderly to +“refill my pipe for that one!” and then, scattering sparks from it, +ran forward shading his eyes with his small hand to look at the French. + +“Smack at ‘em, lads!” he kept saying, seizing the guns by the +wheels and working the screws himself. + +Amid the smoke, deafened by the incessant reports which always made him +jump, Túshin not taking his pipe from his mouth ran from gun to gun, +now aiming, now counting the charges, now giving orders about replacing +dead or wounded horses and harnessing fresh ones, and shouting in his +feeble voice, so high pitched and irresolute. His face grew more and +more animated. Only when a man was killed or wounded did he frown and +turn away from the sight, shouting angrily at the men who, as is always +the case, hesitated about lifting the injured or dead. The soldiers, +for the most part handsome fellows and, as is always the case in an +artillery company, a head and shoulders taller and twice as broad +as their officer—all looked at their commander like children in an +embarrassing situation, and the expression on his face was invariably +reflected on theirs. + +Owing to the terrible uproar and the necessity for concentration and +activity, Túshin did not experience the slightest unpleasant sense of +fear, and the thought that he might be killed or badly wounded never +occurred to him. On the contrary, he became more and more elated. It +seemed to him that it was a very long time ago, almost a day, since he +had first seen the enemy and fired the first shot, and that the corner +of the field he stood on was well-known and familiar ground. Though he +thought of everything, considered everything, and did everything the +best of officers could do in his position, he was in a state akin to +feverish delirium or drunkenness. + +From the deafening sounds of his own guns around him, the whistle and +thud of the enemy’s cannon balls, from the flushed and perspiring +faces of the crew bustling round the guns, from the sight of the blood +of men and horses, from the little puffs of smoke on the enemy’s side +(always followed by a ball flying past and striking the earth, a man, a +gun, a horse), from the sight of all these things a fantastic world of +his own had taken possession of his brain and at that moment afforded +him pleasure. The enemy’s guns were in his fancy not guns but pipes +from which occasional puffs were blown by an invisible smoker. + +“There... he’s puffing again,” muttered Túshin to himself, as a +small cloud rose from the hill and was borne in a streak to the left by +the wind. + +“Now look out for the ball... we’ll throw it back.” + +“What do you want, your honor?” asked an artilleryman, standing +close by, who heard him muttering. + +“Nothing... only a shell...” he answered. + +“Come along, our Matvévna!” he said to himself. “Matvévna” * +was the name his fancy gave to the farthest gun of the battery, which +was large and of an old pattern. The French swarming round their guns +seemed to him like ants. In that world, the handsome drunkard Number One +of the second gun’s crew was “uncle”; Túshin looked at him more +often than at anyone else and took delight in his every movement. +The sound of musketry at the foot of the hill, now diminishing, now +increasing, seemed like someone’s breathing. He listened intently to +the ebb and flow of these sounds. + + * Daughter of Matthew. + +“Ah! Breathing again, breathing!” he muttered to himself. + +He imagined himself as an enormously tall, powerful man who was throwing +cannon balls at the French with both hands. + +“Now then, Matvévna, dear old lady, don’t let me down!” he was +saying as he moved from the gun, when a strange, unfamiliar voice called +above his head: “Captain Túshin! Captain!” + +Túshin turned round in dismay. It was the staff officer who had turned +him out of the booth at Grunth. He was shouting in a gasping voice: + +“Are you mad? You have twice been ordered to retreat, and you...” + +“Why are they down on me?” thought Túshin, looking in alarm at his +superior. + +“I... don’t...” he muttered, holding up two fingers to his cap. +“I...” + +But the staff officer did not finish what he wanted to say. A cannon +ball, flying close to him, caused him to duck and bend over his horse. +He paused, and just as he was about to say something more, another ball +stopped him. He turned his horse and galloped off. + +“Retire! All to retire!” he shouted from a distance. + +The soldiers laughed. A moment later, an adjutant arrived with the same +order. + +It was Prince Andrew. The first thing he saw on riding up to the space +where Túshin’s guns were stationed was an unharnessed horse with a +broken leg, that lay screaming piteously beside the harnessed horses. +Blood was gushing from its leg as from a spring. Among the limbers lay +several dead men. One ball after another passed over as he approached +and he felt a nervous shudder run down his spine. But the mere thought +of being afraid roused him again. “I cannot be afraid,” thought he, +and dismounted slowly among the guns. He delivered the order and did +not leave the battery. He decided to have the guns removed from their +positions and withdrawn in his presence. Together with Túshin, stepping +across the bodies and under a terrible fire from the French, he attended +to the removal of the guns. + +“A staff officer was here a minute ago, but skipped off,” said an +artilleryman to Prince Andrew. “Not like your honor!” + +Prince Andrew said nothing to Túshin. They were both so busy as to seem +not to notice one another. When having limbered up the only two cannon +that remained uninjured out of the four, they began moving down the hill +(one shattered gun and one unicorn were left behind), Prince Andrew rode +up to Túshin. + +“Well, till we meet again...” he said, holding out his hand to +Túshin. + +“Good-by, my dear fellow,” said Túshin. “Dear soul! Good-by, my +dear fellow!” and for some unknown reason tears suddenly filled his +eyes. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXI + +The wind had fallen and black clouds, merging with the powder smoke, +hung low over the field of battle on the horizon. It was growing +dark and the glow of two conflagrations was the more conspicuous. The +cannonade was dying down, but the rattle of musketry behind and on the +right sounded oftener and nearer. As soon as Túshin with his guns, +continually driving round or coming upon wounded men, was out of range +of fire and had descended into the dip, he was met by some of the staff, +among them the staff officer and Zherkóv, who had been twice sent to +Túshin’s battery but had never reached it. Interrupting one +another, they all gave, and transmitted, orders as to how to proceed, +reprimanding and reproaching him. Túshin gave no orders, and, +silently—fearing to speak because at every word he felt ready to +weep without knowing why—rode behind on his artillery nag. Though +the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves +after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages. The jaunty +infantry officer who just before the battle had rushed out of +Túshin’s wattle shed was laid, with a bullet in his stomach, on +“Matvévna’s” carriage. At the foot of the hill, a pale hussar +cadet, supporting one hand with the other, came up to Túshin and asked +for a seat. + +“Captain, for God’s sake! I’ve hurt my arm,” he said timidly. +“For God’s sake... I can’t walk. For God’s sake!” + +It was plain that this cadet had already repeatedly asked for a lift and +been refused. He asked in a hesitating, piteous voice. + +“Tell them to give me a seat, for God’s sake!” + +“Give him a seat,” said Túshin. “Lay a cloak for him to sit on, +lad,” he said, addressing his favorite soldier. “And where is the +wounded officer?” + +“He has been set down. He died,” replied someone. + +“Help him up. Sit down, dear fellow, sit down! Spread out the cloak, +Antónov.” + +The cadet was Rostóv. With one hand he supported the other; he was +pale and his jaw trembled, shivering feverishly. He was placed on +“Matvévna,” the gun from which they had removed the dead officer. +The cloak they spread under him was wet with blood which stained his +breeches and arm. + +“What, are you wounded, my lad?” said Túshin, approaching the gun +on which Rostóv sat. + +“No, it’s a sprain.” + +“Then what is this blood on the gun carriage?” inquired Túshin. + +“It was the officer, your honor, stained it,” answered the +artilleryman, wiping away the blood with his coat sleeve, as if +apologizing for the state of his gun. + +It was all that they could do to get the guns up the rise aided by the +infantry, and having reached the village of Gruntersdorf they halted. It +had grown so dark that one could not distinguish the uniforms ten paces +off, and the firing had begun to subside. Suddenly, near by on the +right, shouting and firing were again heard. Flashes of shot gleamed in +the darkness. This was the last French attack and was met by soldiers +who had sheltered in the village houses. They all rushed out of +the village again, but Túshin’s guns could not move, and the +artillerymen, Túshin, and the cadet exchanged silent glances as they +awaited their fate. The firing died down and soldiers, talking eagerly, +streamed out of a side street. + +“Not hurt, Petróv?” asked one. + +“We’ve given it ‘em hot, mate! They won’t make another push +now,” said another. + +“You couldn’t see a thing. How they shot at their own fellows! +Nothing could be seen. Pitch-dark, brother! Isn’t there something to +drink?” + +The French had been repulsed for the last time. And again and again in +the complete darkness Túshin’s guns moved forward, surrounded by the +humming infantry as by a frame. + +In the darkness, it seemed as though a gloomy unseen river was flowing +always in one direction, humming with whispers and talk and the sound of +hoofs and wheels. Amid the general rumble, the groans and voices of the +wounded were more distinctly heard than any other sound in the darkness +of the night. The gloom that enveloped the army was filled with their +groans, which seemed to melt into one with the darkness of the night. +After a while the moving mass became agitated, someone rode past on +a white horse followed by his suite, and said something in passing: +“What did he say? Where to, now? Halt, is it? Did he thank us?” came +eager questions from all sides. The whole moving mass began pressing +closer together and a report spread that they were ordered to halt: +evidently those in front had halted. All remained where they were in the +middle of the muddy road. + +Fires were lighted and the talk became more audible. Captain Túshin, +having given orders to his company, sent a soldier to find a dressing +station or a doctor for the cadet, and sat down by a bonfire the +soldiers had kindled on the road. Rostóv, too, dragged himself to the +fire. From pain, cold, and damp, a feverish shivering shook his whole +body. Drowsiness was irresistibly mastering him, but he kept awake by +an excruciating pain in his arm, for which he could find no satisfactory +position. He kept closing his eyes and then again looking at the fire, +which seemed to him dazzlingly red, and at the feeble, round-shouldered +figure of Túshin who was sitting cross-legged like a Turk beside him. +Túshin’s large, kind, intelligent eyes were fixed with sympathy and +commiseration on Rostóv, who saw that Túshin with his whole heart +wished to help him but could not. + +From all sides were heard the footsteps and talk of the infantry, who +were walking, driving past, and settling down all around. The sound +of voices, the tramping feet, the horses’ hoofs moving in mud, the +crackling of wood fires near and afar, merged into one tremulous rumble. + +It was no longer, as before, a dark, unseen river flowing through the +gloom, but a dark sea swelling and gradually subsiding after a storm. +Rostóv looked at and listened listlessly to what passed before and +around him. An infantryman came to the fire, squatted on his heels, held +his hands to the blaze, and turned away his face. + +“You don’t mind your honor?” he asked Túshin. “I’ve lost my +company, your honor. I don’t know where... such bad luck!” + +With the soldier, an infantry officer with a bandaged cheek came up to +the bonfire, and addressing Túshin asked him to have the guns moved a +trifle to let a wagon go past. After he had gone, two soldiers rushed to +the campfire. They were quarreling and fighting desperately, each trying +to snatch from the other a boot they were both holding on to. + +“You picked it up?... I dare say! You’re very smart!” one of them +shouted hoarsely. + +Then a thin, pale soldier, his neck bandaged with a bloodstained leg +band, came up and in angry tones asked the artillerymen for water. + +“Must one die like a dog?” said he. + +Túshin told them to give the man some water. Then a cheerful soldier +ran up, begging a little fire for the infantry. + +“A nice little hot torch for the infantry! Good luck to you, fellow +countrymen. Thanks for the fire—we’ll return it with interest,” +said he, carrying away into the darkness a glowing stick. + +Next came four soldiers, carrying something heavy on a cloak, and passed +by the fire. One of them stumbled. + +“Who the devil has put the logs on the road?” snarled he. + +“He’s dead—why carry him?” said another. + +“Shut up!” + +And they disappeared into the darkness with their load. + +“Still aching?” Túshin asked Rostóv in a whisper. + +“Yes.” + +“Your honor, you’re wanted by the general. He is in the hut here,” +said a gunner, coming up to Túshin. + +“Coming, friend.” + +Túshin rose and, buttoning his greatcoat and pulling it straight, +walked away from the fire. + +Not far from the artillery campfire, in a hut that had been prepared +for him, Prince Bagratión sat at dinner, talking with some commanding +officers who had gathered at his quarters. The little old man with +the half-closed eyes was there greedily gnawing a mutton bone, and the +general who had served blamelessly for twenty-two years, flushed by a +glass of vodka and the dinner; and the staff officer with the signet +ring, and Zherkóv, uneasily glancing at them all, and Prince Andrew, +pale, with compressed lips and feverishly glittering eyes. + +In a corner of the hut stood a standard captured from the French, and +the accountant with the naïve face was feeling its texture, shaking his +head in perplexity—perhaps because the banner really interested him, +perhaps because it was hard for him, hungry as he was, to look on at +a dinner where there was no place for him. In the next hut there was a +French colonel who had been taken prisoner by our dragoons. Our officers +were flocking in to look at him. Prince Bagratión was thanking the +individual commanders and inquiring into details of the action and our +losses. The general whose regiment had been inspected at Braunau was +informing the prince that as soon as the action began he had withdrawn +from the wood, mustered the men who were woodcutting, and, allowing the +French to pass him, had made a bayonet charge with two battalions and +had broken up the French troops. + +“When I saw, your excellency, that their first battalion was +disorganized, I stopped in the road and thought: ‘I’ll let them +come on and will meet them with the fire of the whole battalion’—and +that’s what I did.” + +The general had so wished to do this and was so sorry he had not managed +to do it that it seemed to him as if it had really happened. Perhaps +it might really have been so? Could one possibly make out amid all that +confusion what did or did not happen? + +“By the way, your excellency, I should inform you,” he +continued—remembering Dólokhov’s conversation with Kutúzov and his +last interview with the gentleman-ranker—“that Private Dólokhov, +who was reduced to the ranks, took a French officer prisoner in my +presence and particularly distinguished himself.” + +“I saw the Pávlograd hussars attack there, your excellency,” chimed +in Zherkóv, looking uneasily around. He had not seen the hussars all +that day, but had heard about them from an infantry officer. “They +broke up two squares, your excellency.” + +Several of those present smiled at Zherkóv’s words, expecting one of +his usual jokes, but noticing that what he was saying redounded to +the glory of our arms and of the day’s work, they assumed a serious +expression, though many of them knew that what he was saying was a lie +devoid of any foundation. Prince Bagratión turned to the old colonel: + +“Gentlemen, I thank you all; all arms have behaved heroically: +infantry, cavalry, and artillery. How was it that two guns were +abandoned in the center?” he inquired, searching with his eyes for +someone. (Prince Bagratión did not ask about the guns on the left +flank; he knew that all the guns there had been abandoned at the very +beginning of the action.) “I think I sent you?” he added, turning to +the staff officer on duty. + +“One was damaged,” answered the staff officer, “and the other I +can’t understand. I was there all the time giving orders and had only +just left.... It is true that it was hot there,” he added, modestly. + +Someone mentioned that Captain Túshin was bivouacking close to the +village and had already been sent for. + +“Oh, but you were there?” said Prince Bagratión, addressing Prince +Andrew. + +“Of course, we only just missed one another,” said the staff +officer, with a smile to Bolkónski. + +“I had not the pleasure of seeing you,” said Prince Andrew, coldly +and abruptly. + +All were silent. Túshin appeared at the threshold and made his way +timidly from behind the backs of the generals. As he stepped past the +generals in the crowded hut, feeling embarrassed as he always was by the +sight of his superiors, he did not notice the staff of the banner and +stumbled over it. Several of those present laughed. + +“How was it a gun was abandoned?” asked Bagratión, frowning, not so +much at the captain as at those who were laughing, among whom Zherkóv +laughed loudest. + +Only now, when he was confronted by the stern authorities, did his guilt +and the disgrace of having lost two guns and yet remaining alive present +themselves to Túshin in all their horror. He had been so excited that +he had not thought about it until that moment. The officers’ laughter +confused him still more. He stood before Bagratión with his lower +jaw trembling and was hardly able to mutter: “I don’t know... your +excellency... I had no men... your excellency.” + +“You might have taken some from the covering troops.” + +Túshin did not say that there were no covering troops, though that +was perfectly true. He was afraid of getting some other officer into +trouble, and silently fixed his eyes on Bagratión as a schoolboy who +has blundered looks at an examiner. + +The silence lasted some time. Prince Bagratión, apparently not wishing +to be severe, found nothing to say; the others did not venture to +intervene. Prince Andrew looked at Túshin from under his brows and his +fingers twitched nervously. + +“Your excellency!” Prince Andrew broke the silence with his abrupt +voice, “you were pleased to send me to Captain Túshin’s battery. I +went there and found two thirds of the men and horses knocked out, two +guns smashed, and no supports at all.” + +Prince Bagratión and Túshin looked with equal intentness at +Bolkónski, who spoke with suppressed agitation. + +“And, if your excellency will allow me to express my opinion,” he +continued, “we owe today’s success chiefly to the action of that +battery and the heroic endurance of Captain Túshin and his company,” +and without awaiting a reply, Prince Andrew rose and left the table. + +Prince Bagratión looked at Túshin, evidently reluctant to show +distrust in Bolkónski’s emphatic opinion yet not feeling able fully +to credit it, bent his head, and told Túshin that he could go. Prince +Andrew went out with him. + +“Thank you; you saved me, my dear fellow!” said Túshin. + +Prince Andrew gave him a look, but said nothing and went away. He felt +sad and depressed. It was all so strange, so unlike what he had hoped. + + +“Who are they? Why are they here? What do they want? And when will +all this end?” thought Rostóv, looking at the changing shadows before +him. The pain in his arm became more and more intense. Irresistible +drowsiness overpowered him, red rings danced before his eyes, and the +impression of those voices and faces and a sense of loneliness merged +with the physical pain. It was they, these soldiers—wounded and +unwounded—it was they who were crushing, weighing down, and twisting +the sinews and scorching the flesh of his sprained arm and shoulder. To +rid himself of them he closed his eyes. + +For a moment he dozed, but in that short interval innumerable things +appeared to him in a dream: his mother and her large white hand, +Sónya’s thin little shoulders, Natásha’s eyes and laughter, +Denísov with his voice and mustache, and Telyánin and all that affair +with Telyánin and Bogdánich. That affair was the same thing as this +soldier with the harsh voice, and it was that affair and this soldier +that were so agonizingly, incessantly pulling and pressing his arm and +always dragging it in one direction. He tried to get away from them, but +they would not for an instant let his shoulder move a hair’s breadth. +It would not ache—it would be well—if only they did not pull it, but +it was impossible to get rid of them. + +He opened his eyes and looked up. The black canopy of night hung less +than a yard above the glow of the charcoal. Flakes of falling snow were +fluttering in that light. Túshin had not returned, the doctor had not +come. He was alone now, except for a soldier who was sitting naked at +the other side of the fire, warming his thin yellow body. + +“Nobody wants me!” thought Rostóv. “There is no one to help me or +pity me. Yet I was once at home, strong, happy, and loved.” He sighed +and, doing so, groaned involuntarily. + +“Eh, is anything hurting you?” asked the soldier, shaking his shirt +out over the fire, and not waiting for an answer he gave a grunt and +added: “What a lot of men have been crippled today—frightful!” + +Rostóv did not listen to the soldier. He looked at the snowflakes +fluttering above the fire and remembered a Russian winter at his warm, +bright home, his fluffy fur coat, his quickly gliding sleigh, his +healthy body, and all the affection and care of his family. “And why +did I come here?” he wondered. + +Next day the French army did not renew their attack, and the remnant of +Bagratión’s detachment was reunited to Kutúzov’s army. + + + + + +BOOK THREE: 1805 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +Prince Vasíli was not a man who deliberately thought out his plans. +Still less did he think of injuring anyone for his own advantage. He +was merely a man of the world who had got on and to whom getting on had +become a habit. Schemes and devices for which he never rightly accounted +to himself, but which formed the whole interest of his life, +were constantly shaping themselves in his mind, arising from the +circumstances and persons he met. Of these plans he had not merely one +or two in his head but dozens, some only beginning to form themselves, +some approaching achievement, and some in course of disintegration. He +did not, for instance, say to himself: “This man now has influence, I +must gain his confidence and friendship and through him obtain a special +grant.” Nor did he say to himself: “Pierre is a rich man, I must +entice him to marry my daughter and lend me the forty thousand rubles +I need.” But when he came across a man of position his instinct +immediately told him that this man could be useful, and without any +premeditation Prince Vasíli took the first opportunity to gain his +confidence, flatter him, become intimate with him, and finally make his +request. + +He had Pierre at hand in Moscow and procured for him an appointment as +Gentleman of the Bedchamber, which at that time conferred the status of +Councilor of State, and insisted on the young man accompanying him to +Petersburg and staying at his house. With apparent absent-mindedness, +yet with unhesitating assurance that he was doing the right thing, +Prince Vasíli did everything to get Pierre to marry his daughter. Had +he thought out his plans beforehand he could not have been so natural +and shown such unaffected familiarity in intercourse with everybody both +above and below him in social standing. Something always drew him toward +those richer and more powerful than himself and he had rare skill in +seizing the most opportune moment for making use of people. + +Pierre, on unexpectedly becoming Count Bezúkhov and a rich man, felt +himself after his recent loneliness and freedom from cares so beset and +preoccupied that only in bed was he able to be by himself. He had to +sign papers, to present himself at government offices, the purpose of +which was not clear to him, to question his chief steward, to visit his +estate near Moscow, and to receive many people who formerly did not +even wish to know of his existence but would now have been offended +and grieved had he chosen not to see them. These different +people—businessmen, relations, and acquaintances alike—were all +disposed to treat the young heir in the most friendly and flattering +manner: they were all evidently firmly convinced of Pierre’s noble +qualities. He was always hearing such words as: “With your remarkable +kindness,” or, “With your excellent heart,” “You are yourself so +honorable, Count,” or, “Were he as clever as you,” and so on, +till he began sincerely to believe in his own exceptional kindness and +extraordinary intelligence, the more so as in the depth of his heart it +had always seemed to him that he really was very kind and intelligent. +Even people who had formerly been spiteful toward him and evidently +unfriendly now became gentle and affectionate. The angry eldest +princess, with the long waist and hair plastered down like a doll’s, +had come into Pierre’s room after the funeral. With drooping eyes +and frequent blushes she told him she was very sorry about their past +misunderstandings and did not now feel she had a right to ask him for +anything, except only for permission, after the blow she had received, +to remain for a few weeks longer in the house she so loved and where +she had sacrificed so much. She could not refrain from weeping at these +words. Touched that this statuesque princess could so change, Pierre +took her hand and begged her forgiveness, without knowing what for. +From that day the eldest princess quite changed toward Pierre and began +knitting a striped scarf for him. + +“Do this for my sake, mon cher; after all, she had to put up with a +great deal from the deceased,” said Prince Vasíli to him, handing him +a deed to sign for the princess’ benefit. + +Prince Vasíli had come to the conclusion that it was necessary to throw +this bone—a bill for thirty thousand rubles—to the poor princess +that it might not occur to her to speak of his share in the affair of +the inlaid portfolio. Pierre signed the deed and after that the princess +grew still kinder. The younger sisters also became affectionate to him, +especially the youngest, the pretty one with the mole, who often made +him feel confused by her smiles and her own confusion when meeting him. + +It seemed so natural to Pierre that everyone should like him, and it +would have seemed so unnatural had anyone disliked him, that he could +not but believe in the sincerity of those around him. Besides, he had +no time to ask himself whether these people were sincere or not. He +was always busy and always felt in a state of mild and cheerful +intoxication. He felt as though he were the center of some important and +general movement; that something was constantly expected of him, that if +he did not do it he would grieve and disappoint many people, but if he +did this and that, all would be well; and he did what was demanded of +him, but still that happy result always remained in the future. + +More than anyone else, Prince Vasíli took possession of Pierre’s +affairs and of Pierre himself in those early days. From the death of +Count Bezúkhov he did not let go his hold of the lad. He had the air of +a man oppressed by business, weary and suffering, who yet would not, for +pity’s sake, leave this helpless youth who, after all, was the son of +his old friend and the possessor of such enormous wealth, to the caprice +of fate and the designs of rogues. During the few days he spent in +Moscow after the death of Count Bezúkhov, he would call Pierre, or +go to him himself, and tell him what ought to be done in a tone of +weariness and assurance, as if he were adding every time: “You know +I am overwhelmed with business and it is purely out of charity that +I trouble myself about you, and you also know quite well that what I +propose is the only thing possible.” + +“Well, my dear fellow, tomorrow we are off at last,” said Prince +Vasíli one day, closing his eyes and fingering Pierre’s elbow, +speaking as if he were saying something which had long since been agreed +upon and could not now be altered. “We start tomorrow and I’m giving +you a place in my carriage. I am very glad. All our important business +here is now settled, and I ought to have been off long ago. Here is +something I have received from the chancellor. I asked him for you, and +you have been entered in the diplomatic corps and made a Gentleman of +the Bedchamber. The diplomatic career now lies open before you.” + +Notwithstanding the tone of wearied assurance with which these words +were pronounced, Pierre, who had so long been considering his career, +wished to make some suggestion. But Prince Vasíli interrupted him in +the special deep cooing tone, precluding the possibility of interrupting +his speech, which he used in extreme cases when special persuasion was +needed. + +“Mais, mon cher, I did this for my own sake, to satisfy my conscience, +and there is nothing to thank me for. No one has ever complained yet of +being too much loved; and besides, you are free, you could throw it +up tomorrow. But you will see everything for yourself when you get to +Petersburg. It is high time for you to get away from these terrible +recollections.” Prince Vasíli sighed. “Yes, yes, my boy. And my +valet can go in your carriage. Ah! I was nearly forgetting,” he added. +“You know, mon cher, your father and I had some accounts to settle, so +I have received what was due from the Ryazán estate and will keep it; +you won’t require it. We’ll go into the accounts later.” + +By “what was due from the Ryazán estate” Prince Vasíli meant +several thousand rubles quitrent received from Pierre’s peasants, +which the prince had retained for himself. + +In Petersburg, as in Moscow, Pierre found the same atmosphere of +gentleness and affection. He could not refuse the post, or rather the +rank (for he did nothing), that Prince Vasíli had procured for him, +and acquaintances, invitations, and social occupations were so numerous +that, even more than in Moscow, he felt a sense of bewilderment, bustle, +and continual expectation of some good, always in front of him but never +attained. + +Of his former bachelor acquaintances many were no longer in Petersburg. +The Guards had gone to the front; Dólokhov had been reduced to the +ranks; Anatole was in the army somewhere in the provinces; Prince Andrew +was abroad; so Pierre had not the opportunity to spend his nights as he +used to like to spend them, or to open his mind by intimate talks with +a friend older than himself and whom he respected. His whole time +was taken up with dinners and balls and was spent chiefly at Prince +Vasíli’s house in the company of the stout princess, his wife, and +his beautiful daughter Hélène. + +Like the others, Anna Pávlovna Schérer showed Pierre the change of +attitude toward him that had taken place in society. + +Formerly in Anna Pávlovna’s presence, Pierre had always felt that +what he was saying was out of place, tactless and unsuitable, that +remarks which seemed to him clever while they formed in his mind became +foolish as soon as he uttered them, while on the contrary Hippolyte’s +stupidest remarks came out clever and apt. Now everything Pierre said +was charmant. Even if Anna Pávlovna did not say so, he could see that +she wished to and only refrained out of regard for his modesty. + +In the beginning of the winter of 1805-6 Pierre received one of Anna +Pávlovna’s usual pink notes with an invitation to which was added: +“You will find the beautiful Hélène here, whom it is always +delightful to see.” + +When he read that sentence, Pierre felt for the first time that some +link which other people recognized had grown up between himself and +Hélène, and that thought both alarmed him, as if some obligation were +being imposed on him which he could not fulfill, and pleased him as an +entertaining supposition. + +Anna Pávlovna’s “At Home” was like the former one, only the +novelty she offered her guests this time was not Mortemart, but a +diplomatist fresh from Berlin with the very latest details of the +Emperor Alexander’s visit to Potsdam, and of how the two august +friends had pledged themselves in an indissoluble alliance to uphold +the cause of justice against the enemy of the human race. Anna Pávlovna +received Pierre with a shade of melancholy, evidently relating to the +young man’s recent loss by the death of Count Bezúkhov (everyone +constantly considered it a duty to assure Pierre that he was greatly +afflicted by the death of the father he had hardly known), and her +melancholy was just like the august melancholy she showed at the mention +of her most august Majesty the Empress Márya Fëdorovna. Pierre felt +flattered by this. Anna Pávlovna arranged the different groups in her +drawing room with her habitual skill. The large group, in which were +Prince Vasíli and the generals, had the benefit of the diplomat. +Another group was at the tea table. Pierre wished to join the former, +but Anna Pávlovna—who was in the excited condition of a commander on +a battlefield to whom thousands of new and brilliant ideas occur which +there is hardly time to put in action—seeing Pierre, touched his +sleeve with her finger, saying: + +“Wait a bit, I have something in view for you this evening.” +(She glanced at Hélène and smiled at her.) “My dear Hélène, be +charitable to my poor aunt who adores you. Go and keep her company for +ten minutes. And that it will not be too dull, here is the dear count +who will not refuse to accompany you.” + +The beauty went to the aunt, but Anna Pávlovna detained Pierre, looking +as if she had to give some final necessary instructions. + +“Isn’t she exquisite?” she said to Pierre, pointing to the stately +beauty as she glided away. “And how she carries herself! For so young +a girl, such tact, such masterly perfection of manner! It comes from +her heart. Happy the man who wins her! With her the least worldly of men +would occupy a most brilliant position in society. Don’t you think so? +I only wanted to know your opinion,” and Anna Pávlovna let Pierre go. + +Pierre, in reply, sincerely agreed with her as to Hélène’s +perfection of manner. If he ever thought of Hélène, it was just of +her beauty and her remarkable skill in appearing silently dignified in +society. + +The old aunt received the two young people in her corner, but seemed +desirous of hiding her adoration for Hélène and inclined rather +to show her fear of Anna Pávlovna. She looked at her niece, as if +inquiring what she was to do with these people. On leaving them, Anna +Pávlovna again touched Pierre’s sleeve, saying: “I hope you won’t +say that it is dull in my house again,” and she glanced at Hélène. + +Hélène smiled, with a look implying that she did not admit the +possibility of anyone seeing her without being enchanted. The aunt +coughed, swallowed, and said in French that she was very pleased to see +Hélène, then she turned to Pierre with the same words of welcome +and the same look. In the middle of a dull and halting conversation, +Hélène turned to Pierre with the beautiful bright smile that she gave +to everyone. Pierre was so used to that smile, and it had so little +meaning for him, that he paid no attention to it. The aunt was just +speaking of a collection of snuffboxes that had belonged to Pierre’s +father, Count Bezúkhov, and showed them her own box. Princess Hélène +asked to see the portrait of the aunt’s husband on the box lid. + +“That is probably the work of Vinesse,” said Pierre, mentioning +a celebrated miniaturist, and he leaned over the table to take the +snuffbox while trying to hear what was being said at the other table. + +He half rose, meaning to go round, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox, +passing it across Hélène’s back. Hélène stooped forward to make +room, and looked round with a smile. She was, as always at evening +parties, wearing a dress such as was then fashionable, cut very low at +front and back. Her bust, which had always seemed like marble to Pierre, +was so close to him that his shortsighted eyes could not but perceive +the living charm of her neck and shoulders, so near to his lips that +he need only have bent his head a little to have touched them. He was +conscious of the warmth of her body, the scent of perfume, and the +creaking of her corset as she moved. He did not see her marble beauty +forming a complete whole with her dress, but all the charm of her body +only covered by her garments. And having once seen this he could not +help being aware of it, just as we cannot renew an illusion we have once +seen through. + +“So you have never noticed before how beautiful I am?” Hélène +seemed to say. “You had not noticed that I am a woman? Yes, I am a +woman who may belong to anyone—to you too,” said her glance. And at +that moment Pierre felt that Hélène not only could, but must, be his +wife, and that it could not be otherwise. + +He knew this at that moment as surely as if he had been standing at the +altar with her. How and when this would be he did not know, he did not +even know if it would be a good thing (he even felt, he knew not why, +that it would be a bad thing), but he knew it would happen. + +Pierre dropped his eyes, lifted them again, and wished once more to see +her as a distant beauty far removed from him, as he had seen her every +day until then, but he could no longer do it. He could not, any more +than a man who has been looking at a tuft of steppe grass through the +mist and taking it for a tree can again take it for a tree after he has +once recognized it to be a tuft of grass. She was terribly close to him. +She already had power over him, and between them there was no longer any +barrier except the barrier of his own will. + +“Well, I will leave you in your little corner,” came Anna +Pávlovna’s voice, “I see you are all right there.” + +And Pierre, anxiously trying to remember whether he had done anything +reprehensible, looked round with a blush. It seemed to him that everyone +knew what had happened to him as he knew it himself. + +A little later when he went up to the large circle, Anna Pávlovna said +to him: “I hear you are refitting your Petersburg house?” + +This was true. The architect had told him that it was necessary, and +Pierre, without knowing why, was having his enormous Petersburg house +done up. + +“That’s a good thing, but don’t move from Prince Vasíli’s. It +is good to have a friend like the prince,” she said, smiling at Prince +Vasíli. “I know something about that. Don’t I? And you are still so +young. You need advice. Don’t be angry with me for exercising an old +woman’s privilege.” + +She paused, as women always do, expecting something after they have +mentioned their age. “If you marry it will be a different thing,” +she continued, uniting them both in one glance. Pierre did not look at +Hélène nor she at him. But she was just as terribly close to him. He +muttered something and colored. + +When he got home he could not sleep for a long time for thinking of what +had happened. What had happened? Nothing. He had merely understood that +the woman he had known as a child, of whom when her beauty was mentioned +he had said absent-mindedly: “Yes, she’s good looking,” he had +understood that this woman might belong to him. + +“But she’s stupid. I have myself said she is stupid,” he thought. +“There is something nasty, something wrong, in the feeling she excites +in me. I have been told that her brother Anatole was in love with her +and she with him, that there was quite a scandal and that that’s why +he was sent away. Hippolyte is her brother... Prince Vasíli is her +father... It’s bad....” he reflected, but while he was thinking this +(the reflection was still incomplete), he caught himself smiling and was +conscious that another line of thought had sprung up, and while thinking +of her worthlessness he was also dreaming of how she would be his +wife, how she would love him become quite different, and how all he had +thought and heard of her might be false. And he again saw her not as the +daughter of Prince Vasíli, but visualized her whole body only veiled +by its gray dress. “But no! Why did this thought never occur to me +before?” and again he told himself that it was impossible, that there +would be something unnatural, and as it seemed to him dishonorable, in +this marriage. He recalled her former words and looks and the words +and looks of those who had seen them together. He recalled Anna +Pávlovna’s words and looks when she spoke to him about his house, +recalled thousands of such hints from Prince Vasíli and others, and was +seized by terror lest he had already, in some way, bound himself to do +something that was evidently wrong and that he ought not to do. But at +the very time he was expressing this conviction to himself, in another +part of his mind her image rose in all its womanly beauty. + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +In November, 1805, Prince Vasíli had to go on a tour of inspection +in four different provinces. He had arranged this for himself so as to +visit his neglected estates at the same time and pick up his son Anatole +where his regiment was stationed, and take him to visit Prince Nicholas +Bolkónski in order to arrange a match for him with the daughter of that +rich old man. But before leaving home and undertaking these new affairs, +Prince Vasíli had to settle matters with Pierre, who, it is true, had +latterly spent whole days at home, that is, in Prince Vasíli’s house +where he was staying, and had been absurd, excited, and foolish in +Hélène’s presence (as a lover should be), but had not yet proposed +to her. + +“This is all very fine, but things must be settled,” said Prince +Vasíli to himself, with a sorrowful sigh, one morning, feeling that +Pierre who was under such obligations to him (“But never mind that”) +was not behaving very well in this matter. “Youth, frivolity... well, +God be with him,” thought he, relishing his own goodness of heart, +“but it must be brought to a head. The day after tomorrow will be +Lëlya’s name day. I will invite two or three people, and if he does +not understand what he ought to do then it will be my affair—yes, my +affair. I am her father.” + +Six weeks after Anna Pávlovna’s “At Home” and after the sleepless +night when he had decided that to marry Hélène would be a calamity and +that he ought to avoid her and go away, Pierre, despite that decision, +had not left Prince Vasíli’s and felt with terror that in people’s +eyes he was every day more and more connected with her, that it was +impossible for him to return to his former conception of her, that he +could not break away from her, and that though it would be a terrible +thing he would have to unite his fate with hers. He might perhaps have +been able to free himself but that Prince Vasíli (who had rarely before +given receptions) now hardly let a day go by without having an evening +party at which Pierre had to be present unless he wished to spoil +the general pleasure and disappoint everyone’s expectation. Prince +Vasíli, in the rare moments when he was at home, would take Pierre’s +hand in passing and draw it downwards, or absent-mindedly hold out his +wrinkled, clean-shaven cheek for Pierre to kiss and would say: “Till +tomorrow,” or, “Be in to dinner or I shall not see you,” or, “I +am staying in for your sake,” and so on. And though Prince Vasíli, +when he stayed in (as he said) for Pierre’s sake, hardly exchanged a +couple of words with him, Pierre felt unable to disappoint him. +Every day he said to himself one and the same thing: “It is time I +understood her and made up my mind what she really is. Was I mistaken +before, or am I mistaken now? No, she is not stupid, she is an excellent +girl,” he sometimes said to himself “she never makes a mistake, +never says anything stupid. She says little, but what she does say is +always clear and simple, so she is not stupid. She never was abashed and +is not abashed now, so she cannot be a bad woman!” He had often begun +to make reflections or think aloud in her company, and she had always +answered him either by a brief but appropriate remark—showing that it +did not interest her—or by a silent look and smile which more palpably +than anything else showed Pierre her superiority. She was right in +regarding all arguments as nonsense in comparison with that smile. + +She always addressed him with a radiantly confiding smile meant for him +alone, in which there was something more significant than in the general +smile that usually brightened her face. Pierre knew that everyone was +waiting for him to say a word and cross a certain line, and he knew that +sooner or later he would step across it, but an incomprehensible terror +seized him at the thought of that dreadful step. A thousand times during +that month and a half while he felt himself drawn nearer and nearer to +that dreadful abyss, Pierre said to himself: “What am I doing? I need +resolution. Can it be that I have none?” + +He wished to take a decision, but felt with dismay that in this matter +he lacked that strength of will which he had known in himself and really +possessed. Pierre was one of those who are only strong when they feel +themselves quite innocent, and since that day when he was overpowered +by a feeling of desire while stooping over the snuffbox at Anna +Pávlovna’s, an unacknowledged sense of the guilt of that desire +paralyzed his will. + +On Hélène’s name day, a small party of just their own people—as +his wife said—met for supper at Prince Vasíli’s. All these friends +and relations had been given to understand that the fate of the young +girl would be decided that evening. The visitors were seated at supper. +Princess Kurágina, a portly imposing woman who had once been handsome, +was sitting at the head of the table. On either side of her sat the +more important guests—an old general and his wife, and Anna Pávlovna +Schérer. At the other end sat the younger and less important guests, +and there too sat the members of the family, and Pierre and Hélène, +side by side. Prince Vasíli was not having any supper: he went round +the table in a merry mood, sitting down now by one, now by another, of +the guests. To each of them he made some careless and agreeable remark +except to Pierre and Hélène, whose presence he seemed not to notice. +He enlivened the whole party. The wax candles burned brightly, the +silver and crystal gleamed, so did the ladies’ toilets and the gold +and silver of the men’s epaulets; servants in scarlet liveries moved +round the table, the clatter of plates, knives, and glasses mingled with +the animated hum of several conversations. At one end of the table, the +old chamberlain was heard assuring an old baroness that he loved her +passionately, at which she laughed; at the other could be heard the +story of the misfortunes of some Mary Víktorovna or other. At the +center of the table, Prince Vasíli attracted everybody’s attention. +With a facetious smile on his face, he was telling the ladies about last +Wednesday’s meeting of the Imperial Council, at which Sergéy Kuzmích +Vyazmítinov, the new military governor general of Petersburg, had +received and read the then famous rescript of the Emperor Alexander +from the army to Sergéy Kuzmích, in which the Emperor said that he was +receiving from all sides declarations of the people’s loyalty, that +the declaration from Petersburg gave him particular pleasure, and that +he was proud to be at the head of such a nation and would endeavor to be +worthy of it. This rescript began with the words: “Sergéy Kuzmích, +From all sides reports reach me,” etc. + +“Well, and so he never got farther than: ‘Sergéy Kuzmích’?” +asked one of the ladies. + +“Exactly, not a hair’s breadth farther,” answered Prince Vasíli, +laughing, “‘Sergéy Kuzmích... From all sides... From all sides... +Sergéy Kuzmích...’ Poor Vyazmítinov could not get any farther! +He began the rescript again and again, but as soon as he uttered +‘Sergéy’ he sobbed, ‘Kuz-mí-ch,’ tears, and ‘From all +sides’ was smothered in sobs and he could get no farther. And again +his handkerchief, and again: ‘Sergéy Kuzmích, From all sides,’... +and tears, till at last somebody else was asked to read it.” + +“Kuzmích... From all sides... and then tears,” someone repeated +laughing. + +“Don’t be unkind,” cried Anna Pávlovna from her end of the table +holding up a threatening finger. “He is such a worthy and excellent +man, our dear Vyazmítinov....” + +Everybody laughed a great deal. At the head of the table, where the +honored guests sat, everyone seemed to be in high spirits and under the +influence of a variety of exciting sensations. Only Pierre and +Hélène sat silently side by side almost at the bottom of the table, a +suppressed smile brightening both their faces, a smile that had nothing +to do with Sergéy Kuzmích—a smile of bashfulness at their own +feelings. But much as all the rest laughed, talked, and joked, much +as they enjoyed their Rhine wine, sauté, and ices, and however they +avoided looking at the young couple, and heedless and unobservant as +they seemed of them, one could feel by the occasional glances they gave +that the story about Sergéy Kuzmích, the laughter, and the food +were all a pretense, and that the whole attention of that company was +directed to—Pierre and Hélène. Prince Vasíli mimicked the sobbing +of Sergéy Kuzmích and at the same time his eyes glanced toward his +daughter, and while he laughed the expression on his face clearly said: +“Yes... it’s getting on, it will all be settled today.” Anna +Pávlovna threatened him on behalf of “our dear Vyazmítinov,” and +in her eyes, which, for an instant, glanced at Pierre, Prince Vasíli +read a congratulation on his future son-in-law and on his daughter’s +happiness. The old princess sighed sadly as she offered some wine to the +old lady next to her and glanced angrily at her daughter, and her sigh +seemed to say: “Yes, there’s nothing left for you and me but to sip +sweet wine, my dear, now that the time has come for these young ones to +be thus boldly, provocatively happy.” “And what nonsense all this is +that I am saying!” thought a diplomatist, glancing at the happy faces +of the lovers. “That’s happiness!” + +Into the insignificant, trifling, and artificial interests uniting that +society had entered the simple feeling of the attraction of a healthy +and handsome young man and woman for one another. And this human feeling +dominated everything else and soared above all their affected chatter. +Jests fell flat, news was not interesting, and the animation was +evidently forced. Not only the guests but even the footmen waiting at +table seemed to feel this, and they forgot their duties as they looked +at the beautiful Hélène with her radiant face and at the red, broad, +and happy though uneasy face of Pierre. It seemed as if the very light +of the candles was focused on those two happy faces alone. + +Pierre felt that he was the center of it all, and this both pleased and +embarrassed him. He was like a man entirely absorbed in some occupation. +He did not see, hear, or understand anything clearly. Only now and +then detached ideas and impressions from the world of reality shot +unexpectedly through his mind. + +“So it is all finished!” he thought. “And how has it all happened? +How quickly! Now I know that not because of her alone, nor of myself +alone, but because of everyone, it must inevitably come about. They are +all expecting it, they are so sure that it will happen that I cannot, I +cannot, disappoint them. But how will it be? I do not know, but it +will certainly happen!” thought Pierre, glancing at those dazzling +shoulders close to his eyes. + +Or he would suddenly feel ashamed of he knew not what. He felt it +awkward to attract everyone’s attention and to be considered a +lucky man and, with his plain face, to be looked on as a sort of Paris +possessed of a Helen. “But no doubt it always is and must be so!” +he consoled himself. “And besides, what have I done to bring it about? +How did it begin? I traveled from Moscow with Prince Vasíli. Then there +was nothing. So why should I not stay at his house? Then I played cards +with her and picked up her reticule and drove out with her. How did it +begin, when did it all come about?” And here he was sitting by her +side as her betrothed, seeing, hearing, feeling her nearness, her +breathing, her movements, her beauty. Then it would suddenly seem to him +that it was not she but he was so unusually beautiful, and that that was +why they all looked so at him, and flattered by this general admiration +he would expand his chest, raise his head, and rejoice at his good +fortune. Suddenly he heard a familiar voice repeating something to him a +second time. But Pierre was so absorbed that he did not understand what +was said. + +“I am asking you when you last heard from Bolkónski,” repeated +Prince Vasíli a third time. “How absent-minded you are, my dear +fellow.” + +Prince Vasíli smiled, and Pierre noticed that everyone was smiling at +him and Hélène. “Well, what of it, if you all know it?” thought +Pierre. “What of it? It’s the truth!” and he himself smiled his +gentle childlike smile, and Hélène smiled too. + +“When did you get the letter? Was it from Olmütz?” repeated +Prince Vasíli, who pretended to want to know this in order to settle a +dispute. + +“How can one talk or think of such trifles?” thought Pierre. + +“Yes, from Olmütz,” he answered, with a sigh. + +After supper Pierre with his partner followed the others into the +drawing room. The guests began to disperse, some without taking leave +of Hélène. Some, as if unwilling to distract her from an important +occupation, came up to her for a moment and made haste to go away, +refusing to let her see them off. The diplomatist preserved a mournful +silence as he left the drawing room. He pictured the vanity of his +diplomatic career in comparison with Pierre’s happiness. The old +general grumbled at his wife when she asked how his leg was. “Oh, the +old fool,” he thought. “That Princess Hélène will be beautiful +still when she’s fifty.” + +“I think I may congratulate you,” whispered Anna Pávlovna to the +old princess, kissing her soundly. “If I hadn’t this headache I’d +have stayed longer.” + +The old princess did not reply, she was tormented by jealousy of her +daughter’s happiness. + +While the guests were taking their leave Pierre remained for a long time +alone with Hélène in the little drawing room where they were sitting. +He had often before, during the last six weeks, remained alone with her, +but had never spoken to her of love. Now he felt that it was inevitable, +but he could not make up his mind to take the final step. He felt +ashamed; he felt that he was occupying someone else’s place here +beside Hélène. “This happiness is not for you,” some inner voice +whispered to him. “This happiness is for those who have not in them +what there is in you.” + +But, as he had to say something, he began by asking her whether she was +satisfied with the party. She replied in her usual simple manner that +this name day of hers had been one of the pleasantest she had ever had. + +Some of the nearest relatives had not yet left. They were sitting in +the large drawing room. Prince Vasíli came up to Pierre with languid +footsteps. Pierre rose and said it was getting late. Prince Vasíli gave +him a look of stern inquiry, as though what Pierre had just said was +so strange that one could not take it in. But then the expression of +severity changed, and he drew Pierre’s hand downwards, made him sit +down, and smiled affectionately. + +“Well, Lëlya?” he asked, turning instantly to his daughter and +addressing her with the careless tone of habitual tenderness natural to +parents who have petted their children from babyhood, but which Prince +Vasíli had only acquired by imitating other parents. + +And he again turned to Pierre. + +“Sergéy Kuzmích—From all sides—” he said, unbuttoning the top +button of his waistcoat. + +Pierre smiled, but his smile showed that he knew it was not the story +about Sergéy Kuzmích that interested Prince Vasíli just then, and +Prince Vasíli saw that Pierre knew this. He suddenly muttered +something and went away. It seemed to Pierre that even the prince was +disconcerted. The sight of the discomposure of that old man of the world +touched Pierre: he looked at Hélène and she too seemed disconcerted, +and her look seemed to say: “Well, it is your own fault.” + +“The step must be taken but I cannot, I cannot!” thought Pierre, +and he again began speaking about indifferent matters, about Sergéy +Kuzmích, asking what the point of the story was as he had not heard it +properly. Hélène answered with a smile that she too had missed it. + +When Prince Vasíli returned to the drawing room, the princess, his +wife, was talking in low tones to the elderly lady about Pierre. + +“Of course, it is a very brilliant match, but happiness, my dear...” + +“Marriages are made in heaven,” replied the elderly lady. + +Prince Vasíli passed by, seeming not to hear the ladies, and sat down +on a sofa in a far corner of the room. He closed his eyes and seemed to +be dozing. His head sank forward and then he roused himself. + +“Aline,” he said to his wife, “go and see what they are about.” + +The princess went up to the door, passed by it with a dignified and +indifferent air, and glanced into the little drawing room. Pierre and +Hélène still sat talking just as before. + +“Still the same,” she said to her husband. + +Prince Vasíli frowned, twisting his mouth, his cheeks quivered and his +face assumed the coarse, unpleasant expression peculiar to him. Shaking +himself, he rose, threw back his head, and with resolute steps went +past the ladies into the little drawing room. With quick steps he went +joyfully up to Pierre. His face was so unusually triumphant that Pierre +rose in alarm on seeing it. + +“Thank God!” said Prince Vasíli. “My wife has told me +everything!” (He put one arm around Pierre and the other around his +daughter.)—“My dear boy... Lëlya... I am very pleased.” (His +voice trembled.) “I loved your father... and she will make you a good +wife... God bless you!...” + +He embraced his daughter, and then again Pierre, and kissed him with his +malodorous mouth. Tears actually moistened his cheeks. + +“Princess, come here!” he shouted. + +The old princess came in and also wept. The elderly lady was using +her handkerchief too. Pierre was kissed, and he kissed the beautiful +Hélène’s hand several times. After a while they were left alone +again. + +“All this had to be and could not be otherwise,” thought Pierre, +“so it is useless to ask whether it is good or bad. It is good because +it’s definite and one is rid of the old tormenting doubt.” Pierre +held the hand of his betrothed in silence, looking at her beautiful +bosom as it rose and fell. + +“Hélène!” he said aloud and paused. + +“Something special is always said in such cases,” he thought, but +could not remember what it was that people say. He looked at her face. +She drew nearer to him. Her face flushed. + +“Oh, take those off... those...” she said, pointing to his +spectacles. + +Pierre took them off, and his eyes, besides the strange look eyes have +from which spectacles have just been removed, had also a frightened and +inquiring look. He was about to stoop over her hand and kiss it, but +with a rapid, almost brutal movement of her head, she intercepted his +lips and met them with her own. Her face struck Pierre, by its altered, +unpleasantly excited expression. + +“It is too late now, it’s done; besides I love her,” thought +Pierre. + +“Je vous aime!” * he said, remembering what has to be said at such +moments: but his words sounded so weak that he felt ashamed of himself. + + * “I love you.” + + +Six weeks later he was married, and settled in Count Bezúkhov’s +large, newly furnished Petersburg house, the happy possessor, as people +said, of a wife who was a celebrated beauty and of millions of money. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +Old Prince Nicholas Bolkónski received a letter from Prince Vasíli +in November, 1805, announcing that he and his son would be paying him +a visit. “I am starting on a journey of inspection, and of course I +shall think nothing of an extra seventy miles to come and see you at +the same time, my honored benefactor,” wrote Prince Vasíli. “My son +Anatole is accompanying me on his way to the army, so I hope you will +allow him personally to express the deep respect that, emulating his +father, he feels for you.” + +“It seems that there will be no need to bring Mary out, suitors are +coming to us of their own accord,” incautiously remarked the little +princess on hearing the news. + +Prince Nicholas frowned, but said nothing. + +A fortnight after the letter Prince Vasíli’s servants came one +evening in advance of him, and he and his son arrived next day. + +Old Bolkónski had always had a poor opinion of Prince Vasíli’s +character, but more so recently, since in the new reigns of Paul and +Alexander Prince Vasíli had risen to high position and honors. And now, +from the hints contained in his letter and given by the little princess, +he saw which way the wind was blowing, and his low opinion changed into +a feeling of contemptuous ill will. He snorted whenever he mentioned +him. On the day of Prince Vasíli’s arrival, Prince Bolkónski was +particularly discontented and out of temper. Whether he was in a bad +temper because Prince Vasíli was coming, or whether his being in a bad +temper made him specially annoyed at Prince Vasíli’s visit, he was +in a bad temper, and in the morning Tíkhon had already advised the +architect not to go to the prince with his report. + +“Do you hear how he’s walking?” said Tíkhon, drawing the +architect’s attention to the sound of the prince’s footsteps. +“Stepping flat on his heels—we know what that means....” + +However, at nine o’clock the prince, in his velvet coat with a sable +collar and cap, went out for his usual walk. It had snowed the day +before and the path to the hothouse, along which the prince was in the +habit of walking, had been swept: the marks of the broom were still +visible in the snow and a shovel had been left sticking in one of the +soft snowbanks that bordered both sides of the path. The prince went +through the conservatories, the serfs’ quarters, and the outbuildings, +frowning and silent. + +“Can a sleigh pass?” he asked his overseer, a venerable man, +resembling his master in manners and looks, who was accompanying him +back to the house. + +“The snow is deep. I am having the avenue swept, your honor.” + +The prince bowed his head and went up to the porch. “God be +thanked,” thought the overseer, “the storm has blown over!” + +“It would have been hard to drive up, your honor,” he added. “I +heard, your honor, that a minister is coming to visit your honor.” + +The prince turned round to the overseer and fixed his eyes on him, +frowning. + +“What? A minister? What minister? Who gave orders?” he said in +his shrill, harsh voice. “The road is not swept for the princess my +daughter, but for a minister! For me, there are no ministers!” + +“Your honor, I thought...” + +“You thought!” shouted the prince, his words coming more and more +rapidly and indistinctly. “You thought!... Rascals! Blackguards!... +I’ll teach you to think!” and lifting his stick he swung it and +would have hit Alpátych, the overseer, had not the latter instinctively +avoided the blow. “Thought... Blackguards...” shouted the prince +rapidly. + +But although Alpátych, frightened at his own temerity in avoiding the +stroke, came up to the prince, bowing his bald head resignedly before +him, or perhaps for that very reason, the prince, though he continued +to shout: “Blackguards!... Throw the snow back on the road!” did not +lift his stick again but hurried into the house. + +Before dinner, Princess Mary and Mademoiselle Bourienne, who knew +that the prince was in a bad humor, stood awaiting him; Mademoiselle +Bourienne with a radiant face that said: “I know nothing, I am the +same as usual,” and Princess Mary pale, frightened, and with downcast +eyes. What she found hardest to bear was to know that on such occasions +she ought to behave like Mademoiselle Bourienne, but could not. +She thought: “If I seem not to notice he will think that I do not +sympathize with him; if I seem sad and out of spirits myself, he will +say (as he has done before) that I’m in the dumps.” + +The prince looked at his daughter’s frightened face and snorted. + +“Fool... or dummy!” he muttered. + +“And the other one is not here. They’ve been telling tales,” he +thought—referring to the little princess who was not in the dining +room. + +“Where is the princess?” he asked. “Hiding?” + +“She is not very well,” answered Mademoiselle Bourienne with +a bright smile, “so she won’t come down. It is natural in her +state.” + +“Hm! Hm!” muttered the prince, sitting down. + +His plate seemed to him not quite clean, and pointing to a spot he +flung it away. Tíkhon caught it and handed it to a footman. The little +princess was not unwell, but had such an overpowering fear of the prince +that, hearing he was in a bad humor, she had decided not to appear. + +“I am afraid for the baby,” she said to Mademoiselle Bourienne: +“Heaven knows what a fright might do.” + +In general at Bald Hills the little princess lived in constant fear, and +with a sense of antipathy to the old prince which she did not +realize because the fear was so much the stronger feeling. The prince +reciprocated this antipathy, but it was overpowered by his contempt +for her. When the little princess had grown accustomed to life at Bald +Hills, she took a special fancy to Mademoiselle Bourienne, spent whole +days with her, asked her to sleep in her room, and often talked with her +about the old prince and criticized him. + +“So we are to have visitors, mon prince?” remarked Mademoiselle +Bourienne, unfolding her white napkin with her rosy fingers. “His +Excellency Prince Vasíli Kurágin and his son, I understand?” she +said inquiringly. + +“Hm!—his excellency is a puppy.... I got him his appointment in the +service,” said the prince disdainfully. “Why his son is coming I +don’t understand. Perhaps Princess Elizabeth and Princess Mary know. +I don’t want him.” (He looked at his blushing daughter.) “Are you +unwell today? Eh? Afraid of the ‘minister’ as that idiot Alpátych +called him this morning?” + +“No, mon père.” + +Though Mademoiselle Bourienne had been so unsuccessful in her choice +of a subject, she did not stop talking, but chattered about the +conservatories and the beauty of a flower that had just opened, and +after the soup the prince became more genial. + +After dinner, he went to see his daughter-in-law. The little princess +was sitting at a small table, chattering with Másha, her maid. She grew +pale on seeing her father-in-law. + +She was much altered. She was now plain rather than pretty. Her cheeks +had sunk, her lip was drawn up, and her eyes drawn down. + +“Yes, I feel a kind of oppression,” she said in reply to the +prince’s question as to how she felt. + +“Do you want anything?” + +“No, merci, mon père.” + +“Well, all right, all right.” + +He left the room and went to the waiting room where Alpátych stood with +bowed head. + +“Has the snow been shoveled back?” + +“Yes, your excellency. Forgive me for heaven’s sake... It was only +my stupidity.” + +“All right, all right,” interrupted the prince, and laughing his +unnatural way, he stretched out his hand for Alpátych to kiss, and then +proceeded to his study. + +Prince Vasíli arrived that evening. He was met in the avenue by +coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to +one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow. + +Prince Vasíli and Anatole had separate rooms assigned to them. + +Anatole, having taken off his overcoat, sat with arms akimbo before a +table on a corner of which he smilingly and absent-mindedly fixed his +large and handsome eyes. He regarded his whole life as a continual round +of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him. +And he looked on this visit to a churlish old man and a rich and ugly +heiress in the same way. All this might, he thought, turn out very well +and amusingly. “And why not marry her if she really has so much money? +That never does any harm,” thought Anatole. + +He shaved and scented himself with the care and elegance which had +become habitual to him and, his handsome head held high, entered his +father’s room with the good-humored and victorious air natural to +him. Prince Vasíli’s two valets were busy dressing him, and he looked +round with much animation and cheerfully nodded to his son as the latter +entered, as if to say: “Yes, that’s how I want you to look.” + +“I say, Father, joking apart, is she very hideous?” Anatole asked, +as if continuing a conversation the subject of which had often been +mentioned during the journey. + +“Enough! What nonsense! Above all, try to be respectful and cautious +with the old prince.” + +“If he starts a row I’ll go away,” said Prince Anatole. “I +can’t bear those old men! Eh?” + +“Remember, for you everything depends on this.” + +In the meantime, not only was it known in the maidservants’ rooms that +the minister and his son had arrived, but the appearance of both had +been minutely described. Princess Mary was sitting alone in her room, +vainly trying to master her agitation. + +“Why did they write, why did Lise tell me about it? It can never +happen!” she said, looking at herself in the glass. “How shall I +enter the drawing room? Even if I like him I can’t now be myself with +him.” The mere thought of her father’s look filled her with terror. +The little princess and Mademoiselle Bourienne had already received +from Másha, the lady’s maid, the necessary report of how handsome the +minister’s son was, with his rosy cheeks and dark eyebrows, and with +what difficulty the father had dragged his legs upstairs while the son +had followed him like an eagle, three steps at a time. Having received +this information, the little princess and Mademoiselle Bourienne, whose +chattering voices had reached her from the corridor, went into Princess +Mary’s room. + +“You know they’ve come, Marie?” said the little princess, waddling +in, and sinking heavily into an armchair. + +She was no longer in the loose gown she generally wore in the morning, +but had on one of her best dresses. Her hair was carefully done and her +face was animated, which, however, did not conceal its sunken and faded +outlines. Dressed as she used to be in Petersburg society, it was still +more noticeable how much plainer she had become. Some unobtrusive touch +had been added to Mademoiselle Bourienne’s toilet which rendered her +fresh and pretty face yet more attractive. + +“What! Are you going to remain as you are, dear princess?” she +began. “They’ll be announcing that the gentlemen are in the drawing +room and we shall have to go down, and you have not smartened yourself +up at all!” + +The little princess got up, rang for the maid, and hurriedly and merrily +began to devise and carry out a plan of how Princess Mary should be +dressed. Princess Mary’s self-esteem was wounded by the fact that +the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both +her companions’ not having the least conception that it could be +otherwise. To tell them that she felt ashamed for herself and for them +would be to betray her agitation, while to decline their offers to +dress her would prolong their banter and insistence. She flushed, her +beautiful eyes grew dim, red blotches came on her face, and it took +on the unattractive martyrlike expression it so often wore, as she +submitted herself to Mademoiselle Bourienne and Lise. Both these women +quite sincerely tried to make her look pretty. She was so plain that +neither of them could think of her as a rival, so they began dressing +her with perfect sincerity, and with the naïve and firm conviction +women have that dress can make a face pretty. + +“No really, my dear, this dress is not pretty,” said Lise, looking +sideways at Princess Mary from a little distance. “You have a maroon +dress, have it fetched. Really! You know the fate of your whole life may +be at stake. But this one is too light, it’s not becoming!” + +It was not the dress, but the face and whole figure of Princess Mary +that was not pretty, but neither Mademoiselle Bourienne nor the little +princess felt this; they still thought that if a blue ribbon were placed +in the hair, the hair combed up, and the blue scarf arranged lower on +the best maroon dress, and so on, all would be well. They forgot that +the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that +however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it +would still remain piteous and plain. After two or three changes to +which Princess Mary meekly submitted, just as her hair had been arranged +on the top of her head (a style that quite altered and spoiled her +looks) and she had put on a maroon dress with a pale-blue scarf, the +little princess walked twice round her, now adjusting a fold of the +dress with her little hand, now arranging the scarf and looking at her +with her head bent first on one side and then on the other. + +“No, it will not do,” she said decidedly, clasping her hands. “No, +Mary, really this dress does not suit you. I prefer you in your little +gray everyday dress. Now please, do it for my sake. Katie,” she said +to the maid, “bring the princess her gray dress, and you’ll see, +Mademoiselle Bourienne, how I shall arrange it,” she added, smiling +with a foretaste of artistic pleasure. + +But when Katie brought the required dress, Princess Mary remained +sitting motionless before the glass, looking at her face, and saw in the +mirror her eyes full of tears and her mouth quivering, ready to burst +into sobs. + +“Come, dear princess,” said Mademoiselle Bourienne, “just one more +little effort.” + +The little princess, taking the dress from the maid, came up to Princess +Mary. + +“Well, now we’ll arrange something quite simple and becoming,” she +said. + +The three voices, hers, Mademoiselle Bourienne’s, and Katie’s, who +was laughing at something, mingled in a merry sound, like the chirping +of birds. + +“No, leave me alone,” said Princess Mary. + +Her voice sounded so serious and so sad that the chirping of the birds +was silenced at once. They looked at the beautiful, large, thoughtful +eyes full of tears and of thoughts, gazing shiningly and imploringly at +them, and understood that it was useless and even cruel to insist. + +“At least, change your coiffure,” said the little princess. +“Didn’t I tell you,” she went on, turning reproachfully to +Mademoiselle Bourienne, “Mary’s is a face which such a coiffure does +not suit in the least. Not in the least! Please change it.” + +“Leave me alone, please leave me alone! It is all quite the same to +me,” answered a voice struggling with tears. + +Mademoiselle Bourienne and the little princess had to own to themselves +that Princess Mary in this guise looked very plain, worse than usual, +but it was too late. She was looking at them with an expression they +both knew, an expression thoughtful and sad. This expression in Princess +Mary did not frighten them (she never inspired fear in anyone), but they +knew that when it appeared on her face, she became mute and was not to +be shaken in her determination. + +“You will change it, won’t you?” said Lise. And as Princess Mary +gave no answer, she left the room. + +Princess Mary was left alone. She did not comply with Lise’s request, +she not only left her hair as it was, but did not even look in her +glass. Letting her arms fall helplessly, she sat with downcast eyes and +pondered. A husband, a man, a strong dominant and strangely attractive +being rose in her imagination, and carried her into a totally different +happy world of his own. She fancied a child, her own—such as she had +seen the day before in the arms of her nurse’s daughter—at her +own breast, the husband standing by and gazing tenderly at her and the +child. “But no, it is impossible, I am too ugly,” she thought. + +“Please come to tea. The prince will be out in a moment,” came the +maid’s voice at the door. + +She roused herself, and felt appalled at what she had been thinking, and +before going down she went into the room where the icons hung and, her +eyes fixed on the dark face of a large icon of the Saviour lit by a +lamp, she stood before it with folded hands for a few moments. A painful +doubt filled her soul. Could the joy of love, of earthly love for a +man, be for her? In her thoughts of marriage Princess Mary dreamed of +happiness and of children, but her strongest, most deeply hidden longing +was for earthly love. The more she tried to hide this feeling from +others and even from herself, the stronger it grew. “O God,” she +said, “how am I to stifle in my heart these temptations of the devil? +How am I to renounce forever these vile fancies, so as peacefully to +fulfill Thy will?” And scarcely had she put that question than God +gave her the answer in her own heart. “Desire nothing for thyself, +seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. Man’s future and thy own fate +must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for +anything. If it be God’s will to prove thee in the duties of marriage, +be ready to fulfill His will.” With this consoling thought (but +yet with a hope for the fulfillment of her forbidden earthly longing) +Princess Mary sighed, and having crossed herself went down, thinking +neither of her gown and coiffure nor of how she would go in nor of what +she would say. What could all that matter in comparison with the will of +God, without Whose care not a hair of man’s head can fall? + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +When Princess Mary came down, Prince Vasíli and his son were already +in the drawing room, talking to the little princess and Mademoiselle +Bourienne. When she entered with her heavy step, treading on her heels, +the gentlemen and Mademoiselle Bourienne rose and the little princess, +indicating her to the gentlemen, said: “Voilà Marie!” Princess Mary +saw them all and saw them in detail. She saw Prince Vasíli’s face, +serious for an instant at the sight of her, but immediately smiling +again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression +“Marie” produced on the visitors. And she saw Mademoiselle +Bourienne, with her ribbon and pretty face, and her unusually animated +look which was fixed on him, but him she could not see, she only saw +something large, brilliant, and handsome moving toward her as she +entered the room. Prince Vasíli approached first, and she kissed the +bold forehead that bent over her hand and answered his question by +saying that, on the contrary, she remembered him quite well. Then +Anatole came up to her. She still could not see him. She only felt a +soft hand taking hers firmly, and she touched with her lips a white +forehead, over which was beautiful light-brown hair smelling of pomade. +When she looked up at him she was struck by his beauty. Anatole stood +with his right thumb under a button of his uniform, his chest expanded +and his back drawn in, slightly swinging one foot, and, with his head a +little bent, looked with beaming face at the princess without +speaking and evidently not thinking about her at all. Anatole was not +quick-witted, nor ready or eloquent in conversation, but he had the +faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable +self-possession. If a man lacking in self-confidence remains dumb on +a first introduction and betrays a consciousness of the impropriety of +such silence and an anxiety to find something to say, the effect is +bad. But Anatole was dumb, swung his foot, and smilingly examined the +princess’ hair. It was evident that he could be silent in this way for +a very long time. “If anyone finds this silence inconvenient, let him +talk, but I don’t want to,” he seemed to say. Besides this, in his +behavior to women Anatole had a manner which particularly inspires in +them curiosity, awe, and even love—a supercilious consciousness of +his own superiority. It was as if he said to them: “I know you, I know +you, but why should I bother about you? You’d be only too glad, of +course.” Perhaps he did not really think this when he met women—even +probably he did not, for in general he thought very little—but his +looks and manner gave that impression. The princess felt this, and as if +wishing to show him that she did not even dare expect to interest him, +she turned to his father. The conversation was general and animated, +thanks to Princess Lise’s voice and little downy lip that lifted over +her white teeth. She met Prince Vasíli with that playful manner often +employed by lively chatty people, and consisting in the assumption +that between the person they so address and themselves there are some +semi-private, long-established jokes and amusing reminiscences, though +no such reminiscences really exist—just as none existed in this case. +Prince Vasíli readily adopted her tone and the little princess also +drew Anatole, whom she hardly knew, into these amusing recollections of +things that had never occurred. Mademoiselle Bourienne also shared them +and even Princess Mary felt herself pleasantly made to share in these +merry reminiscences. + +“Here at least we shall have the benefit of your company all to +ourselves, dear prince,” said the little princess (of course, in +French) to Prince Vasíli. “It’s not as at Annette’s * receptions +where you always ran away; you remember cette chère Annette!” + + * Anna Pávlovna. + +“Ah, but you won’t talk politics to me like Annette!” + +“And our little tea table?” + +“Oh, yes!” + +“Why is it you were never at Annette’s?” the little princess asked +Anatole. “Ah, I know, I know,” she said with a sly glance, “your +brother Hippolyte told me about your goings on. Oh!” and she shook her +finger at him, “I have even heard of your doings in Paris!” + +“And didn’t Hippolyte tell you?” asked Prince Vasíli, turning to +his son and seizing the little princess’ arm as if she would have run +away and he had just managed to catch her, “didn’t he tell you how +he himself was pining for the dear princess, and how she showed him the +door? Oh, she is a pearl among women, Princess,” he added, turning to +Princess Mary. + +When Paris was mentioned, Mademoiselle Bourienne for her part seized the +opportunity of joining in the general current of recollections. + +She took the liberty of inquiring whether it was long since Anatole +had left Paris and how he had liked that city. Anatole answered the +Frenchwoman very readily and, looking at her with a smile, talked to her +about her native land. When he saw the pretty little Bourienne, Anatole +came to the conclusion that he would not find Bald Hills dull either. +“Not at all bad!” he thought, examining her, “not at all bad, that +little companion! I hope she will bring her along with her when we’re +married, la petite est gentille.” * + + * The little one is charming. + +The old prince dressed leisurely in his study, frowning and considering +what he was to do. The coming of these visitors annoyed him. “What are +Prince Vasíli and that son of his to me? Prince Vasíli is a shallow +braggart and his son, no doubt, is a fine specimen,” he grumbled to +himself. What angered him was that the coming of these visitors revived +in his mind an unsettled question he always tried to stifle, one about +which he always deceived himself. The question was whether he could ever +bring himself to part from his daughter and give her to a husband. The +prince never directly asked himself that question, knowing beforehand +that he would have to answer it justly, and justice clashed not only +with his feelings but with the very possibility of life. Life without +Princess Mary, little as he seemed to value her, was unthinkable to +him. “And why should she marry?” he thought. “To be unhappy for +certain. There’s Lise, married to Andrew—a better husband one would +think could hardly be found nowadays—but is she contented with her +lot? And who would marry Marie for love? Plain and awkward! They’ll +take her for her connections and wealth. Are there no women living +unmarried, and even the happier for it?” So thought Prince Bolkónski +while dressing, and yet the question he was always putting off demanded +an immediate answer. Prince Vasíli had brought his son with the evident +intention of proposing, and today or tomorrow he would probably ask +for an answer. His birth and position in society were not bad. “Well, +I’ve nothing against it,” the prince said to himself, “but he must +be worthy of her. And that is what we shall see.” + +“That is what we shall see! That is what we shall see!” he added +aloud. + +He entered the drawing room with his usual alert step, glancing rapidly +round the company. He noticed the change in the little princess’ +dress, Mademoiselle Bourienne’s ribbon, Princess Mary’s unbecoming +coiffure, Mademoiselle Bourienne’s and Anatole’s smiles, and the +loneliness of his daughter amid the general conversation. “Got herself +up like a fool!” he thought, looking irritably at her. “She is +shameless, and he ignores her!” + +He went straight up to Prince Vasíli. + +“Well! How d’ye do? How d’ye do? Glad to see you!” + +“Friendship laughs at distance,” began Prince Vasíli in his usual +rapid, self-confident, familiar tone. “Here is my second son; please +love and befriend him.” + +Prince Bolkónski surveyed Anatole. + +“Fine young fellow! Fine young fellow!” he said. “Well, come and +kiss me,” and he offered his cheek. + +Anatole kissed the old man, and looked at him with curiosity and perfect +composure, waiting for a display of the eccentricities his father had +told him to expect. + +Prince Bolkónski sat down in his usual place in the corner of the sofa +and, drawing up an armchair for Prince Vasíli, pointed to it and began +questioning him about political affairs and news. He seemed to listen +attentively to what Prince Vasíli said, but kept glancing at Princess +Mary. + +“And so they are writing from Potsdam already?” he said, repeating +Prince Vasíli’s last words. Then rising, he suddenly went up to his +daughter. + +“Is it for visitors you’ve got yourself up like that, eh?” said +he. “Fine, very fine! You have done up your hair in this new way for +the visitors, and before the visitors I tell you that in future you are +never to dare to change your way of dress without my consent.” + +“It was my fault, mon père,” interceded the little princess, with a +blush. + +“You must do as you please,” said Prince Bolkónski, bowing to his +daughter-in-law, “but she need not make a fool of herself, she’s +plain enough as it is.” + +And he sat down again, paying no more attention to his daughter, who was +reduced to tears. + +“On the contrary, that coiffure suits the princess very well,” said +Prince Vasíli. + +“Now you, young prince, what’s your name?” said Prince Bolkónski, +turning to Anatole, “come here, let us talk and get acquainted.” + +“Now the fun begins,” thought Anatole, sitting down with a smile +beside the old prince. + +“Well, my dear boy, I hear you’ve been educated abroad, not taught +to read and write by the deacon, like your father and me. Now tell me, +my dear boy, are you serving in the Horse Guards?” asked the old man, +scrutinizing Anatole closely and intently. + +“No, I have been transferred to the line,” said Anatole, hardly able +to restrain his laughter. + +“Ah! That’s a good thing. So, my dear boy, you wish to serve the +Tsar and the country? It is wartime. Such a fine fellow must serve. +Well, are you off to the front?” + +“No, Prince, our regiment has gone to the front, but I am attached... +what is it I am attached to, Papa?” said Anatole, turning to his +father with a laugh. + +“A splendid soldier, splendid! ‘What am I attached to!’ Ha, ha, +ha!” laughed Prince Bolkónski, and Anatole laughed still louder. +Suddenly Prince Bolkónski frowned. + +“You may go,” he said to Anatole. + +Anatole returned smiling to the ladies. + +“And so you’ve had him educated abroad, Prince Vasíli, haven’t +you?” said the old prince to Prince Vasíli. + +“I have done my best for him, and I can assure you the education there +is much better than ours.” + +“Yes, everything is different nowadays, everything is changed. The +lad’s a fine fellow, a fine fellow! Well, come with me now.” He took +Prince Vasíli’s arm and led him to his study. As soon as they were +alone together, Prince Vasíli announced his hopes and wishes to the old +prince. + +“Well, do you think I shall prevent her, that I can’t part from +her?” said the old prince angrily. “What an idea! I’m ready for it +tomorrow! Only let me tell you, I want to know my son-in-law better. You +know my principles—everything aboveboard! I will ask her tomorrow in +your presence; if she is willing, then he can stay on. He can stay and +I’ll see.” The old prince snorted. “Let her marry, it’s all the +same to me!” he screamed in the same piercing tone as when parting +from his son. + +“I will tell you frankly,” said Prince Vasíli in the tone of +a crafty man convinced of the futility of being cunning with so +keen-sighted a companion. “You know, you see right through people. +Anatole is no genius, but he is an honest, goodhearted lad; an excellent +son or kinsman.” + +“All right, all right, we’ll see!” + +As always happens when women lead lonely lives for any length of time +without male society, on Anatole’s appearance all the three women of +Prince Bolkónski’s household felt that their life had not been real +till then. Their powers of reasoning, feeling, and observing immediately +increased tenfold, and their life, which seemed to have been passed in +darkness, was suddenly lit up by a new brightness, full of significance. + +Princess Mary grew quite unconscious of her face and coiffure. The +handsome open face of the man who might perhaps be her husband absorbed +all her attention. He seemed to her kind, brave, determined, manly, and +magnanimous. She felt convinced of that. Thousands of dreams of a future +family life continually rose in her imagination. She drove them away and +tried to conceal them. + +“But am I not too cold with him?” thought the princess. “I try +to be reserved because in the depth of my soul I feel too near to him +already, but then he cannot know what I think of him and may imagine +that I do not like him.” + +And Princess Mary tried, but could not manage, to be cordial to her new +guest. “Poor girl, she’s devilish ugly!” thought Anatole. + +Mademoiselle Bourienne, also roused to great excitement by Anatole’s +arrival, thought in another way. Of course, she, a handsome young woman +without any definite position, without relations or even a country, did +not intend to devote her life to serving Prince Bolkónski, to reading +aloud to him and being friends with Princess Mary. Mademoiselle +Bourienne had long been waiting for a Russian prince who, able to +appreciate at a glance her superiority to the plain, badly dressed, +ungainly Russian princesses, would fall in love with her and carry her +off; and here at last was a Russian prince. Mademoiselle Bourienne knew +a story, heard from her aunt but finished in her own way, which she +liked to repeat to herself. It was the story of a girl who had been +seduced, and to whom her poor mother (sa pauvre mère) appeared, and +reproached her for yielding to a man without being married. Mademoiselle +Bourienne was often touched to tears as in imagination she told this +story to him, her seducer. And now he, a real Russian prince, had +appeared. He would carry her away and then sa pauvre mère would appear +and he would marry her. So her future shaped itself in Mademoiselle +Bourienne’s head at the very time she was talking to Anatole about +Paris. It was not calculation that guided her (she did not even for a +moment consider what she should do), but all this had long been familiar +to her, and now that Anatole had appeared it just grouped itself around +him and she wished and tried to please him as much as possible. + +The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, +unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the +familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any +struggle, but with naïve and lighthearted gaiety. + +Although in female society Anatole usually assumed the role of a man +tired of being run after by women, his vanity was flattered by the +spectacle of his power over these three women. Besides that, he was +beginning to feel for the pretty and provocative Mademoiselle Bourienne +that passionate animal feeling which was apt to master him with great +suddenness and prompt him to the coarsest and most reckless actions. + +After tea, the company went into the sitting room and Princess Mary was +asked to play on the clavichord. Anatole, laughing and in high spirits, +came and leaned on his elbows, facing her and beside Mademoiselle +Bourienne. Princess Mary felt his look with a painfully joyous emotion. +Her favorite sonata bore her into a most intimately poetic world and +the look she felt upon her made that world still more poetic. But +Anatole’s expression, though his eyes were fixed on her, referred not +to her but to the movements of Mademoiselle Bourienne’s little +foot, which he was then touching with his own under the clavichord. +Mademoiselle Bourienne was also looking at Princess Mary, and in her +lovely eyes there was a look of fearful joy and hope that was also new +to the princess. + +“How she loves me!” thought Princess Mary. “How happy I am now, +and how happy I may be with such a friend and such a husband! Husband? +Can it be possible?” she thought, not daring to look at his face, but +still feeling his eyes gazing at her. + +In the evening, after supper, when all were about to retire, Anatole +kissed Princess Mary’s hand. She did not know how she found the +courage, but she looked straight into his handsome face as it came near +to her shortsighted eyes. Turning from Princess Mary he went up and +kissed Mademoiselle Bourienne’s hand. (This was not etiquette, but +then he did everything so simply and with such assurance!) Mademoiselle +Bourienne flushed, and gave the princess a frightened look. + +“What delicacy!” thought the princess. “Is it possible that +Amélie” (Mademoiselle Bourienne) “thinks I could be jealous of her, +and not value her pure affection and devotion to me?” She went up +to her and kissed her warmly. Anatole went up to kiss the little +princess’ hand. + +“No! No! No! When your father writes to tell me that you are behaving +well I will give you my hand to kiss. Not till then!” she said. And +smilingly raising a finger at him, she left the room. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +They all separated, but, except Anatole who fell asleep as soon as he +got into bed, all kept awake a long time that night. + +“Is he really to be my husband, this stranger who is so kind—yes, +kind, that is the chief thing,” thought Princess Mary; and fear, which +she had seldom experienced, came upon her. She feared to look round, it +seemed to her that someone was there standing behind the screen in the +dark corner. And this someone was he—the devil—and he was also this +man with the white forehead, black eyebrows, and red lips. + +She rang for her maid and asked her to sleep in her room. + +Mademoiselle Bourienne walked up and down the conservatory for a long +time that evening, vainly expecting someone, now smiling at someone, now +working herself up to tears with the imaginary words of her pauvre mère +rebuking her for her fall. + +The little princess grumbled to her maid that her bed was badly made. +She could not lie either on her face or on her side. Every position was +awkward and uncomfortable, and her burden oppressed her now more than +ever because Anatole’s presence had vividly recalled to her the time +when she was not like that and when everything was light and gay. She +sat in an armchair in her dressing jacket and nightcap and Katie, sleepy +and disheveled, beat and turned the heavy feather bed for the third +time, muttering to herself. + +“I told you it was all lumps and holes!” the little princess +repeated. “I should be glad enough to fall asleep, so it’s not my +fault!” and her voice quivered like that of a child about to cry. + +The old prince did not sleep either. Tíkhon, half asleep, heard him +pacing angrily about and snorting. The old prince felt as though he +had been insulted through his daughter. The insult was the more pointed +because it concerned not himself but another, his daughter, whom he +loved more than himself. He kept telling himself that he would consider +the whole matter and decide what was right and how he should act, but +instead of that he only excited himself more and more. + +“The first man that turns up—she forgets her father and everything +else, runs upstairs and does up her hair and wags her tail and is unlike +herself! Glad to throw her father over! And she knew I should notice +it. Fr... fr... fr! And don’t I see that that idiot had eyes only for +Bourienne—I shall have to get rid of her. And how is it she has not +pride enough to see it? If she has no pride for herself she might at +least have some for my sake! She must be shown that the blockhead thinks +nothing of her and looks only at Bourienne. No, she has no pride... but +I’ll let her see....” + +The old prince knew that if he told his daughter she was making a +mistake and that Anatole meant to flirt with Mademoiselle Bourienne, +Princess Mary’s self-esteem would be wounded and his point (not to +be parted from her) would be gained, so pacifying himself with this +thought, he called Tíkhon and began to undress. + +“What devil brought them here?” thought he, while Tíkhon was +putting the nightshirt over his dried-up old body and gray-haired chest. +“I never invited them. They came to disturb my life—and there is not +much of it left.” + +“Devil take ‘em!” he muttered, while his head was still covered by +the shirt. + +Tíkhon knew his master’s habit of sometimes thinking aloud, and +therefore met with unaltered looks the angrily inquisitive expression of +the face that emerged from the shirt. + +“Gone to bed?” asked the prince. + +Tíkhon, like all good valets, instinctively knew the direction of his +master’s thoughts. He guessed that the question referred to Prince +Vasíli and his son. + +“They have gone to bed and put out their lights, your excellency.” + +“No good... no good...” said the prince rapidly, and thrusting his +feet into his slippers and his arms into the sleeves of his dressing +gown, he went to the couch on which he slept. + +Though no words had passed between Anatole and Mademoiselle Bourienne, +they quite understood one another as to the first part of their romance, +up to the appearance of the pauvre mère; they understood that they had +much to say to one another in private and so they had been seeking an +opportunity since morning to meet one another alone. When Princess Mary +went to her father’s room at the usual hour, Mademoiselle Bourienne +and Anatole met in the conservatory. + +Princess Mary went to the door of the study with special trepidation. +It seemed to her that not only did everybody know that her fate would be +decided that day, but that they also knew what she thought about it. She +read this in Tíkhon’s face and in that of Prince Vasíli’s valet, +who made her a low bow when she met him in the corridor carrying hot +water. + +The old prince was very affectionate and careful in his treatment of +his daughter that morning. Princess Mary well knew this painstaking +expression of her father’s. His face wore that expression when his +dry hands clenched with vexation at her not understanding a sum in +arithmetic, when rising from his chair he would walk away from her, +repeating in a low voice the same words several times over. + +He came to the point at once, treating her ceremoniously. + +“I have had a proposition made me concerning you,” he said with an +unnatural smile. “I expect you have guessed that Prince Vasíli has +not come and brought his pupil with him” (for some reason Prince +Bolkónski referred to Anatole as a “pupil”) “for the sake of my +beautiful eyes. Last night a proposition was made me on your account +and, as you know my principles, I refer it to you.” + +“How am I to understand you, mon père?” said the princess, growing +pale and then blushing. + +“How understand me!” cried her father angrily. “Prince Vasíli +finds you to his taste as a daughter-in-law and makes a proposal to you +on his pupil’s behalf. That’s how it’s to be understood! ‘How +understand it’!... And I ask you!” + +“I do not know what you think, Father,” whispered the princess. + +“I? I? What of me? Leave me out of the question. I’m not going to +get married. What about you? That’s what I want to know.” + +The princess saw that her father regarded the matter with disapproval, +but at that moment the thought occurred to her that her fate would be +decided now or never. She lowered her eyes so as not to see the gaze +under which she felt that she could not think, but would only be able to +submit from habit, and she said: “I wish only to do your will, but if +I had to express my own desire...” She had no time to finish. The old +prince interrupted her. + +“That’s admirable!” he shouted. “He will take you with your +dowry and take Mademoiselle Bourienne into the bargain. She’ll be the +wife, while you...” + +The prince stopped. He saw the effect these words had produced on his +daughter. She lowered her head and was ready to burst into tears. + +“Now then, now then, I’m only joking!” he said. “Remember this, +Princess, I hold to the principle that a maiden has a full right to +choose. I give you freedom. Only remember that your life’s happiness +depends on your decision. Never mind me!” + +“But I do not know, Father!” + +“There’s no need to talk! He receives his orders and will marry you +or anybody; but you are free to choose.... Go to your room, think it +over, and come back in an hour and tell me in his presence: yes or no. +I know you will pray over it. Well, pray if you like, but you had better +think it over. Go! Yes or no, yes or no, yes or no!” he still shouted +when the princess, as if lost in a fog, had already staggered out of the +study. + +Her fate was decided and happily decided. But what her father had said +about Mademoiselle Bourienne was dreadful. It was untrue to be sure, but +still it was terrible, and she could not help thinking of it. She was +going straight on through the conservatory, neither seeing nor hearing +anything, when suddenly the well-known whispering of Mademoiselle +Bourienne aroused her. She raised her eyes, and two steps away saw +Anatole embracing the Frenchwoman and whispering something to her. With +a horrified expression on his handsome face, Anatole looked at Princess +Mary, but did not at once take his arm from the waist of Mademoiselle +Bourienne who had not yet seen her. + +“Who’s that? Why? Wait a moment!” Anatole’s face seemed to say. +Princess Mary looked at them in silence. She could not understand it. At +last Mademoiselle Bourienne gave a scream and ran away. Anatole bowed to +Princess Mary with a gay smile, as if inviting her to join in a laugh at +this strange incident, and then shrugging his shoulders went to the door +that led to his own apartments. + +An hour later, Tíkhon came to call Princess Mary to the old prince; +he added that Prince Vasíli was also there. When Tíkhon came to her +Princess Mary was sitting on the sofa in her room, holding the weeping +Mademoiselle Bourienne in her arms and gently stroking her hair. The +princess’ beautiful eyes with all their former calm radiance were +looking with tender affection and pity at Mademoiselle Bourienne’s +pretty face. + +“No, Princess, I have lost your affection forever!” said +Mademoiselle Bourienne. + +“Why? I love you more than ever,” said Princess Mary, “and I will +try to do all I can for your happiness.” + +“But you despise me. You who are so pure can never understand being so +carried away by passion. Oh, only my poor mother...” + +“I quite understand,” answered Princess Mary, with a sad smile. +“Calm yourself, my dear. I will go to my father,” she said, and went +out. + +Prince Vasíli, with one leg thrown high over the other and a snuffbox +in his hand, was sitting there with a smile of deep emotion on his face, +as if stirred to his heart’s core and himself regretting and laughing +at his own sensibility, when Princess Mary entered. He hurriedly took a +pinch of snuff. + +“Ah, my dear, my dear!” he began, rising and taking her by both +hands. Then, sighing, he added: “My son’s fate is in your hands. +Decide, my dear, good, gentle Marie, whom I have always loved as a +daughter!” + +He drew back and a real tear appeared in his eye. + +“Fr... fr...” snorted Prince Bolkónski. “The prince is making a +proposition to you in his pupil’s—I mean, his son’s—name. Do you +wish or not to be Prince Anatole Kurágin’s wife? Reply: yes or no,” +he shouted, “and then I shall reserve the right to state my opinion +also. Yes, my opinion, and only my opinion,” added Prince Bolkónski, +turning to Prince Vasíli and answering his imploring look. “Yes, or +no?” + +“My desire is never to leave you, Father, never to separate my +life from yours. I don’t wish to marry,” she answered positively, +glancing at Prince Vasíli and at her father with her beautiful eyes. + +“Humbug! Nonsense! Humbug, humbug, humbug!” cried Prince Bolkónski, +frowning and taking his daughter’s hand; he did not kiss her, but only +bending his forehead to hers just touched it, and pressed her hand so +that she winced and uttered a cry. + +Prince Vasíli rose. + +“My dear, I must tell you that this is a moment I shall never, never +forget. But, my dear, will you not give us a little hope of touching +this heart, so kind and generous? Say ‘perhaps’... The future is so +long. Say ‘perhaps.’” + +“Prince, what I have said is all there is in my heart. I thank you for +the honor, but I shall never be your son’s wife.” + +“Well, so that’s finished, my dear fellow! I am very glad to have +seen you. Very glad! Go back to your rooms, Princess. Go!” said +the old prince. “Very, very glad to have seen you,” repeated he, +embracing Prince Vasíli. + +“My vocation is a different one,” thought Princess Mary. “My +vocation is to be happy with another kind of happiness, the happiness +of love and self-sacrifice. And cost what it may, I will arrange +poor Amélie’s happiness, she loves him so passionately, and so +passionately repents. I will do all I can to arrange the match between +them. If he is not rich I will give her the means; I will ask my +father and Andrew. I shall be so happy when she is his wife. She is so +unfortunate, a stranger, alone, helpless! And, oh God, how passionately +she must love him if she could so far forget herself! Perhaps I might +have done the same!...” thought Princess Mary. + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +It was long since the Rostóvs had news of Nicholas. Not till midwinter +was the count at last handed a letter addressed in his son’s +handwriting. On receiving it, he ran on tiptoe to his study in alarm and +haste, trying to escape notice, closed the door, and began to read the +letter. + +Anna Mikháylovna, who always knew everything that passed in the house, +on hearing of the arrival of the letter went softly into the room and +found the count with it in his hand, sobbing and laughing at the same +time. + +Anna Mikháylovna, though her circumstances had improved, was still +living with the Rostóvs. + +“My dear friend?” said she, in a tone of pathetic inquiry, prepared +to sympathize in any way. + +The count sobbed yet more. + +“Nikólenka... a letter... wa... a... s... wounded... my darling +boy... the countess... promoted to be an officer... thank God... How +tell the little countess!” + +Anna Mikháylovna sat down beside him, with her own handkerchief wiped +the tears from his eyes and from the letter, then having dried her +own eyes she comforted the count, and decided that at dinner and till +teatime she would prepare the countess, and after tea, with God’s +help, would inform her. + +At dinner Anna Mikháylovna talked the whole time about the war news +and about Nikólenka, twice asked when the last letter had been received +from him, though she knew that already, and remarked that they might +very likely be getting a letter from him that day. Each time that these +hints began to make the countess anxious and she glanced uneasily at +the count and at Anna Mikháylovna, the latter very adroitly turned +the conversation to insignificant matters. Natásha, who, of the whole +family, was the most gifted with a capacity to feel any shades of +intonation, look, and expression, pricked up her ears from the beginning +of the meal and was certain that there was some secret between her +father and Anna Mikháylovna, that it had something to do with her +brother, and that Anna Mikháylovna was preparing them for it. Bold as +she was, Natásha, who knew how sensitive her mother was to anything +relating to Nikólenka, did not venture to ask any questions at dinner, +but she was too excited to eat anything and kept wriggling about on her +chair regardless of her governess’ remarks. After dinner, she rushed +headlong after Anna Mikháylovna and, dashing at her, flung herself on +her neck as soon as she overtook her in the sitting room. + +“Auntie, darling, do tell me what it is!” + +“Nothing, my dear.” + +“No, dearest, sweet one, honey, I won’t give up—I know you know +something.” + +Anna Mikháylovna shook her head. + +“You are a little slyboots,” she said. + +“A letter from Nikólenka! I’m sure of it!” exclaimed Natásha, +reading confirmation in Anna Mikháylovna’s face. + +“But for God’s sake, be careful, you know how it may affect your +mamma.” + +“I will, I will, only tell me! You won’t? Then I will go and tell at +once.” + +Anna Mikháylovna, in a few words, told her the contents of the letter, +on condition that she should tell no one. + +“No, on my true word of honor,” said Natásha, crossing herself, +“I won’t tell anyone!” and she ran off at once to Sónya. + +“Nikólenka... wounded... a letter,” she announced in gleeful +triumph. + +“Nicholas!” was all Sónya said, instantly turning white. + +Natásha, seeing the impression the news of her brother’s wound +produced on Sónya, felt for the first time the sorrowful side of the +news. + +She rushed to Sónya, hugged her, and began to cry. + +“A little wound, but he has been made an officer; he is well now, he +wrote himself,” said she through her tears. + +“There now! It’s true that all you women are crybabies,” remarked +Pétya, pacing the room with large, resolute strides. “Now I’m very +glad, very glad indeed, that my brother has distinguished himself so. +You are all blubberers and understand nothing.” + +Natásha smiled through her tears. + +“You haven’t read the letter?” asked Sónya. + +“No, but she said that it was all over and that he’s now an +officer.” + +“Thank God!” said Sónya, crossing herself. “But perhaps she +deceived you. Let us go to Mamma.” + +Pétya paced the room in silence for a time. + +“If I’d been in Nikólenka’s place I would have killed even more +of those Frenchmen,” he said. “What nasty brutes they are! I’d +have killed so many that there’d have been a heap of them.” + +“Hold your tongue, Pétya, what a goose you are!” + +“I’m not a goose, but they are who cry about trifles,” said +Pétya. + +“Do you remember him?” Natásha suddenly asked, after a moment’s +silence. + +Sónya smiled. + +“Do I remember Nicholas?” + +“No, Sónya, but do you remember so that you remember him perfectly, +remember everything?” said Natásha, with an expressive gesture, +evidently wishing to give her words a very definite meaning. “I +remember Nikólenka too, I remember him well,” she said. “But I +don’t remember Borís. I don’t remember him a bit.” + +“What! You don’t remember Borís?” asked Sónya in surprise. + +“It’s not that I don’t remember—I know what he is like, but not +as I remember Nikólenka. Him—I just shut my eyes and remember, +but Borís... No!” (She shut her eyes.) “No! there’s nothing at +all.” + +“Oh, Natásha!” said Sónya, looking ecstatically and earnestly at +her friend as if she did not consider her worthy to hear what she meant +to say and as if she were saying it to someone else, with whom joking +was out of the question, “I am in love with your brother once for all +and, whatever may happen to him or to me, shall never cease to love him +as long as I live.” + +Natásha looked at Sónya with wondering and inquisitive eyes, and said +nothing. She felt that Sónya was speaking the truth, that there was +such love as Sónya was speaking of. But Natásha had not yet felt +anything like it. She believed it could be, but did not understand it. + +“Shall you write to him?” she asked. + +Sónya became thoughtful. The question of how to write to Nicholas, and +whether she ought to write, tormented her. Now that he was already an +officer and a wounded hero, would it be right to remind him of herself +and, as it might seem, of the obligations to her he had taken on +himself? + +“I don’t know. I think if he writes, I will write too,” she said, +blushing. + +“And you won’t feel ashamed to write to him?” + +Sónya smiled. + +“No.” + +“And I should be ashamed to write to Borís. I’m not going to.” + +“Why should you be ashamed?” + +“Well, I don’t know. It’s awkward and would make me ashamed.” + +“And I know why she’d be ashamed,” said Pétya, offended by +Natásha’s previous remark. “It’s because she was in love with +that fat one in spectacles” (that was how Pétya described his +namesake, the new Count Bezúkhov) “and now she’s in love with that +singer” (he meant Natásha’s Italian singing master), “that’s +why she’s ashamed!” + +“Pétya, you’re a stupid!” said Natásha. + +“Not more stupid than you, madam,” said the nine-year-old Pétya, +with the air of an old brigadier. + +The countess had been prepared by Anna Mikháylovna’s hints at dinner. +On retiring to her own room, she sat in an armchair, her eyes fixed on a +miniature portrait of her son on the lid of a snuffbox, while the tears +kept coming into her eyes. Anna Mikháylovna, with the letter, came on +tiptoe to the countess’ door and paused. + +“Don’t come in,” she said to the old count who was following her. +“Come later.” And she went in, closing the door behind her. + +The count put his ear to the keyhole and listened. + +At first he heard the sound of indifferent voices, then Anna +Mikháylovna’s voice alone in a long speech, then a cry, then silence, +then both voices together with glad intonations, and then footsteps. +Anna Mikháylovna opened the door. Her face wore the proud expression +of a surgeon who has just performed a difficult operation and admits the +public to appreciate his skill. + +“It is done!” she said to the count, pointing triumphantly to the +countess, who sat holding in one hand the snuffbox with its portrait and +in the other the letter, and pressing them alternately to her lips. + +When she saw the count, she stretched out her arms to him, embraced his +bald head, over which she again looked at the letter and the portrait, +and in order to press them again to her lips, she slightly pushed away +the bald head. Véra, Natásha, Sónya, and Pétya now entered the room, +and the reading of the letter began. After a brief description of +the campaign and the two battles in which he had taken part, and his +promotion, Nicholas said that he kissed his father’s and mother’s +hands asking for their blessing, and that he kissed Véra, Natásha, and +Pétya. Besides that, he sent greetings to Monsieur Schelling, Madame +Schoss, and his old nurse, and asked them to kiss for him “dear +Sónya, whom he loved and thought of just the same as ever.” When she +heard this Sónya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable +to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, +whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, +and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor. The countess was +crying. + +“Why are you crying, Mamma?” asked Véra. “From all he says one +should be glad and not cry.” + +This was quite true, but the count, the countess, and Natásha looked +at her reproachfully. “And who is it she takes after?” thought the +countess. + +Nicholas’ letter was read over hundreds of times, and those who were +considered worthy to hear it had to come to the countess, for she +did not let it out of her hands. The tutors came, and the nurses, and +Dmítri, and several acquaintances, and the countess reread the letter +each time with fresh pleasure and each time discovered in it fresh +proofs of Nikólenka’s virtues. How strange, how extraordinary, how +joyful it seemed, that her son, the scarcely perceptible motion of whose +tiny limbs she had felt twenty years ago within her, that son about whom +she used to have quarrels with the too indulgent count, that son who +had first learned to say “pear” and then “granny,” that this son +should now be away in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, a manly +warrior doing some kind of man’s work of his own, without help or +guidance. The universal experience of ages, showing that children do +grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the +countess. Her son’s growth toward manhood, at each of its stages, +had seemed as extraordinary to her as if there had never existed the +millions of human beings who grew up in the same way. As twenty +years before, it seemed impossible that the little creature who lived +somewhere under her heart would ever cry, suck her breast, and begin to +speak, so now she could not believe that that little creature could be +this strong, brave man, this model son and officer that, judging by this +letter, he now was. + +“What a style! How charmingly he describes!” said she, reading the +descriptive part of the letter. “And what a soul! Not a word about +himself.... Not a word! About some Denísov or other, though he himself, +I dare say, is braver than any of them. He says nothing about his +sufferings. What a heart! How like him it is! And how he has remembered +everybody! Not forgetting anyone. I always said when he was only so +high—I always said....” + +For more than a week preparations were being made, rough drafts of +letters to Nicholas from all the household were written and copied out, +while under the supervision of the countess and the solicitude of the +count, money and all things necessary for the uniform and equipment +of the newly commissioned officer were collected. Anna Mikháylovna, +practical woman that she was, had even managed by favor with army +authorities to secure advantageous means of communication for herself +and her son. She had opportunities of sending her letters to the Grand +Duke Constantine Pávlovich, who commanded the Guards. The Rostóvs +supposed that The Russian Guards, Abroad, was quite a definite address, +and that if a letter reached the Grand Duke in command of the Guards +there was no reason why it should not reach the Pávlograd regiment, +which was presumably somewhere in the same neighborhood. And so it was +decided to send the letters and money by the Grand Duke’s courier to +Borís and Borís was to forward them to Nicholas. The letters were from +the old count, the countess, Pétya, Véra, Natásha, and Sónya, and +finally there were six thousand rubles for his outfit and various other +things the old count sent to his son. + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +On the twelfth of November, Kutúzov’s active army, in camp before +Olmütz, was preparing to be reviewed next day by the two Emperors—the +Russian and the Austrian. The Guards, just arrived from Russia, spent +the night ten miles from Olmütz and next morning were to come straight +to the review, reaching the field at Olmütz by ten o’clock. + +That day Nicholas Rostóv received a letter from Borís, telling him +that the Ismáylov regiment was quartered for the night ten miles from +Olmütz and that he wanted to see him as he had a letter and money for +him. Rostóv was particularly in need of money now that the troops, +after their active service, were stationed near Olmütz and the camp +swarmed with well-provisioned sutlers and Austrian Jews offering +all sorts of tempting wares. The Pávlograds held feast after feast, +celebrating awards they had received for the campaign, and made +expeditions to Olmütz to visit a certain Caroline the Hungarian, +who had recently opened a restaurant there with girls as waitresses. +Rostóv, who had just celebrated his promotion to a cornetcy and bought +Denísov’s horse, Bedouin, was in debt all round, to his comrades and +the sutlers. On receiving Borís’ letter he rode with a fellow officer +to Olmütz, dined there, drank a bottle of wine, and then set off alone +to the Guards’ camp to find his old playmate. Rostóv had not yet had +time to get his uniform. He had on a shabby cadet jacket, decorated with +a soldier’s cross, equally shabby cadet’s riding breeches lined with +worn leather, and an officer’s saber with a sword knot. The Don horse +he was riding was one he had bought from a Cossack during the campaign, +and he wore a crumpled hussar cap stuck jauntily back on one side of his +head. As he rode up to the camp he thought how he would impress Borís +and all his comrades of the Guards by his appearance—that of a +fighting hussar who had been under fire. + +The Guards had made their whole march as if on a pleasure trip, parading +their cleanliness and discipline. They had come by easy stages, their +knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the Austrian authorities had provided +excellent dinners for the officers at every halting place. The regiments +had entered and left the town with their bands playing, and by the Grand +Duke’s orders the men had marched all the way in step (a practice on +which the Guards prided themselves), the officers on foot and at their +proper posts. Borís had been quartered, and had marched all the +way, with Berg who was already in command of a company. Berg, who had +obtained his captaincy during the campaign, had gained the confidence of +his superiors by his promptitude and accuracy and had arranged his money +matters very satisfactorily. Borís, during the campaign, had made the +acquaintance of many persons who might prove useful to him, and by +a letter of recommendation he had brought from Pierre had become +acquainted with Prince Andrew Bolkónski, through whom he hoped to +obtain a post on the commander in chief’s staff. Berg and Borís, +having rested after yesterday’s march, were sitting, clean and neatly +dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, +playing chess. Berg held a smoking pipe between his knees. Borís, in +the accurate way characteristic of him, was building a little pyramid of +chessmen with his delicate white fingers while awaiting Berg’s move, +and watched his opponent’s face, evidently thinking about the game as +he always thought only of whatever he was engaged on. + +“Well, how are you going to get out of that?” he remarked. + +“We’ll try to,” replied Berg, touching a pawn and then removing +his hand. + +At that moment the door opened. + +“Here he is at last!” shouted Rostóv. “And Berg too! Oh, you +petisenfans, allay cushay dormir!” he exclaimed, imitating his Russian +nurse’s French, at which he and Borís used to laugh long ago. + +“Dear me, how you have changed!” + +Borís rose to meet Rostóv, but in doing so did not omit to steady and +replace some chessmen that were falling. He was about to embrace his +friend, but Nicholas avoided him. With that peculiar feeling of youth, +that dread of beaten tracks, and wish to express itself in a manner +different from that of its elders which is often insincere, Nicholas +wished to do something special on meeting his friend. He wanted to pinch +him, push him, do anything but kiss him—a thing everybody did. But +notwithstanding this, Borís embraced him in a quiet, friendly way and +kissed him three times. + +They had not met for nearly half a year and, being at the age when young +men take their first steps on life’s road, each saw immense changes in +the other, quite a new reflection of the society in which they had taken +those first steps. Both had changed greatly since they last met and both +were in a hurry to show the changes that had taken place in them. + +“Oh, you damned dandies! Clean and fresh as if you’d been to a fete, +not like us sinners of the line,” cried Rostóv, with martial swagger +and with baritone notes in his voice, new to Borís, pointing to his own +mud-bespattered breeches. The German landlady, hearing Rostóv’s loud +voice, popped her head in at the door. + +“Eh, is she pretty?” he asked with a wink. + +“Why do you shout so? You’ll frighten them!” said Borís. “I did +not expect you today,” he added. “I only sent you the note yesterday +by Bolkónski—an adjutant of Kutúzov’s, who’s a friend of mine. +I did not think he would get it to you so quickly.... Well, how are you? +Been under fire already?” asked Borís. + +Without answering, Rostóv shook the soldier’s Cross of St. George +fastened to the cording of his uniform and, indicating a bandaged arm, +glanced at Berg with a smile. + +“As you see,” he said. + +“Indeed? Yes, yes!” said Borís, with a smile. “And we too have +had a splendid march. You know, of course, that His Imperial Highness +rode with our regiment all the time, so that we had every comfort and +every advantage. What receptions we had in Poland! What dinners and +balls! I can’t tell you. And the Tsarévich was very gracious to all +our officers.” + +And the two friends told each other of their doings, the one of his +hussar revels and life in the fighting line, the other of the pleasures +and advantages of service under members of the Imperial family. + +“Oh, you Guards!” said Rostóv. “I say, send for some wine.” + +Borís made a grimace. + +“If you really want it,” said he. + +He went to his bed, drew a purse from under the clean pillow, and sent +for wine. + +“Yes, and I have some money and a letter to give you,” he added. + +Rostóv took the letter and, throwing the money on the sofa, put both +arms on the table and began to read. After reading a few lines, he +glanced angrily at Berg, then, meeting his eyes, hid his face behind the +letter. + +“Well, they’ve sent you a tidy sum,” said Berg, eying the heavy +purse that sank into the sofa. “As for us, Count, we get along on our +pay. I can tell you for myself...” + +“I say, Berg, my dear fellow,” said Rostóv, “when you get a +letter from home and meet one of your own people whom you want to talk +everything over with, and I happen to be there, I’ll go at once, to +be out of your way! Do go somewhere, anywhere... to the devil!” he +exclaimed, and immediately seizing him by the shoulder and looking +amiably into his face, evidently wishing to soften the rudeness of his +words, he added, “Don’t be hurt, my dear fellow; you know I speak +from my heart as to an old acquaintance.” + +“Oh, don’t mention it, Count! I quite understand,” said Berg, +getting up and speaking in a muffled and guttural voice. + +“Go across to our hosts: they invited you,” added Borís. + +Berg put on the cleanest of coats, without a spot or speck of dust, +stood before a looking glass and brushed the hair on his temples +upwards, in the way affected by the Emperor Alexander, and, having +assured himself from the way Rostóv looked at it that his coat had been +noticed, left the room with a pleasant smile. + +“Oh dear, what a beast I am!” muttered Rostóv, as he read the +letter. + +“Why?” + +“Oh, what a pig I am, not to have written and to have given them +such a fright! Oh, what a pig I am!” he repeated, flushing suddenly. +“Well, have you sent Gabriel for some wine? All right let’s have +some!” + +In the letter from his parents was enclosed a letter of recommendation +to Bagratión which the old countess at Anna Mikháylovna’s advice had +obtained through an acquaintance and sent to her son, asking him to take +it to its destination and make use of it. + +“What nonsense! Much I need it!” said Rostóv, throwing the letter +under the table. + +“Why have you thrown that away?” asked Borís. + +“It is some letter of recommendation... what the devil do I want it +for!” + +“Why ‘What the devil’?” said Borís, picking it up and reading +the address. “This letter would be of great use to you.” + +“I want nothing, and I won’t be anyone’s adjutant.” + +“Why not?” inquired Borís. + +“It’s a lackey’s job!” + +“You are still the same dreamer, I see,” remarked Borís, shaking +his head. + +“And you’re still the same diplomatist! But that’s not the +point... Come, how are you?” asked Rostóv. + +“Well, as you see. So far everything’s all right, but I confess I +should much like to be an adjutant and not remain at the front.” + +“Why?” + +“Because when once a man starts on military service, he should try to +make as successful a career of it as possible.” + +“Oh, that’s it!” said Rostóv, evidently thinking of something +else. + +He looked intently and inquiringly into his friend’s eyes, evidently +trying in vain to find the answer to some question. + +Old Gabriel brought in the wine. + +“Shouldn’t we now send for Berg?” asked Borís. “He would drink +with you. I can’t.” + +“Well, send for him... and how do you get on with that German?” +asked Rostóv, with a contemptuous smile. + +“He is a very, very nice, honest, and pleasant fellow,” answered +Borís. + +Again Rostóv looked intently into Borís’ eyes and sighed. Berg +returned, and over the bottle of wine conversation between the three +officers became animated. The Guardsmen told Rostóv of their march and +how they had been made much of in Russia, Poland, and abroad. They spoke +of the sayings and doings of their commander, the Grand Duke, and told +stories of his kindness and irascibility. Berg, as usual, kept silent +when the subject did not relate to himself, but in connection with the +stories of the Grand Duke’s quick temper he related with gusto how in +Galicia he had managed to deal with the Grand Duke when the latter +made a tour of the regiments and was annoyed at the irregularity of +a movement. With a pleasant smile Berg related how the Grand Duke +had ridden up to him in a violent passion, shouting: “Arnauts!” +(“Arnauts” was the Tsarévich’s favorite expression when he was in +a rage) and called for the company commander. + +“Would you believe it, Count, I was not at all alarmed, because I knew +I was right. Without boasting, you know, I may say that I know the Army +Orders by heart and know the Regulations as well as I do the Lord’s +Prayer. So, Count, there never is any negligence in my company, and +so my conscience was at ease. I came forward....” (Berg stood up and +showed how he presented himself, with his hand to his cap, and really +it would have been difficult for a face to express greater respect and +self-complacency than his did.) “Well, he stormed at me, as the saying +is, stormed and stormed and stormed! It was not a matter of life but +rather of death, as the saying is. ‘Albanians!’ and ‘devils!’ +and ‘To Siberia!’” said Berg with a sagacious smile. “I knew I +was in the right so I kept silent; was not that best, Count?... ‘Hey, +are you dumb?’ he shouted. Still I remained silent. And what do you +think, Count? The next day it was not even mentioned in the Orders of +the Day. That’s what keeping one’s head means. That’s the way, +Count,” said Berg, lighting his pipe and emitting rings of smoke. + +“Yes, that was fine,” said Rostóv, smiling. + +But Borís noticed that he was preparing to make fun of Berg, and +skillfully changed the subject. He asked him to tell them how and where +he got his wound. This pleased Rostóv and he began talking about it, +and as he went on became more and more animated. He told them of his +Schön Grabern affair, just as those who have taken part in a battle +generally do describe it, that is, as they would like it to have been, +as they have heard it described by others, and as sounds well, but not +at all as it really was. Rostóv was a truthful young man and would on +no account have told a deliberate lie. He began his story meaning to +tell everything just as it happened, but imperceptibly, involuntarily, +and inevitably he lapsed into falsehood. If he had told the truth to his +hearers—who like himself had often heard stories of attacks and had +formed a definite idea of what an attack was and were expecting to hear +just such a story—they would either not have believed him or, still +worse, would have thought that Rostóv was himself to blame since what +generally happens to the narrators of cavalry attacks had not happened +to him. He could not tell them simply that everyone went at a trot and +that he fell off his horse and sprained his arm and then ran as hard as +he could from a Frenchman into the wood. Besides, to tell everything as +it really happened, it would have been necessary to make an effort of +will to tell only what happened. It is very difficult to tell the truth, +and young people are rarely capable of it. His hearers expected a story +of how beside himself and all aflame with excitement, he had flown like +a storm at the square, cut his way in, slashed right and left, how his +saber had tasted flesh and he had fallen exhausted, and so on. And so he +told them all that. + +In the middle of his story, just as he was saying: “You cannot imagine +what a strange frenzy one experiences during an attack,” Prince +Andrew, whom Borís was expecting, entered the room. Prince Andrew, who +liked to help young men, was flattered by being asked for his assistance +and being well disposed toward Borís, who had managed to please him the +day before, he wished to do what the young man wanted. Having been sent +with papers from Kutúzov to the Tsarévich, he looked in on Borís, +hoping to find him alone. When he came in and saw an hussar of the line +recounting his military exploits (Prince Andrew could not endure +that sort of man), he gave Borís a pleasant smile, frowned as with +half-closed eyes he looked at Rostóv, bowed slightly and wearily, and +sat down languidly on the sofa: he felt it unpleasant to have dropped +in on bad company. Rostóv flushed up on noticing this, but he did not +care, this was a mere stranger. Glancing, however, at Borís, he saw +that he too seemed ashamed of the hussar of the line. + +In spite of Prince Andrew’s disagreeable, ironical tone, in spite of +the contempt with which Rostóv, from his fighting army point of view, +regarded all these little adjutants on the staff of whom the newcomer +was evidently one, Rostóv felt confused, blushed, and became silent. +Borís inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without +indiscretion, one might ask about our plans. + +“We shall probably advance,” replied Bolkónski, evidently reluctant +to say more in the presence of a stranger. + +Berg took the opportunity to ask, with great politeness, whether, as was +rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be +doubled. To this Prince Andrew answered with a smile that he could +give no opinion on such an important government order, and Berg laughed +gaily. + +“As to your business,” Prince Andrew continued, addressing Borís, +“we will talk of it later” (and he looked round at Rostóv). “Come +to me after the review and we will do what is possible.” + +And, having glanced round the room, Prince Andrew turned to Rostóv, +whose state of unconquerable childish embarrassment now changing to +anger he did not condescend to notice, and said: “I think you were +talking of the Schön Grabern affair? Were you there?” + +“I was there,” said Rostóv angrily, as if intending to insult the +aide-de-camp. + +Bolkónski noticed the hussar’s state of mind, and it amused him. With +a slightly contemptuous smile, he said: “Yes, there are many stories +now told about that affair!” + +“Yes, stories!” repeated Rostóv loudly, looking with eyes suddenly +grown furious, now at Borís, now at Bolkónski. “Yes, many stories! +But our stories are the stories of men who have been under the enemy’s +fire! Our stories have some weight, not like the stories of those +fellows on the staff who get rewards without doing anything!” + +“Of whom you imagine me to be one?” said Prince Andrew, with a quiet +and particularly amiable smile. + +A strange feeling of exasperation and yet of respect for this man’s +self-possession mingled at that moment in Rostóv’s soul. + +“I am not talking about you,” he said, “I don’t know you and, +frankly, I don’t want to. I am speaking of the staff in general.” + +“And I will tell you this,” Prince Andrew interrupted in a tone of +quiet authority, “you wish to insult me, and I am ready to agree with +you that it would be very easy to do so if you haven’t sufficient +self-respect, but admit that the time and place are very badly chosen. +In a day or two we shall all have to take part in a greater and more +serious duel, and besides, Drubetskóy, who says he is an old friend +of yours, is not at all to blame that my face has the misfortune to +displease you. However,” he added rising, “you know my name and +where to find me, but don’t forget that I do not regard either myself +or you as having been at all insulted, and as a man older than you, my +advice is to let the matter drop. Well then, on Friday after the review +I shall expect you, Drubetskóy. Au revoir!” exclaimed Prince Andrew, +and with a bow to them both he went out. + +Only when Prince Andrew was gone did Rostóv think of what he ought to +have said. And he was still more angry at having omitted to say it. He +ordered his horse at once and, coldly taking leave of Borís, rode +home. Should he go to headquarters next day and challenge that affected +adjutant, or really let the matter drop, was the question that worried +him all the way. He thought angrily of the pleasure he would have at +seeing the fright of that small and frail but proud man when covered by +his pistol, and then he felt with surprise that of all the men he knew +there was none he would so much like to have for a friend as that very +adjutant whom he so hated. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +The day after Rostóv had been to see Borís, a review was held of the +Austrian and Russian troops, both those freshly arrived from Russia and +those who had been campaigning under Kutúzov. The two Emperors, +the Russian with his heir the Tsarévich, and the Austrian with the +Archduke, inspected the allied army of eighty thousand men. + +From early morning the smart clean troops were on the move, forming up +on the field before the fortress. Now thousands of feet and bayonets +moved and halted at the officers’ command, turned with banners flying, +formed up at intervals, and wheeled round other similar masses of +infantry in different uniforms; now was heard the rhythmic beat of +hoofs and the jingling of showy cavalry in blue, red, and green braided +uniforms, with smartly dressed bandsmen in front mounted on black, roan, +or gray horses; then again, spreading out with the brazen clatter of the +polished shining cannon that quivered on the gun carriages and with +the smell of linstocks, came the artillery which crawled between the +infantry and cavalry and took up its appointed position. Not only the +generals in full parade uniforms, with their thin or thick waists drawn +in to the utmost, their red necks squeezed into their stiff collars, and +wearing scarves and all their decorations, not only the elegant, pomaded +officers, but every soldier with his freshly washed and shaven face and +his weapons clean and polished to the utmost, and every horse groomed +till its coat shone like satin and every hair of its wetted mane lay +smooth—felt that no small matter was happening, but an important and +solemn affair. Every general and every soldier was conscious of his own +insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and +yet at the same time was conscious of his strength as a part of that +enormous whole. + +From early morning strenuous activities and efforts had begun and by ten +o’clock all had been brought into due order. The ranks were drawn +up on the vast field. The whole army was extended in three lines: the +cavalry in front, behind it the artillery, and behind that again the +infantry. + +A space like a street was left between each two lines of troops. The +three parts of that army were sharply distinguished: Kutúzov’s +fighting army (with the Pávlograds on the right flank of the front); +those recently arrived from Russia, both Guards and regiments of the +line; and the Austrian troops. But they all stood in the same lines, +under one command, and in a like order. + +Like wind over leaves ran an excited whisper: “They’re coming! +They’re coming!” Alarmed voices were heard, and a stir of final +preparation swept over all the troops. + +From the direction of Olmütz in front of them, a group was seen +approaching. And at that moment, though the day was still, a light gust +of wind blowing over the army slightly stirred the streamers on the +lances and the unfolded standards fluttered against their staffs. It +looked as if by that slight motion the army itself was expressing its +joy at the approach of the Emperors. One voice was heard shouting: +“Eyes front!” Then, like the crowing of cocks at sunrise, this was +repeated by others from various sides and all became silent. + +In the deathlike stillness only the tramp of horses was heard. This +was the Emperors’ suites. The Emperors rode up to the flank, and the +trumpets of the first cavalry regiment played the general march. It +seemed as though not the trumpeters were playing, but as if the army +itself, rejoicing at the Emperors’ approach, had naturally burst into +music. Amid these sounds, only the youthful kindly voice of the Emperor +Alexander was clearly heard. He gave the words of greeting, and the +first regiment roared “Hurrah!” so deafeningly, continuously, and +joyfully that the men themselves were awed by their multitude and the +immensity of the power they constituted. + +Rostóv, standing in the front lines of Kutúzov’s army which the Tsar +approached first, experienced the same feeling as every other man in +that army: a feeling of self-forgetfulness, a proud consciousness of +might, and a passionate attraction to him who was the cause of this +triumph. + +He felt that at a single word from that man all this vast mass (and he +himself an insignificant atom in it) would go through fire and water, +commit crime, die, or perform deeds of highest heroism, and so he could +not but tremble and his heart stand still at the imminence of that word. + +“Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!” thundered from all sides, one regiment +after another greeting the Tsar with the strains of the march, and then +“Hurrah!”... Then the general march, and again “Hurrah! Hurrah!” +growing ever stronger and fuller and merging into a deafening roar. + +Till the Tsar reached it, each regiment in its silence and immobility +seemed like a lifeless body, but as soon as he came up it became alive, +its thunder joining the roar of the whole line along which he had +already passed. Through the terrible and deafening roar of those voices, +amid the square masses of troops standing motionless as if turned to +stone, hundreds of riders composing the suites moved carelessly but +symmetrically and above all freely, and in front of them two men—the +Emperors. Upon them the undivided, tensely passionate attention of that +whole mass of men was concentrated. + +The handsome young Emperor Alexander, in the uniform of the Horse +Guards, wearing a cocked hat with its peaks front and back, with his +pleasant face and resonant though not loud voice, attracted everyone’s +attention. + +Rostóv was not far from the trumpeters, and with his keen sight had +recognized the Tsar and watched his approach. When he was within twenty +paces, and Nicholas could clearly distinguish every detail of his +handsome, happy young face, he experienced a feeling of tenderness +and ecstasy such as he had never before known. Every trait and every +movement of the Tsar’s seemed to him enchanting. + +Stopping in front of the Pávlograds, the Tsar said something in French +to the Austrian Emperor and smiled. + +Seeing that smile, Rostóv involuntarily smiled himself and felt a still +stronger flow of love for his sovereign. He longed to show that love in +some way and knowing that this was impossible was ready to cry. The Tsar +called the colonel of the regiment and said a few words to him. + +“Oh God, what would happen to me if the Emperor spoke to me?” +thought Rostóv. “I should die of happiness!” + +The Tsar addressed the officers also: “I thank you all, gentlemen, I +thank you with my whole heart.” To Rostóv every word sounded like a +voice from heaven. How gladly would he have died at once for his Tsar! + +“You have earned the St. George’s standards and will be worthy of +them.” + +“Oh, to die, to die for him,” thought Rostóv. + +The Tsar said something more which Rostóv did not hear, and the +soldiers, straining their lungs, shouted “Hurrah!” + +Rostóv too, bending over his saddle, shouted “Hurrah!” with all his +might, feeling that he would like to injure himself by that shout, if +only to express his rapture fully. + +The Tsar stopped a few minutes in front of the hussars as if undecided. + +“How can the Emperor be undecided?” thought Rostóv, but then even +this indecision appeared to him majestic and enchanting, like everything +else the Tsar did. + +That hesitation lasted only an instant. The Tsar’s foot, in the narrow +pointed boot then fashionable, touched the groin of the bobtailed bay +mare he rode, his hand in a white glove gathered up the reins, and he +moved off accompanied by an irregularly swaying sea of aides-de-camp. +Farther and farther he rode away, stopping at other regiments, till at +last only his white plumes were visible to Rostóv from amid the suites +that surrounded the Emperors. + +Among the gentlemen of the suite, Rostóv noticed Bolkónski, sitting +his horse indolently and carelessly. Rostóv recalled their quarrel of +yesterday and the question presented itself whether he ought or ought +not to challenge Bolkónski. “Of course not!” he now thought. “Is +it worth thinking or speaking of it at such a moment? At a time of such +love, such rapture, and such self-sacrifice, what do any of our quarrels +and affronts matter? I love and forgive everybody now.” + +When the Emperor had passed nearly all the regiments, the troops began +a ceremonial march past him, and Rostóv on Bedouin, recently purchased +from Denísov, rode past too, at the rear of his squadron—that is, +alone and in full view of the Emperor. + +Before he reached him, Rostóv, who was a splendid horseman, spurred +Bedouin twice and successfully put him to the showy trot in which the +animal went when excited. Bending his foaming muzzle to his chest, his +tail extended, Bedouin, as if also conscious of the Emperor’s eye +upon him, passed splendidly, lifting his feet with a high and graceful +action, as if flying through the air without touching the ground. + +Rostóv himself, his legs well back and his stomach drawn in and feeling +himself one with his horse, rode past the Emperor with a frowning but +blissful face “like a vewy devil,” as Denísov expressed it. + +“Fine fellows, the Pávlograds!” remarked the Emperor. + +“My God, how happy I should be if he ordered me to leap into the fire +this instant!” thought Rostóv. + +When the review was over, the newly arrived officers, and also +Kutúzov’s, collected in groups and began to talk about the awards, +about the Austrians and their uniforms, about their lines, about +Bonaparte, and how badly the latter would fare now, especially if the +Essen corps arrived and Prussia took our side. + +But the talk in every group was chiefly about the Emperor Alexander. His +every word and movement was described with ecstasy. + +They all had but one wish: to advance as soon as possible against the +enemy under the Emperor’s command. Commanded by the Emperor himself +they could not fail to vanquish anyone, be it whom it might: so thought +Rostóv and most of the officers after the review. + +All were then more confident of victory than the winning of two battles +would have made them. + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +The day after the review, Borís, in his best uniform and with his +comrade Berg’s best wishes for success, rode to Olmütz to see +Bolkónski, wishing to profit by his friendliness and obtain for himself +the best post he could—preferably that of adjutant to some important +personage, a position in the army which seemed to him most attractive. +“It is all very well for Rostóv, whose father sends him ten thousand +rubles at a time, to talk about not wishing to cringe to anybody and not +be anyone’s lackey, but I who have nothing but my brains have to +make a career and must not miss opportunities, but must avail myself of +them!” he reflected. + +He did not find Prince Andrew in Olmütz that day, but the appearance of +the town where the headquarters and the diplomatic corps were stationed +and the two Emperors were living with their suites, households, and +courts only strengthened his desire to belong to that higher world. + +He knew no one, and despite his smart Guardsman’s uniform, all these +exalted personages passing in the streets in their elegant carriages +with their plumes, ribbons, and medals, both courtiers and military +men, seemed so immeasurably above him, an insignificant officer of the +Guards, that they not only did not wish to, but simply could not, be +aware of his existence. At the quarters of the commander in chief, +Kutúzov, where he inquired for Bolkónski, all the adjutants and even +the orderlies looked at him as if they wished to impress on him that a +great many officers like him were always coming there and that everybody +was heartily sick of them. In spite of this, or rather because of +it, next day, November 15, after dinner he again went to Olmütz and, +entering the house occupied by Kutúzov, asked for Bolkónski. Prince +Andrew was in and Borís was shown into a large hall probably formerly +used for dancing, but in which five beds now stood, and furniture of +various kinds: a table, chairs, and a clavichord. One adjutant, nearest +the door, was sitting at the table in a Persian dressing gown, writing. +Another, the red, stout Nesvítski, lay on a bed with his arms under his +head, laughing with an officer who had sat down beside him. A third was +playing a Viennese waltz on the clavichord, while a fourth, lying on +the clavichord, sang the tune. Bolkónski was not there. None of these +gentlemen changed his position on seeing Borís. The one who was writing +and whom Borís addressed turned round crossly and told him Bolkónski +was on duty and that he should go through the door on the left into the +reception room if he wished to see him. Borís thanked him and went to +the reception room, where he found some ten officers and generals. + +When he entered, Prince Andrew, his eyes drooping contemptuously (with +that peculiar expression of polite weariness which plainly says, “If +it were not my duty I would not talk to you for a moment”), was +listening to an old Russian general with decorations, who stood very +erect, almost on tiptoe, with a soldier’s obsequious expression on his +purple face, reporting something. + +“Very well, then, be so good as to wait,” said Prince Andrew to the +general, in Russian, speaking with the French intonation he affected +when he wished to speak contemptuously, and noticing Borís, Prince +Andrew, paying no more heed to the general who ran after him imploring +him to hear something more, nodded and turned to him with a cheerful +smile. + +At that moment Borís clearly realized what he had before surmised, that +in the army, besides the subordination and discipline prescribed in the +military code, which he and the others knew in the regiment, there was +another, more important, subordination, which made this tight-laced, +purple-faced general wait respectfully while Captain Prince Andrew, for +his own pleasure, chose to chat with Lieutenant Drubetskóy. More than +ever was Borís resolved to serve in future not according to the written +code, but under this unwritten law. He felt now that merely by having +been recommended to Prince Andrew he had already risen above the general +who at the front had the power to annihilate him, a lieutenant of the +Guards. Prince Andrew came up to him and took his hand. + +“I am very sorry you did not find me in yesterday. I was fussing about +with Germans all day. We went with Weyrother to survey the dispositions. +When Germans start being accurate, there’s no end to it!” + +Borís smiled, as if he understood what Prince Andrew was alluding to +as something generally known. But it was the first time he had heard +Weyrother’s name, or even the term “dispositions.” + +“Well, my dear fellow, so you still want to be an adjutant? I have +been thinking about you.” + +“Yes, I was thinking”—for some reason Borís could not help +blushing—“of asking the commander in chief. He has had a letter from +Prince Kurágin about me. I only wanted to ask because I fear the Guards +won’t be in action,” he added as if in apology. + +“All right, all right. We’ll talk it over,” replied Prince Andrew. +“Only let me report this gentleman’s business, and I shall be at +your disposal.” + +While Prince Andrew went to report about the purple-faced general, that +gentleman—evidently not sharing Borís’ conception of the advantages +of the unwritten code of subordination—looked so fixedly at the +presumptuous lieutenant who had prevented his finishing what he had to +say to the adjutant that Borís felt uncomfortable. He turned away and +waited impatiently for Prince Andrew’s return from the commander in +chief’s room. + +“You see, my dear fellow, I have been thinking about you,” +said Prince Andrew when they had gone into the large room where the +clavichord was. “It’s no use your going to the commander in chief. +He would say a lot of pleasant things, ask you to dinner” (“That +would not be bad as regards the unwritten code,” thought Borís), +“but nothing more would come of it. There will soon be a battalion of +us aides-de-camp and adjutants! But this is what we’ll do: I have +a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, Prince +Dolgorúkov; and though you may not know it, the fact is that now +Kutúzov with his staff and all of us count for nothing. Everything is +now centered round the Emperor. So we will go to Dolgorúkov; I have to +go there anyhow and I have already spoken to him about you. We shall +see whether he cannot attach you to himself or find a place for you +somewhere nearer the sun.” + +Prince Andrew always became specially keen when he had to guide a young +man and help him to worldly success. Under cover of obtaining help +of this kind for another, which from pride he would never accept for +himself, he kept in touch with the circle which confers success and +which attracted him. He very readily took up Borís’ cause and went +with him to Dolgorúkov. + +It was late in the evening when they entered the palace at Olmütz +occupied by the Emperors and their retinues. + +That same day a council of war had been held in which all the members of +the Hofkriegsrath and both Emperors took part. At that council, contrary +to the views of the old generals Kutúzov and Prince Schwartzenberg, it +had been decided to advance immediately and give battle to Bonaparte. +The council of war was just over when Prince Andrew accompanied +by Borís arrived at the palace to find Dolgorúkov. Everyone at +headquarters was still under the spell of the day’s council, at which +the party of the young had triumphed. The voices of those who counseled +delay and advised waiting for something else before advancing had been +so completely silenced and their arguments confuted by such conclusive +evidence of the advantages of attacking that what had been discussed +at the council—the coming battle and the victory that would certainly +result from it—no longer seemed to be in the future but in the past. +All the advantages were on our side. Our enormous forces, undoubtedly +superior to Napoleon’s, were concentrated in one place, the troops +inspired by the Emperors’ presence were eager for action. The +strategic position where the operations would take place was familiar in +all its details to the Austrian General Weyrother: a lucky accident had +ordained that the Austrian army should maneuver the previous year on the +very fields where the French had now to be fought; the adjacent +locality was known and shown in every detail on the maps, and Bonaparte, +evidently weakened, was undertaking nothing. + +Dolgorúkov, one of the warmest advocates of an attack, had just +returned from the council, tired and exhausted but eager and proud +of the victory that had been gained. Prince Andrew introduced his +protégé, but Prince Dolgorúkov politely and firmly pressing his hand +said nothing to Borís and, evidently unable to suppress the thoughts +which were uppermost in his mind at that moment, addressed Prince Andrew +in French. + +“Ah, my dear fellow, what a battle we have gained! God grant that +the one that will result from it will be as victorious! However, dear +fellow,” he said abruptly and eagerly, “I must confess to having +been unjust to the Austrians and especially to Weyrother. What +exactitude, what minuteness, what knowledge of the locality, what +foresight for every eventuality, every possibility even to the smallest +detail! No, my dear fellow, no conditions better than our present ones +could have been devised. This combination of Austrian precision with +Russian valor—what more could be wished for?” + +“So the attack is definitely resolved on?” asked Bolkónski. + +“And do you know, my dear fellow, it seems to me that Bonaparte has +decidedly lost bearings, you know that a letter was received from him +today for the Emperor.” Dolgorúkov smiled significantly. + +“Is that so? And what did he say?” inquired Bolkónski. + +“What can he say? Tra-di-ri-di-ra and so on... merely to gain time. +I tell you he is in our hands, that’s certain! But what was most +amusing,” he continued, with a sudden, good-natured laugh, “was that +we could not think how to address the reply! If not as ‘Consul’ +and of course not as ‘Emperor,’ it seemed to me it should be to +‘General Bonaparte.’” + +“But between not recognizing him as Emperor and calling him General +Bonaparte, there is a difference,” remarked Bolkónski. + +“That’s just it,” interrupted Dolgorúkov quickly, laughing. +“You know Bilíbin—he’s a very clever fellow. He suggested +addressing him as ‘Usurper and Enemy of Mankind.’” + +Dolgorúkov laughed merrily. + +“Only that?” said Bolkónski. + +“All the same, it was Bilíbin who found a suitable form for the +address. He is a wise and clever fellow.” + +“What was it?” + +“To the Head of the French Government... Au chef du gouvernement +français,” said Dolgorúkov, with grave satisfaction. “Good, +wasn’t it?” + +“Yes, but he will dislike it extremely,” said Bolkónski. + +“Oh yes, very much! My brother knows him, he’s dined with him—the +present Emperor—more than once in Paris, and tells me he never met a +more cunning or subtle diplomatist—you know, a combination of French +adroitness and Italian play-acting! Do you know the tale about him and +Count Markóv? Count Markóv was the only man who knew how to handle +him. You know the story of the handkerchief? It is delightful!” + +And the talkative Dolgorúkov, turning now to Borís, now to Prince +Andrew, told how Bonaparte wishing to test Markóv, our ambassador, +purposely dropped a handkerchief in front of him and stood looking +at Markóv, probably expecting Markóv to pick it up for him, and how +Markóv immediately dropped his own beside it and picked it up without +touching Bonaparte’s. + +“Delightful!” said Bolkónski. “But I have come to you, Prince, +as a petitioner on behalf of this young man. You see...” but +before Prince Andrew could finish, an aide-de-camp came in to summon +Dolgorúkov to the Emperor. + +“Oh, what a nuisance,” said Dolgorúkov, getting up hurriedly and +pressing the hands of Prince Andrew and Borís. “You know I should +be very glad to do all in my power both for you and for this dear young +man.” Again he pressed the hand of the latter with an expression of +good-natured, sincere, and animated levity. “But you see... another +time!” + +Borís was excited by the thought of being so close to the higher powers +as he felt himself to be at that moment. He was conscious that here +he was in contact with the springs that set in motion the enormous +movements of the mass of which in his regiment he felt himself a tiny, +obedient, and insignificant atom. They followed Prince Dolgorúkov out +into the corridor and met—coming out of the door of the Emperor’s +room by which Dolgorúkov had entered—a short man in civilian clothes +with a clever face and sharply projecting jaw which, without spoiling +his face, gave him a peculiar vivacity and shiftiness of expression. +This short man nodded to Dolgorúkov as to an intimate friend and stared +at Prince Andrew with cool intensity, walking straight toward him and +evidently expecting him to bow or to step out of his way. Prince Andrew +did neither: a look of animosity appeared on his face and the other +turned away and went down the side of the corridor. + +“Who was that?” asked Borís. + +“He is one of the most remarkable, but to me most unpleasant of +men—the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Adam Czartorýski.... It +is such men as he who decide the fate of nations,” added Bolkónski +with a sigh he could not suppress, as they passed out of the palace. + +Next day, the army began its campaign, and up to the very battle of +Austerlitz, Borís was unable to see either Prince Andrew or Dolgorúkov +again and remained for a while with the Ismáylov regiment. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +At dawn on the sixteenth of November, Denísov’s squadron, in +which Nicholas Rostóv served and which was in Prince Bagratión’s +detachment, moved from the place where it had spent the night, advancing +into action as arranged, and after going behind other columns for +about two thirds of a mile was stopped on the highroad. Rostóv saw the +Cossacks and then the first and second squadrons of hussars and infantry +battalions and artillery pass by and go forward and then Generals +Bagratión and Dolgorúkov ride past with their adjutants. All the fear +before action which he had experienced as previously, all the inner +struggle to conquer that fear, all his dreams of distinguishing himself +as a true hussar in this battle, had been wasted. Their squadron +remained in reserve and Nicholas Rostóv spent that day in a dull and +wretched mood. At nine in the morning, he heard firing in front and +shouts of hurrah, and saw wounded being brought back (there were not +many of them), and at last he saw how a whole detachment of French +cavalry was brought in, convoyed by a sótnya of Cossacks. Evidently the +affair was over and, though not big, had been a successful engagement. +The men and officers returning spoke of a brilliant victory, of the +occupation of the town of Wischau and the capture of a whole French +squadron. The day was bright and sunny after a sharp night frost, and +the cheerful glitter of that autumn day was in keeping with the news of +victory which was conveyed, not only by the tales of those who had taken +part in it, but also by the joyful expression on the faces of soldiers, +officers, generals, and adjutants, as they passed Rostóv going or +coming. And Nicholas, who had vainly suffered all the dread that +precedes a battle and had spent that happy day in inactivity, was all +the more depressed. + +“Come here, Wostóv. Let’s dwink to dwown our gwief!” shouted +Denísov, who had settled down by the roadside with a flask and some +food. + +The officers gathered round Denísov’s canteen, eating and talking. + +“There! They are bringing another!” cried one of the officers, +indicating a captive French dragoon who was being brought in on foot by +two Cossacks. + +One of them was leading by the bridle a fine large French horse he had +taken from the prisoner. + +“Sell us that horse!” Denísov called out to the Cossacks. + +“If you like, your honor!” + +The officers got up and stood round the Cossacks and their prisoner. +The French dragoon was a young Alsatian who spoke French with a German +accent. He was breathless with agitation, his face was red, and when +he heard some French spoken he at once began speaking to the officers, +addressing first one, then another. He said he would not have been +taken, it was not his fault but the corporal’s who had sent him to +seize some horsecloths, though he had told him the Russians were there. +And at every word he added: “But don’t hurt my little horse!” and +stroked the animal. It was plain that he did not quite grasp where he +was. Now he excused himself for having been taken prisoner and now, +imagining himself before his own officers, insisted on his soldierly +discipline and zeal in the service. He brought with him into our +rearguard all the freshness of atmosphere of the French army, which was +so alien to us. + +The Cossacks sold the horse for two gold pieces, and Rostóv, being the +richest of the officers now that he had received his money, bought it. + +“But don’t hurt my little horse!” said the Alsatian good-naturedly +to Rostóv when the animal was handed over to the hussar. + +Rostóv smilingly reassured the dragoon and gave him money. + +“Alley! Alley!” said the Cossack, touching the prisoner’s arm to +make him go on. + +“The Emperor! The Emperor!” was suddenly heard among the hussars. + +All began to run and bustle, and Rostóv saw coming up the road behind +him several riders with white plumes in their hats. In a moment everyone +was in his place, waiting. + +Rostóv did not know or remember how he ran to his place and mounted. +Instantly his regret at not having been in action and his dejected mood +amid people of whom he was weary had gone, instantly every thought of +himself had vanished. He was filled with happiness at his nearness to +the Emperor. He felt that this nearness by itself made up to him for the +day he had lost. He was happy as a lover when the longed-for moment of +meeting arrives. Not daring to look round and without looking round, he +was ecstatically conscious of his approach. He felt it not only from the +sound of the hoofs of the approaching cavalcade, but because as he drew +near everything grew brighter, more joyful, more significant, and more +festive around him. Nearer and nearer to Rostóv came that sun shedding +beams of mild and majestic light around, and already he felt himself +enveloped in those beams, he heard his voice, that kindly, calm, +and majestic voice that was yet so simple! And as if in accord with +Rostóv’s feeling, there was a deathly stillness amid which was heard +the Emperor’s voice. + +“The Pávlograd hussars?” he inquired. + +“The reserves, sire!” replied a voice, a very human one compared to +that which had said: “The Pávlograd hussars?” + +The Emperor drew level with Rostóv and halted. Alexander’s face was +even more beautiful than it had been three days before at the review. It +shone with such gaiety and youth, such innocent youth, that it suggested +the liveliness of a fourteen-year-old boy, and yet it was the face +of the majestic Emperor. Casually, while surveying the squadron, the +Emperor’s eyes met Rostóv’s and rested on them for not more than +two seconds. Whether or no the Emperor understood what was going on in +Rostóv’s soul (it seemed to Rostóv that he understood everything), +at any rate his light-blue eyes gazed for about two seconds into +Rostóv’s face. A gentle, mild light poured from them. Then all at +once he raised his eyebrows, abruptly touched his horse with his left +foot, and galloped on. + +The younger Emperor could not restrain his wish to be present at the +battle and, in spite of the remonstrances of his courtiers, at twelve +o’clock left the third column with which he had been and galloped +toward the vanguard. Before he came up with the hussars, several +adjutants met him with news of the successful result of the action. + +This battle, which consisted in the capture of a French squadron, was +represented as a brilliant victory over the French, and so the +Emperor and the whole army, especially while the smoke hung over +the battlefield, believed that the French had been defeated and were +retreating against their will. A few minutes after the Emperor had +passed, the Pávlograd division was ordered to advance. In Wischau +itself, a petty German town, Rostóv saw the Emperor again. In the +market place, where there had been some rather heavy firing before the +Emperor’s arrival, lay several killed and wounded soldiers whom there +had not been time to move. The Emperor, surrounded by his suite +of officers and courtiers, was riding a bobtailed chestnut mare, a +different one from that which he had ridden at the review, and bending +to one side he gracefully held a gold lorgnette to his eyes and looked +at a soldier who lay prone, with blood on his uncovered head. The +wounded soldier was so dirty, coarse, and revolting that his proximity +to the Emperor shocked Rostóv. Rostóv saw how the Emperor’s rather +round shoulders shuddered as if a cold shiver had run down them, how his +left foot began convulsively tapping the horse’s side with the spur, +and how the well-trained horse looked round unconcerned and did not +stir. An adjutant, dismounting, lifted the soldier under the arms to +place him on a stretcher that had been brought. The soldier groaned. + +“Gently, gently! Can’t you do it more gently?” said the Emperor +apparently suffering more than the dying soldier, and he rode away. + +Rostóv saw tears filling the Emperor’s eyes and heard him, as he was +riding away, say to Czartorýski: “What a terrible thing war is: what +a terrible thing! Quelle terrible chose que la guerre!” + +The troops of the vanguard were stationed before Wischau, within sight +of the enemy’s lines, which all day long had yielded ground to us +at the least firing. The Emperor’s gratitude was announced to the +vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of +vodka. The campfires crackled and the soldiers’ songs resounded +even more merrily than on the previous night. Denísov celebrated his +promotion to the rank of major, and Rostóv, who had already drunk +enough, at the end of the feast proposed the Emperor’s health. “Not +‘our Sovereign, the Emperor,’ as they say at official dinners,” +said he, “but the health of our Sovereign, that good, enchanting, and +great man! Let us drink to his health and to the certain defeat of the +French!” + +“If we fought before,” he said, “not letting the French pass, as +at Schön Grabern, what shall we not do now when he is at the front? We +will all die for him gladly! Is it not so, gentlemen? Perhaps I am not +saying it right, I have drunk a good deal—but that is how I feel, and +so do you too! To the health of Alexander the First! Hurrah!” + +“Hurrah!” rang the enthusiastic voices of the officers. + +And the old cavalry captain, Kírsten, shouted enthusiastically and no +less sincerely than the twenty-year-old Rostóv. + +When the officers had emptied and smashed their glasses, Kírsten filled +others and, in shirt sleeves and breeches, went glass in hand to the +soldiers’ bonfires and with his long gray mustache, his white chest +showing under his open shirt, he stood in a majestic pose in the light +of the campfire, waving his uplifted arm. + +“Lads! here’s to our Sovereign, the Emperor, and victory over +our enemies! Hurrah!” he exclaimed in his dashing, old, hussar’s +baritone. + +The hussars crowded round and responded heartily with loud shouts. + +Late that night, when all had separated, Denísov with his short hand +patted his favorite, Rostóv, on the shoulder. + +“As there’s no one to fall in love with on campaign, he’s fallen +in love with the Tsar,” he said. + +“Denísov, don’t make fun of it!” cried Rostóv. “It is such a +lofty, beautiful feeling, such a...” + +“I believe it, I believe it, fwiend, and I share and appwove...” + +“No, you don’t understand!” + +And Rostóv got up and went wandering among the campfires, dreaming of +what happiness it would be to die—not in saving the Emperor’s life +(he did not even dare to dream of that), but simply to die before his +eyes. He really was in love with the Tsar and the glory of the Russian +arms and the hope of future triumph. And he was not the only man to +experience that feeling during those memorable days preceding the battle +of Austerlitz: nine tenths of the men in the Russian army were then in +love, though less ecstatically, with their Tsar and the glory of the +Russian arms. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +The next day the Emperor stopped at Wischau, and Villier, his physician, +was repeatedly summoned to see him. At headquarters and among the troops +near by the news spread that the Emperor was unwell. He ate nothing and +had slept badly that night, those around him reported. The cause of this +indisposition was the strong impression made on his sensitive mind by +the sight of the killed and wounded. + +At daybreak on the seventeenth, a French officer who had come with +a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the Russian Emperor, was +brought into Wischau from our outposts. This officer was Savary. The +Emperor had only just fallen asleep and so Savary had to wait. At midday +he was admitted to the Emperor, and an hour later he rode off with +Prince Dolgorúkov to the advanced post of the French army. + +It was rumored that Savary had been sent to propose to Alexander +a meeting with Napoleon. To the joy and pride of the whole army, a +personal interview was refused, and instead of the Sovereign, Prince +Dolgorúkov, the victor at Wischau, was sent with Savary to negotiate +with Napoleon if, contrary to expectations, these negotiations were +actuated by a real desire for peace. + +Toward evening Dolgorúkov came back, went straight to the Tsar, and +remained alone with him for a long time. + +On the eighteenth and nineteenth of November, the army advanced two +days’ march and the enemy’s outposts after a brief interchange +of shots retreated. In the highest army circles from midday on the +nineteenth, a great, excitedly bustling activity began which lasted till +the morning of the twentieth, when the memorable battle of Austerlitz +was fought. + +Till midday on the nineteenth, the activity—the eager talk, running to +and fro, and dispatching of adjutants—was confined to the Emperor’s +headquarters. But on the afternoon of that day, this activity reached +Kutúzov’s headquarters and the staffs of the commanders of columns. +By evening, the adjutants had spread it to all ends and parts of the +army, and in the night from the nineteenth to the twentieth, the whole +eighty thousand allied troops rose from their bivouacs to the hum of +voices, and the army swayed and started in one enormous mass six miles +long. + +The concentrated activity which had begun at the Emperor’s +headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that +followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower +clock. One wheel slowly moved, another was set in motion, and a third, +and wheels began to revolve faster and faster, levers and cogwheels to +work, chimes to play, figures to pop out, and the hands to advance with +regular motion as a result of all that activity. + +Just as in the mechanism of a clock, so in the mechanism of the military +machine, an impulse once given leads to the final result; and just as +indifferently quiescent till the moment when motion is transmitted +to them are the parts of the mechanism which the impulse has not yet +reached. Wheels creak on their axles as the cogs engage one another and +the revolving pulleys whirr with the rapidity of their movement, but a +neighboring wheel is as quiet and motionless as though it were prepared +to remain so for a hundred years; but the moment comes when the lever +catches it and obeying the impulse that wheel begins to creak and joins +in the common motion the result and aim of which are beyond its ken. + +Just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable +wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular movement of the +hands which show the time, so the result of all the complicated human +activities of 160,000 Russians and French—all their passions, desires, +remorse, humiliations, sufferings, outbursts of pride, fear, and +enthusiasm—was only the loss of the battle of Austerlitz, the +so-called battle of the three Emperors—that is to say, a slow movement +of the hand on the dial of human history. + +Prince Andrew was on duty that day and in constant attendance on the +commander in chief. + +At six in the evening, Kutúzov went to the Emperor’s headquarters +and after staying but a short time with the Tsar went to see the grand +marshal of the court, Count Tolstóy. + +Bolkónski took the opportunity to go in to get some details of the +coming action from Dolgorúkov. He felt that Kutúzov was upset +and dissatisfied about something and that at headquarters they were +dissatisfied with him, and also that at the Emperor’s headquarters +everyone adopted toward him the tone of men who know something others do +not know: he therefore wished to speak to Dolgorúkov. + +“Well, how d’you do, my dear fellow?” said Dolgorúkov, who was +sitting at tea with Bilíbin. “The fete is for tomorrow. How is your +old fellow? Out of sorts?” + +“I won’t say he is out of sorts, but I fancy he would like to be +heard.” + +“But they heard him at the council of war and will hear him when he +talks sense, but to temporize and wait for something now when Bonaparte +fears nothing so much as a general battle is impossible.” + +“Yes, you have seen him?” said Prince Andrew. “Well, what is +Bonaparte like? How did he impress you?” + +“Yes, I saw him, and am convinced that he fears nothing so much as +a general engagement,” repeated Dolgorúkov, evidently prizing this +general conclusion which he had arrived at from his interview with +Napoleon. “If he weren’t afraid of a battle why did he ask for that +interview? Why negotiate, and above all why retreat, when to retreat is +so contrary to his method of conducting war? Believe me, he is afraid, +afraid of a general battle. His hour has come! Mark my words!” + +“But tell me, what is he like, eh?” said Prince Andrew again. + +“He is a man in a gray overcoat, very anxious that I should call +him ‘Your Majesty,’ but who, to his chagrin, got no title from +me! That’s the sort of man he is, and nothing more,” replied +Dolgorúkov, looking round at Bilíbin with a smile. + +“Despite my great respect for old Kutúzov,” he continued, “we +should be a nice set of fellows if we were to wait about and so give him +a chance to escape, or to trick us, now that we certainly have him in +our hands! No, we mustn’t forget Suvórov and his rule—not to put +yourself in a position to be attacked, but yourself to attack. Believe +me in war the energy of young men often shows the way better than all +the experience of old Cunctators.” + +“But in what position are we going to attack him? I have been at the +outposts today and it is impossible to say where his chief forces are +situated,” said Prince Andrew. + +He wished to explain to Dolgorúkov a plan of attack he had himself +formed. + +“Oh, that is all the same,” Dolgorúkov said quickly, and getting up +he spread a map on the table. “All eventualities have been foreseen. +If he is standing before Brünn...” + +And Prince Dolgorúkov rapidly but indistinctly explained Weyrother’s +plan of a flanking movement. + +Prince Andrew began to reply and to state his own plan, which might +have been as good as Weyrother’s, but for the disadvantage that +Weyrother’s had already been approved. As soon as Prince Andrew began +to demonstrate the defects of the latter and the merits of his own plan, +Prince Dolgorúkov ceased to listen to him and gazed absent-mindedly not +at the map, but at Prince Andrew’s face. + +“There will be a council of war at Kutúzov’s tonight, though; you +can say all this there,” remarked Dolgorúkov. + +“I will do so,” said Prince Andrew, moving away from the map. + +“Whatever are you bothering about, gentlemen?” said Bilíbin, who, +till then, had listened with an amused smile to their conversation and +now was evidently ready with a joke. “Whether tomorrow brings +victory or defeat, the glory of our Russian arms is secure. Except your +Kutúzov, there is not a single Russian in command of a column! The +commanders are: Herr General Wimpfen, le Comte de Langeron, le Prince de +Lichtenstein, le Prince, de Hohenlohe, and finally Prishprish, and so on +like all those Polish names.” + +“Be quiet, backbiter!” said Dolgorúkov. “It is not true; there +are now two Russians, Milorádovich, and Dokhtúrov, and there would be +a third, Count Arakchéev, if his nerves were not too weak.” + +“However, I think General Kutúzov has come out,” said Prince +Andrew. “I wish you good luck and success, gentlemen!” he added and +went out after shaking hands with Dolgorúkov and Bilíbin. + +On the way home, Prince Andrew could not refrain from asking Kutúzov, +who was sitting silently beside him, what he thought of tomorrow’s +battle. + +Kutúzov looked sternly at his adjutant and, after a pause, replied: +“I think the battle will be lost, and so I told Count Tolstóy and +asked him to tell the Emperor. What do you think he replied? ‘But, my +dear general, I am engaged with rice and cutlets, look after military +matters yourself!’ Yes... That was the answer I got!” + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +Shortly after nine o’clock that evening, Weyrother drove with his +plans to Kutúzov’s quarters where the council of war was to be +held. All the commanders of columns were summoned to the commander in +chief’s and with the exception of Prince Bagratión, who declined to +come, were all there at the appointed time. + +Weyrother, who was in full control of the proposed battle, by his +eagerness and briskness presented a marked contrast to the dissatisfied +and drowsy Kutúzov, who reluctantly played the part of chairman and +president of the council of war. Weyrother evidently felt himself to be +at the head of a movement that had already become unrestrainable. He was +like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. Whether he was +pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at +headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead +to. Weyrother had been twice that evening to the enemy’s picket +line to reconnoiter personally, and twice to the Emperors, Russian and +Austrian, to report and explain, and to his headquarters where he had +dictated the dispositions in German, and now, much exhausted, he arrived +at Kutúzov’s. + +He was evidently so busy that he even forgot to be polite to the +commander in chief. He interrupted him, talked rapidly and indistinctly, +without looking at the man he was addressing, and did not reply to +questions put to him. He was bespattered with mud and had a pitiful, +weary, and distracted air, though at the same time he was haughty and +self-confident. + +Kutúzov was occupying a nobleman’s castle of modest dimensions near +Ostralitz. In the large drawing room which had become the commander +in chief’s office were gathered Kutúzov himself, Weyrother, and the +members of the council of war. They were drinking tea, and only awaited +Prince Bagratión to begin the council. At last Bagratión’s orderly +came with the news that the prince could not attend. Prince Andrew came +in to inform the commander in chief of this and, availing himself +of permission previously given him by Kutúzov to be present at the +council, he remained in the room. + +“Since Prince Bagratión is not coming, we may begin,” said +Weyrother, hurriedly rising from his seat and going up to the table on +which an enormous map of the environs of Brünn was spread out. + +Kutúzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over +his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, +with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. At the sound +of Weyrother’s voice, he opened his one eye with an effort. + +“Yes, yes, if you please! It is already late,” said he, and nodding +his head he let it droop and again closed his eye. + +If at first the members of the council thought that Kutúzov was +pretending to sleep, the sounds his nose emitted during the reading that +followed proved that the commander in chief at that moment was absorbed +by a far more serious matter than a desire to show his contempt for +the dispositions or anything else—he was engaged in satisfying the +irresistible human need for sleep. He really was asleep. Weyrother, with +the gesture of a man too busy to lose a moment, glanced at Kutúzov and, +having convinced himself that he was asleep, took up a paper and in +a loud, monotonous voice began to read out the dispositions for the +impending battle, under a heading which he also read out: + +“Dispositions for an attack on the enemy position behind Kobelnitz and +Sokolnitz, November 30, 1805.” + +The dispositions were very complicated and difficult. They began as +follows: + +“As the enemy’s left wing rests on wooded hills and his right +extends along Kobelnitz and Sokolnitz behind the ponds that are there, +while we, on the other hand, with our left wing by far outflank his +right, it is advantageous to attack the enemy’s latter wing especially +if we occupy the villages of Sokolnitz and Kobelnitz, whereby we +can both fall on his flank and pursue him over the plain between +Schlappanitz and the Thuerassa forest, avoiding the defiles of +Schlappanitz and Bellowitz which cover the enemy’s front. For this +object it is necessary that... The first column marches... The second +column marches... The third column marches...” and so on, read +Weyrother. + +The generals seemed to listen reluctantly to the difficult dispositions. +The tall, fair-haired General Buxhöwden stood, leaning his back against +the wall, his eyes fixed on a burning candle, and seemed not to listen +or even to wish to be thought to listen. Exactly opposite Weyrother, +with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache +twisted upwards, sat the ruddy Milorádovich in a military pose, his +elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders +raised. He remained stubbornly silent, gazing at Weyrother’s face, +and only turned away his eyes when the Austrian chief of staff finished +reading. Then Milorádovich looked round significantly at the other +generals. But one could not tell from that significant look whether he +agreed or disagreed and was satisfied or not with the arrangements. Next +to Weyrother sat Count Langeron who, with a subtle smile that never left +his typically southern French face during the whole time of the reading, +gazed at his delicate fingers which rapidly twirled by its corners +a gold snuffbox on which was a portrait. In the middle of one of the +longest sentences, he stopped the rotary motion of the snuffbox, raised +his head, and with inimical politeness lurking in the corners of his +thin lips interrupted Weyrother, wishing to say something. But the +Austrian general, continuing to read, frowned angrily and jerked his +elbows, as if to say: “You can tell me your views later, but now be so +good as to look at the map and listen.” Langeron lifted his eyes with +an expression of perplexity, turned round to Milorádovich as if seeking +an explanation, but meeting the latter’s impressive but meaningless +gaze drooped his eyes sadly and again took to twirling his snuffbox. + +“A geography lesson!” he muttered as if to himself, but loud enough +to be heard. + +Przebyszéwski, with respectful but dignified politeness, held his +hand to his ear toward Weyrother, with the air of a man absorbed in +attention. Dohktúrov, a little man, sat opposite Weyrother, with +an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the outspread map +conscientiously studied the dispositions and the unfamiliar locality. He +asked Weyrother several times to repeat words he had not clearly heard +and the difficult names of villages. Weyrother complied and Dohktúrov +noted them down. + +When the reading which lasted more than an hour was over, Langeron again +brought his snuffbox to rest and, without looking at Weyrother or at +anyone in particular, began to say how difficult it was to carry out +such a plan in which the enemy’s position was assumed to be known, +whereas it was perhaps not known, since the enemy was in movement. +Langeron’s objections were valid but it was obvious that their chief +aim was to show General Weyrother—who had read his dispositions with +as much self-confidence as if he were addressing school children—that +he had to do, not with fools, but with men who could teach him something +in military matters. + +When the monotonous sound of Weyrother’s voice ceased, Kutúzov opened +his eye as a miller wakes up when the soporific drone of the mill wheel +is interrupted. He listened to what Langeron said, as if remarking, +“So you are still at that silly business!” quickly closed his eye +again, and let his head sink still lower. + +Langeron, trying as virulently as possible to sting Weyrother’s vanity +as author of the military plan, argued that Bonaparte might easily +attack instead of being attacked, and so render the whole of this +plan perfectly worthless. Weyrother met all objections with a firm and +contemptuous smile, evidently prepared beforehand to meet all objections +be they what they might. + +“If he could attack us, he would have done so today,” said he. + +“So you think he is powerless?” said Langeron. + +“He has forty thousand men at most,” replied Weyrother, with the +smile of a doctor to whom an old wife wishes to explain the treatment of +a case. + +“In that case he is inviting his doom by awaiting our attack,” said +Langeron, with a subtly ironical smile, again glancing round for support +to Milorádovich who was near him. + +But Milorádovich was at that moment evidently thinking of anything +rather than of what the generals were disputing about. + +“Ma foi!” said he, “tomorrow we shall see all that on the +battlefield.” + +Weyrother again gave that smile which seemed to say that to him it was +strange and ridiculous to meet objections from Russian generals and to +have to prove to them what he had not merely convinced himself of, but +had also convinced the sovereign Emperors of. + +“The enemy has quenched his fires and a continual noise is heard from +his camp,” said he. “What does that mean? Either he is retreating, +which is the only thing we need fear, or he is changing his position.” +(He smiled ironically.) “But even if he also took up a position in +the Thuerassa, he merely saves us a great deal of trouble and all our +arrangements to the minutest detail remain the same.” + +“How is that?...” began Prince Andrew, who had for long been waiting +an opportunity to express his doubts. + +Kutúzov here woke up, coughed heavily, and looked round at the +generals. + +“Gentlemen, the dispositions for tomorrow—or rather for today, for +it is past midnight—cannot now be altered,” said he. “You have +heard them, and we shall all do our duty. But before a battle, there is +nothing more important...” he paused, “than to have a good sleep.” + +He moved as if to rise. The generals bowed and retired. It was past +midnight. Prince Andrew went out. + +The council of war, at which Prince Andrew had not been able to +express his opinion as he had hoped to, left on him a vague and uneasy +impression. Whether Dolgorúkov and Weyrother, or Kutúzov, Langeron, +and the others who did not approve of the plan of attack, were +right—he did not know. “But was it really not possible for Kutúzov +to state his views plainly to the Emperor? Is it possible that on +account of court and personal considerations tens of thousands of lives, +and my life, my life,” he thought, “must be risked?” + +“Yes, it is very likely that I shall be killed tomorrow,” he +thought. And suddenly, at this thought of death, a whole series of most +distant, most intimate, memories rose in his imagination: he remembered +his last parting from his father and his wife; he remembered the days +when he first loved her. He thought of her pregnancy and felt sorry for +her and for himself, and in a nervously emotional and softened mood he +went out of the hut in which he was billeted with Nesvítski and began +to walk up and down before it. + +The night was foggy and through the fog the moonlight gleamed +mysteriously. “Yes, tomorrow, tomorrow!” he thought. “Tomorrow +everything may be over for me! All these memories will be no more, none +of them will have any meaning for me. Tomorrow perhaps, even certainly, +I have a presentiment that for the first time I shall have to show all +I can do.” And his fancy pictured the battle, its loss, the +concentration of fighting at one point, and the hesitation of all the +commanders. And then that happy moment, that Toulon for which he had +so long waited, presents itself to him at last. He firmly and clearly +expresses his opinion to Kutúzov, to Weyrother, and to the Emperors. +All are struck by the justness of his views, but no one undertakes to +carry them out, so he takes a regiment, a division—stipulates that no +one is to interfere with his arrangements—leads his division to +the decisive point, and gains the victory alone. “But death and +suffering?” suggested another voice. Prince Andrew, however, did not +answer that voice and went on dreaming of his triumphs. The dispositions +for the next battle are planned by him alone. Nominally he is only an +adjutant on Kutúzov’s staff, but he does everything alone. The next +battle is won by him alone. Kutúzov is removed and he is appointed... +“Well and then?” asked the other voice. “If before that you are +not ten times wounded, killed, or betrayed, well... what then?...” +“Well then,” Prince Andrew answered himself, “I don’t know +what will happen and don’t want to know, and can’t, but if I want +this—want glory, want to be known to men, want to be loved by them, it +is not my fault that I want it and want nothing but that and live only +for that. Yes, for that alone! I shall never tell anyone, but, oh God! +what am I to do if I love nothing but fame and men’s esteem? Death, +wounds, the loss of family—I fear nothing. And precious and dear +as many persons are to me—father, sister, wife—those dearest to +me—yet dreadful and unnatural as it seems, I would give them all at +once for a moment of glory, of triumph over men, of love from men I +don’t know and never shall know, for the love of these men here,” he +thought, as he listened to voices in Kutúzov’s courtyard. The voices +were those of the orderlies who were packing up; one voice, probably a +coachman’s, was teasing Kutúzov’s old cook whom Prince Andrew knew, +and who was called Tit. He was saying, “Tit, I say, Tit!” + +“Well?” returned the old man. + +“Go, Tit, thresh a bit!” said the wag. + +“Oh, go to the devil!” called out a voice, drowned by the laughter +of the orderlies and servants. + +“All the same, I love and value nothing but triumph over them all, I +value this mystic power and glory that is floating here above me in this +mist!” + + + + + +CHAPTER XIII + +That same night, Rostóv was with a platoon on skirmishing duty in front +of Bagratión’s detachment. His hussars were placed along the line +in couples and he himself rode along the line trying to master the +sleepiness that kept coming over him. An enormous space, with our +army’s campfires dimly glowing in the fog, could be seen behind him; +in front of him was misty darkness. Rostóv could see nothing, peer as +he would into that foggy distance: now something gleamed gray, now there +was something black, now little lights seemed to glimmer where the enemy +ought to be, now he fancied it was only something in his own eyes. His +eyes kept closing, and in his fancy appeared—now the Emperor, now +Denísov, and now Moscow memories—and he again hurriedly opened his +eyes and saw close before him the head and ears of the horse he was +riding, and sometimes, when he came within six paces of them, the +black figures of hussars, but in the distance was still the same misty +darkness. “Why not?... It might easily happen,” thought Rostóv, +“that the Emperor will meet me and give me an order as he would to any +other officer; he’ll say: ‘Go and find out what’s there.’ There +are many stories of his getting to know an officer in just such a chance +way and attaching him to himself! What if he gave me a place near him? +Oh, how I would guard him, how I would tell him the truth, how I would +unmask his deceivers!” And in order to realize vividly his love +devotion to the sovereign, Rostóv pictured to himself an enemy or a +deceitful German, whom he would not only kill with pleasure but whom +he would slap in the face before the Emperor. Suddenly a distant shout +aroused him. He started and opened his eyes. + +“Where am I? Oh yes, in the skirmishing line... pass and +watchword—shaft, Olmütz. What a nuisance that our squadron will be in +reserve tomorrow,” he thought. “I’ll ask leave to go to the front, +this may be my only chance of seeing the Emperor. It won’t be long +now before I am off duty. I’ll take another turn and when I get back +I’ll go to the general and ask him.” He readjusted himself in the +saddle and touched up his horse to ride once more round his hussars. It +seemed to him that it was getting lighter. To the left he saw a sloping +descent lit up, and facing it a black knoll that seemed as steep as a +wall. On this knoll there was a white patch that Rostóv could not at +all make out: was it a glade in the wood lit up by the moon, or some +unmelted snow, or some white houses? He even thought something moved on +that white spot. “I expect it’s snow... that spot... a spot—une +tache,” he thought. “There now... it’s not a tache... Natásha... +sister, black eyes... Na... tasha... (Won’t she be surprised when +I tell her how I’ve seen the Emperor?) Natásha... take my +sabretache...”—“Keep to the right, your honor, there are bushes +here,” came the voice of an hussar, past whom Rostóv was riding in +the act of falling asleep. Rostóv lifted his head that had sunk almost +to his horse’s mane and pulled up beside the hussar. He was succumbing +to irresistible, youthful, childish drowsiness. “But what was I +thinking? I mustn’t forget. How shall I speak to the Emperor? No, +that’s not it—that’s tomorrow. Oh yes! Natásha... sabretache... +saber them... Whom? The hussars... Ah, the hussars with mustaches. Along +the Tverskáya Street rode the hussar with mustaches... I thought about +him too, just opposite Gúryev’s house... Old Gúryev.... Oh, but +Denísov’s a fine fellow. But that’s all nonsense. The chief thing +is that the Emperor is here. How he looked at me and wished to say +something, but dared not.... No, it was I who dared not. But that’s +nonsense, the chief thing is not to forget the important thing I +was thinking of. Yes, Na-tásha, sabretache, oh, yes, yes! That’s +right!” And his head once more sank to his horse’s neck. All at once +it seemed to him that he was being fired at. “What? What? What?... Cut +them down! What?...” said Rostóv, waking up. At the moment he opened +his eyes he heard in front of him, where the enemy was, the long-drawn +shouts of thousands of voices. His horse and the horse of the hussar +near him pricked their ears at these shouts. Over there, where the +shouting came from, a fire flared up and went out again, then another, +and all along the French line on the hill fires flared up and the +shouting grew louder and louder. Rostóv could hear the sound of French +words but could not distinguish them. The din of many voices was too +great; all he could hear was: “ahahah!” and “rrrr!” + +“What’s that? What do you make of it?” said Rostóv to the hussar +beside him. “That must be the enemy’s camp!” + +The hussar did not reply. + +“Why, don’t you hear it?” Rostóv asked again, after waiting for a +reply. + +“Who can tell, your honor?” replied the hussar reluctantly. + +“From the direction, it must be the enemy,” repeated Rostóv. + +“It may be he or it may be nothing,” muttered the hussar. “It’s +dark... Steady!” he cried to his fidgeting horse. + +Rostóv’s horse was also getting restive: it pawed the frozen ground, +pricking its ears at the noise and looking at the lights. The shouting +grew still louder and merged into a general roar that only an army +of several thousand men could produce. The lights spread farther and +farther, probably along the line of the French camp. Rostóv no longer +wanted to sleep. The gay triumphant shouting of the enemy army had a +stimulating effect on him. “Vive l’Empereur! l’Empereur!” he now +heard distinctly. + +“They can’t be far off, probably just beyond the stream,” he said +to the hussar beside him. + +The hussar only sighed without replying and coughed angrily. The sound +of horse’s hoofs approaching at a trot along the line of hussars was +heard, and out of the foggy darkness the figure of a sergeant of hussars +suddenly appeared, looming huge as an elephant. + +“Your honor, the generals!” said the sergeant, riding up to Rostóv. + +Rostóv, still looking round toward the fires and the shouts, rode with +the sergeant to meet some mounted men who were riding along the line. +One was on a white horse. Prince Bagratión and Prince Dolgorúkov with +their adjutants had come to witness the curious phenomenon of the +lights and shouts in the enemy’s camp. Rostóv rode up to Bagratión, +reported to him, and then joined the adjutants listening to what the +generals were saying. + +“Believe me,” said Prince Dolgorúkov, addressing Bagratión, “it +is nothing but a trick! He has retreated and ordered the rearguard to +kindle fires and make a noise to deceive us.” + +“Hardly,” said Bagratión. “I saw them this evening on that +knoll; if they had retreated they would have withdrawn from that too.... +Officer!” said Bagratión to Rostóv, “are the enemy’s skirmishers +still there?” + +“They were there this evening, but now I don’t know, your +excellency. Shall I go with some of my hussars to see?” replied +Rostóv. + +Bagratión stopped and, before replying, tried to see Rostóv’s face +in the mist. + +“Well, go and see,” he said, after a pause. + +“Yes, sir.” + +Rostóv spurred his horse, called to Sergeant Fédchenko and two other +hussars, told them to follow him, and trotted downhill in the direction +from which the shouting came. He felt both frightened and pleased to be +riding alone with three hussars into that mysterious and dangerous misty +distance where no one had been before him. Bagratión called to him from +the hill not to go beyond the stream, but Rostóv pretended not to hear +him and did not stop but rode on and on, continually mistaking bushes +for trees and gullies for men and continually discovering his mistakes. +Having descended the hill at a trot, he no longer saw either our own or +the enemy’s fires, but heard the shouting of the French more loudly +and distinctly. In the valley he saw before him something like a river, +but when he reached it he found it was a road. Having come out onto +the road he reined in his horse, hesitating whether to ride along it or +cross it and ride over the black field up the hillside. To keep to the +road which gleamed white in the mist would have been safer because it +would be easier to see people coming along it. “Follow me!” said he, +crossed the road, and began riding up the hill at a gallop toward the +point where the French pickets had been standing that evening. + +“Your honor, there he is!” cried one of the hussars behind him. And +before Rostóv had time to make out what the black thing was that had +suddenly appeared in the fog, there was a flash, followed by a report, +and a bullet whizzing high up in the mist with a plaintive sound passed +out of hearing. Another musket missed fire but flashed in the pan. +Rostóv turned his horse and galloped back. Four more reports followed +at intervals, and the bullets passed somewhere in the fog singing in +different tones. Rostóv reined in his horse, whose spirits had risen, +like his own, at the firing, and went back at a footpace. “Well, some +more! Some more!” a merry voice was saying in his soul. But no more +shots came. + +Only when approaching Bagratión did Rostóv let his horse gallop again, +and with his hand at the salute rode up to the general. + +Dolgorúkov was still insisting that the French had retreated and had +only lit fires to deceive us. + +“What does that prove?” he was saying as Rostóv rode up. “They +might retreat and leave the pickets.” + +“It’s plain that they have not all gone yet, Prince,” said +Bagratión. “Wait till tomorrow morning, we’ll find out everything +tomorrow.” + +“The picket is still on the hill, your excellency, just where it was +in the evening,” reported Rostóv, stooping forward with his hand at +the salute and unable to repress the smile of delight induced by his +ride and especially by the sound of the bullets. + +“Very good, very good,” said Bagratión. “Thank you, officer.” + +“Your excellency,” said Rostóv, “may I ask a favor?” + +“What is it?” + +“Tomorrow our squadron is to be in reserve. May I ask to be attached +to the first squadron?” + +“What’s your name?” + +“Count Rostóv.” + +“Oh, very well, you may stay in attendance on me.” + +“Count Ilyá Rostóv’s son?” asked Dolgorúkov. + +But Rostóv did not reply. + +“Then I may reckon on it, your excellency?” + +“I will give the order.” + +“Tomorrow very likely I may be sent with some message to the +Emperor,” thought Rostóv. + +“Thank God!” + +The fires and shouting in the enemy’s army were occasioned by the fact +that while Napoleon’s proclamation was being read to the troops the +Emperor himself rode round his bivouacs. The soldiers, on seeing him, +lit wisps of straw and ran after him, shouting, “Vive l’Empereur!” +Napoleon’s proclamation was as follows: + +Soldiers! The Russian army is advancing against you to avenge the +Austrian army of Ulm. They are the same battalions you broke at +Hollabrünn and have pursued ever since to this place. The position we +occupy is a strong one, and while they are marching to go round me on +the right they will expose a flank to me. Soldiers! I will myself direct +your battalions. I will keep out of fire if you with your habitual +valor carry disorder and confusion into the enemy’s ranks, but should +victory be in doubt, even for a moment, you will see your Emperor +exposing himself to the first blows of the enemy, for there must be no +doubt of victory, especially on this day when what is at stake is the +honor of the French infantry, so necessary to the honor of our nation. + +Do not break your ranks on the plea of removing the wounded! Let every +man be fully imbued with the thought that we must defeat these hirelings +of England, inspired by such hatred of our nation! This victory will +conclude our campaign and we can return to winter quarters, where fresh +French troops who are being raised in France will join us, and the peace +I shall conclude will be worthy of my people, of you, and of myself. + +NAPOLEON + + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +At five in the morning it was still quite dark. The troops of the +center, the reserves, and Bagratión’s right flank had not yet moved, +but on the left flank the columns of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, +which were to be the first to descend the heights to attack the French +right flank and drive it into the Bohemian mountains according to plan, +were already up and astir. The smoke of the campfires, into which they +were throwing everything superfluous, made the eyes smart. It was cold +and dark. The officers were hurriedly drinking tea and breakfasting, the +soldiers, munching biscuit and beating a tattoo with their feet to +warm themselves, gathering round the fires throwing into the flames the +remains of sheds, chairs, tables, wheels, tubs, and everything that they +did not want or could not carry away with them. Austrian column guides +were moving in and out among the Russian troops and served as heralds +of the advance. As soon as an Austrian officer showed himself near +a commanding officer’s quarters, the regiment began to move: the +soldiers ran from the fires, thrust their pipes into their boots, their +bags into the carts, got their muskets ready, and formed rank. The +officers buttoned up their coats, buckled on their swords and pouches, +and moved along the ranks shouting. The train drivers and orderlies +harnessed and packed the wagons and tied on the loads. The adjutants and +battalion and regimental commanders mounted, crossed themselves, gave +final instructions, orders, and commissions to the baggage men +who remained behind, and the monotonous tramp of thousands of feet +resounded. The column moved forward without knowing where and unable, +from the masses around them, the smoke and the increasing fog, to see +either the place they were leaving or that to which they were going. + +A soldier on the march is hemmed in and borne along by his regiment as +much as a sailor is by his ship. However far he has walked, whatever +strange, unknown, and dangerous places he reaches, just as a sailor is +always surrounded by the same decks, masts, and rigging of his ship, so +the soldier always has around him the same comrades, the same ranks, the +same sergeant major Iván Mítrich, the same company dog Jack, and the +same commanders. The sailor rarely cares to know the latitude in which +his ship is sailing, but on the day of battle—heaven knows how and +whence—a stern note of which all are conscious sounds in the moral +atmosphere of an army, announcing the approach of something decisive +and solemn, and awakening in the men an unusual curiosity. On the day of +battle the soldiers excitedly try to get beyond the interests of their +regiment, they listen intently, look about, and eagerly ask concerning +what is going on around them. + +The fog had grown so dense that though it was growing light they could +not see ten paces ahead. Bushes looked like gigantic trees and level +ground like cliffs and slopes. Anywhere, on any side, one might +encounter an enemy invisible ten paces off. But the columns advanced +for a long time, always in the same fog, descending and ascending hills, +avoiding gardens and enclosures, going over new and unknown ground, and +nowhere encountering the enemy. On the contrary, the soldiers became +aware that in front, behind, and on all sides, other Russian columns +were moving in the same direction. Every soldier felt glad to know that +to the unknown place where he was going, many more of our men were going +too. + +“There now, the Kúrskies have also gone past,” was being said in +the ranks. + +“It’s wonderful what a lot of our troops have gathered, lads! Last +night I looked at the campfires and there was no end of them. A regular +Moscow!” + +Though none of the column commanders rode up to the ranks or talked to +the men (the commanders, as we saw at the council of war, were out of +humor and dissatisfied with the affair, and so did not exert themselves +to cheer the men but merely carried out the orders), yet the troops +marched gaily, as they always do when going into action, especially to +an attack. But when they had marched for about an hour in the dense fog, +the greater part of the men had to halt and an unpleasant consciousness +of some dislocation and blunder spread through the ranks. How such +a consciousness is communicated is very difficult to define, but it +certainly is communicated very surely, and flows rapidly, imperceptibly, +and irrepressibly, as water does in a creek. Had the Russian army been +alone without any allies, it might perhaps have been a long time before +this consciousness of mismanagement became a general conviction, but as +it was, the disorder was readily and naturally attributed to the stupid +Germans, and everyone was convinced that a dangerous muddle had been +occasioned by the sausage eaters. + +“Why have we stopped? Is the way blocked? Or have we already come up +against the French?” + +“No, one can’t hear them. They’d be firing if we had.” + +“They were in a hurry enough to start us, and now here we stand in +the middle of a field without rhyme or reason. It’s all those damned +Germans’ muddling! What stupid devils!” + +“Yes, I’d send them on in front, but no fear, they’re crowding up +behind. And now here we stand hungry.” + +“I say, shall we soon be clear? They say the cavalry are blocking the +way,” said an officer. + +“Ah, those damned Germans! They don’t know their own country!” +said another. + +“What division are you?” shouted an adjutant, riding up. + +“The Eighteenth.” + +“Then why are you here? You should have gone on long ago, now you +won’t get there till evening.” + +“What stupid orders! They don’t themselves know what they are +doing!” said the officer and rode off. + +Then a general rode past shouting something angrily, not in Russian. + +“Tafa-lafa! But what he’s jabbering no one can make out,” said a +soldier, mimicking the general who had ridden away. “I’d shoot them, +the scoundrels!” + +“We were ordered to be at the place before nine, but we haven’t got +halfway. Fine orders!” was being repeated on different sides. + +And the feeling of energy with which the troops had started began to +turn into vexation and anger at the stupid arrangements and at the +Germans. + +The cause of the confusion was that while the Austrian cavalry was +moving toward our left flank, the higher command found that our center +was too far separated from our right flank and the cavalry were all +ordered to turn back to the right. Several thousand cavalry crossed in +front of the infantry, who had to wait. + +At the front an altercation occurred between an Austrian guide and a +Russian general. The general shouted a demand that the cavalry should be +halted, the Austrian argued that not he, but the higher command, was to +blame. The troops meanwhile stood growing listless and dispirited. After +an hour’s delay they at last moved on, descending the hill. The fog +that was dispersing on the hill lay still more densely below, where they +were descending. In front in the fog a shot was heard and then another, +at first irregularly at varying intervals—trata...tat—and then more +and more regularly and rapidly, and the action at the Goldbach Stream +began. + +Not expecting to come on the enemy down by the stream, and having +stumbled on him in the fog, hearing no encouraging word from their +commanders, and with a consciousness of being too late spreading through +the ranks, and above all being unable to see anything in front or around +them in the thick fog, the Russians exchanged shots with the enemy +lazily and advanced and again halted, receiving no timely orders from +the officers or adjutants who wandered about in the fog in those unknown +surroundings unable to find their own regiments. In this way the action +began for the first, second, and third columns, which had gone down into +the valley. The fourth column, with which Kutúzov was, stood on the +Pratzen Heights. + +Below, where the fight was beginning, there was still thick fog; on the +higher ground it was clearing, but nothing could be seen of what was +going on in front. Whether all the enemy forces were, as we supposed, +six miles away, or whether they were near by in that sea of mist, no one +knew till after eight o’clock. + +It was nine o’clock in the morning. The fog lay unbroken like a sea +down below, but higher up at the village of Schlappanitz where Napoleon +stood with his marshals around him, it was quite light. Above him was +a clear blue sky, and the sun’s vast orb quivered like a huge hollow, +crimson float on the surface of that milky sea of mist. The whole French +army, and even Napoleon himself with his staff, were not on the far side +of the streams and hollows of Sokolnitz and Schlappanitz beyond which we +intended to take up our position and begin the action, but were on this +side, so close to our own forces that Napoleon with the naked eye could +distinguish a mounted man from one on foot. Napoleon, in the blue cloak +which he had worn on his Italian campaign, sat on his small gray Arab +horse a little in front of his marshals. He gazed silently at the hills +which seemed to rise out of the sea of mist and on which the Russian +troops were moving in the distance, and he listened to the sounds of +firing in the valley. Not a single muscle of his face—which in those +days was still thin—moved. His gleaming eyes were fixed intently on +one spot. His predictions were being justified. Part of the Russian +force had already descended into the valley toward the ponds and lakes +and part were leaving these Pratzen Heights which he intended to attack +and regarded as the key to the position. He saw over the mist that in +a hollow between two hills near the village of Pratzen, the Russian +columns, their bayonets glittering, were moving continuously in one +direction toward the valley and disappearing one after another into +the mist. From information he had received the evening before, from the +sound of wheels and footsteps heard by the outposts during the night, +by the disorderly movement of the Russian columns, and from all +indications, he saw clearly that the allies believed him to be far away +in front of them, and that the columns moving near Pratzen constituted +the center of the Russian army, and that that center was already +sufficiently weakened to be successfully attacked. But still he did not +begin the engagement. + +Today was a great day for him—the anniversary of his coronation. +Before dawn he had slept for a few hours, and refreshed, vigorous, and +in good spirits, he mounted his horse and rode out into the field +in that happy mood in which everything seems possible and everything +succeeds. He sat motionless, looking at the heights visible above +the mist, and his cold face wore that special look of confident, +self-complacent happiness that one sees on the face of a boy happily +in love. The marshals stood behind him not venturing to distract his +attention. He looked now at the Pratzen Heights, now at the sun floating +up out of the mist. + +When the sun had entirely emerged from the fog, and fields and mist were +aglow with dazzling light—as if he had only awaited this to begin the +action—he drew the glove from his shapely white hand, made a sign +with it to the marshals, and ordered the action to begin. The marshals, +accompanied by adjutants, galloped off in different directions, and +a few minutes later the chief forces of the French army moved rapidly +toward those Pratzen Heights which were being more and more denuded by +Russian troops moving down the valley to their left. + + + + + +CHAPTER XV + +At eight o’clock Kutúzov rode to Pratzen at the head of the fourth +column, Milorádovich’s, the one that was to take the place of +Przebyszéwski’s and Langeron’s columns which had already gone down +into the valley. He greeted the men of the foremost regiment and gave +them the order to march, thereby indicating that he intended to lead +that column himself. When he had reached the village of Pratzen he +halted. Prince Andrew was behind, among the immense number forming the +commander in chief’s suite. He was in a state of suppressed excitement +and irritation, though controlledly calm as a man is at the approach of +a long-awaited moment. He was firmly convinced that this was the day of +his Toulon, or his bridge of Arcola. How it would come about he did not +know, but he felt sure it would do so. The locality and the position of +our troops were known to him as far as they could be known to anyone +in our army. His own strategic plan, which obviously could not now +be carried out, was forgotten. Now, entering into Weyrother’s plan, +Prince Andrew considered possible contingencies and formed new projects +such as might call for his rapidity of perception and decision. + +To the left down below in the mist, the musketry fire of unseen forces +could be heard. It was there Prince Andrew thought the fight would +concentrate. “There we shall encounter difficulties, and there,” +thought he, “I shall be sent with a brigade or division, and there, +standard in hand, I shall go forward and break whatever is in front of +me.” + +He could not look calmly at the standards of the passing battalions. +Seeing them he kept thinking, “That may be the very standard with +which I shall lead the army.” + +In the morning all that was left of the night mist on the heights was +a hoar frost now turning to dew, but in the valleys it still lay like a +milk-white sea. Nothing was visible in the valley to the left into which +our troops had descended and from whence came the sounds of firing. +Above the heights was the dark clear sky, and to the right the vast orb +of the sun. In front, far off on the farther shore of that sea of mist, +some wooded hills were discernible, and it was there the enemy probably +was, for something could be descried. On the right the Guards were +entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and +then a gleam of bayonets; to the left beyond the village similar masses +of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist. In front and +behind moved infantry. The commander in chief was standing at the end of +the village letting the troops pass by him. That morning Kutúzov seemed +worn and irritable. The infantry passing before him came to a halt +without any command being given, apparently obstructed by something in +front. + +“Do order them to form into battalion columns and go round the +village!” he said angrily to a general who had ridden up. “Don’t +you understand, your excellency, my dear sir, that you must not +defile through narrow village streets when we are marching against the +enemy?” + +“I intended to re-form them beyond the village, your excellency,” +answered the general. + +Kutúzov laughed bitterly. + +“You’ll make a fine thing of it, deploying in sight of the enemy! +Very fine!” + +“The enemy is still far away, your excellency. According to the +dispositions...” + +“The dispositions!” exclaimed Kutúzov bitterly. “Who told you +that?... Kindly do as you are ordered.” + +“Yes, sir.” + +“My dear fellow,” Nesvítski whispered to Prince Andrew, “the old +man is as surly as a dog.” + +An Austrian officer in a white uniform with green plumes in his hat +galloped up to Kutúzov and asked in the Emperor’s name had the fourth +column advanced into action. + +Kutúzov turned round without answering and his eye happened to fall +upon Prince Andrew, who was beside him. Seeing him, Kutúzov’s +malevolent and caustic expression softened, as if admitting that what +was being done was not his adjutant’s fault, and still not answering +the Austrian adjutant, he addressed Bolkónski. + +“Go, my dear fellow, and see whether the third division has passed the +village. Tell it to stop and await my orders.” + +Hardly had Prince Andrew started than he stopped him. + +“And ask whether sharpshooters have been posted,” he added. “What +are they doing? What are they doing?” he murmured to himself, still +not replying to the Austrian. + +Prince Andrew galloped off to execute the order. + +Overtaking the battalions that continued to advance, he stopped +the third division and convinced himself that there really were no +sharpshooters in front of our columns. The colonel at the head of the +regiment was much surprised at the commander in chief’s order to throw +out skirmishers. He had felt perfectly sure that there were other troops +in front of him and that the enemy must be at least six miles away. +There was really nothing to be seen in front except a barren descent +hidden by dense mist. Having given orders in the commander in chief’s +name to rectify this omission, Prince Andrew galloped back. Kutúzov +still in the same place, his stout body resting heavily in the saddle +with the lassitude of age, sat yawning wearily with closed eyes. The +troops were no longer moving, but stood with the butts of their muskets +on the ground. + +“All right, all right!” he said to Prince Andrew, and turned to a +general who, watch in hand, was saying it was time they started as all +the left-flank columns had already descended. + +“Plenty of time, your excellency,” muttered Kutúzov in the midst of +a yawn. “Plenty of time,” he repeated. + +Just then at a distance behind Kutúzov was heard the sound of regiments +saluting, and this sound rapidly came nearer along the whole extended +line of the advancing Russian columns. Evidently the person they were +greeting was riding quickly. When the soldiers of the regiment in front +of which Kutúzov was standing began to shout, he rode a little to one +side and looked round with a frown. Along the road from Pratzen galloped +what looked like a squadron of horsemen in various uniforms. Two of them +rode side by side in front, at full gallop. One in a black uniform with +white plumes in his hat rode a bobtailed chestnut horse, the other who +was in a white uniform rode a black one. These were the two Emperors +followed by their suites. Kutúzov, affecting the manners of an old +soldier at the front, gave the command “Attention!” and rode up +to the Emperors with a salute. His whole appearance and manner were +suddenly transformed. He put on the air of a subordinate who obeys +without reasoning. With an affectation of respect which evidently struck +Alexander unpleasantly, he rode up and saluted. + +This unpleasant impression merely flitted over the young and happy face +of the Emperor like a cloud of haze across a clear sky and vanished. +After his illness he looked rather thinner that day than on the field +of Olmütz where Bolkónski had seen him for the first time abroad, but +there was still the same bewitching combination of majesty and mildness +in his fine gray eyes, and on his delicate lips the same capacity for +varying expression and the same prevalent appearance of goodhearted +innocent youth. + +At the Olmütz review he had seemed more majestic; here he seemed +brighter and more energetic. He was slightly flushed after galloping two +miles, and reining in his horse he sighed restfully and looked round +at the faces of his suite, young and animated as his own. Czartorýski, +Novosíltsev, Prince Volkónsky, Strógonov, and the others, all richly +dressed gay young men on splendid, well-groomed, fresh, only slightly +heated horses, exchanging remarks and smiling, had stopped behind the +Emperor. The Emperor Francis, a rosy, long faced young man, sat very +erect on his handsome black horse, looking about him in a leisurely and +preoccupied manner. He beckoned to one of his white adjutants and asked +some question—“Most likely he is asking at what o’clock they +started,” thought Prince Andrew, watching his old acquaintance with +a smile he could not repress as he recalled his reception at Brünn. +In the Emperors’ suite were the picked young orderly officers of the +Guard and line regiments, Russian and Austrian. Among them were grooms +leading the Tsar’s beautiful relay horses covered with embroidered +cloths. + +As when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters +a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of +success reached Kutúzov’s cheerless staff with the galloping advent +of all these brilliant young men. + +“Why aren’t you beginning, Michael Ilariónovich?” said the +Emperor Alexander hurriedly to Kutúzov, glancing courteously at the +same time at the Emperor Francis. + +“I am waiting, Your Majesty,” answered Kutúzov, bending forward +respectfully. + +The Emperor, frowning slightly, bent his ear forward as if he had not +quite heard. + +“Waiting, Your Majesty,” repeated Kutúzov. (Prince Andrew noted +that Kutúzov’s upper lip twitched unnaturally as he said the +word “waiting.”) “Not all the columns have formed up yet, Your +Majesty.” + +The Tsar heard but obviously did not like the reply; he shrugged his +rather round shoulders and glanced at Novosíltsev who was near him, as +if complaining of Kutúzov. + +“You know, Michael Ilariónovich, we are not on the Empress’ Field +where a parade does not begin till all the troops are assembled,” said +the Tsar with another glance at the Emperor Francis, as if inviting +him if not to join in at least to listen to what he was saying. But the +Emperor Francis continued to look about him and did not listen. + +“That is just why I do not begin, sire,” said Kutúzov in a +resounding voice, apparently to preclude the possibility of not being +heard, and again something in his face twitched—“That is just why +I do not begin, sire, because we are not on parade and not on the +Empress’ Field,” said he clearly and distinctly. + +In the Emperor’s suite all exchanged rapid looks that expressed +dissatisfaction and reproach. “Old though he may be, he should not, he +certainly should not, speak like that,” their glances seemed to say. + +The Tsar looked intently and observantly into Kutúzov’s eye +waiting to hear whether he would say anything more. But Kutúzov, with +respectfully bowed head, seemed also to be waiting. The silence lasted +for about a minute. + +“However, if you command it, Your Majesty,” said Kutúzov, lifting +his head and again assuming his former tone of a dull, unreasoning, but +submissive general. + +He touched his horse and having called Milorádovich, the commander of +the column, gave him the order to advance. + +The troops again began to move, and two battalions of the Nóvgorod and +one of the Ápsheron regiment went forward past the Emperor. + +As this Ápsheron battalion marched by, the red-faced Milorádovich, +without his greatcoat, with his Orders on his breast and an enormous +tuft of plumes in his cocked hat worn on one side with its corners front +and back, galloped strenuously forward, and with a dashing salute reined +in his horse before the Emperor. + +“God be with you, general!” said the Emperor. + +“Ma foi, sire, nous ferons ce qui sera dans notre possibilité, +sire,” * he answered gaily, raising nevertheless ironic smiles among +the gentlemen of the Tsar’s suite by his poor French. + + * “Indeed, Sire, we shall do everything it is possible to + do, Sire.” + + +Milorádovich wheeled his horse sharply and stationed himself a little +behind the Emperor. The Ápsheron men, excited by the Tsar’s presence, +passed in step before the Emperors and their suites at a bold, brisk +pace. + +“Lads!” shouted Milorádovich in a loud, self-confident, and cheery +voice, obviously so elated by the sound of firing, by the prospect of +battle, and by the sight of the gallant Ápsherons, his comrades in +Suvórov’s time, now passing so gallantly before the Emperors, that he +forgot the sovereigns’ presence. “Lads, it’s not the first village +you’ve had to take,” cried he. + +“Glad to do our best!” shouted the soldiers. + +The Emperor’s horse started at the sudden cry. This horse that had +carried the sovereign at reviews in Russia bore him also here on the +field of Austerlitz, enduring the heedless blows of his left foot and +pricking its ears at the sound of shots just as it had done on the +Empress’ Field, not understanding the significance of the firing, nor +of the nearness of the Emperor Francis’ black cob, nor of all that was +being said, thought, and felt that day by its rider. + +The Emperor turned with a smile to one of his followers and made a +remark to him, pointing to the gallant Ápsherons. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +Kutúzov accompanied by his adjutants rode at a walking pace behind the +carabineers. + +When he had gone less than half a mile in the rear of the column he +stopped at a solitary, deserted house that had probably once been an +inn, where two roads parted. Both of them led downhill and troops were +marching along both. + +The fog had begun to clear and enemy troops were already dimly visible +about a mile and a half off on the opposite heights. Down below, on +the left, the firing became more distinct. Kutúzov had stopped and was +speaking to an Austrian general. Prince Andrew, who was a little behind +looking at them, turned to an adjutant to ask him for a field glass. + +“Look, look!” said this adjutant, looking not at the troops in the +distance, but down the hill before him. “It’s the French!” + +The two generals and the adjutant took hold of the field glass, trying +to snatch it from one another. The expression on all their faces +suddenly changed to one of horror. The French were supposed to be a +mile and a half away, but had suddenly and unexpectedly appeared just in +front of us. + +“It’s the enemy?... No!... Yes, see it is!... for certain.... But +how is that?” said different voices. + +With the naked eye Prince Andrew saw below them to the right, not more +than five hundred paces from where Kutúzov was standing, a dense French +column coming up to meet the Ápsherons. + +“Here it is! The decisive moment has arrived. My turn has come,” +thought Prince Andrew, and striking his horse he rode up to Kutúzov. + +“The Ápsherons must be stopped, your excellency,” cried he. But at +that very instant a cloud of smoke spread all round, firing was heard +quite close at hand, and a voice of naïve terror barely two steps from +Prince Andrew shouted, “Brothers! All’s lost!” And at this as if +at a command, everyone began to run. + +Confused and ever-increasing crowds were running back to where five +minutes before the troops had passed the Emperors. Not only would it +have been difficult to stop that crowd, it was even impossible not to +be carried back with it oneself. Bolkónski only tried not to lose +touch with it, and looked around bewildered and unable to grasp what was +happening in front of him. Nesvítski with an angry face, red and unlike +himself, was shouting to Kutúzov that if he did not ride away at once +he would certainly be taken prisoner. Kutúzov remained in the same +place and without answering drew out a handkerchief. Blood was flowing +from his cheek. Prince Andrew forced his way to him. + +“You are wounded?” he asked, hardly able to master the trembling of +his lower jaw. + +“The wound is not here, it is there!” said Kutúzov, pressing the +handkerchief to his wounded cheek and pointing to the fleeing soldiers. +“Stop them!” he shouted, and at the same moment, probably realizing +that it was impossible to stop them, spurred his horse and rode to the +right. + +A fresh wave of the flying mob caught him and bore him back with it. + +The troops were running in such a dense mass that once surrounded by +them it was difficult to get out again. One was shouting, “Get on! +Why are you hindering us?” Another in the same place turned round and +fired in the air; a third was striking the horse Kutúzov himself rode. +Having by a great effort got away to the left from that flood of men, +Kutúzov, with his suite diminished by more than half, rode toward a +sound of artillery fire near by. Having forced his way out of the crowd +of fugitives, Prince Andrew, trying to keep near Kutúzov, saw on the +slope of the hill amid the smoke a Russian battery that was still firing +and Frenchmen running toward it. Higher up stood some Russian infantry, +neither moving forward to protect the battery nor backward with the +fleeing crowd. A mounted general separated himself from the infantry and +approached Kutúzov. Of Kutúzov’s suite only four remained. They were +all pale and exchanged looks in silence. + +“Stop those wretches!” gasped Kutúzov to the regimental commander, +pointing to the flying soldiers; but at that instant, as if to punish +him for those words, bullets flew hissing across the regiment and across +Kutúzov’s suite like a flock of little birds. + +The French had attacked the battery and, seeing Kutúzov, were firing +at him. After this volley the regimental commander clutched at his leg; +several soldiers fell, and a second lieutenant who was holding the +flag let it fall from his hands. It swayed and fell, but caught on the +muskets of the nearest soldiers. The soldiers started firing without +orders. + +“Oh! Oh! Oh!” groaned Kutúzov despairingly and looked around.... +“Bolkónski!” he whispered, his voice trembling from a consciousness +of the feebleness of age, “Bolkónski!” he whispered, pointing to +the disordered battalion and at the enemy, “what’s that?” + +But before he had finished speaking, Prince Andrew, feeling tears of +shame and anger choking him, had already leapt from his horse and run to +the standard. + +“Forward, lads!” he shouted in a voice piercing as a child’s. + +“Here it is!” thought he, seizing the staff of the standard and +hearing with pleasure the whistle of bullets evidently aimed at him. +Several soldiers fell. + +“Hurrah!” shouted Prince Andrew, and, scarcely able to hold up +the heavy standard, he ran forward with full confidence that the whole +battalion would follow him. + +And really he only ran a few steps alone. One soldier moved and then +another and soon the whole battalion ran forward shouting “Hurrah!” +and overtook him. A sergeant of the battalion ran up and took the flag +that was swaying from its weight in Prince Andrew’s hands, but he +was immediately killed. Prince Andrew again seized the standard and, +dragging it by the staff, ran on with the battalion. In front he saw our +artillerymen, some of whom were fighting, while others, having abandoned +their guns, were running toward him. He also saw French infantry +soldiers who were seizing the artillery horses and turning the guns +round. Prince Andrew and the battalion were already within twenty paces +of the cannon. He heard the whistle of bullets above him unceasingly and +to right and left of him soldiers continually groaned and dropped. But +he did not look at them: he looked only at what was going on in front +of him—at the battery. He now saw clearly the figure of a red-haired +gunner with his shako knocked awry, pulling one end of a mop while +a French soldier tugged at the other. He could distinctly see the +distraught yet angry expression on the faces of these two men, who +evidently did not realize what they were doing. + +“What are they about?” thought Prince Andrew as he gazed at them. +“Why doesn’t the red-haired gunner run away as he is unarmed? +Why doesn’t the Frenchman stab him? He will not get away before the +Frenchman remembers his bayonet and stabs him....” + +And really another French soldier, trailing his musket, ran up to +the struggling men, and the fate of the red-haired gunner, who had +triumphantly secured the mop and still did not realize what awaited him, +was about to be decided. But Prince Andrew did not see how it ended. It +seemed to him as though one of the soldiers near him hit him on the head +with the full swing of a bludgeon. It hurt a little, but the worst of +it was that the pain distracted him and prevented his seeing what he had +been looking at. + +“What’s this? Am I falling? My legs are giving way,” thought he, +and fell on his back. He opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle +of the Frenchmen with the gunners ended, whether the red-haired gunner +had been killed or not and whether the cannon had been captured or +saved. But he saw nothing. Above him there was now nothing but the +sky—the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray +clouds gliding slowly across it. “How quiet, peaceful, and solemn; not +at all as I ran,” thought Prince Andrew—“not as we ran, shouting +and fighting, not at all as the gunner and the Frenchman with frightened +and angry faces struggled for the mop: how differently do those clouds +glide across that lofty infinite sky! How was it I did not see that +lofty sky before? And how happy I am to have found it at last! Yes! All +is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. There is nothing, +nothing, but that. But even it does not exist, there is nothing but +quiet and peace. Thank God!...” + + + + + +CHAPTER XVII + +On our right flank commanded by Bagratión, at nine o’clock the battle +had not yet begun. Not wishing to agree to Dolgorúkov’s demand to +commence the action, and wishing to avert responsibility from himself, +Prince Bagratión proposed to Dolgorúkov to send to inquire of the +commander in chief. Bagratión knew that as the distance between the two +flanks was more than six miles, even if the messenger were not killed +(which he very likely would be), and found the commander in chief +(which would be very difficult), he would not be able to get back before +evening. + +Bagratión cast his large, expressionless, sleepy eyes round his suite, +and the boyish face Rostóv, breathless with excitement and hope, was +the first to catch his eye. He sent him. + +“And if I should meet His Majesty before I meet the commander in +chief, your excellency?” said Rostóv, with his hand to his cap. + +“You can give the message to His Majesty,” said Dolgorúkov, +hurriedly interrupting Bagratión. + +On being relieved from picket duty Rostóv had managed to get a few +hours’ sleep before morning and felt cheerful, bold, and resolute, +with elasticity of movement, faith in his good fortune, and generally in +that state of mind which makes everything seem possible, pleasant, and +easy. + +All his wishes were being fulfilled that morning: there was to be a +general engagement in which he was taking part, more than that, he was +orderly to the bravest general, and still more, he was going with a +message to Kutúzov, perhaps even to the sovereign himself. The morning +was bright, he had a good horse under him, and his heart was full of +joy and happiness. On receiving the order he gave his horse the rein +and galloped along the line. At first he rode along the line of +Bagratión’s troops, which had not yet advanced into action but were +standing motionless; then he came to the region occupied by Uvárov’s +cavalry and here he noticed a stir and signs of preparation for battle; +having passed Uvárov’s cavalry he clearly heard the sound of cannon +and musketry ahead of him. The firing grew louder and louder. + +In the fresh morning air were now heard, not two or three musket shots +at irregular intervals as before, followed by one or two cannon shots, +but a roll of volleys of musketry from the slopes of the hill before +Pratzen, interrupted by such frequent reports of cannon that sometimes +several of them were not separated from one another but merged into a +general roar. + +He could see puffs of musketry smoke that seemed to chase one another +down the hillsides, and clouds of cannon smoke rolling, spreading, +and mingling with one another. He could also, by the gleam of bayonets +visible through the smoke, make out moving masses of infantry and narrow +lines of artillery with green caissons. + +Rostóv stopped his horse for a moment on a hillock to see what was +going on, but strain his attention as he would he could not understand +or make out anything of what was happening: there in the smoke men of +some sort were moving about, in front and behind moved lines of troops; +but why, whither, and who they were, it was impossible to make out. +These sights and sounds had no depressing or intimidating effect on him; +on the contrary, they stimulated his energy and determination. + +“Go on! Go on! Give it them!” he mentally exclaimed at these sounds, +and again proceeded to gallop along the line, penetrating farther and +farther into the region where the army was already in action. + +“How it will be there I don’t know, but all will be well!” thought +Rostóv. + +After passing some Austrian troops he noticed that the next part of the +line (the Guards) was already in action. + +“So much the better! I shall see it close,” he thought. + +He was riding almost along the front line. A handful of men came +galloping toward him. They were our Uhlans who with disordered +ranks were returning from the attack. Rostóv got out of their way, +involuntarily noticed that one of them was bleeding, and galloped on. + +“That is no business of mine,” he thought. He had not ridden many +hundred yards after that before he saw to his left, across the whole +width of the field, an enormous mass of cavalry in brilliant white +uniforms, mounted on black horses, trotting straight toward him and +across his path. Rostóv put his horse to full gallop to get out of the +way of these men, and he would have got clear had they continued at the +same speed, but they kept increasing their pace, so that some of the +horses were already galloping. Rostóv heard the thud of their hoofs +and the jingle of their weapons and saw their horses, their figures, and +even their faces, more and more distinctly. They were our Horse Guards, +advancing to attack the French cavalry that was coming to meet them. + +The Horse Guards were galloping, but still holding in their horses. +Rostóv could already see their faces and heard the command: +“Charge!” shouted by an officer who was urging his thoroughbred to +full speed. Rostóv, fearing to be crushed or swept into the attack on +the French, galloped along the front as hard as his horse could go, but +still was not in time to avoid them. + +The last of the Horse Guards, a huge pockmarked fellow, frowned angrily +on seeing Rostóv before him, with whom he would inevitably collide. +This Guardsman would certainly have bowled Rostóv and his Bedouin over +(Rostóv felt himself quite tiny and weak compared to these gigantic men +and horses) had it not occurred to Rostóv to flourish his whip before +the eyes of the Guardsman’s horse. The heavy black horse, sixteen +hands high, shied, throwing back its ears; but the pockmarked Guardsman +drove his huge spurs in violently, and the horse, flourishing its tail +and extending its neck, galloped on yet faster. Hardly had the Horse +Guards passed Rostóv before he heard them shout, “Hurrah!” and +looking back saw that their foremost ranks were mixed up with some +foreign cavalry with red epaulets, probably French. He could see nothing +more, for immediately afterwards cannon began firing from somewhere and +smoke enveloped everything. + +At that moment, as the Horse Guards, having passed him, disappeared in +the smoke, Rostóv hesitated whether to gallop after them or to go where +he was sent. This was the brilliant charge of the Horse Guards that +amazed the French themselves. Rostóv was horrified to hear later that +of all that mass of huge and handsome men, of all those brilliant, +rich youths, officers and cadets, who had galloped past him on their +thousand-ruble horses, only eighteen were left after the charge. + +“Why should I envy them? My chance is not lost, and maybe I shall see +the Emperor immediately!” thought Rostóv and galloped on. + +When he came level with the Foot Guards he noticed that about them and +around them cannon balls were flying, of which he was aware not so +much because he heard their sound as because he saw uneasiness on +the soldiers’ faces and unnatural warlike solemnity on those of the +officers. + +Passing behind one of the lines of a regiment of Foot Guards he heard a +voice calling him by name. + +“Rostóv!” + +“What?” he answered, not recognizing Borís. + +“I say, we’ve been in the front line! Our regiment attacked!” said +Borís with the happy smile seen on the faces of young men who have been +under fire for the first time. + +Rostóv stopped. + +“Have you?” he said. “Well, how did it go?” + +“We drove them back!” said Borís with animation, growing talkative. +“Can you imagine it?” and he began describing how the Guards, having +taken up their position and seeing troops before them, thought they were +Austrians, and all at once discovered from the cannon balls discharged +by those troops that they were themselves in the front line and had +unexpectedly to go into action. Rostóv without hearing Borís to the +end spurred his horse. + +“Where are you off to?” asked Borís. + +“With a message to His Majesty.” + +“There he is!” said Borís, thinking Rostóv had said “His +Highness,” and pointing to the Grand Duke who with his high shoulders +and frowning brows stood a hundred paces away from them in his helmet +and Horse Guards’ jacket, shouting something to a pale, white +uniformed Austrian officer. + +“But that’s the Grand Duke, and I want the commander in chief or the +Emperor,” said Rostóv, and was about to spur his horse. + +“Count! Count!” shouted Berg who ran up from the other side as eager +as Borís. “Count! I am wounded in my right hand” (and he showed his +bleeding hand with a handkerchief tied round it) “and I remained at +the front. I held my sword in my left hand, Count. All our family—the +von Bergs—have been knights!” + +He said something more, but Rostóv did not wait to hear it and rode +away. + +Having passed the Guards and traversed an empty space, Rostóv, to avoid +again getting in front of the first line as he had done when the Horse +Guards charged, followed the line of reserves, going far round the place +where the hottest musket fire and cannonade were heard. Suddenly he +heard musket fire quite close in front of him and behind our troops, +where he could never have expected the enemy to be. + +“What can it be?” he thought. “The enemy in the rear of our army? +Impossible!” And suddenly he was seized by a panic of fear for himself +and for the issue of the whole battle. “But be that what it may,” +he reflected, “there is no riding round it now. I must look for the +commander in chief here, and if all is lost it is for me to perish with +the rest.” + +The foreboding of evil that had suddenly come over Rostóv was more and +more confirmed the farther he rode into the region behind the village of +Pratzen, which was full of troops of all kinds. + +“What does it mean? What is it? Whom are they firing at? Who is +firing?” Rostóv kept asking as he came up to Russian and Austrian +soldiers running in confused crowds across his path. + +“The devil knows! They’ve killed everybody! It’s all up now!” +he was told in Russian, German, and Czech by the crowd of fugitives who +understood what was happening as little as he did. + +“Kill the Germans!” shouted one. + +“May the devil take them—the traitors!” + +“Zum Henker diese Russen!” * muttered a German. + + * “Hang these Russians!” + + +Several wounded men passed along the road, and words of abuse, screams, +and groans mingled in a general hubbub, then the firing died down. +Rostóv learned later that Russian and Austrian soldiers had been firing +at one another. + +“My God! What does it all mean?” thought he. “And here, where at +any moment the Emperor may see them.... But no, these must be only a +handful of scoundrels. It will soon be over, it can’t be that, it +can’t be! Only to get past them quicker, quicker!” + +The idea of defeat and flight could not enter Rostóv’s head. Though +he saw French cannon and French troops on the Pratzen Heights just where +he had been ordered to look for the commander in chief, he could not, +did not wish to, believe that. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVIII + +Rostóv had been ordered to look for Kutúzov and the Emperor near the +village of Pratzen. But neither they nor a single commanding officer +were there, only disorganized crowds of troops of various kinds. He +urged on his already weary horse to get quickly past these crowds, but +the farther he went the more disorganized they were. The highroad on +which he had come out was thronged with calèches, carriages of all +sorts, and Russian and Austrian soldiers of all arms, some wounded and +some not. This whole mass droned and jostled in confusion under the +dismal influence of cannon balls flying from the French batteries +stationed on the Pratzen Heights. + +“Where is the Emperor? Where is Kutúzov?” Rostóv kept asking +everyone he could stop, but got no answer from anyone. + +At last seizing a soldier by his collar he forced him to answer. + +“Eh, brother! They’ve all bolted long ago!” said the soldier, +laughing for some reason and shaking himself free. + +Having left that soldier who was evidently drunk, Rostóv stopped the +horse of a batman or groom of some important personage and began to +question him. The man announced that the Tsar had been driven in a +carriage at full speed about an hour before along that very road and +that he was dangerously wounded. + +“It can’t be!” said Rostóv. “It must have been someone else.” + +“I saw him myself,” replied the man with a self-confident smile of +derision. “I ought to know the Emperor by now, after the times I’ve +seen him in Petersburg. I saw him just as I see you.... There he sat in +the carriage as pale as anything. How they made the four black horses +fly! Gracious me, they did rattle past! It’s time I knew the Imperial +horses and Ilyá Iványch. I don’t think Ilyá drives anyone except +the Tsar!” + +Rostóv let go of the horse and was about to ride on, when a wounded +officer passing by addressed him: + +“Who is it you want?” he asked. “The commander in chief? He was +killed by a cannon ball—struck in the breast before our regiment.” + +“Not killed—wounded!” another officer corrected him. + +“Who? Kutúzov?” asked Rostóv. + +“Not Kutúzov, but what’s his name—well, never mind... there are +not many left alive. Go that way, to that village, all the commanders +are there,” said the officer, pointing to the village of Hosjeradek, +and he walked on. + +Rostóv rode on at a footpace not knowing why or to whom he was now +going. The Emperor was wounded, the battle lost. It was impossible to +doubt it now. Rostóv rode in the direction pointed out to him, in which +he saw turrets and a church. What need to hurry? What was he now to say +to the Tsar or to Kutúzov, even if they were alive and unwounded? + +“Take this road, your honor, that way you will be killed at once!” a +soldier shouted to him. “They’d kill you there!” + +“Oh, what are you talking about?” said another. “Where is he to +go? That way is nearer.” + +Rostóv considered, and then went in the direction where they said he +would be killed. + +“It’s all the same now. If the Emperor is wounded, am I to try to +save myself?” he thought. He rode on to the region where the greatest +number of men had perished in fleeing from Pratzen. The French had not +yet occupied that region, and the Russians—the uninjured and slightly +wounded—had left it long ago. All about the field, like heaps of +manure on well-kept plowland, lay from ten to fifteen dead and wounded +to each couple of acres. The wounded crept together in twos and threes +and one could hear their distressing screams and groans, sometimes +feigned—or so it seemed to Rostóv. He put his horse to a trot to +avoid seeing all these suffering men, and he felt afraid—afraid not +for his life, but for the courage he needed and which he knew would not +stand the sight of these unfortunates. + +The French, who had ceased firing at this field strewn with dead and +wounded where there was no one left to fire at, on seeing an adjutant +riding over it trained a gun on him and fired several shots. The +sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around +him merged in Rostóv’s mind into a single feeling of terror and pity +for himself. He remembered his mother’s last letter. “What would she +feel,” thought he, “if she saw me here now on this field with the +cannon aimed at me?” + +In the village of Hosjeradek there were Russian troops retiring from +the field of battle, who though still in some confusion were less +disordered. The French cannon did not reach there and the musketry fire +sounded far away. Here everyone clearly saw and said that the battle +was lost. No one whom Rostóv asked could tell him where the Emperor +or Kutúzov was. Some said the report that the Emperor was wounded was +correct, others that it was not, and explained the false rumor that had +spread by the fact that the Emperor’s carriage had really galloped +from the field of battle with the pale and terrified Ober-Hofmarschal +Count Tolstóy, who had ridden out to the battlefield with others in +the Emperor’s suite. One officer told Rostóv that he had seen someone +from headquarters behind the village to the left, and thither Rostóv +rode, not hoping to find anyone but merely to ease his conscience. When +he had ridden about two miles and had passed the last of the Russian +troops, he saw, near a kitchen garden with a ditch round it, two men +on horseback facing the ditch. One with a white plume in his hat seemed +familiar to Rostóv; the other on a beautiful chestnut horse (which +Rostóv fancied he had seen before) rode up to the ditch, struck his +horse with his spurs, and giving it the rein leaped lightly over. Only +a little earth crumbled from the bank under the horse’s hind hoofs. +Turning the horse sharply, he again jumped the ditch, and deferentially +addressed the horseman with the white plumes, evidently suggesting +that he should do the same. The rider, whose figure seemed familiar +to Rostóv and involuntarily riveted his attention, made a gesture of +refusal with his head and hand and by that gesture Rostóv instantly +recognized his lamented and adored monarch. + +“But it can’t be he, alone in the midst of this empty field!” +thought Rostóv. At that moment Alexander turned his head and Rostóv +saw the beloved features that were so deeply engraved on his memory. The +Emperor was pale, his cheeks sunken and his eyes hollow, but the charm, +the mildness of his features, was all the greater. Rostóv was happy +in the assurance that the rumors about the Emperor being wounded were +false. He was happy to be seeing him. He knew that he might and even +ought to go straight to him and give the message Dolgorúkov had ordered +him to deliver. + +But as a youth in love trembles, is unnerved, and dares not utter the +thoughts he has dreamed of for nights, but looks around for help or a +chance of delay and flight when the longed-for moment comes and he is +alone with her, so Rostóv, now that he had attained what he had longed +for more than anything else in the world, did not know how to approach +the Emperor, and a thousand reasons occurred to him why it would be +inconvenient, unseemly, and impossible to do so. + +“What! It is as if I were glad of a chance to take advantage of +his being alone and despondent! A strange face may seem unpleasant or +painful to him at this moment of sorrow; besides, what can I say to him +now, when my heart fails me and my mouth feels dry at the mere sight +of him?” Not one of the innumerable speeches addressed to the Emperor +that he had composed in his imagination could he now recall. Those +speeches were intended for quite other conditions, they were for the +most part to be spoken at a moment of victory and triumph, generally +when he was dying of wounds and the sovereign had thanked him for heroic +deeds, and while dying he expressed the love his actions had proved. + +“Besides how can I ask the Emperor for his instructions for the right +flank now that it is nearly four o’clock and the battle is lost? +No, certainly I must not approach him, I must not intrude on his +reflections. Better die a thousand times than risk receiving an unkind +look or bad opinion from him,” Rostóv decided; and sorrowfully and +with a heart full despair he rode away, continually looking back at the +Tsar, who still remained in the same attitude of indecision. + +While Rostóv was thus arguing with himself and riding sadly away, +Captain von Toll chanced to ride to the same spot, and seeing the +Emperor at once rode up to him, offered his services, and assisted him +to cross the ditch on foot. The Emperor, wishing to rest and feeling +unwell, sat down under an apple tree and von Toll remained beside him. +Rostóv from a distance saw with envy and remorse how von Toll spoke +long and warmly to the Emperor and how the Emperor, evidently weeping, +covered his eyes with his hand and pressed von Toll’s hand. + +“And I might have been in his place!” thought Rostóv, and hardly +restraining his tears of pity for the Emperor, he rode on in utter +despair, not knowing where to or why he was now riding. + +His despair was all the greater from feeling that his own weakness was +the cause of his grief. + +He might... not only might but should, have gone up to the sovereign. It +was a unique chance to show his devotion to the Emperor and he had not +made use of it.... “What have I done?” thought he. And he turned +round and galloped back to the place where he had seen the Emperor, but +there was no one beyond the ditch now. Only some carts and carriages +were passing by. From one of the drivers he learned that Kutúzov’s +staff were not far off, in the village the vehicles were going to. +Rostóv followed them. In front of him walked Kutúzov’s groom leading +horses in horsecloths. Then came a cart, and behind that walked an old, +bandy-legged domestic serf in a peaked cap and sheepskin coat. + +“Tit! I say, Tit!” said the groom. + +“What?” answered the old man absent-mindedly. + +“Go, Tit! Thresh a bit!” + +“Oh, you fool!” said the old man, spitting angrily. Some time passed +in silence, and then the same joke was repeated. + + +Before five in the evening the battle had been lost at all points. More +than a hundred cannon were already in the hands of the French. + +Przebyszéwski and his corps had laid down their arms. Other columns +after losing half their men were retreating in disorderly confused +masses. + +The remains of Langeron’s and Dokhtúrov’s mingled forces were +crowding around the dams and banks of the ponds near the village of +Augesd. + +After five o’clock it was only at the Augesd Dam that a hot cannonade +(delivered by the French alone) was still to be heard from numerous +batteries ranged on the slopes of the Pratzen Heights, directed at our +retreating forces. + +In the rearguard, Dokhtúrov and others rallying some battalions kept up +a musketry fire at the French cavalry that was pursuing our troops. It +was growing dusk. On the narrow Augesd Dam where for so many years the +old miller had been accustomed to sit in his tasseled cap peacefully +angling, while his grandson, with shirt sleeves rolled up, handled the +floundering silvery fish in the watering can, on that dam over which for +so many years Moravians in shaggy caps and blue jackets had peacefully +driven their two-horse carts loaded with wheat and had returned dusty +with flour whitening their carts—on that narrow dam amid the wagons +and the cannon, under the horses’ hoofs and between the wagon wheels, +men disfigured by fear of death now crowded together, crushing one +another, dying, stepping over the dying and killing one another, only to +move on a few steps and be killed themselves in the same way. + +Every ten seconds a cannon ball flew compressing the air around, or +a shell burst in the midst of that dense throng, killing some and +splashing with blood those near them. + +Dólokhov—now an officer—wounded in the arm, and on foot, with +the regimental commander on horseback and some ten men of his company, +represented all that was left of that whole regiment. Impelled by the +crowd, they had got wedged in at the approach to the dam and, jammed in +on all sides, had stopped because a horse in front had fallen under a +cannon and the crowd were dragging it out. A cannon ball killed someone +behind them, another fell in front and splashed Dólokhov with blood. +The crowd, pushing forward desperately, squeezed together, moved a few +steps, and again stopped. + +“Move on a hundred yards and we are certainly saved, remain here +another two minutes and it is certain death,” thought each one. + +Dólokhov who was in the midst of the crowd forced his way to the edge +of the dam, throwing two soldiers off their feet, and ran onto the +slippery ice that covered the millpool. + +“Turn this way!” he shouted, jumping over the ice which creaked +under him; “turn this way!” he shouted to those with the gun. “It +bears!...” + +The ice bore him but it swayed and creaked, and it was plain that it +would give way not only under a cannon or a crowd, but very soon even +under his weight alone. The men looked at him and pressed to the +bank, hesitating to step onto the ice. The general on horseback at the +entrance to the dam raised his hand and opened his mouth to address +Dólokhov. Suddenly a cannon ball hissed so low above the crowd that +everyone ducked. It flopped into something moist, and the general fell +from his horse in a pool of blood. Nobody gave him a look or thought of +raising him. + +“Get onto the ice, over the ice! Go on! Turn! Don’t you hear? Go +on!” innumerable voices suddenly shouted after the ball had struck +the general, the men themselves not knowing what, or why, they were +shouting. + +One of the hindmost guns that was going onto the dam turned off onto the +ice. Crowds of soldiers from the dam began running onto the frozen pond. +The ice gave way under one of the foremost soldiers, and one leg slipped +into the water. He tried to right himself but fell in up to his waist. +The nearest soldiers shrank back, the gun driver stopped his horse, but +from behind still came the shouts: “Onto the ice, why do you stop? Go +on! Go on!” And cries of horror were heard in the crowd. The soldiers +near the gun waved their arms and beat the horses to make them turn and +move on. The horses moved off the bank. The ice, that had held under +those on foot, collapsed in a great mass, and some forty men who were on +it dashed, some forward and some back, drowning one another. + +Still the cannon balls continued regularly to whistle and flop onto the +ice and into the water and oftenest of all among the crowd that covered +the dam, the pond, and the bank. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIX + +On the Pratzen Heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his +hand, lay Prince Andrew Bolkónski bleeding profusely and unconsciously +uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan. + +Toward evening he ceased moaning and became quite still. He did not know +how long his unconsciousness lasted. Suddenly he again felt that he was +alive and suffering from a burning, lacerating pain in his head. + +“Where is it, that lofty sky that I did not know till now, but saw +today?” was his first thought. “And I did not know this suffering +either,” he thought. “Yes, I did not know anything, anything at all +till now. But where am I?” + +He listened and heard the sound of approaching horses, and voices +speaking French. He opened his eyes. Above him again was the same lofty +sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and +between them gleamed blue infinity. He did not turn his head and did not +see those who, judging by the sound of hoofs and voices, had ridden up +and stopped near him. + +It was Napoleon accompanied by two aides-de-camp. Bonaparte riding +over the battlefield had given final orders to strengthen the batteries +firing at the Augesd Dam and was looking at the killed and wounded left +on the field. + +“Fine men!” remarked Napoleon, looking at a dead Russian grenadier, +who, with his face buried in the ground and a blackened nape, lay on his +stomach with an already stiffened arm flung wide. + +“The ammunition for the guns in position is exhausted, Your +Majesty,” said an adjutant who had come from the batteries that were +firing at Augesd. + +“Have some brought from the reserve,” said Napoleon, and having gone +on a few steps he stopped before Prince Andrew, who lay on his back with +the flagstaff that had been dropped beside him. (The flag had already +been taken by the French as a trophy.) + +“That’s a fine death!” said Napoleon as he gazed at Bolkónski. + +Prince Andrew understood that this was said of him and that it was +Napoleon who said it. He heard the speaker addressed as Sire. But he +heard the words as he might have heard the buzzing of a fly. Not only +did they not interest him, but he took no notice of them and at once +forgot them. His head was burning, he felt himself bleeding to death, +and he saw above him the remote, lofty, and everlasting sky. He knew it +was Napoleon—his hero—but at that moment Napoleon seemed to him +such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was passing now +between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over +it. At that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over +him, or what was said of him; he was only glad that people were standing +near him and only wished that they would help him and bring him back to +life, which seemed to him so beautiful now that he had today learned to +understand it so differently. He collected all his strength, to stir and +utter a sound. He feebly moved his leg and uttered a weak, sickly groan +which aroused his own pity. + +“Ah! He is alive,” said Napoleon. “Lift this young man up and +carry him to the dressing station.” + +Having said this, Napoleon rode on to meet Marshal Lannes, who, hat in +hand, rode up smiling to the Emperor to congratulate him on the victory. + +Prince Andrew remembered nothing more: he lost consciousness from the +terrible pain of being lifted onto the stretcher, the jolting while +being moved, and the probing of his wound at the dressing station. +He did not regain consciousness till late in the day, when with other +wounded and captured Russian officers he was carried to the hospital. +During this transfer he felt a little stronger and was able to look +about him and even speak. + +The first words he heard on coming to his senses were those of a French +convoy officer, who said rapidly: “We must halt here: the Emperor +will pass here immediately; it will please him to see these gentlemen +prisoners.” + +“There are so many prisoners today, nearly the whole Russian army, +that he is probably tired of them,” said another officer. + +“All the same! They say this one is the commander of all the Emperor +Alexander’s Guards,” said the first one, indicating a Russian +officer in the white uniform of the Horse Guards. + +Bolkónski recognized Prince Repnín whom he had met in Petersburg +society. Beside him stood a lad of nineteen, also a wounded officer of +the Horse Guards. + +Bonaparte, having come up at a gallop, stopped his horse. + +“Which is the senior?” he asked, on seeing the prisoners. + +They named the colonel, Prince Repnín. + +“You are the commander of the Emperor Alexander’s regiment of Horse +Guards?” asked Napoleon. + +“I commanded a squadron,” replied Repnín. + +“Your regiment fulfilled its duty honorably,” said Napoleon. + +“The praise of a great commander is a soldier’s highest reward,” +said Repnín. + +“I bestow it with pleasure,” said Napoleon. “And who is that young +man beside you?” + +Prince Repnín named Lieutenant Sukhtélen. + +After looking at him Napoleon smiled. + +“He’s very young to come to meddle with us.” + +“Youth is no hindrance to courage,” muttered Sukhtélen in a failing +voice. + +“A splendid reply!” said Napoleon. “Young man, you will go far!” + +Prince Andrew, who had also been brought forward before the Emperor’s +eyes to complete the show of prisoners, could not fail to attract his +attention. Napoleon apparently remembered seeing him on the battlefield +and, addressing him, again used the epithet “young man” that was +connected in his memory with Prince Andrew. + +“Well, and you, young man,” said he. “How do you feel, mon +brave?” + +Though five minutes before, Prince Andrew had been able to say a few +words to the soldiers who were carrying him, now with his eyes fixed +straight on Napoleon, he was silent.... So insignificant at that moment +seemed to him all the interests that engrossed Napoleon, so mean did his +hero himself with his paltry vanity and joy in victory appear, +compared to the lofty, equitable, and kindly sky which he had seen and +understood, that he could not answer him. + +Everything seemed so futile and insignificant in comparison with the +stern and solemn train of thought that weakness from loss of blood, +suffering, and the nearness of death aroused in him. Looking into +Napoleon’s eyes Prince Andrew thought of the insignificance of +greatness, the unimportance of life which no one could understand, and +the still greater unimportance of death, the meaning of which no one +alive could understand or explain. + +The Emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of +the officers as he went: “Have these gentlemen attended to and taken +to my bivouac; let my doctor, Larrey, examine their wounds. Au revoir, +Prince Repnín!” and he spurred his horse and galloped away. + +His face shone with self-satisfaction and pleasure. + +The soldiers who had carried Prince Andrew had noticed and taken the +little gold icon Princess Mary had hung round her brother’s neck, but +seeing the favor the Emperor showed the prisoners, they now hastened to +return the holy image. + +Prince Andrew did not see how and by whom it was replaced, but the +little icon with its thin gold chain suddenly appeared upon his chest +outside his uniform. + +“It would be good,” thought Prince Andrew, glancing at the icon his +sister had hung round his neck with such emotion and reverence, “it +would be good if everything were as clear and simple as it seems to +Mary. How good it would be to know where to seek for help in this life, +and what to expect after it beyond the grave! How happy and calm I +should be if I could now say: ‘Lord, have mercy on me!’... But to +whom should I say that? Either to a Power indefinable, incomprehensible, +which I not only cannot address but which I cannot even express in +words—the Great All or Nothing-” said he to himself, “or to +that God who has been sewn into this amulet by Mary! There is nothing +certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything I +understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but +all-important.” + +The stretchers moved on. At every jolt he again felt unendurable pain; +his feverishness increased and he grew delirious. Visions of his father, +wife, sister, and future son, and the tenderness he had felt the night +before the battle, the figure of the insignificant little Napoleon, and +above all this the lofty sky, formed the chief subjects of his delirious +fancies. + +The quiet home life and peaceful happiness of Bald Hills presented +itself to him. He was already enjoying that happiness when that +little Napoleon had suddenly appeared with his unsympathizing look of +shortsighted delight at the misery of others, and doubts and torments +had followed, and only the heavens promised peace. Toward morning +all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of +unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of Napoleon’s doctor, +Larrey, was much more likely to end in death than in convalescence. + +“He is a nervous, bilious subject,” said Larrey, “and will not +recover.” + +And Prince Andrew, with others fatally wounded, was left to the care of +the inhabitants of the district. + + + + + +BOOK FOUR: 1806 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +Early in the year 1806 Nicholas Rostóv returned home on leave. Denísov +was going home to Vorónezh and Rostóv persuaded him to travel with him +as far as Moscow and to stay with him there. Meeting a comrade at +the last post station but one before Moscow, Denísov had drunk three +bottles of wine with him and, despite the jolting ruts across the +snow-covered road, did not once wake up on the way to Moscow, but lay +at the bottom of the sleigh beside Rostóv, who grew more and more +impatient the nearer they got to Moscow. + +“How much longer? How much longer? Oh, these insufferable streets, +shops, bakers’ signboards, street lamps, and sleighs!” thought +Rostóv, when their leave permits had been passed at the town gate and +they had entered Moscow. + +“Denísov! We’re here! He’s asleep,” he added, leaning forward +with his whole body as if in that position he hoped to hasten the speed +of the sleigh. + +Denísov gave no answer. + +“There’s the corner at the crossroads, where the cabman, Zakhár, +has his stand, and there’s Zakhár himself and still the same horse! +And here’s the little shop where we used to buy gingerbread! Can’t +you hurry up? Now then!” + +“Which house is it?” asked the driver. + +“Why, that one, right at the end, the big one. Don’t you see? +That’s our house,” said Rostóv. “Of course, it’s our house! +Denísov, Denísov! We’re almost there!” + +Denísov raised his head, coughed, and made no answer. + +“Dmítri,” said Rostóv to his valet on the box, “those lights are +in our house, aren’t they?” + +“Yes, sir, and there’s a light in your father’s study.” + +“Then they’ve not gone to bed yet? What do you think? Mind now, +don’t forget to put out my new coat,” added Rostóv, fingering his +new mustache. “Now then, get on,” he shouted to the driver. “Do +wake up, Váska!” he went on, turning to Denísov, whose head +was again nodding. “Come, get on! You shall have three rubles for +vodka—get on!” Rostóv shouted, when the sleigh was only three +houses from his door. It seemed to him the horses were not moving at +all. At last the sleigh bore to the right, drew up at an entrance, and +Rostóv saw overhead the old familiar cornice with a bit of plaster +broken off, the porch, and the post by the side of the pavement. He +sprang out before the sleigh stopped, and ran into the hall. The house +stood cold and silent, as if quite regardless of who had come to it. +There was no one in the hall. “Oh God! Is everyone all right?” +he thought, stopping for a moment with a sinking heart, and then +immediately starting to run along the hall and up the warped steps of +the familiar staircase. The well-known old door handle, which always +angered the countess when it was not properly cleaned, turned as loosely +as ever. A solitary tallow candle burned in the anteroom. + +Old Michael was asleep on the chest. Prokófy, the footman, who was +so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat +plaiting slippers out of cloth selvedges. He looked up at the opening +door and his expression of sleepy indifference suddenly changed to one +of delighted amazement. + +“Gracious heavens! The young count!” he cried, recognizing his +young master. “Can it be? My treasure!” and Prokófy, trembling with +excitement, rushed toward the drawing room door, probably in order to +announce him, but, changing his mind, came back and stooped to kiss the +young man’s shoulder. + +“All well?” asked Rostóv, drawing away his arm. + +“Yes, God be thanked! Yes! They’ve just finished supper. Let me have +a look at you, your excellency.” + +“Is everything quite all right?” + +“The Lord be thanked, yes!” + +Rostóv, who had completely forgotten Denísov, not wishing anyone to +forestall him, threw off his fur coat and ran on tiptoe through the +large dark ballroom. All was the same: there were the same old card +tables and the same chandelier with a cover over it; but someone had +already seen the young master, and, before he had reached the drawing +room, something flew out from a side door like a tornado and began +hugging and kissing him. Another and yet another creature of the same +kind sprang from a second door and a third; more hugging, more kissing, +more outcries, and tears of joy. He could not distinguish which was +Papa, which Natásha, and which Pétya. Everyone shouted, talked, and +kissed him at the same time. Only his mother was not there, he noticed +that. + +“And I did not know... Nicholas... My darling!...” + +“Here he is... our own... Kólya, * dear fellow... How he has +changed!... Where are the candles?... Tea!...” + + * Nicholas. + +“And me, kiss me!” + +“Dearest... and me!” + +Sónya, Natásha, Pétya, Anna Mikháylovna, Véra, and the old count +were all hugging him, and the serfs, men and maids, flocked into the +room, exclaiming and oh-ing and ah-ing. + +Pétya, clinging to his legs, kept shouting, “And me too!” + +Natásha, after she had pulled him down toward her and covered his face +with kisses, holding him tight by the skirt of his coat, sprang away and +pranced up and down in one place like a goat and shrieked piercingly. + +All around were loving eyes glistening with tears of joy, and all around +were lips seeking a kiss. + +Sónya too, all rosy red, clung to his arm and, radiant with bliss, +looked eagerly toward his eyes, waiting for the look for which she +longed. Sónya now was sixteen and she was very pretty, especially at +this moment of happy, rapturous excitement. She gazed at him, not taking +her eyes off him, and smiling and holding her breath. He gave her a +grateful look, but was still expectant and looking for someone. The old +countess had not yet come. But now steps were heard at the door, steps +so rapid that they could hardly be his mother’s. + +Yet it was she, dressed in a new gown which he did not know, made since +he had left. All the others let him go, and he ran to her. When they +met, she fell on his breast, sobbing. She could not lift her face, but +only pressed it to the cold braiding of his hussar’s jacket. Denísov, +who had come into the room unnoticed by anyone, stood there and wiped +his eyes at the sight. + +“Vasíli Denísov, your son’s friend,” he said, introducing +himself to the count, who was looking inquiringly at him. + +“You are most welcome! I know, I know,” said the count, kissing and +embracing Denísov. “Nicholas wrote us... Natásha, Véra, look! Here +is Denísov!” + +The same happy, rapturous faces turned to the shaggy figure of Denísov. + +“Darling Denísov!” screamed Natásha, beside herself with rapture, +springing to him, putting her arms round him, and kissing him. This +escapade made everybody feel confused. Denísov blushed too, but smiled +and, taking Natásha’s hand, kissed it. + +Denísov was shown to the room prepared for him, and the Rostóvs all +gathered round Nicholas in the sitting room. + +The old countess, not letting go of his hand and kissing it every +moment, sat beside him: the rest, crowding round him, watched every +movement, word, or look of his, never taking their blissfully adoring +eyes off him. His brother and sisters struggled for the places nearest +to him and disputed with one another who should bring him his tea, +handkerchief, and pipe. + +Rostóv was very happy in the love they showed him; but the first +moment of meeting had been so beatific that his present joy seemed +insufficient, and he kept expecting something more, more and yet more. + +Next morning, after the fatigues of their journey, the travelers slept +till ten o’clock. + +In the room next their bedroom there was a confusion of sabers, +satchels, sabretaches, open portmanteaus, and dirty boots. Two freshly +cleaned pairs with spurs had just been placed by the wall. The servants +were bringing in jugs and basins, hot water for shaving, and their +well-brushed clothes. There was a masculine odor and a smell of tobacco. + +“Hallo, Gwíska—my pipe!” came Vasíli Denísov’s husky voice. +“Wostóv, get up!” + +Rostóv, rubbing his eyes that seemed glued together, raised his +disheveled head from the hot pillow. + +“Why, is it late?” + +“Late! It’s nearly ten o’clock,” answered Natásha’s voice. +A rustle of starched petticoats and the whispering and laughter of +girls’ voices came from the adjoining room. The door was opened a +crack and there was a glimpse of something blue, of ribbons, black hair, +and merry faces. It was Natásha, Sónya, and Pétya, who had come to +see whether they were getting up. + +“Nicholas! Get up!” Natásha’s voice was again heard at the door. + +“Directly!” + +Meanwhile, Pétya, having found and seized the sabers in the outer room, +with the delight boys feel at the sight of a military elder brother, and +forgetting that it was unbecoming for the girls to see men undressed, +opened the bedroom door. + +“Is this your saber?” he shouted. + +The girls sprang aside. Denísov hid his hairy legs under the blanket, +looking with a scared face at his comrade for help. The door, having let +Pétya in, closed again. A sound of laughter came from behind it. + +“Nicholas! Come out in your dressing gown!” said Natásha’s voice. + +“Is this your saber?” asked Pétya. “Or is it yours?” he said, +addressing the black-mustached Denísov with servile deference. + +Rostóv hurriedly put something on his feet, drew on his dressing gown, +and went out. Natásha had put on one spurred boot and was just getting +her foot into the other. Sónya, when he came in, was twirling round and +was about to expand her dresses into a balloon and sit down. They were +dressed alike, in new pale-blue frocks, and were both fresh, rosy, and +bright. Sónya ran away, but Natásha, taking her brother’s arm, led +him into the sitting room, where they began talking. They hardly gave +one another time to ask questions and give replies concerning a thousand +little matters which could not interest anyone but themselves. Natásha +laughed at every word he said or that she said herself, not because what +they were saying was amusing, but because she felt happy and was unable +to control her joy which expressed itself by laughter. + +“Oh, how nice, how splendid!” she said to everything. + +Rostóv felt that, under the influence of the warm rays of love, that +childlike smile which had not once appeared on his face since he left +home now for the first time after eighteen months again brightened his +soul and his face. + +“No, but listen,” she said, “now you are quite a man, aren’t +you? I’m awfully glad you’re my brother.” She touched his +mustache. “I want to know what you men are like. Are you the same as +we? No?” + +“Why did Sónya run away?” asked Rostóv. + +“Ah, yes! That’s a whole long story! How are you going to speak to +her—thou or you?” + +“As may happen,” said Rostóv. + +“No, call her you, please! I’ll tell you all about it some other +time. No, I’ll tell you now. You know Sónya’s my dearest friend. +Such a friend that I burned my arm for her sake. Look here!” + +She pulled up her muslin sleeve and showed him a red scar on her long, +slender, delicate arm, high above the elbow on that part that is covered +even by a ball dress. + +“I burned this to prove my love for her. I just heated a ruler in the +fire and pressed it there!” + +Sitting on the sofa with the little cushions on its arms, in what used +to be his old schoolroom, and looking into Natásha’s wildly bright +eyes, Rostóv re-entered that world of home and childhood which had no +meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the best joys of his life; +and the burning of an arm with a ruler as a proof of love did not seem +to him senseless, he understood and was not surprised at it. + +“Well, and is that all?” he asked. + +“We are such friends, such friends! All that ruler business was just +nonsense, but we are friends forever. She, if she loves anyone, does it +for life, but I don’t understand that, I forget quickly.” + +“Well, what then?” + +“Well, she loves me and you like that.” + +Natásha suddenly flushed. + +“Why, you remember before you went away?... Well, she says you are to +forget all that.... She says: ‘I shall love him always, but let him be +free.’ Isn’t that lovely and noble! Yes, very noble? Isn’t it?” +asked Natásha, so seriously and excitedly that it was evident that what +she was now saying she had talked of before, with tears. + +Rostóv became thoughtful. + +“I never go back on my word,” he said. “Besides, Sónya is so +charming that only a fool would renounce such happiness.” + +“No, no!” cried Natásha, “she and I have already talked it over. +We knew you’d say so. But it won’t do, because you see, if you say +that—if you consider yourself bound by your promise—it will seem as +if she had not meant it seriously. It makes it as if you were marrying +her because you must, and that wouldn’t do at all.” + +Rostóv saw that it had been well considered by them. Sónya had already +struck him by her beauty on the preceding day. Today, when he had caught +a glimpse of her, she seemed still more lovely. She was a charming girl +of sixteen, evidently passionately in love with him (he did not doubt +that for an instant). Why should he not love her now, and even marry +her, Rostóv thought, but just now there were so many other pleasures +and interests before him! “Yes, they have taken a wise decision,” he +thought, “I must remain free.” + +“Well then, that’s excellent,” said he. “We’ll talk it over +later on. Oh, how glad I am to have you!” + +“Well, and are you still true to Borís?” he continued. + +“Oh, what nonsense!” cried Natásha, laughing. “I don’t think +about him or anyone else, and I don’t want anything of the kind.” + +“Dear me! Then what are you up to now?” + +“Now?” repeated Natásha, and a happy smile lit up her face. “Have +you seen Duport?” + +“No.” + +“Not seen Duport—the famous dancer? Well then, you won’t +understand. That’s what I’m up to.” + +Curving her arms, Natásha held out her skirts as dancers do, ran back +a few steps, turned, cut a caper, brought her little feet sharply +together, and made some steps on the very tips of her toes. + +“See, I’m standing! See!” she said, but could not maintain herself +on her toes any longer. “So that’s what I’m up to! I’ll never +marry anyone, but will be a dancer. Only don’t tell anyone.” + +Rostóv laughed so loud and merrily that Denísov, in his bedroom, felt +envious and Natásha could not help joining in. + +“No, but don’t you think it’s nice?” she kept repeating. + +“Nice! And so you no longer wish to marry Borís?” + +Natásha flared up. “I don’t want to marry anyone. And I’ll tell +him so when I see him!” + +“Dear me!” said Rostóv. + +“But that’s all rubbish,” Natásha chattered on. “And is +Denísov nice?” she asked. + +“Yes, indeed!” + +“Oh, well then, good-by: go and dress. Is he very terrible, +Denísov?” + +“Why terrible?” asked Nicholas. “No, Váska is a splendid +fellow.” + +“You call him Váska? That’s funny! And is he very nice?” + +“Very.” + +“Well then, be quick. We’ll all have breakfast together.” + +And Natásha rose and went out of the room on tiptoe, like a ballet +dancer, but smiling as only happy girls of fifteen can smile. When +Rostóv met Sónya in the drawing room, he reddened. He did not know +how to behave with her. The evening before, in the first happy moment of +meeting, they had kissed each other, but today they felt it could not +be done; he felt that everybody, including his mother and sisters, was +looking inquiringly at him and watching to see how he would behave +with her. He kissed her hand and addressed her not as thou but as +you—Sónya. But their eyes met and said thou, and exchanged tender +kisses. Her looks asked him to forgive her for having dared, by +Natásha’s intermediacy, to remind him of his promise, and then +thanked him for his love. His looks thanked her for offering him his +freedom and told her that one way or another he would never cease to +love her, for that would be impossible. + +“How strange it is,” said Véra, selecting a moment when all were +silent, “that Sónya and Nicholas now say you to one another and meet +like strangers.” + +Véra’s remark was correct, as her remarks always were, but, like +most of her observations, it made everyone feel uncomfortable, not +only Sónya, Nicholas, and Natásha, but even the old countess, +who—dreading this love affair which might hinder Nicholas from making +a brilliant match—blushed like a girl. + +Denísov, to Rostóv’s surprise, appeared in the drawing room with +pomaded hair, perfumed, and in a new uniform, looking just as smart as +he made himself when going into battle, and he was more amiable to the +ladies and gentlemen than Rostóv had ever expected to see him. + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +On his return to Moscow from the army, Nicholas Rostóv was welcomed +by his home circle as the best of sons, a hero, and their darling +Nikólenka; by his relations as a charming, attractive, and polite young +man; by his acquaintances as a handsome lieutenant of hussars, a good +dancer, and one of the best matches in the city. + +The Rostóvs knew everybody in Moscow. The old count had money enough +that year, as all his estates had been remortgaged, and so Nicholas, +acquiring a trotter of his own, very stylish riding breeches of the +latest cut, such as no one else yet had in Moscow, and boots of the +latest fashion, with extremely pointed toes and small silver spurs, +passed his time very gaily. After a short period of adapting himself +to the old conditions of life, Nicholas found it very pleasant to be +at home again. He felt that he had grown up and matured very much. His +despair at failing in a Scripture examination, his borrowing money from +Gavríl to pay a sleigh driver, his kissing Sónya on the sly—he now +recalled all this as childishness he had left immeasurably behind. +Now he was a lieutenant of hussars, in a jacket laced with silver, and +wearing the Cross of St. George, awarded to soldiers for bravery in +action, and in the company of well-known, elderly, and respected racing +men was training a trotter of his own for a race. He knew a lady on one +of the boulevards whom he visited of an evening. He led the mazurka +at the Arkhárovs’ ball, talked about the war with Field Marshal +Kámenski, visited the English Club, and was on intimate terms with a +colonel of forty to whom Denísov had introduced him. + +His passion for the Emperor had cooled somewhat in Moscow. But still, as +he did not see him and had no opportunity of seeing him, he often spoke +about him and about his love for him, letting it be understood that he +had not told all and that there was something in his feelings for the +Emperor not everyone could understand, and with his whole soul he shared +the adoration then common in Moscow for the Emperor, who was spoken of +as the “angel incarnate.” + +During Rostóv’s short stay in Moscow, before rejoining the army, he +did not draw closer to Sónya, but rather drifted away from her. She was +very pretty and sweet, and evidently deeply in love with him, but he was +at the period of youth when there seems so much to do that there is no +time for that sort of thing and a young man fears to bind himself and +prizes his freedom which he needs for so many other things. When he +thought of Sónya, during this stay in Moscow, he said to himself, +“Ah, there will be, and there are, many more such girls somewhere whom +I do not yet know. There will be time enough to think about love when I +want to, but now I have no time.” Besides, it seemed to him that the +society of women was rather derogatory to his manhood. He went to balls +and into ladies’ society with an affectation of doing so against his +will. The races, the English Club, sprees with Denísov, and visits to +a certain house—that was another matter and quite the thing for a +dashing young hussar! + +At the beginning of March, old Count Ilyá Rostóv was very busy +arranging a dinner in honor of Prince Bagratión at the English Club. + +The count walked up and down the hall in his dressing gown, giving +orders to the club steward and to the famous Feoktíst, the club’s +head cook, about asparagus, fresh cucumbers, strawberries, veal, and +fish for this dinner. The count had been a member and on the committee +of the club from the day it was founded. To him the club entrusted the +arrangement of the festival in honor of Bagratión, for few men knew +so well how to arrange a feast on an open-handed, hospitable scale, +and still fewer men would be so well able and willing to make up out of +their own resources what might be needed for the success of the fete. +The club cook and the steward listened to the count’s orders with +pleased faces, for they knew that under no other management could they +so easily extract a good profit for themselves from a dinner costing +several thousand rubles. + +“Well then, mind and have cocks’ comb in the turtle soup, you +know!” + +“Shall we have three cold dishes then?” asked the cook. + +The count considered. + +“We can’t have less—yes, three... the mayonnaise, that’s one,” +said he, bending down a finger. + +“Then am I to order those large sterlets?” asked the steward. + +“Yes, it can’t be helped if they won’t take less. Ah, dear me! I +was forgetting. We must have another entrée. Ah, goodness gracious!” +he clutched at his head. “Who is going to get me the flowers? Dmítri! +Eh, Dmítri! Gallop off to our Moscow estate,” he said to the factotum +who appeared at his call. “Hurry off and tell Maksím, the gardener, +to set the serfs to work. Say that everything out of the hothouses must +be brought here well wrapped up in felt. I must have two hundred pots +here on Friday.” + +Having given several more orders, he was about to go to his “little +countess” to have a rest, but remembering something else of +importance, he returned again, called back the cook and the club +steward, and again began giving orders. A light footstep and the +clinking of spurs were heard at the door, and the young count, handsome, +rosy, with a dark little mustache, evidently rested and made sleeker by +his easy life in Moscow, entered the room. + +“Ah, my boy, my head’s in a whirl!” said the old man with a smile, +as if he felt a little confused before his son. “Now, if you would +only help a bit! I must have singers too. I shall have my own orchestra, +but shouldn’t we get the gypsy singers as well? You military men like +that sort of thing.” + +“Really, Papa, I believe Prince Bagratión worried himself less before +the battle of Schön Grabern than you do now,” said his son with a +smile. + +The old count pretended to be angry. + +“Yes, you talk, but try it yourself!” + +And the count turned to the cook, who, with a shrewd and respectful +expression, looked observantly and sympathetically at the father and +son. + +“What have the young people come to nowadays, eh, Feoktíst?” said +he. “Laughing at us old fellows!” + +“That’s so, your excellency, all they have to do is to eat a good +dinner, but providing it and serving it all up, that’s not their +business!” + +“That’s it, that’s it!” exclaimed the count, and gaily seizing +his son by both hands, he cried, “Now I’ve got you, so take the +sleigh and pair at once, and go to Bezúkhov’s, and tell him ‘Count +Ilyá has sent you to ask for strawberries and fresh pineapples.’ We +can’t get them from anyone else. He’s not there himself, so you’ll +have to go in and ask the princesses; and from there go on to the +Rasgulyáy—the coachman Ipátka knows—and look up the gypsy +Ilyúshka, the one who danced at Count Orlóv’s, you remember, in a +white Cossack coat, and bring him along to me.” + +“And am I to bring the gypsy girls along with him?” asked Nicholas, +laughing. “Dear, dear!...” + +At that moment, with noiseless footsteps and with the businesslike, +preoccupied, yet meekly Christian look which never left her face, Anna +Mikháylovna entered the hall. Though she came upon the count in his +dressing gown every day, he invariably became confused and begged her to +excuse his costume. + +“No matter at all, my dear count,” she said, meekly closing her +eyes. “But I’ll go to Bezúkhov’s myself. Pierre has arrived, and +now we shall get anything we want from his hothouses. I have to see him +in any case. He has forwarded me a letter from Borís. Thank God, Borís +is now on the staff.” + +The count was delighted at Anna Mikháylovna’s taking upon herself one +of his commissions and ordered the small closed carriage for her. + +“Tell Bezúkhov to come. I’ll put his name down. Is his wife with +him?” he asked. + +Anna Mikháylovna turned up her eyes, and profound sadness was depicted +on her face. + +“Ah, my dear friend, he is very unfortunate,” she said. “If what +we hear is true, it is dreadful. How little we dreamed of such a thing +when we were rejoicing at his happiness! And such a lofty angelic soul +as young Bezúkhov! Yes, I pity him from my heart, and shall try to give +him what consolation I can.” + +“Wh-what is the matter?” asked both the young and old Rostóv. + +Anna Mikháylovna sighed deeply. + +“Dólokhov, Mary Ivánovna’s son,” she said in a mysterious +whisper, “has compromised her completely, they say. Pierre took him +up, invited him to his house in Petersburg, and now... she has come here +and that daredevil after her!” said Anna Mikháylovna, wishing to show +her sympathy for Pierre, but by involuntary intonations and a half smile +betraying her sympathy for the “daredevil,” as she called Dólokhov. +“They say Pierre is quite broken by his misfortune.” + +“Dear, dear! But still tell him to come to the club—it will all blow +over. It will be a tremendous banquet.” + +Next day, the third of March, soon after one o’clock, two hundred and +fifty members of the English Club and fifty guests were awaiting the +guest of honor and hero of the Austrian campaign, Prince Bagratión, to +dinner. + +On the first arrival of the news of the battle of Austerlitz, Moscow had +been bewildered. At that time, the Russians were so used to victories +that on receiving news of the defeat some would simply not believe it, +while others sought some extraordinary explanation of so strange an +event. In the English Club, where all who were distinguished, important, +and well informed foregathered when the news began to arrive in +December, nothing was said about the war and the last battle, as +though all were in a conspiracy of silence. The men who set the tone +in conversation—Count Rostopchín, Prince Yúri Dolgorúkov, Valúev, +Count Markóv, and Prince Vyázemski—did not show themselves at the +club, but met in private houses in intimate circles, and the +Moscovites who took their opinions from others—Ilyá Rostóv among +them—remained for a while without any definite opinion on the subject +of the war and without leaders. The Moscovites felt that something was +wrong and that to discuss the bad news was difficult, and so it was best +to be silent. But after a while, just as a jury comes out of its room, +the bigwigs who guided the club’s opinion reappeared, and everybody +began speaking clearly and definitely. Reasons were found for the +incredible, unheard-of, and impossible event of a Russian defeat, +everything became clear, and in all corners of Moscow the same things +began to be said. These reasons were the treachery of the Austrians, a +defective commissariat, the treachery of the Pole Przebyszéwski and of +the Frenchman Langeron, Kutúzov’s incapacity, and (it was whispered) +the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless +and insignificant people. But the army, the Russian army, everyone +declared, was extraordinary and had achieved miracles of valor. The +soldiers, officers, and generals were heroes. But the hero of heroes was +Prince Bagratión, distinguished by his Schön Grabern affair and by +the retreat from Austerlitz, where he alone had withdrawn his column +unbroken and had all day beaten back an enemy force twice as numerous +as his own. What also conduced to Bagratión’s being selected as +Moscow’s hero was the fact that he had no connections in the city +and was a stranger there. In his person, honor was shown to a simple +fighting Russian soldier without connections and intrigues, and to one +who was associated by memories of the Italian campaign with the name of +Suvórov. Moreover, paying such honor to Bagratión was the best way of +expressing disapproval and dislike of Kutúzov. + +“Had there been no Bagratión, it would have been necessary to +invent him,” said the wit Shinshín, parodying the words of Voltaire. +Kutúzov no one spoke of, except some who abused him in whispers, +calling him a court weathercock and an old satyr. + +All Moscow repeated Prince Dolgorúkov’s saying: “If you go on +modeling and modeling you must get smeared with clay,” suggesting +consolation for our defeat by the memory of former victories; and the +words of Rostopchín, that French soldiers have to be incited to battle +by highfalutin words, and Germans by logical arguments to show them +that it is more dangerous to run away than to advance, but that Russian +soldiers only need to be restrained and held back! On all sides, new and +fresh anecdotes were heard of individual examples of heroism shown by +our officers and men at Austerlitz. One had saved a standard, another +had killed five Frenchmen, a third had loaded five cannon singlehanded. +Berg was mentioned, by those who did not know him, as having, when +wounded in the right hand, taken his sword in the left, and gone +forward. Of Bolkónski, nothing was said, and only those who knew him +intimately regretted that he had died so young, leaving a pregnant wife +with his eccentric father. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +On that third of March, all the rooms in the English Club were filled +with a hum of conversation, like the hum of bees swarming in springtime. +The members and guests of the club wandered hither and thither, sat, +stood, met, and separated, some in uniform and some in evening dress, +and a few here and there with powdered hair and in Russian kaftáns. +Powdered footmen, in livery with buckled shoes and smart stockings, +stood at every door anxiously noting visitors’ every movement in order +to offer their services. Most of those present were elderly, respected +men with broad, self-confident faces, fat fingers, and resolute gestures +and voices. This class of guests and members sat in certain habitual +places and met in certain habitual groups. A minority of those present +were casual guests—chiefly young men, among whom were Denísov, +Rostóv, and Dólokhov—who was now again an officer in the Semënov +regiment. The faces of these young people, especially those who were +military men, bore that expression of condescending respect for their +elders which seems to say to the older generation, “We are prepared to +respect and honor you, but all the same remember that the future belongs +to us.” + +Nesvítski was there as an old member of the club. Pierre, who at his +wife’s command had let his hair grow and abandoned his spectacles, +went about the rooms fashionably dressed but looking sad and dull. Here, +as elsewhere, he was surrounded by an atmosphere of subservience to +his wealth, and being in the habit of lording it over these people, he +treated them with absent-minded contempt. + +By his age he should have belonged to the younger men, but by his wealth +and connections he belonged to the groups of old and honored guests, and +so he went from one group to another. Some of the most important old men +were the center of groups which even strangers approached respectfully +to hear the voices of well-known men. The largest circles formed round +Count Rostopchín, Valúev, and Narýshkin. Rostopchín was describing +how the Russians had been overwhelmed by flying Austrians and had had to +force their way through them with bayonets. + +Valúev was confidentially telling that Uvárov had been sent from +Petersburg to ascertain what Moscow was thinking about Austerlitz. + +In the third circle, Narýshkin was speaking of the meeting of the +Austrian Council of War at which Suvórov crowed like a cock in reply to +the nonsense talked by the Austrian generals. Shinshín, standing close +by, tried to make a joke, saying that Kutúzov had evidently failed to +learn from Suvórov even so simple a thing as the art of crowing like a +cock, but the elder members glanced severely at the wit, making him +feel that in that place and on that day, it was improper to speak so of +Kutúzov. + +Count Ilyá Rostóv, hurried and preoccupied, went about in his soft +boots between the dining and drawing rooms, hastily greeting the +important and unimportant, all of whom he knew, as if they were all +equals, while his eyes occasionally sought out his fine well-set-up +young son, resting on him and winking joyfully at him. Young Rostóv +stood at a window with Dólokhov, whose acquaintance he had lately +made and highly valued. The old count came up to them and pressed +Dólokhov’s hand. + +“Please come and visit us... you know my brave boy... been together +out there... both playing the hero... Ah, Vasíli Ignátovich... +How d’ye do, old fellow?” he said, turning to an old man who was +passing, but before he had finished his greeting there was a general +stir, and a footman who had run in announced, with a frightened face: +“He’s arrived!” + +Bells rang, the stewards rushed forward, and—like rye shaken together +in a shovel—the guests who had been scattered about in different rooms +came together and crowded in the large drawing room by the door of the +ballroom. + +Bagratión appeared in the doorway of the anteroom without hat or sword, +which, in accord with the club custom, he had given up to the hall +porter. He had no lambskin cap on his head, nor had he a loaded whip +over his shoulder, as when Rostóv had seen him on the eve of the battle +of Austerlitz, but wore a tight new uniform with Russian and foreign +Orders, and the Star of St. George on his left breast. Evidently just +before coming to the dinner he had had his hair and whiskers trimmed, +which changed his appearance for the worse. There was something naïvely +festive in his air, which, in conjunction with his firm and virile +features, gave him a rather comical expression. Bekleshëv and Theodore +Uvárov, who had arrived with him, paused at the doorway to allow him, +as the guest of honor, to enter first. Bagratión was embarrassed, not +wishing to avail himself of their courtesy, and this caused some delay +at the doors, but after all he did at last enter first. He walked shyly +and awkwardly over the parquet floor of the reception room, not knowing +what to do with his hands; he was more accustomed to walk over a plowed +field under fire, as he had done at the head of the Kursk regiment at +Schön Grabern—and he would have found that easier. The committeemen +met him at the first door and, expressing their delight at seeing such a +highly honored guest, took possession of him as it were, without waiting +for his reply, surrounded him, and led him to the drawing room. It was +at first impossible to enter the drawing room door for the crowd of +members and guests jostling one another and trying to get a good look +at Bagratión over each other’s shoulders, as if he were some rare +animal. Count Ilyá Rostóv, laughing and repeating the words, “Make +way, dear boy! Make way, make way!” pushed through the crowd more +energetically than anyone, led the guests into the drawing room, and +seated them on the center sofa. The bigwigs, the most respected members +of the club, beset the new arrivals. Count Ilyá, again thrusting his +way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a +minute later with another committeeman, carrying a large silver salver +which he presented to Prince Bagratión. On the salver lay some verses +composed and printed in the hero’s honor. Bagratión, on seeing the +salver, glanced around in dismay, as though seeking help. But all eyes +demanded that he should submit. Feeling himself in their power, he +resolutely took the salver with both hands and looked sternly and +reproachfully at the count who had presented it to him. Someone +obligingly took the dish from Bagratión (or he would, it seemed, have +held it till evening and have gone in to dinner with it) and drew his +attention to the verses. + +“Well, I will read them, then!” Bagratión seemed to say, and, +fixing his weary eyes on the paper, began to read them with a fixed and +serious expression. But the author himself took the verses and began +reading them aloud. Bagratión bowed his head and listened: + + Bring glory then to Alexander’s reign + And on the throne our Titus shield. + A dreaded foe be thou, kindhearted as a man, + A Rhipheus at home, a Caesar in the field! + E’en fortunate Napoleon + Knows by experience, now, Bagratión, + And dare not Herculean Russians trouble... + +But before he had finished reading, a stentorian major-domo announced +that dinner was ready! The door opened, and from the dining room came +the resounding strains of the polonaise: + + Conquest’s joyful thunder waken, + Triumph, valiant Russians, now!... + +and Count Rostóv, glancing angrily at the author who went on reading +his verses, bowed to Bagratión. Everyone rose, feeling that dinner +was more important than verses, and Bagratión, again preceding all the +rest, went in to dinner. He was seated in the place of honor between +two Alexanders—Bekleshëv and Narýshkin—which was a significant +allusion to the name of the sovereign. Three hundred persons took their +seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the +more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows +deepest where the land lies lowest. + +Just before dinner, Count Ilyá Rostóv presented his son to Bagratión, +who recognized him and said a few words to him, disjointed and awkward, +as were all the words he spoke that day, and Count Ilyá looked joyfully +and proudly around while Bagratión spoke to his son. + +Nicholas Rostóv, with Denísov and his new acquaintance, Dólokhov, sat +almost at the middle of the table. Facing them sat Pierre, beside Prince +Nesvítski. Count Ilyá Rostóv with the other members of the committee +sat facing Bagratión and, as the very personification of Moscow +hospitality, did the honors to the prince. + +His efforts had not been in vain. The dinner, both the Lenten and the +other fare, was splendid, yet he could not feel quite at ease till the +end of the meal. He winked at the butler, whispered directions to the +footmen, and awaited each expected dish with some anxiety. Everything +was excellent. With the second course, a gigantic sterlet (at sight of +which Ilyá Rostóv blushed with self-conscious pleasure), the footmen +began popping corks and filling the champagne glasses. After the fish, +which made a certain sensation, the count exchanged glances with +the other committeemen. “There will be many toasts, it’s time to +begin,” he whispered, and taking up his glass, he rose. All were +silent, waiting for what he would say. + +“To the health of our Sovereign, the Emperor!” he cried, and at the +same moment his kindly eyes grew moist with tears of joy and enthusiasm. +The band immediately struck up “Conquest’s joyful thunder +waken...” All rose and cried “Hurrah!” Bagratión also rose and +shouted “Hurrah!” in exactly the same voice in which he had shouted +it on the field at Schön Grabern. Young Rostóv’s ecstatic voice +could be heard above the three hundred others. He nearly wept. “To the +health of our Sovereign, the Emperor!” he roared, “Hurrah!” and +emptying his glass at one gulp he dashed it to the floor. Many followed +his example, and the loud shouting continued for a long time. When the +voices subsided, the footmen cleared away the broken glass and everybody +sat down again, smiling at the noise they had made and exchanging +remarks. The old count rose once more, glanced at a note lying beside +his plate, and proposed a toast, “To the health of the hero of our +last campaign, Prince Peter Ivánovich Bagratión!” and again his blue +eyes grew moist. “Hurrah!” cried the three hundred voices again, +but instead of the band a choir began singing a cantata composed by Paul +Ivánovich Kutúzov: + + Russians! O’er all barriers on! + Courage conquest guarantees; + Have we not Bagratión? + He brings foemen to their knees,... etc. + +As soon as the singing was over, another and another toast was proposed +and Count Ilyá Rostóv became more and more moved, more glass was +smashed, and the shouting grew louder. They drank to Bekleshëv, +Narýshkin, Uvárov, Dolgorúkov, Apráksin, Valúev, to the committee, +to all the club members and to all the club guests, and finally to +Count Ilyá Rostóv separately, as the organizer of the banquet. At that +toast, the count took out his handkerchief and, covering his face, wept +outright. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +Pierre sat opposite Dólokhov and Nicholas Rostóv. As usual, he ate and +drank much, and eagerly. But those who knew him intimately noticed that +some great change had come over him that day. He was silent all through +dinner and looked about, blinking and scowling, or, with fixed eyes and +a look of complete absent-mindedness, kept rubbing the bridge of his +nose. His face was depressed and gloomy. He seemed to see and hear +nothing of what was going on around him and to be absorbed by some +depressing and unsolved problem. + +The unsolved problem that tormented him was caused by hints given by the +princess, his cousin, at Moscow, concerning Dólokhov’s intimacy with +his wife, and by an anonymous letter he had received that morning, which +in the mean jocular way common to anonymous letters said that he saw +badly through his spectacles, but that his wife’s connection with +Dólokhov was a secret to no one but himself. Pierre absolutely +disbelieved both the princess’ hints and the letter, but he feared +now to look at Dólokhov, who was sitting opposite him. Every time +he chanced to meet Dólokhov’s handsome insolent eyes, Pierre felt +something terrible and monstrous rising in his soul and turned quickly +away. Involuntarily recalling his wife’s past and her relations with +Dólokhov, Pierre saw clearly that what was said in the letter might be +true, or might at least seem to be true had it not referred to his wife. +He involuntarily remembered how Dólokhov, who had fully recovered his +former position after the campaign, had returned to Petersburg and come +to him. Availing himself of his friendly relations with Pierre as a boon +companion, Dólokhov had come straight to his house, and Pierre had put +him up and lent him money. Pierre recalled how Hélène had smilingly +expressed disapproval of Dólokhov’s living at their house, and how +cynically Dólokhov had praised his wife’s beauty to him and from that +time till they came to Moscow had not left them for a day. + +“Yes, he is very handsome,” thought Pierre, “and I know him. It +would be particularly pleasant to him to dishonor my name and ridicule +me, just because I have exerted myself on his behalf, befriended him, +and helped him. I know and understand what a spice that would add to the +pleasure of deceiving me, if it really were true. Yes, if it were true, +but I do not believe it. I have no right to, and can’t, believe it.” +He remembered the expression Dólokhov’s face assumed in his moments +of cruelty, as when tying the policeman to the bear and dropping them +into the water, or when he challenged a man to a duel without any +reason, or shot a post-boy’s horse with a pistol. That expression +was often on Dólokhov’s face when looking at him. “Yes, he is a +bully,” thought Pierre, “to kill a man means nothing to him. It must +seem to him that everyone is afraid of him, and that must please him. +He must think that I, too, am afraid of him—and in fact I am afraid of +him,” he thought, and again he felt something terrible and monstrous +rising in his soul. Dólokhov, Denísov, and Rostóv were now sitting +opposite Pierre and seemed very gay. Rostóv was talking merrily to his +two friends, one of whom was a dashing hussar and the other a notorious +duelist and rake, and every now and then he glanced ironically at +Pierre, whose preoccupied, absent-minded, and massive figure was a very +noticeable one at the dinner. Rostóv looked inimically at Pierre, +first because Pierre appeared to his hussar eyes as a rich civilian, the +husband of a beauty, and in a word—an old woman; and secondly because +Pierre in his preoccupation and absent-mindedness had not recognized +Rostóv and had not responded to his greeting. When the Emperor’s +health was drunk, Pierre, lost in thought, did not rise or lift his +glass. + +“What are you about?” shouted Rostóv, looking at him in an ecstasy +of exasperation. “Don’t you hear it’s His Majesty the Emperor’s +health?” + +Pierre sighed, rose submissively, emptied his glass, and, waiting till +all were seated again, turned with his kindly smile to Rostóv. + +“Why, I didn’t recognize you!” he said. But Rostóv was otherwise +engaged; he was shouting “Hurrah!” + +“Why don’t you renew the acquaintance?” said Dólokhov to Rostóv. + +“Confound him, he’s a fool!” said Rostóv. + +“One should make up to the husbands of pretty women,” said Denísov. + +Pierre did not catch what they were saying, but knew they were talking +about him. He reddened and turned away. + +“Well, now to the health of handsome women!” said Dólokhov, and +with a serious expression, but with a smile lurking at the corners of +his mouth, he turned with his glass to Pierre. + +“Here’s to the health of lovely women, Peterkin—and their +lovers!” he added. + +Pierre, with downcast eyes, drank out of his glass without looking at +Dólokhov or answering him. The footman, who was distributing leaflets +with Kutúzov’s cantata, laid one before Pierre as one of the +principal guests. He was just going to take it when Dólokhov, leaning +across, snatched it from his hand and began reading it. Pierre looked +at Dólokhov and his eyes dropped, the something terrible and monstrous +that had tormented him all dinnertime rose and took possession of him. +He leaned his whole massive body across the table. + +“How dare you take it?” he shouted. + +Hearing that cry and seeing to whom it was addressed, Nesvítski and the +neighbor on his right quickly turned in alarm to Bezúkhov. + +“Don’t! Don’t! What are you about?” whispered their frightened +voices. + +Dólokhov looked at Pierre with clear, mirthful, cruel eyes, and that +smile of his which seemed to say, “Ah! This is what I like!” + +“You shan’t have it!” he said distinctly. + +Pale, with quivering lips, Pierre snatched the copy. + +“You...! you... scoundrel! I challenge you!” he ejaculated, and, +pushing back his chair, he rose from the table. + +At the very instant he did this and uttered those words, Pierre felt +that the question of his wife’s guilt which had been tormenting him +the whole day was finally and indubitably answered in the affirmative. +He hated her and was forever sundered from her. Despite Denísov’s +request that he would take no part in the matter, Rostóv agreed to be +Dólokhov’s second, and after dinner he discussed the arrangements for +the duel with Nesvítski, Bezúkhov’s second. Pierre went home, but +Rostóv with Dólokhov and Denísov stayed on at the club till late, +listening to the gypsies and other singers. + +“Well then, till tomorrow at Sokólniki,” said Dólokhov, as he took +leave of Rostóv in the club porch. + +“And do you feel quite calm?” Rostóv asked. + +Dólokhov paused. + +“Well, you see, I’ll tell you the whole secret of dueling in two +words. If you are going to fight a duel, and you make a will and write +affectionate letters to your parents, and if you think you may be +killed, you are a fool and are lost for certain. But go with the firm +intention of killing your man as quickly and surely as possible, and +then all will be right, as our bear huntsman at Kostromá used to tell +me. ‘Everyone fears a bear,’ he says, ‘but when you see one your +fear’s all gone, and your only thought is not to let him get away!’ +And that’s how it is with me. À demain, mon cher.” * + + * Till tomorrow, my dear fellow. + +Next day, at eight in the morning, Pierre and Nesvítski drove to the +Sokólniki forest and found Dólokhov, Denísov, and Rostóv already +there. Pierre had the air of a man preoccupied with considerations which +had no connection with the matter in hand. His haggard face was yellow. +He had evidently not slept that night. He looked about distractedly and +screwed up his eyes as if dazzled by the sun. He was entirely absorbed +by two considerations: his wife’s guilt, of which after his sleepless +night he had not the slightest doubt, and the guiltlessness of +Dólokhov, who had no reason to preserve the honor of a man who was +nothing to him.... “I should perhaps have done the same thing in his +place,” thought Pierre. “It’s even certain that I should have done +the same, then why this duel, this murder? Either I shall kill him, or +he will hit me in the head, or elbow, or knee. Can’t I go away from +here, run away, bury myself somewhere?” passed through his mind. But +just at moments when such thoughts occurred to him, he would ask in a +particularly calm and absent-minded way, which inspired the respect of +the onlookers, “Will it be long? Are things ready?” + +When all was ready, the sabers stuck in the snow to mark the barriers, +and the pistols loaded, Nesvítski went up to Pierre. + +“I should not be doing my duty, Count,” he said in timid tones, +“and should not justify your confidence and the honor you have done +me in choosing me for your second, if at this grave, this very +grave, moment I did not tell you the whole truth. I think there is no +sufficient ground for this affair, or for blood to be shed over it.... +You were not right, not quite in the right, you were impetuous...” + +“Oh yes, it is horribly stupid,” said Pierre. + +“Then allow me to express your regrets, and I am sure your opponent +will accept them,” said Nesvítski (who like the others concerned in +the affair, and like everyone in similar cases, did not yet believe that +the affair had come to an actual duel). “You know, Count, it is much +more honorable to admit one’s mistake than to let matters become +irreparable. There was no insult on either side. Allow me to +convey....” + +“No! What is there to talk about?” said Pierre. “It’s all the +same.... Is everything ready?” he added. “Only tell me where to go +and where to shoot,” he said with an unnaturally gentle smile. + +He took the pistol in his hand and began asking about the working of the +trigger, as he had not before held a pistol in his hand—a fact that he +did not wish to confess. + +“Oh yes, like that, I know, I only forgot,” said he. + +“No apologies, none whatever,” said Dólokhov to Denísov (who on +his side had been attempting a reconciliation), and he also went up to +the appointed place. + +The spot chosen for the duel was some eighty paces from the road, +where the sleighs had been left, in a small clearing in the pine forest +covered with melting snow, the frost having begun to break up during the +last few days. The antagonists stood forty paces apart at the farther +edge of the clearing. The seconds, measuring the paces, left tracks in +the deep wet snow between the place where they had been standing and +Nesvítski’s and Dólokhov’s sabers, which were stuck into the +ground ten paces apart to mark the barrier. It was thawing and misty; at +forty paces’ distance nothing could be seen. For three minutes all had +been ready, but they still delayed and all were silent. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +“Well begin!” said Dólokhov. + +“All right,” said Pierre, still smiling in the same way. A feeling +of dread was in the air. It was evident that the affair so lightly begun +could no longer be averted but was taking its course independently of +men’s will. + +Denísov first went to the barrier and announced: “As the +adve’sawies have wefused a weconciliation, please pwoceed. Take your +pistols, and at the word thwee begin to advance. + +“O-ne! T-wo! Thwee!” he shouted angrily and stepped aside. + +The combatants advanced along the trodden tracks, nearer and nearer to +one another, beginning to see one another through the mist. They had the +right to fire when they liked as they approached the barrier. Dólokhov +walked slowly without raising his pistol, looking intently with his +bright, sparkling blue eyes into his antagonist’s face. His mouth wore +its usual semblance of a smile. + +“So I can fire when I like!” said Pierre, and at the word +“three,” he went quickly forward, missing the trodden path and +stepping into the deep snow. He held the pistol in his right hand at +arm’s length, apparently afraid of shooting himself with it. His left +hand he held carefully back, because he wished to support his right +hand with it and knew he must not do so. Having advanced six paces and +strayed off the track into the snow, Pierre looked down at his feet, +then quickly glanced at Dólokhov and, bending his finger as he had been +shown, fired. Not at all expecting so loud a report, Pierre shuddered +at the sound and then, smiling at his own sensations, stood still. The +smoke, rendered denser by the mist, prevented him from seeing anything +for an instant, but there was no second report as he had expected. He +only heard Dólokhov’s hurried steps, and his figure came in view +through the smoke. He was pressing one hand to his left side, while +the other clutched his drooping pistol. His face was pale. Rostóv ran +toward him and said something. + +“No-o-o!” muttered Dólokhov through his teeth, “no, it’s not +over.” And after stumbling a few staggering steps right up to the +saber, he sank on the snow beside it. His left hand was bloody; he wiped +it on his coat and supported himself with it. His frowning face was +pallid and quivered. + +“Plea...” began Dólokhov, but could not at first pronounce the +word. + +“Please,” he uttered with an effort. + +Pierre, hardly restraining his sobs, began running toward Dólokhov and +was about to cross the space between the barriers, when Dólokhov cried: + +“To your barrier!” and Pierre, grasping what was meant, stopped by +his saber. Only ten paces divided them. Dólokhov lowered his head to +the snow, greedily bit at it, again raised his head, adjusted himself, +drew in his legs and sat up, seeking a firm center of gravity. He sucked +and swallowed the cold snow, his lips quivered but his eyes, still +smiling, glittered with effort and exasperation as he mustered his +remaining strength. He raised his pistol and aimed. + +“Sideways! Cover yourself with your pistol!” ejaculated Nesvítski. + +“Cover yourself!” even Denísov cried to his adversary. + +Pierre, with a gentle smile of pity and remorse, his arms and legs +helplessly spread out, stood with his broad chest directly facing +Dólokhov and looked sorrowfully at him. Denísov, Rostóv, and +Nesvítski closed their eyes. At the same instant they heard a report +and Dólokhov’s angry cry. + +“Missed!” shouted Dólokhov, and he lay helplessly, face downwards +on the snow. + +Pierre clutched his temples, and turning round went into the forest, +trampling through the deep snow, and muttering incoherent words: + +“Folly... folly! Death... lies...” he repeated, puckering his face. + +Nesvítski stopped him and took him home. + +Rostóv and Denísov drove away with the wounded Dólokhov. + +The latter lay silent in the sleigh with closed eyes and did not answer +a word to the questions addressed to him. But on entering Moscow he +suddenly came to and, lifting his head with an effort, took Rostóv, who +was sitting beside him, by the hand. Rostóv was struck by the +totally altered and unexpectedly rapturous and tender expression on +Dólokhov’s face. + +“Well? How do you feel?” he asked. + +“Bad! But it’s not that, my friend—” said Dólokhov with a +gasping voice. “Where are we? In Moscow, I know. I don’t matter, +but I have killed her, killed... She won’t get over it! She won’t +survive....” + +“Who?” asked Rostóv. + +“My mother! My mother, my angel, my adored angel mother,” and +Dólokhov pressed Rostóv’s hand and burst into tears. + +When he had become a little quieter, he explained to Rostóv that he was +living with his mother, who, if she saw him dying, would not survive it. +He implored Rostóv to go on and prepare her. + +Rostóv went on ahead to do what was asked, and to his great surprise +learned that Dólokhov the brawler, Dólokhov the bully, lived in Moscow +with an old mother and a hunchback sister, and was the most affectionate +of sons and brothers. + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +Pierre had of late rarely seen his wife alone. Both in Petersburg and in +Moscow their house was always full of visitors. The night after the +duel he did not go to his bedroom but, as he often did, remained in his +father’s room, that huge room in which Count Bezúkhov had died. + +He lay down on the sofa meaning to fall asleep and forget all that +had happened to him, but could not do so. Such a storm of feelings, +thoughts, and memories suddenly arose within him that he could not fall +asleep, nor even remain in one place, but had to jump up and pace the +room with rapid steps. Now he seemed to see her in the early days of +their marriage, with bare shoulders and a languid, passionate look on +her face, and then immediately he saw beside her Dólokhov’s handsome, +insolent, hard, and mocking face as he had seen it at the banquet, and +then that same face pale, quivering, and suffering, as it had been when +he reeled and sank on the snow. + +“What has happened?” he asked himself. “I have killed her lover, +yes, killed my wife’s lover. Yes, that was it! And why? How did I come +to do it?”—“Because you married her,” answered an inner voice. + +“But in what was I to blame?” he asked. “In marrying her without +loving her; in deceiving yourself and her.” And he vividly recalled +that moment after supper at Prince Vasíli’s, when he spoke those +words he had found so difficult to utter: “I love you.” “It all +comes from that! Even then I felt it,” he thought. “I felt then that +it was not so, that I had no right to do it. And so it turns out.” + +He remembered his honeymoon and blushed at the recollection. +Particularly vivid, humiliating, and shameful was the recollection of +how one day soon after his marriage he came out of the bedroom into his +study a little before noon in his silk dressing gown and found his head +steward there, who, bowing respectfully, looked into his face and at +his dressing gown and smiled slightly, as if expressing respectful +understanding of his employer’s happiness. + +“But how often I have felt proud of her, proud of her majestic beauty +and social tact,” thought he; “been proud of my house, in which she +received all Petersburg, proud of her unapproachability and beauty. So +this is what I was proud of! I then thought that I did not understand +her. How often when considering her character I have told myself that +I was to blame for not understanding her, for not understanding that +constant composure and complacency and lack of all interests or desires, +and the whole secret lies in the terrible truth that she is a depraved +woman. Now I have spoken that terrible word to myself all has become +clear. + +“Anatole used to come to borrow money from her and used to kiss her +naked shoulders. She did not give him the money, but let herself be +kissed. Her father in jest tried to rouse her jealousy, and she replied +with a calm smile that she was not so stupid as to be jealous: ‘Let +him do what he pleases,’ she used to say of me. One day I asked her if +she felt any symptoms of pregnancy. She laughed contemptuously and said +she was not a fool to want to have children, and that she was not going +to have any children by me.” + +Then he recalled the coarseness and bluntness of her thoughts and the +vulgarity of the expressions that were natural to her, though she had +been brought up in the most aristocratic circles. + +“I’m not such a fool.... Just you try it on.... Allez-vous +promener,” * she used to say. Often seeing the success she had with +young and old men and women Pierre could not understand why he did not +love her. + + * “You clear out of this.” + + +“Yes, I never loved her,” said he to himself; “I knew she was a +depraved woman,” he repeated, “but dared not admit it to myself. +And now there’s Dólokhov sitting in the snow with a forced smile and +perhaps dying, while meeting my remorse with some forced bravado!” + +Pierre was one of those people who, in spite of an appearance of what +is called weak character, do not seek a confidant in their troubles. He +digested his sufferings alone. + +“It is all, all her fault,” he said to himself; “but what of that? +Why did I bind myself to her? Why did I say ‘Je vous aime’ * to her, +which was a lie, and worse than a lie? I am guilty and must endure... +what? A slur on my name? A misfortune for life? Oh, that’s +nonsense,” he thought. “The slur on my name and honor—that’s all +apart from myself.” + + * I love you. + +“Louis XVI was executed because they said he was dishonorable and a +criminal,” came into Pierre’s head, “and from their point of +view they were right, as were those too who canonized him and died a +martyr’s death for his sake. Then Robespierre was beheaded for being +a despot. Who is right and who is wrong? No one! But if you are +alive—live: tomorrow you’ll die as I might have died an hour ago. +And is it worth tormenting oneself, when one has only a moment of life +in comparison with eternity?” + +But at the moment when he imagined himself calmed by such reflections, +she suddenly came into his mind as she was at the moments when he had +most strongly expressed his insincere love for her, and he felt the +blood rush to his heart and had again to get up and move about and break +and tear whatever came to his hand. “Why did I tell her that ‘Je +vous aime’?” he kept repeating to himself. And when he had said it +for the tenth time, Molière’s words: “Mais que diable allait-il +faire dans cette galère?” * occurred to him, and he began to laugh at +himself. + + * “But what the devil was he doing in that galley?” + + +In the night he called his valet and told him to pack up to go to +Petersburg. He could not imagine how he could speak to her now. He +resolved to go away next day and leave a letter informing her of his +intention to part from her forever. + +Next morning when the valet came into the room with his coffee, Pierre +was lying asleep on the ottoman with an open book in his hand. + +He woke up and looked round for a while with a startled expression, +unable to realize where he was. + +“The countess told me to inquire whether your excellency was at +home,” said the valet. + +But before Pierre could decide what answer he would send, the countess +herself in a white satin dressing gown embroidered with silver and with +simply dressed hair (two immense plaits twice round her lovely head like +a coronet) entered the room, calm and majestic, except that there was +a wrathful wrinkle on her rather prominent marble brow. With her +imperturbable calm she did not begin to speak in front of the valet. +She knew of the duel and had come to speak about it. She waited till the +valet had set down the coffee things and left the room. Pierre looked +at her timidly over his spectacles, and like a hare surrounded by hounds +who lays back her ears and continues to crouch motionless before her +enemies, he tried to continue reading. But feeling this to be senseless +and impossible, he again glanced timidly at her. She did not sit down +but looked at him with a contemptuous smile, waiting for the valet to +go. + +“Well, what’s this now? What have you been up to now, I should like +to know?” she asked sternly. + +“I? What have I...?” stammered Pierre. + +“So it seems you’re a hero, eh? Come now, what was this duel about? +What is it meant to prove? What? I ask you.” + +Pierre turned over heavily on the ottoman and opened his mouth, but +could not reply. + +“If you won’t answer, I’ll tell you...” Hélène went on. “You +believe everything you’re told. You were told...” Hélène laughed, +“that Dólokhov was my lover,” she said in French with her coarse +plainness of speech, uttering the word amant as casually as any other +word, “and you believed it! Well, what have you proved? What does this +duel prove? That you’re a fool, que vous êtes un sot, but everybody +knew that. What will be the result? That I shall be the laughingstock of +all Moscow, that everyone will say that you, drunk and not knowing what +you were about, challenged a man you are jealous of without cause.” +Hélène raised her voice and became more and more excited, “A man +who’s a better man than you in every way...” + +“Hm... Hm...!” growled Pierre, frowning without looking at her, and +not moving a muscle. + +“And how could you believe he was my lover? Why? Because I like +his company? If you were cleverer and more agreeable, I should prefer +yours.” + +“Don’t speak to me... I beg you,” muttered Pierre hoarsely. + +“Why shouldn’t I speak? I can speak as I like, and I tell you +plainly that there are not many wives with husbands such as you who +would not have taken lovers (des amants), but I have not done so,” +said she. + +Pierre wished to say something, looked at her with eyes whose strange +expression she did not understand, and lay down again. He was suffering +physically at that moment, there was a weight on his chest and he could +not breathe. He knew that he must do something to put an end to this +suffering, but what he wanted to do was too terrible. + +“We had better separate,” he muttered in a broken voice. + +“Separate? Very well, but only if you give me a fortune,” said +Hélène. “Separate! That’s a thing to frighten me with!” + +Pierre leaped up from the sofa and rushed staggering toward her. + +“I’ll kill you!” he shouted, and seizing the marble top of a table +with a strength he had never before felt, he made a step toward her +brandishing the slab. + +Hélène’s face became terrible, she shrieked and sprang aside. His +father’s nature showed itself in Pierre. He felt the fascination and +delight of frenzy. He flung down the slab, broke it, and swooping +down on her with outstretched hands shouted, “Get out!” in such a +terrible voice that the whole house heard it with horror. God knows what +he would have done at that moment had Hélène not fled from the room. + + +A week later Pierre gave his wife full power to control all his estates +in Great Russia, which formed the larger part of his property, and left +for Petersburg alone. + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +Two months had elapsed since the news of the battle of Austerlitz and +the loss of Prince Andrew had reached Bald Hills, and in spite of the +letters sent through the embassy and all the searches made, his body had +not been found nor was he on the list of prisoners. What was worst of +all for his relations was the fact that there was still a possibility of +his having been picked up on the battlefield by the people of the +place and that he might now be lying, recovering or dying, alone among +strangers and unable to send news of himself. The gazettes from which +the old prince first heard of the defeat at Austerlitz stated, as usual +very briefly and vaguely, that after brilliant engagements the Russians +had had to retreat and had made their withdrawal in perfect order. The +old prince understood from this official report that our army had been +defeated. A week after the gazette report of the battle of Austerlitz +came a letter from Kutúzov informing the prince of the fate that had +befallen his son. + +“Your son,” wrote Kutúzov, “fell before my eyes, a standard in +his hand and at the head of a regiment—he fell as a hero, worthy of +his father and his fatherland. To the great regret of myself and of the +whole army it is still uncertain whether he is alive or not. I comfort +myself and you with the hope that your son is alive, for otherwise +he would have been mentioned among the officers found on the field of +battle, a list of whom has been sent me under flag of truce.” + +After receiving this news late in the evening, when he was alone in his +study, the old prince went for his walk as usual next morning, but he +was silent with his steward, the gardener, and the architect, and though +he looked very grim he said nothing to anyone. + +When Princess Mary went to him at the usual hour he was working at his +lathe and, as usual, did not look round at her. + +“Ah, Princess Mary!” he said suddenly in an unnatural voice, +throwing down his chisel. (The wheel continued to revolve by its own +impetus, and Princess Mary long remembered the dying creak of that +wheel, which merged in her memory with what followed.) + +She approached him, saw his face, and something gave way within her. Her +eyes grew dim. By the expression of her father’s face, not sad, not +crushed, but angry and working unnaturally, she saw that hanging over +her and about to crush her was some terrible misfortune, the worst +in life, one she had not yet experienced, irreparable and +incomprehensible—the death of one she loved. + +“Father! Andrew!”—said the ungraceful, awkward princess with such +an indescribable charm of sorrow and self-forgetfulness that her father +could not bear her look but turned away with a sob. + +“Bad news! He’s not among the prisoners nor among the killed! +Kutúzov writes...” and he screamed as piercingly as if he wished to +drive the princess away by that scream... “Killed!” + +The princess did not fall down or faint. She was already pale, but on +hearing these words her face changed and something brightened in her +beautiful, radiant eyes. It was as if joy—a supreme joy apart from the +joys and sorrows of this world—overflowed the great grief within her. +She forgot all fear of her father, went up to him, took his hand, and +drawing him down put her arm round his thin, scraggy neck. + +“Father,” she said, “do not turn away from me, let us weep +together.” + +“Scoundrels! Blackguards!” shrieked the old man, turning his face +away from her. “Destroying the army, destroying the men! And why? Go, +go and tell Lise.” + +The princess sank helplessly into an armchair beside her father and +wept. She saw her brother now as he had been at the moment when he took +leave of her and of Lise, his look tender yet proud. She saw him tender +and amused as he was when he put on the little icon. “Did he believe? +Had he repented of his unbelief? Was he now there? There in the realms +of eternal peace and blessedness?” she thought. + +“Father, tell me how it happened,” she asked through her tears. + +“Go! Go! Killed in battle, where the best of Russian men and +Russia’s glory were led to destruction. Go, Princess Mary. Go and tell +Lise. I will follow.” + +When Princess Mary returned from her father, the little princess sat +working and looked up with that curious expression of inner, happy calm +peculiar to pregnant women. It was evident that her eyes did not see +Princess Mary but were looking within... into herself... at something +joyful and mysterious taking place within her. + +“Mary,” she said, moving away from the embroidery frame and lying +back, “give me your hand.” She took her sister-in-law’s hand and +held it below her waist. + +Her eyes were smiling expectantly, her downy lip rose and remained +lifted in childlike happiness. + +Princess Mary knelt down before her and hid her face in the folds of her +sister-in-law’s dress. + +“There, there! Do you feel it? I feel so strange. And do you know, +Mary, I am going to love him very much,” said Lise, looking with +bright and happy eyes at her sister-in-law. + +Princess Mary could not lift her head, she was weeping. + +“What is the matter, Mary?” + +“Nothing... only I feel sad... sad about Andrew,” she said, wiping +away her tears on her sister-in-law’s knee. + +Several times in the course of the morning Princess Mary began trying to +prepare her sister-in-law, and every time began to cry. Unobservant as +was the little princess, these tears, the cause of which she did not +understand, agitated her. She said nothing but looked about uneasily as +if in search of something. Before dinner the old prince, of whom she was +always afraid, came into her room with a peculiarly restless and malign +expression and went out again without saying a word. She looked at +Princess Mary, then sat thinking for a while with that expression of +attention to something within her that is only seen in pregnant women, +and suddenly began to cry. + +“Has anything come from Andrew?” she asked. + +“No, you know it’s too soon for news. But my father is anxious and I +feel afraid.” + +“So there’s nothing?” + +“Nothing,” answered Princess Mary, looking firmly with her radiant +eyes at her sister-in-law. + +She had determined not to tell her and persuaded her father to hide the +terrible news from her till after her confinement, which was expected +within a few days. Princess Mary and the old prince each bore and hid +their grief in their own way. The old prince would not cherish any hope: +he made up his mind that Prince Andrew had been killed, and though he +sent an official to Austria to seek for traces of his son, he ordered a +monument from Moscow which he intended to erect in his own garden to his +memory, and he told everybody that his son had been killed. He tried not +to change his former way of life, but his strength failed him. He walked +less, ate less, slept less, and became weaker every day. Princess Mary +hoped. She prayed for her brother as living and was always awaiting news +of his return. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +“Dearest,” said the little princess after breakfast on the morning +of the nineteenth March, and her downy little lip rose from old habit, +but as sorrow was manifest in every smile, the sound of every word, and +even every footstep in that house since the terrible news had come, so +now the smile of the little princess—influenced by the general mood +though without knowing its cause—was such as to remind one still more +of the general sorrow. + +“Dearest, I’m afraid this morning’s fruschtique *—as Fóka the +cook calls it—has disagreed with me.” + + * Frühstück: breakfast. + +“What is the matter with you, my darling? You look pale. Oh, you +are very pale!” said Princess Mary in alarm, running with her soft, +ponderous steps up to her sister-in-law. + +“Your excellency, should not Mary Bogdánovna be sent for?” said one +of the maids who was present. (Mary Bogdánovna was a midwife from the +neighboring town, who had been at Bald Hills for the last fortnight.) + +“Oh yes,” assented Princess Mary, “perhaps that’s it. I’ll go. +Courage, my angel.” She kissed Lise and was about to leave the room. + +“Oh, no, no!” And besides the pallor and the physical suffering +on the little princess’ face, an expression of childish fear of +inevitable pain showed itself. + +“No, it’s only indigestion?... Say it’s only indigestion, say so, +Mary! Say...” And the little princess began to cry capriciously like +a suffering child and to wring her little hands even with some +affectation. Princess Mary ran out of the room to fetch Mary +Bogdánovna. + +“Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu! Oh!” she heard as she left the room. + +The midwife was already on her way to meet her, rubbing her small, plump +white hands with an air of calm importance. + +“Mary Bogdánovna, I think it’s beginning!” said Princess Mary +looking at the midwife with wide-open eyes of alarm. + +“Well, the Lord be thanked, Princess,” said Mary Bogdánovna, not +hastening her steps. “You young ladies should not know anything about +it.” + +“But how is it the doctor from Moscow is not here yet?” said the +princess. (In accordance with Lise’s and Prince Andrew’s wishes they +had sent in good time to Moscow for a doctor and were expecting him at +any moment.) + +“No matter, Princess, don’t be alarmed,” said Mary Bogdánovna. +“We’ll manage very well without a doctor.” + +Five minutes later Princess Mary from her room heard something heavy +being carried by. She looked out. The men servants were carrying the +large leather sofa from Prince Andrew’s study into the bedroom. On +their faces was a quiet and solemn look. + +Princess Mary sat alone in her room listening to the sounds in the +house, now and then opening her door when someone passed and watching +what was going on in the passage. Some women passing with quiet steps in +and out of the bedroom glanced at the princess and turned away. She did +not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting +down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before +the icon stand. To her surprise and distress she found that her prayers +did not calm her excitement. Suddenly her door opened softly and her old +nurse, Praskóvya Sávishna, who hardly ever came to that room as the +old prince had forbidden it, appeared on the threshold with a shawl +round her head. + +“I’ve come to sit with you a bit, Másha,” said the nurse, “and +here I’ve brought the prince’s wedding candles to light before his +saint, my angel,” she said with a sigh. + +“Oh, nurse, I’m so glad!” + +“God is merciful, birdie.” + +The nurse lit the gilt candles before the icons and sat down by the door +with her knitting. Princess Mary took a book and began reading. Only +when footsteps or voices were heard did they look at one another, the +princess anxious and inquiring, the nurse encouraging. Everyone in the +house was dominated by the same feeling that Princess Mary experienced +as she sat in her room. But owing to the superstition that the fewer +the people who know of it the less a woman in travail suffers, everyone +tried to pretend not to know; no one spoke of it, but apart from the +ordinary staid and respectful good manners habitual in the prince’s +household, a common anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a +consciousness that something great and mysterious was being accomplished +at that moment made itself felt. + +There was no laughter in the maids’ large hall. In the men servants’ +hall all sat waiting, silently and alert. In the outlying serfs’ +quarters torches and candles were burning and no one slept. The old +prince, stepping on his heels, paced up and down his study and sent +Tíkhon to ask Mary Bogdánovna what news.—“Say only that ‘the +prince told me to ask,’ and come and tell me her answer.” + +“Inform the prince that labor has begun,” said Mary Bogdánovna, +giving the messenger a significant look. + +Tíkhon went and told the prince. + +“Very good!” said the prince closing the door behind him, and +Tíkhon did not hear the slightest sound from the study after that. + +After a while he re-entered it as if to snuff the candles, and, seeing +the prince was lying on the sofa, looked at him, noticed his perturbed +face, shook his head, and going up to him silently kissed him on the +shoulder and left the room without snuffing the candles or saying why he +had entered. The most solemn mystery in the world continued its course. +Evening passed, night came, and the feeling of suspense and softening of +heart in the presence of the unfathomable did not lessen but increased. +No one slept. + +It was one of those March nights when winter seems to wish to resume its +sway and scatters its last snows and storms with desperate fury. A relay +of horses had been sent up the highroad to meet the German doctor from +Moscow who was expected every moment, and men on horseback with lanterns +were sent to the crossroads to guide him over the country road with its +hollows and snow-covered pools of water. + +Princess Mary had long since put aside her book: she sat silent, her +luminous eyes fixed on her nurse’s wrinkled face (every line of which +she knew so well), on the lock of gray hair that escaped from under the +kerchief, and the loose skin that hung under her chin. + +Nurse Sávishna, knitting in hand, was telling in low tones, scarcely +hearing or understanding her own words, what she had told hundreds of +times before: how the late princess had given birth to Princess Mary +in Kishenëv with only a Moldavian peasant woman to help instead of a +midwife. + +“God is merciful, doctors are never needed,” she said. + +Suddenly a gust of wind beat violently against the casement of the +window, from which the double frame had been removed (by order of the +prince, one window frame was removed in each room as soon as the larks +returned), and, forcing open a loosely closed latch, set the damask +curtain flapping and blew out the candle with its chill, snowy draft. +Princess Mary shuddered; her nurse, putting down the stocking she was +knitting, went to the window and leaning out tried to catch the open +casement. The cold wind flapped the ends of her kerchief and her loose +locks of gray hair. + +“Princess, my dear, there’s someone driving up the avenue!” she +said, holding the casement and not closing it. “With lanterns. Most +likely the doctor.” + +“Oh, my God! thank God!” said Princess Mary. “I must go and meet +him, he does not know Russian.” + +Princess Mary threw a shawl over her head and ran to meet the newcomer. +As she was crossing the anteroom she saw through the window a carriage +with lanterns, standing at the entrance. She went out on the stairs. On +a banister post stood a tallow candle which guttered in the draft. On +the landing below, Philip, the footman, stood looking scared and holding +another candle. Still lower, beyond the turn of the staircase, one +could hear the footstep of someone in thick felt boots, and a voice that +seemed familiar to Princess Mary was saying something. + +“Thank God!” said the voice. “And Father?” + +“Gone to bed,” replied the voice of Demyán the house steward, who +was downstairs. + +Then the voice said something more, Demyán replied, and the steps in +the felt boots approached the unseen bend of the staircase more rapidly. + +“It’s Andrew!” thought Princess Mary. “No it can’t be, that +would be too extraordinary,” and at the very moment she thought this, +the face and figure of Prince Andrew, in a fur cloak the deep collar of +which covered with snow, appeared on the landing where the footman +stood with the candle. Yes, it was he, pale, thin, with a changed and +strangely softened but agitated expression on his face. He came up the +stairs and embraced his sister. + +“You did not get my letter?” he asked, and not waiting for a +reply—which he would not have received, for the princess was unable to +speak—he turned back, rapidly mounted the stairs again with the +doctor who had entered the hall after him (they had met at the last post +station), and again embraced his sister. + +“What a strange fate, Másha darling!” And having taken off his +cloak and felt boots, he went to the little princess’ apartment. + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +The little princess lay supported by pillows, with a white cap on her +head (the pains had just left her). Strands of her black hair lay round +her inflamed and perspiring cheeks, her charming rosy mouth with its +downy lip was open and she was smiling joyfully. Prince Andrew entered +and paused facing her at the foot of the sofa on which she was lying. +Her glittering eyes, filled with childlike fear and excitement, rested +on him without changing their expression. “I love you all and have +done no harm to anyone; why must I suffer so? Help me!” her look +seemed to say. She saw her husband, but did not realize the significance +of his appearance before her now. Prince Andrew went round the sofa and +kissed her forehead. + +“My darling!” he said—a word he had never used to her before. +“God is merciful....” + +She looked at him inquiringly and with childlike reproach. + +“I expected help from you and I get none, none from you either!” +said her eyes. She was not surprised at his having come; she did +not realize that he had come. His coming had nothing to do with +her sufferings or with their relief. The pangs began again and Mary +Bogdánovna advised Prince Andrew to leave the room. + +The doctor entered. Prince Andrew went out and, meeting Princess Mary, +again joined her. They began talking in whispers, but their talk broke +off at every moment. They waited and listened. + +“Go, dear,” said Princess Mary. + +Prince Andrew went again to his wife and sat waiting in the room next +to hers. A woman came from the bedroom with a frightened face and became +confused when she saw Prince Andrew. He covered his face with his hands +and remained so for some minutes. Piteous, helpless, animal moans came +through the door. Prince Andrew got up, went to the door, and tried to +open it. Someone was holding it shut. + +“You can’t come in! You can’t!” said a terrified voice from +within. + +He began pacing the room. The screaming ceased, and a few more seconds +went by. Then suddenly a terrible shriek—it could not be hers, she +could not scream like that—came from the bedroom. Prince Andrew ran to +the door; the scream ceased and he heard the wail of an infant. + +“What have they taken a baby in there for?” thought Prince Andrew in +the first second. “A baby? What baby...? Why is there a baby there? Or +is the baby born?” + +Then suddenly he realized the joyful significance of that wail; tears +choked him, and leaning his elbows on the window sill he began to cry, +sobbing like a child. The door opened. The doctor with his shirt sleeves +tucked up, without a coat, pale and with a trembling jaw, came out +of the room. Prince Andrew turned to him, but the doctor gave him a +bewildered look and passed by without a word. A woman rushed out and +seeing Prince Andrew stopped, hesitating on the threshold. He went into +his wife’s room. She was lying dead, in the same position he had seen +her in five minutes before and, despite the fixed eyes and the pallor of +the cheeks, the same expression was on her charming childlike face with +its upper lip covered with tiny black hair. + +“I love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you +done to me?”—said her charming, pathetic, dead face. + +In a corner of the room something red and tiny gave a grunt and squealed +in Mary Bogdánovna’s trembling white hands. + + +Two hours later Prince Andrew, stepping softly, went into his father’s +room. The old man already knew everything. He was standing close to +the door and as soon as it opened his rough old arms closed like a vise +round his son’s neck, and without a word he began to sob like a child. + + +Three days later the little princess was buried, and Prince Andrew went +up the steps to where the coffin stood, to give her the farewell kiss. +And there in the coffin was the same face, though with closed eyes. +“Ah, what have you done to me?” it still seemed to say, and Prince +Andrew felt that something gave way in his soul and that he was guilty +of a sin he could neither remedy nor forget. He could not weep. The +old man too came up and kissed the waxen little hands that lay quietly +crossed one on the other on her breast, and to him, too, her face seemed +to say: “Ah, what have you done to me, and why?” And at the sight +the old man turned angrily away. + + +Another five days passed, and then the young Prince Nicholas Andréevich +was baptized. The wet nurse supported the coverlet with her chin, while +the priest with a goose feather anointed the boy’s little red and +wrinkled soles and palms. + +His grandfather, who was his godfather, trembling and afraid of dropping +him, carried the infant round the battered tin font and handed him over +to the godmother, Princess Mary. Prince Andrew sat in another room, +faint with fear lest the baby should be drowned in the font, and awaited +the termination of the ceremony. He looked up joyfully at the baby when +the nurse brought it to him and nodded approval when she told him that +the wax with the baby’s hair had not sunk in the font but had floated. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +Rostóv’s share in Dólokhov’s duel with Bezúkhov was hushed up by +the efforts of the old count, and instead of being degraded to the ranks +as he expected he was appointed an adjutant to the governor general of +Moscow. As a result he could not go to the country with the rest of the +family, but was kept all summer in Moscow by his new duties. Dólokhov +recovered, and Rostóv became very friendly with him during his +convalescence. Dólokhov lay ill at his mother’s who loved him +passionately and tenderly, and old Mary Ivánovna, who had grown fond of +Rostóv for his friendship to her Fédya, often talked to him about her +son. + +“Yes, Count,” she would say, “he is too noble and pure-souled for +our present, depraved world. No one now loves virtue; it seems like +a reproach to everyone. Now tell me, Count, was it right, was it +honorable, of Bezúkhov? And Fédya, with his noble spirit, loved him +and even now never says a word against him. Those pranks in Petersburg +when they played some tricks on a policeman, didn’t they do it +together? And there! Bezúkhov got off scotfree, while Fédya had to +bear the whole burden on his shoulders. Fancy what he had to go through! +It’s true he has been reinstated, but how could they fail to do that? +I think there were not many such gallant sons of the fatherland out +there as he. And now—this duel! Have these people no feeling, or +honor? Knowing him to be an only son, to challenge him and shoot so +straight! It’s well God had mercy on us. And what was it for? Who +doesn’t have intrigues nowadays? Why, if he was so jealous, as I see +things he should have shown it sooner, but he lets it go on for months. +And then to call him out, reckoning on Fédya not fighting because he +owed him money! What baseness! What meanness! I know you understand +Fédya, my dear count; that, believe me, is why I am so fond of you. Few +people do understand him. He is such a lofty, heavenly soul!” + +Dólokhov himself during his convalescence spoke to Rostóv in a way no +one would have expected of him. + +“I know people consider me a bad man!” he said. “Let them! I +don’t care a straw about anyone but those I love; but those I love, +I love so that I would give my life for them, and the others I’d +throttle if they stood in my way. I have an adored, a priceless mother, +and two or three friends—you among them—and as for the rest I only +care about them in so far as they are harmful or useful. And most of +them are harmful, especially the women. Yes, dear boy,” he continued, +“I have met loving, noble, high-minded men, but I have not yet met +any women—countesses or cooks—who were not venal. I have not yet met +that divine purity and devotion I look for in women. If I found such a +one I’d give my life for her! But those!...” and he made a gesture +of contempt. “And believe me, if I still value my life it is +only because I still hope to meet such a divine creature, who will +regenerate, purify, and elevate me. But you don’t understand it.” + +“Oh, yes, I quite understand,” answered Rostóv, who was under his +new friend’s influence. + +In the autumn the Rostóvs returned to Moscow. Early in the winter +Denísov also came back and stayed with them. The first half of the +winter of 1806, which Nicholas Rostóv spent in Moscow, was one of the +happiest, merriest times for him and the whole family. Nicholas brought +many young men to his parents’ house. Véra was a handsome girl +of twenty; Sónya a girl of sixteen with all the charm of an opening +flower; Natásha, half grown up and half child, was now childishly +amusing, now girlishly enchanting. + +At that time in the Rostóvs’ house there prevailed an amorous +atmosphere characteristic of homes where there are very young and very +charming girls. Every young man who came to the house—seeing those +impressionable, smiling young faces (smiling probably at their own +happiness), feeling the eager bustle around him, and hearing the fitful +bursts of song and music and the inconsequent but friendly prattle of +young girls ready for anything and full of hope—experienced the same +feeling; sharing with the young folk of the Rostóvs’ household a +readiness to fall in love and an expectation of happiness. + +Among the young men introduced by Rostóv one of the first was +Dólokhov, whom everyone in the house liked except Natásha. She almost +quarreled with her brother about him. She insisted that he was a bad +man, and that in the duel with Bezúkhov, Pierre was right and Dólokhov +wrong, and further that he was disagreeable and unnatural. + +“There’s nothing for me to understand,” she cried out with +resolute self-will, “he is wicked and heartless. There now, I like +your Denísov though he is a rake and all that, still I like him; so +you see I do understand. I don’t know how to put it... with this one +everything is calculated, and I don’t like that. But Denísov...” + +“Oh, Denísov is quite different,” replied Nicholas, implying that +even Denísov was nothing compared to Dólokhov—“you must understand +what a soul there is in Dólokhov, you should see him with his mother. +What a heart!” + +“Well, I don’t know about that, but I am uncomfortable with him. And +do you know he has fallen in love with Sónya?” + +“What nonsense...” + +“I’m certain of it; you’ll see.” + +Natásha’s prediction proved true. Dólokhov, who did not usually care +for the society of ladies, began to come often to the house, and the +question for whose sake he came (though no one spoke of it) was soon +settled. He came because of Sónya. And Sónya, though she would never +have dared to say so, knew it and blushed scarlet every time Dólokhov +appeared. + +Dólokhov often dined at the Rostóvs’, never missed a performance at +which they were present, and went to Iogel’s balls for young people +which the Rostóvs always attended. He was pointedly attentive to Sónya +and looked at her in such a way that not only could she not bear his +glances without coloring, but even the old countess and Natásha blushed +when they saw his looks. + +It was evident that this strange, strong man was under the irresistible +influence of the dark, graceful girl who loved another. + +Rostóv noticed something new in Dólokhov’s relations with Sónya, +but he did not explain to himself what these new relations were. +“They’re always in love with someone,” he thought of Sónya and +Natásha. But he was not as much at ease with Sónya and Dólokhov as +before and was less frequently at home. + +In the autumn of 1806 everybody had again begun talking of the war with +Napoleon with even greater warmth than the year before. Orders were +given to raise recruits, ten men in every thousand for the regular army, +and besides this, nine men in every thousand for the militia. Everywhere +Bonaparte was anathematized and in Moscow nothing but the coming war +was talked of. For the Rostóv family the whole interest of these +preparations for war lay in the fact that Nicholas would not hear of +remaining in Moscow, and only awaited the termination of Denísov’s +furlough after Christmas to return with him to their regiment. His +approaching departure did not prevent his amusing himself, but rather +gave zest to his pleasures. He spent the greater part of his time away +from home, at dinners, parties, and balls. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +On the third day after Christmas Nicholas dined at home, a thing he had +rarely done of late. It was a grand farewell dinner, as he and Denísov +were leaving to join their regiment after Epiphany. About twenty people +were present, including Dólokhov and Denísov. + +Never had love been so much in the air, and never had the amorous +atmosphere made itself so strongly felt in the Rostóvs’ house as at +this holiday time. “Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! +That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one +thing we are interested in here,” said the spirit of the place. + +Nicholas, having as usual exhausted two pairs of horses, without +visiting all the places he meant to go to and where he had been invited, +returned home just before dinner. As soon as he entered he noticed and +felt the tension of the amorous air in the house, and also noticed a +curious embarrassment among some of those present. Sónya, Dólokhov, +and the old countess were especially disturbed, and to a lesser degree +Natásha. Nicholas understood that something must have happened between +Sónya and Dólokhov before dinner, and with the kindly sensitiveness +natural to him was very gentle and wary with them both at dinner. On +that same evening there was to be one of the balls that Iogel (the +dancing master) gave for his pupils during the holidays. + +“Nicholas, will you come to Iogel’s? Please do!” said Natásha. +“He asked you, and Vasíli Dmítrich * is also going.” + + * Denísov. + +“Where would I not go at the countess’ command!” said Denísov, +who at the Rostóvs’ had jocularly assumed the role of Natásha’s +knight. “I’m even weady to dance the pas de châle.” + +“If I have time,” answered Nicholas. “But I promised the +Arkhárovs; they have a party.” + +“And you?” he asked Dólokhov, but as soon as he had asked the +question he noticed that it should not have been put. + +“Perhaps,” coldly and angrily replied Dólokhov, glancing at Sónya, +and, scowling, he gave Nicholas just such a look as he had given Pierre +at the club dinner. + +“There is something up,” thought Nicholas, and he was further +confirmed in this conclusion by the fact that Dólokhov left immediately +after dinner. He called Natásha and asked her what was the matter. + +“And I was looking for you,” said Natásha running out to him. “I +told you, but you would not believe it,” she said triumphantly. “He +has proposed to Sónya!” + +Little as Nicholas had occupied himself with Sónya of late, something +seemed to give way within him at this news. Dólokhov was a suitable and +in some respects a brilliant match for the dowerless, orphan girl. From +the point of view of the old countess and of society it was out of the +question for her to refuse him. And therefore Nicholas’ first feeling +on hearing the news was one of anger with Sónya.... He tried to say, +“That’s capital; of course she’ll forget her childish promises +and accept the offer,” but before he had time to say it Natásha began +again. + +“And fancy! she refused him quite definitely!” adding, after a +pause, “she told him she loved another.” + +“Yes, my Sónya could not have done otherwise!” thought Nicholas. + +“Much as Mamma pressed her, she refused, and I know she won’t change +once she has said...” + +“And Mamma pressed her!” said Nicholas reproachfully. + +“Yes,” said Natásha. “Do you know, Nicholas—don’t be +angry—but I know you will not marry her. I know, heaven knows how, but +I know for certain that you won’t marry her.” + +“Now you don’t know that at all!” said Nicholas. “But I must +talk to her. What a darling Sónya is!” he added with a smile. + +“Ah, she is indeed a darling! I’ll send her to you.” + +And Natásha kissed her brother and ran away. + +A minute later Sónya came in with a frightened, guilty, and scared +look. Nicholas went up to her and kissed her hand. This was the first +time since his return that they had talked alone and about their love. + +“Sophie,” he began, timidly at first and then more and more +boldly, “if you wish to refuse one who is not only a brilliant and +advantageous match but a splendid, noble fellow... he is my friend...” + +Sónya interrupted him. + +“I have already refused,” she said hurriedly. + +“If you are refusing for my sake, I am afraid that I...” + +Sónya again interrupted. She gave him an imploring, frightened look. + +“Nicholas, don’t tell me that!” she said. + +“No, but I must. It may be arrogant of me, but still it is best to say +it. If you refuse him on my account, I must tell you the whole truth. I +love you, and I think I love you more than anyone else....” + +“That is enough for me,” said Sónya, blushing. + +“No, but I have been in love a thousand times and shall fall in +love again, though for no one have I such a feeling of friendship, +confidence, and love as I have for you. Then I am young. Mamma does +not wish it. In a word, I make no promise. And I beg you to consider +Dólokhov’s offer,” he said, articulating his friend’s name with +difficulty. + +“Don’t say that to me! I want nothing. I love you as a brother and +always shall, and I want nothing more.” + +“You are an angel: I am not worthy of you, but I am afraid of +misleading you.” + +And Nicholas again kissed her hand. + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +Iogel’s were the most enjoyable balls in Moscow. So said the mothers +as they watched their young people executing their newly learned steps, +and so said the youths and maidens themselves as they danced till they +were ready to drop, and so said the grown-up young men and women who +came to these balls with an air of condescension and found them most +enjoyable. That year two marriages had come of these balls. The two +pretty young Princesses Gorchakóv met suitors there and were married +and so further increased the fame of these dances. What distinguished +them from others was the absence of host or hostess and the presence of +the good-natured Iogel, flying about like a feather and bowing according +to the rules of his art, as he collected the tickets from all his +visitors. There was the fact that only those came who wished to dance +and amuse themselves as girls of thirteen and fourteen do who are +wearing long dresses for the first time. With scarcely any exceptions +they all were, or seemed to be, pretty—so rapturous were their smiles +and so sparkling their eyes. Sometimes the best of the pupils, of whom +Natásha, who was exceptionally graceful, was first, even danced the pas +de châle, but at this last ball only the écossaise, the anglaise, and +the mazurka, which was just coming into fashion, were danced. Iogel had +taken a ballroom in Bezúkhov’s house, and the ball, as everyone said, +was a great success. There were many pretty girls and the Rostóv girls +were among the prettiest. They were both particularly happy and gay. +That evening, proud of Dólokhov’s proposal, her refusal, and her +explanation with Nicholas, Sónya twirled about before she left home +so that the maid could hardly get her hair plaited, and she was +transparently radiant with impulsive joy. + +Natásha no less proud of her first long dress and of being at a real +ball was even happier. They were both dressed in white muslin with pink +ribbons. + +Natásha fell in love the very moment she entered the ballroom. She +was not in love with anyone in particular, but with everyone. Whatever +person she happened to look at she was in love with for that moment. + +“Oh, how delightful it is!” she kept saying, running up to Sónya. + +Nicholas and Denísov were walking up and down, looking with kindly +patronage at the dancers. + +“How sweet she is—she will be a weal beauty!” said Denísov. + +“Who?” + +“Countess Natásha,” answered Denísov. + +“And how she dances! What gwace!” he said again after a pause. + +“Who are you talking about?” + +“About your sister,” ejaculated Denísov testily. + +Rostóv smiled. + +“My dear count, you were one of my best pupils—you must dance,” +said little Iogel coming up to Nicholas. “Look how many charming young +ladies—” He turned with the same request to Denísov who was also a +former pupil of his. + +“No, my dear fellow, I’ll be a wallflower,” said Denísov. +“Don’t you wecollect what bad use I made of your lessons?” + +“Oh no!” said Iogel, hastening to reassure him. “You were only +inattentive, but you had talent—oh yes, you had talent!” + +The band struck up the newly introduced mazurka. Nicholas could not +refuse Iogel and asked Sónya to dance. Denísov sat down by the old +ladies and, leaning on his saber and beating time with his foot, told +them something funny and kept them amused, while he watched the young +people dancing, Iogel with Natásha, his pride and his best pupil, were +the first couple. Noiselessly, skillfully stepping with his little +feet in low shoes, Iogel flew first across the hall with Natásha, who, +though shy, went on carefully executing her steps. Denísov did not +take his eyes off her and beat time with his saber in a way that clearly +indicated that if he was not dancing it was because he would not and not +because he could not. In the middle of a figure he beckoned to Rostóv +who was passing: + +“This is not at all the thing,” he said. “What sort of Polish +mazuwka is this? But she does dance splendidly.” + +Knowing that Denísov had a reputation even in Poland for the masterly +way in which he danced the mazurka, Nicholas ran up to Natásha: + +“Go and choose Denísov. He is a real dancer, a wonder!” he said. + +When it came to Natásha’s turn to choose a partner, she rose and, +tripping rapidly across in her little shoes trimmed with bows, ran +timidly to the corner where Denísov sat. She saw that everybody was +looking at her and waiting. Nicholas saw that Denísov was refusing +though he smiled delightedly. He ran up to them. + +“Please, Vasíli Dmítrich,” Natásha was saying, “do come!” + +“Oh no, let me off, Countess,” Denísov replied. + +“Now then, Váska,” said Nicholas. + +“They coax me as if I were Váska the cat!” said Denísov jokingly. + +“I’ll sing for you a whole evening,” said Natásha. + +“Oh, the faiwy! She can do anything with me!” said Denísov, and +he unhooked his saber. He came out from behind the chairs, clasped his +partner’s hand firmly, threw back his head, and advanced his foot, +waiting for the beat. Only on horse back and in the mazurka was +Denísov’s short stature not noticeable and he looked the fine fellow +he felt himself to be. At the right beat of the music he looked sideways +at his partner with a merry and triumphant air, suddenly stamped with +one foot, bounded from the floor like a ball, and flew round the room +taking his partner with him. He glided silently on one foot half across +the room, and seeming not to notice the chairs was dashing straight at +them, when suddenly, clinking his spurs and spreading out his legs, +he stopped short on his heels, stood so a second, stamped on the spot +clanking his spurs, whirled rapidly round, and, striking his left heel +against his right, flew round again in a circle. Natásha guessed what +he meant to do, and abandoning herself to him followed his lead hardly +knowing how. First he spun her round, holding her now with his left, now +with his right hand, then falling on one knee he twirled her round him, +and again jumping up, dashed so impetuously forward that it seemed as if +he would rush through the whole suite of rooms without drawing breath, +and then he suddenly stopped and performed some new and unexpected +steps. When at last, smartly whirling his partner round in front of her +chair, he drew up with a click of his spurs and bowed to her, Natásha +did not even make him a curtsy. She fixed her eyes on him in amazement, +smiling as if she did not recognize him. + +“What does this mean?” she brought out. + +Although Iogel did not acknowledge this to be the real mazurka, everyone +was delighted with Denísov’s skill, he was asked again and again as +a partner, and the old men began smilingly to talk about Poland and the +good old days. Denísov, flushed after the mazurka and mopping himself +with his handkerchief, sat down by Natásha and did not leave her for +the rest of the evening. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIII + +For two days after that Rostóv did not see Dólokhov at his own or at +Dólokhov’s home: on the third day he received a note from him: + +As I do not intend to be at your house again for reasons you know +of, and am going to rejoin my regiment, I am giving a farewell supper +tonight to my friends—come to the English Hotel. + +About ten o’clock Rostóv went to the English Hotel straight from the +theater, where he had been with his family and Denísov. He was at once +shown to the best room, which Dólokhov had taken for that evening. Some +twenty men were gathered round a table at which Dólokhov sat between +two candles. On the table was a pile of gold and paper money, and he +was keeping the bank. Rostóv had not seen him since his proposal and +Sónya’s refusal and felt uncomfortable at the thought of how they +would meet. + +Dólokhov’s clear, cold glance met Rostóv as soon as he entered the +door, as though he had long expected him. + +“It’s a long time since we met,” he said. “Thanks for coming. +I’ll just finish dealing, and then Ilyúshka will come with his +chorus.” + +“I called once or twice at your house,” said Rostóv, reddening. + +Dólokhov made no reply. + +“You may punt,” he said. + +Rostóv recalled at that moment a strange conversation he had once had +with Dólokhov. “None but fools trust to luck in play,” Dólokhov +had then said. + +“Or are you afraid to play with me?” Dólokhov now asked as if +guessing Rostóv’s thought. + +Beneath his smile Rostóv saw in him the mood he had shown at the club +dinner and at other times, when as if tired of everyday life he had felt +a need to escape from it by some strange, and usually cruel, action. + +Rostóv felt ill at ease. He tried, but failed, to find some joke with +which to reply to Dólokhov’s words. But before he had thought of +anything, Dólokhov, looking straight in his face, said slowly and +deliberately so that everyone could hear: + +“Do you remember we had a talk about cards... ‘He’s a fool who +trusts to luck, one should make certain,’ and I want to try.” + +“To try his luck or the certainty?” Rostóv asked himself. + +“Well, you’d better not play,” Dólokhov added, and springing a +new pack of cards said: “Bank, gentlemen!” + +Moving the money forward he prepared to deal. Rostóv sat down by his +side and at first did not play. Dólokhov kept glancing at him. + +“Why don’t you play?” he asked. + +And strange to say Nicholas felt that he could not help taking up a +card, putting a small stake on it, and beginning to play. + +“I have no money with me,” he said. + +“I’ll trust you.” + +Rostóv staked five rubles on a card and lost, staked again, and again +lost. Dólokhov “killed,” that is, beat, ten cards of Rostóv’s +running. + +“Gentlemen,” said Dólokhov after he had dealt for some time. +“Please place your money on the cards or I may get muddled in the +reckoning.” + +One of the players said he hoped he might be trusted. + +“Yes, you might, but I am afraid of getting the accounts mixed. So I +ask you to put the money on your cards,” replied Dólokhov. “Don’t +stint yourself, we’ll settle afterwards,” he added, turning to +Rostóv. + +The game continued; a waiter kept handing round champagne. + +All Rostóv’s cards were beaten and he had eight hundred rubles scored +up against him. He wrote “800 rubles” on a card, but while the +waiter filled his glass he changed his mind and altered it to his usual +stake of twenty rubles. + +“Leave it,” said Dólokhov, though he did not seem to be even +looking at Rostóv, “you’ll win it back all the sooner. I lose to +the others but win from you. Or are you afraid of me?” he asked again. + +Rostóv submitted. He let the eight hundred remain and laid down a seven +of hearts with a torn corner, which he had picked up from the floor. He +well remembered that seven afterwards. He laid down the seven of hearts, +on which with a broken bit of chalk he had written “800 rubles” in +clear upright figures; he emptied the glass of warm champagne that was +handed him, smiled at Dólokhov’s words, and with a sinking heart, +waiting for a seven to turn up, gazed at Dólokhov’s hands which held +the pack. Much depended on Rostóv’s winning or losing on that seven +of hearts. On the previous Sunday the old count had given his son +two thousand rubles, and though he always disliked speaking of money +difficulties had told Nicholas that this was all he could let him have +till May, and asked him to be more economical this time. Nicholas had +replied that it would be more than enough for him and that he gave his +word of honor not to take anything more till the spring. Now only twelve +hundred rubles was left of that money, so that this seven of hearts +meant for him not only the loss of sixteen hundred rubles, but the +necessity of going back on his word. With a sinking heart he watched +Dólokhov’s hands and thought, “Now then, make haste and let me have +this card and I’ll take my cap and drive home to supper with Denísov, +Natásha, and Sónya, and will certainly never touch a card again.” At +that moment his home life, jokes with Pétya, talks with Sónya, duets +with Natásha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed +in the house on the Povarskáya rose before him with such vividness, +clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and +unappreciated bliss, long past. He could not conceive that a stupid +chance, letting the seven be dealt to the right rather than to the left, +might deprive him of all this happiness, newly appreciated and newly +illumined, and plunge him into the depths of unknown and undefined +misery. That could not be, yet he awaited with a sinking heart the +movement of Dólokhov’s hands. Those broad, reddish hands, with hairy +wrists visible from under the shirt cuffs, laid down the pack and took +up a glass and a pipe that were handed him. + +“So you are not afraid to play with me?” repeated Dólokhov, and as +if about to tell a good story he put down the cards, leaned back in his +chair, and began deliberately with a smile: + +“Yes, gentlemen, I’ve been told there’s a rumor going about Moscow +that I’m a sharper, so I advise you to be careful.” + +“Come now, deal!” exclaimed Rostóv. + +“Oh, those Moscow gossips!” said Dólokhov, and he took up the cards +with a smile. + +“Aah!” Rostóv almost screamed lifting both hands to his head. The +seven he needed was lying uppermost, the first card in the pack. He had +lost more than he could pay. + +“Still, don’t ruin yourself!” said Dólokhov with a side glance at +Rostóv as he continued to deal. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +An hour and a half later most of the players were but little interested +in their own play. + +The whole interest was concentrated on Rostóv. Instead of sixteen +hundred rubles he had a long column of figures scored against him, +which he had reckoned up to ten thousand, but that now, as he vaguely +supposed, must have risen to fifteen thousand. In reality it already +exceeded twenty thousand rubles. Dólokhov was no longer listening to +stories or telling them, but followed every movement of Rostóv’s +hands and occasionally ran his eyes over the score against him. He had +decided to play until that score reached forty-three thousand. He +had fixed on that number because forty-three was the sum of his and +Sónya’s joint ages. Rostóv, leaning his head on both hands, sat at +the table which was scrawled over with figures, wet with spilled wine, +and littered with cards. One tormenting impression did not leave him: +that those broad-boned reddish hands with hairy wrists visible from +under the shirt sleeves, those hands which he loved and hated, held him +in their power. + +“Six hundred rubles, ace, a corner, a nine... winning it back’s +impossible... Oh, how pleasant it was at home!... The knave, double or +quits... it can’t be!... And why is he doing this to me?” Rostóv +pondered. Sometimes he staked a large sum, but Dólokhov refused to +accept it and fixed the stake himself. Nicholas submitted to him, and at +one moment prayed to God as he had done on the battlefield at the bridge +over the Enns, and then guessed that the card that came first to hand +from the crumpled heap under the table would save him, now counted the +cords on his coat and took a card with that number and tried staking the +total of his losses on it, then he looked round for aid from the other +players, or peered at the now cold face of Dólokhov and tried to read +what was passing in his mind. + +“He knows of course what this loss means to me. He can’t want my +ruin. Wasn’t he my friend? Wasn’t I fond of him? But it’s not his +fault. What’s he to do if he has such luck?... And it’s not my fault +either,” he thought to himself, “I have done nothing wrong. Have I +killed anyone, or insulted or wished harm to anyone? Why such a terrible +misfortune? And when did it begin? Such a little while ago I came to +this table with the thought of winning a hundred rubles to buy that +casket for Mamma’s name day and then going home. I was so happy, so +free, so lighthearted! And I did not realize how happy I was! When did +that end and when did this new, terrible state of things begin? What +marked the change? I sat all the time in this same place at this table, +chose and placed cards, and watched those broad-boned agile hands in the +same way. When did it happen and what has happened? I am well and strong +and still the same and in the same place. No, it can’t be! Surely it +will all end in nothing!” + +He was flushed and bathed in perspiration, though the room was not hot. +His face was terrible and piteous to see, especially from its helpless +efforts to seem calm. + +The score against him reached the fateful sum of forty-three thousand. +Rostóv had just prepared a card, by bending the corner of which he +meant to double the three thousand just put down to his score, when +Dólokhov, slamming down the pack of cards, put it aside and began +rapidly adding up the total of Rostóv’s debt, breaking the chalk as +he marked the figures in his clear, bold hand. + +“Supper, it’s time for supper! And here are the gypsies!” + +Some swarthy men and women were really entering from the cold outside +and saying something in their gypsy accents. Nicholas understood that it +was all over; but he said in an indifferent tone: + +“Well, won’t you go on? I had a splendid card all ready,” as if it +were the fun of the game which interested him most. + +“It’s all up! I’m lost!” thought he. “Now a bullet through my +brain—that’s all that’s left me!” And at the same time he said +in a cheerful voice: + +“Come now, just this one more little card!” + +“All right!” said Dólokhov, having finished the addition. “All +right! Twenty-one rubles,” he said, pointing to the figure twenty-one +by which the total exceeded the round sum of forty-three thousand; and +taking up a pack he prepared to deal. Rostóv submissively unbent the +corner of his card and, instead of the six thousand he had intended, +carefully wrote twenty-one. + +“It’s all the same to me,” he said. “I only want to see whether +you will let me win this ten, or beat it.” + +Dólokhov began to deal seriously. Oh, how Rostóv detested at that +moment those hands with their short reddish fingers and hairy wrists, +which held him in their power.... The ten fell to him. + +“You owe forty-three thousand, Count,” said Dólokhov, and +stretching himself he rose from the table. “One does get tired sitting +so long,” he added. + +“Yes, I’m tired too,” said Rostóv. + +Dólokhov cut him short, as if to remind him that it was not for him to +jest. + +“When am I to receive the money, Count?” + +Rostóv, flushing, drew Dólokhov into the next room. + +“I cannot pay it all immediately. Will you take an I.O.U.?” he said. + +“I say, Rostóv,” said Dólokhov clearly, smiling and looking +Nicholas straight in the eyes, “you know the saying, ‘Lucky in love, +unlucky at cards.’ Your cousin is in love with you, I know.” + +“Oh, it’s terrible to feel oneself so in this man’s power,” +thought Rostóv. He knew what a shock he would inflict on his father and +mother by the news of this loss, he knew what a relief it would be to +escape it all, and felt that Dólokhov knew that he could save him from +all this shame and sorrow, but wanted now to play with him as a cat does +with a mouse. + +“Your cousin...” Dólokhov started to say, but Nicholas interrupted +him. + +“My cousin has nothing to do with this and it’s not necessary to +mention her!” he exclaimed fiercely. + +“Then when am I to have it?” + +“Tomorrow,” replied Rostóv and left the room. + + + + + +CHAPTER XV + +To say “tomorrow” and keep up a dignified tone was not difficult, +but to go home alone, see his sisters, brother, mother, and father, +confess and ask for money he had no right to after giving his word of +honor, was terrible. + +At home, they had not yet gone to bed. The young people, after returning +from the theater, had had supper and were grouped round the clavichord. +As soon as Nicholas entered, he was enfolded in that poetic atmosphere +of love which pervaded the Rostóv household that winter and, now after +Dólokhov’s proposal and Iogel’s ball, seemed to have grown thicker +round Sónya and Natásha as the air does before a thunderstorm. Sónya +and Natásha, in the light-blue dresses they had worn at the theater, +looking pretty and conscious of it, were standing by the clavichord, +happy and smiling. Véra was playing chess with Shinshín in the drawing +room. The old countess, waiting for the return of her husband and son, +sat playing patience with the old gentlewoman who lived in their house. +Denísov, with sparkling eyes and ruffled hair, sat at the clavichord +striking chords with his short fingers, his legs thrown back and his +eyes rolling as he sang, with his small, husky, but true voice, some +verses called “Enchantress,” which he had composed, and to which he +was trying to fit music: + + Enchantress, say, to my forsaken lyre + What magic power is this recalls me still? + What spark has set my inmost soul on fire, + What is this bliss that makes my fingers thrill? + +He was singing in passionate tones, gazing with his sparkling +black-agate eyes at the frightened and happy Natásha. + +“Splendid! Excellent!” exclaimed Natásha. “Another verse,” she +said, without noticing Nicholas. + +“Everything’s still the same with them,” thought Nicholas, +glancing into the drawing room, where he saw Véra and his mother with +the old lady. + +“Ah, and here’s Nicholas!” cried Natásha, running up to him. + +“Is Papa at home?” he asked. + +“I am so glad you’ve come!” said Natásha, without answering him. +“We are enjoying ourselves! Vasíli Dmítrich is staying a day longer +for my sake! Did you know?” + +“No, Papa is not back yet,” said Sónya. + +“Nicholas, have you come? Come here, dear!” called the old countess +from the drawing room. + +Nicholas went to her, kissed her hand, and sitting down silently at her +table began to watch her hands arranging the cards. From the dancing +room, they still heard the laughter and merry voices trying to persuade +Natásha to sing. + +“All wight! All wight!” shouted Denísov. “It’s no good making +excuses now! It’s your turn to sing the ba’cawolla—I entweat +you!” + +The countess glanced at her silent son. + +“What is the matter?” she asked. + +“Oh, nothing,” said he, as if weary of being continually asked the +same question. “Will Papa be back soon?” + +“I expect so.” + +“Everything’s the same with them. They know nothing about it! Where +am I to go?” thought Nicholas, and went again into the dancing room +where the clavichord stood. + +Sónya was sitting at the clavichord, playing the prelude to +Denísov’s favorite barcarolle. Natásha was preparing to sing. +Denísov was looking at her with enraptured eyes. + +Nicholas began pacing up and down the room. + +“Why do they want to make her sing? How can she sing? There’s +nothing to be happy about!” thought he. + +Sónya struck the first chord of the prelude. + +“My God, I’m a ruined and dishonored man! A bullet through my brain +is the only thing left me—not singing!” his thoughts ran on. “Go +away? But where to? It’s one—let them sing!” + +He continued to pace the room, looking gloomily at Denísov and the +girls and avoiding their eyes. + +“Nikólenka, what is the matter?” Sónya’s eyes fixed on him +seemed to ask. She noticed at once that something had happened to him. + +Nicholas turned away from her. Natásha too, with her quick instinct, +had instantly noticed her brother’s condition. But, though she noticed +it, she was herself in such high spirits at that moment, so far from +sorrow, sadness, or self-reproach, that she purposely deceived herself +as young people often do. “No, I am too happy now to spoil my +enjoyment by sympathy with anyone’s sorrow,” she felt, and she said +to herself: “No, I must be mistaken, he must be feeling happy, just as +I am.” + +“Now, Sónya!” she said, going to the very middle of the room, where +she considered the resonance was best. + +Having lifted her head and let her arms droop lifelessly, as ballet +dancers do, Natásha, rising energetically from her heels to her toes, +stepped to the middle of the room and stood still. + +“Yes, that’s me!” she seemed to say, answering the rapt gaze with +which Denísov followed her. + +“And what is she so pleased about?” thought Nicholas, looking at his +sister. “Why isn’t she dull and ashamed?” + +Natásha took the first note, her throat swelled, her chest rose, +her eyes became serious. At that moment she was oblivious of her +surroundings, and from her smiling lips flowed sounds which anyone may +produce at the same intervals and hold for the same time, but which +leave you cold a thousand times and the thousand and first time thrill +you and make you weep. + +Natásha, that winter, had for the first time begun to sing seriously, +mainly because Denísov so delighted in her singing. She no longer sang +as a child, there was no longer in her singing that comical, childish, +painstaking effect that had been in it before; but she did not yet sing +well, as all the connoisseurs who heard her said: “It is not trained, +but it is a beautiful voice that must be trained.” Only they generally +said this some time after she had finished singing. While that untrained +voice, with its incorrect breathing and labored transitions, was +sounding, even the connoisseurs said nothing, but only delighted in +it and wished to hear it again. In her voice there was a virginal +freshness, an unconsciousness of her own powers, and an as yet untrained +velvety softness, which so mingled with her lack of art in singing that +it seemed as if nothing in that voice could be altered without spoiling +it. + +“What is this?” thought Nicholas, listening to her with widely +opened eyes. “What has happened to her? How she is singing today!” +And suddenly the whole world centered for him on anticipation of the +next note, the next phrase, and everything in the world was divided into +three beats: “Oh mio crudele affetto.”... One, two, three... one, +two, three... One... “Oh mio crudele affetto.”... One, two, three... +One. “Oh, this senseless life of ours!” thought Nicholas. “All +this misery, and money, and Dólokhov, and anger, and honor—it’s all +nonsense... but this is real.... Now then, Natásha, now then, dearest! +Now then, darling! How will she take that si? She’s taken it! Thank +God!” And without noticing that he was singing, to strengthen the si +he sung a second, a third below the high note. “Ah, God! How fine! Did +I really take it? How fortunate!” he thought. + +Oh, how that chord vibrated, and how moved was something that was finest +in Rostóv’s soul! And this something was apart from everything else +in the world and above everything in the world. “What were losses, and +Dólokhov, and words of honor?... All nonsense! One might kill and rob +and yet be happy....” + + + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +It was long since Rostóv had felt such enjoyment from music as he +did that day. But no sooner had Natásha finished her barcarolle than +reality again presented itself. He got up without saying a word and went +downstairs to his own room. A quarter of an hour later the old count +came in from his club, cheerful and contented. Nicholas, hearing him +drive up, went to meet him. + +“Well—had a good time?” said the old count, smiling gaily and +proudly at his son. + +Nicholas tried to say “Yes,” but could not: and he nearly burst into +sobs. The count was lighting his pipe and did not notice his son’s +condition. + +“Ah, it can’t be avoided!” thought Nicholas, for the first and +last time. And suddenly, in the most casual tone, which made him feel +ashamed of himself, he said, as if merely asking his father to let him +have the carriage to drive to town: + +“Papa, I have come on a matter of business. I was nearly forgetting. I +need some money.” + +“Dear me!” said his father, who was in a specially good humor. “I +told you it would not be enough. How much?” + +“Very much,” said Nicholas flushing, and with a stupid careless +smile, for which he was long unable to forgive himself, “I have lost a +little, I mean a good deal, a great deal—forty three thousand.” + +“What! To whom?... Nonsense!” cried the count, suddenly reddening +with an apoplectic flush over neck and nape as old people do. + +“I promised to pay tomorrow,” said Nicholas. + +“Well!...” said the old count, spreading out his arms and sinking +helplessly on the sofa. + +“It can’t be helped! It happens to everyone!” said the son, with +a bold, free, and easy tone, while in his soul he regarded himself as a +worthless scoundrel whose whole life could not atone for his crime. He +longed to kiss his father’s hands and kneel to beg his forgiveness, +but said, in a careless and even rude voice, that it happens to +everyone! + +The old count cast down his eyes on hearing his son’s words and began +bustlingly searching for something. + +“Yes, yes,” he muttered, “it will be difficult, I fear, difficult +to raise... happens to everybody! Yes, who has not done it?” + +And with a furtive glance at his son’s face, the count went out of the +room.... Nicholas had been prepared for resistance, but had not at all +expected this. + +“Papa! Pa-pa!” he called after him, sobbing, “forgive me!” And +seizing his father’s hand, he pressed it to his lips and burst into +tears. + +While father and son were having their explanation, the mother and +daughter were having one not less important. Natásha came running to +her mother, quite excited. + +“Mamma!... Mamma!... He has made me...” + +“Made what?” + +“Made, made me an offer, Mamma! Mamma!” she exclaimed. + +The countess did not believe her ears. Denísov had proposed. To whom? +To this chit of a girl, Natásha, who not so long ago was playing with +dolls and who was still having lessons. + +“Don’t, Natásha! What nonsense!” she said, hoping it was a joke. + +“Nonsense, indeed! I am telling you the fact,” said Natásha +indignantly. “I come to ask you what to do, and you call it +‘nonsense!’” + +The countess shrugged her shoulders. + +“If it is true that Monsieur Denísov has made you a proposal, tell +him he is a fool, that’s all!” + +“No, he’s not a fool!” replied Natásha indignantly and seriously. + +“Well then, what do you want? You’re all in love nowadays. Well, +if you are in love, marry him!” said the countess, with a laugh of +annoyance. “Good luck to you!” + +“No, Mamma, I’m not in love with him, I suppose I’m not in love +with him.” + +“Well then, tell him so.” + +“Mamma, are you cross? Don’t be cross, dear! Is it my fault?” + +“No, but what is it, my dear? Do you want me to go and tell him?” +said the countess smiling. + +“No, I will do it myself, only tell me what to say. It’s all very +well for you,” said Natásha, with a responsive smile. “You should +have seen how he said it! I know he did not mean to say it, but it came +out accidently.” + +“Well, all the same, you must refuse him.” + +“No, I mustn’t. I am so sorry for him! He’s so nice.” + +“Well then, accept his offer. It’s high time for you to be +married,” answered the countess sharply and sarcastically. + +“No, Mamma, but I’m so sorry for him. I don’t know how I’m to +say it.” + +“And there’s nothing for you to say. I shall speak to him myself,” +said the countess, indignant that they should have dared to treat this +little Natásha as grown up. + +“No, not on any account! I will tell him myself, and you’ll listen +at the door,” and Natásha ran across the drawing room to the dancing +hall, where Denísov was sitting on the same chair by the clavichord +with his face in his hands. + +He jumped up at the sound of her light step. + +“Nataly,” he said, moving with rapid steps toward her, “decide my +fate. It is in your hands.” + +“Vasíli Dmítrich, I’m so sorry for you!... No, but you are so +nice... but it won’t do...not that... but as a friend, I shall always +love you.” + +Denísov bent over her hand and she heard strange sounds she did not +understand. She kissed his rough curly black head. At this instant, they +heard the quick rustle of the countess’ dress. She came up to them. + +“Vasíli Dmítrich, I thank you for the honor,” she said, with an +embarrassed voice, though it sounded severe to Denísov—“but my +daughter is so young, and I thought that, as my son’s friend, you +would have addressed yourself first to me. In that case you would not +have obliged me to give this refusal.” + +“Countess...” said Denísov, with downcast eyes and a guilty face. +He tried to say more, but faltered. + +Natásha could not remain calm, seeing him in such a plight. She began +to sob aloud. + +“Countess, I have done w’ong,” Denísov went on in an unsteady +voice, “but believe me, I so adore your daughter and all your family +that I would give my life twice over...” He looked at the countess, +and seeing her severe face said: “Well, good-by, Countess,” and +kissing her hand, he left the room with quick resolute strides, without +looking at Natásha. + + +Next day Rostóv saw Denísov off. He did not wish to stay another +day in Moscow. All Denísov’s Moscow friends gave him a farewell +entertainment at the gypsies’, with the result that he had no +recollection of how he was put in the sleigh or of the first three +stages of his journey. + +After Denísov’s departure, Rostóv spent another fortnight in Moscow, +without going out of the house, waiting for the money his father could +not at once raise, and he spent most of his time in the girls’ room. + +Sónya was more tender and devoted to him than ever. It was as if she +wanted to show him that his losses were an achievement that made her +love him all the more, but Nicholas now considered himself unworthy of +her. + +He filled the girls’ albums with verses and music, and having at last +sent Dólokhov the whole forty-three thousand rubles and received his +receipt, he left at the end of November, without taking leave of any of +his acquaintances, to overtake his regiment which was already in Poland. + + + + + +BOOK FIVE: 1806 - 07 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +After his interview with his wife Pierre left for Petersburg. At the +Torzhók post station, either there were no horses or the postmaster +would not supply them. Pierre was obliged to wait. Without undressing, +he lay down on the leather sofa in front of a round table, put his big +feet in their overboots on the table, and began to reflect. + +“Will you have the portmanteaus brought in? And a bed got ready, and +tea?” asked his valet. + +Pierre gave no answer, for he neither heard nor saw anything. He had +begun to think of the last station and was still pondering on the same +question—one so important that he took no notice of what went +on around him. Not only was he indifferent as to whether he got to +Petersburg earlier or later, or whether he secured accommodation at this +station, but compared to the thoughts that now occupied him it was a +matter of indifference whether he remained there for a few hours or for +the rest of his life. + +The postmaster, his wife, the valet, and a peasant woman selling +Torzhók embroidery came into the room offering their services. +Without changing his careless attitude, Pierre looked at them over his +spectacles unable to understand what they wanted or how they could go on +living without having solved the problems that so absorbed him. He had +been engrossed by the same thoughts ever since the day he returned from +Sokólniki after the duel and had spent that first agonizing, sleepless +night. But now, in the solitude of the journey, they seized him with +special force. No matter what he thought about, he always returned to +these same questions which he could not solve and yet could not cease to +ask himself. It was as if the thread of the chief screw which held his +life together were stripped, so that the screw could not get in or out, +but went on turning uselessly in the same place. + +The postmaster came in and began obsequiously to beg his excellency to +wait only two hours, when, come what might, he would let his excellency +have the courier horses. It was plain that he was lying and only wanted +to get more money from the traveler. + +“Is this good or bad?” Pierre asked himself. “It is good for me, +bad for another traveler, and for himself it’s unavoidable, because +he needs money for food; the man said an officer had once given him a +thrashing for letting a private traveler have the courier horses. +But the officer thrashed him because he had to get on as quickly as +possible. And I,” continued Pierre, “shot Dólokhov because I +considered myself injured, and Louis XVI was executed because they +considered him a criminal, and a year later they executed those who +executed him—also for some reason. What is bad? What is good? What +should one love and what hate? What does one live for? And what am I? +What is life, and what is death? What power governs all?” + +There was no answer to any of these questions, except one, and that +not a logical answer and not at all a reply to them. The answer was: +“You’ll die and all will end. You’ll die and know all, or cease +asking.” But dying was also dreadful. + +The Torzhók peddler woman, in a whining voice, went on offering her +wares, especially a pair of goatskin slippers. “I have hundreds of +rubles I don’t know what to do with, and she stands in her tattered +cloak looking timidly at me,” he thought. “And what does she +want the money for? As if that money could add a hair’s breadth to +happiness or peace of mind. Can anything in the world make her or me +less a prey to evil and death?—death which ends all and must come +today or tomorrow—at any rate, in an instant as compared with +eternity.” And again he twisted the screw with the stripped thread, +and again it turned uselessly in the same place. + +His servant handed him a half-cut novel, in the form of letters, by +Madame de Souza. He began reading about the sufferings and virtuous +struggles of a certain Emilie de Mansfeld. “And why did she resist +her seducer when she loved him?” he thought. “God could not have put +into her heart an impulse that was against His will. My wife—as she +once was—did not struggle, and perhaps she was right. Nothing has been +found out, nothing discovered,” Pierre again said to himself. “All +we can know is that we know nothing. And that’s the height of human +wisdom.” + +Everything within and around him seemed confused, senseless, and +repellent. Yet in this very repugnance to all his circumstances Pierre +found a kind of tantalizing satisfaction. + +“I make bold to ask your excellency to move a little for this +gentleman,” said the postmaster, entering the room followed by another +traveler, also detained for lack of horses. + +The newcomer was a short, large-boned, yellow-faced, wrinkled old +man, with gray bushy eyebrows overhanging bright eyes of an indefinite +grayish color. + +Pierre took his feet off the table, stood up, and lay down on a bed that +had been got ready for him, glancing now and then at the newcomer, who, +with a gloomy and tired face, was wearily taking off his wraps with the +aid of his servant, and not looking at Pierre. With a pair of felt boots +on his thin bony legs, and keeping on a worn, nankeen-covered, sheepskin +coat, the traveler sat down on the sofa, leaned back his big head with +its broad temples and close-cropped hair, and looked at Bezúkhov. The +stern, shrewd, and penetrating expression of that look struck Pierre. He +felt a wish to speak to the stranger, but by the time he had made up his +mind to ask him a question about the roads, the traveler had closed his +eyes. His shriveled old hands were folded and on the finger of one of +them Pierre noticed a large cast iron ring with a seal representing a +death’s head. The stranger sat without stirring, either resting or, as +it seemed to Pierre, sunk in profound and calm meditation. His servant +was also a yellow, wrinkled old man, without beard or mustache, +evidently not because he was shaven but because they had never grown. +This active old servant was unpacking the traveler’s canteen and +preparing tea. He brought in a boiling samovar. When everything was +ready, the stranger opened his eyes, moved to the table, filled a +tumbler with tea for himself and one for the beardless old man to whom +he passed it. Pierre began to feel a sense of uneasiness, and the +need, even the inevitability, of entering into conversation with this +stranger. + +The servant brought back his tumbler turned upside down, * with an +unfinished bit of nibbled sugar, and asked if anything more would be +wanted. + + * To indicate he did not want more tea. + +“No. Give me the book,” said the stranger. + +The servant handed him a book which Pierre took to be a devotional work, +and the traveler became absorbed in it. Pierre looked at him. All at +once the stranger closed the book, putting in a marker, and again, +leaning with his arms on the back of the sofa, sat in his former +position with his eyes shut. Pierre looked at him and had not time +to turn away when the old man, opening his eyes, fixed his steady and +severe gaze straight on Pierre’s face. + +Pierre felt confused and wished to avoid that look, but the bright old +eyes attracted him irresistibly. + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +“I have the pleasure of addressing Count Bezúkhov, if I am not +mistaken,” said the stranger in a deliberate and loud voice. + +Pierre looked silently and inquiringly at him over his spectacles. + +“I have heard of you, my dear sir,” continued the stranger, “and +of your misfortune.” He seemed to emphasize the last word, as if to +say—“Yes, misfortune! Call it what you please, I know that what +happened to you in Moscow was a misfortune.”—“I regret it very +much, my dear sir.” + +Pierre flushed and, hurriedly putting his legs down from the bed, bent +forward toward the old man with a forced and timid smile. + +“I have not referred to this out of curiosity, my dear sir, but for +greater reasons.” + +He paused, his gaze still on Pierre, and moved aside on the sofa by way +of inviting the other to take a seat beside him. Pierre felt reluctant +to enter into conversation with this old man, but, submitting to him +involuntarily, came up and sat down beside him. + +“You are unhappy, my dear sir,” the stranger continued. “You +are young and I am old. I should like to help you as far as lies in my +power.” + +“Oh, yes!” said Pierre, with a forced smile. “I am very grateful +to you. Where are you traveling from?” + +The stranger’s face was not genial, it was even cold and severe, but +in spite of this, both the face and words of his new acquaintance were +irresistibly attractive to Pierre. + +“But if for any reason you don’t feel inclined to talk to me,” +said the old man, “say so, my dear sir.” And he suddenly smiled, in +an unexpected and tenderly paternal way. + +“Oh no, not at all! On the contrary, I am very glad to make your +acquaintance,” said Pierre. And again, glancing at the stranger’s +hands, he looked more closely at the ring, with its skull—a Masonic +sign. + +“Allow me to ask,” he said, “are you a Mason?” + +“Yes, I belong to the Brotherhood of the Freemasons,” said the +stranger, looking deeper and deeper into Pierre’s eyes. “And in +their name and my own I hold out a brotherly hand to you.” + +“I am afraid,” said Pierre, smiling, and wavering between the +confidence the personality of the Freemason inspired in him and his own +habit of ridiculing the Masonic beliefs—“I am afraid I am very far +from understanding—how am I to put it?—I am afraid my way of looking +at the world is so opposed to yours that we shall not understand one +another.” + +“I know your outlook,” said the Mason, “and the view of life you +mention, and which you think is the result of your own mental efforts, +is the one held by the majority of people, and is the invariable fruit +of pride, indolence, and ignorance. Forgive me, my dear sir, but if I +had not known it I should not have addressed you. Your view of life is a +regrettable delusion.” + +“Just as I may suppose you to be deluded,” said Pierre, with a faint +smile. + +“I should never dare to say that I know the truth,” said the Mason, +whose words struck Pierre more and more by their precision and firmness. +“No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone +with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our +forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be +a worthy dwelling place of the Great God,” he added, and closed his +eyes. + +“I ought to tell you that I do not believe... do not believe in +God,” said Pierre, regretfully and with an effort, feeling it +essential to speak the whole truth. + +The Mason looked intently at Pierre and smiled as a rich man with +millions in hand might smile at a poor fellow who told him that he, poor +man, had not the five rubles that would make him happy. + +“Yes, you do not know Him, my dear sir,” said the Mason. “You +cannot know Him. You do not know Him and that is why you are unhappy.” + +“Yes, yes, I am unhappy,” assented Pierre. “But what am I to +do?” + +“You know Him not, my dear sir, and so you are very unhappy. You do +not know Him, but He is here, He is in me, He is in my words, He is in +thee, and even in those blasphemous words thou hast just uttered!” +pronounced the Mason in a stern and tremulous voice. + +He paused and sighed, evidently trying to calm himself. + +“If He were not,” he said quietly, “you and I would not be +speaking of Him, my dear sir. Of what, of whom, are we speaking? Whom +hast thou denied?” he suddenly asked with exulting austerity and +authority in his voice. “Who invented Him, if He did not exist? Whence +came thy conception of the existence of such an incomprehensible Being? +didst thou, and why did the whole world, conceive the idea of the +existence of such an incomprehensible Being, a Being all-powerful, +eternal, and infinite in all His attributes?...” + +He stopped and remained silent for a long time. + +Pierre could not and did not wish to break this silence. + +“He exists, but to understand Him is hard,” the Mason began again, +looking not at Pierre but straight before him, and turning the leaves +of his book with his old hands which from excitement he could not keep +still. “If it were a man whose existence thou didst doubt I could +bring him to thee, could take him by the hand and show him to thee. But +how can I, an insignificant mortal, show His omnipotence, His infinity, +and all His mercy to one who is blind, or who shuts his eyes that he may +not see or understand Him and may not see or understand his own vileness +and sinfulness?” He paused again. “Who art thou? Thou dreamest that +thou art wise because thou couldst utter those blasphemous words,” he +went on, with a somber and scornful smile. “And thou art more foolish +and unreasonable than a little child, who, playing with the parts of a +skillfully made watch, dares to say that, as he does not understand +its use, he does not believe in the master who made it. To know Him is +hard.... For ages, from our forefather Adam to our own day, we labor to +attain that knowledge and are still infinitely far from our aim; but +in our lack of understanding we see only our weakness and His +greatness....” + +Pierre listened with swelling heart, gazing into the Mason’s face with +shining eyes, not interrupting or questioning him, but believing with +his whole soul what the stranger said. Whether he accepted the wise +reasoning contained in the Mason’s words, or believed as a child +believes, in the speaker’s tone of conviction and earnestness, or +the tremor of the speaker’s voice—which sometimes almost broke—or +those brilliant aged eyes grown old in this conviction, or the calm +firmness and certainty of his vocation, which radiated from his whole +being (and which struck Pierre especially by contrast with his own +dejection and hopelessness)—at any rate, Pierre longed with his whole +soul to believe and he did believe, and felt a joyful sense of comfort, +regeneration, and return to life. + +“He is not to be apprehended by reason, but by life,” said the +Mason. + +“I do not understand,” said Pierre, feeling with dismay doubts +reawakening. He was afraid of any want of clearness, any weakness, in +the Mason’s arguments; he dreaded not to be able to believe in him. +“I don’t understand,” he said, “how it is that the mind of man +cannot attain the knowledge of which you speak.” + +The Mason smiled with his gentle fatherly smile. + +“The highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish +to imbibe,” he said. “Can I receive that pure liquid into an impure +vessel and judge of its purity? Only by the inner purification of myself +can I retain in some degree of purity the liquid I receive.” + +“Yes, yes, that is so,” said Pierre joyfully. + +“The highest wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those +worldly sciences of physics, history, chemistry, and the like, into +which intellectual knowledge is divided. The highest wisdom is one. +The highest wisdom has but one science—the science of the whole—the +science explaining the whole creation and man’s place in it. To +receive that science it is necessary to purify and renew one’s inner +self, and so before one can know, it is necessary to believe and to +perfect one’s self. And to attain this end, we have the light called +conscience that God has implanted in our souls.” + +“Yes, yes,” assented Pierre. + +“Look then at thy inner self with the eyes of the spirit, and ask +thyself whether thou art content with thyself. What hast thou attained +relying on reason only? What art thou? You are young, you are rich, you +are clever, you are well educated. And what have you done with all these +good gifts? Are you content with yourself and with your life?” + +“No, I hate my life,” Pierre muttered, wincing. + +“Thou hatest it. Then change it, purify thyself; and as thou art +purified, thou wilt gain wisdom. Look at your life, my dear sir. +How have you spent it? In riotous orgies and debauchery, receiving +everything from society and giving nothing in return. You have become +the possessor of wealth. How have you used it? What have you done +for your neighbor? Have you ever thought of your tens of thousands +of slaves? Have you helped them physically and morally? No! You have +profited by their toil to lead a profligate life. That is what you have +done. Have you chosen a post in which you might be of service to your +neighbor? No! You have spent your life in idleness. Then you married, my +dear sir—took on yourself responsibility for the guidance of a young +woman; and what have you done? You have not helped her to find the way +of truth, my dear sir, but have thrust her into an abyss of deceit and +misery. A man offended you and you shot him, and you say you do not +know God and hate your life. There is nothing strange in that, my dear +sir!” + +After these words, the Mason, as if tired by his long discourse, again +leaned his arms on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes. Pierre +looked at that aged, stern, motionless, almost lifeless face and moved +his lips without uttering a sound. He wished to say, “Yes, a vile, +idle, vicious life!” but dared not break the silence. + +The Mason cleared his throat huskily, as old men do, and called his +servant. + +“How about the horses?” he asked, without looking at Pierre. + +“The exchange horses have just come,” answered the servant. “Will +you not rest here?” + +“No, tell them to harness.” + +“Can he really be going away leaving me alone without having told me +all, and without promising to help me?” thought Pierre, rising with +downcast head; and he began to pace the room, glancing occasionally at +the Mason. “Yes, I never thought of it, but I have led a contemptible +and profligate life, though I did not like it and did not want to,” +thought Pierre. “But this man knows the truth and, if he wished to, +could disclose it to me.” + +Pierre wished to say this to the Mason, but did not dare to. The +traveler, having packed his things with his practiced hands, began +fastening his coat. When he had finished, he turned to Bezúkhov, and +said in a tone of indifferent politeness: + +“Where are you going to now, my dear sir?” + +“I?... I’m going to Petersburg,” answered Pierre, in a childlike, +hesitating voice. “I thank you. I agree with all you have said. But +do not suppose me to be so bad. With my whole soul I wish to be what you +would have me be, but I have never had help from anyone.... But it is +I, above all, who am to blame for everything. Help me, teach me, and +perhaps I may...” + +Pierre could not go on. He gulped and turned away. + +The Mason remained silent for a long time, evidently considering. + +“Help comes from God alone,” he said, “but such measure of help as +our Order can bestow it will render you, my dear sir. You are going to +Petersburg. Hand this to Count Willarski” (he took out his notebook +and wrote a few words on a large sheet of paper folded in four). +“Allow me to give you a piece of advice. When you reach the capital, +first of all devote some time to solitude and self-examination and do +not resume your former way of life. And now I wish you a good journey, +my dear sir,” he added, seeing that his servant had entered... “and +success.” + +The traveler was Joseph Alexéevich Bazdéev, as Pierre saw from the +postmaster’s book. Bazdéev had been one of the best-known Freemasons +and Martinists, even in Novíkov’s time. For a long while after he had +gone, Pierre did not go to bed or order horses but paced up and down +the room, pondering over his vicious past, and with a rapturous sense +of beginning anew pictured to himself the blissful, irreproachable, +virtuous future that seemed to him so easy. It seemed to him that he had +been vicious only because he had somehow forgotten how good it is to +be virtuous. Not a trace of his former doubts remained in his soul. He +firmly believed in the possibility of the brotherhood of men united in +the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that is how +Freemasonry presented itself to him. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +On reaching Petersburg Pierre did not let anyone know of his arrival, +he went nowhere and spent whole days in reading Thomas à Kempis, whose +book had been sent him by someone unknown. One thing he continually +realized as he read that book: the joy, hitherto unknown to him, +of believing in the possibility of attaining perfection, and in the +possibility of active brotherly love among men, which Joseph Alexéevich +had revealed to him. A week after his arrival, the young Polish count, +Willarski, whom Pierre had known slightly in Petersburg society, came +into his room one evening in the official and ceremonious manner in +which Dólokhov’s second had called on him, and, having closed the +door behind him and satisfied himself that there was nobody else in the +room, addressed Pierre. + +“I have come to you with a message and an offer, Count,” he +said without sitting down. “A person of very high standing in our +Brotherhood has made application for you to be received into our Order +before the usual term and has proposed to me to be your sponsor. I +consider it a sacred duty to fulfill that person’s wishes. Do you wish +to enter the Brotherhood of Freemasons under my sponsorship?” + +The cold, austere tone of this man, whom he had almost always before met +at balls, amiably smiling in the society of the most brilliant women, +surprised Pierre. + +“Yes, I do wish it,” said he. + +Willarski bowed his head. + +“One more question, Count,” he said, “which I beg you to answer +in all sincerity—not as a future Mason but as an honest man: have you +renounced your former convictions—do you believe in God?” + +Pierre considered. + +“Yes... yes, I believe in God,” he said. + +“In that case...” began Willarski, but Pierre interrupted him. + +“Yes, I do believe in God,” he repeated. + +“In that case we can go,” said Willarski. “My carriage is at your +service.” + +Willarski was silent throughout the drive. To Pierre’s inquiries as +to what he must do and how he should answer, Willarski only replied that +brothers more worthy than he would test him and that Pierre had only to +tell the truth. + +Having entered the courtyard of a large house where the Lodge had its +headquarters, and having ascended a dark staircase, they entered a small +well-lit anteroom where they took off their cloaks without the aid of +a servant. From there they passed into another room. A man in strange +attire appeared at the door. Willarski, stepping toward him, said +something to him in French in an undertone and then went up to a small +wardrobe in which Pierre noticed garments such as he had never seen +before. Having taken a kerchief from the cupboard, Willarski bound +Pierre’s eyes with it and tied it in a knot behind, catching some +hairs painfully in the knot. Then he drew his face down, kissed him, and +taking him by the hand led him forward. The hairs tied in the knot hurt +Pierre and there were lines of pain on his face and a shamefaced smile. +His huge figure, with arms hanging down and with a puckered, though +smiling face, moved after Willarski with uncertain, timid steps. + +Having led him about ten paces, Willarski stopped. + +“Whatever happens to you,” he said, “you must bear it all manfully +if you have firmly resolved to join our Brotherhood.” (Pierre nodded +affirmatively.) “When you hear a knock at the door, you will uncover +your eyes,” added Willarski. “I wish you courage and success,” +and, pressing Pierre’s hand, he went out. + +Left alone, Pierre went on smiling in the same way. Once or twice +he shrugged his shoulders and raised his hand to the kerchief, as if +wishing to take it off, but let it drop again. The five minutes spent +with his eyes bandaged seemed to him an hour. His arms felt numb, +his legs almost gave way, it seemed to him that he was tired out. He +experienced a variety of most complex sensations. He felt afraid of what +would happen to him and still more afraid of showing his fear. He felt +curious to know what was going to happen and what would be revealed to +him; but most of all, he felt joyful that the moment had come when he +would at last start on that path of regeneration and on the actively +virtuous life of which he had been dreaming since he met Joseph +Alexéevich. Loud knocks were heard at the door. Pierre took the bandage +off his eyes and glanced around him. The room was in black darkness, +only a small lamp was burning inside something white. Pierre went nearer +and saw that the lamp stood on a black table on which lay an open book. +The book was the Gospel, and the white thing with the lamp inside was a +human skull with its cavities and teeth. After reading the first words +of the Gospel: “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with +God,” Pierre went round the table and saw a large open box filled +with something. It was a coffin with bones inside. He was not at all +surprised by what he saw. Hoping to enter on an entirely new life quite +unlike the old one, he expected everything to be unusual, even more +unusual than what he was seeing. A skull, a coffin, the Gospel—it +seemed to him that he had expected all this and even more. Trying +to stimulate his emotions he looked around. “God, death, love, the +brotherhood of man,” he kept saying to himself, associating these +words with vague yet joyful ideas. The door opened and someone came in. + +By the dim light, to which Pierre had already become accustomed, he +saw a rather short man. Having evidently come from the light into the +darkness, the man paused, then moved with cautious steps toward the +table and placed on it his small leather-gloved hands. + +This short man had on a white leather apron which covered his chest and +part of his legs; he had on a kind of necklace above which rose a high +white ruffle, outlining his rather long face which was lit up from +below. + +“For what have you come hither?” asked the newcomer, turning in +Pierre’s direction at a slight rustle made by the latter. “Why have +you, who do not believe in the truth of the light and who have not +seen the light, come here? What do you seek from us? Wisdom, virtue, +enlightenment?” + +At the moment the door opened and the stranger came in, Pierre felt a +sense of awe and veneration such as he had experienced in his boyhood at +confession; he felt himself in the presence of one socially a complete +stranger, yet nearer to him through the brotherhood of man. With bated +breath and beating heart he moved toward the Rhetor (by which name the +brother who prepared a seeker for entrance into the Brotherhood was +known). Drawing nearer, he recognized in the Rhetor a man he knew, +Smolyanínov, and it mortified him to think that the newcomer was an +acquaintance—he wished him simply a brother and a virtuous instructor. +For a long time he could not utter a word, so that the Rhetor had to +repeat his question. + +“Yes... I... I... desire regeneration,” Pierre uttered with +difficulty. + +“Very well,” said Smolyanínov, and went on at once: “Have you any +idea of the means by which our holy Order will help you to reach your +aim?” said he quietly and quickly. + +“I... hope... for guidance... help... in regeneration,” said Pierre, +with a trembling voice and some difficulty in utterance due to his +excitement and to being unaccustomed to speak of abstract matters in +Russian. + +“What is your conception of Freemasonry?” + +“I imagine that Freemasonry is the fraternity and equality of men who +have virtuous aims,” said Pierre, feeling ashamed of the inadequacy +of his words for the solemnity of the moment, as he spoke. “I +imagine...” + +“Good!” said the Rhetor quickly, apparently satisfied with +this answer. “Have you sought for means of attaining your aim in +religion?” + +“No, I considered it erroneous and did not follow it,” said Pierre, +so softly that the Rhetor did not hear him and asked him what he was +saying. “I have been an atheist,” answered Pierre. + +“You are seeking for truth in order to follow its laws in your life, +therefore you seek wisdom and virtue. Is that not so?” said the +Rhetor, after a moment’s pause. + +“Yes, yes,” assented Pierre. + +The Rhetor cleared his throat, crossed his gloved hands on his breast, +and began to speak. + +“Now I must disclose to you the chief aim of our Order,” he said, +“and if this aim coincides with yours, you may enter our Brotherhood +with profit. The first and chief object of our Order, the foundation on +which it rests and which no human power can destroy, is the preservation +and handing on to posterity of a certain important mystery... which +has come down to us from the remotest ages, even from the first man—a +mystery on which perhaps the fate of mankind depends. But since this +mystery is of such a nature that nobody can know or use it unless he be +prepared by long and diligent self-purification, not everyone can hope +to attain it quickly. Hence we have a secondary aim, that of preparing +our members as much as possible to reform their hearts, to purify and +enlighten their minds, by means handed on to us by tradition from those +who have striven to attain this mystery, and thereby to render them +capable of receiving it. + +“By purifying and regenerating our members we try, thirdly, to improve +the whole human race, offering it in our members an example of piety +and virtue, and thereby try with all our might to combat the evil which +sways the world. Think this over and I will come to you again.” + +“To combat the evil which sways the world...” Pierre repeated, and a +mental image of his future activity in this direction rose in his mind. +He imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he +addressed an edifying exhortation to them. He imagined to himself +vicious and unfortunate people whom he would assist by word and deed, +imagined oppressors whose victims he would rescue. Of the three +objects mentioned by the Rhetor, this last, that of improving mankind, +especially appealed to Pierre. The important mystery mentioned by the +Rhetor, though it aroused his curiosity, did not seem to him essential, +and the second aim, that of purifying and regenerating himself, did not +much interest him because at that moment he felt with delight that he +was already perfectly cured of his former faults and was ready for all +that was good. + +Half an hour later, the Rhetor returned to inform the seeker of the +seven virtues, corresponding to the seven steps of Solomon’s temple, +which every Freemason should cultivate in himself. These virtues were: +1. Discretion, the keeping of the secrets of the Order. 2. Obedience to +those of higher ranks in the Order. 3. Morality. 4. Love of mankind. 5. +Courage. 6. Generosity. 7. The love of death. + +“In the seventh place, try, by the frequent thought of death,” the +Rhetor said, “to bring yourself to regard it not as a dreaded foe, but +as a friend that frees the soul grown weary in the labors of virtue +from this distressful life, and leads it to its place of recompense and +peace.” + +“Yes, that must be so,” thought Pierre, when after these words the +Rhetor went away, leaving him to solitary meditation. “It must be so, +but I am still so weak that I love my life, the meaning of which is only +now gradually opening before me.” But five of the other virtues which +Pierre recalled, counting them on his fingers, he felt already in his +soul: courage, generosity, morality, love of mankind, and especially +obedience—which did not even seem to him a virtue, but a joy. (He now +felt so glad to be free from his own lawlessness and to submit his will +to those who knew the indubitable truth.) He forgot what the seventh +virtue was and could not recall it. + +The third time the Rhetor came back more quickly and asked Pierre +whether he was still firm in his intention and determined to submit to +all that would be required of him. + +“I am ready for everything,” said Pierre. + +“I must also inform you,” said the Rhetor, “that our Order +delivers its teaching not in words only but also by other means, which +may perhaps have a stronger effect on the sincere seeker after wisdom +and virtue than mere words. This chamber with what you see therein +should already have suggested to your heart, if it is sincere, more than +words could do. You will perhaps also see in your further initiation a +like method of enlightenment. Our Order imitates the ancient societies +that explained their teaching by hieroglyphics. A hieroglyph,” said +the Rhetor, “is an emblem of something not cognizable by the senses +but which possesses qualities resembling those of the symbol.” + +Pierre knew very well what a hieroglyph was, but dared not speak. He +listened to the Rhetor in silence, feeling from all he said that his +ordeal was about to begin. + +“If you are resolved, I must begin your initiation,” said the Rhetor +coming closer to Pierre. “In token of generosity I ask you to give me +all your valuables.” + +“But I have nothing here,” replied Pierre, supposing that he was +asked to give up all he possessed. + +“What you have with you: watch, money, rings....” + +Pierre quickly took out his purse and watch, but could not manage for +some time to get the wedding ring off his fat finger. When that had been +done, the Rhetor said: + +“In token of obedience, I ask you to undress.” + +Pierre took off his coat, waistcoat, and left boot according to the +Rhetor’s instructions. The Mason drew the shirt back from Pierre’s +left breast, and stooping down pulled up the left leg of his trousers +to above the knee. Pierre hurriedly began taking off his right boot also +and was going to tuck up the other trouser leg to save this stranger the +trouble, but the Mason told him that was not necessary and gave him +a slipper for his left foot. With a childlike smile of embarrassment, +doubt, and self-derision, which appeared on his face against his will, +Pierre stood with his arms hanging down and legs apart, before his +brother Rhetor, and awaited his further commands. + +“And now, in token of candor, I ask you to reveal to me your chief +passion,” said the latter. + +“My passion! I have had so many,” replied Pierre. + +“That passion which more than all others caused you to waver on the +path of virtue,” said the Mason. + +Pierre paused, seeking a reply. + +“Wine? Gluttony? Idleness? Laziness? Irritability? Anger? Women?” +He went over his vices in his mind, not knowing to which of them to give +the pre-eminence. + +“Women,” he said in a low, scarcely audible voice. + +The Mason did not move and for a long time said nothing after this +answer. At last he moved up to Pierre and, taking the kerchief that lay +on the table, again bound his eyes. + +“For the last time I say to you—turn all your attention upon +yourself, put a bridle on your senses, and seek blessedness, not in +passion but in your own heart. The source of blessedness is not without +us but within....” + +Pierre had already long been feeling in himself that refreshing source +of blessedness which now flooded his heart with glad emotion. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +Soon after this there came into the dark chamber to fetch Pierre, not +the Rhetor but Pierre’s sponsor, Willarski, whom he recognized by his +voice. To fresh questions as to the firmness of his resolution Pierre +replied: “Yes, yes, I agree,” and with a beaming, childlike smile, +his fat chest uncovered, stepping unevenly and timidly in one slippered +and one booted foot, he advanced, while Willarski held a sword to his +bare chest. He was conducted from that room along passages that turned +backwards and forwards and was at last brought to the doors of the +Lodge. Willarski coughed, he was answered by the Masonic knock with +mallets, the doors opened before them. A bass voice (Pierre was still +blindfolded) questioned him as to who he was, when and where he was +born, and so on. Then he was again led somewhere still blindfolded, +and as they went along he was told allegories of the toils of his +pilgrimage, of holy friendship, of the Eternal Architect of the +universe, and of the courage with which he should endure toils and +dangers. During these wanderings, Pierre noticed that he was spoken +of now as the “Seeker,” now as the “Sufferer,” and now as the +“Postulant,” to the accompaniment of various knockings with +mallets and swords. As he was being led up to some object he noticed a +hesitation and uncertainty among his conductors. He heard those around +him disputing in whispers and one of them insisting that he should be +led along a certain carpet. After that they took his right hand, placed +it on something, and told him to hold a pair of compasses to his left +breast with the other hand and to repeat after someone who read aloud +an oath of fidelity to the laws of the Order. The candles were then +extinguished and some spirit lighted, as Pierre knew by the smell, and +he was told that he would now see the lesser light. The bandage was +taken off his eyes and, by the faint light of the burning spirit, +Pierre, as in a dream, saw several men standing before him, wearing +aprons like the Rhetor’s and holding swords in their hands pointed at +his breast. Among them stood a man whose white shirt was stained with +blood. On seeing this, Pierre moved forward with his breast toward the +swords, meaning them to pierce it. But the swords were drawn back from +him and he was at once blindfolded again. + +“Now thou hast seen the lesser light,” uttered a voice. Then the +candles were relit and he was told that he would see the full light; the +bandage was again removed and more than ten voices said together: “Sic +transit gloria mundi.” + +Pierre gradually began to recover himself and looked about at the room +and at the people in it. Round a long table covered with black sat some +twelve men in garments like those he had already seen. Some of them +Pierre had met in Petersburg society. In the President’s chair sat a +young man he did not know, with a peculiar cross hanging from his +neck. On his right sat the Italian abbé whom Pierre had met at +Anna Pávlovna’s two years before. There were also present a very +distinguished dignitary and a Swiss who had formerly been tutor at the +Kurágins’. All maintained a solemn silence, listening to the words +of the President, who held a mallet in his hand. Let into the wall was +a star-shaped light. At one side of the table was a small carpet with +various figures worked upon it, at the other was something resembling an +altar on which lay a Testament and a skull. Round it stood seven large +candlesticks like those used in churches. Two of the brothers led Pierre +up to the altar, placed his feet at right angles, and bade him lie down, +saying that he must prostrate himself at the Gates of the Temple. + +“He must first receive the trowel,” whispered one of the brothers. + +“Oh, hush, please!” said another. + +Pierre, perplexed, looked round with his shortsighted eyes without +obeying, and suddenly doubts arose in his mind. “Where am I? What am +I doing? Aren’t they laughing at me? Shan’t I be ashamed to remember +this?” But these doubts only lasted a moment. Pierre glanced at +the serious faces of those around, remembered all he had already gone +through, and realized that he could not stop halfway. He was aghast +at his hesitation and, trying to arouse his former devotional feeling, +prostrated himself before the Gates of the Temple. And really, the +feeling of devotion returned to him even more strongly than before. When +he had lain there some time, he was told to get up, and a white leather +apron, such as the others wore, was put on him: he was given a trowel +and three pairs of gloves, and then the Grand Master addressed him. He +told him that he should try to do nothing to stain the whiteness of that +apron, which symbolized strength and purity; then of the unexplained +trowel, he told him to toil with it to cleanse his own heart from vice, +and indulgently to smooth with it the heart of his neighbor. As to the +first pair of gloves, a man’s, he said that Pierre could not know +their meaning but must keep them. The second pair of man’s gloves +he was to wear at the meetings, and finally of the third, a pair of +women’s gloves, he said: “Dear brother, these woman’s gloves are +intended for you too. Give them to the woman whom you shall honor most +of all. This gift will be a pledge of your purity of heart to her whom +you select to be your worthy helpmeet in Masonry.” And after a pause, +he added: “But beware, dear brother, that these gloves do not deck +hands that are unclean.” While the Grand Master said these last words +it seemed to Pierre that he grew embarrassed. Pierre himself grew still +more confused, blushed like a child till tears came to his eyes, began +looking about him uneasily, and an awkward pause followed. + +This silence was broken by one of the brethren, who led Pierre up to the +rug and began reading to him from a manuscript book an explanation of +all the figures on it: the sun, the moon, a hammer, a plumb line, a +trowel, a rough stone and a squared stone, a pillar, three windows, and +so on. Then a place was assigned to Pierre, he was shown the signs of +the Lodge, told the password, and at last was permitted to sit down. +The Grand Master began reading the statutes. They were very long, and +Pierre, from joy, agitation, and embarrassment, was not in a state to +understand what was being read. He managed to follow only the last words +of the statutes and these remained in his mind. + +“In our temples we recognize no other distinctions,” read the Grand +Master, “but those between virtue and vice. Beware of making any +distinctions which may infringe equality. Fly to a brother’s aid +whoever he may be, exhort him who goeth astray, raise him that falleth, +never bear malice or enmity toward thy brother. Be kindly and courteous. +Kindle in all hearts the flame of virtue. Share thy happiness with thy +neighbor, and may envy never dim the purity of that bliss. Forgive thy +enemy, do not avenge thyself except by doing him good. Thus fulfilling +the highest law thou shalt regain traces of the ancient dignity which +thou hast lost.” + +He finished and, getting up, embraced and kissed Pierre, who, with tears +of joy in his eyes, looked round him, not knowing how to answer the +congratulations and greetings from acquaintances that met him on all +sides. He acknowledged no acquaintances but saw in all these men only +brothers, and burned with impatience to set to work with them. + +The Grand Master rapped with his mallet. All the Masons sat down in +their places, and one of them read an exhortation on the necessity of +humility. + +The Grand Master proposed that the last duty should be performed, +and the distinguished dignitary who bore the title of “Collector +of Alms” went round to all the brothers. Pierre would have liked +to subscribe all he had, but fearing that it might look like pride +subscribed the same amount as the others. + +The meeting was at an end, and on reaching home Pierre felt as if he had +returned from a long journey on which he had spent dozens of years, had +become completely changed, and had quite left behind his former habits +and way of life. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +The day after he had been received into the Lodge, Pierre was sitting at +home reading a book and trying to fathom the significance of the Square, +one side of which symbolized God, another moral things, a third +physical things, and the fourth a combination of these. Now and then +his attention wandered from the book and the Square and he formed in +imagination a new plan of life. On the previous evening at the Lodge, he +had heard that a rumor of his duel had reached the Emperor and that it +would be wiser for him to leave Petersburg. Pierre proposed going to his +estates in the south and there attending to the welfare of his serfs. +He was joyfully planning this new life, when Prince Vasíli suddenly +entered the room. + +“My dear fellow, what have you been up to in Moscow? Why have you +quarreled with Hélène, mon cher? You are under a delusion,” said +Prince Vasíli, as he entered. “I know all about it, and I can tell +you positively that Hélène is as innocent before you as Christ was +before the Jews.” + +Pierre was about to reply, but Prince Vasíli interrupted him. + +“And why didn’t you simply come straight to me as to a friend? I +know all about it and understand it all,” he said. “You behaved as +becomes a man who values his honor, perhaps too hastily, but we won’t +go into that. But consider the position in which you are placing her and +me in the eyes of society, and even of the court,” he added, lowering +his voice. “She is living in Moscow and you are here. Remember, +dear boy,” and he drew Pierre’s arm downwards, “it is simply a +misunderstanding. I expect you feel it so yourself. Let us write her +a letter at once, and she’ll come here and all will be explained, or +else, my dear boy, let me tell you it’s quite likely you’ll have to +suffer for it.” + +Prince Vasíli gave Pierre a significant look. + +“I know from reliable sources that the Dowager Empress is taking a +keen interest in the whole affair. You know she is very gracious to +Hélène.” + +Pierre tried several times to speak, but, on one hand, Prince Vasíli +did not let him and, on the other, Pierre himself feared to begin to +speak in the tone of decided refusal and disagreement in which he had +firmly resolved to answer his father-in-law. Moreover, the words of the +Masonic statutes, “be kindly and courteous,” recurred to him. He +blinked, went red, got up and sat down again, struggling with himself +to do what was for him the most difficult thing in life—to say an +unpleasant thing to a man’s face, to say what the other, whoever +he might be, did not expect. He was so used to submitting to Prince +Vasíli’s tone of careless self-assurance that he felt he would be +unable to withstand it now, but he also felt that on what he said now +his future depended—whether he would follow the same old road, or that +new path so attractively shown him by the Masons, on which he firmly +believed he would be reborn to a new life. + +“Now, dear boy,” said Prince Vasíli playfully, “say ‘yes,’ +and I’ll write to her myself, and we will kill the fatted calf.” + +But before Prince Vasíli had finished his playful speech, Pierre, +without looking at him, and with a kind of fury that made him like his +father, muttered in a whisper: + +“Prince, I did not ask you here. Go, please go!” And he jumped up +and opened the door for him. + +“Go!” he repeated, amazed at himself and glad to see the look of +confusion and fear that showed itself on Prince Vasíli’s face. + +“What’s the matter with you? Are you ill?” + +“Go!” the quivering voice repeated. And Prince Vasíli had to go +without receiving any explanation. + +A week later, Pierre, having taken leave of his new friends, the Masons, +and leaving large sums of money with them for alms, went away to his +estates. His new brethren gave him letters to the Kiev and Odessa Masons +and promised to write to him and guide him in his new activity. + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +The duel between Pierre and Dólokhov was hushed up and, in spite of +the Emperor’s severity regarding duels at that time, neither the +principals nor their seconds suffered for it. But the story of the duel, +confirmed by Pierre’s rupture with his wife, was the talk of society. +Pierre who had been regarded with patronizing condescension when he was +an illegitimate son, and petted and extolled when he was the best +match in Russia, had sunk greatly in the esteem of society after his +marriage—when the marriageable daughters and their mothers had nothing +to hope from him—especially as he did not know how, and did not +wish, to court society’s favor. Now he alone was blamed for what had +happened, he was said to be insanely jealous and subject like his +father to fits of bloodthirsty rage. And when after Pierre’s +departure Hélène returned to Petersburg, she was received by all her +acquaintances not only cordially, but even with a shade of deference +due to her misfortune. When conversation turned on her husband Hélène +assumed a dignified expression, which with characteristic tact she had +acquired though she did not understand its significance. This expression +suggested that she had resolved to endure her troubles uncomplainingly +and that her husband was a cross laid upon her by God. Prince Vasíli +expressed his opinion more openly. He shrugged his shoulders when Pierre +was mentioned and, pointing to his forehead, remarked: + +“A bit touched—I always said so.” + +“I said from the first,” declared Anna Pávlovna referring to +Pierre, “I said at the time and before anyone else” (she insisted +on her priority) “that that senseless young man was spoiled by the +depraved ideas of these days. I said so even at the time when everybody +was in raptures about him, when he had just returned from abroad, and +when, if you remember, he posed as a sort of Marat at one of my soirees. +And how has it ended? I was against this marriage even then and foretold +all that has happened.” + +Anna Pávlovna continued to give on free evenings the same kind of +soirees as before—such as she alone had the gift of arranging—at +which was to be found “the cream of really good society, the bloom +of the intellectual essence of Petersburg,” as she herself put it. +Besides this refined selection of society Anna Pávlovna’s receptions +were also distinguished by the fact that she always presented some new +and interesting person to the visitors and that nowhere else was the +state of the political thermometer of legitimate Petersburg court +society so dearly and distinctly indicated. + +Toward the end of 1806, when all the sad details of Napoleon’s +destruction of the Prussian army at Jena and Auerstädt and the +surrender of most of the Prussian fortresses had been received, when our +troops had already entered Prussia and our second war with Napoleon +was beginning, Anna Pávlovna gave one of her soirees. The “cream of +really good society” consisted of the fascinating Hélène, forsaken +by her husband, Mortemart, the delightful Prince Hippolyte who had +just returned from Vienna, two diplomatists, the old aunt, a young man +referred to in that drawing room as “a man of great merit” (un homme +de beaucoup de mérite), a newly appointed maid of honor and her mother, +and several other less noteworthy persons. + +The novelty Anna Pávlovna was setting before her guests that evening +was Borís Drubetskóy, who had just arrived as a special messenger from +the Prussian army and was aide-de-camp to a very important personage. + +The temperature shown by the political thermometer to the company that +evening was this: + +“Whatever the European sovereigns and commanders may do to +countenance Bonaparte, and to cause me, and us in general, annoyance and +mortification, our opinion of Bonaparte cannot alter. We shall not cease +to express our sincere views on that subject, and can only say to the +King of Prussia and others: ‘So much the worse for you. Tu l’as +voulu, George Dandin,’ that’s all we have to say about it!” + +When Borís, who was to be served up to the guests, entered the drawing +room, almost all the company had assembled, and the conversation, guided +by Anna Pávlovna, was about our diplomatic relations with Austria and +the hope of an alliance with her. + +Borís, grown more manly and looking fresh, rosy and self-possessed, +entered the drawing room elegantly dressed in the uniform of an +aide-de-camp and was duly conducted to pay his respects to the aunt and +then brought back to the general circle. + +Anna Pávlovna gave him her shriveled hand to kiss and introduced him to +several persons whom he did not know, giving him a whispered description +of each. + +“Prince Hippolyte Kurágin—charming young fellow; M. +Kronq,—chargé d’affaires from Copenhagen—a profound intellect,” +and simply, “Mr. Shítov—a man of great merit”—this of the man +usually so described. + +Thanks to Anna Mikháylovna’s efforts, his own tastes, and the +peculiarities of his reserved nature, Borís had managed during his +service to place himself very advantageously. He was aide-de-camp to a +very important personage, had been sent on a very important mission to +Prussia, and had just returned from there as a special messenger. He had +become thoroughly conversant with that unwritten code with which he had +been so pleased at Olmütz and according to which an ensign might rank +incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was +needed for success in the service was not effort or work, or courage, or +perseverance, but only the knowledge of how to get on with those who can +grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his +success and at the inability of others to understand these things. +In consequence of this discovery his whole manner of life, all +his relations with old friends, all his plans for his future, were +completely altered. He was not rich, but would spend his last groat to +be better dressed than others, and would rather deprive himself of many +pleasures than allow himself to be seen in a shabby equipage or appear +in the streets of Petersburg in an old uniform. He made friends with +and sought the acquaintance of only those above him in position and +who could therefore be of use to him. He liked Petersburg and despised +Moscow. The remembrance of the Rostóvs’ house and of his childish +love for Natásha was unpleasant to him and he had not once been to see +the Rostóvs since the day of his departure for the army. To be in Anna +Pávlovna’s drawing room he considered an important step up in the +service, and he at once understood his role, letting his hostess make +use of whatever interest he had to offer. He himself carefully scanned +each face, appraising the possibilities of establishing intimacy with +each of those present, and the advantages that might accrue. He took +the seat indicated to him beside the fair Hélène and listened to the +general conversation. + +“Vienna considers the bases of the proposed treaty so unattainable +that not even a continuity of most brilliant successes would secure +them, and she doubts the means we have of gaining them. That is the +actual phrase used by the Vienna cabinet,” said the Danish chargé +d’affaires. + +“The doubt is flattering,” said “the man of profound intellect,” +with a subtle smile. + +“We must distinguish between the Vienna cabinet and the Emperor of +Austria,” said Mortemart. “The Emperor of Austria can never have +thought of such a thing, it is only the cabinet that says it.” + +“Ah, my dear vicomte,” put in Anna Pávlovna, “L’Urope” (for +some reason she called it Urope as if that were a specially refined +French pronunciation which she could allow herself when conversing with +a Frenchman), “L’Urope ne sera jamais notre alliée sincère.” * + + * “Europe will never be our sincere ally.” + + +After that Anna Pávlovna led up to the courage and firmness of the King +of Prussia, in order to draw Borís into the conversation. + +Borís listened attentively to each of the speakers, awaiting his turn, +but managed meanwhile to look round repeatedly at his neighbor, the +beautiful Hélène, whose eyes several times met those of the handsome +young aide-de-camp with a smile. + +Speaking of the position of Prussia, Anna Pávlovna very naturally asked +Borís to tell them about his journey to Glogau and in what state he +found the Prussian army. Borís, speaking with deliberation, told them +in pure, correct French many interesting details about the armies and +the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his +own about the facts he was recounting. For some time he engrossed the +general attention, and Anna Pávlovna felt that the novelty she had +served up was received with pleasure by all her visitors. The greatest +attention of all to Borís’ narrative was shown by Hélène. She asked +him several questions about his journey and seemed greatly interested in +the state of the Prussian army. As soon as he had finished she turned to +him with her usual smile. + +“You absolutely must come and see me,” she said in a tone that +implied that, for certain considerations he could not know of, this was +absolutely necessary. + +“On Tuesday between eight and nine. It will give me great pleasure.” + +Borís promised to fulfill her wish and was about to begin a +conversation with her, when Anna Pávlovna called him away on the +pretext that her aunt wished to hear him. + +“You know her husband, of course?” said Anna Pávlovna, closing her +eyes and indicating Hélène with a sorrowful gesture. “Ah, she is +such an unfortunate and charming woman! Don’t mention him before +her—please don’t! It is too painful for her!” + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +When Borís and Anna Pávlovna returned to the others Prince Hippolyte +had the ear of the company. + +Bending forward in his armchair he said: “Le Roi de Prusse!” and +having said this laughed. Everyone turned toward him. + +“Le Roi de Prusse?” Hippolyte said interrogatively, again laughing, +and then calmly and seriously sat back in his chair. Anna Pávlovna +waited for him to go on, but as he seemed quite decided to say no more +she began to tell of how at Potsdam the impious Bonaparte had stolen the +sword of Frederick the Great. + +“It is the sword of Frederick the Great which I...” she began, but +Hippolyte interrupted her with the words: “Le Roi de Prusse...” and +again, as soon as all turned toward him, excused himself and said no +more. + +Anna Pávlovna frowned. Mortemart, Hippolyte’s friend, addressed him +firmly. + +“Come now, what about your Roi de Prusse?” + +Hippolyte laughed as if ashamed of laughing. + +“Oh, it’s nothing. I only wished to say...” (he wanted to repeat +a joke he had heard in Vienna and which he had been trying all that +evening to get in) “I only wished to say that we are wrong to fight +pour le Roi de Prusse!” + +Borís smiled circumspectly, so that it might be taken as ironical +or appreciative according to the way the joke was received. Everybody +laughed. + +“Your joke is too bad, it’s witty but unjust,” said Anna +Pávlovna, shaking her little shriveled finger at him. + +“We are not fighting pour le Roi de Prusse, but for right principles. +Oh, that wicked Prince Hippolyte!” she said. + +The conversation did not flag all evening and turned chiefly on the +political news. It became particularly animated toward the end of the +evening when the rewards bestowed by the Emperor were mentioned. + +“You know N— N— received a snuffbox with the portrait last +year?” said “the man of profound intellect.” “Why shouldn’t +S— S— get the same distinction?” + +“Pardon me! A snuffbox with the Emperor’s portrait is a reward but +not a distinction,” said the diplomatist—“a gift, rather.” + +“There are precedents, I may mention Schwarzenberg.” + +“It’s impossible,” replied another. + +“Will you bet? The ribbon of the order is a different matter....” + +When everybody rose to go, Hélène who had spoken very little all +the evening again turned to Borís, asking him in a tone of caressing +significant command to come to her on Tuesday. + +“It is of great importance to me,” she said, turning with a smile +toward Anna Pávlovna, and Anna Pávlovna, with the same sad smile with +which she spoke of her exalted patroness, supported Hélène’s wish. + +It seemed as if from some words Borís had spoken that evening about the +Prussian army, Hélène had suddenly found it necessary to see him. +She seemed to promise to explain that necessity to him when he came on +Tuesday. + +But on Tuesday evening, having come to Hélène’s splendid salon, +Borís received no clear explanation of why it had been necessary for +him to come. There were other guests and the countess talked little to +him, and only as he kissed her hand on taking leave said unexpectedly +and in a whisper, with a strangely unsmiling face: “Come to dinner +tomorrow... in the evening. You must come.... Come!” + +During that stay in Petersburg, Borís became an intimate in the +countess’ house. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +The war was flaming up and nearing the Russian frontier. Everywhere one +heard curses on Bonaparte, “the enemy of mankind.” Militiamen and +recruits were being enrolled in the villages, and from the seat of +war came contradictory news, false as usual and therefore variously +interpreted. The life of old Prince Bolkónski, Prince Andrew, and +Princess Mary had greatly changed since 1805. + +In 1806 the old prince was made one of the eight commanders in chief +then appointed to supervise the enrollment decreed throughout Russia. +Despite the weakness of age, which had become particularly noticeable +since the time when he thought his son had been killed, he did not think +it right to refuse a duty to which he had been appointed by the Emperor +himself, and this fresh opportunity for action gave him new energy +and strength. He was continually traveling through the three provinces +entrusted to him, was pedantic in the fulfillment of his duties, severe +to cruel with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the +minutest details himself. Princess Mary had ceased taking lessons in +mathematics from her father, and when the old prince was at home went +to his study with the wet nurse and little Prince Nicholas (as his +grandfather called him). The baby Prince Nicholas lived with his wet +nurse and nurse Sávishna in the late princess’ rooms and Princess +Mary spent most of the day in the nursery, taking a mother’s place to +her little nephew as best she could. Mademoiselle Bourienne, too, seemed +passionately fond of the boy, and Princess Mary often deprived herself +to give her friend the pleasure of dandling the little angel—as she +called her nephew—and playing with him. + +Near the altar of the church at Bald Hills there was a chapel over the +tomb of the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument +brought from Italy, representing an angel with outspread wings ready to +fly upwards. The angel’s upper lip was slightly raised as though +about to smile, and once on coming out of the chapel Prince Andrew and +Princess Mary admitted to one another that the angel’s face reminded +them strangely of the little princess. But what was still stranger, +though of this Prince Andrew said nothing to his sister, was that in the +expression the sculptor had happened to give the angel’s face, Prince +Andrew read the same mild reproach he had read on the face of his dead +wife: “Ah, why have you done this to me?” + +Soon after Prince Andrew’s return the old prince made over to him a +large estate, Boguchárovo, about twenty-five miles from Bald Hills. +Partly because of the depressing memories associated with Bald Hills, +partly because Prince Andrew did not always feel equal to bearing with +his father’s peculiarities, and partly because he needed solitude, +Prince Andrew made use of Boguchárovo, began building and spent most of +his time there. + +After the Austerlitz campaign Prince Andrew had firmly resolved not +to continue his military service, and when the war recommenced +and everybody had to serve, he took a post under his father in the +recruitment so as to avoid active service. The old prince and his son +seemed to have changed roles since the campaign of 1805. The old man, +roused by activity, expected the best results from the new campaign, +while Prince Andrew on the contrary, taking no part in the war and +secretly regretting this, saw only the dark side. + +On February 26, 1807, the old prince set off on one of his circuits. +Prince Andrew remained at Bald Hills as usual during his father’s +absence. Little Nicholas had been unwell for four days. The coachman who +had driven the old prince to town returned bringing papers and letters +for Prince Andrew. + +Not finding the young prince in his study the valet went with the +letters to Princess Mary’s apartments, but did not find him there. He +was told that the prince had gone to the nursery. + +“If you please, your excellency, Pétrusha has brought some papers,” +said one of the nursemaids to Prince Andrew who was sitting on a +child’s little chair while, frowning and with trembling hands, he +poured drops from a medicine bottle into a wineglass half full of water. + +“What is it?” he said crossly, and, his hand shaking +unintentionally, he poured too many drops into the glass. He threw the +mixture onto the floor and asked for some more water. The maid brought +it. + +There were in the room a child’s cot, two boxes, two armchairs, a +table, a child’s table, and the little chair on which Prince Andrew +was sitting. The curtains were drawn, and a single candle was burning on +the table, screened by a bound music book so that the light did not fall +on the cot. + +“My dear,” said Princess Mary, addressing her brother from beside +the cot where she was standing, “better wait a bit... later...” + +“Oh, leave off, you always talk nonsense and keep putting things +off—and this is what comes of it!” said Prince Andrew in an +exasperated whisper, evidently meaning to wound his sister. + +“My dear, really... it’s better not to wake him... he’s asleep,” +said the princess in a tone of entreaty. + +Prince Andrew got up and went on tiptoe up to the little bed, wineglass +in hand. + +“Perhaps we’d really better not wake him,” he said hesitating. + +“As you please... really... I think so... but as you please,” said +Princess Mary, evidently intimidated and confused that her opinion +had prevailed. She drew her brother’s attention to the maid who was +calling him in a whisper. + +It was the second night that neither of them had slept, watching the boy +who was in a high fever. These last days, mistrusting their household +doctor and expecting another for whom they had sent to town, they had +been trying first one remedy and then another. Worn out by sleeplessness +and anxiety they threw their burden of sorrow on one another and +reproached and disputed with each other. + +“Pétrusha has come with papers from your father,” whispered the +maid. + +Prince Andrew went out. + +“Devil take them!” he muttered, and after listening to the verbal +instructions his father had sent and taking the correspondence and his +father’s letter, he returned to the nursery. + +“Well?” he asked. + +“Still the same. Wait, for heaven’s sake. Karl Ivánich always says +that sleep is more important than anything,” whispered Princess Mary +with a sigh. + +Prince Andrew went up to the child and felt him. He was burning hot. + +“Confound you and your Karl Ivánich!” He took the glass with the +drops and again went up to the cot. + +“Andrew, don’t!” said Princess Mary. + +But he scowled at her angrily though also with suffering in his eyes, +and stooped glass in hand over the infant. + +“But I wish it,” he said. “I beg you—give it him!” + +Princess Mary shrugged her shoulders but took the glass submissively +and calling the nurse began giving the medicine. The child screamed +hoarsely. Prince Andrew winced and, clutching his head, went out and sat +down on a sofa in the next room. + +He still had all the letters in his hand. Opening them mechanically he +began reading. The old prince, now and then using abbreviations, wrote +in his large elongated hand on blue paper as follows: + +Have just this moment received by special messenger very joyful +news—if it’s not false. Bennigsen seems to have obtained a complete +victory over Buonaparte at Eylau. In Petersburg everyone is rejoicing, +and the rewards sent to the army are innumerable. Though he is a +German—I congratulate him! I can’t make out what the commander at +Kórchevo—a certain Khandrikóv—is up to; till now the additional +men and provisions have not arrived. Gallop off to him at once and +say I’ll have his head off if everything is not here in a week. +Have received another letter about the Preussisch-Eylau battle +from Pétenka—he took part in it—and it’s all true. When +mischief-makers don’t meddle even a German beats Buonaparte. He is +said to be fleeing in great disorder. Mind you gallop off to Kórchevo +without delay and carry out instructions! + +Prince Andrew sighed and broke the seal of another envelope. It was +a closely written letter of two sheets from Bilíbin. He folded it up +without reading it and reread his father’s letter, ending with the +words: “Gallop off to Kórchevo and carry out instructions!” + +“No, pardon me, I won’t go now till the child is better,” thought +he, going to the door and looking into the nursery. + +Princess Mary was still standing by the cot, gently rocking the baby. + +“Ah yes, and what else did he say that’s unpleasant?” thought +Prince Andrew, recalling his father’s letter. “Yes, we have gained +a victory over Bonaparte, just when I’m not serving. Yes, yes, he’s +always poking fun at me.... Ah, well! Let him!” And he began reading +Bilíbin’s letter which was written in French. He read without +understanding half of it, read only to forget, if but for a moment, what +he had too long been thinking of so painfully to the exclusion of all +else. + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +Bilíbin was now at army headquarters in a diplomatic capacity, and +though he wrote in French and used French jests and French idioms, +he described the whole campaign with a fearless self-censure and +self-derision genuinely Russian. Bilíbin wrote that the obligation of +diplomatic discretion tormented him, and he was happy to have in Prince +Andrew a reliable correspondent to whom he could pour out the bile he +had accumulated at the sight of all that was being done in the army. +The letter was old, having been written before the battle at +Preussisch-Eylau. + +“Since the day of our brilliant success at Austerlitz,” wrote +Bilíbin, “as you know, my dear prince, I never leave headquarters. I +have certainly acquired a taste for war, and it is just as well for me; +what I have seen during these last three months is incredible. + +“I begin ab ovo. ‘The enemy of the human race,’ as you know, +attacks the Prussians. The Prussians are our faithful allies who have +only betrayed us three times in three years. We take up their cause, but +it turns out that ‘the enemy of the human race’ pays no heed to +our fine speeches and in his rude and savage way throws himself on the +Prussians without giving them time to finish the parade they had begun, +and in two twists of the hand he breaks them to smithereens and installs +himself in the palace at Potsdam. + +“‘I most ardently desire,’ writes the King of Prussia to +Bonaparte, ‘that Your Majesty should be received and treated in my +palace in a manner agreeable to yourself, and in so far as circumstances +allowed, I have hastened to take all steps to that end. May I have +succeeded!’ The Prussian generals pride themselves on being polite to +the French and lay down their arms at the first demand. + +“The head of the garrison at Glogau, with ten thousand men, asks the +King of Prussia what he is to do if he is summoned to surrender.... All +this is absolutely true. + +“In short, hoping to settle matters by taking up a warlike attitude, +it turns out that we have landed ourselves in war, and what is more, +in war on our own frontiers, with and for the King of Prussia. We have +everything in perfect order, only one little thing is lacking, namely, +a commander in chief. As it was considered that the Austerlitz success +might have been more decisive had the commander in chief not been so +young, all our octogenarians were reviewed, and of Prozoróvski +and Kámenski the latter was preferred. The general comes to us, +Suvórov-like, in a kibítka, and is received with acclamations of joy +and triumph. + +“On the 4th, the first courier arrives from Petersburg. The mails +are taken to the field marshal’s room, for he likes to do everything +himself. I am called in to help sort the letters and take those meant +for us. The field marshal looks on and waits for letters addressed +to him. We search, but none are to be found. The field marshal grows +impatient and sets to work himself and finds letters from the Emperor +to Count T., Prince V., and others. Then he bursts into one of his wild +furies and rages at everyone and everything, seizes the letters, opens +them, and reads those from the Emperor addressed to others. ‘Ah! So +that’s the way they treat me! No confidence in me! Ah, ordered to keep +an eye on me! Very well then! Get along with you!’ So he writes the +famous order of the day to General Bennigsen: + +“‘I am wounded and cannot ride and consequently cannot command the +army. You have brought your army corps to Pultúsk, routed: here it is +exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as +you yourself reported to Count Buxhöwden yesterday, you must think of +retreating to our frontier—which do today.’ + +“‘From all my riding,’ he writes to the Emperor, ‘I have got a +saddle sore which, coming after all my previous journeys, quite prevents +my riding and commanding so vast an army, so I have passed on the +command to the general next in seniority, Count Buxhöwden, having sent +him my whole staff and all that belongs to it, advising him if there is +a lack of bread, to move farther into the interior of Prussia, for only +one day’s ration of bread remains, and in some regiments none at all, +as reported by the division commanders, Ostermann and Sedmorétzki, and +all that the peasants had has been eaten up. I myself will remain in +hospital at Ostrolenka till I recover. In regard to which I humbly +submit my report, with the information that if the army remains in its +present bivouac another fortnight there will not be a healthy man left +in it by spring. + +“‘Grant leave to retire to his country seat to an old man who is +already in any case dishonored by being unable to fulfill the great and +glorious task for which he was chosen. I shall await your most gracious +permission here in hospital, that I may not have to play the part of a +secretary rather than commander in the army. My removal from the army +does not produce the slightest stir—a blind man has left it. There are +thousands such as I in Russia.’ + +“The field marshal is angry with the Emperor and he punishes us all, +isn’t it logical? + +“This is the first act. Those that follow are naturally increasingly +interesting and entertaining. After the field marshal’s departure +it appears that we are within sight of the enemy and must give battle. +Buxhöwden is commander in chief by seniority, but General Bennigsen +does not quite see it; more particularly as it is he and his corps who +are within sight of the enemy and he wishes to profit by the opportunity +to fight a battle ‘on his own hand’ as the Germans say. He does so. +This is the battle of Pultúsk, which is considered a great victory but +in my opinion was nothing of the kind. We civilians, as you know, have +a very bad way of deciding whether a battle was won or lost. Those who +retreat after a battle have lost it is what we say; and according to +that it is we who lost the battle of Pultúsk. In short, we retreat +after the battle but send a courier to Petersburg with news of a +victory, and General Bennigsen, hoping to receive from Petersburg the +post of commander in chief as a reward for his victory, does not give up +the command of the army to General Buxhöwden. During this interregnum +we begin a very original and interesting series of maneuvers. Our aim is +no longer, as it should be, to avoid or attack the enemy, but solely to +avoid General Buxhöwden who by right of seniority should be our chief. +So energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable +river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at +the moment is not Bonaparte but Buxhöwden. General Buxhöwden was all +but attacked and captured by a superior enemy force as a result of one +of these maneuvers that enabled us to escape him. Buxhöwden pursues +us—we scuttle. He hardly crosses the river to our side before we +recross to the other. At last our enemy, Buxhöwden, catches us and +attacks. Both generals are angry, and the result is a challenge on +Buxhöwden’s part and an epileptic fit on Bennigsen’s. But at the +critical moment the courier who carried the news of our victory at +Pultúsk to Petersburg returns bringing our appointment as commander in +chief, and our first foe, Buxhöwden, is vanquished; we can now turn +our thoughts to the second, Bonaparte. But as it turns out, just at +that moment a third enemy rises before us—namely the Orthodox Russian +soldiers, loudly demanding bread, meat, biscuits, fodder, and whatnot! +The stores are empty, the roads impassable. The Orthodox begin looting, +and in a way of which our last campaign can give you no idea. Half the +regiments form bands and scour the countryside and put everything +to fire and sword. The inhabitants are totally ruined, the hospitals +overflow with sick, and famine is everywhere. Twice the marauders even +attack our headquarters, and the commander in chief has to ask for a +battalion to disperse them. During one of these attacks they carried off +my empty portmanteau and my dressing gown. The Emperor proposes to give +all commanders of divisions the right to shoot marauders, but I much +fear this will oblige one half the army to shoot the other.” + +At first Prince Andrew read with his eyes only, but after a while, +in spite of himself (although he knew how far it was safe to trust +Bilíbin), what he had read began to interest him more and more. When he +had read thus far, he crumpled the letter up and threw it away. It was +not what he had read that vexed him, but the fact that the life out +there in which he had now no part could perturb him. He shut his eyes, +rubbed his forehead as if to rid himself of all interest in what he +had read, and listened to what was passing in the nursery. Suddenly he +thought he heard a strange noise through the door. He was seized with +alarm lest something should have happened to the child while he was +reading the letter. He went on tiptoe to the nursery door and opened it. + +Just as he went in he saw that the nurse was hiding something from him +with a scared look and that Princess Mary was no longer by the cot. + +“My dear,” he heard what seemed to him her despairing whisper behind +him. + +As often happens after long sleeplessness and long anxiety, he was +seized by an unreasoning panic—it occurred to him that the child was +dead. All that he saw and heard seemed to confirm this terror. + +“All is over,” he thought, and a cold sweat broke out on his +forehead. He went to the cot in confusion, sure that he would find it +empty and that the nurse had been hiding the dead baby. He drew the +curtain aside and for some time his frightened, restless eyes could not +find the baby. At last he saw him: the rosy boy had tossed about till he +lay across the bed with his head lower than the pillow, and was smacking +his lips in his sleep and breathing evenly. + +Prince Andrew was as glad to find the boy like that, as if he had +already lost him. He bent over him and, as his sister had taught him, +tried with his lips whether the child was still feverish. The soft +forehead was moist. Prince Andrew touched the head with his hand; even +the hair was wet, so profusely had the child perspired. He was not dead, +but evidently the crisis was over and he was convalescent. Prince Andrew +longed to snatch up, to squeeze, to hold to his heart, this helpless +little creature, but dared not do so. He stood over him, gazing at his +head and at the little arms and legs which showed under the blanket. He +heard a rustle behind him and a shadow appeared under the curtain of +the cot. He did not look round, but still gazing at the infant’s face +listened to his regular breathing. The dark shadow was Princess Mary, +who had come up to the cot with noiseless steps, lifted the curtain, +and dropped it again behind her. Prince Andrew recognized her without +looking and held out his hand to her. She pressed it. + +“He has perspired,” said Prince Andrew. + +“I was coming to tell you so.” + +The child moved slightly in his sleep, smiled, and rubbed his forehead +against the pillow. + +Prince Andrew looked at his sister. In the dim shadow of the curtain her +luminous eyes shone more brightly than usual from the tears of joy that +were in them. She leaned over to her brother and kissed him, slightly +catching the curtain of the cot. Each made the other a warning gesture +and stood still in the dim light beneath the curtain as if not wishing +to leave that seclusion where they three were shut off from all the +world. Prince Andrew was the first to move away, ruffling his hair +against the muslin of the curtain. + +“Yes, this is the one thing left me now,” he said with a sigh. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +Soon after his admission to the Masonic Brotherhood, Pierre went to the +Kiev province, where he had the greatest number of serfs, taking with +him full directions which he had written down for his own guidance as to +what he should do on his estates. + +When he reached Kiev he sent for all his stewards to the head office +and explained to them his intentions and wishes. He told them that steps +would be taken immediately to free his serfs—and that till then they +were not to be overburdened with labor, women while nursing their babies +were not to be sent to work, assistance was to be given to the serfs, +punishments were to be admonitory and not corporal, and hospitals, +asylums, and schools were to be established on all the estates. Some of +the stewards (there were semiliterate foremen among them) listened with +alarm, supposing these words to mean that the young count was displeased +with their management and embezzlement of money, some after their first +fright were amused by Pierre’s lisp and the new words they had not +heard before, others simply enjoyed hearing how the master talked, while +the cleverest among them, including the chief steward, understood from +this speech how they could best handle the master for their own ends. + +The chief steward expressed great sympathy with Pierre’s intentions, +but remarked that besides these changes it would be necessary to go into +the general state of affairs which was far from satisfactory. + +Despite Count Bezúkhov’s enormous wealth, since he had come into an +income which was said to amount to five hundred thousand rubles a year, +Pierre felt himself far poorer than when his father had made him +an allowance of ten thousand rubles. He had a dim perception of the +following budget: + +About 80,000 went in payments on all the estates to the Land Bank, about +30,000 went for the upkeep of the estate near Moscow, the town house, +and the allowance to the three princesses; about 15,000 was given in +pensions and the same amount for asylums; 150,000 alimony was sent to +the countess; about 70,000 went for interest on debts. The building of a +new church, previously begun, had cost about 10,000 in each of the last +two years, and he did not know how the rest, about 100,000 rubles, was +spent, and almost every year he was obliged to borrow. Besides this the +chief steward wrote every year telling him of fires and bad harvests, +or of the necessity of rebuilding factories and workshops. So the first +task Pierre had to face was one for which he had very little aptitude or +inclination—practical business. + +He discussed estate affairs every day with his chief steward. But +he felt that this did not forward matters at all. He felt that these +consultations were detached from real affairs and did not link up with +them or make them move. On the one hand, the chief steward put the state +of things to him in the very worst light, pointing out the necessity of +paying off the debts and undertaking new activities with serf labor, +to which Pierre did not agree. On the other hand, Pierre demanded that +steps should be taken to liberate the serfs, which the steward met by +showing the necessity of first paying off the loans from the Land Bank, +and the consequent impossibility of a speedy emancipation. + +The steward did not say it was quite impossible, but suggested selling +the forests in the province of Kostromá, the land lower down the river, +and the Crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which +operations according to him were connected with such complicated +measures—the removal of injunctions, petitions, permits, and so +on—that Pierre became quite bewildered and only replied: + +“Yes, yes, do so.” + +Pierre had none of the practical persistence that would have enabled him +to attend to the business himself and so he disliked it and only tried +to pretend to the steward that he was attending to it. The steward +for his part tried to pretend to the count that he considered these +consultations very valuable for the proprietor and troublesome to +himself. + +In Kiev Pierre found some people he knew, and strangers hastened to make +his acquaintance and joyfully welcomed the rich newcomer, the +largest landowner of the province. Temptations to Pierre’s greatest +weakness—the one to which he had confessed when admitted to the +Lodge—were so strong that he could not resist them. Again whole days, +weeks, and months of his life passed in as great a rush and were as much +occupied with evening parties, dinners, lunches, and balls, giving him +no time for reflection, as in Petersburg. Instead of the new life he had +hoped to lead he still lived the old life, only in new surroundings. + +Of the three precepts of Freemasonry Pierre realized that he did not +fulfill the one which enjoined every Mason to set an example of moral +life, and that of the seven virtues he lacked two—morality and the +love of death. He consoled himself with the thought that he fulfilled +another of the precepts—that of reforming the human race—and had +other virtues—love of his neighbor, and especially generosity. + +In the spring of 1807 he decided to return to Petersburg. On the way he +intended to visit all his estates and see for himself how far his orders +had been carried out and in what state were the serfs whom God had +entrusted to his care and whom he intended to benefit. + +The chief steward, who considered the young count’s attempts almost +insane—unprofitable to himself, to the count, and to the serfs—made +some concessions. Continuing to represent the liberation of the serfs +as impracticable, he arranged for the erection of large +buildings—schools, hospitals, and asylums—on all the estates +before the master arrived. Everywhere preparations were made not for +ceremonious welcomes (which he knew Pierre would not like), but for just +such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread +and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his +master, would touch and delude him. + +The southern spring, the comfortable rapid traveling in a Vienna +carriage, and the solitude of the road, all had a gladdening effect on +Pierre. The estates he had not before visited were each more picturesque +than the other; the serfs everywhere seemed thriving and touchingly +grateful for the benefits conferred on them. Everywhere were receptions, +which though they embarrassed Pierre awakened a joyful feeling in the +depth of his heart. In one place the peasants presented him with bread +and salt and an icon of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, asking permission, +as a mark of their gratitude for the benefits he had conferred on them, +to build a new chantry to the church at their own expense in honor +of Peter and Paul, his patron saints. In another place the women with +infants in arms met him to thank him for releasing them from hard +work. On a third estate the priest, bearing a cross, came to meet +him surrounded by children whom, by the count’s generosity, he was +instructing in reading, writing, and religion. On all his estates Pierre +saw with his own eyes brick buildings erected or in course of erection, +all on one plan, for hospitals, schools, and almshouses, which were soon +to be opened. Everywhere he saw the stewards’ accounts, according to +which the serfs’ manorial labor had been diminished, and heard the +touching thanks of deputations of serfs in their full-skirted blue +coats. + +What Pierre did not know was that the place where they presented him +with bread and salt and wished to build a chantry in honor of Peter and +Paul was a market village where a fair was held on St. Peter’s day, +and that the richest peasants (who formed the deputation) had begun +the chantry long before, but that nine tenths of the peasants in that +villages were in a state of the greatest poverty. He did not know that +since the nursing mothers were no longer sent to work on his land, they +did still harder work on their own land. He did not know that the priest +who met him with the cross oppressed the peasants by his exactions, and +that the pupils’ parents wept at having to let him take their children +and secured their release by heavy payments. He did not know that the +brick buildings, built to plan, were being built by serfs whose manorial +labor was thus increased, though lessened on paper. He did not know +that where the steward had shown him in the accounts that the serfs’ +payments had been diminished by a third, their obligatory manorial work +had been increased by a half. And so Pierre was delighted with his visit +to his estates and quite recovered the philanthropic mood in which +he had left Petersburg, and wrote enthusiastic letters to his +“brother-instructor” as he called the Grand Master. + +“How easy it is, how little effort it needs, to do so much good,” +thought Pierre, “and how little attention we pay to it!” + +He was pleased at the gratitude he received, but felt abashed at +receiving it. This gratitude reminded him of how much more he might do +for these simple, kindly people. + +The chief steward, a very stupid but cunning man who saw perfectly +through the naïve and intelligent count and played with him as with +a toy, seeing the effect these prearranged receptions had on Pierre, +pressed him still harder with proofs of the impossibility and above all +the uselessness of freeing the serfs, who were quite happy as it was. + +Pierre in his secret soul agreed with the steward that it would be +difficult to imagine happier people, and that God only knew what would +happen to them when they were free, but he insisted, though reluctantly, +on what he thought right. The steward promised to do all in his power to +carry out the count’s wishes, seeing clearly that not only would the +count never be able to find out whether all measures had been taken for +the sale of the land and forests and to release them from the Land Bank, +but would probably never even inquire and would never know that the +newly erected buildings were standing empty and that the serfs continued +to give in money and work all that other people’s serfs gave—that is +to say, all that could be got out of them. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +Returning from his journey through South Russia in the happiest state +of mind, Pierre carried out an intention he had long had of visiting his +friend Bolkónski, whom he had not seen for two years. + +Boguchárovo lay in a flat uninteresting part of the country among +fields and forests of fir and birch, which were partly cut down. The +house lay behind a newly dug pond filled with water to the brink and +with banks still bare of grass. It was at the end of a village that +stretched along the highroad in the midst of a young copse in which were +a few fir trees. + +The homestead consisted of a threshing floor, outhouses, stables, a +bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular façade +still in course of construction. Round the house was a garden newly laid +out. The fences and gates were new and solid; two fire pumps and a +water cart, painted green, stood in a shed; the paths were straight, +the bridges were strong and had handrails. Everything bore an impress of +tidiness and good management. Some domestic serfs Pierre met, in reply +to inquiries as to where the prince lived, pointed out a small newly +built lodge close to the pond. Antón, a man who had looked after Prince +Andrew in his boyhood, helped Pierre out of his carriage, said that the +prince was at home, and showed him into a clean little anteroom. + +Pierre was struck by the modesty of the small though clean house after +the brilliant surroundings in which he had last met his friend in +Petersburg. + +He quickly entered the small reception room with its still-unplastered +wooden walls redolent of pine, and would have gone farther, but Antón +ran ahead on tiptoe and knocked at a door. + +“Well, what is it?” came a sharp, unpleasant voice. + +“A visitor,” answered Antón. + +“Ask him to wait,” and the sound was heard of a chair being pushed +back. + +Pierre went with rapid steps to the door and suddenly came face to +face with Prince Andrew, who came out frowning and looking old. Pierre +embraced him and lifting his spectacles kissed his friend on the cheek +and looked at him closely. + +“Well, I did not expect you, I am very glad,” said Prince Andrew. + +Pierre said nothing; he looked fixedly at his friend with surprise. He +was struck by the change in him. His words were kindly and there was a +smile on his lips and face, but his eyes were dull and lifeless and in +spite of his evident wish to do so he could not give them a joyous +and glad sparkle. Prince Andrew had grown thinner, paler, and more +manly-looking, but what amazed and estranged Pierre till he got used +to it were his inertia and a wrinkle on his brow indicating prolonged +concentration on some one thought. + +As is usually the case with people meeting after a prolonged separation, +it was long before their conversation could settle on anything. They +put questions and gave brief replies about things they knew ought to +be talked over at length. At last the conversation gradually settled on +some of the topics at first lightly touched on: their past life, plans +for the future, Pierre’s journeys and occupations, the war, and so +on. The preoccupation and despondency which Pierre had noticed in his +friend’s look was now still more clearly expressed in the smile +with which he listened to Pierre, especially when he spoke with joyful +animation of the past or the future. It was as if Prince Andrew would +have liked to sympathize with what Pierre was saying, but could not. +The latter began to feel that it was in bad taste to speak of his +enthusiasms, dreams, and hopes of happiness or goodness, in Prince +Andrew’s presence. He was ashamed to express his new Masonic views, +which had been particularly revived and strengthened by his late tour. +He checked himself, fearing to seem naïve, yet he felt an irresistible +desire to show his friend as soon as possible that he was now a quite +different, and better, Pierre than he had been in Petersburg. + +“I can’t tell you how much I have lived through since then. I hardly +know myself again.” + +“Yes, we have altered much, very much, since then,” said Prince +Andrew. + +“Well, and you? What are your plans?” + +“Plans!” repeated Prince Andrew ironically. “My plans?” he said, +as if astonished at the word. “Well, you see, I’m building. I mean +to settle here altogether next year....” + +Pierre looked silently and searchingly into Prince Andrew’s face, +which had grown much older. + +“No, I meant to ask...” Pierre began, but Prince Andrew interrupted +him. + +“But why talk of me?... Talk to me, yes, tell me about your travels +and all you have been doing on your estates.” + +Pierre began describing what he had done on his estates, trying as far +as possible to conceal his own part in the improvements that had been +made. Prince Andrew several times prompted Pierre’s story of what he +had been doing, as though it were all an old-time story, and he listened +not only without interest but even as if ashamed of what Pierre was +telling him. + +Pierre felt uncomfortable and even depressed in his friend’s company +and at last became silent. + +“I’ll tell you what, my dear fellow,” said Prince Andrew, who +evidently also felt depressed and constrained with his visitor, “I am +only bivouacking here and have just come to look round. I am going back +to my sister today. I will introduce you to her. But of course you know +her already,” he said, evidently trying to entertain a visitor with +whom he now found nothing in common. “We will go after dinner. And +would you now like to look round my place?” + +They went out and walked about till dinnertime, talking of the political +news and common acquaintances like people who do not know each other +intimately. Prince Andrew spoke with some animation and interest only of +the new homestead he was constructing and its buildings, but even here, +while on the scaffolding, in the midst of a talk explaining the future +arrangements of the house, he interrupted himself: + +“However, this is not at all interesting. Let us have dinner, and then +we’ll set off.” + +At dinner, conversation turned on Pierre’s marriage. + +“I was very much surprised when I heard of it,” said Prince Andrew. + +Pierre blushed, as he always did when it was mentioned, and said +hurriedly: “I will tell you some time how it all happened. But you +know it is all over, and forever.” + +“Forever?” said Prince Andrew. “Nothing’s forever.” + +“But you know how it all ended, don’t you? You heard of the duel?” + +“And so you had to go through that too!” + +“One thing I thank God for is that I did not kill that man,” said +Pierre. + +“Why so?” asked Prince Andrew. “To kill a vicious dog is a very +good thing really.” + +“No, to kill a man is bad—wrong.” + +“Why is it wrong?” urged Prince Andrew. “It is not given to man +to know what is right and what is wrong. Men always did and always will +err, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.” + +“What does harm to another is wrong,” said Pierre, feeling with +pleasure that for the first time since his arrival Prince Andrew was +roused, had begun to talk, and wanted to express what had brought him to +his present state. + +“And who has told you what is bad for another man?” he asked. + +“Bad! Bad!” exclaimed Pierre. “We all know what is bad for +ourselves.” + +“Yes, we know that, but the harm I am conscious of in myself is +something I cannot inflict on others,” said Prince Andrew, growing +more and more animated and evidently wishing to express his new outlook +to Pierre. He spoke in French. “I only know two very real evils in +life: remorse and illness. The only good is the absence of those evils. +To live for myself avoiding those two evils is my whole philosophy +now.” + +“And love of one’s neighbor, and self-sacrifice?” began Pierre. +“No, I can’t agree with you! To live only so as not to do evil and +not to have to repent is not enough. I lived like that, I lived for +myself and ruined my life. And only now when I am living, or at least +trying” (Pierre’s modesty made him correct himself) “to live for +others, only now have I understood all the happiness of life. No, I +shall not agree with you, and you do not really believe what you are +saying.” Prince Andrew looked silently at Pierre with an ironic smile. + +“When you see my sister, Princess Mary, you’ll get on with her,” +he said. “Perhaps you are right for yourself,” he added after +a short pause, “but everyone lives in his own way. You lived for +yourself and say you nearly ruined your life and only found happiness +when you began living for others. I experienced just the reverse. I +lived for glory.—And after all what is glory? The same love of others, +a desire to do something for them, a desire for their approval.—So I +lived for others, and not almost, but quite, ruined my life. And I have +become calmer since I began to live only for myself.” + +“But what do you mean by living only for yourself?” asked Pierre, +growing excited. “What about your son, your sister, and your +father?” + +“But that’s just the same as myself—they are not others,” +explained Prince Andrew. “The others, one’s neighbors, le prochain, +as you and Princess Mary call it, are the chief source of all error and +evil. Le prochain—your Kiev peasants to whom you want to do good.” + +And he looked at Pierre with a mocking, challenging expression. He +evidently wished to draw him on. + +“You are joking,” replied Pierre, growing more and more excited. +“What error or evil can there be in my wishing to do good, and even +doing a little—though I did very little and did it very badly? What +evil can there be in it if unfortunate people, our serfs, people like +ourselves, were growing up and dying with no idea of God and truth +beyond ceremonies and meaningless prayers and are now instructed in +a comforting belief in future life, retribution, recompense, and +consolation? What evil and error are there in it, if people were dying +of disease without help while material assistance could so easily be +rendered, and I supplied them with a doctor, a hospital, and an asylum +for the aged? And is it not a palpable, unquestionable good if a +peasant, or a woman with a baby, has no rest day or night and I give +them rest and leisure?” said Pierre, hurrying and lisping. “And +I have done that though badly and to a small extent; but I have done +something toward it and you cannot persuade me that it was not a good +action, and more than that, you can’t make me believe that you do not +think so yourself. And the main thing is,” he continued, “that I +know, and know for certain, that the enjoyment of doing this good is the +only sure happiness in life.” + +“Yes, if you put it like that it’s quite a different matter,” said +Prince Andrew. “I build a house and lay out a garden, and you build +hospitals. The one and the other may serve as a pastime. But what’s +right and what’s good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by +us. Well, you want an argument,” he added, “come on then.” + +They rose from the table and sat down in the entrance porch which served +as a veranda. + +“Come, let’s argue then,” said Prince Andrew, “You talk of +schools,” he went on, crooking a finger, “education and so forth; +that is, you want to raise him” (pointing to a peasant who passed by +them taking off his cap) “from his animal condition and awaken in him +spiritual needs, while it seems to me that animal happiness is the only +happiness possible, and that is just what you want to deprive him of. +I envy him, but you want to make him what I am, without giving him my +means. Then you say, ‘lighten his toil.’ But as I see it, physical +labor is as essential to him, as much a condition of his existence, as +mental activity is to you or me. You can’t help thinking. I go to bed +after two in the morning, thoughts come and I can’t sleep but toss +about till dawn, because I think and can’t help thinking, just as +he can’t help plowing and mowing; if he didn’t, he would go to the +drink shop or fall ill. Just as I could not stand his terrible physical +labor but should die of it in a week, so he could not stand my physical +idleness, but would grow fat and die. The third thing—what else was +it you talked about?” and Prince Andrew crooked a third finger. “Ah, +yes, hospitals, medicine. He has a fit, he is dying, and you come and +bleed him and patch him up. He will drag about as a cripple, a burden to +everybody, for another ten years. It would be far easier and simpler for +him to die. Others are being born and there are plenty of them as it is. +It would be different if you grudged losing a laborer—that’s how I +regard him—but you want to cure him from love of him. And he does not +want that. And besides, what a notion that medicine ever cured anyone! +Killed them, yes!” said he, frowning angrily and turning away from +Pierre. + +Prince Andrew expressed his ideas so clearly and distinctly that it was +evident he had reflected on this subject more than once, and he spoke +readily and rapidly like a man who has not talked for a long time. His +glance became more animated as his conclusions became more hopeless. + +“Oh, that is dreadful, dreadful!” said Pierre. “I don’t +understand how one can live with such ideas. I had such moments +myself not long ago, in Moscow and when traveling, but at such times I +collapsed so that I don’t live at all—everything seems hateful to +me... myself most of all. Then I don’t eat, don’t wash... and how is +it with you?...” + +“Why not wash? That is not cleanly,” said Prince Andrew; “on the +contrary one must try to make one’s life as pleasant as possible. +I’m alive, that is not my fault, so I must live out my life as best I +can without hurting others.” + +“But with such ideas what motive have you for living? One would sit +without moving, undertaking nothing....” + +“Life as it is leaves one no peace. I should be thankful to do +nothing, but here on the one hand the local nobility have done me the +honor to choose me to be their marshal; it was all I could do to get +out of it. They could not understand that I have not the necessary +qualifications for it—the kind of good-natured, fussy shallowness +necessary for the position. Then there’s this house, which must be +built in order to have a nook of one’s own in which to be quiet. And +now there’s this recruiting.” + +“Why aren’t you serving in the army?” + +“After Austerlitz!” said Prince Andrew gloomily. “No, thank you +very much! I have promised myself not to serve again in the active +Russian army. And I won’t—not even if Bonaparte were here at +Smolénsk threatening Bald Hills—even then I wouldn’t serve in the +Russian army! Well, as I was saying,” he continued, recovering his +composure, “now there’s this recruiting. My father is chief in +command of the Third District, and my only way of avoiding active +service is to serve under him.” + +“Then you are serving?” + +“I am.” + +He paused a little while. + +“And why do you serve?” + +“Why, for this reason! My father is one of the most remarkable men of +his time. But he is growing old, and though not exactly cruel he has too +energetic a character. He is so accustomed to unlimited power that he is +terrible, and now he has this authority of a commander in chief of +the recruiting, granted by the Emperor. If I had been two hours late +a fortnight ago he would have had a paymaster’s clerk at Yúkhnovna +hanged,” said Prince Andrew with a smile. “So I am serving because +I alone have any influence with my father, and now and then can save him +from actions which would torment him afterwards.” + +“Well, there you see!” + +“Yes, but it is not as you imagine,” Prince Andrew continued. “I +did not, and do not, in the least care about that scoundrel of a clerk +who had stolen some boots from the recruits; I should even have been +very glad to see him hanged, but I was sorry for my father—that again +is for myself.” + +Prince Andrew grew more and more animated. His eyes glittered feverishly +while he tried to prove to Pierre that in his actions there was no +desire to do good to his neighbor. + +“There now, you wish to liberate your serfs,” he continued; “that +is a very good thing, but not for you—I don’t suppose you ever had +anyone flogged or sent to Siberia—and still less for your serfs. If +they are beaten, flogged, or sent to Siberia, I don’t suppose they are +any the worse off. In Siberia they lead the same animal life, and the +stripes on their bodies heal, and they are happy as before. But it is +a good thing for proprietors who perish morally, bring remorse upon +themselves, stifle this remorse and grow callous, as a result of being +able to inflict punishments justly and unjustly. It is those people I +pity, and for their sake I should like to liberate the serfs. 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ground. + * (2) that their fire gets into his eyes and he forgets that +30,000 went for the upkeep of the estate near moscow, the town house, + *(3) hollow. + *(4) i just ask you that. +“aah!” rostóv almost screamed lifting both hands to his head. the +abandoned in the center?” he inquired, searching with his eyes for +abandoning all hope of a junction with buxhöwden. if kutúzov decided +a banister post stood a tallow candle which guttered in the draft. on + * a bastard. +a battery to their left. the smoke above it had not yet dispersed. two +a battlefield to whom thousands of new and brilliant ideas occur which +“a bayonet wound. i remained at the front. remember, your +abbé morio? he is a most interesting man.” +a b c of war or of politics, and that bonaparte was an insignificant +“a bit touched—i always said so.” +able to inflict punishments justly and unjustly. it is those people i +a blue-eyed soldier involuntarily attracted notice. it was dólokhov +a bold, free, and easy tone, while in his soul he regarded himself as a +abominable, quite abominable!” said prince andrew, and he went off to +about 80,000 went in payments on all the estates to the land bank, about +about a mile and a half off on the opposite heights. down below, on +about her confinement, and how she dreaded it, and had complained of her +about her native land. when he saw the pretty little bourienne, anatole +about him and about his love for him, letting it be understood that he +about him and even speak. +about him. he reddened and turned away. +about him or anyone else, and i don’t want anything of the kind.” +about mademoiselle bourienne was dreadful. it was untrue to be sure, but +“about my wife... i am ashamed as it is to leave her on your +about sergéy kuzmích that interested prince vasíli just then, and +about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over.... +about ten o’clock rostóv went to the english hotel straight from the +about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry +about the austrians and their uniforms, about their lines, about +about the corners of his mouth read to the austrian general the +about the old prince and criticized him. +about the princess’ health and then led pierre along a stone passage. +about till dawn, because i think and can’t help thinking, just as +about to ask their way of an elderly footman who had sprung up as they +about to smile, and once on coming out of the chapel prince andrew and +about two thirds of a mile was stopped on the highroad. rostóv saw the +“about your sister,” ejaculated denísov testily. +above all this the lofty sky, formed the chief subjects of his delirious +above and below him in social standing. something always drew him toward +above his head: “captain túshin! captain!” +above the heights was the dark clear sky, and to the right the vast orb +a bright smile, “so she won’t come down. it is natural in her +a brilliant match—blushed like a girl. +abroad, the other is with the guards, who are starting on their march +absence. little nicholas had been unwell for four days. the coachman who +absent-minded. when he rose to go, he took up instead of his own, the +absolutely necessary. +a case. +a cavalryman. prince andrew felt that an invisible power was leading him +accent. +accent—having noticed that zherkóv could still hear him. +accent. he was breathless with agitation, his face was red, and when +accept it and fixed the stake himself. nicholas submitted to him, and at +accept this challenge or not. anatole did not release him, and though +accompanied by adjutants, galloped off in different directions, and +accompanying him to the hall. +accomplished. +accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room. but in spite of +“according to the scouts the last of them crossed on rafts during the +accountant, a stout, full-faced man, looked around him with a naïve +account of court and personal considerations tens of thousands of lives, +accounts is a poor creature.” +accustomed to win in their battles,” he concluded his evidently +a celebrated miniaturist, and he leaned over the table to take the +a ceremonial march past him, and rostóv on bedouin, recently purchased +a certain house—that was another matter and quite the thing for a +a chance to escape, or to trick us, now that we certainly have him in +aches, and one spends all one’s money. he asked me for tonight, but i +a clear blue sky, and the sun’s vast orb quivered like a huge hollow, +a cloak, waiting for the conversation to finish. they listened to +a closely written letter of two sheets from bilíbin. he folded it up +a comforting belief in future life, retribution, recompense, and +a commander in chief. as it was considered that the austerlitz success +a commanding officer’s quarters, the regiment began to move: the +a company commander, a fine round-faced man, with a stupid and happy +a company smile but was evidently tormented by jealousy; now she turned +a consciousness is communicated is very difficult to define, but it +a convoy. directly opposite to him came a strange one-horse vehicle, +a convoy wagon became restive at the end of the bridge, and the whole +a coronet) entered the room, calm and majestic, except that there was +acquaintance—he wished him simply a brother and a virtuous instructor. +acquaintance.’ in a word, those gentlemen, gascons indeed, so +acquaintance of many persons who might prove useful to him, and by +acquaintance,” said pierre. and again, glancing at the stranger’s +acquaintances not only cordially, but even with a shade of deference +acquainted,” and he pressed borís’ hand. “do you know, i have not +acquainted with prince andrew bolkónski, through whom he hoped to +acquired though she did not understand its significance. this expression +acquiring a trotter of his own, very stylish riding breeches of the +a crafty man convinced of the futility of being cunning with so +a crash. +across his path. rostóv put his horse to full gallop to get out of the +across, snatched it from his hand and began reading it. pierre looked +across the bodies and under a terrible fire from the french, he attended +across the table to clink glasses with the count, with the children, and +a cry of: “the general to the third company,” the missing officer +action, and in the company of well-known, elderly, and respected racing +action, and more than that, you can’t make me believe that you do not +action, as if flying through the air without touching the ground. +action did prince bagratión, still hearing the cannonade in the center, +action—he drew the glove from his shapely white hand, made a sign +action they had been wounded. “day before yesterday, on the danube,” +activities of 160,000 russians and french—all their passions, desires, +activity, túshin did not experience the slightest unpleasant sense of +actual phrase used by the vienna cabinet,” said the danish chargé +actuated by a real desire for peace. +a cup of tea?” +a dark-green dress coat, knee breeches of the color of cuisse de nymphe + a day or two, then bliss unspoilt, +added. +added. +added, addressing prince vasíli, and without waiting for an answer she +added he, munching a pie in his moist-lipped handsome mouth, “would be +added in a tone admitting of no rejoinder and raising her eyebrows. +added, noticing that prince andrew winced as at an electric shock. +added, not noticing his visitor’s sarcastic smile. +added: “what a lot of men have been crippled today—frightful!” +adding, “your excellency.” +addressed an edifying exhortation to them. he imagined to himself +addressed the horseman with the white plumes, evidently suggesting +address. he is a wise and clever fellow.” +addressing first one, then another. he said he would not have been +addressing her with the careless tone of habitual tenderness natural to +addressing him as ‘usurper and enemy of mankind.’” +addressing lorrain in french which he pronounced badly. +addressing the austrian general, “i have the honor to congratulate +addressing the black-mustached denísov with servile deference. +addressing the englishman. +addressing the mother. +address rostóv by his title, as if in recognition of his confession. +a deed to sign for the princess’ benefit. +a desire to do something for them, a desire for their approval.—so i +a desperate cry and such mad, drunken determination that, taken by +a despot. who is right and who is wrong? no one! but if you are +adieu, dear and kind friend; may our divine saviour and his most holy +“adieu, ma bonne,” answered prince vasíli turning away from her. +“adieu, mary,” said he gently to his sister, taking her by the hand +adieu, prince! may god support you...” +a dinner where there was no place for him. in the next hut there was a +adjutant. +adjutant by his elaborate courtesy appeared to wish to ward off any +adjutant on kutúzov’s staff, but he does everything alone. the next +adjutant, or really let the matter drop, was the question that worried +adjutants.” +adjutants met him with news of the successful result of the action. +adjutant whom he so hated. +adjutant, zherkóv, an orderly officer, the staff officer on duty, +administered. come.” +admired his regiment, rejoiced in it, and that his whole mind was +admit—he had almost been jealous on his wife’s account, was the butt +admitted that he had been to blame, did not lift his eyes from the +a door of one of the inner rooms opened and one of the princesses, the + a dreaded foe be thou, kindhearted as a man, +adroitness and italian play-acting! do you know the tale about him and +advancing.” +advancing by forced marches toward znaim, which lay sixty-six miles +advancing from russia, without losing his army as mack had done at ulm. +advancing straight toward the inner door. +advancing to attack the french cavalry that was coming to meet them. +advantageous match but a splendid, noble fellow... he is my friend...” +adve’sawies have wefused a weconciliation, please pwoceed. take your +advice is to let the matter drop. well then, on friday after the review +advise you to appeal to rumyántsev through prince golítsyn. that would +a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools. +a feeling of contemptuous ill will. he snorted whenever he mentioned +a fellow diplomat, “that the chancellor told him flatly that his +a few fir trees. +a few hours ahead of the french who were approaching hollabrünn from +a few minutes later the chief forces of the french army moved rapidly +a few steps, turned, cut a caper, brought her little feet sharply +affair, and about some ladies they both knew. +affair. i am her father.” +affair of the thabor bridge, at vienna.... they have crossed without +affair public. you are offended at being put on duty a bit, but why not +affairs and of pierre himself in those early days. from the death of +affairs of honor and had twice regained his commission. +affair was over and, though not big, had been a successful engagement. +affectation. princess mary ran out of the room to fetch mary +affected languor and indolence. he now looked like a man who has time +affectionate as it was—expressed a sense of his own superiority. +affectionate eyes, now came up and took his arm. before he looked round +affectionate letters to your parents, and if you think you may be +affectionately. +affirmatively.) “when you hear a knock at the door, you will uncover +afflicted by the death of the father he had hardly known), and her +a fight led murat to try to deceive kutúzov in a similar way. meeting +“a fine lad! my word! a fine lad!... his father lies on his deathbed +“a fine mess we’ve made of it!” he remarked. +a fine place! why are you not eating anything, gentlemen?” nesvítski +a first introduction and betrays a consciousness of the impropriety of +a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the russian emperor, was +a footman came in to summon borís—the princess was going. pierre, in +a foraging expedition. rostóv in his cadet uniform, with a jerk to his +a foreigner, in spite of all differences of faith, understood the full +a former war. “the emperor will teach your suvara as he has taught the +a fortnight after the letter prince vasíli’s servants came one +a fortnight ago he would have had a paymaster’s clerk at yúkhnovna +afraid of a general battle. his hour has come! mark my words!” +a freak of fate made the impossible possible. the success of the trick +a frenchman), “l’urope ne sera jamais notre alliée sincère.” * +“a french pancake,” answered zherkóv. +a french soldier tugged at the other. he could distinctly see the +a fresh wave of the flying mob caught him and bore him back with it. +a friend older than himself and whom he respected. his whole time +after a few minutes’ bustle beside the high bedstead, those who had +after anna mikháylovna had driven off with her son to visit count cyril +after another greeting the tsar with the strains of the march, and then +“after austerlitz!” said prince andrew gloomily. “no, thank you +after a while he re-entered it as if to snuff the candles, and, seeing +after a while the moving mass became agitated, someone rode past on +after denísov’s departure, rostóv spent another fortnight in moscow, +after dinner. he called natásha and asked her what was the matter. +after dinner, he went to see his daughter-in-law. the little princess +after five o’clock it was only at the augesd dam that a hot cannonade +after his dismissal from headquarters zherkóv had not remained in the +after his illness he looked rather thinner that day than on the field +after his interview with his wife pierre left for petersburg. at the +after his journey and the campaign during which he had been deprived of +after his reception by the austrians, to speak if not in russian +after inspecting the carriage himself and seeing the trunks put in, he +after looking at him napoleon smiled. +after losing half their men were retreating in disorderly confused +after losing her own father. she is very good-natured, and my father +after natásha down the passage into the sitting room with flushed face +after passing some austrian troops he noticed that the next part of the +after receiving her visitors, the countess was so tired that she gave +after receiving this news late in the evening, when he was alone in his +after supper pierre with his partner followed the others into the +after tea, the company went into the sitting room and princess mary was +after that anna pávlovna led up to the courage and firmness of the king +after the attack, bogdánich would come up to him as he lay wounded and +after the austerlitz campaign prince andrew had firmly resolved not +after the battle but send a courier to petersburg with news of a +after the fatigues and impressions of the journey, his reception, and +after their active service, were stationed near olmütz and the camp +after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one +“after the next affair... epaulettes.” +after these words, the mason, as if tired by his long discourse, again +after the soup the prince became more genial. +after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages. the jaunty +after two in the morning, thoughts come and i can’t sleep but toss +after washing and dressing, prince andrew came into the diplomat’s +again. +again. +again, and let his head sink still lower. +again and remained for a while with the ismáylov regiment. +again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression +again are all running back somewhere, and i shall run with them, and it, +again, as soon as all turned toward him, excused himself and said no +again began to laugh. she evidently felt unable to look at him +again drawn out in a thin line the musketeers were descending the hill, +again expressing deep sorrow. +again getting in front of the first line as he had done when the horse +again going on tiptoe to the reception room where they had left prince +again. i must go there, prince, and scare them a bit. it won’t take a +again joined her. they began talking in whispers, but their talk broke +again on all the bright faces of the squadron the serious expression +again on the sofa. they were silent for a while. +again recalled all the details of the victory and his own calm courage +again rostóv looked intently into borís’ eyes and sighed. berg +again see the sun, this water, that gorge!...” +again shook with a deep ringing laugh, the laugh of one who always eats +against his right, flew round again in a circle. natásha guessed what +against one of the columns in a respectful attitude implying that he, +again struck up, the count and countess kissed, and the guests, leaving +against the french?” +against them and winding down over the uneven ground. one could already +against the muslin of the curtain. +against the pillow. +against the wall, and the second of the three sisters rushed out +“against your will he will save and have mercy on you and bring you +again turning to the count. “zat is how ve old hussars look at it, and +again when he passed to another group whose center was the abbé. +age...” +a general engagement,” repeated dolgorúkov, evidently prizing this +“a geography lesson!” he muttered as if to himself, but loud enough +a girl, such tact, such masterly perfection of manner! it comes from +agitated. +a glimpse of her, she seemed still more lovely. she was a charming girl +aglow with dazzling light—as if he had only awaited this to begin the +ago have joined the archduke. and believe me on my honour that to me +a gold snuffbox on which was a portrait. in the middle of one of the +a good example, yet here you are without your boots! the alarm will be +a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, prince +a good thing for proprietors who perish morally, bring remorse upon +agreeable and interesting work. his face expressed more satisfaction +agreed or disagreed and was satisfied or not with the arrangements. next +ague. +“ah, and here’s nicholas!” cried natásha, running up to him. +a handsome adjutant. this was prince bolkónski. beside him was his +“ah, bondarénko, dear friend!” said he to the hussar who rushed up +“ah! breathing again, breathing!” he muttered to himself. +“ah, but you won’t talk politics to me like annette!” +“ah, count rostóv!” exclaimed pierre joyfully. “then you are his +“ah, dear friend,” replied princess mary, “i have asked you never +“ah, don’t talk to me! last winter she wheedled herself in here and +a heavenly feeling. borís was telling his new friend pierre who the +“ah, from vienna? very good. later, later!” +“ah! he is alive,” said napoleon. “lift this young man up and +“ah, here she is!” he exclaimed laughing. “my pet, whose name day +“ah! here’s the warrior! wants to vanquish buonaparte?” said the +“ah, i know what it is.” +“ah, is it you, cousin?” +“ah, it can’t be avoided!” thought nicholas, for the first and +“ah, madam, it is a great sacrament,” replied the priest, passing +“ah, may the devil take you and evewybody,” were the last words +“ah! mon ami, i only pray, and hope that god will hear me. +“ah, money, count, money! how much sorrow it causes in the world,” +“ah, my boy, my head’s in a whirl!” said the old man with a smile, +“ah! my dear!... ah! mary!...” they suddenly exclaimed, and then +“ah, my dear fellow, what a battle we have gained! god grant that +“ah, my dear friend! forget the wrongs that may have been done you. +“ah, my dear friend, he is very unfortunate,” she said. “if what +“ah, my dear! he is so rich, and we are so poor!” +“ah! my dear, i am afraid you and your monk are wasting your +“ah, my dear, i hardly knew you,” said anna mikháylovna with a +“ah, my dear, my dear!” he began, rising and taking her by both +“ah, my dear prince! i could not have a more welcome visitor,” +“ah, my dear,” said the countess, “my life is not all roses +“ah, my dear vicomte,” put in anna pávlovna, “l’urope” (for +“ah, my friend!” said he, taking pierre by the elbow; and there was +“ah, my friend!” she said, touching his arm as she had done her +“ah, my love,” answered anna mikháylovna, “god grant you never +a hoar frost now turning to dew, but in the valleys it still lay like a +a hoarse voice to the men to look to their pistols. he rode up to +a hollow between two hills near the village of pratzen, the russian +a horrified expression on his handsome face, anatole looked at princess +a host welcomes an honored guest. he reported that his regiment had +“ah, prince! in what sad circumstances we meet again! and how is our +“ah, princess mary!” he said suddenly in an unnatural voice, +“ah!...” said kutúzov glancing at bolkónski as if by this +“ah!” said kutúzov. “i hope this will be a lesson to you. do your +“ah, she is indeed a darling! i’ll send her to you.” +“ah! telyánin! how d’ye do? they plucked me last night,” came +“ah, that is just what i tell him!” said she. “i don’t +“ah! that’s a good thing. so, my dear boy, you wish to serve the +“ah, that’s always the way!” said nesvítski with a wave of the +“ah, that’s the way to talk french,” said the picket soldiers. +“ah, there will be, and there are, many more such girls somewhere whom +“ah, those damned germans! they don’t know their own country!” +“ah, timókhin!” said he, recognizing the red-nosed captain who had +“ah, váska!” joyfully replied nesvítski. “what’s up with +“ah what a calamity! you say the affair was decisive? but mortier is +“ah, what have you done to me?” it still seemed to say, and prince +“ah! what joy for the princess!” exclaimed she: “at last! i must +“ah, wostóv,” he cried noticing the cadet’s bright face, +“ah yes, and what else did he say that’s unpleasant?” thought +“ah, yes! do tell us all about it, vicomte,” said anna pávlovna, +“ah yes, my dear,” said the count, addressing the visitor and +“ah, yes! that’s a whole long story! how are you going to speak to +“ah, you are sending off a letter, princess? i have already dispatched +“ah, you’re up already,” said denísov, entering the room. +“ah, your excellency,” put in zherkóv, his eyes fixed on the +“ah, you’ve come here too, young man!” he said, smiling and +aide-de-camp. +aide-de-camp. +aide-de-camp, and sat down in the lady’s chair, placing his huge hands +aide-de-camp and was duly conducted to pay his respects to the aunt and +aide-de-camp, “dat one liffs after de sird stroke.” +aides-de-camp to inquire after the count’s health, came himself +aid of his servant, and not looking at pierre. with a pair of felt boots +aim remaining for him was to effect a junction with the forces that were +aim?” said he quietly and quickly. +aim—to establish peace in europe on firm foundations—has now decided +aim was to show general weyrother—who had read his dispositions with +air, and disobeying orders. the moral hesitation which decided the fate +a joke he had heard in vienna and which he had been trying all that +a keg, filled one after another the canteen lids held out to him. the +a kind no longer in general use. prince andrew remembered the story of +a lack of bread, to move farther into the interior of prussia, for only +a languor of motion and speech, resulting from weakness, gave her a +a large udder was attached to the cart behind. a woman with an unweaned +alarm lest something should have happened to the child while he was +alarm, supposing these words to mean that the young count was displeased +a laugh still more so, he quitted the table. +alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance. +alert than he had done the day before. only his eyes gleamed feverishly +a letter at once, and she’ll come here and all will be explained, or +“a letter from nikólenka! i’m sure of it!” exclaimed natásha, +a letter has been written to the emperor in which the count asks for +a letter of recommendation he had brought from pierre had become +alexander prince vasíli had risen to high position and honors. and now, +alexander’s guards,” said the first one, indicating a russian +alexander unpleasantly, he rode up and saluted. +alexander was clearly heard. he gave the words of greeting, and the +alexéevich. loud knocks were heard at the door. pierre took the bandage +alien face of that man, his bayonet hanging down, holding his breath, +a life i can’t decide or think properly about anything. one’s head +alight, and let her pass into the house before him. old tíkhon, wearing +alighted from his horse and whose big body was jammed against the +alike, felt that the commander did not himself know what to do, and this +“aline,” he said to his wife, “go and see what they are about.” +a little earth crumbled from the bank under the horse’s hind hoofs. +a little later when he went up to the large circle, anna pávlovna said +a little to their right and behind the accountant, crashed to earth with +“a little volcano!” +“a little wound, but he has been made an officer; he is well now, he +alive and suffering from a burning, lacerating pain in his head. +alive could understand or explain. +alive—live: tomorrow you’ll die as i might have died an hour ago. +all.” +all along the sides of the road fallen horses were to be seen, some +all, and without promising to help me?” thought pierre, rising with +all, and your future depends on him. remember that, my dear, and be nice +all are struck by the justness of his views, but no one undertakes to +all around were loving eyes glistening with tears of joy, and all around +all as they should be? that’s right! the great thing is the serving, +all. at last the sleigh bore to the right, drew up at an entrance, and +all began to run and bustle, and rostóv saw coming up the road behind +all be killed,” a sergeant was saying angrily and reproachfully. +all commanders of divisions the right to shoot marauders, but i much +all done casually in a moment of anger, of illness, and was afterwards +all expecting it, they are so sure that it will happen that i cannot, i +“alley! alley!” said the cossack, touching the prisoner’s arm to +all for his relations was the fact that there was still a possibility of +all four, like a flock of scared birds, got up and left the room. +“all have secrets of their own,” answered natásha, getting warmer. +all her attention. he seemed to her kind, brave, determined, manly, and +all her clothes in petersburg and that heaven knew what she would have +all her invitations without exception, written in french, and delivered +all his decisions and intentions. he went to kurágin’s. +all his property, not to us his direct heirs, but to pierre.” +all his wishes were being fulfilled that morning: there was to be a +“all i can say, general,” said he with a pleasant elegance +all-important.” +“all is over,” he thought, and a cold sweat broke out on his +all its details to the austrian general weyrother: a lucky accident had +all, like children of my own, as you know.” +all like that; one can’t unmarry. don’t be afraid; i won’t tell +all make out: was it a glade in the wood lit up by the moon, or some +all moscow repeated prince dolgorúkov’s saying: “if you go on +all moscow talks of nothing but war. one of my two brothers is already +all moscow, that everyone will say that you, drunk and not knowing what +all my trouble will have been thrown away.... i shall not be able to +all on one plan, for hospitals, schools, and almshouses, which were soon +allowed, i have hastened to take all steps to that end. may i have +allowed to pass by special permission. the eyes of all the soldiers +allowed to speak, turns to auersperg with feigned astonishment (he is a +allow him personally to express the deep respect that, emulating his +“allow me, sir,” said prince andrew in russian in a cold, +“allow me to ask,” he said, “are you a mason?” +“allow me to give you a piece of advice. when you reach the capital, +“allow me to look at your purse,” he said in a low, almost +all pale and exchanged looks in silence. +all quite forgetting the danger and all regard for self-preservation, he +all regular germans.” +“all right, all right!” he said to prince andrew, and turned to a +“all right, all right,” interrupted the prince, and laughing his +“all right, all right,” replied the commander, and turned to major +“all right, all right!” said the old count. “he always flares up! +“all right, all right, we’ll see!” +“all right, all right. we’ll talk it over,” replied prince andrew. +“all right. fifty imperials ... that i will drink a whole bottle of +“all right!” said dólokhov, having finished the addition. “all +“all right,” said pierre, still smiling in the same way. a feeling +“all right. they are good fellows. and how have you wriggled onto the +all rostóv’s cards were beaten and he had eight hundred rubles scored +all sides, moved across the bridge. +all sorts of tempting wares. the pávlograds held feast after feast, +all that has happened.” +all that the peasants had has been eaten up. i myself will remain in +all that would be required of him. +all the advantages were on our side. our enormous forces, undoubtedly +all the comforts of cleanliness and all the refinements of life, prince +all the figures on it: the sun, the moon, a hammer, a plumb line, a +all the guns, without waiting for orders, were being fired in the +all the moscow ladies have conspired to give him all their sons as +all the old feminine arts. but as soon as the prince had gone her face +“all the same, i love and value nothing but triumph over them all, i +“all the same, it was bilíbin who found a suitable form for the +“all the same, one is afraid! oh, you clever people,” said a third +“all the same! they say this one is the commander of all the emperor +all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of +all the soldiers’ remarks related to the two young ones. every face +all the unmarried ladies and even the married ones except the very +all this end?” thought rostóv, looking at the changing shadows before +“all this had to be and could not be otherwise,” thought pierre, +all this is not right, it’s not right! you may take offense or not but +all this, rose and approached the princess. he seemed unable to bear the +all this shame and sorrow, but wanted now to play with him as a cat does +allusion to the name of the sovereign. three hundred persons took their +“all well?” asked rostóv, drawing away his arm. +all were seated again, turned with his kindly smile to rostóv. +all were silent. túshin appeared at the threshold and made his way +all were then more confident of victory than the winning of two battles +“all wight! all wight!” shouted denísov. “it’s no good making +all your valuables.” +ally. we shall therefore confidently await the moment when the imperial +almost at the middle of the table. facing them sat pierre, beside prince +almost dragging him to the window. “that money is denísov’s; you +almost frightened, eyes as she passed him. +almost time,” she added, giving pierre to understand that they were +“alone all the same, without my friends.... and he expects me not to +alone and in full view of the emperor. +alone applying her handkerchief to her eyes. at last she rang. +alone at last gains a real victory, destroying the spell of the +alone, but because of everyone, it must inevitably come about. they are +alone, in which there was something more significant than in the general +alone... that tremendous fortune... and what is his life worth? it’s a +alone together, prince vasíli announced his hopes and wishes to the old +alone with hélène in the little drawing room where they were sitting. +alone with her, so rostóv, now that he had attained what he had longed +alone without any allies, it might perhaps have been a long time before +a long-awaited moment. he was firmly convinced that this was the day of +along the broad country road, edged on both sides by trees, came a high, +a look at you, your excellency.” +a look of complete absent-mindedness, kept rubbing the bridge of his +aloud. +a loud, monotonous voice began to read out the dispositions for the +aloud to him and being friends with princess mary. mademoiselle +already.” +already been choosing a career for three months, and had not decided +already, but then he cannot know what i think of him and may imagine +already in any case dishonored by being unable to fulfill the great and +already known in moscow and that the ladies about his father—who were +already lost him. he bent over him and, as his sister had taught him, +already opening a door. +already passed. through the terrible and deafening roar of those voices, +already prepared...” +already seated in the drawing room. the count took the gentlemen into +already seen the young master, and, before he had reached the drawing +already visible. suddenly something like a birch broom seemed to sweep +also in french: +also the abbé morio. do you know that profound thinker? he has been +also to the soldiers. looking at their boots he several times shook his +also. yes, my opinion, and only my opinion,” added prince bolkónski, +altar on which lay a testament and a skull. round it stood seven large +altar with her. how and when this would be he did not know, he did not +altered in shape by its pressure on the table, now at her still more +although in female society anatole usually assumed the role of a man +although iogel did not acknowledge this to be the real mazurka, everyone +although prince vasíli listened reluctantly and not very politely +although the hall porter saw someone’s carriage standing at the +always accompanied any reference of hers to the imperial family, “has +always afraid, came into her room with a peculiarly restless and malign +always, always anxious! especially just at this age, so dangerous both +always be my daughters’ first confidante, and that if nicholas, with +always be the chief desire of everyone else. +always better to “bow too low than not bow low enough.” so the +always called natásha a cossack) and she stroked the child’s arm as +always clear and simple, so she is not stupid. she never was abashed and +always dragging it in one direction. he tried to get away from them, but +(always followed by a ball flying past and striking the earth, a man, a +always in one direction, humming with whispers and talk and the sound of +always poking fun at me.... ah, well! let him!” and he began reading +always shall, and i want nothing more.” +always surrounded by the same decks, masts, and rigging of his ship, so +always won. however much he drank, he never lost his clearheadedness. +am.” +a man oppressed by business, weary and suffering, who yet would not, for +a man who on a hot day takes a final run before plunging into the water. +amazed the french themselves. rostóv was horrified to hear later that +ambassadors to compliment the usurper.” +a meeting with napoleon. to the joy and pride of the whole army, a +amélie” (mademoiselle bourienne) “thinks i could be jealous of her, +a member of the hofkriegsrath from vienna had come to kutúzov the day +amiably into his face, evidently wishing to soften the rudeness of his +amid people of whom he was weary had gone, instantly every thought of +amid the smoke, deafened by the incessant reports which always made him +amid the smoke of their campfires, the greater part of whom were +amid the square masses of troops standing motionless as if turned to +“a million all but one!” replied a waggish soldier in a torn coat, +a minute later sónya came in with a frightened, guilty, and scared +am i to go?” thought nicholas, and went again into the dancing room +a moment, and, evidently understanding what rostóv hinted at, seized +a moment. the sick man was given something to drink, there was a +a moment, “yes, bring me seven hundred rubles, yes! but mind, don’t +among the children, in the special sense they attached to it.) “why +among the field guns on the brow of the hill the general in command of +among the gentlemen of the suite, rostóv noticed bolkónski, sitting +among them. on my word i’d give five years of my life for it!” +among them the staff officer and zherkóv, who had been twice sent to +among the women!” +among the young men introduced by rostóv one of the first was +a mop, his legs far apart, sprang to the wheel; while number two with +a most serious, deferential, and innocent expression. +a movement. with a pleasant smile berg related how the grand duke +am staying in for your sake,” and so on. and though prince vasíli, +amusing,” he continued, with a sudden, good-natured laugh, “was that +amusing, now girlishly enchanting. +a musketry fire at the french cavalry that was pursuing our troops. it +an air of importance that showed that she felt she quite knew what she +an allowance of ten thousand rubles. he had a dim perception of the +an anonymous volunteer, and david widger +an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the outspread map +anatole. “ah, i know, i know,” she said with a sly glance, “your +anatole and pierre. +anatole came up to her. she still could not see him. she only felt a +anatole embracing the frenchwoman and whispering something to her. with +anatole, having taken off his overcoat, sat with arms akimbo before a +anatole is accompanying me on his way to the army, so i hope you will +anatole is no genius, but he is an honest, goodhearted lad; an excellent +anatole kissed the old man, and looked at him with curiosity and perfect +anatole lived, pierre entered the lighted porch, ascended the stairs, +anatole returned smiling to the ladies. +anatole’s expression, though his eyes were fixed on her, referred not +anatole stopped him. +anatole turned to the englishman and taking him by one of the buttons +“anatole used to come to borrow money from her and used to kiss her +anatole with his swaggering air strode up to the window. he wanted to +an attack. but when they had marched for about an hour in the dense fog, +an austrian officer in a white uniform with green plumes in his hat +ancestor of the bolkónskis. prince andrew, looking again at that +and a ball flew whistling over the heads of the hussar squadron. the +and about nikólenka, twice asked when the last letter had been received +and abruptly. +and a bullet whizzing high up in the mist with a plaintive sound passed +and a castle with a park surrounded by the waters of the confluence of +and accept the offer,” but before he had time to say it natásha began +and a convoy of croats. beside kutúzov sat an austrian general, in +and acquaintances, invitations, and social occupations were so numerous +and, addressing him, again used the epithet “young man” that was +and advantages of service under members of the imperial family. +and a few here and there with powdered hair and in russian kaftáns. +and affronts matter? i love and forgive everybody now.” +and a flask, and nesvítski was treating some officers to pies and real +and after staying but a short time with the tsar went to see the grand +and again it turned uselessly in the same place. +and again jumping up, dashed so impetuously forward that it seemed as if +and again proceeded to gallop along the line, penetrating farther and +and again she began to sob, more bitterly than before. natásha lifted +and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of +and all along the french line on the hill fires flared up and the +and all his comrades of the guards by his appearance—that of a +and all his mercy to one who is blind, or who shuts his eyes that he may + * and all that follows therefrom. +and all you have been doing on your estates.” +and also that murat’s mistake would very soon be discovered, proved +and am at your service to help you nurse my uncle. i imagine what you +“and am i to bring the gypsy girls along with him?” asked nicholas, +and a muffled shout almost behind them in the wood. the french had +and amused as he was when he put on the little icon. “did he believe? +and amuse themselves as girls of thirteen and fourteen do who are +and amusingly. “and why not marry her if she really has so much money? +and anatole met in the conservatory. +and angry faces struggled for the mop: how differently do those clouds +and anna mikháylovna (who found it necessary to accompany him) was +and anxiety they threw their burden of sorrow on one another and +and are drawn along.” +“and are the hours the same? and the walks in the avenues? and the +and artillerymen’s bonfires. to the left, not far from the farthest +and as he waved his arms to impersonate the policeman, his portly form +and as he went on became more and more animated. he told them of his +and, as it might seem, of the obligations to her he had taken on +and ask him, i!... does that satisfy you?” +and asking them all to be seated began: +“and ask whether sharpshooters have been posted,” he added. “what +and as they went along he was told allegories of the toils of his +and, as you know my principles, i refer it to you.” +and at every word he added: “but don’t hurt my little horse!” and +and a timid smile. +and at last became silent. +and at the people in it. round a long table covered with black sat some +“and at your age what secrets can there be between natásha and +and awkwardly over the parquet floor of the reception room, not knowing +and back, galloped strenuously forward, and with a dashing salute reined +and began dancing round the room with it. +and began firing them at túshin’s battery. +and began to speak. +and being well disposed toward borís, who had managed to please him the +and besides this, nine men in every thousand for the militia. everywhere +and bilíbin unwrinkled his temple, feeling that the dilemma was +and blue riding breeches, who were swarming near the bridge, and then at +and borís, having apparently relieved himself of an onerous duty and +and borís. he is his godson,” she added, her tone suggesting that +and borís says it is quite possible. you know i have told him all about +and broke it up. in this action for the first time trophies were taken: +and by a servant who passed out on tiptoe without heeding them. they +and calling the nurse began giving the medicine. the child screamed +and carefully placed her in an easy chair. +and ceased talking when véra entered. sónya and natásha looked at +and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. +and colonel looked sternly and significantly at one another like two +and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels +and compelled to act under conditions of war unlike anything that had +and complacently seated himself on the sofa. +and conflict with which he had trodden the enns bridge, but with the +and connections he belonged to the groups of old and honored guests, and +and continual expectation of some good, always in front of him but never +and could not answer. “can something bad have happened to me?” +and countess alike—turned to look at her as if wondering why she had +and count ilyá rostóv became more and more moved, more glass was +and count rostóv, glancing angrily at the author who went on reading + and dare not herculean russians trouble... +and dark. the officers were hurriedly drinking tea and breakfasting, the +and decided in his own mind that all was as it should be, and that in +and denísov rode up to a group that had stopped near rostóv, composed +and denísov went to the bed to get the purse from under the pillow. +and desperation as though he were at that moment facing some great +and devotion, or of weariness and hope of resting before long. prince +“and didn’t hippolyte tell you?” asked prince vasíli, turning to +“and did you give me tobacco yesterday? that’s just it, friend! ah, +and disheveled, beat and turned the heavy feather bed for the third +and dismounted slowly among the guns. he delivered the order and did +and dissatisfied about something and that at headquarters they were +and distinctly. in the valley he saw before him something like a river, +and, doing so, groaned involuntarily. +and dólokhov’s angry cry. +and dólokhov swore at him in coarse soldier’s russian and shouldering +and don’t forget to give him the rostóvs’ invitation. they ask him +“and do you feel quite calm?” rostóv asked. +“and do you know, my dear fellow, it seems to me that bonaparte has +and drawing up again next moment when her face broke into a smile of +and, drawing up an armchair for prince vasíli, pointed to it and began +and drew it downwards as if wishing to ascertain whether it was firmly +and dropped it again behind her. prince andrew recognized her without +and drowsy kutúzov, who reluctantly played the part of chairman and +and ecstasy such as he had never before known. every trait and every +and even now never says a word against him. those pranks in petersburg +and even princess mary felt herself pleasantly made to share in these +and everybody had to serve, he took a post under his father in the +and every strap in place, and shone with cleanliness. and not only +and examined him with attentive curiosity. the cossack was dead, but the +and explained to them his intentions and wishes. he told them that steps +and extending its neck, galloped on yet faster. hardly had the horse +“and fancy! she refused him quite definitely!” adding, after a +and fear. +and feeling at that moment. “is there anything at all behind that +and fell into the column to the measure of “left... left!” “close +and fell on his back. he opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle +and fell on his hands. the others outstripped him. +and fencing from the village. +and fighting, not at all as the gunner and the frenchman with frightened +and flask, and swung his heavy person easily into the saddle. +and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor. the countess was +and for the issue of the whole battle. “but be that what it may,” +and frenchmen running toward it. higher up stood some russian infantry, +and frequent blushes she told him she was very sorry about their past +and fro, and dispatching of adjutants—was confined to the emperor’s +and from the different ranks some twenty men ran to the front. a +and frowning brows stood a hundred paces away from them in his helmet +and fussily in the easy chair, “how is it annette never got married? +and galloped along the line. at first he rode along the line of +and galloped off. but no sooner had he left bagratión than his courage +and get away to attend to her duties as hostess. but pierre now +and glad sparkle. prince andrew had grown thinner, paler, and more +and good-humored laughter from the soldiers that it infected the french +and grieved had he chosen not to see them. these different +and groans mingled in a general hubbub, then the firing died down. +and gun carriages, the tramp of horses, the crack of whips, shouts, the +and had an opinion about everything), but above all at his capacity for +and had more than once impressed on his daughter that michael ivánovich +and had remained away till he was twenty. when he returned to moscow +and had taken him to vienna and given him the more serious commissions. +and hair, without looking at her eyes, with such contempt that the +and handing on to posterity of a certain important mystery... which +and handsome young man and woman for one another. and this human feeling +and happiness... “i should wish for nothing else, nothing, if only i +and happiness the victory had afforded him had been now left in the +and happy though uneasy face of pierre. it seemed as if the very light +and hardly able to restrain his jerky movements, and from the way he +and hastened to reassure him. +and have seen fräulein mathilde.” +and having done this he rode back. +and, having glanced round the room, prince andrew turned to rostóv, +and having got rid of this young man who did not know how to behave, she +and he again began speaking about indifferent matters, about sergéy +and he again turned to pierre. +and he also passed on with the wagon. then came some merry soldiers who +and health. all who talked to her, and at each word saw her bright smile +and he amuses himself setting a policeman astride a bear! for shame, +and he caught the bear, took it in his arms, lifted it from the ground, +and he doesn’t care at all for julie.” +and he experienced tenfold the joy of living, as he had not done since +and he felt a nervous shudder run down his spine. but the mere thought +and he indicated with his delicate fingers what he meant by a pinch. +and he left the room, followed by the low but ringing laughter of the +and he looked at pierre with a mocking, challenging expression. he +and he looked on this visit to a churlish old man and a rich and ugly +and helped him. i know and understand what a spice that would add to the +“and here, friend, the people are quite beggarly. there they all +and he released bolkónski’s arm to indicate that he had now quite +and here’s the little shop where we used to buy gingerbread! can’t +and her face was tearful. +and her look seemed to say: “well, it is your own fault.” +and her short, downy, smiling lip lifted when she began to speak just as +and her son. she had opportunities of sending her letters to the grand +and he sat down again, paying no more attention to his daughter, who was +and he saw above him the remote, lofty, and everlasting sky. he knew it +and he smiled approvingly, evidently pleased with the cadet. rostóv +and he walked on. +and he wore a crumpled hussar cap stuck jauntily back on one side of his +and he would marry her. so her future shaped itself in mademoiselle +and hills in the distance—and despite the fact that the inhabitants +and his back drawn in, slightly swinging one foot, and, with his head a +and his eyebrows were lifted, then his eyebrows would descend and +and his forehead became smooth again, he bowed his head respectfully, +and his head tilting yet further back. “why is it so long?” thought +and his kind, intelligent face rather pale, rushed out of the shed +and his lips were smiling. though the commander was occupied in giving +and his one division, and even then mortier slips through your fingers! +and his thoughts followed one another with extraordinary clearness and +and his visit to brünn. at the door he found a vehicle half full of +and horse guards’ jacket, shouting something to a pale, white +and horses) had it not occurred to rostóv to flourish his whip before +“and how could you believe he was my lover? why? because i like +“and how do you get on with the officers?” inquired zherkóv. +and how happy i may be with such a friend and such a husband! husband? +and how has it ended? i was against this marriage even then and foretold +“and how she dances! what gwace!” he said again after a pause. +and how the well-trained horse looked round unconcerned and did not + * “and hurrah for the whole world!” +and hurriedly removed. +“and i am still arguing with your husband. i can’t understand why he +and i beg you all to help me. brünn’s attractions must be shown him. +“and i did not know... nicholas... my darling!...” +and i don’t now.” +“and if he asks about the losses?” +“and if i should meet his majesty before i meet the commander in +“and if this aim coincides with yours, you may enter our brotherhood +“and, if your excellency will allow me to express my opinion,” he +“and i had no idea!...” exclaimed princess mary. “ah, andrew, i +“and i?” he said; “do you think it is easier for me? i am as worn +“and i know why she’d be ashamed,” said pétya, offended by +and i’ll write to her myself, and we will kill the fatted calf.” +“and i might have been in his place!” thought rostóv, and hardly +and immediately túshin, with a short pipe in the corner of his mouth +and impossible, he again glanced timidly at her. she did not sit down +and in a way of which our last campaign can give you no idea. half the +and in a whisper, with a strangely unsmiling face: “come to dinner +and indeed everybody in the room looked with a smile of pleasure at the +and indulgently to smooth with it the heart of his neighbor. as to the +and inevitably he lapsed into falsehood. if he had told the truth to his +and in order to press them again to her lips, she slightly pushed away +and in proof of the conclusiveness of his opinion all the wrinkles +and insignificant people. but the army, the russian army, everyone +and interesting person to the visitors and that nowhere else was the +and interests before him! “yes, they have taken a wise decision,” he +and into ladies’ society with an affectation of doing so against his +and in two twists of the hand he breaks them to smithereens and installs +and involuntarily noticed the carefully washed seams of the scar near +“and i only...” +and irrepressibly, as water does in a creek. had the russian army been +and irritation, though controlledly calm as a man is at the approach of +“and i should be ashamed to write to borís. i’m not going to.” +“and i should so like to thank uncle once for all his kindness to me +and is it worth tormenting oneself, when one has only a moment of life +and is nothing unworthy of you, but it will comfort me. promise, +“and i tell you, don’t you dahe to do it!” shouted denísov, +“and i tell you, rostóv, that you must apologize to the colonel!” +“and it must seem to you,” said borís flushing slightly, but not +and ivy, with a gleam of white shoulders, glossy hair, and sparkling +“and i was looking for you,” said natásha running out to him. “i +“and i will tell you this,” prince andrew interrupted in a tone of +and i won’t allow it to be said!” +and julie were saying to one another. the governess kept looking round +and kámenski the latter was preferred. the general comes to us, +and kinds of dessert, in order to send a full description of the dinner +and kissed her. +and kissing her, and then he left the room with rapid steps. +and kutúzov smiled in a way that seemed to say, “you are quite at +and leaving large sums of money with them for alms, went away to his +and legs always fell into unnatural positions. +and let us talk sensibly while there is still time, be it a day or be it +and lifted it to his lips, threw back his head, and raised his free hand +and light, joyous steps. at the visitors’ request the young people +and like a practical petersburg lady who knows how to make the most of +and like him. write and tell me how he receives you. if he is all +“and lise, your wife?” +and littered with cards. one tormenting impression did not leave him: +and little tables. during balls given at the house pierre, who did not +and looked at her in such a way that not only could she not bear his +and looked at him closely. +and looking carelessly about him. +and looks of those who had seen them together. he recalled anna +“and love of one’s neighbor, and self-sacrifice?” began pierre. +and majestic voice that was yet so simple! and as if in accord with +and making a wide sweep with his arm, amid a thunder of applause and +and making pencil notes on them, and for the first two or three minutes +“and mamma pressed her!” said nicholas reproachfully. +and martinists, even in novíkov’s time. for a long while after he had +“and me, kiss me!” +and merry faces. it was natásha, sónya, and pétya, who had come to +“and me? would you like to kiss me?” she whispered almost inaudibly, +and mingling with one another. he could also, by the gleam of bayonets +and mirth that shone in all their faces. evidently in the back rooms, +and more attractive. +and more regularly and rapidly, and the action at the goldbach stream +and most advantageous style, like a well-garnished joint of roast beef +and moved along the ranks shouting. the train drivers and orderlies +and moved to the right; from behind it, dispersing the laggards, came +and murat, humiliated and anxious to expiate his fault, had at once +and musketry ahead of him. the firing grew louder and louder. +and my father was much affected by it. he says the count was the last +and my life, my life,” he thought, “must be risked?” +and natásha, in the light-blue dresses they had worn at the theater, +and natásha kissed her brother and ran away. +and natásha rose and went out of the room on tiptoe, like a ballet +and next balls, about theatricals, and who would meet whom, and when and +and nicholas again kissed her hand. +and no connections. yet, though anatole spent tens of thousands of +and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, +and not in the habit of running, trotted awkwardly stumbling on his +and not only at the same hour but at the same minute. with those about +and not value her pure affection and devotion to me?” she went up +and not with his eyes. +“and now, in token of candor, i ask you to reveal to me your chief +and now there’s dólokhov sitting in the snow with a forced smile and +and of course not as ‘emperor,’ it seemed to me it should be to +and of good family and that’s all i want.” +and on all their faces he recognized the same eagerness that filled his +and one booted foot, he advanced, while willarski held a sword to his +and one could hear their distressing screams and groans, sometimes +and only turned away his eyes when the austrian chief of staff finished + and on the throne our titus shield. +and opened the door for him. +“and our little tea table?” +“and our share?” asked the princess smiling ironically, as if +and out of the bedroom glanced at the princess and turned away. she did +and overtook him. a sergeant of the battalion ran up and took the flag +and painfully felt. my father talks of nothing but marches and +and parted smiling, the german returning to his cowshed and rostóv +and particularly amiable smile. +and part were leaving these pratzen heights which he intended to attack +and paused facing her at the foot of the sofa on which she was lying. +and pierre, anxiously trying to remember whether he had done anything +and pressed him against the railings, and all he could do was to smile. +and, pressing pierre’s hand, he went out. +and prince andrew after giving directions about his departure went to +and prince andrew, with others fatally wounded, was left to the care of +and prince dolgorúkov rapidly but indistinctly explained weyrother’s +and princess mary tried, but could not manage, to be cordial to her new +and profligate life, though i did not like it and did not want to,” +and promised to write to him and guide him in his new activity. +and proudly around while bagratión spoke to his son. +and prove my devotion to his majesty the emperor and to russia!” +and put the matter before the emperor,” said princess anna +and really another french soldier, trailing his musket, ran up to +and really he only ran a few steps alone. one soldier moved and then +and refined expression on the faces of those present he was always +and regarded as the key to the position. he saw over the mist that in +and relations had been given to understand that the fate of the young +and remained so for some minutes. piteous, helpless, animal moans came +and replacing their purses and pocketbooks, entered the ballroom. first +“andré,” said his wife, addressing her husband in the same +and resignation to the will of god. “if you do not understand these +and respect as few hardhearted men would have aroused. although he was +and respectfully that the prince gave him a searching glance. +and returned a glove pierre had dropped; the doctors became respectfully +andrew. +andrew. +andrew. +“andrew, already!” said the little princess, turning pale and +andrew, “and at anna pávlovna’s they listen to me. and that stupid +andrew apparently knew this as well as tíkhon; he looked at his watch +andrew a reliable correspondent to whom he could pour out the bile he +andrew as one of themselves, an honor they did not extend to many. from +andrew. “besides, in the actions of a statesman one has to distinguish +andrew came up, stroked her hair, and asked if she felt rested after +andrew did not speak; he was both pleased and displeased that his father +andrew did not tell his father that he would no doubt live a long time +andrew? don’t forget that she has grown up and been educated in +“andrew, don’t!” said princess mary. +andrew entered the passage. kutúzov himself, he was told, was in the +andrew felt a pleasant sense of repose among luxurious surroundings such +andrew felt that something gave way in his soul and that he was guilty +andrew had already heard from his wife in the presence of others some +andrew had gone and made the sign of the cross in his direction. from +andrew, “i am only surprised at your opinion of bonaparte. you +“andrew, i bless you with this icon and you must promise me you will +andrew?’ i did indeed.” she laughed. “he is so well received +“andrew, if you had faith you would have turned to god and asked him +andrew in his boyhood, helped pierre out of his carriage, said that the +andrew... is father’s way of treating religious subjects. i don’t +andrew. “i wish you good luck and success, gentlemen!” he added and +andrew. “look here, my dear fellow, get from kozlóvski all the +andrew made his way up to the battery from which the staff officer had +andrew, paying no more heed to the general who ran after him imploring +andrew read the same mild reproach he had read on the face of his dead +andrew...” she said timidly after a moment’s silence, “i have a +andrew shook himself as if waking up, and his face assumed the look it +andrew slowly, not taking his eyes off his wife. +andrew’s presence. he was ashamed to express his new masonic views, +andrew struck the high road along which the russian army was moving with +andrew, “that all the atrocities of the french army (i nearly said of +andrew, told how bonaparte wishing to test markóv, our ambassador, +andrew was galloping along in a post chaise enjoying the feelings of a +andrew was in and borís was shown into a large hall probably formerly +andrew was natural and pleasant. others, the majority, disliked him and +andrew went out with him. +andrew, whom borís was expecting, entered the room. prince andrew, who +and rostóv got up and went wandering among the campfires, dreaming of +and running so lightly, frightened rostóv. he seized his pistol and, +andrúsha!...” said she, putting her hand in her reticule but not yet +andrúsha—the slender mischievous boy who had been her playfellow in +and salt and an icon of saint peter and saint paul, asking permission, +and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his +and saw that the lamp stood on a black table on which lay an open book. +and say, “i am so delighted... mamma’s health... and countess +and saying something in their gypsy accents. nicholas understood that it +and scapegraces of petersburg. +and scarcely breathing, watched from her ambush with sparkling eyes. +and scented myself.” +and, scowling, he gave nicholas just such a look as he had given pierre +and secured their release by heavy payments. he did not know that the +and seeing her severe face said: “well, good-by, countess,” and +and seeing that the elder visitor was not listening, he turned to the +and see the standard flapping against its staff. +and several other less noteworthy persons. +and she began to cry again because he had such a noble soul. +and she found them on my table and said she’d show them to mamma, and +and she set off at a run along the passage. +and she’s even in my way. you know i always was a savage, and now am +“and she’s in love with borís already. just fancy!” said the +and she smiled her ecstatic smile. +and she with him, that there was quite a scandal and that that’s why +and she won’t say anything to mamma. nicholas will tell her himself, +“and should not justify your confidence and the honor you have done +and shouted to the musicians to play faster. faster, faster, and faster; +“and showed me a letter in which the parade of the french in vienna +and shown such unaffected familiarity in intercourse with everybody both +and show you what kind of rivet to use.” +and sighing disdainfully, he again changed his position. +and silent when the talk related to any topic that had no direct bearing +and silver of the men’s epaulets; servants in scarlet liveries moved +and simply, “mr. shítov—a man of great merit”—this of the man +and sinfulness?” he paused again. “who art thou? thou dreamest that +and sit. this morning i turned them all out and now look, it’s full +and social tact,” thought he; “been proud of my house, in which she +and social topics were ended and the time had come for intimate +and so further increased the fame of these dances. what distinguished +“and so he is! quite blind!” +and solemn, and awakening in the men an unusual curiosity. on the day of +and sometimes flung the exercise book away. +and sometimes laughed. nearest of all to the commander in chief walked +and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers’ or +and so said the youths and maidens themselves as they danced till they +and so sparkling their eyes. sometimes the best of the pupils, of whom +and so the anecdote ended. though it was unintelligible why he had told +“and so they are writing from potsdam already?” he said, repeating +and sought the acquaintance of only those above him in position and +“and so you had to go through that too!” +“and so you think napoleon will manage to get an army across?” asked +“and so you’ve had him educated abroad, prince vasíli, haven’t +and still fewer men would be so well able and willing to make up out of +and still the same and in the same place. no, it can’t be! surely it +and stood, hanging her head. +and stood still in the dim light beneath the curtain as if not wishing +and stooped glass in hand over the infant. +and stopped near him. +and strange to say nicholas felt that he could not help taking up a +and strength. he was continually traveling through the three provinces +and suddenly, as if he had studied her sufficiently and had formed a +and suddenly began to cry. +and suddenly determines to speak out. +and suddenly seemed to grow very merry. +and suddenly the whole world centered for him on anticipation of the +and swallowed the cold snow, his lips quivered but his eyes, still +and, taking natásha’s hand, kissed it. +and taking nesvítski’s arm he left zherkóv, who did not know what to +and tears, till at last somebody else was asked to read it.” +and tear whatever came to his hand. “why did i tell her that ‘je +“and tell mr. dólokhov that i won’t forget him—he may be quite +and that daredevil after her!” said anna mikháylovna, wishing to show +and that her husband was a cross laid upon her by god. prince vasíli +and that if a letter reached the grand duke in command of the guards +“and that other one with him, the austrian, looked as if he were +and that’s how it is with me. À demain, mon cher.” * +and that the richest peasants (who formed the deputation) had begun +and that the whole army had surrendered at ulm proved to be correct. +“and that would be splendid,” said pierre. +and the allowance to the three princesses; about 15,000 was given in +and the boyish face rostóv, breathless with excitement and hope, was +and the brilliance of the bright sunshine merged in a single joyous and +and the burning of an arm with a ruler as a proof of love did not seem +and the cannon, under the horses’ hoofs and between the wagon wheels, +and the commander, turning to look at the adjutant, directed his jerky +and the consequent impossibility of a speedy emancipation. +and the constant gleam of her white teeth, thought that they were in a +and the conversation again turned on the war, on bonaparte, and the +and the count turned to the cook, who, with a shrewd and respectful +and the crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which +and the difficult names of villages. weyrother complied and dohktúrov +and the disgrace of having lost two guns and yet remaining alive present +and the distinguished dignitary who bore the title of “collector +and the feeling of energy with which the troops had started began to +“and the fete at the english ambassador’s? today is wednesday. i +and the general in white, accompanied by the suite, walked between the +and the glory that awaited him. +and the jingle of their weapons and saw their horses, their figures, and +and the latter—unconscious that he was being reflected in the hussar +and the men’s at the other. +and the munching of the lieutenant. +and then at the other. +and then calmly and seriously sat back in his chair. anna pávlovna +and then he suddenly stopped and performed some new and unexpected +“and then of course my family has also to be considered,” prince +“and then, old fellow, he gives him one in the teeth with the butt +and then to call him out, reckoning on fédya not fighting because he +and the old cavalry captain, kírsten, shouted enthusiastically and no +and the old countess were especially disturbed, and to a lesser degree +and the orders he gave them and, to his surprise, found that no orders +“and the other one is not here. they’ve been telling tales,” he +and the others who did not approve of the plan of attack, were +and the owner of the manly voice, evidently an infantry officer, +and the pistols loaded, nesvítski went up to pierre. +and the prince began explaining all the blunders which, according to +“and the prisoners he killed in africa? that was horrible!” said the +and the rattling of carriage wheels seemed to fill his ears, and now +and the reading of the letter began. after a brief description of +“and there hasn’t been anyone in the room except the lieutenant and +and there in the coffin was the same face, though with closed eyes. +and there is nothing to thank me for. no one has ever complained yet of +“and there’s nothing for you to say. i shall speak to him myself,” +and there too sat the members of the family, and pierre and hélène, +and the rewards sent to the army are innumerable. though he is a +and the same look. in the middle of a dull and halting conversation, +and the second aim, that of purifying and regenerating himself, did not +and the staff captain rose and turned away from rostóv. +and the talkative dolgorúkov, turning now to borís, now to prince +and the tramp of horses’ hoofs were heard. kutúzov and his suite were +and the traveler became absorbed in it. pierre looked at him. all at +and the two emperors were living with their suites, households, and +and the two friends told each other of their doings, the one of his +and the visitors try to guess from these glances who, or what, they are +and the whole secret lies in the terrible truth that she is a depraved +... and the wish, which constitutes the emperor’s sole and absolute +and they awoke in him astonishment at the genius of his hero, a feeling +and they disappeared into the darkness with their load. +“and they said kutúzov was blind of one eye?” +“and this is gratitude—this is recognition for those who have +and this “well!” sounded coldly ironic, as if he were saying: “now +and thoughtfully shaking his head. did he fear going to the war, or was +and three pairs of gloves, and then the grand master addressed him. he +and threw them round the little girl who had run in. +and thrill of suspense usual at such moments. outside the house, beyond +and took hold of the commander’s stirrup, almost leaning against him. +and to pierre, glancing at him again. +and ‘to siberia!’” said berg with a sagacious smile. “i knew i +and triumph. +and two or three friends—you among them—and as for the rest i only +and unexpectedly again began to cry. +and unreasonable than a little child, who, playing with the parts of a +and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen +and virtue, and thereby try with all our might to combat the evil which +and virtue than mere words. this chamber with what you see therein +and voices. this class of guests and members sat in certain habitual +and wait for her, she went silently toward the door that everyone was +and, walking backwards before the company, jerked his shoulders and +and warmly pressing his hand looked affectionately over his spectacles +and was a stranger there. in his person, honor was shown to a simple +and was crossing himself with his right hand, turning his eyes upward +and was going to tuck up the other trouser leg to save this stranger the +and was just putting his question to a soldier when his attention +and was therefore out of sorts, a state of mind which with her always +and watched his opponent’s face, evidently thinking about the game as +and, waving her thin arms from under the woolen shawl, cried: +and way of life. +and well informed foregathered when the news began to arrive in +“and we, my dear boy! it’s terrible! i was wrong to laugh at mack, +and went in at the open door. there was no one in the anteroom; empty +and went out. natásha had put on one spurred boot and was just getting +and went out of the corridor. +and went to the door. +“and what about his character?” asked the regimental commander. +“and what a well-preserved man he was!” remarked the aide-de-camp. +“and what devil made me go to that wat?” (an officer nicknamed +“and what do you think of this latest comedy, the coronation at +and, whatever may happen to him or to me, shall never cease to love him +“and what is she so pleased about?” thought nicholas, looking at his +and what to expect after it beyond the grave! how happy and calm i +and wheels began to revolve faster and faster, levers and cogwheels to +“and where is lise?” he asked, answering her question only by a +and where to shoot,” he said with an unnaturally gentle smile. +and which had always opened so quietly, burst noisily open and banged +and while kutúzov was turning managed to make a grimace and then assume +“and who are you?” cried the officer, turning on him with tipsy +“and who has told you what is bad for another man?” he asked. +and whom borís addressed turned round crossly and told him bolkónski +and who was called tit. he was saying, “tit, i say, tit!” +“and who will inherit his wealth?” he added in a whisper. +“and why are children born to such men as you? if you were not a +“and why are they stopping? there’s no proper order!” said the +“and why didn’t you do it at seven in the morning? you ought to have +“and why didn’t you simply come straight to me as to a friend? i +“and why do you serve?” +“and why is it?” +“and why the deuce are we going to fight bonaparte?” remarked +“and will she soon be confined?” and shaking his head reproachfully +and will then inherit everything under the will? and if the will and +and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs. +and wished he could tell what, if anything, this man was thinking +and wish you to have as good an opinion of me. don’t upset yourself, +and with a bow to them both he went out. +and with a furtive glance at his son’s face, the count went out of the +and with a hooked nose. then came two more, and many more running +and with baritone notes in his voice, new to borís, pointing to his own +and with his hand at the salute rode up to the general. +and without awaiting a reply, prince andrew rose and left the table. +“and without holding on to anything. is that right?” +and with the familiarity and easy grace peculiar to him, he raised the +and with this object offered a three days’ truce on condition that +and wrote a few words on a large sheet of paper folded in four). +and yet be happy....” +and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must +and you.” +“and you? are you going to have lunch too? they feed you quite +“and you didn’t see that everybody is packing up?” +“and you?” he asked dólokhov, but as soon as he had asked the +and you, mon cousin, seem to consider me a perfect fool,” said the +and young people are rarely capable of it. his hearers expected a story +and your capital!’ the one general whom we all loved, schmidt, you +“and you’re still the same diplomatist! but that’s not the +“and you too!” +“and you won’t feel ashamed to write to him?” +a need to escape from it by some strange, and usually cruel, action. +an entreaty, a threat, and above all conviction that she would herself +an excruciating pain in his arm, for which he could find no satisfactory +an exemplary officer of twenty-two years’ service, who had never been +an explanation, but meeting the latter’s impressive but meaningless +an expression of perplexity, turned round to milorádovich as if seeking +an eye on me! very well then! get along with you!’ so he writes the +anger and walking up to the regiment wished to find a further excuse for +angered the countess when it was not properly cleaned, turned as loosely +anger he did not condescend to notice, and said: “i think you were +angling, while his grandson, with shirt sleeves rolled up, handled the +angrily and disrespectfully at kozlóvski. +angrily at him. bondarchúk’s horse swerved and galloped past. +angrily blowing his nose. hardly had prince andrew gone when the study +angrily, came in at the other door. natásha checked her first impulse +angrily pulling down his tight scarf. +angry—but i know you will not marry her. i know, heaven knows how, but +angry with me for coming? you have changed so, andrúsha,” she added, +an hour and a half later most of the players were but little interested +an hour later, tíkhon came to call princess mary to the old prince; +an hour’s delay they at last moved on, descending the hill. the fog +“a nice little hot torch for the infantry! good luck to you, fellow +an illegitimate son, and petted and extolled when he was the best +animal. count ilyá rostóv, laughing and repeating the words, “make +animal went when excited. bending his foaming muzzle to his chest, his +animated, and handsome, with his hand bandaged. in the study were four +animation of the past or the future. it was as if prince andrew would +an immediate answer. prince vasíli had brought his son with the evident +an indescribable charm of sorrow and self-forgetfulness that her father +an inn in the village which the officers frequented. rostóv rode up to +an inspection anywhere in the heart of russia. +anna mikháylovna. +anna mikháylovna came out last. she approached pierre with slow, quiet +anna mikháylovna, in a few words, told her the contents of the letter, +anna mikháylovna instantly guessed her intention and stooped to be +anna mikháylovna looked at véra and paused. the countess pressed her +anna mikháylovna opened the door. her face wore the proud expression +anna mikháylovna paused and waited for him to come up. +anna mikháylovna sat down beside him, with her own handkerchief wiped +anna mikháylovna’s face expressed a consciousness that the decisive +anna mikháylovna shook her head. +anna mikháylovna sighed deeply. +anna mikháylovna’s was the most distinct. +anna mikháylovna, though her circumstances had improved, was still +anna mikháylovna took off her gloves and, occupying the position she +anna mikháylovna turned up her eyes, and profound sadness was depicted +anna mikháylovna was already embracing her and weeping. the countess +anna mikháylovna, who always knew everything that passed in the house, + * anna pávlovna. +anna pávlovna almost closed her eyes to indicate that neither she nor +anna pávlovna continued to give on free evenings the same kind of +anna pávlovna disapproved. +anna pávlovna frowned. mortemart, hippolyte’s friend, addressed him +anna pávlovna gave him her shriveled hand to kiss and introduced him to +anna pávlovna had already managed to speak to lise about the match she +anna pávlovna in dismay detained him with the words: “do you know the +anna pávlovna’s alarm was justified, for pierre turned away from the +anna pávlovna’s “at home” was like the former one, only the +anna pávlovna’s drawing room was gradually filling. the highest +anna pávlovna smiled and promised to take pierre in hand. she knew his +anna pávlovna’s reception was in full swing. the spindles hummed +anna pávlovna’s soiree. the matter was mentioned to the emperor, an +anna pávlovna’s two years before. there were also present a very +“annette, for heaven’s sake don’t refuse me,” the countess +announce him, but, changing his mind, came back and stooped to kiss the +annoyance. “good luck to you!” +an oath of fidelity to the laws of the order. the candles were then +an old friend. +an old powdered manservant who was sitting in the antechamber rose +an opportunity to express his doubts. +an orderly, or a townsman was carried through the waves of infantry; +an orderly’s charge, and he felt the blood rush to his heart with +“an order to who?” asked the colonel morosely. +another. +another.” +another—a childlike, kindly, even rather silly look, which seemed to +another. all became silent and turned to look at the pale tear-worn anna +another and soon the whole battalion ran forward shouting “hurrah!” +another, a younger voice, interrupted him: “afraid or not, you can’t +another candle. still lower, beyond the turn of the staircase, one +another company, a lucky one for not all the companies had vodka, +another, dying, stepping over the dying and killing one another, only to +another five days passed, and then the young prince nicholas andréevich +another group. +another group was at the tea table. pierre wished to join the former, +another, hardly able to suppress their laughter. +another hussar also rushed toward the horse, but bondarénko had already +“another ismail comrade,” said he. “a brave officer! are you +another, more important, subordination, which made this tight-laced, +another of the precepts—that of reforming the human race—and had +another pie but felt shy, and therefore pretended to be examining the +another’s faces and speak to one another. besides the soldiers who +another, the red, stout nesvítski, lay on a bed with his arms under his +another, they all gave, and transmitted, orders as to how to proceed, +another time he interrupted, saying: +another two minutes and it is certain death,” thought each one. +another voice, from a man of medium height with clear blue eyes, +another who wished to get away. with his head bent, and his big feet +an outsider is out of place here.... no, don’t distress yourself.... +answer. at last he moved up to pierre and, taking the kerchief that lay +answered.” +answered her, as he had the countess, only in monosyllables. the other +answered him either by a brief but appropriate remark—showing that it +answered lavrúshka. “i know by now, if he wins he comes back early to +answered pierre, trying to remember who this young man was. +answered the general. +answered the soldier. prince andrew took out his purse and gave the +answers to these questions, as was only too evident, did not interest +answer than the one prince andrew gave to this naïve question. +answer that voice and went on dreaming of his triumphs. the dispositions +antechamber experienced the same feeling of respect and even fear when +anteroom with him. +antichrist—i really believe he is antichrist—i will have nothing +antónov.” +an unexpected and tenderly paternal way. +any clever conversation that was to be heard. seeing the self-confident +any moment.) +any moment the emperor may see them.... but no, these must be only a +“any news from mack?” +anyone, and so you don’t deserve to have them.” +anyone, but you know it yourself.” +anyone else does the same, i will pay him a hundred imperials. do you +anyone else had a right to criticize what the empress desired or was +anyone flogged or sent to siberia—and still less for your serfs. if +anyone if he is in disfavor. now come here.” +anyone in particular, began to say how difficult it was to carry out +anyone. they wished to administer the sacrament of unction.” +anyone who wanted to see him could come the hundred miles from moscow to +any the worse off. in siberia they lead the same animal life, and the +anything, but was only conscious of her stern father’s withered face +anything, dólokhov, looking straight in his face, said slowly and +anything. do you know i have sent for pierre? the count,” pointing to +anything else.... you have not been ordered to return and have not been +anything, except only for permission, after the blow she had received, +anything for his happiness! and my affairs are in such a bad way that my +anything. here is a letter to prince vasíli, and here is money. write +anything. if it be god’s will to prove thee in the duties of marriage, +anything like it. she believed it could be, but did not understand it. +anything might happen, only not that. +anything to say, say it. these two things can be done together,” he +anything, when suddenly the well-known whispering of mademoiselle +anything wrong in my behavior. but i’ll just tell mamma how you are +any women—countesses or cooks—who were not venal. i have not yet met +apart from myself.” +a particular glamour and glad keenness of impression to everything that +apartments assigned to prince vasíli. +a partner, and the old men began smilingly to talk about poland and the +a peg on which to hang the prince’s favorite topic, he looked +a plan of marriage for you. it is neither more nor less than with prince +a policeman and the bear back to back and put the bear into the moyka +apologize.” +apologize to an old and honorable officer? whatever bogdánich may +apologizing for the state of his gun. +a portrait so characteristic of the original as to be amusing. +apparently immersed in his own thoughts. +apparently she had forgotten her age and by force of habit employed +apparently suffering more than the dying soldier, and he rode away. +apparently the sight of them roused no pleasant feeling in véra. +appear as if he did not want any of that wine, but was mortified because +appeared. +appeared a stupid smile of glee which he seemed unable to suppress. +appeared from behind his company and, though he was a middle-aged man +appeared. he would carry her away and then sa pauvre mère would appear +appeared in the doorway. the general with the bandaged head bent forward +appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to +appeared punctually to the appointed hour. everyone sitting in this +appeared, quite out of keeping with his features, that seemed to deride +appeared shy of her unquestionable and all too victorious beauty. she +appeared that they had worn when under fire. rostóv watched his enemy, +appeared, then a second and a third almost simultaneously, and at the +appeared to him in a dream: his mother and her large white hand, +appearing on the skyline, which they knew to be the enemy’s troops. +apple, also half smiling as he looked at the handsome girl. +appointment to london was a promotion and that he was so to regard it. +appreciate at a glance her superiority to the plain, badly dressed, +appreciation of the vicomte’s epigram, pierre again broke into the +approach, but even in this room there now stood an empty bath, and water +approached. +approached first, experienced the same feeling as every other man in +approached kutúzov. of kutúzov’s suite only four remained. they were +approached the door of the minister’s room. he felt offended, and +approaching. and at that moment, though the day was still, a light gust +approaching departure did not prevent his amusing himself, but rather +approaching enemy farther off. at the same instant the sun came fully +apráksina...” and then, again rustling, pass into the anteroom, put +apráksins’ i heard a lady asking, ‘is that the famous prince +aprons like the rhetor’s and holding swords in their hands pointed at +apron, such as the others wore, was put on him: he was given a trowel +apron under the leather hood of the vehicle. prince andrew rode up +apron, which symbolized strength and purity; then of the unexplained +À propos of marriages: do you know that a while ago that universal +a quite unexpected, chance of saving the army. on receiving the news +a rage) and called for the company commander. +archduchess also wished to see him. he did not know whom to answer, and +archduke, inspected the allied army of eighty thousand men. +archduke’s as good as another, as you know) and even if it is only +architect not to go to the prince with his report. +architect’s attention to the sound of the prince’s footsteps. +are all stupid; but i know this: an illegitimate son cannot inherit... +a real one, but that they would talk of that later. princess mary was +are—at the heart of affairs and of the world—is the talk all of +are being deceived, my instinct tells me of negotiations with france and +are childwen of the dust... but one falls in love and one is a god, one +are clever, you are well educated. and what have you done with all these +are distributed. why has fate given you two such splendid children? +are here?” +are many stories of his getting to know an officer in just such a chance +are, monsieur pierre!” +are not many left of us old friends! that’s why i so value your +are now two russians, milorádovich, and dokhtúrov, and there would be +a reply unnecessary. she smilingly waited. all the time the story was +a reproach to everyone. now tell me, count, was it right, was it +are taken to the field marshal’s room, for he likes to do everything +are the french!’ murat, seeing that all is lost if the sergeant is +are there,” said the officer, pointing to the village of hosjeradek, +are they doing? what are they doing?” he murmured to himself, still +are very pale!” said princess mary in alarm, running with her soft, +are we to find suvórovs now? je vous demande un peu,” *(4) said he, +are within sight of the enemy and he wishes to profit by the opportunity +are wrapped up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us +are you dumb?’ he shouted. still i remained silent. and what do you +“are you going to count cyril vladímirovich, my dear?” said the +“are you living with your mother?” +“are you mad? you have twice been ordered to retreat, and you...” +are young and i am old. i should like to help you as far as lies in my +“are you not ashamed to deprive us of your charming wife?” +“are you ready?” he asked his wife, looking past her. + a rhipheus at home, a caesar in the field! +a ring, he made the sign of the cross over him with a gesture evidently +arithmetic, when rising from his chair he would walk away from her, +arkhárovs; they have a party.” +arm. he began to laugh. +arms and the hope of future triumph. and he was not the only man to +arm’s length, apparently afraid of shooting himself with it. his left +arms on the table and began to read. after reading a few lines, he +arm wavered still more with the strain. one hand moved as if to clutch +army, and even napoleon himself with his staff, were not on the far side +army, and in the night from the nineteenth to the twentieth, the whole +army, and the member of the hofkriegsrath who had arrived the previous +army’s campfires dimly glowing in the fog, could be seen behind him; +army was very favorable. +army.... you are in a position to seize its baggage and artillery. +army. you have brought your army corps to pultúsk, routed: here it is +(“arnauts” was the tsarévich’s favorite expression when he was in +around him. an infantryman came to the fire, squatted on his heels, held +around them cannon balls were flying, of which he was aware not so +aroused him. he started and opened his eyes. +arranged and how nice it all was? there’s uncle shinshín’s brother +arrangement of the festival in honor of bagratión, for few men knew +arrangements of the house, he interrupted himself: +arrangements to the minutest detail remain the same.” +arranging a dinner in honor of prince bagratión at the english club. +arrival of young prince andrew and his wife was daily expected, but +arrival, thought in another way. of course, she, a handsome young woman +arrived from russia. with this object he intended to meet the regiment; +artillery company, a head and shoulders taller and twice as broad +artilleryman to prince andrew. “not like your honor!” +artilleryman, wiping away the blood with his coat sleeve, as if +artillerymen, some of whom were fighting, while others, having abandoned +artillerymen, túshin, and the cadet exchanged silent glances as they +artillery sentry was pacing up and down; he stood at attention when the +artless smile, she had met him in secluded passages. +a rule to speak out... well, what answer am i to take? will you come to +a rustle of starched petticoats and the whispering and laughter of +as a child, there was no longer in her singing that comical, childish, +as a dense cloud of smoke arose from it. the hussars had succeeded in +as a frenchman would speak after spending about a year in russia. +as a friend that frees the soul grown weary in the labors of virtue +as always happens when women lead lonely lives for any length of time +as a man recently returned from abroad, in a political conversation in +as a mark of their gratitude for the benefits he had conferred on them, +as a petitioner on behalf of this young man. you see...” but +as a true hussar in this battle, had been wasted. their squadron +as author of the military plan, argued that bonaparte might easily +as a veranda. +as borís. “count! i am wounded in my right hand” (and he showed his +ascended the carpeted stairs. +a schoolboy who is told to repeat a lesson he has not learned. spots +as clear as day, and can go so far astray. that is the only thing +as elsewhere, he was surrounded by an atmosphere of subservience to +a sense of disgust the minutest details of this humiliating scene he +a servant. from there they passed into another room. a man in strange +a seventy-pound weight were tied to it. he could run no more. the +as ever. a solitary tallow candle burned in the anteroom. +as far as moscow and to stay with him there. meeting a comrade at +“as far as the service goes he is quite punctilious, your excellency; +ashamed; he felt that he was occupying someone else’s place here +ashamed of himself, he said, as if merely asking his father to let him +as he always did when at the front, solemn and stern. then came the word +as he approached, a ringing shot issued from it deafening him and his +as he closed his eyes his ears seemed filled with the rattle of the +as he expected he was appointed an adjutant to the governor general of +as he felt himself to be at that moment. he was conscious that here +as he had been accustomed to from childhood. besides it was pleasant, +as he lay back in his armchair, looking in another direction. +as he liked, now in petersburg i hear he has been doing such terrible +a shell burst in the midst of that dense throng, killing some and +as he rode by. +as he said this he rose, went to his sister, and, stooping, kissed +as he said this prince andrew was less than ever like that bolkónski +as he sat on the sloping ledge. as he began slipping down, his head and +as he was leaving the battery, firing was heard on the left also, and +as he would have done to a stranger. +as his own. what also conduced to bagratión’s being selected as +a short pause, “but everyone lives in his own way. you lived for +a shot, and our troops could be seen hurrying to the crossing. +aside and turning sharply away; but rising immediately, he paced up and +aside with his arm, said in a breathless voice, +as i do not intend to be at your house again for reasons you know +as if astonished at the word. “well, you see, i’m building. i mean +as if at times there radiated from them shafts of warm light)—were +as if continuing a conversation the subject of which had often been +as if flinging something to the ground, the drummer—a lean, handsome +as if guessing what it was about. +as if he felt a little confused before his son. “now, if you would +as if running a sword through an invisible foe, and glaring savagely +as if she had asked him to do it. +as if she had to give some final necessary instructions. +as if stirred to his heart’s core and himself regretting and laughing +as if to ascertain whether his father’s habits had changed since he +as if to explain such a question. +as if to reassure prince andrew. +a sign of approaching anger. “i was forgetting... do you wish it +as impracticable, he arranged for the erection of large +a sin, a great sin, it is hatred of that vile woman!” almost shrieked +as in a spoiled child, a continual consciousness of her charming defect, +as i remember nikólenka. him—i just shut my eyes and remember, +as is usually the case with people meeting after a prolonged separation, +“as it flies past me, daddy, the ball i mean,” said a young soldier +as it was too far to the left flank for him to have time to go there +“as i was saying to you, andrew, be kind and generous as you always +as i write? +ask; but to prove my devotion to you and how i respect your father’s +asked and answered at the same instant. he was alone in the middle of a +asked him to tell the emperor. what do you think he replied? ‘but, my +asked natásha, so seriously and excitedly that it was evident that what +asked one of the ladies. +asked permission to be present at the battle out of curiosity. the +asked rostóv, with a contemptuous smile. +asked the italian how he stood russian climate. the italian’s +asked the prince’s permission to ride round the position to see the +asked the son. +asked. “they say old maids have a mania for matchmaking, and though i +asked to give up all he possessed. +asked to play on the clavichord. anatole, laughing and in high spirits, +asked to see the portrait of the aunt’s husband on the box lid. +asked weyrother several times to repeat words he had not clearly heard +ask forgiveness. +ask himself. it was as if the thread of the chief screw which held his +“ask him to wait,” and the sound was heard of a chair being pushed +asking.” but dying was also dreadful. +asking forgiveness?” +“ask the count to come to me.” +ask you to put the money on your cards,” replied dólokhov. “don’t +asleep, nor even remain in one place, but had to jump up and pace the +asleep. prince andrew felt sorry for his sister. +a slightly contemptuous smile, he said: “yes, there are many stories +a slipper for his left foot. with a childlike smile of embarrassment, +as long as i live.” +a small reception, and just see how badly i am dressed.” and she +as many persons are to me—father, sister, wife—those dearest to +“as may happen,” said rostóv. +a smell of perfume, and put it to nesvítski’s nose. +a smile he could not repress as he recalled his reception at brünn. +a smile of joy and satisfaction lit up her eager face. +a smile that broadened his round face more and more, prepared the +as much self-confidence as if he were addressing school children—that +as often happens after long sleeplessness and long anxiety, he was +as often happens in early youth, especially to one who leads a lonely +a soldier on the march is hemmed in and borne along by his regiment as +a soldier’s cross, equally shabby cadet’s riding breeches lined with +a soldier was driving, and a woman enveloped in shawls sat behind the +a son of nicholas bolkónski, i shall be ashamed!” +a space like a street was left between each two lines of troops. the +“a splendid reply!” said napoleon. “young man, you will go far!” +“a splendid soldier, splendid! ‘what am i attached to!’ ha, ha, +as possible to conceal his own part in the improvements that had been +as reported by the division commanders, ostermann and sedmorétzki, and +as serene as if all this were happening at home awaiting peaceful +as she became animated the prince looked at her more and more sternly, +as she named the empress, anna pávlovna’s face suddenly assumed an +as she rose to go to her own room. +as she sat in her room. but owing to the superstition that the fewer +as she was crossing the anteroom she saw through the window a carriage +assiduity of its commander the regiment, in comparison with others that +assigned to cavalry-captain denísov, the squadron commander, known +assigned to the commander of the pávlograd regiment in which rostóv +as something generally known. but it was the first time he had heard +as soon as all is over,” and prince vasíli sighed to intimate what he +as soon as he learned that the russian army was in such a hopeless +as soon as nicholas entered, he was enfolded in that poetic atmosphere +as soon as the singing was over, another and another toast was proposed +assumed a dignified expression, which with characteristic tact she had +assuming quite the pose of a society woman (heaven knows when and where +assured himself from the way rostóv looked at it that his coat had been +“a staff officer was here a minute ago, but skipped off,” said an +a star-shaped light. at one side of the table was a small carpet with +as the “angel incarnate.” +as the bearers, among whom was anna mikháylovna, passed the young man +“as the enemy’s left wing rests on wooded hills and his right +as the guest of honor, to enter first. bagratión was embarrassed, not +as their officer—all looked at their commander like children in an +“as there’s no one to fall in love with on campaign, he’s fallen +as the right flank would probably not be able to withstand the enemy’s +as they enjoyed their rhine wine, sauté, and ices, and however they +as they have heard it described by others, and as sounds well, but not +as they said in moscow society. he seemed to be condescending to +as they watched their young people executing their newly learned steps, +as this Ápsheron battalion marched by, the red-faced milorádovich, +as though running away from some danger, and, making long, quick strides +a storm at the square, cut his way in, slashed right and left, how his +a story, heard from her aunt but finished in her own way, which she +a stout major was pacing up and down the line, and regardless of the +“as to your business,” prince andrew continued, addressing borís, +a strange caprice of his employer’s was admitted to table though the +a strange feeling of exasperation and yet of respect for this man’s +a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of +a suffering child and to wring her little hands even with some +as was his custom when at home—taking leave of a good-looking, +as we are masters of ulm, we cannot be deprived of the advantage of +as well as that the french were outflanking our left. the general +as were all the words he spoke that day, and count ilyá looked joyfully +as when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters +as with his feet. +asylums, and schools were to be established on all the estates. some of +as you and princess mary call it, are the chief source of all error and +as you may, always remain the same backs and foreheads.” +as young bezúkhov! yes, i pity him from my heart, and shall try to give +as young people often do. “no, i am too happy now to spoil my +“as you please... really... i think so... but as you please,” said +“as you see,” he said. +as ze sanctity of its alliances...” he spoke this last word with +at?” +at a command, everyone began to run. +at a full gallop so that he outstripped the others. ahead, the enemy was +at all as i ran,” thought prince andrew—“not as we ran, shouting +at all as it really was. rostóv was a truthful young man and would on +at all. he said to me, ‘i am sorry i can do so little for you, dear +at all like the conduct of a great man!” +a tall, stout, and proud-looking woman, with a round-faced smiling +at anna pávlovna’s, that it would be difficult to get rid of anna +at any of them but smiling on all, as if graciously allowing each the +at any rate his light-blue eyes gazed for about two seconds into +at a soldier in the ranks of the third company in a greatcoat of bluish +at a soldier who lay prone, with blood on his uncovered head. the +at bagratión over each other’s shoulders, as if he were some rare +at bald hills, prince nicholas andréevich bolkónski’s estate, the +at bald hills with his wife. this pleasure will be but a brief one, +at balls, amiably smiling in the society of the most brilliant women, +“at boss zides, captain,” he heard the voice of the colonel, who, +at dawn on the sixteenth of november, denísov’s squadron, in +at daybreak on the seventeenth, a french officer who had come with +at dinner anna mikháylovna talked the whole time about the war news +at dinner, conversation turned on pierre’s marriage. +at dólokhov and his eyes dropped, the something terrible and monstrous +at each alternate step; and in time to this, with stern but varied +at ease by him, “but i hope i have not offended you. i always make it +at eight o’clock in the morning +at eight o’clock kutúzov rode to pratzen at the head of the fourth +a terrible thing! quelle terrible chose que la guerre!” +a tête-à-tête talk with the friend of her childhood, princess anna +at first he heard the sound of indifferent voices, then anna +at first impossible to enter the drawing room door for the crowd of +at first irregularly at varying intervals—trata...tat—and then more +at first prince andrew read with his eyes only, but after a while, +at five in the morning it was still quite dark. the troops of the +at her reflection in the glass. “she flatters me,” thought the +at her reproachfully. “and who is it she takes after?” thought the +at her timidly over his spectacles, and like a hare surrounded by hounds +at him. after this volley the regimental commander clutched at his leg; +a third, count arakchéev, if his nerves were not too weak.” +at his estate. as regularity is a prime condition facilitating activity, +at his hesitation and, trying to arouse his former devotional feeling, +at his own sensibility, when princess mary entered. he hurriedly took a +at his partner with a merry and triumphant air, suddenly stamped with +at home again. he felt that he had grown up and matured very much. his +at home, they had not yet gone to bed. the young people, after returning +a threatening gesture. “if the purse isn’t found i’ll flog you, +a thud. denísov rode past him, leaning back and shouting something. +at intervals, and the bullets passed somewhere in the fog singing in +at intervals the bugle calls and the shouts of the enemy could be heard +at irregular intervals as before, followed by one or two cannon shots, +at krems excited but not weary, with dispatches from dokhtúrov to +at kutúzov’s. +at last anna mikháylovna, still with the same expression, pale but +at last seizing a soldier by his collar he forced him to answer. +“at least, change your coiffure,” said the little princess. +at markóv, probably expecting markóv to pick it up for him, and how +atmosphere characteristic of homes where there are very young and very +atmosphere made itself so strongly felt in the rostóvs’ house as at +atmosphere of a large and active town which is always so attractive to a +atmosphere of an army, announcing the approach of something decisive + at nighttime in the moon’s fair glow +at once transferred to the guards as a cornet, had been educated from +at once, when she heard the young man’s discreet steps approaching +at one another. +at one another, and all pressed toward the exit from the bridge. +“at one draught, or he loses!” shouted a fourth. +at one of the post stations he overtook a convoy of russian wounded. +a toy, seeing the effect these prearranged receptions had on pierre, +at prince andrew and did not even nod to him. +at prince andrew, evidently considering something. +at prince andrew with cool intensity, walking straight toward him and +a treat to her guests. as a clever maître d’hôtel serves up as a +a trembling hand placed a charge in the cannon’s mouth. the short, +“a trifle,” said the colonel in his bass voice: “two hussars +a truce and sent his adjutant to kutúzov to report the offer he had +a truce was kutúzov’s sole chance of gaining time, giving +at schön grabern, what shall we not do now when he is at the front? we +“at seven o’clock, i believe.” +“at seven o’clock? it’s very sad, very sad!” +at six in the evening, kutúzov went to the emperor’s headquarters +at someone unseen. “mr. pitt, as a traitor to the nation and to the +attacked the men collecting wood in the copse. it was no longer possible +“attack indeed!” said the colonel in a bored voice, puckering up his +attack instead of being attacked, and so render the whole of this +attack our headquarters, and the commander in chief has to ask for a +attacks. both generals are angry, and the result is a challenge on +attacks the prussians. the prussians are our faithful allies who have +attack very long. about túshin and the battalion that had been in +attained. +attain that knowledge and are still infinitely far from our aim; but +attempt at familiarity on the part of the russian messenger. +attendance on him, to the enemy camp. wintzingerode was not merely +“attendez,” said anna pávlovna, reflecting, “i’ll speak to +attend to the voice of their commander, or would they, disregarding him, +attention. +attention. dohktúrov, a little man, sat opposite weyrother, with +attention. he looked now at the pratzen heights, now at the sun floating +attention. he screwed up his eyes showing that he was listening. +attention. napoleon apparently remembered seeing him on the battlefield +attention of all to borís’ narrative was shown by hélène. she asked +“att-ention!” shouted the regimental commander in a soul-shaking +attention to her severe remark—and began to laugh. she laughed, and in +attention to his story. +attention to something within her that is only seen in pregnant women, +attention to the verses. +attentively to bagratión’s colloquies with the commanding officers +attentively to what prince vasíli said, but kept glancing at princess +attentive to him. count cyril vladímirovich is your godfather after +at that instant the sun began to hide behind the clouds, and other +at that moment anna pávlovna came up and, looking severely at pierre, +at that moment, as the horse guards, having passed him, disappeared in +at that moment borís clearly realized what he had before surmised, that +at that moment made itself felt. +at that moment, on the road from the town on which signalers had been +at that moment the door opened. +at that moment, with noiseless footsteps and with the businesslike, +at that time, a very high ruffle, and a brown dress coat. this stout +at that time in the rostóvs’ house there prevailed an amorous +at the appointed hour the prince, powdered and shaven, entered the +at the arkhárovs’ ball, talked about the war with field marshal +at the beautiful hélène with her radiant face and at the red, broad, +at the beginning of march, old count ilyá rostóv was very busy +at the bottom of the sleigh beside rostóv, who grew more and more +at the cadet’s troubled face. +at the club dinner. +at the council—the coming battle and the victory that would certainly +at the door,” and natásha ran across the drawing room to the dancing +at the door prince andrew and the figure of the old man in a white +at the doors, but after all he did at last enter first. he walked shyly +at the faces of his suite, young and animated as his own. czartorýski, +at the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our +at the french. +at the front an altercation occurred between an austrian guide and a +at the head of a movement that had already become unrestrainable. he was +at the least firing. the emperor’s gratitude was announced to the +at the levee prince andrew stood among the austrian officers as he had +at them. +at them and hack them to pieces, their proximity now seemed so awful +at the map, but at prince andrew’s face. +at the men’s end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. +at the moment the door opened and the stranger came in, pierre felt a +at the olmütz review he had seemed more majestic; here he seemed +at the period of youth when there seems so much to do that there is no +at the razumóvski’s ball ... and countess apráksina ... i was +at the sight of the letter red patches showed themselves on the +at the soldiers as if threatening to punish them. cadet mirónov ducked +at the soldiers who were blocking his way. “hi there, boys! keep to +at the sound and then, smiling at his own sensations, stood still. the +at the steaming boiler, waiting till the sample, which a quartermaster +at the very instant he did this and uttered those words, pierre felt +at the world is so opposed to yours that we shall not understand one +at this a sudden change evidently took place in the princess’ ideas; +at this big, stout, quiet man, wondering how such a clumsy, modest +at this moment that terrible door, which pierre had watched so long +attire appeared at the door. willarski, stepping toward him, said +attitude toward him that had taken place in society. +“at what o’clock did the battle begin?” asked the emperor. +“at what o’clock was general schmidt killed?” +at which prince andrew had been when he examined the battlefield. +a type of face different from that of the men, squeezed his way along; +audible the whole length of the table. +audience over his spectacles and continued. +audiences, but he does not like talking himself and can’t do it, as +audience, which produced an effect unfavorable to the narrator. several +audience with the emperor francis occupied his thoughts. +auersperg was defending, and the bridge was not blown up: so murat +augesd. +aunt, anna pávlovna mentioned each one’s name and then left them. +aunt as she conducted him to her. +auntie anna mikháylovna told me, under the seal of strict secrecy, of +“auntie, darling, do tell me what it is!” +aunt,” or “you do not know my aunt?” and very gravely conducted +aunt without waiting to hear her speech about her majesty’s health. +“au revoir! thank you very much. his majesty will probably desire to +austerlitz, borís was unable to see either prince andrew or dolgorúkov +austrian adjutant, bilíbin, and last night’s conversation. having +austrian and russian troops, both those freshly arrived from russia and +austrian army of ulm. they are the same battalions you broke at +austrian council of war at which suvórov crowed like a cock in reply to +austrian general, continuing to read, frowned angrily and jerked his +austrians, and all at once discovered from the cannon balls discharged +austrian, to report and explain, and to his headquarters where he had +austrian troops, under the direction of so skillful a leader as general +austria,” said mortemart. “the emperor of austria can never have +authorities to secure advantageous means of communication for herself +authority in his voice. “who invented him, if he did not exist? whence +author: leo tolstoy +a very bad way of deciding whether a battle was won or lost. those who + * “a very good morning! a very good morning!” +a very long time. “if anyone finds this silence inconvenient, let him +a victory over bonaparte, just when i’m not serving. yes, yes, he’s +a vigorous attack on the orator. +a visit. “i am starting on a journey of inspection, and of course i +“a visitor,” answered antón. +avoid doing certain things, and speak french. he was one of those, +avoided looking at the young couple, and heedless and unobservant as +avoided the blow. “thought... blackguards...” shouted the prince +avoid general buxhöwden who by right of seniority should be our chief. +avoiding gardens and enclosures, going over new and unknown ground, and +avoid seeing all these suffering men, and he felt afraid—afraid not +awaited their fate. the firing died down and soldiers, talking eagerly, +awaiting a reply. he frowned. +aware of a stir all around. he looked up: dólokhov was standing on the +aware of his existence. at the quarters of the commander in chief, +aware of his weaknesses. +aware that in front, behind, and on all sides, other russian columns +away. +away. +away. +away. +away and he had just managed to catch her, “didn’t he tell you how +away at the dogs! but this sort of thing is the very devil, with them +away? but where to? it’s one—let them sing!” +away from her. “destroying the army, destroying the men! and why? go, +away from him. the alliance with prussia, austria’s treachery, +away her tears on her sister-in-law’s knee. +away. involuntarily recalling his wife’s past and her relations with +away with a grimace as if to say that everything dólokhov had said to +a week later pierre gave his wife full power to control all his estates +a week later, pierre, having taken leave of his new friends, the masons, +awful!” +awful...” and he burst into tears. +a whisper that the prince was sleeping, and hastily closed the door. +a white horse followed by his suite, and said something in passing: +a white uniform that looked strange among the russian black ones. the +a whole month and this is the first time i have seen him in society. +a wig, put his head out of the door of the antechamber, reported in +a wild beast.... in poland, if you please, he nearly killed a jew.” +awkward and uncomfortable, and her burden oppressed her now more than +awkwardness or intentionally (no one could have said which) after the +awkward to attract everyone’s attention and to be considered a +a woman and, like a chained convict, you lose all freedom! and all you +a word to the questions addressed to him. but on entering moscow he +a word to you and you... what?” he added with renewed irritation, “i +a worthy dwelling place of the great god,” he added, and closed his +a wrathful wrinkle on her rather prominent marble brow. with her +a yawn. “plenty of time,” he repeated. +a young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face +baby, an old woman, and a healthy german girl with bright red cheeks +back!” +back. +back.” +back, and bosom—which in the fashion of those days were very much +back, cadet!” he cried angrily; and turning to denísov, who, showing +back, “give me your hand.” she took her sister-in-law’s hand and +back her hair, kissed him full on the lips. +back to moscow. anatole kurágin’s father managed somehow to get his +back to the house. +backwards and forwards and was at last brought to the doors of the +“bad! bad!” exclaimed pierre. “we all know what is bad for +bad. but anatole was dumb, swung his foot, and smilingly examined the +“bad! but it’s not that, my friend—” said dólokhov with a +bad for another traveler, and for himself it’s unavoidable, because +badly—all this debauchery, dissipation, and the rest of it!” +badly through his spectacles, but that his wife’s connection with +“bad news! he’s not among the prisoners nor among the killed! +baggage and transport, having to accept battle on the march against an +baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling +baggage was already being dispatched to olmütz. near hetzelsdorf prince +bagratión.” +bagratión, a gaunt middle-aged man of medium height with a firm, +bagratión and dolgorúkov ride past with their adjutants. all the fear +bagratión appeared in the doorway of the anteroom without hat or sword, +bagratión as he shouted, with an expression that seemed to say: “we +bagratión bent his head in sign of agreement with what prince andrew +bagratión called to him, and túshin, raising three fingers to his cap +bagratión cast his large, expressionless, sleepy eyes round his suite, +bagratión gave no further orders and silently continued to walk on in +bagratión. his idea was, first, to concentrate all the artillery in the +bagratión, knowing bolkónski to be a favorite and trusted adjutant, +bagratión ordered two battalions from the center to be sent to +bagratión replied that he was not authorized either to accept or refuse +bagratión rode round the ranks that had marched past him and +bagratión’s detachment was reunited to kutúzov’s army. +bagratión’s exhausted troops some rest, and letting the transport and +bagratión’s hard brown face with its half-closed, dull, sleepy eyes. +bagratión stopped and, before replying, tried to see rostóv’s face +bagratión’s troops, which had not yet advanced into action but were +bagratión’s weak detachment on the znaim road he supposed it to be +bagratión. “wait till tomorrow morning, we’ll find out everything +bags into the carts, got their muskets ready, and formed rank. the +“bah! how they scurry. he just sends a ball and they think they’ll +bald head. +bald head, over which she again looked at the letter and the portrait, +bald hills. prince andrew, glancing at pierre, broke the silence now and +bald hills, while he himself needed no one and nothing. he used to +ball, cleaving the air, flew over the heads of bagratión and his suite, +ball flew past. evidently they were firing at the hussars, but the balls +ball flew past, rose in the stirrups and sank back again. the soldiers +ball, flying close to him, caused him to duck and bend over his horse. +ballroom. +balls! i can’t tell you. and the tsarévich was very gracious to all +ball was even happier. they were both dressed in white muslin with pink +bandage was again removed and more than ten voices said together: “sic +band, came up and in angry tones asked the artillerymen for water. +band struck up in the gallery, and the guests settled down in their +bandy-legged domestic serf in a peaked cap and sheepskin coat. +banging the table with a determined and drunken gesture and preparing to +bank by unseen hands. prince andrew and the officer rode up, looked at +bank, hesitating to step onto the ice. the general on horseback at the +banners, cannon, and two enemy generals. for the first time, after a +bare chest. he was conducted from that room along passages that turned +bare hand as red as his face. +baritone. +“baron funke has been recommended to the dowager empress by her +baron funke to be appointed first secretary at vienna? the baron by all +barrier except the barrier of his own will. +bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular façade +“bâton de gueules, engrêlé de gueules d’azur—maison condé,” +battalion and regimental commanders mounted, crossed themselves, gave +battalion came onto the bridge. only denísov’s squadron of hussars +battalion commanders who smilingly pressed forward (it was plain that +battalions and artillery pass by and go forward and then generals +battalion to disperse them. during one of these attacks they carried off +battalion would follow him. +batteries ranged on the slopes of the pratzen heights, directed at our +battery and the heroic endurance of captain túshin and his company,” +battery when two balls, and then four more, fell among our guns, one +battle. +battle, a list of whom has been sent me under flag of truce.” +battle, and by the sight of the gallant Ápsherons, his comrades in +battle and, in spite of the remonstrances of his courtiers, at twelve +battle and were engaged in peaceful occupations, the cavalry feeding the +battlefield.” +battle is won by him alone. kutúzov is removed and he is appointed... +battle,” replied márya dmítrievna’s deep voice, which easily +battle the soldiers excitedly try to get beyond the interests of their +be afraid.” +“be a man, my friend. i will look after your interests,” said she in +beaming smile to his head. +beams of mild and majestic light around, and already he felt himself +be announced had passed straight through the glass porch between the +be,” answered the princess joyfully. +be anyone’s lackey, but i who have nothing but my brains have to +be, anyway he is an honorable and brave old colonel! you’re quick at +bearers and the shuffling of their feet grew more hurried, as if the +bears!...” +bear the whole burden on his shoulders. fancy what he had to go through! +be at stake. but this one is too light, it’s not becoming!” +beaucoup d’estime, and again her face clouded over with sadness. +beautiful.” +beautiful bosom, on which she readjusted a diamond necklace. from time +beautiful eyes grew dim, red blotches came on her face, and it took +beautiful eyes. last night a proposition was made me on your account +beautiful head and looking over her classically molded shoulder as she +beautiful hélène, whose eyes several times met those of the handsome +beautiful, radiant eyes. it was as if joy—a supreme joy apart from the +“beautiful,” said the doctor in answer to a remark about the +beautiful young princess who was sitting some way off, the center of +beauty as she glided away. “and how she carries herself! for so young +be best described as strength of will. pierre was always astonished at +be better dressed than others, and would rather deprive himself of many +be brought here well wrapped up in felt. i must have two hundred pots +became quite pleasant again. +be carried back with it oneself. bolkónski only tried not to lose +be carried out, was forgotten. now, entering into weyrother’s plan, +because he could not. in the middle of a figure he beckoned to rostóv +because he rose superior to the revolution, suppressed its abuses, +because his line was not straight, he reached the third company. +“because i hate ghost stories,” said prince hippolyte in a tone +because it concerned not himself but another, his daughter, whom he +“because not everything happens as one expects or with the smoothness +“because when once a man starts on military service, he should try to +be clearly seen glittering as though freshly varnished. down below, +become a habit. schemes and devices for which he never rightly accounted +become calmer since i began to live only for myself.” +become completely changed, and had quite left behind his former habits +become cruel and harsh, are conscious of it, but cannot restrain +become habitual to him and, his handsome head held high, entered his +become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not +become of that scoundrel?” he asked denísov. +becomes a man who values his honor, perhaps too hastily, but we won’t +become thoroughly conversant with that unwritten code with which he had +be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will +bed. +be difficult to return to the old regime.” +be done; he felt that everybody, including his mother and sisters, was +bedouin twice and successfully put him to the showy trot in which the +be dozing. his head sank forward and then he roused himself. +bedroom. pierre did not eat anything though he would very much have +be easy, but here, in this wretched moravian hole, it is more difficult, +been able to free himself but that prince vasíli (who had rarely before +been attacked by french cavalry and that, though the attack had been +been bewildered. at that time, the russians were so used to victories +been brought up in the most aristocratic circles. +been composed in the turkish campaign and now being sung in austria, the +been destroyed or not. and if they have somehow been overlooked, you +been engrossed by the same thoughts ever since the day he returned from +been foreseen, the russian army of thirty-five thousand men commanded +been forwarded by courier to the commander in chief. +been intriguing!” +been looking at. +been minutely described. princess mary was sitting alone in her room, +been more amusing than the drawing room talk of society scandals, the +been put off,” said the prince, who, like a wound-up clock, by force +been ready, but they still delayed and all were silent. +been recommended to prince andrew he had already risen above the general +been refused. he asked in a hesitating, piteous voice. +been reprimanded on account of the blue greatcoat. +been so pleased at olmütz and according to which an ensign might rank +been taken by the french as a trophy.) +been telling us such a tale about mademoiselle george and buonaparte!” +been there at seven in the morning,” returned bilíbin with a smile. +been thinking about you.” +been told to, and the emperor francis merely looked fixedly into his +been trying first one remedy and then another. worn out by sleeplessness +been under fire already?” asked borís. +been unjust to the austrians and especially to weyrother. what +been up to heaven only knows what! and they have had to suffer for it. +been vicious only because he had somehow forgotten how good it is to +been waiting for.” and bursting into tears she hid her face in her +befallen his son. +before action which he had experienced as previously, all the inner +before?” and again he told himself that it was impossible, that there +before and the path to the hothouse, along which the prince was in the +before and was less frequently at home. +before anna pávlovna and the others had time to smile their +before coming to the dinner he had had his hair and whiskers trimmed, +before dawn he had slept for a few hours, and refreshed, vigorous, and +before dinner, princess mary and mademoiselle bourienne, who knew +before five in the evening the battle had been lost at all points. more +before going down she went into the room where the icons hung and, her +before. having taken a kerchief from the cupboard, willarski bound +before he could reach znaim. hence bagratión with his four thousand +before he had reached the embankments that were being thrown up, he saw, +before he reached him, rostóv, who was a splendid horseman, spurred +before him but the motionless earth and the stubble around him. there +before him, on the right, rostóv saw the front lines of his hussars and +before him. the french had advanced nearest on our right. below the +before his shelter, had been tasted. +before. “how often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? i am +before. it was a german cart with a pair of horses led by a german, and +before it was halted facing the enemy. again, as at the enns bridge, +before krems was really of small importance in view of such events as +before, or am i mistaken now? no, she is not stupid, she is an excellent +before prince andrew could finish, an aide-de-camp came in to summon +before returning to bilíbin’s prince andrew had gone to a bookshop +before rostóv had time to make out what the black thing was that had +before the battle, the figure of the insignificant little napoleon, and +before the heights on which the russian batteries stood guarding the +before the jews.” +before the master arrived. everywhere preparations were made not for +before the usual term and has proposed to me to be your sponsor. i +before they reached the room from which the sounds of the clavichord +before with proposals and demands for him to join up with the army of +before yesterday during my daily walk through the village i witnessed a +began. +began crossing himself with the hand that held the taper. +began for the first, second, and third columns, which had gone down into +began popping corks and filling the champagne glasses. after the fish, +began reading. the old prince, now and then using abbreviations, wrote +began riding downhill to where the roll of musketry was heard but where +began speaking clearly and definitely. reasons were found for the +began. “they’ll be announcing that the gentlemen are in the drawing +began to arrive; and slowly turning her eyes from the visitor to her +began to be said. these reasons were the treachery of the austrians, a +began to devise and carry out a plan of how princess mary should be +began to wail like a baby without knowing why, except that sónya was +began, with a blush that looked very strange on her thin, dignified, +beg—i’ll take it!” +begin,” he whispered, and taking up his glass, he rose. all were +beginning of the action.) “i think i sent you?” he added, turning to +beginning to feel for the pretty and provocative mademoiselle bourienne +begin the engagement. +begin, when did it all come about?” and here he was sitting by her +begun to think of the last station and was still pondering on the same +beg you to dress your men decently.” +behaving himself, and in general...” +behaving with borís.” +behavior to women anatole had a manner which particularly inspires in +behind. and now here we stand hungry.” +behind each chair—stood waiting for the prince to enter. the head +behind her back. the french doctor held no taper; he was leaning +behind him. +behind him bondarchúk, an hussar he knew, jolted against him and looked +behind him stood the aide-de-camp, the doctors, and the menservants; +behind moved infantry. the commander in chief was standing at the end of +behind. one of them said something strange, not in russian. in among the +behind the chair, held it in position. by the chair stood the priests, +behind the emperor. the Ápsheron men, excited by the tsar’s presence, +behind the guns were their limbers and still farther back picket ropes +behind them, another fell in front and splashed dólokhov with blood. +behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed +being (and which struck pierre especially by contrast with his own +being carried by. she looked out. the men servants were carrying the +being imposed on him which he could not fulfill, and pleased him as an +being moved, and the probing of his wound at the dressing station. +being rose in her imagination, and carried her into a totally different +being said, thought, and felt that day by its rider. +being told she sat upright, glancing now at her beautiful round arm, +being too much loved; and besides, you are free, you could throw it +believed he would be reborn to a new life. +believe everything you’re told. you were told...” hélène laughed, +“believe me, prince, a mother’s heart will never forget what you +“believe me, princess, i am ready to do all i can,” answered prince +“believe me,” said prince dolgorúkov, addressing bagratión, “it +believes, in the speaker’s tone of conviction and earnestness, or +bells rang, the stewards rushed forward, and—like rye shaken together +below. +below the shoulder. pierre went with anna mikháylovna into the small +below, where the fight was beginning, there was still thick fog; on the +bending forward in his armchair he said: “le roi de prusse!” and +bending his forehead to hers just touched it, and pressed her hand so +beneath his dignity to give me satisfaction, then...” +beneath his smile rostóv saw in him the mood he had shown at the club +bent arm to márya dmítrievna. he drew himself up, a smile of debonair +be. of the four crystal glasses engraved with the count’s monogram +be out of your way! do go somewhere, anywhere... to the devil!” he +be overthrown by the angel whom it has pleased the almighty, in his +be parted from her) would be gained, so pacifying himself with this +“be quiet, backbiter!” said dolgorúkov. “it is not true; there +be ready to fulfill his will.” with this consoling thought (but +berg always spoke quietly, politely, and with great precision. his +berg as much as you please,” she finished quickly. +berg put on the cleanest of coats, without a spot or speck of dust, +berg smiled joyously. the count, followed by his guests, went into the +berg took the opportunity to ask, with great politeness, whether, as was +berg was mentioned, by those who did not know him, as having, when +be seen from the hill on the opposite bank but was not yet visible from +be shaken in her determination. +beside hélène. “this happiness is not for you,” some inner voice +beside him and was listening naïvely to his words. +beside him. “that must be the enemy’s camp!” +beside him. this hussar, with a grave face and without a smile or a +besides! but don’t let’s talk about me; tell me how you managed +“besides how can i ask the emperor for his instructions for the right +“besides that, peter nikoláevich, by exchanging into the guards +besides this refined selection of society anna pávlovna’s receptions +“besides,” thought he, “all such ‘words of honor’ are +beside the bed. pierre obediently sat down, his eyes asking if he were +beside the farthest of the four unlimbered cannon. before the guns an +beside themselves over there and one can’t make anything out.” +beside the old prince. +beside whom sat only one elderly lady, who with her thin careworn face +best families in russia, but she was poor, and having long been out of +best of officers could do in his position, he was in a state akin to +bestowed on véra by nicholas, was considered very stinging), “and +be talked over at length. at last the conversation gradually settled on +be the best way.” +be they what they might. +be thus boldly, provocatively happy.” “and what nonsense all this is +betrayal of the bourbon cause. the sovereigns! why, they are sending +betraying by this desperate and provocative proposition his extreme +betraying her sympathy for the “daredevil,” as she called dólokhov. +better during those awful moments—the father who so remembered +better not look,” he thought, but having reached the bushes he glanced +between forefinger and thumb, and an old servant, bending over from +between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over +between his acts as a private person, as a general, and as an emperor. +between them gleamed blue infinity. he did not turn his head and did not +between three and four o’clock in the afternoon prince andrew, who +be very glad to do all in my power both for you and for this dear young +be virtuous. not a trace of his former doubts remained in his soul. he +bewildered him with fine words, and he is so flattered by his rapidly +bewildered look and passed by without a word. a woman rushed out and +be worthy of her. and that is what we shall see.” +beyond ceremonies and meaningless prayers and are now instructed in +bezúkhova. but you will understand that i have no desire for the post. +bezúkhov’s house that night had gathered to fortify themselves. +big people i write a note: ‘princess so-and-so desires an interview +bilíbin and the rest of “ours” burst out laughing in hippolyte’s +bilíbin, “as you know, my dear prince, i never leave headquarters. i +bilíbin came out to meet him. his usually calm face showed excitement. +bilíbin introduced him to the others. +bilíbin. “it’s not treachery nor rascality nor stupidity: it is +bilíbin liked conversation as he liked work, only when it could be +bilíbin’s house thinking out a letter to his father about the battle +bilíbin’s letter which was written in french. he read without +bilíbin smiled and the wrinkles on his face disappeared. +bilíbin was a man of thirty-five, a bachelor, and of the same circle as +bilíbin was now at army headquarters in a diplomatic capacity, and +bilíbin), what he had read began to interest him more and more. when he +bit and i’ll get round him.... listen! i’ll take your bet tomorrow, +biting her underlip. at sight of pierre her expression showed an +black-agate eyes at the frightened and happy natásha. +blackest ingratitude—in this house...” +black figures of hussars, but in the distance was still the same misty +blame. the troops meanwhile stood growing listless and dispirited. after +bleed him and patch him up. he will drag about as a cripple, a burden to +bleeding hand with a handkerchief tied round it) “and i remained at +bleeding head and no cap was being dragged along by two soldiers who +blindfolded) questioned him as to who he was, when and where he was +blinked, went red, got up and sat down again, struggling with himself +blissful face “like a vewy devil,” as denísov expressed it. +blockhead!” +blocking the way for everyone. the countess tried to make him talk, +blood from it was streaming over his greatcoat as from a bottle. he had +blood on it. “ah, here are people coming,” he thought joyfully, +blood. on seeing this, pierre moved forward with his breast toward the +blood rush to his heart and had again to get up and move about and break +blood rush to his heart. “but where and how will my toulon present +blood was gushing from its leg as from a spring. among the limbers lay +blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and +blue-striped feather bed and hugging her friend. with an effort sónya +blush. +blushing. +blushing: +blushing and dropping her eyes. +blushing—“of asking the commander in chief. he has had a letter from +bodice, with black curls tossed backward, thin bare arms, little legs +body. drowsiness was irresistibly mastering him, but he kept awake by +body was strikingly out of proportion to her short legs. prince vasíli +bogdánich knows how things are done.” +bogdánich was a brick: he told you you were saying what was not true. +bogdánovna. +bogdánovna advised prince andrew to leave the room. +boguchárovo lay in a flat uninteresting part of the country among +bold forehead that bent over her hand and answered his question by +boldly, “if you wish to refuse one who is not only a brilliant and +boldly, with saucy gaiety, confident that her prank would be taken in +bold, tall, close handwriting. +bolkónskaya, very pretty and rosy, though rather too plump for her age. +“bolkónski! bolkónski!... don’t you hear? eh? come quick...” he +“bolkónski!” he whispered, his voice trembling from a consciousness +bolkónski in order to arrange a match for him with the daughter of that +bolkónski noticed the hussar’s state of mind, and it amused him. with +bolkónski, opposite which hung another such frame with a badly painted +bolkónski recognized prince repnín whom he had met in petersburg +bolkónski referred to anatole as a “pupil”) “for the sake of my +bolkónski shrugged his shoulders. +bolkónski that the emperor desired to give him an audience. the emperor +bolkónski, the little princess’ husband. he was a very handsome young +bolkónski took the opportunity to go in to get some details of the +bolkónski, turning still paler, pushed him away with an angry look and +bolkónski, very modestly without once mentioning himself, described the +bolkónski was invited everywhere, and had to spend the whole morning +bolkónski, who spoke with suppressed agitation. +bolkónski, wishing to profit by his friendliness and obtain for himself +bonaparte!” +bonaparte, and how badly the latter would fare now, especially if the +“bonaparte...” began dólokhov, but the frenchman interrupted him. +“bonaparte has said so,” remarked prince andrew with a sarcastic +bonaparte, having come up at a gallop, stopped his horse. +bonaparte like? how did he impress you?” +bonaparte’s adjutant rode full gallop with this menacing letter to +bonaparte’s new triumph, tomorrow’s levee and parade, and the +bonaparte’s side.” +bonaparte, that they desire to see prince auersperg, and so on. the +bonaparte, ‘that your majesty should be received and treated in my +bonaparte, there is a difference,” remarked bolkónski. +bonaparte was anathematized and in moscow nothing but the coming war +bookcases with keys in the locks, the high desk for writing while + book eight: 1811 - 12 + book eleven: 1812 + book fifteen: 1812 - 13 + book five: 1806 - 07 +book five: 1806 - 07 + book four: 1806 +book four: 1806 + book fourteen: 1812 +book from the high desk. +book had been sent him by someone unknown. one thing he continually + book nine: 1812 + book one: 1805 +book one: 1805 + book seven: 1810 - 11 + book six: 1808 - 10 + book ten: 1812 + book thirteen: 1812 + book three: 1805 +book three: 1805 + book twelve: 1812 + book two: 1805 +book two: 1805 +boots and the clinking of spurs that came to a stop, and a respectful +boots between the dining and drawing rooms, hastily greeting the +boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers. +bore almost the same smile, expressing unseemly thoughts about the +borís. +borís also,” she went on, gaining a little strength; “he is nice... +borís and borís was to forward them to nicholas. the letters were from +borís blushed. +borís bowed again politely. +borís bowed politely. prince vasíli without acknowledging the bow +“borís, come here,” said she with a sly and significant look. “i +borís felt that pierre did not recognize him but did not consider +borís followed her, smiling. +borís, grown more manly and looking fresh, rosy and self-possessed, +borís. “he wanted to thank you himself.” +borís inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without +borís knew nothing about the boulogne expedition; he did not read the +borís listened attentively to each of the speakers, awaiting his turn, +borís looked attentively and kindly at her eager face, but did not +borís made a grimace. +borís, or between you two? it’s all nonsense!” +borís paused in the middle of the room, looked round, brushed a little +borís promised to fulfill her wish and was about to begin a +borís quietly left the room and went in search of natásha. the plump +borís received no clear explanation of why it had been necessary for +borís rose to meet rostóv, but in doing so did not omit to steady and +borís said no more, but looked inquiringly at his mother without taking +“borís,” she said to her son with a smile, “i shall go in to see +borís smiled, as if he understood what prince andrew was alluding to +borís smiled circumspectly, so that it might be taken as ironical +borís to tell them about his journey to glogau and in what state he +borís was excited by the thought of being so close to the higher powers +borís with a smile. +borís with severity. “i am glad.... are you here on leave?” he went +borís with the happy smile seen on the faces of young men who have been +born, and so on. then he was again led somewhere still blindfolded, +bóry, who had only just entered a regiment of the line and was being +bosom as it rose and fell. +both armies should remain in position without moving. murat declared +both began to cry and kissed again. mademoiselle bourienne also began to +both knew, an expression thoughtful and sad. this expression in princess +both kurágin and dólokhov were at that time notorious among the rakes +both laughed. +both were silent. +both were silent. there were two germans and a russian officer in the +bottle. i’ll do it.... bring a bottle!” +bottles, cloaks, and overshoes were lying about; there was a smell of +bottles of wine with him and, despite the jolting ruts across the +boulogne expedition. +bourienne aroused her. she raised her eyes, and two steps away saw +bourienne flushed, and gave the princess a frightened look. +bourienne had long been waiting for a russian prince who, able to +bourienne. i embrace you as i love you. +bourienne—i shall have to get rid of her. and how is it she has not +bourienne. princess mary felt his look with a painfully joyous emotion. +bourienne rapidly, in her pleasant mellow tones and with guttural r’s. +bourienne’s head at the very time she was talking to anatole about +bourienne. though in the new reign he was free to return to the +bourienne, unfolding her white napkin with her rosy fingers. “his +bourienne was often touched to tears as in imagination she told this +bourienne were already awaiting him together with his architect, who by +bourienne. when she entered with her heavy step, treading on her heels, +bourienne who had not yet seen her. +bourienne with a radiant face that said: “i know nothing, i am the +bourienne, with her ribbon and pretty face, and her unusually animated +bowed head. +bowed his head in sign of assent and approval. he rode off at a walk to +bows and trying to escape as quickly as possible from the glances fixed +boy ran after them angrily, as if vexed that their program had been +boy... the countess... promoted to be an officer... thank god... how +brag about it, but if he stays out till morning it means he’s lost and +braggart and his son, no doubt, is a fine specimen,” he grumbled to +brain—that’s all that’s left me!” and at the same time he said +brandishing the slab. +braunau had halted half a mile from the town, waiting to be inspected +brave?” +brave officer,” thought bagratión. prince andrew, without replying, +breast with the other hand and to repeat after someone who read aloud +breath and beating heart he moved toward the rhetor (by which name the +breathing, her movements, her beauty. then it would suddenly seem to him +breeches and arm. +brick buildings, built to plan, were being built by serfs whose manorial +bridge because he had not brought any burning straw with him like the +bridge. but this time nesvítski could not see what was happening there, +bridge, cross it, and now with their whole army are on this side of the +bridge did not take his eyes off the women till they had passed. when + * bridgehead. +bridge is taken! but what is best of all,” he went on, his excitement +bridge nesvítski found the colonel to whom he had to deliver the order, +bridge not knowing what to do. there was no one to hew down (as he +bridge. sometimes through the monotonous waves of men, like a fleck of +bridge was at times veiled by a diaphanous curtain of slanting rain, and +bright and happy eyes at her sister-in-law. +brightening up. +brighter and more energetic. he was slightly flushed after galloping two +bright home, his fluffy fur coat, his quickly gliding sleigh, his +brightly upon the danube and the dark hills around it. it was calm, and +bright. sónya ran away, but natásha, taking her brother’s arm, led +bright, sparkling blue eyes into his antagonist’s face. his mouth wore + bring glory then to alexander’s reign +bring himself to part from his daughter and give her to a husband. the +bring him to thee, could take him by the hand and show him to thee. but +bring me such tattered and dirty notes as last time, but nice clean ones +briskly from corner to corner of the room, looking straight before him +broad cheekbones, sunken cheeks, and listless tired expressions, and +broken glass remained in that position without taking his eyes from the +broken leg, that lay screaming piteously beside the harnessed horses. +broken off, the porch, and the post by the side of the pavement. he +broke up two squares, your excellency.” +brother, and that anna mikháylovna was preparing them for it. bold as +brother a small, oval, antique, dark-faced icon of the saviour in a gold +brother hippolyte told me about your goings on. oh!” and she shook her +brotherhood has made application for you to be received into our order +brotherhood of man,” he kept saying to himself, associating these +“brother-instructor” as he called the grand master. +brotherly love, wagged their heads in token of their mutual affection, +brother rhetor, and awaited his further commands. +brothers, and burned with impatience to set to work with them. +brothers more worthy than he would test him and that pierre had only to +brother who prepared a seeker for entrance into the brotherhood was +brought at once?” +brought from italy, representing an angel with outspread wings ready to +brought his snuffbox to rest and, without looking at weyrother or at +brought into the room had vanished; and as if answering a question no +brought into wischau from our outposts. this officer was savary. the +brows he glanced into rostóv’s eyes. +brunette with a tender look in her eyes which were veiled by long +bugler, showed one common expression of conflict, irritation, and +buildings—schools, hospitals, and asylums—on all the estates +build prince andrew could endure physical fatigue far better than many +built in order to have a nook of one’s own in which to be quiet. and +built lodge close to the pond. antón, a man who had looked after prince +bullets. they reached the front, several bullets sped over them, and +bully,” thought pierre, “to kill a man means nothing to him. it must +“buonaparte himself!... just listen to the fool, what he doesn’t +“buonaparte?” said bilíbin inquiringly, puckering up his forehead +buonapartes. but i warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, +“buonaparte was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. he has got +burden to him, and bóry’s life is only just beginning....” +burn, i could not know by the holy spirit!” +burnt his boats, and i believe that we are ready to burn ours.” +bursts of song and music and the inconsequent but friendly prattle of +business!” +bustlingly searching for something. + * “busy already?” +busy, and busy making his father comfortable, while evidently he, +busy with his roast meat, hoped he had been forgotten: “didn’t +busy with similar peaceful affairs—near the shelter of the regimental +but also for his skill in dealing and conversing with those in the +but although alpátych, frightened at his own temerity in avoiding the +“but am i not too cold with him?” thought the princess. “i try +but an hour.... tell me all you know about the will, and above all where +but anna mikháylovna did not obey him. +but anna mikháylovna went forward a step or two to keep her hold on the +but anna pávlovna—who was in the excited condition of a commander on +but a roll of volleys of musketry from the slopes of the hill before +but as a youth in love trembles, is unnerved, and dares not utter the +but, as he had to say something, he began by asking her whether she was +“but as it is, i know every word she utters. she will come running to +but as she passed the sitting room she noticed two couples sitting, +but as sorrow was manifest in every smile, the sound of every word, and +“but as you are a philosopher, be a consistent one, look at the other +but at irregular intervals, and grapeshot cracked and rattled onto the +but attacked and captured by a superior enemy force as a result of one +but at that instant a tall austrian general in a greatcoat, with the +but at that moment the thought occurred to her that her fate would be +but at the incredible boldness and smartness of this little girl who had +but at the moment when he imagined himself calmed by such reflections, +“but a very kind man, prince,” said anna mikháylovna with a +but before he had finished reading, a stentorian major-domo announced +but before he had finished speaking, prince andrew, feeling tears of +but before pierre could decide what answer he would send, the countess +but before prince vasíli had finished his playful speech, pierre, +“but between not recognizing him as emperor and calling him general +but borís again interrupted him. +but borís... no!” (she shut her eyes.) “no! there’s nothing at +but borís noticed that he was preparing to make fun of berg, and +but borís spoke distinctly, clearly, and dryly, looking straight into +but dólokhov did not go away; he untied the handkerchief around his +“but don’t hurt my little horse!” said the alsatian good-naturedly +“but do you know, my dear, that was a capital joke,” said the count; +but enough of gossip. i am at the end of my second sheet of paper, and +but evidently the crisis was over and he was convalescent. prince andrew +but extremely attractive. +“but for god’s sake, be careful, you know how it may affect your +but god will support you: you are young, and are now, i hope, in command +but had never spoken to her of love. now he felt that it was inevitable, +but had on one of her best dresses. her hair was carefully done and her +but haste was becoming imperative. cannon and musketry, mingling +but he could not make up his mind to take the final step. he felt +but he did not explain to himself what these new relations were. +but he immediately recalled his promise to prince andrew not to go +“but he must be a freemason,” said he, referring to the abbé whom +but he scowled at her angrily though also with suffering in his eyes, +but he went on naïvely looking around through his spectacles as if in +but his aim to consider, and he reached it. but tie yourself up with +but his character...” said timókhin. +but hopeless: “the sovereigns, madame... what have they done for louis +“but how are you to get that balance?” pierre was beginning. +“but how is it the doctor from moscow is not here yet?” said the +“but how often i have felt proud of her, proud of her majestic beauty +but i am still so weak that i love my life, the meaning of which is only +but i do not believe it. i have no right to, and can’t, believe it.” +“but i do not know, father!” +“but if for any reason you don’t feel inclined to talk to me,” +“but if the bridge is crossed it means that the army too is lost? it +but if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed +“but if you won’t accept money from me like a comrade, you will +but i have killed her, killed... she won’t get over it! she won’t +“but i have nothing here,” replied pierre, supposing that he was +“but i just wish to say, to avoid misunderstandings, that you are +but in his usual impulsive and hearty way he took borís by the hand +but instead of the band a choir began singing a cantata composed by paul +but in the center where the men with a flag of truce had passed that +“but in what position are we going to attack him? i have been at the +“but in what was i to blame?” he asked. “in marrying her without +“but i remember putting it there.” +“but it can’t be he, alone in the midst of this empty field!” +but it is a beautiful voice that must be trained.” only they generally +“but it isn’t?...” +but it lifted all the more sweetly, and was especially charming when she +“but it must be brought to a head. the day after tomorrow will be +but it was too late. she was looking at them with an expression they +“but i wish it,” he said. “i beg you—give it him!” +“but joking apart,” said prince andrew, “do you really think the +but joyous and eager crowd down the hill at their disordered foe. +butler, napkin on arm, was scanning the setting of the table, making +but like a priest’s benediction, approached the general. though +but looked at him with a contemptuous smile, waiting for the valet to +but managed meanwhile to look round repeatedly at his neighbor, the +but milorádovich was at that moment evidently thinking of anything + * “but my dear fellow, with all my respect for the orthodox +“but, my dear monsieur pierre,” said she, “how do you explain the +“but, my dear princess,” answered anna mikháylovna blandly but +“but, my dear,” said prince vasíli suddenly, clutching the little +“but, my dear sir,” said nesvítski as he drew up, taking off his +“but, my poor catiche, it is as clear as daylight! he will then be the +but neither anna mikháylovna nor the footman nor the coachman, who +but not concealing the fact that she would not be distressed if they +“but nothing more would come of it. there will soon be a battalion of +“but now i am off at once.” +but now we are all going to ——’s.” + but oh! till then i cannot live!... +“but one cannot delay, prince, at such a moment! consider that the +but only a sort of puppet show at which the men of the day were playing, +but only changed character. the horses were replaced by others from a +but on the left flank the columns of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, +but on tuesday evening, having come to hélène’s splendid salon, +but our stories are the stories of men who have been under the enemy’s +but pierre continued his speech without heeding her. +but pierre thought it necessary to ask: “how is...” and hesitated, +“but, prince,” said anna mikháylovna, “after such a solemn +“but really, hadn’t i better go away?” he asked, looking kindly at +but remarked that besides these changes it would be necessary to go into +but rostóv did not reply. +but rostóv pulled away his arm and, with as much anger as though +but said, in a careless and even rude voice, that it happens to +“but seriously,” said prince andrew, “we can at any rate say +“but she’s stupid. i have myself said she is stupid,” he thought. +but she was too excited to eat anything and kept wriggling about on her +but shouldn’t we get the gypsy singers as well? you military men like +“but still this does not mean that the campaign is over,” said +“but tell me, what is he like, eh?” said prince andrew again. +“but that is my conviction, and judging by the last letter with which +“but that’s all rubbish,” natásha chattered on. “and is +“but that’s just the same as myself—they are not others,” +“but that’s the grand duke, and i want the commander in chief or the +“but the best of it was,” said one, telling of the misfortune of +but the convoyman took no notice of the word “general” and shouted +but the guns remained loaded, the loopholes in blockhouses and +but the officer thrashed him because he had to get on as quickly as +but the princess did not listen to him. +but the question “how?” that interested him. what the diplomatic +but these words came like a piteous, despairing cry and an entreaty for +but the smile did not enhance véra’s beauty as smiles generally do; +but the staff officer did not finish what he wanted to say. a cannon +but the talk in every group was chiefly about the emperor alexander. his +“but the worst of it, gentlemen—i am giving kurágin away to +“but they heard him at the council of war and will hear him when he +“but they say that war has been declared,” replied the visitor. +but those tears were pleasant to them both. +but to go home alone, see his sisters, brother, mother, and father, +but to help england and austria against the greatest man in the world is +button of his waistcoat. +but unabashed. +but went on turning uselessly in the same place. +“but what do you mean by living only for yourself?” asked pierre, +“but what have they been up to?” asked the countess. +“but what is there to say about me?” said pierre, his face relaxing + * “but what the devil was he doing in that galley?” +but when he reached it he found it was a road. having come out onto +but when katie brought the required dress, princess mary remained +“but where do you come from not to know what every coachman in the +“but where is sónya?” +but which possesses qualities resembling those of the symbol.” +“but why do you expect that he will leave us anything?” +“but why talk of me?... talk to me, yes, tell me about your travels +but why, whither, and who they were, it was impossible to make out. +“but with such ideas what motive have you for living? one would sit +but won’t you come to this other table?” repeated anna pávlovna. +but would probably never even inquire and would never know that the +“but you despise me. you who are so pure can never understand being so +“but you know how it all ended, don’t you? you heard of the duel?” +“but you know the wise maxim your excellency, advising one to expect +“but you meant to stay another two days?” +“but you must decide on something! your father expects it.” +buxhöwden is commander in chief by seniority, but general bennigsen +buxhöwden’s part and an epileptic fit on bennigsen’s. but at the +bwicks and it’s nasty work! an attack’s pleasant work! hacking +by a far more serious matter than a desire to show his contempt for +by a feeling of desire while stooping over the snuffbox at anna +by anna pávlovna, was about our diplomatic relations with austria and +by a scarlet-liveried footman that morning, ran as follows: +by bolkónski—an adjutant of kutúzov’s, who’s a friend of mine. +by borís arrived at the palace to find dolgorúkov. everyone at +by evening, the adjutants had spread it to all ends and parts of the +by finding husbands for me (most of whom i don’t even know), the +by her husband, mortemart, the delightful prince hippolyte who had +by highfalutin words, and germans by logical arguments to show them +by his age he should have belonged to the younger men, but by his wealth +by his home circle as the best of sons, a hero, and their darling +by its gray dress. “but no! why did this thought never occur to me +by kutúzov was hurriedly retreating along the danube, stopping where +by leo tolstoy/tolstoi +“by purifying and regenerating our members we try, thirdly, to improve +by six horses at a smart trot. behind the calèche galloped the suite +by someone’s order, the battery had continued firing and was only not +by the ammunition wagon. +by the amusing scene she foresaw. she drew her wool down through the +by the clatter of knives and forks, the voices of visitors, and the +by the commander in chief. despite the un-russian appearance of the +by the dim light, to which pierre had already become accustomed, he +by the disorderly movement of the russian columns, and from all +by the fire. one of them stumbled. +by the french who had crossed the vienna bridge, and encumbered by his +by their redness to contrast more than usual with his gray hair. at the +by the living mass of moving infantry, váska denísov, red and shaggy, +by the softness and flexibility of her small limbs, and by a certain +by the way, bagratión came out on the vienna-znaim road at hollabrünn +“by the way, your excellency, i should inform you,” he +by the whole of the count’s plump figure, in márya dmítrievna found +by this time they were all approaching túshin’s battery, and a ball +by those troops that they were themselves in the front line and had +by, tried to make a joke, saying that kutúzov had evidently failed to +by two considerations: his wife’s guilt, of which after his sleepless +by “what was due from the ryazán estate” prince vasíli meant +by which the prince was to enter. prince andrew was looking at a large +by which the total exceeded the round sum of forty-three thousand; and +cadet, supporting one hand with the other, came up to túshin and asked +cahd.” +calamity! what a calamity!” +calèche stopped in front of the regiment. kutúzov and the austrian +called everyone without exception and without the slightest variation +called her nephew—and playing with him. +called him a great man,” remarked the vicomte. +called him this morning?” +called the colonel of the regiment and said a few words to him. +call him but changed her mind. “let him look for me,” thought she. +calling him a court weathercock and an old satyr. +calling him in a whisper. +calling on the principal austrian dignitaries. between four and five +calls.’” +calm, and penetrating, a look i loved so well and seem to see before me +calmer. +“calm yourself, my dear. i will go to my father,” she said, and went +“calm yourself, princess! it seems so to you because.... i assure you +came a letter from kutúzov informing the prince of the fate that had +came a man wearing a strange shako and a blue cloak, swarthy, sunburned, +came and leaned on his elbows, facing her and beside mademoiselle +came galloping up on a cossack horse that could scarcely carry his +came in. +came in from his club, cheerful and contented. nicholas, hearing him +came márya dmítrievna and the count, both with merry countenances. the +came naturally to her, but was now very ill-suited to her careworn face. +came out—wearing a velvet coat with a single star on his breast, +came over his face. he said nothing to her but looked at her forehead +came, the pretty, fair-haired frenchwoman, mademoiselle bourienne, +came thy conception of the existence of such an incomprehensible being? +came together and crowded in the large drawing room by the door of the +came to his former chief with an order from the commander of the rear +came to the conclusion that he would not find bald hills dull either. +came to these balls with an air of condescension and found them most +came with the news that the prince could not attend. prince andrew came +campaign is over?” +campaign. the frenchman, confusing the austrians with the russians, was +canal. and there was the bear swimming about with the policeman on his +“can a sleigh pass?” he asked his overseer, a venerable man, +can both fall on his flank and pursue him over the plain between +candlesticks like those used in churches. two of the brothers led pierre +candles were relit and he was told that he would see the full light; the +“can he really be going away leaving me alone without having told me +can i retain in some degree of purity the liquid i receive.” +“can i see the count?” pierre again asked. +can it be possible?” she thought, not daring to look at his face, but +cannonade was dying down, but the rattle of musketry behind and on the +cannon aimed at me?” +cannon and the crowd were dragging it out. a cannon ball killed someone +cannon balls at the french with both hands. +cannon, was a small, newly constructed wattle shed from which came the +cannot attain the knowledge of which you speak.” +cannot, disappoint them. but how will it be? i do not know, but it +cannot know him. you do not know him and that is why you are unhappy.” +cannot leave the estate to pierre. pierre is illegitimate.” +“can one be well while suffering morally? can one be calm in times +can rush off alone in a carriage to moscow, to petersburg, to those +can say all this there,” remarked dolgorúkov. +can’t bear those old men! eh?” +can’t be done. and besides, if she tells mamma” (sónya looked upon +can’t be! only to get past them quicker, quicker!” +can’t, do what you will! how can i go and apologize like a little boy +can’t get them from anyone else. he’s not there himself, so you’ll +can’t understand. i was there all the time giving orders and had only +canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying +can, with all the pleasures of life here. if we were in vienna it would +can without hurting others.” +can you fancy the figure he cut?...” +“can you imagine it?” and he began describing how the guards, having +capable of receiving it. +cap and smoothing his hair wet with perspiration with his plump hand, +“capital!” said prince hippolyte in english, and began slapping his +capitals, he still continued to live in the country, remarking that +captain,” and he turned to a thin, dirty little artillery officer who +captain and his drawn-in stomach, and mimicked his expression and pose +“captain, for god’s sake! i’ve hurt my arm,” he said timidly. +captain, his nose growing redder as he gave a smile which showed where +“captain túshin’s, your excellency!” shouted the red-haired, +captain up and down as he came up panting, slackening his pace as he +captain von toll chanced to ride to the same spot, and seeing the +captured by the french because the enemy could not surmise that anyone +cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests +carabineers. +card game he was very fond of, was that of listener, especially when he +cardinal virtues in her gave her lessons in algebra and geometry +card, putting a small stake on it, and beginning to play. +cards and supper were over, but the visitors had not yet dispersed. +care about them in so far as they are harmful or useful. and most of +cared about; anna pávlovna observed these greetings with mournful and +carefully stretching his neck so as not to touch the quilt, followed her +carefully wrote twenty-one. +carelessly holding in his stallion that was neighing and pawing the +care, this was a mere stranger. glancing, however, at borís, he saw +carriage and rode up to dólokhov. +carriage, and the solitude of the road, all had a gladdening effect on +carriage at full speed about an hour before along that very road and +carriage. “get in with me,” said he to bolkónski. +carriage?” he asked his mother with a smile. +carriage, her husband was adjusting his saber; prince hippolyte, under +carriage, moved forward and, not noticing the general, looked out +carried away by passion. oh, only my poor mother...” +carried the sick man dispersed. anna mikháylovna touched pierre’s +carried the sovereign at reviews in russia bore him also here on the +carried the whole length of the table. +“carrot ices.” +carry him to the dressing station.” +carrying her burden so lightly. old men and dull dispirited young ones +carry out the count’s wishes, seeing clearly that not only would the +carry them out, so he takes a regiment, a division—stipulates that no +carts, guns, artillery, and again baggage wagons and vehicles of all +cart, shouting and scolding a soldier with coarse abuse. in each of +casement. the cold wind flapped the ends of her kerchief and her loose +cases only one goes wrong, but it is her fancy and mine. they have been +casket for mamma’s name day and then going home. i was so happy, so +catches it and obeying the impulse that wheel begins to creak and joins +“catch hold of my arm or you’ll drop him!” he heard one of the +catching and their sabers clattering. +catching the curtain of the cot. each made the other a warning gesture +cathedral, and its bridge, on both sides of which streamed jostling + *catherine. +catherine’s court, count bezúkhov. +catherine’s day, count bezúkhov, and about his illegitimate son +“catiche has had tea served in the small drawing room,” said prince +catiche,” * muttered the prince, seating himself wearily on the chair +caught up the object of contention and ran into the bedroom. the eldest +cause of the confusion, turned away with indifference, as if to say, +cautious movements of those who crowded round the invalid chair that +cavalry and here he noticed a stir and signs of preparation for battle; +cavalry in front, behind it the artillery, and behind that again the +cavalry was brought in, convoyed by a sótnya of cossacks. evidently the +celebrating awards they had received for the campaign, and made +censure, but asked him not to be too hard on the poor old man. “what +censured, should not be held to blame. +center, and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the +center of the table, prince vasíli attracted everybody’s attention. +center, the reserves, and bagratión’s right flank had not yet moved, +“cependant, mon cher,” he remarked, examining his nails from a +ceremonious welcomes (which he knew pierre would not like), but for just +“certainly; but about kutúzov, i don’t promise.” +“certainly he must be moved onto the bed; here it will be +certainly is communicated very surely, and flows rapidly, imperceptibly, +certainly should not, speak like that,” their glances seemed to say. +certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything i +certain. there’s lise, married to andrew—a better husband one would +“cette armée russe que l’or de l’angleterre a transportée des +chair, and began deliberately with a smile: +chair and pacing up and down the room followed by tíkhon, who ran after +chair, he drew up with a click of his spurs and bowed to her, natásha +chair regardless of her governess’ remarks. after dinner, she rushed +chair, wrapped in a powdering mantle, entrusting his head to tíkhon. +championship of the doctor’s wife in her queer trap might expose him +chance, letting the seven be dealt to 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back than across the shoulders. he had on a brand-new uniform +chief, and our first foe, buxhöwden, is vanquished; we can now turn +chief’s and with the exception of prince bagratión, who declined to +chief’s room. +chief steward wrote every year telling him of fires and bad harvests, +chief, your excellency?” said rostóv, with his hand to his cap. +child. “but no, it is impossible, i am too ugly,” she thought. +childhood. +childhood. +childhood and lived for years at a time. the guards had already left +childhood; that same julie karágina who had been at the rostóvs’ +child in a toyshop, did not know which way to look, afraid of missing +childish bare shoulders which after her run heaved and shook her +childlike smile which had not once appeared on his face since he left +childlike way through his spectacles. +children are the bane of my life. it is the cross i have to bear. that +children,” she said, in her loud, full-toned voice which drowned all +children. the german tutor was trying to remember all the dishes, wines, +child’s little chair while, frowning and with trembling hands, he +choice has fallen. i don’t know what you will think of it, but +choked him, and leaning his elbows on the window sill he began to cry, +choose. i give you freedom. only remember that your life’s happiness +chorus.” +chose and placed cards, and watched those broad-boned agile hands in the +“christ be with you!” kutúzov repeated and went toward his +christian...” +circumstances and persons he met. of these plans he had not merely one +circumstances, he nevertheless delivered the definite order that the +circumstances i may be placed. but if you want to know the truth... if +circumstantially and with evident satisfaction. +cities wondered at her, laughed privately at her rudenesses, and told +clanking his spurs, whirled rapidly round, and, striking his left heel +clattering. these men pressed close to the wall to let pierre and anna +clavichord. +clavichord and harp. julie by general request played first. after she +clavichord was. “it’s no use your going to the commander in chief. +clean, and in cloth covers carefully tied with tapes. +cleaned pairs with spurs had just been placed by the wall. the servants +clean shirt on the feather bed with its warmed and fragrant pillows, he +clear. +clear, insolent eyes in the general’s face. +clearly worded the day before, namely, that the commander in chief +clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and +clear upright figures; he emptied the glass of warm champagne that was +clenching his small hand and striking the table with it, “and what +clerk. “the kiev grenadiers, podolian...” +clever with véra,” said the count. “well, what of that? she’s +climb out of the window. +clinking of spurs were heard at the door, and the young count, handsome, +cloak and felt boots, he went to the little princess’ apartment. +cloak, he asked whether they wanted the count or the princesses, and, +cloak looking timidly at me,” he thought. “and what does she +clock. one wheel slowly moved, another was set in motion, and a third, +close by, who heard him muttering. +close-cropped hair, spectacles, the light-colored breeches fashionable +closed his eyes, silently let mack enter his room before him, and closed +closer!” she whispered. +closer together and a report spread that they were ordered to halt: +close that the expression of his face could be seen. and the excited, +close to her, began to whisper something. +close to her, of his breath and the smell of him, and could think only +close to her; the red patches on her face came and went, and it was +close, was gazing with astonishment at the angry face of the princess +cloths. +cloth, which contrasted with the others. “what have you been after? +clouded his mother’s face, and he smiled slightly. +cloudless, northern, summer night. pierre took an open cab intending +clouds gliding slowly across it. “how quiet, peaceful, and solemn; not +club, but met in private houses in intimate circles, and the +clutched the crupper of his saddle and, spurring his horse, galloped to +coachman’s, was teasing kutúzov’s old cook whom prince andrew knew, +coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to +coat of arms on the table. he explained this to her with as much gravity +coats. +coat, the traveler sat down on the sofa, leaned back his big head with +cock, but the elder members glanced severely at the wit, making him +code, but under this unwritten law. he felt now that merely by having +coiffure, mademoiselle bourienne’s and anatole’s smiles, and the +collapsed so that i don’t live at all—everything seems hateful to +collar and cap, went out for his usual walk. it had snowed the day +“colonel,” he said, addressing rostóv’s enemy with an air of +“colonel,” interrupted the officer of the suite, “you must be +colonel of forty to whom denísov had introduced him. +colonel of hussars who, growing more and more flushed, ate and drank so +colonel of hussars with the same order. after him the stout nesvítski +colonel’s athletic back, his nape covered with light hair, and his red +colonel was called bogdánich) “shuts you up.” +column advanced into action. +column coming up to meet the Ápsherons. +column marches... the third column marches...” and so on, read +column, milorádovich’s, the one that was to take the place of +columns, their bayonets glittering, were moving continuously in one +columns, with a high silk-curtained mahogany bedstead on one side and +“come along!” +“come along, our matvévna!” he said to himself. “matvévna” * +“come, dear princess,” said mademoiselle bourienne, “just one more +“come here,” said rostóv, catching hold of telyánin’s arm and +“come here, wostóv. let’s dwink to dwown our gwief!” shouted +come... he told me himself... but still i should not cry,” and she +come. he was alone now, except for a soldier who was sitting naked at +“come if you need anything. one can at least be of use on the +come in a moment. petrúshka!” he called to his valet: “come here, +come into the hall. prince hippolyte stood close to the pretty, pregnant +“come, i will go with you. try to weep, nothing gives such relief as +“come later.” and she went in, closing the door behind her. +“come, let’s argue then,” said prince andrew, “you talk of +“come, my dear anna mikháylovna, let catiche do as she pleases. you +“come nearer, come nearer, friend! i used to be the only one to tell +“come now, deal!” exclaimed rostóv. +“come now, just this one more little card!” +“come now, what about your roi de prusse?” +“come now! you with all your forces fall on the unfortunate mortier +come on and will meet them with the fire of the whole battalion’—and +“come on then,” cried pierre. “come on!... and we’ll take bruin +“come over here, hélène, dear,” said anna pávlovna to the +comes from that! even then i felt it,” he thought. “i felt then that +“come, that’s right, count!” cried the staff captain, turning +come up. in that case the dragoons could successfully make a flank +come up to him. +come, were all there at the appointed time. +“come, what’s the matter, old fellow?” said nesvítski trying to +comfortably. +coming action from dolgorúkov. he felt that kutúzov was upset +coming. and nicholas, who had vainly suffered all the dread that +coming closer to pierre. “in token of generosity i ask you to give me +coming for me to take me there.” +“coming, friend.” +coming from the study. the prince walked in quickly and jauntily as was +coming out of kutúzov’s room into the waiting room with the papers in +coming to us of their own accord,” incautiously remarked the little +commander among them! hm!...” +commander, awaiting the word of command. a second and a third cannon +commander, but now that the commander in chief addressed him he drew +commander, higher than and different from the others, prince andrew came +commander in chief. +commander in chief and of his own luggage. very sinister reports of the +commander in chief. bagratión knew that as the distance between the two +commander in chief. he interrupted him, talked rapidly and indistinctly, +commander in chief here, and if all is lost it is for me to perish with +“commander in chief kutúzov?” said the newly arrived general +commander in chief’s regarding the regiment. behind kutúzov, at a +commander in chief’s suite. he was in a state of suppressed excitement +commander in chief would otherwise be dissatisfied. on hearing this the +commander of the regiment in the hollow and news that immense masses +“commander of the third company wanted by the general!... commander to +commanders. and then that happy moment, that toulon for which he had +commanders, and with a consciousness of being too late spreading through +commanders are: herr general wimpfen, le comte de langeron, le prince de +commander’s back and mimicked his every movement. each time the +commander started and bent forward, the hussar started and bent forward +commander’s will, owing to the tact bagratión showed, his presence +commanding both sides of the danube, so that should the enemy not +command of the infantry went toward his horse with jerky steps, and +command of the third district, and my only way of avoiding active +command. “sergeants major!... how soon will he be here?” he asked +command to the general next in seniority, count buxhöwden, having sent +comme cet individu dont vous avez fait un ami, mais pas pour vous, pas +comme il faut, that’s a different matter; but the kurágins’ set of +commence the action, and wishing to avert responsibility from himself, +commentaries), and resting on his elbow, began reading it in the middle. +commiseration on rostóv, who saw that túshin with his whole heart +commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred miles. +commit crime, die, or perform deeds of highest heroism, and so he could +commit murder he had restored it to the rightful king, i should have +committed a reverse act of impoliteness. first he had left a lady before +common sense and frank plainness of speech. márya dmítrievna was known +companies, crowds of whom set off to the neighboring villages, or +companion, dólokhov had come straight to his house, and pierre had put +company and overtook the next one. +company commanders calculated and reckoned, and by morning the +company’s baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered, and hemmed in on +company, which alone had maintained its order in the wood and, having +company, your honor. i don’t know where... such bad luck!” +compared to the lofty, equitable, and kindly sky which he had seen and +completed. +completely altered. he was not rich, but would spend his last groat to +comply. anna pávlovna arranged a group round him, inviting everyone to +composed and printed in the hero’s honor. bagratión, on seeing the +composure, “now there’s this recruiting. my father is chief in +composure, waiting for a display of the eccentricities his father had +comrade berg’s best wishes for success, rode to olmütz to see +comrade nesvítski, a tall staff officer, extremely stout, with a +comrades’ impression. every face, from denísov’s to that of the +conceit prevents your apologizing, and you wish to make the whole +conceive a future life...” +concentrate. “there we shall encounter difficulties, and there,” +concentration of fighting at one point, and the hesitation of all the +concentration on some one thought. +concerned with a thought that always occupied her: “now you see if i +concerned with, or he wanted to give the russian special messenger that +concerning which no one could be at ease. it was the state of the +concluded, conscious—as were others—after the words were uttered +conclude our campaign and we can return to winter quarters, where fresh +condition. +condition, and immediately after that informed them that she had left +condition! it’s very hard.” +confess and ask for money he had no right to after giving his word of +confession, communion was administered to the dying man, preparations +confession; he felt himself in the presence of one socially a complete +confidence, and love as i have for you. then i am young. mamma does +confidence, flatter him, become intimate with him, and finally make his +confidence,” said she, repeating the mistake of so many parents who +confidence the personality of the freemason inspired in him and his own +confirmed by pierre’s rupture with his wife, was the talk of society. +confirmed in this conclusion by the fact that dólokhov left immediately +conform. however painful it may be to me, should the almighty lay +conform to them and follow them, and let us be persuaded that the less +“confound him, he’s a fool!” said rostóv. +“confound you and your karl ivánich!” he took the glass with the +confronted one another as before. +confused and ever-increasing crowds were running back to where five +confused him still more. he stood before bagratión with his lower +confused when she saw prince andrew. he covered his face with his hands +confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken +confusion and fear that showed itself on prince vasíli’s face. +confusion what did or did not happen? +congratulations and greetings from acquaintances that met him on all +conjecture, but the colonel did not once glance at rostóv, and looked +“connaissez-vous le proverbe:* ‘jerome, jerome, do not roam, but +connected in his memory with prince andrew. +connections... well, then, you just...” + conquest’s joyful thunder waken, +conscience that god has implanted in our souls.” +conscientiously studied the dispositions and the unfamiliar locality. he +consciousness that something great and mysterious was being accomplished +conscious of the warmth of her body, the scent of perfume, and the +conscious of this unseen line, and the question whether they would cross +conscious that another line of thought had sprung up, and while thinking +conservatories and the beauty of a flower that had just opened, and +conservatory and pantry into the large marble dining hall, where tables +conservatory. there she paused and stood listening to the conversation +conservatory to the place among the tubs where she had been hiding. +considerable pause which made pierre feel uncomfortable. +consider characteristic of the country—rumors of war are heard +considered an adept at french. +considered him a criminal, and a year later they executed those who +considered him conceited, cold, and disagreeable. but among these people +considered important. +considered it his duty to visit him and waited in the lofty antechamber +considered it proper to show an interest in the general conversation by +considered myself injured, and louis xvi was executed because they +considered worthy to hear it had to come to the countess, for she +consider it a sacred duty to fulfill that person’s wishes. do you wish +“consider my position, peter nikoláevich. were i in the cavalry i +consider, prince andrew. two... frederick and suvórov; moreau!... +consider yourself incapable and your life a spoiled life. you have +consolation for our defeat by the memory of former victories; and the +consolation? what evil and error are there in it, if people were dying +constant composure and complacency and lack of all interests or desires, +constantly considered it a duty to assure pierre that he was greatly +consultations very valuable for the proprietor and troublesome to +consultations were detached from real affairs and did not link up with +consulting his sergeant major, zakharchénko, for whom he had great +containing lessons in geometry written by himself and drew up a chair +contemplated between anatole and the little princess’ sister-in-law. +contemptuous look that showed itself on his face. +contemptuous smile, evidently prepared beforehand to meet all objections +contented and happy with him. i only wish you were all as happy as i +contention. + contents +continually and rapidly touching her rosy nether lip when necessary +continually, bringing visitors to the countess rostóva’s big house on +continually changing from french to russian. +continually driving round or coming upon wounded men, was out of range +continually glanced at prince andrew; prince andrew rubbed his forehead +continually he moved on. the soldiers squeezed themselves to make way +continually receiving many petitioners one after another. +continued. during this interval pierre noticed that prince vasíli +continued his work. +continued. “one would think that as an artillery officer you would set +continued prince vasíli, returning to his theme, apparently not +continued—remembering dólokhov’s conversation with kutúzov and his +continued the vicomte. “i pity the poor husband, that little officer +continued to explain how by exchanging into the guards he had already +continued to shout. +continued, “we owe today’s success chiefly to the action of that +continued, with that gay brotherly cordiality which goodhearted young +continue their flight? despite his desperate shouts that used to seem +continuous, varied, and orderly activity. the motion of the small foot +contrary one must try to make one’s life as pleasant as possible. +contrary to bilíbin’s forecast the news he had brought was joyfully +contrary. we wanted liberty, but buonaparte has destroyed it.” +contrasted with his flattering words, “on the contrary, your +convalescence. dólokhov lay ill at his mother’s who loved him +conveniently to keep them under observation, brought them into the +conventional things with no definite meaning, especially if +conversation. +conversation. +conversation always related entirely to himself; he would remain calm +conversation, and though anna pávlovna felt sure he would say something +conversation began prince andrew was struck by the fact that the emperor +conversation but think it necessary to move about and talk, in order +conversation, evidently with no wish to take part in it. he answered the +conversation, gave no reply. +conversation in french. +conversation—“i often think how unfairly sometimes the joys of life +conversation with her, when anna pávlovna called him away on the +convey....” +convoy officer, who said rapidly: “we must halt here: the emperor +cook calls it—has disagreed with me.” +cooked before we reach our quarters.” +coquettish manner in which she spoke to other men, “the vicomte has +cords on his coat and took a card with that number and tried staking the +corner of his card and, instead of the six thousand he had intended, +correct. +correct. as soon as bonaparte (who was at schönbrunn, sixteen miles +correct, others that it was not, and explained the false rumor that had +corridor to the cabinet where the minister of war was at work. the +cossacks and then the first and second squadrons of hussars and infantry +cossack scouts were moving. suddenly on the road at the top of the high +“cossack!” she said threateningly. +cost correct, or remedy, the mistake if he had made one, so that he, +cough. +coughed, swallowed, and said in french that she was very pleased to see +coughing of the musicians were heard from the gallery. +could be discerned. +could be felt, but the nearer prince andrew came to the french lines the +could be heard above the three hundred others. he nearly wept. “to the +could be heard. it was there prince andrew thought the fight would +could be seen, and in three places to left and right the french troops +could clearly distinguish their bandoliers, red epaulets, and even their +could disclose it to me.” +could get more rewards by doing nothing on the staff, and had succeeded +could have been devised. this combination of austrian precision with +could have the effrontery to continue firing from four quite undefended +could hear. “i thank you all! god be praised!” and he rode past that +could hear the footstep of someone in thick felt boots, and a voice that +could no longer be averted but was taking its course independently of +could not bear her look but turned away with a sob. +could not break away from her, and that though it would be a terrible +could not help seeing these people, took any notice of them. “it seems +could not move it. he smashed a pane. +could not possibly be, and so did not deliver the order. +could not remember what it was that people say. he looked at her face. +could not reply. +could not say with certainty whether the attack had been repulsed or his +could not scream like that—came from the bedroom. prince andrew ran to +could not think of it without tears, and did not know which had behaved +could reach, there were the rattle of wheels, the creaking of carts +council, he remained in the room. +councilor of state, and insisted on the young man accompanying him to +count. +count against him, he nevertheless on the day of his arrival went to +count, and having kissed his wife’s hand he went back to his study. +count bezúkhov he did not let go his hold of the lad. he had the air of +count bezúkhov’s distress some fifteen times. +count coming out from the dining hall into the anteroom, and he added: +“count! count!” shouted berg who ran up from the other side as eager +“count!... don’t ruin a young fellow... here is this wretched money, +countenance. +countenance bonaparte, and to cause me, and us in general, annoyance and +countenances became calm; soldiers and officers greeted him gaily, grew +counterattack. if they attack our center we, having the center battery +countermarches, things of which i understand nothing; and the day +countess. +“countess apráksina, poor thing, has lost her husband and she has +countess’ gigantic footman in his bass voice, entering the drawing +countess had not yet come. but now steps were heard at the door, steps +countess. her son’s growth toward manhood, at each of its stages, +countess’ house. +“countess, i have done w’ong,” denísov went on in an unsteady +countess. “i have never seen a handsomer man.” +“countess natásha,” answered denísov. +countess rostóva’s carriage in which they were seated drove over the +countess rostóva, with her daughters and a large number of guests, was +“countess...” said denísov, with downcast eyes and a guilty face. +countess” to have a rest, but remembering something else of +countess, who sat holding in one hand the snuffbox with its portrait and +countess with a gentle smile, looking at borís and went on, evidently +count. he has, no doubt, forgotten it and will wish to destroy it. +count ilyá rostóv, hurried and preoccupied, went about in his soft +count ilyá rostóv separately, as the organizer of the banquet. at that +“count ilyá rostóv’s son?” asked dolgorúkov. +count is very fond of pierre, looked after his education, and wrote to +“count lichtenfels was here this morning,” bilíbin continued, +count markóv, and prince vyázemski—did not show themselves at the +count markóv? count markóv was the only man who knew how to handle +count, money and all things necessary for the uniform and equipment +count never be able to find out whether all measures had been taken for +count rostopchín, valúev, and narýshkin. rostopchín was describing +“count rostóv.” +“count rostóv asks you to come to dinner today,” said he, after a +country do we get any rest? theatricals, hunting, and heaven knows what +countrymen. thanks for the fire—we’ll return it with interest,” +countryside—“see, our infantrymen have already got there. look there +count,” said berg, lighting his pipe and emitting rings of smoke. +“count...” said telyánin drawing nearer to him. +count’s niece, entered with a cold, stern face. the length of her +count’s services, his request would be granted?...” +count’s visitors settled themselves, some in the two drawing rooms, +count tolstóy, who had ridden out to the battlefield with others in +count, with playful ceremony somewhat in ballet style, offered his +count,” yet ashamed to call him “father.” +couple. in the intervals of the dance the count, breathing deeply, waved +couple of words with him, pierre felt unable to disappoint him. +courage. 6. generosity. 7. the love of death. +courage and endurance—acknowledged even by the enemy—with which the +courage, but she looked straight into his handsome face as it came near + courage conquest guarantees; +“courage, courage, my friend! he has asked to see you. that is +courage had it not been that just then they heard the rattle of musketry +courage, my angel.” she kissed lise and was about to leave the room. +courage. next he thought that his enemy would send the squadron on a +courage, so he drew himself up and looked around him merrily; then it +course of events in the forthcoming action in broad outline. he +course.” perhaps he did not really think this when he met women—even +courtierlike quickness and tact habitual to her, anna pávlovna +courts only strengthened his desire to belong to that higher world. +“cousinage—dangereux voisinage,” * she added. + * cousinhood is a dangerous neighborhood. +covered his eyes with his hand and pressed von toll’s hand. +covered this movement of the transport and of the whole army, had to +covered with melting snow, the frost having begun to break up during the +cover of the small box, and assumed his usual tranquil and impenetrable +“cover yourself!” even denísov cried to his adversary. +cowshed nor rostóv back with his platoon from foraging for hay had any +coyness and reserve of manner, she reminded one of a pretty, half-grown +crack and there was a glimpse of something blue, of ribbons, black hair, +crackling of wood fires near and afar, merged into one tremulous rumble. +creaking of her corset as she moved. he did not see her marble beauty +creaks or makes more noise than it should, and hastens to check the +cream.” +“crew, to your guns!” commanded the officer. +cried at each shot: “fine! that’s good! look at it... grand!” the +cried her eyes out,” she said, growing more and more lively. +criminal,” came into pierre’s head, “and from their point of +crimson float on the surface of that milky sea of mist. the whole french +critical moment the courier who carried the news of our victory at +criticism and was about to reply, when the expected footsteps were heard +crossed himself and kissed the icon. there was a look of tenderness, for +crossed one on the other on her breast, and to him, too, her face seemed +crossed the ballroom, pointing to natásha. +crossed the road, and began riding up the hill at a gallop toward the +crossing a road they descended a steep incline and saw several men +cross it and ride over the black field up the hillside. to keep to the +cross the lech, we can cross the danube, throw ourselves on his line +crowded round a pockmarked, broad-shouldered sergeant major who, tilting +crowded together close to his wheels and his horses. “what a fellow! +crowd had to wait. +crowding around the dams and banks of the ponds near the village of +crowd of soldiers. “it can’t be an attack, for they are not moving; +crowd, they had got wedged in at the approach to the dam and, jammed in +crushed, but angry and working unnaturally, she saw that hanging over +crush the contemptible detachment that stood before him. +cry. “i need five hundred rubles, and have only one twenty-five-ruble +crying. +crying. sónya tried to lift her head to answer but could not, and +cry or to laugh. prince andrew shrugged his shoulders and frowned, as +cry. prince andrew evidently felt ill at ease, but to the two women +cunning smile, as if flattered at being made the subject of zherkóv’s +cupboards, and little tables. the quilt of a high, white feather bed was +cup of vodka for the men from me,” he added so that the soldiers +curious embarrassment among some of those present. sónya, dólokhov, +curious to know what was going to happen and what would be revealed to +curly head to her knees and made the whole room ring with her laughter. +current of his thoughts, “that anatole is costing me forty thousand +curtain aside and for some time his frightened, restless eyes could not +curtain flapping and blew out the candle with its chill, snowy draft. +curving her arms, natásha held out her skirts as dancers do, ran back +cut!” +cynically dólokhov had praised his wife’s beauty to him and from that +d’affaires. +damned fool!” cried denísov, not pronouncing his r’s. “such ill +dance) began to sound, all the doorways of the ballroom were suddenly +dancer, and one of the best matches in the city. +dancer, but smiling as only happy girls of fifteen can smile. when +dancers do, natásha, rising energetically from her heels to her toes, +dancing master) gave for his pupils during the holidays. +danger. “i am convinced that we russians must die or conquer,” he +dangerous. +dangers. during these wanderings, pierre noticed that he was spoken +danube covered with pine forests, with a mystic background of green +danube, marching on us, you, and your lines of communication.” +dared complain, i who am deprived of all who are dear to me? ah, if +dared to treat márya dmítrievna in this fashion. +daren’t say so. it will be as i said at the beginning of the campaign, +dark and the glow of two conflagrations was the more conspicuous. the +dark corner. and this someone was he—the devil—and he was also this +dark-haired man. this was the celebrated petersburg doctor, lorrain. +dark hairs were already showing on his upper lip, and his whole face +darkness, the man paused, then moved with cautious steps toward the +darkness, was suddenly lit up by a new brightness, full of significance. +darkness. “why not?... it might easily happen,” thought rostóv, +dark... steady!” he cried to his fidgeting horse. +“darling denísov!” screamed natásha, beside herself with rapture, +darted forward at every word or gesture of the commander in chief, +darted in and stopped short in the middle of the room. it was evident +dashing young hussar! +daughter!” +daughter. +daughter and placing an arm on the back of the chair on which she sat, +daughter, and while he laughed the expression on his face clearly said: +daughter, but for a minister! for me, there are no ministers!” +daughter, entered the drawing room, their dresses rustling. +daughter got up to go and the two young men rose to let them pass. +daughter-in-law, “but she need not make a fool of herself, she’s +daughter is so young, and i thought that, as my son’s friend, you +daughter.)—“my dear boy... lëlya... i am very pleased.” (his + * daughter of matthew. +daughter of prince vasíli, but visualized her whole body only veiled +daughter’s face that it was only mischief, she shook a finger at her +daughter’s happiness. +daughter. she lowered her head and was ready to burst into tears. +daughter were having one not less important. natásha came running to +day before, he wished to do what the young man wanted. having been sent +day he had lost. he was happy as a lover when the longed-for moment of +day he is sensible, well educated, and good-natured, and the next he’s +day in moscow. all denísov’s moscow friends gave him a farewell +day... natásha, what have i done to deserve it?...” +days.” +day,” said the visitor. “what a charming child,” she added, +days’ march and the enemy’s outposts after a brief interchange +days was still thin—moved. his gleaming eyes were fixed intently on +days with her, asked her to sleep in her room, and often talked with her +day until then, but he could no longer do it. he could not, any more +day was mapped out, the prince rested and the princess played the +day we are keeping. but mind you come to dinner or i shall be offended, +dead. all that he saw and heard seemed to confirm this terror. +dead or wounded horses and harnessing fresh ones, and shouting in his +dear and precious friend, how terrible and frightful a thing is +dear and precious friend, your letter of the 13th has given me great +dear boy,” and he drew pierre’s arm downwards, “it is simply a +“dear countess, what an age... she has been laid up, poor child ... +“dear, dear! but still tell him to come to the club—it will all blow +“dear, dear! just look at her!” exclaimed the countess as she +“dear doctor,” said she, “this young man is the count’s son. is +“dearest... and me!” +‘dearest foe! flower of the austrian army, hero of the turkish wars! +“dearest, i’m afraid this morning’s fruschtique *—as fóka the +“dearest,” said the little princess after breakfast on the morning +dear fellow!” and for some unknown reason tears suddenly filled his +dear general, i am engaged with rice and cutlets, look after military +dear invalid?” said she, as though unaware of the cold offensive look +“dear me, can i have forgotten? no, i remember thinking that you kept +“dear me, how you have changed!” +dear, merry child. i have grown so fond of her.” +“dear me!” said his father, who was in a specially good humor. “i +“dear me!” said rostóv. +“dear me! then what are you up to now?” +“dear princess, i beg and implore you, have some pity on him! je vous +dear sir—took on yourself responsibility for the guidance of a young +dear, there’s friendship for you,” he repeated. “he’s joining +dear. we will see how tarás distinguishes himself today. he says count +death, is here above me and around... another instant and i shall never +death’s head. the stranger sat without stirring, either resting or, as +death,” thought bolkónski. +de beaucoup de mérite), a newly appointed maid of honor and her mother, +deceitful german, whom he would not only kill with pleasure but whom +deceived you. let us go to mamma.” +december, nothing was said about the war and the last battle, as +decently here,” continued telyánin. “now then, let me have it.” +de châle, but at this last ball only the écossaise, the anglaise, and +decidedly lost bearings, you know that a letter was received from him +decided now or never. she lowered her eyes so as not to see the gaze +decided that day, but that they also knew what she thought about it. she +decided to play until that score reached forty-three thousand. he +decided to send the letters and money by the grand duke’s courier to +decide, my dear, good, gentle marie, whom i have always loved as a +declared that he will leave it to the french people themselves to choose +declared, was extraordinary and had achieved miracles of valor. the +declares in ze manifessto zat he cannot fiew wiz indifference ze danger +declined: i have my daughters to consider.” +deeds, and while dying he expressed the love his actions had proved. +deepest where the land lies lowest. +deeply. +deep wrinkles would crease his cheeks. his small, deep-set eyes always +defeated. a week after the gazette report of the battle of austerlitz +defeat, there were many circumstances confirming the unfavorable rumors +defection, ran at a trot, panting to catch up with his company. a cannon +defective commissariat, the treachery of the pole przebyszéwski and of +defending us—doing it very badly, i think, but still he is defending +defense—as much as to say: ‘heaven is with us, but heaven help you +defense of vienna was no longer to be thought of. instead of an +deferential young man who had entered. “bring me...” he reflected +defile through narrow village streets when we are marching against the +definite idea of her, he turned away and addressed michael ivánovich. +dejection and hopelessness)—at any rate, pierre longed with his whole +delay and advised waiting for something else before advancing had been +deliberately so that everyone could hear: +deliberately spoken word. it was evident that kutúzov himself listened +delicate dark down was just perceptible, was too short for her teeth, +“delightful!” said bolkónski. “but i have come to you, prince, +delightful to see.” +delight of frenzy. he flung down the slab, broke it, and swooping +delight. so you still love me, my romantic julie? separation, of which +(delivered by the french alone) was still to be heard from numerous +delivers its teaching not in words only but also by other means, which +demanded. +demanded that he should submit. feeling himself in their power, he +demand satisfaction of his regimental commander?” +“demosthenes, i know thee by the pebble thou secretest in thy golden + * denísov. +denísov. +denísov?” +denísov also came back and stayed with them. the first half of the +denísov, and now moscow memories—and he again hurriedly opened his +denísov began to laugh. +denísov bent over her hand and she heard strange sounds she did not +denísov, denísov! we’re almost there!” +“denísov, don’t make fun of it!” cried rostóv. “it is such a +denísov first went to the barrier and announced: “as the +denísov frowned and was about to shout some reply but stopped. +denísov galloped up to him. +denísov gave no answer. +denísov glanced at rostóv. +denísov joined nesvítski. +“denísov, let him alone, i know who has taken it,” said rostóv, +denísov nice?” she asked. +denísov raised his head, coughed, and made no answer. +denísov remained silent and did not move, but occasionally looked with +denísov’s a fine fellow. but that’s all nonsense. the chief thing +denísov sat gloomily biting his mustache and listening to the +denísov screwed up his face and pointing over his shoulder with his +denísov’s face puckered still more. +denísov’s favorite barcarolle. natásha was preparing to sing. +denísov’s horse, bedouin, was in debt all round, to his comrades and +denísov smiled, took out of his sabretache a handkerchief that diffused +denísov’s new cloak and saddlecloth. +denísov’s short stature not noticeable and he looked the fine fellow +denísov’s voice from the next room. +denísov. “they keep dwagging the wegiment to and fwo all day. if they +denísov threw both pillows on the floor. the purse was not there. +denísov, to rostóv’s surprise, appeared in the drawing room with +denísov was looking at her with enraptured eyes. +denísov was shown to the room prepared for him, and the rostóvs all +“denísov! we’re here! he’s asleep,” he added, leaning forward +denísov were his worst enemy, firmly fixed his eyes directly on his +denísov, who had settled down by the roadside with a flask and some +denísov with his voice and mustache, and telyánin and all that affair +denísov, with sparkling eyes and ruffled hair, sat at the clavichord +departure hélène returned to petersburg, she was received by all her +depends on your decision. never mind me!” +depraved ideas of these days. i said so even at the time when everybody +depraved woman,” he repeated, “but dared not admit it to myself. +deprecating expression of a dog when it rapidly but feebly wags its +depressed, “i shall be only too glad if you relieve me of that young +depressing and unsolved problem. +depth of his heart. in one place the peasants presented him with bread +“dere has neffer been a gase,” a german doctor was saying to an +derision. “i ought to know the emperor by now, after the times i’ve +descending the valley. that moment of moral hesitation which decides +descent lit up, and facing it a black knoll that seemed as steep as a +description of the last petersburg fete she addressed her brother: +description. the old man began to sing, in the cracked voice of old age: +descriptive part of the letter. “and what a soul! not a word about +desire to do good to his neighbor. +desire to show his friend as soon as possible that he was now a quite +desirous of hiding her adoration for hélène and inclined rather +despair at failing in a scripture examination, his borrowing money from +despair, not knowing where to or why he was now riding. +desperate attack just to punish him—rostóv. then he imagined how, +desperation slammed the door with all her might. +despite count bezúkhov’s enormous wealth, since he had come into an +“despite my great respect for old kutúzov,” he continued, “we +despite the general’s presence were talking loudly and gesticulating. +despite the weakness of age, which had become particularly noticeable +destiny of our adored monarch. he will save europe!” + destroyed, and you find that a cause for jesting!” +destruction of the prussian army at jena and auerstädt and the +detachment, moved from the place where it had spent the night, advancing +detachment no one knew anything of the general position of affairs. they +detail! no, my dear fellow, no conditions better than our present ones +details of his disaster he understood that half the campaign was lost, +“devil take ‘em!” he muttered, while his head was still covered by +“devil take them!” he muttered, and after listening to the verbal +devoid of any foundation. prince bagratión turned to the old colonel: +devotion to the sovereign, rostóv pictured to himself an enemy or a +devoured him with his eyes, drawing himself up obsequiously, and from +diamonds, she passed between the men who made way for her, not looking +dictated the dispositions in german, and now, much exhausted, he arrived +did, especially toward evening when he had emptied his second bottle; he +did i come here?” he wondered. +did neither: a look of animosity appeared on his face and the other +did not, and do not, in the least care about that scoundrel of a clerk +did not calm her excitement. suddenly her door opened softly and her old +did not draw closer to sónya, but rather drifted away from her. she was +did not even make him a curtsy. she fixed her eyes on him in amazement, +did not, for instance, say to himself: “this man now has influence, i +did not interest her—or by a silent look and smile which more palpably +did not let him and, on the other, pierre himself feared to begin to +did not let it out of her hands. the tutors came, and the nurses, and +did not see you.” +did not suit her faded features, always played round her lips expressed, +did not wait to be called. the shapely figure of the fair-haired +did not want or could not carry away with them. austrian column guides +did not wish to, believe that. +did not wish to confess. +did novosíltsev get? none. the english have not understood and cannot +“didn’t i tell you,” she went on, turning reproachfully to +did she not show any trace of coquetry, but on the contrary she even +did still harder work on their own land. he did not know that the priest +didst thou, and why did the whole world, conceive the idea of the +did that day. but no sooner had natásha finished her barcarolle than +did they not interest him, but he took no notice of them and at once +did this and that, all would be well; and he did what was demanded of +did you come here?” +“‘dieu me la donne, gare à qui la touche!’’ * they say he was +“dieu! mon dieu!” muttered anna pávlovna in a terrified whisper. +“dieu sait quand reviendra. go to the dining room.” +“dieu sait quand reviendra.” hummed the prince out of tune and, with +differed only in that one had a little mole on her lip which made her +different, and better, pierre than he had been in petersburg. +different companies did not get mixed. but our left—which consisted +different from that of its elders which is often insincere, nicholas +different from themselves and from everyone else, expected great things +different one from that which he had ridden at the review, and bending +different tones. rostóv reined in his horse, whose spirits had risen, +difficult for artillery and cavalry to retire. prince andrew took +difficulties had told nicholas that this was all he could let him have +difficult to imagine happier people, and that god only knew what would +difficulty. +difficulty. +difficulty. +difficulty out of the front door. +digested his sufferings alone. +dim, but definite and in the concise form in which he imagined himself +dining room where his daughter-in-law, princess mary, and mademoiselle +dinner. +dinner all who came “to congratulate.” the countess wished to have +dinner and at other times, when as if tired of everyday life he had felt +dinner and looked about, blinking and scowling, or, with fixed eyes and +dinner at the rostóvs’?” +dinner, but providing it and serving it all up, that’s not their +dinner,” cried several voices. “we’ll take you in hand.” +din of shouting more incessant. soldiers floundering knee-deep in mud +diplomatic career in comparison with pierre’s happiness. the old +diplomatic discretion tormented him, and he was happy to have in prince +diplomatist?” asked prince andrew after a momentary silence. +diplomatist fresh from berlin with the very latest details of the +diplomats, evidently had its own interests which had nothing to do with +diplomats who are esteemed because they have certain negative qualities, +dip. prince andrew, being always near the commander in chief, closely +direct descent and ascent to the brook separating us from schön +directed to—pierre and hélène. prince vasíli mimicked the sobbing +directing the march rode backward and forward between the carts. their +direction of the conflagration. as if urging each other on, the soldiers +direction toward the valley and disappearing one after another into +“directly!” +dirty feather bed on the top of the chest, crumpling her gauzy pink +disagreeable tone to prince hippolyte who was blocking his path. +disappeared he noticed that the eyes of all in the room turned to him +disapprovingly, but in whispers and as a great secret. +disastrous was about to happen. +disbelieved both the princess’ hints and the letter, but he feared +discipline and zeal in the service. he brought with him into our +discipline, if you allow a subordinate to address you like that!’ it +disconcerted. the sight of the discomposure of that old man of the world +discuss so minutely and acutely all the recent european military and +disgrace such as that of ulm, or to utter destruction. but to forestall +disgrace the whole regiment? disgrace the whole regiment because of one +disheveled head from the hot pillow. +dismal influence of cannon balls flying from the french batteries +dismissed from here; therefore, you can stay and go with us wherever our +dismounted. he gave the reins to a cossack, took off and handed over his +disorder and was retreating upon the kiev grenadiers. prince bagratión +disordered. the french cannon did not reach there and the musketry fire +disorganized, i stopped in the road and thought: ‘i’ll let them +dispatch? you know everything.” +displease you. however,” he added rising, “you know my name and +disposed to treat the young heir in the most friendly and flattering +disposition of the forces, so as to know his bearings should he be sent +dispositions...” +“dispositions for an attack on the enemy position behind kobelnitz and +dispute. +dispute with the french grenadier. they were naturally talking about the +disrespectful manner of the exhausted clerk, the fact that the clerk and +dissatisfaction and reproach. “old though he may be, he should not, he +dissatisfied, interrupted by another, an unfamiliar voice. from the +dissatisfied with him, and also that at the emperor’s headquarters +dissipated life of his son anatole, the son whom they were planning to +distance and puckering the skin above his left eye, “malgré la haute +distance, but down the hill before him. “it’s the french!” +distance that allowed every softly spoken word to be heard, followed +distance where no one had been before him. bagratión called to him from +distant, most intimate, memories rose in his imagination: he remembered +distinctions which may infringe equality. fly to a brother’s aid +distinctly, but as often happens had not understood a word of what they +distinctness. +distinguish a mounted man from one on foot. napoleon, in the blue cloak +distinguished air which inspired respect. princess anna mikháylovna +distinguished dignitary and a swiss who had formerly been tutor at the +distinguished him from everyone else in that drawing room. +distorted out of all likeness to his former self, and the flourishing of +distraught yet angry expression on the faces of these two men, who +distressed, and breathed painfully, but could not restrain the wild +distressed that his stout and clumsy body took up so much room and doing +distrust in bolkónski’s emphatic opinion yet not feeling able fully +disturbed. +divine saviour has left for our guidance here below. let us try to +dmítri, a man of good family who had been brought up in the count’s +dmítri, and several acquaintances, and the countess reread the letter +dmítrievna. +dmítrievna produced no less impression by slight exertions—the least +dmítrievna’s deep voice suddenly inquired from the other end of the +“dmítri,” said rostóv to his valet on the box, “those lights are +do?” +“do come.” +doctor and expecting another for whom they had sent to town, they had +doctor’s wife. +doctor’s wife, who was calling him her deliverer, and recalling with +doctor who had entered the hall after him (they had met at the last post +doctor with a bow and approached them silently and with a look of +does not even attempt to hide its artificiality) of a man who is +does not produce the slightest stir—a blind man has left it. there are +does not quite see it; more particularly as it is he and his corps who +doesn’t have intrigues nowadays? why, if he was so jealous, as i see +doesn’t make a mess of things!” +does she bother me?” and she added, turning to véra, “you’ll +doing a little—though i did very little and did it very badly? what +doing right. anna mikháylovna nodded approvingly. again pierre fell +doing!” said the officer and rode off. +“do i remember nicholas?” +do it.” +dolgorúkov; and though you may not know it, the fact is that now +dolgorúkov laughed merrily. +dolgorúkov, looking round at bilíbin with a smile. +dolgorúkov, one of the warmest advocates of an attack, had just +dolgorúkov, the victor at wischau, was sent with savary to negotiate +dolgorúkov to the emperor. +dolgorúkov was still insisting that the french had retreated and had +dolls and who was still having lessons. +dólokhov. +dólokhov. +dólokhov and looked sorrowfully at him. denísov, rostóv, and +dólokhov, and words of honor?... all nonsense! one might kill and rob +dólokhov, an officer of the semënov regiment, a notorious gambler and +dólokhov began to deal seriously. oh, how rostóv detested at that +dólokhov climbed carefully and slowly through the window and lowered +dólokhov cut him short, as if to remind him that it was not for him to +dólokhov did not answer the captain; he had been drawn into a hot +dólokhov has been degraded to the ranks and bezúkhov’s son sent +dólokhov himself during his convalescence spoke to rostóv in a way no +dólokhov hurriedly interrupted. +dólokhov looked at pierre with clear, mirthful, cruel eyes, and that +dólokhov looked round but did not say anything, nor did the mocking +dólokhov made no reply. +“dólokhov, mary ivánovna’s son,” she said in a mysterious +dólokhov—now an officer—wounded in the arm, and on foot, with +dólokhov often dined at the rostóvs’, never missed a performance at +dólokhov or answering him. the footman, who was distributing leaflets +dólokhov paused. +dólokhov, pierre saw clearly that what was said in the letter might be +dólokhov pressed rostóv’s hand and burst into tears. +dólokhov’s back in his white shirt, and his curly head, were lit +dólokhov’s clear, cold glance met rostóv as soon as he entered the +dólokhov’s face. +dólokhov’s hand. +dólokhov’s hands and thought, “now then, make haste and let me have +dólokhov’s home: on the third day he received a note from him: +dólokhov, slamming down the pack of cards, put it aside and began +dólokhov slowly straightened his bent knee, looking straight with his +dólokhov smiled. “don’t trouble. if i want anything, i won’t +dólokhov’s offer,” he said, articulating his friend’s name with +dólokhov’s proposal and iogel’s ball, seemed to have grown thicker +dólokhov’s reply. +dólokhov’s second, and after dinner he discussed the arrangements for +dólokhov still sat in the same position, only his head was thrown +dólokhov stood frowning and did not speak. pierre jumped upon the +dólokhov. suddenly a cannon ball hissed so low above the crowd that +dólokhov’s words into english. a thin young lad, an hussar of the +dólokhov, the bottle of rum still in his hand, jumped onto the window +dólokhov turned round and, again holding on with both hands, arranged +dólokhov was a secret to no one but himself. pierre absolutely +dólokhov was holding the englishman’s hand and clearly and distinctly +dólokhov was of medium height, with curly hair and light-blue eyes. he +dólokhov, who had already changed into a soldier’s gray greatcoat, +dólokhov, who had no reason to preserve the honor of a man who was +dólokhov, whom everyone in the house liked except natásha. she almost +dólokhov who was in the midst of the crowd forced his way to the edge +domestic serfs were crowding in the hall, waiting to bid good-by to +dominated everything else and soared above all their affected chatter. +done for him! i hope that here in moscow no one will receive him, in +done. have you chosen a post in which you might be of service to your +done no harm to anyone; why must i suffer so? help me!” her look +done shall be. now listen! give this letter to michael ilariónovich. * +done the job just as well.” +done, the rhetor said: +done to me?”—said her charming, pathetic, dead face. +done up. +do next. anna mikháylovna with her eyes indicated a chair that stood +do not break your ranks on the plea of removing the wounded! let every +“do not let us lose any time...” +do not suppose me to be so bad. with my whole soul i wish to be what you +“don’t be unkind,” cried anna pávlovna from her end of the table +“don’t, borís! you are such a diplomat that it is really +don’t care a straw about anyone but those i love; but those i love, +“don’t come in,” she said to the old count who was following her. +“don’t! don’t! what are you about?” whispered their frightened +don’t feel that weakness in myself as yet, i know a little person who +don’t forget to put out my new coat,” added rostóv, fingering his +don’t get promoted to a sublieutenancy.” +“don’t joke; i mean to have a serious talk with you. do you know +“don’t kick up the dust, you infantry!” jested an hussar whose +don’t know and never shall know, for the love of these men here,” he +don’t know how to hide what i feel.” as he spoke he kept glancing +don’t know me. we have not met for such a long time... not since we +“don’t like bowwowing from my own fellows, i don’t,” growled +“don’t mention it, general, as if i’d be so bold!” replied the +“don’t, natásha! what nonsense!” she said, hoping it was a joke. +don’t need it? now you shall judge between us. i always tell him: here +don’t remember borís. i don’t remember him a bit.” +“don’t say that to me! i want nothing. i love you as a brother and +“don’t speak to me... i beg you,” muttered pierre hoarsely. +“don’t tease! well, and what has been decided about novosíltsev’s +“don’t touch him! you’ll startle him and then he’ll be killed. +“don’t touch me,” said rostóv, drawing back. “if you need it, +don’t trouble yourself further.” +don’t understand. perhaps princess elizabeth and princess mary know. +don’t wish to let me go, i’ll stay. but i know i am no use anywhere +“don’t you want to? well, then, come here,” said she, and +“don’t you wecollect what bad use i made of your lessons?” +door, and added in a whisper so that her son should not hear, “wish me +door and his expression of sleepy indifference suddenly changed to one +door, as though he had long expected him. +door behind him and satisfied himself that there was nobody else in the +“do order them to form into battalion columns and go round the +door? oh, she is a pearl among women, princess,” he added, turning to +door opened quickly and the stern figure of the old man in the white +door. while he was getting down from the carriage steps two men, who +doppelkümmel. the officers gladly gathered round him, some on their +“do promise, do promise, vasíli!” cried anna mikháylovna as he + do, sire.” +“do stop joking, bilíbin,” cried bolkónski. +do the doctors say?” asked the princess after a pause, her worn face +do the right thing. +do they look at me?” then he lifted his head, stretched his neck as +“do this for my sake, mon cher; after all, she had to put up with a +do this for my son—and i shall always regard you as a benefactor,” +do to get here.” +doubled. to this prince andrew answered with a smile that he could +doubt, and self-derision, which appeared on his face against his will, +doubt filled her soul. could the joy of love, of earthly love for a +doubt it now. rostóv rode in the direction pointed out to him, in which +doubt of victory, especially on this day when what is at stake is the +down!” +down, and smiled affectionately. +down. anna mikháylovna indicated by her attitude her consciousness of +down below, but higher up at the village of schlappanitz where napoleon +downcast head; and he began to pace the room, glancing occasionally at +down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before +down laws for austria at schönbrunn, il faut lui faire grâce de +down, lightly touched his daughter’s hair and sat down again. +down on a sofa in the next room. +down on a sofa near the silver samovar, as if all she was doing was a +down. one bullet and then another whistled past him. he mustered his +down on her with outstretched hands shouted, “get out!” in such a +down on one of the tubs, picked it up. +down on the sofa, facing her brother. “she is quite a child: such a +downstairs to his own room. a quarter of an hour later the old count +down the hillsides, and clouds of cannon smoke rolling, spreading, +down the room for a long time, no longer piercing an imaginary foe with +down the wax, the seal, and the paper, with his accustomed rapidity. +down to her neck and shoulders while nicholas was speaking. +downwards as was his habit. +downward. when pierre came up the count was gazing straight at him, but +downy lip was open and she was smiling joyfully. prince andrew entered +dowry and take mademoiselle bourienne into the bargain. she’ll be the +“do you hear how he’s walking?” said tíkhon, drawing the +do you know he has fallen in love with sónya?” +“do you know,” he said at last, evidently unable to check the sad +“do you know, mon cher,” said bilíbin following him, “i have been +“do you know?” said pierre, as if suddenly struck by a happy +“do you know, that fat pierre who sat opposite me is so funny!” said + *do you know the proverb? +“do you know, you are a terrible chap for all your innocent airs,” +“do you or do you not know where that will is?” insisted prince +do you remain silent when heaven knows who permits herself to +“do you remember him?” natásha suddenly asked, after a moment’s +“do you remember me?” asked borís quietly with a pleasant smile. +“do you remember we had a talk about cards... ‘he’s a fool who +“do you see?... my doll... mimi... you see...” was all natásha +“do you think he can last till morning?” asked the german, +“do you think so?... really? truly?” she said, quickly smoothing her +“do you understand what you’re saying?” he said in a trembling +“do you want anything?” +dozens of soldiers, continually replaced by others, who ran from the +dragging it by the staff, ran on with the battalion. in front he saw our +dragoons. in the center, where túshin’s battery stood and from which +drank much, and eagerly. but those who knew him intimately noticed that +draw breath. +drawing him down put her arm round his thin, scraggy neck. +drawing room. +drawing room. +drawing room. +drawing room. and, in fact, bilíbin’s witticisms were hawked about +drawing room, approaching now a silent, now a too-noisy group, and by a +drawing room, helped to receive and entertain the visitors. the young +drawing room. the guests began to disperse, some without taking leave +drawing room with her habitual skill. the large group, in which were +dress as fresh and elegant as the other. prince andrew rose and politely +dressed alike, in new pale-blue frocks, and were both fresh, rosy, and +dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending +dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, +dressed for his attendance at court in full parade uniform, which he +dressed gay young men on splendid, well-groomed, fresh, only slightly +dressed. princess mary’s self-esteem was wounded by the fact that +dress, girdled with a broad ribbon just below the breast. +dress, have it fetched. really! you know the fate of your whole life may +dress her would prolong their banter and insistence. she flushed, her +dressing gown every day, he invariably became confused and begged her to +dressing gown looked out. +dressing gown, spectacled and wigless, shouting in an angry voice. +dress, mademoiselle bourienne’s ribbon, princess mary’s unbecoming +dress under her, hiding her face with her slender fingers, and sobbing +dress with her little hand, now arranging the scarf and looking at her +drew anatole, whom she hardly knew, into these amusing recollections of +drew her chair nearer to that of the countess. +drew his saber, and with a happy and resolute countenance, opening +drew in his legs and sat up, seeking a firm center of gravity. he sucked +dried and warmed themselves, cooked their porridge for the first time +drink?” +drink shop or fall ill. just as i could not stand his terrible physical +driven their two-horse carts loaded with wheat and had returned dusty +driver’s leg. their spirits once roused were, however, not diminished, +drive the princess away by that scream... “killed!” +drive up, went to meet him. +driving into the court of count bezúkhov’s house. as the wheels +drooping as he broke into a gallop. +drooping tail. +dropped it into a leather pouch attached to the lathe, and, approaching +dropping her voice. “my wretched lawsuit takes all i have and makes no +dropping into his usual after-dinner nap, and laughed at everything. +drops and again went up to the cot. +drove his huge spurs in violently, and the horse, flourishing its tail +drowsiness overpowered him, red rings danced before his eyes, and the +drubetskáya, who as a member of the household was also seated in the +drummer, their leader, turned round facing the singers, and flourishing +dry hands clenched with vexation at her not understanding a sum in +duc even the most partial ceased to regard him as a hero. if to some +duel he did not go to his bedroom but, as he often did, remained in his +duelist and rake, and every now and then he glanced ironically at +duelist, who was living with anatole. pierre smiled, looking about him +duel prove? that you’re a fool, que vous êtes un sot, but everybody +due to her misfortune. when conversation turned on her husband hélène +duke constantine pávlovich, who commanded the guards. the rostóvs +duke’s orders the men had marched all the way in step (a practice on +dull expression. +dull eyes looked at him in silence. it seemed to prince andrew that the +dull without you,” said she, giving him a tender smile. +during rostóv’s short stay in moscow, before rejoining the army, he +during that stay in petersburg, borís became an intimate in the +during the battle, and feeling reassured he dozed off.... the dark +during the five years he had known her, and how her head had cracked +during this transfer he felt a little stronger and was able to look +dust from the sleeve of his uniform, and going up to a mirror examined +duties on you, and you must be a man.” +duty. the emperor is gracious, and i shan’t forget you if you deserve +dying father. “it is painful, but it does one good. it uplifts the +dying man, but passed by him, joined the eldest princess, and moved +dying man wished to see, her own admission was assured. casting a rapid +dying of fright. i did, ‘pon my word, i got that frightened!” said +each ascent or descent of the road the crowds were yet denser and the +each face, appraising the possibilities of establishing intimacy with +each occasion had been driven back by grapeshot from the four isolated +each of those present, and the advantages that might accrue. he took +each other’s arms warmly pressing their lips to whatever place they +each time he touched his forehead. his face wore a calm look of piety +each time with fresh pleasure and each time discovered in it fresh +each visitor performed the ceremony of greeting this old aunt whom not +eagerly and rather disdainfully, not resting on anything although his +eagerness and briskness presented a marked contrast to the dissatisfied +eager questions from all sides. the whole moving mass began pressing +early in the year 1806 nicholas rostóv returned home on leave. denísov +easy. +easy. and tell me, please—i’ve been meaning to ask—how is he +easy to take marshals, sitting on a sofa by the fire! that is true, but +ebook or online at www.gutenberg.org +écossaise was ended, he clapped his hands to the musicians and shouted +edge of the clearing. the seconds, measuring the paces, left tracks in + e’en fortunate napoleon +effected the dangerous crossing of the straits of dover and captured +effect on everyone, smiled and, evidently unmoved by what had been +efforts to seem calm. +effort. the bottle was emptying perceptibly and rising still higher +effort to look at the servant who stood constantly at the head of the +effort to move her shoulders or bend her arms when turning, or stamp +effort to say this. “without a name and without means... and it +effrayée, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings. +egged on against each other. +“eh, brother! they’ve all bolted long ago!” said the soldier, +eh, dmítri! gallop off to our moscow estate,” he said to the factotum +“eh, eh, friend! come here a bit,” said she, assuming a soft high +“eh, is anything hurting you?” asked the soldier, shaking his shirt +“eh, is she pretty?” he asked with a wink. +“eh? what?” asked prince andrew. +eh?... what then?... eh?” +eighty thousand allied troops rose from their bivouacs to the hum of +either. don’t i know that at the rate we are living our means won’t +either,” he thought to himself, “i have done nothing wrong. have i +either,” he thought. “yes, i did not know anything, anything at all +either the place they were leaving or that to which they were going. +ekonómov. +elated. he had noticed a solitary tree ahead of him. this tree had been +elbows, as if to say: “you can tell me your views later, but now be so +elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders +elder daughter, countess véra, with a smile. +elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief. +elders. +elders which seems to say to the older generation, “we are prepared to +eldest princess, who were sitting under the portrait of catherine the +eldest who was reading—the one who had met anna mikháylovna. the +elegantly. bilíbin’s services were valued not only for what he wrote, +else. +else. +else, my dear boy, let me tell you it’s quite likely you’ll have to +else,” replied anna pávlovna. +else, runs upstairs and does up her hair and wags her tail and is unlike +else the tsar did. +embarrassed him. he was like a man entirely absorbed in some occupation. +embarrassed voice, though it sounded severe to denísov—“but my +embarrassing attentions. on the face of the wag zherkóv there suddenly +embarrassing situation, and the expression on his face was invariably +embarrassment looked pierre straight in the face. +embittered look clouded her once handsome face, but only for a moment; +embraced him and lifting his spectacles kissed his friend on the cheek +embracing denísov. “nicholas wrote us... natásha, véra, look! here +embracing prince vasíli. +embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on +emitting a smoke ring. +emperor, about the remarks he had heard at court concerning the krems +emperor alexander hurriedly to kutúzov, glancing courteously at the +emperor alexander’s visit to potsdam, and of how the two august +emperor and the whole army, especially while the smoke hung over +emperor at once rode up to him, offered his services, and assisted him +emperor francis continued to look about him and did not listen. +emperor francis would have been fulfilled long ago. i should long +emperor had only just fallen asleep and so savary had to wait. at midday +emperor himself rode round his bivouacs. the soldiers, on seeing him, +emperor napoleon burns with impatience to make prince auersperg’s +emperor napoleon if we take this bridge, so let us three go and take +emperor not everyone could understand, and with his whole soul he shared +emperor,” said rostóv, and was about to spur his horse. +emperor’s arrival, lay several killed and wounded soldiers whom there +emperor’s eyes met rostóv’s and rested on them for not more than +emperors. upon them the undivided, tensely passionate attention of that +emperor. the emperor francis, a rosy, long faced young man, sat very +emperor,” thought rostóv. +emperor was pale, his cheeks sunken and his eyes hollow, but the charm, +emphatically. +employed by lively chatty people, and consisting in the assumption +empress’ field, not understanding the significance of the firing, nor +empress’ field,” said he clearly and distinctly. +emptied them, rolling the vodka in their mouths, and walked away from +empty and that the nurse had been hiding the dead baby. he drew the +emptying his glass at one gulp he dashed it to the floor. many followed +encampment, and not within sight of the enemy before an action in + enchantress, say, to my forsaken lyre +en conjure...” +encounter an enemy invisible ten paces off. but the columns advanced +encounter one another at the clean, smart hussars who moved past them in +“encouraging us to get along quicker,” said another uneasily. +ended with a thud into something soft... f-f-flop! and a cossack, riding +ending pierre’s unpleasant and unamiable outburst. after the anecdote +end of his gun...” a soldier whose greatcoat was well tucked up said +end of the meal. he winked at the butler, whispered directions to the +end spurred his horse. +endure this man who is a menace to everything.” +enemies, he tried to continue reading. but feeling this to be senseless +enemy?” +enemy, do not avenge thyself except by doing him good. thus fulfilling +enemy’s horse patrols could be discerned. +enemy three times as strong, who would hem him in from two sides. +enemy under the emperor’s command. commanded by the emperor himself +energetic a character. he is so accustomed to unlimited power that he is +energetically than anyone, led the guests into the drawing room, and +engaged; he was shouting “hurrah!” +engagement and his reception by the minister of war. +“england is done for,” said he, scowling and pointing his finger +engrossed by it, yet his strut seemed to indicate that, besides military +enjoyable. that year two marriages had come of these balls. the two +enjoyed narrating all this, and did not seem to suspect that others, +enjoyment by sympathy with anyone’s sorrow,” she felt, and she said +enlightenment?” +enlighten their minds, by means handed on to us by tradition from those +enormous table would say: “well, dmítri, you’ll see that things are +enormous whole. +enough, at the end of the feast proposed the emperor’s health. “not +enough to see a long way in the deserted street and it seemed more like +“enough! what nonsense! above all, try to be respectful and cautious +entered. +entered, as if to say: “yes, that’s how i want you to look.” +entered his father’s dressing room (not with the contemptuous look and +entered, the bronze handle of one of the doors turned and prince vasíli +entered the drawing room elegantly dressed in the uniform of an +entered their heads that it could have been otherwise at this meeting. +entered the room. +entered the room. +entered the room. +entered the room. prince vasíli approached first, and she kissed the +entering the house occupied by kutúzov, asked for bolkónski. prince +entering the house, prince andrew saw nesvítski and another adjutant +entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and +entertaining supposition. +entertainment at the gypsies’, with the result that he had no +enter that room. +enter the drawing room? even if i like him i can’t now be myself with +enthusiasms, dreams, and hopes of happiness or goodness, in prince +enthusiasm—was only the loss of the battle of austerlitz, the +entice him to marry my daughter and lend me the forty thousand rubles +entrance, after scrutinizing the mother and son (who without asking to +entrance. the prince was working at the lathe and after glancing round +entrance to the dam raised his hand and opened his mouth to address +entreaties. soon after anna pávlovna’s reception anna mikháylovna +entrenchments being thrown up, the freshly dug clay of which showed up +entrenchments looked out just as menacingly, and the unlimbered cannon +entrenchment. they had to hold their noses and put their horses to a +entrusted to him, was pedantic in the fulfillment of his duties, severe +entrusted to his care and whom he intended to benefit. +enveloped in those beams, he heard his voice, that kindly, calm, +envious and natásha could not help joining in. +epaulettes had been packing with his valet in the rooms assigned to him. +equality. have people since the revolution become happier? on the +equals, while his eyes occasionally sought out his fine well-set-up +equip him.” +erect, almost on tiptoe, with a soldier’s obsequious expression on his +erect on his handsome black horse, looking about him in a leisurely and +err, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.” +escapade made everybody feel confused. denísov blushed too, but smiled +escape, and bagratión’s four thousand men merrily lighted campfires, +escape it all, and felt that dólokhov knew that he could save him from +escape it anyhow.” +escorted him to the door, repeating something to him several times in +especially after having dined, bolkónski felt that he could not take in +especially appealed to pierre. the important mystery mentioned by the +especially the youngest, the pretty one with the mole, who often made +essen corps arrived and prussia took our side. +essential, and after a short interval followed her. anna mikháylovna +essential to speak the whole truth. +established intimacy with the french marshals, and so dazzled by the +estate near moscow, and to receive many people who formerly did not +estates. his new brethren gave him letters to the kiev and odessa masons +estates in the south and there attending to the welfare of his serfs. +estime que je professe pour the orthodox russian army, j’avoue que +estrangement, and ridicule with which troops of different arms usually +eternal, and infinite in all his attributes?...” +eternity.” and again he twisted the screw with the stripped thread, + * “europe will never be our sincere ally.” +even by a ball dress. +even denísov was nothing compared to dólokhov—“you must understand +even every footstep in that house since the terrible news had come, so +“even if it were a great deal of trouble...” answered prince andrew, +evening. +evening in advance of him, and he and his son arrived next day. +evening light and the blue tunics advancing from the other side with +evening passed, night came, and the feeling of suspense and softening of +evening. there was room enough in the wide corridor for the generals to +evening to get in) “i only wished to say that we are wrong to fight +evening was this: +evening when the rewards bestowed by the emperor were mentioned. +even in his way; but all at once he felt that this would not do, and +even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise +even know if it would be a good thing (he even felt, he knew not why, +evenly, and then raised his head. he had an intellectual and distinctive +even more beautiful than it had been three days before at the review. it +even more merrily than on the previous night. denísov celebrated his +even more so. i like being alone.... father likes her very much. she and +even people who had formerly been spiteful toward him and evidently +even pushed aside, he began wrapping it round the princess. either from +even their faces, more and more distinctly. they were our horse guards, +event. in the english club, where all who were distinguished, important, +event must be allowed to disturb the appointed order of the day. prince +even try to do so. all were watching the count and márya dmítrievna. +even wish to know of his existence but would now have been offended +ever because anatole’s presence had vividly recalled to her the time +ever since he had overtaken the regiment in poland, had lived with the +ever was borís resolved to serve in future not according to the written +every advantage. what receptions we had in poland! what dinners and +everybody, for another ten years. it would be far easier and simpler for +“everybody is wondering to whom the count will leave his fortune, +everybody laughed a great deal. at the head of the table, where the +everybody laughed, and hippolyte louder than anyone. he was evidently +everybody! not forgetting anyone. i always said when he was only so +every day he said to himself one and the same thing: “it is time i +every muscle of telyánin’s pale, terrified face began to quiver, his +everyone! +everyone. +everyone adopted toward him the tone of men who know something others do +everyone again looked toward the door, which creaked as the second +everyone ducked. it flopped into something moist, and the general fell +“everyone has his achilles’ heel,” continued prince andrew. +everyone he could stop, but got no answer from anyone. +everyone, including anna pávlovna, felt this. +everyone’s situation. tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner. * think +everyone waited, so emphatically and eagerly did he demand their +every ten seconds a cannon ball flew compressing the air around, or +everything and everybody at last and had spoken such pathetic words to +everything became clear, and in all corners of moscow the same things +everything before you, everything. and you....” +everything from society and giving nothing in return. you have become +everything from the table napkins to the silver, china, and glass bore +everything!” (he put one arm around pierre and the other around his +everything in perfect order, only one little thing is lacking, namely, +everything. i often wonder at you, annette—how at your age you +everything is calculated, and i don’t like that. but denísov...” +everything may be over for me! all these memories will be no more, none +everything, only i have nothing....” +everything over with, and i happen to be there, i’ll go at once, to +everything!” said nicholas. “and i will prove it to you.” +everything seemed so futile and insignificant in comparison with the +“everything’s still the same with them,” thought nicholas, +“everything’s the same with them. they know nothing about it! where +everything that took place and was reported to him was exactly what he +everything was becoming more and more happy and animated. “oh, how i +everything within and around him seemed confused, senseless, and +every time a ball flew past. rostóv on the left flank, mounted on his +everywhere. he might easily become aide-de-camp to the emperor. you know +every word and movement was described with ecstasy. +evidence of the advantages of attacking that what had been discussed +evident duty.” she paused. all were silent, expectant of what was to +evident he had reflected on this subject more than once, and he spoke +evidently also felt depressed and constrained with his visitor, “i am +evidently did not expect. +evidently did not realize what they were doing. +evidently expecting him to bow or to step out of his way. prince andrew +evidently forced. not only the guests but even the footmen waiting at +evidently glad of a chance to say quicker in words what he wanted to +evidently in a fit of rage, his coal-black eyes with their bloodshot +evidently in the village itself and behind the hill. to the left from +evidently listening to herself with pleasure, and speaking with +evidently not because he was shaven but because they had never grown. +evidently rigged up by soldiers out of any available materials and +evidently the prince understood her, and also understood, as he had done +evidently those in front had halted. all remained where they were in the +evidently weakened, was undertaking nothing. +evidently wished to draw him on. +evidently wishing to give her words a very definite meaning. “i +evident that he not only knew everyone in the drawing room, but had +evident that the cadet was liberal with his tips and that it paid to +evil can there be in it if unfortunate people, our serfs, people like +evil. le prochain—your kiev peasants to whom you want to do good.” +exacting, so that without being a hardhearted man he inspired such fear +exactitude. he always came to table under precisely the same conditions, +exactitude, what minuteness, what knowledge of the locality, what +“exactly, not a hair’s breadth farther,” answered prince vasíli, +exaggerated grasseyement, “the prince has been scolding michael +exaggeration quite contrary to christian simplicity. let us rather read +exalted personages passing in the streets in their elegant carriages +exasperated whisper, evidently meaning to wound his sister. +exasperated with one another and, long after the action had begun on +exceeded twenty thousand rubles. dólokhov was no longer listening to +exceedingly lofty, the members of the household and the footmen—one +excellency!” +excellency... i had no men... your excellency.” +excellency?... nobody knows.” +excellency prince vasíli kurágin and his son, i understand?” she +excellency. shall i go with some of my hussars to see?” replied +excellency’s participation in the common action is highly valued by +excellent dinners for the officers at every halting place. the regiments +except a few scattered skirmishers. an empty space of some seven hundred +except in the army; i am not a diplomat or a government clerk.—i +exception made, and borís transferred into the regiment of semënov +except to pierre and hélène, whose presence he seemed not to notice. +except veneration could such a man as my father evoke? and i am so +excited and irritated by these thoughts prince andrew went toward his +excitedly animated and healthy men.” so thinks, or at any rate +excitement. +excitement. +excitement and to being unaccustomed to speak of abstract matters in +excitement, around chin and mouth. the quartermaster frowned, looking +excitement, rushed toward the drawing room door, probably in order to +exclaimed, and immediately seizing him by the shoulder and looking +exclaimed in excellent french. +exclamation he was asking the adjutant to wait, and he went on with the +excuse his costume. +“excuse me, general,” interrupted kutúzov, also turning to prince +excuse me, vicomte—i must tell it in russian or the point will be +excuses now! it’s your turn to sing the ba’cawolla—i entweat +executed him—also for some reason. what is bad? what is good? what +executing of the plan. +existence of such an incomprehensible being, a being all-powerful, +expectations of those who knew her. the subdued smile which, though it +expected this. +expected to be at once presented to the emperor. at the chief entrance +expect he has forgotten me. he paid me attentions in those days,” said +expecting a crisis.” +expecting anything from yourself in the future, you will feel at every +expecting that he would have a chance to give a reliable account, which +expecting the summons to zakúska, * avoid engaging in any long +expecting to hear something very profound. at last he came up to morio. +expecting two very interesting men tonight, le vicomte de mortemart, who +expedition.... but what’s the southern army to do? prussia is +expeditions to olmütz to visit a certain caroline the hungarian, +experienced a variety of most complex sensations. he felt afraid of what +experience that feeling during those memorable days preceding the battle +experiencing a new and peculiar pleasure. sónya, muttering to herself, +explained how to rivet the hoof and went away to his own quarters. +explained prince andrew. “the others, one’s neighbors, le prochain, +explaining that dólokhov was betting with stevens, an english naval +explanations, however clear they might be. whether it was the +explanation with nicholas, sónya twirled about before she left home +exposed—and she seemed to bring the glamour of a ballroom with her as +exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as +exposed. another emissary rode to the russian line to announce the peace +exposed! if i were asked what i desire most on earth, it would be to be +expose to a bullet, and then you congratulate us on the victory! admit +exposing himself to the first blows of the enemy, for there must be no +expressed disapproval of dólokhov’s living at their house, and how +expressed his opinion more openly. he shrugged his shoulders when pierre +expressed impetuosity and enthusiasm. nicholas blushed when he entered +expressed the concentrated and happy resolution you see on the face of +expresses his opinion to kutúzov, to weyrother, and to the emperors. +express his opinion as he had hoped to, left on him a vague and uneasy +expressing... as in its last note... you understand... besides, unless +expressing disapproval and dislike of kutúzov. +expression and went out again without saying a word. she looked at +expression. “c’est... c’est du mack. nous sommes mackés (it is... +expression, evidently habitual to him when conversing with women. +expression. it was the heavy tread of princess mary that he heard. +expression, looked observantly and sympathetically at the father and +expression of her father’s. his face wore that expression when his +expression of profound and sincere devotion and respect mingled with +expression on his face changed in a way evidently deliberate and +expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose. +expression she did not understand, and lay down again. he was suffering +expressions with the choicest french phrases—which was a peculiarity +expression—the same man who had rushed out of the wattle shed. at that +expression the sculptor had happened to give the angel’s face, prince +expression, though many of them knew that what he was saying was a lie +expression. véra was good-looking, not at all stupid, quick at +expression which was never to be seen on it in a drawing room. his eyes +extends along kobelnitz and sokolnitz behind the ponds that are there, +externally was all in order, but had it pleased the commander in chief +extinguished and some spirit lighted, as pierre knew by the smell, and +extraordinary intelligence, the more so as in the depth of his heart it +extraordinary may happen to one that honor and dishonor will be all the +extrémités de l’univers, nous allons lui faire éprouver le même +extricated himself from an awkward situation and placed another in it, +eyebrows which, when he frowned, sometimes hid the gleam of his shrewd, +eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of god, are +eyes. +eyes. +eyes. +eyes and ears intent on the colonel. +eyes and indicating hélène with a sorrowful gesture. “ah, she is +eyes and saw close before him the head and ears of the horse he was +eyes at her sister-in-law. +eyes attracted him irresistibly. +eyes. “but i’ll go to bezúkhov’s myself. pierre has arrived, and +eyes fixed on the dark face of a large icon of the saviour lit by a +“eyes front!” then, like the crowing of cocks at sunrise, this was +eyes full of tears and of thoughts, gazing shiningly and imploringly at +eyes grew dim. by the expression of her father’s face, not sad, not +eyes grew moist. “hurrah!” cried the three hundred voices again, +eyes had uttered french phrases between his teeth. every muscle of his +eyes. he really was in love with the tsar and the glory of the russian +eyes he was every day more and more connected with her, that it was +eyes. his shriveled old hands were folded and on the finger of one of +eyes kept closing, and in his fancy appeared—now the emperor, now +eyes lit up so that her face was entirely transformed. then she suddenly +eye socket. “yes, he has a right to speak so calmly of those men’s +eyes off him. his brother and sisters struggled for the places nearest +eyes rolling as he sang, with his small, husky, but true voice, some +eyes, rostóv re-entered that world of home and childhood which had no +eyes still shifted from side to side but with a downward look not rising +eyes. the englishman looked on sideways, pursing up his lips. the man +eyes. then having satisfied himself that all eyes were fixed on him, +eyes. the sick man was turned on to his side with his face to the wall. +eyes to complete the show of prisoners, could not fail to attract his +eyes, went with unusually hurried steps down the long corridor leading +eyes. what she found hardest to bear was to know that on such occasions +face. +face, already growing old, though he was dressed like a most fashionable +face, and again at the arm, and on his face a feeble, piteous smile +face and just nodded to him with his long head. but after it was +face, and prince andrew saw that hippolyte, of whom—he had to +face as if driving off a troublesome fly. “and why are you stopping +face assumed a forced unnatural expression as soon as she looked in a +face assumed its melancholy expression), “he was mentioned at her +face assumed the coarse, unpleasant expression peculiar to him. shaking +face changed into a winning and piteous look of fear. her beautiful eyes +face; his eyes continually wandered from one object to another. +face instantly changed and assumed an offensively affected, sugary +face in the lace of her mother’s mantilla—not paying the least +face. “let him see whether i am a coward!” he thought. +face looked worn—he too had evidently not slept all night. he glanced +faces. (he distinctly saw an old french officer who, with gaitered +face, shook his head, and going up to him silently kissed him on the +faces of the crew bustling round the guns, from the sight of the blood +faces, the wall of soldiers burdened with knapsacks and muskets marched +face to prince andrew, smiled, and waved his hand. +face was animated, which, however, did not conceal its sunken and faded +face, which had been so radiantly happy all that saint’s day, suddenly +face with prince andrew, who came out frowning and looking old. pierre +facing the quartermaster who was reporting to him. on seeing rostóv, +fact. +fact of a great man executing a duc—or even an ordinary man who—is +faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable +failed. borís on the contrary at once found his footing, and related +failed him. he was seized by panic and could not go where it was +faint with fear lest the baby should be drowned in the font, and awaited +faire dans cette galère?” * occurred to him, and he began to laugh at +faithfully as i can, without disquieting myself by examining my feelings +‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! but how do you do? i see i +fallen!” +fallen, and an old trooper on the flank, a noncommissioned officer who +false. he was happy to be seeing him. he knew that he might and even +familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any +familiar to rostóv; the other on a beautiful chestnut horse (which +familiar voice. “one is afraid of the unknown, that’s what it is. +familiar voice, “what i say is that if it were possible to know +family, but was kept all summer in moscow by his new duties. dólokhov +family consultation; is it not so, prince?” +family life continually rose in her imagination. she drove them away and +family’s, and his friends’, and the enemy’s intention to kill him +family, was the most gifted with a capacity to feel any shades of +famous order of the day to general bennigsen: +fancies. +“fancy, with his powerful mind, indulging in such nonsense!” +far. by intrigues, violence, exile, and executions, french society—i +farther and farther he rode away, stopping at other regiments, till at +farther into the region where the army was already in action. +farther, probably along the line of the french camp. rostóv no longer +fast as her nimble little feet would carry her. borís did not laugh. +fast asleep with his head on his arm. +fastened to the cording of his uniform and, indicating a bandaged arm, +fastening his coat. when he had finished, he turned to bezúkhov, and +“faster!” came the word of command, and rostóv felt rook’s flanks +fate and in spite of the pleasures and distractions around me i cannot +fate, her father-in-law, and her husband. after crying she had fallen +fate. it is in your hands.” + fate—(the fate of the army at ulm).” +fat finger. +father?” +father and andrew. i shall be so happy when she is his wife. she is so +father and anna mikháylovna, that it had something to do with her +“father! andrew!”—said the ungraceful, awkward princess with such +father and son. this lasted about two minutes, which to pierre seemed an +father, count bezúkhov, and showed them her own box. princess hélène +father, he feels for you.” +father-in-law and now at princess mary. when they left the table she +father in order to puzzle or test his sister. +father... it’s bad....” he reflected, but while he was thinking this +“father kutúzov.” +father, muttered in a whisper: +father’s case. +father’s face with an eager and respectful look. “how is your +father’s friendship for you; but now i entreat you for god’s sake to +“father,” she said, “do not turn away from me, let us weep +father’s letter, he returned to the nursery. +father’s nature showed itself in pierre. he felt the fascination and +father’s ridicule of the new men, and drew him on and listened to him +father’s room, that huge room in which count bezúkhov had died. +father’s room with the good-humored and victorious air natural to +father’s study as the latter wished to say good-by to him alone. all +“father, tell me how it happened,” she asked through her tears. +father there would be nothing i could reproach you with,” said anna +father to be a connection of prince vasíli’s. the elderly lady who +father to fits of bloodthirsty rage. and when after pierre’s +father to the ambassador’s entertainment; she wore a ball dress and +father with a laugh. +fault!” and her voice quivered like that of a child about to cry. +fault. what’s he to do if he has such luck?... and it’s not my fault +favorite, “how is it you have so little tact? don’t you see you are +fear, and the thought that he might be killed or badly wounded never +fear appeared on her flushed face. +feared him. +fearing to be captured by the french on the way to krems. +fearing to relax, shouted with his mouth wide open and passed on. +fear’s all gone, and your only thought is not to let him get away!’ +fears nothing so much as a general battle is impossible.” +fear this will oblige one half the army to shoot the other.” +fear would prevent her understanding any of her father’s further +features, gave him a rather comical expression. bekleshëv and theodore +features. nicholas was short with curly hair and an open expression. +fédya, my dear count; that, believe me, is why i am so fond of you. few +feeble voice of the commander in chief was heard. the regiment roared, +feeble voice, so high pitched and irresolute. his face grew more and +feeble voice to which he tried to impart a dashing note, ill-suited to +feel afraid.” +feeling of a hare fleeing from the hounds. one single sentiment, that +feeling of devotion returned to him even more strongly than before. when +feeling of sickening agitation. +feelings. but much as all the rest laughed, talked, and joked, much +feeling; sharing with the young folk of the rostóvs’ household a +feelings in others, and if never having felt them i cannot approve of +feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the +feels, anyone who comes in sight of the enemy, and that feeling gives +feel that in that place and on that day, it was improper to speak so of +feel,” thought he, “if she saw me here now on this field with the +feet in low shoes, iogel flew first across the hall with natásha, who, +feet in their overboots on the table, and began to reflect. +feet into his slippers and his arms into the sleeves of his dressing +feet that moved through the sticky mud that covered the planks of the +feet were the only sounds that could be heard. anna mikháylovna, with +feigned—or so it seemed to rostóv. he put his horse to a trot to +feigned severity. “you spoil her, ilyá,” she added, turning to her +fell from him. he was glad, and at the same instant began to pity the +fellow.” +fellow.” +fellow could have played such a prank on a policeman. +fellow,” he said abruptly and eagerly, “i must confess to having +fellows have all lost your wits, or i have outlived mine. may god help +fellows on the staff who get rewards without doing anything!” +fellow! what you have just said is good, very good. of course you +felt a wish to speak to the stranger, but by the time he had made up his +felt coat, stretched his legs, and set his cap straight. the head of the +felt it indecorous to speak of her pregnancy before pierre, though the +felt perfectly happy. just then the commander appeared on the bridge. +felt so glad to be free from his own lawlessness and to submit his will +felt that the battle of which he had brought tidings was far, far +felt the impossibility of going to sleep on such a night. it was light +felt the tension of the amorous air in the house, and also noticed a +ferdinand disgraces himself. you abandon vienna, give up its +festive around him. nearer and nearer to rostóv came that sun shedding +festive in his air, which, in conjunction with his firm and virile +festivities and fireworks are becoming wearisome.” +fetch the frenchman, moreau,” he said, alluding to the invitation made +feu, et oublie celui qu’il devait faire faire sur l’ennemi!” *(2) +feverish delirium or drunkenness. +field glass and shrugging his shoulders, “so it is! they’ll be fired +field. instead of the moving horses and hussars’ backs, he saw nothing +field of austerlitz, enduring the heedless blows of his left foot and +fields and forests of fir and birch, which were partly cut down. the +field under fire, as he had done at the head of the kursk regiment at +fifty members of the english club and fifty guests were awaiting the +fight bonaparte by this new science you call ‘strategy.’” +fighting army (with the pávlograds on the right flank of the front); +fighting cocks preparing for battle, each vainly trying to detect signs +fighting hussar who had been under fire. +fighting russian soldier without connections and intrigues, and to one +fight. you’ll see—we shall retire.” +figure of túshin who was sitting cross-legged like a turk beside him. +filled by the domestic serfs—the men on one side and the women on +final instructions, orders, and commissions to the baggage men +finally there were six thousand rubles for his outfit and various other +find, and still seeks, some secret motive in our actions. what answer +finds you to his taste as a daughter-in-law and makes a proposal to you +find the baby. at last he saw him: the rosy boy had tossed about till he +fine cords would soon get a bit rubbed,” said an infantryman, wiping + * fine eyes. +“fine fellows, the pávlograds!” remarked the emperor. +fine! i don’t want anything, prince.” +“fine men!” remarked napoleon, looking at a dead russian grenadier, +fine,” said a corporal, chaffing a thin little soldier who bent under +“fine young fellow! fine young fellow!” he said. “well, come and +finger at him, “i have even heard of your doings in paris!” +fingers, drew out a gold imperial, and lifting his eyebrows gave it to +fingers twitched nervously. +finished. +finished phrases of general interest. these sayings were prepared in the +fire and pressed it there!” +fired in the air; a third was striking the horse kutúzov himself rode. +fire, fanned by the breeze, was rapidly spreading. the french columns +fire. from pain, cold, and damp, a feverish shivering shook his whole +fire! our stories have some weight, not like the stories of those +fires were lighted and the talk became more audible. captain túshin, +firing at augesd. +firing at the augesd dam and was looking at the killed and wounded left +firing incendiary balls at the village of schön grabern visible just +firing in the valley. not a single muscle of his face—which in those +firing?” rostóv kept asking as he came up to russian and austrian +firing was, he began to look for the general and his staff where they +firmly. +firmly believed in the possibility of the brotherhood of men united in +firmly resolved to answer his father-in-law. moreover, the words of the +firmness and certainty of his vocation, which radiated from his whole +firmness, and expedition. i consider myself fortunate to have such a +first appearance in society. anna pávlovna greeted him with the nod she +first because pierre appeared to his hussar eyes as a rich civilian, the + first epilogue: 1813 - 20 +first he had ever written. borís and natásha were at the other window +first not only what had been said but also what kutúzov would have +“first of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. set your friend’s +first of all devote some time to solitude and self-examination and do +“first of all you must drink!” +first of one and then of another priest. +first pair of gloves, a man’s, he said that pierre could not know +first place because her provinces have been pillaged—they say the holy +“first-rate,” said pierre, looking at dólokhov, who with a bottle +first regiment roared “hurrah!” so deafeningly, continuously, and +first time since their encounter concerning telyánin. rostóv, feeling +first to one side and then to the other watched the smokers with evident +fish for this dinner. the count had been a member and on the committee +fist, and tapped it on the floor, making the sparks fly, while he +five in the afternoon,” replied bolkónski growing more animated and +five minutes later princess mary from her room heard something heavy +five times. he entered the room softly. the little princess, plump and +five years, if he goes on like this?” presently he added: “that’s +fixed on. +fixed on her. +fixed straight on his son’s. something twitched in the lower part of +fixing his weary eyes on the paper, began to read them with a fixed and +flabby that they looked heavier below, were twitching violently; but +flag let it fall from his hands. it swayed and fell, but caught on the +flank; he knew that all the guns there had been abandoned at the very +flank,” he said to himself, “the kiev grenadiers and the podólsk +flank. in the center túshin’s forgotten battery, which had managed to +flank now that it is nearly four o’clock and the battle is lost? +flanks was more than six miles, even if the messenger were not killed +flattered by this. anna pávlovna arranged the different groups in her +flayed, some not, and broken-down carts beside which solitary soldiers +fleeing crowd. a mounted general separated himself from the infantry and +floundering silvery fish in the watering can, on that dam over which for +flourished his castanets as if threatening someone. the soldiers, +flourishing his arm, called him to enter. +flower; natásha, half grown up and half child, was now childishly +flower tubs and hid there. +flung it away. tíkhon caught it and handed it to a footman. the little +flung it down and began: +fluttering above the fire and remembered a russian winter at his warm, +fluttering in that light. túshin had not returned, the doctor had not +fly! gracious me, they did rattle past! it’s time i knew the imperial +fly upwards. the angel’s upper lip was slightly raised as though +followed anna mikháylovna out of the carriage, and only then began +followed by a cossack. +followed by their suites. kutúzov, affecting the manners of an old +followed by the owner of the manly voice, a dashing infantry officer who +followed him in, as if there were now no further need for permission to +followed proved that the commander in chief at that moment was absorbed +followed singly. the footmen began moving about, chairs scraped, the +followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower +follow, for this was clearly only a prelude. +following budget: +following passage, in german, from the archduke ferdinand’s letter: +following the mass movements and general orders, and constantly studying +following the princess, whom a footman was helping into the carriage. +follows: +follows that pierre will not be pierre but will become count bezúkhov, +follows the current of his own thoughts, “things will have gone too +“folly... folly! death... lies...” he repeated, puckering his face. +food. +foolish as soon as he uttered them, while on the contrary hippolyte’s +“fool... or dummy!” he muttered. +foot, and galloped on. +footing that all who knew them, including anatole himself, respected him +footmen, and awaited each expected dish with some anxiety. everything +footmen and cooks were getting the supper, count bezúkhov had a +footsteps. pierre rose and said it was getting late. prince vasíli gave +foot to foot uncertain with which to start, then settled down, galloped +foot, which he was then touching with his own under the clavichord. +for!” +for about a minute. +for a few seconds collected his thoughts. then the russian ambassador +“forage has not been supplied to the extent...” +for a long time, always in the same fog, descending and ascending hills, +for a long time he could not utter a word, so that the rhetor had to +for a long time pierre could not understand, but when he did, he jumped +for a mere fancy?” said nicholas taking her hand. +for a moment he dozed, but in that short interval innumerable things +for an answer. his birth and position in society were not bad. “well, +for an instant, but there was no second report as he had expected. he +for anything and i never will again, nor have i ever reminded you of my +for a seat. +force had already descended into the valley toward the ponds and lakes +force their way through them with bayonets. +forefather adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be +forehead. +forehead. he went to the cot in confusion, sure that he would find it +forehead, over which was beautiful light-brown hair smelling of pomade. +forehead was moist. prince andrew touched the head with his hand; even +forehead, wetting him with her tears. then after a pause she said: +foreign cavalry with red epaulets, probably french. he could see nothing +foresight for every eventuality, every possibility even to the smallest +forestall him, threw off his fur coat and ran on tiptoe through the +“forever?” said prince andrew. “nothing’s forever.” +“forever?” said the little girl. “till death itself?” +for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second +forget all that.... she says: ‘i shall love him always, but let him be +forget. but, my dear, will you not give us a little hope of touching +forgetting that it was unbecoming for the girls to see men undressed, +forgetting that she was dancing with a grown-up partner she bent her +for girls and boys.” +“for god’s sake... i can’t walk. for god’s sake!” +forgotten. our duty, my dear, is to rectify his mistake, to ease his +forgot them. his head was burning, he felt himself bleeding to death, +forgot the sovereigns’ presence. “lads, it’s not the first village +for her. when the little princess had grown accustomed to life at bald +for him. +for him, but again pressed on him so that they jammed his leg, and those +for him, prince bagratión sat at dinner, talking with some commanding +for himself. he remembered his mother’s last letter. “what would she +for his life, but for the courage he needed and which he knew would not +for his part tried to pretend to the count that he considered these +for his reply, surrounded him, and led him to the drawing room. it was +for life, but i don’t understand that, i forget quickly.” +formed. +formed a definite idea of what an attack was and were expecting to hear +formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers +formed up at intervals, and wheeled round other similar masses of +“for me? for me?... trying for me!...” said she. +formerly in anna pávlovna’s presence, pierre had always felt that +former position after the campaign, had returned to petersburg and come +former position. a huge, broad-shouldered gunner, number one, holding +former pupil of his. +forming a complete whole with her dress, but all the charm of her body +forming up within twice the range of a musket shot. the general in +for more than anything else in the world, did not know how to approach +for more than a week preparations were being made, rough drafts of +for my sake! did you know?” +for negligence or inefficiency so staggered him that, forgetting the +“for not dilly-dallying and not hanging to a woman’s apron strings. +for petersburg alone. +for prince andrew. +for russia, for the orthodox greek faith! all that is beautiful, but +for some days in moscow and was staying as usual at his father’s +for that. yes, for that alone! i shall never tell anyone, but, oh god! +for the aged? and is it not a palpable, unquestionable good if a +for the attainment of that purpose. +for the countess.” +for the future, pierre’s journeys and occupations, the war, and so +for the good we have done them.’ father took her when she was homeless +for the hussars to retreat with the infantry. they were cut off from +“for the last time i say to you—turn all your attention upon +for the most part handsome fellows and, as is always the case in an +for themselves. +for the next battle are planned by him alone. nominally he is only an +for these simple, kindly people. +for the society of ladies, began to come often to the house, and the +for the tenth time, molière’s words: “mais que diable allait-il +for the two approaching battalions. while he was speaking, the curtain +(for they were speaking french) at least with a russian who would, he +for this failure, the enemy placed ten guns to the right of the village +for three days, and not one of them knew or imagined what was in store +fortnight’s retreat, the russian troops had halted and after a fight +“for tomorrow!” said he, quickly finding the page and making a +for trees and gullies for men and continually discovering his mistakes. +fortune. suddenly he heard a familiar voice repeating something to him a +for two days after that rostóv did not see dólokhov at his own or at +forty paces’ distance nothing could be seen. for three minutes all had + * “forty thousand men massacred and the army of our allies +for us. the field marshal looks on and waits for letters addressed +forward, and experienced great happiness. +forward and, stooping over the dying man, beckoned to lorrain from +forward beside schmidt with the bullets merrily whistling all around, +forward. “company commanders!” he shouted in a voice accustomed to +“forward, lads!” he shouted in a voice piercing as a child’s. +forward. of bolkónski, nothing was said, and only those who knew him +forward toward the old man with a forced and timid smile. +“forward, with god!” said bagratión, in a resolute, sonorous voice, +forward with unnatural speed but yet stayed on the same spot. from +“for what have you come hither?” asked the newcomer, turning in +for wine. +for your neighbor? have you ever thought of your tens of thousands +for your obstinacy,” said kírsten. +for your sake.” +found.” +found a kind of tantalizing satisfaction. +found expression in calling her maid “my dear” and speaking to her +found out, nothing discovered,” pierre again said to himself. “all +found the count with it in his hand, sobbing and laughing at the same +found them to be so tiresome that it wearied him to look at or listen to +found the prussian army. borís, speaking with deliberation, told them +four thousand strong, to the right across the hills from the krems-znaim +four times—till i get what i want. i don’t mind what they think of +“fo’ward, with god, lads!” rang out denísov’s voice. “at a +fragmentary sentences tried to explain about a doll which she produced +français,” said dolgorúkov, with grave satisfaction. “good, +francis received him standing in the middle of the room. before the +frankly, i don’t want to. i am speaking of the staff in general.” +frantically, had such an effect that they managed to squeeze through +freckled gunner in a merry voice, standing to attention. +freedom and told her that one way or another he would never cease to +freedom i could understand it and should be the first to enter the army; +free.’ isn’t that lovely and noble! yes, very noble? isn’t it?” +freemasonry presented itself to him. +free, so lighthearted! and i did not realize how happy i was! when did +french!” +french. a group of cossack scouts retired down the hill at a trot. all +french battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the +french. but this adjutant returned half an hour later with the news that +french colonel who had been taken prisoner by our dragoons. our officers +french column, with its officers leading, appeared from below the hill. +french families. he is one of the genuine émigrés, the good ones. and +french forestall him at znaim meant the exposure of his whole army to a +french, he did not know. there was no one near. +frenchman also stopped and took aim. rostóv closed his eyes and stooped +frenchman, holding him down by the sleeve in a friendly way to prevent +frenchman remembers his bayonet and stabs him....” +frenchmen, and though but a moment before he had been galloping to get +french pronunciation which she could allow herself when conversing with +french since suvórov met them. he feared that bonaparte’s genius +french, smoke appeared all along their uneven ranks, and musket shots +french, there would be great hope of saving the army; to let the +french though he spoke it badly, offered to conduct prince andrew. +french to pass him, had made a bayonet charge with two battalions and +french) to prince vasíli. “it’s not as at annette’s * receptions +french to suppose that here—in the center—the main russian forces +french troops who are being raised in france will join us, and the peace +french, turning to a general, “my husband is deserting me? he is going +french were putting out the fire which the wind was spreading, and thus +frenchwoman blushed and went away without a word. when he reached his +frenchwoman very readily and, looking at her with a smile, talked to her +fresh and pretty face yet more attractive. +fresh anecdotes were heard of individual examples of heroism shown by +freshness, an unconsciousness of her own powers, and an as yet untrained +“fr... fr...” snorted prince bolkónski. “the prince is making a +friend...” +friend.” +friend a model of perfection because prince andrew possessed in the +friend bolkónski, whom he had not seen for two years. +friend, but nicholas avoided him. with that peculiar feeling of youth, +friendly words to officers he had known in the turkish war, sometimes +friends had pledged themselves in an indissoluble alliance to uphold +friend’s hand. +friendship.” +friendship at all; i simply feel that the army is my vocation.” +“friendship laughs at distance,” began prince vasíli in his usual +friend’s look was now still more clearly expressed in the smile +friend, that i look on marriage as a divine institution to which we must +frightened here?” and the artilleryman understood him. +fright were amused by pierre’s lisp and the new words they had not +frigid politeness. +frock and hair. +from actions which would torment him afterwards.” +“‘from all my riding,’ he writes to the emperor, ‘i have got a +from all sides reports reach me,” etc. +from all sides were heard the footsteps and talk of the infantry, who +from behind. +from behind still came the shouts: “onto the ice, why do you stop? go +from denísov, rode past too, at the rear of his squadron—that is, +“from dürrenstein to krems.” +from early morning strenuous activities and efforts had begun and by ten +from early morning the smart clean troops were on the move, forming up +“from general field marshal kutúzov?” he asked. “i hope it is +from headquarters behind the village to the left, and thither rostóv +“from héloïse?” asked the prince with a cold smile that showed his +from him, and rostóv felt as in a dream that he continued to be carried +from him. “he used to have a predilection for bacchus.” +from him. “there, you see!” and he drew attention to the bullets +from him, though she knew that already, and remarked that they might +from his cheek. prince andrew forced his way to him. +from his horse in a pool of blood. nobody gave him a look or thought of +from his son. +from hollabrünn) received murat’s dispatch with the proposal of a +from home, at dinners, parties, and balls. +from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in st. petersburg, used +from laughing. +from másha, the lady’s maid, the necessary report of how handsome the +from my heart as to an old acquaintance.” +from passing, “won’t this be too much for poor uncle at a moment +from pétenka—he took part in it—and it’s all true. when +from prince andrew to the staff officer. +from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who +from that day the eldest princess quite changed toward pierre and began +from that distorted mouth issued an indistinct, hoarse sound. anna +from the army to sergéy kuzmích, in which the emperor said that he was +from the bottom of the slope, where the parleys had taken place, came +from the crumpled heap under the table would save him, now counted the +from the deafening sounds of his own guns around him, the whistle and +“from the direction, it must be the enemy,” repeated rostóv. +from the direction of olmütz in front of them, a group was seen +from the doctor to pierre. to him, in a particularly respectful and +from the drawing room. +from the field of battle with the pale and terrified ober-hofmarschal +from the folds of her frock. +from the guards just before this campaign. he behaved very well in the +from the hill. there was no one now between the squadron and the enemy +from the hints contained in his letter and given by the little princess, +from the masses around them, the smoke and the increasing fog, to see +from the ranks. a morose soldier marching on the left turned his eyes on +from the revolution leaving the people to anarchy, and napoleon alone +from the right flank, beside which the carriage passed the company, +from the shelf the first book that came to his hand (it was caesar’s +from the theater, had had supper and were grouped round the clavichord. +from the way the regimental commander saluted the commander in chief and +from the wood, mustered the men who were woodcutting, and, allowing the +from this distressful life, and leads it to its place of recompense and +from understanding—how am i to put it?—i am afraid my way of looking +from various people and retelling the town gossip. +from vienna kutúzov wrote to his old comrade, prince andrew’s father. +from vienna to znaim was shorter and better than the road for the +from weeping and sat down beside dr. lorrain, who was sitting in a +“from what i have heard,” said pierre, blushing and breaking into +“from where to where, your majesty?” +from which occasional puffs were blown by an invisible smoker. +from which spectacles have just been removed, had also a frightened and +from which the shouting came. he felt both frightened and pleased to be +from which they had dashed out so impetuously, the conversation had +front. +front and back. her bust, which had always seemed like marble to pierre, +front and men four abreast, spread across the bridge and began to emerge +front line, as if their differences would be settled there amongst the +front of the infantry, who had to wait. +front of the ranks. suddenly one shot after another rang out from the +front of us. +front. pierre stood smiling but silent. one man, older than the others +fro with dignity, offered surmises about the weather, or touched on +frowning. +frowning and silent. +frowning and taking his daughter’s hand; he did not kiss her, but only + * frühstück: breakfast. +fugitives returned, the battalions re-formed, and the french who had +fulfill the one which enjoined every mason to set an example of moral +fulfill thy will?” and scarcely had she put that question than god +full speed. rostóv, fearing to be crushed or swept into the attack on +furies and rages at everyone and everything, seizes the letters, opens +furlough after christmas to return with him to their regiment. his +further back till his curly hair touched his shirt collar, and the hand +gaiety with which zherkóv spoke, and to the intentional coldness of +gaily. +gaily, with a wide swing of his arm. +gained a step on his old comrades of the cadet corps; how in wartime +galicia he had managed to deal with the grand duke when the latter +gallantry lit up his face and as soon as the last figure of the +galloped on to the village where he was told that the commander in chief +galloped up to kutúzov and asked in the emperor’s name had the fourth +galloping toward him. they were our uhlans who with disordered +gasping voice. “where are we? in moscow, i know. i don’t matter, +gathered round nicholas in the sitting room. +gave her the answer in her own heart. “desire nothing for thyself, +“gave him leave? leave? that’s just like you young men,” said the +gave his hand to the plague-stricken; but ... but there are other acts +gave no answer, she left the room. +gave us time to retreat. the retirement of the center to the other side +gave zest to his pleasures. he spent the greater part of his time away +gavríl to pay a sleigh driver, his kissing sónya on the sly—he now +gazed at bolkónski silently with wide-open eyes. +gazed at his delicate fingers which rapidly twirled by its corners +gaze drooped his eyes sadly and again took to twirling his snuffbox. +genealogical tree, shook his head, laughing as a man laughs who looks at +general!” +general.” +general attention, and anna pávlovna felt that the novelty she had +‘general bonaparte.’” +general commotion. some eight or nine young men were crowding anxiously +general conclusion which he had arrived at from his interview with +general conversation. +general engagement in which he was taking part, more than that, he was +general expanded his chest and rode, frowning, beside him to the +general grumbled at his wife when she asked how his leg was. “oh, the +“general, i must obey orders, but i am not bound to endure...” +general, in russian, speaking with the french intonation he affected +“general kutúzov,” said bolkónski, speaking french and stressing +generally do describe it, that is, as they would like it to have been, +generally happens to the narrators of cavalry attacks had not happened +generally, prince andrew had, as he had had in petersburg society, two +generally the stronger! i know very well that count nicholas is too +general movement; that something was constantly expected of him, that if +general—of whom austria has so many—and to lay down all this heavy +general roar. +generals. +generals and statesmen of the day. the old prince seemed convinced not +generals. but one could not tell from that significant look whether he +general schmidt, who was killed in the action. his horse had been +generals in full parade uniforms, with their thin or thick waists drawn +generals in the crowded hut, feeling embarrassed as he always was by the +general’s three-cornered hat, and held it, pulling at the plume, +generals were saying. +general were talking in low voices and kutúzov smiled slightly as +general who had served blamelessly for twenty-two years, flushed by a +general who had succeeded schmidt. in the passage little kozlóvski was +general who signed that capitulation had no right to do so, and that no +general who, watch in hand, was saying it was time they started as all +genoa and lucca laying their petitions before monsieur buonaparte, and +gentle childlike smile, and hélène smiled too. +gentle look of her large luminous eyes, very beautiful at that moment, +gentleman—evidently not sharing borís’ conception of the advantages +gentleman of the bedchamber, which at that time conferred the status of +gentleman,” said the postmaster, entering the room followed by another +gentlemen changed his position on seeing borís. the one who was writing +“gentlemen, i’ll do anything. no one shall hear a word from me,” +“gentlemen, i thank you all; all arms have behaved heroically: +gentlemen, it is already time for me to go,” replied prince andrew +gentlemen, messieurs les maréchaux, * murat, lannes, and belliard, +gentlemen of the diplomatic corps. with prince hippolyte kurágin, +“gentlemen,” said dólokhov after he had dealt for some time. +‘gentlemen,’ says one of them, ‘you know the thabor bridge is +“gentlemen, the dispositions for tomorrow—or rather for today, for +“gentlemen, who wishes to bet with me? i’ll do the same thing!” +gentleness and affection. he could not refuse the post, or rather the +“gently, gently! can’t you do it more gently?” said the emperor +german accent, “for the reasson zat ze emperor knows zat. he +german—i congratulate him! i can’t make out what the commander at +germans. +germans, and everyone was convinced that a dangerous muddle had been +germans’ muddling! what stupid devils!” +gesture. anna pávlovna meditated. +“get in,” said kutúzov, and noticing that bolkónski still delayed, +get married. what about you? that’s what i want to know.” +“get onto the ice, over the ice! go on! turn! don’t you hear? go +get ready to dance in the large hall, and the sound of the feet and the +get there and fire the bridge or will the french get within grapeshot +getting up and speaking in a muffled and guttural voice. +“get well soon, lads!” he continued, turning to the soldiers. +giddy even on a staircase,” exclaimed several voices. +gilt frame, new to him, containing the genealogical tree of the princes +girl,” he sometimes said to himself “she never makes a mistake, +girlish adoration that her smile could not for a single instant impose +girls and avoiding their eyes. +girls’ voices came from the adjoining room. the door was opened a +girl would be decided that evening. the visitors were seated at supper. +girl, you and your sisters are not heiresses! if you don’t believe me, +gist of the matter lay in that. +“give him a seat,” said túshin. “lay a cloak for him to sit on, +“give me a biscuit, you devil!” +give me satisfaction...” +“give me that letter,” said kutúzov turning to prince andrew. +“give me time to collect my wits, father,” said he, with a smile +given him by the commander in chief and his fellow officers, prince +give no opinion on such an important government order, and berg laughed +given receptions) now hardly let a day go by without having an evening +given to blow it up. otherwise we should long ago have been in the +given to raise recruits, ten men in every thousand for the regular army, +gives the singles and snatches the doubles!” +giving him a mild expression, rode up to bagratión and welcomed him as +giving him full liberty to remain with him during the battle or to join +giving the messenger a significant look. +“glad to do our best!” shouted the soldiers. +“glad to do our best, your ex’len-lency!” came a confused shout +glad, very glad indeed, that my brother has distinguished himself so. +glance at all those in the room and noticing the count’s confessor +glance became more animated as his conclusions became more hopeless. +glanced angrily at berg, then, meeting his eyes, hid his face behind the +glanced askance at her husband’s face, and her own assumed the timid, +glanced at berg with a smile. +glanced up at her through tears of laughter, and again hid her face. +glances without coloring, but even the old countess and natásha blushed +glancing at prince vasíli and at her father with her beautiful eyes. +glancing for support at an officer of the suite who turned away +glancing into the drawing room, where he saw véra and his mother with +glancing up at him from under her brows, smiling, and almost crying from +glass. +glass. letting her arms fall helplessly, she sat with downcast eyes and +glass of vodka and the dinner; and the staff officer with the signet +glass, “or i won’t let you go!” +glass. she went on reading: +glass, smiled, and walked toward the other door. natásha was about to +gleamed. +glide across that lofty infinite sky! how was it i did not see that +glittering teeth and sparkling eyes. she told of an accident they had +gloom, but a dark sea swelling and gradually subsiding after a storm. +gloomy gravity and glancing round at his comrades, “there is an order +glorious task for which he was chosen. i shall await your most gracious +go. +go. +“go across to our hosts: they invited you,” added borís. +“go and apologize, your excellency. yes, go!” +“go and choose denísov. he is a real dancer, a wonder!” he said. +go and tell lise.” +god!” and without noticing that he was singing, to strengthen the si +“god be thanked that you are in time,” said she to one of the +god be with him,” thought he, relishing his own goodness of heart, +“god be with you, general!” said the emperor. +“go, dear,” said princess mary. +godfather,” she added, as if she attached no importance at all to the + * god has given it to me, let him who touches it beware! +“god has nothing to do with it! well, go on,” he continued, +“god is merciful....” +“god is merciful, birdie.” +“god is merciful, doctors are never needed,” she said. +god,” pierre went round the table and saw a large open box filled +god,” said pierre, regretfully and with an effort, feeling it +god, without whose care not a hair of man’s head can fall? +goes up to auersperg and says: ‘prince, you are being deceived, here +“go! go! killed in battle, where the best of russian men and +“go!” he repeated, amazed at himself and glad to see the look of +“go in, annette, or you will catch cold,” said the little princess, +“going?” and he went on writing. +going on, but strain his attention as he would he could not understand +going on in front. whether all the enemy forces were, as we supposed, +going straight on through the conservatory, neither seeing nor hearing +going. the emperor was wounded, the battle lost. it was impossible to +going to the cottage he occupied with denísov. +going toward the door without raising his eyes. denísov paused, thought +go into that. but consider the position in which you are placing her and +gold-embroidered velvet bag. her pretty little upper lip, on which a +golden.”) he cast happy, sidelong glances at his son from under his +golítsyn and he has refused. be the kindhearted man you always were,” +“go, my dear fellow, and see whether the third division has passed the +gone out of the conservatory she followed and called borís to her. +gone, pierre did not go to bed or order horses but paced up and down +“gone? that’s all right!” said he; and looking angrily at the +“gone to bed?” asked the prince. +“gone to bed,” replied the voice of demyán the house steward, who +good and noble in you will be lost. it will all be wasted on trifles. +good as to look at the map and listen.” langeron lifted his eyes with +“good-by.” +good-by!” +“good-by, my dear fellow,” said túshin. “dear soul! good-by, my +“good-by, my dear,” said she to the countess who saw her to the +good gifts? are you content with yourself and with your life?” + * “good god, what simplicity!” +“good health...” +good horse, bedouin, and sitting as though falling backwards in the +good luck.” +good-natured, sincere, and animated levity. “but you see... another +goodness, to give us as sovereign! to say nothing of my brothers, this +“good news!... go on!” he shouted to the driver, and they galloped +good news? there has been an encounter with mortier? a victory? it was +good news, though schmidt’s death is a heavy price to pay for the +“good night, lise,” said he, rising and courteously kissing her hand +good old days. denísov, flushed after the mazurka and mopping himself +good part. +“good!” said the rhetor quickly, apparently satisfied with +good stories about her, while none the less all without exception +good thing really.” +“go on! go on! give it them!” he mentally exclaimed at these sounds, +“go on, go on!” said the major. +“go on, you must drink it all,” said anatole, giving pierre the last +goot to come to ze front and see dat zis position iss no goot? i don’t +got back to their horses. two were misdirected and the shot went too +go? that way is nearer.” +“go!” the quivering voice repeated. and prince vasíli had to go +go there anyhow and i have already spoken to him about you. we shall +go through your performance.” +got into bed, all kept awake a long time that night. +“go, tit! thresh a bit!” +“go, tit, thresh a bit!” said the wag. +go to him himself, and tell him what ought to be done in a tone of +“gott, wie naiv!” * said he angrily, after he had gone a few steps. +got up and said something to the ladies. anna mikháylovna stepped +government officials to his table, had unexpectedly selected michael +gown, he went to the couch on which he slept. +grabern. on the left our troops were close to a copse, in which smoked +graceful and muscular arms and neck. by the grace of her movements, +graceful pose under a portrait of catherine, leaning his elbow on a +“gracious heavens! the young count!” he cried, recognizing his +grandee of catherine’s time who now lay dying in moscow. the young man +grandfather called him). the baby prince nicholas lived with his wet +grandfather, wore it in all his wars.” (she still did not take out +grand! look at the smoke, the smoke!” exclaimed the artillerymen, +granted. +“‘grant leave to retire to his country seat to an old man who is +grant.” nor did he say to himself: “pierre is a rich man, i must +grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his +grapeshot.” +grateful for the benefits conferred on them. everywhere were receptions, +grateful look, but was still expectant and looking for someone. the old +grave, moment i did not tell you the whole truth. i think there is no +gravity!” +gray everyday dress. now please, do it for my sake. katie,” she said +grayish color. +gray overcoats, wounds, the smoke of gunpowder, the sounds of firing, +great; all he could hear was: “ahahah!” and “rrrr!” +great and talking eagerly. as soon as they saw pierre and his companion +great deal from the deceased,” said prince vasíli to him, handing him +great deal. of the two soups he chose turtle with savory patties and +greater part of the enemy’s opened out from this battery. just facing +greater reasons.” +greater zeal than his duty as a commander. thanks to the strictness and +great favor to ask of you.” +great haste and in the greatest disorder. the road was so obstructed +great man! let us drink to his health and to the certain defeat of the +great many officers like him were always coming there and that everybody +greatness....” +greatness of soul?” said the little princess, smiling and drawing her +greatness, the unimportance of life which no one could understand, and +great sin. how can one judge father? but even if one might, what feeling +greediness that he wanted it, but simply from a conscientious desire for +greeting was riding quickly. when the soldiers of the regiment in front +grew still kinder. the younger sisters also became affectionate to him, +grew still louder and merged into a general roar that only an army +grew weary waiting to be relieved. prince andrew halted to have a look +grieved him and yet he was pleased. +grieving at the misfortunes of our common cause, or we are merely +grimace. “i have long wanted to ask you, andrew, why you have changed +groaning aloud and swinging his arm which had just been hurt, while +groans, which seemed to melt into one with the darkness of the night. +ground, artillery and troops in blue uniform were seen. these were the +ground, eager to rejoin its fellows, he watched his squadron draw +ground like cliffs and slopes. anywhere, on any side, one might +ground ten paces apart to mark the barrier. it was thawing and misty; at +group of men with yellow shakos, dark-green jackets braided with cord, +group where the vicomte was still talking, and again pretended to +grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the +growing ever stronger and fuller and merging into a deafening roar. +growing excited. “what about your son, your sister, and your +growing impatient, and stamped her foot, ready to cry at his not coming +growing louder and more frequent. evidently our guns had begun to reply. +grown furious, now at borís, now at bolkónski. “yes, many stories! +grown-up young people: véra beside berg, and pierre beside borís; and +guard. +guard and line regiments, russian and austrian. among them were grooms +guards?” asked napoleon. +guards charged, followed the line of reserves, going far round the place +guards. here is my hand on it. are you satisfied?” +guards passed rostóv before he heard them shout, “hurrah!” and +guards. prince andrew came up to him and took his hand. +guards, that they not only did not wish to, but simply could not, be +guards, wearing a cocked hat with its peaks front and back, with his +guards with the rank of cornet. he received, however, no appointment +guessing rostóv’s thought. +guess what he wanted; she pointed first to pierre, then to some drink, +guest of honor and hero of the austrian campaign, prince bagratión, to +guest. “poor girl, she’s devilish ugly!” thought anatole. +guests joined in. everyone laughed, not at márya dmítrievna’s answer +guests. natásha, who sat opposite, was looking at borís as girls of +guests returned to the drawing room and to the count’s study. +guests were all conversing with one another. “the razumóvskis... it +guests were and exchanging glances with natásha, who was sitting +guidance. the universal experience of ages, showing that children do +gun, a horse), from the sight of all these things a fantastic world of +gun carriage. a cossack who accompanied him had handed him a knapsack +gunner with his shako knocked awry, pulling one end of a mop while +guns. on the contrary, the energetic action of that battery led the +guns on the hillock. +guns smashed, and no supports at all.” +gut morgen!” * he said winking with a merry smile, evidently pleased +habit of ridiculing the masonic beliefs—“i am afraid i am very far +habit of walking, had been swept: the marks of the broom were still +habitual, offering his puffy cheek, but bagratión kissed him on the +habitual to him. his face took on the stupid artificial smile (which +had accumulated at the sight of all that was being done in the army. +had also convinced the sovereign emperors of. +had always imagined battles to himself), nor could he help to fire the +had always seemed to him that he really was very kind and intelligent. +had any news. on their familiar faces he read agitation and alarm. +had apparently been running), “and i did so wish to have another talk +had a splendid march. you know, of course, that his imperial highness +had become more intimate when prince andrew was in vienna with kutúzov. +had been added to mademoiselle bourienne’s toilet which rendered her +had been carried out and in what state were the serfs whom god had +had been decided to advance immediately and give battle to bonaparte. +had been doing, as though it were all an old-time story, and he listened +had been got ready for him, glancing now and then at the newcomer, who, +had been increased by a half. and so pierre was delighted with his visit +had been insulted through his daughter. the insult was the more pointed +had been killed at the beginning of the engagement and within an hour +had been killed or not and whether the cannon had been captured or +had been playing cards with the majority of the more distinguished and +had been put in position?” +had been repulsed, employing this military term to describe what had +had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook prince +had been spilled on the carpet. they were met by a deacon with a censer +had been struck on the teeth, or what the ham had to do with it. +had broken up the french troops. +had changed greatly during that period. in the expression of his face, +had come from the left flank where their regiment was stationed, with +had come into pierre’s room after the funeral. with drooping eyes +had conquered, settled down in an armchair, inviting prince vasíli to +had crossed that line and not only was there nothing terrible, but +had done in petersburg at anna schérer’s reception. +had driven the old prince to town returned bringing papers and letters +had endured to gain her end. +had entered and left the town with their bands playing, and by the grand +had entered. the most solemn mystery in the world continued its course. +had evidently been drinking. +had fallen the previous day—the day of the battle. reviewing his +had first learned to say “pear” and then “granny,” that this son +had first seen the enemy and fired the first shot, and that the corner +had fixed on that number because forty-three was the sum of his and +had followed, and only the heavens promised peace. toward morning +had followed him like an eagle, three steps at a time. having received +had foreseen. prince andrew, out of breath with his rapid ride, spoke +had grown so dark that one could not distinguish the uniforms ten paces +had had in anna pávlovna’s drawing room. pierre removed his feet from +had had to retreat and had made their withdrawal in perfect order. the +had happened during that half-hour to the troops entrusted to him, and +had happened to him, but could not do so. such a storm of feelings, +had happened. what had happened? nothing. he had merely understood that +had heard that a rumor of his duel had reached the emperor and that it +had he repented of his unbelief? was he now there? there in the realms +had instantly noticed her brother’s condition. but, though she noticed +had killed five frenchmen, a third had loaded five cannon singlehanded. +had left her kindly and tear-worn face and it now expressed only anxiety +had left paris and how he had liked that city. anatole answered the +had never been to blame, might be held responsible at headquarters +had no connection with the matter in hand. his haggard face was yellow. +had not been time to move. the emperor, surrounded by his suite +had not exasperated the vicomte, and had convinced herself that it was +had not finished saying what was necessary, thudded into the ground near +had no time. he was afraid of falling behind the hussars, so much afraid +had not known it i should not have addressed you. your view of life is a +had not left prince vasíli’s and felt with terror that in people’s +had not only held the field but had repulsed the french. though the +had not told all and that there was something in his feelings for the +had not worn for a long time, he went into bilíbin’s study fresh, +had not yet begun. not wishing to agree to dolgorúkov’s demand to +had not yet come home when rostóv rode back early in the morning from +had not yet entered either the military or civil service, as he had only +“hadn’t i better ride over, your excellency?” asked nesvítski. +had only met once before for a short time at his wedding, were in +had on the spásski hill which might have been serious for her in her +had perished by his own magnanimity, and that there were particular +had persisted in his request to kutúzov, arrived at grunth and reported +had played a little air with variations on the harp, she joined the +had prevailed. she drew her brother’s attention to the maid who was +had produced a good epigram, a fresh one that would be repeated. his +had reached braunau at the same time, was in splendid condition. there +had read, and listened to what was passing in the nursery. suddenly he +had read thus far, he crumpled the letter up and threw it away. it was +had revealed to him. a week after his arrival, the young polish count, +had ridden up to him in a violent passion, shouting: “arnauts!” +had seemed as extraordinary to her as if there had never existed the +had sent in good time to moscow for a doctor and were expecting him at +had slept badly that night, those around him reported. the cause of this +had stopped beside the dead men, ran to catch up his line and, falling +had sunk, her lip was drawn up, and her eyes drawn down. +had the air of a man happily performing one of the most solemn duties of +had the air of one who has suddenly lost faith in the whole human race. +had the ear of the company. +had then said. +“had there been no bagratión, it would have been necessary to +had uttered them. +ha, ha, ha! mary!” +hair above his broad forehead which reminded one of a lion, and the deep +hairs painfully in the knot. then he drew his face down, kissed him, and +ha!” laughed prince bolkónski, and anatole laughed still louder. +half an hour later, the rhetor returned to inform the seeker of the +half-closed eyes gave still more persuasiveness to his words. the staff +half-closed eyes he looked at rostóv, bowed slightly and wearily, and +halfway. fine orders!” was being repeated on different sides. +halfway through supper prince andrew leaned his elbows on the table and, +half whisper, “everyone knows count cyril’s reputation.... he has +hall all sat waiting, silently and alert. in the outlying serfs’ +“hallo, gwíska—my pipe!” came vasíli denísov’s husky voice. +hall, where denísov was sitting on the same chair by the clavichord +halted. prince andrew was behind, among the immense number forming the +halted, the austrian argued that not he, but the higher command, was to +hand and said, “come.” pierre went with her to the bed on which the +hand. and there,” he pointed to a sutler’s tent, “they crowd in +handed him, smiled at dólokhov’s words, and with a sinking heart, +handful of scoundrels. it will soon be over, it can’t be that, it +hand he drew bagratión toward him, and with his right, on which he wore +hand he held carefully back, because he wished to support his right +hand. “how did you get here?” said he, turning to zherkóv. +hand in passing and draw it downwards, or absent-mindedly hold out his +handkerchief, and pipe. +handkerchief and rushed from the room. +handkerchiefs to their eyes, and just in front of them their eldest +handkerchief to his wounded cheek and pointing to the fleeing soldiers. +hand, lay prince andrew bolkónski bleeding profusely and unconsciously +handleless cup before a table on which tea and a cold supper were laid +hand, rode up smiling to the emperor to congratulate him on the victory. +hands. +hands....” +hands.” +hands and occasionally ran his eyes over the score against him. he had +hands asking for their blessing, and that he kissed véra, natásha, and +hands, he looked more closely at the ring, with its skull—a masonic +hand she went up to her husband and kissed him on the forehead. +hands high, shied, throwing back its ears; but the pockmarked guardsman +hands. “just fancy, he didn’t let me win a single cahd, not one +hands, looked attentively into prince vasíli’s eyes evidently +handsome and a terrible scapegrace. that is all i have been able to find +handsome, happy young face, he experienced a feeling of tenderness +handsome open face of the man who might perhaps be her husband absorbed +handsome young officer entering his room. pierre paused. he had left +hands that are unclean.” while the grand master said these last words +hands. then, sighing, he added: “my son’s fate is in your hands. +hands were symmetrically placed on the green silk quilt, the palms +hands which show the time, so the result of all the complicated human +hand that was free, and turning sideways felt the pulse and reflected +hand them to the emperor after my death. now here is a lombard bond +hand to her heart, with a beatific smile and obviously equally ready to +hand to his ear toward weyrother, with the air of a man absorbed in +hand, was clearing manure from the cowhouse, looked out, and his face +hand with it and knew he must not do so. having advanced six paces and +handwriting. on receiving it, he ran on tiptoe to his study in alarm and +hanged,” said prince andrew with a smile. “so i am serving because +hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her +hanging his head, meekly followed her. + * “hang these russians!” +happened, he was said to be insanely jealous and subject like his +happened to touch. mademoiselle bourienne stood near them pressing her +happened to you in moscow was a misfortune.”—“i regret it very +happening in front of him. nesvítski with an angry face, red and unlike +happen!” she said, looking at herself in the glass. “how shall i +happen to them when they were free, but he insisted, though reluctantly, +happiest, merriest times for him and the whole family. nicholas brought +happiness and of children, but her strongest, most deeply hidden longing +happiness), feeling the eager bustle around him, and hearing the fitful +happiness or peace of mind. can anything in the world make her or me +happiness possible, and that is just what you want to deprive him of. +happiness. the old princess sighed sadly as she offered some wine to the +happy and smiling. véra was playing chess with shinshín in the drawing +happy smile, ambling lightly up to the count’s niece. “i have come, +happy world of his own. she fancied a child, her own—such as she had +harder from behind. +hard.... for ages, from our forefather adam to our own day, we labor to +hardly able to restrain her tears and maintain the artificial smile +hardly had borís gone than sónya, flushed, in tears, and muttering +hardly had prince andrew started than he stopped him. +“hardly,” said bagratión. “i saw them this evening on that +harnessed and packed the wagons and tied on the loads. the adjutants and +“has anything come from andrew?” she asked. +“has anything happened?” she asked. “i am so terrified.” +has beaten the germans. they beat no one—except one another. he made +has blundered looks at an examiner. +has come down to us from the remotest ages, even from the first man—a +“has he taken his medicine?” +has his stand, and there’s zakhár himself and still the same horse! +has married his first cousin. and we are only second cousins, you know. +“hasn’t been in since the evening. must have been losing,” +has picked up an ax: “we are used to it, but you, sir, will blister +“has prince vasíli aged much?” asked the countess. “i have not +has proposed to sónya!” +has received a letter and is expecting a visit from prince vasíli. in +has retained in full force.” +has so many relatives in moscow! so you are borís? of course. well, now +hastening her steps. “you young ladies should not know anything about +haste, trying to escape notice, closed the door, and began to read the +“has the snow been shoveled back?” +has to be cunning and cruel.” +hast thou denied?” he suddenly asked with exulting austerity and +have always, thank god, been my children’s friend and had their full +have a room of your own,” and she took the inkstand from nicholas. +have been as good as weyrother’s, but for the disadvantage that +have been difficult to stop that crowd, it was even impossible not to +have certainly acquired a taste for war, and it is just as well for me; +have dared to say so, knew it and blushed scarlet every time dólokhov +have done for us.” +have done the same!...” thought princess mary. +have done your best to increase his mental sufferings.” +have frightened you—sit down and tell me all the news.” +have gone through,” and she sympathetically turned up her eyes. +have heard the sobs. it seems as though mankind has forgotten the +have it, young man, i’m going.” +have just this moment received by special messenger very joyful +have killed so many that there’d have been a heap of them.” +have liked to sympathize with what pierre was saying, but could not. +have looked at it. take it. well, now go. go.” +have, my dear! i tasted it. the thousand rubles i paid for tarás were +have nothing to complain of.” +have obliged me to give this refusal.” +have of hope and strength merely weighs you down and torments you with +have received another letter about the preussisch-eylau battle +have received very little, prince vasíli nothing, and it is monsieur +have said. and he was still more angry at having omitted to say it. he +have seen how he said it! i know he did not mean to say it, but it came +“have some brought from the reserve,” said napoleon, and having gone +have something to eat.” +have something to tell you. here, here!” and she led him into the +have stayed longer.” +have the carriage to drive to town: +have the courier horses. it was plain that he was lying and only wanted +have to call in the french, so that birds of a feather may fight +have to go in and ask the princesses; and from there go on to the +have to prove to them what he had not merely convinced himself of, but +have two footmen behind her carriage, and very big ones. that was her +have virtuous aims,” said pierre, feeling ashamed of the inadequacy + have we not bagratión? +“have you a complaint to make?” kutúzov asked with a slight frown. +“have you?” he said. “well, how did it go?” +“have you never thought of marrying your prodigal son anatole?” she +“have you told them to bring the horse?” asked telyánin, getting up +having become entangled in the saddle. where our men were, and where the +having by a great effort got away to the left from that flood of men, +having cleared the way denísov stopped at the end of the bridge. +having convinced himself that he was asleep, took up a paper and in +having descended the hill at a trot, he no longer saw either our own or +having disentangled his leg, he rose. “where, on which side, was now +having entered the courtyard of a large house where the lodge had its +having galloped safely through the french, he reached a field behind +having given orders to his company, sent a soldier to find a dressing +having given several more orders, he was about to go to his “little +having given them to the rosy natásha, who beamed with the pleasure +having glanced through the dispatch he laid it on the table and looked +having jerked out these last words as soldiers do and waved his arms +having led him about ten paces, willarski stopped. +having left that soldier who was evidently drunk, rostóv stopped the +having lifted her head and let her arms droop lifelessly, as ballet +having lost a single man. the second squadron that had been in the front +having mounted drew himself up very straight and tall and rode to the +having passed the guards and traversed an empty space, rostóv, to avoid +having passed uvárov’s cavalry he clearly heard the sound of cannon +having reached the left flank, instead of going to the front where the +having read thus far, princess mary sighed and glanced into the mirror +having rested after yesterday’s march, were sitting, clean and neatly +having ridden ahead, had pulled up his horse near the bridge, with a +having ridden beyond the village, continually meeting and overtaking +having ridden round the whole line from right flank to left, prince +having said this laughed. everyone turned toward him. +having said this, napoleon rode on to meet marshal lannes, who, hat in +having said this she went up to the doctor. +having something to eat. they hastily turned round to him asking if he +having stuck an amber mouthpiece far into his mouth, was inhaling the +having thanked anna pávlovna for her charming soiree, the guests began +having turned with words of comfort to her companion, realized that +head. +head and an army of fifteen thousand men has been ordered to blow up +head and at the little arms and legs which showed under the blanket. he +head and lips indicating very little hope for the patient. +head. as he rode up to the camp he thought how he would impress borís +head, but the instant he turned to prince andrew the firm, intelligent +head cook, about asparagus, fresh cucumbers, strawberries, veal, and +he added as if speaking to himself. +he added: “but beware, dear brother, that these gloves do not deck +he added: “i need good officers myself, need them myself!” +he added that prince vasíli was also there. when tíkhon came to her +head in perplexity—perhaps because the banner really interested him, +head, laughing with an officer who had sat down beside him. a third was +headlong after anna mikháylovna and, dashing at her, flung herself on +headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead +headlong to the horse. “walk him up and down, my dear fellow,” he +head, pulled it off, and showed the blood congealed on his hair. +headquarters, and having ascended a dark staircase, they entered a small +headquarters. but on the afternoon of that day, this activity reached +headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that +headquarters was still under the spell of the day’s council, at which +head sadly, pointing them out to the austrian general with an expression +head (the pains had just left her). strands of her black hair lay round +health?” +health?” +“health and happiness to her whose name day we are keeping and to her +health of our sovereign, the emperor!” he roared, “hurrah!” and +“health to your ex... len... len... lency!” and again all became +health was drunk, pierre, lost in thought, did not rise or lift his +healthy body, and all the affection and care of his family. “and why +he always thought only of whatever he was engaged on. +“he always was rather harsh; and now i should think he’s getting +heard.” +heard, and again something in his face twitched—“that is just why +heard, and much farther to the right beyond the dragoons, the officer of +heard, and out of the foggy darkness the figure of a sergeant of hussars +heard a rustle behind him and a shadow appeared under the curtain of +heard before, others simply enjoyed hearing how the master talked, while +heard curses on bonaparte, “the enemy of mankind.” militiamen and +heard distinctly. +heard musket fire quite close in front of him and behind our troops, +heard on every side. +heard respectfully congratulating the dying man on having received the +heard that the war was being discussed had turned from his partner with +heard them, and we shall all do our duty. but before a battle, there is +heard the quick rustle of the countess’ dress. she came up to them. +heard the words as he might have heard the buzzing of a fly. not only +heard this sónya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable +heard, your honor, that a minister is coming to visit your honor.” +hearers—who like himself had often heard stories of attacks and had +hearing how ill he is.” +hearing or understanding her own words, what she had told hundreds of +hearing that cry and seeing to whom it was addressed, nesvítski and the +hearing that they wished to see the count, said his excellency was worse +hearing these words her face changed and something brightened in her +hearing with pleasure the whistle of bullets evidently aimed at him. +heart in the presence of the unfathomable did not lessen but increased. +heart. “it has begun! here it is, dreadful but enjoyable!” was what +heartrending scene.... it was a convoy of conscripts enrolled from our +heart! you are a madame de genlis and nothing more” (this nickname, +he, as if bragging of having been frightened. +he asked, “whose company?” but he really meant, “are you +“he asked you, and vasíli dmítrich * is also going.” +heated horses, exchanging remarks and smiling, had stopped behind the +“heaven knows what a fright might do.” +“heaven only knows, my dear! these rich grandees are so selfish. +“heaven only knows what the people here may imagine,” muttered +“heavens! what a virulent attack!” replied the prince, not in the +heavy convoys (whose movements were concealed from the french) advance +he began pacing the room. the screaming ceased, and a few more seconds +he began the rescript again and again, but as soon as he uttered +he bowed his head and scraped first with one foot and then with the + he brings foemen to their knees,... etc. +he called the cossack with his horse, told him to put away the knapsack +he came to the point at once, treating her ceremoniously. +he can’t help plowing and mowing; if he didn’t, he would go to the +he caught a momentary glimpse between their heads and backs of the dying +he cautiously released the shoulder she leaned on, looked into her face, +he chanced to meet dólokhov’s handsome insolent eyes, pierre felt +he checked himself, fearing to seem naïve, yet he felt an irresistible +“he chose his friends badly,” interposed anna mikháylovna. +he closed his eyes, and immediately a sound of cannonading, of musketry +he clutched at his head. “who is going to get me the flowers? dmítri! +he commanded was in an almost hopeless position. the spy reported that +he consoled himself. “and besides, what have i done to bring it about? +he continued to pace the room, looking gloomily at denísov and the +he could from a frenchman into the wood. besides, to tell everything as +“he could not do that. the people only gave him power that he might +he could not finish, and ran out of the room. +he could not look calmly at the standards of the passing battalions. +he could not stop short for the sake of one man’s life.” +he could see puffs of musketry smoke that seemed to chase one another +he described the whole campaign with a fearless self-censure and +he did not do it he would grieve and disappoint many people, but if he +(he did not even dare to dream of that), but simply to die before his +he did not find prince andrew in olmütz that day, but the appearance of +he did not finish his sentence, but his tone showed how highly he diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-6/1M-tr-seq-sort-par/1M-tr-seq-sort-par-01 b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-6/1M-tr-seq-sort-par/1M-tr-seq-sort-par-01 new file mode 100644 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whole party. the wax candles burned brightly, the +he entered the drawing room with his usual alert step, glancing rapidly +“he exists, but to understand him is hard,” the mason began again, +he feels sure he will distinguish himself. he was glancing at everyone +he felt himself to be. at the right beat of the music he looked sideways +he felt that at a single word from that man all this vast mass (and he +he felt that this did not forward matters at all. he felt that these +he filled the girls’ albums with verses and music, and having at last +he. “fine, very fine! you have done up your hair in this new way for +he finished and, getting up, embraced and kissed pierre, who, with tears +he glanced at his cousin and the young lady visitor; and they were both +he glanced round at her. she gave him a passionately angry glance, and +he, going to the door and looking into the nursery. +he got his wound. this pleased rostóv and he began talking about it, +he had already promised prince anatole to come to his gathering; +“he had another stroke about half an hour ago. courage, my +he had been beside the gun, he had heard the voices of the officers +he had been ordered to look for the commander in chief, he could not, +he had but recently left their regiment, rode up to the colonel. +he had evidently not slept that night. he looked about distractedly and +he had just remembered his recent encounter with the doctor’s wife and +he had lain there some time, he was told to get up, and a white leather +he had left. all the others let him go, and he ran to her. when they +he had left petersburg, and wrote enthusiastic letters to his +he had met that evening. +he had not finished the last verse before the young people began to +he had not thought about it until that moment. the officers’ laughter +he had often before, during the last six weeks, remained alone with her, +he had pierre at hand in moscow and procured for him an appointment as +he had ready in his mind, of all he knew and had seen. but the emperor +he had ridden about two miles and had passed the last of the russian +he had said absent-mindedly: “yes, she’s good looking,” he had +he had the hofs-kriegs-wurst-schnapps-rath on his hands. it would have +he had to do, not with fools, but with men who could teach him something +he had too long been thinking of so painfully to the exclusion of all +he half rose, meaning to go round, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox, +“he has been set down. he died,” replied someone. +“he has forty thousand men at most,” replied weyrother, with the +“he has made wills enough!” quietly remarked the princess. “but he +“he has perspired,” said prince andrew. +“he has weported himself sick, he’s to be stwuck off the list +he hated her and was forever sundered from her. despite denísov’s +he heard some french spoken he at once began speaking to the officers, +“he higher iss dan i in rank,” said the german colonel of the +he himself was pining for the dear princess, and how she showed him the +height on which the kiev regiment was stationed, in the hollow where the +height without the smallest effort, his ease contrasting with the heavy +he imagined himself as an enormously tall, powerful man who was throwing +he imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he +he immediately dispatched adjutant general wintzingerode, who was in +he implored rostóv to go on and prepare her. +he indicated a place beside him to his daughter-in-law. a footman moved +he involuntarily remembered how dólokhov, who had fully recovered his +heiress in the same way. all this might, he thought, turn out very well +“he is a great tactician!” said the prince to his son, pointing to +“he is a man in a gray overcoat, very anxious that i should call +he is an aide-de-camp of kutúzov’s and will be here tonight.” +“he is a nervous, bilious subject,” said larrey, “and will not +“he is a very, very nice, honest, and pleasant fellow,” answered +he is better acquainted than anyone else, does not listen to others but +he is bóry’s godfather—and allow him something for his maintenance, +“he is dozing,” said anna mikháylovna, observing that one of the +“he is just the same as ever,” replied anna mikháylovna, +“he is leaving me here, god knows why, when he might have had +“he is no more....” +“he is not to be apprehended by reason, but by life,” said the +“he is one of the most remarkable, but to me most unpleasant of +he is so frank and has so much heart. he is so pure and poetic that +he is uncle’s aide-de-camp, a most brilliant position. he is so +“he is very much altered now,” said anna mikháylovna. “well, as +he jumped up at the sound of her light step. +he kept nodding to show that he understood, anatole went on translating +he knew no one, and despite his smart guardsman’s uniform, all these +he knew this at that moment as surely as if he had been standing at the +“he knows of course what this loss means to me. he can’t want my +he lacked that strength of will which he had known in himself and really +he laughed in his usual dry, cold, unpleasant way, with his lips only +he. “laughing at us old fellows!” +he lay down on the leather sofa in front of a round table, put his big +he lay down on the sofa meaning to fall asleep and forget all that +held. all the commanders of columns were summoned to the commander in +held it below her waist. +held it till evening and have gone in to dinner with it) and drew his +held out his cheek. +held the hand of his betrothed in silence, looking at her beautiful +he leaned his elbows on the table with his pen in his hand and, +he leaned his whole massive body across the table. +he left the room and went to the waiting room where alpátych stood with +hélène.” +hélène, and that thought both alarmed him, as if some obligation were +“hélène!” he said aloud and paused. +hélène nor she at him. but she was just as terribly close to him. he +hélène raised her voice and became more and more excited, “a man +hélène sat silently side by side almost at the bottom of the table, a +hélène. “separate! that’s a thing to frighten me with!” +hélène’s face became terrible, she shrieked and sprang aside. his +hélène’s hand several times. after a while they were left alone +hélène smiled, with a look implying that she did not admit the +hélène’s presence (as a lover should be), but had not yet proposed +hélène still sat talking just as before. +hélène, then she turned to pierre with the same words of welcome +hélène turned to pierre with the beautiful bright smile that she gave +“he lets one win the singles and collahs it as soon as one doubles it; +he listened and heard the sound of approaching horses, and voices +he looked intently and inquiringly into his friend’s eyes, evidently +he looked straight at prince andrew and suddenly unwrinkled his +he looked very grim he said nothing to anyone. +he looked with disdain at the endless confused mass of detachments, +help being aware of it, just as we cannot renew an illusion we have once +“help comes from god alone,” he said, “but such measure of help as +“help him up. sit down, dear fellow, sit down! spread out the cloak, +helplessly and he made a fruitless effort to pull it forward. whether he +helplessly on the sofa. +helplessly spread out, stood with his broad chest directly facing +help, would inform her. +he made himself when going into battle, and he was more amiable to the +he made up his mind that prince andrew had been killed, and though he +he marked the figures in his clear, bold hand. +he meant to do, and abandoning herself to him followed his lead hardly +he met nesvítski, with whom he shared a room, and the wag zherkóv; +he might be, did not expect. he was so used to submitting to prince +he might... not only might but should, have gone up to the sovereign. it +he moved as if to rise. the generals bowed and retired. it was past +“he must first receive the trowel,” whispered one of the brothers. +he must retreat as quickly as possible behind the hollow in the rear, +he must think that i, too, am afraid of him—and in fact i am afraid of +he need only have bent his head a little to have touched them. he was +he needs money for food; the man said an officer had once given him a +he never could appreciate it. no, mon cousin,” she added with a sigh, +he noticed everything...” +he only gave an order to cease firing and re-form, so as to give room +he opened his eyes and looked up. the black canopy of night hung less + he ought to be firing at the enemy. +he passed it. pierre began to feel a sense of uneasiness, and the +he patted her on the shoulder and himself closed the door after her. +he paused a little while. +he paused, and just as he was about to say something more, another ball +he paused and sighed, evidently trying to calm himself. +he paused, his gaze still on pierre, and moved aside on the sofa by way +he pointed to the french guns, the limbers of which were being detached +he pointed with a smile to a turreted nunnery, and his eyes narrowed and +he pulled off the quilt and shook it. the purse was not there. +he put on the air of one who finds it impossible to reply to such +he quickly entered the small reception room with its still-unplastered +her. +her. +her. +he raised both arms as if carefully lifting some invisible but precious +her already,” he said, evidently trying to entertain a visitor with +her and about to crush her was some terrible misfortune, the worst +her and for himself, and in a nervously emotional and softened mood he +her as a distant beauty far removed from him, as he had seen her every +her badge as maid of honor. the youthful little princess bolkónskaya, +her beauty and her remarkable skill in appearing silently dignified in +her because you must, and that wouldn’t do at all.” +her brother shook his head incredulously. +her companions’ not having the least conception that it could be +“here at least we shall have the benefit of your company all to +here,” came the voice of an hussar, past whom rostóv was riding in +here? don’t you see the skirmishers are retreating? lead the squadron +he reeled and sank on the snow. +here!” exclaimed different voices; and the heavy breathing of the +he reflected, “there is no riding round it now. i must look for the +“here he is at last!” shouted rostóv. “and berg too! oh, you +“here he is... our own... kólya, * dear fellow... how he has +“here, in that house,” answered the adjutant. +here, is he not? please announce me.” +here is now settled, and i ought to have been off long ago. here is +here is one from his highness the archduke ferdinand and here are +“here is our dear orthodox russian army,” thought bolkónski, +“here is some sort of key to the mysteries that your héloïse has +“here it is! the decisive moment has arrived. my turn has come,” +“here it is!” thought he, seizing the staff of the standard and +here i’ve brought the prince’s wedding candles to light before his +he remembered his honeymoon and blushed at the recollection. +(he remembered that in french there is some peculiar way of addressing a +he remembered the expression dólokhov’s face assumed in his moments +here on friday.” +he repeated, accentuating the u: “i think, however, now that he lays +here prince hippolyte paused, evidently collecting his ideas with +here prince hippolyte spluttered and burst out laughing long before his +here, run away, bury myself somewhere?” passed through his mind. but +here’s another admirer of that powder-monkey emperor of yours,” he +“here’s something for you to report,” said zherkóv. “see if i +“here’s to the health of lovely women, peterkin—and their +here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an +here. where is it?” he asked, turning to lavrúshka. +her eyes, and then quickly went to his place and sat down. “sit down, +her eyes became serious. at that moment she was oblivious of her +her eyes off him, and smiling and holding her breath. he gave her a +her eyes were smiling expectantly, her downy lip rose and remained +her face, and then immediately he saw beside her dólokhov’s handsome, +her face became sad. +her face suddenly flushed with reckless and joyous resolution. she half +her fate was decided and happily decided. but what her father had said +“her father is very rich and stingy. he lives in the country. he is +her father was tidy. she put down the geometry book and eagerly broke +her favorite sonata bore her into a most intimately poetic world and +her foot into the other. sónya, when he came in, was twirling round and +her foot—which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual +her forehead. his fine eyes lit up with a thoughtful, kindly, and +her friend as if she did not consider her worthy to hear what she meant +her friend, the princess’ eyes—large, deep and luminous (it seemed +her glittering eyes, filled with childlike fear and excitement, rested +her guests, first the vicomte and then the abbé, as peculiarly choice +her handkerchief too. pierre was kissed, and he kissed the beautiful +her handsome eldest daughter were in the drawing room with the visitors +her head and continued in a whisper: “has he performed his final duty, +her head toward the darkness of the open doorway. +her heart. happy the man who wins her! with her the least worldly of men +her. how often when considering her character i have told myself that +her husband looked at her as if surprised to notice that someone besides +her in five minutes before and, despite the fixed eyes and the pallor of +her inflamed and perspiring cheeks, her charming rosy mouth with its +her lip descended. she brought her face close to her sister-in-law’s +her little nephew as best she could. mademoiselle bourienne, too, seemed +her long hair came down....” here he could contain himself no +her mother and burst into such a loud, ringing fit of laughter that even +her mother, quite excited. +her neck. +her neck as soon as she overtook her in the sitting room. +hero himself with his paltry vanity and joy in victory appear, +heroism!” +hero less on earth.” +her over his spectacles. +her own on the subject. +her path. +her plainly as she is, or else you will make a cruel and irrevocable +her—please don’t! it is too painful for her!” +her, rostóv thought, but just now there were so many other pleasures +her?” said the old prince angrily. “what an idea! i’m ready for it +her seducer when she loved him?” he thought. “god could not have put +“herself,” came the answer in a rough voice, and márya dmítrievna +herself disinterestedly at the head of an alliance having for its object +herself! glad to throw her father over! and she knew i should notice +herself in a white satin dressing gown embroidered with silver and with +herself in here for? but i will give her a piece of my mind. the time +herself should she glance round. anna mikháylovna, with a meek, +herself wish to die, that his end was not only touching but edifying. as +her sister dropped the portfolio. anna mikháylovna, stooping, quickly +her sister-in-law’s room. prince andrew in a traveling coat without +her sleeves and puffing heavily. +her sufferings or with their relief. the pangs began again and mary +her sympathy for pierre, but by involuntary intonations and a half smile +her temples. princess mary, supporting her sister-in-law, still looked +her tenderly and attentively, said severely: +her thin lips grew white, though her eyes did not change, and her voice +her—thou or you?” +her tone was now querulous and her lip drawn up, giving her not a +her up, hugged her, and, smiling through her tears, began comforting +her voice sounded so serious and so sad that the chirping of the birds +her white teeth. she met prince vasíli with that playful manner often +her. why do you say all this to me?” +her with a grimace that distorted his handsome face, kissed anna +her with perfect sincerity, and with the naïve and firm conviction +her work as if to testify that the interest and fascination of the story +her. “you know, catiche, that we—you three sisters, mámontov, and +he sad at leaving his wife?—perhaps both, but evidently he did not +he said. +he said no more, but expressed his resignation to cruel fate by a +he said. “perhaps you are right for yourself,” he added after +he said something more, but rostóv did not wait to hear it and rode +“he’s a low fellow, say what you will,” remarked prince hippolyte. +“he’s arrived!” +he sat down beside hippolyte and wrinkling his forehead began talking +he sat down by his wife, his elbows on his knees and his hands ruffling +he sat under fire. but despite himself, on his face too that same +he saw french cannon and french troops on the pratzen heights just where +he saw turrets and a church. what need to hurry? what was he now to say +he saw which way the wind was blowing, and his low opinion changed into +he scattered the burning tobacco, smashed the pipe, and threw it away. +“he’s coming!” shouted the signaler at that moment. +“he’s dead—why carry him?” said another. +he seemed to swell with satisfaction. he had hardly finished speaking +he seized his son by the hand with small bony fingers, shook it, looked +he sent for pierre and said to him: “my dear fellow, if you are going +he shaved and scented himself with the care and elegance which had +“he shouldn’t have taken so many men,” said the officer of the +he shouted, “and then i shall reserve the right to state my opinion +he shrugged his shoulders. a footman conducted borís down one flight of +he shrugged his shoulders and raised his hand to the kerchief, as if +he shrugged his shoulders and spread out his hands. pierre wished to +he sighed. +he signed with a flourish and suddenly turning to his son began to +hesitating voice. “i thank you. i agree with all you have said. but +hesitation and uncertainty among his conductors. he heard those around +(he smiled ironically.) “but even if he also took up a position in +he spoke so rapidly that he did not finish half his words, but his son +he spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure +he spread a map on the table. “all eventualities have been foreseen. +he still had all the letters in his hand. opening them mechanically he +he stopped and remained silent for a long time. +he stopped short on his heels, stood so a second, stamped on the spot +he stretched out his hand to take hold of the purse. rostóv let go of +he suddenly blushed crimson, and it was plain that he had made a great +he suddenly cried. “even without a bet, there! tell them to bring me a +he sung a second, a third below the high note. “ah, god! how fine! did +“he’s very young to come to meddle with us.” +he talked to pierre), the old man was sitting on a large leather-covered +he (though pierre had not mentioned bonaparte), “but bonaparte when +he thought out his plans beforehand he could not have been so natural +he thought, stopping for a moment with a sinking heart, and then +he threw the bottle to the englishman, who caught it neatly. dólokhov +he told her she was still the same crybaby as ever. princess mary had +he took the dispatch which was addressed to him and began to read it +he took the lighted pipe that was offered to him, gripped it in his +he took the pistol in his hand and began asking about the working of the +he touched his horse and having called milorádovich, the commander of +he tried to say more, but faltered. +he turned away. +he turned round. nesvítski’s handsome face looked out of the little +he turned to kozlóvski with urgent questions. +he understood his commander’s wish. +he unhooked his saber. he came out from behind the chairs, clasped his +he vouchsafe its revelation to us through his divine spirit. +he waited a moment to see whether the cornet would answer, but he turned +“he wants to see a battle,” said zherkóv to bolkónski, pointing +he was admitted to the emperor, and an hour later he rode off with +he was afraid of finding in her a rival for count bezúkhov’s fortune, +he was asleep in his corner and woke him up. rousing himself, pierre +he was evidently so busy that he even forgot to be polite to the +he was flushed and bathed in perspiration, though the room was not hot. +he was in contact with the springs that set in motion the enormous +he was joyfully planning this new life, when prince vasíli suddenly +he was pleased at the gratitude he received, but felt abashed at +he was proud to be at the head of such a nation and would endeavor to be +he was riding almost along the front line. a handful of men came +he was riding was one he had bought from a cossack during the campaign, +he was sent away. hippolyte is her brother... prince vasíli is her +he was sent. this was the brilliant charge of the horse guards that +he was singing in passionate tones, gazing with his sparkling +he was thinking that prince andrew was unhappy, had gone astray, did not +he was told in russian, german, and czech by the crowd of fugitives who +he was told that he would now see the lesser light. the bandage was +he was touched, but also a gleam of irony on his face. +he was to wear at the meetings, and finally of the third, a pair of +he went forward uneasily over the rough field with the awkward gait of +he went nowhere and spent whole days in reading thomas à kempis, whose +he went on talking in this way in french, uttering only those words in +he went over his vices in his mind, not knowing to which of them to give +he went straight up to prince vasíli. +he went to his bed, drew a purse from under the clean pillow, and sent +“he will get up in twenty minutes. let us go across to mary’s +he will hit me in the head, or elbow, or knee. can’t i go away from +he wished to explain to dolgorúkov a plan of attack he had himself +he wished to take a decision, but felt with dismay that in this matter +he woke up... +he woke up and looked round for a while with a startled expression, +he wondered as he got up: and at that moment he felt that something +he wore the air of a man little concerned in what the two ladies were +he worked went step by step toward his goal. he was free, he had nothing +he would certainly be taken prisoner. kutúzov remained in the same +he would expand his chest, raise his head, and rejoice at his good +he would give an opinion at the war council which would be the only one +he would have been mentioned among the officers found on the field of +he would have done at that moment had hélène not fled from the room. +he would have to march with no road into unknown parts of the bohemian +he would into that foggy distance: now something gleamed gray, now there +he would rush through the whole suite of rooms without drawing breath, +he would say a lot of pleasant things, ask you to dinner” (“that +he would slap in the face before the emperor. suddenly a distant shout +“hey, cossack, my horse!” he said. “now, then, you there! get out +hidden by dense mist. having given orders in the commander in chief’s +hid her face still deeper in the bed. natásha wept, sitting on the +high, but the last round fell in the midst of a group of hussars and +higher ground it was clearing, but nothing could be seen of what was +highest degree just the very qualities pierre lacked, and which might +highest point. “it’s in charge of the queer fellow we saw without +highest spheres. +high—i always said....” +highly honored guest, took possession of him as it were, without waiting +“highly satisfied, your excellency!” +highness,” and pointing to the grand duke who with his high shoulders +high time!” +hill. +hill one after the other. their colonel, karl bogdánich schubert, came +hill opposite, with the french moving about on it, opened out before +hills, she took a special fancy to mademoiselle bourienne, spent whole +him!” +him. +him. +him. +him. +him. +him.” +him all the way. he thought angrily of the pleasure he would have at +him a look of stern inquiry, as though what pierre had just said was +him and did not stop but rode on and on, continually mistaking bushes +him and everything he could say had long been known to him, that he was +him and hélène. “well, what of it, if you all know it?” thought +him and he was at once blindfolded again. +him, and only as he kissed her hand on taking leave said unexpectedly +him and she wished and tried to please him as much as possible. +him. “and why should she marry?” he thought. “to be unhappy for +him and, with a christian mildness that expressed forgiveness of his +him and would not have others do so.” +him as a man, but what can one do?” +him a taper. he lit it and, distracted by observing those around him, +him be here....” +him, bonaparte had made in his campaigns and even in politics. his +him; but most of all, he felt joyful that the moment had come when he +him, but still that happy result always remained in the future. +him but to the whole regiment—all of us—you’re to blame all round. +him by the arm, “i believe that intervention will be stronger than +him, carried the infant round the battered tin font and handed him over +him die feeling that he is rendering unhappy those who...” +him disputing in whispers and one of them insisting that he should be +him do what he pleases,’ she used to say of me. one day i asked her if +him everyone began to stir: steps were audible and whispers, among which +him except the young princesses.... they are still young....” she bent +him feel confused by her smiles and her own confusion when meeting him. +him for those words, bullets flew hissing across the regiment and across +him, from his daughter to his serfs, the prince was sharp and invariably +him, from his weary, bored expression to his quiet, measured step, +him full directions which he had written down for his own guidance as to +him, handing him different articles of clothing. “what of sweden? how +him?” he asked. +him, he does not know russian.” +him he is a fool, that’s all!” +him, he’s a scoundrel. go on! go on!” +him. he stroked her hair and then patted her awkwardly on the back of +him,” he thought, and again he felt something terrible and monstrous +him if not to join in at least to listen to what he was saying. but the +him into the sitting room, where they began talking. they hardly gave +him merged in rostóv’s mind into a single feeling of terror and pity +him. “more, please: more! what’s he saying?” +him my whole staff and all that belongs to it, advising him if there is +him not in the least abashed. +him... olga, go and see whether uncle’s beef tea is ready—it is +him. on the day of prince vasíli’s arrival, prince bolkónski was +him or her to a little old lady, wearing large bows of ribbon in her +him, or perhaps for that very reason, the prince, though he continued +him, or what was said of him; he was only glad that people were standing +him out of the booth at grunth. he was shouting in a gasping voice: +him pleasure. the enemy’s guns were in his fancy not guns but pipes +him. prince vasíli’s two valets were busy dressing him, and he looked +him, push him, do anything but kiss him—a thing everybody did. but +him. “remember this, prince andrew, if they kill you it will hurt me, +him. rostóv was particularly in need of money now that the troops, +himself. +himself. +himself? +himself after his recent loneliness and freedom from cares so beset and +himself, and this fresh opportunity for action gave him new energy +himself an insignificant atom in it) would go through fire and water, +himself, but only desires the good of mankind. and what have they +himself fall into a trap moreau set him, and from which he did not know +himself had vanished. he was filled with happiness at his nearness to +himself, he kept in touch with the circle which confers success and +himself, he rose, threw back his head, and with resolute steps went +himself. i am called in to help sort the letters and take those meant +himself in the palace at potsdam. +himself into a chair, gazing at those in the room as if asking, “why +himself.... not a word! about some denísov or other, though he himself, +himself on a sofa with his face to the wall. pierre hid his face, from +himself one with his horse, rode past the emperor with a frowning but +himself on his seat. +himself, prince bagratión sent zherkóv to tell the general in command +himself to bagratión. bonaparte’s adjutant had not yet reached +himself to the count, who was looking inquiringly at him. +himself undertook his daughter’s education, and to develop these two +himself up, slightly arching his back. it was plain that the commander +himself up to such an extent that it seemed he could not have sustained +himself, was shouting to kutúzov that if he did not ride away at once +himself. what angered him was that the coming of these visitors revived +him several questions about his journey and seemed greatly interested in +him several riders with white plumes in their hats. in a moment everyone +him so when i see him!” +him surrounded by children whom, by the count’s generosity, he was +him. that’s a thing i hate! everything is possible.” +him that there would probably be an engagement that day or the next, and +him.” the mere thought of her father’s look filled her with terror. +him. the pain in his arm became more and more intense. irresistible +him, though, between you and me, he always seemed to me a poor sort +him to come. there were other guests and the countess talked little to +him to come up; prince bagratión reined in his horse and recognizing +him to deliver. +him to despatch part of the army abroad and to create a new condition +him to die. others are being born and there are plenty of them as it is. +him to go back as it was too dangerous to remain where they were. +him to hear something more, nodded and turned to him with a cheerful +him too, just opposite gúryev’s house... old gúryev.... oh, but +him up and lent him money. pierre recalled how hélène had smilingly +him what consolation i can.” +him. “what is this? they’re like sheep! just like sheep! out of the +him with her usual smile. +him. you know the story of the handkerchief? it is delightful!” +him ‘your majesty,’ but who, to his chagrin, got no title from +hindmost of these men wearing similar shakos was a russian hussar. he +hints began to make the countess anxious and she glanced uneasily at +hippolyte, and began looking through a lorgnette at his elevated legs. +hippolyte burst out laughing. +hippolyte gazing round with importance at the others, “without +hippolyte interrupted her with the words: “le roi de prusse...” and +hippolyte in the carriage, “your little princess is very nice, very +hippolyte is at least a quiet fool, but anatole is an active one. that +hippolyte laughed as if ashamed of laughing. +hippolyte “—so dull—. it has been a delightful evening, has it +hippolyte spluttered again, and amid his laughter said, “and you were +his acquaintance and joyfully welcomed the rich newcomer, the +his acquaintances, to overtake his regiment which was already in poland. +his arm. +his arm, began a long-drawn-out soldiers’ song, commencing with the +his attention wandered from the book and the square and he formed in +his beautiful daughter hélène. +his being alone and despondent! a strange face may seem unpleasant or +his boots. you can see everything from there; let’s go there, +his breast. among them stood a man whose white shirt was stained with +his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. he spoke in that +his camp,” said he. “what does that mean? either he is retreating, +his captain. +his career. moreover, he could see by her manners that she was one of +“his children are all illegitimate. i think pierre also is +his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, +his companion. the latter, a fresh, rosy officer of the guards, +his company? if you were cleverer and more agreeable, i should prefer +his daughter, princess hélène, passed between the chairs, lightly +his daughter that morning. princess mary well knew this painstaking +his despair was all the greater from feeling that his own weakness was +his door, which creaked slightly when opened. +his dressing gown and smiled slightly, as if expressing respectful +his easy life in moscow, entered the room. +his efforts had not been in vain. the dinner, both the lenten and the +his example, and the loud shouting continued for a long time. when the +his excitement. “don’t you understand that either we are officers +his eye as a miller wakes up when the soporific drone of the mill wheel +his eyes and thought he would never open them again. suddenly he was +his eyes at the sight. +his eyes. “can they be french?” he looked at the approaching +his eyes he heard in front of him, where the enemy was, the long-drawn +his eyes seemed larger than usual when he glanced round and noticed +his face, began to talk—as one who has long had something on his mind +his face, gave him a peculiar vivacity and shiftiness of expression. +his face shone with self-satisfaction and pleasure. +his face suddenly softened and tears came into his eyes. with his left +his face was terrible and piteous to see, especially from its helpless +his fat chest uncovered, stepping unevenly and timidly in one slippered +his father and his fatherland. to the great regret of myself and of the +his father dismissed the abbé and said to the young man, “now go +his father’s part of the house. entering the drawing room, where the +his father’s peculiarities, and partly because he needed solitude, +his father who had brought it from the siege of ochákov. all these +his feverishness increased and he grew delirious. visions of his father, +his fieldglass. a little behind them nesvítski, who had been sent to +his future depended—whether he would follow the same old road, or that +his glittering black eyes at rostóv. +his grandfather, who was his godfather, trembling and afraid of dropping +his grave, even rather gloomy, look was instantaneously replaced by +his gray hair. +his hand. +his hand and at the head of a regiment—he fell as a hero, worthy of +his handkerchief, and again: ‘sergéy kuzmích, from all sides,’... +his hand over the thin grizzled strands of hair combed back across his +his hand prince andrew came up to his comrade, the aide-de-camp on duty, +his handsome face. natásha, very still, peered out from her ambush, +his hands to the blaze, and turned away his face. +his having been picked up on the battlefield by the people of the +his head. +his head. +his head and again assuming his former tone of a dull, unreasoning, but +his head, and with inimical politeness lurking in the corners of his +his head he let it droop and again closed his eye. +his highness the archduke ferdinand has honored me, i imagine that the +his horse indolently and carelessly. rostóv recalled their quarrel of +his horse keep pace with the company. +his horse with a convoy officer’s saddle. +his horse. zherkóv and the staff officer bent over their saddles and +his huge figure, with arms hanging down and with a puckered, though +his husbandry. +his imaginary sword, but smiling at the remembrance of that pleasant, +his impulsive nature, does get into mischief (a boy can’t help it), he +his instinct urged him on. before the officer finished his sentence +his in the diplomatic service. +his kindly, simple, and modest expression. anna pávlovna turned toward +his last parting from his father and his wife; he remembered the days +his legs almost gave way, it seemed to him that he was tired out. he +his legs. pressing against both sides of the window, he adjusted himself +his life. he walked about in front of the line and at every step pulled +his lips in his sleep and breathing evenly. +his lips without uttering a sound. he wished to say, “yes, a vile, +his lower jaw. +his majesty; but we think the present delay is depriving the splendid +his majesty the emperor derogates from the principle of our alliance... +his mind that they would be friends. +his mouth awry, prepared to shout. the regiment fluttered like a bird +his mouth, he turned with his glass to pierre. +his mouth very clearly revealed something unexpectedly coarse and +his muscular legs as if sailing along, stretching himself to his full +his musket walked away. +his neighbors’ glasses, not neglecting his own. the countess in turn, +his noble soul peacefully to leave this...” +his nose. +his old friend and the possessor of such enormous wealth, to the caprice +his own had taken possession of his brain and at that moment afforded +his own helplessness. at sight of this smile pierre felt an unexpected +his own house. the minister of war came up and congratulated him on the +his own pleasure, chose to chat with lieutenant drubetskóy. more than +his own superiority. it was as if he said to them: “i know you, i know +his own way, gave an order. no one said anything definite, but the rumor +his passion for the emperor had cooled somewhat in moscow. but still, as +his pistol, and then he felt with surprise that of all the men he knew +his plate, and proposed a toast, “to the health of the hero of our +his plate round and moving his wineglasses about with as much decision +his plate seemed to him not quite clean, and pointing to a spot he +his pocketbook. +his portrait, “definitely demanded that he should be called.” +his present state. +his private room and, calling his adjutant, asked for some papers +his relations with old friends, all his plans for his future, were +his reputation fighting them.” +his riding whip. +his rising. “this unfortunate fete at the ambassador’s deprives me +his room. +his rooms upstairs. +his routine, retired as usual after dinner. the little princess was in +his saber. only ten paces divided them. dólokhov lowered his head to +his saber, the soldiers all continued to run, talking, firing into the +his scanty gray hairs over his bald patch, also asked them to dinner. +his servant handed him a half-cut novel, in the form of letters, by +his ship is sailing, but on the day of battle—heaven knows how and +his shoulders. +his shoulders. “women, my dear fellow; women!” +his shrill, harsh voice. “the road is not swept for the princess my +his side had been attempting a reconciliation), and he also went up to +his skill?” he concluded. +his son and seizing the little princess’ arm as if she would have run +his son by both hands, he cried, “now i’ve got you, so take the +his son only smiled. +his speech, which he used in extreme cases when special persuasion was +his study and showed them his choice collection of turkish pipes. from +his suite, with their cossacks who were talking loudly together, prince +his superiors by his promptitude and accuracy and had arranged his money +his temple, where an ismail bullet had pierced his skull, and the empty +his thin, worn, sallow face was covered with deep wrinkles, which always +his time. but he is growing old, and though not exactly cruel he has too +his time there. +historical accounts of battles, involuntarily pictured to himself the +his toulon, or his bridge of arcola. how it would come about he did not +his typically southern french face during the whole time of the reading, +his usual jokes, but noticing that what he was saying redounded to +his utmost to look as small as possible. he looked at the count, who +his verses, bowed to bagratión. everyone rose, feeling that dinner +his voice. “she is living in moscow and you are here. remember, +his weak figure. “number two!” he squeaked. “fire, medvédev!” +his wealth, and being in the habit of lording it over these people, he +his weapons clean and polished to the utmost, and every horse groomed +his whole soul what the stranger said. whether he accepted the wise +his wife, and by an anonymous letter he had received that morning, which +his wife said—met for supper at prince vasíli’s. all these friends +his wife’s room. she was lying dead, in the same position he had seen +his wont, as if intentionally contrasting the briskness of his manners +his youngest boy, had all settled down in the drawing room and were +hitherto puckered brow became smooth as a sign of pleasure, and with a +hitting men and that afterwards someone had shouted “cavalry!” and +“hm!—his excellency is a puppy.... i got him his appointment in the +“hm... hm...!” growled pierre, frowning without looking at her, and +“hm... hm...” muttered the old prince to himself, finishing what he +“hm! hm!” muttered the prince, sitting down. +“hm.... if you wish to kill him, to kill him outright, you can see +hoarsely. prince andrew winced and, clutching his head, went out and sat +“ho! ho! ho! ha! ha! ha! ha! ouh! ouh!” came peals of such healthy +“ho, ho!” said the old man, casting his eyes on her rounded figure. +holding high her fifty-year-old head with its gray curls, she stood +holding the bottle was lifted higher and higher and trembled with the +holding up a threatening finger. “he is such a worthy and excellent +holding up his saber, his spurs jingling, he ran up the steps of the +holding up the folds of her dress, and the smile shone still more +“hold your tongue, pétya, what a goose you are!” +hollabrünn and have pursued ever since to this place. the position we +hollow and were firing at our men. prince bagratión bowed his head as a +hollows and snow-covered pools of water. +home now for the first time after eighteen months again brightened his +home reading a book and trying to fathom the significance of the square, +home,” said the valet. +home. should he go to headquarters next day and challenge that affected +hommes massacrés et l’armée de nos alliés détruite, et vous +honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in +honorable, count,” or, “were he as clever as you,” and so on, +honorable, of bezúkhov? and fédya, with his noble spirit, loved him +honored guests sat, everyone seemed to be in high spirits and under the +honor? knowing him to be an only son, to challenge him and shoot so +honor of the french infantry, so necessary to the honor of our nation. +honor to choose me to be their marshal; it was all i could do to get +honor, was terrible. +hoofs, and apparently ready to jump over the railings had his rider let +hoofs and the jingling of showy cavalry in blue, red, and green braided +hoofs and wheels. amid the general rumble, the groans and voices of the +“h-o-o-w are you standing? where’s your leg? your leg?” shouted +hoped. she prayed for her brother as living and was always awaiting news +hoped to lead he still lived the old life, only in new surroundings. +hope you will change your opinions, my dear monsieur pierre.” +hoping to find him alone. when he came in and saw an hussar of the line +horror and fear. all were still. pierre took his hands from his eyes. +horror-struck. but when she saw that pierre’s sacrilegious words + * hors d’oeuvres. +horse a little in front of his marshals. he gazed silently at the hills +horse for which he had paid seven hundred rubbles was not worth half +horse of a batman or groom of some important personage and began to +horse, rode up to the porch, swung his leg over the saddle with a supple +horses and ilyá iványch. i don’t think ilyá drives anyone except +horses and the infantry collecting wood. +horses in horsecloths. then came a cart, and behind that walked an old, +horses near the window, prince andrew felt that something important and +horse still struggled. +horses were already galloping. rostóv heard the thud of their hoofs +horse—that i’ll warrant,” said shinshín, patting him on the +horse with his spurs, and giving it the rein leaped lightly over. only +horse you’ll thank me for.” +hospital at ostrolenka till i recover. in regard to which i humbly +hospitality, did the honors to the prince. +hospitals could no longer accommodate all the sick and wounded, yet the +hospitals. the one and the other may serve as a pastime. but what’s +hostess look toward the door, and now and then glance at one another, +hostilities are ended, we can shake one another’s hand.... the +hour alone with the dying man, passed out, slightly acknowledging their +hours’ sleep before morning and felt cheerful, bold, and resolute, +hour. suddenly the broad muscles and lines of the count’s face began +house and now managed all his affairs, stepped softly into the room. +house for your wife is ready. princess mary will take her there and +household, a common anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a +household. and there in fact was sónya lying face downward on nurse’s +house lay behind a newly dug pond filled with water to the brink and +house, now and then opening her door when someone passed and watching +houses from his door. it seemed to him the horses were not moving at +house. though he expected that the story of his escapade would be +house was brilliant with lights shining through its lofty windows. the +house was dominated by the same feeling that princess mary experienced +house with prince bagratión and weyrother. weyrother was the austrian +house, you know, and danced with the children. be sure to invite him, my +“how about my son borís, prince?” said she, hurrying after him into +“how about the horses?” he asked, without looking at pierre. +“how am i?” dólokhov answered coldly. “i am as you see.” +how am i to renounce forever these vile fancies, so as peacefully to +“how am i to understand you, mon père?” said the princess, growing +how bright and glorious was the setting sun! with what soft glitter the +“how can he talk like that?” thought pierre. he considered his +how can i, an insignificant mortal, show his omnipotence, his infinity, +“how can one talk or think of such trifles?” thought pierre. +“how can the emperor be undecided?” thought rostóv, but then even +“how dare you take it?” he shouted. +how did it begin? i traveled from moscow with prince vasíli. then there +“how do you do, cousin?” said pierre. “you don’t recognize +“how do you do, my dear? i wish you many happy returns of your name +“how do you expect him to answer you all at once?” said prince +how do you judge of it?” he added, addressing nicholas, who when he +how d’ye do, old fellow?” he said, turning to an old man who was +“how easy it is, how little effort it needs, to do so much good,” +however, at nine o’clock the prince, in his velvet coat with a sable +however, for he will leave us again to take part in this unhappy war +“however, if you command it, your majesty,” said kutúzov, lifting +“however, i think general kutúzov has come out,” said prince +“however, there will hardly be an engagement today,” said bagratión +however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it +“however, this is not at all interesting. let us have dinner, and then +“how funny you are!” he said, bending down to her and blushing still +“how handsome the old man still was only a year ago!” remarked the +how have you spent it? in riotous orgies and debauchery, receiving +“how is it i am not moving? i have fallen, i am killed!” rostóv +“how is it,” she began, as usual in french, settling down briskly +“how is that?...” began prince andrew, who had for long been waiting +how is that?” said different voices. +“how is the count? can i see him?” asked pierre, awkwardly as usual, +“how it will be there i don’t know, but all will be well!” thought +how long his unconsciousness lasted. suddenly he again felt that he was +“how lovely!” said everyone who saw her; and the vicomte lifted his +“how many miles?” +how much anxiety one has had to go through that we might rejoice in +“how much longer? how much longer? oh, these insufferable streets, +“how often have i asked you not to take my things?” she said. “you +how one day soon after his marriage he came out of the bedroom into his +“how plainly all these young people wear their hearts on their +how quickly! now i know that not because of her alone, nor of myself +“how she loves me!” thought princess mary. “how happy i am now, +“how’s it you’re not drunk today?” said nesvítski when the +“how’s this, colonel?” he shouted as he approached. “i told you +“how strange it is,” said véra, selecting a moment when all were +how stupid you men all are not to have married her! excuse me for saying + how sweet, as fancies wander free, +“how sweet she is—she will be a weal beauty!” said denísov. +how the russians had been overwhelmed by flying austrians and had had to +how they had been made much of in russia, poland, and abroad. they spoke +“how thoroughly like him that is!” he said to princess mary, who had +how to arrange it. what do you think?” +how to behave with her. the evening before, in the first happy moment of +how to escape?” +“how understand me!” cried her father angrily. “prince vasíli +“how was it a gun was abandoned?” asked bagratión, frowning, not so +how we went to the sparrow hills with madame jacquot?... it’s such an +how you look at things! send two men? and who then would give us the +hugging and kissing him. another and yet another creature of the same +human skull with its cavities and teeth. after reading the first words +“humbug! nonsense! humbug, humbug, humbug!” cried prince bolkónski, +humiliation of arrogant austria and that in a week’s time he might, +humility. +humming infantry as by a frame. +humor and dissatisfied with the affair, and so did not exert themselves +hum with voices. on all sides soldiers were running to and fro, throwing +hundred rubles he had a long column of figures scored against him, +hundred rubles was left of that money, so that this seven of hearts +hundred yards after that before he saw to his left, across the whole +hungarian?” said the commander with an austere gibe. +hung low over the field of battle on the horizon. it was growing +hungry, exhausted men would have to detain for days the whole enemy army +hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers +“hur-a-a-a-ah!” came a roar of voices. “let anyone come my way +“hurrah—ah!—ah!” rang a long-drawn shout from our ranks, and + hurrah for emperor alexander!” +“hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!” thundered from all sides, one regiment +“hurrah!” rang the enthusiastic voices of the officers. +“hurrah!” shouted prince andrew, and, scarcely able to hold up +“hurrah!”... then the general march, and again “hurrah! hurrah!” +hurriedly interrupting bagratión. +hurriedly: “i will tell you some time how it all happened. but you +hurriedly unclasped his hands, stopped at a table as if tying the +hurriedly up to the unknown general and blocking his way to the door. +hurried off to his company, buttoning up his coat as he ran. +hurrying past them. +husband. +husband of a beauty, and in a word—an old woman; and secondly because +husband. prince andrew’s eyes were closed, so weary and sleepy did he +hussar and began lifting him. +hussar, “and why are you exciting yourself? do you think the french +hussar cornet zherkóv had at one time, in petersburg, belonged to +hussar revels and life in the fighting line, the other of the pleasures +hussars began carefully aligning their horses. silence fell on the whole +hussars, but still with that naïve air that made it impossible to know +hussars, cossacks, and adjutants, in his camlet coat, as he jolted on +hussars, flushing and addressing an adjutant who had ridden up, “so +hussars hastily dismounted, not knowing what they were to do. the men +hussars, told them to follow him, and trotted downhill in the direction +“i...” +“i...” +i, above all, who am to blame for everything. help me, teach me, and +i alone have any influence with my father, and now and then can save him +“i also wanted to ask you,” continued prince andrew, “if i’m +i always stick to mother truth. it’s not right!” +“i am.” +i am.” +“i am afraid for the baby,” she said to mademoiselle bourienne: +i am afraid of him.” +“i am afraid of mixing the figures,” pierre replied; “but if you +“i am afraid,” said pierre, smiling, and wavering between the +“i am asking you when you last heard from bolkónski,” repeated +“i am awaiting orders to join my new regiment, your excellency,” +i am dissatisfied with your younger son? between ourselves” (and her +“i am expecting you, pierre,” said the same voice, but gently and +“i am fond of you, especially as you are the one live man among our +“i am glad i have spoken out fully. perhaps you did not like it? you +“i am glad i was able to do you a service, my dear anna +“i am going away.” +“i am living at countess rostóva’s,” replied borís, again +“i am not in the cavalry, colonel, but i am a russian general and if +“i am not jesting,” bilíbin went on. “nothing is truer or sadder. +“i am not jesting with you; please be silent!” cried bolkónski, +“i am not speaking of regicide, i am speaking about ideas.” +“i am not talking about you,” he said, “i don’t know you and, +“i am not your ‘dear sir,’ mr. staff officer, and you did not tell +“i am ordered to write a memorandum explaining why we are not +i am overwhelmed with business and it is purely out of charity that +“i am quite of your opinion,” replied nicholas, flaming up, turning +“i am ready for everything,” said pierre. +“i am so enchanted by the brilliancy of the wit and culture of the +“i am so glad you’ve come!” said natásha, without answering him. +i am sorry for that,” he went on. +“i am so sorry for the poor count,” said the visitor. “he is in +“i am speaking sincerely as a friend! consider! where and why are +“i am speaking ze truce,” replied the hussar with a smile. +i am to do; i wanted to consult you seriously.” +i am told.” +“i am very glad i did not go to the ambassador’s,” said prince +“i am very sorry, ma’am,” answered the maid. +“i am very sorry you did not find me in yesterday. i was fussing about +“i am very, very grateful to you, mon cher,” or “ma chère”—he +“i am waiting, your majesty,” answered kutúzov, bending forward +“‘i am wounded and cannot ride and consequently cannot command the +“i am your faithful slave and to you alone i can confess that my +“i begin ab ovo. ‘the enemy of the human race,’ as you know, +“i believe it, i believe it, fwiend, and i share and appwove...” +“i bestow it with pleasure,” said napoleon. “and who is that young +“i bet a hundred on stevens!” shouted one. +“i bet fifty imperials”—he spoke french that the englishman might +“i bet on dólokhov!” cried a third. “kurágin, you part our +“i burned this to prove my love for her. i just heated a ruler in the +“i called once or twice at your house,” said rostóv, reddening. +i can do.” and his fancy pictured the battle, its loss, the +i cannot agree with you about pierre, whom i knew as a child. he always +“i cannot argue about it,” replied prince andrew coldly, but he +i cannot find words to express to you my displeasure. you command only +“i cannot inform your majesty at what o’clock the battle began at +“i cannot pay it all immediately. will you take an i.o.u.?” he said. +i can’t...” +“i can’t bear the sight of that woman.” +“i can tell you more,” continued prince vasíli, seizing her hand, +“i can’t help it,” said the prince. “lavater would have said i +“i can’t. i’ve sworn not to. i won’t drink and won’t play till +“i can’t make out at all,” said nesvítski. +i can’t,” replied bolkónski, smiling. +“i can’t tell you how much i have lived through since then. i hardly +ice and into the water and oftenest of all among the crowd that covered +ice. crowds of soldiers from the dam began running onto the frozen pond. +“ice pudding, but you won’t get any,” said márya dmítrievna. +“i come from the archduchess’. i heard nothing there.” +“i commanded a squadron,” replied repnín. +“i confess i do not understand: perhaps there are diplomatic +i confess i understand very little about all these matters of wills and +i consider it my duty to let you know of it. he is said to be very +i could not have done it myself, i should not have had the courage, but +i dare say, is braver than any of them. he says nothing about his +idea of the means by which our holy order will help you to reach your +“i did not expect this of you,” said the staff captain seriously and +i did not think he would get it to you so quickly.... well, how are you? +“i did not... what is it all about?” inquired prince andrew +idiot!... but what’s the good?...” and he waved his arm. +idleness, but would grow fat and die. the third thing—what else was +idlers have failed to beat the germans. since the world began everybody +idle, vicious life!” but dared not break the silence. +“i’d like to put you on a two days’ march with a knapsack! your +i doing? aren’t they laughing at me? shan’t i be ashamed to remember +i do not begin, sire, because we are not on parade and not on the +“i do not know what you think, father,” whispered the princess. +“i do not think i have complained of my wife to you, másha, or blamed +“i do not understand,” said pierre, feeling with dismay doubts +i do not yet know. there will be time enough to think about love when i +“i don’t at all say that all the plans are good,” said prince +“i don’t even know what is in this paper,” said the younger of +“i... don’t...” he muttered, holding up two fingers to his cap. +“i don’t know, general....” +“i don’t know. i think if he writes, i will write too,” she said, +“i don’t like your mademoiselle bourienne at all,” said prince +“i don’t like you to talk like that.” +“i don’t myself know ‘to who,’” replied the cornet in a +“i don’t say it’s a plan i approve of,” said the son; “i am +i don’t speak of anatole, your youngest. i don’t like him,” she +“i don’t understand,” he said, “how it is that the mind of man +“i don’t understand it,” replied prince andrew. “women who are +“i don’t understand, mamma—what is his attitude to pierre?” +“i don’t understand!” said prince andrew. +“i don’t understand. what’s it all about?” +i don’t want him.” (he looked at his blushing daughter.) “are you +i don’t want to have you like our silly ladies. get used to it and +i envy him, but you want to make him what i am, without giving him my +“i expected help from you and i get none, none from you either!” +“i expect so.” +if about to tell a good story he put down the cards, leaned back in his +if all the powers of his soul were concentrated on passing the commander +“if anyone comes meddling again,” said he, emitting the words +if a soldier, he should be dressed in regulation uniform like the +if at first the members of the council thought that kutúzov was +“if at least we had some women here; but there’s nothing foh one +“if buonaparte remains on the throne of france a year longer,” the +if but one stage nearer znaim. the offer of a truce gave the only, and +if complaining of kutúzov. +“if he could attack us, he would have done so today,” said he. +“if he” (he meant the enemy) “begins popping at the bridge now,” +if he intended to say something, but immediately, with affected +“if he is better, ask pierre to dine with us. he has been to the +“if he is one of the ordinary little staff dandies sent to earn a +if he is standing before brünn...” +“if he starts a row i’ll go away,” said prince anatole. “i +“if he were not,” he said quietly, “you and i would not be +if, however, the emperor of russia ratifies that convention, i will +“if i’d been in nikólenka’s place i would have killed even more +“if i have time,” answered nicholas. “but i promised the +if in search of something. before dinner the old prince, of whom she was +if in search of something. on his way to the aunt he bowed to the little +“if it does not weigh a hundredweight and won’t break my neck... +if it is to last. prince vasíli knew this, and having once realized +“if it is true that monsieur denísov has made you a proposal, tell +“if it were not for my sincere affection and devotion to uncle,” +“if it were true that he has been beaten, news would have come.” +“if i were tsar i would never go to war,” said nesvítski, turning +“if no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no +if not it is merely a question of settling where the preliminaries of +“if only i knew that anything besides humiliation would come of +“if only they would be quick!” thought rostóv, feeling that at last +if she had not meant it seriously. it makes it as if you were marrying +if the whole world had gone crazy.” +“if they had known that you wished it, the entertainment would have +if to say that this was no more than she had expected. +“if we fought before,” he said, “not letting the french pass, as +“if we get to vienna i’ll get rid of it there but in these wretched +“if we live we shall see,” replied bilíbin, his face again becoming +if we occupy the villages of sokolnitz and kobelnitz, whereby we +if you are in love, marry him!” said the countess, with a laugh of +“if you are refusing for my sake, i am afraid that i...” +“if you are resolved, i must begin your initiation,” said the rhetor +“if you had told me sooner, mamma, i would have gone,” she replied +if you have firmly resolved to join our brotherhood.” (pierre nodded +“if you have nothing better to do, count (or prince), and if the +“if you like, your honor!” +“if you please, your excellency, pétrusha has brought some papers,” +“if you really want it,” said he. +“if you, sir, choose to make a buffoon of yourself,” he said +if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that +“if you won’t answer, i’ll tell you...” hélène went on. “you +i get reinstated.” +“i had not the pleasure of seeing you,” said prince andrew, coldly +i had to express my own desire...” she had no time to finish. the old +“i have.” +“i have already refused,” she said hurriedly. +“i have already told you, papa,” said his son, “that if you +i have a presentiment that for the first time i shall have to show all +“i have come to you with a message and an offer, count,” he +“i have come with my mother to see the count, but it seems he is not +“i have done my best for him, and i can assure you the education there +i have done that though badly and to a small extent; but i have done +“i have four sons in the army but still i don’t fret. it is all +i have had a letter from my brother, who announces his speedy arrival +“i have had a proposition made me concerning you,” he said with an +“i have heard of you, my dear sir,” continued the stranger, “and +“i have met loving, noble, high-minded men, but i have not yet met +“i have no money with me,” he said. +“i have not referred to this out of curiosity, my dear sir, but for +“i haven’t been in the room. it must be where you put it.” +i have received what was due from the ryazán estate and will keep it; +“i have said nothing to you, but you have already been talked to. and +“i have seen as much before now, mate!” +“i have the honor to congratulate you. general mack has arrived, quite +“i have the honor to present myself,” repeated prince andrew rather +“i have the pleasure of addressing count bezúkhov, if i am not +i have written that he should make use of you in proper places and not +“i hear you have given orders to harness,” she cried, panting (she +“i... hope... for guidance... help... in regeneration,” said pierre, +“i hope this will prove the last drop that will make the glass run +“i imagine that freemasonry is the fraternity and equality of men who +“i?... i’m going to petersburg,” answered pierre, in a childlike, +“i intended to re-form them beyond the village, your excellency,” +“i? i? what of me? leave me out of the question. i’m not going to +“i knew someone who received that sacrament seven times.” +“i knew the princess at once,” put in mademoiselle bourienne. +“i knew you would be here,” replied pierre. “i will come to supper +i know for certain that you won’t marry her.” +“i know from reliable sources that the dowager empress is taking a +“i know, i know,” answered prince vasíli in his monotonous voice. +“i know,” interrupted bilíbin, “you’re thinking it’s very +“i know it and shall prove it,” said rostóv. +“i know, my dear, kind princess,” said anna mikháylovna, seizing +“i know people consider me a bad man!” he said. “let them! i +“i know that no one can help if nature does not do her work,” said +“i know the will was made, but i also know that it is invalid; +“i know who has taken it,” repeated rostóv in an unsteady voice, +“i know your heart,” repeated the prince. “i value your friendship +“i know your outlook,” said the mason, “and the view of life you +i know you will pray over it. well, pray if you like, but you had better +“i’ll drink it! let’s have a bottle of rum!” shouted pierre, +illegitimate.” +i’ll find you another place.” +“i’ll flatten you into a pancake!” shouted the angry officer to +i’ll flog you all.” +i’ll go to the general and ask him.” he readjusted himself in the +ill! i was only there a few moments and hardly said a word...” +i’ll just finish dealing, and then ilyúshka will come with his +“i’ll kill you!” he shouted, and seizing the marble top of a table +i’ll let her see....” +“i’ll let two more letters pass, but the third i’ll read,” said +ill luck takes us. they say we are going to olmütz, and olmütz is a +“illness or not, he’d better not cwoss my path. i’d kill him!” +illness. prince vasíli said something to lorrain in passing and went +“i’ll really call in on the nuns,” he said to the officers who +i’ll see.” the old prince snorted. “let her marry, it’s all the +“i’ll show you, i’ll show you! it’s not a secret. and it’s a +“i’ll sing for you a whole evening,” said natásha. +ill-suited to the family circle of which pierre was almost a member. +i’ll teach you to think!” and lifting his stick he swung it and +“i’ll tell you what, my dear fellow,” said prince andrew, who +“i’ll trust you.” +illumined, and plunge him into the depths of unknown and undefined +i love so that i would give my life for them, and the others i’d + * “i love you.” + * i love you. +“i love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you +ilyá has sent you to ask for strawberries and fresh pineapples.’ we +ilyúshka, the one who danced at count orlóv’s, you remember, in a +imagination a new plan of life. on the previous evening at the lodge, he +imagine...” +imagined only important possibilities: “if the enemy attacks the right +imagined oppressors whose victims he would rescue. of the three +imagine that their children have no secrets from them. “i know i shall +imagining himself before his own officers, insisted on his soldierly +“i make bold to ask your excellency to move a little for this +i’m alive, that is not my fault, so i must live out my life as best i +“i’m certain of it; you’ll see.” +“i’m glad,” answered dólokhov briefly and clearly, as the song +“i’m glad, glad, to see you,” he said, looking attentively into +immediately. +immediately.” +immediately brightened on seeing rostóv. “schön gut morgen! schön +immediately broke off. the door of the private room opened and kutúzov +“immediately, prince,” said kozlóvski. “dispositions for +immediately starting to run along the hall and up the warped steps of +immediately told him that this man could be useful, and without any +immense force upon kutúzov’s line of communication with the troops +immensity of the power they constituted. +immobile for a few moments. then wrinkles ran over his face like a wave +“i’m not a goose, but they are who cry about trifles,” said +“i’m not such a fool.... just you try it on.... allez-vous +“i’m not to blame that the conversation began in the presence of +“‘i most ardently desire,’ writes the king of prussia to +impassive face of oriental type, came out after the commander in chief. +impassive face?” prince andrew asked himself as he looked. prince +impatience, while the princess jumped up and with a gesture of +impatient and sets to work himself and finds letters from the emperor +impatiently. +impatiently, “i came here not to wrangle with you, but to talk about +impatient the nearer they got to moscow. +impending action. from privates to general they were not expecting a +impending battle, under a heading which he also read out: +imperials ... or do you wish to make it a hundred?” added he, +imperturbable calm she did not begin to speak in front of the valet. +impetus, and princess mary long remembered the dying creak of that +implied that, for certain considerations he could not know of, this was +importance, he returned again, called back the cook and the club +importance of the rite now being performed and even approved of it. he +important and unimportant, all of whom he knew, as if they were all +important post in vienna. both the foreign minister and our ambassador +important. what is important are the rights of man, emancipation from +impossible...” +impossible!” and suddenly he was seized by a panic of fear for himself +“impossible!” cried prince andrew. “that would be too base.” +impossible for him to return to his former conception of her, that he +impossible not to notice his face. dólokhov was a man of small means +impossible... oh, how pleasant it was at home!... the knave, double or +impossible to stop him, she rallied her forces and joined the vicomte in +impressionable, smiling young faces (smiling probably at their own +impression. “but that is a matter of perfect indifference to me,” he +impression his news of a victory would create, or recalling the send-off +impression of those voices and faces and a sense of loneliness merged +impressions of the recent battle, picturing pleasantly to himself the +impression. whether dolgorúkov and weyrother, or kutúzov, langeron, +impressively, blocking the way to the bedroom and preventing the other +improvement. his satire has been less bitter of late, and there was a +“i’m quite worn out by these callers. however, i’ll see her and +“i must also inform you,” said the rhetor, “that our order +“i must have that purse, i tell you,” shouted denísov, shaking his +i myself have experienced ... and so ... because ... no, excuse me! +in 1806 the old prince was made one of the eight commanders in chief +in a bad temper, and in the morning tíkhon had already advised the +inability to enter a room and converse in it was, however, redeemed by +in accord with his intentions. prince andrew noticed, however, that +in a cheerful voice: +in a corner of the hut stood a standard captured from the french, and +in a corner of the room something red and tiny gave a grunt and squealed +inactive and has left the university to join the army. i will confess to +inactive, would also soon have to meet the enemy. +in a day or two we shall all have to take part in a greater and more +in all sincerity—not as a future mason but as an honest man: have you +in amazement. +“in a minute, in a minute,” he said, dipping his pen. +“in a moment. À propos,” she added, becoming calm again, “i am +in a moment the men came running gaily from their campfires and began +in, and sinking heavily into an armchair. +“in an hour’s time, i should say.” +in any case. he has forwarded me a letter from borís. thank god, borís +inappropriate, she was unable to stop him. +in a shovel—the guests who had been scattered about in different rooms +in a tone only used by persons who are certain that those they call will +in attaching himself as an orderly officer to prince bagratión. he now +inattentive, but you had talent—oh yes, you had talent!” +inaudible, voice. +“in a word, a hearty one...” said the subaltern, laughing (the +in bonaparte’s address to his army at the beginning of the campaign, +in brünn everybody attached to the court was packing up, and the heavy +incessantly, repeating petersburg reminiscences and even phrases. prince +in chief, and from the noisy laughter of the cossacks holding the +in chief’s office were gathered kutúzov himself, weyrother, and the +in chief would be. though the aide-de-camp did not know these +in clean notes, was lying ready under a handkerchief on the countess’ +inclination—practical business. +income which was said to amount to five hundred thousand rubles a year, +incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was +in comparison with eternity?” +incomprehensible—the death of one she loved. +in consequence of this discovery his whole manner of life, all +inconvenient, unseemly, and impossible to do so. +in conversation—count rostopchín, prince yúri dolgorúkov, valúev, +in couples and he himself rode along the line trying to master the +increased tenfold, and their life, which seemed to have been passed in +increasing, seemed like someone’s breathing. he listened intently to +incredible, unheard-of, and impossible event of a russian defeat, + * “indeed, sire, we shall do everything it is possible to +“indeed? yes, yes!” said borís, with a smile. “and we too have +indicated that if he was not dancing it was because he would not and not +indicating a captive french dragoon who was being brought in on foot by +indicating her to the gentlemen, said: “voilà marie!” princess mary +indication of something new and stern showed round the mouth. +indications, he saw clearly that the allies believed him to be far away +indifference, began to hum to himself, producing a queer sound which +indifferent air, and glanced into the little drawing room. pierre and +indifferent hands of the minister of war and the polite adjutant. the +indifferently quiescent till the moment when motion is transmitted +indifferently to his wife’s chatter with prince hippolyte who had also +indignantly. “i come to ask you what to do, and you call it +indiscretion, nodded and said: “i hope to see you again, but i also +indiscretion, one might ask about our plans. +in discussion with the sole object of offending one another. but the +indisposition was the strong impression made on his sensitive mind by +indistinct words, shrugging his shoulders and gesticulating. +individual commanders and inquiring into details of the action and our +i need.” but when he came across a man of position his instinct +“i never could understand how nataly made up her mind to marry that +“i never go back on my word,” he said. “besides, sónya is so +“i never invited them. they came to disturb my life—and there is not +inevitable pain showed itself. +inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. but you are +in exactly the same manner. nesvítski laughed and nudged the others to +infamous, vile woman!” +infantry. +infantry and cavalry and took up its appointed position. not only the +infantry, and having reached the village of gruntersdorf they halted. it +infantry, cavalry, and artillery. how was it that two guns were +infantry in different uniforms; now was heard the rhythmic beat of +infantry officer who just before the battle had rushed out of +infants in arms met him to thank him for releasing them from hard +inflammable material on the bridge must be reinspected.” +influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized +influence of a variety of exciting sensations. only pierre and +influence of the dark, graceful girl who loved another. +informed him of a victory and stated strategically the position of the +informing the prince that as soon as the action began he had withdrawn +“inform the prince that i the bridge fired!” said the colonel +“inform the prince that labor has begun,” said mary bogdánovna, +in four different provinces. he had arranged this for himself so as to +in french. +in french out of all this, showing all the news we have had of the +in front of him and that the enemy must be at least six miles away. +in front of him was misty darkness. rostóv could see nothing, peer as +in front of them, and that the columns moving near pratzen constituted +in front of them rows of gray cloaks were already visible through the +in general at bald hills the little princess lived in constant fear, and +“in general we must turn this bloodthirsty soldier to more humane +in geometry were among the greatest delights of her life. +in god’s hands. you may die in your bed or god may spare you in a +in good spirits, he mounted his horse and rode out into the field +ingratiating and appealing smile, and took his hand that he might not go +in great russia, which formed the larger part of his property, and left +inhabitants on whom they were quartered. braunau was the headquarters of +in half an hour all was again in order, only the squares had become gray +in hand. +in her eyes, which, for an instant, glanced at pierre, prince vasíli +inheritance; but i do know that since this young man, whom we all used +in his fine gray eyes, and on his delicate lips the same capacity for +in his hand, was sitting there with a smile of deep emotion on his face, +in his horse before the emperor. +in his horse, said to him: +in his large elongated hand on blue paper as follows: +in his mind an unsettled question he always tried to stifle, one about +in his movements, in his walk, scarcely a trace was left of his former +in his saddle. +in his tone, “my dear,” whether they were above or below him in +in his voice a sincerity and weakness pierre had never observed in it +in his writing table, and this is a paper he has forgotten....” +in.’ i do not know how far he was justified in saying so.” +in it by spring. +injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing +in kiev pierre found some people he knew, and strangers hastened to make +in killed, wounded, sick, and stragglers; though a number of sick and +in kishenëv with only a moldavian peasant woman to help instead of a +in lace-frilled drawers, and feet in low slippers—was just at that +in life, one she had not yet experienced, irreparable and +in love. the marshals stood behind him not venturing to distract his +in love with the tsar,” he said. +in mary bogdánovna’s trembling white hands. +in me. i have been told that her brother anatole was in love with her +in military matters. +in my opinion was nothing of the kind. we civilians, as you know, have +inner laboratory of his mind in a portable form as if intentionally, so +innocent and untried?” +innocent youth. +in november, 1805, announcing that he and his son would be paying him +in november, 1805, prince vasíli had to go on a tour of inspection +in no way binding) might give time for part of the transport to pass, +inn, where two roads parted. both of them led downhill and troops were +in october, 1805, a russian army was occupying the villages and towns of +in on bad company. rostóv flushed up on noticing this, but he did not +in one company dinner was ready, and the soldiers were gazing eagerly +in only his stockings, rose when they entered, smiling not altogether +in our army. his own strategic plan, which obviously could not now +in our house, aren’t they?” +in our lack of understanding we see only our weakness and his +“in our temples we recognize no other distinctions,” read the grand +in passing prince vasíli seized pierre’s hand and said to anna +in perplexity, and only later grasped that a stroke was an attack of +in petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day +in petersburg, as in moscow, pierre found the same atmosphere of +in princess drubetskáya’s case he felt, after her second appeal, +in pure, correct french many interesting details about the armies and +inquiring look. he was about to stoop over her hand and kiss it, but +inquiringly at the young prince, wondering what would follow. +inquiring what she was to do with these people. on leaving them, anna +inquiry. the son noticed that an expression of profound sorrow suddenly +in retirement and had now no influence in political affairs, every high +in rostóv’s soul! and this something was apart from everything else +insane—unprofitable to himself, to the count, and to the serfs—made +in separate piles, began counting them. +“in short, hoping to settle matters by taking up a warlike attitude, +insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and +in silence, and then the same joke was repeated. +in society it seems as if there were something in them, but there’s +insolent, hard, and mocking face as he had seen it at the banquet, and +insolent intelligence of his eyes, produced an effect which made it +insoluble. +in some respects a brilliant match for the dowerless, orphan girl. from +in some way essential. +inspired by the emperors’ presence were eager for action. the +in spite of himself (although he knew how far it was safe to trust +in spite of prince andrew’s disagreeable, ironical tone, in spite of +in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the austrian +in spite of the animation of his speech, bilíbin did not forget to +in spite of this, both the face and words of his new acquaintance were +instantly dropped them again. all the blood which had seemed congested +instantly his regret at not having been in action and his dejected mood +instead of black. the regimental commander walked with his jerky steps +instead of firing it, flung it at the frenchman and ran with all his +instead of that he only excited himself more and more. +in step, and each one of these hundreds of soldiers seemed to be +instructing in reading, writing, and religion. on all his estates pierre +instructions his father had sent and taking the correspondence and his +instructions to major ekonómov, he could not help taking notice of the +instrument he could not begin to speak. +insufficient, and he kept expecting something more, more and yet more. +intellectual pride,” said the princess, following the train of her own +intelligent, and resolute young man. +intelligent, how is it you don’t see that if the count has written a +intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously. the general looked the +intended for you too. give them to the woman whom you shall honor most +intended to take up our position and begin the action, but were on this +intended to visit all his estates and see for himself how far his orders +intending to rest if but for a moment, eat something, and try to sort +intends to expose his precious person to the chances of war. god grant +intention of killing your man as quickly and surely as possible, and +intention of proposing, and today or tomorrow he would probably ask +intention should he try to direct his whole force against our faithful +intention to part from her forever. +intercourse with young women. +interested the minister of war less than any of the other matters he was +interesting.” +interesting and entertaining. after the field marshal’s departure +interesting but hardly feasible.” +interests,” said bilíbin. +interfere, making a scene on the very threshold of a dying man’s room? +interpreted. the life of old prince bolkónski, prince andrew, and +interrupting one another and mingling with the rustling of dresses and +intervene. prince andrew looked at túshin from under his brows and his +interview? why negotiate, and above all why retreat, when to retreat is +“in that case...” began willarski, but pierre interrupted him. +“in that case he is inviting his doom by awaiting our attack,” said +“in that case we can go,” said willarski. “my carriage is at your +in that happy mood in which everything seems possible and everything +in the afternoon, having made all his calls, he was returning to +in the army, besides the subordination and discipline prescribed in the +in the assurance that the rumors about the emperor being wounded were +in the autumn of 1806 everybody had again begun talking of the war with +in the autumn the rostóvs returned to moscow. early in the winter +in the baggage train he had passed that morning on the znaim road seven +in the beginning of the winter of 1805-6 pierre received one of anna +in the best possible manner, and feeling that he was doing it well he +in the common motion the result and aim of which are beyond its ken. +in the country.” +in the count’s room, which was full of tobacco smoke, they talked +in the darkness, it seemed as though a gloomy unseen river was flowing +in the deathlike stillness only the tramp of horses was heard. this +in the dining room, which like all the rooms in the house was +in the drawing room, talking to the little princess and mademoiselle +in the drawing room the conversation was still going on. +in the drawing room, waiting for borís to come out. she was already +in the emperor’s suite all exchanged rapid looks that expressed +in the emperors’ suite were the picked young orderly officers of the +in the evening, after supper, when all were about to retire, anatole +in the evening andrew and pierre got into the open carriage and drove to +in the evening,” reported rostóv, stooping forward with his hand at +in the fresh morning air were now heard, not two or three musket shots +in the garden, or superintending the building that was always going on +in the hair, the hair combed up, and the blue scarf arranged lower on +in the house on the povarskáya rose before him with such vividness, +in the house was done in haste at that time), and pierre and anna +in their childlike glee, aroused by the fire and their luck in +in their own play. +in their power. +in the letter from his parents was enclosed a letter of recommendation +in the light of the dull autumn evening, mounted men coming toward him. +in the meadow behind the village, three of them are dragging something. +in the mean jocular way common to anonymous letters said that he saw +in the meantime, not only was it known in the maidservants’ rooms that +in the middle of his story, just as he was saying: “you cannot imagine +in the middle of the line that had seemed so terrible—and now he +in the midst of a conversation on political matters anna pávlovna burst +in the midst of the third écossaise there was a clatter of chairs being +in the military profession, so to an even greater extent bilíbin gave +in the mist. +in the morning all that was left of the night mist on the heights was +in the morning anna mikháylovna said to pierre: +in the night he called his valet and told him to pack up to go to +in the other the letter, and pressing them alternately to her lips. +in the passage denísov, with a pipe, was squatting on the threshold +in the rearguard, dokhtúrov and others rallying some battalions kept up +in the room next their bedroom there was a confusion of sabers, +in the same order in which they had entered but with redder faces, the +in the same tone. +in the same tone. +in the second room of the inn the lieutenant was sitting over a dish of +“in the seventh place, try, by the frequent thought of death,” the +in the small circular room. around the table all who were at count +in the spring of 1807 he decided to return to petersburg. on the way he +in the streets of petersburg in an old uniform. he made friends with +in the sutler’s hut without his boots.” he recognized the agreeable, +in the third circle, narýshkin was speaking of the meeting of the +in the viennese drawing rooms and often had an influence on matters +in the village of hosjeradek there were russian troops retiring from +in the world and above everything in the world. “what were losses, and +in this part of the house and did not even know of the existence of +in this room it was almost dark; only two tiny lamps were burning before +intimately. prince andrew spoke with some animation and interest only of +intimately regretted that he had died so young, leaving a pregnant wife +into a careless, merry smile. “what am i? an illegitimate son!” +into action as arranged, and after going behind other columns for +“into action! into action! bring him a bottle for such news! but how +into borís’ eyes. after he had gone pierre continued pacing up and +into her heart an impulse that was against his will. my wife—as she +into her radiant smile. +into his room one evening in the official and ceremonious manner in +in to inform the commander in chief of this and, availing himself +“in token of obedience, i ask you to undress.” +intonation, look, and expression, pricked up her ears from the beginning +in too”—different voices were saying in the crowd, as the men looked +into sobs. +into step with a hop, looked back angrily, and through the ominous +into the corridor and met—coming out of the door of the emperor’s +into the distance, at the waters of the danube, at the sky, and at the +into the insignificant, trifling, and artificial interests uniting that +in to the minister of war. five minutes later he returned and bowing +into the naïvely symmetrical pose of an egyptian statue, evidently +in to the utmost, their red necks squeezed into their stiff collars, and +into the valley. he greeted the men of the foremost regiment and gave +into the water. he tried to right himself but fell in up to his waist. +into the water, or when he challenged a man to a duel without any +into which we have been drawn, god knows how or why. not only where you +intoxication. he felt as though he were the center of some important and +intriguer!” she hissed viciously, and tugged with all her might at the +invalid chair, a wax taper in his left hand, was leaning his left arm on +invalid,” said anna pávlovna, exchanging an alarmed glance with her +invent him,” said the wit shinshín, parodying the words of voltaire. +in vienna knew him and valued him. he was not one of those many +invincibility of the french, and the minister of war does not even care +invitation to anna pávlovna’s reception and had sat listening to +involuntarily came closer to him. +involuntarily, came up and sat down beside him. +involuntarily noticed that one of them was bleeding, and galloped on. +involuntarily, so much so that the only thing left to do seemed to be +in war on our own frontiers, with and for the king of prussia. we have +in which kutúzov entrusted them to the humanity of the enemy; and +in zherkóv, looking uneasily around. he had not seen the hussars all +“i often think,” she continued after a short pause, drawing nearer +“i often think, though, perhaps it’s a sin,” said the princess, +iogel’s were the most enjoyable balls in moscow. so said the mothers +i only wanted to know your opinion,” and anna pávlovna let pierre go. +“i ought to tell you that i do not believe... do not believe in +“i peg of you yourself not to mix in vot is not your business!” +“i promised to pay tomorrow,” said nicholas. +“i quite understand,” answered princess mary, with a sad smile. +i really take it? how fortunate!” he thought. +“i recognize you only too well, too well.” +“i rely on you, my dear,” said anna pávlovna, also in a low tone. +“i request you to have the goodness to change your coat,” he said as +ironical voice. +irreparable. there was no insult on either side. allow me to +irrepressible hatred. +irreproachably washed, brushed, and buttoned, held his pipe in the +irresistible human need for sleep. he really was asleep. weyrother, with +irresistibly attractive to pierre. +irresolution communicated itself to the men. +irritation. +“i said from the first,” declared anna pávlovna referring to +is all i have to say to you. the count is very, very ill, and you must +is a mob of scoundrels and not an army,” he was thinking as he went +is an admirable book which calms and elevates the soul. adieu! give +is a very good thing, but not for you—i don’t suppose you ever had +“i saw him myself,” replied the man with a self-confident smile of +“i saw the pávlograd hussars attack there, your excellency,” chimed +“i saw you riding this morning...” he added. +“i say, berg, my dear fellow,” said rostóv, “when you get a +“i say, come round some evening and we’ll have a game of faro!” +“i say, father, joking apart, is she very hideous?” anatole asked, +“i say, fédeshon!... did he say when the battles are to begin? you +“i say, rostóv,” said dólokhov clearly, smiling and looking +“i say, shall we soon be clear? they say the cavalry are blocking the +“i say so,” he continued desperately, “because the bourbons fled +“i say, this is folly! he’ll be killed,” said this more sensible +“i say, we’ve been in the front line! our regiment attacked!” said +is betraying us! russia alone must save europe. our gracious sovereign +is called weak character, do not seek a confidant in their troubles. he +is connected with the montmorencys through the rohans, one of the best +is denísov!” +“is everything quite all right?” +is for myself.” +is going as a cadet. there’s no one to interest himself for him. to +is good to have a friend like the prince,” she said, smiling at prince +“i shall always remember that in this world one must expect no reward, +“i shall at any rate not run after a young man before visitors...” +“i shall be delighted to meet them,” said the prince. “but +i shall be in a more prominent position,” continued berg, “and +i shall be very charmed to see you tonight between 7 and 10—annette +i shall conclude will be worthy of my people, of you, and of myself. +i shall expect you, drubetskóy. au revoir!” exclaimed prince andrew, +“i shall probably die before you. so remember, these are my memoirs; +“i shall scarcely be able to avail myself of your hospitality, +“is he really to be my husband, this stranger who is so kind—yes, +“i should like,” said the vicomte, “to ask how monsieur explains +“i should like to go to kurágin’s,” thought he. +“i should like to speak well of them, but as far as i know the facts, +“i should never dare to say that i know the truth,” said the mason, +“i should not be doing my duty, count,” he said in timid tones, +“i should think he has a score of them.” +“i should think not,” said véra, “because there can never be +“‘i showed them the path to glory, but they did not follow +is how i explain it to myself. it can’t be helped!” +is interrupted. he listened to what langeron said, as if remarking, +“is it certain?” she said. +“is it for visitors you’ve got yourself up like that, eh?” said +“is it possible?” exclaimed anna mikháylovna. “oh, how awful! +“is it true that austrians have been beaten?” asked dólokhov. +“is it worth while noticing trifles?” he reined in his horse with +is much better than ours.” +is my witness,” and she made the sign of the cross, “i love her so +is not abashed now, so she cannot be a bad woman!” he had often begun +is nothing but a trick! he has retreated and ordered the rearguard to +is not my fault that i want it and want nothing but that and live only +is not so, then...” +is now on the staff.” +is now rushing along the road to brünn and will be here in a day or +isn’t it logical? +“isn’t she exquisite?” she said to pierre, pointing to the stately +“isn’t she too young? i have heard that it harms the voice to train +“is papa at home?” he asked. +is pua’ as on the fihst day of cweation... who’s that now? send him +is so fond of?” he remembered his mother’s love for him, and his +is so i don’t know...” +is, stormed and stormed and stormed! it was not a matter of life but +is such men as he who decide the fate of nations,” added bolkónski +“is that mary practicing? let’s go quietly and take her by +“is that so? and what did he say?” inquired bolkónski. +is that the emperor is here. how he looked at me and wished to say +is the baby born?” +“is the englishman bragging?... eh? is it all right?” said anatole. +is the one held by the majority of people, and is the invariable fruit +is the only difference between them.” he said this smiling in a way +is the only thing left me—not singing!” his thoughts ran on. “go +“is there sufficient forage in krems?” +“is this good or bad?” pierre asked himself. “it is good for me, +“is this the way to the princesses’ apartments?” asked anna +“is this your saber?” asked pétya. “or is it yours?” he said, +“is this your saber?” he shouted. +“i still can’t understand what you are afraid of,” said prince +is to take care of yourself. leave it to those who are no longer fit for +is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. there is nothing, +is very unhappy with her father. she is a relation of yours, princess +it. +it. +it.” +it?” +italian: “‘dio mi l’ha dato. guai a chi la tocchi!’’ +italian to give her lessons.” +“it all depends on the bringing up,” remarked the visitor. +it all very well for prince vasíli told me himself. besides, cyril +italy and on the rhine; how fifty thousand russians and as many english +it. and he is so clever and so good!” said natásha. “don’t +it and saw telyánin’s horse at the porch. +it and wished to hear it again. in her voice there was a virginal +it...” answered her son coldly. “but i have promised and will do it +it appears that we are within sight of the enemy and must give battle. +it at that age.” +it. at that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over +it. but at that moment an adjutant galloped up with a message from the +it can’t be a square—for they are not drawn up for that.” +“it can’t be helped! it happens to everyone!” said the son, with +it can’t be helped!” said the count, shrugging his shoulders and +“it can’t be!” said rostóv. “it must have been someone else.” +it dashed, some forward and some back, drowning one another. +it, easily find a way to prepare for the enemy the fate he deserves. +i tell her how i’ve seen the emperor?) natásha... take my +i tell you buonaparte was a great tactician? here, he says the same +i tell you he is in our hands, that’s certain! but what was most +“i tell you,” shouted denísov, “he’s a fine fellow.” +it escape from his handsome mouth in rings. this was lieutenant berg, an +it. feel in your pockets.” +it. fr... fr... fr! and don’t i see that that idiot had eyes only for +it had appeared. the count sat on the sofa between two guests who were +it had the commander in chief continued to look at him, and so kutúzov, +“it has begun. here it is!” thought prince andrew, feeling the +“i... that’s different. why speak of me? i don’t want any other +“i think i may congratulate you,” whispered anna pávlovna to the +“i think,” said the prince with a smile, “that if you had been +“i think the battle will be lost, and so i told count tolstóy and +i think there were not many such gallant sons of the fatherland out +“i thought perhaps something had happened,” she said with her +“i thought today’s fete had been canceled. i confess all these +it. if you refuse him on my account, i must tell you the whole truth. i +it is a bit of mack. we are macked),” he concluded, feeling that he +“it is all, all her fault,” he said to himself; “but what of that? +“it is all very well for rostóv, whose father sends him ten thousand +“it is an illness, there’s no other way of explaining it,” said +“it is done!” she said to the count, pointing triumphantly to the +“it is dreadful, dreadful!” she was saying, “but cost me what it + it is for thee thus swells her heart, +“it is for the reasson, my goot sir,” said he, speaking with a +it is for you to talk or think of such matters. it is no easier for +it is. my dear pet!” +“it is now my turn to ask you ‘why?’ mon cher,” said bolkónski. +“it is of great importance to me,” she said, turning with a smile +it is past midnight—cannot now be altered,” said he. “you have +it is said ‘there are thieves among the pávlograd officers!’ but +“it is some letter of recommendation... what the devil do i want it +it is terrible to think.... this is my son,” she added, indicating +“it is the buonapartists who say that,” replied the vicomte without +“it is the sword of frederick the great which i...” she began, but +“it is too late now, it’s done; besides i love her,” thought +“it is very good of you, monsieur pierre, to come and visit a poor +“it is very strange, mon monsieur prince,” said the staff officer. +it is. you must know. we will take it at once and show it to the +“it’ll be worse for you. bogdánich is vindictive and you’ll pay +it’ll be worse if he fires the bridge. see, here’s an officer jammed +“it may be he or it may be nothing,” muttered the hussar. “it’s +“it may be treachery,” said prince andrew, vividly imagining the +it might really have been so? could one possibly make out amid all that +“it must be one of ours, a prisoner. yes. can it be that they will +it necessary to introduce himself, and without experiencing the least +it, next day, november 15, after dinner he again went to olmütz and, +“i told you it was all lumps and holes!” the little princess +it on his coat and supported himself with it. his frowning face was +it on something, and told him to hold a pair of compasses to his left +it, on the crest of the opposite hill, the village of schön grabern +it on the field at schön grabern. young rostóv’s ecstatic voice +it or not, and how they would cross it, agitated them all. +it, or why it had to be told in russian, still anna pávlovna and the +it,’” prince andrew continued after a short silence, again quoting +it really happened, it would have been necessary to make an effort of +it right to refuse a duty to which he had been appointed by the emperor +i trouble myself about you, and you also know quite well that what i +“it’s a bad business, eh?” +“it’s a bad business,” said the general without answering him, +“it’s a lackey’s job!” +“it’s all about the war,” the count shouted down the table. “you +“it’s all over; but i am a coward—yes, a coward!” thought +“it’s all the fault of these fellows on the staff that there’s +“it’s all the same now. if the emperor is wounded, am i to try to +“it’s all the same to me,” he said. “i only want to see whether +“it’s all up! i’m lost!” thought he. “now a bullet through my +“it’s all very well for you... i am not envious... i love you and + “it’s a long, long way. +“it’s a long time since we met,” he said. “thanks for coming. +“it’s ancient history,” said another, guessing that it referred to +“it’s andrew!” thought princess mary. “no it can’t be, that +“it’s a shame for a soldier to steal; a soldier must be honest, +“it’s as if a dam had burst,” said the cossack hopelessly. “are +it’s as if it had been done on purpose, on purpose. besides, suppose +its broad temples and close-cropped hair, and looked at bezúkhov. the +it’s definite and one is rid of the old tormenting doubt.” pierre +“it’s different on different days,” answered the captain. “one +it seemed as if from some words borís had spoken that evening about the +it seemed as if nothing in that voice could be altered without spoiling +it seemed quite natural that they should cry, and apparently it never +it seemed so natural to pierre that everyone should like him, and it +it seemed to her that not only did everybody know that her fate would be +it seemed to him that he was being fired at. “what? what? what?... cut +it seemed to pierre, sunk in profound and calm meditation. his servant +it seemed to pierre that he grew embarrassed. pierre himself grew still +“it seems funny to me,” said pierre, “that you, you should +“it seems that there will be no need to bring mary out, suitors are +“it seems that while he was abroad this young man was allowed to do +itself?” +itself, a petty german town, rostóv saw the emperor again. in the +itself, rejoicing at the emperors’ approach, had naturally burst into +itself to him. he was already enjoying that happiness when that +“it’s empty.” +its handsome, sensual mouth, and its cold, majestic expression, was +it, she was herself in such high spirits at that moment, so far from +“it’s impossible,” replied another. +“it’s in the inlaid portfolio that he keeps under his pillow,” +its last march the day before—presented a well-ordered array of two +it’s not all the same to us! am i not right, denísov? it’s not the +“it’s not at all from friendship,” declared nicholas, flaring +“it’s not going to be a ghost story?” said he, sitting down beside +“it’s nothing, nothing; leave me alone!” sobbed sónya. +“it’s nothing,” replied prince andrew. +it’s not pleasant, but what’s to be done, my dear fellow? you landed +“it’s not that i don’t remember—i know what he is like, but not +“it’s not there.” +“it’s not true!” +“it’s plain that they have not all gone yet, prince,” said +it’s splendid. i am very glad to have made your acquaintance. it’s +“it’s that protégé of yours, that sweet princess drubetskáya, +“it’s the enemy?... no!... yes, see it is!... for certain.... but +its thunder joining the roar of the whole line along which he had +it’s too late now when vienna is occupied by the french army!” +it’s true he has been reinstated, but how could they fail to do that? +its upper lip covered with tiny black hair. +its use, he does not believe in the master who made it. to know him is +its usual semblance of a smile. +“it’s wonderful what a lot of our troops have gathered, lads! last +it. telyánin took the purse and began carelessly slipping it into the +it timidly and tenderly on her son’s arm, “be affectionate and +it to be alleged that he had been the first to leave the range of fire, +it to its destination and make use of it. +it turns out that ‘the enemy of the human race’ pays no heed to +it turns out that we have landed ourselves in war, and what is more, +it under the terms of the project gutenberg license included with this +it under your head like a treasure,” said rostóv. “i put it just +“it von’t go begging,” replied the german with a smile. +it was all that they could do to get the guns up the rise aided by the +“it was all they could do to rescue the poor man,” continued the +it was already quite dark when prince andrew rattled over the paved +it was a warm, rainy, autumnal day. the wide expanse that opened out +it was evident that he did not like the vicomte and was aiming his +it was evident that he performed his duty as a subordinate with even +it was evident that prince andrew was not interested in such abstract +it was evident that this strange, strong man was under the irresistible +it was impossible to get rid of them. +it was, in fact, solely to meet prince vasíli that she had obtained an +it was in july, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known anna pávlovna +it was just the moment before a big dinner when the assembled guests, +it was late in the evening when they entered the palace at olmütz +it was long before their conversation could settle on anything. they +it was long since rostóv had felt such enjoyment from music as he +it was long since the rostóvs had news of nicholas. not till midwinter +“it was my fault, mon père,” interceded the little princess, with a +it was napoleon accompanied by two aides-de-camp. bonaparte riding +it was nine o’clock in the morning. the fog lay unbroken like a sea +it was no longer, as before, a dark, unseen river flowing through the +it was not so, that i had no right to do it. and so it turns out.” +it was not the dress, but the face and whole figure of princess mary +it was one of those march nights when winter seems to wish to resume its +it was past one o’clock when pierre left his friend. it was a +it was plain that this cadet had already repeatedly asked for a lift and +it was plain that this “well?” referred to much that they both +it was pleasant and touching to see these little girls in love; but +it was prince andrew. the first thing he saw on riding up to the space +it was rumored that savary had been sent to propose to alexander +it was st. natalia’s day and the name day of two of the rostóvs—the +it was that the pain distracted him and prevented his seeing what he had +it was, the disorder was readily and naturally attributed to the stupid +“it was the officer, your honor, stained it,” answered the +it was the second night that neither of them had slept, watching the boy +it was true that a view over nearly the whole russian position and the +it were not his. he examined his hand carefully, vainly trying to find +it were not my duty i would not talk to you for a moment”), was +it with you?...” +it won’t be your skirmishing at dürrenstein, or gunpowder at all, +it worth thinking or speaking of it at such a moment? at a time of such +it would be different if you grudged losing a laborer—that’s how i +“it would be good,” thought prince andrew, glancing at the icon his +it would have been difficult for a face to express greater respect and +“it would have been hard to drive up, your honor,” he added. “i +it would not ache—it would be well—if only they did not pull it, but +“it would not be turned off the field even on the tsarítsin +it!’ ‘yes, let’s!’ say the others. and off they go and take the +it you talked about?” and prince andrew crooked a third finger. “ah, +ivánovich. he is in a very bad humor, very morose. be prepared.” +ivánovich kutúzov: +ivánovich (who always went into a corner to blow his nose on his +“i’ve been sent back to the regiment all on account of that devil, +“i’ve come to say good-by.” +“i’ve come to sit with you a bit, másha,” said the nurse, “and +i’ve nothing against it,” the prince said to himself, “but he must +“i’ve seen him myself!” +“i want a great deal, count! i want five hundred rubles,” and taking +“i want nothing, and i won’t be anyone’s adjutant.” +“i want to know!” +“i want to teach this young man how to shoe a horse,” said +“i was attached; i’m on duty.” +“i was coming to tell you so.” +“i was going to ask you. i know nothing except that it was all i could +i was right. without boasting, you know, i may say that i know the army +i was saying, prince vasíli is the next heir through his wife, but the +“i was there,” said rostóv angrily, as if intending to insult the +i was to blame for not understanding her, for not understanding that +“i was told a charming moscow story today and must treat you to it. +“i was very much surprised when i heard of it,” said prince andrew. +“i? what have i...?” stammered pierre. +“i will allow no one to call me a liar!” cried rostóv. “he told +“i will do it all, father,” he said. +“i will do so,” said prince andrew, moving away from the map. +“i will give the order.” +“i will, i will, only tell me! you won’t? then i will go and tell at +“i will,” replied natásha. +“i will tell you frankly,” said prince vasíli in the tone of +“i will the bridge fire,” he said in a solemn tone as if to announce +“i will, your excellency,” said timókhin, showing by his smile that +“i wished to get a nap, mon cousin, but i can’t.” +“i wonder, is it not too late to administer unction?” asked the +“i won’t say he is out of sorts, but i fancy he would like to be +“i won’t tell anyone!” and she ran off at once to sónya. +jabbering! fine, isn’t it? it’s all the frenchy can do to keep up +jacket. +“jacob, bring a bottle!” shouted the host, a tall, handsome fellow +jaw trembling and was hardly able to mutter: “i don’t know... your +jerked away his plate, which tíkhon briskly caught. “suvórov!... +jest. +jests and gossip. +jests fell flat, news was not interesting, and the animation was +jest was unacceptable and had not come off. he grew confused. +“je vous aime!” * he said, remembering what has to be said at such +jingling sound it presented arms. then amidst a dead silence the +joined kutúzov at braunau now separated from the russian army, and +joins the allies, austria’s hand will be forced and there will be war. +joke, and purposely trying to appear stupider than he really was. +jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a french battalion gets to +jolted over the stony road. some of them were talking (he heard russian +jovial old gentleman, who standing beside his tall and stout partner, +joy and happiness. on receiving the order he gave his horse the rein +joy at the approach of the emperors. one voice was heard shouting: +joyful and mysterious taking place within her. +joyful, but an animal, squirrel-like expression. she paused as if she +joyful it seemed, that her son, the scarcely perceptible motion of whose +joyfully that the men themselves were awed by their multitude and the +joyfully up to pierre. his face was so unusually triumphant that pierre +joys and sorrows of this world—overflowed the great grief within her. +joy to give my franz a thaler, or let him go with his liebchen to the +julie +julie wrote in french: +jumped down. he smelt strongly of rum. +jump, túshin not taking his pipe from his mouth ran from gun to gun, +junction advisable, meant, among other arguments in support of his view, +just above his ear. +just as at ulm... it is...”—he seemed to be trying to find the right +just as he was going to open it the sounds ceased, the door opened, and +just as he went in he saw that the nurse was hiding something from him +“just as i may suppose you to be deluded,” said pierre, with a faint +just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable +just as in the mechanism of a clock, so in the mechanism of the military +just as prince andrew met nesvítski and zherkóv, there came toward +just as prince andrew was a young man who gave promise of rising high +just as the architect, gardener, or princess mary did, till the prince +just as the mother and son, having reached the middle of the hall, were +just at moments when such thoughts occurred to him, he would ask in a +just before dinner, count ilyá rostóv presented his son to bagratión, +just come out of a hot bath.” +just completed. he lay with his head propped high on the pillows. his +just left.... it is true that it was hot there,” he added, modestly. +“just look at the master! a regular eagle he is!” loudly remarked +just returned from abroad where he had been educated, and this was his +just returned from vienna, two diplomatists, the old aunt, a young man +“just see, the german sausage is making tracks, too!” +“just see where it carries to!” a soldier near by said sternly, +just such a story—they would either not have believed him or, still +just then a closed carriage and another with a hood drove up to the +just then another visitor entered the drawing room: prince andrew +just then at a distance behind kutúzov was heard the sound of regiments +just then zherkóv entered the room. +“just to flutter the nuns a bit. they say there are italian girls +just under the icons; his large thick hands outside the quilt. into the +just visible behind a screen. a small dog began to bark. +kaiser alexander hoch!” *(2) said he, quoting words often repeated by +kámenski, visited the english club, and was on intimate terms with a +karl give no signs of life and make blunder after blunder. kutúzov +keen interest in the whole affair. you know she is very gracious to +keen-sighted a companion. “you know, you see right through people. +keep from laughter provoked by a swarthy hussar officer who walked +keeping pierre close beside her, entered the room even more boldly than +keep you long as an adjutant: a bad position! tell him i remember +kept coming into her eyes. anna mikháylovna, with the letter, came on +kept looking round toward the drawing room door. it opened and nicholas +kept turning his horse in front of the squadron. +kerchief, and the loose skin that hung under her chin. +kiev province, where he had the greatest number of serfs, taking with +killed and if i have a son, do not let him be taken away from you—as i +killed anyone, or insulted or wished harm to anyone? why such a terrible +killed by a cannon ball—struck in the breast before our regiment.” +killed.” rook tried to rise on his forelegs but fell back, pinning his +killed them, yes!” said he, frowning angrily and turning away from +killed, you are a fool and are lost for certain. but go with the firm +kill me.” but at the same time, his left arm felt as heavy as if +“kill the germans!” shouted one. +kind, because he has been a benefactor to them both. as sterne says: +kindhearted, and because they—friends from childhood—had to think +kindle fires and make a noise to deceive us.” +kindle in all hearts the flame of virtue. share thy happiness with thy +“kind...ly let—them—pass!” +“kindly let this cart pass. don’t you see it’s a woman?” said +“kindly return to your posts,” said the staff officer trying to +kindly, smiling, handsome face and moist eyes. nesvítski could hardly +kindness!” he turned to go. +kindness,” or, “with your excellent heart,” “you are yourself so +kind of talk, and at last all stopped. as often happens, the horses of +kind relation. but, nataly, you know my love for my son: i would do +kinds overtaking one another and blocking the muddy road, three and +kind sprang from a second door and a third; more hugging, more kissing, +kind, that is the chief thing,” thought princess mary; and fear, which +king francis is not much delighted by your victory. even i, a poor +king of prussia and others: ‘so much the worse for you. tu l’as +king of prussia what he is to do if he is summoned to surrender.... all +kírsten. the staff captain on his broad-backed, steady mare came at a +kissed. her father in jest tried to rouse her jealousy, and she replied +kissed her forehead. +kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, +kissed him at the same time. only his mother was not there, he noticed +kissed him three times. +kissed mademoiselle bourienne’s hand. (this was not etiquette, but +kissed princess mary’s hand. she did not know how she found the +kisses. her looks asked him to forgive her for having dared, by +kissing each other on the face, and then to prince andrew’s surprise +kissing her hand, he left the room with quick resolute strides, without +kiss me,” and he offered his cheek. +“kiss me here,” and he touched his cheek: “thanks, thanks!” +“kiss the doll,” said she. +kitten which promises to become a beautiful little cat. she evidently +knapsacks, bayonets, long muskets, and, under the shakos, faces with +knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the austrian authorities had provided +knees, some squatting turkish fashion on the wet grass. +knee with the palm of his hand. +knew....” +knew that. what will be the result? that i shall be the laughingstock of +knew that when it appeared on her face, she became mute and was not to +knew till after eight o’clock. +knew what had happened to him as he knew it himself. +knew what those society women are, and women in general! my father is +knight. “i’m even weady to dance the pas de châle.” +knitting a striped scarf for him. +knitting, went to the window and leaning out tried to catch the open +knocked three of them over. +knocking over two horses and another tearing off a munition-wagon +knoll; if they had retreated they would have withdrawn from that too.... +know!” +know all about it and understand it all,” he said. “you behaved as +know, and know for certain, that the enjoyment of doing this good is the +know, but he felt sure it would do so. the locality and the position of +know god and hate your life. there is nothing strange in that, my dear +know his character: noble, upright ... but you see he has no one with +know how fond the count is of her.” +know how to dance, had liked sitting in this room to watch the ladies +know how to deal with them.” +know how to equip borís.” she took out her handkerchief and began to +know how to express it ... not by a balance of political power....” +knowing how. first he spun her round, holding her now with his left, now +knowing that denísov had a reputation even in poland for the masterly +know it is all over, and forever.” +knowledge. +know my principles—everything aboveboard! i will ask her tomorrow in +know myself again.” +know my son’s going, márya dmítrievna? my son is going.” +known as la femme la plus séduisante de pétersbourg, * was also there. +known). drawing nearer, he recognized in the rhetor a man he knew, + knows by experience, now, bagratión, +know that ourselves!” another, without looking round, as though +know! the prussians are up in arms now. the austrians, you see, are +“know this, másha: i can’t reproach, have not reproached, and never +know what it is to be left a widow without means and with a son you love +know yourself that last winter the count made a will by which he left +kórchevo—a certain khandrikóv—is up to; till now the additional +kozlóvski were squatting on the floor by a tub so near to the commander +kozlóvski, who was sitting at the window with a book. +kronq,—chargé d’affaires from copenhagen—a profound intellect,” +“kurágin is exquisite when he discusses politics—you should see his +kurágins’. all maintained a solemn silence, listening to the words +kurágin was expecting the usual set for cards that evening, after which + *kutúzov. +kutúzov. +kutúzov accompanied by his adjutants rode at a walking pace behind the +kutúzov bowed with the same smile. +kutúzov chose this latter course. +kutúzov did not reply. he seemed to have forgotten what he had been +kutúzov fell back toward vienna, destroying behind him the bridges over +kutúzov here woke up, coughed heavily, and looked round at the +kutúzov, he was sent immediately with a special dispatch to brünn. +kutúzov laughed bitterly. +kutúzov looked sternly at his adjutant and, after a pause, replied: +kutúzov no one spoke of, except some who abused him in whispers, +kutúzov ... recommend borís to him as adjutant! then i shall be at +kutúzov’s, collected in groups and began to talk about the awards, +kutúzov’s expectations that the proposals of capitulation (which were +kutúzov’s face as he stood in the open doorway remained perfectly +kutúzov’s headquarters and the staffs of the commanders of columns. +kutúzov sighed deeply on finishing this paragraph and looked at the +kutúzov’s suite like a flock of little birds. +kutúzov’s whole army. to be able to crush it absolutely he awaited +kutúzov, there is not a single russian in command of a column! the +kutúzov turned away. the same smile of the eyes with which he had +kutúzov turned round without answering and his eye happened to fall +kutúzov walked slowly and languidly past thousands of eyes which were +kutúzov walked through the ranks, sometimes stopping to say a few +kutúzov was left with only his own weak and exhausted forces. the +kutúzov was occupying a nobleman’s castle of modest dimensions near +kutúzov went out into the porch with bagratión. +kutúzov, where he inquired for bolkónski, all the adjutants and even +kutúzov, whom he had overtaken in poland, had received him very kindly, +kutúzov with his eagle nose and puffy face appeared in the doorway. +kutúzov with his staff and all of us count for nothing. everything is +kutúzov, with his suite diminished by more than half, rode toward a +kutúzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over +kutúzov writes...” and he screamed as piercingly as if he wished to +kuzmích, asking what the point of the story was as he had not heard it +“kuzmích... from all sides... and then tears,” someone repeated +“la balance y est... * a german knows how to skin a flint, as the +labor but should die of it in a week, so he could not stand my physical +labor is as essential to him, as much a condition of his existence, as +labor was thus increased, though lessened on paper. he did not know +lackeys who care nothing for their master’s business. quarante mille +lack the bump of paternity.” +lad,” he said, addressing his favorite soldier. “and where is the +ladies and gentlemen than rostóv had ever expected to see him. +ladies and, leaning on his saber and beating time with his foot, told +ladies’ end an even chatter of voices was heard all the time, at the +ladies—” he turned with the same request to denísov who was also a +lad jumped awkwardly back into the room, tripping over his spurs. +lad’s a fine fellow, a fine fellow! well, come with me now.” he took +“lads! here’s to our sovereign, the emperor, and victory over +“lads!” shouted milorádovich in a loud, self-confident, and cheery +lady, adding the priest’s clerical title, as if she had no opinion of +lady visitor. +“la femme est la compagne de l’homme,” * announced prince +lain in ambush in a ditch, now attacked the french unexpectedly. +lamp, she stood before it with folded hands for a few moments. a painful +lances and the unfolded standards fluttered against their staffs. it +langeron’s objections were valid but it was obvious that their chief +langeron, trying as virulently as possible to sting weyrother’s vanity +langeron, with a subtly ironical smile, again glancing round for support +language: english +lannes and was thrown into confusion. bagratión had sent zherkóv +large and handsome eyes. he regarded his whole life as a continual round +large dark ballroom. all was the same: there were the same old card +large estate, boguchárovo, about twenty-five miles from bald hills. +large leather sofa from prince andrew’s study into the bedroom. on +large, newly furnished petersburg house, the happy possessor, as people +larger circle. +largest landowner of the province. temptations to pierre’s greatest +larrey, was much more likely to end in death than in convalescence. +lashes, thick black plaits coiling twice round her head, and a tawny +last campaign, prince peter ivánovich bagratión!” and again his blue +last deciding seriously to prove to this youth how foolish his words +last few days. the antagonists stood forty paces apart at the farther +last interview with the gentleman-ranker—“that private dólokhov, +last long? it’s all the club and his easygoing nature. even in the +last mademoiselle bourienne gave a scream and ran away. anatole bowed to +last moments by not letting him commit this injustice, and not to let +last only his white plumes were visible to rostóv from amid the suites +last remaining strength, took hold of his left hand with his right, and +last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which +last time. and suddenly, in the most casual tone, which made him feel +last updated: january 21, 2019 +late in starting her practice on the clavichord, went into the sitting +“late! it’s nearly ten o’clock,” answered natásha’s voice. +later on. oh, how glad i am to have you!” +latest cut, such as no one else yet had in moscow, and boots of the +latest fashion, with extremely pointed toes and small silver spurs, +late that night, when all had separated, denísov with his short hand +lathe and, as usual, did not look round at her. +lathe?” asked prince andrew with a scarcely perceptible smile which +latterly spent whole days at home, that is, in prince vasíli’s house +latter threw up his arms in surprise saying it was nowhere to be found +laugh. +laugh. and they, too, passed on, so that nesvítski did not learn who +laughed. +laughed. +laughed at every word he said or that she said herself, not because what +laughed. “i dreamed last night...”—“you were not expecting +laughed loudest. +laughed spasmodically as he stood in the porch waiting for the vicomte +laughed. “véra’s spiteful; never mind her! and all will come right +laughing. +laughing. +laughing. “dear, dear!...” +laughing for some reason and shaking himself free. +laughing, “‘sergéy kuzmích... from all sides... from all sides... +laughter led by natásha. both partners stood still, breathing heavily +laughter that convulsed his usually impassive features. +laughter, the shouting of familiar voices, the growling of a bear, and +lavrúshka turned all the bedding over, looked under the bed and under +“lavwúska!” he shouted loudly and angrily, “take it off, +laws of its divine saviour, who preached love and forgiveness of +lay across the bed with his head lower than the pillow, and was smacking +lay in the general progress of the war. when he saw mack and heard the +lazily and advanced and again halted, receiving no timely orders from +leader, called les nôtres. * this set, consisting almost exclusively of +leading the tsar’s beautiful relay horses covered with embroidered +leaf, gave it to kozlóvski, stepped quickly to the window, and threw +leaned his arms on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes. pierre +leaning his elbow on his knee and covering his face with his hand. after +leaning with his arms on the back of the sofa, sat in his former +leaping the furrows, he fled across the field with the impetuosity he +learned that dólokhov the brawler, dólokhov the bully, lived in moscow +learn from suvórov even so simple a thing as the art of crowing like a +learning that he was a special messenger led him to another entrance. +learning, was well brought up, and had a pleasant voice; what she said +least disconcerted by this reception. he had just entered, wearing an +least have some for my sake! she must be shown that the blockhead thinks +“leave it,” said dólokhov, though he did not seem to be even +“leave me alone, please leave me alone! it is all quite the same to +leave me alone with him!” +leave of her and of lise, his look tender yet proud. she saw him tender +leave of rostóv in the club porch. +leave you cold a thousand times and the thousand and first time thrill +le charmant hippolyte was surprising by his extraordinary resemblance +led along a certain carpet. after that they took his right hand, placed +left...” a fat major skirted a bush, puffing and falling out of +left alone, pierre went on smiling in the same way. once or twice +left bank of the danube and took up a position for the first time +left breast, and stooping down pulled up the left leg of his trousers +left but to die?” he thought. “well, if need be, i shall do it no +left foot began convulsively tapping the horse’s side with the spur, +left him, rubbing his small white hands. +left like this. every moment is precious. i can’t think why his nieces +left the chair on which he had been leaning, and—with an air +legal heir to everything and you won’t get anything. you must know, +legs and turned-out toes, climbed the hill with difficulty.) prince +legs, looked directly at prince vasíli with no sign of emotion in her +lëlya’s name day. i will invite two or three people, and if he does +lemarrois had just arrived at a gallop with bonaparte’s stern letter, +length portrait of catherine the great. the same people were still +leonine head. this head, with its remarkably broad brow and cheekbones, +“le roi de prusse?” hippolyte said interrogatively, again laughing, +less a prey to evil and death?—death which ends all and must come +less, ate less, slept less, and became weaker every day. princess mary +lesson, was about to leave: “mathematics are most important, madam! +less sincerely than the twenty-year-old rostóv. +less than you do, but be a man!” +“let go, i tell you! i will take the responsibility. i myself will go +let her know.” +“let him do it, let him do it,” said dólokhov, smiling. +let him do what he vill, but i cannot sacrifice my hussars... bugler, +“let’s come, quick, quick!” and with a glance round, she smiled at +letter. +letter. +letter. +letter are not destroyed, then you will have nothing but the consolation +letter from home and meet one of your own people whom you want to talk +letter, he now was. +letters sent through the embassy and all the searches made, his body had +letters that had come from the archduke ferdinand, who was in command of +letters to nicholas from all the household were written and copied out, +letters to princess mary’s apartments, but did not find him there. he +letter to murat: +letter to the emperor begging him to recognize pierre as legitimate, it +“let them pass, i tell you!” repeated prince andrew, compressing his +let themselves be tricked at the crossing of the vienna bridge, you are +letting the retreating companies pass by them, when a soldier came up +letting yourself be tricked by an aide-de-camp of the emperor. +“let us go and have supper,” he said with a sigh, going to the door. +“let us go, iván lukích,” he said to the captain. +“let us go ourselves. i only came round to ask denísov about +“let us go to her, i must say good-by. or—go and wake and i’ll +“liberty and equality,” said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at +liberty not to believe me and i don’t even care whether you do or +lichtenstein, le prince, de hohenlohe, and finally prishprish, and so on +lid, drew out a drawer, and took out an exercise book filled with his +lieutenant general, our dear prince auersperg von mautern himself. +life, all alone—for papa is always busy, and i... well, you know what +life, and can’t, for i know no other. but think, andrew: for a young +life, and that of the seven virtues he lacked two—morality and the +“life as it is leaves one no peace. i should be thankful to do +life from yours. i don’t wish to marry,” she answered positively, +life guards, who had been losing that evening, climbed on the window +life, he felt an unaccountable tenderness for this young man and made up +life: remorse and illness. the only good is the absence of those evils. +life together were stripped, so that the screw could not get in or out, +life, which seemed to him so beautiful now that he had today learned to +lifted in childlike happiness. +lift his stick again but hurried into the house. +“lift it two lines more and it will be just right,” cried he in a +light blue viennese calèche, slightly creaking on its springs and drawn +lighted mirrors which repeated their reflections several times. now +light. it was evident that the more lifeless he seemed at ordinary +lightly, more lightly, and yet more lightly whirled the count, flying +lights and shouts in the enemy’s camp. rostóv rode up to bagratión, +lights of shops, houses, and street lamps, fine carriages, and all that +like a bird than a man.” +like a child, he fell into a deep, youthful slumber. +like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. whether he was +like all those polish names.” +liked to. he looked inquiringly at his monitress and saw that she was +liked to help young men, was flattered by being asked for his assistance +liked to repeat to herself. it was the story of a girl who had been +liked to tell him. he gathered up the papers and with a bow to both, +like his own, at the firing, and went back at a footpace. “well, some +likely the doctor.” +like method of enlightenment. our order imitates the ancient societies +likes her way of reading. she reads to him in the evenings and reads +like strangers.” +like that six months ago?” +like the others, anna pávlovna schérer showed pierre the change of +like these if one has any feeling?” said anna pávlovna. “you are +like wind over leaves ran an excited whisper: “they’re coming! +line and that of the enemy were far apart on the right and left flanks, +line; and the austrian troops. but they all stood in the same lines, +line followed them across and the last cossacks quitted the farther side +line, for from where they had been before it had been evident that it +linen shirt unfastened in front. “wait a bit, you fellows.... here is +line of the advancing russian columns. evidently the person they were +lines of artillery with green caissons. +line (the guards) was already in action. +line—the officers had been unable to keep sight-seers away. the +line to reconnoiter personally, and twice to the emperors, russian and +lingered for a moment. +link which other people recognized had grown up between himself and +lips. +lips and met them with her own. her face struck pierre, by its altered, +“lise, i beg you to desist,” said prince andrew still more +lise. i will follow.” +“lise!” said prince andrew dryly, raising his voice to the pitch +lise sighed too. +lise? take her to your room and i’ll go to father. how is he? just the +“lise!” was all prince andrew said. but that one word expressed +lise, young bolkónski’s wife, this very evening, and perhaps the +“listen, dear annette,” said the prince, suddenly taking anna +listened attentively. his favorite occupation when not playing boston, a +listened, refraining from a reply, and involuntarily wondered how this +listened to his regular breathing. the dark shadow was princess mary, +listened to the rhetor in silence, feeling from all he said that his +listening to an old russian general with decorations, who stood very +listening to bilíbin he was already imagining how on reaching the army +listening to the gypsies and other singers. +“listen!” said he; “don’t worry about your wife: what can be +listen to his tale. +“listen to me, prince,” said she. “i have never yet asked you +listen, while waiting till it would be time to leave. her task was +lit room adjoining the count’s reception room. it was one of those +little as nicholas had occupied himself with sónya of late, something +little bent, looked with beaming face at the princess without +little companion! i hope she will bring her along with her when we’re +little creature, but dared not do so. he stood over him, gazing at his +little effort.” +little fingers. “all right! then it’s settled?” +little frenchy, successful only because there were no longer any +little gold icon princess mary had hung round her brother’s neck, but +little icon with its thin gold chain suddenly appeared upon his chest +little, i mean a good deal, a great deal—forty three thousand.” +little matters which could not interest anyone but themselves. natásha +little napoleon had suddenly appeared with his unsympathizing look of +little natásha as grown up. +little princess. +little princess, and having asked for a needle began tracing the condé +little princess, shrugging her shoulders. +little princess walked twice round her, now adjusting a fold of the +little table, and anna mikháylovna noticed that something was agitating +little towns there’s nowhere to spend it,” said he. “well, let me +little túshin, moving feebly and awkwardly, kept telling his orderly to +little waves of the enns, which rippling and eddying round the piles of +little while, felt as if they too were becoming, like her, full of life +lit wisps of straw and ran after him, shouting, “vive l’empereur!” +lived for glory.—and after all what is glory? the same love of others, +lived for others, and not almost, but quite, ruined my life. and i have +lively disposition, bent over her frame to hide a smile probably evoked +lively little girl’s look made him inclined to laugh without knowing +livery, get up behind the carriage, and come with me while i make some +living with his mother, who, if she saw him dying, would not survive it. +living without having solved the problems that so absorbed him. he had +living with the rostóvs. +loading. +locality and surroundings—fruit gardens, stone fences, tiled roofs, +locality was known and shown in every detail on the maps, and bonaparte, +locks of gray hair. +lodge—were so strong that he could not resist them. again whole days, +lodge. willarski coughed, he was answered by the masonic knock with +loftiness of soul. she has refused to evacuate malta. she wanted to +lofty, beautiful feeling, such a...” +lofty sky before? and how happy i am to have found it at last! yes! all +london—could pronounce pitt’s sentence, he saw a well-built and +loneliness of his daughter amid the general conversation. “got herself +long. +“long ago,” answered rostóv, “i have already been for the hay, +long and warmly to the emperor and how the emperor, evidently weeping, +longed. sónya now was sixteen and she was very pretty, especially at +longed to kiss his father’s hands and kneel to beg his forgiveness, +longed to snatch up, to squeeze, to hold to his heart, this helpless +longer and went on, between gasps of laughter: “and the whole world +longer to hinder them but because the guns were trained and there was +longest sentences, he stopped the rotary motion of the snuffbox, raised +long. say ‘perhaps.’” +look at me,” cried denísov who, unable to keep still on one spot, +“look at papa!” shouted natásha to the whole company, and quite +“look at papa!” though as it was they never took their eyes off the +“look at them scurrying! it’s burning! just see the smoke! fine! +looked as clean and well washed as the tips of one’s fingers after a +looked as if by that slight motion the army itself was expressing its +looked at telyánin. the lieutenant was looking about in his usual way +looked at that aged, stern, motionless, almost lifeless face and moved +looked eagerly toward his eyes, waiting for the look for which she +looked like tradespeople, ran hurriedly from the entrance and hid in the +looked straight at his adjutant’s face without recognizing him. +looked very thoughtful and tender. with his hands behind him he paced +look for her. +looking about him uneasily, and an awkward pause followed. +looking and held out his hand to her. she pressed it. +looking at her and waiting. nicholas saw that denísov was refusing +looking at her own handsome face she seemed to become still colder and +looking at his watch. +looking at natásha. +looking at pierre. “at the present time it is difficult to know the +looking at rostóv, “you’ll win it back all the sooner. i lose to +looking at the ground, he came on some sticky, trodden mud, stumbled, +looking at the midwife with wide-open eyes of alarm. +looking at them, turned to an adjutant to ask him for a field glass. +looking at the puff from the gun that had sent the ball. his eyes +looking at those driving past as if he pitied all who were not at that +looking back saw that their foremost ranks were mixed up with some +looking down at the waters of the enns under the bridge, nesvítski +looking inquiringly at him and watching to see how he would behave +looking like something between a cart, a cabriolet, and a calèche. +looking not at pierre but straight before him, and turning the leaves +looking pretty and conscious of it, were standing by the clavichord, +looking round at the sound. +looking with a scared face at his comrade for help. the door, having let +looking with dismay at her husband. +looking with tender affection and pity at mademoiselle bourienne’s +“look, look!” said this adjutant, looking not at the troops in the +“look! look there!” one soldier was saying to another, pointing to a +look. nicholas went up to her and kissed her hand. this was the first +look or bad opinion from him,” rostóv decided; and sorrowfully and +“look, prince,” said another, who would have dearly liked to take +looks and manner gave that impression. the princess felt this, and as if +looks) and she had put on a maroon dress with a pale-blue scarf, the +“look sharp! look sharp!” several voices repeated around him. +“look then at thy inner self with the eyes of the spirit, and ask +look which was fixed on him, but him she could not see, she only saw +lorrain considered. +lorrain, pursing up his lips, waved a severely negative finger before +lorrain’s instructions. the german doctor went up to lorrain. +losing confidence in its allies, suffering from shortness of supplies, +losses. the general whose regiment had been inspected at braunau was +lost....” and prince hippolyte began to tell his story in such russian +lost count of his children, but this pierre was his favorite.” +lost. dólokhov “killed,” that is, beat, ten cards of rostóv’s +lost more than he could pay. +lot? and who would marry marie for love? plain and awkward! they’ll +loudly, handing kutúzov an envelope. +loud that those in the drawing room heard her and were startled. “why +“louis xvi was executed because they said he was dishonorable and a +love again, though for no one have i such a feeling of friendship, +love and befriend him.” +loved more than himself. he kept telling himself that he would consider +love for natásha was unpleasant to him and he had not once been to see +love her. +love her, for that would be impossible. +love him all the more, but nicholas now considered himself unworthy of +love, love of one’s neighbor, love of one’s enemy, is worthier, +lovely eyes there was a look of fearful joy and hope that was also new +love of death. he consoled himself with the thought that he fulfilled +lovers!” he added. +lovers of music do when they hear a false note. the two women let go +love, such rapture, and such self-sacrifice, what do any of our quarrels +love, though less ecstatically, with their tsar and the glory of the +love you.” +love you, and i think i love you more than anyone else....” +loving and honoring him. “why, i have not yet had time to settle +loving her; in deceiving yourself and her.” and he vividly recalled +lower one, and something like two distinct smiles played continually +low tones. +luck! such ill luck. as soon as you left, it began and went on. hullo +luck the man has!” +lucky man and, with his plain face, to be looked on as a sort of paris +luggage. franz, bilíbin’s man, was dragging a portmanteau with some +l’u! * i shall certainly adopt an innovation and call him simply +luminous eyes fixed on her nurse’s wrinkled face (every line of which +luminous eyes shone more brightly than usual from the tears of joy that +luxurious study and sat down to the dinner prepared for him. bilíbin +lying on the ground; they also met a crowd of soldiers some of whom were +ma chère! on behalf of the whole family i beg you to come, mon cher!” +“ma chère, there is a time for everything,” said the countess with +machine, an impulse once given leads to the final result; and just as +machine or set it in proper motion, so anna pávlovna moved about her +mack. an austrian general complained of me. i congratulated him on +mack, have by now already gained a decisive victory and no longer need +mack’s arrival... what’s the matter, rostóv? you look as if you’d +“madame de genlis! madame de genlis!” shouted laughing voices +madame de souza. he began reading about the sufferings and virtuous +“madame, i doubt my ability before such an audience,” said he, +made a grimace, as if expecting something unpleasant. +made and highly valued. the old count came up to them and pressed +made a tour of the regiments and was annoyed at the irregularity of +made elegantly witty. in society he always awaited an opportunity to say +made for the sacrament of unction, and in his house there was the bustle +madeira”... “hungarian”... or “rhine wine” as the case might +“made, made me an offer, mamma! mamma!” she exclaimed. +mademoiselle bourienne. +mademoiselle bourienne, also roused to great excitement by anatole’s +mademoiselle bourienne and the little princess had to own to themselves +mademoiselle bourienne, how i shall arrange it,” she added, smiling +mademoiselle bourienne in her arms and gently stroking her hair. the +mademoiselle bourienne, “mary’s is a face which such a coiffure does +mademoiselle bourienne walked up and down the conservatory for a long +mademoiselle bourienne was also looking at princess mary, and in her +made. prince andrew several times prompted pierre’s story of what he +made use of it.... “what have i done?” thought he. and he turned +“made what?” +“ma foi!” said he, “tomorrow we shall see all that on the +“ma foi, sire, nous ferons ce qui sera dans notre possibilité, +magnanimous. she felt convinced of that. thousands of dreams of a future +maid. +maid of honor’s hand to his lips, kissed it, and swung it to and fro +maid’s voice at the door. +maid with the decanter in her haste had not closed the door (everything +mainly because denísov so delighted in her singing. she no longer sang +“mais, mon cher, i did this for my own sake, to satisfy my conscience, +majestically entered the room. he was wearing his long coat with three +majestic figure of his father, count bezúkhov, with that gray mane of +majesty.” +majesty,” said an adjutant who had come from the batteries that were +majesty’s and you were pitied....” +majesty, “who, thank god, was better today.” and each visitor, +make a career and must not miss opportunities, but must avail myself of +make a remark, for the conversation interested him, but anna pávlovna, +make as successful a career of it as possible.” +make him go on. +make something exceptional of them,” said the visitor. +makes things trying for you, doesn’t it?” prince andrew asked +make them look at the wag. +“malbrook s’en va-t-en guerre. dieu sait quand reviendra.” * +malevolent and caustic expression softened, as if admitting that what +mallets and swords. as he was being led up to some object he noticed a +mallets, the doors opened before them. a bass voice (pierre was still +malodorous mouth. tears actually moistened his cheeks. +mamma.” +“mamma, are you cross? don’t be cross, dear! is it my fault?” +mamma has sent for me to go and dine at the apráksins’. read the +“mamma!... mamma!... he has made me...” +“mamma!” rang out the clear contralto notes of her childish voice, +“mamma told me to ask you to join the dancers.” +“mamma! what sweets are we going to have?” and natásha’s voice +“mamma! what sweets are we going to have?” natásha again cried +man. +man.” again he pressed the hand of the latter with an expression of +managed to utter (to her everything seemed funny). she leaned against +man and help him to worldly success. under cover of obtaining help +man, and that in the duel with bezúkhov, pierre was right and dólokhov +man, be for her? in her thoughts of marriage princess mary dreamed of +man be fully imbued with the thought that we must defeat these hirelings +man beside you?” +man; by his acquaintances as a handsome lieutenant of hussars, a good +man. either this look meant nothing but that as long as one has eyes +mane—which, though he saw other faces as well, he had not lost sight +man, had not the five rubles that would make him happy. +man.... here he is, and the count has not once asked for him.” +man is as surly as a dog.” +man is the count’s son,” she added more softly. “what a terrible +manly-looking, but what amazed and estranged pierre till he got used +manly voice interrupting them both. “of course you artillery men are +manner he wore in drawing rooms, but with the animated face with which +manner nor a desire to enter into conversation, but speaking so quietly +manners, who evidently considered himself a celebrity but out of +manner: they were all evidently firmly convinced of pierre’s noble +man, of medium height, with firm, clearcut features. everything about +man? on such matters i am only severe with myself. i understand such +man, our dear vyazmítinov....” +man’s hand and moving her lips as if to send it a kiss. pierre, +man’s high, stout, uncovered chest and powerful shoulders, raised by +man’s penetration he understood all that was passing in bolkónski’s +man’s simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory. both +man. the revolution was a grand thing!” continued monsieur pierre, +manure on well-kept plowland, lay from ten to fifteen dead and wounded +man who has at length begun to attain a long-desired happiness. as soon +man with a diamond ring on his forefinger, who was fond of speaking +man, with gray bushy eyebrows overhanging bright eyes of an indefinite +man with the white forehead, black eyebrows, and red lips. +many of them), and at last he saw how a whole detachment of french +many wrinkles on his large features, to rostóv who was crimson with +many young men to his parents’ house. véra was a handsome girl +marched gaily, as they always do when going into action, especially to +marching along both. +marching thirty miles that stormy night across roadless hills, with his +marching with particular grace and boldness in time to the song and +mare he rode, his hand in a white glove gathered up the reins, and he +maria theresa order of the third grade, which the emperor was conferring +“marie” produced on the visitors. and she saw mademoiselle +marked the change? i sat all the time in this same place at this table, +market place, where there had been some rather heavy firing before the +markóv immediately dropped his own beside it and picked it up without + * “marlborough is going to the wars; god knows when he’ll +marriageable daughters, and of the young ladies themselves, toward +“marriages are made in heaven,” replied the elderly lady. +marriage—when the marriageable daughters and their mothers had nothing +married,” answered the countess sharply and sarcastically. +married, la petite est gentille.” * +marry anyone, but will be a dancer. only don’t tell anyone.” +marry!” concluded prince andrew. +marshal of the court, count tolstóy. +martyr’s death for his sake. then robespierre was beheaded for being +mary +mary. +mary. +márya dmítrievna. +márya dmítrievna and the countess burst out laughing, and all the +“márya dmítrievna?” came her voice from there. +márya dmítrievna, curved his arms, beat time, straightened his +márya dmítrievna on her right and anna mikháylovna on her left, the +“márya dmítrievna! what kind of ice pudding? i don’t like ice +“márya lvóvna karágina and her daughter!” announced the +mary, and the little princess. prince andrew had been called to his +“mary bogdánovna, i think it’s beginning!” said princess mary +mary bolkónskaya.” +mary, but did not at once take his arm from the waist of mademoiselle +mary did not frighten them (she never inspired fear in anyone), but they +mary entered the antechamber as usual at the time appointed for the +mary, having taken and closed the exercise book with the next day’s +mary. how good it would be to know where to seek for help in this life, +mary, i am going to love him very much,” said lise, looking with +mary, really this dress does not suit you. i prefer you in your little +mary! say...” and the little princess began to cry capriciously like +“mary,” she said, moving away from the embroidery frame and lying +mary spent most of the day in the nursery, taking a mother’s place to +mary’s room. +mason. +masonic statutes, “be kindly and courteous,” recurred to him. he +masses. +masses of russian troops. at the bend of the danube, vessels, an island, +mass. looking down over the rails prince nesvítski saw the rapid, noisy +master, “but those between virtue and vice. beware of making any +master’s thoughts. he guessed that the question referred to prince +master, would touch and delude him. +match in russia, had sunk greatly in the esteem of society after his +matchmaking chronicles of moscow now speak of me as the future countess +mathematics from her father, and when the old prince was at home went +matter might be he did not care, but it gave him great pleasure to +matter of indifference whether he remained there for a few hours or for +matters, social interests and the fair sex occupied no small part of his +matters very satisfactorily. borís, during the campaign, had made the +matters yourself!’ yes... that was the answer i got!” +“matvévna’s” carriage. at the foot of the hill, a pale hussar +“matvévna,” the gun from which they had removed the dead officer. +may christ be with you in your great endeavor!” +may i shall do my duty. i will come and spend the night. he must not be +may laugh as much as you like, but all the same bonaparte is a great +may not have seen, but i have seen, how good men brought up in those +may perhaps have a stronger effect on the sincere seeker after wisdom +“may the devil take them—the traitors!” +mazuwka is this? but she does dance splendidly.” +me!” +me.” +me.” +me?” +meadow.” +mean good french society—will have been forever destroyed, and +meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the best joys of his life; +meaning for him, that he paid no attention to it. the aunt was just +means. then you say, ‘lighten his toil.’ but as i see it, physical +me,” answered a voice struggling with tears. +meant by the words all is over, “and the count’s papers are opened, +meant for him not only the loss of sixteen hundred rubles, but the +mean to fight, let’s fight. but the devil knows what this is.” +meant to double the three thousand just put down to his score, when +meanwhile kutúzov sent his adjutants back to hasten to the utmost the +meanwhile nesvítski, zherkóv, and the officer of the suite were +meanwhile, pétya, having found and seized the sabers in the outer room, +meanwhile prince vasíli had opened the door into the princess’ room. +meanwhile the staff officer standing in front pointed out something to +meanwhile the younger generation: borís, the officer, anna +me apologize, because if he, as commander of this regiment, thinks it +measures—the removal of injunctions, petitions, permits, and so +me; but, my dear, i am getting on for sixty and must be prepared for +me, but that he’ll marry julie. you see how he’s been with her all +medal he can get his reward just as well in the rearguard, but if he +meditatively and rapidly: +meeting arrives. not daring to look round and without looking round, he +meeting, they had kissed each other, but today they felt it could not +me. ‘everyone fears a bear,’ he says, ‘but when you see one your +me!” he began to laugh. “well, what of it! i hope we’ll get better +me. i am used to suffering.” +me i lied, and i told him he lied. and there it rests. he may keep me +me in choosing me for your second, if at this grave, this very +me in the eyes of society, and even of the court,” he added, lowering +me in war the energy of young men often shows the way better than all +me, just because i have exerted myself on his behalf, befriended him, +melancholy was just like the august melancholy she showed at the mention +member of the hofkriegsrath mildly and attentively. +members and guests jostling one another and trying to get a good look +members of the council of war. they were drinking tea, and only awaited +memory, and he told everybody that his son had been killed. he tried not +memory, his extensive reading (he had read everything, knew everything, +memory, i will do the impossible—your son shall be transferred to the +me... myself most of all. then i don’t eat, don’t wash... and how is +men and provisions have not arrived. gallop off to him at once and +men disfigured by fear of death now crowded together, crushing one +men of the same kind hiding in the shadow of the house on both sides. +men, seemed so immeasurably above him, an insignificant officer of the +men’s end the voices sounded louder and louder, especially that of the +men should be in their greatcoats and in marching order, and that the +men should continue to march at ease, and he and all his suite showed +men’s will. +men take their first steps on life’s road, each saw immense changes in +mental activity is to you or me. you can’t help thinking. i go to bed +mental image of his future activity in this direction rose in his mind. +men—the minister of foreign affairs, prince adam czartorýski.... it +mention, and which you think is the result of your own mental efforts, +mentioned during the journey. +mentioned their age. “if you marry it will be a different thing,” +mention her!” he exclaimed fiercely. +men uselessly, and so had hastened to throw some sharpshooters into the +men was to attack the french from different sides. the old prince did +men was training a trotter of his own for a race. he knew a lady on one +men, who here, as in vienna, formed a special set which bilíbin, their +men with broad, self-confident faces, fat fingers, and resolute gestures +me of her own accord in the evening and tell me everything. perhaps i +me only the day before yesterday not to forget borís. but he had +me, pierre. i shall not forget your interests.” +me!” rostóv whispered. +merrily. +merrily and prettily as ever. +merrily to everyone at once, sat down and gaily arranged herself in her +merry. +merry reminiscences. +message to kutúzov, perhaps even to the sovereign himself. the morning +metallic roar, and a whistling grenade flew above the heads of our +me! that’s the sort of man he is, and nothing more,” replied +met him at the first door and, expressing their delight at seeing such a +methods that he had better leave genoa alone?” retorted prince andrew +me to burn the bridge! i know the service, and it is my habit orders +me to inform you... but, don’t be uneasy,” he added, noticing that +met, she fell on his breast, sobbing. she could not lift her face, but +me! what will become of us? i am the wife of the doctor of the seventh +me—yet dreadful and unnatural as it seems, i would give them all at +michael ivánovich are the two people to whom he is always gentle and +“michael ivánovich!” cried the old prince to the architect who, +michael ivánovich did not at all know when “you and i” had said +middle, a cry was heard, then princess mary’s heavy tread and the +middle of his mouth and with red lips gently inhaled the smoke, letting +middle of the drawing room on the first chair he had come across, +middle of the muddy road. +midnight. prince andrew went out. +midwife. +might, and a passionate attraction to him who was the cause of this +might be up to on the sly” (she meant that they would be kissing), +might deprive him of all this happiness, newly appreciated and newly +might easily succeed to the post; how popular he was with everyone in +might, feeling that he would like to injure himself by that shout, if +might have been more decisive had the commander in chief not been so +might outweigh all the courage of the russian troops, and at the same +might retreat and leave the pickets.” +might toward the bushes. he did not now run with the feeling of doubt +mikháylovna. +mikháylovna and snatching the portfolio from her. +mikháylovna as she entered, and at the big stout figure of pierre who, +mikháylovna drubetskáya. rostóv, the father, is ilyá, and his son is +mikháylovna entered the hall. though she came upon the count in his +mikháylovna enthusiastically, quite forgetting all the humiliation she +mikháylovna evinced no surprise, she only smiled faintly and sighed, as +mikháylovna in passing instinctively glanced into the room, where +mikháylovna looked attentively at the sick man’s eyes, trying to +mikháylovna made a hurried sign with her eyes, glancing at the sick +mikháylovna of one of them. +mikháylovna, or you will not hold out.” +mikháylovna pass and did not evince the least surprise at seeing them +mikháylovna returned to the rostóvs’ and went to bed. on waking in +mikháylovna?” said he. “let us wait until evening. the doctors are +mikháylovna,” said prince vasíli, arranging his lace frill, and in +mikháylovna’s son; nicholas, the undergraduate, the count’s eldest +mikháylovna’s voice alone in a long speech, then a cry, then silence, +mikháylovna. though the latter held on tenaciously, her voice lost none +mikháylovna, whom she had not seen properly since she returned from +mikhelson’s army i understand—tolstóy ‘s too... a simultaneous +milan?” asked anna pávlovna, “and of the comedy of the people of +mile and a half away, but had suddenly and unexpectedly appeared just in +miles, and reining in his horse he sighed restfully and looked round +miles away from the french. at grunth also some apprehension and alarm +military code, which he and the others knew in the regiment, there was +military men, bore that expression of condescending respect for their +milk-white sea. nothing was visible in the valley to the left into which +millions in hand might smile at a poor fellow who told him that he, poor +millions of human beings who grew up in the same way. as twenty +milorádovich wheeled his horse sharply and stationed himself a little +“mind, annette, i hope you have not played a wicked trick on me,” +mind at rest,” said he without altering his tone, beneath the +mind easy,” said he in abrupt sentences while sealing his letter. +mind. “if a tenth part of his detachment returns i shall thank god,” +“mind, no holding on!” cried another. +mind once for all that what he saw happening around him that evening was +mind to ask him a question about the roads, the traveler had closed his +“mind, walk him up and down well!” +mined?” +mined and doubly mined and that there are menacing fortifications at its +mine. i have written to my poor mother,” said the smiling mademoiselle +miniature portrait of her son on the lid of a snuffbox, while the tears +ministers and great people, and know how to deal with them all! it’s +minister’s bent bald head with its gray temples. he went on reading +minister’s son was, with his rosy cheeks and dark eyebrows, and with +minute later with another committeeman, carrying a large silver salver +minutes before the troops had passed the emperors. not only would it +minutes later the eldest sister came out with a pale hard face, again +minutest details himself. princess mary had ceased taking lessons in +mirror her eyes full of tears and her mouth quivering, ready to burst +mischief-makers don’t meddle even a german beats buonaparte. he is +miserable man who stood before him, but the task he had begun had to be +misery. a man offended you and you shot him, and you say you do not +misery. that could not be, yet he awaited with a sinking heart the +misfortune? and when did it begin? such a little while ago i came to +misleading you.” +missed him. his one desire was to know what was happening and at any +“missed!” shouted dólokhov, and he lay helplessly, face downwards +mist!” +mistake and that anatole meant to flirt with mademoiselle bourienne, +mistake. marry when you are old and good for nothing—or all that is +mistaken,” said the stranger in a deliberate and loud voice. +mist and taking it for a tree can again take it for a tree after he has +misunderstanding. i expect you feel it so yourself. let us write her +misunderstandings and did not now feel she had a right to ask him for +mixture onto the floor and asked for some more water. the maid brought +modeling and modeling you must get smeared with clay,” suggesting +modern science of strategics, had been handed to kutúzov when he was in +moment!” +moment.” +moment consider what she should do), but all this had long been familiar +moment had arrived. with the air of a practical petersburg lady she now, +moment he was clearly thinking of nothing but how dashing a fellow he +moment imagined himself to be napoleon in person and to have just +moment marching with the company. the hussar cornet of kutúzov’s +moment of meeting had been so beatific that his present joy seemed +moment, sat beside him: the rest, crowding round him, watched every +moments: but his words sounded so weak that he felt ashamed of himself. +moment the french who were attacking, suddenly and without any apparent +moment those hands with their short reddish fingers and hairy wrists, +moment when the first report was heard a fourth was seen. then two +“mon dieu! mon dieu! oh!” she heard as she left the room. +“mon dieu, mon dieu!” she muttered, and lifting her dress with one +monk he received and had a long talk with.” +monsieur buonaparte sitting on a throne and granting the petitions of +monument from moscow which he intended to erect in his own garden to his +more. +more and holding out the letter. +more and more animated and evidently wishing to express his new outlook +more animated. “and believe me, they are reaping the reward of their +more animated. only when a man was killed or wounded did he frown and +moreau would have been a prisoner if suvórov had had a free hand; but +more, but he waited and did nothing. +more cheerful in his presence, and were evidently anxious to display +more confident was the appearance of our troops. the soldiers in +more confirmed the farther he rode into the region behind the village of +more confused, blushed like a child till tears came to his eyes, began +more cunning or subtle diplomatist—you know, a combination of french +more, for immediately afterwards cannon began firing from somewhere and +more honorable to admit one’s mistake than to let matters become +more important guests—an old general and his wife, and anna pávlovna +more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows +more natural and animated than usual, so that the wrinkles round +more noticeable how much plainer she had become. some unobtrusive touch +more outcries, and tears of joy. he could not distinguish which was +more! some more!” a merry voice was saying in his soul. but no more +more than anyone else, prince vasíli took possession of pierre’s +more than they did anatole. dólokhov could play all games and nearly +more than timókhin had done when he was reprimanded by the regimental +more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my +morning. +morning greeting, crossing herself with trepidation and repeating a +morning or evening than night. on the way pierre remembered that anatole +morning, the lines were so near together that the men could see one +morning till night and abstemious, so of course i am well.” +morsels. the group about mortemart immediately began discussing the +mortification, our opinion of bonaparte cannot alter. we shall not cease +moscovites who took their opinions from others—ilyá rostóv among +moscow!” +moscow after the death of count bezúkhov, he would call pierre, or +moscow. as a result he could not go to the country with the rest of the +moscow for his equipment, was to join them on the march to radzivílov. +“moscow has nothing else to do but gossip,” borís went on. +moscow’s hero was the fact that he had no connections in the city +moscow their house was always full of visitors. the night after the +moscow. the remembrance of the rostóvs’ house and of his childish +moscow when borís was a boy of fourteen, and had quite forgotten him, +moscow who was expected every moment, and men on horseback with lanterns +most in people. as to his inheritance and the part played by prince +most joyful though erroneous rumors were rife of the imaginary approach +most of her observations, it made everyone feel uncomfortable, not +most of the guests, uncertain how to regard this sally, looked at the +most part to be spoken at a moment of victory and triumph, generally +most strongly expressed his insincere love for her, and he felt the +mother!...” +mother and the youngest daughter—both named nataly. ever since +mother by the news of this loss, he knew what a relief it would be to +mother, drawing her hand from beneath her old mantle and laying +mother keep you in their holy and all-powerful care! +mother, pushing away her daughter with pretended sternness, and turning +mothers used to be married at twelve or thirteen.” +motionless masses of the french now swayed and that there really was +motive of his visit, “is it true that the dowager empress wants +mountains, defending himself against superior forces of the enemy and +mountains of bohemia, and you and your army would have spent a bad +mount and ride to the bridge. (observe that all three are gascons.) +mounted frenchmen, probably adjutants, were galloping up the hill. a +mounting his horse again prince andrew lingered with the battery, +mouth all seemed puckered into a vacant, wearied grimace, and his arms +mouth. another was walking sturdily by himself but without his musket, +mouth full of false teeth, as if she were trying to cheat old age.... +mouth!” said bilíbin, and the mop of hair on his head moved with +moved and halted at the officers’ command, turned with banners flying, +moved his forces to attack the center and outflank both the russian +moved off accompanied by an irregularly swaying sea of aides-de-camp. +movement of dólokhov’s hands. those broad, reddish hands, with hairy +movement of soldiers forming ranks and getting their muskets ready, +movement of the tsar’s seemed to him enchanting. +movements of the austrian army, and then give it to his excellency.” +movements of the baggage trains of the entire army along the krems-znaim +movements of the bearers, and the cold listless gaze fixed itself upon +movements of the mass of which in his regiment he felt himself a tiny, +movements were still slow and measured. +movement, word, or look of his, never taking their blissfully adoring +move on a few steps and be killed themselves in the same way. +“move on a hundred yards and we are certainly saved, remain here +move on. the horses moved off the bank. the ice, that had held under +moving a chair close to hers seated himself beside her. +moving the money forward he prepared to deal. rostóv sat down by his +moving toward our left flank, the higher command found that our center +“mr. aide-de-camp! help me!... what does it all mean?” screamed the +“mr. aide-de-camp! mr. aide-de-camp!... for heaven’s sake... protect +much, and all of you, only véra... and what for? what have i done +much as a sailor is by his ship. however far he has walked, whatever +“much as mamma pressed her, she refused, and i know she won’t change +much at the captain as at those who were laughing, among whom zherkóv +much because he heard their sound as because he saw uneasiness on +much interest him because at that moment he felt with delight that he +much, my dear sir.” +much of it left.” +much prettier. pierre was received as if he were a corpse or a leper. +much that the count held him up as a pattern to the other guests. berg +much to say to one another in private and so they had been seeking an +mud-bespattered breeches. the german landlady, hearing rostóv’s loud +murat. bonaparte himself, not trusting to his generals, moved with all +murat’s detachment and the battle had not yet begun. in bagratión’s +murat’s emissary and retired, leaving bagratión’s division +murder of the duc d’enghien. the vicomte said that the duc d’enghien +music. amid these sounds, only the youthful kindly voice of the emperor +muskets of the nearest soldiers. the soldiers started firing without +mustache. “i want to know what you men are like. are you the same as +must be broken off ... and then you know, andré...” (she looked +must excuse me,” said he, putting pierre at ease instead of being put +must gain his confidence and friendship and through him obtain a special +must have an explanation...” +must have pity on a young man in misfortune. you know he has important +“must one die like a dog?” said he. +must put in an appearance there,” said the prince. “my daughter is +must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for +muttered something and colored. +my advance guard, and have no right to arrange an armistice without my +“my cousin has nothing to do with this and it’s not necessary to +“my darling!” he said—a word he had never used to her before. +“my dear anna mikháylovna,” said he with his usual familiarity and +“my dear benefactor! this is what i expected from you—i knew your +“my dear borís,” said princess anna mikháylovna to her son as +my dear boy, are you serving in the horse guards?” asked the old man, +“my dear count, you were one of my best pupils—you must dance,” +“my dear!” exclaimed his mother imploringly, again laying her hand +“my dear fellow, how are you?” said he through the singing, making +“my dear fellow,” nesvítski whispered to prince andrew, “the old +“my dear fellow, what have you been up to in moscow? why have you +“my dear fellow, you are a hero!” said bilíbin. +“my dear friend?” said she, in a tone of pathetic inquiry, prepared +“my dear,” he heard what seemed to him her despairing whisper behind +“my dear, i must tell you that this is a moment i shall never, never +“my dear princess catherine semënovna,” began prince vasíli +“my dear, really... it’s better not to wake him... he’s asleep,” +“my dear,” said princess mary, addressing her brother from beside +“my dear,” she said to her son, once more stimulating him by a +my dear sir,” he added, seeing that his servant had entered... “and +my dear, whether the will and letter were written, and whether they have +“my desire is never to leave you, father, never to separate my +my empty portmanteau and my dressing gown. the emperor proposes to give +my father has not spoken to me of a suitor, but has only told me that he +my friend... i only need see prince vasíli sergéevich: he is staying +“my friend,” said anna mikháylovna in gentle tones, addressing +my geometry lessons,” said princess mary gleefully, as if her lessons +“my god, how happy i should be if he ordered me to leap into the fire +“my god, i’m a ruined and dishonored man! a bullet through my brain +“my god! what does it all mean?” thought he. “and here, where at +my men in the wood. i beg of you, i beg of you,” he repeated, “to +“my mother! my mother, my angel, my adored angel mother,” and +“my part is played out,” said prince andrew. “what’s the use of +“my passion! i have had so many,” replied pierre. +my relations with him, transient as they were, have been one of the +my respects to monsieur your father and my compliments to mademoiselle +my riding and commanding so vast an army, so i have passed on the +myself and ruined my life. and only now when i am living, or at least +myself and you with the hope that your son is alive, for otherwise +myself not long ago, in moscow and when traveling, but at such times i +mysteriously. “yes, tomorrow, tomorrow!” he thought. “tomorrow +mystery is of such a nature that nobody can know or use it unless he be +mystery on which perhaps the fate of mankind depends. but since this +mystical book i am sending you; it has an enormous success here. though +my stupidity.” +“my vocation is a different one,” thought princess mary. “my +my wife—are the count’s only direct heirs. i know, i know how hard +“my wife,” continued prince andrew, “is an excellent woman, one +naked shoulders. she did not give him the money, but let herself be +name. +name-day party. +namesake, the new count bezúkhov) “and now she’s in love with that +name to rectify this omission, prince andrew galloped back. kutúzov +napkin, from behind the next man’s shoulders and whispered: “dry +napoleon +napoleon +napoleon happened to fall into one of the fainting fits to which he was +napoleon. “if he weren’t afraid of a battle why did he ask for that +napoleon’s army of one hundred and fifty thousand men would cut him +napoleon’s eyes prince andrew thought of the insignificance of +napoleon’s proclamation was as follows: +napoleon’s words. “‘i opened my antechambers and they crowded +napoleon who said it. he heard the speaker addressed as sire. but he +napoleon with even greater warmth than the year before. orders were +narrowed disdainfully, he entered the room of the minister of war with +narýshkin, uvárov, dolgorúkov, apráksin, valúev, to the committee, +“natálya ilyníchna behaves very well to me,” remarked borís. “i +“nataly,” he said, moving with rapid steps toward her, “decide my +natásha, after she had pulled him down toward her and covered his face +natásha, and sónya, and will certainly never touch a card again.” at +natásha blushed and laughed. +natásha. but he was not as much at ease with sónya and dólokhov as +natásha came in and walking straight up to pierre said, laughing and +natásha considered. +natásha could not remain calm, seeing him in such a plight. she began +natásha did not like the visitor’s tone of condescension to childish +natásha fell in love the very moment she entered the ballroom. she +natásha flared up. “i don’t want to marry anyone. and i’ll tell +“natásha,” he said, “you know that i love you, but....” +natásha kept pulling everyone by sleeve or dress, urging them to +natásha kissed her on the hair. +natásha looked at sónya with wondering and inquisitive eyes, and said +natásha. nicholas understood that something must have happened between +natásha no less proud of her first long dress and of being at a real +natásha only desisted when she had been told that there would be +natásha, raising her face for a moment from her mother’s mantilla, +natásha saw there was nothing to be afraid of and so she braved even +natásha, seeing the impression the news of her brother’s wound +natásha’s intermediacy, to remind him of his promise, and then +natásha’s large mouth widened, making her look quite ugly, and she +natásha smiled through her tears. +natásha’s prediction proved true. dólokhov, who did not usually care +natásha’s previous remark. “it’s because she was in love with +natásha, stopping suddenly. “i feel so happy!” +natásha suddenly flushed. +natásha, that winter, had for the first time begun to sing seriously, +natásha took the first note, her throat swelled, her chest rose, +natásha to sing. +natásha, who was exceptionally graceful, was first, even danced the pas +natural to him was very gentle and wary with them both at dinner. on +near by the news spread that the emperor was unwell. he ate nothing and +nearer, faster and louder, louder and faster, a cannon ball, as if it +nearer. then the clang of hoofs, as of several horses galloping, +nearest him were not to blame for they were themselves pressed still +near everything grew brighter, more joyful, more significant, and more +near him and only wished that they would help him and bring him back to +near him pricked their ears at these shouts. over there, where the +nearly cut our left flank in half were for the moment repulsed. our +near sixty, dear friend... i too... all will end in death, all! death is +near the altar of the church at bald hills there was a chapel over the +near the gun waved their arms and beat the horses to make them turn and +near the strange lady. prince vasíli in front of the door, near the +necessary for the position. then there’s this house, which must be +necessary. halfway up the stairs they were almost knocked over by +necessary,” said the younger of the two speakers, evidently in the +necessary to enable it to retreat without losing its heavy equipment. +necessary to go on insisting day after day and hour after hour, and even +necessary to take some part in it. +necessity of going back on his word. with a sinking heart he watched +neck and the corners of her mouth drooped. +neck instead. +neck. it seemed to rostóv that bogdánich was only pretending not +neck. on his right sat the italian abbé whom pierre had met at +needed. +needed for success in the service was not effort or work, or courage, or +need, even the inevitability, of entering into conversation with this +need some money.” +need to hurry. however, he put his horse to a trot in the direction +negotiations and to offer the russian army the three days’ truce. +neighbor, and may envy never dim the purity of that bliss. forgive thy +neighboring town, who had been at bald hills for the last fortnight.) +neighboring wheel is as quiet and motionless as though it were prepared +neighbor? no! you have spent your life in idleness. then you married, my +neighbor on his right quickly turned in alarm to bezúkhov. +neither i nor my mother would ever ask or take anything from him.” +neither moving forward to protect the battery nor backward with the +neither of her gown and coiffure nor of how she would go in nor of what +neither of them could think of her as a rival, so they began dressing +neither quickly nor slowly. at this natásha dashed swiftly among the +nesvítski. +nesvítski and zherkóv were so surprised by this outburst that they +nesvítski closed their eyes. at the same instant they heard a report +nesvítski. count ilyá rostóv with the other members of the committee +nesvítski looked round and saw, some fifteen paces away but separated +“nesvítski, nesvítski! you numskull!” came a hoarse voice from +nesvítski rose, puffing, and went up to the general, smiling. +nesvítski’s and dólokhov’s sabers, which were stuck into the +nesvítski stopped him and took him home. +nesvítski. “they’ve made up splendid packs for me—fit to cross +nesvítski tried to move on, soldiers and carts pushed him back again +nesvítski was there as an old member of the club. pierre, who at his +nesvítski with a laugh threw his arms round prince andrew, but +neutral... i know that. what about austria?” said he, rising from his +neutrality is just a trap. i have faith only in god and the lofty +never bear malice or enmity toward thy brother. be kindly and courteous. +never favorably disposed toward him—would have used it to turn the +never had love been so much in the air, and never had the amorous +“never, never marry, my dear fellow! that’s my advice: never marry +never says anything stupid. she says little, but what she does say is +never take it off. do you promise?” +never thought much of him.” +never to dare to change your way of dress without my consent.” +never understand it, because you’ve never loved anyone. you have no +new church, previously begun, had cost about 10,000 in each of the last +new friend’s influence. +newly erected buildings were standing empty and that the serfs continued +new mustache. “now then, get on,” he shouted to the driver. “do +new pack of cards said: “bank, gentlemen!” +new path so attractively shown him by the masons, on which he firmly +news. +news and common acquaintances like people who do not know each other +news—if it’s not false. bennigsen seems to have obtained a complete +news i may take back to my poor boy.” +next came four soldiers, carrying something heavy on a cloak, and passed +next day, at eight in the morning, pierre and nesvítski drove to the +next day he woke late. recalling his recent impressions, the first +next day prince vasíli had arrived and settled in the count’s house. +next day rostóv saw denísov off. he did not wish to stay another +next day, the army began its campaign, and up to the very battle of +next day the french army did not renew their attack, and the remnant of +next day, the third of march, soon after one o’clock, two hundred and +next glanced round in alarm. +next morning, after the fatigues of their journey, the travelers slept +next morning when the valet came into the room with his coffee, pierre +next note, the next phrase, and everything in the world was divided into +“nice! and so you no longer wish to marry borís?” +nice... but it won’t do...not that... but as a friend, i shall always +nice indeed, quite french,” and he kissed the tips of his fingers. + * nicholas. +nicholas and denísov were walking up and down, looking with kindly +nicholas began pacing up and down the room. +nicholas’ career and am heartless and ungrateful, while truly... god +“nicholas! come out in your dressing gown!” said natásha’s voice. +“nicholas, don’t tell me that!” she said. +“nicholas! get up!” natásha’s voice was again heard at the door. +“nicholas, have you come? come here, dear!” called the old countess +nicholas, having as usual exhausted two pairs of horses, without +nicholas. i never knew any madame jacquot.” +“nicholas is going away in a week’s time, his... papers... have +nicholas’ letter was read over hundreds of times, and those who were +nicholas rostóv turned away and, as if searching for something, gazed +nicholas rostóv, with denísov and his new acquaintance, dólokhov, sat +nicholas sat at some distance from sónya, beside julie karágina, to +nicholas straight in the eyes, “you know the saying, ‘lucky in love, +nicholas tried to say “yes,” but could not: and he nearly burst into +nicholas turned away from her. natásha too, with her quick instinct, +“nicholas!” was all sónya said, instantly turning white. +nicholas was to go with him to the regiment; then came anna mikháylovna +nicholas went to her, kissed her hand, and sitting down silently at her +“nicholas, will you come to iogel’s? please do!” said natásha. +(nicknamed in society, “the king of prussia”) ever since the emperor +night.” +night a motley throng of people sat there, not merrymaking, but somberly +night. but now, in the solitude of the journey, they seized him with +night he had not the slightest doubt, and the guiltlessness of +night i looked at the campfires and there was no end of them. a regular +night long without closing their eyes, while the adjutants and +night, so dark that the coachman could not see the carriage pole. +night when he had decided that to marry hélène would be a calamity and +“nikólenka... a letter... wa... a... s... wounded... my darling +nikólenka; by his relations as a charming, attractive, and polite young +“nikólenka, what is the matter?” sónya’s eyes fixed on him +“nikólenka... wounded... a letter,” she announced in gleeful +nineteenth, a great, excitedly bustling activity began which lasted till +ninety thousand strong, was to threaten prussia so as to bring her out +“no.” +“no.” +“no.” +no?” +no account have told a deliberate lie. he began his story meaning to +“no, andrew, i must say you have changed. oh, how you have....” +“no apologies, none whatever,” said dólokhov to denísov (who on +“nobody wants me!” thought rostóv. “there is no one to help me or +“no, but don’t you think it’s nice?” she kept repeating. +“no, but do promise! i won’t let you go! my dear benefactor...” +“no, but i have been in love a thousand times and shall fall in +“no, but imagine the old countess zúbova, with false curls and her +“no, but i must. it may be arrogant of me, but still it is best to say +“no, but i say,” said pierre, calming down, “you are a wonderful +“no, but listen,” she said, “now you are quite a man, aren’t +“no, but she said that it was all over and that he’s now an +“no, but what is it, my dear? do you want me to go and tell him?” +“no, call her you, please! i’ll tell you all about it some other +no, certainly i must not approach him, i must not intrude on his +“no,” cried he, becoming more and more eager, “napoleon is great +“no, dearest, sweet one, honey, i won’t give up—i know you know +“no, fifty,” replied the latter. +“no, friend, he is sharper-eyed than you are. boots and leg bands... +“no, friend,” said a pleasant and, as it seemed to prince andrew, a +no fruit. i never could understand the fondness some people have for +“no, gentlemen, no... you mustn’t think... i quite understand. +“no. give me the book,” said the stranger. +“no good... no good...” said the prince rapidly, and thrusting his +“no, he’s not a fool!” replied natásha indignantly and seriously. +“no, he thinks only of himself,” muttered the princess without +“no, i can’t agree with you! to live only so as not to do evil and +“no, i considered it erroneous and did not follow it,” said pierre, +“no, if i hadn’t thought of it being a treasure,” said rostóv, +“no, i hate my life,” pierre muttered, wincing. +“no, i have a wicked heart.” +“no, i have been transferred to the line,” said anatole, hardly able +“no, i have not; but this is what i have been thinking and wanted +“no, i meant to ask...” pierre began, but prince andrew interrupted +“no, impossible!” said prince andrew, laughing and pressing +“no, i mustn’t. i am so sorry for him! he’s so nice.” +“no, it can’t be helped, lad,” said the prince. “they’re +“no, i tell you.” +“no, it’s a sprain.” +“no, it’s only indigestion?... say it’s only indigestion, say so, +“no, it will not do,” she said decidedly, clasping her hands. “no, +“no, i will do it myself, only tell me what to say. it’s all very +“no, i won’t promise that. you don’t know how kutúzov is pestered +“no, i won’t,” said pierre, pushing anatole aside, and he went up +“no, leave me alone,” said princess mary. +no longer, as it should be, to avoid or attack the enemy, but solely to +no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age +no longer looked at the french but paid attention to the sight-seers and +“no, mamma, but i’m so sorry for him. i don’t know how i’m to +“no, mamma, i’m not in love with him, i suppose i’m not in love +“no matter at all, my dear count,” she said, meekly closing her +“no matter, princess, don’t be alarmed,” said mary bogdánovna. +“no, merci, mon père.” +“no, mon père.” +no more. she is so affected. ask her in,” she said to the footman in a +“no, my dear fellow, i’ll be a wallflower,” said denísov. +none to anyone.” +nonintervention. and...” he paused. “finally one cannot impute the +“non, madame.” he smiled quite inappropriately. +“no, no! a thousand times no! i shall never agree with you,” said +“no, no!” cried natásha, “she and i have already talked it over. +“no! no! no! when your father writes to tell me that you are behaving +“no, no, please not... you are mademoiselle bourienne,” said +“no, nothing.” +“no, not on any account! i will tell him myself, and you’ll listen +nonreceipt of our dispatch of november 18. that is how it will end.” +‘nonsense!’” +nonsense, but it would in fact have been difficult to give any other +nonsense... but this is real.... now then, natásha, now then, dearest! +nonsense, but we are friends forever. she, if she loves anyone, does it +“nonsense!” he cried, and the veins on his forehead and neck stood +nonsense,” he thought. “the slur on my name and honor—that’s all +“nonsense, indeed! i am telling you the fact,” said natásha +“nonsense, nonsense!” cried the old man, shaking his pigtail to +nonsense out of your head.” +nonsense, the chief thing is not to forget the important thing i +“no one can attain to truth by himself. only by laying stone on stone +“no, one can’t hear them. they’d be firing if we had.” +no one had given túshin orders where and at what to fire, but after +no one slept. +no one would understand that it was not to quench his thirst or from +“no, on my true word of honor,” said natásha, crossing herself, +“no, on my word it’s not obstinacy! i can’t describe the feeling. +“no-o-o!” muttered dólokhov through his teeth, “no, it’s not +“no, papa is not back yet,” said sónya. +“no, pardon me, i won’t go now till the child is better,” thought +“no, peter nikoláevich; i only want to show that in the cavalry +“no, prince, our regiment has gone to the front, but i am attached... +“no, princess, i have lost your affection forever!” said +“no—promise that you will not refuse! it will give you no trouble +“no really, my dear, this dress is not pretty,” said lise, looking +no restrictions whatsoever. you may copy it, give it away or re-use +nose. his face was depressed and gloomy. he seemed to see and hear +“no? she is very nice and kind and, above all, she’s much to be +no sky but only an atmosphere.” +“no, sónya, but do you remember so that you remember him perfectly, +nostitz, the austrian general occupying the advanced posts, believed +no such reminiscences really exist—just as none existed in this case. +not a diplomatist. that’s why i joined the hussars, thinking that here +not a distinction,” said the diplomatist—“a gift, rather.” +“no talking in the ranks!... no talking, no talking!” +“not all, for you will not be there; not all,” said prince hippolyte +not a logical answer and not at all a reply to them. the answer was: +not answer. the hussar at that moment noticed the face of the red-nosed +“not at all bad!” he thought, examining her, “not at all bad, that +“not at all,” said prince andrew. +not at once raise, and he spent most of his time in the girls’ room. +not attract a moment’s attention to their own evolutions and did not +not been found nor was he on the list of prisoners. what was worst of +“not bonaparte. he is the emperor! sacré nom...!” cried he angrily. +“not bound to endure insults,” dólokhov concluded in loud, ringing +not breathe. he knew that he must do something to put an end to this +not but believe in the sincerity of those around him. besides, he had +not but tremble and his heart stand still at the imminence of that word. +not, but you have no grounds for telling me so. and that is the whole +not captured.” again he pondered. “i am very glad you have brought +not come and brought his pupil with him” (for some reason prince +not? delightful!” +not disfigured by the approach of death. it was the same as pierre +noted them down. +note. i am in such a state.... my only hope now is in count cyril +“no, tell them to harness.” +not evince the least interest during this explanation, but as if he were +not exist. +not expecting to come on the enemy down by the stream, and having +not expect you today,” he added. “i only sent you the note yesterday +not far from the artillery campfire, in a hut that had been prepared +not finding the young prince in his study the valet went with the +not forsake him. he will fulfill his vocation and crush the hydra of +not go to any large gatherings, but only to small receptions. prince +not have caused him to expect that honor. the prince, who generally kept +“no, there is no change. i only came to have a talk about business, +nothing. +nothing about firing it.” +nothing about it and have not thought about it. moscow is chiefly busy +“nothing,” answered princess mary, looking firmly with her radiant +nothing, but here on the one hand the local nobility have done me the +nothing but meanness, deceit, envy, intrigue, and ingratitude—the +nothing, but that. but even it does not exist, there is nothing but +nothing could be seen. pitch-dark, brother! isn’t there something to +nothing. i am very amiable and have a caustic wit,” continued prince +nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever +nothing more important...” he paused, “than to have a good sleep.” +“nothing, my dear.” +nothing, nothing, nothing! no, don’t marry, my dear fellow; don’t +nothing of her and looks only at bourienne. no, she has no pride... but +“nothing of the sort. orders are issued for a battle.” +nothing of what was going on around him and to be absorbed by some +“nothing... only a shell...” he answered. +“nothing... only i feel sad... sad about andrew,” she said, wiping +nothing. she felt that sónya was speaking the truth, that there was +nothing to be happy about!” thought he. +nothing to him.... “i should perhaps have done the same thing in his +nothing when they have no powers; this one had none.... the austrians +“not hurt, petróv?” asked one. +noticeable one at the dinner. rostóv looked inimically at pierre, +noticed, left the room with a pleasant smile. +noticed that he was pale and that his jaw quivered and shook as if in an +noticed that they had not come to the front entrance but to the back +noticed the french appearing below them, and then they fired grapeshot +noticed the look of terror with which pierre regarded that lifeless arm, +noticing what a bad state of things it was. the regimental commander +not ill-spent. he is worth it!” +no time for reflection, as in petersburg. instead of the new life he had +no time. i hope, my dear friend, you will carry out your father’s +no time to ask himself whether these people were sincere or not. he +not intend to devote her life to serving prince bolkónski, to reading +“not in the least,” replied the vicomte. “after the murder of the +not, it was decided at a consultation between the battalion commanders +“not killed—wounded!” another officer corrected him. +not know: he therefore wished to speak to dolgorúkov. +not know him, but he is here, he is in me, he is in my words, he is in +not knowing what to do, and glanced inquiringly at his guide. anna +not knowing whether it would be proper to call the dying man “the +“not kutúzov, but what’s his name—well, never mind... there are +not leave the battery. he decided to have the guns removed from their +“not let the wife have him?” said the old man, and laughed. +not letting the abbé and pierre escape, anna pávlovna, the more +not like us sinners of the line,” cried rostóv, with martial swagger +not listening to it continued to dress while walking about, and three +not love liberty and equality? even our saviour preached liberty and +not many left alive. go that way, to that village, all the commanders +“not more stupid than you, madam,” said the nine-year-old pétya, +not moving a muscle. +“no, to kill a man is bad—wrong.” +“not on any account!” exclaimed rostóv. +“not only occupied, but bonaparte is at schönbrunn, and the count, +not only without interest but even as if ashamed of what pierre was +not realize that he had come. his coming had nothing to do with +not replying to the austrian. +not resume your former way of life. and now i wish you a good journey, +not right.” +not rise. rostóv also tried to rise but fell back, his sabretache +not see him at all.” +“not seen duport—the famous dancer? well then, you won’t +not see or understand him and may not see or understand his own vileness +not see ten paces ahead. bushes looked like gigantic trees and level +not suit in the least. not in the least! please change it.” +not ten times wounded, killed, or betrayed, well... what then?...” +“not that either. that puts the court in too bad a light,” replied +not to challenge bolkónski. “of course not!” he now thought. “is +not to have to repent is not enough. i lived like that, i lived for +not to notice one another. when having limbered up the only two cannon +not two minutes had passed before prince vasíli with head erect +not understand what he ought to do then it will be my affair—yes, my +not used to it. she will retaliate. and she has been fooled in the +not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting +not wanted here? go to the other girls, or...” +not what he had read that vexed him, but the fact that the life out +not wish it. in a word, i make no promise. and i beg you to consider +notwithstanding the tone of wearied assurance with which these words +notwithstanding this, borís embraced him in a quiet, friendly way and +not worse than this one.” +“not yet. but where are you off to?” +not yet dispersed before another puff appeared, followed by a report. +not you! go back or i’ll flatten you into a pancake,” repeated he. +novelty she offered her guests this time was not mortemart, but a +novosíltsev, prince volkónsky, strógonov, and the others, all richly +now.” +“now about your family. do you know that since your daughter came +now aiming, now counting the charges, now giving orders about replacing +“no, wait, pierre! the princess is too kind to wish to deprive me of +now approached the sick man with the noiseless step of one in full vigor +now at her, moved as if about to rise too, but changed his mind. +now before i am off duty. i’ll take another turn and when i get back +now centered round the emperor. so we will go to dolgorúkov; i have to +“now come, come! be reasonable. i know your excellent heart.” +“now, dear boy,” said prince vasíli playfully, “say ‘yes,’ +now gradually opening before me.” but five of the other virtues which +“no! what is there to talk about?” said pierre. “it’s all the +“no! what kind, márya dmítrievna? what kind?” she almost screamed; +nowhere encountering the enemy. on the contrary, the soldiers became +nowhere to hunt with your dogs? but what is to be done, old man? just +now he was a lieutenant of hussars, in a jacket laced with silver, and +“now i am all right,” she said, and asking the vicomte to begin, she +“now i must disclose to you the chief aim of our order,” he said, +“now i see it all! i know who has been intriguing—i know!” cried +“now look out for the ball... we’ll throw it back.” +now on one side, now on the other, giving his face an unpleasant +now permissible; “the door to the left, ma’am.” +“now?” repeated natásha, and a happy smile lit up her face. “have +now rose and took their leave. the visitor’s daughter was already +now,” said another. +“now, sídorov, you have a try!” +“now, sónya!” she said, going to the very middle of the room, where +“now the fun begins,” thought anatole, sitting down with a smile +now then, darling! how will she take that si? she’s taken it! thank +“now then, go away and take your monstrosity with you,” said the +“now then, go on, go on!” incited the officer, bending forward and +“now then, let’s see how far it will carry, captain. just try!” +“now then, matvévna, dear old lady, don’t let me down!” he was +“now then, now then, i’m only joking!” he said. “remember this, +“now then, váska,” said nicholas. +“now then, you devil’s puppet, look alive and hunt for it!” +now there’s this recruiting.” +now the smile of the little princess—influenced by the general mood +now,” thought rostóv driving his spurs into rook and letting him go +“now thou hast seen the lesser light,” uttered a voice. then the +now told about that affair!” +now to look at dólokhov, who was sitting opposite him. every time +“now, véra, what does it matter to you?” said natásha in defense, +now was evidently ready with a joke. “whether tomorrow brings +now we shall get anything we want from his hothouses. i have to see him +“now what does this mean, gentlemen?” said the staff officer, in +now, when my heart fails me and my mouth feels dry at the mere sight +“now you don’t know that at all!” said nicholas. “but i must +“now you, young prince, what’s your name?” said prince bolkónski, +“no, you don’t understand!” +“no, you know it’s too soon for news. but my father is anxious and i +“no, you’ll never manage him that way,” said anatole. “wait a +number of men had perished in fleeing from pratzen. the french had not +number one jumped briskly aside. the gun rang out with a deafening +nurse and nurse sávishna in the late princess’ rooms and princess +nurse, praskóvya sávishna, who hardly ever came to that room as the +nursery.” +nurse sávishna, knitting in hand, was telling in low tones, scarcely +nurse’s french, at which he and borís used to laugh long ago. +obedience—which did not even seem to him a virtue, but a joy. (he now +obedient, and insignificant atom. they followed prince dolgorúkov out +obeying, and suddenly doubts arose in his mind. “where am i? what am +object above his head and, holding it there for some seconds, suddenly +object it is necessary that... the first column marches... the second +objects mentioned by the rhetor, this last, that of improving mankind, +obligingly took the dish from bagratión (or he would, it seemed, have +obtain a post on the commander in chief’s staff. berg and borís, +obtained his captaincy during the campaign, had gained the confidence of +obtained through an acquaintance and sent to her son, asking him to take +obviously strange to her to think that this stern handsome man should be +obviously trying to restrain within the bounds of decorum the excitement +occasionally drew it down to meet the lower lip. as is always the case +occasioned by the sausage eaters. +occupation, came up to her for a moment and made haste to go away, +occupation of the town of wischau and the capture of a whole french +occupied by the emperors and their retinues. +occupied. he was himself always occupied: writing his memoirs, solving +occupied with evening parties, dinners, lunches, and balls, giving him +occupy is a strong one, and while they are marching to go round me on +occupy the position and prepare for an attack.” +occurred to him. on the contrary, he became more and more elated. it +occurred to him, though the question he was about to ask was the chief +occurred to his regiment, but in reality he did not himself know what +o’clock all had been brought into due order. the ranks were drawn +o’clock left the third column with which he had been and galloped +odýntsova had married an old man, and that there was a suitor for mary, +o’erpassed,” said an old priest to a lady who had taken a seat +of a battle but also disbelieved in the nearness of an engagement. +of affairs?” concluded his father. “but it troubles me. i don’t +of a girl, but i like her.” +of a gun at ismail. +of all that mass of huge and handsome men, of all those brilliant, +of all these brilliant young men. +of all. this gift will be a pledge of your purity of heart to her whom +of alms” went round to all the brothers. pierre would have liked +of a man who enjoys life and knows how to live, he swayed to and +of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him. +of an attack spread through the squadron. the command to form up rang +of, and am going to rejoin my regiment, i am giving a farewell supper +of an immense fortune. the will has not yet been opened. i know you +of a parade. we had expected, as i told you, to get at their rear by +of a pleasure, and obliges me to interrupt you. i am very sorry to leave +of a ruling prince, in a crown—an alleged descendant of rúrik and +of a sin he could neither remedy nor forget. he could not weep. the +of assurance and haste, pierre concluded that it was all absolutely +of a subject, she did not stop talking, but chattered about the +of a surgeon who has just performed a difficult operation and admits the +of austerlitz, but wore a tight new uniform with russian and foreign +of austerlitz: nine tenths of the men in the russian army were then in +of awe and even servility. a deference such as he had never before +of bagratión’s detachment. his hussars were placed along the line +of battles was evidently culminating in a panic. +of beginning anew pictured to himself the blissful, irreproachable, +of being afraid roused him again. “i cannot be afraid,” thought he, +of believing in the possibility of attaining perfection, and in the +of birds. +of blessedness which now flooded his heart with glad emotion. +of bonaparte. +of bonaparte, encountering a population that was unfriendly to it, +of capacity for philosophical meditation (to which he himself was +of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist. in front and +of columns from russia, of some victory gained by the austrians, and of +of command. +of communications, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his +of contempt. “and believe me, if i still value my life it is +of count bezúkhov’s death. she said the count had died as she would +“of course. i’m going into action! i’ve shaved, bwushed my teeth, +“of course, it is a very brilliant match, but happiness, my dear...” +“of course, we only just missed one another,” said the staff +“of course. what is it?” +of cowardice in the other. both passed the examination successfully. as +of cruelty, as when tying the policeman to the bear and dropping them +of deep bass voices, and in the intervals sighs and the shuffling of +of delighted amazement. +of disease without help while material assistance could so easily be +of dread was in the air. it was evident that the affair so lightly begun +of each. +of each shot, as at the word of command, the whole squadron with its +of england, inspired by such hatred of our nation! this victory will +of eternal peace and blessedness?” she thought. +of everything. one must think of the future, of all of you... i love you +of exasperation. “don’t you hear it’s his majesty the emperor’s +of expression and intonation that obliged one to listen to each +of expression on his face. now his forehead would pucker into deep folds +of face, evidently worn out with childbearing—she had had twelve. +off; and here at last was a russian prince. mademoiselle bourienne knew +off, and the firing had begun to subside. suddenly, near by on the +off—and this is what comes of it!” said prince andrew in an +of fate and the designs of rogues. during the few days he spent in +off at every moment. they waited and listened. +off completely and surround his exhausted army of forty thousand, and he +of fear for his young and happy life, possessed his whole being. rapidly +of fellow. as for the past two years people have amused themselves +offended tone. +offend me. really i have some,” rostóv repeated. +offensive, the plan of which, carefully prepared in accord with the +offered a most striking contrast to his quiet, little wife. it was +off his cloak. +off his courage, had ridden on to the planks of the bridge: +off his eyes and glanced around him. the room was in black darkness, +officer.” +officer and a wounded hero, would it be right to remind him of herself +officer arrived, but at a sign resumed his measured, monotonous pacing. +officer as in a looking glass—started, moved forward, and answered: +officer has stolen...” +officer in charge of transport was beating the soldier who was driving +officer in the semënov regiment with whom borís was to travel to join +officer in the white uniform of the horse guards. +officer joined in the colonel’s appeals, but bagratión did not reply; +officer of the suite by the arm. “look! a man has fallen! fallen, +officer passing by addressed him: +officer pointing to the soldiers. “the officers don’t keep them in +officers. +officer!” said bagratión to rostóv, “are the enemy’s skirmishers +officers became animated. the guardsmen told rostóv of their march and +officers, but every soldier with his freshly washed and shaven face and +officers buttoned up their coats, buckled on their swords and pouches, +officers,” continued the staff captain, “and bogdánich” (the +officer sends for auersperg; these gentlemen embrace the officers, crack +officers, generals, and adjutants, as they passed rostóv going or +officers. now what was the colonel to do? have the officer tried and +officer’s remark was just and that really no answer could be made to +officers were counting the men, poking the last man in each section in +officers who had been standing together rode off to their places. the +officers who had gathered at his quarters. the little old man with +officer, that he would drink a bottle of rum sitting on the outer ledge +officer, with a smile to bolkónski. +official appointed to the province in which the prince’s estate lay +of fire and had descended into the dip, he was met by some of the staff, +off on the line of kutúzov’s retreat. if he reached znaim before the +of for a single moment during the whole service. he judged by the +of fugitives, prince andrew, trying to keep near kutúzov, saw on the +of habit said things he did not even wish to be believed. +of having been dutiful et tout ce qui s’ensuit!* that’s certain.” +of hearts. on the previous sunday the old count had given his son +of hearts with a torn corner, which he had picked up from the floor. he +of hélène. some, as if unwilling to distract her from an important +of her most august majesty the empress márya fëdorovna. pierre felt +of her neutrality and draw her into the war; how part of that army was +of her saint’s-day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to +of her worthlessness he was also dreaming of how she would be his +of him—at the battery. he now saw clearly the figure of a red-haired +of him, listened to him, admired, and imitated him, and with them prince +of him?” not one of the innumerable speeches addressed to the emperor +of his appearance before her now. prince andrew went round the sofa and +of his book with his old hands which from excitement he could not keep +of his coat and looking down at him—the englishman was short—began +of his commissions and ordered the small closed carriage for her. +of his former bachelor acquaintances many were no longer in petersburg. +of his mouth and winking at the count. +of his own, goodness only knows why, he leaves me and locks me up alone +of his return. +of his speech. “vous comptez vous faire des rentes sur l’état; * +of his whip fell on the apron of the equipage. the woman screamed +of his words for the solemnity of the moment, as he spoke. “i +of horses had been sent up the highroad to meet the german doctor from +of horse’s hoofs approaching at a trot along the line of hussars was +of how beside himself and all aflame with excitement, he had flown like +of how to get away quickly to her own room to make out the problem in +of inviting the other to take a seat beside him. pierre felt reluctant +of it. prince andrew” (he always spoke thus of his son) “has been +of its honeyed firmness and softness. +of its rightful king,” she concluded, trying to be amiable to the +of it. the only question is, has it been destroyed or not? if not, then +of joy in his eyes, looked round him, not knowing how to answer the +of lannes’ sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and +of life, with his delicate white fingers raised from the green quilt the +of love and sadness. it was plain that she was following a train of +of love and self-sacrifice. and cost what it may, i will arrange +of love which pervaded the rostóv household that winter and, now after +of mack’s defeat, the camp life of the officers of this squadron was +of mack, the news of his defeat, and the thought of what lay before the +of men and horses, from the little puffs of smoke on the enemy’s side +of mind, pierre carried out an intention he had long had of visiting his +of mingled shame and vexation. +of now as the “seeker,” now as the “sufferer,” and now as the +of officers and courtiers, was riding a bobtailed chestnut mare, a +of olmütz where bolkónski had seen him for the first time abroad, but +of one another, and then, as if afraid of being too late, seized each +of other things and to look in other directions, thought only of what +of permission previously given him by kutúzov to be present at the +of peter and paul, his patron saints. in another place the women with +of pride, indolence, and ignorance. forgive me, my dear sir, but if i +of profound thought. the round, steady, hawk’s eyes looked before him +of prussia, in order to draw borís into the conversation. +of prussia’s consent by assault. you are so eloquent. will you give me +of reflection are generally in a serious frame of mind. at such moments +of rum in his hand was approaching the window, from which the light of +of,” said the princess in the same petulantly playful tone in which +of sergéy kuzmích and at the same time his eyes glanced toward his +of several thousand men could produce. the lights spread farther and +of shots retreated. in the highest army circles from midday on the +of sixteen, evidently passionately in love with him (he did not doubt +of sixteen, had been in paris and copenhagen, and now held a rather +of slaves? have you helped them physically and morally? no! you have +of smoke that had concealed the hollow, driven by a rising wind, began +of some dislocation and blunder spread through the ranks. how such +of something too large and unsuited to the place, came over her face +of sons and brothers. +of sónya, who blushed and smiled unnaturally. in the midst of his talk +of speech and of the press—and only for that reason did he obtain +often heard from his fellow hussars. +often heard. “what is this?” thought prince andrew approaching the +often than at anyone else and took delight in his every movement. +of that song. +of the action balls and shells began flying all over his regiment and +of the actual battlefield. they began to meet wounded men. one with a +of the advance. as soon as an austrian officer showed himself near +of the army into the hands of a better informed and more skillful +of the azóv and podólsk infantry and the pávlograd hussars—was +of the behavior of the eldest princess and prince vasíli she spoke +of the boulevards whom he visited of an evening. he led the mazurka +of the campfire, waving his uplifted arm. +of the candles was focused on those two happy faces alone. +of the cannon. he heard the whistle of bullets above him unceasingly and +of the club, beset the new arrivals. count ilyá, again thrusting his +of the club from the day it was founded. to him the club entrusted the +of the colonel, nesvítski, zherkóv, and the officer from the suite. +of the commander in chief’s special favor he was sent with the news of +of the dam, throwing two soldiers off their feet, and ran onto the +of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the +of the emperor like a cloud of haze across a clear sky and vanished. +of the enemy’s lines, which all day long had yielded ground to us +of the feebleness of age, “bolkónski!” he whispered, pointing to +of the field he stood on was well-known and familiar ground. though he +of the frenchmen with the gunners ended, whether the red-haired gunner +of the french were coming down upon them and that his regiment was in +of the general sorrow. +of the gospel: “in the beginning was the word and the word was with +of the guards, a girl of fifteen, and a plump rosy-faced boy in a short +of the hand on the dial of human history. +of the intellectual essence of petersburg,” as she herself put it. +of the lathe he removed his foot from the pedal, wiped his chisel, +of the lean sinewy hand, showed that the prince still possessed the +of the lovers. “that’s happiness!” +of the maids who was present. (mary bogdánovna was a midwife from the +of the majestic emperor. casually, while surveying the squadron, the +of the meal and was certain that there was some secret between her +of them forgot what was happening and what was about to happen in the +of them will have any meaning for me. tomorrow perhaps, even certainly, +of the nearness of the emperor francis’ black cob, nor of all that was +of the newly commissioned officer were collected. anna mikháylovna, +of the night. the gloom that enveloped the army was filled with their +of the nineteenth march, and her downy little lip rose from old habit, +of the oft-repeated passage of the sonata. prince andrew stopped and +of the orderlies and servants. +of the president, who held a mallet in his hand. let into the wall was +of the river. +of the road were forests of different kinds, fields, and villages. +of the room. prince andrew turned to him, but the doctor gave him a +of the sayings and doings of their commander, the grand duke, and told +of the second gun’s crew was “uncle”; túshin looked at him more +of these maneuvers that enabled us to escape him. buxhöwden pursues +of the service the voices of the priests suddenly ceased, they whispered +of the sleigh. +of the statutes and these remained in his mind. +of the streams and hollows of sokolnitz and schlappanitz beyond which we +of the sun. in front, far off on the farther shore of that sea of mist, +of the thabor bridge is delightful! it is not exactly stupidity, nor +of the third company!” +of the third floor window with his legs hanging out. +of the three precepts of freemasonry pierre realized that he did not +of the unwritten code of subordination—looked so fixedly at the +of the upper lip formed a sharp wedge and closed firmly on the firm +of the victory that had been gained. prince andrew introduced his +of the war and without leaders. the moscovites felt that something was +of the war that had been announced in a manifesto, and about the +of the way! make way!” +of the wood ran out of it, the different companies getting mixed, and +of things to him in the very worst light, pointing out the necessity of +of thirteen, hiding something in the folds of her short muslin frock, +of this delicious russian tea,” lorrain was saying with an air of +of this kind for another, which from pride he would never accept for +of this set. +of those frenchmen,” he said. “what nasty brutes they are! i’d +of those rare women with whom a man’s honor is safe; but, o god, what +of truth, my dear sir, but have thrust her into an abyss of deceit and +of túshin’s battery. prince andrew followed with the suite. behind +of twenty; sónya a girl of sixteen with all the charm of an opening +of voices, the tramping feet, the horses’ hoofs moving in mud, the +of weyrother’s voice, he opened his one eye with an effort. +of which kutúzov was standing began to shout, he rode a little to one + of whom you have made a friend, but not for you, not for +“of whom you imagine me to be one?” said prince andrew, with a quiet +of wind blowing over the army slightly stirred the streamers on the +of wounded pride, and a hope of glory. “and should there be nothing +of you.” +of your misfortune.” he seemed to emphasize the last word, as if to +of yours, is not at all to blame that my face has the misfortune to +oh, andrew! what a treasure of a wife you have,” said she, sitting +“oh, but you were there?” said prince bagratión, addressing prince +“oh dear, what a beast i am!” muttered rostóv, as he read the +“oh dear, what am i thinking about? i’ve mixed everything up. one +“oh, denísov is quite different,” replied nicholas, implying that +“oh, don’t mention it, count! i quite understand,” said berg, +“oh, don’t speak of his going, don’t! i won’t hear it spoken +“oh, don’t speak to me of austria. perhaps i don’t understand +“oh, every bullet has its billet,” answered váska denísov, turning +“oh god, what would happen to me if the emperor spoke to me?” +“oh, go to the devil!” called out a voice, drowned by the laughter +“oh, heaven! how ill he is!” exclaimed the mother. +“oh, he is in a dreadful state,” said the mother to her son when +“oh, he is so kind!” answered princess mary. +“oh, he’s all right, a good horse,” answered rostóv, though the +“oh, how delightful it is!” she kept saying, running up to sónya. +“oh, how dreadful! how can you laugh at it, count?” +oh, how i would guard him, how i would tell him the truth, how i would +“oh, how nice, how splendid!” she said to everything. +“oh, how nice,” thought natásha; and when sónya and nicholas had +oh, how that chord vibrated, and how moved was something that was finest +“oh, hush, please!” said another. +“oh, i must give you a treat,” bilíbin whispered to bolkónski. +“oh! i thought you were in your room,” she said, for some reason +“oh, it’s nothing. i only wished to say...” (he wanted to repeat +“oh, it’s terrible to feel oneself so in this man’s power,” +“oh, it’s wetched! well, what are you standing there for, you +“oh, leave off!” said the accountant with a beaming but rather +“oh, leave off, you always talk nonsense and keep putting things +“oh, little countess!” ... and the count began bustling to get out +“oh, my bower new...!” chimed in twenty voices, and the castanet +“oh, my bower, oh, my bower...!” +“oh, my dear fellow, we’re in such a stew here these last two +“oh, my god! my god! schmidt!” he exclaimed in german. “what a +“oh, my god! thank god!” said princess mary. “i must go and meet +“oh, natásha!” said sónya, looking ecstatically and earnestly at +“oh no, let me off, countess,” denísov replied. +“oh, no, no!” and besides the pallor and the physical suffering +“oh no, not at all! on the contrary, i am very glad to make your +“oh no, not at all too young!” replied the count. “why, our +“oh no!” said iogel, hastening to reassure him. “you were only +“oh, nothing,” said he, as if weary of being continually asked the +“oh, nurse, i’m so glad!” +“oh! oh!” exclaimed several voices. +“oh! oh!” groaned nesvítski as if in fierce pain, seizing the +“oh! oh! oh!” +“oh! oh! oh!” groaned kutúzov despairingly and looked around.... +“oh! oh! oh!” he muttered, looking down from the window at the +“oh, take those off... those...” she said, pointing to his +“oh, that is all the same,” dolgorúkov said quickly, and getting up +“oh, that is dreadful, dreadful!” said pierre. “i don’t +“oh, that’s it!” said rostóv, evidently thinking of something +oh, that wicked prince hippolyte!” she said. +“oh, the faiwy! she can do anything with me!” said denísov, and +“oh, those moscow gossips!” said dólokhov, and he took up the cards +“oh, to die, to die for him,” thought rostóv. +“oh, very well, you may stay in attendance on me.” +“oh, well then, good-by: go and dress. is he very terrible, +“oh, well, well!” remarked the regimental commander. “still, one +“oh, what a nuisance,” said dolgorúkov, getting up hurriedly and +“oh, what a pig i am, not to have written and to have given them +“oh, what are you talking about?” said another. “where is he to +“oh, what a terrible state he is in! one would not know him, he is so +“oh, what nonsense!” cried natásha, laughing. “i don’t think +“oh, yes!” +“oh yes,” assented princess mary, “perhaps that’s it. i’ll go. +“oh, yes, i quite understand,” answered rostóv, who was under his +“oh yes, it is horribly stupid,” said pierre. +“oh yes, like that, i know, i only forgot,” said he. +“oh, yes!” said pierre, with a forced smile. “i am very grateful +“oh yes, very much! my brother knows him, he’s dined with him—the +“oh, you damned dandies! clean and fresh as if you’d been to a fete, +“oh, you don juan! you serpent!” cried several voices. +“oh, you fool!” said the old man, spitting angrily. some time passed +“oh, you guards!” said rostóv. “i say, send for some wine.” +“oh, your excellency!” said franz, with difficulty rolling the +old age and tobacco, which she had known so long. “now, madam, these +old bolkónski had always had a poor opinion of prince vasíli’s +old chamberlain was heard assuring an old baroness that he loved her +old count bezúkhov, and his inheritance. fancy! the three princesses +older visitors. they now, stretching themselves after sitting so long, +oldest rose. márya dmítrievna paused at the door. tall and stout, +old father, and entering the military service, my dear. and there was a +old fellow? out of sorts?” +old fool,” he thought. “that princess hélène will be beautiful +old gabriel brought in the wine. +old lady next to her and glanced angrily at her daughter, and her sigh +old man continued to fold and seal his letter, snatching up and throwing +old man, living alone in the country for so many years, could know and +old man, shaking his powdered head as much as the tail, which tíkhon +old man too came up and kissed the waxen little hands that lay quietly +old michael was asleep on the chest. prokófy, the footman, who was +old miller had been accustomed to sit in his tasseled cap peacefully +old prince had forbidden it, appeared on the threshold with a shawl +old prince nicholas bolkónski received a letter from prince vasíli +old princess, kissing her soundly. “if i hadn’t this headache i’d +old prince understood from this official report that our army had been +olga went out. pierre stood looking at the sisters; then he bowed and +olmütz and that he wanted to see him as he had a letter and money for +olmütz, was preparing to be reviewed next day by the two emperors—the +“o lord god! thou who art in that heaven, save, forgive, and protect +on. +on account of the smoke nothing could be seen. the nearer they got to +on a chair in the ballroom, crossing one leg high over the other, +on a few steps he stopped before prince andrew, who lay on his back with +on a hot dish. +on all sides, had stopped because a horse in front had fallen under a +on all sides. the countess rose and went into the ballroom. +on all sides they saw rain-soaked officers with dejected faces who +on anything. it was about this choice that prince andrew was speaking. +on around him. not only was he indifferent as to whether he got to +on a sofa in a far corner of the room. he closed his eyes and seemed to +on at the crossing. and why are they dawdling there?” +on being relieved from picket duty rostóv had managed to get a few +on both sides. behind our position was a steep and deep dip, making it +once.” +“once again, colonel,” said the general, “i can’t leave half +once been in to see the count. he has not sent for me.... i am sorry for +once for a moment of glory, of triumph over men, of love from men i +once he raised his eyebrows, abruptly touched his horse with his left +once more the conversations concentrated, the ladies’ at the one end +once recognized it to be a tuft of grass. she was terribly close to him. +once she has said...” +once the stranger closed the book, putting in a marker, and again, +once was—did not struggle, and perhaps she was right. nothing has been +on cloaks or mantles, and drive away. the conversation was on the chief +on condition that she should tell no one. +on duty every day, or may place me under arrest, but no one can make +one another. +one another, beginning to see one another through the mist. they had the +one another time to ask questions and give replies concerning a thousand +one but the emperor of russia has that right. +“one!” came the command. +“one can’t everywhere say all one thinks, mon cher. well, have +“one can’t write so fast, your honor,” said the clerk, glancing +one considers that by tomorrow one may be dead, or something so +one day’s ration of bread remains, and in some regiments none at all, +one feels as if one were in the country.” +one foot, bounded from the floor like a ball, and flew round the room +one foot, from the orderly and began to mount. +one had put but which was always in her mind, “and how much suffering, +one i’d give my life for her! but those!...” and he made a gesture +one is to interfere with his arrangements—leads his division to +one moment prayed to god as he had done on the battlefield at the bridge +“one moment, your excellency.” +“one more question, count,” he said, “which i beg you to answer +“one must admit,” continued prince andrew, “that napoleon as a man +“one must be indulgent to little weaknesses; who is free from them, +one of disdain which was quite uncalled for. his fertile mind instantly +one of the Ápsheron regiment went forward past the emperor. +one of the guests. “the vicomte is a wonderful raconteur,” said she +one of the hindmost guns that was going onto the dam turned off onto the +one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow. +one of them knew, not one of them wanted to know, and not one of them +one of them was a sallow, clean-shaven civilian with a thin and wrinkled +one of them was leading by the bridle a fine large french horse he had +one of the next arrivals was a stout, heavily built young man with +one of the players said he hoped he might be trusted. +one. “oh, this senseless life of ours!” thought nicholas. “all +one pair at each window. she stopped and smiled scornfully. sónya was +one quite at home, and from habit immediately lay down on the sofa, took +one reviews the past and plans for the future. prince andrew’s face +one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, +(one shattered gun and one unicorn were left behind), prince andrew rode +“one should make up to the husbands of pretty women,” said denísov. +one side of which symbolized god, another moral things, a third +one spot. his predictions were being justified. part of the russian +“one step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing +“one thing i ask of your excellency,” dólokhov said in his firm, +“one thing i thank god for is that i did not kill that man,” said +“o-ne! t-wo! thwee!” he shouted angrily and stepped aside. +“one was damaged,” answered the staff officer, “and the other i +one was on a white horse. prince bagratión and prince dolgorúkov with +one.... whom, i ask you, can we rely on?... england with her commercial +one word after another, came through the open door. she was speaking as +one would have expected of him. +one would have thought it impossible for a man to stretch himself +one would have to... the metropolitan himself... and even then it +one would not need finesse; and he tells me that i am lying—so let him +on february 26, 1807, the old prince set off on one of his circuits. +on! go on!” and cries of horror were heard in the crowd. the soldiers +on hearing of the arrival of the letter went softly into the room and +on hearing the news was one of anger with sónya.... he tried to say, +on hélène’s name day, a small party of just their own people—as +on her face. +on her lips, she got up and left the room. all nicholas’ animation +on her priority) “that that senseless young man was spoiled by the +on her toes any longer. “so that’s what i’m up to! i’ll never +on him by the doctors, clergy, and relatives of the family. prince +on himself. he could remain silent for hours without being at all put +on him. the empress’ chamberlain invited him to see her majesty. the +on him without changing their expression. “i love you all and have +on his arm as if that touch might soothe or rouse him. +on his pupil’s behalf. that’s how it’s to be understood! ‘how +on his return to moscow from the army, nicholas rostóv was welcomed +on his saber, and put on his cap. +on his seat, lowered his hands, moved a little to the right and then to +on his side of it. +on his thin bony legs, and keeping on a worn, nankeen-covered, sheepskin +on horseback facing the ditch. one with a white plume in his hat seemed +on in his usual tone of indifference. +on!” innumerable voices suddenly shouted after the ball had struck +on kutúzov’s staff, among his fellow officers and in the army +onlookers for what was to follow. as soon as the provocatively gay +only a small lamp was burning inside something white. pierre went nearer +only because i still hope to meet such a divine creature, who will +only betrayed us three times in three years. we take up their cause, but +only bivouacking here and have just come to look round. i am going back +only by the elite. +only change being that the words “father kámenski” were replaced by +only covered by her garments. and having once seen this he could not +“only fools and rakes fall ill, my boy. you know me: i am busy from +only heard dólokhov’s hurried steps, and his figure came in view +only help a bit! i must have singers too. i shall have my own orchestra, +only his eyes were brighter than usual. +“only let me report this gentleman’s business, and i shall be at +only lit fires to deceive us. +only now, when he was confronted by the stern authorities, did his guilt +only pressed it to the cold braiding of his hussar’s jacket. denísov, +only sónya, nicholas, and natásha, but even the old countess, +only sure happiness in life.” +“only take care you and your cossacks are not all captured!” said +only telling you what it is. napoleon has also formed his plan by now, +only that all the men of the day were mere babies who did not know the +“only that?” said bolkónski. +only to express his rapture fully. +only when approaching bagratión did rostóv let his horse gallop again, +only when prince andrew was gone did rostóv think of what he ought to +“on my honor!” +on november 1 kutúzov had received, through a spy, news that the army +on october 11, 1805, one of the infantry regiments that had just reached +on october 11, the day when all was astir at headquarters over the news +on our right flank commanded by bagratión, at nine o’clock the battle +on purpose to vex us. the archduke karl does nothing, the archduke +on reaching petersburg pierre did not let anyone know of his arrival, +on reaching the village he dismounted and went to the nearest house, +on retiring to her own room, she sat in an armchair, her eyes fixed on a +on returning from the review, kutúzov took the austrian general into +on seeing rostóv before him, with whom he would inevitably collide. +on snowy-white smooth pillows, evidently freshly changed, pierre +on—that pierre became quite bewildered and only replied: +on that third of march, all the rooms in the english club were filled +“on the 4th, the first courier arrives from petersburg. the mails +on the arm of a colonel of hussars, a man of importance to them because +on the arm said: +“on the contrary,” he said, in a querulous and angry tone that +on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, +“on the contrary,” replied the prince, who had plainly become +“on the contrary, that coiffure suits the princess very well,” said +on the contrary, they stimulated his energy and determination. +on the cot. +on the eighteenth and nineteenth of november, the army advanced two +on the evening of the last day’s march an order had been received that +on the field. +on the field before the fortress. now thousands of feet and bayonets +on the first arrival of the news of the battle of austerlitz, moscow had +on the french side, amid the groups with cannon, a cloud of smoke +on the ground. +on the high ground where the enemy was, the smoke of a cannon rose, +on the little princess’ face, an expression of childish fear of +‘on the march’ it meant in greatcoats?” said he reproachfully to +on the morning of the day that the young couple were to arrive, princess +on the opposite side the enemy could be seen by the naked eye, and from +on the other an immense case containing icons, was brightly illuminated +on the other side, the children, tutors, and governesses. from behind +on the pratzen heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his +on. the preoccupation and despondency which pierre had noticed in his +“on the same business. but you are damp! let me wring you out!” +on the snow. +on the soft springs of the carriage, he turned to prince andrew. +on the table, again bound his eyes. +on the third day after christmas nicholas dined at home, a thing he had +on the top of her head (a style that quite altered and spoiled her +on the twelfth of november, kutúzov’s active army, in camp before +on the twenty-eighth of october kutúzov with his army crossed to the +on the unattractive martyrlike expression it so often wore, as she +on the way home, prince andrew could not refrain from asking kutúzov, +on the way to his sister’s room, in the passage which connected one +on this high ground, shall withdraw the left flank under its cover, and +“on tuesday between eight and nine. it will give me great pleasure.” + * “on vous fera danser.” +on what he thought right. the steward promised to do all in his power to +on which rostóv sat. +on which with a broken bit of chalk he had written “800 rubles” in +on you. you complain of our separation. what then should i say, if i +“oooh! for christ’s sake let me alone!” cried the wounded man, but +opened eyes. “what has happened to her? how she is singing today!” +opened the bedroom door. +opened the door which moved noiselessly and easily. she paused at the +open it. someone was holding it shut. +operations according to him were connected with such complicated +opinion,” said she, turning to the young man who, having come quite +opinions, but you see what a capital, good-natured fellow i am.” and +opportunity of joining in the general current of recollections. +opportunity since morning to meet one another alone. when princess mary +opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. +opposite, in front of which large masses of french were advancing. +opposite pierre and seemed very gay. rostóv was talking merrily to his +opposite. pierre spoke little but examined the new faces, and ate a +or anybody; but you are free to choose.... go to your room, think it +or appreciative according to the way the joke was received. everybody +“or are you afraid to play with me?” dólokhov now asked as if +or cap, his head was bandaged, and over his shoulder a french munition +ordained that the austrian army should maneuver the previous year on the +ordeal was about to begin. +order. +ordered his horse at once and, coldly taking leave of borís, rode +ordered the horses to be harnessed. only those things he always kept +ordered to turn back to the right. several thousand cavalry crossed in +orderly by the shoulders and knocking him against the wall. +orderly, running behind the cart and fumbling in the back of it. +orderly to the bravest general, and still more, he was going with a +order not to lose his head and do foolish things he must not act on his +order of maria theresa on his neck and a black bandage round his head, +orders. +orders, and the star of st. george on his left breast. evidently just +orders by heart and know the regulations as well as i do the lord’s +orders the sergeant to be arrested. come, you must own that this affair +orders to admit no more, but the porter was told to be sure to invite to +orders to the club steward and to the famous feoktíst, the club’s +orders which showed that the russian troops, who had hitherto been +order to make borís’ better acquaintance, promised to come to dinner, +order. you are causing me to lose the fruits of a campaign. break +ordinary staid and respectful good manners habitual in the prince’s +or even to wish to be thought to listen. exactly opposite weyrother, +or gray horses; then again, spreading out with the brazen clatter of the +or he would suddenly feel ashamed of he knew not what. he felt it +or kutúzov was. some said the report that the emperor was wounded was +orlóv never gave such a dinner as ours will be!” +or make out anything of what was happening: there in the smoke men of +or of the necessity of rebuilding factories and workshops. so the first +or prince vasíli. forty thousand serfs and millions of rubles! i know +or two in his head but dozens, some only beginning to form themselves, +or whether some other thought flitted across his dying brain, at any +or you as having been at all insulted, and as a man older than you, my +ostralitz. in the large drawing room which had become the commander +other.” +other, awkwardly, like a child at a dancing lesson. +other before the service was concluded. pierre paid no more attention +other fare, was splendid, yet he could not feel quite at ease till the +other had ridden up to him. +other lady visitors were farther down. at the other end sat the count, +other officer; he’ll say: ‘go and find out what’s there.’ there +other officers. perhaps i ought not to have spoken before them, but i am +others...” +others.” +others and even from herself, the stronger it grew. “o god,” she +others and, in shirt sleeves and breeches, went glass in hand to the +others appreciated prince hippolyte’s social tact in so agreeably +other’s hands, kissing them and pulling them away, and again began +other soldiers. he stood looking about him, when suddenly he heard a +others, only now have i understood all the happiness of life. no, i +others. “well, you old sinner,” she went on, turning to the count +other virtues—love of his neighbor, and especially generosity. +otherwise. to tell them that she felt ashamed for herself and for them +other young ladies in begging natásha and nicholas, who were noted for +ought to be, now he fancied it was only something in his own eyes. his +ought to go straight to him and give the message dolgorúkov had ordered +ought to know where they are, and must find them, because...” +“oui, madame,” replied he, looking around him. +our aid,” said kutúzov. +our dear count vrbna, goes to him for orders.” +our enemies! hurrah!” he exclaimed in his dashing, old, hussar’s +our fine speeches and in his rude and savage way throws himself on the +our hands! no, we mustn’t forget suvórov and his rule—not to put +our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against +our infantry were stationed there, and at the farthest point the +our members as much as possible to reform their hearts, to purify and +our men had begun firing. they were still firing, not at the cavalry +“our men have been wasting time.” +our officers.” +our officers and men at austerlitz. one had saved a standard, another +our order can bestow it will render you, my dear sir. you are going to +our people...” +our present, depraved world. no one now loves virtue; it seems like + * ours. +ourselves.” +ourselves, dear prince,” said the little princess (of course, in +ourselves, were growing up and dying with no idea of god and truth +“ours,” kissing his finger tips. +‘our sovereign, the emperor,’ as they say at official dinners,” +our thoughts to the second, bonaparte. but as it turns out, just at +our troops had descended and from whence came the sounds of firing. +our troops were known to him as far as they could be known to anyone +our turn next.” +out. +out: +out about him. +out accidently.” +out and the sabers whizzed as they were drawn from their scabbards. +out a notebook, hurriedly scribbled something in pencil, tore out the +out as a post horse, but still i must have a talk with you, catiche, a +out everyone has been enraptured by her? they say she is amazingly +out from behind the clouds, and the clear sound of the solitary shot +out her cambric handkerchief she began wiping her husband’s waistcoat. +out his notebook and, leaning on the cannon, sketched a plan of the +out in front of a platoon of grenadiers before whom lay a naked man. two +out like cords. “you are mad, i tell you. i won’t allow it. +outlines. dressed as she used to be in petersburg society, it was still +out. mack loses a whole army, the archduke ferdinand and the archduke +out of countenance himself or making others uncomfortable, but as +out of hearing. another musket missed fire but flashed in the pan. +out of it. they could not understand that i have not the necessary +out of this position; that here was the toulon that would lift him from +out over the fire, and not waiting for an answer he gave a grunt and +outposts today and it is impossible to say where his chief forces are +outright. +outside his uniform. +out skirmishers. he had felt perfectly sure that there were other troops +out. the fences and gates were new and solid; two fire pumps and a +out there... both playing the hero... ah, vasíli ignátovich... +out the stinging and tormenting thoughts that confused his mind. “this +out until, at the first pause, the guests rise with a rustle of dresses +out whether she was considering what he had just said or whether she was +over a fire brigade of bonaparte’s, that will be another story and +over.” and after stumbling a few staggering steps right up to the +over, and come back in an hour and tell me in his presence: yes or no. +over,” anna pávlovna continued. “the sovereigns will not be able to +over beamed with irrepressible delight.) “it’s in the emperor’s +overcome a certain secret sorrow that has been in my heart ever since +overflowed with animation and impulsiveness. to be an enthusiast had +“overflowing with amiability. his position has not turned his head +overflow with sick, and famine is everywhere. twice the marauders even +over his shoulder. +over his shoulder, as when rostóv had seen him on the eve of the battle +over his spectacles, and then again resuming his walk, muttering +over. it will be a tremendous banquet.” +overtaken by the enemy and fighting rearguard actions only as far as +overtaking the battalions that continued to advance, he stopped +over, the adjutant he had seen the previous day ceremoniously informed +over the battlefield had given final orders to strengthen the batteries +over the enns, and then guessed that the card that came first to hand +over their heads, unstrapping their overcoats and drawing the sleeves on +over the squadron. rostóv raised his saber, ready to strike, but at +owed him money! what baseness! what meanness! i know you understand +owing to the terrible uproar and the necessity for concentration and +own about the facts he was recounting. for some time he engrossed the +own breast, the husband standing by and gazing tenderly at her and the +owner of one of the largest fortunes in russia, i am much amused to +own eyes she comforted the count, and decided that at dinner and till +own ideas tonight, but must yield himself up entirely to the will of +pace. +paces, and nicholas could clearly distinguish every detail of his +pacing angrily about and snorting. the old prince felt as though he +painful to him at this moment of sorrow; besides, what can i say to him +painstaking effect that had been in it before; but she did not yet sing +palace in a manner agreeable to yourself, and in so far as circumstances +pale, and added, “look at it, young man.” +pale and his jaw trembled, shivering feverishly. he was placed on +pale and then blushing. +pale face and glittering eyes. +pale, now blushed and strained every nerve to overhear what nicholas +pale on seeing her father-in-law. +pale, with compressed lips and feverishly glittering eyes. +pale, with quivering lips, pierre snatched the copy. +pallid and quivered. +“papa, i have come on a matter of business. i was nearly forgetting. i +“papa! pa-pa!” he called after him, sobbing, “forgive me!” and +“papa,” said his beautiful daughter in the same tone as before, +“papa, we shall be late,” said princess hélène, turning her +papa, which natásha, and which pétya. everyone shouted, talked, and +paper and her hand moved rapidly over it. this is the reply she wrote, +paper. he looked gloomily in rostóv’s face and said: “i am witing +papers and it was the first time he had heard villeneuve’s name. +papers and still taking no notice of the special messenger. +parade. however, i will let you know.” +parade... i am the first to apologize, you know me!... he was very +paralyzed his will. +pardon. as soon as rostóv heard them, an enormous load of doubt +“pardon me! a snuffbox with the emperor’s portrait is a reward but +parents who have petted their children from babyhood, but which prince +paris. it was not calculation that guided her (she did not even for a +part. anna pávlovna schérer on the contrary, despite her forty years, +part from his horse, and at last sprang down and called to his orderly. +particular emphasis as if in it lay the gist of the matter. +particularly addicted), he regarded even this not as a defect but as a +particularly agreeable before going away. besides this he was +particularly calm and absent-minded way, which inspired the respect of +particularly discontented and out of temper. whether he was in a bad +particularly on the word possible... “as po-o-ossible,” he ended, +particularly striking among all these drunken voices by its sober + particularly victorious.” +particularly vivid, humiliating, and shameful was the recollection of +parties, wearing a dress such as was then fashionable, cut very low at +part in it, but also by the joyful expression on the faces of soldiers, +partly because of the depressing memories associated with bald hills, +partly because prince andrew did not always feel equal to bearing with +partner’s hand firmly, threw back his head, and advanced his foot, +part of his legs; he had on a kind of necklace above which rose a high +part of his mind her image rose in all its womanly beauty. +party at which pierre had to be present unless he wished to spoil +passed his time very gaily. after a short period of adapting himself +passed in step before the emperors and their suites at a bold, brisk +passed out by a back door, but returned to their places one after the +passed, the pávlograd division was ordered to advance. in wischau +passing bagratión and racing one another they rushed in an irregular +passing behind one of the lines of a regiment of foot guards he heard a +passing between the companies that had been eating porridge and drinking +passing, but before he had finished his greeting there was a general +passing by kutúzov’s carriage and the exhausted saddle horses of +passing it across hélène’s back. hélène stooped forward to make +passionately and tenderly, and old mary ivánovna, who had grown fond of +passionately, at which she laughed; at the other could be heard the +passionately fond of the boy, and princess mary often deprived herself +passionately once more to enjoy that dissipation he was so accustomed to +passionately repents. i will do all i can to arrange the match between +passion but in your own heart. the source of blessedness is not without +passion,” said the latter. +pass the three officers quite easily, but zherkóv, pushing nesvítski +past the company, and overtook the carriage, still keeping time to the +past the ladies into the little drawing room. with quick steps he went +pathetic smile, as though she too knew that count rostóv deserved this +path of virtue,” said the mason. +patronage at the dancers. +patroness. she added that her majesty had deigned to show baron funke +patted his favorite, rostóv, on the shoulder. +paul had exiled him to his country estate had lived there continuously +paul was a market village where a fair was held on st. peter’s day, +pause after this mot to give time for its due appreciation. “the +paused. “i am going because the life i am leading here does not suit +pause, “she told him she loved another.” +pausing. “the only question is what will come of the meeting between +pávlograd commander. the commanders met with polite bows but with +pávlovna. +pávlovna again touched pierre’s sleeve, saying: “i hope you won’t +pávlovna: “educate this bear for me! he has been staying with me +pávlovna had had a cough for some days. she was, as she said, suffering +pávlovna, looking up pensively. +pávlovna’s, an unacknowledged sense of the guilt of that desire +pávlovna’s drawing room he considered an important step up in the +pávlovna, shaking her little shriveled finger at him. +pávlovna’s hand and for some reason drawing it downwards. “arrange +pávlovna’s hand, and screwing up his eyes scanned the whole company. +pávlovna’s usual pink notes with an invitation to which was added: +pávlovna’s voice, “i see you are all right there.” +pávlovna’s was the first he had attended in russia. he knew that all +pávlovna’s words and looks when she spoke to him about his house, +pávlovna threatened him on behalf of “our dear vyazmítinov,” and +pay. i can tell you for myself...” +paying off the debts and undertaking new activities with serf labor, +payments had been diminished by a third, their obligatory manorial work +peace.” +peace. the old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was +pearls on their bare shoulders, looked at themselves in the brilliantly +peasant, or a woman with a baby, has no rest day or night and i give +peculiar form of beauty. everyone brightened at the sight of this pretty +peculiarities of his reserved nature, borís had managed during his +peculiarly deliberate steps. this feeling of disdain was heightened +peculiar to pregnant women. it was evident that her eyes did not see +pensions and the same amount for asylums; 150,000 alimony was sent to +people and starting to join the army. you should have seen the state of +“people are always too clever with their eldest children and try to +people—businessmen, relations, and acquaintances alike—were all +people dancing, iogel with natásha, his pride and his best pupil, were +people do understand him. he is such a lofty, heavenly soul!” +people,” he went on, turning to anna pávlovna, “he ever was a hero, +people show to everyone when they are happy. +people were in one of the inner rooms, not considering it necessary to +perception befitting a man of the world, he indicated by a movement of +perfection of manner. if he ever thought of hélène, it was just of +perfect one’s self. and to attain this end, we have the light called +perform! prussia has always declared that buonaparte is invincible, and +perhaps because it was hard for him, hungry as he was, to look on at +“perhaps,” coldly and angrily replied dólokhov, glancing at sónya, +perhaps dying, while meeting my remorse with some forced bravado!” +perhaps i may...” +“perhaps later on i may tell you, my dear boy, that if i had not been +perhaps, see and take part in the first russian encounter with the +“perhaps the count did not ask for me,” said pierre when he reached +“perhaps we’d really better not wake him,” he said hesitating. +permission here in hospital, that i may not have to play the part of a +“permit me, princess, to know what is necessary and what is not +perseverance, but only the knowledge of how to get on with those who can +personage, a position in the army which seemed to him most attractive. +personage he was referring to. +personal interview was refused, and instead of the sovereign, prince +personally it would be a pleasure to hand over the supreme command +persons, among them the elderly lady and anna pávlovna, did however +person she happened to look at she was in love with for that moment. +petersburg. +petersburg, and had been expelled from there for riotous conduct and +petersburg and staying at his house. with apparent absent-mindedness, +petersburg. anna mikháylovna, with her tear-worn but pleasant face, +petersburg. but now this head was swaying helplessly with the uneven +petersburg earlier or later, or whether he secured accommodation at this +petersburg. hand this to count willarski” (he took out his notebook +petersburg. he could not imagine how he could speak to her now. he +petersburg. it is high time for you to get away from these terrible +petersburg—no one knows who will inherit his immense fortune, pierre +petersburg on the tenth of august, and her son, who had remained in +petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age +petersburg to ascertain what moscow was thinking about austerlitz. +petersburg to procure an appointment in the guards for her only son. +petisenfans, allay cushay dormir!” he exclaimed, imitating his russian +“pétrusha has come with papers from your father,” whispered the +pétya. +pétya. besides that, he sent greetings to monsieur schelling, madame +pétya, clinging to his legs, kept shouting, “and me too!” +pétya! good man!” cried he, addressing pierre. +pétya in, closed again. a sound of laughter came from behind it. +pétya paced the room in silence for a time. +pétya, pacing the room with large, resolute strides. “now i’m very +“pétya, you’re a stupid!” said natásha. +pe vell. and ve must discuss it as little as po-o-ossible”... he dwelt +philosophizing voice with pleasure. +physically at that moment, there was a weight on his chest and he could +physical things, and the fourth a combination of these. now and then +pick up the glove himself and to pass round the doctors who were not +piercingly. seeing prince andrew she leaned out from behind the apron +pierre. +pierre. +pierre. +pierre. +pierre. +pierre. +pierre, after all, had not managed to choose a career for himself in +pierre and himself was in the room, and addressed her in a tone of +pierre and there were lines of pain on his face and a shamefaced smile. +pierre, as in a dream, saw several men standing before him, wearing +pierre at the age of ten had been sent abroad with an abbé as tutor, +pierre began describing what he had done on his estates, trying as far +pierre blushed, as he always did when it was mentioned, and said +pierre clutched his temples, and turning round went into the forest, +pierre considered. +pierre could not and did not wish to break this silence. +pierre could not go on. he gulped and turned away. +pierre could not make out what it was all about, and still less what +pierre did not catch what they were saying, but knew they were talking +pierre did not understand a word, but the conviction that all this had +pierre drank one glass after another, looking from under his brows at +pierre dropped his eyes, lifted them again, and wished once more to see +pierre felt confused and wished to avoid that look, but the bright old +pierre felt himself far poorer than when his father had made him +pierre felt that he was the center of it all, and this both pleased and +pierre felt uncomfortable and even depressed in his friend’s company +pierre flushed and, hurriedly putting his legs down from the bed, bent +pierre, from joy, agitation, and embarrassment, was not in a state to +pierre gave her an inquiring look. she kissed the young man on his +pierre gave no answer, for he neither heard nor saw anything. he had +pierre gradually began to recover himself and looked about at the room +pierre had already long been feeling in himself that refreshing source +pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception at anna +pierre had come just at dinnertime and was sitting awkwardly in the +pierre had met in petersburg society. in the president’s chair sat a +pierre had none of the practical persistence that would have enabled him +pierre had of late rarely seen his wife alone. both in petersburg and in +pierre had taken part in tying a policeman to a bear. he had now been +pierre, hardly restraining his sobs, began running toward dólokhov and +pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved +pierre heard her say: +pierre. he went up to him, took his hand (a thing he never used to do), +pierre in his preoccupation and absent-mindedness had not recognized +pierre in his secret soul agreed with the steward that it would be +pierre, in reply, sincerely agreed with her as to hélène’s +pierre, “i said at the time and before anyone else” (she insisted +pierre. it seemed to him that more than half an hour had elapsed. +pierre knew very well what a hieroglyph was, but dared not speak. he +pierre leaped up from the sofa and rushed staggering toward her. +pierre listened to the colonel’s speech and nodded approvingly. +pierre listened with swelling heart, gazing into the mason’s face with +pierre looked at her over his spectacles. +pierre looked at his friend and, noticing that he did not like the +pierre looked over his spectacles with naïve surprise, now at him and +pierre looked questioningly at anna mikháylovna to see what he was to +pierre looked silently and inquiringly at him over his spectacles. +pierre looked silently and searchingly into prince andrew’s face, +pierre murmured something unintelligible, and continued to look round as +“pierre, my dear, come here. i think he will not be out of place in a +pierre, not knowing whom to answer, looked at them all and smiled. his +pierre, on unexpectedly becoming count bezúkhov and a rich man, felt +pierre paused, seeking a reply. +pierre, perplexed, looked round with his shortsighted eyes without +pierre quickly took out his purse and watch, but could not manage for +pierre reaching the house first went into prince andrew’s study like +pierre recalled, counting them on his fingers, he felt already in his +pierre remained gloomily silent, answering in monosyllables and +pierre rose to help him. +pierre rubbed his forehead. +pierre said nothing; he looked fixedly at his friend with surprise. he +pierre sat down with his little partner. natásha was perfectly happy; +pierre sat opposite dólokhov and nicholas rostóv. as usual, he ate and +pierre sat up on the sofa, with his legs tucked under him. +pierre saw that borís wished to change the subject, and being of the +pierre’s direction at a slight rustle made by the latter. “why have +pierre seized the crossbeam, tugged, and wrenched the oak frame out with +pierre’s eyes. +pierre’s eyes with it and tied it in a knot behind, catching some +pierre’s hand to show that there was no need to ask the question. he +“pierre!” she said. +pierre shook his head and arms as if attacked by mosquitoes or bees. +pierre sighed, rose submissively, emptied his glass, and, waiting till +pierre’s legitimation? do you understand that in consideration of the +pierre smiled, but his smile showed that he knew it was not the story +pierre smiled in his good-natured way as if afraid for his companion’s +pierre’s mind was in such a confused state that the word “stroke” +pierre’s outburst anna pávlovna, despite her social experience, was +pierre’s remarks, rose and made a sign to his wife that it was time to +pierre stood with his arms hanging down and legs apart, before his +pierre. the estates he had not before visited were each more picturesque +pierre, the one who had behaved so improperly at anna pávlovna’s +pierre threw off his cloak and entered the first room, in which were the +pierre took his feet off the table, stood up, and lay down on a bed that +pierre took off his coat, waistcoat, and left boot according to the +pierre took off his spectacles, which made his face seem different and +pierre took them off, and his eyes, besides the strange look eyes have +pierre tried several times to speak, but, on one hand, prince vasíli +pierre turned his whole body, making the sofa creak. he lifted his eager +pierre turned over heavily on the ottoman and opened his mouth, but +pierre understood nothing of all this and coloring shyly looked in +pierre was about to reply, but prince vasíli interrupted him. +pierre was evident. she kept an anxious watch on him when he approached +pierre was one of those people who, in spite of an appearance of what +pierre, was only busy causing him annoyance. +pierre was silent. +pierre was sitting in the drawing room where shinshín had engaged him, +pierre was staying at prince vasíli kurágin’s and sharing the +pierre was still afraid that this officer might inadvertently say +pierre was struck by the modesty of the small though clean house after +pierre was ungainly. stout, about the average height, broad, with huge +pierre was very fond of. +pierre well knew this large room divided by columns and an arch, its +pierre well remembered this small circular drawing room with its mirrors +pierre went in at the door, stepping on the soft carpet, and noticed +pierre went out. +pierre went with rapid steps to the door and suddenly came face to +pierre. “what of it? it’s the truth!” and he himself smiled his +pierre, who had been growing more and more agitated as he listened to +pierre who had been regarded with patronizing condescension when he was +pierre who has inherited all the property and has besides been +pierre, whose preoccupied, absent-minded, and massive figure was a very +pierre, who was lagging behind, to follow. though he did not see why it +pierre who was under such obligations to him (“but never mind that”) +pierre wished to say something, looked at her with eyes whose strange +pierre wished to say this to the mason, but did not dare to. the +pierre, with a gentle smile of pity and remorse, his arms and legs +pierre, with downcast eyes, drank out of his glass without looking at +pierre, without knowing why, was having his enormous petersburg house +pilgrimage, of holy friendship, of the eternal architect of the +pillows one at a time and shaking them. +pinch of snuff. +pineapple ice. before the ices, champagne was served round. the band +pistols, and at the word thwee begin to advance. +pitied. she has no one, no one. to tell the truth, i don’t need her, +pity, and for their sake i should like to liberate the serfs. you +pity for me. why is it?” +pity me. yet i was once at home, strong, happy, and loved.” he sighed +pity’s sake, leave this helpless youth who, after all, was the son of +place and everything waiting for him in the archives department! isn’t +place and that he might now be lying, recovering or dying, alone among +place and without answering drew out a handkerchief. blood was flowing +placed a chair for her. +placed them on the window sill, though it was already quite light. +place him on a stretcher that had been brought. the soldier groaned. +places and met in certain habitual groups. a minority of those present +places. then the strains of the count’s household band were replaced +place,” thought pierre. “it’s even certain that i should have done +place! we passed close to the park and saw two deer... and what a +placing the bottle on the window sill where he could reach it easily, +plain enough as it is.” +plainly that there are not many wives with husbands such as you who +plainness of speech, uttering the word amant as casually as any other +plain that she understood nothing and was so frightened that her +plaiting slippers out of cloth selvedges. he looked up at the opening +plan chimerical. +plan of a flanking movement. +plan perfectly worthless. weyrother met all objections with a firm and +“plans!” repeated prince andrew ironically. “my plans?” he said, +plans to kutúzov’s quarters where the council of war was to be +player, in spite of the burden of his equipment, rushed out to the front +players, or peered at the now cold face of dólokhov and tried to read +playing a viennese waltz on the clavichord, while a fourth, lying on +playing chess. berg held a smoking pipe between his knees. borís, in +playing with the ball of worsted as a kitten should. +play. involuntarily he felt a joyful agitation at the thought of the +“plea...” began dólokhov, but could not at first pronounce the +pleasant face and resonant though not loud voice, attracted everyone’s +pleasant smile, as if it were obvious to him that his success must +pleasant smile—his eyelids drooping more than half over his old eyes, +“please, andrew, for my sake!...” +“please be quick,” he said. +“please come and visit us... you know my brave boy... been together +“please come to tea. the prince will be out in a moment,” came the +pleased!” and he held out his hand to the captain. +“please, denísov, let me lend you some: i have some, you know,” +pleased faces, for they knew that under no other management could they +pleased to take me as an aide-de-camp....” +pleased with. +“please have a look at it”—and kutúzov with an ironical smile +“please,” he uttered with an effort. +please make way!” +“please place your money on the cards or i may get muddled in the +“please, vasíli dmítrich,” natásha was saying, “do come!” +“please, your excellency, for god’s sake!” he kept saying, +pleasure and listened to the conversation of his two neighbors, whom he +pleasure at the sound of the singing and the sight of the dancing +pleasure of deceiving me, if it really were true. yes, if it were true, +pleasures than allow himself to be seen in a shabby equipage or appear +pleasure that for the first time since his arrival prince andrew was +pleasure to herself and to all around her. “i have brought my work,” +“plenty of time, your excellency,” muttered kutúzov in the midst of +pocket and that’s quite simple and is no one else’s business.” +pocket of his riding breeches, with his eyebrows lifted and his mouth +point.” +point. ask denísov whether it is not out of the question for a cadet to +point... come, how are you?” asked rostóv. +pointed boot then fashionable, touched the groin of the bobtailed bay +pointing to nicholas, “his friend borís has become an officer, and +pointing to the fields, he spoke of the improvements he was making in +pointing to the flying soldiers; but at that instant, as if to punish +point where the french pickets had been standing that evening. +police tried to interfere, and what did the young men do? they tied +polished shining cannon that quivered on the gun carriages and with +politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony +politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions +politeness modestly placed himself at the disposal of the circle in +political events. +political news. it became particularly animated toward the end of the +pomaded hair, perfumed, and in a new uniform, looking just as smart as +pondered. a husband, a man, a strong dominant and strangely attractive +pondered. sometimes he staked a large sum, but dólokhov refused to +ponderous steps up to her sister-in-law. +poor amélie’s happiness, she loves him so passionately, and so +poorer than the poorest beggar. a thousand thanks, dear friend, for the +poor resources i have for entertaining a woman used to the best society. +porch. his landlord, who in a waistcoat and a pointed cap, pitchfork in +porch. prince andrew got out of the carriage, helped his little wife to +porter. he had no lambskin cap on his head, nor had he a loaded whip +portfolio. +portfolio, and changed her grip. +portfolio she held in her hand. “all i know is that his real will is +portfolio were the only sounds audible, but it was evident that if +portmanteau into the vehicle, “we are to move on still farther. the +portrait (evidently by the hand of the artist belonging to the estate) +position. he kept closing his eyes and then again looking at the fire, +position. he made some notes on two points, intending to mention them to +position is now a terrible one,” continued anna mikháylovna, sadly, +position, it was now necessary to attack in order to cut a way through +position now, peter nikoláevich...” +position of that insignificant individual was such as could certainly +position of the army reached him as he went along, and the appearance of +positions and withdrawn in his presence. together with túshin, stepping +position with his eyes shut. pierre looked at him and had not time +possessed of a helen. “but no doubt it always is and must be so!” +possessed. pierre was one of those who are only strong when they feel +possessor of the finest fortune in russia. it is rumored that prince +possibility of active brotherly love among men, which joseph alexéevich +possibility of anyone seeing her without being enchanted. the aunt +possible. and i,” continued pierre, “shot dólokhov because i +possible. god preserve us from that terrible misfortune! +possible. his conversation was always sprinkled with wittily original, +possible. kutúzov himself with all his transport took the road to +posted on a rather steep incline which dominated the french position. +posted, two men appeared on horse back. they were an aide-de-camp +posting date: january 10, 2009 [ebook #2600] +postmaster’s book. bazdéev had been one of the best-known freemasons +post of commander in chief as a reward for his victory, does not give up +“postulant,” to the accompaniment of various knockings with +potëmkins or suvórovs left to oppose him; but he was also convinced +pouch was slung. he had an officer’s sword in his hand. the soldier +poured drops from a medicine bottle into a wineglass half full of water. +pour le roi de prusse!” +pour vous. *(2) only a hobbledehoy could amuse himself in this +powdered footmen, in livery with buckled shoes and smart stockings, +powder,” said prince andrew banteringly yet tenderly. +powder smoke and stopped in despair. everything seemed lost. but at that +power.” +power.” +powerful nation like russia—barbaric as she is said to be—to place +practical woman that she was, had even managed by favor with army +pranced up and down in one place like a goat and shrieked piercingly. +prancing horse had splashed mud over some foot soldiers. +prater... true, we have no prater here...” +pratzen heights. +pratzen, interrupted by such frequent reports of cannon that sometimes +pratzen, which was full of troops of all kinds. +prayed that the daily interview might pass off well. +prayer. so, count, there never is any negligence in my company, and +prearranged sentence. +precedes a battle and had spent that happy day in inactivity, was all +preening its plumage and became motionless. +pregnant,” said prince andrew, following every movement of his +prejudices, and equality of citizenship, and all these ideas napoleon +premeditation prince vasíli took the first opportunity to gain his +preoccupied manner. he beckoned to one of his white adjutants and asked +preoccupied that only in bed was he able to be by himself. he had to +preoccupied, yet meekly christian look which never left her face, anna +preparations for war lay in the fact that nicholas would not hear of +preparation swept over all the troops. +prepare a circular, memorandum, or report, skillfully, pointedly, and +prepared by long and diligent self-purification, not everyone can hope +prepared to continue, but just then anna pávlovna, who had kept a +prepare her sister-in-law, and every time began to cry. unobservant as +preparing tea. he brought in a boiling samovar. when everything was +presence and particularly distinguished himself.” +presence, i will teach you to behave yourself.” +present bivouac another fortnight there will not be a healthy man left +presented he was as little able as his father to change his opinion. he +present emperor—more than once in paris, and tells me he never met a +present i am free and am all right. only i haven’t the least idea what +present, suddenly pushed forward with a scared and angry look and wanted +preserved all that was good in it—equality of citizenship and freedom +preserve his gravity. +president of the council of war. weyrother evidently felt himself to be +pressed him still harder with proofs of the impossibility and above all +pressed two fingers more and more rigidly to his cap, as if in this +pressing the hands of prince andrew and borís. “you know i should +pressure lay his only hope of salvation. +presumptuous lieutenant who had prevented his finishing what he had to +pretending to do something real. prince andrew gaily bore with his +pretending to sleep, the sounds his nose emitted during the reading that +pretense of helping, was in everyone’s way. +pretext that her aunt wished to hear him. +pretext. the fact is he has come to see count cyril vladímirovich, +pretty face. +pretty young princesses gorchakóv met suitors there and were married +preussisch-eylau. +prevented her from going on with it. +pricking its ears at the noise and looking at the lights. the shouting +pricking its ears at the sound of shots just as it had done on the +pride enough to see it? if she has no pride for herself she might at +pride. “that lawsuit taught me much. when i want to see one of those +priests; “all we relatives have been in such anxiety. this young +prince. +prince. +prince.” +prince. and god only knows where your man peter is,” said the other +prince andrew. +prince andrew always became specially keen when he had to guide a young +prince andrew and his sister, hand in hand, kissed one another, and +prince andrew began to reply and to state his own plan, which might +prince andrew, beginning to understand that his news of the battle +prince andrew bowed his head in token of having understood from the +prince andrew caught him by the hand. +prince andrew considered possible contingencies and formed new projects +prince andrew could not understand. +prince andrew did not see how and by whom it was replaced, but the +prince andrew during the battle had been in attendance on the austrian +prince andrew, evidently confused. “i know that out of a million +prince andrew expressed his ideas so clearly and distinctly that it was +prince andrew felt that either the actions of kutúzov’s army +prince andrew followed her with a courteous but sad expression. +prince andrew frowned again, expressing his annoyance with whoever was +prince andrew galloped off to execute the order. +prince andrew gave him a look, but said nothing and went away. he felt +prince andrew gazed with anxious curiosity at that impassive face +prince andrew glanced again at the artillery officer’s small figure. +prince andrew glanced at kutúzov’s face only a foot distant from him +prince andrew got up and went on tiptoe up to the little bed, wineglass +prince andrew grew more and more animated. his eyes glittered feverishly +prince andrew had gone out into the hall, and, turning his shoulders +prince andrew, having reached the front line, rode along it. our front +prince andrew, his face distorted with fury, rode up to him and raised +prince andrew. “i build a house and lay out a garden, and you build +prince andrew kept looking with an amused smile from pierre to the +prince andrew knew how to take his stand so that they respected and even +prince andrew looked anna pávlovna straight in the face with a +prince andrew looked at his sister. in the dim shadow of the curtain her +prince andrew looked inquiringly at him and gave no reply. +prince andrew looked kindly at him, yet his glance—friendly and +prince andrew looked sternly at her and an expression of anger suddenly +prince andrew made use of boguchárovo, began building and spent most of +prince andrew moved toward the door from whence voices were heard. +prince andrew nodded to him. he still looked ahead while prince andrew +prince andrew only shrugged his shoulders at pierre’s childish words. +prince andrew, recalling his father’s letter. “yes, we have gained +prince andrew remained at bald hills as usual during his father’s +prince andrew remembered nothing more: he lost consciousness from the +prince andrew replied. then followed other questions just as simple: +prince andrew riding up to the officer. +prince andrew rose, shrugged his shoulders, and walked about the room. +prince andrew said nothing to túshin. they were both so busy as to seem +prince andrew saw that the officer was in that state of senseless, +prince andrew’s calm manner of treating everybody, his extraordinary +prince andrew screwed up his eyes and turned away. pierre, who from +prince andrew, seeing that his father insisted, began—at first +prince andrew shouted, “brothers! all’s lost!” and at this as if +prince andrew shrugged his shoulders. +prince andrew sighed and broke the seal of another envelope. it was +prince andrew sighed and made no reply. +prince andrew’s joyous feeling was considerably weakened as he +prince andrew smiled. +prince andrew smiled as he looked at his sister, as we smile at those we +prince andrew smiled involuntarily as he looked at the artillery officer +prince andrew smiled ironically. +prince andrew spoke so earnestly that pierre could not help thinking +prince andrew stayed at brünn with bilíbin, a russian acquaintance of +prince andrew stood right in front of kutúzov but the expression of +prince andrew stopped short. +prince andrew. they had known each other previously in petersburg, but +prince andrew told his driver to stop, and asked a soldier in what +prince andrew understood that this was said of him and that it was +prince andrew was as glad to find the boy like that, as if he had +prince andrew was on duty that day and in constant attendance on the +prince andrew was one of those rare staff officers whose chief interest +prince andrew was silent, but the princess noticed the ironical and +prince andrew was surveying the position, was the easiest and most +prince andrew was to leave next evening. the old prince, not altering +prince andrew went again to his wife and sat waiting in the room next +prince andrew went out. +prince andrew went up to the child and felt him. he was burning hot. +prince andrew when he drove up to the palace felt even more vigorous and +prince andrew, who had also been brought forward before the emperor’s +prince andrew, who had evidently wished to tone down the awkwardness of +prince andrew with one word, one argument, +prince andrew without lifting his eyes rode hastily away from the +“prince auersperg is on this, on our side of the river, and is +prince bagratión and túshin looked with equal intentness at +prince bagratión, distinguished by his schön grabern affair and by +prince bagratión, having reached the highest point of our right flank, +prince bagratión looked at túshin, evidently reluctant to show +prince bagratión proposed to dolgorúkov to send to inquire of the +prince bagratión rode an officer of the suite, the prince’s personal +prince bagratión screwed up his eyes, looked round, and, seeing the +prince bagratión to begin the council. at last bagratión’s orderly +prince bolkónski sat down in his usual place in the corner of the sofa +prince bolkónski’s household felt that their life had not been real +prince bolkónski surveyed anatole. +prince, but could not get it quite right.) +prince dolgorúkov ceased to listen to him and gazed absent-mindedly not +prince dolgorúkov to the advanced post of the french army. +prince hippolyte approached the little princess and, bending his face +prince hippolyte, having brought the workbag, joined the circle and +prince hippolyte hurriedly put on his cloak, which in the latest fashion +“prince hippolyte kurágin—charming young fellow; m. +prince hippolyte was lolling in a lounge chair with his legs over its +prince hippolyte, who had been gazing at the vicomte for some time +prince? how priceless are those last moments! it can make things no +“prince, humanum est errare, * but...” replied the doctor, +“prince, i did not ask you here. go, please go!” and he jumped up +prince interrupted her. +prince kurágin about me. i only wanted to ask because i fear the guards +prince never directly asked himself that question, knowing beforehand +prince nicholas frowned, but said nothing. +prince, one window frame was removed in each room as soon as the larks +prince repnín!” and he spurred his horse and galloped away. +prince repnín named lieutenant sukhtélen. +prince, she prepared to listen. +prince’s household. general in chief prince nicholas andréevich +prince’s question as to how she felt. +princess and prince vasíli, recovering themselves, followed her. a few +princess, and stared fixedly at her through his eyeglass. +princess anna mikháylovna intervened in the conversation, evidently +princess anxious and inquiring, the nurse encouraging. everyone in the +princess’ beautiful eyes with all their former calm radiance were +“princess, come here!” he shouted. +“princess drubetskáya to see prince vasíli sergéevich,” he called +“princesse, au revoir,” cried he, stumbling with his tongue as well +princesses, sat in a corner knitting a stocking. pierre had never been +princesses spent most of their time, he greeted the ladies, two of whom +princesses was coming to take her turn at watching. “let us go.” +princess’ face. she took it quickly and bent her head over it. +princess felt this; they still thought that if a blue ribbon were placed +princess had been crying after dinner and had spoken of her forebodings +princess’ hair. it was evident that he could be silent in this way for +princess’ hand. +princess hélène, prince vasíli’s daughter, and the little princess +princess, his cousin, at moscow, concerning dólokhov’s intimacy with +princess. i am at your command.’ yes, he is a fine fellow and a very +princess, i hold to the principle that a maiden has a full right to +“princess, i must warn you,” she added, lowering her voice and +princess. (in accordance with lise’s and prince andrew’s wishes they +princess kurágina, a portly imposing woman who had once been handsome, +princess, looking at anna mikháylovna as at a stranger. +princess mary. +princess mary admitted to one another that the angel’s face reminded +princess mary but were looking within... into herself... at something +princess mary could not lift her head, she was weeping. +princess mary could not understand the boldness of her brother’s +princess mary did not listen to the end, but continuing her train of +princess mary, evidently intimidated and confused that her opinion +princess mary grew quite unconscious of her face and coiffure. the +princess mary had greatly changed since 1805. +princess mary had long since put aside her book: she sat silent, her +princess mary knelt down before her and hid her face in the folds of her +princess mary, little as he seemed to value her, was unthinkable to +princess mary looked at her brother in surprise. she did not understand +princess mary looked at them in silence. she could not understand it. at +princess mary rose and moved to the door, then stopped and said: +princess mary sat alone in her room listening to the sounds in the +princess mary shrugged her shoulders but took the glass submissively +princess mary shuddered; her nurse, putting down the stocking she was +princess mary sighed, and having crossed herself went down, thinking +princess mary’s self-esteem would be wounded and his point (not to +princess mary, then sat thinking for a while with that expression of +princess mary threw a shawl over her head and ran to meet the newcomer. +princess mary was first surprised and then aghast at this question. +princess mary was left alone. she did not comply with lise’s request, +princess mary was sitting on the sofa in her room, holding the weeping +princess mary was still standing by the cot, gently rocking the baby. +princess mary went back to her room with the sad, scared expression that +princess mary went to the door of the study with special trepidation. +princess mary with a gay smile, as if inviting her to join in a laugh at +“princess, my dear, there’s someone driving up the avenue!” she +princess never saw the beautiful expression of her own eyes—the look +princess on hearing the news. +princess’ room, a carriage containing pierre (who had been sent for) +princess rose. “it’s now two o’clock and you dine at four. there +princess suddenly, her pretty face all at once distorted by a tearful +princess, turning away and continuing to read. but julie did not flatter +princess was not unwell, but had such an overpowering fear of the prince +princess went in with the drink she had prepared according to +princess with a pleased smile, as to an intimate acquaintance. +princess with the expression women assume when they suppose they are +princess, with the long waist and hair plastered down like a doll’s, +prince, stepping on his heels, paced up and down his study and sent +prince’s things in my bedroom,” said he to the servant who was +prince to get up, tíkhon came to call the young prince to his father. +prince told me to ask,’ and come and tell me her answer.” +prince vasíli. +prince vasíli always spoke languidly, like an actor repeating a stale +prince vasíli and anatole had separate rooms assigned to them. +prince vasíli and that son of his to me? prince vasíli is a shallow +prince vasíli and the eldest princess were sitting close together +prince vasíli and the generals, had the benefit of the diplomat. +“prince vasíli arrived in moscow yesterday. i hear he has come on +prince vasíli arrived that evening. he was met in the avenue by +prince vasíli, as he entered. “i know all about it, and i can tell +prince vasíli a third time. “how absent-minded you are, my dear +prince vasíli became thoughtful and frowned. anna mikháylovna saw that +prince vasíli bent his head and spread out his hands. +prince vasíli came next. he staggered to the sofa on which pierre was +prince vasíli did everything to get pierre to marry his daughter. had +prince vasíli did not reply, though, with the quickness of memory and +prince vasíli frowned, twisting his mouth, his cheeks quivered and his +prince vasíli gave pierre a significant look. +prince vasíli had come to the conclusion that it was necessary to throw +prince vasíli had to settle matters with pierre, who, it is true, had +prince vasíli kept the promise he had given to princess drubetskáya +prince vasíli looked questioningly at the princess, but could not make +prince vasíli passed by, seeming not to hear the ladies, and sat down +prince vasíli readily adopted her tone and the little princess also +prince vasíli rose. +prince vasíli rose. “oh!” said he with reproach and surprise, +prince vasíli said no more and his cheeks began to twitch nervously, +prince vasíli’s arm and led him to his study. as soon as they were +prince vasíli saw that pierre knew this. he suddenly muttered +prince vasíli saw the princess off. she held a handkerchief to her eyes +prince vasíli’s daughter, the beautiful hélène, came to take her +prince vasíli’s face so out of keeping with his dignity that pierre +prince vasíli’s last words. then rising, he suddenly went up to his +prince vasíli smiled. +prince vasíli smiled, and pierre noticed that everyone was smiling at +“prince vasíli’s son, he, and a certain dólokhov have, it is said, +prince vasíli stared at her and at borís questioningly and perplexed. +prince vasíli was not a man who deliberately thought out his plans. +prince vasíli was seated in an easy chair in his familiar attitude, +prince vasíli, who pretended to want to know this in order to settle a +prince vasíli wished to obtain this post for his son, but others were +prince vasíli, with one leg thrown high over the other and a snuffbox +prince was at home, and showed him into a clean little anteroom. +“prince, what i have said is all there is in my heart. i thank you for +principal guests. he was just going to take it when dólokhov, leaning +principals nor their seconds suffered for it. but the story of the duel, +prisoners.” +private and had not seen fit to recognize him. but now that kutúzov had +privilege of admiring her beautiful figure and shapely shoulders, +prizes his freedom which he needs for so many other things. when he +probably he did not, for in general he thought very little—but his +“probably,” said prince andrew moving toward the outer door. +probably think it easy to gain victories!” he thought. his eyes +probably to strengthen the front line. the smoke of the first shot had +problems in higher mathematics, turning snuffboxes on a lathe, working +proceeded to his study. +proceeding as usual. denísov, who had been losing at cards all night, +produce at the same intervals and hold for the same time, but which +produced an effect she glanced at anna pávlovna, at once adopted just +produced on sónya, felt for the first time the sorrowful side of the +profited by their toil to lead a profligate life. that is what you have +progress. would you believe it, i have literally not a penny and don’t +projects for peace, a secret peace concluded separately.” +promener,” * she used to say. often seeing the success she had with +prominent gray eyes. then she shook her head and glanced up at the icons +promised? nothing! and what little they have promised they will not +promised not to forget him, distinguished him above the other adjutants, +promise of rising in his diplomatic career. he was still a young man but +promise to prince andrew was of no account, because before he gave it +promotion. +promotion...” +promotion, nicholas said that he kissed his father’s and mother’s +promotion to the rank of major, and rostóv, who had already drunk +pronounced the mason in a stern and tremulous voice. +proofs of nikólenka’s virtues. how strange, how extraordinary, how +proper, and regular motion. but amid these cares her anxiety about +properly. hélène answered with a smile that she too had missed it. +proper posts. borís had been quartered, and had marched all the +propose is the only thing possible.” +proposition to you in his pupil’s—i mean, his son’s—name. do you +prospect of spending an evening with a poor invalid is not too terrible, +prostrated himself before the gates of the temple. and really, the +protégé, but prince dolgorúkov politely and firmly pressing his hand +proudly at his son. +proverb says,” remarked shinshín, moving his pipe to the other side +prussia, and had just returned from there as a special messenger. he had +prussian army, hélène had suddenly found it necessary to see him. +prussians without giving them time to finish the parade they had begun, +przebyszéwski and his corps had laid down their arms. other columns +przebyszéwski’s and langeron’s columns which had already gone down +przebyszéwski, with respectful but dignified politeness, held his +p.s. let me have news of your brother and his charming little wife. +public to appreciate his skill. +puckering up his face though smiling, and showing his short strong +pulling him by the chain and trying to set him at the others. +pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at +pultúsk to petersburg returns bringing our appointment as commander in +punishments were to be admonitory and not corporal, and hospitals, +purified, thou wilt gain wisdom. look at your life, my dear sir. +purity, and not the serfs’ backs and foreheads, which, beat and shave +purple-faced general wait respectfully while captain prince andrew, for +purple face, reporting something. +purposely dropped a handkerchief in front of him and stood looking +purse. +purse and, drawing its rings aside with his small, white, turned-up +purse that sank into the sofa. “as for us, count, we get along on our +purse undah the pillow,” he said, and went out to the quartermaster. +pursued by the french army of a hundred thousand men under the command +pushed back in the sitting room where the count and márya dmítrievna +pushed the guns and wagons themselves. whips cracked, hoofs slipped, +pushing back his chair, he rose from the table. +put a little aside and to send something to my father,” he went on, +put it in a carriage, and set off with it to visit some actresses! the +put it off. perhaps god will help me to find a way to prepare him!... +put questions and gave brief replies about things they knew ought to +putting them down. when they’ve been put down, the war with buonaparte +putting the nightshirt over his dried-up old body and gray-haired chest. +puzzled the devil himself! when you get there you’ll find out what +qualifications for it—the kind of good-natured, fussy shallowness +qualities. he was always hearing such words as: “with your remarkable +quarreled with hélène, mon cher? you are under a delusion,” said +quarreled with her brother about him. she insisted that he was a bad +quartermaster for the money.” +quartermaster’s presence. +quarter of an hour between two fires.” +quarters and riding up to captain timókhin who was walking in front. +quarters near braunau, where they hoped to receive boots and clothes and +quarters torches and candles were burning and no one slept. the old +queer,” he added after a pause, “that you should have suspected +“qu’ est-ce qu’il chante?” * asked a frenchman. +questioned prince andrew about the details of his interview with the +question for her to refuse him. and therefore nicholas’ first feeling +question for whose sake he came (though no one spoke of it) was soon +question he noticed that it should not have been put. +question him. the man announced that the tsar had been driven in a +questioning him about political affairs and news. he seemed to listen +question—one so important that he took no notice of what went +questions of health, sometimes in russian and sometimes in very bad but +questions put to him. he was bespattered with mud and had a pitiful, +questions that might be put to him and the answers he would give. he +quick. +quickly as possible. +quickly. prince bagratión, uttering his words with an oriental accent, +quickly roused himself with a feeling of joy, as if learning afresh that +quickly turned away, a scarcely perceptible smile flitting over his +quick or the enemy will bring up his guns to use grapeshot.” +quick-witted, nor ready or eloquent in conversation, but he had the +quiet and peace. thank god!...” +quiet authority, “you wish to insult me, and i am ready to agree with +quietly and humorously how he had known that doll mimi when she was +quietly and said in a whisper: “please walk in.” +quilt. the eyes and face of the sick man showed impatience. he made an +quite astonishing. how did you get things settled? i couldn’t possibly +“quite avare, your excellency,” suddenly shouted the colonel, +quite certain. ah! it is very dreadful...” +quite close at hand, and a voice of naïve terror barely two steps from +quite heard. +quite mistaken if you reckon me or my mother among such people. we are +quite opposite reputations. some, a minority, acknowledged him to be +quite remember how, but don’t you remember that it could all be +“quite right,” said the englishman. +quite sincerely tried to make her look pretty. she was so plain that +quite true; he had been indebted to her father for the first steps in +“quite well? all right then, sit down.” he took the exercise book +quits... it can’t be!... and why is he doing this to me?” rostóv +quivering in his breast and a tickling in his nose, and tears dimmed his +quoting one of his own mots, releasing the wrinkles on his forehead, and +radiantly on her beautiful face. pierre gazed at her with rapturous, +rage, “who are you? are you in command here? eh? i am commander here, +railings. he looked back laughing to the cossack who stood a few +raised. he remained stubbornly silent, gazing at weyrother’s face, +raise him. but as soon as he thought of what he should say, he felt that +raising him. +raising his eyebrows. +raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspiring head, smiling +ran ahead on tiptoe and knocked at a door. +ran forward on each such occasion, fearing to miss a single word of the +ran forward shading his eyes with his small hand to look at the french. +range and wipe them out?” these were the questions each man of the +rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. anna +rank (for he did nothing), that prince vasíli had procured for him, +rank—“i thank you for myself and for our two dear ones whose name +ranks. +ranks; anatole was in the army somewhere in the provinces; prince andrew +ranks in this regiment.” +ranks were returning from the attack. rostóv got out of their way, +ran rapidly over the wide space, but he only saw that the hitherto +ran up, begging a little fire for the infantry. +rapidity. he again vividly recalled the details of the battle, no longer +rapidly. +rapidly adding up the total of rostóv’s debt, breaking the chalk as +rapidly and indistinctly. “you thought!... rascals! blackguards!... +rapid retreat. austrian troops that had escaped capture at ulm and had +rapid, self-confident, familiar tone. “here is my second son; please +rarely done of late. it was a grand farewell dinner, as he and denísov +rarely left her and which made her plain, sickly face yet plainer. she +rascality....” +rasgulyáy—the coachman ipátka knows—and look up the gypsy +rate he glanced at the refractory arm, at pierre’s terror-stricken +rather confine ourselves to studying those sublime rules which our +rather of death, as the saying is. ‘albanians!’ and ‘devils!’ +rather round shoulders and glanced at novosíltsev who was near him, as +rather short, as if surprised that anyone should not know him. +rather than of what the generals were disputing about. +ratify it; but it is only a trick. march on, destroy the russian +rattle on the bridge as if nuts were being spilt, and the hussar nearest +rays of gentle light shone from her large, timid eyes. those eyes lit +reached bagratión, the weighty tread of the mass of men marching in +reached the bushes. behind these were some russian sharpshooters. +reached to his very heels, and, stumbling in it, ran out into the porch +reached. wheels creak on their axles as the cogs engage one another and +reaching the large house near the horse guards’ barracks, in which +read a congratulation on his future son-in-law and on his daughter’s +readily and rapidly like a man who has not talked for a long time. his +readiness to fall in love and an expectation of happiness. +reading confirmation in anna mikháylovna’s face. +reading the letter. he went on tiptoe to the nursery door and opened it. +reading them aloud. bagratión bowed his head and listened: +reading. then milorádovich looked round significantly at the other +“read this if you like, father,” said the princess, blushing still +read this in tíkhon’s face and in that of prince vasíli’s valet, +ready, the stranger opened his eyes, moved to the table, filled a +ready to embrace the countess at the appropriate moment. +reality again presented itself. he got up without saying a word and went +realize because the fear was so much the stronger feeling. the prince +realized as he read that book: the joy, hitherto unknown to him, +realized that something dreadful had happened to his regiment, and the +really all the same to me when my son’s fate is at stake.” the +really...” but he did not say what “it really” was. “for the +really good society” consisted of the fascinating hélène, forsaken +“really i don’t care about that, i don’t care at all,” said +“really, i don’t yet know. i don’t like either the one or the +“really, papa, i believe prince bagratión worried himself less before +“really, truly!” answered natásha, pushing in a crisp lock that had +real state of french public opinion.” +reappeared. +rearguard all the freshness of atmosphere of the french army, which was +reason for rejoicing, they looked at each other with joyful delight and +reasoning contained in the mason’s words, or believed as a child +reason of her friend’s sorrow, “i’m sure véra has said something +reason, or shot a post-boy’s horse with a pistol. that expression +reason, ran back and disappeared from the outskirts, and russian +reasons for buonaparte’s hatred of him. +reawakening. he was afraid of any want of clearness, any weakness, in +rebuking her for her fall. +recalcitrant cavalry colonel, his own dignity as a general, and above +recalled all this as childishness he had left immeasurably behind. +recalled thousands of such hints from prince vasíli and others, and was +recalling bilíbin’s words. +receipt, he left at the end of november, without taking leave of any of +received. +received all petersburg, proud of her unapproachability and beauty. so +received and read the then famous rescript of the emperor alexander +received as a savior.” +received. a thanksgiving service was arranged, kutúzov was awarded +received by the emperor. had you heard?” +received him with distinction and special marks of favor, explaining to +received pierre with a shade of melancholy, evidently relating to the +received was shown him. a strange lady, the one who had been talking to +receive that science it is necessary to purify and renew one’s inner +receiving from all sides declarations of the people’s loyalty, that +receiving it. this gratitude reminded him of how much more he might do +reception. +reception hall: michael ivánovich, mademoiselle bourienne, princess +reception room if he wished to see him. borís thanked him and went to +reciprocated this antipathy, but it was overpowered by his contempt +reckoning.” +recognized as legitimate; so that he is now count bezúkhov and +recognized him and stopped to listen to what he was saying. dólokhov +recognized his lamented and adored monarch. +recognized the tsar and watched his approach. when he was within twenty +recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it. that is the one +recollection of how he was put in the sleigh or of the first three +recollections.” prince vasíli sighed. “yes, yes, my boy. and my +recommended to the empress) and at the same time to console him, so she +recounting his military exploits (prince andrew could not endure +recover.” +recovered, and rostóv became very friendly with him during his +recross to the other. at last our enemy, buxhöwden, catches us and +recruiting. none of them had yet seen the manifesto, but they all knew +recruitment so as to avoid active service. the old prince and his son +recruits were being enrolled in the villages, and from the seat of +red hands; he did not know, as the saying is, how to enter a drawing +red patches appeared on princess mary’s face and she was silent as if +red. several battalions of soldiers, in their shirt sleeves despite +reduced to tears. +referred to in that drawing room as “a man of great merit” (un homme +“refill my pipe for that one!” and then, scattering sparks from it, +refined french in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and +reflected on theirs. +reflections. better die a thousand times than risk receiving an unkind +reform by marrying him to prince andrew’s sister. +refusal with his head and hand and by that gesture rostóv instantly +refuse iogel and asked sónya to dance. denísov sat down by the old +refusing to let her see them off. the diplomatist preserved a mournful +regarded all these little adjutants on the staff of whom the newcomer +regard him—but you want to cure him from love of him. and he does not +regarding all arguments as nonsense in comparison with that smile. +regarding him with a smile of approbation. +regard to this project of marriage for me, i will tell you, dear sweet +regenerate, purify, and elevate me. but you don’t understand it.” +regeneration, and return to life. +regimental commander and major ekonómov had stopped beside a bridge, +regimental commander cooling down a little. “leave indeed.... one says +regimental commander hung his head, silently shrugged his shoulders, and +regimental commander, overtaking the third company on its way to its +regimental commander was nicknamed king of hearts). +regiment, and bogdánich knows it. oh, we do prize it, old fellow! and +regiment but was not liked; rostóv especially detested him and was +regiment had been broken up. all he knew was that at the commencement +regiment had just the appearance of any russian regiment preparing for +regiment—instead of the straggling, disorderly crowd it had been on +regiment next to no time, my lad, you’re here today and tomorrow +regiment, saying he was not such a fool as to slave at the front when he +regiments, both cavalry and infantry, were by no means ready for the +regiments form bands and scour the countryside and put everything +regiment. the faces of these young people, especially those who were +regiment, they listen intently, look about, and eagerly ask concerning +regiment was much surprised at the commander in chief’s order to throw +regret. drawing rooms, gossip, balls, vanity, and triviality—these are +regret her words. but she went on hurriedly: +regrettable delusion.” +regularity in his household was carried to the highest point of +regular motion as a result of all that activity. +regular order. +reinforce the right flank. the officer of the suite ventured to remark +reins and started of his own accord. +rejects all knowledge that does not come from him; and the less we seek +relating to nikólenka, did not venture to ask any questions at dinner, +relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the +relays. +religion?” +reluctantly, but gradually with more and more animation, and from habit +relying on reason only? what art thou? you are young, you are rich, you +remained alone with him for a long time. +remained in reserve and nicholas rostóv spent that day in a dull and +remained on the farther side of the bridge facing the enemy, who could +remaining in moscow, and only awaited the termination of denísov’s +remaining strength. he raised his pistol and aimed. +remains of sheds, chairs, tables, wheels, tubs, and everything that they +remains of supper. a footman, thinking no one saw him, was drinking on +remain stationary in face of an enemy eight times as strong as itself. +remarked. “well, sit down: let’s have a talk.” +remarks at him, though without looking at him. +remarks. the old count rose once more, glanced at a note lying beside +remarks which seemed to him clever while they formed in his mind became +remark to him, pointing to the gallant Ápsherons. +remembered it three months before, when the count had sent him to +remember everything?” said natásha, with an expressive gesture, +“remember, for you everything depends on this.” +remember how we and nicholas, all three of us, talked in the sitting +remember nikólenka too, i remember him well,” she said. “but i +“remember that you will answer for the consequences,” said prince +remorse, humiliations, sufferings, outbursts of pride, fear, and +rendered, and i supplied them with a doctor, a hospital, and an asylum +renounced your former convictions—do you believe in god?” +repeated by others from various sides and all became silent. +repeated from the opening words of the manifesto: +repeated. “i should be glad enough to fall asleep, so it’s not my +repeat his question. +repeating in a low voice the same words several times over. +repeating the terms of the bet, addressing himself particularly to +repeating the terms of the wager to him in english. +repeating to himself at each alternate step, “left... left... +repellent. yet in this very repugnance to all his circumstances pierre +repented and added: “i am glad; really, dear, i am very glad.” +replace some chessmen that were falling. he was about to embrace his +replied. +replied, “and it is that he would be merciful to him and would allow +replied, and the four simply looked at one another. she lingered in the +replied borís, betraying neither annoyance at the prince’s brusque +replied prince vasíli. +replied that it would be more than enough for him and that he gave his +replied: “yes, yes, i agree,” and with a beaming, childlike smile, +reply. +reply. +reply to his look, and went still faster along the passage. +reply—which he would not have received, for the princess was unable to +report, and began deliberately to examine the whole battlefield extended +reported to him, and then joined the adjutants listening to what the +reports from our scouts. here are two letters from count nostitz and +reports one after another, and a third. +reports that prince auersperg was defending vienna?” he said. +report was heard, bagratión looked round and shouted, “hurrah!” +reprehensible, looked round with a blush. it seemed to him that everyone +representative but one of the great century, and that it is his own +represented all that was left of that whole regiment. impelled by the +represented as a brilliant victory over the french, and so the +reprimanding and reproaching him. túshin gave no orders, and, +reproached and disputed with each other. +reproached her for yielding to a man without being married. mademoiselle +reproached him for not having stayed at the palace, and offered him +reproachfully at the count who had presented it to him. someone +repulsed, he had lost more than half his men. he said the attack +request. +request that he would take no part in the matter, rostóv agreed to be +required papers. kutúzov and the austrian member of the hofkriegsrath +rescue. pierre had managed to start a conversation with the abbé about +resembling his master in manners and looks, who was accompanying him +reserve gun carriage, the wounded were carried away, and the four guns +reserve tomorrow,” he thought. “i’ll ask leave to go to the front, +reserve units were able to join up, and the fight was at an end. the +resolute in the discharge of duty, ran out and touching pierre lightly +resolutely took the salver with both hands and looked sternly and +resolute self-will, “he is wicked and heartless. there now, i like +resolution. can it be that i have none?” +resolved not to be the first to break silence, if she had to wait till +resolved to go away next day and leave a letter informing her of his +resounded on the planks of the bridge, and the squadron, officers in +resounded. the column moved forward without knowing where and unable, +resounding voice, apparently to preclude the possibility of not being +respect and honor you, but all the same remember that the future belongs +respected and feared her. +respectfully. +respectfully bowed head, seemed also to be waiting. the silence lasted +respectfully when the military governor, having stayed about half an +respect, he had decided that it would be a good thing to set fire to the +responsibility. but circumstances are sometimes too strong for us, +responsibility of that deed.” +rest, and then...” +rested on prince andrew’s face. +resting, and to halt facing vienna with znaim to his rear, and if he +restrained animation as he stood sipping tea from a delicate chinese +restraining her angry tears. +restraining his tears of pity for the emperor, he rode on in utter +rest, went in to dinner. he was seated in the place of honor between +result from it—no longer seemed to be in the future but in the past. +resumed her duties as hostess and continued to listen and watch, ready +resumed its former cold, artificial expression. she returned to the +“retire! all to retire!” he shouted from a distance. +retreat after a battle have lost it is what we say; and according to +retreated as a disorderly crowd. one soldier, in his fear, uttered the +retreating against their will. a few minutes after the emperor had +retreating forces. +retreating to our frontier—which do today.’ +retreat to the dip by echelons.” so he reasoned.... all the time + return.” +returned), and, forcing open a loosely closed latch, set the damask +returned, and over the bottle of wine conversation between the three +returned from a long journey on which he had spent dozens of years, had +returned from the council, tired and exhausted but eager and proud +returned from them dragging sheep, fowls, hay, and bulging sacks. at +returned home just before dinner. as soon as he entered he noticed and +returned to moscow and went straight to her rich relations, the +returned to petersburg quite crestfallen. +returning from his journey through south russia in the happiest state +returning his smile. +returning to his hobby; “tell me how the germans have taught you to +returning to the town. the commander in chief made a sign that the +return the holy image. +return to her the whole evening. +reverence and was beyond question. +revoir! ”—and she left the hall. +revolution, which has become more terrible than ever in the person of +rhetor, after a moment’s pause. +rhetor said, “to bring yourself to regard it not as a dreaded foe, but +rhetor’s instructions. the mason drew the shirt back from pierre’s +rhetor, though it aroused his curiosity, did not seem to him essential, +rhetor went away, leaving him to solitary meditation. “it must be so, +ribbons. +rich?” +richest of the officers now that he had received his money, bought it. +rich old man. but before leaving home and undertaking these new affairs, +rich youths, officers and cadets, who had galloped past him on their +ride and especially by the sound of the bullets. +rider’s leg. blood was flowing from his head; he struggled but could +rid himself of them he closed his eyes. +riding a fine bobtailed horse, and a civilian—an accountant who had +riding alone with three hussars into that mysterious and dangerous misty +riding, and sometimes, when he came within six paces of them, the +riding away, say to czartorýski: “what a terrible thing war is: what +riding over it trained a gun on him and fired several shots. the +rid them of the bourbons and because they saw that he was a great +right. +right across the skull. having said this he glanced at natásha. +right!” and his head once more sank to his horse’s neck. all at once +right and what’s good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by +right flank and drive it into the bohemian mountains according to plan, +right hand, which was lying palm downwards, a wax taper had been thrust +right—he did not know. “but was it really not possible for kutúzov +right, it is advantageous to attack the enemy’s latter wing especially +right light.... in my opinion perpetual peace is possible but—i do not +rightly supposes that matters have already gone too far. i think it will +right. selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that’s what +right—serve him. nicholas bolkónski’s son need not serve under +right, shouting and firing were again heard. flashes of shot gleamed in +rights of man, is sentenced to...” but before pierre—who at that +right sounded oftener and nearer. as soon as túshin with his guns, +right to fire when they liked as they approached the barrier. dólokhov +right! twenty-one rubles,” he said, pointing to the figure twenty-one +ring, and zherkóv, uneasily glancing at them all, and prince andrew, +ring, cried from the window: “come here; part the bets!” this was +ringing, deliberate voice. “i ask an opportunity to atone for my fault +risen and was going toward his room. +rising in his soul. dólokhov, denísov, and rostóv were now sitting +rite which everyone expected of him, and that he was therefore bound +river flowed was formed by the rising ground only half a mile away. +river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at +rivulet flowed, the soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was +road. bagratión’s exhausted and hungry detachment, which alone +road which gleamed white in the mist would have been safer because it +rode, not hoping to find anyone but merely to ease his conscience. when +rode past the limbers to the farthest cannon. +rode side by side in front, at full gallop. one in a black uniform with +rode with our regiment all the time, so that we had every comfort and +rolled softly over the straw beneath the windows, anna mikháylovna, +rolling them up. márya dmítrievna always spoke in russian. +roof lit up by the sun? no one knows, but one wants to know. you fear +rook—a handsome horse despite its game leg—had the happy air of a +room. +room, addressed pierre. +room after supper? why, we settled how everything was to be. i don’t +room. all were silent. +room, almost all the company had assembled, and the conversation, guided +room, and looked round with a smile. she was, as always at evening +room and still less how to leave one; that is, how to say something +room and we shall have to go down, and you have not smartened yourself +room by which dolgorúkov had entered—a short man in civilian clothes +room. denísov silently watched lavrúshka’s movements, and when the +room, exclaiming and oh-ing and ah-ing. +room, grew silent and gazed with eyes full of curiosity or expectancy at +room,” he said. +room.... nicholas had been prepared for resistance, but had not at all +room. no one spoke and the only sounds heard were the clatter of knives +room, something flew out from a side door like a tornado and began +room. the countess reflected a moment and took a pinch from a gold +room. the old countess, waiting for the return of her husband and son, +room. the old man already knew everything. he was standing close to +room. the prince stood still; his lively glittering eyes from under +room, they still heard the laughter and merry voices trying to persuade +room to write to his father, to whom he wrote every day. in the corridor +room, where you will be ranged side by side with a court lackey and an +room with a look of alarm. between twelve and two o’clock, as the +room without a word. but at the door he stopped and then retraced his +room with rapid steps. now he seemed to see her in the early days of +room with the inkstand in her hand. +rose and with her heavy tread went up to the table. she took a sheet of +rose, by a glance inviting pierre, who sat opposite, to listen to what +rose from an ensign and became emperor. well, well, god grant it,” he +rose in alarm on seeing it. +“rostóv!” +rostóv. +rostóv. +rostóv. +rostóv, absorbed by his relations with bogdánich, had paused on the +rostóv and denísov drove away with the wounded dólokhov. +rostóv, and dólokhov—who was now again an officer in the semënov +rostóv and had not responded to his greeting. when the emperor’s +rostóv and most of the officers after the review. +rostóv, and sighing deeply he took rook, his horse, which stood resting +rostóv anticipated his horse’s movements and became more and more +rostóv as he continued to deal. +rostóv became thoughtful. +rostóv considered, and then went in the direction where they said he +rostóv could already see their faces and heard the command: +rostóv did not know or remember how he ran to his place and mounted. +rostóv did not listen to the soldier. he looked at the snowflakes +rostóv did not speak. +rostóv did not think what this call for stretchers meant; he ran on, +rostóv fancied he had seen before) rode up to the ditch, struck his +rostóv felt denísov’s gaze fixed on him, raised his eyes, and +(rostóv felt himself quite tiny and weak compared to these gigantic men +rostóv felt ill at ease. he tried, but failed, to find some joke with +rostóv felt that, under the influence of the warm rays of love, that +rostóv, flushing, drew dólokhov into the next room. +rostóv followed them. in front of him walked kutúzov’s groom leading +rostóv for his friendship to her fédya, often talked to him about her +rostóv from a distance saw with envy and remorse how von toll spoke +rostóv, growing red and pale alternately, looked first at one officer +rostóv had been ordered to look for kutúzov and the emperor near the +rostóv had just prepared a card, by bending the corner of which he +rostóv heard. +rostóv himself, his legs well back and his stomach drawn in and feeling +rostóv, his eyes avoiding denísov, began buttoning his coat, buckled +rostóv hurriedly put something on his feet, drew on his dressing gown, +rostóv laughed so loud and merrily that denísov, in his bedroom, felt +rostóv learned later that russian and austrian soldiers had been firing +rostóv let go of the horse and was about to ride on, when a wounded +rostóv looked at and listened listlessly to what passed before and +rostóv met sónya in the drawing room, he reddened. he did not know +rostóv noticed something new in dólokhov’s relations with sónya, +rostóv recalled at that moment a strange conversation he had once had +rostóv rode on at a footpace not knowing why or to whom he was now +rostóv, rubbing his eyes that seemed glued together, raised his +rostóv’s and back, and back again and again in an instant. +rostóv saw nothing but the hussars running all around him, their spurs +rostóv saw overhead the old familiar cornice with a bit of plaster +rostóv saw tears filling the emperor’s eyes and heard him, as he was +rostóv saw that it had been well considered by them. sónya had already +rostóv’s face. a gentle, mild light poured from them. then all at +rostóv’s feeling, there was a deathly stillness amid which was heard +rostóv’s horse was also getting restive: it pawed the frozen ground, +rostóv shrugged his shoulders as much as to say: “nor do i, but +rostóv smiled. +rostóv smilingly reassured the dragoon and gave him money. +rostóv spurred his horse, called to sergeant fédchenko and two other +rostóv’s share in dólokhov’s duel with bezúkhov was hushed up by +rostóv’s soul (it seemed to rostóv that he understood everything), +rostóv staked five rubles on a card and lost, staked again, and again +rostóv, standing in the front lines of kutúzov’s army which the tsar +rostóv, still looking round toward the fires and the shouts, rode with +rostóv stopped. +rostóv stopped his horse for a moment on a hillock to see what was +rostóv submitted. he let the eight hundred remain and laid down a seven +rostóvs, with whom she stayed when in the town and where her darling +rostóv thrust the purse under the pillow and shook the damp little hand +rostóv too, bending over his saddle, shouted “hurrah!” with all his +rostóv took the letter and, throwing the money on the sofa, put both +rostóv took the money and, mechanically arranging the old and new coins +rostóv took the money, avoiding telyánin’s eyes, and went out of the +rostóv took the purse in his hand, examined it and the money in it, and +rostóv turned his horse and galloped back. four more reports followed +rostóv was not far from the trumpeters, and with his keen sight had +rostóv was very happy in the love they showed him; but the first +rostóv waved his cap above his head like the german and cried laughing, +rostóv went on ahead to do what was asked, and to his great surprise +rostóv went to telyánin’s quarters. +rostóv, when their leave permits had been passed at the town gate and +rostóv, who had completely forgotten denísov, not wishing anyone to +rostóv, who had just celebrated his promotion to a cornetcy and bought +rostóv wiping his muddy hands on his breeches looked at his enemy and +rostóv with dólokhov and denísov stayed on at the club till late, +rostóv, without returning home, took a horse and rode there. there was +rosy, was sitting in an easy chair with her work in her hands, talking +rosy, with a dark little mustache, evidently rested and made sleeker by +round and clapping rostóv on the shoulder with his big hand. +round and galloped back to the place where he had seen the emperor, but +round and notices here a spindle that has stopped or there one that +round an open window. three others were romping with a young bear, one +round her head. +round his son’s neck, and without a word he began to sob like a child. +round márya dmítrievna, now on his toes, now on his heels; until, +round once more. the french had fallen behind, and just as he looked +round. prince andrew and the battalion were already within twenty paces +round-shouldered captain túshin, stumbling over the tail of the gun +round shoulders shuddered as if a cold shiver had run down them, how his +round sónya and natásha as the air does before a thunderstorm. sónya +round the company. he noticed the change in the little princess’ +round the first man changed his run to a walk and, turning, shouted +round the table, the clatter of plates, knives, and glasses mingled with +round the two corners of the mouth; this, together with the resolute, +round with much animation and cheerfully nodded to his son as the latter +roused by activity, expected the best results from the new campaign, +roused, had begun to talk, and wanted to express what had brought him to +“rousseau’s contrat social,” said the vicomte with a tolerant +rows of faces so alike yet so different, holding its breath while the +rows of statues in niches) and looking significantly at the lady’s old +royalist emigrant. +rubbed his forehead as if to rid himself of all interest in what he +rubbing his bald head and angrily pulling back toward him the little +rubles at a time, to talk about not wishing to cringe to anybody and not +rubles a year? and,” he went on after a pause, “what will it be in +rubles, dólokhov lived with him and had placed himself on such a +rubles i don’t know what to do with, and she stands in her tattered +rug and began reading to him from a manuscript book an explanation of +ruin. wasn’t he my friend? wasn’t i fond of him? but it’s not his +rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be +rum without taking it from my mouth, sitting outside the window on this +running. +running beside timókhin, killed a frenchman at close quarters and was +running? can they be coming at me? and why? to kill me? me whom everyone +running into sónya’s room and not finding her there, natásha ran to +running to the door and the noise of a chair falling over, and a girl +rushed out apparently beside herself with delight. +rushing at the cadet to restrain him. +rush to obey the summons. “send dmítri to me!” +russian. +russian and the austrian. the guards, just arrived from russia, spent +russian arms. +russian army. and i won’t—not even if bonaparte were here at +russian army found vent in anger at zherkóv’s untimely jest. + russian army, i must say that your victory was not +russian army loots terribly—her army is destroyed, her capital +russian army! well, as i was saying,” he continued, recovering his +russian army will be fully equipped, and shall then, in conjunction with +russian bath. the movement of these wrinkles formed the principal play +russian general. the general shouted a demand that the cavalry should be +russian musketeer who had gone up to the picket line with an officer and +russian on which he wished to put a contemptuous emphasis. +russians fought, the only consequence of these actions was a yet more +russians from krems to znaim. + russians! o’er all barriers on! +russian troops and their commander of the laurels they have been +russian troops moving down the valley to their left. +russian troops were crossing the river enns. at midday the russian +russian valor—what more could be wished for?” +russia’s glory were led to destruction. go, princess mary. go and tell +russia were settling near the fortress of braunau and burdening the +saber had tasted flesh and he had fallen exhausted, and so on. and so he +saber, he sank on the snow beside it. his left hand was bloody; he wiped +saber them... whom? the hussars... ah, the hussars with mustaches. along +saber which had caught in his cloak. it was an old-fashioned saber of +sabretache...”—“keep to the right, your honor, there are bushes +sacrament, allow him a moment’s peace! here, pierre, tell them your +sacrament. the dying man lay as lifeless and immovable as before. around +sacrificed everything for his sake!” she cried. “it’s splendid! +sacrificed myself. but only the base, the vile succeed! i know who has +sad and depressed. it was all so strange, so unlike what he had hoped. +saddle and touched up his horse to ride once more round his hussars. it +saddle, he galloped to the other flank of the squadron and shouted in +saddle sore which, coming after all my previous journeys, quite prevents +sadness, and this occurred every time she mentioned her illustrious +sad voice, as if saying: “very well, finish me off.” +said. +said. +said: +said a gunner, coming up to túshin. +said another. +said a tall, grizzly-haired staff captain, with enormous mustaches and +said bilíbin as he came out to meet prince andrew. “franz, put the +said dólokhov. +said he. +said he, bending down a finger. +said he, “but the health of our sovereign, that good, enchanting, and +said he, carrying away into the darkness a glowing stick. +said he. “now for trouble!” rostóv looked out of the window and +said her eyes. she was not surprised at his having come; she did +said, holding the casement and not closing it. “with lanterns. most +said, “how am i to stifle in my heart these temptations of the devil? +said in a tone of indifferent politeness: +said inquiringly. +said it, and they all felt awkward. +said little iogel coming up to nicholas. “look how many charming young +said nothing to borís and, evidently unable to suppress the thoughts +said, of a wife who was a celebrated beauty and of millions of money. +said one of the nursemaids to prince andrew who was sitting on a +said prince andrew, as he entered the study, rubbing his small white +said prince andrew when they had gone into the large room where the +said prince andrew who had not yet had time to eat anything. +said repnín. +said rostóv, blushing. +said rostóv in an imploring voice, “but i can’t apologize, by god i +said she. +said she in french, displaying her bag and addressing all present. +said she, uttering the word with peculiar assurance and unconcern, “i +said shinshín, laughing ironically and mixing the most ordinary russian +said: “that’s bad! go on, go on.” +said the countess. “but i am in great need of this sum.” +said the countess, indignant that they should have dared to treat this +said the countess smiling. +said the general, turning to an artillery officer. “have a little fun +said: “then i will go to my rooms. you will let me know when i can see +said the old man, “say so, my dear sir.” and he suddenly smiled, in +said the old soldier dismally to a comrade, “you’ll forget to +said the princess, ignoring his question. “now i know! yes; if i have +said the princess in a tone of entreaty. +said this some time after she had finished singing. while that untrained +said to be fleeing in great disorder. mind you gallop off to kórchevo +said to her, went to the looking glass and arranged her hair and scarf. +said, without noticing nicholas. +said without sitting down. “a person of very high standing in our +said yesterday... let him grow up with you.... please.” +said zherkóv. +saint, my angel,” she said with a sigh. +sake that the latter might say something he would afterwards regret. +saluting, and this sound rapidly came nearer along the whole extended +salver, glanced around in dismay, as though seeking help. but all eyes +same!” +same?” +same as usual,” and princess mary pale, frightened, and with downcast +same commanders. the sailor rarely cares to know the latitude in which +same expression, which seemed to say that he had a right to suppose +same firm pressure of the hand and the same quick, repeated bows. as +same.... is everything ready?” he added. “only tell me where to go +same mind he began explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the +same moment his kindly eyes grew moist with tears of joy and enthusiasm. +same!” pierre often indulged in reflections of this sort, nullifying +same question. “will papa be back soon?” +same sergeant major iván mítrich, the same company dog jack, and the +same speed, but they kept increasing their pace, so that some of the +same state of excitement as when she had slammed the door of her room. +same time at the emperor francis. +same time felt shy. +same to me!” he screamed in the same piercing tone as when parting +same way. when did it happen and what has happened? i am well and strong +same. you’ll be all right anywhere. but look here: give up visiting +sang the quartette, “the brook,” with which everyone was delighted. +sarcastic smile. +satchels, sabretaches, open portmanteaus, and dirty boots. two freshly +sat down again, smiling at the noise they had made and exchanging +sat down at her writing table, on which stood miniature portraits and +sat down languidly on the sofa: he felt it unpleasant to have dropped +sat facing bagratión and, as the very personification of moscow +sat in an armchair in her dressing jacket and nightcap and katie, sleepy +satisfaction. +satisfied with him?” he asked the regimental commander. +satisfied with the party. she replied in her usual simple manner that +sat playing patience with the old gentlewoman who lived in their house. +sat up and began wiping her eyes and explaining. +sat waiting for something, and again soldiers straggling from their +sausages and a bottle of wine. +saved. but he saw nothing. above him there was now nothing but the +save myself?” he thought. he rode on to the region where the greatest +saviour’s words, that it is easier for a camel to go through the +saw a rather short man. having evidently come from the light into the +saw—covered to the waist by a bright green quilt—the familiar, +saw denísov coming home. denísov was a small man with a red face, +saw friendly looks and heard friendly words. yesterday’s adjutant +saw his smile, which said nothing, unless perhaps, “opinions are +saw the beloved features that were so deeply engraved on his memory. the +saw them all and saw them in detail. she saw prince vasíli’s face, +saw with his own eyes brick buildings erected or in course of erection, +say. +say (as he has done before) that i’m in the dumps.” +say i’ll have his head off if everything is not here in a week. +saying. +saying, and sat plunged in thought. five minutes later, gently swaying +saying as he moved from the gun, when a strange, unfamiliar voice called +saying. “i have been an atheist,” answered pierre. +saying it right, i have drunk a good deal—but that is how i feel, and +saying.” prince andrew looked silently at pierre with an ironic smile. +saying something witty and stinging. +saying that he must prostrate himself at the gates of the temple. +saying that, on the contrary, she remembered him quite well. then +saying that the russian ladies are not equal to the french? one has to +saying this he again turned round, dropped his hands, took the bottle +say it.” +say something but could not. her brother had guessed right: the little +say that it is dull in my house again,” and she glanced at hélène. +say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and +say to the adjutant that borís felt uncomfortable. he turned away and +say—“yes, misfortune! call it what you please, i know that what +scabbard and flourishing it. +sca’cwow? call the quahtehmasteh,” he shouted to lavrúshka. +scarred and puffy face. +schérer.” +schérer. at the other end sat the younger and less important guests, +schérer, maid of honor and favorite of the empress márya fëdorovna. +schlappanitz and bellowitz which cover the enemy’s front. for this +schlappanitz and the thuerassa forest, avoiding the defiles of +schönbrunn, 25th brumaire, 1805, +“schon fleissig?” * said rostóv with the same gay brotherly smile +schön grabern affair, just as those who have taken part in a battle +schön grabern—and he would have found that easier. the committeemen +schoolboy called up before a large audience for an examination in which +schools,” he went on, crooking a finger, “education and so forth; +schoss, and his old nurse, and asked them to kiss for him “dear +“schubert, the colonel of the pávlograd hussars, is dining with us +science explaining the whole creation and man’s place in it. to +scoundrel is again at our heels!” +scoundrel? is that how you look at it? we don’t see it like that. and +“scoundrels! blackguards!” shrieked the old man, turning his face +scratch from one paragraph to another with his hard nail. +scratch yourself.” +screams, continued. +screams kept repeating: +screwed up his eyes as if dazzled by the sun. he was entirely absorbed +screwing up his eyes and shaking with suppressed laughter, and unable +scrutinizing anatole closely and intently. +search of somebody and answered all her questions in monosyllables. he +seat. +seated them on the center sofa. the bigwigs, the most respected members +seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the + second epilogue +“second line... have you written it?” he continued dictating to the +seconds he stood not moving from the spot or realizing the situation. +second time. but pierre was so absorbed that he did not understand what +secretary of the russian embassy, do not feel any need in token of my +secretary rather than commander in the army. my removal from the army +secretly regretting this, saw only the dark side. +secret malevolence in their hearts. +sedate, and the naïveté of his youthful egotism was so obvious, that +seduced, and to whom her poor mother (sa pauvre mère) appeared, and +see his face. anna mikháylovna left him, and when she returned he was +“see how smart she’s made herself! oh, the devils!” +see how these nestlings are growing up,” and she pointed to the girls. +“see, i’m standing! see!” she said, but could not maintain herself +seeing anna mikháylovna and her son, prince vasíli dismissed the +seeing prince andrew stopped, hesitating on the threshold. he went into +seeing some men running toward him. “they will help me!” in front +seeing that smile, rostóv involuntarily smiled himself and felt a still +seeing the favor the emperor showed the prisoners, they now hastened to +seeing the fright of that small and frail but proud man when covered by +seeing them he kept thinking, “that may be the very standard with +seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. man’s future and thy own fate +seem. +seemed as though not the trumpeters were playing, but as if the army +seemed confused and blushed as if not knowing what to say. +seemed familiar to princess mary was saying something. +seemed impossible. “but perhaps they may do it!” for more than ten +seemed like a lifeless body, but as soon as he came up it became alive, +seemed loaded with a whole houseful of effects. a fine brindled cow with +seemed ready to lift its tail, jump down on its soft paws, and begin +seemed to ask. she noticed at once that something had happened to him. +seemed to be poles—all under the russian crown—but here they’re +seemed to be seeking something, and soldiers dragging doors, benches, +seemed to give way within him at this news. dólokhov was a suitable and +seemed to groan at the terrible impact. +seemed to have changed roles since the campaign of 1805. the old man, +seemed to hear left... left... left. +seemed to her that someone was there standing behind the screen in the +seemed to him all the interests that engrossed napoleon, so mean did his +seemed to him as though one of the soldiers near him hit him on the head +seemed to him like ants. in that world, the handsome drunkard number one +seemed to him that bogdánich rode so near in order to show him his +seemed to him that he had expected all this and even more. trying +seemed to him that it was a very long time ago, almost a day, since he +seemed to him that it was getting lighter. to the left he saw a sloping +seemed to me to have an excellent heart, and that is the quality i value +seemed to say. she saw her husband, but did not realize the significance +seemed to say: “yes, there’s nothing left for you and me but to sip +seemed to say. “you had not noticed that i am a woman? yes, i am a +seemed to wish, but to be unable, to diminish its effect. +seeming to grow suddenly smaller, and respectfully received the blessing +seem to him that everyone is afraid of him, and that must please him. +seen him in petersburg. i saw him just as i see you.... there he sat in +seen him since we acted together at the rumyántsovs’ theatricals. i +seen. prince andrew stopped and began examining the position. +seen the day before in the arms of her nurse’s daughter—at her +seen the light, come here? what do you seek from us? wisdom, virtue, +seen. the lines of that mouth were remarkably finely curved. the middle +seen through. +seen you. very glad! go back to your rooms, princess. go!” said +see the soldiers’ shaggy caps, distinguish the officers from the men, +see the true light, and that he, pierre, ought to aid, enlighten, and +see those who, judging by the sound of hoofs and voices, had ridden up +see whether he cannot attach you to himself or find a place for you +see whether it was firmly plaited, and grasping his by the hand. “the +see whether they were getting up. +see you,” he added, bowing his head. +seized by an unreasoning panic—it occurred to him that the child was +seized by terror lest he had already, in some way, bound himself to do +seized him at the thought of that dreadful step. a thousand times during +seize some horsecloths, though he had told him the russians were there. +seizing his father’s hand, he pressed it to his lips and burst into +seizing the most opportune moment for making use of people. +self, and so before one can know, it is necessary to believe and to +self-complacency than his did.) “well, he stormed at me, as the saying +self-complacent happiness that one sees on the face of a boy happily +self-confidence, while his body was thin and weak. his eyes, nose, and +self-confident. +self-confident french; then again, like a man weary but unflinching in +self-derision genuinely russian. bilíbin wrote that the obligation of +self-possession. if a man lacking in self-confidence remains dumb on +self-possession mingled at that moment in rostóv’s soul. +self-respect, but admit that the time and place are very badly chosen. +self-satisfied. +self-satisfied, youthful, and constant smile of animation, and by the +“sell me the missis,” said another soldier, addressing the german, +“sell us that horse!” denísov called out to the cossacks. +“semën! do you know the daniel cooper?” +semi-private, long-established jokes and amusing reminiscences, though +send his orderly staff officer, and later prince andrew also, to order +sensation of fear and respect which the old man inspired in all around +sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around +senseless cry, “cut off!” that is so terrible in battle, and that +sense of awe and veneration such as he had experienced in his boyhood at +sent an official to austria to seek for traces of his son, he ordered a +sent dólokhov the whole forty-three thousand rubles and received his +sentiments,” he seemed to be saying, “so much the worse for you!” +sent instead of our dear wintzingerode you would have captured the king +sent to moscow. the story told about him at count rostóv’s was true. +sent you. religious! i don’t interfere with anyone’s belief... i +separately through his thin compressed lips, “i will throw him down +“separate? very well, but only if you give me a fortune,” said +separating the living from the dead—lay between them. all were +separation! though i tell myself that half my life and half my happiness +sergeant in charge of the cannon which was to give the signal to fire +sergeant was carrying in a wooden bowl to an officer who sat on a log +‘sergéy’ he sobbed, ‘kuz-mí-ch,’ tears, and ‘from all +“sergéy kuzmích—from all sides—” he said, unbuttoning the top +sergéy kuzmích...’ poor vyazmítinov could not get any farther! +serious duel, and besides, drubetskóy, who says he is an old friend +serious expression. but the author himself took the verses and began +serious for an instant at the sight of her, but immediately smiling +seriousness of his stupid smile, could not but give him a moment’s +serious tone, “but the prince told me to ‘go and tell the colonel +servant. +servants say in a frightened whisper. “catch hold from underneath. +servants with lanterns were bustling about in the porch. the immense +served up was received with pleasure by all her visitors. the greatest +serve him. rostóv patted the horse’s neck and then his flank, and +service.” +service. a little behind them stood the two younger princesses holding +service, and he at once understood his role, letting his hostess make +service is to serve under him.” +service... it can’t be helped... one is sometimes a bit hasty on +service,” said the prince disdainfully. “why his son is coming i +service to place himself very advantageously. he was aide-de-camp to a +serving as a private. but the command of the extreme left flank had been +serving our tsar and our country, rejoicing in the successes and +set fire to the schön grabern village, delayed the french advance. the +set off to rejoin the army, not knowing where he would find it and +setting fire to schön grabern. +setting it on fire and the french batteries were now firing at them, no +setting, on a finely wrought silver chain. +settled down comfortably beside the fire. +settled. he came because of sónya. and sónya, though she would never +settled into three groups. one, chiefly masculine, had formed round +“settled!” replied borís. +set without whom my wife cannot exist, and those women.... if you only +seven he needed was lying uppermost, the first card in the pack. he had +seven in the morning but had not reached it by five in the afternoon.” +“seven new and three old imperials.” +seventeen of the forty men of the guns’ crews had been disabled, but +seven virtues, corresponding to the seven steps of solomon’s temple, +several dead men. one ball after another passed over as he approached +several of them were not separated from one another but merged into a +several of those present smiled at zherkóv’s words, expecting one of +several persons whom he did not know, giving him a whispered description +several soldiers fell. +several soldiers fell, and a second lieutenant who was holding the +several thousand rubles. +several thousand rubles quitrent received from pierre’s peasants, +several times in the course of the morning princess mary began trying to +several wounded men passed along the road, and words of abuse, screams, +severe gaze straight on pierre’s face. +severely. “you don’t wish to apologize, but, man, it’s not only to +severity changed, and he drew pierre’s hand downwards, made him sit +severity. the dance grew livelier and livelier. the other couples could +shading his eyes with his small hand. +shadow of the wall. pausing for a moment, pierre noticed several other +shako on the back of his head. he came up to the porch gloomily, hanging +shall not agree with you, and you do not really believe what you are +shall reproach my wife with anything, and i cannot reproach myself +shall think nothing of an extra seventy miles to come and see you at +“shall we have three cold dishes then?” asked the cook. +“shall we have time to change clothes?” +“shall you write to him?” she asked. +shame and anger choking him, had already leapt from his horse and run to +shameless, and he ignores her!” +share defeat and disgrace with kutúzov’s whole army.” +sharply, with a slight trembling of the lower jaw, “i can’t prevent +sharpshooters in front of our columns. the colonel at the head of the +sharpshooters showed themselves in the copse. it was timókhin’s +shawl had been adjusted he kept his arm around her for a long time, as +she added hurriedly. “no, don’t be angry, but promise! i have asked +she added, turning to her hostess. “you wrote that it was to be quite +she already had power over him, and between them there was no longer any +she always addressed him with a radiantly confiding smile meant for him +she approached him, saw his face, and something gave way within her. her +she became still more animated and chattered away giving him greetings +she began to smile and talk. he asked about mutual acquaintances, and +she began to tell of how at potsdam the impious bonaparte had stolen the +she brought into princess mary’s strenuous, mournful, and gloomy +she came up fearless and gay to kiss her hand. “i know she’s a scamp +she caught the young officer by his cuffs, and a look of solemnity and +she considered the resonance was best. +she continued, uniting them both in one glance. pierre did not look at +she could not lie either on her face or on her side. every position was +she crossed herself, kissed the icon, and handed it to andrew. +shed, and its tone was so sincere that he could not but listen. +she drew nearer to him. her face flushed. +she faltered. “you are on good terms with michael ilariónovich +she felt any symptoms of pregnancy. she laughed contemptuously and said +she felt guilty. +she forgot all fear of her father, went up to him, took his hand, and +she gave her companion an angry glance. +(she glanced at hélène and smiled at her.) “my dear hélène, be +she grew confused, glanced round, and, seeing the doll she had thrown +she had a fan in her hand that one of the ladies had given her to hold. +she had been married during the previous winter, and being pregnant did +she had determined not to tell her and persuaded her father to hide the +she had finished speaking to him, and now he continued to speak to +she had first entered the room—the smile of a perfectly beautiful +she had just vacated. “you have made the place warm, i must say,” he +she had learned it) she talked with her partner, fanning herself and +she had sacrificed so much. she could not refrain from weeping at these +she had seldom experienced, came upon her. she feared to look round, it +she had spoken to hippolyte in the drawing room and which was so plainly +she has a brother; i think you know him, he married lise meinen lately. +she hurriedly ascended the narrow dimly lit stone staircase, calling to +“she is not very well,” answered mademoiselle bourienne with +she knew of the duel and had come to speak about it. she waited till the +she knew so well), on the lock of gray hair that escaped from under the +she led him into the dark drawing room and pierre was glad no one could +“she let the hawk fly upward from her wide right sleeve,” went the +she looked at him inquiringly and with childlike reproach. +she looked round and seeing that her friend was not in the room ran to +she looked timidly at her brother. +shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, +she moved toward anna pávlovna. hélène was so lovely that not only +she must be on the chest in the passage. the chest in the passage was +she must love him if she could so far forget herself! perhaps i might +“she needs rest,” said prince andrew with a frown. “don’t you, +she not only left her hair as it was, but did not even look in her +she ought to behave like mademoiselle bourienne, but could not. +she paused, as women always do, expecting something after they have +she pulled up her muslin sleeve and showed him a red scar on her long, +she pushed the little dog off her lap and smoothed her dress. +she rang for her maid and asked her to sleep in her room. +she rose and smoothed her hair, which was as usual so extremely smooth +she roused herself, and felt appalled at what she had been thinking, and +she rushed to sónya, hugged her, and began to cry. +“she said.... oh yes! she said, ‘girl,’ to the maid, ‘put on a +she said, trying to smile though tears were in her eyes. +she seemed that day to be more than ever kind and affectionate to +she seemed to promise to explain that necessity to him when he came on +she smiled as she uttered his pet name, “andrúsha.” it was +she suddenly came into his mind as she was at the moments when he had +she suddenly paused, smiling at her own impetuosity. +she thought: “if i seem not to notice he will think that i do not +she took a pair of pear-shaped ruby earrings from her huge reticule and, +she took his arm and with a happy face went with him into the adjoining +she took the liberty of inquiring whether it was long since anatole +she tried to pass anna mikháylovna, but the latter sprang so as to bar +she turned away and gave her hand to the count, who could hardly keep +she turned away from him and glanced at her younger brother, who was +she turned to go, but he stopped her with a gesture and took an uncut +she turned to his father. the conversation was general and animated, +she understood all the gravity of her friend’s trouble. +(she used the word “diplomat,” which was just then much in vogue +she used to have quarrels with the too indulgent count, that son who +she was dancing with a grown-up man, who had been abroad. she was +she was much altered. she was now plain rather than pretty. her cheeks +she was, natásha, who knew how sensitive her mother was to anything +she was no longer in the loose gown she generally wore in the morning, +she was not a fool to want to have children, and that she was not going +she was now saying she had talked of before, with tears. +“she was so tired that she has fallen asleep on the sofa in my room. +“she went. suddenly there was a great wind. the girl lost her hat and +“she will go to the country.” +she wished to and only refrained out of regard for his modesty. +she would say. what could all that matter in comparison with the will of +shining eyes, not interrupting or questioning him, but believing with +shinshín, a cousin of the countess’, a man with “a sharp tongue” +shinshín. “he has stopped austria’s cackle and i fear it will be +shirt, and in every knapsack the appointed number of articles, “awl, +shod in a tartar boot embroidered with silver, and the firm pressure +shone with such gaiety and youth, such innocent youth, that it suggested +shooting at you like a target.” +shops, bakers’ signboards, street lamps, and sleighs!” thought +shortly after nine o’clock that evening, weyrother drove with his +shortsighted delight at the misery of others, and doubts and torments +short sturdy figure with the sinewy hairy hand and stumpy fingers in +shots came. +should already have suggested to your heart, if it is sincere, more than +should be a nice set of fellows if we were to wait about and so give him +should be glad and not cry.” +should be if i could now say: ‘lord, have mercy on me!’... but to +shoulder and left the room without snuffing the candles or saying why he +shoulder and taking his feet off the sofa. +shoulders and dropped his eyes as if startled by something extraordinary +shoulders and eyes, almost closing the latter, sighed, and moved away +shoulders. anna mikháylovna with just the same movement raised her +shoulders close to his eyes. +shoulders, turned out his toes, tapped gently with his foot, and, by +shoulder, their bayonets interlocking, moved over the bridge in a dense +should get not more than two hundred rubles every four months, even +should much like to be an adjutant and not remain at the front.” +should now be away in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, a manly +“shouldn’t we now send for berg?” asked borís. “he would drink +should one love and what hate? what does one live for? and what am i? +shouted. +shouted denísov in a bloodthirsty tone. +shouted denísov, suddenly, turning purple and rushing at the man with +shouted hoarsely. +shouted “hurrah!” in exactly the same voice in which he had shouted +shouted the regimental commander, thrusting forward his jaw and pointing +shouted to him: +shouting. +shouting came from, a fire flared up and went out again, then another, +shouting grew louder and louder. rostóv could hear the sound of french +shouts of hurrah, and saw wounded being brought back (there were not +shouts of thousands of voices. his horse and the horse of the hussar +showed a paper she held in her hand—with the verses nicholas had +showed greatness of soul by not fearing to take on himself the whole +showed how he presented himself, with his hand to his cap, and really +showed that, in spite of all his love and respect for his father, he was +show her over, and they’ll talk nineteen to the dozen. that’s +showing the creases where it had been folded and thick gold epaulettes +showing the necessity of first paying off the loans from the land bank, +showing the spot where it burst. +showing under his open shirt, he stood in a majestic pose in the light +shown, fired. not at all expecting so loud a report, pierre shuddered +shown to the best room, which dólokhov had taken for that evening. some +shudder of disgust. +“shut up!” +“shut up!” cried dólokhov, pushing him away from the window. the +sick man had been laid in a stately pose in keeping with the ceremony +side and at first did not play. dólokhov kept glancing at him. +side and looked round with a frown. along the road from pratzen galloped +side as her betrothed, seeing, hearing, feeling her nearness, her +side by side. prince vasíli was not having any supper: he went round +side of the question and you will see that your duty, on the contrary, +side (only now did pierre realize how near death his father was), and +sides. he acknowledged no acquaintances but saw in all these men only +side, so close to our own forces that napoleon with the naked eye could +sides’ was smothered in sobs and he could get no farther. and again +sideways at princess mary from a little distance. “you have a maroon +“sideways! cover yourself with your pistol!” ejaculated nesvítski. +sídorov, turning to the french, winked, and began to jabber meaningless +sighed. “i have loved you like a son from the first. trust yourself to + sighing its message out to thee... +sight of his superiors, he did not notice the staff of the banner and +sight of murat’s mantle and ostrich plumes, qu’il n’y voit que du +sight of tears and was ready to cry himself. +sign. +significant command to come to her on tuesday. +significantly at her husband) “i’m afraid, i’m afraid!” she +sign of strength. +sign papers, to present himself at government offices, the purpose of +signs to the footmen, and anxiously glancing from the clock to the door +sign that this was exactly what he had desired and expected. turning +silence. +silence and the regular tramp of feet beating the ground in unison, one +silence as he left the drawing room. he pictured the vanity of his +silence at princess anna mikháylovna. after her talk with pierre, anna +silence ensued. the countess looked at her callers, smiling affably, +silent. +silent and seemed confused. the prince asked her about her father, and +silent as he passed by, and moved to make way for him. at first pierre +silent. at first kutúzov stood still while the regiment moved; then he +silently—fearing to speak because at every word he felt ready to +silently, with the languid interest of sick children, at the envoy +silent prayer. every morning she came in like that, and every morning +silent, “that sónya and nicholas now say you to one another and meet +silent, waiting for what he would say. +silken hangings. on leaving the bed both prince vasíli and the princess +sill, leaned over, and looked down. +sill. “listen!” cried he, standing there and addressing those in the +sill to attract attention. “wait a bit, kurágin. listen! if +silver and crystal gleamed, so did the ladies’ toilets and the gold +simply dressed hair (two immense plaits twice round her lovely head like +simply looking at him. +simultaneously attacked and outflanked by superior french forces under +since early morning—despite an injunction not to approach the picket +since his appointment as commander in chief. he told me himself that +“since prince bagratión is not coming, we may begin,” said +“since the day of our brilliant success at austerlitz,” wrote +since then pierre had not been disturbed and had spent the whole time in +since the nursing mothers were no longer sent to work on his land, they +since the time when he thought his son had been killed, he did not think +singer” (he meant natásha’s italian singing master), “that’s +“singers to the front” came the captain’s order. +sir!” +sire,” * he answered gaily, raising nevertheless ironic smiles among +sir, for shame! it would be better if you went to the war.” +sister, black eyes... na... tasha... (won’t she be surprised when +sister, catiche, with a vicious and determined look steadily fixed on +sister had hung round his neck with such emotion and reverence, “it +sister-in-law’s dress. +sister-in-law’s friendship for you. she was not expecting us?” +sister’s, but while in her case everything was lit up by a joyous, +sister’s room his wife was already awake and her merry voice, hurrying +sister,” was all she said, in a dry and mournful tone. +sister. “why isn’t she dull and ashamed?” +sister with the mole. +sit down! sit down, michael ivánovich!” +sitting and dropped onto it, covering his face with his hand. pierre +sitting at tea with bilíbin. “the fete is for tomorrow. how is your +sitting close to nicholas who was copying out some verses for her, the +sitting down beside him she began to speak about his father; but he +sitting here in almost the same positions as before, whispering to one +sitting in a conspicuous place and talking to him like a grown-up lady. +sitting motionless before the glass, looking at her face, and saw in the +sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself +sitting on the sofa with the little cushions on its arms, in what used +sitting room. +sitting so for a while he rose, and, looking about him with frightened +situated,” said prince andrew. +situation it occurred to him that it was he who was destined to lead it +“six hundred rubles, ace, a corner, a nine... winning it back’s +six miles away, or whether they were near by in that sea of mist, no one +sixth chasseurs whom they had just passed. prince andrew was struck by +sixth stroke. the doctors pronounced recovery impossible. after a mute +six weeks after anna pávlovna’s “at home” and after the sleepless +six weeks later he was married, and settled in count bezúkhov’s +skillfully changed the subject. he asked him to tell them how and where +skillfully made watch, dares to say that, as he does not understand +skittles,” said he in conclusion. +sky—the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray +sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and +sleep at night. come now, where has this great commander of yours shown +sleepiness that kept coming over him. an enormous space, with our +sleeves!” said anna mikháylovna, pointing to nicholas as he went out. +sleeve with her finger, saying: +sleigh and pair at once, and go to bezúkhov’s, and tell him ‘count +slender, delicate arm, high above the elbow on that part that is covered +slender little girl. +slightly open, as if to say, “yes, yes, i am putting my purse in my +slightly sarcastic smile. “i am borís, son of princess anna +slight smile he began to examine his nails. +slippery ice that covered the millpool. +slope of the hill amid the smoke a russian battery that was still firing +“smack at ‘em, lads!” he kept saying, seizing the guns by the +small but distinctly visible enemy column was moving down the hill, +small cloud rose from the hill and was borne in a streak to the left by +small old man, with powdered wig, small withered hands, and bushy gray +“smart lads! only fit for a fair!” said one. +smashed, and the shouting grew louder. they drank to bekleshëv, +smash something. pushing away the footmen he tugged at the frame, but +smeared with chalk—as white as flour! i suppose they polish him up as +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile, and engaged the smiling julie in a confidential conversation +smile, and pronouncing the phrase “knocked out” with ringing +smiled and interrupted him. +smile, for which he was long unable to forgive himself, “i have lost a +smile of a doctor to whom an old wife wishes to explain the treatment of +smile of his which seemed to say, “ah! this is what i like!” +smile of satisfaction and presented a strange appearance among the +smile on his lips and face, but his eyes were dull and lifeless and in +smile on his lips change. +smile that usually brightened her face. pierre knew that everyone was +smile was unlike the half-smile of other people. when he smiled, +smiling as if she did not recognize him. +smiling at his reassuring thoughts. +smiling, but in spite of herself her eyes under their thick long lashes +smiling. “cela nous convient à merveille.*(2) suvórov now—he knew +smiling face, moved after willarski with uncertain, timid steps. +smiling, glittered with effort and exasperation as he mustered his +smiling joyfully; and snatching the shawl from the footman, whom he +smilingly inclining his head. +smilingly raising a finger at him, she left the room. +smiling over the fan. +smoke, and an officer catching sight of bagratión rushed shouting after +smoke enveloped everything. +smoke, rendered denser by the mist, prevented him from seeing anything +smoke spasmodically and screwing up his eyes. this was an old bachelor, +smoke. the excited faces of the soldiers were blackened with it. some +smoking and talking. he neither smoked nor talked, but bending his head +smolénsk threatening bald hills—even then i wouldn’t serve in the +smolyanínov, and it mortified him to think that the newcomer was an +smooth as a sign that the conversation was at an end. +smooth—felt that no small matter was happening, but an important and +smoothing down her dress with an inquiring look at her mother, when +snacks.” +snow-covered road, did not once wake up on the way to moscow, but lay +snuffbox while trying to hear what was being said at the other table. +snuffbox with her husband’s portrait on it. +so alien to us. +so. and, in fact, the last letter he had received from mack’s army +soap, and all,” as the soldiers say. there was only one circumstance +sobbing like a child. the door opened. the doctor with his shirt sleeves +so beautiful that very often in spite of the plainness of her face +sobs. the count was lighting his pipe and did not notice his son’s +so, but you have no sense about women. what an argumentative fellow you +so-called battle of the three emperors—that is to say, a slow movement +society. +society. +society, and so her position now is not a rosy one. we should enter into +society. beside him stood a lad of nineteen, also a wounded officer of +society had entered the simple feeling of the attraction of a healthy +society had lost her former influential connections. she had now come to +society, more especially of the feminine society, in which i have had +society of women was rather derogatory to his manhood. he went to balls +society so dearly and distinctly indicated. +society woman to be buried in the country during the best years of her +so completely silenced and their arguments confuted by such conclusive +so contrary to his method of conducting war? believe me, he is afraid, +so convulsively that her bare little shoulders shook. natásha’s +so delighted...” came the sounds of animated feminine voices, +so do you too! to the health of alexander the first! hurrah!” +so easily extract a good profit for themselves from a dinner costing +so energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable +so for friendship’s sake he is leaving the university and me, his +soft hand taking hers firmly, and she touched with her lips a white +soft snowbanks that bordered both sides of the path. the prince went +soft steps of the footmen. at one end of the table sat the countess with +so he simply held out his bristly cheek (as yet unshaven) and, regarding +so he went from one group to another. some of the most important old men +“so i can fire when i like!” said pierre, and at the word +so ill that he may die at any moment, and dr. lorrain has come from +soirees as before—such as she alone had the gift of arranging—at +“so it does,” thought pierre. +“so it is all finished!” he thought. “and how has it all happened? +“so it is useless to ask whether it is good or bad. it is good because +so it seems to me.” +“so it seems you’re a hero, eh? come now, what was this duel about? +sokólniki after the duel and had spent that first agonizing, sleepless +sokólniki forest and found dólokhov, denísov, and rostóv already +sokolnitz, november 30, 1805.” +soldier. +soldier after camp life. despite his rapid journey and sleepless night, +soldier and the gay and smartly marching men. in the second file +soldier at the front, gave the command “attention!” and rode up +soldier. “i’ll teach you to push on!... back!” +soldier, mimicking the general who had ridden away. “i’d shoot them, +soldier of forty—looked sternly at the singers and screwed up his +soldiers, after a twenty-mile march, were kept mending and cleaning all +soldiers and officers of various regiments, they saw on their left some +soldiers’ bonfires and with his long gray mustache, his white chest +soldiers’ boots. more than half the men’s boots were in holes. but +soldiers forming the picket line, like showmen exhibiting a curiosity, +soldiers had kindled on the road. rostóv, too, dragged himself to the +soldiers held him while two others were flourishing their switches and +soldier shouted to him. “they’d kill you there!” +soldiers lifted the canteen lids to their lips with reverential faces, +soldiers, loudly demanding bread, meat, biscuits, fodder, and whatnot! +soldiers, munching biscuit and beating a tattoo with their feet to +soldiers, officers, and generals were heroes. but the hero of heroes was +soldiers only need to be restrained and held back! on all sides, new and +soldiers passed in a semicircle round something where the ball had +soldiers ran from the fires, thrust their pipes into their boots, their +soldiers running in confused crowds across his path. +soldiers, straining their lungs, shouted “hurrah!” +soldiers. the company marched on gaily. the soldiers’ voices could be +soldiers! the russian army is advancing against you to avenge the +soldiers to change into their greatcoats. the company commanders ran off +soldiers. “where are you shoving to? devil take you! can’t you wait? +soldiers who were seizing the artillery horses and turning the guns +soldier three gold pieces. +soldier with a wagon, who was pressing onto the infantrymen who were +soldier, with his clear blue eyes, stepped forward from the ranks, went +soldier with the harsh voice, and it was that affair and this soldier +solemn affair. every general and every soldier was conscious of his own +solemn interest and silent approval. the aunt spoke to each of them in +so long,” he added. +so long waited, presents itself to him at last. he firmly and clearly +so many years moravians in shaggy caps and blue jackets had peacefully +some!” +some approaching achievement, and some in course of disintegration. he +some concessions. continuing to represent the liberation of the serfs +someday i will tell you about our parting and all that was said then. +some flash as of an electric spark shot from telyánin’s eyes to +some great change had come over him that day. he was silent all through +“some herb vodka? certainly!” said túshin. “but still, to +some inspection business,” remarked the visitor. +some in the sitting room, some in the library. +some men who, carrying pails, came running downstairs, their boots +some not. this whole mass droned and jostled in confusion under the +some of the nearest relatives had not yet left. they were sitting in +some of the topics at first lightly touched on: their past life, plans +someone mentioned that captain túshin was bivouacking close to the +someone. (prince bagratión did not ask about the guns on the left +someone rich and distinguée, and it is on you that his relations’ +someone to fire at. +some question—“most likely he is asking at what o’clock they +some reason she called it urope as if that were a specially refined +some sort were moving about, in front and behind moved lines of troops; +some swarthy men and women were really entering from the cold outside +something.” +something.” +something and went away. it seemed to pierre that even the prince was +something as she whispered: +something big, that splashed into the water. +something, but dared not.... no, it was i who dared not. but that’s +something disconcerting to himself. +something i cannot inflict on others,” said prince andrew, growing +something i have received from the chancellor. i asked him for you, and +something large, brilliant, and handsome moving toward her as she +something like qualms of conscience. she had reminded him of what was +something loudly to a comrade farther back. rostóv paused. “no, +“something special is always said in such cases,” he thought, but +something striking and took part in a conversation only when that was +something terrible and monstrous rising in his soul and turned quickly +something that was evidently wrong and that he ought not to do. but at +something to drink?” +something to him in french in an undertone and then went up to a small +something toward it and you cannot persuade me that it was not a good +sometimes four abreast. from all sides, behind and before, as far as ear +sometimes like a chip of wood whirling in the river, an hussar on foot, +sometimes on his way back from the anteroom he would pass through the +sometimes spend a whole night at his writing table. he worked well +some time to get the wedding ring off his fat finger. when that had been +some twenty men of his suite. these gentlemen talked among themselves +some way and knowing that this was impossible was ready to cry. the tsar +somewhere below his throat rushed to his face and eyes. he could not +somewhere beyond them. the hussars did not look round, but at the sound +somewhere nearer the sun.” +somewhere under her heart would ever cry, suck her breast, and begin to +some wooded hills were discernible, and it was there the enemy probably +“so much the better! i shall see it close,” he thought. +so my conscience was at ease. i came forward....” (berg stood up and +son. +son. +son.” +song. +song, arousing an involuntary sensation of courage and cheerfulness. +son, ilyá? only fancy, i didn’t know you at first. do you remember +son made no rejoinder, but it was evident that whatever arguments were +son or kinsman.” +son’s affair hushed up, but even he was ordered out of petersburg.” +son’s arrival: he gave orders to admit him to his apartments while +son, sat at the table writing. he glanced round. +son; sónya, the count’s fifteen-year-old niece, and little pétya, +son’s when speaking to him that afternoon, “believe me i suffer no +sónya again interrupted. she gave him an imploring, frightened look. +sónya and dólokhov before dinner, and with the kindly sensitiveness +sónya and fat little pétya doubled up with laughter. +sónya became thoughtful. the question of how to write to nicholas, and +sónya could not continue, and again hid her face in her hands and in +sónya did not pull it away, and left off crying. natásha, not stirring +“sónya, don’t believe her, darling! don’t believe her! do you +sónya interrupted him. +sónya, natásha, pétya, anna mikháylovna, véra, and the old count +sónya sat up. the little kitten brightened, its eyes shone, and it +sónya, shaking off some down which clung to her and tucking away the +“sónya,” she suddenly exclaimed, as if she had guessed the true +sónya’s joint ages. rostóv, leaning his head on both hands, sat at +sónya smiled. +sónya smiled. +sónya’s refusal and felt uncomfortable at the thought of how they +sónya’s thin little shoulders, natásha’s eyes and laughter, +sónya struck the first chord of the prelude. +sónya too, all rosy red, clung to his arm and, radiant with bliss, +sónya trembled all over and blushed to her ears and behind them and +sónya was more tender and devoted to him than ever. it was as if she +sónya was sitting at the clavichord, playing the prelude to +“sónya! what is anyone in the world to me? you alone are +“sónya! what is it? what is the matter?... oo... oo... oo...!” and +“sónya, what is the matter with you? how can you?” said he, running +sónya, whom he loved and thought of just the same as ever.” when she +soon after his admission to the masonic brotherhood, pierre went to the +soon after prince andrew’s return the old prince made over to him a +soon after prince bagratión had left him, túshin had succeeded in +soon after this there came into the dark chamber to fetch pierre, not +soon as he had seen a visitor off he returned to one of those who were +soon as the conversation concerned himself he would begin to talk +sooner?” +sooner or later he would step across it, but an incomprehensible terror +so on. then a place was assigned to pierre, he was shown the signs of +“só-o-onya! look here! how can you torture me and yourself like that, +soothe him. +“sophie,” he began, timidly at first and then more and more +sophie—i can’t repeat them—that it made the count quite ill and he +sophie, the rosy, laughter-loving, youngest princess with the mole, +so rapid that they could hardly be his mother’s. +sorrowful, and all-forgiving expression on her face, stood by the door +sorrow, sadness, or self-reproach, that she purposely deceived herself +sort—(le sort de l’armée d’ulm).” * he remembered these words +sorts, and russian and austrian soldiers of all arms, some wounded and +so softly that the rhetor did not hear him and asked him what he was +so strange that one could not take it in. but then the expression of +so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat +so terrible to the soldiers, despite his furious purple countenance +so that his mouth, the most striking feature of his face, was clearly +so that she felt herself surrounded on all sides by the acrid scent of + * so that squares matters. +“so that’s what i’m sorry for—human dignity, peace of mind, +“so that’s what they hit with?” asked the accountant. “how +so that the maid could hardly get her hair plaited, and she was +“so the attack is definitely resolved on?” asked bolkónski. +“so there’s nothing?” +so the swishing sound of the strokes, and the desperate but unnatural +so the worse the condition it was in, the better pleased the commander +“so they will,” said nesvítski. “no, but what i should like,” +so to me? what have i done to you? you are going to the war and have no +soul and his face. +soul: courage, generosity, morality, love of mankind, and especially +soul to believe and he did believe, and felt a joyful sense of comfort, +soul to see such men as the old count and his worthy son,” said she. +sounded and you’ll be in a pretty position without your boots!” (the +sounded far away. here everyone clearly saw and said that the battle +sounded louder and calmer, the stretchers disappeared from sight. +sounded much like irony. but kutúzov went on blandly smiling with the +sounded. several of our men fell, among them the round-faced officer +sounded still more firm and resolute. +sounding, even the connoisseurs said nothing, but only delighted in +sound of artillery fire near by. having forced his way out of the crowd +sound of footsteps. +sound of kissing. when prince andrew went in the two princesses, who +sound of officers’ voices in eager conversation. +sound of that sentence: “contez nous çela, vicomte.” +sound of the hoofs of the approaching cavalcade, but because as he drew +sound of these voices, the inattentive way kozlóvski looked at him, the +sound of wheels and footsteps heard by the outposts during the night, +sounds very fast: “kari, mala, tafa, safi, muter, kaská,” he said, +sount ze retreat!” +“so we are to have visitors, mon prince?” remarked mademoiselle +so well how to arrange a feast on an open-handed, hospitable scale, +so widely from a private. +“soyez tranquille, lise, you will always be prettier than anyone +“so you are not afraid to play with me?” repeated dólokhov, and as +“so you are really going to the war, andrew?” she said sighing. +“so you are still at that silly business!” quickly closed his eye +“so you have never noticed before how beautiful i am?” hélène +so young, and burdened with such riches—to what temptations he will be +“so you think he is powerless?” said langeron. +spadefuls of red clay were continually being thrown up from behind the +sparkling black eyes, and black tousled mustache and hair. he wore an +speak—he turned back, rapidly mounted the stairs again with the +speaking and evidently not thinking about her at all. anatole was not +speaking as if he were saying something which had long since been agreed +speaking french. he opened his eyes. above him again was the same lofty +speaking of a collection of snuffboxes that had belonged to pierre’s +speaking of berg as her “intended.” the count sat between them and +speaking of him, my dear sir. of what, of whom, are we speaking? whom +speaking of the position of prussia, anna pávlovna very naturally asked +speaking playfully of a matter that evidently distressed him. +speaking quickly with a harsh german accent, looking to both sides and +speaking to an austrian general. prince andrew, who was a little behind +speaking very gently. +speak in the tone of decided refusal and disagreement in which he had +speak, so now she could not believe that that little creature could be +special force. no matter what he thought about, he always returned to +specially amiable mood that day. +specially choice delicacy a piece of meat that no one who had seen it in +spectacle of his power over these three women. besides that, he was +spectacles. +spectacles and white dressing gown, in which he received no one but his +spectacles unable to understand what they wanted or how they could go on +speeches were intended for quite other conditions, they were for the +spend time in reading what is unintelligible and can therefore bear +spent, and almost every year he was obliged to borrow. besides this the +spirited impression. +spiritual needs, while it seems to me that animal happiness is the only +spirit will not and cannot understand the emperor alexander’s +spite of his evident wish to do so he could not give them a joyous +spite of his money. they wanted to introduce him to me, but i quite +splashing with blood those near them. +splendid! and i am sitting here ill, as you see.” +“splendid! excellent!” exclaimed natásha. “another verse,” she +splendid house!” +splendidly.” +splendid soldiers. besides he began by attacking germans. and only +“splendid! what a horse he will be!” he thought with a smile, and +spoil her, but really that seems the best plan. with her elder sister i +spoke as if his sole aim were to put a given number of questions—the +spoke in abrupt sentences. “the whole company can bear witness. i beg +spoken to the gentleman ranker, he addressed him with the cordiality of +spoke particularly slowly, as if to impress the fact that there was no +spoke smilingly and listened with a laugh. +spoke to the taciturn michael ivánovich more often than to anyone else. +spot” (he stooped and pointed to the sloping ledge outside the window) +sprang out before the sleigh stopped, and ran into the hall. the house +spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbé’s +spread by the fact that the emperor’s carriage had really galloped +spreading out his legs and putting his hands on his knees with the air +spread out her arms to show her short-waisted, lace-trimmed, dainty gray +spread out his arms with a choleric gesture. +springing to him, putting her arms round him, and kissing him. this +spring up with more energy and again play with her cousin as soon as +squadron. all were looking at the enemy in front and at the squadron +squadron commander. +squadron in which nicholas rostóv served as a cadet was quartered in +squadron may be recommended for honors and he may get a ribbon. our +squadron’s officers in denísov’s quarters. +squadron, that in which rostóv was serving under denísov, to return to +squadron. the day was bright and sunny after a sharp night frost, and +squatting on his heels in front of a clerk. the clerk, with cuffs turned +s— s— get the same distinction?” +staff...” +staff?” +staff captain’s question by a disapproving shake of his head. +staff officer. +staff officer, and at zherkóv, and he frowned. +staff officer smiled.) “kindly return to your posts, gentlemen, all of +staff were not far off, in the village the vehicles were going to. +stages of his journey. +stairs and embraced his sister. +stairs and up another, to pierre’s rooms. +stake of twenty rubles. +standard in hand, i shall go forward and break whatever is in front of +standing motionless; then he came to the region occupied by uvárov’s +standing together out of range of the shots, watching, now the small +standing up, on which lay an open exercise book, and the lathe with +stand made at krems and the victory over mortier raised the spirits of +stand the sight of these unfortunates. +starry night was followed by a bright cheerful morning. the snow was +stars on his breast. he seemed to have grown thinner since the morning; +started,” thought prince andrew, watching his old acquaintance with +starting from their sockets to watch their chief. on reaching the +start my apprenticeship as old maid.” +*** start of this project gutenberg ebook war and peace *** +state.” +state of the political thermometer of legitimate petersburg court +stating them to the emperor francis. he vividly imagined the casual +station), and again embraced his sister. +station, but compared to the thoughts that now occupied him it was a +stationed on the pratzen heights. +station or a doctor for the cadet, and sat down by a bonfire the +stayed his hand. the sergeant, who was evidently wiser than his general, +staying the whole evening, i hope?” +steadily and ceaselessly on all sides. with the exception of the aunt, +step; a soldier who had fallen behind, his face showing alarm at his +step could be heard. on their left flank, nearest to bagratión, marched +stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant +stepped softly over the carpet and went out into the waiting room. +stepped to the middle of the room and stood still. +“stepping flat on his heels—we know what that means....” +stepping into the deep snow. he held the pistol in his right hand at +steps. +steps, and again stopped. +steps behind him holding two horses by their bridles. each time prince +steps. behind the company the sound of wheels, the creaking of springs, +steps down the line. he was evidently pleased at his own display of +steps, her workbag on her arm, and gaily spreading out her dress sat +steps. “o god,” he said with tears in his eyes, “how could you do +steps should be taken to liberate the serfs, which the steward met by +steps. when at last, smartly whirling his partner round in front of her +step that for you all is ended, all is closed except the drawing +stern and solemn train of thought that weakness from loss of blood, +stern but handsome face really joined in the dance. what was expressed +stern eyes on his son. +sternly with a threatening and forbidding movement of her head. +stern, shrewd, and penetrating expression of that look struck pierre. he +stern, threatening, inaccessible, and intangible line which separates +steward, and again began giving orders. a light footstep and the +steward there, who, bowing respectfully, looked into his face and at +“still aching?” túshin asked rostóv in a whisper. +“still, don’t ruin yourself!” said dólokhov with a side glance at +still farther ahead a dark line which he could not see distinctly but +still feeling his eyes gazing at her. +still five men between him and dólokhov with his bluish-gray uniform. +still gazed at the spot where pierre’s face had been before he sat +still he was lifted and laid on the stretcher. +still. “if it were a man whose existence thou didst doubt i could +still in course of construction. round the house was a garden newly laid +still in the drawing room, drew a chair toward him or her, and jauntily +still in the same place, his stout body resting heavily in the saddle +still it was terrible, and she could not help thinking of it. she was +still, i will take borís and go to see him at once, and i shall speak +still less did he think of injuring anyone for his own advantage. he +still looking silently at her brother and her beautiful eyes were full +still no one moved. the troops of the left flank, infantry and hussars +still quite a young lady, before her nose was broken; how she had aged +still smiling, she gracefully moved away, turning and glancing at her +still sound, yellowish teeth. +still the cannon balls continued regularly to whistle and flop onto the +still there?” +“still the same; but what can you expect, this noise...” said the +“still the same,” she said to her husband. +“still the same. wait, for heaven’s sake. karl ivánich always says +still was not in time to avoid them. +still when she’s fifty.” +still why didn’t you capture him? so don’t be surprised if not only +stimulating effect on him. “vive l’empereur! l’empereur!” he now +stint yourself, we’ll settle afterwards,” he added, turning to +stir. an adjutant, dismounting, lifted the soldier under the arms to +stir, and a footman who had run in announced, with a frightened face: +stir around him, then the people resumed their places and the service +stomach with an already stiffened arm flung wide. +stone, hundreds of riders composing the suites moved carelessly but +stones of the pavement. +stood at a window with dólokhov, whose acquaintance he had lately +stood at every door anxiously noting visitors’ every movement in order +stood before a looking glass and brushed the hair on his temples +stood cold and silent, as if quite regardless of who had come to it. +stood, met, and separated, some in uniform and some in evening dress, +stood waiting by the door. +stood with his marshals around him, it was quite light. above him was +stood with the candle. yes, it was he, pale, thin, with a changed and +“stop jesting,” said prince andrew sadly and seriously. this news +stopped and glanced inquiringly over his spectacles at his guide. anna +stopped at a solitary, deserted house that had probably once been an +stopped him. he turned his horse and galloped off. +stopped the company.” dólokhov breathed heavily from weariness and +stopping in front of the pávlograds, the tsar said something in french +stopping occasionally at a corner to make menacing gestures at the wall, +“stop them!” he shouted, and at the same moment, probably realizing +“stop this jesting,” he said. +“stop those wretches!” gasped kutúzov to the regimental commander, +stories of his kindness and irascibility. berg, as usual, kept silent +stories of the grand duke’s quick temper he related with gusto how in +stories or telling them, but followed every movement of rostóv’s +story of the misfortunes of some mary víktorovna or other. at the +story to him, her seducer. and now he, a real russian prince, had +stouter!...” +straight into his son’s face with keen eyes which seemed to see +straight! it’s well god had mercy on us. and what was it for? who +straight on napoleon, he was silent.... so insignificant at that moment +strains of daniel cooper (somewhat resembling those of a merry peasant +strange and ridiculous to meet objections from russian generals and to +strangely softened but agitated expression on his face. he came up the +stranger. +stranger, looking deeper and deeper into pierre’s eyes. “and in +strangers and unable to send news of himself. the gazettes from which +stranger, yet nearer to him through the brotherhood of man. with bated +strange, unknown, and dangerous places he reaches, just as a sailor is +strategic position where the operations would take place was familiar in +straw covered street and turned into the wide courtyard of count cyril +strayed from under her friend’s plaits. +strayed off the track into the snow, pierre looked down at his feet, +streamed out of a side street. +streets of brünn and found himself surrounded by high buildings, the +stretched along the highroad in the midst of a young copse in which were +stretchers came into view before rostóv. and the fear of death and of +“stretchers!” shouted someone behind him. +stretching himself he rose from the table. “one does get tired sitting +(strictly speaking, daniel cooper was one figure of the anglaise.) +strictly to obey. you said the bridge would be burned, but who would it +striking a blow!” +striking chords with his short fingers, his legs thrown back and his +striking him regularly on his bare back. the man shrieked unnaturally. +striking his horse with his long muscular legs as if it were to blame +stripes on their bodies heal, and they are happy as before. but it is +stroke, came up to the prince, bowing his bald head resignedly before +stroked the animal. it was plain that he did not quite grasp where he +stronger flow of love for his sovereign. he longed to show that love in +strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and are surrounded by other such +struck him by her beauty on the preceding day. today, when he had caught +struck the ground in front of them. +struck two and another with a shrill tone joined in from the drawing +struggle, but with naïve and lighthearted gaiety. +struggles of a certain emilie de mansfeld. “and why did she resist +struggle to conquer that fear, all his dreams of distinguishing himself +study. +study a little before noon in his silk dressing gown and found his head +study, on the blue sofa, the confidential sofa? why cannot i now, as +study, the old prince went for his walk as usual next morning, but he +stumbled on him in the fog, hearing no encouraging word from their +stumbled over it. several of those present laughed. +stupidest remarks came out clever and apt. now everything pierre said +style, wearing an antique coat and powdered hair; and when prince andrew +subject, and was thus at the duc’s mercy. the latter spared him, and +subject under discussion than those they are talking with. +submissive general. +submit from habit, and she said: “i wish only to do your will, but if +submit my report, with the information that if the army remains in its +submitted herself to mademoiselle bourienne and lise. both these women +subordinate by me. +subordinate commanders was done, if not by his direct command, at least +subscribed the same amount as the others. +subsiding under the delightful interest of his own story, “is that the +subtleties here beyond my feeble intelligence, but i can’t make it +succeeded in forestalling the french he was to delay them as long as +succeeded in setting two loquacious talkers at one another. +succeeded!’ the prussian generals pride themselves on being polite to +succeeds. he sat motionless, looking at the heights visible above +success.” +success and at the inability of others to understand these things. +successfully cannonading the french, our artillerymen only noticed this +success reached kutúzov’s cheerless staff with the galloping advent +such a friend that i burned my arm for her sake. look here!” +such a fright! oh, what a pig i am!” he repeated, flushing suddenly. +such an unfortunate and charming woman! don’t mention him before +such a plan in which the enemy’s position was assumed to be known, +such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was passing now +such as might call for his rapidity of perception and decision. +such bad health, and now this vexation about his son is enough to kill +such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread +such love as sónya was speaking of. but natásha had not yet felt +such silence and an anxiety to find something to say, the effect is +such things about bonaparte, but understanding that he was wanted as +suddenly. +suddenly a gust of wind beat violently against the casement of the +suddenly appeared in the fog, there was a flash, followed by a report, +suddenly appeared, looming huge as an elephant. +suddenly came to and, lifting his head with an effort, took rostóv, who +suddenly changed to one of horror. the french were supposed to be a +suddenly dólokhov made a backward movement with his spine, and his arm +suddenly from the next room were heard the footsteps of boys and girls +suddenly heard a sound new to him, of something swiftly approaching... +suddenly prince bolkónski frowned. +suddenly prince hippolyte started up making signs to everyone to attend, +suddenly replied the irate colonel. “if you vere in the cavalry...” +suddenly she jumped up onto a tub to be higher than he, embraced him so +suddenly the angry, squirrel-like expression of the princess’ pretty +suddenly transformed. he put on the air of a subordinate who obeys +suddenness and prompt him to the coarsest and most reckless actions. +suffer for it.” +suffering, and the nearness of death aroused in him. looking into +suffering, but what he wanted to do was too terrible. +suffering?” suggested another voice. prince andrew, however, did not +sufferings. what a heart! how like him it is! and how he has remembered +sufficient ground for this affair, or for blood to be shed over it.... +sufficiently weakened to be successfully attacked. but still he did not +suggested that she had resolved to endure her troubles uncomplainingly +suggested to him a blow from something. he looked at prince vasíli +suggested to him a point of view which gave him a right to despise +suggestion and pressed his lips to the large boned, fleshy hand. neither +suite. +suite, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the gun they could see +suite and said in french: +suite who had mimicked the regimental commander, fell back from the +sumptuous but cold apartments known to pierre only from the front +sun. how beautiful the sky looked; how blue, how calm, and how deep! +superfluous was hanging on his benumbed left arm. the wrist felt as if +superior. +superior to napoleon’s, were concentrated in one place, the troops +superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence. he +“supper, it’s time for supper! and here are the gypsies!” +supported him under the arms. there was a gurgle in his throat and he +support of his battery all was forgotten. prince andrew listened +supposed, must have risen to fifteen thousand. in reality it already +supposed, share the general russian antipathy to the austrians which was +supposed that the russian guards, abroad, was quite a definite address, +suppose that i should look severely on your affection for that young +suppressed smile brightening both their faces, a smile that had nothing +“surely he will leave something to borís,” said the countess. +surprise.” +surprised by what he saw. hoping to enter on an entirely new life quite +surprised pierre. +surprise, the french had thrown down their muskets and run. dólokhov, +surrendered but had beaten the french. +surrender of most of the prussian fortresses had been received, when our +“surrounded! cut off? we’re lost!” shouted the fugitives. +surroundings, and from her smiling lips flowed sounds which anyone may +surroundings unable to find their own regiments. in this way the action +surveying the guests, and leisurely arranged her wide sleeves as if +survive....” +suvórov giving his saber to bagratión in italy, and the recollection +suvórov-like, in a kibítka, and is received with acclamations of joy +suvórov. moreover, paying such honor to bagratión was the best way of +suvórov’s time, now passing so gallantly before the emperors, that he +suvórov’s wars. send it to the academy. here are some jottings for +swallowing his r’s, and pronouncing the latin words with a french +swarmed with well-provisioned sutlers and austrian jews offering +sway and scatters its last snows and storms with desperate fury. a relay +sways the world. think this over and i will come to you again.” +sweeter, and better than the feelings which the beautiful eyes of a +sweetest comforts to my poor heart, which has already suffered so much. +sweetly. it was the third time that day that, with an ecstatic and +sweet, so good-natured, and her position now is a very hard one.” +sweet wine, my dear, now that the time has come for these young ones to +swinging their arms and keeping time spontaneously, marched with long +sword of frederick the great. +swords, meaning them to pierce it. but the swords were drawn back from +symmetrically and above all freely, and in front of them two men—the +symmetrically on his knees in the naïve attitude of an egyptian statue, +sympathize with him; if i seem sad and out of spirits myself, he will +table. +table, a child’s table, and the little chair on which prince andrew +table and becoming more animated and talking more rapidly: “what if +table and placed on it his small leather-gloved hands. +table began to watch her hands arranging the cards. from the dancing +table. denísov was sitting there scratching with his pen on a sheet of +table linen, he would call dmítri vasílevich, a man of good family and +table on a corner of which he smilingly and absent-mindedly fixed his +tables and the same chandelier with a cover over it; but someone had +table seemed to feel this, and they forgot their duties as they looked +table that he had pushed away. “but... in short, the fact is... you +table. “what are you thumping the table for?” she demanded of the +tache,” he thought. “there now... it’s not a tache... natásha... +“tafa-lafa! but what he’s jabbering no one can make out,” said a +tail extended, bedouin, as if also conscious of the emperor’s eye +“take a glass of boiled water and put a pinch of cream of tartar,” +take a seat beside her. +“take a stick between your legs, that’ll suit you for a horse!” +take her for her connections and wealth. are there no women living +take his eyes off her and beat time with his saber in a way that clearly +take it...” he threw it on the table. “i have an old father and +“take it if you like,” said the officer, giving the girl an apple. +“take it right out, or they’ll think i’m holding on,” said +take me too? who are these men?” thought rostóv, scarcely believing +taken a ballroom in bezúkhov’s house, and the ball, as everyone said, +taken advice; but no, you go and blurt it all straight out before the +taken, and all this for the beaux yeux * of his sardinian majesty. and +taken and i hope it will not be, for it is mined and orders have been +taken from the prisoner. +taken, it was not his fault but the corporal’s who had sent him to +taken off his eyes and, by the faint light of the burning spirit, +taken up their position and seeing troops before them, thought they were +take part in receiving the visitors. the count met the guests and saw +takes place at such moments. +take the money,” and he threw the purse to him and ran out of the inn. +take these away. put this on the seat and this to the right.” +“take this and deliver it,” said he to his adjutant, handing him the +“take this road, your honor, that way you will be killed at once!” a +taking advantage of it!” +taking a glass from the table he went up to pierre. +taking a letter addressed in a woman’s hand from a bag hanging above +taking charges from their pouches, while others were firing, though who +taking him by the hand led him forward. the hairs tied in the knot hurt +taking his partner with him. he glided silently on one foot half across +taking leave of anna pávlovna. “it is settled,” she added in a low +taking no notice of his arrival. a wax candle stood at each side of the +taking offense, but you don’t mind disgracing the whole regiment!” +taking out what she was holding inside it, as if what she held were +taking the colonel’s outburst as a challenge to his courage, the +taking up a pack he prepared to deal. rostóv submissively unbent the +talk, but i don’t want to,” he seemed to say. besides this, in his +talked of peace but did not believe in its possibility; others talked +talking about me? let us talk about you,” he added after a silence, +talking of the schön grabern affair? were you there?” +talking. seeing them pass, prince vasíli drew back with obvious +talking too loudly and vehemently with the abbé, so she hurried to the +talks sense, but to temporize and wait for something now when bonaparte +talk to her. what a darling sónya is!” he added with a smile. +tangled black hair. +task pierre had to face was one for which he had very little aptitude or +taste. and she had a lady’s maid, also big. she said....” +tea?” asked his valet. +teacher’s fault or the pupil’s, this same thing happened every day: +teach you to dress the men in fancy coats for a parade.... eh...?” +tears. +tears.” +teatime she would prepare the countess, and after tea, with god’s +teeth, he began with stubby fingers of both hands to ruffle up his thick +“tell bezúkhov to come. i’ll put his name down. is his wife with +tell everything just as it happened, but imperceptibly, involuntarily, +telling her things. she has had a dream and is frightened.” +telling him. +telling me what forces are being collected against him! while you and i +“tell me about that!” he said. +tell me,” he added with studied carelessness as if it had only just +“tell me, my dear,” said she to natásha, “is mimi a relation of +“tell me, when did the battle begin?” he asked hurriedly. +tell the little countess!” +“tell them to give me a seat, for god’s sake!” +“tell these devils, these fiends, to let me pass!” shouted denísov +tell the truth. +tell you for the tenth time that if the letter to the emperor and the +telyánin. +telyánin. +telyánin, and he went out to give the order. +telyánin’s orderly. “has something happened?” he added, surprised +telyánin, taking up his cap and moving toward a small empty room. “we +telyánin was sitting in the same indolent pose in which rostóv had +temper because prince vasíli was coming, or whether his being in a bad +temper made him specially annoyed at prince vasíli’s visit, he was +temptation she slipped quietly behind one of the columns. in the midst +tenacious endurance and vigor of hardy old age. after a few more turns +tenderly sad voice, she said: +ten minutes. and that it will not be too dull, here is the dear count +ten minutes later lavrúshka brought the coffee. “he’s coming!” +terrible and holy secrets of providence while we remain in this flesh +terrible, and now he has this authority of a commander in chief of +terrible dividing line of uncertainty and fear—resembling the line +terrible dragon, a lady distinguished not for wealth or rank, but for +terrible news from her till after her confinement, which was expected +terrible pain of being lifted onto the stretcher, the jolting while +terrible voice that the whole house heard it with horror. god knows what +terribly true. i pity prince vasíli but am still more sorry for pierre. +tête-de-pont. * they spin him a thousand gasconades, saying that +than a hundred cannon were already in the hands of the french. +than a man who has been looking at a tuft of steppe grass through the +than anything else showed pierre her superiority. she was right in +than a yard above the glow of the charcoal. flakes of falling snow were +than five hundred paces from where kutúzov was standing, a dense french +thanked him for his love. his looks thanked her for offering him his +thanked,” thought the overseer, “the storm has blown over!” +“thank god!” +“thank god,” said his son smiling. +“thank god!” said prince vasíli. “my wife has told me +“thank god!” said sónya, crossing herself. “but perhaps she +“thank god!” said the voice. “and father?” +thanks to anna mikháylovna’s efforts, his own tastes, and the +thanks to princess lise’s voice and little downy lip that lifted over +“thank you, my dear.” she kissed him on the forehead and sat down +“thank you very much, i will go on alone,” said prince andrew, +“thank you very much, prince,” answered one of the officers, pleased +thank you with my whole heart.” to rostóv every word sounded like a +thank you! you must have a rest. be at the levee tomorrow after the +“thank you; you saved me, my dear fellow!” said túshin. +than once. “you know it won’t do to leave your posts like this. +than the other; the serfs everywhere seemed thriving and touchingly +than with politics,” said he in his quiet ironical tone. “i know +that. +“that abbé is very interesting but he does not see the thing in the +that affair for me and i shall always be your most devoted slave-slafe +that afternoon. she felt that as she brought with her the person the +that all europe is powerless before him.... and i don’t believe a +that anna mikháylovna whom i would not take for a housemaid... the +that army: a feeling of self-forgetfulness, a proud consciousness of +that between the person they so address and themselves there are some +that both her slender bare arms clasped him above his neck, and, tossing +that came upon him at hollabrünn, which was clearly impossible. but +that column himself. when he had reached the village of pratzen he +that could save the army, and how he alone would be entrusted with the +that day, but had heard about them from an infantry officer. “they +that day nicholas rostóv received a letter from borís, telling him +that dinner was ready! the door opened, and from the dining room came +that divine purity and devotion i look for in women. if i found such a +“that dólokhov was my lover,” she said in french with her coarse +that dreadful abyss, pierre said to himself: “what am i doing? i need +that dread of beaten tracks, and wish to express itself in a manner +that end and when did this new, terrible state of things begin? what +that evening, proud of dólokhov’s proposal, her refusal, and her +that evening to bid a last farewell to the celebrated grandee of +that, even more than in moscow, he felt a sense of bewilderment, bustle, +that everything done by necessity, by accident, or by the will of +that everything was splendid. “just fancy: wants to be an hussar. +that explained their teaching by hieroglyphics. a hieroglyph,” said +that fat one in spectacles” (that was how pétya described his +that for an instant). why should he not love her now, and even marry +that friendship?” remarked the count in an inquiring tone. +that god who has been sewn into this amulet by mary! there is nothing +that had advanced beyond the village went back; but as though in revenge +that had already once been given in detail: “and tell the hussars +that had placed the vienna bridge in the hands of the french without +that had tormented him all dinnertime rose and took possession of him. +that, hearing he was in a bad humor, she had decided not to appear. +that he could not believe his eyes. “who are they? why are they +that he decided to go. the thought immediately occurred to him that his +that he fell off his horse and sprained his arm and then ran as hard as +that he had composed in his imagination could he now recall. those +that he is probably tired of them,” said another officer. +that he ought to avoid her and go away, pierre, despite that decision, +“that here lives count cyril vladímirovich bezúkhov so rich, all +that he should do the same. the rider, whose figure seemed familiar +that hesitation lasted only an instant. the tsar’s foot, in the narrow +that he too seemed ashamed of the hussar of the line. +that he was at the front and in the power of a man toward whom he now +that he was dangerously wounded. +that he would have to answer it justly, and justice clashed not only +that his heart stood still. his hand trembled as he gave his horse into +that his remarks were too enthusiastic and emphatic for the occasion and +that i am saying!” thought a diplomatist, glancing at the happy faces +that i do not like him.” +that if he asked on behalf of all who begged of him, he would soon be +that—if you consider yourself bound by your promise—it will seem as +that i’m a sharper, so i advise you to be careful.” +that imprint of newness found in the households of the newly married. +that insignificant society people might carry them from drawing room to +that in spite of all the unpleasantness he had to endure he would still +that instant the trooper nikítenko, who was galloping ahead, shot away +that in this world there is neither honor nor justice. in this world one +“that is all nonsense.” prince andrew again interrupted him, “let +“that is doubtful,” said prince andrew. “monsieur le vicomte quite +“that is enough for me,” said sónya, blushing. +“that is just why i do not begin, sire,” said kutúzov in a +“that is no business of mine,” he thought. he had not ridden many +that is not yet ready. +“that is probably the work of vinesse,” said pierre, mentioning +that is still too fresh. ah, dear friend, you are happy not to know +that is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. it is the one +“that is what i ask you. no one, not even bonaparte, knows why.” +“that is what we shall see! that is what we shall see!” he added +“that is why i beg to be sent to that detachment,” he said. +“that is, with ilyá rostóv who married nataly shinshiná,” said +that is, you want to raise him” (pointing to a peasant who passed by +that it is more dangerous to run away than to advance, but that russian +that it is we who lost the battle of pultúsk. in short, we retreat +that it might not occur to her to speak of his share in the affair of +that it seemed to be made of one piece with her head and covered with +that it was impossible to stop them, spurred his horse and rode to the +that it was not she but he was so unusually beautiful, and that that was +that it would be a bad thing), but he knew it would happen. +that i was ungrateful, and that mamma would never allow him to marry +that i would give my life twice over...” he looked at the countess, +that?... kindly do as you are ordered.” +that kutúzov’s upper lip twitched unnaturally as he said the +that led to his own apartments. +“that letter was written, though it was not sent, and the emperor knew +that makes me unhappy. but even in this i can see lately a shade of +that moment after supper at prince vasíli’s, when he spoke those +that moment a third enemy rises before us—namely the orthodox russian +that moment been wounded and his face showed fear rather than suffering. +that moment his home life, jokes with pétya, talks with sónya, duets +that moment pierre felt that hélène not only could, but must, be his +that month and a half while he felt himself drawn nearer and nearer to +that more irritating news than yours could not have been conceived. +that negotiations for peace were already proceeding, and that he +that never does any harm,” thought anatole. +that not even a continuity of most brilliant successes would secure +that one also passed. then followed a cart unlike any that had gone +that on receiving news of the defeat some would simply not believe it, +that passionate animal feeling which was apt to master him with great +“that passion which more than all others caused you to waver on the +that peculiar expression of polite weariness which plainly says, “if +that pierre could no longer see the reddish-yellow face with its gray +that princess mary in this guise looked very plain, worse than usual, +that provisions are supplied and the routes indicated,” said bilíbin, +that remained uninjured out of the four, they began moving down the hill + * “that russian army which has been brought from the ends of +“that’s admirable!” he shouted. “he will take you with your +“that’s a fine death!” said napoleon as he gazed at bolkónski. +“that’s a good thing, but don’t move from prince vasíli’s. it +“that’s all right. no one thinks you a coward, but that’s not the +that same day a council of war had been held in which all the members of +that same evening there was an animated discussion among the +that same evening there was to be one of the balls that iogel (the +that same night, having taken leave of the minister of war, bolkónski +that same night, rostóv was with a platoon on skirmishing duty in front +“that’s a miwacle.” +“that’s better, count,” said the staff captain, beginning to +“that’s capital; of course she’ll forget her childish promises +“that’s fine,” said he. +“that’s for them all,” he said to the officer who came up. +that she had not intended her flight to bring her so far. behind her in +that she winced and uttered a cry. +that showed that his father’s foibles did not prevent his son from +“that’s how we used to dance in our time, ma chère,” said the +that’s it.” and with a complacent sigh he would return to the +“that’s it, that’s it!” exclaimed the count, and gaily seizing +“that’s just it,” answered bilíbin. “listen! the french entered +“that’s just it,” interrupted dolgorúkov quickly, laughing. +“that’s just it, my dear fellow. you see it’s hurrah for the tsar, +that sleep is more important than anything,” whispered princess mary +that smile was immediately reflected on pierre’s face. +that’s not it—that’s tomorrow. oh yes! natásha... sabretache... +“that’s not the point, my dear.” +that soldier passed on, and after him came another sitting on a cart. +that sort of man), he gave borís a pleasant smile, frowned as with +that sort of thing.” +“that’s our battery,” said the staff officer indicating the +that’s our house,” said rostóv. “of course, it’s our house! +“that’s so, your excellency, all they have to do is to eat a good +that state of mind which makes everything seem possible, pleasant, and +that’s the way they treat me! no confidence in me! ah, ordered to keep +that stood before his plate, pierre held out one at random and drank +“that’s true!” +“that’s twue, devil take it!” shouted denísov, jumping up. “now +that sum. “he’s begun to go a little lame on the left foreleg,” he +that surrounded the emperors. +“that’s what comes of a modern education,” exclaimed the visitor. +that’s what i did.” +that’s why i have come... i am a relation. i shall not disturb him, +that the corsican monster who is destroying the peace of europe may +“that the emperor will meet me and give me an order as he would to any +that the hussars must return quickly and fire the bridge.’” +that the ismáylov regiment was quartered for the night ten miles from +that the prince was in a bad humor, stood awaiting him; mademoiselle +that the pupils’ parents wept at having to let him take their children +that the question of his wife’s guilt which had been tormenting him +that there were no political difficulties in europe and no real war, +that these thoughts had been suggested to prince andrew by his +that the story about sergéy kuzmích, the laughter, and the food +that the strange lady, the aide-de-camp, and some of the servants, all +that they are to cross last and to fire the bridge as i ordered; and the +that they despaired of the possibility of checking this disorder. +that they may run smoothly. +that those broad-boned reddish hands with hairy wrists visible from +that tonight he was a person obliged to perform some sort of awful +that very instant a cloud of smoke spread all round, firing was heard +that village, amid the smoke, was something resembling a battery, but it +“that was a daniel cooper!” exclaimed márya dmítrievna, tucking up +“that was a nice snub for the little aide-de-camp,” came a voice +that was dispersing on the hill lay still more densely below, where they +that was good. +that was not pretty, but neither mademoiselle bourienne nor the little +that was swaying from its weight in prince andrew’s hands, but he +that were afloat, and so kutúzov’s suggestion of an austrian victory +that were arriving from russia. if kutúzov decided to remain at krems, +that were so agonizingly, incessantly pulling and pressing his arm and +that where the steward had shown him in the accounts that the serfs’ +that which had said: “the pávlograd hussars?” + that while her fingers touch the harp +that while napoleon’s proclamation was being read to the troops the +that white spot. “i expect it’s snow... that spot... a spot—une +that will decide the matter, but those who devised it,” said bilíbin +“that would be a fine thing!” said she. “i never wanted anything +“that would be fine, gentlemen!” +“that would take too long to tell,” answered the son. +that year, as all his estates had been remortgaged, and so nicholas, +that year to moreau to enter the russian service.... “wonderful!... +thawing in the sunshine, the horses galloped quickly, and on both sides +the 18th brumaire; was not that an imposture? it was a swindle, and not +the abbé. another, of young people, was grouped round the beautiful +the abbé morio and many others had also come. +the accountant with the naïve face was feeling its texture, shaking his +the accurate way characteristic of him, was building a little pyramid of +the act of falling asleep. rostóv lifted his head that had sunk almost +the address. “this letter would be of great use to you.” +the adjutant and the minister. “away from the smell of powder, they +the adjutant on duty, meeting prince andrew, asked him to wait, and went +the adjutant on duty,” said the official. “he will conduct you to +the adoration then common in moscow for the emperor, who was spoken of +the advanced army. prince andrew bolkónski came into the room with the +the advantages are far less than in the infantry. just consider my own +the affair, and like everyone in similar cases, did not yet believe that +the affair had come to an actual duel). “you know, count, it is much +the agility with which he capered about on his light feet, márya +the aide-de-camp was sent to confirm the order which had not been +the aide-de-camp with a respectful politeness evidently relating to the +the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that is how +“the ammunition for the guns in position is exhausted, your +the animated hum of several conversations. at one end of the table, the +the anteroom. “i can’t remain any longer in petersburg. tell me what +the appointed place. +“the Ápsherons must be stopped, your excellency,” cried he. but at +the archduchy of austria, and yet other regiments freshly arriving from +the archduke ferdinand and mack, and kutúzov, not considering this +the architect. +the armistice immediately and march on the enemy. inform him that the +the army, and about whom natásha had teased her elder sister véra, +the army considerably. throughout the whole army and at headquarters +the army now that it is in danger. i understand that. mon cher, it is +the army was a great grief to me. this young man, of whom i spoke to you +the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both +the arrival of the rest of the troops who were on their way from vienna, +the artillerymen were still as merry and lively as ever. twice they +theater, where he had been with his family and denísov. he was at once +the attack of the sixth chasseurs secured the retreat of our right +the austrian adjutant, he addressed bolkónski. +the austrian general looked dissatisfied, but had no option but to reply +the baggage wagons had all crossed, the crush was less, and the last +the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young +the bald head. véra, natásha, sónya, and pétya now entered the room, +the band immediately struck up “conquest’s joyful thunder +the band struck up the newly introduced mazurka. nicholas could not +the baron. +the battalion commander. “oh, my god!” he added, stepping resolutely +the battalion commander perceived the jovial irony and laughed. +the battery to retire as quickly as possible. when the supports attached +the battlefield, believed that the french had been defeated and were +the battle had begun! prince andrew turned his horse and galloped back +the battle of schön grabern than you do now,” said his son with a +the beauty went to the aunt, but anna pávlovna detained pierre, looking +the bedchamber. the diplomatic career now lies open before you.” +“the berlin cabinet cannot express a feeling of alliance,” began +the best maroon dress, and so on, all would be well. they forgot that +the best post he could—preferably that of adjutant to some important +the better. but bogdánich, without looking at or recognizing rostóv, +the bigwigs who guided the club’s opinion reappeared, and everybody +the black, hairy, snub-nosed face of váska denísov, and his whole +the bohemian mountains with. it’s a bad lookout, old fellow! but +the bonfire, and addressing túshin asked him to have the guns moved a +the bonfires of our infantry who were felling wood. the french line was +the book was the gospel, and the white thing with the lamp inside was a +the boots. +the bottle of rum was brought. the window frame which prevented anyone +the bridge. +the bridge and its celebrated bridgehead and prince auersperg? we heard +the bridge and not let us cross? but it will please our sovereign the +the bridge chased each other along. looking on the bridge he saw equally +the bridge, for the horizon as seen from the valley through which the +the bridges were strong and had handrails. everything bore an impress of +the bridge unobserved, flings the bags of incendiary material into +the brilliant surroundings in which he had last met his friend in +“‘the brook,’” suggested nicholas. +the cadet was rostóv. with one hand he supported the other; he was +the campaign and the two battles in which he had taken part, and his +the campfire. they were quarreling and fighting desperately, each trying +the card tables were drawn out, sets made up for boston, and the +the care of a skillful rider and, slightly bending over, disengaged his +the carriage as pale as anything. how they made the four black horses +the carved back of a velvet chair he had turned round for the purpose, +the case, hesitated about lifting the injured or dead. the soldiers, +the case is this: you ought to have thought the matter over and +the cause of his grief. +the cause of justice against the enemy of the human race. anna pávlovna +the cause of the confusion was that while the austrian cavalry was +the center of the russian army, and that that center was already +the chair for her. +the changed expression on prince bagratión’s face at this moment. it +the chanting of the service ceased, and the voice of the priest was +the chantry long before, but that nine tenths of the peasants in that +the cheeks, the same expression was on her charming childlike face with +the cheerful glitter of that autumn day was in keeping with the news of +the cheerful mood of their officers after the inspection infected the +the chief steward, a very stupid but cunning man who saw perfectly +the chief steward expressed great sympathy with pierre’s intentions, +the chief steward, who considered the young count’s attempts almost +the child moved slightly in his sleep, smiled, and rubbed his forehead +the clavichord, sang the tune. bolkónski was not there. none of these +the clear blue eyes looked at the commander in chief just as boldly as +the cleverest among them, including the chief steward, understood from +the clever though shy, but observant and natural, expression which +the climate,” said he. +the cloak they spread under him was wet with blood which stained his +the club cook and the steward listened to the count’s orders with +the coach with six horses was waiting at the porch. it was an autumn +the coin was a new one. rostóv rose and went up to telyánin. +the cold, austere tone of this man, whom he had almost always before met +the cold wind, swarmed in these earthworks like a host of white ants; +the colonel, closely—to find in his face confirmation of his own +the colonel deliberately stopped the regiment and turned to nesvítski. +the colonel looked silently at the officer of the suite, at the stout +the colonel rode to the front, angrily gave some reply to questions put +the colonel told them that the declaration of war had already appeared +the colonel was a stout, tall, plethoric german, evidently devoted to +the column, gave him the order to advance. +the combatants advanced along the trodden tracks, nearer and nearer to +“the commander in chief is engaged,” repeated kozlóvski calmly. +“the commander in chief is engaged,” said kozlóvski, going +the commander in chief is expected and you leave your place? eh? i’ll +the commander in chief, kutúzov. +the commander in chief’s one sound eye showed him to be so preoccupied +the commander in chief would inspect the regiment on the march. though +the commander of the company, with his eyes fixed on his superior, +the commander of the dragoons had already retreated beyond the dip in +the commander of the regiment, a thin, feeble-looking old man with a +the commander of the regiment turned to prince bagratión, entreating +the commander of the regiment was an elderly, choleric, stout, and +the commander with a tone of suffering in his voice, while there were +the command of the army to general buxhöwden. during this interregnum +the command of the left flank belonged by seniority to the commander of +the company commander might get killed and he, as senior in the company, +the complete darkness túshin’s guns moved forward, surrounded by the +the concentrated activity which had begun at the emperor’s +the contempt with which rostóv, from his fighting army point of view, +the conversation, “almost all the aristocracy has already gone over to +the conversation broke up into insignificant small talk about the last +the conversation did not flag all evening and turned chiefly on the +the conversation to insignificant matters. natásha, who, of the whole +the conversation was hushed. +the convoy officer. +the copse across which our men, regardless of orders, were running and +the cossacks sold the horse for two gold pieces, and rostóv, being the +the cot. he did not look round, but still gazing at the infant’s face +the cot where she was standing, “better wait a bit... later...” +the council of war, at which prince andrew had not been able to +the council of war was just over when prince andrew accompanied +the count and at anna mikháylovna, the latter very adroitly turned +the count burst out laughing. the other guests seeing that shinshín +the count came waddling in to see his wife with a rather guilty look as +the count considered. +the count danced well and knew it. but his partner could not and did not +the count, dying with laughter. +the countess; about 70,000 went for interest on debts. the building of a +the countess as her mother and called her so) “that i am spoiling +the countess did not believe her ears. denísov had proposed. to whom? +the countess exchanged glances with anna mikháylovna. the latter +the countess’ eyes filled with tears and she pondered in silence. +the countess glanced at her silent son. +the countess had been prepared by anna mikháylovna’s hints at dinner. +the countess shrugged her shoulders. +“the countess told me to inquire whether your excellency was at +the countess tried to frown, but could not. márya dmítrievna shook her +the countess was a woman of about forty-five, with a thin oriental type +the countess was upset by her friend’s sorrow and humiliating poverty, +the countess, with a smile. +the count, holding his cards fanwise, kept himself with difficulty from +“the count is suffering physically and mentally, and apparently you +the count jumped up and, swaying from side to side, spread his arms wide +the count, my uncle; but you, my dear, had better go to pierre meanwhile +the count put his ear to the keyhole and listened. +the count sobbed yet more. +the count walked up and down the hall in his dressing gown, giving +the count was beginning to breathe heavily and quickly which was always +the count was delighted at anna mikháylovna’s taking upon herself one +the count went in first with márya dmítrievna, the countess followed +the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his +the crowd moved on again. nesvítski realized that it was a cannon ball. +the crowd of retreating soldiers, ordering them back. bagratión rode up +the crowd, pushing forward desperately, squeezed together, moved a few +the crystal decanters and fruit vases, the count kept glancing at his +the dam, the pond, and the bank. +the darkness. this was the last french attack and was met by soldiers +the day after he had been received into the lodge, pierre was sitting at +the day after rostóv had been to see borís, a review was held of the +the day after the review, borís, in his best uniform and with his +the day. that’s what keeping one’s head means. that’s the way, +the decisive point, and gains the victory alone. “but death and +the declaration from petersburg gave him particular pleasure, and that +the deep wet snow between the place where they had been standing and +the determination of denísov who flourished his sword and shouted +“the devil knows! they’ve killed everybody! it’s all up now!” +“the devil only knows! they say so.” +“the devil only knows what they’re about!” muttered denísov. +“the devil skin your emperor.” +the dinner sat silent, glancing with a frightened look now at her +the disordered battalion and at the enemy, “what’s that?” +“the dispositions!” exclaimed kutúzov bitterly. “who told you +the dispositions or anything else—he was engaged in satisfying the +the dispositions were very complicated and difficult. they began as +“the divine mercy is inexhaustible! unction is about to be +the doctor cast a rapid glance upwards and silently shrugged his +the doctor entered. prince andrew went out and, meeting princess mary, +the doctor glanced at his watch. +the door. +the door and as soon as it opened his rough old arms closed like a vise +the door himself behind him. +the door; the scream ceased and he heard the wail of an infant. +the door, was sitting at the table in a persian dressing gown, writing. +the doorway appeared a student with a crimson coat collar, an officer +“the doubt is flattering,” said “the man of profound intellect,” +the drawing room. he evidently tried to find something to say, but +the duel between pierre and dólokhov was hushed up and, in spite of +the duel with nesvítski, bezúkhov’s second. pierre went home, but +the dull, sleepy expression was no longer there, nor the affectation +the duties of wife and mother upon me i shall try to perform them as +thee, and even in those blasphemous words thou hast just uttered!” + the earth by english gold, we shall cause to share the same +the ebb and flow of these sounds. +the efforts of the old count, and instead of being degraded to the ranks +“the eighteenth.” +the elderly lady was a princess drubetskáya, belonging to one of the +the elders began talking about bonaparte. julie karágina turned to +the eldest princess paused in her reading and silently stared at him +the emperor about him; so that in the case of his death—and he is +the emperor alexander and the king of prussia in berlin? if prussia +“the emperor alexander,” said she, with the melancholy which +the emperor, and a thousand reasons occurred to him why it would be +the emperor drew level with rostóv and halted. alexander’s face was +the emperor, frowning slightly, bent his ear forward as if he had not +the emperor. he felt that this nearness by itself made up to him for the +the emperor immediately!” thought rostóv and galloped on. +the emperor interrupted him. +the emperor’s horse started at the sudden cry. this horse that had +the emperor spoke to him most graciously. annette and i were speaking of +the emperor’s severity regarding duels at that time, neither the +the emperor’s suite. one officer told rostóv that he had seen someone +the emperor’s voice. +the emperor thanked prince andrew and bowed. prince andrew withdrew and +“the emperor! the emperor!” was suddenly heard among the hussars. +the emperor turned with a smile to one of his followers and made a +the emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of +the enchanted circle i cannot escape from. i am now going to the war, +“the enemy has quenched his fires and a continual noise is heard from +“the enemy is still far away, your excellency. according to the +the enemy’s fires, but heard the shouting of the french more loudly +the englishman nodded, but gave no indication whether he intended to +the englishman took out his purse and began counting out the money. +the english will come off badly, you know, if napoleon gets across the +the enns and the danube became visible, and the rocky left bank of the +the enormously high study door opened and showed the figure of a rather +the enormous study was full of things evidently in constant use. +the entrenchment, and went on again. just behind it they came upon some +the epistles and gospels. let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries +the evening again turned to borís, asking him in a tone of caressing +“the exchange horses have just come,” answered the servant. “will +“the execution of the duc d’enghien,” declared monsieur pierre, +the exercise book containing geometrical figures. +the experience of old cunctators.” +the expression she saw on the maid of honor’s face, and again relapsed +the eyes of the general and the soldier met. the general became silent, +the eyes of the guardsman’s horse. the heavy black horse, sixteen +the face and figure of prince andrew, in a fur cloak the deep collar of +the face of each soldier and each officer seemed to say. +the face of the little princess changed. she sighed and said: “yes, +the faces of officers and men brightened up at the sound. everyone got +the face that emerged from the shirt. +“the fact of the matter is,” said she significantly, and also in a +the fall of austria’s capital. “how is it vienna was taken? what of +the familiar staircase. the well-known old door handle, which always +(the family solicitor) “and he says the same.” +the farther forward and nearer the enemy he went, the more orderly and +the farther he went the more disorganized they were. the highroad on +the fate of battles had arrived. would this disorderly crowd of soldiers +the feather bed. natásha began consoling her, but her face showed that +the feeling, “it has begun! here it is!” was seen even on prince +the felt boots approached the unseen bend of the staircase more rapidly. +“the field marshal is angry with the emperor and he punishes us all, +the field of battle, who though still in some confusion were less +the fire of life had seemed extinguished, now flashed with brilliant +the fires and shouting in the enemy’s army were occasioned by the fact +the first couple. noiselessly, skillfully stepping with his little +the first door on the left led into the princesses’ apartments. the +“the first man that turns up—she forgets her father and everything +the first second. “a baby? what baby...? why is there a baby there? or +the first time. sometimes that same look fell on pierre, and that funny +the first to catch his eye. he sent him. +the first to seize the surrendering french officer by his collar. our +the first words he heard on coming to his senses were those of a french +the flagstaff that had been dropped beside him. (the flag had already +the fog had begun to clear and enemy troops were already dimly visible +the fog had grown so dense that though it was growing light they could +the foreboding of evil that had suddenly come over rostóv was more and +the foreman of a spinning mill, when he has set the hands to work, goes +the foremost frenchman, the one with the hooked nose, was already so +the foremost, wearing a cossack cloak and lambskin cap and riding a +the forests in the province of kostromá, the land lower down the river, +the french, after crossing the bridge at vienna, were advancing in +the french and lay down their arms at the first demand. +the french dragoon was a young alsatian who spoke french with a german +the french, galloped along the front as hard as his horse could go, but +the french grenadier. +the french guns were hastily reloaded. the infantry in their blue +the french had attacked the battery and, seeing kutúzov, were firing +the french had been repulsed for the last time. and again and again in +the french had time to fire three rounds of grapeshot before the hussars +“the french have abandoned the left bank?” +the frenchman langeron, kutúzov’s incapacity, and (it was whispered) +the french onlookers and listeners laughed. +the french sentences which to them were meaningless, with an air of +the french, the spy reported, having crossed the vienna bridge, were +the french were already near. prince andrew, walking beside bagratión, +the french were firing, and he felt his heart palpitating as he rode +the french, who had ceased firing at this field strewn with dead and +the french with his whole army was impossible. the road for the french +the friends were silent. neither cared to begin talking. pierre +the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that +the front, but at dürrenstein, where i was, our attack began after +the front. i held my sword in my left hand, count. all our family—the +the fulfillment of duty, he rose to see some visitors off and, stroking +the full significance of the words he heard. +the game continued; a waiter kept handing round champagne. +the gates, a group of undertakers, who hid whenever a carriage drove up, +the general frowned. though there was no definite news of an austrian +the general frowned, turned away, and went on. +the general had a fit of coughing as a result of shouting and of the +the general had so wished to do this and was so sorry he had not managed +the general pleasure and disappoint everyone’s expectation. prince +the general’s face clouded, his lips quivered and trembled. he took +the generals seemed to listen reluctantly to the difficult dispositions. +the general state of affairs which was far from satisfactory. +the generals were passing by, looking as if they wished to avoid +the general, the men themselves not knowing what, or why, they were +the general... third company to the commander.” the words passed along +the general, who looked through his field glass. +the gentlemen and mademoiselle bourienne rose and the little princess, +the gentlemen around. +the gentlemen assembled at bilíbin’s were young, wealthy, gay society +the gentlemen of the tsar’s suite by his poor french. +the german closed his eyes, signifying that he did not understand. +the german landlord. +the german laughed, came out of the cowshed, pulled off his cap, and +the german village of salzeneck. the best quarters in the village were +the gesture of a man too busy to lose a moment, glanced at kutúzov and, +the girl smiled and took it. nesvítski like the rest of the men on the +the girls sprang aside. denísov hid his hairy legs under the blanket, +the gleaming icons stood a long invalid chair, and in that chair +the glory of our arms and of the day’s work, they assumed a serious +the good-natured expression still more apparent, and gazed at his friend +the good-natured iogel, flying about like a feather and bowing according +the grand cross of maria theresa, and the whole army received rewards. +the grand master began reading the statutes. they were very long, and +the grand master proposed that the last duty should be performed, +the grand master rapped with his mallet. all the masons sat down in +the gray-haired valet was sitting drowsily listening to the snoring of +the greater part of the men had to halt and an unpleasant consciousness +the greatest war there ever was, and i know nothing and am fit for +the ground, as a heavy fire had been opened on him and he was losing +the group round mortemart to listen to what was being said there, and +the guards had gone to the front; dólokhov had been reduced to the +the guards had made their whole march as if on a pleasure trip, parading +the guards to the field of battle, afraid of letting a ready victim +the guests got up and took their leave, promising to return to dinner. +the guests, knowing of the affair with the bear, looked with curiosity +the guests. to each of them he made some careless and agreeable remark +the gunners who had seized it straining to roll it quickly back to its +the hair was wet, so profusely had the child perspired. he was not dead, +the half-closed eyes was there greedily gnawing a mutton bone, and the +the hall porter, “i know count cyril vladímirovich is very ill... +the hall porter sullenly pulled a bell that rang upstairs, and turned +the hand nor a single muscle of the count’s face stirred. once more +the handsome véra smiled contemptuously but did not seem at all hurt. +the handsome véra, who produced such an irritating and unpleasant +the handsome young emperor alexander, in the uniform of the horse +the head of the column had already descended into the hollow. the clash +“the head of the garrison at glogau, with ten thousand men, asks the +the headquarters were situated two miles away from salzeneck, and +the head that he was considering this information. +the heavy standard, he ran forward with full confidence that the whole +the highest law thou shalt regain traces of the ancient dignity which +“the highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish +the highest wisdom has but one science—the science of the whole—the +“the highest wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those +the high-shouldered figure of zherkóv, familiar to the pávlograds as +the hill not to go beyond the stream, but rostóv pretended not to hear +the hofkriegsrath and both emperors took part. at that council, contrary +the hollow the less they could see but the more they felt the nearness +the homestead consisted of a threshing floor, outhouses, stables, a +the honor, but i shall never be your son’s wife.” +the honor of being received, that i have not yet had time to think of +the honor of the flag... well, never mind, it’s true i’m to blame, +“the hoof’s cracked! that’s nothing. i’ll teach you what to do +the hope of an alliance with her. +the horse guards. +the horse guards were galloping, but still holding in their horses. +the horses’ croups began to sway in the front line. rook pulled at the +“the hours are the same, and the lathe, and also the mathematics and +the house where the commander in chief was. +the hussar did not reply. +the hussar only sighed without replying and coughed angrily. the sound +the hussars.” +the hussars crowded round and responded heartily with loud shouts. +the hussar shouted back. +the hussars ran back to the men who held their horses; their voices +the ice bore him but it swayed and creaked, and it was plain that it +the ice gave way under one of the foremost soldiers, and one leg slipped +the icons and there was a pleasant scent of flowers and burnt pastilles. +the icons, as though declaring to all that she could not answer for +the icon stand. to her surprise and distress she found that her prayers +the idea of defeat and flight could not enter rostóv’s head. though +the imposing figure of nesvítski followed by his cossack, and +the infantry regiments that had been caught unawares in the outskirts +the infantry who had been stopped crowded near the bridge in the +the inhabitants of the district. +the inlaid portfolio. pierre signed the deed and after that the princess +the intellectual lights of petersburg were gathered there and, like a +their adjutants had come to witness the curious phenomenon of the +their battery a milk-white cloud arose. then came the distant report of +their bayonets and guns. +their cleanliness and discipline. they had come by easy stages, their +their conversation would probably have been different but for the effect +their courage before him. +their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for +their faces was a quiet and solemn look. +their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company +their grief in their own way. the old prince would not cherish any hope: +their guns, were running toward him. he also saw french infantry +their journey. she answered him and continued her chatter. +their long hair falling over their magnificent glittering vestments, +their marriage, with bare shoulders and a languid, passionate look on +their meaning but must keep them. the second pair of man’s gloves +their musical talent, to sing something. natásha, who was treated as +their name and my own i hold out a brotherly hand to you.” +their own form of government; and i believe that once free from the +their own resources what might be needed for the success of the fete. +their places, and one of them read an exhortation on the necessity of +their sabers catching in the bridles and their spurs jingling, the +their seats, went up to “congratulate” the countess, and reached +their thick, bushy eyebrows sternly scanned all present and rested on +their way to negotiate with prince auersperg. he lets them enter the +their woman’s way! i am glad to have her. sit down and talk. about +the kitchen would have cared to eat, so anna pávlovna served up to +the landing below, philip, the footman, stood looking scared and holding +the landing. “i’d better go to my own room.” +the large drawing room. prince vasíli came up to pierre with languid +the large table covered with books and plans, the tall glass-fronted +the last of the horse guards, a huge pockmarked fellow, frowned angrily +the last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing +the last post station but one before moscow, denísov had drunk three +the last syllable of the general’s name like a frenchman, “has been +the late emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the king of prussia.’ he is +the latter began to feel that it was in bad taste to speak of his +the latter lay silent in the sleigh with closed eyes and did not answer +the left, and took up the bottle. anatole brought two candles and +the left-flank columns had already descended. +the left, the firing became more distinct. kutúzov had stopped and was +the left! wait a bit.” but the soldiers, crowded together shoulder to +the letter away, and leaning his elbows on the table he drew toward him +the letter was old, having been written before the battle at +the lieutenant never looked the man he was speaking to straight in the +“the limits of human life ... are fixed and may not be +the line of retreat on the left by the french. however inconvenient the +the lines and an adjutant ran to look for the missing officer. +the line that had so sharply divided the two armies?” he asked himself +the little kitten, feasting her eyes on him, seemed ready at any moment + * the little one is charming. +the little princess and mademoiselle bourienne had already received +the little princess did not, or did not wish to, hear his words. she was +the little princess during the whole discussion and the rest of +the little princess entered the room. the passage broke off in the +the little princess got up, rang for the maid, and hurriedly and merrily +the little princess grumbled to her maid that her bed was badly made. +the little princess had also left the tea table and followed hélène. +the little princess had grown stouter during this time, but her eyes +the little princess, kissing her. “i know you already through my +the little princess lay in the armchair, mademoiselle bourienne chafing +the little princess lay supported by pillows, with a white cap on her +the little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, +the little princess. she felt, as courtiers do when the tsar enters, the +the little princess, taking the dress from the maid, came up to princess +the little princess talked incessantly, her short, downy upper lip +the little princess went round the table with quick, short, swaying +the little town could be seen with its white, red-roofed houses, its +the liveliness of a fourteen-year-old boy, and yet it was the face +the lively song gave a special flavor to the tone of free and easy +the living charm of her neck and shoulders, so near to his lips that +the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. and +the lodge, told the password, and at last was permitted to sit down. +the long german carts six or more pale, dirty, bandaged men were being +the look she felt upon her made that world still more poetic. but +“the lord be thanked, yes!” +the loss of prince andrew had reached bald hills, and in spite of the +them.” +the magnificent reception room was crowded. everyone stood up +the maintenance of the balance of power of europe, and it would save the +them. all eyes fastened involuntarily on this french column advancing +the manager of all his affairs, and while looking with pleasure at the +them. and among all these faces that he found so tedious, none seemed +them, and reads those from the emperor addressed to others. ‘ah! so +them, and she doubts the means we have of gaining them. that is the +them, and understood that it was useless and even cruel to insist. +the manly voice again interrupted the artillery officer. +the man was wearing a bluish coat of broadcloth, he had no knapsack +the march: in their greatcoats, and packs, and without any preparation +them are harmful, especially the women. yes, dear boy,” he continued, + * the marshalls. +the mason cleared his throat huskily, as old men do, and called his +the mason did not move and for a long time said nothing after this +the mason looked intently at pierre and smiled as a rich man with +the mason remained silent for a long time, evidently considering. +the mason’s arguments; he dreaded not to be able to believe in him. +the mason smiled with his gentle fatherly smile. +the mason. “yes, i never thought of it, but i have led a contemptible +“the master is not in, he’s gone to headquarters,” said +the matter depended on my personal wishes, the will of his majesty the +the mazurka, which was just coming into fashion, were danced. iogel had +them curiosity, awe, and even love—a supercilious consciousness of +them down! what?...” said rostóv, waking up. at the moment he opened +“the means are ... the balance of power in europe and the rights of +the meeting was at an end, and on reaching home pierre felt as if he had +the member of the hofkriegsrath looked at him severely but, seeing the +the members and guests of the club wandered hither and thither, sat, +the memory of a remote event long past. +the men and officers returning spoke of a brilliant victory, of the +the men and women had separated as in church. all were silently crossing +the men (the commanders, as we saw at the council of war, were out of +them from others was the absence of host or hostess and the presence of +them from the other end of the corridor, strauch, an austrian general +them!” he reflected. +the middle of a field without rhyme or reason. it’s all those damned +the midwife was already on her way to meet her, rubbing her small, plump +them. if he is not rich i will give her the means; i will ask my +the mildness of his features, was all the greater. rostóv was happy +the military governor of moscow, who had been assiduous in sending +the mines and blow up the bridge, this sergeant, seeing that the french +the minister and his son had arrived, but the appearance of both had +the minister of war.” +the minister of war but also his most august majesty the emperor and +them in the thick fog, the russians exchanged shots with the enemy +the mist, and his cold face wore that special look of confident, +the mist. from information he had received the evening before, from the +them it was difficult to get out again. one was shouting, “get on! +them, neither do i condemn them. only it seems to me that christian +them now! and yet really the anxiety is greater now than the joy. one is +them off, inviting them all to dinner. +the moment he heard the firing and the cry from behind, the general +the moment is not bonaparte but buxhöwden. general buxhöwden was all +the moment prince andrew entered the room had watched him with glad, +the more depressed. +them or make them move. on the one hand, the chief steward put the state +the morning, carriages with six horses had been coming and going +the morning of the twentieth, when the memorable battle of austerlitz +the morning she told the rostóvs and all her acquaintances the details + * the most fascinating woman in petersburg. +the mother smoothed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large +the mothers, wives, and children of the men who were going and should +them pierre noticed a large cast iron ring with a seal representing a +them—remained for a while without any definite opinion on the subject +them rest and leisure?” said pierre, hurrying and lisping. “and +themselves and grow more and more miserable.” +themselves, and the reading of the church service, the subdued chanting +themselves quite innocent, and since that day when he was overpowered +themselves, stifle this remorse and grow callous, as a result of being +themselves to túshin in all their horror. he had been so excited that +them something funny and kept them amused, while he watched the young +them strangely of the little princess. but what was still stranger, +them taking off his cap) “from his animal condition and awaken in him +them the order to march, thereby indicating that he intended to lead +the mud off his face with his sleeve. “perched up there, you’re more +them, when suddenly, clinking his spurs and spreading out his legs, +then....” +then a general rode past shouting something angrily, not in russian. +then a gleam of bayonets; to the left beyond the village similar masses +“then allow me to express your regrets, and i am sure your opponent +then all will be right, as our bear huntsman at kostromá used to tell +“then am i to order those large sterlets?” asked the steward. +then appointed to supervise the enrollment decreed throughout russia. +then a thin, pale soldier, his neck bandaged with a bloodstained leg +the nations? adorable! it is enough to make one’s head whirl! it is as +then believe an expert. i have just been talking to dmítri onúfrich” +then both voices together with glad intonations, and then footsteps. +then, brothers, on to glory, led by father kámenski.” this song had +then brought back to the general circle. +then detached ideas and impressions from the world of reality shot +the nearest soldiers shrank back, the gun driver stopped his horse, but +the new campo formio are to be drawn up.” +the newcomer was a short, large-boned, yellow-faced, wrinkled old +the new homestead he was constructing and its buildings, but even here, +the news of count bezúkhov’s death reached us before your letter +the next day the emperor stopped at wischau, and villier, his physician, +then he did everything so simply and with such assurance!) mademoiselle +then he recalled the coarseness and bluntness of her thoughts and the +then he remained silent for a while, and all at once looked cheerfully +the night he received the news, kutúzov sent bagratión’s vanguard, +the night ten miles from olmütz and next morning were to come straight +the night was dark but starry, the road showed black in the snow that +the night was foggy and through the fog the moonlight gleamed +“then i’ll have it brought round,” said rostóv wishing to avoid +“then i may reckon on it, your excellency?” +“then it is certain?” said the prince. +then named prince vasíli in an inquiring whisper, then pointed to the +then nicholas sang a song he had just learned: +the noblest role on earth, and he is so virtuous and noble that god will +the nonsense talked by the austrian generals. shinshín, standing close +the novelty anna pávlovna was setting before her guests that evening +then particularly strong. +then quickly glanced at dólokhov and, bending his finger as he had been +then she slipped down among the flowerpots on the other side of the tubs +then she smiled again and clutched prince vasíli’s arm more tightly. +then suddenly he realized the joyful significance of that wail; tears +then, suddenly spread out in the sunlight, far-distant objects could +then that same face pale, quivering, and suffering, as it had been when +then the voice said something more, demyán replied, and the steps in +“then they’ve not gone to bed yet? what do you think? mind now, +“then tomorrow you will speak to the emperor?” +the nurse, as she stood in one of the doorways. +the nurse brought it to him and nodded approval when she told him that +the nurse lit the gilt candles before the icons and sat down by the door +the nursery, but sónya was not there either. natásha concluded that +“then what is this blood on the gun carriage?” inquired túshin. +“then when am i to have it?” +“then why are you here? you should have gone on long ago, now you +then with remarks which showed that he was in a good temper. +then with the unerring official memory that characterized him he +then, wostóv, now then!” +“then you are serving?” +the officer flourished his arm and hastily rode away. +the officer glanced at him, and without replying turned again to the +the officers and men of denísov’s squadron, though they tried to talk +the officers as he went: “have these gentlemen attended to and taken +the officers gathered round denísov’s canteen, eating and talking. +the officers got up and stood round the cossacks and their prisoner. +the officers laughed. +the officers or adjutants who wandered about in the fog in those unknown +the official side of the service. these gentlemen received prince +the old aunt received the two young people in her corner, but seemed +the old count cast down his eyes on hearing his son’s words and began +the old countess, not letting go of his hand and kissing it every +the old count pretended to be angry. +the old count, the countess, pétya, véra, natásha, and sónya, and +the old lady. +the old man made a departure from his usual routine in honor of his +the old man turned angrily away. +the old man was in a good temper after his nap before dinner. (he +the old man was silent. +the old prince did not sleep either. tíkhon, half asleep, heard him +the old prince dressed leisurely in his study, frowning and considering +the old prince first heard of the defeat at austerlitz stated, as usual +the old prince knew that if he told his daughter she was making a +the old prince’s face. +the old princess came in and also wept. the elderly lady was using +the old princess did not reply, she was tormented by jealousy of her +the old prince stopped writing and, as if not understanding, fixed his +the old prince. “very, very glad to have seen you,” repeated he, +the old prince was very affectionate and careful in his treatment of +the one that will result from it will be as victorious! however, dear +(the one who had paraded his regiment before kutúzov at braunau) that +the onlookers, “will it be long? are things ready?” +“the only thing that is hard for me... i will tell you the truth, +the only young people remaining in the drawing room, not counting the +the orderlies looked at him as if they wished to impress on him that a +the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves +the order was given to halt and down knapsacks. +the other clutched his drooping pistol. his face was pale. rostóv ran +the other committeemen. “there will be many toasts, it’s time to +the other, glanced inquiringly with his large, intelligent, kindly eyes +the other men in the room, her anxiety could only have reference to +the other, quite a new reflection of the society in which they had taken +the others. again someone shouted, “stretchers!” four men seized the +the others but win from you. or are you afraid of me?” he asked again. +the other side of the fire, warming his thin yellow body. +the other side of the room. “how young-looking he is!” +the other—who with beaming faces had come to see their master making +the pack. much depended on rostóv’s winning or losing on that seven +the pained expression his joke had brought to his sister’s face, he +the party of the young had triumphed. the voices of those who counseled +“the past always seems good,” said he, “but did not suvórov +the patches grew deeper on her forehead, neck, and cheeks. she tried to +the pathetic importance of these last moments of meeting between the +“the pávlograd hussars?” he inquired. +the pávlograd hussars were stationed two miles from braunau. the +the people,” the abbé was saying. “it is only necessary for one +the people who know of it the less a woman in travail suffers, everyone +“the picket is still on the hill, your excellency, just where it was +the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits... there was peace +the place of mourning for the younger female generation in the rostóv +the plan of operation for the coming campaign. he explained how an army, +the pleasure of spending the evening with you.” +the point of view of the old countess and of society it was out of the +the portfolio so firmly that it was plain she would not let go easily. +the possessor of wealth. how have you used it? what have you done +the postilion started, the carriage wheels rattled. prince hippolyte +the postmaster came in and began obsequiously to beg his excellency to +the postmaster, his wife, the valet, and a peasant woman selling +the povarskáya, so well known to all moscow. the countess herself and +“the praise of a great commander is a soldier’s highest reward,” +the pre-eminence. +the priests and deacons and some servants also went in at the door. +the priests, rose and offered him her seat; an aide-de-camp picked up +the priest with a goose feather anointed the boy’s little red and +the prim visitor could not help joining in. +the prince again laughed his frigid laugh. +the prince answered nothing, but she looked at him significantly, +the prince bowed his head and went up to the porch. “god be +the prince bowed to signify his respect and gratitude. +the prince gave orders that no one should leave his post. now you, +the prince looked at his daughter’s frightened face and snorted. +the princess. +the princess and hastily adjusting his lorgnette, as if without this +the princess bent over the exercise book on the table. +the princess blushed, and raised her arms with a gesture of despair. +the princess continued to look at him without moving, and with the same +the princess did not fall down or faint. she was already pale, but on +the princess did not reply. their efforts in the struggle for the +the princess did speak, her words would not be flattering to anna +the princess’ eyes grew dim, she could not see and could not hear +the princess gave a wrong answer. +the princess gave no reply and did not even smile, but left the room as +the princess glanced at her watch and, seeing that she was five minutes +the princess, holding her little dog on her lap with her thin bony +the princess let go. +the princess listened, smiling. +the princess looked in a scared way at her father’s eyes glittering +the princess, now quite changed. “and what does she come worming +the princess, picking up her dress, was taking her seat in the dark +the princess pondered awhile with a thoughtful smile and her luminous +the princess rested her bare round arm on a little table and considered +the princess said nothing, but suddenly her short downy lip quivered. +the princess sank helplessly into an armchair beside her father and +the princess saw that her father regarded the matter with disapproval, +the princess smiled as people do who think they know more about the +the princess smiled. she rose with the same unchanging smile with which +the princess started. evidently pierre’s words touched her to the +the princess went up to the door, passed by it with a dignified and +the princess, who had a straight, rigid body, abnormally long for her +the princess wished to rise, but the prince held her by the hand. she +the prince sternly; “i’m afraid you write much nonsense. i’ll read +the prince stopped. he saw the effect these words had produced on his +the prince turned round to the overseer and fixed his eyes on him, +the prince was lying on the sofa, looked at him, noticed his perturbed +the prince was silent and looked indifferent. but, with the womanly and +the prince, who was in his large study. from the far side of the house +the project gutenberg ebook of war and peace, by leo tolstoy +the prussian army and was aide-de-camp to a very important personage. +the puhse?” he asked, turning to rostóv. +the purse is here! i’ll flay this scoundwel alive, and it will be +the question arose whether the troops were to be in marching order or +the quiet home life and peaceful happiness of bald hills presented +the ranks. +the ranks, and above all being unable to see anything in front or around +the ranks of obscure officers and offer him the first step to fame! +the ras...” he did not finish. +“the rat”) he said, rubbing his forehead and whole face with both +there. +there.” +there any hope?” +there are no difficulties in your way.... but nicholas is my cousin... +“there are precedents, i may mention schwarzenberg.” +“there are so many prisoners today, nearly the whole russian army, +there are things in it difficult for the feeble human mind to grasp, it +the rearguard and have an eye on the order of retreat, “which is also +the rearguard by the commander in chief, was sitting on the trail of a +the rearguard stood with a staff officer, scanning the country through +there as he. and now—this duel! have these people no feeling, or +the reception room, where he found some ten officers and generals. +the recruiting, granted by the emperor. if i had been two hours late +“there, fedótov, you should be quartered on them!” +(the reflection was still incomplete), he caught himself smiling and was +therefore met with unaltered looks the angrily inquisitive expression of +therefore offered this truce to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. count +therefore—this is between ourselves—i instinctively feel that we +therefore you seek wisdom and virtue. is that not so?” said the +the regimental adjutant came in and confirmed the news brought by +the regimental commander, flushing, ran to his horse, seized the stirrup +the regimental commander, going up to the line himself, ordered the +the regimental commander on horseback and some ten men of his company, +(the regimental commander’s face now that the inspection was happily +the regimental commander sought out dólokhov in the ranks and, reining +the regimental commander was afraid he might be blamed for this and did +the regiment, and how satisfied his father was with him. berg evidently +the regiment broke up into companies, which went to their appointed +the regiment i’d... ah well, i’ll show that in action, and for me +the regiment kutúzov had reviewed at braunau and in which dólokhov was +the regiment under a hail of bullets which fell around, but fortunately +there, god only knows what would have happened! you know, uncle promised +there had been actions at lambach, amstetten, and melk; but despite the +“there he is!” said borís, thinking rostóv had said “his +there?” he said, turning to the door as he heard a tread of heavy +“there... he’s puffing again,” muttered túshin to himself, as a +there in which he had now no part could perturb him. he shut his eyes, +there is hardly time to put in action—seeing pierre, touched his +“there is in moscow a lady, une dame, and she is very stingy. she must +“there is nothing so refreshing after a sleepless night as a cup +“there is one thing i constantly pray god to grant, mon cousin,” she +there is only mademoiselle bourienne....” +“there is something nasty, something wrong, in the feeling she excites +“there is something up,” thought nicholas, and he was further +there is so much happiness; but here... groans, suffering, fear, and +“there is still much, much before us,” he said, as if with an old +“there is still time, my dear. you must remember, catiche, that it was +“there, it’s just as i thought,” said rostóv to himself. “he +“there, leave bruin alone; here’s a bet on.” +the remains of langeron’s and dokhtúrov’s mingled forces were +the remains of our regiment which had been in action rapidly formed up +there many more of you to come?” +“there now! confess that this is delightful,” said he. “this +“there now! didn’t i tell you, michael mítrich, that if it was said +“there now! it’s true that all you women are crybabies,” remarked +“there now, prince! we can’t stop those fellows,” said the staff +“there now!” said the officer of the suite, “that’s +“there now!... so you, too, are in the great world?” said he to +“there now, the kúrskies have also gone past,” was being said in +there. now then!” +“there now, you wish to liberate your serfs,” he continued; “that +“there now, zíkin, they ought to put you on a horse. you’d look +there. pierre had the air of a man preoccupied with considerations which +the report of musketry. +the report which had been circulated that the austrians had been beaten +the reproachful tone of a man who has repeated the same thing more +“the reserves, sire!” replied a voice, a very human one compared to +there, she glided up to him with a sort of amble, not exactly bowing yet +“there’s no need to talk! he receives his orders and will marry you +“there’s nothing for me to understand,” she cried out with +“there’s nothing to be gay about,” answered bolkónski. +the resounding strains of the polonaise: +“there’s plenty to do still.” +there’s some mistake,” thought he. “they can’t have wanted to +the rest.” +“there’s the corner at the crossroads, where the cabman, zakhár, +the rest of his life. +the rest of the evening. +there! tea!” +there. then, as happens to people of weak character, he desired so +“there, there! do you feel it? i feel so strange. and do you know, +“there! they are bringing another!” cried one of the officers, +the retreat from austerlitz, where he alone had withdrawn his column +the retreat of the frightened bonaparte. +the revolving pulleys whirr with the rapidity of their movement, but a +there was a crush. halfway across stood prince nesvítski, who had +there was a general movement as the princess, smiling and talking +there was generally a drinking bout, finishing with visits of a kind +there was no answer to any of these questions, except one, and that +there was no laughter in the maids’ large hall. in the men servants’ +there was none he would so much like to have for a friend as that very +there was no one beyond the ditch now. only some carts and carriages +there was no one in the hall. “oh god! is everyone all right?” +there was no reason why it should not reach the pávlograd regiment, +there was not a trace of agitation on his face. with delicate irony he +there was nothing between the squadron and the enemy, and again that +there was nothing to be said, and neither wished to give occasion for +there was now no one in the reception room except prince vasíli and the +there was really nothing to be seen in front except a barren descent +there was something peculiar about it, quite unsoldierly, rather comic, +there was still the same bewitching combination of majesty and mildness +there were in the room a child’s cot, two boxes, two armchairs, a +“there, what egotists men all are: all, all egotists! just for a whim +“there will be a council of war at kutúzov’s tonight, though; you +the rhetor but pierre’s sponsor, willarski, whom he recognized by his +the rhetor cleared his throat, crossed his gloved hands on his breast, +the rhetor, “is an emblem of something not cognizable by the senses +the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up. soldiers scattered over +the right and sent an adjutant to the dragoons with orders to attack the +the right flank and the french were already advancing, were engaged +the right they will expose a flank to me. soldiers! i will myself direct +the rivers inn (at braunau) and traun (near linz). on october 23 the +the road he reined in his horse, hesitating whether to ride along it or +the room, and seeming not to notice the chairs was dashing straight at +the room, pondering over his vicious past, and with a rapturous sense +the room was crowded with small pieces of furniture, whatnots, +the rostóvs knew everybody in moscow. the old count had money enough +the rostóvs since the day of his departure for the army. to be in anna +the russian army) are nothing compared to what this man has been doing +the russian emperor’s aide-de-camp is an impostor. officers are +the russian officer in charge of the transport lolled back in the front +the russians were running away and that he himself was killed, but he +the russian with his heir the tsarévich, and the austrian with the +the rustle of a woman’s dress was heard in the next room. prince +the sale of the land and forests and to release them from the land bank, +the salute and unable to repress the smile of delight induced by his +the same happy, rapturous faces turned to the shaggy figure of denísov. +the same, then why this duel, this murder? either i shall kill him, or +the same time, my honored benefactor,” wrote prince vasíli. “my son +the same words, about their health and her own, and the health of her +the score against him reached the fateful sum of forty-three thousand. +the scoundrels!” +the scraping of chairs. then one of those conversations began which last +the seal of her letter. it was from her most intimate friend from +the seat indicated to him beside the fair hélène and listened to the +the second princess had just come from the sickroom with her eyes red +these gentlemen ride onto the bridge alone and wave white handkerchiefs; +these,” he said, handing him several papers, “make a neat memorandum +these latter the butler thrust mysteriously forward, wrapped in a +these poignant joys and sorrows. you are fortunate, for the latter are +the sergeant major with brightened expressions, licking their lips and +the sergeant to meet some mounted men who were riding along the line. +the serious faces of those around, remembered all he had already gone +these rooms. anna mikháylovna, addressing a maid who was hurrying past +the servant brought back his tumbler turned upside down, * with an +the servant handed him a book which pierre took to be a devotional work, +the service and patriotically russian. he resented shinshín’s remark. +the service before everything. thanks, thanks!” and he went on +these same questions which he could not solve and yet could not cease to +these sights and sounds had no depressing or intimidating effect on him; +these things. i absolutely must see him, however painful it may be for +these words he repeated to everyone without exception or variation, and +the shed with super human force, throwing up a mass of earth. the ground +the shirt. +the sick man was so surrounded by doctors, princesses, and servants +the sight of the killed and wounded. +the silence lasted some time. prince bagratión, apparently not wishing +the sinews and scorching the flesh of his sprained arm and shoulder. to +the sky, the dawn merging with the afterglow of sunset, was visible. +the sly what was left in the glasses. from the third room came sounds of +the smell of linstocks, came the artillery which crawled between the +the smoke, rostóv hesitated whether to gallop after them or to go where +the snow, greedily bit at it, again raised his head, adjusted himself, +“the snow is deep. i am having the avenue swept, your honor.” +the sofa. the princess came in. she had changed her gown for a house +the soldier always has around him the same comrades, the same ranks, the +the soldiers crowded against one another with terrified faces, and +the soldiers’ faces and unnatural warlike solemnity on those of the +the soldiers laughed. a moment later, an adjutant arrived with the same +“the soldiers say it feels easier without boots,” said captain +the soldiers who had carried prince andrew had noticed and taken the +the soldier to whom the laughers referred was dólokhov. prince andrew +the soldier. “turn back with your slut!” +the son, lowering his eyes, followed her quietly. +the son, or pierre, whom it had been pitiful to see, so stricken was he +the son sighed, thus admitting that his father had understood him. the +the sound of musketry at the foot of the hill, now diminishing, now +the sound of voices and the shouts of command. the whole air reeked with +the southern spring, the comfortable rapid traveling in a vienna +“the sovereigns? i do not speak of russia,” said the vicomte, polite +the special deep cooing tone, precluding the possibility of interrupting +the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and +the spot chosen for the duel was some eighty paces from the road, +the spot indicated to him. he made no reply on his father’s favorite +the squadron crossed the bridge and drew out of range of fire without +the squadron in which rostóv was serving had scarcely time to mount +“the squadron quartermaster!” said lavrúshka. +“the squadwon can’t pass,” shouted váska denísov, showing his +the staff captain. +the staff captain, “but we old fellows, who have grown up in and, god +the staff captain in his deep bass, calmly stroking his long mustache. +the staff captain, kírsten, had twice been reduced to the ranks for +the staff captain’s voice began to tremble. “you have been in the +the staff officer and prince andrew mounted their horses and rode on. +the staff officer on duty. +the staff officer remained behind and prince andrew rode on alone. +the standard. +the state of the prussian army. as soon as he had finished she turned to +“the step must be taken but i cannot, i cannot!” thought pierre, +the steward did not say it was quite impossible, but suggested selling +the stewards (there were semiliterate foremen among them) listened with +the still greater unimportance of death, the meaning of which no one +the stores are empty, the roads impassable. the orthodox begin looting, +the story was very pretty and interesting, especially at the point +the stranger’s face was not genial, it was even cold and severe, but +the stretchers, and love of the sun and of life, all merged into one +the stretchers moved on. at every jolt he again felt unendurable pain; +the struggling men, and the fate of the red-haired gunner, who had +the study, like pistol shots, came the frequent sound of the old man +the stupid smile, which had left his face while he was speaking, +the subject of her request and must not be shown before the request was +the suite pointed out to bagratión a french column that was outflanking +the sutlers. on receiving borís’ letter he rode with a fellow officer +the table in a merry mood, sitting down now by one, now by another, of +the table, onto which he threw it. +the table, screened by a bound music book so that the light did not fall +the table, searched everywhere, and stood still in the middle of the +the table, summoned his daughter. he never gave his children a blessing, +the table which was scrawled over with figures, wet with spilled wine, +the tall, fair-haired general buxhöwden stood, leaning his back against +the tears from his eyes and from the letter, then having dried her +the temperature shown by the political thermometer to the company that +the termination of the ceremony. he looked up joyfully at the baby when +the third!” +the third company was the last, and kutúzov pondered, apparently trying +the third division and convinced himself that there really were no +the third group was gathered round mortemart and anna pávlovna. +the third interruption came when prince andrew was finishing his +“the third, i said the third!” cried the prince abruptly, pushing +the third time the rhetor came back more quickly and asked pierre +the three voices, hers, mademoiselle bourienne’s, and katie’s, who +the thuerassa, he merely saves us a great deal of trouble and all our +the time had come to experience the joy of an attack of which he had so +the tipsy guests who were again crowding round the window, and listening +the torzhók peddler woman, in a whining voice, went on offering her +the town where the headquarters and the diplomatic corps were stationed +the traveler was joseph alexéevich bazdéev, as pierre saw from the +the tremor of the speaker’s voice—which sometimes almost broke—or +the troops again began to move, and two battalions of the nóvgorod and +the troops in their disorderly flight confirmed these rumors. +the troops of the vanguard were stationed before wischau, within sight +the troops were running in such a dense mass that once surrounded by +the tsar!” +the tsar addressed the officers also: “i thank you all, gentlemen, i +the tsar heard but obviously did not like the reply; he shrugged his +the tsar looked intently and observantly into kutúzov’s eye +the tsar said something more which rostóv did not hear, and the +the tsar stopped a few minutes in front of the hussars as if undecided. +the tsar with another glance at the emperor francis, as if inviting +the tverskáya street rode the hussar with mustaches... i thought about +the two generals and the adjutant took hold of the field glass, trying +the two ladies, addressing prince vasíli and pointing to an inlaid +the two pávlograd squadrons, having crossed the bridge, retired up the +the two young men, the student and the officer, friends from childhood, +the unknown general looked disdainfully down at kozlóvski, who was +“the unpleasant things were said to me,” remarked véra, “i said +the unsolved problem that tormented him was caused by hints given by the +the uselessness of freeing the serfs, who were quite happy as it was. +the valley. the fourth column, with which kutúzov was, stood on the +the very time he was expressing this conviction to himself, in another +the vicomte appreciated this silent praise and smiling gratefully +the vicomte bowed and smiled courteously in token of his willingness to +“the vicomte knew the duc personally,” whispered anna pávlovna to +the vicomte merely shrugged his shoulders. pierre looked solemnly at his +the vicomte’s story. prince vasíli’s words frightened her, an +the vicomte told his tale very neatly. it was an anecdote, then current, +the vicomte was a nice-looking young man with soft features and polished +the vicomte who was meeting him for the first time saw clearly that +the vicomte wished to begin his story and gave a subtle smile. +the village again, but túshin’s guns could not move, and the +the village letting the troops pass by him. that morning kutúzov seemed +the visitor, compelled to look on at this family scene, thought it +the visitor made a gesture with her hand. +the visitor, not knowing what to say, shook her head. +the visitors, and before the visitors i tell you that in future you are +the waiter. +the wall, his eyes fixed on a burning candle, and seemed not to listen +the war is over, that the emperor francis is arranging a meeting with +the war was flaming up and nearing the russian frontier. everywhere one +the water, and approaches the tête-de-pont. at length appears the +the wax with the baby’s hair had not sunk in the font but had floated. +the way from ulm, while dólokhov maintained that the russians had not +the way he walked through the ranks behind the generals, bending forward +the weather had cleared again since noon and the sun was descending +the weight of his knapsack. +the well-known prince bolkónski who had to retire from the army under +the whole day was finally and indubitably answered in the affirmative. +the whole human race, offering it in our members an example of piety +the whole interest was concentrated on rostóv. instead of sixteen +the whole matter and decide what was right and how he should act, but +the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building +the whole story of life. you talk of bonaparte and his career,” said +“the wife!” said the old prince, briefly and significantly. +the wild set led by dólokhov. zherkóv had met dólokhov abroad as a +the will and letter will be delivered to the emperor, and the petition +“the will will show that, my dear; our fate also depends on it.” +the wind. +the wind had fallen and black clouds, merging with the powder smoke, +the window sill, but refrained from touching it. pierre again covered +the woman he had known as a child, of whom when her beauty was mentioned +the woman’s vehicle for trying to get ahead of others, and the strokes +the women.” +the word of command rang out, and again the regiment quivered, as with a +the words of the order were not clear to the regimental commander, and +the worst,” said the austrian general, evidently wishing to have done +“the wound is not here, it is there!” said kutúzov, pressing the +they all had but one wish: to advance as soon as possible against the +they all separated, but, except anatole who fell asleep as soon as he +they all were, or seemed to be, pretty—so rapturous were their smiles +they are beaten, flogged, or sent to siberia, i don’t suppose they are +“they are regular brigands, especially dólokhov,” replied the +they assure the officer on duty that they, the marshals, are on +they became silent, and pierre thought he saw the princess hide +they both felt happy). “we had our hands full last night. however, i +“they can’t be far off, probably just beyond the stream,” he said +“they coax me as if i were váska the cat!” said denísov jokingly. +they contain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, know the +they could not fail to vanquish anyone, be it whom it might: so thought +they dismounted and entered the tent. several officers, with flushed and +“they don’t even give one time to dwink!” answered váska +they do the guns.” +they entered the elegant, newly decorated, and luxurious dining room. +they entered the large hall, from which one of the doors led to the +they gave her an attraction more powerful than that of beauty. but the +“they give little hope,” replied the prince. +they got into the carriage and drove for a few minutes in silence. +they had entered moscow. +they had gone by, the same stream of soldiers followed, with the same +they had lifted the dying man and were moving him. +they had looked at the regimental commander, seeming by their expression +they had not met for nearly half a year and, being at the age when young +they had when she was not thinking of herself. as with everyone, her +they halted in silence. there was nothing fresh to be seen from the +“they have gone to bed and put out their lights, your excellency.” +they’ll ransack that castle,” he remarked with evident approval. +they’ll say so again and again, and that will be the end of it. my +“they march splendidly,” remarked someone in bagratión’s suite. +“they might call a halt here or we’ll have to do another four miles +“they must be feeling dull, too,” said one of the bolder officers, +they must look somewhere, or it meant too much. pierre hesitated, +they named the colonel, prince repnín. +the younger emperor could not restrain his wish to be present at the +the young man, flattered, sat down nearer to her with a coquettish +the young man had departed. “there is never any ‘impossible’ with +“the young man’s a real hussar!” shouted the colonel, again +the young people, at the countess’ instigation, gathered round the +the young princess bolkónskaya had brought some work in a +the young prince. the members of the household were all gathered in the +the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless +they quite understood one another as to the first part of their romance, +“they’re always in love with someone,” he thought of sónya and +“they received me and my news as one receives a dog in a game of +they’re coming!” alarmed voices were heard, and a stir of final +“they’re coming!... they’re coming!... stand aside, make way, +they rode up the opposite hill. from there the french could already be +they rose from the table and sat down in the entrance porch which served +“they say pierre is quite broken by his misfortune.” +“they say the ball will be very good,” replied the princess, drawing +they seemed of them, one could feel by the occasional glances they gave +they seized him by his arms; but he was so strong that everyone who +they stood silent, facing one another. the old man’s sharp eyes were +they too could, like natásha and borís, escape from the drawing room. +“they’ve been saying so a long while,” said the count, “and +they went out and walked about till dinnertime, talking of the political +they went through the porch and into the stable. the lieutenant +they went up to the door of the sitting room from which came the sound +they were again silent. +they were as usual laughing. +they were firing at could not be seen for the smoke which there was no +“they were in a hurry enough to start us, and now here we stand in +they were in the carriage. “he hardly recognizes anybody.” +they were saying was amusing, but because she felt happy and was unable +“they were there this evening, but now i don’t know, your +they would have remained there for a long time testing each other’s +they would not for an instant let his shoulder move a hair’s breadth. +thick, bushy eyebrows. prince andrew went up and kissed his father on +thick-set general with grizzled eyebrows and whiskers, and wider from +thin face. her eyes, always sad, now looked with particular hopelessness +thin face was now quivering with nervous excitement; his eyes, in which +thing.” +thing can be arranged. it shall be on your family’s behalf that i’ll +thing he would have to unite his fate with hers. he might perhaps have +thing i have faith in! our good and wonderful sovereign has to perform +things and supper dishes stood in disorder, and in the middle of the +things,” and the skin over his left temple puckered, “either you +things, but austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war. she +things had to be. from the passage they went into a large, dimly +things he should have shown it sooner, but he lets it go on for months. +things. she did not reply, but looked at her seriously. +things that had never occurred. mademoiselle bourienne also shared them +things that he has been expelled by the police.” +things the old count sent to his son. +thing we are interested in here,” said the spirit of the place. +think could hardly be found nowadays—but is she contented with her +think, count? the next day it was not even mentioned in the orders of +thinking about you. why are you going?” +thinking? i mustn’t forget. how shall i speak to the emperor? no, +thinking of?” she went on, turning to prince hippolyte. “fetch me my +think it over. go! yes or no, yes or no, yes or no!” he still shouted +think so yourself. and the main thing is,” he continued, “that i +think that he is your father ... perhaps in the agony of death.” she +think the regiment is not a bad one, eh?” +think we thoroughly understand. +“think what you please! i know you are just like father. think as +thin lips interrupted weyrother, wishing to say something. but the +third company he suddenly stopped. his suite, not having expected this, +“thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,” she counted on her slender +thirteen look at the boy they are in love with and have just kissed for +thirtieth he attacked mortier’s division, which was on the left bank, +thirty,” said he, looking at shinshín and the count with a joyful, +this action was so unlike her usual composure and the fear depicted on +this active old servant was unpacking the traveler’s canteen and +this answer. “have you sought for means of attaining your aim in +this battle, which consisted in the capture of a french squadron, was +this black-eyed, wide-mouthed girl, not pretty but full of life—with +this bone—a bill for thirty thousand rubles—to the poor princess +this buonaparte has turned all their heads; they all think of how he +this?” but these doubts only lasted a moment. pierre glanced at +this card and i’ll take my cap and drive home to supper with denísov, +this consciousness of mismanagement became a general conviction, but as +this defect was not due to any fault of the regimental commander, for +this disorder,” he muttered. “do as you like.” +this door led into a back anteroom. an old man, a servant of the +this ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost +this expectation did not upset the regular routine of life in the old +this expression evidently pleased him. +this fact ought to give prince vasíli much satisfaction. +this guardsman would certainly have bowled rostóv and his bedouin over +this heart, so kind and generous? say ‘perhaps’... the future is so +this he’ll soon have us, too, for his subjects! how are you?” and he +this holiday time. “seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! +this house and in brünn itself. i want to entertain him as far as i +this indecision appeared to him majestic and enchanting, like everything +this information, the little princess and mademoiselle bourienne, whose +this instant!” thought rostóv. +this is absolutely true. +“this is absurd! come, let go i tell you.” +“this is all very fine, but things must be settled,” said prince + * “this is a pleasure one gets in camp, prince.” +“this is dólokhov,” said prince andrew. +“this is for borís from me, for his outfit.” +“this is not at all the thing,” he said. “what sort of polish +this is the battle of pultúsk, which is considered a great victory but +“this is the first act. those that follow are naturally increasingly +“this is what i think. austria has been made a fool of, and she is +“this is what i want, my dear fellow,” said the count to the +this is what i was proud of! i then thought that i did not understand +this lowest-grade greeting, a look of anxiety and fear, as at the sight +this magnanimity bonaparte subsequently repaid by death. +this marriage. he recalled her former words and looks and the words +this may be my only chance of seeing the emperor. it won’t be long +this meant that tíkhon was not handing him the waistcoat he wanted. +this misery, and money, and dólokhov, and anger, and honor—it’s all +this moment of happy, rapturous excitement. she gazed at him, not taking +this murderer and villain! we alone must avenge the blood of the just +this name day of hers had been one of the pleasantest she had ever had. +this poetic and pure intimacy, were what my heart needed. but enough of +this reinforcement. +this resemblance he was exceedingly ugly. his features were like his +this same room was dimly lighted by two candles. on one small table tea +this short man had on a white leather apron which covered his chest and +this short man nodded to dolgorúkov as to an intimate friend and stared +this silence was broken by one of the brethren, who led pierre up to the +this speech how they could best handle the master for their own ends. +this strange incident, and then shrugging his shoulders went to the door +this strong, brave man, this model son and officer that, judging by this +this table with the thought of winning a hundred rubles to buy that +this! the chief news, about which all moscow gossips, is the death of +this uncertainty and hurry... there—they are shouting again, and +this unpleasant impression merely flitted over the young and happy face +this very sentence about countess zúbova and this same laugh prince +this victory to the austrian court, now no longer at vienna (which was +this—want glory, want to be known to men, want to be loved by them, it +this was not so but that on the contrary the french had run away. he +this was particularly noticeable on nesvítski’s usually laughing +this was quite true, but the count, the countess, and natásha looked +this was the count’s favorite dance, which he had danced in his youth. +this was true. the architect had told him that it was necessary, and +“this won’t do, princess; it won’t do,” said he, when princess +this young jacobin was not so terrible as his words suggested. all were +those brilliant aged eyes grown old in this conviction, or the calm +those first steps. both had changed greatly since they last met and both +those hofs-kriegs-wurst-raths are! suvórov couldn’t manage them so +those kurágins and leading that sort of life. it suits you so +those of higher ranks in the order. 3. morality. 4. love of mankind. 5. +those on foot, collapsed in a great mass, and some forty men who were on +those recently arrived from russia, both guards and regiments of the +those richer and more powerful than himself and he had rare skill in +“those were extremes, no doubt, but they are not what is most +those who had been campaigning under kutúzov. the two emperors, +those who were guiding him. +those who were holding him under the armpits, and of his gray, curly, +those who were in the dimly lit reception room spoke in nervous +those women—mostly mothers—who, having once made up their minds, +thou art wise because thou couldst utter those blasphemous words,” he +though all were in a conspiracy of silence. the men who set the tone +though embracing her. +though five minutes before, prince andrew had been able to say a few +though he may perhaps outlive us all, as i sincerely hope he will...” +though he smiled delightedly. he ran up to them. +though he wrote in french and used french jests and french idioms, +though mademoiselle bourienne had been so unsuccessful in her choice +though none of the column commanders rode up to the ranks or talked to +though not much time had passed since prince andrew had left russia, he +though no words had passed between anatole and mademoiselle bourienne, +though of this prince andrew said nothing to his sister, was that in the +though politeness prevented his showing impatience, left the old woman +though she were grown up, was evidently very proud of this but at the +though shy, went on carefully executing her steps. denísov did not +thought and heard of her might be false. and he again saw her not as the +thought. and suddenly, at this thought of death, a whole series of most +thought, as he listened to voices in kutúzov’s courtyard. the voices +though the big hospitals and the houses in krems converted into military +thought, he called tíkhon and began to undress. +thought he heard a strange noise through the door. he was seized with +thought he, “i shall be sent with a brigade or division, and there, +thought: “i am going to save the army.” +thought, “i must remain free.” +thought independent of her sister-in-law’s words. in the midst of a +thought of everything, considered everything, and did everything the +thought of his friend and how much he expected of him in the future. +thought of sónya, during this stay in moscow, he said to himself, +thought of such a thing, it is only the cabinet that says it.” +thought pierre, “and how little attention we pay to it!” +thought pierre. “but this man knows the truth and, if he wished to, +thought prince andrew, and striking his horse he rode up to kutúzov. +thought—referring to the little princess who was not in the dining +thought rostóv. at that moment alexander turned his head and rostóv +thought rostóv. he knew what a shock he would inflict on his father and +thought rostóv. “i should die of happiness!” +thoughts. +thoughts, and memories suddenly arose within him that he could not fall +thought, “seriously, i have long been thinking of it.... leading such +thoughts he has dreamed of for nights, but looks around for help or a +thoughts rather than the trend of the conversation—“and that’s a +thought that came into his mind was that today he had to be presented +thought that he, an exemplary officer of many years’ service who +thought. the minister drew the remaining papers together, arranged them +thought turned to her sister-in-law with a tender glance at her figure. +though what happened was due to chance and was independent of the +though what she said was quite just, perhaps for that very reason no one +though without knowing its cause—was such as to remind one still more +thou hast lost.” +“thou hatest it. then change it, purify thyself; and as thou art +thousand austrians, with a hundred thousand russians, were to operate in +thousand men breathlessly gazing at him and the regimental commander did +thousand men each of whom knew his place and his duty, had every button +thousand-ruble horses, only eighteen were left after the charge. +thousands such as i in russia.’ +thrashing for letting a private traveler have the courier horses. +threatened by the french) but at brünn. despite his apparently delicate +“three and a half miles, your majesty.” +three beats: “oh mio crudele affetto.”... one, two, three... one, +three days later the little princess was buried, and prince andrew went +“three,” he went quickly forward, missing the trodden path and +three months ago, draw fresh moral strength from your look, so gentle, +three parts of that army were sharply distinguished: kutúzov’s +throttle if they stood in my way. i have an adored, a priceless mother, +through, and realized that he could not stop halfway. he was aghast +through him, and again laughed his frigid laugh. +through his lorgnette, suddenly turned completely round toward the +throughout the whole cavalry division as váska denísov. cadet rostóv, +through that door was heard a noise of things being moved about, and +through the closed doors came the sound of difficult passages—twenty +through the conservatories, the serfs’ quarters, and the outbuildings, +through the door. +through the door came the regular hum of a lathe. the princess timidly +through the door came the sounds of kutúzov’s voice, excited and +through the door on tiptoe. he could not walk well on tiptoe and his +through the door. prince andrew got up, went to the door, and tried to +through the naïve and intelligent count and played with him as with +through the smoke. he was pressing one hand to his left side, while +through the town of enns on both sides of the bridge. +throwing down his chisel. (the wheel continued to revolve by its own +thrown the reins of the snaffle bridle over the horse’s head. it was +thud of the enemy’s cannon balls, from the flushed and perspiring +thumb to the room where telyánin was sitting, he frowned and gave a +thumping the table. +thumping the table; “and ve must tie for our emperor, and zen all vill +thyself whether thou art content with thyself. what hast thou attained +tidiness and good management. some domestic serfs pierre met, in reply +tíkhon, at her husband, and at the footman who accompanied them. +tíkhon did not hear the slightest sound from the study after that. +tíkhon knew his master’s habit of sometimes thinking aloud, and +tíkhon knew that neither the son’s arrival nor any other unusual +tíkhon, like all good valets, instinctively knew the direction of his +tíkhon to ask mary bogdánovna what news.—“say only that ‘the +tíkhon went and told the prince. +till he began sincerely to believe in his own exceptional kindness and +till its coat shone like satin and every hair of its wetted mane lay +till may, and asked him to be more economical this time. nicholas had +till midday on the nineteenth, the activity—the eager talk, running to +till now. but where am i?” +till she was twenty, and arranged her life so that her whole time was +till ten o’clock. +till the general asked him to restore it. all his absent-mindedness and +till then, had listened with an amused smile to their conversation and +till then. their powers of reasoning, feeling, and observing immediately +till the tsar reached it, each regiment in its silence and immobility + * till tomorrow, my dear fellow. +till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are capable of, +time!” +time. +time, anna mikháylovna sent someone to call her son, and went into the +time could not admit the idea of his hero being disgraced. +time for that sort of thing and a young man fears to bind himself and +time in the shop. +time, muttering to herself. +time. no, i’ll tell you now. you know sónya’s my dearest friend. +times before: how the late princess had given birth to princess mary +time since his return that they had talked alone and about their love. +times repeated—of a sonata by dussek. +times, the more impassioned he became in these moments of almost morbid +times unexpectedly interrupted. once he stopped it by shouting: “the +time that evening, vainly expecting someone, now smiling at someone, now +time till they came to moscow had not left them for a day. +time to get his uniform. he had on a shabby cadet jacket, decorated with +time to time he went out to ask: “hasn’t she come yet?” they +timidly from behind the backs of the generals. as he stepped past the +timidly to the corner where denísov sat. she saw that everybody was +timókhin, armed only with a sword, had rushed at the enemy with such +timókhin to the subaltern beside him. +tint in her complexion and especially in the color of her slender but +tiny limbs she had felt twenty years ago within her, that son about whom +tipsy rage when a man does not know what he is saying. he saw that his +tiptoe to the countess’ door and paused. +tired of being run after by women, his vanity was flattered by the +tiresome,” said natásha in a mortified voice that trembled slightly. +“tit! i say, tit!” said the groom. +title: war and peace +to abandon the road connecting him with the troops arriving from russia, +to above the knee. pierre hurriedly began taking off his right boot also +to accept their services. he took the glove in silence from the +to adopt a jocular tone. but before he had finished he felt that his +to a footman dressed in knee breeches, shoes, and a swallow-tail coat, +to agree to the truce but also to offer terms of capitulation, and +to all the club members and to all the club guests, and finally to +to another. “how evidently he belongs to the best society,” said she +toast, the count took out his handkerchief and, covering his face, wept +to a third; and the vicomte was served up to the company in the choicest +to attain it quickly. hence we have a secondary aim, that of preparing +to attend to the business himself and so he disliked it and only tried +to a tune in which the weary musicians blundered, and while tired +to bagratión which the old countess at anna mikháylovna’s advice had +to balance himself. one of the footmen who had stooped to pick up some +to be all right,” pierre concluded, and followed anna mikháylovna. +to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, +to be grew stronger, and he meekly followed anna mikháylovna who was +to behave here as you did in petersburg, you will end very badly; that +to be heard. +to be his old schoolroom, and looking into natásha’s wildly bright +to be opened. everywhere he saw the stewards’ accounts, according to +to be parted from her husband and be left alone in the country, in her +“to be quite frank, mary, i expect father’s character sometimes +to be reserved because in the depth of my soul i feel too near to him +to be severe, found nothing to say; the others did not venture to +to be silent. but after a while, just as a jury comes out of its room, +to be so sent meant not only a reward but an important step toward +“to be sure, your excellency,” replied the architect. +to be talking to a staff officer of such importance. “it’s a lovely +to blame all round. well, what else do you want?...” +to bore him so much as that of his pretty wife. he turned away from +to build a new chantry to the church at their own expense in honor +to change his former way of life, but his strength failed him. he walked +to cheer the men but merely carried out the orders), yet the troops +“to combat the evil which sways the world...” pierre repeated, and a +to continue his military service, and when the war recommenced +to control her joy which expressed itself by laughter. +to control herself any longer, she jumped up and rushed from the room as +to count t., prince v., and others. then he bursts into one of his wild +to credit it, bent his head, and told túshin that he could go. prince +to cross the ditch on foot. the emperor, wishing to rest and feeling +to cruel with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the +today, and that his excellency was not receiving anyone. +today for the emperor.” dolgorúkov smiled significantly. +today. he has been here on leave and is taking nicholas back with him. +today or tomorrow—at any rate, in an instant as compared with +today was a great day for him—the anniversary of his coronation. +today?” was his first thought. “and i did not know this suffering +“today when i remembered that all these delightful associations +to demonstrate the defects of the latter and the merits of his own plan, +to dinner. i suppose he won’t go?” she continued, turning to the +to distraction! one learns many things then,” she added with a certain +to do but dwink. if we could only get to fighting soon. hullo, who’s +to do it?”—“because you married her,” answered an inner voice. +to do it that it seemed to him as if it had really happened. perhaps +to do what was for him the most difficult thing in life—to say an +to do with sergéy kuzmích—a smile of bashfulness at their own +to dress in here; and that andrew had quite changed, and that kitty +to drive straight home. but the nearer he drew to the house the more he +to each couple of acres. the wounded crept together in twos and threes +to each new arrival anna pávlovna said, “you have not yet seen my +to enter into conversation with this old man, but, submitting to him +to enter the brotherhood of freemasons under my sponsorship?” + * to err is human. +toes toward the general. the captain’s face showed the uneasiness of +to everyone. pierre was so used to that smile, and it had so little +to execute an order. the officer on duty, a handsome, elegantly dressed +to express our sincere views on that subject, and can only say to the +to fathom what he has been pleased to conceal from us, the sooner will + to feel that in this world there’s one +to fight a battle ‘on his own hand’ as the germans say. he does so. +to fire and sword. the inhabitants are totally ruined, the hospitals +to fire the bridge, and now someone has gone and blundered; they are all +together.” +together, and made some steps on the very tips of her toes. +together? and there! bezúkhov got off scotfree, while fédya had to +together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel. at last +together. the german, pahlen, has been sent to new york in america, to +together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes +to get himself killed. tell me what this wretched war is for?” she +to get more money from the traveler. +to give her friend the pleasure of dandling the little angel—as she +to give in money and work all that other people’s serfs gave—that is +to give you the love you do not feel, and your prayer would have been +to go by the back stairs, yet judging by anna mikháylovna’s air +to greet the young man. +to grunth to find prince bagratión. he heard the cannonade behind him +to have any children by me.” +to hear the details.” +to hear the voices of well-known men. the largest circles formed round +to help at any point where the conversation might happen to flag. as +to her. +to her.” +to her and kissed her warmly. anatole went up to kiss the little +to her, and now that anatole had appeared it just grouped itself around +to her but to the movements of mademoiselle bourienne’s little +to her? i am so grateful to you that i would willingly sacrifice +to hers. a woman came from the bedroom with a frightened face and became +to herself: “no, i must be mistaken, he must be feeling happy, just as +to her shortsighted eyes. turning from princess mary he went up and +to him about politics. prince andrew and the others gathered round these +to him and disputed with one another who should bring him his tea, +to him, as you so well know how to be.” +to him. availing himself of his friendly relations with pierre as a boon +to him by the officers, and, like a man desperately insisting on having +to him fell against the rails with a groan. rostóv ran up to him with +to him. he could not tell them simply that everyone went at a trot and +to him: “i hear you are refitting your petersburg house?” +to himself, but which formed the whole interest of his life, +to himself, for in him alone is truth and peace,” said she in a voice +to him senseless, he understood and was not surprised at it. +to him straight out. let people think what they will of me, it’s +to him. we search, but none are to be found. the field marshal grows +to his adjutant he ordered him to bring down the two battalions of the +to his beautiful sister, but yet more by the fact that in spite of +to his estates and quite recovered the philanthropic mood in which +to his horse’s mane and pulled up beside the hussar. he was succumbing +to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real +to his people in germany; and he felt greatly offended when the butler +to his study with the wet nurse and little prince nicholas (as his +to hope from him—especially as he did not know how, and did not +to imbibe,” he said. “can i receive that pure liquid into an impure + * to indicate he did not want more tea. +to indicate that he was about to say something witty. “buonaparte?” +to inquiries as to where the prince lived, pointed out a small newly +to irresistible, youthful, childish drowsiness. “but what was i +to it were his inertia and a wrinkle on his brow indicating prolonged +to join some swedish forces at stralsund; how two hundred and twenty +to know as plain monsieur pierre, has become count bezúkhov and the +to know?” she asked sternly. +to know what is right and what is wrong. men always did and always will +to kutúzov’s staff despite all anna mikháylovna’s endeavors and +told him, and said, “very good!” in a tone that seemed to imply that +told him that he should try to do nothing to stain the whiteness of that +told him the whole field could be seen. here he dismounted, and stopped +told him to expect. +told him what he had seen. +told the count such vile, disgraceful things about us, especially about +told them all that. +told you, but you would not believe it,” she said triumphantly. “he +told you it would not be enough. how much?” +to leave that seclusion where they three were shut off from all the +to live for myself avoiding those two evils is my whole philosophy +to look under the uniforms he would have found on every man a clean +to make out the pattern. +to make reflections or think aloud in her company, and she had always +to make scenes. this last consideration moved him. +tomb of the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument +to me after the review and we will do what is possible.” +to me all about it, and i will help you in everything.” pierre had +to milorádovich who was near him. +tomorrow.” +tomorrow... in the evening. you must come.... come!” +tomorrow! only let me tell you, i want to know my son-in-law better. you +tomorrow,” or, “be in to dinner or i shall not see you,” or, “i +“tomorrow our squadron is to be in reserve. may i ask to be attached +“tomorrow,” replied rostóv and left the room. +“tomorrow very likely i may be sent with some message to the +to move from right to left as if drawn by an invisible hand, and the +tomowwow,” muttered denísov. +to my bivouac; let my doctor, larrey, examine their wounds. au revoir, + to my native land...” +to my sister today. i will introduce you to her. but of course you know +tone and manner, here in moscow to anna mikháylovna whom he had placed +tone of entreaty and reproach that a carpenter uses to a gentleman who +tone of voice. “come here, my friend...” and she ominously tucked +tones. +tone. “what has been decided? they have decided that buonaparte has +“tonight, not later,” said he in a low voice, and he moved away +tonight to my friends—come to the english hotel. +to notice him, and that his whole aim now was to test the cadet’s +too. +to offer their services. most of those present were elderly, respected +took a horse and a cossack from a cossack commander, and hungry and +took her hand and begged her forgiveness, without knowing what for. +took her sister-in-law’s arm and drew her into another room. +took him by the shoulder, led him to the window, and began to talk to +took it...” he whispered just above telyánin’s ear. +took to be the enemy. shots could be heard, but some way off. +took up her work. +to olmütz, dined there, drank a bottle of wine, and then set off alone +tools laid ready to hand and shavings scattered around—all indicated +too, might have their own interests. but all he said was so prettily +to one another, and the old servant who was holding the count’s hand +to one side he gracefully held a gold lorgnette to his eyes and looked +too seemed strange; at one moment they looked impudently sly and at the +to pass the time.” +to petersburg, look round, and choose your profession. i will agree to +topic—making fun of the military men of the day, and more particularly +topic of the day: the illness of the wealthy and celebrated beau of +to pierre he said nothing, merely giving his arm a sympathetic squeeze +to pierre. he spoke in french. “i only know two very real evils in +to please you...” said prince andrew. but immediately, noticing +to present the regiment in parade order, on the principle that it is +to pretend to the steward that he was attending to it. the steward +to prince murat, +“to prince vasíli. he was so kind. he at once agreed to everything, +to provide himself with some books for the campaign, and had spent some +to raise... happens to everybody! yes, who has not done it?” +to read and write by the deacon, like your father and me. now tell me, +to recollect something. prince andrew stepped forward from among the +to remain for a few weeks longer in the house she so loved and where +to remain so for a hundred years; but the moment comes when the lever +to rest after their hard marches. +to restrain his laughter. +to retreat along the road from krems to olmütz, to unite with the +to right and left of him soldiers continually groaned and dropped. but +to rostóv and involuntarily riveted his attention, made a gesture of +to rostóv’s face, and his sobs were audible. +to rostóv when the animal was handed over to the hussar. +to run out to her, and remained in her hiding place, watching—as +torzhók embroidery came into the room offering their services. +torzhók post station, either there were no horses or the postmaster +to say: “ah, what have you done to me, and why?” and at the sight +to say, all that could be got out of them. +to say and as if she were saying it to someone else, with whom joking +to say more in the presence of a stranger. +to say “tomorrow” and keep up a dignified tone was not difficult, +to seize hold of dólokhov’s shirt. +to set the serfs to work. say that everything out of the hothouses must +to settle here altogether next year....” +to shout: “blackguards!... throw the snow back on the road!” did not +to show her fear of anna pávlovna. she looked at her niece, as if +to show that they are not at all impatient for their food. the host and +to show the austrian general the wretched state in which the troops +to slip in over there.” +to snatch from the other a boot they were both holding on to. +to snatch it from one another. the expression on all their faces +to sob aloud. +to start her gambols again and display her kittenish nature. +to state his views plainly to the emperor? is it possible that on +to stimulate his emotions he looked around. “god, death, love, the +to stop and fire the bridge.” +to subscribe all he had, but fearing that it might look like pride +to sympathize in any way. +to take their leave. +totally altered and unexpectedly rapturous and tender expression on +total of his losses on it, then he looked round for aid from the other +to tear open the veil of convention that separates a commander in chief +to tell you. there is a war now against napoleon. if it were a war for +to the accountant, “but he feels a pain in the pit of his stomach +“to the army.” +to the austrian emperor and smiled. +to the back of the house, to the room of the eldest princess. +to the devil, i’m busy!” he shouted to lavrúshka, who went up to +to the effect that the duc d’enghien had gone secretly to paris to +to the elderly lady, even betraying some impatience, she gave him an +“to the emperor.” +to the emperor francis; he remembered the minister of war, the polite +to the emperor shocked rostóv. rostóv saw how the emperor’s rather +to the emperors with a salute. his whole appearance and manner were +to the end, without raising his eyes at the opening of the door and the +to the farther side of the bridge and stopped the infantry. beside the +to the first squadron?” +to the footman who was helping him on with his cloak, listened +to the french sword and pouch. “i have taken an officer prisoner. i +to the frontier. our dear emperor has left petersburg and it is thought +to the front of the regiment and examined it from a distance. +to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat +to the godmother, princess mary. prince andrew sat in another room, +to the guards’ camp to find his old playmate. rostóv had not yet had +“to the head of the french government... au chef du gouvernement +“to the health of our sovereign, the emperor!” he cried, and at the +to the hussar beside him. +to the imperial family as well as to all moscow and petersburg, and both +to their chatter. anatole kept on refilling pierre’s glass while +to their companies, the sergeants major began bustling (the greatcoats +to the last meeting between father and son, it was so touching that she +to the left down below in the mist, the musketry fire of unseen forces +to the maid, “bring the princess her gray dress, and you’ll see, +to them are the parts of the mechanism which the impulse has not yet +to then been in regular order and silent began to sway and stretch and +to the old conditions of life, nicholas found it very pleasant to be +to the palace, however, an official came running out to meet him, and +to the prince and smiling amiably at him as if to show that political +to the princess. +to the prince that if these battalions went away, the guns would remain +to the ranks along which shots crackled now here and now there, drowning +to the ranks,” said the captain softly. +to the removal of the guns. +to the review, reaching the field at olmütz by ten o’clock. +“to the right from the corridor, euer hochgeboren! there you will find +to the rules of his art, as he collected the tickets from all his +to the tsar or to kutúzov, even if they were alive and unwounded? +to the unknown place where he was going, many more of our men were going +to the vienna-znaim road. bagratión was to make this march without +to the views of the old generals kutúzov and prince schwartzenberg, it +to the visitor she added: “she is my youngest girl.” +to the window. +to think of the impression he makes on others, but is occupied with +to think of the interview with his dying father which awaited him. he +to this chit of a girl, natásha, who not so long ago was playing with +to this occurrence than to the rest of what went on, having made up his +to those who knew the indubitable truth.) he forgot what the seventh +to time she smoothed the folds of her dress, and whenever the story +“to try his luck or the certainty?” rostóv asked himself. +to turn away when the old man, opening his eyes, fixed his steady and +to turn the count’s heavy body toward the wall. +to túshin’s battery had been moved away in the middle of the action +to twitch. the twitching increased, the handsome mouth was drawn to one +touched him was sent flying. +touched pierre: he looked at hélène and she too seemed disconcerted, +touching bonaparte’s. +touching his arm, but when he saw pierre’s beaming face he gave him an +touching his horse and turning purple in the face. “vill you be so +touching thanks of deputations of serfs in their full-skirted blue +touch with it, and looked around bewildered and unable to grasp what was +touch, “you promised me!” + * to understand all is to forgive all. +to unload the muskets, explode the ammunition, and all return home as +to us.” +to walk up and down before it. +toward anna pávlovna, and anna pávlovna, with the same sad smile with +toward evening dolgorúkov came back, went straight to the tsar, and +toward evening he ceased moaning and became quite still. he did not know +toward him and said something. +toward him whom he may give me for husband. +toward the end of 1806, when all the sad details of napoleon’s +toward the sofa she had indicated. as soon as anna mikháylovna had +toward the vanguard. before he came up with the hussars, several +toward those pratzen heights which were being more and more denuded by +to warn me of the humor my father is in. i do not allow myself to judge +to. weyrother had been twice that evening to the enemy’s picket +to weyrother sat count langeron who, with a subtle smile that never left +to what he dreaded more than anything in the world—to ridicule; but +to what he must do and how he should answer, willarski only replied that +to which pierre did not agree. on the other hand, pierre demanded that +town knows?” +“to your barrier!” and pierre, grasping what was meant, stopped by +to you since dinner? hasn’t she?” +to you. where are you traveling from?” +traces broke, and lungs were strained with shouting. the officers +traditions of unlimited power, in time when they grow more irritable, +trampled mud and gazed with that particular feeling of ill-will, +trampling through the deep snow, and muttering incoherent words: +transit gloria mundi.” +translators: louise and aylmer maude +transparently radiant with impulsive joy. +traveler, also detained for lack of horses. +traveler, having packed his things with his practiced hands, began +traveling effects of prince andrew’s were in very good order: new, +treading heavily he stepped down from the carriage just as if those two +tread of the soldiers who were keeping step with him. he carried close +treated them with absent-minded contempt. +treetops and bluish gorges. the turrets of a convent stood out beyond a +trembled nervously; this was sufficient to cause his whole body to slip +trembling with emotion, solemnly holding up in both hands before her +triangles are equal; please note that the angle abc...” +tried to conceal them. +tried to pretend not to know; no one spoke of it, but apart from the +tried with his lips whether the child was still feverish. the soft +trifle to let a wagon go past. after he had gone, two soldiers rushed to +trigger, as he had not before held a pistol in his hand—a fact that he +tripping rapidly across in her little shoes trimmed with bows, ran +triumph. +triumph. +triumphant, cheerful face. +triumphantly and gaily. +triumphantly secured the mop and still did not realize what awaited him, + triumph, valiant russians, now!... +troops arriving from russia, he risked being forestalled on that road +troops below the hill and fell far short of the enemy, a little smoke +troops had already entered prussia and our second war with napoleon +troops, he saw, near a kitchen garden with a ditch round it, two men +troops on the high ground above the bridge involuntarily asked himself +troops were ill-clad, exhausted, and had lost a third of their number +troops were moving in the distance, and he listened to the sounds of +troops were no longer moving, but stood with the butts of their muskets +troops were running onto the bridge, was about to fire, but lannes +trot to escape from the poisoned atmosphere of these latrines. +trouble, and silently fixed his eyes on bagratión as a schoolboy who +trouble, but the mason told him that was not necessary and gave him +trouvez là le mot pour rire,” * he said, as if strengthening his +trowel, a rough stone and a squared stone, a pillar, three windows, and +trowel, he told him to toil with it to cleanse his own heart from vice, +truce and a capitulation, he detected a ruse and wrote the following +“true enough,” answered nesvítski; “two smart fellows could have +true gascon) and says: ‘i don’t recognize the world-famous austrian +true, or might at least seem to be true had it not referred to his wife. +trumpets of the first cavalry regiment played the general march. it +“trust in his mercy!” and pointing out a small sofa for him to sit +trusts to luck, one should make certain,’ and i want to try.” +trying in vain to find the answer to some question. +trying not to lose a word of the speech which was incomprehensible to +trying only to be ahead of the others; but just at the bridge, not +trying” (pierre’s modesty made him correct himself) “to live for +trying through the dowager empress márya fëdorovna to secure it for +trying to get something out of the rich man?” +trying to give an expressive intonation to his voice. +trying to prove that the russians had surrendered and had fled all +try to do all i can for your happiness.” +“try to serve well and show yourself worthy,” added he, addressing +tsar and the country? it is wartime. such a fine fellow must serve. +tsar, who still remained in the same attitude of indecision. +tucked up, without a coat, pale and with a trembling jaw, came out +tuesday. +tuft of plumes in his cocked hat worn on one side with its corners front +tumbler with tea for himself and one for the beardless old man to whom +turn away from the sight, shouting angrily at the men who, as is always +turned away and went down the side of the corridor. +turned from captain timókhin again flitted over his face. he turned +turned out splendidly all the same,” he added, winking at véra. +turned round. the officer evidently had complete control of his face, +turned their horses away. the accountant stopped, facing the cossack, +turned to anna mikháylovna, answering her query by a movement of the +turned to her. +turned to his wife. +turned to speak to his daughter, the beautiful hélène. +turned toward her brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, +turned toward the women, and while the vehicle was passing at foot pace +turned to zherkóv. the nervous irritation aroused by the appearance +turning away from the girls, who at once assumed an air of inattention. +turning for a moment to the front line, and slightly swinging his arms, +turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, +turning into the village already... they will have their buckwheat +turning the horse sharply, he again jumped the ditch, and deferentially +turning to anatole, “come here, let us talk and get acquainted.” +turning to prince vasíli and answering his imploring look. “yes, or +turn into vexation and anger at the stupid arrangements and at the +turn now, but that he will do all he can to let his turn come as late as +turn spindles at home!’?” said shinshín, puckering his brows and +“turn this way!” he shouted, jumping over the ice which creaked +túshin. +túshin did not say that there were no covering troops, though that +túshin rose and, buttoning his greatcoat and pulling it straight, +túshin’s battery but had never reached it. interrupting one +túshin’s battery had been forgotten and only at the very end of the +túshin’s guns had been intended to cannonade the valley, he was +túshin’s large, kind, intelligent eyes were fixed with sympathy and +túshin smiling shyly in his uncomfortable position, evidently wishing +túshin’s wattle shed was laid, with a bullet in his stomach, on +túshin told them to give the man some water. then a cheerful soldier +túshin turned round in dismay. it was the staff officer who had turned +túshin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to +twelve men in garments like those he had already seen. some of them +twenty men were gathered round a table at which dólokhov sat between +twinkled and looked out straight. +twisted upwards, sat the ruddy milorádovich in a military pose, his +twitched its ears as the bayonets touched it, and snorted, spurting +two. +two.” +two alexanders—bekleshëv and narýshkin—which was a significant +two battalions of the sixth chasseurs in fine order. before they had +two candles. on the table was a pile of gold and paper money, and he +two cossacks. +two footmen, the princess’ and his own, stood holding a shawl and +two friends, one of whom was a dashing hussar and the other a notorious +two front teeth were missing that had been knocked out by the butt end +two hostile armies was all the more clearly felt. +two hours later prince andrew, stepping softly, went into his father’s +“two, i think.” +two months had elapsed since the news of the battle of austerlitz and +two of the enemy’s shots had already flown across the bridge, where +two seconds. whether or no the emperor understood what was going on in +“two such charming children. and really you appreciate them less than +twot fo’ward!” +two thousand rubles, and though he always disliked speaking of money +two, three... one... “oh mio crudele affetto.”... one, two, three... +two years, and he did not know how the rest, about 100,000 rubles, was +two younger ones were embroidering: both were rosy and pretty and they +“ugh! i don’t like that fellow,” he said, regardless of the +“ugh. the hussars will get it hot!” said nesvítski; “they are +unable to ask for himself, he became chary of using his influence. but +unable to overcome or conceal his groundless antipathy to the man. +unable to realize where he was. +unable to withstand it now, but he also felt that on what he said now +unaccustomed brightness, but he was looking not at his sister but over +unappreciated bliss, long past. he could not conceive that a stupid +un bâtard!”* she added, as if supposing that this translation of the +unbroken and had all day beaten back an enemy force twice as numerous +unchanging smile. +unchanging stonily severe expression; and, sitting down opposite the +unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of napoleon’s doctor, +unconscious little princess, he shook his head reprovingly and slammed +unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the +“und die ganze welt hoch!” * +under an invisible cap—to see what went on in the world. she was +under an obligation, assuming an air of much greater importance than he +under fire for the first time. +under him; “turn this way!” he shouted to those with the gun. “it +under his weight alone. the men looked at him and pressed to the +under one command, and in a like order. +understand?” +understand, agitated her. she said nothing but looked about uneasily as +understand and state the patient’s condition. +understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but +understand him, but he did not speak it very well—“i bet fifty +understand him it was so much the worse for them—did not go up to the +understand how a man of his immense intellect can fail to see what is +understand how one can live with such ideas. i had such moments +understanding but not wishing to appear to do so. the princess as usual +understanding half of it, read only to forget, if but for a moment, what +understanding of his employer’s happiness. +understand it’!... and i ask you!” +understand it; i don’t in the least understand why men can’t live +understand it so differently. he collected all his strength, to stir and +understand. she kissed his rough curly black head. at this instant, they +understand. that’s what i’m up to.” +understand the self-abnegation of our emperor who wants nothing for +understand... what a soul he has!” +understand what was being read. he managed to follow only the last words +understood all the difficulties of the russian army’s position, and +understood her and made up my mind what she really is. was i mistaken +understood him. the old man got up and gave the letter to his son. +understood, that he could not answer him. +understood that she was being asked to entertain this young man, and +understood that this woman might belong to him. +understood the revolution and quelled it, and so for the general good, +understood what was happening as little as he did. +understood without naming. +“under the lower pillow.” +under the shirt sleeves, those hands which he loved and hated, held him +under the table. +under which she felt that she could not think, but would only be able to +“und vivat die ganze welt!” though neither the german cleaning his +uneasily as if preparing to resent any slight that might be put upon the +unexpectedly kind and pleasant smile. +unexpectedly through his mind. +unexpectedly to go into action. rostóv without hearing borís to the +unfastened cloak, wide breeches hanging down in creases, and a crumpled +unfinished bit of nibbled sugar, and asked if anything more would be +unfortunate, a stranger, alone, helpless! and, oh god, how passionately +unfriendly now became gentle and affectionate. the angry eldest +ungainly russian princesses, would fall in love with her and carry her +uniformed austrian officer. +uniform living waves of soldiers, shoulder straps, covered shakos, +uniforms advanced toward the bridge at a run. smoke appeared again +uniforms and groups with horses, easily recognizable as artillery. +uniforms, mounted on black horses, trotting straight toward him and +uniforms, with smartly dressed bandsmen in front mounted on black, roan, +unintentionally, he poured too many drops into the glass. he threw the +universe, and of the courage with which he should endure toils and +unlicked bear! a perfectly absurd and stupid fellow, and a gambler too, +unlike the old one, he expected everything to be unusual, even more +unlucky at cards.’ your cousin is in love with you, i know.” +unmarried, and even the happier for it?” so thought prince bolkónski +unmask his deceivers!” and in order to realize vividly his love +unmelted snow, or some white houses? he even thought something moved on +unnatural smile. “i expect you have guessed that prince vasíli has +unnatural way, he stretched out his hand for alpátych to kiss, and then +unpleasant. +unpleasantly excited expression. +unpleasant things to everyone and upset them. let’s go to the +unpleasant thing to a man’s face, to say what the other, whoever +unusual than what he was seeing. a skull, a coffin, the gospel—it +unwell, sat down under an apple tree and von toll remained beside him. +unwell today? eh? afraid of the ‘minister’ as that idiot alpátych +unwounded—it was they who were crushing, weighing down, and twisting +unwounded. the soldiers were ascending the hill breathing heavily, and +up against him. he wrote “800 rubles” on a card, but while the +up a glass and a pipe that were handed him. +up and began watching the movements of our troops below, as plainly +up and turning away as if from a shameful aspersion. “it is not from +up at all!” +up!” came the company commander’s voice in jaunty tones. the +up for lost time. +up from both sides. everyone crowded to the window, the englishman in +up from the sofa, seized borís under the elbow in his quick, clumsy +up her downy little lip. “all the pretty women in society will be +up her sleeves still higher. pierre approached, looking at her in a +up, invited him to his house in petersburg, and now... she has come here +up like a fool!” he thought, looking irritably at her. “she is +upon and could not now be altered. “we start tomorrow and i’m giving +upon anyone, and it was clear that the kitten had settled down only to +upon him, passed splendidly, lifting his feet with a high and graceful +upon prince andrew, who was beside him. seeing him, kutúzov’s +up on the vast field. the whole army was extended in three lines: the +up out of the mist. +upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to be her own special and +up their knapsacks with a jerk of their shoulders and pulling the straps +up the steps to where the coffin stood, to give her the farewell kiss. +up the whole of her thin, sickly face and made it beautiful. her brother +up to denísov’s squadron and rode at a footpace not far from rostóv, +up to her. +up tomorrow. but you will see everything for yourself when you get to +up to the altar, placed his feet at right angles, and bade him lie down, +up to the appearance of the pauvre mère; they understood that they had +up to the commander in chief, and presented arms. +up to their gallery, addressing the first violin: +up to the window of the first house, when a familiar voice called him by +up to túshin. +upwards, in the way affected by the emperor alexander, and, having +up, was hastily writing at a tub turned bottom upwards. kozlóvski’s +urged on his already weary horse to get quickly past these crowds, but +urging of horses, and the swearing of soldiers, orderlies, and officers. +us?...” “ah! mary, you have got thinner?...” “and you have grown +us aides-de-camp and adjutants! but this is what we’ll do: i have +us. but vienna is on the other side. no, the bridge has not yet been +us but within....” +used for dancing, but in which five beds now stood, and furniture of +used to be. don’t judge lise harshly,” she began. “she is so +used to like to spend them, or to open his mind by intimate talks with +used to say that a nap “after dinner was silver—before dinner, +used to show at catchplay, now and then turning his good-natured, pale, +use of whatever interest he had to offer. he himself carefully scanned +ushering bolkónski in. “so you’re a messenger of victory, eh? +us nice news of a victory by the archduke karl or ferdinand (one +us talk business. have you been to the horse guards?” +us. to the left the horizon bounded by the adjacent wood. prince +usual. +usual in french, and as if after long self-restraint she wished to make +usually so described. +usurper, the whole nation will certainly throw itself into the arms +us. well, you want an argument,” he added, “come on then.” +us—we scuttle. he hardly crosses the river to our side before we +utter a sound. he feebly moved his leg and uttered a weak, sickly groan +uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan. +uvárov, who had arrived with him, paused at the doorway to allow him, +vacancies occur much more frequently in the foot guards. then just think +vainly trying to master her agitation. +valet can go in your carriage. ah! i was nearly forgetting,” he added. +valet had set down the coffee things and left the room. pierre looked +valor carry disorder and confusion into the enemy’s ranks, but should +value this mystic power and glory that is floating here above me in this +valúev was confidentially telling that uvárov had been sent from +vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of +vanished from his face. +vanished. he waited for the first pause in the conversation, and then +various figures worked upon it, at the other was something resembling an +various kinds: a table, chairs, and a clavichord. one adjutant, nearest +varnish. +varying expression and the same prevalent appearance of goodhearted +vasíli. +vasíli and his son. +vasíli and the eldest princess. pierre concluded that this also was +vasíli, “but it is difficult for me to ask the emperor. i should +“vasíli denísov, your son’s friend,” he said, introducing +“vasíli dmítrich, i’m so sorry for you!... no, but you are so +“vasíli dmítrich, i thank you for the honor,” she said, with an +vasíli had only acquired by imitating other parents. +vasíli, his cheeks twitching more than ever. +vasíli. “i know something about that. don’t i? and you are still so +vasíli in the anteroom. all the affectation of interest she had assumed +vasíli, in the rare moments when he was at home, would take pierre’s +vasíli, it is very sad for both. ah, my dear friend, our divine +vasíli one day, closing his eyes and fingering pierre’s elbow, +vasíli played a very despicable part in this affair and that he +vasíli severely. “you don’t know what you are doing.” +vasíli’s house in the company of the stout princess, his wife, and +vasíli’s son anatole, whom they wish to reform by marrying him to +vasíli’s son, hippolyte, had come with mortemart, whom he introduced. +vasíli’s tone of careless self-assurance that he felt he would be +vasíli to anna mikháylovna. “go and take something, my poor anna +vasíli to anna pávlovna. +vasíli to himself, with a sorrowful sigh, one morning, feeling that +vasíli understood it as an expression of weariness. +vasíli went on, testily pushing away a little table without looking at +vasíli, who had grown thinner and paler during the last few days, +velvety softness, which so mingled with her lack of art in singing that +“ve must vight to the last tr-r-op of our plood!” said the colonel, +venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly +“véra,” she said to her eldest daughter who was evidently not a +véra’s remark was correct, as her remarks always were, but, like +véra with guilty, happy faces. +verses called “enchantress,” which he had composed, and to which he +verses in the bosom of her dress close to her bony little chest, ran +“very.” +very briefly and vaguely, that after brilliant engagements the russians +very clever but eccentric, and a bore. the poor girl is very unhappy. +very decent town. you and i will travel comfortably in my calèche.” +very fields where the french had now to be fought; the adjacent +very fine!” +very fine when he said that,” he remarked, repeating the words in +very glad to see him hanged, but i was sorry for my father—that again +“very good,” answered nesvítski. +“very good!” said bagratión. +“very good!” said the prince closing the door behind him, and +“very good, very good,” said bagratión. “thank you, officer.” +very important.” +very important personage, had been sent on a very important mission to +“very interesting.” +very likely be getting a letter from him that day. each time that these +“very likely it would be splendid, but it will never come about....” +“very lovely,” said prince andrew. +very much! i have promised myself not to serve again in the active +“very much,” said nicholas flushing, and with a stupid careless +very muscular men, and on the night of the battle, having arrived +very poor, but for my own part at any rate, for the very reason that +very pretty and sweet, and evidently deeply in love with him, but he was +“very,” said pierre. +very serious talk.” +“very silly,” said véra. “i am ashamed of you. secrets indeed!” +very strictly to social distinctions and rarely admitted even important +very trying,” said prince andrew, apparently speaking lightly of their +very well...” +“very well,” said smolyanínov, and went on at once: “have you any +“very well, then, be so good as to wait,” said prince andrew to the +“very well, very well...” +very wise, because you can take everything along with you—vodka and +vessel and judge of its purity? only by the inner purification of myself +vicious and unfortunate people whom he would assist by word and deed, +vicomte and from the vicomte to their hostess. in the first moment of +vicomte continued, with the air of a man who, in a matter with which +vicomte who was continuing his story. +victory, and general bennigsen, hoping to receive from petersburg the +victory be in doubt, even for a moment, you will see your emperor +victory. his majesty will no doubt wish to see you, but not today. i +victory or defeat, the glory of our russian arms is secure. except your +victory over buonaparte at eylau. in petersburg everyone is rejoicing, +victory, what effect would that have on the general course of events? +victory which was conveyed, not only by the tales of those who had taken +vienna as i told you. very well. next day, which was yesterday, those +vienna by the austrian hofkriegsrath, the sole and almost unattainable +“vienna considers the bases of the proposed treaty so unattainable +vienna. kutúzov with his transport had still to march for some days +views by this french sentence. “c’est bien pour un garçon de rien +view they were right, as were those too who canonized him and died a +vile, infamous paper, but i thought the thing was invalid.” +“vile woman!” shouted the princess, darting unexpectedly at anna +village and had already been sent for. +village!” he said angrily to a general who had ridden up. “don’t +village of pratzen. but neither they nor a single commanding officer +villages were in a state of the greatest poverty. he did not know that +village. tell it to stop and await my orders.” +village. “very good!” said bagratión in reply to the officer’s +virtue was and could not recall it. +virtuous future that seemed to him so easy. it seemed to him that he had +virtuous life of which he had been dreaming since he met joseph +vish to destroy my men for your pleasure!” +visible as if but a stone’s throw away, and the movements of the +visible in the snow and a shovel had been left sticking in one of the +visible through the smoke, make out moving masses of infantry and narrow +visit his neglected estates at the same time and pick up his son anatole +visiting all the places he meant to go to and where he had been invited, +visit mademoiselle george; that at her house he came upon bonaparte, +visitor alluded to, though she had already heard about the cause of +visitor. “and to think it is cyril vladímirovich bezúkhov’s son +visitor. “he is a son of márya ivánovna dólokhova, such a worthy +visitors on his right. midway down the long table on one side sat the +visitors. there was the fact that only those came who wished to dance +vividly imagined what awaited it and the part he would have to +vladímir medal and ribbon? but now, even if they do get peppered, the +vladímirovich bezúkhov, countess rostóva sat for a long time all +vladímirovich bezúkhov. if he will not assist his godson—you know +vladímirovich bezúkhov’s house. “my dear borís,” said the +vladímirovich is my mother’s second cousin. he’s also my bóry’s +vocation is to be happy with another kind of happiness, the happiness +vodka a quarter of an hour before, he saw everywhere the same rapid +vodka—get on!” rostóv shouted, when the sleigh was only three +vodka. the campfires crackled and the soldiers’ songs resounded +voice. +voice. +voice, and lieutenant telyánin, a small officer of the same squadron, +voice, “but believe me, i so adore your daughter and all your family +voice calling him by name. +voice from heaven. how gladly would he have died at once for his tsar! +voice, obviously so elated by the sound of firing, by the prospect of +voice, opening his door. +voice, popped her head in at the door. +voices. +voices, and the army swayed and started in one enormous mass six miles +voices subsided, the footmen cleared away the broken glass and everybody +voice suddenly shrieked: “but if i hear that you have not behaved like +voices were but feebly heard amid the uproar and one saw by their faces +voice. “there was no one else in the room except myself. so that if it +voice. to fresh questions as to the firmness of his resolution pierre +voice trembled.) “i loved your father... and she will make you a good +voice which expressed joy for himself, severity for the regiment, and +voice, with its incorrect breathing and labored transitions, was +voice, “you were pleased to send me to captain túshin’s battery. i +“voilà l’agrément des camps, monsieur le prince,” * said the +volume you have sent me and which has such success in moscow. yet since +von bergs—have been knights!” +votre victoire n’est pas des plus victorieuses.” * +voulu, george dandin,’ that’s all we have to say about it!” +vous aime’?” he kept repeating to himself. and when he had said it +“vous voyez le malheureux mack,” he uttered in a broken voice. +vreatening russia and zat ze safety and dignity of ze empire as vell +vulgarity of the expressions that were natural to her, though she had +vyazmítinov, the new military governor general of petersburg, had + wafting sweet music o’er the lea, +waistcoat. “it’s the sauté, most likely,” she added with a smile. +“wait a bit and listen. it’s fine!” answered sídorov, who was +“wait a bit, he is not drunk yet! a bottle here,” said anatole, and +“wait a bit, here’s a letter for you,” said the old man suddenly, +“wait a bit, i have something in view for you this evening.” +“wait a moment, i’ll get my work.... now then, what are you +“wait!” cried dólokhov, hammering with the bottle on the window +waited for him to go on, but as he seemed quite decided to say no more +waited impatiently for prince andrew’s return from the commander in +waited in expectation of an important order for an expensive funeral. +waiter filled his glass he changed his mind and altered it to his usual +“wait, haven’t you dropped it?” said rostóv, picking up the +“wait, i have not finished...” he said to prince andrew, seizing +waiting for a seven to turn up, gazed at dólokhov’s hands which held +waiting for him to say a word and cross a certain line, and he knew that +waiting for—some important relation who has not yet arrived, or a dish +waiting for the beat. only on horse back and in the mazurka was +waiting to hear whether he would say anything more. but kutúzov, with +waiting to see what he would do. he stood a little while before the +“waiting, your majesty,” repeated kutúzov. (prince andrew noted +“wait—just a word! when he has been transferred to the guards...” +wait only two hours, when, come what might, he would let his excellency +waken...” all rose and cried “hurrah!” bagratión also rose and +wake up, váska!” he went on, turning to denísov, whose head +walked away from the fire. +walked slowly without raising his pistol, looking intently with his +walk to meet him. his face with its long mustache was serious as always, +wall. on this knoll there was a white patch that rostóv could not at +walls hung round with persian carpets. the part of the room behind the +wanted. +wanted to show him that his losses were an achievement that made her +wanted to sleep. the gay triumphant shouting of the enemy army had a +wants to go to the war,” replied pierre, addressing the princess +“wants to turn on the other side,” whispered the servant, and got up +want that. and besides, what a notion that medicine ever cured anyone! +want the money for? as if that money could add a hair’s breadth to +want to, but now i have no time.” besides, it seemed to him that the +want to dance well. her enormous figure stood erect, her powerful arms +war and peace +war came contradictory news, false as usual and therefore variously +wardrobe in which pierre noticed garments such as he had never seen +wares, especially a pair of goatskin slippers. “i have hundreds of +war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature—which townsfolk +war has deprived me of one of the associations nearest my heart. i mean +warm themselves, gathering round the fires throwing into the flames the +war or politics but related to high society, to certain women, and to +warrior doing some kind of man’s work of his own, without help or +wars,” he said. +was. +was about to be decided. but prince andrew did not see how it ended. it +was about to cross the space between the barriers, when dólokhov cried: +was about to expand her dresses into a balloon and sit down. they were +was about to run on, thinking that the farther he went to the front +was about twenty-five. like all infantry officers he wore no mustache, +was about, went across the room to where pierre was standing and gave +was abroad; so pierre had not the opportunity to spend his nights as he +was accustomed to understand him. he led him to the desk, raised the +was again nodding. “come, get on! you shall have three rubles for +was a great success. there were many pretty girls and the rostóv girls +was all over; but he said in an indifferent tone: +was already perfectly cured of his former faults and was ready for all +was also a yellow, wrinkled old man, without beard or mustache, +was always busy and always felt in a state of mild and cheerful +“was a political necessity, and it seems to me that napoleon +was a stroke of genius. prince auersperg feels his dignity at stake and +was at home last, and, having assured himself that they had not, he +was a unique chance to show his devotion to the emperor and he had not +was a young horse telyánin had sold to rostóv.) +was baptized. the wet nurse supported the coverlet with her chin, while +was beginning, anna pávlovna gave one of her soirees. the “cream of +was being done was not his adjutant’s fault, and still not answering +was being held by the arms and his horse was being led behind him. +was borís drubetskóy, who had just arrived as a special messenger from +was bright, he had a good horse under him, and his heart was full of +was charmant. even if anna pávlovna did not say so, he could see that +was charming... you are very kind... countess apráksina...” was heard +was coming, and turning to her mother: +was delighted with denísov’s skill, he was asked again and again as +was diverted by the desperate shrieks of the woman in the vehicle. an +was downstairs. +was dulled by imbecility and a constant expression of sullen +was ecstatically conscious of his approach. he felt it not only from the +was evidently one, rostóv felt confused, blushed, and became silent. +was excellent. with the second course, a gigantic sterlet (at sight of +was for earthly love. the more she tried to hide this feeling from +was forgetting. we must have another entrée. ah, goodness gracious!” +was, for something could be descried. on the right the guards were +was fought. +was fully described: prince murat et tout le tremblement... you see that +was going home to vorónezh and rostóv persuaded him to travel with him +was great on the bridge of arcola, and in the hospital at jaffa where he +was growing dusk. on the narrow augesd dam where for so many years the +was happy. “left... left... left...” he seemed to repeat to himself +was heartily sick of them. in spite of this, or rather because of +was holding fast to plait, would allow. +was immediately killed. prince andrew again seized the standard and, +was immediately surrounded by courtiers on all sides. everywhere he +was impossible for cavalry to act among the bushes and broken ground, +was impossible to see it clearly with the naked eye. our right flank was +was in a white uniform rode a black one. these were the two emperors +was in his place, waiting. +was in raptures about him, when he had just returned from abroad, and +was in the right so i kept silent; was not that best, count?... ‘hey, +was in the way and was the only one who did not notice the fact. most of +was keeping the bank. rostóv had not seen him since his proposal and +“was kutúzov well? when had he left krems?” and so on. the emperor +was large and of an old pattern. the french swarming round their guns +was laughing at something, mingled in a merry sound, like the chirping +was lost. no one whom rostóv asked could tell him where the emperor +was lying asleep on the ottoman with an open book in his hand. +was mentioned and, pointing to his forehead, remarked: +was merely a man of the world who had got on and to whom getting on had +was more important than verses, and bagratión, again preceding all the +was napoleon—his hero—but at that moment napoleon seemed to him +was necessary for him to go to the count at all, still less why he had +was “not a whit worse than you or i.” at dinner the prince usually +was not behaving very well in this matter. “youth, frivolity... well, +was nothing. so why should i not stay at his house? then i played cards +was not in love with anyone in particular, but with everyone. whatever +was. now he excused himself for having been taken prisoner and now, +wasn’t it?” +“wasn’t i telling you to fire the bridge, when inflammable material +“wasn’t it fine when those germans gave us lifts! you just sit still +was often on dólokhov’s face when looking at him. “yes, he is a +was on duty and that he should go through the door on the left into the +was only redder than usual. with his shaggy head thrown back like birds +was out of the question, “i am in love with your brother once for all +was pale, his blue eyes looked impudently into the commander’s face, +was particularly pleasant at that moment. they had reached the battery +was perfectly true. he was afraid of getting some other officer into +was rapidly and excitedly talking to a french grenadier. “hark to him +was rather out of place in this brilliant society, the whole company had +was repeatedly summoned to see him. at headquarters and among the troops +was said. +was saying. +was serving, and a misunderstanding arose. the two commanders were much +was silenced at once. they looked at the beautiful, large, thoughtful +was silent with his steward, the gardener, and the architect, and though +was sitting at a small table, chattering with másha, her maid. she grew +was sitting at the head of the table. on either side of her sat the +was sitting beside him, by the hand. rostóv was struck by the +was sitting. the curtains were drawn, and a single candle was burning on +was so close to him that his shortsighted eyes could not but perceive +was something black, now little lights seemed to glimmer where the enemy +was spitting blood. a bullet had evidently hit him in the throat or +was standing beside the princess, and they were both speaking in excited +was stricter.” +was struck by the change in him. his words were kindly and there was a +was taken up with dinners and balls and was spent chiefly at prince +was talked of. for the rostóv family the whole interest of these +was talking came up to listen. berg, oblivious of irony or indifference, +was tall and fair, and his calm and handsome face had regular, delicate +“was that grapeshot?” he asked denísov. +was the count at last handed a letter addressed in his son’s +was the emperors’ suites. the emperors rode up to the flank, and the +was the little princess, these tears, the cause of which she did not +was the name his fancy gave to the farthest gun of the battery, which +was there on the hilltop, and kept constantly looking at the patches +was thinking of. yes, na-tásha, sabretache, oh, yes, yes! that’s +was told that the prince had gone to the nursery. +was too far separated from our right flank and the cavalry were all +was true and appropriate, yet, strange to say, everyone—the visitors +was true. no one had taken any notice, for everyone knew the sensation +was trying to fit music: +was very valuable. officers who approached him with disturbed +was warm blood under his arm. “no, i am wounded and the horse is +was writing. “i’ll do it.” +watched her cousin who was going to join the army, with such passionate +watched him. she smiled, hid her face in her handkerchief, and remained +watched him smilingly, and he rode off by the winding path down the +watchful eye on the young man who so alarmed her, noticed that he was +watching and it creaked very slightly as she disappeared behind it. +“watching over his interests” meant, but he decided that all these +watch the change in the tone and manners of the mammas burdened by +watchword—shaft, olmütz. what a nuisance that our squadron will be in +water. +water cart, painted green, stood in a shed; the paths were straight, +waters of the distant danube shone. and fairer still were the faraway +waving it above his head cried: +way and attaching him to himself! what if he gave me a place near him? +way, and, blushing far more than borís, began to speak with a feeling +way, dear boy! make way, make way!” pushed through the crowd more +way,” he added in russian—but pronouncing the word with a french +way in which he danced the mazurka, nicholas ran up to natásha: +way!... let us pass!... stop there, you devil with the cart! i’ll hack +way of these men, and he would have got clear had they continued at the +way,” said an officer. +way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a +way, with berg who was already in command of a company. berg, who had +weak human understanding cannot grasp, it seems to me rather useless to +weakness—the one to which he had confessed when admitted to the +“we all have our weaknesses,” said kutúzov smiling and walking away +“weally! and i’ve been losing, bwother. i lost yesterday like a +weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men +“we are enjoying ourselves! vasíli dmítrich is staying a day longer +“we are not fighting pour le roi de prusse, but for right principles. +“we are such friends, such friends! all that ruler business was just +“we are to spend the night in znaim.” +weariness and assurance, as if he were adding every time: “you know +weariness of tone, “it is almost impossible for me to do what you +wearing long dresses for the first time. with scarcely any exceptions +wearing scarves and all their decorations, not only the elegant, pomaded +wearing the cross of st. george, awarded to soldiers for bravery in +weary, and distracted air, though at the same time he was haughty and +weary faces, were sitting at the table eating and drinking. +weary, making his way past the baggage wagons, rode in search of the +weary of it and it was not at all what he wanted. he turned away and +weather, and countess apráksina. now and then they glanced at one +weather. “the weather is beautiful, princess; and besides, in moscow +we begin a very original and interesting series of maneuvers. our aim is +we can know is that we know nothing. and that’s the height of human +“we can’t have less—yes, three... the mayonnaise, that’s one,” +we could not think how to address the reply! if not as ‘consul’ +wednesday’s meeting of the imperial council, at which sergéy kuzmích +“we don’t interfere with you and berg.” +‘we don’t love people so much for the good they have done us, as +“we drove them back!” said borís with animation, growing talkative. +weeks, and months of his life passed in as great a rush and were as much +weep without knowing why—rode behind on his artillery nag. though +“we had better separate,” he muttered in a broken voice. +we had not religion to console us life would be very sad. why do you +we have fully concentrated forces of nearly seventy thousand men with +“we have orders to drive you off here, and we shall drive you off,” +we hear is true, it is dreadful. how little we dreamed of such a thing +“we here in moscow are more occupied with dinner parties and scandal +weight. +weight they were carrying were too much for them. +we knew you’d say so. but it won’t do, because you see, if you say +we know where we are. and what do you think of the boulogne expedition? +welcome for the approaching chief. +we let our feeble human minds roam, the better we shall please god, who +welfare of his soul is at stake. ah, it is awful: the duties of a +well.” +well.” +“well, all i can make out is that everything is abominable, +“well, all right, all right.” +“well, all the same, you must refuse him.” +“well, and are you still true to borís?” he continued. +well!” and he turned to go. +well and, in particular, drinks well. “so do come and dine with us!” +“well, and is that all?” he asked. +“well, and so he never got farther than: ‘sergéy kuzmích’?” +“well and then?” asked the other voice. “if before that you are +“well, and to whom did you apply about bóry?” asked the countess. +“well, and you? what are your plans?” +“well, and you, young man,” said he. “how do you feel, mon +“well, aren’t you ashamed of yourself, captain túshin?” he +well, are you off to the front?” +well, as all the connoisseurs who heard her said: “it is not trained, +“well, as you see. so far everything’s all right, but i confess i +“well, au revoir, bolkónski! au revoir, prince! come back early to +“well, au revoir! good-by! you hear her?” +“well begin!” said dólokhov. +well-brushed clothes. there was a masculine odor and a smell of tobacco. +“well done!... fine fellow!... there’s a bet for you!... devil take +“well done, lads!” said prince bagratión. +“well, do you think i shall prevent her, that i can’t part from +well educated and clever. this is all that his foreign education has +well enough to be sure that this will not turn your head, but it imposes +we’ll fire off some cannon! but this sort of thing seems done +well for you,” said natásha, with a responsive smile. “you should +“well, fwiend? so you’ve smelt powdah!” shouted váska denísov +“well, go and see,” he said, after a pause. +“well, good-by, prince,” said he to bagratión. “my blessing, and +“well—had a good time?” said the old count, smiling gaily and +“well? has he been degraded into a field marshal, or into a soldier? +“well, have it so, and you talked a lot of nonsense to him and must +“well, have you finished?” said he to kozlóvski. +“well, have you sent gabriel for some wine? all right let’s have +“well?” he asked. +“well!” he said, turning to his wife. +“well, he’s really a good fellow, one can serve under him,” said +“well, how are you going to get out of that?” he remarked. +“well? how do you feel?” he asked. +“well! how d’ye do? how d’ye do? glad to see you!” +“well, how d’you do, my dear fellow?” said dolgorúkov, who was +“well, how is he?” +“well, i am taking it off,” replied lavrúshka’s voice. +“well, i did not expect you, i am very glad,” said prince andrew. +“well, i don’t know about that, but i am uncomfortable with him. and +“well, i don’t know. it’s awkward and would make me ashamed.” +“well, if you do, so much the better, and you can go back to her!” +“well, i have got all i need into packs for two horses,” said +“well, is it true that it’s peace and capitulation?” asked +“well, i suppose it is time we were at table?” said márya +“well, i think it is. the bigwigs here think so too, but they +“well, it’s as you like,” said the staff captain. “and what has +“well, it seems that no one has noticed,” thought rostóv. and this +well i will give you my hand to kiss. not till then!” she said. and +“well, i will leave you in your little corner,” came anna +“well, i will read them, then!” bagratión seemed to say, and, +well known, so much appreciated by everyone. the other day at the +“well, lëlya?” he asked, turning instantly to his daughter and +“well, let’s go and sing ‘the brook.’” +well-lit anteroom where they took off their cloaks without the aid of +“well, little countess? what a sauté of game au madère we are to +“well, madam,” he began, stooping over the book close to his +“we’ll make you dance as we did under suvórov...,” * said +“we’ll manage very well without a doctor.” +“well, maybe!” said prince andrew. “go, másha; i’ll come +“well, michael ivánovich, our bonaparte will be having a bad time +“well, michael mítrich, sir?” he said, addressing one of the +“well, mon cher,” said the vicomte, having seated himself beside +“well, my boy, you’ll get along wherever you go—foot or +“well, my dear?” asked the countess. +“well, my dear boy, i hear you’ve been educated abroad, not taught +“well, my dear fellow, so you still want to be an adjutant? i have +“well, my dear fellow, tomorrow we are off at last,” said prince +“well, my dear?” said prince vasíli, taking her hand and bending it +well, never mind, here you are.” +“well, never mind; i only...” +“well now, gentlemen,” said bilíbin, “bolkónski is my guest in +“well, now, good-by!” he gave his son his hand to kiss, and embraced +“well now, isn’t she a fool!” shouted the prince, pushing the book +“well, now tell me about your exploits,” said he. +“well, now to the health of handsome women!” said dólokhov, and +“well, now we’ll arrange something quite simple and becoming,” she +“well, now you’ve done what you wanted,” put in nicholas—“said +“well, of course, of course!” +well, only a little bruised just here,” he added, pointing with a +“well, prince?” asked kozlóvski. +“well, prince, so genoa and lucca are now just family estates of the +“well, really, catiche! can’t you understand! you are so +“well, really, mamma! why should you? what is there to be surprised +well remembered that seven afterwards. he laid down the seven of hearts, +“well?” returned the old man. +“well,” said she, “how’s my cossack?” (márya dmítrievna +“well!...” said the old count, spreading out his arms and sinking +“well, send for him... and how do you get on with that german?” +we’ll set off.” +“well, she loves me and you like that.” +“well, so that’s finished, my dear fellow! i am very glad to have +“well, stand us some of your herb vodka, túshin,” it said. +“well, talk as much as you can, anyway. he has a passion for giving +“well, thank god! we’ve been sitting here too long!” +“well, that is hardly a sufficient reason, mamma...” +“well, that’s all right,” continued the regimental commander. “a +“well, that’s only till the first engagement.” +“well, the lord be thanked, princess,” said mary bogdánovna, not +“well then, accept his offer. it’s high time for you to be +“well then, be quick. we’ll all have breakfast together.” +“well, then go off to your buonaparte! mademoiselle bourienne, +“well, then, i won’t; only forgive me, sónya!” he drew her to him +“well, then, let’s be quick. borís, come here,” said natásha. +“well then, mind and have cocks’ comb in the turtle soup, you +“well, then, old chap, mon très honorable alphonse kárlovich,” +“well then,” prince andrew answered himself, “i don’t know +“well then, tell him so.” +“well then, that’s excellent,” said he. “we’ll talk it over +“well then, till tomorrow at sokólniki,” said dólokhov, as he took +“well then, what do you want? you’re all in love nowadays. well, +“well there certainly are disgusting people,” thought rostóv as he +“well, there you see!” +“well, they’ve sent you a tidy sum,” said berg, eying the heavy +“well, this is strange! do you suppose i... who could think?... i know +“well, till we meet again...” he said, holding out his hand to +“we’ll try to,” replied berg, touching a pawn and then removing +“well, what about it?” said he to denísov. “it won’t come to a +“well, what is it?” came a sharp, unpleasant voice. +“well, what’s this now? what have you been up to now, i should like +“well, what then?” +“well, why are you going to the war?” asked pierre. +“well, why don’t you speak? whom have you got there dressed up as a +“well, won’t you go on? i had a splendid card all ready,” as if it +“well, you’d better not play,” dólokhov added, and springing a +“well, young cavalryman, how is my rook behaving?” he asked. (rook +“well, young man?” he said with a sigh, and from under his lifted +“well, your excellency, what? your excellency! but what about your +“well, you see, count, i want some money.” +“well, you see, i’ll tell you the whole secret of dueling in two +“well, you see, my dear princess and cousin, catherine semënovna,” +“well, you’ve told me nothing new,” and the old man repeated, +“we may as well go back,” said the son in french. +“we must distinguish between the vienna cabinet and the emperor of + * “we must let him off the u!” +“we must let him see amelie, she’s exquisite!” said one of +we? no?” +went about the rooms fashionably dressed but looking sad and dull. here, +went by. then suddenly a terrible shriek—it could not be hers, she +went further in among the plants and threw down the doll. “closer, +went into the reception room familiar to pierre, with two italian +went in with nicholas. after them other couples followed, filling the +went on to the game without omitting a single dish or one of the wines. +went on, with a somber and scornful smile. “and thou art more foolish +went out after shaking hands with dolgorúkov and bilíbin. +went out of the hut in which he was billeted with nesvítski and began +went there and found two thirds of the men and horses knocked out, two +went to her father’s room at the usual hour, mademoiselle bourienne +went to the carriage. +went, with the smile of a coquettish girl, which at one time probably +we parted. why are we not together as we were last summer, in your big +wept. she saw her brother now as he had been at the moment when he took +wept too. they wept because they were friends, and because they were +were all a pretense, and that the whole attention of that company was +were all hugging him, and the serfs, men and maids, flocked into the +were already up and astir. the smoke of the campfires, into which they +were also distinguished by the fact that she always presented some new +were among the prettiest. they were both particularly happy and gay. +were being set out for eighty people; and looking at the footmen, who +were bringing in jugs and basins, hot water for shaving, and their +were bringing in silver and china, moving tables, and unfolding damask +were casual guests—chiefly young men, among whom were denísov, +were children. you might think that i... i understand, quite understand. +were concentrated. twice they had attempted to attack this point, but on +were constantly shaping themselves in his mind, arising from the +were crossing themselves. rostóv no longer looked at the colonel, he +were descending. in front in the fog a shot was heard and then another, +were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of +were expecting márya dmítrievna akhrosímova, known in society as le +were flocking in to look at him. prince bagratión was thanking the +we’re getting it still worse,” said nesvítski. “but sit down and +“we’re going into action, gentlemen!” +were, “high-sounding words which have long been discredited. who does +were in a hurry to show the changes that had taken place in them. +were in them. she leaned over to her brother and kissed him, slightly +were leaving to join their regiment after epiphany. about twenty people +were lips seeking a kiss. +were moving in and out among the russian troops and served as heralds +were moving in the same direction. every soldier felt glad to know that +were near him. everybody said that buonaparte himself was at braunau.” +were nicholas and sónya, the niece. sónya was a slender little +were not in very good condition), and instantly the squares that had up +were not to be overburdened with labor, women while nursing their babies +were not to be sent to work, assistance was to be given to the serfs, +were of the same age and both handsome fellows, though not alike. borís +were only 217 sick and stragglers. everything was in good order except +were passing by. from one of the drivers he learned that kutúzov’s +were present, including dólokhov and denísov. +were pronounced, pierre, who had so long been considering his career, +were ready to drop, and so said the grown-up young men and women who +were really given, but that prince bagratión tried to make it appear +were saying. suddenly, however, he was struck by a voice coming from the +were sent to the crossroads to guide him over the country road with its +were sitting at embroidery frames while a third read aloud. it was the +were sitting at the table on which a plan was spread out. +were sitting on some feather beds. evidently these fugitives were +were talking and listening too eagerly and too naturally, which was why +were the center of groups which even strangers approached respectfully +were the fun of the game which interested him most. +were the potëmkins, suvórovs, and orlóvs germans? no, lad, either you +were therefore awkward. +were there, only disorganized crowds of troops of various kinds. he +were there,” thought rostóv. “in myself alone and in that sunshine +were those of the orderlies who were packing up; one voice, probably a +were throwing everything superfluous, made the eyes smart. it was cold +were to be severe with her and to forbid it ... goodness knows what they +“we’re to go into action, gentlemen! mack has surrendered with his +were to land at naples, and how a total force of five hundred thousand +were turned against the ten-gun battery. túshin’s companion officer +were using their ramrods, others putting powder on the touchpans or +were waiting for them to come out. +were walking, driving past, and settling down all around. the sound +“we shall be late.” +“we shall probably advance,” replied bolkónski, evidently reluctant +“we shall see.” +“wetched business,” he muttered to himself. “how much is left in +“wetched!” he muttered, throwing down a purse with some gold in it. +“we’ve given it ‘em hot, mate! they won’t make another push +“we’ve got to it at last—why did you not tell me about it +“we’ve said good-by. go!” he suddenly shouted in a loud, angry +“we were ordered to be at the place before nine, but we haven’t got +“we will talk of it later” (and he looked round at rostóv). “come +“we will talk of it later,” said anna pávlovna with a smile. +we women, prince,” and she smiled tenderly, “always know how to say +weyrother. +weyrother again gave that smile which seemed to say that to him it was +weyrother, hurriedly rising from his seat and going up to the table on +weyrother’s had already been approved. as soon as prince andrew began +weyrother’s name, or even the term “dispositions.” +weyrother, who was in full control of the proposed battle, by his +“what about capitulation?” +“what about your master?” he asked lavrúshka, denísov’s orderly, +“what a charming creature your younger girl is,” said the visitor; +“what a clever man your father is,” said she; “perhaps that is why +“what a dandy you are today!” said nesvítski, looking at +“what a delightful woman this little princess is!” said prince +“what a fine fellow you are, friend!” said the cossack to a convoy +what a heart!” +“what? a minister? what minister? who gave orders?” he said in +what am i to do if i love nothing but fame and men’s esteem? death, +“what an extraordinary genius!” prince andrew suddenly exclaimed, +“what a nice figure the policeman must have cut, my dear!” shouted +“what?” answered the old man absent-mindedly. +“what a pity you weren’t at the arkhárovs’ on thursday. it was so +“what are they about?” thought prince andrew as he gazed at them. +“what are you about?” shouted rostóv, looking at him in an ecstasy +“what are you doing!” she cried vehemently. “he is dying and you +“what! are you going to remain as you are, dear princess?” she +“what are you making such a noise about over there?” márya +“what are your commands, little countess?” +“what, are you wounded, my lad?” said túshin, approaching the gun +“what?” asked the commander. +what? a slur on my name? a misfortune for life? oh, that’s +what a soul there is in dólokhov, you should see him with his mother. +“what a strange fate, másha darling!” and having taken off his +what a strange frenzy one experiences during an attack,” prince +“what a style! how charmingly he describes!” said she, reading the +“what a treasure that dmítri is,” added the count with a smile when +what a voice she has; though she’s my daughter, i tell the truth +“what brings you here?” cried the officers turning to the newcomer. +what can be done with two hundred and thirty rubles! i even manage to +“what can he say? tra-di-ri-di-ra and so on... merely to gain time. +“what can it be?” he thought. “the enemy in the rear of our army? +“what can one say about it?” replied the prince in a cold, listless +what chance has michael kutúzov? no, my dear boy,” he continued, +“what delicacy!” thought the princess. “is it possible that +“what devil brought them here?” thought he, while tíkhon was +“what devils these quartermasters are! see, the fifth company is +“what did he say? where to, now? halt, is it? did he thank us?” came +what difficulty the father had dragged his legs upstairs while the son +“what division are you?” shouted an adjutant, riding up. +“what does harm to another is wrong,” said pierre, feeling with +“what does it mean? what is it? whom are they firing at? who is +“what does that prove?” he was saying as rostóv rode up. “they +“what does this mean?” she brought out. +what do we, i mean the austrian court, care for your victories? bring +“what do you thank me for?” +“what do you want, your honor?” asked an artilleryman, standing +“what error or evil can there be in my wishing to do good, and even +whatever. +“whatever are you bothering about, gentlemen?” said bilíbin, who, +“whatever happens to you,” he said, “you must bear it all manfully +“whatever is this? this!” he shouted and stood still. “commander +“whatever the european sovereigns and commanders may do to +whatever the import of his work. it was not the question “what for?” +whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is +“what for? i don’t know. i must. besides that i am going....” he +“what good are they? they’re led about just for show!” remarked +what happiness it would be to die—not in saving the emperor’s life +“what has happened?” he asked himself. “i have killed her lover, +“what have the young people come to nowadays, eh, feoktíst?” said +“what have they taken a baby in there for?” thought prince andrew in +“what have you done to mlle schérer? she will be quite ill now,” +“what?” he answered, not recognizing borís. +“what? here? but why did they not blow up the bridge, if it was +what he should do on his estates. +what he was about; yet they beat him à plate couture,*(3) and where +what he was laughing at. everything her father did inspired her with +what he was saying was out of place, tactless and unsuitable, that +what he was to do. the coming of these visitors annoyed him. “what are +what i have seen during these last three months is incredible. +“what is bad, father?” +what is beyond death, none of us would be afraid of it. that’s so, +what is going on around them. +“what is it?” +“what is it?” asked the countess, startled; but seeing by her +“what is it, dear?” +“what is it?” he asked. +“what is it?” he said crossly, and, his hand shaking +what is it i am attached to, papa?” said anatole, turning to his +what is it meant to prove? what? i ask you.” +“what is it? what?” asked both princesses when they saw for a moment +“what is it you are afraid of, lise? i don’t understand,” said he. +what is life, and what is death? what power governs all?” +“what is that?” asked the countess as if she did not know what the +“what is the commander in chief doing here?” he asked. +“what is the matter, mary?” +“what is the matter?” she asked. +“what is the matter with you, my darling? you look pale. oh, you +“what is the matter with you, my dear?” she said crossly to the maid +what is there? who is there?—there beyond that field, that tree, that +“what is the something?” asked he. + what is this bliss that makes my fingers thrill? +“what is this?” thought nicholas, listening to her with widely +“what is your conception of freemasonry?” +“what! it is as if i were glad of a chance to take advantage of +what it must be for her, poor thing, after what she has been used to, +what looked like a squadron of horsemen in various uniforms. two of them + what magic power is this recalls me still? +“what manners! i thought they would never go,” said the countess, +“what, monsieur pierre... do you consider that assassination shows +“what news, sir?” asked the officer, evidently anxious to start a +“what next? have you gone mad?... no one would let you!... why, you go +“what next?” the princess interrupted, smiling sardonically and not +“what nonsense...” +“what nonsense! much i need it!” said rostóv, throwing the letter +“what? occupied? vienna occupied?” +what pierre did not know was that the place where they presented him +“what? revolution and regicide a grand thing?... well, after that... +“what? saw the real mack? with hands and feet?” +“what shall we sing?” she said. + * “what’s he singing about?” +what she was holding in her reticule.) “so you promise?” +“what’s it all about? why, the french have crossed the bridge that +what’s one to do?” and, having given his order, he returned to +what’s one to do, my dear?” + what spark has set my inmost soul on fire, +“what’s that that has fallen?” asked the accountant with a naïve +“what’s that? what do you make of it?” said rostóv to the hussar +“what’s the good of denying it, my dear? our dear countess was too +“what’s the matter?” exclaimed prince andrew standing still in +“what’s the matter? i only congratulated them,” said zherkóv. +“what’s the matter with you? are you ill?” +what’s the matter with you? you must be ill to shiver like that,” he +“what’s this? am i falling? my legs are giving way,” thought he, +“what’s to be done? she’s pretty! i will do everything. make your +“what stupid orders! they don’t themselves know what they are +“what’s your name?” +what there is in you.” +what to do with his hands; he was more accustomed to walk over a plowed +“what! to whom?... nonsense!” cried the count, suddenly reddening +what was approaching in the distance from the opposite side—the blue +what was going on in the passage. some women passing with quiet steps in +“what was it?” +what was passing in his mind. +what we fathers have to put up with.... is this princess of yours +“what? what? how dare you? what?” said telyánin. +what will happen and don’t want to know, and can’t, but if i want +“what will happen now?” thought she. +“what would it cost you to say a word to the emperor, and then he +“what would you have me do?” he said at last. “you know i did all +“what would you have, my dear fellow?” answered pierre, shrugging +“what! you don’t remember borís?” asked sónya in surprise. +“what you have with you: watch, money, rings....” +“what you said just now was splendid!” said his partner julie. +wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular movement of the +wheels and the sensation of victory. then he began to imagine that +wheels and working the screws himself. +wheel, which merged in her memory with what followed.) +when all was ready, the sabers stuck in the snow to mark the barriers, +“when am i to receive the money, count?” +when anna mikháylovna returned from count bezúkhov’s the money, all +“when are you starting?” he asked. +when borís and anna pávlovna returned to the others prince hippolyte +when borís appeared at his door pierre was pacing up and down his room, +when borís, who was to be served up to the guests, entered the drawing +whence—a stern note of which all are conscious sounds in the moral +“when did you get the letter? was it from olmütz?” repeated +when everybody rose to go, hélène who had spoken very little all +when footsteps or voices were heard did they look at one another, the +when germans start being accurate, there’s no end to it!” +when he came level with the foot guards he noticed that about them and +when he entered, prince andrew, his eyes drooping contemptuously (with +when he first loved her. he thought of her pregnancy and felt sorry for +when he got home he could not sleep for a long time for thinking of what +when he had become a little quieter, he explained to rostóv that he was +when he had gone less than half a mile in the rear of the column he +“when he looked at my feet, friend... well, thinks i...” +when he needs repose? worldly conversation at a moment when his soul is +“when her confinement is due, send to moscow for an accoucheur.... let +when he reached kiev he sent for all his stewards to the head office +when he read that sentence, pierre felt for the first time that some +when he saw the minister seated at a large table reading some papers +when he stayed in (as he said) for pierre’s sake, hardly exchanged a +when he was dying of wounds and the sovereign had thanked him for heroic +when he wished to speak contemptuously, and noticing borís, prince +when, if you remember, he posed as a sort of marat at one of my soirees. +“when i saw, your excellency, that their first battalion was +when i say she’ll be a singer, a second salomoni! we have engaged an +when it came to natásha’s turn to choose a partner, she rose and, +when natásha ran out of the drawing room she only went as far as the +when paris was mentioned, mademoiselle bourienne for her part seized the +when prince andrew entered the study the old man in his old-age +when prince andrew left the palace he felt that all the interest +when prince andrew reached the room prepared for him and lay down in a +when princess mary came down, prince vasíli and his son were already +when princess mary returned from her father, the little princess sat +when princess mary went to him at the usual hour he was working at his +when prince vasíli returned to the drawing room, the princess, his +when rostóv went back there was a bottle of vodka and a sausage on the +when she began to speak passed through such transitions as she herself +when she had seen her guests out. +when she looked up at him she was struck by his beauty. anatole stood +when she said this, he did not reply and only bowed, but again everybody +when she saw pierre enter. though he was certainly rather bigger than +when she saw the count, she stretched out her arms to him, embraced his +when she took her seat opposite and beamed upon him also with her +when she was not like that and when everything was light and gay. she +“when speaking to the emperor, try as far as you can to praise the way +when starting on a journey or changing their mode of life, men capable +when telyánin had finished his lunch he took out of his pocket a double +when the eager but misrepeated words had reached their destination in +when the emperor had passed nearly all the regiments, the troops began +when the military governor had gone, prince vasíli sat down all alone +when the monotonous sound of weyrother’s voice ceased, kutúzov opened +when the officers had emptied and smashed their glasses, kírsten filled +when the princess, as if lost in a fog, had already staggered out of the +when the reading which lasted more than an hour was over, langeron again +when the review was over, the newly arrived officers, and also +when the subject did not relate to himself, but in connection with the +when the sun had entirely emerged from the fog, and fields and mist were +when the twenty minutes had elapsed and the time had come for the old +when they again heard an unexpectedly violent whistling which suddenly +when they drink, pressing his spurs mercilessly into the sides of his +when they played some tricks on a policeman, didn’t they do it +when they saw his looks. +when we were rejoicing at his happiness! and such a lofty angelic soul +“when would you like them, your excellency?” asked dmítri. “allow +when you began living for others. i experienced just the reverse. i +“when you see my sister, princess mary, you’ll get on with her,” +where. +“where am i? oh yes, in the skirmishing line... pass and +where a parade does not begin till all the troops are assembled,” said +“where are headquarters?” +“where are you going?” asked an infantry officer who was eating an +“where are you going to now, my dear sir?” +“where are you off to?” asked borís. +“where are you off to?” he said suddenly to prince andrew who had +whereas it was perhaps not known, since the enemy was in movement. +“where? at bykov’s, at the rat’s... i knew it,” replied a piping +“where have you put it, wostóv?” +where he could never have expected the enemy to be. +where he was staying, and had been absurd, excited, and foolish in +where his regiment was stationed, and take him to visit prince nicholas +“where is dólokhov?” asked kutúzov. +“where is it, that lofty sky that i did not know till now, but saw +“where is the commander in chief?” asked bolkónski. +“where is the emperor? where is kutúzov?” rostóv kept asking +“where is the princess?” he asked. “hiding?” +where’s the victory?” +where the clavichord stood. +“where the devil have the leg bands been shoved to?” said an +where the hottest musket fire and cannonade were heard. suddenly he +where the rivals suddenly recognized one another; and the ladies looked +where the sleighs had been left, in a small clearing in the pine forest +“where to?” +“where to?” +where to find me, but don’t forget that i do not regard either myself +where túshin’s guns were stationed was an unharnessed horse with a +“where would i not go at the countess’ command!” said denísov, +where you always ran away; you remember cette chère annette!” +whether he was speaking in jest or in earnest. “ah, your excellency! +whether he was still firm in his intention and determined to submit to +whether she ought to write, tormented her. now that he was already an +whether what he said was very witty or very stupid. he was dressed in +which a faint smile forgot to fade though his features now expressed +which an enormous map of the environs of brünn was spread out. +which aroused his own pity. +which at least half of them would be left on the field. after passing a +which attracted him. he very readily took up borís’ cause and went +which changed his appearance for the worse. there was something naïvely +which covered with snow, appeared on the landing where the footman +which denísov followed her. +which did not leave his eager face. “hoch oestreicher! hoch russen! +which dólokhov’s second had called on him, and, having closed the +which every freemason should cultivate in himself. these virtues were: +which forms an impenetrable veil between us and the eternal? let us +which had been particularly revived and strengthened by his late tour. +which had disappeared, but at french infantry who had come into the +which had grown much older. +which had lost all dignity, and at the twitching cheeks of prince +which he always deceived himself. the question was whether he could ever +which he found himself. anna pávlovna was obviously serving him up as +which he had come out was thronged with calèches, carriages of all +which he had reckoned up to ten thousand, but that now, as he vaguely +which he had worn on his italian campaign, sat on his small gray arab +which he held the hilt of his naked saber, looked just as it usually +which held him in their power.... the ten fell to him. +which he presented to prince bagratión. on the salver lay some verses +(which he very likely would be), and found the commander in chief +“which house is it?” asked the driver. +which ilyá rostóv blushed with self-conscious pleasure), the footmen +which, in accord with the club custom, he had given up to the hall +which indicates that patience is exhausted. +which i not only cannot address but which i cannot even express in +which intellectual knowledge is divided. the highest wisdom is one. +which intimated that he knew what he was about and if others did not +which i shall lead the army.” +which is the only thing we need fear, or he is changing his position.” +“which is the senior?” he asked, on seeing the prisoners. +which it is difficult to justify.” +which it rests and which no human power can destroy, is the preservation +which made a certain sensation, the count exchanged glances with +which nicholas rostóv served and which was in prince bagratión’s +which princess mary meekly submitted, just as her hair had been arranged +which seemed to him dazzlingly red, and at the feeble, round-shouldered +which seemed to rise out of the sea of mist and on which the russian +which seemed to say that he was not blaming anyone, but could not help +which seemed to stand rather than lie down on his massive shoulders. he +which several others joined but which bored pierre. when the music began +which she neither wished, nor could, nor considered it necessary, to +which she spoke of her exalted patroness, supported hélène’s wish. +which showed that he only understood the meaning of his words after he +which stood on her right. it reflected a weak, ungraceful figure and +which the cadet under fire for the first time had experienced. +which the guards prided themselves), the officers on foot and at their +which the prince had retained for himself. +which the rostóvs always attended. he was pointedly attentive to sónya +which the serfs’ manorial labor had been diminished, and heard the +which they were present, and went to iogel’s balls for young people +which though they embarrassed pierre awakened a joyful feeling in the +which to attack and defeat the enemy should he cross the lech. also, +which to reply to dólokhov’s words. but before he had thought of +which was a lie, and worse than a lie? i am guilty and must endure... +which was littered with books and papers. the princess was as untidy as +which was not clear to him, to question his chief steward, to visit his +which was offered him. telyánin for some reason had been transferred +which was presumably somewhere in the same neighborhood. and so it was +which was to be found “the cream of really good society, the bloom +which were to be the first to descend the heights to attack the french +which were uppermost in his mind at that moment, addressed prince andrew +(which would be very difficult), he would not be able to get back before +while dressing, and yet the question he was always putting off demanded +while father and son were having their explanation, the mother and +while he tried to prove to pierre that in his actions there was no +while in the rostóvs’ ballroom the sixth anglaise was being danced, +while on the scaffolding, in the midst of a talk explaining the future +while others sought some extraordinary explanation of so strange an +while prince andrew on the contrary, taking no part in the war and +while prince andrew went to report about the purple-faced general, that +while rostóv was thus arguing with himself and riding sadly away, +while the count was being turned over, one of his arms fell back +while the couples were arranging themselves and the musicians tuning up, +while the guests were taking their leave pierre remained for a long time +while these conversations were going on in the reception room and the +while the youngest, the one with the mole, who was of a cheerful and +while under the supervision of the countess and the solicitude of the +while we, on the other hand, with our left wing by far outflank his +whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, +whispered, and a shudder ran down her back. +whispered to him. “this happiness is for those who have not in them +whispered to one another, casting significant looks at him with a kind +whisper, “has compromised her completely, they say. pierre took him +whispering, and betraying by every word and movement that they none +whispers. +whispers, and, whenever anyone went into or came from the dying man’s +whistling, singing, and hissing continually around them. he spoke in the +white cossack coat, and bring him along to me.” +white foam from his bit, tramping the planks of the bridge with his +white foam on the waves of the enns, an officer, in a cloak and with +white hands with an air of calm importance. +white horse, was prince bagratión. prince andrew stopped, waiting for +white one, the white one!” +white plumes in his hat rode a bobtailed chestnut horse, the other who +white ruffle, outlining his rather long face which was lit up from +whites glittering and rolling as he waved his sheathed saber in a small +white teeth fiercely and spurring his black thoroughbred arab, which +“who?” +who also enjoyed the famous actress’ favors, and that in his presence +who always solved questions that seemed to him perplexing by deciding +who amuses himself in this sensible manner! and he was said to be so +who, angry and frightened, strode energetically along with downcast +who appeared at his call. “hurry off and tell maksím, the gardener, +“who are they? why are they here? what do they want? and when will +“who are you talking about?” +“who?” asked rostóv. +who, as they passed through in their ball dresses with diamonds and +who at the front had the power to annihilate him, a lieutenant of the +who at the rostóvs’ had jocularly assumed the role of natásha’s +who came to congratulate, and who constantly succeeded one another in +“who can tell, your honor?” replied the hussar reluctantly. +who could therefore be of use to him. he liked petersburg and despised +who—dreading this love affair which might hinder nicholas from making +whoever he may be, exhort him who goeth astray, raise him that falleth, +who evidently understood his case and wished him nothing but good, +(who gazed with curiosity at the soldiers) were not russians, the +who gives himself the airs of a monarch.” +who had come into the room unnoticed by anyone, stood there and wiped +who had come up to the cot with noiseless steps, lifted the curtain, +who had evidently just arrived, entered quickly, slamming the door. +who had grown old in society and at court. he went up to anna pávlovna, +who had him under observation, interrupted: +who had lolled in anna pávlovna’s easy chairs and with half-closed +who had marched so gaily and complacently. but at the moment the first +who had recently opened a restaurant there with girls as waitresses. +who had sheltered in the village houses. they all rushed out of +who had spoken to him on behalf of her only son borís on the evening of +who had stolen some boots from the recruits; i should even have been +who had wished to stop the affair ran to a corner of the room and threw +who have striven to attain this mystery, and thereby to render them +“who is it you want?” he asked. “the commander in chief? he was +who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies. +who kept her waiting some minutes. “don’t you wish to serve me? then +who kissed his hand. +“who? kutúzov?” asked rostóv. +who lays back her ears and continues to crouch motionless before her +whole army.” +whole army it is still uncertain whether he is alive or not. i comfort +whole body jerked at each step. the eldest princess followed him, and +whole dining hall, and last of all the children, tutors, and governesses +whole mass of men was concentrated. +whole set. yes, you’re all right! choose what you will; it’s all the +whole tenor of his thoughts instantaneously changed; the battle seemed +who, liking work, knew how to do it, and despite his indolence would +who looked at her, after being in her company and talking to her a +who made her a low bow when she met him in the corridor carrying hot +whom all the regiment knew for a rogue. +whom did you apply?” +who met him with the cross oppressed the peasants by his exactions, and +whom he had promised to take home. +whom he now found nothing in common. “we will go after dinner. and +whom he was again talking with the same involuntary smile. sónya wore +whom i mention this, because i like you.” +“whom shall i announce?” +whom should i say that? either to a power indefinable, incomprehensible, +who on kutúzov’s staff in charge of the provisioning of the russian +who ran downstairs and looked over from the halfway landing. +who recognized him and said a few words to him, disjointed and awkward, +who remained behind, and the monotonous tramp of thousands of feet +who’s a better man than you in every way...” +“who sacrificed everything for him,” chimed in the princess, who +“whose company?” asked prince bagratión of an artilleryman standing +whose state of unconquerable childish embarrassment now changing to +whose words struck pierre more and more by their precision and firmness. +“who should it be? you yourself told him to come. it’s the +“who’s that curtseying there? cadet miwónov! that’s not wight! +“who’s that running on the middle of the bridge? to the right! come +“who’s that? why? wait a moment!” anatole’s face seemed to say. + who still is thinking but of thee! +who stood in the midst of the group, without a coat, and with his fine +“who the devil has put the logs on the road?” snarled he. +“who told you that? who?” cried the prince. “suvórov!” and he +who was a secretary to the embassy, bolkónski was already acquainted. +who was associated by memories of the italian campaign with the name of +who was in a high fever. these last days, mistrusting their household +who was kissing her hand, “you’re feeling dull in moscow, i daresay? +who was passing: +who was reduced to the ranks, took a french officer prisoner in my +who was sitting silently beside him, what he thought of tomorrow’s +“who was that?” asked borís. +“who was that? the military governor himself?” was being asked at +who will not refuse to accompany you.” +who, with his face buried in the ground and a blackened nape, lay on his +“wh-what is the matter?” asked both the young and old rostóv. +“why?” +“why?” +why. +“why a blue coat? off with it... sergeant major! change his coat... +“why aren’t you beginning, michael ilariónovich?” said the +“why aren’t you serving in the army?” +“why are they down on me?” thought túshin, looking in alarm at his +“why are you crying, mamma?” asked véra. “from all he says one +“why are you going? i know you think it your duty to gallop back to +why are you hindering us?” another in the same place turned round and +“why are you so glum?” asked nesvítski noticing prince andrew’s +why did i bind myself to her? why did i say ‘je vous aime’ * to her, +“why didn’t you capture one, just one, marshal for us?” +“why didn’t you mention it, prince? i would have offered you +“why did sónya run away?” asked rostóv. +“why did they write, why did lise tell me about it? it can never +“why did you not succeed in impressing on bonaparte by diplomatic +why doesn’t the frenchman stab him? he will not get away before the +“why doesn’t the red-haired gunner run away as he is unarmed? +“why, don’t you hear it?” rostóv asked again, after waiting for a +“why don’t you play?” he asked. +“why don’t you renew the acquaintance?” said dólokhov to rostóv. +“why don’t you speak, cousin?” suddenly shrieked the princess so +“why do they want to make her sing? how can she sing? there’s +“why do you say this young man is so rich?” asked the countess, +“why do you shout so? you’ll frighten them!” said borís. “i did +“why, for this reason! my father is one of the most remarkable men of +“why have we stopped? is the way blocked? or have we already come up +“why have you thrown that away?” asked borís. +“why, have you too much money?” +“why, i didn’t recognize you!” he said. but rostóv was otherwise +“why? i love you more than ever,” said princess mary, “and i will +“why, is it late?” +“why is it wrong?” urged prince andrew. “it is not given to man +“why is it you were never at annette’s?” the little princess asked +“why no, my dear fellow,” said the astonished narrator, shrugging +“why not?” inquired borís. +“why not wash? that is not cleanly,” said prince andrew; “on the +“why run risks, captain? you should dismount,” he said. +why she’s ashamed!” +“why should i envy them? my chance is not lost, and maybe i shall see +“why should i mind monsieur pierre being here?” exclaimed the little +“why shouldn’t i speak? i can speak as i like, and i tell you +“why should you be ashamed?” +“why so?” asked prince andrew. “to kill a vicious dog is a very +“why talk nonsense? say what you want.” +“why terrible?” asked nicholas. “no, váska is a splendid +“why, that one, right at the end, the big one. don’t you see? +why they all looked so at him, and flattered by this general admiration +“why, this is a palace!” she said to her husband, looking around +“why,” thought prince andrew, “that’s the captain who stood up +“why ‘what the devil’?” said borís, picking it up and reading +“why, you remember before you went away?... well, she says you are to +wider than ours, and it was plain that they could easily outflank us +width of the field, an enormous mass of cavalry in brilliant white +wife: “ah, why have you done this to me?” +wife and her tall cap with its light-blue ribbons, and busily filled +wife, and that it could not be otherwise. +wife... god bless you!...” +wife, how she would love him become quite different, and how all he had +wife’s command had let his hair grow and abandoned his spectacles, +wife, sister, and future son, and the tenderness he had felt the night +wife, was talking in low tones to the elderly lady about pierre. +wife, while you...” +wild virgin pine forest, and far away on the other side of the enns the +will accept them,” said nesvítski (who like the others concerned in +will all die for him gladly! is it not so, gentlemen? perhaps i am not +will all end in nothing!” +will all the same never be like those petersburg young men.” +willarski bowed his head. +willarski was silent throughout the drive. to pierre’s inquiries as +willarski, whom pierre had known slightly in petersburg society, came +will be cut off,” said he. +will begin. and he says buonaparte is in braunau! shows you’re a fool. +will be my teacher...” and lowering his big arm he offered it to the +will certainly be granted. pierre will get everything as the legitimate +will certainly happen!” thought pierre, glancing at those dazzling +will come!” +will come back in a rage. will you have coffee?” +willing, are going to die in the regiment, we prize the honor of the +will in pierre’s favor are among the count’s papers, then, my dear +will just be time.” +will not reach your regiment before peace is concluded, or you will +will not rest until they have gained their end, and are prepared if +will pass here immediately; it will please him to see these gentlemen +will slash at him!” thought rostóv, gripping the hilt of his saber. +will. the races, the english club, sprees with denísov, and visits to +“will they burn the bridge or not? who’ll get there first? will they +will they cross pomerania?” +will to tell only what happened. it is very difficult to tell the truth, +“will you bet? the ribbon of the order is a different matter....” +“will you have the portmanteaus brought in? and a bed got ready, and +window and from dólokhov’s back. anatole stood erect with staring +window, from which the double frame had been removed (by order of the +window. nesvítski, moving his moist lips as he chewed something, and +window sill. +window sill, with a pale but radiant face. +windows opening into the conservatory, with its large bust and full +wind to carry away. a pleasant humming and whistling of bullets were +“wine? gluttony? idleness? laziness? irritability? anger? women?” +wine with dignity and looking to the count for approval. +wings, hoping before evening and before the arrival of the emperor to +wing with the other, prince andrew met mademoiselle bourienne smiling +winter of 1806, which nicholas rostóv spent in moscow, was one of the +wiping them on the sleeves of their greatcoats. all their faces were +wisdom.” +wish?” +wished both to rebuke him (for daring to speak as he had done of a man +wished to do something special on meeting his friend. he wanted to pinch +wished to help him but could not. +wished to make some suggestion. but prince vasíli interrupted him in +wished to say something more, but at that moment prince vasíli and his +wished to see the regiment just in the state in which it had been on +wished to take another seat so as not to trouble the lady, and also to +wishes; that is my only reason for being here. i came simply to help him +wishes to stay with me, let him... he’ll be of use here if he’s a +wishes to test me!” his heart contracted and the blood rushed to his +wishing to avail himself of their courtesy, and this caused some delay +wishing to find out where the commander in chief was, he rode up to +wishing to rid himself of this staff officer’s company, “please +wishing to show her connections and knowledge of what went on in +wishing to show him that she did not even dare expect to interest him, +wishing to take it off, but let it drop again. the five minutes spent +wish or not to be prince anatole kurágin’s wife? reply: yes or no,” +wish to be seen in that mood, for hearing footsteps in the passage he +wish, to court society’s favor. now he alone was blamed for what had +with a bashful and awkward gesture not at all like a military salute +with a bottle wrapped in a napkin passed him by. he frowned, trying to +with a calm smile that she was not so stupid as to be jealous: ‘let +with a clear, bright expression, as if asking them to notice how calmly +with a clever face and sharply projecting jaw which, without spoiling +with a decanter on a tray as “my dear” and “my sweet,” asked +with a decorous smile of self-satisfaction at being able clearly to +with a distressed face left the room to find sónya. +with a facetious smile on his face, he was telling the ladies about last +with a foretaste of artistic pleasure. +with a friendly smile. +with a gloomy and tired face, was wearily taking off his wraps with the +with a heart full despair he rode away, continually looking back at the +with a hum of conversation, like the hum of bees swarming in springtime. +with a look of nervous agitation such as pierre had never before seen on +with a look the significance of which could not be understood by mortal +“with a message to his majesty.” +with a mournful expression. +with a mouse. +with an apoplectic flush over neck and nape as old people do. +with an enormous mouth, hardly refraining from laughing, “i felt like +with an f, as a village elder of mine writes in his reports. she is rich +with an old mother and a hunchback sister, and was the most affectionate +with anything in regard to her; and that always will be so in whatever +with a pleasant feeling that there was something à la louis xv in the +with a rapid, almost brutal movement of her head, she intercepted his +with a scared look and that princess mary was no longer by the cot. +with a sense of antipathy to the old prince which she did not +with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not +with a serious expression, but with a smile lurking at the corners of +with a sigh. +with a sigh he could not suppress, as they passed out of the palace. +with a sigh. this might have been taken as an expression of sorrow +with a sinking heart—watching the bridge and the hussars in the bright +with a smile. +with a strength he had never before felt, he made a step toward her +with a subtle smile. +with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her +with a trembling voice and some difficulty in utterance due to his +with a wink, and passed on followed by another, an old man. +with banks still bare of grass. it was at the end of a village that +with bread and salt and wished to build a chantry in honor of peter and +with carts that it was impossible to get by in a carriage. prince andrew +with dólokhov. “none but fools trust to luck in play,” dólokhov +with elasticity of movement, faith in his good fortune, and generally in +with enjoyment, gazing with ever-increasing amiability at the other +with evident pleasure. +with exaggerated politeness. +with flour whitening their carts—on that narrow dam amid the wagons +with frightened eyes; the second assumed precisely the same expression; +with germans all day. we went with weyrother to survey the dispositions. +with gossip,” he continued. “just now they are talking about you and +with great difficulty he managed to get to his horse, and shouting +with grief, though he tried hard to hide it in order not to sadden his +with her and picked up her reticule and drove out with her. how did it +with her beautiful eyes full of tears at the door through which prince +with her head bent first on one side and then on the other. +with her. he kissed her hand and addressed her not as thou but as +with her knitting. princess mary took a book and began reading. only +with her to the side of the room where stood the high bedstead with its +with him.” +with him remained in his room; a small box, a large canteen fitted +with himself and those around him, his smile and glance were brighter +with him. there now, sídorov!” +with him to dolgorúkov. +with his cap on the back of his black head and a cloak hanging jauntily +with his daughter, princess mary, and her companion, mademoiselle +with his eccentric father. +with his eyes bandaged seemed to him an hour. his arms felt numb, +with his face in his hands. +with his feelings but with the very possibility of life. life without +with his foot. +with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache +with his glittering, black eyes at rostóv. +with his handkerchief, sat down by natásha and did not leave her for +with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. at the sound +with his right hand, then falling on one knee he twirled her round him, +with his right thumb under a button of his uniform, his chest expanded +with his small hand. +with his thin legs, went up to kutúzov. +with his whole body as if in that position he hoped to hasten the speed +within. +within a few days. princess mary and the old prince each bore and hid +within grapeshot range now.” +within half an hour adjutants had been sent in various directions with +with it hidden for awhile; then looking up and seeing pierre she +with it to the marshals, and ordered the action to begin. the marshals, +with jests and to come to business. he involuntarily looked round at the +with kisses, holding him tight by the skirt of his coat, sprang away and +with kutúzov’s cantata, laid one before pierre as one of the +with lanterns, standing at the entrance. she went out on the stairs. on +with lighted tapers in their hands, slowly and solemnly conducting the +“with my father and sister, remember,” said prince andrew gently. +with napoleon if, contrary to expectations, these negotiations were +with natásha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed +with none of the embarrassment so commonly shown by young men in their +with one another. again the footmen rushed about, chairs scraped, and +with one leg crossed high above the other. his cheeks, which were so +without an inner struggle; “at such a moment as this one must think +without answering, rostóv shook the soldier’s cross of st. george +without any command being given, apparently obstructed by something in +without any definite position, without relations or even a country, did +without at all noticing that his involuntary smile had stabbed the heart +without boasting that it was a little better than at ulm...” +without changing his careless attitude, pierre looked at them over his +without delay and carry out instructions! +without eating.” +without going out of the house, waiting for the money his father could +without his boots (he had given them to the canteen keeper to dry), +without his greatcoat, with his orders on his breast and an enormous +without his noticing it the feeling of offense immediately turned into +without laughing, but could not resist looking at him: so to be out of +without looking at him, and with a kind of fury that made him like his +without looking at the man he was addressing, and did not reply to +without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly. it was as +without male society, on anatole’s appearance all the three women of +without moving, undertaking nothing....” +without omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from +without reading it and reread his father’s letter, ending with the +without reasoning. with an affectation of respect which evidently struck +without receiving any explanation. +without support. prince bagratión turned to the officer and with his +without taking any notice of him although they were now meeting for the +without turning their heads glanced at one another, curious to see their +without wars. how is it that we women don’t want anything of the kind, +with papers from kutúzov to the tsarévich, he looked in on borís, +with particular courtesy ushered prince andrew before him along a +with pleasure to his own voice. “all i can say, general, is that if +with prince bagratión’s detachment.” +with profit. the first and chief object of our order, the foundation on +with rapid rhythmic whistle flew over the heads of the horsemen and fell +with red light like a russian church during evening service. under +with shifting eyes but eyebrows still raised, telyánin handed him the +with shinshín. berg gave his arm to véra. the smiling julie karágina +with silver plate, two turkish pistols and a saber—a present from +with so and-so,’ and then i take a cab and go myself two, three, or +with something. it was a coffin with bones inside. he was not at all +with something more than curiosity and sympathy. he noticed that they +with such exactitude that nesvítski could not help laughing. kutúzov +with telyánin and bogdánich. that affair was the same thing as this +with tender smiles was saying to véra that love is not an earthly but +with the air of an old brigadier. +with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our +with the delight boys feel at the sight of a military elder brother, and +with the expression with which people compliment their host at a ball. +with the flirtatiousness of a handsome youth at sónya and the young +with the full swing of a bludgeon. it hurt a little, but the worst of +with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance +with the hussar colonel on his left and shinshín and the other male +with their management and embezzlement of money, some after their first +with their plumes, ribbons, and medals, both courtiers and military +with the lassitude of age, sat yawning wearily with closed eyes. the +with the naked eye prince andrew saw below them to the right, not more +with the old prince.” +with the physical pain. it was they, these soldiers—wounded and +with the rank of lieutenant; but as it is i receive two hundred and +with the river between himself and the main body of the french. on the +with the same expression on his full, cheerful, clean-shaven face, the +with the self-satisfaction of a man on parade, he stepped lightly with +with these words she greeted prince vasíli kurágin, a man of high +with the soldier, an infantry officer with a bandaged cheek came up to +with the strict formality of his house. at that moment the great clock +with thoughts and anxieties as to be oblivious of his presence. he +with trembling hands, threw his body across the saddle, righted himself, +with upraised arms. +with us.” +with which he listened to pierre, especially when he spoke with joyful +with you alone! god knows how long we may again be parted. you are not +with you. i can’t.” +“with you i will be quite frank,” said anna mikháylovna. “there +with you. may i?” he added in a low voice so as not to disturb the +woman; and what have you done? you have not helped her to find the way +woman, but there, just fancy! those three got hold of a bear somewhere, + * “woman is man’s companion.” +woman. now i have spoken that terrible word to myself all has become +woman’s privilege.” +woman who may belong to anyone—to you too,” said her glance. and at +woman. with a slight rustle of her white dress trimmed with moss +women. +women.” +women are when you see them in their true colors! when you meet them +women have that dress can make a face pretty. +“women,” he said in a low, scarcely audible voice. +women’s gloves, he said: “dear brother, these woman’s gloves are +women, ‘women and wine’ i don’t understand!” +wonderful classic beauty of her figure, his face on the contrary +won’t be in action,” he added as if in apology. +won’t get there till evening.” +won’t go.” +“won’t you come over to the other table?” suggested anna +wood. +wooden walls redolent of pine, and would have gone farther, but antón +word. +word; and he sat down at the nearest table. +word, “and you believed it! well, what have you proved? what does this +word infected the whole crowd with a feeling of panic. +word of honor not to take anything more till the spring. now only twelve +word or slight rearrangement kept the conversational machine in steady, +words but could not distinguish them. the din of many voices was too +words could do. you will perhaps also see in your further initiation a +words: “gallop off to kórchevo and carry out instructions!” +words, he added, “don’t be hurt, my dear fellow; you know i speak +words he had found so difficult to utter: “i love you.” “it all +words. if you are going to fight a duel, and you make a will and write +words: “morning dawned, the sun was rising,” and concluding: “on +words of rostopchín, that french soldiers have to be incited to battle +words), others were eating bread; the more severely wounded looked +words—the great all or nothing-” said he to himself, “or to +words to the soldiers who were carrying him, now with his eyes fixed +words. touched that this statuesque princess could so change, pierre +words with vague yet joyful ideas. the door opened and someone came in. +word that hardenburg says, or haugwitz either. this famous prussian +word “waiting.”) “not all the columns have formed up yet, your +word would effectively prove to prince vasíli the invalidity of his +work and study. and if pierre was often struck by andrew’s lack +workbag.” +work, chimes to play, figures to pop out, and the hands to advance with +working and looked up with that curious expression of inner, happy calm +working herself up to tears with the imaginary words of her pauvre mère +work nearer to her. +work. on a third estate the priest, bearing a cross, came to meet +world!” +world a quite different atmosphere, careless, lighthearted, and +worldly sciences of physics, history, chemistry, and the like, into +world. prince andrew was the first to move away, ruffling his hair +worn and irritable. the infantry passing before him came to a halt +worn leather, and an officer’s saber with a sword knot. the don horse +worse, and it is absolutely necessary to prepare him if he is so ill. +worse than others.” +worse, would have thought that rostóv was himself to blame since what +worthless scoundrel whose whole life could not atone for his crime. he +worthy of it. this rescript began with the words: “sergéy kuzmích, +“wostóv, deah fellow, just see how much there is left and shove the +“wostóv, get up!” +“wostóv, you’ve not been playing schoolboy twicks...” +would again have risen had not the prince still held her fast, “though +would appear as he passed the commander. +would at last start on that path of regeneration and on the actively +would be easier to see people coming along it. “follow me!” said he, +would be good if everything were as clear and simple as it seems to +would be killed. +would be particularly pleasant to him to dishonor my name and ridicule +would be something unnatural, and as it seemed to him dishonorable, in +would be taken immediately to free his serfs—and that till then they +would be to betray her agitation, while to decline their offers to +would be too extraordinary,” and at the very moment she thought this, +would be transferred to the guards at once?” said she. +would be wiser for him to leave petersburg. pierre proposed going to his +would find himself in the position of mack at ulm. if kutúzov decided +would give way not only under a cannon or a crowd, but very soon even +would happen to him and still more afraid of showing his fear. he felt +would have addressed yourself first to me. in that case you would not +would have hit alpátych, the overseer, had not the latter instinctively +would have made them. +would have me be, but i have never had help from anyone.... but it is +would have seemed so unnatural had anyone disliked him, that he could +would have taken the icon, but she stopped him. andrew understood, +would i not give now to be unmarried! you are the first and only one to +would magnanimously extend the hand of reconciliation. +would meet. +would not be bad as regards the unwritten code,” thought borís), +would not have taken lovers (des amants), but i have not done so,” +would not see us for a whole fortnight. i know it was then he wrote this +“would not such a meeting be too trying for him, dear anna +would not supply them. pierre was obliged to wait. without undressing, +“would not your excellency like a little refreshment?” he said. +would occupy a most brilliant position in society. don’t you think so? +would still remain piteous and plain. after two or three changes to +would take place on this side of it... +“would you believe it, count, i was not at all alarmed, because i knew +would you now like to look round my place?” +wounded and captured russian officers he was carried to the hospital. +wounded, and one knocked out,” he added, unable to restrain a happy +wounded had been abandoned on the other side of the danube with a letter +wounded—had left it long ago. all about the field, like heaps of +wounded in the right hand, taken his sword in the left, and gone +wounded officer?” +wounded soldier was so dirty, coarse, and revolting that his proximity +wounded under him and his own arm slightly grazed by a bullet. as a mark +wounded were more distinctly heard than any other sound in the darkness +wounded where there was no one left to fire at, on seeing an adjutant +wounds, the loss of family—i fear nothing. and precious and dear +wrath. having snapped at an officer for an unpolished badge, at another +wretched mood. at nine in the morning, he heard firing in front and +wringing her hands. +wrinkled, clean-shaven cheek for pierre to kiss and would say: “till +wrinkled soles and palms. +wrists visible from under the shirt cuffs, laid down the pack and took +“write to her and let me know how her father looks at the matter. au +write, told rostóv the contents of his letter. +writing, so that his quill spluttered and squeaked. “if you have +written, “still, i should not cry, but you can’t... no one can +wrong, and further that he was disagreeable and unnatural. +wrong and that to discuss the bad news was difficult, and so it was best +wrote himself,” said she through her tears. +xvii, for the queen, or for madame elizabeth? nothing!” and he became +yards was all that separated them. the enemy ceased firing, and that +year?” said “the man of profound intellect.” “why shouldn’t +years before, it seemed impossible that the little creature who lived +years older than her sister and behaved already like a grown-up person), +years ... then i will ask for your hand.” +“yes.” +“yes.” +“yes, and even tomorrow,” replied her brother. +“yes, and he is over sixty. i hear the count no longer recognizes +“yes, and i have some money and a letter to give you,” he added. +“yes and no mistake!” cried denísov. “you worked like wegular +“yes, a regular volcano,” said the count. “takes after me! and +“yes, bring some.” +“yes, but between ourselves,” said the princess, “that is a +“yes, but he will dislike it extremely,” said bolkónski. +“yes, but it is not as you imagine,” prince andrew continued. “i +“yes, but you are not the only one. there are your sisters...” +“yes, count,” she would say, “he is too noble and pure-souled for +“yes, dmítri, clean ones, please,” said the countess, sighing +“yes, everything is different nowadays, everything is changed. the +“yes, father, i have come to you and brought my wife who is +“yes, from olmütz,” he answered, with a sigh. +“yes, gentlemen, i’ve been told there’s a rumor going about moscow +“yes, god be thanked! yes! they’ve just finished supper. let me have +“yes, he is very handsome,” thought pierre, “and i know him. it +yes, hospitals, medicine. he has a fit, he is dying, and you come and +“yes, i am, but please don’t let us do like that.... in another four +“yes, i belong to the brotherhood of the freemasons,” said the +“yes: ideas of robbery, murder, and regicide,” again interjected an +“yes, i do believe in god,” he repeated. +“yes, i do wish it,” said he. +“yes, i’d send them on in front, but no fear, they’re crowding up +“yes, i feel a kind of oppression,” she said in reply to the +“yes, if having obtained power, without availing himself of it to +“yes, if you put it like that it’s quite a different matter,” said +“yes, i have heard of his scheme for perpetual peace, and it is very +“yes... i... i... desire regeneration,” pierre uttered with +“yes, i knew it long ago but had forgotten. i knew that i could expect +“yes, immediately, immediately! hey, who’s there?” he called out +“yes, i’m tired too,” said rostóv. +“yes, indeed!” +“yes, indeed,” replied the princess with a sigh. “so he may have +“yes, i never loved her,” said he to himself; “i knew she was a +“yes, i saw him, and am convinced that he fears nothing so much as +“yes, it can’t be helped if they won’t take less. ah, dear me! i +“yes, it is all very horrid,” interrupted pierre, “very horrid.” +“yes, it is very likely that i shall be killed tomorrow,” he +“yes, it’s a nice purse. yes, yes,” he said, growing suddenly +“yes, it seems he is ill. people are always disturbing him,” +“yes, it’s from julie,” replied the princess with a timid glance +“yes... it’s getting on, it will all be settled today.” anna +“yes, i was a fool! i still believed in people, loved them, and +“yes, i was brought up quite differently,” remarked the handsome +“yes, i was thinking”—for some reason borís could not help +“yes, just the same. though i don’t know what your opinion will +yes, killed my wife’s lover. yes, that was it! and why? how did i come +“yes, let’s go in and i will get myself a roll and some cheese,” +“yes, my dear, this is a great loss for us all, not to speak of you. +“yes, my sónya could not have done otherwise!” thought nicholas. +“yes, now you may be glad!” said she; “this is what you have +“yes, one is afraid,” continued the first speaker, he of the +“yes, please do,” answered the general, and he repeated the order +“yes, please do,” said rostóv. +“yes,” replied a footman in a bold loud voice, as if anything were +“yes,” said natásha. “do you know, nicholas—don’t be +“yes,” said rostóv as if it cost him a great deal to utter the +“yes,” said the countess when the brightness these young people had +“yes, sir.” +“yes, sir.” +“yes, sir, and there’s a light in your father’s study.” +“yes, so it is, so it is,” said the general angrily, lowering the +“yes, stories!” repeated rostóv loudly, looking with eyes suddenly +yesterday and the question presented itself whether he ought or ought +yesterday’s order. have you got it, denísov?” +“yes, that all happened!” he said, and, smiling happily to himself +“yes, that must be so,” thought pierre, when after these words the +“yes, that’s me!” she seemed to say, answering the rapt gaze with +“yes, that was fine,” said rostóv, smiling. +“yes, the austrian prince who built that castle was no fool. it’s +“yes, the ham was just delicious...” answered another with a loud +“yes, these verses nicholas wrote himself and i copied some others, +“yes, they are splendid, splendid youngsters,” chimed in the count, +“yes, this is the one thing left me now,” he said with a sigh. +“yes, we have altered much, very much, since then,” said prince +“yes, we know that, but the harm i am conscious of in myself is +“yes, yes,” assented pierre. +“yes, yes,” assented pierre. +“yes, yes, do so.” +“yes, yes, go and tell them to get it ready,” she answered, +“yes, yes,” he muttered, “it will be difficult, i fear, difficult +“yes, yes, i am unhappy,” assented pierre. “but what am i to +“yes... yes, i believe in god,” he said. +“yes, yes, if you please! it is already late,” said he, and nodding +“yes, yes; just so! bring it. give it to the countess.” +“yes, yes,” muttered bagratión as if considering something, and he +“yes, yes, of course,” interrupted prince vasíli impatiently, +“yes, yes, of course!” pierre chimed in, pleased at the arrival of +“yes, yes, that is so,” said pierre joyfully. +yes! yes! yes! don’t look at me with such surprise. if you marry +“yes, you do not know him, my dear sir,” said the mason. “you +“yes, you have seen him?” said prince andrew. “well, what is +“yes, you might, but i am afraid of getting the accounts mixed. so i +“yes, you’re quite right,” continued the countess. “till now i +“yes, your excellency,” answered the ukrainian gaily, tossing his +“yes, your excellency. forgive me for heaven’s sake... it was only +“yes, you talk, but try it yourself!” +yet at the same time was conscious of his strength as a part of that +yet a young woman. escaping from her father she ran to hide her flushed +yet. he felt that he must not say it. +yet it was she, dressed in a new gown which he did not know, made since +yet occupied that region, and the russians—the uninjured and slightly +yet the ladies themselves could not help laughing. +yet with a hope for the fulfillment of her forbidden earthly longing) +yet with unhesitating assurance that he was doing the right thing, + you.” +you!” +you.” +you?” +“you absolutely must come and see me,” she said in a tone that +you, all!” he added in a tone of command. +“you always manage to do things at the wrong time,” continued véra. +you and make you weep. +“you and your generals won’t get on against buonaparte; you’ll +you a place in my carriage. i am very glad. all our important business +“you are a little slyboots,” she said. +you are all blubberers and understand nothing.” +“you are an angel: i am not worthy of you, but i am afraid of +“you are good in every way, andrew, but you have a kind of +“you are in love with me?” natásha broke in. +“you are joking,” replied pierre, growing more and more excited. +“you are mistaken,” said borís deliberately, with a bold and +“you are most welcome! i know, i know,” said the count, kissing and +you are not aware of the fact...” +“you are off to the war, prince?” said anna pávlovna. +“you are seeking for truth in order to follow its laws in your life, +“you are still the same dreamer, i see,” remarked borís, shaking +“you are the commander of the emperor alexander’s regiment of horse +“you are unhappy, my dear sir,” the stranger continued. “you +“you are wounded?” he asked, hardly able to master the trembling of +you at last decided on anything? are you going to be a guardsman or a +“you at least must tackle him properly, or else if he goes on like +“you, bolkónski, don’t know,” said bilíbin turning to prince +you, but we’ll see what will happen. buonaparte has become a great +you, but why should i bother about you? you’d be only too glad, of +“you call him váska? that’s funny! and is he very nice?” +you!” came from different sides. +“you came rushing into the drawing room so that everyone felt ashamed +“you can give the message to his majesty,” said dolgorúkov, +“you can’t come in! you can’t!” said a terrified voice from +you can’t wait a moment! don’t you see the general wants to pass?” +you can undertake the theater, i society, and you, hippolyte, of course + * “you clear out of this.” +“you couldn’t see a thing. how they shot at their own fellows! +you cry, sónya, dear love, darling sónya!” and she kissed her and +you’d better listen more carefully!” +you, dear mary, that in spite of his extreme youth his departure for +you did gain a brilliant victory, if even the archduke karl gained a +“you did not get my letter?” he asked, and not waiting for a +“you don’t mind your honor?” he asked túshin. “i’ve lost my +“you don’t say so!” replied the countess. +“you don’t understand why i say this,” he continued, “but it is + * you expect to make an income out of the government. +“you forget yourself, colonel. i am not considering my own pleasure +“you give me your word of honor not to go?” +you going, when you might remain here? you are faced by one of two +“you had better go.” +“you had better take care!” said the countess. +“you have a try, hercules,” said he, turning to pierre. +you have been entered in the diplomatic corps and made a gentleman of +“you have been in paris recently, i believe? i suppose it’s very +“you have earned the st. george’s standards and will be worthy of +“you have not yet seen my husband?” +“you haven’t read the letter?” asked sónya. +“you have only lately arrived?” the countess asked him. +you hurry up? now then!” +you? i’m awfully glad you’re my brother.” she touched his +you—is that that man suffers, and this don juan, wicked fellow, is +“you just wait a moment, my dear fellow, and listen,” interrupted +“you know bilíbin—he’s a very clever fellow. he suggested +“you know her husband, of course?” said anna pávlovna, closing her +“you know him not, my dear sir, and so you are very unhappy. you do +“you know, michael ilariónovich, we are not on the empress’ field +“you know, mon cher, your father and i had some accounts to settle, so +“you know n— n— received a snuffbox with the portrait last +“you know, prince, i am not a bonapartist!” +“you know,” said the princess in the same tone of voice and still in +“you know they’ve come, marie?” said the little princess, waddling +“you live in the country and don’t think the life terrible,” he +you’ll be appointed adjutant somewhere and can snap your fingers when +“you’ll die and all will end. you’ll die and know all, or cease +you’ll like it,” and he patted her cheek. “it will drive all the +“you’ll make a fine thing of it, deploying in sight of the enemy! +“you may go,” he said to anatole. +“you may punt,” he said. +“you might have taken some from the covering troops.” +“you must do as you please,” said prince bolkónski, bowing to his +“you must excuse me, dear vicomte,” said prince vasíli to the +“you must look for husbands for them whether you like it or not....” +“you must walk, walk as much as possible, as much as possible,” he +“you, my little countess, are a notorious spendthrift,” said the +“you need not have said that to me, father,” said the son with a +young aide-de-camp with a smile. +young, all our octogenarians were reviewed, and of prozoróvski +young and old men and women pierre could not understand why he did not +young ever to be more to me than a friend, but this sweet friendship, +young face to look back. a shudder of terror went through him: “no, +young girls ready for anything and full of hope—experienced the same +young ladies. “i can just imagine what a funny figure that policeman +young lady visitor and the countess’ eldest daughter (who was four +young man can inspire in a romantic and loving young girl like yourself. +young man he did not know, with a peculiar cross hanging from his +young man. he sat with his legs up on the sofa as if quite at home and, +young man’s recent loss by the death of count bezúkhov (everyone +young man’s shoulder. +young man was an illegitimate son of count bezúkhov, a well-known +young master. “can it be? my treasure!” and prokófy, trembling with +young nicholas rostóv, who with his enthusiasm could not bear to remain +young rostóv. +young son, resting on him and winking joyfully at him. young rostóv +young woman, so soon to become a mother, so full of life and health, and +young. you need advice. don’t be angry with me for exercising an old +you not rest here?” +“you ought to have been there at seven in the morning.” +“you owe forty-three thousand, count,” said dólokhov, and +“you picked it up?... i dare say! you’re very smart!” one of them +you please, but do this for my sake! please do! father’s father, our +you positively that hélène is as innocent before you as christ was +your battalions. i will keep out of fire if you with your habitual +“your cousin...” dólokhov started to say, but nicholas interrupted +your denísov though he is a rake and all that, still i like him; so +your disposal.” +“your doctor tells you to go to bed earlier,” said prince andrew. +your doing so; but i warn you that if you dare to play the fool in my +“you’re always like that; you thwow a thing down anywhere and forget +your enchanting party,” said he, turning to anna pávlovna. +you’re wrong to think that of me... i... for me... for the honor of +“your excellency...” +“your excellency, here are two trophies,” said dólokhov, pointing +“your excellency, i should like to be of use here. allow me to remain +“your excellency, it’s the officer dólokhov, who has been reduced +“your excellency! let us attack them! i’ll dwive them off.” +“your excellency!” prince andrew broke the silence with his abrupt +“your excellency,” said he in german, stepping forward and +“your excellency,” said rostóv, “may i ask a favor?” +“your excellency, should not mary bogdánovna be sent for?” said one +“your excellency, you gave him leave yourself, on the march.” +your eyes,” added willarski. “i wish you courage and success,” +your father.” +your father is rich, i don’t regard myself as a relation of his, and +your father the truth when he was in favor, and in your case it’s my +your greatest pleasure is to be unpleasant to people! go and flirt with +your hands.” he spoke as if those bullets could not kill him, and his +“your honor, i thought...” +“your honor, the generals!” said the sergeant, riding up to rostóv. +“your honor, there he is!” cried one of the hussars behind him. and +“your honor, you’re wanted by the general. he is in the hut here,” +your interests as with a kinswoman, a good, kind, true relation. and i +“your joke is too bad, it’s witty but unjust,” said anna +your old father...” he paused unexpectedly, and then in a querulous +your presence; if she is willing, then he can stay on. he can stay and +“your regiment fulfilled its duty honorably,” said napoleon. +yours.” +yours? a daughter, i suppose?” +yourself and say you nearly ruined your life and only found happiness +yourself in a position to be attacked, but yourself to attack. believe +yourself in it. and now, when one wants to smooth the thing over, some +yourself, put a bridle on your senses, and seek blessedness, not in +yourselves. it must be here somewhere,” said lavrúshka. +your son bids fair to become an officer distinguished by his industry, +“your son,” wrote kutúzov, “fell before my eyes, a standard in +your victory is not a matter for great rejoicing and that you can’t be +you?” said the old prince to prince vasíli. +you say so much that is bad, does not seem to have had its usual effect +you see i do understand. i don’t know how to put it... with this one +“you see! i have asked,” whispered natásha to her little brother +“you see, my dear fellow, i have been thinking about you,” +“you see, my dear... what’s that mess?” she said, pointing to his +“you see, my fwiend,” he said, “we sleep when we don’t love. we +you seen duport?” +“you see yours is already an officer in the guards, while my nicholas +you select to be your worthy helpmeet in masonry.” and after a pause, +“you shan’t have it!” he said distinctly. +you—sónya. but their eyes met and said thou, and exchanged tender +“you speak to the colonel about this nasty business before other +“you spoke to me of inflammable material,” said he, “but you said +you tell me that among some good things it contains others which our +“you tell the colonel in the presence of other officers that an +youth and his wish to express all that was in his mind. +you that it would be very easy to do so if you haven’t sufficient +youthfully glittering eyes. +youthful movement, stood for a moment in the stirrup as if loathe to +“you think i’m an old man and don’t understand the present state +“you think so?” rejoined anna pávlovna in order to say something +“youth is no hindrance to courage,” muttered sukhtélen in a failing +“you thought!” shouted the prince, his words coming more and more +“you told me to remind you of the officer dólokhov, reduced to the +you to read when i am gone. you will find them useful.” +“you treat me like an invalid or a child. i see it all! did you behave +you understand that my sole desire is conscientiously to carry out his +you understand, your excellency, my dear sir, that you must not +“you value your own pride and don’t wish to apologize,” continued +“you’ve been in a hurry. that’s bad!” +“you’ve got it at last.” +“you’ve grown older, tíkhon,” he said in passing to the old man, +you’ve had to take,” cried he. +“you’ve only just missed him,” said the orderly. +you want to know whether i am happy? no! is she happy? no! but why this +you want to make something out of your company?” +you were about, challenged a man you are jealous of without cause.” +“you were meaning to go out, weren’t you, mamma? do you want the +you were not right, not quite in the right, you were impetuous...” +“you were saying, mr. staff officer...” continued the colonel in an +you, who do not believe in the truth of the light and who have not +“you will change it, won’t you?” said lise. and as princess mary +“you will find the beautiful hélène here, whom it is always +you will let me win this ten, or beat it.” +you will remember this, your excellency!” +you will see.” +“you will soon be dressing your men in petticoats! what is this?” +you with my saber!” he shouted, actually drawing his saber from its +you won’t ask!” +“you won’t ask,” natásha’s little brother was saying; “i know +“you won’t be able to find either your baggage or anything else now, +“you won’t bear me a grudge, prokhór ignátych?” said the +you won’t require it. we’ll go into the accounts later.” +you yourself reported to count buxhöwden yesterday, you must think of +“you...! you... scoundrel! i challenge you!” he ejaculated, and, +“zat, my dear sir, is vy...” he concluded, drinking a tumbler of +zere’s an end of it! and how do you, a young man and a young hussar, +zherkóv, not removing his hand from his cap, turned his horse about +zherkóv. they were under orders to advance next day. +zherkóv touched his horse with the spurs; it pranced excitedly from +zherkóv was followed by an officer of the suite who rode up to the +znaim. +“zum henker diese russen!” * muttered a german. diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-6/1M-tr-seq-sort-par/sort-1M-tr-seq-sort-par-00 b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-6/1M-tr-seq-sort-par/sort-1M-tr-seq-sort-par-00 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..db95d06 --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-6/1M-tr-seq-sort-par/sort-1M-tr-seq-sort-par-00 @@ -0,0 +1,10786 @@ +he did not finish his sentence, but his tone showed how highly he +he did not find prince andrew in olmütz that day, but the appearance of +(he did not even dare to dream of that), but simply to die before his +he did not do it he would grieve and disappoint many people, but if he +he described the whole campaign with a fearless self-censure and +he could see puffs of musketry smoke that seemed to chase one another +he could not stop short for the sake of one man’s life.” +he could not look calmly at the standards of the passing battalions. +he could not finish, and ran out of the room. +“he could not do that. the people only gave him power that he might +he could from a frenchman into the wood. besides, to tell everything as +he continued to pace the room, looking gloomily at denísov and the +he consoled himself. “and besides, what have i done to bring it about? +he commanded was in an almost hopeless position. the spy reported that +he clutched at his head. “who is going to get me the flowers? dmítri! +he closed his eyes, and immediately a sound of cannonading, of musketry +“he chose his friends badly,” interposed anna mikháylovna. +he checked himself, fearing to seem naïve, yet he felt an irresistible +he chanced to meet dólokhov’s handsome insolent eyes, pierre felt +he cautiously released the shoulder she leaned on, looked into her face, +he caught a momentary glimpse between their heads and backs of the dying +he can’t help plowing and mowing; if he didn’t, he would go to the +he came to the point at once, treating her ceremoniously. +he called the cossack with his horse, told him to put away the knapsack + he brings foemen to their knees,... etc. +he bowed his head and scraped first with one foot and then with the +he began the rescript again and again, but as soon as he uttered +he began pacing the room. the screaming ceased, and a few more seconds +heavy convoys (whose movements were concealed from the french) advance +“heavens! what a virulent attack!” replied the prince, not in the +“heaven only knows what the people here may imagine,” muttered +“heaven only knows, my dear! these rich grandees are so selfish. +“heaven knows what a fright might do.” +heated horses, exchanging remarks and smiling, had stopped behind the +“he asked you, and vasíli dmítrich * is also going.” +he asked, “whose company?” but he really meant, “are you +he, as if bragging of having been frightened. +heart! you are a madame de genlis and nothing more” (this nickname, +heartrending scene.... it was a convoy of conscripts enrolled from our +heart. “it has begun! here it is, dreadful but enjoyable!” was what +heart in the presence of the unfathomable did not lessen but increased. +hearing with pleasure the whistle of bullets evidently aimed at him. +hearing these words her face changed and something brightened in her +hearing that they wished to see the count, said his excellency was worse +hearing that cry and seeing to whom it was addressed, nesvítski and the +hearing or understanding her own words, what she had told hundreds of +hearing how ill he is.” +hearers—who like himself had often heard stories of attacks and had +heard, your honor, that a minister is coming to visit your honor.” +heard this sónya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable +heard the words as he might have heard the buzzing of a fly. not only +heard the quick rustle of the countess’ dress. she came up to them. +heard them, and we shall all do our duty. but before a battle, there is +heard that the war was being discussed had turned from his partner with +heard respectfully congratulating the dying man on having received the +heard on every side. +heard musket fire quite close in front of him and behind our troops, +heard distinctly. +heard curses on bonaparte, “the enemy of mankind.” militiamen and +heard before, others simply enjoyed hearing how the master talked, while +heard a rustle behind him and a shadow appeared under the curtain of +heard, and out of the foggy darkness the figure of a sergeant of hussars +heard, and much farther to the right beyond the dragoons, the officer of +heard, and again something in his face twitched—“that is just why +heard.” +“he always was rather harsh; and now i should think he’s getting +he always thought only of whatever he was engaged on. +healthy body, and all the affection and care of his family. “and why +health was drunk, pierre, lost in thought, did not rise or lift his +“health to your ex... len... len... lency!” and again all became +health of our sovereign, the emperor!” he roared, “hurrah!” and +“health and happiness to her whose name day we are keeping and to her +health?” +health?” +head (the pains had just left her). strands of her black hair lay round +head sadly, pointing them out to the austrian general with an expression +headquarters was still under the spell of the day’s council, at which +headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that +headquarters. but on the afternoon of that day, this activity reached +headquarters, and having ascended a dark staircase, they entered a small +head, pulled it off, and showed the blood congealed on his hair. +headlong to the horse. “walk him up and down, my dear fellow,” he +headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead +headlong after anna mikháylovna and, dashing at her, flung herself on +head, laughing with an officer who had sat down beside him. a third was +head in perplexity—perhaps because the banner really interested him, +he added that prince vasíli was also there. when tíkhon came to her +he added: “i need good officers myself, need them myself!” +he added: “but beware, dear brother, that these gloves do not deck +he added as if speaking to himself. +head cook, about asparagus, fresh cucumbers, strawberries, veal, and +head, but the instant he turned to prince andrew the firm, intelligent +head. as he rode up to the camp he thought how he would impress borís +head and lips indicating very little hope for the patient. +head and at the little arms and legs which showed under the blanket. he +head and an army of fifteen thousand men has been ordered to blow up +head. +having turned with words of comfort to her companion, realized that +having thanked anna pávlovna for her charming soiree, the guests began +having stuck an amber mouthpiece far into his mouth, was inhaling the +having something to eat. they hastily turned round to him asking if he +having said this she went up to the doctor. +having said this, napoleon rode on to meet marshal lannes, who, hat in +having said this laughed. everyone turned toward him. +having ridden round the whole line from right flank to left, prince +having ridden beyond the village, continually meeting and overtaking +having ridden ahead, had pulled up his horse near the bridge, with a +having rested after yesterday’s march, were sitting, clean and neatly +having read thus far, princess mary sighed and glanced into the mirror +having reached the left flank, instead of going to the front where the +having passed uvárov’s cavalry he clearly heard the sound of cannon +having passed the guards and traversed an empty space, rostóv, to avoid +having mounted drew himself up very straight and tall and rode to the +having lost a single man. the second squadron that had been in the front +having lifted her head and let her arms droop lifelessly, as ballet +having left that soldier who was evidently drunk, rostóv stopped the +having led him about ten paces, willarski stopped. +having jerked out these last words as soldiers do and waved his arms +having glanced through the dispatch he laid it on the table and looked +having given them to the rosy natásha, who beamed with the pleasure +having given several more orders, he was about to go to his “little +having given orders to his company, sent a soldier to find a dressing +having galloped safely through the french, he reached a field behind +having entered the courtyard of a large house where the lodge had its +having disentangled his leg, he rose. “where, on which side, was now +having descended the hill at a trot, he no longer saw either our own or +having convinced himself that he was asleep, took up a paper and in +having cleared the way denísov stopped at the end of the bridge. +having by a great effort got away to the left from that flood of men, +having become entangled in the saddle. where our men were, and where the +“have you told them to bring the horse?” asked telyánin, getting up +“have you never thought of marrying your prodigal son anatole?” she +“have you?” he said. “well, how did it go?” +“have you a complaint to make?” kutúzov asked with a slight frown. + have we not bagratión? +have virtuous aims,” said pierre, feeling ashamed of the inadequacy +have two footmen behind her carriage, and very big ones. that was her +have to prove to them what he had not merely convinced himself of, but +have to go in and ask the princesses; and from there go on to the +have to call in the french, so that birds of a feather may fight +have the courier horses. it was plain that he was lying and only wanted +have the carriage to drive to town: +have stayed longer.” +have something to tell you. here, here!” and she led him into the +have something to eat.” +“have some brought from the reserve,” said napoleon, and having gone +have seen how he said it! i know he did not mean to say it, but it came +have said. and he was still more angry at having omitted to say it. he +have received very little, prince vasíli nothing, and it is monsieur +have received another letter about the preussisch-eylau battle +have of hope and strength merely weighs you down and torments you with +have obliged me to give this refusal.” +have nothing to complain of.” +have, my dear! i tasted it. the thousand rubles i paid for tarás were +have looked at it. take it. well, now go. go.” +have liked to sympathize with what pierre was saying, but could not. +have killed so many that there’d have been a heap of them.” +have just this moment received by special messenger very joyful +have it, young man, i’m going.” +have heard the sobs. it seems as though mankind has forgotten the +have gone through,” and she sympathetically turned up her eyes. +have frightened you—sit down and tell me all the news.” +have done your best to increase his mental sufferings.” +have done the same!...” thought princess mary. +have done for us.” +have dared to say so, knew it and blushed scarlet every time dólokhov +have certainly acquired a taste for war, and it is just as well for me; +have been difficult to stop that crowd, it was even impossible not to +have been as good as weyrother’s, but for the disadvantage that +have a room of your own,” and she took the inkstand from nicholas. +have always, thank god, been my children’s friend and had their full +hast thou denied?” he suddenly asked with exulting austerity and +has to be cunning and cruel.” +“has the snow been shoveled back?” +haste, trying to escape notice, closed the door, and began to read the +hastening her steps. “you young ladies should not know anything about +has so many relatives in moscow! so you are borís? of course. well, now +has retained in full force.” +has received a letter and is expecting a visit from prince vasíli. in +has proposed to sónya!” +“has prince vasíli aged much?” asked the countess. “i have not +has picked up an ax: “we are used to it, but you, sir, will blister +“hasn’t been in since the evening. must have been losing,” +has married his first cousin. and we are only second cousins, you know. +has his stand, and there’s zakhár himself and still the same horse! +“has he taken his medicine?” +has come down to us from the remotest ages, even from the first man—a +has blundered looks at an examiner. +has beaten the germans. they beat no one—except one another. he made +“has anything happened?” she asked. “i am so terrified.” +“has anything come from andrew?” she asked. +harnessed and packed the wagons and tied on the loads. the adjutants and +“hardly,” said bagratión. “i saw them this evening on that +hardly had prince andrew started than he stopped him. +hardly had borís gone than sónya, flushed, in tears, and muttering +hardly able to restrain her tears and maintain the artificial smile +hard.... for ages, from our forefather adam to our own day, we labor to +harder from behind. +happy world of his own. she fancied a child, her own—such as she had +happy smile, ambling lightly up to the count’s niece. “i have come, +happy and smiling. véra was playing chess with shinshín in the drawing +happiness. the old princess sighed sadly as she offered some wine to the +happiness possible, and that is just what you want to deprive him of. +happiness or peace of mind. can anything in the world make her or me +happiness), feeling the eager bustle around him, and hearing the fitful +happiness and of children, but her strongest, most deeply hidden longing +happiest, merriest times for him and the whole family. nicholas brought +happen to them when they were free, but he insisted, though reluctantly, +happen!” she said, looking at herself in the glass. “how shall i +happening in front of him. nesvítski with an angry face, red and unlike +happened to you in moscow was a misfortune.”—“i regret it very +happened to touch. mademoiselle bourienne stood near them pressing her +happened, he was said to be insanely jealous and subject like his + * “hang these russians!” +hanging his head, meekly followed her. +hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her +hanged,” said prince andrew with a smile. “so i am serving because +handwriting. on receiving it, he ran on tiptoe to his study in alarm and +hand with it and knew he must not do so. having advanced six paces and +hand, was clearing manure from the cowhouse, looked out, and his face +hand to his ear toward weyrother, with the air of a man absorbed in +hand to her heart, with a beatific smile and obviously equally ready to +hand them to the emperor after my death. now here is a lombard bond +hand that was free, and turning sideways felt the pulse and reflected +hands which show the time, so the result of all the complicated human +hands were symmetrically placed on the green silk quilt, the palms +hands. then, sighing, he added: “my son’s fate is in your hands. +hands that are unclean.” while the grand master said these last words +handsome young officer entering his room. pierre paused. he had left +handsome open face of the man who might perhaps be her husband absorbed +handsome, happy young face, he experienced a feeling of tenderness +handsome and a terrible scapegrace. that is all i have been able to find +hands, looked attentively into prince vasíli’s eyes evidently +hands. “just fancy, he didn’t let me win a single cahd, not one +hands high, shied, throwing back its ears; but the pockmarked guardsman +hand she went up to her husband and kissed him on the forehead. +hands, he looked more closely at the ring, with its skull—a masonic +hands asking for their blessing, and that he kissed véra, natásha, and +hands and occasionally ran his eyes over the score against him. he had +hands.” +hands....” +hands. +hand, rode up smiling to the emperor to congratulate him on the victory. +handleless cup before a table on which tea and a cold supper were laid +hand, lay prince andrew bolkónski bleeding profusely and unconsciously +handkerchief to his wounded cheek and pointing to the fleeing soldiers. +handkerchiefs to their eyes, and just in front of them their eldest +handkerchief and rushed from the room. +handkerchief, and pipe. +hand in passing and draw it downwards, or absent-mindedly hold out his +hand. “how did you get here?” said he, turning to zherkóv. +hand he held carefully back, because he wished to support his right +hand he drew bagratión toward him, and with his right, on which he wore +handful of scoundrels. it will soon be over, it can’t be that, it +handed him, smiled at dólokhov’s words, and with a sinking heart, +hand. and there,” he pointed to a sutler’s tent, “they crowd in +hand and said, “come.” pierre went with her to the bed on which the +halted, the austrian argued that not he, but the higher command, was to +halted. prince andrew was behind, among the immense number forming the +hall, where denísov was sitting on the same chair by the clavichord +“hallo, gwíska—my pipe!” came vasíli denísov’s husky voice. +hall all sat waiting, silently and alert. in the outlying serfs’ +half whisper, “everyone knows count cyril’s reputation.... he has +halfway through supper prince andrew leaned his elbows on the table and, +halfway. fine orders!” was being repeated on different sides. +half-closed eyes he looked at rostóv, bowed slightly and wearily, and +half-closed eyes gave still more persuasiveness to his words. the staff +half an hour later, the rhetor returned to inform the seeker of the +ha!” laughed prince bolkónski, and anatole laughed still louder. +hairs painfully in the knot. then he drew his face down, kissed him, and +hair above his broad forehead which reminded one of a lion, and the deep +ha, ha, ha! mary!” +had uttered them. +“had there been no bagratión, it would have been necessary to +had then said. +had the ear of the company. +had the air of one who has suddenly lost faith in the whole human race. +had the air of a man happily performing one of the most solemn duties of +had sunk, her lip was drawn up, and her eyes drawn down. +had stopped beside the dead men, ran to catch up his line and, falling +had slept badly that night, those around him reported. the cause of this +had sent in good time to moscow for a doctor and were expecting him at +had seemed as extraordinary to her as if there had never existed the +had ridden up to him in a violent passion, shouting: “arnauts!” +had revealed to him. a week after his arrival, the young polish count, +had read thus far, he crumpled the letter up and threw it away. it was +had read, and listened to what was passing in the nursery. suddenly he +had reached braunau at the same time, was in splendid condition. there +had produced a good epigram, a fresh one that would be repeated. his +had prevailed. she drew her brother’s attention to the maid who was +had played a little air with variations on the harp, she joined the +had persisted in his request to kutúzov, arrived at grunth and reported +had perished by his own magnanimity, and that there were particular +had on the spásski hill which might have been serious for her in her +had only met once before for a short time at his wedding, were in +“hadn’t i better ride over, your excellency?” asked nesvítski. +had not yet entered either the military or civil service, as he had only +had not yet come home when rostóv rode back early in the morning from +had not yet begun. not wishing to agree to dolgorúkov’s demand to +had not worn for a long time, he went into bilíbin’s study fresh, +had not told all and that there was something in his feelings for the +had not only held the field but had repulsed the french. though the +had not left prince vasíli’s and felt with terror that in people’s +had not known it i should not have addressed you. your view of life is a +had no time. he was afraid of falling behind the hussars, so much afraid +had not finished saying what was necessary, thudded into the ground near +had not exasperated the vicomte, and had convinced herself that it was +had not been time to move. the emperor, surrounded by his suite +had no connection with the matter in hand. his haggard face was yellow. +had never been to blame, might be held responsible at headquarters +had left paris and how he had liked that city. anatole answered the +had left her kindly and tear-worn face and it now expressed only anxiety +had killed five frenchmen, a third had loaded five cannon singlehanded. +had instantly noticed her brother’s condition. but, though she noticed +had he repented of his unbelief? was he now there? there in the realms +had heard that a rumor of his duel had reached the emperor and that it +had happened. what had happened? nothing. he had merely understood that +had happened to him, but could not do so. such a storm of feelings, +had happened during that half-hour to the troops entrusted to him, and +had had to retreat and had made their withdrawal in perfect order. the +had had in anna pávlovna’s drawing room. pierre removed his feet from +had grown so dark that one could not distinguish the uniforms ten paces +had foreseen. prince andrew, out of breath with his rapid ride, spoke +had followed him like an eagle, three steps at a time. having received +had followed, and only the heavens promised peace. toward morning +had fixed on that number because forty-three was the sum of his and +had first seen the enemy and fired the first shot, and that the corner +had first learned to say “pear” and then “granny,” that this son +had fallen the previous day—the day of the battle. reviewing his +had evidently been drinking. +had entered. the most solemn mystery in the world continued its course. +had entered and left the town with their bands playing, and by the grand +had endured to gain her end. +had driven the old prince to town returned bringing papers and letters +had done in petersburg at anna schérer’s reception. +had crossed that line and not only was there nothing terrible, but +had conquered, settled down in an armchair, inviting prince vasíli to +had come into pierre’s room after the funeral. with drooping eyes +had come from the left flank where their regiment was stationed, with +had changed greatly during that period. in the expression of his face, +had broken up the french troops. +had been struck on the teeth, or what the ham had to do with it. +had been spilled on the carpet. they were met by a deacon with a censer +had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook prince +had been repulsed, employing this military term to describe what had +had been put in position?” +had been playing cards with the majority of the more distinguished and +had been killed or not and whether the cannon had been captured or +had been killed at the beginning of the engagement and within an hour +had been insulted through his daughter. the insult was the more pointed +had been increased by a half. and so pierre was delighted with his visit +had been got ready for him, glancing now and then at the newcomer, who, +had been doing, as though it were all an old-time story, and he listened +had been decided to advance immediately and give battle to bonaparte. +had been carried out and in what state were the serfs whom god had +had been added to mademoiselle bourienne’s toilet which rendered her +had become more intimate when prince andrew was in vienna with kutúzov. +had a splendid march. you know, of course, that his imperial highness +had apparently been running), “and i did so wish to have another talk +had any news. on their familiar faces he read agitation and alarm. +had always seemed to him that he really was very kind and intelligent. +had always imagined battles to himself), nor could he help to fire the +had also convinced the sovereign emperors of. +had accumulated at the sight of all that was being done in the army. +habitual to him. his face took on the stupid artificial smile (which +habitual, offering his puffy cheek, but bagratión kissed him on the +habit of walking, had been swept: the marks of the broom were still +habit of ridiculing the masonic beliefs—“i am afraid i am very far +gut morgen!” * he said winking with a merry smile, evidently pleased +guns smashed, and no supports at all.” +guns on the hillock. +guns. on the contrary, the energetic action of that battery led the +gunner with his shako knocked awry, pulling one end of a mop while +gun carriage. a cossack who accompanied him had handed him a knapsack +gun, a horse), from the sight of all these things a fantastic world of +guidance. the universal experience of ages, showing that children do +guests were and exchanging glances with natásha, who was sitting +guests were all conversing with one another. “the razumóvskis... it +guests returned to the drawing room and to the count’s study. +guests. natásha, who sat opposite, was looking at borís as girls of +guests joined in. everyone laughed, not at márya dmítrievna’s answer +guest. “poor girl, she’s devilish ugly!” thought anatole. +guest of honor and hero of the austrian campaign, prince bagratión, to +guess what he wanted; she pointed first to pierre, then to some drink, +guessing rostóv’s thought. +guards with the rank of cornet. he received, however, no appointment +guards, wearing a cocked hat with its peaks front and back, with his +guards, that they not only did not wish to, but simply could not, be +guards. prince andrew came up to him and took his hand. +guards passed rostóv before he heard them shout, “hurrah!” and +guards. here is my hand on it. are you satisfied?” +guards charged, followed the line of reserves, going far round the place +guards?” asked napoleon. +guard and line regiments, russian and austrian. among them were grooms +guard. +grown-up young people: véra beside berg, and pierre beside borís; and +grown furious, now at borís, now at bolkónski. “yes, many stories! +growing louder and more frequent. evidently our guns had begun to reply. +growing impatient, and stamped her foot, ready to cry at his not coming +growing excited. “what about your son, your sister, and your +growing ever stronger and fuller and merging into a deafening roar. +grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the +group where the vicomte was still talking, and again pretended to +group of men with yellow shakos, dark-green jackets braided with cord, +ground ten paces apart to mark the barrier. it was thawing and misty; at +ground like cliffs and slopes. anywhere, on any side, one might +ground, eager to rejoin its fellows, he watched his squadron draw +ground, artillery and troops in blue uniform were seen. these were the +groans, which seemed to melt into one with the darkness of the night. +groaning aloud and swinging his arm which had just been hurt, while +grimace. “i have long wanted to ask you, andrew, why you have changed +grieving at the misfortunes of our common cause, or we are merely +grieved him and yet he was pleased. +grew weary waiting to be relieved. prince andrew halted to have a look +grew still louder and merged into a general roar that only an army +grew still kinder. the younger sisters also became affectionate to him, +greeting was riding quickly. when the soldiers of the regiment in front +greediness that he wanted it, but simply from a conscientious desire for +great sin. how can one judge father? but even if one might, what feeling +greatness, the unimportance of life which no one could understand, and +greatness of soul?” said the little princess, smiling and drawing her +greatness....” +great many officers like him were always coming there and that everybody +great man! let us drink to his health and to the certain defeat of the +great haste and in the greatest disorder. the road was so obstructed +great favor to ask of you.” +greater zeal than his duty as a commander. thanks to the strictness and +greater reasons.” +greater part of the enemy’s opened out from this battery. just facing +great deal. of the two soups he chose turtle with savory patties and +great deal from the deceased,” said prince vasíli to him, handing him +great and talking eagerly. as soon as they saw pierre and his companion +great; all he could hear was: “ahahah!” and “rrrr!” +gray overcoats, wounds, the smoke of gunpowder, the sounds of firing, +grayish color. +gray everyday dress. now please, do it for my sake. katie,” she said +gravity!” +grave, moment i did not tell you the whole truth. i think there is no +grateful look, but was still expectant and looking for someone. the old +grateful for the benefits conferred on them. everywhere were receptions, +grapeshot.” +grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his +grant.” nor did he say to himself: “pierre is a rich man, i must +“‘grant leave to retire to his country seat to an old man who is +granted. +grand! look at the smoke, the smoke!” exclaimed the artillerymen, +grandfather, wore it in all his wars.” (she still did not take out +grandfather called him). the baby prince nicholas lived with his wet +grandee of catherine’s time who now lay dying in moscow. the young man +“gracious heavens! the young count!” he cried, recognizing his +graceful pose under a portrait of catherine, leaning his elbow on a +graceful and muscular arms and neck. by the grace of her movements, +grabern. on the left our troops were close to a copse, in which smoked +gown, he went to the couch on which he slept. +government officials to his table, had unexpectedly selected michael +got up and said something to the ladies. anna mikháylovna stepped +“gott, wie naiv!” * said he angrily, after he had gone a few steps. +go to him himself, and tell him what ought to be done in a tone of +“go, tit, thresh a bit!” said the wag. +“go, tit! thresh a bit!” +got into bed, all kept awake a long time that night. +go through your performance.” +go there anyhow and i have already spoken to him about you. we shall +“go!” the quivering voice repeated. and prince vasíli had to go +go? that way is nearer.” +got back to their horses. two were misdirected and the shot went too +goot to come to ze front and see dat zis position iss no goot? i don’t +“go on, you must drink it all,” said anatole, giving pierre the last +“go on, go on!” said the major. +“go on! go on! give it them!” he mentally exclaimed at these sounds, +good thing really.” +good stories about her, while none the less all without exception +“good!” said the rhetor quickly, apparently satisfied with +good part. +good old days. denísov, flushed after the mazurka and mopping himself +“good night, lise,” said he, rising and courteously kissing her hand +good news, though schmidt’s death is a heavy price to pay for the +good news? there has been an encounter with mortier? a victory? it was +“good news!... go on!” he shouted to the driver, and they galloped +goodness, to give us as sovereign! to say nothing of my brothers, this +good-natured, sincere, and animated levity. “but you see... another +good luck.” +good horse, bedouin, and sitting as though falling backwards in the +“good health...” + * “good god, what simplicity!” +good gifts? are you content with yourself and with your life?” +“good-by, my dear,” said she to the countess who saw her to the +“good-by, my dear fellow,” said túshin. “dear soul! good-by, my +good-by!” +“good-by.” +good as to look at the map and listen.” langeron lifted his eyes with +good and noble in you will be lost. it will all be wasted on trifles. +“gone to bed,” replied the voice of demyán the house steward, who +“gone to bed?” asked the prince. +“gone? that’s all right!” said he; and looking angrily at the +gone, pierre did not go to bed or order horses but paced up and down +gone out of the conservatory she followed and called borís to her. +“go, my dear fellow, and see whether the third division has passed the +golítsyn and he has refused. be the kindhearted man you always were,” +golden.”) he cast happy, sidelong glances at his son from under his +gold-embroidered velvet bag. her pretty little upper lip, on which a +go into that. but consider the position in which you are placing her and +going toward the door without raising his eyes. denísov paused, thought +going to the cottage he occupied with denísov. +going. the emperor was wounded, the battle lost. it was impossible to +going straight on through the conservatory, neither seeing nor hearing +going on in front. whether all the enemy forces were, as we supposed, +going on, but strain his attention as he would he could not understand +“going?” and he went on writing. +“go in, annette, or you will catch cold,” said the little princess, +“go!” he repeated, amazed at himself and glad to see the look of +“go! go! killed in battle, where the best of russian men and +goes up to auersperg and says: ‘prince, you are being deceived, here +god, without whose care not a hair of man’s head can fall? +god,” said pierre, regretfully and with an effort, feeling it +god,” pierre went round the table and saw a large open box filled +“god is merciful, doctors are never needed,” she said. +“god is merciful, birdie.” +“god is merciful....” +“god has nothing to do with it! well, go on,” he continued, + * god has given it to me, let him who touches it beware! +godfather,” she added, as if she attached no importance at all to the +“go, dear,” said princess mary. +“god be with you, general!” said the emperor. +god be with him,” thought he, relishing his own goodness of heart, +“god be thanked that you are in time,” said she to one of the +god!” and without noticing that he was singing, to strengthen the si +go and tell lise.” +“go and choose denísov. he is a real dancer, a wonder!” he said. +“go and apologize, your excellency. yes, go!” +“go across to our hosts: they invited you,” added borís. +go. +go. +glorious task for which he was chosen. i shall await your most gracious +gloomy gravity and glancing round at his comrades, “there is an order +gloom, but a dark sea swelling and gradually subsiding after a storm. +glittering teeth and sparkling eyes. she told of an accident they had +glide across that lofty infinite sky! how was it i did not see that +gleamed. +glass, smiled, and walked toward the other door. natásha was about to +glass. she went on reading: +glass, “or i won’t let you go!” +glass of vodka and the dinner; and the staff officer with the signet +glass. letting her arms fall helplessly, she sat with downcast eyes and +glass. +glancing up at him from under her brows, smiling, and almost crying from +glancing into the drawing room, where he saw véra and his mother with +glancing for support at an officer of the suite who turned away +glancing at prince vasíli and at her father with her beautiful eyes. +glances without coloring, but even the old countess and natásha blushed +glanced up at her through tears of laughter, and again hid her face. +glanced at berg with a smile. +glanced askance at her husband’s face, and her own assumed the timid, +glanced angrily at berg, then, meeting his eyes, hid his face behind the +glance became more animated as his conclusions became more hopeless. +glance at all those in the room and noticing the count’s confessor +glad, very glad indeed, that my brother has distinguished himself so. +“glad to do our best, your ex’len-lency!” came a confused shout +“glad to do our best!” shouted the soldiers. +giving the messenger a significant look. +giving him full liberty to remain with him during the battle or to join +giving him a mild expression, rode up to bagratión and welcomed him as +gives the singles and snatches the doubles!” +given to raise recruits, ten men in every thousand for the regular army, +given to blow it up. otherwise we should long ago have been in the +given receptions) now hardly let a day go by without having an evening +give no opinion on such an important government order, and berg laughed +given him by the commander in chief and his fellow officers, prince +“give me time to collect my wits, father,” said he, with a smile +“give me that letter,” said kutúzov turning to prince andrew. +give me satisfaction...” +“give me a biscuit, you devil!” +“give him a seat,” said túshin. “lay a cloak for him to sit on, +gist of the matter lay in that. +girl, you and your sisters are not heiresses! if you don’t believe me, +girl would be decided that evening. the visitors were seated at supper. +girls’ voices came from the adjoining room. the door was opened a +girls and avoiding their eyes. +girlish adoration that her smile could not for a single instant impose +girl,” he sometimes said to himself “she never makes a mistake, +gilt frame, new to him, containing the genealogical tree of the princes +giddy even on a staircase,” exclaimed several voices. +“get well soon, lads!” he continued, turning to the soldiers. +getting up and speaking in a muffled and guttural voice. +get there and fire the bridge or will the french get within grapeshot +get ready to dance in the large hall, and the sound of the feet and the +“get onto the ice, over the ice! go on! turn! don’t you hear? go +get married. what about you? that’s what i want to know.” +“get in,” said kutúzov, and noticing that bolkónski still delayed, +gesture. anna pávlovna meditated. +germans’ muddling! what stupid devils!” +germans, and everyone was convinced that a dangerous muddle had been +germans. +german—i congratulate him! i can’t make out what the commander at +german accent, “for the reasson zat ze emperor knows zat. he +“gently, gently! can’t you do it more gently?” said the emperor +gentleness and affection. he could not refuse the post, or rather the +“gentlemen, who wishes to bet with me? i’ll do the same thing!” +“gentlemen, the dispositions for tomorrow—or rather for today, for +‘gentlemen,’ says one of them, ‘you know the thabor bridge is +“gentlemen,” said dólokhov after he had dealt for some time. +gentlemen of the diplomatic corps. with prince hippolyte kurágin, +gentlemen, messieurs les maréchaux, * murat, lannes, and belliard, +gentlemen, it is already time for me to go,” replied prince andrew +“gentlemen, i thank you all; all arms have behaved heroically: +“gentlemen, i’ll do anything. no one shall hear a word from me,” +gentlemen changed his position on seeing borís. the one who was writing +gentleman,” said the postmaster, entering the room followed by another +gentleman of the bedchamber, which at that time conferred the status of +gentleman—evidently not sharing borís’ conception of the advantages +gentle look of her large luminous eyes, very beautiful at that moment, +gentle childlike smile, and hélène smiled too. +genoa and lucca laying their petitions before monsieur buonaparte, and +general who, watch in hand, was saying it was time they started as all +general who signed that capitulation had no right to do so, and that no +general who had succeeded schmidt. in the passage little kozlóvski was +general who had served blamelessly for twenty-two years, flushed by a +general were talking in low voices and kutúzov smiled slightly as +generals were saying. +general’s three-cornered hat, and held it, pulling at the plume, +generals in the crowded hut, feeling embarrassed as he always was by the +generals in full parade uniforms, with their thin or thick waists drawn +general schmidt, who was killed in the action. his horse had been +generals. but one could not tell from that significant look whether he +generals and statesmen of the day. the old prince seemed convinced not +generals. +general roar. +general—of whom austria has so many—and to lay down all this heavy +general movement; that something was constantly expected of him, that if +generally the stronger! i know very well that count nicholas is too +generally, prince andrew had, as he had had in petersburg society, two +generally happens to the narrators of cavalry attacks had not happened +generally do describe it, that is, as they would like it to have been, +“general kutúzov,” said bolkónski, speaking french and stressing +general, in russian, speaking with the french intonation he affected +“general, i must obey orders, but i am not bound to endure...” +general grumbled at his wife when she asked how his leg was. “oh, the +general expanded his chest and rode, frowning, beside him to the +general engagement in which he was taking part, more than that, he was +general conversation. +general conclusion which he had arrived at from his interview with +general commotion. some eight or nine young men were crowding anxiously +‘general bonaparte.’” +general attention, and anna pávlovna felt that the novelty she had +general.” +general!” +genealogical tree, shook his head, laughing as a man laughs who looks at +gaze drooped his eyes sadly and again took to twirling his snuffbox. +gazed at his delicate fingers which rapidly twirled by its corners +gazed at bolkónski silently with wide-open eyes. +gavríl to pay a sleigh driver, his kissing sónya on the sly—he now +gave zest to his pleasures. he spent the greater part of his time away +gave us time to retreat. the retirement of the center to the other side +gave no answer, she left the room. +gave his hand to the plague-stricken; but ... but there are other acts +“gave him leave? leave? that’s just like you young men,” said the +gave her the answer in her own heart. “desire nothing for thyself, +gathered round nicholas in the sitting room. +gasping voice. “where are we? in moscow, i know. i don’t matter, +galloping toward him. they were our uhlans who with disordered +galloped up to kutúzov and asked in the emperor’s name had the fourth +galloped on to the village where he was told that the commander in chief +gallantry lit up his face and as soon as the last figure of the +galicia he had managed to deal with the grand duke when the latter +gained a step on his old comrades of the cadet corps; how in wartime +gaily, with a wide swing of his arm. +gaily. +gaiety with which zherkóv spoke, and to the intentional coldness of +further back till his curly hair touched his shirt collar, and the hand +furlough after christmas to return with him to their regiment. his +furies and rages at everyone and everything, seizes the letters, opens +full speed. rostóv, fearing to be crushed or swept into the attack on +fulfill thy will?” and scarcely had she put that question than god +fulfill the one which enjoined every mason to set an example of moral +fugitives returned, the battalions re-formed, and the french who had + * frühstück: breakfast. +frowning and taking his daughter’s hand; he did not kiss her, but only +frowning and silent. +frowning. +fro with dignity, offered surmises about the weather, or touched on +front. pierre stood smiling but silent. one man, older than the others +front of us. +front of the ranks. suddenly one shot after another rang out from the +front of the infantry, who had to wait. +front line, as if their differences would be settled there amongst the +front and men four abreast, spread across the bridge and began to emerge +front and back. her bust, which had always seemed like marble to pierre, +front. +from which they had dashed out so impetuously, the conversation had +from which the shouting came. he felt both frightened and pleased to be +from which spectacles have just been removed, had also a frightened and +from which occasional puffs were blown by an invisible smoker. +“from where to where, your majesty?” +“from what i have heard,” said pierre, blushing and breaking into +from weeping and sat down beside dr. lorrain, who was sitting in a +from vienna to znaim was shorter and better than the road for the +from vienna kutúzov wrote to his old comrade, prince andrew’s father. +from various people and retelling the town gossip. +from understanding—how am i to put it?—i am afraid my way of looking +from this distressful life, and leads it to its place of recompense and +from the wood, mustered the men who were woodcutting, and, allowing the +from the way the regimental commander saluted the commander in chief and +from the theater, had had supper and were grouped round the clavichord. +from the shelf the first book that came to his hand (it was caesar’s +from the right flank, beside which the carriage passed the company, +from the revolution leaving the people to anarchy, and napoleon alone +from the ranks. a morose soldier marching on the left turned his eyes on +from the masses around them, the smoke and the increasing fog, to see +from the hints contained in his letter and given by the little princess, +from the hill. there was no one now between the squadron and the enemy +from the guards just before this campaign. he behaved very well in the +from the folds of her frock. +from the field of battle with the pale and terrified ober-hofmarschal +from the drawing room. +from the doctor to pierre. to him, in a particularly respectful and +from the direction of olmütz in front of them, a group was seen +“from the direction, it must be the enemy,” repeated rostóv. +from the deafening sounds of his own guns around him, the whistle and +from the crumpled heap under the table would save him, now counted the +from the bottom of the slope, where the parleys had taken place, came +from the army to sergéy kuzmích, in which the emperor said that he was +from that distorted mouth issued an indistinct, hoarse sound. anna +from that day the eldest princess quite changed toward pierre and began +from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who +from prince andrew to the staff officer. +from pétenka—he took part in it—and it’s all true. when +from passing, “won’t this be too much for poor uncle at a moment +from my heart as to an old acquaintance.” +from másha, the lady’s maid, the necessary report of how handsome the +from laughing. +from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in st. petersburg, used +from home, at dinners, parties, and balls. +from hollabrünn) received murat’s dispatch with the proposal of a +from his son. +from his horse in a pool of blood. nobody gave him a look or thought of +from his cheek. prince andrew forced his way to him. +from him, though she knew that already, and remarked that they might +from him. “there, you see!” and he drew attention to the bullets +from him. “he used to have a predilection for bacchus.” +from him, and rostóv felt as in a dream that he continued to be carried +“from héloïse?” asked the prince with a cold smile that showed his +from headquarters behind the village to the left, and thither rostóv +“from general field marshal kutúzov?” he asked. “i hope it is +from early morning the smart clean troops were on the move, forming up +from early morning strenuous activities and efforts had begun and by ten +“from dürrenstein to krems.” +from denísov, rode past too, at the rear of his squadron—that is, +from behind still came the shouts: “onto the ice, why do you stop? go +from behind. +from all sides were heard the footsteps and talk of the infantry, who +from all sides reports reach me,” etc. +“‘from all my riding,’ he writes to the emperor, ‘i have got a +from actions which would torment him afterwards.” +frock and hair. +frigid politeness. +fright were amused by pierre’s lisp and the new words they had not +frightened here?” and the artilleryman understood him. +friend, that i look on marriage as a divine institution to which we must +friend’s look was now still more clearly expressed in the smile +“friendship laughs at distance,” began prince vasíli in his usual +friendship at all; i simply feel that the army is my vocation.” +friendship.” +friend’s hand. +friends had pledged themselves in an indissoluble alliance to uphold +friendly words to officers he had known in the turkish war, sometimes +friend, but nicholas avoided him. with that peculiar feeling of youth, +friend bolkónski, whom he had not seen for two years. +friend a model of perfection because prince andrew possessed in the +friend.” +friend...” +“fr... fr...” snorted prince bolkónski. “the prince is making a +freshness, an unconsciousness of her own powers, and an as yet untrained +fresh anecdotes were heard of individual examples of heroism shown by +fresh and pretty face yet more attractive. +frenchwoman very readily and, looking at her with a smile, talked to her +frenchwoman blushed and went away without a word. when he reached his +french were putting out the fire which the wind was spreading, and thus +french, turning to a general, “my husband is deserting me? he is going +french troops who are being raised in france will join us, and the peace +french to suppose that here—in the center—the main russian forces +french) to prince vasíli. “it’s not as at annette’s * receptions +french to pass him, had made a bayonet charge with two battalions and +french though he spoke it badly, offered to conduct prince andrew. +french, there would be great hope of saving the army; to let the +french, smoke appeared all along their uneven ranks, and musket shots +french since suvórov met them. he feared that bonaparte’s genius +french pronunciation which she could allow herself when conversing with +frenchmen, and though but a moment before he had been galloping to get +frenchman remembers his bayonet and stabs him....” +frenchman, holding him down by the sleeve in a friendly way to prevent +frenchman also stopped and took aim. rostóv closed his eyes and stooped +french, he did not know. there was no one near. +french forestall him at znaim meant the exposure of his whole army to a +french families. he is one of the genuine émigrés, the good ones. and +french column, with its officers leading, appeared from below the hill. +french colonel who had been taken prisoner by our dragoons. our officers +french. but this adjutant returned half an hour later with the news that +french battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the +french. a group of cossack scouts retired down the hill at a trot. all +french!” +free, so lighthearted! and i did not realize how happy i was! when did +freemasonry presented itself to him. +free.’ isn’t that lovely and noble! yes, very noble? isn’t it?” +freedom i could understand it and should be the first to enter the army; +freedom and told her that one way or another he would never cease to +freckled gunner in a merry voice, standing to attention. +frantically, had such an effect that they managed to squeeze through +frankly, i don’t want to. i am speaking of the staff in general.” +francis received him standing in the middle of the room. before the +français,” said dolgorúkov, with grave satisfaction. “good, +fragmentary sentences tried to explain about a doll which she produced +“fo’ward, with god, lads!” rang out denísov’s voice. “at a +four times—till i get what i want. i don’t mind what they think of +four thousand strong, to the right across the hills from the krems-znaim +found the prussian army. borís, speaking with deliberation, told them +found them to be so tiresome that it wearied him to look at or listen to +found the count with it in his hand, sobbing and laughing at the same +found out, nothing discovered,” pierre again said to himself. “all +found expression in calling her maid “my dear” and speaking to her +found a kind of tantalizing satisfaction. +found.” +for your sake.” +for your obstinacy,” said kírsten. +for your neighbor? have you ever thought of your tens of thousands +for wine. +“for what have you come hither?” asked the newcomer, turning in +forward with unnatural speed but yet stayed on the same spot. from +“forward, with god!” said bagratión, in a resolute, sonorous voice, +forward toward the old man with a forced and timid smile. +forward. of bolkónski, nothing was said, and only those who knew him +“forward, lads!” he shouted in a voice piercing as a child’s. +forward. “company commanders!” he shouted in a voice accustomed to +forward beside schmidt with the bullets merrily whistling all around, +forward and, stooping over the dying man, beckoned to lorrain from +forward, and experienced great happiness. +for us. the field marshal looks on and waits for letters addressed + * “forty thousand men massacred and the army of our allies +forty paces’ distance nothing could be seen. for three minutes all had +for two days after that rostóv did not see dólokhov at his own or at +fortune. suddenly he heard a familiar voice repeating something to him a +for trees and gullies for men and continually discovering his mistakes. +“for tomorrow!” said he, quickly finding the page and making a +fortnight’s retreat, the russian troops had halted and after a fight +for three days, and not one of them knew or imagined what was in store +for this failure, the enemy placed ten guns to the right of the village +(for they were speaking french) at least with a russian who would, he +for the two approaching battalions. while he was speaking, the curtain +for the tenth time, molière’s words: “mais que diable allait-il +for the society of ladies, began to come often to the house, and the +for these simple, kindly people. +for the next battle are planned by him alone. nominally he is only an +for themselves. +for the most part handsome fellows and, as is always the case in an +“for the last time i say to you—turn all your attention upon +for the hussars to retreat with the infantry. they were cut off from +for the good we have done them.’ father took her when she was homeless +for the future, pierre’s journeys and occupations, the war, and so +for the countess.” +for the attainment of that purpose. +for the aged? and is it not a palpable, unquestionable good if a +for that. yes, for that alone! i shall never tell anyone, but, oh god! +for some days in moscow and was staying as usual at his father’s +for russia, for the orthodox greek faith! all that is beautiful, but +for prince andrew. +for petersburg alone. +“for not dilly-dallying and not hanging to a woman’s apron strings. +for negligence or inefficiency so staggered him that, forgetting the +for my sake! did you know?” +for more than a week preparations were being made, rough drafts of +for more than anything else in the world, did not know how to approach +forming up within twice the range of a musket shot. the general in +forming a complete whole with her dress, but all the charm of her body +former pupil of his. +former position. a huge, broad-shouldered gunner, number one, holding +former position after the campaign, had returned to petersburg and come +formerly in anna pávlovna’s presence, pierre had always felt that +“for me? for me?... trying for me!...” said she. +formed up at intervals, and wheeled round other similar masses of +formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers +formed a definite idea of what an attack was and were expecting to hear +formed. +for life, but i don’t understand that, i forget quickly.” +for his reply, surrounded him, and led him to the drawing room. it was +for his part tried to pretend to the count that he considered these +for his life, but for the courage he needed and which he knew would not +for himself. he remembered his mother’s last letter. “what would she +for him, prince bagratión sat at dinner, talking with some commanding +for him, but again pressed on him so that they jammed his leg, and those +for him. +for her. when the little princess had grown accustomed to life at bald +forgot the sovereigns’ presence. “lads, it’s not the first village +forgot them. his head was burning, he felt himself bleeding to death, +forgotten. our duty, my dear, is to rectify his mistake, to ease his +“for god’s sake... i can’t walk. for god’s sake!” +for girls and boys.” +forgetting that she was dancing with a grown-up partner she bent her +forgetting that it was unbecoming for the girls to see men undressed, +forget. but, my dear, will you not give us a little hope of touching +forget all that.... she says: ‘i shall love him always, but let him be +for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second +“forever?” said the little girl. “till death itself?” +“forever?” said prince andrew. “nothing’s forever.” +forestall him, threw off his fur coat and ran on tiptoe through the +foresight for every eventuality, every possibility even to the smallest +foreign cavalry with red epaulets, probably french. he could see nothing +forehead, wetting him with her tears. then after a pause she said: +forehead was moist. prince andrew touched the head with his hand; even +forehead, over which was beautiful light-brown hair smelling of pomade. +forehead. he went to the cot in confusion, sure that he would find it +forehead. +forefather adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be +force their way through them with bayonets. +force had already descended into the valley toward the ponds and lakes +for a seat. +for anything and i never will again, nor have i ever reminded you of my +for an instant, but there was no second report as he had expected. he +for an answer. his birth and position in society were not bad. “well, +for a moment he dozed, but in that short interval innumerable things +for a mere fancy?” said nicholas taking her hand. +for a long time pierre could not understand, but when he did, he jumped +for a long time he could not utter a word, so that the rhetor had to +for a long time, always in the same fog, descending and ascending hills, +“forage has not been supplied to the extent...” +for a few seconds collected his thoughts. then the russian ambassador +for about a minute. +for!” +foot, which he was then touching with his own under the clavichord. +foot to foot uncertain with which to start, then settled down, galloped +footsteps. pierre rose and said it was getting late. prince vasíli gave +footmen and cooks were getting the supper, count bezúkhov had a +footmen, and awaited each expected dish with some anxiety. everything +footing that all who knew them, including anatole himself, respected him +foot, and galloped on. +“fool... or dummy!” he muttered. +foolish as soon as he uttered them, while on the contrary hippolyte’s +food. +“folly... folly! death... lies...” he repeated, puckering his face. +follows the current of his own thoughts, “things will have gone too +follows that pierre will not be pierre but will become count bezúkhov, +follows: +following the princess, whom a footman was helping into the carriage. +following the mass movements and general orders, and constantly studying +following passage, in german, from the archduke ferdinand’s letter: +following budget: +follow, for this was clearly only a prelude. +followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower +followed singly. the footmen began moving about, chairs scraped, the +followed proved that the commander in chief at that moment was absorbed +followed him in, as if there were now no further need for permission to +followed by the owner of the manly voice, a dashing infantry officer who +followed by their suites. kutúzov, affecting the manners of an old +followed by a cossack. +followed anna mikháylovna out of the carriage, and only then began +fly upwards. the angel’s upper lip was slightly raised as though +fly! gracious me, they did rattle past! it’s time i knew the imperial +fluttering in that light. túshin had not returned, the doctor had not +fluttering above the fire and remembered a russian winter at his warm, +flung it down and began: +flung it away. tíkhon caught it and handed it to a footman. the little +flower tubs and hid there. +flower; natásha, half grown up and half child, was now childishly +flourishing his arm, called him to enter. +flourished his castanets as if threatening someone. the soldiers, +floundering silvery fish in the watering can, on that dam over which for +fleeing crowd. a mounted general separated himself from the infantry and +flayed, some not, and broken-down carts beside which solitary soldiers +flattered by this. anna pávlovna arranged the different groups in her +flanks was more than six miles, even if the messenger were not killed +flank now that it is nearly four o’clock and the battle is lost? +flank. in the center túshin’s forgotten battery, which had managed to +flank,” he said to himself, “the kiev grenadiers and the podólsk +flank; he knew that all the guns there had been abandoned at the very +flag let it fall from his hands. it swayed and fell, but caught on the +flabby that they looked heavier below, were twitching violently; but +fixing his weary eyes on the paper, began to read them with a fixed and +fixed straight on his son’s. something twitched in the lower part of +fixed on her. +fixed on. +five years, if he goes on like this?” presently he added: “that’s +five times. he entered the room softly. the little princess, plump and +five minutes later princess mary from her room heard something heavy +five in the afternoon,” replied bolkónski growing more animated and +fist, and tapped it on the floor, making the sparks fly, while he +fish for this dinner. the count had been a member and on the committee +first to one side and then to the other watched the smokers with evident +first time since their encounter concerning telyánin. rostóv, feeling +first regiment roared “hurrah!” so deafeningly, continuously, and +“first-rate,” said pierre, looking at dólokhov, who with a bottle +first place because her provinces have been pillaged—they say the holy +first pair of gloves, a man’s, he said that pierre could not know +first of one and then of another priest. +“first of all you must drink!” +first of all devote some time to solitude and self-examination and do +“first of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. set your friend’s +first not only what had been said but also what kutúzov would have +first he had ever written. borís and natásha were at the other window + first epilogue: 1813 - 20 +first because pierre appeared to his hussar eyes as a rich civilian, the +first appearance in society. anna pávlovna greeted him with the nod she +firmness, and expedition. i consider myself fortunate to have such a +firmness and certainty of his vocation, which radiated from his whole +firmly resolved to answer his father-in-law. moreover, the words of the +firmly believed in the possibility of the brotherhood of men united in +firmly. +firing was, he began to look for the general and his staff where they +firing?” rostóv kept asking as he came up to russian and austrian +firing in the valley. not a single muscle of his face—which in those +firing incendiary balls at the village of schön grabern visible just +firing at the augesd dam and was looking at the killed and wounded left +firing at augesd. +fires were lighted and the talk became more audible. captain túshin, +fire! our stories have some weight, not like the stories of those +fire. from pain, cold, and damp, a feverish shivering shook his whole +fire, fanned by the breeze, was rapidly spreading. the french columns +fired in the air; a third was striking the horse kutúzov himself rode. +fire and pressed it there!” +finished phrases of general interest. these sayings were prepared in the +finished. +fingers twitched nervously. +fingers, drew out a gold imperial, and lifting his eyebrows gave it to +finger at him, “i have even heard of your doings in paris!” +“fine young fellow! fine young fellow!” he said. “well, come and +fine,” said a corporal, chaffing a thin little soldier who bent under +“fine men!” remarked napoleon, looking at a dead russian grenadier, +fine! i don’t want anything, prince.” +“fine fellows, the pávlograds!” remarked the emperor. + * fine eyes. +fine cords would soon get a bit rubbed,” said an infantryman, wiping +find the baby. at last he saw him: the rosy boy had tossed about till he +finds you to his taste as a daughter-in-law and makes a proposal to you +find, and still seeks, some secret motive in our actions. what answer +finally there were six thousand rubles for his outfit and various other +final instructions, orders, and commissions to the baggage men +filled by the domestic serfs—the men on one side and the women on +figure of túshin who was sitting cross-legged like a turk beside him. +fight. you’ll see—we shall retire.” +fighting russian soldier without connections and intrigues, and to one +fighting hussar who had been under fire. +fighting cocks preparing for battle, each vainly trying to detect signs +fighting army (with the pávlograds on the right flank of the front); +fight bonaparte by this new science you call ‘strategy.’” +fifty members of the english club and fifty guests were awaiting the +field under fire, as he had done at the head of the kursk regiment at +fields and forests of fir and birch, which were partly cut down. the +field of austerlitz, enduring the heedless blows of his left foot and +field. instead of the moving horses and hussars’ backs, he saw nothing +field glass and shrugging his shoulders, “so it is! they’ll be fired +feverish delirium or drunkenness. +feu, et oublie celui qu’il devait faire faire sur l’ennemi!” *(2) +fetch the frenchman, moreau,” he said, alluding to the invitation made +festivities and fireworks are becoming wearisome.” +festive in his air, which, in conjunction with his firm and virile +festive around him. nearer and nearer to rostóv came that sun shedding +ferdinand disgraces himself. you abandon vienna, give up its +felt the tension of the amorous air in the house, and also noticed a +felt the impossibility of going to sleep on such a night. it was light +felt that the battle of which he had brought tidings was far, far +felt so glad to be free from his own lawlessness and to submit his will +felt perfectly happy. just then the commander appeared on the bridge. +felt it indecorous to speak of her pregnancy before pierre, though the +felt coat, stretched his legs, and set his cap straight. the head of the +felt a wish to speak to the stranger, but by the time he had made up his +fellow! what you have just said is good, very good. of course you +fellows on the staff who get rewards without doing anything!” +fellows have all lost your wits, or i have outlived mine. may god help +fellow,” he said abruptly and eagerly, “i must confess to having +fellow could have played such a prank on a policeman. +fellow.” +fellow.” +fell from him. he was glad, and at the same instant began to pity the +feigned severity. “you spoil her, ilyá,” she added, turning to her +feigned—or so it seemed to rostóv. he put his horse to a trot to +feet were the only sounds that could be heard. anna mikháylovna, with +feet that moved through the sticky mud that covered the planks of the +feet into his slippers and his arms into the sleeves of his dressing +feet in their overboots on the table, and began to reflect. +feet in low shoes, iogel flew first across the hall with natásha, who, +feel,” thought he, “if she saw me here now on this field with the +feel that in that place and on that day, it was improper to speak so of +feels, anyone who comes in sight of the enemy, and that feeling gives +feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the +feelings in others, and if never having felt them i cannot approve of +feeling; sharing with the young folk of the rostóvs’ household a +feelings. but much as all the rest laughed, talked, and joked, much +feeling of sickening agitation. +feeling of devotion returned to him even more strongly than before. when +feeling of a hare fleeing from the hounds. one single sentiment, that +feel afraid.” +feeble voice to which he tried to impart a dashing note, ill-suited to +feeble voice, so high pitched and irresolute. his face grew more and +feeble voice of the commander in chief was heard. the regiment roared, +fédya, my dear count; that, believe me, is why i am so fond of you. few +features. nicholas was short with curly hair and an open expression. +features, gave him a rather comical expression. bekleshëv and theodore +fear would prevent her understanding any of her father’s further +fear this will oblige one half the army to shoot the other.” +fears nothing so much as a general battle is impossible.” +fear’s all gone, and your only thought is not to let him get away!’ +fearing to relax, shouted with his mouth wide open and passed on. +fearing to be captured by the french on the way to krems. +feared him. +fear appeared on her flushed face. +fear, and the thought that he might be killed or badly wounded never +favorite, “how is it you have so little tact? don’t you see you are +fault. what’s he to do if he has such luck?... and it’s not my fault +fault!” and her voice quivered like that of a child about to cry. +father with a laugh. +father to the ambassador’s entertainment; she wore a ball dress and +father to fits of bloodthirsty rage. and when after pierre’s +father to be a connection of prince vasíli’s. the elderly lady who +father there would be nothing i could reproach you with,” said anna +“father, tell me how it happened,” she asked through her tears. +father’s study as the latter wished to say good-by to him alone. all +father’s room with the good-humored and victorious air natural to +father’s room, that huge room in which count bezúkhov had died. +father’s ridicule of the new men, and drew him on and listened to him +father’s nature showed itself in pierre. he felt the fascination and +father’s letter, he returned to the nursery. +“father,” she said, “do not turn away from me, let us weep +father’s friendship for you; but now i entreat you for god’s sake to +father’s face with an eager and respectful look. “how is your +father’s case. +father, muttered in a whisper: +“father kutúzov.” +father... it’s bad....” he reflected, but while he was thinking this +father in order to puzzle or test his sister. +father-in-law and now at princess mary. when they left the table she +father, he feels for you.” +father, count bezúkhov, and showed them her own box. princess hélène +father and son. this lasted about two minutes, which to pierre seemed an +“father! andrew!”—said the ungraceful, awkward princess with such +father and anna mikháylovna, that it had something to do with her +father and andrew. i shall be so happy when she is his wife. she is so +father?” +fat finger. + fate—(the fate of the army at ulm).” +fate. it is in your hands.” +fate, her father-in-law, and her husband. after crying she had fallen +fate and in spite of the pleasures and distractions around me i cannot +“faster!” came the word of command, and rostóv felt rook’s flanks +fastening his coat. when he had finished, he turned to bezúkhov, and +fastened to the cording of his uniform and, indicating a bandaged arm, +fast asleep with his head on his arm. +fast as her nimble little feet would carry her. borís did not laugh. +farther, probably along the line of the french camp. rostóv no longer +farther into the region where the army was already in action. +farther and farther he rode away, stopping at other regiments, till at +far. by intrigues, violence, exile, and executions, french society—i +“fancy, with his powerful mind, indulging in such nonsense!” +fancies. +famous order of the day to general bennigsen: +family, was the most gifted with a capacity to feel any shades of +family’s, and his friends’, and the enemy’s intention to kill him +family life continually rose in her imagination. she drove them away and +family consultation; is it not so, prince?” +family, but was kept all summer in moscow by his new duties. dólokhov +familiar voice, “what i say is that if it were possible to know +familiar voice. “one is afraid of the unknown, that’s what it is. +familiar to rostóv; the other on a beautiful chestnut horse (which +familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any +false. he was happy to be seeing him. he knew that he might and even +fallen, and an old trooper on the flank, a noncommissioned officer who +fallen!” +‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! but how do you do? i see i +faithfully as i can, without disquieting myself by examining my feelings +faire dans cette galère?” * occurred to him, and he began to laugh at +faint with fear lest the baby should be drowned in the font, and awaited +failed him. he was seized by panic and could not go where it was +failed. borís on the contrary at once found his footing, and related +faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable +fact of a great man executing a duc—or even an ordinary man who—is +fact. +facing the quartermaster who was reporting to him. on seeing rostóv, +face with prince andrew, who came out frowning and looking old. pierre +face, which had been so radiantly happy all that saint’s day, suddenly +face was animated, which, however, did not conceal its sunken and faded +face to prince andrew, smiled, and waved his hand. +faces, the wall of soldiers burdened with knapsacks and muskets marched +faces of the crew bustling round the guns, from the sight of the blood +face, shook his head, and going up to him silently kissed him on the +faces. (he distinctly saw an old french officer who, with gaitered +face looked worn—he too had evidently not slept all night. he glanced +face. “let him see whether i am a coward!” he thought. +face in the lace of her mother’s mantilla—not paying the least +face instantly changed and assumed an offensively affected, sugary +face; his eyes continually wandered from one object to another. +face changed into a winning and piteous look of fear. her beautiful eyes +face assumed the coarse, unpleasant expression peculiar to him. shaking +face assumed its melancholy expression), “he was mentioned at her +face assumed a forced unnatural expression as soon as she looked in a +face as if driving off a troublesome fly. “and why are you stopping +face, and prince andrew saw that hippolyte, of whom—he had to +face and just nodded to him with his long head. but after it was +face, and again at the arm, and on his face a feeble, piteous smile +face, already growing old, though he was dressed like a most fashionable +face. +eyes. what she found hardest to bear was to know that on such occasions +eyes, went with unusually hurried steps down the long corridor leading +eyes to complete the show of prisoners, could not fail to attract his +eyes. the sick man was turned on to his side with his face to the wall. +eyes. then having satisfied himself that all eyes were fixed on him, +eyes. the englishman looked on sideways, pursing up his lips. the man +eyes still shifted from side to side but with a downward look not rising +eyes, rostóv re-entered that world of home and childhood which had no +eyes rolling as he sang, with his small, husky, but true voice, some +eyes off him. his brother and sisters struggled for the places nearest +eye socket. “yes, he has a right to speak so calmly of those men’s +eyes lit up so that her face was entirely transformed. then she suddenly +eyes kept closing, and in his fancy appeared—now the emperor, now +eyes. his shriveled old hands were folded and on the finger of one of +eyes he was every day more and more connected with her, that it was +eyes. he really was in love with the tsar and the glory of the russian +eyes had uttered french phrases between his teeth. every muscle of his +eyes grew moist. “hurrah!” cried the three hundred voices again, +eyes grew dim. by the expression of her father’s face, not sad, not +eyes full of tears and of thoughts, gazing shiningly and imploringly at +“eyes front!” then, like the crowing of cocks at sunrise, this was +eyes fixed on the dark face of a large icon of the saviour lit by a +eyes. “but i’ll go to bezúkhov’s myself. pierre has arrived, and +eyes attracted him irresistibly. +eyes at her sister-in-law. +eyes and saw close before him the head and ears of the horse he was +eyes and indicating hélène with a sorrowful gesture. “ah, she is +eyes and ears intent on the colonel. +eyes. +eyes. +eyes. +eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of god, are +eyebrows which, when he frowned, sometimes hid the gleam of his shrewd, +extricated himself from an awkward situation and placed another in it, +extrémités de l’univers, nous allons lui faire éprouver le même +extraordinary may happen to one that honor and dishonor will be all the +extraordinary intelligence, the more so as in the depth of his heart it +extinguished and some spirit lighted, as pierre knew by the smell, and +externally was all in order, but had it pleased the commander in chief +extends along kobelnitz and sokolnitz behind the ponds that are there, +expression which was never to be seen on it in a drawing room. his eyes +expression. véra was good-looking, not at all stupid, quick at +expression, though many of them knew that what he was saying was a lie +expression the sculptor had happened to give the angel’s face, prince +expression—the same man who had rushed out of the wattle shed. at that +expressions with the choicest french phrases—which was a peculiarity +expression she did not understand, and lay down again. he was suffering +expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose. +expression on his face changed in a way evidently deliberate and +expression of profound and sincere devotion and respect mingled with +expression of her father’s. his face wore that expression when his +expression, looked observantly and sympathetically at the father and +expression. it was the heavy tread of princess mary that he heard. +expression, evidently habitual to him when conversing with women. +expression. “c’est... c’est du mack. nous sommes mackés (it is... +expression and went out again without saying a word. she looked at +expressing disapproval and dislike of kutúzov. +expressing... as in its last note... you understand... besides, unless +express his opinion as he had hoped to, left on him a vague and uneasy +expresses his opinion to kutúzov, to weyrother, and to the emperors. +expressed the concentrated and happy resolution you see on the face of +expressed impetuosity and enthusiasm. nicholas blushed when he entered +expressed his opinion more openly. he shrugged his shoulders when pierre +expressed disapproval of dólokhov’s living at their house, and how +exposing himself to the first blows of the enemy, for there must be no +expose to a bullet, and then you congratulate us on the victory! admit +exposed! if i were asked what i desire most on earth, it would be to be +exposed. another emissary rode to the russian line to announce the peace +exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as +exposed—and she seemed to bring the glamour of a ballroom with her as +explanation with nicholas, sónya twirled about before she left home +explanations, however clear they might be. whether it was the +explaining that dólokhov was betting with stevens, an english naval +explained prince andrew. “the others, one’s neighbors, le prochain, +explained how to rivet the hoof and went away to his own quarters. +experiencing a new and peculiar pleasure. sónya, muttering to herself, +experience that feeling during those memorable days preceding the battle +experienced a variety of most complex sensations. he felt afraid of what +expeditions to olmütz to visit a certain caroline the hungarian, +expedition.... but what’s the southern army to do? prussia is +expecting two very interesting men tonight, le vicomte de mortemart, who +expecting to hear something very profound. at last he came up to morio. +expecting the summons to zakúska, * avoid engaging in any long +expecting that he would have a chance to give a reliable account, which +expecting anything from yourself in the future, you will feel at every +expecting a crisis.” +expect he has forgotten me. he paid me attentions in those days,” said +expected to be at once presented to the emperor. at the chief entrance +expected this. +expectations of those who knew her. the subdued smile which, though it +existence of such an incomprehensible being, a being all-powerful, +executing of the plan. +executed him—also for some reason. what is bad? what is good? what +excuses now! it’s your turn to sing the ba’cawolla—i entweat +excuse me, vicomte—i must tell it in russian or the point will be +“excuse me, general,” interrupted kutúzov, also turning to prince +excuse his costume. +exclamation he was asking the adjutant to wait, and he went on with the +exclaimed in excellent french. +exclaimed, and immediately seizing him by the shoulder and looking +excitement, rushed toward the drawing room door, probably in order to +excitement, around chin and mouth. the quartermaster frowned, looking +excitement and to being unaccustomed to speak of abstract matters in +excitement. +excitement. +excitedly animated and healthy men.” so thinks, or at any rate +excited and irritated by these thoughts prince andrew went toward his +except veneration could such a man as my father evoke? and i am so +except to pierre and hélène, whose presence he seemed not to notice. +exception made, and borís transferred into the regiment of semënov +except in the army; i am not a diplomat or a government clerk.—i +except a few scattered skirmishers. an empty space of some seven hundred +excellent dinners for the officers at every halting place. the regiments +excellency’s participation in the common action is highly valued by +excellency. shall i go with some of my hussars to see?” replied +excellency prince vasíli kurágin and his son, i understand?” she +excellency?... nobody knows.” +excellency... i had no men... your excellency.” +excellency!” +exceedingly lofty, the members of the household and the footmen—one +exceeded twenty thousand rubles. dólokhov was no longer listening to +exasperated with one another and, long after the action had begun on +exasperated whisper, evidently meaning to wound his sister. +exalted personages passing in the streets in their elegant carriages +exaggeration quite contrary to christian simplicity. let us rather read +exaggerated grasseyement, “the prince has been scolding michael +“exactly, not a hair’s breadth farther,” answered prince vasíli, +exactitude, what minuteness, what knowledge of the locality, what +exactitude. he always came to table under precisely the same conditions, +exacting, so that without being a hardhearted man he inspired such fear +evil. le prochain—your kiev peasants to whom you want to do good.” +evil can there be in it if unfortunate people, our serfs, people like +evident that the cadet was liberal with his tips and that it paid to +evident that he not only knew everyone in the drawing room, but had +evidently wishing to give her words a very definite meaning. “i +evidently wished to draw him on. +evidently weakened, was undertaking nothing. +evidently those in front had halted. all remained where they were in the +evidently the prince understood her, and also understood, as he had done +evidently rigged up by soldiers out of any available materials and +evidently not because he was shaven but because they had never grown. +evidently listening to herself with pleasure, and speaking with +evidently in the village itself and behind the hill. to the left from +evidently in a fit of rage, his coal-black eyes with their bloodshot +evidently glad of a chance to say quicker in words what he wanted to +evidently forced. not only the guests but even the footmen waiting at +evidently expecting him to bow or to step out of his way. prince andrew +evidently did not realize what they were doing. +evidently did not expect. +evidently also felt depressed and constrained with his visitor, “i am +evident he had reflected on this subject more than once, and he spoke +evident duty.” she paused. all were silent, expectant of what was to +evidence of the advantages of attacking that what had been discussed +every word and movement was described with ecstasy. +everywhere. he might easily become aide-de-camp to the emperor. you know +every time a ball flew past. rostóv on the left flank, mounted on his +everything within and around him seemed confused, senseless, and +everything was becoming more and more happy and animated. “oh, how i +everything that took place and was reported to him was exactly what he +“everything’s the same with them. they know nothing about it! where +“everything’s still the same with them,” thought nicholas, +everything seemed so futile and insignificant in comparison with the +everything!” said nicholas. “and i will prove it to you.” +everything over with, and i happen to be there, i’ll go at once, to +everything, only i have nothing....” +everything may be over for me! all these memories will be no more, none +everything is calculated, and i don’t like that. but denísov...” +everything. i often wonder at you, annette—how at your age you +everything in perfect order, only one little thing is lacking, namely, +everything!” (he put one arm around pierre and the other around his +everything from the table napkins to the silver, china, and glass bore +everything from society and giving nothing in return. you have become +everything before you, everything. and you....” +everything became clear, and in all corners of moscow the same things +everything and everybody at last and had spoken such pathetic words to +every ten seconds a cannon ball flew compressing the air around, or +everyone waited, so emphatically and eagerly did he demand their +everyone’s situation. tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner. * think +everyone, including anna pávlovna, felt this. +everyone he could stop, but got no answer from anyone. +“everyone has his achilles’ heel,” continued prince andrew. +everyone ducked. it flopped into something moist, and the general fell +everyone again looked toward the door, which creaked as the second +everyone adopted toward him the tone of men who know something others do +everyone. +everyone! +every muscle of telyánin’s pale, terrified face began to quiver, his +every day he said to himself one and the same thing: “it is time i +everybody! not forgetting anyone. i always said when he was only so +everybody laughed, and hippolyte louder than anyone. he was evidently +everybody laughed a great deal. at the head of the table, where the +“everybody is wondering to whom the count will leave his fortune, +everybody, for another ten years. it would be far easier and simpler for +every advantage. what receptions we had in poland! what dinners and +ever was borís resolved to serve in future not according to the written +ever since he had overtaken the regiment in poland, had lived with the +ever because anatole’s presence had vividly recalled to her the time +even wish to know of his existence but would now have been offended +even try to do so. all were watching the count and márya dmítrievna. +event must be allowed to disturb the appointed order of the day. prince +event. in the english club, where all who were distinguished, important, +even their faces, more and more distinctly. they were our horse guards, +even pushed aside, he began wrapping it round the princess. either from +even people who had formerly been spiteful toward him and evidently +even more so. i like being alone.... father likes her very much. she and +even more merrily than on the previous night. denísov celebrated his +even more beautiful than it had been three days before at the review. it +evenly, and then raised his head. he had an intellectual and distinctive +even know if it would be a good thing (he even felt, he knew not why, +even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise +even in his way; but all at once he felt that this would not do, and +evening when the rewards bestowed by the emperor were mentioned. +evening was this: +evening to get in) “i only wished to say that we are wrong to fight +evening. there was room enough in the wide corridor for the generals to +evening passed, night came, and the feeling of suspense and softening of +evening light and the blue tunics advancing from the other side with +evening in advance of him, and he and his son arrived next day. +evening. +“even if it were a great deal of trouble...” answered prince andrew, +even every footstep in that house since the terrible news had come, so +even denísov was nothing compared to dólokhov—“you must understand +even by a ball dress. + * “europe will never be our sincere ally.” +eternity.” and again he twisted the screw with the stripped thread, +eternal, and infinite in all his attributes?...” +estrangement, and ridicule with which troops of different arms usually +estime que je professe pour the orthodox russian army, j’avoue que +estates in the south and there attending to the welfare of his serfs. +estates. his new brethren gave him letters to the kiev and odessa masons +estate near moscow, and to receive many people who formerly did not +established intimacy with the french marshals, and so dazzled by the +essential to speak the whole truth. +essential, and after a short interval followed her. anna mikháylovna +essen corps arrived and prussia took our side. +especially the youngest, the pretty one with the mole, who often made +especially appealed to pierre. the important mystery mentioned by the +especially after having dined, bolkónski felt that he could not take in +escorted him to the door, repeating something to him several times in +escape it anyhow.” +escape it all, and felt that dólokhov knew that he could save him from +escape, and bagratión’s four thousand men merrily lighted campfires, +escapade made everybody feel confused. denísov blushed too, but smiled +err, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.” +erect on his handsome black horse, looking about him in a leisurely and +erect, almost on tiptoe, with a soldier’s obsequious expression on his +equip him.” +equals, while his eyes occasionally sought out his fine well-set-up +equality. have people since the revolution become happier? on the +epaulettes had been packing with his valet in the rooms assigned to him. +envious and natásha could not help joining in. +enveloped in those beams, he heard his voice, that kindly, calm, +entrusted to his care and whom he intended to benefit. +entrusted to him, was pedantic in the fulfillment of his duties, severe +entrenchment. they had to hold their noses and put their horses to a +entrenchments looked out just as menacingly, and the unlimbered cannon +entrenchments being thrown up, the freshly dug clay of which showed up +entreaties. soon after anna pávlovna’s reception anna mikháylovna +entrance to the dam raised his hand and opened his mouth to address +entrance. the prince was working at the lathe and after glancing round +entrance, after scrutinizing the mother and son (who without asking to +entice him to marry my daughter and lend me the forty thousand rubles +enthusiasm—was only the loss of the battle of austerlitz, the +enthusiasms, dreams, and hopes of happiness or goodness, in prince +enter the drawing room? even if i like him i can’t now be myself with +enter that room. +entertainment at the gypsies’, with the result that he had no +entertaining supposition. +entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and +entering the house, prince andrew saw nesvítski and another adjutant +entering the house occupied by kutúzov, asked for bolkónski. prince +entered the room. prince vasíli approached first, and she kissed the +entered the room. +entered the room. +entered the room. +entered their heads that it could have been otherwise at this meeting. +entered the drawing room elegantly dressed in the uniform of an +entered, the bronze handle of one of the doors turned and prince vasíli +entered his father’s dressing room (not with the contemptuous look and +entered, as if to say: “yes, that’s how i want you to look.” +entered. +“enough! what nonsense! above all, try to be respectful and cautious +enough to see a long way in the deserted street and it seemed more like +enough, at the end of the feast proposed the emperor’s health. “not +enormous whole. +enormous table would say: “well, dmítri, you’ll see that things are +enlighten their minds, by means handed on to us by tradition from those +enlightenment?” +enjoyment by sympathy with anyone’s sorrow,” she felt, and she said +enjoyed narrating all this, and did not seem to suspect that others, +enjoyable. that year two marriages had come of these balls. the two +engrossed by it, yet his strut seemed to indicate that, besides military +“england is done for,” said he, scowling and pointing his finger +engagement and his reception by the minister of war. +engaged; he was shouting “hurrah!” +energetically than anyone, led the guests into the drawing room, and +energetic a character. he is so accustomed to unlimited power that he is +enemy under the emperor’s command. commanded by the emperor himself +enemy three times as strong, who would hem him in from two sides. +enemy’s horse patrols could be discerned. +enemy, do not avenge thyself except by doing him good. thus fulfilling +enemy?” +enemies, he tried to continue reading. but feeling this to be senseless +endure this man who is a menace to everything.” +end spurred his horse. +end of the meal. he winked at the butler, whispered directions to the +end of his gun...” a soldier whose greatcoat was well tucked up said +ending pierre’s unpleasant and unamiable outburst. after the anecdote +ended with a thud into something soft... f-f-flop! and a cossack, riding +“encouraging us to get along quicker,” said another uneasily. +encounter one another at the clean, smart hussars who moved past them in +encounter an enemy invisible ten paces off. but the columns advanced +en conjure...” + enchantress, say, to my forsaken lyre +encampment, and not within sight of the enemy before an action in +emptying his glass at one gulp he dashed it to the floor. many followed +empty and that the nurse had been hiding the dead baby. he drew the +emptied them, rolling the vodka in their mouths, and walked away from +empress’ field,” said he clearly and distinctly. +empress’ field, not understanding the significance of the firing, nor +employed by lively chatty people, and consisting in the assumption +emphatically. +emperor was pale, his cheeks sunken and his eyes hollow, but the charm, +emperor,” thought rostóv. +emperor. the emperor francis, a rosy, long faced young man, sat very +emperors. upon them the undivided, tensely passionate attention of that +emperor’s eyes met rostóv’s and rested on them for not more than +emperor’s arrival, lay several killed and wounded soldiers whom there +emperor,” said rostóv, and was about to spur his horse. +emperor not everyone could understand, and with his whole soul he shared +emperor napoleon if we take this bridge, so let us three go and take +emperor napoleon burns with impatience to make prince auersperg’s +emperor himself rode round his bivouacs. the soldiers, on seeing him, +emperor had only just fallen asleep and so savary had to wait. at midday +emperor francis would have been fulfilled long ago. i should long +emperor francis continued to look about him and did not listen. +emperor at once rode up to him, offered his services, and assisted him +emperor and the whole army, especially while the smoke hung over +emperor alexander’s visit to potsdam, and of how the two august +emperor alexander hurriedly to kutúzov, glancing courteously at the +emperor, about the remarks he had heard at court concerning the krems +emitting a smoke ring. +embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on +embracing prince vasíli. +embracing denísov. “nicholas wrote us... natásha, véra, look! here +embraced him and lifting his spectacles kissed his friend on the cheek +embittered look clouded her once handsome face, but only for a moment; +embarrassment looked pierre straight in the face. +embarrassing situation, and the expression on his face was invariably +embarrassing attentions. on the face of the wag zherkóv there suddenly +embarrassed voice, though it sounded severe to denísov—“but my +embarrassed him. he was like a man entirely absorbed in some occupation. +else the tsar did. +else, runs upstairs and does up her hair and wags her tail and is unlike +else,” replied anna pávlovna. +else, my dear boy, let me tell you it’s quite likely you’ll have to +else. +else. +elegantly. bilíbin’s services were valued not only for what he wrote, +eldest who was reading—the one who had met anna mikháylovna. the +eldest princess, who were sitting under the portrait of catherine the +elders which seems to say to the older generation, “we are prepared to +elders. +elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief. +elder daughter, countess véra, with a smile. +elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders +elbows, as if to say: “you can tell me your views later, but now be so +elated. he had noticed a solitary tree ahead of him. this tree had been +ekonómov. +either the place they were leaving or that to which they were going. +either,” he thought. “yes, i did not know anything, anything at all +either,” he thought to himself, “i have done nothing wrong. have i +either. don’t i know that at the rate we are living our means won’t +eighty thousand allied troops rose from their bivouacs to the hum of +eh?... what then?... eh?” +“eh? what?” asked prince andrew. +“eh, is she pretty?” he asked with a wink. +“eh, is anything hurting you?” asked the soldier, shaking his shirt +“eh, eh, friend! come here a bit,” said she, assuming a soft high +eh, dmítri! gallop off to our moscow estate,” he said to the factotum +“eh, brother! they’ve all bolted long ago!” said the soldier, +egged on against each other. +effrayée, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings. +effort to say this. “without a name and without means... and it +effort to move her shoulders or bend her arms when turning, or stamp +effort to look at the servant who stood constantly at the head of the +effort. the bottle was emptying perceptibly and rising still higher +efforts to seem calm. +effect on everyone, smiled and, evidently unmoved by what had been +effected the dangerous crossing of the straits of dover and captured + e’en fortunate napoleon +edge of the clearing. the seconds, measuring the paces, left tracks in +écossaise was ended, he clapped his hands to the musicians and shouted +ebook or online at www.gutenberg.org +easy to take marshals, sitting on a sofa by the fire! that is true, but +easy. and tell me, please—i’ve been meaning to ask—how is he +easy. +early in the year 1806 nicholas rostóv returned home on leave. denísov +eager questions from all sides. the whole moving mass began pressing +eagerness and briskness presented a marked contrast to the dissatisfied +eagerly and rather disdainfully, not resting on anything although his +each visitor performed the ceremony of greeting this old aunt whom not +each time with fresh pleasure and each time discovered in it fresh +each time he touched his forehead. his face wore a calm look of piety +each other’s arms warmly pressing their lips to whatever place they +each of those present, and the advantages that might accrue. he took +each occasion had been driven back by grapeshot from the four isolated +each face, appraising the possibilities of establishing intimacy with +each ascent or descent of the road the crowds were yet denser and the +dying of fright. i did, ‘pon my word, i got that frightened!” said +dying man wished to see, her own admission was assured. casting a rapid +dying man, but passed by him, joined the eldest princess, and moved +dying father. “it is painful, but it does one good. it uplifts the +duty. the emperor is gracious, and i shan’t forget you if you deserve +duties on you, and you must be a man.” +dust from the sleeve of his uniform, and going up to a mirror examined +during this transfer he felt a little stronger and was able to look +during the five years he had known her, and how her head had cracked +during the battle, and feeling reassured he dozed off.... the dark +during that stay in petersburg, borís became an intimate in the +during rostóv’s short stay in moscow, before rejoining the army, he +dull without you,” said she, giving him a tender smile. +dull eyes looked at him in silence. it seemed to prince andrew that the +dull expression. +duke’s orders the men had marched all the way in step (a practice on +duke constantine pávlovich, who commanded the guards. the rostóvs +due to her misfortune. when conversation turned on her husband hélène +duel prove? that you’re a fool, que vous êtes un sot, but everybody +duelist, who was living with anatole. pierre smiled, looking about him +duelist and rake, and every now and then he glanced ironically at +duel he did not go to his bedroom but, as he often did, remained in his +duc even the most partial ceased to regard him as a hero. if to some +dry hands clenched with vexation at her not understanding a sum in +drummer, their leader, turned round facing the singers, and flourishing +drubetskáya, who as a member of the household was also seated in the +drowsiness overpowered him, red rings danced before his eyes, and the +drove his huge spurs in violently, and the horse, flourishing its tail +drops and again went up to the cot. +dropping into his usual after-dinner nap, and laughed at everything. +dropping her voice. “my wretched lawsuit takes all i have and makes no +dropped it into a leather pouch attached to the lathe, and, approaching +drooping tail. +drooping as he broke into a gallop. +driving into the court of count bezúkhov’s house. as the wheels +drive up, went to meet him. +drive the princess away by that scream... “killed!” +driver’s leg. their spirits once roused were, however, not diminished, +driven their two-horse carts loaded with wheat and had returned dusty +drink shop or fall ill. just as i could not stand his terrible physical +drink?” +dried and warmed themselves, cooked their porridge for the first time +drew in his legs and sat up, seeking a firm center of gravity. he sucked +drew his saber, and with a happy and resolute countenance, opening +drew her chair nearer to that of the countess. +drew anatole, whom she hardly knew, into these amusing recollections of +dress with her little hand, now arranging the scarf and looking at her +dress under her, hiding her face with her slender fingers, and sobbing +dress, mademoiselle bourienne’s ribbon, princess mary’s unbecoming +dressing gown, spectacled and wigless, shouting in an angry voice. +dressing gown looked out. +dressing gown every day, he invariably became confused and begged her to +dress her would prolong their banter and insistence. she flushed, her +dress, have it fetched. really! you know the fate of your whole life may +dress, girdled with a broad ribbon just below the breast. +dressed. princess mary’s self-esteem was wounded by the fact that +dressed gay young men on splendid, well-groomed, fresh, only slightly +dressed for his attendance at court in full parade uniform, which he +dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, +dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending +dressed alike, in new pale-blue frocks, and were both fresh, rosy, and +dress as fresh and elegant as the other. prince andrew rose and politely +drawing room with her habitual skill. the large group, in which were +drawing room. the guests began to disperse, some without taking leave +drawing room, helped to receive and entertain the visitors. the young +drawing room, approaching now a silent, now a too-noisy group, and by a +drawing room. and, in fact, bilíbin’s witticisms were hawked about +drawing room. +drawing room. +drawing room. +drawing him down put her arm round his thin, scraggy neck. +draw breath. +drank much, and eagerly. but those who knew him intimately noticed that +dragoons. in the center, where túshin’s battery stood and from which +dragging it by the staff, ran on with the battalion. in front he saw our +dozens of soldiers, continually replaced by others, who ran from the +“do you want anything?” +“do you understand what you’re saying?” he said in a trembling +“do you think so?... really? truly?” she said, quickly smoothing her +“do you think he can last till morning?” asked the german, +“do you see?... my doll... mimi... you see...” was all natásha +“do you remember we had a talk about cards... ‘he’s a fool who +“do you remember me?” asked borís quietly with a pleasant smile. +“do you remember him?” natásha suddenly asked, after a moment’s +do you remain silent when heaven knows who permits herself to +“do you or do you not know where that will is?” insisted prince +“do you know, you are a terrible chap for all your innocent airs,” + *do you know the proverb? +“do you know, that fat pierre who sat opposite me is so funny!” said +“do you know?” said pierre, as if suddenly struck by a happy +“do you know, mon cher,” said bilíbin following him, “i have been +“do you know,” he said at last, evidently unable to check the sad +do you know he has fallen in love with sónya?” +“do you hear how he’s walking?” said tíkhon, drawing the +dowry and take mademoiselle bourienne into the bargain. she’ll be the +downy lip was open and she was smiling joyfully. prince andrew entered +downward. when pierre came up the count was gazing straight at him, but +downwards as was his habit. +down to her neck and shoulders while nicholas was speaking. +down the wax, the seal, and the paper, with his accustomed rapidity. +down the room for a long time, no longer piercing an imaginary foe with +down the hillsides, and clouds of cannon smoke rolling, spreading, +downstairs to his own room. a quarter of an hour later the old count +down on the sofa, facing her brother. “she is quite a child: such a +down on one of the tubs, picked it up. +down on her with outstretched hands shouted, “get out!” in such a +down. one bullet and then another whistled past him. he mustered his +down on a sofa near the silver samovar, as if all she was doing was a +down on a sofa in the next room. +down, lightly touched his daughter’s hair and sat down again. +down laws for austria at schönbrunn, il faut lui faire grâce de +down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before +downcast head; and he began to pace the room, glancing occasionally at +down below, but higher up at the village of schlappanitz where napoleon +down. anna mikháylovna indicated by her attitude her consciousness of +down, and smiled affectionately. +down!” +doubt of victory, especially on this day when what is at stake is the +doubt it now. rostóv rode in the direction pointed out to him, in which +doubt filled her soul. could the joy of love, of earthly love for a +doubt, and self-derision, which appeared on his face against his will, +doubled. to this prince andrew answered with a smile that he could +do to get here.” +do this for my son—and i shall always regard you as a benefactor,” +“do this for my sake, mon cher; after all, she had to put up with a +do they look at me?” then he lifted his head, stretched his neck as +do the right thing. +do the doctors say?” asked the princess after a pause, her worn face +“do stop joking, bilíbin,” cried bolkónski. + do, sire.” +“do promise, do promise, vasíli!” cried anna mikháylovna as he +doppelkümmel. the officers gladly gathered round him, some on their +door. while he was getting down from the carriage steps two men, who +door opened quickly and the stern figure of the old man in the white +door? oh, she is a pearl among women, princess,” he added, turning to +“do order them to form into battalion columns and go round the +door behind him and satisfied himself that there was nobody else in the +door, as though he had long expected him. +door and his expression of sleepy indifference suddenly changed to one +door, and added in a whisper so that her son should not hear, “wish me +“don’t you wecollect what bad use i made of your lessons?” +“don’t you want to? well, then, come here,” said she, and +don’t wish to let me go, i’ll stay. but i know i am no use anywhere +don’t understand. perhaps princess elizabeth and princess mary know. +don’t trouble yourself further.” +“don’t touch me,” said rostóv, drawing back. “if you need it, +“don’t touch him! you’ll startle him and then he’ll be killed. +“don’t tease! well, and what has been decided about novosíltsev’s +“don’t speak to me... i beg you,” muttered pierre hoarsely. +“don’t say that to me! i want nothing. i love you as a brother and +don’t remember borís. i don’t remember him a bit.” +don’t need it? now you shall judge between us. i always tell him: here +“don’t, natásha! what nonsense!” she said, hoping it was a joke. +“don’t mention it, general, as if i’d be so bold!” replied the +“don’t like bowwowing from my own fellows, i don’t,” growled +don’t know me. we have not met for such a long time... not since we +don’t know how to hide what i feel.” as he spoke he kept glancing +don’t know and never shall know, for the love of these men here,” he +“don’t kick up the dust, you infantry!” jested an hussar whose +“don’t joke; i mean to have a serious talk with you. do you know +don’t get promoted to a sublieutenancy.” +don’t forget to put out my new coat,” added rostóv, fingering his +don’t feel that weakness in myself as yet, i know a little person who +“don’t! don’t! what are you about?” whispered their frightened +“don’t come in,” she said to the old count who was following her. +don’t care a straw about anyone but those i love; but those i love, +“don’t, borís! you are such a diplomat that it is really +“don’t be unkind,” cried anna pávlovna from her end of the table +do not suppose me to be so bad. with my whole soul i wish to be what you +“do not let us lose any time...” +do not break your ranks on the plea of removing the wounded! let every +do next. anna mikháylovna with her eyes indicated a chair that stood +done up. +done to me?”—said her charming, pathetic, dead face. +done, the rhetor said: +done the job just as well.” +done shall be. now listen! give this letter to michael ilariónovich. * +done no harm to anyone; why must i suffer so? help me!” her look +done. have you chosen a post in which you might be of service to your +done for him! i hope that here in moscow no one will receive him, in +dominated everything else and soared above all their affected chatter. +domestic serfs were crowding in the hall, waiting to bid good-by to +dólokhov who was in the midst of the crowd forced his way to the edge +dólokhov, whom everyone in the house liked except natásha. she almost +dólokhov, who had no reason to preserve the honor of a man who was +dólokhov, who had already changed into a soldier’s gray greatcoat, +dólokhov was of medium height, with curly hair and light-blue eyes. he +dólokhov was holding the englishman’s hand and clearly and distinctly +dólokhov was a secret to no one but himself. pierre absolutely +dólokhov turned round and, again holding on with both hands, arranged +dólokhov, the bottle of rum still in his hand, jumped onto the window +dólokhov’s words into english. a thin young lad, an hussar of the +dólokhov. suddenly a cannon ball hissed so low above the crowd that +dólokhov stood frowning and did not speak. pierre jumped upon the +dólokhov still sat in the same position, only his head was thrown +dólokhov’s second, and after dinner he discussed the arrangements for +dólokhov’s reply. +dólokhov’s proposal and iogel’s ball, seemed to have grown thicker +dólokhov’s offer,” he said, articulating his friend’s name with +dólokhov smiled. “don’t trouble. if i want anything, i won’t +dólokhov slowly straightened his bent knee, looking straight with his +dólokhov, slamming down the pack of cards, put it aside and began +dólokhov’s home: on the third day he received a note from him: +dólokhov’s hands and thought, “now then, make haste and let me have +dólokhov’s hand. +dólokhov’s face. +dólokhov’s clear, cold glance met rostóv as soon as he entered the +dólokhov’s back in his white shirt, and his curly head, were lit +dólokhov pressed rostóv’s hand and burst into tears. +dólokhov, pierre saw clearly that what was said in the letter might be +dólokhov paused. +dólokhov or answering him. the footman, who was distributing leaflets +dólokhov often dined at the rostóvs’, never missed a performance at +dólokhov—now an officer—wounded in the arm, and on foot, with +“dólokhov, mary ivánovna’s son,” she said in a mysterious +dólokhov made no reply. +dólokhov looked round but did not say anything, nor did the mocking +dólokhov looked at pierre with clear, mirthful, cruel eyes, and that +dólokhov hurriedly interrupted. +dólokhov himself during his convalescence spoke to rostóv in a way no +dólokhov has been degraded to the ranks and bezúkhov’s son sent +dólokhov did not answer the captain; he had been drawn into a hot +dólokhov cut him short, as if to remind him that it was not for him to +dólokhov climbed carefully and slowly through the window and lowered +dólokhov began to deal seriously. oh, how rostóv detested at that +dólokhov, an officer of the semënov regiment, a notorious gambler and +dólokhov, and words of honor?... all nonsense! one might kill and rob +dólokhov and looked sorrowfully at him. denísov, rostóv, and +dólokhov. +dólokhov. +dolls and who was still having lessons. +dolgorúkov was still insisting that the french had retreated and had +dolgorúkov to the emperor. +dolgorúkov, the victor at wischau, was sent with savary to negotiate +dolgorúkov, one of the warmest advocates of an attack, had just +dolgorúkov, looking round at bilíbin with a smile. +dolgorúkov laughed merrily. +dolgorúkov; and though you may not know it, the fact is that now +do it.” +“do i remember nicholas?” +doing!” said the officer and rode off. +doing right. anna mikháylovna nodded approvingly. again pierre fell +doing a little—though i did very little and did it very badly? what +does she bother me?” and she added, turning to véra, “you’ll +doesn’t make a mess of things!” +doesn’t have intrigues nowadays? why, if he was so jealous, as i see +does not quite see it; more particularly as it is he and his corps who +does not produce the slightest stir—a blind man has left it. there are +does not even attempt to hide its artificiality) of a man who is +doctor with a bow and approached them silently and with a look of +doctor who had entered the hall after him (they had met at the last post +doctor’s wife, who was calling him her deliverer, and recalling with +doctor’s wife. +doctor and expecting another for whom they had sent to town, they had +“do come.” +do?” +“dmítri,” said rostóv to his valet on the box, “those lights are +dmítrievna’s deep voice suddenly inquired from the other end of the +dmítrievna produced no less impression by slight exertions—the least +dmítrievna. +dmítri, and several acquaintances, and the countess reread the letter +dmítri, a man of good family who had been brought up in the count’s +divine saviour has left for our guidance here below. let us try to +disturbed. +distrust in bolkónski’s emphatic opinion yet not feeling able fully +distressed that his stout and clumsy body took up so much room and doing +distressed, and breathed painfully, but could not restrain the wild +distraught yet angry expression on the faces of these two men, who +distorted out of all likeness to his former self, and the flourishing of +distinguished him from everyone else in that drawing room. +distinguished dignitary and a swiss who had formerly been tutor at the +distinguished air which inspired respect. princess anna mikháylovna +distinguish a mounted man from one on foot. napoleon, in the blue cloak +distinctness. +distinctly, but as often happens had not understood a word of what they +distinctions which may infringe equality. fly to a brother’s aid +distant, most intimate, memories rose in his imagination: he remembered +distance where no one had been before him. bagratión called to him from +distance that allowed every softly spoken word to be heard, followed +distance, but down the hill before him. “it’s the french!” +distance and puckering the skin above his left eye, “malgré la haute +dissipated life of his son anatole, the son whom they were planning to +dissatisfied with him, and also that at the emperor’s headquarters +dissatisfied, interrupted by another, an unfamiliar voice. from the +dissatisfaction and reproach. “old though he may be, he should not, he +disrespectful manner of the exhausted clerk, the fact that the clerk and +dispute with the french grenadier. they were naturally talking about the +dispute. +“dispositions for an attack on the enemy position behind kobelnitz and +dispositions...” +disposition of the forces, so as to know his bearings should he be sent +disposed to treat the young heir in the most friendly and flattering +displease you. however,” he added rising, “you know my name and +dispatch? you know everything.” +disorganized, i stopped in the road and thought: ‘i’ll let them +disordered. the french cannon did not reach there and the musketry fire +disorder and was retreating upon the kiev grenadiers. prince bagratión +dismounted. he gave the reins to a cossack, took off and handed over his +dismissed from here; therefore, you can stay and go with us wherever our +dismal influence of cannon balls flying from the french batteries +disheveled head from the hot pillow. +disgrace the whole regiment? disgrace the whole regiment because of one +disgrace such as that of ulm, or to utter destruction. but to forestall +discuss so minutely and acutely all the recent european military and +disconcerted. the sight of the discomposure of that old man of the world +discipline, if you allow a subordinate to address you like that!’ it +discipline and zeal in the service. he brought with him into our +disbelieved both the princess’ hints and the letter, but he feared +disastrous was about to happen. +disapprovingly, but in whispers and as a great secret. +disappeared he noticed that the eyes of all in the room turned to him +disagreeable tone to prince hippolyte who was blocking his path. +dirty feather bed on the top of the chest, crumpling her gauzy pink +“directly!” +direction toward the valley and disappearing one after another into +direction of the conflagration. as if urging each other on, the soldiers +directing the march rode backward and forward between the carts. their +directed to—pierre and hélène. prince vasíli mimicked the sobbing +direct descent and ascent to the brook separating us from schön +dip. prince andrew, being always near the commander in chief, closely +diplomats who are esteemed because they have certain negative qualities, +diplomats, evidently had its own interests which had nothing to do with +diplomatist fresh from berlin with the very latest details of the +diplomatist?” asked prince andrew after a momentary silence. +diplomatic discretion tormented him, and he was happy to have in prince +diplomatic career in comparison with pierre’s happiness. the old +din of shouting more incessant. soldiers floundering knee-deep in mud +dinner,” cried several voices. “we’ll take you in hand.” +dinner, but providing it and serving it all up, that’s not their +dinner at the rostóvs’?” +dinner and looked about, blinking and scowling, or, with fixed eyes and +dinner and at other times, when as if tired of everyday life he had felt +dinner all who came “to congratulate.” the countess wished to have +dinner. +dining room where his daughter-in-law, princess mary, and mademoiselle +dim, but definite and in the concise form in which he imagined himself +digested his sufferings alone. +difficulty out of the front door. +difficulty. +difficulty. +difficulty. +difficult to imagine happier people, and that god only knew what would +difficulties had told nicholas that this was all he could let him have +difficult for artillery and cavalry to retire. prince andrew took +different tones. rostóv reined in his horse, whose spirits had risen, +different one from that which he had ridden at the review, and bending +different from themselves and from everyone else, expected great things +different from that of its elders which is often insincere, nicholas +different companies did not get mixed. but our left—which consisted +different, and better, pierre than he had been in petersburg. +differed only in that one had a little mole on her lip which made her +“dieu sait quand reviendra.” hummed the prince out of tune and, with +“dieu sait quand reviendra. go to the dining room.” +“dieu! mon dieu!” muttered anna pávlovna in a terrified whisper. +“‘dieu me la donne, gare à qui la touche!’’ * they say he was +did you come here?” +did this and that, all would be well; and he did what was demanded of +did they not interest him, but he took no notice of them and at once +did that day. but no sooner had natásha finished her barcarolle than +didst thou, and why did the whole world, conceive the idea of the +did still harder work on their own land. he did not know that the priest +did she not show any trace of coquetry, but on the contrary she even +“didn’t i tell you,” she went on, turning reproachfully to +did novosíltsev get? none. the english have not understood and cannot +did not wish to confess. +did not wish to, believe that. +did not want or could not carry away with them. austrian column guides +did not wait to be called. the shapely figure of the fair-haired +did not suit her faded features, always played round her lips expressed, +did not see you.” +did not let it out of her hands. the tutors came, and the nurses, and +did not let him and, on the other, pierre himself feared to begin to +did not interest her—or by a silent look and smile which more palpably +did not, for instance, say to himself: “this man now has influence, i +did not even make him a curtsy. she fixed her eyes on him in amazement, +did not draw closer to sónya, but rather drifted away from her. she was +did not calm her excitement. suddenly her door opened softly and her old +did not, and do not, in the least care about that scoundrel of a clerk +did neither: a look of animosity appeared on his face and the other +did i come here?” he wondered. +did, especially toward evening when he had emptied his second bottle; he +dictated the dispositions in german, and now, much exhausted, he arrived +diamonds, she passed between the men who made way for her, not looking +devoured him with his eyes, drawing himself up obsequiously, and from +devotion to the sovereign, rostóv pictured to himself an enemy or a +devoid of any foundation. prince bagratión turned to the old colonel: +“devil take them!” he muttered, and after listening to the verbal +“devil take ‘em!” he muttered, while his head was still covered by +details of his disaster he understood that half the campaign was lost, +detail! no, my dear fellow, no conditions better than our present ones +detachment no one knew anything of the general position of affairs. they +detachment, moved from the place where it had spent the night, advancing +destruction of the prussian army at jena and auerstädt and the + destroyed, and you find that a cause for jesting!” +destiny of our adored monarch. he will save europe!” +despite the weakness of age, which had become particularly noticeable +despite the general’s presence were talking loudly and gesticulating. +“despite my great respect for old kutúzov,” he continued, “we +despite count bezúkhov’s enormous wealth, since he had come into an +desperation slammed the door with all her might. +desperate attack just to punish him—rostóv. then he imagined how, +despair, not knowing where to or why he was now riding. +despair at failing in a scripture examination, his borrowing money from +desirous of hiding her adoration for hélène and inclined rather +desire to show his friend as soon as possible that he was now a quite +desire to do good to his neighbor. +descriptive part of the letter. “and what a soul! not a word about +description. the old man began to sing, in the cracked voice of old age: +description of the last petersburg fete she addressed her brother: +descent lit up, and facing it a black knoll that seemed as steep as a +descending the valley. that moment of moral hesitation which decides +derision. “i ought to know the emperor by now, after the times i’ve +“dere has neffer been a gase,” a german doctor was saying to an +depth of his heart. in one place the peasants presented him with bread +depressing and unsolved problem. +depressed, “i shall be only too glad if you relieve me of that young +deprecating expression of a dog when it rapidly but feebly wags its +depraved woman,” he repeated, “but dared not admit it to myself. +depraved ideas of these days. i said so even at the time when everybody +depends on your decision. never mind me!” +departure hélène returned to petersburg, she was received by all her +denísov, with sparkling eyes and ruffled hair, sat at the clavichord +denísov with his voice and mustache, and telyánin and all that affair +denísov, who had settled down by the roadside with a flask and some +denísov were his worst enemy, firmly fixed his eyes directly on his +“denísov! we’re here! he’s asleep,” he added, leaning forward +denísov was shown to the room prepared for him, and the rostóvs all +denísov was looking at her with enraptured eyes. +denísov, to rostóv’s surprise, appeared in the drawing room with +denísov threw both pillows on the floor. the purse was not there. +denísov. “they keep dwagging the wegiment to and fwo all day. if they +denísov’s voice from the next room. +denísov’s short stature not noticeable and he looked the fine fellow +denísov’s new cloak and saddlecloth. +denísov smiled, took out of his sabretache a handkerchief that diffused +denísov’s horse, bedouin, was in debt all round, to his comrades and +denísov’s favorite barcarolle. natásha was preparing to sing. +denísov’s face puckered still more. +denísov screwed up his face and pointing over his shoulder with his +denísov sat gloomily biting his mustache and listening to the +denísov’s a fine fellow. but that’s all nonsense. the chief thing +denísov remained silent and did not move, but occasionally looked with +denísov raised his head, coughed, and made no answer. +denísov nice?” she asked. +“denísov, let him alone, i know who has taken it,” said rostóv, +denísov joined nesvítski. +denísov glanced at rostóv. +denísov gave no answer. +denísov galloped up to him. +denísov frowned and was about to shout some reply but stopped. +denísov first went to the barrier and announced: “as the +“denísov, don’t make fun of it!” cried rostóv. “it is such a +denísov, denísov! we’re almost there!” +denísov bent over her hand and she heard strange sounds she did not +denísov began to laugh. +denísov, and now moscow memories—and he again hurriedly opened his +denísov also came back and stayed with them. the first half of the +denísov?” +denísov. + * denísov. +“demosthenes, i know thee by the pebble thou secretest in thy golden +demand satisfaction of his regimental commander?” +demanded that he should submit. feeling himself in their power, he +demanded. +delivers its teaching not in words only but also by other means, which +(delivered by the french alone) was still to be heard from numerous +delight. so you still love me, my romantic julie? separation, of which +delight of frenzy. he flung down the slab, broke it, and swooping +delightful to see.” +“delightful!” said bolkónski. “but i have come to you, prince, +delicate dark down was just perceptible, was too short for her teeth, +deliberately spoken word. it was evident that kutúzov himself listened +deliberately so that everyone could hear: +delay and advised waiting for something else before advancing had been +dejection and hopelessness)—at any rate, pierre longed with his whole +definite idea of her, he turned away and addressed michael ivánovich. +defile through narrow village streets when we are marching against the +deferential young man who had entered. “bring me...” he reflected +defense of vienna was no longer to be thought of. instead of an +defense—as much as to say: ‘heaven is with us, but heaven help you +defending us—doing it very badly, i think, but still he is defending +defective commissariat, the treachery of the pole przebyszéwski and of +defection, ran at a trot, panting to catch up with his company. a cannon +defeat, there were many circumstances confirming the unfavorable rumors +defeated. a week after the gazette report of the battle of austerlitz +deep wrinkles would crease his cheeks. his small, deep-set eyes always +deeply. +deepest where the land lies lowest. +deeds, and while dying he expressed the love his actions had proved. +declined: i have my daughters to consider.” +declares in ze manifessto zat he cannot fiew wiz indifference ze danger +declared, was extraordinary and had achieved miracles of valor. the +declared that he will leave it to the french people themselves to choose +decide, my dear, good, gentle marie, whom i have always loved as a +decided to send the letters and money by the grand duke’s courier to +decided to play until that score reached forty-three thousand. he +decided that day, but that they also knew what she thought about it. she +decided now or never. she lowered her eyes so as not to see the gaze +decidedly lost bearings, you know that a letter was received from him +de châle, but at this last ball only the écossaise, the anglaise, and +decently here,” continued telyánin. “now then, let me have it.” +december, nothing was said about the war and the last battle, as +deceived you. let us go to mamma.” +deceitful german, whom he would not only kill with pleasure but whom +de beaucoup de mérite), a newly appointed maid of honor and her mother, +death,” thought bolkónski. +death’s head. the stranger sat without stirring, either resting or, as +death, is here above me and around... another instant and i shall never +dear. we will see how tarás distinguishes himself today. he says count +dear, there’s friendship for you,” he repeated. “he’s joining +dear sir—took on yourself responsibility for the guidance of a young +“dear princess, i beg and implore you, have some pity on him! je vous +“dear me! then what are you up to now?” +“dear me!” said rostóv. +“dear me!” said his father, who was in a specially good humor. “i +dear, merry child. i have grown so fond of her.” +“dear me, how you have changed!” +“dear me, can i have forgotten? no, i remember thinking that you kept +dear invalid?” said she, as though unaware of the cold offensive look +dear general, i am engaged with rice and cutlets, look after military +dear fellow!” and for some unknown reason tears suddenly filled his +“dearest,” said the little princess after breakfast on the morning +“dearest, i’m afraid this morning’s fruschtique *—as fóka the +‘dearest foe! flower of the austrian army, hero of the turkish wars! +“dearest... and me!” +“dear doctor,” said she, “this young man is the count’s son. is +“dear, dear! just look at her!” exclaimed the countess as she +“dear, dear! but still tell him to come to the club—it will all blow +“dear countess, what an age... she has been laid up, poor child ... +dear boy,” and he drew pierre’s arm downwards, “it is simply a +dear and precious friend, your letter of the 13th has given me great +dear and precious friend, how terrible and frightful a thing is +dead or wounded horses and harnessing fresh ones, and shouting in his +dead. all that he saw and heard seemed to confirm this terror. +day we are keeping. but mind you come to dinner or i shall be offended, +day was mapped out, the prince rested and the princess played the +day until then, but he could no longer do it. he could not, any more +days with her, asked her to sleep in her room, and often talked with her +days was still thin—moved. his gleaming eyes were fixed intently on +days’ march and the enemy’s outposts after a brief interchange +day,” said the visitor. “what a charming child,” she added, +days.” +day... natásha, what have i done to deserve it?...” +day in moscow. all denísov’s moscow friends gave him a farewell +day he is sensible, well educated, and good-natured, and the next he’s +day he had lost. he was happy as a lover when the longed-for moment of +day before, he wished to do what the young man wanted. having been sent +daughter were having one not less important. natásha came running to +daughter. she lowered her head and was ready to burst into tears. +daughter’s happiness. +daughter’s face that it was only mischief, she shook a finger at her +daughter of prince vasíli, but visualized her whole body only veiled + * daughter of matthew. +daughter.)—“my dear boy... lëlya... i am very pleased.” (his +daughter is so young, and i thought that, as my son’s friend, you +daughter-in-law, “but she need not make a fool of herself, she’s +daughter got up to go and the two young men rose to let them pass. +daughter, entered the drawing room, their dresses rustling. +daughter, but for a minister! for me, there are no ministers!” +daughter, and while he laughed the expression on his face clearly said: +daughter and placing an arm on the back of the chair on which she sat, +daughter. +daughter!” +dashing young hussar! +darted in and stopped short in the middle of the room. it was evident +darted forward at every word or gesture of the commander in chief, +“darling denísov!” screamed natásha, beside herself with rapture, +dark... steady!” he cried to his fidgeting horse. +darkness. “why not?... it might easily happen,” thought rostóv, +darkness, was suddenly lit up by a new brightness, full of significance. +darkness, the man paused, then moved with cautious steps toward the +dark hairs were already showing on his upper lip, and his whole face +dark-haired man. this was the celebrated petersburg doctor, lorrain. +dark corner. and this someone was he—the devil—and he was also this +dark and the glow of two conflagrations was the more conspicuous. the +daren’t say so. it will be as i said at the beginning of the campaign, +dared to treat márya dmítrievna in this fashion. +dared complain, i who am deprived of all who are dear to me? ah, if +danube, marching on us, you, and your lines of communication.” +danube covered with pine forests, with a mystic background of green +dangers. during these wanderings, pierre noticed that he was spoken +dangerous. +danger. “i am convinced that we russians must die or conquer,” he +dancing master) gave for his pupils during the holidays. +dancers do, natásha, rising energetically from her heels to her toes, +dancer, but smiling as only happy girls of fifteen can smile. when +dancer, and one of the best matches in the city. +dance) began to sound, all the doorways of the ballroom were suddenly +damned fool!” cried denísov, not pronouncing his r’s. “such ill +d’affaires. +cynically dólokhov had praised his wife’s beauty to him and from that +cut!” +curving her arms, natásha held out her skirts as dancers do, ran back +curtain flapping and blew out the candle with its chill, snowy draft. +curtain aside and for some time his frightened, restless eyes could not +current of his thoughts, “that anatole is costing me forty thousand +curly head to her knees and made the whole room ring with her laughter. +curious to know what was going to happen and what would be revealed to +curious embarrassment among some of those present. sónya, dólokhov, +cup of vodka for the men from me,” he added so that the soldiers +cupboards, and little tables. the quilt of a high, white feather bed was +cunning smile, as if flattered at being made the subject of zherkóv’s +cry. prince andrew evidently felt ill at ease, but to the two women +cry or to laugh. prince andrew shrugged his shoulders and frowned, as +crying. sónya tried to lift her head to answer but could not, and +crying. +cry. “i need five hundred rubles, and have only one twenty-five-ruble +crush the contemptible detachment that stood before him. +crushed, but angry and working unnaturally, she saw that hanging over +crowd, they had got wedged in at the approach to the dam and, jammed in +crowd of soldiers. “it can’t be an attack, for they are not moving; +crowding around the dams and banks of the ponds near the village of +crowd had to wait. +crowded together close to his wheels and his horses. “what a fellow! +crowded round a pockmarked, broad-shouldered sergeant major who, tilting +cross the lech, we can cross the danube, throw ourselves on his line +cross it and ride over the black field up the hillside. to keep to the +crossing a road they descended a steep incline and saw several men +crossed the road, and began riding up the hill at a gallop toward the +crossed the ballroom, pointing to natásha. +crossed one on the other on her breast, and to him, too, her face seemed +crossed himself and kissed the icon. there was a look of tenderness, for +criticism and was about to reply, when the expected footsteps were heard +critical moment the courier who carried the news of our victory at +crimson float on the surface of that milky sea of mist. the whole french +criminal,” came into pierre’s head, “and from their point of +cried her eyes out,” she said, growing more and more lively. +cried at each shot: “fine! that’s good! look at it... grand!” the +“crew, to your guns!” commanded the officer. +cream.” +creaks or makes more noise than it should, and hastens to check the +creaking of her corset as she moved. he did not see her marble beauty +crackling of wood fires near and afar, merged into one tremulous rumble. +crack and there was a glimpse of something blue, of ribbons, black hair, +coyness and reserve of manner, she reminded one of a pretty, half-grown +cowshed nor rostóv back with his platoon from foraging for hay had any +“cover yourself!” even denísov cried to his adversary. +cover of the small box, and assumed his usual tranquil and impenetrable +covered with melting snow, the frost having begun to break up during the +covered this movement of the transport and of the whole army, had to +covered his eyes with his hand and pressed von toll’s hand. + * cousinhood is a dangerous neighborhood. +“cousinage—dangereux voisinage,” * she added. +courts only strengthened his desire to belong to that higher world. +courtierlike quickness and tact habitual to her, anna pávlovna +course.” perhaps he did not really think this when he met women—even +course of events in the forthcoming action in broad outline. he +courage, so he drew himself up and looked around him merrily; then it +courage. next he thought that his enemy would send the squadron on a +courage, my angel.” she kissed lise and was about to leave the room. +courage had it not been that just then they heard the rattle of musketry +“courage, courage, my friend! he has asked to see you. that is + courage conquest guarantees; +courage, but she looked straight into his handsome face as it came near +courage and endurance—acknowledged even by the enemy—with which the +courage. 6. generosity. 7. the love of death. +couple of words with him, pierre felt unable to disappoint him. +couple. in the intervals of the dance the count, breathing deeply, waved +count,” yet ashamed to call him “father.” +count, with playful ceremony somewhat in ballet style, offered his +count tolstóy, who had ridden out to the battlefield with others in +count’s visitors settled themselves, some in the two drawing rooms, +count’s services, his request would be granted?...” +count’s niece, entered with a cold, stern face. the length of her +“count...” said telyánin drawing nearer to him. +count,” said berg, lighting his pipe and emitting rings of smoke. +countryside—“see, our infantrymen have already got there. look there +countrymen. thanks for the fire—we’ll return it with interest,” +country do we get any rest? theatricals, hunting, and heaven knows what +“count rostóv asks you to come to dinner today,” said he, after a +“count rostóv.” +count rostopchín, valúev, and narýshkin. rostopchín was describing +count never be able to find out whether all measures had been taken for +count, money and all things necessary for the uniform and equipment +count markóv? count markóv was the only man who knew how to handle +count markóv, and prince vyázemski—did not show themselves at the +“count lichtenfels was here this morning,” bilíbin continued, +count is very fond of pierre, looked after his education, and wrote to +“count ilyá rostóv’s son?” asked dolgorúkov. +count ilyá rostóv separately, as the organizer of the banquet. at that +count ilyá rostóv, hurried and preoccupied, went about in his soft +count. he has, no doubt, forgotten it and will wish to destroy it. +countess with a gentle smile, looking at borís and went on, evidently +countess, who sat holding in one hand the snuffbox with its portrait and +countess” to have a rest, but remembering something else of +“countess...” said denísov, with downcast eyes and a guilty face. +countess rostóva, with her daughters and a large number of guests, was +countess rostóva’s carriage in which they were seated drove over the +“countess natásha,” answered denísov. +countess. “i have never seen a handsomer man.” +“countess, i have done w’ong,” denísov went on in an unsteady +countess’ house. +countess. her son’s growth toward manhood, at each of its stages, +countess had not yet come. but now steps were heard at the door, steps +countess’ gigantic footman in his bass voice, entering the drawing +“countess apráksina, poor thing, has lost her husband and she has +countess. +countermarches, things of which i understand nothing; and the day +counterattack. if they attack our center we, having the center battery +countenances became calm; soldiers and officers greeted him gaily, grew +countenance bonaparte, and to cause me, and us in general, annoyance and +countenance. +“count!... don’t ruin a young fellow... here is this wretched money, +“count! count!” shouted berg who ran up from the other side as eager +count coming out from the dining hall into the anteroom, and he added: +count bezúkhov’s distress some fifteen times. +count bezúkhov he did not let go his hold of the lad. he had the air of +count, and having kissed his wife’s hand he went back to his study. +count against him, he nevertheless on the day of his arrival went to +count. +councilor of state, and insisted on the young man accompanying him to +council, he remained in the room. +could reach, there were the rattle of wheels, the creaking of carts +could not think of it without tears, and did not know which had behaved +could not scream like that—came from the bedroom. prince andrew ran to +could not say with certainty whether the attack had been repulsed or his +could not reply. +could not remember what it was that people say. he looked at her face. +could not possibly be, and so did not deliver the order. +could not move it. he smashed a pane. +could not help seeing these people, took any notice of them. “it seems +could not break away from her, and that though it would be a terrible +could not bear her look but turned away with a sob. +could no longer be averted but was taking its course independently of +could hear the footstep of someone in thick felt boots, and a voice that +could hear. “i thank you all! god be praised!” and he rode past that +could have the effrontery to continue firing from four quite undefended +could have been devised. this combination of austrian precision with +could get more rewards by doing nothing on the staff, and had succeeded +could disclose it to me.” +could clearly distinguish their bandoliers, red epaulets, and even their +could be seen, and in three places to left and right the french troops +could be heard. it was there prince andrew thought the fight would +could be heard above the three hundred others. he nearly wept. “to the +could be felt, but the nearer prince andrew came to the french lines the +could be discerned. +coughing of the musicians were heard from the gallery. +coughed, swallowed, and said in french that she was very pleased to see +cough. +cost correct, or remedy, the mistake if he had made one, so that he, +“cossack!” she said threateningly. +cossack scouts were moving. suddenly on the road at the top of the high +cossacks and then the first and second squadrons of hussars and infantry +corridor to the cabinet where the minister of war was at work. the +correct, others that it was not, and explained the false rumor that had +correct. as soon as bonaparte (who was at schönbrunn, sixteen miles +correct. +corner of his card and, instead of the six thousand he had intended, +cords on his coat and took a card with that number and tried staking the +coquettish manner in which she spoke to other men, “the vicomte has +cooked before we reach our quarters.” +cook calls it—has disagreed with me.” +convoy officer, who said rapidly: “we must halt here: the emperor +convey....” +conversation with her, when anna pávlovna called him away on the +conversation—“i often think how unfairly sometimes the joys of life +conversation in french. +conversation, gave no reply. +conversation, evidently with no wish to take part in it. he answered the +conversation but think it necessary to move about and talk, in order +conversation began prince andrew was struck by the fact that the emperor +conversation, and though anna pávlovna felt sure he would say something +conversation always related entirely to himself; he would remain calm +conversation. +conversation. +conventional things with no definite meaning, especially if +conveniently to keep them under observation, brought them into the +convalescence. dólokhov lay ill at his mother’s who loved him +contrasted with his flattering words, “on the contrary, your +contrary. we wanted liberty, but buonaparte has destroyed it.” +contrary to bilíbin’s forecast the news he had brought was joyfully +contrary one must try to make one’s life as pleasant as possible. +continuous, varied, and orderly activity. the motion of the small foot +continue their flight? despite his desperate shouts that used to seem +continued, with that gay brotherly cordiality which goodhearted young +continued, “we owe today’s success chiefly to the action of that +continued to shout. +continued to explain how by exchanging into the guards he had already +continued the vicomte. “i pity the poor husband, that little officer +continued—remembering dólokhov’s conversation with kutúzov and his +continued prince vasíli, returning to his theme, apparently not +continued. “one would think that as an artillery officer you would set +continued his work. +continued. during this interval pierre noticed that prince vasíli +continually receiving many petitioners one after another. +continually he moved on. the soldiers squeezed themselves to make way +continually glanced at prince andrew; prince andrew rubbed his forehead +continually driving round or coming upon wounded men, was out of range +continually changing from french to russian. +continually, bringing visitors to the countess rostóva’s big house on +continually and rapidly touching her rosy nether lip when necessary + contents +contention. +contented and happy with him. i only wish you were all as happy as i +contemptuous smile, evidently prepared beforehand to meet all objections +contemptuous look that showed itself on his face. +contemplated between anatole and the little princess’ sister-in-law. +containing lessons in geometry written by himself and drew up a chair +consulting his sergeant major, zakharchénko, for whom he had great +consultations were detached from real affairs and did not link up with +consultations very valuable for the proprietor and troublesome to +constantly considered it a duty to assure pierre that he was greatly +constant composure and complacency and lack of all interests or desires, +consolation? what evil and error are there in it, if people were dying +consolation for our defeat by the memory of former victories; and the +consider yourself incapable and your life a spoiled life. you have +consider, prince andrew. two... frederick and suvórov; moreau!... +“consider my position, peter nikoláevich. were i in the cavalry i +consider it a sacred duty to fulfill that person’s wishes. do you wish +considered worthy to hear it had to come to the countess, for she +considered myself injured, and louis xvi was executed because they +considered it proper to show an interest in the general conversation by +considered it his duty to visit him and waited in the lofty antechamber +considered important. +considered him conceited, cold, and disagreeable. but among these people +considered him a criminal, and a year later they executed those who +considered an adept at french. +consider characteristic of the country—rumors of war are heard +considerable pause which made pierre feel uncomfortable. +conservatory to the place among the tubs where she had been hiding. +conservatory. there she paused and stood listening to the conversation +conservatory and pantry into the large marble dining hall, where tables +conservatories and the beauty of a flower that had just opened, and +conscious that another line of thought had sprung up, and while thinking +conscious of this unseen line, and the question whether they would cross +conscious of the warmth of her body, the scent of perfume, and the +consciousness that something great and mysterious was being accomplished +conscientiously studied the dispositions and the unfamiliar locality. he +conscience that god has implanted in our souls.” + conquest’s joyful thunder waken, +connections... well, then, you just...” +connected in his memory with prince andrew. +“connaissez-vous le proverbe:* ‘jerome, jerome, do not roam, but +conjecture, but the colonel did not once glance at rostóv, and looked +congratulations and greetings from acquaintances that met him on all +confusion what did or did not happen? +confusion and fear that showed itself on prince vasíli’s face. +confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken +confused when she saw prince andrew. he covered his face with his hands +confused him still more. he stood before bagratión with his lower +confused and ever-increasing crowds were running back to where five +confronted one another as before. +“confound you and your karl ivánich!” he took the glass with the +“confound him, he’s a fool!” said rostóv. +conform to them and follow them, and let us be persuaded that the less +conform. however painful it may be to me, should the almighty lay +confirmed in this conclusion by the fact that dólokhov left immediately +confirmed by pierre’s rupture with his wife, was the talk of society. +confidence the personality of the freemason inspired in him and his own +confidence,” said she, repeating the mistake of so many parents who +confidence, flatter him, become intimate with him, and finally make his +confidence, and love as i have for you. then i am young. mamma does +confession; he felt himself in the presence of one socially a complete +confession, communion was administered to the dying man, preparations +confess and ask for money he had no right to after giving his word of +condition! it’s very hard.” +condition, and immediately after that informed them that she had left +condition. +conclude our campaign and we can return to winter quarters, where fresh +concluded, conscious—as were others—after the words were uttered +concerning which no one could be at ease. it was the state of the +concerned with, or he wanted to give the russian special messenger that +concerned with a thought that always occupied her: “now you see if i +concentration on some one thought. +concentration of fighting at one point, and the hesitation of all the +concentrate. “there we shall encounter difficulties, and there,” +conceive a future life...” +conceit prevents your apologizing, and you wish to make the whole +comrades’ impression. every face, from denísov’s to that of the +comrade nesvítski, a tall staff officer, extremely stout, with a +comrade berg’s best wishes for success, rode to olmütz to see +composure, waiting for a display of the eccentricities his father had +composure, “now there’s this recruiting. my father is chief in +composed and printed in the hero’s honor. bagratión, on seeing the +comply. anna pávlovna arranged a group round him, inviting everyone to +completely altered. he was not rich, but would spend his last groat to +completed. +compared to the lofty, equitable, and kindly sky which he had seen and +company, your honor. i don’t know where... such bad luck!” +company, which alone had maintained its order in the wood and, having +company’s baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered, and hemmed in on +company commanders calculated and reckoned, and by morning the +company and overtook the next one. +companion, dólokhov had come straight to his house, and pierre had put +companies, crowds of whom set off to the neighboring villages, or +common sense and frank plainness of speech. márya dmítrievna was known +committed a reverse act of impoliteness. first he had left a lady before +commit murder he had restored it to the rightful king, i should have +commit crime, die, or perform deeds of highest heroism, and so he could +commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred miles. +commiseration on rostóv, who saw that túshin with his whole heart +commentaries), and resting on his elbow, began reading it in the middle. +commence the action, and wishing to avert responsibility from himself, +comme il faut, that’s a different matter; but the kurágins’ set of +comme cet individu dont vous avez fait un ami, mais pas pour vous, pas +command to the general next in seniority, count buxhöwden, having sent +command. “sergeants major!... how soon will he be here?” he asked +command of the third district, and my only way of avoiding active +command of the infantry went toward his horse with jerky steps, and +commanding both sides of the danube, so that should the enemy not +commander’s will, owing to the tact bagratión showed, his presence +commander started and bent forward, the hussar started and bent forward +commander’s back and mimicked his every movement. each time the +commanders are: herr general wimpfen, le comte de langeron, le prince de +commanders, and with a consciousness of being too late spreading through +commanders. and then that happy moment, that toulon for which he had +“commander of the third company wanted by the general!... commander to +commander of the regiment in the hollow and news that immense masses +commander in chief would otherwise be dissatisfied. on hearing this the +commander in chief’s suite. he was in a state of suppressed excitement +commander in chief’s regarding the regiment. behind kutúzov, at a +“commander in chief kutúzov?” said the newly arrived general +commander in chief here, and if all is lost it is for me to perish with +commander in chief. he interrupted him, talked rapidly and indistinctly, +commander in chief. bagratión knew that as the distance between the two +commander in chief and of his own luggage. very sinister reports of the +commander in chief. +commander, higher than and different from the others, prince andrew came +commander, but now that the commander in chief addressed him he drew +commander, awaiting the word of command. a second and a third cannon +commander among them! hm!...” +coming to us of their own accord,” incautiously remarked the little +coming out of kutúzov’s room into the waiting room with the papers in +coming from the study. the prince walked in quickly and jauntily as was +“coming, friend.” +coming for me to take me there.” +coming closer to pierre. “in token of generosity i ask you to give me +coming. and nicholas, who had vainly suffered all the dread that +coming action from dolgorúkov. he felt that kutúzov was upset +comfortably. +“come, what’s the matter, old fellow?” said nesvítski trying to +come, were all there at the appointed time. +come up to him. +come up. in that case the dragoons could successfully make a flank +“come, that’s right, count!” cried the staff captain, turning +comes from that! even then i felt it,” he thought. “i felt then that +“come over here, hélène, dear,” said anna pávlovna to the +“come on then,” cried pierre. “come on!... and we’ll take bruin +come on and will meet them with the fire of the whole battalion’—and +“come now! you with all your forces fall on the unfortunate mortier +“come now, what about your roi de prusse?” +“come now, just this one more little card!” +“come now, deal!” exclaimed rostóv. +“come nearer, come nearer, friend! i used to be the only one to tell +“come, my dear anna mikháylovna, let catiche do as she pleases. you +“come, let’s argue then,” said prince andrew, “you talk of +“come later.” and she went in, closing the door behind her. +“come, i will go with you. try to weep, nothing gives such relief as +come into the hall. prince hippolyte stood close to the pretty, pregnant +come in a moment. petrúshka!” he called to his valet: “come here, +“come if you need anything. one can at least be of use on the +come. he was alone now, except for a soldier who was sitting naked at +come... he told me himself... but still i should not cry,” and she +“come here, wostóv. let’s dwink to dwown our gwief!” shouted +“come here,” said rostóv, catching hold of telyánin’s arm and +“come, dear princess,” said mademoiselle bourienne, “just one more +“come along, our matvévna!” he said to himself. “matvévna” * +“come along!” +columns, with a high silk-curtained mahogany bedstead on one side and +columns, their bayonets glittering, were moving continuously in one +column, milorádovich’s, the one that was to take the place of +column marches... the third column marches...” and so on, read +column coming up to meet the Ápsherons. +column advanced into action. +colonel was called bogdánich) “shuts you up.” +colonel’s athletic back, his nape covered with light hair, and his red +colonel of hussars with the same order. after him the stout nesvítski +colonel of hussars who, growing more and more flushed, ate and drank so +colonel of forty to whom denísov had introduced him. +“colonel,” interrupted the officer of the suite, “you must be +“colonel,” he said, addressing rostóv’s enemy with an air of +collar and cap, went out for his usual walk. it had snowed the day +collapsed so that i don’t live at all—everything seems hateful to +coiffure, mademoiselle bourienne’s and anatole’s smiles, and the +code, but under this unwritten law. he felt now that merely by having +cock, but the elder members glanced severely at the wit, making him +coat, the traveler sat down on the sofa, leaned back his big head with +coats. +coat of arms on the table. he explained this to her with as much gravity +coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to +coachman’s, was teasing kutúzov’s old cook whom prince andrew knew, +clutched the crupper of his saddle and, spurring his horse, galloped to +club, but met in private houses in intimate circles, and the +clouds gliding slowly across it. “how quiet, peaceful, and solemn; not +cloudless, northern, summer night. pierre took an open cab intending +clouded his mother’s face, and he smiled slightly. +cloth, which contrasted with the others. “what have you been after? +cloths. +close, was gazing with astonishment at the angry face of the princess +close to her; the red patches on her face came and went, and it was +close to her, of his breath and the smell of him, and could think only +close to her, began to whisper something. +close that the expression of his face could be seen. and the excited, +closer together and a report spread that they were ordered to halt: +closer!” she whispered. +closed his eyes, silently let mack enter his room before him, and closed +close-cropped hair, spectacles, the light-colored breeches fashionable +close by, who heard him muttering. +clock. one wheel slowly moved, another was set in motion, and a third, +cloak looking timidly at me,” he thought. “and what does she +cloak, he asked whether they wanted the count or the princesses, and, +cloak and felt boots, he went to the little princess’ apartment. +clinking of spurs were heard at the door, and the young count, handsome, +climb out of the window. +clever with véra,” said the count. “well, what of that? she’s +clerk. “the kiev grenadiers, podolian...” +clenching his small hand and striking the table with it, “and what +clear upright figures; he emptied the glass of warm champagne that was +clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and +clearly worded the day before, namely, that the commander in chief +clear, insolent eyes in the general’s face. +clear. +clean shirt on the feather bed with its warmed and fragrant pillows, he +cleaned pairs with spurs had just been placed by the wall. the servants +clean, and in cloth covers carefully tied with tapes. +clavichord was. “it’s no use your going to the commander in chief. +clavichord and harp. julie by general request played first. after she +clavichord. +clattering. these men pressed close to the wall to let pierre and anna +clanking his spurs, whirled rapidly round, and, striking his left heel +cities wondered at her, laughed privately at her rudenesses, and told +circumstantially and with evident satisfaction. +circumstances i may be placed. but if you want to know the truth... if +circumstances, he nevertheless delivered the definite order that the +circumstances and persons he met. of these plans he had not merely one +christian...” +“christ be with you!” kutúzov repeated and went toward his +chose and placed cards, and watched those broad-boned agile hands in the +chorus.” +choose. i give you freedom. only remember that your life’s happiness +choked him, and leaning his elbows on the window sill he began to cry, +choice has fallen. i don’t know what you will think of it, but +child’s little chair while, frowning and with trembling hands, he +children. the german tutor was trying to remember all the dishes, wines, +children,” she said, in her loud, full-toned voice which drowned all +children are the bane of my life. it is the cross i have to bear. that +childlike way through his spectacles. +childlike smile which had not once appeared on his face since he left +childish bare shoulders which after her run heaved and shook her +child in a toyshop, did not know which way to look, afraid of missing +childhood; that same julie karágina who had been at the rostóvs’ +childhood and lived for years at a time. the guards had already left +childhood. +childhood. +child. “but no, it is impossible, i am too ugly,” she thought. +chief, your excellency?” said rostóv, with his hand to his cap. +chief steward wrote every year telling him of fires and bad harvests, +chief’s room. +chief’s and with the exception of prince bagratión, who declined to +chief, and our first foe, buxhöwden, is vanquished; we can now turn +chest to back than across the shoulders. he had on a brand-new uniform +chessmen with his delicate white fingers while awaiting berg’s move, +cheerful were the troops. the greatest disorder and depression had been +checked handkerchief) to illustrate the theory that all men are equals, +chattering voices had reached her from the corridor, went into princess +chasseurs.... they won’t let us pass, we are left behind and have lost +chasseurs must 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chapter i + chapter i + chapter i +channel. i think the expedition is quite feasible. if only villeneuve +changing unconsciously from russian to french as he went on—to explain +changing the expression of her eyes. “i am a woman, and you think we +changing his tone or attitude, “it must seem to you that everyone is +change in the expression of his fixed eyes, watched the regimental +changed!... where are the candles?... tea!...” +changed: her eyes became fixed, and then a shiver passed down her broad +chance of delay and flight when the longed-for moment comes and he is +chance, letting the seven be dealt to the right rather than to the left, +championship of the doctor’s wife in her queer trap might expose him +chair, wrapped in a powdering mantle, entrusting his head to tíkhon. +chair regardless of her governess’ remarks. after dinner, she rushed +chair, he drew up with a click of his spurs and bowed to her, natásha +chair and pacing up and down the room followed by tíkhon, who ran after +chair, and began deliberately with a smile: +“cette armée russe que l’or de l’angleterre a transportée des +certain. there’s lise, married to andrew—a better husband one would +certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything i +certainly should not, speak like that,” their glances seemed to say. +certainly is communicated very surely, and flows rapidly, imperceptibly, +“certainly he must be moved onto the bed; here it will be +“certainly; but about kutúzov, i don’t promise.” +ceremonious welcomes (which he knew pierre would not like), but for just +“cependant, mon cher,” he remarked, examining his nails from a +center, the reserves, and bagratión’s right flank had not yet moved, +center of the table, prince vasíli attracted everybody’s attention. +center, and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the +censured, should not be held to blame. +censure, but asked him not to be too hard on the poor old man. “what +celebrating awards they had received for the campaign, and made +cavalry was brought in, convoyed by a sótnya of cossacks. evidently the +cavalry in front, behind it the artillery, and behind that again the +cavalry and here he noticed a stir and signs of preparation for battle; +cautious movements of those who crowded round the invalid chair that +cause of the confusion, turned away with indifference, as if to say, +caught up the object of contention and ran into the bedroom. the eldest +catiche,” * muttered the prince, seating himself wearily on the chair +“catiche has had tea served in the small drawing room,” said prince +catherine’s day, count bezúkhov, and about his illegitimate son +catherine’s court, count bezúkhov. + *catherine. +cathedral, and its bridge, on both sides of which streamed jostling +catching the curtain of the cot. each made the other a warning gesture +catching and their sabers clattering. +“catch hold of my arm or you’ll drop him!” he heard one of the +catches it and obeying the impulse that wheel begins to creak and joins +casket for mamma’s name day and then going home. i was so happy, so +cases only one goes wrong, but it is her fancy and mine. they have been +casement. the cold wind flapped the ends of her kerchief and her loose +cart, shouting and scolding a soldier with coarse abuse. in each of +carts, guns, artillery, and again baggage wagons and vehicles of all +carry them out, so he takes a regiment, a division—stipulates that no +carry out the count’s wishes, seeing clearly that not only would the +carrying her burden so lightly. old men and dull dispirited young ones +carry him to the dressing station.” +“carrot ices.” +carried the whole length of the table. +carried the sovereign at reviews in russia bore him also here on the +carried the sick man dispersed. anna mikháylovna touched pierre’s +carried away by passion. oh, only my poor mother...” +carriage, moved forward and, not noticing the general, looked out +carriage, her husband was adjusting his saber; prince hippolyte, under +carriage?” he asked his mother with a smile. +carriage. “get in with me,” said he to bolkónski. +carriage at full speed about an hour before along that very road and +carriage, and the solitude of the road, all had a gladdening effect on +carriage and rode up to dólokhov. +care, this was a mere stranger. glancing, however, at borís, he saw +carelessly holding in his stallion that was neighing and pawing the +carefully wrote twenty-one. +carefully stretching his neck so as not to touch the quilt, followed her +cared about; anna pávlovna observed these greetings with mournful and +care about them in so far as they are harmful or useful. and most of +cards and supper were over, but the visitors had not yet dispersed. +card, putting a small stake on it, and beginning to play. +cardinal virtues in her gave her lessons in algebra and geometry +card game he was very fond of, was that of listener, especially when he +carabineers. +cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests +captured by the french because the enemy could not surmise that anyone +captain von toll chanced to ride to the same spot, and seeing the +captain up and down as he came up panting, slackening his pace as he +“captain túshin’s, your excellency!” shouted the red-haired, +captain, his nose growing redder as he gave a smile which showed where +“captain, for god’s sake! i’ve hurt my arm,” he said timidly. +captain and his drawn-in stomach, and mimicked his expression and pose +captain,” and he turned to a thin, dirty little artillery officer who +capitals, he still continued to live in the country, remarking that +“capital!” said prince hippolyte in english, and began slapping his +cap and smoothing his hair wet with perspiration with his plump hand, +capable of receiving it. +“can you imagine it?” and he began describing how the guards, having +can you fancy the figure he cut?...” +can without hurting others.” +can, with all the pleasures of life here. if we were in vienna it would +canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying +can’t understand. i was there all the time giving orders and had only +can’t get them from anyone else. he’s not there himself, so you’ll +can’t, do what you will! how can i go and apologize like a little boy +can’t be! only to get past them quicker, quicker!” +can’t be done. and besides, if she tells mamma” (sónya looked upon +can’t bear those old men! eh?” +can say all this there,” remarked dolgorúkov. +can rush off alone in a carriage to moscow, to petersburg, to those +“can one be well while suffering morally? can one be calm in times +cannot leave the estate to pierre. pierre is illegitimate.” +cannot know him. you do not know him and that is why you are unhappy.” +cannot, disappoint them. but how will it be? i do not know, but it +cannot attain the knowledge of which you speak.” +cannon, was a small, newly constructed wattle shed from which came the +cannon balls at the french with both hands. +cannon and the crowd were dragging it out. a cannon ball killed someone +cannon aimed at me?” +cannonade was dying down, but the rattle of musketry behind and on the +can it be possible?” she thought, not daring to look at his face, but +“can i see the count?” pierre again asked. +can i retain in some degree of purity the liquid i receive.” +“can he really be going away leaving me alone without having told me +candles were relit and he was told that he would see the full light; the +candlesticks like those used in churches. two of the brothers led pierre +can both fall on his flank and pursue him over the plain between +“can a sleigh pass?” he asked his overseer, a venerable man, +canal. and there was the bear swimming about with the policeman on his +campaign. the frenchman, confusing the austrians with the russians, was +campaign is over?” +came with the news that the prince could not attend. prince andrew came +came to these balls with an air of condescension and found them most +came to the conclusion that he would not find bald hills dull either. +came to his former chief with an order from the commander of the rear +came together and crowded in the large drawing room by the door of the +came thy conception of the existence of such an incomprehensible being? +came, the pretty, fair-haired frenchwoman, mademoiselle bourienne, +came over his face. he said nothing to her but looked at her forehead +came out—wearing a velvet coat with a single star on his breast, +came naturally to her, but was now very ill-suited to her careworn face. +came márya dmítrievna and the count, both with merry countenances. the +came in from his club, cheerful and contented. nicholas, hearing him +came in. +came galloping up on a cossack horse that could scarcely carry his +came and leaned on his elbows, facing her and beside mademoiselle +came a man wearing a strange shako and a blue cloak, swarthy, sunburned, +came a letter from kutúzov informing the prince of the fate that had +“calm yourself, princess! it seems so to you because.... i assure you +“calm yourself, my dear. i will go to my father,” she said, and went +calmer. +calm, and penetrating, a look i loved so well and seem to see before me +calls.’” +calling on the principal austrian dignitaries. between four and five +calling him in a whisper. +calling him a court weathercock and an old satyr. +call him but changed her mind. “let him look for me,” thought she. +called the colonel of the regiment and said a few words to him. +called him this morning?” +called him a great man,” remarked the vicomte. +called her nephew—and playing with him. +called everyone without exception and without the slightest variation +calèche stopped in front of the regiment. kutúzov and the austrian +calamity! what a calamity!” +cahd.” +cadet, supporting one hand with the other, came up to túshin and asked +by which the total exceeded the round sum of forty-three thousand; and +by which the prince was to enter. prince andrew was looking at a large +by “what was due from the ryazán estate” prince vasíli meant +by two considerations: his wife’s guilt, of which after his sleepless +by, tried to make a joke, saying that kutúzov had evidently failed to +by those troops that they were themselves in the front line and had +by this time they were all approaching túshin’s battery, and a ball +by the whole of the count’s plump figure, in márya dmítrievna found +“by the way, your excellency, i should inform you,” he +by the way, bagratión came out on the vienna-znaim road at hollabrünn +by the softness and flexibility of her small limbs, and by a certain +by the living mass of moving infantry, váska denísov, red and shaggy, +by their redness to contrast more than usual with his gray hair. at the +by the french who had crossed the vienna bridge, and encumbered by his +by the fire. one of them stumbled. +by the disorderly movement of the russian columns, and from all +by the dim light, to which pierre had already become accustomed, he +by the commander in chief. despite the un-russian appearance of the +by the clatter of knives and forks, the voices of visitors, and the +by the amusing scene she foresaw. she drew her wool down through the +by the ammunition wagon. +by someone’s order, the battery had continued firing and was only not +by six horses at a smart trot. behind the calèche galloped the suite +“by purifying and regenerating our members we try, thirdly, to improve +by leo tolstoy/tolstoi +by kutúzov was hurriedly retreating along the danube, stopping where +by its gray dress. “but no! why did this thought never occur to me +by his home circle as the best of sons, a hero, and their darling +by his age he should have belonged to the younger men, but by his wealth +by highfalutin words, and germans by logical arguments to show them +by her husband, mortemart, the delightful prince hippolyte who had +by finding husbands for me (most of whom i don’t even know), the +by evening, the adjutants had spread it to all ends and parts of the +by borís arrived at the palace to find dolgorúkov. everyone at +by bolkónski—an adjutant of kutúzov’s, who’s a friend of mine. +by a scarlet-liveried footman that morning, ran as follows: +by anna pávlovna, was about our diplomatic relations with austria and +by a feeling of desire while stooping over the snuffbox at anna +by a far more serious matter than a desire to show his contempt for +bwicks and it’s nasty work! an attack’s pleasant work! hacking +buxhöwden’s part and an epileptic fit on bennigsen’s. but at the +buxhöwden is commander in chief by seniority, but general bennigsen +“but you must decide on something! your father expects it.” +“but you meant to stay another two days?” +“but you know the wise maxim your excellency, advising one to expect +“but you know how it all ended, don’t you? you heard of the duel?” +“but you despise me. you who are so pure can never understand being so +but would probably never even inquire and would never know that the +but won’t you come to this other table?” repeated anna pávlovna. +“but with such ideas what motive have you for living? one would sit +but why, whither, and who they were, it was impossible to make out. +“but why talk of me?... talk to me, yes, tell me about your travels +“but why do you expect that he will leave us anything?” +but which possesses qualities resembling those of the symbol.” +“but where is sónya?” +“but where do you come from not to know what every coachman in the +but when katie brought the required dress, princess mary remained +but when he reached it he found it was a road. having come out onto + * “but what the devil was he doing in that galley?” +“but what is there to say about me?” said pierre, his face relaxing +“but what have they been up to?” asked the countess. +“but what do you mean by living only for yourself?” asked pierre, +but went on turning uselessly in the same place. +but unabashed. +button of his waistcoat. +but to help england and austria against the greatest man in the world is +but to go home alone, see his sisters, brother, mother, and father, +but those tears were pleasant to them both. +“but they say that war has been declared,” replied the visitor. +“but they heard him at the council of war and will hear him when he +“but the worst of it, gentlemen—i am giving kurágin away to +but the talk in every group was chiefly about the emperor alexander. his +but the staff officer did not finish what he wanted to say. a cannon +but the smile did not enhance véra’s beauty as smiles generally do; +but these words came like a piteous, despairing cry and an entreaty for +but the question “how?” that interested him. what the diplomatic +but the princess did not listen to him. +but the officer thrashed him because he had to get on as quickly as +but the guns remained loaded, the loopholes in blockhouses and +but the convoyman took no notice of the word “general” and shouted +“but the best of it was,” said one, telling of the misfortune of +“but that’s the grand duke, and i want the commander in chief or the +“but that’s just the same as myself—they are not others,” +“but that’s all rubbish,” natásha chattered on. “and is +“but that is my conviction, and judging by the last letter with which +“but tell me, what is he like, eh?” said prince andrew again. +“but still this does not mean that the campaign is over,” said +but shouldn’t we get the gypsy singers as well? you military men like +but she was too excited to eat anything and kept wriggling about on her +“but she’s stupid. i have myself said she is stupid,” he thought. +“but seriously,” said prince andrew, “we can at any rate say +but said, in a careless and even rude voice, that it happens to +but rostóv pulled away his arm and, with as much anger as though +but rostóv did not reply. +but remarked that besides these changes it would be necessary to go into +“but really, hadn’t i better go away?” he asked, looking kindly at +“but, prince,” said anna mikháylovna, “after such a solemn +but pierre thought it necessary to ask: “how is...” and hesitated, +but pierre continued his speech without heeding her. +but our stories are the stories of men who have been under the enemy’s +but on tuesday evening, having come to hélène’s splendid salon, +but on the left flank the columns of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, +but only changed character. the horses were replaced by others from a +but only a sort of puppet show at which the men of the day were playing, +“but one cannot delay, prince, at such a moment! consider that the + but oh! till then i cannot live!... +but now we are all going to ——’s.” +“but now i am off at once.” +“but nothing more would come of it. there will soon be a battalion of +but not concealing the fact that she would not be distressed if they +but neither anna mikháylovna nor the footman nor the coachman, who +“but, my poor catiche, it is as clear as daylight! he will then be the +“but, my dear sir,” said nesvítski as he drew up, taking off his +“but, my dear,” said prince vasíli suddenly, clutching the little +“but, my dear princess,” answered anna mikháylovna blandly but +“but, my dear monsieur pierre,” said she, “how do you explain the + * “but my dear fellow, with all my respect for the orthodox +but milorádovich was at that moment evidently thinking of anything +but managed meanwhile to look round repeatedly at his neighbor, the +but looked at him with a contemptuous smile, waiting for the valet to +but like a priest’s benediction, approached the general. though +butler, napkin on arm, was scanning the setting of the table, making +but joyous and eager crowd down the hill at their disordered foe. +“but joking apart,” said prince andrew, “do you really think the +“but i wish it,” he said. “i beg you—give it him!” +but it was too late. she was looking at them with an expression they +“but it must be brought to a head. the day after tomorrow will be +but it lifted all the more sweetly, and was especially charming when she +“but it isn’t?...” +but it is a beautiful voice that must be trained.” only they generally +“but it can’t be he, alone in the midst of this empty field!” +“but i remember putting it there.” +“but in what was i to blame?” he asked. “in marrying her without +“but in what position are we going to attack him? i have been at the +but in the center where the men with a flag of truce had passed that +but instead of the band a choir began singing a cantata composed by paul +but in his usual impulsive and hearty way he took borís by the hand +“but i just wish to say, to avoid misunderstandings, that you are +“but i have nothing here,” replied pierre, supposing that he was +but i have killed her, killed... she won’t get over it! she won’t +“but if you won’t accept money from me like a comrade, you will +but if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed +“but if the bridge is crossed it means that the army too is lost? it +“but if for any reason you don’t feel inclined to talk to me,” +“but i do not know, father!” +but i do not believe it. i have no right to, and can’t, believe it.” +but i am still so weak that i love my life, the meaning of which is only +“but how often i have felt proud of her, proud of her majestic beauty +“but how is it the doctor from moscow is not here yet?” said the +“but how are you to get that balance?” pierre was beginning. +but hopeless: “the sovereigns, madame... what have they done for louis +but his character...” said timókhin. +but his aim to consider, and he reached it. but tie yourself up with +but he went on naïvely looking around through his spectacles as if in +but he scowled at her angrily though also with suffering in his eyes, +“but he must be a freemason,” said he, referring to the abbé whom +but he immediately recalled his promise to prince andrew not to go +but he did not explain to himself what these new relations were. +but he could not make up his mind to take the final step. he felt +but haste was becoming imperative. cannon and musketry, mingling +but had on one of her best dresses. her hair was carefully done and her +but had never spoken to her of love. now he felt that it was inevitable, +but god will support you: you are young, and are now, i hope, in command +“but for god’s sake, be careful, you know how it may affect your +but extremely attractive. +but evidently the crisis was over and he was convalescent. prince andrew +but enough of gossip. i am at the end of my second sheet of paper, and +“but do you know, my dear, that was a capital joke,” said the count; +“but don’t hurt my little horse!” said the alsatian good-naturedly +but dólokhov did not go away; he untied the handkerchief around his +but borís spoke distinctly, clearly, and dryly, looking straight into +but borís noticed that he was preparing to make fun of berg, and +but borís... no!” (she shut her eyes.) “no! there’s nothing at +but borís again interrupted him. +“but between not recognizing him as emperor and calling him general +but before prince vasíli had finished his playful speech, pierre, +but before pierre could decide what answer he would send, the countess +but before he had finished speaking, prince andrew, feeling tears of +but before he had finished reading, a stentorian major-domo announced +“but a very kind man, prince,” said anna mikháylovna with a +but at the moment when he imagined himself calmed by such reflections, +but at the incredible boldness and smartness of this little girl who had +but at that moment the thought occurred to her that her fate would be +but at that instant a tall austrian general in a greatcoat, with the +but attacked and captured by a superior enemy force as a result of one +but at irregular intervals, and grapeshot cracked and rattled onto the +“but as you are a philosopher, be a consistent one, look at the other +but as sorrow was manifest in every smile, the sound of every word, and +but as she passed the sitting room she noticed two couples sitting, +“but as it is, i know every word she utters. she will come running to +but, as he had to say something, he began by asking her whether she was +but as a youth in love trembles, is unnerved, and dares not utter the +but a roll of volleys of musketry from the slopes of the hill before +but anna pávlovna—who was in the excited condition of a commander on +but anna mikháylovna went forward a step or two to keep her hold on the +but anna mikháylovna did not obey him. +but an hour.... tell me all you know about the will, and above all where +“but am i not too cold with him?” thought the princess. “i try +but although alpátych, frightened at his own temerity in avoiding the +but also for his skill in dealing and conversing with those in the +busy with similar peaceful affairs—near the shelter of the regimental +busy with his roast meat, hoped he had been forgotten: “didn’t +busy, and busy making his father comfortable, while evidently he, + * “busy already?” +bustlingly searching for something. +business!” +bursts of song and music and the inconsequent but friendly prattle of +burnt his boats, and i believe that we are ready to burn ours.” +burn, i could not know by the holy spirit!” +burden to him, and bóry’s life is only just beginning....” +“buonaparte was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. he has got +buonapartes. but i warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, +“buonaparte?” said bilíbin inquiringly, puckering up his forehead +“buonaparte himself!... just listen to the fool, what he doesn’t +bully,” thought pierre, “to kill a man means nothing to him. it must +bullets. they reached the front, several bullets sped over them, and +built lodge close to the pond. antón, a man who had looked after prince +built in order to have a nook of one’s own in which to be quiet. and +build prince andrew could endure physical fatigue far better than many +buildings—schools, hospitals, and asylums—on all the estates +bugler, showed one common expression of conflict, irritation, and +brunette with a tender look in her eyes which were veiled by long +brows he glanced into rostóv’s eyes. +brought into wischau from our outposts. this officer was savary. the +brought into the room had vanished; and as if answering a question no +brought his snuffbox to rest and, without looking at weyrother or at +brought from italy, representing an angel with outspread wings ready to +brought at once?” +brother who prepared a seeker for entrance into the brotherhood was +brothers more worthy than he would test him and that pierre had only to +brothers, and burned with impatience to set to work with them. +brother rhetor, and awaited his further commands. +brotherly love, wagged their heads in token of their mutual affection, +“brother-instructor” as he called the grand master. +brotherhood of man,” he kept saying to himself, associating these +brotherhood has made application for you to be received into our order +brother hippolyte told me about your goings on. oh!” and she shook her +brother a small, oval, antique, dark-faced icon of the saviour in a gold +brother, and that anna mikháylovna was preparing them for it. bold as +broke up two squares, your excellency.” +broken off, the porch, and the post by the side of the pavement. he +broken leg, that lay screaming piteously beside the harnessed horses. +broken glass remained in that position without taking his eyes from the +broad cheekbones, sunken cheeks, and listless tired expressions, and +briskly from corner to corner of the room, looking straight before him +bring me such tattered and dirty notes as last time, but nice clean ones +bring him to thee, could take him by the hand and show him to thee. but +bring himself to part from his daughter and give her to a husband. the + bring glory then to alexander’s reign +bright, sparkling blue eyes into his antagonist’s face. his mouth wore +bright. sónya ran away, but natásha, taking her brother’s arm, led +brightly upon the danube and the dark hills around it. it was calm, and +bright home, his fluffy fur coat, his quickly gliding sleigh, his +brighter and more energetic. he was slightly flushed after galloping two +brightening up. +bright and happy eyes at her sister-in-law. +bridge was at times veiled by a diaphanous curtain of slanting rain, and +bridge. sometimes through the monotonous waves of men, like a fleck of +bridge not knowing what to do. there was no one to hew down (as he +bridge nesvítski found the colonel to whom he had to deliver the order, +bridge is taken! but what is best of all,” he went on, his excitement + * bridgehead. +bridge did not take his eyes off the women till they had passed. when +bridge, cross it, and now with their whole army are on this side of the +bridge. but this time nesvítski could not see what was happening there, +bridge because he had not brought any burning straw with him like the +brick buildings, built to plan, were being built by serfs whose manorial +breeches and arm. +breathing, her movements, her beauty. then it would suddenly seem to him +breath and beating heart he moved toward the rhetor (by which name the +breast with the other hand and to repeat after someone who read aloud +brave officer,” thought bagratión. prince andrew, without replying, +brave?” +braunau had halted half a mile from the town, waiting to be inspected +brandishing the slab. +brain—that’s all that’s left me!” and at the same time he said +braggart and his son, no doubt, is a fine specimen,” he grumbled to +brag about it, but if he stays out till morning it means he’s lost and +boy... the countess... promoted to be an officer... thank god... how +boy ran after them angrily, as if vexed that their program had been +bows and trying to escape as quickly as possible from the glances fixed +bowed his head in sign of assent and approval. he rode off at a walk to +bowed head. +bourienne, with her ribbon and pretty face, and her unusually animated +bourienne with a radiant face that said: “i know nothing, i am the +bourienne who had not yet seen her. +bourienne. when she entered with her heavy step, treading on her heels, +bourienne were already awaiting him together with his architect, who by +bourienne was often touched to tears as in imagination she told this +bourienne, unfolding her white napkin with her rosy fingers. “his +bourienne. though in the new reign he was free to return to the +bourienne’s head at the very time she was talking to anatole about +bourienne rapidly, in her pleasant mellow tones and with guttural r’s. +bourienne. princess mary felt his look with a painfully joyous emotion. +bourienne—i shall have to get rid of her. and how is it she has not +bourienne. i embrace you as i love you. +bourienne had long been waiting for a russian prince who, able to +bourienne flushed, and gave the princess a frightened look. +bourienne aroused her. she raised her eyes, and two steps away saw +boulogne expedition. +bottles of wine with him and, despite the jolting ruts across the +bottles, cloaks, and overshoes were lying about; there was a smell of +bottle. i’ll do it.... bring a bottle!” +both were silent. there were two germans and a russian officer in the +both were silent. +both laughed. +both kurágin and dólokhov were at that time notorious among the rakes +both knew, an expression thoughtful and sad. this expression in princess +both began to cry and kissed again. mademoiselle bourienne also began to +both armies should remain in position without moving. murat declared +bosom as it rose and fell. +bóry, who had only just entered a regiment of the line and was being +born, and so on. then he was again led somewhere still blindfolded, +borís with the happy smile seen on the faces of young men who have been +borís with severity. “i am glad.... are you here on leave?” he went +borís with a smile. +borís was excited by the thought of being so close to the higher powers +borís to tell them about his journey to glogau and in what state he +borís smiled circumspectly, so that it might be taken as ironical +borís smiled, as if he understood what prince andrew was alluding to +“borís,” she said to her son with a smile, “i shall go in to see +borís said no more, but looked inquiringly at his mother without taking +borís rose to meet rostóv, but in doing so did not omit to steady and +borís received no clear explanation of why it had been necessary for +borís quietly left the room and went in search of natásha. the plump +borís promised to fulfill her wish and was about to begin a +borís paused in the middle of the room, looked round, brushed a little +borís, or between you two? it’s all nonsense!” +borís made a grimace. +borís looked attentively and kindly at her eager face, but did not +borís listened attentively to each of the speakers, awaiting his turn, +borís knew nothing about the boulogne expedition; he did not read the +borís inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without +borís. “he wanted to thank you himself.” +borís, grown more manly and looking fresh, rosy and self-possessed, +borís followed her, smiling. +borís felt that pierre did not recognize him but did not consider +“borís, come here,” said she with a sly and significant look. “i +borís bowed politely. prince vasíli without acknowledging the bow +borís bowed again politely. +borís blushed. +borís and borís was to forward them to nicholas. the letters were from +borís also,” she went on, gaining a little strength; “he is nice... +borís. +bore almost the same smile, expressing unseemly thoughts about the +boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers. +boots between the dining and drawing rooms, hastily greeting the +boots and the clinking of spurs that came to a stop, and a respectful +book two: 1805 + book two: 1805 + book twelve: 1812 +book three: 1805 + book three: 1805 + book thirteen: 1812 + book ten: 1812 + book six: 1808 - 10 + book seven: 1810 - 11 +book one: 1805 + book one: 1805 + book nine: 1812 +book had been sent him by someone unknown. one thing he continually +book from the high desk. + book fourteen: 1812 +book four: 1806 + book four: 1806 +book five: 1806 - 07 + book five: 1806 - 07 + book fifteen: 1812 - 13 + book eleven: 1812 + book eight: 1811 - 12 +bookcases with keys in the locks, the high desk for writing while +bonaparte was anathematized and in moscow nothing but the coming war +bonaparte, there is a difference,” remarked bolkónski. +bonaparte, ‘that your majesty should be received and treated in my +bonaparte, that they desire to see prince auersperg, and so on. the +bonaparte’s side.” +bonaparte’s new triumph, tomorrow’s levee and parade, and the +bonaparte’s adjutant rode full gallop with this menacing letter to +bonaparte like? how did he impress you?” +bonaparte, having come up at a gallop, stopped his horse. +“bonaparte has said so,” remarked prince andrew with a sarcastic +“bonaparte...” began dólokhov, but the frenchman interrupted him. +bonaparte, and how badly the latter would fare now, especially if the +bonaparte!” +bolkónski, wishing to profit by his friendliness and obtain for himself +bolkónski, who spoke with suppressed agitation. +bolkónski was invited everywhere, and had to spend the whole morning +bolkónski, very modestly without once mentioning himself, described the +bolkónski, turning still paler, pushed him away with an angry look and +bolkónski took the opportunity to go in to get some details of the +bolkónski, the little princess’ husband. he was a very handsome young +bolkónski that the emperor desired to give him an audience. the emperor +bolkónski shrugged his shoulders. +bolkónski referred to anatole as a “pupil”) “for the sake of my +bolkónski recognized prince repnín whom he had met in petersburg +bolkónski, opposite which hung another such frame with a badly painted +bolkónski noticed the hussar’s state of mind, and it amused him. with +bolkónski in order to arrange a match for him with the daughter of that +“bolkónski!” he whispered, his voice trembling from a consciousness +“bolkónski! bolkónski!... don’t you hear? eh? come quick...” he +bolkónskaya, very pretty and rosy, though rather too plump for her age. +bold, tall, close handwriting. +boldly, with saucy gaiety, confident that her prank would be taken in +boldly, “if you wish to refuse one who is not only a brilliant and +bold forehead that bent over her hand and answered his question by +boguchárovo lay in a flat uninteresting part of the country among +bogdánovna advised prince andrew to leave the room. +bogdánovna. +bogdánich was a brick: he told you you were saying what was not true. +bogdánich knows how things are done.” +body was strikingly out of proportion to her short legs. prince vasíli +body. drowsiness was irresistibly mastering him, but he kept awake by +bodice, with black curls tossed backward, thin bare arms, little legs +blushing—“of asking the commander in chief. he has had a letter from +blushing and dropping her eyes. +blushing: +blushing. +blush. +blue-striped feather bed and hugging her friend. with an effort sónya +blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and +blood was gushing from its leg as from a spring. among the limbers lay +blood rush to his heart. “but where and how will my toulon present +blood rush to his heart and had again to get up and move about and break +blood. on seeing this, pierre moved forward with his breast toward the +blood on it. “ah, here are people coming,” he thought joyfully, +blood from it was streaming over his greatcoat as from a bottle. he had +blocking the way for everyone. the countess tried to make him talk, +blockhead!” +blissful face “like a vewy devil,” as denísov expressed it. +blinked, went red, got up and sat down again, struggling with himself +blindfolded) questioned him as to who he was, when and where he was +bleeding head and no cap was being dragged along by two soldiers who +bleeding hand with a handkerchief tied round it) “and i remained at +bleed him and patch him up. he will drag about as a cripple, a burden to +blame. the troops meanwhile stood growing listless and dispirited. after +black figures of hussars, but in the distance was still the same misty +blackest ingratitude—in this house...” +black-agate eyes at the frightened and happy natásha. +biting her underlip. at sight of pierre her expression showed an +bit and i’ll get round him.... listen! i’ll take your bet tomorrow, +bilíbin), what he had read began to interest him more and more. when he +bilíbin was now at army headquarters in a diplomatic capacity, and +bilíbin was a man of thirty-five, a bachelor, and of the same circle as +bilíbin smiled and the wrinkles on his face disappeared. +bilíbin’s letter which was written in french. he read without +bilíbin’s house thinking out a letter to his father about the battle +bilíbin liked conversation as he liked work, only when it could be +bilíbin. “it’s not treachery nor rascality nor stupidity: it is +bilíbin introduced him to the others. +bilíbin came out to meet him. his usually calm face showed excitement. +bilíbin, “as you know, my dear prince, i never leave headquarters. i +bilíbin and the rest of “ours” burst out laughing in hippolyte’s +big people i write a note: ‘princess so-and-so desires an interview +bezúkhov’s house that night had gathered to fortify themselves. +bezúkhova. but you will understand that i have no desire for the post. +beyond ceremonies and meaningless prayers and are now instructed in +be worthy of her. and that is what we shall see.” +bewildered look and passed by without a word. a woman rushed out and +bewildered him with fine words, and he is so flattered by his rapidly +be virtuous. not a trace of his former doubts remained in his soul. he +be very glad to do all in my power both for you and for this dear young +between three and four o’clock in the afternoon prince andrew, who +between them gleamed blue infinity. he did not turn his head and did not +between his acts as a private person, as a general, and as an emperor. +between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over +between forefinger and thumb, and an old servant, bending over from +better not look,” he thought, but having reached the bushes he glanced +better during those awful moments—the father who so remembered +betraying her sympathy for the “daredevil,” as she called dólokhov. +betraying by this desperate and provocative proposition his extreme +betrayal of the bourbon cause. the sovereigns! why, they are sending +be thus boldly, provocatively happy.” “and what nonsense all this is +be they what they might. +be the best way.” +be talked over at length. at last the conversation gradually settled on +bestowed on véra by nicholas, was considered very stinging), “and +best of officers could do in his position, he was in a state akin to +best families in russia, but she was poor, and having long been out of +beside whom sat only one elderly lady, who with her thin careworn face +beside the old prince. +beside themselves over there and one can’t make anything out.” +beside the farthest of the four unlimbered cannon. before the guns an +beside the bed. pierre obediently sat down, his eyes asking if he were +“besides,” thought he, “all such ‘words of honor’ are +besides this refined selection of society anna pávlovna’s receptions +“besides that, peter nikoláevich, by exchanging into the guards +“besides how can i ask the emperor for his instructions for the right +besides! but don’t let’s talk about me; tell me how you managed +beside him. this hussar, with a grave face and without a smile or a +beside him. “that must be the enemy’s camp!” +beside him and was listening naïvely to his words. +beside hélène. “this happiness is not for you,” some inner voice +be shaken in her determination. +be seen from the hill on the opposite bank but was not yet visible from +berg was mentioned, by those who did not know him, as having, when +berg took the opportunity to ask, with great politeness, whether, as was +berg smiled joyously. the count, followed by his guests, went into the +berg put on the cleanest of coats, without a spot or speck of dust, +berg as much as you please,” she finished quickly. +berg always spoke quietly, politely, and with great precision. his +be ready to fulfill his will.” with this consoling thought (but +“be quiet, backbiter!” said dolgorúkov. “it is not true; there +be parted from her) would be gained, so pacifying himself with this +be overthrown by the angel whom it has pleased the almighty, in his +be out of your way! do go somewhere, anywhere... to the devil!” he +be. of the four crystal glasses engraved with the count’s monogram +bent arm to márya dmítrievna. he drew himself up, a smile of debonair +beneath his smile rostóv saw in him the mood he had shown at the club +beneath his dignity to give me satisfaction, then...” +bending his forehead to hers just touched it, and pressed her hand so +bending forward in his armchair he said: “le roi de prusse!” and +below, where the fight was beginning, there was still thick fog; on the +below the shoulder. pierre went with anna mikháylovna into the small +below. +bells rang, the stewards rushed forward, and—like rye shaken together +believes, in the speaker’s tone of conviction and earnestness, or +“believe me,” said prince dolgorúkov, addressing bagratión, “it +“believe me, princess, i am ready to do all i can,” answered prince +“believe me, prince, a mother’s heart will never forget what you +believe everything you’re told. you were told...” hélène laughed, +believed he would be reborn to a new life. +being too much loved; and besides, you are free, you could throw it +being told she sat upright, glancing now at her beautiful round arm, +being said, thought, and felt that day by its rider. +being rose in her imagination, and carried her into a totally different +being moved, and the probing of his wound at the dressing station. +being imposed on him which he could not fulfill, and pleased him as an +being carried by. she looked out. the men servants were carrying the +being (and which struck pierre especially by contrast with his own +behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed +behind them, another fell in front and splashed dólokhov with blood. +behind the guns were their limbers and still farther back picket ropes +behind the emperor. the Ápsheron men, excited by the tsar’s presence, +behind the chair, held it in position. by the chair stood the priests, +behind. one of them said something strange, not in russian. in among the +behind moved infantry. the commander in chief was standing at the end of +behind him stood the aide-de-camp, the doctors, and the menservants; +behind him bondarchúk, an hussar he knew, jolted against him and looked +behind him. +behind her back. the french doctor held no taper; he was leaning +behind each chair—stood waiting for the prince to enter. the head +behind. and now here we stand hungry.” +behavior to women anatole had a manner which particularly inspires in +behaving with borís.” +behaving himself, and in general...” +beg you to dress your men decently.” +begun to think of the last station and was still pondering on the same +begin, when did it all come about?” and here he was sitting by her +begin the engagement. +beginning to feel for the pretty and provocative mademoiselle bourienne +beginning of the action.) “i think i sent you?” he added, turning to +begin,” he whispered, and taking up his glass, he rose. all were +beg—i’ll take it!” +began, with a blush that looked very strange on her thin, dignified, +began to wail like a baby without knowing why, except that sónya was +began to devise and carry out a plan of how princess mary should be +began to be said. these reasons were the treachery of the austrians, a +began to arrive; and slowly turning her eyes from the visitor to her +began. “they’ll be announcing that the gentlemen are in the drawing +began speaking clearly and definitely. reasons were found for the +began riding downhill to where the roll of musketry was heard but where +began reading. the old prince, now and then using abbreviations, wrote +began popping corks and filling the champagne glasses. after the fish, +began for the first, second, and third columns, which had gone down into +began crossing himself with the hand that held the taper. +began. +before yesterday during my daily walk through the village i witnessed a +before with proposals and demands for him to join up with the army of +before they reached the room from which the sounds of the clavichord +before the usual term and has proposed to me to be your sponsor. i +before the master arrived. everywhere preparations were made not for +before the jews.” +before the heights on which the russian batteries stood guarding the +before the battle, the figure of the insignificant little napoleon, and +before rostóv had time to make out what the black thing was that had +before returning to bilíbin’s prince andrew had gone to a bookshop +before prince andrew could finish, an aide-de-camp came in to summon +before, or am i mistaken now? no, she is not stupid, she is an excellent +before krems was really of small importance in view of such events as +before it was halted facing the enemy. again, as at the enns bridge, +before. it was a german cart with a pair of horses led by a german, and +before. “how often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? i am +before his shelter, had been tasted. +before him. the french had advanced nearest on our right. below the +before him, on the right, rostóv saw the front lines of his hussars and +before him but the motionless earth and the stubble around him. there +before he reached him, rostóv, who was a splendid horseman, spurred +before he had reached the embankments that were being thrown up, he saw, +before he could reach znaim. hence bagratión with his four thousand +before. having taken a kerchief from the cupboard, willarski bound +before going down she went into the room where the icons hung and, her +before five in the evening the battle had been lost at all points. more +before dinner, princess mary and mademoiselle bourienne, who knew +before dawn he had slept for a few hours, and refreshed, vigorous, and +before coming to the dinner he had had his hair and whiskers trimmed, +before anna pávlovna and the others had time to smile their +before and was less frequently at home. +before and the path to the hothouse, along which the prince was in the +before?” and again he told himself that it was impossible, that there +before action which he had experienced as previously, all the inner +befallen his son. +been waiting for.” and bursting into tears she hid her face in her +been vicious only because he had somehow forgotten how good it is to +been up to heaven only knows what! and they have had to suffer for it. +been unjust to the austrians and especially to weyrother. what +been under fire already?” asked borís. +been trying first one remedy and then another. worn out by sleeplessness +been told to, and the emperor francis merely looked fixedly into his +been thinking about you.” +been there at seven in the morning,” returned bilíbin with a smile. +been telling us such a tale about mademoiselle george and buonaparte!” +been taken by the french as a trophy.) +been so pleased at olmütz and according to which an ensign might rank +been reprimanded on account of the blue greatcoat. +been refused. he asked in a hesitating, piteous voice. +been recommended to prince andrew he had already risen above the general +been ready, but they still delayed and all were silent. +been put off,” said the prince, who, like a wound-up clock, by force +been more amusing than the drawing room talk of society scandals, the +been minutely described. princess mary was sitting alone in her room, +been looking at. +been intriguing!” +been forwarded by courier to the commander in chief. +been foreseen, the russian army of thirty-five thousand men commanded +been engrossed by the same thoughts ever since the day he returned from +been destroyed or not. and if they have somehow been overlooked, you +been composed in the turkish campaign and now being sung in austria, the +been brought up in the most aristocratic circles. +been bewildered. at that time, the russians were so used to victories +been attacked by french cavalry and that, though the attack had been +been able to free himself but that prince vasíli (who had rarely before +be easy, but here, in this wretched moravian hole, it is more difficult, +bedroom. pierre did not eat anything though he would very much have +be dozing. his head sank forward and then he roused himself. +bedouin twice and successfully put him to the showy trot in which the +be done; he felt that everybody, including his mother and sisters, was +be difficult to return to the old regime.” +bed. +be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will +become thoroughly conversant with that unwritten code with which he had +becomes a man who values his honor, perhaps too hastily, but we won’t +become of that scoundrel?” he asked denísov. +become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not +become habitual to him and, his handsome head held high, entered his +become cruel and harsh, are conscious of it, but cannot restrain +become completely changed, and had quite left behind his former habits +become calmer since i began to live only for myself.” +become a habit. schemes and devices for which he never rightly accounted +be clearly seen glittering as though freshly varnished. down below, +“because when once a man starts on military service, he should try to +“because not everything happens as one expects or with the smoothness +because it concerned not himself but another, his daughter, whom he +“because i hate ghost stories,” said prince hippolyte in a tone +because his line was not straight, he reached the third company. +because he rose superior to the revolution, suppressed its abuses, +because he could not. in the middle of a figure he beckoned to rostóv +be carried out, was forgotten. now, entering into weyrother’s plan, +be carried back with it oneself. bolkónski only tried not to lose +became quite pleasant again. +be brought here well wrapped up in felt. i must have two hundred pots +be better dressed than others, and would rather deprive himself of many +be best described as strength of will. pierre was always astonished at +beauty as she glided away. “and how she carries herself! for so young +beautiful young princess who was sitting some way off, the center of +“beautiful,” said the doctor in answer to a remark about the +beautiful, radiant eyes. it was as if joy—a supreme joy apart from the +beautiful hélène, whose eyes several times met those of the handsome +beautiful head and looking over her classically molded shoulder as she +beautiful eyes. last night a proposition was made me on your account +beautiful eyes grew dim, red blotches came on her face, and it took +beautiful bosom, on which she readjusted a diamond necklace. from time +beautiful.” +beaucoup d’estime, and again her face clouded over with sadness. +be at stake. but this one is too light, it’s not becoming!” +bear the whole burden on his shoulders. fancy what he had to go through! +bears!...” +bearers and the shuffling of their feet grew more hurried, as if the +be, anyway he is an honorable and brave old colonel! you’re quick at +be anyone’s lackey, but i who have nothing but my brains have to +be,” answered the princess joyfully. +be announced had passed straight through the glass porch between the +beams of mild and majestic light around, and already he felt himself +beaming smile to his head. +“be a man, my friend. i will look after your interests,” said she in +be afraid.” +battle the soldiers excitedly try to get beyond the interests of their +battle,” replied márya dmítrievna’s deep voice, which easily +battle is won by him alone. kutúzov is removed and he is appointed... +battlefield.” +battle and were engaged in peaceful occupations, the cavalry feeding the +battle and, in spite of the remonstrances of his courtiers, at twelve +battle, and by the sight of the gallant Ápsherons, his comrades in +battle, a list of whom has been sent me under flag of truce.” +battle. +battery when two balls, and then four more, fell among our guns, one +battery and the heroic endurance of captain túshin and his company,” +batteries ranged on the slopes of the pratzen heights, directed at our +battalion would follow him. +battalion to disperse them. during one of these attacks they carried off +battalions and artillery pass by and go forward and then generals +battalion commanders who smilingly pressed forward (it was plain that +battalion came onto the bridge. only denísov’s squadron of hussars +battalion and regimental commanders mounted, crossed themselves, gave +“bâton de gueules, engrêlé de gueules d’azur—maison condé,” +bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular façade +barrier except the barrier of his own will. +baron funke to be appointed first secretary at vienna? the baron by all +“baron funke has been recommended to the dowager empress by her +baritone. +bare hand as red as his face. +bare chest. he was conducted from that room along passages that turned +banners, cannon, and two enemy generals. for the first time, after a +bank, hesitating to step onto the ice. the general on horseback at the +bank by unseen hands. prince andrew and the officer rode up, looked at +banging the table with a determined and drunken gesture and preparing to +bandy-legged domestic serf in a peaked cap and sheepskin coat. +band struck up in the gallery, and the guests settled down in their +band, came up and in angry tones asked the artillerymen for water. +bandage was again removed and more than ten voices said together: “sic +ball was even happier. they were both dressed in white muslin with pink +balls! i can’t tell you. and the tsarévich was very gracious to all +ballroom. +ball, flying close to him, caused him to duck and bend over his horse. +ball flew past, rose in the stirrups and sank back again. the soldiers +ball flew past. evidently they were firing at the hussars, but the balls +ball, cleaving the air, flew over the heads of bagratión and his suite, +bald hills, while he himself needed no one and nothing. he used to +bald hills. prince andrew, glancing at pierre, broke the silence now and +bald head, over which she again looked at the letter and the portrait, +bald head. +“bah! how they scurry. he just sends a ball and they think they’ll +bags into the carts, got their muskets ready, and formed rank. the +bagratión. “wait till tomorrow morning, we’ll find out everything +bagratión’s weak detachment on the znaim road he supposed it to be +bagratión’s troops, which had not yet advanced into action but were +bagratión stopped and, before replying, tried to see rostóv’s face +bagratión’s hard brown face with its half-closed, dull, sleepy eyes. +bagratión’s exhausted troops some rest, and letting the transport and +bagratión’s detachment was reunited to kutúzov’s army. +bagratión rode round the ranks that had marched past him and +bagratión replied that he was not authorized either to accept or refuse +bagratión ordered two battalions from the center to be sent to +bagratión, knowing bolkónski to be a favorite and trusted adjutant, +bagratión. his idea was, first, to concentrate all the artillery in the +bagratión gave no further orders and silently continued to walk on in +bagratión cast his large, expressionless, sleepy eyes round his suite, +bagratión called to him, and túshin, raising three fingers to his cap +bagratión bent his head in sign of agreement with what prince andrew +bagratión as he shouted, with an expression that seemed to say: “we +bagratión appeared in the doorway of the anteroom without hat or sword, +bagratión and dolgorúkov ride past with their adjutants. all the fear +bagratión, a gaunt middle-aged man of medium height with a firm, +bagratión.” +baggage was already being dispatched to olmütz. near hetzelsdorf prince +baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling +baggage and transport, having to accept battle on the march against an +“bad news! he’s not among the prisoners nor among the killed! +badly through his spectacles, but that his wife’s connection with +badly—all this debauchery, dissipation, and the rest of it!” +bad for another traveler, and for himself it’s unavoidable, because +“bad! but it’s not that, my friend—” said dólokhov with a +bad. but anatole was dumb, swung his foot, and smilingly examined the +“bad! bad!” exclaimed pierre. “we all know what is bad for +backwards and forwards and was at last brought to the doors of the +back to the house. +back to moscow. anatole kurágin’s father managed somehow to get his +back her hair, kissed him full on the lips. +back, “give me your hand.” she took her sister-in-law’s hand and +back, cadet!” he cried angrily; and turning to denísov, who, showing +back, and bosom—which in the fashion of those days were very much +back.” +back. +back!” +baby, an old woman, and a healthy german girl with bright red cheeks +a young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face +a yawn. “plenty of time,” he repeated. +a wrathful wrinkle on her rather prominent marble brow. with her +a worthy dwelling place of the great god,” he added, and closed his +a word to you and you... what?” he added with renewed irritation, “i +a word to the questions addressed to him. but on entering moscow he +a woman and, like a chained convict, you lose all freedom! and all you +awkward to attract everyone’s attention and to be considered a +awkwardness or intentionally (no one could have said which) after the +awkward and uncomfortable, and her burden oppressed her now more than +a wild beast.... in poland, if you please, he nearly killed a jew.” +a wig, put his head out of the door of the antechamber, reported in +a whole month and this is the first time i have seen him in society. +a white uniform that looked strange among the russian black ones. the +a white horse followed by his suite, and said something in passing: +a whisper that the prince was sleeping, and hastily closed the door. +awful...” and he burst into tears. +awful!” +a week later, pierre, having taken leave of his new friends, the masons, +a week later pierre gave his wife full power to control all his estates +away with a grimace as if to say that everything dólokhov had said to +away. involuntarily recalling his wife’s past and her relations with +away her tears on her sister-in-law’s knee. +away from him. the alliance with prussia, austria’s treachery, +away from her. “destroying the army, destroying the men! and why? go, +away? but where to? it’s one—let them sing!” +away at the dogs! but this sort of thing is the very devil, with them +away and he had just managed to catch her, “didn’t he tell you how +away. +away. +away. +away. +aware that in front, behind, and on all sides, other russian columns +aware of his weaknesses. +aware of his existence. at the quarters of the commander in chief, +aware of a stir all around. he looked up: dólokhov was standing on the +awaiting a reply. he frowned. +awaited their fate. the firing died down and soldiers, talking eagerly, +avoid seeing all these suffering men, and he felt afraid—afraid not +avoiding gardens and enclosures, going over new and unknown ground, and +avoid general buxhöwden who by right of seniority should be our chief. +avoided the blow. “thought... blackguards...” shouted the prince +avoided looking at the young couple, and heedless and unobservant as +avoid doing certain things, and speak french. he was one of those, +“a visitor,” answered antón. +a visit. “i am starting on a journey of inspection, and of course i +a vigorous attack on the orator. +a victory over bonaparte, just when i’m not serving. yes, yes, he’s +a very long time. “if anyone finds this silence inconvenient, let him + * “a very good morning! a very good morning!” +a very bad way of deciding whether a battle was won or lost. those who +author: leo tolstoy +authority in his voice. “who invented him, if he did not exist? whence +authorities to secure advantageous means of communication for herself +austria,” said mortemart. “the emperor of austria can never have +austrian troops, under the direction of so skillful a leader as general +austrian, to report and explain, and to his headquarters where he had +austrians, and all at once discovered from the cannon balls discharged +austrian general, continuing to read, frowned angrily and jerked his +austrian council of war at which suvórov crowed like a cock in reply to +austrian army of ulm. they are the same battalions you broke at +austrian and russian troops, both those freshly arrived from russia and +austrian adjutant, bilíbin, and last night’s conversation. having +austerlitz, borís was unable to see either prince andrew or dolgorúkov +“au revoir! thank you very much. his majesty will probably desire to +aunt without waiting to hear her speech about her majesty’s health. +aunt,” or “you do not know my aunt?” and very gravely conducted +“auntie, darling, do tell me what it is!” +auntie anna mikháylovna told me, under the seal of strict secrecy, of +aunt as she conducted him to her. +aunt, anna pávlovna mentioned each one’s name and then left them. +augesd. +auersperg was defending, and the bridge was not blown up: so murat +audience with the emperor francis occupied his thoughts. +audience, which produced an effect unfavorable to the narrator. several +audiences, but he does not like talking himself and can’t do it, as +audience over his spectacles and continued. +audible the whole length of the table. +a type of face different from that of the men, squeezed his way along; +at which prince andrew had been when he examined the battlefield. +“at what o’clock was general schmidt killed?” +“at what o’clock did the battle begin?” asked the emperor. +attitude toward him that had taken place in society. +attire appeared at the door. willarski, stepping toward him, said +at this moment that terrible door, which pierre had watched so long +at this big, stout, quiet man, wondering how such a clumsy, modest +at this a sudden change evidently took place in the princess’ ideas; +at the world is so opposed to yours that we shall not understand one +at the very instant he did this and uttered those words, pierre felt +at the steaming boiler, waiting till the sample, which a quartermaster +at the sound and then, smiling at his own sensations, stood still. the +at the soldiers who were blocking his way. “hi there, boys! keep to +at the soldiers as if threatening to punish them. cadet mirónov ducked +at the sight of the letter red patches showed themselves on the +at the razumóvski’s ball ... and countess apráksina ... i was +at the period of youth when there seems so much to do that there is no +at the olmütz review he had seemed more majestic; here he seemed +at the moment the door opened and the stranger came in, pierre felt a +at the men’s end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. +at the map, but at prince andrew’s face. +at them and hack them to pieces, their proximity now seemed so awful +at them. +at the levee prince andrew stood among the austrian officers as he had +at the least firing. the emperor’s gratitude was announced to the +at the head of a movement that had already become unrestrainable. he was +at the front an altercation occurred between an austrian guide and a +at the french. +at the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our +at the faces of his suite, young and animated as his own. czartorýski, +at the doors, but after all he did at last enter first. he walked shyly +at the door prince andrew and the figure of the old man in a white +at the door,” and natásha ran across the drawing room to the dancing +at the council—the coming battle and the victory that would certainly +at the club dinner. +at the cadet’s troubled face. +at the bottom of the sleigh beside rostóv, who grew more and more +at the beginning of march, old count ilyá rostóv was very busy +at the beautiful hélène with her radiant face and at the red, broad, +at the arkhárovs’ ball, talked about the war with field marshal +at the appointed hour the prince, powdered and shaven, entered the +at that time in the rostóvs’ house there prevailed an amorous +at that time, a very high ruffle, and a brown dress coat. this stout +at that moment, with noiseless footsteps and with the businesslike, +at that moment the door opened. +at that moment, on the road from the town on which signalers had been +at that moment made itself felt. +at that moment borís clearly realized what he had before surmised, that +at that moment, as the horse guards, having passed him, disappeared in +at that moment anna pávlovna came up and, looking severely at pierre, +at that instant the sun began to hide behind the clouds, and other +attentive to him. count cyril vladímirovich is your godfather after +attentively to what prince vasíli said, but kept glancing at princess +attentively to bagratión’s colloquies with the commanding officers +attention to the verses. +attention to something within her that is only seen in pregnant women, +attention to his story. +attention to her severe remark—and began to laugh. she laughed, and in +“att-ention!” shouted the regimental commander in a soul-shaking +attention of all to borís’ narrative was shown by hélène. she asked +attention. napoleon apparently remembered seeing him on the battlefield +attention. he screwed up his eyes showing that he was listening. +attention. he looked now at the pratzen heights, now at the sun floating +attention. dohktúrov, a little man, sat opposite weyrother, with +attention. +attend to the voice of their commander, or would they, disregarding him, +“attendez,” said anna pávlovna, reflecting, “i’ll speak to +attendance on him, to the enemy camp. wintzingerode was not merely +attempt at familiarity on the part of the russian messenger. +attain that knowledge and are still infinitely far from our aim; but +attained. +attack very long. about túshin and the battalion that had been in +attacks the prussians. the prussians are our faithful allies who have +attacks. both generals are angry, and the result is a challenge on +attack our headquarters, and the commander in chief has to ask for a +attack instead of being attacked, and so render the whole of this +“attack indeed!” said the colonel in a bored voice, puckering up his +attacked the men collecting wood in the copse. it was no longer possible +at someone unseen. “mr. pitt, as a traitor to the nation and to the +at six in the evening, kutúzov went to the emperor’s headquarters +“at seven o’clock? it’s very sad, very sad!” +“at seven o’clock, i believe.” +at schön grabern, what shall we not do now when he is at the front? we +a truce was kutúzov’s sole chance of gaining time, giving +a truce and sent his adjutant to kutúzov to report the offer he had +“a trifle,” said the colonel in his bass voice: “two hussars +a trembling hand placed a charge in the cannon’s mouth. the short, +a treat to her guests. as a clever maître d’hôtel serves up as a +at prince andrew with cool intensity, walking straight toward him and +at prince andrew, evidently considering something. +at prince andrew and did not even nod to him. +a toy, seeing the effect these prearranged receptions had on pierre, +at one of the post stations he overtook a convoy of russian wounded. +“at one draught, or he loses!” shouted a fourth. +at one another, and all pressed toward the exit from the bridge. +at one another. +at once, when she heard the young man’s discreet steps approaching +at once transferred to the guards as a cornet, had been educated from + at nighttime in the moon’s fair glow +atmosphere of an army, announcing the approach of something decisive +atmosphere of a large and active town which is always so attractive to a +atmosphere made itself so strongly felt in the rostóvs’ house as at +atmosphere characteristic of homes where there are very young and very +at markóv, probably expecting markóv to pick it up for him, and how +“at least, change your coiffure,” said the little princess. +at last seizing a soldier by his collar he forced him to answer. +at last anna mikháylovna, still with the same expression, pale but +at kutúzov’s. +at krems excited but not weary, with dispatches from dokhtúrov to +at irregular intervals as before, followed by one or two cannon shots, +at intervals the bugle calls and the shouts of the enemy could be heard +at intervals, and the bullets passed somewhere in the fog singing in +a thud. denísov rode past him, leaning back and shouting something. +a threatening gesture. “if the purse isn’t found i’ll flog you, +at home, they had not yet gone to bed. the young people, after returning +at home again. he felt that he had grown up and matured very much. his +at his partner with a merry and triumphant air, suddenly stamped with +at his own sensibility, when princess mary entered. he hurriedly took a +at his hesitation and, trying to arouse his former devotional feeling, +at his estate. as regularity is a prime condition facilitating activity, +a third, count arakchéev, if his nerves were not too weak.” +at him. after this volley the regimental commander clutched at his leg; +at her timidly over his spectacles, and like a hare surrounded by hounds +at her reproachfully. “and who is it she takes after?” thought the +at her reflection in the glass. “she flatters me,” thought the +at five in the morning it was still quite dark. the troops of the +at first prince andrew read with his eyes only, but after a while, +at first irregularly at varying intervals—trata...tat—and then more +at first impossible to enter the drawing room door for the crowd of +at first he heard the sound of indifferent voices, then anna +a tête-à-tête talk with the friend of her childhood, princess anna +a terrible thing! quelle terrible chose que la guerre!” +at eight o’clock kutúzov rode to pratzen at the head of the fourth +at eight o’clock in the morning +at ease by him, “but i hope i have not offended you. i always make it +at each alternate step; and in time to this, with stern but varied +at dólokhov and his eyes dropped, the something terrible and monstrous +at dinner, conversation turned on pierre’s marriage. +at dinner anna mikháylovna talked the whole time about the war news +at daybreak on the seventeenth, a french officer who had come with +at dawn on the sixteenth of november, denísov’s squadron, in +“at boss zides, captain,” he heard the voice of the colonel, who, +at balls, amiably smiling in the society of the most brilliant women, +at bald hills with his wife. this pleasure will be but a brief one, +at bald hills, prince nicholas andréevich bolkónski’s estate, the +at bagratión over each other’s shoulders, as if he were some rare +at a soldier who lay prone, with blood on his uncovered head. the +at a soldier in the ranks of the third company in a greatcoat of bluish +at any rate his light-blue eyes gazed for about two seconds into +at any of them but smiling on all, as if graciously allowing each the +at anna pávlovna’s, that it would be difficult to get rid of anna +a tall, stout, and proud-looking woman, with a round-faced smiling +at all like the conduct of a great man!” +at all. he said to me, ‘i am sorry i can do so little for you, dear +at all as it really was. rostóv was a truthful young man and would on +at all as i ran,” thought prince andrew—“not as we ran, shouting +at a full gallop so that he outstripped the others. ahead, the enemy was +at a command, everyone began to run. +at?” +as ze sanctity of its alliances...” he spoke this last word with +“as you see,” he said. +“as you please... really... i think so... but as you please,” said +as young people often do. “no, i am too happy now to spoil my +as young bezúkhov! yes, i pity him from my heart, and shall try to give +as you may, always remain the same backs and foreheads.” +as you and princess mary call it, are the chief source of all error and +asylums, and schools were to be established on all the estates. some of +as with his feet. +as when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters +as were all the words he spoke that day, and count ilyá looked joyfully +as well as that the french were outflanking our left. the general +as we are masters of ulm, we cannot be deprived of the advantage of +as was his custom when at home—taking leave of a good-looking, +a suffering child and to wring her little hands even with some +a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of +a strange feeling of exasperation and yet of respect for this man’s +a strange caprice of his employer’s was admitted to table though the +“as to your business,” prince andrew continued, addressing borís, +a stout major was pacing up and down the line, and regardless of the +a story, heard from her aunt but finished in her own way, which she +a storm at the square, cut his way in, slashed right and left, how his +as though running away from some danger, and, making long, quick strides +as this Ápsheron battalion marched by, the red-faced milorádovich, +as they watched their young people executing their newly learned steps, +as they said in moscow society. he seemed to be condescending to +as they have heard it described by others, and as sounds well, but not +as they enjoyed their rhine wine, sauté, and ices, and however they +as the right flank would probably not be able to withstand the enemy’s +“as there’s no one to fall in love with on campaign, he’s fallen +as their officer—all looked at their commander like children in an +as the guest of honor, to enter first. bagratión was embarrassed, not +“as the enemy’s left wing rests on wooded hills and his right +as the bearers, among whom was anna mikháylovna, passed the young man +as the “angel incarnate.” +a star-shaped light. at one side of the table was a small carpet with +“a staff officer was here a minute ago, but skipped off,” said an +assured himself from the way rostóv looked at it that his coat had been +assuming quite the pose of a society woman (heaven knows when and where +assumed a dignified expression, which with characteristic tact she had +as soon as the singing was over, another and another toast was proposed +as soon as nicholas entered, he was enfolded in that poetic atmosphere +as soon as he learned that the russian army was in such a hopeless +as soon as all is over,” and prince vasíli sighed to intimate what he +as something generally known. but it was the first time he had heard +assigned to the commander of the pávlograd regiment in which rostóv +assigned to cavalry-captain denísov, the squadron commander, known +assiduity of its commander the regiment, in comparison with others that +as she was crossing the anteroom she saw through the window a carriage +as she sat in her room. but owing to the superstition that the fewer +as she rose to go to her own room. +as she named the empress, anna pávlovna’s face suddenly assumed an +as she became animated the prince looked at her more and more sternly, +as serene as if all this were happening at home awaiting peaceful +as reported by the division commanders, ostermann and sedmorétzki, and +as possible to conceal his own part in the improvements that had been +“a splendid soldier, splendid! ‘what am i attached to!’ ha, ha, +“a splendid reply!” said napoleon. “young man, you will go far!” +a space like a street was left between each two lines of troops. the +a son of nicholas bolkónski, i shall be ashamed!” +a soldier was driving, and a woman enveloped in shawls sat behind the +a soldier’s cross, equally shabby cadet’s riding breeches lined with +a soldier on the march is hemmed in and borne along by his regiment as +as often happens in early youth, especially to one who leads a lonely +as often happens after long sleeplessness and long anxiety, he was +as much self-confidence as if he were addressing school children—that +a smile that broadened his round face more and more, prepared the +a smile of joy and satisfaction lit up her eager face. +a smile he could not repress as he recalled his reception at brünn. +a smell of perfume, and put it to nesvítski’s nose. +“as may happen,” said rostóv. +as many persons are to me—father, sister, wife—those dearest to +a small reception, and just see how badly i am dressed.” and she +as long as i live.” +a slipper for his left foot. with a childlike smile of embarrassment, +a slightly contemptuous smile, he said: “yes, there are many stories +asleep. prince andrew felt sorry for his sister. +asleep, nor even remain in one place, but had to jump up and pace the +ask you to put the money on your cards,” replied dólokhov. “don’t +“ask the count to come to me.” +asking forgiveness?” +asking.” but dying was also dreadful. +“ask him to wait,” and the sound was heard of a chair being pushed +ask himself. it was as if the thread of the chief screw which held his +ask forgiveness. +asked weyrother several times to repeat words he had not clearly heard +asked to see the portrait of the aunt’s husband on the box lid. +asked to play on the clavichord. anatole, laughing and in high spirits, +asked to give up all he possessed. +asked. “they say old maids have a mania for matchmaking, and though i +asked the son. +asked the prince’s permission to ride round the position to see the +asked the italian how he stood russian climate. the italian’s +asked rostóv, with a contemptuous smile. +asked permission to be present at the battle out of curiosity. the +asked one of the ladies. +asked natásha, so seriously and excitedly that it was evident that what +asked him to tell the emperor. what do you think he replied? ‘but, my +asked and answered at the same instant. he was alone in the middle of a +ask; but to prove my devotion to you and how i respect your father’s +as i write? +“as i was saying to you, andrew, be kind and generous as you always +as it was too far to the left flank for him to have time to go there +“as it flies past me, daddy, the ball i mean,” said a young soldier +as is usually the case with people meeting after a prolonged separation, +as i remember nikólenka. him—i just shut my eyes and remember, +as in a spoiled child, a continual consciousness of her charming defect, +a sin, a great sin, it is hatred of that vile woman!” almost shrieked +as impracticable, he arranged for the erection of large +a sign of approaching anger. “i was forgetting... do you wish it +as if to reassure prince andrew. +as if to explain such a question. +as if to ascertain whether his father’s habits had changed since he +as if stirred to his heart’s core and himself regretting and laughing +as if she had to give some final necessary instructions. +as if she had asked him to do it. +as if running a sword through an invisible foe, and glaring savagely +as if he felt a little confused before his son. “now, if you would +as if guessing what it was about. +as if flinging something to the ground, the drummer—a lean, handsome +as if continuing a conversation the subject of which had often been +as if at times there radiated from them shafts of warm light)—were +as if astonished at the word. “well, you see, i’m building. i mean +as i do not intend to be at your house again for reasons you know +aside with his arm, said in a breathless voice, +aside and turning sharply away; but rising immediately, he paced up and +a shot, and our troops could be seen hurrying to the crossing. +a short pause, “but everyone lives in his own way. you lived for +as his own. what also conduced to bagratión’s being selected as +as he would have done to a stranger. +as he was leaving the battery, firing was heard on the left also, and +as he sat on the sloping ledge. as he began slipping down, his head and +as he said this prince andrew was less than ever like that bolkónski +as he said this he rose, went to his sister, and, stooping, kissed +as he rode by. +a shell burst in the midst of that dense throng, killing some and +as he liked, now in petersburg i hear he has been doing such terrible +as he lay back in his armchair, looking in another direction. +as he had been accustomed to from childhood. besides it was pleasant, +as he felt himself to be at that moment. he was conscious that here +as he expected he was appointed an adjutant to the governor general of +as he closed his eyes his ears seemed filled with the rattle of the +as he approached, a ringing shot issued from it deafening him and his +as he always did when at the front, solemn and stern. then came the word +ashamed of himself, he said, as if merely asking his father to let him +ashamed; he felt that he was occupying someone else’s place here +“as far as the service goes he is quite punctilious, your excellency; +as far as moscow and to stay with him there. meeting a comrade at +as ever. a solitary tallow candle burned in the anteroom. +a seventy-pound weight were tied to it. he could run no more. the +a servant. from there they passed into another room. a man in strange +a sense of disgust the minutest details of this humiliating scene he +as elsewhere, he was surrounded by an atmosphere of subservience to +as clear as day, and can go so far astray. that is the only thing +a schoolboy who is told to repeat a lesson he has not learned. spots +ascended the carpeted stairs. +as borís. “count! i am wounded in my right hand” (and he showed his +as a veranda. +as author of the military plan, argued that bonaparte might easily +as a true hussar in this battle, had been wasted. their squadron +as a petitioner on behalf of this young man. you see...” but +as a mark of their gratitude for the benefits he had conferred on them, +as a man recently returned from abroad, in a political conversation in +as always happens when women lead lonely lives for any length of time +as a friend that frees the soul grown weary in the labors of virtue +as a frenchman would speak after spending about a year in russia. +as a dense cloud of smoke arose from it. the hussars had succeeded in +as a child, there was no longer in her singing that comical, childish, +a rustle of starched petticoats and the whispering and laughter of +a rule to speak out... well, what answer am i to take? will you come to +artless smile, she had met him in secluded passages. +artillery sentry was pacing up and down; he stood at attention when the +artillerymen, túshin, and the cadet exchanged silent glances as they +artillerymen, some of whom were fighting, while others, having abandoned +artilleryman, wiping away the blood with his coat sleeve, as if +artilleryman to prince andrew. “not like your honor!” +artillery company, a head and shoulders taller and twice as broad +arrived from russia. with this object he intended to meet the regiment; +arrival, thought in another way. of course, she, a handsome young woman +arrival of young prince andrew and his wife was daily expected, but +arranging a dinner in honor of prince bagratión at the english club. +arrangements to the minutest detail remain the same.” +arrangements of the house, he interrupted himself: +arrangement of the festival in honor of bagratión, for few men knew +arranged and how nice it all was? there’s uncle shinshín’s brother +aroused him. he started and opened his eyes. +around them cannon balls were flying, of which he was aware not so +around him. an infantryman came to the fire, squatted on his heels, held +(“arnauts” was the tsarévich’s favorite expression when he was in +army. you have brought your army corps to pultúsk, routed: here it is +army.... you are in a position to seize its baggage and artillery. +army was very favorable. +army’s campfires dimly glowing in the fog, could be seen behind him; +army, and the member of the hofkriegsrath who had arrived the previous +army, and in the night from the nineteenth to the twentieth, the whole +army, and even napoleon himself with his staff, were not on the far side +arm wavered still more with the strain. one hand moved as if to clutch +arms on the table and began to read. after reading a few lines, he +arm’s length, apparently afraid of shooting himself with it. his left +arms and the hope of future triumph. and he was not the only man to +arm. he began to laugh. +arkhárovs; they have a party.” +arithmetic, when rising from his chair he would walk away from her, +a ring, he made the sign of the cross over him with a gesture evidently + a rhipheus at home, a caesar in the field! +“are you ready?” he asked his wife, looking past her. +“are you not ashamed to deprive us of your charming wife?” +are young and i am old. i should like to help you as far as lies in my +“are you mad? you have twice been ordered to retreat, and you...” +“are you living with your mother?” +“are you going to count cyril vladímirovich, my dear?” said the +are you dumb?’ he shouted. still i remained silent. and what do you +are wrapped up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us +are within sight of the enemy and he wishes to profit by the opportunity +are we to find suvórovs now? je vous demande un peu,” *(4) said he, +are very pale!” said princess mary in alarm, running with her soft, +are they doing? what are they doing?” he murmured to himself, still +are there,” said the officer, pointing to the village of hosjeradek, +are the french!’ murat, seeing that all is lost if the sergeant is +are taken to the field marshal’s room, for he likes to do everything +a reproach to everyone. now tell me, count, was it right, was it +a reply unnecessary. she smilingly waited. all the time the story was +are now two russians, milorádovich, and dokhtúrov, and there would be +are not many left of us old friends! that’s why i so value your +are, monsieur pierre!” +are many stories of his getting to know an officer in just such a chance +are here?” +are distributed. why has fate given you two such splendid children? +are clever, you are well educated. and what have you done with all these +are childwen of the dust... but one falls in love and one is a god, one +are being deceived, my instinct tells me of negotiations with france and +are—at the heart of affairs and of the world—is the talk all of +a real one, but that they would talk of that later. princess mary was +are all stupid; but i know this: an illegitimate son cannot inherit... +architect’s attention to the sound of the prince’s footsteps. +architect not to go to the prince with his report. +archduke’s as good as another, as you know) and even if it is only +archduke, inspected the allied army of eighty thousand men. +archduchess also wished to see him. he did not know whom to answer, and +a rage) and called for the company commander. +a quite unexpected, chance of saving the army. on receiving the news +À propos of marriages: do you know that a while ago that universal +apron, which symbolized strength and purity; then of the unexplained +apron under the leather hood of the vehicle. prince andrew rode up +apron, such as the others wore, was put on him: he was given a trowel +aprons like the rhetor’s and holding swords in their hands pointed at +apráksins’ i heard a lady asking, ‘is that the famous prince +apráksina...” and then, again rustling, pass into the anteroom, put +approaching enemy farther off. at the same instant the sun came fully +approaching departure did not prevent his amusing himself, but rather +approaching. and at that moment, though the day was still, a light gust +approached the door of the minister’s room. he felt offended, and +approached kutúzov. of kutúzov’s suite only four remained. they were +approached first, experienced the same feeling as every other man in +approached. +approach, but even in this room there now stood an empty bath, and water +appreciation of the vicomte’s epigram, pierre again broke into the +appreciate at a glance her superiority to the plain, badly dressed, +appointment to london was a promotion and that he was so to regard it. +apple, also half smiling as he looked at the handsome girl. +appearing on the skyline, which they knew to be the enemy’s troops. +appeared to him in a dream: his mother and her large white hand, +appeared, then a second and a third almost simultaneously, and at the +appeared that they had worn when under fire. rostóv watched his enemy, +appeared shy of her unquestionable and all too victorious beauty. she +appeared, quite out of keeping with his features, that seemed to deride +appeared punctually to the appointed hour. everyone sitting in this +appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to +appeared in the doorway. the general with the bandaged head bent forward +appeared. he would carry her away and then sa pauvre mère would appear +appeared from behind his company and, though he was a middle-aged man +appeared a stupid smile of glee which he seemed unable to suppress. +appeared. +appear as if he did not want any of that wine, but was mortified because +apparently the sight of them roused no pleasant feeling in véra. +apparently suffering more than the dying soldier, and he rode away. +apparently she had forgotten her age and by force of habit employed +apparently immersed in his own thoughts. +a portrait so characteristic of the original as to be amusing. +apologizing for the state of his gun. +apologize to an old and honorable officer? whatever bogdánich may +apologize.” +a policeman and the bear back to back and put the bear into the moyka +a plan of marriage for you. it is neither more nor less than with prince +a peg on which to hang the prince’s favorite topic, he looked +a partner, and the old men began smilingly to talk about poland and the +apartments assigned to prince vasíli. +a particular glamour and glad keenness of impression to everything that +apart from myself.” +any women—countesses or cooks—who were not venal. i have not yet met +anything wrong in my behavior. but i’ll just tell mamma how you are +anything, when suddenly the well-known whispering of mademoiselle +anything to say, say it. these two things can be done together,” he +anything might happen, only not that. +anything like it. she believed it could be, but did not understand it. +anything. if it be god’s will to prove thee in the duties of marriage, +anything. here is a letter to prince vasíli, and here is money. write +anything for his happiness! and my affairs are in such a bad way that my +anything, except only for permission, after the blow she had received, +anything else.... you have not been ordered to return and have not been +anything. do you know i have sent for pierre? the count,” pointing to +anything, dólokhov, looking straight in his face, said slowly and +anything, but was only conscious of her stern father’s withered face +any the worse off. in siberia they lead the same animal life, and the +anyone who wanted to see him could come the hundred miles from moscow to +anyone. they wished to administer the sacrament of unction.” +anyone in particular, began to say how difficult it was to carry out +anyone if he is in disfavor. now come here.” +anyone flogged or sent to siberia—and still less for your serfs. if +anyone else had a right to criticize what the empress desired or was +anyone else does the same, i will pay him a hundred imperials. do you +anyone, but you know it yourself.” +anyone, and so you don’t deserve to have them.” +“any news from mack?” +any moment the emperor may see them.... but no, these must be only a +any moment.) +any clever conversation that was to be heard. seeing the self-confident +an unexpected and tenderly paternal way. +antónov.” +antichrist—i really believe he is antichrist—i will have nothing +anteroom with him. +antechamber experienced the same feeling of respect and even fear when +answer that voice and went on dreaming of his triumphs. the dispositions +answer than the one prince andrew gave to this naïve question. +answers to these questions, as was only too evident, did not interest +answered the soldier. prince andrew took out his purse and gave the +answered the general. +answered pierre, trying to remember who this young man was. +answered lavrúshka. “i know by now, if he wins he comes back early to +answered him either by a brief but appropriate remark—showing that it +answered her, as he had the countess, only in monosyllables. the other +answered.” +answer. at last he moved up to pierre and, taking the kerchief that lay +an outsider is out of place here.... no, don’t distress yourself.... +another who wished to get away. with his head bent, and his big feet +another voice, from a man of medium height with clear blue eyes, +another two minutes and it is certain death,” thought each one. +another time he interrupted, saying: +another, they all gave, and transmitted, orders as to how to proceed, +another, the red, stout nesvítski, lay on a bed with his arms under his +another’s faces and speak to one another. besides the soldiers who +another pie but felt shy, and therefore pretended to be examining the +another of the precepts—that of reforming the human race—and had +another, more important, subordination, which made this tight-laced, +“another ismail comrade,” said he. “a brave officer! are you +another hussar also rushed toward the horse, but bondarénko had already +another, hardly able to suppress their laughter. +another group was at the tea table. pierre wished to join the former, +another group. +another five days passed, and then the young prince nicholas andréevich +another, dying, stepping over the dying and killing one another, only to +another company, a lucky one for not all the companies had vodka, +another candle. still lower, beyond the turn of the staircase, one +another, a younger voice, interrupted him: “afraid or not, you can’t +another and soon the whole battalion ran forward shouting “hurrah!” +another. all became silent and turned to look at the pale tear-worn anna +another—a childlike, kindly, even rather silly look, which seemed to +another.” +another. +“an order to who?” asked the colonel morosely. +an orderly’s charge, and he felt the blood rush to his heart with +an orderly, or a townsman was carried through the waves of infantry; +an opportunity to express his doubts. +an old powdered manservant who was sitting in the antechamber rose +an old friend. +an oath of fidelity to the laws of the order. the candles were then +annoyance. “good luck to you!” +announce him, but, changing his mind, came back and stooped to kiss the +“annette, for heaven’s sake don’t refuse me,” the countess +anna pávlovna’s two years before. there were also present a very +anna pávlovna’s soiree. the matter was mentioned to the emperor, an +anna pávlovna’s reception was in full swing. the spindles hummed +anna pávlovna smiled and promised to take pierre in hand. she knew his +anna pávlovna’s drawing room was gradually filling. the highest +anna pávlovna’s “at home” was like the former one, only the +anna pávlovna’s alarm was justified, for pierre turned away from the +anna pávlovna in dismay detained him with the words: “do you know the +anna pávlovna had already managed to speak to lise about the match she +anna pávlovna gave him her shriveled hand to kiss and introduced him to +anna pávlovna frowned. mortemart, hippolyte’s friend, addressed him +anna pávlovna disapproved. +anna pávlovna continued to give on free evenings the same kind of +anna pávlovna almost closed her eyes to indicate that neither she nor + * anna pávlovna. +anna mikháylovna, who always knew everything that passed in the house, +anna mikháylovna was already embracing her and weeping. the countess +anna mikháylovna turned up her eyes, and profound sadness was depicted +anna mikháylovna took off her gloves and, occupying the position she +anna mikháylovna, though her circumstances had improved, was still +anna mikháylovna’s was the most distinct. +anna mikháylovna sighed deeply. +anna mikháylovna shook her head. +anna mikháylovna’s face expressed a consciousness that the decisive +anna mikháylovna sat down beside him, with her own handkerchief wiped +anna mikháylovna paused and waited for him to come up. +anna mikháylovna opened the door. her face wore the proud expression +anna mikháylovna looked at véra and paused. the countess pressed her +anna mikháylovna instantly guessed her intention and stooped to be +anna mikháylovna, in a few words, told her the contents of the letter, +anna mikháylovna came out last. she approached pierre with slow, quiet +anna mikháylovna. +an inspection anywhere in the heart of russia. +an inn in the village which the officers frequented. rostóv rode up to +an indescribable charm of sorrow and self-forgetfulness that her father +an immediate answer. prince vasíli had brought his son with the evident +animation of the past or the future. it was as if prince andrew would +animated, and handsome, with his hand bandaged. in the study were four +animal went when excited. bending his foaming muzzle to his chest, his +animal. count ilyá rostóv, laughing and repeating the words, “make +an illegitimate son, and petted and extolled when he was the best +“a nice little hot torch for the infantry! good luck to you, fellow +an hour’s delay they at last moved on, descending the hill. the fog +an hour later, tíkhon came to call princess mary to the old prince; +an hour and a half later most of the players were but little interested +angry with me for coming? you have changed so, andrúsha,” she added, +angry—but i know you will not marry her. i know, heaven knows how, but +angrily pulling down his tight scarf. +angrily, came in at the other door. natásha checked her first impulse +angrily blowing his nose. hardly had prince andrew gone when the study +angrily at him. bondarchúk’s horse swerved and galloped past. +angrily and disrespectfully at kozlóvski. +angling, while his grandson, with shirt sleeves rolled up, handled the +anger he did not condescend to notice, and said: “i think you were +angered the countess when it was not properly cleaned, turned as loosely +anger and walking up to the regiment wished to find a further excuse for +an eye on me! very well then! get along with you!’ so he writes the +an expression of perplexity, turned round to milorádovich as if seeking +an explanation, but meeting the latter’s impressive but meaningless +an exemplary officer of twenty-two years’ service, who had never been +an excruciating pain in his arm, for which he could find no satisfactory +an entreaty, a threat, and above all conviction that she would herself +a need to escape from it by some strange, and usually cruel, action. +“and you won’t feel ashamed to write to him?” +“and you too!” +“and you’re still the same diplomatist! but that’s not the +and your capital!’ the one general whom we all loved, schmidt, you +and young people are rarely capable of it. his hearers expected a story +and you, mon cousin, seem to consider me a perfect fool,” said the +“and you?” he asked dólokhov, but as soon as he had asked the +“and you didn’t see that everybody is packing up?” +“and you? are you going to have lunch too? they feed you quite +and you.” +and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must +and yet be happy....” +and wrote a few words on a large sheet of paper folded in four). +and with this object offered a three days’ truce on condition that +and with the familiarity and easy grace peculiar to him, he raised the +“and without holding on to anything. is that right?” +and without awaiting a reply, prince andrew rose and left the table. +and with his hand at the salute rode up to the general. +and with baritone notes in his voice, new to borís, pointing to his own +and with a hooked nose. then came two more, and many more running +and with a furtive glance at his son’s face, the count went out of the +and with a bow to them both he went out. +and wish you to have as good an opinion of me. don’t upset yourself, +and wished he could tell what, if anything, this man was thinking +and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs. +and will then inherit everything under the will? and if the will and +“and will she soon be confined?” and shaking his head reproachfully +“and why the deuce are we going to fight bonaparte?” remarked +“and why is it?” +“and why do you serve?” +“and why didn’t you simply come straight to me as to a friend? i +“and why didn’t you do it at seven in the morning? you ought to have +“and why are they stopping? there’s no proper order!” said the +“and why are children born to such men as you? if you were not a +“and who will inherit his wealth?” he added in a whisper. +and who was called tit. he was saying, “tit, i say, tit!” +and whom borís addressed turned round crossly and told him bolkónski +“and who has told you what is bad for another man?” he asked. +“and who are you?” cried the officer, turning on him with tipsy +and while kutúzov was turning managed to make a grimace and then assume +and which had always opened so quietly, burst noisily open and banged +and where to shoot,” he said with an unnaturally gentle smile. +“and where is lise?” he asked, answering her question only by a +and wheels began to revolve faster and faster, levers and cogwheels to +and what to expect after it beyond the grave! how happy and calm i +“and what is she so pleased about?” thought nicholas, looking at his +and, whatever may happen to him or to me, shall never cease to love him +“and what do you think of this latest comedy, the coronation at +“and what devil made me go to that wat?” (an officer nicknamed +“and what a well-preserved man he was!” remarked the aide-de-camp. +“and what about his character?” asked the regimental commander. +and went to the door. +and went out of the corridor. +and went out. natásha had put on one spurred boot and was just getting +and went in at the open door. there was no one in the anteroom; empty +“and we, my dear boy! it’s terrible! i was wrong to laugh at mack, +and well informed foregathered when the news began to arrive in +and way of life. +and, waving her thin arms from under the woolen shawl, cried: +and watched his opponent’s face, evidently thinking about the game as +and was therefore out of sorts, a state of mind which with her always +and was just putting his question to a soldier when his attention +and was going to tuck up the other trouser leg to save this stranger the +and was crossing himself with his right hand, turning his eyes upward +and was a stranger there. in his person, honor was shown to a simple +and warmly pressing his hand looked affectionately over his spectacles +and, walking backwards before the company, jerked his shoulders and +and wait for her, she went silently toward the door that everyone was +and voices. this class of guests and members sat in certain habitual +and virtue than mere words. this chamber with what you see therein +and virtue, and thereby try with all our might to combat the evil which +and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen +and unreasonable than a little child, who, playing with the parts of a +and unexpectedly again began to cry. +and two or three friends—you among them—and as for the rest i only +and triumph. +and ‘to siberia!’” said berg with a sagacious smile. “i knew i +and to pierre, glancing at him again. +and took hold of the commander’s stirrup, almost leaning against him. +and thrill of suspense usual at such moments. outside the house, beyond +and threw them round the little girl who had run in. +and three pairs of gloves, and then the grand master addressed him. he +and thoughtfully shaking his head. did he fear going to the war, or was +and this “well!” sounded coldly ironic, as if he were saying: “now +“and this is gratitude—this is recognition for those who have +“and they said kutúzov was blind of one eye?” +and they disappeared into the darkness with their load. +and they awoke in him astonishment at the genius of his hero, a feeling +... and the wish, which constitutes the emperor’s sole and absolute +and the whole secret lies in the terrible truth that she is a depraved +and the visitors try to guess from these glances who, or what, they are +and the two friends told each other of their doings, the one of his +and the two emperors were living with their suites, households, and +and the traveler became absorbed in it. pierre looked at him. all at +and the tramp of horses’ hoofs were heard. kutúzov and his suite were +and the talkative dolgorúkov, turning now to borís, now to prince +and the staff captain rose and turned away from rostóv. +and the second aim, that of purifying and regenerating himself, did not +and the same look. in the middle of a dull and halting conversation, +and the rewards sent to the army are innumerable. though he is a +and there too sat the members of the family, and pierre and hélène, +“and there’s nothing for you to say. i shall speak to him myself,” +and there is nothing to thank me for. no one has ever complained yet of +and there in the coffin was the same face, though with closed eyes. +“and there hasn’t been anyone in the room except the lieutenant and +and the reading of the letter began. after a brief description of +and the rattling of carriage wheels seemed to fill his ears, and now +“and the prisoners he killed in africa? that was horrible!” said the +and the prince began explaining all the blunders which, according to +and the pistols loaded, nesvítski went up to pierre. +and the owner of the manly voice, evidently an infantry officer, +and the others who did not approve of the plan of attack, were +“and the other one is not here. they’ve been telling tales,” he +and the orders he gave them and, to his surprise, found that no orders +and the old countess were especially disturbed, and to a lesser degree +and the old cavalry captain, kírsten, shouted enthusiastically and no +and then to call him out, reckoning on fédya not fighting because he +“and then, old fellow, he gives him one in the teeth with the butt +“and then of course my family has also to be considered,” prince +and then he suddenly stopped and performed some new and unexpected +and then calmly and seriously sat back in his chair. anna pávlovna +and then at the other. +and the munching of the lieutenant. +and the men’s at the other. +and the latter—unconscious that he was being reflected in the hussar +and the jingle of their weapons and saw their horses, their figures, and +and the glory that awaited him. +and the general in white, accompanied by the suite, walked between the +“and the fete at the english ambassador’s? today is wednesday. i +and the feeling of energy with which the troops had started began to +and the distinguished dignitary who bore the title of “collector +and the disgrace of having lost two guns and yet remaining alive present +and the difficult names of villages. weyrother complied and dohktúrov +and the crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which +and the count turned to the cook, who, with a shrewd and respectful +and the conversation again turned on the war, on bonaparte, and the +and the constant gleam of her white teeth, thought that they were in a +and the consequent impossibility of a speedy emancipation. +and the commander, turning to look at the adjutant, directed his jerky +and the cannon, under the horses’ hoofs and between the wagon wheels, +and the burning of an arm with a ruler as a proof of love did not seem +and the brilliance of the bright sunshine merged in a single joyous and +and the boyish face rostóv, breathless with excitement and hope, was +and the allowance to the three princesses; about 15,000 was given in +“and that would be splendid,” said pierre. +and that the whole army had surrendered at ulm proved to be correct. +and that the richest peasants (who formed the deputation) had begun +and that’s how it is with me. À demain, mon cher.” * +“and that other one with him, the austrian, looked as if he were +and that if a letter reached the grand duke in command of the guards +and that her husband was a cross laid upon her by god. prince vasíli +and that daredevil after her!” said anna mikháylovna, wishing to show +“and tell mr. dólokhov that i won’t forget him—he may be quite +and tear whatever came to his hand. “why did i tell her that ‘je +and tears, till at last somebody else was asked to read it.” +and taking nesvítski’s arm he left zherkóv, who did not know what to +and, taking natásha’s hand, kissed it. +and swallowed the cold snow, his lips quivered but his eyes, still +and suddenly the whole world centered for him on anticipation of the +and suddenly seemed to grow very merry. +and suddenly determines to speak out. +and suddenly began to cry. +and suddenly, as if he had studied her sufficiently and had formed a +and strength. he was continually traveling through the three provinces +and strange to say nicholas felt that he could not help taking up a +and stopped near him. +and stooped glass in hand over the infant. +and stood still in the dim light beneath the curtain as if not wishing +and stood, hanging her head. +and still the same and in the same place. no, it can’t be! surely it +and still fewer men would be so well able and willing to make up out of +“and so you’ve had him educated abroad, prince vasíli, haven’t +“and so you think napoleon will manage to get an army across?” asked +“and so you had to go through that too!” +and sought the acquaintance of only those above him in position and +“and so they are writing from potsdam already?” he said, repeating +and so the anecdote ended. though it was unintelligible why he had told +and so sparkling their eyes. sometimes the best of the pupils, of whom +and so said the youths and maidens themselves as they danced till they +and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers’ or +and sometimes laughed. nearest of all to the commander in chief walked +and sometimes flung the exercise book away. +and solemn, and awakening in the men an unusual curiosity. on the day of +“and so he is! quite blind!” +and so further increased the fame of these dances. what distinguished +and social topics were ended and the time had come for intimate +and social tact,” thought he; “been proud of my house, in which she +and sit. this morning i turned them all out and now look, it’s full +and sinfulness?” he paused again. “who art thou? thou dreamest that +and simply, “mr. shítov—a man of great merit”—this of the man +and silver of the men’s epaulets; servants in scarlet liveries moved +and silent when the talk related to any topic that had no direct bearing +and sighing disdainfully, he again changed his position. +and show you what kind of rivet to use.” +and shown such unaffected familiarity in intercourse with everybody both +“and showed me a letter in which the parade of the french in vienna +and shouted to the musicians to play faster. faster, faster, and faster; +“and should not justify your confidence and the honor you have done +and she won’t say anything to mamma. nicholas will tell her himself, +and she with him, that there was quite a scandal and that that’s why +and she smiled her ecstatic smile. +“and she’s in love with borís already. just fancy!” said the +and she’s even in my way. you know i always was a savage, and now am +and she set off at a run along the passage. +and she found them on my table and said she’d show them to mamma, and +and she began to cry again because he had such a noble soul. +and several other less noteworthy persons. +and see the standard flapping against its staff. +and seeing that the elder visitor was not listening, he turned to the +and seeing her severe face said: “well, good-by, countess,” and +and secured their release by heavy payments. he did not know that the +and, scowling, he gave nicholas just such a look as he had given pierre +and scented myself.” +and scarcely breathing, watched from her ambush with sparkling eyes. +and scapegraces of petersburg. +and saying something in their gypsy accents. nicholas understood that it +and say, “i am so delighted... mamma’s health... and countess +and saw that the lamp stood on a black table on which lay an open book. +and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his +and salt and an icon of saint peter and saint paul, asking permission, +andrúsha—the slender mischievous boy who had been her playfellow in +andrúsha!...” said she, putting her hand in her reticule but not yet +and running so lightly, frightened rostóv. he seized his pistol and, +and rostóv got up and went wandering among the campfires, dreaming of +andrew, whom borís was expecting, entered the room. prince andrew, who +andrew went out with him. +andrew was natural and pleasant. others, the majority, disliked him and +andrew was in and borís was shown into a large hall probably formerly +andrew was galloping along in a post chaise enjoying the feelings of a +andrew, told how bonaparte wishing to test markóv, our ambassador, +andrew, “that all the atrocities of the french army (i nearly said of +andrew struck the high road along which the russian army was moving with +andrew’s presence. he was ashamed to express his new masonic views, +andrew slowly, not taking his eyes off his wife. +andrew shook himself as if waking up, and his face assumed the look it +andrew...” she said timidly after a moment’s silence, “i have a +andrew read the same mild reproach he had read on the face of his dead +andrew, paying no more heed to the general who ran after him imploring +andrew made his way up to the battery from which the staff officer had +andrew. “look here, my dear fellow, get from kozlóvski all the +andrew. “i wish you good luck and success, gentlemen!” he added and +andrew... is father’s way of treating religious subjects. i don’t +andrew in his boyhood, helped pierre out of his carriage, said that the +“andrew, if you had faith you would have turned to god and asked him +andrew?’ i did indeed.” she laughed. “he is so well received +“andrew, i bless you with this icon and you must promise me you will +andrew, “i am only surprised at your opinion of bonaparte. you +andrew had gone and made the sign of the cross in his direction. from +andrew had already heard from his wife in the presence of others some +andrew felt that something gave way in his soul and that he was guilty +andrew felt a pleasant sense of repose among luxurious surroundings such +andrew entered the passage. kutúzov himself, he was told, was in the +“andrew, don’t!” said princess mary. +andrew? don’t forget that she has grown up and been educated in +andrew did not tell his father that he would no doubt live a long time +andrew did not speak; he was both pleased and displeased that his father +andrew came up, stroked her hair, and asked if she felt rested after +andrew. “besides, in the actions of a statesman one has to distinguish +andrew as one of themselves, an honor they did not extend to many. from +andrew a reliable correspondent to whom he could pour out the bile he +andrew apparently knew this as well as tíkhon; he looked at his watch +andrew, “and at anna pávlovna’s they listen to me. and that stupid +“andrew, already!” said the little princess, turning pale and +andrew. +andrew. +andrew. +and returned a glove pierre had dropped; the doctors became respectfully +and respectfully that the prince gave him a searching glance. +and respect as few hardhearted men would have aroused. although he was +and resignation to the will of god. “if you do not understand these +“andré,” said his wife, addressing her husband in the same +and replacing their purses and pocketbooks, entered the ballroom. first +and remained so for some minutes. piteous, helpless, animal moans came +and relations had been given to understand that the fate of the young +and regarded as the key to the position. he saw over the mist that in +and refined expression on the faces of those present he was always +and really he only ran a few steps alone. one soldier moved and then +and really another french soldier, trailing his musket, ran up to +and put the matter before the emperor,” said princess anna +and prove my devotion to his majesty the emperor and to russia!” +and proudly around while bagratión spoke to his son. +and promised to write to him and guide him in his new activity. +and profligate life, though i did not like it and did not want to,” +and princess mary tried, but could not manage, to be cordial to her new +and prince dolgorúkov rapidly but indistinctly explained weyrother’s +and prince andrew, with others fatally wounded, was left to the care of +and prince andrew after giving directions about his departure went to +and, pressing pierre’s hand, he went out. +and pressed him against the railings, and all he could do was to smile. +and pierre, anxiously trying to remember whether he had done anything +and paused facing her at the foot of the sofa on which she was lying. +and part were leaving these pratzen heights which he intended to attack +and particularly amiable smile. +and parted smiling, the german returning to his cowshed and rostóv +and painfully felt. my father talks of nothing but marches and +and overtook him. a sergeant of the battalion ran up and took the flag +and out of the bedroom glanced at the princess and turned away. she did +“and our share?” asked the princess smiling ironically, as if +“and our little tea table?” +and opened the door for him. + and on the throne our titus shield. +and only turned away his eyes when the austrian chief of staff finished +and one could hear their distressing screams and groans, sometimes +and one booted foot, he advanced, while willarski held a sword to his +and on all their faces he recognized the same eagerness that filled his +and of good family and that’s all i want.” +and of course not as ‘emperor,’ it seemed to me it should be to +and now there’s dólokhov sitting in the snow with a forced smile and +“and now, in token of candor, i ask you to reveal to me your chief +and not with his eyes. +and not value her pure affection and devotion to me?” she went up +and not only at the same hour but at the same minute. with those about +and not in the habit of running, trotted awkwardly stumbling on his +and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, +and no connections. yet, though anatole spent tens of thousands of +and nicholas again kissed her hand. +and next balls, about theatricals, and who would meet whom, and when and +and natásha rose and went out of the room on tiptoe, like a ballet +and natásha kissed her brother and ran away. +and natásha, in the light-blue dresses they had worn at the theater, +and my life, my life,” he thought, “must be risked?” +and my father was much affected by it. he says the count was the last +and musketry ahead of him. the firing grew louder and louder. +and murat, humiliated and anxious to expiate his fault, had at once +and moved to the right; from behind it, dispersing the laggards, came +and moved along the ranks shouting. the train drivers and orderlies +and most advantageous style, like a well-garnished joint of roast beef +and more regularly and rapidly, and the action at the goldbach stream +and more attractive. +and mirth that shone in all their faces. evidently in the back rooms, +and mingling with one another. he could also, by the gleam of bayonets +“and me? would you like to kiss me?” she whispered almost inaudibly, +and merry faces. it was natásha, sónya, and pétya, who had come to +“and me, kiss me!” +and martinists, even in novíkov’s time. for a long while after he had +“and mamma pressed her!” said nicholas reproachfully. +and making pencil notes on them, and for the first two or three minutes +and making a wide sweep with his arm, amid a thunder of applause and +and majestic voice that was yet so simple! and as if in accord with +“and love of one’s neighbor, and self-sacrifice?” began pierre. +and looks of those who had seen them together. he recalled anna +and looking carelessly about him. +and looked at him closely. +and looked at her in such a way that not only could she not bear his +and little tables. during balls given at the house pierre, who did not +and littered with cards. one tormenting impression did not leave him: +“and lise, your wife?” +and like him. write and tell me how he receives you. if he is all +and like a practical petersburg lady who knows how to make the most of +and light, joyous steps. at the visitors’ request the young people +and lifted it to his lips, threw back his head, and raised his free hand +and let us talk sensibly while there is still time, be it a day or be it +and legs always fell into unnatural positions. +and leaving large sums of money with them for alms, went away to his +and kutúzov smiled in a way that seemed to say, “you are quite at +and kissing her, and then he left the room with rapid steps. +and kissed her. +and kinds of dessert, in order to send a full description of the dinner +and kámenski the latter was preferred. the general comes to us, +and julie were saying to one another. the governess kept looking round +and i won’t allow it to be said!” +“and i will tell you this,” prince andrew interrupted in a tone of +“and i was looking for you,” said natásha running out to him. “i +and ivy, with a gleam of white shoulders, glossy hair, and sparkling +“and it must seem to you,” said borís flushing slightly, but not +“and i tell you, rostóv, that you must apologize to the colonel!” +“and i tell you, don’t you dahe to do it!” shouted denísov, +and is nothing unworthy of you, but it will comfort me. promise, +and is it worth tormenting oneself, when one has only a moment of life +“and i should so like to thank uncle once for all his kindness to me +“and i should be ashamed to write to borís. i’m not going to.” +and irritation, though controlledly calm as a man is at the approach of +and irrepressibly, as water does in a creek. had the russian army been +“and i only...” +and involuntarily noticed the carefully washed seams of the scar near +and in two twists of the hand he breaks them to smithereens and installs +and into ladies’ society with an affectation of doing so against his +and interests before him! “yes, they have taken a wise decision,” he +and interesting person to the visitors and that nowhere else was the +and insignificant people. but the army, the russian army, everyone +and in proof of the conclusiveness of his opinion all the wrinkles +and in order to press them again to her lips, she slightly pushed away +and inevitably he lapsed into falsehood. if he had told the truth to his +and indulgently to smooth with it the heart of his neighbor. as to the +and indeed everybody in the room looked with a smile of pleasure at the +and in a whisper, with a strangely unsmiling face: “come to dinner +and in a way of which our last campaign can give you no idea. half the +and impossible, he again glanced timidly at her. she did not sit down +and immediately túshin, with a short pipe in the corner of his mouth +“and i might have been in his place!” thought rostóv, and hardly +and i’ll write to her myself, and we will kill the fatted calf.” +“and i know why she’d be ashamed,” said pétya, offended by +“and i?” he said; “do you think it is easier for me? i am as worn +“and i had no idea!...” exclaimed princess mary. “ah, andrew, i +“and, if your excellency will allow me to express my opinion,” he +“and if this aim coincides with yours, you may enter our brotherhood +“and if i should meet his majesty before i meet the commander in +“and if he asks about the losses?” +and i don’t now.” +“and i did not know... nicholas... my darling!...” +and i beg you all to help me. brünn’s attractions must be shown him. +“and i am still arguing with your husband. i can’t understand why he +and hurriedly removed. + * “and hurrah for the whole world!” +and how the well-trained horse looked round unconcerned and did not +“and how she dances! what gwace!” he said again after a pause. +and how has it ended? i was against this marriage even then and foretold +and how happy i may be with such a friend and such a husband! husband? +“and how do you get on with the officers?” inquired zherkóv. +“and how could you believe he was my lover? why? because i like +and horses) had it not occurred to rostóv to flourish his whip before +and horse guards’ jacket, shouting something to a pale, white +and his visit to brünn. at the door he found a vehicle half full of +and his thoughts followed one another with extraordinary clearness and +and his one division, and even then mortier slips through your fingers! +and his lips were smiling. though the commander was occupied in giving +and his kind, intelligent face rather pale, rushed out of the shed +and his head tilting yet further back. “why is it so long?” thought +and his forehead became smooth again, he bowed his head respectfully, +and his eyebrows were lifted, then his eyebrows would descend and +and his back drawn in, slightly swinging one foot, and, with his head a +and hills in the distance—and despite the fact that the inhabitants +and he would marry her. so her future shaped itself in mademoiselle +and he wore a crumpled hussar cap stuck jauntily back on one side of his +and he walked on. +and he smiled approvingly, evidently pleased with the cadet. rostóv +and he saw above him the remote, lofty, and everlasting sky. he knew it +and he sat down again, paying no more attention to his daughter, who was +and her son. she had opportunities of sending her letters to the grand +and her short, downy, smiling lip lifted when she began to speak just as +and her look seemed to say: “well, it is your own fault.” +and her face was tearful. +and here’s the little shop where we used to buy gingerbread! can’t +and he released bolkónski’s arm to indicate that he had now quite +“and here, friend, the people are quite beggarly. there they all +and helped him. i know and understand what a spice that would add to the +and he looked on this visit to a churlish old man and a rich and ugly +and he looked at pierre with a mocking, challenging expression. he +and he left the room, followed by the low but ringing laughter of the +and he indicated with his delicate fingers what he meant by a pinch. +and he felt a nervous shudder run down his spine. but the mere thought +and he experienced tenfold the joy of living, as he had not done since +and he doesn’t care at all for julie.” +and he caught the bear, took it in his arms, lifted it from the ground, +and he amuses himself setting a policeman astride a bear! for shame, +and health. all who talked to her, and at each word saw her bright smile +and he also passed on with the wagon. then came some merry soldiers who +and he again turned to pierre. +and he again began speaking about indifferent matters, about sergéy +and having got rid of this young man who did not know how to behave, she +and, having glanced round the room, prince andrew turned to rostóv, +and having done this he rode back. +and have seen fräulein mathilde.” +and hastened to reassure him. +and hardly able to restrain his jerky movements, and from the way he +and happy though uneasy face of pierre. it seemed as if the very light +and happiness the victory had afforded him had been now left in the +and happiness... “i should wish for nothing else, nothing, if only i +and handsome young man and woman for one another. and this human feeling +and handing on to posterity of a certain important mystery... which +and hair, without looking at her eyes, with such contempt that the +and had taken him to vienna and given him the more serious commissions. +and had remained away till he was twenty. when he returned to moscow +and had more than once impressed on his daughter that michael ivánovich +and had an opinion about everything), but above all at his capacity for +and gun carriages, the tramp of horses, the crack of whips, shouts, the +and groans mingled in a general hubbub, then the firing died down. +and grieved had he chosen not to see them. these different +and good-humored laughter from the soldiers that it infected the french +and glad sparkle. prince andrew had grown thinner, paler, and more +and get away to attend to her duties as hostess. but pierre now +and galloped off. but no sooner had he left bagratión than his courage +and galloped along the line. at first he rode along the line of +and fussily in the easy chair, “how is it annette never got married? +and frowning brows stood a hundred paces away from them in his helmet +and from the different ranks some twenty men ran to the front. a +and fro, and dispatching of adjutants—was confined to the emperor’s +and frequent blushes she told him she was very sorry about their past +and frenchmen running toward it. higher up stood some russian infantry, +and for the issue of the whole battle. “but be that what it may,” +and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor. the countess was +and flask, and swung his heavy person easily into the saddle. +and fighting, not at all as the gunner and the frenchman with frightened +and fencing from the village. +and fell on his hands. the others outstripped him. +and fell on his back. he opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle +and fell into the column to the measure of “left... left!” “close +and feeling at that moment. “is there anything at all behind that +and fear. +“and fancy! she refused him quite definitely!” adding, after a +and extending its neck, galloped on yet faster. hardly had the horse +and explained to them his intentions and wishes. he told them that steps +and examined him with attentive curiosity. the cossack was dead, but the +and every strap in place, and shone with cleanliness. and not only +and everybody had to serve, he took a post under his father in the +and even princess mary felt herself pleasantly made to share in these +and even now never says a word against him. those pranks in petersburg +and ecstasy such as he had never before known. every trait and every +and drowsy kutúzov, who reluctantly played the part of chairman and +and dropped it again behind her. prince andrew recognized her without +and drew it downwards as if wishing to ascertain whether it was firmly +and, drawing up an armchair for prince vasíli, pointed to it and began +and drawing up again next moment when her face broke into a smile of +“and do you know, my dear fellow, it seems to me that bonaparte has +“and do you feel quite calm?” rostóv asked. +and don’t forget to give him the rostóvs’ invitation. they ask him +and dólokhov swore at him in coarse soldier’s russian and shouldering +and dólokhov’s angry cry. +and, doing so, groaned involuntarily. +and distinctly. in the valley he saw before him something like a river, +and dissatisfied about something and that at headquarters they were +and dismounted slowly among the guns. he delivered the order and did +and disheveled, beat and turned the heavy feather bed for the third +“and did you give me tobacco yesterday? that’s just it, friend! ah, +“and didn’t hippolyte tell you?” asked prince vasíli, turning to +and devotion, or of weariness and hope of resting before long. prince +and desperation as though he were at that moment facing some great +and denísov went to the bed to get the purse from under the pillow. +and denísov rode up to a group that had stopped near rostóv, composed +and decided in his own mind that all was as it should be, and that in +and dark. the officers were hurriedly drinking tea and breakfasting, the + and dare not herculean russians trouble... +and count rostóv, glancing angrily at the author who went on reading +and count ilyá rostóv became more and more moved, more glass was +and countess alike—turned to look at her as if wondering why she had +and could not answer. “can something bad have happened to me?” +and continual expectation of some good, always in front of him but never +and connections he belonged to the groups of old and honored guests, and +and conflict with which he had trodden the enns bridge, but with the +and complacently seated himself on the sofa. +and compelled to act under conditions of war unlike anything that had +and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels +and colonel looked sternly and significantly at one another like two +and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. +and ceased talking when véra entered. sónya and natásha looked at +and carefully placed her in an easy chair. +and calling the nurse began giving the medicine. the child screamed +and by a servant who passed out on tiptoe without heeding them. they +and broke it up. in this action for the first time trophies were taken: +and borís says it is quite possible. you know i have told him all about +and borís. he is his godson,” she added, her tone suggesting that +and borís, having apparently relieved himself of an onerous duty and +and blue riding breeches, who were swarming near the bridge, and then at +and bilíbin unwrinkled his temple, feeling that the dilemma was +and besides this, nine men in every thousand for the militia. everywhere +and being well disposed toward borís, who had managed to please him the +and began to speak. +and began firing them at túshin’s battery. +and began dancing round the room with it. +and back, galloped strenuously forward, and with a dashing salute reined +and awkwardly over the parquet floor of the reception room, not knowing +“and at your age what secrets can there be between natásha and +and at the people in it. round a long table covered with black sat some +and at last became silent. +and a timid smile. +and at every word he added: “but don’t hurt my little horse!” and +and, as you know my principles, i refer it to you.” +and as they went along he was told allegories of the toils of his +“and ask whether sharpshooters have been posted,” he added. “what +and asking them all to be seated began: +and ask him, i!... does that satisfy you?” +and, as it might seem, of the obligations to her he had taken on +and as he went on became more and more animated. he told them of his +and as he waved his arms to impersonate the policeman, his portly form +and artillerymen’s bonfires. to the left, not far from the farthest +“and are the hours the same? and the walks in the avenues? and the +and are drawn along.” +and anxiety they threw their burden of sorrow on one another and +and anna mikháylovna (who found it necessary to accompany him) was +and angry faces struggled for the mop: how differently do those clouds +and anatole met in the conservatory. +and amusingly. “and why not marry her if she really has so much money? +and amuse themselves as girls of thirteen and fourteen do who are +and amused as he was when he put on the little icon. “did he believe? +and a muffled shout almost behind them in the wood. the french had +“and am i to bring the gypsy girls along with him?” asked nicholas, +and am at your service to help you nurse my uncle. i imagine what you +and also that murat’s mistake would very soon be discovered, proved +and all you have been doing on your estates.” + * and all that follows therefrom. +and all his mercy to one who is blind, or who shuts his eyes that he may +and all his comrades of the guards by his appearance—that of a +and all along the french line on the hill fires flared up and the +and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of +and again she began to sob, more bitterly than before. natásha lifted +and again proceeded to gallop along the line, penetrating farther and +and again jumping up, dashed so impetuously forward that it seemed as if +and again it turned uselessly in the same place. +and after staying but a short time with the tsar went to see the grand +and a flask, and nesvítski was treating some officers to pies and real +and affronts matter? i love and forgive everybody now.” +and a few here and there with powdered hair and in russian kaftáns. +and advantages of service under members of the imperial family. +and, addressing him, again used the epithet “young man” that was +and acquaintances, invitations, and social occupations were so numerous +and a convoy of croats. beside kutúzov sat an austrian general, in +and accept the offer,” but before he had time to say it natásha began +and a castle with a park surrounded by the waters of the confluence of +and a bullet whizzing high up in the mist with a plaintive sound passed +and abruptly. +and about nikólenka, twice asked when the last letter had been received +and a ball flew whistling over the heads of the hussar squadron. the +ancestor of the bolkónskis. prince andrew, looking again at that +an austrian officer in a white uniform with green plumes in his hat +an attack. but when they had marched for about an hour in the dense fog, +anatole with his swaggering air strode up to the window. he wanted to +“anatole used to come to borrow money from her and used to kiss her +anatole turned to the englishman and taking him by one of the buttons +anatole stopped him. +anatole’s expression, though his eyes were fixed on her, referred not +anatole returned smiling to the ladies. +anatole lived, pierre entered the lighted porch, ascended the stairs, +anatole kissed the old man, and looked at him with curiosity and perfect +anatole is no genius, but he is an honest, goodhearted lad; an excellent +anatole is accompanying me on his way to the army, so i hope you will +anatole, having taken off his overcoat, sat with arms akimbo before a +anatole embracing the frenchwoman and whispering something to her. with +anatole came up to her. she still could not see him. she only felt a +anatole and pierre. +anatole. “ah, i know, i know,” she said with a sly glance, “your +an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the outspread map +an anonymous volunteer, and david widger +an allowance of ten thousand rubles. he had a dim perception of the +an air of importance that showed that she felt she quite knew what she +a musketry fire at the french cavalry that was pursuing our troops. it +amusing, now girlishly enchanting. +amusing,” he continued, with a sudden, good-natured laugh, “was that +am staying in for your sake,” and so on. and though prince vasíli, +a movement. with a pleasant smile berg related how the grand duke +a most serious, deferential, and innocent expression. +a mop, his legs far apart, sprang to the wheel; while number two with +among the young men introduced by rostóv one of the first was +among the women!” +among them the staff officer and zherkóv, who had been twice sent to +among them. on my word i’d give five years of my life for it!” +among the gentlemen of the suite, rostóv noticed bolkónski, sitting +among the field guns on the brow of the hill the general in command of +among the children, in the special sense they attached to it.) “why +a moment, “yes, bring me seven hundred rubles, yes! but mind, don’t +a moment. the sick man was given something to drink, there was a +a moment, and, evidently understanding what rostóv hinted at, seized +am i to go?” thought nicholas, and went again into the dancing room +a minute later sónya came in with a frightened, guilty, and scared +“a million all but one!” replied a waggish soldier in a torn coat, +amid the square masses of troops standing motionless as if turned to +amid the smoke of their campfires, the greater part of whom were +amid the smoke, deafened by the incessant reports which always made him +amid people of whom he was weary had gone, instantly every thought of +amiably into his face, evidently wishing to soften the rudeness of his +a member of the hofkriegsrath from vienna had come to kutúzov the day +amélie” (mademoiselle bourienne) “thinks i could be jealous of her, +a meeting with napoleon. to the joy and pride of the whole army, a +ambassadors to compliment the usurper.” +amazed the french themselves. rostóv was horrified to hear later that +a man who on a hot day takes a final run before plunging into the water. +a man oppressed by business, weary and suffering, who yet would not, for +am.” +always won. however much he drank, he never lost his clearheadedness. +always surrounded by the same decks, masts, and rigging of his ship, so +always shall, and i want nothing more.” +always poking fun at me.... ah, well! let him!” and he began reading +always in one direction, humming with whispers and talk and the sound of +(always followed by a ball flying past and striking the earth, a man, a +always dragging it in one direction. he tried to get away from them, but +always clear and simple, so she is not stupid. she never was abashed and +always called natásha a cossack) and she stroked the child’s arm as +always better to “bow too low than not bow low enough.” so the +always be the chief desire of everyone else. +always be my daughters’ first confidante, and that if nicholas, with +always, always anxious! especially just at this age, so dangerous both +always afraid, came into her room with a peculiarly restless and malign +always accompanied any reference of hers to the imperial family, “has +although the hall porter saw someone’s carriage standing at the +although prince vasíli listened reluctantly and not very politely +although iogel did not acknowledge this to be the real mazurka, everyone +although in female society anatole usually assumed the role of a man +altered in shape by its pressure on the table, now at her still more +altar with her. how and when this would be he did not know, he did not +altar on which lay a testament and a skull. round it stood seven large +also. yes, my opinion, and only my opinion,” added prince bolkónski, +also to the soldiers. looking at their boots he several times shook his +also the abbé morio. do you know that profound thinker? he has been +also in french: +already visible. suddenly something like a birch broom seemed to sweep +already seen the young master, and, before he had reached the drawing +already seated in the drawing room. the count took the gentlemen into +already prepared...” +already passed. through the terrible and deafening roar of those voices, +already opening a door. +already lost him. he bent over him and, as his sister had taught him, +already known in moscow and that the ladies about his father—who were +already in any case dishonored by being unable to fulfill the great and +already, but then he cannot know what i think of him and may imagine +already been choosing a career for three months, and had not decided +already.” +aloud to him and being friends with princess mary. mademoiselle +a loud, monotonous voice began to read out the dispositions for the +aloud. +a look of complete absent-mindedness, kept rubbing the bridge of his +a look at you, your excellency.” +along the broad country road, edged on both sides by trees, came a high, +a long-awaited moment. he was firmly convinced that this was the day of +alone without any allies, it might perhaps have been a long time before +alone with her, so rostóv, now that he had attained what he had longed +alone with hélène in the little drawing room where they were sitting. +alone together, prince vasíli announced his hopes and wishes to the old +alone... that tremendous fortune... and what is his life worth? it’s a +alone, in which there was something more significant than in the general +alone, but because of everyone, it must inevitably come about. they are +alone at last gains a real victory, destroying the spell of the +alone applying her handkerchief to her eyes. at last she rang. +alone and in full view of the emperor. +“alone all the same, without my friends.... and he expects me not to +almost time,” she added, giving pierre to understand that they were +almost frightened, eyes as she passed him. +almost dragging him to the window. “that money is denísov’s; you +almost at the middle of the table. facing them sat pierre, beside prince +ally. we shall therefore confidently await the moment when the imperial +all your valuables.” +“all wight! all wight!” shouted denísov. “it’s no good making +all were then more confident of victory than the winning of two battles +all were silent. túshin appeared at the threshold and made his way +all were seated again, turned with his kindly smile to rostóv. +“all well?” asked rostóv, drawing away his arm. +allusion to the name of the sovereign. three hundred persons took their +all this shame and sorrow, but wanted now to play with him as a cat does +all this, rose and approached the princess. he seemed unable to bear the +all this is not right, it’s not right! you may take offense or not but +“all this had to be and could not be otherwise,” thought pierre, +all this end?” thought rostóv, looking at the changing shadows before +all the unmarried ladies and even the married ones except the very +all the soldiers’ remarks related to the two young ones. every face +all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of +“all the same! they say this one is the commander of all the emperor +“all the same, one is afraid! oh, you clever people,” said a third +“all the same, it was bilíbin who found a suitable form for the +“all the same, i love and value nothing but triumph over them all, i +all the old feminine arts. but as soon as the prince had gone her face +all the moscow ladies have conspired to give him all their sons as +all the guns, without waiting for orders, were being fired in the +all the figures on it: the sun, the moon, a hammer, a plumb line, a +all the comforts of cleanliness and all the refinements of life, prince +all the advantages were on our side. our enormous forces, undoubtedly +all that would be required of him. +all that the peasants had has been eaten up. i myself will remain in +all that has happened.” +all sorts of tempting wares. the pávlograds held feast after feast, +all sides, moved across the bridge. +all rostóv’s cards were beaten and he had eight hundred rubles scored +“all right. they are good fellows. and how have you wriggled onto the +“all right,” said pierre, still smiling in the same way. a feeling +“all right!” said dólokhov, having finished the addition. “all +“all right. fifty imperials ... that i will drink a whole bottle of +“all right, all right. we’ll talk it over,” replied prince andrew. +“all right, all right, we’ll see!” +“all right, all right!” said the old count. “he always flares up! +“all right, all right,” replied the commander, and turned to major +“all right, all right,” interrupted the prince, and laughing his +“all right, all right!” he said to prince andrew, and turned to a +all regular germans.” +all quite forgetting the danger and all regard for self-preservation, he +all pale and exchanged looks in silence. +“allow me to look at your purse,” he said in a low, almost +“allow me to give you a piece of advice. when you reach the capital, +“allow me to ask,” he said, “are you a mason?” +“allow me, sir,” said prince andrew in russian in a cold, +allow him personally to express the deep respect that, emulating his +allowed to speak, turns to auersperg with feigned astonishment (he is a +allowed to pass by special permission. the eyes of all the soldiers +allowed, i have hastened to take all steps to that end. may i have +all on one plan, for hospitals, schools, and almshouses, which were soon +all my trouble will have been thrown away.... i shall not be able to +all moscow, that everyone will say that you, drunk and not knowing what +all moscow talks of nothing but war. one of my two brothers is already +all moscow repeated prince dolgorúkov’s saying: “if you go on +all make out: was it a glade in the wood lit up by the moon, or some +all like that; one can’t unmarry. don’t be afraid; i won’t tell +all, like children of my own, as you know.” +all its details to the austrian general weyrother: a lucky accident had +“all is over,” he thought, and a cold sweat broke out on his +all-important.” +“all i can say, general,” said he with a pleasant elegance +all his wishes were being fulfilled that morning: there was to be a +all his property, not to us his direct heirs, but to pierre.” +all his decisions and intentions. he went to kurágin’s. +all her invitations without exception, written in french, and delivered +all her clothes in petersburg and that heaven knew what she would have +all her attention. he seemed to her kind, brave, determined, manly, and +“all have secrets of their own,” answered natásha, getting warmer. +all four, like a flock of scared birds, got up and left the room. +all for his relations was the fact that there was still a possibility of +“alley! alley!” said the cossack, touching the prisoner’s arm to +all expecting it, they are so sure that it will happen that i cannot, i +all done casually in a moment of anger, of illness, and was afterwards +all commanders of divisions the right to shoot marauders, but i much +all be killed,” a sergeant was saying angrily and reproachfully. +all began to run and bustle, and rostóv saw coming up the road behind +all. at last the sleigh bore to the right, drew up at an entrance, and +all as they should be? that’s right! the great thing is the serving, +all around were loving eyes glistening with tears of joy, and all around +all are struck by the justness of his views, but no one undertakes to +all, and your future depends on him. remember that, my dear, and be nice +all, and without promising to help me?” thought pierre, rising with +all along the sides of the road fallen horses were to be seen, some +all.” +alive—live: tomorrow you’ll die as i might have died an hour ago. +alive could understand or explain. +alive and suffering from a burning, lacerating pain in his head. +“a little wound, but he has been made an officer; he is well now, he +“a little volcano!” +a little to their right and behind the accountant, crashed to earth with +a little later when he went up to the large circle, anna pávlovna said +a little earth crumbled from the bank under the horse’s hind hoofs. +“aline,” he said to his wife, “go and see what they are about.” +alike, felt that the commander did not himself know what to do, and this +alighted from his horse and whose big body was jammed against the +alight, and let her pass into the house before him. old tíkhon, wearing +a life i can’t decide or think properly about anything. one’s head +alien face of that man, his bayonet hanging down, holding his breath, +alexéevich. loud knocks were heard at the door. pierre took the bandage +alexander was clearly heard. he gave the words of greeting, and the +alexander unpleasantly, he rode up and saluted. +alexander’s guards,” said the first one, indicating a russian +alexander prince vasíli had risen to high position and honors. and now, +a letter of recommendation he had brought from pierre had become +a letter has been written to the emperor in which the count asks for +“a letter from nikólenka! i’m sure of it!” exclaimed natásha, +a letter at once, and she’ll come here and all will be explained, or +alert than he had done the day before. only his eyes gleamed feverishly +alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance. +a laugh still more so, he quitted the table. +alarm, supposing these words to mean that the young count was displeased +alarm lest something should have happened to the child while he was +a large udder was attached to the cart behind. a woman with an unweaned +a languor of motion and speech, resulting from weakness, gave her a +a lack of bread, to move farther into the interior of prussia, for only +a kind no longer in general use. prince andrew remembered the story of +a keg, filled one after another the canteen lids held out to him. the +a joke he had heard in vienna and which he had been trying all that +air, and disobeying orders. the moral hesitation which decided the fate +aim was to show general weyrother—who had read his dispositions with +aim—to establish peace in europe on firm foundations—has now decided +aim?” said he quietly and quickly. +aim remaining for him was to effect a junction with the forces that were +aid of his servant, and not looking at pierre. with a pair of felt boots +aides-de-camp to inquire after the count’s health, came himself +aide-de-camp, “dat one liffs after de sird stroke.” +aide-de-camp and was duly conducted to pay his respects to the aunt and +aide-de-camp, and sat down in the lady’s chair, placing his huge hands +aide-de-camp. +aide-de-camp. +“ah, you’ve come here too, young man!” he said, smiling and +“ah, your excellency,” put in zherkóv, his eyes fixed on the +“ah, you’re up already,” said denísov, entering the room. +“ah, you are sending off a letter, princess? i have already dispatched +“ah, yes! that’s a whole long story! how are you going to speak to +“ah yes, my dear,” said the count, addressing the visitor and +“ah, yes! do tell us all about it, vicomte,” said anna pávlovna, +“ah yes, and what else did he say that’s unpleasant?” thought +“ah, wostóv,” he cried noticing the cadet’s bright face, +“ah! what joy for the princess!” exclaimed she: “at last! i must +“ah, what have you done to me?” it still seemed to say, and prince +“ah what a calamity! you say the affair was decisive? but mortier is +“ah, váska!” joyfully replied nesvítski. “what’s up with +“ah, timókhin!” said he, recognizing the red-nosed captain who had +“ah, those damned germans! they don’t know their own country!” +“ah, there will be, and there are, many more such girls somewhere whom +“ah, that’s the way to talk french,” said the picket soldiers. +“ah, that’s always the way!” said nesvítski with a wave of the +“ah! that’s a good thing. so, my dear boy, you wish to serve the +“ah, that is just what i tell him!” said she. “i don’t +“ah! telyánin! how d’ye do? they plucked me last night,” came +“ah, she is indeed a darling! i’ll send her to you.” +“ah!” said kutúzov. “i hope this will be a lesson to you. do your +“ah!...” said kutúzov glancing at bolkónski as if by this +“ah, princess mary!” he said suddenly in an unnatural voice, +“ah, prince! in what sad circumstances we meet again! and how is our +a host welcomes an honored guest. he reported that his regiment had +a horrified expression on his handsome face, anatole looked at princess +a hollow between two hills near the village of pratzen, the russian +a hoarse voice to the men to look to their pistols. he rode up to +a hoar frost now turning to dew, but in the valleys it still lay like a +“ah, my love,” answered anna mikháylovna, “god grant you never +“ah, my friend!” she said, touching his arm as she had done her +“ah, my friend!” said he, taking pierre by the elbow; and there was +“ah, my dear vicomte,” put in anna pávlovna, “l’urope” (for +“ah, my dear,” said the countess, “my life is not all roses +“ah, my dear prince! i could not have a more welcome visitor,” +“ah, my dear, my dear!” he began, rising and taking her by both +“ah, my dear, i hardly knew you,” said anna mikháylovna with a +“ah! my dear, i am afraid you and your monk are wasting your +“ah, my dear! he is so rich, and we are so poor!” +“ah, my dear friend, he is very unfortunate,” she said. “if what +“ah, my dear friend! forget the wrongs that may have been done you. +“ah, my dear fellow, what a battle we have gained! god grant that +“ah! my dear!... ah! mary!...” they suddenly exclaimed, and then +“ah, my boy, my head’s in a whirl!” said the old man with a smile, +“ah, money, count, money! how much sorrow it causes in the world,” +“ah! mon ami, i only pray, and hope that god will hear me. +“ah, may the devil take you and evewybody,” were the last words +“ah, madam, it is a great sacrament,” replied the priest, passing +“ah, it can’t be avoided!” thought nicholas, for the first and +“ah, is it you, cousin?” +“ah, i know what it is.” +“ah! here’s the warrior! wants to vanquish buonaparte?” said the +“ah, here she is!” he exclaimed laughing. “my pet, whose name day +“ah! he is alive,” said napoleon. “lift this young man up and +“ah, from vienna? very good. later, later!” +a heavenly feeling. borís was telling his new friend pierre who the +“ah, don’t talk to me! last winter she wheedled herself in here and +“ah, dear friend,” replied princess mary, “i have asked you never +“ah, count rostóv!” exclaimed pierre joyfully. “then you are his +“ah, but you won’t talk politics to me like annette!” +“ah! breathing again, breathing!” he muttered to himself. +“ah, bondarénko, dear friend!” said he to the hussar who rushed up +a handsome adjutant. this was prince bolkónski. beside him was his +“ah, and here’s nicholas!” cried natásha, running up to him. +ague. +agreed or disagreed and was satisfied or not with the arrangements. next +agreeable and interesting work. his face expressed more satisfaction +a good thing for proprietors who perish morally, bring remorse upon +a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, prince +a good example, yet here you are without your boots! the alarm will be +a gold snuffbox on which was a portrait. in the middle of one of the +ago have joined the archduke. and believe me on my honour that to me +aglow with dazzling light—as if he had only awaited this to begin the +a glimpse of her, she seemed still more lovely. she was a charming girl +agitated. +a girl, such tact, such masterly perfection of manner! it comes from +“a geography lesson!” he muttered as if to himself, but loud enough +a general engagement,” repeated dolgorúkov, evidently prizing this +age...” +again when he passed to another group whose center was the abbé. +again turning to the count. “zat is how ve old hussars look at it, and +“against your will he will save and have mercy on you and bring you +against the wall, and the second of the three sisters rushed out +against the pillow. +against the muslin of the curtain. +against them and winding down over the uneven ground. one could already +against the french?” +again struck up, the count and countess kissed, and the guests, leaving +against one of the columns in a respectful attitude implying that he, +against his right, flew round again in a circle. natásha guessed what +again shook with a deep ringing laugh, the laugh of one who always eats +again see the sun, this water, that gorge!...” +again rostóv looked intently into borís’ eyes and sighed. berg +again recalled all the details of the victory and his own calm courage +again on the sofa. they were silent for a while. +again on all the bright faces of the squadron the serious expression +again joined her. they began talking in whispers, but their talk broke +again. i must go there, prince, and scare them a bit. it won’t take a +again going on tiptoe to the reception room where they had left prince +again getting in front of the first line as he had done when the horse +again expressing deep sorrow. +again drawn out in a thin line the musketeers were descending the hill, +again began to laugh. she evidently felt unable to look at him +again, as soon as all turned toward him, excused himself and said no +again are all running back somewhere, and i shall run with them, and it, +again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression +again and remained for a while with the ismáylov regiment. +again, and let his head sink still lower. +again. +again. +after washing and dressing, prince andrew came into the diplomat’s +after two in the morning, thoughts come and i can’t sleep but toss +after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages. the jaunty +after the soup the prince became more genial. +after these words, the mason, as if tired by his long discourse, again +“after the next affair... epaulettes.” +after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one +after their active service, were stationed near olmütz and the camp +after the fatigues and impressions of the journey, his reception, and +after the battle but send a courier to petersburg with news of a +after the austerlitz campaign prince andrew had firmly resolved not +after the attack, bogdánich would come up to him as he lay wounded and +after that anna pávlovna led up to the courage and firmness of the king +after tea, the company went into the sitting room and princess mary was +after supper pierre with his partner followed the others into the +after receiving this news late in the evening, when he was alone in his +after receiving her visitors, the countess was so tired that she gave +after passing some austrian troops he noticed that the next part of the +after natásha down the passage into the sitting room with flushed face +after losing her own father. she is very good-natured, and my father +after losing half their men were retreating in disorderly confused +after looking at him napoleon smiled. +after inspecting the carriage himself and seeing the trunks put in, he +after his reception by the austrians, to speak if not in russian +after his journey and the campaign during which he had been deprived of +after his interview with his wife pierre left for petersburg. at the +after his illness he looked rather thinner that day than on the field +after his dismissal from headquarters zherkóv had not remained in the +after five o’clock it was only at the augesd dam that a hot cannonade +after dinner, he went to see his daughter-in-law. the little princess +after dinner. he called natásha and asked her what was the matter. +after denísov’s departure, rostóv spent another fortnight in moscow, +after a while the moving mass became agitated, someone rode past on +after a while he re-entered it as if to snuff the candles, and, seeing +“after austerlitz!” said prince andrew gloomily. “no, thank you +after another greeting the tsar with the strains of the march, and then +after anna mikháylovna had driven off with her son to visit count cyril +after a few minutes’ bustle beside the high bedstead, those who had +a friend older than himself and whom he respected. his whole time +a fresh wave of the flying mob caught him and bore him back with it. +a french soldier tugged at the other. he could distinctly see the +“a french pancake,” answered zherkóv. +a frenchman), “l’urope ne sera jamais notre alliée sincère.” * +a freak of fate made the impossible possible. the success of the trick +afraid of a general battle. his hour has come! mark my words!” +a fortnight ago he would have had a paymaster’s clerk at yúkhnovna +a fortnight after the letter prince vasíli’s servants came one +a former war. “the emperor will teach your suvara as he has taught the +a foreigner, in spite of all differences of faith, understood the full +a foraging expedition. rostóv in his cadet uniform, with a jerk to his +a footman came in to summon borís—the princess was going. pierre, in +a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the russian emperor, was +a first introduction and betrays a consciousness of the impropriety of +a fine place! why are you not eating anything, gentlemen?” nesvítski +“a fine mess we’ve made of it!” he remarked. +“a fine lad! my word! a fine lad!... his father lies on his deathbed +a fight led murat to try to deceive kutúzov in a similar way. meeting +afflicted by the death of the father he had hardly known), and her +affirmatively.) “when you hear a knock at the door, you will uncover +affectionately. +affectionate letters to your parents, and if you think you may be +affectionate eyes, now came up and took his arm. before he looked round +affectionate as it was—expressed a sense of his own superiority. +affected languor and indolence. he now looked like a man who has time +affectation. princess mary ran out of the room to fetch mary +affair was over and, though not big, had been a successful engagement. +affairs of honor and had twice regained his commission. +affairs and of pierre himself in those early days. from the death of +affair public. you are offended at being put on duty a bit, but why not +affair of the thabor bridge, at vienna.... they have crossed without +affair. i am her father.” +affair, and about some ladies they both knew. +a few steps, turned, cut a caper, brought her little feet sharply +a few minutes later the chief forces of the french army moved rapidly +a few hours ahead of the french who were approaching hollabrünn from +a few fir trees. +a fellow diplomat, “that the chancellor told him flatly that his +a feeling of contemptuous ill will. he snorted whenever he mentioned +a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools. +advise you to appeal to rumyántsev through prince golítsyn. that would +advice is to let the matter drop. well then, on friday after the review +adve’sawies have wefused a weconciliation, please pwoceed. take your +advantageous match but a splendid, noble fellow... he is my friend...” +advancing to attack the french cavalry that was coming to meet them. +advancing straight toward the inner door. +advancing from russia, without losing his army as mack had done at ulm. +advancing by forced marches toward znaim, which lay sixty-six miles +advancing.” +adroitness and italian play-acting! do you know the tale about him and + a dreaded foe be thou, kindhearted as a man, +a door of one of the inner rooms opened and one of the princesses, the +admitted that he had been to blame, did not lift his eyes from the +admit—he had almost been jealous on his wife’s account, was the butt +admired his regiment, rejoiced in it, and that his whole mind was +administered. come.” +adjutant, zherkóv, an orderly officer, the staff officer on duty, +adjutant whom he so hated. +adjutants met him with news of the successful result of the action. +adjutants.” +adjutant, or really let the matter drop, was the question that worried +adjutant on kutúzov’s staff, but he does everything alone. the next +adjutant by his elaborate courtesy appeared to wish to ward off any +adjutant. +a dinner where there was no place for him. in the next hut there was a +adieu, prince! may god support you...” +“adieu, mary,” said he gently to his sister, taking her by the hand +“adieu, ma bonne,” answered prince vasíli turning away from her. +adieu, dear and kind friend; may our divine saviour and his most holy +a despot. who is right and who is wrong? no one! but if you are +a desperate cry and such mad, drunken determination that, taken by +a desire to do something for them, a desire for their approval.—so i +a deed to sign for the princess’ benefit. +address rostóv by his title, as if in recognition of his confession. +addressing the mother. +addressing the englishman. +addressing the black-mustached denísov with servile deference. +addressing the austrian general, “i have the honor to congratulate +addressing lorrain in french which he pronounced badly. +addressing him as ‘usurper and enemy of mankind.’” +addressing her with the careless tone of habitual tenderness natural to +addressing first one, then another. he said he would not have been +address. he is a wise and clever fellow.” +addressed the horseman with the white plumes, evidently suggesting +addressed an edifying exhortation to them. he imagined to himself +adding, “your excellency.” +added: “what a lot of men have been crippled today—frightful!” +added, not noticing his visitor’s sarcastic smile. +added, noticing that prince andrew winced as at an electric shock. +added in a tone admitting of no rejoinder and raising her eyebrows. +added he, munching a pie in his moist-lipped handsome mouth, “would be +added, addressing prince vasíli, and without waiting for an answer she +added. +added. + a day or two, then bliss unspoilt, +a dark-green dress coat, knee breeches of the color of cuisse de nymphe +a cup of tea?” +actuated by a real desire for peace. +actual phrase used by the vienna cabinet,” said the danish chargé +activity, túshin did not experience the slightest unpleasant sense of +activities of 160,000 russians and french—all their passions, desires, +action they had been wounded. “day before yesterday, on the danube,” +action—he drew the glove from his shapely white hand, made a sign +action did prince bagratión, still hearing the cannonade in the center, +action, as if flying through the air without touching the ground. +action, and more than that, you can’t make me believe that you do not +action, and in the company of well-known, elderly, and respected racing +a cry of: “the general to the third company,” the missing officer +across the table to clink glasses with the count, with the children, and +across the bodies and under a terrible fire from the french, he attended +across, snatched it from his hand and began reading it. pierre looked +across his path. rostóv put his horse to full gallop to get out of the +a crash. +a crafty man convinced of the futility of being cunning with so +acquiring a trotter of his own, very stylish riding breeches of the +acquired though she did not understand its significance. this expression +acquainted with prince andrew bolkónski, through whom he hoped to +acquainted,” and he pressed borís’ hand. “do you know, i have not +acquaintances not only cordially, but even with a shade of deference +acquaintance,” said pierre. and again, glancing at the stranger’s +acquaintance of many persons who might prove useful to him, and by +acquaintance.’ in a word, those gentlemen, gascons indeed, so +acquaintance—he wished him simply a brother and a virtuous instructor. +a coronet) entered the room, calm and majestic, except that there was +a convoy wagon became restive at the end of the bridge, and the whole +a convoy. directly opposite to him came a strange one-horse vehicle, +a consciousness is communicated is very difficult to define, but it +a company smile but was evidently tormented by jealousy; now she turned +a company commander, a fine round-faced man, with a stupid and happy +a commanding officer’s quarters, the regiment began to move: the +a commander in chief. as it was considered that the austerlitz success +a comforting belief in future life, retribution, recompense, and +a closely written letter of two sheets from bilíbin. he folded it up +a cloak, waiting for the conversation to finish. they listened to +a clear blue sky, and the sun’s vast orb quivered like a huge hollow, +aches, and one spends all one’s money. he asked me for tonight, but i +a chance to escape, or to trick us, now that we certainly have him in +a certain house—that was another matter and quite the thing for a +a ceremonial march past him, and rostóv on bedouin, recently purchased +a celebrated miniaturist, and he leaned over the table to take the +accustomed to win in their battles,” he concluded his evidently +accounts is a poor creature.” +account of court and personal considerations tens of thousands of lives, +accountant, a stout, full-faced man, looked around him with a naïve +“according to the scouts the last of them crossed on rafts during the +accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room. but in spite of +accomplished. +accompanying him to the hall. +accompanied by adjutants, galloped off in different directions, and +accept this challenge or not. anatole did not release him, and though +accept it and fixed the stake himself. nicholas submitted to him, and at +accent. he was breathless with agitation, his face was red, and when +accent—having noticed that zherkóv could still hear him. +accent. +a cavalryman. prince andrew felt that an invisible power was leading him +a case. +absolutely necessary. +absent-minded. when he rose to go, he took up instead of his own, the +absence. little nicholas had been unwell for four days. the coachman who +abroad, the other is with the guards, who are starting on their march +a brilliant match—blushed like a girl. +a bright smile, “so she won’t come down. it is natural in her +above the heights was the dark clear sky, and to the right the vast orb +above his head: “captain túshin! captain!” +above and below him in social standing. something always drew him toward +above all this the lofty sky, formed the chief subjects of his delirious +“about your sister,” ejaculated denísov testily. +about two thirds of a mile was stopped on the highroad. rostóv saw the +about to smile, and once on coming out of the chapel prince andrew and +about to ask their way of an elderly footman who had sprung up as they +about till dawn, because i think and can’t help thinking, just as +about the princess’ health and then led pierre along a stone passage. +about the old prince and criticized him. +about the corners of his mouth read to the austrian general the +about the austrians and their uniforms, about their lines, about +about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry +about ten o’clock rostóv went to the english hotel straight from the +about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over.... +about sergéy kuzmích that interested prince vasíli just then, and +“about my wife... i am ashamed as it is to leave her on your +about mademoiselle bourienne was dreadful. it was untrue to be sure, but +about him or anyone else, and i don’t want anything of the kind.” +about him. he reddened and turned away. +about him and even speak. +about him and about his love for him, letting it be understood that he +about her native land. when he saw the pretty little bourienne, anatole +about her confinement, and how she dreaded it, and had complained of her +about a mile and a half off on the opposite heights. down below, on +about 80,000 went in payments on all the estates to the land bank, about +abominable, quite abominable!” said prince andrew, and he went off to +a bold, free, and easy tone, while in his soul he regarded himself as a +a blue-eyed soldier involuntarily attracted notice. it was dólokhov +able to inflict punishments justly and unjustly. it is those people i +“a bit touched—i always said so.” +a b c of war or of politics, and that bonaparte was an insignificant +abbé morio? he is a most interesting man.” +“a bayonet wound. i remained at the front. remember, your +a battlefield to whom thousands of new and brilliant ideas occur which +a battery to their left. the smoke above it had not yet dispersed. two + * a bastard. +a banister post stood a tallow candle which guttered in the draft. on +abandoning all hope of a junction with buxhöwden. if kutúzov decided +abandoned in the center?” he inquired, searching with his eyes for +“aah!” rostóv almost screamed lifting both hands to his head. the + *(4) i just ask you that. + *(3) hollow. +30,000 went for the upkeep of the estate near moscow, the town house, + * (2) that their fire gets into his eyes and he forgets that + *(2) that suits us down to the ground. + * (2) “it is all very well for that good-for-nothing fellow + * (2) “hurrah for the austrians! hurrah for the russians! +1. discretion, the keeping of the secrets of the order. 2. obedience to + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 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bear me a grudge, prokhór ignátych?” said the +“you won’t be able to find either your baggage or anything else now, +“you won’t ask,” natásha’s little brother was saying; “i know +you won’t ask!” +you with my saber!” he shouted, actually drawing his saber from its +“you will soon be dressing your men in petticoats! what is this?” +you will see.” +you will remember this, your excellency!” +you will let me win this ten, or beat it.” +“you will find the beautiful hélène here, whom it is always +“you will change it, won’t you?” said lise. and as princess mary +you, who do not believe in the truth of the light and who have not +“you were saying, mr. staff officer...” continued the colonel in an +you were not right, not quite in the right, you were impetuous...” +“you were meaning to go out, weren’t you, mamma? do you want the +you were about, challenged a man you are jealous of without cause.” +you want to make something out of your company?” +you want to know whether i am happy? no! is she happy? no! but why this +“you’ve only just missed him,” said the orderly. +you’ve had to take,” cried he. +“you’ve grown older, tíkhon,” he said in passing to the old man, +“you’ve got it at last.” +“you’ve been in a hurry. that’s bad!” +“you value your own pride and don’t wish to apologize,” continued +you understand, your excellency, my dear sir, that you must not +you understand that my sole desire is conscientiously to carry out his +“you treat me like an invalid or a child. i see it all! did you behave +you to read when i am gone. you will find them useful.” +“you told me to remind you of the officer dólokhov, reduced to the +“you thought!” shouted the prince, his words coming more and more +“youth is no hindrance to courage,” muttered sukhtélen in a failing +“you think so?” rejoined anna pávlovna in order to say something +“you think i’m an old man and don’t understand the present state +youthful movement, stood for a moment in the stirrup as if loathe to +youthfully glittering eyes. +you that it would be very easy to do so if you haven’t sufficient +youth and his wish to express all that was in his mind. +“you tell the colonel in the presence of other officers that an +you tell me that among some good things it contains others which our +“you spoke to me of inflammable material,” said he, “but you said +“you speak to the colonel about this nasty business before other +you—sónya. but their eyes met and said thou, and exchanged tender +“you shan’t have it!” he said distinctly. +you select to be your worthy helpmeet in masonry.” and after a pause, +“you see yours is already an officer in the guards, while my nicholas +you seen duport?” +“you see, my fwiend,” he said, “we sleep when we don’t love. we +“you see, my dear... what’s that mess?” she said, pointing to his +“you see, my dear fellow, i have been thinking about you,” +“you see! i have asked,” whispered natásha to her little brother +you see i do understand. i don’t know how to put it... with this one +you say so much that is bad, does not seem to have had its usual effect +you?” said the old prince to prince vasíli. +your victory is not a matter for great rejoicing and that you can’t be +“your son,” wrote kutúzov, “fell before my eyes, a standard in +your son bids fair to become an officer distinguished by his industry, +yourselves. it must be here somewhere,” said lavrúshka. +yourself, put a bridle on your senses, and seek blessedness, not in +yourself in it. and now, when one wants to smooth the thing over, some +yourself in a position to be attacked, but yourself to attack. believe +yourself and say you nearly ruined your life and only found happiness +yours? a daughter, i suppose?” +yours.” +“your regiment fulfilled its duty honorably,” said napoleon. +your presence; if she is willing, then he can stay on. he can stay and +your old father...” he paused unexpectedly, and then in a querulous +“your joke is too bad, it’s witty but unjust,” said anna +your interests as with a kinswoman, a good, kind, true relation. and i +“your honor, you’re wanted by the general. he is in the hut here,” +“your honor, there he is!” cried one of the hussars behind him. and +“your honor, the generals!” said the sergeant, riding up to rostóv. +“your honor, i thought...” +your hands.” he spoke as if those bullets could not kill him, and his +your greatest pleasure is to be unpleasant to people! go and flirt with +your father the truth when he was in favor, and in your case it’s my +your father is rich, i don’t regard myself as a relation of his, and +your father.” +your eyes,” added willarski. “i wish you courage and success,” +“your excellency, you gave him leave yourself, on the march.” +“your excellency, should not mary bogdánovna be sent for?” said one +“your excellency,” said rostóv, “may i ask a favor?” +“your excellency,” said he in german, stepping forward and +“your excellency!” prince andrew broke the silence with his abrupt +“your excellency! let us attack them! i’ll dwive them off.” +“your excellency, it’s the officer dólokhov, who has been reduced +“your excellency, i should like to be of use here. allow me to remain +“your excellency, here are two trophies,” said dólokhov, pointing +“your excellency...” +you’re wrong to think that of me... i... for me... for the honor of +your enchanting party,” said he, turning to anna pávlovna. +“you’re always like that; you thwow a thing down anywhere and forget +your doing so; but i warn you that if you dare to play the fool in my +“your doctor tells you to go to bed earlier,” said prince andrew. +your disposal.” +your denísov though he is a rake and all that, still i like him; so +“your cousin...” dólokhov started to say, but nicholas interrupted +your battalions. i will keep out of fire if you with your habitual +you positively that hélène is as innocent before you as christ was +you please, but do this for my sake! please do! father’s father, our +“you picked it up?... i dare say! you’re very smart!” one of them +“you owe forty-three thousand, count,” said dólokhov, and +“you ought to have been there at seven in the morning.” +you not rest here?” +young. you need advice. don’t be angry with me for exercising an old +young woman, so soon to become a mother, so full of life and health, and +young son, resting on him and winking joyfully at him. young rostóv +young rostóv. +young nicholas rostóv, who with his enthusiasm could not bear to remain +young master. “can it be? my treasure!” and prokófy, trembling with +young man was an illegitimate son of count bezúkhov, a well-known +young man’s shoulder. +young man’s recent loss by the death of count bezúkhov (everyone +young man. he sat with his legs up on the sofa as if quite at home and, +young man he did not know, with a peculiar cross hanging from his +young man can inspire in a romantic and loving young girl like yourself. +young lady visitor and the countess’ eldest daughter (who was four +young ladies. “i can just imagine what a funny figure that policeman +young girls ready for anything and full of hope—experienced the same +young face to look back. a shudder of terror went through him: “no, +young ever to be more to me than a friend, but this sweet friendship, +young and old men and women pierre could not understand why he did not +young, all our octogenarians were reviewed, and of prozoróvski +young aide-de-camp with a smile. +“you need not have said that to me, father,” said the son with a +“you, my little countess, are a notorious spendthrift,” said the +“you must walk, walk as much as possible, as much as possible,” he +“you must look for husbands for them whether you like it or not....” +“you must excuse me, dear vicomte,” said prince vasíli to the +“you must do as you please,” said prince bolkónski, bowing to his +“you might have taken some from the covering troops.” +“you may punt,” he said. +“you may go,” he said to anatole. +“you’ll make a fine thing of it, deploying in sight of the enemy! +you’ll like it,” and he patted her cheek. “it will drive all the +“you’ll die and all will end. you’ll die and know all, or cease +you’ll be appointed adjutant somewhere and can snap your fingers when +“you live in the country and don’t think the life terrible,” he +“you know they’ve come, marie?” said the little princess, waddling +“you know,” said the princess in the same tone of voice and still in +“you know, prince, i am not a bonapartist!” +“you know n— n— received a snuffbox with the portrait last +“you know, mon cher, your father and i had some accounts to settle, so +“you know, michael ilariónovich, we are not on the empress’ field +“you know him not, my dear sir, and so you are very unhappy. you do +“you know her husband, of course?” said anna pávlovna, closing her +“you know bilíbin—he’s a very clever fellow. he suggested +“you just wait a moment, my dear fellow, and listen,” interrupted +you—is that that man suffers, and this don juan, wicked fellow, is +you? i’m awfully glad you’re my brother.” she touched his +you hurry up? now then!” +“you have only lately arrived?” the countess asked him. +“you haven’t read the letter?” asked sónya. +“you have not yet seen my husband?” +“you have earned the st. george’s standards and will be worthy of +“you have been in paris recently, i believe? i suppose it’s very +you have been entered in the diplomatic corps and made a gentleman of +“you have a try, hercules,” said he, turning to pierre. +“you had better take care!” said the countess. +“you had better go.” +you going, when you might remain here? you are faced by one of two +“you give me your word of honor not to go?” +“you forget yourself, colonel. i am not considering my own pleasure + * you expect to make an income out of the government. +“you don’t understand why i say this,” he continued, “but it is +“you don’t say so!” replied the countess. +“you don’t mind your honor?” he asked túshin. “i’ve lost my +“you did not get my letter?” he asked, and not waiting for a +you did gain a brilliant victory, if even the archduke karl gained a +you, dear mary, that in spite of his extreme youth his departure for +you’d better listen more carefully!” +you cry, sónya, dear love, darling sónya!” and she kissed her and +“you couldn’t see a thing. how they shot at their own fellows! + * “you clear out of this.” +you can undertake the theater, i society, and you, hippolyte, of course +you can’t wait a moment! don’t you see the general wants to pass?” +“you can’t come in! you can’t!” said a terrified voice from +“you can give the message to his majesty,” said dolgorúkov, +“you came rushing into the drawing room so that everyone felt ashamed +you!” came from different sides. +“you call him váska? that’s funny! and is he very nice?” +you, but why should i bother about you? you’d be only too glad, of +you, but we’ll see what will happen. buonaparte has become a great +“you, bolkónski, don’t know,” said bilíbin turning to prince +“you at least must tackle him properly, or else if he goes on like +you at last decided on anything? are you going to be a guardsman or a +“you are wounded?” he asked, hardly able to master the trembling of +“you are unhappy, my dear sir,” the stranger continued. “you +“you are the commander of the emperor alexander’s regiment of horse +“you are still the same dreamer, i see,” remarked borís, shaking +“you are seeking for truth in order to follow its laws in your life, +“you are off to the war, prince?” said anna pávlovna. +you are not aware of the fact...” +“you are most welcome! i know, i know,” said the count, kissing and +“you are mistaken,” said borís deliberately, with a bold and +“you are joking,” replied pierre, growing more and more excited. +“you are in love with me?” natásha broke in. +“you are good in every way, andrew, but you have a kind of +“you are an angel: i am not worthy of you, but i am afraid of +you are all blubberers and understand nothing.” +“you are a little slyboots,” she said. +you a place in my carriage. i am very glad. all our important business +“you and your generals won’t get on against buonaparte; you’ll +you and make you weep. +“you always manage to do things at the wrong time,” continued véra. +you, all!” he added in a tone of command. +“you absolutely must come and see me,” she said in a tone that +you?” +you.” +you!” + you.” +yet with unhesitating assurance that he was doing the right thing, +yet with a hope for the fulfillment of her forbidden earthly longing) +yet the ladies themselves could not help laughing. +yet occupied that region, and the russians—the uninjured and slightly +yet it was she, dressed in a new gown which he did not know, made since +yet. he felt that he must not say it. +yet a young woman. escaping from her father she ran to hide her flushed +yet at the same time was conscious of his strength as a part of that +“yes, you talk, but try it yourself!” +“yes, your excellency. forgive me for heaven’s sake... it was only +“yes, your excellency,” answered the ukrainian gaily, tossing his +“yes, you’re quite right,” continued the countess. “till now i +“yes, you might, but i am afraid of getting the accounts mixed. so i +“yes, you have seen him?” said prince andrew. “well, what is +“yes, you do not know him, my dear sir,” said the mason. “you +yes! yes! yes! don’t look at me with such surprise. if you marry +“yes, yes, that is so,” said pierre joyfully. +“yes, yes, of course!” pierre chimed in, pleased at the arrival of +“yes, yes, of course,” interrupted prince vasíli impatiently, +“yes, yes,” muttered bagratión as if considering something, and he +“yes, yes; just so! bring it. give it to the countess.” +“yes, yes, if you please! it is already late,” said he, and nodding +“yes... yes, i believe in god,” he said. +“yes, yes, i am unhappy,” assented pierre. “but what am i to +“yes, yes,” he muttered, “it will be difficult, i fear, difficult +“yes, yes, go and tell them to get it ready,” she answered, +“yes, yes, do so.” +“yes, yes,” assented pierre. +“yes, yes,” assented pierre. +“yes, we know that, but the harm i am conscious of in myself is +“yes, we have altered much, very much, since then,” said prince +“yes, this is the one thing left me now,” he said with a sigh. +“yes, they are splendid, splendid youngsters,” chimed in the count, +“yes, these verses nicholas wrote himself and i copied some others, +“yes, the ham was just delicious...” answered another with a loud +“yes, the austrian prince who built that castle was no fool. it’s +“yes, that was fine,” said rostóv, smiling. +“yes, that’s me!” she seemed to say, answering the rapt gaze with +“yes, that must be so,” thought pierre, when after these words the +“yes, that all happened!” he said, and, smiling happily to himself +yesterday’s order. have you got it, denísov?” +yesterday and the question presented itself whether he ought or ought +“yes, stories!” repeated rostóv loudly, looking with eyes suddenly +“yes, so it is, so it is,” said the general angrily, lowering the +“yes, sir, and there’s a light in your father’s study.” +“yes, sir.” +“yes, sir.” +“yes,” said the countess when the brightness these young people had +“yes,” said rostóv as if it cost him a great deal to utter the +“yes,” said natásha. “do you know, nicholas—don’t be +“yes,” replied a footman in a bold loud voice, as if anything were +“yes, please do,” said rostóv. +“yes, please do,” answered the general, and he repeated the order +“yes, one is afraid,” continued the first speaker, he of the +“yes, now you may be glad!” said she; “this is what you have +“yes, my sónya could not have done otherwise!” thought nicholas. +“yes, my dear, this is a great loss for us all, not to speak of you. +“yes, let’s go in and i will get myself a roll and some cheese,” +yes, killed my wife’s lover. yes, that was it! and why? how did i come +“yes, just the same. though i don’t know what your opinion will +“yes, i was thinking”—for some reason borís could not help +“yes, i was brought up quite differently,” remarked the handsome +“yes, i was a fool! i still believed in people, loved them, and +“yes... it’s getting on, it will all be settled today.” anna +“yes, it’s from julie,” replied the princess with a timid glance +“yes, it seems he is ill. people are always disturbing him,” +“yes, it’s a nice purse. yes, yes,” he said, growing suddenly +“yes, it is very likely that i shall be killed tomorrow,” he +“yes, it is all very horrid,” interrupted pierre, “very horrid.” +“yes, it can’t be helped if they won’t take less. ah, dear me! i +“yes, i saw him, and am convinced that he fears nothing so much as +“yes, i never loved her,” said he to himself; “i knew she was a +“yes, indeed,” replied the princess with a sigh. “so he may have +“yes, indeed!” +“yes, i’m tired too,” said rostóv. +“yes, immediately, immediately! hey, who’s there?” he called out +“yes, i knew it long ago but had forgotten. i knew that i could expect +“yes... i... i... desire regeneration,” pierre uttered with +“yes, i have heard of his scheme for perpetual peace, and it is very +“yes, if you put it like that it’s quite a different matter,” said +“yes, if having obtained power, without availing himself of it to +“yes, i feel a kind of oppression,” she said in reply to the +“yes, i’d send them on in front, but no fear, they’re crowding up +“yes, i do wish it,” said he. +“yes, i do believe in god,” he repeated. +“yes: ideas of robbery, murder, and regicide,” again interjected an +“yes, i belong to the brotherhood of the freemasons,” said the +“yes, i am, but please don’t let us do like that.... in another four +yes, hospitals, medicine. he has a fit, he is dying, and you come and +“yes, he is very handsome,” thought pierre, “and i know him. it +“yes, god be thanked! yes! they’ve just finished supper. let me have +“yes, gentlemen, i’ve been told there’s a rumor going about moscow +“yes, from olmütz,” he answered, with a sigh. +“yes, father, i have come to you and brought my wife who is +“yes, everything is different nowadays, everything is changed. the +“yes, dmítri, clean ones, please,” said the countess, sighing +“yes, count,” she would say, “he is too noble and pure-souled for +“yes, but you are not the only one. there are your sisters...” +“yes, but it is not as you imagine,” prince andrew continued. “i +“yes, but he will dislike it extremely,” said bolkónski. +“yes, but between ourselves,” said the princess, “that is a +“yes, bring some.” +“yes, a regular volcano,” said the count. “takes after me! and +“yes and no mistake!” cried denísov. “you worked like wegular +“yes, and i have some money and a letter to give you,” he added. +“yes, and he is over sixty. i hear the count no longer recognizes +“yes, and even tomorrow,” replied her brother. +“yes.” +“yes.” +years ... then i will ask for your hand.” +years older than her sister and behaved already like a grown-up person), +years before, it seemed impossible that the little creature who lived +year?” said “the man of profound intellect.” “why shouldn’t +yards was all that separated them. the enemy ceased firing, and that +xvii, for the queen, or for madame elizabeth? nothing!” and he became +wrote himself,” said she through her tears. +wrong and that to discuss the bad news was difficult, and so it was best +wrong, and further that he was disagreeable and unnatural. +written, “still, i should not cry, but you can’t... no one can +writing, so that his quill spluttered and squeaked. “if you have +write, told rostóv the contents of his letter. +“write to her and let me know how her father looks at the matter. au +wrists visible from under the shirt cuffs, laid down the pack and took +wrinkled soles and palms. +wrinkled, clean-shaven cheek for pierre to kiss and would say: “till +wringing her hands. +wretched mood. at nine in the morning, he heard firing in front and +wrath. having snapped at an officer for an unpolished badge, at another +wounds, the loss of family—i fear nothing. and precious and dear +wounded where there was no one left to fire at, on seeing an adjutant +wounded were more distinctly heard than any other sound in the darkness +wounded under him and his own arm slightly grazed by a bullet. as a mark +wounded soldier was so dirty, coarse, and revolting that his proximity +wounded officer?” +wounded in the right hand, taken his sword in the left, and gone +wounded—had left it long ago. all about the field, like heaps of +wounded had been abandoned on the other side of the danube with a letter +wounded, and one knocked out,” he added, unable to restrain a happy +wounded and captured russian officers he was carried to the hospital. +would you now like to look round my place?” +“would you believe it, count, i was not at all alarmed, because i knew +would take place on this side of it... +would still remain piteous and plain. after two or three changes to +would occupy a most brilliant position in society. don’t you think so? +“would not your excellency like a little refreshment?” he said. +would not supply them. pierre was obliged to wait. without undressing, +“would not such a meeting be too trying for him, dear anna +would not see us for a whole fortnight. i know it was then he wrote this +would not have taken lovers (des amants), but i have not done so,” +would not be bad as regards the unwritten code,” thought borís), +would meet. +would magnanimously extend the hand of reconciliation. +would i not give now to be unmarried! you are the first and only one to +would have taken the icon, but she stopped him. andrew understood, +would have seemed so unnatural had anyone disliked him, that he could +would have me be, but i have never had help from anyone.... but it is +would have made them. +would have hit alpátych, the overseer, had not the latter instinctively +would have addressed yourself first to me. in that case you would not +would happen to him and still more afraid of showing his fear. he felt +would give way not only under a cannon or a crowd, but very soon even +would find himself in the position of mack at ulm. if kutúzov decided +would be wiser for him to leave petersburg. pierre proposed going to his +would be transferred to the guards at once?” said she. +would be too extraordinary,” and at the very moment she thought this, +would be to betray her agitation, while to decline their offers to +would be taken immediately to free his serfs—and that till then they +would be something unnatural, and as it seemed to him dishonorable, in +would be particularly pleasant to him to dishonor my name and ridicule +would be killed. +would be good if everything were as clear and simple as it seems to +would be easier to see people coming along it. “follow me!” said he, +would at last start on that path of regeneration and on the actively +would appear as he passed the commander. +would again have risen had not the prince still held her fast, “though +“wostóv, you’ve not been playing schoolboy twicks...” +“wostóv, get up!” +“wostóv, deah fellow, just see how much there is left and shove the +worthy of it. this rescript began with the words: “sergéy kuzmích, +worthless scoundrel whose whole life could not atone for his crime. he +worse, would have thought that rostóv was himself to blame since what +worse than others.” +worse, and it is absolutely necessary to prepare him if he is so ill. +worn leather, and an officer’s saber with a sword knot. the don horse +worn and irritable. the infantry passing before him came to a halt +world. prince andrew was the first to move away, ruffling his hair +worldly sciences of physics, history, chemistry, and the like, into +world a quite different atmosphere, careless, lighthearted, and +world!” +work. on a third estate the priest, bearing a cross, came to meet +work nearer to her. +working herself up to tears with the imaginary words of her pauvre mère +working and looked up with that curious expression of inner, happy calm +work, chimes to play, figures to pop out, and the hands to advance with +workbag.” +work and study. and if pierre was often struck by andrew’s lack +word would effectively prove to prince vasíli the invalidity of his +word “waiting.”) “not all the columns have formed up yet, your +word that hardenburg says, or haugwitz either. this famous prussian +words with vague yet joyful ideas. the door opened and someone came in. +words. touched that this statuesque princess could so change, pierre +words to the soldiers who were carrying him, now with his eyes fixed +words—the great all or nothing-” said he to himself, “or to +words), others were eating bread; the more severely wounded looked +words of rostopchín, that french soldiers have to be incited to battle +words: “morning dawned, the sun was rising,” and concluding: “on +words. if you are going to fight a duel, and you make a will and write +words he had found so difficult to utter: “i love you.” “it all +words, he added, “don’t be hurt, my dear fellow; you know i speak +words: “gallop off to kórchevo and carry out instructions!” +words could do. you will perhaps also see in your further initiation a +words but could not distinguish them. the din of many voices was too +word or slight rearrangement kept the conversational machine in steady, +word of honor not to take anything more till the spring. now only twelve +word infected the whole crowd with a feeling of panic. +word, “and you believed it! well, what have you proved? what does this +word; and he sat down at the nearest table. +word. +wooden walls redolent of pine, and would have gone farther, but antón +wood. +“won’t you come over to the other table?” suggested anna +won’t go.” +won’t get there till evening.” +won’t be in action,” he added as if in apology. +wonderful classic beauty of her figure, his face on the contrary +women, ‘women and wine’ i don’t understand!” +women’s gloves, he said: “dear brother, these woman’s gloves are +“women,” he said in a low, scarcely audible voice. +women have that dress can make a face pretty. +women are when you see them in their true colors! when you meet them +women.” +women. +woman. with a slight rustle of her white dress trimmed with moss +woman who may belong to anyone—to you too,” said her glance. and at +woman’s privilege.” +woman. now i have spoken that terrible word to myself all has become + * “woman is man’s companion.” +woman, but there, just fancy! those three got hold of a bear somewhere, +woman; and what have you done? you have not helped her to find the way +with you. may i?” he added in a low voice so as not to disturb the +“with you i will be quite frank,” said anna mikháylovna. “there +with you. i can’t.” +with you alone! god knows how long we may again be parted. you are not +with which he listened to pierre, especially when he spoke with joyful +with us.” +with upraised arms. +with trembling hands, threw his body across the saddle, righted himself, +with thoughts and anxieties as to be oblivious of his presence. he +with the strict formality of his house. at that moment the great clock +with the soldier, an infantry officer with a bandaged cheek came up to +with these words she greeted prince vasíli kurágin, a man of high +with the self-satisfaction of a man on parade, he stepped lightly with +with the same expression on his full, cheerful, clean-shaven face, the +with the river between himself and the main body of the french. on the +with the rank of lieutenant; but as it is i receive two hundred and +with the physical pain. it was they, these soldiers—wounded and +with the old prince.” +with the naked eye prince andrew saw below them to the right, not more +with the lassitude of age, sat yawning wearily with closed eyes. the +with their plumes, ribbons, and medals, both courtiers and military +with their management and embezzlement of money, some after their first +with the hussar colonel on his left and shinshín and the other male +with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance +with the full swing of a bludgeon. it hurt a little, but the worst of +with the flirtatiousness of a handsome youth at sónya and the young +with the expression with which people compliment their host at a ball. +with the delight boys feel at the sight of a military elder brother, and +with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our +with the air of an old brigadier. +with tender smiles was saying to véra that love is not an earthly but +with telyánin and bogdánich. that affair was the same thing as this +with such exactitude that nesvítski could not help laughing. kutúzov +with something more than curiosity and sympathy. he noticed that they +with something. it was a coffin with bones inside. he was not at all +with so and-so,’ and then i take a cab and go myself two, three, or +with silver plate, two turkish pistols and a saber—a present from +with shinshín. berg gave his arm to véra. the smiling julie karágina +with shifting eyes but eyebrows still raised, telyánin handed him the +with red light like a russian church during evening service. under +with rapid rhythmic whistle flew over the heads of the horsemen and fell +with profit. the first and chief object of our order, the foundation on +with prince bagratión’s detachment.” +with pleasure to his own voice. “all i can say, general, is that if +with particular courtesy ushered prince andrew before him along a +with papers from kutúzov to the tsarévich, he looked in on borís, +without wars. how is it that we women don’t want anything of the kind, +without turning their heads glanced at one another, curious to see their +without taking any notice of him although they were now meeting for the +without support. prince bagratión turned to the officer and with his +without receiving any explanation. +without reasoning. with an affectation of respect which evidently struck +without reading it and reread his father’s letter, ending with the +without omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from +without moving, undertaking nothing....” +without male society, on anatole’s appearance all the three women of +without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly. it was as +without looking at the man he was addressing, and did not reply to +without looking at him, and with a kind of fury that made him like his +without laughing, but could not resist looking at him: so to be out of +without his noticing it the feeling of offense immediately turned into +without his greatcoat, with his orders on his breast and an enormous +without his boots (he had given them to the canteen keeper to dry), +without going out of the house, waiting for the money his father could +without eating.” +without delay and carry out instructions! +without changing his careless attitude, pierre looked at them over his +without boasting that it was a little better than at ulm...” +without at all noticing that his involuntary smile had stabbed the heart +without any definite position, without relations or even a country, did +without any command being given, apparently obstructed by something in +without answering, rostóv shook the soldier’s cross of st. george +without an inner struggle; “at such a moment as this one must think +with one leg crossed high above the other. his cheeks, which were so +with one another. again the footmen rushed about, chairs scraped, and +with none of the embarrassment so commonly shown by young men in their +with natásha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed +with napoleon if, contrary to expectations, these negotiations were +“with my father and sister, remember,” said prince andrew gently. +with lighted tapers in their hands, slowly and solemnly conducting the +with lanterns, standing at the entrance. she went out on the stairs. on +with kutúzov’s cantata, laid one before pierre as one of the +with kisses, holding him tight by the skirt of his coat, sprang away and +with jests and to come to business. he involuntarily looked round at the +with it to the marshals, and ordered the action to begin. the marshals, +with it hidden for awhile; then looking up and seeing pierre she +within half an hour adjutants had been sent in various directions with +within grapeshot range now.” +within a few days. princess mary and the old prince each bore and hid +within. +with his whole body as if in that position he hoped to hasten the speed +with his thin legs, went up to kutúzov. +with his small hand. +with his right thumb under a button of his uniform, his chest expanded +with his right hand, then falling on one knee he twirled her round him, +with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. at the sound +with his handkerchief, sat down by natásha and did not leave her for +with his glittering, black eyes at rostóv. +with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache +with his foot. +with his feelings but with the very possibility of life. life without +with his face in his hands. +with his eyes bandaged seemed to him an hour. his arms felt numb, +with his eccentric father. +with his daughter, princess mary, and her companion, mademoiselle +with his cap on the back of his black head and a cloak hanging jauntily +with him to dolgorúkov. +with him. there now, sídorov!” +with himself and those around him, his smile and glance were brighter +with him remained in his room; a small box, a large canteen fitted +with him.” +with her to the side of the room where stood the high bedstead with its +with her knitting. princess mary took a book and began reading. only +with her. he kissed her hand and addressed her not as thou but as +with her head bent first on one side and then on the other. +with her beautiful eyes full of tears at the door through which prince +with her and picked up her reticule and drove out with her. how did it +with grief, though he tried hard to hide it in order not to sadden his +with great difficulty he managed to get to his horse, and shouting +with gossip,” he continued. “just now they are talking about you and +with germans all day. we went with weyrother to survey the dispositions. +with frightened eyes; the second assumed precisely the same expression; +with flour whitening their carts—on that narrow dam amid the wagons +with exaggerated politeness. +with evident pleasure. +with enjoyment, gazing with ever-increasing amiability at the other +with elasticity of movement, faith in his good fortune, and generally in +with dólokhov. “none but fools trust to luck in play,” dólokhov +with carts that it was impossible to get by in a carriage. prince andrew +with bread and salt and wished to build a chantry in honor of peter and +with banks still bare of grass. it was at the end of a village that +with a wink, and passed on followed by another, an old man. +with a trembling voice and some difficulty in utterance due to his +with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her +with a subtle smile. +with a strength he had never before felt, he made a step toward her +with a smile. +with a sinking heart—watching the bridge and the hussars in the bright +with a sigh. this might have been taken as an expression of sorrow +with a sigh he could not suppress, as they passed out of the palace. +with a sigh. +with a serious expression, but with a smile lurking at the corners of +with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not +with a sense of antipathy to the old prince which she did not +with a scared look and that princess mary was no longer by the cot. +with a rapid, almost brutal movement of her head, she intercepted his +with a pleasant feeling that there was something à la louis xv in the +with anything in regard to her; and that always will be so in whatever +with an old mother and a hunchback sister, and was the most affectionate +with an f, as a village elder of mine writes in his reports. she is rich +with an enormous mouth, hardly refraining from laughing, “i felt like +with an apoplectic flush over neck and nape as old people do. +with a mouse. +with a mournful expression. +“with a message to his majesty.” +with a look the significance of which could not be understood by mortal +with a look of nervous agitation such as pierre had never before seen on +with a hum of conversation, like the hum of bees swarming in springtime. +with a heart full despair he rode away, continually looking back at the +with a gloomy and tired face, was wearily taking off his wraps with the +with a friendly smile. +with a foretaste of artistic pleasure. +with a facetious smile on his face, he was telling the ladies about last +with a distressed face left the room to find sónya. +with a decorous smile of self-satisfaction at being able clearly to +with a decanter on a tray as “my dear” and “my sweet,” asked +with a clever face and sharply projecting jaw which, without spoiling +with a clear, bright expression, as if asking them to notice how calmly +with a calm smile that she was not so stupid as to be jealous: ‘let +with a bottle wrapped in a napkin passed him by. he frowned, trying to +with a bashful and awkward gesture not at all like a military salute +wish, to court society’s favor. now he alone was blamed for what had +wish to be seen in that mood, for hearing footsteps in the passage he +wish or not to be prince anatole kurágin’s wife? reply: yes or no,” +wishing to take it off, but let it drop again. the five minutes spent +wishing to show him that she did not even dare expect to interest him, +wishing to show her connections and knowledge of what went on in +wishing to rid himself of this staff officer’s company, “please +wishing to find out where the commander in chief was, he rode up to +wishing to avail himself of their courtesy, and this caused some delay +wishes to test me!” his heart contracted and the blood rushed to his +wishes to stay with me, let him... he’ll be of use here if he’s a +wishes; that is my only reason for being here. i came simply to help him +wished to take another seat so as not to trouble the lady, and also to +wished to see the regiment just in the state in which it had been on +wished to say something more, but at that moment prince vasíli and his +wished to make some suggestion. but prince vasíli interrupted him in +wished to help him but could not. +wished to do something special on meeting his friend. he wanted to pinch +wished both to rebuke him (for daring to speak as he had done of a man +wish?” +wisdom.” +wiping them on the sleeves of their greatcoats. all their faces were +winter of 1806, which nicholas rostóv spent in moscow, was one of the +wing with the other, prince andrew met mademoiselle bourienne smiling +wings, hoping before evening and before the arrival of the emperor to +wine with dignity and looking to the count for approval. +“wine? gluttony? idleness? laziness? irritability? anger? women?” +wind to carry away. a pleasant humming and whistling of bullets were +windows opening into the conservatory, with its large bust and full +window sill, with a pale but radiant face. +window sill. +window. nesvítski, moving his moist lips as he chewed something, and +window, from which the double frame had been removed (by order of the +window and from dólokhov’s back. anatole stood erect with staring +“will you have the portmanteaus brought in? and a bed got ready, and +“will you bet? the ribbon of the order is a different matter....” +will to tell only what happened. it is very difficult to tell the truth, +will they cross pomerania?” +“will they burn the bridge or not? who’ll get there first? will they +will. the races, the english club, sprees with denísov, and visits to +will slash at him!” thought rostóv, gripping the hilt of his saber. +will pass here immediately; it will please him to see these gentlemen +will not rest until they have gained their end, and are prepared if +will not reach your regiment before peace is concluded, or you will +will just be time.” +will in pierre’s favor are among the count’s papers, then, my dear +willing, are going to die in the regiment, we prize the honor of the +will come back in a rage. will you have coffee?” +will come!” +will certainly happen!” thought pierre, glancing at those dazzling +will certainly be granted. pierre will get everything as the legitimate +will be my teacher...” and lowering his big arm he offered it to the +will begin. and he says buonaparte is in braunau! shows you’re a fool. +will be cut off,” said he. +willarski, whom pierre had known slightly in petersburg society, came +willarski was silent throughout the drive. to pierre’s inquiries as +willarski bowed his head. +will all the same never be like those petersburg young men.” +will all end in nothing!” +will all die for him gladly! is it not so, gentlemen? perhaps i am not +will accept them,” said nesvítski (who like the others concerned in +wild virgin pine forest, and far away on the other side of the enns the +wife, while you...” +wife, was talking in low tones to the elderly lady about pierre. +wife, sister, and future son, and the tenderness he had felt the night +wife’s command had let his hair grow and abandoned his spectacles, +wife, how she would love him become quite different, and how all he had +wife... god bless you!...” +wife, and that it could not be otherwise. +wife and her tall cap with its light-blue ribbons, and busily filled +wife: “ah, why have you done this to me?” +width of the field, an enormous mass of cavalry in brilliant white +wider than ours, and it was plain that they could easily outflank us +“why, you remember before you went away?... well, she says you are to +“why ‘what the devil’?” said borís, picking it up and reading +“why,” thought prince andrew, “that’s the captain who stood up +“why, this is a palace!” she said to her husband, looking around +why they all looked so at him, and flattered by this general admiration +“why, that one, right at the end, the big one. don’t you see? +“why terrible?” asked nicholas. “no, váska is a splendid +“why talk nonsense? say what you want.” +“why so?” asked prince andrew. “to kill a vicious dog is a very +“why should you be ashamed?” +“why shouldn’t i speak? i can speak as i like, and i tell you +“why should i mind monsieur pierre being here?” exclaimed the little +“why should i envy them? my chance is not lost, and maybe i shall see +why she’s ashamed!” +“why run risks, captain? you should dismount,” he said. +“why not wash? that is not cleanly,” said prince andrew; “on the +“why not?” inquired borís. +“why no, my dear fellow,” said the astonished narrator, shrugging +“why is it you were never at annette’s?” the little princess asked +“why is it wrong?” urged prince andrew. “it is not given to man +“why, is it late?” +“why? i love you more than ever,” said princess mary, “and i will +“why, i didn’t recognize you!” he said. but rostóv was otherwise +“why, have you too much money?” +“why have you thrown that away?” asked borís. +“why have we stopped? is the way blocked? or have we already come up +“why, for this reason! my father is one of the most remarkable men of +“why do you shout so? you’ll frighten them!” said borís. “i did +“why do you say this young man is so rich?” asked the countess, +“why do they want to make her sing? how can she sing? there’s +“why don’t you speak, cousin?” suddenly shrieked the princess so +“why don’t you renew the acquaintance?” said dólokhov to rostóv. +“why don’t you play?” he asked. +“why, don’t you hear it?” rostóv asked again, after waiting for a +“why doesn’t the red-haired gunner run away as he is unarmed? +why doesn’t the frenchman stab him? he will not get away before the +“why did you not succeed in impressing on bonaparte by diplomatic +“why did they write, why did lise tell me about it? it can never +“why did sónya run away?” asked rostóv. +“why didn’t you mention it, prince? i would have offered you +“why didn’t you capture one, just one, marshal for us?” +why did i bind myself to her? why did i say ‘je vous aime’ * to her, +“why are you so glum?” asked nesvítski noticing prince andrew’s +why are you hindering us?” another in the same place turned round and +“why are you going? i know you think it your duty to gallop back to +“why are you crying, mamma?” asked véra. “from all he says one +“why are they down on me?” thought túshin, looking in alarm at his +“why aren’t you serving in the army?” +“why aren’t you beginning, michael ilariónovich?” said the +“why a blue coat? off with it... sergeant major! change his coat... +why. +“why?” +“why?” +“wh-what is the matter?” asked both the young and old rostóv. +who, with his face buried in the ground and a blackened nape, lay on his +who will not refuse to accompany you.” +“who was that? the military governor himself?” was being asked at +“who was that?” asked borís. +who was sitting silently beside him, what he thought of tomorrow’s +who was reduced to the ranks, took a french officer prisoner in my +who was passing: +who was kissing her hand, “you’re feeling dull in moscow, i daresay? +who was in a high fever. these last days, mistrusting their household +who was associated by memories of the italian campaign with the name of +who was a secretary to the embassy, bolkónski was already acquainted. +“who told you that? who?” cried the prince. “suvórov!” and he +“who the devil has put the logs on the road?” snarled he. +who stood in the midst of the group, without a coat, and with his fine + who still is thinking but of thee! +“who’s that? why? wait a moment!” anatole’s face seemed to say. +“who’s that running on the middle of the bridge? to the right! come +“who’s that curtseying there? cadet miwónov! that’s not wight! +“who should it be? you yourself told him to come. it’s the +whose words struck pierre more and more by their precision and firmness. +whose state of unconquerable childish embarrassment now changing to +“whose company?” asked prince bagratión of an artilleryman standing +“who sacrificed everything for him,” chimed in the princess, who +who’s a better man than you in every way...” +who remained behind, and the monotonous tramp of thousands of feet +who recognized him and said a few words to him, disjointed and awkward, +who ran downstairs and looked over from the halfway landing. +who on kutúzov’s staff in charge of the provisioning of the russian +whom should i say that? either to a power indefinable, incomprehensible, +“whom shall i announce?” +whom i mention this, because i like you.” +whom he was again talking with the same involuntary smile. sónya wore +whom he now found nothing in common. “we will go after dinner. and +whom he had promised to take home. +who met him with the cross oppressed the peasants by his exactions, and +whom did you apply?” +whom all the regiment knew for a rogue. +who made her a low bow when she met him in the corridor carrying hot +who looked at her, after being in her company and talking to her a +who, liking work, knew how to do it, and despite his indolence would +whole tenor of his thoughts instantaneously changed; the battle seemed +whole set. yes, you’re all right! choose what you will; it’s all the +whole mass of men was concentrated. +whole dining hall, and last of all the children, tutors, and governesses +whole body jerked at each step. the eldest princess followed him, and +whole army it is still uncertain whether he is alive or not. i comfort +whole army.” +who lays back her ears and continues to crouch motionless before her +“who? kutúzov?” asked rostóv. +who kissed his hand. +who kept her waiting some minutes. “don’t you wish to serve me? then +who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies. +“who is it you want?” he asked. “the commander in chief? he was +who have striven to attain this mystery, and thereby to render them +who had wished to stop the affair ran to a corner of the room and threw +who had stolen some boots from the recruits; i should even have been +who had spoken to him on behalf of her only son borís on the evening of +who had sheltered in the village houses. they all rushed out of +who had recently opened a restaurant there with girls as waitresses. +who had marched so gaily and complacently. but at the moment the first +who had lolled in anna pávlovna’s easy chairs and with half-closed +who had him under observation, interrupted: +who had grown old in society and at court. he went up to anna pávlovna, +who had evidently just arrived, entered quickly, slamming the door. +who had come up to the cot with noiseless steps, lifted the curtain, +who had come into the room unnoticed by anyone, stood there and wiped +who gives himself the airs of a monarch.” +(who gazed with curiosity at the soldiers) were not russians, the +who evidently understood his case and wished him nothing but good, +whoever he may be, exhort him who goeth astray, raise him that falleth, +who—dreading this love affair which might hinder nicholas from making +who could therefore be of use to him. he liked petersburg and despised +“who can tell, your honor?” replied the hussar reluctantly. +who came to congratulate, and who constantly succeeded one another in +who at the rostóvs’ had jocularly assumed the role of natásha’s +who at the front had the power to annihilate him, a lieutenant of the +who, as they passed through in their ball dresses with diamonds and +“who?” asked rostóv. +“who are you talking about?” +“who are they? why are they here? what do they want? and when will +who appeared at his call. “hurry off and tell maksím, the gardener, +who, angry and frightened, strode energetically along with downcast +who amuses himself in this sensible manner! and he was said to be so +who always solved questions that seemed to him perplexing by deciding +who also enjoyed the famous actress’ favors, and that in his presence +“who?” +white teeth fiercely and spurring his black thoroughbred arab, which +whites glittering and rolling as he waved his sheathed saber in a small +white ruffle, outlining his rather long face which was lit up from +white plumes in his hat rode a bobtailed chestnut horse, the other who +white one, the white one!” +white horse, was prince bagratión. prince andrew stopped, waiting for +white hands with an air of calm importance. +white foam on the waves of the enns, an officer, in a cloak and with +white foam from his bit, tramping the planks of the bridge with his +white cossack coat, and bring him along to me.” +whistling, singing, and hissing continually around them. he spoke in the +whispers, and, whenever anyone went into or came from the dying man’s +whispers. +whispering, and betraying by every word and movement that they none +whisper, “has compromised her completely, they say. pierre took him +whispered to one another, casting significant looks at him with a kind +whispered to him. “this happiness is for those who have not in them +whispered, and a shudder ran down her back. +whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, +while we, on the other hand, with our left wing by far outflank his +while under the supervision of the countess and the solicitude of the +while the youngest, the one with the mole, who was of a cheerful and +while these conversations were going on in the reception room and the +while the guests were taking their leave pierre remained for a long time +while the couples were arranging themselves and the musicians tuning up, +while the count was being turned over, one of his arms fell back +while rostóv was thus arguing with himself and riding sadly away, +while prince andrew went to report about the purple-faced general, that +while prince andrew on the contrary, taking no part in the war and +while others sought some extraordinary explanation of so strange an +while on the scaffolding, in the midst of a talk explaining the future +while in the rostóvs’ ballroom the sixth anglaise was being danced, +while he tried to prove to pierre that in his actions there was no +while father and son were having their explanation, the mother and +while dressing, and yet the question he was always putting off demanded +(which would be very difficult), he would not be able to get back before +which were uppermost in his mind at that moment, addressed prince andrew +which were to be the first to descend the heights to attack the french +which was to be found “the cream of really good society, the bloom +which was presumably somewhere in the same neighborhood. and so it was +which was offered him. telyánin for some reason had been transferred +which was not clear to him, to question his chief steward, to visit his +which was littered with books and papers. the princess was as untidy as +which was a lie, and worse than a lie? i am guilty and must endure... +which to reply to dólokhov’s words. but before he had thought of +which to attack and defeat the enemy should he cross the lech. also, +which though they embarrassed pierre awakened a joyful feeling in the +which they were present, and went to iogel’s balls for young people +which the serfs’ manorial labor had been diminished, and heard the +which the rostóvs always attended. he was pointedly attentive to sónya +which the prince had retained for himself. +which the guards prided themselves), the officers on foot and at their +which the cadet under fire for the first time had experienced. +which stood on her right. it reflected a weak, ungraceful figure and +which showed that he only understood the meaning of his words after he +which she spoke of her exalted patroness, supported hélène’s wish. +which she neither wished, nor could, nor considered it necessary, to +which several others joined but which bored pierre. when the music began +which seemed to stand rather than lie down on his massive shoulders. he +which seemed to say that he was not blaming anyone, but could not help +which seemed to rise out of the sea of mist and on which the russian +which seemed to him dazzlingly red, and at the feeble, round-shouldered +which princess mary meekly submitted, just as her hair had been arranged +which nicholas rostóv served and which was in prince bagratión’s +which made a certain sensation, the count exchanged glances with +which it rests and which no human power can destroy, is the preservation +which it is difficult to justify.” +“which is the senior?” he asked, on seeing the prisoners. +which is the only thing we need fear, or he is changing his position.” +which i shall lead the army.” +which intimated that he knew what he was about and if others did not +which intellectual knowledge is divided. the highest wisdom is one. +which i not only cannot address but which i cannot even express in +which indicates that patience is exhausted. +which, in accord with the club custom, he had given up to the hall +which ilyá rostóv blushed with self-conscious pleasure), the footmen +“which house is it?” asked the driver. +(which he very likely would be), and found the commander in chief +which he presented to prince bagratión. on the salver lay some verses +which held him in their power.... the ten fell to him. +which he held the hilt of his naked saber, looked just as it usually +which he had worn on his italian campaign, sat on his small gray arab +which he had reckoned up to ten thousand, but that now, as he vaguely +which he had come out was thronged with calèches, carriages of all +which he found himself. anna pávlovna was obviously serving him up as +which he always deceived himself. the question was whether he could ever +which had lost all dignity, and at the twitching cheeks of prince +which had grown much older. +which had disappeared, but at french infantry who had come into the +which had been particularly revived and strengthened by his late tour. +which forms an impenetrable veil between us and the eternal? let us +which every freemason should cultivate in himself. these virtues were: +which dólokhov’s second had called on him, and, having closed the +which did not leave his eager face. “hoch oestreicher! hoch russen! +which denísov followed her. +which covered with snow, appeared on the landing where the footman +which changed his appearance for the worse. there was something naïvely +which attracted him. he very readily took up borís’ cause and went +which at least half of them would be left on the field. after passing a +which aroused his own pity. +which an enormous map of the environs of brünn was spread out. +which a faint smile forgot to fade though his features now expressed +whether what he said was very witty or very stupid. he was dressed in +whether she ought to write, tormented her. now that he was already an +whether he was still firm in his intention and determined to submit to +whether he was speaking in jest or in earnest. “ah, your excellency! +where you always ran away; you remember cette chère annette!” +“where would i not go at the countess’ command!” said denísov, +where túshin’s guns were stationed was an unharnessed horse with a +where to find me, but don’t forget that i do not regard either myself +“where to?” +“where to?” +where the sleighs had been left, in a small clearing in the pine forest +where the rivals suddenly recognized one another; and the ladies looked +where the hottest musket fire and cannonade were heard. suddenly he +“where the devil have the leg bands been shoved to?” said an +where the clavichord stood. +where’s the victory?” +“where is the princess?” he asked. “hiding?” +“where is the emperor? where is kutúzov?” rostóv kept asking +“where is the commander in chief?” asked bolkónski. +“where is it, that lofty sky that i did not know till now, but saw +“where is dólokhov?” asked kutúzov. +where his regiment was stationed, and take him to visit prince nicholas +where he was staying, and had been absurd, excited, and foolish in +where he could never have expected the enemy to be. +“where have you put it, wostóv?” +“where? at bykov’s, at the rat’s... i knew it,” replied a piping +whereas it was perhaps not known, since the enemy was in movement. +“where are you off to?” he said suddenly to prince andrew who had +“where are you off to?” asked borís. +“where are you going to now, my dear sir?” +“where are you going?” asked an infantry officer who was eating an +“where are headquarters?” +where a parade does not begin till all the troops are assembled,” said +“where am i? oh yes, in the skirmishing line... pass and +where. +“when you see my sister, princess mary, you’ll get on with her,” +when you began living for others. i experienced just the reverse. i +“when would you like them, your excellency?” asked dmítri. “allow +when we were rejoicing at his happiness! and such a lofty angelic soul +when they saw his looks. +when they played some tricks on a policeman, didn’t they do it +when they drink, pressing his spurs mercilessly into the sides of his +when they again heard an unexpectedly violent whistling which suddenly +when the twenty minutes had elapsed and the time had come for the old +when the sun had entirely emerged from the fog, and fields and mist were +when the subject did not relate to himself, but in connection with the +when the review was over, the newly arrived officers, and also +when the reading which lasted more than an hour was over, langeron again +when the princess, as if lost in a fog, had already staggered out of the +when the officers had emptied and smashed their glasses, kírsten filled +when the monotonous sound of weyrother’s voice ceased, kutúzov opened +when the military governor had gone, prince vasíli sat down all alone +when the emperor had passed nearly all the regiments, the troops began +when the eager but misrepeated words had reached their destination in +when telyánin had finished his lunch he took out of his pocket a double +when starting on a journey or changing their mode of life, men capable +“when speaking to the emperor, try as far as you can to praise the way +when she was not like that and when everything was light and gay. she +when she took her seat opposite and beamed upon him also with her +when she saw the count, she stretched out her arms to him, embraced his +when she saw pierre enter. though he was certainly rather bigger than +when she said this, he did not reply and only bowed, but again everybody +when she looked up at him she was struck by his beauty. anatole stood +when she had seen her guests out. +when she began to speak passed through such transitions as she herself +when rostóv went back there was a bottle of vodka and a sausage on the +when prince vasíli returned to the drawing room, the princess, his +when princess mary went to him at the usual hour he was working at his +when princess mary returned from her father, the little princess sat +when princess mary came down, prince vasíli and his son were already +when prince andrew reached the room prepared for him and lay down in a +when prince andrew left the palace he felt that all the interest +when prince andrew entered the study the old man in his old-age +when paris was mentioned, mademoiselle bourienne for her part seized the +when natásha ran out of the drawing room she only went as far as the +when it came to natásha’s turn to choose a partner, she rose and, +when i say she’ll be a singer, a second salomoni! we have engaged an +“when i saw, your excellency, that their first battalion was +when, if you remember, he posed as a sort of marat at one of my soirees. +when he wished to speak contemptuously, and noticing borís, prince +when he was dying of wounds and the sovereign had thanked him for heroic +when he stayed in (as he said) for pierre’s sake, hardly exchanged a +when he saw the minister seated at a large table reading some papers +when he read that sentence, pierre felt for the first time that some +when he reached kiev he sent for all his stewards to the head office +“when her confinement is due, send to moscow for an accoucheur.... let +when he needs repose? worldly conversation at a moment when his soul is +“when he looked at my feet, friend... well, thinks i...” +when he had gone less than half a mile in the rear of the column he +when he had become a little quieter, he explained to rostóv that he was +when he got home he could not sleep for a long time for thinking of what +when he first loved her. he thought of her pregnancy and felt sorry for +when he entered, prince andrew, his eyes drooping contemptuously (with +when he came level with the foot guards he noticed that about them and +when germans start being accurate, there’s no end to it!” +when footsteps or voices were heard did they look at one another, the +when everybody rose to go, hélène who had spoken very little all +“when did you get the letter? was it from olmütz?” repeated +whence—a stern note of which all are conscious sounds in the moral +when borís, who was to be served up to the guests, entered the drawing +when borís appeared at his door pierre was pacing up and down his room, +when borís and anna pávlovna returned to the others prince hippolyte +“when are you starting?” he asked. +when anna mikháylovna returned from count bezúkhov’s the money, all +“when am i to receive the money, count?” +when all was ready, the sabers stuck in the snow to mark the barriers, +wheel, which merged in her memory with what followed.) +wheels and working the screws himself. +wheels and the sensation of victory. then he began to imagine that +wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular movement of the +“what you said just now was splendid!” said his partner julie. +“what you have with you: watch, money, rings....” +“what! you don’t remember borís?” asked sónya in surprise. +“what would you have, my dear fellow?” answered pierre, shrugging +“what would you have me do?” he said at last. “you know i did all +“what would it cost you to say a word to the emperor, and then he +“what will happen now?” thought she. +what will happen and don’t want to know, and can’t, but if i want +“what? what? how dare you? what?” said telyánin. +what we fathers have to put up with.... is this princess of yours +what was passing in his mind. +“what was it?” +what was going on in the passage. some women passing with quiet steps in +what was approaching in the distance from the opposite side—the blue +“what! to whom?... nonsense!” cried the count, suddenly reddening +what to do with his hands; he was more accustomed to walk over a plowed +what there is in you.” +“what’s your name?” +“what stupid orders! they don’t themselves know what they are +“what’s to be done? she’s pretty! i will do everything. make your +“what’s this? am i falling? my legs are giving way,” thought he, +what’s the matter with you? you must be ill to shiver like that,” he +“what’s the matter with you? are you ill?” +“what’s the matter? i only congratulated them,” said zherkóv. +“what’s the matter?” exclaimed prince andrew standing still in +“what’s the good of denying it, my dear? our dear countess was too +“what’s that? what do you make of it?” said rostóv to the hussar +“what’s that that has fallen?” asked the accountant with a naïve + what spark has set my inmost soul on fire, +what’s one to do, my dear?” +what’s one to do?” and, having given his order, he returned to +“what’s it all about? why, the french have crossed the bridge that +what she was holding in her reticule.) “so you promise?” + * “what’s he singing about?” +“what shall we sing?” she said. +“what? saw the real mack? with hands and feet?” +“what? revolution and regicide a grand thing?... well, after that... +what pierre did not know was that the place where they presented him +“what? occupied? vienna occupied?” +“what nonsense! much i need it!” said rostóv, throwing the letter +“what nonsense...” +“what next?” the princess interrupted, smiling sardonically and not +“what next? have you gone mad?... no one would let you!... why, you go +“what news, sir?” asked the officer, evidently anxious to start a +“what, monsieur pierre... do you consider that assassination shows +“what manners! i thought they would never go,” said the countess, + what magic power is this recalls me still? +what looked like a squadron of horsemen in various uniforms. two of them +what it must be for her, poor thing, after what she has been used to, +“what! it is as if i were glad of a chance to take advantage of +“what is your conception of freemasonry?” +“what is this?” thought nicholas, listening to her with widely + what is this bliss that makes my fingers thrill? +“what is the something?” asked he. +what is there? who is there?—there beyond that field, that tree, that +“what is the matter with you, my dear?” she said crossly to the maid +“what is the matter with you, my darling? you look pale. oh, you +“what is the matter?” she asked. +“what is the matter, mary?” +“what is the commander in chief doing here?” he asked. +“what is that?” asked the countess as if she did not know what the +what is life, and what is death? what power governs all?” +“what is it you are afraid of, lise? i don’t understand,” said he. +“what is it? what?” asked both princesses when they saw for a moment +what is it meant to prove? what? i ask you.” +what is it i am attached to, papa?” said anatole, turning to his +“what is it?” he said crossly, and, his hand shaking +“what is it?” he asked. +“what is it, dear?” +“what is it?” asked the countess, startled; but seeing by her +“what is it?” +what is going on around them. +what is beyond death, none of us would be afraid of it. that’s so, +“what is bad, father?” +what i have seen during these last three months is incredible. +what he was to do. the coming of these visitors annoyed him. “what are +what he was saying was out of place, tactless and unsuitable, that +what he was laughing at. everything her father did inspired her with +what he was about; yet they beat him à plate couture,*(3) and where +what he should do on his estates. +“what? here? but why did they not blow up the bridge, if it was +“what?” he answered, not recognizing borís. +“what have you done to mlle schérer? she will be quite ill now,” +“what have they taken a baby in there for?” thought prince andrew in +“what have the young people come to nowadays, eh, feoktíst?” said +“what has happened?” he asked himself. “i have killed her lover, +what happiness it would be to die—not in saving the emperor’s life +“what good are they? they’re led about just for show!” remarked +“what for? i don’t know. i must. besides that i am going....” he +whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is +whatever the import of his work. it was not the question “what for?” +“whatever the european sovereigns and commanders may do to +“whatever is this? this!” he shouted and stood still. “commander +“whatever happens to you,” he said, “you must bear it all manfully +“whatever are you bothering about, gentlemen?” said bilíbin, who, +whatever. +“what error or evil can there be in my wishing to do good, and even +“what do you want, your honor?” asked an artilleryman, standing +“what do you thank me for?” +what do we, i mean the austrian court, care for your victories? bring +“what does this mean?” she brought out. +“what does that prove?” he was saying as rostóv rode up. “they +“what does it mean? what is it? whom are they firing at? who is +“what does harm to another is wrong,” said pierre, feeling with +“what division are you?” shouted an adjutant, riding up. +what difficulty the father had dragged his legs upstairs while the son +“what did he say? where to, now? halt, is it? did he thank us?” came +“what devils these quartermasters are! see, the fifth company is +“what devil brought them here?” thought he, while tíkhon was +“what delicacy!” thought the princess. “is it possible that +what chance has michael kutúzov? no, my dear boy,” he continued, +“what can one say about it?” replied the prince in a cold, listless +“what can it be?” he thought. “the enemy in the rear of our army? +“what can he say? tra-di-ri-di-ra and so on... merely to gain time. +what can be done with two hundred and thirty rubles! i even manage to +“what brings you here?” cried the officers turning to the newcomer. +what a voice she has; though she’s my daughter, i tell the truth +“what a treasure that dmítri is,” added the count with a smile when +“what a style! how charmingly he describes!” said she, reading the +what a strange frenzy one experiences during an attack,” prince +“what a strange fate, másha darling!” and having taken off his +what a soul there is in dólokhov, you should see him with his mother. +what? a slur on my name? a misfortune for life? oh, that’s +“what?” asked the commander. +“what, are you wounded, my lad?” said túshin, approaching the gun +“what are your commands, little countess?” +“what are you making such a noise about over there?” márya +“what! are you going to remain as you are, dear princess?” she +“what are you doing!” she cried vehemently. “he is dying and you +“what are you about?” shouted rostóv, looking at him in an ecstasy +“what are they about?” thought prince andrew as he gazed at them. +“what a pity you weren’t at the arkhárovs’ on thursday. it was so +“what?” answered the old man absent-mindedly. +“what a nice figure the policeman must have cut, my dear!” shouted +“what an extraordinary genius!” prince andrew suddenly exclaimed, +what am i to do if i love nothing but fame and men’s esteem? death, +“what? a minister? what minister? who gave orders?” he said in +what a heart!” +“what a fine fellow you are, friend!” said the cossack to a convoy +“what a delightful woman this little princess is!” said prince +“what a dandy you are today!” said nesvítski, looking at +“what a clever man your father is,” said she; “perhaps that is why +“what a charming creature your younger girl is,” said the visitor; +“what about your master?” he asked lavrúshka, denísov’s orderly, +“what about capitulation?” +weyrother, who was in full control of the proposed battle, by his +weyrother’s name, or even the term “dispositions.” +weyrother’s had already been approved. as soon as prince andrew began +weyrother, hurriedly rising from his seat and going up to the table on +weyrother again gave that smile which seemed to say that to him it was +weyrother. +we women, prince,” and she smiled tenderly, “always know how to say +“we will talk of it later,” said anna pávlovna with a smile. +“we will talk of it later” (and he looked round at rostóv). “come +“we were ordered to be at the place before nine, but we haven’t got +“we’ve said good-by. go!” he suddenly shouted in a loud, angry +“we’ve got to it at last—why did you not tell me about it +“we’ve given it ‘em hot, mate! they won’t make another push +“wetched!” he muttered, throwing down a purse with some gold in it. +“wetched business,” he muttered to himself. “how much is left in +“we shall see.” +“we shall probably advance,” replied bolkónski, evidently reluctant +“we shall be late.” +were walking, driving past, and settling down all around. the sound +were waiting for them to come out. +were using their ramrods, others putting powder on the touchpans or +were turned against the ten-gun battery. túshin’s companion officer +were to land at naples, and how a total force of five hundred thousand +“we’re to go into action, gentlemen! mack has surrendered with his +were to be severe with her and to forbid it ... goodness knows what they +were throwing everything superfluous, made the eyes smart. it was cold +were those of the orderlies who were packing up; one voice, probably a +were there,” thought rostóv. “in myself alone and in that sunshine +were there, only disorganized crowds of troops of various kinds. he +were therefore awkward. +were the potëmkins, suvórovs, and orlóvs germans? no, lad, either you +were the fun of the game which interested him most. +were the center of groups which even strangers approached respectfully +were talking and listening too eagerly and too naturally, which was why +were sitting on some feather beds. evidently these fugitives were +were sitting at the table on which a plan was spread out. +were sitting at embroidery frames while a third read aloud. it was the +were sent to the crossroads to guide him over the country road with its +were saying. suddenly, however, he was struck by a voice coming from the +were really given, but that prince bagratión tried to make it appear +were ready to drop, and so said the grown-up young men and women who +were pronounced, pierre, who had so long been considering his career, +were present, including dólokhov and denísov. +were passing by. from one of the drivers he learned that kutúzov’s +were only 217 sick and stragglers. everything was in good order except +were of the same age and both handsome fellows, though not alike. borís +were not to be sent to work, assistance was to be given to the serfs, +were not to be overburdened with labor, women while nursing their babies +were not in very good condition), and instantly the squares that had up +were nicholas and sónya, the niece. sónya was a slender little +were near him. everybody said that buonaparte himself was at braunau.” +were moving in the same direction. every soldier felt glad to know that +were moving in and out among the russian troops and served as heralds +were lips seeking a kiss. +were leaving to join their regiment after epiphany. about twenty people +were in them. she leaned over to her brother and kissed him, slightly +were in a hurry to show the changes that had taken place in them. +were, “high-sounding words which have long been discredited. who does +“we’re going into action, gentlemen!” +we’re getting it still worse,” said nesvítski. “but sit down and +were flocking in to look at him. prince bagratión was thanking the +were expecting márya dmítrievna akhrosímova, known in society as le +were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of +were descending. in front in the fog a shot was heard and then another, +were crossing themselves. rostóv no longer looked at the colonel, he +were constantly shaping themselves in his mind, arising from the +were concentrated. twice they had attempted to attack this point, but on +were children. you might think that i... i understand, quite understand. +were casual guests—chiefly young men, among whom were denísov, +were bringing in silver and china, moving tables, and unfolding damask +were bringing in jugs and basins, hot water for shaving, and their +were being set out for eighty people; and looking at the footmen, who +were among the prettiest. they were both particularly happy and gay. +were also distinguished by the fact that she always presented some new +were already up and astir. the smoke of the campfires, into which they +were all hugging him, and the serfs, men and maids, flocked into the +were all a pretense, and that the whole attention of that company was +wept too. they wept because they were friends, and because they were +wept. she saw her brother now as he had been at the moment when he took +we parted. why are we not together as we were last summer, in your big +went, with the smile of a coquettish girl, which at one time probably +went to the carriage. +went to her father’s room at the usual hour, mademoiselle bourienne +went there and found two thirds of the men and horses knocked out, two +went out of the hut in which he was billeted with nesvítski and began +went out after shaking hands with dolgorúkov and bilíbin. +went on, with a somber and scornful smile. “and thou art more foolish +went on to the game without omitting a single dish or one of the wines. +went in with nicholas. after them other couples followed, filling the +went into the reception room familiar to pierre, with two italian +went further in among the plants and threw down the doll. “closer, +went by. then suddenly a terrible shriek—it could not be hers, she +went about the rooms fashionably dressed but looking sad and dull. here, +we? no?” +“we must let him see amelie, she’s exquisite!” said one of + * “we must let him off the u!” +“we must distinguish between the vienna cabinet and the emperor of +“we may as well go back,” said the son in french. +“well, you’ve told me nothing new,” and the old man repeated, +“well, you see, my dear princess and cousin, catherine semënovna,” +“well, you see, i’ll tell you the whole secret of dueling in two +“well, you see, count, i want some money.” +“well, your excellency, what? your excellency! but what about your +“well, young man?” he said with a sigh, and from under his lifted +“well, young cavalryman, how is my rook behaving?” he asked. (rook +“well, you’d better not play,” dólokhov added, and springing a +“well, won’t you go on? i had a splendid card all ready,” as if it +“well, why don’t you speak? whom have you got there dressed up as a +“well, why are you going to the war?” asked pierre. +“well, what then?” +“well, what’s this now? what have you been up to now, i should like +“well, what is it?” came a sharp, unpleasant voice. +“well, what about it?” said he to denísov. “it won’t come to a +“we’ll try to,” replied berg, touching a pawn and then removing +“well, till we meet again...” he said, holding out his hand to +“well, this is strange! do you suppose i... who could think?... i know +“well, they’ve sent you a tidy sum,” said berg, eying the heavy +“well, there you see!” +“well there certainly are disgusting people,” thought rostóv as he +“well then, what do you want? you’re all in love nowadays. well, +“well then, till tomorrow at sokólniki,” said dólokhov, as he took +“well then, that’s excellent,” said he. “we’ll talk it over +“well then, tell him so.” +“well then,” prince andrew answered himself, “i don’t know +“well, then, old chap, mon très honorable alphonse kárlovich,” +“well then, mind and have cocks’ comb in the turtle soup, you +“well, then, let’s be quick. borís, come here,” said natásha. +“well, then, i won’t; only forgive me, sónya!” he drew her to him +“well, then go off to your buonaparte! mademoiselle bourienne, +“well then, be quick. we’ll all have breakfast together.” +“well then, accept his offer. it’s high time for you to be +“well, the lord be thanked, princess,” said mary bogdánovna, not +“well, that’s only till the first engagement.” +“well, that’s all right,” continued the regimental commander. “a +“well, that is hardly a sufficient reason, mamma...” +“well, thank god! we’ve been sitting here too long!” +“well, talk as much as you can, anyway. he has a passion for giving +“well, stand us some of your herb vodka, túshin,” it said. +“well, so that’s finished, my dear fellow! i am very glad to have +“well, she loves me and you like that.” +we’ll set off.” +“well, send for him... and how do you get on with that german?” +“well!...” said the old count, spreading out his arms and sinking +“well,” said she, “how’s my cossack?” (márya dmítrievna +“well?” returned the old man. +well remembered that seven afterwards. he laid down the seven of hearts, +“well, really, mamma! why should you? what is there to be surprised +“well, really, catiche! can’t you understand! you are so +“well, prince, so genoa and lucca are now just family estates of the +“well, prince?” asked kozlóvski. +well, only a little bruised just here,” he added, pointing with a +“well, of course, of course!” +“well, now you’ve done what you wanted,” put in nicholas—“said +“well, now we’ll arrange something quite simple and becoming,” she +“well, now to the health of handsome women!” said dólokhov, and +“well, now tell me about your exploits,” said he. +“well now, isn’t she a fool!” shouted the prince, pushing the book +“well, now, good-by!” he gave his son his hand to kiss, and embraced +“well now, gentlemen,” said bilíbin, “bolkónski is my guest in +“well, never mind; i only...” +well, never mind, here you are.” +“well, my dear?” said prince vasíli, taking her hand and bending it +“well, my dear fellow, tomorrow we are off at last,” said prince +“well, my dear fellow, so you still want to be an adjutant? i have +“well, my dear boy, i hear you’ve been educated abroad, not taught +“well, my dear?” asked the countess. +“well, my boy, you’ll get along wherever you go—foot or +“well, mon cher,” said the vicomte, having seated himself beside +“well, michael mítrich, sir?” he said, addressing one of the +“well, michael ivánovich, our bonaparte will be having a bad time +“well, maybe!” said prince andrew. “go, másha; i’ll come +“we’ll manage very well without a doctor.” +“we’ll make you dance as we did under suvórov...,” * said +“well, madam,” he began, stooping over the book close to his +“well, little countess? what a sauté of game au madère we are to +well-lit anteroom where they took off their cloaks without the aid of +“well, let’s go and sing ‘the brook.’” +“well, lëlya?” he asked, turning instantly to his daughter and +well known, so much appreciated by everyone. the other day at the +“well, i will read them, then!” bagratión seemed to say, and, +“well, i will leave you in your little corner,” came anna +well i will give you my hand to kiss. not till then!” she said. and +“well, it seems that no one has noticed,” thought rostóv. and this +“well, it’s as you like,” said the staff captain. “and what has +“well, i think it is. the bigwigs here think so too, but they +“well, i suppose it is time we were at table?” said márya +“well, is it true that it’s peace and capitulation?” asked +“well, i have got all i need into packs for two horses,” said +“well, if you do, so much the better, and you can go back to her!” +“well, i don’t know. it’s awkward and would make me ashamed.” +“well, i don’t know about that, but i am uncomfortable with him. and +“well, i did not expect you, i am very glad,” said prince andrew. +“well, i am taking it off,” replied lavrúshka’s voice. +“well, how is he?” +“well, how d’you do, my dear fellow?” said dolgorúkov, who was +“well! how d’ye do? how d’ye do? glad to see you!” +“well? how do you feel?” he asked. +“well, how are you going to get out of that?” he remarked. +“well, he’s really a good fellow, one can serve under him,” said +“well!” he said, turning to his wife. +“well?” he asked. +“well, have you sent gabriel for some wine? all right let’s have +“well, have you finished?” said he to kozlóvski. +“well, have it so, and you talked a lot of nonsense to him and must +“well? has he been degraded into a field marshal, or into a soldier? +“well—had a good time?” said the old count, smiling gaily and +“well, good-by, prince,” said he to bagratión. “my blessing, and +“well, go and see,” he said, after a pause. +“well, fwiend? so you’ve smelt powdah!” shouted váska denísov +well for you,” said natásha, with a responsive smile. “you should +we’ll fire off some cannon! but this sort of thing seems done +well enough to be sure that this will not turn your head, but it imposes +well educated and clever. this is all that his foreign education has +“well, do you think i shall prevent her, that i can’t part from +“well done, lads!” said prince bagratión. +“well done!... fine fellow!... there’s a bet for you!... devil take +well-brushed clothes. there was a masculine odor and a smell of tobacco. +“well begin!” said dólokhov. +“well, au revoir! good-by! you hear her?” +“well, au revoir, bolkónski! au revoir, prince! come back early to +“well, as you see. so far everything’s all right, but i confess i +well, as all the connoisseurs who heard her said: “it is not trained, +well, are you off to the front?” +“well, aren’t you ashamed of yourself, captain túshin?” he +“well, and you, young man,” said he. “how do you feel, mon +“well, and you? what are your plans?” +“well, and to whom did you apply about bóry?” asked the countess. +“well and then?” asked the other voice. “if before that you are +“well, and so he never got farther than: ‘sergéy kuzmích’?” +“well, and is that all?” he asked. +well and, in particular, drinks well. “so do come and dine with us!” +well!” and he turned to go. +“well, and are you still true to borís?” he continued. +“well, all the same, you must refuse him.” +“well, all right, all right.” +“well, all i can make out is that everything is abominable, +well.” +well.” +welfare of his soul is at stake. ah, it is awful: the duties of a +we let our feeble human minds roam, the better we shall please god, who +welcome for the approaching chief. +we know where we are. and what do you think of the boulogne expedition? +we knew you’d say so. but it won’t do, because you see, if you say +weight they were carrying were too much for them. +weight. +“we here in moscow are more occupied with dinner parties and scandal +we hear is true, it is dreadful. how little we dreamed of such a thing +“we have orders to drive you off here, and we shall drive you off,” +we have fully concentrated forces of nearly seventy thousand men with +we had not religion to console us life would be very sad. why do you +“we had better separate,” he muttered in a broken voice. +weep without knowing why—rode behind on his artillery nag. though +weeks, and months of his life passed in as great a rush and were as much +“we drove them back!” said borís with animation, growing talkative. +‘we don’t love people so much for the good they have done us, as +“we don’t interfere with you and berg.” +wednesday’s meeting of the imperial council, at which sergéy kuzmích +we could not think how to address the reply! if not as ‘consul’ +“we can’t have less—yes, three... the mayonnaise, that’s one,” +we can know is that we know nothing. and that’s the height of human +we begin a very original and interesting series of maneuvers. our aim is +weather. “the weather is beautiful, princess; and besides, in moscow +weather, and countess apráksina. now and then they glanced at one +weary of it and it was not at all what he wanted. he turned away and +weary, making his way past the baggage wagons, rode in search of the +weary faces, were sitting at the table eating and drinking. +weary, and distracted air, though at the same time he was haughty and +wearing the cross of st. george, awarded to soldiers for bravery in +wearing scarves and all their decorations, not only the elegant, pomaded +wearing long dresses for the first time. with scarcely any exceptions +weariness of tone, “it is almost impossible for me to do what you +weariness and assurance, as if he were adding every time: “you know +“we are to spend the night in znaim.” +“we are such friends, such friends! all that ruler business was just +“we are not fighting pour le roi de prusse, but for right principles. +“we are enjoying ourselves! vasíli dmítrich is staying a day longer +weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men +“weally! and i’ve been losing, bwother. i lost yesterday like a +“we all have our weaknesses,” said kutúzov smiling and walking away +weakness—the one to which he had confessed when admitted to the +weak human understanding cannot grasp, it seems to me rather useless to +way, with berg who was already in command of a company. berg, who had +way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a +way,” said an officer. +way of these men, and he would have got clear had they continued at the +way!... let us pass!... stop there, you devil with the cart! i’ll hack +way in which he danced the mazurka, nicholas ran up to natásha: +way,” he added in russian—but pronouncing the word with a french +way, dear boy! make way, make way!” pushed through the crowd more +way, and, blushing far more than borís, began to speak with a feeling +way and attaching him to himself! what if he gave me a place near him? +waving it above his head cried: +waters of the distant danube shone. and fairer still were the faraway +water cart, painted green, stood in a shed; the paths were straight, +water. +watchword—shaft, olmütz. what a nuisance that our squadron will be in +watch the change in the tone and manners of the mammas burdened by +“watching over his interests” meant, but he decided that all these +watching and it creaked very slightly as she disappeared behind it. +watchful eye on the young man who so alarmed her, noticed that he was +watched him smilingly, and he rode off by the winding path down the +watched him. she smiled, hid her face in her handkerchief, and remained +watched her cousin who was going to join the army, with such passionate +was writing. “i’ll do it.” +was warm blood under his arm. “no, i am wounded and the horse is +was very valuable. officers who approached him with disturbed +was trying to fit music: +was true. no one had taken any notice, for everyone knew the sensation +was true and appropriate, yet, strange to say, everyone—the visitors +was too far separated from our right flank and the cavalry were all +was told that the prince had gone to the nursery. +was thinking of. yes, na-tásha, sabretache, oh, yes, yes! that’s +was there on the hilltop, and kept constantly looking at the patches +was the name his fancy gave to the farthest gun of the battery, which +was the little princess, these tears, the cause of which she did not +was the emperors’ suites. the emperors rode up to the flank, and the +was the count at last handed a letter addressed in his son’s +“was that grapeshot?” he asked denísov. +was tall and fair, and his calm and handsome face had regular, delicate +was talking came up to listen. berg, oblivious of irony or indifference, +was talked of. for the rostóv family the whole interest of these +was taken up with dinners and balls and was spent chiefly at prince +was struck by the change in him. his words were kindly and there was a +was stricter.” +was standing beside the princess, and they were both speaking in excited +was spitting blood. a bullet had evidently hit him in the throat or +was something black, now little lights seemed to glimmer where the enemy +was so close to him that his shortsighted eyes could not but perceive +was sitting. the curtains were drawn, and a single candle was burning on +was sitting beside him, by the hand. rostóv was struck by the +was sitting at the head of the table. on either side of her sat the +was sitting at a small table, chattering with másha, her maid. she grew +was silent with his steward, the gardener, and the architect, and though +was silenced at once. they looked at the beautiful, large, thoughtful +was serving, and a misunderstanding arose. the two commanders were much +was saying. +was said. +was repeatedly summoned to see him. at headquarters and among the troops +was rather out of place in this brilliant society, the whole company had +was rapidly and excitedly talking to a french grenadier. “hark to him +was perfectly true. he was afraid of getting some other officer into +was particularly pleasant at that moment. they had reached the battery +was pale, his blue eyes looked impudently into the commander’s face, +was out of the question, “i am in love with your brother once for all +was only redder than usual. with his shaggy head thrown back like birds +was on duty and that he should go through the door on the left into the +was often on dólokhov’s face when looking at him. “yes, he is a +“wasn’t it fine when those germans gave us lifts! you just sit still +“wasn’t i telling you to fire the bridge, when inflammable material +wasn’t it?” +was. now he excused himself for having been taken prisoner and now, +was not in love with anyone in particular, but with everyone. whatever +was nothing. so why should i not stay at his house? then i played cards +was not behaving very well in this matter. “youth, frivolity... well, +was “not a whit worse than you or i.” at dinner the prince usually +was necessary for him to go to the count at all, still less why he had +was napoleon—his hero—but at that moment napoleon seemed to him +was more important than verses, and bagratión, again preceding all the +was merely a man of the world who had got on and to whom getting on had +was mentioned and, pointing to his forehead, remarked: +was lying asleep on the ottoman with an open book in his hand. +was lost. no one whom rostóv asked could tell him where the emperor +was laughing at something, mingled in a merry sound, like the chirping +was large and of an old pattern. the french swarming round their guns +“was kutúzov well? when had he left krems?” and so on. the emperor +was keeping the bank. rostóv had not seen him since his proposal and +was in the way and was the only one who did not notice the fact. most of +was in the right so i kept silent; was not that best, count?... ‘hey, +was in raptures about him, when he had just returned from abroad, and +was in his place, waiting. +was in a white uniform rode a black one. these were the two emperors +was impossible to see it clearly with the naked eye. our right flank was +was impossible for cavalry to act among the bushes and broken ground, +was immediately surrounded by courtiers on all sides. everywhere he +was immediately killed. prince andrew again seized the standard and, +was holding fast to plait, would allow. +was heartily sick of them. in spite of this, or rather because of +was happy. “left... left... left...” he seemed to repeat to himself +was growing dusk. on the narrow augesd dam where for so many years the +was great on the bridge of arcola, and in the hospital at jaffa where he +was going home to vorónezh and rostóv persuaded him to travel with him +was fully described: prince murat et tout le tremblement... you see that +was fought. +was, for something could be descried. on the right the guards were +was forgetting. we must have another entrée. ah, goodness gracious!” +was for earthly love. the more she tried to hide this feeling from +was excellent. with the second course, a gigantic sterlet (at sight of +was evidently one, rostóv felt confused, blushed, and became silent. +was ecstatically conscious of his approach. he felt it not only from the +was dulled by imbecility and a constant expression of sullen +was downstairs. +was diverted by the desperate shrieks of the woman in the vehicle. an +was delighted with denísov’s skill, he was asked again and again as +was coming, and turning to her mother: +was charming... you are very kind... countess apráksina...” was heard +was charmant. even if anna pávlovna did not say so, he could see that +was bright, he had a good horse under him, and his heart was full of +was borís drubetskóy, who had just arrived as a special messenger from +was being held by the arms and his horse was being led behind him. +was being done was not his adjutant’s fault, and still not answering +was beginning, anna pávlovna gave one of her soirees. the “cream of +was baptized. the wet nurse supported the coverlet with her chin, while +was a young horse telyánin had sold to rostóv.) +was a unique chance to show his devotion to the emperor and he had not +was at home last, and, having assured himself that they had not, he +was a stroke of genius. prince auersperg feels his dignity at stake and +“was a political necessity, and it seems to me that napoleon +was always busy and always felt in a state of mild and cheerful +was also a yellow, wrinkled old man, without beard or mustache, +was already perfectly cured of his former faults and was ready for all +was all over; but he said in an indifferent tone: +was a great success. there were many pretty girls and the rostóv girls +was again nodding. “come, get on! you shall have three rubles for +was accustomed to understand him. he led him to the desk, raised the +was abroad; so pierre had not the opportunity to spend his nights as he +was about, went across the room to where pierre was standing and gave +was about twenty-five. like all infantry officers he wore no mustache, +was about to run on, thinking that the farther he went to the front +was about to expand her dresses into a balloon and sit down. they were +was about to cross the space between the barriers, when dólokhov cried: +was about to be decided. but prince andrew did not see how it ended. it +was. +wars,” he said. +warrior doing some kind of man’s work of his own, without help or +war or politics but related to high society, to certain women, and to +warm themselves, gathering round the fires throwing into the flames the +war has deprived me of one of the associations nearest my heart. i mean +war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature—which townsfolk +wares, especially a pair of goatskin slippers. “i have hundreds of +wardrobe in which pierre noticed garments such as he had never seen +war came contradictory news, false as usual and therefore variously +war and peace +want to dance well. her enormous figure stood erect, her powerful arms +want to, but now i have no time.” besides, it seemed to him that the +want the money for? as if that money could add a hair’s breadth to +want that. and besides, what a notion that medicine ever cured anyone! +“wants to turn on the other side,” whispered the servant, and got up +wants to go to the war,” replied pierre, addressing the princess +wanted to sleep. the gay triumphant shouting of the enemy army had a +wanted to show him that his losses were an achievement that made her +wanted. +walls hung round with persian carpets. the part of the room behind the +wall. on this knoll there was a white patch that rostóv could not at +walk to meet him. his face with its long mustache was serious as always, +walked slowly without raising his pistol, looking intently with his +walked away from the fire. +wake up, váska!” he went on, turning to denísov, whose head +waken...” all rose and cried “hurrah!” bagratión also rose and +wait only two hours, when, come what might, he would let his excellency +“wait—just a word! when he has been transferred to the guards...” +“waiting, your majesty,” repeated kutúzov. (prince andrew noted +waiting to see what he would do. he stood a little while before the +waiting to hear whether he would say anything more. but kutúzov, with +waiting for the beat. only on horse back and in the mazurka was +waiting for—some important relation who has not yet arrived, or a dish +waiting for him to say a word and cross a certain line, and he knew that +waiting for a seven to turn up, gazed at dólokhov’s hands which held +“wait, i have not finished...” he said to prince andrew, seizing +“wait, haven’t you dropped it?” said rostóv, picking up the +waiter filled his glass he changed his mind and altered it to his usual +waited in expectation of an important order for an expensive funeral. +waited impatiently for prince andrew’s return from the commander in +waited for him to go on, but as he seemed quite decided to say no more +“wait!” cried dólokhov, hammering with the bottle on the window +“wait a moment, i’ll get my work.... now then, what are you +“wait a bit, i have something in view for you this evening.” +“wait a bit, here’s a letter for you,” said the old man suddenly, +“wait a bit, he is not drunk yet! a bottle here,” said anatole, and +“wait a bit and listen. it’s fine!” answered sídorov, who was +waistcoat. “it’s the sauté, most likely,” she added with a smile. + wafting sweet music o’er the lea, +vyazmítinov, the new military governor general of petersburg, had +vulgarity of the expressions that were natural to her, though she had +vreatening russia and zat ze safety and dignity of ze empire as vell +“vous voyez le malheureux mack,” he uttered in a broken voice. +vous aime’?” he kept repeating to himself. and when he had said it +voulu, george dandin,’ that’s all we have to say about it!” +votre victoire n’est pas des plus victorieuses.” * +von bergs—have been knights!” +volume you have sent me and which has such success in moscow. yet since +“voilà l’agrément des camps, monsieur le prince,” * said the +voice, “you were pleased to send me to captain túshin’s battery. i +voice, with its incorrect breathing and labored transitions, was +voice which expressed joy for himself, severity for the regiment, and +voice trembled.) “i loved your father... and she will make you a good +voice. to fresh questions as to the firmness of his resolution pierre +voice. “there was no one else in the room except myself. so that if it +voices were but feebly heard amid the uproar and one saw by their faces +voice suddenly shrieked: “but if i hear that you have not behaved like +voices subsided, the footmen cleared away the broken glass and everybody +voices, and the army swayed and started in one enormous mass six miles +voices. +voice, popped her head in at the door. +voice, opening his door. +voice, obviously so elated by the sound of firing, by the prospect of +voice from heaven. how gladly would he have died at once for his tsar! +voice calling him by name. +voice, “but believe me, i so adore your daughter and all your family +voice, and lieutenant telyánin, a small officer of the same squadron, +voice. +voice. +vodka. the campfires crackled and the soldiers’ songs resounded +vodka—get on!” rostóv shouted, when the sleigh was only three +vodka a quarter of an hour before, he saw everywhere the same rapid +vocation is to be happy with another kind of happiness, the happiness +vladímirovich is my mother’s second cousin. he’s also my bóry’s +vladímirovich bezúkhov’s house. “my dear borís,” said the +vladímirovich bezúkhov. if he will not assist his godson—you know +vladímirovich bezúkhov, countess rostóva sat for a long time all +vladímir medal and ribbon? but now, even if they do get peppered, the +vividly imagined what awaited it and the part he would have to +visitors. there was the fact that only those came who wished to dance +visitors on his right. midway down the long table on one side sat the +visitor. “he is a son of márya ivánovna dólokhova, such a worthy +visitor. “and to think it is cyril vladímirovich bezúkhov’s son +visitor alluded to, though she had already heard about the cause of +visit mademoiselle george; that at her house he came upon bonaparte, +visiting all the places he meant to go to and where he had been invited, +visit his neglected estates at the same time and pick up his son anatole +visible through the smoke, make out moving masses of infantry and narrow +visible in the snow and a shovel had been left sticking in one of the +visible as if but a stone’s throw away, and the movements of the +vish to destroy my men for your pleasure!” +virtuous life of which he had been dreaming since he met joseph +virtuous future that seemed to him so easy. it seemed to him that he had +virtue was and could not recall it. +village. “very good!” said bagratión in reply to the officer’s +village. tell it to stop and await my orders.” +villages were in a state of the greatest poverty. he did not know that +village of pratzen. but neither they nor a single commanding officer +village!” he said angrily to a general who had ridden up. “don’t +village and had already been sent for. +“vile woman!” shouted the princess, darting unexpectedly at anna +vile, infamous paper, but i thought the thing was invalid.” +view they were right, as were those too who canonized him and died a +views by this french sentence. “c’est bien pour un garçon de rien +vienna. kutúzov with his transport had still to march for some days +“vienna considers the bases of the proposed treaty so unattainable +vienna by the austrian hofkriegsrath, the sole and almost unattainable +vienna as i told you. very well. next day, which was yesterday, those +victory which was conveyed, not only by the tales of those who had taken +victory, what effect would that have on the general course of events? +victory over buonaparte at eylau. in petersburg everyone is rejoicing, +victory or defeat, the glory of our russian arms is secure. except your +victory. his majesty will no doubt wish to see you, but not today. i +victory be in doubt, even for a moment, you will see your emperor +victory, and general bennigsen, hoping to receive from petersburg the +vicomte who was continuing his story. +vicomte continued, with the air of a man who, in a matter with which +vicomte and from the vicomte to their hostess. in the first moment of +vicious and unfortunate people whom he would assist by word and deed, +vessel and judge of its purity? only by the inner purification of myself +very wise, because you can take everything along with you—vodka and +“very well, very well...” +“very well, then, be so good as to wait,” said prince andrew to the +“very well,” said smolyanínov, and went on at once: “have you any +very well...” +very trying,” said prince andrew, apparently speaking lightly of their +very strictly to social distinctions and rarely admitted even important +“very silly,” said véra. “i am ashamed of you. secrets indeed!” +very serious talk.” +“very,” said pierre. +very pretty and sweet, and evidently deeply in love with him, but he was +very poor, but for my own part at any rate, for the very reason that +very muscular men, and on the night of the battle, having arrived +“very much,” said nicholas flushing, and with a stupid careless +very much! i have promised myself not to serve again in the active +“very lovely,” said prince andrew. +“very likely it would be splendid, but it will never come about....” +very likely be getting a letter from him that day. each time that these +“very interesting.” +very important personage, had been sent on a very important mission to +very important.” +“very good, very good,” said bagratión. “thank you, officer.” +“very good!” said the prince closing the door behind him, and +“very good!” said bagratión. +“very good,” answered nesvítski. +very glad to see him hanged, but i was sorry for my father—that again +very fine when he said that,” he remarked, repeating the words in +very fine!” +very fields where the french had now to be fought; the adjacent +very decent town. you and i will travel comfortably in my calèche.” +very clever but eccentric, and a bore. the poor girl is very unhappy. +very briefly and vaguely, that after brilliant engagements the russians +“very.” +verses in the bosom of her dress close to her bony little chest, ran +verses called “enchantress,” which he had composed, and to which he +véra with guilty, happy faces. +véra’s remark was correct, as her remarks always were, but, like +“véra,” she said to her eldest daughter who was evidently not a +venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly +“ve must vight to the last tr-r-op of our plood!” said the colonel, +velvety softness, which so mingled with her lack of art in singing that +vasíli, who had grown thinner and paler during the last few days, +vasíli went on, testily pushing away a little table without looking at +vasíli understood it as an expression of weariness. +vasíli to himself, with a sorrowful sigh, one morning, feeling that +vasíli to anna pávlovna. +vasíli to anna mikháylovna. “go and take something, my poor anna +vasíli’s tone of careless self-assurance that he felt he would be +vasíli’s son, hippolyte, had come with mortemart, whom he introduced. +vasíli’s son anatole, whom they wish to reform by marrying him to +vasíli’s house in the company of the stout princess, his wife, and +vasíli severely. “you don’t know what you are doing.” +vasíli played a very despicable part in this affair and that he +vasíli one day, closing his eyes and fingering pierre’s elbow, +vasíli, it is very sad for both. ah, my dear friend, our divine +vasíli, in the rare moments when he was at home, would take pierre’s +vasíli in the anteroom. all the affectation of interest she had assumed +vasíli. “i know something about that. don’t i? and you are still so +vasíli, his cheeks twitching more than ever. +vasíli had only acquired by imitating other parents. +“vasíli dmítrich, i thank you for the honor,” she said, with an +“vasíli dmítrich, i’m so sorry for you!... no, but you are so +“vasíli denísov, your son’s friend,” he said, introducing +vasíli, “but it is difficult for me to ask the emperor. i should +vasíli and the eldest princess. pierre concluded that this also was +vasíli and his son. +vasíli. +varying expression and the same prevalent appearance of goodhearted +varnish. +various kinds: a table, chairs, and a clavichord. one adjutant, nearest +various figures worked upon it, at the other was something resembling an +vanished. he waited for the first pause in the conversation, and then +vanished from his face. +vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of +valúev was confidentially telling that uvárov had been sent from +value this mystic power and glory that is floating here above me in this +valor carry disorder and confusion into the enemy’s ranks, but should +valet had set down the coffee things and left the room. pierre looked +valet can go in your carriage. ah! i was nearly forgetting,” he added. +vainly trying to master her agitation. +vacancies occur much more frequently in the foot guards. then just think +uvárov, who had arrived with him, paused at the doorway to allow him, +uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan. +utter a sound. he feebly moved his leg and uttered a weak, sickly groan +us—we scuttle. he hardly crosses the river to our side before we +us. well, you want an argument,” he added, “come on then.” +usurper, the whole nation will certainly throw itself into the arms +usually so described. +usual in french, and as if after long self-restraint she wished to make +usual. +us. to the left the horizon bounded by the adjacent wood. prince +us talk business. have you been to the horse guards?” +us nice news of a victory by the archduke karl or ferdinand (one +ushering bolkónski in. “so you’re a messenger of victory, eh? +use of whatever interest he had to offer. he himself carefully scanned +used to show at catchplay, now and then turning his good-natured, pale, +used to say that a nap “after dinner was silver—before dinner, +used to like to spend them, or to open his mind by intimate talks with +used to be. don’t judge lise harshly,” she began. “she is so +used for dancing, but in which five beds now stood, and furniture of +us but within....” +us. but vienna is on the other side. no, the bridge has not yet been +us aides-de-camp and adjutants! but this is what we’ll do: i have +us?...” “ah! mary, you have got thinner?...” “and you have grown +urging of horses, and the swearing of soldiers, orderlies, and officers. +urged on his already weary horse to get quickly past these crowds, but +up, was hastily writing at a tub turned bottom upwards. kozlóvski’s +upwards, in the way affected by the emperor alexander, and, having +up to túshin. +up to the window of the first house, when a familiar voice called him by +up to their gallery, addressing the first violin: +up to the commander in chief, and presented arms. +up to the appearance of the pauvre mère; they understood that they had +up to the altar, placed his feet at right angles, and bade him lie down, +up tomorrow. but you will see everything for yourself when you get to +up to her. +up to denísov’s squadron and rode at a footpace not far from rostóv, +up the whole of her thin, sickly face and made it beautiful. her brother +up the steps to where the coffin stood, to give her the farewell kiss. +up their knapsacks with a jerk of their shoulders and pulling the straps +upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to be her own special and +up out of the mist. +up on the vast field. the whole army was extended in three lines: the +upon prince andrew, who was beside him. seeing him, kutúzov’s +upon him, passed splendidly, lifting his feet with a high and graceful +upon anyone, and it was clear that the kitten had settled down only to +upon and could not now be altered. “we start tomorrow and i’m giving +up like a fool!” he thought, looking irritably at her. “she is +up, invited him to his house in petersburg, and now... she has come here +up her sleeves still higher. pierre approached, looking at her in a +up her downy little lip. “all the pretty women in society will be +up from the sofa, seized borís under the elbow in his quick, clumsy +up from both sides. everyone crowded to the window, the englishman in +up for lost time. +up!” came the company commander’s voice in jaunty tones. the +up at all!” +up and turning away as if from a shameful aspersion. “it is not from +up and began watching the movements of our troops below, as plainly +up a glass and a pipe that were handed him. +up against him. he wrote “800 rubles” on a card, but while the +unwounded. the soldiers were ascending the hill breathing heavily, and +unwounded—it was they who were crushing, weighing down, and twisting +unwell today? eh? afraid of the ‘minister’ as that idiot alpátych +unwell, sat down under an apple tree and von toll remained beside him. +unusual than what he was seeing. a skull, a coffin, the gospel—it +unpleasant thing to a man’s face, to say what the other, whoever +unpleasant things to everyone and upset them. let’s go to the +unpleasantly excited expression. +unpleasant. +unnatural way, he stretched out his hand for alpátych to kiss, and then +unnatural smile. “i expect you have guessed that prince vasíli has +unmelted snow, or some white houses? he even thought something moved on +unmask his deceivers!” and in order to realize vividly his love +unmarried, and even the happier for it?” so thought prince bolkónski +unlucky at cards.’ your cousin is in love with you, i know.” +unlike the old one, he expected everything to be unusual, even more +unlicked bear! a perfectly absurd and stupid fellow, and a gambler too, +universe, and of the courage with which he should endure toils and +unintentionally, he poured too many drops into the glass. he threw the +uniforms, with smartly dressed bandsmen in front mounted on black, roan, +uniforms, mounted on black horses, trotting straight toward him and +uniforms and groups with horses, easily recognizable as artillery. +uniforms advanced toward the bridge at a run. smoke appeared again +uniform living waves of soldiers, shoulder straps, covered shakos, +uniformed austrian officer. +ungainly russian princesses, would fall in love with her and carry her +unfriendly now became gentle and affectionate. the angry eldest +unfortunate, a stranger, alone, helpless! and, oh god, how passionately +unfinished bit of nibbled sugar, and asked if anything more would be +unfastened cloak, wide breeches hanging down in creases, and a crumpled +unexpectedly to go into action. rostóv without hearing borís to the +unexpectedly through his mind. +unexpectedly kind and pleasant smile. +uneasily as if preparing to resent any slight that might be put upon the +“und vivat die ganze welt!” though neither the german cleaning his +under which she felt that she could not think, but would only be able to +under the table. +under the shirt sleeves, those hands which he loved and hated, held him +“under the lower pillow.” +understood without naming. +understood what was happening as little as he did. +understood the revolution and quelled it, and so for the general good, +understood that this woman might belong to him. +understood that she was being asked to entertain this young man, and +understood, that he could not answer him. +understood him. the old man got up and gave the letter to his son. +understood her and made up my mind what she really is. was i mistaken +understood all the difficulties of the russian army’s position, and +understand what was being read. he managed to follow only the last words +understand... what a soul he has!” +understand the self-abnegation of our emperor who wants nothing for +understand. that’s what i’m up to.” +understand. she kissed his rough curly black head. at this instant, they +understand it so differently. he collected all his strength, to stir and +understand it; i don’t in the least understand why men can’t live +understand it’!... and i ask you!” +understanding of his employer’s happiness. +understanding half of it, read only to forget, if but for a moment, what +understanding but not wishing to appear to do so. the princess as usual +understand how one can live with such ideas. i had such moments +understand how a man of his immense intellect can fail to see what is +understand him it was so much the worse for them—did not go up to the +understand him, but he did not speak it very well—“i bet fifty +understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but +understand and state the patient’s condition. +understand, agitated her. she said nothing but looked about uneasily as +understand?” +under one command, and in a like order. +under his weight alone. the men looked at him and pressed to the +under him; “turn this way!” he shouted to those with the gun. “it +under fire for the first time. +under an obligation, assuming an air of much greater importance than he +under an invisible cap—to see what went on in the world. she was +“und die ganze welt hoch!” * +unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the +unconscious little princess, he shook his head reprovingly and slammed +unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of napoleon’s doctor, +unchanging stonily severe expression; and, sitting down opposite the +unchanging smile. +unbroken and had all day beaten back an enemy force twice as numerous +un bâtard!”* she added, as if supposing that this translation of the +unappreciated bliss, long past. he could not conceive that a stupid +unaccustomed brightness, but he was looking not at his sister but over +unable to withstand it now, but he also felt that on what he said now +unable to realize where he was. +unable to overcome or conceal his groundless antipathy to the man. +unable to ask for himself, he became chary of using his influence. but +“ugh. the hussars will get it hot!” said nesvítski; “they are +“ugh! i don’t like that fellow,” he said, regardless of the +two younger ones were embroidering: both were rosy and pretty and they +two years, and he did not know how the rest, about 100,000 rubles, was +two, three... one... “oh mio crudele affetto.”... one, two, three... +two thousand rubles, and though he always disliked speaking of money +twot fo’ward!” +“two such charming children. and really you appreciate them less than +two seconds. whether or no the emperor understood what was going on in +two of the enemy’s shots had already flown across the bridge, where +two months had elapsed since the news of the battle of austerlitz and +“two, i think.” +two hours later prince andrew, stepping softly, went into his father’s +two hostile armies was all the more clearly felt. +two front teeth were missing that had been knocked out by the butt end +two friends, one of whom was a dashing hussar and the other a notorious +two footmen, the princess’ and his own, stood holding a shawl and +two cossacks. +two candles. on the table was a pile of gold and paper money, and he +two battalions of the sixth chasseurs in fine order. before they had +two alexanders—bekleshëv and narýshkin—which was a significant +two.” +two. +twitched its ears as the bayonets touched it, and snorted, spurting +twisted upwards, sat the ruddy milorádovich in a military pose, his +twinkled and looked out straight. +twenty men were gathered round a table at which dólokhov sat between +twelve men in garments like those he had already seen. some of them +túshin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to +túshin turned round in dismay. it was the staff officer who had turned +túshin told them to give the man some water. then a cheerful soldier +túshin’s wattle shed was laid, with a bullet in his stomach, on +túshin smiling shyly in his uncomfortable position, evidently wishing +túshin’s large, kind, intelligent eyes were fixed with sympathy and +túshin’s guns had been intended to cannonade the valley, he was +túshin’s battery had been forgotten and only at the very end of the +túshin’s battery but had never reached it. interrupting one +túshin rose and, buttoning his greatcoat and pulling it straight, +túshin did not say that there were no covering troops, though that +túshin. +“turn this way!” he shouted, jumping over the ice which creaked +turn spindles at home!’?” said shinshín, puckering his brows and +turn now, but that he will do all he can to let his turn come as late as +turn into vexation and anger at the stupid arrangements and at the +turning to prince vasíli and answering his imploring look. “yes, or +turning to anatole, “come here, let us talk and get acquainted.” +turning the horse sharply, he again jumped the ditch, and deferentially +turning into the village already... they will have their buckwheat +turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, +turning for a moment to the front line, and slightly swinging his arms, +turning away from the girls, who at once assumed an air of inattention. +turned to zherkóv. the nervous irritation aroused by the appearance +turned toward the women, and while the vehicle was passing at foot pace +turned toward her brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, +turned to speak to his daughter, the beautiful hélène. +turned to his wife. +turned to her. +turned to anna mikháylovna, answering her query by a movement of the +turned their horses away. the accountant stopped, facing the cossack, +turned round. the officer evidently had complete control of his face, +turned out splendidly all the same,” he added, winking at véra. +turned from captain timókhin again flitted over his face. he turned +turned away and went down the side of the corridor. +turn away from the sight, shouting angrily at the men who, as is always +tumbler with tea for himself and one for the beardless old man to whom +tuft of plumes in his cocked hat worn on one side with its corners front +tuesday. +tucked up, without a coat, pale and with a trembling jaw, came out +tsar, who still remained in the same attitude of indecision. +tsar and the country? it is wartime. such a fine fellow must serve. +“try to serve well and show yourself worthy,” added he, addressing +try to do all i can for your happiness.” +trying to prove that the russians had surrendered and had fled all +trying to give an expressive intonation to his voice. +trying to get something out of the rich man?” +trying through the dowager empress márya fëdorovna to secure it for +trying” (pierre’s modesty made him correct himself) “to live for +trying only to be ahead of the others; but just at the bridge, not +trying not to lose a word of the speech which was incomprehensible to +trying in vain to find the answer to some question. +trusts to luck, one should make certain,’ and i want to try.” +“trust in his mercy!” and pointing out a small sofa for him to sit +trumpets of the first cavalry regiment played the general march. it +true, or might at least seem to be true had it not referred to his wife. +true gascon) and says: ‘i don’t recognize the world-famous austrian +“true enough,” answered nesvítski; “two smart fellows could have +truce and a capitulation, he detected a ruse and wrote the following +trowel, he told him to toil with it to cleanse his own heart from vice, +trowel, a rough stone and a squared stone, a pillar, three windows, and +trouvez là le mot pour rire,” * he said, as if strengthening his +trouble, but the mason told him that was not necessary and gave him +trouble, and silently fixed his eyes on bagratión as a schoolboy who +trot to escape from the poisoned atmosphere of these latrines. +troops were running onto the bridge, was about to fire, but lannes +troops were no longer moving, but stood with the butts of their muskets +troops were moving in the distance, and he listened to the sounds of +troops were ill-clad, exhausted, and had lost a third of their number +troops on the high ground above the bridge involuntarily asked himself +troops, he saw, near a kitchen garden with a ditch round it, two men +troops had already entered prussia and our second war with napoleon +troops below the hill and fell far short of the enemy, a little smoke +troops arriving from russia, he risked being forestalled on that road + triumph, valiant russians, now!... +triumphantly secured the mop and still did not realize what awaited him, +triumphantly and gaily. +triumphant, cheerful face. +triumph. +triumph. +tripping rapidly across in her little shoes trimmed with bows, ran +trigger, as he had not before held a pistol in his hand—a fact that he +trifle to let a wagon go past. after he had gone, two soldiers rushed to +tried with his lips whether the child was still feverish. the soft +tried to pretend not to know; no one spoke of it, but apart from the +tried to conceal them. +triangles are equal; please note that the angle abc...” +trembling with emotion, solemnly holding up in both hands before her +trembled nervously; this was sufficient to cause his whole body to slip +treetops and bluish gorges. the turrets of a convent stood out beyond a +treated them with absent-minded contempt. +tread of the soldiers who were keeping step with him. he carried close +treading heavily he stepped down from the carriage just as if those two +traveling effects of prince andrew’s were in very good order: new, +traveler, having packed his things with his practiced hands, began +traveler, also detained for lack of horses. +transparently radiant with impulsive joy. +translators: louise and aylmer maude +transit gloria mundi.” +trampling through the deep snow, and muttering incoherent words: +trampled mud and gazed with that particular feeling of ill-will, +traditions of unlimited power, in time when they grow more irritable, +traces broke, and lungs were strained with shouting. the officers +to you. where are you traveling from?” +to you since dinner? hasn’t she?” +“to your barrier!” and pierre, grasping what was meant, stopped by +town knows?” +to which pierre did not agree. on the other hand, pierre demanded that +to what he must do and how he should answer, willarski only replied that +to what he dreaded more than anything in the world—to ridicule; but +to weyrother sat count langeron who, with a subtle smile that never left +to. weyrother had been twice that evening to the enemy’s picket +to warn me of the humor my father is in. i do not allow myself to judge +toward those pratzen heights which were being more and more denuded by +toward the vanguard. before he came up with the hussars, several +toward the sofa she had indicated. as soon as anna mikháylovna had +toward the end of 1806, when all the sad details of napoleon’s +toward him whom he may give me for husband. +toward him and said something. +toward evening he ceased moaning and became quite still. he did not know +toward evening dolgorúkov came back, went straight to the tsar, and +toward anna pávlovna, and anna pávlovna, with the same sad smile with +to walk up and down before it. +to us.” +to unload the muskets, explode the ammunition, and all return home as + * to understand all is to forgive all. +touch, “you promised me!” +touch with it, and looked around bewildered and unable to grasp what was +touching thanks of deputations of serfs in their full-skirted blue +touching his horse and turning purple in the face. “vill you be so +touching his arm, but when he saw pierre’s beaming face he gave him an +touching bonaparte’s. +touched pierre: he looked at hélène and she too seemed disconcerted, +touched him was sent flying. +to twitch. the twitching increased, the handsome mouth was drawn to one +to túshin’s battery had been moved away in the middle of the action +to turn the count’s heavy body toward the wall. +to turn away when the old man, opening his eyes, fixed his steady and +“to try his luck or the certainty?” rostóv asked himself. +to time she smoothed the folds of her dress, and whenever the story +to those who knew the indubitable truth.) he forgot what the seventh +to this occurrence than to the rest of what went on, having made up his +to this chit of a girl, natásha, who not so long ago was playing with +to think of the interview with his dying father which awaited him. he +to think of the impression he makes on others, but is occupied with +to the window. +to the visitor she added: “she is my youngest girl.” +to the views of the old generals kutúzov and prince schwartzenberg, it +to the vienna-znaim road. bagratión was to make this march without +to the unknown place where he was going, many more of our men were going +to the tsar or to kutúzov, even if they were alive and unwounded? +to the rules of his art, as he collected the tickets from all his +“to the right from the corridor, euer hochgeboren! there you will find +to the review, reaching the field at olmütz by ten o’clock. +to the removal of the guns. +to the ranks,” said the captain softly. +to the ranks along which shots crackled now here and now there, drowning +to the prince that if these battalions went away, the guns would remain +to the princess. +to the prince and smiling amiably at him as if to show that political +to the palace, however, an official came running out to meet him, and +to the old conditions of life, nicholas found it very pleasant to be +to then been in regular order and silent began to sway and stretch and +to them are the parts of the mechanism which the impulse has not yet +to the maid, “bring the princess her gray dress, and you’ll see, +to the left down below in the mist, the musketry fire of unseen forces +to the last meeting between father and son, it was so touching that she +to their companies, the sergeants major began bustling (the greatcoats +to their chatter. anatole kept on refilling pierre’s glass while +to the imperial family as well as to all moscow and petersburg, and both +to the hussar beside him. +“to the health of our sovereign, the emperor!” he cried, and at the +“to the head of the french government... au chef du gouvernement +to the guards’ camp to find his old playmate. rostóv had not yet had +to the godmother, princess mary. prince andrew sat in another room, +to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat +to the front of the regiment and examined it from a distance. +to the frontier. our dear emperor has left petersburg and it is thought +to the french sword and pouch. “i have taken an officer prisoner. i +to the footman who was helping him on with his cloak, listened +to the first squadron?” +to the farther side of the bridge and stopped the infantry. beside the +to the end, without raising his eyes at the opening of the door and the +to the emperors with a salute. his whole appearance and manner were +to the emperor shocked rostóv. rostóv saw how the emperor’s rather +to the emperor francis; he remembered the minister of war, the polite +“to the emperor.” +to the elderly lady, even betraying some impatience, she gave him an +to the effect that the duc d’enghien had gone secretly to paris to +to the devil, i’m busy!” he shouted to lavrúshka, who went up to +to the back of the house, to the room of the eldest princess. +to the austrian emperor and smiled. +“to the army.” +to the accountant, “but he feels a pain in the pit of his stomach +to tell you. there is a war now against napoleon. if it were a war for +to tear open the veil of convention that separates a commander in chief +total of his losses on it, then he looked round for aid from the other +totally altered and unexpectedly rapturous and tender expression on +to take their leave. +to sympathize in any way. +to subscribe all he had, but fearing that it might look like pride +to stop and fire the bridge.” +to stimulate his emotions he looked around. “god, death, love, the +to state his views plainly to the emperor? is it possible that on +to start her gambols again and display her kittenish nature. +to sob aloud. +to snatch it from one another. the expression on all their faces +to snatch from the other a boot they were both holding on to. +to slip in over there.” +to show the austrian general the wretched state in which the troops +to show that they are not at all impatient for their food. the host and +to show her fear of anna pávlovna. she looked at her niece, as if +to shout: “blackguards!... throw the snow back on the road!” did not +to settle here altogether next year....” +to set the serfs to work. say that everything out of the hothouses must +to seize hold of dólokhov’s shirt. +to say “tomorrow” and keep up a dignified tone was not difficult, +to say more in the presence of a stranger. +to say and as if she were saying it to someone else, with whom joking +to say, all that could be got out of them. +to say: “ah, what have you done to me, and why?” and at the sight +torzhók post station, either there were no horses or the postmaster +torzhók embroidery came into the room offering their services. +to run out to her, and remained in her hiding place, watching—as +to rostóv when the animal was handed over to the hussar. +to rostóv’s face, and his sobs were audible. +to rostóv and involuntarily riveted his attention, made a gesture of +to right and left of him soldiers continually groaned and dropped. but +to retreat along the road from krems to olmütz, to unite with the +to restrain his laughter. +to rest after their hard marches. +to remain so for a hundred years; but the moment comes when the lever +to remain for a few weeks longer in the house she so loved and where +to recollect something. prince andrew stepped forward from among the +to read and write by the deacon, like your father and me. now tell me, +to raise... happens to everybody! yes, who has not done it?” +to provide himself with some books for the campaign, and had spent some +“to prince vasíli. he was so kind. he at once agreed to everything, +to prince murat, +to pretend to the steward that he was attending to it. the steward +to present the regiment in parade order, on the principle that it is +to please you...” said prince andrew. but immediately, noticing +to pierre. he spoke in french. “i only know two very real evils in +to pierre he said nothing, merely giving his arm a sympathetic squeeze +topic of the day: the illness of the wealthy and celebrated beau of +topic—making fun of the military men of the day, and more particularly +to petersburg, look round, and choose your profession. i will agree to +to pass the time.” +too seemed strange; at one moment they looked impudently sly and at the +to one side he gracefully held a gold lorgnette to his eyes and looked +to one another, and the old servant who was holding the count’s hand +too, might have their own interests. but all he said was so prettily +tools laid ready to hand and shavings scattered around—all indicated +to olmütz, dined there, drank a bottle of wine, and then set off alone +took up her work. +took to be the enemy. shots could be heard, but some way off. +took it...” he whispered just above telyánin’s ear. +took him by the shoulder, led him to the window, and began to talk to +took her sister-in-law’s arm and drew her into another room. +took her hand and begged her forgiveness, without knowing what for. +took a horse and a cossack from a cossack commander, and hungry and +to offer their services. most of those present were elderly, respected +too. +to notice him, and that his whole aim now was to test the cadet’s +tonight to my friends—come to the english hotel. +“tonight, not later,” said he in a low voice, and he moved away +tone. “what has been decided? they have decided that buonaparte has +tones. +tone of voice. “come here, my friend...” and she ominously tucked +tone of entreaty and reproach that a carpenter uses to a gentleman who +tone and manner, here in moscow to anna mikháylovna whom he had placed +to my sister today. i will introduce you to her. but of course you know + to my native land...” +to my bivouac; let my doctor, larrey, examine their wounds. au revoir, +tomowwow,” muttered denísov. +to move from right to left as if drawn by an invisible hand, and the +“tomorrow very likely i may be sent with some message to the +“tomorrow,” replied rostóv and left the room. +“tomorrow our squadron is to be in reserve. may i ask to be attached +tomorrow,” or, “be in to dinner or i shall not see you,” or, “i +tomorrow! only let me tell you, i want to know my son-in-law better. you +tomorrow... in the evening. you must come.... come!” +tomorrow.” +to milorádovich who was near him. +to me all about it, and i will help you in everything.” pierre had +to me after the review and we will do what is possible.” +tomb of the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument +to make scenes. this last consideration moved him. +to make reflections or think aloud in her company, and she had always +to make out the pattern. +to look under the uniforms he would have found on every man a clean +to live for myself avoiding those two evils is my whole philosophy +to leave that seclusion where they three were shut off from all the +told you it would not be enough. how much?” +told you, but you would not believe it,” she said triumphantly. “he +told them all that. +told the count such vile, disgraceful things about us, especially about +told him what he had seen. +told him to expect. +told him the whole field could be seen. here he dismounted, and stopped +told him that he should try to do nothing to stain the whiteness of that +told him, and said, “very good!” in a tone that seemed to imply that +to kutúzov’s staff despite all anna mikháylovna’s endeavors and +to know what is right and what is wrong. men always did and always will +to know?” she asked sternly. +to know as plain monsieur pierre, has become count bezúkhov and the +to join some swedish forces at stralsund; how two hundred and twenty +to it were his inertia and a wrinkle on his brow indicating prolonged +to irresistible, youthful, childish drowsiness. “but what was i +to inquiries as to where the prince lived, pointed out a small newly +to indicate that he was about to say something witty. “buonaparte?” + * to indicate he did not want more tea. +to imbibe,” he said. “can i receive that pure liquid into an impure +to hope from him—especially as he did not know how, and did not +to his study with the wet nurse and little prince nicholas (as his +to his people in germany; and he felt greatly offended when the butler +to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real +to his horse’s mane and pulled up beside the hussar. he was succumbing +to his estates and quite recovered the philanthropic mood in which +to his beautiful sister, but yet more by the fact that in spite of +to his adjutant he ordered him to bring down the two battalions of the +to him. we search, but none are to be found. the field marshal grows +to him straight out. let people think what they will of me, it’s +to him senseless, he understood and was not surprised at it. +to himself, for in him alone is truth and peace,” said she in a voice +to himself, but which formed the whole interest of his life, +to him: “i hear you are refitting your petersburg house?” +to him. he could not tell them simply that everyone went at a trot and +to him fell against the rails with a groan. rostóv ran up to him with +to him by the officers, and, like a man desperately insisting on having +to him. availing himself of his friendly relations with pierre as a boon +to him, as you so well know how to be.” +to him and disputed with one another who should bring him his tea, +to him about politics. prince andrew and the others gathered round these +to her shortsighted eyes. turning from princess mary he went up and +to herself: “no, i must be mistaken, he must be feeling happy, just as +to hers. a woman came from the bedroom with a frightened face and became +to her? i am so grateful to you that i would willingly sacrifice +to her but to the movements of mademoiselle bourienne’s little +to her, and now that anatole had appeared it just grouped itself around +to her and kissed her warmly. anatole went up to kiss the little +to her.” +to her. +to help at any point where the conversation might happen to flag. as +to hear the voices of well-known men. the largest circles formed round +to hear the details.” +to have any children by me.” +to grunth to find prince bagratión. he heard the cannonade behind him +to greet the young man. +to go by the back stairs, yet judging by anna mikháylovna’s air +to give you the love you do not feel, and your prayer would have been +to give in money and work all that other people’s serfs gave—that is +to give her friend the pleasure of dandling the little angel—as she +to get more money from the traveler. +to get himself killed. tell me what this wretched war is for?” she +together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes +together. the german, pahlen, has been sent to new york in america, to +together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel. at last +together? and there! bezúkhov got off scotfree, while fédya had to +together, and made some steps on the very tips of her toes. +together.” +to fire the bridge, and now someone has gone and blundered; they are all +to fire and sword. the inhabitants are totally ruined, the hospitals +to fight a battle ‘on his own hand’ as the germans say. he does so. + to feel that in this world there’s one +to fathom what he has been pleased to conceal from us, the sooner will +to express our sincere views on that subject, and can only say to the +to execute an order. the officer on duty, a handsome, elegantly dressed +to everyone. pierre was so used to that smile, and it had so little +toes toward the general. the captain’s face showed the uneasiness of + * to err is human. +to enter the brotherhood of freemasons under my sponsorship?” +to enter into conversation with this old man, but, submitting to him +to each new arrival anna pávlovna said, “you have not yet seen my +to each couple of acres. the wounded crept together in twos and threes +to drive straight home. but the nearer he drew to the house the more he +to dress in here; and that andrew had quite changed, and that kitty +to do with sergéy kuzmích—a smile of bashfulness at their own +to do what was for him the most difficult thing in life—to say an +to do it that it seemed to him as if it had really happened. perhaps +to do it?”—“because you married her,” answered an inner voice. +to do but dwink. if we could only get to fighting soon. hullo, who’s +to distraction! one learns many things then,” she added with a certain +to dinner. i suppose he won’t go?” she continued, turning to the +to demonstrate the defects of the latter and the merits of his own plan, +“today when i remembered that all these delightful associations +today?” was his first thought. “and i did not know this suffering +today was a great day for him—the anniversary of his coronation. +today or tomorrow—at any rate, in an instant as compared with +today. he has been here on leave and is taking nicholas back with him. +today for the emperor.” dolgorúkov smiled significantly. +today, and that his excellency was not receiving anyone. +to cruel with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the +to cross the ditch on foot. the emperor, wishing to rest and feeling +to credit it, bent his head, and told túshin that he could go. prince +to count t., prince v., and others. then he bursts into one of his wild +to control herself any longer, she jumped up and rushed from the room as +to control her joy which expressed itself by laughter. +to continue his military service, and when the war recommenced +“to combat the evil which sways the world...” pierre repeated, and a +to cheer the men but merely carried out the orders), yet the troops +to change his former way of life, but his strength failed him. he walked +to build a new chantry to the church at their own expense in honor +to bore him so much as that of his pretty wife. he turned away from +to blame all round. well, what else do you want?...” +to be talking to a staff officer of such importance. “it’s a lovely +“to be sure, your excellency,” replied the architect. +to be so sent meant not only a reward but an important step toward +to be silent. but after a while, just as a jury comes out of its room, +to be severe, found nothing to say; the others did not venture to +to be reserved because in the depth of my soul i feel too near to him +“to be quite frank, mary, i expect father’s character sometimes +to be parted from her husband and be left alone in the country, in her +to be opened. everywhere he saw the stewards’ accounts, according to +to be his old schoolroom, and looking into natásha’s wildly bright +to be heard. +to behave here as you did in petersburg, you will end very badly; that +to be grew stronger, and he meekly followed anna mikháylovna who was +to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, +to be all right,” pierre concluded, and followed anna mikháylovna. +to balance himself. one of the footmen who had stooped to pick up some +to bagratión which the old countess at anna mikháylovna’s advice had +to a tune in which the weary musicians blundered, and while tired +to attend to the business himself and so he disliked it and only tried +to attain it quickly. hence we have a secondary aim, that of preparing +to a third; and the vicomte was served up to the company in the choicest +toast, the count took out his handkerchief and, covering his face, wept +to another. “how evidently he belongs to the best society,” said she +to all the club members and to all the club guests, and finally to +to agree to the truce but also to offer terms of capitulation, and +to a footman dressed in knee breeches, shoes, and a swallow-tail coat, +to adopt a jocular tone. but before he had finished he felt that his +to accept their services. he took the glove in silence from the +to above the knee. pierre hurriedly began taking off his right boot also +to abandon the road connecting him with the troops arriving from russia, +title: war and peace +“tit! i say, tit!” said the groom. +tiresome,” said natásha in a mortified voice that trembled slightly. +tired of being run after by women, his vanity was flattered by the +tiptoe to the countess’ door and paused. +tipsy rage when a man does not know what he is saying. he saw that his +tiny limbs she had felt twenty years ago within her, that son about whom +tint in her complexion and especially in the color of her slender but +timókhin to the subaltern beside him. +timókhin, armed only with a sword, had rushed at the enemy with such +timidly to the corner where denísov sat. she saw that everybody was +timidly from behind the backs of the generals. as he stepped past the +time to time he went out to ask: “hasn’t she come yet?” they +time to get his uniform. he had on a shabby cadet jacket, decorated with +time till they came to moscow had not left them for a day. +time that evening, vainly expecting someone, now smiling at someone, now +times unexpectedly interrupted. once he stopped it by shouting: “the +times, the more impassioned he became in these moments of almost morbid +times repeated—of a sonata by dussek. +time since his return that they had talked alone and about their love. +times before: how the late princess had given birth to princess mary +time. no, i’ll tell you now. you know sónya’s my dearest friend. +time, muttering to herself. +time in the shop. +time for that sort of thing and a young man fears to bind himself and +time could not admit the idea of his hero being disgraced. +time, anna mikháylovna sent someone to call her son, and went into the +time. +time!” +till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are capable of, + * till tomorrow, my dear fellow. +till the tsar reached it, each regiment in its silence and immobility +till then. their powers of reasoning, feeling, and observing immediately +till then, had listened with an amused smile to their conversation and +till the general asked him to restore it. all his absent-mindedness and +till ten o’clock. +till she was twenty, and arranged her life so that her whole time was +till now. but where am i?” +till midday on the nineteenth, the activity—the eager talk, running to +till may, and asked him to be more economical this time. nicholas had +till its coat shone like satin and every hair of its wetted mane lay +till he began sincerely to believe in his own exceptional kindness and +tíkhon went and told the prince. +tíkhon to ask mary bogdánovna what news.—“say only that ‘the +tíkhon, like all good valets, instinctively knew the direction of his +tíkhon knew that neither the son’s arrival nor any other unusual +tíkhon knew his master’s habit of sometimes thinking aloud, and +tíkhon did not hear the slightest sound from the study after that. +tíkhon, at her husband, and at the footman who accompanied them. +tidiness and good management. some domestic serfs pierre met, in reply +thyself whether thou art content with thyself. what hast thou attained +thumping the table; “and ve must tie for our emperor, and zen all vill +thumping the table. +thumb to the room where telyánin was sitting, he frowned and gave a +thud of the enemy’s cannon balls, from the flushed and perspiring +thrown the reins of the snaffle bridle over the horse’s head. it was +throwing down his chisel. (the wheel continued to revolve by its own +through the town of enns on both sides of the bridge. +through the smoke. he was pressing one hand to his left side, while +through the naïve and intelligent count and played with him as with +through the door. prince andrew got up, went to the door, and tried to +through the door on tiptoe. he could not walk well on tiptoe and his +through the door came the sounds of kutúzov’s voice, excited and +through the door came the regular hum of a lathe. the princess timidly +through the door. +through the conservatories, the serfs’ quarters, and the outbuildings, +through the closed doors came the sound of difficult passages—twenty +through that door was heard a noise of things being moved about, and +throughout the whole cavalry division as váska denísov. cadet rostóv, +through his lorgnette, suddenly turned completely round toward the +through him, and again laughed his frigid laugh. +through, and realized that he could not stop halfway. he was aghast +throttle if they stood in my way. i have an adored, a priceless mother, +three parts of that army were sharply distinguished: kutúzov’s +three months ago, draw fresh moral strength from your look, so gentle, +“three,” he went quickly forward, missing the trodden path and +three days later the little princess was buried, and prince andrew went +three beats: “oh mio crudele affetto.”... one, two, three... one, +“three and a half miles, your majesty.” +threatened by the french) but at brünn. despite his apparently delicate +thrashing for letting a private traveler have the courier horses. +thousands such as i in russia.’ +thousand-ruble horses, only eighteen were left after the charge. +thousand men each of whom knew his place and his duty, had every button +thousand men breathlessly gazing at him and the regimental commander did +thousand austrians, with a hundred thousand russians, were to operate in +“thou hatest it. then change it, purify thyself; and as thou art +thou hast lost.” +though without knowing its cause—was such as to remind one still more +though what she said was quite just, perhaps for that very reason no one +though what happened was due to chance and was independent of the +thought turned to her sister-in-law with a tender glance at her figure. +thought. the minister drew the remaining papers together, arranged them +thought that he, an exemplary officer of many years’ service who +thought that came into his mind was that today he had to be presented +thoughts rather than the trend of the conversation—“and that’s a +thoughts he has dreamed of for nights, but looks around for help or a +thought, “seriously, i have long been thinking of it.... leading such +thoughts, and memories suddenly arose within him that he could not fall +thoughts. +thought rostóv. “i should die of happiness!” +thought rostóv. he knew what a shock he would inflict on his father and +thought rostóv. at that moment alexander turned his head and rostóv +thought—referring to the little princess who was not in the dining +thought prince andrew, and striking his horse he rode up to kutúzov. +thought pierre. “but this man knows the truth and, if he wished to, +thought pierre, “and how little attention we pay to it!” +thought of such a thing, it is only the cabinet that says it.” +thought of sónya, during this stay in moscow, he said to himself, +thought of his friend and how much he expected of him in the future. +thought of everything, considered everything, and did everything the +thought independent of her sister-in-law’s words. in the midst of a +thought, “i must remain free.” +thought: “i am going to save the army.” +thought he, “i shall be sent with a brigade or division, and there, +thought he heard a strange noise through the door. he was seized with +thought, he called tíkhon and began to undress. +though the big hospitals and the houses in krems converted into military +thought, as he listened to voices in kutúzov’s courtyard. the voices +thought. and suddenly, at this thought of death, a whole series of most +thought and heard of her might be false. and he again saw her not as the +though shy, went on carefully executing her steps. denísov did not +though she were grown up, was evidently very proud of this but at the +though politeness prevented his showing impatience, left the old woman +though of this prince andrew said nothing to his sister, was that in the +though no words had passed between anatole and mademoiselle bourienne, +though not much time had passed since prince andrew had left russia, he +though none of the column commanders rode up to the ranks or talked to +though mademoiselle bourienne had been so unsuccessful in her choice +though he wrote in french and used french jests and french idioms, +though he smiled delightedly. he ran up to them. +though he may perhaps outlive us all, as i sincerely hope he will...” +though five minutes before, prince andrew had been able to say a few +though embracing her. +though all were in a conspiracy of silence. the men who set the tone +thou art wise because thou couldst utter those blasphemous words,” he +those women—mostly mothers—who, having once made up their minds, +those who were in the dimly lit reception room spoke in nervous +those who were holding him under the armpits, and of his gray, curly, +those who were guiding him. +those who had been campaigning under kutúzov. the two emperors, +“those were extremes, no doubt, but they are not what is most +those richer and more powerful than himself and he had rare skill in +those recently arrived from russia, both guards and regiments of the +those on foot, collapsed in a great mass, and some forty men who were on +those of higher ranks in the order. 3. morality. 4. love of mankind. 5. +those kurágins and leading that sort of life. it suits you so +those hofs-kriegs-wurst-raths are! suvórov couldn’t manage them so +those first steps. both had changed greatly since they last met and both +those brilliant aged eyes grown old in this conviction, or the calm +this young jacobin was not so terrible as his words suggested. all were +“this won’t do, princess; it won’t do,” said he, when princess +this was true. the architect had told him that it was necessary, and +this was the count’s favorite dance, which he had danced in his youth. +this was quite true, but the count, the countess, and natásha looked +this was particularly noticeable on nesvítski’s usually laughing +this was not so but that on the contrary the french had run away. he +this—want glory, want to be known to men, want to be loved by them, it +this victory to the austrian court, now no longer at vienna (which was +this very sentence about countess zúbova and this same laugh prince +this unpleasant impression merely flitted over the young and happy face +this uncertainty and hurry... there—they are shouting again, and +this! the chief news, about which all moscow gossips, is the death of +this table with the thought of winning a hundred rubles to buy that +this strong, brave man, this model son and officer that, judging by this +this strange incident, and then shrugging his shoulders went to the door +this speech how they could best handle the master for their own ends. +this silence was broken by one of the brethren, who led pierre up to the +this short man nodded to dolgorúkov as to an intimate friend and stared +this short man had on a white leather apron which covered his chest and +this same room was dimly lighted by two candles. on one small table tea +this resemblance he was exceedingly ugly. his features were like his +this reinforcement. +this poetic and pure intimacy, were what my heart needed. but enough of +this name day of hers had been one of the pleasantest she had ever had. +this murderer and villain! we alone must avenge the blood of the just +this moment of happy, rapturous excitement. she gazed at him, not taking +this misery, and money, and dólokhov, and anger, and honor—it’s all +this meant that tíkhon was not handing him the waistcoat he wanted. +this may be my only chance of seeing the emperor. it won’t be long +this marriage. he recalled her former words and looks and the words +this magnanimity bonaparte subsequently repaid by death. +this lowest-grade greeting, a look of anxiety and fear, as at the sight +this is what i was proud of! i then thought that i did not understand +“this is what i want, my dear fellow,” said the count to the +“this is what i think. austria has been made a fool of, and she is +“this is the first act. those that follow are naturally increasingly +this is the battle of pultúsk, which is considered a great victory but +“this is not at all the thing,” he said. “what sort of polish +“this is for borís from me, for his outfit.” +“this is dólokhov,” said prince andrew. + * “this is a pleasure one gets in camp, prince.” +“this is all very fine, but things must be settled,” said prince +“this is absurd! come, let go i tell you.” +this is absolutely true. +this instant!” thought rostóv. +this information, the little princess and mademoiselle bourienne, whose +this indecision appeared to him majestic and enchanting, like everything +this house and in brünn itself. i want to entertain him as far as i +this holiday time. “seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! +this he’ll soon have us, too, for his subjects! how are you?” and he +this heart, so kind and generous? say ‘perhaps’... the future is so +this guardsman would certainly have bowled rostóv and his bedouin over +this fact ought to give prince vasíli much satisfaction. +this expression evidently pleased him. +this expectation did not upset the regular routine of life in the old +this ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost +this door led into a back anteroom. an old man, a servant of the +this disorder,” he muttered. “do as you like.” +this defect was not due to any fault of the regimental commander, for +this consciousness of mismanagement became a general conviction, but as +this card and i’ll take my cap and drive home to supper with denísov, +this?” but these doubts only lasted a moment. pierre glanced at +this buonaparte has turned all their heads; they all think of how he +this bone—a bill for thirty thousand rubles—to the poor princess +this black-eyed, wide-mouthed girl, not pretty but full of life—with +this battle, which consisted in the capture of a french squadron, was +this answer. “have you sought for means of attaining your aim in +this active old servant was unpacking the traveler’s canteen and +this action was so unlike her usual composure and the fear depicted on +thirty,” said he, looking at shinshín and the count with a joyful, +thirtieth he attacked mortier’s division, which was on the left bank, +thirteen look at the boy they are in love with and have just kissed for +“thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,” she counted on her slender +third company he suddenly stopped. his suite, not having expected this, +thin lips interrupted weyrother, wishing to say something. but the +“think what you please! i know you are just like father. think as +think we thoroughly understand. +think the regiment is not a bad one, eh?” +think that he is your father ... perhaps in the agony of death.” she +think so yourself. and the main thing is,” he continued, “that i +think it over. go! yes or no, yes or no, yes or no!” he still shouted +thinking of?” she went on, turning to prince hippolyte. “fetch me my +thinking? i mustn’t forget. how shall i speak to the emperor? no, +thinking about you. why are you going?” +think, count? the next day it was not even mentioned in the orders of +think could hardly be found nowadays—but is she contented with her +thing we are interested in here,” said the spirit of the place. +things the old count sent to his son. +things that he has been expelled by the police.” +things that had never occurred. mademoiselle bourienne also shared them +things. she did not reply, but looked at her seriously. +things he should have shown it sooner, but he lets it go on for months. +things had to be. from the passage they went into a large, dimly +things, but austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war. she +things,” and the skin over his left temple puckered, “either you +things and supper dishes stood in disorder, and in the middle of the +thing i have faith in! our good and wonderful sovereign has to perform +thing he would have to unite his fate with hers. he might perhaps have +thing can be arranged. it shall be on your family’s behalf that i’ll +thing.” +thin face was now quivering with nervous excitement; his eyes, in which +thin face. her eyes, always sad, now looked with particular hopelessness +thick-set general with grizzled eyebrows and whiskers, and wider from +thick, bushy eyebrows. prince andrew went up and kissed his father on +they would not for an instant let his shoulder move a hair’s breadth. +they would have remained there for a long time testing each other’s +“they were there this evening, but now i don’t know, your +they were saying was amusing, but because she felt happy and was unable +they were in the carriage. “he hardly recognizes anybody.” +“they were in a hurry enough to start us, and now here we stand in +they were firing at could not be seen for the smoke which there was no +they were as usual laughing. +they were again silent. +they went up to the door of the sitting room from which came the sound +they went through the porch and into the stable. the lieutenant +they went out and walked about till dinnertime, talking of the political +“they’ve been saying so a long while,” said the count, “and +they too could, like natásha and borís, escape from the drawing room. +they stood silent, facing one another. the old man’s sharp eyes were +they seized him by his arms; but he was so strong that everyone who +they seemed of them, one could feel by the occasional glances they gave +“they say the ball will be very good,” replied the princess, drawing +“they say pierre is quite broken by his misfortune.” +they rose from the table and sat down in the entrance porch which served +they rode up the opposite hill. from there the french could already be +“they’re coming!... they’re coming!... stand aside, make way, +they’re coming!” alarmed voices were heard, and a stir of final +“they received me and my news as one receives a dog in a game of +“they’re always in love with someone,” he thought of sónya and +they quite understood one another as to the first part of their romance, +the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless +the young prince. the members of the household were all gathered in the +the young princess bolkónskaya had brought some work in a +the young people, at the countess’ instigation, gathered round the +“the young man’s a real hussar!” shouted the colonel, again +the young man had departed. “there is never any ‘impossible’ with +the young man, flattered, sat down nearer to her with a coquettish +the younger emperor could not restrain his wish to be present at the +they named the colonel, prince repnín. +they must look somewhere, or it meant too much. pierre hesitated, +“they must be feeling dull, too,” said one of the bolder officers, +“they might call a halt here or we’ll have to do another four miles +“they march splendidly,” remarked someone in bagratión’s suite. +they’ll say so again and again, and that will be the end of it. my +they’ll ransack that castle,” he remarked with evident approval. +“they have gone to bed and put out their lights, your excellency.” +they halted in silence. there was nothing fresh to be seen from the +they had when she was not thinking of herself. as with everyone, her +they had not met for nearly half a year and, being at the age when young +they had looked at the regimental commander, seeming by their expression +they had lifted the dying man and were moving him. +they had gone by, the same stream of soldiers followed, with the same +they had entered moscow. +they got into the carriage and drove for a few minutes in silence. +“they give little hope,” replied the prince. +they gave her an attraction more powerful than that of beauty. but the +they entered the large hall, from which one of the doors led to the +they entered the elegant, newly decorated, and luxurious dining room. +they do the guns.” +“they don’t even give one time to dwink!” answered váska +they dismounted and entered the tent. several officers, with flushed and +they could not fail to vanquish anyone, be it whom it might: so thought +they contain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, know the +“they coax me as if i were váska the cat!” said denísov jokingly. +“they can’t be far off, probably just beyond the stream,” he said +they both felt happy). “we had our hands full last night. however, i +they became silent, and pierre thought he saw the princess hide +they assure the officer on duty that they, the marshals, are on +“they are regular brigands, especially dólokhov,” replied the +they are beaten, flogged, or sent to siberia, i don’t suppose they are +they all were, or seemed to be, pretty—so rapturous were their smiles +they all separated, but, except anatole who fell asleep as soon as he +they all had but one wish: to advance as soon as possible against the +“the wound is not here, it is there!” said kutúzov, pressing the +the worst,” said the austrian general, evidently wishing to have done +the words of the order were not clear to the regimental commander, and +the word of command rang out, and again the regiment quivered, as with a +the women.” +the woman’s vehicle for trying to get ahead of others, and the strokes +the woman he had known as a child, of whom when her beauty was mentioned +the window sill, but refrained from touching it. pierre again covered +the wind had fallen and black clouds, merging with the powder smoke, +the wind. +“the will will show that, my dear; our fate also depends on it.” +the will and letter will be delivered to the emperor, and the petition +the wild set led by dólokhov. zherkóv had met dólokhov abroad as a +“the wife!” said the old prince, briefly and significantly. +the whole story of life. you talk of bonaparte and his career,” said +the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building +the whole matter and decide what was right and how he should act, but +the whole interest was concentrated on rostóv. instead of sixteen +the whole human race, offering it in our members an example of piety +the whole day was finally and indubitably answered in the affirmative. +the well-known prince bolkónski who had to retire from the army under +the weight of his knapsack. +the weather had cleared again since noon and the sun was descending +the way he walked through the ranks behind the generals, bending forward +the way from ulm, while dólokhov maintained that the russians had not +the wax with the baby’s hair had not sunk in the font but had floated. +the water, and approaches the tête-de-pont. at length appears the +the war was flaming up and nearing the russian frontier. everywhere one +the war is over, that the emperor francis is arranging a meeting with +the wall, his eyes fixed on a burning candle, and seemed not to listen +the waiter. +the visitors, and before the visitors i tell you that in future you are +the visitor, not knowing what to say, shook her head. +the visitor made a gesture with her hand. +the visitor, compelled to look on at this family scene, thought it +the village letting the troops pass by him. that morning kutúzov seemed +the village again, but túshin’s guns could not move, and the +the vicomte wished to begin his story and gave a subtle smile. +the vicomte who was meeting him for the first time saw clearly that +the vicomte was a nice-looking young man with soft features and polished +the vicomte told his tale very neatly. it was an anecdote, then current, +the vicomte’s story. prince vasíli’s words frightened her, an +the vicomte merely shrugged his shoulders. pierre looked solemnly at his +“the vicomte knew the duc personally,” whispered anna pávlovna to +the vicomte bowed and smiled courteously in token of his willingness to +the vicomte appreciated this silent praise and smiling gratefully +the very time he was expressing this conviction to himself, in another +the valley. the fourth column, with which kutúzov was, stood on the +the uselessness of freeing the serfs, who were quite happy as it was. +the unsolved problem that tormented him was caused by hints given by the +“the unpleasant things were said to me,” remarked véra, “i said +the unknown general looked disdainfully down at kozlóvski, who was +the two young men, the student and the officer, friends from childhood, +the two pávlograd squadrons, having crossed the bridge, retired up the +the two ladies, addressing prince vasíli and pointing to an inlaid +the two generals and the adjutant took hold of the field glass, trying +the tverskáya street rode the hussar with mustaches... i thought about +the tsar with another glance at the emperor francis, as if inviting +the tsar stopped a few minutes in front of the hussars as if undecided. +the tsar said something more which rostóv did not hear, and the +the tsar looked intently and observantly into kutúzov’s eye +the tsar heard but obviously did not like the reply; he shrugged his +the tsar addressed the officers also: “i thank you all, gentlemen, i +the tsar!” +the troops were running in such a dense mass that once surrounded by +the troops of the vanguard were stationed before wischau, within sight +the troops in their disorderly flight confirmed these rumors. +the troops again began to move, and two battalions of the nóvgorod and +the tremor of the speaker’s voice—which sometimes almost broke—or +the traveler was joseph alexéevich bazdéev, as pierre saw from the +the town where the headquarters and the diplomatic corps were stationed +the torzhók peddler woman, in a whining voice, went on offering her +the tipsy guests who were again crowding round the window, and listening +the time had come to experience the joy of an attack of which he had so +the thuerassa, he merely saves us a great deal of trouble and all our +the three voices, hers, mademoiselle bourienne’s, and katie’s, who +the third time the rhetor came back more quickly and asked pierre +“the third, i said the third!” cried the prince abruptly, pushing +the third interruption came when prince andrew was finishing his +the third group was gathered round mortemart and anna pávlovna. +the third division and convinced himself that there really were no +the third company was the last, and kutúzov pondered, apparently trying +the third!” +the termination of the ceremony. he looked up joyfully at the baby when +the temperature shown by the political thermometer to the company that +the tears from his eyes and from the letter, then having dried her +the tall, fair-haired general buxhöwden stood, leaning his back against +the table which was scrawled over with figures, wet with spilled wine, +the table, summoned his daughter. he never gave his children a blessing, +the table, searched everywhere, and stood still in the middle of the +the table, screened by a bound music book so that the light did not fall +the table, onto which he threw it. +the table in a merry mood, sitting down now by one, now by another, of +the sutlers. on receiving borís’ letter he rode with a fellow officer +the suite pointed out to bagratión a french column that was outflanking +the subject of her request and must not be shown before the request was +the stupid smile, which had left his face while he was speaking, +the study, like pistol shots, came the frequent sound of the old man +the struggling men, and the fate of the red-haired gunner, who had +the stretchers moved on. at every jolt he again felt unendurable pain; +the stretchers, and love of the sun and of life, all merged into one +the stranger’s face was not genial, it was even cold and severe, but +the story was very pretty and interesting, especially at the point +the stores are empty, the roads impassable. the orthodox begin looting, +the still greater unimportance of death, the meaning of which no one +the stewards (there were semiliterate foremen among them) listened with +the steward did not say it was quite impossible, but suggested selling +“the step must be taken but i cannot, i cannot!” thought pierre, +the state of the prussian army. as soon as he had finished she turned to +the standard. +the staff officer remained behind and prince andrew rode on alone. +the staff officer on duty. +the staff officer and prince andrew mounted their horses and rode on. +the staff captain’s voice began to tremble. “you have been in the +the staff captain, kírsten, had twice been reduced to the ranks for +the staff captain in his deep bass, calmly stroking his long mustache. +the staff captain, “but we old fellows, who have grown up in and, god +the staff captain. +“the squadwon can’t pass,” shouted váska denísov, showing his +“the squadron quartermaster!” said lavrúshka. +the squadron in which rostóv was serving had scarcely time to mount +the squadron crossed the bridge and drew out of range of fire without +the spot indicated to him. he made no reply on his father’s favorite +the spot chosen for the duel was some eighty paces from the road, +the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and +the special deep cooing tone, precluding the possibility of interrupting +“the sovereigns? i do not speak of russia,” said the vicomte, polite +the southern spring, the comfortable rapid traveling in a vienna +the sound of voices and the shouts of command. the whole air reeked with +the sound of musketry at the foot of the hill, now diminishing, now +the son sighed, thus admitting that his father had understood him. the +the son, or pierre, whom it had been pitiful to see, so stricken was he +the son, lowering his eyes, followed her quietly. +the soldier. “turn back with your slut!” +the soldier to whom the laughers referred was dólokhov. prince andrew +the soldiers who had carried prince andrew had noticed and taken the +“the soldiers say it feels easier without boots,” said captain +the soldiers laughed. a moment later, an adjutant arrived with the same +the soldiers’ faces and unnatural warlike solemnity on those of the +the soldiers crowded against one another with terrified faces, and +the soldier always has around him the same comrades, the same ranks, the +the sofa. the princess came in. she had changed her gown for a house +“the snow is deep. i am having the avenue swept, your honor.” +the snow, greedily bit at it, again raised his head, adjusted himself, +the smoke, rostóv hesitated whether to gallop after them or to go where +the smell of linstocks, came the artillery which crawled between the +the sly what was left in the glasses. from the third room came sounds of +the sky, the dawn merging with the afterglow of sunset, was visible. +the sinews and scorching the flesh of his sprained arm and shoulder. to +the silence lasted some time. prince bagratión, apparently not wishing +the sight of the killed and wounded. +the sick man was so surrounded by doctors, princesses, and servants +the shirt. +the shed with super human force, throwing up a mass of earth. the ground +these words he repeated to everyone without exception or variation, and +these things. i absolutely must see him, however painful it may be for +these sights and sounds had no depressing or intimidating effect on him; +these same questions which he could not solve and yet could not cease to +the service before everything. thanks, thanks!” and he went on +the service and patriotically russian. he resented shinshín’s remark. +the servant handed him a book which pierre took to be a devotional work, +the servant brought back his tumbler turned upside down, * with an +these rooms. anna mikháylovna, addressing a maid who was hurrying past +the serious faces of those around, remembered all he had already gone +the sergeant to meet some mounted men who were riding along the line. +the sergeant major with brightened expressions, licking their lips and +these poignant joys and sorrows. you are fortunate, for the latter are +these latter the butler thrust mysteriously forward, wrapped in a +these,” he said, handing him several papers, “make a neat memorandum +these gentlemen ride onto the bridge alone and wave white handkerchiefs; +the second princess had just come from the sickroom with her eyes red +the seat indicated to him beside the fair hélène and listened to the +the seal of her letter. it was from her most intimate friend from +the scraping of chairs. then one of those conversations began which last +the scoundrels!” +the score against him reached the fateful sum of forty-three thousand. +the same words, about their health and her own, and the health of her +the same time, my honored benefactor,” wrote prince vasíli. “my son +the same, then why this duel, this murder? either i shall kill him, or +the same happy, rapturous faces turned to the shaggy figure of denísov. +the salute and unable to repress the smile of delight induced by his +the sale of the land and forests and to release them from the land bank, +the rustle of a woman’s dress was heard in the next room. prince +the russian with his heir the tsarévich, and the austrian with the +the russians were running away and that he himself was killed, but he +the russian officer in charge of the transport lolled back in the front +the russian emperor’s aide-de-camp is an impostor. officers are +the russian army) are nothing compared to what this man has been doing +the rostóvs since the day of his departure for the army. to be in anna +the rostóvs knew everybody in moscow. the old count had money enough +the room was crowded with small pieces of furniture, whatnots, +the room, pondering over his vicious past, and with a rapturous sense +the room, and seeming not to notice the chairs was dashing straight at +the road he reined in his horse, hesitating whether to ride along it or +the rivers inn (at braunau) and traun (near linz). on october 23 the +the right they will expose a flank to me. soldiers! i will myself direct +the right flank and the french were already advancing, were engaged +the right and sent an adjutant to the dragoons with orders to attack the +the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up. soldiers scattered over +the rhetor, “is an emblem of something not cognizable by the senses +the rhetor cleared his throat, crossed his gloved hands on his breast, +the rhetor but pierre’s sponsor, willarski, whom he recognized by his +“there will be a council of war at kutúzov’s tonight, though; you +“there, what egotists men all are: all, all egotists! just for a whim +there were in the room a child’s cot, two boxes, two armchairs, a +there was still the same bewitching combination of majesty and mildness +there was something peculiar about it, quite unsoldierly, rather comic, +there was really nothing to be seen in front except a barren descent +there was now no one in the reception room except prince vasíli and the +there was nothing to be said, and neither wished to give occasion for +there was nothing between the squadron and the enemy, and again that +there was not a trace of agitation on his face. with delicate irony he +there was no reason why it should not reach the pávlograd regiment, +there was no one in the hall. “oh god! is everyone all right?” +there was no one beyond the ditch now. only some carts and carriages +there was none he would so much like to have for a friend as that very +there was no laughter in the maids’ large hall. in the men servants’ +there was no answer to any of these questions, except one, and that +there was generally a drinking bout, finishing with visits of a kind +there was a general movement as the princess, smiling and talking +there was a crush. halfway across stood prince nesvítski, who had +the revolving pulleys whirr with the rapidity of their movement, but a +the retreat of the frightened bonaparte. +the retreat from austerlitz, where he alone had withdrawn his column +“there! they are bringing another!” cried one of the officers, +“there, there! do you feel it? i feel so strange. and do you know, +there. then, as happens to people of weak character, he desired so +there! tea!” +the rest of the evening. +the rest of his life. +“there’s the corner at the crossroads, where the cabman, zakhár, +the rest.” +there’s some mistake,” thought he. “they can’t have wanted to +“there’s plenty to do still.” +the resounding strains of the polonaise: +“there’s nothing to be gay about,” answered bolkónski. +“there’s nothing for me to understand,” she cried out with +“there’s no need to talk! he receives his orders and will marry you +there, she glided up to him with a sort of amble, not exactly bowing yet +“the reserves, sire!” replied a voice, a very human one compared to +the reproachful tone of a man who has repeated the same thing more +the report which had been circulated that the austrians had been beaten +the report of musketry. +there. pierre had the air of a man preoccupied with considerations which +“there now, zíkin, they ought to put you on a horse. you’d look +“there now, you wish to liberate your serfs,” he continued; “that +there. now then!” +“there now, the kúrskies have also gone past,” was being said in +“there now!... so you, too, are in the great world?” said he to +“there now!” said the officer of the suite, “that’s +“there now, prince! we can’t stop those fellows,” said the staff +“there now! it’s true that all you women are crybabies,” remarked +“there now! didn’t i tell you, michael mítrich, that if it was said +“there now! confess that this is delightful,” said he. “this +there many more of you to come?” +the remains of our regiment which had been in action rapidly formed up +the remains of langeron’s and dokhtúrov’s mingled forces were +“there, leave bruin alone; here’s a bet on.” +“there, it’s just as i thought,” said rostóv to himself. “he +“there is still time, my dear. you must remember, catiche, that it was +“there is still much, much before us,” he said, as if with an old +there is so much happiness; but here... groans, suffering, fear, and +“there is something up,” thought nicholas, and he was further +“there is something nasty, something wrong, in the feeling she excites +there is only mademoiselle bourienne....” +“there is one thing i constantly pray god to grant, mon cousin,” she +“there is nothing so refreshing after a sleepless night as a cup +“there is in moscow a lady, une dame, and she is very stingy. she must +there is hardly time to put in action—seeing pierre, touched his +there in which he had now no part could perturb him. he shut his eyes, +“there... he’s puffing again,” muttered túshin to himself, as a +there?” he said, turning to the door as he heard a tread of heavy +“there he is!” said borís, thinking rostóv had said “his +there had been actions at lambach, amstetten, and melk; but despite the +there, god only knows what would have happened! you know, uncle promised +the regiment under a hail of bullets which fell around, but fortunately +the regiment kutúzov had reviewed at braunau and in which dólokhov was +the regiment i’d... ah well, i’ll show that in action, and for me +the regiment broke up into companies, which went to their appointed +the regiment, and how satisfied his father was with him. berg evidently +the regimental commander was afraid he might be blamed for this and did +the regimental commander sought out dólokhov in the ranks and, reining +(the regimental commander’s face now that the inspection was happily +the regimental commander on horseback and some ten men of his company, +the regimental commander, going up to the line himself, ordered the +the regimental commander, flushing, ran to his horse, seized the stirrup +the regimental adjutant came in and confirmed the news brought by +therefore you seek wisdom and virtue. is that not so?” said the +therefore—this is between ourselves—i instinctively feel that we +therefore offered this truce to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. count +therefore met with unaltered looks the angrily inquisitive expression of +(the reflection was still incomplete), he caught himself smiling and was +“there, fedótov, you should be quartered on them!” +the recruiting, granted by the emperor. if i had been two hours late +the reception room, where he found some ten officers and generals. +there as he. and now—this duel! have these people no feeling, or +the rearguard stood with a staff officer, scanning the country through +the rearguard by the commander in chief, was sitting on the trail of a +the rearguard and have an eye on the order of retreat, “which is also +there are things in it difficult for the feeble human mind to grasp, it +“there are so many prisoners today, nearly the whole russian army, +“there are precedents, i may mention schwarzenberg.” +there are no difficulties in your way.... but nicholas is my cousin... +there any hope?” +there.” +there. +“the rat”) he said, rubbing his forehead and whole face with both +the ras...” he did not finish. +the ranks of obscure officers and offer him the first step to fame! +the ranks, and above all being unable to see anything in front or around +the ranks. +the quiet home life and peaceful happiness of bald hills presented +the question arose whether the troops were to be in marching order or +the purse is here! i’ll flay this scoundwel alive, and it will be +the puhse?” he asked, turning to rostóv. +the prussian army and was aide-de-camp to a very important personage. +the project gutenberg ebook of war and peace, by leo tolstoy +the prince, who was in his large study. from the far side of the house +the prince was silent and looked indifferent. but, with the womanly and +the prince was lying on the sofa, looked at him, noticed his perturbed +the prince turned round to the overseer and fixed his eyes on him, +the prince stopped. he saw the effect these words had produced on his +the prince sternly; “i’m afraid you write much nonsense. i’ll read +the princess wished to rise, but the prince held her by the hand. she +the princess, who had a straight, rigid body, abnormally long for her +the princess went up to the door, passed by it with a dignified and +the princess started. evidently pierre’s words touched her to the +the princess smiled. she rose with the same unchanging smile with which +the princess smiled as people do who think they know more about the +the princess saw that her father regarded the matter with disapproval, +the princess sank helplessly into an armchair beside her father and +the princess said nothing, but suddenly her short downy lip quivered. +the princess rested her bare round arm on a little table and considered +the princess pondered awhile with a thoughtful smile and her luminous +the princess, picking up her dress, was taking her seat in the dark +the princess, now quite changed. “and what does she come worming +the princess looked in a scared way at her father’s eyes glittering +the princess listened, smiling. +the princess let go. +the princess, holding her little dog on her lap with her thin bony +the princess glanced at her watch and, seeing that she was five minutes +the princess gave no reply and did not even smile, but left the room as +the princess gave a wrong answer. +the princess’ eyes grew dim, she could not see and could not hear +the princess did speak, her words would not be flattering to anna +the princess did not reply. their efforts in the struggle for the +the princess did not fall down or faint. she was already pale, but on +the princess continued to look at him without moving, and with the same +the princess blushed, and raised her arms with a gesture of despair. +the princess bent over the exercise book on the table. +the princess and hastily adjusting his lorgnette, as if without this +the princess. +the prince looked at his daughter’s frightened face and snorted. +the prince gave orders that no one should leave his post. now you, +the prince bowed to signify his respect and gratitude. +the prince bowed his head and went up to the porch. “god be +the prince answered nothing, but she looked at him significantly, +the prince again laughed his frigid laugh. +the prim visitor could not help joining in. +the priest with a goose feather anointed the boy’s little red and +the priests, rose and offered him her seat; an aide-de-camp picked up +the priests and deacons and some servants also went in at the door. +the pre-eminence. +“the praise of a great commander is a soldier’s highest reward,” +the povarskáya, so well known to all moscow. the countess herself and +the postmaster, his wife, the valet, and a peasant woman selling +the postmaster came in and began obsequiously to beg his excellency to +the postilion started, the carriage wheels rattled. prince hippolyte +the possessor of wealth. how have you used it? what have you done +the portfolio so firmly that it was plain she would not let go easily. +the point of view of the old countess and of society it was out of the +the pleasure of spending the evening with you.” +the plan of operation for the coming campaign. he explained how an army, +the place of mourning for the younger female generation in the rostóv +the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits... there was peace +“the picket is still on the hill, your excellency, just where it was +the people who know of it the less a woman in travail suffers, everyone +the people,” the abbé was saying. “it is only necessary for one +the pávlograd hussars were stationed two miles from braunau. the +“the pávlograd hussars?” he inquired. +the pathetic importance of these last moments of meeting between the +the patches grew deeper on her forehead, neck, and cheeks. she tried to +“the past always seems good,” said he, “but did not suvórov +the party of the young had triumphed. the voices of those who counseled +the pained expression his joke had brought to his sister’s face, he +the pack. much depended on rostóv’s winning or losing on that seven +the other—who with beaming faces had come to see their master making +the other side of the room. “how young-looking he is!” +the other side of the fire, warming his thin yellow body. +the others but win from you. or are you afraid of me?” he asked again. +the others. again someone shouted, “stretchers!” four men seized the +the other, quite a new reflection of the society in which they had taken +the other men in the room, her anxiety could only have reference to +the other, glanced inquiringly with his large, intelligent, kindly eyes +the other committeemen. “there will be many toasts, it’s time to +the other clutched his drooping pistol. his face was pale. rostóv ran +the order was given to halt and down knapsacks. +the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves +the orderlies looked at him as if they wished to impress on him that a +the only young people remaining in the drawing room, not counting the +“the only thing that is hard for me... i will tell you the truth, +the onlookers, “will it be long? are things ready?” +(the one who had paraded his regiment before kutúzov at braunau) that +the one that will result from it will be as victorious! however, dear +the old prince was very affectionate and careful in his treatment of +the old prince. “very, very glad to have seen you,” repeated he, +the old prince stopped writing and, as if not understanding, fixed his +the old princess did not reply, she was tormented by jealousy of her +the old princess came in and also wept. the elderly lady was using +the old prince’s face. +the old prince knew that if he told his daughter she was making a +the old prince first heard of the defeat at austerlitz stated, as usual +the old prince dressed leisurely in his study, frowning and considering +the old prince did not sleep either. tíkhon, half asleep, heard him +the old man was silent. +the old man was in a good temper after his nap before dinner. (he +the old man turned angrily away. +the old man made a departure from his usual routine in honor of his +the old lady. +the old count, the countess, pétya, véra, natásha, and sónya, and +the old count pretended to be angry. +the old countess, not letting go of his hand and kissing it every +the old count cast down his eyes on hearing his son’s words and began +the old aunt received the two young people in her corner, but seemed +the official side of the service. these gentlemen received prince +the officers or adjutants who wandered about in the fog in those unknown +the officers laughed. +the officers got up and stood round the cossacks and their prisoner. +the officers gathered round denísov’s canteen, eating and talking. +the officers as he went: “have these gentlemen attended to and taken +the officers and men of denísov’s squadron, though they tried to talk +the officer glanced at him, and without replying turned again to the +the officer flourished his arm and hastily rode away. +“then you are serving?” +then, wostóv, now then!” +then with the unerring official memory that characterized him he +then with remarks which showed that he was in a good temper. +“then why are you here? you should have gone on long ago, now you +“then when am i to have it?” +“then what is this blood on the gun carriage?” inquired túshin. +the nursery, but sónya was not there either. natásha concluded that +the nurse lit the gilt candles before the icons and sat down by the door +the nurse brought it to him and nodded approval when she told him that +the nurse, as she stood in one of the doorways. +“then tomorrow you will speak to the emperor?” +“then they’ve not gone to bed yet? what do you think? mind now, +then the voice said something more, demyán replied, and the steps in +then that same face pale, quivering, and suffering, as it had been when +then, suddenly spread out in the sunlight, far-distant objects could +then suddenly he realized the joyful significance of that wail; tears +then she smiled again and clutched prince vasíli’s arm more tightly. +then she slipped down among the flowerpots on the other side of the tubs +then quickly glanced at dólokhov and, bending his finger as he had been +then particularly strong. +the novelty anna pávlovna was setting before her guests that evening +the nonsense talked by the austrian generals. shinshín, standing close +the noblest role on earth, and he is so virtuous and noble that god will +then nicholas sang a song he had just learned: +then named prince vasíli in an inquiring whisper, then pointed to the +“then it is certain?” said the prince. +“then i may reckon on it, your excellency?” +“then i’ll have it brought round,” said rostóv wishing to avoid +the night was foggy and through the fog the moonlight gleamed +the night was dark but starry, the road showed black in the snow that +the night ten miles from olmütz and next morning were to come straight +the night he received the news, kutúzov sent bagratión’s vanguard, +then he remained silent for a while, and all at once looked cheerfully +then he recalled the coarseness and bluntness of her thoughts and the +then he did everything so simply and with such assurance!) mademoiselle +the next day the emperor stopped at wischau, and villier, his physician, +the news of count bezúkhov’s death reached us before your letter +the new homestead he was constructing and its buildings, but even here, +the newcomer was a short, large-boned, yellow-faced, wrinkled old +the new campo formio are to be drawn up.” +the nearest soldiers shrank back, the gun driver stopped his horse, but +then detached ideas and impressions from the world of reality shot +then brought back to the general circle. +then, brothers, on to glory, led by father kámenski.” this song had +then both voices together with glad intonations, and then footsteps. +then believe an expert. i have just been talking to dmítri onúfrich” +the nations? adorable! it is enough to make one’s head whirl! it is as +then a thin, pale soldier, his neck bandaged with a bloodstained leg +then appointed to supervise the enrollment decreed throughout russia. +“then am i to order those large sterlets?” asked the steward. +then all will be right, as our bear huntsman at kostromá used to tell +“then allow me to express your regrets, and i am sure your opponent +then a gleam of bayonets; to the left beyond the village similar masses +then a general rode past shouting something angrily, not in russian. +then....” +them, when suddenly, clinking his spurs and spreading out his legs, +the mud off his face with his sleeve. “perched up there, you’re more +them the order to march, thereby indicating that he intended to lead +them taking off his cap) “from his animal condition and awaken in him +them strangely of the little princess. but what was still stranger, +them something funny and kept them amused, while he watched the young +themselves to túshin in all their horror. he had been so excited that +themselves, stifle this remorse and grow callous, as a result of being +themselves quite innocent, and since that day when he was overpowered +themselves, and the reading of the church service, the subdued chanting +themselves and grow more and more miserable.” +them rest and leisure?” said pierre, hurrying and lisping. “and +them—remained for a while without any definite opinion on the subject +them pierre noticed a large cast iron ring with a seal representing a +the mothers, wives, and children of the men who were going and should +the mother smoothed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large + * the most fascinating woman in petersburg. +the morning she told the rostóvs and all her acquaintances the details +the morning of the twentieth, when the memorable battle of austerlitz +the morning, carriages with six horses had been coming and going +them or make them move. on the one hand, the chief steward put the state +the more depressed. +the moment prince andrew entered the room had watched him with glad, +the moment is not bonaparte but buxhöwden. general buxhöwden was all +the moment he heard the firing and the cry from behind, the general +them off, inviting them all to dinner. +them now! and yet really the anxiety is greater now than the joy. one is +them, neither do i condemn them. only it seems to me that christian +them it was difficult to get out again. one was shouting, “get on! +the mist. from information he had received the evening before, from the +the mist, and his cold face wore that special look of confident, +them in the thick fog, the russians exchanged shots with the enemy +the minister of war but also his most august majesty the emperor and +the minister of war.” +the minister and his son had arrived, but the appearance of both had +the mines and blow up the bridge, this sergeant, seeing that the french +the military governor of moscow, who had been assiduous in sending +the mildness of his features, was all the greater. rostóv was happy +them. if he is not rich i will give her the means; i will ask my +the midwife was already on her way to meet her, rubbing her small, plump +the middle of a field without rhyme or reason. it’s all those damned +them!” he reflected. +them from the other end of the corridor, strauch, an austrian general +them from others was the absence of host or hostess and the presence of +the men (the commanders, as we saw at the council of war, were out of +the men and women had separated as in church. all were silently crossing +the men and officers returning spoke of a brilliant victory, of the +the memory of a remote event long past. +the members and guests of the club wandered hither and thither, sat, +the member of the hofkriegsrath looked at him severely but, seeing the +the meeting was at an end, and on reaching home pierre felt as if he had +“the means are ... the balance of power in europe and the rights of +them down! what?...” said rostóv, waking up. at the moment he opened +them curiosity, awe, and even love—a supercilious consciousness of +the mazurka, which was just coming into fashion, were danced. iogel had +the matter depended on my personal wishes, the will of his majesty the +“the master is not in, he’s gone to headquarters,” said +the mason. “yes, i never thought of it, but i have led a contemptible +the mason smiled with his gentle fatherly smile. +the mason’s arguments; he dreaded not to be able to believe in him. +the mason remained silent for a long time, evidently considering. +the mason looked intently at pierre and smiled as a rich man with +the mason did not move and for a long time said nothing after this +the mason cleared his throat huskily, as old men do, and called his + * the marshalls. +them are harmful, especially the women. yes, dear boy,” he continued, +the march: in their greatcoats, and packs, and without any preparation +the man was wearing a bluish coat of broadcloth, he had no knapsack +the manly voice again interrupted the artillery officer. +them, and understood that it was useless and even cruel to insist. +them, and she doubts the means we have of gaining them. that is the +them, and reads those from the emperor addressed to others. ‘ah! so +them. and among all these faces that he found so tedious, none seemed +the manager of all his affairs, and while looking with pleasure at the +them. all eyes fastened involuntarily on this french column advancing +the maintenance of the balance of power of europe, and it would save the +the magnificent reception room was crowded. everyone stood up +them.” +the loss of prince andrew had reached bald hills, and in spite of the +“the lord be thanked, yes!” +the look she felt upon her made that world still more poetic. but +the long german carts six or more pale, dirty, bandaged men were being +the lodge, told the password, and at last was permitted to sit down. +the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. and +the living charm of her neck and shoulders, so near to his lips that +the lively song gave a special flavor to the tone of free and easy +the liveliness of a fourteen-year-old boy, and yet it was the face +the little town could be seen with its white, red-roofed houses, its +the little princess went round the table with quick, short, swaying +the little princess talked incessantly, her short, downy upper lip +the little princess, taking the dress from the maid, came up to princess +the little princess. she felt, as courtiers do when the tsar enters, the +the little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, +the little princess lay supported by pillows, with a white cap on her +the little princess lay in the armchair, mademoiselle bourienne chafing +the little princess, kissing her. “i know you already through my +the little princess had grown stouter during this time, but her eyes +the little princess had also left the tea table and followed hélène. +the little princess grumbled to her maid that her bed was badly made. +the little princess got up, rang for the maid, and hurriedly and merrily +the little princess entered the room. the passage broke off in the +the little princess during the whole discussion and the rest of +the little princess did not, or did not wish to, hear his words. she was +the little princess and mademoiselle bourienne had already received + * the little one is charming. +the little kitten, feasting her eyes on him, seemed ready at any moment +the line that had so sharply divided the two armies?” he asked himself +the lines and an adjutant ran to look for the missing officer. +the line of retreat on the left by the french. however inconvenient the +“the limits of human life ... are fixed and may not be +the lieutenant never looked the man he was speaking to straight in the +the letter was old, having been written before the battle at +the letter away, and leaning his elbows on the table he drew toward him +the left! wait a bit.” but the soldiers, crowded together shoulder to +the left, the firing became more distinct. kutúzov had stopped and was +the left-flank columns had already descended. +the left, and took up the bottle. anatole brought two candles and +the latter lay silent in the sleigh with closed eyes and did not answer +the latter began to feel that it was in bad taste to speak of his +the late emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the king of prussia.’ he is +the last syllable of the general’s name like a frenchman, “has been +the last post station but one before moscow, denísov had drunk three +the last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing +the last of the horse guards, a huge pockmarked fellow, frowned angrily +the large table covered with books and plans, the tall glass-fronted +the large drawing room. prince vasíli came up to pierre with languid +the landing. “i’d better go to my own room.” +the landing below, philip, the footman, stood looking scared and holding +the kitchen would have cared to eat, so anna pávlovna served up to +their woman’s way! i am glad to have her. sit down and talk. about +their way to negotiate with prince auersperg. he lets them enter the +their thick, bushy eyebrows sternly scanned all present and rested on +their seats, went up to “congratulate” the countess, and reached +their sabers catching in the bridles and their spurs jingling, the +their places, and one of them read an exhortation on the necessity of +their own resources what might be needed for the success of the fete. +their own form of government; and i believe that once free from the +their name and my own i hold out a brotherly hand to you.” +their musical talent, to sing something. natásha, who was treated as +their meaning but must keep them. the second pair of man’s gloves +their marriage, with bare shoulders and a languid, passionate look on +their long hair falling over their magnificent glittering vestments, +their journey. she answered him and continued her chatter. +their guns, were running toward him. he also saw french infantry +their grief in their own way. the old prince would not cherish any hope: +their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company +their faces was a quiet and solemn look. +their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for +their courage before him. +their conversation would probably have been different but for the effect +their cleanliness and discipline. they had come by easy stages, their +their bayonets and guns. +their battery a milk-white cloud arose. then came the distant report of +their adjutants had come to witness the curious phenomenon of the +the intellectual lights of petersburg were gathered there and, like a +the inlaid portfolio. pierre signed the deed and after that the princess +the inhabitants of the district. +the infantry who had been stopped crowded near the bridge in the +the infantry regiments that had been caught unawares in the outskirts +the imposing figure of nesvítski followed by his cossack, and +the idea of defeat and flight could not enter rostóv’s head. though +the icon stand. to her surprise and distress she found that her prayers +the icons, as though declaring to all that she could not answer for +the icons and there was a pleasant scent of flowers and burnt pastilles. +the ice gave way under one of the foremost soldiers, and one leg slipped +the ice bore him but it swayed and creaked, and it was plain that it +the hussars ran back to the men who held their horses; their voices +the hussar shouted back. +the hussars crowded round and responded heartily with loud shouts. +the hussars.” +the hussar only sighed without replying and coughed angrily. the sound +the hussar did not reply. +the house where the commander in chief was. +“the hours are the same, and the lathe, and also the mathematics and +the horses’ croups began to sway in the front line. rook pulled at the +the horse guards were galloping, but still holding in their horses. +the horse guards. +the hope of an alliance with her. +“the hoof’s cracked! that’s nothing. i’ll teach you what to do +the honor of the flag... well, never mind, it’s true i’m to blame, +the honor of being received, that i have not yet had time to think of +the honor, but i shall never be your son’s wife.” +the homestead consisted of a threshing floor, outhouses, stables, a +the hollow the less they could see but the more they felt the nearness +the hofkriegsrath and both emperors took part. at that council, contrary +the hill not to go beyond the stream, but rostóv pretended not to hear +the high-shouldered figure of zherkóv, familiar to the pávlograds as +“the highest wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those +the highest wisdom has but one science—the science of the whole—the +“the highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish +the highest law thou shalt regain traces of the ancient dignity which +the heavy standard, he ran forward with full confidence that the whole +the head that he was considering this information. +the headquarters were situated two miles away from salzeneck, and +“the head of the garrison at glogau, with ten thousand men, asks the +the head of the column had already descended into the hollow. the clash +the handsome young emperor alexander, in the uniform of the horse +the handsome véra, who produced such an irritating and unpleasant +the handsome véra smiled contemptuously but did not seem at all hurt. +the hand nor a single muscle of the count’s face stirred. once more +the hall porter sullenly pulled a bell that rang upstairs, and turned +the hall porter, “i know count cyril vladímirovich is very ill... +the half-closed eyes was there greedily gnawing a mutton bone, and the +the hair was wet, so profusely had the child perspired. he was not dead, +the gunners who had seized it straining to roll it quickly back to its +the guests. to each of them he made some careless and agreeable remark +the guests, knowing of the affair with the bear, looked with curiosity +the guests got up and took their leave, promising to return to dinner. +the guards to the field of battle, afraid of letting a ready victim +the guards had made their whole march as if on a pleasure trip, parading +the guards had gone to the front; dólokhov had been reduced to the +the group round mortemart to listen to what was being said there, and +the ground, as a heavy fire had been opened on him and he was losing +the greatest war there ever was, and i know nothing and am fit for +the greater part of the men had to halt and an unpleasant consciousness +the gray-haired valet was sitting drowsily listening to the snoring of +the grand master rapped with his mallet. all the masons sat down in +the grand master proposed that the last duty should be performed, +the grand master began reading the statutes. they were very long, and +the grand cross of maria theresa, and the whole army received rewards. +the good-natured iogel, flying about like a feather and bowing according +the good-natured expression still more apparent, and gazed at his friend +the glory of our arms and of the day’s work, they assumed a serious +the gleaming icons stood a long invalid chair, and in that chair +the girls sprang aside. denísov hid his hairy legs under the blanket, +the girl smiled and took it. nesvítski like the rest of the men on the +the gesture of a man too busy to lose a moment, glanced at kutúzov and, +the german village of salzeneck. the best quarters in the village were +the german laughed, came out of the cowshed, pulled off his cap, and +the german landlord. +the german closed his eyes, signifying that he did not understand. +the gentlemen of the tsar’s suite by his poor french. +the gentlemen assembled at bilíbin’s were young, wealthy, gay society +the gentlemen around. +the gentlemen and mademoiselle bourienne rose and the little princess, +the general, who looked through his field glass. +the general... third company to the commander.” the words passed along +the general, the men themselves not knowing what, or why, they were +the generals were passing by, looking as if they wished to avoid +the general state of affairs which was far from satisfactory. +the generals seemed to listen reluctantly to the difficult dispositions. +the general’s face clouded, his lips quivered and trembled. he took +the general pleasure and disappoint everyone’s expectation. prince +the general had so wished to do this and was so sorry he had not managed +the general had a fit of coughing as a result of shouting and of the +the general frowned, turned away, and went on. +the general frowned. though there was no definite news of an austrian +the gates, a group of undertakers, who hid whenever a carriage drove up, +the game continued; a waiter kept handing round champagne. +the full significance of the words he heard. +the fulfillment of duty, he rose to see some visitors off and, stroking +the front. i held my sword in my left hand, count. all our family—the +the front, but at dürrenstein, where i was, our attack began after +the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that +the friends were silent. neither cared to begin talking. pierre +the french with his whole army was impossible. the road for the french +the french, who had ceased firing at this field strewn with dead and +the french were firing, and he felt his heart palpitating as he rode +the french were already near. prince andrew, walking beside bagratión, +the french, the spy reported, having crossed the vienna bridge, were +the french sentences which to them were meaningless, with an air of +the french onlookers and listeners laughed. +the frenchman langeron, kutúzov’s incapacity, and (it was whispered) +“the french have abandoned the left bank?” +the french had time to fire three rounds of grapeshot before the hussars +the french had been repulsed for the last time. and again and again in +the french had attacked the battery and, seeing kutúzov, were firing +the french guns were hastily reloaded. the infantry in their blue +the french grenadier. +the french, galloped along the front as hard as his horse could go, but +the french dragoon was a young alsatian who spoke french with a german +the french and lay down their arms at the first demand. +the french, after crossing the bridge at vienna, were advancing in +the forests in the province of kostromá, the land lower down the river, +the foremost, wearing a cossack cloak and lambskin cap and riding a +the foremost frenchman, the one with the hooked nose, was already so +the foreman of a spinning mill, when he has set the hands to work, goes +the foreboding of evil that had suddenly come over rostóv was more and +the fog had grown so dense that though it was growing light they could +the fog had begun to clear and enemy troops were already dimly visible +the flagstaff that had been dropped beside him. (the flag had already +the first words he heard on coming to his senses were those of a french +the first to seize the surrendering french officer by his collar. our +the first to catch his eye. he sent him. +the first time. sometimes that same look fell on pierre, and that funny +the first second. “a baby? what baby...? why is there a baby there? or +“the first man that turns up—she forgets her father and everything +the first door on the left led into the princesses’ apartments. the +the first couple. noiselessly, skillfully stepping with his little +the fires and shouting in the enemy’s army were occasioned by the fact +the fire of life had seemed extinguished, now flashed with brilliant +the field of battle, who though still in some confusion were less +“the field marshal is angry with the emperor and he punishes us all, +the felt boots approached the unseen bend of the staircase more rapidly. +the feeling, “it has begun! here it is!” was seen even on prince +the feather bed. natásha began consoling her, but her face showed that +the fate of battles had arrived. would this disorderly crowd of soldiers +the farther he went the more disorganized they were. the highroad on +the farther forward and nearer the enemy he went, the more orderly and +(the family solicitor) “and he says the same.” +the familiar staircase. the well-known old door handle, which always +the fall of austria’s capital. “how is it vienna was taken? what of +“the fact of the matter is,” said she significantly, and also in a +the face that emerged from the shirt. +the faces of officers and men brightened up at the sound. everyone got +the face of the little princess changed. she sighed and said: “yes, +the face of each soldier and each officer seemed to say. +the face and figure of prince andrew, in a fur cloak the deep collar of +the eyes of the guardsman’s horse. the heavy black horse, sixteen +the eyes of the general and the soldier met. the general became silent, +the expression she saw on the maid of honor’s face, and again relapsed +the experience of old cunctators.” +the exercise book containing geometrical figures. +“the execution of the duc d’enghien,” declared monsieur pierre, +“the exchange horses have just come,” answered the servant. “will +the evening again turned to borís, asking him in a tone of caressing +the epistles and gospels. let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries +the entrenchment, and went on again. just behind it they came upon some +the enormous study was full of things evidently in constant use. +the enormously high study door opened and showed the figure of a rather +the enns and the danube became visible, and the rocky left bank of the +the english will come off badly, you know, if napoleon gets across the +the englishman took out his purse and began counting out the money. +the englishman nodded, but gave no indication whether he intended to +the enemy’s fires, but heard the shouting of the french more loudly +“the enemy is still far away, your excellency. according to the +“the enemy has quenched his fires and a continual noise is heard from +the enchanted circle i cannot escape from. i am now going to the war, +the emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of +the emperor turned with a smile to one of his followers and made a +“the emperor! the emperor!” was suddenly heard among the hussars. +the emperor thanked prince andrew and bowed. prince andrew withdrew and +the emperor’s voice. +the emperor’s suite. one officer told rostóv that he had seen someone +the emperor’s severity regarding duels at that time, neither the +the emperor spoke to him most graciously. annette and i were speaking of +the emperor’s horse started at the sudden cry. this horse that had +the emperor interrupted him. +the emperor immediately!” thought rostóv and galloped on. +the emperor. he felt that this nearness by itself made up to him for the +the emperor, frowning slightly, bent his ear forward as if he had not +the emperor drew level with rostóv and halted. alexander’s face was +the emperor, and a thousand reasons occurred to him why it would be +“the emperor alexander,” said she, with the melancholy which +the emperor alexander and the king of prussia in berlin? if prussia +the emperor about him; so that in the case of his death—and he is +the eldest princess paused in her reading and silently stared at him +the elders began talking about bonaparte. julie karágina turned to +the elderly lady was a princess drubetskáya, belonging to one of the +“the eighteenth.” +the efforts of the old count, and instead of being degraded to the ranks +the ebb and flow of these sounds. + the earth by english gold, we shall cause to share the same +thee, and even in those blasphemous words thou hast just uttered!” +the duties of wife and mother upon me i shall try to perform them as +the dull, sleepy expression was no longer there, nor the affectation +the duel with nesvítski, bezúkhov’s second. pierre went home, but +the duel between pierre and dólokhov was hushed up and, in spite of +the drawing room. he evidently tried to find something to say, but +“the doubt is flattering,” said “the man of profound intellect,” +the doorway appeared a student with a crimson coat collar, an officer +the door, was sitting at the table in a persian dressing gown, writing. +the door; the scream ceased and he heard the wail of an infant. +the door himself behind him. +the door and as soon as it opened his rough old arms closed like a vise +the door. +the doctor glanced at his watch. +the doctor entered. prince andrew went out and, meeting princess mary, +the doctor cast a rapid glance upwards and silently shrugged his +“the divine mercy is inexhaustible! unction is about to be +the dispositions were very complicated and difficult. they began as +the dispositions or anything else—he was engaged in satisfying the +“the dispositions!” exclaimed kutúzov bitterly. “who told you +the disordered battalion and at the enemy, “what’s that?” +the dinner sat silent, glancing with a frightened look now at her +“the devil skin your emperor.” +“the devil only knows what they’re about!” muttered denísov. +“the devil only knows! they say so.” +“the devil knows! they’ve killed everybody! it’s all up now!” +the determination of denísov who flourished his sword and shouted +the deep wet snow between the place where they had been standing and +the declaration from petersburg gave him particular pleasure, and that +the decisive point, and gains the victory alone. “but death and +the day. that’s what keeping one’s head means. that’s the way, +the day after the review, borís, in his best uniform and with his +the day after rostóv had been to see borís, a review was held of the +the day after he had been received into the lodge, pierre was sitting at +the darkness. this was the last french attack and was met by soldiers +the dam, the pond, and the bank. +the crystal decanters and fruit vases, the count kept glancing at his +the crowd, pushing forward desperately, squeezed together, moved a few +the crowd of retreating soldiers, ordering them back. bagratión rode up +the crowd moved on again. nesvítski realized that it was a cannon ball. +the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his +the count went in first with márya dmítrievna, the countess followed +the count was delighted at anna mikháylovna’s taking upon herself one +the count was beginning to breathe heavily and quickly which was always +the count walked up and down the hall in his dressing gown, giving +the count sobbed yet more. +the count put his ear to the keyhole and listened. +the count, my uncle; but you, my dear, had better go to pierre meanwhile +the count jumped up and, swaying from side to side, spread his arms wide +“the count is suffering physically and mentally, and apparently you +the count, holding his cards fanwise, kept himself with difficulty from +the countess, with a smile. +the countess was upset by her friend’s sorrow and humiliating poverty, +the countess was a woman of about forty-five, with a thin oriental type +the countess tried to frown, but could not. márya dmítrievna shook her +“the countess told me to inquire whether your excellency was at +the countess shrugged her shoulders. +the countess had been prepared by anna mikháylovna’s hints at dinner. +the countess glanced at her silent son. +the countess’ eyes filled with tears and she pondered in silence. +the countess exchanged glances with anna mikháylovna. the latter +the countess did not believe her ears. denísov had proposed. to whom? +the countess as her mother and called her so) “that i am spoiling +the countess; about 70,000 went for interest on debts. the building of a +the count, dying with laughter. +the count danced well and knew it. but his partner could not and did not +the count considered. +the count came waddling in to see his wife with a rather guilty look as +the count burst out laughing. the other guests seeing that shinshín +the count and at anna mikháylovna, the latter very adroitly turned +the council of war was just over when prince andrew accompanied +the council of war, at which prince andrew had not been able to +the cot where she was standing, “better wait a bit... later...” +the cot. he did not look round, but still gazing at the infant’s face +the cossacks sold the horse for two gold pieces, and rostóv, being the +the copse across which our men, regardless of orders, were running and +the convoy officer. +the conversation was hushed. +the conversation to insignificant matters. natásha, who, of the whole +the conversation did not flag all evening and turned chiefly on the +the conversation broke up into insignificant small talk about the last +the conversation, “almost all the aristocracy has already gone over to +the contempt with which rostóv, from his fighting army point of view, +the concentrated activity which had begun at the emperor’s +the complete darkness túshin’s guns moved forward, surrounded by the +the company commander might get killed and he, as senior in the company, +the command of the left flank belonged by seniority to the commander of +the command of the army to general buxhöwden. during this interregnum +the commander with a tone of suffering in his voice, while there were +the commander of the regiment was an elderly, choleric, stout, and +the commander of the regiment turned to prince bagratión, entreating +the commander of the regiment, a thin, feeble-looking old man with a +the commander of the dragoons had already retreated beyond the dip in +the commander of the company, with his eyes fixed on his superior, +the commander in chief would inspect the regiment on the march. though +the commander in chief’s one sound eye showed him to be so preoccupied +the commander in chief, kutúzov. +the commander in chief is expected and you leave your place? eh? i’ll +“the commander in chief is engaged,” said kozlóvski, going +“the commander in chief is engaged,” repeated kozlóvski calmly. +the combatants advanced along the trodden tracks, nearer and nearer to +the column, gave him the order to advance. +the colonel was a stout, tall, plethoric german, evidently devoted to +the colonel told them that the declaration of war had already appeared +the colonel rode to the front, angrily gave some reply to questions put +the colonel looked silently at the officer of the suite, at the stout +the colonel deliberately stopped the regiment and turned to nesvítski. +the colonel, closely—to find in his face confirmation of his own +the cold wind, swarmed in these earthworks like a host of white ants; +the cold, austere tone of this man, whom he had almost always before met +the coin was a new one. rostóv rose and went up to telyánin. +the coach with six horses was waiting at the porch. it was an autumn +the club cook and the steward listened to the count’s orders with +the cloak they spread under him was wet with blood which stained his +the climate,” said he. +the clever though shy, but observant and natural, expression which +the cleverest among them, including the chief steward, understood from +the clear blue eyes looked at the commander in chief just as boldly as +the clavichord, sang the tune. bolkónski was not there. none of these +the child moved slightly in his sleep, smiled, and rubbed his forehead +the chief steward, who considered the young count’s attempts almost +the chief steward expressed great sympathy with pierre’s intentions, +the chief steward, a very stupid but cunning man who saw perfectly +the cheerful mood of their officers after the inspection infected the +the cheerful glitter of that autumn day was in keeping with the news of +the cheeks, the same expression was on her charming childlike face with +the chantry long before, but that nine tenths of the peasants in that +the chanting of the service ceased, and the voice of the priest was +the changed expression on prince bagratión’s face at this moment. it +the chair for her. +the center of the russian army, and that that center was already +the cause of the confusion was that while the austrian cavalry was +the cause of justice against the enemy of the human race. anna pávlovna +the cause of his grief. +the case is this: you ought to have thought the matter over and +the case, hesitated about lifting the injured or dead. the soldiers, +the carved back of a velvet chair he had turned round for the purpose, +the carriage as pale as anything. how they made the four black horses +the care of a skillful rider and, slightly bending over, disengaged his +the card tables were drawn out, sets made up for boston, and the +the campfire. they were quarreling and fighting desperately, each trying +the campaign and the two battles in which he had taken part, and his +the cadet was rostóv. with one hand he supported the other; he was +“‘the brook,’” suggested nicholas. +the brilliant surroundings in which he had last met his friend in +the bridge unobserved, flings the bags of incendiary material into +the bridges were strong and had handrails. everything bore an impress of +the bridge, for the horizon as seen from the valley through which the +the bridge chased each other along. looking on the bridge he saw equally +the bridge and not let us cross? but it will please our sovereign the +the bridge and its celebrated bridgehead and prince auersperg? we heard +the bridge. +the bottle of rum was brought. the window frame which prevented anyone +the boots. +the book was the gospel, and the white thing with the lamp inside was a +the bonfires of our infantry who were felling wood. the french line was +the bonfire, and addressing túshin asked him to have the guns moved a +the bohemian mountains with. it’s a bad lookout, old fellow! but +the black, hairy, snub-nosed face of váska denísov, and his whole +the bigwigs who guided the club’s opinion reappeared, and everybody +the better. but bogdánich, without looking at or recognizing rostóv, +the best post he could—preferably that of adjutant to some important +the best maroon dress, and so on, all would be well. they forgot that +“the berlin cabinet cannot express a feeling of alliance,” began +the bedchamber. the diplomatic career now lies open before you.” +the beauty went to the aunt, but anna pávlovna detained pierre, looking +the battle of schön grabern than you do now,” said his son with a +the battle had begun! prince andrew turned his horse and galloped back +the battlefield, believed that the french had been defeated and were +the battery to retire as quickly as possible. when the supports attached +the battalion commander perceived the jovial irony and laughed. +the battalion commander. “oh, my god!” he added, stepping resolutely +the baron. +the band struck up the newly introduced mazurka. nicholas could not +the band immediately struck up “conquest’s joyful thunder +the bald head. véra, natásha, sónya, and pétya now entered the room, +the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young +the baggage wagons had all crossed, the crush was less, and the last +the austrian general looked dissatisfied, but had no option but to reply +the austrian adjutant, he addressed bolkónski. +the attack of the sixth chasseurs secured the retreat of our right +theater, where he had been with his family and denísov. he was at once +the artillerymen were still as merry and lively as ever. twice they +the arrival of the rest of the troops who were on their way from vienna, +the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both +the army was a great grief to me. this young man, of whom i spoke to you +the army now that it is in danger. i understand that. mon cher, it is +the army considerably. throughout the whole army and at headquarters +the army, and about whom natásha had teased her elder sister véra, +the armistice immediately and march on the enemy. inform him that the +the architect. +the archduke ferdinand and mack, and kutúzov, not considering this +the archduchy of austria, and yet other regiments freshly arriving from +“the Ápsherons must be stopped, your excellency,” cried he. but at +the appointed place. +the anteroom. “i can’t remain any longer in petersburg. tell me what +the animated hum of several conversations. at one end of the table, the +“the ammunition for the guns in position is exhausted, your +the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that is how +the aide-de-camp with a respectful politeness evidently relating to the +the aide-de-camp was sent to confirm the order which had not been +the agility with which he capered about on his light feet, márya +the affair had come to an actual duel). “you know, count, it is much +the affair, and like everyone in similar cases, did not yet believe that +the advantages are far less than in the infantry. just consider my own +the advanced army. prince andrew bolkónski came into the room with the +the adoration then common in moscow for the emperor, who was spoken of +the adjutant on duty,” said the official. “he will conduct you to +the adjutant on duty, meeting prince andrew, asked him to wait, and went +the adjutant and the minister. “away from the smell of powder, they +the address. “this letter would be of great use to you.” +the act of falling asleep. rostóv lifted his head that had sunk almost +the accurate way characteristic of him, was building a little pyramid of +the accountant with the naïve face was feeling its texture, shaking his +the abbé morio and many others had also come. +the abbé. another, of young people, was grouped round the beautiful +the 18th brumaire; was not that an imposture? it was a swindle, and not +thawing in the sunshine, the horses galloped quickly, and on both sides +that year to moreau to enter the russian service.... “wonderful!... +that year, as all his estates had been remortgaged, and so nicholas, +“that would take too long to tell,” answered the son. +“that would be fine, gentlemen!” +“that would be a fine thing!” said she. “i never wanted anything +that will decide the matter, but those who devised it,” said bilíbin +that white spot. “i expect it’s snow... that spot... a spot—une +that while napoleon’s proclamation was being read to the troops the + that while her fingers touch the harp +that which had said: “the pávlograd hussars?” +that where the steward had shown him in the accounts that the serfs’ +that were so agonizingly, incessantly pulling and pressing his arm and +that were arriving from russia. if kutúzov decided to remain at krems, +that were afloat, and so kutúzov’s suggestion of an austrian victory +that was swaying from its weight in prince andrew’s hands, but he +that was not pretty, but neither mademoiselle bourienne nor the little +that was good. +that was dispersing on the hill lay still more densely below, where they +“that was a nice snub for the little aide-de-camp,” came a voice +“that was a daniel cooper!” exclaimed márya dmítrievna, tucking up +that village, amid the smoke, was something resembling a battery, but it +that very instant a cloud of smoke spread all round, firing was heard +that tonight he was a person obliged to perform some sort of awful +that those broad-boned reddish hands with hairy wrists visible from +that they may run smoothly. +that they despaired of the possibility of checking this disorder. +that they are to cross last and to fire the bridge as i ordered; and the +that the strange lady, the aide-de-camp, and some of the servants, all +that the story about sergéy kuzmích, the laughter, and the food +that these thoughts had been suggested to prince andrew by his +that there were no political difficulties in europe and no real war, +that the question of his wife’s guilt which had been tormenting him +that the pupils’ parents wept at having to let him take their children +that the prince was in a bad humor, stood awaiting him; mademoiselle +that the ismáylov regiment was quartered for the night ten miles from +that the hussars must return quickly and fire the bridge.’” +“that the emperor will meet me and give me an order as he would to any +that the corsican monster who is destroying the peace of europe may +that’s why i have come... i am a relation. i shall not disturb him, +that’s what i did.” +“that’s what comes of a modern education,” exclaimed the visitor. +that surrounded the emperors. +that sum. “he’s begun to go a little lame on the left foreleg,” he +“that’s twue, devil take it!” shouted denísov, jumping up. “now +“that’s true!” +that stood before his plate, pierre held out one at random and drank +that’s the way they treat me! no confidence in me! ah, ordered to keep +that state of mind which makes everything seem possible, pleasant, and +“that’s so, your excellency, all they have to do is to eat a good +that’s our house,” said rostóv. “of course, it’s our house! +“that’s our battery,” said the staff officer indicating the +that sort of thing.” +that sort of man), he gave borís a pleasant smile, frowned as with +that soldier passed on, and after him came another sitting on a cart. +“that’s not the point, my dear.” +that’s not it—that’s tomorrow. oh yes! natásha... sabretache... +that smile was immediately reflected on pierre’s face. +that sleep is more important than anything,” whispered princess mary +“that’s just it, my dear fellow. you see it’s hurrah for the tsar, +“that’s just it,” interrupted dolgorúkov quickly, laughing. +“that’s just it,” answered bilíbin. “listen! the french entered +“that’s it, that’s it!” exclaimed the count, and gaily seizing +that’s it.” and with a complacent sigh he would return to the +“that’s how we used to dance in our time, ma chère,” said the +that showed that his father’s foibles did not prevent his son from +that she winced and uttered a cry. +that she had not intended her flight to bring her so far. behind her in +“that’s for them all,” he said to the officer who came up. +“that’s fine,” said he. +“that’s capital; of course she’ll forget her childish promises +“that’s better, count,” said the staff captain, beginning to +“that’s a miwacle.” +that same night, rostóv was with a platoon on skirmishing duty in front +that same night, having taken leave of the minister of war, bolkónski +that same evening there was to be one of the balls that iogel (the +that same evening there was an animated discussion among the +that same day a council of war had been held in which all the members of +“that’s all right. no one thinks you a coward, but that’s not the +“that’s a good thing, but don’t move from prince vasíli’s. it +“that’s a fine death!” said napoleon as he gazed at bolkónski. +“that’s admirable!” he shouted. “he will take you with your + * “that russian army which has been brought from the ends of +that remained uninjured out of the four, they began moving down the hill +that provisions are supplied and the routes indicated,” said bilíbin, +that princess mary in this guise looked very plain, worse than usual, +that pierre could no longer see the reddish-yellow face with its gray +that peculiar expression of polite weariness which plainly says, “if +“that passion which more than all others caused you to waver on the +that passionate animal feeling which was apt to master him with great +that on receiving news of the defeat some would simply not believe it, +that one also passed. then followed a cart unlike any that had gone +that not even a continuity of most brilliant successes would secure +that never does any harm,” thought anatole. +that negotiations for peace were already proceeding, and that he +that more irritating news than yours could not have been conceived. +that month and a half while he felt himself drawn nearer and nearer to +that moment pierre felt that hélène not only could, but must, be his +that moment his home life, jokes with pétya, talks with sónya, duets +that moment been wounded and his face showed fear rather than suffering. +that moment a third enemy rises before us—namely the orthodox russian +that moment after supper at prince vasíli’s, when he spoke those +that makes me unhappy. but even in this i can see lately a shade of +“that letter was written, though it was not sent, and the emperor knew +that led to his own apartments. +that kutúzov’s upper lip twitched unnaturally as he said the +that?... kindly do as you are ordered.” +that i would give my life twice over...” he looked at the countess, +that i was ungrateful, and that mamma would never allow him to marry +that it would be a bad thing), but he knew it would happen. +that it was not she but he was so unusually beautiful, and that that was +that it was impossible to stop them, spurred his horse and rode to the +that it seemed to be made of one piece with her head and covered with +that it might not occur to her to speak of his share in the affair of +that it is we who lost the battle of pultúsk. in short, we retreat +that it is more dangerous to run away than to advance, but that russian +that is, you want to raise him” (pointing to a peasant who passed by +“that is, with ilyá rostóv who married nataly shinshiná,” said +“that is why i beg to be sent to that detachment,” he said. +“that is what we shall see! that is what we shall see!” he added +“that is what i ask you. no one, not even bonaparte, knows why.” +that is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. it is the one +that is still too fresh. ah, dear friend, you are happy not to know +“that is probably the work of vinesse,” said pierre, mentioning +that is not yet ready. +“that is no business of mine,” he thought. he had not ridden many +“that is just why i do not begin, sire,” said kutúzov in a +“that is enough for me,” said sónya, blushing. +“that is doubtful,” said prince andrew. “monsieur le vicomte quite +“that is all nonsense.” prince andrew again interrupted him, “let +that in this world there is neither honor nor justice. in this world one +that instant the trooper nikítenko, who was galloping ahead, shot away +that in spite of all the unpleasantness he had to endure he would still +that insignificant society people might carry them from drawing room to +that imprint of newness found in the households of the newly married. +that i’m a sharper, so i advise you to be careful.” +that—if you consider yourself bound by your promise—it will seem as +that if he asked on behalf of all who begged of him, he would soon be +that i do not like him.” +that i am saying!” thought a diplomatist, glancing at the happy faces +that his remarks were too enthusiastic and emphatic for the occasion and +that his heart stood still. his hand trembled as he gave his horse into +that he would have to answer it justly, and justice clashed not only +that he was dangerously wounded. +that he was at the front and in the power of a man toward whom he now +that he too seemed ashamed of the hussar of the line. +that hesitation lasted only an instant. the tsar’s foot, in the narrow +that he should do the same. the rider, whose figure seemed familiar +“that here lives count cyril vladímirovich bezúkhov so rich, all +that he ought to avoid her and go away, pierre, despite that decision, +that he is probably tired of them,” said another officer. +that he had composed in his imagination could he now recall. those +that he fell off his horse and sprained his arm and then ran as hard as +that he decided to go. the thought immediately occurred to him that his +that he could not believe his eyes. “who are they? why are they +that, hearing he was in a bad humor, she had decided not to appear. +that had tormented him all dinnertime rose and took possession of him. +that had placed the vienna bridge in the hands of the french without +that had already once been given in detail: “and tell the hussars +that had advanced beyond the village went back; but as though in revenge +that god who has been sewn into this amulet by mary! there is nothing +that friendship?” remarked the count in an inquiring tone. +that for an instant). why should he not love her now, and even marry +that fat one in spectacles” (that was how pétya described his +that explained their teaching by hieroglyphics. a hieroglyph,” said +that everything was splendid. “just fancy: wants to be an hussar. +that everything done by necessity, by accident, or by the will of +that, even more than in moscow, he felt a sense of bewilderment, bustle, +that evening to bid a last farewell to the celebrated grandee of +that evening, proud of dólokhov’s proposal, her refusal, and her +that end and when did this new, terrible state of things begin? what +that dread of beaten tracks, and wish to express itself in a manner +that dreadful abyss, pierre said to himself: “what am i doing? i need +“that dólokhov was my lover,” she said in french with her coarse +that divine purity and devotion i look for in women. if i found such a +that dinner was ready! the door opened, and from the dining room came +that day nicholas rostóv received a letter from borís, telling him +that day, but had heard about them from an infantry officer. “they +that could save the army, and how he alone would be entrusted with the +that column himself. when he had reached the village of pratzen he +that came upon him at hollabrünn, which was clearly impossible. but +that both her slender bare arms clasped him above his neck, and, tossing +that between the person they so address and themselves there are some +that army: a feeling of self-forgetfulness, a proud consciousness of +that anna mikháylovna whom i would not take for a housemaid... the +that all europe is powerless before him.... and i don’t believe a +that afternoon. she felt that as she brought with her the person the +that affair for me and i shall always be your most devoted slave-slafe +“that abbé is very interesting but he does not see the thing in the +that. +than with politics,” said he in his quiet ironical tone. “i know +than the other; the serfs everywhere seemed thriving and touchingly +than once. “you know it won’t do to leave your posts like this. +“thank you; you saved me, my dear fellow!” said túshin. +thank you! you must have a rest. be at the levee tomorrow after the +thank you with my whole heart.” to rostóv every word sounded like a +“thank you very much, prince,” answered one of the officers, pleased +“thank you very much, i will go on alone,” said prince andrew, +“thank you, my dear.” she kissed him on the forehead and sat down +thanks to princess lise’s voice and little downy lip that lifted over +thanks to anna mikháylovna’s efforts, his own tastes, and the +“thank god!” said the voice. “and father?” +“thank god!” said sónya, crossing herself. “but perhaps she +“thank god!” said prince vasíli. “my wife has told me +“thank god,” said his son smiling. +“thank god!” +thanked,” thought the overseer, “the storm has blown over!” +thanked him for his love. his looks thanked her for offering him his +than five hundred paces from where kutúzov was standing, a dense french +than a yard above the glow of the charcoal. flakes of falling snow were +than anything else showed pierre her superiority. she was right in +than a man who has been looking at a tuft of steppe grass through the +than a hundred cannon were already in the hands of the french. +tête-de-pont. * they spin him a thousand gasconades, saying that +terribly true. i pity prince vasíli but am still more sorry for pierre. +terrible voice that the whole house heard it with horror. god knows what +terrible pain of being lifted onto the stretcher, the jolting while +terrible news from her till after her confinement, which was expected +terrible dragon, a lady distinguished not for wealth or rank, but for +terrible dividing line of uncertainty and fear—resembling the line +terrible, and now he has this authority of a commander in chief of +terrible and holy secrets of providence while we remain in this flesh +ten minutes later lavrúshka brought the coffee. “he’s coming!” +ten minutes. and that it will not be too dull, here is the dear count +tenderly sad voice, she said: +tenacious endurance and vigor of hardy old age. after a few more turns +temptation she slipped quietly behind one of the columns. in the midst +temper made him specially annoyed at prince vasíli’s visit, he was +temper because prince vasíli was coming, or whether his being in a bad +telyánin was sitting in the same indolent pose in which rostóv had +telyánin, taking up his cap and moving toward a small empty room. “we +telyánin’s orderly. “has something happened?” he added, surprised +telyánin, and he went out to give the order. +telyánin. +telyánin. +tell you for the tenth time that if the letter to the emperor and the +tell the truth. +“tell these devils, these fiends, to let me pass!” shouted denísov +“tell them to give me a seat, for god’s sake!” +tell the little countess!” +“tell me, when did the battle begin?” he asked hurriedly. +“tell me, my dear,” said she to natásha, “is mimi a relation of +tell me,” he added with studied carelessness as if it had only just +“tell me about that!” he said. +telling me what forces are being collected against him! while you and i +telling him. +telling her things. she has had a dream and is frightened.” +tell everything just as it happened, but imperceptibly, involuntarily, +“tell bezúkhov to come. i’ll put his name down. is his wife with +teeth, he began with stubby fingers of both hands to ruffle up his thick +teatime she would prepare the countess, and after tea, with god’s +tears.” +tears. +teach you to dress the men in fancy coats for a parade.... eh...?” +teacher’s fault or the pupil’s, this same thing happened every day: +tea?” asked his valet. +taste. and she had a lady’s maid, also big. she said....” +task pierre had to face was one for which he had very little aptitude or +tangled black hair. +talk to her. what a darling sónya is!” he added with a smile. +talks sense, but to temporize and wait for something now when bonaparte +talking too loudly and vehemently with the abbé, so she hurried to the +talking. seeing them pass, prince vasíli drew back with obvious +talking of the schön grabern affair? were you there?” +talking about me? let us talk about you,” he added after a silence, +talked of peace but did not believe in its possibility; others talked +talk, but i don’t want to,” he seemed to say. besides this, in his +taking up a pack he prepared to deal. rostóv submissively unbent the +taking the colonel’s outburst as a challenge to his courage, the +taking out what she was holding inside it, as if what she held were +taking offense, but you don’t mind disgracing the whole regiment!” +taking no notice of his arrival. a wax candle stood at each side of the +taking leave of anna pávlovna. “it is settled,” she added in a low +taking his partner with him. he glided silently on one foot half across +taking him by the hand led him forward. the hairs tied in the knot hurt +taking charges from their pouches, while others were firing, though who +taking a letter addressed in a woman’s hand from a bag hanging above +taking a glass from the table he went up to pierre. +taking advantage of it!” +“take this road, your honor, that way you will be killed at once!” a +“take this and deliver it,” said he to his adjutant, handing him the +take these away. put this on the seat and this to the right.” +take the money,” and he threw the purse to him and ran out of the inn. +takes place at such moments. +take part in receiving the visitors. the count met the guests and saw +taken up their position and seeing troops before them, thought they were +taken off his eyes and, by the faint light of the burning spirit, +taken, it was not his fault but the corporal’s who had sent him to +taken from the prisoner. +taken and i hope it will not be, for it is mined and orders have been +taken, and all this for the beaux yeux * of his sardinian majesty. and +taken advice; but no, you go and blurt it all straight out before the +taken a ballroom in bezúkhov’s house, and the ball, as everyone said, +take me too? who are these men?” thought rostóv, scarcely believing +“take it right out, or they’ll think i’m holding on,” said +“take it if you like,” said the officer, giving the girl an apple. +take it...” he threw it on the table. “i have an old father and +take his eyes off her and beat time with his saber in a way that clearly +take her for her connections and wealth. are there no women living +“take a stick between your legs, that’ll suit you for a horse!” +take a seat beside her. +“take a glass of boiled water and put a pinch of cream of tartar,” +tail extended, bedouin, as if also conscious of the emperor’s eye +“tafa-lafa! but what he’s jabbering no one can make out,” said a +tache,” he thought. “there now... it’s not a tache... natásha... +table. “what are you thumping the table for?” she demanded of the +table that he had pushed away. “but... in short, the fact is... you +table seemed to feel this, and they forgot their duties as they looked +tables and the same chandelier with a cover over it; but someone had +table on a corner of which he smilingly and absent-mindedly fixed his +table linen, he would call dmítri vasílevich, a man of good family and +table. denísov was sitting there scratching with his pen on a sheet of +table began to watch her hands arranging the cards. from the dancing +table and placed on it his small leather-gloved hands. +table and becoming more animated and talking more rapidly: “what if +table, a child’s table, and the little chair on which prince andrew +table. +sympathize with him; if i seem sad and out of spirits myself, he will +symmetrically on his knees in the naïve attitude of an egyptian statue, +symmetrically and above all freely, and in front of them two men—the +swords, meaning them to pierce it. but the swords were drawn back from +sword of frederick the great. +swinging their arms and keeping time spontaneously, marched with long +sweet wine, my dear, now that the time has come for these young ones to +sweet, so good-natured, and her position now is a very hard one.” +sweetly. it was the third time that day that, with an ecstatic and +sweetest comforts to my poor heart, which has already suffered so much. +sweeter, and better than the feelings which the beautiful eyes of a +sways the world. think this over and i will come to you again.” +sway and scatters its last snows and storms with desperate fury. a relay +swarmed with well-provisioned sutlers and austrian jews offering +swallowing his r’s, and pronouncing the latin words with a french +suvórov’s wars. send it to the academy. here are some jottings for +suvórov’s time, now passing so gallantly before the emperors, that he +suvórov. moreover, paying such honor to bagratión was the best way of +suvórov-like, in a kibítka, and is received with acclamations of joy +suvórov giving his saber to bagratión in italy, and the recollection +survive....” +surveying the guests, and leisurely arranged her wide sleeves as if +surroundings unable to find their own regiments. in this way the action +surroundings, and from her smiling lips flowed sounds which anyone may +“surrounded! cut off? we’re lost!” shouted the fugitives. +surrender of most of the prussian fortresses had been received, when our +surrendered but had beaten the french. +surprise, the french had thrown down their muskets and run. dólokhov, +surprised pierre. +surprised by what he saw. hoping to enter on an entirely new life quite +surprise.” +“surely he will leave something to borís,” said the countess. +suppressed smile brightening both their faces, a smile that had nothing +suppose that i should look severely on your affection for that young +supposed that the russian guards, abroad, was quite a definite address, +supposed, share the general russian antipathy to the austrians which was +supposed, must have risen to fifteen thousand. in reality it already +support of his battery all was forgotten. prince andrew listened +supported him under the arms. there was a gurgle in his throat and he +“supper, it’s time for supper! and here are the gypsies!” +superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence. he +superior to napoleon’s, were concentrated in one place, the troops +superior. +superfluous was hanging on his benumbed left arm. the wrist felt as if +sun. how beautiful the sky looked; how blue, how calm, and how deep! +sumptuous but cold apartments known to pierre only from the front +suite who had mimicked the regimental commander, fell back from the +suite and said in french: +suite, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the gun they could see +suite. +suggestion and pressed his lips to the large boned, fleshy hand. neither +suggested to him a point of view which gave him a right to despise +suggested to him a blow from something. he looked at prince vasíli +suggested that she had resolved to endure her troubles uncomplainingly +sufficiently weakened to be successfully attacked. but still he did not +sufficient ground for this affair, or for blood to be shed over it.... +sufferings. what a heart! how like him it is! and how he has remembered +suffering?” suggested another voice. prince andrew, however, did not +suffering, but what he wanted to do was too terrible. +suffering, and the nearness of death aroused in him. looking into +suffer for it.” +suddenness and prompt him to the coarsest and most reckless actions. +suddenly transformed. he put on the air of a subordinate who obeys +suddenly the angry, squirrel-like expression of the princess’ pretty +suddenly she jumped up onto a tub to be higher than he, embraced him so +suddenly replied the irate colonel. “if you vere in the cavalry...” +suddenly prince hippolyte started up making signs to everyone to attend, +suddenly prince bolkónski frowned. +suddenly heard a sound new to him, of something swiftly approaching... +suddenly from the next room were heard the footsteps of boys and girls +suddenly dólokhov made a backward movement with his spine, and his arm +suddenly changed to one of horror. the french were supposed to be a +suddenly came to and, lifting his head with an effort, took rostóv, who +suddenly appeared, looming huge as an elephant. +suddenly appeared in the fog, there was a flash, followed by a report, +suddenly a gust of wind beat violently against the casement of the +suddenly. +such things about bonaparte, but understanding that he was wanted as +such silence and an anxiety to find something to say, the effect is +such love as sónya was speaking of. but natásha had not yet felt +such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread +such bad health, and now this vexation about his son is enough to kill +such as might call for his rapidity of perception and decision. +such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was passing now +such a plan in which the enemy’s position was assumed to be known, +such an unfortunate and charming woman! don’t mention him before +such a fright! oh, what a pig i am!” he repeated, flushing suddenly. +such a friend that i burned my arm for her sake. look here!” +success reached kutúzov’s cheerless staff with the galloping advent +successfully cannonading the french, our artillerymen only noticed this +success and at the inability of others to understand these things. +success.” +succeeds. he sat motionless, looking at the heights visible above +succeeded!’ the prussian generals pride themselves on being polite to +succeeded in setting two loquacious talkers at one another. +succeeded in forestalling the french he was to delay them as long as +subtleties here beyond my feeble intelligence, but i can’t make it +subsiding under the delightful interest of his own story, “is that the +subscribed the same amount as the others. +subordinate commanders was done, if not by his direct command, at least +subordinate by me. +submitted herself to mademoiselle bourienne and lise. both these women +submit my report, with the information that if the army remains in its +submit from habit, and she said: “i wish only to do your will, but if +submissive general. +subject under discussion than those they are talking with. +subject, and was thus at the duc’s mercy. the latter spared him, and +style, wearing an antique coat and powdered hair; and when prince andrew +stupidest remarks came out clever and apt. now everything pierre said +stumbled over it. several of those present laughed. +stumbled on him in the fog, hearing no encouraging word from their +study, the old prince went for his walk as usual next morning, but he +study, on the blue sofa, the confidential sofa? why cannot i now, as +study a little before noon in his silk dressing gown and found his head +study. +struggle to conquer that fear, all his dreams of distinguishing himself +struggles of a certain emilie de mansfeld. “and why did she resist +struggle, but with naïve and lighthearted gaiety. +struck two and another with a shrill tone joined in from the drawing +struck the ground in front of them. +struck him by her beauty on the preceding day. today, when he had caught +strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and are surrounded by other such +stronger flow of love for his sovereign. he longed to show that love in +stroked the animal. it was plain that he did not quite grasp where he +stroke, came up to the prince, bowing his bald head resignedly before +stripes on their bodies heal, and they are happy as before. but it is +striking his horse with his long muscular legs as if it were to blame +striking him regularly on his bare back. the man shrieked unnaturally. +striking chords with his short fingers, his legs thrown back and his +striking a blow!” +strictly to obey. you said the bridge would be burned, but who would it +(strictly speaking, daniel cooper was one figure of the anglaise.) +stretching himself he rose from the table. “one does get tired sitting +“stretchers!” shouted someone behind him. +stretchers came into view before rostóv. and the fear of death and of +stretched along the highroad in the midst of a young copse in which were +streets of brünn and found himself surrounded by high buildings, the +streamed out of a side street. +strayed off the track into the snow, pierre looked down at his feet, +strayed from under her friend’s plaits. +straw covered street and turned into the wide courtyard of count cyril +strategic position where the operations would take place was familiar in +strange, unknown, and dangerous places he reaches, just as a sailor is +stranger, yet nearer to him through the brotherhood of man. with bated +strangers and unable to send news of himself. the gazettes from which +stranger, looking deeper and deeper into pierre’s eyes. “and in +stranger. +strangely softened but agitated expression on his face. he came up the +strange and ridiculous to meet objections from russian generals and to +strains of daniel cooper (somewhat resembling those of a merry peasant +straight on napoleon, he was silent.... so insignificant at that moment +straight! it’s well god had mercy on us. and what was it for? who +straight into his son’s face with keen eyes which seemed to see +stouter!...” +story to him, her seducer. and now he, a real russian prince, had +story of the misfortunes of some mary víktorovna or other. at the +stories or telling them, but followed every movement of rostóv’s +stories of the grand duke’s quick temper he related with gusto how in +stories of his kindness and irascibility. berg, as usual, kept silent +“stop those wretches!” gasped kutúzov to the regimental commander, +“stop this jesting,” he said. +“stop them!” he shouted, and at the same moment, probably realizing +stopping occasionally at a corner to make menacing gestures at the wall, +stopping in front of the pávlograds, the tsar said something in french +stopped the company.” dólokhov breathed heavily from weariness and +stopped him. he turned his horse and galloped off. +stopped at a solitary, deserted house that had probably once been an +stopped and glanced inquiringly over his spectacles at his guide. anna +“stop jesting,” said prince andrew sadly and seriously. this news +stood with the candle. yes, it was he, pale, thin, with a changed and +stood with his marshals around him, it was quite light. above him was +stood waiting by the door. +stood, met, and separated, some in uniform and some in evening dress, +stood cold and silent, as if quite regardless of who had come to it. +stood before a looking glass and brushed the hair on his temples +stood at every door anxiously noting visitors’ every movement in order +stood at a window with dólokhov, whose acquaintance he had lately +stones of the pavement. +stone, hundreds of riders composing the suites moved carelessly but +stomach with an already stiffened arm flung wide. +stir around him, then the people resumed their places and the service +stir, and a footman who had run in announced, with a frightened face: +stir. an adjutant, dismounting, lifted the soldier under the arms to +stint yourself, we’ll settle afterwards,” he added, turning to +stimulating effect on him. “vive l’empereur! l’empereur!” he now +still why didn’t you capture him? so don’t be surprised if not only +still when she’s fifty.” +still was not in time to avoid them. +“still the same. wait, for heaven’s sake. karl ivánich always says +“still the same,” she said to her husband. +“still the same; but what can you expect, this noise...” said the +still there?” +still the cannon balls continued regularly to whistle and flop onto the +still sound, yellowish teeth. +still smiling, she gracefully moved away, turning and glancing at her +still quite a young lady, before her nose was broken; how she had aged +still no one moved. the troops of the left flank, infantry and hussars +still looking silently at her brother and her beautiful eyes were full +still less did he think of injuring anyone for his own advantage. he +still, i will take borís and go to see him at once, and i shall speak +still it was terrible, and she could not help thinking of it. she was +still in the same place, his stout body resting heavily in the saddle +still in the drawing room, drew a chair toward him or her, and jauntily +still in course of construction. round the house was a garden newly laid +still. “if it were a man whose existence thou didst doubt i could +still he was lifted and laid on the stretcher. +still gazed at the spot where pierre’s face had been before he sat +still five men between him and dólokhov with his bluish-gray uniform. +still feeling his eyes gazing at her. +still farther ahead a dark line which he could not see distinctly but +“still, don’t ruin yourself!” said dólokhov with a side glance at +“still aching?” túshin asked rostóv in a whisper. +steward there, who, bowing respectfully, looked into his face and at +steward, and again began giving orders. a light footstep and the +stern, threatening, inaccessible, and intangible line which separates +stern, shrewd, and penetrating expression of that look struck pierre. he +sternly with a threatening and forbidding movement of her head. +stern eyes on his son. +stern but handsome face really joined in the dance. what was expressed +stern and solemn train of thought that weakness from loss of blood, +step that for you all is ended, all is closed except the drawing +steps. when at last, smartly whirling his partner round in front of her +steps should be taken to liberate the serfs, which the steward met by +steps. “o god,” he said with tears in his eyes, “how could you do +steps, her workbag on her arm, and gaily spreading out her dress sat +steps down the line. he was evidently pleased at his own display of +steps. behind the company the sound of wheels, the creaking of springs, +steps behind him holding two horses by their bridles. each time prince +steps, and again stopped. +steps. +stepping into the deep snow. he held the pistol in his right hand at +“stepping flat on his heels—we know what that means....” +stepped to the middle of the room and stood still. +stepped softly over the carpet and went out into the waiting room. +stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant +step could be heard. on their left flank, nearest to bagratión, marched +step; a soldier who had fallen behind, his face showing alarm at his +steadily and ceaselessly on all sides. with the exception of the aunt, +staying the whole evening, i hope?” +stayed his hand. the sergeant, who was evidently wiser than his general, +station or a doctor for the cadet, and sat down by a bonfire the +stationed on the pratzen heights. +station, but compared to the thoughts that now occupied him it was a +station), and again embraced his sister. +stating them to the emperor francis. he vividly imagined the casual +state of the political thermometer of legitimate petersburg court +state.” +*** start of this project gutenberg ebook war and peace *** +start my apprenticeship as old maid.” +starting from their sockets to watch their chief. on reaching the +started,” thought prince andrew, watching his old acquaintance with +stars on his breast. he seemed to have grown thinner since the morning; +starry night was followed by a bright cheerful morning. the snow was +stand the sight of these unfortunates. +stand made at krems and the victory over mortier raised the spirits of +standing up, on which lay an open exercise book, and the lathe with +standing together out of range of the shots, watching, now the small +standing motionless; then he came to the region occupied by uvárov’s +standard in hand, i shall go forward and break whatever is in front of +stake of twenty rubles. +stairs and up another, to pierre’s rooms. +stairs and embraced his sister. +stages of his journey. +staff were not far off, in the village the vehicles were going to. +staff officer smiled.) “kindly return to your posts, gentlemen, all of +staff officer, and at zherkóv, and he frowned. +staff officer. +staff captain’s question by a disapproving shake of his head. +staff?” +staff...” +s— s— get the same distinction?” +squatting on his heels in front of a clerk. the clerk, with cuffs turned +squadron. the day was bright and sunny after a sharp night frost, and +squadron, that in which rostóv was serving under denísov, to return to +squadron’s officers in denísov’s quarters. +squadron may be recommended for honors and he may get a ribbon. our +squadron in which nicholas rostóv served as a cadet was quartered in +squadron commander. +squadron. all were looking at the enemy in front and at the squadron +spring up with more energy and again play with her cousin as soon as +springing to him, putting her arms round him, and kissing him. this +spread out his arms with a choleric gesture. +spread out her arms to show her short-waisted, lace-trimmed, dainty gray +spreading out his legs and putting his hands on his knees with the air +spread by the fact that the emperor’s carriage had really galloped +spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbé’s +sprang out before the sleigh stopped, and ran into the hall. the house +spot” (he stooped and pointed to the sloping ledge outside the window) +spoke to the taciturn michael ivánovich more often than to anyone else. +spoke smilingly and listened with a laugh. +spoke particularly slowly, as if to impress the fact that there was no +spoken to the gentleman ranker, he addressed him with the cordiality of +spoke in abrupt sentences. “the whole company can bear witness. i beg +spoke as if his sole aim were to put a given number of questions—the +spoil her, but really that seems the best plan. with her elder sister i +“splendid! what a horse he will be!” he thought with a smile, and +splendid soldiers. besides he began by attacking germans. and only +splendidly.” +splendid house!” +“splendid! excellent!” exclaimed natásha. “another verse,” she +splendid! and i am sitting here ill, as you see.” +splashing with blood those near them. +spite of his money. they wanted to introduce him to me, but i quite +spite of his evident wish to do so he could not give them a joyous +spirit will not and cannot understand the emperor alexander’s +spiritual needs, while it seems to me that animal happiness is the only +spirited impression. +spent, and almost every year he was obliged to borrow. besides this the +spend time in reading what is unintelligible and can therefore bear +speeches were intended for quite other conditions, they were for the +spectacles unable to understand what they wanted or how they could go on +spectacles and white dressing gown, in which he received no one but his +spectacles. +spectacle of his power over these three women. besides that, he was +specially choice delicacy a piece of meat that no one who had seen it in +specially amiable mood that day. +special force. no matter what he thought about, he always returned to +speak, so now she could not believe that that little creature could be +speak in the tone of decided refusal and disagreement in which he had +speaking very gently. +speaking to an austrian general. prince andrew, who was a little behind +speaking quickly with a harsh german accent, looking to both sides and +speaking playfully of a matter that evidently distressed him. +speaking of the position of prussia, anna pávlovna very naturally asked +speaking of him, my dear sir. of what, of whom, are we speaking? whom +speaking of berg as her “intended.” the count sat between them and +speaking of a collection of snuffboxes that had belonged to pierre’s +speaking french. he opened his eyes. above him again was the same lofty +speaking as if he were saying something which had long since been agreed +speaking and evidently not thinking about her at all. anatole was not +speak—he turned back, rapidly mounted the stairs again with the +sparkling black eyes, and black tousled mustache and hair. he wore an +spadefuls of red clay were continually being thrown up from behind the +“so you think he is powerless?” said langeron. +so young, and burdened with such riches—to what temptations he will be +“so you have never noticed before how beautiful i am?” hélène +“so you are still at that silly business!” quickly closed his eye +“so you are really going to the war, andrew?” she said sighing. +“so you are not afraid to play with me?” repeated dólokhov, and as +“soyez tranquille, lise, you will always be prettier than anyone +so widely from a private. +so well how to arrange a feast on an open-handed, hospitable scale, +“so we are to have visitors, mon prince?” remarked mademoiselle +sount ze retreat!” +sounds very fast: “kari, mala, tafa, safi, muter, kaská,” he said, +sound of wheels and footsteps heard by the outposts during the night, +sound of these voices, the inattentive way kozlóvski looked at him, the +sound of the hoofs of the approaching cavalcade, but because as he drew +sound of that sentence: “contez nous çela, vicomte.” +sound of officers’ voices in eager conversation. +sound of kissing. when prince andrew went in the two princesses, who +sound of footsteps. +sound of artillery fire near by. having forced his way out of the crowd +sounding, even the connoisseurs said nothing, but only delighted in +sounded still more firm and resolute. +sounded. several of our men fell, among them the round-faced officer +sounded much like irony. but kutúzov went on blandly smiling with the +sounded louder and calmer, the stretchers disappeared from sight. +sounded far away. here everyone clearly saw and said that the battle +sounded and you’ll be in a pretty position without your boots!” (the +soul to see such men as the old count and his worthy son,” said she. +soul to believe and he did believe, and felt a joyful sense of comfort, +soul: courage, generosity, morality, love of mankind, and especially +soul and his face. +so to me? what have i done to you? you are going to the war and have no +“so they will,” said nesvítski. “no, but what i should like,” +so the worse the condition it was in, the better pleased the commander +so the swishing sound of the strokes, and the desperate but unnatural +“so there’s nothing?” +“so the attack is definitely resolved on?” asked bolkónski. +so that the maid could hardly get her hair plaited, and she was +“so that’s what they hit with?” asked the accountant. “how +“so that’s what i’m sorry for—human dignity, peace of mind, + * so that squares matters. +so that she felt herself surrounded on all sides by the acrid scent of +so that his mouth, the most striking feature of his face, was clearly +so terrible to the soldiers, despite his furious purple countenance +so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat +so strange that one could not take it in. but then the expression of +so softly that the rhetor did not hear him and asked him what he was +sorts, and russian and austrian soldiers of all arms, some wounded and +sort—(le sort de l’armée d’ulm).” * he remembered these words +sorrow, sadness, or self-reproach, that she purposely deceived herself +sorrowful, and all-forgiving expression on her face, stood by the door +so rapid that they could hardly be his mother’s. +sophie, the rosy, laughter-loving, youngest princess with the mole, +sophie—i can’t repeat them—that it made the count quite ill and he +“sophie,” he began, timidly at first and then more and more +soothe him. +“só-o-onya! look here! how can you torture me and yourself like that, +so on. then a place was assigned to pierre, he was shown the signs of +sooner or later he would step across it, but an incomprehensible terror +sooner?” +soon as the conversation concerned himself he would begin to talk +soon as he had seen a visitor off he returned to one of those who were +soon after this there came into the dark chamber to fetch pierre, not +soon after prince bagratión had left him, túshin had succeeded in +soon after prince andrew’s return the old prince made over to him a +soon after his admission to the masonic brotherhood, pierre went to the +sónya, whom he loved and thought of just the same as ever.” when she +“sónya, what is the matter with you? how can you?” said he, running +“sónya! what is it? what is the matter?... oo... oo... oo...!” and +“sónya! what is anyone in the world to me? you alone are +sónya was sitting at the clavichord, playing the prelude to +sónya was more tender and devoted to him than ever. it was as if she +sónya trembled all over and blushed to her ears and behind them and +sónya too, all rosy red, clung to his arm and, radiant with bliss, +sónya struck the first chord of the prelude. +sónya’s thin little shoulders, natásha’s eyes and laughter, +sónya’s refusal and felt uncomfortable at the thought of how they +sónya smiled. +sónya smiled. +sónya’s joint ages. rostóv, leaning his head on both hands, sat at +“sónya,” she suddenly exclaimed, as if she had guessed the true +sónya, shaking off some down which clung to her and tucking away the +sónya sat up. the little kitten brightened, its eyes shone, and it +sónya, natásha, pétya, anna mikháylovna, véra, and the old count +sónya interrupted him. +“sónya, don’t believe her, darling! don’t believe her! do you +sónya did not pull it away, and left off crying. natásha, not stirring +sónya could not continue, and again hid her face in her hands and in +sónya became thoughtful. the question of how to write to nicholas, and +sónya and fat little pétya doubled up with laughter. +sónya and dólokhov before dinner, and with the kindly sensitiveness +sónya again interrupted. she gave him an imploring, frightened look. +son’s when speaking to him that afternoon, “believe me i suffer no +son; sónya, the count’s fifteen-year-old niece, and little pétya, +son, sat at the table writing. he glanced round. +son’s arrival: he gave orders to admit him to his apartments while +son’s affair hushed up, but even he was ordered out of petersburg.” +son or kinsman.” +son made no rejoinder, but it was evident that whatever arguments were +son, ilyá? only fancy, i didn’t know you at first. do you remember +song, arousing an involuntary sensation of courage and cheerfulness. +song. +son.” +son. +son. +so my conscience was at ease. i came forward....” (berg stood up and +“so much the better! i shall see it close,” he thought. +some wooded hills were discernible, and it was there the enemy probably +somewhere under her heart would ever cry, suck her breast, and begin to +somewhere nearer the sun.” +somewhere beyond them. the hussars did not look round, but at the sound +somewhere below his throat rushed to his face and eyes. he could not +some way and knowing that this was impossible was ready to cry. the tsar +some twenty men of his suite. these gentlemen talked among themselves +some time to get the wedding ring off his fat finger. when that had been +sometimes spend a whole night at his writing table. he worked well +sometimes on his way back from the anteroom he would pass through the +sometimes like a chip of wood whirling in the river, an hussar on foot, +sometimes four abreast. from all sides, behind and before, as far as ear +something toward it and you cannot persuade me that it was not a good +something to him in french in an undertone and then went up to a small +something to drink?” +something that was evidently wrong and that he ought not to do. but at +something terrible and monstrous rising in his soul and turned quickly +something striking and took part in a conversation only when that was +“something special is always said in such cases,” he thought, but +something loudly to a comrade farther back. rostóv paused. “no, +something like qualms of conscience. she had reminded him of what was +something large, brilliant, and handsome moving toward her as she +something i have received from the chancellor. i asked him for you, and +something i cannot inflict on others,” said prince andrew, growing +something disconcerting to himself. +something, but dared not.... no, it was i who dared not. but that’s +something big, that splashed into the water. +something as she whispered: +something and went away. it seemed to pierre that even the prince was +something.” +something.” +some swarthy men and women were really entering from the cold outside +some sort were moving about, in front and behind moved lines of troops; +some reason she called it urope as if that were a specially refined +some question—“most likely he is asking at what o’clock they +someone to fire at. +someone rich and distinguée, and it is on you that his relations’ +someone. (prince bagratión did not ask about the guns on the left +someone mentioned that captain túshin was bivouacking close to the +some of the topics at first lightly touched on: their past life, plans +some of the nearest relatives had not yet left. they were sitting in +some not. this whole mass droned and jostled in confusion under the +some men who, carrying pails, came running downstairs, their boots +some in the sitting room, some in the library. +some inspection business,” remarked the visitor. +“some herb vodka? certainly!” said túshin. “but still, to +some great change had come over him that day. he was silent all through +some flash as of an electric spark shot from telyánin’s eyes to +someday i will tell you about our parting and all that was said then. +some concessions. continuing to represent the liberation of the serfs +some approaching achievement, and some in course of disintegration. he +some!” +so many years moravians in shaggy caps and blue jackets had peacefully +so long waited, presents itself to him at last. he firmly and clearly +so long,” he added. +solemn interest and silent approval. the aunt spoke to each of them in +solemn affair. every general and every soldier was conscious of his own +soldier with the harsh voice, and it was that affair and this soldier +soldier, with his clear blue eyes, stepped forward from the ranks, went +soldier with a wagon, who was pressing onto the infantrymen who were +soldier three gold pieces. +soldiers who were seizing the artillery horses and turning the guns +soldiers. “where are you shoving to? devil take you! can’t you wait? +soldiers to change into their greatcoats. the company commanders ran off +soldiers! the russian army is advancing against you to avenge the +soldiers. the company marched on gaily. the soldiers’ voices could be +soldiers, straining their lungs, shouted “hurrah!” +soldiers running in confused crowds across his path. +soldiers ran from the fires, thrust their pipes into their boots, their +soldiers passed in a semicircle round something where the ball had +soldiers only need to be restrained and held back! on all sides, new and +soldiers, officers, and generals were heroes. but the hero of heroes was +soldiers, munching biscuit and beating a tattoo with their feet to +soldiers, loudly demanding bread, meat, biscuits, fodder, and whatnot! +soldiers lifted the canteen lids to their lips with reverential faces, +soldier shouted to him. “they’d kill you there!” +soldiers held him while two others were flourishing their switches and +soldiers had kindled on the road. rostóv, too, dragged himself to the +soldiers forming the picket line, like showmen exhibiting a curiosity, +soldiers’ boots. more than half the men’s boots were in holes. but +soldiers’ bonfires and with his long gray mustache, his white chest +soldiers and officers of various regiments, they saw on their left some +soldiers, after a twenty-mile march, were kept mending and cleaning all +soldier of forty—looked sternly at the singers and screwed up his +soldier, mimicking the general who had ridden away. “i’d shoot them, +soldier. “i’ll teach you to push on!... back!” +soldier at the front, gave the command “attention!” and rode up +soldier and the gay and smartly marching men. in the second file +soldier after camp life. despite his rapid journey and sleepless night, +soldier. +sokolnitz, november 30, 1805.” +sokólniki forest and found dólokhov, denísov, and rostóv already +sokólniki after the duel and had spent that first agonizing, sleepless +“so it seems you’re a hero, eh? come now, what was this duel about? +so it seems to me.” +“so it is useless to ask whether it is good or bad. it is good because +“so it is all finished!” he thought. “and how has it all happened? +“so it does,” thought pierre. +soirees as before—such as she alone had the gift of arranging—at +so ill that he may die at any moment, and dr. lorrain has come from +“so i can fire when i like!” said pierre, and at the word +so he went from one group to another. some of the most important old men +so he simply held out his bristly cheek (as yet unshaven) and, regarding +soft steps of the footmen. at one end of the table sat the countess with +soft snowbanks that bordered both sides of the path. the prince went +soft hand taking hers firmly, and she touched with her lips a white +so for friendship’s sake he is leaving the university and me, his +so energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable +so easily extract a good profit for themselves from a dinner costing +so do you too! to the health of alexander the first! hurrah!” +so delighted...” came the sounds of animated feminine voices, +so convulsively that her bare little shoulders shook. natásha’s +so contrary to his method of conducting war? believe me, he is afraid, +so completely silenced and their arguments confuted by such conclusive +society woman to be buried in the country during the best years of her +society so dearly and distinctly indicated. +society of women was rather derogatory to his manhood. he went to balls +society, more especially of the feminine society, in which i have had +society had lost her former influential connections. she had now come to +society had entered the simple feeling of the attraction of a healthy +society. beside him stood a lad of nineteen, also a wounded officer of +society, and so her position now is not a rosy one. we should enter into +society. +society. +so-called battle of the three emperors—that is to say, a slow movement +so, but you have no sense about women. what an argumentative fellow you +sobs. the count was lighting his pipe and did not notice his son’s +so beautiful that very often in spite of the plainness of her face +sobbing like a child. the door opened. the doctor with his shirt sleeves +soap, and all,” as the soldiers say. there was only one circumstance +so. and, in fact, the last letter he had received from mack’s army +so alien to us. +snuffbox with her husband’s portrait on it. +snuffbox while trying to hear what was being said at the other table. +snow-covered road, did not once wake up on the way to moscow, but lay +snacks.” +smoothing down her dress with an inquiring look at her mother, when +smooth—felt that no small matter was happening, but an important and +smooth as a sign that the conversation was at an end. +smolyanínov, and it mortified him to think that the newcomer was an +smolénsk threatening bald hills—even then i wouldn’t serve in the +smoking and talking. he neither smoked nor talked, but bending his head +smoke. the excited faces of the soldiers were blackened with it. some +smoke spasmodically and screwing up his eyes. this was an old bachelor, +smoke, rendered denser by the mist, prevented him from seeing anything +smoke enveloped everything. +smoke, and an officer catching sight of bagratión rushed shouting after +smiling over the fan. +smilingly raising a finger at him, she left the room. +smilingly inclining his head. +smiling joyfully; and snatching the shawl from the footman, whom he +smiling, glittered with effort and exasperation as he mustered his +smiling face, moved after willarski with uncertain, timid steps. +smiling. “cela nous convient à merveille.*(2) suvórov now—he knew +smiling, but in spite of herself her eyes under their thick long lashes +smiling at his reassuring thoughts. +smiling as if she did not recognize him. +smile was unlike the half-smile of other people. when he smiled, +smile that usually brightened her face. pierre knew that everyone was +smile on his lips change. +smile on his lips and face, but his eyes were dull and lifeless and in +smile of satisfaction and presented a strange appearance among the +smile of his which seemed to say, “ah! this is what i like!” +smile of a doctor to whom an old wife wishes to explain the treatment of +smile, for which he was long unable to forgive himself, “i have lost a +smiled and interrupted him. +smile, and pronouncing the phrase “knocked out” with ringing +smile, and engaged the smiling julie in a confidential conversation +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smeared with chalk—as white as flour! i suppose they polish him up as +smash something. pushing away the footmen he tugged at the frame, but +smashed, and the shouting grew louder. they drank to bekleshëv, +“smart lads! only fit for a fair!” said one. +small old man, with powdered wig, small withered hands, and bushy gray +small cloud rose from the hill and was borne in a streak to the left by +small but distinctly visible enemy column was moving down the hill, +“smack at ‘em, lads!” he kept saying, seizing the guns by the +slope of the hill amid the smoke a russian battery that was still firing +slippery ice that covered the millpool. +slight smile he began to examine his nails. +slightly sarcastic smile. “i am borís, son of princess anna +slightly open, as if to say, “yes, yes, i am putting my purse in my +slender little girl. +slender, delicate arm, high above the elbow on that part that is covered +sleigh and pair at once, and go to bezúkhov’s, and tell him ‘count +sleeve with her finger, saying: +sleeves!” said anna mikháylovna, pointing to nicholas as he went out. +sleepiness that kept coming over him. an enormous space, with our +sleep at night. come now, where has this great commander of yours shown +sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and +sky—the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray +skittles,” said he in conclusion. +skillfully made watch, dares to say that, as he does not understand +skillfully changed the subject. he asked him to tell them how and where +six weeks later he was married, and settled in count bezúkhov’s +six weeks after anna pávlovna’s “at home” and after the sleepless +sixth stroke. the doctors pronounced recovery impossible. after a mute +sixth chasseurs whom they had just passed. prince andrew was struck by +six miles away, or whether they were near by in that sea of mist, no one +“six hundred rubles, ace, a corner, a nine... winning it back’s +situation it occurred to him that it was he who was destined to lead it +situated,” said prince andrew. +sitting so for a while he rose, and, looking about him with frightened +sitting room. +sitting on the sofa with the little cushions on its arms, in what used +sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself +sitting motionless before the glass, looking at her face, and saw in the +sitting in a conspicuous place and talking to him like a grown-up lady. +sitting here in almost the same positions as before, whispering to one +sitting down beside him she began to speak about his father; but he +sitting close to nicholas who was copying out some verses for her, the +sitting at tea with bilíbin. “the fete is for tomorrow. how is your +sitting and dropped onto it, covering his face with his hand. pierre +sit down! sit down, michael ivánovich!” +sister with the mole. +sister. “why isn’t she dull and ashamed?” +sister,” was all she said, in a dry and mournful tone. +sister’s room his wife was already awake and her merry voice, hurrying +sister’s, but while in her case everything was lit up by a joyous, +sister-in-law’s friendship for you. she was not expecting us?” +sister-in-law’s dress. +sister had hung round his neck with such emotion and reverence, “it +sister, catiche, with a vicious and determined look steadily fixed on +sister, black eyes... na... tasha... (won’t she be surprised when +sir, for shame! it would be better if you went to the war.” +sire,” * he answered gaily, raising nevertheless ironic smiles among +sir!” +“singers to the front” came the captain’s order. +singer” (he meant natásha’s italian singing master), “that’s +since the time when he thought his son had been killed, he did not think +since the nursing mothers were no longer sent to work on his land, they +since then pierre had not been disturbed and had spent the whole time in +“since the day of our brilliant success at austerlitz,” wrote +“since prince bagratión is not coming, we may begin,” said +since his appointment as commander in chief. he told me himself that +since early morning—despite an injunction not to approach the picket +simultaneously attacked and outflanked by superior french forces under +simply looking at him. +simply dressed hair (two immense plaits twice round her lovely head like +silver and crystal gleamed, so did the ladies’ toilets and the gold +sill to attract attention. “wait a bit, kurágin. listen! if +sill. “listen!” cried he, standing there and addressing those in the +sill, leaned over, and looked down. +silken hangings. on leaving the bed both prince vasíli and the princess +silent, waiting for what he would say. +silent, “that sónya and nicholas now say you to one another and meet +silent prayer. every morning she came in like that, and every morning +silently, with the languid interest of sick children, at the envoy +silently—fearing to speak because at every word he felt ready to +silent. at first kutúzov stood still while the regiment moved; then he +silent as he passed by, and moved to make way for him. at first pierre +silent and seemed confused. the prince asked her about her father, and +silent. +silence ensued. the countess looked at her callers, smiling affably, +silence at princess anna mikháylovna. after her talk with pierre, anna +silence as he left the drawing room. he pictured the vanity of his +silence and the regular tramp of feet beating the ground in unison, one +silence. +sign that this was exactly what he had desired and expected. turning +signs to the footmen, and anxiously glancing from the clock to the door +sign papers, to present himself at government offices, the purpose of +sign of strength. +significantly at her husband) “i’m afraid, i’m afraid!” she +significant command to come to her on tuesday. +sign. +sight of tears and was ready to cry himself. +sight of murat’s mantle and ostrich plumes, qu’il n’y voit que du +sight of his superiors, he did not notice the staff of the banner and + sighing its message out to thee... +sighed. “i have loved you like a son from the first. trust yourself to +sídorov, turning to the french, winked, and began to jabber meaningless +“sideways! cover yourself with your pistol!” ejaculated nesvítski. +sideways at princess mary from a little distance. “you have a maroon +sides’ was smothered in sobs and he could get no farther. and again +side, so close to our own forces that napoleon with the naked eye could +sides. he acknowledged no acquaintances but saw in all these men only +side (only now did pierre realize how near death his father was), and +side of the question and you will see that your duty, on the contrary, +side by side. prince vasíli was not having any supper: he went round +side as her betrothed, seeing, hearing, feeling her nearness, her +side and looked round with a frown. along the road from pratzen galloped +side and at first did not play. dólokhov kept glancing at him. +sick man had been laid in a stately pose in keeping with the ceremony +“shut up!” cried dólokhov, pushing him away from the window. the +“shut up!” +shudder of disgust. +shown to the best room, which dólokhov had taken for that evening. some +shown, fired. not at all expecting so loud a report, pierre shuddered +showing under his open shirt, he stood in a majestic pose in the light +showing the spot where it burst. +showing the necessity of first paying off the loans from the land bank, +showing the creases where it had been folded and thick gold epaulettes +show her over, and they’ll talk nineteen to the dozen. that’s +showed that, in spite of all his love and respect for his father, he was +showed how he presented himself, with his hand to his cap, and really +showed greatness of soul by not fearing to take on himself the whole +showed a paper she held in her hand—with the verses nicholas had +shouts of thousands of voices. his horse and the horse of the hussar +shouts of hurrah, and saw wounded being brought back (there were not +shouting grew louder and louder. rostóv could hear the sound of french +shouting came from, a fire flared up and went out again, then another, +shouting. +shouted to him: +shouted the regimental commander, thrusting forward his jaw and pointing +shouted “hurrah!” in exactly the same voice in which he had shouted +shouted hoarsely. +shouted denísov, suddenly, turning purple and rushing at the man with +shouted denísov in a bloodthirsty tone. +shouted. +should one love and what hate? what does one live for? and what am i? +“shouldn’t we now send for berg?” asked borís. “he would drink +should now be away in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, a manly +should much like to be an adjutant and not remain at the front.” +should get not more than two hundred rubles every four months, even +shoulder, their bayonets interlocking, moved over the bridge in a dense +shoulders, turned out his toes, tapped gently with his foot, and, by +shoulders close to his eyes. +shoulders. anna mikháylovna with just the same movement raised her +shoulders and eyes, almost closing the latter, sighed, and moved away +shoulders and dropped his eyes as if startled by something extraordinary +shoulder and taking his feet off the sofa. +shoulder and left the room without snuffing the candles or saying why he +should be if i could now say: ‘lord, have mercy on me!’... but to +should be glad and not cry.” +should be a nice set of fellows if we were to wait about and so give him +should already have suggested to your heart, if it is sincere, more than +shots came. +short sturdy figure with the sinewy hairy hand and stumpy fingers in +shortsighted delight at the misery of others, and doubts and torments +shortly after nine o’clock that evening, weyrother drove with his +shops, bakers’ signboards, street lamps, and sleighs!” thought +shooting at you like a target.” +shone with such gaiety and youth, such innocent youth, that it suggested +shod in a tartar boot embroidered with silver, and the firm pressure +shirt, and in every knapsack the appointed number of articles, “awl, +shinshín. “he has stopped austria’s cackle and i fear it will be +shinshín, a cousin of the countess’, a man with “a sharp tongue” +shining eyes, not interrupting or questioning him, but believing with +she would say. what could all that matter in comparison with the will of +she wished to and only refrained out of regard for his modesty. +“she will go to the country.” +“she went. suddenly there was a great wind. the girl lost her hat and +“she was so tired that she has fallen asleep on the sofa in my room. +she was now saying she had talked of before, with tears. +she was not a fool to want to have children, and that she was not going +she was no longer in the loose gown she generally wore in the morning, +she was, natásha, who knew how sensitive her mother was to anything +she was much altered. she was now plain rather than pretty. her cheeks +she was dancing with a grown-up man, who had been abroad. she was +she used to have quarrels with the too indulgent count, that son who +(she used the word “diplomat,” which was just then much in vogue +she understood all the gravity of her friend’s trouble. +she turned to his father. the conversation was general and animated, +she turned to go, but he stopped her with a gesture and took an uncut +she turned away from him and glanced at her younger brother, who was +she turned away and gave her hand to the count, who could hardly keep +she tried to pass anna mikháylovna, but the latter sprang so as to bar +she took the liberty of inquiring whether it was long since anatole +she took his arm and with a happy face went with him into the adjoining +she took a pair of pear-shaped ruby earrings from her huge reticule and, +she thought: “if i seem not to notice he will think that i do not +she suddenly paused, smiling at her own impetuosity. +she suddenly came into his mind as she was at the moments when he had +she smiled as she uttered his pet name, “andrúsha.” it was +she seemed to promise to explain that necessity to him when he came on +she seemed that day to be more than ever kind and affectionate to +she said, trying to smile though tears were in her eyes. +“she said.... oh yes! she said, ‘girl,’ to the maid, ‘put on a +she rushed to sónya, hugged her, and began to cry. +she roused herself, and felt appalled at what she had been thinking, and +she rose and smoothed her hair, which was as usual so extremely smooth +she rang for her maid and asked her to sleep in her room. +she pushed the little dog off her lap and smoothed her dress. +she pulled up her muslin sleeve and showed him a red scar on her long, +she paused, as women always do, expecting something after they have +she ought to behave like mademoiselle bourienne, but could not. +she not only left her hair as it was, but did not even look in her +“she needs rest,” said prince andrew with a frown. “don’t you, +she must love him if she could so far forget herself! perhaps i might +she must be on the chest in the passage. the chest in the passage was +she moved toward anna pávlovna. hélène was so lovely that not only +shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, +she looked timidly at her brother. +she looked round and seeing that her friend was not in the room ran to +she looked at him inquiringly and with childlike reproach. +“she let the hawk fly upward from her wide right sleeve,” went the +she led him into the dark drawing room and pierre was glad no one could +she knew so well), on the lock of gray hair that escaped from under the +she knew of the duel and had come to speak about it. she waited till the +“she is not very well,” answered mademoiselle bourienne with +she hurriedly ascended the narrow dimly lit stone staircase, calling to +she has a brother; i think you know him, he married lise meinen lately. +she had spoken to hippolyte in the drawing room and which was so plainly +she had seldom experienced, came upon her. she feared to look round, it +she had sacrificed so much. she could not refrain from weeping at these +she had learned it) she talked with her partner, fanning herself and +she had just vacated. “you have made the place warm, i must say,” he +she had first entered the room—the smile of a perfectly beautiful +she had finished speaking to him, and now he continued to speak to +she had determined not to tell her and persuaded her father to hide the +she had been married during the previous winter, and being pregnant did +she had a fan in her hand that one of the ladies had given her to hold. +she grew confused, glanced round, and, seeing the doll she had thrown +(she glanced at hélène and smiled at her.) “my dear hélène, be +she gave her companion an angry glance. +she forgot all fear of her father, went up to him, took his hand, and +she felt guilty. +she felt any symptoms of pregnancy. she laughed contemptuously and said +she faltered. “you are on good terms with michael ilariónovich +she drew nearer to him. her face flushed. +shed, and its tone was so sincere that he could not but listen. +she crossed herself, kissed the icon, and handed it to andrew. +she could not lie either on her face or on her side. every position was +she continued, uniting them both in one glance. pierre did not look at +she considered the resonance was best. +she caught the young officer by his cuffs, and a look of solemnity and +she came up fearless and gay to kiss her hand. “i know she’s a scamp +she brought into princess mary’s strenuous, mournful, and gloomy +she began to tell of how at potsdam the impious bonaparte had stolen the +she began to smile and talk. he asked about mutual acquaintances, and +she became still more animated and chattered away giving him greetings +she approached him, saw his face, and something gave way within her. her +she always addressed him with a radiantly confiding smile meant for him +she already had power over him, and between them there was no longer any +she added, turning to her hostess. “you wrote that it was to be quite +she added hurriedly. “no, don’t be angry, but promise! i have asked +shawl had been adjusted he kept his arm around her for a long time, as +sharpshooters showed themselves in the copse. it was timókhin’s +sharpshooters in front of our columns. the colonel at the head of the +sharply, with a slight trembling of the lower jaw, “i can’t prevent +share defeat and disgrace with kutúzov’s whole army.” +shameless, and he ignores her!” +shame and anger choking him, had already leapt from his horse and run to +“shall you write to him?” she asked. +“shall we have time to change clothes?” +“shall we have three cold dishes then?” asked the cook. +shall think nothing of an extra seventy miles to come and see you at +shall reproach my wife with anything, and i cannot reproach myself +shall not agree with you, and you do not really believe what you are +shako on the back of his head. he came up to the porch gloomily, hanging +shadow of the wall. pausing for a moment, pierre noticed several other +shading his eyes with his small hand. +severity. the dance grew livelier and livelier. the other couples could +severity changed, and he drew pierre’s hand downwards, made him sit +severely. “you don’t wish to apologize, but, man, it’s not only to +severe gaze straight on pierre’s face. +several wounded men passed along the road, and words of abuse, screams, +several times in the course of the morning princess mary began trying to +several thousand rubles quitrent received from pierre’s peasants, +several thousand rubles. +several soldiers fell, and a second lieutenant who was holding the +several soldiers fell. +several persons whom he did not know, giving him a whispered description +several of those present smiled at zherkóv’s words, expecting one of +several of them were not separated from one another but merged into a +several dead men. one ball after another passed over as he approached +seven virtues, corresponding to the seven steps of solomon’s temple, +seventeen of the forty men of the guns’ crews had been disabled, but +“seven new and three old imperials.” +seven in the morning but had not reached it by five in the afternoon.” +seven he needed was lying uppermost, the first card in the pack. he had +set without whom my wife cannot exist, and those women.... if you only +“settled!” replied borís. +settled into three groups. one, chiefly masculine, had formed round +settled. he came because of sónya. and sónya, though she would never +settled down comfortably beside the fire. +setting, on a finely wrought silver chain. +setting it on fire and the french batteries were now firing at them, no +setting fire to schön grabern. +set off to rejoin the army, not knowing where he would find it and +set fire to the schön grabern village, delayed the french advance. the +serving our tsar and our country, rejoicing in the successes and +serving as a private. but the command of the extreme left flank had been +service to place himself very advantageously. he was aide-de-camp to a +service,” said the prince disdainfully. “why his son is coming i +service... it can’t be helped... one is sometimes a bit hasty on +service is to serve under him.” +service, and he at once understood his role, letting his hostess make +service. a little behind them stood the two younger princesses holding +service.” +serve him. rostóv patted the horse’s neck and then his flank, and +served up was received with pleasure by all her visitors. the greatest +servants with lanterns were bustling about in the porch. the immense +servants say in a frightened whisper. “catch hold from underneath. +servant. +serious tone, “but the prince told me to ‘go and tell the colonel +seriousness of his stupid smile, could not but give him a moment’s +serious for an instant at the sight of her, but immediately smiling +serious expression. but the author himself took the verses and began +serious duel, and besides, drubetskóy, who says he is an old friend +sergéy kuzmích...’ poor vyazmítinov could not get any farther! +“sergéy kuzmích—from all sides—” he said, unbuttoning the top +‘sergéy’ he sobbed, ‘kuz-mí-ch,’ tears, and ‘from all +sergeant was carrying in a wooden bowl to an officer who sat on a log +sergeant in charge of the cannon which was to give the signal to fire +separation! though i tell myself that half my life and half my happiness +separating the living from the dead—lay between them. all were +“separate? very well, but only if you give me a fortune,” said +separately through his thin compressed lips, “i will throw him down +sent you. religious! i don’t interfere with anyone’s belief... i +sent to moscow. the story told about him at count rostóv’s was true. +sent instead of our dear wintzingerode you would have captured the king +sentiments,” he seemed to be saying, “so much the worse for you!” +sent dólokhov the whole forty-three thousand rubles and received his +sent an official to austria to seek for traces of his son, he ordered a +sense of awe and veneration such as he had experienced in his boyhood at +senseless cry, “cut off!” that is so terrible in battle, and that +sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around +sensation of fear and respect which the old man inspired in all around +send his orderly staff officer, and later prince andrew also, to order +semi-private, long-established jokes and amusing reminiscences, though +“semën! do you know the daniel cooper?” +“sell us that horse!” denísov called out to the cossacks. +“sell me the missis,” said another soldier, addressing the german, +self-satisfied, youthful, and constant smile of animation, and by the +self-satisfied. +self-respect, but admit that the time and place are very badly chosen. +self-possession mingled at that moment in rostóv’s soul. +self-possession. if a man lacking in self-confidence remains dumb on +self-derision genuinely russian. bilíbin wrote that the obligation of +self-confident french; then again, like a man weary but unflinching in +self-confident. +self-confidence, while his body was thin and weak. his eyes, nose, and +self-complacent happiness that one sees on the face of a boy happily +self-complacency than his did.) “well, he stormed at me, as the saying +self, and so before one can know, it is necessary to believe and to +seizing the most opportune moment for making use of people. +seizing his father’s hand, he pressed it to his lips and burst into +seize some horsecloths, though he had told him the russians were there. +seized him at the thought of that dreadful step. a thousand times during +seized by terror lest he had already, in some way, bound himself to do +seized by an unreasoning panic—it occurred to him that the child was +see you,” he added, bowing his head. +see whether they were getting up. +see whether it was firmly plaited, and grasping his by the hand. “the +see whether he cannot attach you to himself or find a place for you +see those who, judging by the sound of hoofs and voices, had ridden up +see the true light, and that he, pierre, ought to aid, enlighten, and +see the soldiers’ shaggy caps, distinguish the officers from the men, +seen you. very glad! go back to your rooms, princess. go!” said +seen through. +seen. the lines of that mouth were remarkably finely curved. the middle +seen the light, come here? what do you seek from us? wisdom, virtue, +seen the day before in the arms of her nurse’s daughter—at her +seen. prince andrew stopped and began examining the position. +seen him since we acted together at the rumyántsovs’ theatricals. i +seen him in petersburg. i saw him just as i see you.... there he sat in +seem to him that everyone is afraid of him, and that must please him. +seeming to grow suddenly smaller, and respectfully received the blessing +seemed to wish, but to be unable, to diminish its effect. +seemed to say. “you had not noticed that i am a woman? yes, i am a +seemed to say: “yes, there’s nothing left for you and me but to sip +seemed to say. she saw her husband, but did not realize the significance +seemed to me to have an excellent heart, and that is the quality i value +seemed to him that it was getting lighter. to the left he saw a sloping +seemed to him that it was a very long time ago, almost a day, since he +seemed to him that he had expected all this and even more. trying +seemed to him that bogdánich rode so near in order to show him his +seemed to him like ants. in that world, the handsome drunkard number one +seemed to him as though one of the soldiers near him hit him on the head +seemed to him all the interests that engrossed napoleon, so mean did his +seemed to her that someone was there standing behind the screen in the +seemed to hear left... left... left. +seemed to have changed roles since the campaign of 1805. the old man, +seemed to groan at the terrible impact. +seemed to give way within him at this news. dólokhov was a suitable and +seemed to be seeking something, and soldiers dragging doors, benches, +seemed to be poles—all under the russian crown—but here they’re +seemed to ask. she noticed at once that something had happened to him. +seemed ready to lift its tail, jump down on its soft paws, and begin +seemed loaded with a whole houseful of effects. a fine brindled cow with +seemed like a lifeless body, but as soon as he came up it became alive, +seemed impossible. “but perhaps they may do it!” for more than ten +seemed familiar to princess mary was saying something. +seemed confused and blushed as if not knowing what to say. +seemed as though not the trumpeters were playing, but as if the army +seem. +seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. man’s future and thy own fate +seeing them he kept thinking, “that may be the very standard with +seeing the fright of that small and frail but proud man when covered by +seeing the favor the emperor showed the prisoners, they now hastened to +seeing that smile, rostóv involuntarily smiled himself and felt a still +seeing some men running toward him. “they will help me!” in front +seeing prince andrew stopped, hesitating on the threshold. he went into +seeing anna mikháylovna and her son, prince vasíli dismissed the +“see, i’m standing! see!” she said, but could not maintain herself +see how these nestlings are growing up,” and she pointed to the girls. +“see how smart she’s made herself! oh, the devils!” +see his face. anna mikháylovna left him, and when she returned he was +seduced, and to whom her poor mother (sa pauvre mère) appeared, and +sedate, and the naïveté of his youthful egotism was so obvious, that +secret malevolence in their hearts. +secretly regretting this, saw only the dark side. +secretary rather than commander in the army. my removal from the army +secretary of the russian embassy, do not feel any need in token of my +second time. but pierre was so absorbed that he did not understand what +seconds he stood not moving from the spot or realizing the situation. +“second line... have you written it?” he continued dictating to the + second epilogue +seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the +seated them on the center sofa. the bigwigs, the most respected members +seat. +search of somebody and answered all her questions in monosyllables. he +scrutinizing anatole closely and intently. +screwing up his eyes and shaking with suppressed laughter, and unable +screwed up his eyes as if dazzled by the sun. he was entirely absorbed +screams kept repeating: +screams, continued. +scratch yourself.” +scratch from one paragraph to another with his hard nail. +“scoundrels! blackguards!” shrieked the old man, turning his face +scoundrel? is that how you look at it? we don’t see it like that. and +scoundrel is again at our heels!” +science explaining the whole creation and man’s place in it. to +“schubert, the colonel of the pávlograd hussars, is dining with us +schoss, and his old nurse, and asked them to kiss for him “dear +schools,” he went on, crooking a finger, “education and so forth; +schoolboy called up before a large audience for an examination in which +schön grabern—and he would have found that easier. the committeemen +schön grabern affair, just as those who have taken part in a battle +“schon fleissig?” * said rostóv with the same gay brotherly smile +schönbrunn, 25th brumaire, 1805, +schlappanitz and the thuerassa forest, avoiding the defiles of +schlappanitz and bellowitz which cover the enemy’s front. for this +schérer, maid of honor and favorite of the empress márya fëdorovna. +schérer. at the other end sat the younger and less important guests, +schérer.” +scarred and puffy face. +sca’cwow? call the quahtehmasteh,” he shouted to lavrúshka. +scabbard and flourishing it. +say—“yes, misfortune! call it what you please, i know that what +say to the adjutant that borís felt uncomfortable. he turned away and +say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and +say that it is dull in my house again,” and she glanced at hélène. +say something but could not. her brother had guessed right: the little +say it.” +saying this he again turned round, dropped his hands, took the bottle +saying that the russian ladies are not equal to the french? one has to +saying that, on the contrary, she remembered him quite well. then +saying that he must prostrate himself at the gates of the temple. +saying something witty and stinging. +saying.” prince andrew looked silently at pierre with an ironic smile. +saying it right, i have drunk a good deal—but that is how i feel, and +saying. “i have been an atheist,” answered pierre. +saying as he moved from the gun, when a strange, unfamiliar voice called +saying, and sat plunged in thought. five minutes later, gently swaying +saying. +say i’ll have his head off if everything is not here in a week. +say (as he has done before) that i’m in the dumps.” +say. +saw with his own eyes brick buildings erected or in course of erection, +saw them all and saw them in detail. she saw prince vasíli’s face, +saw the beloved features that were so deeply engraved on his memory. the +saw his smile, which said nothing, unless perhaps, “opinions are +saw friendly looks and heard friendly words. yesterday’s adjutant +saw denísov coming home. denísov was a small man with a red face, +saw—covered to the waist by a bright green quilt—the familiar, +saw a rather short man. having evidently come from the light into the +saviour’s words, that it is easier for a camel to go through the +save myself?” he thought. he rode on to the region where the greatest +saved. but he saw nothing. above him there was now nothing but the +sausages and a bottle of wine. +sat waiting for something, and again soldiers straggling from their +sat up and began wiping her eyes and explaining. +sat playing patience with the old gentlewoman who lived in their house. +satisfied with the party. she replied in her usual simple manner that +satisfied with him?” he asked the regimental commander. +satisfaction. +sat in an armchair in her dressing jacket and nightcap and katie, sleepy +sat facing bagratión and, as the very personification of moscow +sat down languidly on the sofa: he felt it unpleasant to have dropped +sat down at her writing table, on which stood miniature portraits and +sat down again, smiling at the noise they had made and exchanging +satchels, sabretaches, open portmanteaus, and dirty boots. two freshly +sarcastic smile. +sang the quartette, “the brook,” with which everyone was delighted. +same. you’ll be all right anywhere. but look here: give up visiting +same way. when did it happen and what has happened? i am well and strong +same to me!” he screamed in the same piercing tone as when parting +same time felt shy. +same time at the emperor francis. +same state of excitement as when she had slammed the door of her room. +same speed, but they kept increasing their pace, so that some of the +same sergeant major iván mítrich, the same company dog jack, and the +same question. “will papa be back soon?” +same!” pierre often indulged in reflections of this sort, nullifying +same moment his kindly eyes grew moist with tears of joy and enthusiasm. +same mind he began explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the +same.... is everything ready?” he added. “only tell me where to go +same firm pressure of the hand and the same quick, repeated bows. as +same expression, which seemed to say that he had a right to suppose +same commanders. the sailor rarely cares to know the latitude in which +same as usual,” and princess mary pale, frightened, and with downcast +same?” +same!” +salver, glanced around in dismay, as though seeking help. but all eyes +saluting, and this sound rapidly came nearer along the whole extended +sake that the latter might say something he would afterwards regret. +saint, my angel,” she said with a sigh. +said zherkóv. +said yesterday... let him grow up with you.... please.” +said without sitting down. “a person of very high standing in our +said, without noticing nicholas. +said to her, went to the looking glass and arranged her hair and scarf. +said to be fleeing in great disorder. mind you gallop off to kórchevo +said this some time after she had finished singing. while that untrained +said the princess in a tone of entreaty. +said the princess, ignoring his question. “now i know! yes; if i have +said the old soldier dismally to a comrade, “you’ll forget to +said the old man, “say so, my dear sir.” and he suddenly smiled, in +said: “then i will go to my rooms. you will let me know when i can see +said the general, turning to an artillery officer. “have a little fun +said the countess smiling. +said the countess, indignant that they should have dared to treat this +said the countess. “but i am in great need of this sum.” +said: “that’s bad! go on, go on.” +said shinshín, laughing ironically and mixing the most ordinary russian +said she, uttering the word with peculiar assurance and unconcern, “i +said she in french, displaying her bag and addressing all present. +said she. +said rostóv in an imploring voice, “but i can’t apologize, by god i +said rostóv, blushing. +said repnín. +said prince andrew who had not yet had time to eat anything. +said prince andrew when they had gone into the large room where the +said prince andrew, as he entered the study, rubbing his small white +said one of the nursemaids to prince andrew who was sitting on a +said, of a wife who was a celebrated beauty and of millions of money. +said nothing to borís and, evidently unable to suppress the thoughts +said little iogel coming up to nicholas. “look how many charming young +said it, and they all felt awkward. +said inquiringly. +said in a tone of indifferent politeness: +said, “how am i to stifle in my heart these temptations of the devil? +said, holding the casement and not closing it. “with lanterns. most +said her eyes. she was not surprised at his having come; she did +said he. “now for trouble!” rostóv looked out of the window and +said he, carrying away into the darkness a glowing stick. +said he, “but the health of our sovereign, that good, enchanting, and +said he, bending down a finger. +said he. +said dólokhov. +said bilíbin as he came out to meet prince andrew. “franz, put the +said a tall, grizzly-haired staff captain, with enormous mustaches and +said another. +said a gunner, coming up to túshin. +said: +said. +said. +sad voice, as if saying: “very well, finish me off.” +sadness, and this occurred every time she mentioned her illustrious +saddle sore which, coming after all my previous journeys, quite prevents +saddle, he galloped to the other flank of the squadron and shouted in +saddle and touched up his horse to ride once more round his hussars. it +sad and depressed. it was all so strange, so unlike what he had hoped. +sacrificed myself. but only the base, the vile succeed! i know who has +sacrificed everything for his sake!” she cried. “it’s splendid! +sacrament. the dying man lay as lifeless and immovable as before. around +sacrament, allow him a moment’s peace! here, pierre, tell them your +sabretache...”—“keep to the right, your honor, there are bushes +saber which had caught in his cloak. it was an old-fashioned saber of +saber them... whom? the hussars... ah, the hussars with mustaches. along +saber, he sank on the snow beside it. his left hand was bloody; he wiped +saber had tasted flesh and he had fallen exhausted, and so on. and so he +russia were settling near the fortress of braunau and burdening the +russia’s glory were led to destruction. go, princess mary. go and tell +russian valor—what more could be wished for?” +russian troops were crossing the river enns. at midday the russian +russian troops moving down the valley to their left. +russian troops and their commander of the laurels they have been + russians! o’er all barriers on! +russians from krems to znaim. +russians fought, the only consequence of these actions was a yet more +russian on which he wished to put a contemptuous emphasis. +russian musketeer who had gone up to the picket line with an officer and +russian general. the general shouted a demand that the cavalry should be +russian bath. the movement of these wrinkles formed the principal play +russian army will be fully equipped, and shall then, in conjunction with +russian army! well, as i was saying,” he continued, recovering his +russian army loots terribly—her army is destroyed, her capital + russian army, i must say that your victory was not +russian army found vent in anger at zherkóv’s untimely jest. +russian army. and i won’t—not even if bonaparte were here at +russian arms. +russian and the austrian. the guards, just arrived from russia, spent +russian. +rush to obey the summons. “send dmítri to me!” +rushing at the cadet to restrain him. +rushed out apparently beside herself with delight. +running to the door and the noise of a chair falling over, and a girl +running into sónya’s room and not finding her there, natásha ran to +running? can they be coming at me? and why? to kill me? me whom everyone +running beside timókhin, killed a frenchman at close quarters and was +running. +rum without taking it from my mouth, sitting outside the window on this +rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be +ruin. wasn’t he my friend? wasn’t i fond of him? but it’s not his +rug and began reading to him from a manuscript book an explanation of +rubles i don’t know what to do with, and she stands in her tattered +rubles, dólokhov lived with him and had placed himself on such a +rubles a year? and,” he went on after a pause, “what will it be in +rubles at a time, to talk about not wishing to cringe to anybody and not +rubbing his bald head and angrily pulling back toward him the little +rubbed his forehead as if to rid himself of all interest in what he +royalist emigrant. +rows of statues in niches) and looking significantly at the lady’s old +rows of faces so alike yet so different, holding its breath while the +“rousseau’s contrat social,” said the vicomte with a tolerant +roused, had begun to talk, and wanted to express what had brought him to +roused by activity, expected the best results from the new campaign, +round with much animation and cheerfully nodded to his son as the latter +round the two corners of the mouth; this, together with the resolute, +round the table, the clatter of plates, knives, and glasses mingled with +round the first man changed his run to a walk and, turning, shouted +round the company. he noticed the change in the little princess’ +round sónya and natásha as the air does before a thunderstorm. sónya +round shoulders shuddered as if a cold shiver had run down them, how his +round-shouldered captain túshin, stumbling over the tail of the gun +round. prince andrew and the battalion were already within twenty paces +round once more. the french had fallen behind, and just as he looked +round márya dmítrievna, now on his toes, now on his heels; until, +round his son’s neck, and without a word he began to sob like a child. +round her head. +round an open window. three others were romping with a young bear, one +round and notices here a spindle that has stopped or there one that +round and galloped back to the place where he had seen the emperor, but +round and clapping rostóv on the shoulder with his big hand. +rosy, with a dark little mustache, evidently rested and made sleeker by +rosy, was sitting in an easy chair with her work in her hands, talking +rostóv, without returning home, took a horse and rode there. there was +rostóv with dólokhov and denísov stayed on at the club till late, +rostóv wiping his muddy hands on his breeches looked at his enemy and +rostóv, who had just celebrated his promotion to a cornetcy and bought +rostóv, who had completely forgotten denísov, not wishing anyone to +rostóv, when their leave permits had been passed at the town gate and +rostóv went to telyánin’s quarters. +rostóv went on ahead to do what was asked, and to his great surprise +rostóv waved his cap above his head like the german and cried laughing, +rostóv was very happy in the love they showed him; but the first +rostóv was not far from the trumpeters, and with his keen sight had +rostóv turned his horse and galloped back. four more reports followed +rostóv took the purse in his hand, examined it and the money in it, and +rostóv took the money, avoiding telyánin’s eyes, and went out of the +rostóv took the money and, mechanically arranging the old and new coins +rostóv took the letter and, throwing the money on the sofa, put both +rostóv too, bending over his saddle, shouted “hurrah!” with all his +rostóv thrust the purse under the pillow and shook the damp little hand +rostóvs, with whom she stayed when in the town and where her darling +rostóv submitted. he let the eight hundred remain and laid down a seven +rostóv stopped his horse for a moment on a hillock to see what was +rostóv stopped. +rostóv, still looking round toward the fires and the shouts, rode with +rostóv, standing in the front lines of kutúzov’s army which the tsar +rostóv staked five rubles on a card and lost, staked again, and again +rostóv’s soul (it seemed to rostóv that he understood everything), +rostóv’s share in dólokhov’s duel with bezúkhov was hushed up by +rostóv spurred his horse, called to sergeant fédchenko and two other +rostóv smilingly reassured the dragoon and gave him money. +rostóv smiled. +rostóv shrugged his shoulders as much as to say: “nor do i, but +rostóv’s horse was also getting restive: it pawed the frozen ground, +rostóv’s feeling, there was a deathly stillness amid which was heard +rostóv’s face. a gentle, mild light poured from them. then all at +rostóv saw that it had been well considered by them. sónya had already +rostóv saw tears filling the emperor’s eyes and heard him, as he was +rostóv saw overhead the old familiar cornice with a bit of plaster +rostóv saw nothing but the hussars running all around him, their spurs +rostóv’s and back, and back again and again in an instant. +rostóv, rubbing his eyes that seemed glued together, raised his +rostóv rode on at a footpace not knowing why or to whom he was now +rostóv recalled at that moment a strange conversation he had once had +rostóv noticed something new in dólokhov’s relations with sónya, +rostóv met sónya in the drawing room, he reddened. he did not know +rostóv looked at and listened listlessly to what passed before and +rostóv let go of the horse and was about to ride on, when a wounded +rostóv learned later that russian and austrian soldiers had been firing +rostóv laughed so loud and merrily that denísov, in his bedroom, felt +rostóv hurriedly put something on his feet, drew on his dressing gown, +rostóv, his eyes avoiding denísov, began buttoning his coat, buckled +rostóv himself, his legs well back and his stomach drawn in and feeling +rostóv heard. +rostóv had just prepared a card, by bending the corner of which he +rostóv had been ordered to look for kutúzov and the emperor near the +rostóv, growing red and pale alternately, looked first at one officer +rostóv from a distance saw with envy and remorse how von toll spoke +rostóv for his friendship to her fédya, often talked to him about her +rostóv followed them. in front of him walked kutúzov’s groom leading +rostóv, flushing, drew dólokhov into the next room. +rostóv felt that, under the influence of the warm rays of love, that +rostóv felt ill at ease. he tried, but failed, to find some joke with +(rostóv felt himself quite tiny and weak compared to these gigantic men +rostóv felt denísov’s gaze fixed on him, raised his eyes, and +rostóv fancied he had seen before) rode up to the ditch, struck his +rostóv did not think what this call for stretchers meant; he ran on, +rostóv did not speak. +rostóv did not listen to the soldier. he looked at the snowflakes +rostóv did not know or remember how he ran to his place and mounted. +rostóv could already see their faces and heard the command: +rostóv considered, and then went in the direction where they said he +rostóv became thoughtful. +rostóv as he continued to deal. +rostóv anticipated his horse’s movements and became more and more +rostóv, and sighing deeply he took rook, his horse, which stood resting +rostóv and most of the officers after the review. +rostóv and had not responded to his greeting. when the emperor’s +rostóv, and dólokhov—who was now again an officer in the semënov +rostóv and denísov drove away with the wounded dólokhov. +rostóv, absorbed by his relations with bogdánich, had paused on the +rostóv. +rostóv. +rostóv. +“rostóv!” +rose in alarm on seeing it. +rose from an ensign and became emperor. well, well, god grant it,” he +rose, by a glance inviting pierre, who sat opposite, to listen to what +rose and with her heavy tread went up to the table. she took a sheet of +room with the inkstand in her hand. +room with rapid steps. now he seemed to see her in the early days of +room without a word. but at the door he stopped and then retraced his +room with a look of alarm. between twelve and two o’clock, as the +room, where you will be ranged side by side with a court lackey and an +room to write to his father, to whom he wrote every day. in the corridor +room, they still heard the laughter and merry voices trying to persuade +room. the prince stood still; his lively glittering eyes from under +room. the old man already knew everything. he was standing close to +room. the old countess, waiting for the return of her husband and son, +room. the countess reflected a moment and took a pinch from a gold +room, something flew out from a side door like a tornado and began +room. no one spoke and the only sounds heard were the clatter of knives +room.... nicholas had been prepared for resistance, but had not at all +room,” he said. +room, grew silent and gazed with eyes full of curiosity or expectancy at +room, exclaiming and oh-ing and ah-ing. +room. denísov silently watched lavrúshka’s movements, and when the +room by which dolgorúkov had entered—a short man in civilian clothes +room and we shall have to go down, and you have not smartened yourself +room and still less how to leave one; that is, how to say something +room, and looked round with a smile. she was, as always at evening +room, almost all the company had assembled, and the conversation, guided +room. all were silent. +room after supper? why, we settled how everything was to be. i don’t +room, addressed pierre. +room. +rook—a handsome horse despite its game leg—had the happy air of a +roof lit up by the sun? no one knows, but one wants to know. you fear +rolling them up. márya dmítrievna always spoke in russian. +rolled softly over the straw beneath the windows, anna mikháylovna, +rode with our regiment all the time, so that we had every comfort and +rode side by side in front, at full gallop. one in a black uniform with +rode past the limbers to the farthest cannon. +rode, not hoping to find anyone but merely to ease his conscience. when +road which gleamed white in the mist would have been safer because it +road. bagratión’s exhausted and hungry detachment, which alone +rivulet flowed, the soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was +river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at +river flowed was formed by the rising ground only half a mile away. +rite which everyone expected of him, and that he was therefore bound +rising in his soul. dólokhov, denísov, and rostóv were now sitting +risen and was going toward his room. +ringing, deliberate voice. “i ask an opportunity to atone for my fault +ring, cried from the window: “come here; part the bets!” this was +ring, and zherkóv, uneasily glancing at them all, and prince andrew, +right! twenty-one rubles,” he said, pointing to the figure twenty-one +right to fire when they liked as they approached the barrier. dólokhov +right sounded oftener and nearer. as soon as túshin with his guns, +rights of man, is sentenced to...” but before pierre—who at that +right, shouting and firing were again heard. flashes of shot gleamed in +right—serve him. nicholas bolkónski’s son need not serve under +right. selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that’s what +rightly supposes that matters have already gone too far. i think it will +right light.... in my opinion perpetual peace is possible but—i do not +right, it is advantageous to attack the enemy’s latter wing especially +right—he did not know. “but was it really not possible for kutúzov +right hand, which was lying palm downwards, a wax taper had been thrust +right flank and drive it into the bohemian mountains according to plan, +right and what’s good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by +right!” and his head once more sank to his horse’s neck. all at once +right across the skull. having said this he glanced at natásha. +right. +rid them of the bourbons and because they saw that he was a great +riding over it trained a gun on him and fired several shots. the +riding away, say to czartorýski: “what a terrible thing war is: what +riding, and sometimes, when he came within six paces of them, the +riding alone with three hussars into that mysterious and dangerous misty +riding a fine bobtailed horse, and a civilian—an accountant who had +rid himself of them he closed his eyes. +rider’s leg. blood was flowing from his head; he struggled but could +ride and especially by the sound of the bullets. +rich youths, officers and cadets, who had galloped past him on their +rich old man. but before leaving home and undertaking these new affairs, +richest of the officers now that he had received his money, bought it. +rich?” +ribbons. +rhetor went away, leaving him to solitary meditation. “it must be so, +rhetor, though it aroused his curiosity, did not seem to him essential, +rhetor’s instructions. the mason drew the shirt back from pierre’s +rhetor said, “to bring yourself to regard it not as a dreaded foe, but +rhetor, after a moment’s pause. +revolution, which has become more terrible than ever in the person of +revoir! ”—and she left the hall. +reverence and was beyond question. +return to her the whole evening. +return the holy image. +returning to the town. the commander in chief made a sign that the +returning to his hobby; “tell me how the germans have taught you to +returning his smile. +returning from his journey through south russia in the happiest state +returned to petersburg quite crestfallen. +returned to moscow and went straight to her rich relations, the +returned home just before dinner. as soon as he entered he noticed and +returned from them dragging sheep, fowls, hay, and bulging sacks. at +returned from the council, tired and exhausted but eager and proud +returned from a long journey on which he had spent dozens of years, had +returned, and over the bottle of wine conversation between the three +returned), and, forcing open a loosely closed latch, set the damask + return.” +retreat to the dip by echelons.” so he reasoned.... all the time +retreating to our frontier—which do today.’ +retreating forces. +retreating against their will. a few minutes after the emperor had +retreated as a disorderly crowd. one soldier, in his fear, uttered the +retreat after a battle have lost it is what we say; and according to +“retire! all to retire!” he shouted from a distance. +resumed its former cold, artificial expression. she returned to the +resumed her duties as hostess and continued to listen and watch, ready +result from it—no longer seemed to be in the future but in the past. +rest, went in to dinner. he was seated in the place of honor between +restraining his tears of pity for the emperor, he rode on in utter +restraining her angry tears. +restrained animation as he stood sipping tea from a delicate chinese +resting, and to halt facing vienna with znaim to his rear, and if he +rested on prince andrew’s face. +rest, and then...” +responsibility of that deed.” +responsibility. but circumstances are sometimes too strong for us, +respect, he had decided that it would be a good thing to set fire to the +respectfully when the military governor, having stayed about half an +respectfully bowed head, seemed also to be waiting. the silence lasted +respectfully. +respected and feared her. +respect and honor you, but all the same remember that the future belongs +resounding voice, apparently to preclude the possibility of not being +resounded. the column moved forward without knowing where and unable, +resounded on the planks of the bridge, and the squadron, officers in +resolved to go away next day and leave a letter informing her of his +resolved not to be the first to break silence, if she had to wait till +resolution. can it be that i have none?” +resolute self-will, “he is wicked and heartless. there now, i like +resolutely took the salver with both hands and looked sternly and +resolute in the discharge of duty, ran out and touching pierre lightly +reserve units were able to join up, and the fight was at an end. the +reserve tomorrow,” he thought. “i’ll ask leave to go to the front, +reserve gun carriage, the wounded were carried away, and the four guns +resembling his master in manners and looks, who was accompanying him +rescue. pierre had managed to start a conversation with the abbé about +required papers. kutúzov and the austrian member of the hofkriegsrath +request that he would take no part in the matter, rostóv agreed to be +request. +repulsed, he had lost more than half his men. he said the attack +reproachfully at the count who had presented it to him. someone +reproached him for not having stayed at the palace, and offered him +reproached her for yielding to a man without being married. mademoiselle +reproached and disputed with each other. +reprimanding and reproaching him. túshin gave no orders, and, +represented as a brilliant victory over the french, and so the +represented all that was left of that whole regiment. impelled by the +representative but one of the great century, and that it is his own +reprehensible, looked round with a blush. it seemed to him that everyone +report was heard, bagratión looked round and shouted, “hurrah!” +reports that prince auersperg was defending vienna?” he said. +reports one after another, and a third. +reports from our scouts. here are two letters from count nostitz and +reported to him, and then joined the adjutants listening to what the +report, and began deliberately to examine the whole battlefield extended +reply—which he would not have received, for the princess was unable to +reply to his look, and went still faster along the passage. +reply. +reply. +replied: “yes, yes, i agree,” and with a beaming, childlike smile, +replied that it would be more than enough for him and that he gave his +replied prince vasíli. +replied borís, betraying neither annoyance at the prince’s brusque +replied, and the four simply looked at one another. she lingered in the +replied, “and it is that he would be merciful to him and would allow +replied. +replace some chessmen that were falling. he was about to embrace his +repented and added: “i am glad; really, dear, i am very glad.” +repellent. yet in this very repugnance to all his circumstances pierre +repeating to himself at each alternate step, “left... left... +repeating the terms of the wager to him in english. +repeating the terms of the bet, addressing himself particularly to +repeating in a low voice the same words several times over. +repeat his question. +repeated. “i should be glad enough to fall asleep, so it’s not my +repeated from the opening words of the manifesto: +repeated by others from various sides and all became silent. +renounced your former convictions—do you believe in god?” +rendered, and i supplied them with a doctor, a hospital, and an asylum +remorse, humiliations, sufferings, outbursts of pride, fear, and +“remember that you will answer for the consequences,” said prince +remember nikólenka too, i remember him well,” she said. “but i +remember how we and nicholas, all three of us, talked in the sitting +“remember, for you everything depends on this.” +remember everything?” said natásha, with an expressive gesture, +remembered it three months before, when the count had sent him to +remark to him, pointing to the gallant Ápsherons. +remarks which seemed to him clever while they formed in his mind became +remarks. the old count rose once more, glanced at a note lying beside +remarks at him, though without looking at him. +remarked. “well, sit down: let’s have a talk.” +remain stationary in face of an enemy eight times as strong as itself. +remains of supper. a footman, thinking no one saw him, was drinking on +remains of sheds, chairs, tables, wheels, tubs, and everything that they +remaining strength. he raised his pistol and aimed. +remaining in moscow, and only awaited the termination of denísov’s +remained on the farther side of the bridge facing the enemy, who could +remained in reserve and nicholas rostóv spent that day in a dull and +remained alone with him for a long time. +relying on reason only? what art thou? you are young, you are rich, you +reluctantly, but gradually with more and more animation, and from habit +religion?” +relays. +relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the +relating to nikólenka, did not venture to ask any questions at dinner, +rejects all knowledge that does not come from him; and the less we seek +reins and started of his own accord. +reinforce the right flank. the officer of the suite ventured to remark +regular order. +regular motion as a result of all that activity. +regularity in his household was carried to the highest point of +regrettable delusion.” +regret her words. but she went on hurriedly: +regret. drawing rooms, gossip, balls, vanity, and triviality—these are +regiment was much surprised at the commander in chief’s order to throw +regiment, they listen intently, look about, and eagerly ask concerning +regiment. the faces of these young people, especially those who were +regiments form bands and scour the countryside and put everything +regiments, both cavalry and infantry, were by no means ready for the +regiment, saying he was not such a fool as to slave at the front when he +regiment next to no time, my lad, you’re here today and tomorrow +regiment—instead of the straggling, disorderly crowd it had been on +regiment had just the appearance of any russian regiment preparing for +regiment had been broken up. all he knew was that at the commencement +regiment but was not liked; rostóv especially detested him and was +regiment, and bogdánich knows it. oh, we do prize it, old fellow! and +regimental commander was nicknamed king of hearts). +regimental commander, overtaking the third company on its way to its +regimental commander hung his head, silently shrugged his shoulders, and +regimental commander cooling down a little. “leave indeed.... one says +regimental commander and major ekonómov had stopped beside a bridge, +regeneration, and return to life. +regenerate, purify, and elevate me. but you don’t understand it.” +regard to this project of marriage for me, i will tell you, dear sweet +regarding him with a smile of approbation. +regarding all arguments as nonsense in comparison with that smile. +regard him—but you want to cure him from love of him. and he does not +regarded all these little adjutants on the staff of whom the newcomer +refusing to let her see them off. the diplomatist preserved a mournful +refuse iogel and asked sónya to dance. denísov sat down by the old +refusal with his head and hand and by that gesture rostóv instantly +reform by marrying him to prince andrew’s sister. +reflections. better die a thousand times than risk receiving an unkind +reflected on theirs. +refined french in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and +“refill my pipe for that one!” and then, scattering sparks from it, +referred to in that drawing room as “a man of great merit” (un homme +reduced to tears. +red. several battalions of soldiers, in their shirt sleeves despite +red patches appeared on princess mary’s face and she was silent as if +red hands; he did not know, as the saying is, how to enter a drawing +recruits were being enrolled in the villages, and from the seat of +recruitment so as to avoid active service. the old prince and his son +recruiting. none of them had yet seen the manifesto, but they all knew +recross to the other. at last our enemy, buxhöwden, catches us and +recovered, and rostóv became very friendly with him during his +recover.” +recounting his military exploits (prince andrew could not endure +recommended to the empress) and at the same time to console him, so she +recollections.” prince vasíli sighed. “yes, yes, my boy. and my +recollection of how he was put in the sleigh or of the first three +recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it. that is the one +recognized the tsar and watched his approach. when he was within twenty +recognized his lamented and adored monarch. +recognized him and stopped to listen to what he was saying. dólokhov +recognized as legitimate; so that he is now count bezúkhov and +reckoning.” +reciprocated this antipathy, but it was overpowered by his contempt +reception room if he wished to see him. borís thanked him and went to +reception hall: michael ivánovich, mademoiselle bourienne, princess +reception. +receiving it. this gratitude reminded him of how much more he might do +receiving from all sides declarations of the people’s loyalty, that +receive that science it is necessary to purify and renew one’s inner +received was shown him. a strange lady, the one who had been talking to +received pierre with a shade of melancholy, evidently relating to the +received him with distinction and special marks of favor, explaining to +received by the emperor. had you heard?” +received. a thanksgiving service was arranged, kutúzov was awarded +received as a savior.” +received and read the then famous rescript of the emperor alexander +received all petersburg, proud of her unapproachability and beauty. so +received. +receipt, he left at the end of november, without taking leave of any of +recalling bilíbin’s words. +recalled thousands of such hints from prince vasíli and others, and was +recalled all this as childishness he had left immeasurably behind. +recalcitrant cavalry colonel, his own dignity as a general, and above +rebuking her for her fall. +reawakening. he was afraid of any want of clearness, any weakness, in +reasons for buonaparte’s hatred of him. +reason, ran back and disappeared from the outskirts, and russian +reason, or shot a post-boy’s horse with a pistol. that expression +reason of her friend’s sorrow, “i’m sure véra has said something +reasoning contained in the mason’s words, or believed as a child +reason for rejoicing, they looked at each other with joyful delight and +rearguard all the freshness of atmosphere of the french army, which was +reappeared. +real state of french public opinion.” +“really, truly!” answered natásha, pushing in a crisp lock that had +“really, papa, i believe prince bagratión worried himself less before +“really, i don’t yet know. i don’t like either the one or the +“really i don’t care about that, i don’t care at all,” said +really good society” consisted of the fascinating hélène, forsaken +really...” but he did not say what “it really” was. “for the +really all the same to me when my son’s fate is at stake.” the +realized that something dreadful had happened to his regiment, and the +realized as he read that book: the joy, hitherto unknown to him, +realize because the fear was so much the stronger feeling. the prince +reality again presented itself. he got up without saying a word and went +ready to embrace the countess at the appropriate moment. +ready, the stranger opened his eyes, moved to the table, filled a +read this in tíkhon’s face and in that of prince vasíli’s valet, +“read this if you like, father,” said the princess, blushing still +reading. then milorádovich looked round significantly at the other +reading them aloud. bagratión bowed his head and listened: +reading the letter. he went on tiptoe to the nursery door and opened it. +reading confirmation in anna mikháylovna’s face. +readiness to fall in love and an expectation of happiness. +readily and rapidly like a man who has not talked for a long time. his +read a congratulation on his future son-in-law and on his daughter’s +reaching the large house near the horse guards’ barracks, in which +reached. wheels creak on their axles as the cogs engage one another and +reached to his very heels, and, stumbling in it, ran out into the porch +reached the bushes. behind these were some russian sharpshooters. +reached bagratión, the weighty tread of the mass of men marching in +rays of gentle light shone from her large, timid eyes. those eyes lit +rattle on the bridge as if nuts were being spilt, and the hussar nearest +ratify it; but it is only a trick. march on, destroy the russian +rather than of what the generals were disputing about. +rather short, as if surprised that anyone should not know him. +rather round shoulders and glanced at novosíltsev who was near him, as +rather of death, as the saying is. ‘albanians!’ and ‘devils!’ +rather confine ourselves to studying those sublime rules which our +rate he glanced at the refractory arm, at pierre’s terror-stricken +rasgulyáy—the coachman ipátka knows—and look up the gypsy +rascality....” +rarely left her and which made her plain, sickly face yet plainer. she +rarely done of late. it was a grand farewell dinner, as he and denísov +rapid, self-confident, familiar tone. “here is my second son; please +rapid retreat. austrian troops that had escaped capture at ulm and had +rapidly and indistinctly. “you thought!... rascals! blackguards!... +rapidly adding up the total of rostóv’s debt, breaking the chalk as +rapidly. +rapidity. he again vividly recalled the details of the battle, no longer +ran up, begging a little fire for the infantry. +ran rapidly over the wide space, but he only saw that the hitherto +ranks were returning from the attack. rostóv got out of their way, +ranks in this regiment.” +ranks; anatole was in the army somewhere in the provinces; prince andrew +ranks. +rank—“i thank you for myself and for our two dear ones whose name +rank (for he did nothing), that prince vasíli had procured for him, +rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. anna +range and wipe them out?” these were the questions each man of the +ran forward shading his eyes with his small hand to look at the french. +ran forward on each such occasion, fearing to miss a single word of the +ran ahead on tiptoe and knocked at a door. +raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspiring head, smiling +raising his eyebrows. +raising him. +raise him. but as soon as he thought of what he should say, he felt that +raised. he remained stubbornly silent, gazing at weyrother’s face, +railings. he looked back laughing to the cossack who stood a few +rage, “who are you? are you in command here? eh? i am commander here, +radiantly on her beautiful face. pierre gazed at her with rapturous, +quoting one of his own mots, releasing the wrinkles on his forehead, and +quivering in his breast and a tickling in his nose, and tears dimmed his +quits... it can’t be!... and why is he doing this to me?” rostóv +“quite well? all right then, sit down.” he took the exercise book +quite true; he had been indebted to her father for the first steps in +quite sincerely tried to make her look pretty. she was so plain that +“quite right,” said the englishman. +quite remember how, but don’t you remember that it could all be +quite opposite reputations. some, a minority, acknowledged him to be +quite mistaken if you reckon me or my mother among such people. we are +quite heard. +quite close at hand, and a voice of naïve terror barely two steps from +quite certain. ah! it is very dreadful...” +“quite avare, your excellency,” suddenly shouted the colonel, +quite astonishing. how did you get things settled? i couldn’t possibly +quilt. the eyes and face of the sick man showed impatience. he made an +quietly and said in a whisper: “please walk in.” +quietly and humorously how he had known that doll mimi when she was +quiet authority, “you wish to insult me, and i am ready to agree with +quiet and peace. thank god!...” +quick-witted, nor ready or eloquent in conversation, but he had the +quick or the enemy will bring up his guns to use grapeshot.” +quickly turned away, a scarcely perceptible smile flitting over his +quickly roused himself with a feeling of joy, as if learning afresh that +quickly. prince bagratión, uttering his words with an oriental accent, +quickly as possible. +quick. +questions that might be put to him and the answers he would give. he +questions put to him. he was bespattered with mud and had a pitiful, +questions of health, sometimes in russian and sometimes in very bad but +question—one so important that he took no notice of what went +questioning him about political affairs and news. he seemed to listen +question him. the man announced that the tsar had been driven in a +question he noticed that it should not have been put. +question for whose sake he came (though no one spoke of it) was soon +question for her to refuse him. and therefore nicholas’ first feeling +questioned prince andrew about the details of his interview with the +“qu’ est-ce qu’il chante?” * asked a frenchman. +queer,” he added after a pause, “that you should have suspected +quarters torches and candles were burning and no one slept. the old +quarters near braunau, where they hoped to receive boots and clothes and +quarters and riding up to captain timókhin who was walking in front. +quarter of an hour between two fires.” +quartermaster’s presence. +quartermaster for the money.” +quarreled with her brother about him. she insisted that he was a bad +quarreled with hélène, mon cher? you are under a delusion,” said +qualities. he was always hearing such words as: “with your remarkable +qualifications for it—the kind of good-natured, fussy shallowness +puzzled the devil himself! when you get there you’ll find out what +putting the nightshirt over his dried-up old body and gray-haired chest. +putting them down. when they’ve been put down, the war with buonaparte +put questions and gave brief replies about things they knew ought to +put it off. perhaps god will help me to find a way to prepare him!... +put it in a carriage, and set off with it to visit some actresses! the +put a little aside and to send something to my father,” he went on, +pushing back his chair, he rose from the table. +pushed the guns and wagons themselves. whips cracked, hoofs slipped, +pushed back in the sitting room where the count and márya dmítrievna +pursued by the french army of a hundred thousand men under the command +purse undah the pillow,” he said, and went out to the quartermaster. +purse that sank into the sofa. “as for us, count, we get along on our +purse and, drawing its rings aside with his small, white, turned-up +purse. +purposely dropped a handkerchief in front of him and stood looking +purple face, reporting something. +purple-faced general wait respectfully while captain prince andrew, for +purity, and not the serfs’ backs and foreheads, which, beat and shave +purified, thou wilt gain wisdom. look at your life, my dear sir. +punishments were to be admonitory and not corporal, and hospitals, +pultúsk to petersburg returns bringing our appointment as commander in +pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at +pulling him by the chain and trying to set him at the others. +puckering up his face though smiling, and showing his short strong +public to appreciate his skill. +p.s. let me have news of your brother and his charming little wife. +przebyszéwski, with respectful but dignified politeness, held his +przebyszéwski’s and langeron’s columns which had already gone down +przebyszéwski and his corps had laid down their arms. other columns +prussians without giving them time to finish the parade they had begun, +prussian army, hélène had suddenly found it necessary to see him. +prussia, and had just returned from there as a special messenger. he had +proverb says,” remarked shinshín, moving his pipe to the other side +proudly at his son. +protégé, but prince dolgorúkov politely and firmly pressing his hand +prostrated himself before the gates of the temple. and really, the +prospect of spending an evening with a poor invalid is not too terrible, +proposition to you in his pupil’s—i mean, his son’s—name. do you +propose is the only thing possible.” +proper posts. borís had been quartered, and had marched all the +properly. hélène answered with a smile that she too had missed it. +proper, and regular motion. but amid these cares her anxiety about +proofs of nikólenka’s virtues. how strange, how extraordinary, how +pronounced the mason in a stern and tremulous voice. +promotion to the rank of major, and rostóv, who had already drunk +promotion, nicholas said that he kissed his father’s and mother’s +promotion...” +promotion. +promise to prince andrew was of no account, because before he gave it +promise of rising in his diplomatic career. he was still a young man but +promised not to forget him, distinguished him above the other adjutants, +promised? nothing! and what little they have promised they will not +prominent gray eyes. then she shook her head and glanced up at the icons +promener,” * she used to say. often seeing the success she had with +projects for peace, a secret peace concluded separately.” +progress. would you believe it, i have literally not a penny and don’t +profited by their toil to lead a profligate life. that is what you have +produced on sónya, felt for the first time the sorrowful side of the +produced an effect she glanced at anna pávlovna, at once adopted just +produce at the same intervals and hold for the same time, but which +proceeding as usual. denísov, who had been losing at cards all night, +proceeded to his study. +problems in higher mathematics, turning snuffboxes on a lathe, working +probably to strengthen the front line. the smoke of the first shot had +probably think it easy to gain victories!” he thought. his eyes +“probably,” said prince andrew moving toward the outer door. +probably he did not, for in general he thought very little—but his +prizes his freedom which he needs for so many other things. when he +privilege of admiring her beautiful figure and shapely shoulders, +private and had not seen fit to recognize him. but now that kutúzov had +prisoners.” +principals nor their seconds suffered for it. but the story of the duel, +principal guests. he was just going to take it when dólokhov, leaning +“prince, what i have said is all there is in my heart. i thank you for +prince was at home, and showed him into a clean little anteroom. +prince vasíli, with one leg thrown high over the other and a snuffbox +prince vasíli wished to obtain this post for his son, but others were +prince vasíli, who pretended to want to know this in order to settle a +prince vasíli was seated in an easy chair in his familiar attitude, +prince vasíli was not a man who deliberately thought out his plans. +prince vasíli stared at her and at borís questioningly and perplexed. +“prince vasíli’s son, he, and a certain dólokhov have, it is said, +prince vasíli smiled, and pierre noticed that everyone was smiling at +prince vasíli smiled. +prince vasíli’s last words. then rising, he suddenly went up to his +prince vasíli’s face so out of keeping with his dignity that pierre +prince vasíli’s daughter, the beautiful hélène, came to take her +prince vasíli saw the princess off. she held a handkerchief to her eyes +prince vasíli saw that pierre knew this. he suddenly muttered +prince vasíli’s arm and led him to his study. as soon as they were +prince vasíli said no more and his cheeks began to twitch nervously, +prince vasíli rose. “oh!” said he with reproach and surprise, +prince vasíli rose. +prince vasíli readily adopted her tone and the little princess also +prince vasíli passed by, seeming not to hear the ladies, and sat down +prince vasíli looked questioningly at the princess, but could not make +prince vasíli kept the promise he had given to princess drubetskáya +prince vasíli had to settle matters with pierre, who, it is true, had +prince vasíli had come to the conclusion that it was necessary to throw +prince vasíli gave pierre a significant look. +prince vasíli frowned, twisting his mouth, his cheeks quivered and his +prince vasíli did not reply, though, with the quickness of memory and +prince vasíli did everything to get pierre to marry his daughter. had +prince vasíli came next. he staggered to the sofa on which pierre was +prince vasíli bent his head and spread out his hands. +prince vasíli became thoughtful and frowned. anna mikháylovna saw that +prince vasíli a third time. “how absent-minded you are, my dear +prince vasíli, as he entered. “i know all about it, and i can tell +prince vasíli arrived that evening. he was met in the avenue by +“prince vasíli arrived in moscow yesterday. i hear he has come on +prince vasíli and the generals, had the benefit of the diplomat. +prince vasíli and the eldest princess were sitting close together +prince vasíli and that son of his to me? prince vasíli is a shallow +prince vasíli and anatole had separate rooms assigned to them. +prince vasíli always spoke languidly, like an actor repeating a stale +prince vasíli. +prince told me to ask,’ and come and tell me her answer.” +prince to get up, tíkhon came to call the young prince to his father. +prince’s things in my bedroom,” said he to the servant who was +prince, stepping on his heels, paced up and down his study and sent +princess, with the long waist and hair plastered down like a doll’s, +princess with the expression women assume when they suppose they are +princess with a pleased smile, as to an intimate acquaintance. +princess went in with the drink she had prepared according to +princess was not unwell, but had such an overpowering fear of the prince +princess, turning away and continuing to read. but julie did not flatter +princess suddenly, her pretty face all at once distorted by a tearful +princess rose. “it’s now two o’clock and you dine at four. there +princess’ room, a carriage containing pierre (who had been sent for) +princess on hearing the news. +princess never saw the beautiful expression of her own eyes—the look +“princess, my dear, there’s someone driving up the avenue!” she +princess mary with a gay smile, as if inviting her to join in a laugh at +princess mary went to the door of the study with special trepidation. +princess mary went back to her room with the sad, scared expression that +princess mary was still standing by the cot, gently rocking the baby. +princess mary was sitting on the sofa in her room, holding the weeping +princess mary was left alone. she did not comply with lise’s request, +princess mary was first surprised and then aghast at this question. +princess mary threw a shawl over her head and ran to meet the newcomer. +princess mary, then sat thinking for a while with that expression of +princess mary’s self-esteem would be wounded and his point (not to +princess mary sighed, and having crossed herself went down, thinking +princess mary shuddered; her nurse, putting down the stocking she was +princess mary shrugged her shoulders but took the glass submissively +princess mary sat alone in her room listening to the sounds in the +princess mary rose and moved to the door, then stopped and said: +princess mary looked at them in silence. she could not understand it. at +princess mary looked at her brother in surprise. she did not understand +princess mary, little as he seemed to value her, was unthinkable to +princess mary knelt down before her and hid her face in the folds of her +princess mary had long since put aside her book: she sat silent, her +princess mary had greatly changed since 1805. +princess mary grew quite unconscious of her face and coiffure. the +princess mary, evidently intimidated and confused that her opinion +princess mary did not listen to the end, but continuing her train of +princess mary could not understand the boldness of her brother’s +princess mary could not lift her head, she was weeping. +princess mary but were looking within... into herself... at something +princess mary admitted to one another that the angel’s face reminded +princess mary. +princess, looking at anna mikháylovna as at a stranger. +princess kurágina, a portly imposing woman who had once been handsome, +princess. (in accordance with lise’s and prince andrew’s wishes they +“princess, i must warn you,” she added, lowering her voice and +princess, i hold to the principle that a maiden has a full right to +princess. i am at your command.’ yes, he is a fine fellow and a very +princess, his cousin, at moscow, concerning dólokhov’s intimacy with +princess hélène, prince vasíli’s daughter, and the little princess +princess’ hand. +princess’ hair. it was evident that he could be silent in this way for +princess had been crying after dinner and had spoken of her forebodings +princess felt this; they still thought that if a blue ribbon were placed +princess’ face. she took it quickly and bent her head over it. +princesses was coming to take her turn at watching. “let us go.” +princesses spent most of their time, he greeted the ladies, two of whom +princesses, sat in a corner knitting a stocking. pierre had never been +“princesse, au revoir,” cried he, stumbling with his tongue as well +“princess drubetskáya to see prince vasíli sergéevich,” he called +“princess, come here!” he shouted. +princess’ beautiful eyes with all their former calm radiance were +princess anxious and inquiring, the nurse encouraging. everyone in the +princess anna mikháylovna intervened in the conversation, evidently +princess, and stared fixedly at her through his eyeglass. +princess and prince vasíli, recovering themselves, followed her. a few +prince’s question as to how she felt. +prince’s household. general in chief prince nicholas andréevich +prince, she prepared to listen. +prince repnín named lieutenant sukhtélen. +prince repnín!” and he spurred his horse and galloped away. +prince, one window frame was removed in each room as soon as the larks +prince nicholas frowned, but said nothing. +prince never directly asked himself that question, knowing beforehand +prince kurágin about me. i only wanted to ask because i fear the guards +prince interrupted her. +“prince, i did not ask you here. go, please go!” and he jumped up +“prince, humanum est errare, * but...” replied the doctor, +prince? how priceless are those last moments! it can make things no +prince hippolyte, who had been gazing at the vicomte for some time +prince hippolyte was lolling in a lounge chair with his legs over its +“prince hippolyte kurágin—charming young fellow; m. +prince hippolyte hurriedly put on his cloak, which in the latest fashion +prince hippolyte, having brought the workbag, joined the circle and +prince hippolyte approached the little princess and, bending his face +prince dolgorúkov to the advanced post of the french army. +prince dolgorúkov ceased to listen to him and gazed absent-mindedly not +prince, but could not get it quite right.) +prince bolkónski surveyed anatole. +prince bolkónski’s household felt that their life had not been real +prince bolkónski sat down in his usual place in the corner of the sofa +prince bagratión to begin the council. at last bagratión’s orderly +prince bagratión screwed up his eyes, looked round, and, seeing the +prince bagratión rode an officer of the suite, the prince’s personal +prince bagratión proposed to dolgorúkov to send to inquire of the +prince bagratión looked at túshin, evidently reluctant to show +prince bagratión, having reached the highest point of our right flank, +prince bagratión, distinguished by his schön grabern affair and by +prince bagratión and túshin looked with equal intentness at +“prince auersperg is on this, on our side of the river, and is +prince andrew without lifting his eyes rode hastily away from the +prince andrew with one word, one argument, +prince andrew, who had evidently wished to tone down the awkwardness of +prince andrew, who had also been brought forward before the emperor’s +prince andrew when he drove up to the palace felt even more vigorous and +prince andrew went up to the child and felt him. he was burning hot. +prince andrew went out. +prince andrew went again to his wife and sat waiting in the room next +prince andrew was to leave next evening. the old prince, not altering +prince andrew was surveying the position, was the easiest and most +prince andrew was silent, but the princess noticed the ironical and +prince andrew was one of those rare staff officers whose chief interest +prince andrew was on duty that day and in constant attendance on the +prince andrew was as glad to find the boy like that, as if he had +prince andrew understood that this was said of him and that it was +prince andrew told his driver to stop, and asked a soldier in what +prince andrew. they had known each other previously in petersburg, but +prince andrew stopped short. +prince andrew stood right in front of kutúzov but the expression of +prince andrew stayed at brünn with bilíbin, a russian acquaintance of +prince andrew spoke so earnestly that pierre could not help thinking +prince andrew smiled ironically. +prince andrew smiled involuntarily as he looked at the artillery officer +prince andrew smiled as he looked at his sister, as we smile at those we +prince andrew smiled. +prince andrew’s joyous feeling was considerably weakened as he +prince andrew sighed and made no reply. +prince andrew sighed and broke the seal of another envelope. it was +prince andrew shrugged his shoulders. +prince andrew shouted, “brothers! all’s lost!” and at this as if +prince andrew, seeing that his father insisted, began—at first +prince andrew screwed up his eyes and turned away. pierre, who from +prince andrew’s calm manner of treating everybody, his extraordinary +prince andrew saw that the officer was in that state of senseless, +prince andrew said nothing to túshin. they were both so busy as to seem +prince andrew rose, shrugged his shoulders, and walked about the room. +prince andrew riding up to the officer. +prince andrew replied. then followed other questions just as simple: +prince andrew remembered nothing more: he lost consciousness from the +prince andrew remained at bald hills as usual during his father’s +prince andrew, recalling his father’s letter. “yes, we have gained +prince andrew only shrugged his shoulders at pierre’s childish words. +prince andrew nodded to him. he still looked ahead while prince andrew +prince andrew moved toward the door from whence voices were heard. +prince andrew made use of boguchárovo, began building and spent most of +prince andrew looked sternly at her and an expression of anger suddenly +prince andrew looked kindly at him, yet his glance—friendly and +prince andrew looked inquiringly at him and gave no reply. +prince andrew looked at his sister. in the dim shadow of the curtain her +prince andrew looked anna pávlovna straight in the face with a +prince andrew knew how to take his stand so that they respected and even +prince andrew kept looking with an amused smile from pierre to the +prince andrew. “i build a house and lay out a garden, and you build +prince andrew, his face distorted with fury, rode up to him and raised +prince andrew, having reached the front line, rode along it. our front +prince andrew had gone out into the hall, and, turning his shoulders +prince andrew grew more and more animated. his eyes glittered feverishly +prince andrew got up and went on tiptoe up to the little bed, wineglass +prince andrew glanced at kutúzov’s face only a foot distant from him +prince andrew glanced again at the artillery officer’s small figure. +prince andrew gazed with anxious curiosity at that impassive face +prince andrew gave him a look, but said nothing and went away. he felt +prince andrew galloped off to execute the order. +prince andrew frowned again, expressing his annoyance with whoever was +prince andrew followed her with a courteous but sad expression. +prince andrew felt that either the actions of kutúzov’s army +prince andrew expressed his ideas so clearly and distinctly that it was +prince andrew, evidently confused. “i know that out of a million +prince andrew during the battle had been in attendance on the austrian +prince andrew did not see how and by whom it was replaced, but the +prince andrew could not understand. +prince andrew considered possible contingencies and formed new projects +prince andrew caught him by the hand. +prince andrew bowed his head in token of having understood from the +prince andrew, beginning to understand that his news of the battle +prince andrew began to reply and to state his own plan, which might +prince andrew and his sister, hand in hand, kissed one another, and +prince andrew always became specially keen when he had to guide a young +prince andrew. +prince. and god only knows where your man peter is,” said the other +prince.” +prince. +prince. +priests; “all we relatives have been in such anxiety. this young +pride. “that lawsuit taught me much. when i want to see one of those +pride enough to see it? if she has no pride for herself she might at +pricking its ears at the sound of shots just as it had done on the +pricking its ears at the noise and looking at the lights. the shouting +prevented her from going on with it. +preussisch-eylau. +pretty young princesses gorchakóv met suitors there and were married +pretty face. +pretext. the fact is he has come to see count cyril vladímirovich, +pretext that her aunt wished to hear him. +pretense of helping, was in everyone’s way. +pretending to sleep, the sounds his nose emitted during the reading that +pretending to do something real. prince andrew gaily bore with his +presumptuous lieutenant who had prevented his finishing what he had to +pressure lay his only hope of salvation. +pressing the hands of prince andrew and borís. “you know i should +pressed two fingers more and more rigidly to his cap, as if in this +pressed him still harder with proofs of the impossibility and above all +president of the council of war. weyrother evidently felt himself to be +preserve his gravity. +preserved all that was good in it—equality of citizenship and freedom +present, suddenly pushed forward with a scared and angry look and wanted +present i am free and am all right. only i haven’t the least idea what +present emperor—more than once in paris, and tells me he never met a +presented he was as little able as his father to change his opinion. he +present bivouac another fortnight there will not be a healthy man left +presence, i will teach you to behave yourself.” +presence and particularly distinguished himself.” +preparing tea. he brought in a boiling samovar. when everything was +prepare her sister-in-law, and every time began to cry. unobservant as +prepared to continue, but just then anna pávlovna, who had kept a +prepared by long and diligent self-purification, not everyone can hope +prepare a circular, memorandum, or report, skillfully, pointedly, and +preparation swept over all the troops. +preparations for war lay in the fact that nicholas would not hear of +preoccupied, yet meekly christian look which never left her face, anna +preoccupied that only in bed was he able to be by himself. he had to +preoccupied manner. he beckoned to one of his white adjutants and asked +premeditation prince vasíli took the first opportunity to gain his +prejudices, and equality of citizenship, and all these ideas napoleon +pregnant,” said prince andrew, following every movement of his +preening its plumage and became motionless. +precedes a battle and had spent that happy day in inactivity, was all +prearranged sentence. +prayer. so, count, there never is any negligence in my company, and +prayed that the daily interview might pass off well. +pratzen, which was full of troops of all kinds. +pratzen, interrupted by such frequent reports of cannon that sometimes +pratzen heights. +prater... true, we have no prater here...” +prancing horse had splashed mud over some foot soldiers. +pranced up and down in one place like a goat and shrieked piercingly. +practical woman that she was, had even managed by favor with army +powerful nation like russia—barbaric as she is said to be—to place +power.” +power.” +powder smoke and stopped in despair. everything seemed lost. but at that +powder,” said prince andrew banteringly yet tenderly. +powdered footmen, in livery with buckled shoes and smart stockings, +pour vous. *(2) only a hobbledehoy could amuse himself in this +pour le roi de prusse!” +poured drops from a medicine bottle into a wineglass half full of water. +pouch was slung. he had an officer’s sword in his hand. the soldier +potëmkins or suvórovs left to oppose him; but he was also convinced +“postulant,” to the accompaniment of various knockings with +post of commander in chief as a reward for his victory, does not give up +postmaster’s book. bazdéev had been one of the best-known freemasons +posting date: january 10, 2009 [ebook #2600] +posted, two men appeared on horse back. they were an aide-de-camp +posted on a rather steep incline which dominated the french position. +possible. kutúzov himself with all his transport took the road to +possible. his conversation was always sprinkled with wittily original, +possible. god preserve us from that terrible misfortune! +possible. and i,” continued pierre, “shot dólokhov because i +possibility of anyone seeing her without being enchanted. the aunt +possibility of active brotherly love among men, which joseph alexéevich +possessor of the finest fortune in russia. it is rumored that prince +possessed. pierre was one of those who are only strong when they feel +possessed of a helen. “but no doubt it always is and must be so!” +position with his eyes shut. pierre looked at him and had not time +positions and withdrawn in his presence. together with túshin, stepping +position of the army reached him as he went along, and the appearance of +position of that insignificant individual was such as could certainly +position now, peter nikoláevich...” +position, it was now necessary to attack in order to cut a way through +position is now a terrible one,” continued anna mikháylovna, sadly, +position. he made some notes on two points, intending to mention them to +position. he kept closing his eyes and then again looking at the fire, +portrait (evidently by the hand of the artist belonging to the estate) +portmanteau into the vehicle, “we are to move on still farther. the +portfolio were the only sounds audible, but it was evident that if +portfolio she held in her hand. “all i know is that his real will is +portfolio, and changed her grip. +portfolio. +porter. he had no lambskin cap on his head, nor had he a loaded whip +porch. prince andrew got out of the carriage, helped his little wife to +porch. his landlord, who in a waistcoat and a pointed cap, pitchfork in +poor resources i have for entertaining a woman used to the best society. +poorer than the poorest beggar. a thousand thanks, dear friend, for the +poor amélie’s happiness, she loves him so passionately, and so +ponderous steps up to her sister-in-law. +pondered. sometimes he staked a large sum, but dólokhov refused to +pondered. a husband, a man, a strong dominant and strangely attractive +pomaded hair, perfumed, and in a new uniform, looking just as smart as +political news. it became particularly animated toward the end of the +political events. +politeness modestly placed himself at the disposal of the circle in +politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions +politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony +polished shining cannon that quivered on the gun carriages and with +police tried to interfere, and what did the young men do? they tied +point where the french pickets had been standing that evening. +pointing to the flying soldiers; but at that instant, as if to punish +pointing to the fields, he spoke of the improvements he was making in +pointing to nicholas, “his friend borís has become an officer, and +pointed boot then fashionable, touched the groin of the bobtailed bay +point... come, how are you?” asked rostóv. +point. ask denísov whether it is not out of the question for a cadet to +point.” +pocket of his riding breeches, with his eyebrows lifted and his mouth +pocket and that’s quite simple and is no one else’s business.” +“plenty of time, your excellency,” muttered kutúzov in the midst of +pleasure to herself and to all around her. “i have brought my work,” +pleasure that for the first time since his arrival prince andrew was +pleasures than allow himself to be seen in a shabby equipage or appear +pleasure of deceiving me, if it really were true. yes, if it were true, +pleasure at the sound of the singing and the sight of the dancing +pleasure and listened to the conversation of his two neighbors, whom he +“please, your excellency, for god’s sake!” he kept saying, +“please, vasíli dmítrich,” natásha was saying, “do come!” +“please place your money on the cards or i may get muddled in the +please make way!” +“please,” he uttered with an effort. +“please have a look at it”—and kutúzov with an ironical smile +pleased with. +pleased to take me as an aide-de-camp....” +pleased faces, for they knew that under no other management could they +“please, denísov, let me lend you some: i have some, you know,” +pleased!” and he held out his hand to the captain. +“please come to tea. the prince will be out in a moment,” came the +“please come and visit us... you know my brave boy... been together +“please be quick,” he said. +“please, andrew, for my sake!...” +pleasant smile—his eyelids drooping more than half over his old eyes, +pleasant smile, as if it were obvious to him that his success must +pleasant face and resonant though not loud voice, attracted everyone’s +“plea...” began dólokhov, but could not at first pronounce the +play. involuntarily he felt a joyful agitation at the thought of the +playing with the ball of worsted as a kitten should. +playing chess. berg held a smoking pipe between his knees. borís, in +playing a viennese waltz on the clavichord, while a fourth, lying on +players, or peered at the now cold face of dólokhov and tried to read +player, in spite of the burden of his equipment, rushed out to the front +plans to kutúzov’s quarters where the council of war was to be +“plans!” repeated prince andrew ironically. “my plans?” he said, +plan perfectly worthless. weyrother met all objections with a firm and +plan of a flanking movement. +plan chimerical. +plaiting slippers out of cloth selvedges. he looked up at the opening +plain that she understood nothing and was so frightened that her +plainness of speech, uttering the word amant as casually as any other +plainly that there are not many wives with husbands such as you who +plain enough as it is.” +placing the bottle on the window sill where he could reach it easily, +place! we passed close to the park and saw two deer... and what a +place,” thought pierre. “it’s even certain that i should have done +places. then the strains of the count’s household band were replaced +places and met in certain habitual groups. a minority of those present +place him on a stretcher that had been brought. the soldier groaned. +placed them on the window sill, though it was already quite light. +placed a chair for her. +place and without answering drew out a handkerchief. blood was flowing +place and that he might now be lying, recovering or dying, alone among +place and everything waiting for him in the archives department! isn’t +pity’s sake, leave this helpless youth who, after all, was the son of +pity me. yet i was once at home, strong, happy, and loved.” he sighed +pity for me. why is it?” +pity, and for their sake i should like to liberate the serfs. you +pitied. she has no one, no one. to tell the truth, i don’t need her, +pistols, and at the word thwee begin to advance. +pineapple ice. before the ices, champagne was served round. the band +pinch of snuff. +pillows one at a time and shaking them. +pilgrimage, of holy friendship, of the eternal architect of the +pierre, without knowing why, was having his enormous petersburg house +pierre, with downcast eyes, drank out of his glass without looking at +pierre, with a gentle smile of pity and remorse, his arms and legs +pierre wished to say this to the mason, but did not dare to. the +pierre wished to say something, looked at her with eyes whose strange +pierre who was under such obligations to him (“but never mind that”) +pierre, who was lagging behind, to follow. though he did not see why it +pierre, whose preoccupied, absent-minded, and massive figure was a very +pierre who has inherited all the property and has besides been +pierre who had been regarded with patronizing condescension when he was +pierre, who had been growing more and more agitated as he listened to +pierre. “what of it? it’s the truth!” and he himself smiled his +pierre went with rapid steps to the door and suddenly came face to +pierre went out. +pierre went in at the door, stepping on the soft carpet, and noticed +pierre well remembered this small circular drawing room with its mirrors +pierre well knew this large room divided by columns and an arch, its +pierre was very fond of. +pierre was ungainly. stout, about the average height, broad, with huge +pierre was struck by the modesty of the small though clean house after +pierre was still afraid that this officer might inadvertently say +pierre was staying at prince vasíli kurágin’s and sharing the +pierre was sitting in the drawing room where shinshín had engaged him, +pierre was silent. +pierre, was only busy causing him annoyance. +pierre was one of those people who, in spite of an appearance of what +pierre was evident. she kept an anxious watch on him when he approached +pierre was about to reply, but prince vasíli interrupted him. +pierre understood nothing of all this and coloring shyly looked in +pierre turned over heavily on the ottoman and opened his mouth, but +pierre turned his whole body, making the sofa creak. he lifted his eager +pierre tried several times to speak, but, on one hand, prince vasíli +pierre took them off, and his eyes, besides the strange look eyes have +pierre took off his spectacles, which made his face seem different and +pierre took off his coat, waistcoat, and left boot according to the +pierre took his feet off the table, stood up, and lay down on a bed that +pierre threw off his cloak and entered the first room, in which were the +pierre, the one who had behaved so improperly at anna pávlovna’s +pierre. the estates he had not before visited were each more picturesque +pierre stood with his arms hanging down and legs apart, before his +pierre’s remarks, rose and made a sign to his wife that it was time to +pierre’s outburst anna pávlovna, despite her social experience, was +pierre’s mind was in such a confused state that the word “stroke” +pierre smiled in his good-natured way as if afraid for his companion’s +pierre smiled, but his smile showed that he knew it was not the story +pierre’s legitimation? do you understand that in consideration of the +pierre sighed, rose submissively, emptied his glass, and, waiting till +pierre shook his head and arms as if attacked by mosquitoes or bees. +“pierre!” she said. +pierre’s hand to show that there was no need to ask the question. he +pierre’s eyes with it and tied it in a knot behind, catching some +pierre’s eyes. +pierre seized the crossbeam, tugged, and wrenched the oak frame out with +pierre’s direction at a slight rustle made by the latter. “why have +pierre saw that borís wished to change the subject, and being of the +pierre sat up on the sofa, with his legs tucked under him. +pierre sat opposite dólokhov and nicholas rostóv. as usual, he ate and +pierre sat down with his little partner. natásha was perfectly happy; +pierre said nothing; he looked fixedly at his friend with surprise. he +pierre rubbed his forehead. +pierre rose to help him. +pierre remained gloomily silent, answering in monosyllables and +pierre recalled, counting them on his fingers, he felt already in his +pierre reaching the house first went into prince andrew’s study like +pierre quickly took out his purse and watch, but could not manage for +pierre, perplexed, looked round with his shortsighted eyes without +pierre paused, seeking a reply. +pierre, on unexpectedly becoming count bezúkhov and a rich man, felt +pierre, not knowing whom to answer, looked at them all and smiled. his +“pierre, my dear, come here. i think he will not be out of place in a +pierre murmured something unintelligible, and continued to look round as +pierre looked silently and searchingly into prince andrew’s face, +pierre looked silently and inquiringly at him over his spectacles. +pierre looked questioningly at anna mikháylovna to see what he was to +pierre looked over his spectacles with naïve surprise, now at him and +pierre looked at his friend and, noticing that he did not like the +pierre looked at her over his spectacles. +pierre listened with swelling heart, gazing into the mason’s face with +pierre listened to the colonel’s speech and nodded approvingly. +pierre leaped up from the sofa and rushed staggering toward her. +pierre knew very well what a hieroglyph was, but dared not speak. he +pierre. it seemed to him that more than half an hour had elapsed. +pierre, “i said at the time and before anyone else” (she insisted +pierre, in reply, sincerely agreed with her as to hélène’s +pierre in his secret soul agreed with the steward that it would be +pierre in his preoccupation and absent-mindedness had not recognized +pierre. he went up to him, took his hand (a thing he never used to do), +pierre heard her say: +pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved +pierre, hardly restraining his sobs, began running toward dólokhov and +pierre had taken part in tying a policeman to a bear. he had now been +pierre had of late rarely seen his wife alone. both in petersburg and in +pierre had none of the practical persistence that would have enabled him +pierre had met in petersburg society. in the president’s chair sat a +pierre had come just at dinnertime and was sitting awkwardly in the +pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception at anna +pierre had already long been feeling in himself that refreshing source +pierre gradually began to recover himself and looked about at the room +pierre gave no answer, for he neither heard nor saw anything. he had +pierre gave her an inquiring look. she kissed the young man on his +pierre, from joy, agitation, and embarrassment, was not in a state to +pierre flushed and, hurriedly putting his legs down from the bed, bent +pierre felt uncomfortable and even depressed in his friend’s company +pierre felt that he was the center of it all, and this both pleased and +pierre felt himself far poorer than when his father had made him +pierre felt confused and wished to avoid that look, but the bright old +pierre dropped his eyes, lifted them again, and wished once more to see +pierre drank one glass after another, looking from under his brows at +pierre did not understand a word, but the conviction that all this had +pierre did not catch what they were saying, but knew they were talking +pierre could not make out what it was all about, and still less what +pierre could not go on. he gulped and turned away. +pierre could not and did not wish to break this silence. +pierre considered. +pierre clutched his temples, and turning round went into the forest, +pierre blushed, as he always did when it was mentioned, and said +pierre began describing what he had done on his estates, trying as far +pierre at the age of ten had been sent abroad with an abbé as tutor, +pierre, as in a dream, saw several men standing before him, wearing +pierre and there were lines of pain on his face and a shamefaced smile. +pierre and himself was in the room, and addressed her in a tone of +pierre, after all, had not managed to choose a career for himself in +pierre. +pierre. +pierre. +pierre. +pierre. +pierre. +piercingly. seeing prince andrew she leaned out from behind the apron +pick up the glove himself and to pass round the doctors who were not +physical things, and the fourth a combination of these. now and then +physically at that moment, there was a weight on his chest and he could +philosophizing voice with pleasure. +pe vell. and ve must discuss it as little as po-o-ossible”... he dwelt +“pétya, you’re a stupid!” said natásha. +pétya, pacing the room with large, resolute strides. “now i’m very +pétya paced the room in silence for a time. +pétya in, closed again. a sound of laughter came from behind it. +pétya! good man!” cried he, addressing pierre. +pétya, clinging to his legs, kept shouting, “and me too!” +pétya. besides that, he sent greetings to monsieur schelling, madame +pétya. +“pétrusha has come with papers from your father,” whispered the +petisenfans, allay cushay dormir!” he exclaimed, imitating his russian +petersburg to procure an appointment in the guards for her only son. +petersburg to ascertain what moscow was thinking about austerlitz. +petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age +petersburg on the tenth of august, and her son, who had remained in +petersburg—no one knows who will inherit his immense fortune, pierre +petersburg. it is high time for you to get away from these terrible +petersburg. he could not imagine how he could speak to her now. he +petersburg. hand this to count willarski” (he took out his notebook +petersburg earlier or later, or whether he secured accommodation at this +petersburg. but now this head was swaying helplessly with the uneven +petersburg. anna mikháylovna, with her tear-worn but pleasant face, +petersburg and staying at his house. with apparent absent-mindedness, +petersburg, and had been expelled from there for riotous conduct and +petersburg. +person she happened to look at she was in love with for that moment. +persons, among them the elderly lady and anna pávlovna, did however +personally it would be a pleasure to hand over the supreme command +personal interview was refused, and instead of the sovereign, prince +personage he was referring to. +personage, a position in the army which seemed to him most attractive. +perseverance, but only the knowledge of how to get on with those who can +“permit me, princess, to know what is necessary and what is not +permission here in hospital, that i may not have to play the part of a +“perhaps we’d really better not wake him,” he said hesitating. +“perhaps the count did not ask for me,” said pierre when he reached +perhaps, see and take part in the first russian encounter with the +“perhaps later on i may tell you, my dear boy, that if i had not been +perhaps i may...” +perhaps dying, while meeting my remorse with some forced bravado!” +“perhaps,” coldly and angrily replied dólokhov, glancing at sónya, +perhaps because it was hard for him, hungry as he was, to look on at +perform! prussia has always declared that buonaparte is invincible, and +perfect one’s self. and to attain this end, we have the light called +perfection of manner. if he ever thought of hélène, it was just of +perception befitting a man of the world, he indicated by a movement of +people were in one of the inner rooms, not considering it necessary to +people show to everyone when they are happy. +people,” he went on, turning to anna pávlovna, “he ever was a hero, +people do understand him. he is such a lofty, heavenly soul!” +people dancing, iogel with natásha, his pride and his best pupil, were +people—businessmen, relations, and acquaintances alike—were all +“people are always too clever with their eldest children and try to +people and starting to join the army. you should have seen the state of +pensions and the same amount for asylums; 150,000 alimony was sent to +peculiar to pregnant women. it was evident that her eyes did not see +peculiarly deliberate steps. this feeling of disdain was heightened +peculiarities of his reserved nature, borís had managed during his +peculiar form of beauty. everyone brightened at the sight of this pretty +peasant, or a woman with a baby, has no rest day or night and i give +pearls on their bare shoulders, looked at themselves in the brilliantly +peace. the old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was +peace.” +payments had been diminished by a third, their obligatory manorial work +paying off the debts and undertaking new activities with serf labor, +pay. i can tell you for myself...” +pávlovna threatened him on behalf of “our dear vyazmítinov,” and +pávlovna’s words and looks when she spoke to him about his house, +pávlovna’s was the first he had attended in russia. he knew that all +pávlovna’s voice, “i see you are all right there.” +pávlovna’s usual pink notes with an invitation to which was added: +pávlovna’s hand, and screwing up his eyes scanned the whole company. +pávlovna’s hand and for some reason drawing it downwards. “arrange +pávlovna, shaking her little shriveled finger at him. +pávlovna’s drawing room he considered an important step up in the +pávlovna’s, an unacknowledged sense of the guilt of that desire +pávlovna, looking up pensively. +pávlovna had had a cough for some days. she was, as she said, suffering +pávlovna: “educate this bear for me! he has been staying with me +pávlovna again touched pierre’s sleeve, saying: “i hope you won’t +pávlovna. +pávlograd commander. the commanders met with polite bows but with +pausing. “the only question is what will come of the meeting between +pause, “she told him she loved another.” +paused. “i am going because the life i am leading here does not suit +pause after this mot to give time for its due appreciation. “the +paul was a market village where a fair was held on st. peter’s day, +paul had exiled him to his country estate had lived there continuously +patted his favorite, rostóv, on the shoulder. +patroness. she added that her majesty had deigned to show baron funke +patronage at the dancers. +path of virtue,” said the mason. +pathetic smile, as though she too knew that count rostóv deserved this +past the ladies into the little drawing room. with quick steps he went +past the company, and overtook the carriage, still keeping time to the +pass the three officers quite easily, but zherkóv, pushing nesvítski +passion,” said the latter. +passion but in your own heart. the source of blessedness is not without +passionately repents. i will do all i can to arrange the match between +passionately once more to enjoy that dissipation he was so accustomed to +passionately fond of the boy, and princess mary often deprived herself +passionately, at which she laughed; at the other could be heard the +passionately and tenderly, and old mary ivánovna, who had grown fond of +passing it across hélène’s back. hélène stooped forward to make +passing by kutúzov’s carriage and the exhausted saddle horses of +passing, but before he had finished his greeting there was a general +passing between the companies that had been eating porridge and drinking +passing behind one of the lines of a regiment of foot guards he heard a +passing bagratión and racing one another they rushed in an irregular +passed, the pávlograd division was ordered to advance. in wischau +passed out by a back door, but returned to their places one after the +passed in step before the emperors and their suites at a bold, brisk +passed his time very gaily. after a short period of adapting himself +party at which pierre had to be present unless he wished to spoil +part of his mind her image rose in all its womanly beauty. +part of his legs; he had on a kind of necklace above which rose a high +partner’s hand firmly, threw back his head, and advanced his foot, +partly because prince andrew did not always feel equal to bearing with +partly because of the depressing memories associated with bald hills, +part in it, but also by the joyful expression on the faces of soldiers, +parties, wearing a dress such as was then fashionable, cut very low at +particularly vivid, humiliating, and shameful was the recollection of + particularly victorious.” +particularly striking among all these drunken voices by its sober +particularly on the word possible... “as po-o-ossible,” he ended, +particularly discontented and out of temper. whether he was in a bad +particularly calm and absent-minded way, which inspired the respect of +particularly agreeable before going away. besides this he was +particularly addicted), he regarded even this not as a defect but as a +particular emphasis as if in it lay the gist of the matter. +part from his horse, and at last sprang down and called to his orderly. +part. anna pávlovna schérer on the contrary, despite her forty years, +paris. it was not calculation that guided her (she did not even for a +parents who have petted their children from babyhood, but which prince +“pardon me! a snuffbox with the emperor’s portrait is a reward but +pardon. as soon as rostóv heard them, an enormous load of doubt +paralyzed his will. +parade... i am the first to apologize, you know me!... he was very +parade. however, i will let you know.” +papers and still taking no notice of the special messenger. +papers and it was the first time he had heard villeneuve’s name. +paper. he looked gloomily in rostóv’s face and said: “i am witing +paper and her hand moved rapidly over it. this is the reply she wrote, +papa, which natásha, and which pétya. everyone shouted, talked, and +“papa, we shall be late,” said princess hélène, turning her +“papa,” said his beautiful daughter in the same tone as before, +“papa! pa-pa!” he called after him, sobbing, “forgive me!” and +“papa, i have come on a matter of business. i was nearly forgetting. i +pallid and quivered. +pale, with quivering lips, pierre snatched the copy. +pale, with compressed lips and feverishly glittering eyes. +pale on seeing her father-in-law. +pale, now blushed and strained every nerve to overhear what nicholas +pale face and glittering eyes. +pale and then blushing. +pale and his jaw trembled, shivering feverishly. he was placed on +pale, and added, “look at it, young man.” +palace in a manner agreeable to yourself, and in so far as circumstances +painstaking effect that had been in it before; but she did not yet sing +painful to him at this moment of sorrow; besides, what can i say to him +pacing angrily about and snorting. the old prince felt as though he +paces, and nicholas could clearly distinguish every detail of his +pace. +own ideas tonight, but must yield himself up entirely to the will of +own eyes she comforted the count, and decided that at dinner and till +owner of one of the largest fortunes in russia, i am much amused to +own breast, the husband standing by and gazing tenderly at her and the +own about the facts he was recounting. for some time he engrossed the +owing to the terrible uproar and the necessity for concentration and +owed him money! what baseness! what meanness! i know you understand +over the squadron. rostóv raised his saber, ready to strike, but at +over their heads, unstrapping their overcoats and drawing the sleeves on +over the enns, and then guessed that the card that came first to hand +over the battlefield had given final orders to strengthen the batteries +over, the adjutant he had seen the previous day ceremoniously informed +overtaking the battalions that continued to advance, he stopped +overtaken by the enemy and fighting rearguard actions only as far as +over. it will be a tremendous banquet.” +over his spectacles, and then again resuming his walk, muttering +over his shoulder, as when rostóv had seen him on the eve of the battle +over his shoulder. +overflow with sick, and famine is everywhere. twice the marauders even +“overflowing with amiability. his position has not turned his head +overflowed with animation and impulsiveness. to be an enthusiast had +overcome a certain secret sorrow that has been in my heart ever since +over beamed with irrepressible delight.) “it’s in the emperor’s +over,” anna pávlovna continued. “the sovereigns will not be able to +over, and come back in an hour and tell me in his presence: yes or no. +over.” and after stumbling a few staggering steps right up to the +over a fire brigade of bonaparte’s, that will be another story and +out whether she was considering what he had just said or whether she was +out until, at the first pause, the guests rise with a rustle of dresses +out the stinging and tormenting thoughts that confused his mind. “this +out there... both playing the hero... ah, vasíli ignátovich... +out. the fences and gates were new and solid; two fire pumps and a +out skirmishers. he had felt perfectly sure that there were other troops +outside his uniform. +outright. +outposts today and it is impossible to say where his chief forces are +out over the fire, and not waiting for an answer he gave a grunt and +out of this position; that here was the toulon that would lift him from +out of it. they could not understand that i have not the necessary +out of hearing. another musket missed fire but flashed in the pan. +out of countenance himself or making others uncomfortable, but as +out. mack loses a whole army, the archduke ferdinand and the archduke +outlines. dressed as she used to be in petersburg society, it was still +out like cords. “you are mad, i tell you. i won’t allow it. +out in front of a platoon of grenadiers before whom lay a naked man. two +out his notebook and, leaning on the cannon, sketched a plan of the +out her cambric handkerchief she began wiping her husband’s waistcoat. +out from behind the clouds, and the clear sound of the solitary shot +out everyone has been enraptured by her? they say she is amazingly +out as a post horse, but still i must have a talk with you, catiche, a +out a notebook, hurriedly scribbled something in pencil, tore out the +out and the sabers whizzed as they were drawn from their scabbards. +out accidently.” +out about him. +out: +out. +our turn next.” +our troops were known to him as far as they could be known to anyone +our troops had descended and from whence came the sounds of firing. +our thoughts to the second, bonaparte. but as it turns out, just at +‘our sovereign, the emperor,’ as they say at official dinners,” +“ours,” kissing his finger tips. +ourselves, were growing up and dying with no idea of god and truth +ourselves, dear prince,” said the little princess (of course, in +ourselves.” + * ours. +our present, depraved world. no one now loves virtue; it seems like +our people...” +our order can bestow it will render you, my dear sir. you are going to +our officers and men at austerlitz. one had saved a standard, another +our officers.” +“our men have been wasting time.” +our men had begun firing. they were still firing, not at the cavalry +our members as much as possible to reform their hearts, to purify and +our infantry were stationed there, and at the farthest point the +our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against +our hands! no, we mustn’t forget suvórov and his rule—not to put +our fine speeches and in his rude and savage way throws himself on the +our enemies! hurrah!” he exclaimed in his dashing, old, hussar’s +our dear count vrbna, goes to him for orders.” +our aid,” said kutúzov. +“oui, madame,” replied he, looking around him. +ought to know where they are, and must find them, because...” +ought to go straight to him and give the message dolgorúkov had ordered +ought to be, now he fancied it was only something in his own eyes. his +other young ladies in begging natásha and nicholas, who were noted for +otherwise. to tell them that she felt ashamed for herself and for them +other virtues—love of his neighbor, and especially generosity. +others. “well, you old sinner,” she went on, turning to the count +others, only now have i understood all the happiness of life. no, i +other soldiers. he stood looking about him, when suddenly he heard a +other’s hands, kissing them and pulling them away, and again began +others appreciated prince hippolyte’s social tact in so agreeably +others and, in shirt sleeves and breeches, went glass in hand to the +others and even from herself, the stronger it grew. “o god,” she +others.” +others...” +other officers. perhaps i ought not to have spoken before them, but i am +other officer; he’ll say: ‘go and find out what’s there.’ there +other lady visitors were farther down. at the other end sat the count, +other had ridden up to him. +other fare, was splendid, yet he could not feel quite at ease till the +other before the service was concluded. pierre paid no more attention +other, awkwardly, like a child at a dancing lesson. +other.” +ostralitz. in the large drawing room which had become the commander +or you as having been at all insulted, and as a man older than you, my +or whether some other thought flitted across his dying brain, at any +or two in his head but dozens, some only beginning to form themselves, +or prince vasíli. forty thousand serfs and millions of rubles! i know +or of the necessity of rebuilding factories and workshops. so the first +or make out anything of what was happening: there in the smoke men of +orlóv never gave such a dinner as ours will be!” +or kutúzov was. some said the report that the emperor was wounded was +or he would suddenly feel ashamed of he knew not what. he felt it +or gray horses; then again, spreading out with the brazen clatter of the +or even to wish to be thought to listen. exactly opposite weyrother, +ordinary staid and respectful good manners habitual in the prince’s +order. you are causing me to lose the fruits of a campaign. break +order to make borís’ better acquaintance, promised to come to dinner, +orders which showed that the russian troops, who had hitherto been +orders to the club steward and to the famous feoktíst, the club’s +orders to admit no more, but the porter was told to be sure to invite to +orders the sergeant to be arrested. come, you must own that this affair +orders by heart and know the regulations as well as i do the lord’s +orders, and the star of st. george on his left breast. evidently just +orders. +order of maria theresa on his neck and a black bandage round his head, +order not to lose his head and do foolish things he must not act on his +orderly to the bravest general, and still more, he was going with a +orderly, running behind the cart and fumbling in the back of it. +orderly by the shoulders and knocking him against the wall. +ordered to turn back to the right. several thousand cavalry crossed in +ordered the horses to be harnessed. only those things he always kept +ordered his horse at once and, coldly taking leave of borís, rode +order. +ordeal was about to begin. +ordained that the austrian army should maneuver the previous year on the +or cap, his head was bandaged, and over his shoulder a french munition +“or are you afraid to play with me?” dólokhov now asked as if +or appreciative according to the way the joke was received. everybody +or anybody; but you are free to choose.... go to your room, think it +opposite. pierre spoke little but examined the new faces, and ate a +opposite pierre and seemed very gay. rostóv was talking merrily to his +opposite, in front of which large masses of french were advancing. +opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. +opportunity since morning to meet one another alone. when princess mary +opportunity of joining in the general current of recollections. +opinions, but you see what a capital, good-natured fellow i am.” and +opinion,” said she, turning to the young man who, having come quite +operations according to him were connected with such complicated +open it. someone was holding it shut. +opened the door which moved noiselessly and easily. she paused at the +opened the bedroom door. +opened eyes. “what has happened to her? how she is singing today!” +“oooh! for christ’s sake let me alone!” cried the wounded man, but +on you. you complain of our separation. what then should i say, if i +on which with a broken bit of chalk he had written “800 rubles” in +on which rostóv sat. +on what he thought right. the steward promised to do all in his power to + * “on vous fera danser.” +“on tuesday between eight and nine. it will give me great pleasure.” +on this high ground, shall withdraw the left flank under its cover, and +on the way to his sister’s room, in the passage which connected one +on the way home, prince andrew could not refrain from asking kutúzov, +on the unattractive martyrlike expression it so often wore, as she +on the twenty-eighth of october kutúzov with his army crossed to the +on the twelfth of november, kutúzov’s active army, in camp before +on the top of her head (a style that quite altered and spoiled her +on the third day after christmas nicholas dined at home, a thing he had +on the table, again bound his eyes. +on the soft springs of the carriage, he turned to prince andrew. +on the snow. +“on the same business. but you are damp! let me wring you out!” +on. the preoccupation and despondency which pierre had noticed in his +on the pratzen heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his +on the other side, the children, tutors, and governesses. from behind +on the other an immense case containing icons, was brightly illuminated +on the opposite side the enemy could be seen by the naked eye, and from +on the morning of the day that the young couple were to arrive, princess +‘on the march’ it meant in greatcoats?” said he reproachfully to +on the little princess’ face, an expression of childish fear of +on the high ground where the enemy was, the smoke of a cannon rose, +on the ground. +on the french side, amid the groups with cannon, a cloud of smoke +on the first arrival of the news of the battle of austerlitz, moscow had +on the field before the fortress. now thousands of feet and bayonets +on the field. +on the evening of the last day’s march an order had been received that +on the eighteenth and nineteenth of november, the army advanced two +on the cot. +on the contrary, they stimulated his energy and determination. +“on the contrary, that coiffure suits the princess very well,” said +“on the contrary,” replied the prince, who had plainly become +on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, +“on the contrary,” he said, in a querulous and angry tone that +on the arm said: +on the arm of a colonel of hussars, a man of importance to them because +“on the 4th, the first courier arrives from petersburg. the mails +on that third of march, all the rooms in the english club were filled +on—that pierre became quite bewildered and only replied: +on snowy-white smooth pillows, evidently freshly changed, pierre +on seeing rostóv before him, with whom he would inevitably collide. +on returning from the review, kutúzov took the austrian general into +on retiring to her own room, she sat in an armchair, her eyes fixed on a +on reaching the village he dismounted and went to the nearest house, +on reaching petersburg pierre did not let anyone know of his arrival, +on purpose to vex us. the archduke karl does nothing, the archduke +on our right flank commanded by bagratión, at nine o’clock the battle +on october 11, the day when all was astir at headquarters over the news +on october 11, 1805, one of the infantry regiments that had just reached +on november 1 kutúzov had received, through a spy, news that the army +“on my honor!” +only when prince andrew was gone did rostóv think of what he ought to +only when approaching bagratión did rostóv let his horse gallop again, +only to express his rapture fully. +“only that?” said bolkónski. +only that all the men of the day were mere babies who did not know the +only telling you what it is. napoleon has also formed his plan by now, +“only take care you and your cossacks are not all captured!” said +only sure happiness in life.” +only sónya, nicholas, and natásha, but even the old countess, +only pressed it to the cold braiding of his hussar’s jacket. denísov, +only now, when he was confronted by the stern authorities, did his guilt +only lit fires to deceive us. +“only let me report this gentleman’s business, and i shall be at +only his eyes were brighter than usual. +only help a bit! i must have singers too. i shall have my own orchestra, +only heard dólokhov’s hurried steps, and his figure came in view +“only fools and rakes fall ill, my boy. you know me: i am busy from +only covered by her garments. and having once seen this he could not +only change being that the words “father kámenski” were replaced by +only by the elite. +only bivouacking here and have just come to look round. i am going back +only betrayed us three times in three years. we take up their cause, but +only because i still hope to meet such a divine creature, who will +only a small lamp was burning inside something white. pierre went nearer +onlookers for what was to follow. as soon as the provocatively gay +on kutúzov’s staff, among his fellow officers and in the army +on!” innumerable voices suddenly shouted after the ball had struck +on in his usual tone of indifference. +on horseback facing the ditch. one with a white plume in his hat seemed +on his thin bony legs, and keeping on a worn, nankeen-covered, sheepskin +on his side of it. +on his seat, lowered his hands, moved a little to the right and then to +on his saber, and put on his cap. +on his return to moscow from the army, nicholas rostóv was welcomed +on his pupil’s behalf. that’s how it’s to be understood! ‘how +on his arm as if that touch might soothe or rouse him. +on him without changing their expression. “i love you all and have +on him. the empress’ chamberlain invited him to see her majesty. the +on himself. he could remain silent for hours without being at all put +on him by the doctors, clergy, and relatives of the family. prince +on her toes any longer. “so that’s what i’m up to! i’ll never +on her priority) “that that senseless young man was spoiled by the +on her lips, she got up and left the room. all nicholas’ animation +on her face. +on hélène’s name day, a small party of just their own people—as +on hearing the news was one of anger with sónya.... he tried to say, +on hearing of the arrival of the letter went softly into the room and +on! go on!” and cries of horror were heard in the crowd. the soldiers +on february 26, 1807, the old prince set off on one of his circuits. +one would not need finesse; and he tells me that i am lying—so let him +one would have to... the metropolitan himself... and even then it +one would have thought it impossible for a man to stretch himself +one would have expected of him. +one word after another, came through the open door. she was speaking as +one.... whom, i ask you, can we rely on?... england with her commercial +one was on a white horse. prince bagratión and prince dolgorúkov with +“one was damaged,” answered the staff officer, “and the other i +“o-ne! t-wo! thwee!” he shouted angrily and stepped aside. +“one thing i thank god for is that i did not kill that man,” said +“one thing i ask of your excellency,” dólokhov said in his firm, +“one step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing +one spot. his predictions were being justified. part of the russian +one side of which symbolized god, another moral things, a third +“one should make up to the husbands of pretty women,” said denísov. +(one shattered gun and one unicorn were left behind), prince andrew rode +one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, +one reviews the past and plans for the future. prince andrew’s face +one quite at home, and from habit immediately lay down on the sofa, took +one pair at each window. she stopped and smiled scornfully. sónya was +one. “oh, this senseless life of ours!” thought nicholas. “all +one of the players said he hoped he might be trusted. +one of the next arrivals was a stout, heavily built young man with +one of them was leading by the bridle a fine large french horse he had +one of them was a sallow, clean-shaven civilian with a thin and wrinkled +one of them knew, not one of them wanted to know, and not one of them +one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow. +one of the hindmost guns that was going onto the dam turned off onto the +one of the guests. “the vicomte is a wonderful raconteur,” said she +one of the Ápsheron regiment went forward past the emperor. +one of disdain which was quite uncalled for. his fertile mind instantly +“one must be indulgent to little weaknesses; who is free from them, +“one must admit,” continued prince andrew, “that napoleon as a man +“one more question, count,” he said, “which i beg you to answer +“one moment, your excellency.” +one moment prayed to god as he had done on the battlefield at the bridge +one is to interfere with his arrangements—leads his division to +one i’d give my life for her! but those!...” and he made a gesture +one had put but which was always in her mind, “and how much suffering, +one foot, from the orderly and began to mount. +one foot, bounded from the floor like a ball, and flew round the room +one feels as if one were in the country.” +one day’s ration of bread remains, and in some regiments none at all, +one considers that by tomorrow one may be dead, or something so +“one can’t write so fast, your honor,” said the clerk, glancing +“one can’t everywhere say all one thinks, mon cher. well, have +“one!” came the command. +one but the emperor of russia has that right. +one another time to ask questions and give replies concerning a thousand +one another, beginning to see one another through the mist. they had the +one another. +on duty every day, or may place me under arrest, but no one can make +on condition that she should tell no one. +on cloaks or mantles, and drive away. the conversation was on the chief +once was—did not struggle, and perhaps she was right. nothing has been +once the stranger closed the book, putting in a marker, and again, +once she has said...” +once recognized it to be a tuft of grass. she was terribly close to him. +once more the conversations concentrated, the ladies’ at the one end +once he raised his eyebrows, abruptly touched his horse with his left +once for a moment of glory, of triumph over men, of love from men i +once been in to see the count. he has not sent for me.... i am sorry for +“once again, colonel,” said the general, “i can’t leave half +once.” +on both sides. behind our position was a steep and deep dip, making it +on being relieved from picket duty rostóv had managed to get a few +on at the crossing. and why are they dawdling there?” +on a sofa in a far corner of the room. he closed his eyes and seemed to +on around him. not only was he indifferent as to whether he got to +on anything. it was about this choice that prince andrew was speaking. +on all sides they saw rain-soaked officers with dejected faces who +on all sides. the countess rose and went into the ballroom. +on all sides, had stopped because a horse in front had fallen under a +on a hot dish. +on a few steps he stopped before prince andrew, who lay on his back with +on a chair in the ballroom, crossing one leg high over the other, +on account of the smoke nothing could be seen. the nearer they got to +on. +“o lord god! thou who art in that heaven, save, forgive, and protect +olmütz, was preparing to be reviewed next day by the two emperors—the +olmütz and that he wanted to see him as he had a letter and money for +olga went out. pierre stood looking at the sisters; then he bowed and +old prince understood from this official report that our army had been +old princess, kissing her soundly. “if i hadn’t this headache i’d +old prince nicholas bolkónski received a letter from prince vasíli +old prince had forbidden it, appeared on the threshold with a shawl +old miller had been accustomed to sit in his tasseled cap peacefully +old michael was asleep on the chest. prokófy, the footman, who was +old man too came up and kissed the waxen little hands that lay quietly +old man, shaking his powdered head as much as the tail, which tíkhon +old man, living alone in the country for so many years, could know and +old man continued to fold and seal his letter, snatching up and throwing +old lady next to her and glanced angrily at her daughter, and her sigh +old gabriel brought in the wine. +old fool,” he thought. “that princess hélène will be beautiful +old fellow? out of sorts?” +old father, and entering the military service, my dear. and there was a +oldest rose. márya dmítrievna paused at the door. tall and stout, +older visitors. they now, stretching themselves after sitting so long, +old count bezúkhov, and his inheritance. fancy! the three princesses +old chamberlain was heard assuring an old baroness that he loved her +old bolkónski had always had a poor opinion of prince vasíli’s +old age and tobacco, which she had known so long. “now, madam, these +“oh, your excellency!” said franz, with difficulty rolling the +“oh, you guards!” said rostóv. “i say, send for some wine.” +“oh, you fool!” said the old man, spitting angrily. some time passed +“oh, you don juan! you serpent!” cried several voices. +“oh, you damned dandies! clean and fresh as if you’d been to a fete, +“oh yes, very much! my brother knows him, he’s dined with him—the +“oh, yes!” said pierre, with a forced smile. “i am very grateful +“oh yes, like that, i know, i only forgot,” said he. +“oh yes, it is horribly stupid,” said pierre. +“oh, yes, i quite understand,” answered rostóv, who was under his +“oh yes,” assented princess mary, “perhaps that’s it. i’ll go. +“oh, yes!” +“oh, what nonsense!” cried natásha, laughing. “i don’t think +“oh, what a terrible state he is in! one would not know him, he is so +“oh, what are you talking about?” said another. “where is he to +“oh, what a pig i am, not to have written and to have given them +“oh, what a nuisance,” said dolgorúkov, getting up hurriedly and +“oh, well, well!” remarked the regimental commander. “still, one +“oh, well then, good-by: go and dress. is he very terrible, +“oh, very well, you may stay in attendance on me.” +“oh, to die, to die for him,” thought rostóv. +“oh, those moscow gossips!” said dólokhov, and he took up the cards +“oh, the faiwy! she can do anything with me!” said denísov, and +oh, that wicked prince hippolyte!” she said. +“oh, that’s it!” said rostóv, evidently thinking of something +“oh, that is dreadful, dreadful!” said pierre. “i don’t +“oh, that is all the same,” dolgorúkov said quickly, and getting up +“oh, take those off... those...” she said, pointing to his +“oh! oh! oh!” he muttered, looking down from the window at the +“oh! oh! oh!” groaned kutúzov despairingly and looked around.... +“oh! oh! oh!” +“oh! oh!” groaned nesvítski as if in fierce pain, seizing the +“oh! oh!” exclaimed several voices. +“oh, nurse, i’m so glad!” +“oh, nothing,” said he, as if weary of being continually asked the +“oh no!” said iogel, hastening to reassure him. “you were only +“oh no, not at all too young!” replied the count. “why, our +“oh no, not at all! on the contrary, i am very glad to make your +“oh, no, no!” and besides the pallor and the physical suffering +“oh no, let me off, countess,” denísov replied. +“oh, natásha!” said sónya, looking ecstatically and earnestly at +“oh, my god! thank god!” said princess mary. “i must go and meet +“oh, my god! my god! schmidt!” he exclaimed in german. “what a +“oh, my dear fellow, we’re in such a stew here these last two +“oh, my bower, oh, my bower...!” +“oh, my bower new...!” chimed in twenty voices, and the castanet +“oh, little countess!” ... and the count began bustling to get out +“oh, leave off, you always talk nonsense and keep putting things +“oh, leave off!” said the accountant with a beaming but rather +“oh, it’s wetched! well, what are you standing there for, you +“oh, it’s terrible to feel oneself so in this man’s power,” +“oh, it’s nothing. i only wished to say...” (he wanted to repeat +“oh! i thought you were in your room,” she said, for some reason +“oh, i must give you a treat,” bilíbin whispered to bolkónski. +“oh, hush, please!” said another. +oh, how that chord vibrated, and how moved was something that was finest +“oh, how nice,” thought natásha; and when sónya and nicholas had +“oh, how nice, how splendid!” she said to everything. +oh, how i would guard him, how i would tell him the truth, how i would +“oh, how dreadful! how can you laugh at it, count?” +“oh, how delightful it is!” she kept saying, running up to sónya. +“oh, he’s all right, a good horse,” answered rostóv, though the +“oh, he is so kind!” answered princess mary. +“oh, he is in a dreadful state,” said the mother to her son when +“oh, heaven! how ill he is!” exclaimed the mother. +“oh, go to the devil!” called out a voice, drowned by the laughter +“oh god, what would happen to me if the emperor spoke to me?” +“oh, every bullet has its billet,” answered váska denísov, turning +“oh, don’t speak to me of austria. perhaps i don’t understand +“oh, don’t speak of his going, don’t! i won’t hear it spoken +“oh, don’t mention it, count! i quite understand,” said berg, +“oh, denísov is quite different,” replied nicholas, implying that +“oh dear, what am i thinking about? i’ve mixed everything up. one +“oh dear, what a beast i am!” muttered rostóv, as he read the +“oh, but you were there?” said prince bagratión, addressing prince +oh, andrew! what a treasure of a wife you have,” said she, sitting +of yours, is not at all to blame that my face has the misfortune to +of your misfortune.” he seemed to emphasize the last word, as if to +of you.” +of wounded pride, and a hope of glory. “and should there be nothing +of wind blowing over the army slightly stirred the streamers on the +“of whom you imagine me to be one?” said prince andrew, with a quiet + of whom you have made a friend, but not for you, not for +of which kutúzov was standing began to shout, he rode a little to one +of weyrother’s voice, he opened his one eye with an effort. +of voices, the tramping feet, the horses’ hoofs moving in mud, the +of twenty; sónya a girl of sixteen with all the charm of an opening +of túshin’s battery. prince andrew followed with the suite. behind +of truth, my dear sir, but have thrust her into an abyss of deceit and +of those rare women with whom a man’s honor is safe; but, o god, what +of those frenchmen,” he said. “what nasty brutes they are! i’d +of this set. +of this kind for another, which from pride he would never accept for +of this delicious russian tea,” lorrain was saying with an air of +of thirteen, hiding something in the folds of her short muslin frock, +of things to him in the very worst light, pointing out the necessity of +of the wood ran out of it, the different companies getting mixed, and +of the way! make way!” +of the war that had been announced in a manifesto, and about the +of the war and without leaders. the moscovites felt that something was +of the victory that had been gained. prince andrew introduced his +of the upper lip formed a sharp wedge and closed firmly on the firm +of the unwritten code of subordination—looked so fixedly at the +of the three precepts of freemasonry pierre realized that he did not +of the third floor window with his legs hanging out. +of the third company!” +of the thabor bridge is delightful! it is not exactly stupidity, nor +of the sun. in front, far off on the farther shore of that sea of mist, +of the streams and hollows of sokolnitz and schlappanitz beyond which we +of the statutes and these remained in his mind. +of the sleigh. +of the service the voices of the priests suddenly ceased, they whispered +of these maneuvers that enabled us to escape him. buxhöwden pursues +of the second gun’s crew was “uncle”; túshin looked at him more +of the sayings and doings of their commander, the grand duke, and told +of the room. prince andrew turned to him, but the doctor gave him a +of the road were forests of different kinds, fields, and villages. +of the river. +of the president, who held a mallet in his hand. let into the wall was +of the orderlies and servants. +of the oft-repeated passage of the sonata. prince andrew stopped and +of the nineteenth march, and her downy little lip rose from old habit, +of the night. the gloom that enveloped the army was filled with their +of the newly commissioned officer were collected. anna mikháylovna, +of the nearness of the emperor francis’ black cob, nor of all that was +of them will have any meaning for me. tomorrow perhaps, even certainly, +of them forgot what was happening and what was about to happen in the +of the meal and was certain that there was some secret between her +of the majestic emperor. casually, while surveying the squadron, the +of the maids who was present. (mary bogdánovna was a midwife from the +of the lovers. “that’s happiness!” +of the lean sinewy hand, showed that the prince still possessed the +of the lathe he removed his foot from the pedal, wiped his chisel, +of the intellectual essence of petersburg,” as she herself put it. +of the hand on the dial of human history. +of the guards, a girl of fifteen, and a plump rosy-faced boy in a short +of the gospel: “in the beginning was the word and the word was with +of the general sorrow. +of the french were coming down upon them and that his regiment was in +of the frenchmen with the gunners ended, whether the red-haired gunner +of the field he stood on was well-known and familiar ground. though he +of the feebleness of age, “bolkónski!” he whispered, pointing to +of the enemy’s lines, which all day long had yielded ground to us +of the emperor like a cloud of haze across a clear sky and vanished. +of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the +of the dam, throwing two soldiers off their feet, and ran onto the +of the commander in chief’s special favor he was sent with the news of +of the colonel, nesvítski, zherkóv, and the officer from the suite. +of the club from the day it was founded. to him the club entrusted the +of the club, beset the new arrivals. count ilyá, again thrusting his +of the cannon. he heard the whistle of bullets above him unceasingly and +of the candles was focused on those two happy faces alone. +of the campfire, waving his uplifted arm. +of the boulevards whom he visited of an evening. he led the mazurka +of the behavior of the eldest princess and prince vasíli she spoke +of the azóv and podólsk infantry and the pávlograd hussars—was +of the army into the hands of a better informed and more skillful +of the advance. as soon as an austrian officer showed himself near +of the actual battlefield. they began to meet wounded men. one with a +of the action balls and shells began flying all over his regiment and +of that song. +often than at anyone else and took delight in his every movement. +often heard. “what is this?” thought prince andrew approaching the +often heard from his fellow hussars. +of speech and of the press—and only for that reason did he obtain +of sónya, who blushed and smiled unnaturally. in the midst of his talk +of sons and brothers. +of something too large and unsuited to the place, came over her face +of some dislocation and blunder spread through the ranks. how such +of smoke that had concealed the hollow, driven by a rising wind, began +of slaves? have you helped them physically and morally? no! you have +of sixteen, had been in paris and copenhagen, and now held a rather +of sixteen, evidently passionately in love with him (he did not doubt +of shots retreated. in the highest army circles from midday on the +of several thousand men could produce. the lights spread farther and +of sergéy kuzmích and at the same time his eyes glanced toward his +of,” said the princess in the same petulantly playful tone in which +of rum in his hand was approaching the window, from which the light of +of reflection are generally in a serious frame of mind. at such moments +of prussia’s consent by assault. you are so eloquent. will you give me +of prussia, in order to draw borís into the conversation. +of profound thought. the round, steady, hawk’s eyes looked before him +of pride, indolence, and ignorance. forgive me, my dear sir, but if i +of peter and paul, his patron saints. in another place the women with +of permission previously given him by kutúzov to be present at the +of other things and to look in other directions, thought only of what +of one another, and then, as if afraid of being too late, seized each +of olmütz where bolkónski had seen him for the first time abroad, but +of officers and courtiers, was riding a bobtailed chestnut mare, a +of now as the “seeker,” now as the “sufferer,” and now as the +of mingled shame and vexation. +of mind, pierre carried out an intention he had long had of visiting his +of men and horses, from the little puffs of smoke on the enemy’s side +of mack, the news of his defeat, and the thought of what lay before the +of mack’s defeat, the camp life of the officers of this squadron was +of love which pervaded the rostóv household that winter and, now after +of love and self-sacrifice. and cost what it may, i will arrange +of love and sadness. it was plain that she was following a train of +of life, with his delicate white fingers raised from the green quilt the +of lannes’ sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and +of joy in his eyes, looked round him, not knowing how to answer the +of it. the only question is, has it been destroyed or not? if not, then +of its rightful king,” she concluded, trying to be amiable to the +of its honeyed firmness and softness. +of it. prince andrew” (he always spoke thus of his son) “has been +of inviting the other to take a seat beside him. pierre felt reluctant +of how to get away quickly to her own room to make out the problem in +of how beside himself and all aflame with excitement, he had flown like +of horse’s hoofs approaching at a trot along the line of hussars was +of horses had been sent up the highroad to meet the german doctor from +of his words for the solemnity of the moment, as he spoke. “i +of his whip fell on the apron of the equipage. the woman screamed +of his speech. “vous comptez vous faire des rentes sur l’état; * +of his return. +of his own, goodness only knows why, he leaves me and locks me up alone +of his mouth and winking at the count. +of his former bachelor acquaintances many were no longer in petersburg. +of his commissions and ordered the small closed carriage for her. +of his coat and looking down at him—the englishman was short—began +of his book with his old hands which from excitement he could not keep +of his appearance before her now. prince andrew went round the sofa and +of him?” not one of the innumerable speeches addressed to the emperor +of him, listened to him, admired, and imitated him, and with them prince +of him—at the battery. he now saw clearly the figure of a red-haired +of her worthlessness he was also dreaming of how she would be his +of her saint’s-day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to +of her neutrality and draw her into the war; how part of that army was +of her most august majesty the empress márya fëdorovna. pierre felt +of hélène. some, as if unwilling to distract her from an important +of hearts with a torn corner, which he had picked up from the floor. he +of hearts. on the previous sunday the old count had given his son +of having been dutiful et tout ce qui s’ensuit!* that’s certain.” +of habit said things he did not even wish to be believed. +of fugitives, prince andrew, trying to keep near kutúzov, saw on the +of for a single moment during the whole service. he judged by the +off on the line of kutúzov’s retreat. if he reached znaim before the +of fire and had descended into the dip, he was met by some of the staff, +official appointed to the province in which the prince’s estate lay +officer, with a smile to bolkónski. +officer, that he would drink a bottle of rum sitting on the outer ledge +officers who had gathered at his quarters. the little old man with +officers who had been standing together rode off to their places. the +officers were counting the men, poking the last man in each section in +officer’s remark was just and that really no answer could be made to +officers. now what was the colonel to do? have the officer tried and +officers, generals, and adjutants, as they passed rostóv going or +officer sends for auersperg; these gentlemen embrace the officers, crack +officers,” continued the staff captain, “and bogdánich” (the +officers buttoned up their coats, buckled on their swords and pouches, +officers, but every soldier with his freshly washed and shaven face and +officers became animated. the guardsmen told rostóv of their march and +officer!” said bagratión to rostóv, “are the enemy’s skirmishers +officers. +officer pointing to the soldiers. “the officers don’t keep them in +officer passing by addressed him: +officer of the suite by the arm. “look! a man has fallen! fallen, +officer joined in the colonel’s appeals, but bagratión did not reply; +officer in the white uniform of the horse guards. +officer in the semënov regiment with whom borís was to travel to join +officer in charge of transport was beating the soldier who was driving +officer has stolen...” +officer as in a looking glass—started, moved forward, and answered: +officer arrived, but at a sign resumed his measured, monotonous pacing. +officer and a wounded hero, would it be right to remind him of herself +officer.” +off his eyes and glanced around him. the room was in black darkness, +off his courage, had ridden on to the planks of the bridge: +off his cloak. +offered a most striking contrast to his quiet, little wife. it was +offensive, the plan of which, carefully prepared in accord with the +offend me. really i have some,” rostóv repeated. +offended tone. +of fellow. as for the past two years people have amused themselves +of fear for his young and happy life, possessed his whole being. rapidly +off completely and surround his exhausted army of forty thousand, and he +off at every moment. they waited and listened. +of fate and the designs of rogues. during the few days he spent in +off—and this is what comes of it!” said prince andrew in an +off, and the firing had begun to subside. suddenly, near by on the +off; and here at last was a russian prince. mademoiselle bourienne knew +of face, evidently worn out with childbearing—she had had twelve. +of expression on his face. now his forehead would pucker into deep folds +of expression and intonation that obliged one to listen to each +of exasperation. “don’t you hear it’s his majesty the emperor’s +of everything. one must think of the future, of all of you... i love you +of eternal peace and blessedness?” she thought. +of england, inspired by such hatred of our nation! this victory will +of each shot, as at the word of command, the whole squadron with its +of each. +of dread was in the air. it was evident that the affair so lightly begun +of disease without help while material assistance could so easily be +of delighted amazement. +of deep bass voices, and in the intervals sighs and the shuffling of +of cruelty, as when tying the policeman to the bear and dropping them +of cowardice in the other. both passed the examination successfully. as +“of course. what is it?” +“of course, we only just missed one another,” said the staff +“of course, it is a very brilliant match, but happiness, my dear...” +“of course. i’m going into action! i’ve shaved, bwushed my teeth, +of count bezúkhov’s death. she said the count had died as she would +of contempt. “and believe me, if i still value my life it is +of communications, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his +of command. +of columns from russia, of some victory gained by the austrians, and of +of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist. in front and +of capacity for philosophical meditation (to which he himself was +of bonaparte, encountering a population that was unfriendly to it, +of bonaparte. +of blessedness which now flooded his heart with glad emotion. +of birds. +of believing in the possibility of attaining perfection, and in the +of being afraid roused him again. “i cannot be afraid,” thought he, +of beginning anew pictured to himself the blissful, irreproachable, +of battles was evidently culminating in a panic. +of bagratión’s detachment. his hussars were placed along the line +of awe and even servility. a deference such as he had never before +of austerlitz: nine tenths of the men in the russian army were then in +of austerlitz, but wore a tight new uniform with russian and foreign +of a surgeon who has just performed a difficult operation and admits the +of a subject, she did not stop talking, but chattered about the +of assurance and haste, pierre concluded that it was all absolutely +of a sin he could neither remedy nor forget. he could not weep. the +of a ruling prince, in a crown—an alleged descendant of rúrik and +of a pleasure, and obliges me to interrupt you. i am very sorry to leave +of a parade. we had expected, as i told you, to get at their rear by +of an immense fortune. the will has not yet been opened. i know you +of, and am going to rejoin my regiment, i am giving a farewell supper +of an attack spread through the squadron. the command to form up rang +of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him. +of a man who enjoys life and knows how to live, he swayed to and +of alms” went round to all the brothers. pierre would have liked +of all. this gift will be a pledge of your purity of heart to her whom +of all these brilliant young men. +of all that mass of huge and handsome men, of all those brilliant, +of a gun at ismail. +of a girl, but i like her.” +of affairs?” concluded his father. “but it troubles me. i don’t +of a battle but also disbelieved in the nearness of an engagement. +o’erpassed,” said an old priest to a lady who had taken a seat +odýntsova had married an old man, and that there was a suitor for mary, +o’clock left the third column with which he had been and galloped +o’clock all had been brought into due order. the ranks were drawn +occurred to his regiment, but in reality he did not himself know what +occurred to him, though the question he was about to ask was the chief +occurred to him. on the contrary, he became more and more elated. it +occupy the position and prepare for an attack.” +occupy is a strong one, and while they are marching to go round me on +occupied with evening parties, dinners, lunches, and balls, giving him +occupied. he was himself always occupied: writing his memoirs, solving +occupied by the emperors and their retinues. +occupation of the town of wischau and the capture of a whole french +occupation, came up to her for a moment and made haste to go away, +occasioned by the sausage eaters. +occasionally drew it down to meet the lower lip. as is always the case +obviously trying to restrain within the bounds of decorum the excitement +obviously strange to her to think that this stern handsome man should be +obtained through an acquaintance and sent to her son, asking him to take +obtained his captaincy during the campaign, had gained the confidence of +obtain a post on the commander in chief’s staff. berg and borís, +obligingly took the dish from bagratión (or he would, it seemed, have +objects mentioned by the rhetor, this last, that of improving mankind, +object it is necessary that... the first column marches... the second +object above his head and, holding it there for some seconds, suddenly +obeying, and suddenly doubts arose in his mind. “where am i? what am +obedient, and insignificant atom. they followed prince dolgorúkov out +obedience—which did not even seem to him a virtue, but a joy. (he now +nurse’s french, at which he and borís used to laugh long ago. +nurse sávishna, knitting in hand, was telling in low tones, scarcely +nursery.” +nurse, praskóvya sávishna, who hardly ever came to that room as the +nurse and nurse sávishna in the late princess’ rooms and princess +number one jumped briskly aside. the gun rang out with a deafening +number of men had perished in fleeing from pratzen. the french had not +“no, you’ll never manage him that way,” said anatole. “wait a +“no, you know it’s too soon for news. but my father is anxious and i +“no, you don’t understand!” +“now you, young prince, what’s your name?” said prince bolkónski, +“now you don’t know that at all!” said nicholas. “but i must +now, when my heart fails me and my mouth feels dry at the mere sight +“now what does this mean, gentlemen?” said the staff officer, in +now we shall get anything we want from his hothouses. i have to see him +now was evidently ready with a joke. “whether tomorrow brings +“now, véra, what does it matter to you?” said natásha in defense, +now to look at dólokhov, who was sitting opposite him. every time +now told about that affair!” +“now thou hast seen the lesser light,” uttered a voice. then the +now,” thought rostóv driving his spurs into rook and letting him go +now the smile of the little princess—influenced by the general mood +now there’s this recruiting.” +“now then, you devil’s puppet, look alive and hunt for it!” +“now then, váska,” said nicholas. +“now then, now then, i’m only joking!” he said. “remember this, +“now then, matvévna, dear old lady, don’t let me down!” he was +“now then, let’s see how far it will carry, captain. just try!” +“now then, go on, go on!” incited the officer, bending forward and +“now then, go away and take your monstrosity with you,” said the +now then, darling! how will she take that si? she’s taken it! thank +“now the fun begins,” thought anatole, sitting down with a smile +“now, sónya!” she said, going to the very middle of the room, where +“now, sídorov, you have a try!” +now,” said another. +now rose and took their leave. the visitor’s daughter was already +“now?” repeated natásha, and a happy smile lit up her face. “have +now permissible; “the door to the left, ma’am.” +now on one side, now on the other, giving his face an unpleasant +“now look out for the ball... we’ll throw it back.” +“now i see it all! i know who has been intriguing—i know!” cried +“now i must disclose to you the chief aim of our order,” he said, +“now i am all right,” she said, and asking the vicomte to begin, she +now he was a lieutenant of hussars, in a jacket laced with silver, and +nowhere to hunt with your dogs? but what is to be done, old man? just +nowhere encountering the enemy. on the contrary, the soldiers became +“no! what kind, márya dmítrievna? what kind?” she almost screamed; +“no! what is there to talk about?” said pierre. “it’s all the +now gradually opening before me.” but five of the other virtues which +“now, dear boy,” said prince vasíli playfully, “say ‘yes,’ +“now come, come! be reasonable. i know your excellent heart.” +now centered round the emperor. so we will go to dolgorúkov; i have to +now before i am off duty. i’ll take another turn and when i get back +now at her, moved as if about to rise too, but changed his mind. +now approached the sick man with the noiseless step of one in full vigor +“no, wait, pierre! the princess is too kind to wish to deprive me of +now aiming, now counting the charges, now giving orders about replacing +“now about your family. do you know that since your daughter came +now.” +novosíltsev, prince volkónsky, strógonov, and the others, all richly +novelty she offered her guests this time was not mortemart, but a +not you! go back or i’ll flatten you into a pancake,” repeated he. +not yet dispersed before another puff appeared, followed by a report. +“not yet. but where are you off to?” +not worse than this one.” +notwithstanding this, borís embraced him in a quiet, friendly way and +notwithstanding the tone of wearied assurance with which these words +not wish it. in a word, i make no promise. and i beg you to consider +not what he had read that vexed him, but the fact that the life out +not wanted here? go to the other girls, or...” +not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting +not used to it. she will retaliate. and she has been fooled in the +not understand what he ought to do then it will be my affair—yes, my +not two minutes had passed before prince vasíli with head erect +not to notice one another. when having limbered up the only two cannon +not to have to repent is not enough. i lived like that, i lived for +not to challenge bolkónski. “of course not!” he now thought. “is +“not that either. that puts the court in too bad a light,” replied +not ten times wounded, killed, or betrayed, well... what then?...” +not suit in the least. not in the least! please change it.” +not see ten paces ahead. bushes looked like gigantic trees and level +not see or understand him and may not see or understand his own vileness +“not seen duport—the famous dancer? well then, you won’t +not see him at all.” +not rise. rostóv also tried to rise but fell back, his sabretache +not right.” +not resume your former way of life. and now i wish you a good journey, +not replying to the austrian. +not realize that he had come. his coming had nothing to do with +not only without interest but even as if ashamed of what pierre was +“not only occupied, but bonaparte is at schönbrunn, and the count, +“not on any account!” exclaimed rostóv. +“no, to kill a man is bad—wrong.” +not moving a muscle. +“not more stupid than you, madam,” said the nine-year-old pétya, +not many left alive. go that way, to that village, all the commanders +not love liberty and equality? even our saviour preached liberty and +not listening to it continued to dress while walking about, and three +not like us sinners of the line,” cried rostóv, with martial swagger +not letting the abbé and pierre escape, anna pávlovna, the more +“not let the wife have him?” said the old man, and laughed. +not leave the battery. he decided to have the guns removed from their +“not kutúzov, but what’s his name—well, never mind... there are +not knowing whether it would be proper to call the dying man “the +not knowing what to do, and glanced inquiringly at his guide. anna +not know him, but he is here, he is in me, he is in my words, he is in +not know: he therefore wished to speak to dolgorúkov. +“not killed—wounded!” another officer corrected him. +not, it was decided at a consultation between the battalion commanders +“not in the least,” replied the vicomte. “after the murder of the +not intend to devote her life to serving prince bolkónski, to reading +no time to ask himself whether these people were sincere or not. he +no time. i hope, my dear friend, you will carry out your father’s +no time for reflection, as in petersburg. instead of the new life he had +not ill-spent. he is worth it!” +noticing what a bad state of things it was. the regimental commander +noticed the look of terror with which pierre regarded that lifeless arm, +noticed the french appearing below them, and then they fired grapeshot +noticed that they had not come to the front entrance but to the back +noticed that he was pale and that his jaw quivered and shook as if in an +noticed, left the room with a pleasant smile. +noticeable one at the dinner. rostóv looked inimically at pierre, +“not hurt, petróv?” asked one. +nothing when they have no powers; this one had none.... the austrians +nothing to him.... “i should perhaps have done the same thing in his +nothing to be happy about!” thought he. +nothing. she felt that sónya was speaking the truth, that there was +“nothing... only i feel sad... sad about andrew,” she said, wiping +“nothing... only a shell...” he answered. +nothing of what was going on around him and to be absorbed by some +“nothing of the sort. orders are issued for a battle.” +nothing of her and looks only at bourienne. no, she has no pride... but +nothing, nothing, nothing! no, don’t marry, my dear fellow; don’t +“nothing, my dear.” +nothing more important...” he paused, “than to have a good sleep.” +nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever +nothing. i am very amiable and have a caustic wit,” continued prince +nothing could be seen. pitch-dark, brother! isn’t there something to +nothing, but that. but even it does not exist, there is nothing but +nothing but meanness, deceit, envy, intrigue, and ingratitude—the +nothing, but here on the one hand the local nobility have done me the +“nothing,” answered princess mary, looking firmly with her radiant +nothing about it and have not thought about it. moscow is chiefly busy +nothing about firing it.” +nothing. +“no, there is no change. i only came to have a talk about business, +not have caused him to expect that honor. the prince, who generally kept +not go to any large gatherings, but only to small receptions. prince +not forsake him. he will fulfill his vocation and crush the hydra of +not finding the young prince in his study the valet went with the +not far from the artillery campfire, in a hut that had been prepared +not expect you today,” he added. “i only sent you the note yesterday +not expecting to come on the enemy down by the stream, and having +not exist. +not evince the least interest during this explanation, but as if he were +“no, tell them to harness.” +note. i am in such a state.... my only hope now is in count cyril +noted them down. +not disfigured by the approach of death. it was the same as pierre +not? delightful!” +not come and brought his pupil with him” (for some reason prince +not captured.” again he pondered. “i am very glad you have brought +not, but you have no grounds for telling me so. and that is the whole +not but tremble and his heart stand still at the imminence of that word. +not but believe in the sincerity of those around him. besides, he had +not breathe. he knew that he must do something to put an end to this +“not bound to endure insults,” dólokhov concluded in loud, ringing +“not bonaparte. he is the emperor! sacré nom...!” cried he angrily. +not been found nor was he on the list of prisoners. what was worst of +not attract a moment’s attention to their own evolutions and did not +not at once raise, and he spent most of his time in the girls’ room. +“not at all,” said prince andrew. +“not at all bad!” he thought, examining her, “not at all bad, that +not answer. the hussar at that moment noticed the face of the red-nosed +not a logical answer and not at all a reply to them. the answer was: +“not all, for you will not be there; not all,” said prince hippolyte +“no talking in the ranks!... no talking, no talking!” +not a distinction,” said the diplomatist—“a gift, rather.” +not a diplomatist. that’s why i joined the hussars, thinking that here +no such reminiscences really exist—just as none existed in this case. +nostitz, the austrian general occupying the advanced posts, believed +“no, sónya, but do you remember so that you remember him perfectly, +no sky but only an atmosphere.” +“no? she is very nice and kind and, above all, she’s much to be +nose. his face was depressed and gloomy. he seemed to see and hear +no restrictions whatsoever. you may copy it, give it away or re-use +“no really, my dear, this dress is not pretty,” said lise, looking +“no—promise that you will not refuse! it will give you no trouble +“no, princess, i have lost your affection forever!” said +“no, prince, our regiment has gone to the front, but i am attached... +“no, peter nikoláevich; i only want to show that in the cavalry +“no, pardon me, i won’t go now till the child is better,” thought +“no, papa is not back yet,” said sónya. +“no-o-o!” muttered dólokhov through his teeth, “no, it’s not +“no, on my word it’s not obstinacy! i can’t describe the feeling. +“no, on my true word of honor,” said natásha, crossing herself, +no one would understand that it was not to quench his thirst or from +no one slept. +no one had given túshin orders where and at what to fire, but after +“no, one can’t hear them. they’d be firing if we had.” +“no one can attain to truth by himself. only by laying stone on stone +nonsense, the chief thing is not to forget the important thing i +nonsense out of your head.” +“nonsense, nonsense!” cried the old man, shaking his pigtail to +“nonsense, indeed! i am telling you the fact,” said natásha +nonsense,” he thought. “the slur on my name and honor—that’s all +“nonsense!” he cried, and the veins on his forehead and neck stood +nonsense, but we are friends forever. she, if she loves anyone, does it +nonsense... but this is real.... now then, natásha, now then, dearest! +nonsense, but it would in fact have been difficult to give any other +‘nonsense!’” +nonreceipt of our dispatch of november 18. that is how it will end.” +“no, not on any account! i will tell him myself, and you’ll listen +“no, nothing.” +“no, no, please not... you are mademoiselle bourienne,” said +“no! no! no! when your father writes to tell me that you are behaving +“no, no!” cried natásha, “she and i have already talked it over. +“no, no! a thousand times no! i shall never agree with you,” said +“non, madame.” he smiled quite inappropriately. +nonintervention. and...” he paused. “finally one cannot impute the +none to anyone.” +“no, my dear fellow, i’ll be a wallflower,” said denísov. +no more. she is so affected. ask her in,” she said to the footman in a +“no, mon père.” +“no, merci, mon père.” +“no matter, princess, don’t be alarmed,” said mary bogdánovna. +“no matter at all, my dear count,” she said, meekly closing her +“no, mamma, i’m not in love with him, i suppose i’m not in love +“no, mamma, but i’m so sorry for him. i don’t know how i’m to +no longer looked at the french but paid attention to the sight-seers and +no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age +no longer, as it should be, to avoid or attack the enemy, but solely to +“no, leave me alone,” said princess mary. +“no, i won’t,” said pierre, pushing anatole aside, and he went up +“no, i won’t promise that. you don’t know how kutúzov is pestered +“no, i will do it myself, only tell me what to say. it’s all very +“no, it will not do,” she said decidedly, clasping her hands. “no, +“no, it’s only indigestion?... say it’s only indigestion, say so, +“no, it’s a sprain.” +“no, i tell you.” +“no, it can’t be helped, lad,” said the prince. “they’re +“no, i mustn’t. i am so sorry for him! he’s so nice.” +“no, impossible!” said prince andrew, laughing and pressing +“no, i meant to ask...” pierre began, but prince andrew interrupted +“no, i have not; but this is what i have been thinking and wanted +“no, i have been transferred to the line,” said anatole, hardly able +“no, i have a wicked heart.” +“no, i hate my life,” pierre muttered, wincing. +“no, if i hadn’t thought of it being a treasure,” said rostóv, +“no, i considered it erroneous and did not follow it,” said pierre, +“no, i can’t agree with you! to live only so as not to do evil and +“no, he thinks only of himself,” muttered the princess without +“no, he’s not a fool!” replied natásha indignantly and seriously. +“no good... no good...” said the prince rapidly, and thrusting his +“no. give me the book,” said the stranger. +“no, gentlemen, no... you mustn’t think... i quite understand. +no fruit. i never could understand the fondness some people have for +“no, friend,” said a pleasant and, as it seemed to prince andrew, a +“no, friend, he is sharper-eyed than you are. boots and leg bands... +“no, fifty,” replied the latter. +“no, dearest, sweet one, honey, i won’t give up—i know you know +“no,” cried he, becoming more and more eager, “napoleon is great +no, certainly i must not approach him, i must not intrude on his +“no, call her you, please! i’ll tell you all about it some other +“no, but what is it, my dear? do you want me to go and tell him?” +“no, but she said that it was all over and that he’s now an +“no, but listen,” she said, “now you are quite a man, aren’t +“no, but i say,” said pierre, calming down, “you are a wonderful +“no, but i must. it may be arrogant of me, but still it is best to say +“no, but imagine the old countess zúbova, with false curls and her +“no, but i have been in love a thousand times and shall fall in +“no, but do promise! i won’t let you go! my dear benefactor...” +“no, but don’t you think it’s nice?” she kept repeating. +“nobody wants me!” thought rostóv. “there is no one to help me or +“no apologies, none whatever,” said dólokhov to denísov (who on +“no, andrew, i must say you have changed. oh, how you have....” +no account have told a deliberate lie. he began his story meaning to +no?” +“no.” +“no.” +“no.” +ninety thousand strong, was to threaten prussia so as to bring her out +nineteenth, a great, excitedly bustling activity began which lasted till +“nikólenka... wounded... a letter,” she announced in gleeful +“nikólenka, what is the matter?” sónya’s eyes fixed on him +nikólenka; by his relations as a charming, attractive, and polite young +“nikólenka... a letter... wa... a... s... wounded... my darling +night when he had decided that to marry hélène would be a calamity and +night, so dark that the coachman could not see the carriage pole. +night long without closing their eyes, while the adjutants and +night i looked at the campfires and there was no end of them. a regular +night he had not the slightest doubt, and the guiltlessness of +night. but now, in the solitude of the journey, they seized him with +night a motley throng of people sat there, not merrymaking, but somberly +night.” +(nicknamed in society, “the king of prussia”) ever since the emperor +“nicholas, will you come to iogel’s? please do!” said natásha. +nicholas went to her, kissed her hand, and sitting down silently at her +nicholas was to go with him to the regiment; then came anna mikháylovna +“nicholas!” was all sónya said, instantly turning white. +nicholas turned away from her. natásha too, with her quick instinct, +nicholas tried to say “yes,” but could not: and he nearly burst into +nicholas straight in the eyes, “you know the saying, ‘lucky in love, +nicholas sat at some distance from sónya, beside julie karágina, to +nicholas rostóv, with denísov and his new acquaintance, dólokhov, sat +nicholas rostóv turned away and, as if searching for something, gazed +nicholas’ letter was read over hundreds of times, and those who were +“nicholas is going away in a week’s time, his... papers... have +nicholas. i never knew any madame jacquot.” +nicholas, having as usual exhausted two pairs of horses, without +“nicholas, have you come? come here, dear!” called the old countess +“nicholas! get up!” natásha’s voice was again heard at the door. +“nicholas, don’t tell me that!” she said. +“nicholas! come out in your dressing gown!” said natásha’s voice. +nicholas’ career and am heartless and ungrateful, while truly... god +nicholas began pacing up and down the room. +nicholas and denísov were walking up and down, looking with kindly + * nicholas. +nice indeed, quite french,” and he kissed the tips of his fingers. +nice... but it won’t do...not that... but as a friend, i shall always +“nice! and so you no longer wish to marry borís?” +next note, the next phrase, and everything in the world was divided into +next morning when the valet came into the room with his coffee, pierre +next morning, after the fatigues of their journey, the travelers slept +next glanced round in alarm. +next day, the third of march, soon after one o’clock, two hundred and +next day the french army did not renew their attack, and the remnant of +next day, the army began its campaign, and up to the very battle of +next day rostóv saw denísov off. he did not wish to stay another +next day prince vasíli had arrived and settled in the count’s house. +next day he woke late. recalling his recent impressions, the first +next day, at eight in the morning, pierre and nesvítski drove to the +next came four soldiers, carrying something heavy on a cloak, and passed +news i may take back to my poor boy.” +news—if it’s not false. bennigsen seems to have obtained a complete +news and common acquaintances like people who do not know each other +news. +new path so attractively shown him by the masons, on which he firmly +new pack of cards said: “bank, gentlemen!” +new mustache. “now then, get on,” he shouted to the driver. “do +newly erected buildings were standing empty and that the serfs continued +new friend’s influence. +new church, previously begun, had cost about 10,000 in each of the last +never understand it, because you’ve never loved anyone. you have no +never to dare to change your way of dress without my consent.” +never thought much of him.” +never take it off. do you promise?” +never says anything stupid. she says little, but what she does say is +“never, never marry, my dear fellow! that’s my advice: never marry +never had love been so much in the air, and never had the amorous +never favorably disposed toward him—would have used it to turn the +never bear malice or enmity toward thy brother. be kindly and courteous. +neutrality is just a trap. i have faith only in god and the lofty +neutral... i know that. what about austria?” said he, rising from his +nesvítski with a laugh threw his arms round prince andrew, but +nesvítski was there as an old member of the club. pierre, who at his +nesvítski tried to move on, soldiers and carts pushed him back again +nesvítski. “they’ve made up splendid packs for me—fit to cross +nesvítski stopped him and took him home. +nesvítski’s and dólokhov’s sabers, which were stuck into the +nesvítski rose, puffing, and went up to the general, smiling. +“nesvítski, nesvítski! you numskull!” came a hoarse voice from +nesvítski looked round and saw, some fifteen paces away but separated +nesvítski. count ilyá rostóv with the other members of the committee +nesvítski closed their eyes. at the same instant they heard a report +nesvítski and zherkóv were so surprised by this outburst that they +nesvítski. +neither quickly nor slowly. at this natásha dashed swiftly among the +neither of them could think of her as a rival, so they began dressing +neither of her gown and coiffure nor of how she would go in nor of what +neither moving forward to protect the battery nor backward with the +neither i nor my mother would ever ask or take anything from him.” +neighbor on his right quickly turned in alarm to bezúkhov. +neighbor? no! you have spent your life in idleness. then you married, my +neighboring wheel is as quiet and motionless as though it were prepared +neighboring town, who had been at bald hills for the last fortnight.) +neighbor, and may envy never dim the purity of that bliss. forgive thy +negotiations and to offer the russian army the three days’ truce. +need to hurry. however, he put his horse to a trot in the direction +need some money.” +need, even the inevitability, of entering into conversation with this +needed for success in the service was not effort or work, or courage, or +needed. +neck. on his right sat the italian abbé whom pierre had met at +neck. it seemed to rostóv that bogdánich was only pretending not +neck instead. +neck and the corners of her mouth drooped. +necessity of going back on his word. with a sinking heart he watched +necessary to take some part in it. +necessary to go on insisting day after day and hour after hour, and even +necessary to enable it to retreat without losing its heavy equipment. +necessary,” said the younger of the two speakers, evidently in the +necessary. halfway up the stairs they were almost knocked over by +necessary for the position. then there’s this house, which must be +near the strange lady. prince vasíli in front of the door, near the +near the gun waved their arms and beat the horses to make them turn and +near the altar of the church at bald hills there was a chapel over the +near sixty, dear friend... i too... all will end in death, all! death is +nearly cut our left flank in half were for the moment repulsed. our +near him pricked their ears at these shouts. over there, where the +near him and only wished that they would help him and bring him back to +near everything grew brighter, more joyful, more significant, and more +nearest him were not to blame for they were themselves pressed still +nearer. then the clang of hoofs, as of several horses galloping, +nearer, faster and louder, louder and faster, a cannon ball, as if it +near by the news spread that the emperor was unwell. he ate nothing and +natural to him was very gentle and wary with them both at dinner. on +natásha, who was exceptionally graceful, was first, even danced the pas +natásha to sing. +natásha took the first note, her throat swelled, her chest rose, +natásha, that winter, had for the first time begun to sing seriously, +natásha suddenly flushed. +natásha, stopping suddenly. “i feel so happy!” +natásha’s previous remark. “it’s because she was in love with +natásha’s prediction proved true. dólokhov, who did not usually care +natásha smiled through her tears. +natásha’s large mouth widened, making her look quite ugly, and she +natásha’s intermediacy, to remind him of his promise, and then +natásha, seeing the impression the news of her brother’s wound +natásha saw there was nothing to be afraid of and so she braved even +natásha, raising her face for a moment from her mother’s mantilla, +natásha only desisted when she had been told that there would be +natásha no less proud of her first long dress and of being at a real +natásha. nicholas understood that something must have happened between +natásha looked at sónya with wondering and inquisitive eyes, and said +natásha kissed her on the hair. +natásha kept pulling everyone by sleeve or dress, urging them to +“natásha,” he said, “you know that i love you, but....” +natásha flared up. “i don’t want to marry anyone. and i’ll tell +natásha fell in love the very moment she entered the ballroom. she +natásha did not like the visitor’s tone of condescension to childish +natásha could not remain calm, seeing him in such a plight. she began +natásha considered. +natásha came in and walking straight up to pierre said, laughing and +natásha. but he was not as much at ease with sónya and dólokhov as +natásha blushed and laughed. +natásha, and sónya, and will certainly never touch a card again.” at +natásha, after she had pulled him down toward her and covered his face +“nataly,” he said, moving with rapid steps toward her, “decide my +“natálya ilyníchna behaves very well to me,” remarked borís. “i +narýshkin, uvárov, dolgorúkov, apráksin, valúev, to the committee, +narrowed disdainfully, he entered the room of the minister of war with +napoleon with even greater warmth than the year before. orders were +napoleon who said it. he heard the speaker addressed as sire. but he +napoleon’s words. “‘i opened my antechambers and they crowded +napoleon’s proclamation was as follows: +napoleon’s eyes prince andrew thought of the insignificance of +napoleon’s army of one hundred and fifty thousand men would cut him +napoleon. “if he weren’t afraid of a battle why did he ask for that +napoleon happened to fall into one of the fainting fits to which he was +napoleon +napoleon +napkin, from behind the next man’s shoulders and whispered: “dry +name to rectify this omission, prince andrew galloped back. kutúzov +namesake, the new count bezúkhov) “and now she’s in love with that +name-day party. +name. +naked shoulders. she did not give him the money, but let herself be +“my wife,” continued prince andrew, “is an excellent woman, one +my wife—are the count’s only direct heirs. i know, i know how hard +“my vocation is a different one,” thought princess mary. “my +my stupidity.” +mystical book i am sending you; it has an enormous success here. though +mystery on which perhaps the fate of mankind depends. but since this +mystery is of such a nature that nobody can know or use it unless he be +mysteriously. “yes, tomorrow, tomorrow!” he thought. “tomorrow +myself not long ago, in moscow and when traveling, but at such times i +myself and you with the hope that your son is alive, for otherwise +myself and ruined my life. and only now when i am living, or at least +my riding and commanding so vast an army, so i have passed on the +my respects to monsieur your father and my compliments to mademoiselle +my relations with him, transient as they were, have been one of the +“my passion! i have had so many,” replied pierre. +“my part is played out,” said prince andrew. “what’s the use of +“my mother! my mother, my angel, my adored angel mother,” and +my men in the wood. i beg of you, i beg of you,” he repeated, “to +“my god! what does it all mean?” thought he. “and here, where at +“my god, i’m a ruined and dishonored man! a bullet through my brain +“my god, how happy i should be if he ordered me to leap into the fire +my geometry lessons,” said princess mary gleefully, as if her lessons +“my friend,” said anna mikháylovna in gentle tones, addressing +my friend... i only need see prince vasíli sergéevich: he is staying +my father has not spoken to me of a suitor, but has only told me that he +my empty portmanteau and my dressing gown. the emperor proposes to give +“my desire is never to leave you, father, never to separate my +my dear, whether the will and letter were written, and whether they have +my dear sir,” he added, seeing that his servant had entered... “and +“my dear,” she said to her son, once more stimulating him by a +“my dear,” said princess mary, addressing her brother from beside +“my dear, really... it’s better not to wake him... he’s asleep,” +“my dear princess catherine semënovna,” began prince vasíli +“my dear, i must tell you that this is a moment i shall never, never +“my dear,” he heard what seemed to him her despairing whisper behind +“my dear friend?” said she, in a tone of pathetic inquiry, prepared +“my dear fellow, you are a hero!” said bilíbin. +“my dear fellow, what have you been up to in moscow? why have you +“my dear fellow,” nesvítski whispered to prince andrew, “the old +“my dear fellow, how are you?” said he through the singing, making +“my dear!” exclaimed his mother imploringly, again laying her hand +“my dear count, you were one of my best pupils—you must dance,” +my dear boy, are you serving in the horse guards?” asked the old man, +“my dear borís,” said princess anna mikháylovna to her son as +“my dear benefactor! this is what i expected from you—i knew your +“my dear anna mikháylovna,” said he with his usual familiarity and +“my darling!” he said—a word he had never used to her before. +“my cousin has nothing to do with this and it’s not necessary to +my advance guard, and have no right to arrange an armistice without my +muttered something and colored. +must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for +must put in an appearance there,” said the prince. “my daughter is +“must one die like a dog?” said he. +must have pity on a young man in misfortune. you know he has important +must have an explanation...” +must gain his confidence and friendship and through him obtain a special +must excuse me,” said he, putting pierre at ease instead of being put +must be broken off ... and then you know, andré...” (she looked +mustache. “i want to know what you men are like. are you the same as +muskets of the nearest soldiers. the soldiers started firing without +music. amid these sounds, only the youthful kindly voice of the emperor +murder of the duc d’enghien. the vicomte said that the duc d’enghien +murat’s emissary and retired, leaving bagratión’s division +murat’s detachment and the battle had not yet begun. in bagratión’s +murat. bonaparte himself, not trusting to his generals, moved with all +mud-bespattered breeches. the german landlady, hearing rostóv’s loud +much to say to one another in private and so they had been seeking an +much that the count held him up as a pattern to the other guests. berg +much prettier. pierre was received as if he were a corpse or a leper. +much of it left.” +much, my dear sir.” +much interest him because at that moment he felt with delight that he +much because he heard their sound as because he saw uneasiness on +much at the captain as at those who were laughing, among whom zherkóv +“much as mamma pressed her, she refused, and i know she won’t change +much as a sailor is by his ship. however far he has walked, whatever +much, and all of you, only véra... and what for? what have i done +“mr. aide-de-camp! mr. aide-de-camp!... for heaven’s sake... protect +“mr. aide-de-camp! help me!... what does it all mean?” screamed the +moving toward our left flank, the higher command found that our center +moving the money forward he prepared to deal. rostóv sat down by his +moving a chair close to hers seated himself beside her. +move on. the horses moved off the bank. the ice, that had held under +“move on a hundred yards and we are certainly saved, remain here +move on a few steps and be killed themselves in the same way. +movement, word, or look of his, never taking their blissfully adoring +movements were still slow and measured. +movements of the mass of which in his regiment he felt himself a tiny, +movements of the bearers, and the cold listless gaze fixed itself upon +movements of the baggage trains of the entire army along the krems-znaim +movements of the austrian army, and then give it to his excellency.” +movement of the tsar’s seemed to him enchanting. +movement of soldiers forming ranks and getting their muskets ready, +movement of dólokhov’s hands. those broad, reddish hands, with hairy +moved off accompanied by an irregularly swaying sea of aides-de-camp. +moved his forces to attack the center and outflank both the russian +moved and halted at the officers’ command, turned with banners flying, +mouth!” said bilíbin, and the mop of hair on his head moved with +mouth full of false teeth, as if she were trying to cheat old age.... +mouth. another was walking sturdily by himself but without his musket, +mouth all seemed puckered into a vacant, wearied grimace, and his arms +mounting his horse again prince andrew lingered with the battery, +mounted frenchmen, probably adjutants, were galloping up the hill. a +mount and ride to the bridge. (observe that all three are gascons.) +mountains of bohemia, and you and your army would have spent a bad +mountains, defending himself against superior forces of the enemy and +motive of his visit, “is it true that the dowager empress wants +motionless masses of the french now swayed and that there really was +mothers used to be married at twelve or thirteen.” +mother, pushing away her daughter with pretended sternness, and turning +mother keep you in their holy and all-powerful care! +mother, drawing her hand from beneath her old mantle and laying +mother by the news of this loss, he knew what a relief it would be to +mother and the youngest daughter—both named nataly. ever since +mother!...” +most strongly expressed his insincere love for her, and he felt the +most part to be spoken at a moment of victory and triumph, generally +most of the guests, uncertain how to regard this sally, looked at the +most of her observations, it made everyone feel uncomfortable, not +most joyful though erroneous rumors were rife of the imaginary approach +most in people. as to his inheritance and the part played by prince +moscow who was expected every moment, and men on horseback with lanterns +moscow when borís was a boy of fourteen, and had quite forgotten him, +moscow. the remembrance of the rostóvs’ house and of his childish +moscow their house was always full of visitors. the night after the +moscow’s hero was the fact that he had no connections in the city +“moscow has nothing else to do but gossip,” borís went on. +moscow for his equipment, was to join them on the march to radzivílov. +moscow. as a result he could not go to the country with the rest of the +moscow after the death of count bezúkhov, he would call pierre, or +moscow!” +moscovites who took their opinions from others—ilyá rostóv among +mortification, our opinion of bonaparte cannot alter. we shall not cease +morsels. the group about mortemart immediately began discussing the +morning till night and abstemious, so of course i am well.” +morning, the lines were so near together that the men could see one +morning or evening than night. on the way pierre remembered that anatole +morning greeting, crossing herself with trepidation and repeating a +morning. +more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my +more than timókhin had done when he was reprimanded by the regimental +more than they did anatole. dólokhov could play all games and nearly +more than anyone else, prince vasíli took possession of pierre’s +more! some more!” a merry voice was saying in his soul. but no more +more outcries, and tears of joy. he could not distinguish which was +more noticeable how much plainer she had become. some unobtrusive touch +more natural and animated than usual, so that the wrinkles round +more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows +more important guests—an old general and his wife, and anna pávlovna +more honorable to admit one’s mistake than to let matters become +more, for immediately afterwards cannon began firing from somewhere and +more cunning or subtle diplomatist—you know, a combination of french +more confused, blushed like a child till tears came to his eyes, began +more confirmed the farther he rode into the region behind the village of +more confident was the appearance of our troops. the soldiers in +more cheerful in his presence, and were evidently anxious to display +more, but he waited and did nothing. +moreau would have been a prisoner if suvórov had had a free hand; but +more animated. only when a man was killed or wounded did he frown and +more animated. “and believe me, they are reaping the reward of their +more and more animated and evidently wishing to express his new outlook +more and holding out the letter. +more. +monument from moscow which he intended to erect in his own garden to his +monsieur buonaparte sitting on a throne and granting the petitions of +monk he received and had a long talk with.” +“mon dieu, mon dieu!” she muttered, and lifting her dress with one +“mon dieu! mon dieu! oh!” she heard as she left the room. +moment when the first report was heard a fourth was seen. then two +moment those hands with their short reddish fingers and hairy wrists, +moment the french who were attacking, suddenly and without any apparent +moments: but his words sounded so weak that he felt ashamed of himself. +moment, sat beside him: the rest, crowding round him, watched every +moment of meeting had been so beatific that his present joy seemed +moment marching with the company. the hussar cornet of kutúzov’s +moment imagined himself to be napoleon in person and to have just +moment he was clearly thinking of nothing but how dashing a fellow he +moment had arrived. with the air of a practical petersburg lady she now, +moment consider what she should do), but all this had long been familiar +moment.” +moment!” +modern science of strategics, had been handed to kutúzov when he was in +modeling and modeling you must get smeared with clay,” suggesting +mixture onto the floor and asked for some more water. the maid brought +misunderstandings and did not now feel she had a right to ask him for +misunderstanding. i expect you feel it so yourself. let us write her +mist and taking it for a tree can again take it for a tree after he has +mistaken,” said the stranger in a deliberate and loud voice. +mistake. marry when you are old and good for nothing—or all that is +mistake and that anatole meant to flirt with mademoiselle bourienne, +mist!” +“missed!” shouted dólokhov, and he lay helplessly, face downwards +missed him. his one desire was to know what was happening and at any +misleading you.” +misfortune? and when did it begin? such a little while ago i came to +misery. that could not be, yet he awaited with a sinking heart the +misery. a man offended you and you shot him, and you say you do not +miserable man who stood before him, but the task he had begun had to be +mischief-makers don’t meddle even a german beats buonaparte. he is +mirror her eyes full of tears and her mouth quivering, ready to burst +minutest details himself. princess mary had ceased taking lessons in +minutes later the eldest sister came out with a pale hard face, again +minutes before the troops had passed the emperors. not only would it +minute later with another committeeman, carrying a large silver salver +minister’s son was, with his rosy cheeks and dark eyebrows, and with +minister’s bent bald head with its gray temples. he went on reading +ministers and great people, and know how to deal with them all! it’s +miniature portrait of her son on the lid of a snuffbox, while the tears +mine. i have written to my poor mother,” said the smiling mademoiselle +mined and doubly mined and that there are menacing fortifications at its +mined?” +“mind, walk him up and down well!” +mind to ask him a question about the roads, the traveler had closed his +mind once for all that what he saw happening around him that evening was +“mind, no holding on!” cried another. +mind. “if a tenth part of his detachment returns i shall thank god,” +mind easy,” said he in abrupt sentences while sealing his letter. +mind at rest,” said he without altering his tone, beneath the +“mind, annette, i hope you have not played a wicked trick on me,” +milorádovich wheeled his horse sharply and stationed himself a little +millions of human beings who grew up in the same way. as twenty +millions in hand might smile at a poor fellow who told him that he, poor +milk-white sea. nothing was visible in the valley to the left into which +military men, bore that expression of condescending respect for their +military code, which he and the others knew in the regiment, there was +miles away from the french. at grunth also some apprehension and alarm +miles, and reining in his horse he sighed restfully and looked round +mile and a half away, but had suddenly and unexpectedly appeared just in +milan?” asked anna pávlovna, “and of the comedy of the people of +mikhelson’s army i understand—tolstóy ‘s too... a simultaneous +mikháylovna, whom she had not seen properly since she returned from +mikháylovna. though the latter held on tenaciously, her voice lost none +mikháylovna’s voice alone in a long speech, then a cry, then silence, +mikháylovna’s son; nicholas, the undergraduate, the count’s eldest +mikháylovna,” said prince vasíli, arranging his lace frill, and in +mikháylovna?” said he. “let us wait until evening. the doctors are +mikháylovna returned to the rostóvs’ and went to bed. on waking in +mikháylovna pass and did not evince the least surprise at seeing them +mikháylovna, or you will not hold out.” +mikháylovna of one of them. +mikháylovna made a hurried sign with her eyes, glancing at the sick +mikháylovna looked attentively at the sick man’s eyes, trying to +mikháylovna in passing instinctively glanced into the room, where +mikháylovna evinced no surprise, she only smiled faintly and sighed, as +mikháylovna enthusiastically, quite forgetting all the humiliation she +mikháylovna entered the hall. though she came upon the count in his +mikháylovna drubetskáya. rostóv, the father, is ilyá, and his son is +mikháylovna as she entered, and at the big stout figure of pierre who, +mikháylovna and snatching the portfolio from her. +mikháylovna. +might toward the bushes. he did not now run with the feeling of doubt +might retreat and leave the pickets.” +might outweigh all the courage of the russian troops, and at the same +might have been more decisive had the commander in chief not been so +might, feeling that he would like to injure himself by that shout, if +might easily succeed to the post; how popular he was with everyone in +might deprive him of all this happiness, newly appreciated and newly +might be up to on the sly” (she meant that they would be kissing), +might, and a passionate attraction to him who was the cause of this +midwife. +midnight. prince andrew went out. +middle of the muddy road. +middle of the drawing room on the first chair he had come across, +middle of his mouth and with red lips gently inhaled the smoke, letting +middle, a cry was heard, then princess mary’s heavy tread and the +michael ivánovich did not at all know when “you and i” had said +“michael ivánovich!” cried the old prince to the architect who, +michael ivánovich are the two people to whom he is always gentle and +me—yet dreadful and unnatural as it seems, i would give them all at +me! what will become of us? i am the wife of the doctor of the seventh +met, she fell on his breast, sobbing. she could not lift her face, but +me to inform you... but, don’t be uneasy,” he added, noticing that +me to burn the bridge! i know the service, and it is my habit orders +methods that he had better leave genoa alone?” retorted prince andrew +met him at the first door and, expressing their delight at seeing such a +me! that’s the sort of man he is, and nothing more,” replied +metallic roar, and a whistling grenade flew above the heads of our +message to kutúzov, perhaps even to the sovereign himself. the morning +merry reminiscences. +merry. +merrily to everyone at once, sat down and gaily arranged herself in her +merrily and prettily as ever. +merrily. +me!” rostóv whispered. +me, pierre. i shall not forget your interests.” +me only the day before yesterday not to forget borís. but he had +me of her own accord in the evening and tell me everything. perhaps i +men with broad, self-confident faces, fat fingers, and resolute gestures +men, who here, as in vienna, formed a special set which bilíbin, their +men was training a trotter of his own for a race. he knew a lady on one +men was to attack the french from different sides. the old prince did +men uselessly, and so had hastened to throw some sharpshooters into the +mention her!” he exclaimed fiercely. +mentioned their age. “if you marry it will be a different thing,” +mentioned during the journey. +mention, and which you think is the result of your own mental efforts, +men—the minister of foreign affairs, prince adam czartorýski.... it +mental image of his future activity in this direction rose in his mind. +mental activity is to you or me. you can’t help thinking. i go to bed +men take their first steps on life’s road, each saw immense changes in +men’s will. +men should continue to march at ease, and he and all his suite showed +men should be in their greatcoats and in marching order, and that the +men’s end the voices sounded louder and louder, especially that of the +men, seemed so immeasurably above him, an insignificant officer of the +men of the same kind hiding in the shadow of the house on both sides. +men disfigured by fear of death now crowded together, crushing one +men and provisions have not arrived. gallop off to him at once and +me... myself most of all. then i don’t eat, don’t wash... and how is +memory, i will do the impossible—your son shall be transferred to the +memory, his extensive reading (he had read everything, knew everything, +memory, and he told everybody that his son had been killed. he tried not +members of the council of war. they were drinking tea, and only awaited +members and guests jostling one another and trying to get a good look +member of the hofkriegsrath mildly and attentively. +melancholy was just like the august melancholy she showed at the mention +me, just because i have exerted myself on his behalf, befriended him, +me in war the energy of young men often shows the way better than all +me in the eyes of society, and even of the court,” he added, lowering +me in choosing me for your second, if at this grave, this very +me i lied, and i told him he lied. and there it rests. he may keep me +me. i am used to suffering.” +me!” he began to laugh. “well, what of it! i hope we’ll get better +me. ‘everyone fears a bear,’ he says, ‘but when you see one your +meeting, they had kissed each other, but today they felt it could not +meeting arrives. not daring to look round and without looking round, he +meditatively and rapidly: +medal he can get his reward just as well in the rearguard, but if he +me, but that he’ll marry julie. you see how he’s been with her all +me; but, my dear, i am getting on for sixty and must be prepared for +measures—the removal of injunctions, petitions, permits, and so +me apologize, because if he, as commander of this regiment, thinks it +meanwhile the younger generation: borís, the officer, anna +meanwhile the staff officer standing in front pointed out something to +meanwhile prince vasíli had opened the door into the princess’ room. +meanwhile, pétya, having found and seized the sabers in the outer room, +meanwhile nesvítski, zherkóv, and the officer of the suite were +meanwhile kutúzov sent his adjutants back to hasten to the utmost the +meant to double the three thousand just put down to his score, when +mean to fight, let’s fight. but the devil knows what this is.” +meant for him not only the loss of sixteen hundred rubles, but the +meant by the words all is over, “and the count’s papers are opened, +me,” answered a voice struggling with tears. +means. then you say, ‘lighten his toil.’ but as i see it, physical +meaning for him, that he paid no attention to it. the aunt was just +meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the best joys of his life; +mean good french society—will have been forever destroyed, and +meadow.” +me?” +me.” +me.” +me!” +mazuwka is this? but she does dance splendidly.” +“may the devil take them—the traitors!” +may perhaps have a stronger effect on the sincere seeker after wisdom +may not have seen, but i have seen, how good men brought up in those +may laugh as much as you like, but all the same bonaparte is a great +may i shall do my duty. i will come and spend the night. he must not be +may christ be with you in your great endeavor!” +“matvévna,” the gun from which they had removed the dead officer. +“matvévna’s” carriage. at the foot of the hill, a pale hussar +matters yourself!’ yes... that was the answer i got!” +matters very satisfactorily. borís, during the campaign, had made the +matters, social interests and the fair sex occupied no small part of his +matter of indifference whether he remained there for a few hours or for +matter might be he did not care, but it gave him great pleasure to +mathematics from her father, and when the old prince was at home went +matchmaking chronicles of moscow now speak of me as the future countess +match in russia, had sunk greatly in the esteem of society after his +master, would touch and delude him. +master’s thoughts. he guessed that the question referred to prince +master, “but those between virtue and vice. beware of making any +mass. looking down over the rails prince nesvítski saw the rapid, noisy +masses of russian troops. at the bend of the danube, vessels, an island, +masses. +masonic statutes, “be kindly and courteous,” recurred to him. he +mason. +mary’s room. +mary spent most of the day in the nursery, taking a mother’s place to +“mary,” she said, moving away from the embroidery frame and lying +mary! say...” and the little princess began to cry capriciously like +mary, really this dress does not suit you. i prefer you in your little +mary, i am going to love him very much,” said lise, looking with +mary. how good it would be to know where to seek for help in this life, +mary, having taken and closed the exercise book with the next day’s +mary entered the antechamber as usual at the time appointed for the +mary did not frighten them (she never inspired fear in anyone), but they +mary, but did not at once take his arm from the waist of mademoiselle +mary bolkónskaya.” +“mary bogdánovna, i think it’s beginning!” said princess mary +mary, and the little princess. prince andrew had been called to his +“márya lvóvna karágina and her daughter!” announced the +“márya dmítrievna! what kind of ice pudding? i don’t like ice +márya dmítrievna on her right and anna mikháylovna on her left, the +márya dmítrievna, curved his arms, beat time, straightened his +“márya dmítrievna?” came her voice from there. +márya dmítrievna and the countess burst out laughing, and all the +márya dmítrievna. +mary. +mary. +mary +martyr’s death for his sake. then robespierre was beheaded for being +marshal of the court, count tolstóy. +marry!” concluded prince andrew. +marry anyone, but will be a dancer. only don’t tell anyone.” +married, la petite est gentille.” * +married,” answered the countess sharply and sarcastically. +marriage—when the marriageable daughters and their mothers had nothing +“marriages are made in heaven,” replied the elderly lady. +marriageable daughters, and of the young ladies themselves, toward + * “marlborough is going to the wars; god knows when he’ll +markóv immediately dropped his own beside it and picked it up without +market place, where there had been some rather heavy firing before the +marked the change? i sat all the time in this same place at this table, +“marie” produced on the visitors. and she saw mademoiselle +maria theresa order of the third grade, which the emperor was conferring +mare he rode, his hand in a white glove gathered up the reins, and he +marching with particular grace and boldness in time to the song and +marching thirty miles that stormy night across roadless hills, with his +marching along both. +marched gaily, as they always do when going into action, especially to +many young men to his parents’ house. véra was a handsome girl +many wrinkles on his large features, to rostóv who was crimson with +many of them), and at last he saw how a whole detachment of french +man with the white forehead, black eyebrows, and red lips. +man, with gray bushy eyebrows overhanging bright eyes of an indefinite +man with a diamond ring on his forefinger, who was fond of speaking +man who has at length begun to attain a long-desired happiness. as soon +manure on well-kept plowland, lay from ten to fifteen dead and wounded +man. the revolution was a grand thing!” continued monsieur pierre, +man’s simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory. both +man’s penetration he understood all that was passing in bolkónski’s +man’s high, stout, uncovered chest and powerful shoulders, raised by +man’s hand and moving her lips as if to send it a kiss. pierre, +man, our dear vyazmítinov....” +man? on such matters i am only severe with myself. i understand such +man, of medium height, with firm, clearcut features. everything about +manner: they were all evidently firmly convinced of pierre’s noble +manners, who evidently considered himself a celebrity but out of +manner nor a desire to enter into conversation, but speaking so quietly +manner he wore in drawing rooms, but with the animated face with which +manly voice interrupting them both. “of course you artillery men are +manly-looking, but what amazed and estranged pierre till he got used +man is the count’s son,” she added more softly. “what a terrible +man is as surly as a dog.” +man.... here he is, and the count has not once asked for him.” +man, had not the five rubles that would make him happy. +mane—which, though he saw other faces as well, he had not lost sight +man. either this look meant nothing but that as long as one has eyes +man; by his acquaintances as a handsome lieutenant of hussars, a good +man beside you?” +man be fully imbued with the thought that we must defeat these hirelings +man, be for her? in her thoughts of marriage princess mary dreamed of +man, and that in the duel with bezúkhov, pierre was right and dólokhov +man and help him to worldly success. under cover of obtaining help +managed to utter (to her everything seemed funny). she leaned against +man.” again he pressed the hand of the latter with an expression of +man. +“mamma! what sweets are we going to have?” natásha again cried +“mamma! what sweets are we going to have?” and natásha’s voice +“mamma told me to ask you to join the dancers.” +“mamma!” rang out the clear contralto notes of her childish voice, +“mamma!... mamma!... he has made me...” +mamma has sent for me to go and dine at the apráksins’. read the +“mamma, are you cross? don’t be cross, dear! is it my fault?” +mamma.” +malodorous mouth. tears actually moistened his cheeks. +mallets, the doors opened before them. a bass voice (pierre was still +mallets and swords. as he was being led up to some object he noticed a +malevolent and caustic expression softened, as if admitting that what +“malbrook s’en va-t-en guerre. dieu sait quand reviendra.” * +make them look at the wag. +makes things trying for you, doesn’t it?” prince andrew asked +make something exceptional of them,” said the visitor. +make him go on. +make as successful a career of it as possible.” +make a remark, for the conversation interested him, but anna pávlovna, +make a career and must not miss opportunities, but must avail myself of +majesty, “who, thank god, was better today.” and each visitor, +majesty’s and you were pitied....” +majesty,” said an adjutant who had come from the batteries that were +majesty.” +majestic figure of his father, count bezúkhov, with that gray mane of +majestically entered the room. he was wearing his long coat with three +“mais, mon cher, i did this for my own sake, to satisfy my conscience, +mainly because denísov so delighted in her singing. she no longer sang +maid with the decanter in her haste had not closed the door (everything +maid’s voice at the door. +maid of honor’s hand to his lips, kissed it, and swung it to and fro +maid. +magnanimous. she felt convinced of that. thousands of dreams of a future +“ma foi, sire, nous ferons ce qui sera dans notre possibilité, +“ma foi!” said he, “tomorrow we shall see all that on the +“made what?” +made use of it.... “what have i done?” thought he. and he turned +made. prince andrew several times prompted pierre’s story of what he +mademoiselle bourienne was also looking at princess mary, and in her +mademoiselle bourienne walked up and down the conservatory for a long +mademoiselle bourienne, “mary’s is a face which such a coiffure does +mademoiselle bourienne in her arms and gently stroking her hair. the +mademoiselle bourienne, how i shall arrange it,” she added, smiling +mademoiselle bourienne and the little princess had to own to themselves +mademoiselle bourienne, also roused to great excitement by anatole’s +mademoiselle bourienne. +“made, made me an offer, mamma! mamma!” she exclaimed. +madeira”... “hungarian”... or “rhine wine” as the case might +made for the sacrament of unction, and in his house there was the bustle +made elegantly witty. in society he always awaited an opportunity to say +made a tour of the regiments and was annoyed at the irregularity of +made and highly valued. the old count came up to them and pressed +made a grimace, as if expecting something unpleasant. +“madame, i doubt my ability before such an audience,” said he, +madame de souza. he began reading about the sufferings and virtuous +“madame de genlis! madame de genlis!” shouted laughing voices +mack’s arrival... what’s the matter, rostóv? you look as if you’d +mack, have by now already gained a decisive victory and no longer need +mack. an austrian general complained of me. i congratulated him on +machine or set it in proper motion, so anna pávlovna moved about her +machine, an impulse once given leads to the final result; and just as +“ma chère, there is a time for everything,” said the countess with +ma chère! on behalf of the whole family i beg you to come, mon cher!” +lying on the ground; they also met a crowd of soldiers some of whom were +luxurious study and sat down to the dinner prepared for him. bilíbin +luminous eyes shone more brightly than usual from the tears of joy that +luminous eyes fixed on her nurse’s wrinkled face (every line of which +l’u! * i shall certainly adopt an innovation and call him simply +luggage. franz, bilíbin’s man, was dragging a portmanteau with some +lucky man and, with his plain face, to be looked on as a sort of paris +luck the man has!” +luck! such ill luck. as soon as you left, it began and went on. hullo +low tones. +lower one, and something like two distinct smiles played continually +loving her; in deceiving yourself and her.” and he vividly recalled +loving and honoring him. “why, i have not yet had time to settle +love you, and i think i love you more than anyone else....” +love you.” +love, though less ecstatically, with their tsar and the glory of the +love, such rapture, and such self-sacrifice, what do any of our quarrels +lovers of music do when they hear a false note. the two women let go +lovers!” he added. +love of death. he consoled himself with the thought that he fulfilled +lovely eyes there was a look of fearful joy and hope that was also new +love, love of one’s neighbor, love of one’s enemy, is worthier, +love him all the more, but nicholas now considered himself unworthy of +love her, for that would be impossible. +love her. +love for natásha was unpleasant to him and he had not once been to see +loved more than himself. he kept telling himself that he would consider +love and befriend him.” +love again, though for no one have i such a feeling of friendship, +“louis xvi was executed because they said he was dishonorable and a +loud that those in the drawing room heard her and were startled. “why +loudly, handing kutúzov an envelope. +lot? and who would marry marie for love? plain and awkward! they’ll +lost more than he could pay. +lost. dólokhov “killed,” that is, beat, ten cards of rostóv’s +lost count of his children, but this pierre was his favorite.” +lost....” and prince hippolyte began to tell his story in such russian +losses. the general whose regiment had been inspected at braunau was +losing confidence in its allies, suffering from shortness of supplies, +lorrain’s instructions. the german doctor went up to lorrain. +lorrain, pursing up his lips, waved a severely negative finger before +lorrain considered. +look which was fixed on him, but him she could not see, she only saw +“look then at thy inner self with the eyes of the spirit, and ask +“look sharp! look sharp!” several voices repeated around him. +looks) and she had put on a maroon dress with a pale-blue scarf, the +looks and manner gave that impression. the princess felt this, and as if +“look, prince,” said another, who would have dearly liked to take +look or bad opinion from him,” rostóv decided; and sorrowfully and +look. nicholas went up to her and kissed her hand. this was the first +“look! look there!” one soldier was saying to another, pointing to a +“look, look!” said this adjutant, looking not at the troops in the +looking with tender affection and pity at mademoiselle bourienne’s +looking with dismay at her husband. +looking with a scared face at his comrade for help. the door, having let +looking round at the sound. +looking pretty and conscious of it, were standing by the clavichord, +looking not at pierre but straight before him, and turning the leaves +looking like something between a cart, a cabriolet, and a calèche. +looking inquiringly at him and watching to see how he would behave +looking down at the waters of the enns under the bridge, nesvítski +looking back saw that their foremost ranks were mixed up with some +looking at those driving past as if he pitied all who were not at that +looking at the puff from the gun that had sent the ball. his eyes +looking at them, turned to an adjutant to ask him for a field glass. +looking at the midwife with wide-open eyes of alarm. +looking at the ground, he came on some sticky, trodden mud, stumbled, +looking at rostóv, “you’ll win it back all the sooner. i lose to +looking at pierre. “at the present time it is difficult to know the +looking at natásha. +looking at his watch. +looking at her own handsome face she seemed to become still colder and +looking at her and waiting. nicholas saw that denísov was refusing +looking and held out his hand to her. she pressed it. +looking about him uneasily, and an awkward pause followed. +look for her. +looked very thoughtful and tender. with his hands behind him he paced +looked straight at his adjutant’s face without recognizing him. +looked like tradespeople, ran hurriedly from the entrance and hid in the +looked eagerly toward his eyes, waiting for the look for which she +looked at that aged, stern, motionless, almost lifeless face and moved +looked at telyánin. the lieutenant was looking about in his usual way +looked as if by that slight motion the army itself was expressing its +looked as clean and well washed as the tips of one’s fingers after a +“look at them scurrying! it’s burning! just see the smoke! fine! +“look at papa!” though as it was they never took their eyes off the +“look at papa!” shouted natásha to the whole company, and quite +look at me,” cried denísov who, unable to keep still on one spot, +long. say ‘perhaps.’” +longest sentences, he stopped the rotary motion of the snuffbox, raised +longer to hinder them but because the guns were trained and there was +longer and went on, between gasps of laughter: “and the whole world +longed to snatch up, to squeeze, to hold to his heart, this helpless +longed to kiss his father’s hands and kneel to beg his forgiveness, +longed. sónya now was sixteen and she was very pretty, especially at +long and warmly to the emperor and how the emperor, evidently weeping, +“long ago,” answered rostóv, “i have already been for the hay, +long. +loneliness of his daughter amid the general conversation. “got herself +london—could pronounce pitt’s sentence, he saw a well-built and +lofty sky before? and how happy i am to have found it at last! yes! all +lofty, beautiful feeling, such a...” +loftiness of soul. she has refused to evacuate malta. she wanted to +lodge. willarski coughed, he was answered by the masonic knock with +lodge—were so strong that he could not resist them. again whole days, +locks of gray hair. +locality was known and shown in every detail on the maps, and bonaparte, +locality and surroundings—fruit gardens, stone fences, tiled roofs, +loading. +living with the rostóvs. +living without having solved the problems that so absorbed him. he had +living with his mother, who, if she saw him dying, would not survive it. +livery, get up behind the carriage, and come with me while i make some +lively little girl’s look made him inclined to laugh without knowing +lively disposition, bent over her frame to hide a smile probably evoked +lived for others, and not almost, but quite, ruined my life. and i have +lived for glory.—and after all what is glory? the same love of others, +lit wisps of straw and ran after him, shouting, “vive l’empereur!” +little while, felt as if they too were becoming, like her, full of life +little waves of the enns, which rippling and eddying round the piles of +little túshin, moving feebly and awkwardly, kept telling his orderly to +little towns there’s nowhere to spend it,” said he. “well, let me +little table, and anna mikháylovna noticed that something was agitating +little princess walked twice round her, now adjusting a fold of the +little princess, shrugging her shoulders. +little princess, and having asked for a needle began tracing the condé +little princess. +little natásha as grown up. +little napoleon had suddenly appeared with his unsympathizing look of +little matters which could not interest anyone but themselves. natásha +little, i mean a good deal, a great deal—forty three thousand.” +little icon with its thin gold chain suddenly appeared upon his chest +little gold icon princess mary had hung round her brother’s neck, but +little frenchy, successful only because there were no longer any +little fingers. “all right! then it’s settled?” +little effort.” +little creature, but dared not do so. he stood over him, gazing at his +little companion! i hope she will bring her along with her when we’re +little bent, looked with beaming face at the princess without +little as nicholas had occupied himself with sónya of late, something +lit room adjoining the count’s reception room. it was one of those +listen, while waiting till it would be time to leave. her task was +“listen to me, prince,” said she. “i have never yet asked you +listen to his tale. +“listen!” said he; “don’t worry about your wife: what can be +listening to the gypsies and other singers. +listening to bilíbin he was already imagining how on reaching the army +listening to an old russian general with decorations, who stood very +listened to the rhetor in silence, feeling from all he said that his +listened to his regular breathing. the dark shadow was princess mary, +listened, refraining from a reply, and involuntarily wondered how this +listened attentively. his favorite occupation when not playing boston, a +“listen, dear annette,” said the prince, suddenly taking anna +lise, young bolkónski’s wife, this very evening, and perhaps the +“lise!” was all prince andrew said. but that one word expressed +lise? take her to your room and i’ll go to father. how is he? just the +lise sighed too. +“lise!” said prince andrew dryly, raising his voice to the pitch +lise. i will follow.” +“lise, i beg you to desist,” said prince andrew still more +lips and met them with her own. her face struck pierre, by its altered, +lips. +link which other people recognized had grown up between himself and +lingered for a moment. +line to reconnoiter personally, and twice to the emperors, russian and +line—the officers had been unable to keep sight-seers away. the +line (the guards) was already in action. +lines of artillery with green caissons. +line of the advancing russian columns. evidently the person they were +linen shirt unfastened in front. “wait a bit, you fellows.... here is +line, for from where they had been before it had been evident that it +line followed them across and the last cossacks quitted the farther side +line; and the austrian troops. but they all stood in the same lines, +line and that of the enemy were far apart on the right and left flanks, +like wind over leaves ran an excited whisper: “they’re coming! +like these if one has any feeling?” said anna pávlovna. “you are +like the others, anna pávlovna schérer showed pierre the change of +like that six months ago?” +like strangers.” +likes her way of reading. she reads to him in the evenings and reads +like method of enlightenment. our order imitates the ancient societies +likely the doctor.” +like his own, at the firing, and went back at a footpace. “well, some +liked to tell him. he gathered up the papers and with a bow to both, +liked to repeat to herself. it was the story of a girl who had been +liked to help young men, was flattered by being asked for his assistance +liked to. he looked inquiringly at his monitress and saw that she was +like all those polish names.” +like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. whether he was +like a child, he fell into a deep, youthful slumber. +like a bird than a man.” +lights of shops, houses, and street lamps, fine carriages, and all that +lights and shouts in the enemy’s camp. rostóv rode up to bagratión, +lightly, more lightly, and yet more lightly whirled the count, flying +light. it was evident that the more lifeless he seemed at ordinary +lighted mirrors which repeated their reflections several times. now +light blue viennese calèche, slightly creaking on its springs and drawn +“lift it two lines more and it will be just right,” cried he in a +lift his stick again but hurried into the house. +lifted in childlike happiness. +life, which seemed to him so beautiful now that he had today learned to +life together were stripped, so that the screw could not get in or out, +life: remorse and illness. the only good is the absence of those evils. +life, he felt an unaccountable tenderness for this young man and made up +life guards, who had been losing that evening, climbed on the window +life from yours. i don’t wish to marry,” she answered positively, +“life as it is leaves one no peace. i should be thankful to do +life, and that of the seven virtues he lacked two—morality and the +life, and can’t, for i know no other. but think, andrew: for a young +life, all alone—for papa is always busy, and i... well, you know what +lieutenant general, our dear prince auersperg von mautern himself. +lid, drew out a drawer, and took out an exercise book filled with his +lichtenstein, le prince, de hohenlohe, and finally prishprish, and so on +liberty not to believe me and i don’t even care whether you do or +“liberty and equality,” said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at +“let us go to her, i must say good-by. or—go and wake and i’ll +“let us go ourselves. i only came round to ask denísov about +“let us go, iván lukích,” he said to the captain. +“let us go and have supper,” he said with a sigh, going to the door. +letting yourself be tricked by an aide-de-camp of the emperor. +letting the retreating companies pass by them, when a soldier came up +let themselves be tricked at the crossing of the vienna bridge, you are +“let them pass, i tell you!” repeated prince andrew, compressing his +letter to the emperor begging him to recognize pierre as legitimate, it +letter to murat: +letters to princess mary’s apartments, but did not find him there. he +letters to nicholas from all the household were written and copied out, +letters that had come from the archduke ferdinand, who was in command of +letters sent through the embassy and all the searches made, his body had +letter, he now was. +letter from home and meet one of your own people whom you want to talk +letter are not destroyed, then you will have nothing but the consolation +letter. +letter. +letter. +“let’s come, quick, quick!” and with a glance round, she smiled at +let him do what he vill, but i cannot sacrifice my hussars... bugler, +“let him do it, let him do it,” said dólokhov, smiling. +let her know.” +“let go, i tell you! i will take the responsibility. i myself will go +less than you do, but be a man!” +less sincerely than the twenty-year-old rostóv. +lesson, was about to leave: “mathematics are most important, madam! +less, ate less, slept less, and became weaker every day. princess mary +less a prey to evil and death?—death which ends all and must come +“le roi de prusse?” hippolyte said interrogatively, again laughing, +leonine head. this head, with its remarkably broad brow and cheekbones, +length portrait of catherine the great. the same people were still +lemarrois had just arrived at a gallop with bonaparte’s stern letter, +lëlya’s name day. i will invite two or three people, and if he does +legs, looked directly at prince vasíli with no sign of emotion in her +legs and turned-out toes, climbed the hill with difficulty.) prince +legal heir to everything and you won’t get anything. you must know, +left the chair on which he had been leaning, and—with an air +left like this. every moment is precious. i can’t think why his nieces +left him, rubbing his small white hands. +left foot began convulsively tapping the horse’s side with the spur, +left but to die?” he thought. “well, if need be, i shall do it no +left breast, and stooping down pulled up the left leg of his trousers +left bank of the danube and took up a position for the first time +left alone, pierre went on smiling in the same way. once or twice +left...” a fat major skirted a bush, puffing and falling out of +led along a certain carpet. after that they took his right hand, placed +le charmant hippolyte was surprising by his extraordinary resemblance +leave you cold a thousand times and the thousand and first time thrill +leave of rostóv in the club porch. +leave of her and of lise, his look tender yet proud. she saw him tender +leave me alone with him!” +“leave me alone, please leave me alone! it is all quite the same to +“leave it,” said dólokhov, though he did not seem to be even +least have some for my sake! she must be shown that the blockhead thinks +least disconcerted by this reception. he had just entered, wearing an +learning, was well brought up, and had a pleasant voice; what she said +learning that he was a special messenger led him to another entrance. +learn from suvórov even so simple a thing as the art of crowing like a +learned that dólokhov the brawler, dólokhov the bully, lived in moscow +leaping the furrows, he fled across the field with the impetuosity he +leaning with his arms on the back of the sofa, sat in his former +leaning his elbow on his knee and covering his face with his hand. after +leaned his arms on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes. pierre +leaf, gave it to kozlóvski, stepped quickly to the window, and threw +leading the tsar’s beautiful relay horses covered with embroidered +leader, called les nôtres. * this set, consisting almost exclusively of +lazily and advanced and again halted, receiving no timely orders from +lay in the general progress of the war. when he saw mack and heard the +lay across the bed with his head lower than the pillow, and was smacking +laws of its divine saviour, who preached love and forgiveness of +“lavwúska!” he shouted loudly and angrily, “take it off, +lavrúshka turned all the bedding over, looked under the bed and under +laughter, the shouting of familiar voices, the growling of a bear, and +laughter that convulsed his usually impassive features. +laughter led by natásha. both partners stood still, breathing heavily +laughing, “‘sergéy kuzmích... from all sides... from all sides... +laughing for some reason and shaking himself free. +laughing. “dear, dear!...” +laughing. +laughing. +laughed. “véra’s spiteful; never mind her! and all will come right +laughed spasmodically as he stood in the porch waiting for the vicomte +laughed loudest. +laughed. “i dreamed last night...”—“you were not expecting +laughed at every word he said or that she said herself, not because what +laughed. +laughed. +laugh. and they, too, passed on, so that nesvítski did not learn who +laugh. +latter threw up his arms in surprise saying it was nowhere to be found +latterly spent whole days at home, that is, in prince vasíli’s house +lathe?” asked prince andrew with a scarcely perceptible smile which +lathe and, as usual, did not look round at her. +late that night, when all had separated, denísov with his short hand +latest fashion, with extremely pointed toes and small silver spurs, +latest cut, such as no one else yet had in moscow, and boots of the +later on. oh, how glad i am to have you!” +“late! it’s nearly ten o’clock,” answered natásha’s voice. +late in starting her practice on the clavichord, went into the sitting +last updated: january 21, 2019 +last time. and suddenly, in the most casual tone, which made him feel +last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which +last remaining strength, took hold of his left hand with his right, and +last only his white plumes were visible to rostóv from amid the suites +last moments by not letting him commit this injustice, and not to let +last mademoiselle bourienne gave a scream and ran away. anatole bowed to +last long? it’s all the club and his easygoing nature. even in the +last interview with the gentleman-ranker—“that private dólokhov, +last few days. the antagonists stood forty paces apart at the farther +last deciding seriously to prove to this youth how foolish his words +last campaign, prince peter ivánovich bagratión!” and again his blue +lashes, thick black plaits coiling twice round her head, and a tawny +larrey, was much more likely to end in death than in convalescence. +largest landowner of the province. temptations to pierre’s greatest +larger circle. +large, newly furnished petersburg house, the happy possessor, as people +large leather sofa from prince andrew’s study into the bedroom. on +large estate, boguchárovo, about twenty-five miles from bald hills. +large dark ballroom. all was the same: there were the same old card +large and handsome eyes. he regarded his whole life as a continual round +lannes and was thrown into confusion. bagratión had sent zherkóv +language: english +langeron, with a subtly ironical smile, again glancing round for support +langeron, trying as virulently as possible to sting weyrother’s vanity +langeron’s objections were valid but it was obvious that their chief +lances and the unfolded standards fluttered against their staffs. it +lamp, she stood before it with folded hands for a few moments. a painful +lain in ambush in a ditch, now attacked the french unexpectedly. +“la femme est la compagne de l’homme,” * announced prince +lady visitor. +lady, adding the priest’s clerical title, as if she had no opinion of +“lads!” shouted milorádovich in a loud, self-confident, and cheery +“lads! here’s to our sovereign, the emperor, and victory over +lad’s a fine fellow, a fine fellow! well, come with me now.” he took +lad jumped awkwardly back into the room, tripping over his spurs. +ladies—” he turned with the same request to denísov who was also a +ladies’ end an even chatter of voices was heard all the time, at the +ladies and, leaning on his saber and beating time with his foot, told +ladies and gentlemen than rostóv had ever expected to see him. +lad,” he said, addressing his favorite soldier. “and where is the +lack the bump of paternity.” +lackeys who care nothing for their master’s business. quarante mille +labor was thus increased, though lessened on paper. he did not know +labor is as essential to him, as much a condition of his existence, as +labor but should die of it in a week, so he could not stand my physical +“la balance y est... * a german knows how to skin a flint, as the +“kuzmích... from all sides... and then tears,” someone repeated +kuzmích, asking what the point of the story was as he had not heard it +kutúzov writes...” and he screamed as piercingly as if he wished to +kutúzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over +kutúzov, with his suite diminished by more than half, rode toward a +kutúzov with his staff and all of us count for nothing. everything is +kutúzov with his eagle nose and puffy face appeared in the doorway. +kutúzov, whom he had overtaken in poland, had received him very kindly, +kutúzov, where he inquired for bolkónski, all the adjutants and even +kutúzov went out into the porch with bagratión. +kutúzov was occupying a nobleman’s castle of modest dimensions near +kutúzov was left with only his own weak and exhausted forces. the +kutúzov walked through the ranks, sometimes stopping to say a few +kutúzov walked slowly and languidly past thousands of eyes which were +kutúzov turned round without answering and his eye happened to fall +kutúzov turned away. the same smile of the eyes with which he had +kutúzov, there is not a single russian in command of a column! the +kutúzov’s whole army. to be able to crush it absolutely he awaited +kutúzov’s suite like a flock of little birds. +kutúzov sighed deeply on finishing this paragraph and looked at the +kutúzov’s headquarters and the staffs of the commanders of columns. +kutúzov’s face as he stood in the open doorway remained perfectly +kutúzov’s expectations that the proposals of capitulation (which were +kutúzov’s, collected in groups and began to talk about the awards, +kutúzov ... recommend borís to him as adjutant! then i shall be at +kutúzov no one spoke of, except some who abused him in whispers, +kutúzov looked sternly at his adjutant and, after a pause, replied: +kutúzov laughed bitterly. +kutúzov, he was sent immediately with a special dispatch to brünn. +kutúzov here woke up, coughed heavily, and looked round at the +kutúzov fell back toward vienna, destroying behind him the bridges over +kutúzov did not reply. he seemed to have forgotten what he had been +kutúzov chose this latter course. +kutúzov bowed with the same smile. +kutúzov accompanied by his adjutants rode at a walking pace behind the +kutúzov. + *kutúzov. +kurágin was expecting the usual set for cards that evening, after which +kurágins’. all maintained a solemn silence, listening to the words +“kurágin is exquisite when he discusses politics—you should see his +kronq,—chargé d’affaires from copenhagen—a profound intellect,” +kozlóvski, who was sitting at the window with a book. +kozlóvski were squatting on the floor by a tub so near to the commander +kórchevo—a certain khandrikóv—is up to; till now the additional +know yourself that last winter the count made a will by which he left +know what it is to be left a widow without means and with a son you love +“know this, másha: i can’t reproach, have not reproached, and never +know! the prussians are up in arms now. the austrians, you see, are +know that ourselves!” another, without looking round, as though + knows by experience, now, bagratión, +known). drawing nearer, he recognized in the rhetor a man he knew, +known as la femme la plus séduisante de pétersbourg, * was also there. +know my son’s going, márya dmítrievna? my son is going.” +know myself again.” +know my principles—everything aboveboard! i will ask her tomorrow in +knowledge. +know it is all over, and forever.” +knowing that denísov had a reputation even in poland for the masterly +knowing how. first he spun her round, holding her now with his left, now +know how to express it ... not by a balance of political power....” +know how to equip borís.” she took out her handkerchief and began to +know how to deal with them.” +know how to dance, had liked sitting in this room to watch the ladies +know how fond the count is of her.” +know his character: noble, upright ... but you see he has no one with +know god and hate your life. there is nothing strange in that, my dear +know, but he felt sure it would do so. the locality and the position of +know, and know for certain, that the enjoyment of doing this good is the +know all about it and understand it all,” he said. “you behaved as +know!” +knoll; if they had retreated they would have withdrawn from that too.... +knocking over two horses and another tearing off a munition-wagon +knocked three of them over. +knitting, went to the window and leaning out tried to catch the open +knitting a striped scarf for him. +knight. “i’m even weady to dance the pas de châle.” +knew what those society women are, and women in general! my father is +knew what had happened to him as he knew it himself. +knew till after eight o’clock. +knew that when it appeared on her face, she became mute and was not to +knew that. what will be the result? that i shall be the laughingstock of +knew....” +knee with the palm of his hand. +knees, some squatting turkish fashion on the wet grass. +knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the austrian authorities had provided +knapsacks, bayonets, long muskets, and, under the shakos, faces with +kitten which promises to become a beautiful little cat. she evidently +“kiss the doll,” said she. +“kiss me here,” and he touched his cheek: “thanks, thanks!” +kiss me,” and he offered his cheek. +kissing her hand, he left the room with quick resolute strides, without +kissing each other on the face, and then to prince andrew’s surprise +kisses. her looks asked him to forgive her for having dared, by +kissed princess mary’s hand. she did not know how she found the +kissed mademoiselle bourienne’s hand. (this was not etiquette, but +kissed him three times. +kissed him at the same time. only his mother was not there, he noticed +kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, +kissed her forehead. +kissed. her father in jest tried to rouse her jealousy, and she replied +kírsten. the staff captain on his broad-backed, steady mare came at a +king of prussia what he is to do if he is summoned to surrender.... all +king of prussia and others: ‘so much the worse for you. tu l’as +king francis is not much delighted by your victory. even i, a poor +kind, that is the chief thing,” thought princess mary; and fear, which +kind sprang from a second door and a third; more hugging, more kissing, +kinds overtaking one another and blocking the muddy road, three and +kind relation. but, nataly, you know my love for my son: i would do +kind of talk, and at last all stopped. as often happens, the horses of +kindness,” or, “with your excellent heart,” “you are yourself so +kindness!” he turned to go. +kindly, smiling, handsome face and moist eyes. nesvítski could hardly +“kindly return to your posts,” said the staff officer trying to +“kindly let this cart pass. don’t you see it’s a woman?” said +“kind...ly let—them—pass!” +kindle in all hearts the flame of virtue. share thy happiness with thy +kindle fires and make a noise to deceive us.” +kindhearted, and because they—friends from childhood—had to think +kind, because he has been a benefactor to them both. as sterne says: +“kill the germans!” shouted one. +kill me.” but at the same time, his left arm felt as heavy as if +killed, you are a fool and are lost for certain. but go with the firm +killed them, yes!” said he, frowning angrily and turning away from +killed.” rook tried to rise on his forelegs but fell back, pinning his +killed by a cannon ball—struck in the breast before our regiment.” +killed anyone, or insulted or wished harm to anyone? why such a terrible +killed and if i have a son, do not let him be taken away from you—as i +kiev province, where he had the greatest number of serfs, taking with +kerchief, and the loose skin that hung under her chin. +kept turning his horse in front of the squadron. +kept looking round toward the drawing room door. it opened and nicholas +kept coming into her eyes. anna mikháylovna, with the letter, came on +keep you long as an adjutant: a bad position! tell him i remember +keeping pierre close beside her, entered the room even more boldly than +keep from laughter provoked by a swarthy hussar officer who walked +keen-sighted a companion. “you know, you see right through people. +keen interest in the whole affair. you know she is very gracious to +karl give no signs of life and make blunder after blunder. kutúzov +kámenski, visited the english club, and was on intimate terms with a +kaiser alexander hoch!” *(2) said he, quoting words often repeated by +just visible behind a screen. a small dog began to bark. +just under the icons; his large thick hands outside the quilt. into the +“just to flutter the nuns a bit. they say there are italian girls +just then zherkóv entered the room. +just then at a distance behind kutúzov was heard the sound of regiments +just then another visitor entered the drawing room: prince andrew +just then a closed carriage and another with a hood drove up to the +just such a story—they would either not have believed him or, still +“just see where it carries to!” a soldier near by said sternly, +“just see, the german sausage is making tracks, too!” +just returned from vienna, two diplomatists, the old aunt, a young man +just returned from abroad where he had been educated, and this was his +“just look at the master! a regular eagle he is!” loudly remarked +just left.... it is true that it was hot there,” he added, modestly. +just completed. he lay with his head propped high on the pillows. his +just come out of a hot bath.” +just before dinner, count ilyá rostóv presented his son to bagratión, +just at moments when such thoughts occurred to him, he would ask in a +just as the mother and son, having reached the middle of the hall, were +just as the architect, gardener, or princess mary did, till the prince +just as prince andrew was a young man who gave promise of rising high +just as prince andrew met nesvítski and zherkóv, there came toward +just as in the mechanism of a clock, so in the mechanism of the military +just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable +“just as i may suppose you to be deluded,” said pierre, with a faint +just as he went in he saw that the nurse was hiding something from him +just as he was going to open it the sounds ceased, the door opened, and +just as at ulm... it is...”—he seemed to be trying to find the right +just above his ear. +junction advisable, meant, among other arguments in support of his view, +jump, túshin not taking his pipe from his mouth ran from gun to gun, +jumped down. he smelt strongly of rum. +julie wrote in french: +julie +joy to give my franz a thaler, or let him go with his liebchen to the +joys and sorrows of this world—overflowed the great grief within her. +joyfully up to pierre. his face was so unusually triumphant that pierre +joyfully that the men themselves were awed by their multitude and the +joyful it seemed, that her son, the scarcely perceptible motion of whose +joyful, but an animal, squirrel-like expression. she paused as if she +joyful and mysterious taking place within her. +joy at the approach of the emperors. one voice was heard shouting: +joy and happiness. on receiving the order he gave his horse the rein +jovial old gentleman, who standing beside his tall and stout partner, +jolted over the stony road. some of them were talking (he heard russian +jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a french battalion gets to +joke, and purposely trying to appear stupider than he really was. +joins the allies, austria’s hand will be forced and there will be war. +joined kutúzov at braunau now separated from the russian army, and +jingling sound it presented arms. then amidst a dead silence the +“je vous aime!” * he said, remembering what has to be said at such +jest was unacceptable and had not come off. he grew confused. +jests fell flat, news was not interesting, and the animation was +jests and gossip. +jest. +jerked away his plate, which tíkhon briskly caught. “suvórov!... +jaw trembling and was hardly able to mutter: “i don’t know... your +“jacob, bring a bottle!” shouted the host, a tall, handsome fellow +jacket. +jabbering! fine, isn’t it? it’s all the frenchy can do to keep up +“i won’t tell anyone!” and she ran off at once to sónya. +“i won’t say he is out of sorts, but i fancy he would like to be +“i wonder, is it not too late to administer unction?” asked the +“i wished to get a nap, mon cousin, but i can’t.” +“i will, your excellency,” said timókhin, showing by his smile that +“i will the bridge fire,” he said in a solemn tone as if to announce +“i will tell you frankly,” said prince vasíli in the tone of +“i will,” replied natásha. +“i will, i will, only tell me! you won’t? then i will go and tell at +“i will give the order.” +“i will do so,” said prince andrew, moving away from the map. +“i will do it all, father,” he said. +“i will allow no one to call me a liar!” cried rostóv. “he told +“i? what have i...?” stammered pierre. +“i was very much surprised when i heard of it,” said prince andrew. +“i was told a charming moscow story today and must treat you to it. +i was to blame for not understanding her, for not understanding that +“i was there,” said rostóv angrily, as if intending to insult the +i was saying, prince vasíli is the next heir through his wife, but the +i was right. without boasting, you know, i may say that i know the army +“i was going to ask you. i know nothing except that it was all i could +“i was coming to tell you so.” +“i was attached; i’m on duty.” +“i want to teach this young man how to shoe a horse,” said +“i want to know!” +“i want nothing, and i won’t be anyone’s adjutant.” +“i want a great deal, count! i want five hundred rubles,” and taking +“i’ve seen him myself!” +i’ve nothing against it,” the prince said to himself, “but he must +“i’ve come to sit with you a bit, másha,” said the nurse, “and +“i’ve come to say good-by.” +“i’ve been sent back to the regiment all on account of that devil, +ivánovich (who always went into a corner to blow his nose on his +ivánovich kutúzov: +ivánovich. he is in a very bad humor, very morose. be prepared.” +it you talked about?” and prince andrew crooked a third finger. “ah, +it!’ ‘yes, let’s!’ say the others. and off they go and take the +“it would not be turned off the field even on the tsarítsin +it would not ache—it would be well—if only they did not pull it, but +“it would have been hard to drive up, your honor,” he added. “i +it would have been difficult for a face to express greater respect and +“it would be good,” thought prince andrew, glancing at the icon his +it would be different if you grudged losing a laborer—that’s how i +it worth thinking or speaking of it at such a moment? at a time of such +it won’t be your skirmishing at dürrenstein, or gunpowder at all, +it with you?...” +it were not my duty i would not talk to you for a moment”), was +it were not his. he examined his hand carefully, vainly trying to find +it was true that a view over nearly the whole russian position and the +it was the second night that neither of them had slept, watching the boy +“it was the officer, your honor, stained it,” answered the +it was, the disorder was readily and naturally attributed to the stupid +it was that the pain distracted him and prevented his seeing what he had +it was st. natalia’s day and the name day of two of the rostóvs—the +it was rumored that savary had been sent to propose to alexander +it was prince andrew. the first thing he saw on riding up to the space +it was pleasant and touching to see these little girls in love; but +it was plain that this “well?” referred to much that they both +it was plain that this cadet had already repeatedly asked for a lift and +it was past one o’clock when pierre left his friend. it was a +it was one of those march nights when winter seems to wish to resume its +it was not the dress, but the face and whole figure of princess mary +it was not so, that i had no right to do it. and so it turns out.” +it was no longer, as before, a dark, unseen river flowing through the +it was nine o’clock in the morning. the fog lay unbroken like a sea +it was napoleon accompanied by two aides-de-camp. bonaparte riding +“it was my fault, mon père,” interceded the little princess, with a +it was long since the rostóvs had news of nicholas. not till midwinter +it was long since rostóv had felt such enjoyment from music as he +it was long before their conversation could settle on anything. they +it was late in the evening when they entered the palace at olmütz +it was just the moment before a big dinner when the assembled guests, +it was in july, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known anna pávlovna +it was, in fact, solely to meet prince vasíli that she had obtained an +it was impossible to get rid of them. +it was evident that this strange, strong man was under the irresistible +it was evident that prince andrew was not interested in such abstract +it was evident that he performed his duty as a subordinate with even +it was evident that he did not like the vicomte and was aiming his +it was a warm, rainy, autumnal day. the wide expanse that opened out +it was already quite dark when prince andrew rattled over the paved +“it was all they could do to rescue the poor man,” continued the +it was all that they could do to get the guns up the rise aided by the +“it von’t go begging,” replied the german with a smile. +it under your head like a treasure,” said rostóv. “i put it just +it under the terms of the project gutenberg license included with this +it turns out that we have landed ourselves in war, and what is more, +it turns out that ‘the enemy of the human race’ pays no heed to +it to its destination and make use of it. +it to be alleged that he had been the first to leave the range of fire, +it timidly and tenderly on her son’s arm, “be affectionate and +it. telyánin took the purse and began carelessly slipping it into the +“it’s wonderful what a lot of our troops have gathered, lads! last +its usual semblance of a smile. +its use, he does not believe in the master who made it. to know him is +its upper lip covered with tiny black hair. +it’s true he has been reinstated, but how could they fail to do that? +it’s too late now when vienna is occupied by the french army!” +its thunder joining the roar of the whole line along which he had +“it’s the enemy?... no!... yes, see it is!... for certain.... but +“it’s that protégé of yours, that sweet princess drubetskáya, +it’s splendid. i am very glad to have made your acquaintance. it’s +“it’s plain that they have not all gone yet, prince,” said +“it’s not true!” +“it’s not there.” +“it’s not that i don’t remember—i know what he is like, but not +it’s not pleasant, but what’s to be done, my dear fellow? you landed +“it’s nothing,” replied prince andrew. +“it’s nothing, nothing; leave me alone!” sobbed sónya. +“it’s not going to be a ghost story?” said he, sitting down beside +“it’s not at all from friendship,” declared nicholas, flaring +it’s not all the same to us! am i not right, denísov? it’s not the +its last march the day before—presented a well-ordered array of two +“it’s in the inlaid portfolio that he keeps under his pillow,” +“it’s impossible,” replied another. +it, she was herself in such high spirits at that moment, so far from +its handsome, sensual mouth, and its cold, majestic expression, was +“it’s empty.” +itself to him. he was already enjoying that happiness when that +itself, rejoicing at the emperors’ approach, had naturally burst into +itself, a petty german town, rostóv saw the emperor again. in the +itself?” +“it seems that while he was abroad this young man was allowed to do +“it seems that there will be no need to bring mary out, suitors are +“it seems funny to me,” said pierre, “that you, you should +it seemed to pierre that he grew embarrassed. pierre himself grew still +it seemed to pierre, sunk in profound and calm meditation. his servant +it seemed to him that he was being fired at. “what? what? what?... cut +it seemed to her that not only did everybody know that her fate would be +it seemed so natural to pierre that everyone should like him, and it +it seemed quite natural that they should cry, and apparently it never +it seemed as if nothing in that voice could be altered without spoiling +it seemed as if from some words borís had spoken that evening about the +“it’s different on different days,” answered the captain. “one +it’s definite and one is rid of the old tormenting doubt.” pierre +its broad temples and close-cropped hair, and looked at bezúkhov. the +it’s as if it had been done on purpose, on purpose. besides, suppose +“it’s as if a dam had burst,” said the cossack hopelessly. “are +“it’s a shame for a soldier to steal; a soldier must be honest, +“it’s andrew!” thought princess mary. “no it can’t be, that +“it’s ancient history,” said another, guessing that it referred to +“it’s a long time since we met,” he said. “thanks for coming. + “it’s a long, long way. +“it’s all very well for you... i am not envious... i love you and +“it’s all up! i’m lost!” thought he. “now a bullet through my +“it’s all the same to me,” he said. “i only want to see whether +“it’s all the same now. if the emperor is wounded, am i to try to +“it’s all the fault of these fellows on the staff that there’s +“it’s all over; but i am a coward—yes, a coward!” thought +“it’s all about the war,” the count shouted down the table. “you +“it’s a lackey’s job!” +“it’s a bad business,” said the general without answering him, +“it’s a bad business, eh?” +i trouble myself about you, and you also know quite well that what i +it right to refuse a duty to which he had been appointed by the emperor +it really happened, it would have been necessary to make an effort of +it,’” prince andrew continued after a short silence, again quoting +it, or why it had to be told in russian, still anna pávlovna and the +it or not, and how they would cross it, agitated them all. +it on the field at schön grabern. young rostóv’s ecstatic voice +it, on the crest of the opposite hill, the village of schön grabern +it on something, and told him to hold a pair of compasses to his left +it on his coat and supported himself with it. his frowning face was +“i told you it was all lumps and holes!” the little princess +it, next day, november 15, after dinner he again went to olmütz and, +it necessary to introduce himself, and without experiencing the least +“it must be one of ours, a prisoner. yes. can it be that they will +it might really have been so? could one possibly make out amid all that +“it may be treachery,” said prince andrew, vividly imagining the +“it may be he or it may be nothing,” muttered the hussar. “it’s +it’ll be worse if he fires the bridge. see, here’s an officer jammed +“it’ll be worse for you. bogdánich is vindictive and you’ll pay +it is. you must know. we will take it at once and show it to the +“it is very strange, mon monsieur prince,” said the staff officer. +“it is very good of you, monsieur pierre, to come and visit a poor +“it is too late now, it’s done; besides i love her,” thought +“it is the sword of frederick the great which i...” she began, but +“it is the buonapartists who say that,” replied the vicomte without +it is terrible to think.... this is my son,” she added, indicating +“it is some letter of recommendation... what the devil do i want it +it is said ‘there are thieves among the pávlograd officers!’ but +it is past midnight—cannot now be altered,” said he. “you have +“it is of great importance to me,” she said, turning with a smile +“it is now my turn to ask you ‘why?’ mon cher,” said bolkónski. +it is. my dear pet!” +it is for you to talk or think of such matters. it is no easier for +“it is for the reasson, my goot sir,” said he, speaking with a + it is for thee thus swells her heart, +“it is dreadful, dreadful!” she was saying, “but cost me what it +“it is done!” she said to the count, pointing triumphantly to the +“it is an illness, there’s no other way of explaining it,” said +“it is all very well for rostóv, whose father sends him ten thousand +“it is all, all her fault,” he said to himself; “but what of that? +it is a bit of mack. we are macked),” he concluded, feeling that he +it. if you refuse him on my account, i must tell you the whole truth. i +“i thought today’s fete had been canceled. i confess all these +“i thought perhaps something had happened,” she said with her +i think there were not many such gallant sons of the fatherland out +“i think the battle will be lost, and so i told count tolstóy and +“i think,” said the prince with a smile, “that if you had been +“i think i may congratulate you,” whispered anna pávlovna to the +“i... that’s different. why speak of me? i don’t want any other +“it has begun. here it is!” thought prince andrew, feeling the +it had the commander in chief continued to look at him, and so kutúzov, +it had appeared. the count sat on the sofa between two guests who were +it. fr... fr... fr! and don’t i see that that idiot had eyes only for +it. feel in your pockets.” +it escape from his handsome mouth in rings. this was lieutenant berg, an +“i tell you,” shouted denísov, “he’s a fine fellow.” +i tell you he is in our hands, that’s certain! but what was most +i tell you buonaparte was a great tactician? here, he says the same +i tell her how i’ve seen the emperor?) natásha... take my +it, easily find a way to prepare for the enemy the fate he deserves. +it dashed, some forward and some back, drowning one another. +“it can’t be!” said rostóv. “it must have been someone else.” +it can’t be helped!” said the count, shrugging his shoulders and +“it can’t be helped! it happens to everyone!” said the son, with +it can’t be a square—for they are not drawn up for that.” +it. but at that moment an adjutant galloped up with a message from the +it. at that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over +it at that age.” +it appears that we are within sight of the enemy and must give battle. +it...” answered her son coldly. “but i have promised and will do it +it and wished to hear it again. in her voice there was a virginal +it and saw telyánin’s horse at the porch. +it. and he is so clever and so good!” said natásha. “don’t +italy and on the rhine; how fifty thousand russians and as many english +it all very well for prince vasíli told me himself. besides, cyril +“it all depends on the bringing up,” remarked the visitor. +italian to give her lessons.” +italian: “‘dio mi l’ha dato. guai a chi la tocchi!’’ +it?” +it.” +it. +it. +is very unhappy with her father. she is a relation of yours, princess +is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. there is nothing, +is to take care of yourself. leave it to those who are no longer fit for +“i still can’t understand what you are afraid of,” said prince +“is this your saber?” he shouted. +“is this your saber?” asked pétya. “or is it yours?” he said, +“is this the way to the princesses’ apartments?” asked anna +“is this good or bad?” pierre asked himself. “it is good for me, +“is there sufficient forage in krems?” +is the only thing left me—not singing!” his thoughts ran on. “go +is the only difference between them.” he said this smiling in a way +is the one held by the majority of people, and is the invariable fruit +“is the englishman bragging?... eh? is it all right?” said anatole. +is the baby born?” +is that the emperor is here. how he looked at me and wished to say +“is that so? and what did he say?” inquired bolkónski. +“is that mary practicing? let’s go quietly and take her by +is such men as he who decide the fate of nations,” added bolkónski +is, stormed and stormed and stormed! it was not a matter of life but +is so i don’t know...” +is so fond of?” he remembered his mother’s love for him, and his +is pua’ as on the fihst day of cweation... who’s that now? send him +“is papa at home?” he asked. +“isn’t she too young? i have heard that it harms the voice to train +“isn’t she exquisite?” she said to pierre, pointing to the stately +isn’t it logical? +is now rushing along the road to brünn and will be here in a day or +is now on the staff.” +is not so, then...” +is not my fault that i want it and want nothing but that and live only +is nothing but a trick! he has retreated and ordered the rearguard to +is not abashed now, so she cannot be a bad woman!” he had often begun +is my witness,” and she made the sign of the cross, “i love her so +is much better than ours.” +“is it worth while noticing trifles?” he reined in his horse with +“is it true that austrians have been beaten?” asked dólokhov. +“is it possible?” exclaimed anna mikháylovna. “oh, how awful! +“is it for visitors you’ve got yourself up like that, eh?” said +“is it certain?” she said. +is interrupted. he listened to what langeron said, as if remarking, +is how i explain it to myself. it can’t be helped!” +“‘i showed them the path to glory, but they did not follow +“i should think not,” said véra, “because there can never be +“i should think he has a score of them.” +“i should not be doing my duty, count,” he said in timid tones, +“i should never dare to say that i know the truth,” said the mason, +“i should like to speak well of them, but as far as i know the facts, +“i should like to go to kurágin’s,” thought he. +“i should like,” said the vicomte, “to ask how monsieur explains +“is he really to be my husband, this stranger who is so kind—yes, +“i shall scarcely be able to avail myself of your hospitality, +“i shall probably die before you. so remember, these are my memoirs; +i shall expect you, drubetskóy. au revoir!” exclaimed prince andrew, +i shall conclude will be worthy of my people, of you, and of myself. +i shall be very charmed to see you tonight between 7 and 10—annette +i shall be in a more prominent position,” continued berg, “and +“i shall be delighted to meet them,” said the prince. “but +“i shall at any rate not run after a young man before visitors...” +“i shall always remember that in this world one must expect no reward, +is good to have a friend like the prince,” she said, smiling at prince +is going as a cadet. there’s no one to interest himself for him. to +is for myself.” +“is everything quite all right?” +is denísov!” +is connected with the montmorencys through the rohans, one of the best +is called weak character, do not seek a confidant in their troubles. he +is betraying us! russia alone must save europe. our gracious sovereign +“i say, we’ve been in the front line! our regiment attacked!” said +“i say, this is folly! he’ll be killed,” said this more sensible +“i say so,” he continued desperately, “because the bourbons fled +“i say, shall we soon be clear? they say the cavalry are blocking the +“i say, rostóv,” said dólokhov clearly, smiling and looking +“i say, fédeshon!... did he say when the battles are to begin? you +“i say, father, joking apart, is she very hideous?” anatole asked, +“i say, come round some evening and we’ll have a game of faro!” +“i say, berg, my dear fellow,” said rostóv, “when you get a +“i saw you riding this morning...” he added. +“i saw the pávlograd hussars attack there, your excellency,” chimed +“i saw him myself,” replied the man with a self-confident smile of +is a very good thing, but not for you—i don’t suppose you ever had +is an admirable book which calms and elevates the soul. adieu! give +is a mob of scoundrels and not an army,” he was thinking as he went +is all i have to say to you. the count is very, very ill, and you must +“i said from the first,” declared anna pávlovna referring to +irritation. +irresolution communicated itself to the men. +irresistibly attractive to pierre. +irresistible human need for sleep. he really was asleep. weyrother, with +irreproachably washed, brushed, and buttoned, held his pipe in the +irrepressible hatred. +irreparable. there was no insult on either side. allow me to +ironical voice. +“i request you to have the goodness to change your coat,” he said as +“i rely on you, my dear,” said anna pávlovna, also in a low tone. +“i recognize you only too well, too well.” +i really take it? how fortunate!” he thought. +“i quite understand,” answered princess mary, with a sad smile. +“i promised to pay tomorrow,” said nicholas. +“i peg of you yourself not to mix in vot is not your business!” +“i ought to tell you that i do not believe... do not believe in +i only wanted to know your opinion,” and anna pávlovna let pierre go. +iogel’s were the most enjoyable balls in moscow. so said the mothers +“i often think, though, perhaps it’s a sin,” said the princess, +“i often think,” she continued after a short pause, drawing nearer +in zherkóv, looking uneasily around. he had not seen the hussars all +in which kutúzov entrusted them to the humanity of the enemy; and +in war on our own frontiers, with and for the king of prussia. we have +involuntarily, so much so that the only thing left to do seemed to be +involuntarily noticed that one of them was bleeding, and galloped on. +involuntarily, came up and sat down beside him. +involuntarily came closer to him. +invitation to anna pávlovna’s reception and had sat listening to +invincibility of the french, and the minister of war does not even care +in vienna knew him and valued him. he was not one of those many +invent him,” said the wit shinshín, parodying the words of voltaire. +invalid,” said anna pávlovna, exchanging an alarmed glance with her +invalid chair, a wax taper in his left hand, was leaning his left arm on +intriguer!” she hissed viciously, and tugged with all her might at the +intoxication. he felt as though he were the center of some important and +into which we have been drawn, god knows how or why. not only where you +into the water, or when he challenged a man to a duel without any +into the water. he tried to right himself but fell in up to his waist. +into the valley. he greeted the men of the foremost regiment and gave +in to the utmost, their red necks squeezed into their stiff collars, and +into the naïvely symmetrical pose of an egyptian statue, evidently +in to the minister of war. five minutes later he returned and bowing +into the insignificant, trifling, and artificial interests uniting that +into the distance, at the waters of the danube, at the sky, and at the +into the corridor and met—coming out of the door of the emperor’s +into step with a hop, looked back angrily, and through the ominous +into sobs. +in too”—different voices were saying in the crowd, as the men looked +intonation, look, and expression, pricked up her ears from the beginning +“in token of obedience, i ask you to undress.” +in to inform the commander in chief of this and, availing himself +into his room one evening in the official and ceremonious manner in +into her radiant smile. +into her heart an impulse that was against his will. my wife—as she +into borís’ eyes. after he had gone pierre continued pacing up and +“into action! into action! bring him a bottle for such news! but how +into action as arranged, and after going behind other columns for +into a careless, merry smile. “what am i? an illegitimate son!” +intimately regretted that he had died so young, leaving a pregnant wife +intimately. prince andrew spoke with some animation and interest only of +in this room it was almost dark; only two tiny lamps were burning before +in this part of the house and did not even know of the existence of +in the world and above everything in the world. “what were losses, and +in the village of hosjeradek there were russian troops retiring from +in the viennese drawing rooms and often had an influence on matters +in the third circle, narýshkin was speaking of the meeting of the +in the sutler’s hut without his boots.” he recognized the agreeable, +in the streets of petersburg in an old uniform. he made friends with +in the spring of 1807 he decided to return to petersburg. on the way he +in the small circular room. around the table all who were at count +“in the seventh place, try, by the frequent thought of death,” the +in the second room of the inn the lieutenant was sitting over a dish of +in the same tone. +in the same tone. +in the same order in which they had entered but with redder faces, the +in the room next their bedroom there was a confusion of sabers, +in the rearguard, dokhtúrov and others rallying some battalions kept up +in the passage denísov, with a pipe, was squatting on the threshold +in the other the letter, and pressing them alternately to her lips. +in the night he called his valet and told him to pack up to go to +in the morning anna mikháylovna said to pierre: +in the morning all that was left of the night mist on the heights was +in the mist. +in the military profession, so to an even greater extent bilíbin gave +in the midst of the third écossaise there was a clatter of chairs being +in the midst of a conversation on political matters anna pávlovna burst +in the middle of the line that had seemed so terrible—and now he +in the middle of his story, just as he was saying: “you cannot imagine +in the meantime, not only was it known in the maidservants’ rooms that +in the mean jocular way common to anonymous letters said that he saw +in the meadow behind the village, three of them are dragging something. +in the light of the dull autumn evening, mounted men coming toward him. +in the letter from his parents was enclosed a letter of recommendation +in their power. +in their own play. +in their childlike glee, aroused by the fire and their luck in +in the house was done in haste at that time), and pierre and anna +in the house on the povarskáya rose before him with such vividness, +in the hair, the hair combed up, and the blue scarf arranged lower on +in the garden, or superintending the building that was always going on +in the fresh morning air were now heard, not two or three musket shots +in the evening,” reported rostóv, stooping forward with his hand at +in the evening andrew and pierre got into the open carriage and drove to +in the evening, after supper, when all were about to retire, anatole +in the emperors’ suite were the picked young orderly officers of the +in the emperor’s suite all exchanged rapid looks that expressed +in the drawing room, waiting for borís to come out. she was already +in the drawing room the conversation was still going on. +in the drawing room, talking to the little princess and mademoiselle +in the dining room, which like all the rooms in the house was +in the deathlike stillness only the tramp of horses was heard. this +in the darkness, it seemed as though a gloomy unseen river was flowing +in the count’s room, which was full of tobacco smoke, they talked +in the country.” +in the common motion the result and aim of which are beyond its ken. +in the best possible manner, and feeling that he was doing it well he +in the beginning of the winter of 1805-6 pierre received one of anna +in the baggage train he had passed that morning on the znaim road seven +in the autumn the rostóvs returned to moscow. early in the winter +in the autumn of 1806 everybody had again begun talking of the war with +in the assurance that the rumors about the emperor being wounded were +in the army, besides the subordination and discipline prescribed in the +in the afternoon, having made all his calls, he was returning to +in that happy mood in which everything seems possible and everything +“in that case we can go,” said willarski. “my carriage is at your +“in that case he is inviting his doom by awaiting our attack,” said +“in that case...” began willarski, but pierre interrupted him. +interview? why negotiate, and above all why retreat, when to retreat is +intervene. prince andrew looked at túshin from under his brows and his +interrupting one another and mingling with the rustling of dresses and +interpreted. the life of old prince bolkónski, prince andrew, and +interfere, making a scene on the very threshold of a dying man’s room? +interests,” said bilíbin. +interesting but hardly feasible.” +interesting and entertaining. after the field marshal’s departure +interesting.” +interested the minister of war less than any of the other matters he was +intercourse with young women. +intention to part from her forever. +intention should he try to direct his whole force against our faithful +intention of proposing, and today or tomorrow he would probably ask +intention of killing your man as quickly and surely as possible, and +intends to expose his precious person to the chances of war. god grant +intending to rest if but for a moment, eat something, and try to sort +intended to visit all his estates and see for himself how far his orders +intended to take up our position and begin the action, but were on this +intended for you too. give them to the woman whom you shall honor most +intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously. the general looked the +intelligent, how is it you don’t see that if the count has written a +intelligent, and resolute young man. +intellectual pride,” said the princess, following the train of her own +insufficient, and he kept expecting something more, more and yet more. +instrument he could not begin to speak. +instructions to major ekonómov, he could not help taking notice of the +instructions his father had sent and taking the correspondence and his +instructing in reading, writing, and religion. on all his estates pierre +in step, and each one of these hundreds of soldiers seemed to be +instead of that he only excited himself more and more. +instead of firing it, flung it at the frenchman and ran with all his +instead of black. the regimental commander walked with his jerky steps +instantly his regret at not having been in action and his dejected mood +instantly dropped them again. all the blood which had seemed congested +in spite of this, both the face and words of his new acquaintance were +in spite of the animation of his speech, bilíbin did not forget to +in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the austrian +in spite of prince andrew’s disagreeable, ironical tone, in spite of +in spite of himself (although he knew how far it was safe to trust +inspired by the emperors’ presence were eager for action. the +in some way essential. +in some respects a brilliant match for the dowerless, orphan girl. from +insoluble. +insolent intelligence of his eyes, produced an effect which made it +insolent, hard, and mocking face as he had seen it at the banquet, and +in society it seems as if there were something in them, but there’s +in silence, and then the same joke was repeated. +insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and +“in short, hoping to settle matters by taking up a warlike attitude, +in separate piles, began counting them. +insane—unprofitable to himself, to the count, and to the serfs—made +in rostóv’s soul! and this something was apart from everything else +in retirement and had now no influence in political affairs, every high +inquiry. the son noticed that an expression of profound sorrow suddenly +inquiring what she was to do with these people. on leaving them, anna +inquiringly at the young prince, wondering what would follow. +inquiring look. he was about to stoop over her hand and kiss it, but +in pure, correct french many interesting details about the armies and +in princess drubetskáya’s case he felt, after her second appeal, +in petersburg, as in moscow, pierre found the same atmosphere of +in petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day +in perplexity, and only later grasped that a stroke was an attack of +in passing prince vasíli seized pierre’s hand and said to anna +“in our temples we recognize no other distinctions,” read the grand +in our lack of understanding we see only our weakness and his +in our house, aren’t they?” +in our army. his own strategic plan, which obviously could not now +in only his stockings, rose when they entered, smiling not altogether +in one company dinner was ready, and the soldiers were gazing eagerly +in on bad company. rostóv flushed up on noticing this, but he did not +in october, 1805, a russian army was occupying the villages and towns of +inn, where two roads parted. both of them led downhill and troops were +in no way binding) might give time for part of the transport to pass, +in november, 1805, prince vasíli had to go on a tour of inspection +in november, 1805, announcing that he and his son would be paying him +innocent youth. +innocent and untried?” +inner laboratory of his mind in a portable form as if intentionally, so +in my opinion was nothing of the kind. we civilians, as you know, have +in military matters. +in me. i have been told that her brother anatole was in love with her +in mary bogdánovna’s trembling white hands. +in love with the tsar,” he said. +in love. the marshals stood behind him not venturing to distract his +in life, one she had not yet experienced, irreparable and +in lace-frilled drawers, and feet in low slippers—was just at that +in kishenëv with only a moldavian peasant woman to help instead of a +in killed, wounded, sick, and stragglers; though a number of sick and +in kiev pierre found some people he knew, and strangers hastened to make +injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing +in it by spring. +in.’ i do not know how far he was justified in saying so.” +in his writing table, and this is a paper he has forgotten....” +in his voice a sincerity and weakness pierre had never observed in it +in his tone, “my dear,” whether they were above or below him in +in his saddle. +in his movements, in his walk, scarcely a trace was left of his former +in his mind an unsettled question he always tried to stifle, one about +in his large elongated hand on blue paper as follows: +in his horse, said to him: +in his horse before the emperor. +in his hand, was sitting there with a smile of deep emotion on his face, +in his fine gray eyes, and on his delicate lips the same capacity for +inheritance; but i do know that since this young man, whom we all used +in her eyes, which, for an instant, glanced at pierre, prince vasíli +in hand. +in half an hour all was again in order, only the squares had become gray +inhabitants on whom they were quartered. braunau was the headquarters of +in great russia, which formed the larger part of his property, and left +ingratiating and appealing smile, and took his hand that he might not go +in good spirits, he mounted his horse and rode out into the field +in god’s hands. you may die in your bed or god may spare you in a +in geometry were among the greatest delights of her life. +“in general we must turn this bloodthirsty soldier to more humane +in general at bald hills the little princess lived in constant fear, and +in front of them rows of gray cloaks were already visible through the +in front of them, and that the columns moving near pratzen constituted +in front of him was misty darkness. rostóv could see nothing, peer as +in front of him and that the enemy must be at least six miles away. +in french out of all this, showing all the news we have had of the +in french. +in four different provinces. he had arranged this for himself so as to +“inform the prince that labor has begun,” said mary bogdánovna, +“inform the prince that i the bridge fired!” said the colonel +informing the prince that as soon as the action began he had withdrawn +informed him of a victory and stated strategically the position of the +influence of the dark, graceful girl who loved another. +influence of a variety of exciting sensations. only pierre and +influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized +inflammable material on the bridge must be reinspected.” +infants in arms met him to thank him for releasing them from hard +infantry officer who just before the battle had rushed out of +infantry in different uniforms; now was heard the rhythmic beat of +infantry, cavalry, and artillery. how was it that two guns were +infantry, and having reached the village of gruntersdorf they halted. it +infantry and cavalry and took up its appointed position. not only the +infantry. +infamous, vile woman!” +in exactly the same manner. nesvítski laughed and nudged the others to +inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. but you are +inevitable pain showed itself. +“i never invited them. they came to disturb my life—and there is not +“i never go back on my word,” he said. “besides, sónya is so +“i never could understand how nataly made up her mind to marry that +i need.” but when he came across a man of position his instinct +individual commanders and inquiring into details of the action and our +indistinct words, shrugging his shoulders and gesticulating. +indisposition was the strong impression made on his sensitive mind by +in discussion with the sole object of offending one another. but the +indiscretion, one might ask about our plans. +indiscretion, nodded and said: “i hope to see you again, but i also +indignantly. “i come to ask you what to do, and you call it +indifferently to his wife’s chatter with prince hippolyte who had also +indifferently quiescent till the moment when motion is transmitted +indifferent hands of the minister of war and the polite adjutant. the +indifferent air, and glanced into the little drawing room. pierre and +indifference, began to hum to himself, producing a queer sound which +indications, he saw clearly that the allies believed him to be far away +indication of something new and stern showed round the mouth. +indicating her to the gentlemen, said: “voilà marie!” princess mary +indicating a captive french dragoon who was being brought in on foot by +indicated that if he was not dancing it was because he would not and not +“indeed? yes, yes!” said borís, with a smile. “and we too have + * “indeed, sire, we shall do everything it is possible to +incredible, unheard-of, and impossible event of a russian defeat, +increasing, seemed like someone’s breathing. he listened intently to +increased tenfold, and their life, which seemed to have been passed in +in couples and he himself rode along the line trying to master the +in conversation—count rostopchín, prince yúri dolgorúkov, valúev, +inconvenient, unseemly, and impossible to do so. +in consequence of this discovery his whole manner of life, all +incomprehensible—the death of one she loved. +in comparison with eternity?” +incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was +income which was said to amount to five hundred thousand rubles a year, +inclination—practical business. +in clean notes, was lying ready under a handkerchief on the countess’ +in chief would be. though the aide-de-camp did not know these +in chief’s office were gathered kutúzov himself, weyrother, and the +in chief, and from the noisy laughter of the cossacks holding the +incessantly, repeating petersburg reminiscences and even phrases. prince +in brünn everybody attached to the court was packing up, and the heavy +in bonaparte’s address to his army at the beginning of the campaign, +“in a word, a hearty one...” said the subaltern, laughing (the +inaudible, voice. +inattentive, but you had talent—oh yes, you had talent!” +in attaching himself as an orderly officer to prince bagratión. he now +in a tone only used by persons who are certain that those they call will +in a shovel—the guests who had been scattered about in different rooms +inappropriate, she was unable to stop him. +in any case. he has forwarded me a letter from borís. thank god, borís +“in an hour’s time, i should say.” +in, and sinking heavily into an armchair. +in a moment the men came running gaily from their campfires and began +“in a moment. À propos,” she added, becoming calm again, “i am +“in a minute, in a minute,” he said, dipping his pen. +in amazement. +in all sincerity—not as a future mason but as an honest man: have you +in a day or two we shall all have to take part in a greater and more +inactive, would also soon have to meet the enemy. +inactive and has left the university to join the army. i will confess to +in a corner of the room something red and tiny gave a grunt and squealed +in a corner of the hut stood a standard captured from the french, and +in a cheerful voice: +in accord with his intentions. prince andrew noticed, however, that +inability to enter a room and converse in it was, however, redeemed by +in a bad temper, and in the morning tíkhon had already advised the +in 1806 the old prince was made one of the eight commanders in chief +i myself have experienced ... and so ... because ... no, excuse me! +“i must have that purse, i tell you,” shouted denísov, shaking his +“i must also inform you,” said the rhetor, “that our order +“i’m quite worn out by these callers. however, i’ll see her and +improvement. his satire has been less bitter of late, and there was a +impressively, blocking the way to the bedroom and preventing the other +impression. whether dolgorúkov and weyrother, or kutúzov, langeron, +impressions of the recent battle, picturing pleasantly to himself the +impression of those voices and faces and a sense of loneliness merged +impression his news of a victory would create, or recalling the send-off +impression. “but that is a matter of perfect indifference to me,” he +impressionable, smiling young faces (smiling probably at their own +impossible to stop him, she rallied her forces and joined the vicomte in +impossible... oh, how pleasant it was at home!... the knave, double or +impossible not to notice his face. dólokhov was a man of small means +impossible for him to return to his former conception of her, that he +“impossible!” cried prince andrew. “that would be too base.” +impossible!” and suddenly he was seized by a panic of fear for himself +impossible...” +important. what is important are the rights of man, emancipation from +important post in vienna. both the foreign minister and our ambassador +important and unimportant, all of whom he knew, as if they were all +importance of the rite now being performed and even approved of it. he +importance, he returned again, called back the cook and the club +implied that, for certain considerations he could not know of, this was +impetus, and princess mary long remembered the dying creak of that +imperturbable calm she did not begin to speak in front of the valet. +imperials ... or do you wish to make it a hundred?” added he, +impending battle, under a heading which he also read out: +impending action. from privates to general they were not expecting a +impatient the nearer they got to moscow. +impatiently, “i came here not to wrangle with you, but to talk about +impatiently. +impatient and sets to work himself and finds letters from the emperor +impatience, while the princess jumped up and with a gesture of +impassive face?” prince andrew asked himself as he looked. prince +impassive face of oriental type, came out after the commander in chief. +“‘i most ardently desire,’ writes the king of prussia to +“i’m not to blame that the conversation began in the presence of +“i’m not such a fool.... just you try it on.... allez-vous +“i’m not a goose, but they are who cry about trifles,” said +immobile for a few moments. then wrinkles ran over his face like a wave +immensity of the power they constituted. +immense force upon kutúzov’s line of communication with the troops +immediately told him that this man could be useful, and without any +immediately starting to run along the hall and up the warped steps of +“immediately, prince,” said kozlóvski. “dispositions for +immediately broke off. the door of the private room opened and kutúzov +immediately brightened on seeing rostóv. “schön gut morgen! schön +immediately.” +immediately. +“i’m glad, glad, to see you,” he said, looking attentively into +“i’m glad,” answered dólokhov briefly and clearly, as the song +“i’m certain of it; you’ll see.” +i’m alive, that is not my fault, so i must live out my life as best i +“i make bold to ask your excellency to move a little for this +imagining himself before his own officers, insisted on his soldierly +imagine that their children have no secrets from them. “i know i shall +imagined oppressors whose victims he would rescue. of the three +imagined only important possibilities: “if the enemy attacks the right +imagine...” +imagination a new plan of life. on the previous evening at the lodge, he +ilyúshka, the one who danced at count orlóv’s, you remember, in a +ilyá has sent you to ask for strawberries and fresh pineapples.’ we +“i love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you + * i love you. + * “i love you.” +i love so that i would give my life for them, and the others i’d +illumined, and plunge him into the depths of unknown and undefined +“i’ll trust you.” +“i’ll tell you what, my dear fellow,” said prince andrew, who +i’ll teach you to think!” and lifting his stick he swung it and +ill-suited to the family circle of which pierre was almost a member. +“i’ll sing for you a whole evening,” said natásha. +“i’ll show you, i’ll show you! it’s not a secret. and it’s a +i’ll see.” the old prince snorted. “let her marry, it’s all the +“i’ll really call in on the nuns,” he said to the officers who +illness. prince vasíli said something to lorrain in passing and went +“illness or not, he’d better not cwoss my path. i’d kill him!” +ill luck takes us. they say we are going to olmütz, and olmütz is a +“i’ll let two more letters pass, but the third i’ll read,” said +i’ll let her see....” +“i’ll kill you!” he shouted, and seizing the marble top of a table +i’ll just finish dealing, and then ilyúshka will come with his +ill! i was only there a few moments and hardly said a word...” +i’ll go to the general and ask him.” he readjusted himself in the +i’ll flog you all.” +“i’ll flatten you into a pancake!” shouted the angry officer to +i’ll find you another place.” +illegitimate.” +“i’ll drink it! let’s have a bottle of rum!” shouted pierre, +i know you will pray over it. well, pray if you like, but you had better +“i know your outlook,” said the mason, “and the view of life you +“i know your heart,” repeated the prince. “i value your friendship +“i know who has taken it,” repeated rostóv in an unsteady voice, +“i know the will was made, but i also know that it is invalid; +“i know that no one can help if nature does not do her work,” said +“i know people consider me a bad man!” he said. “let them! i +“i know, my dear, kind princess,” said anna mikháylovna, seizing +“i know it and shall prove it,” said rostóv. +“i know,” interrupted bilíbin, “you’re thinking it’s very +“i know, i know,” answered prince vasíli in his monotonous voice. +“i know from reliable sources that the dowager empress is taking a +i know for certain that you won’t marry her.” +“i knew you would be here,” replied pierre. “i will come to supper +“i knew the princess at once,” put in mademoiselle bourienne. +“i knew someone who received that sacrament seven times.” +“i? i? what of me? leave me out of the question. i’m not going to +“i intended to re-form them beyond the village, your excellency,” +“i?... i’m going to petersburg,” answered pierre, in a childlike, +“i imagine that freemasonry is the fraternity and equality of men who +“i hope this will prove the last drop that will make the glass run +“i... hope... for guidance... help... in regeneration,” said pierre, +“i hear you have given orders to harness,” she cried, panting (she +i have written that he should make use of you in proper places and not +“i have the pleasure of addressing count bezúkhov, if i am not +“i have the honor to present myself,” repeated prince andrew rather +“i have the honor to congratulate you. general mack has arrived, quite +“i have seen as much before now, mate!” +“i have said nothing to you, but you have already been talked to. and +i have received what was due from the ryazán estate and will keep it; +“i haven’t been in the room. it must be where you put it.” +“i have not referred to this out of curiosity, my dear sir, but for +“i have no money with me,” he said. +“i have met loving, noble, high-minded men, but i have not yet met +“i have heard of you, my dear sir,” continued the stranger, “and +“i have had a proposition made me concerning you,” he said with an +i have had a letter from my brother, who announces his speedy arrival +“i have four sons in the army but still i don’t fret. it is all +i have done that though badly and to a small extent; but i have done +“i have done my best for him, and i can assure you the education there +“i have come with my mother to see the count, but it seems he is not +“i have come to you with a message and an offer, count,” he +i have a presentiment that for the first time i shall have to show all +“i have already told you, papa,” said his son, “that if you +“i have already refused,” she said hurriedly. +“i have.” +i had to express my own desire...” she had no time to finish. the old +“i had not the pleasure of seeing you,” said prince andrew, coldly +i get reinstated.” +“if you won’t answer, i’ll tell you...” hélène went on. “you +if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that +“if you, sir, choose to make a buffoon of yourself,” he said +“if you really want it,” said he. +“if you please, your excellency, pétrusha has brought some papers,” +“if you like, your honor!” +“if you have nothing better to do, count (or prince), and if the +if you have firmly resolved to join our brotherhood.” (pierre nodded +“if you had told me sooner, mamma, i would have gone,” she replied +“if you are resolved, i must begin your initiation,” said the rhetor +“if you are refusing for my sake, i am afraid that i...” +if you are in love, marry him!” said the countess, with a laugh of +if we occupy the villages of sokolnitz and kobelnitz, whereby we +“if we live we shall see,” replied bilíbin, his face again becoming +“if we get to vienna i’ll get rid of it there but in these wretched +“if we fought before,” he said, “not letting the french pass, as +if to say that this was no more than she had expected. +“if they had known that you wished it, the entertainment would have +if the whole world had gone crazy.” +if she had not meant it seriously. it makes it as if you were marrying +“if only they would be quick!” thought rostóv, feeling that at last +“if only i knew that anything besides humiliation would come of +if not it is merely a question of settling where the preliminaries of +“if no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no +“if i were tsar i would never go to war,” said nesvítski, turning +“if it were true that he has been beaten, news would have come.” +“if it were not for my sincere affection and devotion to uncle,” +“if it is true that monsieur denísov has made you a proposal, tell +if it is to last. prince vasíli knew this, and having once realized +“if it does not weigh a hundredweight and won’t break my neck... +if in search of something. on his way to the aunt he bowed to the little +if in search of something. before dinner the old prince, of whom she was +“if i have time,” answered nicholas. “but i promised the +“if i’d been in nikólenka’s place i would have killed even more +if, however, the emperor of russia ratifies that convention, i will +“if he were not,” he said quietly, “you and i would not be +“if he starts a row i’ll go away,” said prince anatole. “i +if he is standing before brünn...” +“if he is one of the ordinary little staff dandies sent to earn a +“if he is better, ask pierre to dine with us. he has been to the +if he intended to say something, but immediately, with affected +“if he” (he meant the enemy) “begins popping at the bridge now,” +“if he could attack us, he would have done so today,” said he. +if complaining of kutúzov. +if but one stage nearer znaim. the offer of a truce gave the only, and +“if buonaparte remains on the throne of france a year longer,” the +“if at least we had some women here; but there’s nothing foh one +if at first the members of the council thought that kutúzov was +if a soldier, he should be dressed in regulation uniform like the +“if anyone comes meddling again,” said he, emitting the words +if all the powers of his soul were concentrated on passing the commander +if about to tell a good story he put down the cards, leaned back in his +“i expect so.” +“i expected help from you and i get none, none from you either!” +i envy him, but you want to make him what i am, without giving him my +i don’t want to have you like our silly ladies. get used to it and +i don’t want him.” (he looked at his blushing daughter.) “are you +“i don’t understand. what’s it all about?” +“i don’t understand!” said prince andrew. +“i don’t understand, mamma—what is his attitude to pierre?” +“i don’t understand it,” replied prince andrew. “women who are +“i don’t understand,” he said, “how it is that the mind of man +i don’t speak of anatole, your youngest. i don’t like him,” she +“i don’t say it’s a plan i approve of,” said the son; “i am +“i don’t myself know ‘to who,’” replied the cornet in a +“i don’t like you to talk like that.” +“i don’t like your mademoiselle bourienne at all,” said prince +“i don’t know. i think if he writes, i will write too,” she said, +“i don’t know, general....” +“i... don’t...” he muttered, holding up two fingers to his cap. +“i don’t even know what is in this paper,” said the younger of +“i don’t at all say that all the plans are good,” said prince +i do not yet know. there will be time enough to think about love when i +“i do not understand,” said pierre, feeling with dismay doubts +“i do not think i have complained of my wife to you, másha, or blamed +“i do not know what you think, father,” whispered the princess. +i do not begin, sire, because we are not on parade and not on the +i doing? aren’t they laughing at me? shan’t i be ashamed to remember +“i’d like to put you on a two days’ march with a knapsack! your +idle, vicious life!” but dared not break the silence. +idlers have failed to beat the germans. since the world began everybody +idleness, but would grow fat and die. the third thing—what else was +idiot!... but what’s the good?...” and he waved his arm. +“i did not... what is it all about?” inquired prince andrew +i did not think he would get it to you so quickly.... well, how are you? +“i did not expect this of you,” said the staff captain seriously and +idea of the means by which our holy order will help you to reach your +i dare say, is braver than any of them. he says nothing about his +i could not have done it myself, i should not have had the courage, but +i consider it my duty to let you know of it. he is said to be very +i confess i understand very little about all these matters of wills and +“i confess i do not understand: perhaps there are diplomatic +“i commanded a squadron,” replied repnín. +“i come from the archduchess’. i heard nothing there.” +“ice pudding, but you won’t get any,” said márya dmítrievna. +ice. crowds of soldiers from the dam began running onto the frozen pond. +ice and into the water and oftenest of all among the crowd that covered +“i can’t tell you how much i have lived through since then. i hardly +i can’t,” replied bolkónski, smiling. +“i can’t make out at all,” said nesvítski. +“i can’t. i’ve sworn not to. i won’t drink and won’t play till +“i can’t help it,” said the prince. “lavater would have said i +“i can tell you more,” continued prince vasíli, seizing her hand, +“i can’t bear the sight of that woman.” +i can’t...” +“i cannot pay it all immediately. will you take an i.o.u.?” he said. +“i cannot inform your majesty at what o’clock the battle began at +i cannot find words to express to you my displeasure. you command only +“i cannot argue about it,” replied prince andrew coldly, but he +i cannot agree with you about pierre, whom i knew as a child. he always +i can do.” and his fancy pictured the battle, its loss, the +“i called once or twice at your house,” said rostóv, reddening. +“i burned this to prove my love for her. i just heated a ruler in the +“i bet on dólokhov!” cried a third. “kurágin, you part our +“i bet fifty imperials”—he spoke french that the englishman might +“i bet a hundred on stevens!” shouted one. +“i bestow it with pleasure,” said napoleon. “and who is that young +“i believe it, i believe it, fwiend, and i share and appwove...” +“i begin ab ovo. ‘the enemy of the human race,’ as you know, +“i am your faithful slave and to you alone i can confess that my +“‘i am wounded and cannot ride and consequently cannot command the +“i am waiting, your majesty,” answered kutúzov, bending forward +“i am very, very grateful to you, mon cher,” or “ma chère”—he +“i am very sorry you did not find me in yesterday. i was fussing about +“i am very sorry, ma’am,” answered the maid. +“i am very glad i did not go to the ambassador’s,” said prince +i am told.” +i am to do; i wanted to consult you seriously.” +“i am speaking ze truce,” replied the hussar with a smile. +“i am speaking sincerely as a friend! consider! where and why are +“i am so sorry for the poor count,” said the visitor. “he is in +i am sorry for that,” he went on. +“i am so glad you’ve come!” said natásha, without answering him. +“i am so enchanted by the brilliancy of the wit and culture of the +“i am ready for everything,” said pierre. +“i am quite of your opinion,” replied nicholas, flaming up, turning +i am overwhelmed with business and it is purely out of charity that +“i am ordered to write a memorandum explaining why we are not +“i am not your ‘dear sir,’ mr. staff officer, and you did not tell +“i am not talking about you,” he said, “i don’t know you and, +“i am not speaking of regicide, i am speaking about ideas.” +“i am not jesting with you; please be silent!” cried bolkónski, +“i am not jesting,” bilíbin went on. “nothing is truer or sadder. +“i am not in the cavalry, colonel, but i am a russian general and if +“i am living at countess rostóva’s,” replied borís, again +“i am going away.” +“i am glad i was able to do you a service, my dear anna +“i am glad i have spoken out fully. perhaps you did not like it? you +“i am fond of you, especially as you are the one live man among our +“i am expecting you, pierre,” said the same voice, but gently and +i am dissatisfied with your younger son? between ourselves” (and her +“i am awaiting orders to join my new regiment, your excellency,” +“i am asking you when you last heard from bolkónski,” repeated +“i am afraid,” said pierre, smiling, and wavering between the +“i am afraid of mixing the figures,” pierre replied; “but if you +i am afraid of him.” +“i am afraid for the baby,” she said to mademoiselle bourienne: +i am.” +“i am.” +i always stick to mother truth. it’s not right!” +“i also wanted to ask you,” continued prince andrew, “if i’m +i alone have any influence with my father, and now and then can save him +i, above all, who am to blame for everything. help me, teach me, and +“i...” +“i...” +hussars, told them to follow him, and trotted downhill in the direction +hussars hastily dismounted, not knowing what they were to do. the men +hussars, flushing and addressing an adjutant who had ridden up, “so +hussars, cossacks, and adjutants, in his camlet coat, as he jolted on +hussars, but still with that naïve air that made it impossible to know +hussars began carefully aligning their horses. silence fell on the whole +hussar revels and life in the fighting line, the other of the pleasures +hussar cornet zherkóv had at one time, in petersburg, belonged to +hussar, “and why are you exciting yourself? do you think the french +hussar and began lifting him. +husband. prince andrew’s eyes were closed, so weary and sleepy did he +husband of a beauty, and in a word—an old woman; and secondly because +husband. +hurrying past them. +hurried off to his company, buttoning up his coat as he ran. +hurriedly up to the unknown general and blocking his way to the door. +hurriedly unclasped his hands, stopped at a table as if tying the +hurriedly: “i will tell you some time how it all happened. but you +hurriedly interrupting bagratión. +“hurrah!”... then the general march, and again “hurrah! hurrah!” +“hurrah!” shouted prince andrew, and, scarcely able to hold up +“hurrah!” rang the enthusiastic voices of the officers. +“hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!” thundered from all sides, one regiment + hurrah for emperor alexander!” +“hurrah—ah!—ah!” rang a long-drawn shout from our ranks, and +“hur-a-a-a-ah!” came a roar of voices. “let anyone come my way +hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers +hungry, exhausted men would have to detain for days the whole enemy army +hung low over the field of battle on the horizon. it was growing +hungarian?” said the commander with an austere gibe. +hundred yards after that before he saw to his left, across the whole +hundred rubles was left of that money, so that this seven of hearts +hundred rubles he had a long column of figures scored against him, +hum with voices. on all sides soldiers were running to and fro, throwing +humor and dissatisfied with the affair, and so did not exert themselves +humming infantry as by a frame. +humility. +humiliation of arrogant austria and that in a week’s time he might, +“humbug! nonsense! humbug, humbug, humbug!” cried prince bolkónski, +human skull with its cavities and teeth. after reading the first words +hugging and kissing him. another and yet another creature of the same +how you look at things! send two men? and who then would give us the +how we went to the sparrow hills with madame jacquot?... it’s such an +“how was it a gun was abandoned?” asked bagratión, frowning, not so +“how understand me!” cried her father angrily. “prince vasíli +how to escape?” +how to behave with her. the evening before, in the first happy moment of +how to arrange it. what do you think?” +“how thoroughly like him that is!” he said to princess mary, who had +how they had been made much of in russia, poland, and abroad. they spoke +how the russians had been overwhelmed by flying austrians and had had to +“how sweet she is—she will be a weal beauty!” said denísov. + how sweet, as fancies wander free, +how stupid you men all are not to have married her! excuse me for saying +“how strange it is,” said véra, selecting a moment when all were +“how’s this, colonel?” he shouted as he approached. “i told you +“how’s it you’re not drunk today?” said nesvítski when the +“how she loves me!” thought princess mary. “how happy i am now, +how quickly! now i know that not because of her alone, nor of myself +“how plainly all these young people wear their hearts on their +how one day soon after his marriage he came out of the bedroom into his +“how often have i asked you not to take my things?” she said. “you +“how much longer? how much longer? oh, these insufferable streets, +how much anxiety one has had to go through that we might rejoice in +“how many miles?” +“how lovely!” said everyone who saw her; and the vicomte lifted his +how long his unconsciousness lasted. suddenly he again felt that he was +“how it will be there i don’t know, but all will be well!” thought +“how is the count? can i see him?” asked pierre, awkwardly as usual, +how is that?” said different voices. +“how is that?...” began prince andrew, who had for long been waiting +“how is it,” she began, as usual in french, settling down briskly +“how is it i am not moving? i have fallen, i am killed!” rostóv +how have you spent it? in riotous orgies and debauchery, receiving +“how handsome the old man still was only a year ago!” remarked the +“how funny you are!” he said, bending down to her and blushing still +“however, this is not at all interesting. let us have dinner, and then +however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it +“however, there will hardly be an engagement today,” said bagratión +“however, i think general kutúzov has come out,” said prince +“however, if you command it, your majesty,” said kutúzov, lifting +however, for he will leave us again to take part in this unhappy war +however, at nine o’clock the prince, in his velvet coat with a sable +“how easy it is, how little effort it needs, to do so much good,” +how d’ye do, old fellow?” he said, turning to an old man who was +how do you judge of it?” he added, addressing nicholas, who when he +“how do you expect him to answer you all at once?” said prince +“how do you do, my dear? i wish you many happy returns of your name +“how do you do, cousin?” said pierre. “you don’t recognize +how did it begin? i traveled from moscow with prince vasíli. then there +“how dare you take it?” he shouted. +“how can the emperor be undecided?” thought rostóv, but then even +“how can one talk or think of such trifles?” thought pierre. +how can i, an insignificant mortal, show his omnipotence, his infinity, +“how can he talk like that?” thought pierre. he considered his +how bright and glorious was the setting sun! with what soft glitter the +“how am i to understand you, mon père?” said the princess, growing +how am i to renounce forever these vile fancies, so as peacefully to +“how am i?” dólokhov answered coldly. “i am as you see.” +“how about the horses?” he asked, without looking at pierre. +“how about my son borís, prince?” said she, hurrying after him into +house, you know, and danced with the children. be sure to invite him, my +house with prince bagratión and weyrother. weyrother was the austrian +house was dominated by the same feeling that princess mary experienced +house was brilliant with lights shining through its lofty windows. the +house. though he expected that the story of his escapade would be +houses from his door. it seemed to him the horses were not moving at +house, now and then opening her door when someone passed and watching +house lay behind a newly dug pond filled with water to the brink and +household. and there in fact was sónya lying face downward on nurse’s +household, a common anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a +house for your wife is ready. princess mary will take her there and +house and now managed all his affairs, stepped softly into the room. +hour. suddenly the broad muscles and lines of the count’s face began +hours’ sleep before morning and felt cheerful, bold, and resolute, +hour alone with the dying man, passed out, slightly acknowledging their +hostilities are ended, we can shake one another’s hand.... the +hostess look toward the door, and now and then glance at one another, +hospitals. the one and the other may serve as a pastime. but what’s +hospitals could no longer accommodate all the sick and wounded, yet the +hospitality, did the honors to the prince. +hospital at ostrolenka till i recover. in regard to which i humbly +horse you’ll thank me for.” +horse with his spurs, and giving it the rein leaped lightly over. only +horse—that i’ll warrant,” said shinshín, patting him on the +horses were already galloping. rostóv heard the thud of their hoofs +horse still struggled. +horses near the window, prince andrew felt that something important and +horses in horsecloths. then came a cart, and behind that walked an old, +horses and the infantry collecting wood. +horses and ilyá iványch. i don’t think ilyá drives anyone except +horse, rode up to the porch, swung his leg over the saddle with a supple +horse of a batman or groom of some important personage and began to +horse for which he had paid seven hundred rubbles was not worth half +horse a little in front of his marshals. he gazed silently at the hills + * hors d’oeuvres. +horror-struck. but when she saw that pierre’s sacrilegious words +horror and fear. all were still. pierre took his hands from his eyes. +hoping to find him alone. when he came in and saw an hussar of the line +hope you will change your opinions, my dear monsieur pierre.” +hoped to lead he still lived the old life, only in new surroundings. +hoped. she prayed for her brother as living and was always awaiting news +“h-o-o-w are you standing? where’s your leg? your leg?” shouted +hoofs and wheels. amid the general rumble, the groans and voices of the +hoofs and the jingling of showy cavalry in blue, red, and green braided +hoofs, and apparently ready to jump over the railings had his rider let +honor, was terrible. +honor to choose me to be their marshal; it was all i could do to get +honor of the french infantry, so necessary to the honor of our nation. +honor? knowing him to be an only son, to challenge him and shoot so +honored guests sat, everyone seemed to be in high spirits and under the +honorable, of bezúkhov? and fédya, with his noble spirit, loved him +honorable, count,” or, “were he as clever as you,” and so on, +honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in +hommes massacrés et l’armée de nos alliés détruite, et vous +home. should he go to headquarters next day and challenge that affected +home,” said the valet. +home reading a book and trying to fathom the significance of the square, +home now for the first time after eighteen months again brightened his +hollows and snow-covered pools of water. +hollow and were firing at our men. prince bagratión bowed his head as a +hollabrünn and have pursued ever since to this place. the position we +“hold your tongue, pétya, what a goose you are!” +holding up the folds of her dress, and the smile shone still more +holding up his saber, his spurs jingling, he ran up the steps of the +holding up a threatening finger. “he is such a worthy and excellent +holding the bottle was lifted higher and higher and trembled with the +holding high her fifty-year-old head with its gray curls, she stood +“ho, ho!” said the old man, casting his eyes on her rounded figure. +“ho! ho! ho! ha! ha! ha! ha! ouh! ouh!” came peals of such healthy +hoarsely. prince andrew winced and, clutching his head, went out and sat +“hm.... if you wish to kill him, to kill him outright, you can see +“hm! hm!” muttered the prince, sitting down. +“hm... hm...” muttered the old prince to himself, finishing what he +“hm... hm...!” growled pierre, frowning without looking at her, and +“hm!—his excellency is a puppy.... i got him his appointment in the +hitting men and that afterwards someone had shouted “cavalry!” and +hitherto puckered brow became smooth as a sign of pleasure, and with a +his youngest boy, had all settled down in the drawing room and were +his wont, as if intentionally contrasting the briskness of his manners +his wife’s room. she was lying dead, in the same position he had seen +his wife said—met for supper at prince vasíli’s. all these friends +his wife, and by an anonymous letter he had received that morning, which +his whole soul what the stranger said. whether he accepted the wise +his weapons clean and polished to the utmost, and every horse groomed +his wealth, and being in the habit of lording it over these people, he +his weak figure. “number two!” he squeaked. “fire, medvédev!” +his voice. “she is living in moscow and you are here. remember, +his verses, bowed to bagratión. everyone rose, feeling that dinner +his utmost to look as small as possible. he looked at the count, who +his usual jokes, but noticing that what he was saying redounded to +his typically southern french face during the whole time of the reading, +his toulon, or his bridge of arcola. how it would come about he did not +historical accounts of battles, involuntarily pictured to himself the +his time there. +his time. but he is growing old, and though not exactly cruel he has too +his thin, worn, sallow face was covered with deep wrinkles, which always +his temple, where an ismail bullet had pierced his skull, and the empty +his superiors by his promptitude and accuracy and had arranged his money +his suite, with their cossacks who were talking loudly together, prince +his study and showed them his choice collection of turkish pipes. from +his speech, which he used in extreme cases when special persuasion was +his son only smiled. +his son by both hands, he cried, “now i’ve got you, so take the +his son and seizing the little princess’ arm as if she would have run +his skill?” he concluded. +his side had been attempting a reconciliation), and he also went up to +his shrill, harsh voice. “the road is not swept for the princess my +his shoulders. “women, my dear fellow; women!” +his shoulders. +his ship is sailing, but on the day of battle—heaven knows how and +his servant handed him a half-cut novel, in the form of letters, by +his scanty gray hairs over his bald patch, also asked them to dinner. +his saber, the soldiers all continued to run, talking, firing into the +his saber. only ten paces divided them. dólokhov lowered his head to +his routine, retired as usual after dinner. the little princess was in +his rooms upstairs. +his room. +his rising. “this unfortunate fete at the ambassador’s deprives me +his riding whip. +his reputation fighting them.” +his relations with old friends, all his plans for his future, were +his private room and, calling his adjutant, asked for some papers +his present state. +his portrait, “definitely demanded that he should be called.” +his pocketbook. +his plate seemed to him not quite clean, and pointing to a spot he +his plate round and moving his wineglasses about with as much decision +his plate, and proposed a toast, “to the health of the hero of our +his pistol, and then he felt with surprise that of all the men he knew +his passion for the emperor had cooled somewhat in moscow. but still, as +his own way, gave an order. no one said anything definite, but the rumor +his own superiority. it was as if he said to them: “i know you, i know +his own pleasure, chose to chat with lieutenant drubetskóy. more than +his own house. the minister of war came up and congratulated him on the +his own helplessness. at sight of this smile pierre felt an unexpected +his own had taken possession of his brain and at that moment afforded +his old friend and the possessor of such enormous wealth, to the caprice +his nose. +his noble soul peacefully to leave this...” +his neighbors’ glasses, not neglecting his own. the countess in turn, +his musket walked away. +his muscular legs as if sailing along, stretching himself to his full +his mouth very clearly revealed something unexpectedly coarse and +his mouth, he turned with his glass to pierre. +his mouth awry, prepared to shout. the regiment fluttered like a bird +his mind that they would be friends. +his majesty the emperor derogates from the principle of our alliance... +his majesty; but we think the present delay is depriving the splendid +his lower jaw. +his lips without uttering a sound. he wished to say, “yes, a vile, +his lips in his sleep and breathing evenly. +his life. he walked about in front of the line and at every step pulled +his legs. pressing against both sides of the window, he adjusted himself +his legs almost gave way, it seemed to him that he was tired out. he +his last parting from his father and his wife; he remembered the days +his kindly, simple, and modest expression. anna pávlovna turned toward +his in the diplomatic service. +his instinct urged him on. before the officer finished his sentence +his impulsive nature, does get into mischief (a boy can’t help it), he +his imaginary sword, but smiling at the remembrance of that pleasant, +his husbandry. +his huge figure, with arms hanging down and with a puckered, though +his horse. zherkóv and the staff officer bent over their saddles and +his horse with a convoy officer’s saddle. +his horse keep pace with the company. +his horse indolently and carelessly. rostóv recalled their quarrel of +his highness the archduke ferdinand has honored me, i imagine that the +his head he let it droop and again closed his eye. +his head, and with inimical politeness lurking in the corners of his +his head and again assuming his former tone of a dull, unreasoning, but +his head. +his head. +his having been picked up on the battlefield by the people of the +his hands to the blaze, and turned away his face. +his handsome face. natásha, very still, peered out from her ambush, +his hand prince andrew came up to his comrade, the aide-de-camp on duty, +his hand over the thin grizzled strands of hair combed back across his +his handkerchief, and again: ‘sergéy kuzmích, from all sides,’... +his hand and at the head of a regiment—he fell as a hero, worthy of +his hand. +his gray hair. +his grave, even rather gloomy, look was instantaneously replaced by +his grandfather, who was his godfather, trembling and afraid of dropping +his glittering black eyes at rostóv. +his future depended—whether he would follow the same old road, or that +his fieldglass. a little behind them nesvítski, who had been sent to +his feverishness increased and he grew delirious. visions of his father, +his father who had brought it from the siege of ochákov. all these +his father’s peculiarities, and partly because he needed solitude, +his father’s part of the house. entering the drawing room, where the +his father dismissed the abbé and said to the young man, “now go +his father and his fatherland. to the great regret of myself and of the +his fat chest uncovered, stepping unevenly and timidly in one slippered +his face was terrible and piteous to see, especially from its helpless +his face suddenly softened and tears came into his eyes. with his left +his face shone with self-satisfaction and pleasure. +his face, gave him a peculiar vivacity and shiftiness of expression. +his face, began to talk—as one who has long had something on his mind +his eyes seemed larger than usual when he glanced round and noticed +his eyes he heard in front of him, where the enemy was, the long-drawn +his eyes. “can they be french?” he looked at the approaching +his eyes at the sight. +his eyes and thought he would never open them again. suddenly he was +his eye as a miller wakes up when the soporific drone of the mill wheel +his excitement. “don’t you understand that either we are officers +his example, and the loud shouting continued for a long time. when the +his efforts had not been in vain. the dinner, both the lenten and the +his easy life in moscow, entered the room. +his dressing gown and smiled slightly, as if expressing respectful +his door, which creaked slightly when opened. +his despair was all the greater from feeling that his own weakness was +his daughter that morning. princess mary well knew this painstaking +his daughter, princess hélène, passed between the chairs, lightly +his company? if you were cleverer and more agreeable, i should prefer +his companion. the latter, a fresh, rosy officer of the guards, +his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, +“his children are all illegitimate. i think pierre also is +his career. moreover, he could see by her manners that she was one of +his captain. +his camp,” said he. “what does that mean? either he is retreating, +his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. he spoke in that +his breast. among them stood a man whose white shirt was stained with +his boots. you can see everything from there; let’s go there, +his being alone and despondent! a strange face may seem unpleasant or +his beautiful daughter hélène. +his attention wandered from the book and the square and he formed in +his arm, began a long-drawn-out soldiers’ song, commencing with the +his arm. +his acquaintances, to overtake his regiment which was already in poland. +his acquaintance and joyfully welcomed the rich newcomer, the +hippolyte spluttered again, and amid his laughter said, “and you were +hippolyte “—so dull—. it has been a delightful evening, has it +hippolyte laughed as if ashamed of laughing. +hippolyte is at least a quiet fool, but anatole is an active one. that +hippolyte in the carriage, “your little princess is very nice, very +hippolyte interrupted her with the words: “le roi de prusse...” and +hippolyte gazing round with importance at the others, “without +hippolyte burst out laughing. +hippolyte, and began looking through a lorgnette at his elevated legs. +hints began to make the countess anxious and she glanced uneasily at +hindmost of these men wearing similar shakos was a russian hussar. he +him ‘your majesty,’ but who, to his chagrin, got no title from +him. you know the story of the handkerchief? it is delightful!” +him with her usual smile. +him. “what is this? they’re like sheep! just like sheep! out of the +him what consolation i can.” +him up and lent him money. pierre recalled how hélène had smilingly +him too, just opposite gúryev’s house... old gúryev.... oh, but +him to hear something more, nodded and turned to him with a cheerful +him to go back as it was too dangerous to remain where they were. +him to die. others are being born and there are plenty of them as it is. +him to despatch part of the army abroad and to create a new condition +him to deliver. +him to come up; prince bagratión reined in his horse and recognizing +him to come. there were other guests and the countess talked little to +him, though, between you and me, he always seemed to me a poor sort +him. the pain in his arm became more and more intense. irresistible +him.” the mere thought of her father’s look filled her with terror. +him that there would probably be an engagement that day or the next, and +him. that’s a thing i hate! everything is possible.” +him surrounded by children whom, by the count’s generosity, he was +him so when i see him!” +him several riders with white plumes in their hats. in a moment everyone +him several questions about his journey and seemed greatly interested in +himself. what angered him was that the coming of these visitors revived +himself, was shouting to kutúzov that if he did not ride away at once +himself up to such an extent that it seemed he could not have sustained +himself up, slightly arching his back. it was plain that the commander +himself undertook his daughter’s education, and to develop these two +himself to the count, who was looking inquiringly at him. +himself to bagratión. bonaparte’s adjutant had not yet reached +himself, prince bagratión sent zherkóv to tell the general in command +himself on his seat. +himself one with his horse, rode past the emperor with a frowning but +himself on a sofa with his face to the wall. pierre hid his face, from +himself.... not a word! about some denísov or other, though he himself, +himself into a chair, gazing at those in the room as if asking, “why +himself in the palace at potsdam. +himself. i am called in to help sort the letters and take those meant +himself, he rose, threw back his head, and with resolute steps went +himself, he kept in touch with the circle which confers success and +himself had vanished. he was filled with happiness at his nearness to +himself fall into a trap moreau set him, and from which he did not know +himself, but only desires the good of mankind. and what have they +himself an insignificant atom in it) would go through fire and water, +himself, and this fresh opportunity for action gave him new energy +himself after his recent loneliness and freedom from cares so beset and +himself? +himself. +himself. +him. rostóv was particularly in need of money now that the troops, +him. “remember this, prince andrew, if they kill you it will hurt me, +him, push him, do anything but kiss him—a thing everybody did. but +him. prince vasíli’s two valets were busy dressing him, and he looked +him pleasure. the enemy’s guns were in his fancy not guns but pipes +him out of the booth at grunth. he was shouting in a gasping voice: +him, or what was said of him; he was only glad that people were standing +him, or perhaps for that very reason, the prince, though he continued +him or her to a little old lady, wearing large bows of ribbon in her +him. on the day of prince vasíli’s arrival, prince bolkónski was +him... olga, go and see whether uncle’s beef tea is ready—it is +him not in the least abashed. +him my whole staff and all that belongs to it, advising him if there is +him. “more, please: more! what’s he saying?” +him merged in rostóv’s mind into a single feeling of terror and pity +him into the sitting room, where they began talking. they hardly gave +him if not to join in at least to listen to what he was saying. but the +him,” he thought, and again he felt something terrible and monstrous +him. he stroked her hair and then patted her awkwardly on the back of +him, he’s a scoundrel. go on! go on!” +him he is a fool, that’s all!” +him, he does not know russian.” +him?” he asked. +him, handing him different articles of clothing. “what of sweden? how +him full directions which he had written down for his own guidance as to +him, from his weary, bored expression to his quiet, measured step, +him, from his daughter to his serfs, the prince was sharp and invariably +him for those words, bullets flew hissing across the regiment and across +him feel confused by her smiles and her own confusion when meeting him. +him except the young princesses.... they are still young....” she bent +him everyone began to stir: steps were audible and whispers, among which +him do what he pleases,’ she used to say of me. one day i asked her if +him disputing in whispers and one of them insisting that he should be +him die feeling that he is rendering unhappy those who...” +him, carried the infant round the battered tin font and handed him over +him by the arm, “i believe that intervention will be stronger than +him but to the whole regiment—all of us—you’re to blame all round. +him, but still that happy result always remained in the future. +him; but most of all, he felt joyful that the moment had come when he +him, bonaparte had made in his campaigns and even in politics. his +him be here....” +him a taper. he lit it and, distracted by observing those around him, +him as a man, but what can one do?” +him and would not have others do so.” +him and, with a christian mildness that expressed forgiveness of his +him. “and why should she marry?” he thought. “to be unhappy for +him and she wished and tried to please him as much as possible. +him, and only as he kissed her hand on taking leave said unexpectedly +him and he was at once blindfolded again. +him and hélène. “well, what of it, if you all know it?” thought +him and everything he could say had long been known to him, that he was +him and did not stop but rode on and on, continually mistaking bushes +him a look of stern inquiry, as though what pierre had just said was +him all the way. he thought angrily of the pleasure he would have at +him.” +him. +him. +him. +him. +him. +him!” +hills, she took a special fancy to mademoiselle bourienne, spent whole +hill opposite, with the french moving about on it, opened out before +hill one after the other. their colonel, karl bogdánich schubert, came +hill. +high time!” +highness,” and pointing to the grand duke who with his high shoulders +“highly satisfied, your excellency!” +highly honored guest, took possession of him as it were, without waiting +high—i always said....” +highest spheres. +highest point. “it’s in charge of the queer fellow we saw without +highest degree just the very qualities pierre lacked, and which might +higher ground it was clearing, but nothing could be seen of what was +high, but the last round fell in the midst of a group of hussars and +hid her face still deeper in the bed. natásha wept, sitting on the +hidden by dense mist. having given orders in the commander in chief’s +“hey, cossack, my horse!” he said. “now, then, you there! get out +he would slap in the face before the emperor. suddenly a distant shout +he would say a lot of pleasant things, ask you to dinner” (“that +he would rush through the whole suite of rooms without drawing breath, +he would into that foggy distance: now something gleamed gray, now there +he would have to march with no road into unknown parts of the bohemian +he would have done at that moment had hélène not fled from the room. +he would have been mentioned among the officers found on the field of +he would give an opinion at the war council which would be the only one +he would expand his chest, raise his head, and rejoice at his good +he would certainly be taken prisoner. kutúzov remained in the same +he worked went step by step toward his goal. he was free, he had nothing +he wore the air of a man little concerned in what the two ladies were +he wondered as he got up: and at that moment he felt that something +he woke up and looked round for a while with a startled expression, +he woke up... +he wished to take a decision, but felt with dismay that in this matter +he wished to explain to dolgorúkov a plan of attack he had himself +he will hit me in the head, or elbow, or knee. can’t i go away from +“he will get up in twenty minutes. let us go across to mary’s +he went to his bed, drew a purse from under the clean pillow, and sent +he went straight up to prince vasíli. +he went over his vices in his mind, not knowing to which of them to give +he went on talking in this way in french, uttering only those words in +he went nowhere and spent whole days in reading thomas à kempis, whose +he went forward uneasily over the rough field with the awkward gait of +he was to wear at the meetings, and finally of the third, a pair of +he was touched, but also a gleam of irony on his face. +he was told that he would now see the lesser light. the bandage was +he was told in russian, german, and czech by the crowd of fugitives who +he was thinking that prince andrew was unhappy, had gone astray, did not +he was singing in passionate tones, gazing with his sparkling +he was sent. this was the brilliant charge of the horse guards that +he was sent away. hippolyte is her brother... prince vasíli is her +he was riding was one he had bought from a cossack during the campaign, +he was riding almost along the front line. a handful of men came +he was proud to be at the head of such a nation and would endeavor to be +he was pleased at the gratitude he received, but felt abashed at +he was joyfully planning this new life, when prince vasíli suddenly +he was in contact with the springs that set in motion the enormous +he was flushed and bathed in perspiration, though the room was not hot. +he was evidently so busy that he even forgot to be polite to the +he was asleep in his corner and woke him up. rousing himself, pierre +he was afraid of finding in her a rival for count bezúkhov’s fortune, +he was admitted to the emperor, and an hour later he rode off with +“he wants to see a battle,” said zherkóv to bolkónski, pointing +he waited a moment to see whether the cornet would answer, but he turned +he vouchsafe its revelation to us through his divine spirit. +he unhooked his saber. he came out from behind the chairs, clasped his +he understood his commander’s wish. +he turned to kozlóvski with urgent questions. +he turned round. nesvítski’s handsome face looked out of the little +he turned away. +he tried to say more, but faltered. +he touched his horse and having called milorádovich, the commander of +he took the pistol in his hand and began asking about the working of the +he took the lighted pipe that was offered to him, gripped it in his +he took the dispatch which was addressed to him and began to read it +he told her she was still the same crybaby as ever. princess mary had +he threw the bottle to the englishman, who caught it neatly. dólokhov +he thought, stopping for a moment with a sinking heart, and then +he thought out his plans beforehand he could not have been so natural +he (though pierre had not mentioned bonaparte), “but bonaparte when +he talked to pierre), the old man was sitting on a large leather-covered +“he’s very young to come to meddle with us.” +he sung a second, a third below the high note. “ah, god! how fine! did +he suddenly cried. “even without a bet, there! tell them to bring me a +he suddenly blushed crimson, and it was plain that he had made a great +he stretched out his hand to take hold of the purse. rostóv let go of +he stopped short on his heels, stood so a second, stamped on the spot +he stopped and remained silent for a long time. +he still had all the letters in his hand. opening them mechanically he +he spread a map on the table. “all eventualities have been foreseen. +he spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure +he spoke so rapidly that he did not finish half his words, but his son +(he smiled ironically.) “but even if he also took up a position in +hesitation and uncertainty among his conductors. he heard those around +hesitating voice. “i thank you. i agree with all you have said. but +he signed with a flourish and suddenly turning to his son began to +he sighed. +he shrugged his shoulders and spread out his hands. pierre wished to +he shrugged his shoulders and raised his hand to the kerchief, as if +he shrugged his shoulders. a footman conducted borís down one flight of +he shouted, “and then i shall reserve the right to state my opinion +“he shouldn’t have taken so many men,” said the officer of the +he shaved and scented himself with the care and elegance which had +he sent for pierre and said to him: “my dear fellow, if you are going +he seized his son by the hand with small bony fingers, shook it, looked +he seemed to swell with satisfaction. he had hardly finished speaking +“he’s dead—why carry him?” said another. +“he’s coming!” shouted the signaler at that moment. +he scattered the burning tobacco, smashed the pipe, and threw it away. +he saw which way the wind was blowing, and his low opinion changed into +he saw turrets and a church. what need to hurry? what was he now to say +he saw french cannon and french troops on the pratzen heights just where +he sat under fire. but despite himself, on his face too that same +he sat down by his wife, his elbows on his knees and his hands ruffling +he sat down beside hippolyte and wrinkling his forehead began talking +“he’s arrived!” +“he’s a low fellow, say what you will,” remarked prince hippolyte. +he said something more, but rostóv did not wait to hear it and rode +he said. “perhaps you are right for yourself,” he added after +he said no more, but expressed his resignation to cruel fate by a +he said. +he sad at leaving his wife?—perhaps both, but evidently he did not +her. “you know, catiche, that we—you three sisters, mámontov, and +her work as if to testify that the interest and fascination of the story +her with perfect sincerity, and with the naïve and firm conviction +her with a grimace that distorted his handsome face, kissed anna +her. why do you say all this to me?” +her white teeth. she met prince vasíli with that playful manner often +her voice sounded so serious and so sad that the chirping of the birds +her up, hugged her, and, smiling through her tears, began comforting +her tone was now querulous and her lip drawn up, giving her not a +her—thou or you?” +her thin lips grew white, though her eyes did not change, and her voice +her tenderly and attentively, said severely: +her temples. princess mary, supporting her sister-in-law, still looked +her sympathy for pierre, but by involuntary intonations and a half smile +her sufferings or with their relief. the pangs began again and mary +her sleeves and puffing heavily. +her sister-in-law’s room. prince andrew in a traveling coat without +her sister dropped the portfolio. anna mikháylovna, stooping, quickly +herself wish to die, that his end was not only touching but edifying. as +herself should she glance round. anna mikháylovna, with a meek, +herself in here for? but i will give her a piece of my mind. the time +herself in a white satin dressing gown embroidered with silver and with +herself! glad to throw her father over! and she knew i should notice +herself disinterestedly at the head of an alliance having for its object +“herself,” came the answer in a rough voice, and márya dmítrievna +her seducer when she loved him?” he thought. “god could not have put +her?” said the old prince angrily. “what an idea! i’m ready for it +her, rostóv thought, but just now there were so many other pleasures +her—please don’t! it is too painful for her!” +her plainly as she is, or else you will make a cruel and irrevocable +her path. +her own on the subject. +her over his spectacles. +hero less on earth.” +heroism!” +hero himself with his paltry vanity and joy in victory appear, +her neck as soon as she overtook her in the sitting room. +her neck. +her mother, quite excited. +her mother and burst into such a loud, ringing fit of laughter that even +her long hair came down....” here he could contain himself no +her little nephew as best she could. mademoiselle bourienne, too, seemed +her lip descended. she brought her face close to her sister-in-law’s +her inflamed and perspiring cheeks, her charming rosy mouth with its +her in five minutes before and, despite the fixed eyes and the pallor of +her husband looked at her as if surprised to notice that someone besides +her. how often when considering her character i have told myself that +her heart. happy the man who wins her! with her the least worldly of men +her head toward the darkness of the open doorway. +her head and continued in a whisper: “has he performed his final duty, +her handsome eldest daughter were in the drawing room with the visitors +her handkerchief too. pierre was kissed, and he kissed the beautiful +her guests, first the vicomte and then the abbé, as peculiarly choice +her glittering eyes, filled with childlike fear and excitement, rested +her friend, the princess’ eyes—large, deep and luminous (it seemed +her friend as if she did not consider her worthy to hear what she meant +her forehead. his fine eyes lit up with a thoughtful, kindly, and +her foot—which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual +her foot into the other. sónya, when he came in, was twirling round and +her favorite sonata bore her into a most intimately poetic world and +her father was tidy. she put down the geometry book and eagerly broke +“her father is very rich and stingy. he lives in the country. he is +her fate was decided and happily decided. but what her father had said +her face suddenly flushed with reckless and joyous resolution. she half +her face became sad. +her face, and then immediately he saw beside her dólokhov’s handsome, +her eyes were smiling expectantly, her downy lip rose and remained +her eyes off him, and smiling and holding her breath. he gave her a +her eyes became serious. at that moment she was oblivious of her +her eyes, and then quickly went to his place and sat down. “sit down, +here. where is it?” he asked, turning to lavrúshka. +here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an +“here’s to the health of lovely women, peterkin—and their +“here’s something for you to report,” said zherkóv. “see if i +here’s another admirer of that powder-monkey emperor of yours,” he +here, run away, bury myself somewhere?” passed through his mind. but +here prince hippolyte spluttered and burst out laughing long before his +here prince hippolyte paused, evidently collecting his ideas with +he repeated, accentuating the u: “i think, however, now that he lays +here on friday.” +he remembered the expression dólokhov’s face assumed in his moments +(he remembered that in french there is some peculiar way of addressing a +he remembered his honeymoon and blushed at the recollection. +here i’ve brought the prince’s wedding candles to light before his +“here it is!” thought he, seizing the staff of the standard and +“here it is! the decisive moment has arrived. my turn has come,” +“here is some sort of key to the mysteries that your héloïse has +“here is our dear orthodox russian army,” thought bolkónski, +here is one from his highness the archduke ferdinand and here are +here is now settled, and i ought to have been off long ago. here is +here, is he not? please announce me.” +“here, in that house,” answered the adjutant. +“here he is... our own... kólya, * dear fellow... how he has +“here he is at last!” shouted rostóv. “and berg too! oh, you +he reflected, “there is no riding round it now. i must look for the +here!” exclaimed different voices; and the heavy breathing of the +he reeled and sank on the snow. +here? don’t you see the skirmishers are retreating? lead the squadron +here,” came the voice of an hussar, past whom rostóv was riding in +“here at least we shall have the benefit of your company all to +her companions’ not having the least conception that it could be +her brother shook his head incredulously. +her because you must, and that wouldn’t do at all.” +her beauty and her remarkable skill in appearing silently dignified in +her badge as maid of honor. the youthful little princess bolkónskaya, +her as a distant beauty far removed from him, as he had seen her every +her and for himself, and in a nervously emotional and softened mood he +her and about to crush her was some terrible misfortune, the worst +her already,” he said, evidently trying to entertain a visitor with +he raised both arms as if carefully lifting some invisible but precious +her. +her. +her. +he quickly entered the small reception room with its still-unplastered +he put on the air of one who finds it impossible to reply to such +he pulled off the quilt and shook it. the purse was not there. +he pointed with a smile to a turreted nunnery, and his eyes narrowed and +he pointed to the french guns, the limbers of which were being detached +he paused, his gaze still on pierre, and moved aside on the sofa by way +he paused and sighed, evidently trying to calm himself. +he paused, and just as he was about to say something more, another ball +he paused a little while. +he patted her on the shoulder and himself closed the door after her. +he passed it. pierre began to feel a sense of uneasiness, and the + he ought to be firing at the enemy. +he opened his eyes and looked up. the black canopy of night hung less +he only gave an order to cease firing and re-form, so as to give room +he noticed everything...” +he never could appreciate it. no, mon cousin,” she added with a sigh, +he needs money for food; the man said an officer had once given him a +he need only have bent his head a little to have touched them. he was +he must think that i, too, am afraid of him—and in fact i am afraid of +he must retreat as quickly as possible behind the hollow in the rear, +“he must first receive the trowel,” whispered one of the brothers. +he moved as if to rise. the generals bowed and retired. it was past +he might... not only might but should, have gone up to the sovereign. it +he might be, did not expect. he was so used to submitting to prince +he met nesvítski, with whom he shared a room, and the wag zherkóv; +he meant to do, and abandoning herself to him followed his lead hardly +he marked the figures in his clear, bold hand. +he made up his mind that prince andrew had been killed, and though he +he made himself when going into battle, and he was more amiable to the +help, would inform her. +helplessly spread out, stood with his broad chest directly facing +helplessly on the sofa. +helplessly and he made a fruitless effort to pull it forward. whether he +“help him up. sit down, dear fellow, sit down! spread out the cloak, +“help comes from god alone,” he said, “but such measure of help as +help being aware of it, just as we cannot renew an illusion we have once +he looked with disdain at the endless confused mass of detachments, +he looked very grim he said nothing to anyone. +he looked straight at prince andrew and suddenly unwrinkled his +he looked intently and inquiringly into his friend’s eyes, evidently +he listened and heard the sound of approaching horses, and voices +“he lets one win the singles and collahs it as soon as one doubles it; +hélène turned to pierre with the beautiful bright smile that she gave +hélène, then she turned to pierre with the same words of welcome +hélène still sat talking just as before. +hélène’s presence (as a lover should be), but had not yet proposed +hélène smiled, with a look implying that she did not admit the +hélène’s hand several times. after a while they were left alone +hélène’s face became terrible, she shrieked and sprang aside. his +hélène. “separate! that’s a thing to frighten me with!” +hélène sat silently side by side almost at the bottom of the table, a +hélène raised her voice and became more and more excited, “a man +hélène nor she at him. but she was just as terribly close to him. he +“hélène!” he said aloud and paused. +hélène, and that thought both alarmed him, as if some obligation were +hélène.” +he left the room and went to the waiting room where alpátych stood with +he leaned his whole massive body across the table. +he leaned his elbows on the table with his pen in his hand and, +held the hand of his betrothed in silence, looking at her beautiful +held out his cheek. +held it till evening and have gone in to dinner with it) and drew his +held it below her waist. +held. all the commanders of columns were summoned to the commander in +he lay down on the sofa meaning to fall asleep and forget all that +he lay down on the leather sofa in front of a round table, put his big +he. “laughing at us old fellows!” +he laughed in his usual dry, cold, unpleasant way, with his lips only +he lacked that strength of will which he had known in himself and really +“he knows of course what this loss means to me. he can’t want my +he knew this at that moment as surely as if he had been standing at the +he knew no one, and despite his smart guardsman’s uniform, all these +he kept nodding to show that he understood, anatole went on translating +he jumped up at the sound of her light step. +“he is very much altered now,” said anna mikháylovna. “well, as +he is uncle’s aide-de-camp, a most brilliant position. he is so +he is so frank and has so much heart. he is so pure and poetic that +“he is one of the most remarkable, but to me most unpleasant of +“he is not to be apprehended by reason, but by life,” said the +“he is no more....” +“he is leaving me here, god knows why, when he might have had +“he is just the same as ever,” replied anna mikháylovna, +“he is dozing,” said anna mikháylovna, observing that one of the +he is bóry’s godfather—and allow him something for his maintenance, +he is better acquainted than anyone else, does not listen to others but +“he is a very, very nice, honest, and pleasant fellow,” answered +“he is a nervous, bilious subject,” said larrey, “and will not +he is an aide-de-camp of kutúzov’s and will be here tonight.” +“he is a man in a gray overcoat, very anxious that i should call +“he is a great tactician!” said the prince to his son, pointing to +heiress in the same way. all this might, he thought, turn out very well +he involuntarily remembered how dólokhov, who had fully recovered his +he indicated a place beside him to his daughter-in-law. a footman moved +he implored rostóv to go on and prepare her. +he immediately dispatched adjutant general wintzingerode, who was in +he imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he +he imagined himself as an enormously tall, powerful man who was throwing +height without the smallest effort, his ease contrasting with the heavy +height on which the kiev regiment was stationed, in the hollow where the +he himself was pining for the dear princess, and how she showed him the +“he higher iss dan i in rank,” said the german colonel of the +he heard some french spoken he at once began speaking to the officers, +he hated her and was forever sundered from her. despite denísov’s +“he has weported himself sick, he’s to be stwuck off the list +“he has perspired,” said prince andrew. +“he has made wills enough!” quietly remarked the princess. “but he +“he has forty thousand men at most,” replied weyrother, with the +“he has been set down. he died,” replied someone. +he half rose, meaning to go round, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox, +he had too long been thinking of so painfully to the exclusion of all +he had to do, not with fools, but with men who could teach him something +he had the hofs-kriegs-wurst-schnapps-rath on his hands. it would have +he had said absent-mindedly: “yes, she’s good looking,” he had +he had ridden about two miles and had passed the last of the russian +he had ready in his mind, of all he knew and had seen. but the emperor +he had pierre at hand in moscow and procured for him an appointment as +he had often before, during the last six weeks, remained alone with her, +he had not thought about it until that moment. the officers’ laughter +he had not finished the last verse before the young people began to +he had met that evening. +he had left petersburg, and wrote enthusiastic letters to his +he had left. all the others let him go, and he ran to her. when they +he had lain there some time, he was told to get up, and a white leather +he had just remembered his recent encounter with the doctor’s wife and +he had evidently not slept that night. he looked about distractedly and +he had but recently left their regiment, rode up to the colonel. +he had been ordered to look for the commander in chief, he could not, +he had been beside the gun, he had heard the voices of the officers +“he had another stroke about half an hour ago. courage, my +he had already promised prince anatole to come to his gathering; +he got his wound. this pleased rostóv and he began talking about it, +he, going to the door and looking into the nursery. +he glanced round at her. she gave him a passionately angry glance, and +he glanced at his cousin and the young lady visitor; and they were both +he finished and, getting up, embraced and kissed pierre, who, with tears +he. “fine, very fine! you have done up your hair in this new way for +he filled the girls’ albums with verses and music, and having at last +he felt that this did not forward matters at all. he felt that these +he felt that at a single word from that man all this vast mass (and he +he felt himself to be. at the right beat of the music he looked sideways +he feels sure he will distinguish himself. he was glancing at everyone +“he exists, but to understand him is hard,” the mason began again, +he entered the drawing room with his usual alert step, glancing rapidly +he enlivened the whole party. the wax candles burned brightly, the +he embraced his daughter, and then again pierre, and kissed him with his +he embraced her. she screamed and fell unconscious on his shoulder. +he drew up his chair, and continued to explain. +he drew back and a real tear appeared in his eye. +he dressed for dinner. the old prince always dressed in old-fashioned +he discussed estate affairs every day with his chief steward. but +he disarmed his hearers. +“he did not shut me up, he said i was telling an untruth.” +he did not see him and had no opportunity of seeing him, he often spoke +he did not see, hear, or understand anything clearly. only now and +he did not reply. +he did not regain consciousness till late in the day, when with other +he did not look at them: he looked only at what was going on in front +he did not finish. just then there was a whistle in the air; nearer and diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-6/1M-tr-seq/1M-tr-seq-00 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iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + chapter xvii + + chapter xviii + + chapter xix + + chapter xx + + chapter xxi + + chapter xxii + + chapter xxiii + + chapter xxiv + + chapter xxv + + chapter xxvi + + chapter xxvii + + chapter xxviii + + + book two: 1805 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + chapter xvii + + chapter xviii + + chapter xix + + chapter xx + + chapter xxi + + + book three: 1805 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + chapter xvii + + chapter xviii + + chapter xix + + + book four: 1806 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + + book five: 1806 - 07 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + chapter xvii + + chapter xviii + + chapter xix + + chapter xx + + chapter xxi + + chapter xxii + + + book six: 1808 - 10 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + chapter xvii + + chapter xviii + + chapter xix + + chapter xx + + chapter xxi + + chapter xxii + + chapter xxiii + + chapter xxiv + + chapter xxv + + chapter xxvi + + + book seven: 1810 - 11 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + + book eight: 1811 - 12 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + chapter xvii + + chapter xviii + + chapter xix + + chapter xx + + chapter xxi + + chapter xxii + + + book nine: 1812 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + chapter xvii + + chapter xviii + + chapter xix + + chapter xx + + chapter xxi + + chapter xxii + + chapter xxiii + + + book ten: 1812 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + chapter xvii + + chapter xviii + + chapter xix + + chapter xx + + chapter xxi + + chapter xxii + + chapter xxiii + + chapter xxiv + + chapter xxv + + chapter xxvi + + chapter xxvii + + chapter xxviii + + chapter xxix + + chapter xxx + + chapter xxxi + + chapter xxxii + + chapter xxxiii + + chapter xxxiv + + chapter xxxv + + chapter xxxvi + + chapter xxxvii + + chapter xxxviii + + chapter xxxix + + + book eleven: 1812 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + chapter xvii + + chapter xviii + + chapter xix + + chapter xx + + chapter xxi + + chapter xxii + + chapter xxiii + + chapter xxiv + + chapter xxv + + chapter xxvi + + chapter xxvii + + chapter xxviii + + chapter xxix + + chapter xxx + + chapter xxxi + + chapter xxxii + + chapter xxxiii + + chapter xxxiv + + + book twelve: 1812 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + + book thirteen: 1812 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + chapter xvii + + chapter xviii + + chapter xix + + + book fourteen: 1812 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + chapter xvii + + chapter xviii + + chapter xix + + + book fifteen: 1812 - 13 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + chapter xvii + + chapter xviii + + chapter xix + + chapter xx + + + first epilogue: 1813 - 20 + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + chapter xiii + + chapter xiv + + chapter xv + + chapter xvi + + + second epilogue + + chapter i + + chapter ii + + chapter iii + + chapter iv + + chapter v + + chapter vi + + chapter vii + + chapter viii + + chapter ix + + chapter x + + chapter xi + + chapter xii + + + + + + + + + + +book one: 1805 + + + + + +chapter i + +“well, prince, so genoa and lucca are now just family estates of the +buonapartes. but i warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, +if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that +antichrist—i really believe he is antichrist—i will have nothing +more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my +‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! but how do you do? i see i +have frightened you—sit down and tell me all the news.” + +it was in july, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known anna pávlovna +schérer, maid of honor and favorite of the empress márya fëdorovna. +with these words she greeted prince vasíli kurágin, a man of high +rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. anna +pávlovna had had a cough for some days. she was, as she said, suffering +from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in st. petersburg, used +only by the elite. + +all her invitations without exception, written in french, and delivered +by a scarlet-liveried footman that morning, ran as follows: + +“if you have nothing better to do, count (or prince), and if the +prospect of spending an evening with a poor invalid is not too terrible, +i shall be very charmed to see you tonight between 7 and 10—annette +schérer.” + +“heavens! what a virulent attack!” replied the prince, not in the +least disconcerted by this reception. he had just entered, wearing an +embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on +his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. he spoke in that +refined french in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and +with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance +who had grown old in society and at court. he went up to anna pávlovna, +kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, +and complacently seated himself on the sofa. + +“first of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. set your friend’s +mind at rest,” said he without altering his tone, beneath the +politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony +could be discerned. + +“can one be well while suffering morally? can one be calm in times +like these if one has any feeling?” said anna pávlovna. “you are +staying the whole evening, i hope?” + +“and the fete at the english ambassador’s? today is wednesday. i +must put in an appearance there,” said the prince. “my daughter is +coming for me to take me there.” + +“i thought today’s fete had been canceled. i confess all these +festivities and fireworks are becoming wearisome.” + +“if they had known that you wished it, the entertainment would have +been put off,” said the prince, who, like a wound-up clock, by force +of habit said things he did not even wish to be believed. + +“don’t tease! well, and what has been decided about novosíltsev’s +dispatch? you know everything.” + +“what can one say about it?” replied the prince in a cold, listless +tone. “what has been decided? they have decided that buonaparte has +burnt his boats, and i believe that we are ready to burn ours.” + +prince vasíli always spoke languidly, like an actor repeating a stale +part. anna pávlovna schérer on the contrary, despite her forty years, +overflowed with animation and impulsiveness. to be an enthusiast had +become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not +feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the +expectations of those who knew her. the subdued smile which, though it +did not suit her faded features, always played round her lips expressed, +as in a spoiled child, a continual consciousness of her charming defect, +which she neither wished, nor could, nor considered it necessary, to +correct. + +in the midst of a conversation on political matters anna pávlovna burst +out: + +“oh, don’t speak to me of austria. perhaps i don’t understand +things, but austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war. she +is betraying us! russia alone must save europe. our gracious sovereign +recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it. that is the one +thing i have faith in! our good and wonderful sovereign has to perform +the noblest role on earth, and he is so virtuous and noble that god will +not forsake him. he will fulfill his vocation and crush the hydra of +revolution, which has become more terrible than ever in the person of +this murderer and villain! we alone must avenge the blood of the just +one.... whom, i ask you, can we rely on?... england with her commercial +spirit will not and cannot understand the emperor alexander’s +loftiness of soul. she has refused to evacuate malta. she wanted to +find, and still seeks, some secret motive in our actions. what answer +did novosíltsev get? none. the english have not understood and cannot +understand the self-abnegation of our emperor who wants nothing for +himself, but only desires the good of mankind. and what have they +promised? nothing! and what little they have promised they will not +perform! prussia has always declared that buonaparte is invincible, and +that all europe is powerless before him.... and i don’t believe a +word that hardenburg says, or haugwitz either. this famous prussian +neutrality is just a trap. i have faith only in god and the lofty +destiny of our adored monarch. he will save europe!” + +she suddenly paused, smiling at her own impetuosity. + +“i think,” said the prince with a smile, “that if you had been +sent instead of our dear wintzingerode you would have captured the king +of prussia’s consent by assault. you are so eloquent. will you give me +a cup of tea?” + +“in a moment. À propos,” she added, becoming calm again, “i am +expecting two very interesting men tonight, le vicomte de mortemart, who +is connected with the montmorencys through the rohans, one of the best +french families. he is one of the genuine émigrés, the good ones. and +also the abbé morio. do you know that profound thinker? he has been +received by the emperor. had you heard?” + +“i shall be delighted to meet them,” said the prince. “but +tell me,” he added with studied carelessness as if it had only just +occurred to him, though the question he was about to ask was the chief +motive of his visit, “is it true that the dowager empress wants +baron funke to be appointed first secretary at vienna? the baron by all +accounts is a poor creature.” + +prince vasíli wished to obtain this post for his son, but others were +trying through the dowager empress márya fëdorovna to secure it for +the baron. + +anna pávlovna almost closed her eyes to indicate that neither she nor +anyone else had a right to criticize what the empress desired or was +pleased with. + +“baron funke has been recommended to the dowager empress by her +sister,” was all she said, in a dry and mournful tone. + +as she named the empress, anna pávlovna’s face suddenly assumed an +expression of profound and sincere devotion and respect mingled with +sadness, and this occurred every time she mentioned her illustrious +patroness. she added that her majesty had deigned to show baron funke +beaucoup d’estime, and again her face clouded over with sadness. + +the prince was silent and looked indifferent. but, with the womanly and +courtierlike quickness and tact habitual to her, anna pávlovna +wished both to rebuke him (for daring to speak as he had done of a man +recommended to the empress) and at the same time to console him, so she +said: + +“now about your family. do you know that since your daughter came +out everyone has been enraptured by her? they say she is amazingly +beautiful.” + +the prince bowed to signify his respect and gratitude. + +“i often think,” she continued after a short pause, drawing nearer +to the prince and smiling amiably at him as if to show that political +and social topics were ended and the time had come for intimate +conversation—“i often think how unfairly sometimes the joys of life +are distributed. why has fate given you two such splendid children? +i don’t speak of anatole, your youngest. i don’t like him,” she +added in a tone admitting of no rejoinder and raising her eyebrows. +“two such charming children. and really you appreciate them less than +anyone, and so you don’t deserve to have them.” + +and she smiled her ecstatic smile. + +“i can’t help it,” said the prince. “lavater would have said i +lack the bump of paternity.” + +“don’t joke; i mean to have a serious talk with you. do you know +i am dissatisfied with your younger son? between ourselves” (and her +face assumed its melancholy expression), “he was mentioned at her +majesty’s and you were pitied....” + +the prince answered nothing, but she looked at him significantly, +awaiting a reply. he frowned. + +“what would you have me do?” he said at last. “you know i did all +a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools. +hippolyte is at least a quiet fool, but anatole is an active one. that +is the only difference between them.” he said this smiling in a way +more natural and animated than usual, so that the wrinkles round +his mouth very clearly revealed something unexpectedly coarse and +unpleasant. + +“and why are children born to such men as you? if you were not a +father there would be nothing i could reproach you with,” said anna +pávlovna, looking up pensively. + +“i am your faithful slave and to you alone i can confess that my +children are the bane of my life. it is the cross i have to bear. that +is how i explain it to myself. it can’t be helped!” + +he said no more, but expressed his resignation to cruel fate by a +gesture. anna pávlovna meditated. + +“have you never thought of marrying your prodigal son anatole?” she +asked. “they say old maids have a mania for matchmaking, and though i +don’t feel that weakness in myself as yet, i know a little person who +is very unhappy with her father. she is a relation of yours, princess +mary bolkónskaya.” + +prince vasíli did not reply, though, with the quickness of memory and +perception befitting a man of the world, he indicated by a movement of +the head that he was considering this information. + +“do you know,” he said at last, evidently unable to check the sad +current of his thoughts, “that anatole is costing me forty thousand +rubles a year? and,” he went on after a pause, “what will it be in +five years, if he goes on like this?” presently he added: “that’s +what we fathers have to put up with.... is this princess of yours +rich?” + +“her father is very rich and stingy. he lives in the country. he is +the well-known prince bolkónski who had to retire from the army under +the late emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the king of prussia.’ he is +very clever but eccentric, and a bore. the poor girl is very unhappy. +she has a brother; i think you know him, he married lise meinen lately. +he is an aide-de-camp of kutúzov’s and will be here tonight.” + +“listen, dear annette,” said the prince, suddenly taking anna +pávlovna’s hand and for some reason drawing it downwards. “arrange +that affair for me and i shall always be your most devoted slave-slafe +with an f, as a village elder of mine writes in his reports. she is rich +and of good family and that’s all i want.” + +and with the familiarity and easy grace peculiar to him, he raised the +maid of honor’s hand to his lips, kissed it, and swung it to and fro +as he lay back in his armchair, looking in another direction. + +“attendez,” said anna pávlovna, reflecting, “i’ll speak to +lise, young bolkónski’s wife, this very evening, and perhaps the +thing can be arranged. it shall be on your family’s behalf that i’ll +start my apprenticeship as old maid.” + + + + + +chapter ii + +anna pávlovna’s drawing room was gradually filling. the highest +petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age +and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. +prince vasíli’s daughter, the beautiful hélène, came to take her +father to the ambassador’s entertainment; she wore a ball dress and +her badge as maid of honor. the youthful little princess bolkónskaya, +known as la femme la plus séduisante de pétersbourg, * was also there. +she had been married during the previous winter, and being pregnant did +not go to any large gatherings, but only to small receptions. prince +vasíli’s son, hippolyte, had come with mortemart, whom he introduced. +the abbé morio and many others had also come. + + * the most fascinating woman in petersburg. + +to each new arrival anna pávlovna said, “you have not yet seen my +aunt,” or “you do not know my aunt?” and very gravely conducted +him or her to a little old lady, wearing large bows of ribbon in her +cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests +began to arrive; and slowly turning her eyes from the visitor to her +aunt, anna pávlovna mentioned each one’s name and then left them. + +each visitor performed the ceremony of greeting this old aunt whom not +one of them knew, not one of them wanted to know, and not one of them +cared about; anna pávlovna observed these greetings with mournful and +solemn interest and silent approval. the aunt spoke to each of them in +the same words, about their health and her own, and the health of her +majesty, “who, thank god, was better today.” and each visitor, +though politeness prevented his showing impatience, left the old woman +with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not +return to her the whole evening. + +the young princess bolkónskaya had brought some work in a +gold-embroidered velvet bag. her pretty little upper lip, on which a +delicate dark down was just perceptible, was too short for her teeth, +but it lifted all the more sweetly, and was especially charming when she +occasionally drew it down to meet the lower lip. as is always the case +with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her +upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to be her own special and +peculiar form of beauty. everyone brightened at the sight of this pretty +young woman, so soon to become a mother, so full of life and health, and +carrying her burden so lightly. old men and dull dispirited young ones +who looked at her, after being in her company and talking to her a +little while, felt as if they too were becoming, like her, full of life +and health. all who talked to her, and at each word saw her bright smile +and the constant gleam of her white teeth, thought that they were in a +specially amiable mood that day. + +the little princess went round the table with quick, short, swaying +steps, her workbag on her arm, and gaily spreading out her dress sat +down on a sofa near the silver samovar, as if all she was doing was a +pleasure to herself and to all around her. “i have brought my work,” +said she in french, displaying her bag and addressing all present. +“mind, annette, i hope you have not played a wicked trick on me,” +she added, turning to her hostess. “you wrote that it was to be quite +a small reception, and just see how badly i am dressed.” and she +spread out her arms to show her short-waisted, lace-trimmed, dainty gray +dress, girdled with a broad ribbon just below the breast. + +“soyez tranquille, lise, you will always be prettier than anyone +else,” replied anna pávlovna. + +“you know,” said the princess in the same tone of voice and still in +french, turning to a general, “my husband is deserting me? he is going +to get himself killed. tell me what this wretched war is for?” she +added, addressing prince vasíli, and without waiting for an answer she +turned to speak to his daughter, the beautiful hélène. + +“what a delightful woman this little princess is!” said prince +vasíli to anna pávlovna. + +one of the next arrivals was a stout, heavily built young man with +close-cropped hair, spectacles, the light-colored breeches fashionable +at that time, a very high ruffle, and a brown dress coat. this stout +young man was an illegitimate son of count bezúkhov, a well-known +grandee of catherine’s time who now lay dying in moscow. the young man +had not yet entered either the military or civil service, as he had only +just returned from abroad where he had been educated, and this was his +first appearance in society. anna pávlovna greeted him with the nod she +accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room. but in spite of +this lowest-grade greeting, a look of anxiety and fear, as at the sight +of something too large and unsuited to the place, came over her face +when she saw pierre enter. though he was certainly rather bigger than +the other men in the room, her anxiety could only have reference to +the clever though shy, but observant and natural, expression which +distinguished him from everyone else in that drawing room. + +“it is very good of you, monsieur pierre, to come and visit a poor +invalid,” said anna pávlovna, exchanging an alarmed glance with her +aunt as she conducted him to her. + +pierre murmured something unintelligible, and continued to look round as +if in search of something. on his way to the aunt he bowed to the little +princess with a pleased smile, as to an intimate acquaintance. + +anna pávlovna’s alarm was justified, for pierre turned away from the +aunt without waiting to hear her speech about her majesty’s health. +anna pávlovna in dismay detained him with the words: “do you know the +abbé morio? he is a most interesting man.” + +“yes, i have heard of his scheme for perpetual peace, and it is very +interesting but hardly feasible.” + +“you think so?” rejoined anna pávlovna in order to say something +and get away to attend to her duties as hostess. but pierre now +committed a reverse act of impoliteness. first he had left a lady before +she had finished speaking to him, and now he continued to speak to +another who wished to get away. with his head bent, and his big feet +spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbé’s +plan chimerical. + +“we will talk of it later,” said anna pávlovna with a smile. + +and having got rid of this young man who did not know how to behave, she +resumed her duties as hostess and continued to listen and watch, ready +to help at any point where the conversation might happen to flag. as +the foreman of a spinning mill, when he has set the hands to work, goes +round and notices here a spindle that has stopped or there one that +creaks or makes more noise than it should, and hastens to check the +machine or set it in proper motion, so anna pávlovna moved about her +drawing room, approaching now a silent, now a too-noisy group, and by a +word or slight rearrangement kept the conversational machine in steady, +proper, and regular motion. but amid these cares her anxiety about +pierre was evident. she kept an anxious watch on him when he approached +the group round mortemart to listen to what was being said there, and +again when he passed to another group whose center was the abbé. + +pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception at anna +pávlovna’s was the first he had attended in russia. he knew that all +the intellectual lights of petersburg were gathered there and, like a +child in a toyshop, did not know which way to look, afraid of missing +any clever conversation that was to be heard. seeing the self-confident +and refined expression on the faces of those present he was always +expecting to hear something very profound. at last he came up to morio. +here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an +opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. + + + + + +chapter iii + +anna pávlovna’s reception was in full swing. the spindles hummed +steadily and ceaselessly on all sides. with the exception of the aunt, +beside whom sat only one elderly lady, who with her thin careworn face +was rather out of place in this brilliant society, the whole company had +settled into three groups. one, chiefly masculine, had formed round +the abbé. another, of young people, was grouped round the beautiful +princess hélène, prince vasíli’s daughter, and the little princess +bolkónskaya, very pretty and rosy, though rather too plump for her age. +the third group was gathered round mortemart and anna pávlovna. + +the vicomte was a nice-looking young man with soft features and polished +manners, who evidently considered himself a celebrity but out of +politeness modestly placed himself at the disposal of the circle in +which he found himself. anna pávlovna was obviously serving him up as +a treat to her guests. as a clever maître d’hôtel serves up as a +specially choice delicacy a piece of meat that no one who had seen it in +the kitchen would have cared to eat, so anna pávlovna served up to +her guests, first the vicomte and then the abbé, as peculiarly choice +morsels. the group about mortemart immediately began discussing the +murder of the duc d’enghien. the vicomte said that the duc d’enghien +had perished by his own magnanimity, and that there were particular +reasons for buonaparte’s hatred of him. + +“ah, yes! do tell us all about it, vicomte,” said anna pávlovna, +with a pleasant feeling that there was something à la louis xv in the +sound of that sentence: “contez nous çela, vicomte.” + +the vicomte bowed and smiled courteously in token of his willingness to +comply. anna pávlovna arranged a group round him, inviting everyone to +listen to his tale. + +“the vicomte knew the duc personally,” whispered anna pávlovna to +one of the guests. “the vicomte is a wonderful raconteur,” said she +to another. “how evidently he belongs to the best society,” said she +to a third; and the vicomte was served up to the company in the choicest +and most advantageous style, like a well-garnished joint of roast beef +on a hot dish. + +the vicomte wished to begin his story and gave a subtle smile. + +“come over here, hélène, dear,” said anna pávlovna to the +beautiful young princess who was sitting some way off, the center of +another group. + +the princess smiled. she rose with the same unchanging smile with which +she had first entered the room—the smile of a perfectly beautiful +woman. with a slight rustle of her white dress trimmed with moss +and ivy, with a gleam of white shoulders, glossy hair, and sparkling +diamonds, she passed between the men who made way for her, not looking +at any of them but smiling on all, as if graciously allowing each the +privilege of admiring her beautiful figure and shapely shoulders, +back, and bosom—which in the fashion of those days were very much +exposed—and she seemed to bring the glamour of a ballroom with her as +she moved toward anna pávlovna. hélène was so lovely that not only +did she not show any trace of coquetry, but on the contrary she even +appeared shy of her unquestionable and all too victorious beauty. she +seemed to wish, but to be unable, to diminish its effect. + +“how lovely!” said everyone who saw her; and the vicomte lifted his +shoulders and dropped his eyes as if startled by something extraordinary +when she took her seat opposite and beamed upon him also with her +unchanging smile. + +“madame, i doubt my ability before such an audience,” said he, +smilingly inclining his head. + +the princess rested her bare round arm on a little table and considered +a reply unnecessary. she smilingly waited. all the time the story was +being told she sat upright, glancing now at her beautiful round arm, +altered in shape by its pressure on the table, now at her still more +beautiful bosom, on which she readjusted a diamond necklace. from time +to time she smoothed the folds of her dress, and whenever the story +produced an effect she glanced at anna pávlovna, at once adopted just +the expression she saw on the maid of honor’s face, and again relapsed +into her radiant smile. + +the little princess had also left the tea table and followed hélène. + +“wait a moment, i’ll get my work.... now then, what are you +thinking of?” she went on, turning to prince hippolyte. “fetch me my +workbag.” + +there was a general movement as the princess, smiling and talking +merrily to everyone at once, sat down and gaily arranged herself in her +seat. + +“now i am all right,” she said, and asking the vicomte to begin, she +took up her work. + +prince hippolyte, having brought the workbag, joined the circle and +moving a chair close to hers seated himself beside her. + +le charmant hippolyte was surprising by his extraordinary resemblance +to his beautiful sister, but yet more by the fact that in spite of +this resemblance he was exceedingly ugly. his features were like his +sister’s, but while in her case everything was lit up by a joyous, +self-satisfied, youthful, and constant smile of animation, and by the +wonderful classic beauty of her figure, his face on the contrary +was dulled by imbecility and a constant expression of sullen +self-confidence, while his body was thin and weak. his eyes, nose, and +mouth all seemed puckered into a vacant, wearied grimace, and his arms +and legs always fell into unnatural positions. + +“it’s not going to be a ghost story?” said he, sitting down beside +the princess and hastily adjusting his lorgnette, as if without this +instrument he could not begin to speak. + +“why no, my dear fellow,” said the astonished narrator, shrugging +his shoulders. + +“because i hate ghost stories,” said prince hippolyte in a tone +which showed that he only understood the meaning of his words after he +had uttered them. + +he spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure +whether what he said was very witty or very stupid. he was dressed in +a dark-green dress coat, knee breeches of the color of cuisse de nymphe +effrayée, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings. + +the vicomte told his tale very neatly. it was an anecdote, then current, +to the effect that the duc d’enghien had gone secretly to paris to +visit mademoiselle george; that at her house he came upon bonaparte, +who also enjoyed the famous actress’ favors, and that in his presence +napoleon happened to fall into one of the fainting fits to which he was +subject, and was thus at the duc’s mercy. the latter spared him, and +this magnanimity bonaparte subsequently repaid by death. + +the story was very pretty and interesting, especially at the point +where the rivals suddenly recognized one another; and the ladies looked +agitated. + +“charming!” said anna pávlovna with an inquiring glance at the +little princess. + +“charming!” whispered the little princess, sticking the needle into +her work as if to testify that the interest and fascination of the story +prevented her from going on with it. + +the vicomte appreciated this silent praise and smiling gratefully +prepared to continue, but just then anna pávlovna, who had kept a +watchful eye on the young man who so alarmed her, noticed that he was +talking too loudly and vehemently with the abbé, so she hurried to the +rescue. pierre had managed to start a conversation with the abbé about +the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young +man’s simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory. both +were talking and listening too eagerly and too naturally, which was why +anna pávlovna disapproved. + +“the means are ... the balance of power in europe and the rights of +the people,” the abbé was saying. “it is only necessary for one +powerful nation like russia—barbaric as she is said to be—to place +herself disinterestedly at the head of an alliance having for its object +the maintenance of the balance of power of europe, and it would save the +world!” + +“but how are you to get that balance?” pierre was beginning. + +at that moment anna pávlovna came up and, looking severely at pierre, +asked the italian how he stood russian climate. the italian’s +face instantly changed and assumed an offensively affected, sugary +expression, evidently habitual to him when conversing with women. + +“i am so enchanted by the brilliancy of the wit and culture of the +society, more especially of the feminine society, in which i have had +the honor of being received, that i have not yet had time to think of +the climate,” said he. + +not letting the abbé and pierre escape, anna pávlovna, the more +conveniently to keep them under observation, brought them into the +larger circle. + + + + + +chapter iv + +just then another visitor entered the drawing room: prince andrew +bolkónski, the little princess’ husband. he was a very handsome young +man, of medium height, with firm, clearcut features. everything about +him, from his weary, bored expression to his quiet, measured step, +offered a most striking contrast to his quiet, little wife. it was +evident that he not only knew everyone in the drawing room, but had +found them to be so tiresome that it wearied him to look at or listen to +them. and among all these faces that he found so tedious, none seemed +to bore him so much as that of his pretty wife. he turned away from +her with a grimace that distorted his handsome face, kissed anna +pávlovna’s hand, and screwing up his eyes scanned the whole company. + +“you are off to the war, prince?” said anna pávlovna. + +“general kutúzov,” said bolkónski, speaking french and stressing +the last syllable of the general’s name like a frenchman, “has been +pleased to take me as an aide-de-camp....” + +“and lise, your wife?” + +“she will go to the country.” + +“are you not ashamed to deprive us of your charming wife?” + +“andré,” said his wife, addressing her husband in the same +coquettish manner in which she spoke to other men, “the vicomte has +been telling us such a tale about mademoiselle george and buonaparte!” + +prince andrew screwed up his eyes and turned away. pierre, who from +the moment prince andrew entered the room had watched him with glad, +affectionate eyes, now came up and took his arm. before he looked round +prince andrew frowned again, expressing his annoyance with whoever was +touching his arm, but when he saw pierre’s beaming face he gave him an +unexpectedly kind and pleasant smile. + +“there now!... so you, too, are in the great world?” said he to +pierre. + +“i knew you would be here,” replied pierre. “i will come to supper +with you. may i?” he added in a low voice so as not to disturb the +vicomte who was continuing his story. + +“no, impossible!” said prince andrew, laughing and pressing +pierre’s hand to show that there was no need to ask the question. he +wished to say something more, but at that moment prince vasíli and his +daughter got up to go and the two young men rose to let them pass. + +“you must excuse me, dear vicomte,” said prince vasíli to the +frenchman, holding him down by the sleeve in a friendly way to prevent +his rising. “this unfortunate fete at the ambassador’s deprives me +of a pleasure, and obliges me to interrupt you. i am very sorry to leave +your enchanting party,” said he, turning to anna pávlovna. + +his daughter, princess hélène, passed between the chairs, lightly +holding up the folds of her dress, and the smile shone still more +radiantly on her beautiful face. pierre gazed at her with rapturous, +almost frightened, eyes as she passed him. + +“very lovely,” said prince andrew. + +“very,” said pierre. + +in passing prince vasíli seized pierre’s hand and said to anna +pávlovna: “educate this bear for me! he has been staying with me +a whole month and this is the first time i have seen him in society. +nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever +women.” + + +anna pávlovna smiled and promised to take pierre in hand. she knew his +father to be a connection of prince vasíli’s. the elderly lady who +had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook prince +vasíli in the anteroom. all the affectation of interest she had assumed +had left her kindly and tear-worn face and it now expressed only anxiety +and fear. + +“how about my son borís, prince?” said she, hurrying after him into +the anteroom. “i can’t remain any longer in petersburg. tell me what +news i may take back to my poor boy.” + +although prince vasíli listened reluctantly and not very politely +to the elderly lady, even betraying some impatience, she gave him an +ingratiating and appealing smile, and took his hand that he might not go +away. + +“what would it cost you to say a word to the emperor, and then he +would be transferred to the guards at once?” said she. + +“believe me, princess, i am ready to do all i can,” answered prince +vasíli, “but it is difficult for me to ask the emperor. i should +advise you to appeal to rumyántsev through prince golítsyn. that would +be the best way.” + +the elderly lady was a princess drubetskáya, belonging to one of the +best families in russia, but she was poor, and having long been out of +society had lost her former influential connections. she had now come to +petersburg to procure an appointment in the guards for her only son. +it was, in fact, solely to meet prince vasíli that she had obtained an +invitation to anna pávlovna’s reception and had sat listening to +the vicomte’s story. prince vasíli’s words frightened her, an +embittered look clouded her once handsome face, but only for a moment; +then she smiled again and clutched prince vasíli’s arm more tightly. + +“listen to me, prince,” said she. “i have never yet asked you +for anything and i never will again, nor have i ever reminded you of my +father’s friendship for you; but now i entreat you for god’s sake to +do this for my son—and i shall always regard you as a benefactor,” +she added hurriedly. “no, don’t be angry, but promise! i have asked +golítsyn and he has refused. be the kindhearted man you always were,” +she said, trying to smile though tears were in her eyes. + +“papa, we shall be late,” said princess hélène, turning her +beautiful head and looking over her classically molded shoulder as she +stood waiting by the door. + +influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized +if it is to last. prince vasíli knew this, and having once realized +that if he asked on behalf of all who begged of him, he would soon be +unable to ask for himself, he became chary of using his influence. but +in princess drubetskáya’s case he felt, after her second appeal, +something like qualms of conscience. she had reminded him of what was +quite true; he had been indebted to her father for the first steps in +his career. moreover, he could see by her manners that she was one of +those women—mostly mothers—who, having once made up their minds, +will not rest until they have gained their end, and are prepared if +necessary to go on insisting day after day and hour after hour, and even +to make scenes. this last consideration moved him. + +“my dear anna mikháylovna,” said he with his usual familiarity and +weariness of tone, “it is almost impossible for me to do what you +ask; but to prove my devotion to you and how i respect your father’s +memory, i will do the impossible—your son shall be transferred to the +guards. here is my hand on it. are you satisfied?” + +“my dear benefactor! this is what i expected from you—i knew your +kindness!” he turned to go. + +“wait—just a word! when he has been transferred to the guards...” +she faltered. “you are on good terms with michael ilariónovich +kutúzov ... recommend borís to him as adjutant! then i shall be at +rest, and then...” + +prince vasíli smiled. + +“no, i won’t promise that. you don’t know how kutúzov is pestered +since his appointment as commander in chief. he told me himself that +all the moscow ladies have conspired to give him all their sons as +adjutants.” + +“no, but do promise! i won’t let you go! my dear benefactor...” + +“papa,” said his beautiful daughter in the same tone as before, +“we shall be late.” + +“well, au revoir! good-by! you hear her?” + +“then tomorrow you will speak to the emperor?” + +“certainly; but about kutúzov, i don’t promise.” + +“do promise, do promise, vasíli!” cried anna mikháylovna as he +went, with the smile of a coquettish girl, which at one time probably +came naturally to her, but was now very ill-suited to her careworn face. + +apparently she had forgotten her age and by force of habit employed +all the old feminine arts. but as soon as the prince had gone her face +resumed its former cold, artificial expression. she returned to the +group where the vicomte was still talking, and again pretended to +listen, while waiting till it would be time to leave. her task was +accomplished. + + + + + +chapter v + +“and what do you think of this latest comedy, the coronation at +milan?” asked anna pávlovna, “and of the comedy of the people of +genoa and lucca laying their petitions before monsieur buonaparte, and +monsieur buonaparte sitting on a throne and granting the petitions of +the nations? adorable! it is enough to make one’s head whirl! it is as +if the whole world had gone crazy.” + +prince andrew looked anna pávlovna straight in the face with a +sarcastic smile. + +“‘dieu me la donne, gare à qui la touche!’’ * they say he was +very fine when he said that,” he remarked, repeating the words in +italian: “‘dio mi l’ha dato. guai a chi la tocchi!’’ + + * god has given it to me, let him who touches it beware! + +“i hope this will prove the last drop that will make the glass run +over,” anna pávlovna continued. “the sovereigns will not be able to +endure this man who is a menace to everything.” + +“the sovereigns? i do not speak of russia,” said the vicomte, polite +but hopeless: “the sovereigns, madame... what have they done for louis +xvii, for the queen, or for madame elizabeth? nothing!” and he became +more animated. “and believe me, they are reaping the reward of their +betrayal of the bourbon cause. the sovereigns! why, they are sending +ambassadors to compliment the usurper.” + +and sighing disdainfully, he again changed his position. + +prince hippolyte, who had been gazing at the vicomte for some time +through his lorgnette, suddenly turned completely round toward the +little princess, and having asked for a needle began tracing the condé +coat of arms on the table. he explained this to her with as much gravity +as if she had asked him to do it. + +“bâton de gueules, engrêlé de gueules d’azur—maison condé,” +said he. + +the princess listened, smiling. + +“if buonaparte remains on the throne of france a year longer,” the +vicomte continued, with the air of a man who, in a matter with which +he is better acquainted than anyone else, does not listen to others but +follows the current of his own thoughts, “things will have gone too +far. by intrigues, violence, exile, and executions, french society—i +mean good french society—will have been forever destroyed, and +then....” + +he shrugged his shoulders and spread out his hands. pierre wished to +make a remark, for the conversation interested him, but anna pávlovna, +who had him under observation, interrupted: + +“the emperor alexander,” said she, with the melancholy which +always accompanied any reference of hers to the imperial family, “has +declared that he will leave it to the french people themselves to choose +their own form of government; and i believe that once free from the +usurper, the whole nation will certainly throw itself into the arms +of its rightful king,” she concluded, trying to be amiable to the +royalist emigrant. + +“that is doubtful,” said prince andrew. “monsieur le vicomte quite +rightly supposes that matters have already gone too far. i think it will +be difficult to return to the old regime.” + +“from what i have heard,” said pierre, blushing and breaking into +the conversation, “almost all the aristocracy has already gone over to +bonaparte’s side.” + +“it is the buonapartists who say that,” replied the vicomte without +looking at pierre. “at the present time it is difficult to know the +real state of french public opinion.” + +“bonaparte has said so,” remarked prince andrew with a sarcastic +smile. + +it was evident that he did not like the vicomte and was aiming his +remarks at him, though without looking at him. + +“‘i showed them the path to glory, but they did not follow +it,’” prince andrew continued after a short silence, again quoting +napoleon’s words. “‘i opened my antechambers and they crowded +in.’ i do not know how far he was justified in saying so.” + +“not in the least,” replied the vicomte. “after the murder of the +duc even the most partial ceased to regard him as a hero. if to some +people,” he went on, turning to anna pávlovna, “he ever was a hero, +after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one +hero less on earth.” + +before anna pávlovna and the others had time to smile their +appreciation of the vicomte’s epigram, pierre again broke into the +conversation, and though anna pávlovna felt sure he would say something +inappropriate, she was unable to stop him. + +“the execution of the duc d’enghien,” declared monsieur pierre, +“was a political necessity, and it seems to me that napoleon +showed greatness of soul by not fearing to take on himself the whole +responsibility of that deed.” + +“dieu! mon dieu!” muttered anna pávlovna in a terrified whisper. + +“what, monsieur pierre... do you consider that assassination shows +greatness of soul?” said the little princess, smiling and drawing her +work nearer to her. + +“oh! oh!” exclaimed several voices. + +“capital!” said prince hippolyte in english, and began slapping his +knee with the palm of his hand. + +the vicomte merely shrugged his shoulders. pierre looked solemnly at his +audience over his spectacles and continued. + +“i say so,” he continued desperately, “because the bourbons fled +from the revolution leaving the people to anarchy, and napoleon alone +understood the revolution and quelled it, and so for the general good, +he could not stop short for the sake of one man’s life.” + +“won’t you come over to the other table?” suggested anna +pávlovna. + +but pierre continued his speech without heeding her. + +“no,” cried he, becoming more and more eager, “napoleon is great +because he rose superior to the revolution, suppressed its abuses, +preserved all that was good in it—equality of citizenship and freedom +of speech and of the press—and only for that reason did he obtain +power.” + +“yes, if having obtained power, without availing himself of it to +commit murder he had restored it to the rightful king, i should have +called him a great man,” remarked the vicomte. + +“he could not do that. the people only gave him power that he might +rid them of the bourbons and because they saw that he was a great +man. the revolution was a grand thing!” continued monsieur pierre, +betraying by this desperate and provocative proposition his extreme +youth and his wish to express all that was in his mind. + +“what? revolution and regicide a grand thing?... well, after that... +but won’t you come to this other table?” repeated anna pávlovna. + +“rousseau’s contrat social,” said the vicomte with a tolerant +smile. + +“i am not speaking of regicide, i am speaking about ideas.” + +“yes: ideas of robbery, murder, and regicide,” again interjected an +ironical voice. + +“those were extremes, no doubt, but they are not what is most +important. what is important are the rights of man, emancipation from +prejudices, and equality of citizenship, and all these ideas napoleon +has retained in full force.” + +“liberty and equality,” said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at +last deciding seriously to prove to this youth how foolish his words +were, “high-sounding words which have long been discredited. who does +not love liberty and equality? even our saviour preached liberty and +equality. have people since the revolution become happier? on the +contrary. we wanted liberty, but buonaparte has destroyed it.” + +prince andrew kept looking with an amused smile from pierre to the +vicomte and from the vicomte to their hostess. in the first moment of +pierre’s outburst anna pávlovna, despite her social experience, was +horror-struck. but when she saw that pierre’s sacrilegious words +had not exasperated the vicomte, and had convinced herself that it was +impossible to stop him, she rallied her forces and joined the vicomte in +a vigorous attack on the orator. + +“but, my dear monsieur pierre,” said she, “how do you explain the +fact of a great man executing a duc—or even an ordinary man who—is +innocent and untried?” + +“i should like,” said the vicomte, “to ask how monsieur explains +the 18th brumaire; was not that an imposture? it was a swindle, and not +at all like the conduct of a great man!” + +“and the prisoners he killed in africa? that was horrible!” said the +little princess, shrugging her shoulders. + +“he’s a low fellow, say what you will,” remarked prince hippolyte. + +pierre, not knowing whom to answer, looked at them all and smiled. his +smile was unlike the half-smile of other people. when he smiled, +his grave, even rather gloomy, look was instantaneously replaced by +another—a childlike, kindly, even rather silly look, which seemed to +ask forgiveness. + +the vicomte who was meeting him for the first time saw clearly that +this young jacobin was not so terrible as his words suggested. all were +silent. + +“how do you expect him to answer you all at once?” said prince +andrew. “besides, in the actions of a statesman one has to distinguish +between his acts as a private person, as a general, and as an emperor. +so it seems to me.” + +“yes, yes, of course!” pierre chimed in, pleased at the arrival of +this reinforcement. + +“one must admit,” continued prince andrew, “that napoleon as a man +was great on the bridge of arcola, and in the hospital at jaffa where he +gave his hand to the plague-stricken; but ... but there are other acts +which it is difficult to justify.” + +prince andrew, who had evidently wished to tone down the awkwardness of +pierre’s remarks, rose and made a sign to his wife that it was time to +go. + +suddenly prince hippolyte started up making signs to everyone to attend, +and asking them all to be seated began: + +“i was told a charming moscow story today and must treat you to it. +excuse me, vicomte—i must tell it in russian or the point will be +lost....” and prince hippolyte began to tell his story in such russian +as a frenchman would speak after spending about a year in russia. +everyone waited, so emphatically and eagerly did he demand their +attention to his story. + +“there is in moscow a lady, une dame, and she is very stingy. she must +have two footmen behind her carriage, and very big ones. that was her +taste. and she had a lady’s maid, also big. she said....” + +here prince hippolyte paused, evidently collecting his ideas with +difficulty. + +“she said.... oh yes! she said, ‘girl,’ to the maid, ‘put on a +livery, get up behind the carriage, and come with me while i make some +calls.’” + +here prince hippolyte spluttered and burst out laughing long before his +audience, which produced an effect unfavorable to the narrator. several +persons, among them the elderly lady and anna pávlovna, did however +smile. + +“she went. suddenly there was a great wind. the girl lost her hat and +her long hair came down....” here he could contain himself no +longer and went on, between gasps of laughter: “and the whole world +knew....” + +and so the anecdote ended. though it was unintelligible why he had told +it, or why it had to be told in russian, still anna pávlovna and the +others appreciated prince hippolyte’s social tact in so agreeably +ending pierre’s unpleasant and unamiable outburst. after the anecdote +the conversation broke up into insignificant small talk about the last +and next balls, about theatricals, and who would meet whom, and when and +where. + + + + + +chapter vi + +having thanked anna pávlovna for her charming soiree, the guests began +to take their leave. + +pierre was ungainly. stout, about the average height, broad, with huge +red hands; he did not know, as the saying is, how to enter a drawing +room and still less how to leave one; that is, how to say something +particularly agreeable before going away. besides this he was +absent-minded. when he rose to go, he took up instead of his own, the +general’s three-cornered hat, and held it, pulling at the plume, +till the general asked him to restore it. all his absent-mindedness and +inability to enter a room and converse in it was, however, redeemed by +his kindly, simple, and modest expression. anna pávlovna turned toward +him and, with a christian mildness that expressed forgiveness of his +indiscretion, nodded and said: “i hope to see you again, but i also +hope you will change your opinions, my dear monsieur pierre.” + +when she said this, he did not reply and only bowed, but again everybody +saw his smile, which said nothing, unless perhaps, “opinions are +opinions, but you see what a capital, good-natured fellow i am.” and +everyone, including anna pávlovna, felt this. + +prince andrew had gone out into the hall, and, turning his shoulders +to the footman who was helping him on with his cloak, listened +indifferently to his wife’s chatter with prince hippolyte who had also +come into the hall. prince hippolyte stood close to the pretty, pregnant +princess, and stared fixedly at her through his eyeglass. + +“go in, annette, or you will catch cold,” said the little princess, +taking leave of anna pávlovna. “it is settled,” she added in a low +voice. + +anna pávlovna had already managed to speak to lise about the match she +contemplated between anatole and the little princess’ sister-in-law. + +“i rely on you, my dear,” said anna pávlovna, also in a low tone. +“write to her and let me know how her father looks at the matter. au +revoir! ”—and she left the hall. + +prince hippolyte approached the little princess and, bending his face +close to her, began to whisper something. + +two footmen, the princess’ and his own, stood holding a shawl and +a cloak, waiting for the conversation to finish. they listened to +the french sentences which to them were meaningless, with an air of +understanding but not wishing to appear to do so. the princess as usual +spoke smilingly and listened with a laugh. + +“i am very glad i did not go to the ambassador’s,” said prince +hippolyte “—so dull—. it has been a delightful evening, has it +not? delightful!” + +“they say the ball will be very good,” replied the princess, drawing +up her downy little lip. “all the pretty women in society will be +there.” + +“not all, for you will not be there; not all,” said prince hippolyte +smiling joyfully; and snatching the shawl from the footman, whom he +even pushed aside, he began wrapping it round the princess. either from +awkwardness or intentionally (no one could have said which) after the +shawl had been adjusted he kept his arm around her for a long time, as +though embracing her. + +still smiling, she gracefully moved away, turning and glancing at her +husband. prince andrew’s eyes were closed, so weary and sleepy did he +seem. + +“are you ready?” he asked his wife, looking past her. + +prince hippolyte hurriedly put on his cloak, which in the latest fashion +reached to his very heels, and, stumbling in it, ran out into the porch +following the princess, whom a footman was helping into the carriage. + +“princesse, au revoir,” cried he, stumbling with his tongue as well +as with his feet. + +the princess, picking up her dress, was taking her seat in the dark +carriage, her husband was adjusting his saber; prince hippolyte, under +pretense of helping, was in everyone’s way. + +“allow me, sir,” said prince andrew in russian in a cold, +disagreeable tone to prince hippolyte who was blocking his path. + +“i am expecting you, pierre,” said the same voice, but gently and +affectionately. + +the postilion started, the carriage wheels rattled. prince hippolyte +laughed spasmodically as he stood in the porch waiting for the vicomte +whom he had promised to take home. + +“well, mon cher,” said the vicomte, having seated himself beside +hippolyte in the carriage, “your little princess is very nice, very +nice indeed, quite french,” and he kissed the tips of his fingers. +hippolyte burst out laughing. + +“do you know, you are a terrible chap for all your innocent airs,” +continued the vicomte. “i pity the poor husband, that little officer +who gives himself the airs of a monarch.” + +hippolyte spluttered again, and amid his laughter said, “and you were +saying that the russian ladies are not equal to the french? one has to +know how to deal with them.” + +pierre reaching the house first went into prince andrew’s study like +one quite at home, and from habit immediately lay down on the sofa, took +from the shelf the first book that came to his hand (it was caesar’s +commentaries), and resting on his elbow, began reading it in the middle. + +“what have you done to mlle schérer? she will be quite ill now,” +said prince andrew, as he entered the study, rubbing his small white +hands. + +pierre turned his whole body, making the sofa creak. he lifted his eager +face to prince andrew, smiled, and waved his hand. + +“that abbé is very interesting but he does not see the thing in the +right light.... in my opinion perpetual peace is possible but—i do not +know how to express it ... not by a balance of political power....” + +it was evident that prince andrew was not interested in such abstract +conversation. + +“one can’t everywhere say all one thinks, mon cher. well, have +you at last decided on anything? are you going to be a guardsman or a +diplomatist?” asked prince andrew after a momentary silence. + +pierre sat up on the sofa, with his legs tucked under him. + +“really, i don’t yet know. i don’t like either the one or the +other.” + +“but you must decide on something! your father expects it.” + +pierre at the age of ten had been sent abroad with an abbé as tutor, +and had remained away till he was twenty. when he returned to moscow +his father dismissed the abbé and said to the young man, “now go +to petersburg, look round, and choose your profession. i will agree to +anything. here is a letter to prince vasíli, and here is money. write +to me all about it, and i will help you in everything.” pierre had +already been choosing a career for three months, and had not decided +on anything. it was about this choice that prince andrew was speaking. +pierre rubbed his forehead. + +“but he must be a freemason,” said he, referring to the abbé whom +he had met that evening. + +“that is all nonsense.” prince andrew again interrupted him, “let +us talk business. have you been to the horse guards?” + +“no, i have not; but this is what i have been thinking and wanted +to tell you. there is a war now against napoleon. if it were a war for +freedom i could understand it and should be the first to enter the army; +but to help england and austria against the greatest man in the world is +not right.” + +prince andrew only shrugged his shoulders at pierre’s childish words. +he put on the air of one who finds it impossible to reply to such +nonsense, but it would in fact have been difficult to give any other +answer than the one prince andrew gave to this naïve question. + +“if no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no +wars,” he said. + +“and that would be splendid,” said pierre. + +prince andrew smiled ironically. + +“very likely it would be splendid, but it will never come about....” + +“well, why are you going to the war?” asked pierre. + +“what for? i don’t know. i must. besides that i am going....” he +paused. “i am going because the life i am leading here does not suit +me!” + + + + + +chapter vii + +the rustle of a woman’s dress was heard in the next room. prince +andrew shook himself as if waking up, and his face assumed the look it +had had in anna pávlovna’s drawing room. pierre removed his feet from +the sofa. the princess came in. she had changed her gown for a house +dress as fresh and elegant as the other. prince andrew rose and politely +placed a chair for her. + +“how is it,” she began, as usual in french, settling down briskly +and fussily in the easy chair, “how is it annette never got married? +how stupid you men all are not to have married her! excuse me for saying +so, but you have no sense about women. what an argumentative fellow you +are, monsieur pierre!” + +“and i am still arguing with your husband. i can’t understand why he +wants to go to the war,” replied pierre, addressing the princess +with none of the embarrassment so commonly shown by young men in their +intercourse with young women. + +the princess started. evidently pierre’s words touched her to the +quick. + +“ah, that is just what i tell him!” said she. “i don’t +understand it; i don’t in the least understand why men can’t live +without wars. how is it that we women don’t want anything of the kind, +don’t need it? now you shall judge between us. i always tell him: here +he is uncle’s aide-de-camp, a most brilliant position. he is so +well known, so much appreciated by everyone. the other day at the +apráksins’ i heard a lady asking, ‘is that the famous prince +andrew?’ i did indeed.” she laughed. “he is so well received +everywhere. he might easily become aide-de-camp to the emperor. you know +the emperor spoke to him most graciously. annette and i were speaking of +how to arrange it. what do you think?” + +pierre looked at his friend and, noticing that he did not like the +conversation, gave no reply. + +“when are you starting?” he asked. + +“oh, don’t speak of his going, don’t! i won’t hear it spoken +of,” said the princess in the same petulantly playful tone in which +she had spoken to hippolyte in the drawing room and which was so plainly +ill-suited to the family circle of which pierre was almost a member. +“today when i remembered that all these delightful associations +must be broken off ... and then you know, andré...” (she looked +significantly at her husband) “i’m afraid, i’m afraid!” she +whispered, and a shudder ran down her back. + +her husband looked at her as if surprised to notice that someone besides +pierre and himself was in the room, and addressed her in a tone of +frigid politeness. + +“what is it you are afraid of, lise? i don’t understand,” said he. + +“there, what egotists men all are: all, all egotists! just for a whim +of his own, goodness only knows why, he leaves me and locks me up alone +in the country.” + +“with my father and sister, remember,” said prince andrew gently. + +“alone all the same, without my friends.... and he expects me not to +be afraid.” + +her tone was now querulous and her lip drawn up, giving her not a +joyful, but an animal, squirrel-like expression. she paused as if she +felt it indecorous to speak of her pregnancy before pierre, though the +gist of the matter lay in that. + +“i still can’t understand what you are afraid of,” said prince +andrew slowly, not taking his eyes off his wife. + +the princess blushed, and raised her arms with a gesture of despair. + +“no, andrew, i must say you have changed. oh, how you have....” + +“your doctor tells you to go to bed earlier,” said prince andrew. +“you had better go.” + +the princess said nothing, but suddenly her short downy lip quivered. +prince andrew rose, shrugged his shoulders, and walked about the room. + +pierre looked over his spectacles with naïve surprise, now at him and +now at her, moved as if about to rise too, but changed his mind. + +“why should i mind monsieur pierre being here?” exclaimed the little +princess suddenly, her pretty face all at once distorted by a tearful +grimace. “i have long wanted to ask you, andrew, why you have changed +so to me? what have i done to you? you are going to the war and have no +pity for me. why is it?” + +“lise!” was all prince andrew said. but that one word expressed +an entreaty, a threat, and above all conviction that she would herself +regret her words. but she went on hurriedly: + +“you treat me like an invalid or a child. i see it all! did you behave +like that six months ago?” + +“lise, i beg you to desist,” said prince andrew still more +emphatically. + +pierre, who had been growing more and more agitated as he listened to +all this, rose and approached the princess. he seemed unable to bear the +sight of tears and was ready to cry himself. + +“calm yourself, princess! it seems so to you because.... i assure you +i myself have experienced ... and so ... because ... no, excuse me! +an outsider is out of place here.... no, don’t distress yourself.... +good-by!” + +prince andrew caught him by the hand. + +“no, wait, pierre! the princess is too kind to wish to deprive me of +the pleasure of spending the evening with you.” + +“no, he thinks only of himself,” muttered the princess without +restraining her angry tears. + +“lise!” said prince andrew dryly, raising his voice to the pitch +which indicates that patience is exhausted. + +suddenly the angry, squirrel-like expression of the princess’ pretty +face changed into a winning and piteous look of fear. her beautiful eyes +glanced askance at her husband’s face, and her own assumed the timid, +deprecating expression of a dog when it rapidly but feebly wags its +drooping tail. + +“mon dieu, mon dieu!” she muttered, and lifting her dress with one +hand she went up to her husband and kissed him on the forehead. + +“good night, lise,” said he, rising and courteously kissing her hand +as he would have done to a stranger. + + + + + +chapter viii + +the friends were silent. neither cared to begin talking. pierre +continually glanced at prince andrew; prince andrew rubbed his forehead +with his small hand. + +“let us go and have supper,” he said with a sigh, going to the door. + +they entered the elegant, newly decorated, and luxurious dining room. +everything from the table napkins to the silver, china, and glass bore +that imprint of newness found in the households of the newly married. +halfway through supper prince andrew leaned his elbows on the table and, +with a look of nervous agitation such as pierre had never before seen on +his face, began to talk—as one who has long had something on his mind +and suddenly determines to speak out. + +“never, never marry, my dear fellow! that’s my advice: never marry +till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are capable of, +and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen +her plainly as she is, or else you will make a cruel and irrevocable +mistake. marry when you are old and good for nothing—or all that is +good and noble in you will be lost. it will all be wasted on trifles. +yes! yes! yes! don’t look at me with such surprise. if you marry +expecting anything from yourself in the future, you will feel at every +step that for you all is ended, all is closed except the drawing +room, where you will be ranged side by side with a court lackey and an +idiot!... but what’s the good?...” and he waved his arm. + +pierre took off his spectacles, which made his face seem different and +the good-natured expression still more apparent, and gazed at his friend +in amazement. + +“my wife,” continued prince andrew, “is an excellent woman, one +of those rare women with whom a man’s honor is safe; but, o god, what +would i not give now to be unmarried! you are the first and only one to +whom i mention this, because i like you.” + +as he said this prince andrew was less than ever like that bolkónski +who had lolled in anna pávlovna’s easy chairs and with half-closed +eyes had uttered french phrases between his teeth. every muscle of his +thin face was now quivering with nervous excitement; his eyes, in which +the fire of life had seemed extinguished, now flashed with brilliant +light. it was evident that the more lifeless he seemed at ordinary +times, the more impassioned he became in these moments of almost morbid +irritation. + +“you don’t understand why i say this,” he continued, “but it is +the whole story of life. you talk of bonaparte and his career,” said +he (though pierre had not mentioned bonaparte), “but bonaparte when +he worked went step by step toward his goal. he was free, he had nothing +but his aim to consider, and he reached it. but tie yourself up with +a woman and, like a chained convict, you lose all freedom! and all you +have of hope and strength merely weighs you down and torments you with +regret. drawing rooms, gossip, balls, vanity, and triviality—these are +the enchanted circle i cannot escape from. i am now going to the war, +the greatest war there ever was, and i know nothing and am fit for +nothing. i am very amiable and have a caustic wit,” continued prince +andrew, “and at anna pávlovna’s they listen to me. and that stupid +set without whom my wife cannot exist, and those women.... if you only +knew what those society women are, and women in general! my father is +right. selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that’s what +women are when you see them in their true colors! when you meet them +in society it seems as if there were something in them, but there’s +nothing, nothing, nothing! no, don’t marry, my dear fellow; don’t +marry!” concluded prince andrew. + +“it seems funny to me,” said pierre, “that you, you should +consider yourself incapable and your life a spoiled life. you have +everything before you, everything. and you....” + +he did not finish his sentence, but his tone showed how highly he +thought of his friend and how much he expected of him in the future. + +“how can he talk like that?” thought pierre. he considered his +friend a model of perfection because prince andrew possessed in the +highest degree just the very qualities pierre lacked, and which might +be best described as strength of will. pierre was always astonished at +prince andrew’s calm manner of treating everybody, his extraordinary +memory, his extensive reading (he had read everything, knew everything, +and had an opinion about everything), but above all at his capacity for +work and study. and if pierre was often struck by andrew’s lack +of capacity for philosophical meditation (to which he himself was +particularly addicted), he regarded even this not as a defect but as a +sign of strength. + +even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise +and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels +that they may run smoothly. + +“my part is played out,” said prince andrew. “what’s the use of +talking about me? let us talk about you,” he added after a silence, +smiling at his reassuring thoughts. + +that smile was immediately reflected on pierre’s face. + +“but what is there to say about me?” said pierre, his face relaxing +into a careless, merry smile. “what am i? an illegitimate son!” +he suddenly blushed crimson, and it was plain that he had made a great +effort to say this. “without a name and without means... and it +really...” but he did not say what “it really” was. “for the +present i am free and am all right. only i haven’t the least idea what +i am to do; i wanted to consult you seriously.” + +prince andrew looked kindly at him, yet his glance—friendly and +affectionate as it was—expressed a sense of his own superiority. + +“i am fond of you, especially as you are the one live man among our +whole set. yes, you’re all right! choose what you will; it’s all the +same. you’ll be all right anywhere. but look here: give up visiting +those kurágins and leading that sort of life. it suits you so +badly—all this debauchery, dissipation, and the rest of it!” + +“what would you have, my dear fellow?” answered pierre, shrugging +his shoulders. “women, my dear fellow; women!” + +“i don’t understand it,” replied prince andrew. “women who are +comme il faut, that’s a different matter; but the kurágins’ set of +women, ‘women and wine’ i don’t understand!” + +pierre was staying at prince vasíli kurágin’s and sharing the +dissipated life of his son anatole, the son whom they were planning to +reform by marrying him to prince andrew’s sister. + +“do you know?” said pierre, as if suddenly struck by a happy +thought, “seriously, i have long been thinking of it.... leading such +a life i can’t decide or think properly about anything. one’s head +aches, and one spends all one’s money. he asked me for tonight, but i +won’t go.” + +“you give me your word of honor not to go?” + +“on my honor!” + + + + + +chapter ix + +it was past one o’clock when pierre left his friend. it was a +cloudless, northern, summer night. pierre took an open cab intending +to drive straight home. but the nearer he drew to the house the more he +felt the impossibility of going to sleep on such a night. it was light +enough to see a long way in the deserted street and it seemed more like +morning or evening than night. on the way pierre remembered that anatole +kurágin was expecting the usual set for cards that evening, after which +there was generally a drinking bout, finishing with visits of a kind +pierre was very fond of. + +“i should like to go to kurágin’s,” thought he. + +but he immediately recalled his promise to prince andrew not to go +there. then, as happens to people of weak character, he desired so +passionately once more to enjoy that dissipation he was so accustomed to +that he decided to go. the thought immediately occurred to him that his +promise to prince andrew was of no account, because before he gave it +he had already promised prince anatole to come to his gathering; +“besides,” thought he, “all such ‘words of honor’ are +conventional things with no definite meaning, especially if +one considers that by tomorrow one may be dead, or something so +extraordinary may happen to one that honor and dishonor will be all the +same!” pierre often indulged in reflections of this sort, nullifying +all his decisions and intentions. he went to kurágin’s. + +reaching the large house near the horse guards’ barracks, in which +anatole lived, pierre entered the lighted porch, ascended the stairs, +and went in at the open door. there was no one in the anteroom; empty +bottles, cloaks, and overshoes were lying about; there was a smell of +alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance. + +cards and supper were over, but the visitors had not yet dispersed. +pierre threw off his cloak and entered the first room, in which were the +remains of supper. a footman, thinking no one saw him, was drinking on +the sly what was left in the glasses. from the third room came sounds of +laughter, the shouting of familiar voices, the growling of a bear, and +general commotion. some eight or nine young men were crowding anxiously +round an open window. three others were romping with a young bear, one +pulling him by the chain and trying to set him at the others. + +“i bet a hundred on stevens!” shouted one. + +“mind, no holding on!” cried another. + +“i bet on dólokhov!” cried a third. “kurágin, you part our +hands.” + +“there, leave bruin alone; here’s a bet on.” + +“at one draught, or he loses!” shouted a fourth. + +“jacob, bring a bottle!” shouted the host, a tall, handsome fellow +who stood in the midst of the group, without a coat, and with his fine +linen shirt unfastened in front. “wait a bit, you fellows.... here is +pétya! good man!” cried he, addressing pierre. + +another voice, from a man of medium height with clear blue eyes, +particularly striking among all these drunken voices by its sober +ring, cried from the window: “come here; part the bets!” this was +dólokhov, an officer of the semënov regiment, a notorious gambler and +duelist, who was living with anatole. pierre smiled, looking about him +merrily. + +“i don’t understand. what’s it all about?” + +“wait a bit, he is not drunk yet! a bottle here,” said anatole, and +taking a glass from the table he went up to pierre. + +“first of all you must drink!” + +pierre drank one glass after another, looking from under his brows at +the tipsy guests who were again crowding round the window, and listening +to their chatter. anatole kept on refilling pierre’s glass while +explaining that dólokhov was betting with stevens, an english naval +officer, that he would drink a bottle of rum sitting on the outer ledge +of the third floor window with his legs hanging out. + +“go on, you must drink it all,” said anatole, giving pierre the last +glass, “or i won’t let you go!” + +“no, i won’t,” said pierre, pushing anatole aside, and he went up +to the window. + +dólokhov was holding the englishman’s hand and clearly and distinctly +repeating the terms of the bet, addressing himself particularly to +anatole and pierre. + +dólokhov was of medium height, with curly hair and light-blue eyes. he +was about twenty-five. like all infantry officers he wore no mustache, +so that his mouth, the most striking feature of his face, was clearly +seen. the lines of that mouth were remarkably finely curved. the middle +of the upper lip formed a sharp wedge and closed firmly on the firm +lower one, and something like two distinct smiles played continually +round the two corners of the mouth; this, together with the resolute, +insolent intelligence of his eyes, produced an effect which made it +impossible not to notice his face. dólokhov was a man of small means +and no connections. yet, though anatole spent tens of thousands of +rubles, dólokhov lived with him and had placed himself on such a +footing that all who knew them, including anatole himself, respected him +more than they did anatole. dólokhov could play all games and nearly +always won. however much he drank, he never lost his clearheadedness. +both kurágin and dólokhov were at that time notorious among the rakes +and scapegraces of petersburg. + +the bottle of rum was brought. the window frame which prevented anyone +from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who +were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of +the gentlemen around. + +anatole with his swaggering air strode up to the window. he wanted to +smash something. pushing away the footmen he tugged at the frame, but +could not move it. he smashed a pane. + +“you have a try, hercules,” said he, turning to pierre. + +pierre seized the crossbeam, tugged, and wrenched the oak frame out with +a crash. + +“take it right out, or they’ll think i’m holding on,” said +dólokhov. + +“is the englishman bragging?... eh? is it all right?” said anatole. + +“first-rate,” said pierre, looking at dólokhov, who with a bottle +of rum in his hand was approaching the window, from which the light of +the sky, the dawn merging with the afterglow of sunset, was visible. + +dólokhov, the bottle of rum still in his hand, jumped onto the window +sill. “listen!” cried he, standing there and addressing those in the +room. all were silent. + +“i bet fifty imperials”—he spoke french that the englishman might +understand him, but he did not speak it very well—“i bet fifty +imperials ... or do you wish to make it a hundred?” added he, +addressing the englishman. + +“no, fifty,” replied the latter. + +“all right. fifty imperials ... that i will drink a whole bottle of +rum without taking it from my mouth, sitting outside the window on this +spot” (he stooped and pointed to the sloping ledge outside the window) +“and without holding on to anything. is that right?” + +“quite right,” said the englishman. + +anatole turned to the englishman and taking him by one of the buttons +of his coat and looking down at him—the englishman was short—began +repeating the terms of the wager to him in english. + +“wait!” cried dólokhov, hammering with the bottle on the window +sill to attract attention. “wait a bit, kurágin. listen! if +anyone else does the same, i will pay him a hundred imperials. do you +understand?” + +the englishman nodded, but gave no indication whether he intended to +accept this challenge or not. anatole did not release him, and though +he kept nodding to show that he understood, anatole went on translating +dólokhov’s words into english. a thin young lad, an hussar of the +life guards, who had been losing that evening, climbed on the window +sill, leaned over, and looked down. + +“oh! oh! oh!” he muttered, looking down from the window at the +stones of the pavement. + +“shut up!” cried dólokhov, pushing him away from the window. the +lad jumped awkwardly back into the room, tripping over his spurs. + +placing the bottle on the window sill where he could reach it easily, +dólokhov climbed carefully and slowly through the window and lowered +his legs. pressing against both sides of the window, he adjusted himself +on his seat, lowered his hands, moved a little to the right and then to +the left, and took up the bottle. anatole brought two candles and +placed them on the window sill, though it was already quite light. +dólokhov’s back in his white shirt, and his curly head, were lit +up from both sides. everyone crowded to the window, the englishman in +front. pierre stood smiling but silent. one man, older than the others +present, suddenly pushed forward with a scared and angry look and wanted +to seize hold of dólokhov’s shirt. + +“i say, this is folly! he’ll be killed,” said this more sensible +man. + +anatole stopped him. + +“don’t touch him! you’ll startle him and then he’ll be killed. +eh?... what then?... eh?” + +dólokhov turned round and, again holding on with both hands, arranged +himself on his seat. + +“if anyone comes meddling again,” said he, emitting the words +separately through his thin compressed lips, “i will throw him down +there. now then!” + +saying this he again turned round, dropped his hands, took the bottle +and lifted it to his lips, threw back his head, and raised his free hand +to balance himself. one of the footmen who had stooped to pick up some +broken glass remained in that position without taking his eyes from the +window and from dólokhov’s back. anatole stood erect with staring +eyes. the englishman looked on sideways, pursing up his lips. the man +who had wished to stop the affair ran to a corner of the room and threw +himself on a sofa with his face to the wall. pierre hid his face, from +which a faint smile forgot to fade though his features now expressed +horror and fear. all were still. pierre took his hands from his eyes. +dólokhov still sat in the same position, only his head was thrown +further back till his curly hair touched his shirt collar, and the hand +holding the bottle was lifted higher and higher and trembled with the +effort. the bottle was emptying perceptibly and rising still higher +and his head tilting yet further back. “why is it so long?” thought +pierre. it seemed to him that more than half an hour had elapsed. +suddenly dólokhov made a backward movement with his spine, and his arm +trembled nervously; this was sufficient to cause his whole body to slip +as he sat on the sloping ledge. as he began slipping down, his head and +arm wavered still more with the strain. one hand moved as if to clutch +the window sill, but refrained from touching it. pierre again covered +his eyes and thought he would never open them again. suddenly he was +aware of a stir all around. he looked up: dólokhov was standing on the +window sill, with a pale but radiant face. + +“it’s empty.” + +he threw the bottle to the englishman, who caught it neatly. dólokhov +jumped down. he smelt strongly of rum. + +“well done!... fine fellow!... there’s a bet for you!... devil take +you!” came from different sides. + +the englishman took out his purse and began counting out the money. +dólokhov stood frowning and did not speak. pierre jumped upon the +window sill. + +“gentlemen, who wishes to bet with me? i’ll do the same thing!” +he suddenly cried. “even without a bet, there! tell them to bring me a +bottle. i’ll do it.... bring a bottle!” + +“let him do it, let him do it,” said dólokhov, smiling. + +“what next? have you gone mad?... no one would let you!... why, you go +giddy even on a staircase,” exclaimed several voices. + +“i’ll drink it! let’s have a bottle of rum!” shouted pierre, +banging the table with a determined and drunken gesture and preparing to +climb out of the window. + +they seized him by his arms; but he was so strong that everyone who +touched him was sent flying. + +“no, you’ll never manage him that way,” said anatole. “wait a +bit and i’ll get round him.... listen! i’ll take your bet tomorrow, +but now we are all going to ——’s.” + +“come on then,” cried pierre. “come on!... and we’ll take bruin +with us.” + +and he caught the bear, took it in his arms, lifted it from the ground, +and began dancing round the room with it. + + + + + +chapter x + +prince vasíli kept the promise he had given to princess drubetskáya +who had spoken to him on behalf of her only son borís on the evening of +anna pávlovna’s soiree. the matter was mentioned to the emperor, an +exception made, and borís transferred into the regiment of semënov +guards with the rank of cornet. he received, however, no appointment +to kutúzov’s staff despite all anna mikháylovna’s endeavors and +entreaties. soon after anna pávlovna’s reception anna mikháylovna +returned to moscow and went straight to her rich relations, the +rostóvs, with whom she stayed when in the town and where her darling +bóry, who had only just entered a regiment of the line and was being +at once transferred to the guards as a cornet, had been educated from +childhood and lived for years at a time. the guards had already left +petersburg on the tenth of august, and her son, who had remained in +moscow for his equipment, was to join them on the march to radzivílov. + +it was st. natalia’s day and the name day of two of the rostóvs—the +mother and the youngest daughter—both named nataly. ever since +the morning, carriages with six horses had been coming and going +continually, bringing visitors to the countess rostóva’s big house on +the povarskáya, so well known to all moscow. the countess herself and +her handsome eldest daughter were in the drawing room with the visitors +who came to congratulate, and who constantly succeeded one another in +relays. + +the countess was a woman of about forty-five, with a thin oriental type +of face, evidently worn out with childbearing—she had had twelve. +a languor of motion and speech, resulting from weakness, gave her a +distinguished air which inspired respect. princess anna mikháylovna +drubetskáya, who as a member of the household was also seated in the +drawing room, helped to receive and entertain the visitors. the young +people were in one of the inner rooms, not considering it necessary to +take part in receiving the visitors. the count met the guests and saw +them off, inviting them all to dinner. + +“i am very, very grateful to you, mon cher,” or “ma chère”—he +called everyone without exception and without the slightest variation +in his tone, “my dear,” whether they were above or below him in +rank—“i thank you for myself and for our two dear ones whose name +day we are keeping. but mind you come to dinner or i shall be offended, +ma chère! on behalf of the whole family i beg you to come, mon cher!” +these words he repeated to everyone without exception or variation, and +with the same expression on his full, cheerful, clean-shaven face, the +same firm pressure of the hand and the same quick, repeated bows. as +soon as he had seen a visitor off he returned to one of those who were +still in the drawing room, drew a chair toward him or her, and jauntily +spreading out his legs and putting his hands on his knees with the air +of a man who enjoys life and knows how to live, he swayed to and +fro with dignity, offered surmises about the weather, or touched on +questions of health, sometimes in russian and sometimes in very bad but +self-confident french; then again, like a man weary but unflinching in +the fulfillment of duty, he rose to see some visitors off and, stroking +his scanty gray hairs over his bald patch, also asked them to dinner. +sometimes on his way back from the anteroom he would pass through the +conservatory and pantry into the large marble dining hall, where tables +were being set out for eighty people; and looking at the footmen, who +were bringing in silver and china, moving tables, and unfolding damask +table linen, he would call dmítri vasílevich, a man of good family and +the manager of all his affairs, and while looking with pleasure at the +enormous table would say: “well, dmítri, you’ll see that things are +all as they should be? that’s right! the great thing is the serving, +that’s it.” and with a complacent sigh he would return to the +drawing room. + +“márya lvóvna karágina and her daughter!” announced the +countess’ gigantic footman in his bass voice, entering the drawing +room. the countess reflected a moment and took a pinch from a gold +snuffbox with her husband’s portrait on it. + +“i’m quite worn out by these callers. however, i’ll see her and +no more. she is so affected. ask her in,” she said to the footman in a +sad voice, as if saying: “very well, finish me off.” + +a tall, stout, and proud-looking woman, with a round-faced smiling +daughter, entered the drawing room, their dresses rustling. + +“dear countess, what an age... she has been laid up, poor child ... +at the razumóvski’s ball ... and countess apráksina ... i was +so delighted...” came the sounds of animated feminine voices, +interrupting one another and mingling with the rustling of dresses and +the scraping of chairs. then one of those conversations began which last +out until, at the first pause, the guests rise with a rustle of dresses +and say, “i am so delighted... mamma’s health... and countess +apráksina...” and then, again rustling, pass into the anteroom, put +on cloaks or mantles, and drive away. the conversation was on the chief +topic of the day: the illness of the wealthy and celebrated beau of +catherine’s day, count bezúkhov, and about his illegitimate son +pierre, the one who had behaved so improperly at anna pávlovna’s +reception. + +“i am so sorry for the poor count,” said the visitor. “he is in +such bad health, and now this vexation about his son is enough to kill +him!” + +“what is that?” asked the countess as if she did not know what the +visitor alluded to, though she had already heard about the cause of +count bezúkhov’s distress some fifteen times. + +“that’s what comes of a modern education,” exclaimed the visitor. +“it seems that while he was abroad this young man was allowed to do +as he liked, now in petersburg i hear he has been doing such terrible +things that he has been expelled by the police.” + +“you don’t say so!” replied the countess. + +“he chose his friends badly,” interposed anna mikháylovna. +“prince vasíli’s son, he, and a certain dólokhov have, it is said, +been up to heaven only knows what! and they have had to suffer for it. +dólokhov has been degraded to the ranks and bezúkhov’s son sent +back to moscow. anatole kurágin’s father managed somehow to get his +son’s affair hushed up, but even he was ordered out of petersburg.” + +“but what have they been up to?” asked the countess. + +“they are regular brigands, especially dólokhov,” replied the +visitor. “he is a son of márya ivánovna dólokhova, such a worthy +woman, but there, just fancy! those three got hold of a bear somewhere, +put it in a carriage, and set off with it to visit some actresses! the +police tried to interfere, and what did the young men do? they tied +a policeman and the bear back to back and put the bear into the moyka +canal. and there was the bear swimming about with the policeman on his +back!” + +“what a nice figure the policeman must have cut, my dear!” shouted +the count, dying with laughter. + +“oh, how dreadful! how can you laugh at it, count?” + +yet the ladies themselves could not help laughing. + +“it was all they could do to rescue the poor man,” continued the +visitor. “and to think it is cyril vladímirovich bezúkhov’s son +who amuses himself in this sensible manner! and he was said to be so +well educated and clever. this is all that his foreign education has +done for him! i hope that here in moscow no one will receive him, in +spite of his money. they wanted to introduce him to me, but i quite +declined: i have my daughters to consider.” + +“why do you say this young man is so rich?” asked the countess, +turning away from the girls, who at once assumed an air of inattention. +“his children are all illegitimate. i think pierre also is +illegitimate.” + +the visitor made a gesture with her hand. + +“i should think he has a score of them.” + +princess anna mikháylovna intervened in the conversation, evidently +wishing to show her connections and knowledge of what went on in +society. + +“the fact of the matter is,” said she significantly, and also in a +half whisper, “everyone knows count cyril’s reputation.... he has +lost count of his children, but this pierre was his favorite.” + +“how handsome the old man still was only a year ago!” remarked the +countess. “i have never seen a handsomer man.” + +“he is very much altered now,” said anna mikháylovna. “well, as +i was saying, prince vasíli is the next heir through his wife, but the +count is very fond of pierre, looked after his education, and wrote to +the emperor about him; so that in the case of his death—and he is +so ill that he may die at any moment, and dr. lorrain has come from +petersburg—no one knows who will inherit his immense fortune, pierre +or prince vasíli. forty thousand serfs and millions of rubles! i know +it all very well for prince vasíli told me himself. besides, cyril +vladímirovich is my mother’s second cousin. he’s also my bóry’s +godfather,” she added, as if she attached no importance at all to the +fact. + +“prince vasíli arrived in moscow yesterday. i hear he has come on +some inspection business,” remarked the visitor. + +“yes, but between ourselves,” said the princess, “that is a +pretext. the fact is he has come to see count cyril vladímirovich, +hearing how ill he is.” + +“but do you know, my dear, that was a capital joke,” said the count; +and seeing that the elder visitor was not listening, he turned to the +young ladies. “i can just imagine what a funny figure that policeman +cut!” + +and as he waved his arms to impersonate the policeman, his portly form +again shook with a deep ringing laugh, the laugh of one who always eats +well and, in particular, drinks well. “so do come and dine with us!” +he said. + + + + + +chapter xi + +silence ensued. the countess looked at her callers, smiling affably, +but not concealing the fact that she would not be distressed if they +now rose and took their leave. the visitor’s daughter was already +smoothing down her dress with an inquiring look at her mother, when +suddenly from the next room were heard the footsteps of boys and girls +running to the door and the noise of a chair falling over, and a girl +of thirteen, hiding something in the folds of her short muslin frock, +darted in and stopped short in the middle of the room. it was evident +that she had not intended her flight to bring her so far. behind her in +the doorway appeared a student with a crimson coat collar, an officer +of the guards, a girl of fifteen, and a plump rosy-faced boy in a short +jacket. + +the count jumped up and, swaying from side to side, spread his arms wide +and threw them round the little girl who had run in. + +“ah, here she is!” he exclaimed laughing. “my pet, whose name day +it is. my dear pet!” + +“ma chère, there is a time for everything,” said the countess with +feigned severity. “you spoil her, ilyá,” she added, turning to her +husband. + +“how do you do, my dear? i wish you many happy returns of your name +day,” said the visitor. “what a charming child,” she added, +addressing the mother. + +this black-eyed, wide-mouthed girl, not pretty but full of life—with +childish bare shoulders which after her run heaved and shook her +bodice, with black curls tossed backward, thin bare arms, little legs +in lace-frilled drawers, and feet in low slippers—was just at that +charming age when a girl is no longer a child, though the child is not +yet a young woman. escaping from her father she ran to hide her flushed +face in the lace of her mother’s mantilla—not paying the least +attention to her severe remark—and began to laugh. she laughed, and in +fragmentary sentences tried to explain about a doll which she produced +from the folds of her frock. + +“do you see?... my doll... mimi... you see...” was all natásha +managed to utter (to her everything seemed funny). she leaned against +her mother and burst into such a loud, ringing fit of laughter that even +the prim visitor could not help joining in. + +“now then, go away and take your monstrosity with you,” said the +mother, pushing away her daughter with pretended sternness, and turning +to the visitor she added: “she is my youngest girl.” + +natásha, raising her face for a moment from her mother’s mantilla, +glanced up at her through tears of laughter, and again hid her face. + +the visitor, compelled to look on at this family scene, thought it +necessary to take some part in it. + +“tell me, my dear,” said she to natásha, “is mimi a relation of +yours? a daughter, i suppose?” + +natásha did not like the visitor’s tone of condescension to childish +things. she did not reply, but looked at her seriously. + +meanwhile the younger generation: borís, the officer, anna +mikháylovna’s son; nicholas, the undergraduate, the count’s eldest +son; sónya, the count’s fifteen-year-old niece, and little pétya, +his youngest boy, had all settled down in the drawing room and were +obviously trying to restrain within the bounds of decorum the excitement +and mirth that shone in all their faces. evidently in the back rooms, +from which they had dashed out so impetuously, the conversation had +been more amusing than the drawing room talk of society scandals, the +weather, and countess apráksina. now and then they glanced at one +another, hardly able to suppress their laughter. + +the two young men, the student and the officer, friends from childhood, +were of the same age and both handsome fellows, though not alike. borís +was tall and fair, and his calm and handsome face had regular, delicate +features. nicholas was short with curly hair and an open expression. +dark hairs were already showing on his upper lip, and his whole face +expressed impetuosity and enthusiasm. nicholas blushed when he entered +the drawing room. he evidently tried to find something to say, but +failed. borís on the contrary at once found his footing, and related +quietly and humorously how he had known that doll mimi when she was +still quite a young lady, before her nose was broken; how she had aged +during the five years he had known her, and how her head had cracked +right across the skull. having said this he glanced at natásha. +she turned away from him and glanced at her younger brother, who was +screwing up his eyes and shaking with suppressed laughter, and unable +to control herself any longer, she jumped up and rushed from the room as +fast as her nimble little feet would carry her. borís did not laugh. + +“you were meaning to go out, weren’t you, mamma? do you want the +carriage?” he asked his mother with a smile. + +“yes, yes, go and tell them to get it ready,” she answered, +returning his smile. + +borís quietly left the room and went in search of natásha. the plump +boy ran after them angrily, as if vexed that their program had been +disturbed. + + + + + +chapter xii + +the only young people remaining in the drawing room, not counting the +young lady visitor and the countess’ eldest daughter (who was four +years older than her sister and behaved already like a grown-up person), +were nicholas and sónya, the niece. sónya was a slender little +brunette with a tender look in her eyes which were veiled by long +lashes, thick black plaits coiling twice round her head, and a tawny +tint in her complexion and especially in the color of her slender but +graceful and muscular arms and neck. by the grace of her movements, +by the softness and flexibility of her small limbs, and by a certain +coyness and reserve of manner, she reminded one of a pretty, half-grown +kitten which promises to become a beautiful little cat. she evidently +considered it proper to show an interest in the general conversation by +smiling, but in spite of herself her eyes under their thick long lashes +watched her cousin who was going to join the army, with such passionate +girlish adoration that her smile could not for a single instant impose +upon anyone, and it was clear that the kitten had settled down only to +spring up with more energy and again play with her cousin as soon as +they too could, like natásha and borís, escape from the drawing room. + +“ah yes, my dear,” said the count, addressing the visitor and +pointing to nicholas, “his friend borís has become an officer, and +so for friendship’s sake he is leaving the university and me, his +old father, and entering the military service, my dear. and there was a +place and everything waiting for him in the archives department! isn’t +that friendship?” remarked the count in an inquiring tone. + +“but they say that war has been declared,” replied the visitor. + +“they’ve been saying so a long while,” said the count, “and +they’ll say so again and again, and that will be the end of it. my +dear, there’s friendship for you,” he repeated. “he’s joining +the hussars.” + +the visitor, not knowing what to say, shook her head. + +“it’s not at all from friendship,” declared nicholas, flaring +up and turning away as if from a shameful aspersion. “it is not from +friendship at all; i simply feel that the army is my vocation.” + +he glanced at his cousin and the young lady visitor; and they were both +regarding him with a smile of approbation. + +“schubert, the colonel of the pávlograd hussars, is dining with us +today. he has been here on leave and is taking nicholas back with him. +it can’t be helped!” said the count, shrugging his shoulders and +speaking playfully of a matter that evidently distressed him. + +“i have already told you, papa,” said his son, “that if you +don’t wish to let me go, i’ll stay. but i know i am no use anywhere +except in the army; i am not a diplomat or a government clerk.—i +don’t know how to hide what i feel.” as he spoke he kept glancing +with the flirtatiousness of a handsome youth at sónya and the young +lady visitor. + +the little kitten, feasting her eyes on him, seemed ready at any moment +to start her gambols again and display her kittenish nature. + +“all right, all right!” said the old count. “he always flares up! +this buonaparte has turned all their heads; they all think of how he +rose from an ensign and became emperor. well, well, god grant it,” he +added, not noticing his visitor’s sarcastic smile. + +the elders began talking about bonaparte. julie karágina turned to +young rostóv. + +“what a pity you weren’t at the arkhárovs’ on thursday. it was so +dull without you,” said she, giving him a tender smile. + +the young man, flattered, sat down nearer to her with a coquettish +smile, and engaged the smiling julie in a confidential conversation +without at all noticing that his involuntary smile had stabbed the heart +of sónya, who blushed and smiled unnaturally. in the midst of his talk +he glanced round at her. she gave him a passionately angry glance, and +hardly able to restrain her tears and maintain the artificial smile +on her lips, she got up and left the room. all nicholas’ animation +vanished. he waited for the first pause in the conversation, and then +with a distressed face left the room to find sónya. + +“how plainly all these young people wear their hearts on their +sleeves!” said anna mikháylovna, pointing to nicholas as he went out. +“cousinage—dangereux voisinage,” * she added. + + * cousinhood is a dangerous neighborhood. + +“yes,” said the countess when the brightness these young people had +brought into the room had vanished; and as if answering a question no +one had put but which was always in her mind, “and how much suffering, +how much anxiety one has had to go through that we might rejoice in +them now! and yet really the anxiety is greater now than the joy. one is +always, always anxious! especially just at this age, so dangerous both +for girls and boys.” + +“it all depends on the bringing up,” remarked the visitor. + +“yes, you’re quite right,” continued the countess. “till now i +have always, thank god, been my children’s friend and had their full +confidence,” said she, repeating the mistake of so many parents who +imagine that their children have no secrets from them. “i know i shall +always be my daughters’ first confidante, and that if nicholas, with +his impulsive nature, does get into mischief (a boy can’t help it), he +will all the same never be like those petersburg young men.” + +“yes, they are splendid, splendid youngsters,” chimed in the count, +who always solved questions that seemed to him perplexing by deciding +that everything was splendid. “just fancy: wants to be an hussar. +what’s one to do, my dear?” + +“what a charming creature your younger girl is,” said the visitor; +“a little volcano!” + +“yes, a regular volcano,” said the count. “takes after me! and +what a voice she has; though she’s my daughter, i tell the truth +when i say she’ll be a singer, a second salomoni! we have engaged an +italian to give her lessons.” + +“isn’t she too young? i have heard that it harms the voice to train +it at that age.” + +“oh no, not at all too young!” replied the count. “why, our +mothers used to be married at twelve or thirteen.” + +“and she’s in love with borís already. just fancy!” said the +countess with a gentle smile, looking at borís and went on, evidently +concerned with a thought that always occupied her: “now you see if i +were to be severe with her and to forbid it ... goodness knows what they +might be up to on the sly” (she meant that they would be kissing), +“but as it is, i know every word she utters. she will come running to +me of her own accord in the evening and tell me everything. perhaps i +spoil her, but really that seems the best plan. with her elder sister i +was stricter.” + +“yes, i was brought up quite differently,” remarked the handsome +elder daughter, countess véra, with a smile. + +but the smile did not enhance véra’s beauty as smiles generally do; +on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, +expression. véra was good-looking, not at all stupid, quick at +learning, was well brought up, and had a pleasant voice; what she said +was true and appropriate, yet, strange to say, everyone—the visitors +and countess alike—turned to look at her as if wondering why she had +said it, and they all felt awkward. + +“people are always too clever with their eldest children and try to +make something exceptional of them,” said the visitor. + +“what’s the good of denying it, my dear? our dear countess was too +clever with véra,” said the count. “well, what of that? she’s +turned out splendidly all the same,” he added, winking at véra. + +the guests got up and took their leave, promising to return to dinner. + +“what manners! i thought they would never go,” said the countess, +when she had seen her guests out. + + + + + +chapter xiii + +when natásha ran out of the drawing room she only went as far as the +conservatory. there she paused and stood listening to the conversation +in the drawing room, waiting for borís to come out. she was already +growing impatient, and stamped her foot, ready to cry at his not coming +at once, when she heard the young man’s discreet steps approaching +neither quickly nor slowly. at this natásha dashed swiftly among the +flower tubs and hid there. + +borís paused in the middle of the room, looked round, brushed a little +dust from the sleeve of his uniform, and going up to a mirror examined +his handsome face. natásha, very still, peered out from her ambush, +waiting to see what he would do. he stood a little while before the +glass, smiled, and walked toward the other door. natásha was about to +call him but changed her mind. “let him look for me,” thought she. +hardly had borís gone than sónya, flushed, in tears, and muttering +angrily, came in at the other door. natásha checked her first impulse +to run out to her, and remained in her hiding place, watching—as +under an invisible cap—to see what went on in the world. she was +experiencing a new and peculiar pleasure. sónya, muttering to herself, +kept looking round toward the drawing room door. it opened and nicholas +came in. + +“sónya, what is the matter with you? how can you?” said he, running +up to her. + +“it’s nothing, nothing; leave me alone!” sobbed sónya. + +“ah, i know what it is.” + +“well, if you do, so much the better, and you can go back to her!” + +“só-o-onya! look here! how can you torture me and yourself like that, +for a mere fancy?” said nicholas taking her hand. + +sónya did not pull it away, and left off crying. natásha, not stirring +and scarcely breathing, watched from her ambush with sparkling eyes. +“what will happen now?” thought she. + +“sónya! what is anyone in the world to me? you alone are +everything!” said nicholas. “and i will prove it to you.” + +“i don’t like you to talk like that.” + +“well, then, i won’t; only forgive me, sónya!” he drew her to him +and kissed her. + +“oh, how nice,” thought natásha; and when sónya and nicholas had +gone out of the conservatory she followed and called borís to her. + +“borís, come here,” said she with a sly and significant look. “i +have something to tell you. here, here!” and she led him into the +conservatory to the place among the tubs where she had been hiding. + +borís followed her, smiling. + +“what is the something?” asked he. + +she grew confused, glanced round, and, seeing the doll she had thrown +down on one of the tubs, picked it up. + +“kiss the doll,” said she. + +borís looked attentively and kindly at her eager face, but did not +reply. + +“don’t you want to? well, then, come here,” said she, and +went further in among the plants and threw down the doll. “closer, +closer!” she whispered. + +she caught the young officer by his cuffs, and a look of solemnity and +fear appeared on her flushed face. + +“and me? would you like to kiss me?” she whispered almost inaudibly, +glancing up at him from under her brows, smiling, and almost crying from +excitement. + +borís blushed. + +“how funny you are!” he said, bending down to her and blushing still +more, but he waited and did nothing. + +suddenly she jumped up onto a tub to be higher than he, embraced him so +that both her slender bare arms clasped him above his neck, and, tossing +back her hair, kissed him full on the lips. + +then she slipped down among the flowerpots on the other side of the tubs +and stood, hanging her head. + +“natásha,” he said, “you know that i love you, but....” + +“you are in love with me?” natásha broke in. + +“yes, i am, but please don’t let us do like that.... in another four +years ... then i will ask for your hand.” + +natásha considered. + +“thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,” she counted on her slender +little fingers. “all right! then it’s settled?” + +a smile of joy and satisfaction lit up her eager face. + +“settled!” replied borís. + +“forever?” said the little girl. “till death itself?” + +she took his arm and with a happy face went with him into the adjoining +sitting room. + + + + + +chapter xiv + +after receiving her visitors, the countess was so tired that she gave +orders to admit no more, but the porter was told to be sure to invite to +dinner all who came “to congratulate.” the countess wished to have +a tête-à-tête talk with the friend of her childhood, princess anna +mikháylovna, whom she had not seen properly since she returned from +petersburg. anna mikháylovna, with her tear-worn but pleasant face, +drew her chair nearer to that of the countess. + +“with you i will be quite frank,” said anna mikháylovna. “there +are not many left of us old friends! that’s why i so value your +friendship.” + +anna mikháylovna looked at véra and paused. the countess pressed her +friend’s hand. + +“véra,” she said to her eldest daughter who was evidently not a +favorite, “how is it you have so little tact? don’t you see you are +not wanted here? go to the other girls, or...” + +the handsome véra smiled contemptuously but did not seem at all hurt. + +“if you had told me sooner, mamma, i would have gone,” she replied +as she rose to go to her own room. + +but as she passed the sitting room she noticed two couples sitting, +one pair at each window. she stopped and smiled scornfully. sónya was +sitting close to nicholas who was copying out some verses for her, the +first he had ever written. borís and natásha were at the other window +and ceased talking when véra entered. sónya and natásha looked at +véra with guilty, happy faces. + +it was pleasant and touching to see these little girls in love; but +apparently the sight of them roused no pleasant feeling in véra. + +“how often have i asked you not to take my things?” she said. “you +have a room of your own,” and she took the inkstand from nicholas. + +“in a minute, in a minute,” he said, dipping his pen. + +“you always manage to do things at the wrong time,” continued véra. +“you came rushing into the drawing room so that everyone felt ashamed +of you.” + +though what she said was quite just, perhaps for that very reason no one +replied, and the four simply looked at one another. she lingered in the +room with the inkstand in her hand. + +“and at your age what secrets can there be between natásha and +borís, or between you two? it’s all nonsense!” + +“now, véra, what does it matter to you?” said natásha in defense, +speaking very gently. + +she seemed that day to be more than ever kind and affectionate to +everyone. + +“very silly,” said véra. “i am ashamed of you. secrets indeed!” + +“all have secrets of their own,” answered natásha, getting warmer. +“we don’t interfere with you and berg.” + +“i should think not,” said véra, “because there can never be +anything wrong in my behavior. but i’ll just tell mamma how you are +behaving with borís.” + +“natálya ilyníchna behaves very well to me,” remarked borís. “i +have nothing to complain of.” + +“don’t, borís! you are such a diplomat that it is really +tiresome,” said natásha in a mortified voice that trembled slightly. +(she used the word “diplomat,” which was just then much in vogue +among the children, in the special sense they attached to it.) “why +does she bother me?” and she added, turning to véra, “you’ll +never understand it, because you’ve never loved anyone. you have no +heart! you are a madame de genlis and nothing more” (this nickname, +bestowed on véra by nicholas, was considered very stinging), “and +your greatest pleasure is to be unpleasant to people! go and flirt with +berg as much as you please,” she finished quickly. + +“i shall at any rate not run after a young man before visitors...” + +“well, now you’ve done what you wanted,” put in nicholas—“said +unpleasant things to everyone and upset them. let’s go to the +nursery.” + +all four, like a flock of scared birds, got up and left the room. + +“the unpleasant things were said to me,” remarked véra, “i said +none to anyone.” + +“madame de genlis! madame de genlis!” shouted laughing voices +through the door. + +the handsome véra, who produced such an irritating and unpleasant +effect on everyone, smiled and, evidently unmoved by what had been +said to her, went to the looking glass and arranged her hair and scarf. +looking at her own handsome face she seemed to become still colder and +calmer. + + +in the drawing room the conversation was still going on. + +“ah, my dear,” said the countess, “my life is not all roses +either. don’t i know that at the rate we are living our means won’t +last long? it’s all the club and his easygoing nature. even in the +country do we get any rest? theatricals, hunting, and heaven knows what +besides! but don’t let’s talk about me; tell me how you managed +everything. i often wonder at you, annette—how at your age you +can rush off alone in a carriage to moscow, to petersburg, to those +ministers and great people, and know how to deal with them all! it’s +quite astonishing. how did you get things settled? i couldn’t possibly +do it.” + +“ah, my love,” answered anna mikháylovna, “god grant you never +know what it is to be left a widow without means and with a son you love +to distraction! one learns many things then,” she added with a certain +pride. “that lawsuit taught me much. when i want to see one of those +big people i write a note: ‘princess so-and-so desires an interview +with so and-so,’ and then i take a cab and go myself two, three, or +four times—till i get what i want. i don’t mind what they think of +me.” + +“well, and to whom did you apply about bóry?” asked the countess. +“you see yours is already an officer in the guards, while my nicholas +is going as a cadet. there’s no one to interest himself for him. to +whom did you apply?” + +“to prince vasíli. he was so kind. he at once agreed to everything, +and put the matter before the emperor,” said princess anna +mikháylovna enthusiastically, quite forgetting all the humiliation she +had endured to gain her end. + +“has prince vasíli aged much?” asked the countess. “i have not +seen him since we acted together at the rumyántsovs’ theatricals. i +expect he has forgotten me. he paid me attentions in those days,” said +the countess, with a smile. + +“he is just the same as ever,” replied anna mikháylovna, +“overflowing with amiability. his position has not turned his head +at all. he said to me, ‘i am sorry i can do so little for you, dear +princess. i am at your command.’ yes, he is a fine fellow and a very +kind relation. but, nataly, you know my love for my son: i would do +anything for his happiness! and my affairs are in such a bad way that my +position is now a terrible one,” continued anna mikháylovna, sadly, +dropping her voice. “my wretched lawsuit takes all i have and makes no +progress. would you believe it, i have literally not a penny and don’t +know how to equip borís.” she took out her handkerchief and began to +cry. “i need five hundred rubles, and have only one twenty-five-ruble +note. i am in such a state.... my only hope now is in count cyril +vladímirovich bezúkhov. if he will not assist his godson—you know +he is bóry’s godfather—and allow him something for his maintenance, +all my trouble will have been thrown away.... i shall not be able to +equip him.” + +the countess’ eyes filled with tears and she pondered in silence. + +“i often think, though, perhaps it’s a sin,” said the princess, +“that here lives count cyril vladímirovich bezúkhov so rich, all +alone... that tremendous fortune... and what is his life worth? it’s a +burden to him, and bóry’s life is only just beginning....” + +“surely he will leave something to borís,” said the countess. + +“heaven only knows, my dear! these rich grandees are so selfish. +still, i will take borís and go to see him at once, and i shall speak +to him straight out. let people think what they will of me, it’s +really all the same to me when my son’s fate is at stake.” the +princess rose. “it’s now two o’clock and you dine at four. there +will just be time.” + +and like a practical petersburg lady who knows how to make the most of +time, anna mikháylovna sent someone to call her son, and went into the +anteroom with him. + +“good-by, my dear,” said she to the countess who saw her to the +door, and added in a whisper so that her son should not hear, “wish me +good luck.” + +“are you going to count cyril vladímirovich, my dear?” said the +count coming out from the dining hall into the anteroom, and he added: +“if he is better, ask pierre to dine with us. he has been to the +house, you know, and danced with the children. be sure to invite him, my +dear. we will see how tarás distinguishes himself today. he says count +orlóv never gave such a dinner as ours will be!” + + + + + +chapter xv + +“my dear borís,” said princess anna mikháylovna to her son as +countess rostóva’s carriage in which they were seated drove over the +straw covered street and turned into the wide courtyard of count cyril +vladímirovich bezúkhov’s house. “my dear borís,” said the +mother, drawing her hand from beneath her old mantle and laying +it timidly and tenderly on her son’s arm, “be affectionate and +attentive to him. count cyril vladímirovich is your godfather after +all, and your future depends on him. remember that, my dear, and be nice +to him, as you so well know how to be.” + +“if only i knew that anything besides humiliation would come of +it...” answered her son coldly. “but i have promised and will do it +for your sake.” + +although the hall porter saw someone’s carriage standing at the +entrance, after scrutinizing the mother and son (who without asking to +be announced had passed straight through the glass porch between the +rows of statues in niches) and looking significantly at the lady’s old +cloak, he asked whether they wanted the count or the princesses, and, +hearing that they wished to see the count, said his excellency was worse +today, and that his excellency was not receiving anyone. + +“we may as well go back,” said the son in french. + +“my dear!” exclaimed his mother imploringly, again laying her hand +on his arm as if that touch might soothe or rouse him. + +borís said no more, but looked inquiringly at his mother without taking +off his cloak. + +“my friend,” said anna mikháylovna in gentle tones, addressing +the hall porter, “i know count cyril vladímirovich is very ill... +that’s why i have come... i am a relation. i shall not disturb him, +my friend... i only need see prince vasíli sergéevich: he is staying +here, is he not? please announce me.” + +the hall porter sullenly pulled a bell that rang upstairs, and turned +away. + +“princess drubetskáya to see prince vasíli sergéevich,” he called +to a footman dressed in knee breeches, shoes, and a swallow-tail coat, +who ran downstairs and looked over from the halfway landing. + +the mother smoothed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large +venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly +ascended the carpeted stairs. + +“my dear,” she said to her son, once more stimulating him by a +touch, “you promised me!” + +the son, lowering his eyes, followed her quietly. + +they entered the large hall, from which one of the doors led to the +apartments assigned to prince vasíli. + +just as the mother and son, having reached the middle of the hall, were +about to ask their way of an elderly footman who had sprung up as they +entered, the bronze handle of one of the doors turned and prince vasíli +came out—wearing a velvet coat with a single star on his breast, +as was his custom when at home—taking leave of a good-looking, +dark-haired man. this was the celebrated petersburg doctor, lorrain. + +“then it is certain?” said the prince. + +“prince, humanum est errare, * but...” replied the doctor, +swallowing his r’s, and pronouncing the latin words with a french +accent. + + * to err is human. + +“very well, very well...” + +seeing anna mikháylovna and her son, prince vasíli dismissed the +doctor with a bow and approached them silently and with a look of +inquiry. the son noticed that an expression of profound sorrow suddenly +clouded his mother’s face, and he smiled slightly. + +“ah, prince! in what sad circumstances we meet again! and how is our +dear invalid?” said she, as though unaware of the cold offensive look +fixed on her. + +prince vasíli stared at her and at borís questioningly and perplexed. +borís bowed politely. prince vasíli without acknowledging the bow +turned to anna mikháylovna, answering her query by a movement of the +head and lips indicating very little hope for the patient. + +“is it possible?” exclaimed anna mikháylovna. “oh, how awful! +it is terrible to think.... this is my son,” she added, indicating +borís. “he wanted to thank you himself.” + +borís bowed again politely. + +“believe me, prince, a mother’s heart will never forget what you +have done for us.” + +“i am glad i was able to do you a service, my dear anna +mikháylovna,” said prince vasíli, arranging his lace frill, and in +tone and manner, here in moscow to anna mikháylovna whom he had placed +under an obligation, assuming an air of much greater importance than he +had done in petersburg at anna schérer’s reception. + +“try to serve well and show yourself worthy,” added he, addressing +borís with severity. “i am glad.... are you here on leave?” he went +on in his usual tone of indifference. + +“i am awaiting orders to join my new regiment, your excellency,” +replied borís, betraying neither annoyance at the prince’s brusque +manner nor a desire to enter into conversation, but speaking so quietly +and respectfully that the prince gave him a searching glance. + +“are you living with your mother?” + +“i am living at countess rostóva’s,” replied borís, again +adding, “your excellency.” + +“that is, with ilyá rostóv who married nataly shinshiná,” said +anna mikháylovna. + +“i know, i know,” answered prince vasíli in his monotonous voice. +“i never could understand how nataly made up her mind to marry that +unlicked bear! a perfectly absurd and stupid fellow, and a gambler too, +i am told.” + +“but a very kind man, prince,” said anna mikháylovna with a +pathetic smile, as though she too knew that count rostóv deserved this +censure, but asked him not to be too hard on the poor old man. “what +do the doctors say?” asked the princess after a pause, her worn face +again expressing deep sorrow. + +“they give little hope,” replied the prince. + +“and i should so like to thank uncle once for all his kindness to me +and borís. he is his godson,” she added, her tone suggesting that +this fact ought to give prince vasíli much satisfaction. + +prince vasíli became thoughtful and frowned. anna mikháylovna saw that +he was afraid of finding in her a rival for count bezúkhov’s fortune, +and hastened to reassure him. + +“if it were not for my sincere affection and devotion to uncle,” +said she, uttering the word with peculiar assurance and unconcern, “i +know his character: noble, upright ... but you see he has no one with +him except the young princesses.... they are still young....” she bent +her head and continued in a whisper: “has he performed his final duty, +prince? how priceless are those last moments! it can make things no +worse, and it is absolutely necessary to prepare him if he is so ill. +we women, prince,” and she smiled tenderly, “always know how to say +these things. i absolutely must see him, however painful it may be for +me. i am used to suffering.” + +evidently the prince understood her, and also understood, as he had done +at anna pávlovna’s, that it would be difficult to get rid of anna +mikháylovna. + +“would not such a meeting be too trying for him, dear anna +mikháylovna?” said he. “let us wait until evening. the doctors are +expecting a crisis.” + +“but one cannot delay, prince, at such a moment! consider that the +welfare of his soul is at stake. ah, it is awful: the duties of a +christian...” + +a door of one of the inner rooms opened and one of the princesses, the +count’s niece, entered with a cold, stern face. the length of her +body was strikingly out of proportion to her short legs. prince vasíli +turned to her. + +“well, how is he?” + +“still the same; but what can you expect, this noise...” said the +princess, looking at anna mikháylovna as at a stranger. + +“ah, my dear, i hardly knew you,” said anna mikháylovna with a +happy smile, ambling lightly up to the count’s niece. “i have come, +and am at your service to help you nurse my uncle. i imagine what you +have gone through,” and she sympathetically turned up her eyes. + +the princess gave no reply and did not even smile, but left the room as +anna mikháylovna took off her gloves and, occupying the position she +had conquered, settled down in an armchair, inviting prince vasíli to +take a seat beside her. + +“borís,” she said to her son with a smile, “i shall go in to see +the count, my uncle; but you, my dear, had better go to pierre meanwhile +and don’t forget to give him the rostóvs’ invitation. they ask him +to dinner. i suppose he won’t go?” she continued, turning to the +prince. + +“on the contrary,” replied the prince, who had plainly become +depressed, “i shall be only too glad if you relieve me of that young +man.... here he is, and the count has not once asked for him.” + +he shrugged his shoulders. a footman conducted borís down one flight of +stairs and up another, to pierre’s rooms. + + + + + +chapter xvi + +pierre, after all, had not managed to choose a career for himself in +petersburg, and had been expelled from there for riotous conduct and +sent to moscow. the story told about him at count rostóv’s was true. +pierre had taken part in tying a policeman to a bear. he had now been +for some days in moscow and was staying as usual at his father’s +house. though he expected that the story of his escapade would be +already known in moscow and that the ladies about his father—who were +never favorably disposed toward him—would have used it to turn the +count against him, he nevertheless on the day of his arrival went to +his father’s part of the house. entering the drawing room, where the +princesses spent most of their time, he greeted the ladies, two of whom +were sitting at embroidery frames while a third read aloud. it was the +eldest who was reading—the one who had met anna mikháylovna. the +two younger ones were embroidering: both were rosy and pretty and they +differed only in that one had a little mole on her lip which made her +much prettier. pierre was received as if he were a corpse or a leper. +the eldest princess paused in her reading and silently stared at him +with frightened eyes; the second assumed precisely the same expression; +while the youngest, the one with the mole, who was of a cheerful and +lively disposition, bent over her frame to hide a smile probably evoked +by the amusing scene she foresaw. she drew her wool down through the +canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying +to make out the pattern. + +“how do you do, cousin?” said pierre. “you don’t recognize +me?” + +“i recognize you only too well, too well.” + +“how is the count? can i see him?” asked pierre, awkwardly as usual, +but unabashed. + +“the count is suffering physically and mentally, and apparently you +have done your best to increase his mental sufferings.” + +“can i see the count?” pierre again asked. + +“hm.... if you wish to kill him, to kill him outright, you can see +him... olga, go and see whether uncle’s beef tea is ready—it is +almost time,” she added, giving pierre to understand that they were +busy, and busy making his father comfortable, while evidently he, +pierre, was only busy causing him annoyance. + +olga went out. pierre stood looking at the sisters; then he bowed and +said: “then i will go to my rooms. you will let me know when i can see +him.” + +and he left the room, followed by the low but ringing laughter of the +sister with the mole. + +next day prince vasíli had arrived and settled in the count’s house. +he sent for pierre and said to him: “my dear fellow, if you are going +to behave here as you did in petersburg, you will end very badly; that +is all i have to say to you. the count is very, very ill, and you must +not see him at all.” + +since then pierre had not been disturbed and had spent the whole time in +his rooms upstairs. + +when borís appeared at his door pierre was pacing up and down his room, +stopping occasionally at a corner to make menacing gestures at the wall, +as if running a sword through an invisible foe, and glaring savagely +over his spectacles, and then again resuming his walk, muttering +indistinct words, shrugging his shoulders and gesticulating. + +“england is done for,” said he, scowling and pointing his finger +at someone unseen. “mr. pitt, as a traitor to the nation and to the +rights of man, is sentenced to...” but before pierre—who at that +moment imagined himself to be napoleon in person and to have just +effected the dangerous crossing of the straits of dover and captured +london—could pronounce pitt’s sentence, he saw a well-built and +handsome young officer entering his room. pierre paused. he had left +moscow when borís was a boy of fourteen, and had quite forgotten him, +but in his usual impulsive and hearty way he took borís by the hand +with a friendly smile. + +“do you remember me?” asked borís quietly with a pleasant smile. +“i have come with my mother to see the count, but it seems he is not +well.” + +“yes, it seems he is ill. people are always disturbing him,” +answered pierre, trying to remember who this young man was. + +borís felt that pierre did not recognize him but did not consider +it necessary to introduce himself, and without experiencing the least +embarrassment looked pierre straight in the face. + +“count rostóv asks you to come to dinner today,” said he, after a +considerable pause which made pierre feel uncomfortable. + +“ah, count rostóv!” exclaimed pierre joyfully. “then you are his +son, ilyá? only fancy, i didn’t know you at first. do you remember +how we went to the sparrow hills with madame jacquot?... it’s such an +age...” + +“you are mistaken,” said borís deliberately, with a bold and +slightly sarcastic smile. “i am borís, son of princess anna +mikháylovna drubetskáya. rostóv, the father, is ilyá, and his son is +nicholas. i never knew any madame jacquot.” + +pierre shook his head and arms as if attacked by mosquitoes or bees. + +“oh dear, what am i thinking about? i’ve mixed everything up. one +has so many relatives in moscow! so you are borís? of course. well, now +we know where we are. and what do you think of the boulogne expedition? +the english will come off badly, you know, if napoleon gets across the +channel. i think the expedition is quite feasible. if only villeneuve +doesn’t make a mess of things!” + +borís knew nothing about the boulogne expedition; he did not read the +papers and it was the first time he had heard villeneuve’s name. + +“we here in moscow are more occupied with dinner parties and scandal +than with politics,” said he in his quiet ironical tone. “i know +nothing about it and have not thought about it. moscow is chiefly busy +with gossip,” he continued. “just now they are talking about you and +your father.” + +pierre smiled in his good-natured way as if afraid for his companion’s +sake that the latter might say something he would afterwards regret. +but borís spoke distinctly, clearly, and dryly, looking straight into +pierre’s eyes. + +“moscow has nothing else to do but gossip,” borís went on. +“everybody is wondering to whom the count will leave his fortune, +though he may perhaps outlive us all, as i sincerely hope he will...” + +“yes, it is all very horrid,” interrupted pierre, “very horrid.” + +pierre was still afraid that this officer might inadvertently say +something disconcerting to himself. + +“and it must seem to you,” said borís flushing slightly, but not +changing his tone or attitude, “it must seem to you that everyone is +trying to get something out of the rich man?” + +“so it does,” thought pierre. + +“but i just wish to say, to avoid misunderstandings, that you are +quite mistaken if you reckon me or my mother among such people. we are +very poor, but for my own part at any rate, for the very reason that +your father is rich, i don’t regard myself as a relation of his, and +neither i nor my mother would ever ask or take anything from him.” + +for a long time pierre could not understand, but when he did, he jumped +up from the sofa, seized borís under the elbow in his quick, clumsy +way, and, blushing far more than borís, began to speak with a feeling +of mingled shame and vexation. + +“well, this is strange! do you suppose i... who could think?... i know +very well...” + +but borís again interrupted him. + +“i am glad i have spoken out fully. perhaps you did not like it? you +must excuse me,” said he, putting pierre at ease instead of being put +at ease by him, “but i hope i have not offended you. i always make it +a rule to speak out... well, what answer am i to take? will you come to +dinner at the rostóvs’?” + +and borís, having apparently relieved himself of an onerous duty and +extricated himself from an awkward situation and placed another in it, +became quite pleasant again. + +“no, but i say,” said pierre, calming down, “you are a wonderful +fellow! what you have just said is good, very good. of course you +don’t know me. we have not met for such a long time... not since we +were children. you might think that i... i understand, quite understand. +i could not have done it myself, i should not have had the courage, but +it’s splendid. i am very glad to have made your acquaintance. it’s +queer,” he added after a pause, “that you should have suspected +me!” he began to laugh. “well, what of it! i hope we’ll get better +acquainted,” and he pressed borís’ hand. “do you know, i have not +once been in to see the count. he has not sent for me.... i am sorry for +him as a man, but what can one do?” + +“and so you think napoleon will manage to get an army across?” asked +borís with a smile. + +pierre saw that borís wished to change the subject, and being of the +same mind he began explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the +boulogne expedition. + +a footman came in to summon borís—the princess was going. pierre, in +order to make borís’ better acquaintance, promised to come to dinner, +and warmly pressing his hand looked affectionately over his spectacles +into borís’ eyes. after he had gone pierre continued pacing up and +down the room for a long time, no longer piercing an imaginary foe with +his imaginary sword, but smiling at the remembrance of that pleasant, +intelligent, and resolute young man. + +as often happens in early youth, especially to one who leads a lonely +life, he felt an unaccountable tenderness for this young man and made up +his mind that they would be friends. + +prince vasíli saw the princess off. she held a handkerchief to her eyes +and her face was tearful. + +“it is dreadful, dreadful!” she was saying, “but cost me what it +may i shall do my duty. i will come and spend the night. he must not be +left like this. every moment is precious. i can’t think why his nieces +put it off. perhaps god will help me to find a way to prepare him!... +adieu, prince! may god support you...” + +“adieu, ma bonne,” answered prince vasíli turning away from her. + +“oh, he is in a dreadful state,” said the mother to her son when +they were in the carriage. “he hardly recognizes anybody.” + +“i don’t understand, mamma—what is his attitude to pierre?” +asked the son. + +“the will will show that, my dear; our fate also depends on it.” + +“but why do you expect that he will leave us anything?” + +“ah, my dear! he is so rich, and we are so poor!” + +“well, that is hardly a sufficient reason, mamma...” + +“oh, heaven! how ill he is!” exclaimed the mother. + + + + + +chapter xvii + +after anna mikháylovna had driven off with her son to visit count cyril +vladímirovich bezúkhov, countess rostóva sat for a long time all +alone applying her handkerchief to her eyes. at last she rang. + +“what is the matter with you, my dear?” she said crossly to the maid +who kept her waiting some minutes. “don’t you wish to serve me? then +i’ll find you another place.” + +the countess was upset by her friend’s sorrow and humiliating poverty, +and was therefore out of sorts, a state of mind which with her always +found expression in calling her maid “my dear” and speaking to her +with exaggerated politeness. + +“i am very sorry, ma’am,” answered the maid. + +“ask the count to come to me.” + +the count came waddling in to see his wife with a rather guilty look as +usual. + +“well, little countess? what a sauté of game au madère we are to +have, my dear! i tasted it. the thousand rubles i paid for tarás were +not ill-spent. he is worth it!” + +he sat down by his wife, his elbows on his knees and his hands ruffling +his gray hair. + +“what are your commands, little countess?” + +“you see, my dear... what’s that mess?” she said, pointing to his +waistcoat. “it’s the sauté, most likely,” she added with a smile. +“well, you see, count, i want some money.” + +her face became sad. + +“oh, little countess!” ... and the count began bustling to get out +his pocketbook. + +“i want a great deal, count! i want five hundred rubles,” and taking +out her cambric handkerchief she began wiping her husband’s waistcoat. + +“yes, immediately, immediately! hey, who’s there?” he called out +in a tone only used by persons who are certain that those they call will +rush to obey the summons. “send dmítri to me!” + +dmítri, a man of good family who had been brought up in the count’s +house and now managed all his affairs, stepped softly into the room. + +“this is what i want, my dear fellow,” said the count to the +deferential young man who had entered. “bring me...” he reflected +a moment, “yes, bring me seven hundred rubles, yes! but mind, don’t +bring me such tattered and dirty notes as last time, but nice clean ones +for the countess.” + +“yes, dmítri, clean ones, please,” said the countess, sighing +deeply. + +“when would you like them, your excellency?” asked dmítri. “allow +me to inform you... but, don’t be uneasy,” he added, noticing that +the count was beginning to breathe heavily and quickly which was always +a sign of approaching anger. “i was forgetting... do you wish it +brought at once?” + +“yes, yes; just so! bring it. give it to the countess.” + +“what a treasure that dmítri is,” added the count with a smile when +the young man had departed. “there is never any ‘impossible’ with +him. that’s a thing i hate! everything is possible.” + +“ah, money, count, money! how much sorrow it causes in the world,” +said the countess. “but i am in great need of this sum.” + +“you, my little countess, are a notorious spendthrift,” said the +count, and having kissed his wife’s hand he went back to his study. + +when anna mikháylovna returned from count bezúkhov’s the money, all +in clean notes, was lying ready under a handkerchief on the countess’ +little table, and anna mikháylovna noticed that something was agitating +her. + +“well, my dear?” asked the countess. + +“oh, what a terrible state he is in! one would not know him, he is so +ill! i was only there a few moments and hardly said a word...” + +“annette, for heaven’s sake don’t refuse me,” the countess +began, with a blush that looked very strange on her thin, dignified, +elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief. + +anna mikháylovna instantly guessed her intention and stooped to be +ready to embrace the countess at the appropriate moment. + +“this is for borís from me, for his outfit.” + +anna mikháylovna was already embracing her and weeping. the countess +wept too. they wept because they were friends, and because they were +kindhearted, and because they—friends from childhood—had to think +about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over.... +but those tears were pleasant to them both. + + + + + +chapter xviii + +countess rostóva, with her daughters and a large number of guests, was +already seated in the drawing room. the count took the gentlemen into +his study and showed them his choice collection of turkish pipes. from +time to time he went out to ask: “hasn’t she come yet?” they +were expecting márya dmítrievna akhrosímova, known in society as le +terrible dragon, a lady distinguished not for wealth or rank, but for +common sense and frank plainness of speech. márya dmítrievna was known +to the imperial family as well as to all moscow and petersburg, and both +cities wondered at her, laughed privately at her rudenesses, and told +good stories about her, while none the less all without exception +respected and feared her. + +in the count’s room, which was full of tobacco smoke, they talked +of the war that had been announced in a manifesto, and about the +recruiting. none of them had yet seen the manifesto, but they all knew +it had appeared. the count sat on the sofa between two guests who were +smoking and talking. he neither smoked nor talked, but bending his head +first to one side and then to the other watched the smokers with evident +pleasure and listened to the conversation of his two neighbors, whom he +egged on against each other. + +one of them was a sallow, clean-shaven civilian with a thin and wrinkled +face, already growing old, though he was dressed like a most fashionable +young man. he sat with his legs up on the sofa as if quite at home and, +having stuck an amber mouthpiece far into his mouth, was inhaling the +smoke spasmodically and screwing up his eyes. this was an old bachelor, +shinshín, a cousin of the countess’, a man with “a sharp tongue” +as they said in moscow society. he seemed to be condescending to +his companion. the latter, a fresh, rosy officer of the guards, +irreproachably washed, brushed, and buttoned, held his pipe in the +middle of his mouth and with red lips gently inhaled the smoke, letting +it escape from his handsome mouth in rings. this was lieutenant berg, an +officer in the semënov regiment with whom borís was to travel to join +the army, and about whom natásha had teased her elder sister véra, +speaking of berg as her “intended.” the count sat between them and +listened attentively. his favorite occupation when not playing boston, a +card game he was very fond of, was that of listener, especially when he +succeeded in setting two loquacious talkers at one another. + +“well, then, old chap, mon très honorable alphonse kárlovich,” +said shinshín, laughing ironically and mixing the most ordinary russian +expressions with the choicest french phrases—which was a peculiarity +of his speech. “vous comptez vous faire des rentes sur l’état; * +you want to make something out of your company?” + + * you expect to make an income out of the government. + +“no, peter nikoláevich; i only want to show that in the cavalry +the advantages are far less than in the infantry. just consider my own +position now, peter nikoláevich...” + +berg always spoke quietly, politely, and with great precision. his +conversation always related entirely to himself; he would remain calm +and silent when the talk related to any topic that had no direct bearing +on himself. he could remain silent for hours without being at all put +out of countenance himself or making others uncomfortable, but as +soon as the conversation concerned himself he would begin to talk +circumstantially and with evident satisfaction. + +“consider my position, peter nikoláevich. were i in the cavalry i +should get not more than two hundred rubles every four months, even +with the rank of lieutenant; but as it is i receive two hundred and +thirty,” said he, looking at shinshín and the count with a joyful, +pleasant smile, as if it were obvious to him that his success must +always be the chief desire of everyone else. + +“besides that, peter nikoláevich, by exchanging into the guards +i shall be in a more prominent position,” continued berg, “and +vacancies occur much more frequently in the foot guards. then just think +what can be done with two hundred and thirty rubles! i even manage to +put a little aside and to send something to my father,” he went on, +emitting a smoke ring. + +“la balance y est... * a german knows how to skin a flint, as the +proverb says,” remarked shinshín, moving his pipe to the other side +of his mouth and winking at the count. + + * so that squares matters. + +the count burst out laughing. the other guests seeing that shinshín +was talking came up to listen. berg, oblivious of irony or indifference, +continued to explain how by exchanging into the guards he had already +gained a step on his old comrades of the cadet corps; how in wartime +the company commander might get killed and he, as senior in the company, +might easily succeed to the post; how popular he was with everyone in +the regiment, and how satisfied his father was with him. berg evidently +enjoyed narrating all this, and did not seem to suspect that others, +too, might have their own interests. but all he said was so prettily +sedate, and the naïveté of his youthful egotism was so obvious, that +he disarmed his hearers. + +“well, my boy, you’ll get along wherever you go—foot or +horse—that i’ll warrant,” said shinshín, patting him on the +shoulder and taking his feet off the sofa. + +berg smiled joyously. the count, followed by his guests, went into the +drawing room. + +it was just the moment before a big dinner when the assembled guests, +expecting the summons to zakúska, * avoid engaging in any long +conversation but think it necessary to move about and talk, in order +to show that they are not at all impatient for their food. the host and +hostess look toward the door, and now and then glance at one another, +and the visitors try to guess from these glances who, or what, they are +waiting for—some important relation who has not yet arrived, or a dish +that is not yet ready. + + * hors d’oeuvres. + +pierre had come just at dinnertime and was sitting awkwardly in the +middle of the drawing room on the first chair he had come across, +blocking the way for everyone. the countess tried to make him talk, +but he went on naïvely looking around through his spectacles as if in +search of somebody and answered all her questions in monosyllables. he +was in the way and was the only one who did not notice the fact. most of +the guests, knowing of the affair with the bear, looked with curiosity +at this big, stout, quiet man, wondering how such a clumsy, modest +fellow could have played such a prank on a policeman. + +“you have only lately arrived?” the countess asked him. + +“oui, madame,” replied he, looking around him. + +“you have not yet seen my husband?” + +“non, madame.” he smiled quite inappropriately. + +“you have been in paris recently, i believe? i suppose it’s very +interesting.” + +“very interesting.” + +the countess exchanged glances with anna mikháylovna. the latter +understood that she was being asked to entertain this young man, and +sitting down beside him she began to speak about his father; but he +answered her, as he had the countess, only in monosyllables. the other +guests were all conversing with one another. “the razumóvskis... it +was charming... you are very kind... countess apráksina...” was heard +on all sides. the countess rose and went into the ballroom. + +“márya dmítrievna?” came her voice from there. + +“herself,” came the answer in a rough voice, and márya dmítrievna +entered the room. + +all the unmarried ladies and even the married ones except the very +oldest rose. márya dmítrievna paused at the door. tall and stout, +holding high her fifty-year-old head with its gray curls, she stood +surveying the guests, and leisurely arranged her wide sleeves as if +rolling them up. márya dmítrievna always spoke in russian. + +“health and happiness to her whose name day we are keeping and to her +children,” she said, in her loud, full-toned voice which drowned all +others. “well, you old sinner,” she went on, turning to the count +who was kissing her hand, “you’re feeling dull in moscow, i daresay? +nowhere to hunt with your dogs? but what is to be done, old man? just +see how these nestlings are growing up,” and she pointed to the girls. +“you must look for husbands for them whether you like it or not....” + +“well,” said she, “how’s my cossack?” (márya dmítrievna +always called natásha a cossack) and she stroked the child’s arm as +she came up fearless and gay to kiss her hand. “i know she’s a scamp +of a girl, but i like her.” + +she took a pair of pear-shaped ruby earrings from her huge reticule and, +having given them to the rosy natásha, who beamed with the pleasure +of her saint’s-day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to +pierre. + +“eh, eh, friend! come here a bit,” said she, assuming a soft high +tone of voice. “come here, my friend...” and she ominously tucked +up her sleeves still higher. pierre approached, looking at her in a +childlike way through his spectacles. + +“come nearer, come nearer, friend! i used to be the only one to tell +your father the truth when he was in favor, and in your case it’s my +evident duty.” she paused. all were silent, expectant of what was to +follow, for this was clearly only a prelude. + +“a fine lad! my word! a fine lad!... his father lies on his deathbed +and he amuses himself setting a policeman astride a bear! for shame, +sir, for shame! it would be better if you went to the war.” + +she turned away and gave her hand to the count, who could hardly keep +from laughing. + +“well, i suppose it is time we were at table?” said márya +dmítrievna. + +the count went in first with márya dmítrievna, the countess followed +on the arm of a colonel of hussars, a man of importance to them because +nicholas was to go with him to the regiment; then came anna mikháylovna +with shinshín. berg gave his arm to véra. the smiling julie karágina +went in with nicholas. after them other couples followed, filling the +whole dining hall, and last of all the children, tutors, and governesses +followed singly. the footmen began moving about, chairs scraped, the +band struck up in the gallery, and the guests settled down in their +places. then the strains of the count’s household band were replaced +by the clatter of knives and forks, the voices of visitors, and the +soft steps of the footmen. at one end of the table sat the countess with +márya dmítrievna on her right and anna mikháylovna on her left, the +other lady visitors were farther down. at the other end sat the count, +with the hussar colonel on his left and shinshín and the other male +visitors on his right. midway down the long table on one side sat the +grown-up young people: véra beside berg, and pierre beside borís; and +on the other side, the children, tutors, and governesses. from behind +the crystal decanters and fruit vases, the count kept glancing at his +wife and her tall cap with its light-blue ribbons, and busily filled +his neighbors’ glasses, not neglecting his own. the countess in turn, +without omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from +behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed +by their redness to contrast more than usual with his gray hair. at the +ladies’ end an even chatter of voices was heard all the time, at the +men’s end the voices sounded louder and louder, especially that of the +colonel of hussars who, growing more and more flushed, ate and drank so +much that the count held him up as a pattern to the other guests. berg +with tender smiles was saying to véra that love is not an earthly but +a heavenly feeling. borís was telling his new friend pierre who the +guests were and exchanging glances with natásha, who was sitting +opposite. pierre spoke little but examined the new faces, and ate a +great deal. of the two soups he chose turtle with savory patties and +went on to the game without omitting a single dish or one of the wines. +these latter the butler thrust mysteriously forward, wrapped in a +napkin, from behind the next man’s shoulders and whispered: “dry +madeira”... “hungarian”... or “rhine wine” as the case might +be. of the four crystal glasses engraved with the count’s monogram +that stood before his plate, pierre held out one at random and drank +with enjoyment, gazing with ever-increasing amiability at the other +guests. natásha, who sat opposite, was looking at borís as girls of +thirteen look at the boy they are in love with and have just kissed for +the first time. sometimes that same look fell on pierre, and that funny +lively little girl’s look made him inclined to laugh without knowing +why. + +nicholas sat at some distance from sónya, beside julie karágina, to +whom he was again talking with the same involuntary smile. sónya wore +a company smile but was evidently tormented by jealousy; now she turned +pale, now blushed and strained every nerve to overhear what nicholas +and julie were saying to one another. the governess kept looking round +uneasily as if preparing to resent any slight that might be put upon the +children. the german tutor was trying to remember all the dishes, wines, +and kinds of dessert, in order to send a full description of the dinner +to his people in germany; and he felt greatly offended when the butler +with a bottle wrapped in a napkin passed him by. he frowned, trying to +appear as if he did not want any of that wine, but was mortified because +no one would understand that it was not to quench his thirst or from +greediness that he wanted it, but simply from a conscientious desire for +knowledge. + + + + + +chapter xix + +at the men’s end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. +the colonel told them that the declaration of war had already appeared +in petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day +been forwarded by courier to the commander in chief. + +“and why the deuce are we going to fight bonaparte?” remarked +shinshín. “he has stopped austria’s cackle and i fear it will be +our turn next.” + +the colonel was a stout, tall, plethoric german, evidently devoted to +the service and patriotically russian. he resented shinshín’s remark. + +“it is for the reasson, my goot sir,” said he, speaking with a +german accent, “for the reasson zat ze emperor knows zat. he +declares in ze manifessto zat he cannot fiew wiz indifference ze danger +vreatening russia and zat ze safety and dignity of ze empire as vell +as ze sanctity of its alliances...” he spoke this last word with +particular emphasis as if in it lay the gist of the matter. + +then with the unerring official memory that characterized him he +repeated from the opening words of the manifesto: + +... and the wish, which constitutes the emperor’s sole and absolute +aim—to establish peace in europe on firm foundations—has now decided +him to despatch part of the army abroad and to create a new condition +for the attainment of that purpose. + +“zat, my dear sir, is vy...” he concluded, drinking a tumbler of +wine with dignity and looking to the count for approval. + +“connaissez-vous le proverbe:* ‘jerome, jerome, do not roam, but +turn spindles at home!’?” said shinshín, puckering his brows and +smiling. “cela nous convient à merveille.*(2) suvórov now—he knew +what he was about; yet they beat him à plate couture,*(3) and where +are we to find suvórovs now? je vous demande un peu,” *(4) said he, +continually changing from french to russian. + + *do you know the proverb? + + *(2) that suits us down to the ground. + + *(3) hollow. + + *(4) i just ask you that. + +“ve must vight to the last tr-r-op of our plood!” said the colonel, +thumping the table; “and ve must tie for our emperor, and zen all vill +pe vell. and ve must discuss it as little as po-o-ossible”... he dwelt +particularly on the word possible... “as po-o-ossible,” he ended, +again turning to the count. “zat is how ve old hussars look at it, and +zere’s an end of it! and how do you, a young man and a young hussar, +how do you judge of it?” he added, addressing nicholas, who when he +heard that the war was being discussed had turned from his partner with +eyes and ears intent on the colonel. + +“i am quite of your opinion,” replied nicholas, flaming up, turning +his plate round and moving his wineglasses about with as much decision +and desperation as though he were at that moment facing some great +danger. “i am convinced that we russians must die or conquer,” he +concluded, conscious—as were others—after the words were uttered +that his remarks were too enthusiastic and emphatic for the occasion and +were therefore awkward. + +“what you said just now was splendid!” said his partner julie. + +sónya trembled all over and blushed to her ears and behind them and +down to her neck and shoulders while nicholas was speaking. + +pierre listened to the colonel’s speech and nodded approvingly. + +“that’s fine,” said he. + +“the young man’s a real hussar!” shouted the colonel, again +thumping the table. + +“what are you making such a noise about over there?” márya +dmítrievna’s deep voice suddenly inquired from the other end of the +table. “what are you thumping the table for?” she demanded of the +hussar, “and why are you exciting yourself? do you think the french +are here?” + +“i am speaking ze truce,” replied the hussar with a smile. + +“it’s all about the war,” the count shouted down the table. “you +know my son’s going, márya dmítrievna? my son is going.” + +“i have four sons in the army but still i don’t fret. it is all +in god’s hands. you may die in your bed or god may spare you in a +battle,” replied márya dmítrievna’s deep voice, which easily +carried the whole length of the table. + +“that’s true!” + +once more the conversations concentrated, the ladies’ at the one end +and the men’s at the other. + +“you won’t ask,” natásha’s little brother was saying; “i know +you won’t ask!” + +“i will,” replied natásha. + +her face suddenly flushed with reckless and joyous resolution. she half +rose, by a glance inviting pierre, who sat opposite, to listen to what +was coming, and turning to her mother: + +“mamma!” rang out the clear contralto notes of her childish voice, +audible the whole length of the table. + +“what is it?” asked the countess, startled; but seeing by her +daughter’s face that it was only mischief, she shook a finger at her +sternly with a threatening and forbidding movement of her head. + +the conversation was hushed. + +“mamma! what sweets are we going to have?” and natásha’s voice +sounded still more firm and resolute. + +the countess tried to frown, but could not. márya dmítrievna shook her +fat finger. + +“cossack!” she said threateningly. + +most of the guests, uncertain how to regard this sally, looked at the +elders. + +“you had better take care!” said the countess. + +“mamma! what sweets are we going to have?” natásha again cried +boldly, with saucy gaiety, confident that her prank would be taken in +good part. + +sónya and fat little pétya doubled up with laughter. + +“you see! i have asked,” whispered natásha to her little brother +and to pierre, glancing at him again. + +“ice pudding, but you won’t get any,” said márya dmítrievna. + +natásha saw there was nothing to be afraid of and so she braved even +márya dmítrievna. + +“márya dmítrievna! what kind of ice pudding? i don’t like ice +cream.” + +“carrot ices.” + +“no! what kind, márya dmítrievna? what kind?” she almost screamed; +“i want to know!” + +márya dmítrievna and the countess burst out laughing, and all the +guests joined in. everyone laughed, not at márya dmítrievna’s answer +but at the incredible boldness and smartness of this little girl who had +dared to treat márya dmítrievna in this fashion. + +natásha only desisted when she had been told that there would be +pineapple ice. before the ices, champagne was served round. the band +again struck up, the count and countess kissed, and the guests, leaving +their seats, went up to “congratulate” the countess, and reached +across the table to clink glasses with the count, with the children, and +with one another. again the footmen rushed about, chairs scraped, and +in the same order in which they had entered but with redder faces, the +guests returned to the drawing room and to the count’s study. + + + + + +chapter xx + +the card tables were drawn out, sets made up for boston, and the +count’s visitors settled themselves, some in the two drawing rooms, +some in the sitting room, some in the library. + +the count, holding his cards fanwise, kept himself with difficulty from +dropping into his usual after-dinner nap, and laughed at everything. +the young people, at the countess’ instigation, gathered round the +clavichord and harp. julie by general request played first. after she +had played a little air with variations on the harp, she joined the +other young ladies in begging natásha and nicholas, who were noted for +their musical talent, to sing something. natásha, who was treated as +though she were grown up, was evidently very proud of this but at the +same time felt shy. + +“what shall we sing?” she said. + +“‘the brook,’” suggested nicholas. + +“well, then, let’s be quick. borís, come here,” said natásha. +“but where is sónya?” + +she looked round and seeing that her friend was not in the room ran to +look for her. + +running into sónya’s room and not finding her there, natásha ran to +the nursery, but sónya was not there either. natásha concluded that +she must be on the chest in the passage. the chest in the passage was +the place of mourning for the younger female generation in the rostóv +household. and there in fact was sónya lying face downward on nurse’s +dirty feather bed on the top of the chest, crumpling her gauzy pink +dress under her, hiding her face with her slender fingers, and sobbing +so convulsively that her bare little shoulders shook. natásha’s +face, which had been so radiantly happy all that saint’s day, suddenly +changed: her eyes became fixed, and then a shiver passed down her broad +neck and the corners of her mouth drooped. + +“sónya! what is it? what is the matter?... oo... oo... oo...!” and +natásha’s large mouth widened, making her look quite ugly, and she +began to wail like a baby without knowing why, except that sónya was +crying. sónya tried to lift her head to answer but could not, and +hid her face still deeper in the bed. natásha wept, sitting on the +blue-striped feather bed and hugging her friend. with an effort sónya +sat up and began wiping her eyes and explaining. + +“nicholas is going away in a week’s time, his... papers... have +come... he told me himself... but still i should not cry,” and she +showed a paper she held in her hand—with the verses nicholas had +written, “still, i should not cry, but you can’t... no one can +understand... what a soul he has!” + +and she began to cry again because he had such a noble soul. + +“it’s all very well for you... i am not envious... i love you and +borís also,” she went on, gaining a little strength; “he is nice... +there are no difficulties in your way.... but nicholas is my cousin... +one would have to... the metropolitan himself... and even then it +can’t be done. and besides, if she tells mamma” (sónya looked upon +the countess as her mother and called her so) “that i am spoiling +nicholas’ career and am heartless and ungrateful, while truly... god +is my witness,” and she made the sign of the cross, “i love her so +much, and all of you, only véra... and what for? what have i done +to her? i am so grateful to you that i would willingly sacrifice +everything, only i have nothing....” + +sónya could not continue, and again hid her face in her hands and in +the feather bed. natásha began consoling her, but her face showed that +she understood all the gravity of her friend’s trouble. + +“sónya,” she suddenly exclaimed, as if she had guessed the true +reason of her friend’s sorrow, “i’m sure véra has said something +to you since dinner? hasn’t she?” + +“yes, these verses nicholas wrote himself and i copied some others, +and she found them on my table and said she’d show them to mamma, and +that i was ungrateful, and that mamma would never allow him to marry +me, but that he’ll marry julie. you see how he’s been with her all +day... natásha, what have i done to deserve it?...” + +and again she began to sob, more bitterly than before. natásha lifted +her up, hugged her, and, smiling through her tears, began comforting +her. + +“sónya, don’t believe her, darling! don’t believe her! do you +remember how we and nicholas, all three of us, talked in the sitting +room after supper? why, we settled how everything was to be. i don’t +quite remember how, but don’t you remember that it could all be +arranged and how nice it all was? there’s uncle shinshín’s brother +has married his first cousin. and we are only second cousins, you know. +and borís says it is quite possible. you know i have told him all about +it. and he is so clever and so good!” said natásha. “don’t +you cry, sónya, dear love, darling sónya!” and she kissed her and +laughed. “véra’s spiteful; never mind her! and all will come right +and she won’t say anything to mamma. nicholas will tell her himself, +and he doesn’t care at all for julie.” + +natásha kissed her on the hair. + +sónya sat up. the little kitten brightened, its eyes shone, and it +seemed ready to lift its tail, jump down on its soft paws, and begin +playing with the ball of worsted as a kitten should. + +“do you think so?... really? truly?” she said, quickly smoothing her +frock and hair. + +“really, truly!” answered natásha, pushing in a crisp lock that had +strayed from under her friend’s plaits. + +both laughed. + +“well, let’s go and sing ‘the brook.’” + +“come along!” + +“do you know, that fat pierre who sat opposite me is so funny!” said +natásha, stopping suddenly. “i feel so happy!” + +and she set off at a run along the passage. + +sónya, shaking off some down which clung to her and tucking away the +verses in the bosom of her dress close to her bony little chest, ran +after natásha down the passage into the sitting room with flushed face +and light, joyous steps. at the visitors’ request the young people +sang the quartette, “the brook,” with which everyone was delighted. +then nicholas sang a song he had just learned: + + at nighttime in the moon’s fair glow + how sweet, as fancies wander free, + to feel that in this world there’s one + who still is thinking but of thee! + + that while her fingers touch the harp + wafting sweet music o’er the lea, + it is for thee thus swells her heart, + sighing its message out to thee... + + a day or two, then bliss unspoilt, + but oh! till then i cannot live!... + +he had not finished the last verse before the young people began to +get ready to dance in the large hall, and the sound of the feet and the +coughing of the musicians were heard from the gallery. + + +pierre was sitting in the drawing room where shinshín had engaged him, +as a man recently returned from abroad, in a political conversation in +which several others joined but which bored pierre. when the music began +natásha came in and walking straight up to pierre said, laughing and +blushing: + +“mamma told me to ask you to join the dancers.” + +“i am afraid of mixing the figures,” pierre replied; “but if you +will be my teacher...” and lowering his big arm he offered it to the +slender little girl. + +while the couples were arranging themselves and the musicians tuning up, +pierre sat down with his little partner. natásha was perfectly happy; +she was dancing with a grown-up man, who had been abroad. she was +sitting in a conspicuous place and talking to him like a grown-up lady. +she had a fan in her hand that one of the ladies had given her to hold. +assuming quite the pose of a society woman (heaven knows when and where +she had learned it) she talked with her partner, fanning herself and +smiling over the fan. + +“dear, dear! just look at her!” exclaimed the countess as she +crossed the ballroom, pointing to natásha. + +natásha blushed and laughed. + +“well, really, mamma! why should you? what is there to be surprised +at?” + + +in the midst of the third écossaise there was a clatter of chairs being +pushed back in the sitting room where the count and márya dmítrievna +had been playing cards with the majority of the more distinguished and +older visitors. they now, stretching themselves after sitting so long, +and replacing their purses and pocketbooks, entered the ballroom. first +came márya dmítrievna and the count, both with merry countenances. the +count, with playful ceremony somewhat in ballet style, offered his +bent arm to márya dmítrievna. he drew himself up, a smile of debonair +gallantry lit up his face and as soon as the last figure of the +écossaise was ended, he clapped his hands to the musicians and shouted +up to their gallery, addressing the first violin: + +“semën! do you know the daniel cooper?” + +this was the count’s favorite dance, which he had danced in his youth. +(strictly speaking, daniel cooper was one figure of the anglaise.) + +“look at papa!” shouted natásha to the whole company, and quite +forgetting that she was dancing with a grown-up partner she bent her +curly head to her knees and made the whole room ring with her laughter. + +and indeed everybody in the room looked with a smile of pleasure at the +jovial old gentleman, who standing beside his tall and stout partner, +márya dmítrievna, curved his arms, beat time, straightened his +shoulders, turned out his toes, tapped gently with his foot, and, by +a smile that broadened his round face more and more, prepared the +onlookers for what was to follow. as soon as the provocatively gay +strains of daniel cooper (somewhat resembling those of a merry peasant +dance) began to sound, all the doorways of the ballroom were suddenly +filled by the domestic serfs—the men on one side and the women on +the other—who with beaming faces had come to see their master making +merry. + +“just look at the master! a regular eagle he is!” loudly remarked +the nurse, as she stood in one of the doorways. + +the count danced well and knew it. but his partner could not and did not +want to dance well. her enormous figure stood erect, her powerful arms +hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her +stern but handsome face really joined in the dance. what was expressed +by the whole of the count’s plump figure, in márya dmítrievna found +expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose. +but if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed +the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and +the agility with which he capered about on his light feet, márya +dmítrievna produced no less impression by slight exertions—the least +effort to move her shoulders or bend her arms when turning, or stamp +her foot—which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual +severity. the dance grew livelier and livelier. the other couples could +not attract a moment’s attention to their own evolutions and did not +even try to do so. all were watching the count and márya dmítrievna. +natásha kept pulling everyone by sleeve or dress, urging them to +“look at papa!” though as it was they never took their eyes off the +couple. in the intervals of the dance the count, breathing deeply, waved +and shouted to the musicians to play faster. faster, faster, and faster; +lightly, more lightly, and yet more lightly whirled the count, flying +round márya dmítrievna, now on his toes, now on his heels; until, +turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, +raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspiring head, smiling +and making a wide sweep with his arm, amid a thunder of applause and +laughter led by natásha. both partners stood still, breathing heavily +and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs. + +“that’s how we used to dance in our time, ma chère,” said the +count. + +“that was a daniel cooper!” exclaimed márya dmítrievna, tucking up +her sleeves and puffing heavily. + + + + + +chapter xxi + +while in the rostóvs’ ballroom the sixth anglaise was being danced, +to a tune in which the weary musicians blundered, and while tired +footmen and cooks were getting the supper, count bezúkhov had a +sixth stroke. the doctors pronounced recovery impossible. after a mute +confession, communion was administered to the dying man, preparations +made for the sacrament of unction, and in his house there was the bustle +and thrill of suspense usual at such moments. outside the house, beyond +the gates, a group of undertakers, who hid whenever a carriage drove up, +waited in expectation of an important order for an expensive funeral. +the military governor of moscow, who had been assiduous in sending +aides-de-camp to inquire after the count’s health, came himself +that evening to bid a last farewell to the celebrated grandee of +catherine’s court, count bezúkhov. + +the magnificent reception room was crowded. everyone stood up +respectfully when the military governor, having stayed about half an +hour alone with the dying man, passed out, slightly acknowledging their +bows and trying to escape as quickly as possible from the glances fixed +on him by the doctors, clergy, and relatives of the family. prince +vasíli, who had grown thinner and paler during the last few days, +escorted him to the door, repeating something to him several times in +low tones. + +when the military governor had gone, prince vasíli sat down all alone +on a chair in the ballroom, crossing one leg high over the other, +leaning his elbow on his knee and covering his face with his hand. after +sitting so for a while he rose, and, looking about him with frightened +eyes, went with unusually hurried steps down the long corridor leading +to the back of the house, to the room of the eldest princess. + +those who were in the dimly lit reception room spoke in nervous +whispers, and, whenever anyone went into or came from the dying man’s +room, grew silent and gazed with eyes full of curiosity or expectancy at +his door, which creaked slightly when opened. + +“the limits of human life ... are fixed and may not be +o’erpassed,” said an old priest to a lady who had taken a seat +beside him and was listening naïvely to his words. + +“i wonder, is it not too late to administer unction?” asked the +lady, adding the priest’s clerical title, as if she had no opinion of +her own on the subject. + +“ah, madam, it is a great sacrament,” replied the priest, passing +his hand over the thin grizzled strands of hair combed back across his +bald head. + +“who was that? the military governor himself?” was being asked at +the other side of the room. “how young-looking he is!” + +“yes, and he is over sixty. i hear the count no longer recognizes +anyone. they wished to administer the sacrament of unction.” + +“i knew someone who received that sacrament seven times.” + +the second princess had just come from the sickroom with her eyes red +from weeping and sat down beside dr. lorrain, who was sitting in a +graceful pose under a portrait of catherine, leaning his elbow on a +table. + +“beautiful,” said the doctor in answer to a remark about the +weather. “the weather is beautiful, princess; and besides, in moscow +one feels as if one were in the country.” + +“yes, indeed,” replied the princess with a sigh. “so he may have +something to drink?” + +lorrain considered. + +“has he taken his medicine?” + +“yes.” + +the doctor glanced at his watch. + +“take a glass of boiled water and put a pinch of cream of tartar,” +and he indicated with his delicate fingers what he meant by a pinch. + +“dere has neffer been a gase,” a german doctor was saying to an +aide-de-camp, “dat one liffs after de sird stroke.” + +“and what a well-preserved man he was!” remarked the aide-de-camp. +“and who will inherit his wealth?” he added in a whisper. + +“it von’t go begging,” replied the german with a smile. + +everyone again looked toward the door, which creaked as the second +princess went in with the drink she had prepared according to +lorrain’s instructions. the german doctor went up to lorrain. + +“do you think he can last till morning?” asked the german, +addressing lorrain in french which he pronounced badly. + +lorrain, pursing up his lips, waved a severely negative finger before +his nose. + +“tonight, not later,” said he in a low voice, and he moved away +with a decorous smile of self-satisfaction at being able clearly to +understand and state the patient’s condition. + +meanwhile prince vasíli had opened the door into the princess’ room. + +in this room it was almost dark; only two tiny lamps were burning before +the icons and there was a pleasant scent of flowers and burnt pastilles. +the room was crowded with small pieces of furniture, whatnots, +cupboards, and little tables. the quilt of a high, white feather bed was +just visible behind a screen. a small dog began to bark. + +“ah, is it you, cousin?” + +she rose and smoothed her hair, which was as usual so extremely smooth +that it seemed to be made of one piece with her head and covered with +varnish. + +“has anything happened?” she asked. “i am so terrified.” + +“no, there is no change. i only came to have a talk about business, +catiche,” * muttered the prince, seating himself wearily on the chair +she had just vacated. “you have made the place warm, i must say,” he +remarked. “well, sit down: let’s have a talk.” + + *catherine. + +“i thought perhaps something had happened,” she said with her +unchanging stonily severe expression; and, sitting down opposite the +prince, she prepared to listen. + +“i wished to get a nap, mon cousin, but i can’t.” + +“well, my dear?” said prince vasíli, taking her hand and bending it +downwards as was his habit. + +it was plain that this “well?” referred to much that they both +understood without naming. + +the princess, who had a straight, rigid body, abnormally long for her +legs, looked directly at prince vasíli with no sign of emotion in her +prominent gray eyes. then she shook her head and glanced up at the icons +with a sigh. this might have been taken as an expression of sorrow +and devotion, or of weariness and hope of resting before long. prince +vasíli understood it as an expression of weariness. + +“and i?” he said; “do you think it is easier for me? i am as worn +out as a post horse, but still i must have a talk with you, catiche, a +very serious talk.” + +prince vasíli said no more and his cheeks began to twitch nervously, +now on one side, now on the other, giving his face an unpleasant +expression which was never to be seen on it in a drawing room. his eyes +too seemed strange; at one moment they looked impudently sly and at the +next glanced round in alarm. + +the princess, holding her little dog on her lap with her thin bony +hands, looked attentively into prince vasíli’s eyes evidently +resolved not to be the first to break silence, if she had to wait till +morning. + +“well, you see, my dear princess and cousin, catherine semënovna,” +continued prince vasíli, returning to his theme, apparently not +without an inner struggle; “at such a moment as this one must think +of everything. one must think of the future, of all of you... i love you +all, like children of my own, as you know.” + +the princess continued to look at him without moving, and with the same +dull expression. + +“and then of course my family has also to be considered,” prince +vasíli went on, testily pushing away a little table without looking at +her. “you know, catiche, that we—you three sisters, mámontov, and +my wife—are the count’s only direct heirs. i know, i know how hard +it is for you to talk or think of such matters. it is no easier for +me; but, my dear, i am getting on for sixty and must be prepared for +anything. do you know i have sent for pierre? the count,” pointing to +his portrait, “definitely demanded that he should be called.” + +prince vasíli looked questioningly at the princess, but could not make +out whether she was considering what he had just said or whether she was +simply looking at him. + +“there is one thing i constantly pray god to grant, mon cousin,” she +replied, “and it is that he would be merciful to him and would allow +his noble soul peacefully to leave this...” + +“yes, yes, of course,” interrupted prince vasíli impatiently, +rubbing his bald head and angrily pulling back toward him the little +table that he had pushed away. “but... in short, the fact is... you +know yourself that last winter the count made a will by which he left +all his property, not to us his direct heirs, but to pierre.” + +“he has made wills enough!” quietly remarked the princess. “but he +cannot leave the estate to pierre. pierre is illegitimate.” + +“but, my dear,” said prince vasíli suddenly, clutching the little +table and becoming more animated and talking more rapidly: “what if +a letter has been written to the emperor in which the count asks for +pierre’s legitimation? do you understand that in consideration of the +count’s services, his request would be granted?...” + +the princess smiled as people do who think they know more about the +subject under discussion than those they are talking with. + +“i can tell you more,” continued prince vasíli, seizing her hand, +“that letter was written, though it was not sent, and the emperor knew +of it. the only question is, has it been destroyed or not? if not, then +as soon as all is over,” and prince vasíli sighed to intimate what he +meant by the words all is over, “and the count’s papers are opened, +the will and letter will be delivered to the emperor, and the petition +will certainly be granted. pierre will get everything as the legitimate +son.” + +“and our share?” asked the princess smiling ironically, as if +anything might happen, only not that. + +“but, my poor catiche, it is as clear as daylight! he will then be the +legal heir to everything and you won’t get anything. you must know, +my dear, whether the will and letter were written, and whether they have +been destroyed or not. and if they have somehow been overlooked, you +ought to know where they are, and must find them, because...” + +“what next?” the princess interrupted, smiling sardonically and not +changing the expression of her eyes. “i am a woman, and you think we +are all stupid; but i know this: an illegitimate son cannot inherit... +un bâtard!”* she added, as if supposing that this translation of the +word would effectively prove to prince vasíli the invalidity of his +contention. + + * a bastard. + +“well, really, catiche! can’t you understand! you are so +intelligent, how is it you don’t see that if the count has written a +letter to the emperor begging him to recognize pierre as legitimate, it +follows that pierre will not be pierre but will become count bezúkhov, +and will then inherit everything under the will? and if the will and +letter are not destroyed, then you will have nothing but the consolation +of having been dutiful et tout ce qui s’ensuit!* that’s certain.” + + * and all that follows therefrom. + +“i know the will was made, but i also know that it is invalid; +and you, mon cousin, seem to consider me a perfect fool,” said the +princess with the expression women assume when they suppose they are +saying something witty and stinging. + +“my dear princess catherine semënovna,” began prince vasíli +impatiently, “i came here not to wrangle with you, but to talk about +your interests as with a kinswoman, a good, kind, true relation. and i +tell you for the tenth time that if the letter to the emperor and the +will in pierre’s favor are among the count’s papers, then, my dear +girl, you and your sisters are not heiresses! if you don’t believe me, +then believe an expert. i have just been talking to dmítri onúfrich” +(the family solicitor) “and he says the same.” + +at this a sudden change evidently took place in the princess’ ideas; +her thin lips grew white, though her eyes did not change, and her voice +when she began to speak passed through such transitions as she herself +evidently did not expect. + +“that would be a fine thing!” said she. “i never wanted anything +and i don’t now.” + +she pushed the little dog off her lap and smoothed her dress. + +“and this is gratitude—this is recognition for those who have +sacrificed everything for his sake!” she cried. “it’s splendid! +fine! i don’t want anything, prince.” + +“yes, but you are not the only one. there are your sisters...” +replied prince vasíli. + +but the princess did not listen to him. + +“yes, i knew it long ago but had forgotten. i knew that i could expect +nothing but meanness, deceit, envy, intrigue, and ingratitude—the +blackest ingratitude—in this house...” + +“do you or do you not know where that will is?” insisted prince +vasíli, his cheeks twitching more than ever. + +“yes, i was a fool! i still believed in people, loved them, and +sacrificed myself. but only the base, the vile succeed! i know who has +been intriguing!” + +the princess wished to rise, but the prince held her by the hand. she +had the air of one who has suddenly lost faith in the whole human race. +she gave her companion an angry glance. + +“there is still time, my dear. you must remember, catiche, that it was +all done casually in a moment of anger, of illness, and was afterwards +forgotten. our duty, my dear, is to rectify his mistake, to ease his +last moments by not letting him commit this injustice, and not to let +him die feeling that he is rendering unhappy those who...” + +“who sacrificed everything for him,” chimed in the princess, who +would again have risen had not the prince still held her fast, “though +he never could appreciate it. no, mon cousin,” she added with a sigh, +“i shall always remember that in this world one must expect no reward, +that in this world there is neither honor nor justice. in this world one +has to be cunning and cruel.” + +“now come, come! be reasonable. i know your excellent heart.” + +“no, i have a wicked heart.” + +“i know your heart,” repeated the prince. “i value your friendship +and wish you to have as good an opinion of me. don’t upset yourself, +and let us talk sensibly while there is still time, be it a day or be it +but an hour.... tell me all you know about the will, and above all where +it is. you must know. we will take it at once and show it to the +count. he has, no doubt, forgotten it and will wish to destroy it. +you understand that my sole desire is conscientiously to carry out his +wishes; that is my only reason for being here. i came simply to help him +and you.” + +“now i see it all! i know who has been intriguing—i know!” cried +the princess. + +“that’s not the point, my dear.” + +“it’s that protégé of yours, that sweet princess drubetskáya, +that anna mikháylovna whom i would not take for a housemaid... the +infamous, vile woman!” + +“do not let us lose any time...” + +“ah, don’t talk to me! last winter she wheedled herself in here and +told the count such vile, disgraceful things about us, especially about +sophie—i can’t repeat them—that it made the count quite ill and he +would not see us for a whole fortnight. i know it was then he wrote this +vile, infamous paper, but i thought the thing was invalid.” + +“we’ve got to it at last—why did you not tell me about it +sooner?” + +“it’s in the inlaid portfolio that he keeps under his pillow,” +said the princess, ignoring his question. “now i know! yes; if i have +a sin, a great sin, it is hatred of that vile woman!” almost shrieked +the princess, now quite changed. “and what does she come worming +herself in here for? but i will give her a piece of my mind. the time +will come!” + + + + + +chapter xxii + +while these conversations were going on in the reception room and the +princess’ room, a carriage containing pierre (who had been sent for) +and anna mikháylovna (who found it necessary to accompany him) was +driving into the court of count bezúkhov’s house. as the wheels +rolled softly over the straw beneath the windows, anna mikháylovna, +having turned with words of comfort to her companion, realized that +he was asleep in his corner and woke him up. rousing himself, pierre +followed anna mikháylovna out of the carriage, and only then began +to think of the interview with his dying father which awaited him. he +noticed that they had not come to the front entrance but to the back +door. while he was getting down from the carriage steps two men, who +looked like tradespeople, ran hurriedly from the entrance and hid in the +shadow of the wall. pausing for a moment, pierre noticed several other +men of the same kind hiding in the shadow of the house on both sides. +but neither anna mikháylovna nor the footman nor the coachman, who +could not help seeing these people, took any notice of them. “it seems +to be all right,” pierre concluded, and followed anna mikháylovna. +she hurriedly ascended the narrow dimly lit stone staircase, calling to +pierre, who was lagging behind, to follow. though he did not see why it +was necessary for him to go to the count at all, still less why he had +to go by the back stairs, yet judging by anna mikháylovna’s air +of assurance and haste, pierre concluded that it was all absolutely +necessary. halfway up the stairs they were almost knocked over by +some men who, carrying pails, came running downstairs, their boots +clattering. these men pressed close to the wall to let pierre and anna +mikháylovna pass and did not evince the least surprise at seeing them +there. + +“is this the way to the princesses’ apartments?” asked anna +mikháylovna of one of them. + +“yes,” replied a footman in a bold loud voice, as if anything were +now permissible; “the door to the left, ma’am.” + +“perhaps the count did not ask for me,” said pierre when he reached +the landing. “i’d better go to my own room.” + +anna mikháylovna paused and waited for him to come up. + +“ah, my friend!” she said, touching his arm as she had done her +son’s when speaking to him that afternoon, “believe me i suffer no +less than you do, but be a man!” + +“but really, hadn’t i better go away?” he asked, looking kindly at +her over his spectacles. + +“ah, my dear friend! forget the wrongs that may have been done you. +think that he is your father ... perhaps in the agony of death.” she +sighed. “i have loved you like a son from the first. trust yourself to +me, pierre. i shall not forget your interests.” + +pierre did not understand a word, but the conviction that all this had +to be grew stronger, and he meekly followed anna mikháylovna who was +already opening a door. + +this door led into a back anteroom. an old man, a servant of the +princesses, sat in a corner knitting a stocking. pierre had never been +in this part of the house and did not even know of the existence of +these rooms. anna mikháylovna, addressing a maid who was hurrying past +with a decanter on a tray as “my dear” and “my sweet,” asked +about the princess’ health and then led pierre along a stone passage. +the first door on the left led into the princesses’ apartments. the +maid with the decanter in her haste had not closed the door (everything +in the house was done in haste at that time), and pierre and anna +mikháylovna in passing instinctively glanced into the room, where +prince vasíli and the eldest princess were sitting close together +talking. seeing them pass, prince vasíli drew back with obvious +impatience, while the princess jumped up and with a gesture of +desperation slammed the door with all her might. + +this action was so unlike her usual composure and the fear depicted on +prince vasíli’s face so out of keeping with his dignity that pierre +stopped and glanced inquiringly over his spectacles at his guide. anna +mikháylovna evinced no surprise, she only smiled faintly and sighed, as +if to say that this was no more than she had expected. + +“be a man, my friend. i will look after your interests,” said she in +reply to his look, and went still faster along the passage. + +pierre could not make out what it was all about, and still less what +“watching over his interests” meant, but he decided that all these +things had to be. from the passage they went into a large, dimly +lit room adjoining the count’s reception room. it was one of those +sumptuous but cold apartments known to pierre only from the front +approach, but even in this room there now stood an empty bath, and water +had been spilled on the carpet. they were met by a deacon with a censer +and by a servant who passed out on tiptoe without heeding them. they +went into the reception room familiar to pierre, with two italian +windows opening into the conservatory, with its large bust and full +length portrait of catherine the great. the same people were still +sitting here in almost the same positions as before, whispering to one +another. all became silent and turned to look at the pale tear-worn anna +mikháylovna as she entered, and at the big stout figure of pierre who, +hanging his head, meekly followed her. + +anna mikháylovna’s face expressed a consciousness that the decisive +moment had arrived. with the air of a practical petersburg lady she now, +keeping pierre close beside her, entered the room even more boldly than +that afternoon. she felt that as she brought with her the person the +dying man wished to see, her own admission was assured. casting a rapid +glance at all those in the room and noticing the count’s confessor +there, she glided up to him with a sort of amble, not exactly bowing yet +seeming to grow suddenly smaller, and respectfully received the blessing +first of one and then of another priest. + +“god be thanked that you are in time,” said she to one of the +priests; “all we relatives have been in such anxiety. this young +man is the count’s son,” she added more softly. “what a terrible +moment!” + +having said this she went up to the doctor. + +“dear doctor,” said she, “this young man is the count’s son. is +there any hope?” + +the doctor cast a rapid glance upwards and silently shrugged his +shoulders. anna mikháylovna with just the same movement raised her +shoulders and eyes, almost closing the latter, sighed, and moved away +from the doctor to pierre. to him, in a particularly respectful and +tenderly sad voice, she said: + +“trust in his mercy!” and pointing out a small sofa for him to sit +and wait for her, she went silently toward the door that everyone was +watching and it creaked very slightly as she disappeared behind it. + +pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved +toward the sofa she had indicated. as soon as anna mikháylovna had +disappeared he noticed that the eyes of all in the room turned to him +with something more than curiosity and sympathy. he noticed that they +whispered to one another, casting significant looks at him with a kind +of awe and even servility. a deference such as he had never before +received was shown him. a strange lady, the one who had been talking to +the priests, rose and offered him her seat; an aide-de-camp picked up +and returned a glove pierre had dropped; the doctors became respectfully +silent as he passed by, and moved to make way for him. at first pierre +wished to take another seat so as not to trouble the lady, and also to +pick up the glove himself and to pass round the doctors who were not +even in his way; but all at once he felt that this would not do, and +that tonight he was a person obliged to perform some sort of awful +rite which everyone expected of him, and that he was therefore bound +to accept their services. he took the glove in silence from the +aide-de-camp, and sat down in the lady’s chair, placing his huge hands +symmetrically on his knees in the naïve attitude of an egyptian statue, +and decided in his own mind that all was as it should be, and that in +order not to lose his head and do foolish things he must not act on his +own ideas tonight, but must yield himself up entirely to the will of +those who were guiding him. + +not two minutes had passed before prince vasíli with head erect +majestically entered the room. he was wearing his long coat with three +stars on his breast. he seemed to have grown thinner since the morning; +his eyes seemed larger than usual when he glanced round and noticed +pierre. he went up to him, took his hand (a thing he never used to do), +and drew it downwards as if wishing to ascertain whether it was firmly +fixed on. + +“courage, courage, my friend! he has asked to see you. that is +well!” and he turned to go. + +but pierre thought it necessary to ask: “how is...” and hesitated, +not knowing whether it would be proper to call the dying man “the +count,” yet ashamed to call him “father.” + +“he had another stroke about half an hour ago. courage, my +friend...” + +pierre’s mind was in such a confused state that the word “stroke” +suggested to him a blow from something. he looked at prince vasíli +in perplexity, and only later grasped that a stroke was an attack of +illness. prince vasíli said something to lorrain in passing and went +through the door on tiptoe. he could not walk well on tiptoe and his +whole body jerked at each step. the eldest princess followed him, and +the priests and deacons and some servants also went in at the door. +through that door was heard a noise of things being moved about, and +at last anna mikháylovna, still with the same expression, pale but +resolute in the discharge of duty, ran out and touching pierre lightly +on the arm said: + +“the divine mercy is inexhaustible! unction is about to be +administered. come.” + +pierre went in at the door, stepping on the soft carpet, and noticed +that the strange lady, the aide-de-camp, and some of the servants, all +followed him in, as if there were now no further need for permission to +enter that room. + + + + + +chapter xxiii + +pierre well knew this large room divided by columns and an arch, its +walls hung round with persian carpets. the part of the room behind the +columns, with a high silk-curtained mahogany bedstead on one side and +on the other an immense case containing icons, was brightly illuminated +with red light like a russian church during evening service. under +the gleaming icons stood a long invalid chair, and in that chair +on snowy-white smooth pillows, evidently freshly changed, pierre +saw—covered to the waist by a bright green quilt—the familiar, +majestic figure of his father, count bezúkhov, with that gray mane of +hair above his broad forehead which reminded one of a lion, and the deep +characteristically noble wrinkles of his handsome, ruddy face. he lay +just under the icons; his large thick hands outside the quilt. into the +right hand, which was lying palm downwards, a wax taper had been thrust +between forefinger and thumb, and an old servant, bending over from +behind the chair, held it in position. by the chair stood the priests, +their long hair falling over their magnificent glittering vestments, +with lighted tapers in their hands, slowly and solemnly conducting the +service. a little behind them stood the two younger princesses holding +handkerchiefs to their eyes, and just in front of them their eldest +sister, catiche, with a vicious and determined look steadily fixed on +the icons, as though declaring to all that she could not answer for +herself should she glance round. anna mikháylovna, with a meek, +sorrowful, and all-forgiving expression on her face, stood by the door +near the strange lady. prince vasíli in front of the door, near the +invalid chair, a wax taper in his left hand, was leaning his left arm on +the carved back of a velvet chair he had turned round for the purpose, +and was crossing himself with his right hand, turning his eyes upward +each time he touched his forehead. his face wore a calm look of piety +and resignation to the will of god. “if you do not understand these +sentiments,” he seemed to be saying, “so much the worse for you!” + +behind him stood the aide-de-camp, the doctors, and the menservants; +the men and women had separated as in church. all were silently crossing +themselves, and the reading of the church service, the subdued chanting +of deep bass voices, and in the intervals sighs and the shuffling of +feet were the only sounds that could be heard. anna mikháylovna, with +an air of importance that showed that she felt she quite knew what she +was about, went across the room to where pierre was standing and gave +him a taper. he lit it and, distracted by observing those around him, +began crossing himself with the hand that held the taper. + +sophie, the rosy, laughter-loving, youngest princess with the mole, +watched him. she smiled, hid her face in her handkerchief, and remained +with it hidden for awhile; then looking up and seeing pierre she +again began to laugh. she evidently felt unable to look at him +without laughing, but could not resist looking at him: so to be out of +temptation she slipped quietly behind one of the columns. in the midst +of the service the voices of the priests suddenly ceased, they whispered +to one another, and the old servant who was holding the count’s hand +got up and said something to the ladies. anna mikháylovna stepped +forward and, stooping over the dying man, beckoned to lorrain from +behind her back. the french doctor held no taper; he was leaning +against one of the columns in a respectful attitude implying that he, +a foreigner, in spite of all differences of faith, understood the full +importance of the rite now being performed and even approved of it. he +now approached the sick man with the noiseless step of one in full vigor +of life, with his delicate white fingers raised from the green quilt the +hand that was free, and turning sideways felt the pulse and reflected +a moment. the sick man was given something to drink, there was a +stir around him, then the people resumed their places and the service +continued. during this interval pierre noticed that prince vasíli +left the chair on which he had been leaning, and—with an air +which intimated that he knew what he was about and if others did not +understand him it was so much the worse for them—did not go up to the +dying man, but passed by him, joined the eldest princess, and moved +with her to the side of the room where stood the high bedstead with its +silken hangings. on leaving the bed both prince vasíli and the princess +passed out by a back door, but returned to their places one after the +other before the service was concluded. pierre paid no more attention +to this occurrence than to the rest of what went on, having made up his +mind once for all that what he saw happening around him that evening was +in some way essential. + +the chanting of the service ceased, and the voice of the priest was +heard respectfully congratulating the dying man on having received the +sacrament. the dying man lay as lifeless and immovable as before. around +him everyone began to stir: steps were audible and whispers, among which +anna mikháylovna’s was the most distinct. + +pierre heard her say: + +“certainly he must be moved onto the bed; here it will be +impossible...” + +the sick man was so surrounded by doctors, princesses, and servants +that pierre could no longer see the reddish-yellow face with its gray +mane—which, though he saw other faces as well, he had not lost sight +of for a single moment during the whole service. he judged by the +cautious movements of those who crowded round the invalid chair that +they had lifted the dying man and were moving him. + +“catch hold of my arm or you’ll drop him!” he heard one of the +servants say in a frightened whisper. “catch hold from underneath. +here!” exclaimed different voices; and the heavy breathing of the +bearers and the shuffling of their feet grew more hurried, as if the +weight they were carrying were too much for them. + +as the bearers, among whom was anna mikháylovna, passed the young man +he caught a momentary glimpse between their heads and backs of the dying +man’s high, stout, uncovered chest and powerful shoulders, raised by +those who were holding him under the armpits, and of his gray, curly, +leonine head. this head, with its remarkably broad brow and cheekbones, +its handsome, sensual mouth, and its cold, majestic expression, was +not disfigured by the approach of death. it was the same as pierre +remembered it three months before, when the count had sent him to +petersburg. but now this head was swaying helplessly with the uneven +movements of the bearers, and the cold listless gaze fixed itself upon +nothing. + +after a few minutes’ bustle beside the high bedstead, those who had +carried the sick man dispersed. anna mikháylovna touched pierre’s +hand and said, “come.” pierre went with her to the bed on which the +sick man had been laid in a stately pose in keeping with the ceremony +just completed. he lay with his head propped high on the pillows. his +hands were symmetrically placed on the green silk quilt, the palms +downward. when pierre came up the count was gazing straight at him, but +with a look the significance of which could not be understood by mortal +man. either this look meant nothing but that as long as one has eyes +they must look somewhere, or it meant too much. pierre hesitated, +not knowing what to do, and glanced inquiringly at his guide. anna +mikháylovna made a hurried sign with her eyes, glancing at the sick +man’s hand and moving her lips as if to send it a kiss. pierre, +carefully stretching his neck so as not to touch the quilt, followed her +suggestion and pressed his lips to the large boned, fleshy hand. neither +the hand nor a single muscle of the count’s face stirred. once more +pierre looked questioningly at anna mikháylovna to see what he was to +do next. anna mikháylovna with her eyes indicated a chair that stood +beside the bed. pierre obediently sat down, his eyes asking if he were +doing right. anna mikháylovna nodded approvingly. again pierre fell +into the naïvely symmetrical pose of an egyptian statue, evidently +distressed that his stout and clumsy body took up so much room and doing +his utmost to look as small as possible. he looked at the count, who +still gazed at the spot where pierre’s face had been before he sat +down. anna mikháylovna indicated by her attitude her consciousness of +the pathetic importance of these last moments of meeting between the +father and son. this lasted about two minutes, which to pierre seemed an +hour. suddenly the broad muscles and lines of the count’s face began +to twitch. the twitching increased, the handsome mouth was drawn to one +side (only now did pierre realize how near death his father was), and +from that distorted mouth issued an indistinct, hoarse sound. anna +mikháylovna looked attentively at the sick man’s eyes, trying to +guess what he wanted; she pointed first to pierre, then to some drink, +then named prince vasíli in an inquiring whisper, then pointed to the +quilt. the eyes and face of the sick man showed impatience. he made an +effort to look at the servant who stood constantly at the head of the +bed. + +“wants to turn on the other side,” whispered the servant, and got up +to turn the count’s heavy body toward the wall. + +pierre rose to help him. + +while the count was being turned over, one of his arms fell back +helplessly and he made a fruitless effort to pull it forward. whether he +noticed the look of terror with which pierre regarded that lifeless arm, +or whether some other thought flitted across his dying brain, at any +rate he glanced at the refractory arm, at pierre’s terror-stricken +face, and again at the arm, and on his face a feeble, piteous smile +appeared, quite out of keeping with his features, that seemed to deride +his own helplessness. at sight of this smile pierre felt an unexpected +quivering in his breast and a tickling in his nose, and tears dimmed his +eyes. the sick man was turned on to his side with his face to the wall. +he sighed. + +“he is dozing,” said anna mikháylovna, observing that one of the +princesses was coming to take her turn at watching. “let us go.” + +pierre went out. + + + + + +chapter xxiv + +there was now no one in the reception room except prince vasíli and the +eldest princess, who were sitting under the portrait of catherine the +great and talking eagerly. as soon as they saw pierre and his companion +they became silent, and pierre thought he saw the princess hide +something as she whispered: + +“i can’t bear the sight of that woman.” + +“catiche has had tea served in the small drawing room,” said prince +vasíli to anna mikháylovna. “go and take something, my poor anna +mikháylovna, or you will not hold out.” + +to pierre he said nothing, merely giving his arm a sympathetic squeeze +below the shoulder. pierre went with anna mikháylovna into the small +drawing room. + +“there is nothing so refreshing after a sleepless night as a cup +of this delicious russian tea,” lorrain was saying with an air of +restrained animation as he stood sipping tea from a delicate chinese +handleless cup before a table on which tea and a cold supper were laid +in the small circular room. around the table all who were at count +bezúkhov’s house that night had gathered to fortify themselves. +pierre well remembered this small circular drawing room with its mirrors +and little tables. during balls given at the house pierre, who did not +know how to dance, had liked sitting in this room to watch the ladies +who, as they passed through in their ball dresses with diamonds and +pearls on their bare shoulders, looked at themselves in the brilliantly +lighted mirrors which repeated their reflections several times. now +this same room was dimly lighted by two candles. on one small table tea +things and supper dishes stood in disorder, and in the middle of the +night a motley throng of people sat there, not merrymaking, but somberly +whispering, and betraying by every word and movement that they none +of them forgot what was happening and what was about to happen in the +bedroom. pierre did not eat anything though he would very much have +liked to. he looked inquiringly at his monitress and saw that she was +again going on tiptoe to the reception room where they had left prince +vasíli and the eldest princess. pierre concluded that this also was +essential, and after a short interval followed her. anna mikháylovna +was standing beside the princess, and they were both speaking in excited +whispers. + +“permit me, princess, to know what is necessary and what is not +necessary,” said the younger of the two speakers, evidently in the +same state of excitement as when she had slammed the door of her room. + +“but, my dear princess,” answered anna mikháylovna blandly but +impressively, blocking the way to the bedroom and preventing the other +from passing, “won’t this be too much for poor uncle at a moment +when he needs repose? worldly conversation at a moment when his soul is +already prepared...” + +prince vasíli was seated in an easy chair in his familiar attitude, +with one leg crossed high above the other. his cheeks, which were so +flabby that they looked heavier below, were twitching violently; but +he wore the air of a man little concerned in what the two ladies were +saying. + +“come, my dear anna mikháylovna, let catiche do as she pleases. you +know how fond the count is of her.” + +“i don’t even know what is in this paper,” said the younger of +the two ladies, addressing prince vasíli and pointing to an inlaid +portfolio she held in her hand. “all i know is that his real will is +in his writing table, and this is a paper he has forgotten....” + +she tried to pass anna mikháylovna, but the latter sprang so as to bar +her path. + +“i know, my dear, kind princess,” said anna mikháylovna, seizing +the portfolio so firmly that it was plain she would not let go easily. +“dear princess, i beg and implore you, have some pity on him! je vous +en conjure...” + +the princess did not reply. their efforts in the struggle for the +portfolio were the only sounds audible, but it was evident that if +the princess did speak, her words would not be flattering to anna +mikháylovna. though the latter held on tenaciously, her voice lost none +of its honeyed firmness and softness. + +“pierre, my dear, come here. i think he will not be out of place in a +family consultation; is it not so, prince?” + +“why don’t you speak, cousin?” suddenly shrieked the princess so +loud that those in the drawing room heard her and were startled. “why +do you remain silent when heaven knows who permits herself to +interfere, making a scene on the very threshold of a dying man’s room? +intriguer!” she hissed viciously, and tugged with all her might at the +portfolio. + +but anna mikháylovna went forward a step or two to keep her hold on the +portfolio, and changed her grip. + +prince vasíli rose. “oh!” said he with reproach and surprise, +“this is absurd! come, let go i tell you.” + +the princess let go. + +“and you too!” + +but anna mikháylovna did not obey him. + +“let go, i tell you! i will take the responsibility. i myself will go +and ask him, i!... does that satisfy you?” + +“but, prince,” said anna mikháylovna, “after such a solemn +sacrament, allow him a moment’s peace! here, pierre, tell them your +opinion,” said she, turning to the young man who, having come quite +close, was gazing with astonishment at the angry face of the princess +which had lost all dignity, and at the twitching cheeks of prince +vasíli. + +“remember that you will answer for the consequences,” said prince +vasíli severely. “you don’t know what you are doing.” + +“vile woman!” shouted the princess, darting unexpectedly at anna +mikháylovna and snatching the portfolio from her. + +prince vasíli bent his head and spread out his hands. + +at this moment that terrible door, which pierre had watched so long +and which had always opened so quietly, burst noisily open and banged +against the wall, and the second of the three sisters rushed out +wringing her hands. + +“what are you doing!” she cried vehemently. “he is dying and you +leave me alone with him!” + +her sister dropped the portfolio. anna mikháylovna, stooping, quickly +caught up the object of contention and ran into the bedroom. the eldest +princess and prince vasíli, recovering themselves, followed her. a few +minutes later the eldest sister came out with a pale hard face, again +biting her underlip. at sight of pierre her expression showed an +irrepressible hatred. + +“yes, now you may be glad!” said she; “this is what you have +been waiting for.” and bursting into tears she hid her face in her +handkerchief and rushed from the room. + +prince vasíli came next. he staggered to the sofa on which pierre was +sitting and dropped onto it, covering his face with his hand. pierre +noticed that he was pale and that his jaw quivered and shook as if in an +ague. + +“ah, my friend!” said he, taking pierre by the elbow; and there was +in his voice a sincerity and weakness pierre had never observed in it +before. “how often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? i am +near sixty, dear friend... i too... all will end in death, all! death is +awful...” and he burst into tears. + +anna mikháylovna came out last. she approached pierre with slow, quiet +steps. + +“pierre!” she said. + +pierre gave her an inquiring look. she kissed the young man on his +forehead, wetting him with her tears. then after a pause she said: + +“he is no more....” + +pierre looked at her over his spectacles. + +“come, i will go with you. try to weep, nothing gives such relief as +tears.” + +she led him into the dark drawing room and pierre was glad no one could +see his face. anna mikháylovna left him, and when she returned he was +fast asleep with his head on his arm. + +in the morning anna mikháylovna said to pierre: + +“yes, my dear, this is a great loss for us all, not to speak of you. +but god will support you: you are young, and are now, i hope, in command +of an immense fortune. the will has not yet been opened. i know you +well enough to be sure that this will not turn your head, but it imposes +duties on you, and you must be a man.” + +pierre was silent. + +“perhaps later on i may tell you, my dear boy, that if i had not been +there, god only knows what would have happened! you know, uncle promised +me only the day before yesterday not to forget borís. but he had +no time. i hope, my dear friend, you will carry out your father’s +wish?” + +pierre understood nothing of all this and coloring shyly looked in +silence at princess anna mikháylovna. after her talk with pierre, anna +mikháylovna returned to the rostóvs’ and went to bed. on waking in +the morning she told the rostóvs and all her acquaintances the details +of count bezúkhov’s death. she said the count had died as she would +herself wish to die, that his end was not only touching but edifying. as +to the last meeting between father and son, it was so touching that she +could not think of it without tears, and did not know which had behaved +better during those awful moments—the father who so remembered +everything and everybody at last and had spoken such pathetic words to +the son, or pierre, whom it had been pitiful to see, so stricken was he +with grief, though he tried hard to hide it in order not to sadden his +dying father. “it is painful, but it does one good. it uplifts the +soul to see such men as the old count and his worthy son,” said she. +of the behavior of the eldest princess and prince vasíli she spoke +disapprovingly, but in whispers and as a great secret. + + + + + +chapter xxv + +at bald hills, prince nicholas andréevich bolkónski’s estate, the +arrival of young prince andrew and his wife was daily expected, but +this expectation did not upset the regular routine of life in the old +prince’s household. general in chief prince nicholas andréevich +(nicknamed in society, “the king of prussia”) ever since the emperor +paul had exiled him to his country estate had lived there continuously +with his daughter, princess mary, and her companion, mademoiselle +bourienne. though in the new reign he was free to return to the +capitals, he still continued to live in the country, remarking that +anyone who wanted to see him could come the hundred miles from moscow to +bald hills, while he himself needed no one and nothing. he used to +say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and +superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence. he +himself undertook his daughter’s education, and to develop these two +cardinal virtues in her gave her lessons in algebra and geometry +till she was twenty, and arranged her life so that her whole time was +occupied. he was himself always occupied: writing his memoirs, solving +problems in higher mathematics, turning snuffboxes on a lathe, working +in the garden, or superintending the building that was always going on +at his estate. as regularity is a prime condition facilitating activity, +regularity in his household was carried to the highest point of +exactitude. he always came to table under precisely the same conditions, +and not only at the same hour but at the same minute. with those about +him, from his daughter to his serfs, the prince was sharp and invariably +exacting, so that without being a hardhearted man he inspired such fear +and respect as few hardhearted men would have aroused. although he was +in retirement and had now no influence in political affairs, every high +official appointed to the province in which the prince’s estate lay +considered it his duty to visit him and waited in the lofty antechamber +just as the architect, gardener, or princess mary did, till the prince +appeared punctually to the appointed hour. everyone sitting in this +antechamber experienced the same feeling of respect and even fear when +the enormously high study door opened and showed the figure of a rather +small old man, with powdered wig, small withered hands, and bushy gray +eyebrows which, when he frowned, sometimes hid the gleam of his shrewd, +youthfully glittering eyes. + +on the morning of the day that the young couple were to arrive, princess +mary entered the antechamber as usual at the time appointed for the +morning greeting, crossing herself with trepidation and repeating a +silent prayer. every morning she came in like that, and every morning +prayed that the daily interview might pass off well. + +an old powdered manservant who was sitting in the antechamber rose +quietly and said in a whisper: “please walk in.” + +through the door came the regular hum of a lathe. the princess timidly +opened the door which moved noiselessly and easily. she paused at the +entrance. the prince was working at the lathe and after glancing round +continued his work. + +the enormous study was full of things evidently in constant use. +the large table covered with books and plans, the tall glass-fronted +bookcases with keys in the locks, the high desk for writing while +standing up, on which lay an open exercise book, and the lathe with +tools laid ready to hand and shavings scattered around—all indicated +continuous, varied, and orderly activity. the motion of the small foot +shod in a tartar boot embroidered with silver, and the firm pressure +of the lean sinewy hand, showed that the prince still possessed the +tenacious endurance and vigor of hardy old age. after a few more turns +of the lathe he removed his foot from the pedal, wiped his chisel, +dropped it into a leather pouch attached to the lathe, and, approaching +the table, summoned his daughter. he never gave his children a blessing, +so he simply held out his bristly cheek (as yet unshaven) and, regarding +her tenderly and attentively, said severely: + +“quite well? all right then, sit down.” he took the exercise book +containing lessons in geometry written by himself and drew up a chair +with his foot. + +“for tomorrow!” said he, quickly finding the page and making a +scratch from one paragraph to another with his hard nail. + +the princess bent over the exercise book on the table. + +“wait a bit, here’s a letter for you,” said the old man suddenly, +taking a letter addressed in a woman’s hand from a bag hanging above +the table, onto which he threw it. + +at the sight of the letter red patches showed themselves on the +princess’ face. she took it quickly and bent her head over it. + +“from héloïse?” asked the prince with a cold smile that showed his +still sound, yellowish teeth. + +“yes, it’s from julie,” replied the princess with a timid glance +and a timid smile. + +“i’ll let two more letters pass, but the third i’ll read,” said +the prince sternly; “i’m afraid you write much nonsense. i’ll read +the third!” + +“read this if you like, father,” said the princess, blushing still +more and holding out the letter. + +“the third, i said the third!” cried the prince abruptly, pushing +the letter away, and leaning his elbows on the table he drew toward him +the exercise book containing geometrical figures. + +“well, madam,” he began, stooping over the book close to his +daughter and placing an arm on the back of the chair on which she sat, +so that she felt herself surrounded on all sides by the acrid scent of +old age and tobacco, which she had known so long. “now, madam, these +triangles are equal; please note that the angle abc...” + +the princess looked in a scared way at her father’s eyes glittering +close to her; the red patches on her face came and went, and it was +plain that she understood nothing and was so frightened that her +fear would prevent her understanding any of her father’s further +explanations, however clear they might be. whether it was the +teacher’s fault or the pupil’s, this same thing happened every day: +the princess’ eyes grew dim, she could not see and could not hear +anything, but was only conscious of her stern father’s withered face +close to her, of his breath and the smell of him, and could think only +of how to get away quickly to her own room to make out the problem in +peace. the old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was +sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself +and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, +and sometimes flung the exercise book away. + +the princess gave a wrong answer. + +“well now, isn’t she a fool!” shouted the prince, pushing the book +aside and turning sharply away; but rising immediately, he paced up and +down, lightly touched his daughter’s hair and sat down again. + +he drew up his chair, and continued to explain. + +“this won’t do, princess; it won’t do,” said he, when princess +mary, having taken and closed the exercise book with the next day’s +lesson, was about to leave: “mathematics are most important, madam! +i don’t want to have you like our silly ladies. get used to it and +you’ll like it,” and he patted her cheek. “it will drive all the +nonsense out of your head.” + +she turned to go, but he stopped her with a gesture and took an uncut +book from the high desk. + +“here is some sort of key to the mysteries that your héloïse has +sent you. religious! i don’t interfere with anyone’s belief... i +have looked at it. take it. well, now go. go.” + +he patted her on the shoulder and himself closed the door after her. + +princess mary went back to her room with the sad, scared expression that +rarely left her and which made her plain, sickly face yet plainer. she +sat down at her writing table, on which stood miniature portraits and +which was littered with books and papers. the princess was as untidy as +her father was tidy. she put down the geometry book and eagerly broke +the seal of her letter. it was from her most intimate friend from +childhood; that same julie karágina who had been at the rostóvs’ +name-day party. + +julie wrote in french: + +dear and precious friend, how terrible and frightful a thing is +separation! though i tell myself that half my life and half my happiness +are wrapped up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us +our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against +fate and in spite of the pleasures and distractions around me i cannot +overcome a certain secret sorrow that has been in my heart ever since +we parted. why are we not together as we were last summer, in your big +study, on the blue sofa, the confidential sofa? why cannot i now, as +three months ago, draw fresh moral strength from your look, so gentle, +calm, and penetrating, a look i loved so well and seem to see before me +as i write? + +having read thus far, princess mary sighed and glanced into the mirror +which stood on her right. it reflected a weak, ungraceful figure and +thin face. her eyes, always sad, now looked with particular hopelessness +at her reflection in the glass. “she flatters me,” thought the +princess, turning away and continuing to read. but julie did not flatter +her friend, the princess’ eyes—large, deep and luminous (it seemed +as if at times there radiated from them shafts of warm light)—were +so beautiful that very often in spite of the plainness of her face +they gave her an attraction more powerful than that of beauty. but the +princess never saw the beautiful expression of her own eyes—the look +they had when she was not thinking of herself. as with everyone, her +face assumed a forced unnatural expression as soon as she looked in a +glass. she went on reading: + +all moscow talks of nothing but war. one of my two brothers is already +abroad, the other is with the guards, who are starting on their march +to the frontier. our dear emperor has left petersburg and it is thought +intends to expose his precious person to the chances of war. god grant +that the corsican monster who is destroying the peace of europe may +be overthrown by the angel whom it has pleased the almighty, in his +goodness, to give us as sovereign! to say nothing of my brothers, this +war has deprived me of one of the associations nearest my heart. i mean +young nicholas rostóv, who with his enthusiasm could not bear to remain +inactive and has left the university to join the army. i will confess to +you, dear mary, that in spite of his extreme youth his departure for +the army was a great grief to me. this young man, of whom i spoke to you +last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which +one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, +he is so frank and has so much heart. he is so pure and poetic that +my relations with him, transient as they were, have been one of the +sweetest comforts to my poor heart, which has already suffered so much. +someday i will tell you about our parting and all that was said then. +that is still too fresh. ah, dear friend, you are happy not to know +these poignant joys and sorrows. you are fortunate, for the latter are +generally the stronger! i know very well that count nicholas is too +young ever to be more to me than a friend, but this sweet friendship, +this poetic and pure intimacy, were what my heart needed. but enough of +this! the chief news, about which all moscow gossips, is the death of +old count bezúkhov, and his inheritance. fancy! the three princesses +have received very little, prince vasíli nothing, and it is monsieur +pierre who has inherited all the property and has besides been +recognized as legitimate; so that he is now count bezúkhov and +possessor of the finest fortune in russia. it is rumored that prince +vasíli played a very despicable part in this affair and that he +returned to petersburg quite crestfallen. + +i confess i understand very little about all these matters of wills and +inheritance; but i do know that since this young man, whom we all used +to know as plain monsieur pierre, has become count bezúkhov and the +owner of one of the largest fortunes in russia, i am much amused to +watch the change in the tone and manners of the mammas burdened by +marriageable daughters, and of the young ladies themselves, toward +him, though, between you and me, he always seemed to me a poor sort +of fellow. as for the past two years people have amused themselves +by finding husbands for me (most of whom i don’t even know), the +matchmaking chronicles of moscow now speak of me as the future countess +bezúkhova. but you will understand that i have no desire for the post. +À propos of marriages: do you know that a while ago that universal +auntie anna mikháylovna told me, under the seal of strict secrecy, of +a plan of marriage for you. it is neither more nor less than with prince +vasíli’s son anatole, whom they wish to reform by marrying him to +someone rich and distinguée, and it is on you that his relations’ +choice has fallen. i don’t know what you will think of it, but +i consider it my duty to let you know of it. he is said to be very +handsome and a terrible scapegrace. that is all i have been able to find +out about him. + +but enough of gossip. i am at the end of my second sheet of paper, and +mamma has sent for me to go and dine at the apráksins’. read the +mystical book i am sending you; it has an enormous success here. though +there are things in it difficult for the feeble human mind to grasp, it +is an admirable book which calms and elevates the soul. adieu! give +my respects to monsieur your father and my compliments to mademoiselle +bourienne. i embrace you as i love you. + +julie + +p.s. let me have news of your brother and his charming little wife. + +the princess pondered awhile with a thoughtful smile and her luminous +eyes lit up so that her face was entirely transformed. then she suddenly +rose and with her heavy tread went up to the table. she took a sheet of +paper and her hand moved rapidly over it. this is the reply she wrote, +also in french: + +dear and precious friend, your letter of the 13th has given me great +delight. so you still love me, my romantic julie? separation, of which +you say so much that is bad, does not seem to have had its usual effect +on you. you complain of our separation. what then should i say, if i +dared complain, i who am deprived of all who are dear to me? ah, if +we had not religion to console us life would be very sad. why do you +suppose that i should look severely on your affection for that young +man? on such matters i am only severe with myself. i understand such +feelings in others, and if never having felt them i cannot approve of +them, neither do i condemn them. only it seems to me that christian +love, love of one’s neighbor, love of one’s enemy, is worthier, +sweeter, and better than the feelings which the beautiful eyes of a +young man can inspire in a romantic and loving young girl like yourself. + +the news of count bezúkhov’s death reached us before your letter +and my father was much affected by it. he says the count was the last +representative but one of the great century, and that it is his own +turn now, but that he will do all he can to let his turn come as late as +possible. god preserve us from that terrible misfortune! + +i cannot agree with you about pierre, whom i knew as a child. he always +seemed to me to have an excellent heart, and that is the quality i value +most in people. as to his inheritance and the part played by prince +vasíli, it is very sad for both. ah, my dear friend, our divine +saviour’s words, that it is easier for a camel to go through the +eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of god, are +terribly true. i pity prince vasíli but am still more sorry for pierre. +so young, and burdened with such riches—to what temptations he will be +exposed! if i were asked what i desire most on earth, it would be to be +poorer than the poorest beggar. a thousand thanks, dear friend, for the +volume you have sent me and which has such success in moscow. yet since +you tell me that among some good things it contains others which our +weak human understanding cannot grasp, it seems to me rather useless to +spend time in reading what is unintelligible and can therefore bear +no fruit. i never could understand the fondness some people have for +confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken +their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for +exaggeration quite contrary to christian simplicity. let us rather read +the epistles and gospels. let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries +they contain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, know the +terrible and holy secrets of providence while we remain in this flesh +which forms an impenetrable veil between us and the eternal? let us +rather confine ourselves to studying those sublime rules which our +divine saviour has left for our guidance here below. let us try to +conform to them and follow them, and let us be persuaded that the less +we let our feeble human minds roam, the better we shall please god, who +rejects all knowledge that does not come from him; and the less we seek +to fathom what he has been pleased to conceal from us, the sooner will +he vouchsafe its revelation to us through his divine spirit. + +my father has not spoken to me of a suitor, but has only told me that he +has received a letter and is expecting a visit from prince vasíli. in +regard to this project of marriage for me, i will tell you, dear sweet +friend, that i look on marriage as a divine institution to which we must +conform. however painful it may be to me, should the almighty lay +the duties of wife and mother upon me i shall try to perform them as +faithfully as i can, without disquieting myself by examining my feelings +toward him whom he may give me for husband. + +i have had a letter from my brother, who announces his speedy arrival +at bald hills with his wife. this pleasure will be but a brief one, +however, for he will leave us again to take part in this unhappy war +into which we have been drawn, god knows how or why. not only where you +are—at the heart of affairs and of the world—is the talk all of +war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature—which townsfolk +consider characteristic of the country—rumors of war are heard +and painfully felt. my father talks of nothing but marches and +countermarches, things of which i understand nothing; and the day +before yesterday during my daily walk through the village i witnessed a +heartrending scene.... it was a convoy of conscripts enrolled from our +people and starting to join the army. you should have seen the state of +the mothers, wives, and children of the men who were going and should +have heard the sobs. it seems as though mankind has forgotten the +laws of its divine saviour, who preached love and forgiveness of +injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing +one another. + +adieu, dear and kind friend; may our divine saviour and his most holy +mother keep you in their holy and all-powerful care! + +mary + +“ah, you are sending off a letter, princess? i have already dispatched +mine. i have written to my poor mother,” said the smiling mademoiselle +bourienne rapidly, in her pleasant mellow tones and with guttural r’s. +she brought into princess mary’s strenuous, mournful, and gloomy +world a quite different atmosphere, careless, lighthearted, and +self-satisfied. + +“princess, i must warn you,” she added, lowering her voice and +evidently listening to herself with pleasure, and speaking with +exaggerated grasseyement, “the prince has been scolding michael +ivánovich. he is in a very bad humor, very morose. be prepared.” + +“ah, dear friend,” replied princess mary, “i have asked you never +to warn me of the humor my father is in. i do not allow myself to judge +him and would not have others do so.” + +the princess glanced at her watch and, seeing that she was five minutes +late in starting her practice on the clavichord, went into the sitting +room with a look of alarm. between twelve and two o’clock, as the +day was mapped out, the prince rested and the princess played the +clavichord. + + + + + +chapter xxvi + +the gray-haired valet was sitting drowsily listening to the snoring of +the prince, who was in his large study. from the far side of the house +through the closed doors came the sound of difficult passages—twenty +times repeated—of a sonata by dussek. + +just then a closed carriage and another with a hood drove up to the +porch. prince andrew got out of the carriage, helped his little wife to +alight, and let her pass into the house before him. old tíkhon, wearing +a wig, put his head out of the door of the antechamber, reported in +a whisper that the prince was sleeping, and hastily closed the door. +tíkhon knew that neither the son’s arrival nor any other unusual +event must be allowed to disturb the appointed order of the day. prince +andrew apparently knew this as well as tíkhon; he looked at his watch +as if to ascertain whether his father’s habits had changed since he +was at home last, and, having assured himself that they had not, he +turned to his wife. + +“he will get up in twenty minutes. let us go across to mary’s +room,” he said. + +the little princess had grown stouter during this time, but her eyes +and her short, downy, smiling lip lifted when she began to speak just as +merrily and prettily as ever. + +“why, this is a palace!” she said to her husband, looking around +with the expression with which people compliment their host at a ball. +“let’s come, quick, quick!” and with a glance round, she smiled at +tíkhon, at her husband, and at the footman who accompanied them. + +“is that mary practicing? let’s go quietly and take her by +surprise.” + +prince andrew followed her with a courteous but sad expression. + +“you’ve grown older, tíkhon,” he said in passing to the old man, +who kissed his hand. + +before they reached the room from which the sounds of the clavichord +came, the pretty, fair-haired frenchwoman, mademoiselle bourienne, +rushed out apparently beside herself with delight. + +“ah! what joy for the princess!” exclaimed she: “at last! i must +let her know.” + +“no, no, please not... you are mademoiselle bourienne,” said +the little princess, kissing her. “i know you already through my +sister-in-law’s friendship for you. she was not expecting us?” + +they went up to the door of the sitting room from which came the sound +of the oft-repeated passage of the sonata. prince andrew stopped and +made a grimace, as if expecting something unpleasant. + +the little princess entered the room. the passage broke off in the +middle, a cry was heard, then princess mary’s heavy tread and the +sound of kissing. when prince andrew went in the two princesses, who +had only met once before for a short time at his wedding, were in +each other’s arms warmly pressing their lips to whatever place they +happened to touch. mademoiselle bourienne stood near them pressing her +hand to her heart, with a beatific smile and obviously equally ready to +cry or to laugh. prince andrew shrugged his shoulders and frowned, as +lovers of music do when they hear a false note. the two women let go +of one another, and then, as if afraid of being too late, seized each +other’s hands, kissing them and pulling them away, and again began +kissing each other on the face, and then to prince andrew’s surprise +both began to cry and kissed again. mademoiselle bourienne also began to +cry. prince andrew evidently felt ill at ease, but to the two women +it seemed quite natural that they should cry, and apparently it never +entered their heads that it could have been otherwise at this meeting. + +“ah! my dear!... ah! mary!...” they suddenly exclaimed, and then +laughed. “i dreamed last night...”—“you were not expecting +us?...” “ah! mary, you have got thinner?...” “and you have grown +stouter!...” + +“i knew the princess at once,” put in mademoiselle bourienne. + +“and i had no idea!...” exclaimed princess mary. “ah, andrew, i +did not see you.” + +prince andrew and his sister, hand in hand, kissed one another, and +he told her she was still the same crybaby as ever. princess mary had +turned toward her brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, +gentle look of her large luminous eyes, very beautiful at that moment, +rested on prince andrew’s face. + +the little princess talked incessantly, her short, downy upper lip +continually and rapidly touching her rosy nether lip when necessary +and drawing up again next moment when her face broke into a smile of +glittering teeth and sparkling eyes. she told of an accident they had +had on the spásski hill which might have been serious for her in her +condition, and immediately after that informed them that she had left +all her clothes in petersburg and that heaven knew what she would have +to dress in here; and that andrew had quite changed, and that kitty +odýntsova had married an old man, and that there was a suitor for mary, +a real one, but that they would talk of that later. princess mary was +still looking silently at her brother and her beautiful eyes were full +of love and sadness. it was plain that she was following a train of +thought independent of her sister-in-law’s words. in the midst of a +description of the last petersburg fete she addressed her brother: + +“so you are really going to the war, andrew?” she said sighing. + +lise sighed too. + +“yes, and even tomorrow,” replied her brother. + +“he is leaving me here, god knows why, when he might have had +promotion...” + +princess mary did not listen to the end, but continuing her train of +thought turned to her sister-in-law with a tender glance at her figure. + +“is it certain?” she said. + +the face of the little princess changed. she sighed and said: “yes, +quite certain. ah! it is very dreadful...” + +her lip descended. she brought her face close to her sister-in-law’s +and unexpectedly again began to cry. + +“she needs rest,” said prince andrew with a frown. “don’t you, +lise? take her to your room and i’ll go to father. how is he? just the +same?” + +“yes, just the same. though i don’t know what your opinion will +be,” answered the princess joyfully. + +“and are the hours the same? and the walks in the avenues? and the +lathe?” asked prince andrew with a scarcely perceptible smile which +showed that, in spite of all his love and respect for his father, he was +aware of his weaknesses. + +“the hours are the same, and the lathe, and also the mathematics and +my geometry lessons,” said princess mary gleefully, as if her lessons +in geometry were among the greatest delights of her life. + +when the twenty minutes had elapsed and the time had come for the old +prince to get up, tíkhon came to call the young prince to his father. +the old man made a departure from his usual routine in honor of his +son’s arrival: he gave orders to admit him to his apartments while +he dressed for dinner. the old prince always dressed in old-fashioned +style, wearing an antique coat and powdered hair; and when prince andrew +entered his father’s dressing room (not with the contemptuous look and +manner he wore in drawing rooms, but with the animated face with which +he talked to pierre), the old man was sitting on a large leather-covered +chair, wrapped in a powdering mantle, entrusting his head to tíkhon. + +“ah! here’s the warrior! wants to vanquish buonaparte?” said the +old man, shaking his powdered head as much as the tail, which tíkhon +was holding fast to plait, would allow. + +“you at least must tackle him properly, or else if he goes on like +this he’ll soon have us, too, for his subjects! how are you?” and he +held out his cheek. + +the old man was in a good temper after his nap before dinner. (he +used to say that a nap “after dinner was silver—before dinner, +golden.”) he cast happy, sidelong glances at his son from under his +thick, bushy eyebrows. prince andrew went up and kissed his father on +the spot indicated to him. he made no reply on his father’s favorite +topic—making fun of the military men of the day, and more particularly +of bonaparte. + +“yes, father, i have come to you and brought my wife who is +pregnant,” said prince andrew, following every movement of his +father’s face with an eager and respectful look. “how is your +health?” + +“only fools and rakes fall ill, my boy. you know me: i am busy from +morning till night and abstemious, so of course i am well.” + +“thank god,” said his son smiling. + +“god has nothing to do with it! well, go on,” he continued, +returning to his hobby; “tell me how the germans have taught you to +fight bonaparte by this new science you call ‘strategy.’” + +prince andrew smiled. + +“give me time to collect my wits, father,” said he, with a smile +that showed that his father’s foibles did not prevent his son from +loving and honoring him. “why, i have not yet had time to settle +down!” + +“nonsense, nonsense!” cried the old man, shaking his pigtail to +see whether it was firmly plaited, and grasping his by the hand. “the +house for your wife is ready. princess mary will take her there and +show her over, and they’ll talk nineteen to the dozen. that’s +their woman’s way! i am glad to have her. sit down and talk. about +mikhelson’s army i understand—tolstóy ‘s too... a simultaneous +expedition.... but what’s the southern army to do? prussia is +neutral... i know that. what about austria?” said he, rising from his +chair and pacing up and down the room followed by tíkhon, who ran after +him, handing him different articles of clothing. “what of sweden? how +will they cross pomerania?” + +prince andrew, seeing that his father insisted, began—at first +reluctantly, but gradually with more and more animation, and from habit +changing unconsciously from russian to french as he went on—to explain +the plan of operation for the coming campaign. he explained how an army, +ninety thousand strong, was to threaten prussia so as to bring her out +of her neutrality and draw her into the war; how part of that army was +to join some swedish forces at stralsund; how two hundred and twenty +thousand austrians, with a hundred thousand russians, were to operate in +italy and on the rhine; how fifty thousand russians and as many english +were to land at naples, and how a total force of five hundred thousand +men was to attack the french from different sides. the old prince did +not evince the least interest during this explanation, but as if he were +not listening to it continued to dress while walking about, and three +times unexpectedly interrupted. once he stopped it by shouting: “the +white one, the white one!” + +this meant that tíkhon was not handing him the waistcoat he wanted. +another time he interrupted, saying: + +“and will she soon be confined?” and shaking his head reproachfully +said: “that’s bad! go on, go on.” + +the third interruption came when prince andrew was finishing his +description. the old man began to sing, in the cracked voice of old age: +“malbrook s’en va-t-en guerre. dieu sait quand reviendra.” * + + * “marlborough is going to the wars; god knows when he’ll + return.” + + +his son only smiled. + +“i don’t say it’s a plan i approve of,” said the son; “i am +only telling you what it is. napoleon has also formed his plan by now, +not worse than this one.” + +“well, you’ve told me nothing new,” and the old man repeated, +meditatively and rapidly: + +“dieu sait quand reviendra. go to the dining room.” + + + + + +chapter xxvii + +at the appointed hour the prince, powdered and shaven, entered the +dining room where his daughter-in-law, princess mary, and mademoiselle +bourienne were already awaiting him together with his architect, who by +a strange caprice of his employer’s was admitted to table though the +position of that insignificant individual was such as could certainly +not have caused him to expect that honor. the prince, who generally kept +very strictly to social distinctions and rarely admitted even important +government officials to his table, had unexpectedly selected michael +ivánovich (who always went into a corner to blow his nose on his +checked handkerchief) to illustrate the theory that all men are equals, +and had more than once impressed on his daughter that michael ivánovich +was “not a whit worse than you or i.” at dinner the prince usually +spoke to the taciturn michael ivánovich more often than to anyone else. + +in the dining room, which like all the rooms in the house was +exceedingly lofty, the members of the household and the footmen—one +behind each chair—stood waiting for the prince to enter. the head +butler, napkin on arm, was scanning the setting of the table, making +signs to the footmen, and anxiously glancing from the clock to the door +by which the prince was to enter. prince andrew was looking at a large +gilt frame, new to him, containing the genealogical tree of the princes +bolkónski, opposite which hung another such frame with a badly painted +portrait (evidently by the hand of the artist belonging to the estate) +of a ruling prince, in a crown—an alleged descendant of rúrik and +ancestor of the bolkónskis. prince andrew, looking again at that +genealogical tree, shook his head, laughing as a man laughs who looks at +a portrait so characteristic of the original as to be amusing. + +“how thoroughly like him that is!” he said to princess mary, who had +come up to him. + +princess mary looked at her brother in surprise. she did not understand +what he was laughing at. everything her father did inspired her with +reverence and was beyond question. + +“everyone has his achilles’ heel,” continued prince andrew. +“fancy, with his powerful mind, indulging in such nonsense!” + +princess mary could not understand the boldness of her brother’s +criticism and was about to reply, when the expected footsteps were heard +coming from the study. the prince walked in quickly and jauntily as was +his wont, as if intentionally contrasting the briskness of his manners +with the strict formality of his house. at that moment the great clock +struck two and another with a shrill tone joined in from the drawing +room. the prince stood still; his lively glittering eyes from under +their thick, bushy eyebrows sternly scanned all present and rested on +the little princess. she felt, as courtiers do when the tsar enters, the +sensation of fear and respect which the old man inspired in all around +him. he stroked her hair and then patted her awkwardly on the back of +her neck. + +“i’m glad, glad, to see you,” he said, looking attentively into +her eyes, and then quickly went to his place and sat down. “sit down, +sit down! sit down, michael ivánovich!” + +he indicated a place beside him to his daughter-in-law. a footman moved +the chair for her. + +“ho, ho!” said the old man, casting his eyes on her rounded figure. +“you’ve been in a hurry. that’s bad!” + +he laughed in his usual dry, cold, unpleasant way, with his lips only +and not with his eyes. + +“you must walk, walk as much as possible, as much as possible,” he +said. + +the little princess did not, or did not wish to, hear his words. she was +silent and seemed confused. the prince asked her about her father, and +she began to smile and talk. he asked about mutual acquaintances, and +she became still more animated and chattered away giving him greetings +from various people and retelling the town gossip. + +“countess apráksina, poor thing, has lost her husband and she has +cried her eyes out,” she said, growing more and more lively. + +as she became animated the prince looked at her more and more sternly, +and suddenly, as if he had studied her sufficiently and had formed a +definite idea of her, he turned away and addressed michael ivánovich. + +“well, michael ivánovich, our bonaparte will be having a bad time +of it. prince andrew” (he always spoke thus of his son) “has been +telling me what forces are being collected against him! while you and i +never thought much of him.” + +michael ivánovich did not at all know when “you and i” had said +such things about bonaparte, but understanding that he was wanted as +a peg on which to hang the prince’s favorite topic, he looked +inquiringly at the young prince, wondering what would follow. + +“he is a great tactician!” said the prince to his son, pointing to +the architect. + +and the conversation again turned on the war, on bonaparte, and the +generals and statesmen of the day. the old prince seemed convinced not +only that all the men of the day were mere babies who did not know the +a b c of war or of politics, and that bonaparte was an insignificant +little frenchy, successful only because there were no longer any +potëmkins or suvórovs left to oppose him; but he was also convinced +that there were no political difficulties in europe and no real war, +but only a sort of puppet show at which the men of the day were playing, +pretending to do something real. prince andrew gaily bore with his +father’s ridicule of the new men, and drew him on and listened to him +with evident pleasure. + +“the past always seems good,” said he, “but did not suvórov +himself fall into a trap moreau set him, and from which he did not know +how to escape?” + +“who told you that? who?” cried the prince. “suvórov!” and he +jerked away his plate, which tíkhon briskly caught. “suvórov!... +consider, prince andrew. two... frederick and suvórov; moreau!... +moreau would have been a prisoner if suvórov had had a free hand; but +he had the hofs-kriegs-wurst-schnapps-rath on his hands. it would have +puzzled the devil himself! when you get there you’ll find out what +those hofs-kriegs-wurst-raths are! suvórov couldn’t manage them so +what chance has michael kutúzov? no, my dear boy,” he continued, +“you and your generals won’t get on against buonaparte; you’ll +have to call in the french, so that birds of a feather may fight +together. the german, pahlen, has been sent to new york in america, to +fetch the frenchman, moreau,” he said, alluding to the invitation made +that year to moreau to enter the russian service.... “wonderful!... +were the potëmkins, suvórovs, and orlóvs germans? no, lad, either you +fellows have all lost your wits, or i have outlived mine. may god help +you, but we’ll see what will happen. buonaparte has become a great +commander among them! hm!...” + +“i don’t at all say that all the plans are good,” said prince +andrew, “i am only surprised at your opinion of bonaparte. you +may laugh as much as you like, but all the same bonaparte is a great +general!” + +“michael ivánovich!” cried the old prince to the architect who, +busy with his roast meat, hoped he had been forgotten: “didn’t +i tell you buonaparte was a great tactician? here, he says the same +thing.” + +“to be sure, your excellency,” replied the architect. + +the prince again laughed his frigid laugh. + +“buonaparte was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. he has got +splendid soldiers. besides he began by attacking germans. and only +idlers have failed to beat the germans. since the world began everybody +has beaten the germans. they beat no one—except one another. he made +his reputation fighting them.” + +and the prince began explaining all the blunders which, according to +him, bonaparte had made in his campaigns and even in politics. his +son made no rejoinder, but it was evident that whatever arguments were +presented he was as little able as his father to change his opinion. he +listened, refraining from a reply, and involuntarily wondered how this +old man, living alone in the country for so many years, could know and +discuss so minutely and acutely all the recent european military and +political events. + +“you think i’m an old man and don’t understand the present state +of affairs?” concluded his father. “but it troubles me. i don’t +sleep at night. come now, where has this great commander of yours shown +his skill?” he concluded. + +“that would take too long to tell,” answered the son. + +“well, then go off to your buonaparte! mademoiselle bourienne, +here’s another admirer of that powder-monkey emperor of yours,” he +exclaimed in excellent french. + +“you know, prince, i am not a bonapartist!” + +“dieu sait quand reviendra.” hummed the prince out of tune and, with +a laugh still more so, he quitted the table. + +the little princess during the whole discussion and the rest of +the dinner sat silent, glancing with a frightened look now at her +father-in-law and now at princess mary. when they left the table she +took her sister-in-law’s arm and drew her into another room. + +“what a clever man your father is,” said she; “perhaps that is why +i am afraid of him.” + +“oh, he is so kind!” answered princess mary. + + + + + +chapter xxviii + +prince andrew was to leave next evening. the old prince, not altering +his routine, retired as usual after dinner. the little princess was in +her sister-in-law’s room. prince andrew in a traveling coat without +epaulettes had been packing with his valet in the rooms assigned to him. +after inspecting the carriage himself and seeing the trunks put in, he +ordered the horses to be harnessed. only those things he always kept +with him remained in his room; a small box, a large canteen fitted +with silver plate, two turkish pistols and a saber—a present from +his father who had brought it from the siege of ochákov. all these +traveling effects of prince andrew’s were in very good order: new, +clean, and in cloth covers carefully tied with tapes. + +when starting on a journey or changing their mode of life, men capable +of reflection are generally in a serious frame of mind. at such moments +one reviews the past and plans for the future. prince andrew’s face +looked very thoughtful and tender. with his hands behind him he paced +briskly from corner to corner of the room, looking straight before him +and thoughtfully shaking his head. did he fear going to the war, or was +he sad at leaving his wife?—perhaps both, but evidently he did not +wish to be seen in that mood, for hearing footsteps in the passage he +hurriedly unclasped his hands, stopped at a table as if tying the +cover of the small box, and assumed his usual tranquil and impenetrable +expression. it was the heavy tread of princess mary that he heard. + +“i hear you have given orders to harness,” she cried, panting (she +had apparently been running), “and i did so wish to have another talk +with you alone! god knows how long we may again be parted. you are not +angry with me for coming? you have changed so, andrúsha,” she added, +as if to explain such a question. + +she smiled as she uttered his pet name, “andrúsha.” it was +obviously strange to her to think that this stern handsome man should be +andrúsha—the slender mischievous boy who had been her playfellow in +childhood. + +“and where is lise?” he asked, answering her question only by a +smile. + +“she was so tired that she has fallen asleep on the sofa in my room. +oh, andrew! what a treasure of a wife you have,” said she, sitting +down on the sofa, facing her brother. “she is quite a child: such a +dear, merry child. i have grown so fond of her.” + +prince andrew was silent, but the princess noticed the ironical and +contemptuous look that showed itself on his face. + +“one must be indulgent to little weaknesses; who is free from them, +andrew? don’t forget that she has grown up and been educated in +society, and so her position now is not a rosy one. we should enter into +everyone’s situation. tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner. * think +what it must be for her, poor thing, after what she has been used to, +to be parted from her husband and be left alone in the country, in her +condition! it’s very hard.” + + * to understand all is to forgive all. + +prince andrew smiled as he looked at his sister, as we smile at those we +think we thoroughly understand. + +“you live in the country and don’t think the life terrible,” he +replied. + +“i... that’s different. why speak of me? i don’t want any other +life, and can’t, for i know no other. but think, andrew: for a young +society woman to be buried in the country during the best years of her +life, all alone—for papa is always busy, and i... well, you know what +poor resources i have for entertaining a woman used to the best society. +there is only mademoiselle bourienne....” + +“i don’t like your mademoiselle bourienne at all,” said prince +andrew. + +“no? she is very nice and kind and, above all, she’s much to be +pitied. she has no one, no one. to tell the truth, i don’t need her, +and she’s even in my way. you know i always was a savage, and now am +even more so. i like being alone.... father likes her very much. she and +michael ivánovich are the two people to whom he is always gentle and +kind, because he has been a benefactor to them both. as sterne says: +‘we don’t love people so much for the good they have done us, as +for the good we have done them.’ father took her when she was homeless +after losing her own father. she is very good-natured, and my father +likes her way of reading. she reads to him in the evenings and reads +splendidly.” + +“to be quite frank, mary, i expect father’s character sometimes +makes things trying for you, doesn’t it?” prince andrew asked +suddenly. + +princess mary was first surprised and then aghast at this question. + +“for me? for me?... trying for me!...” said she. + +“he always was rather harsh; and now i should think he’s getting +very trying,” said prince andrew, apparently speaking lightly of their +father in order to puzzle or test his sister. + +“you are good in every way, andrew, but you have a kind of +intellectual pride,” said the princess, following the train of her own +thoughts rather than the trend of the conversation—“and that’s a +great sin. how can one judge father? but even if one might, what feeling +except veneration could such a man as my father evoke? and i am so +contented and happy with him. i only wish you were all as happy as i +am.” + +her brother shook his head incredulously. + +“the only thing that is hard for me... i will tell you the truth, +andrew... is father’s way of treating religious subjects. i don’t +understand how a man of his immense intellect can fail to see what is +as clear as day, and can go so far astray. that is the only thing +that makes me unhappy. but even in this i can see lately a shade of +improvement. his satire has been less bitter of late, and there was a +monk he received and had a long talk with.” + +“ah! my dear, i am afraid you and your monk are wasting your +powder,” said prince andrew banteringly yet tenderly. + +“ah! mon ami, i only pray, and hope that god will hear me. +andrew...” she said timidly after a moment’s silence, “i have a +great favor to ask of you.” + +“what is it, dear?” + +“no—promise that you will not refuse! it will give you no trouble +and is nothing unworthy of you, but it will comfort me. promise, +andrúsha!...” said she, putting her hand in her reticule but not yet +taking out what she was holding inside it, as if what she held were +the subject of her request and must not be shown before the request was +granted. + +she looked timidly at her brother. + +“even if it were a great deal of trouble...” answered prince andrew, +as if guessing what it was about. + +“think what you please! i know you are just like father. think as +you please, but do this for my sake! please do! father’s father, our +grandfather, wore it in all his wars.” (she still did not take out +what she was holding in her reticule.) “so you promise?” + +“of course. what is it?” + +“andrew, i bless you with this icon and you must promise me you will +never take it off. do you promise?” + +“if it does not weigh a hundredweight and won’t break my neck... +to please you...” said prince andrew. but immediately, noticing +the pained expression his joke had brought to his sister’s face, he +repented and added: “i am glad; really, dear, i am very glad.” + +“against your will he will save and have mercy on you and bring you +to himself, for in him alone is truth and peace,” said she in a voice +trembling with emotion, solemnly holding up in both hands before her +brother a small, oval, antique, dark-faced icon of the saviour in a gold +setting, on a finely wrought silver chain. + +she crossed herself, kissed the icon, and handed it to andrew. + +“please, andrew, for my sake!...” + +rays of gentle light shone from her large, timid eyes. those eyes lit +up the whole of her thin, sickly face and made it beautiful. her brother +would have taken the icon, but she stopped him. andrew understood, +crossed himself and kissed the icon. there was a look of tenderness, for +he was touched, but also a gleam of irony on his face. + +“thank you, my dear.” she kissed him on the forehead and sat down +again on the sofa. they were silent for a while. + +“as i was saying to you, andrew, be kind and generous as you always +used to be. don’t judge lise harshly,” she began. “she is so +sweet, so good-natured, and her position now is a very hard one.” + +“i do not think i have complained of my wife to you, másha, or blamed +her. why do you say all this to me?” + +red patches appeared on princess mary’s face and she was silent as if +she felt guilty. + +“i have said nothing to you, but you have already been talked to. and +i am sorry for that,” he went on. + +the patches grew deeper on her forehead, neck, and cheeks. she tried to +say something but could not. her brother had guessed right: the little +princess had been crying after dinner and had spoken of her forebodings +about her confinement, and how she dreaded it, and had complained of her +fate, her father-in-law, and her husband. after crying she had fallen +asleep. prince andrew felt sorry for his sister. + +“know this, másha: i can’t reproach, have not reproached, and never +shall reproach my wife with anything, and i cannot reproach myself +with anything in regard to her; and that always will be so in whatever +circumstances i may be placed. but if you want to know the truth... if +you want to know whether i am happy? no! is she happy? no! but why this +is so i don’t know...” + +as he said this he rose, went to his sister, and, stooping, kissed +her forehead. his fine eyes lit up with a thoughtful, kindly, and +unaccustomed brightness, but he was looking not at his sister but over +her head toward the darkness of the open doorway. + +“let us go to her, i must say good-by. or—go and wake and i’ll +come in a moment. petrúshka!” he called to his valet: “come here, +take these away. put this on the seat and this to the right.” + +princess mary rose and moved to the door, then stopped and said: +“andrew, if you had faith you would have turned to god and asked him +to give you the love you do not feel, and your prayer would have been +answered.” + +“well, maybe!” said prince andrew. “go, másha; i’ll come +immediately.” + +on the way to his sister’s room, in the passage which connected one +wing with the other, prince andrew met mademoiselle bourienne smiling +sweetly. it was the third time that day that, with an ecstatic and +artless smile, she had met him in secluded passages. + +“oh! i thought you were in your room,” she said, for some reason +blushing and dropping her eyes. + +prince andrew looked sternly at her and an expression of anger suddenly +came over his face. he said nothing to her but looked at her forehead +and hair, without looking at her eyes, with such contempt that the +frenchwoman blushed and went away without a word. when he reached his +sister’s room his wife was already awake and her merry voice, hurrying +one word after another, came through the open door. she was speaking as +usual in french, and as if after long self-restraint she wished to make +up for lost time. + +“no, but imagine the old countess zúbova, with false curls and her +mouth full of false teeth, as if she were trying to cheat old age.... +ha, ha, ha! mary!” + +this very sentence about countess zúbova and this same laugh prince +andrew had already heard from his wife in the presence of others some +five times. he entered the room softly. the little princess, plump and +rosy, was sitting in an easy chair with her work in her hands, talking +incessantly, repeating petersburg reminiscences and even phrases. prince +andrew came up, stroked her hair, and asked if she felt rested after +their journey. she answered him and continued her chatter. + +the coach with six horses was waiting at the porch. it was an autumn +night, so dark that the coachman could not see the carriage pole. +servants with lanterns were bustling about in the porch. the immense +house was brilliant with lights shining through its lofty windows. the +domestic serfs were crowding in the hall, waiting to bid good-by to +the young prince. the members of the household were all gathered in the +reception hall: michael ivánovich, mademoiselle bourienne, princess +mary, and the little princess. prince andrew had been called to his +father’s study as the latter wished to say good-by to him alone. all +were waiting for them to come out. + +when prince andrew entered the study the old man in his old-age +spectacles and white dressing gown, in which he received no one but his +son, sat at the table writing. he glanced round. + +“going?” and he went on writing. + +“i’ve come to say good-by.” + +“kiss me here,” and he touched his cheek: “thanks, thanks!” + +“what do you thank me for?” + +“for not dilly-dallying and not hanging to a woman’s apron strings. +the service before everything. thanks, thanks!” and he went on +writing, so that his quill spluttered and squeaked. “if you have +anything to say, say it. these two things can be done together,” he +added. + +“about my wife... i am ashamed as it is to leave her on your +hands....” + +“why talk nonsense? say what you want.” + +“when her confinement is due, send to moscow for an accoucheur.... let +him be here....” + +the old prince stopped writing and, as if not understanding, fixed his +stern eyes on his son. + +“i know that no one can help if nature does not do her work,” said +prince andrew, evidently confused. “i know that out of a million +cases only one goes wrong, but it is her fancy and mine. they have been +telling her things. she has had a dream and is frightened.” + +“hm... hm...” muttered the old prince to himself, finishing what he +was writing. “i’ll do it.” + +he signed with a flourish and suddenly turning to his son began to +laugh. + +“it’s a bad business, eh?” + +“what is bad, father?” + +“the wife!” said the old prince, briefly and significantly. + +“i don’t understand!” said prince andrew. + +“no, it can’t be helped, lad,” said the prince. “they’re +all like that; one can’t unmarry. don’t be afraid; i won’t tell +anyone, but you know it yourself.” + +he seized his son by the hand with small bony fingers, shook it, looked +straight into his son’s face with keen eyes which seemed to see +through him, and again laughed his frigid laugh. + +the son sighed, thus admitting that his father had understood him. the +old man continued to fold and seal his letter, snatching up and throwing +down the wax, the seal, and the paper, with his accustomed rapidity. + +“what’s to be done? she’s pretty! i will do everything. make your +mind easy,” said he in abrupt sentences while sealing his letter. + +andrew did not speak; he was both pleased and displeased that his father +understood him. the old man got up and gave the letter to his son. + +“listen!” said he; “don’t worry about your wife: what can be +done shall be. now listen! give this letter to michael ilariónovich. * +i have written that he should make use of you in proper places and not +keep you long as an adjutant: a bad position! tell him i remember +and like him. write and tell me how he receives you. if he is all +right—serve him. nicholas bolkónski’s son need not serve under +anyone if he is in disfavor. now come here.” + + *kutúzov. + +he spoke so rapidly that he did not finish half his words, but his son +was accustomed to understand him. he led him to the desk, raised the +lid, drew out a drawer, and took out an exercise book filled with his +bold, tall, close handwriting. + +“i shall probably die before you. so remember, these are my memoirs; +hand them to the emperor after my death. now here is a lombard bond +and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of +suvórov’s wars. send it to the academy. here are some jottings for +you to read when i am gone. you will find them useful.” + +andrew did not tell his father that he would no doubt live a long time +yet. he felt that he must not say it. + +“i will do it all, father,” he said. + +“well, now, good-by!” he gave his son his hand to kiss, and embraced +him. “remember this, prince andrew, if they kill you it will hurt me, +your old father...” he paused unexpectedly, and then in a querulous +voice suddenly shrieked: “but if i hear that you have not behaved like +a son of nicholas bolkónski, i shall be ashamed!” + +“you need not have said that to me, father,” said the son with a +smile. + +the old man was silent. + +“i also wanted to ask you,” continued prince andrew, “if i’m +killed and if i have a son, do not let him be taken away from you—as i +said yesterday... let him grow up with you.... please.” + +“not let the wife have him?” said the old man, and laughed. + +they stood silent, facing one another. the old man’s sharp eyes were +fixed straight on his son’s. something twitched in the lower part of +the old prince’s face. + +“we’ve said good-by. go!” he suddenly shouted in a loud, angry +voice, opening his door. + +“what is it? what?” asked both princesses when they saw for a moment +at the door prince andrew and the figure of the old man in a white +dressing gown, spectacled and wigless, shouting in an angry voice. + +prince andrew sighed and made no reply. + +“well!” he said, turning to his wife. + +and this “well!” sounded coldly ironic, as if he were saying: “now +go through your performance.” + +“andrew, already!” said the little princess, turning pale and +looking with dismay at her husband. + +he embraced her. she screamed and fell unconscious on his shoulder. + +he cautiously released the shoulder she leaned on, looked into her face, +and carefully placed her in an easy chair. + +“adieu, mary,” said he gently to his sister, taking her by the hand +and kissing her, and then he left the room with rapid steps. + +the little princess lay in the armchair, mademoiselle bourienne chafing +her temples. princess mary, supporting her sister-in-law, still looked +with her beautiful eyes full of tears at the door through which prince +andrew had gone and made the sign of the cross in his direction. from +the study, like pistol shots, came the frequent sound of the old man +angrily blowing his nose. hardly had prince andrew gone when the study +door opened quickly and the stern figure of the old man in the white +dressing gown looked out. + +“gone? that’s all right!” said he; and looking angrily at the +unconscious little princess, he shook his head reprovingly and slammed +the door. + + + + + +book two: 1805 + + + + + +chapter i + +in october, 1805, a russian army was occupying the villages and towns of +the archduchy of austria, and yet other regiments freshly arriving from +russia were settling near the fortress of braunau and burdening the +inhabitants on whom they were quartered. braunau was the headquarters of +the commander in chief, kutúzov. + +on october 11, 1805, one of the infantry regiments that had just reached +braunau had halted half a mile from the town, waiting to be inspected +by the commander in chief. despite the un-russian appearance of the +locality and surroundings—fruit gardens, stone fences, tiled roofs, +and hills in the distance—and despite the fact that the inhabitants +(who gazed with curiosity at the soldiers) were not russians, the +regiment had just the appearance of any russian regiment preparing for +an inspection anywhere in the heart of russia. + +on the evening of the last day’s march an order had been received that +the commander in chief would inspect the regiment on the march. though +the words of the order were not clear to the regimental commander, and +the question arose whether the troops were to be in marching order or +not, it was decided at a consultation between the battalion commanders +to present the regiment in parade order, on the principle that it is +always better to “bow too low than not bow low enough.” so the +soldiers, after a twenty-mile march, were kept mending and cleaning all +night long without closing their eyes, while the adjutants and +company commanders calculated and reckoned, and by morning the +regiment—instead of the straggling, disorderly crowd it had been on +its last march the day before—presented a well-ordered array of two +thousand men each of whom knew his place and his duty, had every button +and every strap in place, and shone with cleanliness. and not only +externally was all in order, but had it pleased the commander in chief +to look under the uniforms he would have found on every man a clean +shirt, and in every knapsack the appointed number of articles, “awl, +soap, and all,” as the soldiers say. there was only one circumstance +concerning which no one could be at ease. it was the state of the +soldiers’ boots. more than half the men’s boots were in holes. but +this defect was not due to any fault of the regimental commander, for +in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the austrian +commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred miles. + +the commander of the regiment was an elderly, choleric, stout, and +thick-set general with grizzled eyebrows and whiskers, and wider from +chest to back than across the shoulders. he had on a brand-new uniform +showing the creases where it had been folded and thick gold epaulettes +which seemed to stand rather than lie down on his massive shoulders. he +had the air of a man happily performing one of the most solemn duties of +his life. he walked about in front of the line and at every step pulled +himself up, slightly arching his back. it was plain that the commander +admired his regiment, rejoiced in it, and that his whole mind was +engrossed by it, yet his strut seemed to indicate that, besides military +matters, social interests and the fair sex occupied no small part of his +thoughts. + +“well, michael mítrich, sir?” he said, addressing one of the +battalion commanders who smilingly pressed forward (it was plain that +they both felt happy). “we had our hands full last night. however, i +think the regiment is not a bad one, eh?” + +the battalion commander perceived the jovial irony and laughed. + +“it would not be turned off the field even on the tsarítsin +meadow.” + +“what?” asked the commander. + +at that moment, on the road from the town on which signalers had been +posted, two men appeared on horse back. they were an aide-de-camp +followed by a cossack. + +the aide-de-camp was sent to confirm the order which had not been +clearly worded the day before, namely, that the commander in chief +wished to see the regiment just in the state in which it had been on +the march: in their greatcoats, and packs, and without any preparation +whatever. + +a member of the hofkriegsrath from vienna had come to kutúzov the day +before with proposals and demands for him to join up with the army of +the archduke ferdinand and mack, and kutúzov, not considering this +junction advisable, meant, among other arguments in support of his view, +to show the austrian general the wretched state in which the troops +arrived from russia. with this object he intended to meet the regiment; +so the worse the condition it was in, the better pleased the commander +in chief would be. though the aide-de-camp did not know these +circumstances, he nevertheless delivered the definite order that the +men should be in their greatcoats and in marching order, and that the +commander in chief would otherwise be dissatisfied. on hearing this the +regimental commander hung his head, silently shrugged his shoulders, and +spread out his arms with a choleric gesture. + +“a fine mess we’ve made of it!” he remarked. + +“there now! didn’t i tell you, michael mítrich, that if it was said +‘on the march’ it meant in greatcoats?” said he reproachfully to +the battalion commander. “oh, my god!” he added, stepping resolutely +forward. “company commanders!” he shouted in a voice accustomed to +command. “sergeants major!... how soon will he be here?” he asked +the aide-de-camp with a respectful politeness evidently relating to the +personage he was referring to. + +“in an hour’s time, i should say.” + +“shall we have time to change clothes?” + +“i don’t know, general....” + +the regimental commander, going up to the line himself, ordered the +soldiers to change into their greatcoats. the company commanders ran off +to their companies, the sergeants major began bustling (the greatcoats +were not in very good condition), and instantly the squares that had up +to then been in regular order and silent began to sway and stretch and +hum with voices. on all sides soldiers were running to and fro, throwing +up their knapsacks with a jerk of their shoulders and pulling the straps +over their heads, unstrapping their overcoats and drawing the sleeves on +with upraised arms. + +in half an hour all was again in order, only the squares had become gray +instead of black. the regimental commander walked with his jerky steps +to the front of the regiment and examined it from a distance. + +“whatever is this? this!” he shouted and stood still. “commander +of the third company!” + +“commander of the third company wanted by the general!... commander to +the general... third company to the commander.” the words passed along +the lines and an adjutant ran to look for the missing officer. + +when the eager but misrepeated words had reached their destination in +a cry of: “the general to the third company,” the missing officer +appeared from behind his company and, though he was a middle-aged man +and not in the habit of running, trotted awkwardly stumbling on his +toes toward the general. the captain’s face showed the uneasiness of +a schoolboy who is told to repeat a lesson he has not learned. spots +appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to +intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously. the general looked the +captain up and down as he came up panting, slackening his pace as he +approached. + +“you will soon be dressing your men in petticoats! what is this?” +shouted the regimental commander, thrusting forward his jaw and pointing +at a soldier in the ranks of the third company in a greatcoat of bluish +cloth, which contrasted with the others. “what have you been after? +the commander in chief is expected and you leave your place? eh? i’ll +teach you to dress the men in fancy coats for a parade.... eh...?” + +the commander of the company, with his eyes fixed on his superior, +pressed two fingers more and more rigidly to his cap, as if in this +pressure lay his only hope of salvation. + +“well, why don’t you speak? whom have you got there dressed up as a +hungarian?” said the commander with an austere gibe. + +“your excellency...” + +“well, your excellency, what? your excellency! but what about your +excellency?... nobody knows.” + +“your excellency, it’s the officer dólokhov, who has been reduced +to the ranks,” said the captain softly. + +“well? has he been degraded into a field marshal, or into a soldier? +if a soldier, he should be dressed in regulation uniform like the +others.” + +“your excellency, you gave him leave yourself, on the march.” + +“gave him leave? leave? that’s just like you young men,” said the +regimental commander cooling down a little. “leave indeed.... one says +a word to you and you... what?” he added with renewed irritation, “i +beg you to dress your men decently.” + +and the commander, turning to look at the adjutant, directed his jerky +steps down the line. he was evidently pleased at his own display of +anger and walking up to the regiment wished to find a further excuse for +wrath. having snapped at an officer for an unpolished badge, at another +because his line was not straight, he reached the third company. + +“h-o-o-w are you standing? where’s your leg? your leg?” shouted +the commander with a tone of suffering in his voice, while there were +still five men between him and dólokhov with his bluish-gray uniform. + +dólokhov slowly straightened his bent knee, looking straight with his +clear, insolent eyes in the general’s face. + +“why a blue coat? off with it... sergeant major! change his coat... +the ras...” he did not finish. + +“general, i must obey orders, but i am not bound to endure...” +dólokhov hurriedly interrupted. + +“no talking in the ranks!... no talking, no talking!” + +“not bound to endure insults,” dólokhov concluded in loud, ringing +tones. + +the eyes of the general and the soldier met. the general became silent, +angrily pulling down his tight scarf. + +“i request you to have the goodness to change your coat,” he said as +he turned away. + + + + + +chapter ii + +“he’s coming!” shouted the signaler at that moment. + +the regimental commander, flushing, ran to his horse, seized the stirrup +with trembling hands, threw his body across the saddle, righted himself, +drew his saber, and with a happy and resolute countenance, opening +his mouth awry, prepared to shout. the regiment fluttered like a bird +preening its plumage and became motionless. + +“att-ention!” shouted the regimental commander in a soul-shaking +voice which expressed joy for himself, severity for the regiment, and +welcome for the approaching chief. + +along the broad country road, edged on both sides by trees, came a high, +light blue viennese calèche, slightly creaking on its springs and drawn +by six horses at a smart trot. behind the calèche galloped the suite +and a convoy of croats. beside kutúzov sat an austrian general, in +a white uniform that looked strange among the russian black ones. the +calèche stopped in front of the regiment. kutúzov and the austrian +general were talking in low voices and kutúzov smiled slightly as +treading heavily he stepped down from the carriage just as if those two +thousand men breathlessly gazing at him and the regimental commander did +not exist. + +the word of command rang out, and again the regiment quivered, as with a +jingling sound it presented arms. then amidst a dead silence the +feeble voice of the commander in chief was heard. the regiment roared, +“health to your ex... len... len... lency!” and again all became +silent. at first kutúzov stood still while the regiment moved; then he +and the general in white, accompanied by the suite, walked between the +ranks. + +from the way the regimental commander saluted the commander in chief and +devoured him with his eyes, drawing himself up obsequiously, and from +the way he walked through the ranks behind the generals, bending forward +and hardly able to restrain his jerky movements, and from the way he +darted forward at every word or gesture of the commander in chief, +it was evident that he performed his duty as a subordinate with even +greater zeal than his duty as a commander. thanks to the strictness and +assiduity of its commander the regiment, in comparison with others that +had reached braunau at the same time, was in splendid condition. there +were only 217 sick and stragglers. everything was in good order except +the boots. + +kutúzov walked through the ranks, sometimes stopping to say a few +friendly words to officers he had known in the turkish war, sometimes +also to the soldiers. looking at their boots he several times shook his +head sadly, pointing them out to the austrian general with an expression +which seemed to say that he was not blaming anyone, but could not help +noticing what a bad state of things it was. the regimental commander +ran forward on each such occasion, fearing to miss a single word of the +commander in chief’s regarding the regiment. behind kutúzov, at a +distance that allowed every softly spoken word to be heard, followed +some twenty men of his suite. these gentlemen talked among themselves +and sometimes laughed. nearest of all to the commander in chief walked +a handsome adjutant. this was prince bolkónski. beside him was his +comrade nesvítski, a tall staff officer, extremely stout, with a +kindly, smiling, handsome face and moist eyes. nesvítski could hardly +keep from laughter provoked by a swarthy hussar officer who walked +beside him. this hussar, with a grave face and without a smile or a +change in the expression of his fixed eyes, watched the regimental +commander’s back and mimicked his every movement. each time the +commander started and bent forward, the hussar started and bent forward +in exactly the same manner. nesvítski laughed and nudged the others to +make them look at the wag. + +kutúzov walked slowly and languidly past thousands of eyes which were +starting from their sockets to watch their chief. on reaching the +third company he suddenly stopped. his suite, not having expected this, +involuntarily came closer to him. + +“ah, timókhin!” said he, recognizing the red-nosed captain who had +been reprimanded on account of the blue greatcoat. + +one would have thought it impossible for a man to stretch himself +more than timókhin had done when he was reprimanded by the regimental +commander, but now that the commander in chief addressed him he drew +himself up to such an extent that it seemed he could not have sustained +it had the commander in chief continued to look at him, and so kutúzov, +who evidently understood his case and wished him nothing but good, +quickly turned away, a scarcely perceptible smile flitting over his +scarred and puffy face. + +“another ismail comrade,” said he. “a brave officer! are you +satisfied with him?” he asked the regimental commander. + +and the latter—unconscious that he was being reflected in the hussar +officer as in a looking glass—started, moved forward, and answered: +“highly satisfied, your excellency!” + +“we all have our weaknesses,” said kutúzov smiling and walking away +from him. “he used to have a predilection for bacchus.” + +the regimental commander was afraid he might be blamed for this and did +not answer. the hussar at that moment noticed the face of the red-nosed +captain and his drawn-in stomach, and mimicked his expression and pose +with such exactitude that nesvítski could not help laughing. kutúzov +turned round. the officer evidently had complete control of his face, +and while kutúzov was turning managed to make a grimace and then assume +a most serious, deferential, and innocent expression. + +the third company was the last, and kutúzov pondered, apparently trying +to recollect something. prince andrew stepped forward from among the +suite and said in french: + +“you told me to remind you of the officer dólokhov, reduced to the +ranks in this regiment.” + +“where is dólokhov?” asked kutúzov. + +dólokhov, who had already changed into a soldier’s gray greatcoat, +did not wait to be called. the shapely figure of the fair-haired +soldier, with his clear blue eyes, stepped forward from the ranks, went +up to the commander in chief, and presented arms. + +“have you a complaint to make?” kutúzov asked with a slight frown. + +“this is dólokhov,” said prince andrew. + +“ah!” said kutúzov. “i hope this will be a lesson to you. do your +duty. the emperor is gracious, and i shan’t forget you if you deserve +well.” + +the clear blue eyes looked at the commander in chief just as boldly as +they had looked at the regimental commander, seeming by their expression +to tear open the veil of convention that separates a commander in chief +so widely from a private. + +“one thing i ask of your excellency,” dólokhov said in his firm, +ringing, deliberate voice. “i ask an opportunity to atone for my fault +and prove my devotion to his majesty the emperor and to russia!” + +kutúzov turned away. the same smile of the eyes with which he had +turned from captain timókhin again flitted over his face. he turned +away with a grimace as if to say that everything dólokhov had said to +him and everything he could say had long been known to him, that he was +weary of it and it was not at all what he wanted. he turned away and +went to the carriage. + +the regiment broke up into companies, which went to their appointed +quarters near braunau, where they hoped to receive boots and clothes and +to rest after their hard marches. + +“you won’t bear me a grudge, prokhór ignátych?” said the +regimental commander, overtaking the third company on its way to its +quarters and riding up to captain timókhin who was walking in front. +(the regimental commander’s face now that the inspection was happily +over beamed with irrepressible delight.) “it’s in the emperor’s +service... it can’t be helped... one is sometimes a bit hasty on +parade... i am the first to apologize, you know me!... he was very +pleased!” and he held out his hand to the captain. + +“don’t mention it, general, as if i’d be so bold!” replied the +captain, his nose growing redder as he gave a smile which showed where +two front teeth were missing that had been knocked out by the butt end +of a gun at ismail. + +“and tell mr. dólokhov that i won’t forget him—he may be quite +easy. and tell me, please—i’ve been meaning to ask—how is he +behaving himself, and in general...” + +“as far as the service goes he is quite punctilious, your excellency; +but his character...” said timókhin. + +“and what about his character?” asked the regimental commander. + +“it’s different on different days,” answered the captain. “one +day he is sensible, well educated, and good-natured, and the next he’s +a wild beast.... in poland, if you please, he nearly killed a jew.” + +“oh, well, well!” remarked the regimental commander. “still, one +must have pity on a young man in misfortune. you know he has important +connections... well, then, you just...” + +“i will, your excellency,” said timókhin, showing by his smile that +he understood his commander’s wish. + +“well, of course, of course!” + +the regimental commander sought out dólokhov in the ranks and, reining +in his horse, said to him: + +“after the next affair... epaulettes.” + +dólokhov looked round but did not say anything, nor did the mocking +smile on his lips change. + +“well, that’s all right,” continued the regimental commander. “a +cup of vodka for the men from me,” he added so that the soldiers +could hear. “i thank you all! god be praised!” and he rode past that +company and overtook the next one. + +“well, he’s really a good fellow, one can serve under him,” said +timókhin to the subaltern beside him. + +“in a word, a hearty one...” said the subaltern, laughing (the +regimental commander was nicknamed king of hearts). + +the cheerful mood of their officers after the inspection infected the +soldiers. the company marched on gaily. the soldiers’ voices could be +heard on every side. + +“and they said kutúzov was blind of one eye?” + +“and so he is! quite blind!” + +“no, friend, he is sharper-eyed than you are. boots and leg bands... +he noticed everything...” + +“when he looked at my feet, friend... well, thinks i...” + +“and that other one with him, the austrian, looked as if he were +smeared with chalk—as white as flour! i suppose they polish him up as +they do the guns.” + +“i say, fédeshon!... did he say when the battles are to begin? you +were near him. everybody said that buonaparte himself was at braunau.” + +“buonaparte himself!... just listen to the fool, what he doesn’t +know! the prussians are up in arms now. the austrians, you see, are +putting them down. when they’ve been put down, the war with buonaparte +will begin. and he says buonaparte is in braunau! shows you’re a fool. +you’d better listen more carefully!” + +“what devils these quartermasters are! see, the fifth company is +turning into the village already... they will have their buckwheat +cooked before we reach our quarters.” + +“give me a biscuit, you devil!” + +“and did you give me tobacco yesterday? that’s just it, friend! ah, +well, never mind, here you are.” + +“they might call a halt here or we’ll have to do another four miles +without eating.” + +“wasn’t it fine when those germans gave us lifts! you just sit still +and are drawn along.” + +“and here, friend, the people are quite beggarly. there they all +seemed to be poles—all under the russian crown—but here they’re +all regular germans.” + +“singers to the front” came the captain’s order. + +and from the different ranks some twenty men ran to the front. a +drummer, their leader, turned round facing the singers, and flourishing +his arm, began a long-drawn-out soldiers’ song, commencing with the +words: “morning dawned, the sun was rising,” and concluding: “on +then, brothers, on to glory, led by father kámenski.” this song had +been composed in the turkish campaign and now being sung in austria, the +only change being that the words “father kámenski” were replaced by +“father kutúzov.” + +having jerked out these last words as soldiers do and waved his arms +as if flinging something to the ground, the drummer—a lean, handsome +soldier of forty—looked sternly at the singers and screwed up his +eyes. then having satisfied himself that all eyes were fixed on him, +he raised both arms as if carefully lifting some invisible but precious +object above his head and, holding it there for some seconds, suddenly +flung it down and began: + +“oh, my bower, oh, my bower...!” + +“oh, my bower new...!” chimed in twenty voices, and the castanet +player, in spite of the burden of his equipment, rushed out to the front +and, walking backwards before the company, jerked his shoulders and +flourished his castanets as if threatening someone. the soldiers, +swinging their arms and keeping time spontaneously, marched with long +steps. behind the company the sound of wheels, the creaking of springs, +and the tramp of horses’ hoofs were heard. kutúzov and his suite were +returning to the town. the commander in chief made a sign that the +men should continue to march at ease, and he and all his suite showed +pleasure at the sound of the singing and the sight of the dancing +soldier and the gay and smartly marching men. in the second file +from the right flank, beside which the carriage passed the company, +a blue-eyed soldier involuntarily attracted notice. it was dólokhov +marching with particular grace and boldness in time to the song and +looking at those driving past as if he pitied all who were not at that +moment marching with the company. the hussar cornet of kutúzov’s +suite who had mimicked the regimental commander, fell back from the +carriage and rode up to dólokhov. + +hussar cornet zherkóv had at one time, in petersburg, belonged to +the wild set led by dólokhov. zherkóv had met dólokhov abroad as a +private and had not seen fit to recognize him. but now that kutúzov had +spoken to the gentleman ranker, he addressed him with the cordiality of +an old friend. + +“my dear fellow, how are you?” said he through the singing, making +his horse keep pace with the company. + +“how am i?” dólokhov answered coldly. “i am as you see.” + +the lively song gave a special flavor to the tone of free and easy +gaiety with which zherkóv spoke, and to the intentional coldness of +dólokhov’s reply. + +“and how do you get on with the officers?” inquired zherkóv. + +“all right. they are good fellows. and how have you wriggled onto the +staff?” + +“i was attached; i’m on duty.” + +both were silent. + +“she let the hawk fly upward from her wide right sleeve,” went the +song, arousing an involuntary sensation of courage and cheerfulness. +their conversation would probably have been different but for the effect +of that song. + +“is it true that austrians have been beaten?” asked dólokhov. + +“the devil only knows! they say so.” + +“i’m glad,” answered dólokhov briefly and clearly, as the song +demanded. + +“i say, come round some evening and we’ll have a game of faro!” +said zherkóv. + +“why, have you too much money?” + +“do come.” + +“i can’t. i’ve sworn not to. i won’t drink and won’t play till +i get reinstated.” + +“well, that’s only till the first engagement.” + +“we shall see.” + +they were again silent. + +“come if you need anything. one can at least be of use on the +staff...” + +dólokhov smiled. “don’t trouble. if i want anything, i won’t +beg—i’ll take it!” + +“well, never mind; i only...” + +“and i only...” + +“good-by.” + +“good health...” + + “it’s a long, long way. + to my native land...” + + +zherkóv touched his horse with the spurs; it pranced excitedly from +foot to foot uncertain with which to start, then settled down, galloped +past the company, and overtook the carriage, still keeping time to the +song. + + + + + +chapter iii + +on returning from the review, kutúzov took the austrian general into +his private room and, calling his adjutant, asked for some papers +relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the +letters that had come from the archduke ferdinand, who was in command of +the advanced army. prince andrew bolkónski came into the room with the +required papers. kutúzov and the austrian member of the hofkriegsrath +were sitting at the table on which a plan was spread out. + +“ah!...” said kutúzov glancing at bolkónski as if by this +exclamation he was asking the adjutant to wait, and he went on with the +conversation in french. + +“all i can say, general,” said he with a pleasant elegance +of expression and intonation that obliged one to listen to each +deliberately spoken word. it was evident that kutúzov himself listened +with pleasure to his own voice. “all i can say, general, is that if +the matter depended on my personal wishes, the will of his majesty the +emperor francis would have been fulfilled long ago. i should long +ago have joined the archduke. and believe me on my honour that to me +personally it would be a pleasure to hand over the supreme command +of the army into the hands of a better informed and more skillful +general—of whom austria has so many—and to lay down all this heavy +responsibility. but circumstances are sometimes too strong for us, +general.” + +and kutúzov smiled in a way that seemed to say, “you are quite at +liberty not to believe me and i don’t even care whether you do or +not, but you have no grounds for telling me so. and that is the whole +point.” + +the austrian general looked dissatisfied, but had no option but to reply +in the same tone. + +“on the contrary,” he said, in a querulous and angry tone that +contrasted with his flattering words, “on the contrary, your +excellency’s participation in the common action is highly valued by +his majesty; but we think the present delay is depriving the splendid +russian troops and their commander of the laurels they have been +accustomed to win in their battles,” he concluded his evidently +prearranged sentence. + +kutúzov bowed with the same smile. + +“but that is my conviction, and judging by the last letter with which +his highness the archduke ferdinand has honored me, i imagine that the +austrian troops, under the direction of so skillful a leader as general +mack, have by now already gained a decisive victory and no longer need +our aid,” said kutúzov. + +the general frowned. though there was no definite news of an austrian +defeat, there were many circumstances confirming the unfavorable rumors +that were afloat, and so kutúzov’s suggestion of an austrian victory +sounded much like irony. but kutúzov went on blandly smiling with the +same expression, which seemed to say that he had a right to suppose +so. and, in fact, the last letter he had received from mack’s army +informed him of a victory and stated strategically the position of the +army was very favorable. + +“give me that letter,” said kutúzov turning to prince andrew. +“please have a look at it”—and kutúzov with an ironical smile +about the corners of his mouth read to the austrian general the +following passage, in german, from the archduke ferdinand’s letter: + +we have fully concentrated forces of nearly seventy thousand men with +which to attack and defeat the enemy should he cross the lech. also, +as we are masters of ulm, we cannot be deprived of the advantage of +commanding both sides of the danube, so that should the enemy not +cross the lech, we can cross the danube, throw ourselves on his line +of communications, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his +intention should he try to direct his whole force against our faithful +ally. we shall therefore confidently await the moment when the imperial +russian army will be fully equipped, and shall then, in conjunction with +it, easily find a way to prepare for the enemy the fate he deserves. + +kutúzov sighed deeply on finishing this paragraph and looked at the +member of the hofkriegsrath mildly and attentively. + +“but you know the wise maxim your excellency, advising one to expect +the worst,” said the austrian general, evidently wishing to have done +with jests and to come to business. he involuntarily looked round at the +aide-de-camp. + +“excuse me, general,” interrupted kutúzov, also turning to prince +andrew. “look here, my dear fellow, get from kozlóvski all the +reports from our scouts. here are two letters from count nostitz and +here is one from his highness the archduke ferdinand and here are +these,” he said, handing him several papers, “make a neat memorandum +in french out of all this, showing all the news we have had of the +movements of the austrian army, and then give it to his excellency.” + +prince andrew bowed his head in token of having understood from the +first not only what had been said but also what kutúzov would have +liked to tell him. he gathered up the papers and with a bow to both, +stepped softly over the carpet and went out into the waiting room. + +though not much time had passed since prince andrew had left russia, he +had changed greatly during that period. in the expression of his face, +in his movements, in his walk, scarcely a trace was left of his former +affected languor and indolence. he now looked like a man who has time +to think of the impression he makes on others, but is occupied with +agreeable and interesting work. his face expressed more satisfaction +with himself and those around him, his smile and glance were brighter +and more attractive. + +kutúzov, whom he had overtaken in poland, had received him very kindly, +promised not to forget him, distinguished him above the other adjutants, +and had taken him to vienna and given him the more serious commissions. +from vienna kutúzov wrote to his old comrade, prince andrew’s father. + +your son bids fair to become an officer distinguished by his industry, +firmness, and expedition. i consider myself fortunate to have such a +subordinate by me. + +on kutúzov’s staff, among his fellow officers and in the army +generally, prince andrew had, as he had had in petersburg society, two +quite opposite reputations. some, a minority, acknowledged him to be +different from themselves and from everyone else, expected great things +of him, listened to him, admired, and imitated him, and with them prince +andrew was natural and pleasant. others, the majority, disliked him and +considered him conceited, cold, and disagreeable. but among these people +prince andrew knew how to take his stand so that they respected and even +feared him. + +coming out of kutúzov’s room into the waiting room with the papers in +his hand prince andrew came up to his comrade, the aide-de-camp on duty, +kozlóvski, who was sitting at the window with a book. + +“well, prince?” asked kozlóvski. + +“i am ordered to write a memorandum explaining why we are not +advancing.” + +“and why is it?” + +prince andrew shrugged his shoulders. + +“any news from mack?” + +“no.” + +“if it were true that he has been beaten, news would have come.” + +“probably,” said prince andrew moving toward the outer door. + +but at that instant a tall austrian general in a greatcoat, with the +order of maria theresa on his neck and a black bandage round his head, +who had evidently just arrived, entered quickly, slamming the door. +prince andrew stopped short. + +“commander in chief kutúzov?” said the newly arrived general +speaking quickly with a harsh german accent, looking to both sides and +advancing straight toward the inner door. + +“the commander in chief is engaged,” said kozlóvski, going +hurriedly up to the unknown general and blocking his way to the door. +“whom shall i announce?” + +the unknown general looked disdainfully down at kozlóvski, who was +rather short, as if surprised that anyone should not know him. + +“the commander in chief is engaged,” repeated kozlóvski calmly. + +the general’s face clouded, his lips quivered and trembled. he took +out a notebook, hurriedly scribbled something in pencil, tore out the +leaf, gave it to kozlóvski, stepped quickly to the window, and threw +himself into a chair, gazing at those in the room as if asking, “why +do they look at me?” then he lifted his head, stretched his neck as +if he intended to say something, but immediately, with affected +indifference, began to hum to himself, producing a queer sound which +immediately broke off. the door of the private room opened and kutúzov +appeared in the doorway. the general with the bandaged head bent forward +as though running away from some danger, and, making long, quick strides +with his thin legs, went up to kutúzov. + +“vous voyez le malheureux mack,” he uttered in a broken voice. + +kutúzov’s face as he stood in the open doorway remained perfectly +immobile for a few moments. then wrinkles ran over his face like a wave +and his forehead became smooth again, he bowed his head respectfully, +closed his eyes, silently let mack enter his room before him, and closed +the door himself behind him. + +the report which had been circulated that the austrians had been beaten +and that the whole army had surrendered at ulm proved to be correct. +within half an hour adjutants had been sent in various directions with +orders which showed that the russian troops, who had hitherto been +inactive, would also soon have to meet the enemy. + +prince andrew was one of those rare staff officers whose chief interest +lay in the general progress of the war. when he saw mack and heard the +details of his disaster he understood that half the campaign was lost, +understood all the difficulties of the russian army’s position, and +vividly imagined what awaited it and the part he would have to +play. involuntarily he felt a joyful agitation at the thought of the +humiliation of arrogant austria and that in a week’s time he might, +perhaps, see and take part in the first russian encounter with the +french since suvórov met them. he feared that bonaparte’s genius +might outweigh all the courage of the russian troops, and at the same +time could not admit the idea of his hero being disgraced. + +excited and irritated by these thoughts prince andrew went toward his +room to write to his father, to whom he wrote every day. in the corridor +he met nesvítski, with whom he shared a room, and the wag zherkóv; +they were as usual laughing. + +“why are you so glum?” asked nesvítski noticing prince andrew’s +pale face and glittering eyes. + +“there’s nothing to be gay about,” answered bolkónski. + +just as prince andrew met nesvítski and zherkóv, there came toward +them from the other end of the corridor, strauch, an austrian general +who on kutúzov’s staff in charge of the provisioning of the russian +army, and the member of the hofkriegsrath who had arrived the previous +evening. there was room enough in the wide corridor for the generals to +pass the three officers quite easily, but zherkóv, pushing nesvítski +aside with his arm, said in a breathless voice, + +“they’re coming!... they’re coming!... stand aside, make way, +please make way!” + +the generals were passing by, looking as if they wished to avoid +embarrassing attentions. on the face of the wag zherkóv there suddenly +appeared a stupid smile of glee which he seemed unable to suppress. + +“your excellency,” said he in german, stepping forward and +addressing the austrian general, “i have the honor to congratulate +you.” + +he bowed his head and scraped first with one foot and then with the +other, awkwardly, like a child at a dancing lesson. + +the member of the hofkriegsrath looked at him severely but, seeing the +seriousness of his stupid smile, could not but give him a moment’s +attention. he screwed up his eyes showing that he was listening. + +“i have the honor to congratulate you. general mack has arrived, quite +well, only a little bruised just here,” he added, pointing with a +beaming smile to his head. + +the general frowned, turned away, and went on. + +“gott, wie naiv!” * said he angrily, after he had gone a few steps. + + * “good god, what simplicity!” + + +nesvítski with a laugh threw his arms round prince andrew, but +bolkónski, turning still paler, pushed him away with an angry look and +turned to zherkóv. the nervous irritation aroused by the appearance +of mack, the news of his defeat, and the thought of what lay before the +russian army found vent in anger at zherkóv’s untimely jest. + +“if you, sir, choose to make a buffoon of yourself,” he said +sharply, with a slight trembling of the lower jaw, “i can’t prevent +your doing so; but i warn you that if you dare to play the fool in my +presence, i will teach you to behave yourself.” + +nesvítski and zherkóv were so surprised by this outburst that they +gazed at bolkónski silently with wide-open eyes. + +“what’s the matter? i only congratulated them,” said zherkóv. + +“i am not jesting with you; please be silent!” cried bolkónski, +and taking nesvítski’s arm he left zherkóv, who did not know what to +say. + +“come, what’s the matter, old fellow?” said nesvítski trying to +soothe him. + +“what’s the matter?” exclaimed prince andrew standing still in +his excitement. “don’t you understand that either we are officers +serving our tsar and our country, rejoicing in the successes and +grieving at the misfortunes of our common cause, or we are merely +lackeys who care nothing for their master’s business. quarante mille +hommes massacrés et l’armée de nos alliés détruite, et vous +trouvez là le mot pour rire,” * he said, as if strengthening his +views by this french sentence. “c’est bien pour un garçon de rien +comme cet individu dont vous avez fait un ami, mais pas pour vous, pas +pour vous. *(2) only a hobbledehoy could amuse himself in this +way,” he added in russian—but pronouncing the word with a french +accent—having noticed that zherkóv could still hear him. + + * “forty thousand men massacred and the army of our allies + destroyed, and you find that a cause for jesting!” + + * (2) “it is all very well for that good-for-nothing fellow + of whom you have made a friend, but not for you, not for + you.” + + +he waited a moment to see whether the cornet would answer, but he turned +and went out of the corridor. + + + + + +chapter iv + +the pávlograd hussars were stationed two miles from braunau. the +squadron in which nicholas rostóv served as a cadet was quartered in +the german village of salzeneck. the best quarters in the village were +assigned to cavalry-captain denísov, the squadron commander, known +throughout the whole cavalry division as váska denísov. cadet rostóv, +ever since he had overtaken the regiment in poland, had lived with the +squadron commander. + +on october 11, the day when all was astir at headquarters over the news +of mack’s defeat, the camp life of the officers of this squadron was +proceeding as usual. denísov, who had been losing at cards all night, +had not yet come home when rostóv rode back early in the morning from +a foraging expedition. rostóv in his cadet uniform, with a jerk to his +horse, rode up to the porch, swung his leg over the saddle with a supple +youthful movement, stood for a moment in the stirrup as if loathe to +part from his horse, and at last sprang down and called to his orderly. + +“ah, bondarénko, dear friend!” said he to the hussar who rushed up +headlong to the horse. “walk him up and down, my dear fellow,” he +continued, with that gay brotherly cordiality which goodhearted young +people show to everyone when they are happy. + +“yes, your excellency,” answered the ukrainian gaily, tossing his +head. + +“mind, walk him up and down well!” + +another hussar also rushed toward the horse, but bondarénko had already +thrown the reins of the snaffle bridle over the horse’s head. it was +evident that the cadet was liberal with his tips and that it paid to +serve him. rostóv patted the horse’s neck and then his flank, and +lingered for a moment. + +“splendid! what a horse he will be!” he thought with a smile, and +holding up his saber, his spurs jingling, he ran up the steps of the +porch. his landlord, who in a waistcoat and a pointed cap, pitchfork in +hand, was clearing manure from the cowhouse, looked out, and his face +immediately brightened on seeing rostóv. “schön gut morgen! schön +gut morgen!” * he said winking with a merry smile, evidently pleased +to greet the young man. + + * “a very good morning! a very good morning!” + + +“schon fleissig?” * said rostóv with the same gay brotherly smile +which did not leave his eager face. “hoch oestreicher! hoch russen! +kaiser alexander hoch!” *(2) said he, quoting words often repeated by +the german landlord. + + * “busy already?” + + * (2) “hurrah for the austrians! hurrah for the russians! + hurrah for emperor alexander!” + + +the german laughed, came out of the cowshed, pulled off his cap, and +waving it above his head cried: + +“und die ganze welt hoch!” * + + * “and hurrah for the whole world!” + + +rostóv waved his cap above his head like the german and cried laughing, +“und vivat die ganze welt!” though neither the german cleaning his +cowshed nor rostóv back with his platoon from foraging for hay had any +reason for rejoicing, they looked at each other with joyful delight and +brotherly love, wagged their heads in token of their mutual affection, +and parted smiling, the german returning to his cowshed and rostóv +going to the cottage he occupied with denísov. + +“what about your master?” he asked lavrúshka, denísov’s orderly, +whom all the regiment knew for a rogue. + +“hasn’t been in since the evening. must have been losing,” +answered lavrúshka. “i know by now, if he wins he comes back early to +brag about it, but if he stays out till morning it means he’s lost and +will come back in a rage. will you have coffee?” + +“yes, bring some.” + +ten minutes later lavrúshka brought the coffee. “he’s coming!” +said he. “now for trouble!” rostóv looked out of the window and +saw denísov coming home. denísov was a small man with a red face, +sparkling black eyes, and black tousled mustache and hair. he wore an +unfastened cloak, wide breeches hanging down in creases, and a crumpled +shako on the back of his head. he came up to the porch gloomily, hanging +his head. + +“lavwúska!” he shouted loudly and angrily, “take it off, +blockhead!” + +“well, i am taking it off,” replied lavrúshka’s voice. + +“ah, you’re up already,” said denísov, entering the room. + +“long ago,” answered rostóv, “i have already been for the hay, +and have seen fräulein mathilde.” + +“weally! and i’ve been losing, bwother. i lost yesterday like a +damned fool!” cried denísov, not pronouncing his r’s. “such ill +luck! such ill luck. as soon as you left, it began and went on. hullo +there! tea!” + +puckering up his face though smiling, and showing his short strong +teeth, he began with stubby fingers of both hands to ruffle up his thick +tangled black hair. + +“and what devil made me go to that wat?” (an officer nicknamed +“the rat”) he said, rubbing his forehead and whole face with both +hands. “just fancy, he didn’t let me win a single cahd, not one +cahd.” + +he took the lighted pipe that was offered to him, gripped it in his +fist, and tapped it on the floor, making the sparks fly, while he +continued to shout. + +“he lets one win the singles and collahs it as soon as one doubles it; +gives the singles and snatches the doubles!” + +he scattered the burning tobacco, smashed the pipe, and threw it away. +then he remained silent for a while, and all at once looked cheerfully +with his glittering, black eyes at rostóv. + +“if at least we had some women here; but there’s nothing foh one +to do but dwink. if we could only get to fighting soon. hullo, who’s +there?” he said, turning to the door as he heard a tread of heavy +boots and the clinking of spurs that came to a stop, and a respectful +cough. + +“the squadron quartermaster!” said lavrúshka. + +denísov’s face puckered still more. + +“wetched!” he muttered, throwing down a purse with some gold in it. +“wostóv, deah fellow, just see how much there is left and shove the +purse undah the pillow,” he said, and went out to the quartermaster. + +rostóv took the money and, mechanically arranging the old and new coins +in separate piles, began counting them. + +“ah! telyánin! how d’ye do? they plucked me last night,” came +denísov’s voice from the next room. + +“where? at bykov’s, at the rat’s... i knew it,” replied a piping +voice, and lieutenant telyánin, a small officer of the same squadron, +entered the room. + +rostóv thrust the purse under the pillow and shook the damp little hand +which was offered him. telyánin for some reason had been transferred +from the guards just before this campaign. he behaved very well in the +regiment but was not liked; rostóv especially detested him and was +unable to overcome or conceal his groundless antipathy to the man. + +“well, young cavalryman, how is my rook behaving?” he asked. (rook +was a young horse telyánin had sold to rostóv.) + +the lieutenant never looked the man he was speaking to straight in the +face; his eyes continually wandered from one object to another. + +“i saw you riding this morning...” he added. + +“oh, he’s all right, a good horse,” answered rostóv, though the +horse for which he had paid seven hundred rubbles was not worth half +that sum. “he’s begun to go a little lame on the left foreleg,” he +added. + +“the hoof’s cracked! that’s nothing. i’ll teach you what to do +and show you what kind of rivet to use.” + +“yes, please do,” said rostóv. + +“i’ll show you, i’ll show you! it’s not a secret. and it’s a +horse you’ll thank me for.” + +“then i’ll have it brought round,” said rostóv wishing to avoid +telyánin, and he went out to give the order. + +in the passage denísov, with a pipe, was squatting on the threshold +facing the quartermaster who was reporting to him. on seeing rostóv, +denísov screwed up his face and pointing over his shoulder with his +thumb to the room where telyánin was sitting, he frowned and gave a +shudder of disgust. + +“ugh! i don’t like that fellow,” he said, regardless of the +quartermaster’s presence. + +rostóv shrugged his shoulders as much as to say: “nor do i, but +what’s one to do?” and, having given his order, he returned to +telyánin. + +telyánin was sitting in the same indolent pose in which rostóv had +left him, rubbing his small white hands. + +“well there certainly are disgusting people,” thought rostóv as he +entered. + +“have you told them to bring the horse?” asked telyánin, getting up +and looking carelessly about him. + +“i have.” + +“let us go ourselves. i only came round to ask denísov about +yesterday’s order. have you got it, denísov?” + +“not yet. but where are you off to?” + +“i want to teach this young man how to shoe a horse,” said +telyánin. + +they went through the porch and into the stable. the lieutenant +explained how to rivet the hoof and went away to his own quarters. + +when rostóv went back there was a bottle of vodka and a sausage on the +table. denísov was sitting there scratching with his pen on a sheet of +paper. he looked gloomily in rostóv’s face and said: “i am witing +to her.” + +he leaned his elbows on the table with his pen in his hand and, +evidently glad of a chance to say quicker in words what he wanted to +write, told rostóv the contents of his letter. + +“you see, my fwiend,” he said, “we sleep when we don’t love. we +are childwen of the dust... but one falls in love and one is a god, one +is pua’ as on the fihst day of cweation... who’s that now? send him +to the devil, i’m busy!” he shouted to lavrúshka, who went up to +him not in the least abashed. + +“who should it be? you yourself told him to come. it’s the +quartermaster for the money.” + +denísov frowned and was about to shout some reply but stopped. + +“wetched business,” he muttered to himself. “how much is left in +the puhse?” he asked, turning to rostóv. + +“seven new and three old imperials.” + +“oh, it’s wetched! well, what are you standing there for, you +sca’cwow? call the quahtehmasteh,” he shouted to lavrúshka. + +“please, denísov, let me lend you some: i have some, you know,” +said rostóv, blushing. + +“don’t like bowwowing from my own fellows, i don’t,” growled +denísov. + +“but if you won’t accept money from me like a comrade, you will +offend me. really i have some,” rostóv repeated. + +“no, i tell you.” + +and denísov went to the bed to get the purse from under the pillow. + +“where have you put it, wostóv?” + +“under the lower pillow.” + +“it’s not there.” + +denísov threw both pillows on the floor. the purse was not there. + +“that’s a miwacle.” + +“wait, haven’t you dropped it?” said rostóv, picking up the +pillows one at a time and shaking them. + +he pulled off the quilt and shook it. the purse was not there. + +“dear me, can i have forgotten? no, i remember thinking that you kept +it under your head like a treasure,” said rostóv. “i put it just +here. where is it?” he asked, turning to lavrúshka. + +“i haven’t been in the room. it must be where you put it.” + +“but it isn’t?...” + +“you’re always like that; you thwow a thing down anywhere and forget +it. feel in your pockets.” + +“no, if i hadn’t thought of it being a treasure,” said rostóv, +“but i remember putting it there.” + +lavrúshka turned all the bedding over, looked under the bed and under +the table, searched everywhere, and stood still in the middle of the +room. denísov silently watched lavrúshka’s movements, and when the +latter threw up his arms in surprise saying it was nowhere to be found +denísov glanced at rostóv. + +“wostóv, you’ve not been playing schoolboy twicks...” + +rostóv felt denísov’s gaze fixed on him, raised his eyes, and +instantly dropped them again. all the blood which had seemed congested +somewhere below his throat rushed to his face and eyes. he could not +draw breath. + +“and there hasn’t been anyone in the room except the lieutenant and +yourselves. it must be here somewhere,” said lavrúshka. + +“now then, you devil’s puppet, look alive and hunt for it!” +shouted denísov, suddenly, turning purple and rushing at the man with +a threatening gesture. “if the purse isn’t found i’ll flog you, +i’ll flog you all.” + +rostóv, his eyes avoiding denísov, began buttoning his coat, buckled +on his saber, and put on his cap. + +“i must have that purse, i tell you,” shouted denísov, shaking his +orderly by the shoulders and knocking him against the wall. + +“denísov, let him alone, i know who has taken it,” said rostóv, +going toward the door without raising his eyes. denísov paused, thought +a moment, and, evidently understanding what rostóv hinted at, seized +his arm. + +“nonsense!” he cried, and the veins on his forehead and neck stood +out like cords. “you are mad, i tell you. i won’t allow it. +the purse is here! i’ll flay this scoundwel alive, and it will be +found.” + +“i know who has taken it,” repeated rostóv in an unsteady voice, +and went to the door. + +“and i tell you, don’t you dahe to do it!” shouted denísov, +rushing at the cadet to restrain him. + +but rostóv pulled away his arm and, with as much anger as though +denísov were his worst enemy, firmly fixed his eyes directly on his +face. + +“do you understand what you’re saying?” he said in a trembling +voice. “there was no one else in the room except myself. so that if it +is not so, then...” + +he could not finish, and ran out of the room. + +“ah, may the devil take you and evewybody,” were the last words +rostóv heard. + +rostóv went to telyánin’s quarters. + +“the master is not in, he’s gone to headquarters,” said +telyánin’s orderly. “has something happened?” he added, surprised +at the cadet’s troubled face. + +“no, nothing.” + +“you’ve only just missed him,” said the orderly. + +the headquarters were situated two miles away from salzeneck, and +rostóv, without returning home, took a horse and rode there. there was +an inn in the village which the officers frequented. rostóv rode up to +it and saw telyánin’s horse at the porch. + +in the second room of the inn the lieutenant was sitting over a dish of +sausages and a bottle of wine. + +“ah, you’ve come here too, young man!” he said, smiling and +raising his eyebrows. + +“yes,” said rostóv as if it cost him a great deal to utter the +word; and he sat down at the nearest table. + +both were silent. there were two germans and a russian officer in the +room. no one spoke and the only sounds heard were the clatter of knives +and the munching of the lieutenant. + +when telyánin had finished his lunch he took out of his pocket a double +purse and, drawing its rings aside with his small, white, turned-up +fingers, drew out a gold imperial, and lifting his eyebrows gave it to +the waiter. + +“please be quick,” he said. + +the coin was a new one. rostóv rose and went up to telyánin. + +“allow me to look at your purse,” he said in a low, almost +inaudible, voice. + +with shifting eyes but eyebrows still raised, telyánin handed him the +purse. + +“yes, it’s a nice purse. yes, yes,” he said, growing suddenly +pale, and added, “look at it, young man.” + +rostóv took the purse in his hand, examined it and the money in it, and +looked at telyánin. the lieutenant was looking about in his usual way +and suddenly seemed to grow very merry. + +“if we get to vienna i’ll get rid of it there but in these wretched +little towns there’s nowhere to spend it,” said he. “well, let me +have it, young man, i’m going.” + +rostóv did not speak. + +“and you? are you going to have lunch too? they feed you quite +decently here,” continued telyánin. “now then, let me have it.” + +he stretched out his hand to take hold of the purse. rostóv let go of +it. telyánin took the purse and began carelessly slipping it into the +pocket of his riding breeches, with his eyebrows lifted and his mouth +slightly open, as if to say, “yes, yes, i am putting my purse in my +pocket and that’s quite simple and is no one else’s business.” + +“well, young man?” he said with a sigh, and from under his lifted +brows he glanced into rostóv’s eyes. + +some flash as of an electric spark shot from telyánin’s eyes to +rostóv’s and back, and back again and again in an instant. + +“come here,” said rostóv, catching hold of telyánin’s arm and +almost dragging him to the window. “that money is denísov’s; you +took it...” he whispered just above telyánin’s ear. + +“what? what? how dare you? what?” said telyánin. + +but these words came like a piteous, despairing cry and an entreaty for +pardon. as soon as rostóv heard them, an enormous load of doubt +fell from him. he was glad, and at the same instant began to pity the +miserable man who stood before him, but the task he had begun had to be +completed. + +“heaven only knows what the people here may imagine,” muttered +telyánin, taking up his cap and moving toward a small empty room. “we +must have an explanation...” + +“i know it and shall prove it,” said rostóv. + +“i...” + +every muscle of telyánin’s pale, terrified face began to quiver, his +eyes still shifted from side to side but with a downward look not rising +to rostóv’s face, and his sobs were audible. + +“count!... don’t ruin a young fellow... here is this wretched money, +take it...” he threw it on the table. “i have an old father and +mother!...” + +rostóv took the money, avoiding telyánin’s eyes, and went out of the +room without a word. but at the door he stopped and then retraced his +steps. “o god,” he said with tears in his eyes, “how could you do +it?” + +“count...” said telyánin drawing nearer to him. + +“don’t touch me,” said rostóv, drawing back. “if you need it, +take the money,” and he threw the purse to him and ran out of the inn. + + + + + +chapter v + +that same evening there was an animated discussion among the +squadron’s officers in denísov’s quarters. + +“and i tell you, rostóv, that you must apologize to the colonel!” +said a tall, grizzly-haired staff captain, with enormous mustaches and +many wrinkles on his large features, to rostóv who was crimson with +excitement. + +the staff captain, kírsten, had twice been reduced to the ranks for +affairs of honor and had twice regained his commission. + +“i will allow no one to call me a liar!” cried rostóv. “he told +me i lied, and i told him he lied. and there it rests. he may keep me +on duty every day, or may place me under arrest, but no one can make +me apologize, because if he, as commander of this regiment, thinks it +beneath his dignity to give me satisfaction, then...” + +“you just wait a moment, my dear fellow, and listen,” interrupted +the staff captain in his deep bass, calmly stroking his long mustache. +“you tell the colonel in the presence of other officers that an +officer has stolen...” + +“i’m not to blame that the conversation began in the presence of +other officers. perhaps i ought not to have spoken before them, but i am +not a diplomatist. that’s why i joined the hussars, thinking that here +one would not need finesse; and he tells me that i am lying—so let him +give me satisfaction...” + +“that’s all right. no one thinks you a coward, but that’s not the +point. ask denísov whether it is not out of the question for a cadet to +demand satisfaction of his regimental commander?” + +denísov sat gloomily biting his mustache and listening to the +conversation, evidently with no wish to take part in it. he answered the +staff captain’s question by a disapproving shake of his head. + +“you speak to the colonel about this nasty business before other +officers,” continued the staff captain, “and bogdánich” (the +colonel was called bogdánich) “shuts you up.” + +“he did not shut me up, he said i was telling an untruth.” + +“well, have it so, and you talked a lot of nonsense to him and must +apologize.” + +“not on any account!” exclaimed rostóv. + +“i did not expect this of you,” said the staff captain seriously and +severely. “you don’t wish to apologize, but, man, it’s not only to +him but to the whole regiment—all of us—you’re to blame all round. +the case is this: you ought to have thought the matter over and +taken advice; but no, you go and blurt it all straight out before the +officers. now what was the colonel to do? have the officer tried and +disgrace the whole regiment? disgrace the whole regiment because of one +scoundrel? is that how you look at it? we don’t see it like that. and +bogdánich was a brick: he told you you were saying what was not true. +it’s not pleasant, but what’s to be done, my dear fellow? you landed +yourself in it. and now, when one wants to smooth the thing over, some +conceit prevents your apologizing, and you wish to make the whole +affair public. you are offended at being put on duty a bit, but why not +apologize to an old and honorable officer? whatever bogdánich may +be, anyway he is an honorable and brave old colonel! you’re quick at +taking offense, but you don’t mind disgracing the whole regiment!” +the staff captain’s voice began to tremble. “you have been in the +regiment next to no time, my lad, you’re here today and tomorrow +you’ll be appointed adjutant somewhere and can snap your fingers when +it is said ‘there are thieves among the pávlograd officers!’ but +it’s not all the same to us! am i not right, denísov? it’s not the +same!” + +denísov remained silent and did not move, but occasionally looked with +his glittering black eyes at rostóv. + +“you value your own pride and don’t wish to apologize,” continued +the staff captain, “but we old fellows, who have grown up in and, god +willing, are going to die in the regiment, we prize the honor of the +regiment, and bogdánich knows it. oh, we do prize it, old fellow! and +all this is not right, it’s not right! you may take offense or not but +i always stick to mother truth. it’s not right!” + +and the staff captain rose and turned away from rostóv. + +“that’s twue, devil take it!” shouted denísov, jumping up. “now +then, wostóv, now then!” + +rostóv, growing red and pale alternately, looked first at one officer +and then at the other. + +“no, gentlemen, no... you mustn’t think... i quite understand. +you’re wrong to think that of me... i... for me... for the honor of +the regiment i’d... ah well, i’ll show that in action, and for me +the honor of the flag... well, never mind, it’s true i’m to blame, +to blame all round. well, what else do you want?...” + +“come, that’s right, count!” cried the staff captain, turning +round and clapping rostóv on the shoulder with his big hand. + +“i tell you,” shouted denísov, “he’s a fine fellow.” + +“that’s better, count,” said the staff captain, beginning to +address rostóv by his title, as if in recognition of his confession. +“go and apologize, your excellency. yes, go!” + +“gentlemen, i’ll do anything. no one shall hear a word from me,” +said rostóv in an imploring voice, “but i can’t apologize, by god i +can’t, do what you will! how can i go and apologize like a little boy +asking forgiveness?” + +denísov began to laugh. + +“it’ll be worse for you. bogdánich is vindictive and you’ll pay +for your obstinacy,” said kírsten. + +“no, on my word it’s not obstinacy! i can’t describe the feeling. +i can’t...” + +“well, it’s as you like,” said the staff captain. “and what has +become of that scoundrel?” he asked denísov. + +“he has weported himself sick, he’s to be stwuck off the list +tomowwow,” muttered denísov. + +“it is an illness, there’s no other way of explaining it,” said +the staff captain. + +“illness or not, he’d better not cwoss my path. i’d kill him!” +shouted denísov in a bloodthirsty tone. + +just then zherkóv entered the room. + +“what brings you here?” cried the officers turning to the newcomer. + +“we’re to go into action, gentlemen! mack has surrendered with his +whole army.” + +“it’s not true!” + +“i’ve seen him myself!” + +“what? saw the real mack? with hands and feet?” + +“into action! into action! bring him a bottle for such news! but how +did you come here?” + +“i’ve been sent back to the regiment all on account of that devil, +mack. an austrian general complained of me. i congratulated him on +mack’s arrival... what’s the matter, rostóv? you look as if you’d +just come out of a hot bath.” + +“oh, my dear fellow, we’re in such a stew here these last two +days.” + +the regimental adjutant came in and confirmed the news brought by +zherkóv. they were under orders to advance next day. + +“we’re going into action, gentlemen!” + +“well, thank god! we’ve been sitting here too long!” + + + + + +chapter vi + +kutúzov fell back toward vienna, destroying behind him the bridges over +the rivers inn (at braunau) and traun (near linz). on october 23 the +russian troops were crossing the river enns. at midday the russian +baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling +through the town of enns on both sides of the bridge. + +it was a warm, rainy, autumnal day. the wide expanse that opened out +before the heights on which the russian batteries stood guarding the +bridge was at times veiled by a diaphanous curtain of slanting rain, and +then, suddenly spread out in the sunlight, far-distant objects could +be clearly seen glittering as though freshly varnished. down below, +the little town could be seen with its white, red-roofed houses, its +cathedral, and its bridge, on both sides of which streamed jostling +masses of russian troops. at the bend of the danube, vessels, an island, +and a castle with a park surrounded by the waters of the confluence of +the enns and the danube became visible, and the rocky left bank of the +danube covered with pine forests, with a mystic background of green +treetops and bluish gorges. the turrets of a convent stood out beyond a +wild virgin pine forest, and far away on the other side of the enns the +enemy’s horse patrols could be discerned. + +among the field guns on the brow of the hill the general in command of +the rearguard stood with a staff officer, scanning the country through +his fieldglass. a little behind them nesvítski, who had been sent to +the rearguard by the commander in chief, was sitting on the trail of a +gun carriage. a cossack who accompanied him had handed him a knapsack +and a flask, and nesvítski was treating some officers to pies and real +doppelkümmel. the officers gladly gathered round him, some on their +knees, some squatting turkish fashion on the wet grass. + +“yes, the austrian prince who built that castle was no fool. it’s +a fine place! why are you not eating anything, gentlemen?” nesvítski +was saying. + +“thank you very much, prince,” answered one of the officers, pleased +to be talking to a staff officer of such importance. “it’s a lovely +place! we passed close to the park and saw two deer... and what a +splendid house!” + +“look, prince,” said another, who would have dearly liked to take +another pie but felt shy, and therefore pretended to be examining the +countryside—“see, our infantrymen have already got there. look there +in the meadow behind the village, three of them are dragging something. +they’ll ransack that castle,” he remarked with evident approval. + +“so they will,” said nesvítski. “no, but what i should like,” +added he, munching a pie in his moist-lipped handsome mouth, “would be +to slip in over there.” + +he pointed with a smile to a turreted nunnery, and his eyes narrowed and +gleamed. + +“that would be fine, gentlemen!” + +the officers laughed. + +“just to flutter the nuns a bit. they say there are italian girls +among them. on my word i’d give five years of my life for it!” + +“they must be feeling dull, too,” said one of the bolder officers, +laughing. + +meanwhile the staff officer standing in front pointed out something to +the general, who looked through his field glass. + +“yes, so it is, so it is,” said the general angrily, lowering the +field glass and shrugging his shoulders, “so it is! they’ll be fired +on at the crossing. and why are they dawdling there?” + +on the opposite side the enemy could be seen by the naked eye, and from +their battery a milk-white cloud arose. then came the distant report of +a shot, and our troops could be seen hurrying to the crossing. + +nesvítski rose, puffing, and went up to the general, smiling. + +“would not your excellency like a little refreshment?” he said. + +“it’s a bad business,” said the general without answering him, +“our men have been wasting time.” + +“hadn’t i better ride over, your excellency?” asked nesvítski. + +“yes, please do,” answered the general, and he repeated the order +that had already once been given in detail: “and tell the hussars +that they are to cross last and to fire the bridge as i ordered; and the +inflammable material on the bridge must be reinspected.” + +“very good,” answered nesvítski. + +he called the cossack with his horse, told him to put away the knapsack +and flask, and swung his heavy person easily into the saddle. + +“i’ll really call in on the nuns,” he said to the officers who +watched him smilingly, and he rode off by the winding path down the +hill. + +“now then, let’s see how far it will carry, captain. just try!” +said the general, turning to an artillery officer. “have a little fun +to pass the time.” + +“crew, to your guns!” commanded the officer. + +in a moment the men came running gaily from their campfires and began +loading. + +“one!” came the command. + +number one jumped briskly aside. the gun rang out with a deafening +metallic roar, and a whistling grenade flew above the heads of our +troops below the hill and fell far short of the enemy, a little smoke +showing the spot where it burst. + +the faces of officers and men brightened up at the sound. everyone got +up and began watching the movements of our troops below, as plainly +visible as if but a stone’s throw away, and the movements of the +approaching enemy farther off. at the same instant the sun came fully +out from behind the clouds, and the clear sound of the solitary shot +and the brilliance of the bright sunshine merged in a single joyous and +spirited impression. + + + + + +chapter vii + +two of the enemy’s shots had already flown across the bridge, where +there was a crush. halfway across stood prince nesvítski, who had +alighted from his horse and whose big body was jammed against the +railings. he looked back laughing to the cossack who stood a few +steps behind him holding two horses by their bridles. each time prince +nesvítski tried to move on, soldiers and carts pushed him back again +and pressed him against the railings, and all he could do was to smile. + +“what a fine fellow you are, friend!” said the cossack to a convoy +soldier with a wagon, who was pressing onto the infantrymen who were +crowded together close to his wheels and his horses. “what a fellow! +you can’t wait a moment! don’t you see the general wants to pass?” + +but the convoyman took no notice of the word “general” and shouted +at the soldiers who were blocking his way. “hi there, boys! keep to +the left! wait a bit.” but the soldiers, crowded together shoulder to +shoulder, their bayonets interlocking, moved over the bridge in a dense +mass. looking down over the rails prince nesvítski saw the rapid, noisy +little waves of the enns, which rippling and eddying round the piles of +the bridge chased each other along. looking on the bridge he saw equally +uniform living waves of soldiers, shoulder straps, covered shakos, +knapsacks, bayonets, long muskets, and, under the shakos, faces with +broad cheekbones, sunken cheeks, and listless tired expressions, and +feet that moved through the sticky mud that covered the planks of the +bridge. sometimes through the monotonous waves of men, like a fleck of +white foam on the waves of the enns, an officer, in a cloak and with +a type of face different from that of the men, squeezed his way along; +sometimes like a chip of wood whirling in the river, an hussar on foot, +an orderly, or a townsman was carried through the waves of infantry; +and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers’ or +company’s baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered, and hemmed in on +all sides, moved across the bridge. + +“it’s as if a dam had burst,” said the cossack hopelessly. “are +there many more of you to come?” + +“a million all but one!” replied a waggish soldier in a torn coat, +with a wink, and passed on followed by another, an old man. + +“if he” (he meant the enemy) “begins popping at the bridge now,” +said the old soldier dismally to a comrade, “you’ll forget to +scratch yourself.” + +that soldier passed on, and after him came another sitting on a cart. + +“where the devil have the leg bands been shoved to?” said an +orderly, running behind the cart and fumbling in the back of it. + +and he also passed on with the wagon. then came some merry soldiers who +had evidently been drinking. + +“and then, old fellow, he gives him one in the teeth with the butt +end of his gun...” a soldier whose greatcoat was well tucked up said +gaily, with a wide swing of his arm. + +“yes, the ham was just delicious...” answered another with a loud +laugh. and they, too, passed on, so that nesvítski did not learn who +had been struck on the teeth, or what the ham had to do with it. + +“bah! how they scurry. he just sends a ball and they think they’ll +all be killed,” a sergeant was saying angrily and reproachfully. + +“as it flies past me, daddy, the ball i mean,” said a young soldier +with an enormous mouth, hardly refraining from laughing, “i felt like +dying of fright. i did, ‘pon my word, i got that frightened!” said +he, as if bragging of having been frightened. + +that one also passed. then followed a cart unlike any that had gone +before. it was a german cart with a pair of horses led by a german, and +seemed loaded with a whole houseful of effects. a fine brindled cow with +a large udder was attached to the cart behind. a woman with an unweaned +baby, an old woman, and a healthy german girl with bright red cheeks +were sitting on some feather beds. evidently these fugitives were +allowed to pass by special permission. the eyes of all the soldiers +turned toward the women, and while the vehicle was passing at foot pace +all the soldiers’ remarks related to the two young ones. every face +bore almost the same smile, expressing unseemly thoughts about the +women. + +“just see, the german sausage is making tracks, too!” + +“sell me the missis,” said another soldier, addressing the german, +who, angry and frightened, strode energetically along with downcast +eyes. + +“see how smart she’s made herself! oh, the devils!” + +“there, fedótov, you should be quartered on them!” + +“i have seen as much before now, mate!” + +“where are you going?” asked an infantry officer who was eating an +apple, also half smiling as he looked at the handsome girl. + +the german closed his eyes, signifying that he did not understand. + +“take it if you like,” said the officer, giving the girl an apple. + +the girl smiled and took it. nesvítski like the rest of the men on the +bridge did not take his eyes off the women till they had passed. when +they had gone by, the same stream of soldiers followed, with the same +kind of talk, and at last all stopped. as often happens, the horses of +a convoy wagon became restive at the end of the bridge, and the whole +crowd had to wait. + +“and why are they stopping? there’s no proper order!” said the +soldiers. “where are you shoving to? devil take you! can’t you wait? +it’ll be worse if he fires the bridge. see, here’s an officer jammed +in too”—different voices were saying in the crowd, as the men looked +at one another, and all pressed toward the exit from the bridge. + +looking down at the waters of the enns under the bridge, nesvítski +suddenly heard a sound new to him, of something swiftly approaching... +something big, that splashed into the water. + +“just see where it carries to!” a soldier near by said sternly, +looking round at the sound. + +“encouraging us to get along quicker,” said another uneasily. + +the crowd moved on again. nesvítski realized that it was a cannon ball. + +“hey, cossack, my horse!” he said. “now, then, you there! get out +of the way! make way!” + +with great difficulty he managed to get to his horse, and shouting +continually he moved on. the soldiers squeezed themselves to make way +for him, but again pressed on him so that they jammed his leg, and those +nearest him were not to blame for they were themselves pressed still +harder from behind. + +“nesvítski, nesvítski! you numskull!” came a hoarse voice from +behind him. + +nesvítski looked round and saw, some fifteen paces away but separated +by the living mass of moving infantry, váska denísov, red and shaggy, +with his cap on the back of his black head and a cloak hanging jauntily +over his shoulder. + +“tell these devils, these fiends, to let me pass!” shouted denísov +evidently in a fit of rage, his coal-black eyes with their bloodshot +whites glittering and rolling as he waved his sheathed saber in a small +bare hand as red as his face. + +“ah, váska!” joyfully replied nesvítski. “what’s up with +you?” + +“the squadwon can’t pass,” shouted váska denísov, showing his +white teeth fiercely and spurring his black thoroughbred arab, which +twitched its ears as the bayonets touched it, and snorted, spurting +white foam from his bit, tramping the planks of the bridge with his +hoofs, and apparently ready to jump over the railings had his rider let +him. “what is this? they’re like sheep! just like sheep! out of the +way!... let us pass!... stop there, you devil with the cart! i’ll hack +you with my saber!” he shouted, actually drawing his saber from its +scabbard and flourishing it. + +the soldiers crowded against one another with terrified faces, and +denísov joined nesvítski. + +“how’s it you’re not drunk today?” said nesvítski when the +other had ridden up to him. + +“they don’t even give one time to dwink!” answered váska +denísov. “they keep dwagging the wegiment to and fwo all day. if they +mean to fight, let’s fight. but the devil knows what this is.” + +“what a dandy you are today!” said nesvítski, looking at +denísov’s new cloak and saddlecloth. + +denísov smiled, took out of his sabretache a handkerchief that diffused +a smell of perfume, and put it to nesvítski’s nose. + +“of course. i’m going into action! i’ve shaved, bwushed my teeth, +and scented myself.” + +the imposing figure of nesvítski followed by his cossack, and +the determination of denísov who flourished his sword and shouted +frantically, had such an effect that they managed to squeeze through +to the farther side of the bridge and stopped the infantry. beside the +bridge nesvítski found the colonel to whom he had to deliver the order, +and having done this he rode back. + +having cleared the way denísov stopped at the end of the bridge. +carelessly holding in his stallion that was neighing and pawing the +ground, eager to rejoin its fellows, he watched his squadron draw +nearer. then the clang of hoofs, as of several horses galloping, +resounded on the planks of the bridge, and the squadron, officers in +front and men four abreast, spread across the bridge and began to emerge +on his side of it. + +the infantry who had been stopped crowded near the bridge in the +trampled mud and gazed with that particular feeling of ill-will, +estrangement, and ridicule with which troops of different arms usually +encounter one another at the clean, smart hussars who moved past them in +regular order. + +“smart lads! only fit for a fair!” said one. + +“what good are they? they’re led about just for show!” remarked +another. + +“don’t kick up the dust, you infantry!” jested an hussar whose +prancing horse had splashed mud over some foot soldiers. + +“i’d like to put you on a two days’ march with a knapsack! your +fine cords would soon get a bit rubbed,” said an infantryman, wiping +the mud off his face with his sleeve. “perched up there, you’re more +like a bird than a man.” + +“there now, zíkin, they ought to put you on a horse. you’d look +fine,” said a corporal, chaffing a thin little soldier who bent under +the weight of his knapsack. + +“take a stick between your legs, that’ll suit you for a horse!” +the hussar shouted back. + + + + + +chapter viii + +the last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing +together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel. at last +the baggage wagons had all crossed, the crush was less, and the last +battalion came onto the bridge. only denísov’s squadron of hussars +remained on the farther side of the bridge facing the enemy, who could +be seen from the hill on the opposite bank but was not yet visible from +the bridge, for the horizon as seen from the valley through which the +river flowed was formed by the rising ground only half a mile away. +at the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our +cossack scouts were moving. suddenly on the road at the top of the high +ground, artillery and troops in blue uniform were seen. these were the +french. a group of cossack scouts retired down the hill at a trot. all +the officers and men of denísov’s squadron, though they tried to talk +of other things and to look in other directions, thought only of what +was there on the hilltop, and kept constantly looking at the patches +appearing on the skyline, which they knew to be the enemy’s troops. +the weather had cleared again since noon and the sun was descending +brightly upon the danube and the dark hills around it. it was calm, and +at intervals the bugle calls and the shouts of the enemy could be heard +from the hill. there was no one now between the squadron and the enemy +except a few scattered skirmishers. an empty space of some seven hundred +yards was all that separated them. the enemy ceased firing, and that +stern, threatening, inaccessible, and intangible line which separates +two hostile armies was all the more clearly felt. + +“one step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing +the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. and +what is there? who is there?—there beyond that field, that tree, that +roof lit up by the sun? no one knows, but one wants to know. you fear +and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must +be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will +inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. but you are +strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and are surrounded by other such +excitedly animated and healthy men.” so thinks, or at any rate +feels, anyone who comes in sight of the enemy, and that feeling gives +a particular glamour and glad keenness of impression to everything that +takes place at such moments. + +on the high ground where the enemy was, the smoke of a cannon rose, +and a ball flew whistling over the heads of the hussar squadron. the +officers who had been standing together rode off to their places. the +hussars began carefully aligning their horses. silence fell on the whole +squadron. all were looking at the enemy in front and at the squadron +commander, awaiting the word of command. a second and a third cannon +ball flew past. evidently they were firing at the hussars, but the balls +with rapid rhythmic whistle flew over the heads of the horsemen and fell +somewhere beyond them. the hussars did not look round, but at the sound +of each shot, as at the word of command, the whole squadron with its +rows of faces so alike yet so different, holding its breath while the +ball flew past, rose in the stirrups and sank back again. the soldiers +without turning their heads glanced at one another, curious to see their +comrades’ impression. every face, from denísov’s to that of the +bugler, showed one common expression of conflict, irritation, and +excitement, around chin and mouth. the quartermaster frowned, looking +at the soldiers as if threatening to punish them. cadet mirónov ducked +every time a ball flew past. rostóv on the left flank, mounted on his +rook—a handsome horse despite its game leg—had the happy air of a +schoolboy called up before a large audience for an examination in which +he feels sure he will distinguish himself. he was glancing at everyone +with a clear, bright expression, as if asking them to notice how calmly +he sat under fire. but despite himself, on his face too that same +indication of something new and stern showed round the mouth. + +“who’s that curtseying there? cadet miwónov! that’s not wight! +look at me,” cried denísov who, unable to keep still on one spot, +kept turning his horse in front of the squadron. + +the black, hairy, snub-nosed face of váska denísov, and his whole +short sturdy figure with the sinewy hairy hand and stumpy fingers in +which he held the hilt of his naked saber, looked just as it usually +did, especially toward evening when he had emptied his second bottle; he +was only redder than usual. with his shaggy head thrown back like birds +when they drink, pressing his spurs mercilessly into the sides of his +good horse, bedouin, and sitting as though falling backwards in the +saddle, he galloped to the other flank of the squadron and shouted in +a hoarse voice to the men to look to their pistols. he rode up to +kírsten. the staff captain on his broad-backed, steady mare came at a +walk to meet him. his face with its long mustache was serious as always, +only his eyes were brighter than usual. + +“well, what about it?” said he to denísov. “it won’t come to a +fight. you’ll see—we shall retire.” + +“the devil only knows what they’re about!” muttered denísov. +“ah, wostóv,” he cried noticing the cadet’s bright face, +“you’ve got it at last.” + +and he smiled approvingly, evidently pleased with the cadet. rostóv +felt perfectly happy. just then the commander appeared on the bridge. +denísov galloped up to him. + +“your excellency! let us attack them! i’ll dwive them off.” + +“attack indeed!” said the colonel in a bored voice, puckering up his +face as if driving off a troublesome fly. “and why are you stopping +here? don’t you see the skirmishers are retreating? lead the squadron +back.” + +the squadron crossed the bridge and drew out of range of fire without +having lost a single man. the second squadron that had been in the front +line followed them across and the last cossacks quitted the farther side +of the river. + +the two pávlograd squadrons, having crossed the bridge, retired up the +hill one after the other. their colonel, karl bogdánich schubert, came +up to denísov’s squadron and rode at a footpace not far from rostóv, +without taking any notice of him although they were now meeting for the +first time since their encounter concerning telyánin. rostóv, feeling +that he was at the front and in the power of a man toward whom he now +admitted that he had been to blame, did not lift his eyes from the +colonel’s athletic back, his nape covered with light hair, and his red +neck. it seemed to rostóv that bogdánich was only pretending not +to notice him, and that his whole aim now was to test the cadet’s +courage, so he drew himself up and looked around him merrily; then it +seemed to him that bogdánich rode so near in order to show him his +courage. next he thought that his enemy would send the squadron on a +desperate attack just to punish him—rostóv. then he imagined how, +after the attack, bogdánich would come up to him as he lay wounded and +would magnanimously extend the hand of reconciliation. + +the high-shouldered figure of zherkóv, familiar to the pávlograds as +he had but recently left their regiment, rode up to the colonel. +after his dismissal from headquarters zherkóv had not remained in the +regiment, saying he was not such a fool as to slave at the front when he +could get more rewards by doing nothing on the staff, and had succeeded +in attaching himself as an orderly officer to prince bagratión. he now +came to his former chief with an order from the commander of the rear +guard. + +“colonel,” he said, addressing rostóv’s enemy with an air of +gloomy gravity and glancing round at his comrades, “there is an order +to stop and fire the bridge.” + +“an order to who?” asked the colonel morosely. + +“i don’t myself know ‘to who,’” replied the cornet in a +serious tone, “but the prince told me to ‘go and tell the colonel +that the hussars must return quickly and fire the bridge.’” + +zherkóv was followed by an officer of the suite who rode up to the +colonel of hussars with the same order. after him the stout nesvítski +came galloping up on a cossack horse that could scarcely carry his +weight. + +“how’s this, colonel?” he shouted as he approached. “i told you +to fire the bridge, and now someone has gone and blundered; they are all +beside themselves over there and one can’t make anything out.” + +the colonel deliberately stopped the regiment and turned to nesvítski. + +“you spoke to me of inflammable material,” said he, “but you said +nothing about firing it.” + +“but, my dear sir,” said nesvítski as he drew up, taking off his +cap and smoothing his hair wet with perspiration with his plump hand, +“wasn’t i telling you to fire the bridge, when inflammable material +had been put in position?” + +“i am not your ‘dear sir,’ mr. staff officer, and you did not tell +me to burn the bridge! i know the service, and it is my habit orders +strictly to obey. you said the bridge would be burned, but who would it +burn, i could not know by the holy spirit!” + +“ah, that’s always the way!” said nesvítski with a wave of the +hand. “how did you get here?” said he, turning to zherkóv. + +“on the same business. but you are damp! let me wring you out!” + +“you were saying, mr. staff officer...” continued the colonel in an +offended tone. + +“colonel,” interrupted the officer of the suite, “you must be +quick or the enemy will bring up his guns to use grapeshot.” + +the colonel looked silently at the officer of the suite, at the stout +staff officer, and at zherkóv, and he frowned. + +“i will the bridge fire,” he said in a solemn tone as if to announce +that in spite of all the unpleasantness he had to endure he would still +do the right thing. + +striking his horse with his long muscular legs as if it were to blame +for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second +squadron, that in which rostóv was serving under denísov, to return to +the bridge. + +“there, it’s just as i thought,” said rostóv to himself. “he +wishes to test me!” his heart contracted and the blood rushed to his +face. “let him see whether i am a coward!” he thought. + +again on all the bright faces of the squadron the serious expression +appeared that they had worn when under fire. rostóv watched his enemy, +the colonel, closely—to find in his face confirmation of his own +conjecture, but the colonel did not once glance at rostóv, and looked +as he always did when at the front, solemn and stern. then came the word +of command. + +“look sharp! look sharp!” several voices repeated around him. + +their sabers catching in the bridles and their spurs jingling, the +hussars hastily dismounted, not knowing what they were to do. the men +were crossing themselves. rostóv no longer looked at the colonel, he +had no time. he was afraid of falling behind the hussars, so much afraid +that his heart stood still. his hand trembled as he gave his horse into +an orderly’s charge, and he felt the blood rush to his heart with +a thud. denísov rode past him, leaning back and shouting something. +rostóv saw nothing but the hussars running all around him, their spurs +catching and their sabers clattering. + +“stretchers!” shouted someone behind him. + +rostóv did not think what this call for stretchers meant; he ran on, +trying only to be ahead of the others; but just at the bridge, not +looking at the ground, he came on some sticky, trodden mud, stumbled, +and fell on his hands. the others outstripped him. + +“at boss zides, captain,” he heard the voice of the colonel, who, +having ridden ahead, had pulled up his horse near the bridge, with a +triumphant, cheerful face. + +rostóv wiping his muddy hands on his breeches looked at his enemy and +was about to run on, thinking that the farther he went to the front +the better. but bogdánich, without looking at or recognizing rostóv, +shouted to him: + +“who’s that running on the middle of the bridge? to the right! come +back, cadet!” he cried angrily; and turning to denísov, who, showing +off his courage, had ridden on to the planks of the bridge: + +“why run risks, captain? you should dismount,” he said. + +“oh, every bullet has its billet,” answered váska denísov, turning +in his saddle. + + +meanwhile nesvítski, zherkóv, and the officer of the suite were +standing together out of range of the shots, watching, now the small +group of men with yellow shakos, dark-green jackets braided with cord, +and blue riding breeches, who were swarming near the bridge, and then at +what was approaching in the distance from the opposite side—the blue +uniforms and groups with horses, easily recognizable as artillery. + +“will they burn the bridge or not? who’ll get there first? will they +get there and fire the bridge or will the french get within grapeshot +range and wipe them out?” these were the questions each man of the +troops on the high ground above the bridge involuntarily asked himself +with a sinking heart—watching the bridge and the hussars in the bright +evening light and the blue tunics advancing from the other side with +their bayonets and guns. + +“ugh. the hussars will get it hot!” said nesvítski; “they are +within grapeshot range now.” + +“he shouldn’t have taken so many men,” said the officer of the +suite. + +“true enough,” answered nesvítski; “two smart fellows could have +done the job just as well.” + +“ah, your excellency,” put in zherkóv, his eyes fixed on the +hussars, but still with that naïve air that made it impossible to know +whether he was speaking in jest or in earnest. “ah, your excellency! +how you look at things! send two men? and who then would give us the +vladímir medal and ribbon? but now, even if they do get peppered, the +squadron may be recommended for honors and he may get a ribbon. our +bogdánich knows how things are done.” + +“there now!” said the officer of the suite, “that’s +grapeshot.” + +he pointed to the french guns, the limbers of which were being detached +and hurriedly removed. + +on the french side, amid the groups with cannon, a cloud of smoke +appeared, then a second and a third almost simultaneously, and at the +moment when the first report was heard a fourth was seen. then two +reports one after another, and a third. + +“oh! oh!” groaned nesvítski as if in fierce pain, seizing the +officer of the suite by the arm. “look! a man has fallen! fallen, +fallen!” + +“two, i think.” + +“if i were tsar i would never go to war,” said nesvítski, turning +away. + +the french guns were hastily reloaded. the infantry in their blue +uniforms advanced toward the bridge at a run. smoke appeared again +but at irregular intervals, and grapeshot cracked and rattled onto the +bridge. but this time nesvítski could not see what was happening there, +as a dense cloud of smoke arose from it. the hussars had succeeded in +setting it on fire and the french batteries were now firing at them, no +longer to hinder them but because the guns were trained and there was +someone to fire at. + +the french had time to fire three rounds of grapeshot before the hussars +got back to their horses. two were misdirected and the shot went too +high, but the last round fell in the midst of a group of hussars and +knocked three of them over. + +rostóv, absorbed by his relations with bogdánich, had paused on the +bridge not knowing what to do. there was no one to hew down (as he +had always imagined battles to himself), nor could he help to fire the +bridge because he had not brought any burning straw with him like the +other soldiers. he stood looking about him, when suddenly he heard a +rattle on the bridge as if nuts were being spilt, and the hussar nearest +to him fell against the rails with a groan. rostóv ran up to him with +the others. again someone shouted, “stretchers!” four men seized the +hussar and began lifting him. + +“oooh! for christ’s sake let me alone!” cried the wounded man, but +still he was lifted and laid on the stretcher. + +nicholas rostóv turned away and, as if searching for something, gazed +into the distance, at the waters of the danube, at the sky, and at the +sun. how beautiful the sky looked; how blue, how calm, and how deep! +how bright and glorious was the setting sun! with what soft glitter the +waters of the distant danube shone. and fairer still were the faraway +blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and +the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits... there was peace +and happiness... “i should wish for nothing else, nothing, if only i +were there,” thought rostóv. “in myself alone and in that sunshine +there is so much happiness; but here... groans, suffering, fear, and +this uncertainty and hurry... there—they are shouting again, and +again are all running back somewhere, and i shall run with them, and it, +death, is here above me and around... another instant and i shall never +again see the sun, this water, that gorge!...” + +at that instant the sun began to hide behind the clouds, and other +stretchers came into view before rostóv. and the fear of death and of +the stretchers, and love of the sun and of life, all merged into one +feeling of sickening agitation. + +“o lord god! thou who art in that heaven, save, forgive, and protect +me!” rostóv whispered. + +the hussars ran back to the men who held their horses; their voices +sounded louder and calmer, the stretchers disappeared from sight. + +“well, fwiend? so you’ve smelt powdah!” shouted váska denísov +just above his ear. + +“it’s all over; but i am a coward—yes, a coward!” thought +rostóv, and sighing deeply he took rook, his horse, which stood resting +one foot, from the orderly and began to mount. + +“was that grapeshot?” he asked denísov. + +“yes and no mistake!” cried denísov. “you worked like wegular +bwicks and it’s nasty work! an attack’s pleasant work! hacking +away at the dogs! but this sort of thing is the very devil, with them +shooting at you like a target.” + +and denísov rode up to a group that had stopped near rostóv, composed +of the colonel, nesvítski, zherkóv, and the officer from the suite. + +“well, it seems that no one has noticed,” thought rostóv. and this +was true. no one had taken any notice, for everyone knew the sensation +which the cadet under fire for the first time had experienced. + +“here’s something for you to report,” said zherkóv. “see if i +don’t get promoted to a sublieutenancy.” + +“inform the prince that i the bridge fired!” said the colonel +triumphantly and gaily. + +“and if he asks about the losses?” + +“a trifle,” said the colonel in his bass voice: “two hussars +wounded, and one knocked out,” he added, unable to restrain a happy +smile, and pronouncing the phrase “knocked out” with ringing +distinctness. + + + + + +chapter ix + +pursued by the french army of a hundred thousand men under the command +of bonaparte, encountering a population that was unfriendly to it, +losing confidence in its allies, suffering from shortness of supplies, +and compelled to act under conditions of war unlike anything that had +been foreseen, the russian army of thirty-five thousand men commanded +by kutúzov was hurriedly retreating along the danube, stopping where +overtaken by the enemy and fighting rearguard actions only as far as +necessary to enable it to retreat without losing its heavy equipment. +there had been actions at lambach, amstetten, and melk; but despite the +courage and endurance—acknowledged even by the enemy—with which the +russians fought, the only consequence of these actions was a yet more +rapid retreat. austrian troops that had escaped capture at ulm and had +joined kutúzov at braunau now separated from the russian army, and +kutúzov was left with only his own weak and exhausted forces. the +defense of vienna was no longer to be thought of. instead of an +offensive, the plan of which, carefully prepared in accord with the +modern science of strategics, had been handed to kutúzov when he was in +vienna by the austrian hofkriegsrath, the sole and almost unattainable +aim remaining for him was to effect a junction with the forces that were +advancing from russia, without losing his army as mack had done at ulm. + +on the twenty-eighth of october kutúzov with his army crossed to the +left bank of the danube and took up a position for the first time +with the river between himself and the main body of the french. on the +thirtieth he attacked mortier’s division, which was on the left bank, +and broke it up. in this action for the first time trophies were taken: +banners, cannon, and two enemy generals. for the first time, after a +fortnight’s retreat, the russian troops had halted and after a fight +had not only held the field but had repulsed the french. though the +troops were ill-clad, exhausted, and had lost a third of their number +in killed, wounded, sick, and stragglers; though a number of sick and +wounded had been abandoned on the other side of the danube with a letter +in which kutúzov entrusted them to the humanity of the enemy; and +though the big hospitals and the houses in krems converted into military +hospitals could no longer accommodate all the sick and wounded, yet the +stand made at krems and the victory over mortier raised the spirits of +the army considerably. throughout the whole army and at headquarters +most joyful though erroneous rumors were rife of the imaginary approach +of columns from russia, of some victory gained by the austrians, and of +the retreat of the frightened bonaparte. + +prince andrew during the battle had been in attendance on the austrian +general schmidt, who was killed in the action. his horse had been +wounded under him and his own arm slightly grazed by a bullet. as a mark +of the commander in chief’s special favor he was sent with the news of +this victory to the austrian court, now no longer at vienna (which was +threatened by the french) but at brünn. despite his apparently delicate +build prince andrew could endure physical fatigue far better than many +very muscular men, and on the night of the battle, having arrived +at krems excited but not weary, with dispatches from dokhtúrov to +kutúzov, he was sent immediately with a special dispatch to brünn. +to be so sent meant not only a reward but an important step toward +promotion. + +the night was dark but starry, the road showed black in the snow that +had fallen the previous day—the day of the battle. reviewing his +impressions of the recent battle, picturing pleasantly to himself the +impression his news of a victory would create, or recalling the send-off +given him by the commander in chief and his fellow officers, prince +andrew was galloping along in a post chaise enjoying the feelings of a +man who has at length begun to attain a long-desired happiness. as soon +as he closed his eyes his ears seemed filled with the rattle of the +wheels and the sensation of victory. then he began to imagine that +the russians were running away and that he himself was killed, but he +quickly roused himself with a feeling of joy, as if learning afresh that +this was not so but that on the contrary the french had run away. he +again recalled all the details of the victory and his own calm courage +during the battle, and feeling reassured he dozed off.... the dark +starry night was followed by a bright cheerful morning. the snow was +thawing in the sunshine, the horses galloped quickly, and on both sides +of the road were forests of different kinds, fields, and villages. + +at one of the post stations he overtook a convoy of russian wounded. +the russian officer in charge of the transport lolled back in the front +cart, shouting and scolding a soldier with coarse abuse. in each of +the long german carts six or more pale, dirty, bandaged men were being +jolted over the stony road. some of them were talking (he heard russian +words), others were eating bread; the more severely wounded looked +silently, with the languid interest of sick children, at the envoy +hurrying past them. + +prince andrew told his driver to stop, and asked a soldier in what +action they had been wounded. “day before yesterday, on the danube,” +answered the soldier. prince andrew took out his purse and gave the +soldier three gold pieces. + +“that’s for them all,” he said to the officer who came up. + +“get well soon, lads!” he continued, turning to the soldiers. +“there’s plenty to do still.” + +“what news, sir?” asked the officer, evidently anxious to start a +conversation. + +“good news!... go on!” he shouted to the driver, and they galloped +on. + +it was already quite dark when prince andrew rattled over the paved +streets of brünn and found himself surrounded by high buildings, the +lights of shops, houses, and street lamps, fine carriages, and all that +atmosphere of a large and active town which is always so attractive to a +soldier after camp life. despite his rapid journey and sleepless night, +prince andrew when he drove up to the palace felt even more vigorous and +alert than he had done the day before. only his eyes gleamed feverishly +and his thoughts followed one another with extraordinary clearness and +rapidity. he again vividly recalled the details of the battle, no longer +dim, but definite and in the concise form in which he imagined himself +stating them to the emperor francis. he vividly imagined the casual +questions that might be put to him and the answers he would give. he +expected to be at once presented to the emperor. at the chief entrance +to the palace, however, an official came running out to meet him, and +learning that he was a special messenger led him to another entrance. + +“to the right from the corridor, euer hochgeboren! there you will find +the adjutant on duty,” said the official. “he will conduct you to +the minister of war.” + +the adjutant on duty, meeting prince andrew, asked him to wait, and went +in to the minister of war. five minutes later he returned and bowing +with particular courtesy ushered prince andrew before him along a +corridor to the cabinet where the minister of war was at work. the +adjutant by his elaborate courtesy appeared to wish to ward off any +attempt at familiarity on the part of the russian messenger. + +prince andrew’s joyous feeling was considerably weakened as he +approached the door of the minister’s room. he felt offended, and +without his noticing it the feeling of offense immediately turned into +one of disdain which was quite uncalled for. his fertile mind instantly +suggested to him a point of view which gave him a right to despise +the adjutant and the minister. “away from the smell of powder, they +probably think it easy to gain victories!” he thought. his eyes +narrowed disdainfully, he entered the room of the minister of war with +peculiarly deliberate steps. this feeling of disdain was heightened +when he saw the minister seated at a large table reading some papers +and making pencil notes on them, and for the first two or three minutes +taking no notice of his arrival. a wax candle stood at each side of the +minister’s bent bald head with its gray temples. he went on reading +to the end, without raising his eyes at the opening of the door and the +sound of footsteps. + +“take this and deliver it,” said he to his adjutant, handing him the +papers and still taking no notice of the special messenger. + +prince andrew felt that either the actions of kutúzov’s army +interested the minister of war less than any of the other matters he was +concerned with, or he wanted to give the russian special messenger that +impression. “but that is a matter of perfect indifference to me,” he +thought. the minister drew the remaining papers together, arranged them +evenly, and then raised his head. he had an intellectual and distinctive +head, but the instant he turned to prince andrew the firm, intelligent +expression on his face changed in a way evidently deliberate and +habitual to him. his face took on the stupid artificial smile (which +does not even attempt to hide its artificiality) of a man who is +continually receiving many petitioners one after another. + +“from general field marshal kutúzov?” he asked. “i hope it is +good news? there has been an encounter with mortier? a victory? it was +high time!” + +he took the dispatch which was addressed to him and began to read it +with a mournful expression. + +“oh, my god! my god! schmidt!” he exclaimed in german. “what a +calamity! what a calamity!” + +having glanced through the dispatch he laid it on the table and looked +at prince andrew, evidently considering something. + +“ah what a calamity! you say the affair was decisive? but mortier is +not captured.” again he pondered. “i am very glad you have brought +good news, though schmidt’s death is a heavy price to pay for the +victory. his majesty will no doubt wish to see you, but not today. i +thank you! you must have a rest. be at the levee tomorrow after the +parade. however, i will let you know.” + +the stupid smile, which had left his face while he was speaking, +reappeared. + +“au revoir! thank you very much. his majesty will probably desire to +see you,” he added, bowing his head. + +when prince andrew left the palace he felt that all the interest +and happiness the victory had afforded him had been now left in the +indifferent hands of the minister of war and the polite adjutant. the +whole tenor of his thoughts instantaneously changed; the battle seemed +the memory of a remote event long past. + + + + + +chapter x + +prince andrew stayed at brünn with bilíbin, a russian acquaintance of +his in the diplomatic service. + +“ah, my dear prince! i could not have a more welcome visitor,” +said bilíbin as he came out to meet prince andrew. “franz, put the +prince’s things in my bedroom,” said he to the servant who was +ushering bolkónski in. “so you’re a messenger of victory, eh? +splendid! and i am sitting here ill, as you see.” + +after washing and dressing, prince andrew came into the diplomat’s +luxurious study and sat down to the dinner prepared for him. bilíbin +settled down comfortably beside the fire. + +after his journey and the campaign during which he had been deprived of +all the comforts of cleanliness and all the refinements of life, prince +andrew felt a pleasant sense of repose among luxurious surroundings such +as he had been accustomed to from childhood. besides it was pleasant, +after his reception by the austrians, to speak if not in russian +(for they were speaking french) at least with a russian who would, he +supposed, share the general russian antipathy to the austrians which was +then particularly strong. + +bilíbin was a man of thirty-five, a bachelor, and of the same circle as +prince andrew. they had known each other previously in petersburg, but +had become more intimate when prince andrew was in vienna with kutúzov. +just as prince andrew was a young man who gave promise of rising high +in the military profession, so to an even greater extent bilíbin gave +promise of rising in his diplomatic career. he was still a young man but +no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age +of sixteen, had been in paris and copenhagen, and now held a rather +important post in vienna. both the foreign minister and our ambassador +in vienna knew him and valued him. he was not one of those many +diplomats who are esteemed because they have certain negative qualities, +avoid doing certain things, and speak french. he was one of those, +who, liking work, knew how to do it, and despite his indolence would +sometimes spend a whole night at his writing table. he worked well +whatever the import of his work. it was not the question “what for?” +but the question “how?” that interested him. what the diplomatic +matter might be he did not care, but it gave him great pleasure to +prepare a circular, memorandum, or report, skillfully, pointedly, and +elegantly. bilíbin’s services were valued not only for what he wrote, +but also for his skill in dealing and conversing with those in the +highest spheres. + +bilíbin liked conversation as he liked work, only when it could be +made elegantly witty. in society he always awaited an opportunity to say +something striking and took part in a conversation only when that was +possible. his conversation was always sprinkled with wittily original, +finished phrases of general interest. these sayings were prepared in the +inner laboratory of his mind in a portable form as if intentionally, so +that insignificant society people might carry them from drawing room to +drawing room. and, in fact, bilíbin’s witticisms were hawked about +in the viennese drawing rooms and often had an influence on matters +considered important. + +his thin, worn, sallow face was covered with deep wrinkles, which always +looked as clean and well washed as the tips of one’s fingers after a +russian bath. the movement of these wrinkles formed the principal play +of expression on his face. now his forehead would pucker into deep folds +and his eyebrows were lifted, then his eyebrows would descend and +deep wrinkles would crease his cheeks. his small, deep-set eyes always +twinkled and looked out straight. + +“well, now tell me about your exploits,” said he. + +bolkónski, very modestly without once mentioning himself, described the +engagement and his reception by the minister of war. + +“they received me and my news as one receives a dog in a game of +skittles,” said he in conclusion. + +bilíbin smiled and the wrinkles on his face disappeared. + +“cependant, mon cher,” he remarked, examining his nails from a +distance and puckering the skin above his left eye, “malgré la haute +estime que je professe pour the orthodox russian army, j’avoue que +votre victoire n’est pas des plus victorieuses.” * + + * “but my dear fellow, with all my respect for the orthodox + russian army, i must say that your victory was not + particularly victorious.” + + +he went on talking in this way in french, uttering only those words in +russian on which he wished to put a contemptuous emphasis. + +“come now! you with all your forces fall on the unfortunate mortier +and his one division, and even then mortier slips through your fingers! +where’s the victory?” + +“but seriously,” said prince andrew, “we can at any rate say +without boasting that it was a little better than at ulm...” + +“why didn’t you capture one, just one, marshal for us?” + +“because not everything happens as one expects or with the smoothness +of a parade. we had expected, as i told you, to get at their rear by +seven in the morning but had not reached it by five in the afternoon.” + +“and why didn’t you do it at seven in the morning? you ought to have +been there at seven in the morning,” returned bilíbin with a smile. +“you ought to have been there at seven in the morning.” + +“why did you not succeed in impressing on bonaparte by diplomatic +methods that he had better leave genoa alone?” retorted prince andrew +in the same tone. + +“i know,” interrupted bilíbin, “you’re thinking it’s very +easy to take marshals, sitting on a sofa by the fire! that is true, but +still why didn’t you capture him? so don’t be surprised if not only +the minister of war but also his most august majesty the emperor and +king francis is not much delighted by your victory. even i, a poor +secretary of the russian embassy, do not feel any need in token of my +joy to give my franz a thaler, or let him go with his liebchen to the +prater... true, we have no prater here...” + +he looked straight at prince andrew and suddenly unwrinkled his +forehead. + +“it is now my turn to ask you ‘why?’ mon cher,” said bolkónski. +“i confess i do not understand: perhaps there are diplomatic +subtleties here beyond my feeble intelligence, but i can’t make it +out. mack loses a whole army, the archduke ferdinand and the archduke +karl give no signs of life and make blunder after blunder. kutúzov +alone at last gains a real victory, destroying the spell of the +invincibility of the french, and the minister of war does not even care +to hear the details.” + +“that’s just it, my dear fellow. you see it’s hurrah for the tsar, +for russia, for the orthodox greek faith! all that is beautiful, but +what do we, i mean the austrian court, care for your victories? bring +us nice news of a victory by the archduke karl or ferdinand (one +archduke’s as good as another, as you know) and even if it is only +over a fire brigade of bonaparte’s, that will be another story and +we’ll fire off some cannon! but this sort of thing seems done +on purpose to vex us. the archduke karl does nothing, the archduke +ferdinand disgraces himself. you abandon vienna, give up its +defense—as much as to say: ‘heaven is with us, but heaven help you +and your capital!’ the one general whom we all loved, schmidt, you +expose to a bullet, and then you congratulate us on the victory! admit +that more irritating news than yours could not have been conceived. +it’s as if it had been done on purpose, on purpose. besides, suppose +you did gain a brilliant victory, if even the archduke karl gained a +victory, what effect would that have on the general course of events? +it’s too late now when vienna is occupied by the french army!” + +“what? occupied? vienna occupied?” + +“not only occupied, but bonaparte is at schönbrunn, and the count, +our dear count vrbna, goes to him for orders.” + +after the fatigues and impressions of the journey, his reception, and +especially after having dined, bolkónski felt that he could not take in +the full significance of the words he heard. + +“count lichtenfels was here this morning,” bilíbin continued, +“and showed me a letter in which the parade of the french in vienna +was fully described: prince murat et tout le tremblement... you see that +your victory is not a matter for great rejoicing and that you can’t be +received as a savior.” + +“really i don’t care about that, i don’t care at all,” said +prince andrew, beginning to understand that his news of the battle +before krems was really of small importance in view of such events as +the fall of austria’s capital. “how is it vienna was taken? what of +the bridge and its celebrated bridgehead and prince auersperg? we heard +reports that prince auersperg was defending vienna?” he said. + +“prince auersperg is on this, on our side of the river, and is +defending us—doing it very badly, i think, but still he is defending +us. but vienna is on the other side. no, the bridge has not yet been +taken and i hope it will not be, for it is mined and orders have been +given to blow it up. otherwise we should long ago have been in the +mountains of bohemia, and you and your army would have spent a bad +quarter of an hour between two fires.” + +“but still this does not mean that the campaign is over,” said +prince andrew. + +“well, i think it is. the bigwigs here think so too, but they +daren’t say so. it will be as i said at the beginning of the campaign, +it won’t be your skirmishing at dürrenstein, or gunpowder at all, +that will decide the matter, but those who devised it,” said bilíbin +quoting one of his own mots, releasing the wrinkles on his forehead, and +pausing. “the only question is what will come of the meeting between +the emperor alexander and the king of prussia in berlin? if prussia +joins the allies, austria’s hand will be forced and there will be war. +if not it is merely a question of settling where the preliminaries of +the new campo formio are to be drawn up.” + +“what an extraordinary genius!” prince andrew suddenly exclaimed, +clenching his small hand and striking the table with it, “and what +luck the man has!” + +“buonaparte?” said bilíbin inquiringly, puckering up his forehead +to indicate that he was about to say something witty. “buonaparte?” +he repeated, accentuating the u: “i think, however, now that he lays +down laws for austria at schönbrunn, il faut lui faire grâce de +l’u! * i shall certainly adopt an innovation and call him simply +bonaparte!” + + * “we must let him off the u!” + + +“but joking apart,” said prince andrew, “do you really think the +campaign is over?” + +“this is what i think. austria has been made a fool of, and she is +not used to it. she will retaliate. and she has been fooled in the +first place because her provinces have been pillaged—they say the holy +russian army loots terribly—her army is destroyed, her capital +taken, and all this for the beaux yeux * of his sardinian majesty. and +therefore—this is between ourselves—i instinctively feel that we +are being deceived, my instinct tells me of negotiations with france and +projects for peace, a secret peace concluded separately.” + + * fine eyes. + +“impossible!” cried prince andrew. “that would be too base.” + +“if we live we shall see,” replied bilíbin, his face again becoming +smooth as a sign that the conversation was at an end. + +when prince andrew reached the room prepared for him and lay down in a +clean shirt on the feather bed with its warmed and fragrant pillows, he +felt that the battle of which he had brought tidings was far, far +away from him. the alliance with prussia, austria’s treachery, +bonaparte’s new triumph, tomorrow’s levee and parade, and the +audience with the emperor francis occupied his thoughts. + +he closed his eyes, and immediately a sound of cannonading, of musketry +and the rattling of carriage wheels seemed to fill his ears, and now +again drawn out in a thin line the musketeers were descending the hill, +the french were firing, and he felt his heart palpitating as he rode +forward beside schmidt with the bullets merrily whistling all around, +and he experienced tenfold the joy of living, as he had not done since +childhood. + +he woke up... + +“yes, that all happened!” he said, and, smiling happily to himself +like a child, he fell into a deep, youthful slumber. + + + + + +chapter xi + +next day he woke late. recalling his recent impressions, the first +thought that came into his mind was that today he had to be presented +to the emperor francis; he remembered the minister of war, the polite +austrian adjutant, bilíbin, and last night’s conversation. having +dressed for his attendance at court in full parade uniform, which he +had not worn for a long time, he went into bilíbin’s study fresh, +animated, and handsome, with his hand bandaged. in the study were four +gentlemen of the diplomatic corps. with prince hippolyte kurágin, +who was a secretary to the embassy, bolkónski was already acquainted. +bilíbin introduced him to the others. + +the gentlemen assembled at bilíbin’s were young, wealthy, gay society +men, who here, as in vienna, formed a special set which bilíbin, their +leader, called les nôtres. * this set, consisting almost exclusively of +diplomats, evidently had its own interests which had nothing to do with +war or politics but related to high society, to certain women, and to +the official side of the service. these gentlemen received prince +andrew as one of themselves, an honor they did not extend to many. from +politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions +about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry +jests and gossip. + + * ours. + +“but the best of it was,” said one, telling of the misfortune of +a fellow diplomat, “that the chancellor told him flatly that his +appointment to london was a promotion and that he was so to regard it. +can you fancy the figure he cut?...” + +“but the worst of it, gentlemen—i am giving kurágin away to +you—is that that man suffers, and this don juan, wicked fellow, is +taking advantage of it!” + +prince hippolyte was lolling in a lounge chair with his legs over its +arm. he began to laugh. + +“tell me about that!” he said. + +“oh, you don juan! you serpent!” cried several voices. + +“you, bolkónski, don’t know,” said bilíbin turning to prince +andrew, “that all the atrocities of the french army (i nearly said of +the russian army) are nothing compared to what this man has been doing +among the women!” + +“la femme est la compagne de l’homme,” * announced prince +hippolyte, and began looking through a lorgnette at his elevated legs. + + * “woman is man’s companion.” + + +bilíbin and the rest of “ours” burst out laughing in hippolyte’s +face, and prince andrew saw that hippolyte, of whom—he had to +admit—he had almost been jealous on his wife’s account, was the butt +of this set. + +“oh, i must give you a treat,” bilíbin whispered to bolkónski. +“kurágin is exquisite when he discusses politics—you should see his +gravity!” + +he sat down beside hippolyte and wrinkling his forehead began talking +to him about politics. prince andrew and the others gathered round these +two. + +“the berlin cabinet cannot express a feeling of alliance,” began +hippolyte gazing round with importance at the others, “without +expressing... as in its last note... you understand... besides, unless +his majesty the emperor derogates from the principle of our alliance... + +“wait, i have not finished...” he said to prince andrew, seizing +him by the arm, “i believe that intervention will be stronger than +nonintervention. and...” he paused. “finally one cannot impute the +nonreceipt of our dispatch of november 18. that is how it will end.” +and he released bolkónski’s arm to indicate that he had now quite +finished. + +“demosthenes, i know thee by the pebble thou secretest in thy golden +mouth!” said bilíbin, and the mop of hair on his head moved with +satisfaction. + +everybody laughed, and hippolyte louder than anyone. he was evidently +distressed, and breathed painfully, but could not restrain the wild +laughter that convulsed his usually impassive features. + +“well now, gentlemen,” said bilíbin, “bolkónski is my guest in +this house and in brünn itself. i want to entertain him as far as i +can, with all the pleasures of life here. if we were in vienna it would +be easy, but here, in this wretched moravian hole, it is more difficult, +and i beg you all to help me. brünn’s attractions must be shown him. +you can undertake the theater, i society, and you, hippolyte, of course +the women.” + +“we must let him see amelie, she’s exquisite!” said one of +“ours,” kissing his finger tips. + +“in general we must turn this bloodthirsty soldier to more humane +interests,” said bilíbin. + +“i shall scarcely be able to avail myself of your hospitality, +gentlemen, it is already time for me to go,” replied prince andrew +looking at his watch. + +“where to?” + +“to the emperor.” + +“oh! oh! oh!” + +“well, au revoir, bolkónski! au revoir, prince! come back early to +dinner,” cried several voices. “we’ll take you in hand.” + +“when speaking to the emperor, try as far as you can to praise the way +that provisions are supplied and the routes indicated,” said bilíbin, +accompanying him to the hall. + +“i should like to speak well of them, but as far as i know the facts, +i can’t,” replied bolkónski, smiling. + +“well, talk as much as you can, anyway. he has a passion for giving +audiences, but he does not like talking himself and can’t do it, as +you will see.” + + + + + +chapter xii + +at the levee prince andrew stood among the austrian officers as he had +been told to, and the emperor francis merely looked fixedly into his +face and just nodded to him with his long head. but after it was +over, the adjutant he had seen the previous day ceremoniously informed +bolkónski that the emperor desired to give him an audience. the emperor +francis received him standing in the middle of the room. before the +conversation began prince andrew was struck by the fact that the emperor +seemed confused and blushed as if not knowing what to say. + +“tell me, when did the battle begin?” he asked hurriedly. + +prince andrew replied. then followed other questions just as simple: +“was kutúzov well? when had he left krems?” and so on. the emperor +spoke as if his sole aim were to put a given number of questions—the +answers to these questions, as was only too evident, did not interest +him. + +“at what o’clock did the battle begin?” asked the emperor. + +“i cannot inform your majesty at what o’clock the battle began at +the front, but at dürrenstein, where i was, our attack began after +five in the afternoon,” replied bolkónski growing more animated and +expecting that he would have a chance to give a reliable account, which +he had ready in his mind, of all he knew and had seen. but the emperor +smiled and interrupted him. + +“how many miles?” + +“from where to where, your majesty?” + +“from dürrenstein to krems.” + +“three and a half miles, your majesty.” + +“the french have abandoned the left bank?” + +“according to the scouts the last of them crossed on rafts during the +night.” + +“is there sufficient forage in krems?” + +“forage has not been supplied to the extent...” + +the emperor interrupted him. + +“at what o’clock was general schmidt killed?” + +“at seven o’clock, i believe.” + +“at seven o’clock? it’s very sad, very sad!” + +the emperor thanked prince andrew and bowed. prince andrew withdrew and +was immediately surrounded by courtiers on all sides. everywhere he +saw friendly looks and heard friendly words. yesterday’s adjutant +reproached him for not having stayed at the palace, and offered him +his own house. the minister of war came up and congratulated him on the +maria theresa order of the third grade, which the emperor was conferring +on him. the empress’ chamberlain invited him to see her majesty. the +archduchess also wished to see him. he did not know whom to answer, and +for a few seconds collected his thoughts. then the russian ambassador +took him by the shoulder, led him to the window, and began to talk to +him. + +contrary to bilíbin’s forecast the news he had brought was joyfully +received. a thanksgiving service was arranged, kutúzov was awarded +the grand cross of maria theresa, and the whole army received rewards. +bolkónski was invited everywhere, and had to spend the whole morning +calling on the principal austrian dignitaries. between four and five +in the afternoon, having made all his calls, he was returning to +bilíbin’s house thinking out a letter to his father about the battle +and his visit to brünn. at the door he found a vehicle half full of +luggage. franz, bilíbin’s man, was dragging a portmanteau with some +difficulty out of the front door. + +before returning to bilíbin’s prince andrew had gone to a bookshop +to provide himself with some books for the campaign, and had spent some +time in the shop. + +“what is it?” he asked. + +“oh, your excellency!” said franz, with difficulty rolling the +portmanteau into the vehicle, “we are to move on still farther. the +scoundrel is again at our heels!” + +“eh? what?” asked prince andrew. + +bilíbin came out to meet him. his usually calm face showed excitement. + +“there now! confess that this is delightful,” said he. “this +affair of the thabor bridge, at vienna.... they have crossed without +striking a blow!” + +prince andrew could not understand. + +“but where do you come from not to know what every coachman in the +town knows?” + +“i come from the archduchess’. i heard nothing there.” + +“and you didn’t see that everybody is packing up?” + +“i did not... what is it all about?” inquired prince andrew +impatiently. + +“what’s it all about? why, the french have crossed the bridge that +auersperg was defending, and the bridge was not blown up: so murat +is now rushing along the road to brünn and will be here in a day or +two.” + +“what? here? but why did they not blow up the bridge, if it was +mined?” + +“that is what i ask you. no one, not even bonaparte, knows why.” + +bolkónski shrugged his shoulders. + +“but if the bridge is crossed it means that the army too is lost? it +will be cut off,” said he. + +“that’s just it,” answered bilíbin. “listen! the french entered +vienna as i told you. very well. next day, which was yesterday, those +gentlemen, messieurs les maréchaux, * murat, lannes, and belliard, +mount and ride to the bridge. (observe that all three are gascons.) +‘gentlemen,’ says one of them, ‘you know the thabor bridge is +mined and doubly mined and that there are menacing fortifications at its +head and an army of fifteen thousand men has been ordered to blow up +the bridge and not let us cross? but it will please our sovereign the +emperor napoleon if we take this bridge, so let us three go and take +it!’ ‘yes, let’s!’ say the others. and off they go and take the +bridge, cross it, and now with their whole army are on this side of the +danube, marching on us, you, and your lines of communication.” + + * the marshalls. + +“stop jesting,” said prince andrew sadly and seriously. this news +grieved him and yet he was pleased. + +as soon as he learned that the russian army was in such a hopeless +situation it occurred to him that it was he who was destined to lead it +out of this position; that here was the toulon that would lift him from +the ranks of obscure officers and offer him the first step to fame! +listening to bilíbin he was already imagining how on reaching the army +he would give an opinion at the war council which would be the only one +that could save the army, and how he alone would be entrusted with the +executing of the plan. + +“stop this jesting,” he said. + +“i am not jesting,” bilíbin went on. “nothing is truer or sadder. +these gentlemen ride onto the bridge alone and wave white handkerchiefs; +they assure the officer on duty that they, the marshals, are on +their way to negotiate with prince auersperg. he lets them enter the +tête-de-pont. * they spin him a thousand gasconades, saying that +the war is over, that the emperor francis is arranging a meeting with +bonaparte, that they desire to see prince auersperg, and so on. the +officer sends for auersperg; these gentlemen embrace the officers, crack +jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a french battalion gets to +the bridge unobserved, flings the bags of incendiary material into +the water, and approaches the tête-de-pont. at length appears the +lieutenant general, our dear prince auersperg von mautern himself. +‘dearest foe! flower of the austrian army, hero of the turkish wars! +hostilities are ended, we can shake one another’s hand.... the +emperor napoleon burns with impatience to make prince auersperg’s +acquaintance.’ in a word, those gentlemen, gascons indeed, so +bewildered him with fine words, and he is so flattered by his rapidly +established intimacy with the french marshals, and so dazzled by the +sight of murat’s mantle and ostrich plumes, qu’il n’y voit que du +feu, et oublie celui qu’il devait faire faire sur l’ennemi!” *(2) +in spite of the animation of his speech, bilíbin did not forget to +pause after this mot to give time for its due appreciation. “the +french battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the +bridge is taken! but what is best of all,” he went on, his excitement +subsiding under the delightful interest of his own story, “is that the +sergeant in charge of the cannon which was to give the signal to fire +the mines and blow up the bridge, this sergeant, seeing that the french +troops were running onto the bridge, was about to fire, but lannes +stayed his hand. the sergeant, who was evidently wiser than his general, +goes up to auersperg and says: ‘prince, you are being deceived, here +are the french!’ murat, seeing that all is lost if the sergeant is +allowed to speak, turns to auersperg with feigned astonishment (he is a +true gascon) and says: ‘i don’t recognize the world-famous austrian +discipline, if you allow a subordinate to address you like that!’ it +was a stroke of genius. prince auersperg feels his dignity at stake and +orders the sergeant to be arrested. come, you must own that this affair +of the thabor bridge is delightful! it is not exactly stupidity, nor +rascality....” + + * bridgehead. + + * (2) that their fire gets into his eyes and he forgets that + he ought to be firing at the enemy. + +“it may be treachery,” said prince andrew, vividly imagining the +gray overcoats, wounds, the smoke of gunpowder, the sounds of firing, +and the glory that awaited him. + +“not that either. that puts the court in too bad a light,” replied +bilíbin. “it’s not treachery nor rascality nor stupidity: it is +just as at ulm... it is...”—he seemed to be trying to find the right +expression. “c’est... c’est du mack. nous sommes mackés (it is... +it is a bit of mack. we are macked),” he concluded, feeling that he +had produced a good epigram, a fresh one that would be repeated. his +hitherto puckered brow became smooth as a sign of pleasure, and with a +slight smile he began to examine his nails. + +“where are you off to?” he said suddenly to prince andrew who had +risen and was going toward his room. + +“i am going away.” + +“where to?” + +“to the army.” + +“but you meant to stay another two days?” + +“but now i am off at once.” + +and prince andrew after giving directions about his departure went to +his room. + +“do you know, mon cher,” said bilíbin following him, “i have been +thinking about you. why are you going?” + +and in proof of the conclusiveness of his opinion all the wrinkles +vanished from his face. + +prince andrew looked inquiringly at him and gave no reply. + +“why are you going? i know you think it your duty to gallop back to +the army now that it is in danger. i understand that. mon cher, it is +heroism!” + +“not at all,” said prince andrew. + +“but as you are a philosopher, be a consistent one, look at the other +side of the question and you will see that your duty, on the contrary, +is to take care of yourself. leave it to those who are no longer fit for +anything else.... you have not been ordered to return and have not been +dismissed from here; therefore, you can stay and go with us wherever our +ill luck takes us. they say we are going to olmütz, and olmütz is a +very decent town. you and i will travel comfortably in my calèche.” + +“do stop joking, bilíbin,” cried bolkónski. + +“i am speaking sincerely as a friend! consider! where and why are +you going, when you might remain here? you are faced by one of two +things,” and the skin over his left temple puckered, “either you +will not reach your regiment before peace is concluded, or you will +share defeat and disgrace with kutúzov’s whole army.” + +and bilíbin unwrinkled his temple, feeling that the dilemma was +insoluble. + +“i cannot argue about it,” replied prince andrew coldly, but he +thought: “i am going to save the army.” + +“my dear fellow, you are a hero!” said bilíbin. + + + + + +chapter xiii + +that same night, having taken leave of the minister of war, bolkónski +set off to rejoin the army, not knowing where he would find it and +fearing to be captured by the french on the way to krems. + +in brünn everybody attached to the court was packing up, and the heavy +baggage was already being dispatched to olmütz. near hetzelsdorf prince +andrew struck the high road along which the russian army was moving with +great haste and in the greatest disorder. the road was so obstructed +with carts that it was impossible to get by in a carriage. prince andrew +took a horse and a cossack from a cossack commander, and hungry and +weary, making his way past the baggage wagons, rode in search of the +commander in chief and of his own luggage. very sinister reports of the +position of the army reached him as he went along, and the appearance of +the troops in their disorderly flight confirmed these rumors. + +“cette armée russe que l’or de l’angleterre a transportée des +extrémités de l’univers, nous allons lui faire éprouver le même +sort—(le sort de l’armée d’ulm).” * he remembered these words +in bonaparte’s address to his army at the beginning of the campaign, +and they awoke in him astonishment at the genius of his hero, a feeling +of wounded pride, and a hope of glory. “and should there be nothing +left but to die?” he thought. “well, if need be, i shall do it no +worse than others.” + + * “that russian army which has been brought from the ends of + the earth by english gold, we shall cause to share the same + fate—(the fate of the army at ulm).” + + +he looked with disdain at the endless confused mass of detachments, +carts, guns, artillery, and again baggage wagons and vehicles of all +kinds overtaking one another and blocking the muddy road, three and +sometimes four abreast. from all sides, behind and before, as far as ear +could reach, there were the rattle of wheels, the creaking of carts +and gun carriages, the tramp of horses, the crack of whips, shouts, the +urging of horses, and the swearing of soldiers, orderlies, and officers. +all along the sides of the road fallen horses were to be seen, some +flayed, some not, and broken-down carts beside which solitary soldiers +sat waiting for something, and again soldiers straggling from their +companies, crowds of whom set off to the neighboring villages, or +returned from them dragging sheep, fowls, hay, and bulging sacks. at +each ascent or descent of the road the crowds were yet denser and the +din of shouting more incessant. soldiers floundering knee-deep in mud +pushed the guns and wagons themselves. whips cracked, hoofs slipped, +traces broke, and lungs were strained with shouting. the officers +directing the march rode backward and forward between the carts. their +voices were but feebly heard amid the uproar and one saw by their faces +that they despaired of the possibility of checking this disorder. + +“here is our dear orthodox russian army,” thought bolkónski, +recalling bilíbin’s words. + +wishing to find out where the commander in chief was, he rode up to +a convoy. directly opposite to him came a strange one-horse vehicle, +evidently rigged up by soldiers out of any available materials and +looking like something between a cart, a cabriolet, and a calèche. +a soldier was driving, and a woman enveloped in shawls sat behind the +apron under the leather hood of the vehicle. prince andrew rode up +and was just putting his question to a soldier when his attention +was diverted by the desperate shrieks of the woman in the vehicle. an +officer in charge of transport was beating the soldier who was driving +the woman’s vehicle for trying to get ahead of others, and the strokes +of his whip fell on the apron of the equipage. the woman screamed +piercingly. seeing prince andrew she leaned out from behind the apron +and, waving her thin arms from under the woolen shawl, cried: + +“mr. aide-de-camp! mr. aide-de-camp!... for heaven’s sake... protect +me! what will become of us? i am the wife of the doctor of the seventh +chasseurs.... they won’t let us pass, we are left behind and have lost +our people...” + +“i’ll flatten you into a pancake!” shouted the angry officer to +the soldier. “turn back with your slut!” + +“mr. aide-de-camp! help me!... what does it all mean?” screamed the +doctor’s wife. + +“kindly let this cart pass. don’t you see it’s a woman?” said +prince andrew riding up to the officer. + +the officer glanced at him, and without replying turned again to the +soldier. “i’ll teach you to push on!... back!” + +“let them pass, i tell you!” repeated prince andrew, compressing his +lips. + +“and who are you?” cried the officer, turning on him with tipsy +rage, “who are you? are you in command here? eh? i am commander here, +not you! go back or i’ll flatten you into a pancake,” repeated he. +this expression evidently pleased him. + +“that was a nice snub for the little aide-de-camp,” came a voice +from behind. + +prince andrew saw that the officer was in that state of senseless, +tipsy rage when a man does not know what he is saying. he saw that his +championship of the doctor’s wife in her queer trap might expose him +to what he dreaded more than anything in the world—to ridicule; but +his instinct urged him on. before the officer finished his sentence +prince andrew, his face distorted with fury, rode up to him and raised +his riding whip. + +“kind...ly let—them—pass!” + +the officer flourished his arm and hastily rode away. + +“it’s all the fault of these fellows on the staff that there’s +this disorder,” he muttered. “do as you like.” + +prince andrew without lifting his eyes rode hastily away from the +doctor’s wife, who was calling him her deliverer, and recalling with +a sense of disgust the minutest details of this humiliating scene he +galloped on to the village where he was told that the commander in chief +was. + +on reaching the village he dismounted and went to the nearest house, +intending to rest if but for a moment, eat something, and try to sort +out the stinging and tormenting thoughts that confused his mind. “this +is a mob of scoundrels and not an army,” he was thinking as he went +up to the window of the first house, when a familiar voice called him by +name. + +he turned round. nesvítski’s handsome face looked out of the little +window. nesvítski, moving his moist lips as he chewed something, and +flourishing his arm, called him to enter. + +“bolkónski! bolkónski!... don’t you hear? eh? come quick...” he +shouted. + +entering the house, prince andrew saw nesvítski and another adjutant +having something to eat. they hastily turned round to him asking if he +had any news. on their familiar faces he read agitation and alarm. +this was particularly noticeable on nesvítski’s usually laughing +countenance. + +“where is the commander in chief?” asked bolkónski. + +“here, in that house,” answered the adjutant. + +“well, is it true that it’s peace and capitulation?” asked +nesvítski. + +“i was going to ask you. i know nothing except that it was all i could +do to get here.” + +“and we, my dear boy! it’s terrible! i was wrong to laugh at mack, +we’re getting it still worse,” said nesvítski. “but sit down and +have something to eat.” + +“you won’t be able to find either your baggage or anything else now, +prince. and god only knows where your man peter is,” said the other +adjutant. + +“where are headquarters?” + +“we are to spend the night in znaim.” + +“well, i have got all i need into packs for two horses,” said +nesvítski. “they’ve made up splendid packs for me—fit to cross +the bohemian mountains with. it’s a bad lookout, old fellow! but +what’s the matter with you? you must be ill to shiver like that,” he +added, noticing that prince andrew winced as at an electric shock. + +“it’s nothing,” replied prince andrew. + +he had just remembered his recent encounter with the doctor’s wife and +the convoy officer. + +“what is the commander in chief doing here?” he asked. + +“i can’t make out at all,” said nesvítski. + +“well, all i can make out is that everything is abominable, +abominable, quite abominable!” said prince andrew, and he went off to +the house where the commander in chief was. + +passing by kutúzov’s carriage and the exhausted saddle horses of +his suite, with their cossacks who were talking loudly together, prince +andrew entered the passage. kutúzov himself, he was told, was in the +house with prince bagratión and weyrother. weyrother was the austrian +general who had succeeded schmidt. in the passage little kozlóvski was +squatting on his heels in front of a clerk. the clerk, with cuffs turned +up, was hastily writing at a tub turned bottom upwards. kozlóvski’s +face looked worn—he too had evidently not slept all night. he glanced +at prince andrew and did not even nod to him. + +“second line... have you written it?” he continued dictating to the +clerk. “the kiev grenadiers, podolian...” + +“one can’t write so fast, your honor,” said the clerk, glancing +angrily and disrespectfully at kozlóvski. + +through the door came the sounds of kutúzov’s voice, excited and +dissatisfied, interrupted by another, an unfamiliar voice. from the +sound of these voices, the inattentive way kozlóvski looked at him, the +disrespectful manner of the exhausted clerk, the fact that the clerk and +kozlóvski were squatting on the floor by a tub so near to the commander +in chief, and from the noisy laughter of the cossacks holding the +horses near the window, prince andrew felt that something important and +disastrous was about to happen. + +he turned to kozlóvski with urgent questions. + +“immediately, prince,” said kozlóvski. “dispositions for +bagratión.” + +“what about capitulation?” + +“nothing of the sort. orders are issued for a battle.” + +prince andrew moved toward the door from whence voices were heard. +just as he was going to open it the sounds ceased, the door opened, and +kutúzov with his eagle nose and puffy face appeared in the doorway. +prince andrew stood right in front of kutúzov but the expression of +the commander in chief’s one sound eye showed him to be so preoccupied +with thoughts and anxieties as to be oblivious of his presence. he +looked straight at his adjutant’s face without recognizing him. + +“well, have you finished?” said he to kozlóvski. + +“one moment, your excellency.” + +bagratión, a gaunt middle-aged man of medium height with a firm, +impassive face of oriental type, came out after the commander in chief. + +“i have the honor to present myself,” repeated prince andrew rather +loudly, handing kutúzov an envelope. + +“ah, from vienna? very good. later, later!” + +kutúzov went out into the porch with bagratión. + +“well, good-by, prince,” said he to bagratión. “my blessing, and +may christ be with you in your great endeavor!” + +his face suddenly softened and tears came into his eyes. with his left +hand he drew bagratión toward him, and with his right, on which he wore +a ring, he made the sign of the cross over him with a gesture evidently +habitual, offering his puffy cheek, but bagratión kissed him on the +neck instead. + +“christ be with you!” kutúzov repeated and went toward his +carriage. “get in with me,” said he to bolkónski. + +“your excellency, i should like to be of use here. allow me to remain +with prince bagratión’s detachment.” + +“get in,” said kutúzov, and noticing that bolkónski still delayed, +he added: “i need good officers myself, need them myself!” + +they got into the carriage and drove for a few minutes in silence. + +“there is still much, much before us,” he said, as if with an old +man’s penetration he understood all that was passing in bolkónski’s +mind. “if a tenth part of his detachment returns i shall thank god,” +he added as if speaking to himself. + +prince andrew glanced at kutúzov’s face only a foot distant from him +and involuntarily noticed the carefully washed seams of the scar near +his temple, where an ismail bullet had pierced his skull, and the empty +eye socket. “yes, he has a right to speak so calmly of those men’s +death,” thought bolkónski. + +“that is why i beg to be sent to that detachment,” he said. + +kutúzov did not reply. he seemed to have forgotten what he had been +saying, and sat plunged in thought. five minutes later, gently swaying +on the soft springs of the carriage, he turned to prince andrew. +there was not a trace of agitation on his face. with delicate irony he +questioned prince andrew about the details of his interview with the +emperor, about the remarks he had heard at court concerning the krems +affair, and about some ladies they both knew. + + + + + +chapter xiv + +on november 1 kutúzov had received, through a spy, news that the army +he commanded was in an almost hopeless position. the spy reported that +the french, after crossing the bridge at vienna, were advancing in +immense force upon kutúzov’s line of communication with the troops +that were arriving from russia. if kutúzov decided to remain at krems, +napoleon’s army of one hundred and fifty thousand men would cut him +off completely and surround his exhausted army of forty thousand, and he +would find himself in the position of mack at ulm. if kutúzov decided +to abandon the road connecting him with the troops arriving from russia, +he would have to march with no road into unknown parts of the bohemian +mountains, defending himself against superior forces of the enemy and +abandoning all hope of a junction with buxhöwden. if kutúzov decided +to retreat along the road from krems to olmütz, to unite with the +troops arriving from russia, he risked being forestalled on that road +by the french who had crossed the vienna bridge, and encumbered by his +baggage and transport, having to accept battle on the march against an +enemy three times as strong, who would hem him in from two sides. + +kutúzov chose this latter course. + +the french, the spy reported, having crossed the vienna bridge, were +advancing by forced marches toward znaim, which lay sixty-six miles +off on the line of kutúzov’s retreat. if he reached znaim before the +french, there would be great hope of saving the army; to let the +french forestall him at znaim meant the exposure of his whole army to a +disgrace such as that of ulm, or to utter destruction. but to forestall +the french with his whole army was impossible. the road for the french +from vienna to znaim was shorter and better than the road for the +russians from krems to znaim. + +the night he received the news, kutúzov sent bagratión’s vanguard, +four thousand strong, to the right across the hills from the krems-znaim +to the vienna-znaim road. bagratión was to make this march without +resting, and to halt facing vienna with znaim to his rear, and if he +succeeded in forestalling the french he was to delay them as long as +possible. kutúzov himself with all his transport took the road to +znaim. + +marching thirty miles that stormy night across roadless hills, with his +hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers +by the way, bagratión came out on the vienna-znaim road at hollabrünn +a few hours ahead of the french who were approaching hollabrünn from +vienna. kutúzov with his transport had still to march for some days +before he could reach znaim. hence bagratión with his four thousand +hungry, exhausted men would have to detain for days the whole enemy army +that came upon him at hollabrünn, which was clearly impossible. but +a freak of fate made the impossible possible. the success of the trick +that had placed the vienna bridge in the hands of the french without +a fight led murat to try to deceive kutúzov in a similar way. meeting +bagratión’s weak detachment on the znaim road he supposed it to be +kutúzov’s whole army. to be able to crush it absolutely he awaited +the arrival of the rest of the troops who were on their way from vienna, +and with this object offered a three days’ truce on condition that +both armies should remain in position without moving. murat declared +that negotiations for peace were already proceeding, and that he +therefore offered this truce to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. count +nostitz, the austrian general occupying the advanced posts, believed +murat’s emissary and retired, leaving bagratión’s division +exposed. another emissary rode to the russian line to announce the peace +negotiations and to offer the russian army the three days’ truce. +bagratión replied that he was not authorized either to accept or refuse +a truce and sent his adjutant to kutúzov to report the offer he had +received. + +a truce was kutúzov’s sole chance of gaining time, giving +bagratión’s exhausted troops some rest, and letting the transport and +heavy convoys (whose movements were concealed from the french) advance +if but one stage nearer znaim. the offer of a truce gave the only, and +a quite unexpected, chance of saving the army. on receiving the news +he immediately dispatched adjutant general wintzingerode, who was in +attendance on him, to the enemy camp. wintzingerode was not merely +to agree to the truce but also to offer terms of capitulation, and +meanwhile kutúzov sent his adjutants back to hasten to the utmost the +movements of the baggage trains of the entire army along the krems-znaim +road. bagratión’s exhausted and hungry detachment, which alone +covered this movement of the transport and of the whole army, had to +remain stationary in face of an enemy eight times as strong as itself. + +kutúzov’s expectations that the proposals of capitulation (which were +in no way binding) might give time for part of the transport to pass, +and also that murat’s mistake would very soon be discovered, proved +correct. as soon as bonaparte (who was at schönbrunn, sixteen miles +from hollabrünn) received murat’s dispatch with the proposal of a +truce and a capitulation, he detected a ruse and wrote the following +letter to murat: + +schönbrunn, 25th brumaire, 1805, + +at eight o’clock in the morning + +to prince murat, + +i cannot find words to express to you my displeasure. you command only +my advance guard, and have no right to arrange an armistice without my +order. you are causing me to lose the fruits of a campaign. break +the armistice immediately and march on the enemy. inform him that the +general who signed that capitulation had no right to do so, and that no +one but the emperor of russia has that right. + +if, however, the emperor of russia ratifies that convention, i will +ratify it; but it is only a trick. march on, destroy the russian +army.... you are in a position to seize its baggage and artillery. + +the russian emperor’s aide-de-camp is an impostor. officers are +nothing when they have no powers; this one had none.... the austrians +let themselves be tricked at the crossing of the vienna bridge, you are +letting yourself be tricked by an aide-de-camp of the emperor. + +napoleon + +bonaparte’s adjutant rode full gallop with this menacing letter to +murat. bonaparte himself, not trusting to his generals, moved with all +the guards to the field of battle, afraid of letting a ready victim +escape, and bagratión’s four thousand men merrily lighted campfires, +dried and warmed themselves, cooked their porridge for the first time +for three days, and not one of them knew or imagined what was in store +for him. + + + + + +chapter xv + +between three and four o’clock in the afternoon prince andrew, who +had persisted in his request to kutúzov, arrived at grunth and reported +himself to bagratión. bonaparte’s adjutant had not yet reached +murat’s detachment and the battle had not yet begun. in bagratión’s +detachment no one knew anything of the general position of affairs. they +talked of peace but did not believe in its possibility; others talked +of a battle but also disbelieved in the nearness of an engagement. +bagratión, knowing bolkónski to be a favorite and trusted adjutant, +received him with distinction and special marks of favor, explaining to +him that there would probably be an engagement that day or the next, and +giving him full liberty to remain with him during the battle or to join +the rearguard and have an eye on the order of retreat, “which is also +very important.” + +“however, there will hardly be an engagement today,” said bagratión +as if to reassure prince andrew. + +“if he is one of the ordinary little staff dandies sent to earn a +medal he can get his reward just as well in the rearguard, but if he +wishes to stay with me, let him... he’ll be of use here if he’s a +brave officer,” thought bagratión. prince andrew, without replying, +asked the prince’s permission to ride round the position to see the +disposition of the forces, so as to know his bearings should he be sent +to execute an order. the officer on duty, a handsome, elegantly dressed +man with a diamond ring on his forefinger, who was fond of speaking +french though he spoke it badly, offered to conduct prince andrew. + +on all sides they saw rain-soaked officers with dejected faces who +seemed to be seeking something, and soldiers dragging doors, benches, +and fencing from the village. + +“there now, prince! we can’t stop those fellows,” said the staff +officer pointing to the soldiers. “the officers don’t keep them in +hand. and there,” he pointed to a sutler’s tent, “they crowd in +and sit. this morning i turned them all out and now look, it’s full +again. i must go there, prince, and scare them a bit. it won’t take a +moment.” + +“yes, let’s go in and i will get myself a roll and some cheese,” +said prince andrew who had not yet had time to eat anything. + +“why didn’t you mention it, prince? i would have offered you +something.” + +they dismounted and entered the tent. several officers, with flushed and +weary faces, were sitting at the table eating and drinking. + +“now what does this mean, gentlemen?” said the staff officer, in +the reproachful tone of a man who has repeated the same thing more +than once. “you know it won’t do to leave your posts like this. +the prince gave orders that no one should leave his post. now you, +captain,” and he turned to a thin, dirty little artillery officer who +without his boots (he had given them to the canteen keeper to dry), +in only his stockings, rose when they entered, smiling not altogether +comfortably. + +“well, aren’t you ashamed of yourself, captain túshin?” he +continued. “one would think that as an artillery officer you would set +a good example, yet here you are without your boots! the alarm will be +sounded and you’ll be in a pretty position without your boots!” (the +staff officer smiled.) “kindly return to your posts, gentlemen, all of +you, all!” he added in a tone of command. + +prince andrew smiled involuntarily as he looked at the artillery officer +túshin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to +the other, glanced inquiringly with his large, intelligent, kindly eyes +from prince andrew to the staff officer. + +“the soldiers say it feels easier without boots,” said captain +túshin smiling shyly in his uncomfortable position, evidently wishing +to adopt a jocular tone. but before he had finished he felt that his +jest was unacceptable and had not come off. he grew confused. + +“kindly return to your posts,” said the staff officer trying to +preserve his gravity. + +prince andrew glanced again at the artillery officer’s small figure. +there was something peculiar about it, quite unsoldierly, rather comic, +but extremely attractive. + +the staff officer and prince andrew mounted their horses and rode on. + +having ridden beyond the village, continually meeting and overtaking +soldiers and officers of various regiments, they saw on their left some +entrenchments being thrown up, the freshly dug clay of which showed up +red. several battalions of soldiers, in their shirt sleeves despite +the cold wind, swarmed in these earthworks like a host of white ants; +spadefuls of red clay were continually being thrown up from behind the +bank by unseen hands. prince andrew and the officer rode up, looked at +the entrenchment, and went on again. just behind it they came upon some +dozens of soldiers, continually replaced by others, who ran from the +entrenchment. they had to hold their noses and put their horses to a +trot to escape from the poisoned atmosphere of these latrines. + +“voilà l’agrément des camps, monsieur le prince,” * said the +staff officer. + + * “this is a pleasure one gets in camp, prince.” + + +they rode up the opposite hill. from there the french could already be +seen. prince andrew stopped and began examining the position. + +“that’s our battery,” said the staff officer indicating the +highest point. “it’s in charge of the queer fellow we saw without +his boots. you can see everything from there; let’s go there, +prince.” + +“thank you very much, i will go on alone,” said prince andrew, +wishing to rid himself of this staff officer’s company, “please +don’t trouble yourself further.” + +the staff officer remained behind and prince andrew rode on alone. + +the farther forward and nearer the enemy he went, the more orderly and +cheerful were the troops. the greatest disorder and depression had been +in the baggage train he had passed that morning on the znaim road seven +miles away from the french. at grunth also some apprehension and alarm +could be felt, but the nearer prince andrew came to the french lines the +more confident was the appearance of our troops. the soldiers in +their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company +officers were counting the men, poking the last man in each section in +the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up. soldiers scattered over +the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building +shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, +dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending +boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers. +in one company dinner was ready, and the soldiers were gazing eagerly +at the steaming boiler, waiting till the sample, which a quartermaster +sergeant was carrying in a wooden bowl to an officer who sat on a log +before his shelter, had been tasted. + +another company, a lucky one for not all the companies had vodka, +crowded round a pockmarked, broad-shouldered sergeant major who, tilting +a keg, filled one after another the canteen lids held out to him. the +soldiers lifted the canteen lids to their lips with reverential faces, +emptied them, rolling the vodka in their mouths, and walked away from +the sergeant major with brightened expressions, licking their lips and +wiping them on the sleeves of their greatcoats. all their faces were +as serene as if all this were happening at home awaiting peaceful +encampment, and not within sight of the enemy before an action in +which at least half of them would be left on the field. after passing a +chasseur regiment and in the lines of the kiev grenadiers—fine fellows +busy with similar peaceful affairs—near the shelter of the regimental +commander, higher than and different from the others, prince andrew came +out in front of a platoon of grenadiers before whom lay a naked man. two +soldiers held him while two others were flourishing their switches and +striking him regularly on his bare back. the man shrieked unnaturally. +a stout major was pacing up and down the line, and regardless of the +screams kept repeating: + +“it’s a shame for a soldier to steal; a soldier must be honest, +honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in +him, he’s a scoundrel. go on! go on!” + +so the swishing sound of the strokes, and the desperate but unnatural +screams, continued. + +“go on, go on!” said the major. + +a young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face +stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant +as he rode by. + +prince andrew, having reached the front line, rode along it. our front +line and that of the enemy were far apart on the right and left flanks, +but in the center where the men with a flag of truce had passed that +morning, the lines were so near together that the men could see one +another’s faces and speak to one another. besides the soldiers who +formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers +who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies. + +since early morning—despite an injunction not to approach the picket +line—the officers had been unable to keep sight-seers away. the +soldiers forming the picket line, like showmen exhibiting a curiosity, +no longer looked at the french but paid attention to the sight-seers and +grew weary waiting to be relieved. prince andrew halted to have a look +at the french. + +“look! look there!” one soldier was saying to another, pointing to a +russian musketeer who had gone up to the picket line with an officer and +was rapidly and excitedly talking to a french grenadier. “hark to him +jabbering! fine, isn’t it? it’s all the frenchy can do to keep up +with him. there now, sídorov!” + +“wait a bit and listen. it’s fine!” answered sídorov, who was +considered an adept at french. + +the soldier to whom the laughers referred was dólokhov. prince andrew +recognized him and stopped to listen to what he was saying. dólokhov +had come from the left flank where their regiment was stationed, with +his captain. + +“now then, go on, go on!” incited the officer, bending forward and +trying not to lose a word of the speech which was incomprehensible to +him. “more, please: more! what’s he saying?” + +dólokhov did not answer the captain; he had been drawn into a hot +dispute with the french grenadier. they were naturally talking about the +campaign. the frenchman, confusing the austrians with the russians, was +trying to prove that the russians had surrendered and had fled all +the way from ulm, while dólokhov maintained that the russians had not +surrendered but had beaten the french. + +“we have orders to drive you off here, and we shall drive you off,” +said dólokhov. + +“only take care you and your cossacks are not all captured!” said +the french grenadier. + +the french onlookers and listeners laughed. + +“we’ll make you dance as we did under suvórov...,” * said +dólokhov. + + * “on vous fera danser.” + + +“qu’ est-ce qu’il chante?” * asked a frenchman. + + * “what’s he singing about?” + + +“it’s ancient history,” said another, guessing that it referred to +a former war. “the emperor will teach your suvara as he has taught the +others...” + +“bonaparte...” began dólokhov, but the frenchman interrupted him. + +“not bonaparte. he is the emperor! sacré nom...!” cried he angrily. + +“the devil skin your emperor.” + +and dólokhov swore at him in coarse soldier’s russian and shouldering +his musket walked away. + +“let us go, iván lukích,” he said to the captain. + +“ah, that’s the way to talk french,” said the picket soldiers. +“now, sídorov, you have a try!” + +sídorov, turning to the french, winked, and began to jabber meaningless +sounds very fast: “kari, mala, tafa, safi, muter, kaská,” he said, +trying to give an expressive intonation to his voice. + +“ho! ho! ho! ha! ha! ha! ha! ouh! ouh!” came peals of such healthy +and good-humored laughter from the soldiers that it infected the french +involuntarily, so much so that the only thing left to do seemed to be +to unload the muskets, explode the ammunition, and all return home as +quickly as possible. + +but the guns remained loaded, the loopholes in blockhouses and +entrenchments looked out just as menacingly, and the unlimbered cannon +confronted one another as before. + + + + + +chapter xvi + +having ridden round the whole line from right flank to left, prince +andrew made his way up to the battery from which the staff officer had +told him the whole field could be seen. here he dismounted, and stopped +beside the farthest of the four unlimbered cannon. before the guns an +artillery sentry was pacing up and down; he stood at attention when the +officer arrived, but at a sign resumed his measured, monotonous pacing. +behind the guns were their limbers and still farther back picket ropes +and artillerymen’s bonfires. to the left, not far from the farthest +cannon, was a small, newly constructed wattle shed from which came the +sound of officers’ voices in eager conversation. + +it was true that a view over nearly the whole russian position and the +greater part of the enemy’s opened out from this battery. just facing +it, on the crest of the opposite hill, the village of schön grabern +could be seen, and in three places to left and right the french troops +amid the smoke of their campfires, the greater part of whom were +evidently in the village itself and behind the hill. to the left from +that village, amid the smoke, was something resembling a battery, but it +was impossible to see it clearly with the naked eye. our right flank was +posted on a rather steep incline which dominated the french position. +our infantry were stationed there, and at the farthest point the +dragoons. in the center, where túshin’s battery stood and from which +prince andrew was surveying the position, was the easiest and most +direct descent and ascent to the brook separating us from schön +grabern. on the left our troops were close to a copse, in which smoked +the bonfires of our infantry who were felling wood. the french line was +wider than ours, and it was plain that they could easily outflank us +on both sides. behind our position was a steep and deep dip, making it +difficult for artillery and cavalry to retire. prince andrew took +out his notebook and, leaning on the cannon, sketched a plan of the +position. he made some notes on two points, intending to mention them to +bagratión. his idea was, first, to concentrate all the artillery in the +center, and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the +dip. prince andrew, being always near the commander in chief, closely +following the mass movements and general orders, and constantly studying +historical accounts of battles, involuntarily pictured to himself the +course of events in the forthcoming action in broad outline. he +imagined only important possibilities: “if the enemy attacks the right +flank,” he said to himself, “the kiev grenadiers and the podólsk +chasseurs must hold their position till reserves from the center +come up. in that case the dragoons could successfully make a flank +counterattack. if they attack our center we, having the center battery +on this high ground, shall withdraw the left flank under its cover, and +retreat to the dip by echelons.” so he reasoned.... all the time +he had been beside the gun, he had heard the voices of the officers +distinctly, but as often happens had not understood a word of what they +were saying. suddenly, however, he was struck by a voice coming from the +shed, and its tone was so sincere that he could not but listen. + +“no, friend,” said a pleasant and, as it seemed to prince andrew, a +familiar voice, “what i say is that if it were possible to know +what is beyond death, none of us would be afraid of it. that’s so, +friend.” + +another, a younger voice, interrupted him: “afraid or not, you can’t +escape it anyhow.” + +“all the same, one is afraid! oh, you clever people,” said a third +manly voice interrupting them both. “of course you artillery men are +very wise, because you can take everything along with you—vodka and +snacks.” + +and the owner of the manly voice, evidently an infantry officer, +laughed. + +“yes, one is afraid,” continued the first speaker, he of the +familiar voice. “one is afraid of the unknown, that’s what it is. +whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is +no sky but only an atmosphere.” + +the manly voice again interrupted the artillery officer. + +“well, stand us some of your herb vodka, túshin,” it said. + +“why,” thought prince andrew, “that’s the captain who stood up +in the sutler’s hut without his boots.” he recognized the agreeable, +philosophizing voice with pleasure. + +“some herb vodka? certainly!” said túshin. “but still, to +conceive a future life...” + +he did not finish. just then there was a whistle in the air; nearer and +nearer, faster and louder, louder and faster, a cannon ball, as if it +had not finished saying what was necessary, thudded into the ground near +the shed with super human force, throwing up a mass of earth. the ground +seemed to groan at the terrible impact. + +and immediately túshin, with a short pipe in the corner of his mouth +and his kind, intelligent face rather pale, rushed out of the shed +followed by the owner of the manly voice, a dashing infantry officer who +hurried off to his company, buttoning up his coat as he ran. + + + + + +chapter xvii + +mounting his horse again prince andrew lingered with the battery, +looking at the puff from the gun that had sent the ball. his eyes +ran rapidly over the wide space, but he only saw that the hitherto +motionless masses of the french now swayed and that there really was +a battery to their left. the smoke above it had not yet dispersed. two +mounted frenchmen, probably adjutants, were galloping up the hill. a +small but distinctly visible enemy column was moving down the hill, +probably to strengthen the front line. the smoke of the first shot had +not yet dispersed before another puff appeared, followed by a report. +the battle had begun! prince andrew turned his horse and galloped back +to grunth to find prince bagratión. he heard the cannonade behind him +growing louder and more frequent. evidently our guns had begun to reply. +from the bottom of the slope, where the parleys had taken place, came +the report of musketry. + +lemarrois had just arrived at a gallop with bonaparte’s stern letter, +and murat, humiliated and anxious to expiate his fault, had at once +moved his forces to attack the center and outflank both the russian +wings, hoping before evening and before the arrival of the emperor to +crush the contemptible detachment that stood before him. + +“it has begun. here it is!” thought prince andrew, feeling the +blood rush to his heart. “but where and how will my toulon present +itself?” + +passing between the companies that had been eating porridge and drinking +vodka a quarter of an hour before, he saw everywhere the same rapid +movement of soldiers forming ranks and getting their muskets ready, +and on all their faces he recognized the same eagerness that filled his +heart. “it has begun! here it is, dreadful but enjoyable!” was what +the face of each soldier and each officer seemed to say. + +before he had reached the embankments that were being thrown up, he saw, +in the light of the dull autumn evening, mounted men coming toward him. +the foremost, wearing a cossack cloak and lambskin cap and riding a +white horse, was prince bagratión. prince andrew stopped, waiting for +him to come up; prince bagratión reined in his horse and recognizing +prince andrew nodded to him. he still looked ahead while prince andrew +told him what he had seen. + +the feeling, “it has begun! here it is!” was seen even on prince +bagratión’s hard brown face with its half-closed, dull, sleepy eyes. +prince andrew gazed with anxious curiosity at that impassive face +and wished he could tell what, if anything, this man was thinking +and feeling at that moment. “is there anything at all behind that +impassive face?” prince andrew asked himself as he looked. prince +bagratión bent his head in sign of agreement with what prince andrew +told him, and said, “very good!” in a tone that seemed to imply that +everything that took place and was reported to him was exactly what he +had foreseen. prince andrew, out of breath with his rapid ride, spoke +quickly. prince bagratión, uttering his words with an oriental accent, +spoke particularly slowly, as if to impress the fact that there was no +need to hurry. however, he put his horse to a trot in the direction +of túshin’s battery. prince andrew followed with the suite. behind +prince bagratión rode an officer of the suite, the prince’s personal +adjutant, zherkóv, an orderly officer, the staff officer on duty, +riding a fine bobtailed horse, and a civilian—an accountant who had +asked permission to be present at the battle out of curiosity. the +accountant, a stout, full-faced man, looked around him with a naïve +smile of satisfaction and presented a strange appearance among the +hussars, cossacks, and adjutants, in his camlet coat, as he jolted on +his horse with a convoy officer’s saddle. + +“he wants to see a battle,” said zherkóv to bolkónski, pointing +to the accountant, “but he feels a pain in the pit of his stomach +already.” + +“oh, leave off!” said the accountant with a beaming but rather +cunning smile, as if flattered at being made the subject of zherkóv’s +joke, and purposely trying to appear stupider than he really was. + +“it is very strange, mon monsieur prince,” said the staff officer. +(he remembered that in french there is some peculiar way of addressing a +prince, but could not get it quite right.) + +by this time they were all approaching túshin’s battery, and a ball +struck the ground in front of them. + +“what’s that that has fallen?” asked the accountant with a naïve +smile. + +“a french pancake,” answered zherkóv. + +“so that’s what they hit with?” asked the accountant. “how +awful!” + +he seemed to swell with satisfaction. he had hardly finished speaking +when they again heard an unexpectedly violent whistling which suddenly +ended with a thud into something soft... f-f-flop! and a cossack, riding +a little to their right and behind the accountant, crashed to earth with +his horse. zherkóv and the staff officer bent over their saddles and +turned their horses away. the accountant stopped, facing the cossack, +and examined him with attentive curiosity. the cossack was dead, but the +horse still struggled. + +prince bagratión screwed up his eyes, looked round, and, seeing the +cause of the confusion, turned away with indifference, as if to say, +“is it worth while noticing trifles?” he reined in his horse with +the care of a skillful rider and, slightly bending over, disengaged his +saber which had caught in his cloak. it was an old-fashioned saber of +a kind no longer in general use. prince andrew remembered the story of +suvórov giving his saber to bagratión in italy, and the recollection +was particularly pleasant at that moment. they had reached the battery +at which prince andrew had been when he examined the battlefield. + +“whose company?” asked prince bagratión of an artilleryman standing +by the ammunition wagon. + +he asked, “whose company?” but he really meant, “are you +frightened here?” and the artilleryman understood him. + +“captain túshin’s, your excellency!” shouted the red-haired, +freckled gunner in a merry voice, standing to attention. + +“yes, yes,” muttered bagratión as if considering something, and he +rode past the limbers to the farthest cannon. + +as he approached, a ringing shot issued from it deafening him and his +suite, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the gun they could see +the gunners who had seized it straining to roll it quickly back to its +former position. a huge, broad-shouldered gunner, number one, holding +a mop, his legs far apart, sprang to the wheel; while number two with +a trembling hand placed a charge in the cannon’s mouth. the short, +round-shouldered captain túshin, stumbling over the tail of the gun +carriage, moved forward and, not noticing the general, looked out +shading his eyes with his small hand. + +“lift it two lines more and it will be just right,” cried he in a +feeble voice to which he tried to impart a dashing note, ill-suited to +his weak figure. “number two!” he squeaked. “fire, medvédev!” + +bagratión called to him, and túshin, raising three fingers to his cap +with a bashful and awkward gesture not at all like a military salute +but like a priest’s benediction, approached the general. though +túshin’s guns had been intended to cannonade the valley, he was +firing incendiary balls at the village of schön grabern visible just +opposite, in front of which large masses of french were advancing. + +no one had given túshin orders where and at what to fire, but after +consulting his sergeant major, zakharchénko, for whom he had great +respect, he had decided that it would be a good thing to set fire to the +village. “very good!” said bagratión in reply to the officer’s +report, and began deliberately to examine the whole battlefield extended +before him. the french had advanced nearest on our right. below the +height on which the kiev regiment was stationed, in the hollow where the +rivulet flowed, the soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was +heard, and much farther to the right beyond the dragoons, the officer of +the suite pointed out to bagratión a french column that was outflanking +us. to the left the horizon bounded by the adjacent wood. prince +bagratión ordered two battalions from the center to be sent to +reinforce the right flank. the officer of the suite ventured to remark +to the prince that if these battalions went away, the guns would remain +without support. prince bagratión turned to the officer and with his +dull eyes looked at him in silence. it seemed to prince andrew that the +officer’s remark was just and that really no answer could be made to +it. but at that moment an adjutant galloped up with a message from the +commander of the regiment in the hollow and news that immense masses +of the french were coming down upon them and that his regiment was in +disorder and was retreating upon the kiev grenadiers. prince bagratión +bowed his head in sign of assent and approval. he rode off at a walk to +the right and sent an adjutant to the dragoons with orders to attack the +french. but this adjutant returned half an hour later with the news that +the commander of the dragoons had already retreated beyond the dip in +the ground, as a heavy fire had been opened on him and he was losing +men uselessly, and so had hastened to throw some sharpshooters into the +wood. + +“very good!” said bagratión. + +as he was leaving the battery, firing was heard on the left also, and +as it was too far to the left flank for him to have time to go there +himself, prince bagratión sent zherkóv to tell the general in command +(the one who had paraded his regiment before kutúzov at braunau) that +he must retreat as quickly as possible behind the hollow in the rear, +as the right flank would probably not be able to withstand the enemy’s +attack very long. about túshin and the battalion that had been in +support of his battery all was forgotten. prince andrew listened +attentively to bagratión’s colloquies with the commanding officers +and the orders he gave them and, to his surprise, found that no orders +were really given, but that prince bagratión tried to make it appear +that everything done by necessity, by accident, or by the will of +subordinate commanders was done, if not by his direct command, at least +in accord with his intentions. prince andrew noticed, however, that +though what happened was due to chance and was independent of the +commander’s will, owing to the tact bagratión showed, his presence +was very valuable. officers who approached him with disturbed +countenances became calm; soldiers and officers greeted him gaily, grew +more cheerful in his presence, and were evidently anxious to display +their courage before him. + + + + + +chapter xviii + +prince bagratión, having reached the highest point of our right flank, +began riding downhill to where the roll of musketry was heard but where +on account of the smoke nothing could be seen. the nearer they got to +the hollow the less they could see but the more they felt the nearness +of the actual battlefield. they began to meet wounded men. one with a +bleeding head and no cap was being dragged along by two soldiers who +supported him under the arms. there was a gurgle in his throat and he +was spitting blood. a bullet had evidently hit him in the throat or +mouth. another was walking sturdily by himself but without his musket, +groaning aloud and swinging his arm which had just been hurt, while +blood from it was streaming over his greatcoat as from a bottle. he had +that moment been wounded and his face showed fear rather than suffering. +crossing a road they descended a steep incline and saw several men +lying on the ground; they also met a crowd of soldiers some of whom were +unwounded. the soldiers were ascending the hill breathing heavily, and +despite the general’s presence were talking loudly and gesticulating. +in front of them rows of gray cloaks were already visible through the +smoke, and an officer catching sight of bagratión rushed shouting after +the crowd of retreating soldiers, ordering them back. bagratión rode up +to the ranks along which shots crackled now here and now there, drowning +the sound of voices and the shouts of command. the whole air reeked with +smoke. the excited faces of the soldiers were blackened with it. some +were using their ramrods, others putting powder on the touchpans or +taking charges from their pouches, while others were firing, though who +they were firing at could not be seen for the smoke which there was no +wind to carry away. a pleasant humming and whistling of bullets were +often heard. “what is this?” thought prince andrew approaching the +crowd of soldiers. “it can’t be an attack, for they are not moving; +it can’t be a square—for they are not drawn up for that.” + +the commander of the regiment, a thin, feeble-looking old man with a +pleasant smile—his eyelids drooping more than half over his old eyes, +giving him a mild expression, rode up to bagratión and welcomed him as +a host welcomes an honored guest. he reported that his regiment had +been attacked by french cavalry and that, though the attack had been +repulsed, he had lost more than half his men. he said the attack +had been repulsed, employing this military term to describe what had +occurred to his regiment, but in reality he did not himself know what +had happened during that half-hour to the troops entrusted to him, and +could not say with certainty whether the attack had been repulsed or his +regiment had been broken up. all he knew was that at the commencement +of the action balls and shells began flying all over his regiment and +hitting men and that afterwards someone had shouted “cavalry!” and +our men had begun firing. they were still firing, not at the cavalry +which had disappeared, but at french infantry who had come into the +hollow and were firing at our men. prince bagratión bowed his head as a +sign that this was exactly what he had desired and expected. turning +to his adjutant he ordered him to bring down the two battalions of the +sixth chasseurs whom they had just passed. prince andrew was struck by +the changed expression on prince bagratión’s face at this moment. it +expressed the concentrated and happy resolution you see on the face of +a man who on a hot day takes a final run before plunging into the water. +the dull, sleepy expression was no longer there, nor the affectation +of profound thought. the round, steady, hawk’s eyes looked before him +eagerly and rather disdainfully, not resting on anything although his +movements were still slow and measured. + +the commander of the regiment turned to prince bagratión, entreating +him to go back as it was too dangerous to remain where they were. +“please, your excellency, for god’s sake!” he kept saying, +glancing for support at an officer of the suite who turned away +from him. “there, you see!” and he drew attention to the bullets +whistling, singing, and hissing continually around them. he spoke in the +tone of entreaty and reproach that a carpenter uses to a gentleman who +has picked up an ax: “we are used to it, but you, sir, will blister +your hands.” he spoke as if those bullets could not kill him, and his +half-closed eyes gave still more persuasiveness to his words. the staff +officer joined in the colonel’s appeals, but bagratión did not reply; +he only gave an order to cease firing and re-form, so as to give room +for the two approaching battalions. while he was speaking, the curtain +of smoke that had concealed the hollow, driven by a rising wind, began +to move from right to left as if drawn by an invisible hand, and the +hill opposite, with the french moving about on it, opened out before +them. all eyes fastened involuntarily on this french column advancing +against them and winding down over the uneven ground. one could already +see the soldiers’ shaggy caps, distinguish the officers from the men, +and see the standard flapping against its staff. + +“they march splendidly,” remarked someone in bagratión’s suite. + +the head of the column had already descended into the hollow. the clash +would take place on this side of it... + +the remains of our regiment which had been in action rapidly formed up +and moved to the right; from behind it, dispersing the laggards, came +two battalions of the sixth chasseurs in fine order. before they had +reached bagratión, the weighty tread of the mass of men marching in +step could be heard. on their left flank, nearest to bagratión, marched +a company commander, a fine round-faced man, with a stupid and happy +expression—the same man who had rushed out of the wattle shed. at that +moment he was clearly thinking of nothing but how dashing a fellow he +would appear as he passed the commander. + +with the self-satisfaction of a man on parade, he stepped lightly with +his muscular legs as if sailing along, stretching himself to his full +height without the smallest effort, his ease contrasting with the heavy +tread of the soldiers who were keeping step with him. he carried close +to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real +weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men +without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly. it was as +if all the powers of his soul were concentrated on passing the commander +in the best possible manner, and feeling that he was doing it well he +was happy. “left... left... left...” he seemed to repeat to himself +at each alternate step; and in time to this, with stern but varied +faces, the wall of soldiers burdened with knapsacks and muskets marched +in step, and each one of these hundreds of soldiers seemed to be +repeating to himself at each alternate step, “left... left... +left...” a fat major skirted a bush, puffing and falling out of +step; a soldier who had fallen behind, his face showing alarm at his +defection, ran at a trot, panting to catch up with his company. a cannon +ball, cleaving the air, flew over the heads of bagratión and his suite, +and fell into the column to the measure of “left... left!” “close +up!” came the company commander’s voice in jaunty tones. the +soldiers passed in a semicircle round something where the ball had +fallen, and an old trooper on the flank, a noncommissioned officer who +had stopped beside the dead men, ran to catch up his line and, falling +into step with a hop, looked back angrily, and through the ominous +silence and the regular tramp of feet beating the ground in unison, one +seemed to hear left... left... left. + +“well done, lads!” said prince bagratión. + +“glad to do our best, your ex’len-lency!” came a confused shout +from the ranks. a morose soldier marching on the left turned his eyes on +bagratión as he shouted, with an expression that seemed to say: “we +know that ourselves!” another, without looking round, as though +fearing to relax, shouted with his mouth wide open and passed on. + +the order was given to halt and down knapsacks. + +bagratión rode round the ranks that had marched past him and +dismounted. he gave the reins to a cossack, took off and handed over his diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-6/1M-tr-seq/1M-tr-seq-01 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(he distinctly saw an old french officer who, with gaitered +legs and turned-out toes, climbed the hill with difficulty.) prince +bagratión gave no further orders and silently continued to walk on in +front of the ranks. suddenly one shot after another rang out from the +french, smoke appeared all along their uneven ranks, and musket shots +sounded. several of our men fell, among them the round-faced officer +who had marched so gaily and complacently. but at the moment the first +report was heard, bagratión looked round and shouted, “hurrah!” + +“hurrah—ah!—ah!” rang a long-drawn shout from our ranks, and +passing bagratión and racing one another they rushed in an irregular +but joyous and eager crowd down the hill at their disordered foe. + + + + + +chapter xix + +the attack of the sixth chasseurs secured the retreat of our right +flank. in the center túshin’s forgotten battery, which had managed to +set fire to the schön grabern village, delayed the french advance. the +french were putting out the fire which the wind was spreading, and thus +gave us time to retreat. the retirement of the center to the other side +of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the +different companies did not get mixed. but our left—which consisted +of the azóv and podólsk infantry and the pávlograd hussars—was +simultaneously attacked and outflanked by superior french forces under +lannes and was thrown into confusion. bagratión had sent zherkóv +to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat +immediately. + +zherkóv, not removing his hand from his cap, turned his horse about +and galloped off. but no sooner had he left bagratión than his courage +failed him. he was seized by panic and could not go where it was +dangerous. + +having reached the left flank, instead of going to the front where the +firing was, he began to look for the general and his staff where they +could not possibly be, and so did not deliver the order. + +the command of the left flank belonged by seniority to the commander of +the regiment kutúzov had reviewed at braunau and in which dólokhov was +serving as a private. but the command of the extreme left flank had been +assigned to the commander of the pávlograd regiment in which rostóv +was serving, and a misunderstanding arose. the two commanders were much +exasperated with one another and, long after the action had begun on +the right flank and the french were already advancing, were engaged +in discussion with the sole object of offending one another. but the +regiments, both cavalry and infantry, were by no means ready for the +impending action. from privates to general they were not expecting a +battle and were engaged in peaceful occupations, the cavalry feeding the +horses and the infantry collecting wood. + +“he higher iss dan i in rank,” said the german colonel of the +hussars, flushing and addressing an adjutant who had ridden up, “so +let him do what he vill, but i cannot sacrifice my hussars... bugler, +sount ze retreat!” + +but haste was becoming imperative. cannon and musketry, mingling +together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes +of lannes’ sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and +forming up within twice the range of a musket shot. the general in +command of the infantry went toward his horse with jerky steps, and +having mounted drew himself up very straight and tall and rode to the +pávlograd commander. the commanders met with polite bows but with +secret malevolence in their hearts. + +“once again, colonel,” said the general, “i can’t leave half +my men in the wood. i beg of you, i beg of you,” he repeated, “to +occupy the position and prepare for an attack.” + +“i peg of you yourself not to mix in vot is not your business!” +suddenly replied the irate colonel. “if you vere in the cavalry...” + +“i am not in the cavalry, colonel, but i am a russian general and if +you are not aware of the fact...” + +“quite avare, your excellency,” suddenly shouted the colonel, +touching his horse and turning purple in the face. “vill you be so +goot to come to ze front and see dat zis position iss no goot? i don’t +vish to destroy my men for your pleasure!” + +“you forget yourself, colonel. i am not considering my own pleasure +and i won’t allow it to be said!” + +taking the colonel’s outburst as a challenge to his courage, the +general expanded his chest and rode, frowning, beside him to the +front line, as if their differences would be settled there amongst the +bullets. they reached the front, several bullets sped over them, and +they halted in silence. there was nothing fresh to be seen from the +line, for from where they had been before it had been evident that it +was impossible for cavalry to act among the bushes and broken ground, +as well as that the french were outflanking our left. the general +and colonel looked sternly and significantly at one another like two +fighting cocks preparing for battle, each vainly trying to detect signs +of cowardice in the other. both passed the examination successfully. as +there was nothing to be said, and neither wished to give occasion for +it to be alleged that he had been the first to leave the range of fire, +they would have remained there for a long time testing each other’s +courage had it not been that just then they heard the rattle of musketry +and a muffled shout almost behind them in the wood. the french had +attacked the men collecting wood in the copse. it was no longer possible +for the hussars to retreat with the infantry. they were cut off from +the line of retreat on the left by the french. however inconvenient the +position, it was now necessary to attack in order to cut a way through +for themselves. + +the squadron in which rostóv was serving had scarcely time to mount +before it was halted facing the enemy. again, as at the enns bridge, +there was nothing between the squadron and the enemy, and again that +terrible dividing line of uncertainty and fear—resembling the line +separating the living from the dead—lay between them. all were +conscious of this unseen line, and the question whether they would cross +it or not, and how they would cross it, agitated them all. + +the colonel rode to the front, angrily gave some reply to questions put +to him by the officers, and, like a man desperately insisting on having +his own way, gave an order. no one said anything definite, but the rumor +of an attack spread through the squadron. the command to form up rang +out and the sabers whizzed as they were drawn from their scabbards. +still no one moved. the troops of the left flank, infantry and hussars +alike, felt that the commander did not himself know what to do, and this +irresolution communicated itself to the men. + +“if only they would be quick!” thought rostóv, feeling that at last +the time had come to experience the joy of an attack of which he had so +often heard from his fellow hussars. + +“fo’ward, with god, lads!” rang out denísov’s voice. “at a +twot fo’ward!” + +the horses’ croups began to sway in the front line. rook pulled at the +reins and started of his own accord. + +before him, on the right, rostóv saw the front lines of his hussars and +still farther ahead a dark line which he could not see distinctly but +took to be the enemy. shots could be heard, but some way off. + +“faster!” came the word of command, and rostóv felt rook’s flanks +drooping as he broke into a gallop. + +rostóv anticipated his horse’s movements and became more and more +elated. he had noticed a solitary tree ahead of him. this tree had been +in the middle of the line that had seemed so terrible—and now he +had crossed that line and not only was there nothing terrible, but +everything was becoming more and more happy and animated. “oh, how i +will slash at him!” thought rostóv, gripping the hilt of his saber. + +“hur-a-a-a-ah!” came a roar of voices. “let anyone come my way +now,” thought rostóv driving his spurs into rook and letting him go +at a full gallop so that he outstripped the others. ahead, the enemy was +already visible. suddenly something like a birch broom seemed to sweep +over the squadron. rostóv raised his saber, ready to strike, but at +that instant the trooper nikítenko, who was galloping ahead, shot away +from him, and rostóv felt as in a dream that he continued to be carried +forward with unnatural speed but yet stayed on the same spot. from +behind him bondarchúk, an hussar he knew, jolted against him and looked +angrily at him. bondarchúk’s horse swerved and galloped past. + +“how is it i am not moving? i have fallen, i am killed!” rostóv +asked and answered at the same instant. he was alone in the middle of a +field. instead of the moving horses and hussars’ backs, he saw nothing +before him but the motionless earth and the stubble around him. there +was warm blood under his arm. “no, i am wounded and the horse is +killed.” rook tried to rise on his forelegs but fell back, pinning his +rider’s leg. blood was flowing from his head; he struggled but could +not rise. rostóv also tried to rise but fell back, his sabretache +having become entangled in the saddle. where our men were, and where the +french, he did not know. there was no one near. + +having disentangled his leg, he rose. “where, on which side, was now +the line that had so sharply divided the two armies?” he asked himself +and could not answer. “can something bad have happened to me?” +he wondered as he got up: and at that moment he felt that something +superfluous was hanging on his benumbed left arm. the wrist felt as if +it were not his. he examined his hand carefully, vainly trying to find +blood on it. “ah, here are people coming,” he thought joyfully, +seeing some men running toward him. “they will help me!” in front +came a man wearing a strange shako and a blue cloak, swarthy, sunburned, +and with a hooked nose. then came two more, and many more running +behind. one of them said something strange, not in russian. in among the +hindmost of these men wearing similar shakos was a russian hussar. he +was being held by the arms and his horse was being led behind him. + +“it must be one of ours, a prisoner. yes. can it be that they will +take me too? who are these men?” thought rostóv, scarcely believing +his eyes. “can they be french?” he looked at the approaching +frenchmen, and though but a moment before he had been galloping to get +at them and hack them to pieces, their proximity now seemed so awful +that he could not believe his eyes. “who are they? why are they +running? can they be coming at me? and why? to kill me? me whom everyone +is so fond of?” he remembered his mother’s love for him, and his +family’s, and his friends’, and the enemy’s intention to kill him +seemed impossible. “but perhaps they may do it!” for more than ten +seconds he stood not moving from the spot or realizing the situation. +the foremost frenchman, the one with the hooked nose, was already so +close that the expression of his face could be seen. and the excited, +alien face of that man, his bayonet hanging down, holding his breath, +and running so lightly, frightened rostóv. he seized his pistol and, +instead of firing it, flung it at the frenchman and ran with all his +might toward the bushes. he did not now run with the feeling of doubt +and conflict with which he had trodden the enns bridge, but with the +feeling of a hare fleeing from the hounds. one single sentiment, that +of fear for his young and happy life, possessed his whole being. rapidly +leaping the furrows, he fled across the field with the impetuosity he +used to show at catchplay, now and then turning his good-natured, pale, +young face to look back. a shudder of terror went through him: “no, +better not look,” he thought, but having reached the bushes he glanced +round once more. the french had fallen behind, and just as he looked +round the first man changed his run to a walk and, turning, shouted +something loudly to a comrade farther back. rostóv paused. “no, +there’s some mistake,” thought he. “they can’t have wanted to +kill me.” but at the same time, his left arm felt as heavy as if +a seventy-pound weight were tied to it. he could run no more. the +frenchman also stopped and took aim. rostóv closed his eyes and stooped +down. one bullet and then another whistled past him. he mustered his +last remaining strength, took hold of his left hand with his right, and +reached the bushes. behind these were some russian sharpshooters. + + + + + +chapter xx + +the infantry regiments that had been caught unawares in the outskirts +of the wood ran out of it, the different companies getting mixed, and +retreated as a disorderly crowd. one soldier, in his fear, uttered the +senseless cry, “cut off!” that is so terrible in battle, and that +word infected the whole crowd with a feeling of panic. + +“surrounded! cut off? we’re lost!” shouted the fugitives. + +the moment he heard the firing and the cry from behind, the general +realized that something dreadful had happened to his regiment, and the +thought that he, an exemplary officer of many years’ service who +had never been to blame, might be held responsible at headquarters +for negligence or inefficiency so staggered him that, forgetting the +recalcitrant cavalry colonel, his own dignity as a general, and above +all quite forgetting the danger and all regard for self-preservation, he +clutched the crupper of his saddle and, spurring his horse, galloped to +the regiment under a hail of bullets which fell around, but fortunately +missed him. his one desire was to know what was happening and at any +cost correct, or remedy, the mistake if he had made one, so that he, +an exemplary officer of twenty-two years’ service, who had never been +censured, should not be held to blame. + +having galloped safely through the french, he reached a field behind +the copse across which our men, regardless of orders, were running and +descending the valley. that moment of moral hesitation which decides +the fate of battles had arrived. would this disorderly crowd of soldiers +attend to the voice of their commander, or would they, disregarding him, +continue their flight? despite his desperate shouts that used to seem +so terrible to the soldiers, despite his furious purple countenance +distorted out of all likeness to his former self, and the flourishing of +his saber, the soldiers all continued to run, talking, firing into the +air, and disobeying orders. the moral hesitation which decided the fate +of battles was evidently culminating in a panic. + +the general had a fit of coughing as a result of shouting and of the +powder smoke and stopped in despair. everything seemed lost. but at that +moment the french who were attacking, suddenly and without any apparent +reason, ran back and disappeared from the outskirts, and russian +sharpshooters showed themselves in the copse. it was timókhin’s +company, which alone had maintained its order in the wood and, having +lain in ambush in a ditch, now attacked the french unexpectedly. +timókhin, armed only with a sword, had rushed at the enemy with such +a desperate cry and such mad, drunken determination that, taken by +surprise, the french had thrown down their muskets and run. dólokhov, +running beside timókhin, killed a frenchman at close quarters and was +the first to seize the surrendering french officer by his collar. our +fugitives returned, the battalions re-formed, and the french who had +nearly cut our left flank in half were for the moment repulsed. our +reserve units were able to join up, and the fight was at an end. the +regimental commander and major ekonómov had stopped beside a bridge, +letting the retreating companies pass by them, when a soldier came up +and took hold of the commander’s stirrup, almost leaning against him. +the man was wearing a bluish coat of broadcloth, he had no knapsack +or cap, his head was bandaged, and over his shoulder a french munition +pouch was slung. he had an officer’s sword in his hand. the soldier +was pale, his blue eyes looked impudently into the commander’s face, +and his lips were smiling. though the commander was occupied in giving +instructions to major ekonómov, he could not help taking notice of the +soldier. + +“your excellency, here are two trophies,” said dólokhov, pointing +to the french sword and pouch. “i have taken an officer prisoner. i +stopped the company.” dólokhov breathed heavily from weariness and +spoke in abrupt sentences. “the whole company can bear witness. i beg +you will remember this, your excellency!” + +“all right, all right,” replied the commander, and turned to major +ekonómov. + +but dólokhov did not go away; he untied the handkerchief around his +head, pulled it off, and showed the blood congealed on his hair. + +“a bayonet wound. i remained at the front. remember, your +excellency!” + + +túshin’s battery had been forgotten and only at the very end of the +action did prince bagratión, still hearing the cannonade in the center, +send his orderly staff officer, and later prince andrew also, to order +the battery to retire as quickly as possible. when the supports attached +to túshin’s battery had been moved away in the middle of the action +by someone’s order, the battery had continued firing and was only not +captured by the french because the enemy could not surmise that anyone +could have the effrontery to continue firing from four quite undefended +guns. on the contrary, the energetic action of that battery led the +french to suppose that here—in the center—the main russian forces +were concentrated. twice they had attempted to attack this point, but on +each occasion had been driven back by grapeshot from the four isolated +guns on the hillock. + +soon after prince bagratión had left him, túshin had succeeded in +setting fire to schön grabern. + +“look at them scurrying! it’s burning! just see the smoke! fine! +grand! look at the smoke, the smoke!” exclaimed the artillerymen, +brightening up. + +all the guns, without waiting for orders, were being fired in the +direction of the conflagration. as if urging each other on, the soldiers +cried at each shot: “fine! that’s good! look at it... grand!” the +fire, fanned by the breeze, was rapidly spreading. the french columns +that had advanced beyond the village went back; but as though in revenge +for this failure, the enemy placed ten guns to the right of the village +and began firing them at túshin’s battery. + +in their childlike glee, aroused by the fire and their luck in +successfully cannonading the french, our artillerymen only noticed this +battery when two balls, and then four more, fell among our guns, one +knocking over two horses and another tearing off a munition-wagon +driver’s leg. their spirits once roused were, however, not diminished, +but only changed character. the horses were replaced by others from a +reserve gun carriage, the wounded were carried away, and the four guns +were turned against the ten-gun battery. túshin’s companion officer +had been killed at the beginning of the engagement and within an hour +seventeen of the forty men of the guns’ crews had been disabled, but +the artillerymen were still as merry and lively as ever. twice they +noticed the french appearing below them, and then they fired grapeshot +at them. + +little túshin, moving feebly and awkwardly, kept telling his orderly to +“refill my pipe for that one!” and then, scattering sparks from it, +ran forward shading his eyes with his small hand to look at the french. + +“smack at ‘em, lads!” he kept saying, seizing the guns by the +wheels and working the screws himself. + +amid the smoke, deafened by the incessant reports which always made him +jump, túshin not taking his pipe from his mouth ran from gun to gun, +now aiming, now counting the charges, now giving orders about replacing +dead or wounded horses and harnessing fresh ones, and shouting in his +feeble voice, so high pitched and irresolute. his face grew more and +more animated. only when a man was killed or wounded did he frown and +turn away from the sight, shouting angrily at the men who, as is always +the case, hesitated about lifting the injured or dead. the soldiers, +for the most part handsome fellows and, as is always the case in an +artillery company, a head and shoulders taller and twice as broad +as their officer—all looked at their commander like children in an +embarrassing situation, and the expression on his face was invariably +reflected on theirs. + +owing to the terrible uproar and the necessity for concentration and +activity, túshin did not experience the slightest unpleasant sense of +fear, and the thought that he might be killed or badly wounded never +occurred to him. on the contrary, he became more and more elated. it +seemed to him that it was a very long time ago, almost a day, since he +had first seen the enemy and fired the first shot, and that the corner +of the field he stood on was well-known and familiar ground. though he +thought of everything, considered everything, and did everything the +best of officers could do in his position, he was in a state akin to +feverish delirium or drunkenness. + +from the deafening sounds of his own guns around him, the whistle and +thud of the enemy’s cannon balls, from the flushed and perspiring +faces of the crew bustling round the guns, from the sight of the blood +of men and horses, from the little puffs of smoke on the enemy’s side +(always followed by a ball flying past and striking the earth, a man, a +gun, a horse), from the sight of all these things a fantastic world of +his own had taken possession of his brain and at that moment afforded +him pleasure. the enemy’s guns were in his fancy not guns but pipes +from which occasional puffs were blown by an invisible smoker. + +“there... he’s puffing again,” muttered túshin to himself, as a +small cloud rose from the hill and was borne in a streak to the left by +the wind. + +“now look out for the ball... we’ll throw it back.” + +“what do you want, your honor?” asked an artilleryman, standing +close by, who heard him muttering. + +“nothing... only a shell...” he answered. + +“come along, our matvévna!” he said to himself. “matvévna” * +was the name his fancy gave to the farthest gun of the battery, which +was large and of an old pattern. the french swarming round their guns +seemed to him like ants. in that world, the handsome drunkard number one +of the second gun’s crew was “uncle”; túshin looked at him more +often than at anyone else and took delight in his every movement. +the sound of musketry at the foot of the hill, now diminishing, now +increasing, seemed like someone’s breathing. he listened intently to +the ebb and flow of these sounds. + + * daughter of matthew. + +“ah! breathing again, breathing!” he muttered to himself. + +he imagined himself as an enormously tall, powerful man who was throwing +cannon balls at the french with both hands. + +“now then, matvévna, dear old lady, don’t let me down!” he was +saying as he moved from the gun, when a strange, unfamiliar voice called +above his head: “captain túshin! captain!” + +túshin turned round in dismay. it was the staff officer who had turned +him out of the booth at grunth. he was shouting in a gasping voice: + +“are you mad? you have twice been ordered to retreat, and you...” + +“why are they down on me?” thought túshin, looking in alarm at his +superior. + +“i... don’t...” he muttered, holding up two fingers to his cap. +“i...” + +but the staff officer did not finish what he wanted to say. a cannon +ball, flying close to him, caused him to duck and bend over his horse. +he paused, and just as he was about to say something more, another ball +stopped him. he turned his horse and galloped off. + +“retire! all to retire!” he shouted from a distance. + +the soldiers laughed. a moment later, an adjutant arrived with the same +order. + +it was prince andrew. the first thing he saw on riding up to the space +where túshin’s guns were stationed was an unharnessed horse with a +broken leg, that lay screaming piteously beside the harnessed horses. +blood was gushing from its leg as from a spring. among the limbers lay +several dead men. one ball after another passed over as he approached +and he felt a nervous shudder run down his spine. but the mere thought +of being afraid roused him again. “i cannot be afraid,” thought he, +and dismounted slowly among the guns. he delivered the order and did +not leave the battery. he decided to have the guns removed from their +positions and withdrawn in his presence. together with túshin, stepping +across the bodies and under a terrible fire from the french, he attended +to the removal of the guns. + +“a staff officer was here a minute ago, but skipped off,” said an +artilleryman to prince andrew. “not like your honor!” + +prince andrew said nothing to túshin. they were both so busy as to seem +not to notice one another. when having limbered up the only two cannon +that remained uninjured out of the four, they began moving down the hill +(one shattered gun and one unicorn were left behind), prince andrew rode +up to túshin. + +“well, till we meet again...” he said, holding out his hand to +túshin. + +“good-by, my dear fellow,” said túshin. “dear soul! good-by, my +dear fellow!” and for some unknown reason tears suddenly filled his +eyes. + + + + + +chapter xxi + +the wind had fallen and black clouds, merging with the powder smoke, +hung low over the field of battle on the horizon. it was growing +dark and the glow of two conflagrations was the more conspicuous. the +cannonade was dying down, but the rattle of musketry behind and on the +right sounded oftener and nearer. as soon as túshin with his guns, +continually driving round or coming upon wounded men, was out of range +of fire and had descended into the dip, he was met by some of the staff, +among them the staff officer and zherkóv, who had been twice sent to +túshin’s battery but had never reached it. interrupting one +another, they all gave, and transmitted, orders as to how to proceed, +reprimanding and reproaching him. túshin gave no orders, and, +silently—fearing to speak because at every word he felt ready to +weep without knowing why—rode behind on his artillery nag. though +the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves +after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages. the jaunty +infantry officer who just before the battle had rushed out of +túshin’s wattle shed was laid, with a bullet in his stomach, on +“matvévna’s” carriage. at the foot of the hill, a pale hussar +cadet, supporting one hand with the other, came up to túshin and asked +for a seat. + +“captain, for god’s sake! i’ve hurt my arm,” he said timidly. +“for god’s sake... i can’t walk. for god’s sake!” + +it was plain that this cadet had already repeatedly asked for a lift and +been refused. he asked in a hesitating, piteous voice. + +“tell them to give me a seat, for god’s sake!” + +“give him a seat,” said túshin. “lay a cloak for him to sit on, +lad,” he said, addressing his favorite soldier. “and where is the +wounded officer?” + +“he has been set down. he died,” replied someone. + +“help him up. sit down, dear fellow, sit down! spread out the cloak, +antónov.” + +the cadet was rostóv. with one hand he supported the other; he was +pale and his jaw trembled, shivering feverishly. he was placed on +“matvévna,” the gun from which they had removed the dead officer. +the cloak they spread under him was wet with blood which stained his +breeches and arm. + +“what, are you wounded, my lad?” said túshin, approaching the gun +on which rostóv sat. + +“no, it’s a sprain.” + +“then what is this blood on the gun carriage?” inquired túshin. + +“it was the officer, your honor, stained it,” answered the +artilleryman, wiping away the blood with his coat sleeve, as if +apologizing for the state of his gun. + +it was all that they could do to get the guns up the rise aided by the +infantry, and having reached the village of gruntersdorf they halted. it +had grown so dark that one could not distinguish the uniforms ten paces +off, and the firing had begun to subside. suddenly, near by on the +right, shouting and firing were again heard. flashes of shot gleamed in +the darkness. this was the last french attack and was met by soldiers +who had sheltered in the village houses. they all rushed out of +the village again, but túshin’s guns could not move, and the +artillerymen, túshin, and the cadet exchanged silent glances as they +awaited their fate. the firing died down and soldiers, talking eagerly, +streamed out of a side street. + +“not hurt, petróv?” asked one. + +“we’ve given it ‘em hot, mate! they won’t make another push +now,” said another. + +“you couldn’t see a thing. how they shot at their own fellows! +nothing could be seen. pitch-dark, brother! isn’t there something to +drink?” + +the french had been repulsed for the last time. and again and again in +the complete darkness túshin’s guns moved forward, surrounded by the +humming infantry as by a frame. + +in the darkness, it seemed as though a gloomy unseen river was flowing +always in one direction, humming with whispers and talk and the sound of +hoofs and wheels. amid the general rumble, the groans and voices of the +wounded were more distinctly heard than any other sound in the darkness +of the night. the gloom that enveloped the army was filled with their +groans, which seemed to melt into one with the darkness of the night. +after a while the moving mass became agitated, someone rode past on +a white horse followed by his suite, and said something in passing: +“what did he say? where to, now? halt, is it? did he thank us?” came +eager questions from all sides. the whole moving mass began pressing +closer together and a report spread that they were ordered to halt: +evidently those in front had halted. all remained where they were in the +middle of the muddy road. + +fires were lighted and the talk became more audible. captain túshin, +having given orders to his company, sent a soldier to find a dressing +station or a doctor for the cadet, and sat down by a bonfire the +soldiers had kindled on the road. rostóv, too, dragged himself to the +fire. from pain, cold, and damp, a feverish shivering shook his whole +body. drowsiness was irresistibly mastering him, but he kept awake by +an excruciating pain in his arm, for which he could find no satisfactory +position. he kept closing his eyes and then again looking at the fire, +which seemed to him dazzlingly red, and at the feeble, round-shouldered +figure of túshin who was sitting cross-legged like a turk beside him. +túshin’s large, kind, intelligent eyes were fixed with sympathy and +commiseration on rostóv, who saw that túshin with his whole heart +wished to help him but could not. + +from all sides were heard the footsteps and talk of the infantry, who +were walking, driving past, and settling down all around. the sound +of voices, the tramping feet, the horses’ hoofs moving in mud, the +crackling of wood fires near and afar, merged into one tremulous rumble. + +it was no longer, as before, a dark, unseen river flowing through the +gloom, but a dark sea swelling and gradually subsiding after a storm. +rostóv looked at and listened listlessly to what passed before and +around him. an infantryman came to the fire, squatted on his heels, held +his hands to the blaze, and turned away his face. + +“you don’t mind your honor?” he asked túshin. “i’ve lost my +company, your honor. i don’t know where... such bad luck!” + +with the soldier, an infantry officer with a bandaged cheek came up to +the bonfire, and addressing túshin asked him to have the guns moved a +trifle to let a wagon go past. after he had gone, two soldiers rushed to +the campfire. they were quarreling and fighting desperately, each trying +to snatch from the other a boot they were both holding on to. + +“you picked it up?... i dare say! you’re very smart!” one of them +shouted hoarsely. + +then a thin, pale soldier, his neck bandaged with a bloodstained leg +band, came up and in angry tones asked the artillerymen for water. + +“must one die like a dog?” said he. + +túshin told them to give the man some water. then a cheerful soldier +ran up, begging a little fire for the infantry. + +“a nice little hot torch for the infantry! good luck to you, fellow +countrymen. thanks for the fire—we’ll return it with interest,” +said he, carrying away into the darkness a glowing stick. + +next came four soldiers, carrying something heavy on a cloak, and passed +by the fire. one of them stumbled. + +“who the devil has put the logs on the road?” snarled he. + +“he’s dead—why carry him?” said another. + +“shut up!” + +and they disappeared into the darkness with their load. + +“still aching?” túshin asked rostóv in a whisper. + +“yes.” + +“your honor, you’re wanted by the general. he is in the hut here,” +said a gunner, coming up to túshin. + +“coming, friend.” + +túshin rose and, buttoning his greatcoat and pulling it straight, +walked away from the fire. + +not far from the artillery campfire, in a hut that had been prepared +for him, prince bagratión sat at dinner, talking with some commanding +officers who had gathered at his quarters. the little old man with +the half-closed eyes was there greedily gnawing a mutton bone, and the +general who had served blamelessly for twenty-two years, flushed by a +glass of vodka and the dinner; and the staff officer with the signet +ring, and zherkóv, uneasily glancing at them all, and prince andrew, +pale, with compressed lips and feverishly glittering eyes. + +in a corner of the hut stood a standard captured from the french, and +the accountant with the naïve face was feeling its texture, shaking his +head in perplexity—perhaps because the banner really interested him, +perhaps because it was hard for him, hungry as he was, to look on at +a dinner where there was no place for him. in the next hut there was a +french colonel who had been taken prisoner by our dragoons. our officers +were flocking in to look at him. prince bagratión was thanking the +individual commanders and inquiring into details of the action and our +losses. the general whose regiment had been inspected at braunau was +informing the prince that as soon as the action began he had withdrawn +from the wood, mustered the men who were woodcutting, and, allowing the +french to pass him, had made a bayonet charge with two battalions and +had broken up the french troops. + +“when i saw, your excellency, that their first battalion was +disorganized, i stopped in the road and thought: ‘i’ll let them +come on and will meet them with the fire of the whole battalion’—and +that’s what i did.” + +the general had so wished to do this and was so sorry he had not managed +to do it that it seemed to him as if it had really happened. perhaps +it might really have been so? could one possibly make out amid all that +confusion what did or did not happen? + +“by the way, your excellency, i should inform you,” he +continued—remembering dólokhov’s conversation with kutúzov and his +last interview with the gentleman-ranker—“that private dólokhov, +who was reduced to the ranks, took a french officer prisoner in my +presence and particularly distinguished himself.” + +“i saw the pávlograd hussars attack there, your excellency,” chimed +in zherkóv, looking uneasily around. he had not seen the hussars all +that day, but had heard about them from an infantry officer. “they +broke up two squares, your excellency.” + +several of those present smiled at zherkóv’s words, expecting one of +his usual jokes, but noticing that what he was saying redounded to +the glory of our arms and of the day’s work, they assumed a serious +expression, though many of them knew that what he was saying was a lie +devoid of any foundation. prince bagratión turned to the old colonel: + +“gentlemen, i thank you all; all arms have behaved heroically: +infantry, cavalry, and artillery. how was it that two guns were +abandoned in the center?” he inquired, searching with his eyes for +someone. (prince bagratión did not ask about the guns on the left +flank; he knew that all the guns there had been abandoned at the very +beginning of the action.) “i think i sent you?” he added, turning to +the staff officer on duty. + +“one was damaged,” answered the staff officer, “and the other i +can’t understand. i was there all the time giving orders and had only +just left.... it is true that it was hot there,” he added, modestly. + +someone mentioned that captain túshin was bivouacking close to the +village and had already been sent for. + +“oh, but you were there?” said prince bagratión, addressing prince +andrew. + +“of course, we only just missed one another,” said the staff +officer, with a smile to bolkónski. + +“i had not the pleasure of seeing you,” said prince andrew, coldly +and abruptly. + +all were silent. túshin appeared at the threshold and made his way +timidly from behind the backs of the generals. as he stepped past the +generals in the crowded hut, feeling embarrassed as he always was by the +sight of his superiors, he did not notice the staff of the banner and +stumbled over it. several of those present laughed. + +“how was it a gun was abandoned?” asked bagratión, frowning, not so +much at the captain as at those who were laughing, among whom zherkóv +laughed loudest. + +only now, when he was confronted by the stern authorities, did his guilt +and the disgrace of having lost two guns and yet remaining alive present +themselves to túshin in all their horror. he had been so excited that +he had not thought about it until that moment. the officers’ laughter +confused him still more. he stood before bagratión with his lower +jaw trembling and was hardly able to mutter: “i don’t know... your +excellency... i had no men... your excellency.” + +“you might have taken some from the covering troops.” + +túshin did not say that there were no covering troops, though that +was perfectly true. he was afraid of getting some other officer into +trouble, and silently fixed his eyes on bagratión as a schoolboy who +has blundered looks at an examiner. + +the silence lasted some time. prince bagratión, apparently not wishing +to be severe, found nothing to say; the others did not venture to +intervene. prince andrew looked at túshin from under his brows and his +fingers twitched nervously. + +“your excellency!” prince andrew broke the silence with his abrupt +voice, “you were pleased to send me to captain túshin’s battery. i +went there and found two thirds of the men and horses knocked out, two +guns smashed, and no supports at all.” + +prince bagratión and túshin looked with equal intentness at +bolkónski, who spoke with suppressed agitation. + +“and, if your excellency will allow me to express my opinion,” he +continued, “we owe today’s success chiefly to the action of that +battery and the heroic endurance of captain túshin and his company,” +and without awaiting a reply, prince andrew rose and left the table. + +prince bagratión looked at túshin, evidently reluctant to show +distrust in bolkónski’s emphatic opinion yet not feeling able fully +to credit it, bent his head, and told túshin that he could go. prince +andrew went out with him. + +“thank you; you saved me, my dear fellow!” said túshin. + +prince andrew gave him a look, but said nothing and went away. he felt +sad and depressed. it was all so strange, so unlike what he had hoped. + + +“who are they? why are they here? what do they want? and when will +all this end?” thought rostóv, looking at the changing shadows before +him. the pain in his arm became more and more intense. irresistible +drowsiness overpowered him, red rings danced before his eyes, and the +impression of those voices and faces and a sense of loneliness merged +with the physical pain. it was they, these soldiers—wounded and +unwounded—it was they who were crushing, weighing down, and twisting +the sinews and scorching the flesh of his sprained arm and shoulder. to +rid himself of them he closed his eyes. + +for a moment he dozed, but in that short interval innumerable things +appeared to him in a dream: his mother and her large white hand, +sónya’s thin little shoulders, natásha’s eyes and laughter, +denísov with his voice and mustache, and telyánin and all that affair +with telyánin and bogdánich. that affair was the same thing as this +soldier with the harsh voice, and it was that affair and this soldier +that were so agonizingly, incessantly pulling and pressing his arm and +always dragging it in one direction. he tried to get away from them, but +they would not for an instant let his shoulder move a hair’s breadth. +it would not ache—it would be well—if only they did not pull it, but +it was impossible to get rid of them. + +he opened his eyes and looked up. the black canopy of night hung less +than a yard above the glow of the charcoal. flakes of falling snow were +fluttering in that light. túshin had not returned, the doctor had not +come. he was alone now, except for a soldier who was sitting naked at +the other side of the fire, warming his thin yellow body. + +“nobody wants me!” thought rostóv. “there is no one to help me or +pity me. yet i was once at home, strong, happy, and loved.” he sighed +and, doing so, groaned involuntarily. + +“eh, is anything hurting you?” asked the soldier, shaking his shirt +out over the fire, and not waiting for an answer he gave a grunt and +added: “what a lot of men have been crippled today—frightful!” + +rostóv did not listen to the soldier. he looked at the snowflakes +fluttering above the fire and remembered a russian winter at his warm, +bright home, his fluffy fur coat, his quickly gliding sleigh, his +healthy body, and all the affection and care of his family. “and why +did i come here?” he wondered. + +next day the french army did not renew their attack, and the remnant of +bagratión’s detachment was reunited to kutúzov’s army. + + + + + +book three: 1805 + + + + + +chapter i + +prince vasíli was not a man who deliberately thought out his plans. +still less did he think of injuring anyone for his own advantage. he +was merely a man of the world who had got on and to whom getting on had +become a habit. schemes and devices for which he never rightly accounted +to himself, but which formed the whole interest of his life, +were constantly shaping themselves in his mind, arising from the +circumstances and persons he met. of these plans he had not merely one +or two in his head but dozens, some only beginning to form themselves, +some approaching achievement, and some in course of disintegration. he +did not, for instance, say to himself: “this man now has influence, i +must gain his confidence and friendship and through him obtain a special +grant.” nor did he say to himself: “pierre is a rich man, i must +entice him to marry my daughter and lend me the forty thousand rubles +i need.” but when he came across a man of position his instinct +immediately told him that this man could be useful, and without any +premeditation prince vasíli took the first opportunity to gain his +confidence, flatter him, become intimate with him, and finally make his +request. + +he had pierre at hand in moscow and procured for him an appointment as +gentleman of the bedchamber, which at that time conferred the status of +councilor of state, and insisted on the young man accompanying him to +petersburg and staying at his house. with apparent absent-mindedness, +yet with unhesitating assurance that he was doing the right thing, +prince vasíli did everything to get pierre to marry his daughter. had +he thought out his plans beforehand he could not have been so natural +and shown such unaffected familiarity in intercourse with everybody both +above and below him in social standing. something always drew him toward +those richer and more powerful than himself and he had rare skill in +seizing the most opportune moment for making use of people. + +pierre, on unexpectedly becoming count bezúkhov and a rich man, felt +himself after his recent loneliness and freedom from cares so beset and +preoccupied that only in bed was he able to be by himself. he had to +sign papers, to present himself at government offices, the purpose of +which was not clear to him, to question his chief steward, to visit his +estate near moscow, and to receive many people who formerly did not +even wish to know of his existence but would now have been offended +and grieved had he chosen not to see them. these different +people—businessmen, relations, and acquaintances alike—were all +disposed to treat the young heir in the most friendly and flattering +manner: they were all evidently firmly convinced of pierre’s noble +qualities. he was always hearing such words as: “with your remarkable +kindness,” or, “with your excellent heart,” “you are yourself so +honorable, count,” or, “were he as clever as you,” and so on, +till he began sincerely to believe in his own exceptional kindness and +extraordinary intelligence, the more so as in the depth of his heart it +had always seemed to him that he really was very kind and intelligent. +even people who had formerly been spiteful toward him and evidently +unfriendly now became gentle and affectionate. the angry eldest +princess, with the long waist and hair plastered down like a doll’s, +had come into pierre’s room after the funeral. with drooping eyes +and frequent blushes she told him she was very sorry about their past +misunderstandings and did not now feel she had a right to ask him for +anything, except only for permission, after the blow she had received, +to remain for a few weeks longer in the house she so loved and where +she had sacrificed so much. she could not refrain from weeping at these +words. touched that this statuesque princess could so change, pierre +took her hand and begged her forgiveness, without knowing what for. +from that day the eldest princess quite changed toward pierre and began +knitting a striped scarf for him. + +“do this for my sake, mon cher; after all, she had to put up with a +great deal from the deceased,” said prince vasíli to him, handing him +a deed to sign for the princess’ benefit. + +prince vasíli had come to the conclusion that it was necessary to throw +this bone—a bill for thirty thousand rubles—to the poor princess +that it might not occur to her to speak of his share in the affair of +the inlaid portfolio. pierre signed the deed and after that the princess +grew still kinder. the younger sisters also became affectionate to him, +especially the youngest, the pretty one with the mole, who often made +him feel confused by her smiles and her own confusion when meeting him. + +it seemed so natural to pierre that everyone should like him, and it +would have seemed so unnatural had anyone disliked him, that he could +not but believe in the sincerity of those around him. besides, he had +no time to ask himself whether these people were sincere or not. he +was always busy and always felt in a state of mild and cheerful +intoxication. he felt as though he were the center of some important and +general movement; that something was constantly expected of him, that if +he did not do it he would grieve and disappoint many people, but if he +did this and that, all would be well; and he did what was demanded of +him, but still that happy result always remained in the future. + +more than anyone else, prince vasíli took possession of pierre’s +affairs and of pierre himself in those early days. from the death of +count bezúkhov he did not let go his hold of the lad. he had the air of +a man oppressed by business, weary and suffering, who yet would not, for +pity’s sake, leave this helpless youth who, after all, was the son of +his old friend and the possessor of such enormous wealth, to the caprice +of fate and the designs of rogues. during the few days he spent in +moscow after the death of count bezúkhov, he would call pierre, or +go to him himself, and tell him what ought to be done in a tone of +weariness and assurance, as if he were adding every time: “you know +i am overwhelmed with business and it is purely out of charity that +i trouble myself about you, and you also know quite well that what i +propose is the only thing possible.” + +“well, my dear fellow, tomorrow we are off at last,” said prince +vasíli one day, closing his eyes and fingering pierre’s elbow, +speaking as if he were saying something which had long since been agreed +upon and could not now be altered. “we start tomorrow and i’m giving +you a place in my carriage. i am very glad. all our important business +here is now settled, and i ought to have been off long ago. here is +something i have received from the chancellor. i asked him for you, and +you have been entered in the diplomatic corps and made a gentleman of +the bedchamber. the diplomatic career now lies open before you.” + +notwithstanding the tone of wearied assurance with which these words +were pronounced, pierre, who had so long been considering his career, +wished to make some suggestion. but prince vasíli interrupted him in +the special deep cooing tone, precluding the possibility of interrupting +his speech, which he used in extreme cases when special persuasion was +needed. + +“mais, mon cher, i did this for my own sake, to satisfy my conscience, +and there is nothing to thank me for. no one has ever complained yet of +being too much loved; and besides, you are free, you could throw it +up tomorrow. but you will see everything for yourself when you get to +petersburg. it is high time for you to get away from these terrible +recollections.” prince vasíli sighed. “yes, yes, my boy. and my +valet can go in your carriage. ah! i was nearly forgetting,” he added. +“you know, mon cher, your father and i had some accounts to settle, so +i have received what was due from the ryazán estate and will keep it; +you won’t require it. we’ll go into the accounts later.” + +by “what was due from the ryazán estate” prince vasíli meant +several thousand rubles quitrent received from pierre’s peasants, +which the prince had retained for himself. + +in petersburg, as in moscow, pierre found the same atmosphere of +gentleness and affection. he could not refuse the post, or rather the +rank (for he did nothing), that prince vasíli had procured for him, +and acquaintances, invitations, and social occupations were so numerous +that, even more than in moscow, he felt a sense of bewilderment, bustle, +and continual expectation of some good, always in front of him but never +attained. + +of his former bachelor acquaintances many were no longer in petersburg. +the guards had gone to the front; dólokhov had been reduced to the +ranks; anatole was in the army somewhere in the provinces; prince andrew +was abroad; so pierre had not the opportunity to spend his nights as he +used to like to spend them, or to open his mind by intimate talks with +a friend older than himself and whom he respected. his whole time +was taken up with dinners and balls and was spent chiefly at prince +vasíli’s house in the company of the stout princess, his wife, and +his beautiful daughter hélène. + +like the others, anna pávlovna schérer showed pierre the change of +attitude toward him that had taken place in society. + +formerly in anna pávlovna’s presence, pierre had always felt that +what he was saying was out of place, tactless and unsuitable, that +remarks which seemed to him clever while they formed in his mind became +foolish as soon as he uttered them, while on the contrary hippolyte’s +stupidest remarks came out clever and apt. now everything pierre said +was charmant. even if anna pávlovna did not say so, he could see that +she wished to and only refrained out of regard for his modesty. + +in the beginning of the winter of 1805-6 pierre received one of anna +pávlovna’s usual pink notes with an invitation to which was added: +“you will find the beautiful hélène here, whom it is always +delightful to see.” + +when he read that sentence, pierre felt for the first time that some +link which other people recognized had grown up between himself and +hélène, and that thought both alarmed him, as if some obligation were +being imposed on him which he could not fulfill, and pleased him as an +entertaining supposition. + +anna pávlovna’s “at home” was like the former one, only the +novelty she offered her guests this time was not mortemart, but a +diplomatist fresh from berlin with the very latest details of the +emperor alexander’s visit to potsdam, and of how the two august +friends had pledged themselves in an indissoluble alliance to uphold +the cause of justice against the enemy of the human race. anna pávlovna +received pierre with a shade of melancholy, evidently relating to the +young man’s recent loss by the death of count bezúkhov (everyone +constantly considered it a duty to assure pierre that he was greatly +afflicted by the death of the father he had hardly known), and her +melancholy was just like the august melancholy she showed at the mention +of her most august majesty the empress márya fëdorovna. pierre felt +flattered by this. anna pávlovna arranged the different groups in her +drawing room with her habitual skill. the large group, in which were +prince vasíli and the generals, had the benefit of the diplomat. +another group was at the tea table. pierre wished to join the former, +but anna pávlovna—who was in the excited condition of a commander on +a battlefield to whom thousands of new and brilliant ideas occur which +there is hardly time to put in action—seeing pierre, touched his +sleeve with her finger, saying: + +“wait a bit, i have something in view for you this evening.” +(she glanced at hélène and smiled at her.) “my dear hélène, be +charitable to my poor aunt who adores you. go and keep her company for +ten minutes. and that it will not be too dull, here is the dear count +who will not refuse to accompany you.” + +the beauty went to the aunt, but anna pávlovna detained pierre, looking +as if she had to give some final necessary instructions. + +“isn’t she exquisite?” she said to pierre, pointing to the stately +beauty as she glided away. “and how she carries herself! for so young +a girl, such tact, such masterly perfection of manner! it comes from +her heart. happy the man who wins her! with her the least worldly of men +would occupy a most brilliant position in society. don’t you think so? +i only wanted to know your opinion,” and anna pávlovna let pierre go. + +pierre, in reply, sincerely agreed with her as to hélène’s +perfection of manner. if he ever thought of hélène, it was just of +her beauty and her remarkable skill in appearing silently dignified in +society. + +the old aunt received the two young people in her corner, but seemed +desirous of hiding her adoration for hélène and inclined rather +to show her fear of anna pávlovna. she looked at her niece, as if +inquiring what she was to do with these people. on leaving them, anna +pávlovna again touched pierre’s sleeve, saying: “i hope you won’t +say that it is dull in my house again,” and she glanced at hélène. + +hélène smiled, with a look implying that she did not admit the +possibility of anyone seeing her without being enchanted. the aunt +coughed, swallowed, and said in french that she was very pleased to see +hélène, then she turned to pierre with the same words of welcome +and the same look. in the middle of a dull and halting conversation, +hélène turned to pierre with the beautiful bright smile that she gave +to everyone. pierre was so used to that smile, and it had so little +meaning for him, that he paid no attention to it. the aunt was just +speaking of a collection of snuffboxes that had belonged to pierre’s +father, count bezúkhov, and showed them her own box. princess hélène +asked to see the portrait of the aunt’s husband on the box lid. + +“that is probably the work of vinesse,” said pierre, mentioning +a celebrated miniaturist, and he leaned over the table to take the +snuffbox while trying to hear what was being said at the other table. + +he half rose, meaning to go round, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox, +passing it across hélène’s back. hélène stooped forward to make +room, and looked round with a smile. she was, as always at evening +parties, wearing a dress such as was then fashionable, cut very low at +front and back. her bust, which had always seemed like marble to pierre, +was so close to him that his shortsighted eyes could not but perceive +the living charm of her neck and shoulders, so near to his lips that +he need only have bent his head a little to have touched them. he was +conscious of the warmth of her body, the scent of perfume, and the +creaking of her corset as she moved. he did not see her marble beauty +forming a complete whole with her dress, but all the charm of her body +only covered by her garments. and having once seen this he could not +help being aware of it, just as we cannot renew an illusion we have once +seen through. + +“so you have never noticed before how beautiful i am?” hélène +seemed to say. “you had not noticed that i am a woman? yes, i am a +woman who may belong to anyone—to you too,” said her glance. and at +that moment pierre felt that hélène not only could, but must, be his +wife, and that it could not be otherwise. + +he knew this at that moment as surely as if he had been standing at the +altar with her. how and when this would be he did not know, he did not +even know if it would be a good thing (he even felt, he knew not why, +that it would be a bad thing), but he knew it would happen. + +pierre dropped his eyes, lifted them again, and wished once more to see +her as a distant beauty far removed from him, as he had seen her every +day until then, but he could no longer do it. he could not, any more +than a man who has been looking at a tuft of steppe grass through the +mist and taking it for a tree can again take it for a tree after he has +once recognized it to be a tuft of grass. she was terribly close to him. +she already had power over him, and between them there was no longer any +barrier except the barrier of his own will. + +“well, i will leave you in your little corner,” came anna +pávlovna’s voice, “i see you are all right there.” + +and pierre, anxiously trying to remember whether he had done anything +reprehensible, looked round with a blush. it seemed to him that everyone +knew what had happened to him as he knew it himself. + +a little later when he went up to the large circle, anna pávlovna said +to him: “i hear you are refitting your petersburg house?” + +this was true. the architect had told him that it was necessary, and +pierre, without knowing why, was having his enormous petersburg house +done up. + +“that’s a good thing, but don’t move from prince vasíli’s. it +is good to have a friend like the prince,” she said, smiling at prince +vasíli. “i know something about that. don’t i? and you are still so +young. you need advice. don’t be angry with me for exercising an old +woman’s privilege.” + +she paused, as women always do, expecting something after they have +mentioned their age. “if you marry it will be a different thing,” +she continued, uniting them both in one glance. pierre did not look at +hélène nor she at him. but she was just as terribly close to him. he +muttered something and colored. + +when he got home he could not sleep for a long time for thinking of what +had happened. what had happened? nothing. he had merely understood that +the woman he had known as a child, of whom when her beauty was mentioned +he had said absent-mindedly: “yes, she’s good looking,” he had +understood that this woman might belong to him. + +“but she’s stupid. i have myself said she is stupid,” he thought. +“there is something nasty, something wrong, in the feeling she excites +in me. i have been told that her brother anatole was in love with her +and she with him, that there was quite a scandal and that that’s why +he was sent away. hippolyte is her brother... prince vasíli is her +father... it’s bad....” he reflected, but while he was thinking this +(the reflection was still incomplete), he caught himself smiling and was +conscious that another line of thought had sprung up, and while thinking +of her worthlessness he was also dreaming of how she would be his +wife, how she would love him become quite different, and how all he had +thought and heard of her might be false. and he again saw her not as the +daughter of prince vasíli, but visualized her whole body only veiled +by its gray dress. “but no! why did this thought never occur to me +before?” and again he told himself that it was impossible, that there +would be something unnatural, and as it seemed to him dishonorable, in +this marriage. he recalled her former words and looks and the words +and looks of those who had seen them together. he recalled anna +pávlovna’s words and looks when she spoke to him about his house, +recalled thousands of such hints from prince vasíli and others, and was +seized by terror lest he had already, in some way, bound himself to do +something that was evidently wrong and that he ought not to do. but at +the very time he was expressing this conviction to himself, in another +part of his mind her image rose in all its womanly beauty. + + + + + +chapter ii + +in november, 1805, prince vasíli had to go on a tour of inspection +in four different provinces. he had arranged this for himself so as to +visit his neglected estates at the same time and pick up his son anatole +where his regiment was stationed, and take him to visit prince nicholas +bolkónski in order to arrange a match for him with the daughter of that +rich old man. but before leaving home and undertaking these new affairs, +prince vasíli had to settle matters with pierre, who, it is true, had +latterly spent whole days at home, that is, in prince vasíli’s house +where he was staying, and had been absurd, excited, and foolish in +hélène’s presence (as a lover should be), but had not yet proposed +to her. + +“this is all very fine, but things must be settled,” said prince +vasíli to himself, with a sorrowful sigh, one morning, feeling that +pierre who was under such obligations to him (“but never mind that”) +was not behaving very well in this matter. “youth, frivolity... well, +god be with him,” thought he, relishing his own goodness of heart, +“but it must be brought to a head. the day after tomorrow will be +lëlya’s name day. i will invite two or three people, and if he does +not understand what he ought to do then it will be my affair—yes, my +affair. i am her father.” + +six weeks after anna pávlovna’s “at home” and after the sleepless +night when he had decided that to marry hélène would be a calamity and +that he ought to avoid her and go away, pierre, despite that decision, +had not left prince vasíli’s and felt with terror that in people’s +eyes he was every day more and more connected with her, that it was +impossible for him to return to his former conception of her, that he +could not break away from her, and that though it would be a terrible +thing he would have to unite his fate with hers. he might perhaps have +been able to free himself but that prince vasíli (who had rarely before +given receptions) now hardly let a day go by without having an evening +party at which pierre had to be present unless he wished to spoil +the general pleasure and disappoint everyone’s expectation. prince +vasíli, in the rare moments when he was at home, would take pierre’s +hand in passing and draw it downwards, or absent-mindedly hold out his +wrinkled, clean-shaven cheek for pierre to kiss and would say: “till +tomorrow,” or, “be in to dinner or i shall not see you,” or, “i +am staying in for your sake,” and so on. and though prince vasíli, +when he stayed in (as he said) for pierre’s sake, hardly exchanged a +couple of words with him, pierre felt unable to disappoint him. +every day he said to himself one and the same thing: “it is time i +understood her and made up my mind what she really is. was i mistaken +before, or am i mistaken now? no, she is not stupid, she is an excellent +girl,” he sometimes said to himself “she never makes a mistake, +never says anything stupid. she says little, but what she does say is +always clear and simple, so she is not stupid. she never was abashed and +is not abashed now, so she cannot be a bad woman!” he had often begun +to make reflections or think aloud in her company, and she had always +answered him either by a brief but appropriate remark—showing that it +did not interest her—or by a silent look and smile which more palpably +than anything else showed pierre her superiority. she was right in +regarding all arguments as nonsense in comparison with that smile. + +she always addressed him with a radiantly confiding smile meant for him +alone, in which there was something more significant than in the general +smile that usually brightened her face. pierre knew that everyone was +waiting for him to say a word and cross a certain line, and he knew that +sooner or later he would step across it, but an incomprehensible terror +seized him at the thought of that dreadful step. a thousand times during +that month and a half while he felt himself drawn nearer and nearer to +that dreadful abyss, pierre said to himself: “what am i doing? i need +resolution. can it be that i have none?” + +he wished to take a decision, but felt with dismay that in this matter +he lacked that strength of will which he had known in himself and really +possessed. pierre was one of those who are only strong when they feel +themselves quite innocent, and since that day when he was overpowered +by a feeling of desire while stooping over the snuffbox at anna +pávlovna’s, an unacknowledged sense of the guilt of that desire +paralyzed his will. + +on hélène’s name day, a small party of just their own people—as +his wife said—met for supper at prince vasíli’s. all these friends +and relations had been given to understand that the fate of the young +girl would be decided that evening. the visitors were seated at supper. +princess kurágina, a portly imposing woman who had once been handsome, +was sitting at the head of the table. on either side of her sat the +more important guests—an old general and his wife, and anna pávlovna +schérer. at the other end sat the younger and less important guests, +and there too sat the members of the family, and pierre and hélène, +side by side. prince vasíli was not having any supper: he went round +the table in a merry mood, sitting down now by one, now by another, of +the guests. to each of them he made some careless and agreeable remark +except to pierre and hélène, whose presence he seemed not to notice. +he enlivened the whole party. the wax candles burned brightly, the +silver and crystal gleamed, so did the ladies’ toilets and the gold +and silver of the men’s epaulets; servants in scarlet liveries moved +round the table, the clatter of plates, knives, and glasses mingled with +the animated hum of several conversations. at one end of the table, the +old chamberlain was heard assuring an old baroness that he loved her +passionately, at which she laughed; at the other could be heard the +story of the misfortunes of some mary víktorovna or other. at the +center of the table, prince vasíli attracted everybody’s attention. +with a facetious smile on his face, he was telling the ladies about last +wednesday’s meeting of the imperial council, at which sergéy kuzmích +vyazmítinov, the new military governor general of petersburg, had +received and read the then famous rescript of the emperor alexander +from the army to sergéy kuzmích, in which the emperor said that he was +receiving from all sides declarations of the people’s loyalty, that +the declaration from petersburg gave him particular pleasure, and that +he was proud to be at the head of such a nation and would endeavor to be +worthy of it. this rescript began with the words: “sergéy kuzmích, +from all sides reports reach me,” etc. + +“well, and so he never got farther than: ‘sergéy kuzmích’?” +asked one of the ladies. + +“exactly, not a hair’s breadth farther,” answered prince vasíli, +laughing, “‘sergéy kuzmích... from all sides... from all sides... +sergéy kuzmích...’ poor vyazmítinov could not get any farther! +he began the rescript again and again, but as soon as he uttered +‘sergéy’ he sobbed, ‘kuz-mí-ch,’ tears, and ‘from all +sides’ was smothered in sobs and he could get no farther. and again +his handkerchief, and again: ‘sergéy kuzmích, from all sides,’... +and tears, till at last somebody else was asked to read it.” + +“kuzmích... from all sides... and then tears,” someone repeated +laughing. + +“don’t be unkind,” cried anna pávlovna from her end of the table +holding up a threatening finger. “he is such a worthy and excellent +man, our dear vyazmítinov....” + +everybody laughed a great deal. at the head of the table, where the +honored guests sat, everyone seemed to be in high spirits and under the +influence of a variety of exciting sensations. only pierre and +hélène sat silently side by side almost at the bottom of the table, a +suppressed smile brightening both their faces, a smile that had nothing +to do with sergéy kuzmích—a smile of bashfulness at their own +feelings. but much as all the rest laughed, talked, and joked, much +as they enjoyed their rhine wine, sauté, and ices, and however they +avoided looking at the young couple, and heedless and unobservant as +they seemed of them, one could feel by the occasional glances they gave +that the story about sergéy kuzmích, the laughter, and the food +were all a pretense, and that the whole attention of that company was +directed to—pierre and hélène. prince vasíli mimicked the sobbing +of sergéy kuzmích and at the same time his eyes glanced toward his +daughter, and while he laughed the expression on his face clearly said: +“yes... it’s getting on, it will all be settled today.” anna +pávlovna threatened him on behalf of “our dear vyazmítinov,” and +in her eyes, which, for an instant, glanced at pierre, prince vasíli +read a congratulation on his future son-in-law and on his daughter’s +happiness. the old princess sighed sadly as she offered some wine to the +old lady next to her and glanced angrily at her daughter, and her sigh +seemed to say: “yes, there’s nothing left for you and me but to sip +sweet wine, my dear, now that the time has come for these young ones to +be thus boldly, provocatively happy.” “and what nonsense all this is +that i am saying!” thought a diplomatist, glancing at the happy faces +of the lovers. “that’s happiness!” + +into the insignificant, trifling, and artificial interests uniting that +society had entered the simple feeling of the attraction of a healthy +and handsome young man and woman for one another. and this human feeling +dominated everything else and soared above all their affected chatter. +jests fell flat, news was not interesting, and the animation was +evidently forced. not only the guests but even the footmen waiting at +table seemed to feel this, and they forgot their duties as they looked +at the beautiful hélène with her radiant face and at the red, broad, +and happy though uneasy face of pierre. it seemed as if the very light +of the candles was focused on those two happy faces alone. + +pierre felt that he was the center of it all, and this both pleased and +embarrassed him. he was like a man entirely absorbed in some occupation. +he did not see, hear, or understand anything clearly. only now and +then detached ideas and impressions from the world of reality shot +unexpectedly through his mind. + +“so it is all finished!” he thought. “and how has it all happened? +how quickly! now i know that not because of her alone, nor of myself +alone, but because of everyone, it must inevitably come about. they are +all expecting it, they are so sure that it will happen that i cannot, i +cannot, disappoint them. but how will it be? i do not know, but it +will certainly happen!” thought pierre, glancing at those dazzling +shoulders close to his eyes. + +or he would suddenly feel ashamed of he knew not what. he felt it +awkward to attract everyone’s attention and to be considered a +lucky man and, with his plain face, to be looked on as a sort of paris +possessed of a helen. “but no doubt it always is and must be so!” +he consoled himself. “and besides, what have i done to bring it about? +how did it begin? i traveled from moscow with prince vasíli. then there +was nothing. so why should i not stay at his house? then i played cards +with her and picked up her reticule and drove out with her. how did it +begin, when did it all come about?” and here he was sitting by her +side as her betrothed, seeing, hearing, feeling her nearness, her +breathing, her movements, her beauty. then it would suddenly seem to him +that it was not she but he was so unusually beautiful, and that that was +why they all looked so at him, and flattered by this general admiration +he would expand his chest, raise his head, and rejoice at his good +fortune. suddenly he heard a familiar voice repeating something to him a +second time. but pierre was so absorbed that he did not understand what +was said. + +“i am asking you when you last heard from bolkónski,” repeated +prince vasíli a third time. “how absent-minded you are, my dear +fellow.” + +prince vasíli smiled, and pierre noticed that everyone was smiling at +him and hélène. “well, what of it, if you all know it?” thought +pierre. “what of it? it’s the truth!” and he himself smiled his +gentle childlike smile, and hélène smiled too. + +“when did you get the letter? was it from olmütz?” repeated +prince vasíli, who pretended to want to know this in order to settle a +dispute. + +“how can one talk or think of such trifles?” thought pierre. + +“yes, from olmütz,” he answered, with a sigh. + +after supper pierre with his partner followed the others into the +drawing room. the guests began to disperse, some without taking leave +of hélène. some, as if unwilling to distract her from an important +occupation, came up to her for a moment and made haste to go away, +refusing to let her see them off. the diplomatist preserved a mournful +silence as he left the drawing room. he pictured the vanity of his +diplomatic career in comparison with pierre’s happiness. the old +general grumbled at his wife when she asked how his leg was. “oh, the +old fool,” he thought. “that princess hélène will be beautiful +still when she’s fifty.” + +“i think i may congratulate you,” whispered anna pávlovna to the +old princess, kissing her soundly. “if i hadn’t this headache i’d +have stayed longer.” + +the old princess did not reply, she was tormented by jealousy of her +daughter’s happiness. + +while the guests were taking their leave pierre remained for a long time +alone with hélène in the little drawing room where they were sitting. +he had often before, during the last six weeks, remained alone with her, +but had never spoken to her of love. now he felt that it was inevitable, +but he could not make up his mind to take the final step. he felt +ashamed; he felt that he was occupying someone else’s place here +beside hélène. “this happiness is not for you,” some inner voice +whispered to him. “this happiness is for those who have not in them +what there is in you.” + +but, as he had to say something, he began by asking her whether she was +satisfied with the party. she replied in her usual simple manner that +this name day of hers had been one of the pleasantest she had ever had. + +some of the nearest relatives had not yet left. they were sitting in +the large drawing room. prince vasíli came up to pierre with languid +footsteps. pierre rose and said it was getting late. prince vasíli gave +him a look of stern inquiry, as though what pierre had just said was +so strange that one could not take it in. but then the expression of +severity changed, and he drew pierre’s hand downwards, made him sit +down, and smiled affectionately. + +“well, lëlya?” he asked, turning instantly to his daughter and +addressing her with the careless tone of habitual tenderness natural to +parents who have petted their children from babyhood, but which prince +vasíli had only acquired by imitating other parents. + +and he again turned to pierre. + +“sergéy kuzmích—from all sides—” he said, unbuttoning the top +button of his waistcoat. + +pierre smiled, but his smile showed that he knew it was not the story +about sergéy kuzmích that interested prince vasíli just then, and +prince vasíli saw that pierre knew this. he suddenly muttered +something and went away. it seemed to pierre that even the prince was +disconcerted. the sight of the discomposure of that old man of the world +touched pierre: he looked at hélène and she too seemed disconcerted, +and her look seemed to say: “well, it is your own fault.” + +“the step must be taken but i cannot, i cannot!” thought pierre, +and he again began speaking about indifferent matters, about sergéy +kuzmích, asking what the point of the story was as he had not heard it +properly. hélène answered with a smile that she too had missed it. + +when prince vasíli returned to the drawing room, the princess, his +wife, was talking in low tones to the elderly lady about pierre. + +“of course, it is a very brilliant match, but happiness, my dear...” + +“marriages are made in heaven,” replied the elderly lady. + +prince vasíli passed by, seeming not to hear the ladies, and sat down +on a sofa in a far corner of the room. he closed his eyes and seemed to +be dozing. his head sank forward and then he roused himself. + +“aline,” he said to his wife, “go and see what they are about.” + +the princess went up to the door, passed by it with a dignified and +indifferent air, and glanced into the little drawing room. pierre and +hélène still sat talking just as before. + +“still the same,” she said to her husband. + +prince vasíli frowned, twisting his mouth, his cheeks quivered and his +face assumed the coarse, unpleasant expression peculiar to him. shaking +himself, he rose, threw back his head, and with resolute steps went +past the ladies into the little drawing room. with quick steps he went +joyfully up to pierre. his face was so unusually triumphant that pierre +rose in alarm on seeing it. + +“thank god!” said prince vasíli. “my wife has told me +everything!” (he put one arm around pierre and the other around his +daughter.)—“my dear boy... lëlya... i am very pleased.” (his +voice trembled.) “i loved your father... and she will make you a good +wife... god bless you!...” + +he embraced his daughter, and then again pierre, and kissed him with his +malodorous mouth. tears actually moistened his cheeks. + +“princess, come here!” he shouted. + +the old princess came in and also wept. the elderly lady was using +her handkerchief too. pierre was kissed, and he kissed the beautiful +hélène’s hand several times. after a while they were left alone +again. + +“all this had to be and could not be otherwise,” thought pierre, +“so it is useless to ask whether it is good or bad. it is good because +it’s definite and one is rid of the old tormenting doubt.” pierre +held the hand of his betrothed in silence, looking at her beautiful +bosom as it rose and fell. + +“hélène!” he said aloud and paused. + +“something special is always said in such cases,” he thought, but +could not remember what it was that people say. he looked at her face. +she drew nearer to him. her face flushed. + +“oh, take those off... those...” she said, pointing to his +spectacles. + +pierre took them off, and his eyes, besides the strange look eyes have +from which spectacles have just been removed, had also a frightened and +inquiring look. he was about to stoop over her hand and kiss it, but +with a rapid, almost brutal movement of her head, she intercepted his +lips and met them with her own. her face struck pierre, by its altered, +unpleasantly excited expression. + +“it is too late now, it’s done; besides i love her,” thought +pierre. + +“je vous aime!” * he said, remembering what has to be said at such +moments: but his words sounded so weak that he felt ashamed of himself. + + * “i love you.” + + +six weeks later he was married, and settled in count bezúkhov’s +large, newly furnished petersburg house, the happy possessor, as people +said, of a wife who was a celebrated beauty and of millions of money. + + + + + +chapter iii + +old prince nicholas bolkónski received a letter from prince vasíli +in november, 1805, announcing that he and his son would be paying him +a visit. “i am starting on a journey of inspection, and of course i +shall think nothing of an extra seventy miles to come and see you at +the same time, my honored benefactor,” wrote prince vasíli. “my son +anatole is accompanying me on his way to the army, so i hope you will +allow him personally to express the deep respect that, emulating his +father, he feels for you.” + +“it seems that there will be no need to bring mary out, suitors are +coming to us of their own accord,” incautiously remarked the little +princess on hearing the news. + +prince nicholas frowned, but said nothing. + +a fortnight after the letter prince vasíli’s servants came one +evening in advance of him, and he and his son arrived next day. + +old bolkónski had always had a poor opinion of prince vasíli’s +character, but more so recently, since in the new reigns of paul and +alexander prince vasíli had risen to high position and honors. and now, +from the hints contained in his letter and given by the little princess, +he saw which way the wind was blowing, and his low opinion changed into +a feeling of contemptuous ill will. he snorted whenever he mentioned +him. on the day of prince vasíli’s arrival, prince bolkónski was +particularly discontented and out of temper. whether he was in a bad +temper because prince vasíli was coming, or whether his being in a bad +temper made him specially annoyed at prince vasíli’s visit, he was +in a bad temper, and in the morning tíkhon had already advised the +architect not to go to the prince with his report. + +“do you hear how he’s walking?” said tíkhon, drawing the +architect’s attention to the sound of the prince’s footsteps. +“stepping flat on his heels—we know what that means....” + +however, at nine o’clock the prince, in his velvet coat with a sable +collar and cap, went out for his usual walk. it had snowed the day +before and the path to the hothouse, along which the prince was in the +habit of walking, had been swept: the marks of the broom were still +visible in the snow and a shovel had been left sticking in one of the +soft snowbanks that bordered both sides of the path. the prince went +through the conservatories, the serfs’ quarters, and the outbuildings, +frowning and silent. + +“can a sleigh pass?” he asked his overseer, a venerable man, +resembling his master in manners and looks, who was accompanying him +back to the house. + +“the snow is deep. i am having the avenue swept, your honor.” + +the prince bowed his head and went up to the porch. “god be +thanked,” thought the overseer, “the storm has blown over!” + +“it would have been hard to drive up, your honor,” he added. “i +heard, your honor, that a minister is coming to visit your honor.” + +the prince turned round to the overseer and fixed his eyes on him, +frowning. + +“what? a minister? what minister? who gave orders?” he said in +his shrill, harsh voice. “the road is not swept for the princess my +daughter, but for a minister! for me, there are no ministers!” + +“your honor, i thought...” + +“you thought!” shouted the prince, his words coming more and more +rapidly and indistinctly. “you thought!... rascals! blackguards!... +i’ll teach you to think!” and lifting his stick he swung it and +would have hit alpátych, the overseer, had not the latter instinctively +avoided the blow. “thought... blackguards...” shouted the prince +rapidly. + +but although alpátych, frightened at his own temerity in avoiding the +stroke, came up to the prince, bowing his bald head resignedly before +him, or perhaps for that very reason, the prince, though he continued +to shout: “blackguards!... throw the snow back on the road!” did not +lift his stick again but hurried into the house. + +before dinner, princess mary and mademoiselle bourienne, who knew +that the prince was in a bad humor, stood awaiting him; mademoiselle +bourienne with a radiant face that said: “i know nothing, i am the +same as usual,” and princess mary pale, frightened, and with downcast +eyes. what she found hardest to bear was to know that on such occasions +she ought to behave like mademoiselle bourienne, but could not. +she thought: “if i seem not to notice he will think that i do not +sympathize with him; if i seem sad and out of spirits myself, he will +say (as he has done before) that i’m in the dumps.” + +the prince looked at his daughter’s frightened face and snorted. + +“fool... or dummy!” he muttered. + +“and the other one is not here. they’ve been telling tales,” he +thought—referring to the little princess who was not in the dining +room. + +“where is the princess?” he asked. “hiding?” + +“she is not very well,” answered mademoiselle bourienne with +a bright smile, “so she won’t come down. it is natural in her +state.” + +“hm! hm!” muttered the prince, sitting down. + +his plate seemed to him not quite clean, and pointing to a spot he +flung it away. tíkhon caught it and handed it to a footman. the little +princess was not unwell, but had such an overpowering fear of the prince +that, hearing he was in a bad humor, she had decided not to appear. + +“i am afraid for the baby,” she said to mademoiselle bourienne: +“heaven knows what a fright might do.” + +in general at bald hills the little princess lived in constant fear, and +with a sense of antipathy to the old prince which she did not +realize because the fear was so much the stronger feeling. the prince +reciprocated this antipathy, but it was overpowered by his contempt +for her. when the little princess had grown accustomed to life at bald +hills, she took a special fancy to mademoiselle bourienne, spent whole +days with her, asked her to sleep in her room, and often talked with her +about the old prince and criticized him. + +“so we are to have visitors, mon prince?” remarked mademoiselle +bourienne, unfolding her white napkin with her rosy fingers. “his +excellency prince vasíli kurágin and his son, i understand?” she +said inquiringly. + +“hm!—his excellency is a puppy.... i got him his appointment in the +service,” said the prince disdainfully. “why his son is coming i +don’t understand. perhaps princess elizabeth and princess mary know. +i don’t want him.” (he looked at his blushing daughter.) “are you +unwell today? eh? afraid of the ‘minister’ as that idiot alpátych +called him this morning?” + +“no, mon père.” + +though mademoiselle bourienne had been so unsuccessful in her choice +of a subject, she did not stop talking, but chattered about the +conservatories and the beauty of a flower that had just opened, and +after the soup the prince became more genial. + +after dinner, he went to see his daughter-in-law. the little princess +was sitting at a small table, chattering with másha, her maid. she grew +pale on seeing her father-in-law. + +she was much altered. she was now plain rather than pretty. her cheeks +had sunk, her lip was drawn up, and her eyes drawn down. + +“yes, i feel a kind of oppression,” she said in reply to the +prince’s question as to how she felt. + +“do you want anything?” + +“no, merci, mon père.” + +“well, all right, all right.” + +he left the room and went to the waiting room where alpátych stood with +bowed head. + +“has the snow been shoveled back?” + +“yes, your excellency. forgive me for heaven’s sake... it was only +my stupidity.” + +“all right, all right,” interrupted the prince, and laughing his +unnatural way, he stretched out his hand for alpátych to kiss, and then +proceeded to his study. + +prince vasíli arrived that evening. he was met in the avenue by +coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to +one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow. + +prince vasíli and anatole had separate rooms assigned to them. + +anatole, having taken off his overcoat, sat with arms akimbo before a +table on a corner of which he smilingly and absent-mindedly fixed his +large and handsome eyes. he regarded his whole life as a continual round +of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him. +and he looked on this visit to a churlish old man and a rich and ugly +heiress in the same way. all this might, he thought, turn out very well +and amusingly. “and why not marry her if she really has so much money? +that never does any harm,” thought anatole. + +he shaved and scented himself with the care and elegance which had +become habitual to him and, his handsome head held high, entered his +father’s room with the good-humored and victorious air natural to +him. prince vasíli’s two valets were busy dressing him, and he looked +round with much animation and cheerfully nodded to his son as the latter +entered, as if to say: “yes, that’s how i want you to look.” + +“i say, father, joking apart, is she very hideous?” anatole asked, +as if continuing a conversation the subject of which had often been +mentioned during the journey. + +“enough! what nonsense! above all, try to be respectful and cautious +with the old prince.” + +“if he starts a row i’ll go away,” said prince anatole. “i +can’t bear those old men! eh?” + +“remember, for you everything depends on this.” + +in the meantime, not only was it known in the maidservants’ rooms that +the minister and his son had arrived, but the appearance of both had +been minutely described. princess mary was sitting alone in her room, +vainly trying to master her agitation. + +“why did they write, why did lise tell me about it? it can never +happen!” she said, looking at herself in the glass. “how shall i +enter the drawing room? even if i like him i can’t now be myself with +him.” the mere thought of her father’s look filled her with terror. +the little princess and mademoiselle bourienne had already received +from másha, the lady’s maid, the necessary report of how handsome the +minister’s son was, with his rosy cheeks and dark eyebrows, and with +what difficulty the father had dragged his legs upstairs while the son +had followed him like an eagle, three steps at a time. having received +this information, the little princess and mademoiselle bourienne, whose +chattering voices had reached her from the corridor, went into princess +mary’s room. + +“you know they’ve come, marie?” said the little princess, waddling +in, and sinking heavily into an armchair. + +she was no longer in the loose gown she generally wore in the morning, +but had on one of her best dresses. her hair was carefully done and her +face was animated, which, however, did not conceal its sunken and faded +outlines. dressed as she used to be in petersburg society, it was still +more noticeable how much plainer she had become. some unobtrusive touch +had been added to mademoiselle bourienne’s toilet which rendered her +fresh and pretty face yet more attractive. + +“what! are you going to remain as you are, dear princess?” she +began. “they’ll be announcing that the gentlemen are in the drawing +room and we shall have to go down, and you have not smartened yourself +up at all!” + +the little princess got up, rang for the maid, and hurriedly and merrily +began to devise and carry out a plan of how princess mary should be +dressed. princess mary’s self-esteem was wounded by the fact that +the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both +her companions’ not having the least conception that it could be +otherwise. to tell them that she felt ashamed for herself and for them +would be to betray her agitation, while to decline their offers to +dress her would prolong their banter and insistence. she flushed, her +beautiful eyes grew dim, red blotches came on her face, and it took +on the unattractive martyrlike expression it so often wore, as she +submitted herself to mademoiselle bourienne and lise. both these women +quite sincerely tried to make her look pretty. she was so plain that +neither of them could think of her as a rival, so they began dressing +her with perfect sincerity, and with the naïve and firm conviction +women have that dress can make a face pretty. + +“no really, my dear, this dress is not pretty,” said lise, looking +sideways at princess mary from a little distance. “you have a maroon +dress, have it fetched. really! you know the fate of your whole life may +be at stake. but this one is too light, it’s not becoming!” + +it was not the dress, but the face and whole figure of princess mary +that was not pretty, but neither mademoiselle bourienne nor the little +princess felt this; they still thought that if a blue ribbon were placed +in the hair, the hair combed up, and the blue scarf arranged lower on +the best maroon dress, and so on, all would be well. they forgot that +the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that +however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it +would still remain piteous and plain. after two or three changes to +which princess mary meekly submitted, just as her hair had been arranged +on the top of her head (a style that quite altered and spoiled her +looks) and she had put on a maroon dress with a pale-blue scarf, the +little princess walked twice round her, now adjusting a fold of the +dress with her little hand, now arranging the scarf and looking at her +with her head bent first on one side and then on the other. + +“no, it will not do,” she said decidedly, clasping her hands. “no, +mary, really this dress does not suit you. i prefer you in your little +gray everyday dress. now please, do it for my sake. katie,” she said +to the maid, “bring the princess her gray dress, and you’ll see, +mademoiselle bourienne, how i shall arrange it,” she added, smiling +with a foretaste of artistic pleasure. + +but when katie brought the required dress, princess mary remained +sitting motionless before the glass, looking at her face, and saw in the +mirror her eyes full of tears and her mouth quivering, ready to burst +into sobs. + +“come, dear princess,” said mademoiselle bourienne, “just one more +little effort.” + +the little princess, taking the dress from the maid, came up to princess +mary. + +“well, now we’ll arrange something quite simple and becoming,” she +said. + +the three voices, hers, mademoiselle bourienne’s, and katie’s, who +was laughing at something, mingled in a merry sound, like the chirping +of birds. + +“no, leave me alone,” said princess mary. + +her voice sounded so serious and so sad that the chirping of the birds +was silenced at once. they looked at the beautiful, large, thoughtful +eyes full of tears and of thoughts, gazing shiningly and imploringly at +them, and understood that it was useless and even cruel to insist. + +“at least, change your coiffure,” said the little princess. +“didn’t i tell you,” she went on, turning reproachfully to +mademoiselle bourienne, “mary’s is a face which such a coiffure does +not suit in the least. not in the least! please change it.” + +“leave me alone, please leave me alone! it is all quite the same to +me,” answered a voice struggling with tears. + +mademoiselle bourienne and the little princess had to own to themselves +that princess mary in this guise looked very plain, worse than usual, +but it was too late. she was looking at them with an expression they +both knew, an expression thoughtful and sad. this expression in princess +mary did not frighten them (she never inspired fear in anyone), but they +knew that when it appeared on her face, she became mute and was not to +be shaken in her determination. + +“you will change it, won’t you?” said lise. and as princess mary +gave no answer, she left the room. + +princess mary was left alone. she did not comply with lise’s request, +she not only left her hair as it was, but did not even look in her +glass. letting her arms fall helplessly, she sat with downcast eyes and +pondered. a husband, a man, a strong dominant and strangely attractive +being rose in her imagination, and carried her into a totally different +happy world of his own. she fancied a child, her own—such as she had +seen the day before in the arms of her nurse’s daughter—at her +own breast, the husband standing by and gazing tenderly at her and the +child. “but no, it is impossible, i am too ugly,” she thought. + +“please come to tea. the prince will be out in a moment,” came the +maid’s voice at the door. + +she roused herself, and felt appalled at what she had been thinking, and +before going down she went into the room where the icons hung and, her +eyes fixed on the dark face of a large icon of the saviour lit by a +lamp, she stood before it with folded hands for a few moments. a painful +doubt filled her soul. could the joy of love, of earthly love for a +man, be for her? in her thoughts of marriage princess mary dreamed of +happiness and of children, but her strongest, most deeply hidden longing +was for earthly love. the more she tried to hide this feeling from +others and even from herself, the stronger it grew. “o god,” she +said, “how am i to stifle in my heart these temptations of the devil? +how am i to renounce forever these vile fancies, so as peacefully to +fulfill thy will?” and scarcely had she put that question than god +gave her the answer in her own heart. “desire nothing for thyself, +seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. man’s future and thy own fate +must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for +anything. if it be god’s will to prove thee in the duties of marriage, +be ready to fulfill his will.” with this consoling thought (but +yet with a hope for the fulfillment of her forbidden earthly longing) +princess mary sighed, and having crossed herself went down, thinking +neither of her gown and coiffure nor of how she would go in nor of what +she would say. what could all that matter in comparison with the will of +god, without whose care not a hair of man’s head can fall? + + + + + +chapter iv + +when princess mary came down, prince vasíli and his son were already +in the drawing room, talking to the little princess and mademoiselle +bourienne. when she entered with her heavy step, treading on her heels, +the gentlemen and mademoiselle bourienne rose and the little princess, +indicating her to the gentlemen, said: “voilà marie!” princess mary +saw them all and saw them in detail. she saw prince vasíli’s face, +serious for an instant at the sight of her, but immediately smiling +again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression +“marie” produced on the visitors. and she saw mademoiselle +bourienne, with her ribbon and pretty face, and her unusually animated +look which was fixed on him, but him she could not see, she only saw +something large, brilliant, and handsome moving toward her as she +entered the room. prince vasíli approached first, and she kissed the +bold forehead that bent over her hand and answered his question by +saying that, on the contrary, she remembered him quite well. then +anatole came up to her. she still could not see him. she only felt a +soft hand taking hers firmly, and she touched with her lips a white +forehead, over which was beautiful light-brown hair smelling of pomade. +when she looked up at him she was struck by his beauty. anatole stood +with his right thumb under a button of his uniform, his chest expanded +and his back drawn in, slightly swinging one foot, and, with his head a +little bent, looked with beaming face at the princess without +speaking and evidently not thinking about her at all. anatole was not +quick-witted, nor ready or eloquent in conversation, but he had the +faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable +self-possession. if a man lacking in self-confidence remains dumb on +a first introduction and betrays a consciousness of the impropriety of +such silence and an anxiety to find something to say, the effect is +bad. but anatole was dumb, swung his foot, and smilingly examined the +princess’ hair. it was evident that he could be silent in this way for +a very long time. “if anyone finds this silence inconvenient, let him +talk, but i don’t want to,” he seemed to say. besides this, in his +behavior to women anatole had a manner which particularly inspires in +them curiosity, awe, and even love—a supercilious consciousness of +his own superiority. it was as if he said to them: “i know you, i know +you, but why should i bother about you? you’d be only too glad, of +course.” perhaps he did not really think this when he met women—even +probably he did not, for in general he thought very little—but his +looks and manner gave that impression. the princess felt this, and as if +wishing to show him that she did not even dare expect to interest him, +she turned to his father. the conversation was general and animated, +thanks to princess lise’s voice and little downy lip that lifted over +her white teeth. she met prince vasíli with that playful manner often +employed by lively chatty people, and consisting in the assumption +that between the person they so address and themselves there are some +semi-private, long-established jokes and amusing reminiscences, though +no such reminiscences really exist—just as none existed in this case. +prince vasíli readily adopted her tone and the little princess also +drew anatole, whom she hardly knew, into these amusing recollections of +things that had never occurred. mademoiselle bourienne also shared them +and even princess mary felt herself pleasantly made to share in these +merry reminiscences. + +“here at least we shall have the benefit of your company all to +ourselves, dear prince,” said the little princess (of course, in +french) to prince vasíli. “it’s not as at annette’s * receptions +where you always ran away; you remember cette chère annette!” + + * anna pávlovna. + +“ah, but you won’t talk politics to me like annette!” + +“and our little tea table?” + +“oh, yes!” + +“why is it you were never at annette’s?” the little princess asked +anatole. “ah, i know, i know,” she said with a sly glance, “your +brother hippolyte told me about your goings on. oh!” and she shook her +finger at him, “i have even heard of your doings in paris!” + +“and didn’t hippolyte tell you?” asked prince vasíli, turning to +his son and seizing the little princess’ arm as if she would have run +away and he had just managed to catch her, “didn’t he tell you how +he himself was pining for the dear princess, and how she showed him the +door? oh, she is a pearl among women, princess,” he added, turning to +princess mary. + +when paris was mentioned, mademoiselle bourienne for her part seized the +opportunity of joining in the general current of recollections. + +she took the liberty of inquiring whether it was long since anatole +had left paris and how he had liked that city. anatole answered the +frenchwoman very readily and, looking at her with a smile, talked to her +about her native land. when he saw the pretty little bourienne, anatole +came to the conclusion that he would not find bald hills dull either. +“not at all bad!” he thought, examining her, “not at all bad, that +little companion! i hope she will bring her along with her when we’re +married, la petite est gentille.” * + + * the little one is charming. + +the old prince dressed leisurely in his study, frowning and considering +what he was to do. the coming of these visitors annoyed him. “what are +prince vasíli and that son of his to me? prince vasíli is a shallow +braggart and his son, no doubt, is a fine specimen,” he grumbled to +himself. what angered him was that the coming of these visitors revived +in his mind an unsettled question he always tried to stifle, one about +which he always deceived himself. the question was whether he could ever +bring himself to part from his daughter and give her to a husband. the +prince never directly asked himself that question, knowing beforehand +that he would have to answer it justly, and justice clashed not only +with his feelings but with the very possibility of life. life without +princess mary, little as he seemed to value her, was unthinkable to +him. “and why should she marry?” he thought. “to be unhappy for +certain. there’s lise, married to andrew—a better husband one would +think could hardly be found nowadays—but is she contented with her +lot? and who would marry marie for love? plain and awkward! they’ll +take her for her connections and wealth. are there no women living +unmarried, and even the happier for it?” so thought prince bolkónski +while dressing, and yet the question he was always putting off demanded +an immediate answer. prince vasíli had brought his son with the evident +intention of proposing, and today or tomorrow he would probably ask +for an answer. his birth and position in society were not bad. “well, +i’ve nothing against it,” the prince said to himself, “but he must +be worthy of her. and that is what we shall see.” + +“that is what we shall see! that is what we shall see!” he added +aloud. + +he entered the drawing room with his usual alert step, glancing rapidly +round the company. he noticed the change in the little princess’ +dress, mademoiselle bourienne’s ribbon, princess mary’s unbecoming +coiffure, mademoiselle bourienne’s and anatole’s smiles, and the +loneliness of his daughter amid the general conversation. “got herself +up like a fool!” he thought, looking irritably at her. “she is +shameless, and he ignores her!” + +he went straight up to prince vasíli. + +“well! how d’ye do? how d’ye do? glad to see you!” + +“friendship laughs at distance,” began prince vasíli in his usual +rapid, self-confident, familiar tone. “here is my second son; please +love and befriend him.” + +prince bolkónski surveyed anatole. + +“fine young fellow! fine young fellow!” he said. “well, come and +kiss me,” and he offered his cheek. + +anatole kissed the old man, and looked at him with curiosity and perfect +composure, waiting for a display of the eccentricities his father had +told him to expect. + +prince bolkónski sat down in his usual place in the corner of the sofa +and, drawing up an armchair for prince vasíli, pointed to it and began +questioning him about political affairs and news. he seemed to listen +attentively to what prince vasíli said, but kept glancing at princess +mary. + +“and so they are writing from potsdam already?” he said, repeating +prince vasíli’s last words. then rising, he suddenly went up to his +daughter. + +“is it for visitors you’ve got yourself up like that, eh?” said +he. “fine, very fine! you have done up your hair in this new way for +the visitors, and before the visitors i tell you that in future you are +never to dare to change your way of dress without my consent.” + +“it was my fault, mon père,” interceded the little princess, with a +blush. + +“you must do as you please,” said prince bolkónski, bowing to his +daughter-in-law, “but she need not make a fool of herself, she’s +plain enough as it is.” + +and he sat down again, paying no more attention to his daughter, who was +reduced to tears. + +“on the contrary, that coiffure suits the princess very well,” said +prince vasíli. + +“now you, young prince, what’s your name?” said prince bolkónski, +turning to anatole, “come here, let us talk and get acquainted.” + +“now the fun begins,” thought anatole, sitting down with a smile +beside the old prince. + +“well, my dear boy, i hear you’ve been educated abroad, not taught +to read and write by the deacon, like your father and me. now tell me, +my dear boy, are you serving in the horse guards?” asked the old man, +scrutinizing anatole closely and intently. + +“no, i have been transferred to the line,” said anatole, hardly able +to restrain his laughter. + +“ah! that’s a good thing. so, my dear boy, you wish to serve the +tsar and the country? it is wartime. such a fine fellow must serve. +well, are you off to the front?” + +“no, prince, our regiment has gone to the front, but i am attached... +what is it i am attached to, papa?” said anatole, turning to his +father with a laugh. + +“a splendid soldier, splendid! ‘what am i attached to!’ ha, ha, +ha!” laughed prince bolkónski, and anatole laughed still louder. +suddenly prince bolkónski frowned. + +“you may go,” he said to anatole. + +anatole returned smiling to the ladies. + +“and so you’ve had him educated abroad, prince vasíli, haven’t +you?” said the old prince to prince vasíli. + +“i have done my best for him, and i can assure you the education there +is much better than ours.” + +“yes, everything is different nowadays, everything is changed. the +lad’s a fine fellow, a fine fellow! well, come with me now.” he took +prince vasíli’s arm and led him to his study. as soon as they were +alone together, prince vasíli announced his hopes and wishes to the old +prince. + +“well, do you think i shall prevent her, that i can’t part from +her?” said the old prince angrily. “what an idea! i’m ready for it +tomorrow! only let me tell you, i want to know my son-in-law better. you +know my principles—everything aboveboard! i will ask her tomorrow in +your presence; if she is willing, then he can stay on. he can stay and +i’ll see.” the old prince snorted. “let her marry, it’s all the +same to me!” he screamed in the same piercing tone as when parting +from his son. + +“i will tell you frankly,” said prince vasíli in the tone of +a crafty man convinced of the futility of being cunning with so +keen-sighted a companion. “you know, you see right through people. +anatole is no genius, but he is an honest, goodhearted lad; an excellent +son or kinsman.” + +“all right, all right, we’ll see!” + +as always happens when women lead lonely lives for any length of time +without male society, on anatole’s appearance all the three women of +prince bolkónski’s household felt that their life had not been real +till then. their powers of reasoning, feeling, and observing immediately +increased tenfold, and their life, which seemed to have been passed in +darkness, was suddenly lit up by a new brightness, full of significance. + +princess mary grew quite unconscious of her face and coiffure. the +handsome open face of the man who might perhaps be her husband absorbed +all her attention. he seemed to her kind, brave, determined, manly, and +magnanimous. she felt convinced of that. thousands of dreams of a future +family life continually rose in her imagination. she drove them away and +tried to conceal them. + +“but am i not too cold with him?” thought the princess. “i try +to be reserved because in the depth of my soul i feel too near to him +already, but then he cannot know what i think of him and may imagine +that i do not like him.” + +and princess mary tried, but could not manage, to be cordial to her new +guest. “poor girl, she’s devilish ugly!” thought anatole. + +mademoiselle bourienne, also roused to great excitement by anatole’s +arrival, thought in another way. of course, she, a handsome young woman +without any definite position, without relations or even a country, did +not intend to devote her life to serving prince bolkónski, to reading +aloud to him and being friends with princess mary. mademoiselle +bourienne had long been waiting for a russian prince who, able to +appreciate at a glance her superiority to the plain, badly dressed, +ungainly russian princesses, would fall in love with her and carry her +off; and here at last was a russian prince. mademoiselle bourienne knew +a story, heard from her aunt but finished in her own way, which she +liked to repeat to herself. it was the story of a girl who had been +seduced, and to whom her poor mother (sa pauvre mère) appeared, and +reproached her for yielding to a man without being married. mademoiselle +bourienne was often touched to tears as in imagination she told this +story to him, her seducer. and now he, a real russian prince, had +appeared. he would carry her away and then sa pauvre mère would appear +and he would marry her. so her future shaped itself in mademoiselle +bourienne’s head at the very time she was talking to anatole about +paris. it was not calculation that guided her (she did not even for a +moment consider what she should do), but all this had long been familiar +to her, and now that anatole had appeared it just grouped itself around +him and she wished and tried to please him as much as possible. + +the little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, +unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the +familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any +struggle, but with naïve and lighthearted gaiety. + +although in female society anatole usually assumed the role of a man +tired of being run after by women, his vanity was flattered by the +spectacle of his power over these three women. besides that, he was +beginning to feel for the pretty and provocative mademoiselle bourienne +that passionate animal feeling which was apt to master him with great +suddenness and prompt him to the coarsest and most reckless actions. + +after tea, the company went into the sitting room and princess mary was +asked to play on the clavichord. anatole, laughing and in high spirits, +came and leaned on his elbows, facing her and beside mademoiselle +bourienne. princess mary felt his look with a painfully joyous emotion. +her favorite sonata bore her into a most intimately poetic world and +the look she felt upon her made that world still more poetic. but +anatole’s expression, though his eyes were fixed on her, referred not +to her but to the movements of mademoiselle bourienne’s little +foot, which he was then touching with his own under the clavichord. +mademoiselle bourienne was also looking at princess mary, and in her +lovely eyes there was a look of fearful joy and hope that was also new +to the princess. + +“how she loves me!” thought princess mary. “how happy i am now, +and how happy i may be with such a friend and such a husband! husband? +can it be possible?” she thought, not daring to look at his face, but +still feeling his eyes gazing at her. + +in the evening, after supper, when all were about to retire, anatole +kissed princess mary’s hand. she did not know how she found the +courage, but she looked straight into his handsome face as it came near +to her shortsighted eyes. turning from princess mary he went up and +kissed mademoiselle bourienne’s hand. (this was not etiquette, but +then he did everything so simply and with such assurance!) mademoiselle +bourienne flushed, and gave the princess a frightened look. + +“what delicacy!” thought the princess. “is it possible that +amélie” (mademoiselle bourienne) “thinks i could be jealous of her, +and not value her pure affection and devotion to me?” she went up +to her and kissed her warmly. anatole went up to kiss the little +princess’ hand. + +“no! no! no! when your father writes to tell me that you are behaving +well i will give you my hand to kiss. not till then!” she said. and +smilingly raising a finger at him, she left the room. + + + + + +chapter v + +they all separated, but, except anatole who fell asleep as soon as he +got into bed, all kept awake a long time that night. + +“is he really to be my husband, this stranger who is so kind—yes, +kind, that is the chief thing,” thought princess mary; and fear, which +she had seldom experienced, came upon her. she feared to look round, it +seemed to her that someone was there standing behind the screen in the +dark corner. and this someone was he—the devil—and he was also this +man with the white forehead, black eyebrows, and red lips. + +she rang for her maid and asked her to sleep in her room. + +mademoiselle bourienne walked up and down the conservatory for a long +time that evening, vainly expecting someone, now smiling at someone, now +working herself up to tears with the imaginary words of her pauvre mère +rebuking her for her fall. + +the little princess grumbled to her maid that her bed was badly made. +she could not lie either on her face or on her side. every position was +awkward and uncomfortable, and her burden oppressed her now more than +ever because anatole’s presence had vividly recalled to her the time +when she was not like that and when everything was light and gay. she +sat in an armchair in her dressing jacket and nightcap and katie, sleepy +and disheveled, beat and turned the heavy feather bed for the third +time, muttering to herself. + +“i told you it was all lumps and holes!” the little princess +repeated. “i should be glad enough to fall asleep, so it’s not my +fault!” and her voice quivered like that of a child about to cry. + +the old prince did not sleep either. tíkhon, half asleep, heard him +pacing angrily about and snorting. the old prince felt as though he +had been insulted through his daughter. the insult was the more pointed +because it concerned not himself but another, his daughter, whom he +loved more than himself. he kept telling himself that he would consider +the whole matter and decide what was right and how he should act, but +instead of that he only excited himself more and more. + +“the first man that turns up—she forgets her father and everything +else, runs upstairs and does up her hair and wags her tail and is unlike +herself! glad to throw her father over! and she knew i should notice +it. fr... fr... fr! and don’t i see that that idiot had eyes only for +bourienne—i shall have to get rid of her. and how is it she has not +pride enough to see it? if she has no pride for herself she might at +least have some for my sake! she must be shown that the blockhead thinks +nothing of her and looks only at bourienne. no, she has no pride... but +i’ll let her see....” + +the old prince knew that if he told his daughter she was making a +mistake and that anatole meant to flirt with mademoiselle bourienne, +princess mary’s self-esteem would be wounded and his point (not to +be parted from her) would be gained, so pacifying himself with this +thought, he called tíkhon and began to undress. + +“what devil brought them here?” thought he, while tíkhon was +putting the nightshirt over his dried-up old body and gray-haired chest. +“i never invited them. they came to disturb my life—and there is not +much of it left.” + +“devil take ‘em!” he muttered, while his head was still covered by +the shirt. + +tíkhon knew his master’s habit of sometimes thinking aloud, and +therefore met with unaltered looks the angrily inquisitive expression of +the face that emerged from the shirt. + +“gone to bed?” asked the prince. + +tíkhon, like all good valets, instinctively knew the direction of his +master’s thoughts. he guessed that the question referred to prince +vasíli and his son. + +“they have gone to bed and put out their lights, your excellency.” + +“no good... no good...” said the prince rapidly, and thrusting his +feet into his slippers and his arms into the sleeves of his dressing +gown, he went to the couch on which he slept. + +though no words had passed between anatole and mademoiselle bourienne, +they quite understood one another as to the first part of their romance, +up to the appearance of the pauvre mère; they understood that they had +much to say to one another in private and so they had been seeking an +opportunity since morning to meet one another alone. when princess mary +went to her father’s room at the usual hour, mademoiselle bourienne +and anatole met in the conservatory. + +princess mary went to the door of the study with special trepidation. +it seemed to her that not only did everybody know that her fate would be +decided that day, but that they also knew what she thought about it. she +read this in tíkhon’s face and in that of prince vasíli’s valet, +who made her a low bow when she met him in the corridor carrying hot +water. + +the old prince was very affectionate and careful in his treatment of +his daughter that morning. princess mary well knew this painstaking +expression of her father’s. his face wore that expression when his +dry hands clenched with vexation at her not understanding a sum in +arithmetic, when rising from his chair he would walk away from her, +repeating in a low voice the same words several times over. + +he came to the point at once, treating her ceremoniously. + +“i have had a proposition made me concerning you,” he said with an +unnatural smile. “i expect you have guessed that prince vasíli has +not come and brought his pupil with him” (for some reason prince +bolkónski referred to anatole as a “pupil”) “for the sake of my +beautiful eyes. last night a proposition was made me on your account +and, as you know my principles, i refer it to you.” + +“how am i to understand you, mon père?” said the princess, growing +pale and then blushing. + +“how understand me!” cried her father angrily. “prince vasíli +finds you to his taste as a daughter-in-law and makes a proposal to you +on his pupil’s behalf. that’s how it’s to be understood! ‘how +understand it’!... and i ask you!” + +“i do not know what you think, father,” whispered the princess. + +“i? i? what of me? leave me out of the question. i’m not going to +get married. what about you? that’s what i want to know.” + +the princess saw that her father regarded the matter with disapproval, +but at that moment the thought occurred to her that her fate would be +decided now or never. she lowered her eyes so as not to see the gaze +under which she felt that she could not think, but would only be able to +submit from habit, and she said: “i wish only to do your will, but if +i had to express my own desire...” she had no time to finish. the old +prince interrupted her. + +“that’s admirable!” he shouted. “he will take you with your +dowry and take mademoiselle bourienne into the bargain. she’ll be the +wife, while you...” + +the prince stopped. he saw the effect these words had produced on his +daughter. she lowered her head and was ready to burst into tears. + +“now then, now then, i’m only joking!” he said. “remember this, +princess, i hold to the principle that a maiden has a full right to +choose. i give you freedom. only remember that your life’s happiness +depends on your decision. never mind me!” + +“but i do not know, father!” + +“there’s no need to talk! he receives his orders and will marry you +or anybody; but you are free to choose.... go to your room, think it +over, and come back in an hour and tell me in his presence: yes or no. +i know you will pray over it. well, pray if you like, but you had better +think it over. go! yes or no, yes or no, yes or no!” he still shouted +when the princess, as if lost in a fog, had already staggered out of the +study. + +her fate was decided and happily decided. but what her father had said +about mademoiselle bourienne was dreadful. it was untrue to be sure, but +still it was terrible, and she could not help thinking of it. she was +going straight on through the conservatory, neither seeing nor hearing +anything, when suddenly the well-known whispering of mademoiselle +bourienne aroused her. she raised her eyes, and two steps away saw +anatole embracing the frenchwoman and whispering something to her. with +a horrified expression on his handsome face, anatole looked at princess +mary, but did not at once take his arm from the waist of mademoiselle +bourienne who had not yet seen her. + +“who’s that? why? wait a moment!” anatole’s face seemed to say. +princess mary looked at them in silence. she could not understand it. at +last mademoiselle bourienne gave a scream and ran away. anatole bowed to +princess mary with a gay smile, as if inviting her to join in a laugh at +this strange incident, and then shrugging his shoulders went to the door +that led to his own apartments. + +an hour later, tíkhon came to call princess mary to the old prince; +he added that prince vasíli was also there. when tíkhon came to her +princess mary was sitting on the sofa in her room, holding the weeping +mademoiselle bourienne in her arms and gently stroking her hair. the +princess’ beautiful eyes with all their former calm radiance were +looking with tender affection and pity at mademoiselle bourienne’s +pretty face. + +“no, princess, i have lost your affection forever!” said +mademoiselle bourienne. + +“why? i love you more than ever,” said princess mary, “and i will +try to do all i can for your happiness.” + +“but you despise me. you who are so pure can never understand being so +carried away by passion. oh, only my poor mother...” + +“i quite understand,” answered princess mary, with a sad smile. +“calm yourself, my dear. i will go to my father,” she said, and went +out. + +prince vasíli, with one leg thrown high over the other and a snuffbox +in his hand, was sitting there with a smile of deep emotion on his face, +as if stirred to his heart’s core and himself regretting and laughing +at his own sensibility, when princess mary entered. he hurriedly took a +pinch of snuff. + +“ah, my dear, my dear!” he began, rising and taking her by both +hands. then, sighing, he added: “my son’s fate is in your hands. +decide, my dear, good, gentle marie, whom i have always loved as a +daughter!” + +he drew back and a real tear appeared in his eye. + +“fr... fr...” snorted prince bolkónski. “the prince is making a +proposition to you in his pupil’s—i mean, his son’s—name. do you +wish or not to be prince anatole kurágin’s wife? reply: yes or no,” +he shouted, “and then i shall reserve the right to state my opinion +also. yes, my opinion, and only my opinion,” added prince bolkónski, +turning to prince vasíli and answering his imploring look. “yes, or +no?” + +“my desire is never to leave you, father, never to separate my +life from yours. i don’t wish to marry,” she answered positively, +glancing at prince vasíli and at her father with her beautiful eyes. + +“humbug! nonsense! humbug, humbug, humbug!” cried prince bolkónski, +frowning and taking his daughter’s hand; he did not kiss her, but only +bending his forehead to hers just touched it, and pressed her hand so +that she winced and uttered a cry. + +prince vasíli rose. + +“my dear, i must tell you that this is a moment i shall never, never +forget. but, my dear, will you not give us a little hope of touching +this heart, so kind and generous? say ‘perhaps’... the future is so +long. say ‘perhaps.’” + +“prince, what i have said is all there is in my heart. i thank you for +the honor, but i shall never be your son’s wife.” + +“well, so that’s finished, my dear fellow! i am very glad to have +seen you. very glad! go back to your rooms, princess. go!” said +the old prince. “very, very glad to have seen you,” repeated he, +embracing prince vasíli. + +“my vocation is a different one,” thought princess mary. “my +vocation is to be happy with another kind of happiness, the happiness +of love and self-sacrifice. and cost what it may, i will arrange +poor amélie’s happiness, she loves him so passionately, and so +passionately repents. i will do all i can to arrange the match between +them. if he is not rich i will give her the means; i will ask my +father and andrew. i shall be so happy when she is his wife. she is so +unfortunate, a stranger, alone, helpless! and, oh god, how passionately +she must love him if she could so far forget herself! perhaps i might +have done the same!...” thought princess mary. + + + + + +chapter vi + +it was long since the rostóvs had news of nicholas. not till midwinter +was the count at last handed a letter addressed in his son’s +handwriting. on receiving it, he ran on tiptoe to his study in alarm and +haste, trying to escape notice, closed the door, and began to read the +letter. + +anna mikháylovna, who always knew everything that passed in the house, +on hearing of the arrival of the letter went softly into the room and +found the count with it in his hand, sobbing and laughing at the same +time. + +anna mikháylovna, though her circumstances had improved, was still +living with the rostóvs. + +“my dear friend?” said she, in a tone of pathetic inquiry, prepared +to sympathize in any way. + +the count sobbed yet more. + +“nikólenka... a letter... wa... a... s... wounded... my darling +boy... the countess... promoted to be an officer... thank god... how +tell the little countess!” + +anna mikháylovna sat down beside him, with her own handkerchief wiped +the tears from his eyes and from the letter, then having dried her +own eyes she comforted the count, and decided that at dinner and till +teatime she would prepare the countess, and after tea, with god’s +help, would inform her. + +at dinner anna mikháylovna talked the whole time about the war news +and about nikólenka, twice asked when the last letter had been received +from him, though she knew that already, and remarked that they might +very likely be getting a letter from him that day. each time that these +hints began to make the countess anxious and she glanced uneasily at +the count and at anna mikháylovna, the latter very adroitly turned +the conversation to insignificant matters. natásha, who, of the whole +family, was the most gifted with a capacity to feel any shades of +intonation, look, and expression, pricked up her ears from the beginning +of the meal and was certain that there was some secret between her +father and anna mikháylovna, that it had something to do with her +brother, and that anna mikháylovna was preparing them for it. bold as +she was, natásha, who knew how sensitive her mother was to anything +relating to nikólenka, did not venture to ask any questions at dinner, +but she was too excited to eat anything and kept wriggling about on her +chair regardless of her governess’ remarks. after dinner, she rushed +headlong after anna mikháylovna and, dashing at her, flung herself on +her neck as soon as she overtook her in the sitting room. + +“auntie, darling, do tell me what it is!” + +“nothing, my dear.” + +“no, dearest, sweet one, honey, i won’t give up—i know you know +something.” + +anna mikháylovna shook her head. + +“you are a little slyboots,” she said. + +“a letter from nikólenka! i’m sure of it!” exclaimed natásha, +reading confirmation in anna mikháylovna’s face. + +“but for god’s sake, be careful, you know how it may affect your +mamma.” + +“i will, i will, only tell me! you won’t? then i will go and tell at +once.” + +anna mikháylovna, in a few words, told her the contents of the letter, +on condition that she should tell no one. + +“no, on my true word of honor,” said natásha, crossing herself, +“i won’t tell anyone!” and she ran off at once to sónya. + +“nikólenka... wounded... a letter,” she announced in gleeful +triumph. + +“nicholas!” was all sónya said, instantly turning white. + +natásha, seeing the impression the news of her brother’s wound +produced on sónya, felt for the first time the sorrowful side of the +news. + +she rushed to sónya, hugged her, and began to cry. + +“a little wound, but he has been made an officer; he is well now, he +wrote himself,” said she through her tears. + +“there now! it’s true that all you women are crybabies,” remarked +pétya, pacing the room with large, resolute strides. “now i’m very +glad, very glad indeed, that my brother has distinguished himself so. +you are all blubberers and understand nothing.” + +natásha smiled through her tears. + +“you haven’t read the letter?” asked sónya. + +“no, but she said that it was all over and that he’s now an +officer.” + +“thank god!” said sónya, crossing herself. “but perhaps she +deceived you. let us go to mamma.” + +pétya paced the room in silence for a time. + +“if i’d been in nikólenka’s place i would have killed even more +of those frenchmen,” he said. “what nasty brutes they are! i’d +have killed so many that there’d have been a heap of them.” + +“hold your tongue, pétya, what a goose you are!” + +“i’m not a goose, but they are who cry about trifles,” said +pétya. + +“do you remember him?” natásha suddenly asked, after a moment’s +silence. + +sónya smiled. + +“do i remember nicholas?” + +“no, sónya, but do you remember so that you remember him perfectly, +remember everything?” said natásha, with an expressive gesture, +evidently wishing to give her words a very definite meaning. “i +remember nikólenka too, i remember him well,” she said. “but i +don’t remember borís. i don’t remember him a bit.” + +“what! you don’t remember borís?” asked sónya in surprise. + +“it’s not that i don’t remember—i know what he is like, but not +as i remember nikólenka. him—i just shut my eyes and remember, +but borís... no!” (she shut her eyes.) “no! there’s nothing at +all.” + +“oh, natásha!” said sónya, looking ecstatically and earnestly at +her friend as if she did not consider her worthy to hear what she meant +to say and as if she were saying it to someone else, with whom joking +was out of the question, “i am in love with your brother once for all +and, whatever may happen to him or to me, shall never cease to love him +as long as i live.” + +natásha looked at sónya with wondering and inquisitive eyes, and said +nothing. she felt that sónya was speaking the truth, that there was +such love as sónya was speaking of. but natásha had not yet felt +anything like it. she believed it could be, but did not understand it. + +“shall you write to him?” she asked. + +sónya became thoughtful. the question of how to write to nicholas, and +whether she ought to write, tormented her. now that he was already an +officer and a wounded hero, would it be right to remind him of herself +and, as it might seem, of the obligations to her he had taken on +himself? + +“i don’t know. i think if he writes, i will write too,” she said, +blushing. + +“and you won’t feel ashamed to write to him?” + +sónya smiled. + +“no.” + +“and i should be ashamed to write to borís. i’m not going to.” + +“why should you be ashamed?” + +“well, i don’t know. it’s awkward and would make me ashamed.” + +“and i know why she’d be ashamed,” said pétya, offended by +natásha’s previous remark. “it’s because she was in love with +that fat one in spectacles” (that was how pétya described his +namesake, the new count bezúkhov) “and now she’s in love with that +singer” (he meant natásha’s italian singing master), “that’s +why she’s ashamed!” + +“pétya, you’re a stupid!” said natásha. + +“not more stupid than you, madam,” said the nine-year-old pétya, +with the air of an old brigadier. + +the countess had been prepared by anna mikháylovna’s hints at dinner. +on retiring to her own room, she sat in an armchair, her eyes fixed on a +miniature portrait of her son on the lid of a snuffbox, while the tears +kept coming into her eyes. anna mikháylovna, with the letter, came on +tiptoe to the countess’ door and paused. + +“don’t come in,” she said to the old count who was following her. +“come later.” and she went in, closing the door behind her. + +the count put his ear to the keyhole and listened. + +at first he heard the sound of indifferent voices, then anna +mikháylovna’s voice alone in a long speech, then a cry, then silence, +then both voices together with glad intonations, and then footsteps. +anna mikháylovna opened the door. her face wore the proud expression +of a surgeon who has just performed a difficult operation and admits the +public to appreciate his skill. + +“it is done!” she said to the count, pointing triumphantly to the +countess, who sat holding in one hand the snuffbox with its portrait and +in the other the letter, and pressing them alternately to her lips. + +when she saw the count, she stretched out her arms to him, embraced his +bald head, over which she again looked at the letter and the portrait, +and in order to press them again to her lips, she slightly pushed away +the bald head. véra, natásha, sónya, and pétya now entered the room, +and the reading of the letter began. after a brief description of +the campaign and the two battles in which he had taken part, and his +promotion, nicholas said that he kissed his father’s and mother’s +hands asking for their blessing, and that he kissed véra, natásha, and +pétya. besides that, he sent greetings to monsieur schelling, madame +schoss, and his old nurse, and asked them to kiss for him “dear +sónya, whom he loved and thought of just the same as ever.” when she +heard this sónya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable +to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, +whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, +and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor. the countess was +crying. + +“why are you crying, mamma?” asked véra. “from all he says one +should be glad and not cry.” + +this was quite true, but the count, the countess, and natásha looked +at her reproachfully. “and who is it she takes after?” thought the +countess. + +nicholas’ letter was read over hundreds of times, and those who were +considered worthy to hear it had to come to the countess, for she +did not let it out of her hands. the tutors came, and the nurses, and +dmítri, and several acquaintances, and the countess reread the letter +each time with fresh pleasure and each time discovered in it fresh +proofs of nikólenka’s virtues. how strange, how extraordinary, how +joyful it seemed, that her son, the scarcely perceptible motion of whose +tiny limbs she had felt twenty years ago within her, that son about whom +she used to have quarrels with the too indulgent count, that son who +had first learned to say “pear” and then “granny,” that this son +should now be away in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, a manly +warrior doing some kind of man’s work of his own, without help or +guidance. the universal experience of ages, showing that children do +grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the +countess. her son’s growth toward manhood, at each of its stages, +had seemed as extraordinary to her as if there had never existed the +millions of human beings who grew up in the same way. as twenty +years before, it seemed impossible that the little creature who lived +somewhere under her heart would ever cry, suck her breast, and begin to +speak, so now she could not believe that that little creature could be +this strong, brave man, this model son and officer that, judging by this +letter, he now was. + +“what a style! how charmingly he describes!” said she, reading the +descriptive part of the letter. “and what a soul! not a word about +himself.... not a word! about some denísov or other, though he himself, +i dare say, is braver than any of them. he says nothing about his +sufferings. what a heart! how like him it is! and how he has remembered +everybody! not forgetting anyone. i always said when he was only so +high—i always said....” + +for more than a week preparations were being made, rough drafts of +letters to nicholas from all the household were written and copied out, +while under the supervision of the countess and the solicitude of the +count, money and all things necessary for the uniform and equipment +of the newly commissioned officer were collected. anna mikháylovna, +practical woman that she was, had even managed by favor with army +authorities to secure advantageous means of communication for herself +and her son. she had opportunities of sending her letters to the grand +duke constantine pávlovich, who commanded the guards. the rostóvs +supposed that the russian guards, abroad, was quite a definite address, +and that if a letter reached the grand duke in command of the guards +there was no reason why it should not reach the pávlograd regiment, +which was presumably somewhere in the same neighborhood. and so it was +decided to send the letters and money by the grand duke’s courier to +borís and borís was to forward them to nicholas. the letters were from +the old count, the countess, pétya, véra, natásha, and sónya, and +finally there were six thousand rubles for his outfit and various other +things the old count sent to his son. + + + + + +chapter vii + +on the twelfth of november, kutúzov’s active army, in camp before +olmütz, was preparing to be reviewed next day by the two emperors—the +russian and the austrian. the guards, just arrived from russia, spent +the night ten miles from olmütz and next morning were to come straight +to the review, reaching the field at olmütz by ten o’clock. + +that day nicholas rostóv received a letter from borís, telling him +that the ismáylov regiment was quartered for the night ten miles from +olmütz and that he wanted to see him as he had a letter and money for +him. rostóv was particularly in need of money now that the troops, +after their active service, were stationed near olmütz and the camp +swarmed with well-provisioned sutlers and austrian jews offering +all sorts of tempting wares. the pávlograds held feast after feast, +celebrating awards they had received for the campaign, and made +expeditions to olmütz to visit a certain caroline the hungarian, +who had recently opened a restaurant there with girls as waitresses. +rostóv, who had just celebrated his promotion to a cornetcy and bought +denísov’s horse, bedouin, was in debt all round, to his comrades and +the sutlers. on receiving borís’ letter he rode with a fellow officer +to olmütz, dined there, drank a bottle of wine, and then set off alone +to the guards’ camp to find his old playmate. rostóv had not yet had +time to get his uniform. he had on a shabby cadet jacket, decorated with +a soldier’s cross, equally shabby cadet’s riding breeches lined with +worn leather, and an officer’s saber with a sword knot. the don horse +he was riding was one he had bought from a cossack during the campaign, +and he wore a crumpled hussar cap stuck jauntily back on one side of his +head. as he rode up to the camp he thought how he would impress borís +and all his comrades of the guards by his appearance—that of a +fighting hussar who had been under fire. + +the guards had made their whole march as if on a pleasure trip, parading +their cleanliness and discipline. they had come by easy stages, their +knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the austrian authorities had provided +excellent dinners for the officers at every halting place. the regiments +had entered and left the town with their bands playing, and by the grand +duke’s orders the men had marched all the way in step (a practice on +which the guards prided themselves), the officers on foot and at their +proper posts. borís had been quartered, and had marched all the +way, with berg who was already in command of a company. berg, who had +obtained his captaincy during the campaign, had gained the confidence of +his superiors by his promptitude and accuracy and had arranged his money +matters very satisfactorily. borís, during the campaign, had made the +acquaintance of many persons who might prove useful to him, and by +a letter of recommendation he had brought from pierre had become +acquainted with prince andrew bolkónski, through whom he hoped to +obtain a post on the commander in chief’s staff. berg and borís, +having rested after yesterday’s march, were sitting, clean and neatly +dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, +playing chess. berg held a smoking pipe between his knees. borís, in +the accurate way characteristic of him, was building a little pyramid of +chessmen with his delicate white fingers while awaiting berg’s move, +and watched his opponent’s face, evidently thinking about the game as +he always thought only of whatever he was engaged on. + +“well, how are you going to get out of that?” he remarked. + +“we’ll try to,” replied berg, touching a pawn and then removing +his hand. + +at that moment the door opened. + +“here he is at last!” shouted rostóv. “and berg too! oh, you +petisenfans, allay cushay dormir!” he exclaimed, imitating his russian +nurse’s french, at which he and borís used to laugh long ago. + +“dear me, how you have changed!” + +borís rose to meet rostóv, but in doing so did not omit to steady and +replace some chessmen that were falling. he was about to embrace his +friend, but nicholas avoided him. with that peculiar feeling of youth, +that dread of beaten tracks, and wish to express itself in a manner +different from that of its elders which is often insincere, nicholas +wished to do something special on meeting his friend. he wanted to pinch +him, push him, do anything but kiss him—a thing everybody did. but +notwithstanding this, borís embraced him in a quiet, friendly way and +kissed him three times. + +they had not met for nearly half a year and, being at the age when young +men take their first steps on life’s road, each saw immense changes in +the other, quite a new reflection of the society in which they had taken +those first steps. both had changed greatly since they last met and both +were in a hurry to show the changes that had taken place in them. + +“oh, you damned dandies! clean and fresh as if you’d been to a fete, +not like us sinners of the line,” cried rostóv, with martial swagger +and with baritone notes in his voice, new to borís, pointing to his own +mud-bespattered breeches. the german landlady, hearing rostóv’s loud +voice, popped her head in at the door. + +“eh, is she pretty?” he asked with a wink. + +“why do you shout so? you’ll frighten them!” said borís. “i did +not expect you today,” he added. “i only sent you the note yesterday +by bolkónski—an adjutant of kutúzov’s, who’s a friend of mine. +i did not think he would get it to you so quickly.... well, how are you? +been under fire already?” asked borís. + +without answering, rostóv shook the soldier’s cross of st. george +fastened to the cording of his uniform and, indicating a bandaged arm, +glanced at berg with a smile. + +“as you see,” he said. + +“indeed? yes, yes!” said borís, with a smile. “and we too have +had a splendid march. you know, of course, that his imperial highness +rode with our regiment all the time, so that we had every comfort and +every advantage. what receptions we had in poland! what dinners and +balls! i can’t tell you. and the tsarévich was very gracious to all +our officers.” + +and the two friends told each other of their doings, the one of his +hussar revels and life in the fighting line, the other of the pleasures +and advantages of service under members of the imperial family. + +“oh, you guards!” said rostóv. “i say, send for some wine.” + +borís made a grimace. + +“if you really want it,” said he. + +he went to his bed, drew a purse from under the clean pillow, and sent +for wine. + +“yes, and i have some money and a letter to give you,” he added. + +rostóv took the letter and, throwing the money on the sofa, put both +arms on the table and began to read. after reading a few lines, he +glanced angrily at berg, then, meeting his eyes, hid his face behind the +letter. + +“well, they’ve sent you a tidy sum,” said berg, eying the heavy +purse that sank into the sofa. “as for us, count, we get along on our +pay. i can tell you for myself...” + +“i say, berg, my dear fellow,” said rostóv, “when you get a +letter from home and meet one of your own people whom you want to talk +everything over with, and i happen to be there, i’ll go at once, to +be out of your way! do go somewhere, anywhere... to the devil!” he +exclaimed, and immediately seizing him by the shoulder and looking +amiably into his face, evidently wishing to soften the rudeness of his +words, he added, “don’t be hurt, my dear fellow; you know i speak +from my heart as to an old acquaintance.” + +“oh, don’t mention it, count! i quite understand,” said berg, +getting up and speaking in a muffled and guttural voice. + +“go across to our hosts: they invited you,” added borís. + +berg put on the cleanest of coats, without a spot or speck of dust, +stood before a looking glass and brushed the hair on his temples +upwards, in the way affected by the emperor alexander, and, having +assured himself from the way rostóv looked at it that his coat had been +noticed, left the room with a pleasant smile. + +“oh dear, what a beast i am!” muttered rostóv, as he read the +letter. + +“why?” + +“oh, what a pig i am, not to have written and to have given them +such a fright! oh, what a pig i am!” he repeated, flushing suddenly. +“well, have you sent gabriel for some wine? all right let’s have +some!” + +in the letter from his parents was enclosed a letter of recommendation +to bagratión which the old countess at anna mikháylovna’s advice had +obtained through an acquaintance and sent to her son, asking him to take +it to its destination and make use of it. + +“what nonsense! much i need it!” said rostóv, throwing the letter +under the table. + +“why have you thrown that away?” asked borís. + +“it is some letter of recommendation... what the devil do i want it +for!” + +“why ‘what the devil’?” said borís, picking it up and reading +the address. “this letter would be of great use to you.” + +“i want nothing, and i won’t be anyone’s adjutant.” + +“why not?” inquired borís. + +“it’s a lackey’s job!” + +“you are still the same dreamer, i see,” remarked borís, shaking +his head. + +“and you’re still the same diplomatist! but that’s not the +point... come, how are you?” asked rostóv. + +“well, as you see. so far everything’s all right, but i confess i +should much like to be an adjutant and not remain at the front.” + +“why?” + +“because when once a man starts on military service, he should try to +make as successful a career of it as possible.” + +“oh, that’s it!” said rostóv, evidently thinking of something +else. + +he looked intently and inquiringly into his friend’s eyes, evidently +trying in vain to find the answer to some question. + +old gabriel brought in the wine. + +“shouldn’t we now send for berg?” asked borís. “he would drink +with you. i can’t.” + +“well, send for him... and how do you get on with that german?” +asked rostóv, with a contemptuous smile. + +“he is a very, very nice, honest, and pleasant fellow,” answered +borís. + +again rostóv looked intently into borís’ eyes and sighed. berg +returned, and over the bottle of wine conversation between the three +officers became animated. the guardsmen told rostóv of their march and +how they had been made much of in russia, poland, and abroad. they spoke +of the sayings and doings of their commander, the grand duke, and told +stories of his kindness and irascibility. berg, as usual, kept silent +when the subject did not relate to himself, but in connection with the +stories of the grand duke’s quick temper he related with gusto how in +galicia he had managed to deal with the grand duke when the latter +made a tour of the regiments and was annoyed at the irregularity of +a movement. with a pleasant smile berg related how the grand duke +had ridden up to him in a violent passion, shouting: “arnauts!” +(“arnauts” was the tsarévich’s favorite expression when he was in +a rage) and called for the company commander. + +“would you believe it, count, i was not at all alarmed, because i knew +i was right. without boasting, you know, i may say that i know the army +orders by heart and know the regulations as well as i do the lord’s +prayer. so, count, there never is any negligence in my company, and +so my conscience was at ease. i came forward....” (berg stood up and +showed how he presented himself, with his hand to his cap, and really +it would have been difficult for a face to express greater respect and +self-complacency than his did.) “well, he stormed at me, as the saying +is, stormed and stormed and stormed! it was not a matter of life but +rather of death, as the saying is. ‘albanians!’ and ‘devils!’ +and ‘to siberia!’” said berg with a sagacious smile. “i knew i +was in the right so i kept silent; was not that best, count?... ‘hey, +are you dumb?’ he shouted. still i remained silent. and what do you +think, count? the next day it was not even mentioned in the orders of +the day. that’s what keeping one’s head means. that’s the way, +count,” said berg, lighting his pipe and emitting rings of smoke. + +“yes, that was fine,” said rostóv, smiling. + +but borís noticed that he was preparing to make fun of berg, and +skillfully changed the subject. he asked him to tell them how and where +he got his wound. this pleased rostóv and he began talking about it, +and as he went on became more and more animated. he told them of his +schön grabern affair, just as those who have taken part in a battle +generally do describe it, that is, as they would like it to have been, +as they have heard it described by others, and as sounds well, but not +at all as it really was. rostóv was a truthful young man and would on +no account have told a deliberate lie. he began his story meaning to +tell everything just as it happened, but imperceptibly, involuntarily, +and inevitably he lapsed into falsehood. if he had told the truth to his +hearers—who like himself had often heard stories of attacks and had +formed a definite idea of what an attack was and were expecting to hear +just such a story—they would either not have believed him or, still +worse, would have thought that rostóv was himself to blame since what +generally happens to the narrators of cavalry attacks had not happened +to him. he could not tell them simply that everyone went at a trot and +that he fell off his horse and sprained his arm and then ran as hard as +he could from a frenchman into the wood. besides, to tell everything as +it really happened, it would have been necessary to make an effort of +will to tell only what happened. it is very difficult to tell the truth, +and young people are rarely capable of it. his hearers expected a story +of how beside himself and all aflame with excitement, he had flown like +a storm at the square, cut his way in, slashed right and left, how his +saber had tasted flesh and he had fallen exhausted, and so on. and so he +told them all that. + +in the middle of his story, just as he was saying: “you cannot imagine +what a strange frenzy one experiences during an attack,” prince +andrew, whom borís was expecting, entered the room. prince andrew, who +liked to help young men, was flattered by being asked for his assistance +and being well disposed toward borís, who had managed to please him the +day before, he wished to do what the young man wanted. having been sent +with papers from kutúzov to the tsarévich, he looked in on borís, +hoping to find him alone. when he came in and saw an hussar of the line +recounting his military exploits (prince andrew could not endure +that sort of man), he gave borís a pleasant smile, frowned as with +half-closed eyes he looked at rostóv, bowed slightly and wearily, and +sat down languidly on the sofa: he felt it unpleasant to have dropped +in on bad company. rostóv flushed up on noticing this, but he did not +care, this was a mere stranger. glancing, however, at borís, he saw +that he too seemed ashamed of the hussar of the line. + +in spite of prince andrew’s disagreeable, ironical tone, in spite of +the contempt with which rostóv, from his fighting army point of view, +regarded all these little adjutants on the staff of whom the newcomer +was evidently one, rostóv felt confused, blushed, and became silent. +borís inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without +indiscretion, one might ask about our plans. + +“we shall probably advance,” replied bolkónski, evidently reluctant +to say more in the presence of a stranger. + +berg took the opportunity to ask, with great politeness, whether, as was +rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be +doubled. to this prince andrew answered with a smile that he could +give no opinion on such an important government order, and berg laughed +gaily. + +“as to your business,” prince andrew continued, addressing borís, +“we will talk of it later” (and he looked round at rostóv). “come +to me after the review and we will do what is possible.” + +and, having glanced round the room, prince andrew turned to rostóv, +whose state of unconquerable childish embarrassment now changing to +anger he did not condescend to notice, and said: “i think you were +talking of the schön grabern affair? were you there?” + +“i was there,” said rostóv angrily, as if intending to insult the +aide-de-camp. + +bolkónski noticed the hussar’s state of mind, and it amused him. with +a slightly contemptuous smile, he said: “yes, there are many stories +now told about that affair!” + +“yes, stories!” repeated rostóv loudly, looking with eyes suddenly +grown furious, now at borís, now at bolkónski. “yes, many stories! +but our stories are the stories of men who have been under the enemy’s +fire! our stories have some weight, not like the stories of those +fellows on the staff who get rewards without doing anything!” + +“of whom you imagine me to be one?” said prince andrew, with a quiet +and particularly amiable smile. + +a strange feeling of exasperation and yet of respect for this man’s +self-possession mingled at that moment in rostóv’s soul. + +“i am not talking about you,” he said, “i don’t know you and, +frankly, i don’t want to. i am speaking of the staff in general.” + +“and i will tell you this,” prince andrew interrupted in a tone of +quiet authority, “you wish to insult me, and i am ready to agree with +you that it would be very easy to do so if you haven’t sufficient +self-respect, but admit that the time and place are very badly chosen. +in a day or two we shall all have to take part in a greater and more +serious duel, and besides, drubetskóy, who says he is an old friend +of yours, is not at all to blame that my face has the misfortune to +displease you. however,” he added rising, “you know my name and +where to find me, but don’t forget that i do not regard either myself +or you as having been at all insulted, and as a man older than you, my +advice is to let the matter drop. well then, on friday after the review +i shall expect you, drubetskóy. au revoir!” exclaimed prince andrew, +and with a bow to them both he went out. + +only when prince andrew was gone did rostóv think of what he ought to +have said. and he was still more angry at having omitted to say it. he +ordered his horse at once and, coldly taking leave of borís, rode +home. should he go to headquarters next day and challenge that affected +adjutant, or really let the matter drop, was the question that worried +him all the way. he thought angrily of the pleasure he would have at +seeing the fright of that small and frail but proud man when covered by +his pistol, and then he felt with surprise that of all the men he knew +there was none he would so much like to have for a friend as that very +adjutant whom he so hated. + + + + + +chapter viii + +the day after rostóv had been to see borís, a review was held of the +austrian and russian troops, both those freshly arrived from russia and +those who had been campaigning under kutúzov. the two emperors, +the russian with his heir the tsarévich, and the austrian with the +archduke, inspected the allied army of eighty thousand men. + +from early morning the smart clean troops were on the move, forming up +on the field before the fortress. now thousands of feet and bayonets +moved and halted at the officers’ command, turned with banners flying, +formed up at intervals, and wheeled round other similar masses of +infantry in different uniforms; now was heard the rhythmic beat of +hoofs and the jingling of showy cavalry in blue, red, and green braided +uniforms, with smartly dressed bandsmen in front mounted on black, roan, +or gray horses; then again, spreading out with the brazen clatter of the +polished shining cannon that quivered on the gun carriages and with +the smell of linstocks, came the artillery which crawled between the +infantry and cavalry and took up its appointed position. not only the +generals in full parade uniforms, with their thin or thick waists drawn +in to the utmost, their red necks squeezed into their stiff collars, and +wearing scarves and all their decorations, not only the elegant, pomaded +officers, but every soldier with his freshly washed and shaven face and +his weapons clean and polished to the utmost, and every horse groomed +till its coat shone like satin and every hair of its wetted mane lay +smooth—felt that no small matter was happening, but an important and +solemn affair. every general and every soldier was conscious of his own +insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and +yet at the same time was conscious of his strength as a part of that +enormous whole. + +from early morning strenuous activities and efforts had begun and by ten +o’clock all had been brought into due order. the ranks were drawn +up on the vast field. the whole army was extended in three lines: the +cavalry in front, behind it the artillery, and behind that again the +infantry. + +a space like a street was left between each two lines of troops. the +three parts of that army were sharply distinguished: kutúzov’s +fighting army (with the pávlograds on the right flank of the front); +those recently arrived from russia, both guards and regiments of the +line; and the austrian troops. but they all stood in the same lines, +under one command, and in a like order. + +like wind over leaves ran an excited whisper: “they’re coming! +they’re coming!” alarmed voices were heard, and a stir of final +preparation swept over all the troops. + +from the direction of olmütz in front of them, a group was seen +approaching. and at that moment, though the day was still, a light gust +of wind blowing over the army slightly stirred the streamers on the +lances and the unfolded standards fluttered against their staffs. it +looked as if by that slight motion the army itself was expressing its +joy at the approach of the emperors. one voice was heard shouting: +“eyes front!” then, like the crowing of cocks at sunrise, this was +repeated by others from various sides and all became silent. + +in the deathlike stillness only the tramp of horses was heard. this +was the emperors’ suites. the emperors rode up to the flank, and the +trumpets of the first cavalry regiment played the general march. it +seemed as though not the trumpeters were playing, but as if the army +itself, rejoicing at the emperors’ approach, had naturally burst into +music. amid these sounds, only the youthful kindly voice of the emperor +alexander was clearly heard. he gave the words of greeting, and the +first regiment roared “hurrah!” so deafeningly, continuously, and +joyfully that the men themselves were awed by their multitude and the +immensity of the power they constituted. + +rostóv, standing in the front lines of kutúzov’s army which the tsar +approached first, experienced the same feeling as every other man in +that army: a feeling of self-forgetfulness, a proud consciousness of +might, and a passionate attraction to him who was the cause of this +triumph. + +he felt that at a single word from that man all this vast mass (and he +himself an insignificant atom in it) would go through fire and water, +commit crime, die, or perform deeds of highest heroism, and so he could +not but tremble and his heart stand still at the imminence of that word. + +“hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!” thundered from all sides, one regiment +after another greeting the tsar with the strains of the march, and then +“hurrah!”... then the general march, and again “hurrah! hurrah!” +growing ever stronger and fuller and merging into a deafening roar. + +till the tsar reached it, each regiment in its silence and immobility +seemed like a lifeless body, but as soon as he came up it became alive, +its thunder joining the roar of the whole line along which he had +already passed. through the terrible and deafening roar of those voices, +amid the square masses of troops standing motionless as if turned to +stone, hundreds of riders composing the suites moved carelessly but +symmetrically and above all freely, and in front of them two men—the +emperors. upon them the undivided, tensely passionate attention of that +whole mass of men was concentrated. + +the handsome young emperor alexander, in the uniform of the horse +guards, wearing a cocked hat with its peaks front and back, with his +pleasant face and resonant though not loud voice, attracted everyone’s +attention. + +rostóv was not far from the trumpeters, and with his keen sight had +recognized the tsar and watched his approach. when he was within twenty +paces, and nicholas could clearly distinguish every detail of his +handsome, happy young face, he experienced a feeling of tenderness +and ecstasy such as he had never before known. every trait and every +movement of the tsar’s seemed to him enchanting. + +stopping in front of the pávlograds, the tsar said something in french +to the austrian emperor and smiled. + +seeing that smile, rostóv involuntarily smiled himself and felt a still +stronger flow of love for his sovereign. he longed to show that love in +some way and knowing that this was impossible was ready to cry. the tsar +called the colonel of the regiment and said a few words to him. + +“oh god, what would happen to me if the emperor spoke to me?” +thought rostóv. “i should die of happiness!” + +the tsar addressed the officers also: “i thank you all, gentlemen, i +thank you with my whole heart.” to rostóv every word sounded like a +voice from heaven. how gladly would he have died at once for his tsar! + +“you have earned the st. george’s standards and will be worthy of +them.” + +“oh, to die, to die for him,” thought rostóv. + +the tsar said something more which rostóv did not hear, and the +soldiers, straining their lungs, shouted “hurrah!” + +rostóv too, bending over his saddle, shouted “hurrah!” with all his +might, feeling that he would like to injure himself by that shout, if +only to express his rapture fully. + +the tsar stopped a few minutes in front of the hussars as if undecided. + +“how can the emperor be undecided?” thought rostóv, but then even +this indecision appeared to him majestic and enchanting, like everything +else the tsar did. + +that hesitation lasted only an instant. the tsar’s foot, in the narrow +pointed boot then fashionable, touched the groin of the bobtailed bay +mare he rode, his hand in a white glove gathered up the reins, and he +moved off accompanied by an irregularly swaying sea of aides-de-camp. +farther and farther he rode away, stopping at other regiments, till at +last only his white plumes were visible to rostóv from amid the suites +that surrounded the emperors. + +among the gentlemen of the suite, rostóv noticed bolkónski, sitting +his horse indolently and carelessly. rostóv recalled their quarrel of +yesterday and the question presented itself whether he ought or ought +not to challenge bolkónski. “of course not!” he now thought. “is +it worth thinking or speaking of it at such a moment? at a time of such +love, such rapture, and such self-sacrifice, what do any of our quarrels +and affronts matter? i love and forgive everybody now.” + +when the emperor had passed nearly all the regiments, the troops began +a ceremonial march past him, and rostóv on bedouin, recently purchased +from denísov, rode past too, at the rear of his squadron—that is, +alone and in full view of the emperor. + +before he reached him, rostóv, who was a splendid horseman, spurred +bedouin twice and successfully put him to the showy trot in which the +animal went when excited. bending his foaming muzzle to his chest, his +tail extended, bedouin, as if also conscious of the emperor’s eye +upon him, passed splendidly, lifting his feet with a high and graceful +action, as if flying through the air without touching the ground. + +rostóv himself, his legs well back and his stomach drawn in and feeling +himself one with his horse, rode past the emperor with a frowning but +blissful face “like a vewy devil,” as denísov expressed it. + +“fine fellows, the pávlograds!” remarked the emperor. + +“my god, how happy i should be if he ordered me to leap into the fire +this instant!” thought rostóv. + +when the review was over, the newly arrived officers, and also +kutúzov’s, collected in groups and began to talk about the awards, +about the austrians and their uniforms, about their lines, about +bonaparte, and how badly the latter would fare now, especially if the +essen corps arrived and prussia took our side. + +but the talk in every group was chiefly about the emperor alexander. his +every word and movement was described with ecstasy. + +they all had but one wish: to advance as soon as possible against the +enemy under the emperor’s command. commanded by the emperor himself +they could not fail to vanquish anyone, be it whom it might: so thought +rostóv and most of the officers after the review. + +all were then more confident of victory than the winning of two battles +would have made them. + + + + + +chapter ix + +the day after the review, borís, in his best uniform and with his +comrade berg’s best wishes for success, rode to olmütz to see +bolkónski, wishing to profit by his friendliness and obtain for himself +the best post he could—preferably that of adjutant to some important +personage, a position in the army which seemed to him most attractive. +“it is all very well for rostóv, whose father sends him ten thousand +rubles at a time, to talk about not wishing to cringe to anybody and not +be anyone’s lackey, but i who have nothing but my brains have to +make a career and must not miss opportunities, but must avail myself of +them!” he reflected. + +he did not find prince andrew in olmütz that day, but the appearance of +the town where the headquarters and the diplomatic corps were stationed +and the two emperors were living with their suites, households, and +courts only strengthened his desire to belong to that higher world. + +he knew no one, and despite his smart guardsman’s uniform, all these +exalted personages passing in the streets in their elegant carriages +with their plumes, ribbons, and medals, both courtiers and military +men, seemed so immeasurably above him, an insignificant officer of the +guards, that they not only did not wish to, but simply could not, be +aware of his existence. at the quarters of the commander in chief, +kutúzov, where he inquired for bolkónski, all the adjutants and even +the orderlies looked at him as if they wished to impress on him that a +great many officers like him were always coming there and that everybody +was heartily sick of them. in spite of this, or rather because of +it, next day, november 15, after dinner he again went to olmütz and, +entering the house occupied by kutúzov, asked for bolkónski. prince +andrew was in and borís was shown into a large hall probably formerly +used for dancing, but in which five beds now stood, and furniture of +various kinds: a table, chairs, and a clavichord. one adjutant, nearest +the door, was sitting at the table in a persian dressing gown, writing. +another, the red, stout nesvítski, lay on a bed with his arms under his +head, laughing with an officer who had sat down beside him. a third was +playing a viennese waltz on the clavichord, while a fourth, lying on +the clavichord, sang the tune. bolkónski was not there. none of these +gentlemen changed his position on seeing borís. the one who was writing +and whom borís addressed turned round crossly and told him bolkónski +was on duty and that he should go through the door on the left into the +reception room if he wished to see him. borís thanked him and went to +the reception room, where he found some ten officers and generals. + +when he entered, prince andrew, his eyes drooping contemptuously (with +that peculiar expression of polite weariness which plainly says, “if +it were not my duty i would not talk to you for a moment”), was +listening to an old russian general with decorations, who stood very +erect, almost on tiptoe, with a soldier’s obsequious expression on his +purple face, reporting something. + +“very well, then, be so good as to wait,” said prince andrew to the +general, in russian, speaking with the french intonation he affected +when he wished to speak contemptuously, and noticing borís, prince +andrew, paying no more heed to the general who ran after him imploring +him to hear something more, nodded and turned to him with a cheerful +smile. + +at that moment borís clearly realized what he had before surmised, that +in the army, besides the subordination and discipline prescribed in the +military code, which he and the others knew in the regiment, there was +another, more important, subordination, which made this tight-laced, +purple-faced general wait respectfully while captain prince andrew, for +his own pleasure, chose to chat with lieutenant drubetskóy. more than +ever was borís resolved to serve in future not according to the written +code, but under this unwritten law. he felt now that merely by having +been recommended to prince andrew he had already risen above the general +who at the front had the power to annihilate him, a lieutenant of the +guards. prince andrew came up to him and took his hand. + +“i am very sorry you did not find me in yesterday. i was fussing about +with germans all day. we went with weyrother to survey the dispositions. +when germans start being accurate, there’s no end to it!” + +borís smiled, as if he understood what prince andrew was alluding to +as something generally known. but it was the first time he had heard +weyrother’s name, or even the term “dispositions.” + +“well, my dear fellow, so you still want to be an adjutant? i have +been thinking about you.” + +“yes, i was thinking”—for some reason borís could not help +blushing—“of asking the commander in chief. he has had a letter from +prince kurágin about me. i only wanted to ask because i fear the guards +won’t be in action,” he added as if in apology. + +“all right, all right. we’ll talk it over,” replied prince andrew. +“only let me report this gentleman’s business, and i shall be at +your disposal.” + +while prince andrew went to report about the purple-faced general, that +gentleman—evidently not sharing borís’ conception of the advantages +of the unwritten code of subordination—looked so fixedly at the +presumptuous lieutenant who had prevented his finishing what he had to +say to the adjutant that borís felt uncomfortable. he turned away and +waited impatiently for prince andrew’s return from the commander in +chief’s room. + +“you see, my dear fellow, i have been thinking about you,” +said prince andrew when they had gone into the large room where the +clavichord was. “it’s no use your going to the commander in chief. +he would say a lot of pleasant things, ask you to dinner” (“that +would not be bad as regards the unwritten code,” thought borís), +“but nothing more would come of it. there will soon be a battalion of +us aides-de-camp and adjutants! but this is what we’ll do: i have +a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, prince +dolgorúkov; and though you may not know it, the fact is that now +kutúzov with his staff and all of us count for nothing. everything is +now centered round the emperor. so we will go to dolgorúkov; i have to +go there anyhow and i have already spoken to him about you. we shall +see whether he cannot attach you to himself or find a place for you +somewhere nearer the sun.” + +prince andrew always became specially keen when he had to guide a young +man and help him to worldly success. under cover of obtaining help +of this kind for another, which from pride he would never accept for +himself, he kept in touch with the circle which confers success and +which attracted him. he very readily took up borís’ cause and went +with him to dolgorúkov. + +it was late in the evening when they entered the palace at olmütz +occupied by the emperors and their retinues. + +that same day a council of war had been held in which all the members of +the hofkriegsrath and both emperors took part. at that council, contrary +to the views of the old generals kutúzov and prince schwartzenberg, it +had been decided to advance immediately and give battle to bonaparte. +the council of war was just over when prince andrew accompanied +by borís arrived at the palace to find dolgorúkov. everyone at +headquarters was still under the spell of the day’s council, at which +the party of the young had triumphed. the voices of those who counseled +delay and advised waiting for something else before advancing had been +so completely silenced and their arguments confuted by such conclusive +evidence of the advantages of attacking that what had been discussed +at the council—the coming battle and the victory that would certainly +result from it—no longer seemed to be in the future but in the past. +all the advantages were on our side. our enormous forces, undoubtedly +superior to napoleon’s, were concentrated in one place, the troops +inspired by the emperors’ presence were eager for action. the +strategic position where the operations would take place was familiar in +all its details to the austrian general weyrother: a lucky accident had +ordained that the austrian army should maneuver the previous year on the +very fields where the french had now to be fought; the adjacent +locality was known and shown in every detail on the maps, and bonaparte, +evidently weakened, was undertaking nothing. + +dolgorúkov, one of the warmest advocates of an attack, had just +returned from the council, tired and exhausted but eager and proud +of the victory that had been gained. prince andrew introduced his +protégé, but prince dolgorúkov politely and firmly pressing his hand +said nothing to borís and, evidently unable to suppress the thoughts +which were uppermost in his mind at that moment, addressed prince andrew +in french. + +“ah, my dear fellow, what a battle we have gained! god grant that +the one that will result from it will be as victorious! however, dear +fellow,” he said abruptly and eagerly, “i must confess to having +been unjust to the austrians and especially to weyrother. what +exactitude, what minuteness, what knowledge of the locality, what +foresight for every eventuality, every possibility even to the smallest +detail! no, my dear fellow, no conditions better than our present ones +could have been devised. this combination of austrian precision with +russian valor—what more could be wished for?” + +“so the attack is definitely resolved on?” asked bolkónski. + +“and do you know, my dear fellow, it seems to me that bonaparte has +decidedly lost bearings, you know that a letter was received from him +today for the emperor.” dolgorúkov smiled significantly. + +“is that so? and what did he say?” inquired bolkónski. + +“what can he say? tra-di-ri-di-ra and so on... merely to gain time. +i tell you he is in our hands, that’s certain! but what was most +amusing,” he continued, with a sudden, good-natured laugh, “was that +we could not think how to address the reply! if not as ‘consul’ +and of course not as ‘emperor,’ it seemed to me it should be to +‘general bonaparte.’” + +“but between not recognizing him as emperor and calling him general +bonaparte, there is a difference,” remarked bolkónski. + +“that’s just it,” interrupted dolgorúkov quickly, laughing. +“you know bilíbin—he’s a very clever fellow. he suggested +addressing him as ‘usurper and enemy of mankind.’” + +dolgorúkov laughed merrily. + +“only that?” said bolkónski. + +“all the same, it was bilíbin who found a suitable form for the +address. he is a wise and clever fellow.” + +“what was it?” + +“to the head of the french government... au chef du gouvernement +français,” said dolgorúkov, with grave satisfaction. “good, +wasn’t it?” + +“yes, but he will dislike it extremely,” said bolkónski. + +“oh yes, very much! my brother knows him, he’s dined with him—the +present emperor—more than once in paris, and tells me he never met a +more cunning or subtle diplomatist—you know, a combination of french +adroitness and italian play-acting! do you know the tale about him and +count markóv? count markóv was the only man who knew how to handle +him. you know the story of the handkerchief? it is delightful!” + +and the talkative dolgorúkov, turning now to borís, now to prince +andrew, told how bonaparte wishing to test markóv, our ambassador, +purposely dropped a handkerchief in front of him and stood looking +at markóv, probably expecting markóv to pick it up for him, and how +markóv immediately dropped his own beside it and picked it up without +touching bonaparte’s. + +“delightful!” said bolkónski. “but i have come to you, prince, +as a petitioner on behalf of this young man. you see...” but +before prince andrew could finish, an aide-de-camp came in to summon +dolgorúkov to the emperor. + +“oh, what a nuisance,” said dolgorúkov, getting up hurriedly and +pressing the hands of prince andrew and borís. “you know i should +be very glad to do all in my power both for you and for this dear young +man.” again he pressed the hand of the latter with an expression of +good-natured, sincere, and animated levity. “but you see... another +time!” + +borís was excited by the thought of being so close to the higher powers +as he felt himself to be at that moment. he was conscious that here +he was in contact with the springs that set in motion the enormous +movements of the mass of which in his regiment he felt himself a tiny, +obedient, and insignificant atom. they followed prince dolgorúkov out +into the corridor and met—coming out of the door of the emperor’s +room by which dolgorúkov had entered—a short man in civilian clothes +with a clever face and sharply projecting jaw which, without spoiling +his face, gave him a peculiar vivacity and shiftiness of expression. +this short man nodded to dolgorúkov as to an intimate friend and stared +at prince andrew with cool intensity, walking straight toward him and +evidently expecting him to bow or to step out of his way. prince andrew +did neither: a look of animosity appeared on his face and the other +turned away and went down the side of the corridor. + +“who was that?” asked borís. + +“he is one of the most remarkable, but to me most unpleasant of +men—the minister of foreign affairs, prince adam czartorýski.... it +is such men as he who decide the fate of nations,” added bolkónski +with a sigh he could not suppress, as they passed out of the palace. + +next day, the army began its campaign, and up to the very battle of +austerlitz, borís was unable to see either prince andrew or dolgorúkov +again and remained for a while with the ismáylov regiment. + + + + + +chapter x + +at dawn on the sixteenth of november, denísov’s squadron, in +which nicholas rostóv served and which was in prince bagratión’s +detachment, moved from the place where it had spent the night, advancing +into action as arranged, and after going behind other columns for +about two thirds of a mile was stopped on the highroad. rostóv saw the +cossacks and then the first and second squadrons of hussars and infantry +battalions and artillery pass by and go forward and then generals +bagratión and dolgorúkov ride past with their adjutants. all the fear +before action which he had experienced as previously, all the inner +struggle to conquer that fear, all his dreams of distinguishing himself +as a true hussar in this battle, had been wasted. their squadron +remained in reserve and nicholas rostóv spent that day in a dull and +wretched mood. at nine in the morning, he heard firing in front and +shouts of hurrah, and saw wounded being brought back (there were not +many of them), and at last he saw how a whole detachment of french +cavalry was brought in, convoyed by a sótnya of cossacks. evidently the +affair was over and, though not big, had been a successful engagement. +the men and officers returning spoke of a brilliant victory, of the +occupation of the town of wischau and the capture of a whole french +squadron. the day was bright and sunny after a sharp night frost, and +the cheerful glitter of that autumn day was in keeping with the news of +victory which was conveyed, not only by the tales of those who had taken +part in it, but also by the joyful expression on the faces of soldiers, +officers, generals, and adjutants, as they passed rostóv going or +coming. and nicholas, who had vainly suffered all the dread that +precedes a battle and had spent that happy day in inactivity, was all +the more depressed. + +“come here, wostóv. let’s dwink to dwown our gwief!” shouted +denísov, who had settled down by the roadside with a flask and some +food. + +the officers gathered round denísov’s canteen, eating and talking. + +“there! they are bringing another!” cried one of the officers, +indicating a captive french dragoon who was being brought in on foot by +two cossacks. + +one of them was leading by the bridle a fine large french horse he had +taken from the prisoner. + +“sell us that horse!” denísov called out to the cossacks. + +“if you like, your honor!” + +the officers got up and stood round the cossacks and their prisoner. +the french dragoon was a young alsatian who spoke french with a german +accent. he was breathless with agitation, his face was red, and when +he heard some french spoken he at once began speaking to the officers, +addressing first one, then another. he said he would not have been +taken, it was not his fault but the corporal’s who had sent him to +seize some horsecloths, though he had told him the russians were there. +and at every word he added: “but don’t hurt my little horse!” and +stroked the animal. it was plain that he did not quite grasp where he +was. now he excused himself for having been taken prisoner and now, +imagining himself before his own officers, insisted on his soldierly +discipline and zeal in the service. he brought with him into our +rearguard all the freshness of atmosphere of the french army, which was +so alien to us. + +the cossacks sold the horse for two gold pieces, and rostóv, being the +richest of the officers now that he had received his money, bought it. + +“but don’t hurt my little horse!” said the alsatian good-naturedly +to rostóv when the animal was handed over to the hussar. + +rostóv smilingly reassured the dragoon and gave him money. + +“alley! alley!” said the cossack, touching the prisoner’s arm to +make him go on. + +“the emperor! the emperor!” was suddenly heard among the hussars. + +all began to run and bustle, and rostóv saw coming up the road behind +him several riders with white plumes in their hats. in a moment everyone +was in his place, waiting. + +rostóv did not know or remember how he ran to his place and mounted. +instantly his regret at not having been in action and his dejected mood +amid people of whom he was weary had gone, instantly every thought of +himself had vanished. he was filled with happiness at his nearness to +the emperor. he felt that this nearness by itself made up to him for the +day he had lost. he was happy as a lover when the longed-for moment of +meeting arrives. not daring to look round and without looking round, he +was ecstatically conscious of his approach. he felt it not only from the +sound of the hoofs of the approaching cavalcade, but because as he drew +near everything grew brighter, more joyful, more significant, and more +festive around him. nearer and nearer to rostóv came that sun shedding +beams of mild and majestic light around, and already he felt himself +enveloped in those beams, he heard his voice, that kindly, calm, +and majestic voice that was yet so simple! and as if in accord with +rostóv’s feeling, there was a deathly stillness amid which was heard +the emperor’s voice. + +“the pávlograd hussars?” he inquired. + +“the reserves, sire!” replied a voice, a very human one compared to +that which had said: “the pávlograd hussars?” + +the emperor drew level with rostóv and halted. alexander’s face was +even more beautiful than it had been three days before at the review. it +shone with such gaiety and youth, such innocent youth, that it suggested +the liveliness of a fourteen-year-old boy, and yet it was the face +of the majestic emperor. casually, while surveying the squadron, the +emperor’s eyes met rostóv’s and rested on them for not more than +two seconds. whether or no the emperor understood what was going on in +rostóv’s soul (it seemed to rostóv that he understood everything), +at any rate his light-blue eyes gazed for about two seconds into +rostóv’s face. a gentle, mild light poured from them. then all at +once he raised his eyebrows, abruptly touched his horse with his left +foot, and galloped on. + +the younger emperor could not restrain his wish to be present at the +battle and, in spite of the remonstrances of his courtiers, at twelve +o’clock left the third column with which he had been and galloped +toward the vanguard. before he came up with the hussars, several +adjutants met him with news of the successful result of the action. + +this battle, which consisted in the capture of a french squadron, was +represented as a brilliant victory over the french, and so the +emperor and the whole army, especially while the smoke hung over +the battlefield, believed that the french had been defeated and were +retreating against their will. a few minutes after the emperor had +passed, the pávlograd division was ordered to advance. in wischau +itself, a petty german town, rostóv saw the emperor again. in the +market place, where there had been some rather heavy firing before the +emperor’s arrival, lay several killed and wounded soldiers whom there +had not been time to move. the emperor, surrounded by his suite +of officers and courtiers, was riding a bobtailed chestnut mare, a +different one from that which he had ridden at the review, and bending +to one side he gracefully held a gold lorgnette to his eyes and looked +at a soldier who lay prone, with blood on his uncovered head. the +wounded soldier was so dirty, coarse, and revolting that his proximity +to the emperor shocked rostóv. rostóv saw how the emperor’s rather +round shoulders shuddered as if a cold shiver had run down them, how his +left foot began convulsively tapping the horse’s side with the spur, +and how the well-trained horse looked round unconcerned and did not +stir. an adjutant, dismounting, lifted the soldier under the arms to +place him on a stretcher that had been brought. the soldier groaned. + +“gently, gently! can’t you do it more gently?” said the emperor +apparently suffering more than the dying soldier, and he rode away. + +rostóv saw tears filling the emperor’s eyes and heard him, as he was +riding away, say to czartorýski: “what a terrible thing war is: what +a terrible thing! quelle terrible chose que la guerre!” + +the troops of the vanguard were stationed before wischau, within sight +of the enemy’s lines, which all day long had yielded ground to us +at the least firing. the emperor’s gratitude was announced to the +vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of +vodka. the campfires crackled and the soldiers’ songs resounded +even more merrily than on the previous night. denísov celebrated his +promotion to the rank of major, and rostóv, who had already drunk +enough, at the end of the feast proposed the emperor’s health. “not +‘our sovereign, the emperor,’ as they say at official dinners,” +said he, “but the health of our sovereign, that good, enchanting, and +great man! let us drink to his health and to the certain defeat of the +french!” + +“if we fought before,” he said, “not letting the french pass, as +at schön grabern, what shall we not do now when he is at the front? we +will all die for him gladly! is it not so, gentlemen? perhaps i am not +saying it right, i have drunk a good deal—but that is how i feel, and +so do you too! to the health of alexander the first! hurrah!” + +“hurrah!” rang the enthusiastic voices of the officers. + +and the old cavalry captain, kírsten, shouted enthusiastically and no +less sincerely than the twenty-year-old rostóv. + +when the officers had emptied and smashed their glasses, kírsten filled +others and, in shirt sleeves and breeches, went glass in hand to the +soldiers’ bonfires and with his long gray mustache, his white chest +showing under his open shirt, he stood in a majestic pose in the light +of the campfire, waving his uplifted arm. + +“lads! here’s to our sovereign, the emperor, and victory over +our enemies! hurrah!” he exclaimed in his dashing, old, hussar’s +baritone. + +the hussars crowded round and responded heartily with loud shouts. + +late that night, when all had separated, denísov with his short hand +patted his favorite, rostóv, on the shoulder. + +“as there’s no one to fall in love with on campaign, he’s fallen +in love with the tsar,” he said. + +“denísov, don’t make fun of it!” cried rostóv. “it is such a +lofty, beautiful feeling, such a...” + +“i believe it, i believe it, fwiend, and i share and appwove...” + +“no, you don’t understand!” + +and rostóv got up and went wandering among the campfires, dreaming of +what happiness it would be to die—not in saving the emperor’s life +(he did not even dare to dream of that), but simply to die before his +eyes. he really was in love with the tsar and the glory of the russian +arms and the hope of future triumph. and he was not the only man to +experience that feeling during those memorable days preceding the battle +of austerlitz: nine tenths of the men in the russian army were then in +love, though less ecstatically, with their tsar and the glory of the +russian arms. + + + + + +chapter xi + +the next day the emperor stopped at wischau, and villier, his physician, +was repeatedly summoned to see him. at headquarters and among the troops +near by the news spread that the emperor was unwell. he ate nothing and +had slept badly that night, those around him reported. the cause of this +indisposition was the strong impression made on his sensitive mind by +the sight of the killed and wounded. + +at daybreak on the seventeenth, a french officer who had come with +a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the russian emperor, was +brought into wischau from our outposts. this officer was savary. the +emperor had only just fallen asleep and so savary had to wait. at midday +he was admitted to the emperor, and an hour later he rode off with +prince dolgorúkov to the advanced post of the french army. + +it was rumored that savary had been sent to propose to alexander +a meeting with napoleon. to the joy and pride of the whole army, a +personal interview was refused, and instead of the sovereign, prince +dolgorúkov, the victor at wischau, was sent with savary to negotiate +with napoleon if, contrary to expectations, these negotiations were +actuated by a real desire for peace. + +toward evening dolgorúkov came back, went straight to the tsar, and +remained alone with him for a long time. + +on the eighteenth and nineteenth of november, the army advanced two +days’ march and the enemy’s outposts after a brief interchange +of shots retreated. in the highest army circles from midday on the +nineteenth, a great, excitedly bustling activity began which lasted till +the morning of the twentieth, when the memorable battle of austerlitz +was fought. + +till midday on the nineteenth, the activity—the eager talk, running to +and fro, and dispatching of adjutants—was confined to the emperor’s +headquarters. but on the afternoon of that day, this activity reached +kutúzov’s headquarters and the staffs of the commanders of columns. +by evening, the adjutants had spread it to all ends and parts of the +army, and in the night from the nineteenth to the twentieth, the whole +eighty thousand allied troops rose from their bivouacs to the hum of +voices, and the army swayed and started in one enormous mass six miles +long. + +the concentrated activity which had begun at the emperor’s +headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that +followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower +clock. one wheel slowly moved, another was set in motion, and a third, +and wheels began to revolve faster and faster, levers and cogwheels to +work, chimes to play, figures to pop out, and the hands to advance with +regular motion as a result of all that activity. + +just as in the mechanism of a clock, so in the mechanism of the military +machine, an impulse once given leads to the final result; and just as +indifferently quiescent till the moment when motion is transmitted +to them are the parts of the mechanism which the impulse has not yet +reached. wheels creak on their axles as the cogs engage one another and +the revolving pulleys whirr with the rapidity of their movement, but a +neighboring wheel is as quiet and motionless as though it were prepared +to remain so for a hundred years; but the moment comes when the lever +catches it and obeying the impulse that wheel begins to creak and joins +in the common motion the result and aim of which are beyond its ken. + +just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable +wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular movement of the +hands which show the time, so the result of all the complicated human +activities of 160,000 russians and french—all their passions, desires, +remorse, humiliations, sufferings, outbursts of pride, fear, and +enthusiasm—was only the loss of the battle of austerlitz, the +so-called battle of the three emperors—that is to say, a slow movement +of the hand on the dial of human history. + +prince andrew was on duty that day and in constant attendance on the +commander in chief. + +at six in the evening, kutúzov went to the emperor’s headquarters +and after staying but a short time with the tsar went to see the grand +marshal of the court, count tolstóy. + +bolkónski took the opportunity to go in to get some details of the +coming action from dolgorúkov. he felt that kutúzov was upset +and dissatisfied about something and that at headquarters they were +dissatisfied with him, and also that at the emperor’s headquarters +everyone adopted toward him the tone of men who know something others do +not know: he therefore wished to speak to dolgorúkov. + +“well, how d’you do, my dear fellow?” said dolgorúkov, who was +sitting at tea with bilíbin. “the fete is for tomorrow. how is your +old fellow? out of sorts?” + +“i won’t say he is out of sorts, but i fancy he would like to be +heard.” + +“but they heard him at the council of war and will hear him when he +talks sense, but to temporize and wait for something now when bonaparte +fears nothing so much as a general battle is impossible.” + +“yes, you have seen him?” said prince andrew. “well, what is +bonaparte like? how did he impress you?” + +“yes, i saw him, and am convinced that he fears nothing so much as +a general engagement,” repeated dolgorúkov, evidently prizing this +general conclusion which he had arrived at from his interview with +napoleon. “if he weren’t afraid of a battle why did he ask for that +interview? why negotiate, and above all why retreat, when to retreat is +so contrary to his method of conducting war? believe me, he is afraid, +afraid of a general battle. his hour has come! mark my words!” + +“but tell me, what is he like, eh?” said prince andrew again. + +“he is a man in a gray overcoat, very anxious that i should call +him ‘your majesty,’ but who, to his chagrin, got no title from +me! that’s the sort of man he is, and nothing more,” replied +dolgorúkov, looking round at bilíbin with a smile. + +“despite my great respect for old kutúzov,” he continued, “we +should be a nice set of fellows if we were to wait about and so give him +a chance to escape, or to trick us, now that we certainly have him in +our hands! no, we mustn’t forget suvórov and his rule—not to put +yourself in a position to be attacked, but yourself to attack. believe +me in war the energy of young men often shows the way better than all +the experience of old cunctators.” + +“but in what position are we going to attack him? i have been at the +outposts today and it is impossible to say where his chief forces are +situated,” said prince andrew. + +he wished to explain to dolgorúkov a plan of attack he had himself +formed. + +“oh, that is all the same,” dolgorúkov said quickly, and getting up +he spread a map on the table. “all eventualities have been foreseen. +if he is standing before brünn...” + +and prince dolgorúkov rapidly but indistinctly explained weyrother’s +plan of a flanking movement. + +prince andrew began to reply and to state his own plan, which might +have been as good as weyrother’s, but for the disadvantage that +weyrother’s had already been approved. as soon as prince andrew began +to demonstrate the defects of the latter and the merits of his own plan, +prince dolgorúkov ceased to listen to him and gazed absent-mindedly not +at the map, but at prince andrew’s face. + +“there will be a council of war at kutúzov’s tonight, though; you +can say all this there,” remarked dolgorúkov. + +“i will do so,” said prince andrew, moving away from the map. + +“whatever are you bothering about, gentlemen?” said bilíbin, who, +till then, had listened with an amused smile to their conversation and +now was evidently ready with a joke. “whether tomorrow brings +victory or defeat, the glory of our russian arms is secure. except your +kutúzov, there is not a single russian in command of a column! the +commanders are: herr general wimpfen, le comte de langeron, le prince de +lichtenstein, le prince, de hohenlohe, and finally prishprish, and so on +like all those polish names.” + +“be quiet, backbiter!” said dolgorúkov. “it is not true; there +are now two russians, milorádovich, and dokhtúrov, and there would be +a third, count arakchéev, if his nerves were not too weak.” + +“however, i think general kutúzov has come out,” said prince +andrew. “i wish you good luck and success, gentlemen!” he added and +went out after shaking hands with dolgorúkov and bilíbin. + +on the way home, prince andrew could not refrain from asking kutúzov, +who was sitting silently beside him, what he thought of tomorrow’s +battle. + +kutúzov looked sternly at his adjutant and, after a pause, replied: +“i think the battle will be lost, and so i told count tolstóy and +asked him to tell the emperor. what do you think he replied? ‘but, my +dear general, i am engaged with rice and cutlets, look after military +matters yourself!’ yes... that was the answer i got!” + + + + + +chapter xii + +shortly after nine o’clock that evening, weyrother drove with his +plans to kutúzov’s quarters where the council of war was to be +held. all the commanders of columns were summoned to the commander in +chief’s and with the exception of prince bagratión, who declined to +come, were all there at the appointed time. + +weyrother, who was in full control of the proposed battle, by his +eagerness and briskness presented a marked contrast to the dissatisfied +and drowsy kutúzov, who reluctantly played the part of chairman and +president of the council of war. weyrother evidently felt himself to be +at the head of a movement that had already become unrestrainable. he was +like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. whether he was +pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at +headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead +to. weyrother had been twice that evening to the enemy’s picket +line to reconnoiter personally, and twice to the emperors, russian and +austrian, to report and explain, and to his headquarters where he had +dictated the dispositions in german, and now, much exhausted, he arrived +at kutúzov’s. + +he was evidently so busy that he even forgot to be polite to the +commander in chief. he interrupted him, talked rapidly and indistinctly, +without looking at the man he was addressing, and did not reply to +questions put to him. he was bespattered with mud and had a pitiful, +weary, and distracted air, though at the same time he was haughty and +self-confident. + +kutúzov was occupying a nobleman’s castle of modest dimensions near +ostralitz. in the large drawing room which had become the commander +in chief’s office were gathered kutúzov himself, weyrother, and the +members of the council of war. they were drinking tea, and only awaited +prince bagratión to begin the council. at last bagratión’s orderly +came with the news that the prince could not attend. prince andrew came +in to inform the commander in chief of this and, availing himself +of permission previously given him by kutúzov to be present at the +council, he remained in the room. + +“since prince bagratión is not coming, we may begin,” said +weyrother, hurriedly rising from his seat and going up to the table on +which an enormous map of the environs of brünn was spread out. + +kutúzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over +his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, +with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. at the sound +of weyrother’s voice, he opened his one eye with an effort. + +“yes, yes, if you please! it is already late,” said he, and nodding +his head he let it droop and again closed his eye. + +if at first the members of the council thought that kutúzov was +pretending to sleep, the sounds his nose emitted during the reading that +followed proved that the commander in chief at that moment was absorbed +by a far more serious matter than a desire to show his contempt for +the dispositions or anything else—he was engaged in satisfying the +irresistible human need for sleep. he really was asleep. weyrother, with +the gesture of a man too busy to lose a moment, glanced at kutúzov and, +having convinced himself that he was asleep, took up a paper and in +a loud, monotonous voice began to read out the dispositions for the +impending battle, under a heading which he also read out: + +“dispositions for an attack on the enemy position behind kobelnitz and +sokolnitz, november 30, 1805.” + +the dispositions were very complicated and difficult. they began as +follows: + +“as the enemy’s left wing rests on wooded hills and his right +extends along kobelnitz and sokolnitz behind the ponds that are there, +while we, on the other hand, with our left wing by far outflank his +right, it is advantageous to attack the enemy’s latter wing especially +if we occupy the villages of sokolnitz and kobelnitz, whereby we +can both fall on his flank and pursue him over the plain between +schlappanitz and the thuerassa forest, avoiding the defiles of +schlappanitz and bellowitz which cover the enemy’s front. for this +object it is necessary that... the first column marches... the second +column marches... the third column marches...” and so on, read +weyrother. + +the generals seemed to listen reluctantly to the difficult dispositions. +the tall, fair-haired general buxhöwden stood, leaning his back against +the wall, his eyes fixed on a burning candle, and seemed not to listen +or even to wish to be thought to listen. exactly opposite weyrother, +with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache +twisted upwards, sat the ruddy milorádovich in a military pose, his +elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders +raised. he remained stubbornly silent, gazing at weyrother’s face, +and only turned away his eyes when the austrian chief of staff finished +reading. then milorádovich looked round significantly at the other +generals. but one could not tell from that significant look whether he +agreed or disagreed and was satisfied or not with the arrangements. next +to weyrother sat count langeron who, with a subtle smile that never left +his typically southern french face during the whole time of the reading, +gazed at his delicate fingers which rapidly twirled by its corners +a gold snuffbox on which was a portrait. in the middle of one of the +longest sentences, he stopped the rotary motion of the snuffbox, raised +his head, and with inimical politeness lurking in the corners of his +thin lips interrupted weyrother, wishing to say something. but the +austrian general, continuing to read, frowned angrily and jerked his +elbows, as if to say: “you can tell me your views later, but now be so +good as to look at the map and listen.” langeron lifted his eyes with +an expression of perplexity, turned round to milorádovich as if seeking +an explanation, but meeting the latter’s impressive but meaningless +gaze drooped his eyes sadly and again took to twirling his snuffbox. + +“a geography lesson!” he muttered as if to himself, but loud enough +to be heard. + +przebyszéwski, with respectful but dignified politeness, held his +hand to his ear toward weyrother, with the air of a man absorbed in +attention. dohktúrov, a little man, sat opposite weyrother, with +an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the outspread map +conscientiously studied the dispositions and the unfamiliar locality. he +asked weyrother several times to repeat words he had not clearly heard +and the difficult names of villages. weyrother complied and dohktúrov +noted them down. + +when the reading which lasted more than an hour was over, langeron again +brought his snuffbox to rest and, without looking at weyrother or at +anyone in particular, began to say how difficult it was to carry out +such a plan in which the enemy’s position was assumed to be known, +whereas it was perhaps not known, since the enemy was in movement. +langeron’s objections were valid but it was obvious that their chief +aim was to show general weyrother—who had read his dispositions with +as much self-confidence as if he were addressing school children—that +he had to do, not with fools, but with men who could teach him something +in military matters. + +when the monotonous sound of weyrother’s voice ceased, kutúzov opened +his eye as a miller wakes up when the soporific drone of the mill wheel +is interrupted. he listened to what langeron said, as if remarking, +“so you are still at that silly business!” quickly closed his eye +again, and let his head sink still lower. + +langeron, trying as virulently as possible to sting weyrother’s vanity +as author of the military plan, argued that bonaparte might easily +attack instead of being attacked, and so render the whole of this +plan perfectly worthless. weyrother met all objections with a firm and +contemptuous smile, evidently prepared beforehand to meet all objections +be they what they might. + +“if he could attack us, he would have done so today,” said he. + +“so you think he is powerless?” said langeron. + +“he has forty thousand men at most,” replied weyrother, with the +smile of a doctor to whom an old wife wishes to explain the treatment of +a case. + +“in that case he is inviting his doom by awaiting our attack,” said +langeron, with a subtly ironical smile, again glancing round for support +to milorádovich who was near him. + +but milorádovich was at that moment evidently thinking of anything +rather than of what the generals were disputing about. + +“ma foi!” said he, “tomorrow we shall see all that on the +battlefield.” + +weyrother again gave that smile which seemed to say that to him it was +strange and ridiculous to meet objections from russian generals and to +have to prove to them what he had not merely convinced himself of, but +had also convinced the sovereign emperors of. + +“the enemy has quenched his fires and a continual noise is heard from +his camp,” said he. “what does that mean? either he is retreating, +which is the only thing we need fear, or he is changing his position.” +(he smiled ironically.) “but even if he also took up a position in +the thuerassa, he merely saves us a great deal of trouble and all our +arrangements to the minutest detail remain the same.” + +“how is that?...” began prince andrew, who had for long been waiting +an opportunity to express his doubts. + +kutúzov here woke up, coughed heavily, and looked round at the +generals. + +“gentlemen, the dispositions for tomorrow—or rather for today, for +it is past midnight—cannot now be altered,” said he. “you have +heard them, and we shall all do our duty. but before a battle, there is +nothing more important...” he paused, “than to have a good sleep.” + +he moved as if to rise. the generals bowed and retired. it was past +midnight. prince andrew went out. + +the council of war, at which prince andrew had not been able to +express his opinion as he had hoped to, left on him a vague and uneasy +impression. whether dolgorúkov and weyrother, or kutúzov, langeron, +and the others who did not approve of the plan of attack, were +right—he did not know. “but was it really not possible for kutúzov +to state his views plainly to the emperor? is it possible that on +account of court and personal considerations tens of thousands of lives, +and my life, my life,” he thought, “must be risked?” + +“yes, it is very likely that i shall be killed tomorrow,” he +thought. and suddenly, at this thought of death, a whole series of most +distant, most intimate, memories rose in his imagination: he remembered +his last parting from his father and his wife; he remembered the days +when he first loved her. he thought of her pregnancy and felt sorry for +her and for himself, and in a nervously emotional and softened mood he +went out of the hut in which he was billeted with nesvítski and began +to walk up and down before it. + +the night was foggy and through the fog the moonlight gleamed +mysteriously. “yes, tomorrow, tomorrow!” he thought. “tomorrow +everything may be over for me! all these memories will be no more, none +of them will have any meaning for me. tomorrow perhaps, even certainly, +i have a presentiment that for the first time i shall have to show all +i can do.” and his fancy pictured the battle, its loss, the +concentration of fighting at one point, and the hesitation of all the +commanders. and then that happy moment, that toulon for which he had +so long waited, presents itself to him at last. he firmly and clearly +expresses his opinion to kutúzov, to weyrother, and to the emperors. +all are struck by the justness of his views, but no one undertakes to +carry them out, so he takes a regiment, a division—stipulates that no +one is to interfere with his arrangements—leads his division to +the decisive point, and gains the victory alone. “but death and +suffering?” suggested another voice. prince andrew, however, did not +answer that voice and went on dreaming of his triumphs. the dispositions +for the next battle are planned by him alone. nominally he is only an +adjutant on kutúzov’s staff, but he does everything alone. the next +battle is won by him alone. kutúzov is removed and he is appointed... +“well and then?” asked the other voice. “if before that you are +not ten times wounded, killed, or betrayed, well... what then?...” +“well then,” prince andrew answered himself, “i don’t know +what will happen and don’t want to know, and can’t, but if i want +this—want glory, want to be known to men, want to be loved by them, it +is not my fault that i want it and want nothing but that and live only +for that. yes, for that alone! i shall never tell anyone, but, oh god! +what am i to do if i love nothing but fame and men’s esteem? death, +wounds, the loss of family—i fear nothing. and precious and dear +as many persons are to me—father, sister, wife—those dearest to +me—yet dreadful and unnatural as it seems, i would give them all at +once for a moment of glory, of triumph over men, of love from men i +don’t know and never shall know, for the love of these men here,” he +thought, as he listened to voices in kutúzov’s courtyard. the voices +were those of the orderlies who were packing up; one voice, probably a +coachman’s, was teasing kutúzov’s old cook whom prince andrew knew, +and who was called tit. he was saying, “tit, i say, tit!” + +“well?” returned the old man. + +“go, tit, thresh a bit!” said the wag. + +“oh, go to the devil!” called out a voice, drowned by the laughter +of the orderlies and servants. + +“all the same, i love and value nothing but triumph over them all, i +value this mystic power and glory that is floating here above me in this +mist!” + + + + + +chapter xiii + +that same night, rostóv was with a platoon on skirmishing duty in front +of bagratión’s detachment. his hussars were placed along the line +in couples and he himself rode along the line trying to master the +sleepiness that kept coming over him. an enormous space, with our +army’s campfires dimly glowing in the fog, could be seen behind him; +in front of him was misty darkness. rostóv could see nothing, peer as +he would into that foggy distance: now something gleamed gray, now there +was something black, now little lights seemed to glimmer where the enemy +ought to be, now he fancied it was only something in his own eyes. his +eyes kept closing, and in his fancy appeared—now the emperor, now +denísov, and now moscow memories—and he again hurriedly opened his +eyes and saw close before him the head and ears of the horse he was +riding, and sometimes, when he came within six paces of them, the +black figures of hussars, but in the distance was still the same misty +darkness. “why not?... it might easily happen,” thought rostóv, +“that the emperor will meet me and give me an order as he would to any +other officer; he’ll say: ‘go and find out what’s there.’ there +are many stories of his getting to know an officer in just such a chance +way and attaching him to himself! what if he gave me a place near him? +oh, how i would guard him, how i would tell him the truth, how i would +unmask his deceivers!” and in order to realize vividly his love +devotion to the sovereign, rostóv pictured to himself an enemy or a +deceitful german, whom he would not only kill with pleasure but whom +he would slap in the face before the emperor. suddenly a distant shout +aroused him. he started and opened his eyes. + +“where am i? oh yes, in the skirmishing line... pass and +watchword—shaft, olmütz. what a nuisance that our squadron will be in +reserve tomorrow,” he thought. “i’ll ask leave to go to the front, +this may be my only chance of seeing the emperor. it won’t be long +now before i am off duty. i’ll take another turn and when i get back +i’ll go to the general and ask him.” he readjusted himself in the +saddle and touched up his horse to ride once more round his hussars. it +seemed to him that it was getting lighter. to the left he saw a sloping +descent lit up, and facing it a black knoll that seemed as steep as a +wall. on this knoll there was a white patch that rostóv could not at +all make out: was it a glade in the wood lit up by the moon, or some +unmelted snow, or some white houses? he even thought something moved on +that white spot. “i expect it’s snow... that spot... a spot—une +tache,” he thought. “there now... it’s not a tache... natásha... +sister, black eyes... na... tasha... (won’t she be surprised when +i tell her how i’ve seen the emperor?) natásha... take my +sabretache...”—“keep to the right, your honor, there are bushes +here,” came the voice of an hussar, past whom rostóv was riding in +the act of falling asleep. rostóv lifted his head that had sunk almost +to his horse’s mane and pulled up beside the hussar. he was succumbing +to irresistible, youthful, childish drowsiness. “but what was i +thinking? i mustn’t forget. how shall i speak to the emperor? no, +that’s not it—that’s tomorrow. oh yes! natásha... sabretache... +saber them... whom? the hussars... ah, the hussars with mustaches. along +the tverskáya street rode the hussar with mustaches... i thought about +him too, just opposite gúryev’s house... old gúryev.... oh, but +denísov’s a fine fellow. but that’s all nonsense. the chief thing +is that the emperor is here. how he looked at me and wished to say +something, but dared not.... no, it was i who dared not. but that’s +nonsense, the chief thing is not to forget the important thing i +was thinking of. yes, na-tásha, sabretache, oh, yes, yes! that’s +right!” and his head once more sank to his horse’s neck. all at once +it seemed to him that he was being fired at. “what? what? what?... cut +them down! what?...” said rostóv, waking up. at the moment he opened +his eyes he heard in front of him, where the enemy was, the long-drawn +shouts of thousands of voices. his horse and the horse of the hussar +near him pricked their ears at these shouts. over there, where the +shouting came from, a fire flared up and went out again, then another, +and all along the french line on the hill fires flared up and the +shouting grew louder and louder. rostóv could hear the sound of french +words but could not distinguish them. the din of many voices was too +great; all he could hear was: “ahahah!” and “rrrr!” + +“what’s that? what do you make of it?” said rostóv to the hussar +beside him. “that must be the enemy’s camp!” + +the hussar did not reply. + +“why, don’t you hear it?” rostóv asked again, after waiting for a +reply. + +“who can tell, your honor?” replied the hussar reluctantly. + +“from the direction, it must be the enemy,” repeated rostóv. + +“it may be he or it may be nothing,” muttered the hussar. “it’s +dark... steady!” he cried to his fidgeting horse. + +rostóv’s horse was also getting restive: it pawed the frozen ground, +pricking its ears at the noise and looking at the lights. the shouting +grew still louder and merged into a general roar that only an army +of several thousand men could produce. the lights spread farther and +farther, probably along the line of the french camp. rostóv no longer +wanted to sleep. the gay triumphant shouting of the enemy army had a +stimulating effect on him. “vive l’empereur! l’empereur!” he now +heard distinctly. + +“they can’t be far off, probably just beyond the stream,” he said +to the hussar beside him. + +the hussar only sighed without replying and coughed angrily. the sound +of horse’s hoofs approaching at a trot along the line of hussars was +heard, and out of the foggy darkness the figure of a sergeant of hussars +suddenly appeared, looming huge as an elephant. + +“your honor, the generals!” said the sergeant, riding up to rostóv. + +rostóv, still looking round toward the fires and the shouts, rode with +the sergeant to meet some mounted men who were riding along the line. +one was on a white horse. prince bagratión and prince dolgorúkov with +their adjutants had come to witness the curious phenomenon of the +lights and shouts in the enemy’s camp. rostóv rode up to bagratión, +reported to him, and then joined the adjutants listening to what the +generals were saying. + +“believe me,” said prince dolgorúkov, addressing bagratión, “it +is nothing but a trick! he has retreated and ordered the rearguard to +kindle fires and make a noise to deceive us.” + +“hardly,” said bagratión. “i saw them this evening on that +knoll; if they had retreated they would have withdrawn from that too.... +officer!” said bagratión to rostóv, “are the enemy’s skirmishers +still there?” + +“they were there this evening, but now i don’t know, your +excellency. shall i go with some of my hussars to see?” replied +rostóv. + +bagratión stopped and, before replying, tried to see rostóv’s face +in the mist. + +“well, go and see,” he said, after a pause. + +“yes, sir.” + +rostóv spurred his horse, called to sergeant fédchenko and two other +hussars, told them to follow him, and trotted downhill in the direction +from which the shouting came. he felt both frightened and pleased to be +riding alone with three hussars into that mysterious and dangerous misty +distance where no one had been before him. bagratión called to him from +the hill not to go beyond the stream, but rostóv pretended not to hear +him and did not stop but rode on and on, continually mistaking bushes +for trees and gullies for men and continually discovering his mistakes. +having descended the hill at a trot, he no longer saw either our own or +the enemy’s fires, but heard the shouting of the french more loudly +and distinctly. in the valley he saw before him something like a river, +but when he reached it he found it was a road. having come out onto +the road he reined in his horse, hesitating whether to ride along it or +cross it and ride over the black field up the hillside. to keep to the +road which gleamed white in the mist would have been safer because it +would be easier to see people coming along it. “follow me!” said he, +crossed the road, and began riding up the hill at a gallop toward the +point where the french pickets had been standing that evening. + +“your honor, there he is!” cried one of the hussars behind him. and +before rostóv had time to make out what the black thing was that had +suddenly appeared in the fog, there was a flash, followed by a report, +and a bullet whizzing high up in the mist with a plaintive sound passed +out of hearing. another musket missed fire but flashed in the pan. +rostóv turned his horse and galloped back. four more reports followed +at intervals, and the bullets passed somewhere in the fog singing in +different tones. rostóv reined in his horse, whose spirits had risen, +like his own, at the firing, and went back at a footpace. “well, some +more! some more!” a merry voice was saying in his soul. but no more +shots came. + +only when approaching bagratión did rostóv let his horse gallop again, +and with his hand at the salute rode up to the general. + +dolgorúkov was still insisting that the french had retreated and had +only lit fires to deceive us. + +“what does that prove?” he was saying as rostóv rode up. “they +might retreat and leave the pickets.” + +“it’s plain that they have not all gone yet, prince,” said +bagratión. “wait till tomorrow morning, we’ll find out everything +tomorrow.” + +“the picket is still on the hill, your excellency, just where it was +in the evening,” reported rostóv, stooping forward with his hand at +the salute and unable to repress the smile of delight induced by his +ride and especially by the sound of the bullets. + +“very good, very good,” said bagratión. “thank you, officer.” + +“your excellency,” said rostóv, “may i ask a favor?” + +“what is it?” + +“tomorrow our squadron is to be in reserve. may i ask to be attached +to the first squadron?” + +“what’s your name?” + +“count rostóv.” + +“oh, very well, you may stay in attendance on me.” + +“count ilyá rostóv’s son?” asked dolgorúkov. + +but rostóv did not reply. + +“then i may reckon on it, your excellency?” + +“i will give the order.” + +“tomorrow very likely i may be sent with some message to the +emperor,” thought rostóv. + +“thank god!” + +the fires and shouting in the enemy’s army were occasioned by the fact +that while napoleon’s proclamation was being read to the troops the +emperor himself rode round his bivouacs. the soldiers, on seeing him, +lit wisps of straw and ran after him, shouting, “vive l’empereur!” +napoleon’s proclamation was as follows: + +soldiers! the russian army is advancing against you to avenge the +austrian army of ulm. they are the same battalions you broke at +hollabrünn and have pursued ever since to this place. the position we +occupy is a strong one, and while they are marching to go round me on +the right they will expose a flank to me. soldiers! i will myself direct +your battalions. i will keep out of fire if you with your habitual +valor carry disorder and confusion into the enemy’s ranks, but should +victory be in doubt, even for a moment, you will see your emperor +exposing himself to the first blows of the enemy, for there must be no +doubt of victory, especially on this day when what is at stake is the +honor of the french infantry, so necessary to the honor of our nation. + +do not break your ranks on the plea of removing the wounded! let every +man be fully imbued with the thought that we must defeat these hirelings +of england, inspired by such hatred of our nation! this victory will +conclude our campaign and we can return to winter quarters, where fresh +french troops who are being raised in france will join us, and the peace +i shall conclude will be worthy of my people, of you, and of myself. + +napoleon + + + + +chapter xiv + +at five in the morning it was still quite dark. the troops of the +center, the reserves, and bagratión’s right flank had not yet moved, +but on the left flank the columns of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, +which were to be the first to descend the heights to attack the french +right flank and drive it into the bohemian mountains according to plan, +were already up and astir. the smoke of the campfires, into which they +were throwing everything superfluous, made the eyes smart. it was cold +and dark. the officers were hurriedly drinking tea and breakfasting, the +soldiers, munching biscuit and beating a tattoo with their feet to +warm themselves, gathering round the fires throwing into the flames the +remains of sheds, chairs, tables, wheels, tubs, and everything that they +did not want or could not carry away with them. austrian column guides +were moving in and out among the russian troops and served as heralds +of the advance. as soon as an austrian officer showed himself near +a commanding officer’s quarters, the regiment began to move: the +soldiers ran from the fires, thrust their pipes into their boots, their +bags into the carts, got their muskets ready, and formed rank. the +officers buttoned up their coats, buckled on their swords and pouches, +and moved along the ranks shouting. the train drivers and orderlies +harnessed and packed the wagons and tied on the loads. the adjutants and +battalion and regimental commanders mounted, crossed themselves, gave +final instructions, orders, and commissions to the baggage men +who remained behind, and the monotonous tramp of thousands of feet +resounded. the column moved forward without knowing where and unable, +from the masses around them, the smoke and the increasing fog, to see +either the place they were leaving or that to which they were going. + +a soldier on the march is hemmed in and borne along by his regiment as +much as a sailor is by his ship. however far he has walked, whatever +strange, unknown, and dangerous places he reaches, just as a sailor is +always surrounded by the same decks, masts, and rigging of his ship, so +the soldier always has around him the same comrades, the same ranks, the +same sergeant major iván mítrich, the same company dog jack, and the +same commanders. the sailor rarely cares to know the latitude in which +his ship is sailing, but on the day of battle—heaven knows how and +whence—a stern note of which all are conscious sounds in the moral +atmosphere of an army, announcing the approach of something decisive +and solemn, and awakening in the men an unusual curiosity. on the day of +battle the soldiers excitedly try to get beyond the interests of their +regiment, they listen intently, look about, and eagerly ask concerning +what is going on around them. + +the fog had grown so dense that though it was growing light they could +not see ten paces ahead. bushes looked like gigantic trees and level +ground like cliffs and slopes. anywhere, on any side, one might +encounter an enemy invisible ten paces off. but the columns advanced +for a long time, always in the same fog, descending and ascending hills, +avoiding gardens and enclosures, going over new and unknown ground, and +nowhere encountering the enemy. on the contrary, the soldiers became +aware that in front, behind, and on all sides, other russian columns +were moving in the same direction. every soldier felt glad to know that +to the unknown place where he was going, many more of our men were going +too. + +“there now, the kúrskies have also gone past,” was being said in +the ranks. + +“it’s wonderful what a lot of our troops have gathered, lads! last +night i looked at the campfires and there was no end of them. a regular +moscow!” + +though none of the column commanders rode up to the ranks or talked to +the men (the commanders, as we saw at the council of war, were out of +humor and dissatisfied with the affair, and so did not exert themselves +to cheer the men but merely carried out the orders), yet the troops +marched gaily, as they always do when going into action, especially to +an attack. but when they had marched for about an hour in the dense fog, +the greater part of the men had to halt and an unpleasant consciousness +of some dislocation and blunder spread through the ranks. how such +a consciousness is communicated is very difficult to define, but it +certainly is communicated very surely, and flows rapidly, imperceptibly, +and irrepressibly, as water does in a creek. had the russian army been +alone without any allies, it might perhaps have been a long time before +this consciousness of mismanagement became a general conviction, but as +it was, the disorder was readily and naturally attributed to the stupid +germans, and everyone was convinced that a dangerous muddle had been +occasioned by the sausage eaters. + +“why have we stopped? is the way blocked? or have we already come up +against the french?” + +“no, one can’t hear them. they’d be firing if we had.” + +“they were in a hurry enough to start us, and now here we stand in +the middle of a field without rhyme or reason. it’s all those damned +germans’ muddling! what stupid devils!” + +“yes, i’d send them on in front, but no fear, they’re crowding up +behind. and now here we stand hungry.” + +“i say, shall we soon be clear? they say the cavalry are blocking the +way,” said an officer. + +“ah, those damned germans! they don’t know their own country!” +said another. + +“what division are you?” shouted an adjutant, riding up. + +“the eighteenth.” + +“then why are you here? you should have gone on long ago, now you +won’t get there till evening.” + +“what stupid orders! they don’t themselves know what they are +doing!” said the officer and rode off. + +then a general rode past shouting something angrily, not in russian. + +“tafa-lafa! but what he’s jabbering no one can make out,” said a +soldier, mimicking the general who had ridden away. “i’d shoot them, +the scoundrels!” + +“we were ordered to be at the place before nine, but we haven’t got +halfway. fine orders!” was being repeated on different sides. + +and the feeling of energy with which the troops had started began to +turn into vexation and anger at the stupid arrangements and at the +germans. + +the cause of the confusion was that while the austrian cavalry was +moving toward our left flank, the higher command found that our center +was too far separated from our right flank and the cavalry were all +ordered to turn back to the right. several thousand cavalry crossed in +front of the infantry, who had to wait. + +at the front an altercation occurred between an austrian guide and a +russian general. the general shouted a demand that the cavalry should be +halted, the austrian argued that not he, but the higher command, was to +blame. the troops meanwhile stood growing listless and dispirited. after +an hour’s delay they at last moved on, descending the hill. the fog +that was dispersing on the hill lay still more densely below, where they +were descending. in front in the fog a shot was heard and then another, +at first irregularly at varying intervals—trata...tat—and then more +and more regularly and rapidly, and the action at the goldbach stream +began. + +not expecting to come on the enemy down by the stream, and having +stumbled on him in the fog, hearing no encouraging word from their +commanders, and with a consciousness of being too late spreading through +the ranks, and above all being unable to see anything in front or around +them in the thick fog, the russians exchanged shots with the enemy +lazily and advanced and again halted, receiving no timely orders from +the officers or adjutants who wandered about in the fog in those unknown +surroundings unable to find their own regiments. in this way the action +began for the first, second, and third columns, which had gone down into +the valley. the fourth column, with which kutúzov was, stood on the +pratzen heights. + +below, where the fight was beginning, there was still thick fog; on the +higher ground it was clearing, but nothing could be seen of what was +going on in front. whether all the enemy forces were, as we supposed, +six miles away, or whether they were near by in that sea of mist, no one +knew till after eight o’clock. + +it was nine o’clock in the morning. the fog lay unbroken like a sea +down below, but higher up at the village of schlappanitz where napoleon +stood with his marshals around him, it was quite light. above him was +a clear blue sky, and the sun’s vast orb quivered like a huge hollow, +crimson float on the surface of that milky sea of mist. the whole french +army, and even napoleon himself with his staff, were not on the far side +of the streams and hollows of sokolnitz and schlappanitz beyond which we +intended to take up our position and begin the action, but were on this +side, so close to our own forces that napoleon with the naked eye could +distinguish a mounted man from one on foot. napoleon, in the blue cloak +which he had worn on his italian campaign, sat on his small gray arab +horse a little in front of his marshals. he gazed silently at the hills +which seemed to rise out of the sea of mist and on which the russian +troops were moving in the distance, and he listened to the sounds of +firing in the valley. not a single muscle of his face—which in those +days was still thin—moved. his gleaming eyes were fixed intently on +one spot. his predictions were being justified. part of the russian +force had already descended into the valley toward the ponds and lakes +and part were leaving these pratzen heights which he intended to attack +and regarded as the key to the position. he saw over the mist that in +a hollow between two hills near the village of pratzen, the russian +columns, their bayonets glittering, were moving continuously in one +direction toward the valley and disappearing one after another into +the mist. from information he had received the evening before, from the +sound of wheels and footsteps heard by the outposts during the night, +by the disorderly movement of the russian columns, and from all +indications, he saw clearly that the allies believed him to be far away +in front of them, and that the columns moving near pratzen constituted +the center of the russian army, and that that center was already +sufficiently weakened to be successfully attacked. but still he did not +begin the engagement. + +today was a great day for him—the anniversary of his coronation. +before dawn he had slept for a few hours, and refreshed, vigorous, and +in good spirits, he mounted his horse and rode out into the field +in that happy mood in which everything seems possible and everything +succeeds. he sat motionless, looking at the heights visible above +the mist, and his cold face wore that special look of confident, +self-complacent happiness that one sees on the face of a boy happily +in love. the marshals stood behind him not venturing to distract his +attention. he looked now at the pratzen heights, now at the sun floating +up out of the mist. + +when the sun had entirely emerged from the fog, and fields and mist were +aglow with dazzling light—as if he had only awaited this to begin the +action—he drew the glove from his shapely white hand, made a sign +with it to the marshals, and ordered the action to begin. the marshals, +accompanied by adjutants, galloped off in different directions, and +a few minutes later the chief forces of the french army moved rapidly +toward those pratzen heights which were being more and more denuded by +russian troops moving down the valley to their left. + + + + + +chapter xv + +at eight o’clock kutúzov rode to pratzen at the head of the fourth +column, milorádovich’s, the one that was to take the place of +przebyszéwski’s and langeron’s columns which had already gone down +into the valley. he greeted the men of the foremost regiment and gave +them the order to march, thereby indicating that he intended to lead +that column himself. when he had reached the village of pratzen he +halted. prince andrew was behind, among the immense number forming the +commander in chief’s suite. he was in a state of suppressed excitement +and irritation, though controlledly calm as a man is at the approach of +a long-awaited moment. he was firmly convinced that this was the day of +his toulon, or his bridge of arcola. how it would come about he did not +know, but he felt sure it would do so. the locality and the position of +our troops were known to him as far as they could be known to anyone +in our army. his own strategic plan, which obviously could not now +be carried out, was forgotten. now, entering into weyrother’s plan, +prince andrew considered possible contingencies and formed new projects +such as might call for his rapidity of perception and decision. + +to the left down below in the mist, the musketry fire of unseen forces +could be heard. it was there prince andrew thought the fight would +concentrate. “there we shall encounter difficulties, and there,” +thought he, “i shall be sent with a brigade or division, and there, +standard in hand, i shall go forward and break whatever is in front of +me.” + +he could not look calmly at the standards of the passing battalions. +seeing them he kept thinking, “that may be the very standard with +which i shall lead the army.” + +in the morning all that was left of the night mist on the heights was +a hoar frost now turning to dew, but in the valleys it still lay like a +milk-white sea. nothing was visible in the valley to the left into which +our troops had descended and from whence came the sounds of firing. +above the heights was the dark clear sky, and to the right the vast orb +of the sun. in front, far off on the farther shore of that sea of mist, +some wooded hills were discernible, and it was there the enemy probably +was, for something could be descried. on the right the guards were +entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and +then a gleam of bayonets; to the left beyond the village similar masses +of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist. in front and +behind moved infantry. the commander in chief was standing at the end of +the village letting the troops pass by him. that morning kutúzov seemed +worn and irritable. the infantry passing before him came to a halt +without any command being given, apparently obstructed by something in +front. + +“do order them to form into battalion columns and go round the +village!” he said angrily to a general who had ridden up. “don’t +you understand, your excellency, my dear sir, that you must not +defile through narrow village streets when we are marching against the +enemy?” + +“i intended to re-form them beyond the village, your excellency,” +answered the general. + +kutúzov laughed bitterly. + +“you’ll make a fine thing of it, deploying in sight of the enemy! +very fine!” + +“the enemy is still far away, your excellency. according to the +dispositions...” + +“the dispositions!” exclaimed kutúzov bitterly. “who told you +that?... kindly do as you are ordered.” + +“yes, sir.” + +“my dear fellow,” nesvítski whispered to prince andrew, “the old +man is as surly as a dog.” + +an austrian officer in a white uniform with green plumes in his hat +galloped up to kutúzov and asked in the emperor’s name had the fourth +column advanced into action. + +kutúzov turned round without answering and his eye happened to fall +upon prince andrew, who was beside him. seeing him, kutúzov’s +malevolent and caustic expression softened, as if admitting that what +was being done was not his adjutant’s fault, and still not answering +the austrian adjutant, he addressed bolkónski. + +“go, my dear fellow, and see whether the third division has passed the +village. tell it to stop and await my orders.” + +hardly had prince andrew started than he stopped him. + +“and ask whether sharpshooters have been posted,” he added. “what +are they doing? what are they doing?” he murmured to himself, still +not replying to the austrian. + +prince andrew galloped off to execute the order. + +overtaking the battalions that continued to advance, he stopped +the third division and convinced himself that there really were no +sharpshooters in front of our columns. the colonel at the head of the +regiment was much surprised at the commander in chief’s order to throw +out skirmishers. he had felt perfectly sure that there were other troops +in front of him and that the enemy must be at least six miles away. +there was really nothing to be seen in front except a barren descent +hidden by dense mist. having given orders in the commander in chief’s +name to rectify this omission, prince andrew galloped back. kutúzov +still in the same place, his stout body resting heavily in the saddle +with the lassitude of age, sat yawning wearily with closed eyes. the +troops were no longer moving, but stood with the butts of their muskets +on the ground. + +“all right, all right!” he said to prince andrew, and turned to a +general who, watch in hand, was saying it was time they started as all +the left-flank columns had already descended. + +“plenty of time, your excellency,” muttered kutúzov in the midst of +a yawn. “plenty of time,” he repeated. + +just then at a distance behind kutúzov was heard the sound of regiments +saluting, and this sound rapidly came nearer along the whole extended +line of the advancing russian columns. evidently the person they were +greeting was riding quickly. when the soldiers of the regiment in front +of which kutúzov was standing began to shout, he rode a little to one +side and looked round with a frown. along the road from pratzen galloped +what looked like a squadron of horsemen in various uniforms. two of them +rode side by side in front, at full gallop. one in a black uniform with +white plumes in his hat rode a bobtailed chestnut horse, the other who +was in a white uniform rode a black one. these were the two emperors +followed by their suites. kutúzov, affecting the manners of an old +soldier at the front, gave the command “attention!” and rode up +to the emperors with a salute. his whole appearance and manner were +suddenly transformed. he put on the air of a subordinate who obeys +without reasoning. with an affectation of respect which evidently struck +alexander unpleasantly, he rode up and saluted. + +this unpleasant impression merely flitted over the young and happy face +of the emperor like a cloud of haze across a clear sky and vanished. +after his illness he looked rather thinner that day than on the field +of olmütz where bolkónski had seen him for the first time abroad, but +there was still the same bewitching combination of majesty and mildness +in his fine gray eyes, and on his delicate lips the same capacity for +varying expression and the same prevalent appearance of goodhearted +innocent youth. + +at the olmütz review he had seemed more majestic; here he seemed +brighter and more energetic. he was slightly flushed after galloping two +miles, and reining in his horse he sighed restfully and looked round +at the faces of his suite, young and animated as his own. czartorýski, +novosíltsev, prince volkónsky, strógonov, and the others, all richly +dressed gay young men on splendid, well-groomed, fresh, only slightly +heated horses, exchanging remarks and smiling, had stopped behind the +emperor. the emperor francis, a rosy, long faced young man, sat very +erect on his handsome black horse, looking about him in a leisurely and +preoccupied manner. he beckoned to one of his white adjutants and asked +some question—“most likely he is asking at what o’clock they +started,” thought prince andrew, watching his old acquaintance with +a smile he could not repress as he recalled his reception at brünn. +in the emperors’ suite were the picked young orderly officers of the +guard and line regiments, russian and austrian. among them were grooms +leading the tsar’s beautiful relay horses covered with embroidered +cloths. + +as when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters +a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of +success reached kutúzov’s cheerless staff with the galloping advent +of all these brilliant young men. + +“why aren’t you beginning, michael ilariónovich?” said the +emperor alexander hurriedly to kutúzov, glancing courteously at the +same time at the emperor francis. + +“i am waiting, your majesty,” answered kutúzov, bending forward +respectfully. + +the emperor, frowning slightly, bent his ear forward as if he had not +quite heard. + +“waiting, your majesty,” repeated kutúzov. (prince andrew noted +that kutúzov’s upper lip twitched unnaturally as he said the +word “waiting.”) “not all the columns have formed up yet, your +majesty.” + +the tsar heard but obviously did not like the reply; he shrugged his +rather round shoulders and glanced at novosíltsev who was near him, as +if complaining of kutúzov. + +“you know, michael ilariónovich, we are not on the empress’ field +where a parade does not begin till all the troops are assembled,” said +the tsar with another glance at the emperor francis, as if inviting +him if not to join in at least to listen to what he was saying. but the +emperor francis continued to look about him and did not listen. + +“that is just why i do not begin, sire,” said kutúzov in a +resounding voice, apparently to preclude the possibility of not being +heard, and again something in his face twitched—“that is just why +i do not begin, sire, because we are not on parade and not on the +empress’ field,” said he clearly and distinctly. + +in the emperor’s suite all exchanged rapid looks that expressed +dissatisfaction and reproach. “old though he may be, he should not, he +certainly should not, speak like that,” their glances seemed to say. + +the tsar looked intently and observantly into kutúzov’s eye +waiting to hear whether he would say anything more. but kutúzov, with +respectfully bowed head, seemed also to be waiting. the silence lasted +for about a minute. + +“however, if you command it, your majesty,” said kutúzov, lifting +his head and again assuming his former tone of a dull, unreasoning, but +submissive general. + +he touched his horse and having called milorádovich, the commander of +the column, gave him the order to advance. + +the troops again began to move, and two battalions of the nóvgorod and +one of the Ápsheron regiment went forward past the emperor. + +as this Ápsheron battalion marched by, the red-faced milorádovich, +without his greatcoat, with his orders on his breast and an enormous +tuft of plumes in his cocked hat worn on one side with its corners front +and back, galloped strenuously forward, and with a dashing salute reined +in his horse before the emperor. + +“god be with you, general!” said the emperor. + +“ma foi, sire, nous ferons ce qui sera dans notre possibilité, +sire,” * he answered gaily, raising nevertheless ironic smiles among +the gentlemen of the tsar’s suite by his poor french. + + * “indeed, sire, we shall do everything it is possible to + do, sire.” + + +milorádovich wheeled his horse sharply and stationed himself a little +behind the emperor. the Ápsheron men, excited by the tsar’s presence, +passed in step before the emperors and their suites at a bold, brisk +pace. + +“lads!” shouted milorádovich in a loud, self-confident, and cheery +voice, obviously so elated by the sound of firing, by the prospect of +battle, and by the sight of the gallant Ápsherons, his comrades in +suvórov’s time, now passing so gallantly before the emperors, that he +forgot the sovereigns’ presence. “lads, it’s not the first village +you’ve had to take,” cried he. + +“glad to do our best!” shouted the soldiers. + +the emperor’s horse started at the sudden cry. this horse that had +carried the sovereign at reviews in russia bore him also here on the +field of austerlitz, enduring the heedless blows of his left foot and +pricking its ears at the sound of shots just as it had done on the +empress’ field, not understanding the significance of the firing, nor +of the nearness of the emperor francis’ black cob, nor of all that was +being said, thought, and felt that day by its rider. + +the emperor turned with a smile to one of his followers and made a +remark to him, pointing to the gallant Ápsherons. + + + + + +chapter xvi + +kutúzov accompanied by his adjutants rode at a walking pace behind the +carabineers. + +when he had gone less than half a mile in the rear of the column he +stopped at a solitary, deserted house that had probably once been an +inn, where two roads parted. both of them led downhill and troops were +marching along both. + +the fog had begun to clear and enemy troops were already dimly visible +about a mile and a half off on the opposite heights. down below, on +the left, the firing became more distinct. kutúzov had stopped and was +speaking to an austrian general. prince andrew, who was a little behind +looking at them, turned to an adjutant to ask him for a field glass. + +“look, look!” said this adjutant, looking not at the troops in the +distance, but down the hill before him. “it’s the french!” + +the two generals and the adjutant took hold of the field glass, trying +to snatch it from one another. the expression on all their faces +suddenly changed to one of horror. the french were supposed to be a +mile and a half away, but had suddenly and unexpectedly appeared just in +front of us. + +“it’s the enemy?... no!... yes, see it is!... for certain.... but +how is that?” said different voices. + +with the naked eye prince andrew saw below them to the right, not more +than five hundred paces from where kutúzov was standing, a dense french +column coming up to meet the Ápsherons. + +“here it is! the decisive moment has arrived. my turn has come,” +thought prince andrew, and striking his horse he rode up to kutúzov. + +“the Ápsherons must be stopped, your excellency,” cried he. but at +that very instant a cloud of smoke spread all round, firing was heard +quite close at hand, and a voice of naïve terror barely two steps from +prince andrew shouted, “brothers! all’s lost!” and at this as if +at a command, everyone began to run. + +confused and ever-increasing crowds were running back to where five +minutes before the troops had passed the emperors. not only would it +have been difficult to stop that crowd, it was even impossible not to +be carried back with it oneself. bolkónski only tried not to lose +touch with it, and looked around bewildered and unable to grasp what was +happening in front of him. nesvítski with an angry face, red and unlike +himself, was shouting to kutúzov that if he did not ride away at once +he would certainly be taken prisoner. kutúzov remained in the same +place and without answering drew out a handkerchief. blood was flowing +from his cheek. prince andrew forced his way to him. + +“you are wounded?” he asked, hardly able to master the trembling of +his lower jaw. + +“the wound is not here, it is there!” said kutúzov, pressing the +handkerchief to his wounded cheek and pointing to the fleeing soldiers. +“stop them!” he shouted, and at the same moment, probably realizing +that it was impossible to stop them, spurred his horse and rode to the +right. + +a fresh wave of the flying mob caught him and bore him back with it. + +the troops were running in such a dense mass that once surrounded by +them it was difficult to get out again. one was shouting, “get on! +why are you hindering us?” another in the same place turned round and +fired in the air; a third was striking the horse kutúzov himself rode. +having by a great effort got away to the left from that flood of men, +kutúzov, with his suite diminished by more than half, rode toward a +sound of artillery fire near by. having forced his way out of the crowd +of fugitives, prince andrew, trying to keep near kutúzov, saw on the +slope of the hill amid the smoke a russian battery that was still firing +and frenchmen running toward it. higher up stood some russian infantry, +neither moving forward to protect the battery nor backward with the +fleeing crowd. a mounted general separated himself from the infantry and +approached kutúzov. of kutúzov’s suite only four remained. they were +all pale and exchanged looks in silence. + +“stop those wretches!” gasped kutúzov to the regimental commander, +pointing to the flying soldiers; but at that instant, as if to punish +him for those words, bullets flew hissing across the regiment and across +kutúzov’s suite like a flock of little birds. + +the french had attacked the battery and, seeing kutúzov, were firing +at him. after this volley the regimental commander clutched at his leg; +several soldiers fell, and a second lieutenant who was holding the +flag let it fall from his hands. it swayed and fell, but caught on the +muskets of the nearest soldiers. the soldiers started firing without +orders. + +“oh! oh! oh!” groaned kutúzov despairingly and looked around.... +“bolkónski!” he whispered, his voice trembling from a consciousness +of the feebleness of age, “bolkónski!” he whispered, pointing to +the disordered battalion and at the enemy, “what’s that?” + +but before he had finished speaking, prince andrew, feeling tears of +shame and anger choking him, had already leapt from his horse and run to +the standard. + +“forward, lads!” he shouted in a voice piercing as a child’s. + +“here it is!” thought he, seizing the staff of the standard and +hearing with pleasure the whistle of bullets evidently aimed at him. +several soldiers fell. + +“hurrah!” shouted prince andrew, and, scarcely able to hold up +the heavy standard, he ran forward with full confidence that the whole +battalion would follow him. + +and really he only ran a few steps alone. one soldier moved and then +another and soon the whole battalion ran forward shouting “hurrah!” +and overtook him. a sergeant of the battalion ran up and took the flag +that was swaying from its weight in prince andrew’s hands, but he +was immediately killed. prince andrew again seized the standard and, +dragging it by the staff, ran on with the battalion. in front he saw our +artillerymen, some of whom were fighting, while others, having abandoned +their guns, were running toward him. he also saw french infantry +soldiers who were seizing the artillery horses and turning the guns +round. prince andrew and the battalion were already within twenty paces +of the cannon. he heard the whistle of bullets above him unceasingly and +to right and left of him soldiers continually groaned and dropped. but +he did not look at them: he looked only at what was going on in front +of him—at the battery. he now saw clearly the figure of a red-haired +gunner with his shako knocked awry, pulling one end of a mop while +a french soldier tugged at the other. he could distinctly see the +distraught yet angry expression on the faces of these two men, who +evidently did not realize what they were doing. + +“what are they about?” thought prince andrew as he gazed at them. +“why doesn’t the red-haired gunner run away as he is unarmed? +why doesn’t the frenchman stab him? he will not get away before the +frenchman remembers his bayonet and stabs him....” + +and really another french soldier, trailing his musket, ran up to +the struggling men, and the fate of the red-haired gunner, who had +triumphantly secured the mop and still did not realize what awaited him, +was about to be decided. but prince andrew did not see how it ended. it +seemed to him as though one of the soldiers near him hit him on the head +with the full swing of a bludgeon. it hurt a little, but the worst of +it was that the pain distracted him and prevented his seeing what he had +been looking at. + +“what’s this? am i falling? my legs are giving way,” thought he, +and fell on his back. he opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle +of the frenchmen with the gunners ended, whether the red-haired gunner +had been killed or not and whether the cannon had been captured or +saved. but he saw nothing. above him there was now nothing but the +sky—the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray +clouds gliding slowly across it. “how quiet, peaceful, and solemn; not +at all as i ran,” thought prince andrew—“not as we ran, shouting +and fighting, not at all as the gunner and the frenchman with frightened +and angry faces struggled for the mop: how differently do those clouds +glide across that lofty infinite sky! how was it i did not see that +lofty sky before? and how happy i am to have found it at last! yes! all +is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. there is nothing, +nothing, but that. but even it does not exist, there is nothing but +quiet and peace. thank god!...” + + + + + +chapter xvii + +on our right flank commanded by bagratión, at nine o’clock the battle +had not yet begun. not wishing to agree to dolgorúkov’s demand to +commence the action, and wishing to avert responsibility from himself, +prince bagratión proposed to dolgorúkov to send to inquire of the +commander in chief. bagratión knew that as the distance between the two +flanks was more than six miles, even if the messenger were not killed +(which he very likely would be), and found the commander in chief +(which would be very difficult), he would not be able to get back before +evening. + +bagratión cast his large, expressionless, sleepy eyes round his suite, +and the boyish face rostóv, breathless with excitement and hope, was +the first to catch his eye. he sent him. + +“and if i should meet his majesty before i meet the commander in +chief, your excellency?” said rostóv, with his hand to his cap. + +“you can give the message to his majesty,” said dolgorúkov, +hurriedly interrupting bagratión. + +on being relieved from picket duty rostóv had managed to get a few +hours’ sleep before morning and felt cheerful, bold, and resolute, +with elasticity of movement, faith in his good fortune, and generally in +that state of mind which makes everything seem possible, pleasant, and +easy. + +all his wishes were being fulfilled that morning: there was to be a +general engagement in which he was taking part, more than that, he was +orderly to the bravest general, and still more, he was going with a +message to kutúzov, perhaps even to the sovereign himself. the morning +was bright, he had a good horse under him, and his heart was full of +joy and happiness. on receiving the order he gave his horse the rein +and galloped along the line. at first he rode along the line of +bagratión’s troops, which had not yet advanced into action but were +standing motionless; then he came to the region occupied by uvárov’s +cavalry and here he noticed a stir and signs of preparation for battle; +having passed uvárov’s cavalry he clearly heard the sound of cannon +and musketry ahead of him. the firing grew louder and louder. + +in the fresh morning air were now heard, not two or three musket shots +at irregular intervals as before, followed by one or two cannon shots, +but a roll of volleys of musketry from the slopes of the hill before +pratzen, interrupted by such frequent reports of cannon that sometimes +several of them were not separated from one another but merged into a +general roar. + +he could see puffs of musketry smoke that seemed to chase one another +down the hillsides, and clouds of cannon smoke rolling, spreading, +and mingling with one another. he could also, by the gleam of bayonets +visible through the smoke, make out moving masses of infantry and narrow +lines of artillery with green caissons. + +rostóv stopped his horse for a moment on a hillock to see what was +going on, but strain his attention as he would he could not understand +or make out anything of what was happening: there in the smoke men of +some sort were moving about, in front and behind moved lines of troops; +but why, whither, and who they were, it was impossible to make out. +these sights and sounds had no depressing or intimidating effect on him; +on the contrary, they stimulated his energy and determination. + +“go on! go on! give it them!” he mentally exclaimed at these sounds, +and again proceeded to gallop along the line, penetrating farther and +farther into the region where the army was already in action. + +“how it will be there i don’t know, but all will be well!” thought +rostóv. + +after passing some austrian troops he noticed that the next part of the +line (the guards) was already in action. + +“so much the better! i shall see it close,” he thought. + +he was riding almost along the front line. a handful of men came +galloping toward him. they were our uhlans who with disordered +ranks were returning from the attack. rostóv got out of their way, +involuntarily noticed that one of them was bleeding, and galloped on. + +“that is no business of mine,” he thought. he had not ridden many +hundred yards after that before he saw to his left, across the whole +width of the field, an enormous mass of cavalry in brilliant white +uniforms, mounted on black horses, trotting straight toward him and +across his path. rostóv put his horse to full gallop to get out of the +way of these men, and he would have got clear had they continued at the +same speed, but they kept increasing their pace, so that some of the +horses were already galloping. rostóv heard the thud of their hoofs +and the jingle of their weapons and saw their horses, their figures, and +even their faces, more and more distinctly. they were our horse guards, +advancing to attack the french cavalry that was coming to meet them. + +the horse guards were galloping, but still holding in their horses. +rostóv could already see their faces and heard the command: +“charge!” shouted by an officer who was urging his thoroughbred to +full speed. rostóv, fearing to be crushed or swept into the attack on +the french, galloped along the front as hard as his horse could go, but +still was not in time to avoid them. + +the last of the horse guards, a huge pockmarked fellow, frowned angrily +on seeing rostóv before him, with whom he would inevitably collide. +this guardsman would certainly have bowled rostóv and his bedouin over +(rostóv felt himself quite tiny and weak compared to these gigantic men +and horses) had it not occurred to rostóv to flourish his whip before +the eyes of the guardsman’s horse. the heavy black horse, sixteen +hands high, shied, throwing back its ears; but the pockmarked guardsman +drove his huge spurs in violently, and the horse, flourishing its tail +and extending its neck, galloped on yet faster. hardly had the horse +guards passed rostóv before he heard them shout, “hurrah!” and +looking back saw that their foremost ranks were mixed up with some +foreign cavalry with red epaulets, probably french. he could see nothing +more, for immediately afterwards cannon began firing from somewhere and +smoke enveloped everything. + +at that moment, as the horse guards, having passed him, disappeared in +the smoke, rostóv hesitated whether to gallop after them or to go where +he was sent. this was the brilliant charge of the horse guards that +amazed the french themselves. rostóv was horrified to hear later that +of all that mass of huge and handsome men, of all those brilliant, +rich youths, officers and cadets, who had galloped past him on their +thousand-ruble horses, only eighteen were left after the charge. + +“why should i envy them? my chance is not lost, and maybe i shall see +the emperor immediately!” thought rostóv and galloped on. + +when he came level with the foot guards he noticed that about them and +around them cannon balls were flying, of which he was aware not so +much because he heard their sound as because he saw uneasiness on +the soldiers’ faces and unnatural warlike solemnity on those of the +officers. + +passing behind one of the lines of a regiment of foot guards he heard a +voice calling him by name. + +“rostóv!” + +“what?” he answered, not recognizing borís. + +“i say, we’ve been in the front line! our regiment attacked!” said +borís with the happy smile seen on the faces of young men who have been +under fire for the first time. + +rostóv stopped. + +“have you?” he said. “well, how did it go?” + +“we drove them back!” said borís with animation, growing talkative. +“can you imagine it?” and he began describing how the guards, having +taken up their position and seeing troops before them, thought they were +austrians, and all at once discovered from the cannon balls discharged +by those troops that they were themselves in the front line and had +unexpectedly to go into action. rostóv without hearing borís to the +end spurred his horse. + +“where are you off to?” asked borís. + +“with a message to his majesty.” + +“there he is!” said borís, thinking rostóv had said “his +highness,” and pointing to the grand duke who with his high shoulders +and frowning brows stood a hundred paces away from them in his helmet +and horse guards’ jacket, shouting something to a pale, white +uniformed austrian officer. + +“but that’s the grand duke, and i want the commander in chief or the +emperor,” said rostóv, and was about to spur his horse. + +“count! count!” shouted berg who ran up from the other side as eager +as borís. “count! i am wounded in my right hand” (and he showed his +bleeding hand with a handkerchief tied round it) “and i remained at +the front. i held my sword in my left hand, count. all our family—the +von bergs—have been knights!” + +he said something more, but rostóv did not wait to hear it and rode +away. + +having passed the guards and traversed an empty space, rostóv, to avoid +again getting in front of the first line as he had done when the horse +guards charged, followed the line of reserves, going far round the place +where the hottest musket fire and cannonade were heard. suddenly he +heard musket fire quite close in front of him and behind our troops, +where he could never have expected the enemy to be. + +“what can it be?” he thought. “the enemy in the rear of our army? +impossible!” and suddenly he was seized by a panic of fear for himself +and for the issue of the whole battle. “but be that what it may,” +he reflected, “there is no riding round it now. i must look for the +commander in chief here, and if all is lost it is for me to perish with +the rest.” + +the foreboding of evil that had suddenly come over rostóv was more and +more confirmed the farther he rode into the region behind the village of +pratzen, which was full of troops of all kinds. + +“what does it mean? what is it? whom are they firing at? who is +firing?” rostóv kept asking as he came up to russian and austrian +soldiers running in confused crowds across his path. + +“the devil knows! they’ve killed everybody! it’s all up now!” +he was told in russian, german, and czech by the crowd of fugitives who +understood what was happening as little as he did. + +“kill the germans!” shouted one. + +“may the devil take them—the traitors!” + +“zum henker diese russen!” * muttered a german. + + * “hang these russians!” + + +several wounded men passed along the road, and words of abuse, screams, +and groans mingled in a general hubbub, then the firing died down. +rostóv learned later that russian and austrian soldiers had been firing +at one another. + +“my god! what does it all mean?” thought he. “and here, where at +any moment the emperor may see them.... but no, these must be only a +handful of scoundrels. it will soon be over, it can’t be that, it +can’t be! only to get past them quicker, quicker!” + +the idea of defeat and flight could not enter rostóv’s head. though +he saw french cannon and french troops on the pratzen heights just where +he had been ordered to look for the commander in chief, he could not, +did not wish to, believe that. + + + + + +chapter xviii + +rostóv had been ordered to look for kutúzov and the emperor near the +village of pratzen. but neither they nor a single commanding officer +were there, only disorganized crowds of troops of various kinds. he +urged on his already weary horse to get quickly past these crowds, but +the farther he went the more disorganized they were. the highroad on +which he had come out was thronged with calèches, carriages of all +sorts, and russian and austrian soldiers of all arms, some wounded and +some not. this whole mass droned and jostled in confusion under the +dismal influence of cannon balls flying from the french batteries +stationed on the pratzen heights. + +“where is the emperor? where is kutúzov?” rostóv kept asking +everyone he could stop, but got no answer from anyone. + +at last seizing a soldier by his collar he forced him to answer. + +“eh, brother! they’ve all bolted long ago!” said the soldier, +laughing for some reason and shaking himself free. + +having left that soldier who was evidently drunk, rostóv stopped the +horse of a batman or groom of some important personage and began to +question him. the man announced that the tsar had been driven in a +carriage at full speed about an hour before along that very road and +that he was dangerously wounded. + +“it can’t be!” said rostóv. “it must have been someone else.” + +“i saw him myself,” replied the man with a self-confident smile of +derision. “i ought to know the emperor by now, after the times i’ve +seen him in petersburg. i saw him just as i see you.... there he sat in +the carriage as pale as anything. how they made the four black horses +fly! gracious me, they did rattle past! it’s time i knew the imperial +horses and ilyá iványch. i don’t think ilyá drives anyone except +the tsar!” + +rostóv let go of the horse and was about to ride on, when a wounded +officer passing by addressed him: + +“who is it you want?” he asked. “the commander in chief? he was +killed by a cannon ball—struck in the breast before our regiment.” + +“not killed—wounded!” another officer corrected him. + +“who? kutúzov?” asked rostóv. + +“not kutúzov, but what’s his name—well, never mind... there are +not many left alive. go that way, to that village, all the commanders +are there,” said the officer, pointing to the village of hosjeradek, +and he walked on. + +rostóv rode on at a footpace not knowing why or to whom he was now +going. the emperor was wounded, the battle lost. it was impossible to +doubt it now. rostóv rode in the direction pointed out to him, in which +he saw turrets and a church. what need to hurry? what was he now to say +to the tsar or to kutúzov, even if they were alive and unwounded? + +“take this road, your honor, that way you will be killed at once!” a +soldier shouted to him. “they’d kill you there!” + +“oh, what are you talking about?” said another. “where is he to +go? that way is nearer.” + +rostóv considered, and then went in the direction where they said he +would be killed. + +“it’s all the same now. if the emperor is wounded, am i to try to +save myself?” he thought. he rode on to the region where the greatest +number of men had perished in fleeing from pratzen. the french had not +yet occupied that region, and the russians—the uninjured and slightly +wounded—had left it long ago. all about the field, like heaps of +manure on well-kept plowland, lay from ten to fifteen dead and wounded +to each couple of acres. the wounded crept together in twos and threes +and one could hear their distressing screams and groans, sometimes +feigned—or so it seemed to rostóv. he put his horse to a trot to +avoid seeing all these suffering men, and he felt afraid—afraid not +for his life, but for the courage he needed and which he knew would not +stand the sight of these unfortunates. + +the french, who had ceased firing at this field strewn with dead and +wounded where there was no one left to fire at, on seeing an adjutant +riding over it trained a gun on him and fired several shots. the +sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around +him merged in rostóv’s mind into a single feeling of terror and pity +for himself. he remembered his mother’s last letter. “what would she +feel,” thought he, “if she saw me here now on this field with the +cannon aimed at me?” + +in the village of hosjeradek there were russian troops retiring from +the field of battle, who though still in some confusion were less +disordered. the french cannon did not reach there and the musketry fire +sounded far away. here everyone clearly saw and said that the battle +was lost. no one whom rostóv asked could tell him where the emperor +or kutúzov was. some said the report that the emperor was wounded was +correct, others that it was not, and explained the false rumor that had +spread by the fact that the emperor’s carriage had really galloped +from the field of battle with the pale and terrified ober-hofmarschal +count tolstóy, who had ridden out to the battlefield with others in +the emperor’s suite. one officer told rostóv that he had seen someone +from headquarters behind the village to the left, and thither rostóv +rode, not hoping to find anyone but merely to ease his conscience. when +he had ridden about two miles and had passed the last of the russian +troops, he saw, near a kitchen garden with a ditch round it, two men +on horseback facing the ditch. one with a white plume in his hat seemed +familiar to rostóv; the other on a beautiful chestnut horse (which +rostóv fancied he had seen before) rode up to the ditch, struck his +horse with his spurs, and giving it the rein leaped lightly over. only +a little earth crumbled from the bank under the horse’s hind hoofs. +turning the horse sharply, he again jumped the ditch, and deferentially +addressed the horseman with the white plumes, evidently suggesting +that he should do the same. the rider, whose figure seemed familiar +to rostóv and involuntarily riveted his attention, made a gesture of +refusal with his head and hand and by that gesture rostóv instantly +recognized his lamented and adored monarch. + +“but it can’t be he, alone in the midst of this empty field!” +thought rostóv. at that moment alexander turned his head and rostóv +saw the beloved features that were so deeply engraved on his memory. the +emperor was pale, his cheeks sunken and his eyes hollow, but the charm, +the mildness of his features, was all the greater. rostóv was happy +in the assurance that the rumors about the emperor being wounded were +false. he was happy to be seeing him. he knew that he might and even +ought to go straight to him and give the message dolgorúkov had ordered +him to deliver. + +but as a youth in love trembles, is unnerved, and dares not utter the +thoughts he has dreamed of for nights, but looks around for help or a +chance of delay and flight when the longed-for moment comes and he is +alone with her, so rostóv, now that he had attained what he had longed +for more than anything else in the world, did not know how to approach +the emperor, and a thousand reasons occurred to him why it would be +inconvenient, unseemly, and impossible to do so. + +“what! it is as if i were glad of a chance to take advantage of +his being alone and despondent! a strange face may seem unpleasant or +painful to him at this moment of sorrow; besides, what can i say to him +now, when my heart fails me and my mouth feels dry at the mere sight +of him?” not one of the innumerable speeches addressed to the emperor +that he had composed in his imagination could he now recall. those +speeches were intended for quite other conditions, they were for the +most part to be spoken at a moment of victory and triumph, generally +when he was dying of wounds and the sovereign had thanked him for heroic +deeds, and while dying he expressed the love his actions had proved. + +“besides how can i ask the emperor for his instructions for the right +flank now that it is nearly four o’clock and the battle is lost? +no, certainly i must not approach him, i must not intrude on his +reflections. better die a thousand times than risk receiving an unkind +look or bad opinion from him,” rostóv decided; and sorrowfully and +with a heart full despair he rode away, continually looking back at the +tsar, who still remained in the same attitude of indecision. + +while rostóv was thus arguing with himself and riding sadly away, +captain von toll chanced to ride to the same spot, and seeing the +emperor at once rode up to him, offered his services, and assisted him +to cross the ditch on foot. the emperor, wishing to rest and feeling +unwell, sat down under an apple tree and von toll remained beside him. +rostóv from a distance saw with envy and remorse how von toll spoke +long and warmly to the emperor and how the emperor, evidently weeping, +covered his eyes with his hand and pressed von toll’s hand. + +“and i might have been in his place!” thought rostóv, and hardly +restraining his tears of pity for the emperor, he rode on in utter +despair, not knowing where to or why he was now riding. + +his despair was all the greater from feeling that his own weakness was +the cause of his grief. + +he might... not only might but should, have gone up to the sovereign. it +was a unique chance to show his devotion to the emperor and he had not +made use of it.... “what have i done?” thought he. and he turned +round and galloped back to the place where he had seen the emperor, but +there was no one beyond the ditch now. only some carts and carriages +were passing by. from one of the drivers he learned that kutúzov’s +staff were not far off, in the village the vehicles were going to. +rostóv followed them. in front of him walked kutúzov’s groom leading +horses in horsecloths. then came a cart, and behind that walked an old, +bandy-legged domestic serf in a peaked cap and sheepskin coat. + +“tit! i say, tit!” said the groom. + +“what?” answered the old man absent-mindedly. + +“go, tit! thresh a bit!” + +“oh, you fool!” said the old man, spitting angrily. some time passed +in silence, and then the same joke was repeated. + + +before five in the evening the battle had been lost at all points. more +than a hundred cannon were already in the hands of the french. + +przebyszéwski and his corps had laid down their arms. other columns +after losing half their men were retreating in disorderly confused +masses. + +the remains of langeron’s and dokhtúrov’s mingled forces were +crowding around the dams and banks of the ponds near the village of +augesd. + +after five o’clock it was only at the augesd dam that a hot cannonade +(delivered by the french alone) was still to be heard from numerous +batteries ranged on the slopes of the pratzen heights, directed at our +retreating forces. + +in the rearguard, dokhtúrov and others rallying some battalions kept up +a musketry fire at the french cavalry that was pursuing our troops. it +was growing dusk. on the narrow augesd dam where for so many years the +old miller had been accustomed to sit in his tasseled cap peacefully +angling, while his grandson, with shirt sleeves rolled up, handled the +floundering silvery fish in the watering can, on that dam over which for +so many years moravians in shaggy caps and blue jackets had peacefully +driven their two-horse carts loaded with wheat and had returned dusty +with flour whitening their carts—on that narrow dam amid the wagons +and the cannon, under the horses’ hoofs and between the wagon wheels, +men disfigured by fear of death now crowded together, crushing one +another, dying, stepping over the dying and killing one another, only to +move on a few steps and be killed themselves in the same way. + +every ten seconds a cannon ball flew compressing the air around, or +a shell burst in the midst of that dense throng, killing some and +splashing with blood those near them. + +dólokhov—now an officer—wounded in the arm, and on foot, with +the regimental commander on horseback and some ten men of his company, +represented all that was left of that whole regiment. impelled by the +crowd, they had got wedged in at the approach to the dam and, jammed in +on all sides, had stopped because a horse in front had fallen under a +cannon and the crowd were dragging it out. a cannon ball killed someone +behind them, another fell in front and splashed dólokhov with blood. +the crowd, pushing forward desperately, squeezed together, moved a few +steps, and again stopped. + +“move on a hundred yards and we are certainly saved, remain here +another two minutes and it is certain death,” thought each one. + +dólokhov who was in the midst of the crowd forced his way to the edge +of the dam, throwing two soldiers off their feet, and ran onto the +slippery ice that covered the millpool. + +“turn this way!” he shouted, jumping over the ice which creaked +under him; “turn this way!” he shouted to those with the gun. “it +bears!...” + +the ice bore him but it swayed and creaked, and it was plain that it +would give way not only under a cannon or a crowd, but very soon even +under his weight alone. the men looked at him and pressed to the +bank, hesitating to step onto the ice. the general on horseback at the +entrance to the dam raised his hand and opened his mouth to address +dólokhov. suddenly a cannon ball hissed so low above the crowd that +everyone ducked. it flopped into something moist, and the general fell +from his horse in a pool of blood. nobody gave him a look or thought of +raising him. + +“get onto the ice, over the ice! go on! turn! don’t you hear? go +on!” innumerable voices suddenly shouted after the ball had struck +the general, the men themselves not knowing what, or why, they were +shouting. + +one of the hindmost guns that was going onto the dam turned off onto the +ice. crowds of soldiers from the dam began running onto the frozen pond. +the ice gave way under one of the foremost soldiers, and one leg slipped +into the water. he tried to right himself but fell in up to his waist. +the nearest soldiers shrank back, the gun driver stopped his horse, but +from behind still came the shouts: “onto the ice, why do you stop? go +on! go on!” and cries of horror were heard in the crowd. the soldiers +near the gun waved their arms and beat the horses to make them turn and +move on. the horses moved off the bank. the ice, that had held under +those on foot, collapsed in a great mass, and some forty men who were on +it dashed, some forward and some back, drowning one another. + +still the cannon balls continued regularly to whistle and flop onto the +ice and into the water and oftenest of all among the crowd that covered +the dam, the pond, and the bank. + + + + + +chapter xix + +on the pratzen heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his +hand, lay prince andrew bolkónski bleeding profusely and unconsciously +uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan. + +toward evening he ceased moaning and became quite still. he did not know +how long his unconsciousness lasted. suddenly he again felt that he was +alive and suffering from a burning, lacerating pain in his head. + +“where is it, that lofty sky that i did not know till now, but saw +today?” was his first thought. “and i did not know this suffering +either,” he thought. “yes, i did not know anything, anything at all +till now. but where am i?” + +he listened and heard the sound of approaching horses, and voices +speaking french. he opened his eyes. above him again was the same lofty +sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and +between them gleamed blue infinity. he did not turn his head and did not +see those who, judging by the sound of hoofs and voices, had ridden up +and stopped near him. + +it was napoleon accompanied by two aides-de-camp. bonaparte riding +over the battlefield had given final orders to strengthen the batteries +firing at the augesd dam and was looking at the killed and wounded left +on the field. + +“fine men!” remarked napoleon, looking at a dead russian grenadier, +who, with his face buried in the ground and a blackened nape, lay on his +stomach with an already stiffened arm flung wide. + +“the ammunition for the guns in position is exhausted, your +majesty,” said an adjutant who had come from the batteries that were +firing at augesd. + +“have some brought from the reserve,” said napoleon, and having gone +on a few steps he stopped before prince andrew, who lay on his back with +the flagstaff that had been dropped beside him. (the flag had already +been taken by the french as a trophy.) + +“that’s a fine death!” said napoleon as he gazed at bolkónski. + +prince andrew understood that this was said of him and that it was +napoleon who said it. he heard the speaker addressed as sire. but he +heard the words as he might have heard the buzzing of a fly. not only +did they not interest him, but he took no notice of them and at once +forgot them. his head was burning, he felt himself bleeding to death, +and he saw above him the remote, lofty, and everlasting sky. he knew it +was napoleon—his hero—but at that moment napoleon seemed to him +such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was passing now +between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over +it. at that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over +him, or what was said of him; he was only glad that people were standing +near him and only wished that they would help him and bring him back to +life, which seemed to him so beautiful now that he had today learned to +understand it so differently. he collected all his strength, to stir and +utter a sound. he feebly moved his leg and uttered a weak, sickly groan +which aroused his own pity. + +“ah! he is alive,” said napoleon. “lift this young man up and +carry him to the dressing station.” + +having said this, napoleon rode on to meet marshal lannes, who, hat in +hand, rode up smiling to the emperor to congratulate him on the victory. + +prince andrew remembered nothing more: he lost consciousness from the +terrible pain of being lifted onto the stretcher, the jolting while +being moved, and the probing of his wound at the dressing station. +he did not regain consciousness till late in the day, when with other +wounded and captured russian officers he was carried to the hospital. +during this transfer he felt a little stronger and was able to look +about him and even speak. + +the first words he heard on coming to his senses were those of a french +convoy officer, who said rapidly: “we must halt here: the emperor +will pass here immediately; it will please him to see these gentlemen +prisoners.” + +“there are so many prisoners today, nearly the whole russian army, +that he is probably tired of them,” said another officer. + +“all the same! they say this one is the commander of all the emperor +alexander’s guards,” said the first one, indicating a russian +officer in the white uniform of the horse guards. + +bolkónski recognized prince repnín whom he had met in petersburg +society. beside him stood a lad of nineteen, also a wounded officer of +the horse guards. + +bonaparte, having come up at a gallop, stopped his horse. + +“which is the senior?” he asked, on seeing the prisoners. + +they named the colonel, prince repnín. + +“you are the commander of the emperor alexander’s regiment of horse +guards?” asked napoleon. + +“i commanded a squadron,” replied repnín. + +“your regiment fulfilled its duty honorably,” said napoleon. + +“the praise of a great commander is a soldier’s highest reward,” +said repnín. + +“i bestow it with pleasure,” said napoleon. “and who is that young +man beside you?” + +prince repnín named lieutenant sukhtélen. + +after looking at him napoleon smiled. + +“he’s very young to come to meddle with us.” + +“youth is no hindrance to courage,” muttered sukhtélen in a failing +voice. + +“a splendid reply!” said napoleon. “young man, you will go far!” + +prince andrew, who had also been brought forward before the emperor’s +eyes to complete the show of prisoners, could not fail to attract his +attention. napoleon apparently remembered seeing him on the battlefield +and, addressing him, again used the epithet “young man” that was +connected in his memory with prince andrew. + +“well, and you, young man,” said he. “how do you feel, mon +brave?” + +though five minutes before, prince andrew had been able to say a few +words to the soldiers who were carrying him, now with his eyes fixed +straight on napoleon, he was silent.... so insignificant at that moment +seemed to him all the interests that engrossed napoleon, so mean did his +hero himself with his paltry vanity and joy in victory appear, +compared to the lofty, equitable, and kindly sky which he had seen and +understood, that he could not answer him. + +everything seemed so futile and insignificant in comparison with the +stern and solemn train of thought that weakness from loss of blood, +suffering, and the nearness of death aroused in him. looking into +napoleon’s eyes prince andrew thought of the insignificance of +greatness, the unimportance of life which no one could understand, and +the still greater unimportance of death, the meaning of which no one +alive could understand or explain. + +the emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of +the officers as he went: “have these gentlemen attended to and taken +to my bivouac; let my doctor, larrey, examine their wounds. au revoir, +prince repnín!” and he spurred his horse and galloped away. + +his face shone with self-satisfaction and pleasure. + +the soldiers who had carried prince andrew had noticed and taken the +little gold icon princess mary had hung round her brother’s neck, but +seeing the favor the emperor showed the prisoners, they now hastened to +return the holy image. + +prince andrew did not see how and by whom it was replaced, but the +little icon with its thin gold chain suddenly appeared upon his chest +outside his uniform. + +“it would be good,” thought prince andrew, glancing at the icon his +sister had hung round his neck with such emotion and reverence, “it +would be good if everything were as clear and simple as it seems to +mary. how good it would be to know where to seek for help in this life, +and what to expect after it beyond the grave! how happy and calm i +should be if i could now say: ‘lord, have mercy on me!’... but to +whom should i say that? either to a power indefinable, incomprehensible, +which i not only cannot address but which i cannot even express in +words—the great all or nothing-” said he to himself, “or to +that god who has been sewn into this amulet by mary! there is nothing +certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything i +understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but +all-important.” + +the stretchers moved on. at every jolt he again felt unendurable pain; +his feverishness increased and he grew delirious. visions of his father, +wife, sister, and future son, and the tenderness he had felt the night +before the battle, the figure of the insignificant little napoleon, and +above all this the lofty sky, formed the chief subjects of his delirious +fancies. + +the quiet home life and peaceful happiness of bald hills presented +itself to him. he was already enjoying that happiness when that +little napoleon had suddenly appeared with his unsympathizing look of +shortsighted delight at the misery of others, and doubts and torments +had followed, and only the heavens promised peace. toward morning +all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of +unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of napoleon’s doctor, +larrey, was much more likely to end in death than in convalescence. + +“he is a nervous, bilious subject,” said larrey, “and will not +recover.” + +and prince andrew, with others fatally wounded, was left to the care of +the inhabitants of the district. + + + + + +book four: 1806 + + + + + +chapter i + +early in the year 1806 nicholas rostóv returned home on leave. denísov +was going home to vorónezh and rostóv persuaded him to travel with him +as far as moscow and to stay with him there. meeting a comrade at +the last post station but one before moscow, denísov had drunk three +bottles of wine with him and, despite the jolting ruts across the +snow-covered road, did not once wake up on the way to moscow, but lay +at the bottom of the sleigh beside rostóv, who grew more and more +impatient the nearer they got to moscow. + +“how much longer? how much longer? oh, these insufferable streets, +shops, bakers’ signboards, street lamps, and sleighs!” thought +rostóv, when their leave permits had been passed at the town gate and +they had entered moscow. + +“denísov! we’re here! he’s asleep,” he added, leaning forward +with his whole body as if in that position he hoped to hasten the speed +of the sleigh. + +denísov gave no answer. + +“there’s the corner at the crossroads, where the cabman, zakhár, +has his stand, and there’s zakhár himself and still the same horse! +and here’s the little shop where we used to buy gingerbread! can’t +you hurry up? now then!” + +“which house is it?” asked the driver. + +“why, that one, right at the end, the big one. don’t you see? +that’s our house,” said rostóv. “of course, it’s our house! +denísov, denísov! we’re almost there!” + +denísov raised his head, coughed, and made no answer. + +“dmítri,” said rostóv to his valet on the box, “those lights are +in our house, aren’t they?” + +“yes, sir, and there’s a light in your father’s study.” + +“then they’ve not gone to bed yet? what do you think? mind now, +don’t forget to put out my new coat,” added rostóv, fingering his +new mustache. “now then, get on,” he shouted to the driver. “do +wake up, váska!” he went on, turning to denísov, whose head +was again nodding. “come, get on! you shall have three rubles for +vodka—get on!” rostóv shouted, when the sleigh was only three +houses from his door. it seemed to him the horses were not moving at +all. at last the sleigh bore to the right, drew up at an entrance, and +rostóv saw overhead the old familiar cornice with a bit of plaster +broken off, the porch, and the post by the side of the pavement. he +sprang out before the sleigh stopped, and ran into the hall. the house +stood cold and silent, as if quite regardless of who had come to it. +there was no one in the hall. “oh god! is everyone all right?” +he thought, stopping for a moment with a sinking heart, and then +immediately starting to run along the hall and up the warped steps of +the familiar staircase. the well-known old door handle, which always +angered the countess when it was not properly cleaned, turned as loosely +as ever. a solitary tallow candle burned in the anteroom. + +old michael was asleep on the chest. prokófy, the footman, who was +so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat +plaiting slippers out of cloth selvedges. he looked up at the opening +door and his expression of sleepy indifference suddenly changed to one +of delighted amazement. + +“gracious heavens! the young count!” he cried, recognizing his +young master. “can it be? my treasure!” and prokófy, trembling with +excitement, rushed toward the drawing room door, probably in order to +announce him, but, changing his mind, came back and stooped to kiss the +young man’s shoulder. + +“all well?” asked rostóv, drawing away his arm. + +“yes, god be thanked! yes! they’ve just finished supper. let me have +a look at you, your excellency.” + +“is everything quite all right?” + +“the lord be thanked, yes!” + +rostóv, who had completely forgotten denísov, not wishing anyone to +forestall him, threw off his fur coat and ran on tiptoe through the +large dark ballroom. all was the same: there were the same old card +tables and the same chandelier with a cover over it; but someone had +already seen the young master, and, before he had reached the drawing +room, something flew out from a side door like a tornado and began +hugging and kissing him. another and yet another creature of the same +kind sprang from a second door and a third; more hugging, more kissing, +more outcries, and tears of joy. he could not distinguish which was +papa, which natásha, and which pétya. everyone shouted, talked, and +kissed him at the same time. only his mother was not there, he noticed +that. + +“and i did not know... nicholas... my darling!...” + +“here he is... our own... kólya, * dear fellow... how he has +changed!... where are the candles?... tea!...” + + * nicholas. + +“and me, kiss me!” + +“dearest... and me!” + +sónya, natásha, pétya, anna mikháylovna, véra, and the old count +were all hugging him, and the serfs, men and maids, flocked into the +room, exclaiming and oh-ing and ah-ing. + +pétya, clinging to his legs, kept shouting, “and me too!” + +natásha, after she had pulled him down toward her and covered his face +with kisses, holding him tight by the skirt of his coat, sprang away and +pranced up and down in one place like a goat and shrieked piercingly. + +all around were loving eyes glistening with tears of joy, and all around +were lips seeking a kiss. + +sónya too, all rosy red, clung to his arm and, radiant with bliss, +looked eagerly toward his eyes, waiting for the look for which she +longed. sónya now was sixteen and she was very pretty, especially at +this moment of happy, rapturous excitement. she gazed at him, not taking +her eyes off him, and smiling and holding her breath. he gave her a +grateful look, but was still expectant and looking for someone. the old +countess had not yet come. but now steps were heard at the door, steps +so rapid that they could hardly be his mother’s. + +yet it was she, dressed in a new gown which he did not know, made since +he had left. all the others let him go, and he ran to her. when they +met, she fell on his breast, sobbing. she could not lift her face, but +only pressed it to the cold braiding of his hussar’s jacket. denísov, +who had come into the room unnoticed by anyone, stood there and wiped +his eyes at the sight. + +“vasíli denísov, your son’s friend,” he said, introducing +himself to the count, who was looking inquiringly at him. + +“you are most welcome! i know, i know,” said the count, kissing and +embracing denísov. “nicholas wrote us... natásha, véra, look! here +is denísov!” + +the same happy, rapturous faces turned to the shaggy figure of denísov. + +“darling denísov!” screamed natásha, beside herself with rapture, +springing to him, putting her arms round him, and kissing him. this +escapade made everybody feel confused. denísov blushed too, but smiled +and, taking natásha’s hand, kissed it. + +denísov was shown to the room prepared for him, and the rostóvs all +gathered round nicholas in the sitting room. + +the old countess, not letting go of his hand and kissing it every +moment, sat beside him: the rest, crowding round him, watched every +movement, word, or look of his, never taking their blissfully adoring +eyes off him. his brother and sisters struggled for the places nearest +to him and disputed with one another who should bring him his tea, +handkerchief, and pipe. + +rostóv was very happy in the love they showed him; but the first +moment of meeting had been so beatific that his present joy seemed +insufficient, and he kept expecting something more, more and yet more. + +next morning, after the fatigues of their journey, the travelers slept +till ten o’clock. + +in the room next their bedroom there was a confusion of sabers, +satchels, sabretaches, open portmanteaus, and dirty boots. two freshly +cleaned pairs with spurs had just been placed by the wall. the servants +were bringing in jugs and basins, hot water for shaving, and their +well-brushed clothes. there was a masculine odor and a smell of tobacco. + +“hallo, gwíska—my pipe!” came vasíli denísov’s husky voice. +“wostóv, get up!” + +rostóv, rubbing his eyes that seemed glued together, raised his +disheveled head from the hot pillow. + +“why, is it late?” + +“late! it’s nearly ten o’clock,” answered natásha’s voice. +a rustle of starched petticoats and the whispering and laughter of +girls’ voices came from the adjoining room. the door was opened a +crack and there was a glimpse of something blue, of ribbons, black hair, +and merry faces. it was natásha, sónya, and pétya, who had come to +see whether they were getting up. + +“nicholas! get up!” natásha’s voice was again heard at the door. + +“directly!” + +meanwhile, pétya, having found and seized the sabers in the outer room, +with the delight boys feel at the sight of a military elder brother, and +forgetting that it was unbecoming for the girls to see men undressed, +opened the bedroom door. + +“is this your saber?” he shouted. + +the girls sprang aside. denísov hid his hairy legs under the blanket, +looking with a scared face at his comrade for help. the door, having let +pétya in, closed again. a sound of laughter came from behind it. + +“nicholas! come out in your dressing gown!” said natásha’s voice. + +“is this your saber?” asked pétya. “or is it yours?” he said, +addressing the black-mustached denísov with servile deference. + +rostóv hurriedly put something on his feet, drew on his dressing gown, +and went out. natásha had put on one spurred boot and was just getting +her foot into the other. sónya, when he came in, was twirling round and +was about to expand her dresses into a balloon and sit down. they were +dressed alike, in new pale-blue frocks, and were both fresh, rosy, and +bright. sónya ran away, but natásha, taking her brother’s arm, led +him into the sitting room, where they began talking. they hardly gave +one another time to ask questions and give replies concerning a thousand +little matters which could not interest anyone but themselves. natásha +laughed at every word he said or that she said herself, not because what +they were saying was amusing, but because she felt happy and was unable +to control her joy which expressed itself by laughter. + +“oh, how nice, how splendid!” she said to everything. + +rostóv felt that, under the influence of the warm rays of love, that +childlike smile which had not once appeared on his face since he left +home now for the first time after eighteen months again brightened his +soul and his face. + +“no, but listen,” she said, “now you are quite a man, aren’t +you? i’m awfully glad you’re my brother.” she touched his +mustache. “i want to know what you men are like. are you the same as +we? no?” + +“why did sónya run away?” asked rostóv. + +“ah, yes! that’s a whole long story! how are you going to speak to +her—thou or you?” + +“as may happen,” said rostóv. + +“no, call her you, please! i’ll tell you all about it some other +time. no, i’ll tell you now. you know sónya’s my dearest friend. +such a friend that i burned my arm for her sake. look here!” + +she pulled up her muslin sleeve and showed him a red scar on her long, +slender, delicate arm, high above the elbow on that part that is covered +even by a ball dress. + +“i burned this to prove my love for her. i just heated a ruler in the +fire and pressed it there!” + +sitting on the sofa with the little cushions on its arms, in what used +to be his old schoolroom, and looking into natásha’s wildly bright +eyes, rostóv re-entered that world of home and childhood which had no +meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the best joys of his life; +and the burning of an arm with a ruler as a proof of love did not seem +to him senseless, he understood and was not surprised at it. + +“well, and is that all?” he asked. + +“we are such friends, such friends! all that ruler business was just +nonsense, but we are friends forever. she, if she loves anyone, does it +for life, but i don’t understand that, i forget quickly.” + +“well, what then?” + +“well, she loves me and you like that.” + +natásha suddenly flushed. + +“why, you remember before you went away?... well, she says you are to +forget all that.... she says: ‘i shall love him always, but let him be +free.’ isn’t that lovely and noble! yes, very noble? isn’t it?” +asked natásha, so seriously and excitedly that it was evident that what +she was now saying she had talked of before, with tears. + +rostóv became thoughtful. + +“i never go back on my word,” he said. “besides, sónya is so +charming that only a fool would renounce such happiness.” + +“no, no!” cried natásha, “she and i have already talked it over. +we knew you’d say so. but it won’t do, because you see, if you say +that—if you consider yourself bound by your promise—it will seem as +if she had not meant it seriously. it makes it as if you were marrying +her because you must, and that wouldn’t do at all.” + +rostóv saw that it had been well considered by them. sónya had already +struck him by her beauty on the preceding day. today, when he had caught +a glimpse of her, she seemed still more lovely. she was a charming girl +of sixteen, evidently passionately in love with him (he did not doubt +that for an instant). why should he not love her now, and even marry +her, rostóv thought, but just now there were so many other pleasures +and interests before him! “yes, they have taken a wise decision,” he +thought, “i must remain free.” + +“well then, that’s excellent,” said he. “we’ll talk it over +later on. oh, how glad i am to have you!” + +“well, and are you still true to borís?” he continued. + +“oh, what nonsense!” cried natásha, laughing. “i don’t think +about him or anyone else, and i don’t want anything of the kind.” + +“dear me! then what are you up to now?” + +“now?” repeated natásha, and a happy smile lit up her face. “have +you seen duport?” + +“no.” + +“not seen duport—the famous dancer? well then, you won’t +understand. that’s what i’m up to.” + +curving her arms, natásha held out her skirts as dancers do, ran back +a few steps, turned, cut a caper, brought her little feet sharply +together, and made some steps on the very tips of her toes. + +“see, i’m standing! see!” she said, but could not maintain herself +on her toes any longer. “so that’s what i’m up to! i’ll never +marry anyone, but will be a dancer. only don’t tell anyone.” + +rostóv laughed so loud and merrily that denísov, in his bedroom, felt +envious and natásha could not help joining in. + +“no, but don’t you think it’s nice?” she kept repeating. + +“nice! and so you no longer wish to marry borís?” + +natásha flared up. “i don’t want to marry anyone. and i’ll tell +him so when i see him!” + +“dear me!” said rostóv. + +“but that’s all rubbish,” natásha chattered on. “and is +denísov nice?” she asked. + +“yes, indeed!” + +“oh, well then, good-by: go and dress. is he very terrible, +denísov?” + +“why terrible?” asked nicholas. “no, váska is a splendid +fellow.” + +“you call him váska? that’s funny! and is he very nice?” + +“very.” + +“well then, be quick. we’ll all have breakfast together.” + +and natásha rose and went out of the room on tiptoe, like a ballet +dancer, but smiling as only happy girls of fifteen can smile. when +rostóv met sónya in the drawing room, he reddened. he did not know +how to behave with her. the evening before, in the first happy moment of +meeting, they had kissed each other, but today they felt it could not +be done; he felt that everybody, including his mother and sisters, was +looking inquiringly at him and watching to see how he would behave +with her. he kissed her hand and addressed her not as thou but as +you—sónya. but their eyes met and said thou, and exchanged tender +kisses. her looks asked him to forgive her for having dared, by +natásha’s intermediacy, to remind him of his promise, and then +thanked him for his love. his looks thanked her for offering him his +freedom and told her that one way or another he would never cease to +love her, for that would be impossible. + +“how strange it is,” said véra, selecting a moment when all were +silent, “that sónya and nicholas now say you to one another and meet +like strangers.” + +véra’s remark was correct, as her remarks always were, but, like +most of her observations, it made everyone feel uncomfortable, not +only sónya, nicholas, and natásha, but even the old countess, +who—dreading this love affair which might hinder nicholas from making +a brilliant match—blushed like a girl. + +denísov, to rostóv’s surprise, appeared in the drawing room with +pomaded hair, perfumed, and in a new uniform, looking just as smart as +he made himself when going into battle, and he was more amiable to the +ladies and gentlemen than rostóv had ever expected to see him. + + + + + +chapter ii + +on his return to moscow from the army, nicholas rostóv was welcomed +by his home circle as the best of sons, a hero, and their darling +nikólenka; by his relations as a charming, attractive, and polite young +man; by his acquaintances as a handsome lieutenant of hussars, a good +dancer, and one of the best matches in the city. + +the rostóvs knew everybody in moscow. the old count had money enough +that year, as all his estates had been remortgaged, and so nicholas, +acquiring a trotter of his own, very stylish riding breeches of the +latest cut, such as no one else yet had in moscow, and boots of the +latest fashion, with extremely pointed toes and small silver spurs, +passed his time very gaily. after a short period of adapting himself +to the old conditions of life, nicholas found it very pleasant to be +at home again. he felt that he had grown up and matured very much. his +despair at failing in a scripture examination, his borrowing money from +gavríl to pay a sleigh driver, his kissing sónya on the sly—he now +recalled all this as childishness he had left immeasurably behind. +now he was a lieutenant of hussars, in a jacket laced with silver, and +wearing the cross of st. george, awarded to soldiers for bravery in +action, and in the company of well-known, elderly, and respected racing +men was training a trotter of his own for a race. he knew a lady on one +of the boulevards whom he visited of an evening. he led the mazurka +at the arkhárovs’ ball, talked about the war with field marshal +kámenski, visited the english club, and was on intimate terms with a +colonel of forty to whom denísov had introduced him. + +his passion for the emperor had cooled somewhat in moscow. but still, as +he did not see him and had no opportunity of seeing him, he often spoke +about him and about his love for him, letting it be understood that he +had not told all and that there was something in his feelings for the +emperor not everyone could understand, and with his whole soul he shared +the adoration then common in moscow for the emperor, who was spoken of +as the “angel incarnate.” + +during rostóv’s short stay in moscow, before rejoining the army, he +did not draw closer to sónya, but rather drifted away from her. she was +very pretty and sweet, and evidently deeply in love with him, but he was +at the period of youth when there seems so much to do that there is no +time for that sort of thing and a young man fears to bind himself and +prizes his freedom which he needs for so many other things. when he +thought of sónya, during this stay in moscow, he said to himself, +“ah, there will be, and there are, many more such girls somewhere whom +i do not yet know. there will be time enough to think about love when i +want to, but now i have no time.” besides, it seemed to him that the +society of women was rather derogatory to his manhood. he went to balls +and into ladies’ society with an affectation of doing so against his +will. the races, the english club, sprees with denísov, and visits to +a certain house—that was another matter and quite the thing for a +dashing young hussar! + +at the beginning of march, old count ilyá rostóv was very busy +arranging a dinner in honor of prince bagratión at the english club. + +the count walked up and down the hall in his dressing gown, giving +orders to the club steward and to the famous feoktíst, the club’s +head cook, about asparagus, fresh cucumbers, strawberries, veal, and +fish for this dinner. the count had been a member and on the committee +of the club from the day it was founded. to him the club entrusted the +arrangement of the festival in honor of bagratión, for few men knew +so well how to arrange a feast on an open-handed, hospitable scale, +and still fewer men would be so well able and willing to make up out of +their own resources what might be needed for the success of the fete. +the club cook and the steward listened to the count’s orders with +pleased faces, for they knew that under no other management could they +so easily extract a good profit for themselves from a dinner costing +several thousand rubles. + +“well then, mind and have cocks’ comb in the turtle soup, you +know!” + +“shall we have three cold dishes then?” asked the cook. + +the count considered. + +“we can’t have less—yes, three... the mayonnaise, that’s one,” +said he, bending down a finger. + +“then am i to order those large sterlets?” asked the steward. + +“yes, it can’t be helped if they won’t take less. ah, dear me! i +was forgetting. we must have another entrée. ah, goodness gracious!” +he clutched at his head. “who is going to get me the flowers? dmítri! +eh, dmítri! gallop off to our moscow estate,” he said to the factotum +who appeared at his call. “hurry off and tell maksím, the gardener, +to set the serfs to work. say that everything out of the hothouses must +be brought here well wrapped up in felt. i must have two hundred pots +here on friday.” + +having given several more orders, he was about to go to his “little +countess” to have a rest, but remembering something else of +importance, he returned again, called back the cook and the club +steward, and again began giving orders. a light footstep and the +clinking of spurs were heard at the door, and the young count, handsome, +rosy, with a dark little mustache, evidently rested and made sleeker by +his easy life in moscow, entered the room. + +“ah, my boy, my head’s in a whirl!” said the old man with a smile, +as if he felt a little confused before his son. “now, if you would +only help a bit! i must have singers too. i shall have my own orchestra, +but shouldn’t we get the gypsy singers as well? you military men like +that sort of thing.” + +“really, papa, i believe prince bagratión worried himself less before +the battle of schön grabern than you do now,” said his son with a +smile. + +the old count pretended to be angry. + +“yes, you talk, but try it yourself!” + +and the count turned to the cook, who, with a shrewd and respectful +expression, looked observantly and sympathetically at the father and +son. + +“what have the young people come to nowadays, eh, feoktíst?” said +he. “laughing at us old fellows!” + +“that’s so, your excellency, all they have to do is to eat a good +dinner, but providing it and serving it all up, that’s not their +business!” + +“that’s it, that’s it!” exclaimed the count, and gaily seizing +his son by both hands, he cried, “now i’ve got you, so take the +sleigh and pair at once, and go to bezúkhov’s, and tell him ‘count +ilyá has sent you to ask for strawberries and fresh pineapples.’ we +can’t get them from anyone else. he’s not there himself, so you’ll +have to go in and ask the princesses; and from there go on to the +rasgulyáy—the coachman ipátka knows—and look up the gypsy +ilyúshka, the one who danced at count orlóv’s, you remember, in a +white cossack coat, and bring him along to me.” + +“and am i to bring the gypsy girls along with him?” asked nicholas, +laughing. “dear, dear!...” + +at that moment, with noiseless footsteps and with the businesslike, +preoccupied, yet meekly christian look which never left her face, anna +mikháylovna entered the hall. though she came upon the count in his +dressing gown every day, he invariably became confused and begged her to +excuse his costume. + +“no matter at all, my dear count,” she said, meekly closing her +eyes. “but i’ll go to bezúkhov’s myself. pierre has arrived, and +now we shall get anything we want from his hothouses. i have to see him +in any case. he has forwarded me a letter from borís. thank god, borís +is now on the staff.” + +the count was delighted at anna mikháylovna’s taking upon herself one +of his commissions and ordered the small closed carriage for her. + +“tell bezúkhov to come. i’ll put his name down. is his wife with +him?” he asked. + +anna mikháylovna turned up her eyes, and profound sadness was depicted +on her face. + +“ah, my dear friend, he is very unfortunate,” she said. “if what +we hear is true, it is dreadful. how little we dreamed of such a thing +when we were rejoicing at his happiness! and such a lofty angelic soul +as young bezúkhov! yes, i pity him from my heart, and shall try to give +him what consolation i can.” + +“wh-what is the matter?” asked both the young and old rostóv. + +anna mikháylovna sighed deeply. + +“dólokhov, mary ivánovna’s son,” she said in a mysterious +whisper, “has compromised her completely, they say. pierre took him +up, invited him to his house in petersburg, and now... she has come here +and that daredevil after her!” said anna mikháylovna, wishing to show +her sympathy for pierre, but by involuntary intonations and a half smile +betraying her sympathy for the “daredevil,” as she called dólokhov. +“they say pierre is quite broken by his misfortune.” + +“dear, dear! but still tell him to come to the club—it will all blow +over. it will be a tremendous banquet.” + +next day, the third of march, soon after one o’clock, two hundred and +fifty members of the english club and fifty guests were awaiting the +guest of honor and hero of the austrian campaign, prince bagratión, to +dinner. + +on the first arrival of the news of the battle of austerlitz, moscow had +been bewildered. at that time, the russians were so used to victories +that on receiving news of the defeat some would simply not believe it, +while others sought some extraordinary explanation of so strange an +event. in the english club, where all who were distinguished, important, +and well informed foregathered when the news began to arrive in +december, nothing was said about the war and the last battle, as +though all were in a conspiracy of silence. the men who set the tone +in conversation—count rostopchín, prince yúri dolgorúkov, valúev, +count markóv, and prince vyázemski—did not show themselves at the +club, but met in private houses in intimate circles, and the +moscovites who took their opinions from others—ilyá rostóv among +them—remained for a while without any definite opinion on the subject +of the war and without leaders. the moscovites felt that something was +wrong and that to discuss the bad news was difficult, and so it was best +to be silent. but after a while, just as a jury comes out of its room, +the bigwigs who guided the club’s opinion reappeared, and everybody +began speaking clearly and definitely. reasons were found for the +incredible, unheard-of, and impossible event of a russian defeat, +everything became clear, and in all corners of moscow the same things +began to be said. these reasons were the treachery of the austrians, a +defective commissariat, the treachery of the pole przebyszéwski and of +the frenchman langeron, kutúzov’s incapacity, and (it was whispered) +the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless +and insignificant people. but the army, the russian army, everyone +declared, was extraordinary and had achieved miracles of valor. the +soldiers, officers, and generals were heroes. but the hero of heroes was +prince bagratión, distinguished by his schön grabern affair and by +the retreat from austerlitz, where he alone had withdrawn his column +unbroken and had all day beaten back an enemy force twice as numerous +as his own. what also conduced to bagratión’s being selected as +moscow’s hero was the fact that he had no connections in the city +and was a stranger there. in his person, honor was shown to a simple +fighting russian soldier without connections and intrigues, and to one +who was associated by memories of the italian campaign with the name of +suvórov. moreover, paying such honor to bagratión was the best way of +expressing disapproval and dislike of kutúzov. + +“had there been no bagratión, it would have been necessary to +invent him,” said the wit shinshín, parodying the words of voltaire. +kutúzov no one spoke of, except some who abused him in whispers, +calling him a court weathercock and an old satyr. + +all moscow repeated prince dolgorúkov’s saying: “if you go on +modeling and modeling you must get smeared with clay,” suggesting +consolation for our defeat by the memory of former victories; and the +words of rostopchín, that french soldiers have to be incited to battle +by highfalutin words, and germans by logical arguments to show them +that it is more dangerous to run away than to advance, but that russian +soldiers only need to be restrained and held back! on all sides, new and +fresh anecdotes were heard of individual examples of heroism shown by +our officers and men at austerlitz. one had saved a standard, another +had killed five frenchmen, a third had loaded five cannon singlehanded. +berg was mentioned, by those who did not know him, as having, when +wounded in the right hand, taken his sword in the left, and gone +forward. of bolkónski, nothing was said, and only those who knew him +intimately regretted that he had died so young, leaving a pregnant wife +with his eccentric father. + + + + + +chapter iii + +on that third of march, all the rooms in the english club were filled +with a hum of conversation, like the hum of bees swarming in springtime. +the members and guests of the club wandered hither and thither, sat, +stood, met, and separated, some in uniform and some in evening dress, +and a few here and there with powdered hair and in russian kaftáns. +powdered footmen, in livery with buckled shoes and smart stockings, +stood at every door anxiously noting visitors’ every movement in order +to offer their services. most of those present were elderly, respected +men with broad, self-confident faces, fat fingers, and resolute gestures +and voices. this class of guests and members sat in certain habitual +places and met in certain habitual groups. a minority of those present +were casual guests—chiefly young men, among whom were denísov, +rostóv, and dólokhov—who was now again an officer in the semënov +regiment. the faces of these young people, especially those who were +military men, bore that expression of condescending respect for their +elders which seems to say to the older generation, “we are prepared to +respect and honor you, but all the same remember that the future belongs +to us.” + +nesvítski was there as an old member of the club. pierre, who at his +wife’s command had let his hair grow and abandoned his spectacles, +went about the rooms fashionably dressed but looking sad and dull. here, +as elsewhere, he was surrounded by an atmosphere of subservience to +his wealth, and being in the habit of lording it over these people, he +treated them with absent-minded contempt. + +by his age he should have belonged to the younger men, but by his wealth +and connections he belonged to the groups of old and honored guests, and +so he went from one group to another. some of the most important old men +were the center of groups which even strangers approached respectfully +to hear the voices of well-known men. the largest circles formed round +count rostopchín, valúev, and narýshkin. rostopchín was describing +how the russians had been overwhelmed by flying austrians and had had to +force their way through them with bayonets. + +valúev was confidentially telling that uvárov had been sent from +petersburg to ascertain what moscow was thinking about austerlitz. + +in the third circle, narýshkin was speaking of the meeting of the +austrian council of war at which suvórov crowed like a cock in reply to +the nonsense talked by the austrian generals. shinshín, standing close +by, tried to make a joke, saying that kutúzov had evidently failed to +learn from suvórov even so simple a thing as the art of crowing like a +cock, but the elder members glanced severely at the wit, making him +feel that in that place and on that day, it was improper to speak so of +kutúzov. + +count ilyá rostóv, hurried and preoccupied, went about in his soft +boots between the dining and drawing rooms, hastily greeting the +important and unimportant, all of whom he knew, as if they were all +equals, while his eyes occasionally sought out his fine well-set-up +young son, resting on him and winking joyfully at him. young rostóv +stood at a window with dólokhov, whose acquaintance he had lately +made and highly valued. the old count came up to them and pressed +dólokhov’s hand. + +“please come and visit us... you know my brave boy... been together +out there... both playing the hero... ah, vasíli ignátovich... +how d’ye do, old fellow?” he said, turning to an old man who was +passing, but before he had finished his greeting there was a general +stir, and a footman who had run in announced, with a frightened face: +“he’s arrived!” + +bells rang, the stewards rushed forward, and—like rye shaken together +in a shovel—the guests who had been scattered about in different rooms +came together and crowded in the large drawing room by the door of the +ballroom. + +bagratión appeared in the doorway of the anteroom without hat or sword, +which, in accord with the club custom, he had given up to the hall +porter. he had no lambskin cap on his head, nor had he a loaded whip +over his shoulder, as when rostóv had seen him on the eve of the battle +of austerlitz, but wore a tight new uniform with russian and foreign +orders, and the star of st. george on his left breast. evidently just +before coming to the dinner he had had his hair and whiskers trimmed, +which changed his appearance for the worse. there was something naïvely +festive in his air, which, in conjunction with his firm and virile +features, gave him a rather comical expression. bekleshëv and theodore +uvárov, who had arrived with him, paused at the doorway to allow him, +as the guest of honor, to enter first. bagratión was embarrassed, not +wishing to avail himself of their courtesy, and this caused some delay +at the doors, but after all he did at last enter first. he walked shyly +and awkwardly over the parquet floor of the reception room, not knowing +what to do with his hands; he was more accustomed to walk over a plowed +field under fire, as he had done at the head of the kursk regiment at +schön grabern—and he would have found that easier. the committeemen +met him at the first door and, expressing their delight at seeing such a +highly honored guest, took possession of him as it were, without waiting +for his reply, surrounded him, and led him to the drawing room. it was +at first impossible to enter the drawing room door for the crowd of +members and guests jostling one another and trying to get a good look +at bagratión over each other’s shoulders, as if he were some rare +animal. count ilyá rostóv, laughing and repeating the words, “make +way, dear boy! make way, make way!” pushed through the crowd more +energetically than anyone, led the guests into the drawing room, and +seated them on the center sofa. the bigwigs, the most respected members +of the club, beset the new arrivals. count ilyá, again thrusting his +way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a +minute later with another committeeman, carrying a large silver salver +which he presented to prince bagratión. on the salver lay some verses +composed and printed in the hero’s honor. bagratión, on seeing the +salver, glanced around in dismay, as though seeking help. but all eyes +demanded that he should submit. feeling himself in their power, he +resolutely took the salver with both hands and looked sternly and +reproachfully at the count who had presented it to him. someone +obligingly took the dish from bagratión (or he would, it seemed, have +held it till evening and have gone in to dinner with it) and drew his +attention to the verses. + +“well, i will read them, then!” bagratión seemed to say, and, +fixing his weary eyes on the paper, began to read them with a fixed and +serious expression. but the author himself took the verses and began +reading them aloud. bagratión bowed his head and listened: + + bring glory then to alexander’s reign + and on the throne our titus shield. + a dreaded foe be thou, kindhearted as a man, + a rhipheus at home, a caesar in the field! + e’en fortunate napoleon + knows by experience, now, bagratión, + and dare not herculean russians trouble... + +but before he had finished reading, a stentorian major-domo announced +that dinner was ready! the door opened, and from the dining room came +the resounding strains of the polonaise: + + conquest’s joyful thunder waken, + triumph, valiant russians, now!... + +and count rostóv, glancing angrily at the author who went on reading +his verses, bowed to bagratión. everyone rose, feeling that dinner +was more important than verses, and bagratión, again preceding all the +rest, went in to dinner. he was seated in the place of honor between +two alexanders—bekleshëv and narýshkin—which was a significant +allusion to the name of the sovereign. three hundred persons took their +seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the +more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows +deepest where the land lies lowest. + +just before dinner, count ilyá rostóv presented his son to bagratión, +who recognized him and said a few words to him, disjointed and awkward, +as were all the words he spoke that day, and count ilyá looked joyfully +and proudly around while bagratión spoke to his son. + +nicholas rostóv, with denísov and his new acquaintance, dólokhov, sat +almost at the middle of the table. facing them sat pierre, beside prince +nesvítski. count ilyá rostóv with the other members of the committee +sat facing bagratión and, as the very personification of moscow +hospitality, did the honors to the prince. + +his efforts had not been in vain. the dinner, both the lenten and the +other fare, was splendid, yet he could not feel quite at ease till the +end of the meal. he winked at the butler, whispered directions to the +footmen, and awaited each expected dish with some anxiety. everything +was excellent. with the second course, a gigantic sterlet (at sight of +which ilyá rostóv blushed with self-conscious pleasure), the footmen +began popping corks and filling the champagne glasses. after the fish, +which made a certain sensation, the count exchanged glances with +the other committeemen. “there will be many toasts, it’s time to +begin,” he whispered, and taking up his glass, he rose. all were +silent, waiting for what he would say. + +“to the health of our sovereign, the emperor!” he cried, and at the +same moment his kindly eyes grew moist with tears of joy and enthusiasm. +the band immediately struck up “conquest’s joyful thunder +waken...” all rose and cried “hurrah!” bagratión also rose and +shouted “hurrah!” in exactly the same voice in which he had shouted +it on the field at schön grabern. young rostóv’s ecstatic voice +could be heard above the three hundred others. he nearly wept. “to the +health of our sovereign, the emperor!” he roared, “hurrah!” and +emptying his glass at one gulp he dashed it to the floor. many followed +his example, and the loud shouting continued for a long time. when the +voices subsided, the footmen cleared away the broken glass and everybody +sat down again, smiling at the noise they had made and exchanging +remarks. the old count rose once more, glanced at a note lying beside +his plate, and proposed a toast, “to the health of the hero of our +last campaign, prince peter ivánovich bagratión!” and again his blue +eyes grew moist. “hurrah!” cried the three hundred voices again, +but instead of the band a choir began singing a cantata composed by paul +ivánovich kutúzov: + + russians! o’er all barriers on! + courage conquest guarantees; + have we not bagratión? + he brings foemen to their knees,... etc. + +as soon as the singing was over, another and another toast was proposed +and count ilyá rostóv became more and more moved, more glass was +smashed, and the shouting grew louder. they drank to bekleshëv, +narýshkin, uvárov, dolgorúkov, apráksin, valúev, to the committee, +to all the club members and to all the club guests, and finally to +count ilyá rostóv separately, as the organizer of the banquet. at that +toast, the count took out his handkerchief and, covering his face, wept +outright. + + + + + +chapter iv + +pierre sat opposite dólokhov and nicholas rostóv. as usual, he ate and +drank much, and eagerly. but those who knew him intimately noticed that +some great change had come over him that day. he was silent all through +dinner and looked about, blinking and scowling, or, with fixed eyes and +a look of complete absent-mindedness, kept rubbing the bridge of his +nose. his face was depressed and gloomy. he seemed to see and hear +nothing of what was going on around him and to be absorbed by some +depressing and unsolved problem. + +the unsolved problem that tormented him was caused by hints given by the +princess, his cousin, at moscow, concerning dólokhov’s intimacy with +his wife, and by an anonymous letter he had received that morning, which +in the mean jocular way common to anonymous letters said that he saw +badly through his spectacles, but that his wife’s connection with +dólokhov was a secret to no one but himself. pierre absolutely +disbelieved both the princess’ hints and the letter, but he feared +now to look at dólokhov, who was sitting opposite him. every time +he chanced to meet dólokhov’s handsome insolent eyes, pierre felt +something terrible and monstrous rising in his soul and turned quickly +away. involuntarily recalling his wife’s past and her relations with +dólokhov, pierre saw clearly that what was said in the letter might be +true, or might at least seem to be true had it not referred to his wife. +he involuntarily remembered how dólokhov, who had fully recovered his +former position after the campaign, had returned to petersburg and come +to him. availing himself of his friendly relations with pierre as a boon +companion, dólokhov had come straight to his house, and pierre had put +him up and lent him money. pierre recalled how hélène had smilingly +expressed disapproval of dólokhov’s living at their house, and how +cynically dólokhov had praised his wife’s beauty to him and from that +time till they came to moscow had not left them for a day. + +“yes, he is very handsome,” thought pierre, “and i know him. it +would be particularly pleasant to him to dishonor my name and ridicule +me, just because i have exerted myself on his behalf, befriended him, +and helped him. i know and understand what a spice that would add to the +pleasure of deceiving me, if it really were true. yes, if it were true, +but i do not believe it. i have no right to, and can’t, believe it.” +he remembered the expression dólokhov’s face assumed in his moments +of cruelty, as when tying the policeman to the bear and dropping them +into the water, or when he challenged a man to a duel without any +reason, or shot a post-boy’s horse with a pistol. that expression +was often on dólokhov’s face when looking at him. “yes, he is a +bully,” thought pierre, “to kill a man means nothing to him. it must +seem to him that everyone is afraid of him, and that must please him. +he must think that i, too, am afraid of him—and in fact i am afraid of +him,” he thought, and again he felt something terrible and monstrous +rising in his soul. dólokhov, denísov, and rostóv were now sitting +opposite pierre and seemed very gay. rostóv was talking merrily to his +two friends, one of whom was a dashing hussar and the other a notorious +duelist and rake, and every now and then he glanced ironically at +pierre, whose preoccupied, absent-minded, and massive figure was a very +noticeable one at the dinner. rostóv looked inimically at pierre, +first because pierre appeared to his hussar eyes as a rich civilian, the +husband of a beauty, and in a word—an old woman; and secondly because +pierre in his preoccupation and absent-mindedness had not recognized +rostóv and had not responded to his greeting. when the emperor’s +health was drunk, pierre, lost in thought, did not rise or lift his +glass. + +“what are you about?” shouted rostóv, looking at him in an ecstasy +of exasperation. “don’t you hear it’s his majesty the emperor’s +health?” + +pierre sighed, rose submissively, emptied his glass, and, waiting till +all were seated again, turned with his kindly smile to rostóv. + +“why, i didn’t recognize you!” he said. but rostóv was otherwise +engaged; he was shouting “hurrah!” + +“why don’t you renew the acquaintance?” said dólokhov to rostóv. + +“confound him, he’s a fool!” said rostóv. + +“one should make up to the husbands of pretty women,” said denísov. + +pierre did not catch what they were saying, but knew they were talking +about him. he reddened and turned away. + +“well, now to the health of handsome women!” said dólokhov, and +with a serious expression, but with a smile lurking at the corners of +his mouth, he turned with his glass to pierre. + +“here’s to the health of lovely women, peterkin—and their +lovers!” he added. + +pierre, with downcast eyes, drank out of his glass without looking at +dólokhov or answering him. the footman, who was distributing leaflets +with kutúzov’s cantata, laid one before pierre as one of the +principal guests. he was just going to take it when dólokhov, leaning +across, snatched it from his hand and began reading it. pierre looked +at dólokhov and his eyes dropped, the something terrible and monstrous +that had tormented him all dinnertime rose and took possession of him. +he leaned his whole massive body across the table. + +“how dare you take it?” he shouted. + +hearing that cry and seeing to whom it was addressed, nesvítski and the +neighbor on his right quickly turned in alarm to bezúkhov. + +“don’t! don’t! what are you about?” whispered their frightened +voices. + +dólokhov looked at pierre with clear, mirthful, cruel eyes, and that +smile of his which seemed to say, “ah! this is what i like!” + +“you shan’t have it!” he said distinctly. + +pale, with quivering lips, pierre snatched the copy. + +“you...! you... scoundrel! i challenge you!” he ejaculated, and, +pushing back his chair, he rose from the table. + +at the very instant he did this and uttered those words, pierre felt +that the question of his wife’s guilt which had been tormenting him +the whole day was finally and indubitably answered in the affirmative. +he hated her and was forever sundered from her. despite denísov’s +request that he would take no part in the matter, rostóv agreed to be +dólokhov’s second, and after dinner he discussed the arrangements for +the duel with nesvítski, bezúkhov’s second. pierre went home, but +rostóv with dólokhov and denísov stayed on at the club till late, +listening to the gypsies and other singers. + +“well then, till tomorrow at sokólniki,” said dólokhov, as he took +leave of rostóv in the club porch. + +“and do you feel quite calm?” rostóv asked. + +dólokhov paused. + +“well, you see, i’ll tell you the whole secret of dueling in two +words. if you are going to fight a duel, and you make a will and write +affectionate letters to your parents, and if you think you may be +killed, you are a fool and are lost for certain. but go with the firm +intention of killing your man as quickly and surely as possible, and +then all will be right, as our bear huntsman at kostromá used to tell +me. ‘everyone fears a bear,’ he says, ‘but when you see one your +fear’s all gone, and your only thought is not to let him get away!’ +and that’s how it is with me. À demain, mon cher.” * + + * till tomorrow, my dear fellow. + +next day, at eight in the morning, pierre and nesvítski drove to the +sokólniki forest and found dólokhov, denísov, and rostóv already +there. pierre had the air of a man preoccupied with considerations which +had no connection with the matter in hand. his haggard face was yellow. +he had evidently not slept that night. he looked about distractedly and +screwed up his eyes as if dazzled by the sun. he was entirely absorbed +by two considerations: his wife’s guilt, of which after his sleepless +night he had not the slightest doubt, and the guiltlessness of +dólokhov, who had no reason to preserve the honor of a man who was +nothing to him.... “i should perhaps have done the same thing in his +place,” thought pierre. “it’s even certain that i should have done +the same, then why this duel, this murder? either i shall kill him, or +he will hit me in the head, or elbow, or knee. can’t i go away from +here, run away, bury myself somewhere?” passed through his mind. but +just at moments when such thoughts occurred to him, he would ask in a +particularly calm and absent-minded way, which inspired the respect of +the onlookers, “will it be long? are things ready?” + +when all was ready, the sabers stuck in the snow to mark the barriers, +and the pistols loaded, nesvítski went up to pierre. + +“i should not be doing my duty, count,” he said in timid tones, +“and should not justify your confidence and the honor you have done +me in choosing me for your second, if at this grave, this very +grave, moment i did not tell you the whole truth. i think there is no +sufficient ground for this affair, or for blood to be shed over it.... +you were not right, not quite in the right, you were impetuous...” + +“oh yes, it is horribly stupid,” said pierre. + +“then allow me to express your regrets, and i am sure your opponent +will accept them,” said nesvítski (who like the others concerned in +the affair, and like everyone in similar cases, did not yet believe that +the affair had come to an actual duel). “you know, count, it is much +more honorable to admit one’s mistake than to let matters become +irreparable. there was no insult on either side. allow me to +convey....” + +“no! what is there to talk about?” said pierre. “it’s all the +same.... is everything ready?” he added. “only tell me where to go +and where to shoot,” he said with an unnaturally gentle smile. + +he took the pistol in his hand and began asking about the working of the +trigger, as he had not before held a pistol in his hand—a fact that he +did not wish to confess. + +“oh yes, like that, i know, i only forgot,” said he. + +“no apologies, none whatever,” said dólokhov to denísov (who on +his side had been attempting a reconciliation), and he also went up to +the appointed place. + +the spot chosen for the duel was some eighty paces from the road, +where the sleighs had been left, in a small clearing in the pine forest +covered with melting snow, the frost having begun to break up during the +last few days. the antagonists stood forty paces apart at the farther +edge of the clearing. the seconds, measuring the paces, left tracks in +the deep wet snow between the place where they had been standing and +nesvítski’s and dólokhov’s sabers, which were stuck into the +ground ten paces apart to mark the barrier. it was thawing and misty; at +forty paces’ distance nothing could be seen. for three minutes all had +been ready, but they still delayed and all were silent. + + + + + +chapter v + +“well begin!” said dólokhov. + +“all right,” said pierre, still smiling in the same way. a feeling +of dread was in the air. it was evident that the affair so lightly begun +could no longer be averted but was taking its course independently of +men’s will. + +denísov first went to the barrier and announced: “as the +adve’sawies have wefused a weconciliation, please pwoceed. take your +pistols, and at the word thwee begin to advance. + +“o-ne! t-wo! thwee!” he shouted angrily and stepped aside. + +the combatants advanced along the trodden tracks, nearer and nearer to +one another, beginning to see one another through the mist. they had the +right to fire when they liked as they approached the barrier. dólokhov +walked slowly without raising his pistol, looking intently with his +bright, sparkling blue eyes into his antagonist’s face. his mouth wore +its usual semblance of a smile. + +“so i can fire when i like!” said pierre, and at the word +“three,” he went quickly forward, missing the trodden path and +stepping into the deep snow. he held the pistol in his right hand at +arm’s length, apparently afraid of shooting himself with it. his left +hand he held carefully back, because he wished to support his right +hand with it and knew he must not do so. having advanced six paces and +strayed off the track into the snow, pierre looked down at his feet, +then quickly glanced at dólokhov and, bending his finger as he had been +shown, fired. not at all expecting so loud a report, pierre shuddered +at the sound and then, smiling at his own sensations, stood still. the +smoke, rendered denser by the mist, prevented him from seeing anything +for an instant, but there was no second report as he had expected. he +only heard dólokhov’s hurried steps, and his figure came in view +through the smoke. he was pressing one hand to his left side, while +the other clutched his drooping pistol. his face was pale. rostóv ran +toward him and said something. + +“no-o-o!” muttered dólokhov through his teeth, “no, it’s not +over.” and after stumbling a few staggering steps right up to the +saber, he sank on the snow beside it. his left hand was bloody; he wiped +it on his coat and supported himself with it. his frowning face was +pallid and quivered. + +“plea...” began dólokhov, but could not at first pronounce the +word. + +“please,” he uttered with an effort. + +pierre, hardly restraining his sobs, began running toward dólokhov and +was about to cross the space between the barriers, when dólokhov cried: + +“to your barrier!” and pierre, grasping what was meant, stopped by +his saber. only ten paces divided them. dólokhov lowered his head to +the snow, greedily bit at it, again raised his head, adjusted himself, +drew in his legs and sat up, seeking a firm center of gravity. he sucked +and swallowed the cold snow, his lips quivered but his eyes, still +smiling, glittered with effort and exasperation as he mustered his +remaining strength. he raised his pistol and aimed. + +“sideways! cover yourself with your pistol!” ejaculated nesvítski. + +“cover yourself!” even denísov cried to his adversary. + +pierre, with a gentle smile of pity and remorse, his arms and legs +helplessly spread out, stood with his broad chest directly facing +dólokhov and looked sorrowfully at him. denísov, rostóv, and +nesvítski closed their eyes. at the same instant they heard a report +and dólokhov’s angry cry. + +“missed!” shouted dólokhov, and he lay helplessly, face downwards +on the snow. + +pierre clutched his temples, and turning round went into the forest, +trampling through the deep snow, and muttering incoherent words: + +“folly... folly! death... lies...” he repeated, puckering his face. + +nesvítski stopped him and took him home. + +rostóv and denísov drove away with the wounded dólokhov. + +the latter lay silent in the sleigh with closed eyes and did not answer +a word to the questions addressed to him. but on entering moscow he +suddenly came to and, lifting his head with an effort, took rostóv, who +was sitting beside him, by the hand. rostóv was struck by the +totally altered and unexpectedly rapturous and tender expression on +dólokhov’s face. + +“well? how do you feel?” he asked. + +“bad! but it’s not that, my friend—” said dólokhov with a +gasping voice. “where are we? in moscow, i know. i don’t matter, +but i have killed her, killed... she won’t get over it! she won’t +survive....” + +“who?” asked rostóv. + +“my mother! my mother, my angel, my adored angel mother,” and +dólokhov pressed rostóv’s hand and burst into tears. + +when he had become a little quieter, he explained to rostóv that he was +living with his mother, who, if she saw him dying, would not survive it. +he implored rostóv to go on and prepare her. + +rostóv went on ahead to do what was asked, and to his great surprise +learned that dólokhov the brawler, dólokhov the bully, lived in moscow +with an old mother and a hunchback sister, and was the most affectionate +of sons and brothers. + + + + + +chapter vi + +pierre had of late rarely seen his wife alone. both in petersburg and in +moscow their house was always full of visitors. the night after the +duel he did not go to his bedroom but, as he often did, remained in his +father’s room, that huge room in which count bezúkhov had died. + +he lay down on the sofa meaning to fall asleep and forget all that +had happened to him, but could not do so. such a storm of feelings, +thoughts, and memories suddenly arose within him that he could not fall +asleep, nor even remain in one place, but had to jump up and pace the +room with rapid steps. now he seemed to see her in the early days of +their marriage, with bare shoulders and a languid, passionate look on +her face, and then immediately he saw beside her dólokhov’s handsome, +insolent, hard, and mocking face as he had seen it at the banquet, and +then that same face pale, quivering, and suffering, as it had been when +he reeled and sank on the snow. + +“what has happened?” he asked himself. “i have killed her lover, +yes, killed my wife’s lover. yes, that was it! and why? how did i come +to do it?”—“because you married her,” answered an inner voice. + +“but in what was i to blame?” he asked. “in marrying her without +loving her; in deceiving yourself and her.” and he vividly recalled +that moment after supper at prince vasíli’s, when he spoke those +words he had found so difficult to utter: “i love you.” “it all +comes from that! even then i felt it,” he thought. “i felt then that +it was not so, that i had no right to do it. and so it turns out.” + +he remembered his honeymoon and blushed at the recollection. +particularly vivid, humiliating, and shameful was the recollection of +how one day soon after his marriage he came out of the bedroom into his +study a little before noon in his silk dressing gown and found his head +steward there, who, bowing respectfully, looked into his face and at +his dressing gown and smiled slightly, as if expressing respectful +understanding of his employer’s happiness. + +“but how often i have felt proud of her, proud of her majestic beauty +and social tact,” thought he; “been proud of my house, in which she +received all petersburg, proud of her unapproachability and beauty. so +this is what i was proud of! i then thought that i did not understand +her. how often when considering her character i have told myself that +i was to blame for not understanding her, for not understanding that +constant composure and complacency and lack of all interests or desires, +and the whole secret lies in the terrible truth that she is a depraved +woman. now i have spoken that terrible word to myself all has become +clear. + +“anatole used to come to borrow money from her and used to kiss her +naked shoulders. she did not give him the money, but let herself be +kissed. her father in jest tried to rouse her jealousy, and she replied +with a calm smile that she was not so stupid as to be jealous: ‘let +him do what he pleases,’ she used to say of me. one day i asked her if +she felt any symptoms of pregnancy. she laughed contemptuously and said +she was not a fool to want to have children, and that she was not going +to have any children by me.” + +then he recalled the coarseness and bluntness of her thoughts and the +vulgarity of the expressions that were natural to her, though she had +been brought up in the most aristocratic circles. + +“i’m not such a fool.... just you try it on.... allez-vous +promener,” * she used to say. often seeing the success she had with +young and old men and women pierre could not understand why he did not +love her. + + * “you clear out of this.” + + +“yes, i never loved her,” said he to himself; “i knew she was a +depraved woman,” he repeated, “but dared not admit it to myself. +and now there’s dólokhov sitting in the snow with a forced smile and +perhaps dying, while meeting my remorse with some forced bravado!” + +pierre was one of those people who, in spite of an appearance of what +is called weak character, do not seek a confidant in their troubles. he +digested his sufferings alone. + +“it is all, all her fault,” he said to himself; “but what of that? +why did i bind myself to her? why did i say ‘je vous aime’ * to her, +which was a lie, and worse than a lie? i am guilty and must endure... +what? a slur on my name? a misfortune for life? oh, that’s +nonsense,” he thought. “the slur on my name and honor—that’s all +apart from myself.” + + * i love you. + +“louis xvi was executed because they said he was dishonorable and a +criminal,” came into pierre’s head, “and from their point of +view they were right, as were those too who canonized him and died a +martyr’s death for his sake. then robespierre was beheaded for being +a despot. who is right and who is wrong? no one! but if you are +alive—live: tomorrow you’ll die as i might have died an hour ago. +and is it worth tormenting oneself, when one has only a moment of life +in comparison with eternity?” + +but at the moment when he imagined himself calmed by such reflections, +she suddenly came into his mind as she was at the moments when he had +most strongly expressed his insincere love for her, and he felt the +blood rush to his heart and had again to get up and move about and break +and tear whatever came to his hand. “why did i tell her that ‘je +vous aime’?” he kept repeating to himself. and when he had said it +for the tenth time, molière’s words: “mais que diable allait-il +faire dans cette galère?” * occurred to him, and he began to laugh at +himself. + + * “but what the devil was he doing in that galley?” + + +in the night he called his valet and told him to pack up to go to +petersburg. he could not imagine how he could speak to her now. he +resolved to go away next day and leave a letter informing her of his +intention to part from her forever. + +next morning when the valet came into the room with his coffee, pierre +was lying asleep on the ottoman with an open book in his hand. + +he woke up and looked round for a while with a startled expression, +unable to realize where he was. + +“the countess told me to inquire whether your excellency was at +home,” said the valet. + +but before pierre could decide what answer he would send, the countess +herself in a white satin dressing gown embroidered with silver and with +simply dressed hair (two immense plaits twice round her lovely head like +a coronet) entered the room, calm and majestic, except that there was +a wrathful wrinkle on her rather prominent marble brow. with her +imperturbable calm she did not begin to speak in front of the valet. +she knew of the duel and had come to speak about it. she waited till the +valet had set down the coffee things and left the room. pierre looked +at her timidly over his spectacles, and like a hare surrounded by hounds +who lays back her ears and continues to crouch motionless before her +enemies, he tried to continue reading. but feeling this to be senseless +and impossible, he again glanced timidly at her. she did not sit down +but looked at him with a contemptuous smile, waiting for the valet to +go. + +“well, what’s this now? what have you been up to now, i should like +to know?” she asked sternly. + +“i? what have i...?” stammered pierre. + +“so it seems you’re a hero, eh? come now, what was this duel about? +what is it meant to prove? what? i ask you.” + +pierre turned over heavily on the ottoman and opened his mouth, but +could not reply. + +“if you won’t answer, i’ll tell you...” hélène went on. “you +believe everything you’re told. you were told...” hélène laughed, +“that dólokhov was my lover,” she said in french with her coarse +plainness of speech, uttering the word amant as casually as any other +word, “and you believed it! well, what have you proved? what does this +duel prove? that you’re a fool, que vous êtes un sot, but everybody +knew that. what will be the result? that i shall be the laughingstock of +all moscow, that everyone will say that you, drunk and not knowing what +you were about, challenged a man you are jealous of without cause.” +hélène raised her voice and became more and more excited, “a man +who’s a better man than you in every way...” + +“hm... hm...!” growled pierre, frowning without looking at her, and +not moving a muscle. + +“and how could you believe he was my lover? why? because i like +his company? if you were cleverer and more agreeable, i should prefer +yours.” + +“don’t speak to me... i beg you,” muttered pierre hoarsely. + +“why shouldn’t i speak? i can speak as i like, and i tell you +plainly that there are not many wives with husbands such as you who +would not have taken lovers (des amants), but i have not done so,” +said she. + +pierre wished to say something, looked at her with eyes whose strange +expression she did not understand, and lay down again. he was suffering +physically at that moment, there was a weight on his chest and he could +not breathe. he knew that he must do something to put an end to this +suffering, but what he wanted to do was too terrible. + +“we had better separate,” he muttered in a broken voice. + +“separate? very well, but only if you give me a fortune,” said +hélène. “separate! that’s a thing to frighten me with!” + +pierre leaped up from the sofa and rushed staggering toward her. + +“i’ll kill you!” he shouted, and seizing the marble top of a table +with a strength he had never before felt, he made a step toward her +brandishing the slab. + +hélène’s face became terrible, she shrieked and sprang aside. his +father’s nature showed itself in pierre. he felt the fascination and +delight of frenzy. he flung down the slab, broke it, and swooping +down on her with outstretched hands shouted, “get out!” in such a +terrible voice that the whole house heard it with horror. god knows what +he would have done at that moment had hélène not fled from the room. + + +a week later pierre gave his wife full power to control all his estates +in great russia, which formed the larger part of his property, and left +for petersburg alone. + + + + + +chapter vii + +two months had elapsed since the news of the battle of austerlitz and +the loss of prince andrew had reached bald hills, and in spite of the +letters sent through the embassy and all the searches made, his body had +not been found nor was he on the list of prisoners. what was worst of +all for his relations was the fact that there was still a possibility of +his having been picked up on the battlefield by the people of the +place and that he might now be lying, recovering or dying, alone among +strangers and unable to send news of himself. the gazettes from which +the old prince first heard of the defeat at austerlitz stated, as usual +very briefly and vaguely, that after brilliant engagements the russians +had had to retreat and had made their withdrawal in perfect order. the +old prince understood from this official report that our army had been +defeated. a week after the gazette report of the battle of austerlitz +came a letter from kutúzov informing the prince of the fate that had +befallen his son. + +“your son,” wrote kutúzov, “fell before my eyes, a standard in +his hand and at the head of a regiment—he fell as a hero, worthy of +his father and his fatherland. to the great regret of myself and of the +whole army it is still uncertain whether he is alive or not. i comfort +myself and you with the hope that your son is alive, for otherwise +he would have been mentioned among the officers found on the field of +battle, a list of whom has been sent me under flag of truce.” + +after receiving this news late in the evening, when he was alone in his +study, the old prince went for his walk as usual next morning, but he +was silent with his steward, the gardener, and the architect, and though +he looked very grim he said nothing to anyone. + +when princess mary went to him at the usual hour he was working at his +lathe and, as usual, did not look round at her. + +“ah, princess mary!” he said suddenly in an unnatural voice, +throwing down his chisel. (the wheel continued to revolve by its own +impetus, and princess mary long remembered the dying creak of that +wheel, which merged in her memory with what followed.) + +she approached him, saw his face, and something gave way within her. her +eyes grew dim. by the expression of her father’s face, not sad, not +crushed, but angry and working unnaturally, she saw that hanging over +her and about to crush her was some terrible misfortune, the worst +in life, one she had not yet experienced, irreparable and +incomprehensible—the death of one she loved. + +“father! andrew!”—said the ungraceful, awkward princess with such +an indescribable charm of sorrow and self-forgetfulness that her father +could not bear her look but turned away with a sob. + +“bad news! he’s not among the prisoners nor among the killed! +kutúzov writes...” and he screamed as piercingly as if he wished to +drive the princess away by that scream... “killed!” + +the princess did not fall down or faint. she was already pale, but on +hearing these words her face changed and something brightened in her +beautiful, radiant eyes. it was as if joy—a supreme joy apart from the +joys and sorrows of this world—overflowed the great grief within her. +she forgot all fear of her father, went up to him, took his hand, and +drawing him down put her arm round his thin, scraggy neck. + +“father,” she said, “do not turn away from me, let us weep +together.” + +“scoundrels! blackguards!” shrieked the old man, turning his face +away from her. “destroying the army, destroying the men! and why? go, +go and tell lise.” + +the princess sank helplessly into an armchair beside her father and +wept. she saw her brother now as he had been at the moment when he took +leave of her and of lise, his look tender yet proud. she saw him tender +and amused as he was when he put on the little icon. “did he believe? +had he repented of his unbelief? was he now there? there in the realms +of eternal peace and blessedness?” she thought. + +“father, tell me how it happened,” she asked through her tears. + +“go! go! killed in battle, where the best of russian men and +russia’s glory were led to destruction. go, princess mary. go and tell +lise. i will follow.” + +when princess mary returned from her father, the little princess sat +working and looked up with that curious expression of inner, happy calm +peculiar to pregnant women. it was evident that her eyes did not see +princess mary but were looking within... into herself... at something +joyful and mysterious taking place within her. + +“mary,” she said, moving away from the embroidery frame and lying +back, “give me your hand.” she took her sister-in-law’s hand and +held it below her waist. + +her eyes were smiling expectantly, her downy lip rose and remained +lifted in childlike happiness. + +princess mary knelt down before her and hid her face in the folds of her +sister-in-law’s dress. + +“there, there! do you feel it? i feel so strange. and do you know, +mary, i am going to love him very much,” said lise, looking with +bright and happy eyes at her sister-in-law. + +princess mary could not lift her head, she was weeping. + +“what is the matter, mary?” + +“nothing... only i feel sad... sad about andrew,” she said, wiping +away her tears on her sister-in-law’s knee. + +several times in the course of the morning princess mary began trying to +prepare her sister-in-law, and every time began to cry. unobservant as +was the little princess, these tears, the cause of which she did not +understand, agitated her. she said nothing but looked about uneasily as +if in search of something. before dinner the old prince, of whom she was +always afraid, came into her room with a peculiarly restless and malign +expression and went out again without saying a word. she looked at +princess mary, then sat thinking for a while with that expression of +attention to something within her that is only seen in pregnant women, +and suddenly began to cry. + +“has anything come from andrew?” she asked. + +“no, you know it’s too soon for news. but my father is anxious and i +feel afraid.” + +“so there’s nothing?” + +“nothing,” answered princess mary, looking firmly with her radiant +eyes at her sister-in-law. + +she had determined not to tell her and persuaded her father to hide the +terrible news from her till after her confinement, which was expected +within a few days. princess mary and the old prince each bore and hid +their grief in their own way. the old prince would not cherish any hope: +he made up his mind that prince andrew had been killed, and though he +sent an official to austria to seek for traces of his son, he ordered a +monument from moscow which he intended to erect in his own garden to his +memory, and he told everybody that his son had been killed. he tried not +to change his former way of life, but his strength failed him. he walked +less, ate less, slept less, and became weaker every day. princess mary +hoped. she prayed for her brother as living and was always awaiting news +of his return. + + + + + +chapter viii + +“dearest,” said the little princess after breakfast on the morning +of the nineteenth march, and her downy little lip rose from old habit, +but as sorrow was manifest in every smile, the sound of every word, and +even every footstep in that house since the terrible news had come, so +now the smile of the little princess—influenced by the general mood +though without knowing its cause—was such as to remind one still more +of the general sorrow. + +“dearest, i’m afraid this morning’s fruschtique *—as fóka the +cook calls it—has disagreed with me.” + + * frühstück: breakfast. + +“what is the matter with you, my darling? you look pale. oh, you +are very pale!” said princess mary in alarm, running with her soft, +ponderous steps up to her sister-in-law. + +“your excellency, should not mary bogdánovna be sent for?” said one +of the maids who was present. (mary bogdánovna was a midwife from the +neighboring town, who had been at bald hills for the last fortnight.) + +“oh yes,” assented princess mary, “perhaps that’s it. i’ll go. +courage, my angel.” she kissed lise and was about to leave the room. + +“oh, no, no!” and besides the pallor and the physical suffering +on the little princess’ face, an expression of childish fear of +inevitable pain showed itself. + +“no, it’s only indigestion?... say it’s only indigestion, say so, +mary! say...” and the little princess began to cry capriciously like +a suffering child and to wring her little hands even with some +affectation. princess mary ran out of the room to fetch mary +bogdánovna. + +“mon dieu! mon dieu! oh!” she heard as she left the room. + +the midwife was already on her way to meet her, rubbing her small, plump +white hands with an air of calm importance. + +“mary bogdánovna, i think it’s beginning!” said princess mary +looking at the midwife with wide-open eyes of alarm. + +“well, the lord be thanked, princess,” said mary bogdánovna, not +hastening her steps. “you young ladies should not know anything about +it.” + +“but how is it the doctor from moscow is not here yet?” said the +princess. (in accordance with lise’s and prince andrew’s wishes they +had sent in good time to moscow for a doctor and were expecting him at +any moment.) + +“no matter, princess, don’t be alarmed,” said mary bogdánovna. +“we’ll manage very well without a doctor.” + +five minutes later princess mary from her room heard something heavy +being carried by. she looked out. the men servants were carrying the +large leather sofa from prince andrew’s study into the bedroom. on +their faces was a quiet and solemn look. + +princess mary sat alone in her room listening to the sounds in the +house, now and then opening her door when someone passed and watching +what was going on in the passage. some women passing with quiet steps in +and out of the bedroom glanced at the princess and turned away. she did +not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting +down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before +the icon stand. to her surprise and distress she found that her prayers +did not calm her excitement. suddenly her door opened softly and her old +nurse, praskóvya sávishna, who hardly ever came to that room as the +old prince had forbidden it, appeared on the threshold with a shawl +round her head. + +“i’ve come to sit with you a bit, másha,” said the nurse, “and +here i’ve brought the prince’s wedding candles to light before his +saint, my angel,” she said with a sigh. + +“oh, nurse, i’m so glad!” + +“god is merciful, birdie.” + +the nurse lit the gilt candles before the icons and sat down by the door +with her knitting. princess mary took a book and began reading. only +when footsteps or voices were heard did they look at one another, the +princess anxious and inquiring, the nurse encouraging. everyone in the +house was dominated by the same feeling that princess mary experienced +as she sat in her room. but owing to the superstition that the fewer +the people who know of it the less a woman in travail suffers, everyone +tried to pretend not to know; no one spoke of it, but apart from the +ordinary staid and respectful good manners habitual in the prince’s +household, a common anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a +consciousness that something great and mysterious was being accomplished +at that moment made itself felt. + +there was no laughter in the maids’ large hall. in the men servants’ +hall all sat waiting, silently and alert. in the outlying serfs’ +quarters torches and candles were burning and no one slept. the old +prince, stepping on his heels, paced up and down his study and sent +tíkhon to ask mary bogdánovna what news.—“say only that ‘the +prince told me to ask,’ and come and tell me her answer.” + +“inform the prince that labor has begun,” said mary bogdánovna, +giving the messenger a significant look. + +tíkhon went and told the prince. + +“very good!” said the prince closing the door behind him, and +tíkhon did not hear the slightest sound from the study after that. + +after a while he re-entered it as if to snuff the candles, and, seeing +the prince was lying on the sofa, looked at him, noticed his perturbed +face, shook his head, and going up to him silently kissed him on the +shoulder and left the room without snuffing the candles or saying why he +had entered. the most solemn mystery in the world continued its course. +evening passed, night came, and the feeling of suspense and softening of +heart in the presence of the unfathomable did not lessen but increased. +no one slept. + +it was one of those march nights when winter seems to wish to resume its +sway and scatters its last snows and storms with desperate fury. a relay +of horses had been sent up the highroad to meet the german doctor from +moscow who was expected every moment, and men on horseback with lanterns +were sent to the crossroads to guide him over the country road with its +hollows and snow-covered pools of water. + +princess mary had long since put aside her book: she sat silent, her +luminous eyes fixed on her nurse’s wrinkled face (every line of which +she knew so well), on the lock of gray hair that escaped from under the +kerchief, and the loose skin that hung under her chin. + +nurse sávishna, knitting in hand, was telling in low tones, scarcely +hearing or understanding her own words, what she had told hundreds of +times before: how the late princess had given birth to princess mary +in kishenëv with only a moldavian peasant woman to help instead of a +midwife. + +“god is merciful, doctors are never needed,” she said. + +suddenly a gust of wind beat violently against the casement of the +window, from which the double frame had been removed (by order of the +prince, one window frame was removed in each room as soon as the larks +returned), and, forcing open a loosely closed latch, set the damask +curtain flapping and blew out the candle with its chill, snowy draft. +princess mary shuddered; her nurse, putting down the stocking she was +knitting, went to the window and leaning out tried to catch the open +casement. the cold wind flapped the ends of her kerchief and her loose +locks of gray hair. + +“princess, my dear, there’s someone driving up the avenue!” she +said, holding the casement and not closing it. “with lanterns. most +likely the doctor.” + +“oh, my god! thank god!” said princess mary. “i must go and meet +him, he does not know russian.” + +princess mary threw a shawl over her head and ran to meet the newcomer. +as she was crossing the anteroom she saw through the window a carriage +with lanterns, standing at the entrance. she went out on the stairs. on +a banister post stood a tallow candle which guttered in the draft. on +the landing below, philip, the footman, stood looking scared and holding +another candle. still lower, beyond the turn of the staircase, one +could hear the footstep of someone in thick felt boots, and a voice that +seemed familiar to princess mary was saying something. + +“thank god!” said the voice. “and father?” + +“gone to bed,” replied the voice of demyán the house steward, who +was downstairs. + +then the voice said something more, demyán replied, and the steps in +the felt boots approached the unseen bend of the staircase more rapidly. + +“it’s andrew!” thought princess mary. “no it can’t be, that +would be too extraordinary,” and at the very moment she thought this, +the face and figure of prince andrew, in a fur cloak the deep collar of +which covered with snow, appeared on the landing where the footman +stood with the candle. yes, it was he, pale, thin, with a changed and +strangely softened but agitated expression on his face. he came up the +stairs and embraced his sister. + +“you did not get my letter?” he asked, and not waiting for a +reply—which he would not have received, for the princess was unable to +speak—he turned back, rapidly mounted the stairs again with the +doctor who had entered the hall after him (they had met at the last post +station), and again embraced his sister. + +“what a strange fate, másha darling!” and having taken off his +cloak and felt boots, he went to the little princess’ apartment. + + + + + +chapter ix + +the little princess lay supported by pillows, with a white cap on her +head (the pains had just left her). strands of her black hair lay round +her inflamed and perspiring cheeks, her charming rosy mouth with its +downy lip was open and she was smiling joyfully. prince andrew entered +and paused facing her at the foot of the sofa on which she was lying. +her glittering eyes, filled with childlike fear and excitement, rested +on him without changing their expression. “i love you all and have +done no harm to anyone; why must i suffer so? help me!” her look +seemed to say. she saw her husband, but did not realize the significance +of his appearance before her now. prince andrew went round the sofa and +kissed her forehead. + +“my darling!” he said—a word he had never used to her before. +“god is merciful....” + +she looked at him inquiringly and with childlike reproach. + +“i expected help from you and i get none, none from you either!” +said her eyes. she was not surprised at his having come; she did +not realize that he had come. his coming had nothing to do with +her sufferings or with their relief. the pangs began again and mary +bogdánovna advised prince andrew to leave the room. + +the doctor entered. prince andrew went out and, meeting princess mary, +again joined her. they began talking in whispers, but their talk broke +off at every moment. they waited and listened. + +“go, dear,” said princess mary. + +prince andrew went again to his wife and sat waiting in the room next +to hers. a woman came from the bedroom with a frightened face and became +confused when she saw prince andrew. he covered his face with his hands +and remained so for some minutes. piteous, helpless, animal moans came +through the door. prince andrew got up, went to the door, and tried to +open it. someone was holding it shut. + +“you can’t come in! you can’t!” said a terrified voice from +within. + +he began pacing the room. the screaming ceased, and a few more seconds +went by. then suddenly a terrible shriek—it could not be hers, she +could not scream like that—came from the bedroom. prince andrew ran to +the door; the scream ceased and he heard the wail of an infant. + +“what have they taken a baby in there for?” thought prince andrew in +the first second. “a baby? what baby...? why is there a baby there? or +is the baby born?” + +then suddenly he realized the joyful significance of that wail; tears +choked him, and leaning his elbows on the window sill he began to cry, +sobbing like a child. the door opened. the doctor with his shirt sleeves +tucked up, without a coat, pale and with a trembling jaw, came out +of the room. prince andrew turned to him, but the doctor gave him a +bewildered look and passed by without a word. a woman rushed out and +seeing prince andrew stopped, hesitating on the threshold. he went into +his wife’s room. she was lying dead, in the same position he had seen +her in five minutes before and, despite the fixed eyes and the pallor of +the cheeks, the same expression was on her charming childlike face with +its upper lip covered with tiny black hair. + +“i love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you +done to me?”—said her charming, pathetic, dead face. + +in a corner of the room something red and tiny gave a grunt and squealed +in mary bogdánovna’s trembling white hands. + + +two hours later prince andrew, stepping softly, went into his father’s +room. the old man already knew everything. he was standing close to +the door and as soon as it opened his rough old arms closed like a vise +round his son’s neck, and without a word he began to sob like a child. + + +three days later the little princess was buried, and prince andrew went +up the steps to where the coffin stood, to give her the farewell kiss. +and there in the coffin was the same face, though with closed eyes. +“ah, what have you done to me?” it still seemed to say, and prince +andrew felt that something gave way in his soul and that he was guilty +of a sin he could neither remedy nor forget. he could not weep. the +old man too came up and kissed the waxen little hands that lay quietly +crossed one on the other on her breast, and to him, too, her face seemed +to say: “ah, what have you done to me, and why?” and at the sight +the old man turned angrily away. + + +another five days passed, and then the young prince nicholas andréevich +was baptized. the wet nurse supported the coverlet with her chin, while +the priest with a goose feather anointed the boy’s little red and +wrinkled soles and palms. + +his grandfather, who was his godfather, trembling and afraid of dropping +him, carried the infant round the battered tin font and handed him over +to the godmother, princess mary. prince andrew sat in another room, +faint with fear lest the baby should be drowned in the font, and awaited +the termination of the ceremony. he looked up joyfully at the baby when +the nurse brought it to him and nodded approval when she told him that +the wax with the baby’s hair had not sunk in the font but had floated. + + + + + +chapter x + +rostóv’s share in dólokhov’s duel with bezúkhov was hushed up by +the efforts of the old count, and instead of being degraded to the ranks +as he expected he was appointed an adjutant to the governor general of +moscow. as a result he could not go to the country with the rest of the +family, but was kept all summer in moscow by his new duties. dólokhov +recovered, and rostóv became very friendly with him during his +convalescence. dólokhov lay ill at his mother’s who loved him +passionately and tenderly, and old mary ivánovna, who had grown fond of +rostóv for his friendship to her fédya, often talked to him about her +son. + +“yes, count,” she would say, “he is too noble and pure-souled for +our present, depraved world. no one now loves virtue; it seems like +a reproach to everyone. now tell me, count, was it right, was it +honorable, of bezúkhov? and fédya, with his noble spirit, loved him +and even now never says a word against him. those pranks in petersburg +when they played some tricks on a policeman, didn’t they do it +together? and there! bezúkhov got off scotfree, while fédya had to +bear the whole burden on his shoulders. fancy what he had to go through! +it’s true he has been reinstated, but how could they fail to do that? +i think there were not many such gallant sons of the fatherland out +there as he. and now—this duel! have these people no feeling, or +honor? knowing him to be an only son, to challenge him and shoot so +straight! it’s well god had mercy on us. and what was it for? who +doesn’t have intrigues nowadays? why, if he was so jealous, as i see +things he should have shown it sooner, but he lets it go on for months. +and then to call him out, reckoning on fédya not fighting because he +owed him money! what baseness! what meanness! i know you understand +fédya, my dear count; that, believe me, is why i am so fond of you. few +people do understand him. he is such a lofty, heavenly soul!” + +dólokhov himself during his convalescence spoke to rostóv in a way no +one would have expected of him. + +“i know people consider me a bad man!” he said. “let them! i +don’t care a straw about anyone but those i love; but those i love, +i love so that i would give my life for them, and the others i’d +throttle if they stood in my way. i have an adored, a priceless mother, +and two or three friends—you among them—and as for the rest i only +care about them in so far as they are harmful or useful. and most of +them are harmful, especially the women. yes, dear boy,” he continued, +“i have met loving, noble, high-minded men, but i have not yet met +any women—countesses or cooks—who were not venal. i have not yet met +that divine purity and devotion i look for in women. if i found such a +one i’d give my life for her! but those!...” and he made a gesture +of contempt. “and believe me, if i still value my life it is +only because i still hope to meet such a divine creature, who will +regenerate, purify, and elevate me. but you don’t understand it.” + +“oh, yes, i quite understand,” answered rostóv, who was under his +new friend’s influence. + +in the autumn the rostóvs returned to moscow. early in the winter +denísov also came back and stayed with them. the first half of the +winter of 1806, which nicholas rostóv spent in moscow, was one of the +happiest, merriest times for him and the whole family. nicholas brought +many young men to his parents’ house. véra was a handsome girl +of twenty; sónya a girl of sixteen with all the charm of an opening +flower; natásha, half grown up and half child, was now childishly +amusing, now girlishly enchanting. + +at that time in the rostóvs’ house there prevailed an amorous +atmosphere characteristic of homes where there are very young and very +charming girls. every young man who came to the house—seeing those +impressionable, smiling young faces (smiling probably at their own +happiness), feeling the eager bustle around him, and hearing the fitful +bursts of song and music and the inconsequent but friendly prattle of +young girls ready for anything and full of hope—experienced the same +feeling; sharing with the young folk of the rostóvs’ household a +readiness to fall in love and an expectation of happiness. + +among the young men introduced by rostóv one of the first was +dólokhov, whom everyone in the house liked except natásha. she almost +quarreled with her brother about him. she insisted that he was a bad +man, and that in the duel with bezúkhov, pierre was right and dólokhov +wrong, and further that he was disagreeable and unnatural. + +“there’s nothing for me to understand,” she cried out with +resolute self-will, “he is wicked and heartless. there now, i like +your denísov though he is a rake and all that, still i like him; so +you see i do understand. i don’t know how to put it... with this one +everything is calculated, and i don’t like that. but denísov...” + +“oh, denísov is quite different,” replied nicholas, implying that +even denísov was nothing compared to dólokhov—“you must understand +what a soul there is in dólokhov, you should see him with his mother. +what a heart!” + +“well, i don’t know about that, but i am uncomfortable with him. and +do you know he has fallen in love with sónya?” + +“what nonsense...” + +“i’m certain of it; you’ll see.” + +natásha’s prediction proved true. dólokhov, who did not usually care +for the society of ladies, began to come often to the house, and the +question for whose sake he came (though no one spoke of it) was soon +settled. he came because of sónya. and sónya, though she would never +have dared to say so, knew it and blushed scarlet every time dólokhov +appeared. + +dólokhov often dined at the rostóvs’, never missed a performance at +which they were present, and went to iogel’s balls for young people +which the rostóvs always attended. he was pointedly attentive to sónya +and looked at her in such a way that not only could she not bear his +glances without coloring, but even the old countess and natásha blushed +when they saw his looks. + +it was evident that this strange, strong man was under the irresistible +influence of the dark, graceful girl who loved another. + +rostóv noticed something new in dólokhov’s relations with sónya, +but he did not explain to himself what these new relations were. +“they’re always in love with someone,” he thought of sónya and +natásha. but he was not as much at ease with sónya and dólokhov as +before and was less frequently at home. + +in the autumn of 1806 everybody had again begun talking of the war with +napoleon with even greater warmth than the year before. orders were +given to raise recruits, ten men in every thousand for the regular army, +and besides this, nine men in every thousand for the militia. everywhere +bonaparte was anathematized and in moscow nothing but the coming war +was talked of. for the rostóv family the whole interest of these +preparations for war lay in the fact that nicholas would not hear of +remaining in moscow, and only awaited the termination of denísov’s +furlough after christmas to return with him to their regiment. his +approaching departure did not prevent his amusing himself, but rather +gave zest to his pleasures. he spent the greater part of his time away +from home, at dinners, parties, and balls. + + + + + +chapter xi + +on the third day after christmas nicholas dined at home, a thing he had +rarely done of late. it was a grand farewell dinner, as he and denísov +were leaving to join their regiment after epiphany. about twenty people +were present, including dólokhov and denísov. + +never had love been so much in the air, and never had the amorous +atmosphere made itself so strongly felt in the rostóvs’ house as at +this holiday time. “seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! +that is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. it is the one +thing we are interested in here,” said the spirit of the place. + +nicholas, having as usual exhausted two pairs of horses, without +visiting all the places he meant to go to and where he had been invited, +returned home just before dinner. as soon as he entered he noticed and +felt the tension of the amorous air in the house, and also noticed a +curious embarrassment among some of those present. sónya, dólokhov, +and the old countess were especially disturbed, and to a lesser degree +natásha. nicholas understood that something must have happened between +sónya and dólokhov before dinner, and with the kindly sensitiveness +natural to him was very gentle and wary with them both at dinner. on +that same evening there was to be one of the balls that iogel (the +dancing master) gave for his pupils during the holidays. + +“nicholas, will you come to iogel’s? please do!” said natásha. +“he asked you, and vasíli dmítrich * is also going.” + + * denísov. + +“where would i not go at the countess’ command!” said denísov, +who at the rostóvs’ had jocularly assumed the role of natásha’s +knight. “i’m even weady to dance the pas de châle.” + +“if i have time,” answered nicholas. “but i promised the +arkhárovs; they have a party.” + +“and you?” he asked dólokhov, but as soon as he had asked the +question he noticed that it should not have been put. + +“perhaps,” coldly and angrily replied dólokhov, glancing at sónya, +and, scowling, he gave nicholas just such a look as he had given pierre +at the club dinner. + +“there is something up,” thought nicholas, and he was further +confirmed in this conclusion by the fact that dólokhov left immediately +after dinner. he called natásha and asked her what was the matter. + +“and i was looking for you,” said natásha running out to him. “i +told you, but you would not believe it,” she said triumphantly. “he +has proposed to sónya!” + +little as nicholas had occupied himself with sónya of late, something +seemed to give way within him at this news. dólokhov was a suitable and +in some respects a brilliant match for the dowerless, orphan girl. from +the point of view of the old countess and of society it was out of the +question for her to refuse him. and therefore nicholas’ first feeling +on hearing the news was one of anger with sónya.... he tried to say, +“that’s capital; of course she’ll forget her childish promises +and accept the offer,” but before he had time to say it natásha began +again. + +“and fancy! she refused him quite definitely!” adding, after a +pause, “she told him she loved another.” + +“yes, my sónya could not have done otherwise!” thought nicholas. + +“much as mamma pressed her, she refused, and i know she won’t change +once she has said...” + +“and mamma pressed her!” said nicholas reproachfully. + +“yes,” said natásha. “do you know, nicholas—don’t be +angry—but i know you will not marry her. i know, heaven knows how, but +i know for certain that you won’t marry her.” + +“now you don’t know that at all!” said nicholas. “but i must +talk to her. what a darling sónya is!” he added with a smile. + +“ah, she is indeed a darling! i’ll send her to you.” + +and natásha kissed her brother and ran away. + +a minute later sónya came in with a frightened, guilty, and scared +look. nicholas went up to her and kissed her hand. this was the first +time since his return that they had talked alone and about their love. + +“sophie,” he began, timidly at first and then more and more +boldly, “if you wish to refuse one who is not only a brilliant and +advantageous match but a splendid, noble fellow... he is my friend...” + +sónya interrupted him. + +“i have already refused,” she said hurriedly. + +“if you are refusing for my sake, i am afraid that i...” + +sónya again interrupted. she gave him an imploring, frightened look. + +“nicholas, don’t tell me that!” she said. + +“no, but i must. it may be arrogant of me, but still it is best to say +it. if you refuse him on my account, i must tell you the whole truth. i +love you, and i think i love you more than anyone else....” + +“that is enough for me,” said sónya, blushing. + +“no, but i have been in love a thousand times and shall fall in +love again, though for no one have i such a feeling of friendship, +confidence, and love as i have for you. then i am young. mamma does +not wish it. in a word, i make no promise. and i beg you to consider +dólokhov’s offer,” he said, articulating his friend’s name with +difficulty. + +“don’t say that to me! i want nothing. i love you as a brother and +always shall, and i want nothing more.” + +“you are an angel: i am not worthy of you, but i am afraid of +misleading you.” + +and nicholas again kissed her hand. + + + + + +chapter xii + +iogel’s were the most enjoyable balls in moscow. so said the mothers +as they watched their young people executing their newly learned steps, +and so said the youths and maidens themselves as they danced till they +were ready to drop, and so said the grown-up young men and women who +came to these balls with an air of condescension and found them most +enjoyable. that year two marriages had come of these balls. the two +pretty young princesses gorchakóv met suitors there and were married +and so further increased the fame of these dances. what distinguished +them from others was the absence of host or hostess and the presence of +the good-natured iogel, flying about like a feather and bowing according +to the rules of his art, as he collected the tickets from all his +visitors. there was the fact that only those came who wished to dance +and amuse themselves as girls of thirteen and fourteen do who are +wearing long dresses for the first time. with scarcely any exceptions +they all were, or seemed to be, pretty—so rapturous were their smiles +and so sparkling their eyes. sometimes the best of the pupils, of whom +natásha, who was exceptionally graceful, was first, even danced the pas +de châle, but at this last ball only the écossaise, the anglaise, and +the mazurka, which was just coming into fashion, were danced. iogel had +taken a ballroom in bezúkhov’s house, and the ball, as everyone said, +was a great success. there were many pretty girls and the rostóv girls +were among the prettiest. they were both particularly happy and gay. +that evening, proud of dólokhov’s proposal, her refusal, and her +explanation with nicholas, sónya twirled about before she left home +so that the maid could hardly get her hair plaited, and she was +transparently radiant with impulsive joy. + +natásha no less proud of her first long dress and of being at a real +ball was even happier. they were both dressed in white muslin with pink +ribbons. + +natásha fell in love the very moment she entered the ballroom. she +was not in love with anyone in particular, but with everyone. whatever +person she happened to look at she was in love with for that moment. + +“oh, how delightful it is!” she kept saying, running up to sónya. + +nicholas and denísov were walking up and down, looking with kindly +patronage at the dancers. + +“how sweet she is—she will be a weal beauty!” said denísov. + +“who?” + +“countess natásha,” answered denísov. + +“and how she dances! what gwace!” he said again after a pause. + +“who are you talking about?” + +“about your sister,” ejaculated denísov testily. + +rostóv smiled. + +“my dear count, you were one of my best pupils—you must dance,” +said little iogel coming up to nicholas. “look how many charming young +ladies—” he turned with the same request to denísov who was also a +former pupil of his. + +“no, my dear fellow, i’ll be a wallflower,” said denísov. +“don’t you wecollect what bad use i made of your lessons?” + +“oh no!” said iogel, hastening to reassure him. “you were only +inattentive, but you had talent—oh yes, you had talent!” + +the band struck up the newly introduced mazurka. nicholas could not +refuse iogel and asked sónya to dance. denísov sat down by the old +ladies and, leaning on his saber and beating time with his foot, told +them something funny and kept them amused, while he watched the young +people dancing, iogel with natásha, his pride and his best pupil, were +the first couple. noiselessly, skillfully stepping with his little +feet in low shoes, iogel flew first across the hall with natásha, who, +though shy, went on carefully executing her steps. denísov did not +take his eyes off her and beat time with his saber in a way that clearly +indicated that if he was not dancing it was because he would not and not +because he could not. in the middle of a figure he beckoned to rostóv +who was passing: + +“this is not at all the thing,” he said. “what sort of polish +mazuwka is this? but she does dance splendidly.” + +knowing that denísov had a reputation even in poland for the masterly +way in which he danced the mazurka, nicholas ran up to natásha: + +“go and choose denísov. he is a real dancer, a wonder!” he said. + +when it came to natásha’s turn to choose a partner, she rose and, +tripping rapidly across in her little shoes trimmed with bows, ran +timidly to the corner where denísov sat. she saw that everybody was +looking at her and waiting. nicholas saw that denísov was refusing +though he smiled delightedly. he ran up to them. + +“please, vasíli dmítrich,” natásha was saying, “do come!” + +“oh no, let me off, countess,” denísov replied. + +“now then, váska,” said nicholas. + +“they coax me as if i were váska the cat!” said denísov jokingly. + +“i’ll sing for you a whole evening,” said natásha. + +“oh, the faiwy! she can do anything with me!” said denísov, and +he unhooked his saber. he came out from behind the chairs, clasped his +partner’s hand firmly, threw back his head, and advanced his foot, +waiting for the beat. only on horse back and in the mazurka was +denísov’s short stature not noticeable and he looked the fine fellow +he felt himself to be. at the right beat of the music he looked sideways +at his partner with a merry and triumphant air, suddenly stamped with +one foot, bounded from the floor like a ball, and flew round the room +taking his partner with him. he glided silently on one foot half across +the room, and seeming not to notice the chairs was dashing straight at +them, when suddenly, clinking his spurs and spreading out his legs, +he stopped short on his heels, stood so a second, stamped on the spot +clanking his spurs, whirled rapidly round, and, striking his left heel +against his right, flew round again in a circle. natásha guessed what +he meant to do, and abandoning herself to him followed his lead hardly +knowing how. first he spun her round, holding her now with his left, now +with his right hand, then falling on one knee he twirled her round him, +and again jumping up, dashed so impetuously forward that it seemed as if +he would rush through the whole suite of rooms without drawing breath, +and then he suddenly stopped and performed some new and unexpected +steps. when at last, smartly whirling his partner round in front of her +chair, he drew up with a click of his spurs and bowed to her, natásha +did not even make him a curtsy. she fixed her eyes on him in amazement, +smiling as if she did not recognize him. + +“what does this mean?” she brought out. + +although iogel did not acknowledge this to be the real mazurka, everyone +was delighted with denísov’s skill, he was asked again and again as +a partner, and the old men began smilingly to talk about poland and the +good old days. denísov, flushed after the mazurka and mopping himself +with his handkerchief, sat down by natásha and did not leave her for +the rest of the evening. + + + + + +chapter xiii + +for two days after that rostóv did not see dólokhov at his own or at +dólokhov’s home: on the third day he received a note from him: + +as i do not intend to be at your house again for reasons you know +of, and am going to rejoin my regiment, i am giving a farewell supper +tonight to my friends—come to the english hotel. + +about ten o’clock rostóv went to the english hotel straight from the +theater, where he had been with his family and denísov. he was at once +shown to the best room, which dólokhov had taken for that evening. some +twenty men were gathered round a table at which dólokhov sat between +two candles. on the table was a pile of gold and paper money, and he +was keeping the bank. rostóv had not seen him since his proposal and +sónya’s refusal and felt uncomfortable at the thought of how they +would meet. + +dólokhov’s clear, cold glance met rostóv as soon as he entered the +door, as though he had long expected him. + +“it’s a long time since we met,” he said. “thanks for coming. +i’ll just finish dealing, and then ilyúshka will come with his +chorus.” + +“i called once or twice at your house,” said rostóv, reddening. + +dólokhov made no reply. + +“you may punt,” he said. + +rostóv recalled at that moment a strange conversation he had once had +with dólokhov. “none but fools trust to luck in play,” dólokhov +had then said. + +“or are you afraid to play with me?” dólokhov now asked as if +guessing rostóv’s thought. + +beneath his smile rostóv saw in him the mood he had shown at the club +dinner and at other times, when as if tired of everyday life he had felt +a need to escape from it by some strange, and usually cruel, action. + +rostóv felt ill at ease. he tried, but failed, to find some joke with +which to reply to dólokhov’s words. but before he had thought of +anything, dólokhov, looking straight in his face, said slowly and +deliberately so that everyone could hear: + +“do you remember we had a talk about cards... ‘he’s a fool who +trusts to luck, one should make certain,’ and i want to try.” + +“to try his luck or the certainty?” rostóv asked himself. + +“well, you’d better not play,” dólokhov added, and springing a +new pack of cards said: “bank, gentlemen!” + +moving the money forward he prepared to deal. rostóv sat down by his +side and at first did not play. dólokhov kept glancing at him. + +“why don’t you play?” he asked. + +and strange to say nicholas felt that he could not help taking up a +card, putting a small stake on it, and beginning to play. + +“i have no money with me,” he said. + +“i’ll trust you.” + +rostóv staked five rubles on a card and lost, staked again, and again +lost. dólokhov “killed,” that is, beat, ten cards of rostóv’s +running. + +“gentlemen,” said dólokhov after he had dealt for some time. +“please place your money on the cards or i may get muddled in the +reckoning.” + +one of the players said he hoped he might be trusted. + +“yes, you might, but i am afraid of getting the accounts mixed. so i +ask you to put the money on your cards,” replied dólokhov. “don’t +stint yourself, we’ll settle afterwards,” he added, turning to +rostóv. + +the game continued; a waiter kept handing round champagne. + +all rostóv’s cards were beaten and he had eight hundred rubles scored +up against him. he wrote “800 rubles” on a card, but while the +waiter filled his glass he changed his mind and altered it to his usual +stake of twenty rubles. + +“leave it,” said dólokhov, though he did not seem to be even +looking at rostóv, “you’ll win it back all the sooner. i lose to +the others but win from you. or are you afraid of me?” he asked again. + +rostóv submitted. he let the eight hundred remain and laid down a seven +of hearts with a torn corner, which he had picked up from the floor. he +well remembered that seven afterwards. he laid down the seven of hearts, +on which with a broken bit of chalk he had written “800 rubles” in +clear upright figures; he emptied the glass of warm champagne that was +handed him, smiled at dólokhov’s words, and with a sinking heart, +waiting for a seven to turn up, gazed at dólokhov’s hands which held +the pack. much depended on rostóv’s winning or losing on that seven +of hearts. on the previous sunday the old count had given his son +two thousand rubles, and though he always disliked speaking of money +difficulties had told nicholas that this was all he could let him have +till may, and asked him to be more economical this time. nicholas had +replied that it would be more than enough for him and that he gave his +word of honor not to take anything more till the spring. now only twelve +hundred rubles was left of that money, so that this seven of hearts +meant for him not only the loss of sixteen hundred rubles, but the +necessity of going back on his word. with a sinking heart he watched +dólokhov’s hands and thought, “now then, make haste and let me have +this card and i’ll take my cap and drive home to supper with denísov, +natásha, and sónya, and will certainly never touch a card again.” at +that moment his home life, jokes with pétya, talks with sónya, duets +with natásha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed +in the house on the povarskáya rose before him with such vividness, +clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and +unappreciated bliss, long past. he could not conceive that a stupid +chance, letting the seven be dealt to the right rather than to the left, +might deprive him of all this happiness, newly appreciated and newly +illumined, and plunge him into the depths of unknown and undefined +misery. that could not be, yet he awaited with a sinking heart the +movement of dólokhov’s hands. those broad, reddish hands, with hairy +wrists visible from under the shirt cuffs, laid down the pack and took +up a glass and a pipe that were handed him. + +“so you are not afraid to play with me?” repeated dólokhov, and as +if about to tell a good story he put down the cards, leaned back in his +chair, and began deliberately with a smile: + +“yes, gentlemen, i’ve been told there’s a rumor going about moscow +that i’m a sharper, so i advise you to be careful.” + +“come now, deal!” exclaimed rostóv. + +“oh, those moscow gossips!” said dólokhov, and he took up the cards +with a smile. + +“aah!” rostóv almost screamed lifting both hands to his head. the +seven he needed was lying uppermost, the first card in the pack. he had +lost more than he could pay. + +“still, don’t ruin yourself!” said dólokhov with a side glance at +rostóv as he continued to deal. + + + + + +chapter xiv + +an hour and a half later most of the players were but little interested +in their own play. + +the whole interest was concentrated on rostóv. instead of sixteen +hundred rubles he had a long column of figures scored against him, +which he had reckoned up to ten thousand, but that now, as he vaguely +supposed, must have risen to fifteen thousand. in reality it already +exceeded twenty thousand rubles. dólokhov was no longer listening to +stories or telling them, but followed every movement of rostóv’s +hands and occasionally ran his eyes over the score against him. he had +decided to play until that score reached forty-three thousand. he +had fixed on that number because forty-three was the sum of his and +sónya’s joint ages. rostóv, leaning his head on both hands, sat at +the table which was scrawled over with figures, wet with spilled wine, +and littered with cards. one tormenting impression did not leave him: +that those broad-boned reddish hands with hairy wrists visible from +under the shirt sleeves, those hands which he loved and hated, held him +in their power. + +“six hundred rubles, ace, a corner, a nine... winning it back’s +impossible... oh, how pleasant it was at home!... the knave, double or +quits... it can’t be!... and why is he doing this to me?” rostóv +pondered. sometimes he staked a large sum, but dólokhov refused to +accept it and fixed the stake himself. nicholas submitted to him, and at +one moment prayed to god as he had done on the battlefield at the bridge +over the enns, and then guessed that the card that came first to hand +from the crumpled heap under the table would save him, now counted the +cords on his coat and took a card with that number and tried staking the +total of his losses on it, then he looked round for aid from the other +players, or peered at the now cold face of dólokhov and tried to read +what was passing in his mind. + +“he knows of course what this loss means to me. he can’t want my +ruin. wasn’t he my friend? wasn’t i fond of him? but it’s not his +fault. what’s he to do if he has such luck?... and it’s not my fault +either,” he thought to himself, “i have done nothing wrong. have i +killed anyone, or insulted or wished harm to anyone? why such a terrible +misfortune? and when did it begin? such a little while ago i came to +this table with the thought of winning a hundred rubles to buy that +casket for mamma’s name day and then going home. i was so happy, so +free, so lighthearted! and i did not realize how happy i was! when did +that end and when did this new, terrible state of things begin? what +marked the change? i sat all the time in this same place at this table, +chose and placed cards, and watched those broad-boned agile hands in the +same way. when did it happen and what has happened? i am well and strong +and still the same and in the same place. no, it can’t be! surely it +will all end in nothing!” + +he was flushed and bathed in perspiration, though the room was not hot. +his face was terrible and piteous to see, especially from its helpless +efforts to seem calm. + +the score against him reached the fateful sum of forty-three thousand. +rostóv had just prepared a card, by bending the corner of which he +meant to double the three thousand just put down to his score, when +dólokhov, slamming down the pack of cards, put it aside and began +rapidly adding up the total of rostóv’s debt, breaking the chalk as +he marked the figures in his clear, bold hand. + +“supper, it’s time for supper! and here are the gypsies!” + +some swarthy men and women were really entering from the cold outside +and saying something in their gypsy accents. nicholas understood that it +was all over; but he said in an indifferent tone: + +“well, won’t you go on? i had a splendid card all ready,” as if it +were the fun of the game which interested him most. + +“it’s all up! i’m lost!” thought he. “now a bullet through my +brain—that’s all that’s left me!” and at the same time he said +in a cheerful voice: + +“come now, just this one more little card!” + +“all right!” said dólokhov, having finished the addition. “all +right! twenty-one rubles,” he said, pointing to the figure twenty-one +by which the total exceeded the round sum of forty-three thousand; and +taking up a pack he prepared to deal. rostóv submissively unbent the +corner of his card and, instead of the six thousand he had intended, +carefully wrote twenty-one. + +“it’s all the same to me,” he said. “i only want to see whether +you will let me win this ten, or beat it.” + +dólokhov began to deal seriously. oh, how rostóv detested at that +moment those hands with their short reddish fingers and hairy wrists, +which held him in their power.... the ten fell to him. + +“you owe forty-three thousand, count,” said dólokhov, and +stretching himself he rose from the table. “one does get tired sitting +so long,” he added. + +“yes, i’m tired too,” said rostóv. + +dólokhov cut him short, as if to remind him that it was not for him to +jest. + +“when am i to receive the money, count?” + +rostóv, flushing, drew dólokhov into the next room. + +“i cannot pay it all immediately. will you take an i.o.u.?” he said. + +“i say, rostóv,” said dólokhov clearly, smiling and looking +nicholas straight in the eyes, “you know the saying, ‘lucky in love, +unlucky at cards.’ your cousin is in love with you, i know.” + +“oh, it’s terrible to feel oneself so in this man’s power,” +thought rostóv. he knew what a shock he would inflict on his father and +mother by the news of this loss, he knew what a relief it would be to +escape it all, and felt that dólokhov knew that he could save him from +all this shame and sorrow, but wanted now to play with him as a cat does +with a mouse. + +“your cousin...” dólokhov started to say, but nicholas interrupted +him. + +“my cousin has nothing to do with this and it’s not necessary to +mention her!” he exclaimed fiercely. + +“then when am i to have it?” + +“tomorrow,” replied rostóv and left the room. + + + + + +chapter xv + +to say “tomorrow” and keep up a dignified tone was not difficult, +but to go home alone, see his sisters, brother, mother, and father, +confess and ask for money he had no right to after giving his word of +honor, was terrible. + +at home, they had not yet gone to bed. the young people, after returning +from the theater, had had supper and were grouped round the clavichord. +as soon as nicholas entered, he was enfolded in that poetic atmosphere +of love which pervaded the rostóv household that winter and, now after +dólokhov’s proposal and iogel’s ball, seemed to have grown thicker +round sónya and natásha as the air does before a thunderstorm. sónya +and natásha, in the light-blue dresses they had worn at the theater, +looking pretty and conscious of it, were standing by the clavichord, +happy and smiling. véra was playing chess with shinshín in the drawing +room. the old countess, waiting for the return of her husband and son, +sat playing patience with the old gentlewoman who lived in their house. +denísov, with sparkling eyes and ruffled hair, sat at the clavichord +striking chords with his short fingers, his legs thrown back and his +eyes rolling as he sang, with his small, husky, but true voice, some +verses called “enchantress,” which he had composed, and to which he +was trying to fit music: + + enchantress, say, to my forsaken lyre + what magic power is this recalls me still? + what spark has set my inmost soul on fire, + what is this bliss that makes my fingers thrill? + +he was singing in passionate tones, gazing with his sparkling +black-agate eyes at the frightened and happy natásha. + +“splendid! excellent!” exclaimed natásha. “another verse,” she +said, without noticing nicholas. + +“everything’s still the same with them,” thought nicholas, +glancing into the drawing room, where he saw véra and his mother with +the old lady. + +“ah, and here’s nicholas!” cried natásha, running up to him. + +“is papa at home?” he asked. + +“i am so glad you’ve come!” said natásha, without answering him. +“we are enjoying ourselves! vasíli dmítrich is staying a day longer +for my sake! did you know?” + +“no, papa is not back yet,” said sónya. + +“nicholas, have you come? come here, dear!” called the old countess +from the drawing room. + +nicholas went to her, kissed her hand, and sitting down silently at her +table began to watch her hands arranging the cards. from the dancing +room, they still heard the laughter and merry voices trying to persuade +natásha to sing. + +“all wight! all wight!” shouted denísov. “it’s no good making +excuses now! it’s your turn to sing the ba’cawolla—i entweat +you!” + +the countess glanced at her silent son. + +“what is the matter?” she asked. + +“oh, nothing,” said he, as if weary of being continually asked the +same question. “will papa be back soon?” + +“i expect so.” + +“everything’s the same with them. they know nothing about it! where +am i to go?” thought nicholas, and went again into the dancing room +where the clavichord stood. + +sónya was sitting at the clavichord, playing the prelude to +denísov’s favorite barcarolle. natásha was preparing to sing. +denísov was looking at her with enraptured eyes. + +nicholas began pacing up and down the room. + +“why do they want to make her sing? how can she sing? there’s +nothing to be happy about!” thought he. + +sónya struck the first chord of the prelude. + +“my god, i’m a ruined and dishonored man! a bullet through my brain +is the only thing left me—not singing!” his thoughts ran on. “go +away? but where to? it’s one—let them sing!” + +he continued to pace the room, looking gloomily at denísov and the +girls and avoiding their eyes. + +“nikólenka, what is the matter?” sónya’s eyes fixed on him +seemed to ask. she noticed at once that something had happened to him. + +nicholas turned away from her. natásha too, with her quick instinct, +had instantly noticed her brother’s condition. but, though she noticed +it, she was herself in such high spirits at that moment, so far from +sorrow, sadness, or self-reproach, that she purposely deceived herself +as young people often do. “no, i am too happy now to spoil my +enjoyment by sympathy with anyone’s sorrow,” she felt, and she said +to herself: “no, i must be mistaken, he must be feeling happy, just as +i am.” + +“now, sónya!” she said, going to the very middle of the room, where +she considered the resonance was best. + +having lifted her head and let her arms droop lifelessly, as ballet +dancers do, natásha, rising energetically from her heels to her toes, +stepped to the middle of the room and stood still. + +“yes, that’s me!” she seemed to say, answering the rapt gaze with +which denísov followed her. + +“and what is she so pleased about?” thought nicholas, looking at his +sister. “why isn’t she dull and ashamed?” + +natásha took the first note, her throat swelled, her chest rose, +her eyes became serious. at that moment she was oblivious of her +surroundings, and from her smiling lips flowed sounds which anyone may +produce at the same intervals and hold for the same time, but which +leave you cold a thousand times and the thousand and first time thrill +you and make you weep. + +natásha, that winter, had for the first time begun to sing seriously, +mainly because denísov so delighted in her singing. she no longer sang +as a child, there was no longer in her singing that comical, childish, +painstaking effect that had been in it before; but she did not yet sing +well, as all the connoisseurs who heard her said: “it is not trained, +but it is a beautiful voice that must be trained.” only they generally +said this some time after she had finished singing. while that untrained +voice, with its incorrect breathing and labored transitions, was +sounding, even the connoisseurs said nothing, but only delighted in +it and wished to hear it again. in her voice there was a virginal +freshness, an unconsciousness of her own powers, and an as yet untrained +velvety softness, which so mingled with her lack of art in singing that +it seemed as if nothing in that voice could be altered without spoiling +it. + +“what is this?” thought nicholas, listening to her with widely +opened eyes. “what has happened to her? how she is singing today!” +and suddenly the whole world centered for him on anticipation of the +next note, the next phrase, and everything in the world was divided into +three beats: “oh mio crudele affetto.”... one, two, three... one, +two, three... one... “oh mio crudele affetto.”... one, two, three... +one. “oh, this senseless life of ours!” thought nicholas. “all +this misery, and money, and dólokhov, and anger, and honor—it’s all +nonsense... but this is real.... now then, natásha, now then, dearest! +now then, darling! how will she take that si? she’s taken it! thank +god!” and without noticing that he was singing, to strengthen the si +he sung a second, a third below the high note. “ah, god! how fine! did +i really take it? how fortunate!” he thought. + +oh, how that chord vibrated, and how moved was something that was finest +in rostóv’s soul! and this something was apart from everything else +in the world and above everything in the world. “what were losses, and +dólokhov, and words of honor?... all nonsense! one might kill and rob +and yet be happy....” + + + + + +chapter xvi + +it was long since rostóv had felt such enjoyment from music as he +did that day. but no sooner had natásha finished her barcarolle than +reality again presented itself. he got up without saying a word and went +downstairs to his own room. a quarter of an hour later the old count +came in from his club, cheerful and contented. nicholas, hearing him +drive up, went to meet him. + +“well—had a good time?” said the old count, smiling gaily and +proudly at his son. + +nicholas tried to say “yes,” but could not: and he nearly burst into +sobs. the count was lighting his pipe and did not notice his son’s +condition. + +“ah, it can’t be avoided!” thought nicholas, for the first and +last time. and suddenly, in the most casual tone, which made him feel +ashamed of himself, he said, as if merely asking his father to let him +have the carriage to drive to town: + +“papa, i have come on a matter of business. i was nearly forgetting. i +need some money.” + +“dear me!” said his father, who was in a specially good humor. “i +told you it would not be enough. how much?” + +“very much,” said nicholas flushing, and with a stupid careless +smile, for which he was long unable to forgive himself, “i have lost a +little, i mean a good deal, a great deal—forty three thousand.” + +“what! to whom?... nonsense!” cried the count, suddenly reddening +with an apoplectic flush over neck and nape as old people do. + +“i promised to pay tomorrow,” said nicholas. + +“well!...” said the old count, spreading out his arms and sinking +helplessly on the sofa. + +“it can’t be helped! it happens to everyone!” said the son, with +a bold, free, and easy tone, while in his soul he regarded himself as a +worthless scoundrel whose whole life could not atone for his crime. he +longed to kiss his father’s hands and kneel to beg his forgiveness, +but said, in a careless and even rude voice, that it happens to +everyone! + +the old count cast down his eyes on hearing his son’s words and began +bustlingly searching for something. + +“yes, yes,” he muttered, “it will be difficult, i fear, difficult +to raise... happens to everybody! yes, who has not done it?” + +and with a furtive glance at his son’s face, the count went out of the +room.... nicholas had been prepared for resistance, but had not at all +expected this. + +“papa! pa-pa!” he called after him, sobbing, “forgive me!” and +seizing his father’s hand, he pressed it to his lips and burst into +tears. + +while father and son were having their explanation, the mother and +daughter were having one not less important. natásha came running to +her mother, quite excited. + +“mamma!... mamma!... he has made me...” + +“made what?” + +“made, made me an offer, mamma! mamma!” she exclaimed. + +the countess did not believe her ears. denísov had proposed. to whom? +to this chit of a girl, natásha, who not so long ago was playing with +dolls and who was still having lessons. + +“don’t, natásha! what nonsense!” she said, hoping it was a joke. + +“nonsense, indeed! i am telling you the fact,” said natásha +indignantly. “i come to ask you what to do, and you call it +‘nonsense!’” + +the countess shrugged her shoulders. + +“if it is true that monsieur denísov has made you a proposal, tell +him he is a fool, that’s all!” + +“no, he’s not a fool!” replied natásha indignantly and seriously. + +“well then, what do you want? you’re all in love nowadays. well, +if you are in love, marry him!” said the countess, with a laugh of +annoyance. “good luck to you!” + +“no, mamma, i’m not in love with him, i suppose i’m not in love +with him.” + +“well then, tell him so.” + +“mamma, are you cross? don’t be cross, dear! is it my fault?” + +“no, but what is it, my dear? do you want me to go and tell him?” +said the countess smiling. + +“no, i will do it myself, only tell me what to say. it’s all very +well for you,” said natásha, with a responsive smile. “you should +have seen how he said it! i know he did not mean to say it, but it came +out accidently.” + +“well, all the same, you must refuse him.” + +“no, i mustn’t. i am so sorry for him! he’s so nice.” + +“well then, accept his offer. it’s high time for you to be +married,” answered the countess sharply and sarcastically. + +“no, mamma, but i’m so sorry for him. i don’t know how i’m to +say it.” + +“and there’s nothing for you to say. i shall speak to him myself,” +said the countess, indignant that they should have dared to treat this +little natásha as grown up. + +“no, not on any account! i will tell him myself, and you’ll listen +at the door,” and natásha ran across the drawing room to the dancing +hall, where denísov was sitting on the same chair by the clavichord +with his face in his hands. + +he jumped up at the sound of her light step. + +“nataly,” he said, moving with rapid steps toward her, “decide my +fate. it is in your hands.” + +“vasíli dmítrich, i’m so sorry for you!... no, but you are so +nice... but it won’t do...not that... but as a friend, i shall always +love you.” + +denísov bent over her hand and she heard strange sounds she did not +understand. she kissed his rough curly black head. at this instant, they +heard the quick rustle of the countess’ dress. she came up to them. + +“vasíli dmítrich, i thank you for the honor,” she said, with an +embarrassed voice, though it sounded severe to denísov—“but my +daughter is so young, and i thought that, as my son’s friend, you +would have addressed yourself first to me. in that case you would not +have obliged me to give this refusal.” + +“countess...” said denísov, with downcast eyes and a guilty face. +he tried to say more, but faltered. + +natásha could not remain calm, seeing him in such a plight. she began +to sob aloud. + +“countess, i have done w’ong,” denísov went on in an unsteady +voice, “but believe me, i so adore your daughter and all your family +that i would give my life twice over...” he looked at the countess, +and seeing her severe face said: “well, good-by, countess,” and +kissing her hand, he left the room with quick resolute strides, without +looking at natásha. + + +next day rostóv saw denísov off. he did not wish to stay another +day in moscow. all denísov’s moscow friends gave him a farewell +entertainment at the gypsies’, with the result that he had no +recollection of how he was put in the sleigh or of the first three +stages of his journey. + +after denísov’s departure, rostóv spent another fortnight in moscow, +without going out of the house, waiting for the money his father could +not at once raise, and he spent most of his time in the girls’ room. + +sónya was more tender and devoted to him than ever. it was as if she +wanted to show him that his losses were an achievement that made her +love him all the more, but nicholas now considered himself unworthy of +her. + +he filled the girls’ albums with verses and music, and having at last +sent dólokhov the whole forty-three thousand rubles and received his +receipt, he left at the end of november, without taking leave of any of +his acquaintances, to overtake his regiment which was already in poland. + + + + + +book five: 1806 - 07 + + + + + +chapter i + +after his interview with his wife pierre left for petersburg. at the +torzhók post station, either there were no horses or the postmaster +would not supply them. pierre was obliged to wait. without undressing, +he lay down on the leather sofa in front of a round table, put his big +feet in their overboots on the table, and began to reflect. + +“will you have the portmanteaus brought in? and a bed got ready, and +tea?” asked his valet. + +pierre gave no answer, for he neither heard nor saw anything. he had +begun to think of the last station and was still pondering on the same +question—one so important that he took no notice of what went +on around him. not only was he indifferent as to whether he got to +petersburg earlier or later, or whether he secured accommodation at this +station, but compared to the thoughts that now occupied him it was a +matter of indifference whether he remained there for a few hours or for +the rest of his life. + +the postmaster, his wife, the valet, and a peasant woman selling +torzhók embroidery came into the room offering their services. +without changing his careless attitude, pierre looked at them over his +spectacles unable to understand what they wanted or how they could go on +living without having solved the problems that so absorbed him. he had +been engrossed by the same thoughts ever since the day he returned from +sokólniki after the duel and had spent that first agonizing, sleepless +night. but now, in the solitude of the journey, they seized him with +special force. no matter what he thought about, he always returned to +these same questions which he could not solve and yet could not cease to +ask himself. it was as if the thread of the chief screw which held his +life together were stripped, so that the screw could not get in or out, +but went on turning uselessly in the same place. + +the postmaster came in and began obsequiously to beg his excellency to +wait only two hours, when, come what might, he would let his excellency +have the courier horses. it was plain that he was lying and only wanted +to get more money from the traveler. + +“is this good or bad?” pierre asked himself. “it is good for me, +bad for another traveler, and for himself it’s unavoidable, because +he needs money for food; the man said an officer had once given him a +thrashing for letting a private traveler have the courier horses. +but the officer thrashed him because he had to get on as quickly as +possible. and i,” continued pierre, “shot dólokhov because i +considered myself injured, and louis xvi was executed because they +considered him a criminal, and a year later they executed those who +executed him—also for some reason. what is bad? what is good? what +should one love and what hate? what does one live for? and what am i? +what is life, and what is death? what power governs all?” + +there was no answer to any of these questions, except one, and that +not a logical answer and not at all a reply to them. the answer was: +“you’ll die and all will end. you’ll die and know all, or cease +asking.” but dying was also dreadful. + +the torzhók peddler woman, in a whining voice, went on offering her +wares, especially a pair of goatskin slippers. “i have hundreds of +rubles i don’t know what to do with, and she stands in her tattered +cloak looking timidly at me,” he thought. “and what does she +want the money for? as if that money could add a hair’s breadth to +happiness or peace of mind. can anything in the world make her or me +less a prey to evil and death?—death which ends all and must come +today or tomorrow—at any rate, in an instant as compared with +eternity.” and again he twisted the screw with the stripped thread, +and again it turned uselessly in the same place. + +his servant handed him a half-cut novel, in the form of letters, by +madame de souza. he began reading about the sufferings and virtuous +struggles of a certain emilie de mansfeld. “and why did she resist +her seducer when she loved him?” he thought. “god could not have put +into her heart an impulse that was against his will. my wife—as she +once was—did not struggle, and perhaps she was right. nothing has been +found out, nothing discovered,” pierre again said to himself. “all +we can know is that we know nothing. and that’s the height of human +wisdom.” + +everything within and around him seemed confused, senseless, and +repellent. yet in this very repugnance to all his circumstances pierre +found a kind of tantalizing satisfaction. + +“i make bold to ask your excellency to move a little for this +gentleman,” said the postmaster, entering the room followed by another +traveler, also detained for lack of horses. + +the newcomer was a short, large-boned, yellow-faced, wrinkled old +man, with gray bushy eyebrows overhanging bright eyes of an indefinite +grayish color. + +pierre took his feet off the table, stood up, and lay down on a bed that +had been got ready for him, glancing now and then at the newcomer, who, +with a gloomy and tired face, was wearily taking off his wraps with the +aid of his servant, and not looking at pierre. with a pair of felt boots +on his thin bony legs, and keeping on a worn, nankeen-covered, sheepskin +coat, the traveler sat down on the sofa, leaned back his big head with +its broad temples and close-cropped hair, and looked at bezúkhov. the +stern, shrewd, and penetrating expression of that look struck pierre. he +felt a wish to speak to the stranger, but by the time he had made up his +mind to ask him a question about the roads, the traveler had closed his +eyes. his shriveled old hands were folded and on the finger of one of +them pierre noticed a large cast iron ring with a seal representing a +death’s head. the stranger sat without stirring, either resting or, as +it seemed to pierre, sunk in profound and calm meditation. his servant +was also a yellow, wrinkled old man, without beard or mustache, +evidently not because he was shaven but because they had never grown. +this active old servant was unpacking the traveler’s canteen and +preparing tea. he brought in a boiling samovar. when everything was +ready, the stranger opened his eyes, moved to the table, filled a +tumbler with tea for himself and one for the beardless old man to whom +he passed it. pierre began to feel a sense of uneasiness, and the +need, even the inevitability, of entering into conversation with this +stranger. + +the servant brought back his tumbler turned upside down, * with an +unfinished bit of nibbled sugar, and asked if anything more would be +wanted. + + * to indicate he did not want more tea. + +“no. give me the book,” said the stranger. + +the servant handed him a book which pierre took to be a devotional work, +and the traveler became absorbed in it. pierre looked at him. all at +once the stranger closed the book, putting in a marker, and again, +leaning with his arms on the back of the sofa, sat in his former +position with his eyes shut. pierre looked at him and had not time +to turn away when the old man, opening his eyes, fixed his steady and +severe gaze straight on pierre’s face. + +pierre felt confused and wished to avoid that look, but the bright old +eyes attracted him irresistibly. + + + + + +chapter ii + +“i have the pleasure of addressing count bezúkhov, if i am not +mistaken,” said the stranger in a deliberate and loud voice. + +pierre looked silently and inquiringly at him over his spectacles. + +“i have heard of you, my dear sir,” continued the stranger, “and +of your misfortune.” he seemed to emphasize the last word, as if to +say—“yes, misfortune! call it what you please, i know that what +happened to you in moscow was a misfortune.”—“i regret it very +much, my dear sir.” + +pierre flushed and, hurriedly putting his legs down from the bed, bent +forward toward the old man with a forced and timid smile. + +“i have not referred to this out of curiosity, my dear sir, but for +greater reasons.” + +he paused, his gaze still on pierre, and moved aside on the sofa by way +of inviting the other to take a seat beside him. pierre felt reluctant +to enter into conversation with this old man, but, submitting to him +involuntarily, came up and sat down beside him. + +“you are unhappy, my dear sir,” the stranger continued. “you +are young and i am old. i should like to help you as far as lies in my +power.” + +“oh, yes!” said pierre, with a forced smile. “i am very grateful +to you. where are you traveling from?” + +the stranger’s face was not genial, it was even cold and severe, but +in spite of this, both the face and words of his new acquaintance were +irresistibly attractive to pierre. + +“but if for any reason you don’t feel inclined to talk to me,” +said the old man, “say so, my dear sir.” and he suddenly smiled, in +an unexpected and tenderly paternal way. + +“oh no, not at all! on the contrary, i am very glad to make your +acquaintance,” said pierre. and again, glancing at the stranger’s +hands, he looked more closely at the ring, with its skull—a masonic +sign. + +“allow me to ask,” he said, “are you a mason?” + +“yes, i belong to the brotherhood of the freemasons,” said the +stranger, looking deeper and deeper into pierre’s eyes. “and in +their name and my own i hold out a brotherly hand to you.” + +“i am afraid,” said pierre, smiling, and wavering between the +confidence the personality of the freemason inspired in him and his own +habit of ridiculing the masonic beliefs—“i am afraid i am very far +from understanding—how am i to put it?—i am afraid my way of looking +at the world is so opposed to yours that we shall not understand one +another.” + +“i know your outlook,” said the mason, “and the view of life you +mention, and which you think is the result of your own mental efforts, +is the one held by the majority of people, and is the invariable fruit +of pride, indolence, and ignorance. forgive me, my dear sir, but if i +had not known it i should not have addressed you. your view of life is a +regrettable delusion.” + +“just as i may suppose you to be deluded,” said pierre, with a faint +smile. + +“i should never dare to say that i know the truth,” said the mason, +whose words struck pierre more and more by their precision and firmness. +“no one can attain to truth by himself. only by laying stone on stone +with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our +forefather adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be +a worthy dwelling place of the great god,” he added, and closed his +eyes. + +“i ought to tell you that i do not believe... do not believe in +god,” said pierre, regretfully and with an effort, feeling it +essential to speak the whole truth. + +the mason looked intently at pierre and smiled as a rich man with +millions in hand might smile at a poor fellow who told him that he, poor +man, had not the five rubles that would make him happy. + +“yes, you do not know him, my dear sir,” said the mason. “you +cannot know him. you do not know him and that is why you are unhappy.” + +“yes, yes, i am unhappy,” assented pierre. “but what am i to +do?” + +“you know him not, my dear sir, and so you are very unhappy. you do +not know him, but he is here, he is in me, he is in my words, he is in +thee, and even in those blasphemous words thou hast just uttered!” +pronounced the mason in a stern and tremulous voice. + +he paused and sighed, evidently trying to calm himself. + +“if he were not,” he said quietly, “you and i would not be +speaking of him, my dear sir. of what, of whom, are we speaking? whom +hast thou denied?” he suddenly asked with exulting austerity and +authority in his voice. “who invented him, if he did not exist? whence +came thy conception of the existence of such an incomprehensible being? +didst thou, and why did the whole world, conceive the idea of the +existence of such an incomprehensible being, a being all-powerful, +eternal, and infinite in all his attributes?...” + +he stopped and remained silent for a long time. + +pierre could not and did not wish to break this silence. + +“he exists, but to understand him is hard,” the mason began again, +looking not at pierre but straight before him, and turning the leaves +of his book with his old hands which from excitement he could not keep +still. “if it were a man whose existence thou didst doubt i could +bring him to thee, could take him by the hand and show him to thee. but +how can i, an insignificant mortal, show his omnipotence, his infinity, +and all his mercy to one who is blind, or who shuts his eyes that he may +not see or understand him and may not see or understand his own vileness +and sinfulness?” he paused again. “who art thou? thou dreamest that +thou art wise because thou couldst utter those blasphemous words,” he +went on, with a somber and scornful smile. “and thou art more foolish +and unreasonable than a little child, who, playing with the parts of a +skillfully made watch, dares to say that, as he does not understand +its use, he does not believe in the master who made it. to know him is +hard.... for ages, from our forefather adam to our own day, we labor to +attain that knowledge and are still infinitely far from our aim; but +in our lack of understanding we see only our weakness and his +greatness....” + +pierre listened with swelling heart, gazing into the mason’s face with +shining eyes, not interrupting or questioning him, but believing with +his whole soul what the stranger said. whether he accepted the wise +reasoning contained in the mason’s words, or believed as a child +believes, in the speaker’s tone of conviction and earnestness, or +the tremor of the speaker’s voice—which sometimes almost broke—or +those brilliant aged eyes grown old in this conviction, or the calm +firmness and certainty of his vocation, which radiated from his whole +being (and which struck pierre especially by contrast with his own +dejection and hopelessness)—at any rate, pierre longed with his whole +soul to believe and he did believe, and felt a joyful sense of comfort, +regeneration, and return to life. + +“he is not to be apprehended by reason, but by life,” said the +mason. + +“i do not understand,” said pierre, feeling with dismay doubts +reawakening. he was afraid of any want of clearness, any weakness, in +the mason’s arguments; he dreaded not to be able to believe in him. +“i don’t understand,” he said, “how it is that the mind of man +cannot attain the knowledge of which you speak.” + +the mason smiled with his gentle fatherly smile. + +“the highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish +to imbibe,” he said. “can i receive that pure liquid into an impure +vessel and judge of its purity? only by the inner purification of myself +can i retain in some degree of purity the liquid i receive.” + +“yes, yes, that is so,” said pierre joyfully. + +“the highest wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those +worldly sciences of physics, history, chemistry, and the like, into +which intellectual knowledge is divided. the highest wisdom is one. +the highest wisdom has but one science—the science of the whole—the +science explaining the whole creation and man’s place in it. to +receive that science it is necessary to purify and renew one’s inner +self, and so before one can know, it is necessary to believe and to +perfect one’s self. and to attain this end, we have the light called +conscience that god has implanted in our souls.” + +“yes, yes,” assented pierre. + +“look then at thy inner self with the eyes of the spirit, and ask +thyself whether thou art content with thyself. what hast thou attained +relying on reason only? what art thou? you are young, you are rich, you +are clever, you are well educated. and what have you done with all these +good gifts? are you content with yourself and with your life?” + +“no, i hate my life,” pierre muttered, wincing. + +“thou hatest it. then change it, purify thyself; and as thou art +purified, thou wilt gain wisdom. look at your life, my dear sir. +how have you spent it? in riotous orgies and debauchery, receiving +everything from society and giving nothing in return. you have become +the possessor of wealth. how have you used it? what have you done +for your neighbor? have you ever thought of your tens of thousands +of slaves? have you helped them physically and morally? no! you have +profited by their toil to lead a profligate life. that is what you have +done. have you chosen a post in which you might be of service to your +neighbor? no! you have spent your life in idleness. then you married, my +dear sir—took on yourself responsibility for the guidance of a young +woman; and what have you done? you have not helped her to find the way +of truth, my dear sir, but have thrust her into an abyss of deceit and +misery. a man offended you and you shot him, and you say you do not +know god and hate your life. there is nothing strange in that, my dear +sir!” + +after these words, the mason, as if tired by his long discourse, again +leaned his arms on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes. pierre +looked at that aged, stern, motionless, almost lifeless face and moved +his lips without uttering a sound. he wished to say, “yes, a vile, +idle, vicious life!” but dared not break the silence. + +the mason cleared his throat huskily, as old men do, and called his +servant. + +“how about the horses?” he asked, without looking at pierre. + +“the exchange horses have just come,” answered the servant. “will +you not rest here?” + +“no, tell them to harness.” + +“can he really be going away leaving me alone without having told me +all, and without promising to help me?” thought pierre, rising with +downcast head; and he began to pace the room, glancing occasionally at +the mason. “yes, i never thought of it, but i have led a contemptible +and profligate life, though i did not like it and did not want to,” +thought pierre. “but this man knows the truth and, if he wished to, +could disclose it to me.” + +pierre wished to say this to the mason, but did not dare to. the +traveler, having packed his things with his practiced hands, began +fastening his coat. when he had finished, he turned to bezúkhov, and +said in a tone of indifferent politeness: + +“where are you going to now, my dear sir?” + +“i?... i’m going to petersburg,” answered pierre, in a childlike, +hesitating voice. “i thank you. i agree with all you have said. but +do not suppose me to be so bad. with my whole soul i wish to be what you +would have me be, but i have never had help from anyone.... but it is +i, above all, who am to blame for everything. help me, teach me, and +perhaps i may...” + +pierre could not go on. he gulped and turned away. + +the mason remained silent for a long time, evidently considering. + +“help comes from god alone,” he said, “but such measure of help as +our order can bestow it will render you, my dear sir. you are going to +petersburg. hand this to count willarski” (he took out his notebook +and wrote a few words on a large sheet of paper folded in four). +“allow me to give you a piece of advice. when you reach the capital, +first of all devote some time to solitude and self-examination and do +not resume your former way of life. and now i wish you a good journey, +my dear sir,” he added, seeing that his servant had entered... “and +success.” + +the traveler was joseph alexéevich bazdéev, as pierre saw from the +postmaster’s book. bazdéev had been one of the best-known freemasons +and martinists, even in novíkov’s time. for a long while after he had +gone, pierre did not go to bed or order horses but paced up and down +the room, pondering over his vicious past, and with a rapturous sense +of beginning anew pictured to himself the blissful, irreproachable, +virtuous future that seemed to him so easy. it seemed to him that he had +been vicious only because he had somehow forgotten how good it is to +be virtuous. not a trace of his former doubts remained in his soul. he +firmly believed in the possibility of the brotherhood of men united in +the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that is how +freemasonry presented itself to him. + + + + + +chapter iii + +on reaching petersburg pierre did not let anyone know of his arrival, +he went nowhere and spent whole days in reading thomas à kempis, whose +book had been sent him by someone unknown. one thing he continually +realized as he read that book: the joy, hitherto unknown to him, +of believing in the possibility of attaining perfection, and in the +possibility of active brotherly love among men, which joseph alexéevich +had revealed to him. a week after his arrival, the young polish count, +willarski, whom pierre had known slightly in petersburg society, came +into his room one evening in the official and ceremonious manner in +which dólokhov’s second had called on him, and, having closed the +door behind him and satisfied himself that there was nobody else in the +room, addressed pierre. + +“i have come to you with a message and an offer, count,” he +said without sitting down. “a person of very high standing in our +brotherhood has made application for you to be received into our order +before the usual term and has proposed to me to be your sponsor. i +consider it a sacred duty to fulfill that person’s wishes. do you wish +to enter the brotherhood of freemasons under my sponsorship?” + +the cold, austere tone of this man, whom he had almost always before met +at balls, amiably smiling in the society of the most brilliant women, +surprised pierre. + +“yes, i do wish it,” said he. + +willarski bowed his head. + +“one more question, count,” he said, “which i beg you to answer +in all sincerity—not as a future mason but as an honest man: have you +renounced your former convictions—do you believe in god?” + +pierre considered. + +“yes... yes, i believe in god,” he said. + +“in that case...” began willarski, but pierre interrupted him. + +“yes, i do believe in god,” he repeated. + +“in that case we can go,” said willarski. “my carriage is at your +service.” + +willarski was silent throughout the drive. to pierre’s inquiries as +to what he must do and how he should answer, willarski only replied that +brothers more worthy than he would test him and that pierre had only to +tell the truth. + +having entered the courtyard of a large house where the lodge had its +headquarters, and having ascended a dark staircase, they entered a small +well-lit anteroom where they took off their cloaks without the aid of +a servant. from there they passed into another room. a man in strange +attire appeared at the door. willarski, stepping toward him, said +something to him in french in an undertone and then went up to a small +wardrobe in which pierre noticed garments such as he had never seen +before. having taken a kerchief from the cupboard, willarski bound +pierre’s eyes with it and tied it in a knot behind, catching some +hairs painfully in the knot. then he drew his face down, kissed him, and +taking him by the hand led him forward. the hairs tied in the knot hurt +pierre and there were lines of pain on his face and a shamefaced smile. +his huge figure, with arms hanging down and with a puckered, though +smiling face, moved after willarski with uncertain, timid steps. + +having led him about ten paces, willarski stopped. + +“whatever happens to you,” he said, “you must bear it all manfully +if you have firmly resolved to join our brotherhood.” (pierre nodded +affirmatively.) “when you hear a knock at the door, you will uncover +your eyes,” added willarski. “i wish you courage and success,” +and, pressing pierre’s hand, he went out. + +left alone, pierre went on smiling in the same way. once or twice +he shrugged his shoulders and raised his hand to the kerchief, as if +wishing to take it off, but let it drop again. the five minutes spent +with his eyes bandaged seemed to him an hour. his arms felt numb, +his legs almost gave way, it seemed to him that he was tired out. he +experienced a variety of most complex sensations. he felt afraid of what +would happen to him and still more afraid of showing his fear. he felt +curious to know what was going to happen and what would be revealed to +him; but most of all, he felt joyful that the moment had come when he +would at last start on that path of regeneration and on the actively +virtuous life of which he had been dreaming since he met joseph +alexéevich. loud knocks were heard at the door. pierre took the bandage +off his eyes and glanced around him. the room was in black darkness, +only a small lamp was burning inside something white. pierre went nearer +and saw that the lamp stood on a black table on which lay an open book. +the book was the gospel, and the white thing with the lamp inside was a +human skull with its cavities and teeth. after reading the first words +of the gospel: “in the beginning was the word and the word was with +god,” pierre went round the table and saw a large open box filled +with something. it was a coffin with bones inside. he was not at all +surprised by what he saw. hoping to enter on an entirely new life quite +unlike the old one, he expected everything to be unusual, even more +unusual than what he was seeing. a skull, a coffin, the gospel—it +seemed to him that he had expected all this and even more. trying +to stimulate his emotions he looked around. “god, death, love, the +brotherhood of man,” he kept saying to himself, associating these +words with vague yet joyful ideas. the door opened and someone came in. + +by the dim light, to which pierre had already become accustomed, he +saw a rather short man. having evidently come from the light into the +darkness, the man paused, then moved with cautious steps toward the +table and placed on it his small leather-gloved hands. + +this short man had on a white leather apron which covered his chest and +part of his legs; he had on a kind of necklace above which rose a high +white ruffle, outlining his rather long face which was lit up from +below. + +“for what have you come hither?” asked the newcomer, turning in +pierre’s direction at a slight rustle made by the latter. “why have +you, who do not believe in the truth of the light and who have not +seen the light, come here? what do you seek from us? wisdom, virtue, +enlightenment?” + +at the moment the door opened and the stranger came in, pierre felt a +sense of awe and veneration such as he had experienced in his boyhood at +confession; he felt himself in the presence of one socially a complete +stranger, yet nearer to him through the brotherhood of man. with bated +breath and beating heart he moved toward the rhetor (by which name the +brother who prepared a seeker for entrance into the brotherhood was +known). drawing nearer, he recognized in the rhetor a man he knew, +smolyanínov, and it mortified him to think that the newcomer was an +acquaintance—he wished him simply a brother and a virtuous instructor. +for a long time he could not utter a word, so that the rhetor had to +repeat his question. + +“yes... i... i... desire regeneration,” pierre uttered with +difficulty. + +“very well,” said smolyanínov, and went on at once: “have you any +idea of the means by which our holy order will help you to reach your +aim?” said he quietly and quickly. + +“i... hope... for guidance... help... in regeneration,” said pierre, +with a trembling voice and some difficulty in utterance due to his +excitement and to being unaccustomed to speak of abstract matters in +russian. + +“what is your conception of freemasonry?” + +“i imagine that freemasonry is the fraternity and equality of men who +have virtuous aims,” said pierre, feeling ashamed of the inadequacy +of his words for the solemnity of the moment, as he spoke. “i +imagine...” + +“good!” said the rhetor quickly, apparently satisfied with +this answer. “have you sought for means of attaining your aim in +religion?” + +“no, i considered it erroneous and did not follow it,” said pierre, +so softly that the rhetor did not hear him and asked him what he was +saying. “i have been an atheist,” answered pierre. + +“you are seeking for truth in order to follow its laws in your life, +therefore you seek wisdom and virtue. is that not so?” said the +rhetor, after a moment’s pause. + +“yes, yes,” assented pierre. + +the rhetor cleared his throat, crossed his gloved hands on his breast, +and began to speak. + +“now i must disclose to you the chief aim of our order,” he said, +“and if this aim coincides with yours, you may enter our brotherhood +with profit. the first and chief object of our order, the foundation on +which it rests and which no human power can destroy, is the preservation +and handing on to posterity of a certain important mystery... which +has come down to us from the remotest ages, even from the first man—a +mystery on which perhaps the fate of mankind depends. but since this +mystery is of such a nature that nobody can know or use it unless he be +prepared by long and diligent self-purification, not everyone can hope +to attain it quickly. hence we have a secondary aim, that of preparing +our members as much as possible to reform their hearts, to purify and +enlighten their minds, by means handed on to us by tradition from those +who have striven to attain this mystery, and thereby to render them +capable of receiving it. + +“by purifying and regenerating our members we try, thirdly, to improve +the whole human race, offering it in our members an example of piety +and virtue, and thereby try with all our might to combat the evil which +sways the world. think this over and i will come to you again.” + +“to combat the evil which sways the world...” pierre repeated, and a +mental image of his future activity in this direction rose in his mind. +he imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he +addressed an edifying exhortation to them. he imagined to himself +vicious and unfortunate people whom he would assist by word and deed, +imagined oppressors whose victims he would rescue. of the three +objects mentioned by the rhetor, this last, that of improving mankind, +especially appealed to pierre. the important mystery mentioned by the +rhetor, though it aroused his curiosity, did not seem to him essential, +and the second aim, that of purifying and regenerating himself, did not +much interest him because at that moment he felt with delight that he +was already perfectly cured of his former faults and was ready for all +that was good. + +half an hour later, the rhetor returned to inform the seeker of the +seven virtues, corresponding to the seven steps of solomon’s temple, +which every freemason should cultivate in himself. these virtues were: +1. discretion, the keeping of the secrets of the order. 2. obedience to +those of higher ranks in the order. 3. morality. 4. love of mankind. 5. +courage. 6. generosity. 7. the love of death. + +“in the seventh place, try, by the frequent thought of death,” the +rhetor said, “to bring yourself to regard it not as a dreaded foe, but +as a friend that frees the soul grown weary in the labors of virtue +from this distressful life, and leads it to its place of recompense and +peace.” + +“yes, that must be so,” thought pierre, when after these words the +rhetor went away, leaving him to solitary meditation. “it must be so, +but i am still so weak that i love my life, the meaning of which is only +now gradually opening before me.” but five of the other virtues which +pierre recalled, counting them on his fingers, he felt already in his +soul: courage, generosity, morality, love of mankind, and especially +obedience—which did not even seem to him a virtue, but a joy. (he now +felt so glad to be free from his own lawlessness and to submit his will +to those who knew the indubitable truth.) he forgot what the seventh +virtue was and could not recall it. + +the third time the rhetor came back more quickly and asked pierre +whether he was still firm in his intention and determined to submit to +all that would be required of him. + +“i am ready for everything,” said pierre. + +“i must also inform you,” said the rhetor, “that our order +delivers its teaching not in words only but also by other means, which +may perhaps have a stronger effect on the sincere seeker after wisdom +and virtue than mere words. this chamber with what you see therein +should already have suggested to your heart, if it is sincere, more than +words could do. you will perhaps also see in your further initiation a +like method of enlightenment. our order imitates the ancient societies +that explained their teaching by hieroglyphics. a hieroglyph,” said +the rhetor, “is an emblem of something not cognizable by the senses +but which possesses qualities resembling those of the symbol.” + +pierre knew very well what a hieroglyph was, but dared not speak. he +listened to the rhetor in silence, feeling from all he said that his +ordeal was about to begin. + +“if you are resolved, i must begin your initiation,” said the rhetor +coming closer to pierre. “in token of generosity i ask you to give me +all your valuables.” + +“but i have nothing here,” replied pierre, supposing that he was +asked to give up all he possessed. + +“what you have with you: watch, money, rings....” + +pierre quickly took out his purse and watch, but could not manage for +some time to get the wedding ring off his fat finger. when that had been +done, the rhetor said: + +“in token of obedience, i ask you to undress.” + +pierre took off his coat, waistcoat, and left boot according to the +rhetor’s instructions. the mason drew the shirt back from pierre’s +left breast, and stooping down pulled up the left leg of his trousers +to above the knee. pierre hurriedly began taking off his right boot also +and was going to tuck up the other trouser leg to save this stranger the +trouble, but the mason told him that was not necessary and gave him +a slipper for his left foot. with a childlike smile of embarrassment, +doubt, and self-derision, which appeared on his face against his will, +pierre stood with his arms hanging down and legs apart, before his +brother rhetor, and awaited his further commands. + +“and now, in token of candor, i ask you to reveal to me your chief +passion,” said the latter. + +“my passion! i have had so many,” replied pierre. + +“that passion which more than all others caused you to waver on the +path of virtue,” said the mason. + +pierre paused, seeking a reply. + +“wine? gluttony? idleness? laziness? irritability? anger? women?” +he went over his vices in his mind, not knowing to which of them to give +the pre-eminence. + +“women,” he said in a low, scarcely audible voice. + +the mason did not move and for a long time said nothing after this +answer. at last he moved up to pierre and, taking the kerchief that lay +on the table, again bound his eyes. + +“for the last time i say to you—turn all your attention upon +yourself, put a bridle on your senses, and seek blessedness, not in +passion but in your own heart. the source of blessedness is not without +us but within....” + +pierre had already long been feeling in himself that refreshing source +of blessedness which now flooded his heart with glad emotion. + + + + + +chapter iv + +soon after this there came into the dark chamber to fetch pierre, not +the rhetor but pierre’s sponsor, willarski, whom he recognized by his +voice. to fresh questions as to the firmness of his resolution pierre +replied: “yes, yes, i agree,” and with a beaming, childlike smile, +his fat chest uncovered, stepping unevenly and timidly in one slippered +and one booted foot, he advanced, while willarski held a sword to his +bare chest. he was conducted from that room along passages that turned +backwards and forwards and was at last brought to the doors of the +lodge. willarski coughed, he was answered by the masonic knock with +mallets, the doors opened before them. a bass voice (pierre was still +blindfolded) questioned him as to who he was, when and where he was +born, and so on. then he was again led somewhere still blindfolded, +and as they went along he was told allegories of the toils of his +pilgrimage, of holy friendship, of the eternal architect of the +universe, and of the courage with which he should endure toils and +dangers. during these wanderings, pierre noticed that he was spoken +of now as the “seeker,” now as the “sufferer,” and now as the +“postulant,” to the accompaniment of various knockings with +mallets and swords. as he was being led up to some object he noticed a +hesitation and uncertainty among his conductors. he heard those around +him disputing in whispers and one of them insisting that he should be +led along a certain carpet. after that they took his right hand, placed +it on something, and told him to hold a pair of compasses to his left +breast with the other hand and to repeat after someone who read aloud +an oath of fidelity to the laws of the order. the candles were then +extinguished and some spirit lighted, as pierre knew by the smell, and +he was told that he would now see the lesser light. the bandage was +taken off his eyes and, by the faint light of the burning spirit, +pierre, as in a dream, saw several men standing before him, wearing +aprons like the rhetor’s and holding swords in their hands pointed at +his breast. among them stood a man whose white shirt was stained with +blood. on seeing this, pierre moved forward with his breast toward the +swords, meaning them to pierce it. but the swords were drawn back from +him and he was at once blindfolded again. + +“now thou hast seen the lesser light,” uttered a voice. then the +candles were relit and he was told that he would see the full light; the +bandage was again removed and more than ten voices said together: “sic +transit gloria mundi.” + +pierre gradually began to recover himself and looked about at the room +and at the people in it. round a long table covered with black sat some +twelve men in garments like those he had already seen. some of them +pierre had met in petersburg society. in the president’s chair sat a +young man he did not know, with a peculiar cross hanging from his +neck. on his right sat the italian abbé whom pierre had met at +anna pávlovna’s two years before. there were also present a very +distinguished dignitary and a swiss who had formerly been tutor at the +kurágins’. all maintained a solemn silence, listening to the words +of the president, who held a mallet in his hand. let into the wall was +a star-shaped light. at one side of the table was a small carpet with +various figures worked upon it, at the other was something resembling an +altar on which lay a testament and a skull. round it stood seven large +candlesticks like those used in churches. two of the brothers led pierre +up to the altar, placed his feet at right angles, and bade him lie down, +saying that he must prostrate himself at the gates of the temple. + +“he must first receive the trowel,” whispered one of the brothers. + +“oh, hush, please!” said another. + +pierre, perplexed, looked round with his shortsighted eyes without +obeying, and suddenly doubts arose in his mind. “where am i? what am +i doing? aren’t they laughing at me? shan’t i be ashamed to remember +this?” but these doubts only lasted a moment. pierre glanced at +the serious faces of those around, remembered all he had already gone +through, and realized that he could not stop halfway. he was aghast +at his hesitation and, trying to arouse his former devotional feeling, +prostrated himself before the gates of the temple. and really, the +feeling of devotion returned to him even more strongly than before. when +he had lain there some time, he was told to get up, and a white leather +apron, such as the others wore, was put on him: he was given a trowel +and three pairs of gloves, and then the grand master addressed him. he +told him that he should try to do nothing to stain the whiteness of that +apron, which symbolized strength and purity; then of the unexplained +trowel, he told him to toil with it to cleanse his own heart from vice, +and indulgently to smooth with it the heart of his neighbor. as to the +first pair of gloves, a man’s, he said that pierre could not know +their meaning but must keep them. the second pair of man’s gloves +he was to wear at the meetings, and finally of the third, a pair of +women’s gloves, he said: “dear brother, these woman’s gloves are +intended for you too. give them to the woman whom you shall honor most +of all. this gift will be a pledge of your purity of heart to her whom +you select to be your worthy helpmeet in masonry.” and after a pause, +he added: “but beware, dear brother, that these gloves do not deck +hands that are unclean.” while the grand master said these last words +it seemed to pierre that he grew embarrassed. pierre himself grew still +more confused, blushed like a child till tears came to his eyes, began +looking about him uneasily, and an awkward pause followed. + +this silence was broken by one of the brethren, who led pierre up to the +rug and began reading to him from a manuscript book an explanation of +all the figures on it: the sun, the moon, a hammer, a plumb line, a +trowel, a rough stone and a squared stone, a pillar, three windows, and +so on. then a place was assigned to pierre, he was shown the signs of +the lodge, told the password, and at last was permitted to sit down. +the grand master began reading the statutes. they were very long, and +pierre, from joy, agitation, and embarrassment, was not in a state to +understand what was being read. he managed to follow only the last words +of the statutes and these remained in his mind. + +“in our temples we recognize no other distinctions,” read the grand +master, “but those between virtue and vice. beware of making any +distinctions which may infringe equality. fly to a brother’s aid +whoever he may be, exhort him who goeth astray, raise him that falleth, +never bear malice or enmity toward thy brother. be kindly and courteous. +kindle in all hearts the flame of virtue. share thy happiness with thy +neighbor, and may envy never dim the purity of that bliss. forgive thy +enemy, do not avenge thyself except by doing him good. thus fulfilling +the highest law thou shalt regain traces of the ancient dignity which +thou hast lost.” + +he finished and, getting up, embraced and kissed pierre, who, with tears +of joy in his eyes, looked round him, not knowing how to answer the +congratulations and greetings from acquaintances that met him on all +sides. he acknowledged no acquaintances but saw in all these men only +brothers, and burned with impatience to set to work with them. + +the grand master rapped with his mallet. all the masons sat down in +their places, and one of them read an exhortation on the necessity of +humility. + +the grand master proposed that the last duty should be performed, +and the distinguished dignitary who bore the title of “collector +of alms” went round to all the brothers. pierre would have liked +to subscribe all he had, but fearing that it might look like pride +subscribed the same amount as the others. + +the meeting was at an end, and on reaching home pierre felt as if he had +returned from a long journey on which he had spent dozens of years, had +become completely changed, and had quite left behind his former habits +and way of life. + + + + + +chapter v + +the day after he had been received into the lodge, pierre was sitting at +home reading a book and trying to fathom the significance of the square, +one side of which symbolized god, another moral things, a third +physical things, and the fourth a combination of these. now and then +his attention wandered from the book and the square and he formed in +imagination a new plan of life. on the previous evening at the lodge, he +had heard that a rumor of his duel had reached the emperor and that it +would be wiser for him to leave petersburg. pierre proposed going to his +estates in the south and there attending to the welfare of his serfs. +he was joyfully planning this new life, when prince vasíli suddenly +entered the room. + +“my dear fellow, what have you been up to in moscow? why have you +quarreled with hélène, mon cher? you are under a delusion,” said +prince vasíli, as he entered. “i know all about it, and i can tell +you positively that hélène is as innocent before you as christ was +before the jews.” + +pierre was about to reply, but prince vasíli interrupted him. + +“and why didn’t you simply come straight to me as to a friend? i +know all about it and understand it all,” he said. “you behaved as +becomes a man who values his honor, perhaps too hastily, but we won’t +go into that. but consider the position in which you are placing her and +me in the eyes of society, and even of the court,” he added, lowering +his voice. “she is living in moscow and you are here. remember, +dear boy,” and he drew pierre’s arm downwards, “it is simply a +misunderstanding. i expect you feel it so yourself. let us write her +a letter at once, and she’ll come here and all will be explained, or +else, my dear boy, let me tell you it’s quite likely you’ll have to +suffer for it.” + +prince vasíli gave pierre a significant look. + +“i know from reliable sources that the dowager empress is taking a +keen interest in the whole affair. you know she is very gracious to +hélène.” + +pierre tried several times to speak, but, on one hand, prince vasíli +did not let him and, on the other, pierre himself feared to begin to +speak in the tone of decided refusal and disagreement in which he had +firmly resolved to answer his father-in-law. moreover, the words of the +masonic statutes, “be kindly and courteous,” recurred to him. he +blinked, went red, got up and sat down again, struggling with himself +to do what was for him the most difficult thing in life—to say an +unpleasant thing to a man’s face, to say what the other, whoever +he might be, did not expect. he was so used to submitting to prince +vasíli’s tone of careless self-assurance that he felt he would be +unable to withstand it now, but he also felt that on what he said now +his future depended—whether he would follow the same old road, or that +new path so attractively shown him by the masons, on which he firmly +believed he would be reborn to a new life. + +“now, dear boy,” said prince vasíli playfully, “say ‘yes,’ +and i’ll write to her myself, and we will kill the fatted calf.” + +but before prince vasíli had finished his playful speech, pierre, +without looking at him, and with a kind of fury that made him like his +father, muttered in a whisper: + +“prince, i did not ask you here. go, please go!” and he jumped up +and opened the door for him. + +“go!” he repeated, amazed at himself and glad to see the look of +confusion and fear that showed itself on prince vasíli’s face. + +“what’s the matter with you? are you ill?” + +“go!” the quivering voice repeated. and prince vasíli had to go +without receiving any explanation. + +a week later, pierre, having taken leave of his new friends, the masons, +and leaving large sums of money with them for alms, went away to his +estates. his new brethren gave him letters to the kiev and odessa masons +and promised to write to him and guide him in his new activity. + + + + + +chapter vi + +the duel between pierre and dólokhov was hushed up and, in spite of +the emperor’s severity regarding duels at that time, neither the +principals nor their seconds suffered for it. but the story of the duel, +confirmed by pierre’s rupture with his wife, was the talk of society. +pierre who had been regarded with patronizing condescension when he was +an illegitimate son, and petted and extolled when he was the best +match in russia, had sunk greatly in the esteem of society after his +marriage—when the marriageable daughters and their mothers had nothing +to hope from him—especially as he did not know how, and did not +wish, to court society’s favor. now he alone was blamed for what had +happened, he was said to be insanely jealous and subject like his +father to fits of bloodthirsty rage. and when after pierre’s +departure hélène returned to petersburg, she was received by all her +acquaintances not only cordially, but even with a shade of deference +due to her misfortune. when conversation turned on her husband hélène +assumed a dignified expression, which with characteristic tact she had +acquired though she did not understand its significance. this expression +suggested that she had resolved to endure her troubles uncomplainingly +and that her husband was a cross laid upon her by god. prince vasíli +expressed his opinion more openly. he shrugged his shoulders when pierre +was mentioned and, pointing to his forehead, remarked: + +“a bit touched—i always said so.” + +“i said from the first,” declared anna pávlovna referring to +pierre, “i said at the time and before anyone else” (she insisted +on her priority) “that that senseless young man was spoiled by the +depraved ideas of these days. i said so even at the time when everybody +was in raptures about him, when he had just returned from abroad, and +when, if you remember, he posed as a sort of marat at one of my soirees. +and how has it ended? i was against this marriage even then and foretold +all that has happened.” + +anna pávlovna continued to give on free evenings the same kind of +soirees as before—such as she alone had the gift of arranging—at +which was to be found “the cream of really good society, the bloom +of the intellectual essence of petersburg,” as she herself put it. +besides this refined selection of society anna pávlovna’s receptions +were also distinguished by the fact that she always presented some new +and interesting person to the visitors and that nowhere else was the +state of the political thermometer of legitimate petersburg court +society so dearly and distinctly indicated. + +toward the end of 1806, when all the sad details of napoleon’s +destruction of the prussian army at jena and auerstädt and the +surrender of most of the prussian fortresses had been received, when our +troops had already entered prussia and our second war with napoleon +was beginning, anna pávlovna gave one of her soirees. the “cream of +really good society” consisted of the fascinating hélène, forsaken +by her husband, mortemart, the delightful prince hippolyte who had +just returned from vienna, two diplomatists, the old aunt, a young man +referred to in that drawing room as “a man of great merit” (un homme +de beaucoup de mérite), a newly appointed maid of honor and her mother, +and several other less noteworthy persons. + +the novelty anna pávlovna was setting before her guests that evening +was borís drubetskóy, who had just arrived as a special messenger from +the prussian army and was aide-de-camp to a very important personage. + +the temperature shown by the political thermometer to the company that +evening was this: + +“whatever the european sovereigns and commanders may do to +countenance bonaparte, and to cause me, and us in general, annoyance and +mortification, our opinion of bonaparte cannot alter. we shall not cease +to express our sincere views on that subject, and can only say to the +king of prussia and others: ‘so much the worse for you. tu l’as +voulu, george dandin,’ that’s all we have to say about it!” + +when borís, who was to be served up to the guests, entered the drawing +room, almost all the company had assembled, and the conversation, guided +by anna pávlovna, was about our diplomatic relations with austria and +the hope of an alliance with her. + +borís, grown more manly and looking fresh, rosy and self-possessed, +entered the drawing room elegantly dressed in the uniform of an +aide-de-camp and was duly conducted to pay his respects to the aunt and +then brought back to the general circle. + +anna pávlovna gave him her shriveled hand to kiss and introduced him to +several persons whom he did not know, giving him a whispered description +of each. + +“prince hippolyte kurágin—charming young fellow; m. +kronq,—chargé d’affaires from copenhagen—a profound intellect,” +and simply, “mr. shítov—a man of great merit”—this of the man +usually so described. + +thanks to anna mikháylovna’s efforts, his own tastes, and the +peculiarities of his reserved nature, borís had managed during his +service to place himself very advantageously. he was aide-de-camp to a +very important personage, had been sent on a very important mission to +prussia, and had just returned from there as a special messenger. he had +become thoroughly conversant with that unwritten code with which he had +been so pleased at olmütz and according to which an ensign might rank +incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was +needed for success in the service was not effort or work, or courage, or +perseverance, but only the knowledge of how to get on with those who can +grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his +success and at the inability of others to understand these things. +in consequence of this discovery his whole manner of life, all +his relations with old friends, all his plans for his future, were +completely altered. he was not rich, but would spend his last groat to +be better dressed than others, and would rather deprive himself of many +pleasures than allow himself to be seen in a shabby equipage or appear +in the streets of petersburg in an old uniform. he made friends with +and sought the acquaintance of only those above him in position and +who could therefore be of use to him. he liked petersburg and despised +moscow. the remembrance of the rostóvs’ house and of his childish +love for natásha was unpleasant to him and he had not once been to see +the rostóvs since the day of his departure for the army. to be in anna +pávlovna’s drawing room he considered an important step up in the +service, and he at once understood his role, letting his hostess make +use of whatever interest he had to offer. he himself carefully scanned +each face, appraising the possibilities of establishing intimacy with +each of those present, and the advantages that might accrue. he took +the seat indicated to him beside the fair hélène and listened to the +general conversation. + +“vienna considers the bases of the proposed treaty so unattainable +that not even a continuity of most brilliant successes would secure +them, and she doubts the means we have of gaining them. that is the +actual phrase used by the vienna cabinet,” said the danish chargé +d’affaires. + +“the doubt is flattering,” said “the man of profound intellect,” +with a subtle smile. + +“we must distinguish between the vienna cabinet and the emperor of +austria,” said mortemart. “the emperor of austria can never have +thought of such a thing, it is only the cabinet that says it.” + +“ah, my dear vicomte,” put in anna pávlovna, “l’urope” (for +some reason she called it urope as if that were a specially refined +french pronunciation which she could allow herself when conversing with +a frenchman), “l’urope ne sera jamais notre alliée sincère.” * + + * “europe will never be our sincere ally.” + + +after that anna pávlovna led up to the courage and firmness of the king +of prussia, in order to draw borís into the conversation. + +borís listened attentively to each of the speakers, awaiting his turn, +but managed meanwhile to look round repeatedly at his neighbor, the +beautiful hélène, whose eyes several times met those of the handsome +young aide-de-camp with a smile. + +speaking of the position of prussia, anna pávlovna very naturally asked +borís to tell them about his journey to glogau and in what state he +found the prussian army. borís, speaking with deliberation, told them +in pure, correct french many interesting details about the armies and +the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his +own about the facts he was recounting. for some time he engrossed the +general attention, and anna pávlovna felt that the novelty she had +served up was received with pleasure by all her visitors. the greatest +attention of all to borís’ narrative was shown by hélène. she asked +him several questions about his journey and seemed greatly interested in +the state of the prussian army. as soon as he had finished she turned to +him with her usual smile. + +“you absolutely must come and see me,” she said in a tone that +implied that, for certain considerations he could not know of, this was +absolutely necessary. + +“on tuesday between eight and nine. it will give me great pleasure.” + +borís promised to fulfill her wish and was about to begin a +conversation with her, when anna pávlovna called him away on the +pretext that her aunt wished to hear him. + +“you know her husband, of course?” said anna pávlovna, closing her +eyes and indicating hélène with a sorrowful gesture. “ah, she is +such an unfortunate and charming woman! don’t mention him before +her—please don’t! it is too painful for her!” + + + + + +chapter vii + +when borís and anna pávlovna returned to the others prince hippolyte +had the ear of the company. + +bending forward in his armchair he said: “le roi de prusse!” and +having said this laughed. everyone turned toward him. + +“le roi de prusse?” hippolyte said interrogatively, again laughing, +and then calmly and seriously sat back in his chair. anna pávlovna +waited for him to go on, but as he seemed quite decided to say no more +she began to tell of how at potsdam the impious bonaparte had stolen the +sword of frederick the great. + +“it is the sword of frederick the great which i...” she began, but +hippolyte interrupted her with the words: “le roi de prusse...” and +again, as soon as all turned toward him, excused himself and said no +more. + +anna pávlovna frowned. mortemart, hippolyte’s friend, addressed him +firmly. + +“come now, what about your roi de prusse?” + +hippolyte laughed as if ashamed of laughing. + +“oh, it’s nothing. i only wished to say...” (he wanted to repeat +a joke he had heard in vienna and which he had been trying all that +evening to get in) “i only wished to say that we are wrong to fight +pour le roi de prusse!” + +borís smiled circumspectly, so that it might be taken as ironical +or appreciative according to the way the joke was received. everybody +laughed. + +“your joke is too bad, it’s witty but unjust,” said anna +pávlovna, shaking her little shriveled finger at him. + +“we are not fighting pour le roi de prusse, but for right principles. +oh, that wicked prince hippolyte!” she said. + +the conversation did not flag all evening and turned chiefly on the +political news. it became particularly animated toward the end of the +evening when the rewards bestowed by the emperor were mentioned. + +“you know n— n— received a snuffbox with the portrait last +year?” said “the man of profound intellect.” “why shouldn’t +s— s— get the same distinction?” + +“pardon me! a snuffbox with the emperor’s portrait is a reward but +not a distinction,” said the diplomatist—“a gift, rather.” + +“there are precedents, i may mention schwarzenberg.” + +“it’s impossible,” replied another. + +“will you bet? the ribbon of the order is a different matter....” + +when everybody rose to go, hélène who had spoken very little all +the evening again turned to borís, asking him in a tone of caressing +significant command to come to her on tuesday. + +“it is of great importance to me,” she said, turning with a smile +toward anna pávlovna, and anna pávlovna, with the same sad smile with +which she spoke of her exalted patroness, supported hélène’s wish. + +it seemed as if from some words borís had spoken that evening about the +prussian army, hélène had suddenly found it necessary to see him. +she seemed to promise to explain that necessity to him when he came on +tuesday. + +but on tuesday evening, having come to hélène’s splendid salon, +borís received no clear explanation of why it had been necessary for +him to come. there were other guests and the countess talked little to +him, and only as he kissed her hand on taking leave said unexpectedly +and in a whisper, with a strangely unsmiling face: “come to dinner +tomorrow... in the evening. you must come.... come!” + +during that stay in petersburg, borís became an intimate in the +countess’ house. + + + + + +chapter viii + +the war was flaming up and nearing the russian frontier. everywhere one +heard curses on bonaparte, “the enemy of mankind.” militiamen and +recruits were being enrolled in the villages, and from the seat of +war came contradictory news, false as usual and therefore variously +interpreted. the life of old prince bolkónski, prince andrew, and +princess mary had greatly changed since 1805. + +in 1806 the old prince was made one of the eight commanders in chief +then appointed to supervise the enrollment decreed throughout russia. +despite the weakness of age, which had become particularly noticeable +since the time when he thought his son had been killed, he did not think +it right to refuse a duty to which he had been appointed by the emperor +himself, and this fresh opportunity for action gave him new energy +and strength. he was continually traveling through the three provinces +entrusted to him, was pedantic in the fulfillment of his duties, severe +to cruel with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the +minutest details himself. princess mary had ceased taking lessons in +mathematics from her father, and when the old prince was at home went +to his study with the wet nurse and little prince nicholas (as his +grandfather called him). the baby prince nicholas lived with his wet +nurse and nurse sávishna in the late princess’ rooms and princess +mary spent most of the day in the nursery, taking a mother’s place to +her little nephew as best she could. mademoiselle bourienne, too, seemed +passionately fond of the boy, and princess mary often deprived herself +to give her friend the pleasure of dandling the little angel—as she +called her nephew—and playing with him. + +near the altar of the church at bald hills there was a chapel over the +tomb of the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument +brought from italy, representing an angel with outspread wings ready to +fly upwards. the angel’s upper lip was slightly raised as though +about to smile, and once on coming out of the chapel prince andrew and +princess mary admitted to one another that the angel’s face reminded +them strangely of the little princess. but what was still stranger, +though of this prince andrew said nothing to his sister, was that in the +expression the sculptor had happened to give the angel’s face, prince +andrew read the same mild reproach he had read on the face of his dead +wife: “ah, why have you done this to me?” + +soon after prince andrew’s return the old prince made over to him a +large estate, boguchárovo, about twenty-five miles from bald hills. +partly because of the depressing memories associated with bald hills, +partly because prince andrew did not always feel equal to bearing with +his father’s peculiarities, and partly because he needed solitude, +prince andrew made use of boguchárovo, began building and spent most of +his time there. + +after the austerlitz campaign prince andrew had firmly resolved not +to continue his military service, and when the war recommenced +and everybody had to serve, he took a post under his father in the +recruitment so as to avoid active service. the old prince and his son +seemed to have changed roles since the campaign of 1805. the old man, +roused by activity, expected the best results from the new campaign, +while prince andrew on the contrary, taking no part in the war and +secretly regretting this, saw only the dark side. + +on february 26, 1807, the old prince set off on one of his circuits. +prince andrew remained at bald hills as usual during his father’s +absence. little nicholas had been unwell for four days. the coachman who +had driven the old prince to town returned bringing papers and letters +for prince andrew. + +not finding the young prince in his study the valet went with the +letters to princess mary’s apartments, but did not find him there. he +was told that the prince had gone to the nursery. + +“if you please, your excellency, pétrusha has brought some papers,” +said one of the nursemaids to prince andrew who was sitting on a +child’s little chair while, frowning and with trembling hands, he +poured drops from a medicine bottle into a wineglass half full of water. + +“what is it?” he said crossly, and, his hand shaking +unintentionally, he poured too many drops into the glass. he threw the +mixture onto the floor and asked for some more water. the maid brought +it. + +there were in the room a child’s cot, two boxes, two armchairs, a +table, a child’s table, and the little chair on which prince andrew +was sitting. the curtains were drawn, and a single candle was burning on +the table, screened by a bound music book so that the light did not fall +on the cot. + +“my dear,” said princess mary, addressing her brother from beside +the cot where she was standing, “better wait a bit... later...” + +“oh, leave off, you always talk nonsense and keep putting things +off—and this is what comes of it!” said prince andrew in an +exasperated whisper, evidently meaning to wound his sister. + +“my dear, really... it’s better not to wake him... he’s asleep,” +said the princess in a tone of entreaty. + +prince andrew got up and went on tiptoe up to the little bed, wineglass +in hand. + +“perhaps we’d really better not wake him,” he said hesitating. + +“as you please... really... i think so... but as you please,” said +princess mary, evidently intimidated and confused that her opinion +had prevailed. she drew her brother’s attention to the maid who was +calling him in a whisper. + +it was the second night that neither of them had slept, watching the boy +who was in a high fever. these last days, mistrusting their household +doctor and expecting another for whom they had sent to town, they had +been trying first one remedy and then another. worn out by sleeplessness +and anxiety they threw their burden of sorrow on one another and +reproached and disputed with each other. + +“pétrusha has come with papers from your father,” whispered the +maid. + +prince andrew went out. + +“devil take them!” he muttered, and after listening to the verbal +instructions his father had sent and taking the correspondence and his +father’s letter, he returned to the nursery. + +“well?” he asked. + +“still the same. wait, for heaven’s sake. karl ivánich always says +that sleep is more important than anything,” whispered princess mary +with a sigh. + +prince andrew went up to the child and felt him. he was burning hot. + +“confound you and your karl ivánich!” he took the glass with the +drops and again went up to the cot. + +“andrew, don’t!” said princess mary. + +but he scowled at her angrily though also with suffering in his eyes, +and stooped glass in hand over the infant. + +“but i wish it,” he said. “i beg you—give it him!” + +princess mary shrugged her shoulders but took the glass submissively +and calling the nurse began giving the medicine. the child screamed +hoarsely. prince andrew winced and, clutching his head, went out and sat +down on a sofa in the next room. + +he still had all the letters in his hand. opening them mechanically he +began reading. the old prince, now and then using abbreviations, wrote +in his large elongated hand on blue paper as follows: + +have just this moment received by special messenger very joyful +news—if it’s not false. bennigsen seems to have obtained a complete +victory over buonaparte at eylau. in petersburg everyone is rejoicing, +and the rewards sent to the army are innumerable. though he is a +german—i congratulate him! i can’t make out what the commander at +kórchevo—a certain khandrikóv—is up to; till now the additional +men and provisions have not arrived. gallop off to him at once and +say i’ll have his head off if everything is not here in a week. +have received another letter about the preussisch-eylau battle +from pétenka—he took part in it—and it’s all true. when +mischief-makers don’t meddle even a german beats buonaparte. he is +said to be fleeing in great disorder. mind you gallop off to kórchevo +without delay and carry out instructions! + +prince andrew sighed and broke the seal of another envelope. it was +a closely written letter of two sheets from bilíbin. he folded it up +without reading it and reread his father’s letter, ending with the +words: “gallop off to kórchevo and carry out instructions!” + +“no, pardon me, i won’t go now till the child is better,” thought +he, going to the door and looking into the nursery. + +princess mary was still standing by the cot, gently rocking the baby. + +“ah yes, and what else did he say that’s unpleasant?” thought +prince andrew, recalling his father’s letter. “yes, we have gained +a victory over bonaparte, just when i’m not serving. yes, yes, he’s +always poking fun at me.... ah, well! let him!” and he began reading +bilíbin’s letter which was written in french. he read without +understanding half of it, read only to forget, if but for a moment, what +he had too long been thinking of so painfully to the exclusion of all +else. + + + + + +chapter ix + +bilíbin was now at army headquarters in a diplomatic capacity, and +though he wrote in french and used french jests and french idioms, +he described the whole campaign with a fearless self-censure and +self-derision genuinely russian. bilíbin wrote that the obligation of +diplomatic discretion tormented him, and he was happy to have in prince +andrew a reliable correspondent to whom he could pour out the bile he +had accumulated at the sight of all that was being done in the army. +the letter was old, having been written before the battle at +preussisch-eylau. + +“since the day of our brilliant success at austerlitz,” wrote +bilíbin, “as you know, my dear prince, i never leave headquarters. i +have certainly acquired a taste for war, and it is just as well for me; +what i have seen during these last three months is incredible. + +“i begin ab ovo. ‘the enemy of the human race,’ as you know, +attacks the prussians. the prussians are our faithful allies who have +only betrayed us three times in three years. we take up their cause, but +it turns out that ‘the enemy of the human race’ pays no heed to +our fine speeches and in his rude and savage way throws himself on the +prussians without giving them time to finish the parade they had begun, +and in two twists of the hand he breaks them to smithereens and installs +himself in the palace at potsdam. + +“‘i most ardently desire,’ writes the king of prussia to +bonaparte, ‘that your majesty should be received and treated in my +palace in a manner agreeable to yourself, and in so far as circumstances +allowed, i have hastened to take all steps to that end. may i have +succeeded!’ the prussian generals pride themselves on being polite to +the french and lay down their arms at the first demand. + +“the head of the garrison at glogau, with ten thousand men, asks the +king of prussia what he is to do if he is summoned to surrender.... all +this is absolutely true. + +“in short, hoping to settle matters by taking up a warlike attitude, +it turns out that we have landed ourselves in war, and what is more, +in war on our own frontiers, with and for the king of prussia. we have +everything in perfect order, only one little thing is lacking, namely, +a commander in chief. as it was considered that the austerlitz success +might have been more decisive had the commander in chief not been so +young, all our octogenarians were reviewed, and of prozoróvski +and kámenski the latter was preferred. the general comes to us, +suvórov-like, in a kibítka, and is received with acclamations of joy +and triumph. + +“on the 4th, the first courier arrives from petersburg. the mails +are taken to the field marshal’s room, for he likes to do everything +himself. i am called in to help sort the letters and take those meant +for us. the field marshal looks on and waits for letters addressed +to him. we search, but none are to be found. the field marshal grows +impatient and sets to work himself and finds letters from the emperor +to count t., prince v., and others. then he bursts into one of his wild +furies and rages at everyone and everything, seizes the letters, opens +them, and reads those from the emperor addressed to others. ‘ah! so +that’s the way they treat me! no confidence in me! ah, ordered to keep +an eye on me! very well then! get along with you!’ so he writes the +famous order of the day to general bennigsen: + +“‘i am wounded and cannot ride and consequently cannot command the +army. you have brought your army corps to pultúsk, routed: here it is +exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as +you yourself reported to count buxhöwden yesterday, you must think of +retreating to our frontier—which do today.’ + +“‘from all my riding,’ he writes to the emperor, ‘i have got a +saddle sore which, coming after all my previous journeys, quite prevents +my riding and commanding so vast an army, so i have passed on the +command to the general next in seniority, count buxhöwden, having sent +him my whole staff and all that belongs to it, advising him if there is +a lack of bread, to move farther into the interior of prussia, for only +one day’s ration of bread remains, and in some regiments none at all, +as reported by the division commanders, ostermann and sedmorétzki, and +all that the peasants had has been eaten up. i myself will remain in +hospital at ostrolenka till i recover. in regard to which i humbly +submit my report, with the information that if the army remains in its +present bivouac another fortnight there will not be a healthy man left +in it by spring. + +“‘grant leave to retire to his country seat to an old man who is +already in any case dishonored by being unable to fulfill the great and +glorious task for which he was chosen. i shall await your most gracious +permission here in hospital, that i may not have to play the part of a +secretary rather than commander in the army. my removal from the army +does not produce the slightest stir—a blind man has left it. there are +thousands such as i in russia.’ + +“the field marshal is angry with the emperor and he punishes us all, +isn’t it logical? + +“this is the first act. those that follow are naturally increasingly +interesting and entertaining. after the field marshal’s departure +it appears that we are within sight of the enemy and must give battle. +buxhöwden is commander in chief by seniority, but general bennigsen +does not quite see it; more particularly as it is he and his corps who +are within sight of the enemy and he wishes to profit by the opportunity +to fight a battle ‘on his own hand’ as the germans say. he does so. +this is the battle of pultúsk, which is considered a great victory but +in my opinion was nothing of the kind. we civilians, as you know, have +a very bad way of deciding whether a battle was won or lost. those who +retreat after a battle have lost it is what we say; and according to +that it is we who lost the battle of pultúsk. in short, we retreat +after the battle but send a courier to petersburg with news of a +victory, and general bennigsen, hoping to receive from petersburg the +post of commander in chief as a reward for his victory, does not give up +the command of the army to general buxhöwden. during this interregnum +we begin a very original and interesting series of maneuvers. our aim is +no longer, as it should be, to avoid or attack the enemy, but solely to +avoid general buxhöwden who by right of seniority should be our chief. +so energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable +river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at +the moment is not bonaparte but buxhöwden. general buxhöwden was all +but attacked and captured by a superior enemy force as a result of one +of these maneuvers that enabled us to escape him. buxhöwden pursues +us—we scuttle. he hardly crosses the river to our side before we +recross to the other. at last our enemy, buxhöwden, catches us and +attacks. both generals are angry, and the result is a challenge on +buxhöwden’s part and an epileptic fit on bennigsen’s. but at the +critical moment the courier who carried the news of our victory at +pultúsk to petersburg returns bringing our appointment as commander in +chief, and our first foe, buxhöwden, is vanquished; we can now turn +our thoughts to the second, bonaparte. but as it turns out, just at +that moment a third enemy rises before us—namely the orthodox russian +soldiers, loudly demanding bread, meat, biscuits, fodder, and whatnot! +the stores are empty, the roads impassable. the orthodox begin looting, +and in a way of which our last campaign can give you no idea. half the +regiments form bands and scour the countryside and put everything +to fire and sword. the inhabitants are totally ruined, the hospitals +overflow with sick, and famine is everywhere. twice the marauders even +attack our headquarters, and the commander in chief has to ask for a +battalion to disperse them. during one of these attacks they carried off +my empty portmanteau and my dressing gown. the emperor proposes to give +all commanders of divisions the right to shoot marauders, but i much +fear this will oblige one half the army to shoot the other.” + +at first prince andrew read with his eyes only, but after a while, +in spite of himself (although he knew how far it was safe to trust +bilíbin), what he had read began to interest him more and more. when he +had read thus far, he crumpled the letter up and threw it away. it was +not what he had read that vexed him, but the fact that the life out +there in which he had now no part could perturb him. he shut his eyes, +rubbed his forehead as if to rid himself of all interest in what he +had read, and listened to what was passing in the nursery. suddenly he +thought he heard a strange noise through the door. he was seized with +alarm lest something should have happened to the child while he was +reading the letter. he went on tiptoe to the nursery door and opened it. + +just as he went in he saw that the nurse was hiding something from him +with a scared look and that princess mary was no longer by the cot. + +“my dear,” he heard what seemed to him her despairing whisper behind +him. + +as often happens after long sleeplessness and long anxiety, he was +seized by an unreasoning panic—it occurred to him that the child was +dead. all that he saw and heard seemed to confirm this terror. + +“all is over,” he thought, and a cold sweat broke out on his +forehead. he went to the cot in confusion, sure that he would find it +empty and that the nurse had been hiding the dead baby. he drew the +curtain aside and for some time his frightened, restless eyes could not +find the baby. at last he saw him: the rosy boy had tossed about till he +lay across the bed with his head lower than the pillow, and was smacking +his lips in his sleep and breathing evenly. + +prince andrew was as glad to find the boy like that, as if he had +already lost him. he bent over him and, as his sister had taught him, +tried with his lips whether the child was still feverish. the soft +forehead was moist. prince andrew touched the head with his hand; even +the hair was wet, so profusely had the child perspired. he was not dead, +but evidently the crisis was over and he was convalescent. prince andrew +longed to snatch up, to squeeze, to hold to his heart, this helpless +little creature, but dared not do so. he stood over him, gazing at his +head and at the little arms and legs which showed under the blanket. he +heard a rustle behind him and a shadow appeared under the curtain of +the cot. he did not look round, but still gazing at the infant’s face +listened to his regular breathing. the dark shadow was princess mary, +who had come up to the cot with noiseless steps, lifted the curtain, +and dropped it again behind her. prince andrew recognized her without +looking and held out his hand to her. she pressed it. + +“he has perspired,” said prince andrew. + +“i was coming to tell you so.” + +the child moved slightly in his sleep, smiled, and rubbed his forehead +against the pillow. + +prince andrew looked at his sister. in the dim shadow of the curtain her +luminous eyes shone more brightly than usual from the tears of joy that +were in them. she leaned over to her brother and kissed him, slightly +catching the curtain of the cot. each made the other a warning gesture +and stood still in the dim light beneath the curtain as if not wishing +to leave that seclusion where they three were shut off from all the +world. prince andrew was the first to move away, ruffling his hair +against the muslin of the curtain. + +“yes, this is the one thing left me now,” he said with a sigh. + + + + + +chapter x + +soon after his admission to the masonic brotherhood, pierre went to the +kiev province, where he had the greatest number of serfs, taking with +him full directions which he had written down for his own guidance as to +what he should do on his estates. + +when he reached kiev he sent for all his stewards to the head office +and explained to them his intentions and wishes. he told them that steps +would be taken immediately to free his serfs—and that till then they +were not to be overburdened with labor, women while nursing their babies +were not to be sent to work, assistance was to be given to the serfs, +punishments were to be admonitory and not corporal, and hospitals, +asylums, and schools were to be established on all the estates. some of +the stewards (there were semiliterate foremen among them) listened with +alarm, supposing these words to mean that the young count was displeased +with their management and embezzlement of money, some after their first +fright were amused by pierre’s lisp and the new words they had not +heard before, others simply enjoyed hearing how the master talked, while +the cleverest among them, including the chief steward, understood from +this speech how they could best handle the master for their own ends. + +the chief steward expressed great sympathy with pierre’s intentions, +but remarked that besides these changes it would be necessary to go into +the general state of affairs which was far from satisfactory. + +despite count bezúkhov’s enormous wealth, since he had come into an +income which was said to amount to five hundred thousand rubles a year, +pierre felt himself far poorer than when his father had made him +an allowance of ten thousand rubles. he had a dim perception of the +following budget: + +about 80,000 went in payments on all the estates to the land bank, about +30,000 went for the upkeep of the estate near moscow, the town house, +and the allowance to the three princesses; about 15,000 was given in +pensions and the same amount for asylums; 150,000 alimony was sent to +the countess; about 70,000 went for interest on debts. the building of a +new church, previously begun, had cost about 10,000 in each of the last +two years, and he did not know how the rest, about 100,000 rubles, was +spent, and almost every year he was obliged to borrow. besides this the +chief steward wrote every year telling him of fires and bad harvests, +or of the necessity of rebuilding factories and workshops. so the first +task pierre had to face was one for which he had very little aptitude or +inclination—practical business. + +he discussed estate affairs every day with his chief steward. but +he felt that this did not forward matters at all. he felt that these +consultations were detached from real affairs and did not link up with +them or make them move. on the one hand, the chief steward put the state +of things to him in the very worst light, pointing out the necessity of +paying off the debts and undertaking new activities with serf labor, +to which pierre did not agree. on the other hand, pierre demanded that +steps should be taken to liberate the serfs, which the steward met by +showing the necessity of first paying off the loans from the land bank, +and the consequent impossibility of a speedy emancipation. + +the steward did not say it was quite impossible, but suggested selling +the forests in the province of kostromá, the land lower down the river, +and the crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which +operations according to him were connected with such complicated +measures—the removal of injunctions, petitions, permits, and so +on—that pierre became quite bewildered and only replied: + +“yes, yes, do so.” + +pierre had none of the practical persistence that would have enabled him +to attend to the business himself and so he disliked it and only tried +to pretend to the steward that he was attending to it. the steward +for his part tried to pretend to the count that he considered these +consultations very valuable for the proprietor and troublesome to +himself. + +in kiev pierre found some people he knew, and strangers hastened to make +his acquaintance and joyfully welcomed the rich newcomer, the +largest landowner of the province. temptations to pierre’s greatest +weakness—the one to which he had confessed when admitted to the +lodge—were so strong that he could not resist them. again whole days, +weeks, and months of his life passed in as great a rush and were as much +occupied with evening parties, dinners, lunches, and balls, giving him +no time for reflection, as in petersburg. instead of the new life he had +hoped to lead he still lived the old life, only in new surroundings. + +of the three precepts of freemasonry pierre realized that he did not +fulfill the one which enjoined every mason to set an example of moral +life, and that of the seven virtues he lacked two—morality and the +love of death. he consoled himself with the thought that he fulfilled +another of the precepts—that of reforming the human race—and had +other virtues—love of his neighbor, and especially generosity. + +in the spring of 1807 he decided to return to petersburg. on the way he +intended to visit all his estates and see for himself how far his orders +had been carried out and in what state were the serfs whom god had +entrusted to his care and whom he intended to benefit. + +the chief steward, who considered the young count’s attempts almost +insane—unprofitable to himself, to the count, and to the serfs—made +some concessions. continuing to represent the liberation of the serfs +as impracticable, he arranged for the erection of large +buildings—schools, hospitals, and asylums—on all the estates +before the master arrived. everywhere preparations were made not for +ceremonious welcomes (which he knew pierre would not like), but for just +such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread +and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his +master, would touch and delude him. + +the southern spring, the comfortable rapid traveling in a vienna +carriage, and the solitude of the road, all had a gladdening effect on +pierre. the estates he had not before visited were each more picturesque +than the other; the serfs everywhere seemed thriving and touchingly +grateful for the benefits conferred on them. everywhere were receptions, +which though they embarrassed pierre awakened a joyful feeling in the +depth of his heart. in one place the peasants presented him with bread +and salt and an icon of saint peter and saint paul, asking permission, +as a mark of their gratitude for the benefits he had conferred on them, +to build a new chantry to the church at their own expense in honor +of peter and paul, his patron saints. in another place the women with +infants in arms met him to thank him for releasing them from hard +work. on a third estate the priest, bearing a cross, came to meet +him surrounded by children whom, by the count’s generosity, he was +instructing in reading, writing, and religion. on all his estates pierre +saw with his own eyes brick buildings erected or in course of erection, +all on one plan, for hospitals, schools, and almshouses, which were soon +to be opened. everywhere he saw the stewards’ accounts, according to +which the serfs’ manorial labor had been diminished, and heard the +touching thanks of deputations of serfs in their full-skirted blue +coats. + +what pierre did not know was that the place where they presented him +with bread and salt and wished to build a chantry in honor of peter and +paul was a market village where a fair was held on st. peter’s day, +and that the richest peasants (who formed the deputation) had begun +the chantry long before, but that nine tenths of the peasants in that +villages were in a state of the greatest poverty. he did not know that +since the nursing mothers were no longer sent to work on his land, they +did still harder work on their own land. he did not know that the priest +who met him with the cross oppressed the peasants by his exactions, and +that the pupils’ parents wept at having to let him take their children +and secured their release by heavy payments. he did not know that the +brick buildings, built to plan, were being built by serfs whose manorial +labor was thus increased, though lessened on paper. he did not know +that where the steward had shown him in the accounts that the serfs’ +payments had been diminished by a third, their obligatory manorial work +had been increased by a half. and so pierre was delighted with his visit +to his estates and quite recovered the philanthropic mood in which +he had left petersburg, and wrote enthusiastic letters to his +“brother-instructor” as he called the grand master. + +“how easy it is, how little effort it needs, to do so much good,” +thought pierre, “and how little attention we pay to it!” + +he was pleased at the gratitude he received, but felt abashed at +receiving it. this gratitude reminded him of how much more he might do +for these simple, kindly people. + +the chief steward, a very stupid but cunning man who saw perfectly +through the naïve and intelligent count and played with him as with +a toy, seeing the effect these prearranged receptions had on pierre, +pressed him still harder with proofs of the impossibility and above all +the uselessness of freeing the serfs, who were quite happy as it was. + +pierre in his secret soul agreed with the steward that it would be +difficult to imagine happier people, and that god only knew what would +happen to them when they were free, but he insisted, though reluctantly, +on what he thought right. the steward promised to do all in his power to +carry out the count’s wishes, seeing clearly that not only would the +count never be able to find out whether all measures had been taken for +the sale of the land and forests and to release them from the land bank, +but would probably never even inquire and would never know that the +newly erected buildings were standing empty and that the serfs continued +to give in money and work all that other people’s serfs gave—that is +to say, all that could be got out of them. + + + + + +chapter xi + +returning from his journey through south russia in the happiest state +of mind, pierre carried out an intention he had long had of visiting his +friend bolkónski, whom he had not seen for two years. + +boguchárovo lay in a flat uninteresting part of the country among +fields and forests of fir and birch, which were partly cut down. the +house lay behind a newly dug pond filled with water to the brink and +with banks still bare of grass. it was at the end of a village that +stretched along the highroad in the midst of a young copse in which were +a few fir trees. + +the homestead consisted of a threshing floor, outhouses, stables, a +bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular façade +still in course of construction. round the house was a garden newly laid +out. the fences and gates were new and solid; two fire pumps and a +water cart, painted green, stood in a shed; the paths were straight, +the bridges were strong and had handrails. everything bore an impress of +tidiness and good management. some domestic serfs pierre met, in reply +to inquiries as to where the prince lived, pointed out a small newly +built lodge close to the pond. antón, a man who had looked after prince +andrew in his boyhood, helped pierre out of his carriage, said that the +prince was at home, and showed him into a clean little anteroom. + +pierre was struck by the modesty of the small though clean house after +the brilliant surroundings in which he had last met his friend in +petersburg. + +he quickly entered the small reception room with its still-unplastered +wooden walls redolent of pine, and would have gone farther, but antón +ran ahead on tiptoe and knocked at a door. + +“well, what is it?” came a sharp, unpleasant voice. + +“a visitor,” answered antón. + +“ask him to wait,” and the sound was heard of a chair being pushed +back. + +pierre went with rapid steps to the door and suddenly came face to +face with prince andrew, who came out frowning and looking old. pierre +embraced him and lifting his spectacles kissed his friend on the cheek +and looked at him closely. + +“well, i did not expect you, i am very glad,” said prince andrew. + +pierre said nothing; he looked fixedly at his friend with surprise. he +was struck by the change in him. his words were kindly and there was a +smile on his lips and face, but his eyes were dull and lifeless and in +spite of his evident wish to do so he could not give them a joyous +and glad sparkle. prince andrew had grown thinner, paler, and more +manly-looking, but what amazed and estranged pierre till he got used +to it were his inertia and a wrinkle on his brow indicating prolonged +concentration on some one thought. + +as is usually the case with people meeting after a prolonged separation, +it was long before their conversation could settle on anything. they +put questions and gave brief replies about things they knew ought to +be talked over at length. at last the conversation gradually settled on +some of the topics at first lightly touched on: their past life, plans +for the future, pierre’s journeys and occupations, the war, and so +on. the preoccupation and despondency which pierre had noticed in his +friend’s look was now still more clearly expressed in the smile +with which he listened to pierre, especially when he spoke with joyful +animation of the past or the future. it was as if prince andrew would +have liked to sympathize with what pierre was saying, but could not. +the latter began to feel that it was in bad taste to speak of his +enthusiasms, dreams, and hopes of happiness or goodness, in prince +andrew’s presence. he was ashamed to express his new masonic views, +which had been particularly revived and strengthened by his late tour. +he checked himself, fearing to seem naïve, yet he felt an irresistible +desire to show his friend as soon as possible that he was now a quite +different, and better, pierre than he had been in petersburg. + +“i can’t tell you how much i have lived through since then. i hardly +know myself again.” + +“yes, we have altered much, very much, since then,” said prince +andrew. + +“well, and you? what are your plans?” + +“plans!” repeated prince andrew ironically. “my plans?” he said, +as if astonished at the word. “well, you see, i’m building. i mean +to settle here altogether next year....” + +pierre looked silently and searchingly into prince andrew’s face, +which had grown much older. + +“no, i meant to ask...” pierre began, but prince andrew interrupted +him. + +“but why talk of me?... talk to me, yes, tell me about your travels +and all you have been doing on your estates.” + +pierre began describing what he had done on his estates, trying as far +as possible to conceal his own part in the improvements that had been +made. prince andrew several times prompted pierre’s story of what he +had been doing, as though it were all an old-time story, and he listened +not only without interest but even as if ashamed of what pierre was +telling him. + +pierre felt uncomfortable and even depressed in his friend’s company +and at last became silent. + +“i’ll tell you what, my dear fellow,” said prince andrew, who +evidently also felt depressed and constrained with his visitor, “i am +only bivouacking here and have just come to look round. i am going back +to my sister today. i will introduce you to her. but of course you know +her already,” he said, evidently trying to entertain a visitor with +whom he now found nothing in common. “we will go after dinner. and +would you now like to look round my place?” + +they went out and walked about till dinnertime, talking of the political +news and common acquaintances like people who do not know each other +intimately. prince andrew spoke with some animation and interest only of +the new homestead he was constructing and its buildings, but even here, +while on the scaffolding, in the midst of a talk explaining the future +arrangements of the house, he interrupted himself: + +“however, this is not at all interesting. let us have dinner, and then +we’ll set off.” + +at dinner, conversation turned on pierre’s marriage. + +“i was very much surprised when i heard of it,” said prince andrew. + +pierre blushed, as he always did when it was mentioned, and said +hurriedly: “i will tell you some time how it all happened. but you +know it is all over, and forever.” + +“forever?” said prince andrew. “nothing’s forever.” + +“but you know how it all ended, don’t you? you heard of the duel?” + +“and so you had to go through that too!” + +“one thing i thank god for is that i did not kill that man,” said +pierre. + +“why so?” asked prince andrew. “to kill a vicious dog is a very +good thing really.” + +“no, to kill a man is bad—wrong.” + +“why is it wrong?” urged prince andrew. “it is not given to man +to know what is right and what is wrong. men always did and always will +err, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.” + +“what does harm to another is wrong,” said pierre, feeling with +pleasure that for the first time since his arrival prince andrew was +roused, had begun to talk, and wanted to express what had brought him to +his present state. + +“and who has told you what is bad for another man?” he asked. + +“bad! bad!” exclaimed pierre. “we all know what is bad for +ourselves.” + +“yes, we know that, but the harm i am conscious of in myself is +something i cannot inflict on others,” said prince andrew, growing +more and more animated and evidently wishing to express his new outlook +to pierre. he spoke in french. “i only know two very real evils in +life: remorse and illness. the only good is the absence of those evils. +to live for myself avoiding those two evils is my whole philosophy +now.” + +“and love of one’s neighbor, and self-sacrifice?” began pierre. +“no, i can’t agree with you! to live only so as not to do evil and +not to have to repent is not enough. i lived like that, i lived for +myself and ruined my life. and only now when i am living, or at least +trying” (pierre’s modesty made him correct himself) “to live for +others, only now have i understood all the happiness of life. no, i +shall not agree with you, and you do not really believe what you are +saying.” prince andrew looked silently at pierre with an ironic smile. + +“when you see my sister, princess mary, you’ll get on with her,” +he said. “perhaps you are right for yourself,” he added after +a short pause, “but everyone lives in his own way. you lived for +yourself and say you nearly ruined your life and only found happiness +when you began living for others. i experienced just the reverse. i +lived for glory.—and after all what is glory? the same love of others, +a desire to do something for them, a desire for their approval.—so i +lived for others, and not almost, but quite, ruined my life. and i have +become calmer since i began to live only for myself.” + +“but what do you mean by living only for yourself?” asked pierre, +growing excited. “what about your son, your sister, and your +father?” + +“but that’s just the same as myself—they are not others,” +explained prince andrew. “the others, one’s neighbors, le prochain, +as you and princess mary call it, are the chief source of all error and +evil. le prochain—your kiev peasants to whom you want to do good.” + +and he looked at pierre with a mocking, challenging expression. he +evidently wished to draw him on. + +“you are joking,” replied pierre, growing more and more excited. +“what error or evil can there be in my wishing to do good, and even +doing a little—though i did very little and did it very badly? what +evil can there be in it if unfortunate people, our serfs, people like +ourselves, were growing up and dying with no idea of god and truth +beyond ceremonies and meaningless prayers and are now instructed in +a comforting belief in future life, retribution, recompense, and +consolation? what evil and error are there in it, if people were dying +of disease without help while material assistance could so easily be +rendered, and i supplied them with a doctor, a hospital, and an asylum +for the aged? and is it not a palpable, unquestionable good if a +peasant, or a woman with a baby, has no rest day or night and i give +them rest and leisure?” said pierre, hurrying and lisping. “and +i have done that though badly and to a small extent; but i have done +something toward it and you cannot persuade me that it was not a good +action, and more than that, you can’t make me believe that you do not +think so yourself. and the main thing is,” he continued, “that i +know, and know for certain, that the enjoyment of doing this good is the +only sure happiness in life.” + +“yes, if you put it like that it’s quite a different matter,” said +prince andrew. “i build a house and lay out a garden, and you build +hospitals. the one and the other may serve as a pastime. but what’s +right and what’s good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by +us. well, you want an argument,” he added, “come on then.” + +they rose from the table and sat down in the entrance porch which served +as a veranda. + +“come, let’s argue then,” said prince andrew, “you talk of +schools,” he went on, crooking a finger, “education and so forth; +that is, you want to raise him” (pointing to a peasant who passed by +them taking off his cap) “from his animal condition and awaken in him +spiritual needs, while it seems to me that animal happiness is the only +happiness possible, and that is just what you want to deprive him of. +i envy him, but you want to make him what i am, without giving him my +means. then you say, ‘lighten his toil.’ but as i see it, physical +labor is as essential to him, as much a condition of his existence, as +mental activity is to you or me. you can’t help thinking. i go to bed +after two in the morning, thoughts come and i can’t sleep but toss +about till dawn, because i think and can’t help thinking, just as +he can’t help plowing and mowing; if he didn’t, he would go to the +drink shop or fall ill. just as i could not stand his terrible physical +labor but should die of it in a week, so he could not stand my physical +idleness, but would grow fat and die. the third thing—what else was +it you talked about?” and prince andrew crooked a third finger. “ah, +yes, hospitals, medicine. he has a fit, he is dying, and you come and +bleed him and patch him up. he will drag about as a cripple, a burden to +everybody, for another ten years. it would be far easier and simpler for +him to die. others are being born and there are plenty of them as it is. +it would be different if you grudged losing a laborer—that’s how i +regard him—but you want to cure him from love of him. and he does not +want that. and besides, what a notion that medicine ever cured anyone! +killed them, yes!” said he, frowning angrily and turning away from +pierre. + +prince andrew expressed his ideas so clearly and distinctly that it was +evident he had reflected on this subject more than once, and he spoke +readily and rapidly like a man who has not talked for a long time. his +glance became more animated as his conclusions became more hopeless. + +“oh, that is dreadful, dreadful!” said pierre. “i don’t +understand how one can live with such ideas. i had such moments +myself not long ago, in moscow and when traveling, but at such times i +collapsed so that i don’t live at all—everything seems hateful to +me... myself most of all. then i don’t eat, don’t wash... and how is +it with you?...” + +“why not wash? that is not cleanly,” said prince andrew; “on the +contrary one must try to make one’s life as pleasant as possible. +i’m alive, that is not my fault, so i must live out my life as best i +can without hurting others.” + +“but with such ideas what motive have you for living? one would sit +without moving, undertaking nothing....” + +“life as it is leaves one no peace. i should be thankful to do +nothing, but here on the one hand the local nobility have done me the +honor to choose me to be their marshal; it was all i could do to get +out of it. they could not understand that i have not the necessary +qualifications for it—the kind of good-natured, fussy shallowness +necessary for the position. then there’s this house, which must be +built in order to have a nook of one’s own in which to be quiet. and +now there’s this recruiting.” + +“why aren’t you serving in the army?” + +“after austerlitz!” said prince andrew gloomily. “no, thank you +very much! i have promised myself not to serve again in the active +russian army. and i won’t—not even if bonaparte were here at +smolénsk threatening bald hills—even then i wouldn’t serve in the +russian army! well, as i was saying,” he continued, recovering his +composure, “now there’s this recruiting. my father is chief in +command of the third district, and my only way of avoiding active +service is to serve under him.” + +“then you are serving?” + +“i am.” + +he paused a little while. + +“and why do you serve?” + +“why, for this reason! my father is one of the most remarkable men of +his time. but he is growing old, and though not exactly cruel he has too +energetic a character. he is so accustomed to unlimited power that he is +terrible, and now he has this authority of a commander in chief of +the recruiting, granted by the emperor. if i had been two hours late +a fortnight ago he would have had a paymaster’s clerk at yúkhnovna +hanged,” said prince andrew with a smile. “so i am serving because +i alone have any influence with my father, and now and then can save him +from actions which would torment him afterwards.” + +“well, there you see!” + +“yes, but it is not as you imagine,” prince andrew continued. “i +did not, and do not, in the least care about that scoundrel of a clerk +who had stolen some boots from the recruits; i should even have been +very glad to see him hanged, but i was sorry for my father—that again +is for myself.” + +prince andrew grew more and more animated. his eyes glittered feverishly +while he tried to prove to pierre that in his actions there was no +desire to do good to his neighbor. + +“there now, you wish to liberate your serfs,” he continued; “that +is a very good thing, but not for you—i don’t suppose you ever had +anyone flogged or sent to siberia—and still less for your serfs. if +they are beaten, flogged, or sent to siberia, i don’t suppose they are +any the worse off. in siberia they lead the same animal life, and the +stripes on their bodies heal, and they are happy as before. but it is +a good thing for proprietors who perish morally, bring remorse upon +themselves, stifle this remorse and grow callous, as a result of being +able to inflict punishments justly and unjustly. it is those people i +pity, and for their sake i should like to liberate the serfs. you +may not have seen, but i have seen, how good men brought up in those +traditions of unlimited power, in time when they grow more irritable, +become cruel and harsh, are conscious of it, but cannot restrain +themselves and grow more and more miserable.” + +prince andrew spoke so earnestly that pierre could not help thinking +that these thoughts had been suggested to prince andrew by his +father’s case. + +he did not reply. + +“so that’s what i’m sorry for—human dignity, peace of mind, +purity, and not the serfs’ backs and foreheads, which, beat and shave +as you may, always remain the same backs and foreheads.” + +“no, no! a thousand times no! i shall never agree with you,” said +pierre. + + + + + +chapter xii + +in the evening andrew and pierre got into the open carriage and drove to +bald hills. prince andrew, glancing at pierre, broke the silence now and +then with remarks which showed that he was in a good temper. + +pointing to the fields, he spoke of the improvements he was making in +his husbandry. + +pierre remained gloomily silent, answering in monosyllables and +apparently immersed in his own 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+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + * (2) “hurrah for the austrians! hurrah for the russians! + * (2) “it is all very well for that good-for-nothing fellow + *(2) that suits us down to the ground. + * (2) that their fire gets into his eyes and he forgets that + *(3) hollow. + *(4) i just ask you that. +abandoning all hope of a junction with buxhöwden. if kutúzov decided + * a bastard. +a battery to their left. the smoke above it had not yet dispersed. two +abbé morio? he is a most interesting man.” +a b c of war or of politics, and that bonaparte was an insignificant +a blue-eyed soldier involuntarily attracted notice. it was dólokhov +abominable, quite abominable!” said prince andrew, and he went off to +about her confinement, and how she dreaded it, and had complained of her +“about my wife... i am ashamed as it is to leave her on your +about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over.... +about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry +about the corners of his mouth read to the austrian general the +about the princess’ health and then led pierre along a stone passage. +about to ask their way of an elderly footman who had sprung up as they +abroad, the other is with the guards, who are starting on their march +absent-minded. when he rose to go, he took up instead of his own, the +accent. +accent—having noticed that zherkóv could still hear him. +accept this challenge or not. anatole did not release him, and though +accompanying him to the hall. +accomplished. +accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room. but in spite of +“according to the scouts the last of them crossed on rafts during the +accountant, a stout, full-faced man, looked around him with a naïve +accounts is a poor creature.” +accustomed to win in their battles,” he concluded his evidently +aches, and one spends all one’s money. he asked me for tonight, but i +a cloak, waiting for the conversation to finish. they listened to +a company commander, a fine round-faced man, with a stupid and happy +a company smile but was evidently tormented by jealousy; now she turned +a convoy. directly opposite to him came a strange one-horse vehicle, +a convoy wagon became restive at the end of the bridge, and the whole +acquaintance.’ in a word, those gentlemen, gascons indeed, so +acquainted,” and he pressed borís’ hand. “do you know, i have not +a crash. +across the table to clink glasses with the count, with the children, and +a cry of: “the general to the third company,” the missing officer +action they had been wounded. “day before yesterday, on the danube,” +a cup of tea?” +a dark-green dress coat, knee breeches of the color of cuisse de nymphe + a day or two, then bliss unspoilt, +added. +added. +added, addressing prince vasíli, and without waiting for an answer she +added he, munching a pie in his moist-lipped handsome mouth, “would be +added in a tone admitting of no rejoinder and raising her eyebrows. +added, noticing that prince andrew winced as at an electric shock. +added, not noticing his visitor’s sarcastic smile. +adding, “your excellency.” +addressing lorrain in french which he pronounced badly. +addressing the austrian general, “i have the honor to congratulate +addressing the englishman. +addressing the mother. +address rostóv by his title, as if in recognition of his confession. +adieu, dear and kind friend; may our divine saviour and his most holy +“adieu, ma bonne,” answered prince vasíli turning away from her. +“adieu, mary,” said he gently to his sister, taking her by the hand +adieu, prince! may god support you...” +adjutant. +adjutant by his elaborate courtesy appeared to wish to ward off any +adjutants.” +adjutant, zherkóv, an orderly officer, the staff officer on duty, +administered. come.” +admired his regiment, rejoiced in it, and that his whole mind was +admit—he had almost been jealous on his wife’s account, was the butt +admitted that he had been to blame, did not lift his eyes from the +a door of one of the inner rooms opened and one of the princesses, the +advancing.” +advancing by forced marches toward znaim, which lay sixty-six miles +advancing from russia, without losing his army as mack had done at ulm. +advancing straight toward the inner door. +advise you to appeal to rumyántsev through prince golítsyn. that would +a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools. +a fellow diplomat, “that the chancellor told him flatly that his +a few hours ahead of the french who were approaching hollabrünn from +affair, and about some ladies they both knew. +affair of the thabor bridge, at vienna.... they have crossed without +affair public. you are offended at being put on duty a bit, but why not +affairs of honor and had twice regained his commission. +affected languor and indolence. he now looked like a man who has time +affectionate as it was—expressed a sense of his own superiority. +affectionate eyes, now came up and took his arm. before he looked round +affectionately. +a fight led murat to try to deceive kutúzov in a similar way. meeting +“a fine lad! my word! a fine lad!... his father lies on his deathbed +“a fine mess we’ve made of it!” he remarked. +a fine place! why are you not eating anything, gentlemen?” nesvítski +a footman came in to summon borís—the princess was going. pierre, in +a foraging expedition. rostóv in his cadet uniform, with a jerk to his +a foreigner, in spite of all differences of faith, understood the full +a former war. “the emperor will teach your suvara as he has taught the +a freak of fate made the impossible possible. the success of the trick +“a french pancake,” answered zherkóv. +after a few minutes’ bustle beside the high bedstead, those who had +after anna mikháylovna had driven off with her son to visit count cyril +after his dismissal from headquarters zherkóv had not remained in the +after his journey and the campaign during which he had been deprived of +after his reception by the austrians, to speak if not in russian +after inspecting the carriage himself and seeing the trunks put in, he +after losing her own father. she is very good-natured, and my father +after natásha down the passage into the sitting room with flushed face +after receiving her visitors, the countess was so tired that she gave +after the attack, bogdánich would come up to him as he lay wounded and +after the fatigues and impressions of the journey, his reception, and +after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one +“after the next affair... epaulettes.” +after washing and dressing, prince andrew came into the diplomat’s +again are all running back somewhere, and i shall run with them, and it, +again began to laugh. she evidently felt unable to look at him +again drawn out in a thin line the musketeers were descending the hill, +again expressing deep sorrow. +again going on tiptoe to the reception room where they had left prince +again. i must go there, prince, and scare them a bit. it won’t take a +again on all the bright faces of the squadron the serious expression +again on the sofa. they were silent for a while. +again recalled all the details of the victory and his own calm courage +again see the sun, this water, that gorge!...” +again shook with a deep ringing laugh, the laugh of one who always eats +against one of the columns in a respectful attitude implying that he, +again struck up, the count and countess kissed, and the guests, leaving +against them and winding down over the uneven ground. one could already +against the wall, and the second of the three sisters rushed out +“against your will he will save and have mercy on you and bring you +again turning to the count. “zat is how ve old hussars look at it, and +again when he passed to another group whose center was the abbé. +age...” +agitated. +ago have joined the archduke. and believe me on my honour that to me +a good example, yet here you are without your boots! the alarm will be +agreeable and interesting work. his face expressed more satisfaction +ague. +a handsome adjutant. this was prince bolkónski. beside him was his +“ah, bondarénko, dear friend!” said he to the hussar who rushed up +“ah, count rostóv!” exclaimed pierre joyfully. “then you are his +“ah, dear friend,” replied princess mary, “i have asked you never +“ah, don’t talk to me! last winter she wheedled herself in here and +a heavenly feeling. borís was telling his new friend pierre who the +“ah, from vienna? very good. later, later!” +“ah, here she is!” he exclaimed laughing. “my pet, whose name day +“ah! here’s the warrior! wants to vanquish buonaparte?” said the +“ah, i know what it is.” +“ah, is it you, cousin?” +“ah, madam, it is a great sacrament,” replied the priest, passing +“ah, may the devil take you and evewybody,” were the last words +“ah! mon ami, i only pray, and hope that god will hear me. +“ah, money, count, money! how much sorrow it causes in the world,” +“ah! my dear!... ah! mary!...” they suddenly exclaimed, and then +“ah, my dear friend! forget the wrongs that may have been done you. +“ah, my dear! he is so rich, and we are so poor!” +“ah! my dear, i am afraid you and your monk are wasting your +“ah, my dear, i hardly knew you,” said anna mikháylovna with a +“ah, my dear prince! i could not have a more welcome visitor,” +“ah, my dear,” said the countess, “my life is not all roses +“ah, my friend!” said he, taking pierre by the elbow; and there was +“ah, my friend!” she said, touching his arm as she had done her +“ah, my love,” answered anna mikháylovna, “god grant you never +a hoarse voice to the men to look to their pistols. he rode up to +a host welcomes an honored guest. he reported that his regiment had +“ah, prince! in what sad circumstances we meet again! and how is our +“ah!...” said kutúzov glancing at bolkónski as if by this +“ah!” said kutúzov. “i hope this will be a lesson to you. do your +“ah! telyánin! how d’ye do? they plucked me last night,” came +“ah, that is just what i tell him!” said she. “i don’t +“ah, that’s always the way!” said nesvítski with a wave of the +“ah, that’s the way to talk french,” said the picket soldiers. +“ah, timókhin!” said he, recognizing the red-nosed captain who had +“ah, váska!” joyfully replied nesvítski. “what’s up with +“ah what a calamity! you say the affair was decisive? but mortier is +“ah! what joy for the princess!” exclaimed she: “at last! i must +“ah, wostóv,” he cried noticing the cadet’s bright face, +“ah, yes! do tell us all about it, vicomte,” said anna pávlovna, +“ah yes, my dear,” said the count, addressing the visitor and +“ah, you are sending off a letter, princess? i have already dispatched +“ah, you’re up already,” said denísov, entering the room. +“ah, your excellency,” put in zherkóv, his eyes fixed on the +“ah, you’ve come here too, young man!” he said, smiling and +aide-de-camp. +aide-de-camp, and sat down in the lady’s chair, placing his huge hands +aide-de-camp, “dat one liffs after de sird stroke.” +aides-de-camp to inquire after the count’s health, came himself +aim remaining for him was to effect a junction with the forces that were +aim—to establish peace in europe on firm foundations—has now decided +a keg, filled one after another the canteen lids held out to him. the +a kind no longer in general use. prince andrew remembered the story of +a languor of motion and speech, resulting from weakness, gave her a +a large udder was attached to the cart behind. a woman with an unweaned +a laugh still more so, he quitted the table. +alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance. +alert than he had done the day before. only his eyes gleamed feverishly +a letter has been written to the emperor in which the count asks for +a life i can’t decide or think properly about anything. one’s head +alight, and let her pass into the house before him. old tíkhon, wearing +alighted from his horse and whose big body was jammed against the +a little to their right and behind the accountant, crashed to earth with +“a little volcano!” +all along the sides of the road fallen horses were to be seen, some +all, and your future depends on him. remember that, my dear, and be nice +all as they should be? that’s right! the great thing is the serving, +all be killed,” a sergeant was saying angrily and reproachfully. +all done casually in a moment of anger, of illness, and was afterwards +all four, like a flock of scared birds, got up and left the room. +“all have secrets of their own,” answered natásha, getting warmer. +all her clothes in petersburg and that heaven knew what she would have +all her invitations without exception, written in french, and delivered +all his decisions and intentions. he went to kurágin’s. +all his property, not to us his direct heirs, but to pierre.” +“all i can say, general,” said he with a pleasant elegance +all, like children of my own, as you know.” +all like that; one can’t unmarry. don’t be afraid; i won’t tell +all moscow talks of nothing but war. one of my two brothers is already +all my trouble will have been thrown away.... i shall not be able to +allowed to pass by special permission. the eyes of all the soldiers +allowed to speak, turns to auersperg with feigned astonishment (he is a +“allow me, sir,” said prince andrew in russian in a cold, +“allow me to look at your purse,” he said in a low, almost +all regular germans.” +“all right, all right!” said the old count. “he always flares up! +“all right. fifty imperials ... that i will drink a whole bottle of +“all right. they are good fellows. and how have you wriggled onto the +all sides, moved across the bridge. +all the comforts of cleanliness and all the refinements of life, prince +all the moscow ladies have conspired to give him all their sons as +all the old feminine arts. but as soon as the prince had gone her face +“all the same, one is afraid! oh, you clever people,” said a third +all the soldiers’ remarks related to the two young ones. every face +all the unmarried ladies and even the married ones except the very +all this is not right, it’s not right! you may take offense or not but +all this, rose and approached the princess. he seemed unable to bear the +ally. we shall therefore confidently await the moment when the imperial +almost dragging him to the window. “that money is denísov’s; you +almost frightened, eyes as she passed him. +almost time,” she added, giving pierre to understand that they were +“alone all the same, without my friends.... and he expects me not to +alone applying her handkerchief to her eyes. at last she rang. +alone at last gains a real victory, destroying the spell of the +alone... that tremendous fortune... and what is his life worth? it’s a +along the broad country road, edged on both sides by trees, came a high, +already.” +already been choosing a career for three months, and had not decided +already known in moscow and that the ladies about his father—who were +already opening a door. +already prepared...” +already seated in the drawing room. the count took the gentlemen into +also in french: +also the abbé morio. do you know that profound thinker? he has been +also to the soldiers. looking at their boots he several times shook his +altered in shape by its pressure on the table, now at her still more +although prince vasíli listened reluctantly and not very politely +although the hall porter saw someone’s carriage standing at the +always accompanied any reference of hers to the imperial family, “has +always, always anxious! especially just at this age, so dangerous both +always be my daughters’ first confidante, and that if nicholas, with +always be the chief desire of everyone else. +always better to “bow too low than not bow low enough.” so the +always called natásha a cossack) and she stroked the child’s arm as +always won. however much he drank, he never lost his clearheadedness. +am.” +a man who on a hot day takes a final run before plunging into the water. +ambassadors to compliment the usurper.” +a member of the hofkriegsrath from vienna had come to kutúzov the day +amid the smoke of their campfires, the greater part of whom were +“a million all but one!” replied a waggish soldier in a torn coat, +a moment, and, evidently understanding what rostóv hinted at, seized +a moment. the sick man was given something to drink, there was a +a moment, “yes, bring me seven hundred rubles, yes! but mind, don’t +among the children, in the special sense they attached to it.) “why +among the field guns on the brow of the hill the general in command of +among them. on my word i’d give five years of my life for it!” +among the women!” +a mop, his legs far apart, sprang to the wheel; while number two with +a most serious, deferential, and innocent expression. +an air of importance that showed that she felt she quite knew what she +an anonymous volunteer, and david widger +anatole and pierre. +anatole lived, pierre entered the lighted porch, ascended the stairs, +anatole stopped him. +anatole turned to the englishman and taking him by one of the buttons +anatole with his swaggering air strode up to the window. he wanted to +ancestor of the bolkónskis. prince andrew, looking again at that +and a ball flew whistling over the heads of the hussar squadron. the +and a castle with a park surrounded by the waters of the confluence of +and a convoy of croats. beside kutúzov sat an austrian general, in +and a flask, and nesvítski was treating some officers to pies and real +and again she began to sob, more bitterly than before. natásha lifted +and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of + * and all that follows therefrom. +and also that murat’s mistake would very soon be discovered, proved +and am at your service to help you nurse my uncle. i imagine what you +and anna mikháylovna (who found it necessary to accompany him) was +and are drawn along.” +“and are the hours the same? and the walks in the avenues? and the +and artillerymen’s bonfires. to the left, not far from the farthest +and as he waved his arms to impersonate the policeman, his portly form +and ask him, i!... does that satisfy you?” +and asking them all to be seated began: +and a timid smile. +“and at your age what secrets can there be between natásha and +and began dancing round the room with it. +and bilíbin unwrinkled his temple, feeling that the dilemma was +and blue riding breeches, who were swarming near the bridge, and then at +and borís, having apparently relieved himself of an onerous duty and +and borís. he is his godson,” she added, her tone suggesting that +and borís says it is quite possible. you know i have told him all about +and broke it up. in this action for the first time trophies were taken: +and by a servant who passed out on tiptoe without heeding them. they +and carefully placed her in an easy chair. +and ceased talking when véra entered. sónya and natásha looked at +and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. +and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels +and compelled to act under conditions of war unlike anything that had +and complacently seated himself on the sofa. +and countess alike—turned to look at her as if wondering why she had +and decided in his own mind that all was as it should be, and that in +and denísov rode up to a group that had stopped near rostóv, composed +and denísov went to the bed to get the purse from under the pillow. +and desperation as though he were at that moment facing some great +and devotion, or of weariness and hope of resting before long. prince +“and did you give me tobacco yesterday? that’s just it, friend! ah, +and dólokhov swore at him in coarse soldier’s russian and shouldering +and don’t forget to give him the rostóvs’ invitation. they ask him +and drawing up again next moment when her face broke into a smile of +and drew it downwards as if wishing to ascertain whether it was firmly +and every strap in place, and shone with cleanliness. and not only +and examined him with attentive curiosity. the cossack was dead, but the +and fear. +and feeling at that moment. “is there anything at all behind that +and fell into the column to the measure of “left... left!” “close +and fell on his hands. the others outstripped him. +and fencing from the village. +and flask, and swung his heavy person easily into the saddle. +and from the different ranks some twenty men ran to the front. a +and fussily in the easy chair, “how is it annette never got married? +and get away to attend to her duties as hostess. but pierre now +and good-humored laughter from the soldiers that it infected the french +and gun carriages, the tramp of horses, the crack of whips, shouts, the +and had an opinion about everything), but above all at his capacity for +and had more than once impressed on his daughter that michael ivánovich +and had remained away till he was twenty. when he returned to moscow +and had taken him to vienna and given him the more serious commissions. +and hair, without looking at her eyes, with such contempt that the +and happiness... “i should wish for nothing else, nothing, if only i +and happiness the victory had afforded him had been now left in the +and hardly able to restrain his jerky movements, and from the way he +and hastened to reassure him. +and have seen fräulein mathilde.” +and having done this he rode back. +and having got rid of this young man who did not know how to behave, she +and he also passed on with the wagon. then came some merry soldiers who +and health. all who talked to her, and at each word saw her bright smile +and he amuses himself setting a policeman astride a bear! for shame, +and he caught the bear, took it in his arms, lifted it from the ground, +and he doesn’t care at all for julie.” +and he experienced tenfold the joy of living, as he had not done since +and he indicated with his delicate fingers what he meant by a pinch. +and he left the room, followed by the low but ringing laughter of the +“and here, friend, the people are quite beggarly. there they all +and he released bolkónski’s arm to indicate that he had now quite +and her face was tearful. +and her short, downy, smiling lip lifted when she began to speak just as +and he smiled approvingly, evidently pleased with the cadet. rostóv +and hills in the distance—and despite the fact that the inhabitants +and his eyebrows were lifted, then his eyebrows would descend and +and his forehead became smooth again, he bowed his head respectfully, +and his head tilting yet further back. “why is it so long?” thought +and his kind, intelligent face rather pale, rushed out of the shed +and his one division, and even then mortier slips through your fingers! +and his thoughts followed one another with extraordinary clearness and +and his visit to brünn. at the door he found a vehicle half full of +“and how do you get on with the officers?” inquired zherkóv. + * “and hurrah for the whole world!” +and hurriedly removed. +“and i am still arguing with your husband. i can’t understand why he +and i beg you all to help me. brünn’s attractions must be shown him. +and i don’t now.” +“and if he asks about the losses?” +“and i had no idea!...” exclaimed princess mary. “ah, andrew, i +“and i?” he said; “do you think it is easier for me? i am as worn +and immediately túshin, with a short pipe in the corner of his mouth +and indeed everybody in the room looked with a smile of pleasure at the +and in proof of the conclusiveness of his opinion all the wrinkles +and involuntarily noticed the carefully washed seams of the scar near +“and i only...” +“and i should so like to thank uncle once for all his kindness to me +and is nothing unworthy of you, but it will comfort me. promise, +“and i tell you, don’t you dahe to do it!” shouted denísov, +“and i tell you, rostóv, that you must apologize to the colonel!” +“and it must seem to you,” said borís flushing slightly, but not +and ivy, with a gleam of white shoulders, glossy hair, and sparkling +and julie were saying to one another. the governess kept looking round +and kinds of dessert, in order to send a full description of the dinner +and kissed her. +and kissing her, and then he left the room with rapid steps. +and kutúzov smiled in a way that seemed to say, “you are quite at +and legs always fell into unnatural positions. +and let us talk sensibly while there is still time, be it a day or be it +and lifted it to his lips, threw back his head, and raised his free hand +and light, joyous steps. at the visitors’ request the young people +and like a practical petersburg lady who knows how to make the most of +and like him. write and tell me how he receives you. if he is all +“and lise, your wife?” +and little tables. during balls given at the house pierre, who did not +and looking carelessly about him. +and making a wide sweep with his arm, amid a thunder of applause and +and making pencil notes on them, and for the first two or three minutes +“and me? would you like to kiss me?” she whispered almost inaudibly, +and mirth that shone in all their faces. evidently in the back rooms, +and more attractive. +and most advantageous style, like a well-garnished joint of roast beef +and moved to the right; from behind it, dispersing the laggards, came +and murat, humiliated and anxious to expiate his fault, had at once +and my father was much affected by it. he says the count was the last +and next balls, about theatricals, and who would meet whom, and when and +and no connections. yet, though anatole spent tens of thousands of +and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, +and not in the habit of running, trotted awkwardly stumbling on his +and not only at the same hour but at the same minute. with those about +and not with his eyes. +and of good family and that’s all i want.” +and on all their faces he recognized the same eagerness that filled his +“and our share?” asked the princess smiling ironically, as if +and painfully felt. my father talks of nothing but marches and +and parted smiling, the german returning to his cowshed and rostóv +and pressed him against the railings, and all he could do was to smile. +and prince andrew after giving directions about his departure went to +and prove my devotion to his majesty the emperor and to russia!” +and put the matter before the emperor,” said princess anna +and refined expression on the faces of those present he was always +and replacing their purses and pocketbooks, entered the ballroom. first +“andré,” said his wife, addressing her husband in the same +and resignation to the will of god. “if you do not understand these +and respect as few hardhearted men would have aroused. although he was +and respectfully that the prince gave him a searching glance. +and returned a glove pierre had dropped; the doctors became respectfully +andrew. +“andrew, already!” said the little princess, turning pale and +andrew, “and at anna pávlovna’s they listen to me. and that stupid +andrew apparently knew this as well as tíkhon; he looked at his watch +andrew as one of themselves, an honor they did not extend to many. from +andrew. “besides, in the actions of a statesman one has to distinguish +andrew came up, stroked her hair, and asked if she felt rested after +andrew did not speak; he was both pleased and displeased that his father +andrew did not tell his father that he would no doubt live a long time +andrew? don’t forget that she has grown up and been educated in +andrew entered the passage. kutúzov himself, he was told, was in the +andrew felt a pleasant sense of repose among luxurious surroundings such +andrew had already heard from his wife in the presence of others some +andrew had gone and made the sign of the cross in his direction. from +andrew, “i am only surprised at your opinion of bonaparte. you +“andrew, i bless you with this icon and you must promise me you will +andrew?’ i did indeed.” she laughed. “he is so well received +“andrew, if you had faith you would have turned to god and asked him +andrew... is father’s way of treating religious subjects. i don’t +andrew. “look here, my dear fellow, get from kozlóvski all the +andrew made his way up to the battery from which the staff officer had +andrew...” she said timidly after a moment’s silence, “i have a +andrew shook himself as if waking up, and his face assumed the look it +andrew slowly, not taking his eyes off his wife. +andrew struck the high road along which the russian army was moving with +andrew, “that all the atrocities of the french army (i nearly said of +andrew was galloping along in a post chaise enjoying the feelings of a +andrew was natural and pleasant. others, the majority, disliked him and +andrúsha!...” said she, putting her hand in her reticule but not yet +andrúsha—the slender mischievous boy who had been her playfellow in +and say, “i am so delighted... mamma’s health... and countess +and scapegraces of petersburg. +and scarcely breathing, watched from her ambush with sparkling eyes. +and scented myself.” +and seeing that the elder visitor was not listening, he turned to the +and see the standard flapping against its staff. +and she began to cry again because he had such a noble soul. +and she found them on my table and said she’d show them to mamma, and +and she set off at a run along the passage. +and she’s even in my way. you know i always was a savage, and now am +“and she’s in love with borís already. just fancy!” said the +and she smiled her ecstatic smile. +and she won’t say anything to mamma. nicholas will tell her himself, +and shouted to the musicians to play faster. faster, faster, and faster; +“and showed me a letter in which the parade of the french in vienna +and show you what kind of rivet to use.” +and sighing disdainfully, he again changed his position. +and silent when the talk related to any topic that had no direct bearing +and sit. this morning i turned them all out and now look, it’s full +and social topics were ended and the time had come for intimate +“and so he is! quite blind!” +and sometimes flung the exercise book away. +and sometimes laughed. nearest of all to the commander in chief walked +and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers’ or +and so the anecdote ended. though it was unintelligible why he had told +“and so you think napoleon will manage to get an army across?” asked +and stood, hanging her head. +and suddenly, as if he had studied her sufficiently and had formed a +and suddenly determines to speak out. +and suddenly seemed to grow very merry. +and taking nesvítski’s arm he left zherkóv, who did not know what to +“and tell mr. dólokhov that i won’t forget him—he may be quite +“and that other one with him, the austrian, looked as if he were +and that the whole army had surrendered at ulm proved to be correct. +“and that would be splendid,” said pierre. +and the brilliance of the bright sunshine merged in a single joyous and +and the commander, turning to look at the adjutant, directed his jerky +and the constant gleam of her white teeth, thought that they were in a +and the conversation again turned on the war, on bonaparte, and the +“and the fete at the english ambassador’s? today is wednesday. i +and the general in white, accompanied by the suite, walked between the +and the glory that awaited him. +and the latter—unconscious that he was being reflected in the hussar +and the men’s at the other. +and the munching of the lieutenant. +and then at the other. +“and then of course my family has also to be considered,” prince +“and then, old fellow, he gives him one in the teeth with the butt +and the orders he gave them and, to his surprise, found that no orders +and the owner of the manly voice, evidently an infantry officer, +and the prince began explaining all the blunders which, according to +“and the prisoners he killed in africa? that was horrible!” said the +and the rattling of carriage wheels seemed to fill his ears, and now +“and there hasn’t been anyone in the room except the lieutenant and +and the staff captain rose and turned away from rostóv. +and the tramp of horses’ hoofs were heard. kutúzov and his suite were +and the visitors try to guess from these glances who, or what, they are +... and the wish, which constitutes the emperor’s sole and absolute +and they awoke in him astonishment at the genius of his hero, a feeling +“and they said kutúzov was blind of one eye?” +“and this is gratitude—this is recognition for those who have +and this “well!” sounded coldly ironic, as if he were saying: “now +and thoughtfully shaking his head. did he fear going to the war, or was +and threw them round the little girl who had run in. +and thrill of suspense usual at such moments. outside the house, beyond +and to pierre, glancing at him again. +and unexpectedly again began to cry. +and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen +and wait for her, she went silently toward the door that everyone was +and, walking backwards before the company, jerked his shoulders and +and warmly pressing his hand looked affectionately over his spectacles +and was crossing himself with his right hand, turning his eyes upward +and was just putting his question to a soldier when his attention +and was therefore out of sorts, a state of mind which with her always +and, waving her thin arms from under the woolen shawl, cried: +“and we, my dear boy! it’s terrible! i was wrong to laugh at mack, +and went in at the open door. there was no one in the anteroom; empty +and went out of the corridor. +and went to the door. +“and what about his character?” asked the regimental commander. +“and what a well-preserved man he was!” remarked the aide-de-camp. +“and what devil made me go to that wat?” (an officer nicknamed +“and what do you think of this latest comedy, the coronation at +“and where is lise?” he asked, answering her question only by a +and which had always opened so quietly, burst noisily open and banged +and while kutúzov was turning managed to make a grimace and then assume +“and who are you?” cried the officer, turning on him with tipsy +“and who will inherit his wealth?” he added in a whisper. +“and why are children born to such men as you? if you were not a +“and why are they stopping? there’s no proper order!” said the +“and why didn’t you do it at seven in the morning? you ought to have +“and why is it?” +“and why the deuce are we going to fight bonaparte?” remarked +“and will she soon be confined?” and shaking his head reproachfully +and will then inherit everything under the will? and if the will and +and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs. +and wished he could tell what, if anything, this man was thinking +and wish you to have as good an opinion of me. don’t upset yourself, +“and without holding on to anything. is that right?” +and with the familiarity and easy grace peculiar to him, he raised the +and with this object offered a three days’ truce on condition that +and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must +and you.” +“and you? are you going to have lunch too? they feed you quite +“and you didn’t see that everybody is packing up?” +and you, mon cousin, seem to consider me a perfect fool,” said the +and your capital!’ the one general whom we all loved, schmidt, you +“and you too!” +an entreaty, a threat, and above all conviction that she would herself +anger and walking up to the regiment wished to find a further excuse for +angrily and disrespectfully at kozlóvski. +angrily blowing his nose. hardly had prince andrew gone when the study +angrily, came in at the other door. natásha checked her first impulse +angrily pulling down his tight scarf. +angry with me for coming? you have changed so, andrúsha,” she added, +animated, and handsome, with his hand bandaged. in the study were four +an inn in the village which the officers frequented. rostóv rode up to +an inspection anywhere in the heart of russia. +anna mikháylovna. +anna mikháylovna came out last. she approached pierre with slow, quiet +anna mikháylovna instantly guessed her intention and stooped to be +anna mikháylovna looked at véra and paused. the countess pressed her +anna mikháylovna paused and waited for him to come up. +anna mikháylovna’s face expressed a consciousness that the decisive +anna mikháylovna’s was the most distinct. +anna mikháylovna took off her gloves and, occupying the position she +anna mikháylovna was already embracing her and weeping. the countess +anna pávlovna almost closed her eyes to indicate that neither she nor +anna pávlovna disapproved. +anna pávlovna had already managed to speak to lise about the match she +anna pávlovna in dismay detained him with the words: “do you know the +anna pávlovna’s alarm was justified, for pierre turned away from the +anna pávlovna’s drawing room was gradually filling. the highest +anna pávlovna smiled and promised to take pierre in hand. she knew his +anna pávlovna’s reception was in full swing. the spindles hummed +anna pávlovna’s soiree. the matter was mentioned to the emperor, an +“annette, for heaven’s sake don’t refuse me,” the countess +an old friend. +an old powdered manservant who was sitting in the antechamber rose +an orderly, or a townsman was carried through the waves of infantry; +an orderly’s charge, and he felt the blood rush to his heart with +“an order to who?” asked the colonel morosely. +another. +another—a childlike, kindly, even rather silly look, which seemed to +another. all became silent and turned to look at the pale tear-worn anna +another, a younger voice, interrupted him: “afraid or not, you can’t +another company, a lucky one for not all the companies had vodka, +another group. +another, hardly able to suppress their laughter. +another hussar also rushed toward the horse, but bondarénko had already +“another ismail comrade,” said he. “a brave officer! are you +another pie but felt shy, and therefore pretended to be examining the +another’s faces and speak to one another. besides the soldiers who +another time he interrupted, saying: +another voice, from a man of medium height with clear blue eyes, +another who wished to get away. with his head bent, and his big feet +an outsider is out of place here.... no, don’t distress yourself.... +answered.” +answered her, as he had the countess, only in monosyllables. the other +answered lavrúshka. “i know by now, if he wins he comes back early to +answered pierre, trying to remember who this young man was. +answered the soldier. prince andrew took out his purse and gave the +answers to these questions, as was only too evident, did not interest +answer than the one prince andrew gave to this naïve question. +antechamber experienced the same feeling of respect and even fear when +anteroom with him. +antichrist—i really believe he is antichrist—i will have nothing +any clever conversation that was to be heard. seeing the self-confident +“any news from mack?” +anyone, and so you don’t deserve to have them.” +anyone, but you know it yourself.” +anyone else does the same, i will pay him a hundred imperials. do you +anyone else had a right to criticize what the empress desired or was +anyone if he is in disfavor. now come here.” +anyone. they wished to administer the sacrament of unction.” +anyone who wanted to see him could come the hundred miles from moscow to +anything, but was only conscious of her stern father’s withered face +anything. do you know i have sent for pierre? the count,” pointing to +anything else.... you have not been ordered to return and have not been +anything for his happiness! and my affairs are in such a bad way that my +anything. here is a letter to prince vasíli, and here is money. write +anything might happen, only not that. +anything to say, say it. these two things can be done together,” he +anything wrong in my behavior. but i’ll just tell mamma how you are +a particular glamour and glad keenness of impression to everything that +apartments assigned to prince vasíli. +a peg on which to hang the prince’s favorite topic, he looked +a plan of marriage for you. it is neither more nor less than with prince +a policeman and the bear back to back and put the bear into the moyka +apologize.” +apologize to an old and honorable officer? whatever bogdánich may +a portrait so characteristic of the original as to be amusing. +apparently she had forgotten her age and by force of habit employed +apparently the sight of them roused no pleasant feeling in véra. +appear as if he did not want any of that wine, but was mortified because +appeared a stupid smile of glee which he seemed unable to suppress. +appeared from behind his company and, though he was a middle-aged man +appeared in the doorway. the general with the bandaged head bent forward +appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to +appeared punctually to the appointed hour. everyone sitting in this +appeared, quite out of keeping with his features, that seemed to deride +appeared shy of her unquestionable and all too victorious beauty. she +appeared that they had worn when under fire. rostóv watched his enemy, +appeared, then a second and a third almost simultaneously, and at the +appearing on the skyline, which they knew to be the enemy’s troops. +apple, also half smiling as he looked at the handsome girl. +appointment to london was a promotion and that he was so to regard it. +appreciation of the vicomte’s epigram, pierre again broke into the +approach, but even in this room there now stood an empty bath, and water +approached. +approached the door of the minister’s room. he felt offended, and +approaching enemy farther off. at the same instant the sun came fully +apráksina...” and then, again rustling, pass into the anteroom, put +apráksins’ i heard a lady asking, ‘is that the famous prince +apron under the leather hood of the vehicle. prince andrew rode up +À propos of marriages: do you know that a while ago that universal +a quite unexpected, chance of saving the army. on receiving the news +archduchess also wished to see him. he did not know whom to answer, and +archduke’s as good as another, as you know) and even if it is only +are all stupid; but i know this: an illegitimate son cannot inherit... +a real one, but that they would talk of that later. princess mary was +are—at the heart of affairs and of the world—is the talk all of +are being deceived, my instinct tells me of negotiations with france and +are childwen of the dust... but one falls in love and one is a god, one +are distributed. why has fate given you two such splendid children? +are here?” +are, monsieur pierre!” +are not many left of us old friends! that’s why i so value your +a reply unnecessary. she smilingly waited. all the time the story was +are the french!’ murat, seeing that all is lost if the sergeant is +are we to find suvórovs now? je vous demande un peu,” *(4) said he, +are wrapped up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us +“are you going to count cyril vladímirovich, my dear?” said the +“are you living with your mother?” +“are you not ashamed to deprive us of your charming wife?” +“are you ready?” he asked his wife, looking past her. +a ring, he made the sign of the cross over him with a gesture evidently +arm. he began to laugh. +arm wavered still more with the strain. one hand moved as if to clutch +army, and the member of the hofkriegsrath who had arrived the previous +army was very favorable. +army.... you are in a position to seize its baggage and artillery. +arranged and how nice it all was? there’s uncle shinshín’s brother +arrival of young prince andrew and his wife was daily expected, but +arrived from russia. with this object he intended to meet the regiment; +artillery sentry was pacing up and down; he stood at attention when the +artless smile, she had met him in secluded passages. +a rule to speak out... well, what answer am i to take? will you come to +as a dense cloud of smoke arose from it. the hussars had succeeded in +as a frenchman would speak after spending about a year in russia. +as a man recently returned from abroad, in a political conversation in +ascended the carpeted stairs. +a schoolboy who is told to repeat a lesson he has not learned. spots +as clear as day, and can go so far astray. that is the only thing +a sense of disgust the minutest details of this humiliating scene he +“as far as the service goes he is quite punctilious, your excellency; +as he always did when at the front, solemn and stern. then came the word +as he approached, a ringing shot issued from it deafening him and his +as he closed his eyes his ears seemed filled with the rattle of the +as he had been accustomed to from childhood. besides it was pleasant, +as he lay back in his armchair, looking in another direction. +as he liked, now in petersburg i hear he has been doing such terrible +as he rode by. +as he said this he rose, went to his sister, and, stooping, kissed +as he said this prince andrew was less than ever like that bolkónski +as he sat on the sloping ledge. as he began slipping down, his head and +as he was leaving the battery, firing was heard on the left also, and +as he would have done to a stranger. +a shot, and our troops could be seen hurrying to the crossing. +aside and turning sharply away; but rising immediately, he paced up and +aside with his arm, said in a breathless voice, +as if at times there radiated from them shafts of warm light)—were +as if flinging something to the ground, the drummer—a lean, handsome +as if guessing what it was about. +as if running a sword through an invisible foe, and glaring savagely +as if she had asked him to do it. +as if to ascertain whether his father’s habits had changed since he +as if to explain such a question. +as if to reassure prince andrew. +a sign of approaching anger. “i was forgetting... do you wish it +a sin, a great sin, it is hatred of that vile woman!” almost shrieked +as in a spoiled child, a continual consciousness of her charming defect, +“as it flies past me, daddy, the ball i mean,” said a young soldier +as it was too far to the left flank for him to have time to go there +“as i was saying to you, andrew, be kind and generous as you always +as i write? +ask; but to prove my devotion to you and how i respect your father’s +asked permission to be present at the battle out of curiosity. the +asked the italian how he stood russian climate. the italian’s +asked the prince’s permission to ride round the position to see the +asked the son. +asked. “they say old maids have a mania for matchmaking, and though i +ask forgiveness. +asking forgiveness?” +“ask the count to come to me.” +asleep. prince andrew felt sorry for his sister. +a small reception, and just see how badly i am dressed.” and she +a smell of perfume, and put it to nesvítski’s nose. +a smile of joy and satisfaction lit up her eager face. +a smile that broadened his round face more and more, prepared the +as often happens in early youth, especially to one who leads a lonely +a soldier was driving, and a woman enveloped in shawls sat behind the +a son of nicholas bolkónski, i shall be ashamed!” +as serene as if all this were happening at home awaiting peaceful +as she became animated the prince looked at her more and more sternly, +as she named the empress, anna pávlovna’s face suddenly assumed an +as she rose to go to her own room. +assiduity of its commander the regiment, in comparison with others that +assigned to cavalry-captain denísov, the squadron commander, known +as soon as all is over,” and prince vasíli sighed to intimate what he +as soon as he learned that the russian army was in such a hopeless +assuming quite the pose of a society woman (heaven knows when and where +as the bearers, among whom was anna mikháylovna, passed the young man +as the right flank would probably not be able to withstand the enemy’s +as they said in moscow society. he seemed to be condescending to +as though running away from some danger, and, making long, quick strides +a stout major was pacing up and down the line, and regardless of the +a strange caprice of his employer’s was admitted to table though the +as was his custom when at home—taking leave of a good-looking, +as we are masters of ulm, we cannot be deprived of the advantage of +as with his feet. +as ze sanctity of its alliances...” he spoke this last word with +at?” +at all. he said to me, ‘i am sorry i can do so little for you, dear +at all like the conduct of a great man!” +a tall, stout, and proud-looking woman, with a round-faced smiling +at anna pávlovna’s, that it would be difficult to get rid of anna +at any of them but smiling on all, as if graciously allowing each the +at a soldier in the ranks of the third company in a greatcoat of bluish +at bald hills, prince nicholas andréevich bolkónski’s estate, the +at bald hills with his wife. this pleasure will be but a brief one, +“at boss zides, captain,” he heard the voice of the colonel, who, +at each alternate step; and in time to this, with stern but varied +at ease by him, “but i hope i have not offended you. i always make it +at eight o’clock in the morning +a tête-à-tête talk with the friend of her childhood, princess anna +at her reflection in the glass. “she flatters me,” thought the +at his estate. as regularity is a prime condition facilitating activity, +a threatening gesture. “if the purse isn’t found i’ll flog you, +a thud. denísov rode past him, leaning back and shouting something. +at intervals the bugle calls and the shouts of the enemy could be heard +at krems excited but not weary, with dispatches from dokhtúrov to +at last anna mikháylovna, still with the same expression, pale but +atmosphere of a large and active town which is always so attractive to a + at nighttime in the moon’s fair glow +at once transferred to the guards as a cornet, had been educated from +at once, when she heard the young man’s discreet steps approaching +at one another, and all pressed toward the exit from the bridge. +“at one draught, or he loses!” shouted a fourth. +at one of the post stations he overtook a convoy of russian wounded. +at prince andrew and did not even nod to him. +at prince andrew, evidently considering something. +a treat to her guests. as a clever maître d’hôtel serves up as a +a trembling hand placed a charge in the cannon’s mouth. the short, +“a trifle,” said the colonel in his bass voice: “two hussars +a truce and sent his adjutant to kutúzov to report the offer he had +a truce was kutúzov’s sole chance of gaining time, giving +“at seven o’clock, i believe.” +“at seven o’clock? it’s very sad, very sad!” +at someone unseen. “mr. pitt, as a traitor to the nation and to the +“attack indeed!” said the colonel in a bored voice, puckering up his +attack very long. about túshin and the battalion that had been in +attempt at familiarity on the part of the russian messenger. +attendance on him, to the enemy camp. wintzingerode was not merely +“attendez,” said anna pávlovna, reflecting, “i’ll speak to +attention. he screwed up his eyes showing that he was listening. +“att-ention!” shouted the regimental commander in a soul-shaking +attention to her severe remark—and began to laugh. she laughed, and in +attention to his story. +attentively to bagratión’s colloquies with the commanding officers +attentive to him. count cyril vladímirovich is your godfather after +at that instant the sun began to hide behind the clouds, and other +at that moment anna pávlovna came up and, looking severely at pierre, +at that moment, on the road from the town on which signalers had been +at that time, a very high ruffle, and a brown dress coat. this stout +at the appointed hour the prince, powdered and shaven, entered the +at the cadet’s troubled face. +at the door prince andrew and the figure of the old man in a white +at the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our +at the french. +at the levee prince andrew stood among the austrian officers as he had +at the men’s end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. +at the razumóvski’s ball ... and countess apráksina ... i was +at the sight of the letter red patches showed themselves on the +at the soldiers as if threatening to punish them. cadet mirónov ducked +at the soldiers who were blocking his way. “hi there, boys! keep to +at the steaming boiler, waiting till the sample, which a quartermaster +at this a sudden change evidently took place in the princess’ ideas; +at this big, stout, quiet man, wondering how such a clumsy, modest +at this moment that terrible door, which pierre had watched so long +“at what o’clock did the battle begin?” asked the emperor. +“at what o’clock was general schmidt killed?” +at which prince andrew had been when he examined the battlefield. +a type of face different from that of the men, squeezed his way along; +audible the whole length of the table. +audience over his spectacles and continued. +audiences, but he does not like talking himself and can’t do it, as +audience, which produced an effect unfavorable to the narrator. several +audience with the emperor francis occupied his thoughts. +auersperg was defending, and the bridge was not blown up: so murat +aunt, anna pávlovna mentioned each one’s name and then left them. +aunt as she conducted him to her. +auntie anna mikháylovna told me, under the seal of strict secrecy, of +aunt,” or “you do not know my aunt?” and very gravely conducted +aunt without waiting to hear her speech about her majesty’s health. +“au revoir! thank you very much. his majesty will probably desire to +austrian adjutant, bilíbin, and last night’s conversation. having +austrian troops, under the direction of so skillful a leader as general +author: leo tolstoy + * “a very good morning! a very good morning!” +a vigorous attack on the orator. +avoid doing certain things, and speak french. he was one of those, +awaiting a reply. he frowned. +aware of a stir all around. he looked up: dólokhov was standing on the +aware of his weaknesses. +away. +away. +away. +away at the dogs! but this sort of thing is the very devil, with them +away from him. the alliance with prussia, austria’s treachery, +away with a grimace as if to say that everything dólokhov had said to +awful!” +awful...” and he burst into tears. +a whisper that the prince was sleeping, and hastily closed the door. +a white uniform that looked strange among the russian black ones. the +a whole month and this is the first time i have seen him in society. +a wig, put his head out of the door of the antechamber, reported in +a wild beast.... in poland, if you please, he nearly killed a jew.” +awkwardness or intentionally (no one could have said which) after the +a woman and, like a chained convict, you lose all freedom! and all you +a word to you and you... what?” he added with renewed irritation, “i +a young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face +baby, an old woman, and a healthy german girl with bright red cheeks +back!” +back.” +back, and bosom—which in the fashion of those days were very much +back, cadet!” he cried angrily; and turning to denísov, who, showing +back her hair, kissed him full on the lips. +back to moscow. anatole kurágin’s father managed somehow to get his +badly—all this debauchery, dissipation, and the rest of it!” +baggage and transport, having to accept battle on the march against an +baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling +baggage was already being dispatched to olmütz. near hetzelsdorf prince +bagratión.” +bagratión, a gaunt middle-aged man of medium height with a firm, +bagratión as he shouted, with an expression that seemed to say: “we +bagratión bent his head in sign of agreement with what prince andrew +bagratión called to him, and túshin, raising three fingers to his cap +bagratión. his idea was, first, to concentrate all the artillery in the +bagratión, knowing bolkónski to be a favorite and trusted adjutant, +bagratión ordered two battalions from the center to be sent to +bagratión replied that he was not authorized either to accept or refuse +bagratión rode round the ranks that had marched past him and +bagratión’s exhausted troops some rest, and letting the transport and +bagratión’s hard brown face with its half-closed, dull, sleepy eyes. +bagratión’s weak detachment on the znaim road he supposed it to be +“bah! how they scurry. he just sends a ball and they think they’ll +bald head. +bald hills, while he himself needed no one and nothing. he used to +ball, cleaving the air, flew over the heads of bagratión and his suite, +ball flew past. evidently they were firing at the hussars, but the balls +ball flew past, rose in the stirrups and sank back again. the soldiers +band struck up in the gallery, and the guests settled down in their +banging the table with a determined and drunken gesture and preparing to +bank by unseen hands. prince andrew and the officer rode up, looked at +banners, cannon, and two enemy generals. for the first time, after a +bare hand as red as his face. +“baron funke has been recommended to the dowager empress by her +baron funke to be appointed first secretary at vienna? the baron by all +“bâton de gueules, engrêlé de gueules d’azur—maison condé,” +battalion came onto the bridge. only denísov’s squadron of hussars +battalion commanders who smilingly pressed forward (it was plain that +battle,” replied márya dmítrievna’s deep voice, which easily +be afraid.” +“be a man, my friend. i will look after your interests,” said she in +beaming smile to his head. +be announced had passed straight through the glass porch between the +be,” answered the princess joyfully. +be, anyway he is an honorable and brave old colonel! you’re quick at +bearers and the shuffling of their feet grew more hurried, as if the +beaucoup d’estime, and again her face clouded over with sadness. +beautiful.” +beautiful bosom, on which she readjusted a diamond necklace. from time +beautiful head and looking over her classically molded shoulder as she +“beautiful,” said the doctor in answer to a remark about the +beautiful young princess who was sitting some way off, the center of +be best described as strength of will. pierre was always astonished at +became quite pleasant again. +because he rose superior to the revolution, suppressed its abuses, +because his line was not straight, he reached the third company. +“because i hate ghost stories,” said prince hippolyte in a tone +“because not everything happens as one expects or with the smoothness +be clearly seen glittering as though freshly varnished. down below, +become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not +become of that scoundrel?” he asked denísov. +be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will +bed. +be difficult to return to the old regime.” +bedroom. pierre did not eat anything though he would very much have +be easy, but here, in this wretched moravian hole, it is more difficult, +been attacked by french cavalry and that, though the attack had been +been composed in the turkish campaign and now being sung in austria, the +been destroyed or not. and if they have somehow been overlooked, you +been foreseen, the russian army of thirty-five thousand men commanded +been forwarded by courier to the commander in chief. +been intriguing!” +been more amusing than the drawing room talk of society scandals, the +been put off,” said the prince, who, like a wound-up clock, by force +been reprimanded on account of the blue greatcoat. +been telling us such a tale about mademoiselle george and buonaparte!” +been there at seven in the morning,” returned bilíbin with a smile. +been told to, and the emperor francis merely looked fixedly into his +been up to heaven only knows what! and they have had to suffer for it. +been waiting for.” and bursting into tears she hid her face in her +before anna pávlovna and the others had time to smile their +before he could reach znaim. hence bagratión with his four thousand +before he had reached the embankments that were being thrown up, he saw, +before him. the french had advanced nearest on our right. below the +before his shelter, had been tasted. +before. “how often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? i am +before. it was a german cart with a pair of horses led by a german, and +before krems was really of small importance in view of such events as +before returning to bilíbin’s prince andrew had gone to a bookshop +before the heights on which the russian batteries stood guarding the +before they reached the room from which the sounds of the clavichord +before with proposals and demands for him to join up with the army of +before yesterday during my daily walk through the village i witnessed a +began crossing himself with the hand that held the taper. +began riding downhill to where the roll of musketry was heard but where +began to arrive; and slowly turning her eyes from the visitor to her +began to wail like a baby without knowing why, except that sónya was +began, with a blush that looked very strange on her thin, dignified, +beg—i’ll take it!” +beg you to dress your men decently.” +behaving himself, and in general...” +behaving with borís.” +behind each chair—stood waiting for the prince to enter. the head +behind her back. the french doctor held no taper; he was leaning +behind him. +behind him stood the aide-de-camp, the doctors, and the menservants; +behind the chair, held it in position. by the chair stood the priests, +behind the guns were their limbers and still farther back picket ropes +behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed +being told she sat upright, glancing now at her beautiful round arm, +“believe me, prince, a mother’s heart will never forget what you +“believe me, princess, i am ready to do all i can,” answered prince +below the shoulder. pierre went with anna mikháylovna into the small +beneath his dignity to give me satisfaction, then...” +bent arm to márya dmítrievna. he drew himself up, a smile of debonair +be. of the four crystal glasses engraved with the count’s monogram +be overthrown by the angel whom it has pleased the almighty, in his +berg always spoke quietly, politely, and with great precision. his +berg as much as you please,” she finished quickly. +berg smiled joyously. the count, followed by his guests, went into the +be seen from the hill on the opposite bank but was not yet visible from +beside him and was listening naïvely to his words. +beside him. this hussar, with a grave face and without a smile or a +besides! but don’t let’s talk about me; tell me how you managed +“besides that, peter nikoláevich, by exchanging into the guards +“besides,” thought he, “all such ‘words of honor’ are +beside the bed. pierre obediently sat down, his eyes asking if he were +beside the farthest of the four unlimbered cannon. before the guns an +beside themselves over there and one can’t make anything out.” +beside whom sat only one elderly lady, who with her thin careworn face +best families in russia, but she was poor, and having long been out of +bestowed on véra by nicholas, was considered very stinging), “and +be the best way.” +betrayal of the bourbon cause. the sovereigns! why, they are sending +betraying by this desperate and provocative proposition his extreme +better during those awful moments—the father who so remembered +between forefinger and thumb, and an old servant, bending over from +between his acts as a private person, as a general, and as an emperor. +between three and four o’clock in the afternoon prince andrew, who +bewildered him with fine words, and he is so flattered by his rapidly +bezúkhova. but you will understand that i have no desire for the post. +bezúkhov’s house that night had gathered to fortify themselves. +big people i write a note: ‘princess so-and-so desires an interview +bilíbin and the rest of “ours” burst out laughing in hippolyte’s +bilíbin came out to meet him. his usually calm face showed excitement. +bilíbin introduced him to the others. +bilíbin. “it’s not treachery nor rascality nor stupidity: it is +bilíbin liked conversation as he liked work, only when it could be +bilíbin’s house thinking out a letter to his father about the battle +bilíbin smiled and the wrinkles on his face disappeared. +bilíbin was a man of thirty-five, a bachelor, and of the same circle as +bit and i’ll get round him.... listen! i’ll take your bet tomorrow, +biting her underlip. at sight of pierre her expression showed an +blackest ingratitude—in this house...” +bleeding head and no cap was being dragged along by two soldiers who +blockhead!” +blocking the way for everyone. the countess tried to make him talk, +blood from it was streaming over his greatcoat as from a bottle. he had +blood rush to his heart. “but where and how will my toulon present +blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and +blue-striped feather bed and hugging her friend. with an effort sónya +blushing: +blushing and dropping her eyes. +bodice, with black curls tossed backward, thin bare arms, little legs +body was strikingly out of proportion to her short legs. prince vasíli +bogdánich knows how things are done.” +bogdánich was a brick: he told you you were saying what was not true. +boldly, with saucy gaiety, confident that her prank would be taken in +bold, tall, close handwriting. +bolkónskaya, very pretty and rosy, though rather too plump for her age. +“bolkónski! bolkónski!... don’t you hear? eh? come quick...” he +bolkónski, opposite which hung another such frame with a badly painted +bolkónski shrugged his shoulders. +bolkónski that the emperor desired to give him an audience. the emperor +bolkónski, the little princess’ husband. he was a very handsome young +bolkónski, turning still paler, pushed him away with an angry look and +bolkónski, very modestly without once mentioning himself, described the +bolkónski was invited everywhere, and had to spend the whole morning +bonaparte!” +“bonaparte...” began dólokhov, but the frenchman interrupted him. +“bonaparte has said so,” remarked prince andrew with a sarcastic +bonaparte’s adjutant rode full gallop with this menacing letter to +bonaparte’s new triumph, tomorrow’s levee and parade, and the +bonaparte’s side.” +bonaparte, that they desire to see prince auersperg, and so on. the +bookcases with keys in the locks, the high desk for writing while + book eight: 1811 - 12 + book eleven: 1812 + book fifteen: 1812 - 13 + book five: 1806 - 07 + book four: 1806 + book fourteen: 1812 +book from the high desk. + book nine: 1812 + book one: 1805 +book one: 1805 + book seven: 1810 - 11 + book six: 1808 - 10 + book ten: 1812 + book thirteen: 1812 + book three: 1805 + book twelve: 1812 + book two: 1805 +book two: 1805 +boots and the clinking of spurs that came to a stop, and a respectful +boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers. +bore almost the same smile, expressing unseemly thoughts about the +borís also,” she went on, gaining a little strength; “he is nice... +borís blushed. +borís bowed again politely. +borís bowed politely. prince vasíli without acknowledging the bow +“borís, come here,” said she with a sly and significant look. “i +borís felt that pierre did not recognize him but did not consider +borís followed her, smiling. +borís. “he wanted to thank you himself.” +borís knew nothing about the boulogne expedition; he did not read the +borís looked attentively and kindly at her eager face, but did not +borís, or between you two? it’s all nonsense!” +borís paused in the middle of the room, looked round, brushed a little +borís quietly left the room and went in search of natásha. the plump +borís said no more, but looked inquiringly at his mother without taking +“borís,” she said to her son with a smile, “i shall go in to see +borís with a smile. +borís with severity. “i am glad.... are you here on leave?” he went +bóry, who had only just entered a regiment of the line and was being +both armies should remain in position without moving. murat declared +both began to cry and kissed again. mademoiselle bourienne also began to +both kurágin and dólokhov were at that time notorious among the rakes +both laughed. +both were silent. +both were silent. there were two germans and a russian officer in the +bottle. i’ll do it.... bring a bottle!” +bottles, cloaks, and overshoes were lying about; there was a smell of +boulogne expedition. +bourienne. i embrace you as i love you. +bourienne rapidly, in her pleasant mellow tones and with guttural r’s. +bourienne. though in the new reign he was free to return to the +bourienne were already awaiting him together with his architect, who by +bowed his head in sign of assent and approval. he rode off at a walk to +bows and trying to escape as quickly as possible from the glances fixed +boy ran after them angrily, as if vexed that their program had been +brag about it, but if he stays out till morning it means he’s lost and +braunau had halted half a mile from the town, waiting to be inspected +brave officer,” thought bagratión. prince andrew, without replying, +bridge because he had not brought any burning straw with him like the +bridge. but this time nesvítski could not see what was happening there, +bridge, cross it, and now with their whole army are on this side of the +bridge did not take his eyes off the women till they had passed. when + * bridgehead. +bridge is taken! but what is best of all,” he went on, his excitement +bridge nesvítski found the colonel to whom he had to deliver the order, +bridge not knowing what to do. there was no one to hew down (as he +bridge. sometimes through the monotonous waves of men, like a fleck of +bridge was at times veiled by a diaphanous curtain of slanting rain, and +brightly upon the danube and the dark hills around it. it was calm, and +bring me such tattered and dirty notes as last time, but nice clean ones +briskly from corner to corner of the room, looking straight before him +broad cheekbones, sunken cheeks, and listless tired expressions, and +broken glass remained in that position without taking his eyes from the +brother a small, oval, antique, dark-faced icon of the saviour in a gold +brotherly love, wagged their heads in token of their mutual affection, +brought at once?” +brought into the room had vanished; and as if answering a question no +brows he glanced into rostóv’s eyes. +brunette with a tender look in her eyes which were veiled by long +bugler, showed one common expression of conflict, irritation, and +build prince andrew could endure physical fatigue far better than many +“buonaparte himself!... just listen to the fool, what he doesn’t +“buonaparte?” said bilíbin inquiringly, puckering up his forehead +buonapartes. but i warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, +“buonaparte was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. he has got +burden to him, and bóry’s life is only just beginning....” +burn, i could not know by the holy spirit!” +burnt his boats, and i believe that we are ready to burn ours.” + * “busy already?” +busy, and busy making his father comfortable, while evidently he, +busy with his roast meat, hoped he had been forgotten: “didn’t +busy with similar peaceful affairs—near the shelter of the regimental +but also for his skill in dealing and conversing with those in the +but an hour.... tell me all you know about the will, and above all where +but anna mikháylovna did not obey him. +but anna mikháylovna went forward a step or two to keep her hold on the +“but as it is, i know every word she utters. she will come running to +but as she passed the sitting room she noticed two couples sitting, +“but as you are a philosopher, be a consistent one, look at the other +but at irregular intervals, and grapeshot cracked and rattled onto the +but at that instant a tall austrian general in a greatcoat, with the +but at the incredible boldness and smartness of this little girl who had +“but a very kind man, prince,” said anna mikháylovna with a +but borís again interrupted him. +but borís spoke distinctly, clearly, and dryly, looking straight into +“but do you know, my dear, that was a capital joke,” said the count; +but enough of gossip. i am at the end of my second sheet of paper, and +but extremely attractive. +but god will support you: you are young, and are now, i hope, in command +but he immediately recalled his promise to prince andrew not to go +“but he must be a freemason,” said he, referring to the abbé whom +but he went on naïvely looking around through his spectacles as if in +but his aim to consider, and he reached it. but tie yourself up with +but his character...” said timókhin. +but hopeless: “the sovereigns, madame... what have they done for louis +“but how are you to get that balance?” pierre was beginning. +“but if the bridge is crossed it means that the army too is lost? it +but if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed +“but if you won’t accept money from me like a comrade, you will +“but i just wish to say, to avoid misunderstandings, that you are +but in his usual impulsive and hearty way he took borís by the hand +but in the center where the men with a flag of truce had passed that +“but i remember putting it there.” +“but it isn’t?...” +but it lifted all the more sweetly, and was especially charming when she +“but joking apart,” said prince andrew, “do you really think the +butler, napkin on arm, was scanning the setting of the table, making +but like a priest’s benediction, approached the general. though + * “but my dear fellow, with all my respect for the orthodox +“but, my dear monsieur pierre,” said she, “how do you explain the +“but, my dear princess,” answered anna mikháylovna blandly but +“but, my dear,” said prince vasíli suddenly, clutching the little +“but, my dear sir,” said nesvítski as he drew up, taking off his +“but, my poor catiche, it is as clear as daylight! he will then be the +but neither anna mikháylovna nor the footman nor the coachman, who +but not concealing the fact that she would not be distressed if they +“but now i am off at once.” +but now we are all going to ——’s.” + but oh! till then i cannot live!... +“but one cannot delay, prince, at such a moment! consider that the +but only a sort of puppet show at which the men of the day were playing, +but pierre continued his speech without heeding her. +but pierre thought it necessary to ask: “how is...” and hesitated, +“but, prince,” said anna mikháylovna, “after such a solemn +“but really, hadn’t i better go away?” he asked, looking kindly at +but rostóv pulled away his arm and, with as much anger as though +“but seriously,” said prince andrew, “we can at any rate say +“but still this does not mean that the campaign is over,” said +“but that is my conviction, and judging by the last letter with which +“but the best of it was,” said one, telling of the misfortune of +but the convoyman took no notice of the word “general” and shouted +but the guns remained loaded, the loopholes in blockhouses and +but the princess did not listen to him. +but the question “how?” that interested him. what the diplomatic +but these words came like a piteous, despairing cry and an entreaty for +but the smile did not enhance véra’s beauty as smiles generally do; +“but the worst of it, gentlemen—i am giving kurágin away to +“but they say that war has been declared,” replied the visitor. +but those tears were pleasant to them both. +but to help england and austria against the greatest man in the world is +but unabashed. +“but what have they been up to?” asked the countess. +“but what is there to say about me?” said pierre, his face relaxing +“but where do you come from not to know what every coachman in the +“but where is sónya?” +“but why do you expect that he will leave us anything?” +but won’t you come to this other table?” repeated anna pávlovna. +“but you know the wise maxim your excellency, advising one to expect +“but you meant to stay another two days?” +“but you must decide on something! your father expects it.” +bwicks and it’s nasty work! an attack’s pleasant work! hacking +by a scarlet-liveried footman that morning, ran as follows: +by finding husbands for me (most of whom i don’t even know), the +by kutúzov was hurriedly retreating along the danube, stopping where +by leo tolstoy/tolstoi +by six horses at a smart trot. behind the calèche galloped the suite +by the ammunition wagon. +by the amusing scene she foresaw. she drew her wool down through the +by the clatter of knives and forks, the voices of visitors, and the +by the commander in chief. despite the un-russian appearance of the +by the french who had crossed the vienna bridge, and encumbered by his +by their redness to contrast more than usual with his gray hair. at the +by the living mass of moving infantry, váska denísov, red and shaggy, +by the softness and flexibility of her small limbs, and by a certain +by the way, bagratión came out on the vienna-znaim road at hollabrünn +by the whole of the count’s plump figure, in márya dmítrievna found +by this time they were all approaching túshin’s battery, and a ball +by which the prince was to enter. prince andrew was looking at a large +cahd.” +calamity! what a calamity!” +calèche stopped in front of the regiment. kutúzov and the austrian +called everyone without exception and without the slightest variation +called him a great man,” remarked the vicomte. +call him but changed her mind. “let him look for me,” thought she. +calling on the principal austrian dignitaries. between four and five +calls.’” +calm, and penetrating, a look i loved so well and seem to see before me +calmer. +“calm yourself, princess! it seems so to you because.... i assure you +came galloping up on a cossack horse that could scarcely carry his +came in. +came márya dmítrievna and the count, both with merry countenances. the +came naturally to her, but was now very ill-suited to her careworn face. +came out—wearing a velvet coat with a single star on his breast, +came over his face. he said nothing to her but looked at her forehead +came, the pretty, fair-haired frenchwoman, mademoiselle bourienne, +came to his former chief with an order from the commander of the rear +campaign is over?” +campaign. the frenchman, confusing the austrians with the russians, was +canal. and there was the bear swimming about with the policeman on his +“can i see the count?” pierre again asked. +cannon, was a small, newly constructed wattle shed from which came the +cannot leave the estate to pierre. pierre is illegitimate.” +“can one be well while suffering morally? can one be calm in times +can rush off alone in a carriage to moscow, to petersburg, to those +can’t be done. and besides, if she tells mamma” (sónya looked upon +can’t, do what you will! how can i go and apologize like a little boy +canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying +can, with all the pleasures of life here. if we were in vienna it would +can you fancy the figure he cut?...” +cap and smoothing his hair wet with perspiration with his plump hand, +“capital!” said prince hippolyte in english, and began slapping his +capitals, he still continued to live in the country, remarking that +captain,” and he turned to a thin, dirty little artillery officer who +captain and his drawn-in stomach, and mimicked his expression and pose +captain, his nose growing redder as he gave a smile which showed where +“captain túshin’s, your excellency!” shouted the red-haired, +captain up and down as he came up panting, slackening his pace as he +cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests +card game he was very fond of, was that of listener, especially when he +cardinal virtues in her gave her lessons in algebra and geometry +cards and supper were over, but the visitors had not yet dispersed. +cared about; anna pávlovna observed these greetings with mournful and +carefully stretching his neck so as not to touch the quilt, followed her +carelessly holding in his stallion that was neighing and pawing the +carriage and rode up to dólokhov. +carriage. “get in with me,” said he to bolkónski. +carriage?” he asked his mother with a smile. +carriage, her husband was adjusting his saber; prince hippolyte, under +carriage, moved forward and, not noticing the general, looked out +carried the sick man dispersed. anna mikháylovna touched pierre’s +carried the whole length of the table. +“carrot ices.” +carrying her burden so lightly. old men and dull dispirited young ones +carts, guns, artillery, and again baggage wagons and vehicles of all +cart, shouting and scolding a soldier with coarse abuse. in each of +cases only one goes wrong, but it is her fancy and mine. they have been +“catch hold of my arm or you’ll drop him!” he heard one of the +catching and their sabers clattering. +cathedral, and its bridge, on both sides of which streamed jostling + *catherine. +catherine’s court, count bezúkhov. +catherine’s day, count bezúkhov, and about his illegitimate son +“catiche has had tea served in the small drawing room,” said prince +catiche,” * muttered the prince, seating himself wearily on the chair +caught up the object of contention and ran into the bedroom. the eldest +cause of the confusion, turned away with indifference, as if to say, +cautious movements of those who crowded round the invalid chair that +censure, but asked him not to be too hard on the poor old man. “what +center, and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the +“cependant, mon cher,” he remarked, examining his nails from a +“certainly; but about kutúzov, i don’t promise.” +“certainly he must be moved onto the bed; here it will be +“cette armée russe que l’or de l’angleterre a transportée des +chair and pacing up and down the room followed by tíkhon, who ran after +chair, wrapped in a powdering mantle, entrusting his head to tíkhon. +championship of the doctor’s wife in her queer trap might expose him +changed: her eyes became fixed, and then a shiver passed down her broad +change in the expression of his fixed eyes, watched the regimental +changing his tone or attitude, “it must seem to you that everyone is +changing the expression of her eyes. “i am a woman, and you think we +changing unconsciously from russian to french as he went on—to explain +channel. i think the expedition is quite feasible. if only villeneuve + chapter i + chapter i + chapter i 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their position till reserves from the center +chasseurs.... they won’t let us pass, we are left behind and have lost +checked handkerchief) to illustrate the theory that all men are equals, +cheerful were the troops. the greatest disorder and depression had been +chest to back than across the shoulders. he had on a brand-new uniform +childhood. +childhood. +childhood and lived for years at a time. the guards had already left +childhood; that same julie karágina who had been at the rostóvs’ +child in a toyshop, did not know which way to look, afraid of missing +childish bare shoulders which after her run heaved and shook her +childlike way through his spectacles. +children are the bane of my life. it is the cross i have to bear. that +children,” she said, in her loud, full-toned voice which drowned all +children. the german tutor was trying to remember all the dishes, wines, +choice has fallen. i don’t know what you will think of it, but +“christ be with you!” kutúzov repeated and went toward his +christian...” +circumstances, he nevertheless delivered the definite order that the +circumstances i may be placed. but if you want to know the truth... if +circumstantially and with evident satisfaction. +cities wondered at her, laughed privately at her rudenesses, and told +clattering. these men pressed close to the wall to let pierre and anna +clavichord. +clavichord and harp. julie by general request played first. after she +clean, and in cloth covers carefully tied with tapes. +clean shirt on the feather bed with its warmed and fragrant pillows, he +clear, insolent eyes in the general’s face. +clearly worded the day before, namely, that the commander in chief +clenching his small hand and striking the table with it, “and what +clerk. “the kiev grenadiers, podolian...” +clever with véra,” said the count. “well, what of that? she’s +climb out of the window. +cloak, he asked whether they wanted the count or the princesses, and, +close-cropped hair, spectacles, the light-colored breeches fashionable +closed his eyes, silently let mack enter his room before him, and closed +closer!” she whispered. +close to her, began to whisper something. +close to her, of his breath and the smell of him, and could think only +close to her; the red patches on her face came and went, and it was +close, was gazing with astonishment at the angry face of the princess +cloth, which contrasted with the others. “what have you been after? +clouded his mother’s face, and he smiled slightly. +cloudless, northern, summer night. pierre took an open cab intending +coat of arms on the table. he explained this to her with as much gravity +“colonel,” he said, addressing rostóv’s enemy with an air of +“colonel,” interrupted the officer of the suite, “you must be +colonel of hussars who, growing more and more flushed, ate and drank so +colonel of hussars with the same order. after him the stout nesvítski +colonel’s athletic back, his nape covered with light hair, and his red +colonel was called bogdánich) “shuts you up.” +columns, with a high silk-curtained mahogany bedstead on one side and +“come along!” +“come here,” said rostóv, catching hold of telyánin’s arm and +come... he told me himself... but still i should not cry,” and she +“come if you need anything. one can at least be of use on the +come in a moment. petrúshka!” he called to his valet: “come here, +come into the hall. prince hippolyte stood close to the pretty, pregnant +“come, i will go with you. try to weep, nothing gives such relief as +“come, my dear anna mikháylovna, let catiche do as she pleases. you +“come nearer, come nearer, friend! i used to be the only one to tell +“come now! you with all your forces fall on the unfortunate mortier +“come on then,” cried pierre. “come on!... and we’ll take bruin +“come over here, hélène, dear,” said anna pávlovna to the +“come, that’s right, count!” cried the staff captain, turning +come up. in that case the dragoons could successfully make a flank +come up to him. +“come, what’s the matter, old fellow?” said nesvítski trying to +comfortably. +coming for me to take me there.” +coming from the study. the prince walked in quickly and jauntily as was +coming out of kutúzov’s room into the waiting room with the papers in +commander among them! hm!...” +commander, awaiting the word of command. a second and a third cannon +commander, but now that the commander in chief addressed him he drew +commander, higher than and different from the others, prince andrew came +commander in chief and of his own luggage. very sinister reports of the +“commander in chief kutúzov?” said the newly arrived general +commander in chief’s regarding the regiment. behind kutúzov, at a +commander in chief would otherwise be dissatisfied. on hearing this the +commander of the regiment in the hollow and news that immense masses +“commander of the third company wanted by the general!... commander to +commander’s back and mimicked his every movement. each time the +commander started and bent forward, the hussar started and bent forward +commander’s will, owing to the tact bagratión showed, his presence +commanding both sides of the danube, so that should the enemy not +command. “sergeants major!... how soon will he be here?” he asked +comme cet individu dont vous avez fait un ami, mais pas pour vous, pas +comme il faut, that’s a different matter; but the kurágins’ set of +commentaries), and resting on his elbow, began reading it in the middle. +commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred miles. +commit murder he had restored it to the rightful king, i should have +committed a reverse act of impoliteness. first he had left a lady before +common sense and frank plainness of speech. márya dmítrievna was known +companies, crowds of whom set off to the neighboring villages, or +company and overtook the next one. +company commanders calculated and reckoned, and by morning the +company’s baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered, and hemmed in on +completed. +comply. anna pávlovna arranged a group round him, inviting everyone to +comrade nesvítski, a tall staff officer, extremely stout, with a +comrades’ impression. every face, from denísov’s to that of the +conceit prevents your apologizing, and you wish to make the whole +conceive a future life...” +concerned with a thought that always occupied her: “now you see if i +concerned with, or he wanted to give the russian special messenger that +concerning which no one could be at ease. it was the state of the +concluded, conscious—as were others—after the words were uttered +condition, and immediately after that informed them that she had left +condition! it’s very hard.” +confession, communion was administered to the dying man, preparations +confidence,” said she, repeating the mistake of so many parents who +conform. however painful it may be to me, should the almighty lay +conform to them and follow them, and let us be persuaded that the less +confronted one another as before. +confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken +conjecture, but the colonel did not once glance at rostóv, and looked +“connaissez-vous le proverbe:* ‘jerome, jerome, do not roam, but +connections... well, then, you just...” +conservatory and pantry into the large marble dining hall, where tables +conservatory. there she paused and stood listening to the conversation +conservatory to the place among the tubs where she had been hiding. +considerable pause which made pierre feel uncomfortable. +consider characteristic of the country—rumors of war are heard +considered an adept at french. +considered him conceited, cold, and disagreeable. but among these people +considered important. +considered it his duty to visit him and waited in the lofty antechamber +considered it proper to show an interest in the general conversation by +“consider my position, peter nikoláevich. were i in the cavalry i +consider, prince andrew. two... frederick and suvórov; moreau!... +consider yourself incapable and your life a spoiled life. you have +consulting his sergeant major, zakharchénko, for whom he had great +containing lessons in geometry written by himself and drew up a chair +contemplated between anatole and the little princess’ sister-in-law. +contemptuous look that showed itself on his face. +contented and happy with him. i only wish you were all as happy as i +contention. + contents +continually and rapidly touching her rosy nether lip when necessary +continually, bringing visitors to the countess rostóva’s big house on +continually changing from french to russian. +continually glanced at prince andrew; prince andrew rubbed his forehead +continually he moved on. the soldiers squeezed themselves to make way +continually receiving many petitioners one after another. +continued. during this interval pierre noticed that prince vasíli +continued his work. +continued. “one would think that as an artillery officer you would set +continued prince vasíli, returning to his theme, apparently not +continued the vicomte. “i pity the poor husband, that little officer +continued to explain how by exchanging into the guards he had already +continued to shout. +continued, with that gay brotherly cordiality which goodhearted young +continuous, varied, and orderly activity. the motion of the small foot +contrary to bilíbin’s forecast the news he had brought was joyfully +contrary. we wanted liberty, but buonaparte has destroyed it.” +contrasted with his flattering words, “on the contrary, your +conveniently to keep them under observation, brought them into the +conventional things with no definite meaning, especially if +conversation. +conversation. +conversation always related entirely to himself; he would remain calm +conversation, and though anna pávlovna felt sure he would say something +conversation began prince andrew was struck by the fact that the emperor +conversation but think it necessary to move about and talk, in order +conversation, evidently with no wish to take part in it. he answered the +conversation, gave no reply. +conversation in french. +conversation—“i often think how unfairly sometimes the joys of life +cooked before we reach our quarters.” +coquettish manner in which she spoke to other men, “the vicomte has +correct. +correct. as soon as bonaparte (who was at schönbrunn, sixteen miles +corridor to the cabinet where the minister of war was at work. the +cossack scouts were moving. suddenly on the road at the top of the high +“cossack!” she said threateningly. +cough. +coughing of the musicians were heard from the gallery. +could be discerned. +could be felt, but the nearer prince andrew came to the french lines the +could be seen, and in three places to left and right the french troops +could get more rewards by doing nothing on the staff, and had succeeded +could hear. “i thank you all! god be praised!” and he rode past that +could not help seeing these people, took any notice of them. “it seems +could not move it. he smashed a pane. +could not say with certainty whether the attack had been repulsed or his +could not think of it without tears, and did not know which had behaved +could reach, there were the rattle of wheels, the creaking of carts +count. +count against him, he nevertheless on the day of his arrival went to +count, and having kissed his wife’s hand he went back to his study. +count bezúkhov’s distress some fifteen times. +count coming out from the dining hall into the anteroom, and he added: +“count!... don’t ruin a young fellow... here is this wretched money, +countenance. +countenances became calm; soldiers and officers greeted him gaily, grew +counterattack. if they attack our center we, having the center battery +countermarches, things of which i understand nothing; and the day +“countess apráksina, poor thing, has lost her husband and she has +countess’ gigantic footman in his bass voice, entering the drawing +countess. “i have never seen a handsomer man.” +countess rostóva’s carriage in which they were seated drove over the +countess rostóva, with her daughters and a large number of guests, was +countess with a gentle smile, looking at borís and went on, evidently +count. he has, no doubt, forgotten it and will wish to destroy it. +count is very fond of pierre, looked after his education, and wrote to +“count lichtenfels was here this morning,” bilíbin continued, +“count rostóv asks you to come to dinner today,” said he, after a +country do we get any rest? theatricals, hunting, and heaven knows what +countryside—“see, our infantrymen have already got there. look there +“count...” said telyánin drawing nearer to him. +count’s niece, entered with a cold, stern face. the length of her +count’s services, his request would be granted?...” +count’s visitors settled themselves, some in the two drawing rooms, +count, with playful ceremony somewhat in ballet style, offered his +count,” yet ashamed to call him “father.” +couple. in the intervals of the dance the count, breathing deeply, waved +courage and endurance—acknowledged even by the enemy—with which the +“courage, courage, my friend! he has asked to see you. that is +courage. next he thought that his enemy would send the squadron on a +courage, so he drew himself up and looked around him merrily; then it +course of events in the forthcoming action in broad outline. he +courtierlike quickness and tact habitual to her, anna pávlovna +“cousinage—dangereux voisinage,” * she added. + * cousinhood is a dangerous neighborhood. +covered this movement of the transport and of the whole army, had to +cover of the small box, and assumed his usual tranquil and impenetrable +cowshed nor rostóv back with his platoon from foraging for hay had any +coyness and reserve of manner, she reminded one of a pretty, half-grown +creaks or makes more noise than it should, and hastens to check the +cream.” +“crew, to your guns!” commanded the officer. +cried her eyes out,” she said, growing more and more lively. +criticism and was about to reply, when the expected footsteps were heard +crossed himself and kissed the icon. there was a look of tenderness, for +crossed the ballroom, pointing to natásha. +crossing a road they descended a steep incline and saw several men +cross the lech, we can cross the danube, throw ourselves on his line +crowded round a pockmarked, broad-shouldered sergeant major who, tilting +crowded together close to his wheels and his horses. “what a fellow! +crowd had to wait. +crowd of soldiers. “it can’t be an attack, for they are not moving; +crush the contemptible detachment that stood before him. +cry. “i need five hundred rubles, and have only one twenty-five-ruble +crying. sónya tried to lift her head to answer but could not, and +cry or to laugh. prince andrew shrugged his shoulders and frowned, as +cry. prince andrew evidently felt ill at ease, but to the two women +cunning smile, as if flattered at being made the subject of zherkóv’s +cupboards, and little tables. the quilt of a high, white feather bed was +cup of vodka for the men from me,” he added so that the soldiers +curly head to her knees and made the whole room ring with her laughter. +current of his thoughts, “that anatole is costing me forty thousand +cut!” +damned fool!” cried denísov, not pronouncing his r’s. “such ill +dance) began to sound, all the doorways of the ballroom were suddenly +danger. “i am convinced that we russians must die or conquer,” he +danube covered with pine forests, with a mystic background of green +danube, marching on us, you, and your lines of communication.” +dared complain, i who am deprived of all who are dear to me? ah, if +dared to treat márya dmítrievna in this fashion. +daren’t say so. it will be as i said at the beginning of the campaign, +dark-haired man. this was the celebrated petersburg doctor, lorrain. +dark hairs were already showing on his upper lip, and his whole face +darted forward at every word or gesture of the commander in chief, +darted in and stopped short in the middle of the room. it was evident +daughter and placing an arm on the back of the chair on which she sat, +daughter, entered the drawing room, their dresses rustling. +daughter got up to go and the two young men rose to let them pass. +daughter’s face that it was only mischief, she shook a finger at her +day he is sensible, well educated, and good-natured, and the next he’s +day... natásha, what have i done to deserve it?...” +days.” +day,” said the visitor. “what a charming child,” she added, +day was mapped out, the prince rested and the princess played the +day we are keeping. but mind you come to dinner or i shall be offended, +dear and precious friend, how terrible and frightful a thing is +dear and precious friend, your letter of the 13th has given me great +“dear countess, what an age... she has been laid up, poor child ... +“dear, dear! just look at her!” exclaimed the countess as she +“dear doctor,” said she, “this young man is the count’s son. is +‘dearest foe! flower of the austrian army, hero of the turkish wars! +dear invalid?” said she, as though unaware of the cold offensive look +“dear me, can i have forgotten? no, i remember thinking that you kept +dear, merry child. i have grown so fond of her.” +“dear princess, i beg and implore you, have some pity on him! je vous +dear, there’s friendship for you,” he repeated. “he’s joining +dear. we will see how tarás distinguishes himself today. he says count +death, is here above me and around... another instant and i shall never +death,” thought bolkónski. +decently here,” continued telyánin. “now then, let me have it.” +declared that he will leave it to the french people themselves to choose +declares in ze manifessto zat he cannot fiew wiz indifference ze danger +declined: i have my daughters to consider.” +deeply. +deep wrinkles would crease his cheeks. his small, deep-set eyes always +defeat, there were many circumstances confirming the unfavorable rumors +defection, ran at a trot, panting to catch up with his company. a cannon +defending us—doing it very badly, i think, but still he is defending +defense—as much as to say: ‘heaven is with us, but heaven help you +defense of vienna was no longer to be thought of. instead of an +deferential young man who had entered. “bring me...” he reflected +definite idea of her, he turned away and addressed michael ivánovich. +deliberately spoken word. it was evident that kutúzov himself listened +delicate dark down was just perceptible, was too short for her teeth, +delight. so you still love me, my romantic julie? separation, of which +demanded. +demand satisfaction of his regimental commander?” +“demosthenes, i know thee by the pebble thou secretest in thy golden +denísov. +denísov began to laugh. +denísov frowned and was about to shout some reply but stopped. +denísov galloped up to him. +denísov glanced at rostóv. +denísov joined nesvítski. +“denísov, let him alone, i know who has taken it,” said rostóv, +denísov remained silent and did not move, but occasionally looked with +denísov sat gloomily biting his mustache and listening to the +denísov screwed up his face and pointing over his shoulder with his +denísov’s face puckered still more. +denísov smiled, took out of his sabretache a handkerchief that diffused +denísov’s new cloak and saddlecloth. +denísov’s voice from the next room. +denísov. “they keep dwagging the wegiment to and fwo all day. if they +denísov threw both pillows on the floor. the purse was not there. +denísov were his worst enemy, firmly fixed his eyes directly on his +deprecating expression of a dog when it rapidly but feebly wags its +depressed, “i shall be only too glad if you relieve me of that young +“dere has neffer been a gase,” a german doctor was saying to an +description of the last petersburg fete she addressed her brother: +description. the old man began to sing, in the cracked voice of old age: +desperate attack just to punish him—rostóv. then he imagined how, +desperation slammed the door with all her might. +despite the general’s presence were talking loudly and gesticulating. +destiny of our adored monarch. he will save europe!” + destroyed, and you find that a cause for jesting!” +detachment no one knew anything of the general position of affairs. they +details of his disaster he understood that half the campaign was lost, +devoured him with his eyes, drawing himself up obsequiously, and from +diamonds, she passed between the men who made way for her, not looking +did, especially toward evening when he had emptied his second bottle; he +did not see you.” +did not suit her faded features, always played round her lips expressed, +did not wait to be called. the shapely figure of the fair-haired +did novosíltsev get? none. the english have not understood and cannot +did she not show any trace of coquetry, but on the contrary she even +did you come here?” +“‘dieu me la donne, gare à qui la touche!’’ * they say he was +“dieu! mon dieu!” muttered anna pávlovna in a terrified whisper. +“dieu sait quand reviendra. go to the dining room.” +“dieu sait quand reviendra.” hummed the prince out of tune and, with +differed only in that one had a little mole on her lip which made her +different from themselves and from everyone else, expected great things +difficult for artillery and cavalry to retire. prince andrew took +difficulty. +difficulty out of the front door. +dim, but definite and in the concise form in which he imagined himself +dining room where his daughter-in-law, princess mary, and mademoiselle +dinner all who came “to congratulate.” the countess wished to have +dinner at the rostóvs’?” +dinner,” cried several voices. “we’ll take you in hand.” +din of shouting more incessant. soldiers floundering knee-deep in mud +diplomatist?” asked prince andrew after a momentary silence. +diplomats, evidently had its own interests which had nothing to do with +diplomats who are esteemed because they have certain negative qualities, +dip. prince andrew, being always near the commander in chief, closely +direct descent and ascent to the brook separating us from schön +directing the march rode backward and forward between the carts. their +dirty feather bed on the top of the chest, crumpling her gauzy pink +disagreeable tone to prince hippolyte who was blocking his path. +disappeared he noticed that the eyes of all in the room turned to him +disapprovingly, but in whispers and as a great secret. +disastrous was about to happen. +discipline, if you allow a subordinate to address you like that!’ it +discuss so minutely and acutely all the recent european military and +disgrace such as that of ulm, or to utter destruction. but to forestall +disgrace the whole regiment? disgrace the whole regiment because of one +dismissed from here; therefore, you can stay and go with us wherever our +dismounted. he gave the reins to a cossack, took off and handed over his +disorder and was retreating upon the kiev grenadiers. prince bagratión +dispatch? you know everything.” +disposition of the forces, so as to know his bearings should he be sent +dispute with the french grenadier. they were naturally talking about the +disrespectful manner of the exhausted clerk, the fact that the clerk and +dissatisfied, interrupted by another, an unfamiliar voice. from the +dissipated life of his son anatole, the son whom they were planning to +distance and puckering the skin above his left eye, “malgré la haute +distance that allowed every softly spoken word to be heard, followed +distinctly, but as often happens had not understood a word of what they +distinctness. +distinguished air which inspired respect. princess anna mikháylovna +distinguished him from everyone else in that drawing room. +distressed, and breathed painfully, but could not restrain the wild +distressed that his stout and clumsy body took up so much room and doing +disturbed. +divine saviour has left for our guidance here below. let us try to +dmítri, a man of good family who had been brought up in the count’s +dmítrievna. +dmítrievna produced no less impression by slight exertions—the least +dmítrievna’s deep voice suddenly inquired from the other end of the +“do come.” +doctor’s wife. +doctor’s wife, who was calling him her deliverer, and recalling with +doctor with a bow and approached them silently and with a look of +does not even attempt to hide its artificiality) of a man who is +doesn’t make a mess of things!” +does she bother me?” and she added, turning to véra, “you’ll +doing right. anna mikháylovna nodded approvingly. again pierre fell +do it.” +dólokhov. +dólokhov. +dólokhov, an officer of the semënov regiment, a notorious gambler and +dólokhov climbed carefully and slowly through the window and lowered +dólokhov did not answer the captain; he had been drawn into a hot +dólokhov has been degraded to the ranks and bezúkhov’s son sent +dólokhov hurriedly interrupted. +dólokhov looked round but did not say anything, nor did the mocking +dólokhov’s back in his white shirt, and his curly head, were lit +dólokhov slowly straightened his bent knee, looking straight with his +dólokhov smiled. “don’t trouble. if i want anything, i won’t +dólokhov’s reply. +dólokhov still sat in the same position, only his head was thrown +dólokhov stood frowning and did not speak. pierre jumped upon the +dólokhov’s words into english. a thin young lad, an hussar of the +dólokhov, the bottle of rum still in his hand, jumped onto the window +dólokhov turned round and, again holding on with both hands, arranged +dólokhov was holding the englishman’s hand and clearly and distinctly +dólokhov was of medium height, with curly hair and light-blue eyes. he +dólokhov, who had already changed into a soldier’s gray greatcoat, +domestic serfs were crowding in the hall, waiting to bid good-by to +done for him! i hope that here in moscow no one will receive him, in +done shall be. now listen! give this letter to michael ilariónovich. * +done the job just as well.” +do next. anna mikháylovna with her eyes indicated a chair that stood +“do not let us lose any time...” +“don’t, borís! you are such a diplomat that it is really +don’t feel that weakness in myself as yet, i know a little person who +don’t get promoted to a sublieutenancy.” +“don’t joke; i mean to have a serious talk with you. do you know +“don’t kick up the dust, you infantry!” jested an hussar whose +don’t know how to hide what i feel.” as he spoke he kept glancing +don’t know me. we have not met for such a long time... not since we +“don’t like bowwowing from my own fellows, i don’t,” growled +“don’t mention it, general, as if i’d be so bold!” replied the +don’t need it? now you shall judge between us. i always tell him: here +“don’t tease! well, and what has been decided about novosíltsev’s +“don’t touch him! you’ll startle him and then he’ll be killed. +“don’t touch me,” said rostóv, drawing back. “if you need it, +don’t trouble yourself further.” +don’t wish to let me go, i’ll stay. but i know i am no use anywhere +“don’t you want to? well, then, come here,” said she, and +door, and added in a whisper so that her son should not hear, “wish me +door opened quickly and the stern figure of the old man in the white +door. while he was getting down from the carriage steps two men, who +doppelkümmel. the officers gladly gathered round him, some on their +“do promise, do promise, vasíli!” cried anna mikháylovna as he +“do stop joking, bilíbin,” cried bolkónski. +do the doctors say?” asked the princess after a pause, her worn face +do the right thing. +do they look at me?” then he lifted his head, stretched his neck as +do this for my son—and i shall always regard you as a benefactor,” +do to get here.” +down!” +down. anna mikháylovna indicated by her attitude her consciousness of +down laws for austria at schönbrunn, il faut lui faire grâce de +down, lightly touched his daughter’s hair and sat down again. +down on a sofa near the silver samovar, as if all she was doing was a +down on one of the tubs, picked it up. +down on the sofa, facing her brother. “she is quite a child: such a +down the room for a long time, no longer piercing an imaginary foe with +down the wax, the seal, and the paper, with his accustomed rapidity. +down to her neck and shoulders while nicholas was speaking. +downwards as was his habit. +downward. when pierre came up the count was gazing straight at him, but +“do you know,” he said at last, evidently unable to check the sad +“do you know, mon cher,” said bilíbin following him, “i have been +“do you know?” said pierre, as if suddenly struck by a happy +“do you know, that fat pierre who sat opposite me is so funny!” said + *do you know the proverb? +“do you know, you are a terrible chap for all your innocent airs,” +“do you or do you not know where that will is?” insisted prince +do you remain silent when heaven knows who permits herself to +“do you remember me?” asked borís quietly with a pleasant smile. +“do you see?... my doll... mimi... you see...” was all natásha +“do you think he can last till morning?” asked the german, +“do you think so?... really? truly?” she said, quickly smoothing her +“do you understand what you’re saying?” he said in a trembling +dozens of soldiers, continually replaced by others, who ran from the +dragoons. in the center, where túshin’s battery stood and from which +draw breath. +drawing room. +drawing room. +drawing room. +drawing room. and, in fact, bilíbin’s witticisms were hawked about +drawing room, approaching now a silent, now a too-noisy group, and by a +drawing room, helped to receive and entertain the visitors. the young +dress as fresh and elegant as the other. prince andrew rose and politely +dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending +dressed for his attendance at court in full parade uniform, which he +dress, girdled with a broad ribbon just below the breast. +dressing gown looked out. +dressing gown, spectacled and wigless, shouting in an angry voice. +dress under her, hiding her face with her slender fingers, and sobbing +drew her chair nearer to that of the countess. +drew his saber, and with a happy and resolute countenance, opening +dried and warmed themselves, cooked their porridge for the first time +driving into the court of count bezúkhov’s house. as the wheels +drooping tail. +dropped it into a leather pouch attached to the lathe, and, approaching +dropping her voice. “my wretched lawsuit takes all i have and makes no +dropping into his usual after-dinner nap, and laughed at everything. +drubetskáya, who as a member of the household was also seated in the +drummer, their leader, turned round facing the singers, and flourishing +duc even the most partial ceased to regard him as a hero. if to some +duelist, who was living with anatole. pierre smiled, looking about him +dull expression. +dull eyes looked at him in silence. it seemed to prince andrew that the +dull without you,” said she, giving him a tender smile. +during the battle, and feeling reassured he dozed off.... the dark +during the five years he had known her, and how her head had cracked +dust from the sleeve of his uniform, and going up to a mirror examined +duties on you, and you must be a man.” +duty. the emperor is gracious, and i shan’t forget you if you deserve +dying father. “it is painful, but it does one good. it uplifts the +dying man, but passed by him, joined the eldest princess, and moved +dying man wished to see, her own admission was assured. casting a rapid +dying of fright. i did, ‘pon my word, i got that frightened!” said +each ascent or descent of the road the crowds were yet denser and the +each other’s arms warmly pressing their lips to whatever place they +each time he touched his forehead. his face wore a calm look of piety +each visitor performed the ceremony of greeting this old aunt whom not +eagerly and rather disdainfully, not resting on anything although his +easy. and tell me, please—i’ve been meaning to ask—how is he +easy to take marshals, sitting on a sofa by the fire! that is true, but +ebook or online at www.gutenberg.org +écossaise was ended, he clapped his hands to the musicians and shouted +effected the dangerous crossing of the straits of dover and captured +effect on everyone, smiled and, evidently unmoved by what had been +effort. the bottle was emptying perceptibly and rising still higher +effort to look at the servant who stood constantly at the head of the +effort to move her shoulders or bend her arms when turning, or stamp +effort to say this. “without a name and without means... and it +effrayée, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings. +egged on against each other. +“eh, eh, friend! come here a bit,” said she, assuming a soft high +“eh? what?” asked prince andrew. +eh?... what then?... eh?” +either. don’t i know that at the rate we are living our means won’t +elder daughter, countess véra, with a smile. +elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief. +elders. +eldest princess, who were sitting under the portrait of catherine the +eldest who was reading—the one who had met anna mikháylovna. the +elegantly. bilíbin’s services were valued not only for what he wrote, +else,” replied anna pávlovna. +embarrassing attentions. on the face of the wag zherkóv there suddenly +embarrassment looked pierre straight in the face. +embittered look clouded her once handsome face, but only for a moment; +embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on +emitting a smoke ring. +emperor, about the remarks he had heard at court concerning the krems +emperor francis would have been fulfilled long ago. i should long +emperor napoleon burns with impatience to make prince auersperg’s +emperor napoleon if we take this bridge, so let us three go and take +emphatically. +emptied them, rolling the vodka in their mouths, and walked away from +encampment, and not within sight of the enemy before an action in +en conjure...” +encounter one another at the clean, smart hussars who moved past them in +“encouraging us to get along quicker,” said another uneasily. +ended with a thud into something soft... f-f-flop! and a cossack, riding +ending pierre’s unpleasant and unamiable outburst. after the anecdote +end of his gun...” a soldier whose greatcoat was well tucked up said +endure this man who is a menace to everything.” +enemy’s horse patrols could be discerned. +enemy three times as strong, who would hem him in from two sides. +engagement and his reception by the minister of war. +“england is done for,” said he, scowling and pointing his finger +engrossed by it, yet his strut seemed to indicate that, besides military +enjoyed narrating all this, and did not seem to suspect that others, +enormous table would say: “well, dmítri, you’ll see that things are +enough to see a long way in the deserted street and it seemed more like +entered. +entered his father’s dressing room (not with the contemptuous look and +entered, the bronze handle of one of the doors turned and prince vasíli +entered their heads that it could have been otherwise at this meeting. +entered the room. +entered the room. +entering the house, prince andrew saw nesvítski and another adjutant +enter that room. +entrance, after scrutinizing the mother and son (who without asking to +entrance. the prince was working at the lathe and after glancing round +entreaties. soon after anna pávlovna’s reception anna mikháylovna +entrenchments being thrown up, the freshly dug clay of which showed up +entrenchments looked out just as menacingly, and the unlimbered cannon +entrenchment. they had to hold their noses and put their horses to a +epaulettes had been packing with his valet in the rooms assigned to him. +equality. have people since the revolution become happier? on the +equip him.” +escape, and bagratión’s four thousand men merrily lighted campfires, +escape it anyhow.” +escorted him to the door, repeating something to him several times in +especially after having dined, bolkónski felt that he could not take in +essential, and after a short interval followed her. anna mikháylovna +established intimacy with the french marshals, and so dazzled by the +estime que je professe pour the orthodox russian army, j’avoue que +estrangement, and ridicule with which troops of different arms usually +“even if it were a great deal of trouble...” answered prince andrew, +evening light and the blue tunics advancing from the other side with +evening. there was room enough in the wide corridor for the generals to +even in his way; but all at once he felt that this would not do, and +even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise +evenly, and then raised his head. he had an intellectual and distinctive +even more so. i like being alone.... father likes her very much. she and +even pushed aside, he began wrapping it round the princess. either from +event must be allowed to disturb the appointed order of the day. prince +even try to do so. all were watching the count and márya dmítrievna. +ever since he had overtaken the regiment in poland, had lived with the +“everybody is wondering to whom the count will leave his fortune, +everybody laughed, and hippolyte louder than anyone. he was evidently +every muscle of telyánin’s pale, terrified face began to quiver, his +everyone. +everyone again looked toward the door, which creaked as the second +“everyone has his achilles’ heel,” continued prince andrew. +everyone, including anna pávlovna, felt this. +everyone’s situation. tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner. * think +everyone waited, so emphatically and eagerly did he demand their +everything and everybody at last and had spoken such pathetic words to +everything before you, everything. and you....” +everything from the table napkins to the silver, china, and glass bore +everything. i often wonder at you, annette—how at your age you +everything, only i have nothing....” +everything!” said nicholas. “and i will prove it to you.” +everything that took place and was reported to him was exactly what he +every time a ball flew past. rostóv on the left flank, mounted on his +everywhere. he might easily become aide-de-camp to the emperor. you know +evident duty.” she paused. all were silent, expectant of what was to +evidently did not expect. +evidently glad of a chance to say quicker in words what he wanted to +evidently in a fit of rage, his coal-black eyes with their bloodshot +evidently in the village itself and behind the hill. to the left from +evidently listening to herself with pleasure, and speaking with +evidently rigged up by soldiers out of any available materials and +evidently the prince understood her, and also understood, as he had done +evident that he not only knew everyone in the drawing room, but had +evident that the cadet was liberal with his tips and that it paid to +exacting, so that without being a hardhearted man he inspired such fear +exactitude. he always came to table under precisely the same conditions, +exaggerated grasseyement, “the prince has been scolding michael +exaggeration quite contrary to christian simplicity. let us rather read +exceedingly lofty, the members of the household and the footmen—one +excellency?... nobody knows.” +excellency’s participation in the common action is highly valued by +except a few scattered skirmishers. an empty space of some seven hundred +except in the army; i am not a diplomat or a government clerk.—i +exception made, and borís transferred into the regiment of semënov +except veneration could such a man as my father evoke? and i am so +excited and irritated by these thoughts prince andrew went toward his +excitedly animated and healthy men.” so thinks, or at any rate +excitement. +excitement. +excitement, around chin and mouth. the quartermaster frowned, looking +exclaimed in excellent french. +exclamation he was asking the adjutant to wait, and he went on with the +“excuse me, general,” interrupted kutúzov, also turning to prince +excuse me, vicomte—i must tell it in russian or the point will be +executing of the plan. +expectations of those who knew her. the subdued smile which, though it +expected to be at once presented to the emperor. at the chief entrance +expect he has forgotten me. he paid me attentions in those days,” said +expecting a crisis.” +expecting anything from yourself in the future, you will feel at every +expecting that he would have a chance to give a reliable account, which +expecting the summons to zakúska, * avoid engaging in any long +expecting to hear something very profound. at last he came up to morio. +expecting two very interesting men tonight, le vicomte de mortemart, who +expedition.... but what’s the southern army to do? prussia is +experiencing a new and peculiar pleasure. sónya, muttering to herself, +explained how to rivet the hoof and went away to his own quarters. +explaining that dólokhov was betting with stevens, an english naval +explanations, however clear they might be. whether it was the +exposed—and she seemed to bring the glamour of a ballroom with her as +exposed. another emissary rode to the russian line to announce the peace +exposed! if i were asked what i desire most on earth, it would be to be +expose to a bullet, and then you congratulate us on the victory! admit +expressed impetuosity and enthusiasm. nicholas blushed when he entered +expressed the concentrated and happy resolution you see on the face of +expressing... as in its last note... you understand... besides, unless +expression. “c’est... c’est du mack. nous sommes mackés (it is... +expression, evidently habitual to him when conversing with women. +expression. it was the heavy tread of princess mary that he heard. +expression of profound and sincere devotion and respect mingled with +expression on his face changed in a way evidently deliberate and +expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose. +expressions with the choicest french phrases—which was a peculiarity +expression—the same man who had rushed out of the wattle shed. at that +expression. véra was good-looking, not at all stupid, quick at +expression which was never to be seen on it in a drawing room. his eyes +externally was all in order, but had it pleased the commander in chief +extraordinary may happen to one that honor and dishonor will be all the +extrémités de l’univers, nous allons lui faire éprouver le même +extricated himself from an awkward situation and placed another in it, +eyebrows which, when he frowned, sometimes hid the gleam of his shrewd, +eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of god, are +eyes. +eyes and ears intent on the colonel. +eyes had uttered french phrases between his teeth. every muscle of his +eyes lit up so that her face was entirely transformed. then she suddenly +eye socket. “yes, he has a right to speak so calmly of those men’s +eyes still shifted from side to side but with a downward look not rising +eyes. the englishman looked on sideways, pursing up his lips. the man +eyes. then having satisfied himself that all eyes were fixed on him, +eyes. the sick man was turned on to his side with his face to the wall. +eyes, went with unusually hurried steps down the long corridor leading +face. +face, already growing old, though he was dressed like a most fashionable +face, and again at the arm, and on his face a feeble, piteous smile +face and just nodded to him with his long head. but after it was +face, and prince andrew saw that hippolyte, of whom—he had to +face as if driving off a troublesome fly. “and why are you stopping +face assumed a forced unnatural expression as soon as she looked in a +face assumed its melancholy expression), “he was mentioned at her +face changed into a winning and piteous look of fear. her beautiful eyes +face; his eyes continually wandered from one object to another. +face instantly changed and assumed an offensively affected, sugary +face in the lace of her mother’s mantilla—not paying the least +face. “let him see whether i am a coward!” he thought. +face looked worn—he too had evidently not slept all night. he glanced +faces, the wall of soldiers burdened with knapsacks and muskets marched +face to prince andrew, smiled, and waved his hand. +face, which had been so radiantly happy all that saint’s day, suddenly +facing the quartermaster who was reporting to him. on seeing rostóv, +fact. +fact of a great man executing a duc—or even an ordinary man who—is +failed. borís on the contrary at once found his footing, and related +faithfully as i can, without disquieting myself by examining my feelings +‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! but how do you do? i see i +fallen!” +fallen, and an old trooper on the flank, a noncommissioned officer who +familiar voice. “one is afraid of the unknown, that’s what it is. +familiar voice, “what i say is that if it were possible to know +family consultation; is it not so, prince?” +“fancy, with his powerful mind, indulging in such nonsense!” +far. by intrigues, violence, exile, and executions, french society—i +fast as her nimble little feet would carry her. borís did not laugh. +fast asleep with his head on his arm. +fate and in spite of the pleasures and distractions around me i cannot +fate, her father-in-law, and her husband. after crying she had fallen + fate—(the fate of the army at ulm).” +fat finger. +father and son. this lasted about two minutes, which to pierre seemed an +father-in-law and now at princess mary. when they left the table she +father in order to puzzle or test his sister. +“father kutúzov.” +father’s face with an eager and respectful look. “how is your +father’s friendship for you; but now i entreat you for god’s sake to +father’s ridicule of the new men, and drew him on and listened to him +father’s study as the latter wished to say good-by to him alone. all +father there would be nothing i could reproach you with,” said anna +father to be a connection of prince vasíli’s. the elderly lady who +father to the ambassador’s entertainment; she wore a ball dress and +favorite, “how is it you have so little tact? don’t you see you are +fear appeared on her flushed face. +feared him. +fearing to be captured by the french on the way to krems. +fearing to relax, shouted with his mouth wide open and passed on. +fear would prevent her understanding any of her father’s further +features. nicholas was short with curly hair and an open expression. +feeble voice of the commander in chief was heard. the regiment roared, +feeble voice to which he tried to impart a dashing note, ill-suited to +feeling of sickening agitation. +feelings in others, and if never having felt them i cannot approve of +feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the +feels, anyone who comes in sight of the enemy, and that feeling gives +feet that moved through the sticky mud that covered the planks of the +feet were the only sounds that could be heard. anna mikháylovna, with +feigned severity. “you spoil her, ilyá,” she added, turning to her +fell from him. he was glad, and at the same instant began to pity the +fellow could have played such a prank on a policeman. +fellows have all lost your wits, or i have outlived mine. may god help +fellow! what you have just said is good, very good. of course you +felt it indecorous to speak of her pregnancy before pierre, though the +felt perfectly happy. just then the commander appeared on the bridge. +felt that the battle of which he had brought tidings was far, far +felt the impossibility of going to sleep on such a night. it was light +ferdinand disgraces himself. you abandon vienna, give up its +festivities and fireworks are becoming wearisome.” +fetch the frenchman, moreau,” he said, alluding to the invitation made +feu, et oublie celui qu’il devait faire faire sur l’ennemi!” *(2) +field glass and shrugging his shoulders, “so it is! they’ll be fired +fight bonaparte by this new science you call ‘strategy.’” +fight. you’ll see—we shall retire.” +filled by the domestic serfs—the men on one side and the women on +find, and still seeks, some secret motive in our actions. what answer +fine cords would soon get a bit rubbed,” said an infantryman, wiping + * fine eyes. +fine! i don’t want anything, prince.” +fine,” said a corporal, chaffing a thin little soldier who bent under +fingers, drew out a gold imperial, and lifting his eyebrows gave it to +finished. +finished phrases of general interest. these sayings were prepared in the +firing incendiary balls at the village of schön grabern visible just +firmness, and expedition. i consider myself fortunate to have such a +first appearance in society. anna pávlovna greeted him with the nod she + first epilogue: 1813 - 20 +first he had ever written. borís and natásha were at the other window +first not only what had been said but also what kutúzov would have +“first of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. set your friend’s +“first of all you must drink!” +first of one and then of another priest. +first place because her provinces have been pillaged—they say the holy +“first-rate,” said pierre, looking at dólokhov, who with a bottle +first time since their encounter concerning telyánin. rostóv, feeling +first to one side and then to the other watched the smokers with evident +fist, and tapped it on the floor, making the sparks fly, while he +five in the afternoon,” replied bolkónski growing more animated and +five times. he entered the room softly. the little princess, plump and +five years, if he goes on like this?” presently he added: “that’s +fixed on. +fixed on her. +fixed straight on his son’s. something twitched in the lower part of +flabby that they looked heavier below, were twitching violently; but +flank,” he said to himself, “the kiev grenadiers and the podólsk +flayed, some not, and broken-down carts beside which solitary soldiers +flourished his castanets as if threatening someone. the soldiers, +flourishing his arm, called him to enter. +flower tubs and hid there. +flung it down and began: +followed anna mikháylovna out of the carriage, and only then began +followed by a cossack. +followed by the owner of the manly voice, a dashing infantry officer who +followed him in, as if there were now no further need for permission to +followed singly. the footmen began moving about, chairs scraped, the +follow, for this was clearly only a prelude. +following passage, in german, from the archduke ferdinand’s letter: +following the mass movements and general orders, and constantly studying +following the princess, whom a footman was helping into the carriage. +follows that pierre will not be pierre but will become count bezúkhov, +follows the current of his own thoughts, “things will have gone too +footing that all who knew them, including anatole himself, respected him +footmen and cooks were getting the supper, count bezúkhov had a +foot to foot uncertain with which to start, then settled down, galloped +for a few seconds collected his thoughts. then the russian ambassador +“forage has not been supplied to the extent...” +for a long time pierre could not understand, but when he did, he jumped +for a mere fancy?” said nicholas taking her hand. +for anything and i never will again, nor have i ever reminded you of my +forehead. +forehead, wetting him with her tears. then after a pause she said: +“forever?” said the little girl. “till death itself?” +for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second +forgetting that she was dancing with a grown-up partner she bent her +for girls and boys.” +forgotten. our duty, my dear, is to rectify his mistake, to ease his +for him. +for him, but again pressed on him so that they jammed his leg, and those +formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers +“for me? for me?... trying for me!...” said she. +former position. a huge, broad-shouldered gunner, number one, holding +“for not dilly-dallying and not hanging to a woman’s apron strings. +for russia, for the orthodox greek faith! all that is beautiful, but +for some days in moscow and was staying as usual at his father’s +for the attainment of that purpose. +for the countess.” +for the good we have done them.’ father took her when she was homeless +for the two approaching battalions. while he was speaking, the curtain +(for they were speaking french) at least with a russian who would, he +for three days, and not one of them knew or imagined what was in store +fortnight’s retreat, the russian troops had halted and after a fight +“for tomorrow!” said he, quickly finding the page and making a + * “forty thousand men massacred and the army of our allies +forward and, stooping over the dying man, beckoned to lorrain from +forward beside schmidt with the bullets merrily whistling all around, +forward. “company commanders!” he shouted in a voice accustomed to +for your obstinacy,” said kírsten. +for your sake.” +found.” +found expression in calling her maid “my dear” and speaking to her +found them to be so tiresome that it wearied him to look at or listen to +four thousand strong, to the right across the hills from the krems-znaim +four times—till i get what i want. i don’t mind what they think of +fragmentary sentences tried to explain about a doll which she produced +francis received him standing in the middle of the room. before the +frantically, had such an effect that they managed to squeeze through +freckled gunner in a merry voice, standing to attention. +freedom i could understand it and should be the first to enter the army; +french. a group of cossack scouts retired down the hill at a trot. all +french battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the +french. but this adjutant returned half an hour later with the news that +french families. he is one of the genuine émigrés, the good ones. and +french forestall him at znaim meant the exposure of his whole army to a +frenchman, holding him down by the sleeve in a friendly way to prevent +french since suvórov met them. he feared that bonaparte’s genius +french, there would be great hope of saving the army; to let the +french though he spoke it badly, offered to conduct prince andrew. +french, turning to a general, “my husband is deserting me? he is going +frenchwoman blushed and went away without a word. when he reached his +friend...” +friend.” +friend a model of perfection because prince andrew possessed in the +friendly words to officers he had known in the turkish war, sometimes +friend’s hand. +friendship.” +friendship at all; i simply feel that the army is my vocation.” +friend, that i look on marriage as a divine institution to which we must +frightened here?” and the artilleryman understood him. +frigid politeness. +frock and hair. +from behind. +“from dürrenstein to krems.” +“from general field marshal kutúzov?” he asked. “i hope it is +“from héloïse?” asked the prince with a cold smile that showed his +from him. “he used to have a predilection for bacchus.” +from him. “there, you see!” and he drew attention to the bullets +from hollabrünn) received murat’s dispatch with the proposal of a +from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in st. petersburg, used +from laughing. +from passing, “won’t this be too much for poor uncle at a moment +from prince andrew to the staff officer. +from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who +from that distorted mouth issued an indistinct, hoarse sound. anna +from the bottom of the slope, where the parleys had taken place, came +from the doctor to pierre. to him, in a particularly respectful and +from the folds of her frock. +from the guards just before this campaign. he behaved very well in the +from the hill. there was no one now between the squadron and the enemy +from the ranks. a morose soldier marching on the left turned his eyes on +from the revolution leaving the people to anarchy, and napoleon alone +from the right flank, beside which the carriage passed the company, +from the shelf the first book that came to his hand (it was caesar’s +from the way the regimental commander saluted the commander in chief and +from various people and retelling the town gossip. +from vienna kutúzov wrote to his old comrade, prince andrew’s father. +from vienna to znaim was shorter and better than the road for the +from weeping and sat down beside dr. lorrain, who was sitting in a +“from what i have heard,” said pierre, blushing and breaking into +“from where to where, your majesty?” +from which they had dashed out so impetuously, the conversation had +front and men four abreast, spread across the bridge and began to emerge +front. pierre stood smiling but silent. one man, older than the others +fro with dignity, offered surmises about the weather, or touched on +further back till his curly hair touched his shirt collar, and the hand +gaiety with which zherkóv spoke, and to the intentional coldness of +gaily, with a wide swing of his arm. +gained a step on his old comrades of the cadet corps; how in wartime +gallantry lit up his face and as soon as the last figure of the +galloped on to the village where he was told that the commander in chief +“gave him leave? leave? that’s just like you young men,” said the +gave his hand to the plague-stricken; but ... but there are other acts +gazed at bolkónski silently with wide-open eyes. +genealogical tree, shook his head, laughing as a man laughs who looks at +general!” +general.” +general commotion. some eight or nine young men were crowding anxiously +“general, i must obey orders, but i am not bound to endure...” +“general kutúzov,” said bolkónski, speaking french and stressing +generally, prince andrew had, as he had had in petersburg society, two +generally the stronger! i know very well that count nicholas is too +general—of whom austria has so many—and to lay down all this heavy +generals and statesmen of the day. the old prince seemed convinced not +general schmidt, who was killed in the action. his horse had been +general’s three-cornered hat, and held it, pulling at the plume, +general were talking in low voices and kutúzov smiled slightly as +general who had succeeded schmidt. in the passage little kozlóvski was +general who signed that capitulation had no right to do so, and that no +genoa and lucca laying their petitions before monsieur buonaparte, and +gentle look of her large luminous eyes, very beautiful at that moment, +“gentlemen, i’ll do anything. no one shall hear a word from me,” +gentlemen, it is already time for me to go,” replied prince andrew +gentlemen, messieurs les maréchaux, * murat, lannes, and belliard, +gentlemen of the diplomatic corps. with prince hippolyte kurágin, +‘gentlemen,’ says one of them, ‘you know the thabor bridge is +“gentlemen, who wishes to bet with me? i’ll do the same thing!” +german accent, “for the reasson zat ze emperor knows zat. he +gesture. anna pávlovna meditated. +“get in,” said kutúzov, and noticing that bolkónski still delayed, +get ready to dance in the large hall, and the sound of the feet and the +get there and fire the bridge or will the french get within grapeshot +“get well soon, lads!” he continued, turning to the soldiers. +giddy even on a staircase,” exclaimed several voices. +gilt frame, new to him, containing the genealogical tree of the princes +girlish adoration that her smile could not for a single instant impose +girl, you and your sisters are not heiresses! if you don’t believe me, +gist of the matter lay in that. +“give me a biscuit, you devil!” +give me satisfaction...” +“give me that letter,” said kutúzov turning to prince andrew. +“give me time to collect my wits, father,” said he, with a smile +given him by the commander in chief and his fellow officers, prince +given to blow it up. otherwise we should long ago have been in the +gives the singles and snatches the doubles!” +giving him a mild expression, rode up to bagratión and welcomed him as +giving him full liberty to remain with him during the battle or to join +“glad to do our best, your ex’len-lency!” came a confused shout +glance at all those in the room and noticing the count’s confessor +glanced askance at her husband’s face, and her own assumed the timid, +glanced up at her through tears of laughter, and again hid her face. +glancing for support at an officer of the suite who turned away +glancing up at him from under her brows, smiling, and almost crying from +glass, “or i won’t let you go!” +glass. she went on reading: +glass, smiled, and walked toward the other door. natásha was about to +gleamed. +glittering teeth and sparkling eyes. she told of an accident they had +gloomy gravity and glancing round at his comrades, “there is an order +go. +“go and apologize, your excellency. yes, go!” +“god be thanked that you are in time,” said she to one of the +godfather,” she added, as if she attached no importance at all to the + * god has given it to me, let him who touches it beware! +“god has nothing to do with it! well, go on,” he continued, +goes up to auersperg and says: ‘prince, you are being deceived, here +“go in, annette, or you will catch cold,” said the little princess, +“going?” and he went on writing. +going to the cottage he occupied with denísov. +going toward the door without raising his eyes. denísov paused, thought +gold-embroidered velvet bag. her pretty little upper lip, on which a +golden.”) he cast happy, sidelong glances at his son from under his +golítsyn and he has refused. be the kindhearted man you always were,” +gone out of the conservatory she followed and called borís to her. +“gone? that’s all right!” said he; and looking angrily at the +good and noble in you will be lost. it will all be wasted on trifles. +“good-by.” +good-by!” +“good-by, my dear,” said she to the countess who saw her to the + * “good god, what simplicity!” +“good health...” +good horse, bedouin, and sitting as though falling backwards in the +good luck.” +goodness, to give us as sovereign! to say nothing of my brothers, this +“good news!... go on!” he shouted to the driver, and they galloped +good news? there has been an encounter with mortier? a victory? it was +good news, though schmidt’s death is a heavy price to pay for the +“good night, lise,” said he, rising and courteously kissing her hand +good part. +good stories about her, while none the less all without exception +“go on, go on!” said the major. +“go on, you must drink it all,” said anatole, giving pierre the last +got back to their horses. two were misdirected and the shot went too +go through your performance.” +“gott, wie naiv!” * said he angrily, after he had gone a few steps. +got up and said something to the ladies. anna mikháylovna stepped +government officials to his table, had unexpectedly selected michael +grabern. on the left our troops were close to a copse, in which smoked +graceful and muscular arms and neck. by the grace of her movements, +graceful pose under a portrait of catherine, leaning his elbow on a +grandee of catherine’s time who now lay dying in moscow. the young man +grandfather, wore it in all his wars.” (she still did not take out +granted. +grapeshot.” +gravity!” +gray overcoats, wounds, the smoke of gunpowder, the sounds of firing, +great and talking eagerly. as soon as they saw pierre and his companion +great deal. of the two soups he chose turtle with savory patties and +greater part of the enemy’s opened out from this battery. just facing +greater zeal than his duty as a commander. thanks to the strictness and +great favor to ask of you.” +great haste and in the greatest disorder. the road was so obstructed +greatness of soul?” said the little princess, smiling and drawing her +great sin. how can one judge father? but even if one might, what feeling +greediness that he wanted it, but simply from a conscientious desire for +grew weary waiting to be relieved. prince andrew halted to have a look +grieved him and yet he was pleased. +grieving at the misfortunes of our common cause, or we are merely +grimace. “i have long wanted to ask you, andrew, why you have changed +groaning aloud and swinging his arm which had just been hurt, while +ground, artillery and troops in blue uniform were seen. these were the +ground, eager to rejoin its fellows, he watched his squadron draw +group of men with yellow shakos, dark-green jackets braided with cord, +group where the vicomte was still talking, and again pretended to +growing impatient, and stamped her foot, ready to cry at his not coming +growing louder and more frequent. evidently our guns had begun to reply. +grown-up young people: véra beside berg, and pierre beside borís; and +guard. +guards. here is my hand on it. are you satisfied?” +guards with the rank of cornet. he received, however, no appointment +guess what he wanted; she pointed first to pierre, then to some drink, +guests joined in. everyone laughed, not at márya dmítrievna’s answer +guests. natásha, who sat opposite, was looking at borís as girls of +guests returned to the drawing room and to the count’s study. +guests were all conversing with one another. “the razumóvskis... it +guests were and exchanging glances with natásha, who was sitting +gun carriage. a cossack who accompanied him had handed him a knapsack +gut morgen!” * he said winking with a merry smile, evidently pleased +habitual, offering his puffy cheek, but bagratión kissed him on the +habitual to him. his face took on the stupid artificial smile (which +had always imagined battles to himself), nor could he help to fire the +had any news. on their familiar faces he read agitation and alarm. +had apparently been running), “and i did so wish to have another talk +had become more intimate when prince andrew was in vienna with kutúzov. +had been playing cards with the majority of the more distinguished and +had been put in position?” +had been repulsed, employing this military term to describe what had +had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook prince +had been spilled on the carpet. they were met by a deacon with a censer +had been struck on the teeth, or what the ham had to do with it. +had changed greatly during that period. in the expression of his face, +had come from the left flank where their regiment was stationed, with +had conquered, settled down in an armchair, inviting prince vasíli to +had done in petersburg at anna schérer’s reception. +had endured to gain her end. +had evidently been drinking. +had fallen the previous day—the day of the battle. reviewing his +had foreseen. prince andrew, out of breath with his rapid ride, spoke +had had in anna pávlovna’s drawing room. pierre removed his feet from +had happened during that half-hour to the troops entrusted to him, and +had left her kindly and tear-worn face and it now expressed only anxiety +had not exasperated the vicomte, and had convinced herself that it was +had not finished saying what was necessary, thudded into the ground near +had no time. he was afraid of falling behind the hussars, so much afraid +had not only held the field but had repulsed the french. though the +had not worn for a long time, he went into bilíbin’s study fresh, +had not yet come home when rostóv rode back early in the morning from +had not yet entered either the military or civil service, as he had only +“hadn’t i better ride over, your excellency?” asked nesvítski. +had only met once before for a short time at his wedding, were in +had on the spásski hill which might have been serious for her in her +had perished by his own magnanimity, and that there were particular +had persisted in his request to kutúzov, arrived at grunth and reported +had played a little air with variations on the harp, she joined the +had produced a good epigram, a fresh one that would be repeated. his +had reached braunau at the same time, was in splendid condition. there +had stopped beside the dead men, ran to catch up his line and, falling +had the air of a man happily performing one of the most solemn duties of +had the air of one who has suddenly lost faith in the whole human race. +had uttered them. +ha, ha, ha! mary!” +hair above his broad forehead which reminded one of a lion, and the deep +half-closed eyes gave still more persuasiveness to his words. the staff +halfway through supper prince andrew leaned his elbows on the table and, +half whisper, “everyone knows count cyril’s reputation.... he has +hand and said, “come.” pierre went with her to the bed on which the +hand. and there,” he pointed to a sutler’s tent, “they crowd in +hand he drew bagratión toward him, and with his right, on which he wore +hand. “how did you get here?” said he, turning to zherkóv. +handkerchief and rushed from the room. +handkerchiefs to their eyes, and just in front of them their eldest +handleless cup before a table on which tea and a cold supper were laid +hands. +hands....” +hands.” +hand she went up to her husband and kissed him on the forehead. +hands. “just fancy, he didn’t let me win a single cahd, not one +hands, looked attentively into prince vasíli’s eyes evidently +handsome and a terrible scapegrace. that is all i have been able to find +handsome young officer entering his room. pierre paused. he had left +hands were symmetrically placed on the green silk quilt, the palms +hand that was free, and turning sideways felt the pulse and reflected +hand them to the emperor after my death. now here is a lombard bond +hand to her heart, with a beatific smile and obviously equally ready to +hand, was clearing manure from the cowhouse, looked out, and his face +hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her +hanging his head, meekly followed her. +happened to touch. mademoiselle bourienne stood near them pressing her +happy smile, ambling lightly up to the count’s niece. “i have come, +harder from behind. +hardly able to restrain her tears and maintain the artificial smile +hardly had borís gone than sónya, flushed, in tears, and muttering +“has anything happened?” she asked. “i am so terrified.” +has beaten the germans. they beat no one—except one another. he made +“has he taken his medicine?” +has married his first cousin. and we are only second cousins, you know. +“hasn’t been in since the evening. must have been losing,” +has picked up an ax: “we are used to it, but you, sir, will blister +“has prince vasíli aged much?” asked the countess. “i have not +has received a letter and is expecting a visit from prince vasíli. in +has retained in full force.” +has so many relatives in moscow! so you are borís? of course. well, now +has to be cunning and cruel.” +have always, thank god, been my children’s friend and had their full +have a room of your own,” and she took the inkstand from nicholas. +have done for us.” +have done your best to increase his mental sufferings.” +have frightened you—sit down and tell me all the news.” +have gone through,” and she sympathetically turned up her eyes. +have heard the sobs. it seems as though mankind has forgotten the +have it, young man, i’m going.” +have looked at it. take it. well, now go. go.” +have, my dear! i tasted it. the thousand rubles i paid for tarás were +have nothing to complain of.” +have of hope and strength merely weighs you down and torments you with +have received very little, prince vasíli nothing, and it is monsieur +have something to eat.” +have something to tell you. here, here!” and she led him into the +have to call in the french, so that birds of a feather may fight +have two footmen behind her carriage, and very big ones. that was her +“have you a complaint to make?” kutúzov asked with a slight frown. +“have you never thought of marrying your prodigal son anatole?” she +“have you told them to bring the horse?” asked telyánin, getting up +having cleared the way denísov stopped at the end of the bridge. +having given them to the rosy natásha, who beamed with the pleasure +having glanced through the dispatch he laid it on the table and looked +having jerked out these last words as soldiers do and waved his arms +having lost a single man. the second squadron that had been in the front +having read thus far, princess mary sighed and glanced into the mirror +having ridden ahead, had pulled up his horse near the bridge, with a +having ridden beyond the village, continually meeting and overtaking +having ridden round the whole line from right flank to left, prince +having said this she went up to the doctor. +having something to eat. they hastily turned round to him asking if he +having stuck an amber mouthpiece far into his mouth, was inhaling the +having thanked anna pávlovna for her charming soiree, the guests began +having turned with words of comfort to her companion, realized that +head. +head and an army of fifteen thousand men has been ordered to blow up +head and lips indicating very little hope for the patient. +head, but the instant he turned to prince andrew the firm, intelligent +he added as if speaking to himself. +he added: “i need good officers myself, need them myself!” +headlong to the horse. “walk him up and down, my dear fellow,” he +head sadly, pointing them out to the austrian general with an expression +health?” +“health and happiness to her whose name day we are keeping and to her +“health to your ex... len... len... lency!” and again all became +“he always was rather harsh; and now i should think he’s getting +heard, and much farther to the right beyond the dragoons, the officer of +heard on every side. +heard respectfully congratulating the dying man on having received the +heard that the war was being discussed had turned from his partner with +hearing how ill he is.” +hearing that they wished to see the count, said his excellency was worse +heart. “it has begun! here it is, dreadful but enjoyable!” was what +heartrending scene.... it was a convoy of conscripts enrolled from our +heart! you are a madame de genlis and nothing more” (this nickname, +he, as if bragging of having been frightened. +he asked, “whose company?” but he really meant, “are you +“heaven only knows, my dear! these rich grandees are so selfish. +“heaven only knows what the people here may imagine,” muttered +“heavens! what a virulent attack!” replied the prince, not in the +heavy convoys (whose movements were concealed from the french) advance +he bowed his head and scraped first with one foot and then with the +he called the cossack with his horse, told him to put away the knapsack +he caught a momentary glimpse between their heads and backs of the dying +he cautiously released the shoulder she leaned on, looked into her face, +“he chose his friends badly,” interposed anna mikháylovna. +he closed his eyes, and immediately a sound of cannonading, of musketry +he commanded was in an almost hopeless position. the spy reported that +“he could not do that. the people only gave him power that he might +he could not finish, and ran out of the room. +he could not stop short for the sake of one man’s life.” +he did not finish his sentence, but his tone showed how highly he +he did not finish. just then there was a whistle in the air; nearer and +“he did not shut me up, he said i was telling an untruth.” +he disarmed his hearers. +he dressed for dinner. the old prince always dressed in old-fashioned +he drew up his chair, and continued to explain. +he embraced her. she screamed and fell unconscious on his shoulder. +he feels sure he will distinguish himself. he was glancing at everyone +he glanced at his cousin and the young lady visitor; and they were both +he glanced round at her. she gave him a passionately angry glance, and +he had already promised prince anatole to come to his gathering; +“he had another stroke about half an hour ago. courage, my +he had been beside the gun, he had heard the voices of the officers +he had but recently left their regiment, rode up to the colonel. +he had just remembered his recent encounter with the doctor’s wife and +he had met that evening. +he had not finished the last verse before the young people began to +he had ready in his mind, of all he knew and had seen. but the emperor +he had the hofs-kriegs-wurst-schnapps-rath on his hands. it would have +“he has made wills enough!” quietly remarked the princess. “but he +“he has weported himself sick, he’s to be stwuck off the list +height on which the kiev regiment was stationed, in the hollow where the +height without the smallest effort, his ease contrasting with the heavy +he immediately dispatched adjutant general wintzingerode, who was in +he indicated a place beside him to his daughter-in-law. a footman moved +“he is a great tactician!” said the prince to his son, pointing to +he is an aide-de-camp of kutúzov’s and will be here tonight.” +he is better acquainted than anyone else, does not listen to others but +he is bóry’s godfather—and allow him something for his maintenance, +“he is dozing,” said anna mikháylovna, observing that one of the +“he is just the same as ever,” replied anna mikháylovna, +“he is leaving me here, god knows why, when he might have had +“he is no more....” +he is so frank and has so much heart. he is so pure and poetic that +he is uncle’s aide-de-camp, a most brilliant position. he is so +“he is very much altered now,” said anna mikháylovna. “well, as +he kept nodding to show that he understood, anatole went on translating +he laughed in his usual dry, cold, unpleasant way, with his lips only +held out his cheek. +he leaned his elbows on the table with his pen in his hand and, +“he lets one win the singles and collahs it as soon as one doubles it; +he looked straight at prince andrew and suddenly unwrinkled his +he looked with disdain at the endless confused mass of detachments, +helplessly and he made a fruitless effort to pull it forward. whether he +he met nesvítski, with whom he shared a room, and the wag zherkóv; +he must retreat as quickly as possible behind the hollow in the rear, +he never could appreciate it. no, mon cousin,” she added with a sigh, +he noticed everything...” +he only gave an order to cease firing and re-form, so as to give room + he ought to be firing at the enemy. +he patted her on the shoulder and himself closed the door after her. +he pointed to the french guns, the limbers of which were being detached +he pointed with a smile to a turreted nunnery, and his eyes narrowed and +he pulled off the quilt and shook it. the purse was not there. +he put on the air of one who finds it impossible to reply to such +her. +her. +he raised both arms as if carefully lifting some invisible but precious +her badge as maid of honor. the youthful little princess bolkónskaya, +her brother shook his head incredulously. +here? don’t you see the skirmishers are retreating? lead the squadron +here!” exclaimed different voices; and the heavy breathing of the +“here, in that house,” answered the adjutant. +here, is he not? please announce me.” +here is one from his highness the archduke ferdinand and here are +“here is our dear orthodox russian army,” thought bolkónski, +“here is some sort of key to the mysteries that your héloïse has +(he remembered that in french there is some peculiar way of addressing a +he repeated, accentuating the u: “i think, however, now that he lays +here prince hippolyte paused, evidently collecting his ideas with +here prince hippolyte spluttered and burst out laughing long before his +here’s another admirer of that powder-monkey emperor of yours,” he +“here’s something for you to report,” said zherkóv. “see if i +here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an +here. where is it?” he asked, turning to lavrúshka. +her eyes, and then quickly went to his place and sat down. “sit down, +her face became sad. +her face suddenly flushed with reckless and joyous resolution. she half +“her father is very rich and stingy. he lives in the country. he is +her father was tidy. she put down the geometry book and eagerly broke +her foot—which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual +her forehead. his fine eyes lit up with a thoughtful, kindly, and +her friend, the princess’ eyes—large, deep and luminous (it seemed +her guests, first the vicomte and then the abbé, as peculiarly choice +her handsome eldest daughter were in the drawing room with the visitors +her head and continued in a whisper: “has he performed his final duty, +her head toward the darkness of the open doorway. +her husband looked at her as if surprised to notice that someone besides +her lip descended. she brought her face close to her sister-in-law’s +her long hair came down....” here he could contain himself no +her mother and burst into such a loud, ringing fit of laughter that even +her neck. +heroism!” +hero less on earth.” +her over his spectacles. +her own on the subject. +her path. +her plainly as she is, or else you will make a cruel and irrevocable +“herself,” came the answer in a rough voice, and márya dmítrievna +herself disinterestedly at the head of an alliance having for its object +herself in here for? but i will give her a piece of my mind. the time +herself should she glance round. anna mikháylovna, with a meek, +herself wish to die, that his end was not only touching but edifying. as +her sister dropped the portfolio. anna mikháylovna, stooping, quickly +her sister-in-law’s room. prince andrew in a traveling coat without +her sleeves and puffing heavily. +her temples. princess mary, supporting her sister-in-law, still looked +her tenderly and attentively, said severely: +her thin lips grew white, though her eyes did not change, and her voice +her tone was now querulous and her lip drawn up, giving her not a +her up, hugged her, and, smiling through her tears, began comforting +her. why do you say all this to me?” +her with a grimace that distorted his handsome face, kissed anna +her work as if to testify that the interest and fascination of the story +her. “you know, catiche, that we—you three sisters, mámontov, and +he sad at leaving his wife?—perhaps both, but evidently he did not +he said. +he said no more, but expressed his resignation to cruel fate by a +“he’s a low fellow, say what you will,” remarked prince hippolyte. +he sat down beside hippolyte and wrinkling his forehead began talking +he sat down by his wife, his elbows on his knees and his hands ruffling +he sat under fire. but despite himself, on his face too that same +he scattered the burning tobacco, smashed the pipe, and threw it away. +“he’s coming!” shouted the signaler at that moment. +he seemed to swell with satisfaction. he had hardly finished speaking +he seized his son by the hand with small bony fingers, shook it, looked +he sent for pierre and said to him: “my dear fellow, if you are going +“he shouldn’t have taken so many men,” said the officer of the +he shrugged his shoulders. a footman conducted borís down one flight of +he shrugged his shoulders and spread out his hands. pierre wished to +he sighed. +he signed with a flourish and suddenly turning to his son began to +he spoke so rapidly that he did not finish half his words, but his son +he spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure +he stretched out his hand to take hold of the purse. rostóv let go of +he suddenly blushed crimson, and it was plain that he had made a great +he suddenly cried. “even without a bet, there! tell them to bring me a +he talked to pierre), the old man was sitting on a large leather-covered +he (though pierre had not mentioned bonaparte), “but bonaparte when +he threw the bottle to the englishman, who caught it neatly. dólokhov +he told her she was still the same crybaby as ever. princess mary had +he took the dispatch which was addressed to him and began to read it +he took the lighted pipe that was offered to him, gripped it in his +he turned away. +he turned round. nesvítski’s handsome face looked out of the little +he turned to kozlóvski with urgent questions. +he understood his commander’s wish. +he vouchsafe its revelation to us through his divine spirit. +he waited a moment to see whether the cornet would answer, but he turned +“he wants to see a battle,” said zherkóv to bolkónski, pointing +he was afraid of finding in her a rival for count bezúkhov’s fortune, +he was asleep in his corner and woke him up. rousing himself, pierre +he was touched, but also a gleam of irony on his face. +he went on talking in this way in french, uttering only those words in +“he will get up in twenty minutes. let us go across to mary’s +he woke up... +he wore the air of a man little concerned in what the two ladies were +he worked went step by step toward his goal. he was free, he had nothing +he would give an opinion at the war council which would be the only one +he would have to march with no road into unknown parts of the bohemian +“hey, cossack, my horse!” he said. “now, then, you there! get out +hid her face still deeper in the bed. natásha wept, sitting on the +high, but the last round fell in the midst of a group of hussars and +highest degree just the very qualities pierre lacked, and which might +highest point. “it’s in charge of the queer fellow we saw without +highest spheres. +“highly satisfied, your excellency!” +high time!” +hill. +hill one after the other. their colonel, karl bogdánich schubert, came +hill opposite, with the french moving about on it, opened out before +him!” +him. +him. +him.” +him and everything he could say had long been known to him, that he was +him and, with a christian mildness that expressed forgiveness of his +him and would not have others do so.” +him as a man, but what can one do?” +him a taper. he lit it and, distracted by observing those around him, +him be here....” +him, bonaparte had made in his campaigns and even in politics. his +him but to the whole regiment—all of us—you’re to blame all round. +him by the arm, “i believe that intervention will be stronger than +him die feeling that he is rendering unhappy those who...” +him everyone began to stir: steps were audible and whispers, among which +him except the young princesses.... they are still young....” she bent +him, from his daughter to his serfs, the prince was sharp and invariably +him, from his weary, bored expression to his quiet, measured step, +him, handing him different articles of clothing. “what of sweden? how +him, he’s a scoundrel. go on! go on!” +him. he stroked her hair and then patted her awkwardly on the back of +him. “more, please: more! what’s he saying?” +him not in the least abashed. +him... olga, go and see whether uncle’s beef tea is ready—it is +him or her to a little old lady, wearing large bows of ribbon in her +him. “remember this, prince andrew, if they kill you it will hurt me, +himself, but only desires the good of mankind. and what have they +himself fall into a trap moreau set him, and from which he did not know +himself into a chair, gazing at those in the room as if asking, “why +himself on a sofa with his face to the wall. pierre hid his face, from +himself on his seat. +himself, prince bagratión sent zherkóv to tell the general in command +himself to bagratión. bonaparte’s adjutant had not yet reached +himself undertook his daughter’s education, and to develop these two +himself up, slightly arching his back. it was plain that the commander +himself up to such an extent that it seemed he could not have sustained +him. that’s a thing i hate! everything is possible.” +him that there would probably be an engagement that day or the next, and +him, though, between you and me, he always seemed to me a poor sort +him to come up; prince bagratión reined in his horse and recognizing +him to despatch part of the army abroad and to create a new condition +him to go back as it was too dangerous to remain where they were. +him. “what is this? they’re like sheep! just like sheep! out of the +hippolyte, and began looking through a lorgnette at his elevated legs. +hippolyte burst out laughing. +hippolyte gazing round with importance at the others, “without +hippolyte in the carriage, “your little princess is very nice, very +hippolyte is at least a quiet fool, but anatole is an active one. that +hippolyte “—so dull—. it has been a delightful evening, has it +hippolyte spluttered again, and amid his laughter said, “and you were +his arm. +his arm, began a long-drawn-out soldiers’ song, commencing with the +his boots. you can see everything from there; let’s go there, +his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. he spoke in that +his captain. +his career. moreover, he could see by her manners that she was one of +“his children are all illegitimate. i think pierre also is +his companion. the latter, a fresh, rosy officer of the guards, +his daughter, princess hélène, passed between the chairs, lightly +his door, which creaked slightly when opened. +his excitement. “don’t you understand that either we are officers +his eyes and thought he would never open them again. suddenly he was +his eyes seemed larger than usual when he glanced round and noticed +his face, began to talk—as one who has long had something on his mind +his face suddenly softened and tears came into his eyes. with his left +his father dismissed the abbé and said to the young man, “now go +his father’s part of the house. entering the drawing room, where the +his father who had brought it from the siege of ochákov. all these +his fieldglass. a little behind them nesvítski, who had been sent to +his glittering black eyes at rostóv. +his grave, even rather gloomy, look was instantaneously replaced by +his gray hair. +his hand over the thin grizzled strands of hair combed back across his +his hand prince andrew came up to his comrade, the aide-de-camp on duty, +his handsome face. natásha, very still, peered out from her ambush, +his head. +his highness the archduke ferdinand has honored me, i imagine that the +his horse keep pace with the company. +his horse with a convoy officer’s saddle. +his horse. zherkóv and the staff officer bent over their saddles and +his imaginary sword, but smiling at the remembrance of that pleasant, +his impulsive nature, does get into mischief (a boy can’t help it), he +his instinct urged him on. before the officer finished his sentence +his in the diplomatic service. +his kindly, simple, and modest expression. anna pávlovna turned toward +his legs. pressing against both sides of the window, he adjusted himself +his life. he walked about in front of the line and at every step pulled +his majesty; but we think the present delay is depriving the splendid +his majesty the emperor derogates from the principle of our alliance... +his mind that they would be friends. +his mouth awry, prepared to shout. the regiment fluttered like a bird +his mouth very clearly revealed something unexpectedly coarse and +his muscular legs as if sailing along, stretching himself to his full +his musket walked away. +his neighbors’ glasses, not neglecting his own. the countess in turn, +his noble soul peacefully to leave this...” +his nose. +his own helplessness. at sight of this smile pierre felt an unexpected +his own house. the minister of war came up and congratulated him on the +his plate round and moving his wineglasses about with as much decision +his pocketbook. +his portrait, “definitely demanded that he should be called.” +his private room and, calling his adjutant, asked for some papers +his reputation fighting them.” +his riding whip. +his rising. “this unfortunate fete at the ambassador’s deprives me +his room. +his rooms upstairs. +his routine, retired as usual after dinner. the little princess was in +his scanty gray hairs over his bald patch, also asked them to dinner. +his shoulders. +his shoulders. “women, my dear fellow; women!” +his skill?” he concluded. +his son only smiled. +his study and showed them his choice collection of turkish pipes. from +his suite, with their cossacks who were talking loudly together, prince +his temple, where an ismail bullet had pierced his skull, and the empty +his thin, worn, sallow face was covered with deep wrinkles, which always +historical accounts of battles, involuntarily pictured to himself the +his utmost to look as small as possible. he looked at the count, who +his weak figure. “number two!” he squeaked. “fire, medvédev!” +his wont, as if intentionally contrasting the briskness of his manners +his youngest boy, had all settled down in the drawing room and were +hitherto puckered brow became smooth as a sign of pleasure, and with a +hitting men and that afterwards someone had shouted “cavalry!” and +“hm... hm...” muttered the old prince to himself, finishing what he +“hm.... if you wish to kill him, to kill him outright, you can see +“ho! ho! ho! ha! ha! ha! ha! ouh! ouh!” came peals of such healthy +“ho, ho!” said the old man, casting his eyes on her rounded figure. +holding high her fifty-year-old head with its gray curls, she stood +holding the bottle was lifted higher and higher and trembled with the +holding up his saber, his spurs jingling, he ran up the steps of the +holding up the folds of her dress, and the smile shone still more +hollow and were firing at our men. prince bagratión bowed his head as a +hommes massacrés et l’armée de nos alliés détruite, et vous +honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in +hoofs, and apparently ready to jump over the railings had his rider let +“h-o-o-w are you standing? where’s your leg? your leg?” shouted +hope you will change your opinions, my dear monsieur pierre.” +horror and fear. all were still. pierre took his hands from his eyes. +horror-struck. but when she saw that pierre’s sacrilegious words + * hors d’oeuvres. +horse for which he had paid seven hundred rubbles was not worth half +horse, rode up to the porch, swung his leg over the saddle with a supple +horses near the window, prince andrew felt that something important and +horse still struggled. +horse—that i’ll warrant,” said shinshín, patting him on the +horse you’ll thank me for.” +hospitals could no longer accommodate all the sick and wounded, yet the +hostess look toward the door, and now and then glance at one another, +hostilities are ended, we can shake one another’s hand.... the +hour alone with the dying man, passed out, slightly acknowledging their +hour. suddenly the broad muscles and lines of the count’s face began +house and now managed all his affairs, stepped softly into the room. +house for your wife is ready. princess mary will take her there and +household. and there in fact was sónya lying face downward on nurse’s +house. though he expected that the story of his escapade would be +house was brilliant with lights shining through its lofty windows. the +house with prince bagratión and weyrother. weyrother was the austrian +house, you know, and danced with the children. be sure to invite him, my +“how about my son borís, prince?” said she, hurrying after him into +“how am i?” dólokhov answered coldly. “i am as you see.” +how bright and glorious was the setting sun! with what soft glitter the +“how can he talk like that?” thought pierre. he considered his +“how do you do, cousin?” said pierre. “you don’t recognize +“how do you do, my dear? i wish you many happy returns of your name +“how do you expect him to answer you all at once?” said prince +how do you judge of it?” he added, addressing nicholas, who when he +however, for he will leave us again to take part in this unhappy war +“however, there will hardly be an engagement today,” said bagratión +“how funny you are!” he said, bending down to her and blushing still +“how handsome the old man still was only a year ago!” remarked the +“how is it,” she began, as usual in french, settling down briskly +“how is the count? can i see him?” asked pierre, awkwardly as usual, +“how lovely!” said everyone who saw her; and the vicomte lifted his +“how many miles?” +how much anxiety one has had to go through that we might rejoice in +“how often have i asked you not to take my things?” she said. “you +“how plainly all these young people wear their hearts on their +“how’s it you’re not drunk today?” said nesvítski when the +“how’s this, colonel?” he shouted as he approached. “i told you +how stupid you men all are not to have married her! excuse me for saying + how sweet, as fancies wander free, +“how thoroughly like him that is!” he said to princess mary, who had +how to arrange it. what do you think?” +how to escape?” +how we went to the sparrow hills with madame jacquot?... it’s such an +how you look at things! send two men? and who then would give us the +humiliation of arrogant austria and that in a week’s time he might, +hum with voices. on all sides soldiers were running to and fro, throwing +hungarian?” said the commander with an austere gibe. +hungry, exhausted men would have to detain for days the whole enemy army +hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers + hurrah for emperor alexander!” +hurriedly unclasped his hands, stopped at a table as if tying the +hurriedly up to the unknown general and blocking his way to the door. +hurried off to his company, buttoning up his coat as he ran. +hurrying past them. +husband. +husband. prince andrew’s eyes were closed, so weary and sleepy did he +hussar and began lifting him. +hussar, “and why are you exciting yourself? do you think the french +hussar cornet zherkóv had at one time, in petersburg, belonged to +hussars began carefully aligning their horses. silence fell on the whole +hussars, but still with that naïve air that made it impossible to know +hussars, cossacks, and adjutants, in his camlet coat, as he jolted on +hussars hastily dismounted, not knowing what they were to do. the men +“i...” +“i also wanted to ask you,” continued prince andrew, “if i’m +i always stick to mother truth. it’s not right!” +i am afraid of him.” +“i am afraid of mixing the figures,” pierre replied; “but if you +“i am awaiting orders to join my new regiment, your excellency,” +i am dissatisfied with your younger son? between ourselves” (and her +“i am expecting you, pierre,” said the same voice, but gently and +“i am fond of you, especially as you are the one live man among our +“i am glad i have spoken out fully. perhaps you did not like it? you +“i am glad i was able to do you a service, my dear anna +“i am going away.” +“i am living at countess rostóva’s,” replied borís, again +“i am not jesting,” bilíbin went on. “nothing is truer or sadder. +“i am not jesting with you; please be silent!” cried bolkónski, +“i am not speaking of regicide, i am speaking about ideas.” +“i am not your ‘dear sir,’ mr. staff officer, and you did not tell +“i am ordered to write a memorandum explaining why we are not +“i am quite of your opinion,” replied nicholas, flaming up, turning +“i am so enchanted by the brilliancy of the wit and culture of the +i am sorry for that,” he went on. +“i am so sorry for the poor count,” said the visitor. “he is in +“i am speaking sincerely as a friend! consider! where and why are +“i am speaking ze truce,” replied the hussar with a smile. +i am to do; i wanted to consult you seriously.” +i am told.” +“i am very glad i did not go to the ambassador’s,” said prince +“i am very sorry, ma’am,” answered the maid. +“i am very, very grateful to you, mon cher,” or “ma chère”—he +“i am your faithful slave and to you alone i can confess that my +“i bet a hundred on stevens!” shouted one. +“i bet fifty imperials”—he spoke french that the englishman might +“i bet on dólokhov!” cried a third. “kurágin, you part our +i cannot agree with you about pierre, whom i knew as a child. he always +“i cannot argue about it,” replied prince andrew coldly, but he +i cannot find words to express to you my displeasure. you command only +“i cannot inform your majesty at what o’clock the battle began at +i can’t...” +“i can’t bear the sight of that woman.” +“i can tell you more,” continued prince vasíli, seizing her hand, +“i can’t help it,” said the prince. “lavater would have said i +“i can’t. i’ve sworn not to. i won’t drink and won’t play till +“i can’t make out at all,” said nesvítski. +i can’t,” replied bolkónski, smiling. +“ice pudding, but you won’t get any,” said márya dmítrievna. +“i come from the archduchess’. i heard nothing there.” +“i confess i do not understand: perhaps there are diplomatic +i confess i understand very little about all these matters of wills and +i consider it my duty to let you know of it. he is said to be very +i could not have done it myself, i should not have had the courage, but +“i did not expect this of you,” said the staff captain seriously and +“i did not... what is it all about?” inquired prince andrew +idiot!... but what’s the good?...” and he waved his arm. +idlers have failed to beat the germans. since the world began everybody +“i’d like to put you on a two days’ march with a knapsack! your +“i do not think i have complained of my wife to you, másha, or blamed +“i don’t at all say that all the plans are good,” said prince +“i don’t even know what is in this paper,” said the younger of +“i don’t know, general....” +“i don’t like your mademoiselle bourienne at all,” said prince +“i don’t like you to talk like that.” +“i don’t myself know ‘to who,’” replied the cornet in a +“i don’t say it’s a plan i approve of,” said the son; “i am +i don’t speak of anatole, your youngest. i don’t like him,” she +“i don’t understand it,” replied prince andrew. “women who are +“i don’t understand, mamma—what is his attitude to pierre?” +“i don’t understand!” said prince andrew. +“i don’t understand. what’s it all about?” +i don’t want to have you like our silly ladies. get used to it and +if all the powers of his soul were concentrated on passing the commander +“if anyone comes meddling again,” said he, emitting the words +if a soldier, he should be dressed in regulation uniform like the +“if at least we had some women here; but there’s nothing foh one +“if buonaparte remains on the throne of france a year longer,” the +if but one stage nearer znaim. the offer of a truce gave the only, and +“if he” (he meant the enemy) “begins popping at the bridge now,” +if he intended to say something, but immediately, with affected +“if he is better, ask pierre to dine with us. he has been to the +“if he is one of the ordinary little staff dandies sent to earn a +if, however, the emperor of russia ratifies that convention, i will +if in search of something. on his way to the aunt he bowed to the little +“if it does not weigh a hundredweight and won’t break my neck... +if it is to last. prince vasíli knew this, and having once realized +“if it were not for my sincere affection and devotion to uncle,” +“if it were true that he has been beaten, news would have come.” +“if i were tsar i would never go to war,” said nesvítski, turning +“if no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no +if not it is merely a question of settling where the preliminaries of +“if only i knew that anything besides humiliation would come of +if the whole world had gone crazy.” +“if they had known that you wished it, the entertainment would have +if to say that this was no more than she had expected. +“if we get to vienna i’ll get rid of it there but in these wretched +“if we live we shall see,” replied bilíbin, his face again becoming +“if you had told me sooner, mamma, i would have gone,” she replied +“if you have nothing better to do, count (or prince), and if the +“if you, sir, choose to make a buffoon of yourself,” he said +if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that +i get reinstated.” +“i have.” +“i have already told you, papa,” said his son, “that if you +“i have come with my mother to see the count, but it seems he is not +“i have four sons in the army but still i don’t fret. it is all +i have had a letter from my brother, who announces his speedy arrival +“i haven’t been in the room. it must be where you put it.” +“i have said nothing to you, but you have already been talked to. and +“i have seen as much before now, mate!” +“i have the honor to congratulate you. general mack has arrived, quite +“i have the honor to present myself,” repeated prince andrew rather +i have written that he should make use of you in proper places and not +“i hear you have given orders to harness,” she cried, panting (she +“i hope this will prove the last drop that will make the glass run +“i knew someone who received that sacrament seven times.” +“i knew the princess at once,” put in mademoiselle bourienne. +“i knew you would be here,” replied pierre. “i will come to supper +“i know, i know,” answered prince vasíli in his monotonous voice. +“i know,” interrupted bilíbin, “you’re thinking it’s very +“i know it and shall prove it,” said rostóv. +“i know, my dear, kind princess,” said anna mikháylovna, seizing +“i know that no one can help if nature does not do her work,” said +“i know the will was made, but i also know that it is invalid; +“i know who has taken it,” repeated rostóv in an unsteady voice, +“i know your heart,” repeated the prince. “i value your friendship +“i’ll drink it! let’s have a bottle of rum!” shouted pierre, +illegitimate.” +i’ll find you another place.” +“i’ll flatten you into a pancake!” shouted the angry officer to +i’ll flog you all.” +ill! i was only there a few moments and hardly said a word...” +“i’ll let two more letters pass, but the third i’ll read,” said +ill luck takes us. they say we are going to olmütz, and olmütz is a +“illness or not, he’d better not cwoss my path. i’d kill him!” +illness. prince vasíli said something to lorrain in passing and went +“i’ll really call in on the nuns,” he said to the officers who +“i’ll show you, i’ll show you! it’s not a secret. and it’s a +ill-suited to the family circle of which pierre was almost a member. +imagined only important possibilities: “if the enemy attacks the right +imagine that their children have no secrets from them. “i know i shall +“i’m glad,” answered dólokhov briefly and clearly, as the song +“i’m glad, glad, to see you,” he said, looking attentively into +immediately.” +immediately brightened on seeing rostóv. “schön gut morgen! schön +immediately broke off. the door of the private room opened and kutúzov +“immediately, prince,” said kozlóvski. “dispositions for +immense force upon kutúzov’s line of communication with the troops +immobile for a few moments. then wrinkles ran over his face like a wave +“i’m not to blame that the conversation began in the presence of +impassive face of oriental type, came out after the commander in chief. +impassive face?” prince andrew asked himself as he looked. prince +impatience, while the princess jumped up and with a gesture of +impatiently. +impatiently, “i came here not to wrangle with you, but to talk about +imperials ... or do you wish to make it a hundred?” added he, +importance of the rite now being performed and even approved of it. he +important post in vienna. both the foreign minister and our ambassador +important. what is important are the rights of man, emancipation from +impossible...” +“impossible!” cried prince andrew. “that would be too base.” +impossible not to notice his face. dólokhov was a man of small means +impossible to stop him, she rallied her forces and joined the vicomte in +impression. “but that is a matter of perfect indifference to me,” he +impression his news of a victory would create, or recalling the send-off +impressions of the recent battle, picturing pleasantly to himself the +impressively, blocking the way to the bedroom and preventing the other +improvement. his satire has been less bitter of late, and there was a +“i’m quite worn out by these callers. however, i’ll see her and +“i must have that purse, i tell you,” shouted denísov, shaking his +i myself have experienced ... and so ... because ... no, excuse me! +inability to enter a room and converse in it was, however, redeemed by +in accord with his intentions. prince andrew noticed, however, that +inactive and has left the university to join the army. i will confess to +inactive, would also soon have to meet the enemy. +in amazement. +“in a minute, in a minute,” he said, dipping his pen. +“in a moment. À propos,” she added, becoming calm again, “i am +in a moment the men came running gaily from their campfires and began +“in an hour’s time, i should say.” +inappropriate, she was unable to stop him. +in a tone only used by persons who are certain that those they call will +in attaching himself as an orderly officer to prince bagratión. he now +inaudible, voice. +“in a word, a hearty one...” said the subaltern, laughing (the +in bonaparte’s address to his army at the beginning of the campaign, +in brünn everybody attached to the court was packing up, and the heavy +incessantly, repeating petersburg reminiscences and even phrases. prince +in chief, and from the noisy laughter of the cossacks holding the +in chief would be. though the aide-de-camp did not know these +in clean notes, was lying ready under a handkerchief on the countess’ +indication of something new and stern showed round the mouth. +indifference, began to hum to himself, producing a queer sound which +indifferent hands of the minister of war and the polite adjutant. the +indifferently to his wife’s chatter with prince hippolyte who had also +indiscretion, nodded and said: “i hope to see you again, but i also +indistinct words, shrugging his shoulders and gesticulating. +“i never could understand how nataly made up her mind to marry that +inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. but you are +in exactly the same manner. nesvítski laughed and nudged the others to +infamous, vile woman!” +inflammable material on the bridge must be reinspected.” +influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized +informed him of a victory and stated strategically the position of the +“inform the prince that i the bridge fired!” said the colonel +in french out of all this, showing all the news we have had of the +in front of them rows of gray cloaks were already visible through the +“in general we must turn this bloodthirsty soldier to more humane +in geometry were among the greatest delights of her life. +in god’s hands. you may die in your bed or god may spare you in a +ingratiating and appealing smile, and took his hand that he might not go +inhabitants on whom they were quartered. braunau was the headquarters of +in half an hour all was again in order, only the squares had become gray +inheritance; but i do know that since this young man, whom we all used +in his horse, said to him: +in his movements, in his walk, scarcely a trace was left of his former +in his saddle. +in his tone, “my dear,” whether they were above or below him in +in his voice a sincerity and weakness pierre had never observed in it +in his writing table, and this is a paper he has forgotten....” +in.’ i do not know how far he was justified in saying so.” +injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing +in killed, wounded, sick, and stragglers; though a number of sick and +in lace-frilled drawers, and feet in low slippers—was just at that +inner laboratory of his mind in a portable form as if intentionally, so +innocent and untried?” +in no way binding) might give time for part of the transport to pass, +in october, 1805, a russian army was occupying the villages and towns of +in one company dinner was ready, and the soldiers were gazing eagerly +in only his stockings, rose when they entered, smiling not altogether +in passing prince vasíli seized pierre’s hand and said to anna +in perplexity, and only later grasped that a stroke was an attack of +in petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day +in princess drubetskáya’s case he felt, after her second appeal, +inquiringly at the young prince, wondering what would follow. +inquiry. the son noticed that an expression of profound sorrow suddenly +in retirement and had now no influence in political affairs, every high +in separate piles, began counting them. +in society it seems as if there were something in them, but there’s +insolent intelligence of his eyes, produced an effect which made it +insoluble. +in some way essential. +in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the austrian +in spite of the animation of his speech, bilíbin did not forget to +instantly dropped them again. all the blood which had seemed congested +instead of black. the regimental commander walked with his jerky steps +in step, and each one of these hundreds of soldiers seemed to be +instrument he could not begin to speak. +intellectual pride,” said the princess, following the train of her own +intelligent, and resolute young man. +intelligent, how is it you don’t see that if the count has written a +intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously. the general looked the +intending to rest if but for a moment, eat something, and try to sort +intends to expose his precious person to the chances of war. god grant +intention should he try to direct his whole force against our faithful +intercourse with young women. +interested the minister of war less than any of the other matters he was +interesting.” +interesting but hardly feasible.” +interests,” said bilíbin. +interfere, making a scene on the very threshold of a dying man’s room? +interrupting one another and mingling with the rustling of dresses and +in the afternoon, having made all his calls, he was returning to +in the baggage train he had passed that morning on the znaim road seven +in the best possible manner, and feeling that he was doing it well he +in the country.” +in the count’s room, which was full of tobacco smoke, they talked +in the dining room, which like all the rooms in the house was +in the drawing room the conversation was still going on. +in the drawing room, waiting for borís to come out. she was already +in the garden, or superintending the building that was always going on +in the house was done in haste at that time), and pierre and anna +in the light of the dull autumn evening, mounted men coming toward him. +in the meadow behind the village, three of them are dragging something. +in the midst of a conversation on political matters anna pávlovna burst +in the midst of the third écossaise there was a clatter of chairs being +in the military profession, so to an even greater extent bilíbin gave +in the morning anna mikháylovna said to pierre: +in the passage denísov, with a pipe, was squatting on the threshold +in the same order in which they had entered but with redder faces, the +in the same tone. +in the same tone. +in the second room of the inn the lieutenant was sitting over a dish of +in the small circular room. around the table all who were at count +in the sutler’s hut without his boots.” he recognized the agreeable, +in the viennese drawing rooms and often had an influence on matters +in this part of the house and did not even know of the existence of +in this room it was almost dark; only two tiny lamps were burning before +into a careless, merry smile. “what am i? an illegitimate son!” +“into action! into action! bring him a bottle for such news! but how +into borís’ eyes. after he had gone pierre continued pacing up and +into her radiant smile. +in too”—different voices were saying in the crowd, as the men looked +into step with a hop, looked back angrily, and through the ominous +into the distance, at the waters of the danube, at the sky, and at the +in to the minister of war. five minutes later he returned and bowing +into the naïvely symmetrical pose of an egyptian statue, evidently +into which we have been drawn, god knows how or why. not only where you +intriguer!” she hissed viciously, and tugged with all her might at the +invalid chair, a wax taper in his left hand, was leaning his left arm on +invalid,” said anna pávlovna, exchanging an alarmed glance with her +in vienna knew him and valued him. he was not one of those many +invincibility of the french, and the minister of war does not even care +invitation to anna pávlovna’s reception and had sat listening to +involuntarily came closer to him. +involuntarily, so much so that the only thing left to do seemed to be +in which kutúzov entrusted them to the humanity of the enemy; and +“i often think,” she continued after a short pause, drawing nearer +“i often think, though, perhaps it’s a sin,” said the princess, +“i recognize you only too well, too well.” +“i rely on you, my dear,” said anna pávlovna, also in a low tone. +“i request you to have the goodness to change your coat,” he said as +ironical voice. +irrepressible hatred. +irreproachably washed, brushed, and buttoned, held his pipe in the +irritation. +is all i have to say to you. the count is very, very ill, and you must +is a mob of scoundrels and not an army,” he was thinking as he went +is an admirable book which calms and elevates the soul. adieu! give +“i saw you riding this morning...” he added. +“i say, come round some evening and we’ll have a game of faro!” +“i say, fédeshon!... did he say when the battles are to begin? you +“i say so,” he continued desperately, “because the bourbons fled +“i say, this is folly! he’ll be killed,” said this more sensible +is betraying us! russia alone must save europe. our gracious sovereign +is connected with the montmorencys through the rohans, one of the best +is going as a cadet. there’s no one to interest himself for him. to +“i shall always remember that in this world one must expect no reward, +“i shall at any rate not run after a young man before visitors...” +“i shall be delighted to meet them,” said the prince. “but +i shall be in a more prominent position,” continued berg, “and +i shall be very charmed to see you tonight between 7 and 10—annette +“i shall probably die before you. so remember, these are my memoirs; +“i shall scarcely be able to avail myself of your hospitality, +“i should like,” said the vicomte, “to ask how monsieur explains +“i should like to go to kurágin’s,” thought he. +“i should like to speak well of them, but as far as i know the facts, +“i should think he has a score of them.” +“i should think not,” said véra, “because there can never be +“‘i showed them the path to glory, but they did not follow +is how i explain it to myself. it can’t be helped!” +“is it certain?” she said. +“is it possible?” exclaimed anna mikháylovna. “oh, how awful! +“is it true that austrians have been beaten?” asked dólokhov. +“is it worth while noticing trifles?” he reined in his horse with +is my witness,” and she made the sign of the cross, “i love her so +is not so, then...” +is now rushing along the road to brünn and will be here in a day or +“isn’t she too young? i have heard that it harms the voice to train +is pua’ as on the fihst day of cweation... who’s that now? send him +is so i don’t know...” +“is that mary practicing? let’s go quietly and take her by +“is the englishman bragging?... eh? is it all right?” said anatole. +is the only difference between them.” he said this smiling in a way +“is there sufficient forage in krems?” +“is this the way to the princesses’ apartments?” asked anna +“i still can’t understand what you are afraid of,” said prince +is to take care of yourself. leave it to those who are no longer fit for +is very unhappy with her father. she is a relation of yours, princess +it?” +italian: “‘dio mi l’ha dato. guai a chi la tocchi!’’ +italian to give her lessons.” +“it all depends on the bringing up,” remarked the visitor. +it all very well for prince vasíli told me himself. besides, cyril +italy and on the rhine; how fifty thousand russians and as many english +it. and he is so clever and so good!” said natásha. “don’t +it and saw telyánin’s horse at the porch. +it...” answered her son coldly. “but i have promised and will do it +it at that age.” +it. but at that moment an adjutant galloped up with a message from the +it can’t be a square—for they are not drawn up for that.” +it can’t be helped!” said the count, shrugging his shoulders and +it, easily find a way to prepare for the enemy the fate he deserves. +i tell you buonaparte was a great tactician? here, he says the same +“i tell you,” shouted denísov, “he’s a fine fellow.” +it escape from his handsome mouth in rings. this was lieutenant berg, an +it. feel in your pockets.” +it had appeared. the count sat on the sofa between two guests who were +it had the commander in chief continued to look at him, and so kutúzov, +“it has begun. here it is!” thought prince andrew, feeling the +“i... that’s different. why speak of me? i don’t want any other +“i think,” said the prince with a smile, “that if you had been +“i thought perhaps something had happened,” she said with her +“i thought today’s fete had been canceled. i confess all these +it is a bit of mack. we are macked),” he concluded, feeling that he +“it is an illness, there’s no other way of explaining it,” said +“it is dreadful, dreadful!” she was saying, “but cost me what it + it is for thee thus swells her heart, +“it is for the reasson, my goot sir,” said he, speaking with a +it is for you to talk or think of such matters. it is no easier for +it is. my dear pet!” +“it is now my turn to ask you ‘why?’ mon cher,” said bolkónski. +it is said ‘there are thieves among the pávlograd officers!’ but +it is terrible to think.... this is my son,” she added, indicating +“it is the buonapartists who say that,” replied the vicomte without +“it is very good of you, monsieur pierre, to come and visit a poor +“it is very strange, mon monsieur prince,” said the staff officer. +it is. you must know. we will take it at once and show it to the +“it’ll be worse for you. bogdánich is vindictive and you’ll pay +it’ll be worse if he fires the bridge. see, here’s an officer jammed +“it may be treachery,” said prince andrew, vividly imagining the +it necessary to introduce himself, and without experiencing the least +it, on the crest of the opposite hill, the village of schön grabern +it, or why it had to be told in russian, still anna pávlovna and the +it,’” prince andrew continued after a short silence, again quoting +“it’s a bad business, eh?” +“it’s a bad business,” said the general without answering him, +“it’s all about the war,” the count shouted down the table. “you +“it’s all over; but i am a coward—yes, a coward!” thought +“it’s all the fault of these fellows on the staff that there’s +“it’s all very well for you... i am not envious... i love you and + “it’s a long, long way. +“it’s ancient history,” said another, guessing that it referred to +“it’s a shame for a soldier to steal; a soldier must be honest, +“it’s as if a dam had burst,” said the cossack hopelessly. “are +it’s as if it had been done on purpose, on purpose. besides, suppose +“it’s different on different days,” answered the captain. “one +it seemed quite natural that they should cry, and apparently it never +“it seems funny to me,” said pierre, “that you, you should +“it seems that while he was abroad this young man was allowed to do +itself?” +“it’s empty.” +its handsome, sensual mouth, and its cold, majestic expression, was +“it’s in the inlaid portfolio that he keeps under his pillow,” +its last march the day before—presented a well-ordered array of two +it’s not all the same to us! am i not right, denísov? it’s not the +“it’s not at all from friendship,” declared nicholas, flaring +“it’s not going to be a ghost story?” said he, sitting down beside +“it’s nothing, nothing; leave me alone!” sobbed sónya. +“it’s nothing,” replied prince andrew. +it’s not pleasant, but what’s to be done, my dear fellow? you landed +“it’s not there.” +“it’s not true!” +it’s splendid. i am very glad to have made your acquaintance. it’s +“it’s that protégé of yours, that sweet princess drubetskáya, +it’s too late now when vienna is occupied by the french army!” +it. telyánin took the purse and began carelessly slipping it into the +it timidly and tenderly on her son’s arm, “be affectionate and +it under the terms of the project gutenberg license included with this +it under your head like a treasure,” said rostóv. “i put it just +“it von’t go begging,” replied the german with a smile. +“it was all they could do to rescue the poor man,” continued the +it was already quite dark when prince andrew rattled over the paved +it was a warm, rainy, autumnal day. the wide expanse that opened out +it was evident that he did not like the vicomte and was aiming his +it was evident that he performed his duty as a subordinate with even +it was evident that prince andrew was not interested in such abstract +it was, in fact, solely to meet prince vasíli that she had obtained an +it was in july, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known anna pávlovna +it was just the moment before a big dinner when the assembled guests, +it was past one o’clock when pierre left his friend. it was a +it was plain that this “well?” referred to much that they both +it was pleasant and touching to see these little girls in love; but +it was st. natalia’s day and the name day of two of the rostóvs—the +it was true that a view over nearly the whole russian position and the +it won’t be your skirmishing at dürrenstein, or gunpowder at all, +“it would not be turned off the field even on the tsarítsin +it!’ ‘yes, let’s!’ say the others. and off they go and take the +ivánovich. he is in a very bad humor, very morose. be prepared.” +ivánovich (who always went into a corner to blow his nose on his +“i’ve been sent back to the regiment all on account of that devil, +“i’ve come to say good-by.” +“i’ve seen him myself!” +“i want a great deal, count! i want five hundred rubles,” and taking +“i want to know!” +“i want to teach this young man how to shoe a horse,” said +“i was attached; i’m on duty.” +“i was going to ask you. i know nothing except that it was all i could +i was saying, prince vasíli is the next heir through his wife, but the +“i was told a charming moscow story today and must treat you to it. +“i will allow no one to call me a liar!” cried rostóv. “he told +“i will do it all, father,” he said. +“i will,” replied natásha. +“i will the bridge fire,” he said in a solemn tone as if to announce +“i will, your excellency,” said timókhin, showing by his smile that +“i wished to get a nap, mon cousin, but i can’t.” +“i wonder, is it not too late to administer unction?” asked the +jabbering! fine, isn’t it? it’s all the frenchy can do to keep up +jacket. +“jacob, bring a bottle!” shouted the host, a tall, handsome fellow +jerked away his plate, which tíkhon briskly caught. “suvórov!... +jests and gossip. +jest was unacceptable and had not come off. he grew confused. +jingling sound it presented arms. then amidst a dead silence the +joined kutúzov at braunau now separated from the russian army, and +joins the allies, austria’s hand will be forced and there will be war. +joke, and purposely trying to appear stupider than he really was. +jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a french battalion gets to +jolted over the stony road. some of them were talking (he heard russian +jovial old gentleman, who standing beside his tall and stout partner, +joyful, but an animal, squirrel-like expression. she paused as if she +joy to give my franz a thaler, or let him go with his liebchen to the +julie +julie wrote in french: +jumped down. he smelt strongly of rum. +junction advisable, meant, among other arguments in support of his view, +just above his ear. +just as at ulm... it is...”—he seemed to be trying to find the right +just as he was going to open it the sounds ceased, the door opened, and +just as prince andrew met nesvítski and zherkóv, there came toward +just as prince andrew was a young man who gave promise of rising high +just as the architect, gardener, or princess mary did, till the prince +just as the mother and son, having reached the middle of the hall, were +just come out of a hot bath.” +just completed. he lay with his head propped high on the pillows. his +“just look at the master! a regular eagle he is!” loudly remarked +just returned from abroad where he had been educated, and this was his +“just see, the german sausage is making tracks, too!” +“just see where it carries to!” a soldier near by said sternly, +just then a closed carriage and another with a hood drove up to the +just then another visitor entered the drawing room: prince andrew +just then zherkóv entered the room. +“just to flutter the nuns a bit. they say there are italian girls +just under the icons; his large thick hands outside the quilt. into the +just visible behind a screen. a small dog began to bark. +kaiser alexander hoch!” *(2) said he, quoting words often repeated by +karl give no signs of life and make blunder after blunder. kutúzov +keep from laughter provoked by a swarthy hussar officer who walked +keeping pierre close beside her, entered the room even more boldly than +keep you long as an adjutant: a bad position! tell him i remember +kept looking round toward the drawing room door. it opened and nicholas +kept turning his horse in front of the squadron. +killed and if i have a son, do not let him be taken away from you—as i +kind, because he has been a benefactor to them both. as sterne says: +kindhearted, and because they—friends from childhood—had to think +“kind...ly let—them—pass!” +“kindly let this cart pass. don’t you see it’s a woman?” said +“kindly return to your posts,” said the staff officer trying to +kindly, smiling, handsome face and moist eyes. nesvítski could hardly +kindness!” he turned to go. +kind of talk, and at last all stopped. as often happens, the horses of +kind relation. but, nataly, you know my love for my son: i would do +kinds overtaking one another and blocking the muddy road, three and +king francis is not much delighted by your victory. even i, a poor +kírsten. the staff captain on his broad-backed, steady mare came at a +kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, +kissing each other on the face, and then to prince andrew’s surprise +“kiss me here,” and he touched his cheek: “thanks, thanks!” +“kiss the doll,” said she. +kitten which promises to become a beautiful little cat. she evidently +knapsacks, bayonets, long muskets, and, under the shakos, faces with +knees, some squatting turkish fashion on the wet grass. +knee with the palm of his hand. +knew....” +knew what those society women are, and women in general! my father is +knocked three of them over. +know his character: noble, upright ... but you see he has no one with +know how fond the count is of her.” +know how to dance, had liked sitting in this room to watch the ladies +know how to deal with them.” +know how to equip borís.” she took out her handkerchief and began to +know how to express it ... not by a balance of political power....” +knowledge. +know my son’s going, márya dmítrievna? my son is going.” +known as la femme la plus séduisante de pétersbourg, * was also there. +know that ourselves!” another, without looking round, as though +know! the prussians are up in arms now. the austrians, you see, are +“know this, másha: i can’t reproach, have not reproached, and never +know what it is to be left a widow without means and with a son you love +know yourself that last winter the count made a will by which he left +kozlóvski were squatting on the floor by a tub so near to the commander +kozlóvski, who was sitting at the window with a book. +“kurágin is exquisite when he discusses politics—you should see his +kurágin was expecting the usual set for cards that evening, after which + *kutúzov. +kutúzov bowed with the same smile. +kutúzov chose this latter course. +kutúzov did not reply. he seemed to have forgotten what he had been +kutúzov fell back toward vienna, destroying behind him the bridges over +kutúzov, he was sent immediately with a special dispatch to brünn. +kutúzov ... recommend borís to him as adjutant! then i shall be at +kutúzov’s expectations that the proposals of capitulation (which were +kutúzov’s face as he stood in the open doorway remained perfectly +kutúzov sighed deeply on finishing this paragraph and looked at the +kutúzov’s whole army. to be able to crush it absolutely he awaited +kutúzov turned away. the same smile of the eyes with which he had +kutúzov walked slowly and languidly past thousands of eyes which were +kutúzov walked through the ranks, sometimes stopping to say a few +kutúzov was left with only his own weak and exhausted forces. the +kutúzov went out into the porch with bagratión. +kutúzov, whom he had overtaken in poland, had received him very kindly, +kutúzov with his eagle nose and puffy face appeared in the doorway. +“la balance y est... * a german knows how to skin a flint, as the +lackeys who care nothing for their master’s business. quarante mille +lack the bump of paternity.” +ladies’ end an even chatter of voices was heard all the time, at the +lad jumped awkwardly back into the room, tripping over his spurs. +lady, adding the priest’s clerical title, as if she had no opinion of +lady visitor. +“la femme est la compagne de l’homme,” * announced prince +language: english +larger circle. +lashes, thick black plaits coiling twice round her head, and a tawny +last deciding seriously to prove to this youth how foolish his words +last long? it’s all the club and his easygoing nature. even in the +last moments by not letting him commit this injustice, and not to let +last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which +last updated: january 21, 2019 +late in starting her practice on the clavichord, went into the sitting +lathe?” asked prince andrew with a scarcely perceptible smile which +latter threw up his arms in surprise saying it was nowhere to be found +laugh. +laugh. and they, too, passed on, so that nesvítski did not learn who +laughed. +laughed. “i dreamed last night...”—“you were not expecting +laughed spasmodically as he stood in the porch waiting for the vicomte +laughed. “véra’s spiteful; never mind her! and all will come right +laughing. +laughter led by natásha. both partners stood still, breathing heavily +laughter that convulsed his usually impassive features. +laughter, the shouting of familiar voices, the growling of a bear, and +lavrúshka turned all the bedding over, looked under the bed and under +“lavwúska!” he shouted loudly and angrily, “take it off, +laws of its divine saviour, who preached love and forgiveness of +lay in the general progress of the war. when he saw mack and heard the +leader, called les nôtres. * this set, consisting almost exclusively of +leaf, gave it to kozlóvski, stepped quickly to the window, and threw +leaning his elbow on his knee and covering his face with his hand. after +learning that he was a special messenger led him to another entrance. +learning, was well brought up, and had a pleasant voice; what she said +least disconcerted by this reception. he had just entered, wearing an +leave me alone with him!” +le charmant hippolyte was surprising by his extraordinary resemblance +left...” a fat major skirted a bush, puffing and falling out of +left bank of the danube and took up a position for the first time +left but to die?” he thought. “well, if need be, i shall do it no +left him, rubbing his small white hands. +left like this. every moment is precious. i can’t think why his nieces +left the chair on which he had been leaning, and—with an air +legal heir to everything and you won’t get anything. you must know, +legs, looked directly at prince vasíli with no sign of emotion in her +lemarrois had just arrived at a gallop with bonaparte’s stern letter, +length portrait of catherine the great. the same people were still +leonine head. this head, with its remarkably broad brow and cheekbones, +lesson, was about to leave: “mathematics are most important, madam! +less than you do, but be a man!” +“let go, i tell you! i will take the responsibility. i myself will go +let her know.” +“let him do it, let him do it,” said dólokhov, smiling. +“let’s come, quick, quick!” and with a glance round, she smiled at +letter are not destroyed, then you will have nothing but the consolation +letters that had come from the archduke ferdinand, who was in command of +letter to murat: +letter to the emperor begging him to recognize pierre as legitimate, it +“let them pass, i tell you!” repeated prince andrew, compressing his +let themselves be tricked at the crossing of the vienna bridge, you are +letting yourself be tricked by an aide-de-camp of the emperor. +“let us go and have supper,” he said with a sigh, going to the door. +“let us go, iván lukích,” he said to the captain. +“let us go ourselves. i only came round to ask denísov about +“let us go to her, i must say good-by. or—go and wake and i’ll +“liberty and equality,” said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at +liberty not to believe me and i don’t even care whether you do or +lid, drew out a drawer, and took out an exercise book filled with his +lieutenant general, our dear prince auersperg von mautern himself. +life, all alone—for papa is always busy, and i... well, you know what +life, and can’t, for i know no other. but think, andrew: for a young +life guards, who had been losing that evening, climbed on the window +life, he felt an unaccountable tenderness for this young man and made up +“lift it two lines more and it will be just right,” cried he in a +light blue viennese calèche, slightly creaking on its springs and drawn +lighted mirrors which repeated their reflections several times. now +light. it was evident that the more lifeless he seemed at ordinary +lightly, more lightly, and yet more lightly whirled the count, flying +lights of shops, houses, and street lamps, fine carriages, and all that +like a bird than a man.” +like a child, he fell into a deep, youthful slumber. +liked to. he looked inquiringly at his monitress and saw that she was +liked to tell him. he gathered up the papers and with a bow to both, +likes her way of reading. she reads to him in the evenings and reads +like that six months ago?” +like these if one has any feeling?” said anna pávlovna. “you are +line and that of the enemy were far apart on the right and left flanks, +line followed them across and the last cossacks quitted the farther side +linen shirt unfastened in front. “wait a bit, you fellows.... here is +line—the officers had been unable to keep sight-seers away. the +lingered for a moment. +lips. +“lise, i beg you to desist,” said prince andrew still more +“lise!” said prince andrew dryly, raising his voice to the pitch +lise sighed too. +lise? take her to your room and i’ll go to father. how is he? just the +“lise!” was all prince andrew said. but that one word expressed +lise, young bolkónski’s wife, this very evening, and perhaps the +“listen, dear annette,” said the prince, suddenly taking anna +listened attentively. his favorite occupation when not playing boston, a +listened, refraining from a reply, and involuntarily wondered how this +listening to bilíbin he was already imagining how on reaching the army +“listen!” said he; “don’t worry about your wife: what can be +listen to his tale. +“listen to me, prince,” said she. “i have never yet asked you +listen, while waiting till it would be time to leave. her task was +lit room adjoining the count’s reception room. it was one of those +little fingers. “all right! then it’s settled?” +little frenchy, successful only because there were no longer any +little princess. +little princess, and having asked for a needle began tracing the condé +little princess, shrugging her shoulders. +little table, and anna mikháylovna noticed that something was agitating +little towns there’s nowhere to spend it,” said he. “well, let me +little waves of the enns, which rippling and eddying round the piles of +little while, felt as if they too were becoming, like her, full of life +lively disposition, bent over her frame to hide a smile probably evoked +lively little girl’s look made him inclined to laugh without knowing +livery, get up behind the carriage, and come with me while i make some +loading. +locality and surroundings—fruit gardens, stone fences, tiled roofs, +loftiness of soul. she has refused to evacuate malta. she wanted to +london—could pronounce pitt’s sentence, he saw a well-built and +“long ago,” answered rostóv, “i have already been for the hay, +longer and went on, between gasps of laughter: “and the whole world +longer to hinder them but because the guns were trained and there was +look at me,” cried denísov who, unable to keep still on one spot, +“look at papa!” shouted natásha to the whole company, and quite +“look at papa!” though as it was they never took their eyes off the +looked as clean and well washed as the tips of one’s fingers after a +looked at telyánin. the lieutenant was looking about in his usual way +looked like tradespeople, ran hurriedly from the entrance and hid in the +looked straight at his adjutant’s face without recognizing him. +looked very thoughtful and tender. with his hands behind him he paced +look for her. +looking at her own handsome face she seemed to become still colder and +looking at his watch. +looking at pierre. “at the present time it is difficult to know the +looking at the ground, he came on some sticky, trodden mud, stumbled, +looking at the puff from the gun that had sent the ball. his eyes +looking at those driving past as if he pitied all who were not at that +looking down at the waters of the enns under the bridge, nesvítski +looking like something between a cart, a cabriolet, and a calèche. +looking round at the sound. +looking with dismay at her husband. +“look! look there!” one soldier was saying to another, pointing to a +“look, prince,” said another, who would have dearly liked to take +“look sharp! look sharp!” several voices repeated around him. +lorrain considered. +lorrain, pursing up his lips, waved a severely negative finger before +lorrain’s instructions. the german doctor went up to lorrain. +losing confidence in its allies, suffering from shortness of supplies, +lost....” and prince hippolyte began to tell his story in such russian +lost count of his children, but this pierre was his favorite.” +loudly, handing kutúzov an envelope. +loud that those in the drawing room heard her and were startled. “why +love, love of one’s neighbor, love of one’s enemy, is worthier, +lovers of music do when they hear a false note. the two women let go +loving and honoring him. “why, i have not yet had time to settle +lower one, and something like two distinct smiles played continually +low tones. +luck! such ill luck. as soon as you left, it began and went on. hullo +luck the man has!” +luggage. franz, bilíbin’s man, was dragging a portmanteau with some +l’u! * i shall certainly adopt an innovation and call him simply +luxurious study and sat down to the dinner prepared for him. bilíbin +lying on the ground; they also met a crowd of soldiers some of whom were +ma chère! on behalf of the whole family i beg you to come, mon cher!” +“ma chère, there is a time for everything,” said the countess with +machine or set it in proper motion, so anna pávlovna moved about her +mack. an austrian general complained of me. i congratulated him on +mack, have by now already gained a decisive victory and no longer need +mack’s arrival... what’s the matter, rostóv? you look as if you’d +“madame de genlis! madame de genlis!” shouted laughing voices +“madame, i doubt my ability before such an audience,” said he, +made a grimace, as if expecting something unpleasant. +made elegantly witty. in society he always awaited an opportunity to say +made for the sacrament of unction, and in his house there was the bustle +madeira”... “hungarian”... or “rhine wine” as the case might +maid of honor’s hand to his lips, kissed it, and swung it to and fro +maid with the decanter in her haste had not closed the door (everything +majestically entered the room. he was wearing his long coat with three +majestic figure of his father, count bezúkhov, with that gray mane of +majesty’s and you were pitied....” +majesty, “who, thank god, was better today.” and each visitor, +make a remark, for the conversation interested him, but anna pávlovna, +make something exceptional of them,” said the visitor. +makes things trying for you, doesn’t it?” prince andrew asked +make them look at the wag. +“malbrook s’en va-t-en guerre. dieu sait quand reviendra.” * +mamma has sent for me to go and dine at the apráksins’. read the +“mamma!” rang out the clear contralto notes of her childish voice, +“mamma told me to ask you to join the dancers.” +“mamma! what sweets are we going to have?” and natásha’s voice +“mamma! what sweets are we going to have?” natásha again cried +man. +managed to utter (to her everything seemed funny). she leaned against +man. either this look meant nothing but that as long as one has eyes +mane—which, though he saw other faces as well, he had not lost sight +man.... here he is, and the count has not once asked for him.” +man is the count’s son,” she added more softly. “what a terrible +manly voice interrupting them both. “of course you artillery men are +manner he wore in drawing rooms, but with the animated face with which +manner nor a desire to enter into conversation, but speaking so quietly +manners, who evidently considered himself a celebrity but out of +man, of medium height, with firm, clearcut features. everything about +man? on such matters i am only severe with myself. i understand such +man’s hand and moving her lips as if to send it a kiss. pierre, +man’s high, stout, uncovered chest and powerful shoulders, raised by +man’s penetration he understood all that was passing in bolkónski’s +man’s simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory. both +man. the revolution was a grand thing!” continued monsieur pierre, +man who has at length begun to attain a long-desired happiness. as soon +man with a diamond ring on his forefinger, who was fond of speaking +many wrinkles on his large features, to rostóv who was crimson with +marching thirty miles that stormy night across roadless hills, with his +marching with particular grace and boldness in time to the song and +maria theresa order of the third grade, which the emperor was conferring + * “marlborough is going to the wars; god knows when he’ll +marriageable daughters, and of the young ladies themselves, toward +marry!” concluded prince andrew. +mary +márya dmítrievna. +márya dmítrievna and the countess burst out laughing, and all the +“márya dmítrievna?” came her voice from there. +márya dmítrievna, curved his arms, beat time, straightened his +márya dmítrievna on her right and anna mikháylovna on her left, the +“márya dmítrievna! what kind of ice pudding? i don’t like ice +“márya lvóvna karágina and her daughter!” announced the +mary, and the little princess. prince andrew had been called to his +mary bolkónskaya.” +mary entered the antechamber as usual at the time appointed for the +mary, having taken and closed the exercise book with the next day’s +masses of russian troops. at the bend of the danube, vessels, an island, +mass. looking down over the rails prince nesvítski saw the rapid, noisy +matchmaking chronicles of moscow now speak of me as the future countess +matter might be he did not care, but it gave him great pleasure to +matters, social interests and the fair sex occupied no small part of his +may christ be with you in your great endeavor!” +may i shall do my duty. i will come and spend the night. he must not be +may laugh as much as you like, but all the same bonaparte is a great +me!” +me.” +me?” +meadow.” +mean good french society—will have been forever destroyed, and +meant by the words all is over, “and the count’s papers are opened, +mean to fight, let’s fight. but the devil knows what this is.” +meanwhile kutúzov sent his adjutants back to hasten to the utmost the +meanwhile nesvítski, zherkóv, and the officer of the suite were +meanwhile prince vasíli had opened the door into the princess’ room. +meanwhile the staff officer standing in front pointed out something to +meanwhile the younger generation: borís, the officer, anna +me apologize, because if he, as commander of this regiment, thinks it +me; but, my dear, i am getting on for sixty and must be prepared for +me, but that he’ll marry julie. you see how he’s been with her all +medal he can get his reward just as well in the rearguard, but if he +meditatively and rapidly: +me!” he began to laugh. “well, what of it! i hope we’ll get better +me. i am used to suffering.” +me i lied, and i told him he lied. and there it rests. he may keep me +member of the hofkriegsrath mildly and attentively. +memory, his extensive reading (he had read everything, knew everything, +memory, i will do the impossible—your son shall be transferred to the +men of the same kind hiding in the shadow of the house on both sides. +men’s end the voices sounded louder and louder, especially that of the +men should be in their greatcoats and in marching order, and that the +men should continue to march at ease, and he and all his suite showed +men uselessly, and so had hastened to throw some sharpshooters into the +men was to attack the french from different sides. the old prince did +men, who here, as in vienna, formed a special set which bilíbin, their +me of her own accord in the evening and tell me everything. perhaps i +me only the day before yesterday not to forget borís. but he had +me, pierre. i shall not forget your interests.” +me!” rostóv whispered. +merrily. +merrily and prettily as ever. +merrily to everyone at once, sat down and gaily arranged herself in her +merry. +metallic roar, and a whistling grenade flew above the heads of our +methods that he had better leave genoa alone?” retorted prince andrew +me to burn the bridge! i know the service, and it is my habit orders +me to inform you... but, don’t be uneasy,” he added, noticing that +me! what will become of us? i am the wife of the doctor of the seventh +michael ivánovich are the two people to whom he is always gentle and +“michael ivánovich!” cried the old prince to the architect who, +michael ivánovich did not at all know when “you and i” had said +middle, a cry was heard, then princess mary’s heavy tread and the +middle of his mouth and with red lips gently inhaled the smoke, letting +middle of the drawing room on the first chair he had come across, +might be up to on the sly” (she meant that they would be kissing), +might easily succeed to the post; how popular he was with everyone in +might outweigh all the courage of the russian troops, and at the same +mikháylovna. +mikháylovna and snatching the portfolio from her. +mikháylovna as she entered, and at the big stout figure of pierre who, +mikháylovna drubetskáya. rostóv, the father, is ilyá, and his son is +mikháylovna enthusiastically, quite forgetting all the humiliation she +mikháylovna evinced no surprise, she only smiled faintly and sighed, as +mikháylovna in passing instinctively glanced into the room, where +mikháylovna looked attentively at the sick man’s eyes, trying to +mikháylovna made a hurried sign with her eyes, glancing at the sick +mikháylovna of one of them. +mikháylovna, or you will not hold out.” +mikháylovna pass and did not evince the least surprise at seeing them +mikháylovna returned to the rostóvs’ and went to bed. on waking in +mikháylovna?” said he. “let us wait until evening. the doctors are +mikháylovna,” said prince vasíli, arranging his lace frill, and in +mikháylovna’s son; nicholas, the undergraduate, the count’s eldest +mikháylovna. though the latter held on tenaciously, her voice lost none +mikháylovna, whom she had not seen properly since she returned from +mikhelson’s army i understand—tolstóy ‘s too... a simultaneous +milan?” asked anna pávlovna, “and of the comedy of the people of +miles away from the french. at grunth also some apprehension and alarm +“mind, annette, i hope you have not played a wicked trick on me,” +mind at rest,” said he without altering his tone, beneath the +mind easy,” said he in abrupt sentences while sealing his letter. +mind. “if a tenth part of his detachment returns i shall thank god,” +“mind, no holding on!” cried another. +mind once for all that what he saw happening around him that evening was +“mind, walk him up and down well!” +mined?” +mined and doubly mined and that there are menacing fortifications at its +mine. i have written to my poor mother,” said the smiling mademoiselle +ministers and great people, and know how to deal with them all! it’s +minister’s bent bald head with its gray temples. he went on reading +minutes later the eldest sister came out with a pale hard face, again +miserable man who stood before him, but the task he had begun had to be +mistake. marry when you are old and good for nothing—or all that is +modern science of strategics, had been handed to kutúzov when he was in +moment!” +moment.” +moment had arrived. with the air of a practical petersburg lady she now, +moment he was clearly thinking of nothing but how dashing a fellow he +moment imagined himself to be napoleon in person and to have just +moment marching with the company. the hussar cornet of kutúzov’s +moment when the first report was heard a fourth was seen. then two +“mon dieu, mon dieu!” she muttered, and lifting her dress with one +monk he received and had a long talk with.” +monsieur buonaparte sitting on a throne and granting the petitions of +more and holding out the letter. +more animated. “and believe me, they are reaping the reward of their +moreau would have been a prisoner if suvórov had had a free hand; but +more, but he waited and did nothing. +more cheerful in his presence, and were evidently anxious to display +more confident was the appearance of our troops. the soldiers in +more natural and animated than usual, so that the wrinkles round +more than they did anatole. dólokhov could play all games and nearly +more than timókhin had done when he was reprimanded by the regimental +more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my +morning. +morning greeting, crossing herself with trepidation and repeating a +morning or evening than night. on the way pierre remembered that anatole +morning, the lines were so near together that the men could see one +morning till night and abstemious, so of course i am well.” +morsels. the group about mortemart immediately began discussing the +moscow for his equipment, was to join them on the march to radzivílov. +“moscow has nothing else to do but gossip,” borís went on. +moscow when borís was a boy of fourteen, and had quite forgotten him, +most in people. as to his inheritance and the part played by prince +most joyful though erroneous rumors were rife of the imaginary approach +most of the guests, uncertain how to regard this sally, looked at the +mother!...” +mother and the youngest daughter—both named nataly. ever since +mother, drawing her hand from beneath her old mantle and laying +mother keep you in their holy and all-powerful care! +mother, pushing away her daughter with pretended sternness, and turning +mothers used to be married at twelve or thirteen.” +motionless masses of the french now swayed and that there really was +motive of his visit, “is it true that the dowager empress wants +mountains, defending himself against superior forces of the enemy and +mountains of bohemia, and you and your army would have spent a bad +mount and ride to the bridge. (observe that all three are gascons.) +mounted frenchmen, probably adjutants, were galloping up the hill. a +mounting his horse again prince andrew lingered with the battery, +mouth all seemed puckered into a vacant, wearied grimace, and his arms +mouth. another was walking sturdily by himself but without his musket, +mouth full of false teeth, as if she were trying to cheat old age.... +mouth!” said bilíbin, and the mop of hair on his head moved with +moved his forces to attack the center and outflank both the russian +movement of soldiers forming ranks and getting their muskets ready, +movements of the austrian army, and then give it to his excellency.” +movements of the baggage trains of the entire army along the krems-znaim +movements of the bearers, and the cold listless gaze fixed itself upon +movements were still slow and measured. +moving a chair close to hers seated himself beside her. +“mr. aide-de-camp! help me!... what does it all mean?” screamed the +“mr. aide-de-camp! mr. aide-de-camp!... for heaven’s sake... protect +much, and all of you, only véra... and what for? what have i done +much prettier. pierre was received as if he were a corpse or a leper. +much that the count held him up as a pattern to the other guests. berg +murat. bonaparte himself, not trusting to his generals, moved with all +murat’s detachment and the battle had not yet begun. in bagratión’s +murat’s emissary and retired, leaving bagratión’s division +murder of the duc d’enghien. the vicomte said that the duc d’enghien +must be broken off ... and then you know, andré...” (she looked +must excuse me,” said he, putting pierre at ease instead of being put +must have an explanation...” +must have pity on a young man in misfortune. you know he has important +must put in an appearance there,” said the prince. “my daughter is +my advance guard, and have no right to arrange an armistice without my +“my dear anna mikháylovna,” said he with his usual familiarity and +“my dear benefactor! this is what i expected from you—i knew your +“my dear borís,” said princess anna mikháylovna to her son as +“my dear!” exclaimed his mother imploringly, again laying her hand +“my dear fellow, how are you?” said he through the singing, making +“my dear fellow, you are a hero!” said bilíbin. +“my dear princess catherine semënovna,” began prince vasíli +“my dear,” she said to her son, once more stimulating him by a +my dear, whether the will and letter were written, and whether they have +my father has not spoken to me of a suitor, but has only told me that he +my friend... i only need see prince vasíli sergéevich: he is staying +“my friend,” said anna mikháylovna in gentle tones, addressing +my geometry lessons,” said princess mary gleefully, as if her lessons +“my part is played out,” said prince andrew. “what’s the use of +my relations with him, transient as they were, have been one of the +my respects to monsieur your father and my compliments to mademoiselle +mystical book i am sending you; it has an enormous success here. though +my wife—are the count’s only direct heirs. i know, i know how hard +“my wife,” continued prince andrew, “is an excellent woman, one +name. +name-day party. +napkin, from behind the next man’s shoulders and whispered: “dry +napoleon +napoleon happened to fall into one of the fainting fits to which he was +napoleon’s army of one hundred and fifty thousand men would cut him +napoleon’s words. “‘i opened my antechambers and they crowded +narrowed disdainfully, he entered the room of the minister of war with +“natálya ilyníchna behaves very well to me,” remarked borís. “i +natásha blushed and laughed. +natásha came in and walking straight up to pierre said, laughing and +natásha considered. +natásha did not like the visitor’s tone of condescension to childish +“natásha,” he said, “you know that i love you, but....” +natásha kept pulling everyone by sleeve or dress, urging them to +natásha kissed her on the hair. +natásha only desisted when she had been told that there would be +natásha, raising her face for a moment from her mother’s mantilla, +natásha saw there was nothing to be afraid of and so she braved even +natásha’s large mouth widened, making her look quite ugly, and she +natásha, stopping suddenly. “i feel so happy!” +nearer, faster and louder, louder and faster, a cannon ball, as if it +nearer. then the clang of hoofs, as of several horses galloping, +nearest him were not to blame for they were themselves pressed still +near sixty, dear friend... i too... all will end in death, all! death is +near the strange lady. prince vasíli in front of the door, near the +necessary. halfway up the stairs they were almost knocked over by +necessary,” said the younger of the two speakers, evidently in the +necessary to enable it to retreat without losing its heavy equipment. +necessary to go on insisting day after day and hour after hour, and even +necessary to take some part in it. +neck and the corners of her mouth drooped. +neck instead. +neck. it seemed to rostóv that bogdánich was only pretending not +need to hurry. however, he put his horse to a trot in the direction +negotiations and to offer the russian army the three days’ truce. +neither i nor my mother would ever ask or take anything from him.” +neither quickly nor slowly. at this natásha dashed swiftly among the +nesvítski. +nesvítski and zherkóv were so surprised by this outburst that they +nesvítski looked round and saw, some fifteen paces away but separated +“nesvítski, nesvítski! you numskull!” came a hoarse voice from +nesvítski rose, puffing, and went up to the general, smiling. +nesvítski. “they’ve made up splendid packs for me—fit to cross +nesvítski tried to move on, soldiers and carts pushed him back again +nesvítski with a laugh threw his arms round prince andrew, but +neutral... i know that. what about austria?” said he, rising from his +neutrality is just a trap. i have faith only in god and the lofty +never favorably disposed toward him—would have used it to turn the +“never, never marry, my dear fellow! that’s my advice: never marry +never take it off. do you promise?” +never thought much of him.” +never understand it, because you’ve never loved anyone. you have no +news i may take back to my poor boy.” +next day he woke late. recalling his recent impressions, the first +next day prince vasíli had arrived and settled in the count’s house. +next glanced round in alarm. +nice indeed, quite french,” and he kissed the tips of his fingers. +nicholas’ career and am heartless and ungrateful, while truly... god +nicholas. i never knew any madame jacquot.” +“nicholas is going away in a week’s time, his... papers... have +nicholas rostóv turned away and, as if searching for something, gazed +nicholas sat at some distance from sónya, beside julie karágina, to +nicholas was to go with him to the regiment; then came anna mikháylovna +(nicknamed in society, “the king of prussia”) ever since the emperor +night.” +night a motley throng of people sat there, not merrymaking, but somberly +night long without closing their eyes, while the adjutants and +night, so dark that the coachman could not see the carriage pole. +ninety thousand strong, was to threaten prussia so as to bring her out +“no.” +“no, andrew, i must say you have changed. oh, how you have....” +“no, but do promise! i won’t let you go! my dear benefactor...” +“no, but imagine the old countess zúbova, with false curls and her +“no, but i say,” said pierre, calming down, “you are a wonderful +“no,” cried he, becoming more and more eager, “napoleon is great +“no, fifty,” replied the latter. +“no, friend, he is sharper-eyed than you are. boots and leg bands... +“no, friend,” said a pleasant and, as it seemed to prince andrew, a +no fruit. i never could understand the fondness some people have for +“no, gentlemen, no... you mustn’t think... i quite understand. +“no, he thinks only of himself,” muttered the princess without +“no, if i hadn’t thought of it being a treasure,” said rostóv, +“no, i have a wicked heart.” +“no, i have not; but this is what i have been thinking and wanted +“no, impossible!” said prince andrew, laughing and pressing +“no, it can’t be helped, lad,” said the prince. “they’re +“no, i tell you.” +“no, i won’t promise that. you don’t know how kutúzov is pestered +“no, i won’t,” said pierre, pushing anatole aside, and he went up +no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age +no longer looked at the french but paid attention to the sight-seers and +no more. she is so affected. ask her in,” she said to the footman in a +none to anyone.” +nonintervention. and...” he paused. “finally one cannot impute the +“non, madame.” he smiled quite inappropriately. +“no, no, please not... you are mademoiselle bourienne,” said +“no, nothing.” +nonreceipt of our dispatch of november 18. that is how it will end.” +nonsense, but it would in fact have been difficult to give any other +“nonsense!” he cried, and the veins on his forehead and neck stood +“nonsense, nonsense!” cried the old man, shaking his pigtail to +nonsense out of your head.” +no one had given túshin orders where and at what to fire, but after +no one would understand that it was not to quench his thirst or from +“no, on my word it’s not obstinacy! i can’t describe the feeling. +“no, peter nikoláevich; i only want to show that in the cavalry +“no—promise that you will not refuse! it will give you no trouble +no restrictions whatsoever. you may copy it, give it away or re-use +“no? she is very nice and kind and, above all, she’s much to be +no sky but only an atmosphere.” +nostitz, the austrian general occupying the advanced posts, believed +not a diplomatist. that’s why i joined the hussars, thinking that here +“no talking in the ranks!... no talking, no talking!” +“not all, for you will not be there; not all,” said prince hippolyte +not answer. the hussar at that moment noticed the face of the red-nosed +“not at all,” said prince andrew. +not attract a moment’s attention to their own evolutions and did not +“not bonaparte. he is the emperor! sacré nom...!” cried he angrily. +“not bound to endure insults,” dólokhov concluded in loud, ringing +not, but you have no grounds for telling me so. and that is the whole +not captured.” again he pondered. “i am very glad you have brought +not? delightful!” +not disfigured by the approach of death. it was the same as pierre +note. i am in such a state.... my only hope now is in count cyril +not evince the least interest during this explanation, but as if he were +not exist. +not forsake him. he will fulfill his vocation and crush the hydra of +not go to any large gatherings, but only to small receptions. prince +not have caused him to expect that honor. the prince, who generally kept +“no, there is no change. i only came to have a talk about business, +nothing. +nothing about firing it.” +nothing about it and have not thought about it. moscow is chiefly busy +nothing but meanness, deceit, envy, intrigue, and ingratitude—the +nothing. i am very amiable and have a caustic wit,” continued prince +nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever +nothing, nothing, nothing! no, don’t marry, my dear fellow; don’t +“nothing of the sort. orders are issued for a battle.” +nothing when they have no powers; this one had none.... the austrians +noticed that he was pale and that his jaw quivered and shook as if in an +noticed that they had not come to the front entrance but to the back +noticed the look of terror with which pierre regarded that lifeless arm, +noticing what a bad state of things it was. the regimental commander +not ill-spent. he is worth it!” +no time. i hope, my dear friend, you will carry out your father’s +“not in the least,” replied the vicomte. “after the murder of the +not, it was decided at a consultation between the battalion commanders +not knowing what to do, and glanced inquiringly at his guide. anna +not knowing whether it would be proper to call the dying man “the +“not let the wife have him?” said the old man, and laughed. +not letting the abbé and pierre escape, anna pávlovna, the more +not listening to it continued to dress while walking about, and three +not love liberty and equality? even our saviour preached liberty and +“not on any account!” exclaimed rostóv. +“not only occupied, but bonaparte is at schönbrunn, and the count, +not right.” +not see him at all.” +“not that either. that puts the court in too bad a light,” replied +not two minutes had passed before prince vasíli with head erect +not used to it. she will retaliate. and she has been fooled in the +not wanted here? go to the other girls, or...” +not worse than this one.” +“not yet. but where are you off to?” +not yet dispersed before another puff appeared, followed by a report. +not you! go back or i’ll flatten you into a pancake,” repeated he. +“now about your family. do you know that since your daughter came +“no, wait, pierre! the princess is too kind to wish to deprive me of +now approached the sick man with the noiseless step of one in full vigor +now at her, moved as if about to rise too, but changed his mind. +“now come, come! be reasonable. i know your excellent heart.” +“no! what kind, márya dmítrievna? what kind?” she almost screamed; +nowhere to hunt with your dogs? but what is to be done, old man? just +“now i am all right,” she said, and asking the vicomte to begin, she +“now i see it all! i know who has been intriguing—i know!” cried +now on one side, now on the other, giving his face an unpleasant +now permissible; “the door to the left, ma’am.” +now rose and took their leave. the visitor’s daughter was already +“now, sídorov, you have a try!” +“now then, go away and take your monstrosity with you,” said the +“now then, go on, go on!” incited the officer, bending forward and +“now then, let’s see how far it will carry, captain. just try!” +“now then, you devil’s puppet, look alive and hunt for it!” +“now, véra, what does it matter to you?” said natásha in defense, +“now what does this mean, gentlemen?” said the staff officer, in +“no, you’ll never manage him that way,” said anatole. “wait a +number one jumped briskly aside. the gun rang out with a deafening +nursery.” +object above his head and, holding it there for some seconds, suddenly +obviously strange to her to think that this stern handsome man should be +obviously trying to restrain within the bounds of decorum the excitement +occasionally drew it down to meet the lower lip. as is always the case +occupied. he was himself always occupied: writing his memoirs, solving +occurred to him, though the question he was about to ask was the chief +occurred to his regiment, but in reality he did not himself know what +odýntsova had married an old man, and that there was a suitor for mary, +o’erpassed,” said an old priest to a lady who had taken a seat +of a battle but also disbelieved in the nearness of an engagement. +of affairs?” concluded his father. “but it troubles me. i don’t +of a girl, but i like her.” +of a gun at ismail. +of a man who enjoys life and knows how to live, he swayed to and +of an immense fortune. the will has not yet been opened. i know you +of a parade. we had expected, as i told you, to get at their rear by +of a pleasure, and obliges me to interrupt you. i am very sorry to leave +of a ruling prince, in a crown—an alleged descendant of rúrik and +of assurance and haste, pierre concluded that it was all absolutely +of awe and even servility. a deference such as he had never before +of bonaparte. +of bonaparte, encountering a population that was unfriendly to it, +of capacity for philosophical meditation (to which he himself was +of columns from russia, of some victory gained by the austrians, and of +of command. +of communications, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his +of count bezúkhov’s death. she said the count had died as she would +“of course. i’m going into action! i’ve shaved, bwushed my teeth, +“of course. what is it?” +of deep bass voices, and in the intervals sighs and the shuffling of +of each shot, as at the word of command, the whole squadron with its +of everything. one must think of the future, of all of you... i love you +of expression and intonation that obliged one to listen to each +of expression on his face. now his forehead would pucker into deep folds +of face, evidently worn out with childbearing—she had had twelve. +off completely and surround his exhausted army of forty thousand, and he +of fellow. as for the past two years people have amused themselves +offended tone. +offend me. really i have some,” rostóv repeated. +offensive, the plan of which, carefully prepared in accord with the +offered a most striking contrast to his quiet, little wife. it was +off his cloak. +off his courage, had ridden on to the planks of the bridge: +officer arrived, but at a sign resumed his measured, monotonous pacing. +officer as in a looking glass—started, moved forward, and answered: +officer has stolen...” +officer in charge of transport was beating the soldier who was driving +officer in the semënov regiment with whom borís was to travel to join +officer joined in the colonel’s appeals, but bagratión did not reply; +officer of the suite by the arm. “look! a man has fallen! fallen, +officer pointing to the soldiers. “the officers don’t keep them in +officers,” continued the staff captain, “and bogdánich” (the +officer sends for auersperg; these gentlemen embrace the officers, crack +officers. now what was the colonel to do? have the officer tried and +officer’s remark was just and that really no answer could be made to +officers were counting the men, poking the last man in each section in +officers who had been standing together rode off to their places. the +officer, that he would drink a bottle of rum sitting on the outer ledge +official appointed to the province in which the prince’s estate lay +off on the line of kutúzov’s retreat. if he reached znaim before the +of for a single moment during the whole service. he judged by the +of habit said things he did not even wish to be believed. +of having been dutiful et tout ce qui s’ensuit!* that’s certain.” +of her neutrality and draw her into the war; how part of that army was +of her saint’s-day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to +of him, listened to him, admired, and imitated him, and with them prince +of his coat and looking down at him—the englishman was short—began +of his mouth and winking at the count. +of his own, goodness only knows why, he leaves me and locks me up alone +of his speech. “vous comptez vous faire des rentes sur l’état; * +of his whip fell on the apron of the equipage. the woman screamed +of how to get away quickly to her own room to make out the problem in +of it. prince andrew” (he always spoke thus of his son) “has been +of its honeyed firmness and softness. +of its rightful king,” she concluded, trying to be amiable to the +of it. the only question is, has it been destroyed or not? if not, then +of life, with his delicate white fingers raised from the green quilt the +of love and sadness. it was plain that she was following a train of +of mack’s defeat, the camp life of the officers of this squadron was +of mack, the news of his defeat, and the thought of what lay before the +of mingled shame and vexation. +of one another, and then, as if afraid of being too late, seized each +of other things and to look in other directions, thought only of what +of profound thought. the round, steady, hawk’s eyes looked before him +of prussia’s consent by assault. you are so eloquent. will you give me +of reflection are generally in a serious frame of mind. at such moments +of rum in his hand was approaching the window, from which the light of +of,” said the princess in the same petulantly playful tone in which +of sixteen, had been in paris and copenhagen, and now held a rather +of smoke that had concealed the hollow, driven by a rising wind, began +of something too large and unsuited to the place, came over her face +of sónya, who blushed and smiled unnaturally. in the midst of his talk +of speech and of the press—and only for that reason did he obtain +often heard. “what is this?” thought prince andrew approaching the +of that song. +of the action balls and shells began flying all over his regiment and +of the actual battlefield. they began to meet wounded men. one with a +of the army into the hands of a better informed and more skillful +of the behavior of the eldest princess and prince vasíli she spoke +of the colonel, nesvítski, zherkóv, and the officer from the suite. +of the commander in chief’s special favor he was sent with the news of +of the french were coming down upon them and that his regiment was in +of the guards, a girl of fifteen, and a plump rosy-faced boy in a short +of the lathe he removed his foot from the pedal, wiped his chisel, +of the lean sinewy hand, showed that the prince still possessed the +of them forgot what was happening and what was about to happen in the +of the oft-repeated passage of the sonata. prince andrew stopped and +of the river. +of the road were forests of different kinds, fields, and villages. +of the service the voices of the priests suddenly ceased, they whispered +of the thabor bridge is delightful! it is not exactly stupidity, nor +of the third company!” +of the third floor window with his legs hanging out. +of the upper lip formed a sharp wedge and closed firmly on the firm +of the war that had been announced in a manifesto, and about the +of the way! make way!” +of thirteen, hiding something in the folds of her short muslin frock, +of this delicious russian tea,” lorrain was saying with an air of +of this set. +of those rare women with whom a man’s honor is safe; but, o god, what +of túshin’s battery. prince andrew followed with the suite. behind + of whom you have made a friend, but not for you, not for +of wounded pride, and a hope of glory. “and should there be nothing +of you.” +oh, andrew! what a treasure of a wife you have,” said she, sitting +“oh dear, what am i thinking about? i’ve mixed everything up. one +“oh, don’t speak of his going, don’t! i won’t hear it spoken +“oh, don’t speak to me of austria. perhaps i don’t understand +“oh, every bullet has its billet,” answered váska denísov, turning +“oh, heaven! how ill he is!” exclaimed the mother. +“oh, he is in a dreadful state,” said the mother to her son when +“oh, he is so kind!” answered princess mary. +“oh, he’s all right, a good horse,” answered rostóv, though the +“oh, how dreadful! how can you laugh at it, count?” +“oh, how nice,” thought natásha; and when sónya and nicholas had +“oh, i must give you a treat,” bilíbin whispered to bolkónski. +“oh! i thought you were in your room,” she said, for some reason +“oh, it’s wetched! well, what are you standing there for, you +“oh, leave off!” said the accountant with a beaming but rather +“oh, little countess!” ... and the count began bustling to get out +“oh, my bower new...!” chimed in twenty voices, and the castanet +“oh, my bower, oh, my bower...!” +“oh, my dear fellow, we’re in such a stew here these last two +“oh, my god! my god! schmidt!” he exclaimed in german. “what a +“oh no, not at all too young!” replied the count. “why, our +“oh! oh!” exclaimed several voices. +“oh! oh!” groaned nesvítski as if in fierce pain, seizing the +“oh! oh! oh!” +“oh! oh! oh!” he muttered, looking down from the window at the +“oh, well, well!” remarked the regimental commander. “still, one +“oh, what a terrible state he is in! one would not know him, he is so +“oh, you don juan! you serpent!” cried several voices. +“oh, your excellency!” said franz, with difficulty rolling the +old age and tobacco, which she had known so long. “now, madam, these +old count bezúkhov, and his inheritance. fancy! the three princesses +older visitors. they now, stretching themselves after sitting so long, +oldest rose. márya dmítrievna paused at the door. tall and stout, +old father, and entering the military service, my dear. and there was a +old man continued to fold and seal his letter, snatching up and throwing +old man, living alone in the country for so many years, could know and +old man, shaking his powdered head as much as the tail, which tíkhon +olga went out. pierre stood looking at the sisters; then he bowed and +“o lord god! thou who art in that heaven, save, forgive, and protect +on. +on account of the smoke nothing could be seen. the nearer they got to +on a chair in the ballroom, crossing one leg high over the other, +on a hot dish. +on all sides. the countess rose and went into the ballroom. +on all sides they saw rain-soaked officers with dejected faces who +on anything. it was about this choice that prince andrew was speaking. +on at the crossing. and why are they dawdling there?” +on both sides. behind our position was a steep and deep dip, making it +once been in to see the count. he has not sent for me.... i am sorry for +once more the conversations concentrated, the ladies’ at the one end +on cloaks or mantles, and drive away. the conversation was on the chief +on duty every day, or may place me under arrest, but no one can make +one another. +one but the emperor of russia has that right. +“one!” came the command. +“one can’t everywhere say all one thinks, mon cher. well, have +“one can’t write so fast, your honor,” said the clerk, glancing +one considers that by tomorrow one may be dead, or something so +one feels as if one were in the country.” +one foot, from the orderly and began to mount. +one had put but which was always in her mind, “and how much suffering, +“one moment, your excellency.” +“one must admit,” continued prince andrew, “that napoleon as a man +“one must be indulgent to little weaknesses; who is free from them, +one of disdain which was quite uncalled for. his fertile mind instantly +one of the guests. “the vicomte is a wonderful raconteur,” said she +one of them knew, not one of them wanted to know, and not one of them +one of them was a sallow, clean-shaven civilian with a thin and wrinkled +one of the next arrivals was a stout, heavily built young man with +one pair at each window. she stopped and smiled scornfully. sónya was +one quite at home, and from habit immediately lay down on the sofa, took +one reviews the past and plans for the future. prince andrew’s face +one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, +“one step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing +“one thing i ask of your excellency,” dólokhov said in his firm, +one.... whom, i ask you, can we rely on?... england with her commercial +one word after another, came through the open door. she was speaking as +one would have thought it impossible for a man to stretch himself +one would have to... the metropolitan himself... and even then it +one would not need finesse; and he tells me that i am lying—so let him +on her lips, she got up and left the room. all nicholas’ animation +on him by the doctors, clergy, and relatives of the family. prince +on himself. he could remain silent for hours without being at all put +on him. the empress’ chamberlain invited him to see her majesty. the +on his arm as if that touch might soothe or rouse him. +on his saber, and put on his cap. +on his seat, lowered his hands, moved a little to the right and then to +on his side of it. +on in his usual tone of indifference. +on kutúzov’s staff, among his fellow officers and in the army +onlookers for what was to follow. as soon as the provocatively gay +only by the elite. +only change being that the words “father kámenski” were replaced by +“only fools and rakes fall ill, my boy. you know me: i am busy from +only his eyes were brighter than usual. +“only take care you and your cossacks are not all captured!” said +only telling you what it is. napoleon has also formed his plan by now, +only that all the men of the day were mere babies who did not know the +“on my honor!” +on november 1 kutúzov had received, through a spy, news that the army +on october 11, 1805, one of the infantry regiments that had just reached +on october 11, the day when all was astir at headquarters over the news +on purpose to vex us. the archduke karl does nothing, the archduke +on reaching the village he dismounted and went to the nearest house, +on returning from the review, kutúzov took the austrian general into +on snowy-white smooth pillows, evidently freshly changed, pierre +on the arm of a colonel of hussars, a man of importance to them because +on the arm said: +“on the contrary,” he said, in a querulous and angry tone that +on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, +“on the contrary,” replied the prince, who had plainly become +on the evening of the last day’s march an order had been received that +on the french side, amid the groups with cannon, a cloud of smoke +on the high ground where the enemy was, the smoke of a cannon rose, +‘on the march’ it meant in greatcoats?” said he reproachfully to +on the morning of the day that the young couple were to arrive, princess +on the opposite side the enemy could be seen by the naked eye, and from +on the other an immense case containing icons, was brightly illuminated +on the other side, the children, tutors, and governesses. from behind +“on the same business. but you are damp! let me wring you out!” +on the soft springs of the carriage, he turned to prince andrew. +on the twenty-eighth of october kutúzov with his army crossed to the +on the way to his sister’s room, in the passage which connected one +on this high ground, shall withdraw the left flank under its cover, and + * “on vous fera danser.” +on you. you complain of our separation. what then should i say, if i +“oooh! for christ’s sake let me alone!” cried the wounded man, but +opened the door which moved noiselessly and easily. she paused at the +opinion,” said she, turning to the young man who, having come quite +opinions, but you see what a capital, good-natured fellow i am.” and +opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. +opposite, in front of which large masses of french were advancing. +opposite. pierre spoke little but examined the new faces, and ate a +ordered the horses to be harnessed. only those things he always kept +orderly by the shoulders and knocking him against the wall. +orderly, running behind the cart and fumbling in the back of it. +order not to lose his head and do foolish things he must not act on his +order of maria theresa on his neck and a black bandage round his head, +orders the sergeant to be arrested. come, you must own that this affair +orders to admit no more, but the porter was told to be sure to invite to +orders which showed that the russian troops, who had hitherto been +order to make borís’ better acquaintance, promised to come to dinner, +order. you are causing me to lose the fruits of a campaign. break +orlóv never gave such a dinner as ours will be!” +or prince vasíli. forty thousand serfs and millions of rubles! i know +or whether some other thought flitted across his dying brain, at any +other.” +other, awkwardly, like a child at a dancing lesson. +other before the service was concluded. pierre paid no more attention +other had ridden up to him. +other lady visitors were farther down. at the other end sat the count, +other officers. perhaps i ought not to have spoken before them, but i am +others...” +others.” +others appreciated prince hippolyte’s social tact in so agreeably +other’s hands, kissing them and pulling them away, and again began +other soldiers. he stood looking about him, when suddenly he heard a +others. “well, you old sinner,” she went on, turning to the count +other young ladies in begging natásha and nicholas, who were noted for +ought to know where they are, and must find them, because...” +“oui, madame,” replied he, looking around him. +our aid,” said kutúzov. +our dear count vrbna, goes to him for orders.” +our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against +our infantry were stationed there, and at the farthest point the +our men had begun firing. they were still firing, not at the cavalry +“our men have been wasting time.” +our people...” + * ours. +“ours,” kissing his finger tips. +our turn next.” +out: +out about him. +out a notebook, hurriedly scribbled something in pencil, tore out the +out as a post horse, but still i must have a talk with you, catiche, a +out everyone has been enraptured by her? they say she is amazingly +out from behind the clouds, and the clear sound of the solitary shot +out her cambric handkerchief she began wiping her husband’s waistcoat. +out his notebook and, leaning on the cannon, sketched a plan of the +out in front of a platoon of grenadiers before whom lay a naked man. two +out like cords. “you are mad, i tell you. i won’t allow it. +out. mack loses a whole army, the archduke ferdinand and the archduke +out of countenance himself or making others uncomfortable, but as +out of this position; that here was the toulon that would lift him from +out the stinging and tormenting thoughts that confused his mind. “this +out until, at the first pause, the guests rise with a rustle of dresses +out whether she was considering what he had just said or whether she was +over a fire brigade of bonaparte’s, that will be another story and +over,” anna pávlovna continued. “the sovereigns will not be able to +over beamed with irrepressible delight.) “it’s in the emperor’s +overcome a certain secret sorrow that has been in my heart ever since +overflowed with animation and impulsiveness. to be an enthusiast had +“overflowing with amiability. his position has not turned his head +over his shoulder. +over his spectacles, and then again resuming his walk, muttering +overtaken by the enemy and fighting rearguard actions only as far as +over, the adjutant he had seen the previous day ceremoniously informed +over their heads, unstrapping their overcoats and drawing the sleeves on +owner of one of the largest fortunes in russia, i am much amused to +own ideas tonight, but must yield himself up entirely to the will of +pale, and added, “look at it, young man.” +pale face and glittering eyes. +pale, now blushed and strained every nerve to overhear what nicholas +“papa,” said his beautiful daughter in the same tone as before, +“papa, we shall be late,” said princess hélène, turning her +paper and her hand moved rapidly over it. this is the reply she wrote, +paper. he looked gloomily in rostóv’s face and said: “i am witing +papers and it was the first time he had heard villeneuve’s name. +papers and still taking no notice of the special messenger. +parade. however, i will let you know.” +parade... i am the first to apologize, you know me!... he was very +pardon. as soon as rostóv heard them, an enormous load of doubt +part. anna pávlovna schérer on the contrary, despite her forty years, +part from his horse, and at last sprang down and called to his orderly. +particular emphasis as if in it lay the gist of the matter. +particularly addicted), he regarded even this not as a defect but as a +particularly agreeable before going away. besides this he was +particularly on the word possible... “as po-o-ossible,” he ended, +particularly striking among all these drunken voices by its sober + particularly victorious.” +passed out by a back door, but returned to their places one after the +passing between the companies that had been eating porridge and drinking +passing by kutúzov’s carriage and the exhausted saddle horses of +passionately once more to enjoy that dissipation he was so accustomed to +pass the three officers quite easily, but zherkóv, pushing nesvítski +past the company, and overtook the carriage, still keeping time to the +pathetic smile, as though she too knew that count rostóv deserved this +patroness. she added that her majesty had deigned to show baron funke +paul had exiled him to his country estate had lived there continuously +pause after this mot to give time for its due appreciation. “the +paused. “i am going because the life i am leading here does not suit +pausing. “the only question is what will come of the meeting between +pávlovna. +pávlovna: “educate this bear for me! he has been staying with me +pávlovna had had a cough for some days. she was, as she said, suffering +pávlovna, looking up pensively. +pávlovna’s hand and for some reason drawing it downwards. “arrange +pávlovna’s hand, and screwing up his eyes scanned the whole company. +pávlovna’s was the first he had attended in russia. he knew that all +peace. the old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was +pearls on their bare shoulders, looked at themselves in the brilliantly +peculiar form of beauty. everyone brightened at the sight of this pretty +peculiarly deliberate steps. this feeling of disdain was heightened +people and starting to join the army. you should have seen the state of +“people are always too clever with their eldest children and try to +people,” he went on, turning to anna pávlovna, “he ever was a hero, +people show to everyone when they are happy. +people were in one of the inner rooms, not considering it necessary to +perception befitting a man of the world, he indicated by a movement of +perform! prussia has always declared that buonaparte is invincible, and +“perhaps later on i may tell you, my dear boy, that if i had not been +perhaps, see and take part in the first russian encounter with the +“perhaps the count did not ask for me,” said pierre when he reached +“permit me, princess, to know what is necessary and what is not +personage he was referring to. +personally it would be a pleasure to hand over the supreme command +persons, among them the elderly lady and anna pávlovna, did however +petersburg, and had been expelled from there for riotous conduct and +petersburg. anna mikháylovna, with her tear-worn but pleasant face, +petersburg. but now this head was swaying helplessly with the uneven +petersburg—no one knows who will inherit his immense fortune, pierre +petersburg on the tenth of august, and her son, who had remained in +petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age +petersburg to procure an appointment in the guards for her only son. +pétya! good man!” cried he, addressing pierre. +pe vell. and ve must discuss it as little as po-o-ossible”... he dwelt +philosophizing voice with pleasure. +pick up the glove himself and to pass round the doctors who were not +piercingly. seeing prince andrew she leaned out from behind the apron +pierre. +pierre. +pierre, after all, had not managed to choose a career for himself in +pierre and himself was in the room, and addressed her in a tone of +pierre at the age of ten had been sent abroad with an abbé as tutor, +pierre could not make out what it was all about, and still less what +pierre did not understand a word, but the conviction that all this had +pierre drank one glass after another, looking from under his brows at +pierre gave her an inquiring look. she kissed the young man on his +pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception at anna +pierre had come just at dinnertime and was sitting awkwardly in the +pierre had taken part in tying a policeman to a bear. he had now been +pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved +pierre heard her say: +pierre. he went up to him, took his hand (a thing he never used to do), +pierre. it seemed to him that more than half an hour had elapsed. +pierre listened to the colonel’s speech and nodded approvingly. +pierre looked at her over his spectacles. +pierre looked at his friend and, noticing that he did not like the +pierre looked over his spectacles with naïve surprise, now at him and +pierre looked questioningly at anna mikháylovna to see what he was to +pierre murmured something unintelligible, and continued to look round as +“pierre, my dear, come here. i think he will not be out of place in a +pierre, not knowing whom to answer, looked at them all and smiled. his +pierre reaching the house first went into prince andrew’s study like +pierre rose to help him. +pierre rubbed his forehead. +pierre sat down with his little partner. natásha was perfectly happy; +pierre sat up on the sofa, with his legs tucked under him. +pierre saw that borís wished to change the subject, and being of the +pierre seized the crossbeam, tugged, and wrenched the oak frame out with +pierre’s eyes. +pierre’s hand to show that there was no need to ask the question. he +“pierre!” she said. +pierre shook his head and arms as if attacked by mosquitoes or bees. +pierre’s legitimation? do you understand that in consideration of the +pierre smiled in his good-natured way as if afraid for his companion’s +pierre’s mind was in such a confused state that the word “stroke” +pierre’s outburst anna pávlovna, despite her social experience, was +pierre’s remarks, rose and made a sign to his wife that it was time to +pierre, the one who had behaved so improperly at anna pávlovna’s +pierre threw off his cloak and entered the first room, in which were the +pierre took off his spectacles, which made his face seem different and +pierre turned his whole body, making the sofa creak. he lifted his eager +pierre understood nothing of all this and coloring shyly looked in +pierre was evident. she kept an anxious watch on him when he approached +pierre, was only busy causing him annoyance. +pierre was silent. +pierre was sitting in the drawing room where shinshín had engaged him, +pierre was staying at prince vasíli kurágin’s and sharing the +pierre was still afraid that this officer might inadvertently say +pierre was ungainly. stout, about the average height, broad, with huge +pierre was very fond of. +pierre well knew this large room divided by columns and an arch, its +pierre well remembered this small circular drawing room with its mirrors +pierre went in at the door, stepping on the soft carpet, and noticed +pierre went out. +pierre, who had been growing more and more agitated as he listened to +pierre who has inherited all the property and has besides been +pierre, who was lagging behind, to follow. though he did not see why it +pillows one at a time and shaking them. +pineapple ice. before the ices, champagne was served round. the band +pitied. she has no one, no one. to tell the truth, i don’t need her, +pity for me. why is it?” +place and everything waiting for him in the archives department! isn’t +placed a chair for her. +placed them on the window sill, though it was already quite light. +places. then the strains of the count’s household band were replaced +place! we passed close to the park and saw two deer... and what a +placing the bottle on the window sill where he could reach it easily, +plain that she understood nothing and was so frightened that her +plan chimerical. +player, in spite of the burden of his equipment, rushed out to the front +playing with the ball of worsted as a kitten should. +play. involuntarily he felt a joyful agitation at the thought of the +pleasant smile, as if it were obvious to him that his success must +pleasant smile—his eyelids drooping more than half over his old eyes, +“please, andrew, for my sake!...” +“please be quick,” he said. +pleased!” and he held out his hand to the captain. +“please, denísov, let me lend you some: i have some, you know,” +pleased to take me as an aide-de-camp....” +pleased with. +“please have a look at it”—and kutúzov with an ironical smile +please make way!” +“please, your excellency, for god’s sake!” he kept saying, +pleasure and listened to the conversation of his two neighbors, whom he +pleasure at the sound of the singing and the sight of the dancing +pleasure to herself and to all around her. “i have brought my work,” +pocket and that’s quite simple and is no one else’s business.” +pocket of his riding breeches, with his eyebrows lifted and his mouth +point.” +point. ask denísov whether it is not out of the question for a cadet to +pointing to nicholas, “his friend borís has become an officer, and +police tried to interfere, and what did the young men do? they tied +politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony +politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions +politeness modestly placed himself at the disposal of the circle in +political events. +poorer than the poorest beggar. a thousand thanks, dear friend, for the +poor resources i have for entertaining a woman used to the best society. +porch. his landlord, who in a waistcoat and a pointed cap, pitchfork in +porch. prince andrew got out of the carriage, helped his little wife to +portfolio. +portfolio, and changed her grip. +portfolio she held in her hand. “all i know is that his real will is +portfolio were the only sounds audible, but it was evident that if +portmanteau into the vehicle, “we are to move on still farther. the +portrait (evidently by the hand of the artist belonging to the estate) +position. he made some notes on two points, intending to mention them to +position is now a terrible one,” continued anna mikháylovna, sadly, +position now, peter nikoláevich...” +position of that insignificant individual was such as could certainly +position of the army reached him as he went along, and the appearance of +possessor of the finest fortune in russia. it is rumored that prince +possible. god preserve us from that terrible misfortune! +possible. his conversation was always sprinkled with wittily original, +possible. kutúzov himself with all his transport took the road to +posted on a rather steep incline which dominated the french position. +posted, two men appeared on horse back. they were an aide-de-camp +posting date: january 10, 2009 [ebook #2600] +potëmkins or suvórovs left to oppose him; but he was also convinced +pour vous. *(2) only a hobbledehoy could amuse himself in this +powder,” said prince andrew banteringly yet tenderly. +power.” +powerful nation like russia—barbaric as she is said to be—to place +prancing horse had splashed mud over some foot soldiers. +prater... true, we have no prater here...” +prayed that the daily interview might pass off well. +prearranged sentence. +preening its plumage and became motionless. +pregnant,” said prince andrew, following every movement of his +prejudices, and equality of citizenship, and all these ideas napoleon +prepare a circular, memorandum, or report, skillfully, pointedly, and +prepared to continue, but just then anna pávlovna, who had kept a +presence, i will teach you to behave yourself.” +presented he was as little able as his father to change his opinion. he +present i am free and am all right. only i haven’t the least idea what +present, suddenly pushed forward with a scared and angry look and wanted +preserved all that was good in it—equality of citizenship and freedom +preserve his gravity. +pressed two fingers more and more rigidly to his cap, as if in this +pressure lay his only hope of salvation. +pretending to do something real. prince andrew gaily bore with his +pretense of helping, was in everyone’s way. +pretext. the fact is he has come to see count cyril vladímirovich, +prevented her from going on with it. +pride. “that lawsuit taught me much. when i want to see one of those +priests; “all we relatives have been in such anxiety. this young +prince. +prince.” +prince. and god only knows where your man peter is,” said the other +prince andrew. +prince andrew and his sister, hand in hand, kissed one another, and +prince andrew, beginning to understand that his news of the battle +prince andrew bowed his head in token of having understood from the +prince andrew caught him by the hand. +prince andrew could not understand. +prince andrew during the battle had been in attendance on the austrian +prince andrew, evidently confused. “i know that out of a million +prince andrew felt that either the actions of kutúzov’s army +prince andrew followed her with a courteous but sad expression. +prince andrew frowned again, expressing his annoyance with whoever was +prince andrew gazed with anxious curiosity at that impassive face +prince andrew glanced again at the artillery officer’s small figure. +prince andrew glanced at kutúzov’s face only a foot distant from him +prince andrew had gone out into the hall, and, turning his shoulders +prince andrew, having reached the front line, rode along it. our front +prince andrew, his face distorted with fury, rode up to him and raised +prince andrew kept looking with an amused smile from pierre to the +prince andrew knew how to take his stand so that they respected and even +prince andrew looked anna pávlovna straight in the face with a +prince andrew looked inquiringly at him and gave no reply. +prince andrew looked kindly at him, yet his glance—friendly and +prince andrew looked sternly at her and an expression of anger suddenly +prince andrew moved toward the door from whence voices were heard. +prince andrew nodded to him. he still looked ahead while prince andrew +prince andrew only shrugged his shoulders at pierre’s childish words. +prince andrew replied. then followed other questions just as simple: +prince andrew riding up to the officer. +prince andrew rose, shrugged his shoulders, and walked about the room. +prince andrew saw that the officer was in that state of senseless, +prince andrew’s calm manner of treating everybody, his extraordinary +prince andrew screwed up his eyes and turned away. pierre, who from +prince andrew, seeing that his father insisted, began—at first +prince andrew shrugged his shoulders. +prince andrew sighed and made no reply. +prince andrew’s joyous feeling was considerably weakened as he +prince andrew smiled. +prince andrew smiled as he looked at his sister, as we smile at those we +prince andrew smiled involuntarily as he looked at the artillery officer +prince andrew smiled ironically. +prince andrew stayed at brünn with bilíbin, a russian acquaintance of +prince andrew stood right in front of kutúzov but the expression of +prince andrew stopped short. +prince andrew. they had known each other previously in petersburg, but +prince andrew told his driver to stop, and asked a soldier in what +prince andrew was one of those rare staff officers whose chief interest +prince andrew was silent, but the princess noticed the ironical and +prince andrew was surveying the position, was the easiest and most +prince andrew was to leave next evening. the old prince, not altering +prince andrew when he drove up to the palace felt even more vigorous and +prince andrew, who had evidently wished to tone down the awkwardness of +prince andrew without lifting his eyes rode hastily away from the +“prince auersperg is on this, on our side of the river, and is +prince bagratión, having reached the highest point of our right flank, +prince bagratión rode an officer of the suite, the prince’s personal +prince bagratión screwed up his eyes, looked round, and, seeing the +prince, but could not get it quite right.) +prince hippolyte approached the little princess and, bending his face +prince hippolyte, having brought the workbag, joined the circle and +prince hippolyte hurriedly put on his cloak, which in the latest fashion +prince hippolyte was lolling in a lounge chair with his legs over its +prince hippolyte, who had been gazing at the vicomte for some time +prince? how priceless are those last moments! it can make things no +“prince, humanum est errare, * but...” replied the doctor, +prince, she prepared to listen. +prince’s household. general in chief prince nicholas andréevich +princess and prince vasíli, recovering themselves, followed her. a few +princess, and stared fixedly at her through his eyeglass. +princess anna mikháylovna intervened in the conversation, evidently +“princess drubetskáya to see prince vasíli sergéevich,” he called +“princesse, au revoir,” cried he, stumbling with his tongue as well +princesses, sat in a corner knitting a stocking. pierre had never been +princesses spent most of their time, he greeted the ladies, two of whom +princesses was coming to take her turn at watching. “let us go.” +princess’ face. she took it quickly and bent her head over it. +princess had been crying after dinner and had spoken of her forebodings +princess hélène, prince vasíli’s daughter, and the little princess +princess. i am at your command.’ yes, he is a fine fellow and a very +“princess, i must warn you,” she added, lowering her voice and +princess, looking at anna mikháylovna as at a stranger. +princess mary could not understand the boldness of her brother’s +princess mary did not listen to the end, but continuing her train of +princess mary looked at her brother in surprise. she did not understand +princess mary rose and moved to the door, then stopped and said: +princess mary was first surprised and then aghast at this question. +princess mary went back to her room with the sad, scared expression that +princess never saw the beautiful expression of her own eyes—the look +princess’ room, a carriage containing pierre (who had been sent for) +princess rose. “it’s now two o’clock and you dine at four. there +princess suddenly, her pretty face all at once distorted by a tearful +princess, turning away and continuing to read. but julie did not flatter +princess went in with the drink she had prepared according to +princess with a pleased smile, as to an intimate acquaintance. +princess with the expression women assume when they suppose they are +prince’s things in my bedroom,” said he to the servant who was +prince to get up, tíkhon came to call the young prince to his father. +prince vasíli always spoke languidly, like an actor repeating a stale +prince vasíli and the eldest princess were sitting close together +“prince vasíli arrived in moscow yesterday. i hear he has come on +prince vasíli became thoughtful and frowned. anna mikháylovna saw that +prince vasíli bent his head and spread out his hands. +prince vasíli came next. he staggered to the sofa on which pierre was +prince vasíli did not reply, though, with the quickness of memory and +prince vasíli kept the promise he had given to princess drubetskáya +prince vasíli looked questioningly at the princess, but could not make +prince vasíli rose. “oh!” said he with reproach and surprise, +prince vasíli said no more and his cheeks began to twitch nervously, +prince vasíli saw the princess off. she held a handkerchief to her eyes +prince vasíli’s daughter, the beautiful hélène, came to take her +prince vasíli’s face so out of keeping with his dignity that pierre +prince vasíli smiled. +“prince vasíli’s son, he, and a certain dólokhov have, it is said, +prince vasíli stared at her and at borís questioningly and perplexed. +prince vasíli was seated in an easy chair in his familiar attitude, +prince vasíli wished to obtain this post for his son, but others were +private and had not seen fit to recognize him. but now that kutúzov had +privilege of admiring her beautiful figure and shapely shoulders, +“probably,” said prince andrew moving toward the outer door. +probably think it easy to gain victories!” he thought. his eyes +probably to strengthen the front line. the smoke of the first shot had +problems in higher mathematics, turning snuffboxes on a lathe, working +proceeding as usual. denísov, who had been losing at cards all night, +produced an effect she glanced at anna pávlovna, at once adopted just +progress. would you believe it, i have literally not a penny and don’t +projects for peace, a secret peace concluded separately.” +prominent gray eyes. then she shook her head and glanced up at the icons +promised? nothing! and what little they have promised they will not +promised not to forget him, distinguished him above the other adjutants, +promise of rising in his diplomatic career. he was still a young man but +promise to prince andrew was of no account, because before he gave it +promotion. +promotion...” +proper, and regular motion. but amid these cares her anxiety about +prospect of spending an evening with a poor invalid is not too terrible, +proverb says,” remarked shinshín, moving his pipe to the other side +p.s. let me have news of your brother and his charming little wife. +puckering up his face though smiling, and showing his short strong +pulling him by the chain and trying to set him at the others. +purse. +purse and, drawing its rings aside with his small, white, turned-up +purse undah the pillow,” he said, and went out to the quartermaster. +pursued by the french army of a hundred thousand men under the command +pushed back in the sitting room where the count and márya dmítrievna +pushed the guns and wagons themselves. whips cracked, hoofs slipped, +put a little aside and to send something to my father,” he went on, +put it in a carriage, and set off with it to visit some actresses! the +put it off. perhaps god will help me to find a way to prepare him!... +putting them down. when they’ve been put down, the war with buonaparte +puzzled the devil himself! when you get there you’ll find out what +quartermaster for the money.” +quartermaster’s presence. +quarter of an hour between two fires.” +quarters and riding up to captain timókhin who was walking in front. +quarters near braunau, where they hoped to receive boots and clothes and +queer,” he added after a pause, “that you should have suspected +“qu’ est-ce qu’il chante?” * asked a frenchman. +questioned prince andrew about the details of his interview with the +questions of health, sometimes in russian and sometimes in very bad but +questions that might be put to him and the answers he would give. he +quick. +quickly as possible. +quickly. prince bagratión, uttering his words with an oriental accent, +quickly roused himself with a feeling of joy, as if learning afresh that +quickly turned away, a scarcely perceptible smile flitting over his +quick or the enemy will bring up his guns to use grapeshot.” +quietly and humorously how he had known that doll mimi when she was +quietly and said in a whisper: “please walk in.” +quilt. the eyes and face of the sick man showed impatience. he made an +quite astonishing. how did you get things settled? i couldn’t possibly +quite certain. ah! it is very dreadful...” +quite mistaken if you reckon me or my mother among such people. we are +quite opposite reputations. some, a minority, acknowledged him to be +quite remember how, but don’t you remember that it could all be +“quite right,” said the englishman. +quite true; he had been indebted to her father for the first steps in +“quite well? all right then, sit down.” he took the exercise book +quivering in his breast and a tickling in his nose, and tears dimmed his +quoting one of his own mots, releasing the wrinkles on his forehead, and +radiantly on her beautiful face. pierre gazed at her with rapturous, +rage, “who are you? are you in command here? eh? i am commander here, +railings. he looked back laughing to the cossack who stood a few +raising his eyebrows. +raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspiring head, smiling +ran forward on each such occasion, fearing to miss a single word of the +range and wipe them out?” these were the questions each man of the +rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. anna +rank—“i thank you for myself and for our two dear ones whose name +ranks. +ranks in this regiment.” +ran rapidly over the wide space, but he only saw that the hitherto +rapidity. he again vividly recalled the details of the battle, no longer +rapid retreat. austrian troops that had escaped capture at ulm and had +rarely left her and which made her plain, sickly face yet plainer. she +rascality....” +rate he glanced at the refractory arm, at pierre’s terror-stricken +rather confine ourselves to studying those sublime rules which our +rather short, as if surprised that anyone should not know him. +ratify it; but it is only a trick. march on, destroy the russian +rattle on the bridge as if nuts were being spilt, and the hussar nearest +rays of gentle light shone from her large, timid eyes. those eyes lit +reached bagratión, the weighty tread of the mass of men marching in +reached to his very heels, and, stumbling in it, ran out into the porch +reaching the large house near the horse guards’ barracks, in which +“read this if you like, father,” said the princess, blushing still +ready to embrace the countess at the appropriate moment. +really all the same to me when my son’s fate is at stake.” the +really...” but he did not say what “it really” was. “for the +“really i don’t care about that, i don’t care at all,” said +“really, i don’t yet know. i don’t like either the one or the +“really, truly!” answered natásha, pushing in a crisp lock that had +real state of french public opinion.” +reappeared. +reason for rejoicing, they looked at each other with joyful delight and +reason of her friend’s sorrow, “i’m sure véra has said something +reasons for buonaparte’s hatred of him. +recalling bilíbin’s words. +received. +received as a savior.” +received. a thanksgiving service was arranged, kutúzov was awarded +received by the emperor. had you heard?” +received him with distinction and special marks of favor, explaining to +received was shown him. a strange lady, the one who had been talking to +reception. +reception hall: michael ivánovich, mademoiselle bourienne, princess +recognized as legitimate; so that he is now count bezúkhov and +recognized him and stopped to listen to what he was saying. dólokhov +recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it. that is the one +recommended to the empress) and at the same time to console him, so she +recruiting. none of them had yet seen the manifesto, but they all knew +red hands; he did not know, as the saying is, how to enter a drawing +red patches appeared on princess mary’s face and she was silent as if +red. several battalions of soldiers, in their shirt sleeves despite +refined french in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and +reform by marrying him to prince andrew’s sister. +regarding him with a smile of approbation. +regard to this project of marriage for me, i will tell you, dear sweet +regimental commander cooling down a little. “leave indeed.... one says +regimental commander hung his head, silently shrugged his shoulders, and +regimental commander, overtaking the third company on its way to its +regimental commander was nicknamed king of hearts). +regiment, and bogdánich knows it. oh, we do prize it, old fellow! and +regiment but was not liked; rostóv especially detested him and was +regiment had been broken up. all he knew was that at the commencement +regiment had just the appearance of any russian regiment preparing for +regiment—instead of the straggling, disorderly crowd it had been on +regiment next to no time, my lad, you’re here today and tomorrow +regiment, saying he was not such a fool as to slave at the front when he +regret. drawing rooms, gossip, balls, vanity, and triviality—these are +regret her words. but she went on hurriedly: +regularity in his household was carried to the highest point of +regular order. +reinforce the right flank. the officer of the suite ventured to remark +rejects all knowledge that does not come from him; and the less we seek +relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the +relays. +reluctantly, but gradually with more and more animation, and from habit +remained on the farther side of the bridge facing the enemy, who could +remains of supper. a footman, thinking no one saw him, was drinking on +remain stationary in face of an enemy eight times as strong as itself. +remarked. “well, sit down: let’s have a talk.” +remarks at him, though without looking at him. +remembered it three months before, when the count had sent him to +remember how we and nicholas, all three of us, talked in the sitting +“remember that you will answer for the consequences,” said prince +repeated from the opening words of the manifesto: +repeating the terms of the bet, addressing himself particularly to +repeating the terms of the wager to him in english. +repeating to himself at each alternate step, “left... left... +repented and added: “i am glad; really, dear, i am very glad.” +replied. +replied, “and it is that he would be merciful to him and would allow +replied, and the four simply looked at one another. she lingered in the +replied borís, betraying neither annoyance at the prince’s brusque +replied prince vasíli. +reply. +reply to his look, and went still faster along the passage. +report, and began deliberately to examine the whole battlefield extended +reports from our scouts. here are two letters from count nostitz and +reports one after another, and a third. +reports that prince auersperg was defending vienna?” he said. +representative but one of the great century, and that it is his own +reproached him for not having stayed at the palace, and offered him +repulsed, he had lost more than half his men. he said the attack +required papers. kutúzov and the austrian member of the hofkriegsrath +rescue. pierre had managed to start a conversation with the abbé about +resolute in the discharge of duty, ran out and touching pierre lightly +resolved not to be the first to break silence, if she had to wait till +resounded on the planks of the bridge, and the squadron, officers in +respected and feared her. +respectfully when the military governor, having stayed about half an +respect, he had decided that it would be a good thing to set fire to the +responsibility. but circumstances are sometimes too strong for us, +responsibility of that deed.” +rest, and then...” +rested on prince andrew’s face. +resting, and to halt facing vienna with znaim to his rear, and if he +restrained animation as he stood sipping tea from a delicate chinese +restraining her angry tears. +resumed her duties as hostess and continued to listen and watch, ready +resumed its former cold, artificial expression. she returned to the +retreat to the dip by echelons.” so he reasoned.... all the time + return.” +returned from them dragging sheep, fowls, hay, and bulging sacks. at +returned to moscow and went straight to her rich relations, the +returned to petersburg quite crestfallen. +returning his smile. +returning to his hobby; “tell me how the germans have taught you to +returning to the town. the commander in chief made a sign that the +return to her the whole evening. +reverence and was beyond question. +revoir! ”—and she left the hall. +revolution, which has become more terrible than ever in the person of +rich?” +riding a fine bobtailed horse, and a civilian—an accountant who had +rid them of the bourbons and because they saw that he was a great +right across the skull. having said this he glanced at natásha. +right hand, which was lying palm downwards, a wax taper had been thrust +right light.... in my opinion perpetual peace is possible but—i do not +rightly supposes that matters have already gone too far. i think it will +right. selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that’s what +right—serve him. nicholas bolkónski’s son need not serve under +rights of man, is sentenced to...” but before pierre—who at that +ring, cried from the window: “come here; part the bets!” this was +ringing, deliberate voice. “i ask an opportunity to atone for my fault +risen and was going toward his room. +rite which everyone expected of him, and that he was therefore bound +river flowed was formed by the rising ground only half a mile away. +rivulet flowed, the soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was +road. bagratión’s exhausted and hungry detachment, which alone +rode past the limbers to the farthest cannon. +rolled softly over the straw beneath the windows, anna mikháylovna, +rolling them up. márya dmítrievna always spoke in russian. +roof lit up by the sun? no one knows, but one wants to know. you fear +rook—a handsome horse despite its game leg—had the happy air of a +room after supper? why, we settled how everything was to be. i don’t +room. all were silent. +room and still less how to leave one; that is, how to say something +room. denísov silently watched lavrúshka’s movements, and when the +room, grew silent and gazed with eyes full of curiosity or expectancy at +room,” he said. +room. no one spoke and the only sounds heard were the clatter of knives +room. the countess reflected a moment and took a pinch from a gold +room. the prince stood still; his lively glittering eyes from under +room to write to his father, to whom he wrote every day. in the corridor +room, where you will be ranged side by side with a court lackey and an +room with a look of alarm. between twelve and two o’clock, as the +room without a word. but at the door he stopped and then retraced his +room with the inkstand in her hand. +rose and with her heavy tread went up to the table. she took a sheet of +rose, by a glance inviting pierre, who sat opposite, to listen to what +rose from an ensign and became emperor. well, well, god grant it,” he +rostóv, absorbed by his relations with bogdánich, had paused on the +rostóv, and sighing deeply he took rook, his horse, which stood resting +rostóv did not speak. +rostóv did not think what this call for stretchers meant; he ran on, +rostóv felt denísov’s gaze fixed on him, raised his eyes, and +rostóv, growing red and pale alternately, looked first at one officer +rostóv heard. +rostóv, his eyes avoiding denísov, began buttoning his coat, buckled +rostóv’s and back, and back again and again in an instant. +rostóv saw nothing but the hussars running all around him, their spurs +rostóv shrugged his shoulders as much as to say: “nor do i, but +rostóvs, with whom she stayed when in the town and where her darling +rostóv thrust the purse under the pillow and shook the damp little hand +rostóv took the money and, mechanically arranging the old and new coins +rostóv took the money, avoiding telyánin’s eyes, and went out of the +rostóv took the purse in his hand, examined it and the money in it, and +rostóv waved his cap above his head like the german and cried laughing, +rostóv went to telyánin’s quarters. +rostóv wiping his muddy hands on his breeches looked at his enemy and +rostóv, without returning home, took a horse and rode there. there was +rosy, was sitting in an easy chair with her work in her hands, talking +round and clapping rostóv on the shoulder with his big hand. +round and notices here a spindle that has stopped or there one that +round an open window. three others were romping with a young bear, one +round márya dmítrievna, now on his toes, now on his heels; until, +round-shouldered captain túshin, stumbling over the tail of the gun +round the two corners of the mouth; this, together with the resolute, +“rousseau’s contrat social,” said the vicomte with a tolerant +rows of faces so alike yet so different, holding its breath while the +rows of statues in niches) and looking significantly at the lady’s old +royalist emigrant. +rubbing his bald head and angrily pulling back toward him the little +rubles a year? and,” he went on after a pause, “what will it be in +rubles, dólokhov lived with him and had placed himself on such a +rum without taking it from my mouth, sitting outside the window on this +running into sónya’s room and not finding her there, natásha ran to +running to the door and the noise of a chair falling over, and a girl +rushed out apparently beside herself with delight. +rushing at the cadet to restrain him. +rush to obey the summons. “send dmítri to me!” +russian army found vent in anger at zherkóv’s untimely jest. + russian army, i must say that your victory was not +russian army loots terribly—her army is destroyed, her capital +russian army will be fully equipped, and shall then, in conjunction with +russian bath. the movement of these wrinkles formed the principal play +russian musketeer who had gone up to the picket line with an officer and +russian on which he wished to put a contemptuous emphasis. +russians fought, the only consequence of these actions was a yet more +russians from krems to znaim. +russian troops and their commander of the laurels they have been +russian troops were crossing the river enns. at midday the russian +russia were settling near the fortress of braunau and burdening the +saber which had caught in his cloak. it was an old-fashioned saber of +sacrament, allow him a moment’s peace! here, pierre, tell them your +sacrament. the dying man lay as lifeless and immovable as before. around +sacrificed everything for his sake!” she cried. “it’s splendid! +sacrificed myself. but only the base, the vile succeed! i know who has +saddle, he galloped to the other flank of the squadron and shouted in +sadness, and this occurred every time she mentioned her illustrious +sad voice, as if saying: “very well, finish me off.” +said. +said: +said a tall, grizzly-haired staff captain, with enormous mustaches and +said bilíbin as he came out to meet prince andrew. “franz, put the +said dólokhov. +said he. +said he. “now for trouble!” rostóv looked out of the window and +said it, and they all felt awkward. +said prince andrew, as he entered the study, rubbing his small white +said prince andrew who had not yet had time to eat anything. +said rostóv, blushing. +said rostóv in an imploring voice, “but i can’t apologize, by god i +said she in french, displaying her bag and addressing all present. +said she, uttering the word with peculiar assurance and unconcern, “i +said shinshín, laughing ironically and mixing the most ordinary russian +said: “that’s bad! go on, go on.” +said the countess. “but i am in great need of this sum.” +said the general, turning to an artillery officer. “have a little fun +said: “then i will go to my rooms. you will let me know when i can see +said the old soldier dismally to a comrade, “you’ll forget to +said the princess, ignoring his question. “now i know! yes; if i have +said to her, went to the looking glass and arranged her hair and scarf. +said yesterday... let him grow up with you.... please.” +said zherkóv. +sake that the latter might say something he would afterwards regret. +same!” +same?” +same expression, which seemed to say that he had a right to suppose +same firm pressure of the hand and the same quick, repeated bows. as +same mind he began explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the +same!” pierre often indulged in reflections of this sort, nullifying +same state of excitement as when she had slammed the door of her room. +same time felt shy. +same. you’ll be all right anywhere. but look here: give up visiting +sang the quartette, “the brook,” with which everyone was delighted. +sarcastic smile. +sat down at her writing table, on which stood miniature portraits and +satisfaction. +satisfied with him?” he asked the regimental commander. +sat up and began wiping her eyes and explaining. +sat waiting for something, and again soldiers straggling from their +sausages and a bottle of wine. +saviour’s words, that it is easier for a camel to go through the +saw—covered to the waist by a bright green quilt—the familiar, +saw denísov coming home. denísov was a small man with a red face, +saw friendly looks and heard friendly words. yesterday’s adjutant +saw his smile, which said nothing, unless perhaps, “opinions are +say. +saying. +saying, and sat plunged in thought. five minutes later, gently swaying +saying something witty and stinging. +saying that the russian ladies are not equal to the french? one has to +saying this he again turned round, dropped his hands, took the bottle +say something but could not. her brother had guessed right: the little +say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and +scabbard and flourishing it. +sca’cwow? call the quahtehmasteh,” he shouted to lavrúshka. +scarred and puffy face. +schérer.” +schérer, maid of honor and favorite of the empress márya fëdorovna. +schönbrunn, 25th brumaire, 1805, +“schon fleissig?” * said rostóv with the same gay brotherly smile +schoolboy called up before a large audience for an examination in which +“schubert, the colonel of the pávlograd hussars, is dining with us +scoundrel is again at our heels!” +scoundrel? is that how you look at it? we don’t see it like that. and +scratch from one paragraph to another with his hard nail. +scratch yourself.” +screams, continued. +screams kept repeating: +screwing up his eyes and shaking with suppressed laughter, and unable +search of somebody and answered all her questions in monosyllables. he +seat. + second epilogue +“second line... have you written it?” he continued dictating to the +secretary of the russian embassy, do not feel any need in token of my +sedate, and the naïveté of his youthful egotism was so obvious, that +see his face. anna mikháylovna left him, and when she returned he was +“see how smart she’s made herself! oh, the devils!” +see how these nestlings are growing up,” and she pointed to the girls. +seeing anna mikháylovna and her son, prince vasíli dismissed the +seem. +seemed confused and blushed as if not knowing what to say. +seemed loaded with a whole houseful of effects. a fine brindled cow with +seemed ready to lift its tail, jump down on its soft paws, and begin +seemed to be poles—all under the russian crown—but here they’re +seemed to be seeking something, and soldiers dragging doors, benches, +seemed to groan at the terrible impact. +seemed to hear left... left... left. +seemed to him that bogdánich rode so near in order to show him his +seemed to me to have an excellent heart, and that is the quality i value +seemed to wish, but to be unable, to diminish its effect. +seeming to grow suddenly smaller, and respectfully received the blessing +seen him since we acted together at the rumyántsovs’ theatricals. i +seen. prince andrew stopped and began examining the position. +seen. the lines of that mouth were remarkably finely curved. the middle +see the soldiers’ shaggy caps, distinguish the officers from the men, +see whether it was firmly plaited, and grasping his by the hand. “the +see you,” he added, bowing his head. +self-confidence, while his body was thin and weak. his eyes, nose, and +self-confident french; then again, like a man weary but unflinching in +self-satisfied. +self-satisfied, youthful, and constant smile of animation, and by the +“sell me the missis,” said another soldier, addressing the german, +“semën! do you know the daniel cooper?” +sensation of fear and respect which the old man inspired in all around +sentiments,” he seemed to be saying, “so much the worse for you!” +sent instead of our dear wintzingerode you would have captured the king +sent to moscow. the story told about him at count rostóv’s was true. +sent you. religious! i don’t interfere with anyone’s belief... i +separately through his thin compressed lips, “i will throw him down +separation! though i tell myself that half my life and half my happiness +sergeant in charge of the cannon which was to give the signal to fire +sergeant was carrying in a wooden bowl to an officer who sat on a log +seriousness of his stupid smile, could not but give him a moment’s +serious tone, “but the prince told me to ‘go and tell the colonel +servants say in a frightened whisper. “catch hold from underneath. +servants with lanterns were bustling about in the porch. the immense +serve him. rostóv patted the horse’s neck and then his flank, and +service. a little behind them stood the two younger princesses holding +service... it can’t be helped... one is sometimes a bit hasty on +serving our tsar and our country, rejoicing in the successes and +set off to rejoin the army, not knowing where he would find it and +setting it on fire and the french batteries were now firing at them, no +setting, on a finely wrought silver chain. +settled down comfortably beside the fire. +settled into three groups. one, chiefly masculine, had formed round +“settled!” replied borís. +set without whom my wife cannot exist, and those women.... if you only +seven in the morning but had not reached it by five in the afternoon.” +“seven new and three old imperials.” +severely. “you don’t wish to apologize, but, man, it’s not only to +severity. the dance grew livelier and livelier. the other couples could +shading his eyes with his small hand. +shadow of the wall. pausing for a moment, pierre noticed several other +shako on the back of his head. he came up to the porch gloomily, hanging +shall reproach my wife with anything, and i cannot reproach myself +“shall we have time to change clothes?” +share defeat and disgrace with kutúzov’s whole army.” +sharply, with a slight trembling of the lower jaw, “i can’t prevent +shawl had been adjusted he kept his arm around her for a long time, as +she added hurriedly. “no, don’t be angry, but promise! i have asked +she added, turning to her hostess. “you wrote that it was to be quite +she became still more animated and chattered away giving him greetings +she began to smile and talk. he asked about mutual acquaintances, and +she brought into princess mary’s strenuous, mournful, and gloomy +she came up fearless and gay to kiss her hand. “i know she’s a scamp +she caught the young officer by his cuffs, and a look of solemnity and +she crossed herself, kissed the icon, and handed it to andrew. +shed, and its tone was so sincere that he could not but listen. +she faltered. “you are on good terms with michael ilariónovich +she felt guilty. +she gave her companion an angry glance. +she grew confused, glanced round, and, seeing the doll she had thrown +she had a fan in her hand that one of the ladies had given her to hold. +she had been married during the previous winter, and being pregnant did +she had finished speaking to him, and now he continued to speak to +she had first entered the room—the smile of a perfectly beautiful +she had just vacated. “you have made the place warm, i must say,” he +she had learned it) she talked with her partner, fanning herself and +she had spoken to hippolyte in the drawing room and which was so plainly +she has a brother; i think you know him, he married lise meinen lately. +she hurriedly ascended the narrow dimly lit stone staircase, calling to +she led him into the dark drawing room and pierre was glad no one could +“she let the hawk fly upward from her wide right sleeve,” went the +she looked round and seeing that her friend was not in the room ran to +she looked timidly at her brother. +shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, +she moved toward anna pávlovna. hélène was so lovely that not only +she must be on the chest in the passage. the chest in the passage was +“she needs rest,” said prince andrew with a frown. “don’t you, +she pushed the little dog off her lap and smoothed her dress. +she rose and smoothed her hair, which was as usual so extremely smooth +“she said.... oh yes! she said, ‘girl,’ to the maid, ‘put on a +she said, trying to smile though tears were in her eyes. +she seemed that day to be more than ever kind and affectionate to +she smiled as she uttered his pet name, “andrúsha.” it was +she suddenly paused, smiling at her own impetuosity. +she took a pair of pear-shaped ruby earrings from her huge reticule and, +she took his arm and with a happy face went with him into the adjoining +she tried to pass anna mikháylovna, but the latter sprang so as to bar +she turned away and gave her hand to the count, who could hardly keep +she turned away from him and glanced at her younger brother, who was +she turned to go, but he stopped her with a gesture and took an uncut +she understood all the gravity of her friend’s trouble. +(she used the word “diplomat,” which was just then much in vogue +she was dancing with a grown-up man, who had been abroad. she was +“she was so tired that she has fallen asleep on the sofa in my room. +“she went. suddenly there was a great wind. the girl lost her hat and +“she will go to the country.” +shinshín, a cousin of the countess’, a man with “a sharp tongue” +shinshín. “he has stopped austria’s cackle and i fear it will be +shirt, and in every knapsack the appointed number of articles, “awl, +shod in a tartar boot embroidered with silver, and the firm pressure +shooting at you like a target.” +short sturdy figure with the sinewy hairy hand and stumpy fingers in +shoulder and taking his feet off the sofa. +shoulders and dropped his eyes as if startled by something extraordinary +shoulders and eyes, almost closing the latter, sighed, and moved away +shoulders. anna mikháylovna with just the same movement raised her +shoulders, turned out his toes, tapped gently with his foot, and, by +shoulder, their bayonets interlocking, moved over the bridge in a dense +should get not more than two hundred rubles every four months, even +shouted. +shouted denísov in a bloodthirsty tone. +shouted denísov, suddenly, turning purple and rushing at the man with +shouted the regimental commander, thrusting forward his jaw and pointing +shouted to him: +showed a paper she held in her hand—with the verses nicholas had +showed greatness of soul by not fearing to take on himself the whole +showed that, in spite of all his love and respect for his father, he was +show her over, and they’ll talk nineteen to the dozen. that’s +showing the creases where it had been folded and thick gold epaulettes +showing the spot where it burst. +shudder of disgust. +“shut up!” cried dólokhov, pushing him away from the window. the +sick man had been laid in a stately pose in keeping with the ceremony +side of the question and you will see that your duty, on the contrary, +side (only now did pierre realize how near death his father was), and +sídorov, turning to the french, winked, and began to jabber meaningless +sighed. “i have loved you like a son from the first. trust yourself to + sighing its message out to thee... +sight of murat’s mantle and ostrich plumes, qu’il n’y voit que du +sight of tears and was ready to cry himself. +significantly at her husband) “i’m afraid, i’m afraid!” she +sign of strength. +signs to the footmen, and anxiously glancing from the clock to the door +sign that this was exactly what he had desired and expected. turning +silence and the regular tramp of feet beating the ground in unison, one +silence at princess anna mikháylovna. after her talk with pierre, anna +silence ensued. the countess looked at her callers, smiling affably, +silent. +silent and seemed confused. the prince asked her about her father, and +silent as he passed by, and moved to make way for him. at first pierre +silent. at first kutúzov stood still while the regiment moved; then he +silently, with the languid interest of sick children, at the envoy +silent prayer. every morning she came in like that, and every morning +silken hangings. on leaving the bed both prince vasíli and the princess +sill, leaned over, and looked down. +sill. “listen!” cried he, standing there and addressing those in the +sill to attract attention. “wait a bit, kurágin. listen! if +simply looking at him. +since early morning—despite an injunction not to approach the picket +since his appointment as commander in chief. he told me himself that +since then pierre had not been disturbed and had spent the whole time in +“singers to the front” came the captain’s order. +sir, for shame! it would be better if you went to the war.” +sister, catiche, with a vicious and determined look steadily fixed on +sister-in-law’s friendship for you. she was not expecting us?” +sister’s, but while in her case everything was lit up by a joyous, +sister’s room his wife was already awake and her merry voice, hurrying +sister,” was all she said, in a dry and mournful tone. +sister with the mole. +sit down! sit down, michael ivánovich!” +sitting and dropped onto it, covering his face with his hand. pierre +sitting close to nicholas who was copying out some verses for her, the +sitting down beside him she began to speak about his father; but he +sitting here in almost the same positions as before, whispering to one +sitting in a conspicuous place and talking to him like a grown-up lady. +sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself +sitting room. +sitting so for a while he rose, and, looking about him with frightened +situation it occurred to him that it was he who was destined to lead it +sixth chasseurs whom they had just passed. prince andrew was struck by +sixth stroke. the doctors pronounced recovery impossible. after a mute +skittles,” said he in conclusion. +sleep at night. come now, where has this great commander of yours shown +sleeves!” said anna mikháylovna, pointing to nicholas as he went out. +slender little girl. +slightly open, as if to say, “yes, yes, i am putting my purse in my +slightly sarcastic smile. “i am borís, son of princess anna +slight smile he began to examine his nails. +small but distinctly visible enemy column was moving down the hill, +small old man, with powdered wig, small withered hands, and bushy gray +“smart lads! only fit for a fair!” said one. +smash something. pushing away the footmen he tugged at the frame, but +smeared with chalk—as white as flour! i suppose they polish him up as +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile, and engaged the smiling julie in a confidential conversation +smile, and pronouncing the phrase “knocked out” with ringing +smiled and interrupted him. +smile of satisfaction and presented a strange appearance among the +smile on his lips change. +smile was unlike the half-smile of other people. when he smiled, +smiling at his reassuring thoughts. +smiling, but in spite of herself her eyes under their thick long lashes +smiling. “cela nous convient à merveille.*(2) suvórov now—he knew +smiling joyfully; and snatching the shawl from the footman, whom he +smilingly inclining his head. +smiling over the fan. +smoke, and an officer catching sight of bagratión rushed shouting after +smoke spasmodically and screwing up his eyes. this was an old bachelor, +smoke. the excited faces of the soldiers were blackened with it. some +smoking and talking. he neither smoked nor talked, but bending his head +smooth as a sign that the conversation was at an end. +smoothing down her dress with an inquiring look at her mother, when +snacks.” +snuffbox with her husband’s portrait on it. +so. and, in fact, the last letter he had received from mack’s army +soap, and all,” as the soldiers say. there was only one circumstance +so beautiful that very often in spite of the plainness of her face +so, but you have no sense about women. what an argumentative fellow you +society. +society, and so her position now is not a rosy one. we should enter into +society had lost her former influential connections. she had now come to +society, more especially of the feminine society, in which i have had +society woman to be buried in the country during the best years of her +so convulsively that her bare little shoulders shook. natásha’s +so delighted...” came the sounds of animated feminine voices, +so for friendship’s sake he is leaving the university and me, his +soft steps of the footmen. at one end of the table sat the countess with +so he simply held out his bristly cheek (as yet unshaven) and, regarding +so ill that he may die at any moment, and dr. lorrain has come from +“so it does,” thought pierre. +so it seems to me.” +soldier after camp life. despite his rapid journey and sleepless night, +soldier and the gay and smartly marching men. in the second file +soldier. “i’ll teach you to push on!... back!” +soldier of forty—looked sternly at the singers and screwed up his +soldiers, after a twenty-mile march, were kept mending and cleaning all +soldiers and officers of various regiments, they saw on their left some +soldiers’ boots. more than half the men’s boots were in holes. but +soldiers forming the picket line, like showmen exhibiting a curiosity, +soldiers held him while two others were flourishing their switches and +soldiers lifted the canteen lids to their lips with reverential faces, +soldiers passed in a semicircle round something where the ball had +soldiers. the company marched on gaily. the soldiers’ voices could be +soldiers to change into their greatcoats. the company commanders ran off +soldiers. “where are you shoving to? devil take you! can’t you wait? +soldier three gold pieces. +soldier with a wagon, who was pressing onto the infantrymen who were +soldier, with his clear blue eyes, stepped forward from the ranks, went +solemn interest and silent approval. the aunt spoke to each of them in +someday i will tell you about our parting and all that was said then. +some flash as of an electric spark shot from telyánin’s eyes to +“some herb vodka? certainly!” said túshin. “but still, to +some inspection business,” remarked the visitor. +some in the sitting room, some in the library. +some men who, carrying pails, came running downstairs, their boots +someone rich and distinguée, and it is on you that his relations’ +someone to fire at. +something.” +something as she whispered: +something big, that splashed into the water. +something disconcerting to himself. +something like qualms of conscience. she had reminded him of what was +something striking and took part in a conversation only when that was +something to drink?” +sometimes four abreast. from all sides, behind and before, as far as ear +sometimes like a chip of wood whirling in the river, an hussar on foot, +sometimes on his way back from the anteroom he would pass through the +sometimes spend a whole night at his writing table. he worked well +some twenty men of his suite. these gentlemen talked among themselves +somewhere below his throat rushed to his face and eyes. he could not +somewhere beyond them. the hussars did not look round, but at the sound +son.” +song. +song, arousing an involuntary sensation of courage and cheerfulness. +son, ilyá? only fancy, i didn’t know you at first. do you remember +son made no rejoinder, but it was evident that whatever arguments were +son’s affair hushed up, but even he was ordered out of petersburg.” +son’s arrival: he gave orders to admit him to his apartments while +son, sat at the table writing. he glanced round. +son; sónya, the count’s fifteen-year-old niece, and little pétya, +son’s when speaking to him that afternoon, “believe me i suffer no +sónya and fat little pétya doubled up with laughter. +sónya could not continue, and again hid her face in her hands and in +sónya did not pull it away, and left off crying. natásha, not stirring +“sónya, don’t believe her, darling! don’t believe her! do you +sónya sat up. the little kitten brightened, its eyes shone, and it +sónya, shaking off some down which clung to her and tucking away the +“sónya,” she suddenly exclaimed, as if she had guessed the true +sónya trembled all over and blushed to her ears and behind them and +“sónya! what is anyone in the world to me? you alone are +“sónya! what is it? what is the matter?... oo... oo... oo...!” and +“sónya, what is the matter with you? how can you?” said he, running +soon as he had seen a visitor off he returned to one of those who were +soon as the conversation concerned himself he would begin to talk +sooner?” +“só-o-onya! look here! how can you torture me and yourself like that, +soothe him. +sophie—i can’t repeat them—that it made the count quite ill and he +sophie, the rosy, laughter-loving, youngest princess with the mole, +sorrowful, and all-forgiving expression on her face, stood by the door +sort—(le sort de l’armée d’ulm).” * he remembered these words +so that his mouth, the most striking feature of his face, was clearly +so that she felt herself surrounded on all sides by the acrid scent of + * so that squares matters. +“so that’s what they hit with?” asked the accountant. “how +so the swishing sound of the strokes, and the desperate but unnatural +so the worse the condition it was in, the better pleased the commander +“so they will,” said nesvítski. “no, but what i should like,” +so to me? what have i done to you? you are going to the war and have no +soul to see such men as the old count and his worthy son,” said she. +sounded and you’ll be in a pretty position without your boots!” (the +sounded louder and calmer, the stretchers disappeared from sight. +sounded much like irony. but kutúzov went on blandly smiling with the +sounded still more firm and resolute. +sound of footsteps. +sound of kissing. when prince andrew went in the two princesses, who +sound of officers’ voices in eager conversation. +sound of that sentence: “contez nous çela, vicomte.” +sound of these voices, the inattentive way kozlóvski looked at him, the +sounds very fast: “kari, mala, tafa, safi, muter, kaská,” he said, +so widely from a private. +“soyez tranquille, lise, you will always be prettier than anyone +“so you are really going to the war, andrew?” she said sighing. +so young, and burdened with such riches—to what temptations he will be +spadefuls of red clay were continually being thrown up from behind the +sparkling black eyes, and black tousled mustache and hair. he wore an +speaking of berg as her “intended.” the count sat between them and +speaking playfully of a matter that evidently distressed him. +speaking quickly with a harsh german accent, looking to both sides and +speaking very gently. +specially amiable mood that day. +specially choice delicacy a piece of meat that no one who had seen it in +spectacles and white dressing gown, in which he received no one but his +spend time in reading what is unintelligible and can therefore bear +spirited impression. +spirit will not and cannot understand the emperor alexander’s +spite of his money. they wanted to introduce him to me, but i quite +splendid! and i am sitting here ill, as you see.” +splendid house!” +splendidly.” +splendid soldiers. besides he began by attacking germans. and only +“splendid! what a horse he will be!” he thought with a smile, and +spoil her, but really that seems the best plan. with her elder sister i +spoke as if his sole aim were to put a given number of questions—the +spoken to the gentleman ranker, he addressed him with the cordiality of +spoke particularly slowly, as if to impress the fact that there was no +spoke smilingly and listened with a laugh. +spoke to the taciturn michael ivánovich more often than to anyone else. +spot” (he stooped and pointed to the sloping ledge outside the window) +spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbé’s +spreading out his legs and putting his hands on his knees with the air +spread out her arms to show her short-waisted, lace-trimmed, dainty gray +spread out his arms with a choleric gesture. +spring up with more energy and again play with her cousin as soon as +squadron. all were looking at the enemy in front and at the squadron +squadron commander. +squadron in which nicholas rostóv served as a cadet was quartered in +squadron may be recommended for honors and he may get a ribbon. our +squadron’s officers in denísov’s quarters. +squadron, that in which rostóv was serving under denísov, to return to +squatting on his heels in front of a clerk. the clerk, with cuffs turned +staff...” +staff?” +staff captain’s question by a disapproving shake of his head. +staff officer. +staff officer, and at zherkóv, and he frowned. +staff officer smiled.) “kindly return to your posts, gentlemen, all of +stairs and up another, to pierre’s rooms. +standing together out of range of the shots, watching, now the small +standing up, on which lay an open exercise book, and the lathe with +stand made at krems and the victory over mortier raised the spirits of +starry night was followed by a bright cheerful morning. the snow was +stars on his breast. he seemed to have grown thinner since the morning; +starting from their sockets to watch their chief. on reaching the +start my apprenticeship as old maid.” +*** start of this project gutenberg ebook war and peace *** +stating them to the emperor francis. he vividly imagined the casual +stayed his hand. the sergeant, who was evidently wiser than his general, +staying the whole evening, i hope?” +steadily and ceaselessly on all sides. with the exception of the aunt, +step; a soldier who had fallen behind, his face showing alarm at his +step could be heard. on their left flank, nearest to bagratión, marched +stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant +stepped softly over the carpet and went out into the waiting room. +steps. +steps behind him holding two horses by their bridles. each time prince +steps. behind the company the sound of wheels, the creaking of springs, +steps down the line. he was evidently pleased at his own display of +steps, her workbag on her arm, and gaily spreading out her dress sat +steps. “o god,” he said with tears in his eyes, “how could you do +step that for you all is ended, all is closed except the drawing +stern but handsome face really joined in the dance. what was expressed +stern eyes on his son. +sternly with a threatening and forbidding movement of her head. +stern, threatening, inaccessible, and intangible line which separates +still five men between him and dólokhov with his bluish-gray uniform. +still gazed at the spot where pierre’s face had been before he sat +still he was lifted and laid on the stretcher. +still in the drawing room, drew a chair toward him or her, and jauntily +still, i will take borís and go to see him at once, and i shall speak +still looking silently at her brother and her beautiful eyes were full +still quite a young lady, before her nose was broken; how she had aged +still smiling, she gracefully moved away, turning and glancing at her +still sound, yellowish teeth. +“still the same; but what can you expect, this noise...” said the +still why didn’t you capture him? so don’t be surprised if not only +stir around him, then the people resumed their places and the service +stones of the pavement. +stood waiting by the door. +“stop jesting,” said prince andrew sadly and seriously. this news +stopped and glanced inquiringly over his spectacles at his guide. anna +stopping occasionally at a corner to make menacing gestures at the wall, +“stop this jesting,” he said. +stouter!...” +straight into his son’s face with keen eyes which seemed to see +strains of daniel cooper (somewhat resembling those of a merry peasant +straw covered street and turned into the wide courtyard of count cyril +strayed from under her friend’s plaits. +streets of brünn and found himself surrounded by high buildings, the +stretchers came into view before rostóv. and the fear of death and of +“stretchers!” shouted someone behind him. +(strictly speaking, daniel cooper was one figure of the anglaise.) +strictly to obey. you said the bridge would be burned, but who would it +striking a blow!” +striking him regularly on his bare back. the man shrieked unnaturally. +striking his horse with his long muscular legs as if it were to blame +strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and are surrounded by other such +struck the ground in front of them. +struck two and another with a shrill tone joined in from the drawing +study, on the blue sofa, the confidential sofa? why cannot i now, as +style, wearing an antique coat and powdered hair; and when prince andrew +subject, and was thus at the duc’s mercy. the latter spared him, and +subject under discussion than those they are talking with. +subordinate by me. +subordinate commanders was done, if not by his direct command, at least +subsiding under the delightful interest of his own story, “is that the +subtleties here beyond my feeble intelligence, but i can’t make it +succeeded in forestalling the french he was to delay them as long as +succeeded in setting two loquacious talkers at one another. +such bad health, and now this vexation about his son is enough to kill +such things about bonaparte, but understanding that he was wanted as +suddenly. +suddenly dólokhov made a backward movement with his spine, and his arm +suddenly from the next room were heard the footsteps of boys and girls +suddenly heard a sound new to him, of something swiftly approaching... +suddenly prince hippolyte started up making signs to everyone to attend, +suddenly she jumped up onto a tub to be higher than he, embraced him so +suddenly the angry, squirrel-like expression of the princess’ pretty +suggested to him a blow from something. he looked at prince vasíli +suggested to him a point of view which gave him a right to despise +suggestion and pressed his lips to the large boned, fleshy hand. neither +suite. +suite, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the gun they could see +suite and said in french: +suite who had mimicked the regimental commander, fell back from the +sumptuous but cold apartments known to pierre only from the front +sun. how beautiful the sky looked; how blue, how calm, and how deep! +superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence. he +supported him under the arms. there was a gurgle in his throat and he +support of his battery all was forgotten. prince andrew listened +supposed, share the general russian antipathy to the austrians which was +suppose that i should look severely on your affection for that young +“surely he will leave something to borís,” said the countess. +surprise.” +surrendered but had beaten the french. +surveying the guests, and leisurely arranged her wide sleeves as if +suvórov giving his saber to bagratión in italy, and the recollection +suvórov’s wars. send it to the academy. here are some jottings for +swallowing his r’s, and pronouncing the latin words with a french +sweeter, and better than the feelings which the beautiful eyes of a +sweetest comforts to my poor heart, which has already suffered so much. +sweetly. it was the third time that day that, with an ecstatic and +sweet, so good-natured, and her position now is a very hard one.” +swinging their arms and keeping time spontaneously, marched with long +symmetrically on his knees in the naïve attitude of an egyptian statue, +table. +table and becoming more animated and talking more rapidly: “what if +table. denísov was sitting there scratching with his pen on a sheet of +table linen, he would call dmítri vasílevich, a man of good family and +table that he had pushed away. “but... in short, the fact is... you +table. “what are you thumping the table for?” she demanded of the +“take a glass of boiled water and put a pinch of cream of tartar,” +take a seat beside her. +“take a stick between your legs, that’ll suit you for a horse!” +take it...” he threw it on the table. “i have an old father and +“take it if you like,” said the officer, giving the girl an apple. +“take it right out, or they’ll think i’m holding on,” said +taken advice; but no, you go and blurt it all straight out before the +taken, and all this for the beaux yeux * of his sardinian majesty. and +taken and i hope it will not be, for it is mined and orders have been +take part in receiving the visitors. the count met the guests and saw +takes place at such moments. +take the money,” and he threw the purse to him and ran out of the inn. +take these away. put this on the seat and this to the right.” +“take this and deliver it,” said he to his adjutant, handing him the +taking advantage of it!” +taking a glass from the table he went up to pierre. +taking a letter addressed in a woman’s hand from a bag hanging above +taking charges from their pouches, while others were firing, though who +taking leave of anna pávlovna. “it is settled,” she added in a low +taking no notice of his arrival. a wax candle stood at each side of the +taking offense, but you don’t mind disgracing the whole regiment!” +taking out what she was holding inside it, as if what she held were +talked of peace but did not believe in its possibility; others talked +talking about me? let us talk about you,” he added after a silence, +talking. seeing them pass, prince vasíli drew back with obvious +talking too loudly and vehemently with the abbé, so she hurried to the +tangled black hair. +taste. and she had a lady’s maid, also big. she said....” +teacher’s fault or the pupil’s, this same thing happened every day: +teach you to dress the men in fancy coats for a parade.... eh...?” +tears.” +teeth, he began with stubby fingers of both hands to ruffle up his thick +telling her things. she has had a dream and is frightened.” +telling me what forces are being collected against him! while you and i +“tell me about that!” he said. +tell me,” he added with studied carelessness as if it had only just +“tell me, my dear,” said she to natásha, “is mimi a relation of +“tell me, when did the battle begin?” he asked hurriedly. +“tell these devils, these fiends, to let me pass!” shouted denísov +tell you for the tenth time that if the letter to the emperor and the +telyánin. +telyánin. +telyánin, and he went out to give the order. +telyánin’s orderly. “has something happened?” he added, surprised +telyánin, taking up his cap and moving toward a small empty room. “we +telyánin was sitting in the same indolent pose in which rostóv had +temptation she slipped quietly behind one of the columns. in the midst +tenacious endurance and vigor of hardy old age. after a few more turns +tenderly sad voice, she said: +ten minutes later lavrúshka brought the coffee. “he’s coming!” +terrible and holy secrets of providence while we remain in this flesh +terrible dragon, a lady distinguished not for wealth or rank, but for +terribly true. i pity prince vasíli but am still more sorry for pierre. +tête-de-pont. * they spin him a thousand gasconades, saying that +“thank god,” said his son smiling. +“thank you, my dear.” she kissed him on the forehead and sat down +“thank you very much, i will go on alone,” said prince andrew, +“thank you very much, prince,” answered one of the officers, pleased +thank you! you must have a rest. be at the levee tomorrow after the +than once. “you know it won’t do to leave your posts like this. +than with politics,” said he in his quiet ironical tone. “i know +“that abbé is very interesting but he does not see the thing in the +that affair for me and i shall always be your most devoted slave-slafe +that afternoon. she felt that as she brought with her the person the +that all europe is powerless before him.... and i don’t believe a +that anna mikháylovna whom i would not take for a housemaid... the +that both her slender bare arms clasped him above his neck, and, tossing +that came upon him at hollabrünn, which was clearly impossible. but +that could save the army, and how he alone would be entrusted with the +that evening to bid a last farewell to the celebrated grandee of +that everything done by necessity, by accident, or by the will of +that everything was splendid. “just fancy: wants to be an hussar. +that friendship?” remarked the count in an inquiring tone. +that had already once been given in detail: “and tell the hussars +that had placed the vienna bridge in the hands of the french without +that he decided to go. the thought immediately occurred to him that his +“that here lives count cyril vladímirovich bezúkhov so rich, all +that he was at the front and in the power of a man toward whom he now +that his heart stood still. his hand trembled as he gave his horse into +that his remarks were too enthusiastic and emphatic for the occasion and +that if he asked on behalf of all who begged of him, he would soon be +that imprint of newness found in the households of the newly married. +that insignificant society people might carry them from drawing room to +that in spite of all the unpleasantness he had to endure he would still +that in this world there is neither honor nor justice. in this world one +“that is all nonsense.” prince andrew again interrupted him, “let +“that is doubtful,” said prince andrew. “monsieur le vicomte quite +that is not yet ready. +that is still too fresh. ah, dear friend, you are happy not to know +“that is what i ask you. no one, not even bonaparte, knows why.” +“that is why i beg to be sent to that detachment,” he said. +“that is, with ilyá rostóv who married nataly shinshiná,” said +that it seemed to be made of one piece with her head and covered with +that i was ungrateful, and that mamma would never allow him to marry +“that letter was written, though it was not sent, and the emperor knew +that makes me unhappy. but even in this i can see lately a shade of +that moment been wounded and his face showed fear rather than suffering. +that more irritating news than yours could not have been conceived. +that negotiations for peace were already proceeding, and that he +that one also passed. then followed a cart unlike any that had gone +that pierre could no longer see the reddish-yellow face with its gray +that provisions are supplied and the routes indicated,” said bilíbin, + * “that russian army which has been brought from the ends of +“that’s all right. no one thinks you a coward, but that’s not the +that same evening there was an animated discussion among the +that same night, having taken leave of the minister of war, bolkónski +“that’s a miwacle.” +“that’s better, count,” said the staff captain, beginning to +“that’s fine,” said he. +“that’s for them all,” he said to the officer who came up. +that she had not intended her flight to bring her so far. behind her in +that showed that his father’s foibles did not prevent his son from +“that’s how we used to dance in our time, ma chère,” said the +that’s it.” and with a complacent sigh he would return to the +“that’s just it,” answered bilíbin. “listen! the french entered +“that’s just it, my dear fellow. you see it’s hurrah for the tsar, +that smile was immediately reflected on pierre’s face. +“that’s not the point, my dear.” +that soldier passed on, and after him came another sitting on a cart. +“that’s our battery,” said the staff officer indicating the +that stood before his plate, pierre held out one at random and drank +“that’s true!” +“that’s twue, devil take it!” shouted denísov, jumping up. “now +that sum. “he’s begun to go a little lame on the left foreleg,” he +“that’s what comes of a modern education,” exclaimed the visitor. +that’s why i have come... i am a relation. i shall not disturb him, +that the corsican monster who is destroying the peace of europe may +that the hussars must return quickly and fire the bridge.’” +that there were no political difficulties in europe and no real war, +that the strange lady, the aide-de-camp, and some of the servants, all +that they are to cross last and to fire the bridge as i ordered; and the +that they despaired of the possibility of checking this disorder. +that they may run smoothly. +that tonight he was a person obliged to perform some sort of awful +that village, amid the smoke, was something resembling a battery, but it +“that was a daniel cooper!” exclaimed márya dmítrievna, tucking up +“that was a nice snub for the little aide-de-camp,” came a voice +that were afloat, and so kutúzov’s suggestion of an austrian victory +that were arriving from russia. if kutúzov decided to remain at krems, + that while her fingers touch the harp +that will decide the matter, but those who devised it,” said bilíbin +“that would be a fine thing!” said she. “i never wanted anything +“that would be fine, gentlemen!” +“that would take too long to tell,” answered the son. +that year to moreau to enter the russian service.... “wonderful!... +thawing in the sunshine, the horses galloped quickly, and on both sides +the 18th brumaire; was not that an imposture? it was a swindle, and not +the abbé. another, of young people, was grouped round the beautiful +the abbé morio and many others had also come. +the adjutant and the minister. “away from the smell of powder, they +the adjutant on duty, meeting prince andrew, asked him to wait, and went +the adjutant on duty,” said the official. “he will conduct you to +the advanced army. prince andrew bolkónski came into the room with the +the advantages are far less than in the infantry. just consider my own +the agility with which he capered about on his light feet, márya +the aide-de-camp was sent to confirm the order which had not been +the aide-de-camp with a respectful politeness evidently relating to the +the anteroom. “i can’t remain any longer in petersburg. tell me what +the archduchy of austria, and yet other regiments freshly arriving from +the archduke ferdinand and mack, and kutúzov, not considering this +the architect. +the armistice immediately and march on the enemy. inform him that the +the army, and about whom natásha had teased her elder sister véra, +the army considerably. throughout the whole army and at headquarters +the army now that it is in danger. i understand that. mon cher, it is +the army was a great grief to me. this young man, of whom i spoke to you +the arrival of the rest of the troops who were on their way from vienna, +the austrian general looked dissatisfied, but had no option but to reply +the baggage wagons had all crossed, the crush was less, and the last +the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young +the baron. +the battalion commander. “oh, my god!” he added, stepping resolutely +the battalion commander perceived the jovial irony and laughed. +the battle had begun! prince andrew turned his horse and galloped back +“the berlin cabinet cannot express a feeling of alliance,” began +the better. but bogdánich, without looking at or recognizing rostóv, +the black, hairy, snub-nosed face of váska denísov, and his whole +the bohemian mountains with. it’s a bad lookout, old fellow! but +the bonfires of our infantry who were felling wood. the french line was +the boots. +the bottle of rum was brought. the window frame which prevented anyone +the bridge. +the bridge and its celebrated bridgehead and prince auersperg? we heard +the bridge and not let us cross? but it will please our sovereign the +the bridge chased each other along. looking on the bridge he saw equally +the bridge, for the horizon as seen from the valley through which the +the bridge unobserved, flings the bags of incendiary material into +“‘the brook,’” suggested nicholas. +the card tables were drawn out, sets made up for boston, and the +the care of a skillful rider and, slightly bending over, disengaged his +the carved back of a velvet chair he had turned round for the purpose, +the case is this: you ought to have thought the matter over and +the chair for her. +the changed expression on prince bagratión’s face at this moment. it +the chanting of the service ceased, and the voice of the priest was +the cheerful mood of their officers after the inspection infected the +the clear blue eyes looked at the commander in chief just as boldly as +the clever though shy, but observant and natural, expression which +the climate,” said he. +the coach with six horses was waiting at the porch. it was an autumn +the coin was a new one. rostóv rose and went up to telyánin. +the cold wind, swarmed in these earthworks like a host of white ants; +the colonel, closely—to find in his face confirmation of his own +the colonel deliberately stopped the regiment and turned to nesvítski. +the colonel looked silently at the officer of the suite, at the stout +the colonel told them that the declaration of war had already appeared +the colonel was a stout, tall, plethoric german, evidently devoted to +“the commander in chief is engaged,” repeated kozlóvski calmly. +“the commander in chief is engaged,” said kozlóvski, going +the commander in chief is expected and you leave your place? eh? i’ll +the commander in chief, kutúzov. +the commander in chief’s one sound eye showed him to be so preoccupied +the commander in chief would inspect the regiment on the march. though +the commander of the company, with his eyes fixed on his superior, +the commander of the dragoons had already retreated beyond the dip in +the commander of the regiment, a thin, feeble-looking old man with a +the commander of the regiment turned to prince bagratión, entreating +the commander of the regiment was an elderly, choleric, stout, and +the commander with a tone of suffering in his voice, while there were +the company commander might get killed and he, as senior in the company, +the conversation, “almost all the aristocracy has already gone over to +the conversation broke up into insignificant small talk about the last +the conversation was hushed. +the convoy officer. +the count burst out laughing. the other guests seeing that shinshín +the count came waddling in to see his wife with a rather guilty look as +the count danced well and knew it. but his partner could not and did not +the count, dying with laughter. +the countess as her mother and called her so) “that i am spoiling +the countess exchanged glances with anna mikháylovna. the latter +the countess’ eyes filled with tears and she pondered in silence. +the countess tried to frown, but could not. márya dmítrievna shook her +the countess was a woman of about forty-five, with a thin oriental type +the countess was upset by her friend’s sorrow and humiliating poverty, +the countess, with a smile. +the count, holding his cards fanwise, kept himself with difficulty from +“the count is suffering physically and mentally, and apparently you +the count jumped up and, swaying from side to side, spread his arms wide +the count, my uncle; but you, my dear, had better go to pierre meanwhile +the count was beginning to breathe heavily and quickly which was always +the count went in first with márya dmítrievna, the countess followed +the crowd moved on again. nesvítski realized that it was a cannon ball. +the crowd of retreating soldiers, ordering them back. bagratión rode up +the crystal decanters and fruit vases, the count kept glancing at his +the determination of denísov who flourished his sword and shouted +“the devil only knows! they say so.” +“the devil only knows what they’re about!” muttered denísov. +“the devil skin your emperor.” +the dinner sat silent, glancing with a frightened look now at her +“the divine mercy is inexhaustible! unction is about to be +the doctor cast a rapid glance upwards and silently shrugged his +the doctor glanced at his watch. +the door. +the door himself behind him. +the doorway appeared a student with a crimson coat collar, an officer +the drawing room. he evidently tried to find something to say, but +the dull, sleepy expression was no longer there, nor the affectation +the duties of wife and mother upon me i shall try to perform them as + the earth by english gold, we shall cause to share the same +the elderly lady was a princess drubetskáya, belonging to one of the +the elders began talking about bonaparte. julie karágina turned to +the eldest princess paused in her reading and silently stared at him +the emperor about him; so that in the case of his death—and he is +the emperor alexander and the king of prussia in berlin? if prussia +“the emperor alexander,” said she, with the melancholy which +the emperor interrupted him. +the emperor spoke to him most graciously. annette and i were speaking of +the emperor thanked prince andrew and bowed. prince andrew withdrew and +the enchanted circle i cannot escape from. i am now going to the war, +the englishman nodded, but gave no indication whether he intended to +the englishman took out his purse and began counting out the money. +the english will come off badly, you know, if napoleon gets across the +the enns and the danube became visible, and the rocky left bank of the +the enormously high study door opened and showed the figure of a rather +the enormous study was full of things evidently in constant use. +the entrenchment, and went on again. just behind it they came upon some +the epistles and gospels. let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries +“the execution of the duc d’enghien,” declared monsieur pierre, +the exercise book containing geometrical figures. +the expression she saw on the maid of honor’s face, and again relapsed +the eyes of the general and the soldier met. the general became silent, +the face of each soldier and each officer seemed to say. +the face of the little princess changed. she sighed and said: “yes, +the faces of officers and men brightened up at the sound. everyone got +“the fact of the matter is,” said she significantly, and also in a +the fall of austria’s capital. “how is it vienna was taken? what of +(the family solicitor) “and he says the same.” +the farther forward and nearer the enemy he went, the more orderly and +the feather bed. natásha began consoling her, but her face showed that +the feeling, “it has begun! here it is!” was seen even on prince +the fire of life had seemed extinguished, now flashed with brilliant +the first door on the left led into the princesses’ apartments. the +the first time. sometimes that same look fell on pierre, and that funny +the foreman of a spinning mill, when he has set the hands to work, goes +the foremost, wearing a cossack cloak and lambskin cap and riding a +the french, after crossing the bridge at vienna, were advancing in +the french grenadier. +the french guns were hastily reloaded. the infantry in their blue +the french had time to fire three rounds of grapeshot before the hussars +“the french have abandoned the left bank?” +the french onlookers and listeners laughed. +the french sentences which to them were meaningless, with an air of +the french, the spy reported, having crossed the vienna bridge, were +the french were firing, and he felt his heart palpitating as he rode +the french with his whole army was impossible. the road for the french +the friends were silent. neither cared to begin talking. pierre +the front, but at dürrenstein, where i was, our attack began after +the fulfillment of duty, he rose to see some visitors off and, stroking +the full significance of the words he heard. +the gates, a group of undertakers, who hid whenever a carriage drove up, +the general frowned. though there was no definite news of an austrian +the general frowned, turned away, and went on. +the general’s face clouded, his lips quivered and trembled. he took +the generals were passing by, looking as if they wished to avoid +the general... third company to the commander.” the words passed along +the general, who looked through his field glass. +the gentlemen around. +the gentlemen assembled at bilíbin’s were young, wealthy, gay society +the german closed his eyes, signifying that he did not understand. +the german landlord. +the german laughed, came out of the cowshed, pulled off his cap, and +the german village of salzeneck. the best quarters in the village were +the girl smiled and took it. nesvítski like the rest of the men on the +the gleaming icons stood a long invalid chair, and in that chair +the good-natured expression still more apparent, and gazed at his friend +the grand cross of maria theresa, and the whole army received rewards. +the gray-haired valet was sitting drowsily listening to the snoring of +the greatest war there ever was, and i know nothing and am fit for +the ground, as a heavy fire had been opened on him and he was losing +the group round mortemart to listen to what was being said there, and +the guards to the field of battle, afraid of letting a ready victim +the guests got up and took their leave, promising to return to dinner. +the guests, knowing of the affair with the bear, looked with curiosity +the gunners who had seized it straining to roll it quickly back to its +the hall porter, “i know count cyril vladímirovich is very ill... +the hall porter sullenly pulled a bell that rang upstairs, and turned +the hand nor a single muscle of the count’s face stirred. once more +the handsome véra smiled contemptuously but did not seem at all hurt. +the handsome véra, who produced such an irritating and unpleasant +the head of the column had already descended into the hollow. the clash +the headquarters were situated two miles away from salzeneck, and +the head that he was considering this information. +the high-shouldered figure of zherkóv, familiar to the pávlograds as +the hollow the less they could see but the more they felt the nearness +the honor of being received, that i have not yet had time to think of +the honor of the flag... well, never mind, it’s true i’m to blame, +“the hoof’s cracked! that’s nothing. i’ll teach you what to do +“the hours are the same, and the lathe, and also the mathematics and +the house where the commander in chief was. +the hussars.” +the hussar shouted back. +the hussars ran back to the men who held their horses; their voices +the icons and there was a pleasant scent of flowers and burnt pastilles. +the icons, as though declaring to all that she could not answer for +the imposing figure of nesvítski followed by his cossack, and +the infantry who had been stopped crowded near the bridge in the +the intellectual lights of petersburg were gathered there and, like a +their battery a milk-white cloud arose. then came the distant report of +their bayonets and guns. +their conversation would probably have been different but for the effect +their courage before him. +their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for +their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company +their journey. she answered him and continued her chatter. +their long hair falling over their magnificent glittering vestments, +their musical talent, to sing something. natásha, who was treated as +their own form of government; and i believe that once free from the +their sabers catching in the bridles and their spurs jingling, the +their seats, went up to “congratulate” the countess, and reached +their thick, bushy eyebrows sternly scanned all present and rested on +their way to negotiate with prince auersperg. he lets them enter the +their woman’s way! i am glad to have her. sit down and talk. about +the kitchen would have cared to eat, so anna pávlovna served up to +the landing. “i’d better go to my own room.” +the large table covered with books and plans, the tall glass-fronted +the last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing +the last syllable of the general’s name like a frenchman, “has been +the late emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the king of prussia.’ he is +the left, and took up the bottle. anatole brought two candles and +the left! wait a bit.” but the soldiers, crowded together shoulder to +the letter away, and leaning his elbows on the table he drew toward him +the lieutenant never looked the man he was speaking to straight in the +“the limits of human life ... are fixed and may not be +the lines and an adjutant ran to look for the missing officer. +the little kitten, feasting her eyes on him, seemed ready at any moment +the little princess did not, or did not wish to, hear his words. she was +the little princess during the whole discussion and the rest of +the little princess entered the room. the passage broke off in the +the little princess had also left the tea table and followed hélène. +the little princess had grown stouter during this time, but her eyes +the little princess, kissing her. “i know you already through my +the little princess lay in the armchair, mademoiselle bourienne chafing +the little princess. she felt, as courtiers do when the tsar enters, the +the little princess talked incessantly, her short, downy upper lip +the little princess went round the table with quick, short, swaying +the little town could be seen with its white, red-roofed houses, its +the lively song gave a special flavor to the tone of free and easy +the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. and +the long german carts six or more pale, dirty, bandaged men were being +the magnificent reception room was crowded. everyone stood up +the maintenance of the balance of power of europe, and it would save the +them. all eyes fastened involuntarily on this french column advancing +the manager of all his affairs, and while looking with pleasure at the +them. and among all these faces that he found so tedious, none seemed +the manly voice again interrupted the artillery officer. +the march: in their greatcoats, and packs, and without any preparation + * the marshalls. +“the master is not in, he’s gone to headquarters,” said +the matter depended on my personal wishes, the will of his majesty the +“the means are ... the balance of power in europe and the rights of +the member of the hofkriegsrath looked at him severely but, seeing the +the memory of a remote event long past. +the men and women had separated as in church. all were silently crossing +them from the other end of the corridor, strauch, an austrian general +the military governor of moscow, who had been assiduous in sending +the mines and blow up the bridge, this sergeant, seeing that the french +the minister of war.” +the minister of war but also his most august majesty the emperor and +them, neither do i condemn them. only it seems to me that christian +them now! and yet really the anxiety is greater now than the joy. one is +them off, inviting them all to dinner. +the moment prince andrew entered the room had watched him with glad, +the morning, carriages with six horses had been coming and going +the morning she told the rostóvs and all her acquaintances the details + * the most fascinating woman in petersburg. +the mother smoothed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large +the mothers, wives, and children of the men who were going and should +themselves, and the reading of the church service, the subdued chanting +the mud off his face with his sleeve. “perched up there, you’re more +then....” +the nations? adorable! it is enough to make one’s head whirl! it is as +then believe an expert. i have just been talking to dmítri onúfrich” +then, brothers, on to glory, led by father kámenski.” this song had +the new campo formio are to be drawn up.” +the news of count bezúkhov’s death reached us before your letter +then he remained silent for a while, and all at once looked cheerfully +the night he received the news, kutúzov sent bagratión’s vanguard, +the night was dark but starry, the road showed black in the snow that +“then i’ll have it brought round,” said rostóv wishing to avoid +“then it is certain?” said the prince. +then named prince vasíli in an inquiring whisper, then pointed to the +then nicholas sang a song he had just learned: +the noblest role on earth, and he is so virtuous and noble that god will +then particularly strong. +then she slipped down among the flowerpots on the other side of the tubs +then she smiled again and clutched prince vasíli’s arm more tightly. +then, suddenly spread out in the sunlight, far-distant objects could +“then tomorrow you will speak to the emperor?” +the nurse, as she stood in one of the doorways. +the nursery, but sónya was not there either. natásha concluded that +then with the unerring official memory that characterized him he +then, wostóv, now then!” +the officer flourished his arm and hastily rode away. +the officer glanced at him, and without replying turned again to the +the officers and men of denísov’s squadron, though they tried to talk +the officers laughed. +the official side of the service. these gentlemen received prince +the old man made a departure from his usual routine in honor of his +the old man was in a good temper after his nap before dinner. (he +the old man was silent. +the old prince’s face. +the old prince stopped writing and, as if not understanding, fixed his +(the one who had paraded his regiment before kutúzov at braunau) that +“the only thing that is hard for me... i will tell you the truth, +the only young people remaining in the drawing room, not counting the +the order was given to halt and down knapsacks. +the other, glanced inquiringly with his large, intelligent, kindly eyes +the other men in the room, her anxiety could only have reference to +the others. again someone shouted, “stretchers!” four men seized the +the other side of the room. “how young-looking he is!” +the other—who with beaming faces had come to see their master making +the pained expression his joke had brought to his sister’s face, he +“the past always seems good,” said he, “but did not suvórov +the patches grew deeper on her forehead, neck, and cheeks. she tried to +the pathetic importance of these last moments of meeting between the +the pávlograd hussars were stationed two miles from braunau. the +the people,” the abbé was saying. “it is only necessary for one +the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits... there was peace +the place of mourning for the younger female generation in the rostóv +the plan of operation for the coming campaign. he explained how an army, +the pleasure of spending the evening with you.” +the portfolio so firmly that it was plain she would not let go easily. +the postilion started, the carriage wheels rattled. prince hippolyte +the povarskáya, so well known to all moscow. the countess herself and +the priests and deacons and some servants also went in at the door. +the priests, rose and offered him her seat; an aide-de-camp picked up +the prim visitor could not help joining in. +the prince again laughed his frigid laugh. +the prince answered nothing, but she looked at him significantly, +the prince bowed to signify his respect and gratitude. +the prince gave orders that no one should leave his post. now you, +the princess. +the princess and hastily adjusting his lorgnette, as if without this +the princess bent over the exercise book on the table. +the princess blushed, and raised her arms with a gesture of despair. +the princess continued to look at him without moving, and with the same +the princess did not reply. their efforts in the struggle for the +the princess did speak, her words would not be flattering to anna +the princess’ eyes grew dim, she could not see and could not hear +the princess gave a wrong answer. +the princess gave no reply and did not even smile, but left the room as +the princess glanced at her watch and, seeing that she was five minutes +the princess, holding her little dog on her lap with her thin bony +the princess let go. +the princess listened, smiling. +the princess looked in a scared way at her father’s eyes glittering +the princess, now quite changed. “and what does she come worming +the princess, picking up her dress, was taking her seat in the dark +the princess pondered awhile with a thoughtful smile and her luminous +the princess rested her bare round arm on a little table and considered +the princess said nothing, but suddenly her short downy lip quivered. +the princess smiled as people do who think they know more about the +the princess smiled. she rose with the same unchanging smile with which +the princess started. evidently pierre’s words touched her to the +the princess, who had a straight, rigid body, abnormally long for her +the princess wished to rise, but the prince held her by the hand. she +the prince sternly; “i’m afraid you write much nonsense. i’ll read +the prince was silent and looked indifferent. but, with the womanly and +the prince, who was in his large study. from the far side of the house +the project gutenberg ebook of war and peace, by leo tolstoy +the puhse?” he asked, turning to rostóv. +the purse is here! i’ll flay this scoundwel alive, and it will be +the question arose whether the troops were to be in marching order or +the ranks of obscure officers and offer him the first step to fame! +the ras...” he did not finish. +“the rat”) he said, rubbing his forehead and whole face with both +there. +there.” +there any hope?” +there are no difficulties in your way.... but nicholas is my cousin... +there are things in it difficult for the feeble human mind to grasp, it +the rearguard and have an eye on the order of retreat, “which is also +the rearguard by the commander in chief, was sitting on the trail of a +the rearguard stood with a staff officer, scanning the country through +“there, fedótov, you should be quartered on them!” +therefore offered this truce to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. count +therefore—this is between ourselves—i instinctively feel that we +the regimental adjutant came in and confirmed the news brought by +the regimental commander, flushing, ran to his horse, seized the stirrup +the regimental commander, going up to the line himself, ordered the +(the regimental commander’s face now that the inspection was happily +the regimental commander sought out dólokhov in the ranks and, reining +the regimental commander was afraid he might be blamed for this and did +the regiment, and how satisfied his father was with him. berg evidently +the regiment broke up into companies, which went to their appointed +the regiment i’d... ah well, i’ll show that in action, and for me +there, god only knows what would have happened! you know, uncle promised +there had been actions at lambach, amstetten, and melk; but despite the +there?” he said, turning to the door as he heard a tread of heavy +“there is in moscow a lady, une dame, and she is very stingy. she must +“there is nothing so refreshing after a sleepless night as a cup +“there is one thing i constantly pray god to grant, mon cousin,” she +there is only mademoiselle bourienne....” +there is so much happiness; but here... groans, suffering, fear, and +“there is still much, much before us,” he said, as if with an old +“there is still time, my dear. you must remember, catiche, that it was +“there, it’s just as i thought,” said rostóv to himself. “he +“there, leave bruin alone; here’s a bet on.” +the remains of our regiment which had been in action rapidly formed up +there many more of you to come?” +“there now! confess that this is delightful,” said he. “this +“there now! didn’t i tell you, michael mítrich, that if it was said +“there now, prince! we can’t stop those fellows,” said the staff +“there now!” said the officer of the suite, “that’s +“there now!... so you, too, are in the great world?” said he to +there. now then!” +“there now, zíkin, they ought to put you on a horse. you’d look +the report of musketry. +the report which had been circulated that the austrians had been beaten +the reproachful tone of a man who has repeated the same thing more +there, she glided up to him with a sort of amble, not exactly bowing yet +“there’s nothing to be gay about,” answered bolkónski. +“there’s plenty to do still.” +there! tea!” +there. then, as happens to people of weak character, he desired so +the retreat of the frightened bonaparte. +there was a crush. halfway across stood prince nesvítski, who had +there was a general movement as the princess, smiling and talking +there was generally a drinking bout, finishing with visits of a kind +there was not a trace of agitation on his face. with delicate irony he +there was now no one in the reception room except prince vasíli and the +there was something peculiar about it, quite unsoldierly, rather comic, +“there, what egotists men all are: all, all egotists! just for a whim +the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up. soldiers scattered over +the right and sent an adjutant to the dragoons with orders to attack the +the rivers inn (at braunau) and traun (near linz). on october 23 the +the room was crowded with small pieces of furniture, whatnots, +the russian army) are nothing compared to what this man has been doing +the russian emperor’s aide-de-camp is an impostor. officers are +the russian officer in charge of the transport lolled back in the front +the russians were running away and that he himself was killed, but he +the rustle of a woman’s dress was heard in the next room. prince +the same words, about their health and her own, and the health of her +the scraping of chairs. then one of those conversations began which last +the seal of her letter. it was from her most intimate friend from +the second princess had just come from the sickroom with her eyes red +these gentlemen ride onto the bridge alone and wave white handkerchiefs; +these,” he said, handing him several papers, “make a neat memorandum +these latter the butler thrust mysteriously forward, wrapped in a +these poignant joys and sorrows. you are fortunate, for the latter are +the sergeant major with brightened expressions, licking their lips and +these rooms. anna mikháylovna, addressing a maid who was hurrying past +the service and patriotically russian. he resented shinshín’s remark. +the service before everything. thanks, thanks!” and he went on +these things. i absolutely must see him, however painful it may be for +these words he repeated to everyone without exception or variation, and +the shed with super human force, throwing up a mass of earth. the ground +the sick man was so surrounded by doctors, princesses, and servants +the sky, the dawn merging with the afterglow of sunset, was visible. +the sly what was left in the glasses. from the third room came sounds of +the sofa. the princess came in. she had changed her gown for a house +the soldiers crowded against one another with terrified faces, and +“the soldiers say it feels easier without boots,” said captain +the soldier to whom the laughers referred was dólokhov. prince andrew +the soldier. “turn back with your slut!” +the son, lowering his eyes, followed her quietly. +the son, or pierre, whom it had been pitiful to see, so stricken was he +the son sighed, thus admitting that his father had understood him. the +the sound of voices and the shouts of command. the whole air reeked with +“the sovereigns? i do not speak of russia,” said the vicomte, polite +the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and +the spot indicated to him. he made no reply on his father’s favorite +the squadron crossed the bridge and drew out of range of fire without +“the squadron quartermaster!” said lavrúshka. +“the squadwon can’t pass,” shouted váska denísov, showing his +the staff captain. +the staff captain, “but we old fellows, who have grown up in and, god +the staff captain in his deep bass, calmly stroking his long mustache. +the staff captain, kírsten, had twice been reduced to the ranks for +the staff captain’s voice began to tremble. “you have been in the +the staff officer and prince andrew mounted their horses and rode on. +the staff officer remained behind and prince andrew rode on alone. +the story was very pretty and interesting, especially at the point +the stretchers, and love of the sun and of life, all merged into one +the study, like pistol shots, came the frequent sound of the old man +the stupid smile, which had left his face while he was speaking, +the subject of her request and must not be shown before the request was +the suite pointed out to bagratión a french column that was outflanking +the table, onto which he threw it. +the table, searched everywhere, and stood still in the middle of the +the table, summoned his daughter. he never gave his children a blessing, +the third!” +the third company was the last, and kutúzov pondered, apparently trying +the third group was gathered round mortemart and anna pávlovna. +the third interruption came when prince andrew was finishing his +“the third, i said the third!” cried the prince abruptly, pushing +the tipsy guests who were again crowding round the window, and listening +the troops in their disorderly flight confirmed these rumors. +the two ladies, addressing prince vasíli and pointing to an inlaid +the two pávlograd squadrons, having crossed the bridge, retired up the +the two young men, the student and the officer, friends from childhood, +the unknown general looked disdainfully down at kozlóvski, who was +“the unpleasant things were said to me,” remarked véra, “i said +the vicomte appreciated this silent praise and smiling gratefully +the vicomte bowed and smiled courteously in token of his willingness to +“the vicomte knew the duc personally,” whispered anna pávlovna to +the vicomte merely shrugged his shoulders. pierre looked solemnly at his +the vicomte’s story. prince vasíli’s words frightened her, an +the vicomte told his tale very neatly. it was an anecdote, then current, +the vicomte was a nice-looking young man with soft features and polished +the vicomte who was meeting him for the first time saw clearly that +the vicomte wished to begin his story and gave a subtle smile. +the visitor, compelled to look on at this family scene, thought it +the visitor made a gesture with her hand. +the visitor, not knowing what to say, shook her head. +the waiter. +the war is over, that the emperor francis is arranging a meeting with +the water, and approaches the tête-de-pont. at length appears the +the way from ulm, while dólokhov maintained that the russians had not +the way he walked through the ranks behind the generals, bending forward +the weather had cleared again since noon and the sun was descending +the weight of his knapsack. +the well-known prince bolkónski who had to retire from the army under +the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building +the whole story of life. you talk of bonaparte and his career,” said +“the wife!” said the old prince, briefly and significantly. +the wild set led by dólokhov. zherkóv had met dólokhov abroad as a +the will and letter will be delivered to the emperor, and the petition +“the will will show that, my dear; our fate also depends on it.” +the window sill, but refrained from touching it. pierre again covered +the woman’s vehicle for trying to get ahead of others, and the strokes +the women.” +the word of command rang out, and again the regiment quivered, as with a +the words of the order were not clear to the regimental commander, and +the worst,” said the austrian general, evidently wishing to have done +“they are regular brigands, especially dólokhov,” replied the +they assure the officer on duty that they, the marshals, are on +they became silent, and pierre thought he saw the princess hide +they both felt happy). “we had our hands full last night. however, i +they contain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, know the +they dismounted and entered the tent. several officers, with flushed and +“they don’t even give one time to dwink!” answered váska +they do the guns.” +they entered the elegant, newly decorated, and luxurious dining room. +they entered the large hall, from which one of the doors led to the +they gave her an attraction more powerful than that of beauty. but the +“they give little hope,” replied the prince. +they got into the carriage and drove for a few minutes in silence. +they had gone by, the same stream of soldiers followed, with the same +they had lifted the dying man and were moving him. +they had looked at the regimental commander, seeming by their expression +they had when she was not thinking of herself. as with everyone, her +they’ll ransack that castle,” he remarked with evident approval. +they’ll say so again and again, and that will be the end of it. my +“they march splendidly,” remarked someone in bagratión’s suite. +“they might call a halt here or we’ll have to do another four miles +“they must be feeling dull, too,” said one of the bolder officers, +they must look somewhere, or it meant too much. pierre hesitated, +the young man, flattered, sat down nearer to her with a coquettish +the young man had departed. “there is never any ‘impossible’ with +“the young man’s a real hussar!” shouted the colonel, again +the young people, at the countess’ instigation, gathered round the +the young princess bolkónskaya had brought some work in a +the young prince. the members of the household were all gathered in the +“they received me and my news as one receives a dog in a game of +“they’re coming!... they’re coming!... stand aside, make way, +they rode up the opposite hill. from there the french could already be +“they say the ball will be very good,” replied the princess, drawing +they seized him by his arms; but he was so strong that everyone who +they stood silent, facing one another. the old man’s sharp eyes were +they too could, like natásha and borís, escape from the drawing room. +“they’ve been saying so a long while,” said the count, “and +they went through the porch and into the stable. the lieutenant +they went up to the door of the sitting room from which came the sound +they were again silent. +they were as usual laughing. +they were firing at could not be seen for the smoke which there was no +they were in the carriage. “he hardly recognizes anybody.” +thick, bushy eyebrows. prince andrew went up and kissed his father on +thick-set general with grizzled eyebrows and whiskers, and wider from +thin face. her eyes, always sad, now looked with particular hopelessness +thin face was now quivering with nervous excitement; his eyes, in which +thing.” +thing can be arranged. it shall be on your family’s behalf that i’ll +thing i have faith in! our good and wonderful sovereign has to perform +things and supper dishes stood in disorder, and in the middle of the +things,” and the skin over his left temple puckered, “either you +things, but austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war. she +things had to be. from the passage they went into a large, dimly +things. she did not reply, but looked at her seriously. +things that he has been expelled by the police.” +thinking about you. why are you going?” +thinking of?” she went on, turning to prince hippolyte. “fetch me my +think that he is your father ... perhaps in the agony of death.” she +think the regiment is not a bad one, eh?” +think we thoroughly understand. +“think what you please! i know you are just like father. think as +third company he suddenly stopped. his suite, not having expected this, +“thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,” she counted on her slender +thirteen look at the boy they are in love with and have just kissed for +thirtieth he attacked mortier’s division, which was on the left bank, +thirty,” said he, looking at shinshín and the count with a joyful, +this action was so unlike her usual composure and the fear depicted on +this black-eyed, wide-mouthed girl, not pretty but full of life—with +this buonaparte has turned all their heads; they all think of how he +this defect was not due to any fault of the regimental commander, for +this disorder,” he muttered. “do as you like.” +this door led into a back anteroom. an old man, a servant of the +this ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost +this expectation did not upset the regular routine of life in the old +this expression evidently pleased him. +this fact ought to give prince vasíli much satisfaction. +this he’ll soon have us, too, for his subjects! how are you?” and he +this house and in brünn itself. i want to entertain him as far as i +“this is absurd! come, let go i tell you.” + * “this is a pleasure one gets in camp, prince.” +“this is dólokhov,” said prince andrew. +“this is for borís from me, for his outfit.” +“this is what i think. austria has been made a fool of, and she is +“this is what i want, my dear fellow,” said the count to the +this lowest-grade greeting, a look of anxiety and fear, as at the sight +this magnanimity bonaparte subsequently repaid by death. +this meant that tíkhon was not handing him the waistcoat he wanted. +this murderer and villain! we alone must avenge the blood of the just +this poetic and pure intimacy, were what my heart needed. but enough of +this reinforcement. +this resemblance he was exceedingly ugly. his features were like his +this same room was dimly lighted by two candles. on one small table tea +this! the chief news, about which all moscow gossips, is the death of +this uncertainty and hurry... there—they are shouting again, and +this very sentence about countess zúbova and this same laugh prince +this victory to the austrian court, now no longer at vienna (which was +this was not so but that on the contrary the french had run away. he +this was particularly noticeable on nesvítski’s usually laughing +this was the count’s favorite dance, which he had danced in his youth. +“this won’t do, princess; it won’t do,” said he, when princess +this young jacobin was not so terrible as his words suggested. all were +those hofs-kriegs-wurst-raths are! suvórov couldn’t manage them so +those kurágins and leading that sort of life. it suits you so +“those were extremes, no doubt, but they are not what is most +those who were guiding him. +those who were holding him under the armpits, and of his gray, curly, +those who were in the dimly lit reception room spoke in nervous +those women—mostly mothers—who, having once made up their minds, +though embracing her. +though he may perhaps outlive us all, as i sincerely hope he will...” +though not much time had passed since prince andrew had left russia, he +though politeness prevented his showing impatience, left the old woman +though she were grown up, was evidently very proud of this but at the +though the big hospitals and the houses in krems converted into military +thought: “i am going to save the army.” +thought independent of her sister-in-law’s words. in the midst of a +thought of his friend and how much he expected of him in the future. +thoughts. +thought, “seriously, i have long been thinking of it.... leading such +thoughts rather than the trend of the conversation—“and that’s a +thought that came into his mind was that today he had to be presented +thought. the minister drew the remaining papers together, arranged them +thought turned to her sister-in-law with a tender glance at her figure. +though what happened was due to chance and was independent of the +though what she said was quite just, perhaps for that very reason no one +thousand austrians, with a hundred thousand russians, were to operate in +thousand men breathlessly gazing at him and the regimental commander did +thousand men each of whom knew his place and his duty, had every button +threatened by the french) but at brünn. despite his apparently delicate +“three and a half miles, your majesty.” +three months ago, draw fresh moral strength from your look, so gentle, +through him, and again laughed his frigid laugh. +through his lorgnette, suddenly turned completely round toward the +throughout the whole cavalry division as váska denísov. cadet rostóv, +through that door was heard a noise of things being moved about, and +through the closed doors came the sound of difficult passages—twenty +through the door. +through the door came the regular hum of a lathe. the princess timidly +through the door came the sounds of kutúzov’s voice, excited and +through the door on tiptoe. he could not walk well on tiptoe and his +through the town of enns on both sides of the bridge. +thrown the reins of the snaffle bridle over the horse’s head. it was +thumb to the room where telyánin was sitting, he frowned and gave a +thumping the table. +thumping the table; “and ve must tie for our emperor, and zen all vill +tíkhon, at her husband, and at the footman who accompanied them. +tíkhon knew that neither the son’s arrival nor any other unusual +till she was twenty, and arranged her life so that her whole time was +till the general asked him to restore it. all his absent-mindedness and +till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are capable of, +time, anna mikháylovna sent someone to call her son, and went into the +time could not admit the idea of his hero being disgraced. +time in the shop. +times repeated—of a sonata by dussek. +times, the more impassioned he became in these moments of almost morbid +times unexpectedly interrupted. once he stopped it by shouting: “the +time to time he went out to ask: “hasn’t she come yet?” they +timókhin to the subaltern beside him. +tint in her complexion and especially in the color of her slender but +tipsy rage when a man does not know what he is saying. he saw that his +tiresome,” said natásha in a mortified voice that trembled slightly. +title: war and peace +to abandon the road connecting him with the troops arriving from russia, +to accept their services. he took the glove in silence from the +to adopt a jocular tone. but before he had finished he felt that his +to a footman dressed in knee breeches, shoes, and a swallow-tail coat, +to agree to the truce but also to offer terms of capitulation, and +to another. “how evidently he belongs to the best society,” said she +to a third; and the vicomte was served up to the company in the choicest +to a tune in which the weary musicians blundered, and while tired +to balance himself. one of the footmen who had stooped to pick up some +to be all right,” pierre concluded, and followed anna mikháylovna. +to be grew stronger, and he meekly followed anna mikháylovna who was +to behave here as you did in petersburg, you will end very badly; that +to be parted from her husband and be left alone in the country, in her +“to be quite frank, mary, i expect father’s character sometimes +to be so sent meant not only a reward but an important step toward +“to be sure, your excellency,” replied the architect. +to be talking to a staff officer of such importance. “it’s a lovely +to blame all round. well, what else do you want?...” +to bore him so much as that of his pretty wife. he turned away from +to control herself any longer, she jumped up and rushed from the room as +today, and that his excellency was not receiving anyone. +today. he has been here on leave and is taking nicholas back with him. +“today when i remembered that all these delightful associations +to dinner. i suppose he won’t go?” she continued, turning to the +to distraction! one learns many things then,” she added with a certain +to do but dwink. if we could only get to fighting soon. hullo, who’s +to dress in here; and that andrew had quite changed, and that kitty +to drive straight home. but the nearer he drew to the house the more he +to each new arrival anna pávlovna said, “you have not yet seen my + * to err is human. +toes toward the general. the captain’s face showed the uneasiness of +to execute an order. the officer on duty, a handsome, elegantly dressed +to fathom what he has been pleased to conceal from us, the sooner will + to feel that in this world there’s one +to fire the bridge, and now someone has gone and blundered; they are all +together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel. at last +together. the german, pahlen, has been sent to new york in america, to +to get himself killed. tell me what this wretched war is for?” she +to give you the love you do not feel, and your prayer would have been +to go by the back stairs, yet judging by anna mikháylovna’s air +to greet the young man. +to grunth to find prince bagratión. he heard the cannonade behind him +to hear the details.” +to help at any point where the conversation might happen to flag. as +to her.” +to her? i am so grateful to you that i would willingly sacrifice +to him about politics. prince andrew and the others gathered round these +to him, as you so well know how to be.” +to him fell against the rails with a groan. rostóv ran up to him with +to himself, for in him alone is truth and peace,” said she in a voice +to him straight out. let people think what they will of me, it’s +to his adjutant he ordered him to bring down the two battalions of the +to his beautiful sister, but yet more by the fact that in spite of +to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real +to his people in germany; and he felt greatly offended when the butler +to indicate that he was about to say something witty. “buonaparte?” +to join some swedish forces at stralsund; how two hundred and twenty +to know as plain monsieur pierre, has become count bezúkhov and the +to kutúzov’s staff despite all anna mikháylovna’s endeavors and +told him, and said, “very good!” in a tone that seemed to imply that +told him the whole field could be seen. here he dismounted, and stopped +told him what he had seen. +told the count such vile, disgraceful things about us, especially about +to look under the uniforms he would have found on every man a clean +to make out the pattern. +to make scenes. this last consideration moved him. +to me all about it, and i will help you in everything.” pierre had +to move from right to left as if drawn by an invisible hand, and the +tomowwow,” muttered denísov. + to my native land...” +tone and manner, here in moscow to anna mikháylovna whom he had placed +tone of entreaty and reproach that a carpenter uses to a gentleman who +tone of voice. “come here, my friend...” and she ominously tucked +tones. +tone. “what has been decided? they have decided that buonaparte has +“tonight, not later,” said he in a low voice, and he moved away +to notice him, and that his whole aim now was to test the cadet’s +took a horse and a cossack from a cossack commander, and hungry and +took her sister-in-law’s arm and drew her into another room. +took him by the shoulder, led him to the window, and began to talk to +took it...” he whispered just above telyánin’s ear. +took up her work. +tools laid ready to hand and shavings scattered around—all indicated +too, might have their own interests. but all he said was so prettily +to one another, and the old servant who was holding the count’s hand +too seemed strange; at one moment they looked impudently sly and at the +to pass the time.” +to petersburg, look round, and choose your profession. i will agree to +topic—making fun of the military men of the day, and more particularly +topic of the day: the illness of the wealthy and celebrated beau of +to pierre he said nothing, merely giving his arm a sympathetic squeeze +to please you...” said prince andrew. but immediately, noticing +to present the regiment in parade order, on the principle that it is +to prince murat, +“to prince vasíli. he was so kind. he at once agreed to everything, +to provide himself with some books for the campaign, and had spent some +to recollect something. prince andrew stepped forward from among the +to rest after their hard marches. +to retreat along the road from krems to olmütz, to unite with the +to rostóv’s face, and his sobs were audible. +to run out to her, and remained in her hiding place, watching—as +to seize hold of dólokhov’s shirt. +to show that they are not at all impatient for their food. the host and +to show the austrian general the wretched state in which the troops +to slip in over there.” +to start her gambols again and display her kittenish nature. +to stop and fire the bridge.” +to take their leave. +to tear open the veil of convention that separates a commander in chief +to tell you. there is a war now against napoleon. if it were a war for +to the accountant, “but he feels a pain in the pit of his stomach +“to the army.” +to the back of the house, to the room of the eldest princess. +to the devil, i’m busy!” he shouted to lavrúshka, who went up to +to the effect that the duc d’enghien had gone secretly to paris to +to the elderly lady, even betraying some impatience, she gave him an +“to the emperor.” +to the emperor francis; he remembered the minister of war, the polite +to the end, without raising his eyes at the opening of the door and the +to the farther side of the bridge and stopped the infantry. beside the +to the footman who was helping him on with his cloak, listened +to the frontier. our dear emperor has left petersburg and it is thought +to the front of the regiment and examined it from a distance. +to the imperial family as well as to all moscow and petersburg, and both +to their chatter. anatole kept on refilling pierre’s glass while +to their companies, the sergeants major began bustling (the greatcoats +to the last meeting between father and son, it was so touching that she +to then been in regular order and silent began to sway and stretch and +to the palace, however, an official came running out to meet him, and +to the prince and smiling amiably at him as if to show that political +to the prince that if these battalions went away, the guns would remain +to the ranks along which shots crackled now here and now there, drowning +to the ranks,” said the captain softly. +“to the right from the corridor, euer hochgeboren! there you will find +to the vienna-znaim road. bagratión was to make this march without +to the visitor she added: “she is my youngest girl.” +to the window. +to think of the impression he makes on others, but is occupied with +to think of the interview with his dying father which awaited him. he +to this occurrence than to the rest of what went on, having made up his +to time she smoothed the folds of her dress, and whenever the story +to turn the count’s heavy body toward the wall. +to twitch. the twitching increased, the handsome mouth was drawn to one +touched him was sent flying. +touching his arm, but when he saw pierre’s beaming face he gave him an +touch, “you promised me!” + * to understand all is to forgive all. +to unload the muskets, explode the ammunition, and all return home as +toward him whom he may give me for husband. +toward the sofa she had indicated. as soon as anna mikháylovna had +to warn me of the humor my father is in. i do not allow myself to judge +to what he dreaded more than anything in the world—to ridicule; but +town knows?” +to you since dinner? hasn’t she?” +traces broke, and lungs were strained with shouting. the officers +trampled mud and gazed with that particular feeling of ill-will, +translators: louise and aylmer maude +traveling effects of prince andrew’s were in very good order: new, +treading heavily he stepped down from the carriage just as if those two +tread of the soldiers who were keeping step with him. he carried close +treetops and bluish gorges. the turrets of a convent stood out beyond a +trembled nervously; this was sufficient to cause his whole body to slip +trembling with emotion, solemnly holding up in both hands before her +triangles are equal; please note that the angle abc...” +triumphant, cheerful face. +triumphantly and gaily. +troops arriving from russia, he risked being forestalled on that road +troops below the hill and fell far short of the enemy, a little smoke +troops on the high ground above the bridge involuntarily asked himself +troops were ill-clad, exhausted, and had lost a third of their number +troops were running onto the bridge, was about to fire, but lannes +trot to escape from the poisoned atmosphere of these latrines. +trouvez là le mot pour rire,” * he said, as if strengthening his +truce and a capitulation, he detected a ruse and wrote the following +“true enough,” answered nesvítski; “two smart fellows could have +true gascon) and says: ‘i don’t recognize the world-famous austrian +“trust in his mercy!” and pointing out a small sofa for him to sit +trying not to lose a word of the speech which was incomprehensible to +trying only to be ahead of the others; but just at the bridge, not +trying through the dowager empress márya fëdorovna to secure it for +trying to get something out of the rich man?” +trying to give an expressive intonation to his voice. +trying to prove that the russians had surrendered and had fled all +“try to serve well and show yourself worthy,” added he, addressing +turned from captain timókhin again flitted over his face. he turned +turned out splendidly all the same,” he added, winking at véra. +turned round. the officer evidently had complete control of his face, +turned their horses away. the accountant stopped, facing the cossack, +turned to anna mikháylovna, answering her query by a movement of the +turned to her. +turned to his wife. +turned to speak to his daughter, the beautiful hélène. +turned toward her brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, +turned toward the women, and while the vehicle was passing at foot pace +turned to zherkóv. the nervous irritation aroused by the appearance +turning away from the girls, who at once assumed an air of inattention. +turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, +turning into the village already... they will have their buckwheat +turn now, but that he will do all he can to let his turn come as late as +turn spindles at home!’?” said shinshín, puckering his brows and +túshin’s guns had been intended to cannonade the valley, he was +túshin smiling shyly in his uncomfortable position, evidently wishing +túshin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to +twinkled and looked out straight. +twitched its ears as the bayonets touched it, and snorted, spurting +two. +two.” +two battalions of the sixth chasseurs in fine order. before they had +two footmen, the princess’ and his own, stood holding a shawl and +two front teeth were missing that had been knocked out by the butt end +two hostile armies was all the more clearly felt. +“two, i think.” +two of the enemy’s shots had already flown across the bridge, where +“two such charming children. and really you appreciate them less than +two younger ones were embroidering: both were rosy and pretty and they +“ugh! i don’t like that fellow,” he said, regardless of the +“ugh. the hussars will get it hot!” said nesvítski; “they are +unable to ask for himself, he became chary of using his influence. but +unable to overcome or conceal his groundless antipathy to the man. +unaccustomed brightness, but he was looking not at his sister but over +un bâtard!”* she added, as if supposing that this translation of the +unchanging smile. +unchanging stonily severe expression; and, sitting down opposite the +unconscious little princess, he shook his head reprovingly and slammed +“und die ganze welt hoch!” * +under an invisible cap—to see what went on in the world. she was +under an obligation, assuming an air of much greater importance than he +understand?” +understand and state the patient’s condition. +understand him, but he did not speak it very well—“i bet fifty +understand him it was so much the worse for them—did not go up to the +understand how a man of his immense intellect can fail to see what is +understanding but not wishing to appear to do so. the princess as usual +understand it; i don’t in the least understand why men can’t live +understand the self-abnegation of our emperor who wants nothing for +understand... what a soul he has!” +understood all the difficulties of the russian army’s position, and +understood him. the old man got up and gave the letter to his son. +understood that she was being asked to entertain this young man, and +understood the revolution and quelled it, and so for the general good, +understood without naming. +“under the lower pillow.” +“und vivat die ganze welt!” though neither the german cleaning his +uneasily as if preparing to resent any slight that might be put upon the +unexpectedly kind and pleasant smile. +unfastened cloak, wide breeches hanging down in creases, and a crumpled +uniform living waves of soldiers, shoulder straps, covered shakos, +uniforms advanced toward the bridge at a run. smoke appeared again +uniforms and groups with horses, easily recognizable as artillery. +unlicked bear! a perfectly absurd and stupid fellow, and a gambler too, +unpleasant. +unpleasant things to everyone and upset them. let’s go to the +unwounded. the soldiers were ascending the hill breathing heavily, and +up and began watching the movements of our troops below, as plainly +up and turning away as if from a shameful aspersion. “it is not from +up!” came the company commander’s voice in jaunty tones. the +up for lost time. +up from both sides. everyone crowded to the window, the englishman in +up from the sofa, seized borís under the elbow in his quick, clumsy +up her downy little lip. “all the pretty women in society will be +up her sleeves still higher. pierre approached, looking at her in a +upon anyone, and it was clear that the kitten had settled down only to +upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to be her own special and +up their knapsacks with a jerk of their shoulders and pulling the straps +up the whole of her thin, sickly face and made it beautiful. her brother +up to denísov’s squadron and rode at a footpace not far from rostóv, +up to her. +up to the commander in chief, and presented arms. +up to their gallery, addressing the first violin: +up to the window of the first house, when a familiar voice called him by +up, was hastily writing at a tub turned bottom upwards. kozlóvski’s +urging of horses, and the swearing of soldiers, orderlies, and officers. +us?...” “ah! mary, you have got thinner?...” “and you have grown +us. but vienna is on the other side. no, the bridge has not yet been +used to be. don’t judge lise harshly,” she began. “she is so +used to say that a nap “after dinner was silver—before dinner, +ushering bolkónski in. “so you’re a messenger of victory, eh? +us nice news of a victory by the archduke karl or ferdinand (one +us talk business. have you been to the horse guards?” +us. to the left the horizon bounded by the adjacent wood. prince +usual. +usual in french, and as if after long self-restraint she wished to make +usurper, the whole nation will certainly throw itself into the arms +vacancies occur much more frequently in the foot guards. then just think +vanished from his face. +vanished. he waited for the first pause in the conversation, and then +varnish. +vasíli. +vasíli and the eldest princess. pierre concluded that this also was +vasíli, “but it is difficult for me to ask the emperor. i should +vasíli, his cheeks twitching more than ever. +vasíli in the anteroom. all the affectation of interest she had assumed +vasíli, it is very sad for both. ah, my dear friend, our divine +vasíli played a very despicable part in this affair and that he +vasíli severely. “you don’t know what you are doing.” +vasíli’s son anatole, whom they wish to reform by marrying him to +vasíli’s son, hippolyte, had come with mortemart, whom he introduced. +vasíli to anna mikháylovna. “go and take something, my poor anna +vasíli to anna pávlovna. +vasíli understood it as an expression of weariness. +vasíli went on, testily pushing away a little table without looking at +vasíli, who had grown thinner and paler during the last few days, +“ve must vight to the last tr-r-op of our plood!” said the colonel, +venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly +“véra,” she said to her eldest daughter who was evidently not a +véra with guilty, happy faces. +verses in the bosom of her dress close to her bony little chest, ran +very clever but eccentric, and a bore. the poor girl is very unhappy. +very decent town. you and i will travel comfortably in my calèche.” +very fine when he said that,” he remarked, repeating the words in +“very good,” answered nesvítski. +“very good!” said bagratión. +very important.” +“very interesting.” +“very likely it would be splendid, but it will never come about....” +“very lovely,” said prince andrew. +very muscular men, and on the night of the battle, having arrived +very poor, but for my own part at any rate, for the very reason that +“very,” said pierre. +very serious talk.” +“very silly,” said véra. “i am ashamed of you. secrets indeed!” +very strictly to social distinctions and rarely admitted even important +very trying,” said prince andrew, apparently speaking lightly of their +very well...” +“very well, very well...” +very wise, because you can take everything along with you—vodka and +vicomte and from the vicomte to their hostess. in the first moment of +vicomte continued, with the air of a man who, in a matter with which +vicomte who was continuing his story. +victory. his majesty will no doubt wish to see you, but not today. i +victory, what effect would that have on the general course of events? +vienna as i told you. very well. next day, which was yesterday, those +vienna by the austrian hofkriegsrath, the sole and almost unattainable +vienna. kutúzov with his transport had still to march for some days +views by this french sentence. “c’est bien pour un garçon de rien +vile, infamous paper, but i thought the thing was invalid.” +“vile woman!” shouted the princess, darting unexpectedly at anna +village. “very good!” said bagratión in reply to the officer’s +visible as if but a stone’s throw away, and the movements of the +visit mademoiselle george; that at her house he came upon bonaparte, +visitor alluded to, though she had already heard about the cause of +visitor. “and to think it is cyril vladímirovich bezúkhov’s son +visitor. “he is a son of márya ivánovna dólokhova, such a worthy +visitors on his right. midway down the long table on one side sat the +vividly imagined what awaited it and the part he would have to +vladímir medal and ribbon? but now, even if they do get peppered, the +vladímirovich bezúkhov, countess rostóva sat for a long time all +vladímirovich bezúkhov. if he will not assist his godson—you know +vladímirovich bezúkhov’s house. “my dear borís,” said the +vladímirovich is my mother’s second cousin. he’s also my bóry’s +vodka a quarter of an hour before, he saw everywhere the same rapid +voice. +voice, and lieutenant telyánin, a small officer of the same squadron, +voice, opening his door. +voice suddenly shrieked: “but if i hear that you have not behaved like +voices were but feebly heard amid the uproar and one saw by their faces +voice. “there was no one else in the room except myself. so that if it +voice which expressed joy for himself, severity for the regiment, and +“voilà l’agrément des camps, monsieur le prince,” * said the +volume you have sent me and which has such success in moscow. yet since +votre victoire n’est pas des plus victorieuses.” * +“vous voyez le malheureux mack,” he uttered in a broken voice. +vreatening russia and zat ze safety and dignity of ze empire as vell + wafting sweet music o’er the lea, +waistcoat. “it’s the sauté, most likely,” she added with a smile. +“wait a bit and listen. it’s fine!” answered sídorov, who was +“wait a bit, he is not drunk yet! a bottle here,” said anatole, and +“wait a bit, here’s a letter for you,” said the old man suddenly, +“wait a moment, i’ll get my work.... now then, what are you +“wait!” cried dólokhov, hammering with the bottle on the window +waited in expectation of an important order for an expensive funeral. +“wait, haven’t you dropped it?” said rostóv, picking up the +“wait, i have not finished...” he said to prince andrew, seizing +waiting for—some important relation who has not yet arrived, or a dish +waiting to see what he would do. he stood a little while before the +“wait—just a word! when he has been transferred to the guards...” +walk to meet him. his face with its long mustache was serious as always, +walls hung round with persian carpets. the part of the room behind the +wants to go to the war,” replied pierre, addressing the princess +“wants to turn on the other side,” whispered the servant, and got up +want to dance well. her enormous figure stood erect, her powerful arms +war and peace +war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature—which townsfolk +war has deprived me of one of the associations nearest my heart. i mean +war or politics but related to high society, to certain women, and to +wars,” he said. +was. +was about to run on, thinking that the farther he went to the front +was about twenty-five. like all infantry officers he wore no mustache, +was about, went across the room to where pierre was standing and gave +was accustomed to understand him. he led him to the desk, raised the +“was a political necessity, and it seems to me that napoleon +was a stroke of genius. prince auersperg feels his dignity at stake and +was at home last, and, having assured himself that they had not, he +was a young horse telyánin had sold to rostóv.) +was charming... you are very kind... countess apráksina...” was heard +was coming, and turning to her mother: +was diverted by the desperate shrieks of the woman in the vehicle. an +was dulled by imbecility and a constant expression of sullen +was fully described: prince murat et tout le tremblement... you see that +was great on the bridge of arcola, and in the hospital at jaffa where he +was happy. “left... left... left...” he seemed to repeat to himself +was holding fast to plait, would allow. +was immediately surrounded by courtiers on all sides. everywhere he +was impossible to see it clearly with the naked eye. our right flank was +was in the way and was the only one who did not notice the fact. most of +“was kutúzov well? when had he left krems?” and so on. the emperor +was necessary for him to go to the count at all, still less why he had +was “not a whit worse than you or i.” at dinner the prince usually +“wasn’t i telling you to fire the bridge, when inflammable material +“wasn’t it fine when those germans gave us lifts! you just sit still +was only redder than usual. with his shaggy head thrown back like birds +was particularly pleasant at that moment. they had reached the battery +was rapidly and excitedly talking to a french grenadier. “hark to him +was rather out of place in this brilliant society, the whole company had +was saying. +was spitting blood. a bullet had evidently hit him in the throat or +was standing beside the princess, and they were both speaking in excited +was stricter.” +was talking came up to listen. berg, oblivious of irony or indifference, +was tall and fair, and his calm and handsome face had regular, delicate +“was that grapeshot?” he asked denísov. +was there on the hilltop, and kept constantly looking at the patches +was true and appropriate, yet, strange to say, everyone—the visitors +was true. no one had taken any notice, for everyone knew the sensation +was very valuable. officers who approached him with disturbed +was writing. “i’ll do it.” +watched her cousin who was going to join the army, with such passionate +watched him. she smiled, hid her face in her handkerchief, and remained +watched him smilingly, and he rode off by the winding path down the +watchful eye on the young man who so alarmed her, noticed that he was +watching and it creaked very slightly as she disappeared behind it. +“watching over his interests” meant, but he decided that all these +watch the change in the tone and manners of the mammas burdened by +waters of the distant danube shone. and fairer still were the faraway +waving it above his head cried: +way, and, blushing far more than borís, began to speak with a feeling +way,” he added in russian—but pronouncing the word with a french +way!... let us pass!... stop there, you devil with the cart! i’ll hack +weak human understanding cannot grasp, it seems to me rather useless to +“we all have our weaknesses,” said kutúzov smiling and walking away +“weally! and i’ve been losing, bwother. i lost yesterday like a +weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men +“we are to spend the night in znaim.” +weariness of tone, “it is almost impossible for me to do what you +weary faces, were sitting at the table eating and drinking. +weary, making his way past the baggage wagons, rode in search of the +weary of it and it was not at all what he wanted. he turned away and +weather, and countess apráksina. now and then they glanced at one +weather. “the weather is beautiful, princess; and besides, in moscow +“we don’t interfere with you and berg.” +‘we don’t love people so much for the good they have done us, as +we had not religion to console us life would be very sad. why do you +we have fully concentrated forces of nearly seventy thousand men with +“we have orders to drive you off here, and we shall drive you off,” +“we here in moscow are more occupied with dinner parties and scandal +weight. +weight they were carrying were too much for them. +we know where we are. and what do you think of the boulogne expedition? +welcome for the approaching chief. +we let our feeble human minds roam, the better we shall please god, who +welfare of his soul is at stake. ah, it is awful: the duties of a +well.” +well.” +“well, all i can make out is that everything is abominable, +well!” and he turned to go. +well and, in particular, drinks well. “so do come and dine with us!” +“well, and to whom did you apply about bóry?” asked the countess. +“well, aren’t you ashamed of yourself, captain túshin?” he +“well, au revoir, bolkónski! au revoir, prince! come back early to +“well, au revoir! good-by! you hear her?” +“well done!... fine fellow!... there’s a bet for you!... devil take +“well done, lads!” said prince bagratión. +well educated and clever. this is all that his foreign education has +well enough to be sure that this will not turn your head, but it imposes +we’ll fire off some cannon! but this sort of thing seems done +“well, fwiend? so you’ve smelt powdah!” shouted váska denísov +“well, good-by, prince,” said he to bagratión. “my blessing, and +“well? has he been degraded into a field marshal, or into a soldier? +“well, have it so, and you talked a lot of nonsense to him and must +“well, have you finished?” said he to kozlóvski. +“well!” he said, turning to his wife. +“well, he’s really a good fellow, one can serve under him,” said +“well, how is he?” +“well, i am taking it off,” replied lavrúshka’s voice. +“well, if you do, so much the better, and you can go back to her!” +“well, i have got all i need into packs for two horses,” said +“well, is it true that it’s peace and capitulation?” asked +“well, i suppose it is time we were at table?” said márya +“well, i think it is. the bigwigs here think so too, but they +“well, it’s as you like,” said the staff captain. “and what has +“well, it seems that no one has noticed,” thought rostóv. and this +well known, so much appreciated by everyone. the other day at the +“well, let’s go and sing ‘the brook.’” +“well, little countess? what a sauté of game au madère we are to +“well, madam,” he began, stooping over the book close to his +“we’ll make you dance as we did under suvórov...,” * said +“well, maybe!” said prince andrew. “go, másha; i’ll come +“well, michael ivánovich, our bonaparte will be having a bad time +“well, michael mítrich, sir?” he said, addressing one of the +“well, mon cher,” said the vicomte, having seated himself beside +“well, my boy, you’ll get along wherever you go—foot or +“well, my dear?” asked the countess. +“well, my dear?” said prince vasíli, taking her hand and bending it +well, never mind, here you are.” +“well, never mind; i only...” +“well now, gentlemen,” said bilíbin, “bolkónski is my guest in +“well, now, good-by!” he gave his son his hand to kiss, and embraced +“well now, isn’t she a fool!” shouted the prince, pushing the book +“well, now tell me about your exploits,” said he. +“well, now you’ve done what you wanted,” put in nicholas—“said +“well, of course, of course!” +well, only a little bruised just here,” he added, pointing with a +“well, prince?” asked kozlóvski. +“well, prince, so genoa and lucca are now just family estates of the +“well, really, catiche! can’t you understand! you are so +“well, really, mamma! why should you? what is there to be surprised +“well,” said she, “how’s my cossack?” (márya dmítrievna +“well, stand us some of your herb vodka, túshin,” it said. +“well, talk as much as you can, anyway. he has a passion for giving +“well, thank god! we’ve been sitting here too long!” +“well, that is hardly a sufficient reason, mamma...” +“well, that’s all right,” continued the regimental commander. “a +“well, that’s only till the first engagement.” +“well, then go off to your buonaparte! mademoiselle bourienne, +“well, then, i won’t; only forgive me, sónya!” he drew her to him +“well, then, let’s be quick. borís, come here,” said natásha. +“well, then, old chap, mon très honorable alphonse kárlovich,” +“well there certainly are disgusting people,” thought rostóv as he +“well, this is strange! do you suppose i... who could think?... i know +“well, what about it?” said he to denísov. “it won’t come to a +“well, why are you going to the war?” asked pierre. +“well, why don’t you speak? whom have you got there dressed up as a +“well, young cavalryman, how is my rook behaving?” he asked. (rook +“well, young man?” he said with a sigh, and from under his lifted +“well, your excellency, what? your excellency! but what about your +“well, you see, count, i want some money.” +“well, you see, my dear princess and cousin, catherine semënovna,” +“well, you’ve told me nothing new,” and the old man repeated, +“we may as well go back,” said the son in french. + * “we must let him off the u!” +“we must let him see amelie, she’s exquisite!” said one of +went further in among the plants and threw down the doll. “closer, +went into the reception room familiar to pierre, with two italian +went in with nicholas. after them other couples followed, filling the +went on to the game without omitting a single dish or one of the wines. +went to the carriage. +went, with the smile of a coquettish girl, which at one time probably +we parted. why are we not together as we were last summer, in your big +wept too. they wept because they were friends, and because they were +were being set out for eighty people; and looking at the footmen, who +were bringing in silver and china, moving tables, and unfolding damask +were children. you might think that i... i understand, quite understand. +were crossing themselves. rostóv no longer looked at the colonel, he +were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of +were expecting márya dmítrievna akhrosímova, known in society as le +we’re getting it still worse,” said nesvítski. “but sit down and +“we’re going into action, gentlemen!” +were, “high-sounding words which have long been discredited. who does +were near him. everybody said that buonaparte himself was at braunau.” +were nicholas and sónya, the niece. sónya was a slender little +were not in very good condition), and instantly the squares that had up +were of the same age and both handsome fellows, though not alike. borís +were only 217 sick and stragglers. everything was in good order except +were really given, but that prince bagratión tried to make it appear +were saying. suddenly, however, he was struck by a voice coming from the +were sitting at embroidery frames while a third read aloud. it was the +were sitting at the table on which a plan was spread out. +were sitting on some feather beds. evidently these fugitives were +were talking and listening too eagerly and too naturally, which was why +were the potëmkins, suvórovs, and orlóvs germans? no, lad, either you +were therefore awkward. +were there,” thought rostóv. “in myself alone and in that sunshine +were to be severe with her and to forbid it ... goodness knows what they +“we’re to go into action, gentlemen! mack has surrendered with his +were to land at naples, and how a total force of five hundred thousand +were using their ramrods, others putting powder on the touchpans or +were waiting for them to come out. +“we shall be late.” +“we shall see.” +“wetched business,” he muttered to himself. “how much is left in +“wetched!” he muttered, throwing down a purse with some gold in it. +“we’ve got to it at last—why did you not tell me about it +“we’ve said good-by. go!” he suddenly shouted in a loud, angry +“we will talk of it later,” said anna pávlovna with a smile. +we women, prince,” and she smiled tenderly, “always know how to say +“what about capitulation?” +“what about your master?” he asked lavrúshka, denísov’s orderly, +“what a charming creature your younger girl is,” said the visitor; +“what a clever man your father is,” said she; “perhaps that is why +“what a dandy you are today!” said nesvítski, looking at +“what a delightful woman this little princess is!” said prince +“what a fine fellow you are, friend!” said the cossack to a convoy +“what an extraordinary genius!” prince andrew suddenly exclaimed, +“what a nice figure the policeman must have cut, my dear!” shouted +“what a pity you weren’t at the arkhárovs’ on thursday. it was so +“what are you doing!” she cried vehemently. “he is dying and you +“what are you making such a noise about over there?” márya +“what are your commands, little countess?” +“what?” asked the commander. +“what a treasure that dmítri is,” added the count with a smile when +what a voice she has; though she’s my daughter, i tell the truth +“what brings you here?” cried the officers turning to the newcomer. +what can be done with two hundred and thirty rubles! i even manage to +“what can one say about it?” replied the prince in a cold, listless +what chance has michael kutúzov? no, my dear boy,” he continued, +“what devils these quartermasters are! see, the fifth company is +what do we, i mean the austrian court, care for your victories? bring +“what do you thank me for?” +whatever. +“whatever is this? this!” he shouted and stood still. “commander +whatever the import of his work. it was not the question “what for?” +whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is +“what for? i don’t know. i must. besides that i am going....” he +“what good are they? they’re led about just for show!” remarked +“what have you done to mlle schérer? she will be quite ill now,” +“what? here? but why did they not blow up the bridge, if it was +what he was about; yet they beat him à plate couture,*(3) and where +what he was laughing at. everything her father did inspired her with +“what is bad, father?” +what is beyond death, none of us would be afraid of it. that’s so, +“what is it?” asked the countess, startled; but seeing by her +“what is it, dear?” +“what is it?” he asked. +“what is it? what?” asked both princesses when they saw for a moment +“what is it you are afraid of, lise? i don’t understand,” said he. +“what is that?” asked the countess as if she did not know what the +“what is the commander in chief doing here?” he asked. +“what is the matter with you, my dear?” she said crossly to the maid +what is there? who is there?—there beyond that field, that tree, that +“what is the something?” asked he. +what it must be for her, poor thing, after what she has been used to, +“what manners! i thought they would never go,” said the countess, +“what, monsieur pierre... do you consider that assassination shows +“what news, sir?” asked the officer, evidently anxious to start a +“what next? have you gone mad?... no one would let you!... why, you go +“what next?” the princess interrupted, smiling sardonically and not +“what? occupied? vienna occupied?” +“what? revolution and regicide a grand thing?... well, after that... +“what? saw the real mack? with hands and feet?” +“what shall we sing?” she said. + * “what’s he singing about?” +what she was holding in her reticule.) “so you promise?” +“what’s it all about? why, the french have crossed the bridge that +what’s one to do?” and, having given his order, he returned to +what’s one to do, my dear?” +“what’s that that has fallen?” asked the accountant with a naïve +“what’s the good of denying it, my dear? our dear countess was too +“what’s the matter?” exclaimed prince andrew standing still in +“what’s the matter? i only congratulated them,” said zherkóv. +what’s the matter with you? you must be ill to shiver like that,” he +“what’s to be done? she’s pretty! i will do everything. make your +what was approaching in the distance from the opposite side—the blue +what we fathers have to put up with.... is this princess of yours +“what? what? how dare you? what?” said telyánin. +“what will happen now?” thought she. +“what would it cost you to say a word to the emperor, and then he +“what would you have me do?” he said at last. “you know i did all +“what would you have, my dear fellow?” answered pierre, shrugging +“what you said just now was splendid!” said his partner julie. +wheels and the sensation of victory. then he began to imagine that +when anna mikháylovna returned from count bezúkhov’s the money, all +“when are you starting?” he asked. +when borís appeared at his door pierre was pacing up and down his room, +“when he looked at my feet, friend... well, thinks i...” +when he needs repose? worldly conversation at a moment when his soul is +“when her confinement is due, send to moscow for an accoucheur.... let +when he saw the minister seated at a large table reading some papers +when i say she’ll be a singer, a second salomoni! we have engaged an +when natásha ran out of the drawing room she only went as far as the +when prince andrew entered the study the old man in his old-age +when prince andrew left the palace he felt that all the interest +when prince andrew reached the room prepared for him and lay down in a +when rostóv went back there was a bottle of vodka and a sausage on the +when she began to speak passed through such transitions as she herself +when she had seen her guests out. +when she said this, he did not reply and only bowed, but again everybody +when she saw pierre enter. though he was certainly rather bigger than +when she took her seat opposite and beamed upon him also with her +“when speaking to the emperor, try as far as you can to praise the way +when starting on a journey or changing their mode of life, men capable +when telyánin had finished his lunch he took out of his pocket a double +when the eager but misrepeated words had reached their destination in +when the military governor had gone, prince vasíli sat down all alone +when the twenty minutes had elapsed and the time had come for the old +when they again heard an unexpectedly violent whistling which suddenly +when they drink, pressing his spurs mercilessly into the sides of his +“when would you like them, your excellency?” asked dmítri. “allow +where. +“where are headquarters?” +“where are you going?” asked an infantry officer who was eating an +“where are you off to?” he said suddenly to prince andrew who had +“where? at bykov’s, at the rat’s... i knew it,” replied a piping +“where have you put it, wostóv?” +“where is dólokhov?” asked kutúzov. +“where is the commander in chief?” asked bolkónski. +where’s the victory?” +“where the devil have the leg bands been shoved to?” said an +where the rivals suddenly recognized one another; and the ladies looked +“where to?” +“where to?” +whether he was speaking in jest or in earnest. “ah, your excellency! +whether what he said was very witty or very stupid. he was dressed in +which a faint smile forgot to fade though his features now expressed +which at least half of them would be left on the field. after passing a +which did not leave his eager face. “hoch oestreicher! hoch russen! +which forms an impenetrable veil between us and the eternal? let us +which had disappeared, but at french infantry who had come into the +which had lost all dignity, and at the twitching cheeks of prince +which he found himself. anna pávlovna was obviously serving him up as +which he held the hilt of his naked saber, looked just as it usually +which indicates that patience is exhausted. +which intimated that he knew what he was about and if others did not +which it is difficult to justify.” +which seemed to say that he was not blaming anyone, but could not help +which seemed to stand rather than lie down on his massive shoulders. he +which several others joined but which bored pierre. when the music began +which she neither wished, nor could, nor considered it necessary, to +which showed that he only understood the meaning of his words after he +which stood on her right. it reflected a weak, ungraceful figure and +which the cadet under fire for the first time had experienced. +which to attack and defeat the enemy should he cross the lech. also, +which was littered with books and papers. the princess was as untidy as +which was offered him. telyánin for some reason had been transferred +while in the rostóvs’ ballroom the sixth anglaise was being danced, +while the count was being turned over, one of his arms fell back +while the couples were arranging themselves and the musicians tuning up, +while these conversations were going on in the reception room and the +while the youngest, the one with the mole, who was of a cheerful and +whispered, and a shudder ran down her back. +whispered to one another, casting significant looks at him with a kind +whispering, and betraying by every word and movement that they none +whispers. +whispers, and, whenever anyone went into or came from the dying man’s +whistling, singing, and hissing continually around them. he spoke in the +white foam from his bit, tramping the planks of the bridge with his +white foam on the waves of the enns, an officer, in a cloak and with +white horse, was prince bagratión. prince andrew stopped, waiting for +white one, the white one!” +whites glittering and rolling as he waved his sheathed saber in a small +white teeth fiercely and spurring his black thoroughbred arab, which +who also enjoyed the famous actress’ favors, and that in his presence +who always solved questions that seemed to him perplexing by deciding +who amuses himself in this sensible manner! and he was said to be so +who, angry and frightened, strode energetically along with downcast +who, as they passed through in their ball dresses with diamonds and +who came to congratulate, and who constantly succeeded one another in +who evidently understood his case and wished him nothing but good, +(who gazed with curiosity at the soldiers) were not russians, the +who gives himself the airs of a monarch.” +who had evidently just arrived, entered quickly, slamming the door. +who had grown old in society and at court. he went up to anna pávlovna, +who had him under observation, interrupted: +who had lolled in anna pávlovna’s easy chairs and with half-closed +who had spoken to him on behalf of her only son borís on the evening of +who had wished to stop the affair ran to a corner of the room and threw +who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies. +who kept her waiting some minutes. “don’t you wish to serve me? then +who kissed his hand. +whole army.” +whole body jerked at each step. the eldest princess followed him, and +whole dining hall, and last of all the children, tutors, and governesses +whole set. yes, you’re all right! choose what you will; it’s all the +whole tenor of his thoughts instantaneously changed; the battle seemed +who, liking work, knew how to do it, and despite his indolence would +who looked at her, after being in her company and talking to her a +whom all the regiment knew for a rogue. +whom did you apply?” +whom he had promised to take home. +whom he was again talking with the same involuntary smile. sónya wore +whom i mention this, because i like you.” +“whom shall i announce?” +who on kutúzov’s staff in charge of the provisioning of the russian +who ran downstairs and looked over from the halfway landing. +“who sacrificed everything for him,” chimed in the princess, who +“whose company?” asked prince bagratión of an artilleryman standing +“who should it be? you yourself told him to come. it’s the +“who’s that curtseying there? cadet miwónov! that’s not wight! +“who’s that running on the middle of the bridge? to the right! come + who still is thinking but of thee! +who stood in the midst of the group, without a coat, and with his fine +“who told you that? who?” cried the prince. “suvórov!” and he +who was a secretary to the embassy, bolkónski was already acquainted. +who was kissing her hand, “you’re feeling dull in moscow, i daresay? +“who was that? the military governor himself?” was being asked at +why. +“why a blue coat? off with it... sergeant major! change his coat... +“why are you going? i know you think it your duty to gallop back to +“why are you so glum?” asked nesvítski noticing prince andrew’s +“why didn’t you capture one, just one, marshal for us?” +“why didn’t you mention it, prince? i would have offered you +“why did you not succeed in impressing on bonaparte by diplomatic +“why don’t you speak, cousin?” suddenly shrieked the princess so +“why do you say this young man is so rich?” asked the countess, +“why, have you too much money?” +“why no, my dear fellow,” said the astonished narrator, shrugging +“why run risks, captain? you should dismount,” he said. +“why should i mind monsieur pierre being here?” exclaimed the little +“why talk nonsense? say what you want.” +“why, this is a palace!” she said to her husband, looking around +“why,” thought prince andrew, “that’s the captain who stood up +wider than ours, and it was plain that they could easily outflank us +wife and her tall cap with its light-blue ribbons, and busily filled +wild virgin pine forest, and far away on the other side of the enns the +will all the same never be like those petersburg young men.” +will be cut off,” said he. +will begin. and he says buonaparte is in braunau! shows you’re a fool. +will be my teacher...” and lowering his big arm he offered it to the +will certainly be granted. pierre will get everything as the legitimate +will come!” +will come back in a rage. will you have coffee?” +willing, are going to die in the regiment, we prize the honor of the +will in pierre’s favor are among the count’s papers, then, my dear +will just be time.” +will not reach your regiment before peace is concluded, or you will +will not rest until they have gained their end, and are prepared if +“will they burn the bridge or not? who’ll get there first? will they +will they cross pomerania?” +window and from dólokhov’s back. anatole stood erect with staring +window. nesvítski, moving his moist lips as he chewed something, and +window sill. +window sill, with a pale but radiant face. +windows opening into the conservatory, with its large bust and full +wind to carry away. a pleasant humming and whistling of bullets were +wine with dignity and looking to the count for approval. +wings, hoping before evening and before the arrival of the emperor to +wing with the other, prince andrew met mademoiselle bourienne smiling +wiping them on the sleeves of their greatcoats. all their faces were +wish?” +wished both to rebuke him (for daring to speak as he had done of a man +wished to say something more, but at that moment prince vasíli and his +wished to see the regiment just in the state in which it had been on +wished to take another seat so as not to trouble the lady, and also to +wishes; that is my only reason for being here. i came simply to help him +wishes to stay with me, let him... he’ll be of use here if he’s a +wishes to test me!” his heart contracted and the blood rushed to his +wishing to find out where the commander in chief was, he rode up to +wishing to rid himself of this staff officer’s company, “please +wishing to show her connections and knowledge of what went on in +wish to be seen in that mood, for hearing footsteps in the passage he +with a bashful and awkward gesture not at all like a military salute +with a bottle wrapped in a napkin passed him by. he frowned, trying to +with a clear, bright expression, as if asking them to notice how calmly +with a decanter on a tray as “my dear” and “my sweet,” asked +with a decorous smile of self-satisfaction at being able clearly to +with a distressed face left the room to find sónya. +with a friendly smile. +with a look of nervous agitation such as pierre had never before seen on +with a look the significance of which could not be understood by mortal +with a mournful expression. +with an enormous mouth, hardly refraining from laughing, “i felt like +with an f, as a village elder of mine writes in his reports. she is rich +with anything in regard to her; and that always will be so in whatever +with a pleasant feeling that there was something à la louis xv in the +with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not +with a sigh. this might have been taken as an expression of sorrow +with a sinking heart—watching the bridge and the hussars in the bright +with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her +with a wink, and passed on followed by another, an old man. +with carts that it was impossible to get by in a carriage. prince andrew +with enjoyment, gazing with ever-increasing amiability at the other +with evident pleasure. +with exaggerated politeness. +with frightened eyes; the second assumed precisely the same expression; +with gossip,” he continued. “just now they are talking about you and +with great difficulty he managed to get to his horse, and shouting +with grief, though he tried hard to hide it in order not to sadden his +with her beautiful eyes full of tears at the door through which prince +with her to the side of the room where stood the high bedstead with its +with him remained in his room; a small box, a large canteen fitted +with himself and those around him, his smile and glance were brighter +with him. there now, sídorov!” +with his cap on the back of his black head and a cloak hanging jauntily +with his daughter, princess mary, and her companion, mademoiselle +with his foot. +with his glittering, black eyes at rostóv. +with his small hand. +with his thin legs, went up to kutúzov. +within grapeshot range now.” +within half an hour adjutants had been sent in various directions with +with it hidden for awhile; then looking up and seeing pierre she +with jests and to come to business. he involuntarily looked round at the +with lighted tapers in their hands, slowly and solemnly conducting the +“with my father and sister, remember,” said prince andrew gently. +with none of the embarrassment so commonly shown by young men in their +with one another. again the footmen rushed about, chairs scraped, and +with one leg crossed high above the other. his cheeks, which were so +without an inner struggle; “at such a moment as this one must think +without at all noticing that his involuntary smile had stabbed the heart +without boasting that it was a little better than at ulm...” +without eating.” +without his boots (he had given them to the canteen keeper to dry), +without his noticing it the feeling of offense immediately turned into +without laughing, but could not resist looking at him: so to be out of +without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly. it was as +without omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from +without support. prince bagratión turned to the officer and with his +without taking any notice of him although they were now meeting for the +without turning their heads glanced at one another, curious to see their +without wars. how is it that we women don’t want anything of the kind, +with particular courtesy ushered prince andrew before him along a +with pleasure to his own voice. “all i can say, general, is that if +with prince bagratión’s detachment.” +with rapid rhythmic whistle flew over the heads of the horsemen and fell +with red light like a russian church during evening service. under +with shifting eyes but eyebrows still raised, telyánin handed him the +with shinshín. berg gave his arm to véra. the smiling julie karágina +with silver plate, two turkish pistols and a saber—a present from +with so and-so,’ and then i take a cab and go myself two, three, or +with something more than curiosity and sympathy. he noticed that they +with such exactitude that nesvítski could not help laughing. kutúzov +with tender smiles was saying to véra that love is not an earthly but +with the expression with which people compliment their host at a ball. +with the flirtatiousness of a handsome youth at sónya and the young +with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance +with the hussar colonel on his left and shinshín and the other male +with the rank of lieutenant; but as it is i receive two hundred and +with the river between himself and the main body of the french. on the +with the same expression on his full, cheerful, clean-shaven face, the +with the self-satisfaction of a man on parade, he stepped lightly with +with these words she greeted prince vasíli kurágin, a man of high +with the strict formality of his house. at that moment the great clock +with thoughts and anxieties as to be oblivious of his presence. he +with trembling hands, threw his body across the saddle, righted himself, +with upraised arms. +with us.” +with you alone! god knows how long we may again be parted. you are not +“with you i will be quite frank,” said anna mikháylovna. “there +with you. may i?” he added in a low voice so as not to disturb the +woman, but there, just fancy! those three got hold of a bear somewhere, + * “woman is man’s companion.” +woman. with a slight rustle of her white dress trimmed with moss +women. +women.” +women are when you see them in their true colors! when you meet them +women, ‘women and wine’ i don’t understand!” +wonderful classic beauty of her figure, his face on the contrary +won’t go.” +“won’t you come over to the other table?” suggested anna +wood. +word; and he sat down at the nearest table. +word or slight rearrangement kept the conversational machine in steady, +words: “morning dawned, the sun was rising,” and concluding: “on +words), others were eating bread; the more severely wounded looked +word that hardenburg says, or haugwitz either. this famous prussian +word would effectively prove to prince vasíli the invalidity of his +work and study. and if pierre was often struck by andrew’s lack +workbag.” +work nearer to her. +world!” +world a quite different atmosphere, careless, lighthearted, and +worse, and it is absolutely necessary to prepare him if he is so ill. +worse than others.” +“wostóv, deah fellow, just see how much there is left and shove the +“wostóv, you’ve not been playing schoolboy twicks...” +would again have risen had not the prince still held her fast, “though +would appear as he passed the commander. +would be transferred to the guards at once?” said she. +would find himself in the position of mack at ulm. if kutúzov decided +would have taken the icon, but she stopped him. andrew understood, +would i not give now to be unmarried! you are the first and only one to +would magnanimously extend the hand of reconciliation. +would not see us for a whole fortnight. i know it was then he wrote this +“would not such a meeting be too trying for him, dear anna +“would not your excellency like a little refreshment?” he said. +would take place on this side of it... +wounded, and one knocked out,” he added, unable to restrain a happy +wounded had been abandoned on the other side of the danube with a letter +wounded under him and his own arm slightly grazed by a bullet. as a mark +wrath. having snapped at an officer for an unpolished badge, at another +wringing her hands. +“write to her and let me know how her father looks at the matter. au +write, told rostóv the contents of his letter. +writing, so that his quill spluttered and squeaked. “if you have +written, “still, i should not cry, but you can’t... no one can +xvii, for the queen, or for madame elizabeth? nothing!” and he became +yards was all that separated them. the enemy ceased firing, and that +years older than her sister and behaved already like a grown-up person), +years ... then i will ask for your hand.” +“yes.” +“yes, and even tomorrow,” replied her brother. +“yes, and he is over sixty. i hear the count no longer recognizes +“yes and no mistake!” cried denísov. “you worked like wegular +“yes, a regular volcano,” said the count. “takes after me! and +“yes, bring some.” +“yes, but between ourselves,” said the princess, “that is a +“yes, but you are not the only one. there are your sisters...” +“yes, dmítri, clean ones, please,” said the countess, sighing +“yes, father, i have come to you and brought my wife who is +“yes, i am, but please don’t let us do like that.... in another four +“yes: ideas of robbery, murder, and regicide,” again interjected an +“yes, if having obtained power, without availing himself of it to +“yes, i have heard of his scheme for perpetual peace, and it is very +“yes, i knew it long ago but had forgotten. i knew that i could expect +“yes, immediately, immediately! hey, who’s there?” he called out +“yes, indeed,” replied the princess with a sigh. “so he may have +“yes, it is all very horrid,” interrupted pierre, “very horrid.” +“yes, it’s a nice purse. yes, yes,” he said, growing suddenly +“yes, it seems he is ill. people are always disturbing him,” +“yes, it’s from julie,” replied the princess with a timid glance +“yes, i was a fool! i still believed in people, loved them, and +“yes, i was brought up quite differently,” remarked the handsome +“yes, just the same. though i don’t know what your opinion will +“yes, let’s go in and i will get myself a roll and some cheese,” +“yes, my dear, this is a great loss for us all, not to speak of you. +“yes, now you may be glad!” said she; “this is what you have +“yes, one is afraid,” continued the first speaker, he of the +“yes, please do,” answered the general, and he repeated the order +“yes, please do,” said rostóv. +“yes,” replied a footman in a bold loud voice, as if anything were +“yes,” said rostóv as if it cost him a great deal to utter the +“yes,” said the countess when the brightness these young people had +“yes, so it is, so it is,” said the general angrily, lowering the +yesterday’s order. have you got it, denísov?” +“yes, that all happened!” he said, and, smiling happily to himself +“yes, the austrian prince who built that castle was no fool. it’s +“yes, the ham was just delicious...” answered another with a loud +“yes, these verses nicholas wrote himself and i copied some others, +“yes, they are splendid, splendid youngsters,” chimed in the count, +“yes, yes, go and tell them to get it ready,” she answered, +“yes, yes; just so! bring it. give it to the countess.” +“yes, yes,” muttered bagratión as if considering something, and he +“yes, yes, of course,” interrupted prince vasíli impatiently, +“yes, yes, of course!” pierre chimed in, pleased at the arrival of +yes! yes! yes! don’t look at me with such surprise. if you marry +“yes, you’re quite right,” continued the countess. “till now i +“yes, your excellency,” answered the ukrainian gaily, tossing his +yet a young woman. escaping from her father she ran to hide her flushed +yet. he felt that he must not say it. +yet the ladies themselves could not help laughing. + you.” +you.” +you?” +you, all!” he added in a tone of command. +“you always manage to do things at the wrong time,” continued véra. +“you and your generals won’t get on against buonaparte; you’ll +“you are good in every way, andrew, but you have a kind of +“you are in love with me?” natásha broke in. +“you are mistaken,” said borís deliberately, with a bold and +“you are off to the war, prince?” said anna pávlovna. +you at last decided on anything? are you going to be a guardsman or a +“you at least must tackle him properly, or else if he goes on like +“you, bolkónski, don’t know,” said bilíbin turning to prince +you, but we’ll see what will happen. buonaparte has become a great +you!” came from different sides. +“you came rushing into the drawing room so that everyone felt ashamed +you can’t wait a moment! don’t you see the general wants to pass?” +you can undertake the theater, i society, and you, hippolyte, of course +you cry, sónya, dear love, darling sónya!” and she kissed her and +you’d better listen more carefully!” +you, dear mary, that in spite of his extreme youth his departure for +you did gain a brilliant victory, if even the archduke karl gained a +“you don’t say so!” replied the countess. +“you don’t understand why i say this,” he continued, “but it is + * you expect to make an income out of the government. +“you give me your word of honor not to go?” +you going, when you might remain here? you are faced by one of two +“you had better go.” +“you had better take care!” said the countess. +“you have a try, hercules,” said he, turning to pierre. +“you have been in paris recently, i believe? i suppose it’s very +“you have not yet seen my husband?” +“you have only lately arrived?” the countess asked him. +you—is that that man suffers, and this don juan, wicked fellow, is +“you just wait a moment, my dear fellow, and listen,” interrupted +“you know, prince, i am not a bonapartist!” +“you know,” said the princess in the same tone of voice and still in +“you live in the country and don’t think the life terrible,” he +you’ll be appointed adjutant somewhere and can snap your fingers when +you’ll like it,” and he patted her cheek. “it will drive all the +“you must excuse me, dear vicomte,” said prince vasíli to the +“you must look for husbands for them whether you like it or not....” +“you must walk, walk as much as possible, as much as possible,” he +“you, my little countess, are a notorious spendthrift,” said the +“you need not have said that to me, father,” said the son with a +young ever to be more to me than a friend, but this sweet friendship, +young ladies. “i can just imagine what a funny figure that policeman +young lady visitor and the countess’ eldest daughter (who was four +young man can inspire in a romantic and loving young girl like yourself. +young man. he sat with his legs up on the sofa as if quite at home and, +young man was an illegitimate son of count bezúkhov, a well-known +young nicholas rostóv, who with his enthusiasm could not bear to remain +young rostóv. +young woman, so soon to become a mother, so full of life and health, and +“you ought to have been there at seven in the morning.” +you please, but do this for my sake! please do! father’s father, our +“your doctor tells you to go to bed earlier,” said prince andrew. +your doing so; but i warn you that if you dare to play the fool in my +“you’re always like that; you thwow a thing down anywhere and forget +your enchanting party,” said he, turning to anna pávlovna. +you’re wrong to think that of me... i... for me... for the honor of +“your excellency...” +“your excellency, i should like to be of use here. allow me to remain +“your excellency, it’s the officer dólokhov, who has been reduced +“your excellency! let us attack them! i’ll dwive them off.” +“your excellency,” said he in german, stepping forward and +“your excellency, you gave him leave yourself, on the march.” +your father.” +your father is rich, i don’t regard myself as a relation of his, and +your father the truth when he was in favor, and in your case it’s my +your greatest pleasure is to be unpleasant to people! go and flirt with +your hands.” he spoke as if those bullets could not kill him, and his +your interests as with a kinswoman, a good, kind, true relation. and i +your old father...” he paused unexpectedly, and then in a querulous +yours? a daughter, i suppose?” +yourself in it. and now, when one wants to smooth the thing over, some +yourselves. it must be here somewhere,” said lavrúshka. +your son bids fair to become an officer distinguished by his industry, +your victory is not a matter for great rejoicing and that you can’t be +you say so much that is bad, does not seem to have had its usual effect +“you see! i have asked,” whispered natásha to her little brother +“you see, my dear... what’s that mess?” she said, pointing to his +“you see, my fwiend,” he said, “we sleep when we don’t love. we +“you see yours is already an officer in the guards, while my nicholas +“you speak to the colonel about this nasty business before other +“you spoke to me of inflammable material,” said he, “but you said +you tell me that among some good things it contains others which our +“you tell the colonel in the presence of other officers that an +youth and his wish to express all that was in his mind. +youthfully glittering eyes. +youthful movement, stood for a moment in the stirrup as if loathe to +“you think i’m an old man and don’t understand the present state +“you think so?” rejoined anna pávlovna in order to say something +“you told me to remind you of the officer dólokhov, reduced to the +you to read when i am gone. you will find them useful.” +“you treat me like an invalid or a child. i see it all! did you behave +you understand that my sole desire is conscientiously to carry out his +“you value your own pride and don’t wish to apologize,” continued +“you’ve been in a hurry. that’s bad!” +“you’ve got it at last.” +“you’ve grown older, tíkhon,” he said in passing to the old man, +“you’ve only just missed him,” said the orderly. +you want to know whether i am happy? no! is she happy? no! but why this +you want to make something out of your company?” +“you were meaning to go out, weren’t you, mamma? do you want the +“you were saying, mr. staff officer...” continued the colonel in an +you will see.” +“you will soon be dressing your men in petticoats! what is this?” +you with my saber!” he shouted, actually drawing his saber from its +you won’t ask!” +“you won’t ask,” natásha’s little brother was saying; “i know +“you won’t be able to find either your baggage or anything else now, +“you won’t bear me a grudge, prokhór ignátych?” said the +“zat, my dear sir, is vy...” he concluded, 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upkeep of the estate near moscow, the town house, +“aah!” rostóv almost screamed lifting both hands to his head. the +abandoned in the center?” he inquired, searching with his eyes for +a banister post stood a tallow candle which guttered in the draft. on +a battlefield to whom thousands of new and brilliant ideas occur which +“a bayonet wound. i remained at the front. remember, your +“a bit touched—i always said so.” +able to inflict punishments justly and unjustly. it is those people i +a bold, free, and easy tone, while in his soul he regarded himself as a +about 80,000 went in payments on all the estates to the land bank, about +about a mile and a half off on the opposite heights. down below, on +about her native land. when he saw the pretty little bourienne, anatole +about him and about his love for him, letting it be understood that he +about him and even speak. +about him. he reddened and turned away. +about him or anyone else, and i don’t want anything of the kind.” +about mademoiselle bourienne was dreadful. it was untrue to be sure, but +about sergéy kuzmích that interested prince vasíli just then, and +about ten o’clock rostóv went to the english hotel straight from the +about the austrians and their uniforms, about their lines, about +about the old prince and criticized him. +about till dawn, because i think and can’t help thinking, just as +about to smile, and once on coming out of the chapel prince andrew and +about two thirds of a mile was stopped on the highroad. rostóv saw the +“about your sister,” ejaculated denísov testily. +above all this the lofty sky, formed the chief subjects of his delirious +above and below him in social standing. something always drew him toward +above his head: “captain túshin! captain!” +above the heights was the dark clear sky, and to the right the vast orb +a bright smile, “so she won’t come down. it is natural in her +a brilliant match—blushed like a girl. +absence. little nicholas had been unwell for four days. the coachman who +absolutely necessary. +a case. +a cavalryman. prince andrew felt that an invisible power was leading him +accent. he was breathless with agitation, his face was red, and when +accept it and fixed the stake himself. nicholas submitted to him, and at +accompanied by adjutants, galloped off in different directions, and +account of court and personal considerations tens of thousands of lives, +a celebrated miniaturist, and he leaned over the table to take the +a ceremonial march past him, and rostóv on bedouin, recently purchased +a certain house—that was another matter and quite the thing for a +a chance to escape, or to trick us, now that we certainly have him in +a clear blue sky, and the sun’s vast orb quivered like a huge hollow, +a closely written letter of two sheets from bilíbin. he folded it up +a comforting belief in future life, retribution, recompense, and +a commander in chief. as it was considered that the austerlitz success +a commanding officer’s quarters, the regiment began to move: the +a consciousness is communicated is very difficult to define, but it +a coronet) entered the room, calm and majestic, except that there was +acquaintance—he wished him simply a brother and a virtuous instructor. +acquaintance of many persons who might prove useful to him, and by +acquaintance,” said pierre. and again, glancing at the stranger’s +acquaintances not only cordially, but even with a shade of deference +acquainted with prince andrew bolkónski, through whom he hoped to +acquired though she did not understand its significance. this expression +acquiring a trotter of his own, very stylish riding breeches of the +a crafty man convinced of the futility of being cunning with so +across his path. rostóv put his horse to full gallop to get out of the +across, snatched it from his hand and began reading it. pierre looked +across the bodies and under a terrible fire from the french, he attended +action, and in the company of well-known, elderly, and respected racing +action, and more than that, you can’t make me believe that you do not +action, as if flying through the air without touching the ground. +action did prince bagratión, still hearing the cannonade in the center, +action—he drew the glove from his shapely white hand, made a sign +activities of 160,000 russians and french—all their passions, desires, +activity, túshin did not experience the slightest unpleasant sense of +actual phrase used by the vienna cabinet,” said the danish chargé +actuated by a real desire for peace. +added: “what a lot of men have been crippled today—frightful!” +addressed an edifying exhortation to them. he imagined to himself +addressed the horseman with the white plumes, evidently suggesting +address. he is a wise and clever fellow.” +addressing first one, then another. he said he would not have been +addressing her with the careless tone of habitual tenderness natural to +addressing him as ‘usurper and enemy of mankind.’” +addressing the black-mustached denísov with servile deference. +a deed to sign for the princess’ benefit. +a desire to do something for them, a desire for their approval.—so i +a desperate cry and such mad, drunken determination that, taken by +a despot. who is right and who is wrong? no one! but if you are +a dinner where there was no place for him. in the next hut there was a +adjutant on kutúzov’s staff, but he does everything alone. the next +adjutant, or really let the matter drop, was the question that worried +adjutants met him with news of the successful result of the action. +adjutant whom he so hated. + a dreaded foe be thou, kindhearted as a man, +adroitness and italian play-acting! do you know the tale about him and +advancing to attack the french cavalry that was coming to meet them. +advantageous match but a splendid, noble fellow... he is my friend...” +adve’sawies have wefused a weconciliation, please pwoceed. take your +advice is to let the matter drop. well then, on friday after the review +a feeling of contemptuous ill will. he snorted whenever he mentioned +a few fir trees. +a few minutes later the chief forces of the french army moved rapidly +a few steps, turned, cut a caper, brought her little feet sharply +affair. i am her father.” +affairs and of pierre himself in those early days. from the death of +affair was over and, though not big, had been a successful engagement. +affectation. princess mary ran out of the room to fetch mary +affectionate letters to your parents, and if you think you may be +affirmatively.) “when you hear a knock at the door, you will uncover +afflicted by the death of the father he had hardly known), and her +a first introduction and betrays a consciousness of the impropriety of +a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the russian emperor, was +a fortnight after the letter prince vasíli’s servants came one +a fortnight ago he would have had a paymaster’s clerk at yúkhnovna +afraid of a general battle. his hour has come! mark my words!” +a frenchman), “l’urope ne sera jamais notre alliée sincère.” * +a french soldier tugged at the other. he could distinctly see the +a fresh wave of the flying mob caught him and bore him back with it. +a friend older than himself and whom he respected. his whole time +after another greeting the tsar with the strains of the march, and then +“after austerlitz!” said prince andrew gloomily. “no, thank you +after a while he re-entered it as if to snuff the candles, and, seeing +after a while the moving mass became agitated, someone rode past on +after denísov’s departure, rostóv spent another fortnight in moscow, +after dinner. he called natásha and asked her what was the matter. +after dinner, he went to see his daughter-in-law. the little princess +after five o’clock it was only at the augesd dam that a hot cannonade +after his illness he looked rather thinner that day than on the field +after his interview with his wife pierre left for petersburg. at the +after looking at him napoleon smiled. +after losing half their men were retreating in disorderly confused +after passing some austrian troops he noticed that the next part of the +after receiving this news late in the evening, when he was alone in his +after supper pierre with his partner followed the others into the +after tea, the company went into the sitting room and princess mary was +after that anna pávlovna led up to the courage and firmness of the king +after the austerlitz campaign prince andrew had firmly resolved not +after the battle but send a courier to petersburg with news of a +after their active service, were stationed near olmütz and the camp +after these words, the mason, as if tired by his long discourse, again +after the soup the prince became more genial. +after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages. the jaunty +after two in the morning, thoughts come and i can’t sleep but toss +again. +again. +again, and let his head sink still lower. +again and remained for a while with the ismáylov regiment. +again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression +again, as soon as all turned toward him, excused himself and said no +again getting in front of the first line as he had done when the horse +again joined her. they began talking in whispers, but their talk broke +again rostóv looked intently into borís’ eyes and sighed. berg +against his right, flew round again in a circle. natásha guessed what +against the french?” +against the muslin of the curtain. +against the pillow. +a general engagement,” repeated dolgorúkov, evidently prizing this +“a geography lesson!” he muttered as if to himself, but loud enough +a girl, such tact, such masterly perfection of manner! it comes from +a glimpse of her, she seemed still more lovely. she was a charming girl +aglow with dazzling light—as if he had only awaited this to begin the +a gold snuffbox on which was a portrait. in the middle of one of the +a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, prince +a good thing for proprietors who perish morally, bring remorse upon +agreed or disagreed and was satisfied or not with the arrangements. next +“ah, and here’s nicholas!” cried natásha, running up to him. +“ah! breathing again, breathing!” he muttered to himself. +“ah, but you won’t talk politics to me like annette!” +“ah! he is alive,” said napoleon. “lift this young man up and +“ah, it can’t be avoided!” thought nicholas, for the first and +“ah, my boy, my head’s in a whirl!” said the old man with a smile, +“ah, my dear fellow, what a battle we have gained! god grant that +“ah, my dear friend, he is very unfortunate,” she said. “if what +“ah, my dear, my dear!” he began, rising and taking her by both +“ah, my dear vicomte,” put in anna pávlovna, “l’urope” (for +a hoar frost now turning to dew, but in the valleys it still lay like a +a hollow between two hills near the village of pratzen, the russian +a horrified expression on his handsome face, anatole looked at princess +“ah, princess mary!” he said suddenly in an unnatural voice, +“ah, she is indeed a darling! i’ll send her to you.” +“ah! that’s a good thing. so, my dear boy, you wish to serve the +“ah, there will be, and there are, many more such girls somewhere whom +“ah, those damned germans! they don’t know their own country!” +“ah, what have you done to me?” it still seemed to say, and prince +“ah yes, and what else did he say that’s unpleasant?” thought +“ah, yes! that’s a whole long story! how are you going to speak to +aide-de-camp. +aide-de-camp and was duly conducted to pay his respects to the aunt and +aid of his servant, and not looking at pierre. with a pair of felt boots +aim?” said he quietly and quickly. +aim was to show general weyrother—who had read his dispositions with +air, and disobeying orders. the moral hesitation which decided the fate +a joke he had heard in vienna and which he had been trying all that +a lack of bread, to move farther into the interior of prussia, for only +alarm lest something should have happened to the child while he was +alarm, supposing these words to mean that the young count was displeased +a letter at once, and she’ll come here and all will be explained, or +“a letter from nikólenka! i’m sure of it!” exclaimed natásha, +a letter of recommendation he had brought from pierre had become +alexander prince vasíli had risen to high position and honors. and now, +alexander’s guards,” said the first one, indicating a russian +alexander unpleasantly, he rode up and saluted. +alexander was clearly heard. he gave the words of greeting, and the +alexéevich. loud knocks were heard at the door. pierre took the bandage +alien face of that man, his bayonet hanging down, holding his breath, +alike, felt that the commander did not himself know what to do, and this +“aline,” he said to his wife, “go and see what they are about.” +a little earth crumbled from the bank under the horse’s hind hoofs. +a little later when he went up to the large circle, anna pávlovna said +“a little wound, but he has been made an officer; he is well now, he +alive and suffering from a burning, lacerating pain in his head. +alive could understand or explain. +alive—live: tomorrow you’ll die as i might have died an hour ago. +all.” +all, and without promising to help me?” thought pierre, rising with +all are struck by the justness of his views, but no one undertakes to +all around were loving eyes glistening with tears of joy, and all around +all. at last the sleigh bore to the right, drew up at an entrance, and +all began to run and bustle, and rostóv saw coming up the road behind +all commanders of divisions the right to shoot marauders, but i much +all expecting it, they are so sure that it will happen that i cannot, i +“alley! alley!” said the cossack, touching the prisoner’s arm to +all for his relations was the fact that there was still a possibility of +all her attention. he seemed to her kind, brave, determined, manly, and +all his wishes were being fulfilled that morning: there was to be a +all-important.” +“all is over,” he thought, and a cold sweat broke out on his +all its details to the austrian general weyrother: a lucky accident had +all make out: was it a glade in the wood lit up by the moon, or some +all moscow repeated prince dolgorúkov’s saying: “if you go on +all moscow, that everyone will say that you, drunk and not knowing what +all on one plan, for hospitals, schools, and almshouses, which were soon +allowed, i have hastened to take all steps to that end. may i have +allow him personally to express the deep respect that, emulating his +“allow me to ask,” he said, “are you a mason?” +“allow me to give you a piece of advice. when you reach the capital, +all pale and exchanged looks in silence. +all quite forgetting the danger and all regard for self-preservation, he +“all right, all right!” he said to prince andrew, and turned to a +“all right, all right,” interrupted the prince, and laughing his +“all right, all right,” replied the commander, and turned to major +“all right, all right, we’ll see!” +“all right, all right. we’ll talk it over,” replied prince andrew. +“all right!” said dólokhov, having finished the addition. “all +“all right,” said pierre, still smiling in the same way. a feeling +all rostóv’s cards were beaten and he had eight hundred rubles scored +all sorts of tempting wares. the pávlograds held feast after feast, +all that has happened.” +all that the peasants had has been eaten up. i myself will remain in +all that would be required of him. +all the advantages were on our side. our enormous forces, undoubtedly +all the figures on it: the sun, the moon, a hammer, a plumb line, a +all the guns, without waiting for orders, were being fired in the +“all the same, i love and value nothing but triumph over them all, i +“all the same, it was bilíbin who found a suitable form for the +“all the same! they say this one is the commander of all the emperor +all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of +all this end?” thought rostóv, looking at the changing shadows before +“all this had to be and could not be otherwise,” thought pierre, +all this shame and sorrow, but wanted now to play with him as a cat does +allusion to the name of the sovereign. three hundred persons took their +“all well?” asked rostóv, drawing away his arm. +all were seated again, turned with his kindly smile to rostóv. +all were silent. túshin appeared at the threshold and made his way +all were then more confident of victory than the winning of two battles +“all wight! all wight!” shouted denísov. “it’s no good making +all your valuables.” +almost at the middle of the table. facing them sat pierre, beside prince +alone and in full view of the emperor. +alone, but because of everyone, it must inevitably come about. they are +alone, in which there was something more significant than in the general +alone together, prince vasíli announced his hopes and wishes to the old +alone with hélène in the little drawing room where they were sitting. +alone with her, so rostóv, now that he had attained what he had longed +alone without any allies, it might perhaps have been a long time before +a long-awaited moment. he was firmly convinced that this was the day of +a look at you, your excellency.” +a look of complete absent-mindedness, kept rubbing the bridge of his +aloud. +a loud, monotonous voice began to read out the dispositions for the +aloud to him and being friends with princess mary. mademoiselle +already, but then he cannot know what i think of him and may imagine +already in any case dishonored by being unable to fulfill the great and +already lost him. he bent over him and, as his sister had taught him, +already passed. through the terrible and deafening roar of those voices, +already seen the young master, and, before he had reached the drawing +already visible. suddenly something like a birch broom seemed to sweep +also. yes, my opinion, and only my opinion,” added prince bolkónski, +altar on which lay a testament and a skull. round it stood seven large +altar with her. how and when this would be he did not know, he did not +although in female society anatole usually assumed the role of a man +although iogel did not acknowledge this to be the real mazurka, everyone +always afraid, came into her room with a peculiarly restless and malign +always clear and simple, so she is not stupid. she never was abashed and +always dragging it in one direction. he tried to get away from them, but +(always followed by a ball flying past and striking the earth, a man, a +always in one direction, humming with whispers and talk and the sound of +always poking fun at me.... ah, well! let him!” and he began reading +always shall, and i want nothing more.” +always surrounded by the same decks, masts, and rigging of his ship, so +a man oppressed by business, weary and suffering, who yet would not, for +amazed the french themselves. rostóv was horrified to hear later that +a meeting with napoleon. to the joy and pride of the whole army, a +amélie” (mademoiselle bourienne) “thinks i could be jealous of her, +amiably into his face, evidently wishing to soften the rudeness of his +amid people of whom he was weary had gone, instantly every thought of +amid the smoke, deafened by the incessant reports which always made him +amid the square masses of troops standing motionless as if turned to +a minute later sónya came in with a frightened, guilty, and scared +am i to go?” thought nicholas, and went again into the dancing room +among the gentlemen of the suite, rostóv noticed bolkónski, sitting +among them the staff officer and zherkóv, who had been twice sent to +among the young men introduced by rostóv one of the first was +a movement. with a pleasant smile berg related how the grand duke +am staying in for your sake,” and so on. and though prince vasíli, +amusing,” he continued, with a sudden, good-natured laugh, “was that +amusing, now girlishly enchanting. +a musketry fire at the french cavalry that was pursuing our troops. it +an allowance of ten thousand rubles. he had a dim perception of the +an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the outspread map +anatole. “ah, i know, i know,” she said with a sly glance, “your +anatole came up to her. she still could not see him. she only felt a +anatole embracing the frenchwoman and whispering something to her. with +anatole, having taken off his overcoat, sat with arms akimbo before a +anatole is accompanying me on his way to the army, so i hope you will +anatole is no genius, but he is an honest, goodhearted lad; an excellent +anatole kissed the old man, and looked at him with curiosity and perfect +anatole returned smiling to the ladies. +anatole’s expression, though his eyes were fixed on her, referred not +“anatole used to come to borrow money from her and used to kiss her +an attack. but when they had marched for about an hour in the dense fog, +an austrian officer in a white uniform with green plumes in his hat +and about nikólenka, twice asked when the last letter had been received +and abruptly. +and a bullet whizzing high up in the mist with a plaintive sound passed +and accept the offer,” but before he had time to say it natásha began +and acquaintances, invitations, and social occupations were so numerous +and, addressing him, again used the epithet “young man” that was +and advantages of service under members of the imperial family. +and a few here and there with powdered hair and in russian kaftáns. +and affronts matter? i love and forgive everybody now.” +and after staying but a short time with the tsar went to see the grand +and again it turned uselessly in the same place. +and again jumping up, dashed so impetuously forward that it seemed as if +and again proceeded to gallop along the line, penetrating farther and +and all along the french line on the hill fires flared up and the +and all his comrades of the guards by his appearance—that of a +and all his mercy to one who is blind, or who shuts his eyes that he may +and all you have been doing on your estates.” +“and am i to bring the gypsy girls along with him?” asked nicholas, +and a muffled shout almost behind them in the wood. the french had +and amused as he was when he put on the little icon. “did he believe? +and amuse themselves as girls of thirteen and fourteen do who are +and amusingly. “and why not marry her if she really has so much money? +and anatole met in the conservatory. +and angry faces struggled for the mop: how differently do those clouds +and anxiety they threw their burden of sorrow on one another and +and as he went on became more and more animated. he told them of his +and, as it might seem, of the obligations to her he had taken on +“and ask whether sharpshooters have been posted,” he added. “what +and as they went along he was told allegories of the toils of his +and, as you know my principles, i refer it to you.” +and at every word he added: “but don’t hurt my little horse!” and +and at last became silent. +and at the people in it. round a long table covered with black sat some +and awkwardly over the parquet floor of the reception room, not knowing +and back, galloped strenuously forward, and with a dashing salute reined +and began firing them at túshin’s battery. +and began to speak. +and being well disposed toward borís, who had managed to please him the +and besides this, nine men in every thousand for the militia. everywhere +and calling the nurse began giving the medicine. the child screamed +and colonel looked sternly and significantly at one another like two +and conflict with which he had trodden the enns bridge, but with the +and connections he belonged to the groups of old and honored guests, and +and continual expectation of some good, always in front of him but never +and could not answer. “can something bad have happened to me?” +and count ilyá rostóv became more and more moved, more glass was +and count rostóv, glancing angrily at the author who went on reading + and dare not herculean russians trouble... +and dark. the officers were hurriedly drinking tea and breakfasting, the +“and didn’t hippolyte tell you?” asked prince vasíli, turning to +and disheveled, beat and turned the heavy feather bed for the third +and dismounted slowly among the guns. he delivered the order and did +and dissatisfied about something and that at headquarters they were +and distinctly. in the valley he saw before him something like a river, +and, doing so, groaned involuntarily. +and dólokhov’s angry cry. +“and do you feel quite calm?” rostóv asked. +“and do you know, my dear fellow, it seems to me that bonaparte has +and, drawing up an armchair for prince vasíli, pointed to it and began +and dropped it again behind her. prince andrew recognized her without +and drowsy kutúzov, who reluctantly played the part of chairman and +and ecstasy such as he had never before known. every trait and every +and even now never says a word against him. those pranks in petersburg +and even princess mary felt herself pleasantly made to share in these +and everybody had to serve, he took a post under his father in the +and explained to them his intentions and wishes. he told them that steps +and extending its neck, galloped on yet faster. hardly had the horse +“and fancy! she refused him quite definitely!” adding, after a +and fell on his back. he opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle +and fighting, not at all as the gunner and the frenchman with frightened +and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor. the countess was +and for the issue of the whole battle. “but be that what it may,” +and frenchmen running toward it. higher up stood some russian infantry, +and frequent blushes she told him she was very sorry about their past +and fro, and dispatching of adjutants—was confined to the emperor’s +and frowning brows stood a hundred paces away from them in his helmet +and galloped along the line. at first he rode along the line of +and galloped off. but no sooner had he left bagratión than his courage +and glad sparkle. prince andrew had grown thinner, paler, and more +and grieved had he chosen not to see them. these different +and groans mingled in a general hubbub, then the firing died down. +and handing on to posterity of a certain important mystery... which +and handsome young man and woman for one another. and this human feeling +and happy though uneasy face of pierre. it seemed as if the very light +and, having glanced round the room, prince andrew turned to rostóv, +and he again began speaking about indifferent matters, about sergéy +and he again turned to pierre. +and he felt a nervous shudder run down his spine. but the mere thought +and he looked at pierre with a mocking, challenging expression. he +and he looked on this visit to a churlish old man and a rich and ugly +and helped him. i know and understand what a spice that would add to the +and here’s the little shop where we used to buy gingerbread! can’t +and her look seemed to say: “well, it is your own fault.” +and her son. she had opportunities of sending her letters to the grand +and he sat down again, paying no more attention to his daughter, who was +and he saw above him the remote, lofty, and everlasting sky. he knew it +and he walked on. +and he wore a crumpled hussar cap stuck jauntily back on one side of his +and he would marry her. so her future shaped itself in mademoiselle +and his back drawn in, slightly swinging one foot, and, with his head a +and his lips were smiling. though the commander was occupied in giving +and horse guards’ jacket, shouting something to a pale, white +and horses) had it not occurred to rostóv to flourish his whip before +“and how could you believe he was my lover? why? because i like +and how happy i may be with such a friend and such a husband! husband? +and how has it ended? i was against this marriage even then and foretold +“and how she dances! what gwace!” he said again after a pause. +and how the well-trained horse looked round unconcerned and did not +“and i did not know... nicholas... my darling!...” +“and if i should meet his majesty before i meet the commander in +“and if this aim coincides with yours, you may enter our brotherhood +“and, if your excellency will allow me to express my opinion,” he +“and i know why she’d be ashamed,” said pétya, offended by +and i’ll write to her myself, and we will kill the fatted calf.” +“and i might have been in his place!” thought rostóv, and hardly +and impossible, he again glanced timidly at her. she did not sit down +and in a way of which our last campaign can give you no idea. half the +and in a whisper, with a strangely unsmiling face: “come to dinner +and indulgently to smooth with it the heart of his neighbor. as to the +and inevitably he lapsed into falsehood. if he had told the truth to his +and in order to press them again to her lips, she slightly pushed away +and insignificant people. but the army, the russian army, everyone +and interesting person to the visitors and that nowhere else was the +and interests before him! “yes, they have taken a wise decision,” he +and into ladies’ society with an affectation of doing so against his +and in two twists of the hand he breaks them to smithereens and installs +and irrepressibly, as water does in a creek. had the russian army been +and irritation, though controlledly calm as a man is at the approach of +“and i should be ashamed to write to borís. i’m not going to.” +and is it worth tormenting oneself, when one has only a moment of life +“and i was looking for you,” said natásha running out to him. “i +“and i will tell you this,” prince andrew interrupted in a tone of +and i won’t allow it to be said!” +and kámenski the latter was preferred. the general comes to us, +and leaving large sums of money with them for alms, went away to his +and littered with cards. one tormenting impression did not leave him: +and looked at her in such a way that not only could she not bear his +and looked at him closely. +and looks of those who had seen them together. he recalled anna +“and love of one’s neighbor, and self-sacrifice?” began pierre. +and majestic voice that was yet so simple! and as if in accord with +“and mamma pressed her!” said nicholas reproachfully. +and martinists, even in novíkov’s time. for a long while after he had +“and me, kiss me!” +and merry faces. it was natásha, sónya, and pétya, who had come to +and mingling with one another. he could also, by the gleam of bayonets +and more regularly and rapidly, and the action at the goldbach stream +and moved along the ranks shouting. the train drivers and orderlies +and musketry ahead of him. the firing grew louder and louder. +and my life, my life,” he thought, “must be risked?” +and natásha, in the light-blue dresses they had worn at the theater, +and natásha kissed her brother and ran away. +and natásha rose and went out of the room on tiptoe, like a ballet +and nicholas again kissed her hand. +and not value her pure affection and devotion to me?” she went up +“and now, in token of candor, i ask you to reveal to me your chief +and now there’s dólokhov sitting in the snow with a forced smile and +and of course not as ‘emperor,’ it seemed to me it should be to +and one booted foot, he advanced, while willarski held a sword to his +and one could hear their distressing screams and groans, sometimes +and only turned away his eyes when the austrian chief of staff finished + and on the throne our titus shield. +and opened the door for him. +“and our little tea table?” +and out of the bedroom glanced at the princess and turned away. she did +and overtook him. a sergeant of the battalion ran up and took the flag +and particularly amiable smile. +and part were leaving these pratzen heights which he intended to attack +and paused facing her at the foot of the sofa on which she was lying. +and pierre, anxiously trying to remember whether he had done anything +and, pressing pierre’s hand, he went out. +and prince andrew, with others fatally wounded, was left to the care of +and prince dolgorúkov rapidly but indistinctly explained weyrother’s +and princess mary tried, but could not manage, to be cordial to her new +and profligate life, though i did not like it and did not want to,” +and promised to write to him and guide him in his new activity. +and proudly around while bagratión spoke to his son. +and really another french soldier, trailing his musket, ran up to +and really he only ran a few steps alone. one soldier moved and then +and regarded as the key to the position. he saw over the mist that in +and relations had been given to understand that the fate of the young +and remained so for some minutes. piteous, helpless, animal moans came +andrew. +andrew. +andrew a reliable correspondent to whom he could pour out the bile he +“andrew, don’t!” said princess mary. +andrew felt that something gave way in his soul and that he was guilty +andrew in his boyhood, helped pierre out of his carriage, said that the +andrew. “i wish you good luck and success, gentlemen!” he added and +andrew, paying no more heed to the general who ran after him imploring +andrew read the same mild reproach he had read on the face of his dead +andrew’s presence. he was ashamed to express his new masonic views, +andrew, told how bonaparte wishing to test markóv, our ambassador, +andrew was in and borís was shown into a large hall probably formerly +andrew went out with him. +andrew, whom borís was expecting, entered the room. prince andrew, who +and rostóv got up and went wandering among the campfires, dreaming of +and running so lightly, frightened rostóv. he seized his pistol and, +and salt and an icon of saint peter and saint paul, asking permission, +and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his +and saw that the lamp stood on a black table on which lay an open book. +and saying something in their gypsy accents. nicholas understood that it +and, scowling, he gave nicholas just such a look as he had given pierre +and secured their release by heavy payments. he did not know that the +and seeing her severe face said: “well, good-by, countess,” and +and several other less noteworthy persons. +and she with him, that there was quite a scandal and that that’s why +“and should not justify your confidence and the honor you have done +and shown such unaffected familiarity in intercourse with everybody both +and silver of the men’s epaulets; servants in scarlet liveries moved +and simply, “mr. shítov—a man of great merit”—this of the man +and sinfulness?” he paused again. “who art thou? thou dreamest that +and social tact,” thought he; “been proud of my house, in which she +and so further increased the fame of these dances. what distinguished +and solemn, and awakening in the men an unusual curiosity. on the day of +and so said the youths and maidens themselves as they danced till they +and so sparkling their eyes. sometimes the best of the pupils, of whom +“and so they are writing from potsdam already?” he said, repeating +and sought the acquaintance of only those above him in position and +“and so you had to go through that too!” +“and so you’ve had him educated abroad, prince vasíli, haven’t +and still fewer men would be so well able and willing to make up out of +and still the same and in the same place. no, it can’t be! surely it +and stood still in the dim light beneath the curtain as if not wishing +and stooped glass in hand over the infant. +and stopped near him. +and strange to say nicholas felt that he could not help taking up a +and strength. he was continually traveling through the three provinces +and suddenly began to cry. +and suddenly the whole world centered for him on anticipation of the +and swallowed the cold snow, his lips quivered but his eyes, still +and, taking natásha’s hand, kissed it. +and tears, till at last somebody else was asked to read it.” +and tear whatever came to his hand. “why did i tell her that ‘je +and that daredevil after her!” said anna mikháylovna, wishing to show +and that her husband was a cross laid upon her by god. prince vasíli +and that if a letter reached the grand duke in command of the guards +and that’s how it is with me. À demain, mon cher.” * +and that the richest peasants (who formed the deputation) had begun +and the allowance to the three princesses; about 15,000 was given in +and the boyish face rostóv, breathless with excitement and hope, was +and the burning of an arm with a ruler as a proof of love did not seem +and the cannon, under the horses’ hoofs and between the wagon wheels, +and the consequent impossibility of a speedy emancipation. +and the count turned to the cook, who, with a shrewd and respectful +and the crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which +and the difficult names of villages. weyrother complied and dohktúrov +and the disgrace of having lost two guns and yet remaining alive present +and the distinguished dignitary who bore the title of “collector +and the feeling of energy with which the troops had started began to +and the jingle of their weapons and saw their horses, their figures, and +and then calmly and seriously sat back in his chair. anna pávlovna +and then he suddenly stopped and performed some new and unexpected +and then to call him out, reckoning on fédya not fighting because he +and the old cavalry captain, kírsten, shouted enthusiastically and no +and the old countess were especially disturbed, and to a lesser degree +“and the other one is not here. they’ve been telling tales,” he +and the others who did not approve of the plan of attack, were +and the pistols loaded, nesvítski went up to pierre. +and the reading of the letter began. after a brief description of +and there in the coffin was the same face, though with closed eyes. +and there is nothing to thank me for. no one has ever complained yet of +“and there’s nothing for you to say. i shall speak to him myself,” +and there too sat the members of the family, and pierre and hélène, +and the rewards sent to the army are innumerable. though he is a +and the same look. in the middle of a dull and halting conversation, +and the second aim, that of purifying and regenerating himself, did not +and the talkative dolgorúkov, turning now to borís, now to prince +and the traveler became absorbed in it. pierre looked at him. all at +and the two emperors were living with their suites, households, and +and the two friends told each other of their doings, the one of his +and the whole secret lies in the terrible truth that she is a depraved +and they disappeared into the darkness with their load. +and three pairs of gloves, and then the grand master addressed him. he +and took hold of the commander’s stirrup, almost leaning against him. +and ‘to siberia!’” said berg with a sagacious smile. “i knew i +and triumph. +and two or three friends—you among them—and as for the rest i only +and unreasonable than a little child, who, playing with the parts of a +and virtue, and thereby try with all our might to combat the evil which +and virtue than mere words. this chamber with what you see therein +and voices. this class of guests and members sat in certain habitual +and was a stranger there. in his person, honor was shown to a simple +and was going to tuck up the other trouser leg to save this stranger the +and watched his opponent’s face, evidently thinking about the game as +and way of life. +and well informed foregathered when the news began to arrive in +and went out. natásha had put on one spurred boot and was just getting +and, whatever may happen to him or to me, shall never cease to love him +“and what is she so pleased about?” thought nicholas, looking at his +and what to expect after it beyond the grave! how happy and calm i +and wheels began to revolve faster and faster, levers and cogwheels to +and where to shoot,” he said with an unnaturally gentle smile. +“and who has told you what is bad for another man?” he asked. +and whom borís addressed turned round crossly and told him bolkónski +and who was called tit. he was saying, “tit, i say, tit!” +“and why didn’t you simply come straight to me as to a friend? i +“and why do you serve?” +and with a bow to them both he went out. +and with a furtive glance at his son’s face, the count went out of the +and with a hooked nose. then came two more, and many more running +and with baritone notes in his voice, new to borís, pointing to his own +and with his hand at the salute rode up to the general. +and without awaiting a reply, prince andrew rose and left the table. +and wrote a few words on a large sheet of paper folded in four). +and yet be happy....” +“and you?” he asked dólokhov, but as soon as he had asked the +and young people are rarely capable of it. his hearers expected a story +“and you’re still the same diplomatist! but that’s not the +“and you won’t feel ashamed to write to him?” +a need to escape from it by some strange, and usually cruel, action. +an excruciating pain in his arm, for which he could find no satisfactory +an exemplary officer of twenty-two years’ service, who had never been +an explanation, but meeting the latter’s impressive but meaningless +an expression of perplexity, turned round to milorádovich as if seeking +an eye on me! very well then! get along with you!’ so he writes the +angered the countess when it was not properly cleaned, turned as loosely +anger he did not condescend to notice, and said: “i think you were +angling, while his grandson, with shirt sleeves rolled up, handled the +angrily at him. bondarchúk’s horse swerved and galloped past. +angry—but i know you will not marry her. i know, heaven knows how, but +an hour and a half later most of the players were but little interested +an hour later, tíkhon came to call princess mary to the old prince; +an hour’s delay they at last moved on, descending the hill. the fog +“a nice little hot torch for the infantry! good luck to you, fellow +an illegitimate son, and petted and extolled when he was the best +animal. count ilyá rostóv, laughing and repeating the words, “make +animal went when excited. bending his foaming muzzle to his chest, his +animation of the past or the future. it was as if prince andrew would +an immediate answer. prince vasíli had brought his son with the evident +an indescribable charm of sorrow and self-forgetfulness that her father +anna mikháylovna, in a few words, told her the contents of the letter, +anna mikháylovna opened the door. her face wore the proud expression +anna mikháylovna sat down beside him, with her own handkerchief wiped +anna mikháylovna shook her head. +anna mikháylovna sighed deeply. +anna mikháylovna, though her circumstances had improved, was still +anna mikháylovna turned up her eyes, and profound sadness was depicted +anna mikháylovna, who always knew everything that passed in the house, + * anna pávlovna. +anna pávlovna continued to give on free evenings the same kind of +anna pávlovna frowned. mortemart, hippolyte’s friend, addressed him +anna pávlovna gave him her shriveled hand to kiss and introduced him to +anna pávlovna’s “at home” was like the former one, only the +anna pávlovna’s two years before. there were also present a very +announce him, but, changing his mind, came back and stooped to kiss the +annoyance. “good luck to you!” +an oath of fidelity to the laws of the order. the candles were then +an opportunity to express his doubts. +another.” +another and soon the whole battalion ran forward shouting “hurrah!” +another candle. still lower, beyond the turn of the staircase, one +another, dying, stepping over the dying and killing one another, only to +another five days passed, and then the young prince nicholas andréevich +another group was at the tea table. pierre wished to join the former, +another, more important, subordination, which made this tight-laced, +another of the precepts—that of reforming the human race—and had +another, the red, stout nesvítski, lay on a bed with his arms under his +another, they all gave, and transmitted, orders as to how to proceed, +another two minutes and it is certain death,” thought each one. +answer. at last he moved up to pierre and, taking the kerchief that lay +answered him either by a brief but appropriate remark—showing that it +answered the general. +answer that voice and went on dreaming of his triumphs. the dispositions +antónov.” +an unexpected and tenderly paternal way. +any moment.) +any moment the emperor may see them.... but no, these must be only a +anyone flogged or sent to siberia—and still less for your serfs. if +anyone in particular, began to say how difficult it was to carry out +any the worse off. in siberia they lead the same animal life, and the +anything, dólokhov, looking straight in his face, said slowly and +anything, except only for permission, after the blow she had received, +anything. if it be god’s will to prove thee in the duties of marriage, +anything like it. she believed it could be, but did not understand it. +anything, when suddenly the well-known whispering of mademoiselle +any women—countesses or cooks—who were not venal. i have not yet met +apart from myself.” +a partner, and the old men began smilingly to talk about poland and the +apologizing for the state of his gun. +apparently immersed in his own thoughts. +apparently suffering more than the dying soldier, and he rode away. +appeared. +appeared. he would carry her away and then sa pauvre mère would appear +appeared to him in a dream: his mother and her large white hand, +appreciate at a glance her superiority to the plain, badly dressed, +approached first, experienced the same feeling as every other man in +approached kutúzov. of kutúzov’s suite only four remained. they were +approaching. and at that moment, though the day was still, a light gust +approaching departure did not prevent his amusing himself, but rather +aprons like the rhetor’s and holding swords in their hands pointed at +apron, such as the others wore, was put on him: he was given a trowel +apron, which symbolized strength and purity; then of the unexplained +a rage) and called for the company commander. +archduke, inspected the allied army of eighty thousand men. +architect not to go to the prince with his report. +architect’s attention to the sound of the prince’s footsteps. +are clever, you are well educated. and what have you done with all these +are many stories of his getting to know an officer in just such a chance +are now two russians, milorádovich, and dokhtúrov, and there would be +a reproach to everyone. now tell me, count, was it right, was it +are taken to the field marshal’s room, for he likes to do everything +are there,” said the officer, pointing to the village of hosjeradek, +are they doing? what are they doing?” he murmured to himself, still +are very pale!” said princess mary in alarm, running with her soft, +are within sight of the enemy and he wishes to profit by the opportunity +are you dumb?’ he shouted. still i remained silent. and what do you +“are you mad? you have twice been ordered to retreat, and you...” +are young and i am old. i should like to help you as far as lies in my + a rhipheus at home, a caesar in the field! +arithmetic, when rising from his chair he would walk away from her, +arkhárovs; they have a party.” +arms and the hope of future triumph. and he was not the only man to +arm’s length, apparently afraid of shooting himself with it. his left +arms on the table and began to read. after reading a few lines, he +army, and even napoleon himself with his staff, were not on the far side +army, and in the night from the nineteenth to the twentieth, the whole +army’s campfires dimly glowing in the fog, could be seen behind him; +army. you have brought your army corps to pultúsk, routed: here it is +(“arnauts” was the tsarévich’s favorite expression when he was in +around him. an infantryman came to the fire, squatted on his heels, held +around them cannon balls were flying, of which he was aware not so +aroused him. he started and opened his eyes. +arrangement of the festival in honor of bagratión, for few men knew +arrangements of the house, he interrupted himself: +arrangements to the minutest detail remain the same.” +arranging a dinner in honor of prince bagratión at the english club. +arrival, thought in another way. of course, she, a handsome young woman +artillery company, a head and shoulders taller and twice as broad +artilleryman to prince andrew. “not like your honor!” +artilleryman, wiping away the blood with his coat sleeve, as if +artillerymen, some of whom were fighting, while others, having abandoned +artillerymen, túshin, and the cadet exchanged silent glances as they +a rustle of starched petticoats and the whispering and laughter of +as a child, there was no longer in her singing that comical, childish, +as a friend that frees the soul grown weary in the labors of virtue +as always happens when women lead lonely lives for any length of time +as a mark of their gratitude for the benefits he had conferred on them, +as a petitioner on behalf of this young man. you see...” but +as a true hussar in this battle, had been wasted. their squadron +as author of the military plan, argued that bonaparte might easily +as a veranda. +as borís. “count! i am wounded in my right hand” (and he showed his +as elsewhere, he was surrounded by an atmosphere of subservience to +a servant. from there they passed into another room. a man in strange +a seventy-pound weight were tied to it. he could run no more. the +as ever. a solitary tallow candle burned in the anteroom. +as far as moscow and to stay with him there. meeting a comrade at +ashamed; he felt that he was occupying someone else’s place here +ashamed of himself, he said, as if merely asking his father to let him +as he expected he was appointed an adjutant to the governor general of +as he felt himself to be at that moment. he was conscious that here +a shell burst in the midst of that dense throng, killing some and +as his own. what also conduced to bagratión’s being selected as +a short pause, “but everyone lives in his own way. you lived for +as i do not intend to be at your house again for reasons you know +as if astonished at the word. “well, you see, i’m building. i mean +as if continuing a conversation the subject of which had often been +as if he felt a little confused before his son. “now, if you would +as if she had to give some final necessary instructions. +as if stirred to his heart’s core and himself regretting and laughing +as impracticable, he arranged for the erection of large +as i remember nikólenka. him—i just shut my eyes and remember, +as is usually the case with people meeting after a prolonged separation, +asked and answered at the same instant. he was alone in the middle of a +asked him to tell the emperor. what do you think he replied? ‘but, my +asked natásha, so seriously and excitedly that it was evident that what +asked one of the ladies. +asked rostóv, with a contemptuous smile. +asked to give up all he possessed. +asked to play on the clavichord. anatole, laughing and in high spirits, +asked to see the portrait of the aunt’s husband on the box lid. +asked weyrother several times to repeat words he had not clearly heard +ask himself. it was as if the thread of the chief screw which held his +“ask him to wait,” and the sound was heard of a chair being pushed +asking.” but dying was also dreadful. +ask you to put the money on your cards,” replied dólokhov. “don’t +asleep, nor even remain in one place, but had to jump up and pace the +a slightly contemptuous smile, he said: “yes, there are many stories +a slipper for his left foot. with a childlike smile of embarrassment, +as long as i live.” +as many persons are to me—father, sister, wife—those dearest to +“as may happen,” said rostóv. +a smile he could not repress as he recalled his reception at brünn. +as much self-confidence as if he were addressing school children—that +as often happens after long sleeplessness and long anxiety, he was +a soldier on the march is hemmed in and borne along by his regiment as +a soldier’s cross, equally shabby cadet’s riding breeches lined with +a space like a street was left between each two lines of troops. the +“a splendid reply!” said napoleon. “young man, you will go far!” +“a splendid soldier, splendid! ‘what am i attached to!’ ha, ha, +as possible to conceal his own part in the improvements that had been +as reported by the division commanders, ostermann and sedmorétzki, and +as she sat in her room. but owing to the superstition that the fewer +as she was crossing the anteroom she saw through the window a carriage +assigned to the commander of the pávlograd regiment in which rostóv +as something generally known. but it was the first time he had heard +as soon as nicholas entered, he was enfolded in that poetic atmosphere +as soon as the singing was over, another and another toast was proposed +assumed a dignified expression, which with characteristic tact she had +assured himself from the way rostóv looked at it that his coat had been +“a staff officer was here a minute ago, but skipped off,” said an +a star-shaped light. at one side of the table was a small carpet with +as the “angel incarnate.” +“as the enemy’s left wing rests on wooded hills and his right +as the guest of honor, to enter first. bagratión was embarrassed, not +as their officer—all looked at their commander like children in an +“as there’s no one to fall in love with on campaign, he’s fallen +as they enjoyed their rhine wine, sauté, and ices, and however they +as they have heard it described by others, and as sounds well, but not +as they watched their young people executing their newly learned steps, +as this Ápsheron battalion marched by, the red-faced milorádovich, +a storm at the square, cut his way in, slashed right and left, how his +a story, heard from her aunt but finished in her own way, which she +“as to your business,” prince andrew continued, addressing borís, +a strange feeling of exasperation and yet of respect for this man’s +a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of +a suffering child and to wring her little hands even with some +as well as that the french were outflanking our left. the general +as were all the words he spoke that day, and count ilyá looked joyfully +as when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters +asylums, and schools were to be established on all the estates. some of +as you and princess mary call it, are the chief source of all error and +as you may, always remain the same backs and foreheads.” +as young bezúkhov! yes, i pity him from my heart, and shall try to give +as young people often do. “no, i am too happy now to spoil my +“as you please... really... i think so... but as you please,” said +“as you see,” he said. +at a command, everyone began to run. +at a full gallop so that he outstripped the others. ahead, the enemy was +at all as i ran,” thought prince andrew—“not as we ran, shouting +at all as it really was. rostóv was a truthful young man and would on +at any rate his light-blue eyes gazed for about two seconds into +at a soldier who lay prone, with blood on his uncovered head. the +at bagratión over each other’s shoulders, as if he were some rare +at balls, amiably smiling in the society of the most brilliant women, +at dawn on the sixteenth of november, denísov’s squadron, in +at daybreak on the seventeenth, a french officer who had come with +at dinner anna mikháylovna talked the whole time about the war news +at dinner, conversation turned on pierre’s marriage. +at dólokhov and his eyes dropped, the something terrible and monstrous +at eight o’clock kutúzov rode to pratzen at the head of the fourth +a terrible thing! quelle terrible chose que la guerre!” +at first he heard the sound of indifferent voices, then anna +at first impossible to enter the drawing room door for the crowd of +at first irregularly at varying intervals—trata...tat—and then more +at first prince andrew read with his eyes only, but after a while, +at five in the morning it was still quite dark. the troops of the +at her reproachfully. “and who is it she takes after?” thought the +at her timidly over his spectacles, and like a hare surrounded by hounds +at him. after this volley the regimental commander clutched at his leg; +a third, count arakchéev, if his nerves were not too weak.” +at his hesitation and, trying to arouse his former devotional feeling, +at his own sensibility, when princess mary entered. he hurriedly took a +at his partner with a merry and triumphant air, suddenly stamped with +at home again. he felt that he had grown up and matured very much. his +at home, they had not yet gone to bed. the young people, after returning +at intervals, and the bullets passed somewhere in the fog singing in +at irregular intervals as before, followed by one or two cannon shots, +at kutúzov’s. +at last seizing a soldier by his collar he forced him to answer. +“at least, change your coiffure,” said the little princess. +at markóv, probably expecting markóv to pick it up for him, and how +atmosphere characteristic of homes where there are very young and very +atmosphere made itself so strongly felt in the rostóvs’ house as at +atmosphere of an army, announcing the approach of something decisive +at one another. +a toy, seeing the effect these prearranged receptions had on pierre, +at prince andrew with cool intensity, walking straight toward him and +at schön grabern, what shall we not do now when he is at the front? we +at six in the evening, kutúzov went to the emperor’s headquarters +attacked the men collecting wood in the copse. it was no longer possible +attack instead of being attacked, and so render the whole of this +attack our headquarters, and the commander in chief has to ask for a +attacks. both generals are angry, and the result is a challenge on +attacks the prussians. the prussians are our faithful allies who have +attained. +attain that knowledge and are still infinitely far from our aim; but +attend to the voice of their commander, or would they, disregarding him, +attention. +attention. dohktúrov, a little man, sat opposite weyrother, with +attention. he looked now at the pratzen heights, now at the sun floating +attention. napoleon apparently remembered seeing him on the battlefield +attention of all to borís’ narrative was shown by hélène. she asked +attention to something within her that is only seen in pregnant women, +attention to the verses. +attentively to what prince vasíli said, but kept glancing at princess +at that moment, as the horse guards, having passed him, disappeared in +at that moment borís clearly realized what he had before surmised, that +at that moment made itself felt. +at that moment the door opened. +at that moment, with noiseless footsteps and with the businesslike, +at that time in the rostóvs’ house there prevailed an amorous +at the arkhárovs’ ball, talked about the war with field marshal +at the beautiful hélène with her radiant face and at the red, broad, +at the beginning of march, old count ilyá rostóv was very busy +at the bottom of the sleigh beside rostóv, who grew more and more +at the club dinner. +at the council—the coming battle and the victory that would certainly +at the door,” and natásha ran across the drawing room to the dancing +at the doors, but after all he did at last enter first. he walked shyly +at the faces of his suite, young and animated as his own. czartorýski, +at the front an altercation occurred between an austrian guide and a +at the head of a movement that had already become unrestrainable. he was +at the least firing. the emperor’s gratitude was announced to the +at them. +at them and hack them to pieces, their proximity now seemed so awful +at the map, but at prince andrew’s face. +at the moment the door opened and the stranger came in, pierre felt a +at the olmütz review he had seemed more majestic; here he seemed +at the period of youth when there seems so much to do that there is no +at the sound and then, smiling at his own sensations, stood still. the +at the very instant he did this and uttered those words, pierre felt +at the world is so opposed to yours that we shall not understand one +attire appeared at the door. willarski, stepping toward him, said +attitude toward him that had taken place in society. +augesd. +“auntie, darling, do tell me what it is!” +austerlitz, borís was unable to see either prince andrew or dolgorúkov +austrian and russian troops, both those freshly arrived from russia and +austrian army of ulm. they are the same battalions you broke at +austrian council of war at which suvórov crowed like a cock in reply to +austrian general, continuing to read, frowned angrily and jerked his +austrians, and all at once discovered from the cannon balls discharged +austrian, to report and explain, and to his headquarters where he had +austria,” said mortemart. “the emperor of austria can never have +authorities to secure advantageous means of communication for herself +authority in his voice. “who invented him, if he did not exist? whence +a very bad way of deciding whether a battle was won or lost. those who +a very long time. “if anyone finds this silence inconvenient, let him +a victory over bonaparte, just when i’m not serving. yes, yes, he’s +a visit. “i am starting on a journey of inspection, and of course i +“a visitor,” answered antón. +avoided looking at the young couple, and heedless and unobservant as +avoided the blow. “thought... blackguards...” shouted the prince +avoid general buxhöwden who by right of seniority should be our chief. +avoiding gardens and enclosures, going over new and unknown ground, and +avoid seeing all these suffering men, and he felt afraid—afraid not +awaited their fate. the firing died down and soldiers, talking eagerly, +aware of his existence. at the quarters of the commander in chief, +aware that in front, behind, and on all sides, other russian columns +away. +away and he had just managed to catch her, “didn’t he tell you how +away? but where to? it’s one—let them sing!” +away from her. “destroying the army, destroying the men! and why? go, +away her tears on her sister-in-law’s knee. +away. involuntarily recalling his wife’s past and her relations with +a week later pierre gave his wife full power to control all his estates +a week later, pierre, having taken leave of his new friends, the masons, +a white horse followed by his suite, and said something in passing: +awkward and uncomfortable, and her burden oppressed her now more than +awkward to attract everyone’s attention and to be considered a +a word to the questions addressed to him. but on entering moscow he +a worthy dwelling place of the great god,” he added, and closed his +a wrathful wrinkle on her rather prominent marble brow. with her +a yawn. “plenty of time,” he repeated. +back. +back, “give me your hand.” she took her sister-in-law’s hand and +back to the house. +backwards and forwards and was at last brought to the doors of the +“bad! bad!” exclaimed pierre. “we all know what is bad for +bad. but anatole was dumb, swung his foot, and smilingly examined the +“bad! but it’s not that, my friend—” said dólokhov with a +bad for another traveler, and for himself it’s unavoidable, because +badly through his spectacles, but that his wife’s connection with +“bad news! he’s not among the prisoners nor among the killed! +bagratión and dolgorúkov ride past with their adjutants. all the fear +bagratión appeared in the doorway of the anteroom without hat or sword, +bagratión cast his large, expressionless, sleepy eyes round his suite, +bagratión gave no further orders and silently continued to walk on in +bagratión’s detachment was reunited to kutúzov’s army. +bagratión stopped and, before replying, tried to see rostóv’s face +bagratión’s troops, which had not yet advanced into action but were +bagratión. “wait till tomorrow morning, we’ll find out everything +bags into the carts, got their muskets ready, and formed rank. the +bald head, over which she again looked at the letter and the portrait, +bald hills. prince andrew, glancing at pierre, broke the silence now and +ball, flying close to him, caused him to duck and bend over his horse. +ballroom. +balls! i can’t tell you. and the tsarévich was very gracious to all +ball was even happier. they were both dressed in white muslin with pink +bandage was again removed and more than ten voices said together: “sic +band, came up and in angry tones asked the artillerymen for water. +bandy-legged domestic serf in a peaked cap and sheepskin coat. +bank, hesitating to step onto the ice. the general on horseback at the +bare chest. he was conducted from that room along passages that turned +baritone. +barrier except the barrier of his own will. +bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular façade +battalion and regimental commanders mounted, crossed themselves, gave +battalions and artillery pass by and go forward and then generals +battalion to disperse them. during one of these attacks they carried off +battalion would follow him. +batteries ranged on the slopes of the pratzen heights, directed at our +battery and the heroic endurance of captain túshin and his company,” +battery when two balls, and then four more, fell among our guns, one +battle. +battle, a list of whom has been sent me under flag of truce.” +battle, and by the sight of the gallant Ápsherons, his comrades in +battle and, in spite of the remonstrances of his courtiers, at twelve +battle and were engaged in peaceful occupations, the cavalry feeding the +battlefield.” +battle is won by him alone. kutúzov is removed and he is appointed... +battle the soldiers excitedly try to get beyond the interests of their +beams of mild and majestic light around, and already he felt himself +be anyone’s lackey, but i who have nothing but my brains have to +bears!...” +bear the whole burden on his shoulders. fancy what he had to go through! +be at stake. but this one is too light, it’s not becoming!” +beautiful eyes grew dim, red blotches came on her face, and it took +beautiful eyes. last night a proposition was made me on your account +beautiful hélène, whose eyes several times met those of the handsome +beautiful, radiant eyes. it was as if joy—a supreme joy apart from the +beauty as she glided away. “and how she carries herself! for so young +be better dressed than others, and would rather deprive himself of many +be brought here well wrapped up in felt. i must have two hundred pots +be carried back with it oneself. bolkónski only tried not to lose +be carried out, was forgotten. now, entering into weyrother’s plan, +because he could not. in the middle of a figure he beckoned to rostóv +because it concerned not himself but another, his daughter, whom he +“because when once a man starts on military service, he should try to +become a habit. schemes and devices for which he never rightly accounted +become calmer since i began to live only for myself.” +become completely changed, and had quite left behind his former habits +become cruel and harsh, are conscious of it, but cannot restrain +become habitual to him and, his handsome head held high, entered his +becomes a man who values his honor, perhaps too hastily, but we won’t +become thoroughly conversant with that unwritten code with which he had +be done; he felt that everybody, including his mother and sisters, was +bedouin twice and successfully put him to the showy trot in which the +be dozing. his head sank forward and then he roused himself. +been able to free himself but that prince vasíli (who had rarely before +been bewildered. at that time, the russians were so used to victories +been brought up in the most aristocratic circles. +been engrossed by the same thoughts ever since the day he returned from +been looking at. +been minutely described. princess mary was sitting alone in her room, +been ready, but they still delayed and all were silent. +been recommended to prince andrew he had already risen above the general +been refused. he asked in a hesitating, piteous voice. +been so pleased at olmütz and according to which an ensign might rank +been taken by the french as a trophy.) +been thinking about you.” +been trying first one remedy and then another. worn out by sleeplessness +been under fire already?” asked borís. +been unjust to the austrians and especially to weyrother. what +been vicious only because he had somehow forgotten how good it is to +befallen his son. +before action which he had experienced as previously, all the inner +before?” and again he told himself that it was impossible, that there +before and the path to the hothouse, along which the prince was in the +before and was less frequently at home. +before coming to the dinner he had had his hair and whiskers trimmed, +before dawn he had slept for a few hours, and refreshed, vigorous, and +before dinner, princess mary and mademoiselle bourienne, who knew +before five in the evening the battle had been lost at all points. more +before going down she went into the room where the icons hung and, her +before. having taken a kerchief from the cupboard, willarski bound +before he reached him, rostóv, who was a splendid horseman, spurred +before him but the motionless earth and the stubble around him. there +before him, on the right, rostóv saw the front lines of his hussars and +before it was halted facing the enemy. again, as at the enns bridge, +before, or am i mistaken now? no, she is not stupid, she is an excellent +before prince andrew could finish, an aide-de-camp came in to summon +before rostóv had time to make out what the black thing was that had +before the battle, the figure of the insignificant little napoleon, and +before the jews.” +before the master arrived. everywhere preparations were made not for +before the usual term and has proposed to me to be your sponsor. i +began. +began for the first, second, and third columns, which had gone down into +began popping corks and filling the champagne glasses. after the fish, +began reading. the old prince, now and then using abbreviations, wrote +began speaking clearly and definitely. reasons were found for the +began. “they’ll be announcing that the gentlemen are in the drawing +began to be said. these reasons were the treachery of the austrians, a +began to devise and carry out a plan of how princess mary should be +begin,” he whispered, and taking up his glass, he rose. all were +beginning of the action.) “i think i sent you?” he added, turning to +beginning to feel for the pretty and provocative mademoiselle bourienne +begin the engagement. +begin, when did it all come about?” and here he was sitting by her +begun to think of the last station and was still pondering on the same +behavior to women anatole had a manner which particularly inspires in +behind. and now here we stand hungry.” +behind him bondarchúk, an hussar he knew, jolted against him and looked +behind moved infantry. the commander in chief was standing at the end of +behind. one of them said something strange, not in russian. in among the +behind the emperor. the Ápsheron men, excited by the tsar’s presence, +behind them, another fell in front and splashed dólokhov with blood. +being (and which struck pierre especially by contrast with his own +being carried by. she looked out. the men servants were carrying the +being imposed on him which he could not fulfill, and pleased him as an +being moved, and the probing of his wound at the dressing station. +being rose in her imagination, and carried her into a totally different +being said, thought, and felt that day by its rider. +being too much loved; and besides, you are free, you could throw it +believed he would be reborn to a new life. +believe everything you’re told. you were told...” hélène laughed, +“believe me,” said prince dolgorúkov, addressing bagratión, “it +believes, in the speaker’s tone of conviction and earnestness, or +bells rang, the stewards rushed forward, and—like rye shaken together +below. +below, where the fight was beginning, there was still thick fog; on the +bending forward in his armchair he said: “le roi de prusse!” and +bending his forehead to hers just touched it, and pressed her hand so +beneath his smile rostóv saw in him the mood he had shown at the club +be out of your way! do go somewhere, anywhere... to the devil!” he +be parted from her) would be gained, so pacifying himself with this +“be quiet, backbiter!” said dolgorúkov. “it is not true; there +be ready to fulfill his will.” with this consoling thought (but +berg put on the cleanest of coats, without a spot or speck of dust, +berg took the opportunity to ask, with great politeness, whether, as was +berg was mentioned, by those who did not know him, as having, when +be shaken in her determination. +beside hélène. “this happiness is not for you,” some inner voice +beside him. “that must be the enemy’s camp!” +“besides how can i ask the emperor for his instructions for the right +besides this refined selection of society anna pávlovna’s receptions +beside the old prince. +best of officers could do in his position, he was in a state akin to +be talked over at length. at last the conversation gradually settled on +be they what they might. +be thus boldly, provocatively happy.” “and what nonsense all this is +betraying her sympathy for the “daredevil,” as she called dólokhov. +better not look,” he thought, but having reached the bushes he glanced +between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over +between them gleamed blue infinity. he did not turn his head and did not +be very glad to do all in my power both for you and for this dear young +be virtuous. not a trace of his former doubts remained in his soul. he +bewildered look and passed by without a word. a woman rushed out and +be worthy of her. and that is what we shall see.” +beyond ceremonies and meaningless prayers and are now instructed in +bilíbin, “as you know, my dear prince, i never leave headquarters. i +bilíbin’s letter which was written in french. he read without +bilíbin was now at army headquarters in a diplomatic capacity, and +bilíbin), what he had read began to interest him more and more. when he +black-agate eyes at the frightened and happy natásha. +black figures of hussars, but in the distance was still the same misty +blame. the troops meanwhile stood growing listless and dispirited. after +bleed him and patch him up. he will drag about as a cripple, a burden to +bleeding hand with a handkerchief tied round it) “and i remained at +blindfolded) questioned him as to who he was, when and where he was +blinked, went red, got up and sat down again, struggling with himself +blissful face “like a vewy devil,” as denísov expressed it. +blood on it. “ah, here are people coming,” he thought joyfully, +blood. on seeing this, pierre moved forward with his breast toward the +blood rush to his heart and had again to get up and move about and break +blood was gushing from its leg as from a spring. among the limbers lay +blush. +blushing. +blushing—“of asking the commander in chief. he has had a letter from +body. drowsiness was irresistibly mastering him, but he kept awake by +bogdánovna. +bogdánovna advised prince andrew to leave the room. +boguchárovo lay in a flat uninteresting part of the country among +bold forehead that bent over her hand and answered his question by +boldly, “if you wish to refuse one who is not only a brilliant and +“bolkónski!” he whispered, his voice trembling from a consciousness +bolkónski in order to arrange a match for him with the daughter of that +bolkónski noticed the hussar’s state of mind, and it amused him. with +bolkónski recognized prince repnín whom he had met in petersburg +bolkónski referred to anatole as a “pupil”) “for the sake of my +bolkónski took the opportunity to go in to get some details of the +bolkónski, who spoke with suppressed agitation. +bolkónski, wishing to profit by his friendliness and obtain for himself +bonaparte, and how badly the latter would fare now, especially if the +bonaparte, having come up at a gallop, stopped his horse. +bonaparte like? how did he impress you?” +bonaparte, ‘that your majesty should be received and treated in my +bonaparte, there is a difference,” remarked bolkónski. +bonaparte was anathematized and in moscow nothing but the coming war +book five: 1806 - 07 +book four: 1806 +book had been sent him by someone unknown. one thing he continually +book three: 1805 +boots between the dining and drawing rooms, hastily greeting the +borís. +borís and borís was to forward them to nicholas. the letters were from +borís, grown more manly and looking fresh, rosy and self-possessed, +borís inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without +borís listened attentively to each of the speakers, awaiting his turn, +borís made a grimace. +borís promised to fulfill her wish and was about to begin a +borís received no clear explanation of why it had been necessary for +borís rose to meet rostóv, but in doing so did not omit to steady and +borís smiled, as if he understood what prince andrew was alluding to +borís smiled circumspectly, so that it might be taken as ironical +borís to tell them about his journey to glogau and in what state he +borís was excited by the thought of being so close to the higher powers +borís with the happy smile seen on the faces of young men who have been +born, and so on. then he was again led somewhere still blindfolded, +bosom as it rose and fell. +both knew, an expression thoughtful and sad. this expression in princess +bottles of wine with him and, despite the jolting ruts across the +bourienne aroused her. she raised her eyes, and two steps away saw +bourienne flushed, and gave the princess a frightened look. +bourienne had long been waiting for a russian prince who, able to +bourienne—i shall have to get rid of her. and how is it she has not +bourienne. princess mary felt his look with a painfully joyous emotion. +bourienne’s head at the very time she was talking to anatole about +bourienne, unfolding her white napkin with her rosy fingers. “his +bourienne was often touched to tears as in imagination she told this +bourienne. when she entered with her heavy step, treading on her heels, +bourienne who had not yet seen her. +bourienne with a radiant face that said: “i know nothing, i am the +bourienne, with her ribbon and pretty face, and her unusually animated +bowed head. +boy... the countess... promoted to be an officer... thank god... how +braggart and his son, no doubt, is a fine specimen,” he grumbled to +brain—that’s all that’s left me!” and at the same time he said +brandishing the slab. +brave?” +breast with the other hand and to repeat after someone who read aloud +breath and beating heart he moved toward the rhetor (by which name the +breathing, her movements, her beauty. then it would suddenly seem to him +breeches and arm. +brick buildings, built to plan, were being built by serfs whose manorial +bright and happy eyes at her sister-in-law. +brightening up. +brighter and more energetic. he was slightly flushed after galloping two +bright home, his fluffy fur coat, his quickly gliding sleigh, his +bright. sónya ran away, but natásha, taking her brother’s arm, led +bright, sparkling blue eyes into his antagonist’s face. his mouth wore + bring glory then to alexander’s reign +bring himself to part from his daughter and give her to a husband. the +bring him to thee, could take him by the hand and show him to thee. but +broken leg, that lay screaming piteously beside the harnessed horses. +broken off, the porch, and the post by the side of the pavement. he +broke up two squares, your excellency.” +brother, and that anna mikháylovna was preparing them for it. bold as +brother hippolyte told me about your goings on. oh!” and she shook her +brotherhood has made application for you to be received into our order +brotherhood of man,” he kept saying to himself, associating these +“brother-instructor” as he called the grand master. +brother rhetor, and awaited his further commands. +brothers, and burned with impatience to set to work with them. +brothers more worthy than he would test him and that pierre had only to +brother who prepared a seeker for entrance into the brotherhood was +brought from italy, representing an angel with outspread wings ready to +brought his snuffbox to rest and, without looking at weyrother or at +brought into wischau from our outposts. this officer was savary. the +buildings—schools, hospitals, and asylums—on all the estates +built in order to have a nook of one’s own in which to be quiet. and +built lodge close to the pond. antón, a man who had looked after prince +bullets. they reached the front, several bullets sped over them, and +bully,” thought pierre, “to kill a man means nothing to him. it must +bursts of song and music and the inconsequent but friendly prattle of +business!” +bustlingly searching for something. +but although alpátych, frightened at his own temerity in avoiding the +“but am i not too cold with him?” thought the princess. “i try +but anna pávlovna—who was in the excited condition of a commander on +but a roll of volleys of musketry from the slopes of the hill before +but as a youth in love trembles, is unnerved, and dares not utter the +but, as he had to say something, he began by asking her whether she was +but as sorrow was manifest in every smile, the sound of every word, and +but attacked and captured by a superior enemy force as a result of one +but at that moment the thought occurred to her that her fate would be +but at the moment when he imagined himself calmed by such reflections, +but before he had finished reading, a stentorian major-domo announced +but before he had finished speaking, prince andrew, feeling tears of +but before pierre could decide what answer he would send, the countess +but before prince vasíli had finished his playful speech, pierre, +“but between not recognizing him as emperor and calling him general +but borís... no!” (she shut her eyes.) “no! there’s nothing at +but borís noticed that he was preparing to make fun of berg, and +but dólokhov did not go away; he untied the handkerchief around his +“but don’t hurt my little horse!” said the alsatian good-naturedly +but evidently the crisis was over and he was convalescent. prince andrew +“but for god’s sake, be careful, you know how it may affect your +but had never spoken to her of love. now he felt that it was inevitable, +but had on one of her best dresses. her hair was carefully done and her +but haste was becoming imperative. cannon and musketry, mingling +but he could not make up his mind to take the final step. he felt +but he did not explain to himself what these new relations were. +but he scowled at her angrily though also with suffering in his eyes, +“but how is it the doctor from moscow is not here yet?” said the +“but how often i have felt proud of her, proud of her majestic beauty +but i am still so weak that i love my life, the meaning of which is only +but i do not believe it. i have no right to, and can’t, believe it.” +“but i do not know, father!” +“but if for any reason you don’t feel inclined to talk to me,” +but i have killed her, killed... she won’t get over it! she won’t +“but i have nothing here,” replied pierre, supposing that he was +but instead of the band a choir began singing a cantata composed by paul +“but in what position are we going to attack him? i have been at the +“but in what was i to blame?” he asked. “in marrying her without +“but it can’t be he, alone in the midst of this empty field!” +but it is a beautiful voice that must be trained.” only they generally +“but it must be brought to a head. the day after tomorrow will be +but it was too late. she was looking at them with an expression they +“but i wish it,” he said. “i beg you—give it him!” +but joyous and eager crowd down the hill at their disordered foe. +but looked at him with a contemptuous smile, waiting for the valet to +but managed meanwhile to look round repeatedly at his neighbor, the +but milorádovich was at that moment evidently thinking of anything +“but nothing more would come of it. there will soon be a battalion of +but only changed character. the horses were replaced by others from a +but on the left flank the columns of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, +but on tuesday evening, having come to hélène’s splendid salon, +but our stories are the stories of men who have been under the enemy’s +but remarked that besides these changes it would be necessary to go into +but rostóv did not reply. +but said, in a careless and even rude voice, that it happens to +“but she’s stupid. i have myself said she is stupid,” he thought. +but she was too excited to eat anything and kept wriggling about on her +but shouldn’t we get the gypsy singers as well? you military men like +“but tell me, what is he like, eh?” said prince andrew again. +“but that’s all rubbish,” natásha chattered on. “and is +“but that’s just the same as myself—they are not others,” +“but that’s the grand duke, and i want the commander in chief or the +but the officer thrashed him because he had to get on as quickly as +but the staff officer did not finish what he wanted to say. a cannon +but the talk in every group was chiefly about the emperor alexander. his +“but they heard him at the council of war and will hear him when he +but to go home alone, see his sisters, brother, mother, and father, +button of his waistcoat. +but went on turning uselessly in the same place. +“but what do you mean by living only for yourself?” asked pierre, + * “but what the devil was he doing in that galley?” +but when he reached it he found it was a road. having come out onto +but when katie brought the required dress, princess mary remained +but which possesses qualities resembling those of the symbol.” +“but why talk of me?... talk to me, yes, tell me about your travels +but why, whither, and who they were, it was impossible to make out. +“but with such ideas what motive have you for living? one would sit +but would probably never even inquire and would never know that the +“but you despise me. you who are so pure can never understand being so +“but you know how it all ended, don’t you? you heard of the duel?” +buxhöwden is commander in chief by seniority, but general bennigsen +buxhöwden’s part and an epileptic fit on bennigsen’s. but at the +by a far more serious matter than a desire to show his contempt for +by a feeling of desire while stooping over the snuffbox at anna +by anna pávlovna, was about our diplomatic relations with austria and +by bolkónski—an adjutant of kutúzov’s, who’s a friend of mine. +by borís arrived at the palace to find dolgorúkov. everyone at +by evening, the adjutants had spread it to all ends and parts of the +by her husband, mortemart, the delightful prince hippolyte who had +by highfalutin words, and germans by logical arguments to show them +by his age he should have belonged to the younger men, but by his wealth +by his home circle as the best of sons, a hero, and their darling +by its gray dress. “but no! why did this thought never occur to me +“by purifying and regenerating our members we try, thirdly, to improve +by someone’s order, the battery had continued firing and was only not +by the dim light, to which pierre had already become accustomed, he +by the disorderly movement of the russian columns, and from all +by the fire. one of them stumbled. +“by the way, your excellency, i should inform you,” he +by those troops that they were themselves in the front line and had +by, tried to make a joke, saying that kutúzov had evidently failed to +by two considerations: his wife’s guilt, of which after his sleepless +by “what was due from the ryazán estate” prince vasíli meant +by which the total exceeded the round sum of forty-three thousand; and +cadet, supporting one hand with the other, came up to túshin and asked +called her nephew—and playing with him. +called him this morning?” +called the colonel of the regiment and said a few words to him. +calling him a court weathercock and an old satyr. +calling him in a whisper. +“calm yourself, my dear. i will go to my father,” she said, and went +came a letter from kutúzov informing the prince of the fate that had +came a man wearing a strange shako and a blue cloak, swarthy, sunburned, +came and leaned on his elbows, facing her and beside mademoiselle +came in from his club, cheerful and contented. nicholas, hearing him +came thy conception of the existence of such an incomprehensible being? +came together and crowded in the large drawing room by the door of the +came to the conclusion that he would not find bald hills dull either. +came to these balls with an air of condescension and found them most +came with the news that the prince could not attend. prince andrew came +“can a sleigh pass?” he asked his overseer, a venerable man, +can both fall on his flank and pursue him over the plain between +candlesticks like those used in churches. two of the brothers led pierre +candles were relit and he was told that he would see the full light; the +“can he really be going away leaving me alone without having told me +can i retain in some degree of purity the liquid i receive.” +can it be possible?” she thought, not daring to look at his face, but +cannonade was dying down, but the rattle of musketry behind and on the +cannon aimed at me?” +cannon and the crowd were dragging it out. a cannon ball killed someone +cannon balls at the french with both hands. +cannot attain the knowledge of which you speak.” +cannot, disappoint them. but how will it be? i do not know, but it +cannot know him. you do not know him and that is why you are unhappy.” +can say all this there,” remarked dolgorúkov. +can’t bear those old men! eh?” +can’t be! only to get past them quicker, quicker!” +can’t get them from anyone else. he’s not there himself, so you’ll +can’t understand. i was there all the time giving orders and had only +can without hurting others.” +“can you imagine it?” and he began describing how the guards, having +capable of receiving it. +“captain, for god’s sake! i’ve hurt my arm,” he said timidly. +captain von toll chanced to ride to the same spot, and seeing the +captured by the french because the enemy could not surmise that anyone +carabineers. +card, putting a small stake on it, and beginning to play. +care about them in so far as they are harmful or useful. and most of +carefully wrote twenty-one. +care, this was a mere stranger. glancing, however, at borís, he saw +carriage, and the solitude of the road, all had a gladdening effect on +carriage at full speed about an hour before along that very road and +carried away by passion. oh, only my poor mother...” +carried the sovereign at reviews in russia bore him also here on the +carry him to the dressing station.” +carry out the count’s wishes, seeing clearly that not only would the +carry them out, so he takes a regiment, a division—stipulates that no +casement. the cold wind flapped the ends of her kerchief and her loose +casket for mamma’s name day and then going home. i was so happy, so +catches it and obeying the impulse that wheel begins to creak and joins +catching the curtain of the cot. each made the other a warning gesture +cavalry and here he noticed a stir and signs of preparation for battle; +cavalry in front, behind it the artillery, and behind that again the +cavalry was brought in, convoyed by a sótnya of cossacks. evidently the +celebrating awards they had received for the campaign, and made +censured, should not be held to blame. +center of the table, prince vasíli attracted everybody’s attention. +center, the reserves, and bagratión’s right flank had not yet moved, +ceremonious welcomes (which he knew pierre would not like), but for just +certainly is communicated very surely, and flows rapidly, imperceptibly, +certainly should not, speak like that,” their glances seemed to say. +certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything i +certain. there’s lise, married to andrew—a better husband one would +chair, and began deliberately with a smile: +chair, he drew up with a click of his spurs and bowed to her, natásha +chair regardless of her governess’ remarks. after dinner, she rushed +chance, letting the seven be dealt to the right rather than to the left, +chance of delay and flight when the longed-for moment comes and he is +changed!... where are the candles?... tea!...” +chapter i +chapter i +chapter i +chapter ii +chapter ii +chapter ii +chapter iii +chapter iii +chapter iii +chapter iv +chapter iv +chapter iv +chapter ix +chapter ix +chapter ix +chapter v +chapter v +chapter v +chapter vi +chapter vi +chapter vi +chapter vii +chapter vii +chapter vii +chapter viii +chapter viii +chapter viii +chapter x +chapter x +chapter x +chapter xi +chapter xi +chapter xi +chapter xii +chapter xii +chapter xii +chapter xiii +chapter xiii +chapter xiv +chapter xiv +chapter xix +chapter xix +chapter xv +chapter xv +chapter xvi +chapter xvi +chapter xvii +chapter xviii +chapter xx +chapter xxi +character, but more so recently, since in the new reigns of paul and +“charge!” shouted by an officer who was urging his thoroughbred to +charitable to my poor aunt who adores you. go and keep her company for +charming girls. every young man who came to the house—seeing those +charming that only a fool would renounce such happiness.” +chattering voices had reached her from the corridor, went into princess +chessmen with his delicate white fingers while awaiting berg’s move, +chief, and our first foe, buxhöwden, is vanquished; we can now turn +chief’s and with the exception of prince bagratión, who declined to +chief’s room. +chief steward wrote every year telling him of fires and bad harvests, +chief, your excellency?” said rostóv, with his hand to his cap. +child. “but no, it is impossible, i am too ugly,” she thought. +childlike smile which had not once appeared on his face since he left +child’s little chair while, frowning and with trembling hands, he +choked him, and leaning his elbows on the window sill he began to cry, +choose. i give you freedom. only remember that your life’s happiness +chorus.” +chose and placed cards, and watched those broad-boned agile hands in the +circumstances and persons he met. of these plans he had not merely one +clanking his spurs, whirled rapidly round, and, striking his left heel +clavichord was. “it’s no use your going to the commander in chief. +cleaned pairs with spurs had just been placed by the wall. the servants +clear. +clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and +clear upright figures; he emptied the glass of warm champagne that was +clinking of spurs were heard at the door, and the young count, handsome, +cloak and felt boots, he went to the little princess’ apartment. +cloak looking timidly at me,” he thought. “and what does she +clock. one wheel slowly moved, another was set in motion, and a third, +close by, who heard him muttering. +closer together and a report spread that they were ordered to halt: +close that the expression of his face could be seen. and the excited, +cloths. +clouds gliding slowly across it. “how quiet, peaceful, and solemn; not +club, but met in private houses in intimate circles, and the +clutched the crupper of his saddle and, spurring his horse, galloped to +coachman’s, was teasing kutúzov’s old cook whom prince andrew knew, +coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to +coats. +coat, the traveler sat down on the sofa, leaned back his big head with +cock, but the elder members glanced severely at the wit, making him +code, but under this unwritten law. he felt now that merely by having +coiffure, mademoiselle bourienne’s and anatole’s smiles, and the +collapsed so that i don’t live at all—everything seems hateful to +collar and cap, went out for his usual walk. it had snowed the day +colonel of forty to whom denísov had introduced him. +column advanced into action. +column coming up to meet the Ápsherons. +column marches... the third column marches...” and so on, read +column, milorádovich’s, the one that was to take the place of +columns, their bayonets glittering, were moving continuously in one +“come along, our matvévna!” he said to himself. “matvévna” * +“come, dear princess,” said mademoiselle bourienne, “just one more +“come here, wostóv. let’s dwink to dwown our gwief!” shouted +come. he was alone now, except for a soldier who was sitting naked at +“come later.” and she went in, closing the door behind her. +“come, let’s argue then,” said prince andrew, “you talk of +“come now, deal!” exclaimed rostóv. +“come now, just this one more little card!” +“come now, what about your roi de prusse?” +come on and will meet them with the fire of the whole battalion’—and +comes from that! even then i felt it,” he thought. “i felt then that +come, were all there at the appointed time. +coming action from dolgorúkov. he felt that kutúzov was upset +coming. and nicholas, who had vainly suffered all the dread that +coming closer to pierre. “in token of generosity i ask you to give me +“coming, friend.” +coming to us of their own accord,” incautiously remarked the little +commander in chief. +commander in chief. bagratión knew that as the distance between the two +commander in chief. he interrupted him, talked rapidly and indistinctly, +commander in chief here, and if all is lost it is for me to perish with +commander in chief’s suite. he was in a state of suppressed excitement +commanders. and then that happy moment, that toulon for which he had +commanders, and with a consciousness of being too late spreading through +commanders are: herr general wimpfen, le comte de langeron, le prince de +command of the infantry went toward his horse with jerky steps, and +command of the third district, and my only way of avoiding active +command to the general next in seniority, count buxhöwden, having sent +commence the action, and wishing to avert responsibility from himself, +commiseration on rostóv, who saw that túshin with his whole heart +commit crime, die, or perform deeds of highest heroism, and so he could +companion, dólokhov had come straight to his house, and pierre had put +company, which alone had maintained its order in the wood and, having +company, your honor. i don’t know where... such bad luck!” +compared to the lofty, equitable, and kindly sky which he had seen and +completely altered. he was not rich, but would spend his last groat to +composed and printed in the hero’s honor. bagratión, on seeing the +composure, “now there’s this recruiting. my father is chief in +composure, waiting for a display of the eccentricities his father had +comrade berg’s best wishes for success, rode to olmütz to see +concentrate. “there we shall encounter difficulties, and there,” +concentration of fighting at one point, and the hesitation of all the +concentration on some one thought. +conclude our campaign and we can return to winter quarters, where fresh +condition. +confess and ask for money he had no right to after giving his word of +confession; he felt himself in the presence of one socially a complete +confidence, and love as i have for you. then i am young. mamma does +confidence, flatter him, become intimate with him, and finally make his +confidence the personality of the freemason inspired in him and his own +confirmed by pierre’s rupture with his wife, was the talk of society. +confirmed in this conclusion by the fact that dólokhov left immediately +“confound him, he’s a fool!” said rostóv. +“confound you and your karl ivánich!” he took the glass with the +confused and ever-increasing crowds were running back to where five +confused him still more. he stood before bagratión with his lower +confused when she saw prince andrew. he covered his face with his hands +confusion and fear that showed itself on prince vasíli’s face. +confusion what did or did not happen? +congratulations and greetings from acquaintances that met him on all +connected in his memory with prince andrew. + conquest’s joyful thunder waken, +conscience that god has implanted in our souls.” +conscientiously studied the dispositions and the unfamiliar locality. he +consciousness that something great and mysterious was being accomplished +conscious of the warmth of her body, the scent of perfume, and the +conscious of this unseen line, and the question whether they would cross +conscious that another line of thought had sprung up, and while thinking +conservatories and the beauty of a flower that had just opened, and +considered him a criminal, and a year later they executed those who +considered myself injured, and louis xvi was executed because they +considered worthy to hear it had to come to the countess, for she +consider it a sacred duty to fulfill that person’s wishes. do you wish +consolation for our defeat by the memory of former victories; and the +consolation? what evil and error are there in it, if people were dying +constant composure and complacency and lack of all interests or desires, +constantly considered it a duty to assure pierre that he was greatly +consultations very valuable for the proprietor and troublesome to +consultations were detached from real affairs and did not link up with +contemptuous smile, evidently prepared beforehand to meet all objections +continually driving round or coming upon wounded men, was out of range +continued—remembering dólokhov’s conversation with kutúzov and his +continued, “we owe today’s success chiefly to the action of that +continue their flight? despite his desperate shouts that used to seem +contrary one must try to make one’s life as pleasant as possible. +convalescence. dólokhov lay ill at his mother’s who loved him +conversation with her, when anna pávlovna called him away on the +convey....” +convoy officer, who said rapidly: “we must halt here: the emperor +cook calls it—has disagreed with me.” +cords on his coat and took a card with that number and tried staking the +corner of his card and, instead of the six thousand he had intended, +correct, others that it was not, and explained the false rumor that had +cossacks and then the first and second squadrons of hussars and infantry +cost correct, or remedy, the mistake if he had made one, so that he, +coughed, swallowed, and said in french that she was very pleased to see +could be heard above the three hundred others. he nearly wept. “to the +could be heard. it was there prince andrew thought the fight would +could clearly distinguish their bandoliers, red epaulets, and even their +could disclose it to me.” +could have been devised. this combination of austrian precision with +could have the effrontery to continue firing from four quite undefended +could hear the footstep of someone in thick felt boots, and a voice that +could no longer be averted but was taking its course independently of +could not bear her look but turned away with a sob. +could not break away from her, and that though it would be a terrible +could not possibly be, and so did not deliver the order. +could not remember what it was that people say. he looked at her face. +could not reply. +could not scream like that—came from the bedroom. prince andrew ran to +council, he remained in the room. +councilor of state, and insisted on the young man accompanying him to +count bezúkhov he did not let go his hold of the lad. he had the air of +“count! count!” shouted berg who ran up from the other side as eager +countenance bonaparte, and to cause me, and us in general, annoyance and +countess. +countess had not yet come. but now steps were heard at the door, steps +countess. her son’s growth toward manhood, at each of its stages, +countess’ house. +“countess, i have done w’ong,” denísov went on in an unsteady +“countess natásha,” answered denísov. +“countess...” said denísov, with downcast eyes and a guilty face. +countess” to have a rest, but remembering something else of +countess, who sat holding in one hand the snuffbox with its portrait and +count ilyá rostóv, hurried and preoccupied, went about in his soft +count ilyá rostóv separately, as the organizer of the banquet. at that +“count ilyá rostóv’s son?” asked dolgorúkov. +count markóv, and prince vyázemski—did not show themselves at the +count markóv? count markóv was the only man who knew how to handle +count, money and all things necessary for the uniform and equipment +count never be able to find out whether all measures had been taken for +count rostopchín, valúev, and narýshkin. rostopchín was describing +“count rostóv.” +countrymen. thanks for the fire—we’ll return it with interest,” +count,” said berg, lighting his pipe and emitting rings of smoke. +count tolstóy, who had ridden out to the battlefield with others in +couple of words with him, pierre felt unable to disappoint him. +courage. 6. generosity. 7. the love of death. +courage, but she looked straight into his handsome face as it came near + courage conquest guarantees; +courage had it not been that just then they heard the rattle of musketry +courage, my angel.” she kissed lise and was about to leave the room. +course.” perhaps he did not really think this when he met women—even +courts only strengthened his desire to belong to that higher world. +covered his eyes with his hand and pressed von toll’s hand. +covered with melting snow, the frost having begun to break up during the +“cover yourself!” even denísov cried to his adversary. +crack and there was a glimpse of something blue, of ribbons, black hair, +crackling of wood fires near and afar, merged into one tremulous rumble. +creaking of her corset as she moved. he did not see her marble beauty +cried at each shot: “fine! that’s good! look at it... grand!” the +criminal,” came into pierre’s head, “and from their point of +crimson float on the surface of that milky sea of mist. the whole french +critical moment the courier who carried the news of our victory at +crossed one on the other on her breast, and to him, too, her face seemed +crossed the road, and began riding up the hill at a gallop toward the +cross it and ride over the black field up the hillside. to keep to the +crowding around the dams and banks of the ponds near the village of +crowd, they had got wedged in at the approach to the dam and, jammed in +crushed, but angry and working unnaturally, she saw that hanging over +crying. +curious embarrassment among some of those present. sónya, dólokhov, +curious to know what was going to happen and what would be revealed to +curtain aside and for some time his frightened, restless eyes could not +curtain flapping and blew out the candle with its chill, snowy draft. +curving her arms, natásha held out her skirts as dancers do, ran back +cynically dólokhov had praised his wife’s beauty to him and from that +d’affaires. +dancer, and one of the best matches in the city. +dancer, but smiling as only happy girls of fifteen can smile. when +dancers do, natásha, rising energetically from her heels to her toes, +dancing master) gave for his pupils during the holidays. +dangerous. +dangers. during these wanderings, pierre noticed that he was spoken +dark and the glow of two conflagrations was the more conspicuous. the +dark corner. and this someone was he—the devil—and he was also this +darkness, the man paused, then moved with cautious steps toward the +darkness, was suddenly lit up by a new brightness, full of significance. +darkness. “why not?... it might easily happen,” thought rostóv, +dark... steady!” he cried to his fidgeting horse. +“darling denísov!” screamed natásha, beside herself with rapture, +dashing young hussar! +daughter!” +daughter. +daughter, and while he laughed the expression on his face clearly said: +daughter, but for a minister! for me, there are no ministers!” +daughter-in-law, “but she need not make a fool of herself, she’s +daughter is so young, and i thought that, as my son’s friend, you +daughter.)—“my dear boy... lëlya... i am very pleased.” (his + * daughter of matthew. +daughter of prince vasíli, but visualized her whole body only veiled +daughter’s happiness. +daughter. she lowered her head and was ready to burst into tears. +daughter were having one not less important. natásha came running to +day before, he wished to do what the young man wanted. having been sent +day he had lost. he was happy as a lover when the longed-for moment of +day in moscow. all denísov’s moscow friends gave him a farewell +days’ march and the enemy’s outposts after a brief interchange +days was still thin—moved. his gleaming eyes were fixed intently on +days with her, asked her to sleep in her room, and often talked with her +day until then, but he could no longer do it. he could not, any more +dead. all that he saw and heard seemed to confirm this terror. +dead or wounded horses and harnessing fresh ones, and shouting in his +dear boy,” and he drew pierre’s arm downwards, “it is simply a +“dear, dear! but still tell him to come to the club—it will all blow +“dearest... and me!” +“dearest, i’m afraid this morning’s fruschtique *—as fóka the +“dearest,” said the little princess after breakfast on the morning +dear fellow!” and for some unknown reason tears suddenly filled his +dear general, i am engaged with rice and cutlets, look after military +“dear me, how you have changed!” +“dear me!” said his father, who was in a specially good humor. “i +“dear me!” said rostóv. +“dear me! then what are you up to now?” +dear sir—took on yourself responsibility for the guidance of a young +death’s head. the stranger sat without stirring, either resting or, as +de beaucoup de mérite), a newly appointed maid of honor and her mother, +deceitful german, whom he would not only kill with pleasure but whom +deceived you. let us go to mamma.” +december, nothing was said about the war and the last battle, as +de châle, but at this last ball only the écossaise, the anglaise, and +decidedly lost bearings, you know that a letter was received from him +decided now or never. she lowered her eyes so as not to see the gaze +decided that day, but that they also knew what she thought about it. she +decided to play until that score reached forty-three thousand. he +decided to send the letters and money by the grand duke’s courier to +decide, my dear, good, gentle marie, whom i have always loved as a +declared, was extraordinary and had achieved miracles of valor. the +deeds, and while dying he expressed the love his actions had proved. +deepest where the land lies lowest. +defeated. a week after the gazette report of the battle of austerlitz +defective commissariat, the treachery of the pole przebyszéwski and of +defile through narrow village streets when we are marching against the +dejection and hopelessness)—at any rate, pierre longed with his whole +delay and advised waiting for something else before advancing had been +deliberately so that everyone could hear: +“delightful!” said bolkónski. “but i have come to you, prince, +delightful to see.” +delight of frenzy. he flung down the slab, broke it, and swooping +(delivered by the french alone) was still to be heard from numerous +delivers its teaching not in words only but also by other means, which +demanded that he should submit. feeling himself in their power, he + * denísov. +denísov?” +denísov also came back and stayed with them. the first half of the +denísov, and now moscow memories—and he again hurriedly opened his +denísov bent over her hand and she heard strange sounds she did not +denísov, denísov! we’re almost there!” +“denísov, don’t make fun of it!” cried rostóv. “it is such a +denísov first went to the barrier and announced: “as the +denísov gave no answer. +denísov nice?” she asked. +denísov raised his head, coughed, and made no answer. +denísov’s a fine fellow. but that’s all nonsense. the chief thing +denísov’s favorite barcarolle. natásha was preparing to sing. +denísov’s horse, bedouin, was in debt all round, to his comrades and +denísov’s short stature not noticeable and he looked the fine fellow +denísov, to rostóv’s surprise, appeared in the drawing room with +denísov was looking at her with enraptured eyes. +denísov was shown to the room prepared for him, and the rostóvs all +“denísov! we’re here! he’s asleep,” he added, leaning forward +denísov, who had settled down by the roadside with a flask and some +denísov with his voice and mustache, and telyánin and all that affair +denísov, with sparkling eyes and ruffled hair, sat at the clavichord +departure hélène returned to petersburg, she was received by all her +depends on your decision. never mind me!” +depraved ideas of these days. i said so even at the time when everybody +depraved woman,” he repeated, “but dared not admit it to myself. +depressing and unsolved problem. +depth of his heart. in one place the peasants presented him with bread +derision. “i ought to know the emperor by now, after the times i’ve +descending the valley. that moment of moral hesitation which decides +descent lit up, and facing it a black knoll that seemed as steep as a +descriptive part of the letter. “and what a soul! not a word about +desire to do good to his neighbor. +desire to show his friend as soon as possible that he was now a quite +desirous of hiding her adoration for hélène and inclined rather +despair at failing in a scripture examination, his borrowing money from +despair, not knowing where to or why he was now riding. +despite count bezúkhov’s enormous wealth, since he had come into an +“despite my great respect for old kutúzov,” he continued, “we +despite the weakness of age, which had become particularly noticeable +destruction of the prussian army at jena and auerstädt and the +detachment, moved from the place where it had spent the night, advancing +detail! no, my dear fellow, no conditions better than our present ones +“devil take ‘em!” he muttered, while his head was still covered by +“devil take them!” he muttered, and after listening to the verbal +devoid of any foundation. prince bagratión turned to the old colonel: +devotion to the sovereign, rostóv pictured to himself an enemy or a +dictated the dispositions in german, and now, much exhausted, he arrived +did i come here?” he wondered. +did neither: a look of animosity appeared on his face and the other +did not, and do not, in the least care about that scoundrel of a clerk +did not calm her excitement. suddenly her door opened softly and her old +did not draw closer to sónya, but rather drifted away from her. she was +did not even make him a curtsy. she fixed her eyes on him in amazement, +did not, for instance, say to himself: “this man now has influence, i +did not interest her—or by a silent look and smile which more palpably +did not let him and, on the other, pierre himself feared to begin to +did not let it out of her hands. the tutors came, and the nurses, and +did not want or could not carry away with them. austrian column guides +did not wish to, believe that. +did not wish to confess. +“didn’t i tell you,” she went on, turning reproachfully to +did still harder work on their own land. he did not know that the priest +didst thou, and why did the whole world, conceive the idea of the +did that day. but no sooner had natásha finished her barcarolle than +did they not interest him, but he took no notice of them and at once +did this and that, all would be well; and he did what was demanded of +different, and better, pierre than he had been in petersburg. +different companies did not get mixed. but our left—which consisted +different from that of its elders which is often insincere, nicholas +different one from that which he had ridden at the review, and bending +different tones. rostóv reined in his horse, whose spirits had risen, +difficulties had told nicholas that this was all he could let him have +difficult to imagine happier people, and that god only knew what would +difficulty. +difficulty. +digested his sufferings alone. +dinner. +dinner and at other times, when as if tired of everyday life he had felt +dinner and looked about, blinking and scowling, or, with fixed eyes and +dinner, but providing it and serving it all up, that’s not their +diplomatic career in comparison with pierre’s happiness. the old +diplomatic discretion tormented him, and he was happy to have in prince +diplomatist fresh from berlin with the very latest details of the +directed to—pierre and hélène. prince vasíli mimicked the sobbing +direction of the conflagration. as if urging each other on, the soldiers +direction toward the valley and disappearing one after another into +“directly!” +disbelieved both the princess’ hints and the letter, but he feared +discipline and zeal in the service. he brought with him into our +disconcerted. the sight of the discomposure of that old man of the world +disheveled head from the hot pillow. +dismal influence of cannon balls flying from the french batteries +disordered. the french cannon did not reach there and the musketry fire +disorganized, i stopped in the road and thought: ‘i’ll let them +displease you. however,” he added rising, “you know my name and +disposed to treat the young heir in the most friendly and flattering +dispositions...” +“dispositions for an attack on the enemy position behind kobelnitz and +dispute. +dissatisfaction and reproach. “old though he may be, he should not, he +dissatisfied with him, and also that at the emperor’s headquarters +distance, but down the hill before him. “it’s the french!” +distance where no one had been before him. bagratión called to him from +distant, most intimate, memories rose in his imagination: he remembered +distinctions which may infringe equality. fly to a brother’s aid +distinguish a mounted man from one on foot. napoleon, in the blue cloak +distinguished dignitary and a swiss who had formerly been tutor at the +distorted out of all likeness to his former self, and the flourishing of +distraught yet angry expression on the faces of these two men, who +distrust in bolkónski’s emphatic opinion yet not feeling able fully +dmítri, and several acquaintances, and the countess reread the letter +“dmítri,” said rostóv to his valet on the box, “those lights are +do?” +doctor and expecting another for whom they had sent to town, they had +doctor who had entered the hall after him (they had met at the last post +does not produce the slightest stir—a blind man has left it. there are +does not quite see it; more particularly as it is he and his corps who +doesn’t have intrigues nowadays? why, if he was so jealous, as i see +doing a little—though i did very little and did it very badly? what +doing!” said the officer and rode off. +“do i remember nicholas?” +dolgorúkov; and though you may not know it, the fact is that now +dolgorúkov laughed merrily. +dolgorúkov, looking round at bilíbin with a smile. +dolgorúkov, one of the warmest advocates of an attack, had just +dolgorúkov, the victor at wischau, was sent with savary to negotiate +dolgorúkov to the emperor. +dolgorúkov was still insisting that the french had retreated and had +dolls and who was still having lessons. +dólokhov and looked sorrowfully at him. denísov, rostóv, and +dólokhov, and words of honor?... all nonsense! one might kill and rob +dólokhov began to deal seriously. oh, how rostóv detested at that +dólokhov cut him short, as if to remind him that it was not for him to +dólokhov himself during his convalescence spoke to rostóv in a way no +dólokhov looked at pierre with clear, mirthful, cruel eyes, and that +dólokhov made no reply. +“dólokhov, mary ivánovna’s son,” she said in a mysterious +dólokhov—now an officer—wounded in the arm, and on foot, with +dólokhov often dined at the rostóvs’, never missed a performance at +dólokhov or answering him. the footman, who was distributing leaflets +dólokhov paused. +dólokhov, pierre saw clearly that what was said in the letter might be +dólokhov pressed rostóv’s hand and burst into tears. +dólokhov’s clear, cold glance met rostóv as soon as he entered the +dólokhov’s face. +dólokhov’s hand. +dólokhov’s hands and thought, “now then, make haste and let me have +dólokhov’s home: on the third day he received a note from him: +dólokhov, slamming down the pack of cards, put it aside and began +dólokhov’s offer,” he said, articulating his friend’s name with +dólokhov’s proposal and iogel’s ball, seemed to have grown thicker +dólokhov’s second, and after dinner he discussed the arrangements for +dólokhov. suddenly a cannon ball hissed so low above the crowd that +dólokhov was a secret to no one but himself. pierre absolutely +dólokhov, who had no reason to preserve the honor of a man who was +dólokhov, whom everyone in the house liked except natásha. she almost +dólokhov who was in the midst of the crowd forced his way to the edge +dominated everything else and soared above all their affected chatter. +done. have you chosen a post in which you might be of service to your +done no harm to anyone; why must i suffer so? help me!” her look +done, the rhetor said: +done to me?”—said her charming, pathetic, dead face. +done up. +do not break your ranks on the plea of removing the wounded! let every +do not suppose me to be so bad. with my whole soul i wish to be what you +“don’t be unkind,” cried anna pávlovna from her end of the table +don’t care a straw about anyone but those i love; but those i love, +“don’t come in,” she said to the old count who was following her. +“don’t! don’t! what are you about?” whispered their frightened +don’t forget to put out my new coat,” added rostóv, fingering his +don’t know and never shall know, for the love of these men here,” he +“don’t, natásha! what nonsense!” she said, hoping it was a joke. +don’t remember borís. i don’t remember him a bit.” +“don’t say that to me! i want nothing. i love you as a brother and +“don’t speak to me... i beg you,” muttered pierre hoarsely. +don’t understand. perhaps princess elizabeth and princess mary know. +“don’t you wecollect what bad use i made of your lessons?” +door and his expression of sleepy indifference suddenly changed to one +door, as though he had long expected him. +door behind him and satisfied himself that there was nobody else in the +“do order them to form into battalion columns and go round the +door? oh, she is a pearl among women, princess,” he added, turning to + do, sire.” +“do this for my sake, mon cher; after all, she had to put up with a +doubled. to this prince andrew answered with a smile that he could +doubt, and self-derision, which appeared on his face against his will, +doubt filled her soul. could the joy of love, of earthly love for a +doubt it now. rostóv rode in the direction pointed out to him, in which +doubt of victory, especially on this day when what is at stake is the +down, and smiled affectionately. +down below, but higher up at the village of schlappanitz where napoleon +downcast head; and he began to pace the room, glancing occasionally at +down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before +down on a sofa in the next room. +down. one bullet and then another whistled past him. he mustered his +down on her with outstretched hands shouted, “get out!” in such a +downstairs to his own room. a quarter of an hour later the old count +down the hillsides, and clouds of cannon smoke rolling, spreading, +downy lip was open and she was smiling joyfully. prince andrew entered +dowry and take mademoiselle bourienne into the bargain. she’ll be the +“do you hear how he’s walking?” said tíkhon, drawing the +do you know he has fallen in love with sónya?” +“do you remember him?” natásha suddenly asked, after a moment’s +“do you remember we had a talk about cards... ‘he’s a fool who +“do you want anything?” +dragging it by the staff, ran on with the battalion. in front he saw our +drank much, and eagerly. but those who knew him intimately noticed that +drawing him down put her arm round his thin, scraggy neck. +drawing room. the guests began to disperse, some without taking leave +drawing room with her habitual skill. the large group, in which were +dressed alike, in new pale-blue frocks, and were both fresh, rosy, and +dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, +dressed gay young men on splendid, well-groomed, fresh, only slightly +dressed. princess mary’s self-esteem was wounded by the fact that +dress, have it fetched. really! you know the fate of your whole life may +dress her would prolong their banter and insistence. she flushed, her +dressing gown every day, he invariably became confused and begged her to +dress, mademoiselle bourienne’s ribbon, princess mary’s unbecoming +dress with her little hand, now arranging the scarf and looking at her +drew anatole, whom she hardly knew, into these amusing recollections of +drew in his legs and sat up, seeking a firm center of gravity. he sucked +drink?” +drink shop or fall ill. just as i could not stand his terrible physical +driven their two-horse carts loaded with wheat and had returned dusty +driver’s leg. their spirits once roused were, however, not diminished, +drive the princess away by that scream... “killed!” +drive up, went to meet him. +drooping as he broke into a gallop. +drops and again went up to the cot. +drove his huge spurs in violently, and the horse, flourishing its tail +drowsiness overpowered him, red rings danced before his eyes, and the +dry hands clenched with vexation at her not understanding a sum in +duel he did not go to his bedroom but, as he often did, remained in his +duelist and rake, and every now and then he glanced ironically at +duel prove? that you’re a fool, que vous êtes un sot, but everybody +due to her misfortune. when conversation turned on her husband hélène +duke constantine pávlovich, who commanded the guards. the rostóvs +duke’s orders the men had marched all the way in step (a practice on +during rostóv’s short stay in moscow, before rejoining the army, he +during that stay in petersburg, borís became an intimate in the +during this transfer he felt a little stronger and was able to look +each face, appraising the possibilities of establishing intimacy with +each occasion had been driven back by grapeshot from the four isolated +each of those present, and the advantages that might accrue. he took +each time with fresh pleasure and each time discovered in it fresh +eagerness and briskness presented a marked contrast to the dissatisfied +eager questions from all sides. the whole moving mass began pressing +early in the year 1806 nicholas rostóv returned home on leave. denísov +easy. +edge of the clearing. the seconds, measuring the paces, left tracks in + e’en fortunate napoleon +efforts to seem calm. +“eh, brother! they’ve all bolted long ago!” said the soldier, +eh, dmítri! gallop off to our moscow estate,” he said to the factotum +“eh, is anything hurting you?” asked the soldier, shaking his shirt +“eh, is she pretty?” he asked with a wink. +eighty thousand allied troops rose from their bivouacs to the hum of +either,” he thought to himself, “i have done nothing wrong. have i +either,” he thought. “yes, i did not know anything, anything at all +either the place they were leaving or that to which they were going. +ekonómov. +elated. he had noticed a solitary tree ahead of him. this tree had been +elbows, as if to say: “you can tell me your views later, but now be so +elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders +elders which seems to say to the older generation, “we are prepared to +else. +else. +else, my dear boy, let me tell you it’s quite likely you’ll have to +else, runs upstairs and does up her hair and wags her tail and is unlike +else the tsar did. +embarrassed him. he was like a man entirely absorbed in some occupation. +embarrassed voice, though it sounded severe to denísov—“but my +embarrassing situation, and the expression on his face was invariably +embraced him and lifting his spectacles kissed his friend on the cheek +embracing denísov. “nicholas wrote us... natásha, véra, look! here +embracing prince vasíli. +emperor alexander hurriedly to kutúzov, glancing courteously at the +emperor alexander’s visit to potsdam, and of how the two august +emperor and the whole army, especially while the smoke hung over +emperor at once rode up to him, offered his services, and assisted him +emperor francis continued to look about him and did not listen. +emperor had only just fallen asleep and so savary had to wait. at midday +emperor himself rode round his bivouacs. the soldiers, on seeing him, +emperor not everyone could understand, and with his whole soul he shared +emperor,” said rostóv, and was about to spur his horse. +emperor’s arrival, lay several killed and wounded soldiers whom there +emperor’s eyes met rostóv’s and rested on them for not more than +emperors. upon them the undivided, tensely passionate attention of that +emperor. the emperor francis, a rosy, long faced young man, sat very +emperor,” thought rostóv. +emperor was pale, his cheeks sunken and his eyes hollow, but the charm, +employed by lively chatty people, and consisting in the assumption +empress’ field, not understanding the significance of the firing, nor +empress’ field,” said he clearly and distinctly. +empty and that the nurse had been hiding the dead baby. he drew the +emptying his glass at one gulp he dashed it to the floor. many followed + enchantress, say, to my forsaken lyre +encounter an enemy invisible ten paces off. but the columns advanced +end of the meal. he winked at the butler, whispered directions to the +end spurred his horse. +enemies, he tried to continue reading. but feeling this to be senseless +enemy?” +enemy, do not avenge thyself except by doing him good. thus fulfilling +enemy under the emperor’s command. commanded by the emperor himself +energetic a character. he is so accustomed to unlimited power that he is +energetically than anyone, led the guests into the drawing room, and +engaged; he was shouting “hurrah!” +enjoyable. that year two marriages had come of these balls. the two +enjoyment by sympathy with anyone’s sorrow,” she felt, and she said +enlightenment?” +enlighten their minds, by means handed on to us by tradition from those +enormous whole. +enough, at the end of the feast proposed the emperor’s health. “not +“enough! what nonsense! above all, try to be respectful and cautious +entered, as if to say: “yes, that’s how i want you to look.” +entered the drawing room elegantly dressed in the uniform of an +entered the room. +entered the room. prince vasíli approached first, and she kissed the +entering the house occupied by kutúzov, asked for bolkónski. prince +entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and +entertaining supposition. +entertainment at the gypsies’, with the result that he had no +enter the drawing room? even if i like him i can’t now be myself with +enthusiasms, dreams, and hopes of happiness or goodness, in prince +enthusiasm—was only the loss of the battle of austerlitz, the +entice him to marry my daughter and lend me the forty thousand rubles +entrance to the dam raised his hand and opened his mouth to address +entrusted to him, was pedantic in the fulfillment of his duties, severe +entrusted to his care and whom he intended to benefit. +enveloped in those beams, he heard his voice, that kindly, calm, +envious and natásha could not help joining in. +equals, while his eyes occasionally sought out his fine well-set-up +erect, almost on tiptoe, with a soldier’s obsequious expression on his +erect on his handsome black horse, looking about him in a leisurely and +err, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.” +escapade made everybody feel confused. denísov blushed too, but smiled +escape it all, and felt that dólokhov knew that he could save him from +especially appealed to pierre. the important mystery mentioned by the +especially the youngest, the pretty one with the mole, who often made +essen corps arrived and prussia took our side. +essential to speak the whole truth. +estate near moscow, and to receive many people who formerly did not +estates. his new brethren gave him letters to the kiev and odessa masons +estates in the south and there attending to the welfare of his serfs. +eternal, and infinite in all his attributes?...” +eternity.” and again he twisted the screw with the stripped thread, + * “europe will never be our sincere ally.” +even by a ball dress. +even denísov was nothing compared to dólokhov—“you must understand +even every footstep in that house since the terrible news had come, so +evening. +evening in advance of him, and he and his son arrived next day. +evening passed, night came, and the feeling of suspense and softening of +evening to get in) “i only wished to say that we are wrong to fight +evening was this: +evening when the rewards bestowed by the emperor were mentioned. +even know if it would be a good thing (he even felt, he knew not why, +even more beautiful than it had been three days before at the review. it +even more merrily than on the previous night. denísov celebrated his +even people who had formerly been spiteful toward him and evidently +even their faces, more and more distinctly. they were our horse guards, +event. in the english club, where all who were distinguished, important, +even wish to know of his existence but would now have been offended +ever because anatole’s presence had vividly recalled to her the time +ever was borís resolved to serve in future not according to the written +every advantage. what receptions we had in poland! what dinners and +everybody, for another ten years. it would be far easier and simpler for +everybody laughed a great deal. at the head of the table, where the +everybody! not forgetting anyone. i always said when he was only so +every day he said to himself one and the same thing: “it is time i +everyone! +everyone adopted toward him the tone of men who know something others do +everyone ducked. it flopped into something moist, and the general fell +everyone he could stop, but got no answer from anyone. +every ten seconds a cannon ball flew compressing the air around, or +everything became clear, and in all corners of moscow the same things +everything from society and giving nothing in return. you have become +everything!” (he put one arm around pierre and the other around his +everything in perfect order, only one little thing is lacking, namely, +everything is calculated, and i don’t like that. but denísov...” +everything may be over for me! all these memories will be no more, none +everything over with, and i happen to be there, i’ll go at once, to +everything seemed so futile and insignificant in comparison with the +“everything’s still the same with them,” thought nicholas, +“everything’s the same with them. they know nothing about it! where +everything was becoming more and more happy and animated. “oh, how i +everything within and around him seemed confused, senseless, and +every word and movement was described with ecstasy. +evidence of the advantages of attacking that what had been discussed +evident he had reflected on this subject more than once, and he spoke +evidently also felt depressed and constrained with his visitor, “i am +evidently did not realize what they were doing. +evidently expecting him to bow or to step out of his way. prince andrew +evidently forced. not only the guests but even the footmen waiting at +evidently not because he was shaven but because they had never grown. +evidently those in front had halted. all remained where they were in the +evidently weakened, was undertaking nothing. +evidently wished to draw him on. +evidently wishing to give her words a very definite meaning. “i +evil can there be in it if unfortunate people, our serfs, people like +evil. le prochain—your kiev peasants to whom you want to do good.” +exactitude, what minuteness, what knowledge of the locality, what +“exactly, not a hair’s breadth farther,” answered prince vasíli, +exalted personages passing in the streets in their elegant carriages +exasperated whisper, evidently meaning to wound his sister. +exasperated with one another and, long after the action had begun on +exceeded twenty thousand rubles. dólokhov was no longer listening to +excellency!” +excellency... i had no men... your excellency.” +excellency prince vasíli kurágin and his son, i understand?” she +excellency. shall i go with some of my hussars to see?” replied +excellent dinners for the officers at every halting place. the regiments +except to pierre and hélène, whose presence he seemed not to notice. +excitement and to being unaccustomed to speak of abstract matters in +excitement, rushed toward the drawing room door, probably in order to +exclaimed, and immediately seizing him by the shoulder and looking +excuse his costume. +excuses now! it’s your turn to sing the ba’cawolla—i entweat +executed him—also for some reason. what is bad? what is good? what +existence of such an incomprehensible being, a being all-powerful, +expected this. +expeditions to olmütz to visit a certain caroline the hungarian, +experienced a variety of most complex sensations. he felt afraid of what +experience that feeling during those memorable days preceding the battle +explained prince andrew. “the others, one’s neighbors, le prochain, +explanation with nicholas, sónya twirled about before she left home +exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as +exposing himself to the first blows of the enemy, for there must be no +expressed disapproval of dólokhov’s living at their house, and how +expressed his opinion more openly. he shrugged his shoulders when pierre +expresses his opinion to kutúzov, to weyrother, and to the emperors. +express his opinion as he had hoped to, left on him a vague and uneasy +expressing disapproval and dislike of kutúzov. +expression and went out again without saying a word. she looked at +expression, looked observantly and sympathetically at the father and +expression of her father’s. his face wore that expression when his +expression she did not understand, and lay down again. he was suffering +expression the sculptor had happened to give the angel’s face, prince +expression, though many of them knew that what he was saying was a lie +extends along kobelnitz and sokolnitz behind the ponds that are there, +extinguished and some spirit lighted, as pierre knew by the smell, and +extraordinary intelligence, the more so as in the depth of his heart it +eyes. +eyes. +eyes and indicating hélène with a sorrowful gesture. “ah, she is +eyes and saw close before him the head and ears of the horse he was +eyes at her sister-in-law. +eyes attracted him irresistibly. +eyes. “but i’ll go to bezúkhov’s myself. pierre has arrived, and +eyes fixed on the dark face of a large icon of the saviour lit by a +“eyes front!” then, like the crowing of cocks at sunrise, this was +eyes full of tears and of thoughts, gazing shiningly and imploringly at +eyes grew dim. by the expression of her father’s face, not sad, not +eyes grew moist. “hurrah!” cried the three hundred voices again, +eyes. he really was in love with the tsar and the glory of the russian +eyes he was every day more and more connected with her, that it was +eyes. his shriveled old hands were folded and on the finger of one of +eyes kept closing, and in his fancy appeared—now the emperor, now +eyes off him. his brother and sisters struggled for the places nearest +eyes rolling as he sang, with his small, husky, but true voice, some +eyes, rostóv re-entered that world of home and childhood which had no +eyes to complete the show of prisoners, could not fail to attract his +eyes. what she found hardest to bear was to know that on such occasions +face assumed the coarse, unpleasant expression peculiar to him. shaking +faces. (he distinctly saw an old french officer who, with gaitered +face, shook his head, and going up to him silently kissed him on the +faces of the crew bustling round the guns, from the sight of the blood +face was animated, which, however, did not conceal its sunken and faded +face with prince andrew, who came out frowning and looking old. pierre +faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable +failed him. he was seized by panic and could not go where it was +faint with fear lest the baby should be drowned in the font, and awaited +faire dans cette galère?” * occurred to him, and he began to laugh at +false. he was happy to be seeing him. he knew that he might and even +familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any +familiar to rostóv; the other on a beautiful chestnut horse (which +family, but was kept all summer in moscow by his new duties. dólokhov +family life continually rose in her imagination. she drove them away and +family’s, and his friends’, and the enemy’s intention to kill him +family, was the most gifted with a capacity to feel any shades of +famous order of the day to general bennigsen: +fancies. +farther and farther he rode away, stopping at other regiments, till at +farther into the region where the army was already in action. +farther, probably along the line of the french camp. rostóv no longer +fastened to the cording of his uniform and, indicating a bandaged arm, +fastening his coat. when he had finished, he turned to bezúkhov, and +“faster!” came the word of command, and rostóv felt rook’s flanks +fate. it is in your hands.” +father?” +father and andrew. i shall be so happy when she is his wife. she is so +father and anna mikháylovna, that it had something to do with her +“father! andrew!”—said the ungraceful, awkward princess with such +father, count bezúkhov, and showed them her own box. princess hélène +father, he feels for you.” +father... it’s bad....” he reflected, but while he was thinking this +father, muttered in a whisper: +father’s case. +“father,” she said, “do not turn away from me, let us weep +father’s letter, he returned to the nursery. +father’s nature showed itself in pierre. he felt the fascination and +father’s room, that huge room in which count bezúkhov had died. +father’s room with the good-humored and victorious air natural to +“father, tell me how it happened,” she asked through her tears. +father to fits of bloodthirsty rage. and when after pierre’s +father with a laugh. +fault!” and her voice quivered like that of a child about to cry. +fault. what’s he to do if he has such luck?... and it’s not my fault +fear, and the thought that he might be killed or badly wounded never +fear’s all gone, and your only thought is not to let him get away!’ +fears nothing so much as a general battle is impossible.” +fear this will oblige one half the army to shoot the other.” +features, gave him a rather comical expression. bekleshëv and theodore +fédya, my dear count; that, believe me, is why i am so fond of you. few +feeble voice, so high pitched and irresolute. his face grew more and +feel afraid.” +feeling of a hare fleeing from the hounds. one single sentiment, that +feeling of devotion returned to him even more strongly than before. when +feelings. but much as all the rest laughed, talked, and joked, much +feeling; sharing with the young folk of the rostóvs’ household a +feel that in that place and on that day, it was improper to speak so of +feel,” thought he, “if she saw me here now on this field with the +feet in low shoes, iogel flew first across the hall with natásha, who, +feet in their overboots on the table, and began to reflect. +feet into his slippers and his arms into the sleeves of his dressing +feigned—or so it seemed to rostóv. he put his horse to a trot to +fellow.” +fellow.” +fellow,” he said abruptly and eagerly, “i must confess to having +fellows on the staff who get rewards without doing anything!” +felt a wish to speak to the stranger, but by the time he had made up his +felt coat, stretched his legs, and set his cap straight. the head of the +felt so glad to be free from his own lawlessness and to submit his will +felt the tension of the amorous air in the house, and also noticed a +festive around him. nearer and nearer to rostóv came that sun shedding +festive in his air, which, in conjunction with his firm and virile +feverish delirium or drunkenness. +field. instead of the moving horses and hussars’ backs, he saw nothing +field of austerlitz, enduring the heedless blows of his left foot and +fields and forests of fir and birch, which were partly cut down. the +field under fire, as he had done at the head of the kursk regiment at +fifty members of the english club and fifty guests were awaiting the +fighting army (with the pávlograds on the right flank of the front); +fighting cocks preparing for battle, each vainly trying to detect signs +fighting hussar who had been under fire. +fighting russian soldier without connections and intrigues, and to one +figure of túshin who was sitting cross-legged like a turk beside him. +final instructions, orders, and commissions to the baggage men +finally there were six thousand rubles for his outfit and various other +finds you to his taste as a daughter-in-law and makes a proposal to you +find the baby. at last he saw him: the rosy boy had tossed about till he +“fine fellows, the pávlograds!” remarked the emperor. +“fine men!” remarked napoleon, looking at a dead russian grenadier, +“fine young fellow! fine young fellow!” he said. “well, come and +finger at him, “i have even heard of your doings in paris!” +fingers twitched nervously. +fire and pressed it there!” +fired in the air; a third was striking the horse kutúzov himself rode. +fire, fanned by the breeze, was rapidly spreading. the french columns +fire. from pain, cold, and damp, a feverish shivering shook his whole +fire! our stories have some weight, not like the stories of those +fires were lighted and the talk became more audible. captain túshin, +firing at augesd. +firing at the augesd dam and was looking at the killed and wounded left +firing in the valley. not a single muscle of his face—which in those +firing?” rostóv kept asking as he came up to russian and austrian +firing was, he began to look for the general and his staff where they +firmly. +firmly believed in the possibility of the brotherhood of men united in +firmly resolved to answer his father-in-law. moreover, the words of the +firmness and certainty of his vocation, which radiated from his whole +first because pierre appeared to his hussar eyes as a rich civilian, the +first of all devote some time to solitude and self-examination and do +first pair of gloves, a man’s, he said that pierre could not know +first regiment roared “hurrah!” so deafeningly, continuously, and +fish for this dinner. the count had been a member and on the committee +five minutes later princess mary from her room heard something heavy +fixing his weary eyes on the paper, began to read them with a fixed and +flag let it fall from his hands. it swayed and fell, but caught on the +flank; he knew that all the guns there had been abandoned at the very +flank. in the center túshin’s forgotten battery, which had managed to +flank now that it is nearly four o’clock and the battle is lost? +flanks was more than six miles, even if the messenger were not killed +flattered by this. anna pávlovna arranged the different groups in her +fleeing crowd. a mounted general separated himself from the infantry and +floundering silvery fish in the watering can, on that dam over which for +flower; natásha, half grown up and half child, was now childishly +flung it away. tíkhon caught it and handed it to a footman. the little +fluttering above the fire and remembered a russian winter at his warm, +fluttering in that light. túshin had not returned, the doctor had not +fly! gracious me, they did rattle past! it’s time i knew the imperial +fly upwards. the angel’s upper lip was slightly raised as though +followed by their suites. kutúzov, affecting the manners of an old +followed proved that the commander in chief at that moment was absorbed +followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower +following budget: +follows: +“folly... folly! death... lies...” he repeated, puckering his face. +food. +foolish as soon as he uttered them, while on the contrary hippolyte’s +“fool... or dummy!” he muttered. +foot, and galloped on. +footmen, and awaited each expected dish with some anxiety. everything +footsteps. pierre rose and said it was getting late. prince vasíli gave +foot, which he was then touching with his own under the clavichord. +for!” +for about a minute. +for a long time, always in the same fog, descending and ascending hills, +for a long time he could not utter a word, so that the rhetor had to +for a moment he dozed, but in that short interval innumerable things +for an answer. his birth and position in society were not bad. “well, +for an instant, but there was no second report as he had expected. he +for a seat. +force had already descended into the valley toward the ponds and lakes +force their way through them with bayonets. +forefather adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be +forehead. he went to the cot in confusion, sure that he would find it +forehead, over which was beautiful light-brown hair smelling of pomade. +forehead was moist. prince andrew touched the head with his hand; even +foreign cavalry with red epaulets, probably french. he could see nothing +foresight for every eventuality, every possibility even to the smallest +forestall him, threw off his fur coat and ran on tiptoe through the +“forever?” said prince andrew. “nothing’s forever.” +forget all that.... she says: ‘i shall love him always, but let him be +forget. but, my dear, will you not give us a little hope of touching +forgetting that it was unbecoming for the girls to see men undressed, +“for god’s sake... i can’t walk. for god’s sake!” +forgot them. his head was burning, he felt himself bleeding to death, +forgot the sovereigns’ presence. “lads, it’s not the first village +for her. when the little princess had grown accustomed to life at bald +for him, prince bagratión sat at dinner, talking with some commanding +for himself. he remembered his mother’s last letter. “what would she +for his life, but for the courage he needed and which he knew would not +for his part tried to pretend to the count that he considered these +for his reply, surrounded him, and led him to the drawing room. it was +for life, but i don’t understand that, i forget quickly.” +formed. +formed a definite idea of what an attack was and were expecting to hear +formed up at intervals, and wheeled round other similar masses of +formerly in anna pávlovna’s presence, pierre had always felt that +former position after the campaign, had returned to petersburg and come +former pupil of his. +forming a complete whole with her dress, but all the charm of her body +forming up within twice the range of a musket shot. the general in +for more than anything else in the world, did not know how to approach +for more than a week preparations were being made, rough drafts of +for my sake! did you know?” +for negligence or inefficiency so staggered him that, forgetting the +for petersburg alone. +for prince andrew. +for that. yes, for that alone! i shall never tell anyone, but, oh god! +for the aged? and is it not a palpable, unquestionable good if a +for the future, pierre’s journeys and occupations, the war, and so +for the hussars to retreat with the infantry. they were cut off from +“for the last time i say to you—turn all your attention upon +for the most part handsome fellows and, as is always the case in an +for themselves. +for the next battle are planned by him alone. nominally he is only an +for these simple, kindly people. +for the society of ladies, began to come often to the house, and the +for the tenth time, molière’s words: “mais que diable allait-il +for this failure, the enemy placed ten guns to the right of the village +for trees and gullies for men and continually discovering his mistakes. +fortune. suddenly he heard a familiar voice repeating something to him a +for two days after that rostóv did not see dólokhov at his own or at +forty paces’ distance nothing could be seen. for three minutes all had +for us. the field marshal looks on and waits for letters addressed +forward, and experienced great happiness. +“forward, lads!” he shouted in a voice piercing as a child’s. +forward. of bolkónski, nothing was said, and only those who knew him +forward toward the old man with a forced and timid smile. +“forward, with god!” said bagratión, in a resolute, sonorous voice, +forward with unnatural speed but yet stayed on the same spot. from +“for what have you come hither?” asked the newcomer, turning in +for wine. +for your neighbor? have you ever thought of your tens of thousands +found a kind of tantalizing satisfaction. +found out, nothing discovered,” pierre again said to himself. “all +found the count with it in his hand, sobbing and laughing at the same +found the prussian army. borís, speaking with deliberation, told them +“fo’ward, with god, lads!” rang out denísov’s voice. “at a +français,” said dolgorúkov, with grave satisfaction. “good, +frankly, i don’t want to. i am speaking of the staff in general.” +freedom and told her that one way or another he would never cease to +free.’ isn’t that lovely and noble! yes, very noble? isn’t it?” +freemasonry presented itself to him. +free, so lighthearted! and i did not realize how happy i was! when did +french!” +french colonel who had been taken prisoner by our dragoons. our officers +french column, with its officers leading, appeared from below the hill. +french, he did not know. there was no one near. +frenchman also stopped and took aim. rostóv closed his eyes and stooped +frenchman remembers his bayonet and stabs him....” +frenchmen, and though but a moment before he had been galloping to get +french pronunciation which she could allow herself when conversing with +french, smoke appeared all along their uneven ranks, and musket shots +french to pass him, had made a bayonet charge with two battalions and +french) to prince vasíli. “it’s not as at annette’s * receptions +french to suppose that here—in the center—the main russian forces +french troops who are being raised in france will join us, and the peace +french were putting out the fire which the wind was spreading, and thus +frenchwoman very readily and, looking at her with a smile, talked to her +fresh and pretty face yet more attractive. +fresh anecdotes were heard of individual examples of heroism shown by +freshness, an unconsciousness of her own powers, and an as yet untrained +“fr... fr...” snorted prince bolkónski. “the prince is making a +friend bolkónski, whom he had not seen for two years. +friend, but nicholas avoided him. with that peculiar feeling of youth, +friends had pledged themselves in an indissoluble alliance to uphold +“friendship laughs at distance,” began prince vasíli in his usual +friend’s look was now still more clearly expressed in the smile +fright were amused by pierre’s lisp and the new words they had not +from actions which would torment him afterwards.” +“‘from all my riding,’ he writes to the emperor, ‘i have got a +from all sides reports reach me,” etc. +from all sides were heard the footsteps and talk of the infantry, who +from behind still came the shouts: “onto the ice, why do you stop? go +from denísov, rode past too, at the rear of his squadron—that is, +from early morning strenuous activities and efforts had begun and by ten +from early morning the smart clean troops were on the move, forming up +from headquarters behind the village to the left, and thither rostóv +from him, and rostóv felt as in a dream that he continued to be carried +from him, though she knew that already, and remarked that they might +from his cheek. prince andrew forced his way to him. +from his horse in a pool of blood. nobody gave him a look or thought of +from his son. +from home, at dinners, parties, and balls. +from másha, the lady’s maid, the necessary report of how handsome the +from my heart as to an old acquaintance.” +from pétenka—he took part in it—and it’s all true. when +from that day the eldest princess quite changed toward pierre and began +from the army to sergéy kuzmích, in which the emperor said that he was +from the crumpled heap under the table would save him, now counted the +from the deafening sounds of his own guns around him, the whistle and +“from the direction, it must be the enemy,” repeated rostóv. +from the direction of olmütz in front of them, a group was seen +from the drawing room. +from the field of battle with the pale and terrified ober-hofmarschal +from the hints contained in his letter and given by the little princess, +from the masses around them, the smoke and the increasing fog, to see +from the theater, had had supper and were grouped round the clavichord. +from the wood, mustered the men who were woodcutting, and, allowing the +from this distressful life, and leads it to its place of recompense and +from understanding—how am i to put it?—i am afraid my way of looking +from which occasional puffs were blown by an invisible smoker. +from which spectacles have just been removed, had also a frightened and +from which the shouting came. he felt both frightened and pleased to be +front. +front and back. her bust, which had always seemed like marble to pierre, +front line, as if their differences would be settled there amongst the +front of the infantry, who had to wait. +front of the ranks. suddenly one shot after another rang out from the +front of us. +frowning. +frowning and silent. +frowning and taking his daughter’s hand; he did not kiss her, but only + * frühstück: breakfast. +fugitives returned, the battalions re-formed, and the french who had +fulfill the one which enjoined every mason to set an example of moral +fulfill thy will?” and scarcely had she put that question than god +full speed. rostóv, fearing to be crushed or swept into the attack on +furies and rages at everyone and everything, seizes the letters, opens +furlough after christmas to return with him to their regiment. his +gaily. +galicia he had managed to deal with the grand duke when the latter +galloped up to kutúzov and asked in the emperor’s name had the fourth +galloping toward him. they were our uhlans who with disordered +gasping voice. “where are we? in moscow, i know. i don’t matter, +gathered round nicholas in the sitting room. +gave her the answer in her own heart. “desire nothing for thyself, +gave no answer, she left the room. +gave us time to retreat. the retirement of the center to the other side +gave zest to his pleasures. he spent the greater part of his time away +gavríl to pay a sleigh driver, his kissing sónya on the sly—he now +gazed at his delicate fingers which rapidly twirled by its corners +gaze drooped his eyes sadly and again took to twirling his snuffbox. +general attention, and anna pávlovna felt that the novelty she had +‘general bonaparte.’” +general conclusion which he had arrived at from his interview with +general conversation. +general engagement in which he was taking part, more than that, he was +general expanded his chest and rode, frowning, beside him to the +general grumbled at his wife when she asked how his leg was. “oh, the +general, in russian, speaking with the french intonation he affected +generally do describe it, that is, as they would like it to have been, +generally happens to the narrators of cavalry attacks had not happened +general movement; that something was constantly expected of him, that if +general roar. +generals. +generals. but one could not tell from that significant look whether he +generals in full parade uniforms, with their thin or thick waists drawn +generals in the crowded hut, feeling embarrassed as he always was by the +generals were saying. +general who had served blamelessly for twenty-two years, flushed by a +general who, watch in hand, was saying it was time they started as all +gentle childlike smile, and hélène smiled too. +gentleman—evidently not sharing borís’ conception of the advantages +gentleman of the bedchamber, which at that time conferred the status of +gentleman,” said the postmaster, entering the room followed by another +gentlemen changed his position on seeing borís. the one who was writing +“gentlemen, i thank you all; all arms have behaved heroically: +“gentlemen,” said dólokhov after he had dealt for some time. +“gentlemen, the dispositions for tomorrow—or rather for today, for +gentleness and affection. he could not refuse the post, or rather the +“gently, gently! can’t you do it more gently?” said the emperor +german—i congratulate him! i can’t make out what the commander at +germans. +germans, and everyone was convinced that a dangerous muddle had been +germans’ muddling! what stupid devils!” +get married. what about you? that’s what i want to know.” +“get onto the ice, over the ice! go on! turn! don’t you hear? go +getting up and speaking in a muffled and guttural voice. +girl,” he sometimes said to himself “she never makes a mistake, +girls and avoiding their eyes. +girls’ voices came from the adjoining room. the door was opened a +girl would be decided that evening. the visitors were seated at supper. +“give him a seat,” said túshin. “lay a cloak for him to sit on, +give no opinion on such an important government order, and berg laughed +given receptions) now hardly let a day go by without having an evening +given to raise recruits, ten men in every thousand for the regular army, +giving the messenger a significant look. +“glad to do our best!” shouted the soldiers. +glad, very glad indeed, that my brother has distinguished himself so. +glance became more animated as his conclusions became more hopeless. +glanced angrily at berg, then, meeting his eyes, hid his face behind the +glanced at berg with a smile. +glances without coloring, but even the old countess and natásha blushed +glancing at prince vasíli and at her father with her beautiful eyes. +glancing into the drawing room, where he saw véra and his mother with +glass. +glass. letting her arms fall helplessly, she sat with downcast eyes and +glass of vodka and the dinner; and the staff officer with the signet +glide across that lofty infinite sky! how was it i did not see that +gloom, but a dark sea swelling and gradually subsiding after a storm. +glorious task for which he was chosen. i shall await your most gracious +go. +“go across to our hosts: they invited you,” added borís. +“go and choose denísov. he is a real dancer, a wonder!” he said. +go and tell lise.” +god!” and without noticing that he was singing, to strengthen the si +god be with him,” thought he, relishing his own goodness of heart, +“god be with you, general!” said the emperor. +“go, dear,” said princess mary. +“god is merciful....” +“god is merciful, birdie.” +“god is merciful, doctors are never needed,” she said. +god,” pierre went round the table and saw a large open box filled +god,” said pierre, regretfully and with an effort, feeling it +god, without whose care not a hair of man’s head can fall? +“go! go! killed in battle, where the best of russian men and +“go!” he repeated, amazed at himself and glad to see the look of +going on, but strain his attention as he would he could not understand +going on in front. whether all the enemy forces were, as we supposed, +going straight on through the conservatory, neither seeing nor hearing +going. the emperor was wounded, the battle lost. it was impossible to +go into that. but consider the position in which you are placing her and +“go, my dear fellow, and see whether the third division has passed the +gone, pierre did not go to bed or order horses but paced up and down +“gone to bed?” asked the prince. +“gone to bed,” replied the voice of demyán the house steward, who +good as to look at the map and listen.” langeron lifted his eyes with +“good-by, my dear fellow,” said túshin. “dear soul! good-by, my +good gifts? are you content with yourself and with your life?” +good-natured, sincere, and animated levity. “but you see... another +good old days. denísov, flushed after the mazurka and mopping himself +“good!” said the rhetor quickly, apparently satisfied with +good thing really.” +“go on! go on! give it them!” he mentally exclaimed at these sounds, +goot to come to ze front and see dat zis position iss no goot? i don’t +go? that way is nearer.” +“go!” the quivering voice repeated. and prince vasíli had to go +go there anyhow and i have already spoken to him about you. we shall +got into bed, all kept awake a long time that night. +“go, tit! thresh a bit!” +“go, tit, thresh a bit!” said the wag. +go to him himself, and tell him what ought to be done in a tone of +gown, he went to the couch on which he slept. +“gracious heavens! the young count!” he cried, recognizing his +grandfather called him). the baby prince nicholas lived with his wet +grand! look at the smoke, the smoke!” exclaimed the artillerymen, +“‘grant leave to retire to his country seat to an old man who is +grant.” nor did he say to himself: “pierre is a rich man, i must +grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his +grateful for the benefits conferred on them. everywhere were receptions, +grateful look, but was still expectant and looking for someone. the old +grave, moment i did not tell you the whole truth. i think there is no +gray everyday dress. now please, do it for my sake. katie,” she said +grayish color. +great; all he could hear was: “ahahah!” and “rrrr!” +great deal from the deceased,” said prince vasíli to him, handing him +greater reasons.” +great man! let us drink to his health and to the certain defeat of the +great many officers like him were always coming there and that everybody +greatness....” +greatness, the unimportance of life which no one could understand, and +greeting was riding quickly. when the soldiers of the regiment in front +grew still kinder. the younger sisters also became affectionate to him, +grew still louder and merged into a general roar that only an army +groans, which seemed to melt into one with the darkness of the night. +ground like cliffs and slopes. anywhere, on any side, one might +ground ten paces apart to mark the barrier. it was thawing and misty; at +grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the +growing ever stronger and fuller and merging into a deafening roar. +growing excited. “what about your son, your sister, and your +grown furious, now at borís, now at bolkónski. “yes, many stories! +guard and line regiments, russian and austrian. among them were grooms +guards?” asked napoleon. +guards charged, followed the line of reserves, going far round the place +guards passed rostóv before he heard them shout, “hurrah!” and +guards. prince andrew came up to him and took his hand. +guards, that they not only did not wish to, but simply could not, be +guards, wearing a cocked hat with its peaks front and back, with his +guessing rostóv’s thought. +guest of honor and hero of the austrian campaign, prince bagratión, to +guest. “poor girl, she’s devilish ugly!” thought anatole. +guidance. the universal experience of ages, showing that children do +gun, a horse), from the sight of all these things a fantastic world of +gunner with his shako knocked awry, pulling one end of a mop while +guns. on the contrary, the energetic action of that battery led the +guns on the hillock. +guns smashed, and no supports at all.” +habit of ridiculing the masonic beliefs—“i am afraid i am very far +habit of walking, had been swept: the marks of the broom were still +had accumulated at the sight of all that was being done in the army. +had also convinced the sovereign emperors of. +had always seemed to him that he really was very kind and intelligent. +had a splendid march. you know, of course, that his imperial highness +had been added to mademoiselle bourienne’s toilet which rendered her +had been carried out and in what state were the serfs whom god had +had been decided to advance immediately and give battle to bonaparte. +had been doing, as though it were all an old-time story, and he listened +had been got ready for him, glancing now and then at the newcomer, who, +had been increased by a half. and so pierre was delighted with his visit +had been insulted through his daughter. the insult was the more pointed +had been killed at the beginning of the engagement and within an hour +had been killed or not and whether the cannon had been captured or +had broken up the french troops. +had come into pierre’s room after the funeral. with drooping eyes +had crossed that line and not only was there nothing terrible, but +had driven the old prince to town returned bringing papers and letters +had entered and left the town with their bands playing, and by the grand +had entered. the most solemn mystery in the world continued its course. +had first learned to say “pear” and then “granny,” that this son +had first seen the enemy and fired the first shot, and that the corner +had fixed on that number because forty-three was the sum of his and +had followed, and only the heavens promised peace. toward morning +had followed him like an eagle, three steps at a time. having received +had grown so dark that one could not distinguish the uniforms ten paces +had had to retreat and had made their withdrawal in perfect order. the +had happened to him, but could not do so. such a storm of feelings, +had happened. what had happened? nothing. he had merely understood that +had heard that a rumor of his duel had reached the emperor and that it +had he repented of his unbelief? was he now there? there in the realms +had instantly noticed her brother’s condition. but, though she noticed +had killed five frenchmen, a third had loaded five cannon singlehanded. +had left paris and how he had liked that city. anatole answered the +had never been to blame, might be held responsible at headquarters +had no connection with the matter in hand. his haggard face was yellow. +had not been time to move. the emperor, surrounded by his suite +had not known it i should not have addressed you. your view of life is a +had not left prince vasíli’s and felt with terror that in people’s +had not told all and that there was something in his feelings for the +had not yet begun. not wishing to agree to dolgorúkov’s demand to +had prevailed. she drew her brother’s attention to the maid who was +had read, and listened to what was passing in the nursery. suddenly he +had read thus far, he crumpled the letter up and threw it away. it was +had revealed to him. a week after his arrival, the young polish count, +had ridden up to him in a violent passion, shouting: “arnauts!” +had seemed as extraordinary to her as if there had never existed the +had sent in good time to moscow for a doctor and were expecting him at +had slept badly that night, those around him reported. the cause of this +had sunk, her lip was drawn up, and her eyes drawn down. +had the ear of the company. +had then said. +“had there been no bagratión, it would have been necessary to +hairs painfully in the knot. then he drew his face down, kissed him, and +ha!” laughed prince bolkónski, and anatole laughed still louder. +half an hour later, the rhetor returned to inform the seeker of the +half-closed eyes he looked at rostóv, bowed slightly and wearily, and +halfway. fine orders!” was being repeated on different sides. +hall all sat waiting, silently and alert. in the outlying serfs’ +“hallo, gwíska—my pipe!” came vasíli denísov’s husky voice. +hall, where denísov was sitting on the same chair by the clavichord +halted. prince andrew was behind, among the immense number forming the +halted, the austrian argued that not he, but the higher command, was to +handed him, smiled at dólokhov’s words, and with a sinking heart, +handful of scoundrels. it will soon be over, it can’t be that, it +hand he held carefully back, because he wished to support his right +hand in passing and draw it downwards, or absent-mindedly hold out his +handkerchief, and pipe. +handkerchief to his wounded cheek and pointing to the fleeing soldiers. +hand, lay prince andrew bolkónski bleeding profusely and unconsciously +hand, rode up smiling to the emperor to congratulate him on the victory. +hands and occasionally ran his eyes over the score against him. he had +hands asking for their blessing, and that he kissed véra, natásha, and +hands, he looked more closely at the ring, with its skull—a masonic +hands high, shied, throwing back its ears; but the pockmarked guardsman +handsome, happy young face, he experienced a feeling of tenderness +handsome open face of the man who might perhaps be her husband absorbed +hands that are unclean.” while the grand master said these last words +hands. then, sighing, he added: “my son’s fate is in your hands. +hands which show the time, so the result of all the complicated human +hand to his ear toward weyrother, with the air of a man absorbed in +hand with it and knew he must not do so. having advanced six paces and +handwriting. on receiving it, he ran on tiptoe to his study in alarm and +hanged,” said prince andrew with a smile. “so i am serving because + * “hang these russians!” +happened, he was said to be insanely jealous and subject like his +happened to you in moscow was a misfortune.”—“i regret it very +happening in front of him. nesvítski with an angry face, red and unlike +happen!” she said, looking at herself in the glass. “how shall i +happen to them when they were free, but he insisted, though reluctantly, +happiest, merriest times for him and the whole family. nicholas brought +happiness and of children, but her strongest, most deeply hidden longing +happiness), feeling the eager bustle around him, and hearing the fitful +happiness or peace of mind. can anything in the world make her or me +happiness possible, and that is just what you want to deprive him of. +happiness. the old princess sighed sadly as she offered some wine to the +happy and smiling. véra was playing chess with shinshín in the drawing +happy world of his own. she fancied a child, her own—such as she had +hard.... for ages, from our forefather adam to our own day, we labor to +hardly had prince andrew started than he stopped him. +“hardly,” said bagratión. “i saw them this evening on that +harnessed and packed the wagons and tied on the loads. the adjutants and +“has anything come from andrew?” she asked. +has blundered looks at an examiner. +has come down to us from the remotest ages, even from the first man—a +has his stand, and there’s zakhár himself and still the same horse! +has proposed to sónya!” +hastening her steps. “you young ladies should not know anything about +haste, trying to escape notice, closed the door, and began to read the +“has the snow been shoveled back?” +hast thou denied?” he suddenly asked with exulting austerity and +have been as good as weyrother’s, but for the disadvantage that +have been difficult to stop that crowd, it was even impossible not to +have certainly acquired a taste for war, and it is just as well for me; +have dared to say so, knew it and blushed scarlet every time dólokhov +have done the same!...” thought princess mary. +have just this moment received by special messenger very joyful +have killed so many that there’d have been a heap of them.” +have liked to sympathize with what pierre was saying, but could not. +have obliged me to give this refusal.” +have received another letter about the preussisch-eylau battle +have said. and he was still more angry at having omitted to say it. he +have seen how he said it! i know he did not mean to say it, but it came +“have some brought from the reserve,” said napoleon, and having gone +have stayed longer.” +have the carriage to drive to town: +have the courier horses. it was plain that he was lying and only wanted +have to go in and ask the princesses; and from there go on to the +have to prove to them what he had not merely convinced himself of, but +have virtuous aims,” said pierre, feeling ashamed of the inadequacy + have we not bagratión? +“have you?” he said. “well, how did it go?” +having become entangled in the saddle. where our men were, and where the +having by a great effort got away to the left from that flood of men, +having convinced himself that he was asleep, took up a paper and in +having descended the hill at a trot, he no longer saw either our own or +having disentangled his leg, he rose. “where, on which side, was now +having entered the courtyard of a large house where the lodge had its +having galloped safely through the french, he reached a field behind +having given orders to his company, sent a soldier to find a dressing +having given several more orders, he was about to go to his “little +having led him about ten paces, willarski stopped. +having left that soldier who was evidently drunk, rostóv stopped the +having lifted her head and let her arms droop lifelessly, as ballet +having mounted drew himself up very straight and tall and rode to the +having passed the guards and traversed an empty space, rostóv, to avoid +having passed uvárov’s cavalry he clearly heard the sound of cannon +having reached the left flank, instead of going to the front where the +having rested after yesterday’s march, were sitting, clean and neatly +having said this laughed. everyone turned toward him. +having said this, napoleon rode on to meet marshal lannes, who, hat in +head and at the little arms and legs which showed under the blanket. he +head. as he rode up to the camp he thought how he would impress borís +head cook, about asparagus, fresh cucumbers, strawberries, veal, and +he added: “but beware, dear brother, that these gloves do not deck +he added that prince vasíli was also there. when tíkhon came to her +head in perplexity—perhaps because the banner really interested him, +head, laughing with an officer who had sat down beside him. a third was +headlong after anna mikháylovna and, dashing at her, flung herself on +headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead +head, pulled it off, and showed the blood congealed on his hair. +headquarters, and having ascended a dark staircase, they entered a small +headquarters. but on the afternoon of that day, this activity reached +headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that +headquarters was still under the spell of the day’s council, at which +head (the pains had just left her). strands of her black hair lay round +health?” +health of our sovereign, the emperor!” he roared, “hurrah!” and +health was drunk, pierre, lost in thought, did not rise or lift his +healthy body, and all the affection and care of his family. “and why +he always thought only of whatever he was engaged on. +heard.” +heard, and again something in his face twitched—“that is just why +heard, and out of the foggy darkness the figure of a sergeant of hussars +heard a rustle behind him and a shadow appeared under the curtain of +heard before, others simply enjoyed hearing how the master talked, while +heard curses on bonaparte, “the enemy of mankind.” militiamen and +heard distinctly. +heard musket fire quite close in front of him and behind our troops, +heard them, and we shall all do our duty. but before a battle, there is +heard the quick rustle of the countess’ dress. she came up to them. +heard the words as he might have heard the buzzing of a fly. not only +heard this sónya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable +heard, your honor, that a minister is coming to visit your honor.” +hearers—who like himself had often heard stories of attacks and had +hearing or understanding her own words, what she had told hundreds of +hearing that cry and seeing to whom it was addressed, nesvítski and the +hearing these words her face changed and something brightened in her +hearing with pleasure the whistle of bullets evidently aimed at him. +heart in the presence of the unfathomable did not lessen but increased. +“he asked you, and vasíli dmítrich * is also going.” +heated horses, exchanging remarks and smiling, had stopped behind the +“heaven knows what a fright might do.” +he began pacing the room. the screaming ceased, and a few more seconds +he began the rescript again and again, but as soon as he uttered + he brings foemen to their knees,... etc. +he came to the point at once, treating her ceremoniously. +he can’t help plowing and mowing; if he didn’t, he would go to the +he chanced to meet dólokhov’s handsome insolent eyes, pierre felt +he checked himself, fearing to seem naïve, yet he felt an irresistible +he clutched at his head. “who is going to get me the flowers? dmítri! +he consoled himself. “and besides, what have i done to bring it about? +he continued to pace the room, looking gloomily at denísov and the +he could from a frenchman into the wood. besides, to tell everything as +he could not look calmly at the standards of the passing battalions. +he could see puffs of musketry smoke that seemed to chase one another +he described the whole campaign with a fearless self-censure and +he did not do it he would grieve and disappoint many people, but if he +(he did not even dare to dream of that), but simply to die before his +he did not find prince andrew in olmütz that day, but the appearance of +he did not look at them: he looked only at what was going on in front +he did not regain consciousness till late in the day, when with other +he did not reply. +he did not see, hear, or understand anything clearly. only now and +he did not see him and had no opportunity of seeing him, he often spoke +he discussed estate affairs every day with his chief steward. but +he drew back and a real tear appeared in his eye. +he embraced his daughter, and then again pierre, and kissed him with his +he enlivened the whole party. the wax candles burned brightly, the +he entered the drawing room with his usual alert step, glancing rapidly +“he exists, but to understand him is hard,” the mason began again, +he felt himself to be. at the right beat of the music he looked sideways +he felt that at a single word from that man all this vast mass (and he +he felt that this did not forward matters at all. he felt that these +he filled the girls’ albums with verses and music, and having at last +he. “fine, very fine! you have done up your hair in this new way for +he finished and, getting up, embraced and kissed pierre, who, with tears +he, going to the door and looking into the nursery. +he got his wound. this pleased rostóv and he began talking about it, +he had been ordered to look for the commander in chief, he could not, +he had evidently not slept that night. he looked about distractedly and +he had lain there some time, he was told to get up, and a white leather +he had left. all the others let him go, and he ran to her. when they +he had left petersburg, and wrote enthusiastic letters to his +he had not thought about it until that moment. the officers’ laughter +he had often before, during the last six weeks, remained alone with her, +he had pierre at hand in moscow and procured for him an appointment as +he had ridden about two miles and had passed the last of the russian +he had said absent-mindedly: “yes, she’s good looking,” he had +he had to do, not with fools, but with men who could teach him something +he had too long been thinking of so painfully to the exclusion of all +he half rose, meaning to go round, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox, +“he has been set down. he died,” replied someone. +“he has forty thousand men at most,” replied weyrother, with the +“he has perspired,” said prince andrew. +he hated her and was forever sundered from her. despite denísov’s +he heard some french spoken he at once began speaking to the officers, +“he higher iss dan i in rank,” said the german colonel of the +he himself was pining for the dear princess, and how she showed him the +he imagined himself as an enormously tall, powerful man who was throwing +he imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he +he implored rostóv to go on and prepare her. +he involuntarily remembered how dólokhov, who had fully recovered his +heiress in the same way. all this might, he thought, turn out very well +“he is a man in a gray overcoat, very anxious that i should call +“he is a nervous, bilious subject,” said larrey, “and will not +“he is a very, very nice, honest, and pleasant fellow,” answered +“he is not to be apprehended by reason, but by life,” said the +“he is one of the most remarkable, but to me most unpleasant of +he jumped up at the sound of her light step. +he knew no one, and despite his smart guardsman’s uniform, all these +he knew this at that moment as surely as if he had been standing at the +“he knows of course what this loss means to me. he can’t want my +he lacked that strength of will which he had known in himself and really +he. “laughing at us old fellows!” +he lay down on the leather sofa in front of a round table, put his big +he lay down on the sofa meaning to fall asleep and forget all that +held. all the commanders of columns were summoned to the commander in +held it below her waist. +held it till evening and have gone in to dinner with it) and drew his +held the hand of his betrothed in silence, looking at her beautiful +he leaned his whole massive body across the table. +he left the room and went to the waiting room where alpátych stood with +hélène.” +hélène, and that thought both alarmed him, as if some obligation were +“hélène!” he said aloud and paused. +hélène nor she at him. but she was just as terribly close to him. he +hélène raised her voice and became more and more excited, “a man +hélène sat silently side by side almost at the bottom of the table, a +hélène. “separate! that’s a thing to frighten me with!” +hélène’s face became terrible, she shrieked and sprang aside. his +hélène’s hand several times. after a while they were left alone +hélène smiled, with a look implying that she did not admit the +hélène’s presence (as a lover should be), but had not yet proposed +hélène still sat talking just as before. +hélène, then she turned to pierre with the same words of welcome +hélène turned to pierre with the beautiful bright smile that she gave +he listened and heard the sound of approaching horses, and voices +he looked intently and inquiringly into his friend’s eyes, evidently +he looked very grim he said nothing to anyone. +help being aware of it, just as we cannot renew an illusion we have once +“help comes from god alone,” he said, “but such measure of help as +“help him up. sit down, dear fellow, sit down! spread out the cloak, +helplessly on the sofa. +helplessly spread out, stood with his broad chest directly facing +help, would inform her. +he made himself when going into battle, and he was more amiable to the +he made up his mind that prince andrew had been killed, and though he +he marked the figures in his clear, bold hand. +he meant to do, and abandoning herself to him followed his lead hardly +he might be, did not expect. he was so used to submitting to prince +he might... not only might but should, have gone up to the sovereign. it +he moved as if to rise. the generals bowed and retired. it was past +“he must first receive the trowel,” whispered one of the brothers. +he must think that i, too, am afraid of him—and in fact i am afraid of +he need only have bent his head a little to have touched them. he was +he needs money for food; the man said an officer had once given him a +he opened his eyes and looked up. the black canopy of night hung less +he passed it. pierre began to feel a sense of uneasiness, and the +he paused a little while. +he paused, and just as he was about to say something more, another ball +he paused and sighed, evidently trying to calm himself. +he paused, his gaze still on pierre, and moved aside on the sofa by way +he quickly entered the small reception room with its still-unplastered +her. +her already,” he said, evidently trying to entertain a visitor with +her and about to crush her was some terrible misfortune, the worst +her and for himself, and in a nervously emotional and softened mood he +her as a distant beauty far removed from him, as he had seen her every +her beauty and her remarkable skill in appearing silently dignified in +her because you must, and that wouldn’t do at all.” +her companions’ not having the least conception that it could be +“here at least we shall have the benefit of your company all to +here,” came the voice of an hussar, past whom rostóv was riding in +he reeled and sank on the snow. +he reflected, “there is no riding round it now. i must look for the +“here he is at last!” shouted rostóv. “and berg too! oh, you +“here he is... our own... kólya, * dear fellow... how he has +here is now settled, and i ought to have been off long ago. here is +“here it is! the decisive moment has arrived. my turn has come,” +“here it is!” thought he, seizing the staff of the standard and +here i’ve brought the prince’s wedding candles to light before his +he remembered his honeymoon and blushed at the recollection. +he remembered the expression dólokhov’s face assumed in his moments +here on friday.” +here, run away, bury myself somewhere?” passed through his mind. but +“here’s to the health of lovely women, peterkin—and their +her eyes became serious. at that moment she was oblivious of her +her eyes off him, and smiling and holding her breath. he gave her a +her eyes were smiling expectantly, her downy lip rose and remained +her face, and then immediately he saw beside her dólokhov’s handsome, +her fate was decided and happily decided. but what her father had said +her favorite sonata bore her into a most intimately poetic world and +her foot into the other. sónya, when he came in, was twirling round and +her friend as if she did not consider her worthy to hear what she meant +her glittering eyes, filled with childlike fear and excitement, rested +her handkerchief too. pierre was kissed, and he kissed the beautiful +her heart. happy the man who wins her! with her the least worldly of men +her. how often when considering her character i have told myself that +her in five minutes before and, despite the fixed eyes and the pallor of +her inflamed and perspiring cheeks, her charming rosy mouth with its +her little nephew as best she could. mademoiselle bourienne, too, seemed +her mother, quite excited. +her neck as soon as she overtook her in the sitting room. +hero himself with his paltry vanity and joy in victory appear, +her—please don’t! it is too painful for her!” +her, rostóv thought, but just now there were so many other pleasures +her?” said the old prince angrily. “what an idea! i’m ready for it +her seducer when she loved him?” he thought. “god could not have put +herself! glad to throw her father over! and she knew i should notice +herself in a white satin dressing gown embroidered with silver and with +her sufferings or with their relief. the pangs began again and mary +her sympathy for pierre, but by involuntary intonations and a half smile +her—thou or you?” +her voice sounded so serious and so sad that the chirping of the birds +her white teeth. she met prince vasíli with that playful manner often +her with perfect sincerity, and with the naïve and firm conviction +he said. “perhaps you are right for yourself,” he added after +he said something more, but rostóv did not wait to hear it and rode +“he’s arrived!” +he saw french cannon and french troops on the pratzen heights just where +he saw turrets and a church. what need to hurry? what was he now to say +he saw which way the wind was blowing, and his low opinion changed into +“he’s dead—why carry him?” said another. +he shaved and scented himself with the care and elegance which had +he shouted, “and then i shall reserve the right to state my opinion +he shrugged his shoulders and raised his hand to the kerchief, as if +hesitating voice. “i thank you. i agree with all you have said. but +hesitation and uncertainty among his conductors. he heard those around +(he smiled ironically.) “but even if he also took up a position in +he spread a map on the table. “all eventualities have been foreseen. +he still had all the letters in his hand. opening them mechanically he +he stopped and remained silent for a long time. +he stopped short on his heels, stood so a second, stamped on the spot +he sung a second, a third below the high note. “ah, god! how fine! did +“he’s very young to come to meddle with us.” +he thought out his plans beforehand he could not have been so natural +he thought, stopping for a moment with a sinking heart, and then +he took the pistol in his hand and began asking about the working of the +he touched his horse and having called milorádovich, the commander of +he tried to say more, but faltered. +he unhooked his saber. he came out from behind the chairs, clasped his +he was admitted to the emperor, and an hour later he rode off with +he was evidently so busy that he even forgot to be polite to the +he was flushed and bathed in perspiration, though the room was not hot. +he was in contact with the springs that set in motion the enormous +he was joyfully planning this new life, when prince vasíli suddenly +he was pleased at the gratitude he received, but felt abashed at +he was proud to be at the head of such a nation and would endeavor to be +he was riding almost along the front line. a handful of men came +he was riding was one he had bought from a cossack during the campaign, +he was sent away. hippolyte is her brother... prince vasíli is her +he was sent. this was the brilliant charge of the horse guards that +he was singing in passionate tones, gazing with his sparkling +he was thinking that prince andrew was unhappy, had gone astray, did not +he was told in russian, german, and czech by the crowd of fugitives who +he was told that he would now see the lesser light. the bandage was +he was to wear at the meetings, and finally of the third, a pair of +he went forward uneasily over the rough field with the awkward gait of +he went nowhere and spent whole days in reading thomas à kempis, whose +he went over his vices in his mind, not knowing to which of them to give +he went straight up to prince vasíli. +he went to his bed, drew a purse from under the clean pillow, and sent +he will hit me in the head, or elbow, or knee. can’t i go away from +he wished to explain to dolgorúkov a plan of attack he had himself +he wished to take a decision, but felt with dismay that in this matter +he woke up and looked round for a while with a startled expression, +he wondered as he got up: and at that moment he felt that something +he would certainly be taken prisoner. kutúzov remained in the same +he would expand his chest, raise his head, and rejoice at his good +he would have been mentioned among the officers found on the field of +he would have done at that moment had hélène not fled from the room. +he would into that foggy distance: now something gleamed gray, now there +he would rush through the whole suite of rooms without drawing breath, +he would say a lot of pleasant things, ask you to dinner” (“that +he would slap in the face before the emperor. suddenly a distant shout +hidden by dense mist. having given orders in the commander in chief’s +higher ground it was clearing, but nothing could be seen of what was +high—i always said....” +highly honored guest, took possession of him as it were, without waiting +highness,” and pointing to the grand duke who with his high shoulders +hills, she took a special fancy to mademoiselle bourienne, spent whole +him. +him. +him. +him all the way. he thought angrily of the pleasure he would have at +him a look of stern inquiry, as though what pierre had just said was +him and did not stop but rode on and on, continually mistaking bushes +him and hélène. “well, what of it, if you all know it?” thought +him and he was at once blindfolded again. +him, and only as he kissed her hand on taking leave said unexpectedly +him and she wished and tried to please him as much as possible. +him. “and why should she marry?” he thought. “to be unhappy for +him; but most of all, he felt joyful that the moment had come when he +him, but still that happy result always remained in the future. +him, carried the infant round the battered tin font and handed him over +him disputing in whispers and one of them insisting that he should be +him do what he pleases,’ she used to say of me. one day i asked her if +him feel confused by her smiles and her own confusion when meeting him. +him for those words, bullets flew hissing across the regiment and across +him full directions which he had written down for his own guidance as to +him?” he asked. +him, he does not know russian.” +him he is a fool, that’s all!” +him,” he thought, and again he felt something terrible and monstrous +him if not to join in at least to listen to what he was saying. but the +him into the sitting room, where they began talking. they hardly gave +him merged in rostóv’s mind into a single feeling of terror and pity +him my whole staff and all that belongs to it, advising him if there is +him. on the day of prince vasíli’s arrival, prince bolkónski was +him, or perhaps for that very reason, the prince, though he continued +him, or what was said of him; he was only glad that people were standing +him out of the booth at grunth. he was shouting in a gasping voice: +him pleasure. the enemy’s guns were in his fancy not guns but pipes +him. prince vasíli’s two valets were busy dressing him, and he looked +him, push him, do anything but kiss him—a thing everybody did. but +him. rostóv was particularly in need of money now that the troops, +himself. +himself. +himself? +himself after his recent loneliness and freedom from cares so beset and +himself, and this fresh opportunity for action gave him new energy +himself an insignificant atom in it) would go through fire and water, +himself had vanished. he was filled with happiness at his nearness to +himself, he kept in touch with the circle which confers success and +himself, he rose, threw back his head, and with resolute steps went +himself. i am called in to help sort the letters and take those meant +himself in the palace at potsdam. +himself.... not a word! about some denísov or other, though he himself, +himself one with his horse, rode past the emperor with a frowning but +himself to the count, who was looking inquiringly at him. +himself, was shouting to kutúzov that if he did not ride away at once +himself. what angered him was that the coming of these visitors revived +him several questions about his journey and seemed greatly interested in +him several riders with white plumes in their hats. in a moment everyone +him so when i see him!” +him surrounded by children whom, by the count’s generosity, he was +him.” the mere thought of her father’s look filled her with terror. +him. the pain in his arm became more and more intense. irresistible +him to come. there were other guests and the countess talked little to +him to deliver. +him to die. others are being born and there are plenty of them as it is. +him to hear something more, nodded and turned to him with a cheerful +him too, just opposite gúryev’s house... old gúryev.... oh, but +him up and lent him money. pierre recalled how hélène had smilingly +him what consolation i can.” +him with her usual smile. +him. you know the story of the handkerchief? it is delightful!” +him ‘your majesty,’ but who, to his chagrin, got no title from +hindmost of these men wearing similar shakos was a russian hussar. he +hints began to make the countess anxious and she glanced uneasily at +hippolyte interrupted her with the words: “le roi de prusse...” and +hippolyte laughed as if ashamed of laughing. +his acquaintance and joyfully welcomed the rich newcomer, the +his acquaintances, to overtake his regiment which was already in poland. +his attention wandered from the book and the square and he formed in +his beautiful daughter hélène. +his being alone and despondent! a strange face may seem unpleasant or +his breast. among them stood a man whose white shirt was stained with +his camp,” said he. “what does that mean? either he is retreating, +his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, +his company? if you were cleverer and more agreeable, i should prefer +his daughter that morning. princess mary well knew this painstaking +his despair was all the greater from feeling that his own weakness was +his dressing gown and smiled slightly, as if expressing respectful +his easy life in moscow, entered the room. +his efforts had not been in vain. the dinner, both the lenten and the +his example, and the loud shouting continued for a long time. when the +his eye as a miller wakes up when the soporific drone of the mill wheel +his eyes at the sight. +his eyes. “can they be french?” he looked at the approaching +his eyes he heard in front of him, where the enemy was, the long-drawn +his face, gave him a peculiar vivacity and shiftiness of expression. +his face shone with self-satisfaction and pleasure. +his face was terrible and piteous to see, especially from its helpless +his fat chest uncovered, stepping unevenly and timidly in one slippered +his father and his fatherland. to the great regret of myself and of the +his father’s peculiarities, and partly because he needed solitude, +his feverishness increased and he grew delirious. visions of his father, +his future depended—whether he would follow the same old road, or that +his grandfather, who was his godfather, trembling and afraid of dropping +his hand. +his hand and at the head of a regiment—he fell as a hero, worthy of +his handkerchief, and again: ‘sergéy kuzmích, from all sides,’... +his hands to the blaze, and turned away his face. +his having been picked up on the battlefield by the people of the +his head. +his head and again assuming his former tone of a dull, unreasoning, but +his head, and with inimical politeness lurking in the corners of his +his head he let it droop and again closed his eye. +his horse indolently and carelessly. rostóv recalled their quarrel of +his huge figure, with arms hanging down and with a puckered, though +his husbandry. +his last parting from his father and his wife; he remembered the days +his legs almost gave way, it seemed to him that he was tired out. he +his lips in his sleep and breathing evenly. +his lips without uttering a sound. he wished to say, “yes, a vile, +his lower jaw. +his mouth, he turned with his glass to pierre. +his old friend and the possessor of such enormous wealth, to the caprice +his own had taken possession of his brain and at that moment afforded +his own pleasure, chose to chat with lieutenant drubetskóy. more than +his own superiority. it was as if he said to them: “i know you, i know +his own way, gave an order. no one said anything definite, but the rumor +his passion for the emperor had cooled somewhat in moscow. but still, as +his pistol, and then he felt with surprise that of all the men he knew +his plate, and proposed a toast, “to the health of the hero of our +his plate seemed to him not quite clean, and pointing to a spot he +his present state. +his relations with old friends, all his plans for his future, were +his saber. only ten paces divided them. dólokhov lowered his head to +his saber, the soldiers all continued to run, talking, firing into the +his servant handed him a half-cut novel, in the form of letters, by +his ship is sailing, but on the day of battle—heaven knows how and +his shrill, harsh voice. “the road is not swept for the princess my +his side had been attempting a reconciliation), and he also went up to +his son and seizing the little princess’ arm as if she would have run +his son by both hands, he cried, “now i’ve got you, so take the +his speech, which he used in extreme cases when special persuasion was +his superiors by his promptitude and accuracy and had arranged his money +his time. but he is growing old, and though not exactly cruel he has too +his time there. +his toulon, or his bridge of arcola. how it would come about he did not +his typically southern french face during the whole time of the reading, +his usual jokes, but noticing that what he was saying redounded to +his verses, bowed to bagratión. everyone rose, feeling that dinner +his voice. “she is living in moscow and you are here. remember, +his wealth, and being in the habit of lording it over these people, he +his weapons clean and polished to the utmost, and every horse groomed +his whole soul what the stranger said. whether he accepted the wise +his wife, and by an anonymous letter he had received that morning, which +his wife said—met for supper at prince vasíli’s. all these friends +his wife’s room. she was lying dead, in the same position he had seen +“hm!—his excellency is a puppy.... i got him his appointment in the +“hm... hm...!” growled pierre, frowning without looking at her, and +“hm! hm!” muttered the prince, sitting down. +hoarsely. prince andrew winced and, clutching his head, went out and sat +holding up a threatening finger. “he is such a worthy and excellent +“hold your tongue, pétya, what a goose you are!” +hollabrünn and have pursued ever since to this place. the position we +hollows and snow-covered pools of water. +home now for the first time after eighteen months again brightened his +home reading a book and trying to fathom the significance of the square, +home,” said the valet. +home. should he go to headquarters next day and challenge that affected +honorable, count,” or, “were he as clever as you,” and so on, +honorable, of bezúkhov? and fédya, with his noble spirit, loved him +honored guests sat, everyone seemed to be in high spirits and under the +honor? knowing him to be an only son, to challenge him and shoot so +honor of the french infantry, so necessary to the honor of our nation. +honor to choose me to be their marshal; it was all i could do to get +honor, was terrible. +hoofs and the jingling of showy cavalry in blue, red, and green braided +hoofs and wheels. amid the general rumble, the groans and voices of the +hoped. she prayed for her brother as living and was always awaiting news +hoped to lead he still lived the old life, only in new surroundings. +hoping to find him alone. when he came in and saw an hussar of the line +horse a little in front of his marshals. he gazed silently at the hills +horse of a batman or groom of some important personage and began to +horses and ilyá iványch. i don’t think ilyá drives anyone except +horses and the infantry collecting wood. +horses in horsecloths. then came a cart, and behind that walked an old, +horses were already galloping. rostóv heard the thud of their hoofs +horse with his spurs, and giving it the rein leaped lightly over. only +hospital at ostrolenka till i recover. in regard to which i humbly +hospitality, did the honors to the prince. +hospitals. the one and the other may serve as a pastime. but what’s +hours’ sleep before morning and felt cheerful, bold, and resolute, +household, a common anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a +house lay behind a newly dug pond filled with water to the brink and +house, now and then opening her door when someone passed and watching +houses from his door. it seemed to him the horses were not moving at +house was dominated by the same feeling that princess mary experienced +“how about the horses?” he asked, without looking at pierre. +how am i to renounce forever these vile fancies, so as peacefully to +“how am i to understand you, mon père?” said the princess, growing +how can i, an insignificant mortal, show his omnipotence, his infinity, +“how can one talk or think of such trifles?” thought pierre. +“how can the emperor be undecided?” thought rostóv, but then even +“how dare you take it?” he shouted. +how did it begin? i traveled from moscow with prince vasíli. then there +how d’ye do, old fellow?” he said, turning to an old man who was +“how easy it is, how little effort it needs, to do so much good,” +however, at nine o’clock the prince, in his velvet coat with a sable +“however, if you command it, your majesty,” said kutúzov, lifting +“however, i think general kutúzov has come out,” said prince +however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it +“however, this is not at all interesting. let us have dinner, and then +how have you spent it? in riotous orgies and debauchery, receiving +“how is it i am not moving? i have fallen, i am killed!” rostóv +“how is that?...” began prince andrew, who had for long been waiting +how is that?” said different voices. +“how it will be there i don’t know, but all will be well!” thought +how long his unconsciousness lasted. suddenly he again felt that he was +“how much longer? how much longer? oh, these insufferable streets, +how one day soon after his marriage he came out of the bedroom into his +how quickly! now i know that not because of her alone, nor of myself +“how she loves me!” thought princess mary. “how happy i am now, +“how strange it is,” said véra, selecting a moment when all were +“how sweet she is—she will be a weal beauty!” said denísov. +how the russians had been overwhelmed by flying austrians and had had to +how they had been made much of in russia, poland, and abroad. they spoke +how to behave with her. the evening before, in the first happy moment of +“how understand me!” cried her father angrily. “prince vasíli +“how was it a gun was abandoned?” asked bagratión, frowning, not so +hugging and kissing him. another and yet another creature of the same +human skull with its cavities and teeth. after reading the first words +“humbug! nonsense! humbug, humbug, humbug!” cried prince bolkónski, +humility. +humming infantry as by a frame. +humor and dissatisfied with the affair, and so did not exert themselves +hundred rubles he had a long column of figures scored against him, +hundred rubles was left of that money, so that this seven of hearts +hundred yards after that before he saw to his left, across the whole +hung low over the field of battle on the horizon. it was growing +“hur-a-a-a-ah!” came a roar of voices. “let anyone come my way +“hurrah—ah!—ah!” rang a long-drawn shout from our ranks, and +“hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!” thundered from all sides, one regiment +“hurrah!” rang the enthusiastic voices of the officers. +“hurrah!” shouted prince andrew, and, scarcely able to hold up +“hurrah!”... then the general march, and again “hurrah! hurrah!” +hurriedly interrupting bagratión. +hurriedly: “i will tell you some time how it all happened. but you +husband of a beauty, and in a word—an old woman; and secondly because +hussar revels and life in the fighting line, the other of the pleasures +hussars, flushing and addressing an adjutant who had ridden up, “so +hussars, told them to follow him, and trotted downhill in the direction +“i...” +i, above all, who am to blame for everything. help me, teach me, and +i alone have any influence with my father, and now and then can save him +“i am.” +i am.” +“i am afraid for the baby,” she said to mademoiselle bourienne: +“i am afraid,” said pierre, smiling, and wavering between the +“i am asking you when you last heard from bolkónski,” repeated +“i am not in the cavalry, colonel, but i am a russian general and if +“i am not talking about you,” he said, “i don’t know you and, +i am overwhelmed with business and it is purely out of charity that +“i am ready for everything,” said pierre. +“i am so glad you’ve come!” said natásha, without answering him. +“i am very sorry you did not find me in yesterday. i was fussing about +“i am waiting, your majesty,” answered kutúzov, bending forward +“‘i am wounded and cannot ride and consequently cannot command the +“i begin ab ovo. ‘the enemy of the human race,’ as you know, +“i believe it, i believe it, fwiend, and i share and appwove...” +“i bestow it with pleasure,” said napoleon. “and who is that young +“i burned this to prove my love for her. i just heated a ruler in the +“i called once or twice at your house,” said rostóv, reddening. +i can do.” and his fancy pictured the battle, its loss, the +“i cannot pay it all immediately. will you take an i.o.u.?” he said. +“i can’t tell you how much i have lived through since then. i hardly +ice and into the water and oftenest of all among the crowd that covered +ice. crowds of soldiers from the dam began running onto the frozen pond. +“i commanded a squadron,” replied repnín. +i dare say, is braver than any of them. he says nothing about his +idea of the means by which our holy order will help you to reach your +i did not think he would get it to you so quickly.... well, how are you? +idleness, but would grow fat and die. the third thing—what else was +idle, vicious life!” but dared not break the silence. +i doing? aren’t they laughing at me? shan’t i be ashamed to remember +i do not begin, sire, because we are not on parade and not on the +“i do not know what you think, father,” whispered the princess. +“i do not understand,” said pierre, feeling with dismay doubts +i do not yet know. there will be time enough to think about love when i +“i... don’t...” he muttered, holding up two fingers to his cap. +“i don’t know. i think if he writes, i will write too,” she said, +“i don’t understand,” he said, “how it is that the mind of man +i don’t want him.” (he looked at his blushing daughter.) “are you +i envy him, but you want to make him what i am, without giving him my +“i expected help from you and i get none, none from you either!” +“i expect so.” +if about to tell a good story he put down the cards, leaned back in his +if at first the members of the council thought that kutúzov was +if complaining of kutúzov. +“if he could attack us, he would have done so today,” said he. +if he is standing before brünn...” +“if he starts a row i’ll go away,” said prince anatole. “i +“if he were not,” he said quietly, “you and i would not be +“if i’d been in nikólenka’s place i would have killed even more +“if i have time,” answered nicholas. “but i promised the +if in search of something. before dinner the old prince, of whom she was +“if it is true that monsieur denísov has made you a proposal, tell +“if only they would be quick!” thought rostóv, feeling that at last +if she had not meant it seriously. it makes it as if you were marrying +“if we fought before,” he said, “not letting the french pass, as +if we occupy the villages of sokolnitz and kobelnitz, whereby we +if you are in love, marry him!” said the countess, with a laugh of +“if you are refusing for my sake, i am afraid that i...” +“if you are resolved, i must begin your initiation,” said the rhetor +if you have firmly resolved to join our brotherhood.” (pierre nodded +“if you like, your honor!” +“if you please, your excellency, pétrusha has brought some papers,” +“if you really want it,” said he. +“if you won’t answer, i’ll tell you...” hélène went on. “you +“i had not the pleasure of seeing you,” said prince andrew, coldly +i had to express my own desire...” she had no time to finish. the old +“i have already refused,” she said hurriedly. +i have a presentiment that for the first time i shall have to show all +“i have come to you with a message and an offer, count,” he +“i have done my best for him, and i can assure you the education there +i have done that though badly and to a small extent; but i have done +“i have had a proposition made me concerning you,” he said with an +“i have heard of you, my dear sir,” continued the stranger, “and +“i have met loving, noble, high-minded men, but i have not yet met +“i have no money with me,” he said. +“i have not referred to this out of curiosity, my dear sir, but for +i have received what was due from the ryazán estate and will keep it; +“i have the pleasure of addressing count bezúkhov, if i am not +“i... hope... for guidance... help... in regeneration,” said pierre, +“i imagine that freemasonry is the fraternity and equality of men who +“i?... i’m going to petersburg,” answered pierre, in a childlike, +“i intended to re-form them beyond the village, your excellency,” +“i? i? what of me? leave me out of the question. i’m not going to +i know for certain that you won’t marry her.” +“i know from reliable sources that the dowager empress is taking a +“i know people consider me a bad man!” he said. “let them! i +“i know your outlook,” said the mason, “and the view of life you +i know you will pray over it. well, pray if you like, but you had better +i’ll go to the general and ask him.” he readjusted himself in the +i’ll just finish dealing, and then ilyúshka will come with his +“i’ll kill you!” he shouted, and seizing the marble top of a table +i’ll let her see....” +i’ll see.” the old prince snorted. “let her marry, it’s all the +“i’ll sing for you a whole evening,” said natásha. +i’ll teach you to think!” and lifting his stick he swung it and +“i’ll tell you what, my dear fellow,” said prince andrew, who +“i’ll trust you.” +illumined, and plunge him into the depths of unknown and undefined +i love so that i would give my life for them, and the others i’d + * “i love you.” + * i love you. +“i love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you +ilyá has sent you to ask for strawberries and fresh pineapples.’ we +ilyúshka, the one who danced at count orlóv’s, you remember, in a +imagination a new plan of life. on the previous evening at the lodge, he +imagine...” +imagined oppressors whose victims he would rescue. of the three +imagining himself before his own officers, insisted on his soldierly +“i make bold to ask your excellency to move a little for this +i’m alive, that is not my fault, so i must live out my life as best i +“i’m certain of it; you’ll see.” +immediately. +immediately starting to run along the hall and up the warped steps of +immediately told him that this man could be useful, and without any +immensity of the power they constituted. +“i’m not a goose, but they are who cry about trifles,” said +“i’m not such a fool.... just you try it on.... allez-vous +“‘i most ardently desire,’ writes the king of prussia to +impatient and sets to work himself and finds letters from the emperor +impatient the nearer they got to moscow. +impending action. from privates to general they were not expecting a +impending battle, under a heading which he also read out: +imperturbable calm she did not begin to speak in front of the valet. +impetus, and princess mary long remembered the dying creak of that +implied that, for certain considerations he could not know of, this was +importance, he returned again, called back the cook and the club +important and unimportant, all of whom he knew, as if they were all +impossible!” and suddenly he was seized by a panic of fear for himself +impossible for him to return to his former conception of her, that he +impossible... oh, how pleasant it was at home!... the knave, double or +impressionable, smiling young faces (smiling probably at their own +impression of those voices and faces and a sense of loneliness merged +impression. whether dolgorúkov and weyrother, or kutúzov, langeron, +“i must also inform you,” said the rhetor, “that our order +in 1806 the old prince was made one of the eight commanders in chief +in a bad temper, and in the morning tíkhon had already advised the +in a cheerful voice: +in a corner of the hut stood a standard captured from the french, and +in a corner of the room something red and tiny gave a grunt and squealed +in a day or two we shall all have to take part in a greater and more +in all sincerity—not as a future mason but as an honest man: have you +in, and sinking heavily into an armchair. +in any case. he has forwarded me a letter from borís. thank god, borís +in a shovel—the guests who had been scattered about in different rooms +inattentive, but you had talent—oh yes, you had talent!” +in chief’s office were gathered kutúzov himself, weyrother, and the +inclination—practical business. +income which was said to amount to five hundred thousand rubles a year, +incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was +in comparison with eternity?” +incomprehensible—the death of one she loved. +in consequence of this discovery his whole manner of life, all +inconvenient, unseemly, and impossible to do so. +in conversation—count rostopchín, prince yúri dolgorúkov, valúev, +in couples and he himself rode along the line trying to master the +increased tenfold, and their life, which seemed to have been passed in +increasing, seemed like someone’s breathing. he listened intently to +incredible, unheard-of, and impossible event of a russian defeat, + * “indeed, sire, we shall do everything it is possible to +“indeed? yes, yes!” said borís, with a smile. “and we too have +indicated that if he was not dancing it was because he would not and not +indicating a captive french dragoon who was being brought in on foot by +indicating her to the gentlemen, said: “voilà marie!” princess mary +indications, he saw clearly that the allies believed him to be far away +indifferent air, and glanced into the little drawing room. pierre and +indifferently quiescent till the moment when motion is transmitted +indignantly. “i come to ask you what to do, and you call it +indiscretion, one might ask about our plans. +in discussion with the sole object of offending one another. but the +indisposition was the strong impression made on his sensitive mind by +individual commanders and inquiring into details of the action and our +i need.” but when he came across a man of position his instinct +“i never go back on my word,” he said. “besides, sónya is so +“i never invited them. they came to disturb my life—and there is not +inevitable pain showed itself. +infantry. +infantry and cavalry and took up its appointed position. not only the +infantry, and having reached the village of gruntersdorf they halted. it +infantry, cavalry, and artillery. how was it that two guns were +infantry in different uniforms; now was heard the rhythmic beat of +infantry officer who just before the battle had rushed out of +infants in arms met him to thank him for releasing them from hard +influence of a variety of exciting sensations. only pierre and +influence of the dark, graceful girl who loved another. +informing the prince that as soon as the action began he had withdrawn +“inform the prince that labor has begun,” said mary bogdánovna, +in four different provinces. he had arranged this for himself so as to +in french. +in front of him and that the enemy must be at least six miles away. +in front of him was misty darkness. rostóv could see nothing, peer as +in front of them, and that the columns moving near pratzen constituted +in general at bald hills the little princess lived in constant fear, and +in good spirits, he mounted his horse and rode out into the field +in great russia, which formed the larger part of his property, and left +in hand. +in her eyes, which, for an instant, glanced at pierre, prince vasíli +in his fine gray eyes, and on his delicate lips the same capacity for +in his hand, was sitting there with a smile of deep emotion on his face, +in his horse before the emperor. +in his large elongated hand on blue paper as follows: +in his mind an unsettled question he always tried to stifle, one about +in it by spring. +in kiev pierre found some people he knew, and strangers hastened to make +in kishenëv with only a moldavian peasant woman to help instead of a +in life, one she had not yet experienced, irreparable and +in love. the marshals stood behind him not venturing to distract his +in love with the tsar,” he said. +in mary bogdánovna’s trembling white hands. +in me. i have been told that her brother anatole was in love with her +in military matters. +in my opinion was nothing of the kind. we civilians, as you know, have +innocent youth. +in november, 1805, announcing that he and his son would be paying him +in november, 1805, prince vasíli had to go on a tour of inspection +inn, where two roads parted. both of them led downhill and troops were +in on bad company. rostóv flushed up on noticing this, but he did not +in our army. his own strategic plan, which obviously could not now +in our house, aren’t they?” +in our lack of understanding we see only our weakness and his +“in our temples we recognize no other distinctions,” read the grand +in petersburg, as in moscow, pierre found the same atmosphere of +in pure, correct french many interesting details about the armies and +inquiring look. he was about to stoop over her hand and kiss it, but +inquiring what she was to do with these people. on leaving them, anna +in rostóv’s soul! and this something was apart from everything else +insane—unprofitable to himself, to the count, and to the serfs—made +“in short, hoping to settle matters by taking up a warlike attitude, +insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and +in silence, and then the same joke was repeated. +insolent, hard, and mocking face as he had seen it at the banquet, and +in some respects a brilliant match for the dowerless, orphan girl. from +inspired by the emperors’ presence were eager for action. the +in spite of himself (although he knew how far it was safe to trust +in spite of prince andrew’s disagreeable, ironical tone, in spite of +in spite of this, both the face and words of his new acquaintance were +instantly his regret at not having been in action and his dejected mood +instead of firing it, flung it at the frenchman and ran with all his +instead of that he only excited himself more and more. +instructing in reading, writing, and religion. on all his estates pierre +instructions his father had sent and taking the correspondence and his +instructions to major ekonómov, he could not help taking notice of the +insufficient, and he kept expecting something more, more and yet more. +intended for you too. give them to the woman whom you shall honor most +intended to take up our position and begin the action, but were on this +intended to visit all his estates and see for himself how far his orders +intention of killing your man as quickly and surely as possible, and +intention of proposing, and today or tomorrow he would probably ask +intention to part from her forever. +interesting and entertaining. after the field marshal’s departure +interpreted. the life of old prince bolkónski, prince andrew, and +intervene. prince andrew looked at túshin from under his brows and his +interview? why negotiate, and above all why retreat, when to retreat is +“in that case...” began willarski, but pierre interrupted him. +“in that case he is inviting his doom by awaiting our attack,” said +“in that case we can go,” said willarski. “my carriage is at your +in that happy mood in which everything seems possible and everything +in the army, besides the subordination and discipline prescribed in the +in the assurance that the rumors about the emperor being wounded were +in the autumn of 1806 everybody had again begun talking of the war with +in the autumn the rostóvs returned to moscow. early in the winter +in the beginning of the winter of 1805-6 pierre received one of anna +in the common motion the result and aim of which are beyond its ken. +in the darkness, it seemed as though a gloomy unseen river was flowing +in the deathlike stillness only the tramp of horses was heard. this +in the drawing room, talking to the little princess and mademoiselle +in the emperor’s suite all exchanged rapid looks that expressed +in the emperors’ suite were the picked young orderly officers of the +in the evening, after supper, when all were about to retire, anatole +in the evening andrew and pierre got into the open carriage and drove to +in the evening,” reported rostóv, stooping forward with his hand at +in the fresh morning air were now heard, not two or three musket shots +in the hair, the hair combed up, and the blue scarf arranged lower on +in the house on the povarskáya rose before him with such vividness, +in their childlike glee, aroused by the fire and their luck in +in their own play. +in their power. +in the letter from his parents was enclosed a letter of recommendation +in the mean jocular way common to anonymous letters said that he saw +in the meantime, not only was it known in the maidservants’ rooms that +in the middle of his story, just as he was saying: “you cannot imagine +in the middle of the line that had seemed so terrible—and now he +in the mist. +in the morning all that was left of the night mist on the heights was +in the night he called his valet and told him to pack up to go to +in the other the letter, and pressing them alternately to her lips. +in the rearguard, dokhtúrov and others rallying some battalions kept up +in the room next their bedroom there was a confusion of sabers, +“in the seventh place, try, by the frequent thought of death,” the +in the spring of 1807 he decided to return to petersburg. on the way he +in the streets of petersburg in an old uniform. he made friends with +in the third circle, narýshkin was speaking of the meeting of the +in the village of hosjeradek there were russian troops retiring from +in the world and above everything in the world. “what were losses, and +intimately. prince andrew spoke with some animation and interest only of +intimately regretted that he had died so young, leaving a pregnant wife +into action as arranged, and after going behind other columns for +into her heart an impulse that was against his will. my wife—as she +into his room one evening in the official and ceremonious manner in +in to inform the commander in chief of this and, availing himself +“in token of obedience, i ask you to undress.” +intonation, look, and expression, pricked up her ears from the beginning +into sobs. +into the corridor and met—coming out of the door of the emperor’s +into the insignificant, trifling, and artificial interests uniting that +in to the utmost, their red necks squeezed into their stiff collars, and +into the valley. he greeted the men of the foremost regiment and gave +into the water. he tried to right himself but fell in up to his waist. +into the water, or when he challenged a man to a duel without any +intoxication. he felt as though he were the center of some important and +invent him,” said the wit shinshín, parodying the words of voltaire. +involuntarily, came up and sat down beside him. +involuntarily noticed that one of them was bleeding, and galloped on. +in war on our own frontiers, with and for the king of prussia. we have +in zherkóv, looking uneasily around. he had not seen the hussars all +iogel’s were the most enjoyable balls in moscow. so said the mothers +i only wanted to know your opinion,” and anna pávlovna let pierre go. +“i ought to tell you that i do not believe... do not believe in +“i peg of you yourself not to mix in vot is not your business!” +“i promised to pay tomorrow,” said nicholas. +“i quite understand,” answered princess mary, with a sad smile. +i really take it? how fortunate!” he thought. +irreparable. there was no insult on either side. allow me to +irresistible human need for sleep. he really was asleep. weyrother, with +irresistibly attractive to pierre. +irresolution communicated itself to the men. +“i said from the first,” declared anna pávlovna referring to +is a very good thing, but not for you—i don’t suppose you ever had +“i saw him myself,” replied the man with a self-confident smile of +“i saw the pávlograd hussars attack there, your excellency,” chimed +“i say, berg, my dear fellow,” said rostóv, “when you get a +“i say, father, joking apart, is she very hideous?” anatole asked, +“i say, rostóv,” said dólokhov clearly, smiling and looking +“i say, shall we soon be clear? they say the cavalry are blocking the +“i say, we’ve been in the front line! our regiment attacked!” said +is called weak character, do not seek a confidant in their troubles. he +is denísov!” +“is everything quite all right?” +is for myself.” +is good to have a friend like the prince,” she said, smiling at prince +i shall conclude will be worthy of my people, of you, and of myself. +i shall expect you, drubetskóy. au revoir!” exclaimed prince andrew, +“is he really to be my husband, this stranger who is so kind—yes, +“i should never dare to say that i know the truth,” said the mason, +“i should not be doing my duty, count,” he said in timid tones, +is interrupted. he listened to what langeron said, as if remarking, +“is it for visitors you’ve got yourself up like that, eh?” said +is much better than ours.” +is not abashed now, so she cannot be a bad woman!” he had often begun +is nothing but a trick! he has retreated and ordered the rearguard to +is not my fault that i want it and want nothing but that and live only +is now on the staff.” +isn’t it logical? +“isn’t she exquisite?” she said to pierre, pointing to the stately +“is papa at home?” he asked. +is so fond of?” he remembered his mother’s love for him, and his +is, stormed and stormed and stormed! it was not a matter of life but +is such men as he who decide the fate of nations,” added bolkónski +“is that so? and what did he say?” inquired bolkónski. +is that the emperor is here. how he looked at me and wished to say +is the baby born?” +is the one held by the majority of people, and is the invariable fruit +is the only thing left me—not singing!” his thoughts ran on. “go +“is this good or bad?” pierre asked himself. “it is good for me, +“is this your saber?” asked pétya. “or is it yours?” he said, +“is this your saber?” he shouted. +is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. there is nothing, +it. +it. +it.” +it and wished to hear it again. in her voice there was a virginal +it appears that we are within sight of the enemy and must give battle. +it. at that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over +“it can’t be helped! it happens to everyone!” said the son, with +“it can’t be!” said rostóv. “it must have been someone else.” +it dashed, some forward and some back, drowning one another. +i tell her how i’ve seen the emperor?) natásha... take my +i tell you he is in our hands, that’s certain! but what was most +it. fr... fr... fr! and don’t i see that that idiot had eyes only for +“i think i may congratulate you,” whispered anna pávlovna to the +“i think the battle will be lost, and so i told count tolstóy and +i think there were not many such gallant sons of the fatherland out +it. if you refuse him on my account, i must tell you the whole truth. i +“it is all, all her fault,” he said to himself; “but what of that? +“it is all very well for rostóv, whose father sends him ten thousand +“it is done!” she said to the count, pointing triumphantly to the +“it is of great importance to me,” she said, turning with a smile +it is past midnight—cannot now be altered,” said he. “you have +“it is some letter of recommendation... what the devil do i want it +“it is the sword of frederick the great which i...” she began, but +“it is too late now, it’s done; besides i love her,” thought +“it may be he or it may be nothing,” muttered the hussar. “it’s +it might really have been so? could one possibly make out amid all that +“it must be one of ours, a prisoner. yes. can it be that they will +it, next day, november 15, after dinner he again went to olmütz and, +“i told you it was all lumps and holes!” the little princess +it on his coat and supported himself with it. his frowning face was +it on something, and told him to hold a pair of compasses to his left +it on the field at schön grabern. young rostóv’s ecstatic voice +it or not, and how they would cross it, agitated them all. +it really happened, it would have been necessary to make an effort of +it right to refuse a duty to which he had been appointed by the emperor +i trouble myself about you, and you also know quite well that what i +“it’s a lackey’s job!” +“it’s all the same now. if the emperor is wounded, am i to try to +“it’s all the same to me,” he said. “i only want to see whether +“it’s all up! i’m lost!” thought he. “now a bullet through my +“it’s a long time since we met,” he said. “thanks for coming. +“it’s andrew!” thought princess mary. “no it can’t be, that +its broad temples and close-cropped hair, and looked at bezúkhov. the +it’s definite and one is rid of the old tormenting doubt.” pierre +it seemed as if from some words borís had spoken that evening about the +it seemed as if nothing in that voice could be altered without spoiling +it seemed so natural to pierre that everyone should like him, and it +it seemed to her that not only did everybody know that her fate would be +it seemed to him that he was being fired at. “what? what? what?... cut +it seemed to pierre, sunk in profound and calm meditation. his servant +it seemed to pierre that he grew embarrassed. pierre himself grew still +“it seems that there will be no need to bring mary out, suitors are +itself, a petty german town, rostóv saw the emperor again. in the +itself, rejoicing at the emperors’ approach, had naturally burst into +itself to him. he was already enjoying that happiness when that +it, she was herself in such high spirits at that moment, so far from +“it’s impossible,” replied another. +“it’s not that i don’t remember—i know what he is like, but not +“it’s plain that they have not all gone yet, prince,” said +“it’s the enemy?... no!... yes, see it is!... for certain.... but +its thunder joining the roar of the whole line along which he had +it’s true he has been reinstated, but how could they fail to do that? +its upper lip covered with tiny black hair. +its use, he does not believe in the master who made it. to know him is +its usual semblance of a smile. +“it’s wonderful what a lot of our troops have gathered, lads! last +it to be alleged that he had been the first to leave the range of fire, +it to its destination and make use of it. +it turns out that ‘the enemy of the human race’ pays no heed to +it turns out that we have landed ourselves in war, and what is more, +it was all that they could do to get the guns up the rise aided by the +it was evident that this strange, strong man was under the irresistible +it was impossible to get rid of them. +it was late in the evening when they entered the palace at olmütz +it was long before their conversation could settle on anything. they +it was long since rostóv had felt such enjoyment from music as he +it was long since the rostóvs had news of nicholas. not till midwinter +“it was my fault, mon père,” interceded the little princess, with a +it was napoleon accompanied by two aides-de-camp. bonaparte riding +it was nine o’clock in the morning. the fog lay unbroken like a sea +it was no longer, as before, a dark, unseen river flowing through the +it was not so, that i had no right to do it. and so it turns out.” +it was not the dress, but the face and whole figure of princess mary +it was one of those march nights when winter seems to wish to resume its +it was plain that this cadet had already repeatedly asked for a lift and +it was prince andrew. the first thing he saw on riding up to the space +it was rumored that savary had been sent to propose to alexander +it was that the pain distracted him and prevented his seeing what he had +it was, the disorder was readily and naturally attributed to the stupid +“it was the officer, your honor, stained it,” answered the +it was the second night that neither of them had slept, watching the boy +it were not his. he examined his hand carefully, vainly trying to find +it were not my duty i would not talk to you for a moment”), was +it with you?...” +it worth thinking or speaking of it at such a moment? at a time of such +it would be different if you grudged losing a laborer—that’s how i +“it would be good,” thought prince andrew, glancing at the icon his +it would have been difficult for a face to express greater respect and +“it would have been hard to drive up, your honor,” he added. “i +it would not ache—it would be well—if only they did not pull it, but +it you talked about?” and prince andrew crooked a third finger. “ah, +ivánovich kutúzov: +“i’ve come to sit with you a bit, másha,” said the nurse, “and +i’ve nothing against it,” the prince said to himself, “but he must +“i want nothing, and i won’t be anyone’s adjutant.” +“i was coming to tell you so.” +i was right. without boasting, you know, i may say that i know the army +“i was there,” said rostóv angrily, as if intending to insult the +i was to blame for not understanding her, for not understanding that +“i was very much surprised when i heard of it,” said prince andrew. +“i? what have i...?” stammered pierre. +“i will do so,” said prince andrew, moving away from the map. +“i will give the order.” +“i will, i will, only tell me! you won’t? then i will go and tell at +“i will tell you frankly,” said prince vasíli in the tone of +“i won’t say he is out of sorts, but i fancy he would like to be +“i won’t tell anyone!” and she ran off at once to sónya. +jaw trembling and was hardly able to mutter: “i don’t know... your +jest. +jests fell flat, news was not interesting, and the animation was +“je vous aime!” * he said, remembering what has to be said at such +joy and happiness. on receiving the order he gave his horse the rein +joy at the approach of the emperors. one voice was heard shouting: +joyful and mysterious taking place within her. +joyful it seemed, that her son, the scarcely perceptible motion of whose +joyfully that the men themselves were awed by their multitude and the +joyfully up to pierre. his face was so unusually triumphant that pierre +joys and sorrows of this world—overflowed the great grief within her. +jump, túshin not taking his pipe from his mouth ran from gun to gun, +just as he went in he saw that the nurse was hiding something from him +“just as i may suppose you to be deluded,” said pierre, with a faint +just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable +just as in the mechanism of a clock, so in the mechanism of the military +just at moments when such thoughts occurred to him, he would ask in a +just before dinner, count ilyá rostóv presented his son to bagratión, +just left.... it is true that it was hot there,” he added, modestly. +just returned from vienna, two diplomatists, the old aunt, a young man +just such a story—they would either not have believed him or, still +just then at a distance behind kutúzov was heard the sound of regiments +kámenski, visited the english club, and was on intimate terms with a +keen interest in the whole affair. you know she is very gracious to +keen-sighted a companion. “you know, you see right through people. +kept coming into her eyes. anna mikháylovna, with the letter, came on +kerchief, and the loose skin that hung under her chin. +kiev province, where he had the greatest number of serfs, taking with +killed anyone, or insulted or wished harm to anyone? why such a terrible +killed by a cannon ball—struck in the breast before our regiment.” +killed.” rook tried to rise on his forelegs but fell back, pinning his +killed them, yes!” said he, frowning angrily and turning away from +killed, you are a fool and are lost for certain. but go with the firm +kill me.” but at the same time, his left arm felt as heavy as if +“kill the germans!” shouted one. +kindle fires and make a noise to deceive us.” +kindle in all hearts the flame of virtue. share thy happiness with thy +kindness,” or, “with your excellent heart,” “you are yourself so +kind sprang from a second door and a third; more hugging, more kissing, +kind, that is the chief thing,” thought princess mary; and fear, which +king of prussia and others: ‘so much the worse for you. tu l’as +king of prussia what he is to do if he is summoned to surrender.... all +kissed. her father in jest tried to rouse her jealousy, and she replied +kissed her forehead. +kissed him at the same time. only his mother was not there, he noticed +kissed him three times. +kissed mademoiselle bourienne’s hand. (this was not etiquette, but +kissed princess mary’s hand. she did not know how she found the +kisses. her looks asked him to forgive her for having dared, by +kissing her hand, he left the room with quick resolute strides, without +kiss me,” and he offered his cheek. +knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the austrian authorities had provided +knew that. what will be the result? that i shall be the laughingstock of +knew that when it appeared on her face, she became mute and was not to +knew till after eight o’clock. +knew what had happened to him as he knew it himself. +knight. “i’m even weady to dance the pas de châle.” +knitting a striped scarf for him. +knitting, went to the window and leaning out tried to catch the open +knocking over two horses and another tearing off a munition-wagon +knoll; if they had retreated they would have withdrawn from that too.... +know!” +know all about it and understand it all,” he said. “you behaved as +know, and know for certain, that the enjoyment of doing this good is the +know, but he felt sure it would do so. the locality and the position of +know god and hate your life. there is nothing strange in that, my dear +knowing how. first he spun her round, holding her now with his left, now +knowing that denísov had a reputation even in poland for the masterly +know it is all over, and forever.” +know my principles—everything aboveboard! i will ask her tomorrow in +know myself again.” +known). drawing nearer, he recognized in the rhetor a man he knew, + knows by experience, now, bagratión, +kórchevo—a certain khandrikóv—is up to; till now the additional +kronq,—chargé d’affaires from copenhagen—a profound intellect,” +kurágins’. all maintained a solemn silence, listening to the words +kutúzov. +kutúzov accompanied by his adjutants rode at a walking pace behind the +kutúzov here woke up, coughed heavily, and looked round at the +kutúzov laughed bitterly. +kutúzov looked sternly at his adjutant and, after a pause, replied: +kutúzov no one spoke of, except some who abused him in whispers, +kutúzov’s, collected in groups and began to talk about the awards, +kutúzov’s headquarters and the staffs of the commanders of columns. +kutúzov’s suite like a flock of little birds. +kutúzov, there is not a single russian in command of a column! the +kutúzov turned round without answering and his eye happened to fall +kutúzov was occupying a nobleman’s castle of modest dimensions near +kutúzov, where he inquired for bolkónski, all the adjutants and even +kutúzov with his staff and all of us count for nothing. everything is +kutúzov, with his suite diminished by more than half, rode toward a +kutúzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over +kutúzov writes...” and he screamed as piercingly as if he wished to +kuzmích, asking what the point of the story was as he had not heard it +“kuzmích... from all sides... and then tears,” someone repeated +labor but should die of it in a week, so he could not stand my physical +labor is as essential to him, as much a condition of his existence, as +labor was thus increased, though lessened on paper. he did not know +lad,” he said, addressing his favorite soldier. “and where is the +ladies and gentlemen than rostóv had ever expected to see him. +ladies and, leaning on his saber and beating time with his foot, told +ladies—” he turned with the same request to denísov who was also a +lad’s a fine fellow, a fine fellow! well, come with me now.” he took +“lads! here’s to our sovereign, the emperor, and victory over +“lads!” shouted milorádovich in a loud, self-confident, and cheery +lain in ambush in a ditch, now attacked the french unexpectedly. +lamp, she stood before it with folded hands for a few moments. a painful +lances and the unfolded standards fluttered against their staffs. it +langeron’s objections were valid but it was obvious that their chief +langeron, trying as virulently as possible to sting weyrother’s vanity +langeron, with a subtly ironical smile, again glancing round for support +lannes and was thrown into confusion. bagratión had sent zherkóv +large and handsome eyes. he regarded his whole life as a continual round +large dark ballroom. all was the same: there were the same old card +large estate, boguchárovo, about twenty-five miles from bald hills. +large leather sofa from prince andrew’s study into the bedroom. on +large, newly furnished petersburg house, the happy possessor, as people +largest landowner of the province. temptations to pierre’s greatest +larrey, was much more likely to end in death than in convalescence. +last campaign, prince peter ivánovich bagratión!” and again his blue +last few days. the antagonists stood forty paces apart at the farther +last interview with the gentleman-ranker—“that private dólokhov, +last mademoiselle bourienne gave a scream and ran away. anatole bowed to +last only his white plumes were visible to rostóv from amid the suites +last remaining strength, took hold of his left hand with his right, and +last time. and suddenly, in the most casual tone, which made him feel +“late! it’s nearly ten o’clock,” answered natásha’s voice. +later on. oh, how glad i am to have you!” +latest cut, such as no one else yet had in moscow, and boots of the +latest fashion, with extremely pointed toes and small silver spurs, +late that night, when all had separated, denísov with his short hand +lathe and, as usual, did not look round at her. +latterly spent whole days at home, that is, in prince vasíli’s house +laughed. +laughed at every word he said or that she said herself, not because what +laughed loudest. +laughing. +laughing. “dear, dear!...” +laughing for some reason and shaking himself free. +laughing, “‘sergéy kuzmích... from all sides... from all sides... +lay across the bed with his head lower than the pillow, and was smacking +lazily and advanced and again halted, receiving no timely orders from +leading the tsar’s beautiful relay horses covered with embroidered +leaned his arms on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes. pierre +leaning with his arms on the back of the sofa, sat in his former +leaping the furrows, he fled across the field with the impetuosity he +learned that dólokhov the brawler, dólokhov the bully, lived in moscow +learn from suvórov even so simple a thing as the art of crowing like a +least have some for my sake! she must be shown that the blockhead thinks +“leave it,” said dólokhov, though he did not seem to be even +“leave me alone, please leave me alone! it is all quite the same to +leave of her and of lise, his look tender yet proud. she saw him tender +leave of rostóv in the club porch. +leave you cold a thousand times and the thousand and first time thrill +led along a certain carpet. after that they took his right hand, placed +left alone, pierre went on smiling in the same way. once or twice +left breast, and stooping down pulled up the left leg of his trousers +left foot began convulsively tapping the horse’s side with the spur, +legs and turned-out toes, climbed the hill with difficulty.) prince +lëlya’s name day. i will invite two or three people, and if he does +“le roi de prusse?” hippolyte said interrogatively, again laughing, +less a prey to evil and death?—death which ends all and must come +less, ate less, slept less, and became weaker every day. princess mary +less sincerely than the twenty-year-old rostóv. +let him do what he vill, but i cannot sacrifice my hussars... bugler, +letter. +letter. +letter. +letter from home and meet one of your own people whom you want to talk +letter, he now was. +letters sent through the embassy and all the searches made, his body had +letters to nicholas from all the household were written and copied out, +letters to princess mary’s apartments, but did not find him there. he +letting the retreating companies pass by them, when a soldier came up +lichtenstein, le prince, de hohenlohe, and finally prishprish, and so on +life, and that of the seven virtues he lacked two—morality and the +“life as it is leaves one no peace. i should be thankful to do +life from yours. i don’t wish to marry,” she answered positively, +life: remorse and illness. the only good is the absence of those evils. +life together were stripped, so that the screw could not get in or out, +life, which seemed to him so beautiful now that he had today learned to +lifted in childlike happiness. +lift his stick again but hurried into the house. +lights and shouts in the enemy’s camp. rostóv rode up to bagratión, +like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. whether he was +like all those polish names.” +liked to help young men, was flattered by being asked for his assistance +liked to repeat to herself. it was the story of a girl who had been +like his own, at the firing, and went back at a footpace. “well, some +likely the doctor.” +like method of enlightenment. our order imitates the ancient societies +like strangers.” +like the others, anna pávlovna schérer showed pierre the change of +like wind over leaves ran an excited whisper: “they’re coming! +line; and the austrian troops. but they all stood in the same lines, +line, for from where they had been before it had been evident that it +line of the advancing russian columns. evidently the person they were +lines of artillery with green caissons. +line (the guards) was already in action. +line to reconnoiter personally, and twice to the emperors, russian and +link which other people recognized had grown up between himself and +lips and met them with her own. her face struck pierre, by its altered, +lise. i will follow.” +listened to his regular breathing. the dark shadow was princess mary, +listened to the rhetor in silence, feeling from all he said that his +listening to an old russian general with decorations, who stood very +listening to the gypsies and other singers. +little as nicholas had occupied himself with sónya of late, something +little bent, looked with beaming face at the princess without +little companion! i hope she will bring her along with her when we’re +little creature, but dared not do so. he stood over him, gazing at his +little effort.” +little gold icon princess mary had hung round her brother’s neck, but +little icon with its thin gold chain suddenly appeared upon his chest +little, i mean a good deal, a great deal—forty three thousand.” +little matters which could not interest anyone but themselves. natásha +little napoleon had suddenly appeared with his unsympathizing look of +little natásha as grown up. +little princess walked twice round her, now adjusting a fold of the +little túshin, moving feebly and awkwardly, kept telling his orderly to +lit wisps of straw and ran after him, shouting, “vive l’empereur!” +lived for glory.—and after all what is glory? the same love of others, +lived for others, and not almost, but quite, ruined my life. and i have +living with his mother, who, if she saw him dying, would not survive it. +living without having solved the problems that so absorbed him. he had +living with the rostóvs. +locality was known and shown in every detail on the maps, and bonaparte, +locks of gray hair. +lodge—were so strong that he could not resist them. again whole days, +lodge. willarski coughed, he was answered by the masonic knock with +lofty, beautiful feeling, such a...” +lofty sky before? and how happy i am to have found it at last! yes! all +loneliness of his daughter amid the general conversation. “got herself +long. +long and warmly to the emperor and how the emperor, evidently weeping, +longed. sónya now was sixteen and she was very pretty, especially at +longed to kiss his father’s hands and kneel to beg his forgiveness, +longed to snatch up, to squeeze, to hold to his heart, this helpless +longest sentences, he stopped the rotary motion of the snuffbox, raised +long. say ‘perhaps.’” +“look at them scurrying! it’s burning! just see the smoke! fine! +looked as if by that slight motion the army itself was expressing its +looked at that aged, stern, motionless, almost lifeless face and moved +looked eagerly toward his eyes, waiting for the look for which she +looking about him uneasily, and an awkward pause followed. +looking and held out his hand to her. she pressed it. +looking at her and waiting. nicholas saw that denísov was refusing +looking at natásha. +looking at rostóv, “you’ll win it back all the sooner. i lose to +looking at the midwife with wide-open eyes of alarm. +looking at them, turned to an adjutant to ask him for a field glass. +looking back saw that their foremost ranks were mixed up with some +looking inquiringly at him and watching to see how he would behave +looking not at pierre but straight before him, and turning the leaves +looking pretty and conscious of it, were standing by the clavichord, +looking with a scared face at his comrade for help. the door, having let +looking with tender affection and pity at mademoiselle bourienne’s +“look, look!” said this adjutant, looking not at the troops in the +look. nicholas went up to her and kissed her hand. this was the first +look or bad opinion from him,” rostóv decided; and sorrowfully and +looks and manner gave that impression. the princess felt this, and as if +looks) and she had put on a maroon dress with a pale-blue scarf, the +“look then at thy inner self with the eyes of the spirit, and ask +look which was fixed on him, but him she could not see, she only saw +losses. the general whose regiment had been inspected at braunau was +lost. dólokhov “killed,” that is, beat, ten cards of rostóv’s +lost more than he could pay. +lot? and who would marry marie for love? plain and awkward! they’ll +“louis xvi was executed because they said he was dishonorable and a +love again, though for no one have i such a feeling of friendship, +love and befriend him.” +loved more than himself. he kept telling himself that he would consider +love for natásha was unpleasant to him and he had not once been to see +love her. +love her, for that would be impossible. +love him all the more, but nicholas now considered himself unworthy of +lovely eyes there was a look of fearful joy and hope that was also new +love of death. he consoled himself with the thought that he fulfilled +lovers!” he added. +love, such rapture, and such self-sacrifice, what do any of our quarrels +love, though less ecstatically, with their tsar and the glory of the +love you.” +love you, and i think i love you more than anyone else....” +loving her; in deceiving yourself and her.” and he vividly recalled +lucky man and, with his plain face, to be looked on as a sort of paris +luminous eyes fixed on her nurse’s wrinkled face (every line of which +luminous eyes shone more brightly than usual from the tears of joy that +machine, an impulse once given leads to the final result; and just as +madame de souza. he began reading about the sufferings and virtuous +made and highly valued. the old count came up to them and pressed +made a tour of the regiments and was annoyed at the irregularity of +“made, made me an offer, mamma! mamma!” she exclaimed. +mademoiselle bourienne. +mademoiselle bourienne, also roused to great excitement by anatole’s +mademoiselle bourienne and the little princess had to own to themselves +mademoiselle bourienne, how i shall arrange it,” she added, smiling +mademoiselle bourienne in her arms and gently stroking her hair. the +mademoiselle bourienne, “mary’s is a face which such a coiffure does +mademoiselle bourienne walked up and down the conservatory for a long +mademoiselle bourienne was also looking at princess mary, and in her +made. prince andrew several times prompted pierre’s story of what he +made use of it.... “what have i done?” thought he. and he turned +“made what?” +“ma foi!” said he, “tomorrow we shall see all that on the +“ma foi, sire, nous ferons ce qui sera dans notre possibilité, +magnanimous. she felt convinced of that. thousands of dreams of a future +maid. +maid’s voice at the door. +mainly because denísov so delighted in her singing. she no longer sang +“mais, mon cher, i did this for my own sake, to satisfy my conscience, +majesty.” +majesty,” said an adjutant who had come from the batteries that were +make a career and must not miss opportunities, but must avail myself of +make as successful a career of it as possible.” +make him go on. +malevolent and caustic expression softened, as if admitting that what +mallets and swords. as he was being led up to some object he noticed a +mallets, the doors opened before them. a bass voice (pierre was still +malodorous mouth. tears actually moistened his cheeks. +mamma.” +“mamma, are you cross? don’t be cross, dear! is it my fault?” +“mamma!... mamma!... he has made me...” +man.” again he pressed the hand of the latter with an expression of +man and help him to worldly success. under cover of obtaining help +man, and that in the duel with bezúkhov, pierre was right and dólokhov +man, be for her? in her thoughts of marriage princess mary dreamed of +man be fully imbued with the thought that we must defeat these hirelings +man beside you?” +man; by his acquaintances as a handsome lieutenant of hussars, a good +man, had not the five rubles that would make him happy. +man is as surly as a dog.” +manly-looking, but what amazed and estranged pierre till he got used +manner: they were all evidently firmly convinced of pierre’s noble +man, our dear vyazmítinov....” +manure on well-kept plowland, lay from ten to fifteen dead and wounded +man, with gray bushy eyebrows overhanging bright eyes of an indefinite +man with the white forehead, black eyebrows, and red lips. +many of them), and at last he saw how a whole detachment of french +many young men to his parents’ house. véra was a handsome girl +marched gaily, as they always do when going into action, especially to +marching along both. +mare he rode, his hand in a white glove gathered up the reins, and he +“marie” produced on the visitors. and she saw mademoiselle +marked the change? i sat all the time in this same place at this table, +market place, where there had been some rather heavy firing before the +markóv immediately dropped his own beside it and picked it up without +“marriages are made in heaven,” replied the elderly lady. +marriage—when the marriageable daughters and their mothers had nothing +married,” answered the countess sharply and sarcastically. +married, la petite est gentille.” * +marry anyone, but will be a dancer. only don’t tell anyone.” +marshal of the court, count tolstóy. +martyr’s death for his sake. then robespierre was beheaded for being +mary. +mary. +“mary bogdánovna, i think it’s beginning!” said princess mary +mary, but did not at once take his arm from the waist of mademoiselle +mary did not frighten them (she never inspired fear in anyone), but they +mary. how good it would be to know where to seek for help in this life, +mary, i am going to love him very much,” said lise, looking with +mary, really this dress does not suit you. i prefer you in your little +mary! say...” and the little princess began to cry capriciously like +“mary,” she said, moving away from the embroidery frame and lying +mary spent most of the day in the nursery, taking a mother’s place to +mary’s room. +mason. +masonic statutes, “be kindly and courteous,” recurred to him. he +masses. +master, “but those between virtue and vice. beware of making any +master’s thoughts. he guessed that the question referred to prince +master, would touch and delude him. +match in russia, had sunk greatly in the esteem of society after his +mathematics from her father, and when the old prince was at home went +matter of indifference whether he remained there for a few hours or for +matters very satisfactorily. borís, during the campaign, had made the +matters yourself!’ yes... that was the answer i got!” +“matvévna’s” carriage. at the foot of the hill, a pale hussar +“matvévna,” the gun from which they had removed the dead officer. +may not have seen, but i have seen, how good men brought up in those +may perhaps have a stronger effect on the sincere seeker after wisdom +“may the devil take them—the traitors!” +mazuwka is this? but she does dance splendidly.” +me.” +meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the best joys of his life; +meaning for him, that he paid no attention to it. the aunt was just +means. then you say, ‘lighten his toil.’ but as i see it, physical +me,” answered a voice struggling with tears. +meant for him not only the loss of sixteen hundred rubles, but the +meant to double the three thousand just put down to his score, when +meanwhile, pétya, having found and seized the sabers in the outer room, +measures—the removal of injunctions, petitions, permits, and so +meeting arrives. not daring to look round and without looking round, he +meeting, they had kissed each other, but today they felt it could not +me. ‘everyone fears a bear,’ he says, ‘but when you see one your +me in choosing me for your second, if at this grave, this very +me in the eyes of society, and even of the court,” he added, lowering +me in war the energy of young men often shows the way better than all +me, just because i have exerted myself on his behalf, befriended him, +melancholy was just like the august melancholy she showed at the mention +members and guests jostling one another and trying to get a good look +members of the council of war. they were drinking tea, and only awaited +memory, and he told everybody that his son had been killed. he tried not +me... myself most of all. then i don’t eat, don’t wash... and how is +men and provisions have not arrived. gallop off to him at once and +men disfigured by fear of death now crowded together, crushing one +men, seemed so immeasurably above him, an insignificant officer of the +men’s will. +men take their first steps on life’s road, each saw immense changes in +mental activity is to you or me. you can’t help thinking. i go to bed +mental image of his future activity in this direction rose in his mind. +men—the minister of foreign affairs, prince adam czartorýski.... it +mention, and which you think is the result of your own mental efforts, +mentioned during the journey. +mentioned their age. “if you marry it will be a different thing,” +mention her!” he exclaimed fiercely. +men was training a trotter of his own for a race. he knew a lady on one +men with broad, self-confident faces, fat fingers, and resolute gestures +merry reminiscences. +message to kutúzov, perhaps even to the sovereign himself. the morning +me! that’s the sort of man he is, and nothing more,” replied +met him at the first door and, expressing their delight at seeing such a +met, she fell on his breast, sobbing. she could not lift her face, but +me—yet dreadful and unnatural as it seems, i would give them all at +middle of the muddy road. +midnight. prince andrew went out. +midwife. +might, and a passionate attraction to him who was the cause of this +might deprive him of all this happiness, newly appreciated and newly +might, feeling that he would like to injure himself by that shout, if +might have been more decisive had the commander in chief not been so +might retreat and leave the pickets.” +might toward the bushes. he did not now run with the feeling of doubt +mikháylovna entered the hall. though she came upon the count in his +mikháylovna’s voice alone in a long speech, then a cry, then silence, +mile and a half away, but had suddenly and unexpectedly appeared just in +miles, and reining in his horse he sighed restfully and looked round +military code, which he and the others knew in the regiment, there was +military men, bore that expression of condescending respect for their +milk-white sea. nothing was visible in the valley to the left into which +millions in hand might smile at a poor fellow who told him that he, poor +millions of human beings who grew up in the same way. as twenty +milorádovich wheeled his horse sharply and stationed himself a little +mind to ask him a question about the roads, the traveler had closed his +miniature portrait of her son on the lid of a snuffbox, while the tears +minister’s son was, with his rosy cheeks and dark eyebrows, and with +minute later with another committeeman, carrying a large silver salver +minutes before the troops had passed the emperors. not only would it +minutest details himself. princess mary had ceased taking lessons in +mirror her eyes full of tears and her mouth quivering, ready to burst +mischief-makers don’t meddle even a german beats buonaparte. he is +misery. a man offended you and you shot him, and you say you do not +misery. that could not be, yet he awaited with a sinking heart the +misfortune? and when did it begin? such a little while ago i came to +misleading you.” +missed him. his one desire was to know what was happening and at any +“missed!” shouted dólokhov, and he lay helplessly, face downwards +mist!” +mistake and that anatole meant to flirt with mademoiselle bourienne, +mistaken,” said the stranger in a deliberate and loud voice. +mist and taking it for a tree can again take it for a tree after he has +misunderstanding. i expect you feel it so yourself. let us write her +misunderstandings and did not now feel she had a right to ask him for +mixture onto the floor and asked for some more water. the maid brought +modeling and modeling you must get smeared with clay,” suggesting +moment consider what she should do), but all this had long been familiar +moment of meeting had been so beatific that his present joy seemed +moment, sat beside him: the rest, crowding round him, watched every +moments: but his words sounded so weak that he felt ashamed of himself. +moment the french who were attacking, suddenly and without any apparent +moment those hands with their short reddish fingers and hairy wrists, +“mon dieu! mon dieu! oh!” she heard as she left the room. +monument from moscow which he intended to erect in his own garden to his +more. +more and more animated and evidently wishing to express his new outlook +more animated. only when a man was killed or wounded did he frown and +more confirmed the farther he rode into the region behind the village of +more confused, blushed like a child till tears came to his eyes, began +more cunning or subtle diplomatist—you know, a combination of french +more, for immediately afterwards cannon began firing from somewhere and +more honorable to admit one’s mistake than to let matters become +more important guests—an old general and his wife, and anna pávlovna +more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows +more noticeable how much plainer she had become. some unobtrusive touch +more outcries, and tears of joy. he could not distinguish which was +more! some more!” a merry voice was saying in his soul. but no more +more than anyone else, prince vasíli took possession of pierre’s +mortification, our opinion of bonaparte cannot alter. we shall not cease +moscovites who took their opinions from others—ilyá rostóv among +moscow!” +moscow after the death of count bezúkhov, he would call pierre, or +moscow. as a result he could not go to the country with the rest of the +moscow’s hero was the fact that he had no connections in the city +moscow their house was always full of visitors. the night after the +moscow. the remembrance of the rostóvs’ house and of his childish +moscow who was expected every moment, and men on horseback with lanterns +most of her observations, it made everyone feel uncomfortable, not +most part to be spoken at a moment of victory and triumph, generally +most strongly expressed his insincere love for her, and he felt the +mother by the news of this loss, he knew what a relief it would be to +moved and halted at the officers’ command, turned with banners flying, +moved off accompanied by an irregularly swaying sea of aides-de-camp. +movement of dólokhov’s hands. those broad, reddish hands, with hairy +movement of the tsar’s seemed to him enchanting. +movements of the mass of which in his regiment he felt himself a tiny, +movement, word, or look of his, never taking their blissfully adoring +move on a few steps and be killed themselves in the same way. +“move on a hundred yards and we are certainly saved, remain here +move on. the horses moved off the bank. the ice, that had held under +moving the money forward he prepared to deal. rostóv sat down by his +moving toward our left flank, the higher command found that our center +much as a sailor is by his ship. however far he has walked, whatever +“much as mamma pressed her, she refused, and i know she won’t change +much at the captain as at those who were laughing, among whom zherkóv +much because he heard their sound as because he saw uneasiness on +much interest him because at that moment he felt with delight that he +much, my dear sir.” +much of it left.” +much to say to one another in private and so they had been seeking an +mud-bespattered breeches. the german landlady, hearing rostóv’s loud +music. amid these sounds, only the youthful kindly voice of the emperor +muskets of the nearest soldiers. the soldiers started firing without +mustache. “i want to know what you men are like. are you the same as +must gain his confidence and friendship and through him obtain a special +“must one die like a dog?” said he. +must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for +muttered something and colored. +“my cousin has nothing to do with this and it’s not necessary to +“my darling!” he said—a word he had never used to her before. +my dear boy, are you serving in the horse guards?” asked the old man, +“my dear count, you were one of my best pupils—you must dance,” +“my dear fellow,” nesvítski whispered to prince andrew, “the old +“my dear fellow, what have you been up to in moscow? why have you +“my dear friend?” said she, in a tone of pathetic inquiry, prepared +“my dear,” he heard what seemed to him her despairing whisper behind +“my dear, i must tell you that this is a moment i shall never, never +“my dear, really... it’s better not to wake him... he’s asleep,” +“my dear,” said princess mary, addressing her brother from beside +my dear sir,” he added, seeing that his servant had entered... “and +“my desire is never to leave you, father, never to separate my +my empty portmanteau and my dressing gown. the emperor proposes to give +“my god, how happy i should be if he ordered me to leap into the fire +“my god, i’m a ruined and dishonored man! a bullet through my brain +“my god! what does it all mean?” thought he. “and here, where at +my men in the wood. i beg of you, i beg of you,” he repeated, “to +“my mother! my mother, my angel, my adored angel mother,” and +“my passion! i have had so many,” replied pierre. +my riding and commanding so vast an army, so i have passed on the +myself and ruined my life. and only now when i am living, or at least +myself and you with the hope that your son is alive, for otherwise +myself not long ago, in moscow and when traveling, but at such times i +mysteriously. “yes, tomorrow, tomorrow!” he thought. “tomorrow +mystery is of such a nature that nobody can know or use it unless he be +mystery on which perhaps the fate of mankind depends. but since this +my stupidity.” +“my vocation is a different one,” thought princess mary. “my +naked shoulders. she did not give him the money, but let herself be +namesake, the new count bezúkhov) “and now she’s in love with that +name to rectify this omission, prince andrew galloped back. kutúzov +napoleon +napoleon. “if he weren’t afraid of a battle why did he ask for that +napoleon’s eyes prince andrew thought of the insignificance of +napoleon’s proclamation was as follows: +napoleon who said it. he heard the speaker addressed as sire. but he +napoleon with even greater warmth than the year before. orders were +narýshkin, uvárov, dolgorúkov, apráksin, valúev, to the committee, +“nataly,” he said, moving with rapid steps toward her, “decide my +natásha, after she had pulled him down toward her and covered his face +natásha, and sónya, and will certainly never touch a card again.” at +natásha. but he was not as much at ease with sónya and dólokhov as +natásha could not remain calm, seeing him in such a plight. she began +natásha fell in love the very moment she entered the ballroom. she +natásha flared up. “i don’t want to marry anyone. and i’ll tell +natásha looked at sónya with wondering and inquisitive eyes, and said +natásha. nicholas understood that something must have happened between +natásha no less proud of her first long dress and of being at a real +natásha, seeing the impression the news of her brother’s wound +natásha’s intermediacy, to remind him of his promise, and then +natásha smiled through her tears. +natásha’s prediction proved true. dólokhov, who did not usually care +natásha’s previous remark. “it’s because she was in love with +natásha suddenly flushed. +natásha, that winter, had for the first time begun to sing seriously, +natásha took the first note, her throat swelled, her chest rose, +natásha to sing. +natásha, who was exceptionally graceful, was first, even danced the pas +natural to him was very gentle and wary with them both at dinner. on +near by the news spread that the emperor was unwell. he ate nothing and +near everything grew brighter, more joyful, more significant, and more +near him and only wished that they would help him and bring him back to +near him pricked their ears at these shouts. over there, where the +nearly cut our left flank in half were for the moment repulsed. our +near the altar of the church at bald hills there was a chapel over the +near the gun waved their arms and beat the horses to make them turn and +necessary for the position. then there’s this house, which must be +necessity of going back on his word. with a sinking heart he watched +neck. on his right sat the italian abbé whom pierre had met at +needed. +needed for success in the service was not effort or work, or courage, or +need, even the inevitability, of entering into conversation with this +need some money.” +neighbor, and may envy never dim the purity of that bliss. forgive thy +neighboring town, who had been at bald hills for the last fortnight.) +neighboring wheel is as quiet and motionless as though it were prepared +neighbor? no! you have spent your life in idleness. then you married, my +neighbor on his right quickly turned in alarm to bezúkhov. +neither moving forward to protect the battery nor backward with the +neither of her gown and coiffure nor of how she would go in nor of what +neither of them could think of her as a rival, so they began dressing +nesvítski closed their eyes. at the same instant they heard a report +nesvítski. count ilyá rostóv with the other members of the committee +nesvítski’s and dólokhov’s sabers, which were stuck into the +nesvítski stopped him and took him home. +nesvítski was there as an old member of the club. pierre, who at his +never bear malice or enmity toward thy brother. be kindly and courteous. +never had love been so much in the air, and never had the amorous +never says anything stupid. she says little, but what she does say is +never to dare to change your way of dress without my consent.” +new church, previously begun, had cost about 10,000 in each of the last +new friend’s influence. +newly erected buildings were standing empty and that the serfs continued +new mustache. “now then, get on,” he shouted to the driver. “do +new pack of cards said: “bank, gentlemen!” +new path so attractively shown him by the masons, on which he firmly +news. +news and common acquaintances like people who do not know each other +news—if it’s not false. bennigsen seems to have obtained a complete +next came four soldiers, carrying something heavy on a cloak, and passed +next day, at eight in the morning, pierre and nesvítski drove to the +next day rostóv saw denísov off. he did not wish to stay another +next day, the army began its campaign, and up to the very battle of +next day the french army did not renew their attack, and the remnant of +next day, the third of march, soon after one o’clock, two hundred and +next morning, after the fatigues of their journey, the travelers slept +next morning when the valet came into the room with his coffee, pierre +next note, the next phrase, and everything in the world was divided into +“nice! and so you no longer wish to marry borís?” +nice... but it won’t do...not that... but as a friend, i shall always + * nicholas. +nicholas and denísov were walking up and down, looking with kindly +nicholas began pacing up and down the room. +“nicholas! come out in your dressing gown!” said natásha’s voice. +“nicholas, don’t tell me that!” she said. +“nicholas! get up!” natásha’s voice was again heard at the door. +“nicholas, have you come? come here, dear!” called the old countess +nicholas, having as usual exhausted two pairs of horses, without +nicholas’ letter was read over hundreds of times, and those who were +nicholas rostóv, with denísov and his new acquaintance, dólokhov, sat +nicholas straight in the eyes, “you know the saying, ‘lucky in love, +nicholas tried to say “yes,” but could not: and he nearly burst into +nicholas turned away from her. natásha too, with her quick instinct, +“nicholas!” was all sónya said, instantly turning white. +nicholas went to her, kissed her hand, and sitting down silently at her +“nicholas, will you come to iogel’s? please do!” said natásha. +night. but now, in the solitude of the journey, they seized him with +night he had not the slightest doubt, and the guiltlessness of +night i looked at the campfires and there was no end of them. a regular +night when he had decided that to marry hélène would be a calamity and +“nikólenka... a letter... wa... a... s... wounded... my darling +nikólenka; by his relations as a charming, attractive, and polite young +“nikólenka, what is the matter?” sónya’s eyes fixed on him +“nikólenka... wounded... a letter,” she announced in gleeful +nineteenth, a great, excitedly bustling activity began which lasted till +“no.” +“no.” +no?” +no account have told a deliberate lie. he began his story meaning to +“no apologies, none whatever,” said dólokhov to denísov (who on +“nobody wants me!” thought rostóv. “there is no one to help me or +“no, but don’t you think it’s nice?” she kept repeating. +“no, but i have been in love a thousand times and shall fall in +“no, but i must. it may be arrogant of me, but still it is best to say +“no, but listen,” she said, “now you are quite a man, aren’t +“no, but she said that it was all over and that he’s now an +“no, but what is it, my dear? do you want me to go and tell him?” +“no, call her you, please! i’ll tell you all about it some other +no, certainly i must not approach him, i must not intrude on his +“no, dearest, sweet one, honey, i won’t give up—i know you know +“no. give me the book,” said the stranger. +“no good... no good...” said the prince rapidly, and thrusting his +“no, he’s not a fool!” replied natásha indignantly and seriously. +“no, i can’t agree with you! to live only so as not to do evil and +“no, i considered it erroneous and did not follow it,” said pierre, +“no, i hate my life,” pierre muttered, wincing. +“no, i have been transferred to the line,” said anatole, hardly able +“no, i meant to ask...” pierre began, but prince andrew interrupted +“no, i mustn’t. i am so sorry for him! he’s so nice.” +“no, it’s a sprain.” +“no, it’s only indigestion?... say it’s only indigestion, say so, +“no, it will not do,” she said decidedly, clasping her hands. “no, +“no, i will do it myself, only tell me what to say. it’s all very +“no, leave me alone,” said princess mary. +no longer, as it should be, to avoid or attack the enemy, but solely to +“no, mamma, but i’m so sorry for him. i don’t know how i’m to +“no, mamma, i’m not in love with him, i suppose i’m not in love +“no matter at all, my dear count,” she said, meekly closing her +“no matter, princess, don’t be alarmed,” said mary bogdánovna. +“no, merci, mon père.” +“no, mon père.” +“no, my dear fellow, i’ll be a wallflower,” said denísov. +“no, no! a thousand times no! i shall never agree with you,” said +“no, no!” cried natásha, “she and i have already talked it over. +“no! no! no! when your father writes to tell me that you are behaving +“no, not on any account! i will tell him myself, and you’ll listen +‘nonsense!’” +nonsense... but this is real.... now then, natásha, now then, dearest! +nonsense, but we are friends forever. she, if she loves anyone, does it +nonsense,” he thought. “the slur on my name and honor—that’s all +“nonsense, indeed! i am telling you the fact,” said natásha +nonsense, the chief thing is not to forget the important thing i +“no one can attain to truth by himself. only by laying stone on stone +“no, one can’t hear them. they’d be firing if we had.” +no one slept. +“no, on my true word of honor,” said natásha, crossing herself, +“no-o-o!” muttered dólokhov through his teeth, “no, it’s not +“no, papa is not back yet,” said sónya. +“no, pardon me, i won’t go now till the child is better,” thought +“no, prince, our regiment has gone to the front, but i am attached... +“no, princess, i have lost your affection forever!” said +“no really, my dear, this dress is not pretty,” said lise, looking +nose. his face was depressed and gloomy. he seemed to see and hear +“no, sónya, but do you remember so that you remember him perfectly, +no such reminiscences really exist—just as none existed in this case. +not a distinction,” said the diplomatist—“a gift, rather.” +not a logical answer and not at all a reply to them. the answer was: +“not at all bad!” he thought, examining her, “not at all bad, that +not at once raise, and he spent most of his time in the girls’ room. +not been found nor was he on the list of prisoners. what was worst of +not breathe. he knew that he must do something to put an end to this +not but believe in the sincerity of those around him. besides, he had +not but tremble and his heart stand still at the imminence of that word. +not come and brought his pupil with him” (for some reason prince +noted them down. +“no, tell them to harness.” +not expecting to come on the enemy down by the stream, and having +not expect you today,” he added. “i only sent you the note yesterday +not far from the artillery campfire, in a hut that had been prepared +not finding the young prince in his study the valet went with the +“nothing,” answered princess mary, looking firmly with her radiant +nothing, but here on the one hand the local nobility have done me the +nothing, but that. but even it does not exist, there is nothing but +nothing could be seen. pitch-dark, brother! isn’t there something to +nothing more important...” he paused, “than to have a good sleep.” +“nothing, my dear.” +nothing of her and looks only at bourienne. no, she has no pride... but +nothing of what was going on around him and to be absorbed by some +“nothing... only a shell...” he answered. +“nothing... only i feel sad... sad about andrew,” she said, wiping +nothing. she felt that sónya was speaking the truth, that there was +nothing to be happy about!” thought he. +nothing to him.... “i should perhaps have done the same thing in his +“not hurt, petróv?” asked one. +noticeable one at the dinner. rostóv looked inimically at pierre, +noticed, left the room with a pleasant smile. +noticed the french appearing below them, and then they fired grapeshot +no time for reflection, as in petersburg. instead of the new life he had +no time to ask himself whether these people were sincere or not. he +not intend to devote her life to serving prince bolkónski, to reading +“not killed—wounded!” another officer corrected him. +not know: he therefore wished to speak to dolgorúkov. +not know him, but he is here, he is in me, he is in my words, he is in +“not kutúzov, but what’s his name—well, never mind... there are +not leave the battery. he decided to have the guns removed from their +not like us sinners of the line,” cried rostóv, with martial swagger +not many left alive. go that way, to that village, all the commanders +“not more stupid than you, madam,” said the nine-year-old pétya, +not moving a muscle. +“no, to kill a man is bad—wrong.” +not only without interest but even as if ashamed of what pierre was +not realize that he had come. his coming had nothing to do with +not replying to the austrian. +not resume your former way of life. and now i wish you a good journey, +not rise. rostóv also tried to rise but fell back, his sabretache +“not seen duport—the famous dancer? well then, you won’t +not see or understand him and may not see or understand his own vileness +not see ten paces ahead. bushes looked like gigantic trees and level +not suit in the least. not in the least! please change it.” +not ten times wounded, killed, or betrayed, well... what then?...” +not to challenge bolkónski. “of course not!” he now thought. “is +not to have to repent is not enough. i lived like that, i lived for +not to notice one another. when having limbered up the only two cannon +not understand what he ought to do then it will be my affair—yes, my +not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting +not what he had read that vexed him, but the fact that the life out +not wish it. in a word, i make no promise. and i beg you to consider +notwithstanding the tone of wearied assurance with which these words +notwithstanding this, borís embraced him in a quiet, friendly way and +novelty she offered her guests this time was not mortemart, but a +novosíltsev, prince volkónsky, strógonov, and the others, all richly +now.” +now aiming, now counting the charges, now giving orders about replacing +now before i am off duty. i’ll take another turn and when i get back +now centered round the emperor. so we will go to dolgorúkov; i have to +“now, dear boy,” said prince vasíli playfully, “say ‘yes,’ +now gradually opening before me.” but five of the other virtues which +“no! what is there to talk about?” said pierre. “it’s all the +nowhere encountering the enemy. on the contrary, the soldiers became +now he was a lieutenant of hussars, in a jacket laced with silver, and +“now i must disclose to you the chief aim of our order,” he said, +“now look out for the ball... we’ll throw it back.” +“now?” repeated natásha, and a happy smile lit up her face. “have +now,” said another. +“now, sónya!” she said, going to the very middle of the room, where +“now the fun begins,” thought anatole, sitting down with a smile +now then, darling! how will she take that si? she’s taken it! thank +“now then, matvévna, dear old lady, don’t let me down!” he was +“now then, now then, i’m only joking!” he said. “remember this, +“now then, váska,” said nicholas. +now there’s this recruiting.” +now the smile of the little princess—influenced by the general mood +now,” thought rostóv driving his spurs into rook and letting him go +“now thou hast seen the lesser light,” uttered a voice. then the +now told about that affair!” +now to look at dólokhov, who was sitting opposite him. every time +now was evidently ready with a joke. “whether tomorrow brings +now we shall get anything we want from his hothouses. i have to see him +now, when my heart fails me and my mouth feels dry at the mere sight +“now you don’t know that at all!” said nicholas. “but i must +“now you, young prince, what’s your name?” said prince bolkónski, +“no, you don’t understand!” +“no, you know it’s too soon for news. but my father is anxious and i +number of men had perished in fleeing from pratzen. the french had not +nurse and nurse sávishna in the late princess’ rooms and princess +nurse, praskóvya sávishna, who hardly ever came to that room as the +nurse sávishna, knitting in hand, was telling in low tones, scarcely +nurse’s french, at which he and borís used to laugh long ago. +obedience—which did not even seem to him a virtue, but a joy. (he now +obedient, and insignificant atom. they followed prince dolgorúkov out +obeying, and suddenly doubts arose in his mind. “where am i? what am +object it is necessary that... the first column marches... the second +objects mentioned by the rhetor, this last, that of improving mankind, +obligingly took the dish from bagratión (or he would, it seemed, have +obtain a post on the commander in chief’s staff. berg and borís, +obtained his captaincy during the campaign, had gained the confidence of +obtained through an acquaintance and sent to her son, asking him to take +occasioned by the sausage eaters. +occupation, came up to her for a moment and made haste to go away, +occupation of the town of wischau and the capture of a whole french +occupied by the emperors and their retinues. +occupied with evening parties, dinners, lunches, and balls, giving him +occupy is a strong one, and while they are marching to go round me on +occupy the position and prepare for an attack.” +occurred to him. on the contrary, he became more and more elated. it +o’clock all had been brought into due order. the ranks were drawn +o’clock left the third column with which he had been and galloped +of all that mass of huge and handsome men, of all those brilliant, +of all these brilliant young men. +of all. this gift will be a pledge of your purity of heart to her whom +of alms” went round to all the brothers. pierre would have liked +of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him. +of an attack spread through the squadron. the command to form up rang +of, and am going to rejoin my regiment, i am giving a farewell supper +of a sin he could neither remedy nor forget. he could not weep. the +of a subject, she did not stop talking, but chattered about the +of a surgeon who has just performed a difficult operation and admits the +of austerlitz, but wore a tight new uniform with russian and foreign +of austerlitz: nine tenths of the men in the russian army were then in +of bagratión’s detachment. his hussars were placed along the line +of battles was evidently culminating in a panic. +of beginning anew pictured to himself the blissful, irreproachable, +of being afraid roused him again. “i cannot be afraid,” thought he, +of believing in the possibility of attaining perfection, and in the +of birds. +of blessedness which now flooded his heart with glad emotion. +of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist. in front and +of contempt. “and believe me, if i still value my life it is +“of course, it is a very brilliant match, but happiness, my dear...” +“of course, we only just missed one another,” said the staff +of cowardice in the other. both passed the examination successfully. as +of cruelty, as when tying the policeman to the bear and dropping them +of delighted amazement. +of disease without help while material assistance could so easily be +of dread was in the air. it was evident that the affair so lightly begun +of each. +of england, inspired by such hatred of our nation! this victory will +of eternal peace and blessedness?” she thought. +of exasperation. “don’t you hear it’s his majesty the emperor’s +off; and here at last was a russian prince. mademoiselle bourienne knew +off, and the firing had begun to subside. suddenly, near by on the +off—and this is what comes of it!” said prince andrew in an +of fate and the designs of rogues. during the few days he spent in +off at every moment. they waited and listened. +of fear for his young and happy life, possessed his whole being. rapidly +off his eyes and glanced around him. the room was in black darkness, +officer.” +officer and a wounded hero, would it be right to remind him of herself +officer in the white uniform of the horse guards. +officer passing by addressed him: +officers. +officer!” said bagratión to rostóv, “are the enemy’s skirmishers +officers became animated. the guardsmen told rostóv of their march and +officers, but every soldier with his freshly washed and shaven face and +officers buttoned up their coats, buckled on their swords and pouches, +officers, generals, and adjutants, as they passed rostóv going or +officers who had gathered at his quarters. the little old man with +officer, with a smile to bolkónski. +of fire and had descended into the dip, he was met by some of the staff, +of fugitives, prince andrew, trying to keep near kutúzov, saw on the +of hearts. on the previous sunday the old count had given his son +of hearts with a torn corner, which he had picked up from the floor. he +of hélène. some, as if unwilling to distract her from an important +of her most august majesty the empress márya fëdorovna. pierre felt +of her worthlessness he was also dreaming of how she would be his +of him—at the battery. he now saw clearly the figure of a red-haired +of him?” not one of the innumerable speeches addressed to the emperor +of his appearance before her now. prince andrew went round the sofa and +of his book with his old hands which from excitement he could not keep +of his commissions and ordered the small closed carriage for her. +of his former bachelor acquaintances many were no longer in petersburg. +of his return. +of his words for the solemnity of the moment, as he spoke. “i +of horses had been sent up the highroad to meet the german doctor from +of horse’s hoofs approaching at a trot along the line of hussars was +of how beside himself and all aflame with excitement, he had flown like +of inviting the other to take a seat beside him. pierre felt reluctant +of joy in his eyes, looked round him, not knowing how to answer the +of lannes’ sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and +of love and self-sacrifice. and cost what it may, i will arrange +of love which pervaded the rostóv household that winter and, now after +of men and horses, from the little puffs of smoke on the enemy’s side +of mind, pierre carried out an intention he had long had of visiting his +of now as the “seeker,” now as the “sufferer,” and now as the +of officers and courtiers, was riding a bobtailed chestnut mare, a +of olmütz where bolkónski had seen him for the first time abroad, but +of permission previously given him by kutúzov to be present at the +of peter and paul, his patron saints. in another place the women with +of pride, indolence, and ignorance. forgive me, my dear sir, but if i +of prussia, in order to draw borís into the conversation. +of sergéy kuzmích and at the same time his eyes glanced toward his +of several thousand men could produce. the lights spread farther and +of shots retreated. in the highest army circles from midday on the +of sixteen, evidently passionately in love with him (he did not doubt +of slaves? have you helped them physically and morally? no! you have +of some dislocation and blunder spread through the ranks. how such +of sons and brothers. +often heard from his fellow hussars. +often than at anyone else and took delight in his every movement. +of the advance. as soon as an austrian officer showed himself near +of the azóv and podólsk infantry and the pávlograd hussars—was +of the boulevards whom he visited of an evening. he led the mazurka +of the campfire, waving his uplifted arm. +of the candles was focused on those two happy faces alone. +of the cannon. he heard the whistle of bullets above him unceasingly and +of the club, beset the new arrivals. count ilyá, again thrusting his +of the club from the day it was founded. to him the club entrusted the +of the dam, throwing two soldiers off their feet, and ran onto the +of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the +of the emperor like a cloud of haze across a clear sky and vanished. +of the enemy’s lines, which all day long had yielded ground to us +of the feebleness of age, “bolkónski!” he whispered, pointing to +of the field he stood on was well-known and familiar ground. though he +of the frenchmen with the gunners ended, whether the red-haired gunner +of the general sorrow. +of the gospel: “in the beginning was the word and the word was with +of the hand on the dial of human history. +of the intellectual essence of petersburg,” as she herself put it. +of the lovers. “that’s happiness!” +of the maids who was present. (mary bogdánovna was a midwife from the +of the majestic emperor. casually, while surveying the squadron, the +of the meal and was certain that there was some secret between her +of them will have any meaning for me. tomorrow perhaps, even certainly, +of the nearness of the emperor francis’ black cob, nor of all that was +of the newly commissioned officer were collected. anna mikháylovna, +of the night. the gloom that enveloped the army was filled with their +of the nineteenth march, and her downy little lip rose from old habit, +of the orderlies and servants. +of the president, who held a mallet in his hand. let into the wall was +of the room. prince andrew turned to him, but the doctor gave him a +of the sayings and doings of their commander, the grand duke, and told +of the second gun’s crew was “uncle”; túshin looked at him more +of these maneuvers that enabled us to escape him. buxhöwden pursues +of the sleigh. +of the statutes and these remained in his mind. +of the streams and hollows of sokolnitz and schlappanitz beyond which we +of the sun. in front, far off on the farther shore of that sea of mist, +of the three precepts of freemasonry pierre realized that he did not +of the unwritten code of subordination—looked so fixedly at the +of the victory that had been gained. prince andrew introduced his +of the war and without leaders. the moscovites felt that something was +of the wood ran out of it, the different companies getting mixed, and +of things to him in the very worst light, pointing out the necessity of +of this kind for another, which from pride he would never accept for +of those frenchmen,” he said. “what nasty brutes they are! i’d +of truth, my dear sir, but have thrust her into an abyss of deceit and +of twenty; sónya a girl of sixteen with all the charm of an opening +of voices, the tramping feet, the horses’ hoofs moving in mud, the +of weyrother’s voice, he opened his one eye with an effort. +of which kutúzov was standing began to shout, he rode a little to one +“of whom you imagine me to be one?” said prince andrew, with a quiet +of wind blowing over the army slightly stirred the streamers on the +of your misfortune.” he seemed to emphasize the last word, as if to +of yours, is not at all to blame that my face has the misfortune to +“oh, but you were there?” said prince bagratión, addressing prince +“oh dear, what a beast i am!” muttered rostóv, as he read the +“oh, denísov is quite different,” replied nicholas, implying that +“oh, don’t mention it, count! i quite understand,” said berg, +“oh god, what would happen to me if the emperor spoke to me?” +“oh, go to the devil!” called out a voice, drowned by the laughter +“oh, how delightful it is!” she kept saying, running up to sónya. +oh, how i would guard him, how i would tell him the truth, how i would +“oh, how nice, how splendid!” she said to everything. +oh, how that chord vibrated, and how moved was something that was finest +“oh, hush, please!” said another. +“oh, it’s nothing. i only wished to say...” (he wanted to repeat +“oh, it’s terrible to feel oneself so in this man’s power,” +“oh, leave off, you always talk nonsense and keep putting things +“oh, my god! thank god!” said princess mary. “i must go and meet +“oh, natásha!” said sónya, looking ecstatically and earnestly at +“oh no, let me off, countess,” denísov replied. +“oh, no, no!” and besides the pallor and the physical suffering +“oh no, not at all! on the contrary, i am very glad to make your +“oh no!” said iogel, hastening to reassure him. “you were only +“oh, nothing,” said he, as if weary of being continually asked the +“oh, nurse, i’m so glad!” +“oh! oh! oh!” groaned kutúzov despairingly and looked around.... +“oh, take those off... those...” she said, pointing to his +“oh, that is all the same,” dolgorúkov said quickly, and getting up +“oh, that is dreadful, dreadful!” said pierre. “i don’t +“oh, that’s it!” said rostóv, evidently thinking of something +oh, that wicked prince hippolyte!” she said. +“oh, the faiwy! she can do anything with me!” said denísov, and +“oh, those moscow gossips!” said dólokhov, and he took up the cards +“oh, to die, to die for him,” thought rostóv. +“oh, very well, you may stay in attendance on me.” +“oh, well then, good-by: go and dress. is he very terrible, +“oh, what a nuisance,” said dolgorúkov, getting up hurriedly and +“oh, what a pig i am, not to have written and to have given them +“oh, what are you talking about?” said another. “where is he to +“oh, what nonsense!” cried natásha, laughing. “i don’t think +“oh, yes!” +“oh yes,” assented princess mary, “perhaps that’s it. i’ll go. +“oh, yes, i quite understand,” answered rostóv, who was under his +“oh yes, it is horribly stupid,” said pierre. +“oh yes, like that, i know, i only forgot,” said he. +“oh, yes!” said pierre, with a forced smile. “i am very grateful +“oh yes, very much! my brother knows him, he’s dined with him—the +“oh, you damned dandies! clean and fresh as if you’d been to a fete, +“oh, you fool!” said the old man, spitting angrily. some time passed +“oh, you guards!” said rostóv. “i say, send for some wine.” +old bolkónski had always had a poor opinion of prince vasíli’s +old chamberlain was heard assuring an old baroness that he loved her +old fellow? out of sorts?” +old fool,” he thought. “that princess hélène will be beautiful +old gabriel brought in the wine. +old lady next to her and glanced angrily at her daughter, and her sigh +old man too came up and kissed the waxen little hands that lay quietly +old michael was asleep on the chest. prokófy, the footman, who was +old miller had been accustomed to sit in his tasseled cap peacefully +old prince had forbidden it, appeared on the threshold with a shawl +old prince nicholas bolkónski received a letter from prince vasíli +old princess, kissing her soundly. “if i hadn’t this headache i’d +old prince understood from this official report that our army had been +olmütz and that he wanted to see him as he had a letter and money for +olmütz, was preparing to be reviewed next day by the two emperors—the +on a few steps he stopped before prince andrew, who lay on his back with +on all sides, had stopped because a horse in front had fallen under a +on around him. not only was he indifferent as to whether he got to +on a sofa in a far corner of the room. he closed his eyes and seemed to +on being relieved from picket duty rostóv had managed to get a few +once.” +“once again, colonel,” said the general, “i can’t leave half +once for a moment of glory, of triumph over men, of love from men i +once he raised his eyebrows, abruptly touched his horse with his left +once recognized it to be a tuft of grass. she was terribly close to him. +once she has said...” +once the stranger closed the book, putting in a marker, and again, +once was—did not struggle, and perhaps she was right. nothing has been +on condition that she should tell no one. +one another, beginning to see one another through the mist. they had the +one another time to ask questions and give replies concerning a thousand +one day’s ration of bread remains, and in some regiments none at all, +one foot, bounded from the floor like a ball, and flew round the room +one i’d give my life for her! but those!...” and he made a gesture +one is to interfere with his arrangements—leads his division to +one moment prayed to god as he had done on the battlefield at the bridge +“one more question, count,” he said, “which i beg you to answer +one of the Ápsheron regiment went forward past the emperor. +one of the hindmost guns that was going onto the dam turned off onto the +one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow. +one of them was leading by the bridle a fine large french horse he had +one of the players said he hoped he might be trusted. +one. “oh, this senseless life of ours!” thought nicholas. “all +(one shattered gun and one unicorn were left behind), prince andrew rode +“one should make up to the husbands of pretty women,” said denísov. +one side of which symbolized god, another moral things, a third +one spot. his predictions were being justified. part of the russian +“one thing i thank god for is that i did not kill that man,” said +“o-ne! t-wo! thwee!” he shouted angrily and stepped aside. +“one was damaged,” answered the staff officer, “and the other i +one was on a white horse. prince bagratión and prince dolgorúkov with +one would have expected of him. +on february 26, 1807, the old prince set off on one of his circuits. +on! go on!” and cries of horror were heard in the crowd. the soldiers +on hearing of the arrival of the letter went softly into the room and +on hearing the news was one of anger with sónya.... he tried to say, +on hélène’s name day, a small party of just their own people—as +on her face. +on her priority) “that that senseless young man was spoiled by the +on her toes any longer. “so that’s what i’m up to! i’ll never +on him without changing their expression. “i love you all and have +on his pupil’s behalf. that’s how it’s to be understood! ‘how +on his return to moscow from the army, nicholas rostóv was welcomed +on his thin bony legs, and keeping on a worn, nankeen-covered, sheepskin +on horseback facing the ditch. one with a white plume in his hat seemed +on!” innumerable voices suddenly shouted after the ball had struck +only a small lamp was burning inside something white. pierre went nearer +only because i still hope to meet such a divine creature, who will +only betrayed us three times in three years. we take up their cause, but +only bivouacking here and have just come to look round. i am going back +only covered by her garments. and having once seen this he could not +only heard dólokhov’s hurried steps, and his figure came in view +only help a bit! i must have singers too. i shall have my own orchestra, +“only let me report this gentleman’s business, and i shall be at +only lit fires to deceive us. +only now, when he was confronted by the stern authorities, did his guilt +only pressed it to the cold braiding of his hussar’s jacket. denísov, +only sónya, nicholas, and natásha, but even the old countess, +only sure happiness in life.” +“only that?” said bolkónski. +only to express his rapture fully. +only when approaching bagratión did rostóv let his horse gallop again, +only when prince andrew was gone did rostóv think of what he ought to +on our right flank commanded by bagratión, at nine o’clock the battle +on reaching petersburg pierre did not let anyone know of his arrival, +on retiring to her own room, she sat in an armchair, her eyes fixed on a +on seeing rostóv before him, with whom he would inevitably collide. +on—that pierre became quite bewildered and only replied: +on that third of march, all the rooms in the english club were filled +“on the 4th, the first courier arrives from petersburg. the mails +“on the contrary, that coiffure suits the princess very well,” said +on the contrary, they stimulated his energy and determination. +on the cot. +on the eighteenth and nineteenth of november, the army advanced two +on the field. +on the field before the fortress. now thousands of feet and bayonets +on the first arrival of the news of the battle of austerlitz, moscow had +on the ground. +on the little princess’ face, an expression of childish fear of +on the pratzen heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his +on. the preoccupation and despondency which pierre had noticed in his +on the snow. +on the table, again bound his eyes. +on the third day after christmas nicholas dined at home, a thing he had +on the top of her head (a style that quite altered and spoiled her +on the twelfth of november, kutúzov’s active army, in camp before +on the unattractive martyrlike expression it so often wore, as she +on the way home, prince andrew could not refrain from asking kutúzov, +“on tuesday between eight and nine. it will give me great pleasure.” +on what he thought right. the steward promised to do all in his power to +on which rostóv sat. +on which with a broken bit of chalk he had written “800 rubles” in +opened eyes. “what has happened to her? how she is singing today!” +opened the bedroom door. +open it. someone was holding it shut. +operations according to him were connected with such complicated +opportunity of joining in the general current of recollections. +opportunity since morning to meet one another alone. when princess mary +opposite pierre and seemed very gay. rostóv was talking merrily to his +or anybody; but you are free to choose.... go to your room, think it +or appreciative according to the way the joke was received. everybody +“or are you afraid to play with me?” dólokhov now asked as if +or cap, his head was bandaged, and over his shoulder a french munition +ordained that the austrian army should maneuver the previous year on the +ordeal was about to begin. +order. +ordered his horse at once and, coldly taking leave of borís, rode +ordered to turn back to the right. several thousand cavalry crossed in +orderly to the bravest general, and still more, he was going with a +orders. +orders, and the star of st. george on his left breast. evidently just +orders by heart and know the regulations as well as i do the lord’s +orders to the club steward and to the famous feoktíst, the club’s +ordinary staid and respectful good manners habitual in the prince’s +or even to wish to be thought to listen. exactly opposite weyrother, +or gray horses; then again, spreading out with the brazen clatter of the +or he would suddenly feel ashamed of he knew not what. he felt it +or kutúzov was. some said the report that the emperor was wounded was +or make out anything of what was happening: there in the smoke men of +or of the necessity of rebuilding factories and workshops. so the first +or two in his head but dozens, some only beginning to form themselves, +or you as having been at all insulted, and as a man older than you, my +ostralitz. in the large drawing room which had become the commander +other fare, was splendid, yet he could not feel quite at ease till the +other officer; he’ll say: ‘go and find out what’s there.’ there +others and even from herself, the stronger it grew. “o god,” she +others and, in shirt sleeves and breeches, went glass in hand to the +others, only now have i understood all the happiness of life. no, i +other virtues—love of his neighbor, and especially generosity. +otherwise. to tell them that she felt ashamed for herself and for them +ought to be, now he fancied it was only something in his own eyes. his +ought to go straight to him and give the message dolgorúkov had ordered +our enemies! hurrah!” he exclaimed in his dashing, old, hussar’s +our fine speeches and in his rude and savage way throws himself on the +our hands! no, we mustn’t forget suvórov and his rule—not to put +our members as much as possible to reform their hearts, to purify and +our officers.” +our officers and men at austerlitz. one had saved a standard, another +our order can bestow it will render you, my dear sir. you are going to +our present, depraved world. no one now loves virtue; it seems like +ourselves.” +ourselves, dear prince,” said the little princess (of course, in +ourselves, were growing up and dying with no idea of god and truth +‘our sovereign, the emperor,’ as they say at official dinners,” +our thoughts to the second, bonaparte. but as it turns out, just at +our troops had descended and from whence came the sounds of firing. +our troops were known to him as far as they could be known to anyone +out. +out accidently.” +out and the sabers whizzed as they were drawn from their scabbards. +outlines. dressed as she used to be in petersburg society, it was still +out of hearing. another musket missed fire but flashed in the pan. +out of it. they could not understand that i have not the necessary +out over the fire, and not waiting for an answer he gave a grunt and +outposts today and it is impossible to say where his chief forces are +outright. +outside his uniform. +out skirmishers. he had felt perfectly sure that there were other troops +out. the fences and gates were new and solid; two fire pumps and a +out there... both playing the hero... ah, vasíli ignátovich... +over.” and after stumbling a few staggering steps right up to the +over, and come back in an hour and tell me in his presence: yes or no. +overflow with sick, and famine is everywhere. twice the marauders even +over his shoulder, as when rostóv had seen him on the eve of the battle +over. it will be a tremendous banquet.” +overtaking the battalions that continued to advance, he stopped +over the battlefield had given final orders to strengthen the batteries +over the enns, and then guessed that the card that came first to hand +over the squadron. rostóv raised his saber, ready to strike, but at +owed him money! what baseness! what meanness! i know you understand +owing to the terrible uproar and the necessity for concentration and +own about the facts he was recounting. for some time he engrossed the +own breast, the husband standing by and gazing tenderly at her and the +own eyes she comforted the count, and decided that at dinner and till +pace. +paces, and nicholas could clearly distinguish every detail of his +pacing angrily about and snorting. the old prince felt as though he +painful to him at this moment of sorrow; besides, what can i say to him +painstaking effect that had been in it before; but she did not yet sing +palace in a manner agreeable to yourself, and in so far as circumstances +pale and his jaw trembled, shivering feverishly. he was placed on +pale and then blushing. +pale on seeing her father-in-law. +pale, with compressed lips and feverishly glittering eyes. +pale, with quivering lips, pierre snatched the copy. +pallid and quivered. +“papa, i have come on a matter of business. i was nearly forgetting. i +“papa! pa-pa!” he called after him, sobbing, “forgive me!” and +papa, which natásha, and which pétya. everyone shouted, talked, and +paralyzed his will. +“pardon me! a snuffbox with the emperor’s portrait is a reward but +parents who have petted their children from babyhood, but which prince +paris. it was not calculation that guided her (she did not even for a +particularly calm and absent-minded way, which inspired the respect of +particularly discontented and out of temper. whether he was in a bad +particularly vivid, humiliating, and shameful was the recollection of +parties, wearing a dress such as was then fashionable, cut very low at +part in it, but also by the joyful expression on the faces of soldiers, +partly because of the depressing memories associated with bald hills, +partly because prince andrew did not always feel equal to bearing with +partner’s hand firmly, threw back his head, and advanced his foot, +part of his legs; he had on a kind of necklace above which rose a high +part of his mind her image rose in all its womanly beauty. +party at which pierre had to be present unless he wished to spoil +passed his time very gaily. after a short period of adapting himself +passed in step before the emperors and their suites at a bold, brisk +passed, the pávlograd division was ordered to advance. in wischau +passing bagratión and racing one another they rushed in an irregular +passing behind one of the lines of a regiment of foot guards he heard a +passing, but before he had finished his greeting there was a general +passing it across hélène’s back. hélène stooped forward to make +passionately and tenderly, and old mary ivánovna, who had grown fond of +passionately, at which she laughed; at the other could be heard the +passionately fond of the boy, and princess mary often deprived herself +passionately repents. i will do all i can to arrange the match between +passion but in your own heart. the source of blessedness is not without +passion,” said the latter. +past the ladies into the little drawing room. with quick steps he went +path of virtue,” said the mason. +patronage at the dancers. +patted his favorite, rostóv, on the shoulder. +paul was a market village where a fair was held on st. peter’s day, +pause, “she told him she loved another.” +pávlograd commander. the commanders met with polite bows but with +pávlovna again touched pierre’s sleeve, saying: “i hope you won’t +pávlovna’s, an unacknowledged sense of the guilt of that desire +pávlovna’s drawing room he considered an important step up in the +pávlovna, shaking her little shriveled finger at him. +pávlovna’s usual pink notes with an invitation to which was added: +pávlovna’s voice, “i see you are all right there.” +pávlovna’s words and looks when she spoke to him about his house, +pávlovna threatened him on behalf of “our dear vyazmítinov,” and +pay. i can tell you for myself...” +paying off the debts and undertaking new activities with serf labor, +payments had been diminished by a third, their obligatory manorial work +peace.” +peasant, or a woman with a baby, has no rest day or night and i give +peculiarities of his reserved nature, borís had managed during his +peculiar to pregnant women. it was evident that her eyes did not see +pensions and the same amount for asylums; 150,000 alimony was sent to +people—businessmen, relations, and acquaintances alike—were all +people dancing, iogel with natásha, his pride and his best pupil, were +people do understand him. he is such a lofty, heavenly soul!” +perfection of manner. if he ever thought of hélène, it was just of +perfect one’s self. and to attain this end, we have the light called +perhaps because it was hard for him, hungry as he was, to look on at +“perhaps,” coldly and angrily replied dólokhov, glancing at sónya, +perhaps dying, while meeting my remorse with some forced bravado!” +perhaps i may...” +“perhaps we’d really better not wake him,” he said hesitating. +permission here in hospital, that i may not have to play the part of a +perseverance, but only the knowledge of how to get on with those who can +personage, a position in the army which seemed to him most attractive. +personal interview was refused, and instead of the sovereign, prince +person she happened to look at she was in love with for that moment. +petersburg. +petersburg and staying at his house. with apparent absent-mindedness, +petersburg earlier or later, or whether he secured accommodation at this +petersburg. hand this to count willarski” (he took out his notebook +petersburg. he could not imagine how he could speak to her now. he +petersburg. it is high time for you to get away from these terrible +petersburg to ascertain what moscow was thinking about austerlitz. +petisenfans, allay cushay dormir!” he exclaimed, imitating his russian +“pétrusha has come with papers from your father,” whispered the +pétya. +pétya. besides that, he sent greetings to monsieur schelling, madame +pétya, clinging to his legs, kept shouting, “and me too!” +pétya in, closed again. a sound of laughter came from behind it. +pétya paced the room in silence for a time. +pétya, pacing the room with large, resolute strides. “now i’m very +“pétya, you’re a stupid!” said natásha. +physically at that moment, there was a weight on his chest and he could +physical things, and the fourth a combination of these. now and then +pierre. +pierre. +pierre. +pierre. +pierre and there were lines of pain on his face and a shamefaced smile. +pierre, as in a dream, saw several men standing before him, wearing +pierre began describing what he had done on his estates, trying as far +pierre blushed, as he always did when it was mentioned, and said +pierre clutched his temples, and turning round went into the forest, +pierre considered. +pierre could not and did not wish to break this silence. +pierre could not go on. he gulped and turned away. +pierre did not catch what they were saying, but knew they were talking +pierre dropped his eyes, lifted them again, and wished once more to see +pierre felt confused and wished to avoid that look, but the bright old +pierre felt himself far poorer than when his father had made him +pierre felt that he was the center of it all, and this both pleased and +pierre felt uncomfortable and even depressed in his friend’s company +pierre flushed and, hurriedly putting his legs down from the bed, bent +pierre, from joy, agitation, and embarrassment, was not in a state to +pierre gave no answer, for he neither heard nor saw anything. he had +pierre gradually began to recover himself and looked about at the room +pierre had already long been feeling in himself that refreshing source +pierre had met in petersburg society. in the president’s chair sat a +pierre had none of the practical persistence that would have enabled him +pierre had of late rarely seen his wife alone. both in petersburg and in +pierre, hardly restraining his sobs, began running toward dólokhov and +pierre in his preoccupation and absent-mindedness had not recognized +pierre in his secret soul agreed with the steward that it would be +pierre, in reply, sincerely agreed with her as to hélène’s +pierre, “i said at the time and before anyone else” (she insisted +pierre knew very well what a hieroglyph was, but dared not speak. he +pierre leaped up from the sofa and rushed staggering toward her. +pierre listened with swelling heart, gazing into the mason’s face with +pierre looked silently and inquiringly at him over his spectacles. +pierre looked silently and searchingly into prince andrew’s face, +pierre, on unexpectedly becoming count bezúkhov and a rich man, felt +pierre paused, seeking a reply. +pierre, perplexed, looked round with his shortsighted eyes without +pierre quickly took out his purse and watch, but could not manage for +pierre recalled, counting them on his fingers, he felt already in his +pierre remained gloomily silent, answering in monosyllables and +pierre said nothing; he looked fixedly at his friend with surprise. he +pierre sat opposite dólokhov and nicholas rostóv. as usual, he ate and +pierre’s direction at a slight rustle made by the latter. “why have +pierre’s eyes with it and tied it in a knot behind, catching some +pierre sighed, rose submissively, emptied his glass, and, waiting till +pierre smiled, but his smile showed that he knew it was not the story +pierre stood with his arms hanging down and legs apart, before his +pierre. the estates he had not before visited were each more picturesque +pierre took his feet off the table, stood up, and lay down on a bed that +pierre took off his coat, waistcoat, and left boot according to the +pierre took them off, and his eyes, besides the strange look eyes have +pierre tried several times to speak, but, on one hand, prince vasíli +pierre turned over heavily on the ottoman and opened his mouth, but +pierre was about to reply, but prince vasíli interrupted him. +pierre was one of those people who, in spite of an appearance of what +pierre was struck by the modesty of the small though clean house after +pierre went with rapid steps to the door and suddenly came face to +pierre. “what of it? it’s the truth!” and he himself smiled his +pierre who had been regarded with patronizing condescension when he was +pierre, whose preoccupied, absent-minded, and massive figure was a very +pierre who was under such obligations to him (“but never mind that”) +pierre wished to say something, looked at her with eyes whose strange +pierre wished to say this to the mason, but did not dare to. the +pierre, with a gentle smile of pity and remorse, his arms and legs +pierre, with downcast eyes, drank out of his glass without looking at +pierre, without knowing why, was having his enormous petersburg house +pilgrimage, of holy friendship, of the eternal architect of the +pinch of snuff. +pistols, and at the word thwee begin to advance. +pity, and for their sake i should like to liberate the serfs. you +pity me. yet i was once at home, strong, happy, and loved.” he sighed +pity’s sake, leave this helpless youth who, after all, was the son of +place and that he might now be lying, recovering or dying, alone among +place and without answering drew out a handkerchief. blood was flowing +place him on a stretcher that had been brought. the soldier groaned. +places and met in certain habitual groups. a minority of those present +place,” thought pierre. “it’s even certain that i should have done +plain enough as it is.” +plainly that there are not many wives with husbands such as you who +plainness of speech, uttering the word amant as casually as any other +plaiting slippers out of cloth selvedges. he looked up at the opening +plan of a flanking movement. +plan perfectly worthless. weyrother met all objections with a firm and +“plans!” repeated prince andrew ironically. “my plans?” he said, +plans to kutúzov’s quarters where the council of war was to be +players, or peered at the now cold face of dólokhov and tried to read +playing a viennese waltz on the clavichord, while a fourth, lying on +playing chess. berg held a smoking pipe between his knees. borís, in +“plea...” began dólokhov, but could not at first pronounce the +pleasant face and resonant though not loud voice, attracted everyone’s +“please come and visit us... you know my brave boy... been together +“please come to tea. the prince will be out in a moment,” came the +pleased faces, for they knew that under no other management could they +“please,” he uttered with an effort. +“please place your money on the cards or i may get muddled in the +“please, vasíli dmítrich,” natásha was saying, “do come!” +pleasure of deceiving me, if it really were true. yes, if it were true, +pleasures than allow himself to be seen in a shabby equipage or appear +pleasure that for the first time since his arrival prince andrew was +“plenty of time, your excellency,” muttered kutúzov in the midst of +point... come, how are you?” asked rostóv. +pointed boot then fashionable, touched the groin of the bobtailed bay +pointing to the fields, he spoke of the improvements he was making in +pointing to the flying soldiers; but at that instant, as if to punish +point where the french pickets had been standing that evening. +polished shining cannon that quivered on the gun carriages and with +political news. it became particularly animated toward the end of the +pomaded hair, perfumed, and in a new uniform, looking just as smart as +pondered. a husband, a man, a strong dominant and strangely attractive +pondered. sometimes he staked a large sum, but dólokhov refused to +ponderous steps up to her sister-in-law. +poor amélie’s happiness, she loves him so passionately, and so +porter. he had no lambskin cap on his head, nor had he a loaded whip +position. he kept closing his eyes and then again looking at the fire, +position, it was now necessary to attack in order to cut a way through +positions and withdrawn in his presence. together with túshin, stepping +position with his eyes shut. pierre looked at him and had not time +possessed of a helen. “but no doubt it always is and must be so!” +possessed. pierre was one of those who are only strong when they feel +possibility of active brotherly love among men, which joseph alexéevich +possibility of anyone seeing her without being enchanted. the aunt +possible. and i,” continued pierre, “shot dólokhov because i +postmaster’s book. bazdéev had been one of the best-known freemasons +post of commander in chief as a reward for his victory, does not give up +“postulant,” to the accompaniment of various knockings with +pouch was slung. he had an officer’s sword in his hand. the soldier +poured drops from a medicine bottle into a wineglass half full of water. +pour le roi de prusse!” +powdered footmen, in livery with buckled shoes and smart stockings, +powder smoke and stopped in despair. everything seemed lost. but at that +power.” +practical woman that she was, had even managed by favor with army +pranced up and down in one place like a goat and shrieked piercingly. +pratzen heights. +pratzen, interrupted by such frequent reports of cannon that sometimes +pratzen, which was full of troops of all kinds. +prayer. so, count, there never is any negligence in my company, and +precedes a battle and had spent that happy day in inactivity, was all +premeditation prince vasíli took the first opportunity to gain his +preoccupied manner. he beckoned to one of his white adjutants and asked +preoccupied that only in bed was he able to be by himself. he had to +preoccupied, yet meekly christian look which never left her face, anna +preparations for war lay in the fact that nicholas would not hear of +preparation swept over all the troops. +prepared by long and diligent self-purification, not everyone can hope +prepare her sister-in-law, and every time began to cry. unobservant as +preparing tea. he brought in a boiling samovar. when everything was +presence and particularly distinguished himself.” +present bivouac another fortnight there will not be a healthy man left +present emperor—more than once in paris, and tells me he never met a +president of the council of war. weyrother evidently felt himself to be +pressed him still harder with proofs of the impossibility and above all +pressing the hands of prince andrew and borís. “you know i should +presumptuous lieutenant who had prevented his finishing what he had to +pretending to sleep, the sounds his nose emitted during the reading that +pretext that her aunt wished to hear him. +pretty face. +pretty young princesses gorchakóv met suitors there and were married +preussisch-eylau. +pricking its ears at the noise and looking at the lights. the shouting +pricking its ears at the sound of shots just as it had done on the +pride enough to see it? if she has no pride for herself she might at +prince. +prince andrew always became specially keen when he had to guide a young +prince andrew began to reply and to state his own plan, which might +prince andrew considered possible contingencies and formed new projects +prince andrew did not see how and by whom it was replaced, but the +prince andrew expressed his ideas so clearly and distinctly that it was +prince andrew galloped off to execute the order. +prince andrew gave him a look, but said nothing and went away. he felt +prince andrew got up and went on tiptoe up to the little bed, wineglass +prince andrew grew more and more animated. his eyes glittered feverishly +prince andrew. “i build a house and lay out a garden, and you build +prince andrew looked at his sister. in the dim shadow of the curtain her +prince andrew made use of boguchárovo, began building and spent most of +prince andrew, recalling his father’s letter. “yes, we have gained +prince andrew remained at bald hills as usual during his father’s +prince andrew remembered nothing more: he lost consciousness from the +prince andrew said nothing to túshin. they were both so busy as to seem +prince andrew shouted, “brothers! all’s lost!” and at this as if +prince andrew sighed and broke the seal of another envelope. it was +prince andrew spoke so earnestly that pierre could not help thinking +prince andrew understood that this was said of him and that it was +prince andrew was as glad to find the boy like that, as if he had +prince andrew was on duty that day and in constant attendance on the +prince andrew went again to his wife and sat waiting in the room next +prince andrew went out. +prince andrew went up to the child and felt him. he was burning hot. +prince andrew, who had also been brought forward before the emperor’s +prince bagratión and túshin looked with equal intentness at +prince bagratión, distinguished by his schön grabern affair and by +prince bagratión looked at túshin, evidently reluctant to show +prince bagratión proposed to dolgorúkov to send to inquire of the +prince bagratión to begin the council. at last bagratión’s orderly +prince bolkónski sat down in his usual place in the corner of the sofa +prince bolkónski’s household felt that their life had not been real +prince bolkónski surveyed anatole. +prince dolgorúkov ceased to listen to him and gazed absent-mindedly not +prince dolgorúkov to the advanced post of the french army. +“prince hippolyte kurágin—charming young fellow; m. +“prince, i did not ask you here. go, please go!” and he jumped up +prince interrupted her. +prince kurágin about me. i only wanted to ask because i fear the guards +prince never directly asked himself that question, knowing beforehand +prince nicholas frowned, but said nothing. +prince, one window frame was removed in each room as soon as the larks +prince repnín!” and he spurred his horse and galloped away. +prince repnín named lieutenant sukhtélen. +prince’s question as to how she felt. +princess anxious and inquiring, the nurse encouraging. everyone in the +princess’ beautiful eyes with all their former calm radiance were +“princess, come here!” he shouted. +princess felt this; they still thought that if a blue ribbon were placed +princess’ hair. it was evident that he could be silent in this way for +princess’ hand. +princess, his cousin, at moscow, concerning dólokhov’s intimacy with +princess, i hold to the principle that a maiden has a full right to +princess. (in accordance with lise’s and prince andrew’s wishes they +princess kurágina, a portly imposing woman who had once been handsome, +princess mary. +princess mary admitted to one another that the angel’s face reminded +princess mary but were looking within... into herself... at something +princess mary could not lift her head, she was weeping. +princess mary, evidently intimidated and confused that her opinion +princess mary grew quite unconscious of her face and coiffure. the +princess mary had greatly changed since 1805. +princess mary had long since put aside her book: she sat silent, her +princess mary knelt down before her and hid her face in the folds of her +princess mary, little as he seemed to value her, was unthinkable to +princess mary looked at them in silence. she could not understand it. at +princess mary sat alone in her room listening to the sounds in the +princess mary shrugged her shoulders but took the glass submissively +princess mary shuddered; her nurse, putting down the stocking she was +princess mary sighed, and having crossed herself went down, thinking +princess mary’s self-esteem would be wounded and his point (not to +princess mary, then sat thinking for a while with that expression of +princess mary threw a shawl over her head and ran to meet the newcomer. +princess mary was left alone. she did not comply with lise’s request, +princess mary was sitting on the sofa in her room, holding the weeping +princess mary was still standing by the cot, gently rocking the baby. +princess mary went to the door of the study with special trepidation. +princess mary with a gay smile, as if inviting her to join in a laugh at +“princess, my dear, there’s someone driving up the avenue!” she +princess on hearing the news. +princess was not unwell, but had such an overpowering fear of the prince +princess, with the long waist and hair plastered down like a doll’s, +prince, stepping on his heels, paced up and down his study and sent +prince told me to ask,’ and come and tell me her answer.” +prince vasíli. +prince vasíli and anatole had separate rooms assigned to them. +prince vasíli and that son of his to me? prince vasíli is a shallow +prince vasíli and the generals, had the benefit of the diplomat. +prince vasíli arrived that evening. he was met in the avenue by +prince vasíli, as he entered. “i know all about it, and i can tell +prince vasíli a third time. “how absent-minded you are, my dear +prince vasíli did everything to get pierre to marry his daughter. had +prince vasíli frowned, twisting his mouth, his cheeks quivered and his +prince vasíli gave pierre a significant look. +prince vasíli had come to the conclusion that it was necessary to throw +prince vasíli had to settle matters with pierre, who, it is true, had +prince vasíli passed by, seeming not to hear the ladies, and sat down +prince vasíli readily adopted her tone and the little princess also +prince vasíli rose. +prince vasíli’s arm and led him to his study. as soon as they were +prince vasíli saw that pierre knew this. he suddenly muttered +prince vasíli’s last words. then rising, he suddenly went up to his +prince vasíli smiled, and pierre noticed that everyone was smiling at +prince vasíli was not a man who deliberately thought out his plans. +prince vasíli, who pretended to want to know this in order to settle a +prince vasíli, with one leg thrown high over the other and a snuffbox +prince was at home, and showed him into a clean little anteroom. +“prince, what i have said is all there is in my heart. i thank you for +principal guests. he was just going to take it when dólokhov, leaning +principals nor their seconds suffered for it. but the story of the duel, +prisoners.” +prizes his freedom which he needs for so many other things. when he +probably he did not, for in general he thought very little—but his +proceeded to his study. +produce at the same intervals and hold for the same time, but which +produced on sónya, felt for the first time the sorrowful side of the +profited by their toil to lead a profligate life. that is what you have +promener,” * she used to say. often seeing the success she had with +promotion, nicholas said that he kissed his father’s and mother’s +promotion to the rank of major, and rostóv, who had already drunk +pronounced the mason in a stern and tremulous voice. +proofs of nikólenka’s virtues. how strange, how extraordinary, how +properly. hélène answered with a smile that she too had missed it. +proper posts. borís had been quartered, and had marched all the +propose is the only thing possible.” +proposition to you in his pupil’s—i mean, his son’s—name. do you +prostrated himself before the gates of the temple. and really, the +protégé, but prince dolgorúkov politely and firmly pressing his hand +proudly at his son. +prussia, and had just returned from there as a special messenger. he had +prussian army, hélène had suddenly found it necessary to see him. +prussians without giving them time to finish the parade they had begun, +przebyszéwski and his corps had laid down their arms. other columns +przebyszéwski’s and langeron’s columns which had already gone down +przebyszéwski, with respectful but dignified politeness, held his +public to appreciate his skill. +pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at +pultúsk to petersburg returns bringing our appointment as commander in +punishments were to be admonitory and not corporal, and hospitals, +purified, thou wilt gain wisdom. look at your life, my dear sir. +purity, and not the serfs’ backs and foreheads, which, beat and shave +purple-faced general wait respectfully while captain prince andrew, for +purple face, reporting something. +purposely dropped a handkerchief in front of him and stood looking +purse that sank into the sofa. “as for us, count, we get along on our +pushing back his chair, he rose from the table. +put questions and gave brief replies about things they knew ought to +putting the nightshirt over his dried-up old body and gray-haired chest. +qualifications for it—the kind of good-natured, fussy shallowness +qualities. he was always hearing such words as: “with your remarkable +quarreled with hélène, mon cher? you are under a delusion,” said +quarreled with her brother about him. she insisted that he was a bad +quarters torches and candles were burning and no one slept. the old +question for her to refuse him. and therefore nicholas’ first feeling +question for whose sake he came (though no one spoke of it) was soon +question he noticed that it should not have been put. +question him. the man announced that the tsar had been driven in a +questioning him about political affairs and news. he seemed to listen +question—one so important that he took no notice of what went +questions put to him. he was bespattered with mud and had a pitiful, +quick-witted, nor ready or eloquent in conversation, but he had the +quiet and peace. thank god!...” +quiet authority, “you wish to insult me, and i am ready to agree with +“quite avare, your excellency,” suddenly shouted the colonel, +quite close at hand, and a voice of naïve terror barely two steps from +quite heard. +quite sincerely tried to make her look pretty. she was so plain that +quits... it can’t be!... and why is he doing this to me?” rostóv +raised. he remained stubbornly silent, gazing at weyrother’s face, +raising him. +ran ahead on tiptoe and knocked at a door. +ran forward shading his eyes with his small hand to look at the french. +rank (for he did nothing), that prince vasíli had procured for him, +ranks; anatole was in the army somewhere in the provinces; prince andrew +ranks were returning from the attack. rostóv got out of their way, +ran up, begging a little fire for the infantry. +rapidly. +rapidly adding up the total of rostóv’s debt, breaking the chalk as +rapidly and indistinctly. “you thought!... rascals! blackguards!... +rapid, self-confident, familiar tone. “here is my second son; please +rarely done of late. it was a grand farewell dinner, as he and denísov +rasgulyáy—the coachman ipátka knows—and look up the gypsy +rather of death, as the saying is. ‘albanians!’ and ‘devils!’ +rather round shoulders and glanced at novosíltsev who was near him, as +rather than of what the generals were disputing about. +reached the bushes. behind these were some russian sharpshooters. +reached. wheels creak on their axles as the cogs engage one another and +read a congratulation on his future son-in-law and on his daughter’s +readily and rapidly like a man who has not talked for a long time. his +readiness to fall in love and an expectation of happiness. +reading confirmation in anna mikháylovna’s face. +reading the letter. he went on tiptoe to the nursery door and opened it. +reading them aloud. bagratión bowed his head and listened: +reading. then milorádovich looked round significantly at the other +read this in tíkhon’s face and in that of prince vasíli’s valet, +ready, the stranger opened his eyes, moved to the table, filled a +reality again presented itself. he got up without saying a word and went +realize because the fear was so much the stronger feeling. the prince +realized as he read that book: the joy, hitherto unknown to him, +realized that something dreadful had happened to his regiment, and the +really good society” consisted of the fascinating hélène, forsaken +“really, papa, i believe prince bagratión worried himself less before +rearguard all the freshness of atmosphere of the french army, which was +reasoning contained in the mason’s words, or believed as a child +reason, or shot a post-boy’s horse with a pistol. that expression +reason, ran back and disappeared from the outskirts, and russian +reawakening. he was afraid of any want of clearness, any weakness, in +rebuking her for her fall. +recalcitrant cavalry colonel, his own dignity as a general, and above +recalled all this as childishness he had left immeasurably behind. +recalled thousands of such hints from prince vasíli and others, and was +receipt, he left at the end of november, without taking leave of any of +received all petersburg, proud of her unapproachability and beauty. so +received and read the then famous rescript of the emperor alexander +received pierre with a shade of melancholy, evidently relating to the +receive that science it is necessary to purify and renew one’s inner +receiving from all sides declarations of the people’s loyalty, that +receiving it. this gratitude reminded him of how much more he might do +reception room if he wished to see him. borís thanked him and went to +reciprocated this antipathy, but it was overpowered by his contempt +reckoning.” +recognized his lamented and adored monarch. +recognized the tsar and watched his approach. when he was within twenty +recollection of how he was put in the sleigh or of the first three +recollections.” prince vasíli sighed. “yes, yes, my boy. and my +recounting his military exploits (prince andrew could not endure +recover.” +recovered, and rostóv became very friendly with him during his +recross to the other. at last our enemy, buxhöwden, catches us and +recruitment so as to avoid active service. the old prince and his son +recruits were being enrolled in the villages, and from the seat of +reduced to tears. +referred to in that drawing room as “a man of great merit” (un homme +“refill my pipe for that one!” and then, scattering sparks from it, +reflected on theirs. +reflections. better die a thousand times than risk receiving an unkind +refusal with his head and hand and by that gesture rostóv instantly +refuse iogel and asked sónya to dance. denísov sat down by the old +refusing to let her see them off. the diplomatist preserved a mournful +regarded all these little adjutants on the staff of whom the newcomer +regard him—but you want to cure him from love of him. and he does not +regarding all arguments as nonsense in comparison with that smile. +regenerate, purify, and elevate me. but you don’t understand it.” +regeneration, and return to life. +regimental commander and major ekonómov had stopped beside a bridge, +regiments, both cavalry and infantry, were by no means ready for the +regiments form bands and scour the countryside and put everything +regiment. the faces of these young people, especially those who were +regiment, they listen intently, look about, and eagerly ask concerning +regiment was much surprised at the commander in chief’s order to throw +regrettable delusion.” +regular motion as a result of all that activity. +reins and started of his own accord. +relating to nikólenka, did not venture to ask any questions at dinner, +religion?” +relying on reason only? what art thou? you are young, you are rich, you +remained alone with him for a long time. +remained in reserve and nicholas rostóv spent that day in a dull and +remaining in moscow, and only awaited the termination of denísov’s +remaining strength. he raised his pistol and aimed. +remains of sheds, chairs, tables, wheels, tubs, and everything that they +remarks. the old count rose once more, glanced at a note lying beside +remarks which seemed to him clever while they formed in his mind became +remark to him, pointing to the gallant Ápsherons. +remember everything?” said natásha, with an expressive gesture, +“remember, for you everything depends on this.” +remember nikólenka too, i remember him well,” she said. “but i +remorse, humiliations, sufferings, outbursts of pride, fear, and +rendered, and i supplied them with a doctor, a hospital, and an asylum +renounced your former convictions—do you believe in god?” +repeated by others from various sides and all became silent. +repeated. “i should be glad enough to fall asleep, so it’s not my +repeat his question. +repeating in a low voice the same words several times over. +repellent. yet in this very repugnance to all his circumstances pierre +replace some chessmen that were falling. he was about to embrace his +replied that it would be more than enough for him and that he gave his +replied: “yes, yes, i agree,” and with a beaming, childlike smile, +reply. +reply—which he would not have received, for the princess was unable to +reported to him, and then joined the adjutants listening to what the +report was heard, bagratión looked round and shouted, “hurrah!” +reprehensible, looked round with a blush. it seemed to him that everyone +represented all that was left of that whole regiment. impelled by the +represented as a brilliant victory over the french, and so the +reprimanding and reproaching him. túshin gave no orders, and, +reproached and disputed with each other. +reproached her for yielding to a man without being married. mademoiselle +reproachfully at the count who had presented it to him. someone +request. +request that he would take no part in the matter, rostóv agreed to be +resembling his master in manners and looks, who was accompanying him +reserve gun carriage, the wounded were carried away, and the four guns +reserve tomorrow,” he thought. “i’ll ask leave to go to the front, +reserve units were able to join up, and the fight was at an end. the +resolutely took the salver with both hands and looked sternly and +resolute self-will, “he is wicked and heartless. there now, i like +resolution. can it be that i have none?” +resolved to go away next day and leave a letter informing her of his +resounded. the column moved forward without knowing where and unable, +resounding voice, apparently to preclude the possibility of not being +respect and honor you, but all the same remember that the future belongs +respectfully. +respectfully bowed head, seemed also to be waiting. the silence lasted +restraining his tears of pity for the emperor, he rode on in utter +rest, went in to dinner. he was seated in the place of honor between +result from it—no longer seemed to be in the future but in the past. +“retire! all to retire!” he shouted from a distance. +retreat after a battle have lost it is what we say; and according to +retreated as a disorderly crowd. one soldier, in his fear, uttered the +retreating against their will. a few minutes after the emperor had +retreating forces. +retreating to our frontier—which do today.’ +returned), and, forcing open a loosely closed latch, set the damask +returned, and over the bottle of wine conversation between the three +returned from a long journey on which he had spent dozens of years, had +returned from the council, tired and exhausted but eager and proud +returned home just before dinner. as soon as he entered he noticed and +returning from his journey through south russia in the happiest state +return the holy image. +rhetor, after a moment’s pause. +rhetor said, “to bring yourself to regard it not as a dreaded foe, but +rhetor’s instructions. the mason drew the shirt back from pierre’s +rhetor, though it aroused his curiosity, did not seem to him essential, +rhetor went away, leaving him to solitary meditation. “it must be so, +ribbons. +richest of the officers now that he had received his money, bought it. +rich old man. but before leaving home and undertaking these new affairs, +rich youths, officers and cadets, who had galloped past him on their +ride and especially by the sound of the bullets. +rider’s leg. blood was flowing from his head; he struggled but could +rid himself of them he closed his eyes. +riding alone with three hussars into that mysterious and dangerous misty +riding, and sometimes, when he came within six paces of them, the +riding away, say to czartorýski: “what a terrible thing war is: what +riding over it trained a gun on him and fired several shots. the +right. +right!” and his head once more sank to his horse’s neck. all at once +right and what’s good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by +right flank and drive it into the bohemian mountains according to plan, +right—he did not know. “but was it really not possible for kutúzov +right, it is advantageous to attack the enemy’s latter wing especially +right, shouting and firing were again heard. flashes of shot gleamed in +right sounded oftener and nearer. as soon as túshin with his guns, +right to fire when they liked as they approached the barrier. dólokhov +right! twenty-one rubles,” he said, pointing to the figure twenty-one +ring, and zherkóv, uneasily glancing at them all, and prince andrew, +rising in his soul. dólokhov, denísov, and rostóv were now sitting +river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at +road which gleamed white in the mist would have been safer because it +rode, not hoping to find anyone but merely to ease his conscience. when +rode side by side in front, at full gallop. one in a black uniform with +rode with our regiment all the time, so that we had every comfort and +room. +room, addressed pierre. +room, almost all the company had assembled, and the conversation, guided +room, and looked round with a smile. she was, as always at evening +room and we shall have to go down, and you have not smartened yourself +room by which dolgorúkov had entered—a short man in civilian clothes +room, exclaiming and oh-ing and ah-ing. +room.... nicholas had been prepared for resistance, but had not at all +room, something flew out from a side door like a tornado and began +room. the old countess, waiting for the return of her husband and son, +room. the old man already knew everything. he was standing close to +room, they still heard the laughter and merry voices trying to persuade +room with rapid steps. now he seemed to see her in the early days of +rose in alarm on seeing it. +“rostóv!” +rostóv. +rostóv. +rostóv. +rostóv and denísov drove away with the wounded dólokhov. +rostóv, and dólokhov—who was now again an officer in the semënov +rostóv and had not responded to his greeting. when the emperor’s +rostóv and most of the officers after the review. +rostóv anticipated his horse’s movements and became more and more +rostóv as he continued to deal. +rostóv became thoughtful. +rostóv considered, and then went in the direction where they said he +rostóv could already see their faces and heard the command: +rostóv did not know or remember how he ran to his place and mounted. +rostóv did not listen to the soldier. he looked at the snowflakes +rostóv fancied he had seen before) rode up to the ditch, struck his +(rostóv felt himself quite tiny and weak compared to these gigantic men +rostóv felt ill at ease. he tried, but failed, to find some joke with +rostóv felt that, under the influence of the warm rays of love, that +rostóv, flushing, drew dólokhov into the next room. +rostóv followed them. in front of him walked kutúzov’s groom leading +rostóv for his friendship to her fédya, often talked to him about her +rostóv from a distance saw with envy and remorse how von toll spoke +rostóv had been ordered to look for kutúzov and the emperor near the +rostóv had just prepared a card, by bending the corner of which he +rostóv himself, his legs well back and his stomach drawn in and feeling +rostóv hurriedly put something on his feet, drew on his dressing gown, +rostóv laughed so loud and merrily that denísov, in his bedroom, felt +rostóv learned later that russian and austrian soldiers had been firing +rostóv let go of the horse and was about to ride on, when a wounded +rostóv looked at and listened listlessly to what passed before and +rostóv met sónya in the drawing room, he reddened. he did not know +rostóv noticed something new in dólokhov’s relations with sónya, +rostóv recalled at that moment a strange conversation he had once had +rostóv rode on at a footpace not knowing why or to whom he was now +rostóv, rubbing his eyes that seemed glued together, raised his +rostóv saw overhead the old familiar cornice with a bit of plaster +rostóv saw tears filling the emperor’s eyes and heard him, as he was +rostóv saw that it had been well considered by them. sónya had already +rostóv’s face. a gentle, mild light poured from them. then all at +rostóv’s feeling, there was a deathly stillness amid which was heard +rostóv’s horse was also getting restive: it pawed the frozen ground, +rostóv smiled. +rostóv smilingly reassured the dragoon and gave him money. +rostóv spurred his horse, called to sergeant fédchenko and two other +rostóv’s share in dólokhov’s duel with bezúkhov was hushed up by +rostóv’s soul (it seemed to rostóv that he understood everything), +rostóv staked five rubles on a card and lost, staked again, and again +rostóv, standing in the front lines of kutúzov’s army which the tsar +rostóv, still looking round toward the fires and the shouts, rode with +rostóv stopped. +rostóv stopped his horse for a moment on a hillock to see what was +rostóv submitted. he let the eight hundred remain and laid down a seven +rostóv too, bending over his saddle, shouted “hurrah!” with all his +rostóv took the letter and, throwing the money on the sofa, put both +rostóv turned his horse and galloped back. four more reports followed +rostóv was not far from the trumpeters, and with his keen sight had +rostóv was very happy in the love they showed him; but the first +rostóv went on ahead to do what was asked, and to his great surprise +rostóv, when their leave permits had been passed at the town gate and +rostóv, who had completely forgotten denísov, not wishing anyone to +rostóv, who had just celebrated his promotion to a cornetcy and bought +rostóv with dólokhov and denísov stayed on at the club till late, +rosy, with a dark little mustache, evidently rested and made sleeker by +round and galloped back to the place where he had seen the emperor, but +round her head. +round his son’s neck, and without a word he began to sob like a child. +round once more. the french had fallen behind, and just as he looked +round. prince andrew and the battalion were already within twenty paces +round shoulders shuddered as if a cold shiver had run down them, how his +round sónya and natásha as the air does before a thunderstorm. sónya +round the company. he noticed the change in the little princess’ +round the first man changed his run to a walk and, turning, shouted +round the table, the clatter of plates, knives, and glasses mingled with +round with much animation and cheerfully nodded to his son as the latter +roused by activity, expected the best results from the new campaign, +roused, had begun to talk, and wanted to express what had brought him to +rubbed his forehead as if to rid himself of all interest in what he +rubles at a time, to talk about not wishing to cringe to anybody and not +rubles i don’t know what to do with, and she stands in her tattered +rug and began reading to him from a manuscript book an explanation of +ruin. wasn’t he my friend? wasn’t i fond of him? but it’s not his +rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be +running. +running beside timókhin, killed a frenchman at close quarters and was +running? can they be coming at me? and why? to kill me? me whom everyone +russian. +russian and the austrian. the guards, just arrived from russia, spent +russian arms. +russian army. and i won’t—not even if bonaparte were here at +russian army! well, as i was saying,” he continued, recovering his +russian general. the general shouted a demand that the cavalry should be + russians! o’er all barriers on! +russian troops moving down the valley to their left. +russian valor—what more could be wished for?” +russia’s glory were led to destruction. go, princess mary. go and tell +saber had tasted flesh and he had fallen exhausted, and so on. and so he +saber, he sank on the snow beside it. his left hand was bloody; he wiped +saber them... whom? the hussars... ah, the hussars with mustaches. along +sabretache...”—“keep to the right, your honor, there are bushes +sad and depressed. it was all so strange, so unlike what he had hoped. +saddle and touched up his horse to ride once more round his hussars. it +saddle sore which, coming after all my previous journeys, quite prevents +said. +said a gunner, coming up to túshin. +said another. +said he, bending down a finger. +said he, “but the health of our sovereign, that good, enchanting, and +said he, carrying away into the darkness a glowing stick. +said her eyes. she was not surprised at his having come; she did +said, holding the casement and not closing it. “with lanterns. most +said, “how am i to stifle in my heart these temptations of the devil? +said in a tone of indifferent politeness: +said inquiringly. +said little iogel coming up to nicholas. “look how many charming young +said nothing to borís and, evidently unable to suppress the thoughts +said, of a wife who was a celebrated beauty and of millions of money. +said one of the nursemaids to prince andrew who was sitting on a +said prince andrew when they had gone into the large room where the +said repnín. +said she. +said the countess, indignant that they should have dared to treat this +said the countess smiling. +said the old man, “say so, my dear sir.” and he suddenly smiled, in +said the princess in a tone of entreaty. +said this some time after she had finished singing. while that untrained +said to be fleeing in great disorder. mind you gallop off to kórchevo +said, without noticing nicholas. +said without sitting down. “a person of very high standing in our +saint, my angel,” she said with a sigh. +saluting, and this sound rapidly came nearer along the whole extended +salver, glanced around in dismay, as though seeking help. but all eyes +same as usual,” and princess mary pale, frightened, and with downcast +same commanders. the sailor rarely cares to know the latitude in which +same.... is everything ready?” he added. “only tell me where to go +same moment his kindly eyes grew moist with tears of joy and enthusiasm. +same question. “will papa be back soon?” +same sergeant major iván mítrich, the same company dog jack, and the +same speed, but they kept increasing their pace, so that some of the +same time at the emperor francis. +same to me!” he screamed in the same piercing tone as when parting +same way. when did it happen and what has happened? i am well and strong +satchels, sabretaches, open portmanteaus, and dirty boots. two freshly +sat down again, smiling at the noise they had made and exchanging +sat down languidly on the sofa: he felt it unpleasant to have dropped +sat facing bagratión and, as the very personification of moscow +sat in an armchair in her dressing jacket and nightcap and katie, sleepy +satisfied with the party. she replied in her usual simple manner that +sat playing patience with the old gentlewoman who lived in their house. +saved. but he saw nothing. above him there was now nothing but the +save myself?” he thought. he rode on to the region where the greatest +saw a rather short man. having evidently come from the light into the +saw the beloved features that were so deeply engraved on his memory. the +saw them all and saw them in detail. she saw prince vasíli’s face, +saw with his own eyes brick buildings erected or in course of erection, +say (as he has done before) that i’m in the dumps.” +say i’ll have his head off if everything is not here in a week. +saying as he moved from the gun, when a strange, unfamiliar voice called +saying. “i have been an atheist,” answered pierre. +saying it right, i have drunk a good deal—but that is how i feel, and +saying.” prince andrew looked silently at pierre with an ironic smile. +saying that he must prostrate himself at the gates of the temple. +saying that, on the contrary, she remembered him quite well. then +say it.” +say that it is dull in my house again,” and she glanced at hélène. +say to the adjutant that borís felt uncomfortable. he turned away and +say—“yes, misfortune! call it what you please, i know that what +schérer. at the other end sat the younger and less important guests, +schlappanitz and bellowitz which cover the enemy’s front. for this +schlappanitz and the thuerassa forest, avoiding the defiles of +schön grabern affair, just as those who have taken part in a battle +schön grabern—and he would have found that easier. the committeemen +schools,” he went on, crooking a finger, “education and so forth; +schoss, and his old nurse, and asked them to kiss for him “dear +science explaining the whole creation and man’s place in it. to +“scoundrels! blackguards!” shrieked the old man, turning his face +screwed up his eyes as if dazzled by the sun. he was entirely absorbed +scrutinizing anatole closely and intently. +seated them on the center sofa. the bigwigs, the most respected members +seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the +seconds he stood not moving from the spot or realizing the situation. +second time. but pierre was so absorbed that he did not understand what +secretary rather than commander in the army. my removal from the army +secretly regretting this, saw only the dark side. +secret malevolence in their hearts. +seduced, and to whom her poor mother (sa pauvre mère) appeared, and +“see, i’m standing! see!” she said, but could not maintain herself +seeing prince andrew stopped, hesitating on the threshold. he went into +seeing some men running toward him. “they will help me!” in front +seeing that smile, rostóv involuntarily smiled himself and felt a still +seeing the favor the emperor showed the prisoners, they now hastened to +seeing the fright of that small and frail but proud man when covered by +seeing them he kept thinking, “that may be the very standard with +seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. man’s future and thy own fate +seemed as though not the trumpeters were playing, but as if the army +seemed familiar to princess mary was saying something. +seemed impossible. “but perhaps they may do it!” for more than ten +seemed like a lifeless body, but as soon as he came up it became alive, +seemed to ask. she noticed at once that something had happened to him. +seemed to give way within him at this news. dólokhov was a suitable and +seemed to have changed roles since the campaign of 1805. the old man, +seemed to her that someone was there standing behind the screen in the +seemed to him all the interests that engrossed napoleon, so mean did his +seemed to him as though one of the soldiers near him hit him on the head +seemed to him like ants. in that world, the handsome drunkard number one +seemed to him that he had expected all this and even more. trying +seemed to him that it was a very long time ago, almost a day, since he +seemed to him that it was getting lighter. to the left he saw a sloping +seemed to say. she saw her husband, but did not realize the significance +seemed to say: “yes, there’s nothing left for you and me but to sip +seemed to say. “you had not noticed that i am a woman? yes, i am a +seem to him that everyone is afraid of him, and that must please him. +seen him in petersburg. i saw him just as i see you.... there he sat in +seen the day before in the arms of her nurse’s daughter—at her +seen the light, come here? what do you seek from us? wisdom, virtue, +seen through. +seen you. very glad! go back to your rooms, princess. go!” said +see the true light, and that he, pierre, ought to aid, enlighten, and +see those who, judging by the sound of hoofs and voices, had ridden up +see whether he cannot attach you to himself or find a place for you +see whether they were getting up. +seized by an unreasoning panic—it occurred to him that the child was +seized by terror lest he had already, in some way, bound himself to do +seized him at the thought of that dreadful step. a thousand times during +seize some horsecloths, though he had told him the russians were there. +seizing his father’s hand, he pressed it to his lips and burst into +seizing the most opportune moment for making use of people. +self, and so before one can know, it is necessary to believe and to +self-complacency than his did.) “well, he stormed at me, as the saying +self-complacent happiness that one sees on the face of a boy happily +self-confident. +self-derision genuinely russian. bilíbin wrote that the obligation of +self-possession. if a man lacking in self-confidence remains dumb on +self-possession mingled at that moment in rostóv’s soul. +self-respect, but admit that the time and place are very badly chosen. +“sell us that horse!” denísov called out to the cossacks. +semi-private, long-established jokes and amusing reminiscences, though +send his orderly staff officer, and later prince andrew also, to order +sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around +senseless cry, “cut off!” that is so terrible in battle, and that +sense of awe and veneration such as he had experienced in his boyhood at +sent an official to austria to seek for traces of his son, he ordered a +sent dólokhov the whole forty-three thousand rubles and received his +“separate? very well, but only if you give me a fortune,” said +separating the living from the dead—lay between them. all were +‘sergéy’ he sobbed, ‘kuz-mí-ch,’ tears, and ‘from all +“sergéy kuzmích—from all sides—” he said, unbuttoning the top +sergéy kuzmích...’ poor vyazmítinov could not get any farther! +serious duel, and besides, drubetskóy, who says he is an old friend +serious expression. but the author himself took the verses and began +serious for an instant at the sight of her, but immediately smiling +servant. +served up was received with pleasure by all her visitors. the greatest +service.” +service, and he at once understood his role, letting his hostess make +service is to serve under him.” +service,” said the prince disdainfully. “why his son is coming i +service to place himself very advantageously. he was aide-de-camp to a +serving as a private. but the command of the extreme left flank had been +set fire to the schön grabern village, delayed the french advance. the +setting fire to schön grabern. +settled. he came because of sónya. and sónya, though she would never +seven he needed was lying uppermost, the first card in the pack. he had +seventeen of the forty men of the guns’ crews had been disabled, but +seven virtues, corresponding to the seven steps of solomon’s temple, +several dead men. one ball after another passed over as he approached +several of them were not separated from one another but merged into a +several of those present smiled at zherkóv’s words, expecting one of +several persons whom he did not know, giving him a whispered description +several soldiers fell. +several soldiers fell, and a second lieutenant who was holding the +several thousand rubles. +several thousand rubles quitrent received from pierre’s peasants, +several times in the course of the morning princess mary began trying to +several wounded men passed along the road, and words of abuse, screams, +severe gaze straight on pierre’s face. +severity changed, and he drew pierre’s hand downwards, made him sit +shall not agree with you, and you do not really believe what you are +shall think nothing of an extra seventy miles to come and see you at +“shall we have three cold dishes then?” asked the cook. +“shall you write to him?” she asked. +shame and anger choking him, had already leapt from his horse and run to +shameless, and he ignores her!” +sharpshooters in front of our columns. the colonel at the head of the +sharpshooters showed themselves in the copse. it was timókhin’s +she already had power over him, and between them there was no longer any +she always addressed him with a radiantly confiding smile meant for him +she approached him, saw his face, and something gave way within her. her +she began to tell of how at potsdam the impious bonaparte had stolen the +she considered the resonance was best. +she continued, uniting them both in one glance. pierre did not look at +she could not lie either on her face or on her side. every position was +she drew nearer to him. her face flushed. +she felt any symptoms of pregnancy. she laughed contemptuously and said +she forgot all fear of her father, went up to him, took his hand, and +(she glanced at hélène and smiled at her.) “my dear hélène, be +she had determined not to tell her and persuaded her father to hide the +she had sacrificed so much. she could not refrain from weeping at these +she had seldom experienced, came upon her. she feared to look round, it +“she is not very well,” answered mademoiselle bourienne with +she knew of the duel and had come to speak about it. she waited till the +she knew so well), on the lock of gray hair that escaped from under the +she looked at him inquiringly and with childlike reproach. +she must love him if she could so far forget herself! perhaps i might +she not only left her hair as it was, but did not even look in her +she ought to behave like mademoiselle bourienne, but could not. +she paused, as women always do, expecting something after they have +she pulled up her muslin sleeve and showed him a red scar on her long, +she rang for her maid and asked her to sleep in her room. +she roused herself, and felt appalled at what she had been thinking, and +she rushed to sónya, hugged her, and began to cry. +she seemed to promise to explain that necessity to him when he came on +she suddenly came into his mind as she was at the moments when he had +she thought: “if i seem not to notice he will think that i do not +she took the liberty of inquiring whether it was long since anatole +she turned to his father. the conversation was general and animated, +she used to have quarrels with the too indulgent count, that son who +she was much altered. she was now plain rather than pretty. her cheeks +she was, natásha, who knew how sensitive her mother was to anything +she was no longer in the loose gown she generally wore in the morning, +she was not a fool to want to have children, and that she was not going +she was now saying she had talked of before, with tears. +she wished to and only refrained out of regard for his modesty. +she would say. what could all that matter in comparison with the will of +shining eyes, not interrupting or questioning him, but believing with +shone with such gaiety and youth, such innocent youth, that it suggested +shops, bakers’ signboards, street lamps, and sleighs!” thought +shortly after nine o’clock that evening, weyrother drove with his +shortsighted delight at the misery of others, and doubts and torments +shots came. +should already have suggested to your heart, if it is sincere, more than +should be a nice set of fellows if we were to wait about and so give him +should be glad and not cry.” +should be if i could now say: ‘lord, have mercy on me!’... but to +shoulder and left the room without snuffing the candles or saying why he +shoulders close to his eyes. +should much like to be an adjutant and not remain at the front.” +should now be away in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, a manly +“shouldn’t we now send for berg?” asked borís. “he would drink +should one love and what hate? what does one live for? and what am i? +shouted hoarsely. +shouted “hurrah!” in exactly the same voice in which he had shouted +shouting. +shouting came from, a fire flared up and went out again, then another, +shouting grew louder and louder. rostóv could hear the sound of french +shouts of hurrah, and saw wounded being brought back (there were not +shouts of thousands of voices. his horse and the horse of the hussar +showed how he presented himself, with his hand to his cap, and really +showing the necessity of first paying off the loans from the land bank, +showing under his open shirt, he stood in a majestic pose in the light +shown, fired. not at all expecting so loud a report, pierre shuddered +shown to the best room, which dólokhov had taken for that evening. some +“shut up!” +side and at first did not play. dólokhov kept glancing at him. +side and looked round with a frown. along the road from pratzen galloped +side as her betrothed, seeing, hearing, feeling her nearness, her +side by side. prince vasíli was not having any supper: he went round +sides. he acknowledged no acquaintances but saw in all these men only +side, so close to our own forces that napoleon with the naked eye could +sides’ was smothered in sobs and he could get no farther. and again +sideways at princess mary from a little distance. “you have a maroon +“sideways! cover yourself with your pistol!” ejaculated nesvítski. +sight of his superiors, he did not notice the staff of the banner and +sign. +significant command to come to her on tuesday. +sign papers, to present himself at government offices, the purpose of +silence. +silence as he left the drawing room. he pictured the vanity of his +silently—fearing to speak because at every word he felt ready to +silent, “that sónya and nicholas now say you to one another and meet +silent, waiting for what he would say. +silver and crystal gleamed, so did the ladies’ toilets and the gold +simply dressed hair (two immense plaits twice round her lovely head like +simultaneously attacked and outflanked by superior french forces under +“since prince bagratión is not coming, we may begin,” said +“since the day of our brilliant success at austerlitz,” wrote +since the nursing mothers were no longer sent to work on his land, they +since the time when he thought his son had been killed, he did not think +singer” (he meant natásha’s italian singing master), “that’s +sir!” +sire,” * he answered gaily, raising nevertheless ironic smiles among +sister, black eyes... na... tasha... (won’t she be surprised when +sister had hung round his neck with such emotion and reverence, “it +sister-in-law’s dress. +sister. “why isn’t she dull and ashamed?” +sitting at tea with bilíbin. “the fete is for tomorrow. how is your +sitting motionless before the glass, looking at her face, and saw in the +sitting on the sofa with the little cushions on its arms, in what used +situated,” said prince andrew. +“six hundred rubles, ace, a corner, a nine... winning it back’s +six miles away, or whether they were near by in that sea of mist, no one +six weeks after anna pávlovna’s “at home” and after the sleepless +six weeks later he was married, and settled in count bezúkhov’s +skillfully changed the subject. he asked him to tell them how and where +skillfully made watch, dares to say that, as he does not understand +sky—the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray +sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and +sleepiness that kept coming over him. an enormous space, with our +sleeve with her finger, saying: +sleigh and pair at once, and go to bezúkhov’s, and tell him ‘count +slender, delicate arm, high above the elbow on that part that is covered +slippery ice that covered the millpool. +slope of the hill amid the smoke a russian battery that was still firing +“smack at ‘em, lads!” he kept saying, seizing the guns by the +small cloud rose from the hill and was borne in a streak to the left by +smashed, and the shouting grew louder. they drank to bekleshëv, +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile, for which he was long unable to forgive himself, “i have lost a +smile of a doctor to whom an old wife wishes to explain the treatment of +smile of his which seemed to say, “ah! this is what i like!” +smile on his lips and face, but his eyes were dull and lifeless and in +smile that usually brightened her face. pierre knew that everyone was +smiling as if she did not recognize him. +smiling face, moved after willarski with uncertain, timid steps. +smiling, glittered with effort and exasperation as he mustered his +smilingly raising a finger at him, she left the room. +smoke enveloped everything. +smoke, rendered denser by the mist, prevented him from seeing anything +smolénsk threatening bald hills—even then i wouldn’t serve in the +smolyanínov, and it mortified him to think that the newcomer was an +smooth—felt that no small matter was happening, but an important and +snow-covered road, did not once wake up on the way to moscow, but lay +snuffbox while trying to hear what was being said at the other table. +so alien to us. +sobbing like a child. the door opened. the doctor with his shirt sleeves +sobs. the count was lighting his pipe and did not notice his son’s +so-called battle of the three emperors—that is to say, a slow movement +society. +society. beside him stood a lad of nineteen, also a wounded officer of +society had entered the simple feeling of the attraction of a healthy +society of women was rather derogatory to his manhood. he went to balls +society so dearly and distinctly indicated. +so completely silenced and their arguments confuted by such conclusive +so contrary to his method of conducting war? believe me, he is afraid, +so do you too! to the health of alexander the first! hurrah!” +so easily extract a good profit for themselves from a dinner costing +so energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable +soft hand taking hers firmly, and she touched with her lips a white +soft snowbanks that bordered both sides of the path. the prince went +so he went from one group to another. some of the most important old men +“so i can fire when i like!” said pierre, and at the word +soirees as before—such as she alone had the gift of arranging—at +“so it is all finished!” he thought. “and how has it all happened? +“so it is useless to ask whether it is good or bad. it is good because +“so it seems you’re a hero, eh? come now, what was this duel about? +sokólniki after the duel and had spent that first agonizing, sleepless +sokólniki forest and found dólokhov, denísov, and rostóv already +sokolnitz, november 30, 1805.” +soldier. +soldier at the front, gave the command “attention!” and rode up +soldier, mimicking the general who had ridden away. “i’d shoot them, +soldiers’ bonfires and with his long gray mustache, his white chest +soldiers had kindled on the road. rostóv, too, dragged himself to the +soldier shouted to him. “they’d kill you there!” +soldiers, loudly demanding bread, meat, biscuits, fodder, and whatnot! +soldiers, munching biscuit and beating a tattoo with their feet to +soldiers, officers, and generals were heroes. but the hero of heroes was +soldiers only need to be restrained and held back! on all sides, new and +soldiers ran from the fires, thrust their pipes into their boots, their +soldiers running in confused crowds across his path. +soldiers, straining their lungs, shouted “hurrah!” +soldiers! the russian army is advancing against you to avenge the +soldiers who were seizing the artillery horses and turning the guns +soldier with the harsh voice, and it was that affair and this soldier +solemn affair. every general and every soldier was conscious of his own +so long,” he added. +so long waited, presents itself to him at last. he firmly and clearly +so many years moravians in shaggy caps and blue jackets had peacefully +some!” +some approaching achievement, and some in course of disintegration. he +some concessions. continuing to represent the liberation of the serfs +some great change had come over him that day. he was silent all through +some not. this whole mass droned and jostled in confusion under the +some of the nearest relatives had not yet left. they were sitting in +some of the topics at first lightly touched on: their past life, plans +someone mentioned that captain túshin was bivouacking close to the +someone. (prince bagratión did not ask about the guns on the left +some question—“most likely he is asking at what o’clock they +some reason she called it urope as if that were a specially refined +some sort were moving about, in front and behind moved lines of troops; +some swarthy men and women were really entering from the cold outside +something.” +something and went away. it seemed to pierre that even the prince was +something, but dared not.... no, it was i who dared not. but that’s +something i cannot inflict on others,” said prince andrew, growing +something i have received from the chancellor. i asked him for you, and +something large, brilliant, and handsome moving toward her as she +something loudly to a comrade farther back. rostóv paused. “no, +“something special is always said in such cases,” he thought, but +something terrible and monstrous rising in his soul and turned quickly +something that was evidently wrong and that he ought not to do. but at +something to him in french in an undertone and then went up to a small +something toward it and you cannot persuade me that it was not a good +some time to get the wedding ring off his fat finger. when that had been +some way and knowing that this was impossible was ready to cry. the tsar +somewhere nearer the sun.” +somewhere under her heart would ever cry, suck her breast, and begin to +some wooded hills were discernible, and it was there the enemy probably +“so much the better! i shall see it close,” he thought. +so my conscience was at ease. i came forward....” (berg stood up and +son. +son. +son or kinsman.” +sónya again interrupted. she gave him an imploring, frightened look. +sónya and dólokhov before dinner, and with the kindly sensitiveness +sónya became thoughtful. the question of how to write to nicholas, and +sónya interrupted him. +sónya, natásha, pétya, anna mikháylovna, véra, and the old count +sónya’s joint ages. rostóv, leaning his head on both hands, sat at +sónya smiled. +sónya smiled. +sónya’s refusal and felt uncomfortable at the thought of how they +sónya’s thin little shoulders, natásha’s eyes and laughter, +sónya struck the first chord of the prelude. +sónya too, all rosy red, clung to his arm and, radiant with bliss, +sónya was more tender and devoted to him than ever. it was as if she +sónya was sitting at the clavichord, playing the prelude to +sónya, whom he loved and thought of just the same as ever.” when she +soon after his admission to the masonic brotherhood, pierre went to the +soon after prince andrew’s return the old prince made over to him a +soon after prince bagratión had left him, túshin had succeeded in +soon after this there came into the dark chamber to fetch pierre, not +sooner or later he would step across it, but an incomprehensible terror +so on. then a place was assigned to pierre, he was shown the signs of +“sophie,” he began, timidly at first and then more and more +so rapid that they could hardly be his mother’s. +sorrow, sadness, or self-reproach, that she purposely deceived herself +sorts, and russian and austrian soldiers of all arms, some wounded and +so softly that the rhetor did not hear him and asked him what he was +so strange that one could not take it in. but then the expression of +so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat +so terrible to the soldiers, despite his furious purple countenance +“so that’s what i’m sorry for—human dignity, peace of mind, +so that the maid could hardly get her hair plaited, and she was +“so the attack is definitely resolved on?” asked bolkónski. +“so there’s nothing?” +soul and his face. +soul: courage, generosity, morality, love of mankind, and especially +soul to believe and he did believe, and felt a joyful sense of comfort, +sounded far away. here everyone clearly saw and said that the battle +sounded. several of our men fell, among them the round-faced officer +sounding, even the connoisseurs said nothing, but only delighted in +sound of artillery fire near by. having forced his way out of the crowd +sound of the hoofs of the approaching cavalcade, but because as he drew +sound of wheels and footsteps heard by the outposts during the night, +sount ze retreat!” +“so we are to have visitors, mon prince?” remarked mademoiselle +so well how to arrange a feast on an open-handed, hospitable scale, +“so you are not afraid to play with me?” repeated dólokhov, and as +“so you are still at that silly business!” quickly closed his eye +“so you have never noticed before how beautiful i am?” hélène +“so you think he is powerless?” said langeron. +speak—he turned back, rapidly mounted the stairs again with the +speaking and evidently not thinking about her at all. anatole was not +speaking as if he were saying something which had long since been agreed +speaking french. he opened his eyes. above him again was the same lofty +speaking of a collection of snuffboxes that had belonged to pierre’s +speaking of him, my dear sir. of what, of whom, are we speaking? whom +speaking of the position of prussia, anna pávlovna very naturally asked +speaking to an austrian general. prince andrew, who was a little behind +speak in the tone of decided refusal and disagreement in which he had +speak, so now she could not believe that that little creature could be +special force. no matter what he thought about, he always returned to +spectacle of his power over these three women. besides that, he was +spectacles. +spectacles unable to understand what they wanted or how they could go on +speeches were intended for quite other conditions, they were for the +spent, and almost every year he was obliged to borrow. besides this the +spiritual needs, while it seems to me that animal happiness is the only +spite of his evident wish to do so he could not give them a joyous +splashing with blood those near them. +“splendid! excellent!” exclaimed natásha. “another verse,” she +spoke in abrupt sentences. “the whole company can bear witness. i beg +sprang out before the sleigh stopped, and ran into the hall. the house +spread by the fact that the emperor’s carriage had really galloped +springing to him, putting her arms round him, and kissing him. this +squadron. the day was bright and sunny after a sharp night frost, and +s— s— get the same distinction?” +staff were not far off, in the village the vehicles were going to. +stages of his journey. +stairs and embraced his sister. +stake of twenty rubles. +standard in hand, i shall go forward and break whatever is in front of +standing motionless; then he came to the region occupied by uvárov’s +stand the sight of these unfortunates. +started,” thought prince andrew, watching his old acquaintance with +state.” +state of the political thermometer of legitimate petersburg court +station), and again embraced his sister. +station, but compared to the thoughts that now occupied him it was a +stationed on the pratzen heights. +station or a doctor for the cadet, and sat down by a bonfire the +stepped to the middle of the room and stood still. +“stepping flat on his heels—we know what that means....” +stepping into the deep snow. he held the pistol in his right hand at +steps, and again stopped. +steps should be taken to liberate the serfs, which the steward met by +steps. when at last, smartly whirling his partner round in front of her +stern and solemn train of thought that weakness from loss of blood, +stern, shrewd, and penetrating expression of that look struck pierre. he +steward, and again began giving orders. a light footstep and the +steward there, who, bowing respectfully, looked into his face and at +“still aching?” túshin asked rostóv in a whisper. +“still, don’t ruin yourself!” said dólokhov with a side glance at +still farther ahead a dark line which he could not see distinctly but +still feeling his eyes gazing at her. +still. “if it were a man whose existence thou didst doubt i could +still in course of construction. round the house was a garden newly laid +still in the same place, his stout body resting heavily in the saddle +still it was terrible, and she could not help thinking of it. she was +still less did he think of injuring anyone for his own advantage. he +still no one moved. the troops of the left flank, infantry and hussars +still the cannon balls continued regularly to whistle and flop onto the +still there?” +“still the same,” she said to her husband. +“still the same. wait, for heaven’s sake. karl ivánich always says +still was not in time to avoid them. +still when she’s fifty.” +stimulating effect on him. “vive l’empereur! l’empereur!” he now +stint yourself, we’ll settle afterwards,” he added, turning to +stir. an adjutant, dismounting, lifted the soldier under the arms to +stir, and a footman who had run in announced, with a frightened face: +stomach with an already stiffened arm flung wide. +stone, hundreds of riders composing the suites moved carelessly but +stood at a window with dólokhov, whose acquaintance he had lately +stood at every door anxiously noting visitors’ every movement in order +stood before a looking glass and brushed the hair on his temples +stood cold and silent, as if quite regardless of who had come to it. +stood, met, and separated, some in uniform and some in evening dress, +stood with his marshals around him, it was quite light. above him was +stood with the candle. yes, it was he, pale, thin, with a changed and +stopped at a solitary, deserted house that had probably once been an +stopped him. he turned his horse and galloped off. +stopped the company.” dólokhov breathed heavily from weariness and +stopping in front of the pávlograds, the tsar said something in french +“stop them!” he shouted, and at the same moment, probably realizing +“stop those wretches!” gasped kutúzov to the regimental commander, +stories of his kindness and irascibility. berg, as usual, kept silent +stories of the grand duke’s quick temper he related with gusto how in +stories or telling them, but followed every movement of rostóv’s +story of the misfortunes of some mary víktorovna or other. at the +story to him, her seducer. and now he, a real russian prince, had +straight! it’s well god had mercy on us. and what was it for? who +straight on napoleon, he was silent.... so insignificant at that moment +strange and ridiculous to meet objections from russian generals and to +strangely softened but agitated expression on his face. he came up the +stranger. +stranger, looking deeper and deeper into pierre’s eyes. “and in +strangers and unable to send news of himself. the gazettes from which +stranger, yet nearer to him through the brotherhood of man. with bated +strange, unknown, and dangerous places he reaches, just as a sailor is +strategic position where the operations would take place was familiar in +strayed off the track into the snow, pierre looked down at his feet, +streamed out of a side street. +stretched along the highroad in the midst of a young copse in which were +stretching himself he rose from the table. “one does get tired sitting +striking chords with his short fingers, his legs thrown back and his +stripes on their bodies heal, and they are happy as before. but it is +stroke, came up to the prince, bowing his bald head resignedly before +stroked the animal. it was plain that he did not quite grasp where he +stronger flow of love for his sovereign. he longed to show that love in +struck him by her beauty on the preceding day. today, when he had caught +struggle, but with naïve and lighthearted gaiety. +struggles of a certain emilie de mansfeld. “and why did she resist +struggle to conquer that fear, all his dreams of distinguishing himself +study. +study a little before noon in his silk dressing gown and found his head +study, the old prince went for his walk as usual next morning, but he +stumbled on him in the fog, hearing no encouraging word from their +stumbled over it. several of those present laughed. +stupidest remarks came out clever and apt. now everything pierre said +submissive general. +submit from habit, and she said: “i wish only to do your will, but if +submit my report, with the information that if the army remains in its +submitted herself to mademoiselle bourienne and lise. both these women +subscribed the same amount as the others. +succeeded!’ the prussian generals pride themselves on being polite to +succeeds. he sat motionless, looking at the heights visible above +success.” +success and at the inability of others to understand these things. +successfully cannonading the french, our artillerymen only noticed this +success reached kutúzov’s cheerless staff with the galloping advent +such a friend that i burned my arm for her sake. look here!” +such a fright! oh, what a pig i am!” he repeated, flushing suddenly. +such an unfortunate and charming woman! don’t mention him before +such a plan in which the enemy’s position was assumed to be known, +such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was passing now +such as might call for his rapidity of perception and decision. +such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread +such love as sónya was speaking of. but natásha had not yet felt +such silence and an anxiety to find something to say, the effect is +suddenly a gust of wind beat violently against the casement of the +suddenly appeared in the fog, there was a flash, followed by a report, +suddenly appeared, looming huge as an elephant. +suddenly came to and, lifting his head with an effort, took rostóv, who +suddenly changed to one of horror. the french were supposed to be a +suddenly prince bolkónski frowned. +suddenly replied the irate colonel. “if you vere in the cavalry...” +suddenly transformed. he put on the air of a subordinate who obeys +suddenness and prompt him to the coarsest and most reckless actions. +suffer for it.” +suffering, and the nearness of death aroused in him. looking into +suffering, but what he wanted to do was too terrible. +suffering?” suggested another voice. prince andrew, however, did not +sufferings. what a heart! how like him it is! and how he has remembered +sufficient ground for this affair, or for blood to be shed over it.... +sufficiently weakened to be successfully attacked. but still he did not +suggested that she had resolved to endure her troubles uncomplainingly +superfluous was hanging on his benumbed left arm. the wrist felt as if +superior. +superior to napoleon’s, were concentrated in one place, the troops +“supper, it’s time for supper! and here are the gypsies!” +supposed, must have risen to fifteen thousand. in reality it already +supposed that the russian guards, abroad, was quite a definite address, +suppressed smile brightening both their faces, a smile that had nothing +surprised by what he saw. hoping to enter on an entirely new life quite +surprised pierre. +surprise, the french had thrown down their muskets and run. dólokhov, +surrender of most of the prussian fortresses had been received, when our +“surrounded! cut off? we’re lost!” shouted the fugitives. +surroundings, and from her smiling lips flowed sounds which anyone may +surroundings unable to find their own regiments. in this way the action +survive....” +suvórov-like, in a kibítka, and is received with acclamations of joy +suvórov. moreover, paying such honor to bagratión was the best way of +suvórov’s time, now passing so gallantly before the emperors, that he +swarmed with well-provisioned sutlers and austrian jews offering +sway and scatters its last snows and storms with desperate fury. a relay +sways the world. think this over and i will come to you again.” +sweet wine, my dear, now that the time has come for these young ones to +sword of frederick the great. +swords, meaning them to pierce it. but the swords were drawn back from +symmetrically and above all freely, and in front of them two men—the +sympathize with him; if i seem sad and out of spirits myself, he will +table, a child’s table, and the little chair on which prince andrew +table and placed on it his small leather-gloved hands. +table began to watch her hands arranging the cards. from the dancing +table on a corner of which he smilingly and absent-mindedly fixed his +tables and the same chandelier with a cover over it; but someone had +table seemed to feel this, and they forgot their duties as they looked +tache,” he thought. “there now... it’s not a tache... natásha... +“tafa-lafa! but what he’s jabbering no one can make out,” said a +tail extended, bedouin, as if also conscious of the emperor’s eye +take her for her connections and wealth. are there no women living +take his eyes off her and beat time with his saber in a way that clearly +take me too? who are these men?” thought rostóv, scarcely believing +taken a ballroom in bezúkhov’s house, and the ball, as everyone said, +taken from the prisoner. +taken, it was not his fault but the corporal’s who had sent him to +taken off his eyes and, by the faint light of the burning spirit, +taken up their position and seeing troops before them, thought they were +“take this road, your honor, that way you will be killed at once!” a +taking him by the hand led him forward. the hairs tied in the knot hurt +taking his partner with him. he glided silently on one foot half across +taking the colonel’s outburst as a challenge to his courage, the +taking up a pack he prepared to deal. rostóv submissively unbent the +talk, but i don’t want to,” he seemed to say. besides this, in his +talking of the schön grabern affair? were you there?” +talks sense, but to temporize and wait for something now when bonaparte +talk to her. what a darling sónya is!” he added with a smile. +task pierre had to face was one for which he had very little aptitude or +tea?” asked his valet. +tears. +teatime she would prepare the countess, and after tea, with god’s +“tell bezúkhov to come. i’ll put his name down. is his wife with +tell everything just as it happened, but imperceptibly, involuntarily, +telling him. +tell the little countess!” +“tell them to give me a seat, for god’s sake!” +tell the truth. +temper because prince vasíli was coming, or whether his being in a bad +temper made him specially annoyed at prince vasíli’s visit, he was +ten minutes. and that it will not be too dull, here is the dear count +terrible, and now he has this authority of a commander in chief of +terrible dividing line of uncertainty and fear—resembling the line +terrible news from her till after her confinement, which was expected +terrible pain of being lifted onto the stretcher, the jolting while +terrible voice that the whole house heard it with horror. god knows what +than a hundred cannon were already in the hands of the french. +than a man who has been looking at a tuft of steppe grass through the +than anything else showed pierre her superiority. she was right in +than a yard above the glow of the charcoal. flakes of falling snow were +than five hundred paces from where kutúzov was standing, a dense french +thanked him for his love. his looks thanked her for offering him his +thanked,” thought the overseer, “the storm has blown over!” +“thank god!” +“thank god!” said prince vasíli. “my wife has told me +“thank god!” said sónya, crossing herself. “but perhaps she +“thank god!” said the voice. “and father?” +thanks to anna mikháylovna’s efforts, his own tastes, and the +thanks to princess lise’s voice and little downy lip that lifted over +thank you with my whole heart.” to rostóv every word sounded like a +“thank you; you saved me, my dear fellow!” said túshin. +than the other; the serfs everywhere seemed thriving and touchingly +that. +that army: a feeling of self-forgetfulness, a proud consciousness of +that between the person they so address and themselves there are some +that column himself. when he had reached the village of pratzen he +that day, but had heard about them from an infantry officer. “they +that day nicholas rostóv received a letter from borís, telling him +that dinner was ready! the door opened, and from the dining room came +that divine purity and devotion i look for in women. if i found such a +“that dólokhov was my lover,” she said in french with her coarse +that dreadful abyss, pierre said to himself: “what am i doing? i need +that dread of beaten tracks, and wish to express itself in a manner +that end and when did this new, terrible state of things begin? what +that evening, proud of dólokhov’s proposal, her refusal, and her +that, even more than in moscow, he felt a sense of bewilderment, bustle, +that explained their teaching by hieroglyphics. a hieroglyph,” said +that fat one in spectacles” (that was how pétya described his +that for an instant). why should he not love her now, and even marry +that god who has been sewn into this amulet by mary! there is nothing +that had advanced beyond the village went back; but as though in revenge +that had tormented him all dinnertime rose and took possession of him. +that, hearing he was in a bad humor, she had decided not to appear. +that he could not believe his eyes. “who are they? why are they +that he fell off his horse and sprained his arm and then ran as hard as +that he had composed in his imagination could he now recall. those +that he is probably tired of them,” said another officer. +that he ought to avoid her and go away, pierre, despite that decision, +that he should do the same. the rider, whose figure seemed familiar +that hesitation lasted only an instant. the tsar’s foot, in the narrow +that he too seemed ashamed of the hussar of the line. +that he was dangerously wounded. +that he would have to answer it justly, and justice clashed not only +that i am saying!” thought a diplomatist, glancing at the happy faces +that i do not like him.” +that—if you consider yourself bound by your promise—it will seem as +that i’m a sharper, so i advise you to be careful.” +that instant the trooper nikítenko, who was galloping ahead, shot away +“that is enough for me,” said sónya, blushing. +“that is just why i do not begin, sire,” said kutúzov in a +“that is no business of mine,” he thought. he had not ridden many +“that is probably the work of vinesse,” said pierre, mentioning +that is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. it is the one +“that is what we shall see! that is what we shall see!” he added +that is, you want to raise him” (pointing to a peasant who passed by +that it is more dangerous to run away than to advance, but that russian +that it is we who lost the battle of pultúsk. in short, we retreat +that it might not occur to her to speak of his share in the affair of +that it was impossible to stop them, spurred his horse and rode to the +that it was not she but he was so unusually beautiful, and that that was +that it would be a bad thing), but he knew it would happen. +that i would give my life twice over...” he looked at the countess, +that?... kindly do as you are ordered.” +that kutúzov’s upper lip twitched unnaturally as he said the +that led to his own apartments. +that moment after supper at prince vasíli’s, when he spoke those +that moment a third enemy rises before us—namely the orthodox russian +that moment his home life, jokes with pétya, talks with sónya, duets +that moment pierre felt that hélène not only could, but must, be his +that month and a half while he felt himself drawn nearer and nearer to +that never does any harm,” thought anatole. +that not even a continuity of most brilliant successes would secure +that on receiving news of the defeat some would simply not believe it, +that passionate animal feeling which was apt to master him with great +“that passion which more than all others caused you to waver on the +that peculiar expression of polite weariness which plainly says, “if +that princess mary in this guise looked very plain, worse than usual, +that remained uninjured out of the four, they began moving down the hill +“that’s admirable!” he shouted. “he will take you with your +“that’s a fine death!” said napoleon as he gazed at bolkónski. +“that’s a good thing, but don’t move from prince vasíli’s. it +that same day a council of war had been held in which all the members of +that same evening there was to be one of the balls that iogel (the +that same night, rostóv was with a platoon on skirmishing duty in front +“that’s capital; of course she’ll forget her childish promises +that she winced and uttered a cry. +“that’s it, that’s it!” exclaimed the count, and gaily seizing +“that’s just it,” interrupted dolgorúkov quickly, laughing. +that sleep is more important than anything,” whispered princess mary +that’s not it—that’s tomorrow. oh yes! natásha... sabretache... +that sort of man), he gave borís a pleasant smile, frowned as with +that sort of thing.” +that’s our house,” said rostóv. “of course, it’s our house! +“that’s so, your excellency, all they have to do is to eat a good +that state of mind which makes everything seem possible, pleasant, and +that’s the way they treat me! no confidence in me! ah, ordered to keep +that surrounded the emperors. +that’s what i did.” +“that the emperor will meet me and give me an order as he would to any +that the ismáylov regiment was quartered for the night ten miles from +that the prince was in a bad humor, stood awaiting him; mademoiselle +that the pupils’ parents wept at having to let him take their children +that the question of his wife’s guilt which had been tormenting him +that these thoughts had been suggested to prince andrew by his +that the story about sergéy kuzmích, the laughter, and the food +that those broad-boned reddish hands with hairy wrists visible from +that very instant a cloud of smoke spread all round, firing was heard +that was dispersing on the hill lay still more densely below, where they +that was good. +that was not pretty, but neither mademoiselle bourienne nor the little +that was swaying from its weight in prince andrew’s hands, but he +that were so agonizingly, incessantly pulling and pressing his arm and +that where the steward had shown him in the accounts that the serfs’ +that which had said: “the pávlograd hussars?” +that while napoleon’s proclamation was being read to the troops the +that white spot. “i expect it’s snow... that spot... a spot—une +that year, as all his estates had been remortgaged, and so nicholas, +the accountant with the naïve face was feeling its texture, shaking his +the accurate way characteristic of him, was building a little pyramid of +the act of falling asleep. rostóv lifted his head that had sunk almost +the address. “this letter would be of great use to you.” +the adoration then common in moscow for the emperor, who was spoken of +the affair, and like everyone in similar cases, did not yet believe that +the affair had come to an actual duel). “you know, count, it is much +the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that is how +“the ammunition for the guns in position is exhausted, your +the animated hum of several conversations. at one end of the table, the +the appointed place. +“the Ápsherons must be stopped, your excellency,” cried he. but at +the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both +the artillerymen were still as merry and lively as ever. twice they +theater, where he had been with his family and denísov. he was at once +the attack of the sixth chasseurs secured the retreat of our right +the austrian adjutant, he addressed bolkónski. +the bald head. véra, natásha, sónya, and pétya now entered the room, +the band immediately struck up “conquest’s joyful thunder +the band struck up the newly introduced mazurka. nicholas could not +the battery to retire as quickly as possible. when the supports attached +the battlefield, believed that the french had been defeated and were +the battle of schön grabern than you do now,” said his son with a +the beauty went to the aunt, but anna pávlovna detained pierre, looking +the bedchamber. the diplomatic career now lies open before you.” +the best maroon dress, and so on, all would be well. they forgot that +the best post he could—preferably that of adjutant to some important +the bigwigs who guided the club’s opinion reappeared, and everybody +the bonfire, and addressing túshin asked him to have the guns moved a +the book was the gospel, and the white thing with the lamp inside was a +the bridges were strong and had handrails. everything bore an impress of +the brilliant surroundings in which he had last met his friend in +the cadet was rostóv. with one hand he supported the other; he was +the campaign and the two battles in which he had taken part, and his +the campfire. they were quarreling and fighting desperately, each trying +the carriage as pale as anything. how they made the four black horses +the case, hesitated about lifting the injured or dead. the soldiers, +the cause of his grief. +the cause of justice against the enemy of the human race. anna pávlovna +the cause of the confusion was that while the austrian cavalry was +the center of the russian army, and that that center was already +the chantry long before, but that nine tenths of the peasants in that +the cheeks, the same expression was on her charming childlike face with +the cheerful glitter of that autumn day was in keeping with the news of +the chief steward, a very stupid but cunning man who saw perfectly +the chief steward expressed great sympathy with pierre’s intentions, +the chief steward, who considered the young count’s attempts almost +the child moved slightly in his sleep, smiled, and rubbed his forehead +the clavichord, sang the tune. bolkónski was not there. none of these +the cleverest among them, including the chief steward, understood from +the cloak they spread under him was wet with blood which stained his +the club cook and the steward listened to the count’s orders with +the cold, austere tone of this man, whom he had almost always before met +the colonel rode to the front, angrily gave some reply to questions put +the column, gave him the order to advance. +the combatants advanced along the trodden tracks, nearer and nearer to +the command of the army to general buxhöwden. during this interregnum +the command of the left flank belonged by seniority to the commander of +the complete darkness túshin’s guns moved forward, surrounded by the +the concentrated activity which had begun at the emperor’s +the contempt with which rostóv, from his fighting army point of view, +the conversation did not flag all evening and turned chiefly on the +the conversation to insignificant matters. natásha, who, of the whole +the copse across which our men, regardless of orders, were running and +the cossacks sold the horse for two gold pieces, and rostóv, being the +the cot. he did not look round, but still gazing at the infant’s face +the cot where she was standing, “better wait a bit... later...” +the council of war, at which prince andrew had not been able to +the council of war was just over when prince andrew accompanied +the count and at anna mikháylovna, the latter very adroitly turned +the count considered. +the countess; about 70,000 went for interest on debts. the building of a +the countess did not believe her ears. denísov had proposed. to whom? +the countess glanced at her silent son. +the countess had been prepared by anna mikháylovna’s hints at dinner. +the countess shrugged her shoulders. +“the countess told me to inquire whether your excellency was at +the count put his ear to the keyhole and listened. +the count sobbed yet more. +the count walked up and down the hall in his dressing gown, giving +the count was delighted at anna mikháylovna’s taking upon herself one +the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his +the crowd, pushing forward desperately, squeezed together, moved a few +the dam, the pond, and the bank. +the darkness. this was the last french attack and was met by soldiers +the day after he had been received into the lodge, pierre was sitting at +the day after rostóv had been to see borís, a review was held of the +the day after the review, borís, in his best uniform and with his +the day. that’s what keeping one’s head means. that’s the way, +the decisive point, and gains the victory alone. “but death and +the declaration from petersburg gave him particular pleasure, and that +the deep wet snow between the place where they had been standing and +“the devil knows! they’ve killed everybody! it’s all up now!” +the disordered battalion and at the enemy, “what’s that?” +“the dispositions!” exclaimed kutúzov bitterly. “who told you +the dispositions or anything else—he was engaged in satisfying the +the dispositions were very complicated and difficult. they began as +the doctor entered. prince andrew went out and, meeting princess mary, +the door and as soon as it opened his rough old arms closed like a vise +the door; the scream ceased and he heard the wail of an infant. +the door, was sitting at the table in a persian dressing gown, writing. +“the doubt is flattering,” said “the man of profound intellect,” +the duel between pierre and dólokhov was hushed up and, in spite of +the duel with nesvítski, bezúkhov’s second. pierre went home, but +thee, and even in those blasphemous words thou hast just uttered!” +the ebb and flow of these sounds. +the efforts of the old count, and instead of being degraded to the ranks +“the eighteenth.” +the emperor, and a thousand reasons occurred to him why it would be +the emperor drew level with rostóv and halted. alexander’s face was +the emperor, frowning slightly, bent his ear forward as if he had not +the emperor. he felt that this nearness by itself made up to him for the +the emperor immediately!” thought rostóv and galloped on. +the emperor’s horse started at the sudden cry. this horse that had +the emperor’s severity regarding duels at that time, neither the +the emperor’s suite. one officer told rostóv that he had seen someone +the emperor’s voice. +“the emperor! the emperor!” was suddenly heard among the hussars. +the emperor turned with a smile to one of his followers and made a +the emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of +“the enemy has quenched his fires and a continual noise is heard from +“the enemy is still far away, your excellency. according to the +the enemy’s fires, but heard the shouting of the french more loudly +the evening again turned to borís, asking him in a tone of caressing +“the exchange horses have just come,” answered the servant. “will +the experience of old cunctators.” +the eyes of the guardsman’s horse. the heavy black horse, sixteen +the face and figure of prince andrew, in a fur cloak the deep collar of +the face that emerged from the shirt. +the familiar staircase. the well-known old door handle, which always +the farther he went the more disorganized they were. the highroad on +the fate of battles had arrived. would this disorderly crowd of soldiers +the felt boots approached the unseen bend of the staircase more rapidly. +“the field marshal is angry with the emperor and he punishes us all, +the field of battle, who though still in some confusion were less +the fires and shouting in the enemy’s army were occasioned by the fact +the first couple. noiselessly, skillfully stepping with his little +“the first man that turns up—she forgets her father and everything +the first second. “a baby? what baby...? why is there a baby there? or +the first to catch his eye. he sent him. +the first to seize the surrendering french officer by his collar. our +the first words he heard on coming to his senses were those of a french +the flagstaff that had been dropped beside him. (the flag had already +the fog had begun to clear and enemy troops were already dimly visible +the fog had grown so dense that though it was growing light they could +the foreboding of evil that had suddenly come over rostóv was more and +the foremost frenchman, the one with the hooked nose, was already so +the forests in the province of kostromá, the land lower down the river, +the french and lay down their arms at the first demand. +the french dragoon was a young alsatian who spoke french with a german +the french, galloped along the front as hard as his horse could go, but +the french had attacked the battery and, seeing kutúzov, were firing +the french had been repulsed for the last time. and again and again in +the frenchman langeron, kutúzov’s incapacity, and (it was whispered) +the french were already near. prince andrew, walking beside bagratión, +the french, who had ceased firing at this field strewn with dead and +the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that +the front. i held my sword in my left hand, count. all our family—the +the game continued; a waiter kept handing round champagne. +the general had a fit of coughing as a result of shouting and of the +the general had so wished to do this and was so sorry he had not managed +the general pleasure and disappoint everyone’s expectation. prince +the generals seemed to listen reluctantly to the difficult dispositions. +the general state of affairs which was far from satisfactory. +the general, the men themselves not knowing what, or why, they were +the gentlemen and mademoiselle bourienne rose and the little princess, +the gentlemen of the tsar’s suite by his poor french. +the gesture of a man too busy to lose a moment, glanced at kutúzov and, +the girls sprang aside. denísov hid his hairy legs under the blanket, +the glory of our arms and of the day’s work, they assumed a serious +the good-natured iogel, flying about like a feather and bowing according +the grand master began reading the statutes. they were very long, and +the grand master proposed that the last duty should be performed, +the grand master rapped with his mallet. all the masons sat down in +the greater part of the men had to halt and an unpleasant consciousness +the guards had gone to the front; dólokhov had been reduced to the +the guards had made their whole march as if on a pleasure trip, parading +the guests. to each of them he made some careless and agreeable remark +the hair was wet, so profusely had the child perspired. he was not dead, +the half-closed eyes was there greedily gnawing a mutton bone, and the +the handsome young emperor alexander, in the uniform of the horse +“the head of the garrison at glogau, with ten thousand men, asks the +the heavy standard, he ran forward with full confidence that the whole +the highest law thou shalt regain traces of the ancient dignity which +“the highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish +the highest wisdom has but one science—the science of the whole—the +“the highest wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those +the hill not to go beyond the stream, but rostóv pretended not to hear +the hofkriegsrath and both emperors took part. at that council, contrary +the homestead consisted of a threshing floor, outhouses, stables, a +the honor, but i shall never be your son’s wife.” +the hope of an alliance with her. +the horse guards. +the horse guards were galloping, but still holding in their horses. +the horses’ croups began to sway in the front line. rook pulled at the +the hussar did not reply. +the hussar only sighed without replying and coughed angrily. the sound +the hussars crowded round and responded heartily with loud shouts. +the ice bore him but it swayed and creaked, and it was plain that it +the ice gave way under one of the foremost soldiers, and one leg slipped +the icon stand. to her surprise and distress she found that her prayers +the idea of defeat and flight could not enter rostóv’s head. though +the infantry regiments that had been caught unawares in the outskirts +the inhabitants of the district. +the inlaid portfolio. pierre signed the deed and after that the princess +their adjutants had come to witness the curious phenomenon of the +their cleanliness and discipline. they had come by easy stages, their +their faces was a quiet and solemn look. +their grief in their own way. the old prince would not cherish any hope: +their guns, were running toward him. he also saw french infantry +their marriage, with bare shoulders and a languid, passionate look on +their meaning but must keep them. the second pair of man’s gloves +their name and my own i hold out a brotherly hand to you.” +their own resources what might be needed for the success of the fete. +their places, and one of them read an exhortation on the necessity of +the landing below, philip, the footman, stood looking scared and holding +the large drawing room. prince vasíli came up to pierre with languid +the last of the horse guards, a huge pockmarked fellow, frowned angrily +the last post station but one before moscow, denísov had drunk three +the latter began to feel that it was in bad taste to speak of his +the latter lay silent in the sleigh with closed eyes and did not answer +the left-flank columns had already descended. +the left, the firing became more distinct. kutúzov had stopped and was +the letter was old, having been written before the battle at +the line of retreat on the left by the french. however inconvenient the +the line that had so sharply divided the two armies?” he asked himself + * the little one is charming. +the little princess and mademoiselle bourienne had already received +the little princess got up, rang for the maid, and hurriedly and merrily +the little princess grumbled to her maid that her bed was badly made. +the little princess lay supported by pillows, with a white cap on her +the little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, +the little princess, taking the dress from the maid, came up to princess +the liveliness of a fourteen-year-old boy, and yet it was the face +the living charm of her neck and shoulders, so near to his lips that +the lodge, told the password, and at last was permitted to sit down. +the look she felt upon her made that world still more poetic. but +“the lord be thanked, yes!” +the loss of prince andrew had reached bald hills, and in spite of the +them.” +them, and reads those from the emperor addressed to others. ‘ah! so +them, and she doubts the means we have of gaining them. that is the +them, and understood that it was useless and even cruel to insist. +the man was wearing a bluish coat of broadcloth, he had no knapsack +them are harmful, especially the women. yes, dear boy,” he continued, +the mason cleared his throat huskily, as old men do, and called his +the mason did not move and for a long time said nothing after this +the mason looked intently at pierre and smiled as a rich man with +the mason remained silent for a long time, evidently considering. +the mason’s arguments; he dreaded not to be able to believe in him. +the mason smiled with his gentle fatherly smile. +the mason. “yes, i never thought of it, but i have led a contemptible +the mazurka, which was just coming into fashion, were danced. iogel had +them curiosity, awe, and even love—a supercilious consciousness of +them down! what?...” said rostóv, waking up. at the moment he opened +the meeting was at an end, and on reaching home pierre felt as if he had +the members and guests of the club wandered hither and thither, sat, +the men and officers returning spoke of a brilliant victory, of the +the men (the commanders, as we saw at the council of war, were out of +them from others was the absence of host or hostess and the presence of +them!” he reflected. +the middle of a field without rhyme or reason. it’s all those damned +the midwife was already on her way to meet her, rubbing her small, plump +them. if he is not rich i will give her the means; i will ask my +the mildness of his features, was all the greater. rostóv was happy +the minister and his son had arrived, but the appearance of both had +them in the thick fog, the russians exchanged shots with the enemy +the mist, and his cold face wore that special look of confident, +the mist. from information he had received the evening before, from the +them it was difficult to get out again. one was shouting, “get on! +the moment he heard the firing and the cry from behind, the general +the moment is not bonaparte but buxhöwden. general buxhöwden was all +the more depressed. +them or make them move. on the one hand, the chief steward put the state +the morning of the twentieth, when the memorable battle of austerlitz +them pierre noticed a large cast iron ring with a seal representing a +them—remained for a while without any definite opinion on the subject +them rest and leisure?” said pierre, hurrying and lisping. “and +themselves and grow more and more miserable.” +themselves quite innocent, and since that day when he was overpowered +themselves, stifle this remorse and grow callous, as a result of being +themselves to túshin in all their horror. he had been so excited that +them something funny and kept them amused, while he watched the young +them strangely of the little princess. but what was still stranger, +them taking off his cap) “from his animal condition and awaken in him +them the order to march, thereby indicating that he intended to lead +them, when suddenly, clinking his spurs and spreading out his legs, +then a general rode past shouting something angrily, not in russian. +then a gleam of bayonets; to the left beyond the village similar masses +“then allow me to express your regrets, and i am sure your opponent +then all will be right, as our bear huntsman at kostromá used to tell +“then am i to order those large sterlets?” asked the steward. +then appointed to supervise the enrollment decreed throughout russia. +then a thin, pale soldier, his neck bandaged with a bloodstained leg +then both voices together with glad intonations, and then footsteps. +then brought back to the general circle. +then detached ideas and impressions from the world of reality shot +the nearest soldiers shrank back, the gun driver stopped his horse, but +the newcomer was a short, large-boned, yellow-faced, wrinkled old +the new homestead he was constructing and its buildings, but even here, +the next day the emperor stopped at wischau, and villier, his physician, +then he did everything so simply and with such assurance!) mademoiselle +then he recalled the coarseness and bluntness of her thoughts and the +the night ten miles from olmütz and next morning were to come straight +the night was foggy and through the fog the moonlight gleamed +“then i may reckon on it, your excellency?” +the nonsense talked by the austrian generals. shinshín, standing close +the novelty anna pávlovna was setting before her guests that evening +then quickly glanced at dólokhov and, bending his finger as he had been +then suddenly he realized the joyful significance of that wail; tears +then that same face pale, quivering, and suffering, as it had been when +then the voice said something more, demyán replied, and the steps in +“then they’ve not gone to bed yet? what do you think? mind now, +the nurse brought it to him and nodded approval when she told him that +the nurse lit the gilt candles before the icons and sat down by the door +“then what is this blood on the gun carriage?” inquired túshin. +“then when am i to have it?” +“then why are you here? you should have gone on long ago, now you +then with remarks which showed that he was in a good temper. +“then you are serving?” +the officers as he went: “have these gentlemen attended to and taken +the officers gathered round denísov’s canteen, eating and talking. +the officers got up and stood round the cossacks and their prisoner. +the officers or adjutants who wandered about in the fog in those unknown +the old aunt received the two young people in her corner, but seemed +the old count cast down his eyes on hearing his son’s words and began +the old countess, not letting go of his hand and kissing it every +the old count pretended to be angry. +the old count, the countess, pétya, véra, natásha, and sónya, and +the old lady. +the old man turned angrily away. +the old prince did not sleep either. tíkhon, half asleep, heard him +the old prince dressed leisurely in his study, frowning and considering +the old prince first heard of the defeat at austerlitz stated, as usual +the old prince knew that if he told his daughter she was making a +the old princess came in and also wept. the elderly lady was using +the old princess did not reply, she was tormented by jealousy of her +the old prince. “very, very glad to have seen you,” repeated he, +the old prince was very affectionate and careful in his treatment of +the one that will result from it will be as victorious! however, dear +the onlookers, “will it be long? are things ready?” +the orderlies looked at him as if they wished to impress on him that a +the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves +the other clutched his drooping pistol. his face was pale. rostóv ran +the other committeemen. “there will be many toasts, it’s time to +the other, quite a new reflection of the society in which they had taken +the others but win from you. or are you afraid of me?” he asked again. +the other side of the fire, warming his thin yellow body. +the pack. much depended on rostóv’s winning or losing on that seven +the party of the young had triumphed. the voices of those who counseled +“the pávlograd hussars?” he inquired. +the people who know of it the less a woman in travail suffers, everyone +“the picket is still on the hill, your excellency, just where it was +the point of view of the old countess and of society it was out of the +the possessor of wealth. how have you used it? what have you done +the postmaster came in and began obsequiously to beg his excellency to +the postmaster, his wife, the valet, and a peasant woman selling +“the praise of a great commander is a soldier’s highest reward,” +the pre-eminence. +the priest with a goose feather anointed the boy’s little red and +the prince bowed his head and went up to the porch. “god be +the prince looked at his daughter’s frightened face and snorted. +the princess did not fall down or faint. she was already pale, but on +the princess sank helplessly into an armchair beside her father and +the princess saw that her father regarded the matter with disapproval, +the princess went up to the door, passed by it with a dignified and +the prince stopped. he saw the effect these words had produced on his +the prince turned round to the overseer and fixed his eyes on him, +the prince was lying on the sofa, looked at him, noticed his perturbed +the prussian army and was aide-de-camp to a very important personage. +the quiet home life and peaceful happiness of bald hills presented +the ranks. +the ranks, and above all being unable to see anything in front or around +“there are precedents, i may mention schwarzenberg.” +“there are so many prisoners today, nearly the whole russian army, +there as he. and now—this duel! have these people no feeling, or +the reception room, where he found some ten officers and generals. +the recruiting, granted by the emperor. if i had been two hours late +(the reflection was still incomplete), he caught himself smiling and was +therefore met with unaltered looks the angrily inquisitive expression of +therefore you seek wisdom and virtue. is that not so?” said the +the regimental commander on horseback and some ten men of his company, +the regiment kutúzov had reviewed at braunau and in which dólokhov was +the regiment under a hail of bullets which fell around, but fortunately +“there he is!” said borís, thinking rostóv had said “his +“there... he’s puffing again,” muttered túshin to himself, as a +there in which he had now no part could perturb him. he shut his eyes, +there is hardly time to put in action—seeing pierre, touched his +“there is something nasty, something wrong, in the feeling she excites +“there is something up,” thought nicholas, and he was further +the remains of langeron’s and dokhtúrov’s mingled forces were +“there now! it’s true that all you women are crybabies,” remarked +“there now, the kúrskies have also gone past,” was being said in +“there now, you wish to liberate your serfs,” he continued; “that +there. pierre had the air of a man preoccupied with considerations which +“the reserves, sire!” replied a voice, a very human one compared to +“there’s no need to talk! he receives his orders and will marry you +“there’s nothing for me to understand,” she cried out with +the resounding strains of the polonaise: +there’s some mistake,” thought he. “they can’t have wanted to +the rest.” +“there’s the corner at the crossroads, where the cabman, zakhár, +the rest of his life. +the rest of the evening. +“there, there! do you feel it? i feel so strange. and do you know, +“there! they are bringing another!” cried one of the officers, +the retreat from austerlitz, where he alone had withdrawn his column +the revolving pulleys whirr with the rapidity of their movement, but a +there was no answer to any of these questions, except one, and that +there was no laughter in the maids’ large hall. in the men servants’ +there was none he would so much like to have for a friend as that very +there was no one beyond the ditch now. only some carts and carriages +there was no one in the hall. “oh god! is everyone all right?” +there was no reason why it should not reach the pávlograd regiment, +there was nothing between the squadron and the enemy, and again that +there was nothing to be said, and neither wished to give occasion for +there was really nothing to be seen in front except a barren descent +there was still the same bewitching combination of majesty and mildness +there were in the room a child’s cot, two boxes, two armchairs, a +“there will be a council of war at kutúzov’s tonight, though; you +the rhetor but pierre’s sponsor, willarski, whom he recognized by his +the rhetor cleared his throat, crossed his gloved hands on his breast, +the rhetor, “is an emblem of something not cognizable by the senses +the right flank and the french were already advancing, were engaged +the right they will expose a flank to me. soldiers! i will myself direct +the road he reined in his horse, hesitating whether to ride along it or +the room, and seeming not to notice the chairs was dashing straight at +the room, pondering over his vicious past, and with a rapturous sense +the rostóvs knew everybody in moscow. the old count had money enough +the rostóvs since the day of his departure for the army. to be in anna +the russian with his heir the tsarévich, and the austrian with the +the sale of the land and forests and to release them from the land bank, +the salute and unable to repress the smile of delight induced by his +the same happy, rapturous faces turned to the shaggy figure of denísov. +the same, then why this duel, this murder? either i shall kill him, or +the same time, my honored benefactor,” wrote prince vasíli. “my son +the score against him reached the fateful sum of forty-three thousand. +the scoundrels!” +the seat indicated to him beside the fair hélène and listened to the +the sergeant to meet some mounted men who were riding along the line. +the serious faces of those around, remembered all he had already gone +the servant brought back his tumbler turned upside down, * with an +the servant handed him a book which pierre took to be a devotional work, +these same questions which he could not solve and yet could not cease to +these sights and sounds had no depressing or intimidating effect on him; +the shirt. +the sight of the killed and wounded. +the silence lasted some time. prince bagratión, apparently not wishing +the sinews and scorching the flesh of his sprained arm and shoulder. to +the smell of linstocks, came the artillery which crawled between the +the smoke, rostóv hesitated whether to gallop after them or to go where +the snow, greedily bit at it, again raised his head, adjusted himself, +“the snow is deep. i am having the avenue swept, your honor.” +the soldier always has around him the same comrades, the same ranks, the +the soldiers’ faces and unnatural warlike solemnity on those of the +the soldiers laughed. a moment later, an adjutant arrived with the same +the soldiers who had carried prince andrew had noticed and taken the +the sound of musketry at the foot of the hill, now diminishing, now +the southern spring, the comfortable rapid traveling in a vienna +the special deep cooing tone, precluding the possibility of interrupting +the spot chosen for the duel was some eighty paces from the road, +the squadron in which rostóv was serving had scarcely time to mount +the staff officer on duty. +the standard. +the state of the prussian army. as soon as he had finished she turned to +“the step must be taken but i cannot, i cannot!” thought pierre, +the steward did not say it was quite impossible, but suggested selling +the stewards (there were semiliterate foremen among them) listened with +the still greater unimportance of death, the meaning of which no one +the stores are empty, the roads impassable. the orthodox begin looting, +the stranger’s face was not genial, it was even cold and severe, but +the stretchers moved on. at every jolt he again felt unendurable pain; +the struggling men, and the fate of the red-haired gunner, who had +the sutlers. on receiving borís’ letter he rode with a fellow officer +the table in a merry mood, sitting down now by one, now by another, of +the table, screened by a bound music book so that the light did not fall +the table which was scrawled over with figures, wet with spilled wine, +the tall, fair-haired general buxhöwden stood, leaning his back against +the tears from his eyes and from the letter, then having dried her +the temperature shown by the political thermometer to the company that +the termination of the ceremony. he looked up joyfully at the baby when +the third division and convinced himself that there really were no +the third time the rhetor came back more quickly and asked pierre +the three voices, hers, mademoiselle bourienne’s, and katie’s, who +the thuerassa, he merely saves us a great deal of trouble and all our +the time had come to experience the joy of an attack of which he had so +the torzhók peddler woman, in a whining voice, went on offering her +the town where the headquarters and the diplomatic corps were stationed +the traveler was joseph alexéevich bazdéev, as pierre saw from the +the tremor of the speaker’s voice—which sometimes almost broke—or +the troops again began to move, and two battalions of the nóvgorod and +the troops of the vanguard were stationed before wischau, within sight +the troops were running in such a dense mass that once surrounded by +the tsar!” +the tsar addressed the officers also: “i thank you all, gentlemen, i +the tsar heard but obviously did not like the reply; he shrugged his +the tsar looked intently and observantly into kutúzov’s eye +the tsar said something more which rostóv did not hear, and the +the tsar stopped a few minutes in front of the hussars as if undecided. +the tsar with another glance at the emperor francis, as if inviting +the tverskáya street rode the hussar with mustaches... i thought about +the two generals and the adjutant took hold of the field glass, trying +the unsolved problem that tormented him was caused by hints given by the +the uselessness of freeing the serfs, who were quite happy as it was. +the valley. the fourth column, with which kutúzov was, stood on the +the very time he was expressing this conviction to himself, in another +the village again, but túshin’s guns could not move, and the +the village letting the troops pass by him. that morning kutúzov seemed +the visitors, and before the visitors i tell you that in future you are +the wall, his eyes fixed on a burning candle, and seemed not to listen +the war was flaming up and nearing the russian frontier. everywhere one +the wax with the baby’s hair had not sunk in the font but had floated. +the whole day was finally and indubitably answered in the affirmative. +the whole human race, offering it in our members an example of piety +the whole interest was concentrated on rostóv. instead of sixteen +the whole matter and decide what was right and how he should act, but +the wind. +the wind had fallen and black clouds, merging with the powder smoke, +the woman he had known as a child, of whom when her beauty was mentioned +“the wound is not here, it is there!” said kutúzov, pressing the +they all had but one wish: to advance as soon as possible against the +they all separated, but, except anatole who fell asleep as soon as he +they all were, or seemed to be, pretty—so rapturous were their smiles +they are beaten, flogged, or sent to siberia, i don’t suppose they are +“they can’t be far off, probably just beyond the stream,” he said +“they coax me as if i were váska the cat!” said denísov jokingly. +they could not fail to vanquish anyone, be it whom it might: so thought +they had entered moscow. +they had not met for nearly half a year and, being at the age when young +they halted in silence. there was nothing fresh to be seen from the +“they have gone to bed and put out their lights, your excellency.” +they named the colonel, prince repnín. +the younger emperor could not restrain his wish to be present at the +the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless +they quite understood one another as to the first part of their romance, +“they’re always in love with someone,” he thought of sónya and +they’re coming!” alarmed voices were heard, and a stir of final +they rose from the table and sat down in the entrance porch which served +“they say pierre is quite broken by his misfortune.” +they seemed of them, one could feel by the occasional glances they gave +they went out and walked about till dinnertime, talking of the political +“they were in a hurry enough to start us, and now here we stand in +they were saying was amusing, but because she felt happy and was unable +“they were there this evening, but now i don’t know, your +they would have remained there for a long time testing each other’s +they would not for an instant let his shoulder move a hair’s breadth. +thing he would have to unite his fate with hers. he might perhaps have +things he should have shown it sooner, but he lets it go on for months. +things that had never occurred. mademoiselle bourienne also shared them +things the old count sent to his son. +thing we are interested in here,” said the spirit of the place. +think could hardly be found nowadays—but is she contented with her +think, count? the next day it was not even mentioned in the orders of +thinking? i mustn’t forget. how shall i speak to the emperor? no, +think it over. go! yes or no, yes or no, yes or no!” he still shouted +think so yourself. and the main thing is,” he continued, “that i +thin lips interrupted weyrother, wishing to say something. but the +this active old servant was unpacking the traveler’s canteen and +this answer. “have you sought for means of attaining your aim in +this battle, which consisted in the capture of a french squadron, was +this bone—a bill for thirty thousand rubles—to the poor princess +this?” but these doubts only lasted a moment. pierre glanced at +this card and i’ll take my cap and drive home to supper with denísov, +this consciousness of mismanagement became a general conviction, but as +this guardsman would certainly have bowled rostóv and his bedouin over +this heart, so kind and generous? say ‘perhaps’... the future is so +this holiday time. “seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! +this indecision appeared to him majestic and enchanting, like everything +this information, the little princess and mademoiselle bourienne, whose +this instant!” thought rostóv. +this is absolutely true. +“this is all very fine, but things must be settled,” said prince +“this is not at all the thing,” he said. “what sort of polish +this is the battle of pultúsk, which is considered a great victory but +“this is the first act. those that follow are naturally increasingly +this is what i was proud of! i then thought that i did not understand +this marriage. he recalled her former words and looks and the words +this may be my only chance of seeing the emperor. it won’t be long +this misery, and money, and dólokhov, and anger, and honor—it’s all +this moment of happy, rapturous excitement. she gazed at him, not taking +this name day of hers had been one of the pleasantest she had ever had. +this short man had on a white leather apron which covered his chest and +this short man nodded to dolgorúkov as to an intimate friend and stared +this silence was broken by one of the brethren, who led pierre up to the +this speech how they could best handle the master for their own ends. +this strange incident, and then shrugging his shoulders went to the door +this strong, brave man, this model son and officer that, judging by this +this table with the thought of winning a hundred rubles to buy that +this unpleasant impression merely flitted over the young and happy face +this—want glory, want to be known to men, want to be loved by them, it +this was quite true, but the count, the countess, and natásha looked +this was true. the architect had told him that it was necessary, and +those brilliant aged eyes grown old in this conviction, or the calm +those first steps. both had changed greatly since they last met and both +those of higher ranks in the order. 3. morality. 4. love of mankind. 5. +those on foot, collapsed in a great mass, and some forty men who were on +those recently arrived from russia, both guards and regiments of the +those richer and more powerful than himself and he had rare skill in +those who had been campaigning under kutúzov. the two emperors, +thou art wise because thou couldst utter those blasphemous words,” he +though all were in a conspiracy of silence. the men who set the tone +though five minutes before, prince andrew had been able to say a few +though he smiled delightedly. he ran up to them. +though he wrote in french and used french jests and french idioms, +though mademoiselle bourienne had been so unsuccessful in her choice +though none of the column commanders rode up to the ranks or talked to +though no words had passed between anatole and mademoiselle bourienne, +though of this prince andrew said nothing to his sister, was that in the +though shy, went on carefully executing her steps. denísov did not +thought and heard of her might be false. and he again saw her not as the +thought. and suddenly, at this thought of death, a whole series of most +thought, as he listened to voices in kutúzov’s courtyard. the voices +thought, he called tíkhon and began to undress. +thought he heard a strange noise through the door. he was seized with +thought he, “i shall be sent with a brigade or division, and there, +thought, “i must remain free.” +thought of everything, considered everything, and did everything the +thought of sónya, during this stay in moscow, he said to himself, +thought of such a thing, it is only the cabinet that says it.” +thought pierre, “and how little attention we pay to it!” +thought pierre. “but this man knows the truth and, if he wished to, +thought prince andrew, and striking his horse he rode up to kutúzov. +thought—referring to the little princess who was not in the dining +thought rostóv. at that moment alexander turned his head and rostóv +thought rostóv. he knew what a shock he would inflict on his father and +thought rostóv. “i should die of happiness!” +thoughts, and memories suddenly arose within him that he could not fall +thoughts he has dreamed of for nights, but looks around for help or a +thought that he, an exemplary officer of many years’ service who +though without knowing its cause—was such as to remind one still more +thou hast lost.” +“thou hatest it. then change it, purify thyself; and as thou art +thousand-ruble horses, only eighteen were left after the charge. +thousands such as i in russia.’ +thrashing for letting a private traveler have the courier horses. +three beats: “oh mio crudele affetto.”... one, two, three... one, +three days later the little princess was buried, and prince andrew went +“three,” he went quickly forward, missing the trodden path and +three parts of that army were sharply distinguished: kutúzov’s +throttle if they stood in my way. i have an adored, a priceless mother, +through, and realized that he could not stop halfway. he was aghast +through the conservatories, the serfs’ quarters, and the outbuildings, +through the door. prince andrew got up, went to the door, and tried to +through the naïve and intelligent count and played with him as with +through the smoke. he was pressing one hand to his left side, while +throwing down his chisel. (the wheel continued to revolve by its own +thud of the enemy’s cannon balls, from the flushed and perspiring +thyself whether thou art content with thyself. what hast thou attained +tidiness and good management. some domestic serfs pierre met, in reply +tíkhon did not hear the slightest sound from the study after that. +tíkhon knew his master’s habit of sometimes thinking aloud, and +tíkhon, like all good valets, instinctively knew the direction of his +tíkhon to ask mary bogdánovna what news.—“say only that ‘the +tíkhon went and told the prince. +till he began sincerely to believe in his own exceptional kindness and +till its coat shone like satin and every hair of its wetted mane lay +till may, and asked him to be more economical this time. nicholas had +till midday on the nineteenth, the activity—the eager talk, running to +till now. but where am i?” +till ten o’clock. +till then, had listened with an amused smile to their conversation and +till then. their powers of reasoning, feeling, and observing immediately +till the tsar reached it, each regiment in its silence and immobility + * till tomorrow, my dear fellow. +time!” +time. +time for that sort of thing and a young man fears to bind himself and +time, muttering to herself. +time. no, i’ll tell you now. you know sónya’s my dearest friend. +times before: how the late princess had given birth to princess mary +time since his return that they had talked alone and about their love. +time that evening, vainly expecting someone, now smiling at someone, now +time till they came to moscow had not left them for a day. +time to get his uniform. he had on a shabby cadet jacket, decorated with +timidly from behind the backs of the generals. as he stepped past the +timidly to the corner where denísov sat. she saw that everybody was +timókhin, armed only with a sword, had rushed at the enemy with such +tiny limbs she had felt twenty years ago within her, that son about whom +tiptoe to the countess’ door and paused. +tired of being run after by women, his vanity was flattered by the +“tit! i say, tit!” said the groom. +to above the knee. pierre hurriedly began taking off his right boot also +to all the club members and to all the club guests, and finally to +toast, the count took out his handkerchief and, covering his face, wept +to attain it quickly. hence we have a secondary aim, that of preparing +to attend to the business himself and so he disliked it and only tried +to bagratión which the old countess at anna mikháylovna’s advice had +to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, +to be heard. +to be his old schoolroom, and looking into natásha’s wildly bright +to be opened. everywhere he saw the stewards’ accounts, according to +to be reserved because in the depth of my soul i feel too near to him +to be severe, found nothing to say; the others did not venture to +to be silent. but after a while, just as a jury comes out of its room, +to build a new chantry to the church at their own expense in honor +to change his former way of life, but his strength failed him. he walked +to cheer the men but merely carried out the orders), yet the troops +“to combat the evil which sways the world...” pierre repeated, and a +to continue his military service, and when the war recommenced +to control her joy which expressed itself by laughter. +to count t., prince v., and others. then he bursts into one of his wild +to credit it, bent his head, and told túshin that he could go. prince +to cross the ditch on foot. the emperor, wishing to rest and feeling +to cruel with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the +today for the emperor.” dolgorúkov smiled significantly. +today or tomorrow—at any rate, in an instant as compared with +today was a great day for him—the anniversary of his coronation. +today?” was his first thought. “and i did not know this suffering +to demonstrate the defects of the latter and the merits of his own plan, +to do it?”—“because you married her,” answered an inner voice. +to do it that it seemed to him as if it had really happened. perhaps +to do what was for him the most difficult thing in life—to say an +to do with sergéy kuzmích—a smile of bashfulness at their own +to each couple of acres. the wounded crept together in twos and threes +to enter into conversation with this old man, but, submitting to him +to enter the brotherhood of freemasons under my sponsorship?” +to everyone. pierre was so used to that smile, and it had so little +to express our sincere views on that subject, and can only say to the +to fight a battle ‘on his own hand’ as the germans say. he does so. +to fire and sword. the inhabitants are totally ruined, the hospitals +together.” +together, and made some steps on the very tips of her toes. +together? and there! bezúkhov got off scotfree, while fédya had to +together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes +to get more money from the traveler. +to give her friend the pleasure of dandling the little angel—as she +to give in money and work all that other people’s serfs gave—that is +to have any children by me.” +to hear the voices of well-known men. the largest circles formed round +to her. +to her and kissed her warmly. anatole went up to kiss the little +to her, and now that anatole had appeared it just grouped itself around +to her but to the movements of mademoiselle bourienne’s little +to hers. a woman came from the bedroom with a frightened face and became +to herself: “no, i must be mistaken, he must be feeling happy, just as +to her shortsighted eyes. turning from princess mary he went up and +to him and disputed with one another who should bring him his tea, +to him. availing himself of his friendly relations with pierre as a boon +to him by the officers, and, like a man desperately insisting on having +to him. he could not tell them simply that everyone went at a trot and +to him: “i hear you are refitting your petersburg house?” +to himself, but which formed the whole interest of his life, +to him senseless, he understood and was not surprised at it. +to him. we search, but none are to be found. the field marshal grows +to his estates and quite recovered the philanthropic mood in which +to his horse’s mane and pulled up beside the hussar. he was succumbing +to his study with the wet nurse and little prince nicholas (as his +to hope from him—especially as he did not know how, and did not +to imbibe,” he said. “can i receive that pure liquid into an impure + * to indicate he did not want more tea. +to inquiries as to where the prince lived, pointed out a small newly +to irresistible, youthful, childish drowsiness. “but what was i +to it were his inertia and a wrinkle on his brow indicating prolonged +to know?” she asked sternly. +to know what is right and what is wrong. men always did and always will +told him that he should try to do nothing to stain the whiteness of that +told him to expect. +told them all that. +told you, but you would not believe it,” she said triumphantly. “he +told you it would not be enough. how much?” +to leave that seclusion where they three were shut off from all the +to live for myself avoiding those two evils is my whole philosophy +to make reflections or think aloud in her company, and she had always +tomb of the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument +to me after the review and we will do what is possible.” +to milorádovich who was near him. +tomorrow.” +tomorrow... in the evening. you must come.... come!” +tomorrow! only let me tell you, i want to know my son-in-law better. you +tomorrow,” or, “be in to dinner or i shall not see you,” or, “i +“tomorrow our squadron is to be in reserve. may i ask to be attached +“tomorrow,” replied rostóv and left the room. +“tomorrow very likely i may be sent with some message to the +to my bivouac; let my doctor, larrey, examine their wounds. au revoir, +to my sister today. i will introduce you to her. but of course you know +tonight to my friends—come to the english hotel. +too. +to offer their services. most of those present were elderly, respected +took her hand and begged her forgiveness, without knowing what for. +took to be the enemy. shots could be heard, but some way off. +to olmütz, dined there, drank a bottle of wine, and then set off alone +to one side he gracefully held a gold lorgnette to his eyes and looked +to pierre. he spoke in french. “i only know two very real evils in +to pretend to the steward that he was attending to it. the steward +to raise... happens to everybody! yes, who has not done it?” +to read and write by the deacon, like your father and me. now tell me, +to remain for a few weeks longer in the house she so loved and where +to remain so for a hundred years; but the moment comes when the lever +to restrain his laughter. +to right and left of him soldiers continually groaned and dropped. but +to rostóv and involuntarily riveted his attention, made a gesture of +to rostóv when the animal was handed over to the hussar. +torzhók embroidery came into the room offering their services. +torzhók post station, either there were no horses or the postmaster +to say: “ah, what have you done to me, and why?” and at the sight +to say, all that could be got out of them. +to say and as if she were saying it to someone else, with whom joking +to say more in the presence of a stranger. +to say “tomorrow” and keep up a dignified tone was not difficult, +to set the serfs to work. say that everything out of the hothouses must +to settle here altogether next year....” +to shout: “blackguards!... throw the snow back on the road!” did not +to show her fear of anna pávlovna. she looked at her niece, as if +to snatch from the other a boot they were both holding on to. +to snatch it from one another. the expression on all their faces +to sob aloud. +to state his views plainly to the emperor? is it possible that on +to stimulate his emotions he looked around. “god, death, love, the +to subscribe all he had, but fearing that it might look like pride +to sympathize in any way. +totally altered and unexpectedly rapturous and tender expression on +total of his losses on it, then he looked round for aid from the other +to the austrian emperor and smiled. +to the emperor shocked rostóv. rostóv saw how the emperor’s rather +to the emperors with a salute. his whole appearance and manner were +to the first squadron?” +to the french sword and pouch. “i have taken an officer prisoner. i +to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat +to the godmother, princess mary. prince andrew sat in another room, +to the guards’ camp to find his old playmate. rostóv had not yet had +“to the head of the french government... au chef du gouvernement +“to the health of our sovereign, the emperor!” he cried, and at the +to the hussar beside him. +to the left down below in the mist, the musketry fire of unseen forces +to the maid, “bring the princess her gray dress, and you’ll see, +to them are the parts of the mechanism which the impulse has not yet +to the old conditions of life, nicholas found it very pleasant to be +to the princess. +to the removal of the guns. +to the review, reaching the field at olmütz by ten o’clock. +to the rules of his art, as he collected the tickets from all his +to the tsar or to kutúzov, even if they were alive and unwounded? +to the unknown place where he was going, many more of our men were going +to the views of the old generals kutúzov and prince schwartzenberg, it +to this chit of a girl, natásha, who not so long ago was playing with +to those who knew the indubitable truth.) he forgot what the seventh +“to try his luck or the certainty?” rostóv asked himself. +to turn away when the old man, opening his eyes, fixed his steady and +to túshin’s battery had been moved away in the middle of the action +touched pierre: he looked at hélène and she too seemed disconcerted, +touching bonaparte’s. +touching his horse and turning purple in the face. “vill you be so +touching thanks of deputations of serfs in their full-skirted blue +touch with it, and looked around bewildered and unable to grasp what was +to us.” +to walk up and down before it. +toward anna pávlovna, and anna pávlovna, with the same sad smile with +toward evening dolgorúkov came back, went straight to the tsar, and +toward evening he ceased moaning and became quite still. he did not know +toward him and said something. +toward the end of 1806, when all the sad details of napoleon’s +toward the vanguard. before he came up with the hussars, several +toward those pratzen heights which were being more and more denuded by +to. weyrother had been twice that evening to the enemy’s picket +to weyrother sat count langeron who, with a subtle smile that never left +to what he must do and how he should answer, willarski only replied that +to which pierre did not agree. on the other hand, pierre demanded that +“to your barrier!” and pierre, grasping what was meant, stopped by +to you. where are you traveling from?” +traditions of unlimited power, in time when they grow more irritable, +trampling through the deep snow, and muttering incoherent words: +transit gloria mundi.” +transparently radiant with impulsive joy. +traveler, also detained for lack of horses. +traveler, having packed his things with his practiced hands, began +treated them with absent-minded contempt. +tried to conceal them. +tried to pretend not to know; no one spoke of it, but apart from the +tried with his lips whether the child was still feverish. the soft +trifle to let a wagon go past. after he had gone, two soldiers rushed to +trigger, as he had not before held a pistol in his hand—a fact that he +tripping rapidly across in her little shoes trimmed with bows, ran +triumph. +triumph. +triumphantly secured the mop and still did not realize what awaited him, + triumph, valiant russians, now!... +troops had already entered prussia and our second war with napoleon +troops, he saw, near a kitchen garden with a ditch round it, two men +troops were moving in the distance, and he listened to the sounds of +troops were no longer moving, but stood with the butts of their muskets +trouble, and silently fixed his eyes on bagratión as a schoolboy who +trouble, but the mason told him that was not necessary and gave him +trowel, a rough stone and a squared stone, a pillar, three windows, and +trowel, he told him to toil with it to cleanse his own heart from vice, +true, or might at least seem to be true had it not referred to his wife. +trumpets of the first cavalry regiment played the general march. it +trusts to luck, one should make certain,’ and i want to try.” +trying in vain to find the answer to some question. +trying” (pierre’s modesty made him correct himself) “to live for +try to do all i can for your happiness.” +tsar and the country? it is wartime. such a fine fellow must serve. +tsar, who still remained in the same attitude of indecision. +tucked up, without a coat, pale and with a trembling jaw, came out +tuesday. +tuft of plumes in his cocked hat worn on one side with its corners front +tumbler with tea for himself and one for the beardless old man to whom +turn away from the sight, shouting angrily at the men who, as is always +turned away and went down the side of the corridor. +turning for a moment to the front line, and slightly swinging his arms, +turning the horse sharply, he again jumped the ditch, and deferentially +turning to anatole, “come here, let us talk and get acquainted.” +turning to prince vasíli and answering his imploring look. “yes, or +turn into vexation and anger at the stupid arrangements and at the +“turn this way!” he shouted, jumping over the ice which creaked +túshin. +túshin did not say that there were no covering troops, though that +túshin rose and, buttoning his greatcoat and pulling it straight, +túshin’s battery but had never reached it. interrupting one +túshin’s battery had been forgotten and only at the very end of the +túshin’s large, kind, intelligent eyes were fixed with sympathy and +túshin’s wattle shed was laid, with a bullet in his stomach, on +túshin told them to give the man some water. then a cheerful soldier +túshin turned round in dismay. it was the staff officer who had turned +twelve men in garments like those he had already seen. some of them +twenty men were gathered round a table at which dólokhov sat between +twisted upwards, sat the ruddy milorádovich in a military pose, his +two alexanders—bekleshëv and narýshkin—which was a significant +two candles. on the table was a pile of gold and paper money, and he +two cossacks. +two friends, one of whom was a dashing hussar and the other a notorious +two hours later prince andrew, stepping softly, went into his father’s +two months had elapsed since the news of the battle of austerlitz and +two seconds. whether or no the emperor understood what was going on in +twot fo’ward!” +two thousand rubles, and though he always disliked speaking of money +two, three... one... “oh mio crudele affetto.”... one, two, three... +two years, and he did not know how the rest, about 100,000 rubles, was +unable to realize where he was. +unable to withstand it now, but he also felt that on what he said now +unappreciated bliss, long past. he could not conceive that a stupid +unbroken and had all day beaten back an enemy force twice as numerous +unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of napoleon’s doctor, +unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the +under fire for the first time. +under him; “turn this way!” he shouted to those with the gun. “it +under his weight alone. the men looked at him and pressed to the +under one command, and in a like order. +understand, agitated her. she said nothing but looked about uneasily as +understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but +understand how one can live with such ideas. i had such moments +understanding half of it, read only to forget, if but for a moment, what +understanding of his employer’s happiness. +understand it’!... and i ask you!” +understand it so differently. he collected all his strength, to stir and +understand. she kissed his rough curly black head. at this instant, they +understand. that’s what i’m up to.” +understand what was being read. he managed to follow only the last words +understood her and made up my mind what she really is. was i mistaken +understood, that he could not answer him. +understood that this woman might belong to him. +understood what was happening as little as he did. +under the shirt sleeves, those hands which he loved and hated, held him +under the table. +under which she felt that she could not think, but would only be able to +unexpectedly through his mind. +unexpectedly to go into action. rostóv without hearing borís to the +unfinished bit of nibbled sugar, and asked if anything more would be +unfortunate, a stranger, alone, helpless! and, oh god, how passionately +unfriendly now became gentle and affectionate. the angry eldest +ungainly russian princesses, would fall in love with her and carry her +uniformed austrian officer. +uniforms, mounted on black horses, trotting straight toward him and +uniforms, with smartly dressed bandsmen in front mounted on black, roan, +unintentionally, he poured too many drops into the glass. he threw the +universe, and of the courage with which he should endure toils and +unlike the old one, he expected everything to be unusual, even more +unlucky at cards.’ your cousin is in love with you, i know.” +unmarried, and even the happier for it?” so thought prince bolkónski +unmask his deceivers!” and in order to realize vividly his love +unmelted snow, or some white houses? he even thought something moved on +unnatural smile. “i expect you have guessed that prince vasíli has +unnatural way, he stretched out his hand for alpátych to kiss, and then +unpleasantly excited expression. +unpleasant thing to a man’s face, to say what the other, whoever +unusual than what he was seeing. a skull, a coffin, the gospel—it +unwell, sat down under an apple tree and von toll remained beside him. +unwell today? eh? afraid of the ‘minister’ as that idiot alpátych +unwounded—it was they who were crushing, weighing down, and twisting +up against him. he wrote “800 rubles” on a card, but while the +up a glass and a pipe that were handed him. +up at all!” +up, invited him to his house in petersburg, and now... she has come here +up like a fool!” he thought, looking irritably at her. “she is +upon and could not now be altered. “we start tomorrow and i’m giving +upon him, passed splendidly, lifting his feet with a high and graceful +upon prince andrew, who was beside him. seeing him, kutúzov’s +up on the vast field. the whole army was extended in three lines: the +up out of the mist. +up the steps to where the coffin stood, to give her the farewell kiss. +up tomorrow. but you will see everything for yourself when you get to +up to the altar, placed his feet at right angles, and bade him lie down, +up to the appearance of the pauvre mère; they understood that they had +up to túshin. +upwards, in the way affected by the emperor alexander, and, having +urged on his already weary horse to get quickly past these crowds, but +us aides-de-camp and adjutants! but this is what we’ll do: i have +us but within....” +used for dancing, but in which five beds now stood, and furniture of +used to like to spend them, or to open his mind by intimate talks with +used to show at catchplay, now and then turning his good-natured, pale, +use of whatever interest he had to offer. he himself carefully scanned +usually so described. +us. well, you want an argument,” he added, “come on then.” +us—we scuttle. he hardly crosses the river to our side before we +utter a sound. he feebly moved his leg and uttered a weak, sickly groan +uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan. +uvárov, who had arrived with him, paused at the doorway to allow him, +vainly trying to master her agitation. +valet can go in your carriage. ah! i was nearly forgetting,” he added. +valet had set down the coffee things and left the room. pierre looked +valor carry disorder and confusion into the enemy’s ranks, but should +value this mystic power and glory that is floating here above me in this +valúev was confidentially telling that uvárov had been sent from +vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of +various figures worked upon it, at the other was something resembling an +various kinds: a table, chairs, and a clavichord. one adjutant, nearest +varying expression and the same prevalent appearance of goodhearted +vasíli and his son. +“vasíli denísov, your son’s friend,” he said, introducing +“vasíli dmítrich, i’m so sorry for you!... no, but you are so +“vasíli dmítrich, i thank you for the honor,” she said, with an +vasíli had only acquired by imitating other parents. +vasíli. “i know something about that. don’t i? and you are still so +vasíli, in the rare moments when he was at home, would take pierre’s +vasíli one day, closing his eyes and fingering pierre’s elbow, +vasíli’s house in the company of the stout princess, his wife, and +vasíli’s tone of careless self-assurance that he felt he would be +vasíli to himself, with a sorrowful sigh, one morning, feeling that +velvety softness, which so mingled with her lack of art in singing that +véra’s remark was correct, as her remarks always were, but, like +verses called “enchantress,” which he had composed, and to which he +“very.” +very briefly and vaguely, that after brilliant engagements the russians +very fields where the french had now to be fought; the adjacent +very fine!” +very glad to see him hanged, but i was sorry for my father—that again +“very good!” said the prince closing the door behind him, and +“very good, very good,” said bagratión. “thank you, officer.” +very important personage, had been sent on a very important mission to +very likely be getting a letter from him that day. each time that these +very much! i have promised myself not to serve again in the active +“very much,” said nicholas flushing, and with a stupid careless +very pretty and sweet, and evidently deeply in love with him, but he was +“very well,” said smolyanínov, and went on at once: “have you any +“very well, then, be so good as to wait,” said prince andrew to the +vessel and judge of its purity? only by the inner purification of myself +vicious and unfortunate people whom he would assist by word and deed, +victory, and general bennigsen, hoping to receive from petersburg the +victory be in doubt, even for a moment, you will see your emperor +victory or defeat, the glory of our russian arms is secure. except your +victory over buonaparte at eylau. in petersburg everyone is rejoicing, +victory which was conveyed, not only by the tales of those who had taken +“vienna considers the bases of the proposed treaty so unattainable +view they were right, as were those too who canonized him and died a +village and had already been sent for. +village!” he said angrily to a general who had ridden up. “don’t +village of pratzen. but neither they nor a single commanding officer +villages were in a state of the greatest poverty. he did not know that +village. tell it to stop and await my orders.” +virtue was and could not recall it. +virtuous future that seemed to him so easy. it seemed to him that he had +virtuous life of which he had been dreaming since he met joseph +vish to destroy my men for your pleasure!” +visible in the snow and a shovel had been left sticking in one of the +visible through the smoke, make out moving masses of infantry and narrow +visit his neglected estates at the same time and pick up his son anatole +visiting all the places he meant to go to and where he had been invited, +visitors. there was the fact that only those came who wished to dance +vocation is to be happy with another kind of happiness, the happiness +vodka—get on!” rostóv shouted, when the sleigh was only three +vodka. the campfires crackled and the soldiers’ songs resounded +voice. +voice, “but believe me, i so adore your daughter and all your family +voice calling him by name. +voice from heaven. how gladly would he have died at once for his tsar! +voice, obviously so elated by the sound of firing, by the prospect of +voice, popped her head in at the door. +voices. +voices, and the army swayed and started in one enormous mass six miles +voices subsided, the footmen cleared away the broken glass and everybody +voice. to fresh questions as to the firmness of his resolution pierre +voice trembled.) “i loved your father... and she will make you a good +voice, with its incorrect breathing and labored transitions, was +voice, “you were pleased to send me to captain túshin’s battery. i +von bergs—have been knights!” +voulu, george dandin,’ that’s all we have to say about it!” +vous aime’?” he kept repeating to himself. and when he had said it +vulgarity of the expressions that were natural to her, though she had +vyazmítinov, the new military governor general of petersburg, had +“wait a bit, i have something in view for you this evening.” +waited for him to go on, but as he seemed quite decided to say no more +waited impatiently for prince andrew’s return from the commander in +waiter filled his glass he changed his mind and altered it to his usual +waiting for a seven to turn up, gazed at dólokhov’s hands which held +waiting for him to say a word and cross a certain line, and he knew that +waiting for the beat. only on horse back and in the mazurka was +waiting to hear whether he would say anything more. but kutúzov, with +“waiting, your majesty,” repeated kutúzov. (prince andrew noted +wait only two hours, when, come what might, he would let his excellency +waken...” all rose and cried “hurrah!” bagratión also rose and +wake up, váska!” he went on, turning to denísov, whose head +walked away from the fire. +walked slowly without raising his pistol, looking intently with his +wall. on this knoll there was a white patch that rostóv could not at +wanted. +wanted to show him that his losses were an achievement that made her +wanted to sleep. the gay triumphant shouting of the enemy army had a +want that. and besides, what a notion that medicine ever cured anyone! +want the money for? as if that money could add a hair’s breadth to +want to, but now i have no time.” besides, it seemed to him that the +war came contradictory news, false as usual and therefore variously +wardrobe in which pierre noticed garments such as he had never seen +wares, especially a pair of goatskin slippers. “i have hundreds of +warm themselves, gathering round the fires throwing into the flames the +warrior doing some kind of man’s work of his own, without help or +was about to be decided. but prince andrew did not see how it ended. it +was about to cross the space between the barriers, when dólokhov cried: +was about to expand her dresses into a balloon and sit down. they were +was abroad; so pierre had not the opportunity to spend his nights as he +was again nodding. “come, get on! you shall have three rubles for +was a great success. there were many pretty girls and the rostóv girls +was all over; but he said in an indifferent tone: +was already perfectly cured of his former faults and was ready for all +was also a yellow, wrinkled old man, without beard or mustache, +was always busy and always felt in a state of mild and cheerful +was a unique chance to show his devotion to the emperor and he had not +was baptized. the wet nurse supported the coverlet with her chin, while +was beginning, anna pávlovna gave one of her soirees. the “cream of +was being done was not his adjutant’s fault, and still not answering +was being held by the arms and his horse was being led behind him. +was borís drubetskóy, who had just arrived as a special messenger from +was bright, he had a good horse under him, and his heart was full of +was charmant. even if anna pávlovna did not say so, he could see that +was delighted with denísov’s skill, he was asked again and again as +was downstairs. +was ecstatically conscious of his approach. he felt it not only from the +was evidently one, rostóv felt confused, blushed, and became silent. +was excellent. with the second course, a gigantic sterlet (at sight of +was for earthly love. the more she tried to hide this feeling from +was forgetting. we must have another entrée. ah, goodness gracious!” +was, for something could be descried. on the right the guards were +was fought. +was going home to vorónezh and rostóv persuaded him to travel with him +was growing dusk. on the narrow augesd dam where for so many years the +was heartily sick of them. in spite of this, or rather because of +was immediately killed. prince andrew again seized the standard and, +was impossible for cavalry to act among the bushes and broken ground, +was in a white uniform rode a black one. these were the two emperors +was in his place, waiting. +was in raptures about him, when he had just returned from abroad, and +was in the right so i kept silent; was not that best, count?... ‘hey, +was keeping the bank. rostóv had not seen him since his proposal and +was large and of an old pattern. the french swarming round their guns +was laughing at something, mingled in a merry sound, like the chirping +was lost. no one whom rostóv asked could tell him where the emperor +was lying asleep on the ottoman with an open book in his hand. +was mentioned and, pointing to his forehead, remarked: +was merely a man of the world who had got on and to whom getting on had +was more important than verses, and bagratión, again preceding all the +was napoleon—his hero—but at that moment napoleon seemed to him +was not behaving very well in this matter. “youth, frivolity... well, +was nothing. so why should i not stay at his house? then i played cards +was not in love with anyone in particular, but with everyone. whatever +was. now he excused himself for having been taken prisoner and now, +wasn’t it?” +was often on dólokhov’s face when looking at him. “yes, he is a +was on duty and that he should go through the door on the left into the +was out of the question, “i am in love with your brother once for all +was pale, his blue eyes looked impudently into the commander’s face, +was perfectly true. he was afraid of getting some other officer into +was repeatedly summoned to see him. at headquarters and among the troops +was said. +was serving, and a misunderstanding arose. the two commanders were much +was silenced at once. they looked at the beautiful, large, thoughtful +was silent with his steward, the gardener, and the architect, and though +was sitting at a small table, chattering with másha, her maid. she grew +was sitting at the head of the table. on either side of her sat the +was sitting beside him, by the hand. rostóv was struck by the +was sitting. the curtains were drawn, and a single candle was burning on +was so close to him that his shortsighted eyes could not but perceive +was something black, now little lights seemed to glimmer where the enemy +was struck by the change in him. his words were kindly and there was a +was taken up with dinners and balls and was spent chiefly at prince +was talked of. for the rostóv family the whole interest of these +was the count at last handed a letter addressed in his son’s +was the emperors’ suites. the emperors rode up to the flank, and the +was the little princess, these tears, the cause of which she did not +was the name his fancy gave to the farthest gun of the battery, which +was thinking of. yes, na-tásha, sabretache, oh, yes, yes! that’s +was told that the prince had gone to the nursery. +was too far separated from our right flank and the cavalry were all +was trying to fit music: +was warm blood under his arm. “no, i am wounded and the horse is +watchword—shaft, olmütz. what a nuisance that our squadron will be in +water. +water cart, painted green, stood in a shed; the paths were straight, +way and attaching him to himself! what if he gave me a place near him? +way, dear boy! make way, make way!” pushed through the crowd more +way in which he danced the mazurka, nicholas ran up to natásha: +way of these men, and he would have got clear had they continued at the +way,” said an officer. +way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a +way, with berg who was already in command of a company. berg, who had +weakness—the one to which he had confessed when admitted to the +“we are enjoying ourselves! vasíli dmítrich is staying a day longer +“we are not fighting pour le roi de prusse, but for right principles. +“we are such friends, such friends! all that ruler business was just +weariness and assurance, as if he were adding every time: “you know +wearing long dresses for the first time. with scarcely any exceptions +wearing scarves and all their decorations, not only the elegant, pomaded +wearing the cross of st. george, awarded to soldiers for bravery in +weary, and distracted air, though at the same time he was haughty and +we begin a very original and interesting series of maneuvers. our aim is +we can know is that we know nothing. and that’s the height of human +“we can’t have less—yes, three... the mayonnaise, that’s one,” +we could not think how to address the reply! if not as ‘consul’ +wednesday’s meeting of the imperial council, at which sergéy kuzmích +“we drove them back!” said borís with animation, growing talkative. +weeks, and months of his life passed in as great a rush and were as much +weep without knowing why—rode behind on his artillery nag. though +“we had better separate,” he muttered in a broken voice. +we hear is true, it is dreadful. how little we dreamed of such a thing +we knew you’d say so. but it won’t do, because you see, if you say +“well, all right, all right.” +“well, all the same, you must refuse him.” +“well, and are you still true to borís?” he continued. +“well, and is that all?” he asked. +“well, and so he never got farther than: ‘sergéy kuzmích’?” +“well and then?” asked the other voice. “if before that you are +“well, and you? what are your plans?” +“well, and you, young man,” said he. “how do you feel, mon +well, are you off to the front?” +well, as all the connoisseurs who heard her said: “it is not trained, +“well, as you see. so far everything’s all right, but i confess i +“well begin!” said dólokhov. +well-brushed clothes. there was a masculine odor and a smell of tobacco. +“well, do you think i shall prevent her, that i can’t part from +well for you,” said natásha, with a responsive smile. “you should +“well, go and see,” he said, after a pause. +“well—had a good time?” said the old count, smiling gaily and +“well, have you sent gabriel for some wine? all right let’s have +“well?” he asked. +“well, how are you going to get out of that?” he remarked. +“well? how do you feel?” he asked. +“well! how d’ye do? how d’ye do? glad to see you!” +“well, how d’you do, my dear fellow?” said dolgorúkov, who was +“well, i did not expect you, i am very glad,” said prince andrew. +“well, i don’t know about that, but i am uncomfortable with him. and +“well, i don’t know. it’s awkward and would make me ashamed.” +well i will give you my hand to kiss. not till then!” she said. and +“well, i will leave you in your little corner,” came anna +“well, i will read them, then!” bagratión seemed to say, and, +“well, lëlya?” he asked, turning instantly to his daughter and +well-lit anteroom where they took off their cloaks without the aid of +“we’ll manage very well without a doctor.” +“well, my dear boy, i hear you’ve been educated abroad, not taught +“well, my dear fellow, so you still want to be an adjutant? i have +“well, my dear fellow, tomorrow we are off at last,” said prince +“well, now to the health of handsome women!” said dólokhov, and +“well, now we’ll arrange something quite simple and becoming,” she +well remembered that seven afterwards. he laid down the seven of hearts, +“well?” returned the old man. +“well!...” said the old count, spreading out his arms and sinking +“well, send for him... and how do you get on with that german?” +we’ll set off.” +“well, she loves me and you like that.” +“well, so that’s finished, my dear fellow! i am very glad to have +“well, the lord be thanked, princess,” said mary bogdánovna, not +“well then, accept his offer. it’s high time for you to be +“well then, be quick. we’ll all have breakfast together.” +“well then, mind and have cocks’ comb in the turtle soup, you +“well then,” prince andrew answered himself, “i don’t know +“well then, tell him so.” +“well then, that’s excellent,” said he. “we’ll talk it over +“well then, till tomorrow at sokólniki,” said dólokhov, as he took +“well then, what do you want? you’re all in love nowadays. well, +“well, there you see!” +“well, they’ve sent you a tidy sum,” said berg, eying the heavy +“well, till we meet again...” he said, holding out his hand to +“we’ll try to,” replied berg, touching a pawn and then removing +“well, what is it?” came a sharp, unpleasant voice. +“well, what’s this now? what have you been up to now, i should like +“well, what then?” +“well, won’t you go on? i had a splendid card all ready,” as if it +“well, you’d better not play,” dólokhov added, and springing a +“well, you see, i’ll tell you the whole secret of dueling in two +“we must distinguish between the vienna cabinet and the emperor of +we? no?” +went about the rooms fashionably dressed but looking sad and dull. here, +went by. then suddenly a terrible shriek—it could not be hers, she +went on, with a somber and scornful smile. “and thou art more foolish +went out after shaking hands with dolgorúkov and bilíbin. +went out of the hut in which he was billeted with nesvítski and began +went there and found two thirds of the men and horses knocked out, two +went to her father’s room at the usual hour, mademoiselle bourienne +wept. she saw her brother now as he had been at the moment when he took +were all a pretense, and that the whole attention of that company was +were all hugging him, and the serfs, men and maids, flocked into the +were already up and astir. the smoke of the campfires, into which they +were also distinguished by the fact that she always presented some new +were among the prettiest. they were both particularly happy and gay. +were bringing in jugs and basins, hot water for shaving, and their +were casual guests—chiefly young men, among whom were denísov, +were concentrated. twice they had attempted to attack this point, but on +were constantly shaping themselves in his mind, arising from the +were descending. in front in the fog a shot was heard and then another, +were flocking in to look at him. prince bagratión was thanking the +were in a hurry to show the changes that had taken place in them. +were in them. she leaned over to her brother and kissed him, slightly +were leaving to join their regiment after epiphany. about twenty people +were lips seeking a kiss. +were moving in and out among the russian troops and served as heralds +were moving in the same direction. every soldier felt glad to know that +were not to be overburdened with labor, women while nursing their babies +were not to be sent to work, assistance was to be given to the serfs, +were passing by. from one of the drivers he learned that kutúzov’s +were present, including dólokhov and denísov. +were pronounced, pierre, who had so long been considering his career, +were ready to drop, and so said the grown-up young men and women who +were sent to the crossroads to guide him over the country road with its +were the center of groups which even strangers approached respectfully +were the fun of the game which interested him most. +were there, only disorganized crowds of troops of various kinds. he +were those of the orderlies who were packing up; one voice, probably a +were throwing everything superfluous, made the eyes smart. it was cold +were turned against the ten-gun battery. túshin’s companion officer +were walking, driving past, and settling down all around. the sound +“we shall probably advance,” replied bolkónski, evidently reluctant +“we’ve given it ‘em hot, mate! they won’t make another push +“we were ordered to be at the place before nine, but we haven’t got +“we will talk of it later” (and he looked round at rostóv). “come +weyrother. +weyrother again gave that smile which seemed to say that to him it was +weyrother, hurriedly rising from his seat and going up to the table on +weyrother’s had already been approved. as soon as prince andrew began +weyrother’s name, or even the term “dispositions.” +weyrother, who was in full control of the proposed battle, by his +what a heart!” +“what? a minister? what minister? who gave orders?” he said in +what am i to do if i love nothing but fame and men’s esteem? death, +“what?” answered the old man absent-mindedly. +“what are they about?” thought prince andrew as he gazed at them. +“what are you about?” shouted rostóv, looking at him in an ecstasy +“what! are you going to remain as you are, dear princess?” she +“what, are you wounded, my lad?” said túshin, approaching the gun +what? a slur on my name? a misfortune for life? oh, that’s +what a soul there is in dólokhov, you should see him with his mother. +“what a strange fate, másha darling!” and having taken off his +what a strange frenzy one experiences during an attack,” prince +“what a style! how charmingly he describes!” said she, reading the +“what can he say? tra-di-ri-di-ra and so on... merely to gain time. +“what can it be?” he thought. “the enemy in the rear of our army? +“what delicacy!” thought the princess. “is it possible that +“what devil brought them here?” thought he, while tíkhon was +“what did he say? where to, now? halt, is it? did he thank us?” came +what difficulty the father had dragged his legs upstairs while the son +“what division are you?” shouted an adjutant, riding up. +“what does harm to another is wrong,” said pierre, feeling with +“what does it mean? what is it? whom are they firing at? who is +“what does that prove?” he was saying as rostóv rode up. “they +“what does this mean?” she brought out. +“what do you want, your honor?” asked an artilleryman, standing +“what error or evil can there be in my wishing to do good, and even +“whatever are you bothering about, gentlemen?” said bilíbin, who, +“whatever happens to you,” he said, “you must bear it all manfully +“whatever the european sovereigns and commanders may do to +what happiness it would be to die—not in saving the emperor’s life +“what has happened?” he asked himself. “i have killed her lover, +“what have the young people come to nowadays, eh, feoktíst?” said +“what have they taken a baby in there for?” thought prince andrew in +“what?” he answered, not recognizing borís. +what he should do on his estates. +what he was saying was out of place, tactless and unsuitable, that +what he was to do. the coming of these visitors annoyed him. “what are +what i have seen during these last three months is incredible. +what is going on around them. +“what is it?” +“what is it?” he said crossly, and, his hand shaking +what is it i am attached to, papa?” said anatole, turning to his +what is it meant to prove? what? i ask you.” +what is life, and what is death? what power governs all?” +“what is the matter, mary?” +“what is the matter?” she asked. +“what is the matter with you, my darling? you look pale. oh, you + what is this bliss that makes my fingers thrill? +“what is this?” thought nicholas, listening to her with widely +“what is your conception of freemasonry?” +“what! it is as if i were glad of a chance to take advantage of +what looked like a squadron of horsemen in various uniforms. two of them + what magic power is this recalls me still? +“what nonsense...” +“what nonsense! much i need it!” said rostóv, throwing the letter +what pierre did not know was that the place where they presented him + what spark has set my inmost soul on fire, +“what’s that? what do you make of it?” said rostóv to the hussar +“what’s the matter with you? are you ill?” +“what’s this? am i falling? my legs are giving way,” thought he, +“what stupid orders! they don’t themselves know what they are +“what’s your name?” +what there is in you.” +what to do with his hands; he was more accustomed to walk over a plowed +“what! to whom?... nonsense!” cried the count, suddenly reddening +what was going on in the passage. some women passing with quiet steps in +“what was it?” +what was passing in his mind. +what will happen and don’t want to know, and can’t, but if i want +“what! you don’t remember borís?” asked sónya in surprise. +“what you have with you: watch, money, rings....” +wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular movement of the +wheels and working the screws himself. +wheel, which merged in her memory with what followed.) +when all was ready, the sabers stuck in the snow to mark the barriers, +“when am i to receive the money, count?” +when borís and anna pávlovna returned to the others prince hippolyte +when borís, who was to be served up to the guests, entered the drawing +whence—a stern note of which all are conscious sounds in the moral +“when did you get the letter? was it from olmütz?” repeated +when everybody rose to go, hélène who had spoken very little all +when footsteps or voices were heard did they look at one another, the +when germans start being accurate, there’s no end to it!” +when he came level with the foot guards he noticed that about them and +when he entered, prince andrew, his eyes drooping contemptuously (with +when he first loved her. he thought of her pregnancy and felt sorry for +when he got home he could not sleep for a long time for thinking of what +when he had become a little quieter, he explained to rostóv that he was +when he had gone less than half a mile in the rear of the column he +when he reached kiev he sent for all his stewards to the head office +when he read that sentence, pierre felt for the first time that some +when he stayed in (as he said) for pierre’s sake, hardly exchanged a +when he was dying of wounds and the sovereign had thanked him for heroic +when he wished to speak contemptuously, and noticing borís, prince +when, if you remember, he posed as a sort of marat at one of my soirees. +“when i saw, your excellency, that their first battalion was +when it came to natásha’s turn to choose a partner, she rose and, +when paris was mentioned, mademoiselle bourienne for her part seized the +when princess mary came down, prince vasíli and his son were already +when princess mary returned from her father, the little princess sat +when princess mary went to him at the usual hour he was working at his +when prince vasíli returned to the drawing room, the princess, his +when she looked up at him she was struck by his beauty. anatole stood +when she saw the count, she stretched out her arms to him, embraced his +when she was not like that and when everything was light and gay. she +when the emperor had passed nearly all the regiments, the troops began +when the monotonous sound of weyrother’s voice ceased, kutúzov opened +when the officers had emptied and smashed their glasses, kírsten filled +when the princess, as if lost in a fog, had already staggered out of the +when the reading which lasted more than an hour was over, langeron again +when the review was over, the newly arrived officers, and also +when the subject did not relate to himself, but in connection with the +when the sun had entirely emerged from the fog, and fields and mist were +when they played some tricks on a policeman, didn’t they do it +when they saw his looks. +when we were rejoicing at his happiness! and such a lofty angelic soul +when you began living for others. i experienced just the reverse. i +“when you see my sister, princess mary, you’ll get on with her,” +“where am i? oh yes, in the skirmishing line... pass and +where a parade does not begin till all the troops are assembled,” said +“where are you going to now, my dear sir?” +“where are you off to?” asked borís. +whereas it was perhaps not known, since the enemy was in movement. +where he could never have expected the enemy to be. +where he was staying, and had been absurd, excited, and foolish in +where his regiment was stationed, and take him to visit prince nicholas +“where is it, that lofty sky that i did not know till now, but saw +“where is the emperor? where is kutúzov?” rostóv kept asking +“where is the princess?” he asked. “hiding?” +where the clavichord stood. +where the hottest musket fire and cannonade were heard. suddenly he +where the sleighs had been left, in a small clearing in the pine forest +where to find me, but don’t forget that i do not regard either myself +where túshin’s guns were stationed was an unharnessed horse with a +“where would i not go at the countess’ command!” said denísov, +where you always ran away; you remember cette chère annette!” +whether he was still firm in his intention and determined to submit to +whether she ought to write, tormented her. now that he was already an +which an enormous map of the environs of brünn was spread out. +which aroused his own pity. +which attracted him. he very readily took up borís’ cause and went +which changed his appearance for the worse. there was something naïvely +which covered with snow, appeared on the landing where the footman +which denísov followed her. +which dólokhov’s second had called on him, and, having closed the +which every freemason should cultivate in himself. these virtues were: +which had been particularly revived and strengthened by his late tour. +which had grown much older. +which he always deceived himself. the question was whether he could ever +which he had come out was thronged with calèches, carriages of all +which he had reckoned up to ten thousand, but that now, as he vaguely +which he had worn on his italian campaign, sat on his small gray arab +which held him in their power.... the ten fell to him. +which he presented to prince bagratión. on the salver lay some verses +(which he very likely would be), and found the commander in chief +“which house is it?” asked the driver. +which ilyá rostóv blushed with self-conscious pleasure), the footmen +which, in accord with the club custom, he had given up to the hall +which i not only cannot address but which i cannot even express in +which intellectual knowledge is divided. the highest wisdom is one. +which i shall lead the army.” +which is the only thing we need fear, or he is changing his position.” +“which is the senior?” he asked, on seeing the prisoners. +which it rests and which no human power can destroy, is the preservation +which made a certain sensation, the count exchanged glances with +which nicholas rostóv served and which was in prince bagratión’s +which princess mary meekly submitted, just as her hair had been arranged +which seemed to him dazzlingly red, and at the feeble, round-shouldered +which seemed to rise out of the sea of mist and on which the russian +which she spoke of her exalted patroness, supported hélène’s wish. +which the guards prided themselves), the officers on foot and at their +which the prince had retained for himself. +which the rostóvs always attended. he was pointedly attentive to sónya +which the serfs’ manorial labor had been diminished, and heard the +which they were present, and went to iogel’s balls for young people +which though they embarrassed pierre awakened a joyful feeling in the +which to reply to dólokhov’s words. but before he had thought of +which was a lie, and worse than a lie? i am guilty and must endure... +which was not clear to him, to question his chief steward, to visit his +which was presumably somewhere in the same neighborhood. and so it was +which was to be found “the cream of really good society, the bloom +which were to be the first to descend the heights to attack the french +which were uppermost in his mind at that moment, addressed prince andrew +(which would be very difficult), he would not be able to get back before +while dressing, and yet the question he was always putting off demanded +while father and son were having their explanation, the mother and +while he tried to prove to pierre that in his actions there was no +while on the scaffolding, in the midst of a talk explaining the future +while others sought some extraordinary explanation of so strange an +while prince andrew on the contrary, taking no part in the war and +while prince andrew went to report about the purple-faced general, that +while rostóv was thus arguing with himself and riding sadly away, +while the guests were taking their leave pierre remained for a long time +while under the supervision of the countess and the solicitude of the +while we, on the other hand, with our left wing by far outflank his +whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, +whispered to him. “this happiness is for those who have not in them +whisper, “has compromised her completely, they say. pierre took him +white cossack coat, and bring him along to me.” +white hands with an air of calm importance. +white plumes in his hat rode a bobtailed chestnut horse, the other who +white ruffle, outlining his rather long face which was lit up from +“who?” +who appeared at his call. “hurry off and tell maksím, the gardener, +“who are they? why are they here? what do they want? and when will +“who are you talking about?” +“who?” asked rostóv. +who at the front had the power to annihilate him, a lieutenant of the +who at the rostóvs’ had jocularly assumed the role of natásha’s +“who can tell, your honor?” replied the hussar reluctantly. +who could therefore be of use to him. he liked petersburg and despised +who—dreading this love affair which might hinder nicholas from making +whoever he may be, exhort him who goeth astray, raise him that falleth, +who had come into the room unnoticed by anyone, stood there and wiped +who had come up to the cot with noiseless steps, lifted the curtain, +who had marched so gaily and complacently. but at the moment the first +who had recently opened a restaurant there with girls as waitresses. +who had sheltered in the village houses. they all rushed out of +who had stolen some boots from the recruits; i should even have been +who have striven to attain this mystery, and thereby to render them +“who is it you want?” he asked. “the commander in chief? he was +“who? kutúzov?” asked rostóv. +who lays back her ears and continues to crouch motionless before her +whole army it is still uncertain whether he is alive or not. i comfort +whole mass of men was concentrated. +who made her a low bow when she met him in the corridor carrying hot +who met him with the cross oppressed the peasants by his exactions, and +whom he now found nothing in common. “we will go after dinner. and +whom should i say that? either to a power indefinable, incomprehensible, +who recognized him and said a few words to him, disjointed and awkward, +who remained behind, and the monotonous tramp of thousands of feet +who’s a better man than you in every way...” +whose state of unconquerable childish embarrassment now changing to +whose words struck pierre more and more by their precision and firmness. +“who’s that? why? wait a moment!” anatole’s face seemed to say. +“who the devil has put the logs on the road?” snarled he. +who was associated by memories of the italian campaign with the name of +who was in a high fever. these last days, mistrusting their household +who was passing: +who was reduced to the ranks, took a french officer prisoner in my +who was sitting silently beside him, what he thought of tomorrow’s +“who was that?” asked borís. +who will not refuse to accompany you.” +who, with his face buried in the ground and a blackened nape, lay on his +“wh-what is the matter?” asked both the young and old rostóv. +“why?” +“why?” +“why aren’t you beginning, michael ilariónovich?” said the +“why aren’t you serving in the army?” +“why are they down on me?” thought túshin, looking in alarm at his +“why are you crying, mamma?” asked véra. “from all he says one +why are you hindering us?” another in the same place turned round and +why did i bind myself to her? why did i say ‘je vous aime’ * to her, +“why did sónya run away?” asked rostóv. +“why did they write, why did lise tell me about it? it can never +why doesn’t the frenchman stab him? he will not get away before the +“why doesn’t the red-haired gunner run away as he is unarmed? +“why, don’t you hear it?” rostóv asked again, after waiting for a +“why don’t you play?” he asked. +“why don’t you renew the acquaintance?” said dólokhov to rostóv. +“why do they want to make her sing? how can she sing? there’s +“why do you shout so? you’ll frighten them!” said borís. “i did +“why, for this reason! my father is one of the most remarkable men of +“why have we stopped? is the way blocked? or have we already come up +“why have you thrown that away?” asked borís. +“why, i didn’t recognize you!” he said. but rostóv was otherwise +“why? i love you more than ever,” said princess mary, “and i will +“why, is it late?” +“why is it wrong?” urged prince andrew. “it is not given to man +“why is it you were never at annette’s?” the little princess asked +“why not?” inquired borís. +“why not wash? that is not cleanly,” said prince andrew; “on the +why she’s ashamed!” +“why should i envy them? my chance is not lost, and maybe i shall see +“why shouldn’t i speak? i can speak as i like, and i tell you +“why should you be ashamed?” +“why so?” asked prince andrew. “to kill a vicious dog is a very +“why terrible?” asked nicholas. “no, váska is a splendid +“why, that one, right at the end, the big one. don’t you see? +why they all looked so at him, and flattered by this general admiration +“why ‘what the devil’?” said borís, picking it up and reading +“why, you remember before you went away?... well, she says you are to +width of the field, an enormous mass of cavalry in brilliant white +wife: “ah, why have you done this to me?” +wife, and that it could not be otherwise. +wife... god bless you!...” +wife, how she would love him become quite different, and how all he had +wife’s command had let his hair grow and abandoned his spectacles, +wife, sister, and future son, and the tenderness he had felt the night +wife, was talking in low tones to the elderly lady about pierre. +wife, while you...” +will accept them,” said nesvítski (who like the others concerned in +will all die for him gladly! is it not so, gentlemen? perhaps i am not +will all end in nothing!” +willarski bowed his head. +willarski was silent throughout the drive. to pierre’s inquiries as +willarski, whom pierre had known slightly in petersburg society, came +will certainly happen!” thought pierre, glancing at those dazzling +will pass here immediately; it will please him to see these gentlemen +will slash at him!” thought rostóv, gripping the hilt of his saber. +will. the races, the english club, sprees with denísov, and visits to +will to tell only what happened. it is very difficult to tell the truth, +“will you bet? the ribbon of the order is a different matter....” +“will you have the portmanteaus brought in? and a bed got ready, and +window, from which the double frame had been removed (by order of the +“wine? gluttony? idleness? laziness? irritability? anger? women?” +winter of 1806, which nicholas rostóv spent in moscow, was one of the +wisdom.” +wished to do something special on meeting his friend. he wanted to pinch +wished to help him but could not. +wished to make some suggestion. but prince vasíli interrupted him in +wishing to avail himself of their courtesy, and this caused some delay +wishing to show him that she did not even dare expect to interest him, +wishing to take it off, but let it drop again. the five minutes spent +wish or not to be prince anatole kurágin’s wife? reply: yes or no,” +wish, to court society’s favor. now he alone was blamed for what had +with a calm smile that she was not so stupid as to be jealous: ‘let +with a clever face and sharply projecting jaw which, without spoiling +with a facetious smile on his face, he was telling the ladies about last +with a foretaste of artistic pleasure. +with a gloomy and tired face, was wearily taking off his wraps with the +with a heart full despair he rode away, continually looking back at the +with a hum of conversation, like the hum of bees swarming in springtime. +“with a message to his majesty.” +with a mouse. +with an apoplectic flush over neck and nape as old people do. +with an old mother and a hunchback sister, and was the most affectionate +with a rapid, almost brutal movement of her head, she intercepted his +with a scared look and that princess mary was no longer by the cot. +with a sense of antipathy to the old prince which she did not +with a serious expression, but with a smile lurking at the corners of +with a sigh. +with a sigh he could not suppress, as they passed out of the palace. +with a smile. +with a strength he had never before felt, he made a step toward her +with a subtle smile. +with a trembling voice and some difficulty in utterance due to his +with banks still bare of grass. it was at the end of a village that +with bread and salt and wished to build a chantry in honor of peter and +with dólokhov. “none but fools trust to luck in play,” dólokhov +with elasticity of movement, faith in his good fortune, and generally in +with flour whitening their carts—on that narrow dam amid the wagons +with germans all day. we went with weyrother to survey the dispositions. +with her and picked up her reticule and drove out with her. how did it +with her head bent first on one side and then on the other. +with her. he kissed her hand and addressed her not as thou but as +with her knitting. princess mary took a book and began reading. only +with him.” +with him to dolgorúkov. +with his eccentric father. +with his eyes bandaged seemed to him an hour. his arms felt numb, +with his face in his hands. +with his feelings but with the very possibility of life. life without +with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache +with his handkerchief, sat down by natásha and did not leave her for +with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. at the sound +with his right hand, then falling on one knee he twirled her round him, +with his right thumb under a button of his uniform, his chest expanded +with his whole body as if in that position he hoped to hasten the speed +within. +within a few days. princess mary and the old prince each bore and hid +with it to the marshals, and ordered the action to begin. the marshals, +with kisses, holding him tight by the skirt of his coat, sprang away and +with kutúzov’s cantata, laid one before pierre as one of the +with lanterns, standing at the entrance. she went out on the stairs. on +with napoleon if, contrary to expectations, these negotiations were +with natásha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed +without answering, rostóv shook the soldier’s cross of st. george +without any command being given, apparently obstructed by something in +without any definite position, without relations or even a country, did +without changing his careless attitude, pierre looked at them over his +without delay and carry out instructions! +without going out of the house, waiting for the money his father could +without his greatcoat, with his orders on his breast and an enormous +without looking at him, and with a kind of fury that made him like his +without looking at the man he was addressing, and did not reply to +without male society, on anatole’s appearance all the three women of +without moving, undertaking nothing....” +without reading it and reread his father’s letter, ending with the +without reasoning. with an affectation of respect which evidently struck +without receiving any explanation. +with papers from kutúzov to the tsarévich, he looked in on borís, +with profit. the first and chief object of our order, the foundation on +with something. it was a coffin with bones inside. he was not at all +with telyánin and bogdánich. that affair was the same thing as this +with the air of an old brigadier. +with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our +with the delight boys feel at the sight of a military elder brother, and +with the full swing of a bludgeon. it hurt a little, but the worst of +with their management and embezzlement of money, some after their first +with their plumes, ribbons, and medals, both courtiers and military +with the lassitude of age, sat yawning wearily with closed eyes. the +with the naked eye prince andrew saw below them to the right, not more +with the old prince.” +with the physical pain. it was they, these soldiers—wounded and +with the soldier, an infantry officer with a bandaged cheek came up to +with which he listened to pierre, especially when he spoke with joyful +with you. i can’t.” +woman; and what have you done? you have not helped her to find the way +woman. now i have spoken that terrible word to myself all has become +woman’s privilege.” +woman who may belong to anyone—to you too,” said her glance. and at +women have that dress can make a face pretty. +“women,” he said in a low, scarcely audible voice. +women’s gloves, he said: “dear brother, these woman’s gloves are +won’t be in action,” he added as if in apology. +won’t get there till evening.” +wooden walls redolent of pine, and would have gone farther, but antón +word. +word, “and you believed it! well, what have you proved? what does this +word infected the whole crowd with a feeling of panic. +word of honor not to take anything more till the spring. now only twelve +words but could not distinguish them. the din of many voices was too +words could do. you will perhaps also see in your further initiation a +words: “gallop off to kórchevo and carry out instructions!” +words, he added, “don’t be hurt, my dear fellow; you know i speak +words he had found so difficult to utter: “i love you.” “it all +words. if you are going to fight a duel, and you make a will and write +words of rostopchín, that french soldiers have to be incited to battle +words—the great all or nothing-” said he to himself, “or to +words to the soldiers who were carrying him, now with his eyes fixed +words. touched that this statuesque princess could so change, pierre +words with vague yet joyful ideas. the door opened and someone came in. +word “waiting.”) “not all the columns have formed up yet, your +work, chimes to play, figures to pop out, and the hands to advance with +working and looked up with that curious expression of inner, happy calm +working herself up to tears with the imaginary words of her pauvre mère +work. on a third estate the priest, bearing a cross, came to meet +worldly sciences of physics, history, chemistry, and the like, into +world. prince andrew was the first to move away, ruffling his hair +worn and irritable. the infantry passing before him came to a halt +worn leather, and an officer’s saber with a sword knot. the don horse +worse, would have thought that rostóv was himself to blame since what +worthless scoundrel whose whole life could not atone for his crime. he +worthy of it. this rescript began with the words: “sergéy kuzmích, +“wostóv, get up!” +would at last start on that path of regeneration and on the actively +would be easier to see people coming along it. “follow me!” said he, +would be good if everything were as clear and simple as it seems to +would be killed. +would be particularly pleasant to him to dishonor my name and ridicule +would be something unnatural, and as it seemed to him dishonorable, in +would be taken immediately to free his serfs—and that till then they +would be to betray her agitation, while to decline their offers to +would be too extraordinary,” and at the very moment she thought this, +would be wiser for him to leave petersburg. pierre proposed going to his +would give way not only under a cannon or a crowd, but very soon even +would happen to him and still more afraid of showing his fear. he felt +would have addressed yourself first to me. in that case you would not +would have hit alpátych, the overseer, had not the latter instinctively +would have made them. +would have me be, but i have never had help from anyone.... but it is +would have seemed so unnatural had anyone disliked him, that he could +would meet. +would not be bad as regards the unwritten code,” thought borís), +would not have taken lovers (des amants), but i have not done so,” +would not supply them. pierre was obliged to wait. without undressing, +would occupy a most brilliant position in society. don’t you think so? +would still remain piteous and plain. after two or three changes to +“would you believe it, count, i was not at all alarmed, because i knew +would you now like to look round my place?” +wounded and captured russian officers he was carried to the hospital. +wounded—had left it long ago. all about the field, like heaps of +wounded in the right hand, taken his sword in the left, and gone +wounded officer?” +wounded soldier was so dirty, coarse, and revolting that his proximity +wounded were more distinctly heard than any other sound in the darkness +wounded where there was no one left to fire at, on seeing an adjutant +wounds, the loss of family—i fear nothing. and precious and dear +wretched mood. at nine in the morning, he heard firing in front and +wrinkled, clean-shaven cheek for pierre to kiss and would say: “till +wrinkled soles and palms. +wrists visible from under the shirt cuffs, laid down the pack and took +wrong, and further that he was disagreeable and unnatural. +wrong and that to discuss the bad news was difficult, and so it was best +wrote himself,” said she through her tears. +year?” said “the man of profound intellect.” “why shouldn’t +years before, it seemed impossible that the little creature who lived +“yes.” +“yes, and i have some money and a letter to give you,” he added. +“yes, but he will dislike it extremely,” said bolkónski. +“yes, but it is not as you imagine,” prince andrew continued. “i +“yes, count,” she would say, “he is too noble and pure-souled for +“yes, everything is different nowadays, everything is changed. the +“yes, from olmütz,” he answered, with a sigh. +“yes, gentlemen, i’ve been told there’s a rumor going about moscow +“yes, god be thanked! yes! they’ve just finished supper. let me have +“yes, he is very handsome,” thought pierre, “and i know him. it +yes, hospitals, medicine. he has a fit, he is dying, and you come and +“yes, i belong to the brotherhood of the freemasons,” said the +“yes, i do believe in god,” he repeated. +“yes, i do wish it,” said he. +“yes, i’d send them on in front, but no fear, they’re crowding up +“yes, i feel a kind of oppression,” she said in reply to the +“yes, if you put it like that it’s quite a different matter,” said +“yes... i... i... desire regeneration,” pierre uttered with +“yes, i’m tired too,” said rostóv. +“yes, indeed!” +“yes, i never loved her,” said he to himself; “i knew she was a +“yes, i saw him, and am convinced that he fears nothing so much as +“yes, it can’t be helped if they won’t take less. ah, dear me! i +“yes, it is very likely that i shall be killed tomorrow,” he +“yes... it’s getting on, it will all be settled today.” anna +“yes, i was thinking”—for some reason borís could not help +yes, killed my wife’s lover. yes, that was it! and why? how did i come +“yes, my sónya could not have done otherwise!” thought nicholas. +“yes,” said natásha. “do you know, nicholas—don’t be +“yes, sir.” +“yes, sir.” +“yes, sir, and there’s a light in your father’s study.” +“yes, stories!” repeated rostóv loudly, looking with eyes suddenly +yesterday and the question presented itself whether he ought or ought +“yes, that must be so,” thought pierre, when after these words the +“yes, that’s me!” she seemed to say, answering the rapt gaze with +“yes, that was fine,” said rostóv, smiling. +“yes, this is the one thing left me now,” he said with a sigh. +“yes, we have altered much, very much, since then,” said prince +“yes, we know that, but the harm i am conscious of in myself is +“yes, yes,” assented pierre. +“yes, yes,” assented pierre. +“yes, yes, do so.” +“yes, yes,” he muttered, “it will be difficult, i fear, difficult +“yes, yes, i am unhappy,” assented pierre. “but what am i to +“yes... yes, i believe in god,” he said. +“yes, yes, if you please! it is already late,” said he, and nodding +“yes, yes, that is so,” said pierre joyfully. +“yes, you do not know him, my dear sir,” said the mason. “you +“yes, you have seen him?” said prince andrew. “well, what is +“yes, you might, but i am afraid of getting the accounts mixed. so i +“yes, your excellency. forgive me for heaven’s sake... it was only +“yes, you talk, but try it yourself!” +yet at the same time was conscious of his strength as a part of that +yet it was she, dressed in a new gown which he did not know, made since +yet occupied that region, and the russians—the uninjured and slightly +yet with a hope for the fulfillment of her forbidden earthly longing) +yet with unhesitating assurance that he was doing the right thing, +you!” +“you absolutely must come and see me,” she said in a tone that +you and make you weep. +you a place in my carriage. i am very glad. all our important business +“you are a little slyboots,” she said. +you are all blubberers and understand nothing.” +“you are an angel: i am not worthy of you, but i am afraid of +“you are joking,” replied pierre, growing more and more excited. +“you are most welcome! i know, i know,” said the count, kissing and +you are not aware of the fact...” +“you are seeking for truth in order to follow its laws in your life, +“you are still the same dreamer, i see,” remarked borís, shaking +“you are the commander of the emperor alexander’s regiment of horse +“you are unhappy, my dear sir,” the stranger continued. “you +“you are wounded?” he asked, hardly able to master the trembling of +you, but why should i bother about you? you’d be only too glad, of +“you call him váska? that’s funny! and is he very nice?” +“you can give the message to his majesty,” said dolgorúkov, +“you can’t come in! you can’t!” said a terrified voice from + * “you clear out of this.” +“you couldn’t see a thing. how they shot at their own fellows! +“you did not get my letter?” he asked, and not waiting for a +“you don’t mind your honor?” he asked túshin. “i’ve lost my +“you forget yourself, colonel. i am not considering my own pleasure +you have been entered in the diplomatic corps and made a gentleman of +“you have earned the st. george’s standards and will be worthy of +“you haven’t read the letter?” asked sónya. +you hurry up? now then!” +you? i’m awfully glad you’re my brother.” she touched his +“you know bilíbin—he’s a very clever fellow. he suggested +“you know her husband, of course?” said anna pávlovna, closing her +“you know him not, my dear sir, and so you are very unhappy. you do +“you know, michael ilariónovich, we are not on the empress’ field +“you know, mon cher, your father and i had some accounts to settle, so +“you know n— n— received a snuffbox with the portrait last +“you know they’ve come, marie?” said the little princess, waddling +“you’ll die and all will end. you’ll die and know all, or cease +“you’ll make a fine thing of it, deploying in sight of the enemy! +“you may go,” he said to anatole. +“you may punt,” he said. +“you might have taken some from the covering troops.” +“you must do as you please,” said prince bolkónski, bowing to his +young aide-de-camp with a smile. +young, all our octogenarians were reviewed, and of prozoróvski +young and old men and women pierre could not understand why he did not +young face to look back. a shudder of terror went through him: “no, +young girls ready for anything and full of hope—experienced the same +young man he did not know, with a peculiar cross hanging from his +young man’s recent loss by the death of count bezúkhov (everyone +young man’s shoulder. +young master. “can it be? my treasure!” and prokófy, trembling with +young son, resting on him and winking joyfully at him. young rostóv +young. you need advice. don’t be angry with me for exercising an old +you not rest here?” +“you owe forty-three thousand, count,” said dólokhov, and +“you picked it up?... i dare say! you’re very smart!” one of them +you positively that hélène is as innocent before you as christ was +your battalions. i will keep out of fire if you with your habitual +“your cousin...” dólokhov started to say, but nicholas interrupted +your denísov though he is a rake and all that, still i like him; so +your disposal.” +“your excellency, here are two trophies,” said dólokhov, pointing +“your excellency!” prince andrew broke the silence with his abrupt +“your excellency,” said rostóv, “may i ask a favor?” +“your excellency, should not mary bogdánovna be sent for?” said one +your eyes,” added willarski. “i wish you courage and success,” +“your honor, i thought...” +“your honor, the generals!” said the sergeant, riding up to rostóv. +“your honor, there he is!” cried one of the hussars behind him. and +“your honor, you’re wanted by the general. he is in the hut here,” +“your joke is too bad, it’s witty but unjust,” said anna +your presence; if she is willing, then he can stay on. he can stay and +“your regiment fulfilled its duty honorably,” said napoleon. +yours.” +yourself and say you nearly ruined your life and only found happiness +yourself in a position to be attacked, but yourself to attack. believe +yourself, put a bridle on your senses, and seek blessedness, not in +“your son,” wrote kutúzov, “fell before my eyes, a standard in +you?” said the old prince to prince vasíli. +you see i do understand. i don’t know how to put it... with this one +“you see, my dear fellow, i have been thinking about you,” +you seen duport?” +you select to be your worthy helpmeet in masonry.” and after a pause, +“you shan’t have it!” he said distinctly. +you—sónya. but their eyes met and said thou, and exchanged tender +you that it would be very easy to do so if you haven’t sufficient +“youth is no hindrance to courage,” muttered sukhtélen in a failing +“you thought!” shouted the prince, his words coming more and more +you understand, your excellency, my dear sir, that you must not +you’ve had to take,” cried he. +you were about, challenged a man you are jealous of without cause.” +you were not right, not quite in the right, you were impetuous...” +you, who do not believe in the truth of the light and who have not +“you will change it, won’t you?” said lise. and as princess mary +“you will find the beautiful hélène here, whom it is always +you will let me win this ten, or beat it.” +you will remember this, your excellency!” +you won’t require it. we’ll go into the accounts later.” +you yourself reported to count buxhöwden yesterday, you must think of +“you...! you... scoundrel! i challenge you!” he ejaculated, and, +zherkóv, not removing his hand from his cap, turned his horse about +“zum henker diese russen!” * muttered a german. diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-6/1M-tr-seq/sort-1M-tr-seq-02 b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-6/1M-tr-seq/sort-1M-tr-seq-02 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5c065d3 --- /dev/null +++ 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link to cpp-12 +/usr/bin/cpp-4.8: cannot open `/usr/bin/cpp-4.8' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/cpp-4.9: cannot open `/usr/bin/cpp-4.9' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/cpp-6: cannot open `/usr/bin/cpp-6' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/cpp-8: cannot open `/usr/bin/cpp-8' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/cpufreq-aperf: cannot open `/usr/bin/cpufreq-aperf' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/cpufreq-info: cannot open `/usr/bin/cpufreq-info' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/cpufreq-set: cannot open `/usr/bin/cpufreq-set' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/crc32: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/createdb: symbolic link to ../share/postgresql-common/pg_wrapper +/usr/bin/createlang: symbolic link to ../share/postgresql-common/pg_wrapper +/usr/bin/createuser: symbolic link to ../share/postgresql-common/pg_wrapper +/usr/bin/c_rehash: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/crontab: setgid ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically 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Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable +/usr/bin/debcommit: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debconf: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debconf-apt-progress: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debconf-communicate: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debconf-copydb: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debconf-escape: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debconf-gettextize: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debconf-set-selections: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debconf-show: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debconf-updatepo: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable +/usr/bin/debdiff: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debdiff-apply: Python script, ASCII text executable +/usr/bin/debi: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debianbts: Python script, ASCII text executable +/usr/bin/debpkg: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, 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07 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + + BOOK SIX: 1808 - 10 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + CHAPTER XXIII + + CHAPTER XXIV + + CHAPTER XXV + + CHAPTER XXVI + + + BOOK SEVEN: 1810 - 11 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + + BOOK EIGHT: 1811 - 12 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + + BOOK NINE: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + CHAPTER XXIII + + + BOOK TEN: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + CHAPTER XXIII + + CHAPTER XXIV + + CHAPTER XXV + + CHAPTER XXVI + + CHAPTER XXVII + + CHAPTER XXVIII + + CHAPTER XXIX + + CHAPTER XXX + + CHAPTER XXXI + + CHAPTER XXXII + + CHAPTER XXXIII + + CHAPTER XXXIV + + CHAPTER XXXV + + CHAPTER XXXVI + + CHAPTER XXXVII + + CHAPTER XXXVIII + + CHAPTER XXXIX + + + BOOK ELEVEN: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + CHAPTER XXIII + + CHAPTER XXIV + + CHAPTER XXV + + CHAPTER XXVI + + CHAPTER XXVII + + CHAPTER XXVIII + + CHAPTER XXIX + + CHAPTER XXX + + CHAPTER XXXI + + CHAPTER XXXII + + CHAPTER XXXIII + + CHAPTER XXXIV + + + BOOK TWELVE: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + + BOOK THIRTEEN: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + + BOOK FOURTEEN: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + + BOOK FIFTEEN: 1812 - 13 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + + FIRST EPILOGUE: 1813 - 20 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + + SECOND EPILOGUE + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + + + + + + + + + +BOOK ONE: 1805 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +“WELL, PRINCE, SO GENOA AND LUCCA ARE NOW JUST FAMILY ESTATES OF THE +BUONAPARTES. BUT I WARN YOU, IF YOU DON’T TELL ME THAT THIS MEANS WAR, +IF YOU STILL TRY TO DEFEND THE INFAMIES AND HORRORS PERPETRATED BY THAT +ANTICHRIST—I REALLY BELIEVE HE IS ANTICHRIST—I WILL HAVE NOTHING +MORE TO DO WITH YOU AND YOU ARE NO LONGER MY FRIEND, NO LONGER MY +‘FAITHFUL SLAVE,’ AS YOU CALL YOURSELF! BUT HOW DO YOU DO? I SEE I +HAVE FRIGHTENED YOU—SIT DOWN AND TELL ME ALL THE NEWS.” + +IT WAS IN JULY, 1805, AND THE SPEAKER WAS THE WELL-KNOWN ANNA PáVLOVNA +SCHéRER, MAID OF HONOR AND FAVORITE OF THE EMPRESS MáRYA FëDOROVNA. +WITH THESE WORDS SHE GREETED PRINCE VASíLI KURáGIN, A MAN OF HIGH +RANK AND IMPORTANCE, WHO WAS THE FIRST TO ARRIVE AT HER RECEPTION. ANNA +PáVLOVNA HAD HAD A COUGH FOR SOME DAYS. SHE WAS, AS SHE SAID, SUFFERING +FROM LA GRIPPE; GRIPPE BEING THEN A NEW WORD IN ST. PETERSBURG, USED +ONLY BY THE ELITE. + +ALL HER INVITATIONS WITHOUT EXCEPTION, WRITTEN IN FRENCH, AND DELIVERED +BY A SCARLET-LIVERIED FOOTMAN THAT MORNING, RAN AS FOLLOWS: + +“IF YOU HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO, COUNT (OR PRINCE), AND IF THE +PROSPECT OF SPENDING AN EVENING WITH A POOR INVALID IS NOT TOO TERRIBLE, +I SHALL BE VERY CHARMED TO SEE YOU TONIGHT BETWEEN 7 AND 10—ANNETTE +SCHéRER.” + +“HEAVENS! WHAT A VIRULENT ATTACK!” REPLIED THE PRINCE, NOT IN THE +LEAST DISCONCERTED BY THIS RECEPTION. HE HAD JUST ENTERED, WEARING AN +EMBROIDERED COURT UNIFORM, KNEE BREECHES, AND SHOES, AND HAD STARS ON +HIS BREAST AND A SERENE EXPRESSION ON HIS FLAT FACE. HE SPOKE IN THAT +REFINED FRENCH IN WHICH OUR GRANDFATHERS NOT ONLY SPOKE BUT THOUGHT, AND +WITH THE GENTLE, PATRONIZING INTONATION NATURAL TO A MAN OF IMPORTANCE +WHO HAD GROWN OLD IN SOCIETY AND AT COURT. HE WENT UP TO ANNA PáVLOVNA, +KISSED HER HAND, PRESENTING TO HER HIS BALD, SCENTED, AND SHINING HEAD, +AND COMPLACENTLY SEATED HIMSELF ON THE SOFA. + +“FIRST OF ALL, DEAR FRIEND, TELL ME HOW YOU ARE. SET YOUR FRIEND’S +MIND AT REST,” SAID HE WITHOUT ALTERING HIS TONE, BENEATH THE +POLITENESS AND AFFECTED SYMPATHY OF WHICH INDIFFERENCE AND EVEN IRONY +COULD BE DISCERNED. + +“CAN ONE BE WELL WHILE SUFFERING MORALLY? CAN ONE BE CALM IN TIMES +LIKE THESE IF ONE HAS ANY FEELING?” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA. “YOU ARE +STAYING THE WHOLE EVENING, I HOPE?” + +“AND THE FETE AT THE ENGLISH AMBASSADOR’S? TODAY IS WEDNESDAY. I +MUST PUT IN AN APPEARANCE THERE,” SAID THE PRINCE. “MY DAUGHTER IS +COMING FOR ME TO TAKE ME THERE.” + +“I THOUGHT TODAY’S FETE HAD BEEN CANCELED. I CONFESS ALL THESE +FESTIVITIES AND FIREWORKS ARE BECOMING WEARISOME.” + +“IF THEY HAD KNOWN THAT YOU WISHED IT, THE ENTERTAINMENT WOULD HAVE +BEEN PUT OFF,” SAID THE PRINCE, WHO, LIKE A WOUND-UP CLOCK, BY FORCE +OF HABIT SAID THINGS HE DID NOT EVEN WISH TO BE BELIEVED. + +“DON’T TEASE! WELL, AND WHAT HAS BEEN DECIDED ABOUT NOVOSíLTSEV’S +DISPATCH? YOU KNOW EVERYTHING.” + +“WHAT CAN ONE SAY ABOUT IT?” REPLIED THE PRINCE IN A COLD, LISTLESS +TONE. “WHAT HAS BEEN DECIDED? THEY HAVE DECIDED THAT BUONAPARTE HAS +BURNT HIS BOATS, AND I BELIEVE THAT WE ARE READY TO BURN OURS.” + +PRINCE VASíLI ALWAYS SPOKE LANGUIDLY, LIKE AN ACTOR REPEATING A STALE +PART. ANNA PáVLOVNA SCHéRER ON THE CONTRARY, DESPITE HER FORTY YEARS, +OVERFLOWED WITH ANIMATION AND IMPULSIVENESS. TO BE AN ENTHUSIAST HAD +BECOME HER SOCIAL VOCATION AND, SOMETIMES EVEN WHEN SHE DID NOT +FEEL LIKE IT, SHE BECAME ENTHUSIASTIC IN ORDER NOT TO DISAPPOINT THE +EXPECTATIONS OF THOSE WHO KNEW HER. THE SUBDUED SMILE WHICH, THOUGH IT +DID NOT SUIT HER FADED FEATURES, ALWAYS PLAYED ROUND HER LIPS EXPRESSED, +AS IN A SPOILED CHILD, A CONTINUAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF HER CHARMING DEFECT, +WHICH SHE NEITHER WISHED, NOR COULD, NOR CONSIDERED IT NECESSARY, TO +CORRECT. + +IN THE MIDST OF A CONVERSATION ON POLITICAL MATTERS ANNA PáVLOVNA BURST +OUT: + +“OH, DON’T SPEAK TO ME OF AUSTRIA. PERHAPS I DON’T UNDERSTAND +THINGS, BUT AUSTRIA NEVER HAS WISHED, AND DOES NOT WISH, FOR WAR. SHE +IS BETRAYING US! RUSSIA ALONE MUST SAVE EUROPE. OUR GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN +RECOGNIZES HIS HIGH VOCATION AND WILL BE TRUE TO IT. THAT IS THE ONE +THING I HAVE FAITH IN! OUR GOOD AND WONDERFUL SOVEREIGN HAS TO PERFORM +THE NOBLEST ROLE ON EARTH, AND HE IS SO VIRTUOUS AND NOBLE THAT GOD WILL +NOT FORSAKE HIM. HE WILL FULFILL HIS VOCATION AND CRUSH THE HYDRA OF +REVOLUTION, WHICH HAS BECOME MORE TERRIBLE THAN EVER IN THE PERSON OF +THIS MURDERER AND VILLAIN! WE ALONE MUST AVENGE THE BLOOD OF THE JUST +ONE.... WHOM, I ASK YOU, CAN WE RELY ON?... ENGLAND WITH HER COMMERCIAL +SPIRIT WILL NOT AND CANNOT UNDERSTAND THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER’S +LOFTINESS OF SOUL. SHE HAS REFUSED TO EVACUATE MALTA. SHE WANTED TO +FIND, AND STILL SEEKS, SOME SECRET MOTIVE IN OUR ACTIONS. WHAT ANSWER +DID NOVOSíLTSEV GET? NONE. THE ENGLISH HAVE NOT UNDERSTOOD AND CANNOT +UNDERSTAND THE SELF-ABNEGATION OF OUR EMPEROR WHO WANTS NOTHING FOR +HIMSELF, BUT ONLY DESIRES THE GOOD OF MANKIND. AND WHAT HAVE THEY +PROMISED? NOTHING! AND WHAT LITTLE THEY HAVE PROMISED THEY WILL NOT +PERFORM! PRUSSIA HAS ALWAYS DECLARED THAT BUONAPARTE IS INVINCIBLE, AND +THAT ALL EUROPE IS POWERLESS BEFORE HIM.... AND I DON’T BELIEVE A +WORD THAT HARDENBURG SAYS, OR HAUGWITZ EITHER. THIS FAMOUS PRUSSIAN +NEUTRALITY IS JUST A TRAP. I HAVE FAITH ONLY IN GOD AND THE LOFTY +DESTINY OF OUR ADORED MONARCH. HE WILL SAVE EUROPE!” + +SHE SUDDENLY PAUSED, SMILING AT HER OWN IMPETUOSITY. + +“I THINK,” SAID THE PRINCE WITH A SMILE, “THAT IF YOU HAD BEEN +SENT INSTEAD OF OUR DEAR WINTZINGERODE YOU WOULD HAVE CAPTURED THE KING +OF PRUSSIA’S CONSENT BY ASSAULT. YOU ARE SO ELOQUENT. WILL YOU GIVE ME +A CUP OF TEA?” + +“IN A MOMENT. À PROPOS,” SHE ADDED, BECOMING CALM AGAIN, “I AM +EXPECTING TWO VERY INTERESTING MEN TONIGHT, LE VICOMTE DE MORTEMART, WHO +IS CONNECTED WITH THE MONTMORENCYS THROUGH THE ROHANS, ONE OF THE BEST +FRENCH FAMILIES. HE IS ONE OF THE GENUINE éMIGRéS, THE GOOD ONES. AND +ALSO THE ABBé MORIO. DO YOU KNOW THAT PROFOUND THINKER? HE HAS BEEN +RECEIVED BY THE EMPEROR. HAD YOU HEARD?” + +“I SHALL BE DELIGHTED TO MEET THEM,” SAID THE PRINCE. “BUT +TELL ME,” HE ADDED WITH STUDIED CARELESSNESS AS IF IT HAD ONLY JUST +OCCURRED TO HIM, THOUGH THE QUESTION HE WAS ABOUT TO ASK WAS THE CHIEF +MOTIVE OF HIS VISIT, “IS IT TRUE THAT THE DOWAGER EMPRESS WANTS +BARON FUNKE TO BE APPOINTED FIRST SECRETARY AT VIENNA? THE BARON BY ALL +ACCOUNTS IS A POOR CREATURE.” + +PRINCE VASíLI WISHED TO OBTAIN THIS POST FOR HIS SON, BUT OTHERS WERE +TRYING THROUGH THE DOWAGER EMPRESS MáRYA FëDOROVNA TO SECURE IT FOR +THE BARON. + +ANNA PáVLOVNA ALMOST CLOSED HER EYES TO INDICATE THAT NEITHER SHE NOR +ANYONE ELSE HAD A RIGHT TO CRITICIZE WHAT THE EMPRESS DESIRED OR WAS +PLEASED WITH. + +“BARON FUNKE HAS BEEN RECOMMENDED TO THE DOWAGER EMPRESS BY HER +SISTER,” WAS ALL SHE SAID, IN A DRY AND MOURNFUL TONE. + +AS SHE NAMED THE EMPRESS, ANNA PáVLOVNA’S FACE SUDDENLY ASSUMED AN +EXPRESSION OF PROFOUND AND SINCERE DEVOTION AND RESPECT MINGLED WITH +SADNESS, AND THIS OCCURRED EVERY TIME SHE MENTIONED HER ILLUSTRIOUS +PATRONESS. SHE ADDED THAT HER MAJESTY HAD DEIGNED TO SHOW BARON FUNKE +BEAUCOUP D’ESTIME, AND AGAIN HER FACE CLOUDED OVER WITH SADNESS. + +THE PRINCE WAS SILENT AND LOOKED INDIFFERENT. BUT, WITH THE WOMANLY AND +COURTIERLIKE QUICKNESS AND TACT HABITUAL TO HER, ANNA PáVLOVNA +WISHED BOTH TO REBUKE HIM (FOR DARING TO SPEAK AS HE HAD DONE OF A MAN +RECOMMENDED TO THE EMPRESS) AND AT THE SAME TIME TO CONSOLE HIM, SO SHE +SAID: + +“NOW ABOUT YOUR FAMILY. DO YOU KNOW THAT SINCE YOUR DAUGHTER CAME +OUT EVERYONE HAS BEEN ENRAPTURED BY HER? THEY SAY SHE IS AMAZINGLY +BEAUTIFUL.” + +THE PRINCE BOWED TO SIGNIFY HIS RESPECT AND GRATITUDE. + +“I OFTEN THINK,” SHE CONTINUED AFTER A SHORT PAUSE, DRAWING NEARER +TO THE PRINCE AND SMILING AMIABLY AT HIM AS IF TO SHOW THAT POLITICAL +AND SOCIAL TOPICS WERE ENDED AND THE TIME HAD COME FOR INTIMATE +CONVERSATION—“I OFTEN THINK HOW UNFAIRLY SOMETIMES THE JOYS OF LIFE +ARE DISTRIBUTED. WHY HAS FATE GIVEN YOU TWO SUCH SPLENDID CHILDREN? +I DON’T SPEAK OF ANATOLE, YOUR YOUNGEST. I DON’T LIKE HIM,” SHE +ADDED IN A TONE ADMITTING OF NO REJOINDER AND RAISING HER EYEBROWS. +“TWO SUCH CHARMING CHILDREN. AND REALLY YOU APPRECIATE THEM LESS THAN +ANYONE, AND SO YOU DON’T DESERVE TO HAVE THEM.” + +AND SHE SMILED HER ECSTATIC SMILE. + +“I CAN’T HELP IT,” SAID THE PRINCE. “LAVATER WOULD HAVE SAID I +LACK THE BUMP OF PATERNITY.” + +“DON’T JOKE; I MEAN TO HAVE A SERIOUS TALK WITH YOU. DO YOU KNOW +I AM DISSATISFIED WITH YOUR YOUNGER SON? BETWEEN OURSELVES” (AND HER +FACE ASSUMED ITS MELANCHOLY EXPRESSION), “HE WAS MENTIONED AT HER +MAJESTY’S AND YOU WERE PITIED....” + +THE PRINCE ANSWERED NOTHING, BUT SHE LOOKED AT HIM SIGNIFICANTLY, +AWAITING A REPLY. HE FROWNED. + +“WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE ME DO?” HE SAID AT LAST. “YOU KNOW I DID ALL +A FATHER COULD FOR THEIR EDUCATION, AND THEY HAVE BOTH TURNED OUT FOOLS. +HIPPOLYTE IS AT LEAST A QUIET FOOL, BUT ANATOLE IS AN ACTIVE ONE. THAT +IS THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM.” HE SAID THIS SMILING IN A WAY +MORE NATURAL AND ANIMATED THAN USUAL, SO THAT THE WRINKLES ROUND +HIS MOUTH VERY CLEARLY REVEALED SOMETHING UNEXPECTEDLY COARSE AND +UNPLEASANT. + +“AND WHY ARE CHILDREN BORN TO SUCH MEN AS YOU? IF YOU WERE NOT A +FATHER THERE WOULD BE NOTHING I COULD REPROACH YOU WITH,” SAID ANNA +PáVLOVNA, LOOKING UP PENSIVELY. + +“I AM YOUR FAITHFUL SLAVE AND TO YOU ALONE I CAN CONFESS THAT MY +CHILDREN ARE THE BANE OF MY LIFE. IT IS THE CROSS I HAVE TO BEAR. THAT +IS HOW I EXPLAIN IT TO MYSELF. IT CAN’T BE HELPED!” + +HE SAID NO MORE, BUT EXPRESSED HIS RESIGNATION TO CRUEL FATE BY A +GESTURE. ANNA PáVLOVNA MEDITATED. + +“HAVE YOU NEVER THOUGHT OF MARRYING YOUR PRODIGAL SON ANATOLE?” SHE +ASKED. “THEY SAY OLD MAIDS HAVE A MANIA FOR MATCHMAKING, AND THOUGH I +DON’T FEEL THAT WEAKNESS IN MYSELF AS YET, I KNOW A LITTLE PERSON WHO +IS VERY UNHAPPY WITH HER FATHER. SHE IS A RELATION OF YOURS, PRINCESS +MARY BOLKóNSKAYA.” + +PRINCE VASíLI DID NOT REPLY, THOUGH, WITH THE QUICKNESS OF MEMORY AND +PERCEPTION BEFITTING A MAN OF THE WORLD, HE INDICATED BY A MOVEMENT OF +THE HEAD THAT HE WAS CONSIDERING THIS INFORMATION. + +“DO YOU KNOW,” HE SAID AT LAST, EVIDENTLY UNABLE TO CHECK THE SAD +CURRENT OF HIS THOUGHTS, “THAT ANATOLE IS COSTING ME FORTY THOUSAND +RUBLES A YEAR? AND,” HE WENT ON AFTER A PAUSE, “WHAT WILL IT BE IN +FIVE YEARS, IF HE GOES ON LIKE THIS?” PRESENTLY HE ADDED: “THAT’S +WHAT WE FATHERS HAVE TO PUT UP WITH.... IS THIS PRINCESS OF YOURS +RICH?” + +“HER FATHER IS VERY RICH AND STINGY. HE LIVES IN THE COUNTRY. HE IS +THE WELL-KNOWN PRINCE BOLKóNSKI WHO HAD TO RETIRE FROM THE ARMY UNDER +THE LATE EMPEROR, AND WAS NICKNAMED ‘THE KING OF PRUSSIA.’ HE IS +VERY CLEVER BUT ECCENTRIC, AND A BORE. THE POOR GIRL IS VERY UNHAPPY. +SHE HAS A BROTHER; I THINK YOU KNOW HIM, HE MARRIED LISE MEINEN LATELY. +HE IS AN AIDE-DE-CAMP OF KUTúZOV’S AND WILL BE HERE TONIGHT.” + +“LISTEN, DEAR ANNETTE,” SAID THE PRINCE, SUDDENLY TAKING ANNA +PáVLOVNA’S HAND AND FOR SOME REASON DRAWING IT DOWNWARDS. “ARRANGE +THAT AFFAIR FOR ME AND I SHALL ALWAYS BE YOUR MOST DEVOTED SLAVE-SLAFE +WITH AN F, AS A VILLAGE ELDER OF MINE WRITES IN HIS REPORTS. SHE IS RICH +AND OF GOOD FAMILY AND THAT’S ALL I WANT.” + +AND WITH THE FAMILIARITY AND EASY GRACE PECULIAR TO HIM, HE RAISED THE +MAID OF HONOR’S HAND TO HIS LIPS, KISSED IT, AND SWUNG IT TO AND FRO +AS HE LAY BACK IN HIS ARMCHAIR, LOOKING IN ANOTHER DIRECTION. + +“ATTENDEZ,” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA, REFLECTING, “I’LL SPEAK TO +LISE, YOUNG BOLKóNSKI’S WIFE, THIS VERY EVENING, AND PERHAPS THE +THING CAN BE ARRANGED. IT SHALL BE ON YOUR FAMILY’S BEHALF THAT I’LL +START MY APPRENTICESHIP AS OLD MAID.” + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +ANNA PáVLOVNA’S DRAWING ROOM WAS GRADUALLY FILLING. THE HIGHEST +PETERSBURG SOCIETY WAS ASSEMBLED THERE: PEOPLE DIFFERING WIDELY IN AGE +AND CHARACTER BUT ALIKE IN THE SOCIAL CIRCLE TO WHICH THEY BELONGED. +PRINCE VASíLI’S DAUGHTER, THE BEAUTIFUL HéLèNE, CAME TO TAKE HER +FATHER TO THE AMBASSADOR’S ENTERTAINMENT; SHE WORE A BALL DRESS AND +HER BADGE AS MAID OF HONOR. THE YOUTHFUL LITTLE PRINCESS BOLKóNSKAYA, +KNOWN AS LA FEMME LA PLUS SéDUISANTE DE PéTERSBOURG, * WAS ALSO THERE. +SHE HAD BEEN MARRIED DURING THE PREVIOUS WINTER, AND BEING PREGNANT DID +NOT GO TO ANY LARGE GATHERINGS, BUT ONLY TO SMALL RECEPTIONS. PRINCE +VASíLI’S SON, HIPPOLYTE, HAD COME WITH MORTEMART, WHOM HE INTRODUCED. +THE ABBé MORIO AND MANY OTHERS HAD ALSO COME. + + * THE MOST FASCINATING WOMAN IN PETERSBURG. + +TO EACH NEW ARRIVAL ANNA PáVLOVNA SAID, “YOU HAVE NOT YET SEEN MY +AUNT,” OR “YOU DO NOT KNOW MY AUNT?” AND VERY GRAVELY CONDUCTED +HIM OR HER TO A LITTLE OLD LADY, WEARING LARGE BOWS OF RIBBON IN HER +CAP, WHO HAD COME SAILING IN FROM ANOTHER ROOM AS SOON AS THE GUESTS +BEGAN TO ARRIVE; AND SLOWLY TURNING HER EYES FROM THE VISITOR TO HER +AUNT, ANNA PáVLOVNA MENTIONED EACH ONE’S NAME AND THEN LEFT THEM. + +EACH VISITOR PERFORMED THE CEREMONY OF GREETING THIS OLD AUNT WHOM NOT +ONE OF THEM KNEW, NOT ONE OF THEM WANTED TO KNOW, AND NOT ONE OF THEM +CARED ABOUT; ANNA PáVLOVNA OBSERVED THESE GREETINGS WITH MOURNFUL AND +SOLEMN INTEREST AND SILENT APPROVAL. THE AUNT SPOKE TO EACH OF THEM IN +THE SAME WORDS, ABOUT THEIR HEALTH AND HER OWN, AND THE HEALTH OF HER +MAJESTY, “WHO, THANK GOD, WAS BETTER TODAY.” AND EACH VISITOR, +THOUGH POLITENESS PREVENTED HIS SHOWING IMPATIENCE, LEFT THE OLD WOMAN +WITH A SENSE OF RELIEF AT HAVING PERFORMED A VEXATIOUS DUTY AND DID NOT +RETURN TO HER THE WHOLE EVENING. + +THE YOUNG PRINCESS BOLKóNSKAYA HAD BROUGHT SOME WORK IN A +GOLD-EMBROIDERED VELVET BAG. HER PRETTY LITTLE UPPER LIP, ON WHICH A +DELICATE DARK DOWN WAS JUST PERCEPTIBLE, WAS TOO SHORT FOR HER TEETH, +BUT IT LIFTED ALL THE MORE SWEETLY, AND WAS ESPECIALLY CHARMING WHEN SHE +OCCASIONALLY DREW IT DOWN TO MEET THE LOWER LIP. AS IS ALWAYS THE CASE +WITH A THOROUGHLY ATTRACTIVE WOMAN, HER DEFECT—THE SHORTNESS OF HER +UPPER LIP AND HER HALF-OPEN MOUTH—SEEMED TO BE HER OWN SPECIAL AND +PECULIAR FORM OF BEAUTY. EVERYONE BRIGHTENED AT THE SIGHT OF THIS PRETTY +YOUNG WOMAN, SO SOON TO BECOME A MOTHER, SO FULL OF LIFE AND HEALTH, AND +CARRYING HER BURDEN SO LIGHTLY. OLD MEN AND DULL DISPIRITED YOUNG ONES +WHO LOOKED AT HER, AFTER BEING IN HER COMPANY AND TALKING TO HER A +LITTLE WHILE, FELT AS IF THEY TOO WERE BECOMING, LIKE HER, FULL OF LIFE +AND HEALTH. ALL WHO TALKED TO HER, AND AT EACH WORD SAW HER BRIGHT SMILE +AND THE CONSTANT GLEAM OF HER WHITE TEETH, THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE IN A +SPECIALLY AMIABLE MOOD THAT DAY. + +THE LITTLE PRINCESS WENT ROUND THE TABLE WITH QUICK, SHORT, SWAYING +STEPS, HER WORKBAG ON HER ARM, AND GAILY SPREADING OUT HER DRESS SAT +DOWN ON A SOFA NEAR THE SILVER SAMOVAR, AS IF ALL SHE WAS DOING WAS A +PLEASURE TO HERSELF AND TO ALL AROUND HER. “I HAVE BROUGHT MY WORK,” +SAID SHE IN FRENCH, DISPLAYING HER BAG AND ADDRESSING ALL PRESENT. +“MIND, ANNETTE, I HOPE YOU HAVE NOT PLAYED A WICKED TRICK ON ME,” +SHE ADDED, TURNING TO HER HOSTESS. “YOU WROTE THAT IT WAS TO BE QUITE +A SMALL RECEPTION, AND JUST SEE HOW BADLY I AM DRESSED.” AND SHE +SPREAD OUT HER ARMS TO SHOW HER SHORT-WAISTED, LACE-TRIMMED, DAINTY GRAY +DRESS, GIRDLED WITH A BROAD RIBBON JUST BELOW THE BREAST. + +“SOYEZ TRANQUILLE, LISE, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE PRETTIER THAN ANYONE +ELSE,” REPLIED ANNA PáVLOVNA. + +“YOU KNOW,” SAID THE PRINCESS IN THE SAME TONE OF VOICE AND STILL IN +FRENCH, TURNING TO A GENERAL, “MY HUSBAND IS DESERTING ME? HE IS GOING +TO GET HIMSELF KILLED. TELL ME WHAT THIS WRETCHED WAR IS FOR?” SHE +ADDED, ADDRESSING PRINCE VASíLI, AND WITHOUT WAITING FOR AN ANSWER SHE +TURNED TO SPEAK TO HIS DAUGHTER, THE BEAUTIFUL HéLèNE. + +“WHAT A DELIGHTFUL WOMAN THIS LITTLE PRINCESS IS!” SAID PRINCE +VASíLI TO ANNA PáVLOVNA. + +ONE OF THE NEXT ARRIVALS WAS A STOUT, HEAVILY BUILT YOUNG MAN WITH +CLOSE-CROPPED HAIR, SPECTACLES, THE LIGHT-COLORED BREECHES FASHIONABLE +AT THAT TIME, A VERY HIGH RUFFLE, AND A BROWN DRESS COAT. THIS STOUT +YOUNG MAN WAS AN ILLEGITIMATE SON OF COUNT BEZúKHOV, A WELL-KNOWN +GRANDEE OF CATHERINE’S TIME WHO NOW LAY DYING IN MOSCOW. THE YOUNG MAN +HAD NOT YET ENTERED EITHER THE MILITARY OR CIVIL SERVICE, AS HE HAD ONLY +JUST RETURNED FROM ABROAD WHERE HE HAD BEEN EDUCATED, AND THIS WAS HIS +FIRST APPEARANCE IN SOCIETY. ANNA PáVLOVNA GREETED HIM WITH THE NOD SHE +ACCORDED TO THE LOWEST HIERARCHY IN HER DRAWING ROOM. BUT IN SPITE OF +THIS LOWEST-GRADE GREETING, A LOOK OF ANXIETY AND FEAR, AS AT THE SIGHT +OF SOMETHING TOO LARGE AND UNSUITED TO THE PLACE, CAME OVER HER FACE +WHEN SHE SAW PIERRE ENTER. THOUGH HE WAS CERTAINLY RATHER BIGGER THAN +THE OTHER MEN IN THE ROOM, HER ANXIETY COULD ONLY HAVE REFERENCE TO +THE CLEVER THOUGH SHY, BUT OBSERVANT AND NATURAL, EXPRESSION WHICH +DISTINGUISHED HIM FROM EVERYONE ELSE IN THAT DRAWING ROOM. + +“IT IS VERY GOOD OF YOU, MONSIEUR PIERRE, TO COME AND VISIT A POOR +INVALID,” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA, EXCHANGING AN ALARMED GLANCE WITH HER +AUNT AS SHE CONDUCTED HIM TO HER. + +PIERRE MURMURED SOMETHING UNINTELLIGIBLE, AND CONTINUED TO LOOK ROUND AS +IF IN SEARCH OF SOMETHING. ON HIS WAY TO THE AUNT HE BOWED TO THE LITTLE +PRINCESS WITH A PLEASED SMILE, AS TO AN INTIMATE ACQUAINTANCE. + +ANNA PáVLOVNA’S ALARM WAS JUSTIFIED, FOR PIERRE TURNED AWAY FROM THE +AUNT WITHOUT WAITING TO HEAR HER SPEECH ABOUT HER MAJESTY’S HEALTH. +ANNA PáVLOVNA IN DISMAY DETAINED HIM WITH THE WORDS: “DO YOU KNOW THE +ABBé MORIO? HE IS A MOST INTERESTING MAN.” + +“YES, I HAVE HEARD OF HIS SCHEME FOR PERPETUAL PEACE, AND IT IS VERY +INTERESTING BUT HARDLY FEASIBLE.” + +“YOU THINK SO?” REJOINED ANNA PáVLOVNA IN ORDER TO SAY SOMETHING +AND GET AWAY TO ATTEND TO HER DUTIES AS HOSTESS. BUT PIERRE NOW +COMMITTED A REVERSE ACT OF IMPOLITENESS. FIRST HE HAD LEFT A LADY BEFORE +SHE HAD FINISHED SPEAKING TO HIM, AND NOW HE CONTINUED TO SPEAK TO +ANOTHER WHO WISHED TO GET AWAY. WITH HIS HEAD BENT, AND HIS BIG FEET +SPREAD APART, HE BEGAN EXPLAINING HIS REASONS FOR THINKING THE ABBé’S +PLAN CHIMERICAL. + +“WE WILL TALK OF IT LATER,” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA WITH A SMILE. + +AND HAVING GOT RID OF THIS YOUNG MAN WHO DID NOT KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE, SHE +RESUMED HER DUTIES AS HOSTESS AND CONTINUED TO LISTEN AND WATCH, READY +TO HELP AT ANY POINT WHERE THE CONVERSATION MIGHT HAPPEN TO FLAG. AS +THE FOREMAN OF A SPINNING MILL, WHEN HE HAS SET THE HANDS TO WORK, GOES +ROUND AND NOTICES HERE A SPINDLE THAT HAS STOPPED OR THERE ONE THAT +CREAKS OR MAKES MORE NOISE THAN IT SHOULD, AND HASTENS TO CHECK THE +MACHINE OR SET IT IN PROPER MOTION, SO ANNA PáVLOVNA MOVED ABOUT HER +DRAWING ROOM, APPROACHING NOW A SILENT, NOW A TOO-NOISY GROUP, AND BY A +WORD OR SLIGHT REARRANGEMENT KEPT THE CONVERSATIONAL MACHINE IN STEADY, +PROPER, AND REGULAR MOTION. BUT AMID THESE CARES HER ANXIETY ABOUT +PIERRE WAS EVIDENT. SHE KEPT AN ANXIOUS WATCH ON HIM WHEN HE APPROACHED +THE GROUP ROUND MORTEMART TO LISTEN TO WHAT WAS BEING SAID THERE, AND +AGAIN WHEN HE PASSED TO ANOTHER GROUP WHOSE CENTER WAS THE ABBé. + +PIERRE HAD BEEN EDUCATED ABROAD, AND THIS RECEPTION AT ANNA +PáVLOVNA’S WAS THE FIRST HE HAD ATTENDED IN RUSSIA. HE KNEW THAT ALL +THE INTELLECTUAL LIGHTS OF PETERSBURG WERE GATHERED THERE AND, LIKE A +CHILD IN A TOYSHOP, DID NOT KNOW WHICH WAY TO LOOK, AFRAID OF MISSING +ANY CLEVER CONVERSATION THAT WAS TO BE HEARD. SEEING THE SELF-CONFIDENT +AND REFINED EXPRESSION ON THE FACES OF THOSE PRESENT HE WAS ALWAYS +EXPECTING TO HEAR SOMETHING VERY PROFOUND. AT LAST HE CAME UP TO MORIO. +HERE THE CONVERSATION SEEMED INTERESTING AND HE STOOD WAITING FOR AN +OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS HIS OWN VIEWS, AS YOUNG PEOPLE ARE FOND OF DOING. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +ANNA PáVLOVNA’S RECEPTION WAS IN FULL SWING. THE SPINDLES HUMMED +STEADILY AND CEASELESSLY ON ALL SIDES. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE AUNT, +BESIDE WHOM SAT ONLY ONE ELDERLY LADY, WHO WITH HER THIN CAREWORN FACE +WAS RATHER OUT OF PLACE IN THIS BRILLIANT SOCIETY, THE WHOLE COMPANY HAD +SETTLED INTO THREE GROUPS. ONE, CHIEFLY MASCULINE, HAD FORMED ROUND +THE ABBé. ANOTHER, OF YOUNG PEOPLE, WAS GROUPED ROUND THE BEAUTIFUL +PRINCESS HéLèNE, PRINCE VASíLI’S DAUGHTER, AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS +BOLKóNSKAYA, VERY PRETTY AND ROSY, THOUGH RATHER TOO PLUMP FOR HER AGE. +THE THIRD GROUP WAS GATHERED ROUND MORTEMART AND ANNA PáVLOVNA. + +THE VICOMTE WAS A NICE-LOOKING YOUNG MAN WITH SOFT FEATURES AND POLISHED +MANNERS, WHO EVIDENTLY CONSIDERED HIMSELF A CELEBRITY BUT OUT OF +POLITENESS MODESTLY PLACED HIMSELF AT THE DISPOSAL OF THE CIRCLE IN +WHICH HE FOUND HIMSELF. ANNA PáVLOVNA WAS OBVIOUSLY SERVING HIM UP AS +A TREAT TO HER GUESTS. AS A CLEVER MAîTRE D’HôTEL SERVES UP AS A +SPECIALLY CHOICE DELICACY A PIECE OF MEAT THAT NO ONE WHO HAD SEEN IT IN +THE KITCHEN WOULD HAVE CARED TO EAT, SO ANNA PáVLOVNA SERVED UP TO +HER GUESTS, FIRST THE VICOMTE AND THEN THE ABBé, AS PECULIARLY CHOICE +MORSELS. THE GROUP ABOUT MORTEMART IMMEDIATELY BEGAN DISCUSSING THE +MURDER OF THE DUC D’ENGHIEN. THE VICOMTE SAID THAT THE DUC D’ENGHIEN +HAD PERISHED BY HIS OWN MAGNANIMITY, AND THAT THERE WERE PARTICULAR +REASONS FOR BUONAPARTE’S HATRED OF HIM. + +“AH, YES! DO TELL US ALL ABOUT IT, VICOMTE,” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA, +WITH A PLEASANT FEELING THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING à LA LOUIS XV IN THE +SOUND OF THAT SENTENCE: “CONTEZ NOUS çELA, VICOMTE.” + +THE VICOMTE BOWED AND SMILED COURTEOUSLY IN TOKEN OF HIS WILLINGNESS TO +COMPLY. ANNA PáVLOVNA ARRANGED A GROUP ROUND HIM, INVITING EVERYONE TO +LISTEN TO HIS TALE. + +“THE VICOMTE KNEW THE DUC PERSONALLY,” WHISPERED ANNA PáVLOVNA TO +ONE OF THE GUESTS. “THE VICOMTE IS A WONDERFUL RACONTEUR,” SAID SHE +TO ANOTHER. “HOW EVIDENTLY HE BELONGS TO THE BEST SOCIETY,” SAID SHE +TO A THIRD; AND THE VICOMTE WAS SERVED UP TO THE COMPANY IN THE CHOICEST +AND MOST ADVANTAGEOUS STYLE, LIKE A WELL-GARNISHED JOINT OF ROAST BEEF +ON A HOT DISH. + +THE VICOMTE WISHED TO BEGIN HIS STORY AND GAVE A SUBTLE SMILE. + +“COME OVER HERE, HéLèNE, DEAR,” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA TO THE +BEAUTIFUL YOUNG PRINCESS WHO WAS SITTING SOME WAY OFF, THE CENTER OF +ANOTHER GROUP. + +THE PRINCESS SMILED. SHE ROSE WITH THE SAME UNCHANGING SMILE WITH WHICH +SHE HAD FIRST ENTERED THE ROOM—THE SMILE OF A PERFECTLY BEAUTIFUL +WOMAN. WITH A SLIGHT RUSTLE OF HER WHITE DRESS TRIMMED WITH MOSS +AND IVY, WITH A GLEAM OF WHITE SHOULDERS, GLOSSY HAIR, AND SPARKLING +DIAMONDS, SHE PASSED BETWEEN THE MEN WHO MADE WAY FOR HER, NOT LOOKING +AT ANY OF THEM BUT SMILING ON ALL, AS IF GRACIOUSLY ALLOWING EACH THE +PRIVILEGE OF ADMIRING HER BEAUTIFUL FIGURE AND SHAPELY SHOULDERS, +BACK, AND BOSOM—WHICH IN THE FASHION OF THOSE DAYS WERE VERY MUCH +EXPOSED—AND SHE SEEMED TO BRING THE GLAMOUR OF A BALLROOM WITH HER AS +SHE MOVED TOWARD ANNA PáVLOVNA. HéLèNE WAS SO LOVELY THAT NOT ONLY +DID SHE NOT SHOW ANY TRACE OF COQUETRY, BUT ON THE CONTRARY SHE EVEN +APPEARED SHY OF HER UNQUESTIONABLE AND ALL TOO VICTORIOUS BEAUTY. SHE +SEEMED TO WISH, BUT TO BE UNABLE, TO DIMINISH ITS EFFECT. + +“HOW LOVELY!” SAID EVERYONE WHO SAW HER; AND THE VICOMTE LIFTED HIS +SHOULDERS AND DROPPED HIS EYES AS IF STARTLED BY SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY +WHEN SHE TOOK HER SEAT OPPOSITE AND BEAMED UPON HIM ALSO WITH HER +UNCHANGING SMILE. + +“MADAME, I DOUBT MY ABILITY BEFORE SUCH AN AUDIENCE,” SAID HE, +SMILINGLY INCLINING HIS HEAD. + +THE PRINCESS RESTED HER BARE ROUND ARM ON A LITTLE TABLE AND CONSIDERED +A REPLY UNNECESSARY. SHE SMILINGLY WAITED. ALL THE TIME THE STORY WAS +BEING TOLD SHE SAT UPRIGHT, GLANCING NOW AT HER BEAUTIFUL ROUND ARM, +ALTERED IN SHAPE BY ITS PRESSURE ON THE TABLE, NOW AT HER STILL MORE +BEAUTIFUL BOSOM, ON WHICH SHE READJUSTED A DIAMOND NECKLACE. FROM TIME +TO TIME SHE SMOOTHED THE FOLDS OF HER DRESS, AND WHENEVER THE STORY +PRODUCED AN EFFECT SHE GLANCED AT ANNA PáVLOVNA, AT ONCE ADOPTED JUST +THE EXPRESSION SHE SAW ON THE MAID OF HONOR’S FACE, AND AGAIN RELAPSED +INTO HER RADIANT SMILE. + +THE LITTLE PRINCESS HAD ALSO LEFT THE TEA TABLE AND FOLLOWED HéLèNE. + +“WAIT A MOMENT, I’LL GET MY WORK.... NOW THEN, WHAT ARE YOU +THINKING OF?” SHE WENT ON, TURNING TO PRINCE HIPPOLYTE. “FETCH ME MY +WORKBAG.” + +THERE WAS A GENERAL MOVEMENT AS THE PRINCESS, SMILING AND TALKING +MERRILY TO EVERYONE AT ONCE, SAT DOWN AND GAILY ARRANGED HERSELF IN HER +SEAT. + +“NOW I AM ALL RIGHT,” SHE SAID, AND ASKING THE VICOMTE TO BEGIN, SHE +TOOK UP HER WORK. + +PRINCE HIPPOLYTE, HAVING BROUGHT THE WORKBAG, JOINED THE CIRCLE AND +MOVING A CHAIR CLOSE TO HERS SEATED HIMSELF BESIDE HER. + +LE CHARMANT HIPPOLYTE WAS SURPRISING BY HIS EXTRAORDINARY RESEMBLANCE +TO HIS BEAUTIFUL SISTER, BUT YET MORE BY THE FACT THAT IN SPITE OF +THIS RESEMBLANCE HE WAS EXCEEDINGLY UGLY. HIS FEATURES WERE LIKE HIS +SISTER’S, BUT WHILE IN HER CASE EVERYTHING WAS LIT UP BY A JOYOUS, +SELF-SATISFIED, YOUTHFUL, AND CONSTANT SMILE OF ANIMATION, AND BY THE +WONDERFUL CLASSIC BEAUTY OF HER FIGURE, HIS FACE ON THE CONTRARY +WAS DULLED BY IMBECILITY AND A CONSTANT EXPRESSION OF SULLEN +SELF-CONFIDENCE, WHILE HIS BODY WAS THIN AND WEAK. HIS EYES, NOSE, AND +MOUTH ALL SEEMED PUCKERED INTO A VACANT, WEARIED GRIMACE, AND HIS ARMS +AND LEGS ALWAYS FELL INTO UNNATURAL POSITIONS. + +“IT’S NOT GOING TO BE A GHOST STORY?” SAID HE, SITTING DOWN BESIDE +THE PRINCESS AND HASTILY ADJUSTING HIS LORGNETTE, AS IF WITHOUT THIS +INSTRUMENT HE COULD NOT BEGIN TO SPEAK. + +“WHY NO, MY DEAR FELLOW,” SAID THE ASTONISHED NARRATOR, SHRUGGING +HIS SHOULDERS. + +“BECAUSE I HATE GHOST STORIES,” SAID PRINCE HIPPOLYTE IN A TONE +WHICH SHOWED THAT HE ONLY UNDERSTOOD THE MEANING OF HIS WORDS AFTER HE +HAD UTTERED THEM. + +HE SPOKE WITH SUCH SELF-CONFIDENCE THAT HIS HEARERS COULD NOT BE SURE +WHETHER WHAT HE SAID WAS VERY WITTY OR VERY STUPID. HE WAS DRESSED IN +A DARK-GREEN DRESS COAT, KNEE BREECHES OF THE COLOR OF CUISSE DE NYMPHE +EFFRAYéE, AS HE CALLED IT, SHOES, AND SILK STOCKINGS. + +THE VICOMTE TOLD HIS TALE VERY NEATLY. IT WAS AN ANECDOTE, THEN CURRENT, +TO THE EFFECT THAT THE DUC D’ENGHIEN HAD GONE SECRETLY TO PARIS TO +VISIT MADEMOISELLE GEORGE; THAT AT HER HOUSE HE CAME UPON BONAPARTE, +WHO ALSO ENJOYED THE FAMOUS ACTRESS’ FAVORS, AND THAT IN HIS PRESENCE +NAPOLEON HAPPENED TO FALL INTO ONE OF THE FAINTING FITS TO WHICH HE WAS +SUBJECT, AND WAS THUS AT THE DUC’S MERCY. THE LATTER SPARED HIM, AND +THIS MAGNANIMITY BONAPARTE SUBSEQUENTLY REPAID BY DEATH. + +THE STORY WAS VERY PRETTY AND INTERESTING, ESPECIALLY AT THE POINT +WHERE THE RIVALS SUDDENLY RECOGNIZED ONE ANOTHER; AND THE LADIES LOOKED +AGITATED. + +“CHARMING!” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA WITH AN INQUIRING GLANCE AT THE +LITTLE PRINCESS. + +“CHARMING!” WHISPERED THE LITTLE PRINCESS, STICKING THE NEEDLE INTO +HER WORK AS IF TO TESTIFY THAT THE INTEREST AND FASCINATION OF THE STORY +PREVENTED HER FROM GOING ON WITH IT. + +THE VICOMTE APPRECIATED THIS SILENT PRAISE AND SMILING GRATEFULLY +PREPARED TO CONTINUE, BUT JUST THEN ANNA PáVLOVNA, WHO HAD KEPT A +WATCHFUL EYE ON THE YOUNG MAN WHO SO ALARMED HER, NOTICED THAT HE WAS +TALKING TOO LOUDLY AND VEHEMENTLY WITH THE ABBé, SO SHE HURRIED TO THE +RESCUE. PIERRE HAD MANAGED TO START A CONVERSATION WITH THE ABBé ABOUT +THE BALANCE OF POWER, AND THE LATTER, EVIDENTLY INTERESTED BY THE YOUNG +MAN’S SIMPLE-MINDED EAGERNESS, WAS EXPLAINING HIS PET THEORY. BOTH +WERE TALKING AND LISTENING TOO EAGERLY AND TOO NATURALLY, WHICH WAS WHY +ANNA PáVLOVNA DISAPPROVED. + +“THE MEANS ARE ... THE BALANCE OF POWER IN EUROPE AND THE RIGHTS OF +THE PEOPLE,” THE ABBé WAS SAYING. “IT IS ONLY NECESSARY FOR ONE +POWERFUL NATION LIKE RUSSIA—BARBARIC AS SHE IS SAID TO BE—TO PLACE +HERSELF DISINTERESTEDLY AT THE HEAD OF AN ALLIANCE HAVING FOR ITS OBJECT +THE MAINTENANCE OF THE BALANCE OF POWER OF EUROPE, AND IT WOULD SAVE THE +WORLD!” + +“BUT HOW ARE YOU TO GET THAT BALANCE?” PIERRE WAS BEGINNING. + +AT THAT MOMENT ANNA PáVLOVNA CAME UP AND, LOOKING SEVERELY AT PIERRE, +ASKED THE ITALIAN HOW HE STOOD RUSSIAN CLIMATE. THE ITALIAN’S +FACE INSTANTLY CHANGED AND ASSUMED AN OFFENSIVELY AFFECTED, SUGARY +EXPRESSION, EVIDENTLY HABITUAL TO HIM WHEN CONVERSING WITH WOMEN. + +“I AM SO ENCHANTED BY THE BRILLIANCY OF THE WIT AND CULTURE OF THE +SOCIETY, MORE ESPECIALLY OF THE FEMININE SOCIETY, IN WHICH I HAVE HAD +THE HONOR OF BEING RECEIVED, THAT I HAVE NOT YET HAD TIME TO THINK OF +THE CLIMATE,” SAID HE. + +NOT LETTING THE ABBé AND PIERRE ESCAPE, ANNA PáVLOVNA, THE MORE +CONVENIENTLY TO KEEP THEM UNDER OBSERVATION, BROUGHT THEM INTO THE +LARGER CIRCLE. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +JUST THEN ANOTHER VISITOR ENTERED THE DRAWING ROOM: PRINCE ANDREW +BOLKóNSKI, THE LITTLE PRINCESS’ HUSBAND. HE WAS A VERY HANDSOME YOUNG +MAN, OF MEDIUM HEIGHT, WITH FIRM, CLEARCUT FEATURES. EVERYTHING ABOUT +HIM, FROM HIS WEARY, BORED EXPRESSION TO HIS QUIET, MEASURED STEP, +OFFERED A MOST STRIKING CONTRAST TO HIS QUIET, LITTLE WIFE. IT WAS +EVIDENT THAT HE NOT ONLY KNEW EVERYONE IN THE DRAWING ROOM, BUT HAD +FOUND THEM TO BE SO TIRESOME THAT IT WEARIED HIM TO LOOK AT OR LISTEN TO +THEM. AND AMONG ALL THESE FACES THAT HE FOUND SO TEDIOUS, NONE SEEMED +TO BORE HIM SO MUCH AS THAT OF HIS PRETTY WIFE. HE TURNED AWAY FROM +HER WITH A GRIMACE THAT DISTORTED HIS HANDSOME FACE, KISSED ANNA +PáVLOVNA’S HAND, AND SCREWING UP HIS EYES SCANNED THE WHOLE COMPANY. + +“YOU ARE OFF TO THE WAR, PRINCE?” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA. + +“GENERAL KUTúZOV,” SAID BOLKóNSKI, SPEAKING FRENCH AND STRESSING +THE LAST SYLLABLE OF THE GENERAL’S NAME LIKE A FRENCHMAN, “HAS BEEN +PLEASED TO TAKE ME AS AN AIDE-DE-CAMP....” + +“AND LISE, YOUR WIFE?” + +“SHE WILL GO TO THE COUNTRY.” + +“ARE YOU NOT ASHAMED TO DEPRIVE US OF YOUR CHARMING WIFE?” + +“ANDRé,” SAID HIS WIFE, ADDRESSING HER HUSBAND IN THE SAME +COQUETTISH MANNER IN WHICH SHE SPOKE TO OTHER MEN, “THE VICOMTE HAS +BEEN TELLING US SUCH A TALE ABOUT MADEMOISELLE GEORGE AND BUONAPARTE!” + +PRINCE ANDREW SCREWED UP HIS EYES AND TURNED AWAY. PIERRE, WHO FROM +THE MOMENT PRINCE ANDREW ENTERED THE ROOM HAD WATCHED HIM WITH GLAD, +AFFECTIONATE EYES, NOW CAME UP AND TOOK HIS ARM. BEFORE HE LOOKED ROUND +PRINCE ANDREW FROWNED AGAIN, EXPRESSING HIS ANNOYANCE WITH WHOEVER WAS +TOUCHING HIS ARM, BUT WHEN HE SAW PIERRE’S BEAMING FACE HE GAVE HIM AN +UNEXPECTEDLY KIND AND PLEASANT SMILE. + +“THERE NOW!... SO YOU, TOO, ARE IN THE GREAT WORLD?” SAID HE TO +PIERRE. + +“I KNEW YOU WOULD BE HERE,” REPLIED PIERRE. “I WILL COME TO SUPPER +WITH YOU. MAY I?” HE ADDED IN A LOW VOICE SO AS NOT TO DISTURB THE +VICOMTE WHO WAS CONTINUING HIS STORY. + +“NO, IMPOSSIBLE!” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, LAUGHING AND PRESSING +PIERRE’S HAND TO SHOW THAT THERE WAS NO NEED TO ASK THE QUESTION. HE +WISHED TO SAY SOMETHING MORE, BUT AT THAT MOMENT PRINCE VASíLI AND HIS +DAUGHTER GOT UP TO GO AND THE TWO YOUNG MEN ROSE TO LET THEM PASS. + +“YOU MUST EXCUSE ME, DEAR VICOMTE,” SAID PRINCE VASíLI TO THE +FRENCHMAN, HOLDING HIM DOWN BY THE SLEEVE IN A FRIENDLY WAY TO PREVENT +HIS RISING. “THIS UNFORTUNATE FETE AT THE AMBASSADOR’S DEPRIVES ME +OF A PLEASURE, AND OBLIGES ME TO INTERRUPT YOU. I AM VERY SORRY TO LEAVE +YOUR ENCHANTING PARTY,” SAID HE, TURNING TO ANNA PáVLOVNA. + +HIS DAUGHTER, PRINCESS HéLèNE, PASSED BETWEEN THE CHAIRS, LIGHTLY +HOLDING UP THE FOLDS OF HER DRESS, AND THE SMILE SHONE STILL MORE +RADIANTLY ON HER BEAUTIFUL FACE. PIERRE GAZED AT HER WITH RAPTUROUS, +ALMOST FRIGHTENED, EYES AS SHE PASSED HIM. + +“VERY LOVELY,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. + +“VERY,” SAID PIERRE. + +IN PASSING PRINCE VASíLI SEIZED PIERRE’S HAND AND SAID TO ANNA +PáVLOVNA: “EDUCATE THIS BEAR FOR ME! HE HAS BEEN STAYING WITH ME +A WHOLE MONTH AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE SEEN HIM IN SOCIETY. +NOTHING IS SO NECESSARY FOR A YOUNG MAN AS THE SOCIETY OF CLEVER +WOMEN.” + + +ANNA PáVLOVNA SMILED AND PROMISED TO TAKE PIERRE IN HAND. SHE KNEW HIS +FATHER TO BE A CONNECTION OF PRINCE VASíLI’S. THE ELDERLY LADY WHO +HAD BEEN SITTING WITH THE OLD AUNT ROSE HURRIEDLY AND OVERTOOK PRINCE +VASíLI IN THE ANTEROOM. ALL THE AFFECTATION OF INTEREST SHE HAD ASSUMED +HAD LEFT HER KINDLY AND TEAR-WORN FACE AND IT NOW EXPRESSED ONLY ANXIETY +AND FEAR. + +“HOW ABOUT MY SON BORíS, PRINCE?” SAID SHE, HURRYING AFTER HIM INTO +THE ANTEROOM. “I CAN’T REMAIN ANY LONGER IN PETERSBURG. TELL ME WHAT +NEWS I MAY TAKE BACK TO MY POOR BOY.” + +ALTHOUGH PRINCE VASíLI LISTENED RELUCTANTLY AND NOT VERY POLITELY +TO THE ELDERLY LADY, EVEN BETRAYING SOME IMPATIENCE, SHE GAVE HIM AN +INGRATIATING AND APPEALING SMILE, AND TOOK HIS HAND THAT HE MIGHT NOT GO +AWAY. + +“WHAT WOULD IT COST YOU TO SAY A WORD TO THE EMPEROR, AND THEN HE +WOULD BE TRANSFERRED TO THE GUARDS AT ONCE?” SAID SHE. + +“BELIEVE ME, PRINCESS, I AM READY TO DO ALL I CAN,” ANSWERED PRINCE +VASíLI, “BUT IT IS DIFFICULT FOR ME TO ASK THE EMPEROR. I SHOULD +ADVISE YOU TO APPEAL TO RUMYáNTSEV THROUGH PRINCE GOLíTSYN. THAT WOULD +BE THE BEST WAY.” + +THE ELDERLY LADY WAS A PRINCESS DRUBETSKáYA, BELONGING TO ONE OF THE +BEST FAMILIES IN RUSSIA, BUT SHE WAS POOR, AND HAVING LONG BEEN OUT OF +SOCIETY HAD LOST HER FORMER INFLUENTIAL CONNECTIONS. SHE HAD NOW COME TO +PETERSBURG TO PROCURE AN APPOINTMENT IN THE GUARDS FOR HER ONLY SON. +IT WAS, IN FACT, SOLELY TO MEET PRINCE VASíLI THAT SHE HAD OBTAINED AN +INVITATION TO ANNA PáVLOVNA’S RECEPTION AND HAD SAT LISTENING TO +THE VICOMTE’S STORY. PRINCE VASíLI’S WORDS FRIGHTENED HER, AN +EMBITTERED LOOK CLOUDED HER ONCE HANDSOME FACE, BUT ONLY FOR A MOMENT; +THEN SHE SMILED AGAIN AND CLUTCHED PRINCE VASíLI’S ARM MORE TIGHTLY. + +“LISTEN TO ME, PRINCE,” SAID SHE. “I HAVE NEVER YET ASKED YOU +FOR ANYTHING AND I NEVER WILL AGAIN, NOR HAVE I EVER REMINDED YOU OF MY +FATHER’S FRIENDSHIP FOR YOU; BUT NOW I ENTREAT YOU FOR GOD’S SAKE TO +DO THIS FOR MY SON—AND I SHALL ALWAYS REGARD YOU AS A BENEFACTOR,” +SHE ADDED HURRIEDLY. “NO, DON’T BE ANGRY, BUT PROMISE! I HAVE ASKED +GOLíTSYN AND HE HAS REFUSED. BE THE KINDHEARTED MAN YOU ALWAYS WERE,” +SHE SAID, TRYING TO SMILE THOUGH TEARS WERE IN HER EYES. + +“PAPA, WE SHALL BE LATE,” SAID PRINCESS HéLèNE, TURNING HER +BEAUTIFUL HEAD AND LOOKING OVER HER CLASSICALLY MOLDED SHOULDER AS SHE +STOOD WAITING BY THE DOOR. + +INFLUENCE IN SOCIETY, HOWEVER, IS A CAPITAL WHICH HAS TO BE ECONOMIZED +IF IT IS TO LAST. PRINCE VASíLI KNEW THIS, AND HAVING ONCE REALIZED +THAT IF HE ASKED ON BEHALF OF ALL WHO BEGGED OF HIM, HE WOULD SOON BE +UNABLE TO ASK FOR HIMSELF, HE BECAME CHARY OF USING HIS INFLUENCE. BUT +IN PRINCESS DRUBETSKáYA’S CASE HE FELT, AFTER HER SECOND APPEAL, +SOMETHING LIKE QUALMS OF CONSCIENCE. SHE HAD REMINDED HIM OF WHAT WAS +QUITE TRUE; HE HAD BEEN INDEBTED TO HER FATHER FOR THE FIRST STEPS IN +HIS CAREER. MOREOVER, HE COULD SEE BY HER MANNERS THAT SHE WAS ONE OF +THOSE WOMEN—MOSTLY MOTHERS—WHO, HAVING ONCE MADE UP THEIR MINDS, +WILL NOT REST UNTIL THEY HAVE GAINED THEIR END, AND ARE PREPARED IF +NECESSARY TO GO ON INSISTING DAY AFTER DAY AND HOUR AFTER HOUR, AND EVEN +TO MAKE SCENES. THIS LAST CONSIDERATION MOVED HIM. + +“MY DEAR ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA,” SAID HE WITH HIS USUAL FAMILIARITY AND +WEARINESS OF TONE, “IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO DO WHAT YOU +ASK; BUT TO PROVE MY DEVOTION TO YOU AND HOW I RESPECT YOUR FATHER’S +MEMORY, I WILL DO THE IMPOSSIBLE—YOUR SON SHALL BE TRANSFERRED TO THE +GUARDS. HERE IS MY HAND ON IT. ARE YOU SATISFIED?” + +“MY DEAR BENEFACTOR! THIS IS WHAT I EXPECTED FROM YOU—I KNEW YOUR +KINDNESS!” HE TURNED TO GO. + +“WAIT—JUST A WORD! WHEN HE HAS BEEN TRANSFERRED TO THE GUARDS...” +SHE FALTERED. “YOU ARE ON GOOD TERMS WITH MICHAEL ILARIóNOVICH +KUTúZOV ... RECOMMEND BORíS TO HIM AS ADJUTANT! THEN I SHALL BE AT +REST, AND THEN...” + +PRINCE VASíLI SMILED. + +“NO, I WON’T PROMISE THAT. YOU DON’T KNOW HOW KUTúZOV IS PESTERED +SINCE HIS APPOINTMENT AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF. HE TOLD ME HIMSELF THAT +ALL THE MOSCOW LADIES HAVE CONSPIRED TO GIVE HIM ALL THEIR SONS AS +ADJUTANTS.” + +“NO, BUT DO PROMISE! I WON’T LET YOU GO! MY DEAR BENEFACTOR...” + +“PAPA,” SAID HIS BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER IN THE SAME TONE AS BEFORE, +“WE SHALL BE LATE.” + +“WELL, AU REVOIR! GOOD-BY! YOU HEAR HER?” + +“THEN TOMORROW YOU WILL SPEAK TO THE EMPEROR?” + +“CERTAINLY; BUT ABOUT KUTúZOV, I DON’T PROMISE.” + +“DO PROMISE, DO PROMISE, VASíLI!” CRIED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA AS HE +WENT, WITH THE SMILE OF A COQUETTISH GIRL, WHICH AT ONE TIME PROBABLY +CAME NATURALLY TO HER, BUT WAS NOW VERY ILL-SUITED TO HER CAREWORN FACE. + +APPARENTLY SHE HAD FORGOTTEN HER AGE AND BY FORCE OF HABIT EMPLOYED +ALL THE OLD FEMININE ARTS. BUT AS SOON AS THE PRINCE HAD GONE HER FACE +RESUMED ITS FORMER COLD, ARTIFICIAL EXPRESSION. SHE RETURNED TO THE +GROUP WHERE THE VICOMTE WAS STILL TALKING, AND AGAIN PRETENDED TO +LISTEN, WHILE WAITING TILL IT WOULD BE TIME TO LEAVE. HER TASK WAS +ACCOMPLISHED. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +“AND WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS LATEST COMEDY, THE CORONATION AT +MILAN?” ASKED ANNA PáVLOVNA, “AND OF THE COMEDY OF THE PEOPLE OF +GENOA AND LUCCA LAYING THEIR PETITIONS BEFORE MONSIEUR BUONAPARTE, AND +MONSIEUR BUONAPARTE SITTING ON A THRONE AND GRANTING THE PETITIONS OF +THE NATIONS? ADORABLE! IT IS ENOUGH TO MAKE ONE’S HEAD WHIRL! IT IS AS +IF THE WHOLE WORLD HAD GONE CRAZY.” + +PRINCE ANDREW LOOKED ANNA PáVLOVNA STRAIGHT IN THE FACE WITH A +SARCASTIC SMILE. + +“‘DIEU ME LA DONNE, GARE à QUI LA TOUCHE!’’ * THEY SAY HE WAS +VERY FINE WHEN HE SAID THAT,” HE REMARKED, REPEATING THE WORDS IN +ITALIAN: “‘DIO MI L’HA DATO. GUAI A CHI LA TOCCHI!’’ + + * GOD HAS GIVEN IT TO ME, LET HIM WHO TOUCHES IT BEWARE! + +“I HOPE THIS WILL PROVE THE LAST DROP THAT WILL MAKE THE GLASS RUN +OVER,” ANNA PáVLOVNA CONTINUED. “THE SOVEREIGNS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO +ENDURE THIS MAN WHO IS A MENACE TO EVERYTHING.” + +“THE SOVEREIGNS? I DO NOT SPEAK OF RUSSIA,” SAID THE VICOMTE, POLITE +BUT HOPELESS: “THE SOVEREIGNS, MADAME... WHAT HAVE THEY DONE FOR LOUIS +XVII, FOR THE QUEEN, OR FOR MADAME ELIZABETH? NOTHING!” AND HE BECAME +MORE ANIMATED. “AND BELIEVE ME, THEY ARE REAPING THE REWARD OF THEIR +BETRAYAL OF THE BOURBON CAUSE. THE SOVEREIGNS! WHY, THEY ARE SENDING +AMBASSADORS TO COMPLIMENT THE USURPER.” + +AND SIGHING DISDAINFULLY, HE AGAIN CHANGED HIS POSITION. + +PRINCE HIPPOLYTE, WHO HAD BEEN GAZING AT THE VICOMTE FOR SOME TIME +THROUGH HIS LORGNETTE, SUDDENLY TURNED COMPLETELY ROUND TOWARD THE +LITTLE PRINCESS, AND HAVING ASKED FOR A NEEDLE BEGAN TRACING THE CONDé +COAT OF ARMS ON THE TABLE. HE EXPLAINED THIS TO HER WITH AS MUCH GRAVITY +AS IF SHE HAD ASKED HIM TO DO IT. + +“BâTON DE GUEULES, ENGRêLé DE GUEULES D’AZUR—MAISON CONDé,” +SAID HE. + +THE PRINCESS LISTENED, SMILING. + +“IF BUONAPARTE REMAINS ON THE THRONE OF FRANCE A YEAR LONGER,” THE +VICOMTE CONTINUED, WITH THE AIR OF A MAN WHO, IN A MATTER WITH WHICH +HE IS BETTER ACQUAINTED THAN ANYONE ELSE, DOES NOT LISTEN TO OTHERS BUT +FOLLOWS THE CURRENT OF HIS OWN THOUGHTS, “THINGS WILL HAVE GONE TOO +FAR. BY INTRIGUES, VIOLENCE, EXILE, AND EXECUTIONS, FRENCH SOCIETY—I +MEAN GOOD FRENCH SOCIETY—WILL HAVE BEEN FOREVER DESTROYED, AND +THEN....” + +HE SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS AND SPREAD OUT HIS HANDS. PIERRE WISHED TO +MAKE A REMARK, FOR THE CONVERSATION INTERESTED HIM, BUT ANNA PáVLOVNA, +WHO HAD HIM UNDER OBSERVATION, INTERRUPTED: + +“THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER,” SAID SHE, WITH THE MELANCHOLY WHICH +ALWAYS ACCOMPANIED ANY REFERENCE OF HERS TO THE IMPERIAL FAMILY, “HAS +DECLARED THAT HE WILL LEAVE IT TO THE FRENCH PEOPLE THEMSELVES TO CHOOSE +THEIR OWN FORM OF GOVERNMENT; AND I BELIEVE THAT ONCE FREE FROM THE +USURPER, THE WHOLE NATION WILL CERTAINLY THROW ITSELF INTO THE ARMS +OF ITS RIGHTFUL KING,” SHE CONCLUDED, TRYING TO BE AMIABLE TO THE +ROYALIST EMIGRANT. + +“THAT IS DOUBTFUL,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. “MONSIEUR LE VICOMTE QUITE +RIGHTLY SUPPOSES THAT MATTERS HAVE ALREADY GONE TOO FAR. I THINK IT WILL +BE DIFFICULT TO RETURN TO THE OLD REGIME.” + +“FROM WHAT I HAVE HEARD,” SAID PIERRE, BLUSHING AND BREAKING INTO +THE CONVERSATION, “ALMOST ALL THE ARISTOCRACY HAS ALREADY GONE OVER TO +BONAPARTE’S SIDE.” + +“IT IS THE BUONAPARTISTS WHO SAY THAT,” REPLIED THE VICOMTE WITHOUT +LOOKING AT PIERRE. “AT THE PRESENT TIME IT IS DIFFICULT TO KNOW THE +REAL STATE OF FRENCH PUBLIC OPINION.” + +“BONAPARTE HAS SAID SO,” REMARKED PRINCE ANDREW WITH A SARCASTIC +SMILE. + +IT WAS EVIDENT THAT HE DID NOT LIKE THE VICOMTE AND WAS AIMING HIS +REMARKS AT HIM, THOUGH WITHOUT LOOKING AT HIM. + +“‘I SHOWED THEM THE PATH TO GLORY, BUT THEY DID NOT FOLLOW +IT,’” PRINCE ANDREW CONTINUED AFTER A SHORT SILENCE, AGAIN QUOTING +NAPOLEON’S WORDS. “‘I OPENED MY ANTECHAMBERS AND THEY CROWDED +IN.’ I DO NOT KNOW HOW FAR HE WAS JUSTIFIED IN SAYING SO.” + +“NOT IN THE LEAST,” REPLIED THE VICOMTE. “AFTER THE MURDER OF THE +DUC EVEN THE MOST PARTIAL CEASED TO REGARD HIM AS A HERO. IF TO SOME +PEOPLE,” HE WENT ON, TURNING TO ANNA PáVLOVNA, “HE EVER WAS A HERO, +AFTER THE MURDER OF THE DUC THERE WAS ONE MARTYR MORE IN HEAVEN AND ONE +HERO LESS ON EARTH.” + +BEFORE ANNA PáVLOVNA AND THE OTHERS HAD TIME TO SMILE THEIR +APPRECIATION OF THE VICOMTE’S EPIGRAM, PIERRE AGAIN BROKE INTO THE +CONVERSATION, AND THOUGH ANNA PáVLOVNA FELT SURE HE WOULD SAY SOMETHING +INAPPROPRIATE, SHE WAS UNABLE TO STOP HIM. + +“THE EXECUTION OF THE DUC D’ENGHIEN,” DECLARED MONSIEUR PIERRE, +“WAS A POLITICAL NECESSITY, AND IT SEEMS TO ME THAT NAPOLEON +SHOWED GREATNESS OF SOUL BY NOT FEARING TO TAKE ON HIMSELF THE WHOLE +RESPONSIBILITY OF THAT DEED.” + +“DIEU! MON DIEU!” MUTTERED ANNA PáVLOVNA IN A TERRIFIED WHISPER. + +“WHAT, MONSIEUR PIERRE... DO YOU CONSIDER THAT ASSASSINATION SHOWS +GREATNESS OF SOUL?” SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS, SMILING AND DRAWING HER +WORK NEARER TO HER. + +“OH! OH!” EXCLAIMED SEVERAL VOICES. + +“CAPITAL!” SAID PRINCE HIPPOLYTE IN ENGLISH, AND BEGAN SLAPPING HIS +KNEE WITH THE PALM OF HIS HAND. + +THE VICOMTE MERELY SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS. PIERRE LOOKED SOLEMNLY AT HIS +AUDIENCE OVER HIS SPECTACLES AND CONTINUED. + +“I SAY SO,” HE CONTINUED DESPERATELY, “BECAUSE THE BOURBONS FLED +FROM THE REVOLUTION LEAVING THE PEOPLE TO ANARCHY, AND NAPOLEON ALONE +UNDERSTOOD THE REVOLUTION AND QUELLED IT, AND SO FOR THE GENERAL GOOD, +HE COULD NOT STOP SHORT FOR THE SAKE OF ONE MAN’S LIFE.” + +“WON’T YOU COME OVER TO THE OTHER TABLE?” SUGGESTED ANNA +PáVLOVNA. + +BUT PIERRE CONTINUED HIS SPEECH WITHOUT HEEDING HER. + +“NO,” CRIED HE, BECOMING MORE AND MORE EAGER, “NAPOLEON IS GREAT +BECAUSE HE ROSE SUPERIOR TO THE REVOLUTION, SUPPRESSED ITS ABUSES, +PRESERVED ALL THAT WAS GOOD IN IT—EQUALITY OF CITIZENSHIP AND FREEDOM +OF SPEECH AND OF THE PRESS—AND ONLY FOR THAT REASON DID HE OBTAIN +POWER.” + +“YES, IF HAVING OBTAINED POWER, WITHOUT AVAILING HIMSELF OF IT TO +COMMIT MURDER HE HAD RESTORED IT TO THE RIGHTFUL KING, I SHOULD HAVE +CALLED HIM A GREAT MAN,” REMARKED THE VICOMTE. + +“HE COULD NOT DO THAT. THE PEOPLE ONLY GAVE HIM POWER THAT HE MIGHT +RID THEM OF THE BOURBONS AND BECAUSE THEY SAW THAT HE WAS A GREAT +MAN. THE REVOLUTION WAS A GRAND THING!” CONTINUED MONSIEUR PIERRE, +BETRAYING BY THIS DESPERATE AND PROVOCATIVE PROPOSITION HIS EXTREME +YOUTH AND HIS WISH TO EXPRESS ALL THAT WAS IN HIS MIND. + +“WHAT? REVOLUTION AND REGICIDE A GRAND THING?... WELL, AFTER THAT... +BUT WON’T YOU COME TO THIS OTHER TABLE?” REPEATED ANNA PáVLOVNA. + +“ROUSSEAU’S CONTRAT SOCIAL,” SAID THE VICOMTE WITH A TOLERANT +SMILE. + +“I AM NOT SPEAKING OF REGICIDE, I AM SPEAKING ABOUT IDEAS.” + +“YES: IDEAS OF ROBBERY, MURDER, AND REGICIDE,” AGAIN INTERJECTED AN +IRONICAL VOICE. + +“THOSE WERE EXTREMES, NO DOUBT, BUT THEY ARE NOT WHAT IS MOST +IMPORTANT. WHAT IS IMPORTANT ARE THE RIGHTS OF MAN, EMANCIPATION FROM +PREJUDICES, AND EQUALITY OF CITIZENSHIP, AND ALL THESE IDEAS NAPOLEON +HAS RETAINED IN FULL FORCE.” + +“LIBERTY AND EQUALITY,” SAID THE VICOMTE CONTEMPTUOUSLY, AS IF AT +LAST DECIDING SERIOUSLY TO PROVE TO THIS YOUTH HOW FOOLISH HIS WORDS +WERE, “HIGH-SOUNDING WORDS WHICH HAVE LONG BEEN DISCREDITED. WHO DOES +NOT LOVE LIBERTY AND EQUALITY? EVEN OUR SAVIOUR PREACHED LIBERTY AND +EQUALITY. HAVE PEOPLE SINCE THE REVOLUTION BECOME HAPPIER? ON THE +CONTRARY. WE WANTED LIBERTY, BUT BUONAPARTE HAS DESTROYED IT.” + +PRINCE ANDREW KEPT LOOKING WITH AN AMUSED SMILE FROM PIERRE TO THE +VICOMTE AND FROM THE VICOMTE TO THEIR HOSTESS. IN THE FIRST MOMENT OF +PIERRE’S OUTBURST ANNA PáVLOVNA, DESPITE HER SOCIAL EXPERIENCE, WAS +HORROR-STRUCK. BUT WHEN SHE SAW THAT PIERRE’S SACRILEGIOUS WORDS +HAD NOT EXASPERATED THE VICOMTE, AND HAD CONVINCED HERSELF THAT IT WAS +IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP HIM, SHE RALLIED HER FORCES AND JOINED THE VICOMTE IN +A VIGOROUS ATTACK ON THE ORATOR. + +“BUT, MY DEAR MONSIEUR PIERRE,” SAID SHE, “HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THE +FACT OF A GREAT MAN EXECUTING A DUC—OR EVEN AN ORDINARY MAN WHO—IS +INNOCENT AND UNTRIED?” + +“I SHOULD LIKE,” SAID THE VICOMTE, “TO ASK HOW MONSIEUR EXPLAINS +THE 18TH BRUMAIRE; WAS NOT THAT AN IMPOSTURE? IT WAS A SWINDLE, AND NOT +AT ALL LIKE THE CONDUCT OF A GREAT MAN!” + +“AND THE PRISONERS HE KILLED IN AFRICA? THAT WAS HORRIBLE!” SAID THE +LITTLE PRINCESS, SHRUGGING HER SHOULDERS. + +“HE’S A LOW FELLOW, SAY WHAT YOU WILL,” REMARKED PRINCE HIPPOLYTE. + +PIERRE, NOT KNOWING WHOM TO ANSWER, LOOKED AT THEM ALL AND SMILED. HIS +SMILE WAS UNLIKE THE HALF-SMILE OF OTHER PEOPLE. WHEN HE SMILED, +HIS GRAVE, EVEN RATHER GLOOMY, LOOK WAS INSTANTANEOUSLY REPLACED BY +ANOTHER—A CHILDLIKE, KINDLY, EVEN RATHER SILLY LOOK, WHICH SEEMED TO +ASK FORGIVENESS. + +THE VICOMTE WHO WAS MEETING HIM FOR THE FIRST TIME SAW CLEARLY THAT +THIS YOUNG JACOBIN WAS NOT SO TERRIBLE AS HIS WORDS SUGGESTED. ALL WERE +SILENT. + +“HOW DO YOU EXPECT HIM TO ANSWER YOU ALL AT ONCE?” SAID PRINCE +ANDREW. “BESIDES, IN THE ACTIONS OF A STATESMAN ONE HAS TO DISTINGUISH +BETWEEN HIS ACTS AS A PRIVATE PERSON, AS A GENERAL, AND AS AN EMPEROR. +SO IT SEEMS TO ME.” + +“YES, YES, OF COURSE!” PIERRE CHIMED IN, PLEASED AT THE ARRIVAL OF +THIS REINFORCEMENT. + +“ONE MUST ADMIT,” CONTINUED PRINCE ANDREW, “THAT NAPOLEON AS A MAN +WAS GREAT ON THE BRIDGE OF ARCOLA, AND IN THE HOSPITAL AT JAFFA WHERE HE +GAVE HIS HAND TO THE PLAGUE-STRICKEN; BUT ... BUT THERE ARE OTHER ACTS +WHICH IT IS DIFFICULT TO JUSTIFY.” + +PRINCE ANDREW, WHO HAD EVIDENTLY WISHED TO TONE DOWN THE AWKWARDNESS OF +PIERRE’S REMARKS, ROSE AND MADE A SIGN TO HIS WIFE THAT IT WAS TIME TO +GO. + +SUDDENLY PRINCE HIPPOLYTE STARTED UP MAKING SIGNS TO EVERYONE TO ATTEND, +AND ASKING THEM ALL TO BE SEATED BEGAN: + +“I WAS TOLD A CHARMING MOSCOW STORY TODAY AND MUST TREAT YOU TO IT. +EXCUSE ME, VICOMTE—I MUST TELL IT IN RUSSIAN OR THE POINT WILL BE +LOST....” AND PRINCE HIPPOLYTE BEGAN TO TELL HIS STORY IN SUCH RUSSIAN +AS A FRENCHMAN WOULD SPEAK AFTER SPENDING ABOUT A YEAR IN RUSSIA. +EVERYONE WAITED, SO EMPHATICALLY AND EAGERLY DID HE DEMAND THEIR +ATTENTION TO HIS STORY. + +“THERE IS IN MOSCOW A LADY, UNE DAME, AND SHE IS VERY STINGY. SHE MUST +HAVE TWO FOOTMEN BEHIND HER CARRIAGE, AND VERY BIG ONES. THAT WAS HER +TASTE. AND SHE HAD A LADY’S MAID, ALSO BIG. SHE SAID....” + +HERE PRINCE HIPPOLYTE PAUSED, EVIDENTLY COLLECTING HIS IDEAS WITH +DIFFICULTY. + +“SHE SAID.... OH YES! SHE SAID, ‘GIRL,’ TO THE MAID, ‘PUT ON A +LIVERY, GET UP BEHIND THE CARRIAGE, AND COME WITH ME WHILE I MAKE SOME +CALLS.’” + +HERE PRINCE HIPPOLYTE SPLUTTERED AND BURST OUT LAUGHING LONG BEFORE HIS +AUDIENCE, WHICH PRODUCED AN EFFECT UNFAVORABLE TO THE NARRATOR. SEVERAL +PERSONS, AMONG THEM THE ELDERLY LADY AND ANNA PáVLOVNA, DID HOWEVER +SMILE. + +“SHE WENT. SUDDENLY THERE WAS A GREAT WIND. THE GIRL LOST HER HAT AND +HER LONG HAIR CAME DOWN....” HERE HE COULD CONTAIN HIMSELF NO +LONGER AND WENT ON, BETWEEN GASPS OF LAUGHTER: “AND THE WHOLE WORLD +KNEW....” + +AND SO THE ANECDOTE ENDED. THOUGH IT WAS UNINTELLIGIBLE WHY HE HAD TOLD +IT, OR WHY IT HAD TO BE TOLD IN RUSSIAN, STILL ANNA PáVLOVNA AND THE +OTHERS APPRECIATED PRINCE HIPPOLYTE’S SOCIAL TACT IN SO AGREEABLY +ENDING PIERRE’S UNPLEASANT AND UNAMIABLE OUTBURST. AFTER THE ANECDOTE +THE CONVERSATION BROKE UP INTO INSIGNIFICANT SMALL TALK ABOUT THE LAST +AND NEXT BALLS, ABOUT THEATRICALS, AND WHO WOULD MEET WHOM, AND WHEN AND +WHERE. + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +HAVING THANKED ANNA PáVLOVNA FOR HER CHARMING SOIREE, THE GUESTS BEGAN +TO TAKE THEIR LEAVE. + +PIERRE WAS UNGAINLY. STOUT, ABOUT THE AVERAGE HEIGHT, BROAD, WITH HUGE +RED HANDS; HE DID NOT KNOW, AS THE SAYING IS, HOW TO ENTER A DRAWING +ROOM AND STILL LESS HOW TO LEAVE ONE; THAT IS, HOW TO SAY SOMETHING +PARTICULARLY AGREEABLE BEFORE GOING AWAY. BESIDES THIS HE WAS +ABSENT-MINDED. WHEN HE ROSE TO GO, HE TOOK UP INSTEAD OF HIS OWN, THE +GENERAL’S THREE-CORNERED HAT, AND HELD IT, PULLING AT THE PLUME, +TILL THE GENERAL ASKED HIM TO RESTORE IT. ALL HIS ABSENT-MINDEDNESS AND +INABILITY TO ENTER A ROOM AND CONVERSE IN IT WAS, HOWEVER, REDEEMED BY +HIS KINDLY, SIMPLE, AND MODEST EXPRESSION. ANNA PáVLOVNA TURNED TOWARD +HIM AND, WITH A CHRISTIAN MILDNESS THAT EXPRESSED FORGIVENESS OF HIS +INDISCRETION, NODDED AND SAID: “I HOPE TO SEE YOU AGAIN, BUT I ALSO +HOPE YOU WILL CHANGE YOUR OPINIONS, MY DEAR MONSIEUR PIERRE.” + +WHEN SHE SAID THIS, HE DID NOT REPLY AND ONLY BOWED, BUT AGAIN EVERYBODY +SAW HIS SMILE, WHICH SAID NOTHING, UNLESS PERHAPS, “OPINIONS ARE +OPINIONS, BUT YOU SEE WHAT A CAPITAL, GOOD-NATURED FELLOW I AM.” AND +EVERYONE, INCLUDING ANNA PáVLOVNA, FELT THIS. + +PRINCE ANDREW HAD GONE OUT INTO THE HALL, AND, TURNING HIS SHOULDERS +TO THE FOOTMAN WHO WAS HELPING HIM ON WITH HIS CLOAK, LISTENED +INDIFFERENTLY TO HIS WIFE’S CHATTER WITH PRINCE HIPPOLYTE WHO HAD ALSO +COME INTO THE HALL. PRINCE HIPPOLYTE STOOD CLOSE TO THE PRETTY, PREGNANT +PRINCESS, AND STARED FIXEDLY AT HER THROUGH HIS EYEGLASS. + +“GO IN, ANNETTE, OR YOU WILL CATCH COLD,” SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS, +TAKING LEAVE OF ANNA PáVLOVNA. “IT IS SETTLED,” SHE ADDED IN A LOW +VOICE. + +ANNA PáVLOVNA HAD ALREADY MANAGED TO SPEAK TO LISE ABOUT THE MATCH SHE +CONTEMPLATED BETWEEN ANATOLE AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS’ SISTER-IN-LAW. + +“I RELY ON YOU, MY DEAR,” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA, ALSO IN A LOW TONE. +“WRITE TO HER AND LET ME KNOW HOW HER FATHER LOOKS AT THE MATTER. AU +REVOIR! ”—AND SHE LEFT THE HALL. + +PRINCE HIPPOLYTE APPROACHED THE LITTLE PRINCESS AND, BENDING HIS FACE +CLOSE TO HER, BEGAN TO WHISPER SOMETHING. + +TWO FOOTMEN, THE PRINCESS’ AND HIS OWN, STOOD HOLDING A SHAWL AND +A CLOAK, WAITING FOR THE CONVERSATION TO FINISH. THEY LISTENED TO +THE FRENCH SENTENCES WHICH TO THEM WERE MEANINGLESS, WITH AN AIR OF +UNDERSTANDING BUT NOT WISHING TO APPEAR TO DO SO. THE PRINCESS AS USUAL +SPOKE SMILINGLY AND LISTENED WITH A LAUGH. + +“I AM VERY GLAD I DID NOT GO TO THE AMBASSADOR’S,” SAID PRINCE +HIPPOLYTE “—SO DULL—. IT HAS BEEN A DELIGHTFUL EVENING, HAS IT +NOT? DELIGHTFUL!” + +“THEY SAY THE BALL WILL BE VERY GOOD,” REPLIED THE PRINCESS, DRAWING +UP HER DOWNY LITTLE LIP. “ALL THE PRETTY WOMEN IN SOCIETY WILL BE +THERE.” + +“NOT ALL, FOR YOU WILL NOT BE THERE; NOT ALL,” SAID PRINCE HIPPOLYTE +SMILING JOYFULLY; AND SNATCHING THE SHAWL FROM THE FOOTMAN, WHOM HE +EVEN PUSHED ASIDE, HE BEGAN WRAPPING IT ROUND THE PRINCESS. EITHER FROM +AWKWARDNESS OR INTENTIONALLY (NO ONE COULD HAVE SAID WHICH) AFTER THE +SHAWL HAD BEEN ADJUSTED HE KEPT HIS ARM AROUND HER FOR A LONG TIME, AS +THOUGH EMBRACING HER. + +STILL SMILING, SHE GRACEFULLY MOVED AWAY, TURNING AND GLANCING AT HER +HUSBAND. PRINCE ANDREW’S EYES WERE CLOSED, SO WEARY AND SLEEPY DID HE +SEEM. + +“ARE YOU READY?” HE ASKED HIS WIFE, LOOKING PAST HER. + +PRINCE HIPPOLYTE HURRIEDLY PUT ON HIS CLOAK, WHICH IN THE LATEST FASHION +REACHED TO HIS VERY HEELS, AND, STUMBLING IN IT, RAN OUT INTO THE PORCH +FOLLOWING THE PRINCESS, WHOM A FOOTMAN WAS HELPING INTO THE CARRIAGE. + +“PRINCESSE, AU REVOIR,” CRIED HE, STUMBLING WITH HIS TONGUE AS WELL +AS WITH HIS FEET. + +THE PRINCESS, PICKING UP HER DRESS, WAS TAKING HER SEAT IN THE DARK +CARRIAGE, HER HUSBAND WAS ADJUSTING HIS SABER; PRINCE HIPPOLYTE, UNDER +PRETENSE OF HELPING, WAS IN EVERYONE’S WAY. + +“ALLOW ME, SIR,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW IN RUSSIAN IN A COLD, +DISAGREEABLE TONE TO PRINCE HIPPOLYTE WHO WAS BLOCKING HIS PATH. + +“I AM EXPECTING YOU, PIERRE,” SAID THE SAME VOICE, BUT GENTLY AND +AFFECTIONATELY. + +THE POSTILION STARTED, THE CARRIAGE WHEELS RATTLED. PRINCE HIPPOLYTE +LAUGHED SPASMODICALLY AS HE STOOD IN THE PORCH WAITING FOR THE VICOMTE +WHOM HE HAD PROMISED TO TAKE HOME. + +“WELL, MON CHER,” SAID THE VICOMTE, HAVING SEATED HIMSELF BESIDE +HIPPOLYTE IN THE CARRIAGE, “YOUR LITTLE PRINCESS IS VERY NICE, VERY +NICE INDEED, QUITE FRENCH,” AND HE KISSED THE TIPS OF HIS FINGERS. +HIPPOLYTE BURST OUT LAUGHING. + +“DO YOU KNOW, YOU ARE A TERRIBLE CHAP FOR ALL YOUR INNOCENT AIRS,” +CONTINUED THE VICOMTE. “I PITY THE POOR HUSBAND, THAT LITTLE OFFICER +WHO GIVES HIMSELF THE AIRS OF A MONARCH.” + +HIPPOLYTE SPLUTTERED AGAIN, AND AMID HIS LAUGHTER SAID, “AND YOU WERE +SAYING THAT THE RUSSIAN LADIES ARE NOT EQUAL TO THE FRENCH? ONE HAS TO +KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM.” + +PIERRE REACHING THE HOUSE FIRST WENT INTO PRINCE ANDREW’S STUDY LIKE +ONE QUITE AT HOME, AND FROM HABIT IMMEDIATELY LAY DOWN ON THE SOFA, TOOK +FROM THE SHELF THE FIRST BOOK THAT CAME TO HIS HAND (IT WAS CAESAR’S +COMMENTARIES), AND RESTING ON HIS ELBOW, BEGAN READING IT IN THE MIDDLE. + +“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MLLE SCHéRER? SHE WILL BE QUITE ILL NOW,” +SAID PRINCE ANDREW, AS HE ENTERED THE STUDY, RUBBING HIS SMALL WHITE +HANDS. + +PIERRE TURNED HIS WHOLE BODY, MAKING THE SOFA CREAK. HE LIFTED HIS EAGER +FACE TO PRINCE ANDREW, SMILED, AND WAVED HIS HAND. + +“THAT ABBé IS VERY INTERESTING BUT HE DOES NOT SEE THE THING IN THE +RIGHT LIGHT.... IN MY OPINION PERPETUAL PEACE IS POSSIBLE BUT—I DO NOT +KNOW HOW TO EXPRESS IT ... NOT BY A BALANCE OF POLITICAL POWER....” + +IT WAS EVIDENT THAT PRINCE ANDREW WAS NOT INTERESTED IN SUCH ABSTRACT +CONVERSATION. + +“ONE CAN’T EVERYWHERE SAY ALL ONE THINKS, MON CHER. WELL, HAVE +YOU AT LAST DECIDED ON ANYTHING? ARE YOU GOING TO BE A GUARDSMAN OR A +DIPLOMATIST?” ASKED PRINCE ANDREW AFTER A MOMENTARY SILENCE. + +PIERRE SAT UP ON THE SOFA, WITH HIS LEGS TUCKED UNDER HIM. + +“REALLY, I DON’T YET KNOW. I DON’T LIKE EITHER THE ONE OR THE +OTHER.” + +“BUT YOU MUST DECIDE ON SOMETHING! YOUR FATHER EXPECTS IT.” + +PIERRE AT THE AGE OF TEN HAD BEEN SENT ABROAD WITH AN ABBé AS TUTOR, +AND HAD REMAINED AWAY TILL HE WAS TWENTY. WHEN HE RETURNED TO MOSCOW +HIS FATHER DISMISSED THE ABBé AND SAID TO THE YOUNG MAN, “NOW GO +TO PETERSBURG, LOOK ROUND, AND CHOOSE YOUR PROFESSION. I WILL AGREE TO +ANYTHING. HERE IS A LETTER TO PRINCE VASíLI, AND HERE IS MONEY. WRITE +TO ME ALL ABOUT IT, AND I WILL HELP YOU IN EVERYTHING.” PIERRE HAD +ALREADY BEEN CHOOSING A CAREER FOR THREE MONTHS, AND HAD NOT DECIDED +ON ANYTHING. IT WAS ABOUT THIS CHOICE THAT PRINCE ANDREW WAS SPEAKING. +PIERRE RUBBED HIS FOREHEAD. + +“BUT HE MUST BE A FREEMASON,” SAID HE, REFERRING TO THE ABBé WHOM +HE HAD MET THAT EVENING. + +“THAT IS ALL NONSENSE.” PRINCE ANDREW AGAIN INTERRUPTED HIM, “LET +US TALK BUSINESS. HAVE YOU BEEN TO THE HORSE GUARDS?” + +“NO, I HAVE NOT; BUT THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN THINKING AND WANTED +TO TELL YOU. THERE IS A WAR NOW AGAINST NAPOLEON. IF IT WERE A WAR FOR +FREEDOM I COULD UNDERSTAND IT AND SHOULD BE THE FIRST TO ENTER THE ARMY; +BUT TO HELP ENGLAND AND AUSTRIA AGAINST THE GREATEST MAN IN THE WORLD IS +NOT RIGHT.” + +PRINCE ANDREW ONLY SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS AT PIERRE’S CHILDISH WORDS. +HE PUT ON THE AIR OF ONE WHO FINDS IT IMPOSSIBLE TO REPLY TO SUCH +NONSENSE, BUT IT WOULD IN FACT HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT TO GIVE ANY OTHER +ANSWER THAN THE ONE PRINCE ANDREW GAVE TO THIS NAïVE QUESTION. + +“IF NO ONE FOUGHT EXCEPT ON HIS OWN CONVICTION, THERE WOULD BE NO +WARS,” HE SAID. + +“AND THAT WOULD BE SPLENDID,” SAID PIERRE. + +PRINCE ANDREW SMILED IRONICALLY. + +“VERY LIKELY IT WOULD BE SPLENDID, BUT IT WILL NEVER COME ABOUT....” + +“WELL, WHY ARE YOU GOING TO THE WAR?” ASKED PIERRE. + +“WHAT FOR? I DON’T KNOW. I MUST. BESIDES THAT I AM GOING....” HE +PAUSED. “I AM GOING BECAUSE THE LIFE I AM LEADING HERE DOES NOT SUIT +ME!” + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +THE RUSTLE OF A WOMAN’S DRESS WAS HEARD IN THE NEXT ROOM. PRINCE +ANDREW SHOOK HIMSELF AS IF WAKING UP, AND HIS FACE ASSUMED THE LOOK IT +HAD HAD IN ANNA PáVLOVNA’S DRAWING ROOM. PIERRE REMOVED HIS FEET FROM +THE SOFA. THE PRINCESS CAME IN. SHE HAD CHANGED HER GOWN FOR A HOUSE +DRESS AS FRESH AND ELEGANT AS THE OTHER. PRINCE ANDREW ROSE AND POLITELY +PLACED A CHAIR FOR HER. + +“HOW IS IT,” SHE BEGAN, AS USUAL IN FRENCH, SETTLING DOWN BRISKLY +AND FUSSILY IN THE EASY CHAIR, “HOW IS IT ANNETTE NEVER GOT MARRIED? +HOW STUPID YOU MEN ALL ARE NOT TO HAVE MARRIED HER! EXCUSE ME FOR SAYING +SO, BUT YOU HAVE NO SENSE ABOUT WOMEN. WHAT AN ARGUMENTATIVE FELLOW YOU +ARE, MONSIEUR PIERRE!” + +“AND I AM STILL ARGUING WITH YOUR HUSBAND. I CAN’T UNDERSTAND WHY HE +WANTS TO GO TO THE WAR,” REPLIED PIERRE, ADDRESSING THE PRINCESS +WITH NONE OF THE EMBARRASSMENT SO COMMONLY SHOWN BY YOUNG MEN IN THEIR +INTERCOURSE WITH YOUNG WOMEN. + +THE PRINCESS STARTED. EVIDENTLY PIERRE’S WORDS TOUCHED HER TO THE +QUICK. + +“AH, THAT IS JUST WHAT I TELL HIM!” SAID SHE. “I DON’T +UNDERSTAND IT; I DON’T IN THE LEAST UNDERSTAND WHY MEN CAN’T LIVE +WITHOUT WARS. HOW IS IT THAT WE WOMEN DON’T WANT ANYTHING OF THE KIND, +DON’T NEED IT? NOW YOU SHALL JUDGE BETWEEN US. I ALWAYS TELL HIM: HERE +HE IS UNCLE’S AIDE-DE-CAMP, A MOST BRILLIANT POSITION. HE IS SO +WELL KNOWN, SO MUCH APPRECIATED BY EVERYONE. THE OTHER DAY AT THE +APRáKSINS’ I HEARD A LADY ASKING, ‘IS THAT THE FAMOUS PRINCE +ANDREW?’ I DID INDEED.” SHE LAUGHED. “HE IS SO WELL RECEIVED +EVERYWHERE. HE MIGHT EASILY BECOME AIDE-DE-CAMP TO THE EMPEROR. YOU KNOW +THE EMPEROR SPOKE TO HIM MOST GRACIOUSLY. ANNETTE AND I WERE SPEAKING OF +HOW TO ARRANGE IT. WHAT DO YOU THINK?” + +PIERRE LOOKED AT HIS FRIEND AND, NOTICING THAT HE DID NOT LIKE THE +CONVERSATION, GAVE NO REPLY. + +“WHEN ARE YOU STARTING?” HE ASKED. + +“OH, DON’T SPEAK OF HIS GOING, DON’T! I WON’T HEAR IT SPOKEN +OF,” SAID THE PRINCESS IN THE SAME PETULANTLY PLAYFUL TONE IN WHICH +SHE HAD SPOKEN TO HIPPOLYTE IN THE DRAWING ROOM AND WHICH WAS SO PLAINLY +ILL-SUITED TO THE FAMILY CIRCLE OF WHICH PIERRE WAS ALMOST A MEMBER. +“TODAY WHEN I REMEMBERED THAT ALL THESE DELIGHTFUL ASSOCIATIONS +MUST BE BROKEN OFF ... AND THEN YOU KNOW, ANDRé...” (SHE LOOKED +SIGNIFICANTLY AT HER HUSBAND) “I’M AFRAID, I’M AFRAID!” SHE +WHISPERED, AND A SHUDDER RAN DOWN HER BACK. + +HER HUSBAND LOOKED AT HER AS IF SURPRISED TO NOTICE THAT SOMEONE BESIDES +PIERRE AND HIMSELF WAS IN THE ROOM, AND ADDRESSED HER IN A TONE OF +FRIGID POLITENESS. + +“WHAT IS IT YOU ARE AFRAID OF, LISE? I DON’T UNDERSTAND,” SAID HE. + +“THERE, WHAT EGOTISTS MEN ALL ARE: ALL, ALL EGOTISTS! JUST FOR A WHIM +OF HIS OWN, GOODNESS ONLY KNOWS WHY, HE LEAVES ME AND LOCKS ME UP ALONE +IN THE COUNTRY.” + +“WITH MY FATHER AND SISTER, REMEMBER,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW GENTLY. + +“ALONE ALL THE SAME, WITHOUT MY FRIENDS.... AND HE EXPECTS ME NOT TO +BE AFRAID.” + +HER TONE WAS NOW QUERULOUS AND HER LIP DRAWN UP, GIVING HER NOT A +JOYFUL, BUT AN ANIMAL, SQUIRREL-LIKE EXPRESSION. SHE PAUSED AS IF SHE +FELT IT INDECOROUS TO SPEAK OF HER PREGNANCY BEFORE PIERRE, THOUGH THE +GIST OF THE MATTER LAY IN THAT. + +“I STILL CAN’T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE AFRAID OF,” SAID PRINCE +ANDREW SLOWLY, NOT TAKING HIS EYES OFF HIS WIFE. + +THE PRINCESS BLUSHED, AND RAISED HER ARMS WITH A GESTURE OF DESPAIR. + +“NO, ANDREW, I MUST SAY YOU HAVE CHANGED. OH, HOW YOU HAVE....” + +“YOUR DOCTOR TELLS YOU TO GO TO BED EARLIER,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. +“YOU HAD BETTER GO.” + +THE PRINCESS SAID NOTHING, BUT SUDDENLY HER SHORT DOWNY LIP QUIVERED. +PRINCE ANDREW ROSE, SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS, AND WALKED ABOUT THE ROOM. + +PIERRE LOOKED OVER HIS SPECTACLES WITH NAïVE SURPRISE, NOW AT HIM AND +NOW AT HER, MOVED AS IF ABOUT TO RISE TOO, BUT CHANGED HIS MIND. + +“WHY SHOULD I MIND MONSIEUR PIERRE BEING HERE?” EXCLAIMED THE LITTLE +PRINCESS SUDDENLY, HER PRETTY FACE ALL AT ONCE DISTORTED BY A TEARFUL +GRIMACE. “I HAVE LONG WANTED TO ASK YOU, ANDREW, WHY YOU HAVE CHANGED +SO TO ME? WHAT HAVE I DONE TO YOU? YOU ARE GOING TO THE WAR AND HAVE NO +PITY FOR ME. WHY IS IT?” + +“LISE!” WAS ALL PRINCE ANDREW SAID. BUT THAT ONE WORD EXPRESSED +AN ENTREATY, A THREAT, AND ABOVE ALL CONVICTION THAT SHE WOULD HERSELF +REGRET HER WORDS. BUT SHE WENT ON HURRIEDLY: + +“YOU TREAT ME LIKE AN INVALID OR A CHILD. I SEE IT ALL! DID YOU BEHAVE +LIKE THAT SIX MONTHS AGO?” + +“LISE, I BEG YOU TO DESIST,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW STILL MORE +EMPHATICALLY. + +PIERRE, WHO HAD BEEN GROWING MORE AND MORE AGITATED AS HE LISTENED TO +ALL THIS, ROSE AND APPROACHED THE PRINCESS. HE SEEMED UNABLE TO BEAR THE +SIGHT OF TEARS AND WAS READY TO CRY HIMSELF. + +“CALM YOURSELF, PRINCESS! IT SEEMS SO TO YOU BECAUSE.... I ASSURE YOU +I MYSELF HAVE EXPERIENCED ... AND SO ... BECAUSE ... NO, EXCUSE ME! +AN OUTSIDER IS OUT OF PLACE HERE.... NO, DON’T DISTRESS YOURSELF.... +GOOD-BY!” + +PRINCE ANDREW CAUGHT HIM BY THE HAND. + +“NO, WAIT, PIERRE! THE PRINCESS IS TOO KIND TO WISH TO DEPRIVE ME OF +THE PLEASURE OF SPENDING THE EVENING WITH YOU.” + +“NO, HE THINKS ONLY OF HIMSELF,” MUTTERED THE PRINCESS WITHOUT +RESTRAINING HER ANGRY TEARS. + +“LISE!” SAID PRINCE ANDREW DRYLY, RAISING HIS VOICE TO THE PITCH +WHICH INDICATES THAT PATIENCE IS EXHAUSTED. + +SUDDENLY THE ANGRY, SQUIRREL-LIKE EXPRESSION OF THE PRINCESS’ PRETTY +FACE CHANGED INTO A WINNING AND PITEOUS LOOK OF FEAR. HER BEAUTIFUL EYES +GLANCED ASKANCE AT HER HUSBAND’S FACE, AND HER OWN ASSUMED THE TIMID, +DEPRECATING EXPRESSION OF A DOG WHEN IT RAPIDLY BUT FEEBLY WAGS ITS +DROOPING TAIL. + +“MON DIEU, MON DIEU!” SHE MUTTERED, AND LIFTING HER DRESS WITH ONE +HAND SHE WENT UP TO HER HUSBAND AND KISSED HIM ON THE FOREHEAD. + +“GOOD NIGHT, LISE,” SAID HE, RISING AND COURTEOUSLY KISSING HER HAND +AS HE WOULD HAVE DONE TO A STRANGER. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +THE FRIENDS WERE SILENT. NEITHER CARED TO BEGIN TALKING. PIERRE +CONTINUALLY GLANCED AT PRINCE ANDREW; PRINCE ANDREW RUBBED HIS FOREHEAD +WITH HIS SMALL HAND. + +“LET US GO AND HAVE SUPPER,” HE SAID WITH A SIGH, GOING TO THE DOOR. + +THEY ENTERED THE ELEGANT, NEWLY DECORATED, AND LUXURIOUS DINING ROOM. +EVERYTHING FROM THE TABLE NAPKINS TO THE SILVER, CHINA, AND GLASS BORE +THAT IMPRINT OF NEWNESS FOUND IN THE HOUSEHOLDS OF THE NEWLY MARRIED. +HALFWAY THROUGH SUPPER PRINCE ANDREW LEANED HIS ELBOWS ON THE TABLE AND, +WITH A LOOK OF NERVOUS AGITATION SUCH AS PIERRE HAD NEVER BEFORE SEEN ON +HIS FACE, BEGAN TO TALK—AS ONE WHO HAS LONG HAD SOMETHING ON HIS MIND +AND SUDDENLY DETERMINES TO SPEAK OUT. + +“NEVER, NEVER MARRY, MY DEAR FELLOW! THAT’S MY ADVICE: NEVER MARRY +TILL YOU CAN SAY TO YOURSELF THAT YOU HAVE DONE ALL YOU ARE CAPABLE OF, +AND UNTIL YOU HAVE CEASED TO LOVE THE WOMAN OF YOUR CHOICE AND HAVE SEEN +HER PLAINLY AS SHE IS, OR ELSE YOU WILL MAKE A CRUEL AND IRREVOCABLE +MISTAKE. MARRY WHEN YOU ARE OLD AND GOOD FOR NOTHING—OR ALL THAT IS +GOOD AND NOBLE IN YOU WILL BE LOST. IT WILL ALL BE WASTED ON TRIFLES. +YES! YES! YES! DON’T LOOK AT ME WITH SUCH SURPRISE. IF YOU MARRY +EXPECTING ANYTHING FROM YOURSELF IN THE FUTURE, YOU WILL FEEL AT EVERY +STEP THAT FOR YOU ALL IS ENDED, ALL IS CLOSED EXCEPT THE DRAWING +ROOM, WHERE YOU WILL BE RANGED SIDE BY SIDE WITH A COURT LACKEY AND AN +IDIOT!... BUT WHAT’S THE GOOD?...” AND HE WAVED HIS ARM. + +PIERRE TOOK OFF HIS SPECTACLES, WHICH MADE HIS FACE SEEM DIFFERENT AND +THE GOOD-NATURED EXPRESSION STILL MORE APPARENT, AND GAZED AT HIS FRIEND +IN AMAZEMENT. + +“MY WIFE,” CONTINUED PRINCE ANDREW, “IS AN EXCELLENT WOMAN, ONE +OF THOSE RARE WOMEN WITH WHOM A MAN’S HONOR IS SAFE; BUT, O GOD, WHAT +WOULD I NOT GIVE NOW TO BE UNMARRIED! YOU ARE THE FIRST AND ONLY ONE TO +WHOM I MENTION THIS, BECAUSE I LIKE YOU.” + +AS HE SAID THIS PRINCE ANDREW WAS LESS THAN EVER LIKE THAT BOLKóNSKI +WHO HAD LOLLED IN ANNA PáVLOVNA’S EASY CHAIRS AND WITH HALF-CLOSED +EYES HAD UTTERED FRENCH PHRASES BETWEEN HIS TEETH. EVERY MUSCLE OF HIS +THIN FACE WAS NOW QUIVERING WITH NERVOUS EXCITEMENT; HIS EYES, IN WHICH +THE FIRE OF LIFE HAD SEEMED EXTINGUISHED, NOW FLASHED WITH BRILLIANT +LIGHT. IT WAS EVIDENT THAT THE MORE LIFELESS HE SEEMED AT ORDINARY +TIMES, THE MORE IMPASSIONED HE BECAME IN THESE MOMENTS OF ALMOST MORBID +IRRITATION. + +“YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY I SAY THIS,” HE CONTINUED, “BUT IT IS +THE WHOLE STORY OF LIFE. YOU TALK OF BONAPARTE AND HIS CAREER,” SAID +HE (THOUGH PIERRE HAD NOT MENTIONED BONAPARTE), “BUT BONAPARTE WHEN +HE WORKED WENT STEP BY STEP TOWARD HIS GOAL. HE WAS FREE, HE HAD NOTHING +BUT HIS AIM TO CONSIDER, AND HE REACHED IT. BUT TIE YOURSELF UP WITH +A WOMAN AND, LIKE A CHAINED CONVICT, YOU LOSE ALL FREEDOM! AND ALL YOU +HAVE OF HOPE AND STRENGTH MERELY WEIGHS YOU DOWN AND TORMENTS YOU WITH +REGRET. DRAWING ROOMS, GOSSIP, BALLS, VANITY, AND TRIVIALITY—THESE ARE +THE ENCHANTED CIRCLE I CANNOT ESCAPE FROM. I AM NOW GOING TO THE WAR, +THE GREATEST WAR THERE EVER WAS, AND I KNOW NOTHING AND AM FIT FOR +NOTHING. I AM VERY AMIABLE AND HAVE A CAUSTIC WIT,” CONTINUED PRINCE +ANDREW, “AND AT ANNA PáVLOVNA’S THEY LISTEN TO ME. AND THAT STUPID +SET WITHOUT WHOM MY WIFE CANNOT EXIST, AND THOSE WOMEN.... IF YOU ONLY +KNEW WHAT THOSE SOCIETY WOMEN ARE, AND WOMEN IN GENERAL! MY FATHER IS +RIGHT. SELFISH, VAIN, STUPID, TRIVIAL IN EVERYTHING—THAT’S WHAT +WOMEN ARE WHEN YOU SEE THEM IN THEIR TRUE COLORS! WHEN YOU MEET THEM +IN SOCIETY IT SEEMS AS IF THERE WERE SOMETHING IN THEM, BUT THERE’S +NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING! NO, DON’T MARRY, MY DEAR FELLOW; DON’T +MARRY!” CONCLUDED PRINCE ANDREW. + +“IT SEEMS FUNNY TO ME,” SAID PIERRE, “THAT YOU, YOU SHOULD +CONSIDER YOURSELF INCAPABLE AND YOUR LIFE A SPOILED LIFE. YOU HAVE +EVERYTHING BEFORE YOU, EVERYTHING. AND YOU....” + +HE DID NOT FINISH HIS SENTENCE, BUT HIS TONE SHOWED HOW HIGHLY HE +THOUGHT OF HIS FRIEND AND HOW MUCH HE EXPECTED OF HIM IN THE FUTURE. + +“HOW CAN HE TALK LIKE THAT?” THOUGHT PIERRE. HE CONSIDERED HIS +FRIEND A MODEL OF PERFECTION BECAUSE PRINCE ANDREW POSSESSED IN THE +HIGHEST DEGREE JUST THE VERY QUALITIES PIERRE LACKED, AND WHICH MIGHT +BE BEST DESCRIBED AS STRENGTH OF WILL. PIERRE WAS ALWAYS ASTONISHED AT +PRINCE ANDREW’S CALM MANNER OF TREATING EVERYBODY, HIS EXTRAORDINARY +MEMORY, HIS EXTENSIVE READING (HE HAD READ EVERYTHING, KNEW EVERYTHING, +AND HAD AN OPINION ABOUT EVERYTHING), BUT ABOVE ALL AT HIS CAPACITY FOR +WORK AND STUDY. AND IF PIERRE WAS OFTEN STRUCK BY ANDREW’S LACK +OF CAPACITY FOR PHILOSOPHICAL MEDITATION (TO WHICH HE HIMSELF WAS +PARTICULARLY ADDICTED), HE REGARDED EVEN THIS NOT AS A DEFECT BUT AS A +SIGN OF STRENGTH. + +EVEN IN THE BEST, MOST FRIENDLY AND SIMPLEST RELATIONS OF LIFE, PRAISE +AND COMMENDATION ARE ESSENTIAL, JUST AS GREASE IS NECESSARY TO WHEELS +THAT THEY MAY RUN SMOOTHLY. + +“MY PART IS PLAYED OUT,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. “WHAT’S THE USE OF +TALKING ABOUT ME? LET US TALK ABOUT YOU,” HE ADDED AFTER A SILENCE, +SMILING AT HIS REASSURING THOUGHTS. + +THAT SMILE WAS IMMEDIATELY REFLECTED ON PIERRE’S FACE. + +“BUT WHAT IS THERE TO SAY ABOUT ME?” SAID PIERRE, HIS FACE RELAXING +INTO A CARELESS, MERRY SMILE. “WHAT AM I? AN ILLEGITIMATE SON!” +HE SUDDENLY BLUSHED CRIMSON, AND IT WAS PLAIN THAT HE HAD MADE A GREAT +EFFORT TO SAY THIS. “WITHOUT A NAME AND WITHOUT MEANS... AND IT +REALLY...” BUT HE DID NOT SAY WHAT “IT REALLY” WAS. “FOR THE +PRESENT I AM FREE AND AM ALL RIGHT. ONLY I HAVEN’T THE LEAST IDEA WHAT +I AM TO DO; I WANTED TO CONSULT YOU SERIOUSLY.” + +PRINCE ANDREW LOOKED KINDLY AT HIM, YET HIS GLANCE—FRIENDLY AND +AFFECTIONATE AS IT WAS—EXPRESSED A SENSE OF HIS OWN SUPERIORITY. + +“I AM FOND OF YOU, ESPECIALLY AS YOU ARE THE ONE LIVE MAN AMONG OUR +WHOLE SET. YES, YOU’RE ALL RIGHT! CHOOSE WHAT YOU WILL; IT’S ALL THE +SAME. YOU’LL BE ALL RIGHT ANYWHERE. BUT LOOK HERE: GIVE UP VISITING +THOSE KURáGINS AND LEADING THAT SORT OF LIFE. IT SUITS YOU SO +BADLY—ALL THIS DEBAUCHERY, DISSIPATION, AND THE REST OF IT!” + +“WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE, MY DEAR FELLOW?” ANSWERED PIERRE, SHRUGGING +HIS SHOULDERS. “WOMEN, MY DEAR FELLOW; WOMEN!” + +“I DON’T UNDERSTAND IT,” REPLIED PRINCE ANDREW. “WOMEN WHO ARE +COMME IL FAUT, THAT’S A DIFFERENT MATTER; BUT THE KURáGINS’ SET OF +WOMEN, ‘WOMEN AND WINE’ I DON’T UNDERSTAND!” + +PIERRE WAS STAYING AT PRINCE VASíLI KURáGIN’S AND SHARING THE +DISSIPATED LIFE OF HIS SON ANATOLE, THE SON WHOM THEY WERE PLANNING TO +REFORM BY MARRYING HIM TO PRINCE ANDREW’S SISTER. + +“DO YOU KNOW?” SAID PIERRE, AS IF SUDDENLY STRUCK BY A HAPPY +THOUGHT, “SERIOUSLY, I HAVE LONG BEEN THINKING OF IT.... LEADING SUCH +A LIFE I CAN’T DECIDE OR THINK PROPERLY ABOUT ANYTHING. ONE’S HEAD +ACHES, AND ONE SPENDS ALL ONE’S MONEY. HE ASKED ME FOR TONIGHT, BUT I +WON’T GO.” + +“YOU GIVE ME YOUR WORD OF HONOR NOT TO GO?” + +“ON MY HONOR!” + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +IT WAS PAST ONE O’CLOCK WHEN PIERRE LEFT HIS FRIEND. IT WAS A +CLOUDLESS, NORTHERN, SUMMER NIGHT. PIERRE TOOK AN OPEN CAB INTENDING +TO DRIVE STRAIGHT HOME. BUT THE NEARER HE DREW TO THE HOUSE THE MORE HE +FELT THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF GOING TO SLEEP ON SUCH A NIGHT. IT WAS LIGHT +ENOUGH TO SEE A LONG WAY IN THE DESERTED STREET AND IT SEEMED MORE LIKE +MORNING OR EVENING THAN NIGHT. ON THE WAY PIERRE REMEMBERED THAT ANATOLE +KURáGIN WAS EXPECTING THE USUAL SET FOR CARDS THAT EVENING, AFTER WHICH +THERE WAS GENERALLY A DRINKING BOUT, FINISHING WITH VISITS OF A KIND +PIERRE WAS VERY FOND OF. + +“I SHOULD LIKE TO GO TO KURáGIN’S,” THOUGHT HE. + +BUT HE IMMEDIATELY RECALLED HIS PROMISE TO PRINCE ANDREW NOT TO GO +THERE. THEN, AS HAPPENS TO PEOPLE OF WEAK CHARACTER, HE DESIRED SO +PASSIONATELY ONCE MORE TO ENJOY THAT DISSIPATION HE WAS SO ACCUSTOMED TO +THAT HE DECIDED TO GO. THE THOUGHT IMMEDIATELY OCCURRED TO HIM THAT HIS +PROMISE TO PRINCE ANDREW WAS OF NO ACCOUNT, BECAUSE BEFORE HE GAVE IT +HE HAD ALREADY PROMISED PRINCE ANATOLE TO COME TO HIS GATHERING; +“BESIDES,” THOUGHT HE, “ALL SUCH ‘WORDS OF HONOR’ ARE +CONVENTIONAL THINGS WITH NO DEFINITE MEANING, ESPECIALLY IF +ONE CONSIDERS THAT BY TOMORROW ONE MAY BE DEAD, OR SOMETHING SO +EXTRAORDINARY MAY HAPPEN TO ONE THAT HONOR AND DISHONOR WILL BE ALL THE +SAME!” PIERRE OFTEN INDULGED IN REFLECTIONS OF THIS SORT, NULLIFYING +ALL HIS DECISIONS AND INTENTIONS. HE WENT TO KURáGIN’S. + +REACHING THE LARGE HOUSE NEAR THE HORSE GUARDS’ BARRACKS, IN WHICH +ANATOLE LIVED, PIERRE ENTERED THE LIGHTED PORCH, ASCENDED THE STAIRS, +AND WENT IN AT THE OPEN DOOR. THERE WAS NO ONE IN THE ANTEROOM; EMPTY +BOTTLES, CLOAKS, AND OVERSHOES WERE LYING ABOUT; THERE WAS A SMELL OF +ALCOHOL, AND SOUNDS OF VOICES AND SHOUTING IN THE DISTANCE. + +CARDS AND SUPPER WERE OVER, BUT THE VISITORS HAD NOT YET DISPERSED. +PIERRE THREW OFF HIS CLOAK AND ENTERED THE FIRST ROOM, IN WHICH WERE THE +REMAINS OF SUPPER. A FOOTMAN, THINKING NO ONE SAW HIM, WAS DRINKING ON +THE SLY WHAT WAS LEFT IN THE GLASSES. FROM THE THIRD ROOM CAME SOUNDS OF +LAUGHTER, THE SHOUTING OF FAMILIAR VOICES, THE GROWLING OF A BEAR, AND +GENERAL COMMOTION. SOME EIGHT OR NINE YOUNG MEN WERE CROWDING ANXIOUSLY +ROUND AN OPEN WINDOW. THREE OTHERS WERE ROMPING WITH A YOUNG BEAR, ONE +PULLING HIM BY THE CHAIN AND TRYING TO SET HIM AT THE OTHERS. + +“I BET A HUNDRED ON STEVENS!” SHOUTED ONE. + +“MIND, NO HOLDING ON!” CRIED ANOTHER. + +“I BET ON DóLOKHOV!” CRIED A THIRD. “KURáGIN, YOU PART OUR +HANDS.” + +“THERE, LEAVE BRUIN ALONE; HERE’S A BET ON.” + +“AT ONE DRAUGHT, OR HE LOSES!” SHOUTED A FOURTH. + +“JACOB, BRING A BOTTLE!” SHOUTED THE HOST, A TALL, HANDSOME FELLOW +WHO STOOD IN THE MIDST OF THE GROUP, WITHOUT A COAT, AND WITH HIS FINE +LINEN SHIRT UNFASTENED IN FRONT. “WAIT A BIT, YOU FELLOWS.... HERE IS +PéTYA! GOOD MAN!” CRIED HE, ADDRESSING PIERRE. + +ANOTHER VOICE, FROM A MAN OF MEDIUM HEIGHT WITH CLEAR BLUE EYES, +PARTICULARLY STRIKING AMONG ALL THESE DRUNKEN VOICES BY ITS SOBER +RING, CRIED FROM THE WINDOW: “COME HERE; PART THE BETS!” THIS WAS +DóLOKHOV, AN OFFICER OF THE SEMëNOV REGIMENT, A NOTORIOUS GAMBLER AND +DUELIST, WHO WAS LIVING WITH ANATOLE. PIERRE SMILED, LOOKING ABOUT HIM +MERRILY. + +“I DON’T UNDERSTAND. WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?” + +“WAIT A BIT, HE IS NOT DRUNK YET! A BOTTLE HERE,” SAID ANATOLE, AND +TAKING A GLASS FROM THE TABLE HE WENT UP TO PIERRE. + +“FIRST OF ALL YOU MUST DRINK!” + +PIERRE DRANK ONE GLASS AFTER ANOTHER, LOOKING FROM UNDER HIS BROWS AT +THE TIPSY GUESTS WHO WERE AGAIN CROWDING ROUND THE WINDOW, AND LISTENING +TO THEIR CHATTER. ANATOLE KEPT ON REFILLING PIERRE’S GLASS WHILE +EXPLAINING THAT DóLOKHOV WAS BETTING WITH STEVENS, AN ENGLISH NAVAL +OFFICER, THAT HE WOULD DRINK A BOTTLE OF RUM SITTING ON THE OUTER LEDGE +OF THE THIRD FLOOR WINDOW WITH HIS LEGS HANGING OUT. + +“GO ON, YOU MUST DRINK IT ALL,” SAID ANATOLE, GIVING PIERRE THE LAST +GLASS, “OR I WON’T LET YOU GO!” + +“NO, I WON’T,” SAID PIERRE, PUSHING ANATOLE ASIDE, AND HE WENT UP +TO THE WINDOW. + +DóLOKHOV WAS HOLDING THE ENGLISHMAN’S HAND AND CLEARLY AND DISTINCTLY +REPEATING THE TERMS OF THE BET, ADDRESSING HIMSELF PARTICULARLY TO +ANATOLE AND PIERRE. + +DóLOKHOV WAS OF MEDIUM HEIGHT, WITH CURLY HAIR AND LIGHT-BLUE EYES. HE +WAS ABOUT TWENTY-FIVE. LIKE ALL INFANTRY OFFICERS HE WORE NO MUSTACHE, +SO THAT HIS MOUTH, THE MOST STRIKING FEATURE OF HIS FACE, WAS CLEARLY +SEEN. THE LINES OF THAT MOUTH WERE REMARKABLY FINELY CURVED. THE MIDDLE +OF THE UPPER LIP FORMED A SHARP WEDGE AND CLOSED FIRMLY ON THE FIRM +LOWER ONE, AND SOMETHING LIKE TWO DISTINCT SMILES PLAYED CONTINUALLY +ROUND THE TWO CORNERS OF THE MOUTH; THIS, TOGETHER WITH THE RESOLUTE, +INSOLENT INTELLIGENCE OF HIS EYES, PRODUCED AN EFFECT WHICH MADE IT +IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO NOTICE HIS FACE. DóLOKHOV WAS A MAN OF SMALL MEANS +AND NO CONNECTIONS. YET, THOUGH ANATOLE SPENT TENS OF THOUSANDS OF +RUBLES, DóLOKHOV LIVED WITH HIM AND HAD PLACED HIMSELF ON SUCH A +FOOTING THAT ALL WHO KNEW THEM, INCLUDING ANATOLE HIMSELF, RESPECTED HIM +MORE THAN THEY DID ANATOLE. DóLOKHOV COULD PLAY ALL GAMES AND NEARLY +ALWAYS WON. HOWEVER MUCH HE DRANK, HE NEVER LOST HIS CLEARHEADEDNESS. +BOTH KURáGIN AND DóLOKHOV WERE AT THAT TIME NOTORIOUS AMONG THE RAKES +AND SCAPEGRACES OF PETERSBURG. + +THE BOTTLE OF RUM WAS BROUGHT. THE WINDOW FRAME WHICH PREVENTED ANYONE +FROM SITTING ON THE OUTER SILL WAS BEING FORCED OUT BY TWO FOOTMEN, WHO +WERE EVIDENTLY FLURRIED AND INTIMIDATED BY THE DIRECTIONS AND SHOUTS OF +THE GENTLEMEN AROUND. + +ANATOLE WITH HIS SWAGGERING AIR STRODE UP TO THE WINDOW. HE WANTED TO +SMASH SOMETHING. PUSHING AWAY THE FOOTMEN HE TUGGED AT THE FRAME, BUT +COULD NOT MOVE IT. HE SMASHED A PANE. + +“YOU HAVE A TRY, HERCULES,” SAID HE, TURNING TO PIERRE. + +PIERRE SEIZED THE CROSSBEAM, TUGGED, AND WRENCHED THE OAK FRAME OUT WITH +A CRASH. + +“TAKE IT RIGHT OUT, OR THEY’LL THINK I’M HOLDING ON,” SAID +DóLOKHOV. + +“IS THE ENGLISHMAN BRAGGING?... EH? IS IT ALL RIGHT?” SAID ANATOLE. + +“FIRST-RATE,” SAID PIERRE, LOOKING AT DóLOKHOV, WHO WITH A BOTTLE +OF RUM IN HIS HAND WAS APPROACHING THE WINDOW, FROM WHICH THE LIGHT OF +THE SKY, THE DAWN MERGING WITH THE AFTERGLOW OF SUNSET, WAS VISIBLE. + +DóLOKHOV, THE BOTTLE OF RUM STILL IN HIS HAND, JUMPED ONTO THE WINDOW +SILL. “LISTEN!” CRIED HE, STANDING THERE AND ADDRESSING THOSE IN THE +ROOM. ALL WERE SILENT. + +“I BET FIFTY IMPERIALS”—HE SPOKE FRENCH THAT THE ENGLISHMAN MIGHT +UNDERSTAND HIM, BUT HE DID NOT SPEAK IT VERY WELL—“I BET FIFTY +IMPERIALS ... OR DO YOU WISH TO MAKE IT A HUNDRED?” ADDED HE, +ADDRESSING THE ENGLISHMAN. + +“NO, FIFTY,” REPLIED THE LATTER. + +“ALL RIGHT. FIFTY IMPERIALS ... THAT I WILL DRINK A WHOLE BOTTLE OF +RUM WITHOUT TAKING IT FROM MY MOUTH, SITTING OUTSIDE THE WINDOW ON THIS +SPOT” (HE STOOPED AND POINTED TO THE SLOPING LEDGE OUTSIDE THE WINDOW) +“AND WITHOUT HOLDING ON TO ANYTHING. IS THAT RIGHT?” + +“QUITE RIGHT,” SAID THE ENGLISHMAN. + +ANATOLE TURNED TO THE ENGLISHMAN AND TAKING HIM BY ONE OF THE BUTTONS +OF HIS COAT AND LOOKING DOWN AT HIM—THE ENGLISHMAN WAS SHORT—BEGAN +REPEATING THE TERMS OF THE WAGER TO HIM IN ENGLISH. + +“WAIT!” CRIED DóLOKHOV, HAMMERING WITH THE BOTTLE ON THE WINDOW +SILL TO ATTRACT ATTENTION. “WAIT A BIT, KURáGIN. LISTEN! IF +ANYONE ELSE DOES THE SAME, I WILL PAY HIM A HUNDRED IMPERIALS. DO YOU +UNDERSTAND?” + +THE ENGLISHMAN NODDED, BUT GAVE NO INDICATION WHETHER HE INTENDED TO +ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE OR NOT. ANATOLE DID NOT RELEASE HIM, AND THOUGH +HE KEPT NODDING TO SHOW THAT HE UNDERSTOOD, ANATOLE WENT ON TRANSLATING +DóLOKHOV’S WORDS INTO ENGLISH. A THIN YOUNG LAD, AN HUSSAR OF THE +LIFE GUARDS, WHO HAD BEEN LOSING THAT EVENING, CLIMBED ON THE WINDOW +SILL, LEANED OVER, AND LOOKED DOWN. + +“OH! OH! OH!” HE MUTTERED, LOOKING DOWN FROM THE WINDOW AT THE +STONES OF THE PAVEMENT. + +“SHUT UP!” CRIED DóLOKHOV, PUSHING HIM AWAY FROM THE WINDOW. THE +LAD JUMPED AWKWARDLY BACK INTO THE ROOM, TRIPPING OVER HIS SPURS. + +PLACING THE BOTTLE ON THE WINDOW SILL WHERE HE COULD REACH IT EASILY, +DóLOKHOV CLIMBED CAREFULLY AND SLOWLY THROUGH THE WINDOW AND LOWERED +HIS LEGS. PRESSING AGAINST BOTH SIDES OF THE WINDOW, HE ADJUSTED HIMSELF +ON HIS SEAT, LOWERED HIS HANDS, MOVED A LITTLE TO THE RIGHT AND THEN TO +THE LEFT, AND TOOK UP THE BOTTLE. ANATOLE BROUGHT TWO CANDLES AND +PLACED THEM ON THE WINDOW SILL, THOUGH IT WAS ALREADY QUITE LIGHT. +DóLOKHOV’S BACK IN HIS WHITE SHIRT, AND HIS CURLY HEAD, WERE LIT +UP FROM BOTH SIDES. EVERYONE CROWDED TO THE WINDOW, THE ENGLISHMAN IN +FRONT. PIERRE STOOD SMILING BUT SILENT. ONE MAN, OLDER THAN THE OTHERS +PRESENT, SUDDENLY PUSHED FORWARD WITH A SCARED AND ANGRY LOOK AND WANTED +TO SEIZE HOLD OF DóLOKHOV’S SHIRT. + +“I SAY, THIS IS FOLLY! HE’LL BE KILLED,” SAID THIS MORE SENSIBLE +MAN. + +ANATOLE STOPPED HIM. + +“DON’T TOUCH HIM! YOU’LL STARTLE HIM AND THEN HE’LL BE KILLED. +EH?... WHAT THEN?... EH?” + +DóLOKHOV TURNED ROUND AND, AGAIN HOLDING ON WITH BOTH HANDS, ARRANGED +HIMSELF ON HIS SEAT. + +“IF ANYONE COMES MEDDLING AGAIN,” SAID HE, EMITTING THE WORDS +SEPARATELY THROUGH HIS THIN COMPRESSED LIPS, “I WILL THROW HIM DOWN +THERE. NOW THEN!” + +SAYING THIS HE AGAIN TURNED ROUND, DROPPED HIS HANDS, TOOK THE BOTTLE +AND LIFTED IT TO HIS LIPS, THREW BACK HIS HEAD, AND RAISED HIS FREE HAND +TO BALANCE HIMSELF. ONE OF THE FOOTMEN WHO HAD STOOPED TO PICK UP SOME +BROKEN GLASS REMAINED IN THAT POSITION WITHOUT TAKING HIS EYES FROM THE +WINDOW AND FROM DóLOKHOV’S BACK. ANATOLE STOOD ERECT WITH STARING +EYES. THE ENGLISHMAN LOOKED ON SIDEWAYS, PURSING UP HIS LIPS. THE MAN +WHO HAD WISHED TO STOP THE AFFAIR RAN TO A CORNER OF THE ROOM AND THREW +HIMSELF ON A SOFA WITH HIS FACE TO THE WALL. PIERRE HID HIS FACE, FROM +WHICH A FAINT SMILE FORGOT TO FADE THOUGH HIS FEATURES NOW EXPRESSED +HORROR AND FEAR. ALL WERE STILL. PIERRE TOOK HIS HANDS FROM HIS EYES. +DóLOKHOV STILL SAT IN THE SAME POSITION, ONLY HIS HEAD WAS THROWN +FURTHER BACK TILL HIS CURLY HAIR TOUCHED HIS SHIRT COLLAR, AND THE HAND +HOLDING THE BOTTLE WAS LIFTED HIGHER AND HIGHER AND TREMBLED WITH THE +EFFORT. THE BOTTLE WAS EMPTYING PERCEPTIBLY AND RISING STILL HIGHER +AND HIS HEAD TILTING YET FURTHER BACK. “WHY IS IT SO LONG?” THOUGHT +PIERRE. IT SEEMED TO HIM THAT MORE THAN HALF AN HOUR HAD ELAPSED. +SUDDENLY DóLOKHOV MADE A BACKWARD MOVEMENT WITH HIS SPINE, AND HIS ARM +TREMBLED NERVOUSLY; THIS WAS SUFFICIENT TO CAUSE HIS WHOLE BODY TO SLIP +AS HE SAT ON THE SLOPING LEDGE. AS HE BEGAN SLIPPING DOWN, HIS HEAD AND +ARM WAVERED STILL MORE WITH THE STRAIN. ONE HAND MOVED AS IF TO CLUTCH +THE WINDOW SILL, BUT REFRAINED FROM TOUCHING IT. PIERRE AGAIN COVERED +HIS EYES AND THOUGHT HE WOULD NEVER OPEN THEM AGAIN. SUDDENLY HE WAS +AWARE OF A STIR ALL AROUND. HE LOOKED UP: DóLOKHOV WAS STANDING ON THE +WINDOW SILL, WITH A PALE BUT RADIANT FACE. + +“IT’S EMPTY.” + +HE THREW THE BOTTLE TO THE ENGLISHMAN, WHO CAUGHT IT NEATLY. DóLOKHOV +JUMPED DOWN. HE SMELT STRONGLY OF RUM. + +“WELL DONE!... FINE FELLOW!... THERE’S A BET FOR YOU!... DEVIL TAKE +YOU!” CAME FROM DIFFERENT SIDES. + +THE ENGLISHMAN TOOK OUT HIS PURSE AND BEGAN COUNTING OUT THE MONEY. +DóLOKHOV STOOD FROWNING AND DID NOT SPEAK. PIERRE JUMPED UPON THE +WINDOW SILL. + +“GENTLEMEN, WHO WISHES TO BET WITH ME? I’LL DO THE SAME THING!” +HE SUDDENLY CRIED. “EVEN WITHOUT A BET, THERE! TELL THEM TO BRING ME A +BOTTLE. I’LL DO IT.... BRING A BOTTLE!” + +“LET HIM DO IT, LET HIM DO IT,” SAID DóLOKHOV, SMILING. + +“WHAT NEXT? HAVE YOU GONE MAD?... NO ONE WOULD LET YOU!... WHY, YOU GO +GIDDY EVEN ON A STAIRCASE,” EXCLAIMED SEVERAL VOICES. + +“I’LL DRINK IT! LET’S HAVE A BOTTLE OF RUM!” SHOUTED PIERRE, +BANGING THE TABLE WITH A DETERMINED AND DRUNKEN GESTURE AND PREPARING TO +CLIMB OUT OF THE WINDOW. + +THEY SEIZED HIM BY HIS ARMS; BUT HE WAS SO STRONG THAT EVERYONE WHO +TOUCHED HIM WAS SENT FLYING. + +“NO, YOU’LL NEVER MANAGE HIM THAT WAY,” SAID ANATOLE. “WAIT A +BIT AND I’LL GET ROUND HIM.... LISTEN! I’LL TAKE YOUR BET TOMORROW, +BUT NOW WE ARE ALL GOING TO ——’S.” + +“COME ON THEN,” CRIED PIERRE. “COME ON!... AND WE’LL TAKE BRUIN +WITH US.” + +AND HE CAUGHT THE BEAR, TOOK IT IN HIS ARMS, LIFTED IT FROM THE GROUND, +AND BEGAN DANCING ROUND THE ROOM WITH IT. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +PRINCE VASíLI KEPT THE PROMISE HE HAD GIVEN TO PRINCESS DRUBETSKáYA +WHO HAD SPOKEN TO HIM ON BEHALF OF HER ONLY SON BORíS ON THE EVENING OF +ANNA PáVLOVNA’S SOIREE. THE MATTER WAS MENTIONED TO THE EMPEROR, AN +EXCEPTION MADE, AND BORíS TRANSFERRED INTO THE REGIMENT OF SEMëNOV +GUARDS WITH THE RANK OF CORNET. HE RECEIVED, HOWEVER, NO APPOINTMENT +TO KUTúZOV’S STAFF DESPITE ALL ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S ENDEAVORS AND +ENTREATIES. SOON AFTER ANNA PáVLOVNA’S RECEPTION ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA +RETURNED TO MOSCOW AND WENT STRAIGHT TO HER RICH RELATIONS, THE +ROSTóVS, WITH WHOM SHE STAYED WHEN IN THE TOWN AND WHERE HER DARLING +BóRY, WHO HAD ONLY JUST ENTERED A REGIMENT OF THE LINE AND WAS BEING +AT ONCE TRANSFERRED TO THE GUARDS AS A CORNET, HAD BEEN EDUCATED FROM +CHILDHOOD AND LIVED FOR YEARS AT A TIME. THE GUARDS HAD ALREADY LEFT +PETERSBURG ON THE TENTH OF AUGUST, AND HER SON, WHO HAD REMAINED IN +MOSCOW FOR HIS EQUIPMENT, WAS TO JOIN THEM ON THE MARCH TO RADZIVíLOV. + +IT WAS ST. NATALIA’S DAY AND THE NAME DAY OF TWO OF THE ROSTóVS—THE +MOTHER AND THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER—BOTH NAMED NATALY. EVER SINCE +THE MORNING, CARRIAGES WITH SIX HORSES HAD BEEN COMING AND GOING +CONTINUALLY, BRINGING VISITORS TO THE COUNTESS ROSTóVA’S BIG HOUSE ON +THE POVARSKáYA, SO WELL KNOWN TO ALL MOSCOW. THE COUNTESS HERSELF AND +HER HANDSOME ELDEST DAUGHTER WERE IN THE DRAWING ROOM WITH THE VISITORS +WHO CAME TO CONGRATULATE, AND WHO CONSTANTLY SUCCEEDED ONE ANOTHER IN +RELAYS. + +THE COUNTESS WAS A WOMAN OF ABOUT FORTY-FIVE, WITH A THIN ORIENTAL TYPE +OF FACE, EVIDENTLY WORN OUT WITH CHILDBEARING—SHE HAD HAD TWELVE. +A LANGUOR OF MOTION AND SPEECH, RESULTING FROM WEAKNESS, GAVE HER A +DISTINGUISHED AIR WHICH INSPIRED RESPECT. PRINCESS ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA +DRUBETSKáYA, WHO AS A MEMBER OF THE HOUSEHOLD WAS ALSO SEATED IN THE +DRAWING ROOM, HELPED TO RECEIVE AND ENTERTAIN THE VISITORS. THE YOUNG +PEOPLE WERE IN ONE OF THE INNER ROOMS, NOT CONSIDERING IT NECESSARY TO +TAKE PART IN RECEIVING THE VISITORS. THE COUNT MET THE GUESTS AND SAW +THEM OFF, INVITING THEM ALL TO DINNER. + +“I AM VERY, VERY GRATEFUL TO YOU, MON CHER,” OR “MA CHèRE”—HE +CALLED EVERYONE WITHOUT EXCEPTION AND WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST VARIATION +IN HIS TONE, “MY DEAR,” WHETHER THEY WERE ABOVE OR BELOW HIM IN +RANK—“I THANK YOU FOR MYSELF AND FOR OUR TWO DEAR ONES WHOSE NAME +DAY WE ARE KEEPING. BUT MIND YOU COME TO DINNER OR I SHALL BE OFFENDED, +MA CHèRE! ON BEHALF OF THE WHOLE FAMILY I BEG YOU TO COME, MON CHER!” +THESE WORDS HE REPEATED TO EVERYONE WITHOUT EXCEPTION OR VARIATION, AND +WITH THE SAME EXPRESSION ON HIS FULL, CHEERFUL, CLEAN-SHAVEN FACE, THE +SAME FIRM PRESSURE OF THE HAND AND THE SAME QUICK, REPEATED BOWS. AS +SOON AS HE HAD SEEN A VISITOR OFF HE RETURNED TO ONE OF THOSE WHO WERE +STILL IN THE DRAWING ROOM, DREW A CHAIR TOWARD HIM OR HER, AND JAUNTILY +SPREADING OUT HIS LEGS AND PUTTING HIS HANDS ON HIS KNEES WITH THE AIR +OF A MAN WHO ENJOYS LIFE AND KNOWS HOW TO LIVE, HE SWAYED TO AND +FRO WITH DIGNITY, OFFERED SURMISES ABOUT THE WEATHER, OR TOUCHED ON +QUESTIONS OF HEALTH, SOMETIMES IN RUSSIAN AND SOMETIMES IN VERY BAD BUT +SELF-CONFIDENT FRENCH; THEN AGAIN, LIKE A MAN WEARY BUT UNFLINCHING IN +THE FULFILLMENT OF DUTY, HE ROSE TO SEE SOME VISITORS OFF AND, STROKING +HIS SCANTY GRAY HAIRS OVER HIS BALD PATCH, ALSO ASKED THEM TO DINNER. +SOMETIMES ON HIS WAY BACK FROM THE ANTEROOM HE WOULD PASS THROUGH THE +CONSERVATORY AND PANTRY INTO THE LARGE MARBLE DINING HALL, WHERE TABLES +WERE BEING SET OUT FOR EIGHTY PEOPLE; AND LOOKING AT THE FOOTMEN, WHO +WERE BRINGING IN SILVER AND CHINA, MOVING TABLES, AND UNFOLDING DAMASK +TABLE LINEN, HE WOULD CALL DMíTRI VASíLEVICH, A MAN OF GOOD FAMILY AND +THE MANAGER OF ALL HIS AFFAIRS, AND WHILE LOOKING WITH PLEASURE AT THE +ENORMOUS TABLE WOULD SAY: “WELL, DMíTRI, YOU’LL SEE THAT THINGS ARE +ALL AS THEY SHOULD BE? THAT’S RIGHT! THE GREAT THING IS THE SERVING, +THAT’S IT.” AND WITH A COMPLACENT SIGH HE WOULD RETURN TO THE +DRAWING ROOM. + +“MáRYA LVóVNA KARáGINA AND HER DAUGHTER!” ANNOUNCED THE +COUNTESS’ GIGANTIC FOOTMAN IN HIS BASS VOICE, ENTERING THE DRAWING +ROOM. THE COUNTESS REFLECTED A MOMENT AND TOOK A PINCH FROM A GOLD +SNUFFBOX WITH HER HUSBAND’S PORTRAIT ON IT. + +“I’M QUITE WORN OUT BY THESE CALLERS. HOWEVER, I’LL SEE HER AND +NO MORE. SHE IS SO AFFECTED. ASK HER IN,” SHE SAID TO THE FOOTMAN IN A +SAD VOICE, AS IF SAYING: “VERY WELL, FINISH ME OFF.” + +A TALL, STOUT, AND PROUD-LOOKING WOMAN, WITH A ROUND-FACED SMILING +DAUGHTER, ENTERED THE DRAWING ROOM, THEIR DRESSES RUSTLING. + +“DEAR COUNTESS, WHAT AN AGE... SHE HAS BEEN LAID UP, POOR CHILD ... +AT THE RAZUMóVSKI’S BALL ... AND COUNTESS APRáKSINA ... I WAS +SO DELIGHTED...” CAME THE SOUNDS OF ANIMATED FEMININE VOICES, +INTERRUPTING ONE ANOTHER AND MINGLING WITH THE RUSTLING OF DRESSES AND +THE SCRAPING OF CHAIRS. THEN ONE OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS BEGAN WHICH LAST +OUT UNTIL, AT THE FIRST PAUSE, THE GUESTS RISE WITH A RUSTLE OF DRESSES +AND SAY, “I AM SO DELIGHTED... MAMMA’S HEALTH... AND COUNTESS +APRáKSINA...” AND THEN, AGAIN RUSTLING, PASS INTO THE ANTEROOM, PUT +ON CLOAKS OR MANTLES, AND DRIVE AWAY. THE CONVERSATION WAS ON THE CHIEF +TOPIC OF THE DAY: THE ILLNESS OF THE WEALTHY AND CELEBRATED BEAU OF +CATHERINE’S DAY, COUNT BEZúKHOV, AND ABOUT HIS ILLEGITIMATE SON +PIERRE, THE ONE WHO HAD BEHAVED SO IMPROPERLY AT ANNA PáVLOVNA’S +RECEPTION. + +“I AM SO SORRY FOR THE POOR COUNT,” SAID THE VISITOR. “HE IS IN +SUCH BAD HEALTH, AND NOW THIS VEXATION ABOUT HIS SON IS ENOUGH TO KILL +HIM!” + +“WHAT IS THAT?” ASKED THE COUNTESS AS IF SHE DID NOT KNOW WHAT THE +VISITOR ALLUDED TO, THOUGH SHE HAD ALREADY HEARD ABOUT THE CAUSE OF +COUNT BEZúKHOV’S DISTRESS SOME FIFTEEN TIMES. + +“THAT’S WHAT COMES OF A MODERN EDUCATION,” EXCLAIMED THE VISITOR. +“IT SEEMS THAT WHILE HE WAS ABROAD THIS YOUNG MAN WAS ALLOWED TO DO +AS HE LIKED, NOW IN PETERSBURG I HEAR HE HAS BEEN DOING SUCH TERRIBLE +THINGS THAT HE HAS BEEN EXPELLED BY THE POLICE.” + +“YOU DON’T SAY SO!” REPLIED THE COUNTESS. + +“HE CHOSE HIS FRIENDS BADLY,” INTERPOSED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. +“PRINCE VASíLI’S SON, HE, AND A CERTAIN DóLOKHOV HAVE, IT IS SAID, +BEEN UP TO HEAVEN ONLY KNOWS WHAT! AND THEY HAVE HAD TO SUFFER FOR IT. +DóLOKHOV HAS BEEN DEGRADED TO THE RANKS AND BEZúKHOV’S SON SENT +BACK TO MOSCOW. ANATOLE KURáGIN’S FATHER MANAGED SOMEHOW TO GET HIS +SON’S AFFAIR HUSHED UP, BUT EVEN HE WAS ORDERED OUT OF PETERSBURG.” + +“BUT WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN UP TO?” ASKED THE COUNTESS. + +“THEY ARE REGULAR BRIGANDS, ESPECIALLY DóLOKHOV,” REPLIED THE +VISITOR. “HE IS A SON OF MáRYA IVáNOVNA DóLOKHOVA, SUCH A WORTHY +WOMAN, BUT THERE, JUST FANCY! THOSE THREE GOT HOLD OF A BEAR SOMEWHERE, +PUT IT IN A CARRIAGE, AND SET OFF WITH IT TO VISIT SOME ACTRESSES! THE +POLICE TRIED TO INTERFERE, AND WHAT DID THE YOUNG MEN DO? THEY TIED +A POLICEMAN AND THE BEAR BACK TO BACK AND PUT THE BEAR INTO THE MOYKA +CANAL. AND THERE WAS THE BEAR SWIMMING ABOUT WITH THE POLICEMAN ON HIS +BACK!” + +“WHAT A NICE FIGURE THE POLICEMAN MUST HAVE CUT, MY DEAR!” SHOUTED +THE COUNT, DYING WITH LAUGHTER. + +“OH, HOW DREADFUL! HOW CAN YOU LAUGH AT IT, COUNT?” + +YET THE LADIES THEMSELVES COULD NOT HELP LAUGHING. + +“IT WAS ALL THEY COULD DO TO RESCUE THE POOR MAN,” CONTINUED THE +VISITOR. “AND TO THINK IT IS CYRIL VLADíMIROVICH BEZúKHOV’S SON +WHO AMUSES HIMSELF IN THIS SENSIBLE MANNER! AND HE WAS SAID TO BE SO +WELL EDUCATED AND CLEVER. THIS IS ALL THAT HIS FOREIGN EDUCATION HAS +DONE FOR HIM! I HOPE THAT HERE IN MOSCOW NO ONE WILL RECEIVE HIM, IN +SPITE OF HIS MONEY. THEY WANTED TO INTRODUCE HIM TO ME, BUT I QUITE +DECLINED: I HAVE MY DAUGHTERS TO CONSIDER.” + +“WHY DO YOU SAY THIS YOUNG MAN IS SO RICH?” ASKED THE COUNTESS, +TURNING AWAY FROM THE GIRLS, WHO AT ONCE ASSUMED AN AIR OF INATTENTION. +“HIS CHILDREN ARE ALL ILLEGITIMATE. I THINK PIERRE ALSO IS +ILLEGITIMATE.” + +THE VISITOR MADE A GESTURE WITH HER HAND. + +“I SHOULD THINK HE HAS A SCORE OF THEM.” + +PRINCESS ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA INTERVENED IN THE CONVERSATION, EVIDENTLY +WISHING TO SHOW HER CONNECTIONS AND KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT WENT ON IN +SOCIETY. + +“THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS,” SAID SHE SIGNIFICANTLY, AND ALSO IN A +HALF WHISPER, “EVERYONE KNOWS COUNT CYRIL’S REPUTATION.... HE HAS +LOST COUNT OF HIS CHILDREN, BUT THIS PIERRE WAS HIS FAVORITE.” + +“HOW HANDSOME THE OLD MAN STILL WAS ONLY A YEAR AGO!” REMARKED THE +COUNTESS. “I HAVE NEVER SEEN A HANDSOMER MAN.” + +“HE IS VERY MUCH ALTERED NOW,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. “WELL, AS +I WAS SAYING, PRINCE VASíLI IS THE NEXT HEIR THROUGH HIS WIFE, BUT THE +COUNT IS VERY FOND OF PIERRE, LOOKED AFTER HIS EDUCATION, AND WROTE TO +THE EMPEROR ABOUT HIM; SO THAT IN THE CASE OF HIS DEATH—AND HE IS +SO ILL THAT HE MAY DIE AT ANY MOMENT, AND DR. LORRAIN HAS COME FROM +PETERSBURG—NO ONE KNOWS WHO WILL INHERIT HIS IMMENSE FORTUNE, PIERRE +OR PRINCE VASíLI. FORTY THOUSAND SERFS AND MILLIONS OF RUBLES! I KNOW +IT ALL VERY WELL FOR PRINCE VASíLI TOLD ME HIMSELF. BESIDES, CYRIL +VLADíMIROVICH IS MY MOTHER’S SECOND COUSIN. HE’S ALSO MY BóRY’S +GODFATHER,” SHE ADDED, AS IF SHE ATTACHED NO IMPORTANCE AT ALL TO THE +FACT. + +“PRINCE VASíLI ARRIVED IN MOSCOW YESTERDAY. I HEAR HE HAS COME ON +SOME INSPECTION BUSINESS,” REMARKED THE VISITOR. + +“YES, BUT BETWEEN OURSELVES,” SAID THE PRINCESS, “THAT IS A +PRETEXT. THE FACT IS HE HAS COME TO SEE COUNT CYRIL VLADíMIROVICH, +HEARING HOW ILL HE IS.” + +“BUT DO YOU KNOW, MY DEAR, THAT WAS A CAPITAL JOKE,” SAID THE COUNT; +AND SEEING THAT THE ELDER VISITOR WAS NOT LISTENING, HE TURNED TO THE +YOUNG LADIES. “I CAN JUST IMAGINE WHAT A FUNNY FIGURE THAT POLICEMAN +CUT!” + +AND AS HE WAVED HIS ARMS TO IMPERSONATE THE POLICEMAN, HIS PORTLY FORM +AGAIN SHOOK WITH A DEEP RINGING LAUGH, THE LAUGH OF ONE WHO ALWAYS EATS +WELL AND, IN PARTICULAR, DRINKS WELL. “SO DO COME AND DINE WITH US!” +HE SAID. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +SILENCE ENSUED. THE COUNTESS LOOKED AT HER CALLERS, SMILING AFFABLY, +BUT NOT CONCEALING THE FACT THAT SHE WOULD NOT BE DISTRESSED IF THEY +NOW ROSE AND TOOK THEIR LEAVE. THE VISITOR’S DAUGHTER WAS ALREADY +SMOOTHING DOWN HER DRESS WITH AN INQUIRING LOOK AT HER MOTHER, WHEN +SUDDENLY FROM THE NEXT ROOM WERE HEARD THE FOOTSTEPS OF BOYS AND GIRLS +RUNNING TO THE DOOR AND THE NOISE OF A CHAIR FALLING OVER, AND A GIRL +OF THIRTEEN, HIDING SOMETHING IN THE FOLDS OF HER SHORT MUSLIN FROCK, +DARTED IN AND STOPPED SHORT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM. IT WAS EVIDENT +THAT SHE HAD NOT INTENDED HER FLIGHT TO BRING HER SO FAR. BEHIND HER IN +THE DOORWAY APPEARED A STUDENT WITH A CRIMSON COAT COLLAR, AN OFFICER +OF THE GUARDS, A GIRL OF FIFTEEN, AND A PLUMP ROSY-FACED BOY IN A SHORT +JACKET. + +THE COUNT JUMPED UP AND, SWAYING FROM SIDE TO SIDE, SPREAD HIS ARMS WIDE +AND THREW THEM ROUND THE LITTLE GIRL WHO HAD RUN IN. + +“AH, HERE SHE IS!” HE EXCLAIMED LAUGHING. “MY PET, WHOSE NAME DAY +IT IS. MY DEAR PET!” + +“MA CHèRE, THERE IS A TIME FOR EVERYTHING,” SAID THE COUNTESS WITH +FEIGNED SEVERITY. “YOU SPOIL HER, ILYá,” SHE ADDED, TURNING TO HER +HUSBAND. + +“HOW DO YOU DO, MY DEAR? I WISH YOU MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF YOUR NAME +DAY,” SAID THE VISITOR. “WHAT A CHARMING CHILD,” SHE ADDED, +ADDRESSING THE MOTHER. + +THIS BLACK-EYED, WIDE-MOUTHED GIRL, NOT PRETTY BUT FULL OF LIFE—WITH +CHILDISH BARE SHOULDERS WHICH AFTER HER RUN HEAVED AND SHOOK HER +BODICE, WITH BLACK CURLS TOSSED BACKWARD, THIN BARE ARMS, LITTLE LEGS +IN LACE-FRILLED DRAWERS, AND FEET IN LOW SLIPPERS—WAS JUST AT THAT +CHARMING AGE WHEN A GIRL IS NO LONGER A CHILD, THOUGH THE CHILD IS NOT +YET A YOUNG WOMAN. ESCAPING FROM HER FATHER SHE RAN TO HIDE HER FLUSHED +FACE IN THE LACE OF HER MOTHER’S MANTILLA—NOT PAYING THE LEAST +ATTENTION TO HER SEVERE REMARK—AND BEGAN TO LAUGH. SHE LAUGHED, AND IN +FRAGMENTARY SENTENCES TRIED TO EXPLAIN ABOUT A DOLL WHICH SHE PRODUCED +FROM THE FOLDS OF HER FROCK. + +“DO YOU SEE?... MY DOLL... MIMI... YOU SEE...” WAS ALL NATáSHA +MANAGED TO UTTER (TO HER EVERYTHING SEEMED FUNNY). SHE LEANED AGAINST +HER MOTHER AND BURST INTO SUCH A LOUD, RINGING FIT OF LAUGHTER THAT EVEN +THE PRIM VISITOR COULD NOT HELP JOINING IN. + +“NOW THEN, GO AWAY AND TAKE YOUR MONSTROSITY WITH YOU,” SAID THE +MOTHER, PUSHING AWAY HER DAUGHTER WITH PRETENDED STERNNESS, AND TURNING +TO THE VISITOR SHE ADDED: “SHE IS MY YOUNGEST GIRL.” + +NATáSHA, RAISING HER FACE FOR A MOMENT FROM HER MOTHER’S MANTILLA, +GLANCED UP AT HER THROUGH TEARS OF LAUGHTER, AND AGAIN HID HER FACE. + +THE VISITOR, COMPELLED TO LOOK ON AT THIS FAMILY SCENE, THOUGHT IT +NECESSARY TO TAKE SOME PART IN IT. + +“TELL ME, MY DEAR,” SAID SHE TO NATáSHA, “IS MIMI A RELATION OF +YOURS? A DAUGHTER, I SUPPOSE?” + +NATáSHA DID NOT LIKE THE VISITOR’S TONE OF CONDESCENSION TO CHILDISH +THINGS. SHE DID NOT REPLY, BUT LOOKED AT HER SERIOUSLY. + +MEANWHILE THE YOUNGER GENERATION: BORíS, THE OFFICER, ANNA +MIKHáYLOVNA’S SON; NICHOLAS, THE UNDERGRADUATE, THE COUNT’S ELDEST +SON; SóNYA, THE COUNT’S FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD NIECE, AND LITTLE PéTYA, +HIS YOUNGEST BOY, HAD ALL SETTLED DOWN IN THE DRAWING ROOM AND WERE +OBVIOUSLY TRYING TO RESTRAIN WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF DECORUM THE EXCITEMENT +AND MIRTH THAT SHONE IN ALL THEIR FACES. EVIDENTLY IN THE BACK ROOMS, +FROM WHICH THEY HAD DASHED OUT SO IMPETUOUSLY, THE CONVERSATION HAD +BEEN MORE AMUSING THAN THE DRAWING ROOM TALK OF SOCIETY SCANDALS, THE +WEATHER, AND COUNTESS APRáKSINA. NOW AND THEN THEY GLANCED AT ONE +ANOTHER, HARDLY ABLE TO SUPPRESS THEIR LAUGHTER. + +THE TWO YOUNG MEN, THE STUDENT AND THE OFFICER, FRIENDS FROM CHILDHOOD, +WERE OF THE SAME AGE AND BOTH HANDSOME FELLOWS, THOUGH NOT ALIKE. BORíS +WAS TALL AND FAIR, AND HIS CALM AND HANDSOME FACE HAD REGULAR, DELICATE +FEATURES. NICHOLAS WAS SHORT WITH CURLY HAIR AND AN OPEN EXPRESSION. +DARK HAIRS WERE ALREADY SHOWING ON HIS UPPER LIP, AND HIS WHOLE FACE +EXPRESSED IMPETUOSITY AND ENTHUSIASM. NICHOLAS BLUSHED WHEN HE ENTERED +THE DRAWING ROOM. HE EVIDENTLY TRIED TO FIND SOMETHING TO SAY, BUT +FAILED. BORíS ON THE CONTRARY AT ONCE FOUND HIS FOOTING, AND RELATED +QUIETLY AND HUMOROUSLY HOW HE HAD KNOWN THAT DOLL MIMI WHEN SHE WAS +STILL QUITE A YOUNG LADY, BEFORE HER NOSE WAS BROKEN; HOW SHE HAD AGED +DURING THE FIVE YEARS HE HAD KNOWN HER, AND HOW HER HEAD HAD CRACKED +RIGHT ACROSS THE SKULL. HAVING SAID THIS HE GLANCED AT NATáSHA. +SHE TURNED AWAY FROM HIM AND GLANCED AT HER YOUNGER BROTHER, WHO WAS +SCREWING UP HIS EYES AND SHAKING WITH SUPPRESSED LAUGHTER, AND UNABLE +TO CONTROL HERSELF ANY LONGER, SHE JUMPED UP AND RUSHED FROM THE ROOM AS +FAST AS HER NIMBLE LITTLE FEET WOULD CARRY HER. BORíS DID NOT LAUGH. + +“YOU WERE MEANING TO GO OUT, WEREN’T YOU, MAMMA? DO YOU WANT THE +CARRIAGE?” HE ASKED HIS MOTHER WITH A SMILE. + +“YES, YES, GO AND TELL THEM TO GET IT READY,” SHE ANSWERED, +RETURNING HIS SMILE. + +BORíS QUIETLY LEFT THE ROOM AND WENT IN SEARCH OF NATáSHA. THE PLUMP +BOY RAN AFTER THEM ANGRILY, AS IF VEXED THAT THEIR PROGRAM HAD BEEN +DISTURBED. + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +THE ONLY YOUNG PEOPLE REMAINING IN THE DRAWING ROOM, NOT COUNTING THE +YOUNG LADY VISITOR AND THE COUNTESS’ ELDEST DAUGHTER (WHO WAS FOUR +YEARS OLDER THAN HER SISTER AND BEHAVED ALREADY LIKE A GROWN-UP PERSON), +WERE NICHOLAS AND SóNYA, THE NIECE. SóNYA WAS A SLENDER LITTLE +BRUNETTE WITH A TENDER LOOK IN HER EYES WHICH WERE VEILED BY LONG +LASHES, THICK BLACK PLAITS COILING TWICE ROUND HER HEAD, AND A TAWNY +TINT IN HER COMPLEXION AND ESPECIALLY IN THE COLOR OF HER SLENDER BUT +GRACEFUL AND MUSCULAR ARMS AND NECK. BY THE GRACE OF HER MOVEMENTS, +BY THE SOFTNESS AND FLEXIBILITY OF HER SMALL LIMBS, AND BY A CERTAIN +COYNESS AND RESERVE OF MANNER, SHE REMINDED ONE OF A PRETTY, HALF-GROWN +KITTEN WHICH PROMISES TO BECOME A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE CAT. SHE EVIDENTLY +CONSIDERED IT PROPER TO SHOW AN INTEREST IN THE GENERAL CONVERSATION BY +SMILING, BUT IN SPITE OF HERSELF HER EYES UNDER THEIR THICK LONG LASHES +WATCHED HER COUSIN WHO WAS GOING TO JOIN THE ARMY, WITH SUCH PASSIONATE +GIRLISH ADORATION THAT HER SMILE COULD NOT FOR A SINGLE INSTANT IMPOSE +UPON ANYONE, AND IT WAS CLEAR THAT THE KITTEN HAD SETTLED DOWN ONLY TO +SPRING UP WITH MORE ENERGY AND AGAIN PLAY WITH HER COUSIN AS SOON AS +THEY TOO COULD, LIKE NATáSHA AND BORíS, ESCAPE FROM THE DRAWING ROOM. + +“AH YES, MY DEAR,” SAID THE COUNT, ADDRESSING THE VISITOR AND +POINTING TO NICHOLAS, “HIS FRIEND BORíS HAS BECOME AN OFFICER, AND +SO FOR FRIENDSHIP’S SAKE HE IS LEAVING THE UNIVERSITY AND ME, HIS +OLD FATHER, AND ENTERING THE MILITARY SERVICE, MY DEAR. AND THERE WAS A +PLACE AND EVERYTHING WAITING FOR HIM IN THE ARCHIVES DEPARTMENT! ISN’T +THAT FRIENDSHIP?” REMARKED THE COUNT IN AN INQUIRING TONE. + +“BUT THEY SAY THAT WAR HAS BEEN DECLARED,” REPLIED THE VISITOR. + +“THEY’VE BEEN SAYING SO A LONG WHILE,” SAID THE COUNT, “AND +THEY’LL SAY SO AGAIN AND AGAIN, AND THAT WILL BE THE END OF IT. MY +DEAR, THERE’S FRIENDSHIP FOR YOU,” HE REPEATED. “HE’S JOINING +THE HUSSARS.” + +THE VISITOR, NOT KNOWING WHAT TO SAY, SHOOK HER HEAD. + +“IT’S NOT AT ALL FROM FRIENDSHIP,” DECLARED NICHOLAS, FLARING +UP AND TURNING AWAY AS IF FROM A SHAMEFUL ASPERSION. “IT IS NOT FROM +FRIENDSHIP AT ALL; I SIMPLY FEEL THAT THE ARMY IS MY VOCATION.” + +HE GLANCED AT HIS COUSIN AND THE YOUNG LADY VISITOR; AND THEY WERE BOTH +REGARDING HIM WITH A SMILE OF APPROBATION. + +“SCHUBERT, THE COLONEL OF THE PáVLOGRAD HUSSARS, IS DINING WITH US +TODAY. HE HAS BEEN HERE ON LEAVE AND IS TAKING NICHOLAS BACK WITH HIM. +IT CAN’T BE HELPED!” SAID THE COUNT, SHRUGGING HIS SHOULDERS AND +SPEAKING PLAYFULLY OF A MATTER THAT EVIDENTLY DISTRESSED HIM. + +“I HAVE ALREADY TOLD YOU, PAPA,” SAID HIS SON, “THAT IF YOU +DON’T WISH TO LET ME GO, I’LL STAY. BUT I KNOW I AM NO USE ANYWHERE +EXCEPT IN THE ARMY; I AM NOT A DIPLOMAT OR A GOVERNMENT CLERK.—I +DON’T KNOW HOW TO HIDE WHAT I FEEL.” AS HE SPOKE HE KEPT GLANCING +WITH THE FLIRTATIOUSNESS OF A HANDSOME YOUTH AT SóNYA AND THE YOUNG +LADY VISITOR. + +THE LITTLE KITTEN, FEASTING HER EYES ON HIM, SEEMED READY AT ANY MOMENT +TO START HER GAMBOLS AGAIN AND DISPLAY HER KITTENISH NATURE. + +“ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT!” SAID THE OLD COUNT. “HE ALWAYS FLARES UP! +THIS BUONAPARTE HAS TURNED ALL THEIR HEADS; THEY ALL THINK OF HOW HE +ROSE FROM AN ENSIGN AND BECAME EMPEROR. WELL, WELL, GOD GRANT IT,” HE +ADDED, NOT NOTICING HIS VISITOR’S SARCASTIC SMILE. + +THE ELDERS BEGAN TALKING ABOUT BONAPARTE. JULIE KARáGINA TURNED TO +YOUNG ROSTóV. + +“WHAT A PITY YOU WEREN’T AT THE ARKHáROVS’ ON THURSDAY. IT WAS SO +DULL WITHOUT YOU,” SAID SHE, GIVING HIM A TENDER SMILE. + +THE YOUNG MAN, FLATTERED, SAT DOWN NEARER TO HER WITH A COQUETTISH +SMILE, AND ENGAGED THE SMILING JULIE IN A CONFIDENTIAL CONVERSATION +WITHOUT AT ALL NOTICING THAT HIS INVOLUNTARY SMILE HAD STABBED THE HEART +OF SóNYA, WHO BLUSHED AND SMILED UNNATURALLY. IN THE MIDST OF HIS TALK +HE GLANCED ROUND AT HER. SHE GAVE HIM A PASSIONATELY ANGRY GLANCE, AND +HARDLY ABLE TO RESTRAIN HER TEARS AND MAINTAIN THE ARTIFICIAL SMILE +ON HER LIPS, SHE GOT UP AND LEFT THE ROOM. ALL NICHOLAS’ ANIMATION +VANISHED. HE WAITED FOR THE FIRST PAUSE IN THE CONVERSATION, AND THEN +WITH A DISTRESSED FACE LEFT THE ROOM TO FIND SóNYA. + +“HOW PLAINLY ALL THESE YOUNG PEOPLE WEAR THEIR HEARTS ON THEIR +SLEEVES!” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, POINTING TO NICHOLAS AS HE WENT OUT. +“COUSINAGE—DANGEREUX VOISINAGE,” * SHE ADDED. + + * COUSINHOOD IS A DANGEROUS NEIGHBORHOOD. + +“YES,” SAID THE COUNTESS WHEN THE BRIGHTNESS THESE YOUNG PEOPLE HAD +BROUGHT INTO THE ROOM HAD VANISHED; AND AS IF ANSWERING A QUESTION NO +ONE HAD PUT BUT WHICH WAS ALWAYS IN HER MIND, “AND HOW MUCH SUFFERING, +HOW MUCH ANXIETY ONE HAS HAD TO GO THROUGH THAT WE MIGHT REJOICE IN +THEM NOW! AND YET REALLY THE ANXIETY IS GREATER NOW THAN THE JOY. ONE IS +ALWAYS, ALWAYS ANXIOUS! ESPECIALLY JUST AT THIS AGE, SO DANGEROUS BOTH +FOR GIRLS AND BOYS.” + +“IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE BRINGING UP,” REMARKED THE VISITOR. + +“YES, YOU’RE QUITE RIGHT,” CONTINUED THE COUNTESS. “TILL NOW I +HAVE ALWAYS, THANK GOD, BEEN MY CHILDREN’S FRIEND AND HAD THEIR FULL +CONFIDENCE,” SAID SHE, REPEATING THE MISTAKE OF SO MANY PARENTS WHO +IMAGINE THAT THEIR CHILDREN HAVE NO SECRETS FROM THEM. “I KNOW I SHALL +ALWAYS BE MY DAUGHTERS’ FIRST CONFIDANTE, AND THAT IF NICHOLAS, WITH +HIS IMPULSIVE NATURE, DOES GET INTO MISCHIEF (A BOY CAN’T HELP IT), HE +WILL ALL THE SAME NEVER BE LIKE THOSE PETERSBURG YOUNG MEN.” + +“YES, THEY ARE SPLENDID, SPLENDID YOUNGSTERS,” CHIMED IN THE COUNT, +WHO ALWAYS SOLVED QUESTIONS THAT SEEMED TO HIM PERPLEXING BY DECIDING +THAT EVERYTHING WAS SPLENDID. “JUST FANCY: WANTS TO BE AN HUSSAR. +WHAT’S ONE TO DO, MY DEAR?” + +“WHAT A CHARMING CREATURE YOUR YOUNGER GIRL IS,” SAID THE VISITOR; +“A LITTLE VOLCANO!” + +“YES, A REGULAR VOLCANO,” SAID THE COUNT. “TAKES AFTER ME! AND +WHAT A VOICE SHE HAS; THOUGH SHE’S MY DAUGHTER, I TELL THE TRUTH +WHEN I SAY SHE’LL BE A SINGER, A SECOND SALOMONI! WE HAVE ENGAGED AN +ITALIAN TO GIVE HER LESSONS.” + +“ISN’T SHE TOO YOUNG? I HAVE HEARD THAT IT HARMS THE VOICE TO TRAIN +IT AT THAT AGE.” + +“OH NO, NOT AT ALL TOO YOUNG!” REPLIED THE COUNT. “WHY, OUR +MOTHERS USED TO BE MARRIED AT TWELVE OR THIRTEEN.” + +“AND SHE’S IN LOVE WITH BORíS ALREADY. JUST FANCY!” SAID THE +COUNTESS WITH A GENTLE SMILE, LOOKING AT BORíS AND WENT ON, EVIDENTLY +CONCERNED WITH A THOUGHT THAT ALWAYS OCCUPIED HER: “NOW YOU SEE IF I +WERE TO BE SEVERE WITH HER AND TO FORBID IT ... GOODNESS KNOWS WHAT THEY +MIGHT BE UP TO ON THE SLY” (SHE MEANT THAT THEY WOULD BE KISSING), +“BUT AS IT IS, I KNOW EVERY WORD SHE UTTERS. SHE WILL COME RUNNING TO +ME OF HER OWN ACCORD IN THE EVENING AND TELL ME EVERYTHING. PERHAPS I +SPOIL HER, BUT REALLY THAT SEEMS THE BEST PLAN. WITH HER ELDER SISTER I +WAS STRICTER.” + +“YES, I WAS BROUGHT UP QUITE DIFFERENTLY,” REMARKED THE HANDSOME +ELDER DAUGHTER, COUNTESS VéRA, WITH A SMILE. + +BUT THE SMILE DID NOT ENHANCE VéRA’S BEAUTY AS SMILES GENERALLY DO; +ON THE CONTRARY IT GAVE HER AN UNNATURAL, AND THEREFORE UNPLEASANT, +EXPRESSION. VéRA WAS GOOD-LOOKING, NOT AT ALL STUPID, QUICK AT +LEARNING, WAS WELL BROUGHT UP, AND HAD A PLEASANT VOICE; WHAT SHE SAID +WAS TRUE AND APPROPRIATE, YET, STRANGE TO SAY, EVERYONE—THE VISITORS +AND COUNTESS ALIKE—TURNED TO LOOK AT HER AS IF WONDERING WHY SHE HAD +SAID IT, AND THEY ALL FELT AWKWARD. + +“PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS TOO CLEVER WITH THEIR ELDEST CHILDREN AND TRY TO +MAKE SOMETHING EXCEPTIONAL OF THEM,” SAID THE VISITOR. + +“WHAT’S THE GOOD OF DENYING IT, MY DEAR? OUR DEAR COUNTESS WAS TOO +CLEVER WITH VéRA,” SAID THE COUNT. “WELL, WHAT OF THAT? SHE’S +TURNED OUT SPLENDIDLY ALL THE SAME,” HE ADDED, WINKING AT VéRA. + +THE GUESTS GOT UP AND TOOK THEIR LEAVE, PROMISING TO RETURN TO DINNER. + +“WHAT MANNERS! I THOUGHT THEY WOULD NEVER GO,” SAID THE COUNTESS, +WHEN SHE HAD SEEN HER GUESTS OUT. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIII + +WHEN NATáSHA RAN OUT OF THE DRAWING ROOM SHE ONLY WENT AS FAR AS THE +CONSERVATORY. THERE SHE PAUSED AND STOOD LISTENING TO THE CONVERSATION +IN THE DRAWING ROOM, WAITING FOR BORíS TO COME OUT. SHE WAS ALREADY +GROWING IMPATIENT, AND STAMPED HER FOOT, READY TO CRY AT HIS NOT COMING +AT ONCE, WHEN SHE HEARD THE YOUNG MAN’S DISCREET STEPS APPROACHING +NEITHER QUICKLY NOR SLOWLY. AT THIS NATáSHA DASHED SWIFTLY AMONG THE +FLOWER TUBS AND HID THERE. + +BORíS PAUSED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM, LOOKED ROUND, BRUSHED A LITTLE +DUST FROM THE SLEEVE OF HIS UNIFORM, AND GOING UP TO A MIRROR EXAMINED +HIS HANDSOME FACE. NATáSHA, VERY STILL, PEERED OUT FROM HER AMBUSH, +WAITING TO SEE WHAT HE WOULD DO. HE STOOD A LITTLE WHILE BEFORE THE +GLASS, SMILED, AND WALKED TOWARD THE OTHER DOOR. NATáSHA WAS ABOUT TO +CALL HIM BUT CHANGED HER MIND. “LET HIM LOOK FOR ME,” THOUGHT SHE. +HARDLY HAD BORíS GONE THAN SóNYA, FLUSHED, IN TEARS, AND MUTTERING +ANGRILY, CAME IN AT THE OTHER DOOR. NATáSHA CHECKED HER FIRST IMPULSE +TO RUN OUT TO HER, AND REMAINED IN HER HIDING PLACE, WATCHING—AS +UNDER AN INVISIBLE CAP—TO SEE WHAT WENT ON IN THE WORLD. SHE WAS +EXPERIENCING A NEW AND PECULIAR PLEASURE. SóNYA, MUTTERING TO HERSELF, +KEPT LOOKING ROUND TOWARD THE DRAWING ROOM DOOR. IT OPENED AND NICHOLAS +CAME IN. + +“SóNYA, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? HOW CAN YOU?” SAID HE, RUNNING +UP TO HER. + +“IT’S NOTHING, NOTHING; LEAVE ME ALONE!” SOBBED SóNYA. + +“AH, I KNOW WHAT IT IS.” + +“WELL, IF YOU DO, SO MUCH THE BETTER, AND YOU CAN GO BACK TO HER!” + +“Só-O-ONYA! LOOK HERE! HOW CAN YOU TORTURE ME AND YOURSELF LIKE THAT, +FOR A MERE FANCY?” SAID NICHOLAS TAKING HER HAND. + +SóNYA DID NOT PULL IT AWAY, AND LEFT OFF CRYING. NATáSHA, NOT STIRRING +AND SCARCELY BREATHING, WATCHED FROM HER AMBUSH WITH SPARKLING EYES. +“WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOW?” THOUGHT SHE. + +“SóNYA! WHAT IS ANYONE IN THE WORLD TO ME? YOU ALONE ARE +EVERYTHING!” SAID NICHOLAS. “AND I WILL PROVE IT TO YOU.” + +“I DON’T LIKE YOU TO TALK LIKE THAT.” + +“WELL, THEN, I WON’T; ONLY FORGIVE ME, SóNYA!” HE DREW HER TO HIM +AND KISSED HER. + +“OH, HOW NICE,” THOUGHT NATáSHA; AND WHEN SóNYA AND NICHOLAS HAD +GONE OUT OF THE CONSERVATORY SHE FOLLOWED AND CALLED BORíS TO HER. + +“BORíS, COME HERE,” SAID SHE WITH A SLY AND SIGNIFICANT LOOK. “I +HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL YOU. HERE, HERE!” AND SHE LED HIM INTO THE +CONSERVATORY TO THE PLACE AMONG THE TUBS WHERE SHE HAD BEEN HIDING. + +BORíS FOLLOWED HER, SMILING. + +“WHAT IS THE SOMETHING?” ASKED HE. + +SHE GREW CONFUSED, GLANCED ROUND, AND, SEEING THE DOLL SHE HAD THROWN +DOWN ON ONE OF THE TUBS, PICKED IT UP. + +“KISS THE DOLL,” SAID SHE. + +BORíS LOOKED ATTENTIVELY AND KINDLY AT HER EAGER FACE, BUT DID NOT +REPLY. + +“DON’T YOU WANT TO? WELL, THEN, COME HERE,” SAID SHE, AND +WENT FURTHER IN AMONG THE PLANTS AND THREW DOWN THE DOLL. “CLOSER, +CLOSER!” SHE WHISPERED. + +SHE CAUGHT THE YOUNG OFFICER BY HIS CUFFS, AND A LOOK OF SOLEMNITY AND +FEAR APPEARED ON HER FLUSHED FACE. + +“AND ME? WOULD YOU LIKE TO KISS ME?” SHE WHISPERED ALMOST INAUDIBLY, +GLANCING UP AT HIM FROM UNDER HER BROWS, SMILING, AND ALMOST CRYING FROM +EXCITEMENT. + +BORíS BLUSHED. + +“HOW FUNNY YOU ARE!” HE SAID, BENDING DOWN TO HER AND BLUSHING STILL +MORE, BUT HE WAITED AND DID NOTHING. + +SUDDENLY SHE JUMPED UP ONTO A TUB TO BE HIGHER THAN HE, EMBRACED HIM SO +THAT BOTH HER SLENDER BARE ARMS CLASPED HIM ABOVE HIS NECK, AND, TOSSING +BACK HER HAIR, KISSED HIM FULL ON THE LIPS. + +THEN SHE SLIPPED DOWN AMONG THE FLOWERPOTS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TUBS +AND STOOD, HANGING HER HEAD. + +“NATáSHA,” HE SAID, “YOU KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU, BUT....” + +“YOU ARE IN LOVE WITH ME?” NATáSHA BROKE IN. + +“YES, I AM, BUT PLEASE DON’T LET US DO LIKE THAT.... IN ANOTHER FOUR +YEARS ... THEN I WILL ASK FOR YOUR HAND.” + +NATáSHA CONSIDERED. + +“THIRTEEN, FOURTEEN, FIFTEEN, SIXTEEN,” SHE COUNTED ON HER SLENDER +LITTLE FINGERS. “ALL RIGHT! THEN IT’S SETTLED?” + +A SMILE OF JOY AND SATISFACTION LIT UP HER EAGER FACE. + +“SETTLED!” REPLIED BORíS. + +“FOREVER?” SAID THE LITTLE GIRL. “TILL DEATH ITSELF?” + +SHE TOOK HIS ARM AND WITH A HAPPY FACE WENT WITH HIM INTO THE ADJOINING +SITTING ROOM. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +AFTER RECEIVING HER VISITORS, THE COUNTESS WAS SO TIRED THAT SHE GAVE +ORDERS TO ADMIT NO MORE, BUT THE PORTER WAS TOLD TO BE SURE TO INVITE TO +DINNER ALL WHO CAME “TO CONGRATULATE.” THE COUNTESS WISHED TO HAVE +A TêTE-à-TêTE TALK WITH THE FRIEND OF HER CHILDHOOD, PRINCESS ANNA +MIKHáYLOVNA, WHOM SHE HAD NOT SEEN PROPERLY SINCE SHE RETURNED FROM +PETERSBURG. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, WITH HER TEAR-WORN BUT PLEASANT FACE, +DREW HER CHAIR NEARER TO THAT OF THE COUNTESS. + +“WITH YOU I WILL BE QUITE FRANK,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. “THERE +ARE NOT MANY LEFT OF US OLD FRIENDS! THAT’S WHY I SO VALUE YOUR +FRIENDSHIP.” + +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA LOOKED AT VéRA AND PAUSED. THE COUNTESS PRESSED HER +FRIEND’S HAND. + +“VéRA,” SHE SAID TO HER ELDEST DAUGHTER WHO WAS EVIDENTLY NOT A +FAVORITE, “HOW IS IT YOU HAVE SO LITTLE TACT? DON’T YOU SEE YOU ARE +NOT WANTED HERE? GO TO THE OTHER GIRLS, OR...” + +THE HANDSOME VéRA SMILED CONTEMPTUOUSLY BUT DID NOT SEEM AT ALL HURT. + +“IF YOU HAD TOLD ME SOONER, MAMMA, I WOULD HAVE GONE,” SHE REPLIED +AS SHE ROSE TO GO TO HER OWN ROOM. + +BUT AS SHE PASSED THE SITTING ROOM SHE NOTICED TWO COUPLES SITTING, +ONE PAIR AT EACH WINDOW. SHE STOPPED AND SMILED SCORNFULLY. SóNYA WAS +SITTING CLOSE TO NICHOLAS WHO WAS COPYING OUT SOME VERSES FOR HER, THE +FIRST HE HAD EVER WRITTEN. BORíS AND NATáSHA WERE AT THE OTHER WINDOW +AND CEASED TALKING WHEN VéRA ENTERED. SóNYA AND NATáSHA LOOKED AT +VéRA WITH GUILTY, HAPPY FACES. + +IT WAS PLEASANT AND TOUCHING TO SEE THESE LITTLE GIRLS IN LOVE; BUT +APPARENTLY THE SIGHT OF THEM ROUSED NO PLEASANT FEELING IN VéRA. + +“HOW OFTEN HAVE I ASKED YOU NOT TO TAKE MY THINGS?” SHE SAID. “YOU +HAVE A ROOM OF YOUR OWN,” AND SHE TOOK THE INKSTAND FROM NICHOLAS. + +“IN A MINUTE, IN A MINUTE,” HE SAID, DIPPING HIS PEN. + +“YOU ALWAYS MANAGE TO DO THINGS AT THE WRONG TIME,” CONTINUED VéRA. +“YOU CAME RUSHING INTO THE DRAWING ROOM SO THAT EVERYONE FELT ASHAMED +OF YOU.” + +THOUGH WHAT SHE SAID WAS QUITE JUST, PERHAPS FOR THAT VERY REASON NO ONE +REPLIED, AND THE FOUR SIMPLY LOOKED AT ONE ANOTHER. SHE LINGERED IN THE +ROOM WITH THE INKSTAND IN HER HAND. + +“AND AT YOUR AGE WHAT SECRETS CAN THERE BE BETWEEN NATáSHA AND +BORíS, OR BETWEEN YOU TWO? IT’S ALL NONSENSE!” + +“NOW, VéRA, WHAT DOES IT MATTER TO YOU?” SAID NATáSHA IN DEFENSE, +SPEAKING VERY GENTLY. + +SHE SEEMED THAT DAY TO BE MORE THAN EVER KIND AND AFFECTIONATE TO +EVERYONE. + +“VERY SILLY,” SAID VéRA. “I AM ASHAMED OF YOU. SECRETS INDEED!” + +“ALL HAVE SECRETS OF THEIR OWN,” ANSWERED NATáSHA, GETTING WARMER. +“WE DON’T INTERFERE WITH YOU AND BERG.” + +“I SHOULD THINK NOT,” SAID VéRA, “BECAUSE THERE CAN NEVER BE +ANYTHING WRONG IN MY BEHAVIOR. BUT I’LL JUST TELL MAMMA HOW YOU ARE +BEHAVING WITH BORíS.” + +“NATáLYA ILYNíCHNA BEHAVES VERY WELL TO ME,” REMARKED BORíS. “I +HAVE NOTHING TO COMPLAIN OF.” + +“DON’T, BORíS! YOU ARE SUCH A DIPLOMAT THAT IT IS REALLY +TIRESOME,” SAID NATáSHA IN A MORTIFIED VOICE THAT TREMBLED SLIGHTLY. +(SHE USED THE WORD “DIPLOMAT,” WHICH WAS JUST THEN MUCH IN VOGUE +AMONG THE CHILDREN, IN THE SPECIAL SENSE THEY ATTACHED TO IT.) “WHY +DOES SHE BOTHER ME?” AND SHE ADDED, TURNING TO VéRA, “YOU’LL +NEVER UNDERSTAND IT, BECAUSE YOU’VE NEVER LOVED ANYONE. YOU HAVE NO +HEART! YOU ARE A MADAME DE GENLIS AND NOTHING MORE” (THIS NICKNAME, +BESTOWED ON VéRA BY NICHOLAS, WAS CONSIDERED VERY STINGING), “AND +YOUR GREATEST PLEASURE IS TO BE UNPLEASANT TO PEOPLE! GO AND FLIRT WITH +BERG AS MUCH AS YOU PLEASE,” SHE FINISHED QUICKLY. + +“I SHALL AT ANY RATE NOT RUN AFTER A YOUNG MAN BEFORE VISITORS...” + +“WELL, NOW YOU’VE DONE WHAT YOU WANTED,” PUT IN NICHOLAS—“SAID +UNPLEASANT THINGS TO EVERYONE AND UPSET THEM. LET’S GO TO THE +NURSERY.” + +ALL FOUR, LIKE A FLOCK OF SCARED BIRDS, GOT UP AND LEFT THE ROOM. + +“THE UNPLEASANT THINGS WERE SAID TO ME,” REMARKED VéRA, “I SAID +NONE TO ANYONE.” + +“MADAME DE GENLIS! MADAME DE GENLIS!” SHOUTED LAUGHING VOICES +THROUGH THE DOOR. + +THE HANDSOME VéRA, WHO PRODUCED SUCH AN IRRITATING AND UNPLEASANT +EFFECT ON EVERYONE, SMILED AND, EVIDENTLY UNMOVED BY WHAT HAD BEEN +SAID TO HER, WENT TO THE LOOKING GLASS AND ARRANGED HER HAIR AND SCARF. +LOOKING AT HER OWN HANDSOME FACE SHE SEEMED TO BECOME STILL COLDER AND +CALMER. + + +IN THE DRAWING ROOM THE CONVERSATION WAS STILL GOING ON. + +“AH, MY DEAR,” SAID THE COUNTESS, “MY LIFE IS NOT ALL ROSES +EITHER. DON’T I KNOW THAT AT THE RATE WE ARE LIVING OUR MEANS WON’T +LAST LONG? IT’S ALL THE CLUB AND HIS EASYGOING NATURE. EVEN IN THE +COUNTRY DO WE GET ANY REST? THEATRICALS, HUNTING, AND HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT +BESIDES! BUT DON’T LET’S TALK ABOUT ME; TELL ME HOW YOU MANAGED +EVERYTHING. I OFTEN WONDER AT YOU, ANNETTE—HOW AT YOUR AGE YOU +CAN RUSH OFF ALONE IN A CARRIAGE TO MOSCOW, TO PETERSBURG, TO THOSE +MINISTERS AND GREAT PEOPLE, AND KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM ALL! IT’S +QUITE ASTONISHING. HOW DID YOU GET THINGS SETTLED? I COULDN’T POSSIBLY +DO IT.” + +“AH, MY LOVE,” ANSWERED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, “GOD GRANT YOU NEVER +KNOW WHAT IT IS TO BE LEFT A WIDOW WITHOUT MEANS AND WITH A SON YOU LOVE +TO DISTRACTION! ONE LEARNS MANY THINGS THEN,” SHE ADDED WITH A CERTAIN +PRIDE. “THAT LAWSUIT TAUGHT ME MUCH. WHEN I WANT TO SEE ONE OF THOSE +BIG PEOPLE I WRITE A NOTE: ‘PRINCESS SO-AND-SO DESIRES AN INTERVIEW +WITH SO AND-SO,’ AND THEN I TAKE A CAB AND GO MYSELF TWO, THREE, OR +FOUR TIMES—TILL I GET WHAT I WANT. I DON’T MIND WHAT THEY THINK OF +ME.” + +“WELL, AND TO WHOM DID YOU APPLY ABOUT BóRY?” ASKED THE COUNTESS. +“YOU SEE YOURS IS ALREADY AN OFFICER IN THE GUARDS, WHILE MY NICHOLAS +IS GOING AS A CADET. THERE’S NO ONE TO INTEREST HIMSELF FOR HIM. TO +WHOM DID YOU APPLY?” + +“TO PRINCE VASíLI. HE WAS SO KIND. HE AT ONCE AGREED TO EVERYTHING, +AND PUT THE MATTER BEFORE THE EMPEROR,” SAID PRINCESS ANNA +MIKHáYLOVNA ENTHUSIASTICALLY, QUITE FORGETTING ALL THE HUMILIATION SHE +HAD ENDURED TO GAIN HER END. + +“HAS PRINCE VASíLI AGED MUCH?” ASKED THE COUNTESS. “I HAVE NOT +SEEN HIM SINCE WE ACTED TOGETHER AT THE RUMYáNTSOVS’ THEATRICALS. I +EXPECT HE HAS FORGOTTEN ME. HE PAID ME ATTENTIONS IN THOSE DAYS,” SAID +THE COUNTESS, WITH A SMILE. + +“HE IS JUST THE SAME AS EVER,” REPLIED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, +“OVERFLOWING WITH AMIABILITY. HIS POSITION HAS NOT TURNED HIS HEAD +AT ALL. HE SAID TO ME, ‘I AM SORRY I CAN DO SO LITTLE FOR YOU, DEAR +PRINCESS. I AM AT YOUR COMMAND.’ YES, HE IS A FINE FELLOW AND A VERY +KIND RELATION. BUT, NATALY, YOU KNOW MY LOVE FOR MY SON: I WOULD DO +ANYTHING FOR HIS HAPPINESS! AND MY AFFAIRS ARE IN SUCH A BAD WAY THAT MY +POSITION IS NOW A TERRIBLE ONE,” CONTINUED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, SADLY, +DROPPING HER VOICE. “MY WRETCHED LAWSUIT TAKES ALL I HAVE AND MAKES NO +PROGRESS. WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT, I HAVE LITERALLY NOT A PENNY AND DON’T +KNOW HOW TO EQUIP BORíS.” SHE TOOK OUT HER HANDKERCHIEF AND BEGAN TO +CRY. “I NEED FIVE HUNDRED RUBLES, AND HAVE ONLY ONE TWENTY-FIVE-RUBLE +NOTE. I AM IN SUCH A STATE.... MY ONLY HOPE NOW IS IN COUNT CYRIL +VLADíMIROVICH BEZúKHOV. IF HE WILL NOT ASSIST HIS GODSON—YOU KNOW +HE IS BóRY’S GODFATHER—AND ALLOW HIM SOMETHING FOR HIS MAINTENANCE, +ALL MY TROUBLE WILL HAVE BEEN THROWN AWAY.... I SHALL NOT BE ABLE TO +EQUIP HIM.” + +THE COUNTESS’ EYES FILLED WITH TEARS AND SHE PONDERED IN SILENCE. + +“I OFTEN THINK, THOUGH, PERHAPS IT’S A SIN,” SAID THE PRINCESS, +“THAT HERE LIVES COUNT CYRIL VLADíMIROVICH BEZúKHOV SO RICH, ALL +ALONE... THAT TREMENDOUS FORTUNE... AND WHAT IS HIS LIFE WORTH? IT’S A +BURDEN TO HIM, AND BóRY’S LIFE IS ONLY JUST BEGINNING....” + +“SURELY HE WILL LEAVE SOMETHING TO BORíS,” SAID THE COUNTESS. + +“HEAVEN ONLY KNOWS, MY DEAR! THESE RICH GRANDEES ARE SO SELFISH. +STILL, I WILL TAKE BORíS AND GO TO SEE HIM AT ONCE, AND I SHALL SPEAK +TO HIM STRAIGHT OUT. LET PEOPLE THINK WHAT THEY WILL OF ME, IT’S +REALLY ALL THE SAME TO ME WHEN MY SON’S FATE IS AT STAKE.” THE +PRINCESS ROSE. “IT’S NOW TWO O’CLOCK AND YOU DINE AT FOUR. THERE +WILL JUST BE TIME.” + +AND LIKE A PRACTICAL PETERSBURG LADY WHO KNOWS HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF +TIME, ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA SENT SOMEONE TO CALL HER SON, AND WENT INTO THE +ANTEROOM WITH HIM. + +“GOOD-BY, MY DEAR,” SAID SHE TO THE COUNTESS WHO SAW HER TO THE +DOOR, AND ADDED IN A WHISPER SO THAT HER SON SHOULD NOT HEAR, “WISH ME +GOOD LUCK.” + +“ARE YOU GOING TO COUNT CYRIL VLADíMIROVICH, MY DEAR?” SAID THE +COUNT COMING OUT FROM THE DINING HALL INTO THE ANTEROOM, AND HE ADDED: +“IF HE IS BETTER, ASK PIERRE TO DINE WITH US. HE HAS BEEN TO THE +HOUSE, YOU KNOW, AND DANCED WITH THE CHILDREN. BE SURE TO INVITE HIM, MY +DEAR. WE WILL SEE HOW TARáS DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF TODAY. HE SAYS COUNT +ORLóV NEVER GAVE SUCH A DINNER AS OURS WILL BE!” + + + + + +CHAPTER XV + +“MY DEAR BORíS,” SAID PRINCESS ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA TO HER SON AS +COUNTESS ROSTóVA’S CARRIAGE IN WHICH THEY WERE SEATED DROVE OVER THE +STRAW COVERED STREET AND TURNED INTO THE WIDE COURTYARD OF COUNT CYRIL +VLADíMIROVICH BEZúKHOV’S HOUSE. “MY DEAR BORíS,” SAID THE +MOTHER, DRAWING HER HAND FROM BENEATH HER OLD MANTLE AND LAYING +IT TIMIDLY AND TENDERLY ON HER SON’S ARM, “BE AFFECTIONATE AND +ATTENTIVE TO HIM. COUNT CYRIL VLADíMIROVICH IS YOUR GODFATHER AFTER +ALL, AND YOUR FUTURE DEPENDS ON HIM. REMEMBER THAT, MY DEAR, AND BE NICE +TO HIM, AS YOU SO WELL KNOW HOW TO BE.” + +“IF ONLY I KNEW THAT ANYTHING BESIDES HUMILIATION WOULD COME OF +IT...” ANSWERED HER SON COLDLY. “BUT I HAVE PROMISED AND WILL DO IT +FOR YOUR SAKE.” + +ALTHOUGH THE HALL PORTER SAW SOMEONE’S CARRIAGE STANDING AT THE +ENTRANCE, AFTER SCRUTINIZING THE MOTHER AND SON (WHO WITHOUT ASKING TO +BE ANNOUNCED HAD PASSED STRAIGHT THROUGH THE GLASS PORCH BETWEEN THE +ROWS OF STATUES IN NICHES) AND LOOKING SIGNIFICANTLY AT THE LADY’S OLD +CLOAK, HE ASKED WHETHER THEY WANTED THE COUNT OR THE PRINCESSES, AND, +HEARING THAT THEY WISHED TO SEE THE COUNT, SAID HIS EXCELLENCY WAS WORSE +TODAY, AND THAT HIS EXCELLENCY WAS NOT RECEIVING ANYONE. + +“WE MAY AS WELL GO BACK,” SAID THE SON IN FRENCH. + +“MY DEAR!” EXCLAIMED HIS MOTHER IMPLORINGLY, AGAIN LAYING HER HAND +ON HIS ARM AS IF THAT TOUCH MIGHT SOOTHE OR ROUSE HIM. + +BORíS SAID NO MORE, BUT LOOKED INQUIRINGLY AT HIS MOTHER WITHOUT TAKING +OFF HIS CLOAK. + +“MY FRIEND,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA IN GENTLE TONES, ADDRESSING +THE HALL PORTER, “I KNOW COUNT CYRIL VLADíMIROVICH IS VERY ILL... +THAT’S WHY I HAVE COME... I AM A RELATION. I SHALL NOT DISTURB HIM, +MY FRIEND... I ONLY NEED SEE PRINCE VASíLI SERGéEVICH: HE IS STAYING +HERE, IS HE NOT? PLEASE ANNOUNCE ME.” + +THE HALL PORTER SULLENLY PULLED A BELL THAT RANG UPSTAIRS, AND TURNED +AWAY. + +“PRINCESS DRUBETSKáYA TO SEE PRINCE VASíLI SERGéEVICH,” HE CALLED +TO A FOOTMAN DRESSED IN KNEE BREECHES, SHOES, AND A SWALLOW-TAIL COAT, +WHO RAN DOWNSTAIRS AND LOOKED OVER FROM THE HALFWAY LANDING. + +THE MOTHER SMOOTHED THE FOLDS OF HER DYED SILK DRESS BEFORE A LARGE +VENETIAN MIRROR IN THE WALL, AND IN HER TRODDEN-DOWN SHOES BRISKLY +ASCENDED THE CARPETED STAIRS. + +“MY DEAR,” SHE SAID TO HER SON, ONCE MORE STIMULATING HIM BY A +TOUCH, “YOU PROMISED ME!” + +THE SON, LOWERING HIS EYES, FOLLOWED HER QUIETLY. + +THEY ENTERED THE LARGE HALL, FROM WHICH ONE OF THE DOORS LED TO THE +APARTMENTS ASSIGNED TO PRINCE VASíLI. + +JUST AS THE MOTHER AND SON, HAVING REACHED THE MIDDLE OF THE HALL, WERE +ABOUT TO ASK THEIR WAY OF AN ELDERLY FOOTMAN WHO HAD SPRUNG UP AS THEY +ENTERED, THE BRONZE HANDLE OF ONE OF THE DOORS TURNED AND PRINCE VASíLI +CAME OUT—WEARING A VELVET COAT WITH A SINGLE STAR ON HIS BREAST, +AS WAS HIS CUSTOM WHEN AT HOME—TAKING LEAVE OF A GOOD-LOOKING, +DARK-HAIRED MAN. THIS WAS THE CELEBRATED PETERSBURG DOCTOR, LORRAIN. + +“THEN IT IS CERTAIN?” SAID THE PRINCE. + +“PRINCE, HUMANUM EST ERRARE, * BUT...” REPLIED THE DOCTOR, +SWALLOWING HIS R’S, AND PRONOUNCING THE LATIN WORDS WITH A FRENCH +ACCENT. + + * TO ERR IS HUMAN. + +“VERY WELL, VERY WELL...” + +SEEING ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA AND HER SON, PRINCE VASíLI DISMISSED THE +DOCTOR WITH A BOW AND APPROACHED THEM SILENTLY AND WITH A LOOK OF +INQUIRY. THE SON NOTICED THAT AN EXPRESSION OF PROFOUND SORROW SUDDENLY +CLOUDED HIS MOTHER’S FACE, AND HE SMILED SLIGHTLY. + +“AH, PRINCE! IN WHAT SAD CIRCUMSTANCES WE MEET AGAIN! AND HOW IS OUR +DEAR INVALID?” SAID SHE, AS THOUGH UNAWARE OF THE COLD OFFENSIVE LOOK +FIXED ON HER. + +PRINCE VASíLI STARED AT HER AND AT BORíS QUESTIONINGLY AND PERPLEXED. +BORíS BOWED POLITELY. PRINCE VASíLI WITHOUT ACKNOWLEDGING THE BOW +TURNED TO ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, ANSWERING HER QUERY BY A MOVEMENT OF THE +HEAD AND LIPS INDICATING VERY LITTLE HOPE FOR THE PATIENT. + +“IS IT POSSIBLE?” EXCLAIMED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. “OH, HOW AWFUL! +IT IS TERRIBLE TO THINK.... THIS IS MY SON,” SHE ADDED, INDICATING +BORíS. “HE WANTED TO THANK YOU HIMSELF.” + +BORíS BOWED AGAIN POLITELY. + +“BELIEVE ME, PRINCE, A MOTHER’S HEART WILL NEVER FORGET WHAT YOU +HAVE DONE FOR US.” + +“I AM GLAD I WAS ABLE TO DO YOU A SERVICE, MY DEAR ANNA +MIKHáYLOVNA,” SAID PRINCE VASíLI, ARRANGING HIS LACE FRILL, AND IN +TONE AND MANNER, HERE IN MOSCOW TO ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WHOM HE HAD PLACED +UNDER AN OBLIGATION, ASSUMING AN AIR OF MUCH GREATER IMPORTANCE THAN HE +HAD DONE IN PETERSBURG AT ANNA SCHéRER’S RECEPTION. + +“TRY TO SERVE WELL AND SHOW YOURSELF WORTHY,” ADDED HE, ADDRESSING +BORíS WITH SEVERITY. “I AM GLAD.... ARE YOU HERE ON LEAVE?” HE WENT +ON IN HIS USUAL TONE OF INDIFFERENCE. + +“I AM AWAITING ORDERS TO JOIN MY NEW REGIMENT, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” +REPLIED BORíS, BETRAYING NEITHER ANNOYANCE AT THE PRINCE’S BRUSQUE +MANNER NOR A DESIRE TO ENTER INTO CONVERSATION, BUT SPEAKING SO QUIETLY +AND RESPECTFULLY THAT THE PRINCE GAVE HIM A SEARCHING GLANCE. + +“ARE YOU LIVING WITH YOUR MOTHER?” + +“I AM LIVING AT COUNTESS ROSTóVA’S,” REPLIED BORíS, AGAIN +ADDING, “YOUR EXCELLENCY.” + +“THAT IS, WITH ILYá ROSTóV WHO MARRIED NATALY SHINSHINá,” SAID +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. + +“I KNOW, I KNOW,” ANSWERED PRINCE VASíLI IN HIS MONOTONOUS VOICE. +“I NEVER COULD UNDERSTAND HOW NATALY MADE UP HER MIND TO MARRY THAT +UNLICKED BEAR! A PERFECTLY ABSURD AND STUPID FELLOW, AND A GAMBLER TOO, +I AM TOLD.” + +“BUT A VERY KIND MAN, PRINCE,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WITH A +PATHETIC SMILE, AS THOUGH SHE TOO KNEW THAT COUNT ROSTóV DESERVED THIS +CENSURE, BUT ASKED HIM NOT TO BE TOO HARD ON THE POOR OLD MAN. “WHAT +DO THE DOCTORS SAY?” ASKED THE PRINCESS AFTER A PAUSE, HER WORN FACE +AGAIN EXPRESSING DEEP SORROW. + +“THEY GIVE LITTLE HOPE,” REPLIED THE PRINCE. + +“AND I SHOULD SO LIKE TO THANK UNCLE ONCE FOR ALL HIS KINDNESS TO ME +AND BORíS. HE IS HIS GODSON,” SHE ADDED, HER TONE SUGGESTING THAT +THIS FACT OUGHT TO GIVE PRINCE VASíLI MUCH SATISFACTION. + +PRINCE VASíLI BECAME THOUGHTFUL AND FROWNED. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA SAW THAT +HE WAS AFRAID OF FINDING IN HER A RIVAL FOR COUNT BEZúKHOV’S FORTUNE, +AND HASTENED TO REASSURE HIM. + +“IF IT WERE NOT FOR MY SINCERE AFFECTION AND DEVOTION TO UNCLE,” +SAID SHE, UTTERING THE WORD WITH PECULIAR ASSURANCE AND UNCONCERN, “I +KNOW HIS CHARACTER: NOBLE, UPRIGHT ... BUT YOU SEE HE HAS NO ONE WITH +HIM EXCEPT THE YOUNG PRINCESSES.... THEY ARE STILL YOUNG....” SHE BENT +HER HEAD AND CONTINUED IN A WHISPER: “HAS HE PERFORMED HIS FINAL DUTY, +PRINCE? HOW PRICELESS ARE THOSE LAST MOMENTS! IT CAN MAKE THINGS NO +WORSE, AND IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO PREPARE HIM IF HE IS SO ILL. +WE WOMEN, PRINCE,” AND SHE SMILED TENDERLY, “ALWAYS KNOW HOW TO SAY +THESE THINGS. I ABSOLUTELY MUST SEE HIM, HOWEVER PAINFUL IT MAY BE FOR +ME. I AM USED TO SUFFERING.” + +EVIDENTLY THE PRINCE UNDERSTOOD HER, AND ALSO UNDERSTOOD, AS HE HAD DONE +AT ANNA PáVLOVNA’S, THAT IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO GET RID OF ANNA +MIKHáYLOVNA. + +“WOULD NOT SUCH A MEETING BE TOO TRYING FOR HIM, DEAR ANNA +MIKHáYLOVNA?” SAID HE. “LET US WAIT UNTIL EVENING. THE DOCTORS ARE +EXPECTING A CRISIS.” + +“BUT ONE CANNOT DELAY, PRINCE, AT SUCH A MOMENT! CONSIDER THAT THE +WELFARE OF HIS SOUL IS AT STAKE. AH, IT IS AWFUL: THE DUTIES OF A +CHRISTIAN...” + +A DOOR OF ONE OF THE INNER ROOMS OPENED AND ONE OF THE PRINCESSES, THE +COUNT’S NIECE, ENTERED WITH A COLD, STERN FACE. THE LENGTH OF HER +BODY WAS STRIKINGLY OUT OF PROPORTION TO HER SHORT LEGS. PRINCE VASíLI +TURNED TO HER. + +“WELL, HOW IS HE?” + +“STILL THE SAME; BUT WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT, THIS NOISE...” SAID THE +PRINCESS, LOOKING AT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA AS AT A STRANGER. + +“AH, MY DEAR, I HARDLY KNEW YOU,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WITH A +HAPPY SMILE, AMBLING LIGHTLY UP TO THE COUNT’S NIECE. “I HAVE COME, +AND AM AT YOUR SERVICE TO HELP YOU NURSE MY UNCLE. I IMAGINE WHAT YOU +HAVE GONE THROUGH,” AND SHE SYMPATHETICALLY TURNED UP HER EYES. + +THE PRINCESS GAVE NO REPLY AND DID NOT EVEN SMILE, BUT LEFT THE ROOM AS +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA TOOK OFF HER GLOVES AND, OCCUPYING THE POSITION SHE +HAD CONQUERED, SETTLED DOWN IN AN ARMCHAIR, INVITING PRINCE VASíLI TO +TAKE A SEAT BESIDE HER. + +“BORíS,” SHE SAID TO HER SON WITH A SMILE, “I SHALL GO IN TO SEE +THE COUNT, MY UNCLE; BUT YOU, MY DEAR, HAD BETTER GO TO PIERRE MEANWHILE +AND DON’T FORGET TO GIVE HIM THE ROSTóVS’ INVITATION. THEY ASK HIM +TO DINNER. I SUPPOSE HE WON’T GO?” SHE CONTINUED, TURNING TO THE +PRINCE. + +“ON THE CONTRARY,” REPLIED THE PRINCE, WHO HAD PLAINLY BECOME +DEPRESSED, “I SHALL BE ONLY TOO GLAD IF YOU RELIEVE ME OF THAT YOUNG +MAN.... HERE HE IS, AND THE COUNT HAS NOT ONCE ASKED FOR HIM.” + +HE SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS. A FOOTMAN CONDUCTED BORíS DOWN ONE FLIGHT OF +STAIRS AND UP ANOTHER, TO PIERRE’S ROOMS. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +PIERRE, AFTER ALL, HAD NOT MANAGED TO CHOOSE A CAREER FOR HIMSELF IN +PETERSBURG, AND HAD BEEN EXPELLED FROM THERE FOR RIOTOUS CONDUCT AND +SENT TO MOSCOW. THE STORY TOLD ABOUT HIM AT COUNT ROSTóV’S WAS TRUE. +PIERRE HAD TAKEN PART IN TYING A POLICEMAN TO A BEAR. HE HAD NOW BEEN +FOR SOME DAYS IN MOSCOW AND WAS STAYING AS USUAL AT HIS FATHER’S +HOUSE. THOUGH HE EXPECTED THAT THE STORY OF HIS ESCAPADE WOULD BE +ALREADY KNOWN IN MOSCOW AND THAT THE LADIES ABOUT HIS FATHER—WHO WERE +NEVER FAVORABLY DISPOSED TOWARD HIM—WOULD HAVE USED IT TO TURN THE +COUNT AGAINST HIM, HE NEVERTHELESS ON THE DAY OF HIS ARRIVAL WENT TO +HIS FATHER’S PART OF THE HOUSE. ENTERING THE DRAWING ROOM, WHERE THE +PRINCESSES SPENT MOST OF THEIR TIME, HE GREETED THE LADIES, TWO OF WHOM +WERE SITTING AT EMBROIDERY FRAMES WHILE A THIRD READ ALOUD. IT WAS THE +ELDEST WHO WAS READING—THE ONE WHO HAD MET ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. THE +TWO YOUNGER ONES WERE EMBROIDERING: BOTH WERE ROSY AND PRETTY AND THEY +DIFFERED ONLY IN THAT ONE HAD A LITTLE MOLE ON HER LIP WHICH MADE HER +MUCH PRETTIER. PIERRE WAS RECEIVED AS IF HE WERE A CORPSE OR A LEPER. +THE ELDEST PRINCESS PAUSED IN HER READING AND SILENTLY STARED AT HIM +WITH FRIGHTENED EYES; THE SECOND ASSUMED PRECISELY THE SAME EXPRESSION; +WHILE THE YOUNGEST, THE ONE WITH THE MOLE, WHO WAS OF A CHEERFUL AND +LIVELY DISPOSITION, BENT OVER HER FRAME TO HIDE A SMILE PROBABLY EVOKED +BY THE AMUSING SCENE SHE FORESAW. SHE DREW HER WOOL DOWN THROUGH THE +CANVAS AND, SCARCELY ABLE TO REFRAIN FROM LAUGHING, STOOPED AS IF TRYING +TO MAKE OUT THE PATTERN. + +“HOW DO YOU DO, COUSIN?” SAID PIERRE. “YOU DON’T RECOGNIZE +ME?” + +“I RECOGNIZE YOU ONLY TOO WELL, TOO WELL.” + +“HOW IS THE COUNT? CAN I SEE HIM?” ASKED PIERRE, AWKWARDLY AS USUAL, +BUT UNABASHED. + +“THE COUNT IS SUFFERING PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY, AND APPARENTLY YOU +HAVE DONE YOUR BEST TO INCREASE HIS MENTAL SUFFERINGS.” + +“CAN I SEE THE COUNT?” PIERRE AGAIN ASKED. + +“HM.... IF YOU WISH TO KILL HIM, TO KILL HIM OUTRIGHT, YOU CAN SEE +HIM... OLGA, GO AND SEE WHETHER UNCLE’S BEEF TEA IS READY—IT IS +ALMOST TIME,” SHE ADDED, GIVING PIERRE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THEY WERE +BUSY, AND BUSY MAKING HIS FATHER COMFORTABLE, WHILE EVIDENTLY HE, +PIERRE, WAS ONLY BUSY CAUSING HIM ANNOYANCE. + +OLGA WENT OUT. PIERRE STOOD LOOKING AT THE SISTERS; THEN HE BOWED AND +SAID: “THEN I WILL GO TO MY ROOMS. YOU WILL LET ME KNOW WHEN I CAN SEE +HIM.” + +AND HE LEFT THE ROOM, FOLLOWED BY THE LOW BUT RINGING LAUGHTER OF THE +SISTER WITH THE MOLE. + +NEXT DAY PRINCE VASíLI HAD ARRIVED AND SETTLED IN THE COUNT’S HOUSE. +HE SENT FOR PIERRE AND SAID TO HIM: “MY DEAR FELLOW, IF YOU ARE GOING +TO BEHAVE HERE AS YOU DID IN PETERSBURG, YOU WILL END VERY BADLY; THAT +IS ALL I HAVE TO SAY TO YOU. THE COUNT IS VERY, VERY ILL, AND YOU MUST +NOT SEE HIM AT ALL.” + +SINCE THEN PIERRE HAD NOT BEEN DISTURBED AND HAD SPENT THE WHOLE TIME IN +HIS ROOMS UPSTAIRS. + +WHEN BORíS APPEARED AT HIS DOOR PIERRE WAS PACING UP AND DOWN HIS ROOM, +STOPPING OCCASIONALLY AT A CORNER TO MAKE MENACING GESTURES AT THE WALL, +AS IF RUNNING A SWORD THROUGH AN INVISIBLE FOE, AND GLARING SAVAGELY +OVER HIS SPECTACLES, AND THEN AGAIN RESUMING HIS WALK, MUTTERING +INDISTINCT WORDS, SHRUGGING HIS SHOULDERS AND GESTICULATING. + +“ENGLAND IS DONE FOR,” SAID HE, SCOWLING AND POINTING HIS FINGER +AT SOMEONE UNSEEN. “MR. PITT, AS A TRAITOR TO THE NATION AND TO THE +RIGHTS OF MAN, IS SENTENCED TO...” BUT BEFORE PIERRE—WHO AT THAT +MOMENT IMAGINED HIMSELF TO BE NAPOLEON IN PERSON AND TO HAVE JUST +EFFECTED THE DANGEROUS CROSSING OF THE STRAITS OF DOVER AND CAPTURED +LONDON—COULD PRONOUNCE PITT’S SENTENCE, HE SAW A WELL-BUILT AND +HANDSOME YOUNG OFFICER ENTERING HIS ROOM. PIERRE PAUSED. HE HAD LEFT +MOSCOW WHEN BORíS WAS A BOY OF FOURTEEN, AND HAD QUITE FORGOTTEN HIM, +BUT IN HIS USUAL IMPULSIVE AND HEARTY WAY HE TOOK BORíS BY THE HAND +WITH A FRIENDLY SMILE. + +“DO YOU REMEMBER ME?” ASKED BORíS QUIETLY WITH A PLEASANT SMILE. +“I HAVE COME WITH MY MOTHER TO SEE THE COUNT, BUT IT SEEMS HE IS NOT +WELL.” + +“YES, IT SEEMS HE IS ILL. PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS DISTURBING HIM,” +ANSWERED PIERRE, TRYING TO REMEMBER WHO THIS YOUNG MAN WAS. + +BORíS FELT THAT PIERRE DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM BUT DID NOT CONSIDER +IT NECESSARY TO INTRODUCE HIMSELF, AND WITHOUT EXPERIENCING THE LEAST +EMBARRASSMENT LOOKED PIERRE STRAIGHT IN THE FACE. + +“COUNT ROSTóV ASKS YOU TO COME TO DINNER TODAY,” SAID HE, AFTER A +CONSIDERABLE PAUSE WHICH MADE PIERRE FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE. + +“AH, COUNT ROSTóV!” EXCLAIMED PIERRE JOYFULLY. “THEN YOU ARE HIS +SON, ILYá? ONLY FANCY, I DIDN’T KNOW YOU AT FIRST. DO YOU REMEMBER +HOW WE WENT TO THE SPARROW HILLS WITH MADAME JACQUOT?... IT’S SUCH AN +AGE...” + +“YOU ARE MISTAKEN,” SAID BORíS DELIBERATELY, WITH A BOLD AND +SLIGHTLY SARCASTIC SMILE. “I AM BORíS, SON OF PRINCESS ANNA +MIKHáYLOVNA DRUBETSKáYA. ROSTóV, THE FATHER, IS ILYá, AND HIS SON IS +NICHOLAS. I NEVER KNEW ANY MADAME JACQUOT.” + +PIERRE SHOOK HIS HEAD AND ARMS AS IF ATTACKED BY MOSQUITOES OR BEES. + +“OH DEAR, WHAT AM I THINKING ABOUT? I’VE MIXED EVERYTHING UP. ONE +HAS SO MANY RELATIVES IN MOSCOW! SO YOU ARE BORíS? OF COURSE. WELL, NOW +WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE. AND WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE BOULOGNE EXPEDITION? +THE ENGLISH WILL COME OFF BADLY, YOU KNOW, IF NAPOLEON GETS ACROSS THE +CHANNEL. I THINK THE EXPEDITION IS QUITE FEASIBLE. IF ONLY VILLENEUVE +DOESN’T MAKE A MESS OF THINGS!” + +BORíS KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THE BOULOGNE EXPEDITION; HE DID NOT READ THE +PAPERS AND IT WAS THE FIRST TIME HE HAD HEARD VILLENEUVE’S NAME. + +“WE HERE IN MOSCOW ARE MORE OCCUPIED WITH DINNER PARTIES AND SCANDAL +THAN WITH POLITICS,” SAID HE IN HIS QUIET IRONICAL TONE. “I KNOW +NOTHING ABOUT IT AND HAVE NOT THOUGHT ABOUT IT. MOSCOW IS CHIEFLY BUSY +WITH GOSSIP,” HE CONTINUED. “JUST NOW THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT YOU AND +YOUR FATHER.” + +PIERRE SMILED IN HIS GOOD-NATURED WAY AS IF AFRAID FOR HIS COMPANION’S +SAKE THAT THE LATTER MIGHT SAY SOMETHING HE WOULD AFTERWARDS REGRET. +BUT BORíS SPOKE DISTINCTLY, CLEARLY, AND DRYLY, LOOKING STRAIGHT INTO +PIERRE’S EYES. + +“MOSCOW HAS NOTHING ELSE TO DO BUT GOSSIP,” BORíS WENT ON. +“EVERYBODY IS WONDERING TO WHOM THE COUNT WILL LEAVE HIS FORTUNE, +THOUGH HE MAY PERHAPS OUTLIVE US ALL, AS I SINCERELY HOPE HE WILL...” + +“YES, IT IS ALL VERY HORRID,” INTERRUPTED PIERRE, “VERY HORRID.” + +PIERRE WAS STILL AFRAID THAT THIS OFFICER MIGHT INADVERTENTLY SAY +SOMETHING DISCONCERTING TO HIMSELF. + +“AND IT MUST SEEM TO YOU,” SAID BORíS FLUSHING SLIGHTLY, BUT NOT +CHANGING HIS TONE OR ATTITUDE, “IT MUST SEEM TO YOU THAT EVERYONE IS +TRYING TO GET SOMETHING OUT OF THE RICH MAN?” + +“SO IT DOES,” THOUGHT PIERRE. + +“BUT I JUST WISH TO SAY, TO AVOID MISUNDERSTANDINGS, THAT YOU ARE +QUITE MISTAKEN IF YOU RECKON ME OR MY MOTHER AMONG SUCH PEOPLE. WE ARE +VERY POOR, BUT FOR MY OWN PART AT ANY RATE, FOR THE VERY REASON THAT +YOUR FATHER IS RICH, I DON’T REGARD MYSELF AS A RELATION OF HIS, AND +NEITHER I NOR MY MOTHER WOULD EVER ASK OR TAKE ANYTHING FROM HIM.” + +FOR A LONG TIME PIERRE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND, BUT WHEN HE DID, HE JUMPED +UP FROM THE SOFA, SEIZED BORíS UNDER THE ELBOW IN HIS QUICK, CLUMSY +WAY, AND, BLUSHING FAR MORE THAN BORíS, BEGAN TO SPEAK WITH A FEELING +OF MINGLED SHAME AND VEXATION. + +“WELL, THIS IS STRANGE! DO YOU SUPPOSE I... WHO COULD THINK?... I KNOW +VERY WELL...” + +BUT BORíS AGAIN INTERRUPTED HIM. + +“I AM GLAD I HAVE SPOKEN OUT FULLY. PERHAPS YOU DID NOT LIKE IT? YOU +MUST EXCUSE ME,” SAID HE, PUTTING PIERRE AT EASE INSTEAD OF BEING PUT +AT EASE BY HIM, “BUT I HOPE I HAVE NOT OFFENDED YOU. I ALWAYS MAKE IT +A RULE TO SPEAK OUT... WELL, WHAT ANSWER AM I TO TAKE? WILL YOU COME TO +DINNER AT THE ROSTóVS’?” + +AND BORíS, HAVING APPARENTLY RELIEVED HIMSELF OF AN ONEROUS DUTY AND +EXTRICATED HIMSELF FROM AN AWKWARD SITUATION AND PLACED ANOTHER IN IT, +BECAME QUITE PLEASANT AGAIN. + +“NO, BUT I SAY,” SAID PIERRE, CALMING DOWN, “YOU ARE A WONDERFUL +FELLOW! WHAT YOU HAVE JUST SAID IS GOOD, VERY GOOD. OF COURSE YOU +DON’T KNOW ME. WE HAVE NOT MET FOR SUCH A LONG TIME... NOT SINCE WE +WERE CHILDREN. YOU MIGHT THINK THAT I... I UNDERSTAND, QUITE UNDERSTAND. +I COULD NOT HAVE DONE IT MYSELF, I SHOULD NOT HAVE HAD THE COURAGE, BUT +IT’S SPLENDID. I AM VERY GLAD TO HAVE MADE YOUR ACQUAINTANCE. IT’S +QUEER,” HE ADDED AFTER A PAUSE, “THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE SUSPECTED +ME!” HE BEGAN TO LAUGH. “WELL, WHAT OF IT! I HOPE WE’LL GET BETTER +ACQUAINTED,” AND HE PRESSED BORíS’ HAND. “DO YOU KNOW, I HAVE NOT +ONCE BEEN IN TO SEE THE COUNT. HE HAS NOT SENT FOR ME.... I AM SORRY FOR +HIM AS A MAN, BUT WHAT CAN ONE DO?” + +“AND SO YOU THINK NAPOLEON WILL MANAGE TO GET AN ARMY ACROSS?” ASKED +BORíS WITH A SMILE. + +PIERRE SAW THAT BORíS WISHED TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT, AND BEING OF THE +SAME MIND HE BEGAN EXPLAINING THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE +BOULOGNE EXPEDITION. + +A FOOTMAN CAME IN TO SUMMON BORíS—THE PRINCESS WAS GOING. PIERRE, IN +ORDER TO MAKE BORíS’ BETTER ACQUAINTANCE, PROMISED TO COME TO DINNER, +AND WARMLY PRESSING HIS HAND LOOKED AFFECTIONATELY OVER HIS SPECTACLES +INTO BORíS’ EYES. AFTER HE HAD GONE PIERRE CONTINUED PACING UP AND +DOWN THE ROOM FOR A LONG TIME, NO LONGER PIERCING AN IMAGINARY FOE WITH +HIS IMAGINARY SWORD, BUT SMILING AT THE REMEMBRANCE OF THAT PLEASANT, +INTELLIGENT, AND RESOLUTE YOUNG MAN. + +AS OFTEN HAPPENS IN EARLY YOUTH, ESPECIALLY TO ONE WHO LEADS A LONELY +LIFE, HE FELT AN UNACCOUNTABLE TENDERNESS FOR THIS YOUNG MAN AND MADE UP +HIS MIND THAT THEY WOULD BE FRIENDS. + +PRINCE VASíLI SAW THE PRINCESS OFF. SHE HELD A HANDKERCHIEF TO HER EYES +AND HER FACE WAS TEARFUL. + +“IT IS DREADFUL, DREADFUL!” SHE WAS SAYING, “BUT COST ME WHAT IT +MAY I SHALL DO MY DUTY. I WILL COME AND SPEND THE NIGHT. HE MUST NOT BE +LEFT LIKE THIS. EVERY MOMENT IS PRECIOUS. I CAN’T THINK WHY HIS NIECES +PUT IT OFF. PERHAPS GOD WILL HELP ME TO FIND A WAY TO PREPARE HIM!... +ADIEU, PRINCE! MAY GOD SUPPORT YOU...” + +“ADIEU, MA BONNE,” ANSWERED PRINCE VASíLI TURNING AWAY FROM HER. + +“OH, HE IS IN A DREADFUL STATE,” SAID THE MOTHER TO HER SON WHEN +THEY WERE IN THE CARRIAGE. “HE HARDLY RECOGNIZES ANYBODY.” + +“I DON’T UNDERSTAND, MAMMA—WHAT IS HIS ATTITUDE TO PIERRE?” +ASKED THE SON. + +“THE WILL WILL SHOW THAT, MY DEAR; OUR FATE ALSO DEPENDS ON IT.” + +“BUT WHY DO YOU EXPECT THAT HE WILL LEAVE US ANYTHING?” + +“AH, MY DEAR! HE IS SO RICH, AND WE ARE SO POOR!” + +“WELL, THAT IS HARDLY A SUFFICIENT REASON, MAMMA...” + +“OH, HEAVEN! HOW ILL HE IS!” EXCLAIMED THE MOTHER. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVII + +AFTER ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA HAD DRIVEN OFF WITH HER SON TO VISIT COUNT CYRIL +VLADíMIROVICH BEZúKHOV, COUNTESS ROSTóVA SAT FOR A LONG TIME ALL +ALONE APPLYING HER HANDKERCHIEF TO HER EYES. AT LAST SHE RANG. + +“WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU, MY DEAR?” SHE SAID CROSSLY TO THE MAID +WHO KEPT HER WAITING SOME MINUTES. “DON’T YOU WISH TO SERVE ME? THEN +I’LL FIND YOU ANOTHER PLACE.” + +THE COUNTESS WAS UPSET BY HER FRIEND’S SORROW AND HUMILIATING POVERTY, +AND WAS THEREFORE OUT OF SORTS, A STATE OF MIND WHICH WITH HER ALWAYS +FOUND EXPRESSION IN CALLING HER MAID “MY DEAR” AND SPEAKING TO HER +WITH EXAGGERATED POLITENESS. + +“I AM VERY SORRY, MA’AM,” ANSWERED THE MAID. + +“ASK THE COUNT TO COME TO ME.” + +THE COUNT CAME WADDLING IN TO SEE HIS WIFE WITH A RATHER GUILTY LOOK AS +USUAL. + +“WELL, LITTLE COUNTESS? WHAT A SAUTé OF GAME AU MADèRE WE ARE TO +HAVE, MY DEAR! I TASTED IT. THE THOUSAND RUBLES I PAID FOR TARáS WERE +NOT ILL-SPENT. HE IS WORTH IT!” + +HE SAT DOWN BY HIS WIFE, HIS ELBOWS ON HIS KNEES AND HIS HANDS RUFFLING +HIS GRAY HAIR. + +“WHAT ARE YOUR COMMANDS, LITTLE COUNTESS?” + +“YOU SEE, MY DEAR... WHAT’S THAT MESS?” SHE SAID, POINTING TO HIS +WAISTCOAT. “IT’S THE SAUTé, MOST LIKELY,” SHE ADDED WITH A SMILE. +“WELL, YOU SEE, COUNT, I WANT SOME MONEY.” + +HER FACE BECAME SAD. + +“OH, LITTLE COUNTESS!” ... AND THE COUNT BEGAN BUSTLING TO GET OUT +HIS POCKETBOOK. + +“I WANT A GREAT DEAL, COUNT! I WANT FIVE HUNDRED RUBLES,” AND TAKING +OUT HER CAMBRIC HANDKERCHIEF SHE BEGAN WIPING HER HUSBAND’S WAISTCOAT. + +“YES, IMMEDIATELY, IMMEDIATELY! HEY, WHO’S THERE?” HE CALLED OUT +IN A TONE ONLY USED BY PERSONS WHO ARE CERTAIN THAT THOSE THEY CALL WILL +RUSH TO OBEY THE SUMMONS. “SEND DMíTRI TO ME!” + +DMíTRI, A MAN OF GOOD FAMILY WHO HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP IN THE COUNT’S +HOUSE AND NOW MANAGED ALL HIS AFFAIRS, STEPPED SOFTLY INTO THE ROOM. + +“THIS IS WHAT I WANT, MY DEAR FELLOW,” SAID THE COUNT TO THE +DEFERENTIAL YOUNG MAN WHO HAD ENTERED. “BRING ME...” HE REFLECTED +A MOMENT, “YES, BRING ME SEVEN HUNDRED RUBLES, YES! BUT MIND, DON’T +BRING ME SUCH TATTERED AND DIRTY NOTES AS LAST TIME, BUT NICE CLEAN ONES +FOR THE COUNTESS.” + +“YES, DMíTRI, CLEAN ONES, PLEASE,” SAID THE COUNTESS, SIGHING +DEEPLY. + +“WHEN WOULD YOU LIKE THEM, YOUR EXCELLENCY?” ASKED DMíTRI. “ALLOW +ME TO INFORM YOU... BUT, DON’T BE UNEASY,” HE ADDED, NOTICING THAT +THE COUNT WAS BEGINNING TO BREATHE HEAVILY AND QUICKLY WHICH WAS ALWAYS +A SIGN OF APPROACHING ANGER. “I WAS FORGETTING... DO YOU WISH IT +BROUGHT AT ONCE?” + +“YES, YES; JUST SO! BRING IT. GIVE IT TO THE COUNTESS.” + +“WHAT A TREASURE THAT DMíTRI IS,” ADDED THE COUNT WITH A SMILE WHEN +THE YOUNG MAN HAD DEPARTED. “THERE IS NEVER ANY ‘IMPOSSIBLE’ WITH +HIM. THAT’S A THING I HATE! EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE.” + +“AH, MONEY, COUNT, MONEY! HOW MUCH SORROW IT CAUSES IN THE WORLD,” +SAID THE COUNTESS. “BUT I AM IN GREAT NEED OF THIS SUM.” + +“YOU, MY LITTLE COUNTESS, ARE A NOTORIOUS SPENDTHRIFT,” SAID THE +COUNT, AND HAVING KISSED HIS WIFE’S HAND HE WENT BACK TO HIS STUDY. + +WHEN ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA RETURNED FROM COUNT BEZúKHOV’S THE MONEY, ALL +IN CLEAN NOTES, WAS LYING READY UNDER A HANDKERCHIEF ON THE COUNTESS’ +LITTLE TABLE, AND ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA NOTICED THAT SOMETHING WAS AGITATING +HER. + +“WELL, MY DEAR?” ASKED THE COUNTESS. + +“OH, WHAT A TERRIBLE STATE HE IS IN! ONE WOULD NOT KNOW HIM, HE IS SO +ILL! I WAS ONLY THERE A FEW MOMENTS AND HARDLY SAID A WORD...” + +“ANNETTE, FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE DON’T REFUSE ME,” THE COUNTESS +BEGAN, WITH A BLUSH THAT LOOKED VERY STRANGE ON HER THIN, DIGNIFIED, +ELDERLY FACE, AND SHE TOOK THE MONEY FROM UNDER THE HANDKERCHIEF. + +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA INSTANTLY GUESSED HER INTENTION AND STOOPED TO BE +READY TO EMBRACE THE COUNTESS AT THE APPROPRIATE MOMENT. + +“THIS IS FOR BORíS FROM ME, FOR HIS OUTFIT.” + +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WAS ALREADY EMBRACING HER AND WEEPING. THE COUNTESS +WEPT TOO. THEY WEPT BECAUSE THEY WERE FRIENDS, AND BECAUSE THEY WERE +KINDHEARTED, AND BECAUSE THEY—FRIENDS FROM CHILDHOOD—HAD TO THINK +ABOUT SUCH A BASE THING AS MONEY, AND BECAUSE THEIR YOUTH WAS OVER.... +BUT THOSE TEARS WERE PLEASANT TO THEM BOTH. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVIII + +COUNTESS ROSTóVA, WITH HER DAUGHTERS AND A LARGE NUMBER OF GUESTS, WAS +ALREADY SEATED IN THE DRAWING ROOM. THE COUNT TOOK THE GENTLEMEN INTO +HIS STUDY AND SHOWED THEM HIS CHOICE COLLECTION OF TURKISH PIPES. FROM +TIME TO TIME HE WENT OUT TO ASK: “HASN’T SHE COME YET?” THEY +WERE EXPECTING MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA AKHROSíMOVA, KNOWN IN SOCIETY AS LE +TERRIBLE DRAGON, A LADY DISTINGUISHED NOT FOR WEALTH OR RANK, BUT FOR +COMMON SENSE AND FRANK PLAINNESS OF SPEECH. MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA WAS KNOWN +TO THE IMPERIAL FAMILY AS WELL AS TO ALL MOSCOW AND PETERSBURG, AND BOTH +CITIES WONDERED AT HER, LAUGHED PRIVATELY AT HER RUDENESSES, AND TOLD +GOOD STORIES ABOUT HER, WHILE NONE THE LESS ALL WITHOUT EXCEPTION +RESPECTED AND FEARED HER. + +IN THE COUNT’S ROOM, WHICH WAS FULL OF TOBACCO SMOKE, THEY TALKED +OF THE WAR THAT HAD BEEN ANNOUNCED IN A MANIFESTO, AND ABOUT THE +RECRUITING. NONE OF THEM HAD YET SEEN THE MANIFESTO, BUT THEY ALL KNEW +IT HAD APPEARED. THE COUNT SAT ON THE SOFA BETWEEN TWO GUESTS WHO WERE +SMOKING AND TALKING. HE NEITHER SMOKED NOR TALKED, BUT BENDING HIS HEAD +FIRST TO ONE SIDE AND THEN TO THE OTHER WATCHED THE SMOKERS WITH EVIDENT +PLEASURE AND LISTENED TO THE CONVERSATION OF HIS TWO NEIGHBORS, WHOM HE +EGGED ON AGAINST EACH OTHER. + +ONE OF THEM WAS A SALLOW, CLEAN-SHAVEN CIVILIAN WITH A THIN AND WRINKLED +FACE, ALREADY GROWING OLD, THOUGH HE WAS DRESSED LIKE A MOST FASHIONABLE +YOUNG MAN. HE SAT WITH HIS LEGS UP ON THE SOFA AS IF QUITE AT HOME AND, +HAVING STUCK AN AMBER MOUTHPIECE FAR INTO HIS MOUTH, WAS INHALING THE +SMOKE SPASMODICALLY AND SCREWING UP HIS EYES. THIS WAS AN OLD BACHELOR, +SHINSHíN, A COUSIN OF THE COUNTESS’, A MAN WITH “A SHARP TONGUE” +AS THEY SAID IN MOSCOW SOCIETY. HE SEEMED TO BE CONDESCENDING TO +HIS COMPANION. THE LATTER, A FRESH, ROSY OFFICER OF THE GUARDS, +IRREPROACHABLY WASHED, BRUSHED, AND BUTTONED, HELD HIS PIPE IN THE +MIDDLE OF HIS MOUTH AND WITH RED LIPS GENTLY INHALED THE SMOKE, LETTING +IT ESCAPE FROM HIS HANDSOME MOUTH IN RINGS. THIS WAS LIEUTENANT BERG, AN +OFFICER IN THE SEMëNOV REGIMENT WITH WHOM BORíS WAS TO TRAVEL TO JOIN +THE ARMY, AND ABOUT WHOM NATáSHA HAD TEASED HER ELDER SISTER VéRA, +SPEAKING OF BERG AS HER “INTENDED.” THE COUNT SAT BETWEEN THEM AND +LISTENED ATTENTIVELY. HIS FAVORITE OCCUPATION WHEN NOT PLAYING BOSTON, A +CARD GAME HE WAS VERY FOND OF, WAS THAT OF LISTENER, ESPECIALLY WHEN HE +SUCCEEDED IN SETTING TWO LOQUACIOUS TALKERS AT ONE ANOTHER. + +“WELL, THEN, OLD CHAP, MON TRèS HONORABLE ALPHONSE KáRLOVICH,” +SAID SHINSHíN, LAUGHING IRONICALLY AND MIXING THE MOST ORDINARY RUSSIAN +EXPRESSIONS WITH THE CHOICEST FRENCH PHRASES—WHICH WAS A PECULIARITY +OF HIS SPEECH. “VOUS COMPTEZ VOUS FAIRE DES RENTES SUR L’éTAT; * +YOU WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF YOUR COMPANY?” + + * YOU EXPECT TO MAKE AN INCOME OUT OF THE GOVERNMENT. + +“NO, PETER NIKOLáEVICH; I ONLY WANT TO SHOW THAT IN THE CAVALRY +THE ADVANTAGES ARE FAR LESS THAN IN THE INFANTRY. JUST CONSIDER MY OWN +POSITION NOW, PETER NIKOLáEVICH...” + +BERG ALWAYS SPOKE QUIETLY, POLITELY, AND WITH GREAT PRECISION. HIS +CONVERSATION ALWAYS RELATED ENTIRELY TO HIMSELF; HE WOULD REMAIN CALM +AND SILENT WHEN THE TALK RELATED TO ANY TOPIC THAT HAD NO DIRECT BEARING +ON HIMSELF. HE COULD REMAIN SILENT FOR HOURS WITHOUT BEING AT ALL PUT +OUT OF COUNTENANCE HIMSELF OR MAKING OTHERS UNCOMFORTABLE, BUT AS +SOON AS THE CONVERSATION CONCERNED HIMSELF HE WOULD BEGIN TO TALK +CIRCUMSTANTIALLY AND WITH EVIDENT SATISFACTION. + +“CONSIDER MY POSITION, PETER NIKOLáEVICH. WERE I IN THE CAVALRY I +SHOULD GET NOT MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED RUBLES EVERY FOUR MONTHS, EVEN +WITH THE RANK OF LIEUTENANT; BUT AS IT IS I RECEIVE TWO HUNDRED AND +THIRTY,” SAID HE, LOOKING AT SHINSHíN AND THE COUNT WITH A JOYFUL, +PLEASANT SMILE, AS IF IT WERE OBVIOUS TO HIM THAT HIS SUCCESS MUST +ALWAYS BE THE CHIEF DESIRE OF EVERYONE ELSE. + +“BESIDES THAT, PETER NIKOLáEVICH, BY EXCHANGING INTO THE GUARDS +I SHALL BE IN A MORE PROMINENT POSITION,” CONTINUED BERG, “AND +VACANCIES OCCUR MUCH MORE FREQUENTLY IN THE FOOT GUARDS. THEN JUST THINK +WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY RUBLES! I EVEN MANAGE TO +PUT A LITTLE ASIDE AND TO SEND SOMETHING TO MY FATHER,” HE WENT ON, +EMITTING A SMOKE RING. + +“LA BALANCE Y EST... * A GERMAN KNOWS HOW TO SKIN A FLINT, AS THE +PROVERB SAYS,” REMARKED SHINSHíN, MOVING HIS PIPE TO THE OTHER SIDE +OF HIS MOUTH AND WINKING AT THE COUNT. + + * SO THAT SQUARES MATTERS. + +THE COUNT BURST OUT LAUGHING. THE OTHER GUESTS SEEING THAT SHINSHíN +WAS TALKING CAME UP TO LISTEN. BERG, OBLIVIOUS OF IRONY OR INDIFFERENCE, +CONTINUED TO EXPLAIN HOW BY EXCHANGING INTO THE GUARDS HE HAD ALREADY +GAINED A STEP ON HIS OLD COMRADES OF THE CADET CORPS; HOW IN WARTIME +THE COMPANY COMMANDER MIGHT GET KILLED AND HE, AS SENIOR IN THE COMPANY, +MIGHT EASILY SUCCEED TO THE POST; HOW POPULAR HE WAS WITH EVERYONE IN +THE REGIMENT, AND HOW SATISFIED HIS FATHER WAS WITH HIM. BERG EVIDENTLY +ENJOYED NARRATING ALL THIS, AND DID NOT SEEM TO SUSPECT THAT OTHERS, +TOO, MIGHT HAVE THEIR OWN INTERESTS. BUT ALL HE SAID WAS SO PRETTILY +SEDATE, AND THE NAïVETé OF HIS YOUTHFUL EGOTISM WAS SO OBVIOUS, THAT +HE DISARMED HIS HEARERS. + +“WELL, MY BOY, YOU’LL GET ALONG WHEREVER YOU GO—FOOT OR +HORSE—THAT I’LL WARRANT,” SAID SHINSHíN, PATTING HIM ON THE +SHOULDER AND TAKING HIS FEET OFF THE SOFA. + +BERG SMILED JOYOUSLY. THE COUNT, FOLLOWED BY HIS GUESTS, WENT INTO THE +DRAWING ROOM. + +IT WAS JUST THE MOMENT BEFORE A BIG DINNER WHEN THE ASSEMBLED GUESTS, +EXPECTING THE SUMMONS TO ZAKúSKA, * AVOID ENGAGING IN ANY LONG +CONVERSATION BUT THINK IT NECESSARY TO MOVE ABOUT AND TALK, IN ORDER +TO SHOW THAT THEY ARE NOT AT ALL IMPATIENT FOR THEIR FOOD. THE HOST AND +HOSTESS LOOK TOWARD THE DOOR, AND NOW AND THEN GLANCE AT ONE ANOTHER, +AND THE VISITORS TRY TO GUESS FROM THESE GLANCES WHO, OR WHAT, THEY ARE +WAITING FOR—SOME IMPORTANT RELATION WHO HAS NOT YET ARRIVED, OR A DISH +THAT IS NOT YET READY. + + * HORS D’OEUVRES. + +PIERRE HAD COME JUST AT DINNERTIME AND WAS SITTING AWKWARDLY IN THE +MIDDLE OF THE DRAWING ROOM ON THE FIRST CHAIR HE HAD COME ACROSS, +BLOCKING THE WAY FOR EVERYONE. THE COUNTESS TRIED TO MAKE HIM TALK, +BUT HE WENT ON NAïVELY LOOKING AROUND THROUGH HIS SPECTACLES AS IF IN +SEARCH OF SOMEBODY AND ANSWERED ALL HER QUESTIONS IN MONOSYLLABLES. HE +WAS IN THE WAY AND WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO DID NOT NOTICE THE FACT. MOST OF +THE GUESTS, KNOWING OF THE AFFAIR WITH THE BEAR, LOOKED WITH CURIOSITY +AT THIS BIG, STOUT, QUIET MAN, WONDERING HOW SUCH A CLUMSY, MODEST +FELLOW COULD HAVE PLAYED SUCH A PRANK ON A POLICEMAN. + +“YOU HAVE ONLY LATELY ARRIVED?” THE COUNTESS ASKED HIM. + +“OUI, MADAME,” REPLIED HE, LOOKING AROUND HIM. + +“YOU HAVE NOT YET SEEN MY HUSBAND?” + +“NON, MADAME.” HE SMILED QUITE INAPPROPRIATELY. + +“YOU HAVE BEEN IN PARIS RECENTLY, I BELIEVE? I SUPPOSE IT’S VERY +INTERESTING.” + +“VERY INTERESTING.” + +THE COUNTESS EXCHANGED GLANCES WITH ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. THE LATTER +UNDERSTOOD THAT SHE WAS BEING ASKED TO ENTERTAIN THIS YOUNG MAN, AND +SITTING DOWN BESIDE HIM SHE BEGAN TO SPEAK ABOUT HIS FATHER; BUT HE +ANSWERED HER, AS HE HAD THE COUNTESS, ONLY IN MONOSYLLABLES. THE OTHER +GUESTS WERE ALL CONVERSING WITH ONE ANOTHER. “THE RAZUMóVSKIS... IT +WAS CHARMING... YOU ARE VERY KIND... COUNTESS APRáKSINA...” WAS HEARD +ON ALL SIDES. THE COUNTESS ROSE AND WENT INTO THE BALLROOM. + +“MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA?” CAME HER VOICE FROM THERE. + +“HERSELF,” CAME THE ANSWER IN A ROUGH VOICE, AND MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA +ENTERED THE ROOM. + +ALL THE UNMARRIED LADIES AND EVEN THE MARRIED ONES EXCEPT THE VERY +OLDEST ROSE. MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA PAUSED AT THE DOOR. TALL AND STOUT, +HOLDING HIGH HER FIFTY-YEAR-OLD HEAD WITH ITS GRAY CURLS, SHE STOOD +SURVEYING THE GUESTS, AND LEISURELY ARRANGED HER WIDE SLEEVES AS IF +ROLLING THEM UP. MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA ALWAYS SPOKE IN RUSSIAN. + +“HEALTH AND HAPPINESS TO HER WHOSE NAME DAY WE ARE KEEPING AND TO HER +CHILDREN,” SHE SAID, IN HER LOUD, FULL-TONED VOICE WHICH DROWNED ALL +OTHERS. “WELL, YOU OLD SINNER,” SHE WENT ON, TURNING TO THE COUNT +WHO WAS KISSING HER HAND, “YOU’RE FEELING DULL IN MOSCOW, I DARESAY? +NOWHERE TO HUNT WITH YOUR DOGS? BUT WHAT IS TO BE DONE, OLD MAN? JUST +SEE HOW THESE NESTLINGS ARE GROWING UP,” AND SHE POINTED TO THE GIRLS. +“YOU MUST LOOK FOR HUSBANDS FOR THEM WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT....” + +“WELL,” SAID SHE, “HOW’S MY COSSACK?” (MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA +ALWAYS CALLED NATáSHA A COSSACK) AND SHE STROKED THE CHILD’S ARM AS +SHE CAME UP FEARLESS AND GAY TO KISS HER HAND. “I KNOW SHE’S A SCAMP +OF A GIRL, BUT I LIKE HER.” + +SHE TOOK A PAIR OF PEAR-SHAPED RUBY EARRINGS FROM HER HUGE RETICULE AND, +HAVING GIVEN THEM TO THE ROSY NATáSHA, WHO BEAMED WITH THE PLEASURE +OF HER SAINT’S-DAY FETE, TURNED AWAY AT ONCE AND ADDRESSED HERSELF TO +PIERRE. + +“EH, EH, FRIEND! COME HERE A BIT,” SAID SHE, ASSUMING A SOFT HIGH +TONE OF VOICE. “COME HERE, MY FRIEND...” AND SHE OMINOUSLY TUCKED +UP HER SLEEVES STILL HIGHER. PIERRE APPROACHED, LOOKING AT HER IN A +CHILDLIKE WAY THROUGH HIS SPECTACLES. + +“COME NEARER, COME NEARER, FRIEND! I USED TO BE THE ONLY ONE TO TELL +YOUR FATHER THE TRUTH WHEN HE WAS IN FAVOR, AND IN YOUR CASE IT’S MY +EVIDENT DUTY.” SHE PAUSED. ALL WERE SILENT, EXPECTANT OF WHAT WAS TO +FOLLOW, FOR THIS WAS CLEARLY ONLY A PRELUDE. + +“A FINE LAD! MY WORD! A FINE LAD!... HIS FATHER LIES ON HIS DEATHBED +AND HE AMUSES HIMSELF SETTING A POLICEMAN ASTRIDE A BEAR! FOR SHAME, +SIR, FOR SHAME! IT WOULD BE BETTER IF YOU WENT TO THE WAR.” + +SHE TURNED AWAY AND GAVE HER HAND TO THE COUNT, WHO COULD HARDLY KEEP +FROM LAUGHING. + +“WELL, I SUPPOSE IT IS TIME WE WERE AT TABLE?” SAID MáRYA +DMíTRIEVNA. + +THE COUNT WENT IN FIRST WITH MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA, THE COUNTESS FOLLOWED +ON THE ARM OF A COLONEL OF HUSSARS, A MAN OF IMPORTANCE TO THEM BECAUSE +NICHOLAS WAS TO GO WITH HIM TO THE REGIMENT; THEN CAME ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA +WITH SHINSHíN. BERG GAVE HIS ARM TO VéRA. THE SMILING JULIE KARáGINA +WENT IN WITH NICHOLAS. AFTER THEM OTHER COUPLES FOLLOWED, FILLING THE +WHOLE DINING HALL, AND LAST OF ALL THE CHILDREN, TUTORS, AND GOVERNESSES +FOLLOWED SINGLY. THE FOOTMEN BEGAN MOVING ABOUT, CHAIRS SCRAPED, THE +BAND STRUCK UP IN THE GALLERY, AND THE GUESTS SETTLED DOWN IN THEIR +PLACES. THEN THE STRAINS OF THE COUNT’S HOUSEHOLD BAND WERE REPLACED +BY THE CLATTER OF KNIVES AND FORKS, THE VOICES OF VISITORS, AND THE +SOFT STEPS OF THE FOOTMEN. AT ONE END OF THE TABLE SAT THE COUNTESS WITH +MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA ON HER RIGHT AND ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA ON HER LEFT, THE +OTHER LADY VISITORS WERE FARTHER DOWN. AT THE OTHER END SAT THE COUNT, +WITH THE HUSSAR COLONEL ON HIS LEFT AND SHINSHíN AND THE OTHER MALE +VISITORS ON HIS RIGHT. MIDWAY DOWN THE LONG TABLE ON ONE SIDE SAT THE +GROWN-UP YOUNG PEOPLE: VéRA BESIDE BERG, AND PIERRE BESIDE BORíS; AND +ON THE OTHER SIDE, THE CHILDREN, TUTORS, AND GOVERNESSES. FROM BEHIND +THE CRYSTAL DECANTERS AND FRUIT VASES, THE COUNT KEPT GLANCING AT HIS +WIFE AND HER TALL CAP WITH ITS LIGHT-BLUE RIBBONS, AND BUSILY FILLED +HIS NEIGHBORS’ GLASSES, NOT NEGLECTING HIS OWN. THE COUNTESS IN TURN, +WITHOUT OMITTING HER DUTIES AS HOSTESS, THREW SIGNIFICANT GLANCES FROM +BEHIND THE PINEAPPLES AT HER HUSBAND WHOSE FACE AND BALD HEAD SEEMED +BY THEIR REDNESS TO CONTRAST MORE THAN USUAL WITH HIS GRAY HAIR. AT THE +LADIES’ END AN EVEN CHATTER OF VOICES WAS HEARD ALL THE TIME, AT THE +MEN’S END THE VOICES SOUNDED LOUDER AND LOUDER, ESPECIALLY THAT OF THE +COLONEL OF HUSSARS WHO, GROWING MORE AND MORE FLUSHED, ATE AND DRANK SO +MUCH THAT THE COUNT HELD HIM UP AS A PATTERN TO THE OTHER GUESTS. BERG +WITH TENDER SMILES WAS SAYING TO VéRA THAT LOVE IS NOT AN EARTHLY BUT +A HEAVENLY FEELING. BORíS WAS TELLING HIS NEW FRIEND PIERRE WHO THE +GUESTS WERE AND EXCHANGING GLANCES WITH NATáSHA, WHO WAS SITTING +OPPOSITE. PIERRE SPOKE LITTLE BUT EXAMINED THE NEW FACES, AND ATE A +GREAT DEAL. OF THE TWO SOUPS HE CHOSE TURTLE WITH SAVORY PATTIES AND +WENT ON TO THE GAME WITHOUT OMITTING A SINGLE DISH OR ONE OF THE WINES. +THESE LATTER THE BUTLER THRUST MYSTERIOUSLY FORWARD, WRAPPED IN A +NAPKIN, FROM BEHIND THE NEXT MAN’S SHOULDERS AND WHISPERED: “DRY +MADEIRA”... “HUNGARIAN”... OR “RHINE WINE” AS THE CASE MIGHT +BE. OF THE FOUR CRYSTAL GLASSES ENGRAVED WITH THE COUNT’S MONOGRAM +THAT STOOD BEFORE HIS PLATE, PIERRE HELD OUT ONE AT RANDOM AND DRANK +WITH ENJOYMENT, GAZING WITH EVER-INCREASING AMIABILITY AT THE OTHER +GUESTS. NATáSHA, WHO SAT OPPOSITE, WAS LOOKING AT BORíS AS GIRLS OF +THIRTEEN LOOK AT THE BOY THEY ARE IN LOVE WITH AND HAVE JUST KISSED FOR +THE FIRST TIME. SOMETIMES THAT SAME LOOK FELL ON PIERRE, AND THAT FUNNY +LIVELY LITTLE GIRL’S LOOK MADE HIM INCLINED TO LAUGH WITHOUT KNOWING +WHY. + +NICHOLAS SAT AT SOME DISTANCE FROM SóNYA, BESIDE JULIE KARáGINA, TO +WHOM HE WAS AGAIN TALKING WITH THE SAME INVOLUNTARY SMILE. SóNYA WORE +A COMPANY SMILE BUT WAS EVIDENTLY TORMENTED BY JEALOUSY; NOW SHE TURNED +PALE, NOW BLUSHED AND STRAINED EVERY NERVE TO OVERHEAR WHAT NICHOLAS +AND JULIE WERE SAYING TO ONE ANOTHER. THE GOVERNESS KEPT LOOKING ROUND +UNEASILY AS IF PREPARING TO RESENT ANY SLIGHT THAT MIGHT BE PUT UPON THE +CHILDREN. THE GERMAN TUTOR WAS TRYING TO REMEMBER ALL THE DISHES, WINES, +AND KINDS OF DESSERT, IN ORDER TO SEND A FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE DINNER +TO HIS PEOPLE IN GERMANY; AND HE FELT GREATLY OFFENDED WHEN THE BUTLER +WITH A BOTTLE WRAPPED IN A NAPKIN PASSED HIM BY. HE FROWNED, TRYING TO +APPEAR AS IF HE DID NOT WANT ANY OF THAT WINE, BUT WAS MORTIFIED BECAUSE +NO ONE WOULD UNDERSTAND THAT IT WAS NOT TO QUENCH HIS THIRST OR FROM +GREEDINESS THAT HE WANTED IT, BUT SIMPLY FROM A CONSCIENTIOUS DESIRE FOR +KNOWLEDGE. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIX + +AT THE MEN’S END OF THE TABLE THE TALK GREW MORE AND MORE ANIMATED. +THE COLONEL TOLD THEM THAT THE DECLARATION OF WAR HAD ALREADY APPEARED +IN PETERSBURG AND THAT A COPY, WHICH HE HAD HIMSELF SEEN, HAD THAT DAY +BEEN FORWARDED BY COURIER TO THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. + +“AND WHY THE DEUCE ARE WE GOING TO FIGHT BONAPARTE?” REMARKED +SHINSHíN. “HE HAS STOPPED AUSTRIA’S CACKLE AND I FEAR IT WILL BE +OUR TURN NEXT.” + +THE COLONEL WAS A STOUT, TALL, PLETHORIC GERMAN, EVIDENTLY DEVOTED TO +THE SERVICE AND PATRIOTICALLY RUSSIAN. HE RESENTED SHINSHíN’S REMARK. + +“IT IS FOR THE REASSON, MY GOOT SIR,” SAID HE, SPEAKING WITH A +GERMAN ACCENT, “FOR THE REASSON ZAT ZE EMPEROR KNOWS ZAT. HE +DECLARES IN ZE MANIFESSTO ZAT HE CANNOT FIEW WIZ INDIFFERENCE ZE DANGER +VREATENING RUSSIA AND ZAT ZE SAFETY AND DIGNITY OF ZE EMPIRE AS VELL +AS ZE SANCTITY OF ITS ALLIANCES...” HE SPOKE THIS LAST WORD WITH +PARTICULAR EMPHASIS AS IF IN IT LAY THE GIST OF THE MATTER. + +THEN WITH THE UNERRING OFFICIAL MEMORY THAT CHARACTERIZED HIM HE +REPEATED FROM THE OPENING WORDS OF THE MANIFESTO: + +... AND THE WISH, WHICH CONSTITUTES THE EMPEROR’S SOLE AND ABSOLUTE +AIM—TO ESTABLISH PEACE IN EUROPE ON FIRM FOUNDATIONS—HAS NOW DECIDED +HIM TO DESPATCH PART OF THE ARMY ABROAD AND TO CREATE A NEW CONDITION +FOR THE ATTAINMENT OF THAT PURPOSE. + +“ZAT, MY DEAR SIR, IS VY...” HE CONCLUDED, DRINKING A TUMBLER OF +WINE WITH DIGNITY AND LOOKING TO THE COUNT FOR APPROVAL. + +“CONNAISSEZ-VOUS LE PROVERBE:* ‘JEROME, JEROME, DO NOT ROAM, BUT +TURN SPINDLES AT HOME!’?” SAID SHINSHíN, PUCKERING HIS BROWS AND +SMILING. “CELA NOUS CONVIENT à MERVEILLE.*(2) SUVóROV NOW—HE KNEW +WHAT HE WAS ABOUT; YET THEY BEAT HIM à PLATE COUTURE,*(3) AND WHERE +ARE WE TO FIND SUVóROVS NOW? JE VOUS DEMANDE UN PEU,” *(4) SAID HE, +CONTINUALLY CHANGING FROM FRENCH TO RUSSIAN. + + *DO YOU KNOW THE PROVERB? + + *(2) THAT SUITS US DOWN TO THE GROUND. + + *(3) HOLLOW. + + *(4) I JUST ASK YOU THAT. + +“VE MUST VIGHT TO THE LAST TR-R-OP OF OUR PLOOD!” SAID THE COLONEL, +THUMPING THE TABLE; “AND VE MUST TIE FOR OUR EMPEROR, AND ZEN ALL VILL +PE VELL. AND VE MUST DISCUSS IT AS LITTLE AS PO-O-OSSIBLE”... HE DWELT +PARTICULARLY ON THE WORD POSSIBLE... “AS PO-O-OSSIBLE,” HE ENDED, +AGAIN TURNING TO THE COUNT. “ZAT IS HOW VE OLD HUSSARS LOOK AT IT, AND +ZERE’S AN END OF IT! AND HOW DO YOU, A YOUNG MAN AND A YOUNG HUSSAR, +HOW DO YOU JUDGE OF IT?” HE ADDED, ADDRESSING NICHOLAS, WHO WHEN HE +HEARD THAT THE WAR WAS BEING DISCUSSED HAD TURNED FROM HIS PARTNER WITH +EYES AND EARS INTENT ON THE COLONEL. + +“I AM QUITE OF YOUR OPINION,” REPLIED NICHOLAS, FLAMING UP, TURNING +HIS PLATE ROUND AND MOVING HIS WINEGLASSES ABOUT WITH AS MUCH DECISION +AND DESPERATION AS THOUGH HE WERE AT THAT MOMENT FACING SOME GREAT +DANGER. “I AM CONVINCED THAT WE RUSSIANS MUST DIE OR CONQUER,” HE +CONCLUDED, CONSCIOUS—AS WERE OTHERS—AFTER THE WORDS WERE UTTERED +THAT HIS REMARKS WERE TOO ENTHUSIASTIC AND EMPHATIC FOR THE OCCASION AND +WERE THEREFORE AWKWARD. + +“WHAT YOU SAID JUST NOW WAS SPLENDID!” SAID HIS PARTNER JULIE. + +SóNYA TREMBLED ALL OVER AND BLUSHED TO HER EARS AND BEHIND THEM AND +DOWN TO HER NECK AND SHOULDERS WHILE NICHOLAS WAS SPEAKING. + +PIERRE LISTENED TO THE COLONEL’S SPEECH AND NODDED APPROVINGLY. + +“THAT’S FINE,” SAID HE. + +“THE YOUNG MAN’S A REAL HUSSAR!” SHOUTED THE COLONEL, AGAIN +THUMPING THE TABLE. + +“WHAT ARE YOU MAKING SUCH A NOISE ABOUT OVER THERE?” MáRYA +DMíTRIEVNA’S DEEP VOICE SUDDENLY INQUIRED FROM THE OTHER END OF THE +TABLE. “WHAT ARE YOU THUMPING THE TABLE FOR?” SHE DEMANDED OF THE +HUSSAR, “AND WHY ARE YOU EXCITING YOURSELF? DO YOU THINK THE FRENCH +ARE HERE?” + +“I AM SPEAKING ZE TRUCE,” REPLIED THE HUSSAR WITH A SMILE. + +“IT’S ALL ABOUT THE WAR,” THE COUNT SHOUTED DOWN THE TABLE. “YOU +KNOW MY SON’S GOING, MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA? MY SON IS GOING.” + +“I HAVE FOUR SONS IN THE ARMY BUT STILL I DON’T FRET. IT IS ALL +IN GOD’S HANDS. YOU MAY DIE IN YOUR BED OR GOD MAY SPARE YOU IN A +BATTLE,” REPLIED MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA’S DEEP VOICE, WHICH EASILY +CARRIED THE WHOLE LENGTH OF THE TABLE. + +“THAT’S TRUE!” + +ONCE MORE THE CONVERSATIONS CONCENTRATED, THE LADIES’ AT THE ONE END +AND THE MEN’S AT THE OTHER. + +“YOU WON’T ASK,” NATáSHA’S LITTLE BROTHER WAS SAYING; “I KNOW +YOU WON’T ASK!” + +“I WILL,” REPLIED NATáSHA. + +HER FACE SUDDENLY FLUSHED WITH RECKLESS AND JOYOUS RESOLUTION. SHE HALF +ROSE, BY A GLANCE INVITING PIERRE, WHO SAT OPPOSITE, TO LISTEN TO WHAT +WAS COMING, AND TURNING TO HER MOTHER: + +“MAMMA!” RANG OUT THE CLEAR CONTRALTO NOTES OF HER CHILDISH VOICE, +AUDIBLE THE WHOLE LENGTH OF THE TABLE. + +“WHAT IS IT?” ASKED THE COUNTESS, STARTLED; BUT SEEING BY HER +DAUGHTER’S FACE THAT IT WAS ONLY MISCHIEF, SHE SHOOK A FINGER AT HER +STERNLY WITH A THREATENING AND FORBIDDING MOVEMENT OF HER HEAD. + +THE CONVERSATION WAS HUSHED. + +“MAMMA! WHAT SWEETS ARE WE GOING TO HAVE?” AND NATáSHA’S VOICE +SOUNDED STILL MORE FIRM AND RESOLUTE. + +THE COUNTESS TRIED TO FROWN, BUT COULD NOT. MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA SHOOK HER +FAT FINGER. + +“COSSACK!” SHE SAID THREATENINGLY. + +MOST OF THE GUESTS, UNCERTAIN HOW TO REGARD THIS SALLY, LOOKED AT THE +ELDERS. + +“YOU HAD BETTER TAKE CARE!” SAID THE COUNTESS. + +“MAMMA! WHAT SWEETS ARE WE GOING TO HAVE?” NATáSHA AGAIN CRIED +BOLDLY, WITH SAUCY GAIETY, CONFIDENT THAT HER PRANK WOULD BE TAKEN IN +GOOD PART. + +SóNYA AND FAT LITTLE PéTYA DOUBLED UP WITH LAUGHTER. + +“YOU SEE! I HAVE ASKED,” WHISPERED NATáSHA TO HER LITTLE BROTHER +AND TO PIERRE, GLANCING AT HIM AGAIN. + +“ICE PUDDING, BUT YOU WON’T GET ANY,” SAID MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA. + +NATáSHA SAW THERE WAS NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF AND SO SHE BRAVED EVEN +MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA. + +“MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA! WHAT KIND OF ICE PUDDING? I DON’T LIKE ICE +CREAM.” + +“CARROT ICES.” + +“NO! WHAT KIND, MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA? WHAT KIND?” SHE ALMOST SCREAMED; +“I WANT TO KNOW!” + +MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA AND THE COUNTESS BURST OUT LAUGHING, AND ALL THE +GUESTS JOINED IN. EVERYONE LAUGHED, NOT AT MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA’S ANSWER +BUT AT THE INCREDIBLE BOLDNESS AND SMARTNESS OF THIS LITTLE GIRL WHO HAD +DARED TO TREAT MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA IN THIS FASHION. + +NATáSHA ONLY DESISTED WHEN SHE HAD BEEN TOLD THAT THERE WOULD BE +PINEAPPLE ICE. BEFORE THE ICES, CHAMPAGNE WAS SERVED ROUND. THE BAND +AGAIN STRUCK UP, THE COUNT AND COUNTESS KISSED, AND THE GUESTS, LEAVING +THEIR SEATS, WENT UP TO “CONGRATULATE” THE COUNTESS, AND REACHED +ACROSS THE TABLE TO CLINK GLASSES WITH THE COUNT, WITH THE CHILDREN, AND +WITH ONE ANOTHER. AGAIN THE FOOTMEN RUSHED ABOUT, CHAIRS SCRAPED, AND +IN THE SAME ORDER IN WHICH THEY HAD ENTERED BUT WITH REDDER FACES, THE +GUESTS RETURNED TO THE DRAWING ROOM AND TO THE COUNT’S STUDY. + + + + + +CHAPTER XX + +THE CARD TABLES WERE DRAWN OUT, SETS MADE UP FOR BOSTON, AND THE +COUNT’S VISITORS SETTLED THEMSELVES, SOME IN THE TWO DRAWING ROOMS, +SOME IN THE SITTING ROOM, SOME IN THE LIBRARY. + +THE COUNT, HOLDING HIS CARDS FANWISE, KEPT HIMSELF WITH DIFFICULTY FROM +DROPPING INTO HIS USUAL AFTER-DINNER NAP, AND LAUGHED AT EVERYTHING. +THE YOUNG PEOPLE, AT THE COUNTESS’ INSTIGATION, GATHERED ROUND THE +CLAVICHORD AND HARP. JULIE BY GENERAL REQUEST PLAYED FIRST. AFTER SHE +HAD PLAYED A LITTLE AIR WITH VARIATIONS ON THE HARP, SHE JOINED THE +OTHER YOUNG LADIES IN BEGGING NATáSHA AND NICHOLAS, WHO WERE NOTED FOR +THEIR MUSICAL TALENT, TO SING SOMETHING. NATáSHA, WHO WAS TREATED AS +THOUGH SHE WERE GROWN UP, WAS EVIDENTLY VERY PROUD OF THIS BUT AT THE +SAME TIME FELT SHY. + +“WHAT SHALL WE SING?” SHE SAID. + +“‘THE BROOK,’” SUGGESTED NICHOLAS. + +“WELL, THEN, LET’S BE QUICK. BORíS, COME HERE,” SAID NATáSHA. +“BUT WHERE IS SóNYA?” + +SHE LOOKED ROUND AND SEEING THAT HER FRIEND WAS NOT IN THE ROOM RAN TO +LOOK FOR HER. + +RUNNING INTO SóNYA’S ROOM AND NOT FINDING HER THERE, NATáSHA RAN TO +THE NURSERY, BUT SóNYA WAS NOT THERE EITHER. NATáSHA CONCLUDED THAT +SHE MUST BE ON THE CHEST IN THE PASSAGE. THE CHEST IN THE PASSAGE WAS +THE PLACE OF MOURNING FOR THE YOUNGER FEMALE GENERATION IN THE ROSTóV +HOUSEHOLD. AND THERE IN FACT WAS SóNYA LYING FACE DOWNWARD ON NURSE’S +DIRTY FEATHER BED ON THE TOP OF THE CHEST, CRUMPLING HER GAUZY PINK +DRESS UNDER HER, HIDING HER FACE WITH HER SLENDER FINGERS, AND SOBBING +SO CONVULSIVELY THAT HER BARE LITTLE SHOULDERS SHOOK. NATáSHA’S +FACE, WHICH HAD BEEN SO RADIANTLY HAPPY ALL THAT SAINT’S DAY, SUDDENLY +CHANGED: HER EYES BECAME FIXED, AND THEN A SHIVER PASSED DOWN HER BROAD +NECK AND THE CORNERS OF HER MOUTH DROOPED. + +“SóNYA! WHAT IS IT? WHAT IS THE MATTER?... OO... OO... OO...!” AND +NATáSHA’S LARGE MOUTH WIDENED, MAKING HER LOOK QUITE UGLY, AND SHE +BEGAN TO WAIL LIKE A BABY WITHOUT KNOWING WHY, EXCEPT THAT SóNYA WAS +CRYING. SóNYA TRIED TO LIFT HER HEAD TO ANSWER BUT COULD NOT, AND +HID HER FACE STILL DEEPER IN THE BED. NATáSHA WEPT, SITTING ON THE +BLUE-STRIPED FEATHER BED AND HUGGING HER FRIEND. WITH AN EFFORT SóNYA +SAT UP AND BEGAN WIPING HER EYES AND EXPLAINING. + +“NICHOLAS IS GOING AWAY IN A WEEK’S TIME, HIS... PAPERS... HAVE +COME... HE TOLD ME HIMSELF... BUT STILL I SHOULD NOT CRY,” AND SHE +SHOWED A PAPER SHE HELD IN HER HAND—WITH THE VERSES NICHOLAS HAD +WRITTEN, “STILL, I SHOULD NOT CRY, BUT YOU CAN’T... NO ONE CAN +UNDERSTAND... WHAT A SOUL HE HAS!” + +AND SHE BEGAN TO CRY AGAIN BECAUSE HE HAD SUCH A NOBLE SOUL. + +“IT’S ALL VERY WELL FOR YOU... I AM NOT ENVIOUS... I LOVE YOU AND +BORíS ALSO,” SHE WENT ON, GAINING A LITTLE STRENGTH; “HE IS NICE... +THERE ARE NO DIFFICULTIES IN YOUR WAY.... BUT NICHOLAS IS MY COUSIN... +ONE WOULD HAVE TO... THE METROPOLITAN HIMSELF... AND EVEN THEN IT +CAN’T BE DONE. AND BESIDES, IF SHE TELLS MAMMA” (SóNYA LOOKED UPON +THE COUNTESS AS HER MOTHER AND CALLED HER SO) “THAT I AM SPOILING +NICHOLAS’ CAREER AND AM HEARTLESS AND UNGRATEFUL, WHILE TRULY... GOD +IS MY WITNESS,” AND SHE MADE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS, “I LOVE HER SO +MUCH, AND ALL OF YOU, ONLY VéRA... AND WHAT FOR? WHAT HAVE I DONE +TO HER? I AM SO GRATEFUL TO YOU THAT I WOULD WILLINGLY SACRIFICE +EVERYTHING, ONLY I HAVE NOTHING....” + +SóNYA COULD NOT CONTINUE, AND AGAIN HID HER FACE IN HER HANDS AND IN +THE FEATHER BED. NATáSHA BEGAN CONSOLING HER, BUT HER FACE SHOWED THAT +SHE UNDERSTOOD ALL THE GRAVITY OF HER FRIEND’S TROUBLE. + +“SóNYA,” SHE SUDDENLY EXCLAIMED, AS IF SHE HAD GUESSED THE TRUE +REASON OF HER FRIEND’S SORROW, “I’M SURE VéRA HAS SAID SOMETHING +TO YOU SINCE DINNER? HASN’T SHE?” + +“YES, THESE VERSES NICHOLAS WROTE HIMSELF AND I COPIED SOME OTHERS, +AND SHE FOUND THEM ON MY TABLE AND SAID SHE’D SHOW THEM TO MAMMA, AND +THAT I WAS UNGRATEFUL, AND THAT MAMMA WOULD NEVER ALLOW HIM TO MARRY +ME, BUT THAT HE’LL MARRY JULIE. YOU SEE HOW HE’S BEEN WITH HER ALL +DAY... NATáSHA, WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE IT?...” + +AND AGAIN SHE BEGAN TO SOB, MORE BITTERLY THAN BEFORE. NATáSHA LIFTED +HER UP, HUGGED HER, AND, SMILING THROUGH HER TEARS, BEGAN COMFORTING +HER. + +“SóNYA, DON’T BELIEVE HER, DARLING! DON’T BELIEVE HER! DO YOU +REMEMBER HOW WE AND NICHOLAS, ALL THREE OF US, TALKED IN THE SITTING +ROOM AFTER SUPPER? WHY, WE SETTLED HOW EVERYTHING WAS TO BE. I DON’T +QUITE REMEMBER HOW, BUT DON’T YOU REMEMBER THAT IT COULD ALL BE +ARRANGED AND HOW NICE IT ALL WAS? THERE’S UNCLE SHINSHíN’S BROTHER +HAS MARRIED HIS FIRST COUSIN. AND WE ARE ONLY SECOND COUSINS, YOU KNOW. +AND BORíS SAYS IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE. YOU KNOW I HAVE TOLD HIM ALL ABOUT +IT. AND HE IS SO CLEVER AND SO GOOD!” SAID NATáSHA. “DON’T +YOU CRY, SóNYA, DEAR LOVE, DARLING SóNYA!” AND SHE KISSED HER AND +LAUGHED. “VéRA’S SPITEFUL; NEVER MIND HER! AND ALL WILL COME RIGHT +AND SHE WON’T SAY ANYTHING TO MAMMA. NICHOLAS WILL TELL HER HIMSELF, +AND HE DOESN’T CARE AT ALL FOR JULIE.” + +NATáSHA KISSED HER ON THE HAIR. + +SóNYA SAT UP. THE LITTLE KITTEN BRIGHTENED, ITS EYES SHONE, AND IT +SEEMED READY TO LIFT ITS TAIL, JUMP DOWN ON ITS SOFT PAWS, AND BEGIN +PLAYING WITH THE BALL OF WORSTED AS A KITTEN SHOULD. + +“DO YOU THINK SO?... REALLY? TRULY?” SHE SAID, QUICKLY SMOOTHING HER +FROCK AND HAIR. + +“REALLY, TRULY!” ANSWERED NATáSHA, PUSHING IN A CRISP LOCK THAT HAD +STRAYED FROM UNDER HER FRIEND’S PLAITS. + +BOTH LAUGHED. + +“WELL, LET’S GO AND SING ‘THE BROOK.’” + +“COME ALONG!” + +“DO YOU KNOW, THAT FAT PIERRE WHO SAT OPPOSITE ME IS SO FUNNY!” SAID +NATáSHA, STOPPING SUDDENLY. “I FEEL SO HAPPY!” + +AND SHE SET OFF AT A RUN ALONG THE PASSAGE. + +SóNYA, SHAKING OFF SOME DOWN WHICH CLUNG TO HER AND TUCKING AWAY THE +VERSES IN THE BOSOM OF HER DRESS CLOSE TO HER BONY LITTLE CHEST, RAN +AFTER NATáSHA DOWN THE PASSAGE INTO THE SITTING ROOM WITH FLUSHED FACE +AND LIGHT, JOYOUS STEPS. AT THE VISITORS’ REQUEST THE YOUNG PEOPLE +SANG THE QUARTETTE, “THE BROOK,” WITH WHICH EVERYONE WAS DELIGHTED. +THEN NICHOLAS SANG A SONG HE HAD JUST LEARNED: + + AT NIGHTTIME IN THE MOON’S FAIR GLOW + HOW SWEET, AS FANCIES WANDER FREE, + TO FEEL THAT IN THIS WORLD THERE’S ONE + WHO STILL IS THINKING BUT OF THEE! + + THAT WHILE HER FINGERS TOUCH THE HARP + WAFTING SWEET MUSIC O’ER THE LEA, + IT IS FOR THEE THUS SWELLS HER HEART, + SIGHING ITS MESSAGE OUT TO THEE... + + A DAY OR TWO, THEN BLISS UNSPOILT, + BUT OH! TILL THEN I CANNOT LIVE!... + +HE HAD NOT FINISHED THE LAST VERSE BEFORE THE YOUNG PEOPLE BEGAN TO +GET READY TO DANCE IN THE LARGE HALL, AND THE SOUND OF THE FEET AND THE +COUGHING OF THE MUSICIANS WERE HEARD FROM THE GALLERY. + + +PIERRE WAS SITTING IN THE DRAWING ROOM WHERE SHINSHíN HAD ENGAGED HIM, +AS A MAN RECENTLY RETURNED FROM ABROAD, IN A POLITICAL CONVERSATION IN +WHICH SEVERAL OTHERS JOINED BUT WHICH BORED PIERRE. WHEN THE MUSIC BEGAN +NATáSHA CAME IN AND WALKING STRAIGHT UP TO PIERRE SAID, LAUGHING AND +BLUSHING: + +“MAMMA TOLD ME TO ASK YOU TO JOIN THE DANCERS.” + +“I AM AFRAID OF MIXING THE FIGURES,” PIERRE REPLIED; “BUT IF YOU +WILL BE MY TEACHER...” AND LOWERING HIS BIG ARM HE OFFERED IT TO THE +SLENDER LITTLE GIRL. + +WHILE THE COUPLES WERE ARRANGING THEMSELVES AND THE MUSICIANS TUNING UP, +PIERRE SAT DOWN WITH HIS LITTLE PARTNER. NATáSHA WAS PERFECTLY HAPPY; +SHE WAS DANCING WITH A GROWN-UP MAN, WHO HAD BEEN ABROAD. SHE WAS +SITTING IN A CONSPICUOUS PLACE AND TALKING TO HIM LIKE A GROWN-UP LADY. +SHE HAD A FAN IN HER HAND THAT ONE OF THE LADIES HAD GIVEN HER TO HOLD. +ASSUMING QUITE THE POSE OF A SOCIETY WOMAN (HEAVEN KNOWS WHEN AND WHERE +SHE HAD LEARNED IT) SHE TALKED WITH HER PARTNER, FANNING HERSELF AND +SMILING OVER THE FAN. + +“DEAR, DEAR! JUST LOOK AT HER!” EXCLAIMED THE COUNTESS AS SHE +CROSSED THE BALLROOM, POINTING TO NATáSHA. + +NATáSHA BLUSHED AND LAUGHED. + +“WELL, REALLY, MAMMA! WHY SHOULD YOU? WHAT IS THERE TO BE SURPRISED +AT?” + + +IN THE MIDST OF THE THIRD éCOSSAISE THERE WAS A CLATTER OF CHAIRS BEING +PUSHED BACK IN THE SITTING ROOM WHERE THE COUNT AND MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA +HAD BEEN PLAYING CARDS WITH THE MAJORITY OF THE MORE DISTINGUISHED AND +OLDER VISITORS. THEY NOW, STRETCHING THEMSELVES AFTER SITTING SO LONG, +AND REPLACING THEIR PURSES AND POCKETBOOKS, ENTERED THE BALLROOM. FIRST +CAME MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA AND THE COUNT, BOTH WITH MERRY COUNTENANCES. THE +COUNT, WITH PLAYFUL CEREMONY SOMEWHAT IN BALLET STYLE, OFFERED HIS +BENT ARM TO MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA. HE DREW HIMSELF UP, A SMILE OF DEBONAIR +GALLANTRY LIT UP HIS FACE AND AS SOON AS THE LAST FIGURE OF THE +éCOSSAISE WAS ENDED, HE CLAPPED HIS HANDS TO THE MUSICIANS AND SHOUTED +UP TO THEIR GALLERY, ADDRESSING THE FIRST VIOLIN: + +“SEMëN! DO YOU KNOW THE DANIEL COOPER?” + +THIS WAS THE COUNT’S FAVORITE DANCE, WHICH HE HAD DANCED IN HIS YOUTH. +(STRICTLY SPEAKING, DANIEL COOPER WAS ONE FIGURE OF THE ANGLAISE.) + +“LOOK AT PAPA!” SHOUTED NATáSHA TO THE WHOLE COMPANY, AND QUITE +FORGETTING THAT SHE WAS DANCING WITH A GROWN-UP PARTNER SHE BENT HER +CURLY HEAD TO HER KNEES AND MADE THE WHOLE ROOM RING WITH HER LAUGHTER. + +AND INDEED EVERYBODY IN THE ROOM LOOKED WITH A SMILE OF PLEASURE AT THE +JOVIAL OLD GENTLEMAN, WHO STANDING BESIDE HIS TALL AND STOUT PARTNER, +MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA, CURVED HIS ARMS, BEAT TIME, STRAIGHTENED HIS +SHOULDERS, TURNED OUT HIS TOES, TAPPED GENTLY WITH HIS FOOT, AND, BY +A SMILE THAT BROADENED HIS ROUND FACE MORE AND MORE, PREPARED THE +ONLOOKERS FOR WHAT WAS TO FOLLOW. AS SOON AS THE PROVOCATIVELY GAY +STRAINS OF DANIEL COOPER (SOMEWHAT RESEMBLING THOSE OF A MERRY PEASANT +DANCE) BEGAN TO SOUND, ALL THE DOORWAYS OF THE BALLROOM WERE SUDDENLY +FILLED BY THE DOMESTIC SERFS—THE MEN ON ONE SIDE AND THE WOMEN ON +THE OTHER—WHO WITH BEAMING FACES HAD COME TO SEE THEIR MASTER MAKING +MERRY. + +“JUST LOOK AT THE MASTER! A REGULAR EAGLE HE IS!” LOUDLY REMARKED +THE NURSE, AS SHE STOOD IN ONE OF THE DOORWAYS. + +THE COUNT DANCED WELL AND KNEW IT. BUT HIS PARTNER COULD NOT AND DID NOT +WANT TO DANCE WELL. HER ENORMOUS FIGURE STOOD ERECT, HER POWERFUL ARMS +HANGING DOWN (SHE HAD HANDED HER RETICULE TO THE COUNTESS), AND ONLY HER +STERN BUT HANDSOME FACE REALLY JOINED IN THE DANCE. WHAT WAS EXPRESSED +BY THE WHOLE OF THE COUNT’S PLUMP FIGURE, IN MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA FOUND +EXPRESSION ONLY IN HER MORE AND MORE BEAMING FACE AND QUIVERING NOSE. +BUT IF THE COUNT, GETTING MORE AND MORE INTO THE SWING OF IT, CHARMED +THE SPECTATORS BY THE UNEXPECTEDNESS OF HIS ADROIT MANEUVERS AND +THE AGILITY WITH WHICH HE CAPERED ABOUT ON HIS LIGHT FEET, MáRYA +DMíTRIEVNA PRODUCED NO LESS IMPRESSION BY SLIGHT EXERTIONS—THE LEAST +EFFORT TO MOVE HER SHOULDERS OR BEND HER ARMS WHEN TURNING, OR STAMP +HER FOOT—WHICH EVERYONE APPRECIATED IN VIEW OF HER SIZE AND HABITUAL +SEVERITY. THE DANCE GREW LIVELIER AND LIVELIER. THE OTHER COUPLES COULD +NOT ATTRACT A MOMENT’S ATTENTION TO THEIR OWN EVOLUTIONS AND DID NOT +EVEN TRY TO DO SO. ALL WERE WATCHING THE COUNT AND MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA. +NATáSHA KEPT PULLING EVERYONE BY SLEEVE OR DRESS, URGING THEM TO +“LOOK AT PAPA!” THOUGH AS IT WAS THEY NEVER TOOK THEIR EYES OFF THE +COUPLE. IN THE INTERVALS OF THE DANCE THE COUNT, BREATHING DEEPLY, WAVED +AND SHOUTED TO THE MUSICIANS TO PLAY FASTER. FASTER, FASTER, AND FASTER; +LIGHTLY, MORE LIGHTLY, AND YET MORE LIGHTLY WHIRLED THE COUNT, FLYING +ROUND MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA, NOW ON HIS TOES, NOW ON HIS HEELS; UNTIL, +TURNING HIS PARTNER ROUND TO HER SEAT, HE EXECUTED THE FINAL PAS, +RAISING HIS SOFT FOOT BACKWARDS, BOWING HIS PERSPIRING HEAD, SMILING +AND MAKING A WIDE SWEEP WITH HIS ARM, AMID A THUNDER OF APPLAUSE AND +LAUGHTER LED BY NATáSHA. BOTH PARTNERS STOOD STILL, BREATHING HEAVILY +AND WIPING THEIR FACES WITH THEIR CAMBRIC HANDKERCHIEFS. + +“THAT’S HOW WE USED TO DANCE IN OUR TIME, MA CHèRE,” SAID THE +COUNT. + +“THAT WAS A DANIEL COOPER!” EXCLAIMED MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA, TUCKING UP +HER SLEEVES AND PUFFING HEAVILY. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXI + +WHILE IN THE ROSTóVS’ BALLROOM THE SIXTH ANGLAISE WAS BEING DANCED, +TO A TUNE IN WHICH THE WEARY MUSICIANS BLUNDERED, AND WHILE TIRED +FOOTMEN AND COOKS WERE GETTING THE SUPPER, COUNT BEZúKHOV HAD A +SIXTH STROKE. THE DOCTORS PRONOUNCED RECOVERY IMPOSSIBLE. AFTER A MUTE +CONFESSION, COMMUNION WAS ADMINISTERED TO THE DYING MAN, PREPARATIONS +MADE FOR THE SACRAMENT OF UNCTION, AND IN HIS HOUSE THERE WAS THE BUSTLE +AND THRILL OF SUSPENSE USUAL AT SUCH MOMENTS. OUTSIDE THE HOUSE, BEYOND +THE GATES, A GROUP OF UNDERTAKERS, WHO HID WHENEVER A CARRIAGE DROVE UP, +WAITED IN EXPECTATION OF AN IMPORTANT ORDER FOR AN EXPENSIVE FUNERAL. +THE MILITARY GOVERNOR OF MOSCOW, WHO HAD BEEN ASSIDUOUS IN SENDING +AIDES-DE-CAMP TO INQUIRE AFTER THE COUNT’S HEALTH, CAME HIMSELF +THAT EVENING TO BID A LAST FAREWELL TO THE CELEBRATED GRANDEE OF +CATHERINE’S COURT, COUNT BEZúKHOV. + +THE MAGNIFICENT RECEPTION ROOM WAS CROWDED. EVERYONE STOOD UP +RESPECTFULLY WHEN THE MILITARY GOVERNOR, HAVING STAYED ABOUT HALF AN +HOUR ALONE WITH THE DYING MAN, PASSED OUT, SLIGHTLY ACKNOWLEDGING THEIR +BOWS AND TRYING TO ESCAPE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE FROM THE GLANCES FIXED +ON HIM BY THE DOCTORS, CLERGY, AND RELATIVES OF THE FAMILY. PRINCE +VASíLI, WHO HAD GROWN THINNER AND PALER DURING THE LAST FEW DAYS, +ESCORTED HIM TO THE DOOR, REPEATING SOMETHING TO HIM SEVERAL TIMES IN +LOW TONES. + +WHEN THE MILITARY GOVERNOR HAD GONE, PRINCE VASíLI SAT DOWN ALL ALONE +ON A CHAIR IN THE BALLROOM, CROSSING ONE LEG HIGH OVER THE OTHER, +LEANING HIS ELBOW ON HIS KNEE AND COVERING HIS FACE WITH HIS HAND. AFTER +SITTING SO FOR A WHILE HE ROSE, AND, LOOKING ABOUT HIM WITH FRIGHTENED +EYES, WENT WITH UNUSUALLY HURRIED STEPS DOWN THE LONG CORRIDOR LEADING +TO THE BACK OF THE HOUSE, TO THE ROOM OF THE ELDEST PRINCESS. + +THOSE WHO WERE IN THE DIMLY LIT RECEPTION ROOM SPOKE IN NERVOUS +WHISPERS, AND, WHENEVER ANYONE WENT INTO OR CAME FROM THE DYING MAN’S +ROOM, GREW SILENT AND GAZED WITH EYES FULL OF CURIOSITY OR EXPECTANCY AT +HIS DOOR, WHICH CREAKED SLIGHTLY WHEN OPENED. + +“THE LIMITS OF HUMAN LIFE ... ARE FIXED AND MAY NOT BE +O’ERPASSED,” SAID AN OLD PRIEST TO A LADY WHO HAD TAKEN A SEAT +BESIDE HIM AND WAS LISTENING NAïVELY TO HIS WORDS. + +“I WONDER, IS IT NOT TOO LATE TO ADMINISTER UNCTION?” ASKED THE +LADY, ADDING THE PRIEST’S CLERICAL TITLE, AS IF SHE HAD NO OPINION OF +HER OWN ON THE SUBJECT. + +“AH, MADAM, IT IS A GREAT SACRAMENT,” REPLIED THE PRIEST, PASSING +HIS HAND OVER THE THIN GRIZZLED STRANDS OF HAIR COMBED BACK ACROSS HIS +BALD HEAD. + +“WHO WAS THAT? THE MILITARY GOVERNOR HIMSELF?” WAS BEING ASKED AT +THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM. “HOW YOUNG-LOOKING HE IS!” + +“YES, AND HE IS OVER SIXTY. I HEAR THE COUNT NO LONGER RECOGNIZES +ANYONE. THEY WISHED TO ADMINISTER THE SACRAMENT OF UNCTION.” + +“I KNEW SOMEONE WHO RECEIVED THAT SACRAMENT SEVEN TIMES.” + +THE SECOND PRINCESS HAD JUST COME FROM THE SICKROOM WITH HER EYES RED +FROM WEEPING AND SAT DOWN BESIDE DR. LORRAIN, WHO WAS SITTING IN A +GRACEFUL POSE UNDER A PORTRAIT OF CATHERINE, LEANING HIS ELBOW ON A +TABLE. + +“BEAUTIFUL,” SAID THE DOCTOR IN ANSWER TO A REMARK ABOUT THE +WEATHER. “THE WEATHER IS BEAUTIFUL, PRINCESS; AND BESIDES, IN MOSCOW +ONE FEELS AS IF ONE WERE IN THE COUNTRY.” + +“YES, INDEED,” REPLIED THE PRINCESS WITH A SIGH. “SO HE MAY HAVE +SOMETHING TO DRINK?” + +LORRAIN CONSIDERED. + +“HAS HE TAKEN HIS MEDICINE?” + +“YES.” + +THE DOCTOR GLANCED AT HIS WATCH. + +“TAKE A GLASS OF BOILED WATER AND PUT A PINCH OF CREAM OF TARTAR,” +AND HE INDICATED WITH HIS DELICATE FINGERS WHAT HE MEANT BY A PINCH. + +“DERE HAS NEFFER BEEN A GASE,” A GERMAN DOCTOR WAS SAYING TO AN +AIDE-DE-CAMP, “DAT ONE LIFFS AFTER DE SIRD STROKE.” + +“AND WHAT A WELL-PRESERVED MAN HE WAS!” REMARKED THE AIDE-DE-CAMP. +“AND WHO WILL INHERIT HIS WEALTH?” HE ADDED IN A WHISPER. + +“IT VON’T GO BEGGING,” REPLIED THE GERMAN WITH A SMILE. + +EVERYONE AGAIN LOOKED TOWARD THE DOOR, WHICH CREAKED AS THE SECOND +PRINCESS WENT IN WITH THE DRINK SHE HAD PREPARED ACCORDING TO +LORRAIN’S INSTRUCTIONS. THE GERMAN DOCTOR WENT UP TO LORRAIN. + +“DO YOU THINK HE CAN LAST TILL MORNING?” ASKED THE GERMAN, +ADDRESSING LORRAIN IN FRENCH WHICH HE PRONOUNCED BADLY. + +LORRAIN, PURSING UP HIS LIPS, WAVED A SEVERELY NEGATIVE FINGER BEFORE +HIS NOSE. + +“TONIGHT, NOT LATER,” SAID HE IN A LOW VOICE, AND HE MOVED AWAY +WITH A DECOROUS SMILE OF SELF-SATISFACTION AT BEING ABLE CLEARLY TO +UNDERSTAND AND STATE THE PATIENT’S CONDITION. + +MEANWHILE PRINCE VASíLI HAD OPENED THE DOOR INTO THE PRINCESS’ ROOM. + +IN THIS ROOM IT WAS ALMOST DARK; ONLY TWO TINY LAMPS WERE BURNING BEFORE +THE ICONS AND THERE WAS A PLEASANT SCENT OF FLOWERS AND BURNT PASTILLES. +THE ROOM WAS CROWDED WITH SMALL PIECES OF FURNITURE, WHATNOTS, +CUPBOARDS, AND LITTLE TABLES. THE QUILT OF A HIGH, WHITE FEATHER BED WAS +JUST VISIBLE BEHIND A SCREEN. A SMALL DOG BEGAN TO BARK. + +“AH, IS IT YOU, COUSIN?” + +SHE ROSE AND SMOOTHED HER HAIR, WHICH WAS AS USUAL SO EXTREMELY SMOOTH +THAT IT SEEMED TO BE MADE OF ONE PIECE WITH HER HEAD AND COVERED WITH +VARNISH. + +“HAS ANYTHING HAPPENED?” SHE ASKED. “I AM SO TERRIFIED.” + +“NO, THERE IS NO CHANGE. I ONLY CAME TO HAVE A TALK ABOUT BUSINESS, +CATICHE,” * MUTTERED THE PRINCE, SEATING HIMSELF WEARILY ON THE CHAIR +SHE HAD JUST VACATED. “YOU HAVE MADE THE PLACE WARM, I MUST SAY,” HE +REMARKED. “WELL, SIT DOWN: LET’S HAVE A TALK.” + + *CATHERINE. + +“I THOUGHT PERHAPS SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED,” SHE SAID WITH HER +UNCHANGING STONILY SEVERE EXPRESSION; AND, SITTING DOWN OPPOSITE THE +PRINCE, SHE PREPARED TO LISTEN. + +“I WISHED TO GET A NAP, MON COUSIN, BUT I CAN’T.” + +“WELL, MY DEAR?” SAID PRINCE VASíLI, TAKING HER HAND AND BENDING IT +DOWNWARDS AS WAS HIS HABIT. + +IT WAS PLAIN THAT THIS “WELL?” REFERRED TO MUCH THAT THEY BOTH +UNDERSTOOD WITHOUT NAMING. + +THE PRINCESS, WHO HAD A STRAIGHT, RIGID BODY, ABNORMALLY LONG FOR HER +LEGS, LOOKED DIRECTLY AT PRINCE VASíLI WITH NO SIGN OF EMOTION IN HER +PROMINENT GRAY EYES. THEN SHE SHOOK HER HEAD AND GLANCED UP AT THE ICONS +WITH A SIGH. THIS MIGHT HAVE BEEN TAKEN AS AN EXPRESSION OF SORROW +AND DEVOTION, OR OF WEARINESS AND HOPE OF RESTING BEFORE LONG. PRINCE +VASíLI UNDERSTOOD IT AS AN EXPRESSION OF WEARINESS. + +“AND I?” HE SAID; “DO YOU THINK IT IS EASIER FOR ME? I AM AS WORN +OUT AS A POST HORSE, BUT STILL I MUST HAVE A TALK WITH YOU, CATICHE, A +VERY SERIOUS TALK.” + +PRINCE VASíLI SAID NO MORE AND HIS CHEEKS BEGAN TO TWITCH NERVOUSLY, +NOW ON ONE SIDE, NOW ON THE OTHER, GIVING HIS FACE AN UNPLEASANT +EXPRESSION WHICH WAS NEVER TO BE SEEN ON IT IN A DRAWING ROOM. HIS EYES +TOO SEEMED STRANGE; AT ONE MOMENT THEY LOOKED IMPUDENTLY SLY AND AT THE +NEXT GLANCED ROUND IN ALARM. + +THE PRINCESS, HOLDING HER LITTLE DOG ON HER LAP WITH HER THIN BONY +HANDS, LOOKED ATTENTIVELY INTO PRINCE VASíLI’S EYES EVIDENTLY +RESOLVED NOT TO BE THE FIRST TO BREAK SILENCE, IF SHE HAD TO WAIT TILL +MORNING. + +“WELL, YOU SEE, MY DEAR PRINCESS AND COUSIN, CATHERINE SEMëNOVNA,” +CONTINUED PRINCE VASíLI, RETURNING TO HIS THEME, APPARENTLY NOT +WITHOUT AN INNER STRUGGLE; “AT SUCH A MOMENT AS THIS ONE MUST THINK +OF EVERYTHING. ONE MUST THINK OF THE FUTURE, OF ALL OF YOU... I LOVE YOU +ALL, LIKE CHILDREN OF MY OWN, AS YOU KNOW.” + +THE PRINCESS CONTINUED TO LOOK AT HIM WITHOUT MOVING, AND WITH THE SAME +DULL EXPRESSION. + +“AND THEN OF COURSE MY FAMILY HAS ALSO TO BE CONSIDERED,” PRINCE +VASíLI WENT ON, TESTILY PUSHING AWAY A LITTLE TABLE WITHOUT LOOKING AT +HER. “YOU KNOW, CATICHE, THAT WE—YOU THREE SISTERS, MáMONTOV, AND +MY WIFE—ARE THE COUNT’S ONLY DIRECT HEIRS. I KNOW, I KNOW HOW HARD +IT IS FOR YOU TO TALK OR THINK OF SUCH MATTERS. IT IS NO EASIER FOR +ME; BUT, MY DEAR, I AM GETTING ON FOR SIXTY AND MUST BE PREPARED FOR +ANYTHING. DO YOU KNOW I HAVE SENT FOR PIERRE? THE COUNT,” POINTING TO +HIS PORTRAIT, “DEFINITELY DEMANDED THAT HE SHOULD BE CALLED.” + +PRINCE VASíLI LOOKED QUESTIONINGLY AT THE PRINCESS, BUT COULD NOT MAKE +OUT WHETHER SHE WAS CONSIDERING WHAT HE HAD JUST SAID OR WHETHER SHE WAS +SIMPLY LOOKING AT HIM. + +“THERE IS ONE THING I CONSTANTLY PRAY GOD TO GRANT, MON COUSIN,” SHE +REPLIED, “AND IT IS THAT HE WOULD BE MERCIFUL TO HIM AND WOULD ALLOW +HIS NOBLE SOUL PEACEFULLY TO LEAVE THIS...” + +“YES, YES, OF COURSE,” INTERRUPTED PRINCE VASíLI IMPATIENTLY, +RUBBING HIS BALD HEAD AND ANGRILY PULLING BACK TOWARD HIM THE LITTLE +TABLE THAT HE HAD PUSHED AWAY. “BUT... IN SHORT, THE FACT IS... YOU +KNOW YOURSELF THAT LAST WINTER THE COUNT MADE A WILL BY WHICH HE LEFT +ALL HIS PROPERTY, NOT TO US HIS DIRECT HEIRS, BUT TO PIERRE.” + +“HE HAS MADE WILLS ENOUGH!” QUIETLY REMARKED THE PRINCESS. “BUT HE +CANNOT LEAVE THE ESTATE TO PIERRE. PIERRE IS ILLEGITIMATE.” + +“BUT, MY DEAR,” SAID PRINCE VASíLI SUDDENLY, CLUTCHING THE LITTLE +TABLE AND BECOMING MORE ANIMATED AND TALKING MORE RAPIDLY: “WHAT IF +A LETTER HAS BEEN WRITTEN TO THE EMPEROR IN WHICH THE COUNT ASKS FOR +PIERRE’S LEGITIMATION? DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT IN CONSIDERATION OF THE +COUNT’S SERVICES, HIS REQUEST WOULD BE GRANTED?...” + +THE PRINCESS SMILED AS PEOPLE DO WHO THINK THEY KNOW MORE ABOUT THE +SUBJECT UNDER DISCUSSION THAN THOSE THEY ARE TALKING WITH. + +“I CAN TELL YOU MORE,” CONTINUED PRINCE VASíLI, SEIZING HER HAND, +“THAT LETTER WAS WRITTEN, THOUGH IT WAS NOT SENT, AND THE EMPEROR KNEW +OF IT. THE ONLY QUESTION IS, HAS IT BEEN DESTROYED OR NOT? IF NOT, THEN +AS SOON AS ALL IS OVER,” AND PRINCE VASíLI SIGHED TO INTIMATE WHAT HE +MEANT BY THE WORDS ALL IS OVER, “AND THE COUNT’S PAPERS ARE OPENED, +THE WILL AND LETTER WILL BE DELIVERED TO THE EMPEROR, AND THE PETITION +WILL CERTAINLY BE GRANTED. PIERRE WILL GET EVERYTHING AS THE LEGITIMATE +SON.” + +“AND OUR SHARE?” ASKED THE PRINCESS SMILING IRONICALLY, AS IF +ANYTHING MIGHT HAPPEN, ONLY NOT THAT. + +“BUT, MY POOR CATICHE, IT IS AS CLEAR AS DAYLIGHT! HE WILL THEN BE THE +LEGAL HEIR TO EVERYTHING AND YOU WON’T GET ANYTHING. YOU MUST KNOW, +MY DEAR, WHETHER THE WILL AND LETTER WERE WRITTEN, AND WHETHER THEY HAVE +BEEN DESTROYED OR NOT. AND IF THEY HAVE SOMEHOW BEEN OVERLOOKED, YOU +OUGHT TO KNOW WHERE THEY ARE, AND MUST FIND THEM, BECAUSE...” + +“WHAT NEXT?” THE PRINCESS INTERRUPTED, SMILING SARDONICALLY AND NOT +CHANGING THE EXPRESSION OF HER EYES. “I AM A WOMAN, AND YOU THINK WE +ARE ALL STUPID; BUT I KNOW THIS: AN ILLEGITIMATE SON CANNOT INHERIT... +UN BâTARD!”* SHE ADDED, AS IF SUPPOSING THAT THIS TRANSLATION OF THE +WORD WOULD EFFECTIVELY PROVE TO PRINCE VASíLI THE INVALIDITY OF HIS +CONTENTION. + + * A BASTARD. + +“WELL, REALLY, CATICHE! CAN’T YOU UNDERSTAND! YOU ARE SO +INTELLIGENT, HOW IS IT YOU DON’T SEE THAT IF THE COUNT HAS WRITTEN A +LETTER TO THE EMPEROR BEGGING HIM TO RECOGNIZE PIERRE AS LEGITIMATE, IT +FOLLOWS THAT PIERRE WILL NOT BE PIERRE BUT WILL BECOME COUNT BEZúKHOV, +AND WILL THEN INHERIT EVERYTHING UNDER THE WILL? AND IF THE WILL AND +LETTER ARE NOT DESTROYED, THEN YOU WILL HAVE NOTHING BUT THE CONSOLATION +OF HAVING BEEN DUTIFUL ET TOUT CE QUI S’ENSUIT!* THAT’S CERTAIN.” + + * AND ALL THAT FOLLOWS THEREFROM. + +“I KNOW THE WILL WAS MADE, BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT IT IS INVALID; +AND YOU, MON COUSIN, SEEM TO CONSIDER ME A PERFECT FOOL,” SAID THE +PRINCESS WITH THE EXPRESSION WOMEN ASSUME WHEN THEY SUPPOSE THEY ARE +SAYING SOMETHING WITTY AND STINGING. + +“MY DEAR PRINCESS CATHERINE SEMëNOVNA,” BEGAN PRINCE VASíLI +IMPATIENTLY, “I CAME HERE NOT TO WRANGLE WITH YOU, BUT TO TALK ABOUT +YOUR INTERESTS AS WITH A KINSWOMAN, A GOOD, KIND, TRUE RELATION. AND I +TELL YOU FOR THE TENTH TIME THAT IF THE LETTER TO THE EMPEROR AND THE +WILL IN PIERRE’S FAVOR ARE AMONG THE COUNT’S PAPERS, THEN, MY DEAR +GIRL, YOU AND YOUR SISTERS ARE NOT HEIRESSES! IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE ME, +THEN BELIEVE AN EXPERT. I HAVE JUST BEEN TALKING TO DMíTRI ONúFRICH” +(THE FAMILY SOLICITOR) “AND HE SAYS THE SAME.” + +AT THIS A SUDDEN CHANGE EVIDENTLY TOOK PLACE IN THE PRINCESS’ IDEAS; +HER THIN LIPS GREW WHITE, THOUGH HER EYES DID NOT CHANGE, AND HER VOICE +WHEN SHE BEGAN TO SPEAK PASSED THROUGH SUCH TRANSITIONS AS SHE HERSELF +EVIDENTLY DID NOT EXPECT. + +“THAT WOULD BE A FINE THING!” SAID SHE. “I NEVER WANTED ANYTHING +AND I DON’T NOW.” + +SHE PUSHED THE LITTLE DOG OFF HER LAP AND SMOOTHED HER DRESS. + +“AND THIS IS GRATITUDE—THIS IS RECOGNITION FOR THOSE WHO HAVE +SACRIFICED EVERYTHING FOR HIS SAKE!” SHE CRIED. “IT’S SPLENDID! +FINE! I DON’T WANT ANYTHING, PRINCE.” + +“YES, BUT YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE. THERE ARE YOUR SISTERS...” +REPLIED PRINCE VASíLI. + +BUT THE PRINCESS DID NOT LISTEN TO HIM. + +“YES, I KNEW IT LONG AGO BUT HAD FORGOTTEN. I KNEW THAT I COULD EXPECT +NOTHING BUT MEANNESS, DECEIT, ENVY, INTRIGUE, AND INGRATITUDE—THE +BLACKEST INGRATITUDE—IN THIS HOUSE...” + +“DO YOU OR DO YOU NOT KNOW WHERE THAT WILL IS?” INSISTED PRINCE +VASíLI, HIS CHEEKS TWITCHING MORE THAN EVER. + +“YES, I WAS A FOOL! I STILL BELIEVED IN PEOPLE, LOVED THEM, AND +SACRIFICED MYSELF. BUT ONLY THE BASE, THE VILE SUCCEED! I KNOW WHO HAS +BEEN INTRIGUING!” + +THE PRINCESS WISHED TO RISE, BUT THE PRINCE HELD HER BY THE HAND. SHE +HAD THE AIR OF ONE WHO HAS SUDDENLY LOST FAITH IN THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE. +SHE GAVE HER COMPANION AN ANGRY GLANCE. + +“THERE IS STILL TIME, MY DEAR. YOU MUST REMEMBER, CATICHE, THAT IT WAS +ALL DONE CASUALLY IN A MOMENT OF ANGER, OF ILLNESS, AND WAS AFTERWARDS +FORGOTTEN. OUR DUTY, MY DEAR, IS TO RECTIFY HIS MISTAKE, TO EASE HIS +LAST MOMENTS BY NOT LETTING HIM COMMIT THIS INJUSTICE, AND NOT TO LET +HIM DIE FEELING THAT HE IS RENDERING UNHAPPY THOSE WHO...” + +“WHO SACRIFICED EVERYTHING FOR HIM,” CHIMED IN THE PRINCESS, WHO +WOULD AGAIN HAVE RISEN HAD NOT THE PRINCE STILL HELD HER FAST, “THOUGH +HE NEVER COULD APPRECIATE IT. NO, MON COUSIN,” SHE ADDED WITH A SIGH, +“I SHALL ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT IN THIS WORLD ONE MUST EXPECT NO REWARD, +THAT IN THIS WORLD THERE IS NEITHER HONOR NOR JUSTICE. IN THIS WORLD ONE +HAS TO BE CUNNING AND CRUEL.” + +“NOW COME, COME! BE REASONABLE. I KNOW YOUR EXCELLENT HEART.” + +“NO, I HAVE A WICKED HEART.” + +“I KNOW YOUR HEART,” REPEATED THE PRINCE. “I VALUE YOUR FRIENDSHIP +AND WISH YOU TO HAVE AS GOOD AN OPINION OF ME. DON’T UPSET YOURSELF, +AND LET US TALK SENSIBLY WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME, BE IT A DAY OR BE IT +BUT AN HOUR.... TELL ME ALL YOU KNOW ABOUT THE WILL, AND ABOVE ALL WHERE +IT IS. YOU MUST KNOW. WE WILL TAKE IT AT ONCE AND SHOW IT TO THE +COUNT. HE HAS, NO DOUBT, FORGOTTEN IT AND WILL WISH TO DESTROY IT. +YOU UNDERSTAND THAT MY SOLE DESIRE IS CONSCIENTIOUSLY TO CARRY OUT HIS +WISHES; THAT IS MY ONLY REASON FOR BEING HERE. I CAME SIMPLY TO HELP HIM +AND YOU.” + +“NOW I SEE IT ALL! I KNOW WHO HAS BEEN INTRIGUING—I KNOW!” CRIED +THE PRINCESS. + +“THAT’S NOT THE POINT, MY DEAR.” + +“IT’S THAT PROTéGé OF YOURS, THAT SWEET PRINCESS DRUBETSKáYA, +THAT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WHOM I WOULD NOT TAKE FOR A HOUSEMAID... THE +INFAMOUS, VILE WOMAN!” + +“DO NOT LET US LOSE ANY TIME...” + +“AH, DON’T TALK TO ME! LAST WINTER SHE WHEEDLED HERSELF IN HERE AND +TOLD THE COUNT SUCH VILE, DISGRACEFUL THINGS ABOUT US, ESPECIALLY ABOUT +SOPHIE—I CAN’T REPEAT THEM—THAT IT MADE THE COUNT QUITE ILL AND HE +WOULD NOT SEE US FOR A WHOLE FORTNIGHT. I KNOW IT WAS THEN HE WROTE THIS +VILE, INFAMOUS PAPER, BUT I THOUGHT THE THING WAS INVALID.” + +“WE’VE GOT TO IT AT LAST—WHY DID YOU NOT TELL ME ABOUT IT +SOONER?” + +“IT’S IN THE INLAID PORTFOLIO THAT HE KEEPS UNDER HIS PILLOW,” +SAID THE PRINCESS, IGNORING HIS QUESTION. “NOW I KNOW! YES; IF I HAVE +A SIN, A GREAT SIN, IT IS HATRED OF THAT VILE WOMAN!” ALMOST SHRIEKED +THE PRINCESS, NOW QUITE CHANGED. “AND WHAT DOES SHE COME WORMING +HERSELF IN HERE FOR? BUT I WILL GIVE HER A PIECE OF MY MIND. THE TIME +WILL COME!” + + + + + +CHAPTER XXII + +WHILE THESE CONVERSATIONS WERE GOING ON IN THE RECEPTION ROOM AND THE +PRINCESS’ ROOM, A CARRIAGE CONTAINING PIERRE (WHO HAD BEEN SENT FOR) +AND ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA (WHO FOUND IT NECESSARY TO ACCOMPANY HIM) WAS +DRIVING INTO THE COURT OF COUNT BEZúKHOV’S HOUSE. AS THE WHEELS +ROLLED SOFTLY OVER THE STRAW BENEATH THE WINDOWS, ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, +HAVING TURNED WITH WORDS OF COMFORT TO HER COMPANION, REALIZED THAT +HE WAS ASLEEP IN HIS CORNER AND WOKE HIM UP. ROUSING HIMSELF, PIERRE +FOLLOWED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA OUT OF THE CARRIAGE, AND ONLY THEN BEGAN +TO THINK OF THE INTERVIEW WITH HIS DYING FATHER WHICH AWAITED HIM. HE +NOTICED THAT THEY HAD NOT COME TO THE FRONT ENTRANCE BUT TO THE BACK +DOOR. WHILE HE WAS GETTING DOWN FROM THE CARRIAGE STEPS TWO MEN, WHO +LOOKED LIKE TRADESPEOPLE, RAN HURRIEDLY FROM THE ENTRANCE AND HID IN THE +SHADOW OF THE WALL. PAUSING FOR A MOMENT, PIERRE NOTICED SEVERAL OTHER +MEN OF THE SAME KIND HIDING IN THE SHADOW OF THE HOUSE ON BOTH SIDES. +BUT NEITHER ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA NOR THE FOOTMAN NOR THE COACHMAN, WHO +COULD NOT HELP SEEING THESE PEOPLE, TOOK ANY NOTICE OF THEM. “IT SEEMS +TO BE ALL RIGHT,” PIERRE CONCLUDED, AND FOLLOWED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. +SHE HURRIEDLY ASCENDED THE NARROW DIMLY LIT STONE STAIRCASE, CALLING TO +PIERRE, WHO WAS LAGGING BEHIND, TO FOLLOW. THOUGH HE DID NOT SEE WHY IT +WAS NECESSARY FOR HIM TO GO TO THE COUNT AT ALL, STILL LESS WHY HE HAD +TO GO BY THE BACK STAIRS, YET JUDGING BY ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S AIR +OF ASSURANCE AND HASTE, PIERRE CONCLUDED THAT IT WAS ALL ABSOLUTELY +NECESSARY. HALFWAY UP THE STAIRS THEY WERE ALMOST KNOCKED OVER BY +SOME MEN WHO, CARRYING PAILS, CAME RUNNING DOWNSTAIRS, THEIR BOOTS +CLATTERING. THESE MEN PRESSED CLOSE TO THE WALL TO LET PIERRE AND ANNA +MIKHáYLOVNA PASS AND DID NOT EVINCE THE LEAST SURPRISE AT SEEING THEM +THERE. + +“IS THIS THE WAY TO THE PRINCESSES’ APARTMENTS?” ASKED ANNA +MIKHáYLOVNA OF ONE OF THEM. + +“YES,” REPLIED A FOOTMAN IN A BOLD LOUD VOICE, AS IF ANYTHING WERE +NOW PERMISSIBLE; “THE DOOR TO THE LEFT, MA’AM.” + +“PERHAPS THE COUNT DID NOT ASK FOR ME,” SAID PIERRE WHEN HE REACHED +THE LANDING. “I’D BETTER GO TO MY OWN ROOM.” + +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA PAUSED AND WAITED FOR HIM TO COME UP. + +“AH, MY FRIEND!” SHE SAID, TOUCHING HIS ARM AS SHE HAD DONE HER +SON’S WHEN SPEAKING TO HIM THAT AFTERNOON, “BELIEVE ME I SUFFER NO +LESS THAN YOU DO, BUT BE A MAN!” + +“BUT REALLY, HADN’T I BETTER GO AWAY?” HE ASKED, LOOKING KINDLY AT +HER OVER HIS SPECTACLES. + +“AH, MY DEAR FRIEND! FORGET THE WRONGS THAT MAY HAVE BEEN DONE YOU. +THINK THAT HE IS YOUR FATHER ... PERHAPS IN THE AGONY OF DEATH.” SHE +SIGHED. “I HAVE LOVED YOU LIKE A SON FROM THE FIRST. TRUST YOURSELF TO +ME, PIERRE. I SHALL NOT FORGET YOUR INTERESTS.” + +PIERRE DID NOT UNDERSTAND A WORD, BUT THE CONVICTION THAT ALL THIS HAD +TO BE GREW STRONGER, AND HE MEEKLY FOLLOWED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WHO WAS +ALREADY OPENING A DOOR. + +THIS DOOR LED INTO A BACK ANTEROOM. AN OLD MAN, A SERVANT OF THE +PRINCESSES, SAT IN A CORNER KNITTING A STOCKING. PIERRE HAD NEVER BEEN +IN THIS PART OF THE HOUSE AND DID NOT EVEN KNOW OF THE EXISTENCE OF +THESE ROOMS. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, ADDRESSING A MAID WHO WAS HURRYING PAST +WITH A DECANTER ON A TRAY AS “MY DEAR” AND “MY SWEET,” ASKED +ABOUT THE PRINCESS’ HEALTH AND THEN LED PIERRE ALONG A STONE PASSAGE. +THE FIRST DOOR ON THE LEFT LED INTO THE PRINCESSES’ APARTMENTS. THE +MAID WITH THE DECANTER IN HER HASTE HAD NOT CLOSED THE DOOR (EVERYTHING +IN THE HOUSE WAS DONE IN HASTE AT THAT TIME), AND PIERRE AND ANNA +MIKHáYLOVNA IN PASSING INSTINCTIVELY GLANCED INTO THE ROOM, WHERE +PRINCE VASíLI AND THE ELDEST PRINCESS WERE SITTING CLOSE TOGETHER +TALKING. SEEING THEM PASS, PRINCE VASíLI DREW BACK WITH OBVIOUS +IMPATIENCE, WHILE THE PRINCESS JUMPED UP AND WITH A GESTURE OF +DESPERATION SLAMMED THE DOOR WITH ALL HER MIGHT. + +THIS ACTION WAS SO UNLIKE HER USUAL COMPOSURE AND THE FEAR DEPICTED ON +PRINCE VASíLI’S FACE SO OUT OF KEEPING WITH HIS DIGNITY THAT PIERRE +STOPPED AND GLANCED INQUIRINGLY OVER HIS SPECTACLES AT HIS GUIDE. ANNA +MIKHáYLOVNA EVINCED NO SURPRISE, SHE ONLY SMILED FAINTLY AND SIGHED, AS +IF TO SAY THAT THIS WAS NO MORE THAN SHE HAD EXPECTED. + +“BE A MAN, MY FRIEND. I WILL LOOK AFTER YOUR INTERESTS,” SAID SHE IN +REPLY TO HIS LOOK, AND WENT STILL FASTER ALONG THE PASSAGE. + +PIERRE COULD NOT MAKE OUT WHAT IT WAS ALL ABOUT, AND STILL LESS WHAT +“WATCHING OVER HIS INTERESTS” MEANT, BUT HE DECIDED THAT ALL THESE +THINGS HAD TO BE. FROM THE PASSAGE THEY WENT INTO A LARGE, DIMLY +LIT ROOM ADJOINING THE COUNT’S RECEPTION ROOM. IT WAS ONE OF THOSE +SUMPTUOUS BUT COLD APARTMENTS KNOWN TO PIERRE ONLY FROM THE FRONT +APPROACH, BUT EVEN IN THIS ROOM THERE NOW STOOD AN EMPTY BATH, AND WATER +HAD BEEN SPILLED ON THE CARPET. THEY WERE MET BY A DEACON WITH A CENSER +AND BY A SERVANT WHO PASSED OUT ON TIPTOE WITHOUT HEEDING THEM. THEY +WENT INTO THE RECEPTION ROOM FAMILIAR TO PIERRE, WITH TWO ITALIAN +WINDOWS OPENING INTO THE CONSERVATORY, WITH ITS LARGE BUST AND FULL +LENGTH PORTRAIT OF CATHERINE THE GREAT. THE SAME PEOPLE WERE STILL +SITTING HERE IN ALMOST THE SAME POSITIONS AS BEFORE, WHISPERING TO ONE +ANOTHER. ALL BECAME SILENT AND TURNED TO LOOK AT THE PALE TEAR-WORN ANNA +MIKHáYLOVNA AS SHE ENTERED, AND AT THE BIG STOUT FIGURE OF PIERRE WHO, +HANGING HIS HEAD, MEEKLY FOLLOWED HER. + +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S FACE EXPRESSED A CONSCIOUSNESS THAT THE DECISIVE +MOMENT HAD ARRIVED. WITH THE AIR OF A PRACTICAL PETERSBURG LADY SHE NOW, +KEEPING PIERRE CLOSE BESIDE HER, ENTERED THE ROOM EVEN MORE BOLDLY THAN +THAT AFTERNOON. SHE FELT THAT AS SHE BROUGHT WITH HER THE PERSON THE +DYING MAN WISHED TO SEE, HER OWN ADMISSION WAS ASSURED. CASTING A RAPID +GLANCE AT ALL THOSE IN THE ROOM AND NOTICING THE COUNT’S CONFESSOR +THERE, SHE GLIDED UP TO HIM WITH A SORT OF AMBLE, NOT EXACTLY BOWING YET +SEEMING TO GROW SUDDENLY SMALLER, AND RESPECTFULLY RECEIVED THE BLESSING +FIRST OF ONE AND THEN OF ANOTHER PRIEST. + +“GOD BE THANKED THAT YOU ARE IN TIME,” SAID SHE TO ONE OF THE +PRIESTS; “ALL WE RELATIVES HAVE BEEN IN SUCH ANXIETY. THIS YOUNG +MAN IS THE COUNT’S SON,” SHE ADDED MORE SOFTLY. “WHAT A TERRIBLE +MOMENT!” + +HAVING SAID THIS SHE WENT UP TO THE DOCTOR. + +“DEAR DOCTOR,” SAID SHE, “THIS YOUNG MAN IS THE COUNT’S SON. IS +THERE ANY HOPE?” + +THE DOCTOR CAST A RAPID GLANCE UPWARDS AND SILENTLY SHRUGGED HIS +SHOULDERS. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WITH JUST THE SAME MOVEMENT RAISED HER +SHOULDERS AND EYES, ALMOST CLOSING THE LATTER, SIGHED, AND MOVED AWAY +FROM THE DOCTOR TO PIERRE. TO HIM, IN A PARTICULARLY RESPECTFUL AND +TENDERLY SAD VOICE, SHE SAID: + +“TRUST IN HIS MERCY!” AND POINTING OUT A SMALL SOFA FOR HIM TO SIT +AND WAIT FOR HER, SHE WENT SILENTLY TOWARD THE DOOR THAT EVERYONE WAS +WATCHING AND IT CREAKED VERY SLIGHTLY AS SHE DISAPPEARED BEHIND IT. + +PIERRE, HAVING MADE UP HIS MIND TO OBEY HIS MONITRESS IMPLICITLY, MOVED +TOWARD THE SOFA SHE HAD INDICATED. AS SOON AS ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA HAD +DISAPPEARED HE NOTICED THAT THE EYES OF ALL IN THE ROOM TURNED TO HIM +WITH SOMETHING MORE THAN CURIOSITY AND SYMPATHY. HE NOTICED THAT THEY +WHISPERED TO ONE ANOTHER, CASTING SIGNIFICANT LOOKS AT HIM WITH A KIND +OF AWE AND EVEN SERVILITY. A DEFERENCE SUCH AS HE HAD NEVER BEFORE +RECEIVED WAS SHOWN HIM. A STRANGE LADY, THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN TALKING TO +THE PRIESTS, ROSE AND OFFERED HIM HER SEAT; AN AIDE-DE-CAMP PICKED UP +AND RETURNED A GLOVE PIERRE HAD DROPPED; THE DOCTORS BECAME RESPECTFULLY +SILENT AS HE PASSED BY, AND MOVED TO MAKE WAY FOR HIM. AT FIRST PIERRE +WISHED TO TAKE ANOTHER SEAT SO AS NOT TO TROUBLE THE LADY, AND ALSO TO +PICK UP THE GLOVE HIMSELF AND TO PASS ROUND THE DOCTORS WHO WERE NOT +EVEN IN HIS WAY; BUT ALL AT ONCE HE FELT THAT THIS WOULD NOT DO, AND +THAT TONIGHT HE WAS A PERSON OBLIGED TO PERFORM SOME SORT OF AWFUL +RITE WHICH EVERYONE EXPECTED OF HIM, AND THAT HE WAS THEREFORE BOUND +TO ACCEPT THEIR SERVICES. HE TOOK THE GLOVE IN SILENCE FROM THE +AIDE-DE-CAMP, AND SAT DOWN IN THE LADY’S CHAIR, PLACING HIS HUGE HANDS +SYMMETRICALLY ON HIS KNEES IN THE NAïVE ATTITUDE OF AN EGYPTIAN STATUE, +AND DECIDED IN HIS OWN MIND THAT ALL WAS AS IT SHOULD BE, AND THAT IN +ORDER NOT TO LOSE HIS HEAD AND DO FOOLISH THINGS HE MUST NOT ACT ON HIS +OWN IDEAS TONIGHT, BUT MUST YIELD HIMSELF UP ENTIRELY TO THE WILL OF +THOSE WHO WERE GUIDING HIM. + +NOT TWO MINUTES HAD PASSED BEFORE PRINCE VASíLI WITH HEAD ERECT +MAJESTICALLY ENTERED THE ROOM. HE WAS WEARING HIS LONG COAT WITH THREE +STARS ON HIS BREAST. HE SEEMED TO HAVE GROWN THINNER SINCE THE MORNING; +HIS EYES SEEMED LARGER THAN USUAL WHEN HE GLANCED ROUND AND NOTICED +PIERRE. HE WENT UP TO HIM, TOOK HIS HAND (A THING HE NEVER USED TO DO), +AND DREW IT DOWNWARDS AS IF WISHING TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER IT WAS FIRMLY +FIXED ON. + +“COURAGE, COURAGE, MY FRIEND! HE HAS ASKED TO SEE YOU. THAT IS +WELL!” AND HE TURNED TO GO. + +BUT PIERRE THOUGHT IT NECESSARY TO ASK: “HOW IS...” AND HESITATED, +NOT KNOWING WHETHER IT WOULD BE PROPER TO CALL THE DYING MAN “THE +COUNT,” YET ASHAMED TO CALL HIM “FATHER.” + +“HE HAD ANOTHER STROKE ABOUT HALF AN HOUR AGO. COURAGE, MY +FRIEND...” + +PIERRE’S MIND WAS IN SUCH A CONFUSED STATE THAT THE WORD “STROKE” +SUGGESTED TO HIM A BLOW FROM SOMETHING. HE LOOKED AT PRINCE VASíLI +IN PERPLEXITY, AND ONLY LATER GRASPED THAT A STROKE WAS AN ATTACK OF +ILLNESS. PRINCE VASíLI SAID SOMETHING TO LORRAIN IN PASSING AND WENT +THROUGH THE DOOR ON TIPTOE. HE COULD NOT WALK WELL ON TIPTOE AND HIS +WHOLE BODY JERKED AT EACH STEP. THE ELDEST PRINCESS FOLLOWED HIM, AND +THE PRIESTS AND DEACONS AND SOME SERVANTS ALSO WENT IN AT THE DOOR. +THROUGH THAT DOOR WAS HEARD A NOISE OF THINGS BEING MOVED ABOUT, AND +AT LAST ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, STILL WITH THE SAME EXPRESSION, PALE BUT +RESOLUTE IN THE DISCHARGE OF DUTY, RAN OUT AND TOUCHING PIERRE LIGHTLY +ON THE ARM SAID: + +“THE DIVINE MERCY IS INEXHAUSTIBLE! UNCTION IS ABOUT TO BE +ADMINISTERED. COME.” + +PIERRE WENT IN AT THE DOOR, STEPPING ON THE SOFT CARPET, AND NOTICED +THAT THE STRANGE LADY, THE AIDE-DE-CAMP, AND SOME OF THE SERVANTS, ALL +FOLLOWED HIM IN, AS IF THERE WERE NOW NO FURTHER NEED FOR PERMISSION TO +ENTER THAT ROOM. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXIII + +PIERRE WELL KNEW THIS LARGE ROOM DIVIDED BY COLUMNS AND AN ARCH, ITS +WALLS HUNG ROUND WITH PERSIAN CARPETS. THE PART OF THE ROOM BEHIND THE +COLUMNS, WITH A HIGH SILK-CURTAINED MAHOGANY BEDSTEAD ON ONE SIDE AND +ON THE OTHER AN IMMENSE CASE CONTAINING ICONS, WAS BRIGHTLY ILLUMINATED +WITH RED LIGHT LIKE A RUSSIAN CHURCH DURING EVENING SERVICE. UNDER +THE GLEAMING ICONS STOOD A LONG INVALID CHAIR, AND IN THAT CHAIR +ON SNOWY-WHITE SMOOTH PILLOWS, EVIDENTLY FRESHLY CHANGED, PIERRE +SAW—COVERED TO THE WAIST BY A BRIGHT GREEN QUILT—THE FAMILIAR, +MAJESTIC FIGURE OF HIS FATHER, COUNT BEZúKHOV, WITH THAT GRAY MANE OF +HAIR ABOVE HIS BROAD FOREHEAD WHICH REMINDED ONE OF A LION, AND THE DEEP +CHARACTERISTICALLY NOBLE WRINKLES OF HIS HANDSOME, RUDDY FACE. HE LAY +JUST UNDER THE ICONS; HIS LARGE THICK HANDS OUTSIDE THE QUILT. INTO THE +RIGHT HAND, WHICH WAS LYING PALM DOWNWARDS, A WAX TAPER HAD BEEN THRUST +BETWEEN FOREFINGER AND THUMB, AND AN OLD SERVANT, BENDING OVER FROM +BEHIND THE CHAIR, HELD IT IN POSITION. BY THE CHAIR STOOD THE PRIESTS, +THEIR LONG HAIR FALLING OVER THEIR MAGNIFICENT GLITTERING VESTMENTS, +WITH LIGHTED TAPERS IN THEIR HANDS, SLOWLY AND SOLEMNLY CONDUCTING THE +SERVICE. A LITTLE BEHIND THEM STOOD THE TWO YOUNGER PRINCESSES HOLDING +HANDKERCHIEFS TO THEIR EYES, AND JUST IN FRONT OF THEM THEIR ELDEST +SISTER, CATICHE, WITH A VICIOUS AND DETERMINED LOOK STEADILY FIXED ON +THE ICONS, AS THOUGH DECLARING TO ALL THAT SHE COULD NOT ANSWER FOR +HERSELF SHOULD SHE GLANCE ROUND. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, WITH A MEEK, +SORROWFUL, AND ALL-FORGIVING EXPRESSION ON HER FACE, STOOD BY THE DOOR +NEAR THE STRANGE LADY. PRINCE VASíLI IN FRONT OF THE DOOR, NEAR THE +INVALID CHAIR, A WAX TAPER IN HIS LEFT HAND, WAS LEANING HIS LEFT ARM ON +THE CARVED BACK OF A VELVET CHAIR HE HAD TURNED ROUND FOR THE PURPOSE, +AND WAS CROSSING HIMSELF WITH HIS RIGHT HAND, TURNING HIS EYES UPWARD +EACH TIME HE TOUCHED HIS FOREHEAD. HIS FACE WORE A CALM LOOK OF PIETY +AND RESIGNATION TO THE WILL OF GOD. “IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THESE +SENTIMENTS,” HE SEEMED TO BE SAYING, “SO MUCH THE WORSE FOR YOU!” + +BEHIND HIM STOOD THE AIDE-DE-CAMP, THE DOCTORS, AND THE MENSERVANTS; +THE MEN AND WOMEN HAD SEPARATED AS IN CHURCH. ALL WERE SILENTLY CROSSING +THEMSELVES, AND THE READING OF THE CHURCH SERVICE, THE SUBDUED CHANTING +OF DEEP BASS VOICES, AND IN THE INTERVALS SIGHS AND THE SHUFFLING OF +FEET WERE THE ONLY SOUNDS THAT COULD BE HEARD. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, WITH +AN AIR OF IMPORTANCE THAT SHOWED THAT SHE FELT SHE QUITE KNEW WHAT SHE +WAS ABOUT, WENT ACROSS THE ROOM TO WHERE PIERRE WAS STANDING AND GAVE +HIM A TAPER. HE LIT IT AND, DISTRACTED BY OBSERVING THOSE AROUND HIM, +BEGAN CROSSING HIMSELF WITH THE HAND THAT HELD THE TAPER. + +SOPHIE, THE ROSY, LAUGHTER-LOVING, YOUNGEST PRINCESS WITH THE MOLE, +WATCHED HIM. SHE SMILED, HID HER FACE IN HER HANDKERCHIEF, AND REMAINED +WITH IT HIDDEN FOR AWHILE; THEN LOOKING UP AND SEEING PIERRE SHE +AGAIN BEGAN TO LAUGH. SHE EVIDENTLY FELT UNABLE TO LOOK AT HIM +WITHOUT LAUGHING, BUT COULD NOT RESIST LOOKING AT HIM: SO TO BE OUT OF +TEMPTATION SHE SLIPPED QUIETLY BEHIND ONE OF THE COLUMNS. IN THE MIDST +OF THE SERVICE THE VOICES OF THE PRIESTS SUDDENLY CEASED, THEY WHISPERED +TO ONE ANOTHER, AND THE OLD SERVANT WHO WAS HOLDING THE COUNT’S HAND +GOT UP AND SAID SOMETHING TO THE LADIES. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA STEPPED +FORWARD AND, STOOPING OVER THE DYING MAN, BECKONED TO LORRAIN FROM +BEHIND HER BACK. THE FRENCH DOCTOR HELD NO TAPER; HE WAS LEANING +AGAINST ONE OF THE COLUMNS IN A RESPECTFUL ATTITUDE IMPLYING THAT HE, +A FOREIGNER, IN SPITE OF ALL DIFFERENCES OF FAITH, UNDERSTOOD THE FULL +IMPORTANCE OF THE RITE NOW BEING PERFORMED AND EVEN APPROVED OF IT. HE +NOW APPROACHED THE SICK MAN WITH THE NOISELESS STEP OF ONE IN FULL VIGOR +OF LIFE, WITH HIS DELICATE WHITE FINGERS RAISED FROM THE GREEN QUILT THE +HAND THAT WAS FREE, AND TURNING SIDEWAYS FELT THE PULSE AND REFLECTED +A MOMENT. THE SICK MAN WAS GIVEN SOMETHING TO DRINK, THERE WAS A +STIR AROUND HIM, THEN THE PEOPLE RESUMED THEIR PLACES AND THE SERVICE +CONTINUED. DURING THIS INTERVAL PIERRE NOTICED THAT PRINCE VASíLI +LEFT THE CHAIR ON WHICH HE HAD BEEN LEANING, AND—WITH AN AIR +WHICH INTIMATED THAT HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS ABOUT AND IF OTHERS DID NOT +UNDERSTAND HIM IT WAS SO MUCH THE WORSE FOR THEM—DID NOT GO UP TO THE +DYING MAN, BUT PASSED BY HIM, JOINED THE ELDEST PRINCESS, AND MOVED +WITH HER TO THE SIDE OF THE ROOM WHERE STOOD THE HIGH BEDSTEAD WITH ITS +SILKEN HANGINGS. ON LEAVING THE BED BOTH PRINCE VASíLI AND THE PRINCESS +PASSED OUT BY A BACK DOOR, BUT RETURNED TO THEIR PLACES ONE AFTER THE +OTHER BEFORE THE SERVICE WAS CONCLUDED. PIERRE PAID NO MORE ATTENTION +TO THIS OCCURRENCE THAN TO THE REST OF WHAT WENT ON, HAVING MADE UP HIS +MIND ONCE FOR ALL THAT WHAT HE SAW HAPPENING AROUND HIM THAT EVENING WAS +IN SOME WAY ESSENTIAL. + +THE CHANTING OF THE SERVICE CEASED, AND THE VOICE OF THE PRIEST WAS +HEARD RESPECTFULLY CONGRATULATING THE DYING MAN ON HAVING RECEIVED THE +SACRAMENT. THE DYING MAN LAY AS LIFELESS AND IMMOVABLE AS BEFORE. AROUND +HIM EVERYONE BEGAN TO STIR: STEPS WERE AUDIBLE AND WHISPERS, AMONG WHICH +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S WAS THE MOST DISTINCT. + +PIERRE HEARD HER SAY: + +“CERTAINLY HE MUST BE MOVED ONTO THE BED; HERE IT WILL BE +IMPOSSIBLE...” + +THE SICK MAN WAS SO SURROUNDED BY DOCTORS, PRINCESSES, AND SERVANTS +THAT PIERRE COULD NO LONGER SEE THE REDDISH-YELLOW FACE WITH ITS GRAY +MANE—WHICH, THOUGH HE SAW OTHER FACES AS WELL, HE HAD NOT LOST SIGHT +OF FOR A SINGLE MOMENT DURING THE WHOLE SERVICE. HE JUDGED BY THE +CAUTIOUS MOVEMENTS OF THOSE WHO CROWDED ROUND THE INVALID CHAIR THAT +THEY HAD LIFTED THE DYING MAN AND WERE MOVING HIM. + +“CATCH HOLD OF MY ARM OR YOU’LL DROP HIM!” HE HEARD ONE OF THE +SERVANTS SAY IN A FRIGHTENED WHISPER. “CATCH HOLD FROM UNDERNEATH. +HERE!” EXCLAIMED DIFFERENT VOICES; AND THE HEAVY BREATHING OF THE +BEARERS AND THE SHUFFLING OF THEIR FEET GREW MORE HURRIED, AS IF THE +WEIGHT THEY WERE CARRYING WERE TOO MUCH FOR THEM. + +AS THE BEARERS, AMONG WHOM WAS ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, PASSED THE YOUNG MAN +HE CAUGHT A MOMENTARY GLIMPSE BETWEEN THEIR HEADS AND BACKS OF THE DYING +MAN’S HIGH, STOUT, UNCOVERED CHEST AND POWERFUL SHOULDERS, RAISED BY +THOSE WHO WERE HOLDING HIM UNDER THE ARMPITS, AND OF HIS GRAY, CURLY, +LEONINE HEAD. THIS HEAD, WITH ITS REMARKABLY BROAD BROW AND CHEEKBONES, +ITS HANDSOME, SENSUAL MOUTH, AND ITS COLD, MAJESTIC EXPRESSION, WAS +NOT DISFIGURED BY THE APPROACH OF DEATH. IT WAS THE SAME AS PIERRE +REMEMBERED IT THREE MONTHS BEFORE, WHEN THE COUNT HAD SENT HIM TO +PETERSBURG. BUT NOW THIS HEAD WAS SWAYING HELPLESSLY WITH THE UNEVEN +MOVEMENTS OF THE BEARERS, AND THE COLD LISTLESS GAZE FIXED ITSELF UPON +NOTHING. + +AFTER A FEW MINUTES’ BUSTLE BESIDE THE HIGH BEDSTEAD, THOSE WHO HAD +CARRIED THE SICK MAN DISPERSED. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA TOUCHED PIERRE’S +HAND AND SAID, “COME.” PIERRE WENT WITH HER TO THE BED ON WHICH THE +SICK MAN HAD BEEN LAID IN A STATELY POSE IN KEEPING WITH THE CEREMONY +JUST COMPLETED. HE LAY WITH HIS HEAD PROPPED HIGH ON THE PILLOWS. HIS +HANDS WERE SYMMETRICALLY PLACED ON THE GREEN SILK QUILT, THE PALMS +DOWNWARD. WHEN PIERRE CAME UP THE COUNT WAS GAZING STRAIGHT AT HIM, BUT +WITH A LOOK THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WHICH COULD NOT BE UNDERSTOOD BY MORTAL +MAN. EITHER THIS LOOK MEANT NOTHING BUT THAT AS LONG AS ONE HAS EYES +THEY MUST LOOK SOMEWHERE, OR IT MEANT TOO MUCH. PIERRE HESITATED, +NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO, AND GLANCED INQUIRINGLY AT HIS GUIDE. ANNA +MIKHáYLOVNA MADE A HURRIED SIGN WITH HER EYES, GLANCING AT THE SICK +MAN’S HAND AND MOVING HER LIPS AS IF TO SEND IT A KISS. PIERRE, +CAREFULLY STRETCHING HIS NECK SO AS NOT TO TOUCH THE QUILT, FOLLOWED HER +SUGGESTION AND PRESSED HIS LIPS TO THE LARGE BONED, FLESHY HAND. NEITHER +THE HAND NOR A SINGLE MUSCLE OF THE COUNT’S FACE STIRRED. ONCE MORE +PIERRE LOOKED QUESTIONINGLY AT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA TO SEE WHAT HE WAS TO +DO NEXT. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WITH HER EYES INDICATED A CHAIR THAT STOOD +BESIDE THE BED. PIERRE OBEDIENTLY SAT DOWN, HIS EYES ASKING IF HE WERE +DOING RIGHT. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA NODDED APPROVINGLY. AGAIN PIERRE FELL +INTO THE NAïVELY SYMMETRICAL POSE OF AN EGYPTIAN STATUE, EVIDENTLY +DISTRESSED THAT HIS STOUT AND CLUMSY BODY TOOK UP SO MUCH ROOM AND DOING +HIS UTMOST TO LOOK AS SMALL AS POSSIBLE. HE LOOKED AT THE COUNT, WHO +STILL GAZED AT THE SPOT WHERE PIERRE’S FACE HAD BEEN BEFORE HE SAT +DOWN. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA INDICATED BY HER ATTITUDE HER CONSCIOUSNESS OF +THE PATHETIC IMPORTANCE OF THESE LAST MOMENTS OF MEETING BETWEEN THE +FATHER AND SON. THIS LASTED ABOUT TWO MINUTES, WHICH TO PIERRE SEEMED AN +HOUR. SUDDENLY THE BROAD MUSCLES AND LINES OF THE COUNT’S FACE BEGAN +TO TWITCH. THE TWITCHING INCREASED, THE HANDSOME MOUTH WAS DRAWN TO ONE +SIDE (ONLY NOW DID PIERRE REALIZE HOW NEAR DEATH HIS FATHER WAS), AND +FROM THAT DISTORTED MOUTH ISSUED AN INDISTINCT, HOARSE SOUND. ANNA +MIKHáYLOVNA LOOKED ATTENTIVELY AT THE SICK MAN’S EYES, TRYING TO +GUESS WHAT HE WANTED; SHE POINTED FIRST TO PIERRE, THEN TO SOME DRINK, +THEN NAMED PRINCE VASíLI IN AN INQUIRING WHISPER, THEN POINTED TO THE +QUILT. THE EYES AND FACE OF THE SICK MAN SHOWED IMPATIENCE. HE MADE AN +EFFORT TO LOOK AT THE SERVANT WHO STOOD CONSTANTLY AT THE HEAD OF THE +BED. + +“WANTS TO TURN ON THE OTHER SIDE,” WHISPERED THE SERVANT, AND GOT UP +TO TURN THE COUNT’S HEAVY BODY TOWARD THE WALL. + +PIERRE ROSE TO HELP HIM. + +WHILE THE COUNT WAS BEING TURNED OVER, ONE OF HIS ARMS FELL BACK +HELPLESSLY AND HE MADE A FRUITLESS EFFORT TO PULL IT FORWARD. WHETHER HE +NOTICED THE LOOK OF TERROR WITH WHICH PIERRE REGARDED THAT LIFELESS ARM, +OR WHETHER SOME OTHER THOUGHT FLITTED ACROSS HIS DYING BRAIN, AT ANY +RATE HE GLANCED AT THE REFRACTORY ARM, AT PIERRE’S TERROR-STRICKEN +FACE, AND AGAIN AT THE ARM, AND ON HIS FACE A FEEBLE, PITEOUS SMILE +APPEARED, QUITE OUT OF KEEPING WITH HIS FEATURES, THAT SEEMED TO DERIDE +HIS OWN HELPLESSNESS. AT SIGHT OF THIS SMILE PIERRE FELT AN UNEXPECTED +QUIVERING IN HIS BREAST AND A TICKLING IN HIS NOSE, AND TEARS DIMMED HIS +EYES. THE SICK MAN WAS TURNED ON TO HIS SIDE WITH HIS FACE TO THE WALL. +HE SIGHED. + +“HE IS DOZING,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, OBSERVING THAT ONE OF THE +PRINCESSES WAS COMING TO TAKE HER TURN AT WATCHING. “LET US GO.” + +PIERRE WENT OUT. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXIV + +THERE WAS NOW NO ONE IN THE RECEPTION ROOM EXCEPT PRINCE VASíLI AND THE +ELDEST PRINCESS, WHO WERE SITTING UNDER THE PORTRAIT OF CATHERINE THE +GREAT AND TALKING EAGERLY. AS SOON AS THEY SAW PIERRE AND HIS COMPANION +THEY BECAME SILENT, AND PIERRE THOUGHT HE SAW THE PRINCESS HIDE +SOMETHING AS SHE WHISPERED: + +“I CAN’T BEAR THE SIGHT OF THAT WOMAN.” + +“CATICHE HAS HAD TEA SERVED IN THE SMALL DRAWING ROOM,” SAID PRINCE +VASíLI TO ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. “GO AND TAKE SOMETHING, MY POOR ANNA +MIKHáYLOVNA, OR YOU WILL NOT HOLD OUT.” + +TO PIERRE HE SAID NOTHING, MERELY GIVING HIS ARM A SYMPATHETIC SQUEEZE +BELOW THE SHOULDER. PIERRE WENT WITH ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA INTO THE SMALL +DRAWING ROOM. + +“THERE IS NOTHING SO REFRESHING AFTER A SLEEPLESS NIGHT AS A CUP +OF THIS DELICIOUS RUSSIAN TEA,” LORRAIN WAS SAYING WITH AN AIR OF +RESTRAINED ANIMATION AS HE STOOD SIPPING TEA FROM A DELICATE CHINESE +HANDLELESS CUP BEFORE A TABLE ON WHICH TEA AND A COLD SUPPER WERE LAID +IN THE SMALL CIRCULAR ROOM. AROUND THE TABLE ALL WHO WERE AT COUNT +BEZúKHOV’S HOUSE THAT NIGHT HAD GATHERED TO FORTIFY THEMSELVES. +PIERRE WELL REMEMBERED THIS SMALL CIRCULAR DRAWING ROOM WITH ITS MIRRORS +AND LITTLE TABLES. DURING BALLS GIVEN AT THE HOUSE PIERRE, WHO DID NOT +KNOW HOW TO DANCE, HAD LIKED SITTING IN THIS ROOM TO WATCH THE LADIES +WHO, AS THEY PASSED THROUGH IN THEIR BALL DRESSES WITH DIAMONDS AND +PEARLS ON THEIR BARE SHOULDERS, LOOKED AT THEMSELVES IN THE BRILLIANTLY +LIGHTED MIRRORS WHICH REPEATED THEIR REFLECTIONS SEVERAL TIMES. NOW +THIS SAME ROOM WAS DIMLY LIGHTED BY TWO CANDLES. ON ONE SMALL TABLE TEA +THINGS AND SUPPER DISHES STOOD IN DISORDER, AND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE +NIGHT A MOTLEY THRONG OF PEOPLE SAT THERE, NOT MERRYMAKING, BUT SOMBERLY +WHISPERING, AND BETRAYING BY EVERY WORD AND MOVEMENT THAT THEY NONE +OF THEM FORGOT WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND WHAT WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN IN THE +BEDROOM. PIERRE DID NOT EAT ANYTHING THOUGH HE WOULD VERY MUCH HAVE +LIKED TO. HE LOOKED INQUIRINGLY AT HIS MONITRESS AND SAW THAT SHE WAS +AGAIN GOING ON TIPTOE TO THE RECEPTION ROOM WHERE THEY HAD LEFT PRINCE +VASíLI AND THE ELDEST PRINCESS. PIERRE CONCLUDED THAT THIS ALSO WAS +ESSENTIAL, AND AFTER A SHORT INTERVAL FOLLOWED HER. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA +WAS STANDING BESIDE THE PRINCESS, AND THEY WERE BOTH SPEAKING IN EXCITED +WHISPERS. + +“PERMIT ME, PRINCESS, TO KNOW WHAT IS NECESSARY AND WHAT IS NOT +NECESSARY,” SAID THE YOUNGER OF THE TWO SPEAKERS, EVIDENTLY IN THE +SAME STATE OF EXCITEMENT AS WHEN SHE HAD SLAMMED THE DOOR OF HER ROOM. + +“BUT, MY DEAR PRINCESS,” ANSWERED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA BLANDLY BUT +IMPRESSIVELY, BLOCKING THE WAY TO THE BEDROOM AND PREVENTING THE OTHER +FROM PASSING, “WON’T THIS BE TOO MUCH FOR POOR UNCLE AT A MOMENT +WHEN HE NEEDS REPOSE? WORLDLY CONVERSATION AT A MOMENT WHEN HIS SOUL IS +ALREADY PREPARED...” + +PRINCE VASíLI WAS SEATED IN AN EASY CHAIR IN HIS FAMILIAR ATTITUDE, +WITH ONE LEG CROSSED HIGH ABOVE THE OTHER. HIS CHEEKS, WHICH WERE SO +FLABBY THAT THEY LOOKED HEAVIER BELOW, WERE TWITCHING VIOLENTLY; BUT +HE WORE THE AIR OF A MAN LITTLE CONCERNED IN WHAT THE TWO LADIES WERE +SAYING. + +“COME, MY DEAR ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, LET CATICHE DO AS SHE PLEASES. YOU +KNOW HOW FOND THE COUNT IS OF HER.” + +“I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT IS IN THIS PAPER,” SAID THE YOUNGER OF +THE TWO LADIES, ADDRESSING PRINCE VASíLI AND POINTING TO AN INLAID +PORTFOLIO SHE HELD IN HER HAND. “ALL I KNOW IS THAT HIS REAL WILL IS +IN HIS WRITING TABLE, AND THIS IS A PAPER HE HAS FORGOTTEN....” + +SHE TRIED TO PASS ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, BUT THE LATTER SPRANG SO AS TO BAR +HER PATH. + +“I KNOW, MY DEAR, KIND PRINCESS,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, SEIZING +THE PORTFOLIO SO FIRMLY THAT IT WAS PLAIN SHE WOULD NOT LET GO EASILY. +“DEAR PRINCESS, I BEG AND IMPLORE YOU, HAVE SOME PITY ON HIM! JE VOUS +EN CONJURE...” + +THE PRINCESS DID NOT REPLY. THEIR EFFORTS IN THE STRUGGLE FOR THE +PORTFOLIO WERE THE ONLY SOUNDS AUDIBLE, BUT IT WAS EVIDENT THAT IF +THE PRINCESS DID SPEAK, HER WORDS WOULD NOT BE FLATTERING TO ANNA +MIKHáYLOVNA. THOUGH THE LATTER HELD ON TENACIOUSLY, HER VOICE LOST NONE +OF ITS HONEYED FIRMNESS AND SOFTNESS. + +“PIERRE, MY DEAR, COME HERE. I THINK HE WILL NOT BE OUT OF PLACE IN A +FAMILY CONSULTATION; IS IT NOT SO, PRINCE?” + +“WHY DON’T YOU SPEAK, COUSIN?” SUDDENLY SHRIEKED THE PRINCESS SO +LOUD THAT THOSE IN THE DRAWING ROOM HEARD HER AND WERE STARTLED. “WHY +DO YOU REMAIN SILENT WHEN HEAVEN KNOWS WHO PERMITS HERSELF TO +INTERFERE, MAKING A SCENE ON THE VERY THRESHOLD OF A DYING MAN’S ROOM? +INTRIGUER!” SHE HISSED VICIOUSLY, AND TUGGED WITH ALL HER MIGHT AT THE +PORTFOLIO. + +BUT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WENT FORWARD A STEP OR TWO TO KEEP HER HOLD ON THE +PORTFOLIO, AND CHANGED HER GRIP. + +PRINCE VASíLI ROSE. “OH!” SAID HE WITH REPROACH AND SURPRISE, +“THIS IS ABSURD! COME, LET GO I TELL YOU.” + +THE PRINCESS LET GO. + +“AND YOU TOO!” + +BUT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA DID NOT OBEY HIM. + +“LET GO, I TELL YOU! I WILL TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY. I MYSELF WILL GO +AND ASK HIM, I!... DOES THAT SATISFY YOU?” + +“BUT, PRINCE,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, “AFTER SUCH A SOLEMN +SACRAMENT, ALLOW HIM A MOMENT’S PEACE! HERE, PIERRE, TELL THEM YOUR +OPINION,” SAID SHE, TURNING TO THE YOUNG MAN WHO, HAVING COME QUITE +CLOSE, WAS GAZING WITH ASTONISHMENT AT THE ANGRY FACE OF THE PRINCESS +WHICH HAD LOST ALL DIGNITY, AND AT THE TWITCHING CHEEKS OF PRINCE +VASíLI. + +“REMEMBER THAT YOU WILL ANSWER FOR THE CONSEQUENCES,” SAID PRINCE +VASíLI SEVERELY. “YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.” + +“VILE WOMAN!” SHOUTED THE PRINCESS, DARTING UNEXPECTEDLY AT ANNA +MIKHáYLOVNA AND SNATCHING THE PORTFOLIO FROM HER. + +PRINCE VASíLI BENT HIS HEAD AND SPREAD OUT HIS HANDS. + +AT THIS MOMENT THAT TERRIBLE DOOR, WHICH PIERRE HAD WATCHED SO LONG +AND WHICH HAD ALWAYS OPENED SO QUIETLY, BURST NOISILY OPEN AND BANGED +AGAINST THE WALL, AND THE SECOND OF THE THREE SISTERS RUSHED OUT +WRINGING HER HANDS. + +“WHAT ARE YOU DOING!” SHE CRIED VEHEMENTLY. “HE IS DYING AND YOU +LEAVE ME ALONE WITH HIM!” + +HER SISTER DROPPED THE PORTFOLIO. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, STOOPING, QUICKLY +CAUGHT UP THE OBJECT OF CONTENTION AND RAN INTO THE BEDROOM. THE ELDEST +PRINCESS AND PRINCE VASíLI, RECOVERING THEMSELVES, FOLLOWED HER. A FEW +MINUTES LATER THE ELDEST SISTER CAME OUT WITH A PALE HARD FACE, AGAIN +BITING HER UNDERLIP. AT SIGHT OF PIERRE HER EXPRESSION SHOWED AN +IRREPRESSIBLE HATRED. + +“YES, NOW YOU MAY BE GLAD!” SAID SHE; “THIS IS WHAT YOU HAVE +BEEN WAITING FOR.” AND BURSTING INTO TEARS SHE HID HER FACE IN HER +HANDKERCHIEF AND RUSHED FROM THE ROOM. + +PRINCE VASíLI CAME NEXT. HE STAGGERED TO THE SOFA ON WHICH PIERRE WAS +SITTING AND DROPPED ONTO IT, COVERING HIS FACE WITH HIS HAND. PIERRE +NOTICED THAT HE WAS PALE AND THAT HIS JAW QUIVERED AND SHOOK AS IF IN AN +AGUE. + +“AH, MY FRIEND!” SAID HE, TAKING PIERRE BY THE ELBOW; AND THERE WAS +IN HIS VOICE A SINCERITY AND WEAKNESS PIERRE HAD NEVER OBSERVED IN IT +BEFORE. “HOW OFTEN WE SIN, HOW MUCH WE DECEIVE, AND ALL FOR WHAT? I AM +NEAR SIXTY, DEAR FRIEND... I TOO... ALL WILL END IN DEATH, ALL! DEATH IS +AWFUL...” AND HE BURST INTO TEARS. + +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA CAME OUT LAST. SHE APPROACHED PIERRE WITH SLOW, QUIET +STEPS. + +“PIERRE!” SHE SAID. + +PIERRE GAVE HER AN INQUIRING LOOK. SHE KISSED THE YOUNG MAN ON HIS +FOREHEAD, WETTING HIM WITH HER TEARS. THEN AFTER A PAUSE SHE SAID: + +“HE IS NO MORE....” + +PIERRE LOOKED AT HER OVER HIS SPECTACLES. + +“COME, I WILL GO WITH YOU. TRY TO WEEP, NOTHING GIVES SUCH RELIEF AS +TEARS.” + +SHE LED HIM INTO THE DARK DRAWING ROOM AND PIERRE WAS GLAD NO ONE COULD +SEE HIS FACE. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA LEFT HIM, AND WHEN SHE RETURNED HE WAS +FAST ASLEEP WITH HIS HEAD ON HIS ARM. + +IN THE MORNING ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA SAID TO PIERRE: + +“YES, MY DEAR, THIS IS A GREAT LOSS FOR US ALL, NOT TO SPEAK OF YOU. +BUT GOD WILL SUPPORT YOU: YOU ARE YOUNG, AND ARE NOW, I HOPE, IN COMMAND +OF AN IMMENSE FORTUNE. THE WILL HAS NOT YET BEEN OPENED. I KNOW YOU +WELL ENOUGH TO BE SURE THAT THIS WILL NOT TURN YOUR HEAD, BUT IT IMPOSES +DUTIES ON YOU, AND YOU MUST BE A MAN.” + +PIERRE WAS SILENT. + +“PERHAPS LATER ON I MAY TELL YOU, MY DEAR BOY, THAT IF I HAD NOT BEEN +THERE, GOD ONLY KNOWS WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED! YOU KNOW, UNCLE PROMISED +ME ONLY THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY NOT TO FORGET BORíS. BUT HE HAD +NO TIME. I HOPE, MY DEAR FRIEND, YOU WILL CARRY OUT YOUR FATHER’S +WISH?” + +PIERRE UNDERSTOOD NOTHING OF ALL THIS AND COLORING SHYLY LOOKED IN +SILENCE AT PRINCESS ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. AFTER HER TALK WITH PIERRE, ANNA +MIKHáYLOVNA RETURNED TO THE ROSTóVS’ AND WENT TO BED. ON WAKING IN +THE MORNING SHE TOLD THE ROSTóVS AND ALL HER ACQUAINTANCES THE DETAILS +OF COUNT BEZúKHOV’S DEATH. SHE SAID THE COUNT HAD DIED AS SHE WOULD +HERSELF WISH TO DIE, THAT HIS END WAS NOT ONLY TOUCHING BUT EDIFYING. AS +TO THE LAST MEETING BETWEEN FATHER AND SON, IT WAS SO TOUCHING THAT SHE +COULD NOT THINK OF IT WITHOUT TEARS, AND DID NOT KNOW WHICH HAD BEHAVED +BETTER DURING THOSE AWFUL MOMENTS—THE FATHER WHO SO REMEMBERED +EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY AT LAST AND HAD SPOKEN SUCH PATHETIC WORDS TO +THE SON, OR PIERRE, WHOM IT HAD BEEN PITIFUL TO SEE, SO STRICKEN WAS HE +WITH GRIEF, THOUGH HE TRIED HARD TO HIDE IT IN ORDER NOT TO SADDEN HIS +DYING FATHER. “IT IS PAINFUL, BUT IT DOES ONE GOOD. IT UPLIFTS THE +SOUL TO SEE SUCH MEN AS THE OLD COUNT AND HIS WORTHY SON,” SAID SHE. +OF THE BEHAVIOR OF THE ELDEST PRINCESS AND PRINCE VASíLI SHE SPOKE +DISAPPROVINGLY, BUT IN WHISPERS AND AS A GREAT SECRET. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXV + +AT BALD HILLS, PRINCE NICHOLAS ANDRéEVICH BOLKóNSKI’S ESTATE, THE +ARRIVAL OF YOUNG PRINCE ANDREW AND HIS WIFE WAS DAILY EXPECTED, BUT +THIS EXPECTATION DID NOT UPSET THE REGULAR ROUTINE OF LIFE IN THE OLD +PRINCE’S HOUSEHOLD. GENERAL IN CHIEF PRINCE NICHOLAS ANDRéEVICH +(NICKNAMED IN SOCIETY, “THE KING OF PRUSSIA”) EVER SINCE THE EMPEROR +PAUL HAD EXILED HIM TO HIS COUNTRY ESTATE HAD LIVED THERE CONTINUOUSLY +WITH HIS DAUGHTER, PRINCESS MARY, AND HER COMPANION, MADEMOISELLE +BOURIENNE. THOUGH IN THE NEW REIGN HE WAS FREE TO RETURN TO THE +CAPITALS, HE STILL CONTINUED TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY, REMARKING THAT +ANYONE WHO WANTED TO SEE HIM COULD COME THE HUNDRED MILES FROM MOSCOW TO +BALD HILLS, WHILE HE HIMSELF NEEDED NO ONE AND NOTHING. HE USED TO +SAY THAT THERE ARE ONLY TWO SOURCES OF HUMAN VICE—IDLENESS AND +SUPERSTITION, AND ONLY TWO VIRTUES—ACTIVITY AND INTELLIGENCE. HE +HIMSELF UNDERTOOK HIS DAUGHTER’S EDUCATION, AND TO DEVELOP THESE TWO +CARDINAL VIRTUES IN HER GAVE HER LESSONS IN ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY +TILL SHE WAS TWENTY, AND ARRANGED HER LIFE SO THAT HER WHOLE TIME WAS +OCCUPIED. HE WAS HIMSELF ALWAYS OCCUPIED: WRITING HIS MEMOIRS, SOLVING +PROBLEMS IN HIGHER MATHEMATICS, TURNING SNUFFBOXES ON A LATHE, WORKING +IN THE GARDEN, OR SUPERINTENDING THE BUILDING THAT WAS ALWAYS GOING ON +AT HIS ESTATE. AS REGULARITY IS A PRIME CONDITION FACILITATING ACTIVITY, +REGULARITY IN HIS HOUSEHOLD WAS CARRIED TO THE HIGHEST POINT OF +EXACTITUDE. HE ALWAYS CAME TO TABLE UNDER PRECISELY THE SAME CONDITIONS, +AND NOT ONLY AT THE SAME HOUR BUT AT THE SAME MINUTE. WITH THOSE ABOUT +HIM, FROM HIS DAUGHTER TO HIS SERFS, THE PRINCE WAS SHARP AND INVARIABLY +EXACTING, SO THAT WITHOUT BEING A HARDHEARTED MAN HE INSPIRED SUCH FEAR +AND RESPECT AS FEW HARDHEARTED MEN WOULD HAVE AROUSED. ALTHOUGH HE WAS +IN RETIREMENT AND HAD NOW NO INFLUENCE IN POLITICAL AFFAIRS, EVERY HIGH +OFFICIAL APPOINTED TO THE PROVINCE IN WHICH THE PRINCE’S ESTATE LAY +CONSIDERED IT HIS DUTY TO VISIT HIM AND WAITED IN THE LOFTY ANTECHAMBER +JUST AS THE ARCHITECT, GARDENER, OR PRINCESS MARY DID, TILL THE PRINCE +APPEARED PUNCTUALLY TO THE APPOINTED HOUR. EVERYONE SITTING IN THIS +ANTECHAMBER EXPERIENCED THE SAME FEELING OF RESPECT AND EVEN FEAR WHEN +THE ENORMOUSLY HIGH STUDY DOOR OPENED AND SHOWED THE FIGURE OF A RATHER +SMALL OLD MAN, WITH POWDERED WIG, SMALL WITHERED HANDS, AND BUSHY GRAY +EYEBROWS WHICH, WHEN HE FROWNED, SOMETIMES HID THE GLEAM OF HIS SHREWD, +YOUTHFULLY GLITTERING EYES. + +ON THE MORNING OF THE DAY THAT THE YOUNG COUPLE WERE TO ARRIVE, PRINCESS +MARY ENTERED THE ANTECHAMBER AS USUAL AT THE TIME APPOINTED FOR THE +MORNING GREETING, CROSSING HERSELF WITH TREPIDATION AND REPEATING A +SILENT PRAYER. EVERY MORNING SHE CAME IN LIKE THAT, AND EVERY MORNING +PRAYED THAT THE DAILY INTERVIEW MIGHT PASS OFF WELL. + +AN OLD POWDERED MANSERVANT WHO WAS SITTING IN THE ANTECHAMBER ROSE +QUIETLY AND SAID IN A WHISPER: “PLEASE WALK IN.” + +THROUGH THE DOOR CAME THE REGULAR HUM OF A LATHE. THE PRINCESS TIMIDLY +OPENED THE DOOR WHICH MOVED NOISELESSLY AND EASILY. SHE PAUSED AT THE +ENTRANCE. THE PRINCE WAS WORKING AT THE LATHE AND AFTER GLANCING ROUND +CONTINUED HIS WORK. + +THE ENORMOUS STUDY WAS FULL OF THINGS EVIDENTLY IN CONSTANT USE. +THE LARGE TABLE COVERED WITH BOOKS AND PLANS, THE TALL GLASS-FRONTED +BOOKCASES WITH KEYS IN THE LOCKS, THE HIGH DESK FOR WRITING WHILE +STANDING UP, ON WHICH LAY AN OPEN EXERCISE BOOK, AND THE LATHE WITH +TOOLS LAID READY TO HAND AND SHAVINGS SCATTERED AROUND—ALL INDICATED +CONTINUOUS, VARIED, AND ORDERLY ACTIVITY. THE MOTION OF THE SMALL FOOT +SHOD IN A TARTAR BOOT EMBROIDERED WITH SILVER, AND THE FIRM PRESSURE +OF THE LEAN SINEWY HAND, SHOWED THAT THE PRINCE STILL POSSESSED THE +TENACIOUS ENDURANCE AND VIGOR OF HARDY OLD AGE. AFTER A FEW MORE TURNS +OF THE LATHE HE REMOVED HIS FOOT FROM THE PEDAL, WIPED HIS CHISEL, +DROPPED IT INTO A LEATHER POUCH ATTACHED TO THE LATHE, AND, APPROACHING +THE TABLE, SUMMONED HIS DAUGHTER. HE NEVER GAVE HIS CHILDREN A BLESSING, +SO HE SIMPLY HELD OUT HIS BRISTLY CHEEK (AS YET UNSHAVEN) AND, REGARDING +HER TENDERLY AND ATTENTIVELY, SAID SEVERELY: + +“QUITE WELL? ALL RIGHT THEN, SIT DOWN.” HE TOOK THE EXERCISE BOOK +CONTAINING LESSONS IN GEOMETRY WRITTEN BY HIMSELF AND DREW UP A CHAIR +WITH HIS FOOT. + +“FOR TOMORROW!” SAID HE, QUICKLY FINDING THE PAGE AND MAKING A +SCRATCH FROM ONE PARAGRAPH TO ANOTHER WITH HIS HARD NAIL. + +THE PRINCESS BENT OVER THE EXERCISE BOOK ON THE TABLE. + +“WAIT A BIT, HERE’S A LETTER FOR YOU,” SAID THE OLD MAN SUDDENLY, +TAKING A LETTER ADDRESSED IN A WOMAN’S HAND FROM A BAG HANGING ABOVE +THE TABLE, ONTO WHICH HE THREW IT. + +AT THE SIGHT OF THE LETTER RED PATCHES SHOWED THEMSELVES ON THE +PRINCESS’ FACE. SHE TOOK IT QUICKLY AND BENT HER HEAD OVER IT. + +“FROM HéLOïSE?” ASKED THE PRINCE WITH A COLD SMILE THAT SHOWED HIS +STILL SOUND, YELLOWISH TEETH. + +“YES, IT’S FROM JULIE,” REPLIED THE PRINCESS WITH A TIMID GLANCE +AND A TIMID SMILE. + +“I’LL LET TWO MORE LETTERS PASS, BUT THE THIRD I’LL READ,” SAID +THE PRINCE STERNLY; “I’M AFRAID YOU WRITE MUCH NONSENSE. I’LL READ +THE THIRD!” + +“READ THIS IF YOU LIKE, FATHER,” SAID THE PRINCESS, BLUSHING STILL +MORE AND HOLDING OUT THE LETTER. + +“THE THIRD, I SAID THE THIRD!” CRIED THE PRINCE ABRUPTLY, PUSHING +THE LETTER AWAY, AND LEANING HIS ELBOWS ON THE TABLE HE DREW TOWARD HIM +THE EXERCISE BOOK CONTAINING GEOMETRICAL FIGURES. + +“WELL, MADAM,” HE BEGAN, STOOPING OVER THE BOOK CLOSE TO HIS +DAUGHTER AND PLACING AN ARM ON THE BACK OF THE CHAIR ON WHICH SHE SAT, +SO THAT SHE FELT HERSELF SURROUNDED ON ALL SIDES BY THE ACRID SCENT OF +OLD AGE AND TOBACCO, WHICH SHE HAD KNOWN SO LONG. “NOW, MADAM, THESE +TRIANGLES ARE EQUAL; PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ANGLE ABC...” + +THE PRINCESS LOOKED IN A SCARED WAY AT HER FATHER’S EYES GLITTERING +CLOSE TO HER; THE RED PATCHES ON HER FACE CAME AND WENT, AND IT WAS +PLAIN THAT SHE UNDERSTOOD NOTHING AND WAS SO FRIGHTENED THAT HER +FEAR WOULD PREVENT HER UNDERSTANDING ANY OF HER FATHER’S FURTHER +EXPLANATIONS, HOWEVER CLEAR THEY MIGHT BE. WHETHER IT WAS THE +TEACHER’S FAULT OR THE PUPIL’S, THIS SAME THING HAPPENED EVERY DAY: +THE PRINCESS’ EYES GREW DIM, SHE COULD NOT SEE AND COULD NOT HEAR +ANYTHING, BUT WAS ONLY CONSCIOUS OF HER STERN FATHER’S WITHERED FACE +CLOSE TO HER, OF HIS BREATH AND THE SMELL OF HIM, AND COULD THINK ONLY +OF HOW TO GET AWAY QUICKLY TO HER OWN ROOM TO MAKE OUT THE PROBLEM IN +PEACE. THE OLD MAN WAS BESIDE HIMSELF: MOVED THE CHAIR ON WHICH HE WAS +SITTING NOISILY BACKWARD AND FORWARD, MADE EFFORTS TO CONTROL HIMSELF +AND NOT BECOME VEHEMENT, BUT ALMOST ALWAYS DID BECOME VEHEMENT, SCOLDED, +AND SOMETIMES FLUNG THE EXERCISE BOOK AWAY. + +THE PRINCESS GAVE A WRONG ANSWER. + +“WELL NOW, ISN’T SHE A FOOL!” SHOUTED THE PRINCE, PUSHING THE BOOK +ASIDE AND TURNING SHARPLY AWAY; BUT RISING IMMEDIATELY, HE PACED UP AND +DOWN, LIGHTLY TOUCHED HIS DAUGHTER’S HAIR AND SAT DOWN AGAIN. + +HE DREW UP HIS CHAIR, AND CONTINUED TO EXPLAIN. + +“THIS WON’T DO, PRINCESS; IT WON’T DO,” SAID HE, WHEN PRINCESS +MARY, HAVING TAKEN AND CLOSED THE EXERCISE BOOK WITH THE NEXT DAY’S +LESSON, WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE: “MATHEMATICS ARE MOST IMPORTANT, MADAM! +I DON’T WANT TO HAVE YOU LIKE OUR SILLY LADIES. GET USED TO IT AND +YOU’LL LIKE IT,” AND HE PATTED HER CHEEK. “IT WILL DRIVE ALL THE +NONSENSE OUT OF YOUR HEAD.” + +SHE TURNED TO GO, BUT HE STOPPED HER WITH A GESTURE AND TOOK AN UNCUT +BOOK FROM THE HIGH DESK. + +“HERE IS SOME SORT OF KEY TO THE MYSTERIES THAT YOUR HéLOïSE HAS +SENT YOU. RELIGIOUS! I DON’T INTERFERE WITH ANYONE’S BELIEF... I +HAVE LOOKED AT IT. TAKE IT. WELL, NOW GO. GO.” + +HE PATTED HER ON THE SHOULDER AND HIMSELF CLOSED THE DOOR AFTER HER. + +PRINCESS MARY WENT BACK TO HER ROOM WITH THE SAD, SCARED EXPRESSION THAT +RARELY LEFT HER AND WHICH MADE HER PLAIN, SICKLY FACE YET PLAINER. SHE +SAT DOWN AT HER WRITING TABLE, ON WHICH STOOD MINIATURE PORTRAITS AND +WHICH WAS LITTERED WITH BOOKS AND PAPERS. THE PRINCESS WAS AS UNTIDY AS +HER FATHER WAS TIDY. SHE PUT DOWN THE GEOMETRY BOOK AND EAGERLY BROKE +THE SEAL OF HER LETTER. IT WAS FROM HER MOST INTIMATE FRIEND FROM +CHILDHOOD; THAT SAME JULIE KARáGINA WHO HAD BEEN AT THE ROSTóVS’ +NAME-DAY PARTY. + +JULIE WROTE IN FRENCH: + +DEAR AND PRECIOUS FRIEND, HOW TERRIBLE AND FRIGHTFUL A THING IS +SEPARATION! THOUGH I TELL MYSELF THAT HALF MY LIFE AND HALF MY HAPPINESS +ARE WRAPPED UP IN YOU, AND THAT IN SPITE OF THE DISTANCE SEPARATING US +OUR HEARTS ARE UNITED BY INDISSOLUBLE BONDS, MY HEART REBELS AGAINST +FATE AND IN SPITE OF THE PLEASURES AND DISTRACTIONS AROUND ME I CANNOT +OVERCOME A CERTAIN SECRET SORROW THAT HAS BEEN IN MY HEART EVER SINCE +WE PARTED. WHY ARE WE NOT TOGETHER AS WE WERE LAST SUMMER, IN YOUR BIG +STUDY, ON THE BLUE SOFA, THE CONFIDENTIAL SOFA? WHY CANNOT I NOW, AS +THREE MONTHS AGO, DRAW FRESH MORAL STRENGTH FROM YOUR LOOK, SO GENTLE, +CALM, AND PENETRATING, A LOOK I LOVED SO WELL AND SEEM TO SEE BEFORE ME +AS I WRITE? + +HAVING READ THUS FAR, PRINCESS MARY SIGHED AND GLANCED INTO THE MIRROR +WHICH STOOD ON HER RIGHT. IT REFLECTED A WEAK, UNGRACEFUL FIGURE AND +THIN FACE. HER EYES, ALWAYS SAD, NOW LOOKED WITH PARTICULAR HOPELESSNESS +AT HER REFLECTION IN THE GLASS. “SHE FLATTERS ME,” THOUGHT THE +PRINCESS, TURNING AWAY AND CONTINUING TO READ. BUT JULIE DID NOT FLATTER +HER FRIEND, THE PRINCESS’ EYES—LARGE, DEEP AND LUMINOUS (IT SEEMED +AS IF AT TIMES THERE RADIATED FROM THEM SHAFTS OF WARM LIGHT)—WERE +SO BEAUTIFUL THAT VERY OFTEN IN SPITE OF THE PLAINNESS OF HER FACE +THEY GAVE HER AN ATTRACTION MORE POWERFUL THAN THAT OF BEAUTY. BUT THE +PRINCESS NEVER SAW THE BEAUTIFUL EXPRESSION OF HER OWN EYES—THE LOOK +THEY HAD WHEN SHE WAS NOT THINKING OF HERSELF. AS WITH EVERYONE, HER +FACE ASSUMED A FORCED UNNATURAL EXPRESSION AS SOON AS SHE LOOKED IN A +GLASS. SHE WENT ON READING: + +ALL MOSCOW TALKS OF NOTHING BUT WAR. ONE OF MY TWO BROTHERS IS ALREADY +ABROAD, THE OTHER IS WITH THE GUARDS, WHO ARE STARTING ON THEIR MARCH +TO THE FRONTIER. OUR DEAR EMPEROR HAS LEFT PETERSBURG AND IT IS THOUGHT +INTENDS TO EXPOSE HIS PRECIOUS PERSON TO THE CHANCES OF WAR. GOD GRANT +THAT THE CORSICAN MONSTER WHO IS DESTROYING THE PEACE OF EUROPE MAY +BE OVERTHROWN BY THE ANGEL WHOM IT HAS PLEASED THE ALMIGHTY, IN HIS +GOODNESS, TO GIVE US AS SOVEREIGN! TO SAY NOTHING OF MY BROTHERS, THIS +WAR HAS DEPRIVED ME OF ONE OF THE ASSOCIATIONS NEAREST MY HEART. I MEAN +YOUNG NICHOLAS ROSTóV, WHO WITH HIS ENTHUSIASM COULD NOT BEAR TO REMAIN +INACTIVE AND HAS LEFT THE UNIVERSITY TO JOIN THE ARMY. I WILL CONFESS TO +YOU, DEAR MARY, THAT IN SPITE OF HIS EXTREME YOUTH HIS DEPARTURE FOR +THE ARMY WAS A GREAT GRIEF TO ME. THIS YOUNG MAN, OF WHOM I SPOKE TO YOU +LAST SUMMER, IS SO NOBLE-MINDED AND FULL OF THAT REAL YOUTHFULNESS WHICH +ONE SELDOM FINDS NOWADAYS AMONG OUR OLD MEN OF TWENTY AND, PARTICULARLY, +HE IS SO FRANK AND HAS SO MUCH HEART. HE IS SO PURE AND POETIC THAT +MY RELATIONS WITH HIM, TRANSIENT AS THEY WERE, HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE +SWEETEST COMFORTS TO MY POOR HEART, WHICH HAS ALREADY SUFFERED SO MUCH. +SOMEDAY I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT OUR PARTING AND ALL THAT WAS SAID THEN. +THAT IS STILL TOO FRESH. AH, DEAR FRIEND, YOU ARE HAPPY NOT TO KNOW +THESE POIGNANT JOYS AND SORROWS. YOU ARE FORTUNATE, FOR THE LATTER ARE +GENERALLY THE STRONGER! I KNOW VERY WELL THAT COUNT NICHOLAS IS TOO +YOUNG EVER TO BE MORE TO ME THAN A FRIEND, BUT THIS SWEET FRIENDSHIP, +THIS POETIC AND PURE INTIMACY, WERE WHAT MY HEART NEEDED. BUT ENOUGH OF +THIS! THE CHIEF NEWS, ABOUT WHICH ALL MOSCOW GOSSIPS, IS THE DEATH OF +OLD COUNT BEZúKHOV, AND HIS INHERITANCE. FANCY! THE THREE PRINCESSES +HAVE RECEIVED VERY LITTLE, PRINCE VASíLI NOTHING, AND IT IS MONSIEUR +PIERRE WHO HAS INHERITED ALL THE PROPERTY AND HAS BESIDES BEEN +RECOGNIZED AS LEGITIMATE; SO THAT HE IS NOW COUNT BEZúKHOV AND +POSSESSOR OF THE FINEST FORTUNE IN RUSSIA. IT IS RUMORED THAT PRINCE +VASíLI PLAYED A VERY DESPICABLE PART IN THIS AFFAIR AND THAT HE +RETURNED TO PETERSBURG QUITE CRESTFALLEN. + +I CONFESS I UNDERSTAND VERY LITTLE ABOUT ALL THESE MATTERS OF WILLS AND +INHERITANCE; BUT I DO KNOW THAT SINCE THIS YOUNG MAN, WHOM WE ALL USED +TO KNOW AS PLAIN MONSIEUR PIERRE, HAS BECOME COUNT BEZúKHOV AND THE +OWNER OF ONE OF THE LARGEST FORTUNES IN RUSSIA, I AM MUCH AMUSED TO +WATCH THE CHANGE IN THE TONE AND MANNERS OF THE MAMMAS BURDENED BY +MARRIAGEABLE DAUGHTERS, AND OF THE YOUNG LADIES THEMSELVES, TOWARD +HIM, THOUGH, BETWEEN YOU AND ME, HE ALWAYS SEEMED TO ME A POOR SORT +OF FELLOW. AS FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS PEOPLE HAVE AMUSED THEMSELVES +BY FINDING HUSBANDS FOR ME (MOST OF WHOM I DON’T EVEN KNOW), THE +MATCHMAKING CHRONICLES OF MOSCOW NOW SPEAK OF ME AS THE FUTURE COUNTESS +BEZúKHOVA. BUT YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THAT I HAVE NO DESIRE FOR THE POST. +À PROPOS OF MARRIAGES: DO YOU KNOW THAT A WHILE AGO THAT UNIVERSAL +AUNTIE ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA TOLD ME, UNDER THE SEAL OF STRICT SECRECY, OF +A PLAN OF MARRIAGE FOR YOU. IT IS NEITHER MORE NOR LESS THAN WITH PRINCE +VASíLI’S SON ANATOLE, WHOM THEY WISH TO REFORM BY MARRYING HIM TO +SOMEONE RICH AND DISTINGUéE, AND IT IS ON YOU THAT HIS RELATIONS’ +CHOICE HAS FALLEN. I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU WILL THINK OF IT, BUT +I CONSIDER IT MY DUTY TO LET YOU KNOW OF IT. HE IS SAID TO BE VERY +HANDSOME AND A TERRIBLE SCAPEGRACE. THAT IS ALL I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FIND +OUT ABOUT HIM. + +BUT ENOUGH OF GOSSIP. I AM AT THE END OF MY SECOND SHEET OF PAPER, AND +MAMMA HAS SENT FOR ME TO GO AND DINE AT THE APRáKSINS’. READ THE +MYSTICAL BOOK I AM SENDING YOU; IT HAS AN ENORMOUS SUCCESS HERE. THOUGH +THERE ARE THINGS IN IT DIFFICULT FOR THE FEEBLE HUMAN MIND TO GRASP, IT +IS AN ADMIRABLE BOOK WHICH CALMS AND ELEVATES THE SOUL. ADIEU! GIVE +MY RESPECTS TO MONSIEUR YOUR FATHER AND MY COMPLIMENTS TO MADEMOISELLE +BOURIENNE. I EMBRACE YOU AS I LOVE YOU. + +JULIE + +P.S. LET ME HAVE NEWS OF YOUR BROTHER AND HIS CHARMING LITTLE WIFE. + +THE PRINCESS PONDERED AWHILE WITH A THOUGHTFUL SMILE AND HER LUMINOUS +EYES LIT UP SO THAT HER FACE WAS ENTIRELY TRANSFORMED. THEN SHE SUDDENLY +ROSE AND WITH HER HEAVY TREAD WENT UP TO THE TABLE. SHE TOOK A SHEET OF +PAPER AND HER HAND MOVED RAPIDLY OVER IT. THIS IS THE REPLY SHE WROTE, +ALSO IN FRENCH: + +DEAR AND PRECIOUS FRIEND, YOUR LETTER OF THE 13TH HAS GIVEN ME GREAT +DELIGHT. SO YOU STILL LOVE ME, MY ROMANTIC JULIE? SEPARATION, OF WHICH +YOU SAY SO MUCH THAT IS BAD, DOES NOT SEEM TO HAVE HAD ITS USUAL EFFECT +ON YOU. YOU COMPLAIN OF OUR SEPARATION. WHAT THEN SHOULD I SAY, IF I +DARED COMPLAIN, I WHO AM DEPRIVED OF ALL WHO ARE DEAR TO ME? AH, IF +WE HAD NOT RELIGION TO CONSOLE US LIFE WOULD BE VERY SAD. WHY DO YOU +SUPPOSE THAT I SHOULD LOOK SEVERELY ON YOUR AFFECTION FOR THAT YOUNG +MAN? ON SUCH MATTERS I AM ONLY SEVERE WITH MYSELF. I UNDERSTAND SUCH +FEELINGS IN OTHERS, AND IF NEVER HAVING FELT THEM I CANNOT APPROVE OF +THEM, NEITHER DO I CONDEMN THEM. ONLY IT SEEMS TO ME THAT CHRISTIAN +LOVE, LOVE OF ONE’S NEIGHBOR, LOVE OF ONE’S ENEMY, IS WORTHIER, +SWEETER, AND BETTER THAN THE FEELINGS WHICH THE BEAUTIFUL EYES OF A +YOUNG MAN CAN INSPIRE IN A ROMANTIC AND LOVING YOUNG GIRL LIKE YOURSELF. + +THE NEWS OF COUNT BEZúKHOV’S DEATH REACHED US BEFORE YOUR LETTER +AND MY FATHER WAS MUCH AFFECTED BY IT. HE SAYS THE COUNT WAS THE LAST +REPRESENTATIVE BUT ONE OF THE GREAT CENTURY, AND THAT IT IS HIS OWN +TURN NOW, BUT THAT HE WILL DO ALL HE CAN TO LET HIS TURN COME AS LATE AS +POSSIBLE. GOD PRESERVE US FROM THAT TERRIBLE MISFORTUNE! + +I CANNOT AGREE WITH YOU ABOUT PIERRE, WHOM I KNEW AS A CHILD. HE ALWAYS +SEEMED TO ME TO HAVE AN EXCELLENT HEART, AND THAT IS THE QUALITY I VALUE +MOST IN PEOPLE. AS TO HIS INHERITANCE AND THE PART PLAYED BY PRINCE +VASíLI, IT IS VERY SAD FOR BOTH. AH, MY DEAR FRIEND, OUR DIVINE +SAVIOUR’S WORDS, THAT IT IS EASIER FOR A CAMEL TO GO THROUGH THE +EYE OF A NEEDLE THAN FOR A RICH MAN TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD, ARE +TERRIBLY TRUE. I PITY PRINCE VASíLI BUT AM STILL MORE SORRY FOR PIERRE. +SO YOUNG, AND BURDENED WITH SUCH RICHES—TO WHAT TEMPTATIONS HE WILL BE +EXPOSED! IF I WERE ASKED WHAT I DESIRE MOST ON EARTH, IT WOULD BE TO BE +POORER THAN THE POOREST BEGGAR. A THOUSAND THANKS, DEAR FRIEND, FOR THE +VOLUME YOU HAVE SENT ME AND WHICH HAS SUCH SUCCESS IN MOSCOW. YET SINCE +YOU TELL ME THAT AMONG SOME GOOD THINGS IT CONTAINS OTHERS WHICH OUR +WEAK HUMAN UNDERSTANDING CANNOT GRASP, IT SEEMS TO ME RATHER USELESS TO +SPEND TIME IN READING WHAT IS UNINTELLIGIBLE AND CAN THEREFORE BEAR +NO FRUIT. I NEVER COULD UNDERSTAND THE FONDNESS SOME PEOPLE HAVE FOR +CONFUSING THEIR MINDS BY DWELLING ON MYSTICAL BOOKS THAT MERELY AWAKEN +THEIR DOUBTS AND EXCITE THEIR IMAGINATION, GIVING THEM A BENT FOR +EXAGGERATION QUITE CONTRARY TO CHRISTIAN SIMPLICITY. LET US RATHER READ +THE EPISTLES AND GOSPELS. LET US NOT SEEK TO PENETRATE WHAT MYSTERIES +THEY CONTAIN; FOR HOW CAN WE, MISERABLE SINNERS THAT WE ARE, KNOW THE +TERRIBLE AND HOLY SECRETS OF PROVIDENCE WHILE WE REMAIN IN THIS FLESH +WHICH FORMS AN IMPENETRABLE VEIL BETWEEN US AND THE ETERNAL? LET US +RATHER CONFINE OURSELVES TO STUDYING THOSE SUBLIME RULES WHICH OUR +DIVINE SAVIOUR HAS LEFT FOR OUR GUIDANCE HERE BELOW. LET US TRY TO +CONFORM TO THEM AND FOLLOW THEM, AND LET US BE PERSUADED THAT THE LESS +WE LET OUR FEEBLE HUMAN MINDS ROAM, THE BETTER WE SHALL PLEASE GOD, WHO +REJECTS ALL KNOWLEDGE THAT DOES NOT COME FROM HIM; AND THE LESS WE SEEK +TO FATHOM WHAT HE HAS BEEN PLEASED TO CONCEAL FROM US, THE SOONER WILL +HE VOUCHSAFE ITS REVELATION TO US THROUGH HIS DIVINE SPIRIT. + +MY FATHER HAS NOT SPOKEN TO ME OF A SUITOR, BUT HAS ONLY TOLD ME THAT HE +HAS RECEIVED A LETTER AND IS EXPECTING A VISIT FROM PRINCE VASíLI. IN +REGARD TO THIS PROJECT OF MARRIAGE FOR ME, I WILL TELL YOU, DEAR SWEET +FRIEND, THAT I LOOK ON MARRIAGE AS A DIVINE INSTITUTION TO WHICH WE MUST +CONFORM. HOWEVER PAINFUL IT MAY BE TO ME, SHOULD THE ALMIGHTY LAY +THE DUTIES OF WIFE AND MOTHER UPON ME I SHALL TRY TO PERFORM THEM AS +FAITHFULLY AS I CAN, WITHOUT DISQUIETING MYSELF BY EXAMINING MY FEELINGS +TOWARD HIM WHOM HE MAY GIVE ME FOR HUSBAND. + +I HAVE HAD A LETTER FROM MY BROTHER, WHO ANNOUNCES HIS SPEEDY ARRIVAL +AT BALD HILLS WITH HIS WIFE. THIS PLEASURE WILL BE BUT A BRIEF ONE, +HOWEVER, FOR HE WILL LEAVE US AGAIN TO TAKE PART IN THIS UNHAPPY WAR +INTO WHICH WE HAVE BEEN DRAWN, GOD KNOWS HOW OR WHY. NOT ONLY WHERE YOU +ARE—AT THE HEART OF AFFAIRS AND OF THE WORLD—IS THE TALK ALL OF +WAR, EVEN HERE AMID FIELDWORK AND THE CALM OF NATURE—WHICH TOWNSFOLK +CONSIDER CHARACTERISTIC OF THE COUNTRY—RUMORS OF WAR ARE HEARD +AND PAINFULLY FELT. MY FATHER TALKS OF NOTHING BUT MARCHES AND +COUNTERMARCHES, THINGS OF WHICH I UNDERSTAND NOTHING; AND THE DAY +BEFORE YESTERDAY DURING MY DAILY WALK THROUGH THE VILLAGE I WITNESSED A +HEARTRENDING SCENE.... IT WAS A CONVOY OF CONSCRIPTS ENROLLED FROM OUR +PEOPLE AND STARTING TO JOIN THE ARMY. YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE STATE OF +THE MOTHERS, WIVES, AND CHILDREN OF THE MEN WHO WERE GOING AND SHOULD +HAVE HEARD THE SOBS. IT SEEMS AS THOUGH MANKIND HAS FORGOTTEN THE +LAWS OF ITS DIVINE SAVIOUR, WHO PREACHED LOVE AND FORGIVENESS OF +INJURIES—AND THAT MEN ATTRIBUTE THE GREATEST MERIT TO SKILL IN KILLING +ONE ANOTHER. + +ADIEU, DEAR AND KIND FRIEND; MAY OUR DIVINE SAVIOUR AND HIS MOST HOLY +MOTHER KEEP YOU IN THEIR HOLY AND ALL-POWERFUL CARE! + +MARY + +“AH, YOU ARE SENDING OFF A LETTER, PRINCESS? I HAVE ALREADY DISPATCHED +MINE. I HAVE WRITTEN TO MY POOR MOTHER,” SAID THE SMILING MADEMOISELLE +BOURIENNE RAPIDLY, IN HER PLEASANT MELLOW TONES AND WITH GUTTURAL R’S. +SHE BROUGHT INTO PRINCESS MARY’S STRENUOUS, MOURNFUL, AND GLOOMY +WORLD A QUITE DIFFERENT ATMOSPHERE, CARELESS, LIGHTHEARTED, AND +SELF-SATISFIED. + +“PRINCESS, I MUST WARN YOU,” SHE ADDED, LOWERING HER VOICE AND +EVIDENTLY LISTENING TO HERSELF WITH PLEASURE, AND SPEAKING WITH +EXAGGERATED GRASSEYEMENT, “THE PRINCE HAS BEEN SCOLDING MICHAEL +IVáNOVICH. HE IS IN A VERY BAD HUMOR, VERY MOROSE. BE PREPARED.” + +“AH, DEAR FRIEND,” REPLIED PRINCESS MARY, “I HAVE ASKED YOU NEVER +TO WARN ME OF THE HUMOR MY FATHER IS IN. I DO NOT ALLOW MYSELF TO JUDGE +HIM AND WOULD NOT HAVE OTHERS DO SO.” + +THE PRINCESS GLANCED AT HER WATCH AND, SEEING THAT SHE WAS FIVE MINUTES +LATE IN STARTING HER PRACTICE ON THE CLAVICHORD, WENT INTO THE SITTING +ROOM WITH A LOOK OF ALARM. BETWEEN TWELVE AND TWO O’CLOCK, AS THE +DAY WAS MAPPED OUT, THE PRINCE RESTED AND THE PRINCESS PLAYED THE +CLAVICHORD. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXVI + +THE GRAY-HAIRED VALET WAS SITTING DROWSILY LISTENING TO THE SNORING OF +THE PRINCE, WHO WAS IN HIS LARGE STUDY. FROM THE FAR SIDE OF THE HOUSE +THROUGH THE CLOSED DOORS CAME THE SOUND OF DIFFICULT PASSAGES—TWENTY +TIMES REPEATED—OF A SONATA BY DUSSEK. + +JUST THEN A CLOSED CARRIAGE AND ANOTHER WITH A HOOD DROVE UP TO THE +PORCH. PRINCE ANDREW GOT OUT OF THE CARRIAGE, HELPED HIS LITTLE WIFE TO +ALIGHT, AND LET HER PASS INTO THE HOUSE BEFORE HIM. OLD TíKHON, WEARING +A WIG, PUT HIS HEAD OUT OF THE DOOR OF THE ANTECHAMBER, REPORTED IN +A WHISPER THAT THE PRINCE WAS SLEEPING, AND HASTILY CLOSED THE DOOR. +TíKHON KNEW THAT NEITHER THE SON’S ARRIVAL NOR ANY OTHER UNUSUAL +EVENT MUST BE ALLOWED TO DISTURB THE APPOINTED ORDER OF THE DAY. PRINCE +ANDREW APPARENTLY KNEW THIS AS WELL AS TíKHON; HE LOOKED AT HIS WATCH +AS IF TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER HIS FATHER’S HABITS HAD CHANGED SINCE HE +WAS AT HOME LAST, AND, HAVING ASSURED HIMSELF THAT THEY HAD NOT, HE +TURNED TO HIS WIFE. + +“HE WILL GET UP IN TWENTY MINUTES. LET US GO ACROSS TO MARY’S +ROOM,” HE SAID. + +THE LITTLE PRINCESS HAD GROWN STOUTER DURING THIS TIME, BUT HER EYES +AND HER SHORT, DOWNY, SMILING LIP LIFTED WHEN SHE BEGAN TO SPEAK JUST AS +MERRILY AND PRETTILY AS EVER. + +“WHY, THIS IS A PALACE!” SHE SAID TO HER HUSBAND, LOOKING AROUND +WITH THE EXPRESSION WITH WHICH PEOPLE COMPLIMENT THEIR HOST AT A BALL. +“LET’S COME, QUICK, QUICK!” AND WITH A GLANCE ROUND, SHE SMILED AT +TíKHON, AT HER HUSBAND, AND AT THE FOOTMAN WHO ACCOMPANIED THEM. + +“IS THAT MARY PRACTICING? LET’S GO QUIETLY AND TAKE HER BY +SURPRISE.” + +PRINCE ANDREW FOLLOWED HER WITH A COURTEOUS BUT SAD EXPRESSION. + +“YOU’VE GROWN OLDER, TíKHON,” HE SAID IN PASSING TO THE OLD MAN, +WHO KISSED HIS HAND. + +BEFORE THEY REACHED THE ROOM FROM WHICH THE SOUNDS OF THE CLAVICHORD +CAME, THE PRETTY, FAIR-HAIRED FRENCHWOMAN, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, +RUSHED OUT APPARENTLY BESIDE HERSELF WITH DELIGHT. + +“AH! WHAT JOY FOR THE PRINCESS!” EXCLAIMED SHE: “AT LAST! I MUST +LET HER KNOW.” + +“NO, NO, PLEASE NOT... YOU ARE MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE,” SAID +THE LITTLE PRINCESS, KISSING HER. “I KNOW YOU ALREADY THROUGH MY +SISTER-IN-LAW’S FRIENDSHIP FOR YOU. SHE WAS NOT EXPECTING US?” + +THEY WENT UP TO THE DOOR OF THE SITTING ROOM FROM WHICH CAME THE SOUND +OF THE OFT-REPEATED PASSAGE OF THE SONATA. PRINCE ANDREW STOPPED AND +MADE A GRIMACE, AS IF EXPECTING SOMETHING UNPLEASANT. + +THE LITTLE PRINCESS ENTERED THE ROOM. THE PASSAGE BROKE OFF IN THE +MIDDLE, A CRY WAS HEARD, THEN PRINCESS MARY’S HEAVY TREAD AND THE +SOUND OF KISSING. WHEN PRINCE ANDREW WENT IN THE TWO PRINCESSES, WHO +HAD ONLY MET ONCE BEFORE FOR A SHORT TIME AT HIS WEDDING, WERE IN +EACH OTHER’S ARMS WARMLY PRESSING THEIR LIPS TO WHATEVER PLACE THEY +HAPPENED TO TOUCH. MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE STOOD NEAR THEM PRESSING HER +HAND TO HER HEART, WITH A BEATIFIC SMILE AND OBVIOUSLY EQUALLY READY TO +CRY OR TO LAUGH. PRINCE ANDREW SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS AND FROWNED, AS +LOVERS OF MUSIC DO WHEN THEY HEAR A FALSE NOTE. THE TWO WOMEN LET GO +OF ONE ANOTHER, AND THEN, AS IF AFRAID OF BEING TOO LATE, SEIZED EACH +OTHER’S HANDS, KISSING THEM AND PULLING THEM AWAY, AND AGAIN BEGAN +KISSING EACH OTHER ON THE FACE, AND THEN TO PRINCE ANDREW’S SURPRISE +BOTH BEGAN TO CRY AND KISSED AGAIN. MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE ALSO BEGAN TO +CRY. PRINCE ANDREW EVIDENTLY FELT ILL AT EASE, BUT TO THE TWO WOMEN +IT SEEMED QUITE NATURAL THAT THEY SHOULD CRY, AND APPARENTLY IT NEVER +ENTERED THEIR HEADS THAT IT COULD HAVE BEEN OTHERWISE AT THIS MEETING. + +“AH! MY DEAR!... AH! MARY!...” THEY SUDDENLY EXCLAIMED, AND THEN +LAUGHED. “I DREAMED LAST NIGHT...”—“YOU WERE NOT EXPECTING +US?...” “AH! MARY, YOU HAVE GOT THINNER?...” “AND YOU HAVE GROWN +STOUTER!...” + +“I KNEW THE PRINCESS AT ONCE,” PUT IN MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE. + +“AND I HAD NO IDEA!...” EXCLAIMED PRINCESS MARY. “AH, ANDREW, I +DID NOT SEE YOU.” + +PRINCE ANDREW AND HIS SISTER, HAND IN HAND, KISSED ONE ANOTHER, AND +HE TOLD HER SHE WAS STILL THE SAME CRYBABY AS EVER. PRINCESS MARY HAD +TURNED TOWARD HER BROTHER, AND THROUGH HER TEARS THE LOVING, WARM, +GENTLE LOOK OF HER LARGE LUMINOUS EYES, VERY BEAUTIFUL AT THAT MOMENT, +RESTED ON PRINCE ANDREW’S FACE. + +THE LITTLE PRINCESS TALKED INCESSANTLY, HER SHORT, DOWNY UPPER LIP +CONTINUALLY AND RAPIDLY TOUCHING HER ROSY NETHER LIP WHEN NECESSARY +AND DRAWING UP AGAIN NEXT MOMENT WHEN HER FACE BROKE INTO A SMILE OF +GLITTERING TEETH AND SPARKLING EYES. SHE TOLD OF AN ACCIDENT THEY HAD +HAD ON THE SPáSSKI HILL WHICH MIGHT HAVE BEEN SERIOUS FOR HER IN HER +CONDITION, AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER THAT INFORMED THEM THAT SHE HAD LEFT +ALL HER CLOTHES IN PETERSBURG AND THAT HEAVEN KNEW WHAT SHE WOULD HAVE +TO DRESS IN HERE; AND THAT ANDREW HAD QUITE CHANGED, AND THAT KITTY +ODýNTSOVA HAD MARRIED AN OLD MAN, AND THAT THERE WAS A SUITOR FOR MARY, +A REAL ONE, BUT THAT THEY WOULD TALK OF THAT LATER. PRINCESS MARY WAS +STILL LOOKING SILENTLY AT HER BROTHER AND HER BEAUTIFUL EYES WERE FULL +OF LOVE AND SADNESS. IT WAS PLAIN THAT SHE WAS FOLLOWING A TRAIN OF +THOUGHT INDEPENDENT OF HER SISTER-IN-LAW’S WORDS. IN THE MIDST OF A +DESCRIPTION OF THE LAST PETERSBURG FETE SHE ADDRESSED HER BROTHER: + +“SO YOU ARE REALLY GOING TO THE WAR, ANDREW?” SHE SAID SIGHING. + +LISE SIGHED TOO. + +“YES, AND EVEN TOMORROW,” REPLIED HER BROTHER. + +“HE IS LEAVING ME HERE, GOD KNOWS WHY, WHEN HE MIGHT HAVE HAD +PROMOTION...” + +PRINCESS MARY DID NOT LISTEN TO THE END, BUT CONTINUING HER TRAIN OF +THOUGHT TURNED TO HER SISTER-IN-LAW WITH A TENDER GLANCE AT HER FIGURE. + +“IS IT CERTAIN?” SHE SAID. + +THE FACE OF THE LITTLE PRINCESS CHANGED. SHE SIGHED AND SAID: “YES, +QUITE CERTAIN. AH! IT IS VERY DREADFUL...” + +HER LIP DESCENDED. SHE BROUGHT HER FACE CLOSE TO HER SISTER-IN-LAW’S +AND UNEXPECTEDLY AGAIN BEGAN TO CRY. + +“SHE NEEDS REST,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW WITH A FROWN. “DON’T YOU, +LISE? TAKE HER TO YOUR ROOM AND I’LL GO TO FATHER. HOW IS HE? JUST THE +SAME?” + +“YES, JUST THE SAME. THOUGH I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOUR OPINION WILL +BE,” ANSWERED THE PRINCESS JOYFULLY. + +“AND ARE THE HOURS THE SAME? AND THE WALKS IN THE AVENUES? AND THE +LATHE?” ASKED PRINCE ANDREW WITH A SCARCELY PERCEPTIBLE SMILE WHICH +SHOWED THAT, IN SPITE OF ALL HIS LOVE AND RESPECT FOR HIS FATHER, HE WAS +AWARE OF HIS WEAKNESSES. + +“THE HOURS ARE THE SAME, AND THE LATHE, AND ALSO THE MATHEMATICS AND +MY GEOMETRY LESSONS,” SAID PRINCESS MARY GLEEFULLY, AS IF HER LESSONS +IN GEOMETRY WERE AMONG THE GREATEST DELIGHTS OF HER LIFE. + +WHEN THE TWENTY MINUTES HAD ELAPSED AND THE TIME HAD COME FOR THE OLD +PRINCE TO GET UP, TíKHON CAME TO CALL THE YOUNG PRINCE TO HIS FATHER. +THE OLD MAN MADE A DEPARTURE FROM HIS USUAL ROUTINE IN HONOR OF HIS +SON’S ARRIVAL: HE GAVE ORDERS TO ADMIT HIM TO HIS APARTMENTS WHILE +HE DRESSED FOR DINNER. THE OLD PRINCE ALWAYS DRESSED IN OLD-FASHIONED +STYLE, WEARING AN ANTIQUE COAT AND POWDERED HAIR; AND WHEN PRINCE ANDREW +ENTERED HIS FATHER’S DRESSING ROOM (NOT WITH THE CONTEMPTUOUS LOOK AND +MANNER HE WORE IN DRAWING ROOMS, BUT WITH THE ANIMATED FACE WITH WHICH +HE TALKED TO PIERRE), THE OLD MAN WAS SITTING ON A LARGE LEATHER-COVERED +CHAIR, WRAPPED IN A POWDERING MANTLE, ENTRUSTING HIS HEAD TO TíKHON. + +“AH! HERE’S THE WARRIOR! WANTS TO VANQUISH BUONAPARTE?” SAID THE +OLD MAN, SHAKING HIS POWDERED HEAD AS MUCH AS THE TAIL, WHICH TíKHON +WAS HOLDING FAST TO PLAIT, WOULD ALLOW. + +“YOU AT LEAST MUST TACKLE HIM PROPERLY, OR ELSE IF HE GOES ON LIKE +THIS HE’LL SOON HAVE US, TOO, FOR HIS SUBJECTS! HOW ARE YOU?” AND HE +HELD OUT HIS CHEEK. + +THE OLD MAN WAS IN A GOOD TEMPER AFTER HIS NAP BEFORE DINNER. (HE +USED TO SAY THAT A NAP “AFTER DINNER WAS SILVER—BEFORE DINNER, +GOLDEN.”) HE CAST HAPPY, SIDELONG GLANCES AT HIS SON FROM UNDER HIS +THICK, BUSHY EYEBROWS. PRINCE ANDREW WENT UP AND KISSED HIS FATHER ON +THE SPOT INDICATED TO HIM. HE MADE NO REPLY ON HIS FATHER’S FAVORITE +TOPIC—MAKING FUN OF THE MILITARY MEN OF THE DAY, AND MORE PARTICULARLY +OF BONAPARTE. + +“YES, FATHER, I HAVE COME TO YOU AND BROUGHT MY WIFE WHO IS +PREGNANT,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, FOLLOWING EVERY MOVEMENT OF HIS +FATHER’S FACE WITH AN EAGER AND RESPECTFUL LOOK. “HOW IS YOUR +HEALTH?” + +“ONLY FOOLS AND RAKES FALL ILL, MY BOY. YOU KNOW ME: I AM BUSY FROM +MORNING TILL NIGHT AND ABSTEMIOUS, SO OF COURSE I AM WELL.” + +“THANK GOD,” SAID HIS SON SMILING. + +“GOD HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT! WELL, GO ON,” HE CONTINUED, +RETURNING TO HIS HOBBY; “TELL ME HOW THE GERMANS HAVE TAUGHT YOU TO +FIGHT BONAPARTE BY THIS NEW SCIENCE YOU CALL ‘STRATEGY.’” + +PRINCE ANDREW SMILED. + +“GIVE ME TIME TO COLLECT MY WITS, FATHER,” SAID HE, WITH A SMILE +THAT SHOWED THAT HIS FATHER’S FOIBLES DID NOT PREVENT HIS SON FROM +LOVING AND HONORING HIM. “WHY, I HAVE NOT YET HAD TIME TO SETTLE +DOWN!” + +“NONSENSE, NONSENSE!” CRIED THE OLD MAN, SHAKING HIS PIGTAIL TO +SEE WHETHER IT WAS FIRMLY PLAITED, AND GRASPING HIS BY THE HAND. “THE +HOUSE FOR YOUR WIFE IS READY. PRINCESS MARY WILL TAKE HER THERE AND +SHOW HER OVER, AND THEY’LL TALK NINETEEN TO THE DOZEN. THAT’S +THEIR WOMAN’S WAY! I AM GLAD TO HAVE HER. SIT DOWN AND TALK. ABOUT +MIKHELSON’S ARMY I UNDERSTAND—TOLSTóY ‘S TOO... A SIMULTANEOUS +EXPEDITION.... BUT WHAT’S THE SOUTHERN ARMY TO DO? PRUSSIA IS +NEUTRAL... I KNOW THAT. WHAT ABOUT AUSTRIA?” SAID HE, RISING FROM HIS +CHAIR AND PACING UP AND DOWN THE ROOM FOLLOWED BY TíKHON, WHO RAN AFTER +HIM, HANDING HIM DIFFERENT ARTICLES OF CLOTHING. “WHAT OF SWEDEN? HOW +WILL THEY CROSS POMERANIA?” + +PRINCE ANDREW, SEEING THAT HIS FATHER INSISTED, BEGAN—AT FIRST +RELUCTANTLY, BUT GRADUALLY WITH MORE AND MORE ANIMATION, AND FROM HABIT +CHANGING UNCONSCIOUSLY FROM RUSSIAN TO FRENCH AS HE WENT ON—TO EXPLAIN +THE PLAN OF OPERATION FOR THE COMING CAMPAIGN. HE EXPLAINED HOW AN ARMY, +NINETY THOUSAND STRONG, WAS TO THREATEN PRUSSIA SO AS TO BRING HER OUT +OF HER NEUTRALITY AND DRAW HER INTO THE WAR; HOW PART OF THAT ARMY WAS +TO JOIN SOME SWEDISH FORCES AT STRALSUND; HOW TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY +THOUSAND AUSTRIANS, WITH A HUNDRED THOUSAND RUSSIANS, WERE TO OPERATE IN +ITALY AND ON THE RHINE; HOW FIFTY THOUSAND RUSSIANS AND AS MANY ENGLISH +WERE TO LAND AT NAPLES, AND HOW A TOTAL FORCE OF FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND +MEN WAS TO ATTACK THE FRENCH FROM DIFFERENT SIDES. THE OLD PRINCE DID +NOT EVINCE THE LEAST INTEREST DURING THIS EXPLANATION, BUT AS IF HE WERE +NOT LISTENING TO IT CONTINUED TO DRESS WHILE WALKING ABOUT, AND THREE +TIMES UNEXPECTEDLY INTERRUPTED. ONCE HE STOPPED IT BY SHOUTING: “THE +WHITE ONE, THE WHITE ONE!” + +THIS MEANT THAT TíKHON WAS NOT HANDING HIM THE WAISTCOAT HE WANTED. +ANOTHER TIME HE INTERRUPTED, SAYING: + +“AND WILL SHE SOON BE CONFINED?” AND SHAKING HIS HEAD REPROACHFULLY +SAID: “THAT’S BAD! GO ON, GO ON.” + +THE THIRD INTERRUPTION CAME WHEN PRINCE ANDREW WAS FINISHING HIS +DESCRIPTION. THE OLD MAN BEGAN TO SING, IN THE CRACKED VOICE OF OLD AGE: +“MALBROOK S’EN VA-T-EN GUERRE. DIEU SAIT QUAND REVIENDRA.” * + + * “MARLBOROUGH IS GOING TO THE WARS; GOD KNOWS WHEN HE’LL + RETURN.” + + +HIS SON ONLY SMILED. + +“I DON’T SAY IT’S A PLAN I APPROVE OF,” SAID THE SON; “I AM +ONLY TELLING YOU WHAT IT IS. NAPOLEON HAS ALSO FORMED HIS PLAN BY NOW, +NOT WORSE THAN THIS ONE.” + +“WELL, YOU’VE TOLD ME NOTHING NEW,” AND THE OLD MAN REPEATED, +MEDITATIVELY AND RAPIDLY: + +“DIEU SAIT QUAND REVIENDRA. GO TO THE DINING ROOM.” + + + + + +CHAPTER XXVII + +AT THE APPOINTED HOUR THE PRINCE, POWDERED AND SHAVEN, ENTERED THE +DINING ROOM WHERE HIS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, PRINCESS MARY, AND MADEMOISELLE +BOURIENNE WERE ALREADY AWAITING HIM TOGETHER WITH HIS ARCHITECT, WHO BY +A STRANGE CAPRICE OF HIS EMPLOYER’S WAS ADMITTED TO TABLE THOUGH THE +POSITION OF THAT INSIGNIFICANT INDIVIDUAL WAS SUCH AS COULD CERTAINLY +NOT HAVE CAUSED HIM TO EXPECT THAT HONOR. THE PRINCE, WHO GENERALLY KEPT +VERY STRICTLY TO SOCIAL DISTINCTIONS AND RARELY ADMITTED EVEN IMPORTANT +GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO HIS TABLE, HAD UNEXPECTEDLY SELECTED MICHAEL +IVáNOVICH (WHO ALWAYS WENT INTO A CORNER TO BLOW HIS NOSE ON HIS +CHECKED HANDKERCHIEF) TO ILLUSTRATE THE THEORY THAT ALL MEN ARE EQUALS, +AND HAD MORE THAN ONCE IMPRESSED ON HIS DAUGHTER THAT MICHAEL IVáNOVICH +WAS “NOT A WHIT WORSE THAN YOU OR I.” AT DINNER THE PRINCE USUALLY +SPOKE TO THE TACITURN MICHAEL IVáNOVICH MORE OFTEN THAN TO ANYONE ELSE. + +IN THE DINING ROOM, WHICH LIKE ALL THE ROOMS IN THE HOUSE WAS +EXCEEDINGLY LOFTY, THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD AND THE FOOTMEN—ONE +BEHIND EACH CHAIR—STOOD WAITING FOR THE PRINCE TO ENTER. THE HEAD +BUTLER, NAPKIN ON ARM, WAS SCANNING THE SETTING OF THE TABLE, MAKING +SIGNS TO THE FOOTMEN, AND ANXIOUSLY GLANCING FROM THE CLOCK TO THE DOOR +BY WHICH THE PRINCE WAS TO ENTER. PRINCE ANDREW WAS LOOKING AT A LARGE +GILT FRAME, NEW TO HIM, CONTAINING THE GENEALOGICAL TREE OF THE PRINCES +BOLKóNSKI, OPPOSITE WHICH HUNG ANOTHER SUCH FRAME WITH A BADLY PAINTED +PORTRAIT (EVIDENTLY BY THE HAND OF THE ARTIST BELONGING TO THE ESTATE) +OF A RULING PRINCE, IN A CROWN—AN ALLEGED DESCENDANT OF RúRIK AND +ANCESTOR OF THE BOLKóNSKIS. PRINCE ANDREW, LOOKING AGAIN AT THAT +GENEALOGICAL TREE, SHOOK HIS HEAD, LAUGHING AS A MAN LAUGHS WHO LOOKS AT +A PORTRAIT SO CHARACTERISTIC OF THE ORIGINAL AS TO BE AMUSING. + +“HOW THOROUGHLY LIKE HIM THAT IS!” HE SAID TO PRINCESS MARY, WHO HAD +COME UP TO HIM. + +PRINCESS MARY LOOKED AT HER BROTHER IN SURPRISE. SHE DID NOT UNDERSTAND +WHAT HE WAS LAUGHING AT. EVERYTHING HER FATHER DID INSPIRED HER WITH +REVERENCE AND WAS BEYOND QUESTION. + +“EVERYONE HAS HIS ACHILLES’ HEEL,” CONTINUED PRINCE ANDREW. +“FANCY, WITH HIS POWERFUL MIND, INDULGING IN SUCH NONSENSE!” + +PRINCESS MARY COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THE BOLDNESS OF HER BROTHER’S +CRITICISM AND WAS ABOUT TO REPLY, WHEN THE EXPECTED FOOTSTEPS WERE HEARD +COMING FROM THE STUDY. THE PRINCE WALKED IN QUICKLY AND JAUNTILY AS WAS +HIS WONT, AS IF INTENTIONALLY CONTRASTING THE BRISKNESS OF HIS MANNERS +WITH THE STRICT FORMALITY OF HIS HOUSE. AT THAT MOMENT THE GREAT CLOCK +STRUCK TWO AND ANOTHER WITH A SHRILL TONE JOINED IN FROM THE DRAWING +ROOM. THE PRINCE STOOD STILL; HIS LIVELY GLITTERING EYES FROM UNDER +THEIR THICK, BUSHY EYEBROWS STERNLY SCANNED ALL PRESENT AND RESTED ON +THE LITTLE PRINCESS. SHE FELT, AS COURTIERS DO WHEN THE TSAR ENTERS, THE +SENSATION OF FEAR AND RESPECT WHICH THE OLD MAN INSPIRED IN ALL AROUND +HIM. HE STROKED HER HAIR AND THEN PATTED HER AWKWARDLY ON THE BACK OF +HER NECK. + +“I’M GLAD, GLAD, TO SEE YOU,” HE SAID, LOOKING ATTENTIVELY INTO +HER EYES, AND THEN QUICKLY WENT TO HIS PLACE AND SAT DOWN. “SIT DOWN, +SIT DOWN! SIT DOWN, MICHAEL IVáNOVICH!” + +HE INDICATED A PLACE BESIDE HIM TO HIS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW. A FOOTMAN MOVED +THE CHAIR FOR HER. + +“HO, HO!” SAID THE OLD MAN, CASTING HIS EYES ON HER ROUNDED FIGURE. +“YOU’VE BEEN IN A HURRY. THAT’S BAD!” + +HE LAUGHED IN HIS USUAL DRY, COLD, UNPLEASANT WAY, WITH HIS LIPS ONLY +AND NOT WITH HIS EYES. + +“YOU MUST WALK, WALK AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE,” HE +SAID. + +THE LITTLE PRINCESS DID NOT, OR DID NOT WISH TO, HEAR HIS WORDS. SHE WAS +SILENT AND SEEMED CONFUSED. THE PRINCE ASKED HER ABOUT HER FATHER, AND +SHE BEGAN TO SMILE AND TALK. HE ASKED ABOUT MUTUAL ACQUAINTANCES, AND +SHE BECAME STILL MORE ANIMATED AND CHATTERED AWAY GIVING HIM GREETINGS +FROM VARIOUS PEOPLE AND RETELLING THE TOWN GOSSIP. + +“COUNTESS APRáKSINA, POOR THING, HAS LOST HER HUSBAND AND SHE HAS +CRIED HER EYES OUT,” SHE SAID, GROWING MORE AND MORE LIVELY. + +AS SHE BECAME ANIMATED THE PRINCE LOOKED AT HER MORE AND MORE STERNLY, +AND SUDDENLY, AS IF HE HAD STUDIED HER SUFFICIENTLY AND HAD FORMED A +DEFINITE IDEA OF HER, HE TURNED AWAY AND ADDRESSED MICHAEL IVáNOVICH. + +“WELL, MICHAEL IVáNOVICH, OUR BONAPARTE WILL BE HAVING A BAD TIME +OF IT. PRINCE ANDREW” (HE ALWAYS SPOKE THUS OF HIS SON) “HAS BEEN +TELLING ME WHAT FORCES ARE BEING COLLECTED AGAINST HIM! WHILE YOU AND I +NEVER THOUGHT MUCH OF HIM.” + +MICHAEL IVáNOVICH DID NOT AT ALL KNOW WHEN “YOU AND I” HAD SAID +SUCH THINGS ABOUT BONAPARTE, BUT UNDERSTANDING THAT HE WAS WANTED AS +A PEG ON WHICH TO HANG THE PRINCE’S FAVORITE TOPIC, HE LOOKED +INQUIRINGLY AT THE YOUNG PRINCE, WONDERING WHAT WOULD FOLLOW. + +“HE IS A GREAT TACTICIAN!” SAID THE PRINCE TO HIS SON, POINTING TO +THE ARCHITECT. + +AND THE CONVERSATION AGAIN TURNED ON THE WAR, ON BONAPARTE, AND THE +GENERALS AND STATESMEN OF THE DAY. THE OLD PRINCE SEEMED CONVINCED NOT +ONLY THAT ALL THE MEN OF THE DAY WERE MERE BABIES WHO DID NOT KNOW THE +A B C OF WAR OR OF POLITICS, AND THAT BONAPARTE WAS AN INSIGNIFICANT +LITTLE FRENCHY, SUCCESSFUL ONLY BECAUSE THERE WERE NO LONGER ANY +POTëMKINS OR SUVóROVS LEFT TO OPPOSE HIM; BUT HE WAS ALSO CONVINCED +THAT THERE WERE NO POLITICAL DIFFICULTIES IN EUROPE AND NO REAL WAR, +BUT ONLY A SORT OF PUPPET SHOW AT WHICH THE MEN OF THE DAY WERE PLAYING, +PRETENDING TO DO SOMETHING REAL. PRINCE ANDREW GAILY BORE WITH HIS +FATHER’S RIDICULE OF THE NEW MEN, AND DREW HIM ON AND LISTENED TO HIM +WITH EVIDENT PLEASURE. + +“THE PAST ALWAYS SEEMS GOOD,” SAID HE, “BUT DID NOT SUVóROV +HIMSELF FALL INTO A TRAP MOREAU SET HIM, AND FROM WHICH HE DID NOT KNOW +HOW TO ESCAPE?” + +“WHO TOLD YOU THAT? WHO?” CRIED THE PRINCE. “SUVóROV!” AND HE +JERKED AWAY HIS PLATE, WHICH TíKHON BRISKLY CAUGHT. “SUVóROV!... +CONSIDER, PRINCE ANDREW. TWO... FREDERICK AND SUVóROV; MOREAU!... +MOREAU WOULD HAVE BEEN A PRISONER IF SUVóROV HAD HAD A FREE HAND; BUT +HE HAD THE HOFS-KRIEGS-WURST-SCHNAPPS-RATH ON HIS HANDS. IT WOULD HAVE +PUZZLED THE DEVIL HIMSELF! WHEN YOU GET THERE YOU’LL FIND OUT WHAT +THOSE HOFS-KRIEGS-WURST-RATHS ARE! SUVóROV COULDN’T MANAGE THEM SO +WHAT CHANCE HAS MICHAEL KUTúZOV? NO, MY DEAR BOY,” HE CONTINUED, +“YOU AND YOUR GENERALS WON’T GET ON AGAINST BUONAPARTE; YOU’LL +HAVE TO CALL IN THE FRENCH, SO THAT BIRDS OF A FEATHER MAY FIGHT +TOGETHER. THE GERMAN, PAHLEN, HAS BEEN SENT TO NEW YORK IN AMERICA, TO +FETCH THE FRENCHMAN, MOREAU,” HE SAID, ALLUDING TO THE INVITATION MADE +THAT YEAR TO MOREAU TO ENTER THE RUSSIAN SERVICE.... “WONDERFUL!... +WERE THE POTëMKINS, SUVóROVS, AND ORLóVS GERMANS? NO, LAD, EITHER YOU +FELLOWS HAVE ALL LOST YOUR WITS, OR I HAVE OUTLIVED MINE. MAY GOD HELP +YOU, BUT WE’LL SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN. BUONAPARTE HAS BECOME A GREAT +COMMANDER AMONG THEM! HM!...” + +“I DON’T AT ALL SAY THAT ALL THE PLANS ARE GOOD,” SAID PRINCE +ANDREW, “I AM ONLY SURPRISED AT YOUR OPINION OF BONAPARTE. YOU +MAY LAUGH AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE, BUT ALL THE SAME BONAPARTE IS A GREAT +GENERAL!” + +“MICHAEL IVáNOVICH!” CRIED THE OLD PRINCE TO THE ARCHITECT WHO, +BUSY WITH HIS ROAST MEAT, HOPED HE HAD BEEN FORGOTTEN: “DIDN’T +I TELL YOU BUONAPARTE WAS A GREAT TACTICIAN? HERE, HE SAYS THE SAME +THING.” + +“TO BE SURE, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” REPLIED THE ARCHITECT. + +THE PRINCE AGAIN LAUGHED HIS FRIGID LAUGH. + +“BUONAPARTE WAS BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON IN HIS MOUTH. HE HAS GOT +SPLENDID SOLDIERS. BESIDES HE BEGAN BY ATTACKING GERMANS. AND ONLY +IDLERS HAVE FAILED TO BEAT THE GERMANS. SINCE THE WORLD BEGAN EVERYBODY +HAS BEATEN THE GERMANS. THEY BEAT NO ONE—EXCEPT ONE ANOTHER. HE MADE +HIS REPUTATION FIGHTING THEM.” + +AND THE PRINCE BEGAN EXPLAINING ALL THE BLUNDERS WHICH, ACCORDING TO +HIM, BONAPARTE HAD MADE IN HIS CAMPAIGNS AND EVEN IN POLITICS. HIS +SON MADE NO REJOINDER, BUT IT WAS EVIDENT THAT WHATEVER ARGUMENTS WERE +PRESENTED HE WAS AS LITTLE ABLE AS HIS FATHER TO CHANGE HIS OPINION. HE +LISTENED, REFRAINING FROM A REPLY, AND INVOLUNTARILY WONDERED HOW THIS +OLD MAN, LIVING ALONE IN THE COUNTRY FOR SO MANY YEARS, COULD KNOW AND +DISCUSS SO MINUTELY AND ACUTELY ALL THE RECENT EUROPEAN MILITARY AND +POLITICAL EVENTS. + +“YOU THINK I’M AN OLD MAN AND DON’T UNDERSTAND THE PRESENT STATE +OF AFFAIRS?” CONCLUDED HIS FATHER. “BUT IT TROUBLES ME. I DON’T +SLEEP AT NIGHT. COME NOW, WHERE HAS THIS GREAT COMMANDER OF YOURS SHOWN +HIS SKILL?” HE CONCLUDED. + +“THAT WOULD TAKE TOO LONG TO TELL,” ANSWERED THE SON. + +“WELL, THEN GO OFF TO YOUR BUONAPARTE! MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, +HERE’S ANOTHER ADMIRER OF THAT POWDER-MONKEY EMPEROR OF YOURS,” HE +EXCLAIMED IN EXCELLENT FRENCH. + +“YOU KNOW, PRINCE, I AM NOT A BONAPARTIST!” + +“DIEU SAIT QUAND REVIENDRA.” HUMMED THE PRINCE OUT OF TUNE AND, WITH +A LAUGH STILL MORE SO, HE QUITTED THE TABLE. + +THE LITTLE PRINCESS DURING THE WHOLE DISCUSSION AND THE REST OF +THE DINNER SAT SILENT, GLANCING WITH A FRIGHTENED LOOK NOW AT HER +FATHER-IN-LAW AND NOW AT PRINCESS MARY. WHEN THEY LEFT THE TABLE SHE +TOOK HER SISTER-IN-LAW’S ARM AND DREW HER INTO ANOTHER ROOM. + +“WHAT A CLEVER MAN YOUR FATHER IS,” SAID SHE; “PERHAPS THAT IS WHY +I AM AFRAID OF HIM.” + +“OH, HE IS SO KIND!” ANSWERED PRINCESS MARY. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXVIII + +PRINCE ANDREW WAS TO LEAVE NEXT EVENING. THE OLD PRINCE, NOT ALTERING +HIS ROUTINE, RETIRED AS USUAL AFTER DINNER. THE LITTLE PRINCESS WAS IN +HER SISTER-IN-LAW’S ROOM. PRINCE ANDREW IN A TRAVELING COAT WITHOUT +EPAULETTES HAD BEEN PACKING WITH HIS VALET IN THE ROOMS ASSIGNED TO HIM. +AFTER INSPECTING THE CARRIAGE HIMSELF AND SEEING THE TRUNKS PUT IN, HE +ORDERED THE HORSES TO BE HARNESSED. ONLY THOSE THINGS HE ALWAYS KEPT +WITH HIM REMAINED IN HIS ROOM; A SMALL BOX, A LARGE CANTEEN FITTED +WITH SILVER PLATE, TWO TURKISH PISTOLS AND A SABER—A PRESENT FROM +HIS FATHER WHO HAD BROUGHT IT FROM THE SIEGE OF OCHáKOV. ALL THESE +TRAVELING EFFECTS OF PRINCE ANDREW’S WERE IN VERY GOOD ORDER: NEW, +CLEAN, AND IN CLOTH COVERS CAREFULLY TIED WITH TAPES. + +WHEN STARTING ON A JOURNEY OR CHANGING THEIR MODE OF LIFE, MEN CAPABLE +OF REFLECTION ARE GENERALLY IN A SERIOUS FRAME OF MIND. AT SUCH MOMENTS +ONE REVIEWS THE PAST AND PLANS FOR THE FUTURE. PRINCE ANDREW’S FACE +LOOKED VERY THOUGHTFUL AND TENDER. WITH HIS HANDS BEHIND HIM HE PACED +BRISKLY FROM CORNER TO CORNER OF THE ROOM, LOOKING STRAIGHT BEFORE HIM +AND THOUGHTFULLY SHAKING HIS HEAD. DID HE FEAR GOING TO THE WAR, OR WAS +HE SAD AT LEAVING HIS WIFE?—PERHAPS BOTH, BUT EVIDENTLY HE DID NOT +WISH TO BE SEEN IN THAT MOOD, FOR HEARING FOOTSTEPS IN THE PASSAGE HE +HURRIEDLY UNCLASPED HIS HANDS, STOPPED AT A TABLE AS IF TYING THE +COVER OF THE SMALL BOX, AND ASSUMED HIS USUAL TRANQUIL AND IMPENETRABLE +EXPRESSION. IT WAS THE HEAVY TREAD OF PRINCESS MARY THAT HE HEARD. + +“I HEAR YOU HAVE GIVEN ORDERS TO HARNESS,” SHE CRIED, PANTING (SHE +HAD APPARENTLY BEEN RUNNING), “AND I DID SO WISH TO HAVE ANOTHER TALK +WITH YOU ALONE! GOD KNOWS HOW LONG WE MAY AGAIN BE PARTED. YOU ARE NOT +ANGRY WITH ME FOR COMING? YOU HAVE CHANGED SO, ANDRúSHA,” SHE ADDED, +AS IF TO EXPLAIN SUCH A QUESTION. + +SHE SMILED AS SHE UTTERED HIS PET NAME, “ANDRúSHA.” IT WAS +OBVIOUSLY STRANGE TO HER TO THINK THAT THIS STERN HANDSOME MAN SHOULD BE +ANDRúSHA—THE SLENDER MISCHIEVOUS BOY WHO HAD BEEN HER PLAYFELLOW IN +CHILDHOOD. + +“AND WHERE IS LISE?” HE ASKED, ANSWERING HER QUESTION ONLY BY A +SMILE. + +“SHE WAS SO TIRED THAT SHE HAS FALLEN ASLEEP ON THE SOFA IN MY ROOM. +OH, ANDREW! WHAT A TREASURE OF A WIFE YOU HAVE,” SAID SHE, SITTING +DOWN ON THE SOFA, FACING HER BROTHER. “SHE IS QUITE A CHILD: SUCH A +DEAR, MERRY CHILD. I HAVE GROWN SO FOND OF HER.” + +PRINCE ANDREW WAS SILENT, BUT THE PRINCESS NOTICED THE IRONICAL AND +CONTEMPTUOUS LOOK THAT SHOWED ITSELF ON HIS FACE. + +“ONE MUST BE INDULGENT TO LITTLE WEAKNESSES; WHO IS FREE FROM THEM, +ANDREW? DON’T FORGET THAT SHE HAS GROWN UP AND BEEN EDUCATED IN +SOCIETY, AND SO HER POSITION NOW IS NOT A ROSY ONE. WE SHOULD ENTER INTO +EVERYONE’S SITUATION. TOUT COMPRENDRE, C’EST TOUT PARDONNER. * THINK +WHAT IT MUST BE FOR HER, POOR THING, AFTER WHAT SHE HAS BEEN USED TO, +TO BE PARTED FROM HER HUSBAND AND BE LEFT ALONE IN THE COUNTRY, IN HER +CONDITION! IT’S VERY HARD.” + + * TO UNDERSTAND ALL IS TO FORGIVE ALL. + +PRINCE ANDREW SMILED AS HE LOOKED AT HIS SISTER, AS WE SMILE AT THOSE WE +THINK WE THOROUGHLY UNDERSTAND. + +“YOU LIVE IN THE COUNTRY AND DON’T THINK THE LIFE TERRIBLE,” HE +REPLIED. + +“I... THAT’S DIFFERENT. WHY SPEAK OF ME? I DON’T WANT ANY OTHER +LIFE, AND CAN’T, FOR I KNOW NO OTHER. BUT THINK, ANDREW: FOR A YOUNG +SOCIETY WOMAN TO BE BURIED IN THE COUNTRY DURING THE BEST YEARS OF HER +LIFE, ALL ALONE—FOR PAPA IS ALWAYS BUSY, AND I... WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT +POOR RESOURCES I HAVE FOR ENTERTAINING A WOMAN USED TO THE BEST SOCIETY. +THERE IS ONLY MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE....” + +“I DON’T LIKE YOUR MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE AT ALL,” SAID PRINCE +ANDREW. + +“NO? SHE IS VERY NICE AND KIND AND, ABOVE ALL, SHE’S MUCH TO BE +PITIED. SHE HAS NO ONE, NO ONE. TO TELL THE TRUTH, I DON’T NEED HER, +AND SHE’S EVEN IN MY WAY. YOU KNOW I ALWAYS WAS A SAVAGE, AND NOW AM +EVEN MORE SO. I LIKE BEING ALONE.... FATHER LIKES HER VERY MUCH. SHE AND +MICHAEL IVáNOVICH ARE THE TWO PEOPLE TO WHOM HE IS ALWAYS GENTLE AND +KIND, BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN A BENEFACTOR TO THEM BOTH. AS STERNE SAYS: +‘WE DON’T LOVE PEOPLE SO MUCH FOR THE GOOD THEY HAVE DONE US, AS +FOR THE GOOD WE HAVE DONE THEM.’ FATHER TOOK HER WHEN SHE WAS HOMELESS +AFTER LOSING HER OWN FATHER. SHE IS VERY GOOD-NATURED, AND MY FATHER +LIKES HER WAY OF READING. SHE READS TO HIM IN THE EVENINGS AND READS +SPLENDIDLY.” + +“TO BE QUITE FRANK, MARY, I EXPECT FATHER’S CHARACTER SOMETIMES +MAKES THINGS TRYING FOR YOU, DOESN’T IT?” PRINCE ANDREW ASKED +SUDDENLY. + +PRINCESS MARY WAS FIRST SURPRISED AND THEN AGHAST AT THIS QUESTION. + +“FOR ME? FOR ME?... TRYING FOR ME!...” SAID SHE. + +“HE ALWAYS WAS RATHER HARSH; AND NOW I SHOULD THINK HE’S GETTING +VERY TRYING,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, APPARENTLY SPEAKING LIGHTLY OF THEIR +FATHER IN ORDER TO PUZZLE OR TEST HIS SISTER. + +“YOU ARE GOOD IN EVERY WAY, ANDREW, BUT YOU HAVE A KIND OF +INTELLECTUAL PRIDE,” SAID THE PRINCESS, FOLLOWING THE TRAIN OF HER OWN +THOUGHTS RATHER THAN THE TREND OF THE CONVERSATION—“AND THAT’S A +GREAT SIN. HOW CAN ONE JUDGE FATHER? BUT EVEN IF ONE MIGHT, WHAT FEELING +EXCEPT VENERATION COULD SUCH A MAN AS MY FATHER EVOKE? AND I AM SO +CONTENTED AND HAPPY WITH HIM. I ONLY WISH YOU WERE ALL AS HAPPY AS I +AM.” + +HER BROTHER SHOOK HIS HEAD INCREDULOUSLY. + +“THE ONLY THING THAT IS HARD FOR ME... I WILL TELL YOU THE TRUTH, +ANDREW... IS FATHER’S WAY OF TREATING RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS. I DON’T +UNDERSTAND HOW A MAN OF HIS IMMENSE INTELLECT CAN FAIL TO SEE WHAT IS +AS CLEAR AS DAY, AND CAN GO SO FAR ASTRAY. THAT IS THE ONLY THING +THAT MAKES ME UNHAPPY. BUT EVEN IN THIS I CAN SEE LATELY A SHADE OF +IMPROVEMENT. HIS SATIRE HAS BEEN LESS BITTER OF LATE, AND THERE WAS A +MONK HE RECEIVED AND HAD A LONG TALK WITH.” + +“AH! MY DEAR, I AM AFRAID YOU AND YOUR MONK ARE WASTING YOUR +POWDER,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW BANTERINGLY YET TENDERLY. + +“AH! MON AMI, I ONLY PRAY, AND HOPE THAT GOD WILL HEAR ME. +ANDREW...” SHE SAID TIMIDLY AFTER A MOMENT’S SILENCE, “I HAVE A +GREAT FAVOR TO ASK OF YOU.” + +“WHAT IS IT, DEAR?” + +“NO—PROMISE THAT YOU WILL NOT REFUSE! IT WILL GIVE YOU NO TROUBLE +AND IS NOTHING UNWORTHY OF YOU, BUT IT WILL COMFORT ME. PROMISE, +ANDRúSHA!...” SAID SHE, PUTTING HER HAND IN HER RETICULE BUT NOT YET +TAKING OUT WHAT SHE WAS HOLDING INSIDE IT, AS IF WHAT SHE HELD WERE +THE SUBJECT OF HER REQUEST AND MUST NOT BE SHOWN BEFORE THE REQUEST WAS +GRANTED. + +SHE LOOKED TIMIDLY AT HER BROTHER. + +“EVEN IF IT WERE A GREAT DEAL OF TROUBLE...” ANSWERED PRINCE ANDREW, +AS IF GUESSING WHAT IT WAS ABOUT. + +“THINK WHAT YOU PLEASE! I KNOW YOU ARE JUST LIKE FATHER. THINK AS +YOU PLEASE, BUT DO THIS FOR MY SAKE! PLEASE DO! FATHER’S FATHER, OUR +GRANDFATHER, WORE IT IN ALL HIS WARS.” (SHE STILL DID NOT TAKE OUT +WHAT SHE WAS HOLDING IN HER RETICULE.) “SO YOU PROMISE?” + +“OF COURSE. WHAT IS IT?” + +“ANDREW, I BLESS YOU WITH THIS ICON AND YOU MUST PROMISE ME YOU WILL +NEVER TAKE IT OFF. DO YOU PROMISE?” + +“IF IT DOES NOT WEIGH A HUNDREDWEIGHT AND WON’T BREAK MY NECK... +TO PLEASE YOU...” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. BUT IMMEDIATELY, NOTICING +THE PAINED EXPRESSION HIS JOKE HAD BROUGHT TO HIS SISTER’S FACE, HE +REPENTED AND ADDED: “I AM GLAD; REALLY, DEAR, I AM VERY GLAD.” + +“AGAINST YOUR WILL HE WILL SAVE AND HAVE MERCY ON YOU AND BRING YOU +TO HIMSELF, FOR IN HIM ALONE IS TRUTH AND PEACE,” SAID SHE IN A VOICE +TREMBLING WITH EMOTION, SOLEMNLY HOLDING UP IN BOTH HANDS BEFORE HER +BROTHER A SMALL, OVAL, ANTIQUE, DARK-FACED ICON OF THE SAVIOUR IN A GOLD +SETTING, ON A FINELY WROUGHT SILVER CHAIN. + +SHE CROSSED HERSELF, KISSED THE ICON, AND HANDED IT TO ANDREW. + +“PLEASE, ANDREW, FOR MY SAKE!...” + +RAYS OF GENTLE LIGHT SHONE FROM HER LARGE, TIMID EYES. THOSE EYES LIT +UP THE WHOLE OF HER THIN, SICKLY FACE AND MADE IT BEAUTIFUL. HER BROTHER +WOULD HAVE TAKEN THE ICON, BUT SHE STOPPED HIM. ANDREW UNDERSTOOD, +CROSSED HIMSELF AND KISSED THE ICON. THERE WAS A LOOK OF TENDERNESS, FOR +HE WAS TOUCHED, BUT ALSO A GLEAM OF IRONY ON HIS FACE. + +“THANK YOU, MY DEAR.” SHE KISSED HIM ON THE FOREHEAD AND SAT DOWN +AGAIN ON THE SOFA. THEY WERE SILENT FOR A WHILE. + +“AS I WAS SAYING TO YOU, ANDREW, BE KIND AND GENEROUS AS YOU ALWAYS +USED TO BE. DON’T JUDGE LISE HARSHLY,” SHE BEGAN. “SHE IS SO +SWEET, SO GOOD-NATURED, AND HER POSITION NOW IS A VERY HARD ONE.” + +“I DO NOT THINK I HAVE COMPLAINED OF MY WIFE TO YOU, MáSHA, OR BLAMED +HER. WHY DO YOU SAY ALL THIS TO ME?” + +RED PATCHES APPEARED ON PRINCESS MARY’S FACE AND SHE WAS SILENT AS IF +SHE FELT GUILTY. + +“I HAVE SAID NOTHING TO YOU, BUT YOU HAVE ALREADY BEEN TALKED TO. AND +I AM SORRY FOR THAT,” HE WENT ON. + +THE PATCHES GREW DEEPER ON HER FOREHEAD, NECK, AND CHEEKS. SHE TRIED TO +SAY SOMETHING BUT COULD NOT. HER BROTHER HAD GUESSED RIGHT: THE LITTLE +PRINCESS HAD BEEN CRYING AFTER DINNER AND HAD SPOKEN OF HER FOREBODINGS +ABOUT HER CONFINEMENT, AND HOW SHE DREADED IT, AND HAD COMPLAINED OF HER +FATE, HER FATHER-IN-LAW, AND HER HUSBAND. AFTER CRYING SHE HAD FALLEN +ASLEEP. PRINCE ANDREW FELT SORRY FOR HIS SISTER. + +“KNOW THIS, MáSHA: I CAN’T REPROACH, HAVE NOT REPROACHED, AND NEVER +SHALL REPROACH MY WIFE WITH ANYTHING, AND I CANNOT REPROACH MYSELF +WITH ANYTHING IN REGARD TO HER; AND THAT ALWAYS WILL BE SO IN WHATEVER +CIRCUMSTANCES I MAY BE PLACED. BUT IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH... IF +YOU WANT TO KNOW WHETHER I AM HAPPY? NO! IS SHE HAPPY? NO! BUT WHY THIS +IS SO I DON’T KNOW...” + +AS HE SAID THIS HE ROSE, WENT TO HIS SISTER, AND, STOOPING, KISSED +HER FOREHEAD. HIS FINE EYES LIT UP WITH A THOUGHTFUL, KINDLY, AND +UNACCUSTOMED BRIGHTNESS, BUT HE WAS LOOKING NOT AT HIS SISTER BUT OVER +HER HEAD TOWARD THE DARKNESS OF THE OPEN DOORWAY. + +“LET US GO TO HER, I MUST SAY GOOD-BY. OR—GO AND WAKE AND I’LL +COME IN A MOMENT. PETRúSHKA!” HE CALLED TO HIS VALET: “COME HERE, +TAKE THESE AWAY. PUT THIS ON THE SEAT AND THIS TO THE RIGHT.” + +PRINCESS MARY ROSE AND MOVED TO THE DOOR, THEN STOPPED AND SAID: +“ANDREW, IF YOU HAD FAITH YOU WOULD HAVE TURNED TO GOD AND ASKED HIM +TO GIVE YOU THE LOVE YOU DO NOT FEEL, AND YOUR PRAYER WOULD HAVE BEEN +ANSWERED.” + +“WELL, MAYBE!” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. “GO, MáSHA; I’LL COME +IMMEDIATELY.” + +ON THE WAY TO HIS SISTER’S ROOM, IN THE PASSAGE WHICH CONNECTED ONE +WING WITH THE OTHER, PRINCE ANDREW MET MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE SMILING +SWEETLY. IT WAS THE THIRD TIME THAT DAY THAT, WITH AN ECSTATIC AND +ARTLESS SMILE, SHE HAD MET HIM IN SECLUDED PASSAGES. + +“OH! I THOUGHT YOU WERE IN YOUR ROOM,” SHE SAID, FOR SOME REASON +BLUSHING AND DROPPING HER EYES. + +PRINCE ANDREW LOOKED STERNLY AT HER AND AN EXPRESSION OF ANGER SUDDENLY +CAME OVER HIS FACE. HE SAID NOTHING TO HER BUT LOOKED AT HER FOREHEAD +AND HAIR, WITHOUT LOOKING AT HER EYES, WITH SUCH CONTEMPT THAT THE +FRENCHWOMAN BLUSHED AND WENT AWAY WITHOUT A WORD. WHEN HE REACHED HIS +SISTER’S ROOM HIS WIFE WAS ALREADY AWAKE AND HER MERRY VOICE, HURRYING +ONE WORD AFTER ANOTHER, CAME THROUGH THE OPEN DOOR. SHE WAS SPEAKING AS +USUAL IN FRENCH, AND AS IF AFTER LONG SELF-RESTRAINT SHE WISHED TO MAKE +UP FOR LOST TIME. + +“NO, BUT IMAGINE THE OLD COUNTESS ZúBOVA, WITH FALSE CURLS AND HER +MOUTH FULL OF FALSE TEETH, AS IF SHE WERE TRYING TO CHEAT OLD AGE.... +HA, HA, HA! MARY!” + +THIS VERY SENTENCE ABOUT COUNTESS ZúBOVA AND THIS SAME LAUGH PRINCE +ANDREW HAD ALREADY HEARD FROM HIS WIFE IN THE PRESENCE OF OTHERS SOME +FIVE TIMES. HE ENTERED THE ROOM SOFTLY. THE LITTLE PRINCESS, PLUMP AND +ROSY, WAS SITTING IN AN EASY CHAIR WITH HER WORK IN HER HANDS, TALKING +INCESSANTLY, REPEATING PETERSBURG REMINISCENCES AND EVEN PHRASES. PRINCE +ANDREW CAME UP, STROKED HER HAIR, AND ASKED IF SHE FELT RESTED AFTER +THEIR JOURNEY. SHE ANSWERED HIM AND CONTINUED HER CHATTER. + +THE COACH WITH SIX HORSES WAS WAITING AT THE PORCH. IT WAS AN AUTUMN +NIGHT, SO DARK THAT THE COACHMAN COULD NOT SEE THE CARRIAGE POLE. +SERVANTS WITH LANTERNS WERE BUSTLING ABOUT IN THE PORCH. THE IMMENSE +HOUSE WAS BRILLIANT WITH LIGHTS SHINING THROUGH ITS LOFTY WINDOWS. THE +DOMESTIC SERFS WERE CROWDING IN THE HALL, WAITING TO BID GOOD-BY TO +THE YOUNG PRINCE. THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD WERE ALL GATHERED IN THE +RECEPTION HALL: MICHAEL IVáNOVICH, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, PRINCESS +MARY, AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS. PRINCE ANDREW HAD BEEN CALLED TO HIS +FATHER’S STUDY AS THE LATTER WISHED TO SAY GOOD-BY TO HIM ALONE. ALL +WERE WAITING FOR THEM TO COME OUT. + +WHEN PRINCE ANDREW ENTERED THE STUDY THE OLD MAN IN HIS OLD-AGE +SPECTACLES AND WHITE DRESSING GOWN, IN WHICH HE RECEIVED NO ONE BUT HIS +SON, SAT AT THE TABLE WRITING. HE GLANCED ROUND. + +“GOING?” AND HE WENT ON WRITING. + +“I’VE COME TO SAY GOOD-BY.” + +“KISS ME HERE,” AND HE TOUCHED HIS CHEEK: “THANKS, THANKS!” + +“WHAT DO YOU THANK ME FOR?” + +“FOR NOT DILLY-DALLYING AND NOT HANGING TO A WOMAN’S APRON STRINGS. +THE SERVICE BEFORE EVERYTHING. THANKS, THANKS!” AND HE WENT ON +WRITING, SO THAT HIS QUILL SPLUTTERED AND SQUEAKED. “IF YOU HAVE +ANYTHING TO SAY, SAY IT. THESE TWO THINGS CAN BE DONE TOGETHER,” HE +ADDED. + +“ABOUT MY WIFE... I AM ASHAMED AS IT IS TO LEAVE HER ON YOUR +HANDS....” + +“WHY TALK NONSENSE? SAY WHAT YOU WANT.” + +“WHEN HER CONFINEMENT IS DUE, SEND TO MOSCOW FOR AN ACCOUCHEUR.... LET +HIM BE HERE....” + +THE OLD PRINCE STOPPED WRITING AND, AS IF NOT UNDERSTANDING, FIXED HIS +STERN EYES ON HIS SON. + +“I KNOW THAT NO ONE CAN HELP IF NATURE DOES NOT DO HER WORK,” SAID +PRINCE ANDREW, EVIDENTLY CONFUSED. “I KNOW THAT OUT OF A MILLION +CASES ONLY ONE GOES WRONG, BUT IT IS HER FANCY AND MINE. THEY HAVE BEEN +TELLING HER THINGS. SHE HAS HAD A DREAM AND IS FRIGHTENED.” + +“HM... HM...” MUTTERED THE OLD PRINCE TO HIMSELF, FINISHING WHAT HE +WAS WRITING. “I’LL DO IT.” + +HE SIGNED WITH A FLOURISH AND SUDDENLY TURNING TO HIS SON BEGAN TO +LAUGH. + +“IT’S A BAD BUSINESS, EH?” + +“WHAT IS BAD, FATHER?” + +“THE WIFE!” SAID THE OLD PRINCE, BRIEFLY AND SIGNIFICANTLY. + +“I DON’T UNDERSTAND!” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. + +“NO, IT CAN’T BE HELPED, LAD,” SAID THE PRINCE. “THEY’RE +ALL LIKE THAT; ONE CAN’T UNMARRY. DON’T BE AFRAID; I WON’T TELL +ANYONE, BUT YOU KNOW IT YOURSELF.” + +HE SEIZED HIS SON BY THE HAND WITH SMALL BONY FINGERS, SHOOK IT, LOOKED +STRAIGHT INTO HIS SON’S FACE WITH KEEN EYES WHICH SEEMED TO SEE +THROUGH HIM, AND AGAIN LAUGHED HIS FRIGID LAUGH. + +THE SON SIGHED, THUS ADMITTING THAT HIS FATHER HAD UNDERSTOOD HIM. THE +OLD MAN CONTINUED TO FOLD AND SEAL HIS LETTER, SNATCHING UP AND THROWING +DOWN THE WAX, THE SEAL, AND THE PAPER, WITH HIS ACCUSTOMED RAPIDITY. + +“WHAT’S TO BE DONE? SHE’S PRETTY! I WILL DO EVERYTHING. MAKE YOUR +MIND EASY,” SAID HE IN ABRUPT SENTENCES WHILE SEALING HIS LETTER. + +ANDREW DID NOT SPEAK; HE WAS BOTH PLEASED AND DISPLEASED THAT HIS FATHER +UNDERSTOOD HIM. THE OLD MAN GOT UP AND GAVE THE LETTER TO HIS SON. + +“LISTEN!” SAID HE; “DON’T WORRY ABOUT YOUR WIFE: WHAT CAN BE +DONE SHALL BE. NOW LISTEN! GIVE THIS LETTER TO MICHAEL ILARIóNOVICH. * +I HAVE WRITTEN THAT HE SHOULD MAKE USE OF YOU IN PROPER PLACES AND NOT +KEEP YOU LONG AS AN ADJUTANT: A BAD POSITION! TELL HIM I REMEMBER +AND LIKE HIM. WRITE AND TELL ME HOW HE RECEIVES YOU. IF HE IS ALL +RIGHT—SERVE HIM. NICHOLAS BOLKóNSKI’S SON NEED NOT SERVE UNDER +ANYONE IF HE IS IN DISFAVOR. NOW COME HERE.” + + *KUTúZOV. + +HE SPOKE SO RAPIDLY THAT HE DID NOT FINISH HALF HIS WORDS, BUT HIS SON +WAS ACCUSTOMED TO UNDERSTAND HIM. HE LED HIM TO THE DESK, RAISED THE +LID, DREW OUT A DRAWER, AND TOOK OUT AN EXERCISE BOOK FILLED WITH HIS +BOLD, TALL, CLOSE HANDWRITING. + +“I SHALL PROBABLY DIE BEFORE YOU. SO REMEMBER, THESE ARE MY MEMOIRS; +HAND THEM TO THE EMPEROR AFTER MY DEATH. NOW HERE IS A LOMBARD BOND +AND A LETTER; IT IS A PREMIUM FOR THE MAN WHO WRITES A HISTORY OF +SUVóROV’S WARS. SEND IT TO THE ACADEMY. HERE ARE SOME JOTTINGS FOR +YOU TO READ WHEN I AM GONE. YOU WILL FIND THEM USEFUL.” + +ANDREW DID NOT TELL HIS FATHER THAT HE WOULD NO DOUBT LIVE A LONG TIME +YET. HE FELT THAT HE MUST NOT SAY IT. + +“I WILL DO IT ALL, FATHER,” HE SAID. + +“WELL, NOW, GOOD-BY!” HE GAVE HIS SON HIS HAND TO KISS, AND EMBRACED +HIM. “REMEMBER THIS, PRINCE ANDREW, IF THEY KILL YOU IT WILL HURT ME, +YOUR OLD FATHER...” HE PAUSED UNEXPECTEDLY, AND THEN IN A QUERULOUS +VOICE SUDDENLY SHRIEKED: “BUT IF I HEAR THAT YOU HAVE NOT BEHAVED LIKE +A SON OF NICHOLAS BOLKóNSKI, I SHALL BE ASHAMED!” + +“YOU NEED NOT HAVE SAID THAT TO ME, FATHER,” SAID THE SON WITH A +SMILE. + +THE OLD MAN WAS SILENT. + +“I ALSO WANTED TO ASK YOU,” CONTINUED PRINCE ANDREW, “IF I’M +KILLED AND IF I HAVE A SON, DO NOT LET HIM BE TAKEN AWAY FROM YOU—AS I +SAID YESTERDAY... LET HIM GROW UP WITH YOU.... PLEASE.” + +“NOT LET THE WIFE HAVE HIM?” SAID THE OLD MAN, AND LAUGHED. + +THEY STOOD SILENT, FACING ONE ANOTHER. THE OLD MAN’S SHARP EYES WERE +FIXED STRAIGHT ON HIS SON’S. SOMETHING TWITCHED IN THE LOWER PART OF +THE OLD PRINCE’S FACE. + +“WE’VE SAID GOOD-BY. GO!” HE SUDDENLY SHOUTED IN A LOUD, ANGRY +VOICE, OPENING HIS DOOR. + +“WHAT IS IT? WHAT?” ASKED BOTH PRINCESSES WHEN THEY SAW FOR A MOMENT +AT THE DOOR PRINCE ANDREW AND THE FIGURE OF THE OLD MAN IN A WHITE +DRESSING GOWN, SPECTACLED AND WIGLESS, SHOUTING IN AN ANGRY VOICE. + +PRINCE ANDREW SIGHED AND MADE NO REPLY. + +“WELL!” HE SAID, TURNING TO HIS WIFE. + +AND THIS “WELL!” SOUNDED COLDLY IRONIC, AS IF HE WERE SAYING: “NOW +GO THROUGH YOUR PERFORMANCE.” + +“ANDREW, ALREADY!” SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS, TURNING PALE AND +LOOKING WITH DISMAY AT HER HUSBAND. + +HE EMBRACED HER. SHE SCREAMED AND FELL UNCONSCIOUS ON HIS SHOULDER. + +HE CAUTIOUSLY RELEASED THE SHOULDER SHE LEANED ON, LOOKED INTO HER FACE, +AND CAREFULLY PLACED HER IN AN EASY CHAIR. + +“ADIEU, MARY,” SAID HE GENTLY TO HIS SISTER, TAKING HER BY THE HAND +AND KISSING HER, AND THEN HE LEFT THE ROOM WITH RAPID STEPS. + +THE LITTLE PRINCESS LAY IN THE ARMCHAIR, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE CHAFING +HER TEMPLES. PRINCESS MARY, SUPPORTING HER SISTER-IN-LAW, STILL LOOKED +WITH HER BEAUTIFUL EYES FULL OF TEARS AT THE DOOR THROUGH WHICH PRINCE +ANDREW HAD GONE AND MADE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS IN HIS DIRECTION. FROM +THE STUDY, LIKE PISTOL SHOTS, CAME THE FREQUENT SOUND OF THE OLD MAN +ANGRILY BLOWING HIS NOSE. HARDLY HAD PRINCE ANDREW GONE WHEN THE STUDY +DOOR OPENED QUICKLY AND THE STERN FIGURE OF THE OLD MAN IN THE WHITE +DRESSING GOWN LOOKED OUT. + +“GONE? THAT’S ALL RIGHT!” SAID HE; AND LOOKING ANGRILY AT THE +UNCONSCIOUS LITTLE PRINCESS, HE SHOOK HIS HEAD REPROVINGLY AND SLAMMED +THE DOOR. + + + + + +BOOK TWO: 1805 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +IN OCTOBER, 1805, A RUSSIAN ARMY WAS OCCUPYING THE VILLAGES AND TOWNS OF +THE ARCHDUCHY OF AUSTRIA, AND YET OTHER REGIMENTS FRESHLY ARRIVING FROM +RUSSIA WERE SETTLING NEAR THE FORTRESS OF BRAUNAU AND BURDENING THE +INHABITANTS ON WHOM THEY WERE QUARTERED. BRAUNAU WAS THE HEADQUARTERS OF +THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, KUTúZOV. + +ON OCTOBER 11, 1805, ONE OF THE INFANTRY REGIMENTS THAT HAD JUST REACHED +BRAUNAU HAD HALTED HALF A MILE FROM THE TOWN, WAITING TO BE INSPECTED +BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. DESPITE THE UN-RUSSIAN APPEARANCE OF THE +LOCALITY AND SURROUNDINGS—FRUIT GARDENS, STONE FENCES, TILED ROOFS, +AND HILLS IN THE DISTANCE—AND DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE INHABITANTS +(WHO GAZED WITH CURIOSITY AT THE SOLDIERS) WERE NOT RUSSIANS, THE +REGIMENT HAD JUST THE APPEARANCE OF ANY RUSSIAN REGIMENT PREPARING FOR +AN INSPECTION ANYWHERE IN THE HEART OF RUSSIA. + +ON THE EVENING OF THE LAST DAY’S MARCH AN ORDER HAD BEEN RECEIVED THAT +THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF WOULD INSPECT THE REGIMENT ON THE MARCH. THOUGH +THE WORDS OF THE ORDER WERE NOT CLEAR TO THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, AND +THE QUESTION AROSE WHETHER THE TROOPS WERE TO BE IN MARCHING ORDER OR +NOT, IT WAS DECIDED AT A CONSULTATION BETWEEN THE BATTALION COMMANDERS +TO PRESENT THE REGIMENT IN PARADE ORDER, ON THE PRINCIPLE THAT IT IS +ALWAYS BETTER TO “BOW TOO LOW THAN NOT BOW LOW ENOUGH.” SO THE +SOLDIERS, AFTER A TWENTY-MILE MARCH, WERE KEPT MENDING AND CLEANING ALL +NIGHT LONG WITHOUT CLOSING THEIR EYES, WHILE THE ADJUTANTS AND +COMPANY COMMANDERS CALCULATED AND RECKONED, AND BY MORNING THE +REGIMENT—INSTEAD OF THE STRAGGLING, DISORDERLY CROWD IT HAD BEEN ON +ITS LAST MARCH THE DAY BEFORE—PRESENTED A WELL-ORDERED ARRAY OF TWO +THOUSAND MEN EACH OF WHOM KNEW HIS PLACE AND HIS DUTY, HAD EVERY BUTTON +AND EVERY STRAP IN PLACE, AND SHONE WITH CLEANLINESS. AND NOT ONLY +EXTERNALLY WAS ALL IN ORDER, BUT HAD IT PLEASED THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF +TO LOOK UNDER THE UNIFORMS HE WOULD HAVE FOUND ON EVERY MAN A CLEAN +SHIRT, AND IN EVERY KNAPSACK THE APPOINTED NUMBER OF ARTICLES, “AWL, +SOAP, AND ALL,” AS THE SOLDIERS SAY. THERE WAS ONLY ONE CIRCUMSTANCE +CONCERNING WHICH NO ONE COULD BE AT EASE. IT WAS THE STATE OF THE +SOLDIERS’ BOOTS. MORE THAN HALF THE MEN’S BOOTS WERE IN HOLES. BUT +THIS DEFECT WAS NOT DUE TO ANY FAULT OF THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, FOR +IN SPITE OF REPEATED DEMANDS BOOTS HAD NOT BEEN ISSUED BY THE AUSTRIAN +COMMISSARIAT, AND THE REGIMENT HAD MARCHED SOME SEVEN HUNDRED MILES. + +THE COMMANDER OF THE REGIMENT WAS AN ELDERLY, CHOLERIC, STOUT, AND +THICK-SET GENERAL WITH GRIZZLED EYEBROWS AND WHISKERS, AND WIDER FROM +CHEST TO BACK THAN ACROSS THE SHOULDERS. HE HAD ON A BRAND-NEW UNIFORM +SHOWING THE CREASES WHERE IT HAD BEEN FOLDED AND THICK GOLD EPAULETTES +WHICH SEEMED TO STAND RATHER THAN LIE DOWN ON HIS MASSIVE SHOULDERS. HE +HAD THE AIR OF A MAN HAPPILY PERFORMING ONE OF THE MOST SOLEMN DUTIES OF +HIS LIFE. HE WALKED ABOUT IN FRONT OF THE LINE AND AT EVERY STEP PULLED +HIMSELF UP, SLIGHTLY ARCHING HIS BACK. IT WAS PLAIN THAT THE COMMANDER +ADMIRED HIS REGIMENT, REJOICED IN IT, AND THAT HIS WHOLE MIND WAS +ENGROSSED BY IT, YET HIS STRUT SEEMED TO INDICATE THAT, BESIDES MILITARY +MATTERS, SOCIAL INTERESTS AND THE FAIR SEX OCCUPIED NO SMALL PART OF HIS +THOUGHTS. + +“WELL, MICHAEL MíTRICH, SIR?” HE SAID, ADDRESSING ONE OF THE +BATTALION COMMANDERS WHO SMILINGLY PRESSED FORWARD (IT WAS PLAIN THAT +THEY BOTH FELT HAPPY). “WE HAD OUR HANDS FULL LAST NIGHT. HOWEVER, I +THINK THE REGIMENT IS NOT A BAD ONE, EH?” + +THE BATTALION COMMANDER PERCEIVED THE JOVIAL IRONY AND LAUGHED. + +“IT WOULD NOT BE TURNED OFF THE FIELD EVEN ON THE TSARíTSIN +MEADOW.” + +“WHAT?” ASKED THE COMMANDER. + +AT THAT MOMENT, ON THE ROAD FROM THE TOWN ON WHICH SIGNALERS HAD BEEN +POSTED, TWO MEN APPEARED ON HORSE BACK. THEY WERE AN AIDE-DE-CAMP +FOLLOWED BY A COSSACK. + +THE AIDE-DE-CAMP WAS SENT TO CONFIRM THE ORDER WHICH HAD NOT BEEN +CLEARLY WORDED THE DAY BEFORE, NAMELY, THAT THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF +WISHED TO SEE THE REGIMENT JUST IN THE STATE IN WHICH IT HAD BEEN ON +THE MARCH: IN THEIR GREATCOATS, AND PACKS, AND WITHOUT ANY PREPARATION +WHATEVER. + +A MEMBER OF THE HOFKRIEGSRATH FROM VIENNA HAD COME TO KUTúZOV THE DAY +BEFORE WITH PROPOSALS AND DEMANDS FOR HIM TO JOIN UP WITH THE ARMY OF +THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND AND MACK, AND KUTúZOV, NOT CONSIDERING THIS +JUNCTION ADVISABLE, MEANT, AMONG OTHER ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT OF HIS VIEW, +TO SHOW THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL THE WRETCHED STATE IN WHICH THE TROOPS +ARRIVED FROM RUSSIA. WITH THIS OBJECT HE INTENDED TO MEET THE REGIMENT; +SO THE WORSE THE CONDITION IT WAS IN, THE BETTER PLEASED THE COMMANDER +IN CHIEF WOULD BE. THOUGH THE AIDE-DE-CAMP DID NOT KNOW THESE +CIRCUMSTANCES, HE NEVERTHELESS DELIVERED THE DEFINITE ORDER THAT THE +MEN SHOULD BE IN THEIR GREATCOATS AND IN MARCHING ORDER, AND THAT THE +COMMANDER IN CHIEF WOULD OTHERWISE BE DISSATISFIED. ON HEARING THIS THE +REGIMENTAL COMMANDER HUNG HIS HEAD, SILENTLY SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS, AND +SPREAD OUT HIS ARMS WITH A CHOLERIC GESTURE. + +“A FINE MESS WE’VE MADE OF IT!” HE REMARKED. + +“THERE NOW! DIDN’T I TELL YOU, MICHAEL MíTRICH, THAT IF IT WAS SAID +‘ON THE MARCH’ IT MEANT IN GREATCOATS?” SAID HE REPROACHFULLY TO +THE BATTALION COMMANDER. “OH, MY GOD!” HE ADDED, STEPPING RESOLUTELY +FORWARD. “COMPANY COMMANDERS!” HE SHOUTED IN A VOICE ACCUSTOMED TO +COMMAND. “SERGEANTS MAJOR!... HOW SOON WILL HE BE HERE?” HE ASKED +THE AIDE-DE-CAMP WITH A RESPECTFUL POLITENESS EVIDENTLY RELATING TO THE +PERSONAGE HE WAS REFERRING TO. + +“IN AN HOUR’S TIME, I SHOULD SAY.” + +“SHALL WE HAVE TIME TO CHANGE CLOTHES?” + +“I DON’T KNOW, GENERAL....” + +THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, GOING UP TO THE LINE HIMSELF, ORDERED THE +SOLDIERS TO CHANGE INTO THEIR GREATCOATS. THE COMPANY COMMANDERS RAN OFF +TO THEIR COMPANIES, THE SERGEANTS MAJOR BEGAN BUSTLING (THE GREATCOATS +WERE NOT IN VERY GOOD CONDITION), AND INSTANTLY THE SQUARES THAT HAD UP +TO THEN BEEN IN REGULAR ORDER AND SILENT BEGAN TO SWAY AND STRETCH AND +HUM WITH VOICES. ON ALL SIDES SOLDIERS WERE RUNNING TO AND FRO, THROWING +UP THEIR KNAPSACKS WITH A JERK OF THEIR SHOULDERS AND PULLING THE STRAPS +OVER THEIR HEADS, UNSTRAPPING THEIR OVERCOATS AND DRAWING THE SLEEVES ON +WITH UPRAISED ARMS. + +IN HALF AN HOUR ALL WAS AGAIN IN ORDER, ONLY THE SQUARES HAD BECOME GRAY +INSTEAD OF BLACK. THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER WALKED WITH HIS JERKY STEPS +TO THE FRONT OF THE REGIMENT AND EXAMINED IT FROM A DISTANCE. + +“WHATEVER IS THIS? THIS!” HE SHOUTED AND STOOD STILL. “COMMANDER +OF THE THIRD COMPANY!” + +“COMMANDER OF THE THIRD COMPANY WANTED BY THE GENERAL!... COMMANDER TO +THE GENERAL... THIRD COMPANY TO THE COMMANDER.” THE WORDS PASSED ALONG +THE LINES AND AN ADJUTANT RAN TO LOOK FOR THE MISSING OFFICER. + +WHEN THE EAGER BUT MISREPEATED WORDS HAD REACHED THEIR DESTINATION IN +A CRY OF: “THE GENERAL TO THE THIRD COMPANY,” THE MISSING OFFICER +APPEARED FROM BEHIND HIS COMPANY AND, THOUGH HE WAS A MIDDLE-AGED MAN +AND NOT IN THE HABIT OF RUNNING, TROTTED AWKWARDLY STUMBLING ON HIS +TOES TOWARD THE GENERAL. THE CAPTAIN’S FACE SHOWED THE UNEASINESS OF +A SCHOOLBOY WHO IS TOLD TO REPEAT A LESSON HE HAS NOT LEARNED. SPOTS +APPEARED ON HIS NOSE, THE REDNESS OF WHICH WAS EVIDENTLY DUE TO +INTEMPERANCE, AND HIS MOUTH TWITCHED NERVOUSLY. THE GENERAL LOOKED THE +CAPTAIN UP AND DOWN AS HE CAME UP PANTING, SLACKENING HIS PACE AS HE +APPROACHED. + +“YOU WILL SOON BE DRESSING YOUR MEN IN PETTICOATS! WHAT IS THIS?” +SHOUTED THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, THRUSTING FORWARD HIS JAW AND POINTING +AT A SOLDIER IN THE RANKS OF THE THIRD COMPANY IN A GREATCOAT OF BLUISH +CLOTH, WHICH CONTRASTED WITH THE OTHERS. “WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN AFTER? +THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF IS EXPECTED AND YOU LEAVE YOUR PLACE? EH? I’LL +TEACH YOU TO DRESS THE MEN IN FANCY COATS FOR A PARADE.... EH...?” + +THE COMMANDER OF THE COMPANY, WITH HIS EYES FIXED ON HIS SUPERIOR, +PRESSED TWO FINGERS MORE AND MORE RIGIDLY TO HIS CAP, AS IF IN THIS +PRESSURE LAY HIS ONLY HOPE OF SALVATION. + +“WELL, WHY DON’T YOU SPEAK? WHOM HAVE YOU GOT THERE DRESSED UP AS A +HUNGARIAN?” SAID THE COMMANDER WITH AN AUSTERE GIBE. + +“YOUR EXCELLENCY...” + +“WELL, YOUR EXCELLENCY, WHAT? YOUR EXCELLENCY! BUT WHAT ABOUT YOUR +EXCELLENCY?... NOBODY KNOWS.” + +“YOUR EXCELLENCY, IT’S THE OFFICER DóLOKHOV, WHO HAS BEEN REDUCED +TO THE RANKS,” SAID THE CAPTAIN SOFTLY. + +“WELL? HAS HE BEEN DEGRADED INTO A FIELD MARSHAL, OR INTO A SOLDIER? +IF A SOLDIER, HE SHOULD BE DRESSED IN REGULATION UNIFORM LIKE THE +OTHERS.” + +“YOUR EXCELLENCY, YOU GAVE HIM LEAVE YOURSELF, ON THE MARCH.” + +“GAVE HIM LEAVE? LEAVE? THAT’S JUST LIKE YOU YOUNG MEN,” SAID THE +REGIMENTAL COMMANDER COOLING DOWN A LITTLE. “LEAVE INDEED.... ONE SAYS +A WORD TO YOU AND YOU... WHAT?” HE ADDED WITH RENEWED IRRITATION, “I +BEG YOU TO DRESS YOUR MEN DECENTLY.” + +AND THE COMMANDER, TURNING TO LOOK AT THE ADJUTANT, DIRECTED HIS JERKY +STEPS DOWN THE LINE. HE WAS EVIDENTLY PLEASED AT HIS OWN DISPLAY OF +ANGER AND WALKING UP TO THE REGIMENT WISHED TO FIND A FURTHER EXCUSE FOR +WRATH. HAVING SNAPPED AT AN OFFICER FOR AN UNPOLISHED BADGE, AT ANOTHER +BECAUSE HIS LINE WAS NOT STRAIGHT, HE REACHED THE THIRD COMPANY. + +“H-O-O-W ARE YOU STANDING? WHERE’S YOUR LEG? YOUR LEG?” SHOUTED +THE COMMANDER WITH A TONE OF SUFFERING IN HIS VOICE, WHILE THERE WERE +STILL FIVE MEN BETWEEN HIM AND DóLOKHOV WITH HIS BLUISH-GRAY UNIFORM. + +DóLOKHOV SLOWLY STRAIGHTENED HIS BENT KNEE, LOOKING STRAIGHT WITH HIS +CLEAR, INSOLENT EYES IN THE GENERAL’S FACE. + +“WHY A BLUE COAT? OFF WITH IT... SERGEANT MAJOR! CHANGE HIS COAT... +THE RAS...” HE DID NOT FINISH. + +“GENERAL, I MUST OBEY ORDERS, BUT I AM NOT BOUND TO ENDURE...” +DóLOKHOV HURRIEDLY INTERRUPTED. + +“NO TALKING IN THE RANKS!... NO TALKING, NO TALKING!” + +“NOT BOUND TO ENDURE INSULTS,” DóLOKHOV CONCLUDED IN LOUD, RINGING +TONES. + +THE EYES OF THE GENERAL AND THE SOLDIER MET. THE GENERAL BECAME SILENT, +ANGRILY PULLING DOWN HIS TIGHT SCARF. + +“I REQUEST YOU TO HAVE THE GOODNESS TO CHANGE YOUR COAT,” HE SAID AS +HE TURNED AWAY. + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +“HE’S COMING!” SHOUTED THE SIGNALER AT THAT MOMENT. + +THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, FLUSHING, RAN TO HIS HORSE, SEIZED THE STIRRUP +WITH TREMBLING HANDS, THREW HIS BODY ACROSS THE SADDLE, RIGHTED HIMSELF, +DREW HIS SABER, AND WITH A HAPPY AND RESOLUTE COUNTENANCE, OPENING +HIS MOUTH AWRY, PREPARED TO SHOUT. THE REGIMENT FLUTTERED LIKE A BIRD +PREENING ITS PLUMAGE AND BECAME MOTIONLESS. + +“ATT-ENTION!” SHOUTED THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER IN A SOUL-SHAKING +VOICE WHICH EXPRESSED JOY FOR HIMSELF, SEVERITY FOR THE REGIMENT, AND +WELCOME FOR THE APPROACHING CHIEF. + +ALONG THE BROAD COUNTRY ROAD, EDGED ON BOTH SIDES BY TREES, CAME A HIGH, +LIGHT BLUE VIENNESE CALèCHE, SLIGHTLY CREAKING ON ITS SPRINGS AND DRAWN +BY SIX HORSES AT A SMART TROT. BEHIND THE CALèCHE GALLOPED THE SUITE +AND A CONVOY OF CROATS. BESIDE KUTúZOV SAT AN AUSTRIAN GENERAL, IN +A WHITE UNIFORM THAT LOOKED STRANGE AMONG THE RUSSIAN BLACK ONES. THE +CALèCHE STOPPED IN FRONT OF THE REGIMENT. KUTúZOV AND THE AUSTRIAN +GENERAL WERE TALKING IN LOW VOICES AND KUTúZOV SMILED SLIGHTLY AS +TREADING HEAVILY HE STEPPED DOWN FROM THE CARRIAGE JUST AS IF THOSE TWO +THOUSAND MEN BREATHLESSLY GAZING AT HIM AND THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER DID +NOT EXIST. + +THE WORD OF COMMAND RANG OUT, AND AGAIN THE REGIMENT QUIVERED, AS WITH A +JINGLING SOUND IT PRESENTED ARMS. THEN AMIDST A DEAD SILENCE THE +FEEBLE VOICE OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF WAS HEARD. THE REGIMENT ROARED, +“HEALTH TO YOUR EX... LEN... LEN... LENCY!” AND AGAIN ALL BECAME +SILENT. AT FIRST KUTúZOV STOOD STILL WHILE THE REGIMENT MOVED; THEN HE +AND THE GENERAL IN WHITE, ACCOMPANIED BY THE SUITE, WALKED BETWEEN THE +RANKS. + +FROM THE WAY THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER SALUTED THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF AND +DEVOURED HIM WITH HIS EYES, DRAWING HIMSELF UP OBSEQUIOUSLY, AND FROM +THE WAY HE WALKED THROUGH THE RANKS BEHIND THE GENERALS, BENDING FORWARD +AND HARDLY ABLE TO RESTRAIN HIS JERKY MOVEMENTS, AND FROM THE WAY HE +DARTED FORWARD AT EVERY WORD OR GESTURE OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, +IT WAS EVIDENT THAT HE PERFORMED HIS DUTY AS A SUBORDINATE WITH EVEN +GREATER ZEAL THAN HIS DUTY AS A COMMANDER. THANKS TO THE STRICTNESS AND +ASSIDUITY OF ITS COMMANDER THE REGIMENT, IN COMPARISON WITH OTHERS THAT +HAD REACHED BRAUNAU AT THE SAME TIME, WAS IN SPLENDID CONDITION. THERE +WERE ONLY 217 SICK AND STRAGGLERS. EVERYTHING WAS IN GOOD ORDER EXCEPT +THE BOOTS. + +KUTúZOV WALKED THROUGH THE RANKS, SOMETIMES STOPPING TO SAY A FEW +FRIENDLY WORDS TO OFFICERS HE HAD KNOWN IN THE TURKISH WAR, SOMETIMES +ALSO TO THE SOLDIERS. LOOKING AT THEIR BOOTS HE SEVERAL TIMES SHOOK HIS +HEAD SADLY, POINTING THEM OUT TO THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL WITH AN EXPRESSION +WHICH SEEMED TO SAY THAT HE WAS NOT BLAMING ANYONE, BUT COULD NOT HELP +NOTICING WHAT A BAD STATE OF THINGS IT WAS. THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER +RAN FORWARD ON EACH SUCH OCCASION, FEARING TO MISS A SINGLE WORD OF THE +COMMANDER IN CHIEF’S REGARDING THE REGIMENT. BEHIND KUTúZOV, AT A +DISTANCE THAT ALLOWED EVERY SOFTLY SPOKEN WORD TO BE HEARD, FOLLOWED +SOME TWENTY MEN OF HIS SUITE. THESE GENTLEMEN TALKED AMONG THEMSELVES +AND SOMETIMES LAUGHED. NEAREST OF ALL TO THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF WALKED +A HANDSOME ADJUTANT. THIS WAS PRINCE BOLKóNSKI. BESIDE HIM WAS HIS +COMRADE NESVíTSKI, A TALL STAFF OFFICER, EXTREMELY STOUT, WITH A +KINDLY, SMILING, HANDSOME FACE AND MOIST EYES. NESVíTSKI COULD HARDLY +KEEP FROM LAUGHTER PROVOKED BY A SWARTHY HUSSAR OFFICER WHO WALKED +BESIDE HIM. THIS HUSSAR, WITH A GRAVE FACE AND WITHOUT A SMILE OR A +CHANGE IN THE EXPRESSION OF HIS FIXED EYES, WATCHED THE REGIMENTAL +COMMANDER’S BACK AND MIMICKED HIS EVERY MOVEMENT. EACH TIME THE +COMMANDER STARTED AND BENT FORWARD, THE HUSSAR STARTED AND BENT FORWARD +IN EXACTLY THE SAME MANNER. NESVíTSKI LAUGHED AND NUDGED THE OTHERS TO +MAKE THEM LOOK AT THE WAG. + +KUTúZOV WALKED SLOWLY AND LANGUIDLY PAST THOUSANDS OF EYES WHICH WERE +STARTING FROM THEIR SOCKETS TO WATCH THEIR CHIEF. ON REACHING THE +THIRD COMPANY HE SUDDENLY STOPPED. HIS SUITE, NOT HAVING EXPECTED THIS, +INVOLUNTARILY CAME CLOSER TO HIM. + +“AH, TIMóKHIN!” SAID HE, RECOGNIZING THE RED-NOSED CAPTAIN WHO HAD +BEEN REPRIMANDED ON ACCOUNT OF THE BLUE GREATCOAT. + +ONE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR A MAN TO STRETCH HIMSELF +MORE THAN TIMóKHIN HAD DONE WHEN HE WAS REPRIMANDED BY THE REGIMENTAL +COMMANDER, BUT NOW THAT THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF ADDRESSED HIM HE DREW +HIMSELF UP TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT IT SEEMED HE COULD NOT HAVE SUSTAINED +IT HAD THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF CONTINUED TO LOOK AT HIM, AND SO KUTúZOV, +WHO EVIDENTLY UNDERSTOOD HIS CASE AND WISHED HIM NOTHING BUT GOOD, +QUICKLY TURNED AWAY, A SCARCELY PERCEPTIBLE SMILE FLITTING OVER HIS +SCARRED AND PUFFY FACE. + +“ANOTHER ISMAIL COMRADE,” SAID HE. “A BRAVE OFFICER! ARE YOU +SATISFIED WITH HIM?” HE ASKED THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER. + +AND THE LATTER—UNCONSCIOUS THAT HE WAS BEING REFLECTED IN THE HUSSAR +OFFICER AS IN A LOOKING GLASS—STARTED, MOVED FORWARD, AND ANSWERED: +“HIGHLY SATISFIED, YOUR EXCELLENCY!” + +“WE ALL HAVE OUR WEAKNESSES,” SAID KUTúZOV SMILING AND WALKING AWAY +FROM HIM. “HE USED TO HAVE A PREDILECTION FOR BACCHUS.” + +THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER WAS AFRAID HE MIGHT BE BLAMED FOR THIS AND DID +NOT ANSWER. THE HUSSAR AT THAT MOMENT NOTICED THE FACE OF THE RED-NOSED +CAPTAIN AND HIS DRAWN-IN STOMACH, AND MIMICKED HIS EXPRESSION AND POSE +WITH SUCH EXACTITUDE THAT NESVíTSKI COULD NOT HELP LAUGHING. KUTúZOV +TURNED ROUND. THE OFFICER EVIDENTLY HAD COMPLETE CONTROL OF HIS FACE, +AND WHILE KUTúZOV WAS TURNING MANAGED TO MAKE A GRIMACE AND THEN ASSUME +A MOST SERIOUS, DEFERENTIAL, AND INNOCENT EXPRESSION. + +THE THIRD COMPANY WAS THE LAST, AND KUTúZOV PONDERED, APPARENTLY TRYING +TO RECOLLECT SOMETHING. PRINCE ANDREW STEPPED FORWARD FROM AMONG THE +SUITE AND SAID IN FRENCH: + +“YOU TOLD ME TO REMIND YOU OF THE OFFICER DóLOKHOV, REDUCED TO THE +RANKS IN THIS REGIMENT.” + +“WHERE IS DóLOKHOV?” ASKED KUTúZOV. + +DóLOKHOV, WHO HAD ALREADY CHANGED INTO A SOLDIER’S GRAY GREATCOAT, +DID NOT WAIT TO BE CALLED. THE SHAPELY FIGURE OF THE FAIR-HAIRED +SOLDIER, WITH HIS CLEAR BLUE EYES, STEPPED FORWARD FROM THE RANKS, WENT +UP TO THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, AND PRESENTED ARMS. + +“HAVE YOU A COMPLAINT TO MAKE?” KUTúZOV ASKED WITH A SLIGHT FROWN. + +“THIS IS DóLOKHOV,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. + +“AH!” SAID KUTúZOV. “I HOPE THIS WILL BE A LESSON TO YOU. DO YOUR +DUTY. THE EMPEROR IS GRACIOUS, AND I SHAN’T FORGET YOU IF YOU DESERVE +WELL.” + +THE CLEAR BLUE EYES LOOKED AT THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF JUST AS BOLDLY AS +THEY HAD LOOKED AT THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, SEEMING BY THEIR EXPRESSION +TO TEAR OPEN THE VEIL OF CONVENTION THAT SEPARATES A COMMANDER IN CHIEF +SO WIDELY FROM A PRIVATE. + +“ONE THING I ASK OF YOUR EXCELLENCY,” DóLOKHOV SAID IN HIS FIRM, +RINGING, DELIBERATE VOICE. “I ASK AN OPPORTUNITY TO ATONE FOR MY FAULT +AND PROVE MY DEVOTION TO HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR AND TO RUSSIA!” + +KUTúZOV TURNED AWAY. THE SAME SMILE OF THE EYES WITH WHICH HE HAD +TURNED FROM CAPTAIN TIMóKHIN AGAIN FLITTED OVER HIS FACE. HE TURNED +AWAY WITH A GRIMACE AS IF TO SAY THAT EVERYTHING DóLOKHOV HAD SAID TO +HIM AND EVERYTHING HE COULD SAY HAD LONG BEEN KNOWN TO HIM, THAT HE WAS +WEARY OF IT AND IT WAS NOT AT ALL WHAT HE WANTED. HE TURNED AWAY AND +WENT TO THE CARRIAGE. + +THE REGIMENT BROKE UP INTO COMPANIES, WHICH WENT TO THEIR APPOINTED +QUARTERS NEAR BRAUNAU, WHERE THEY HOPED TO RECEIVE BOOTS AND CLOTHES AND +TO REST AFTER THEIR HARD MARCHES. + +“YOU WON’T BEAR ME A GRUDGE, PROKHóR IGNáTYCH?” SAID THE +REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, OVERTAKING THE THIRD COMPANY ON ITS WAY TO ITS +QUARTERS AND RIDING UP TO CAPTAIN TIMóKHIN WHO WAS WALKING IN FRONT. +(THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER’S FACE NOW THAT THE INSPECTION WAS HAPPILY +OVER BEAMED WITH IRREPRESSIBLE DELIGHT.) “IT’S IN THE EMPEROR’S +SERVICE... IT CAN’T BE HELPED... ONE IS SOMETIMES A BIT HASTY ON +PARADE... I AM THE FIRST TO APOLOGIZE, YOU KNOW ME!... HE WAS VERY +PLEASED!” AND HE HELD OUT HIS HAND TO THE CAPTAIN. + +“DON’T MENTION IT, GENERAL, AS IF I’D BE SO BOLD!” REPLIED THE +CAPTAIN, HIS NOSE GROWING REDDER AS HE GAVE A SMILE WHICH SHOWED WHERE +TWO FRONT TEETH WERE MISSING THAT HAD BEEN KNOCKED OUT BY THE BUTT END +OF A GUN AT ISMAIL. + +“AND TELL MR. DóLOKHOV THAT I WON’T FORGET HIM—HE MAY BE QUITE +EASY. AND TELL ME, PLEASE—I’VE BEEN MEANING TO ASK—HOW IS HE +BEHAVING HIMSELF, AND IN GENERAL...” + +“AS FAR AS THE SERVICE GOES HE IS QUITE PUNCTILIOUS, YOUR EXCELLENCY; +BUT HIS CHARACTER...” SAID TIMóKHIN. + +“AND WHAT ABOUT HIS CHARACTER?” ASKED THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER. + +“IT’S DIFFERENT ON DIFFERENT DAYS,” ANSWERED THE CAPTAIN. “ONE +DAY HE IS SENSIBLE, WELL EDUCATED, AND GOOD-NATURED, AND THE NEXT HE’S +A WILD BEAST.... IN POLAND, IF YOU PLEASE, HE NEARLY KILLED A JEW.” + +“OH, WELL, WELL!” REMARKED THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER. “STILL, ONE +MUST HAVE PITY ON A YOUNG MAN IN MISFORTUNE. YOU KNOW HE HAS IMPORTANT +CONNECTIONS... WELL, THEN, YOU JUST...” + +“I WILL, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” SAID TIMóKHIN, SHOWING BY HIS SMILE THAT +HE UNDERSTOOD HIS COMMANDER’S WISH. + +“WELL, OF COURSE, OF COURSE!” + +THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER SOUGHT OUT DóLOKHOV IN THE RANKS AND, REINING +IN HIS HORSE, SAID TO HIM: + +“AFTER THE NEXT AFFAIR... EPAULETTES.” + +DóLOKHOV LOOKED ROUND BUT DID NOT SAY ANYTHING, NOR DID THE MOCKING +SMILE ON HIS LIPS CHANGE. + +“WELL, THAT’S ALL RIGHT,” CONTINUED THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER. “A +CUP OF VODKA FOR THE MEN FROM ME,” HE ADDED SO THAT THE SOLDIERS +COULD HEAR. “I THANK YOU ALL! GOD BE PRAISED!” AND HE RODE PAST THAT +COMPANY AND OVERTOOK THE NEXT ONE. + +“WELL, HE’S REALLY A GOOD FELLOW, ONE CAN SERVE UNDER HIM,” SAID +TIMóKHIN TO THE SUBALTERN BESIDE HIM. + +“IN A WORD, A HEARTY ONE...” SAID THE SUBALTERN, LAUGHING (THE +REGIMENTAL COMMANDER WAS NICKNAMED KING OF HEARTS). + +THE CHEERFUL MOOD OF THEIR OFFICERS AFTER THE INSPECTION INFECTED THE +SOLDIERS. THE COMPANY MARCHED ON GAILY. THE SOLDIERS’ VOICES COULD BE +HEARD ON EVERY SIDE. + +“AND THEY SAID KUTúZOV WAS BLIND OF ONE EYE?” + +“AND SO HE IS! QUITE BLIND!” + +“NO, FRIEND, HE IS SHARPER-EYED THAN YOU ARE. BOOTS AND LEG BANDS... +HE NOTICED EVERYTHING...” + +“WHEN HE LOOKED AT MY FEET, FRIEND... WELL, THINKS I...” + +“AND THAT OTHER ONE WITH HIM, THE AUSTRIAN, LOOKED AS IF HE WERE +SMEARED WITH CHALK—AS WHITE AS FLOUR! I SUPPOSE THEY POLISH HIM UP AS +THEY DO THE GUNS.” + +“I SAY, FéDESHON!... DID HE SAY WHEN THE BATTLES ARE TO BEGIN? YOU +WERE NEAR HIM. EVERYBODY SAID THAT BUONAPARTE HIMSELF WAS AT BRAUNAU.” + +“BUONAPARTE HIMSELF!... JUST LISTEN TO THE FOOL, WHAT HE DOESN’T +KNOW! THE PRUSSIANS ARE UP IN ARMS NOW. THE AUSTRIANS, YOU SEE, ARE +PUTTING THEM DOWN. WHEN THEY’VE BEEN PUT DOWN, THE WAR WITH BUONAPARTE +WILL BEGIN. AND HE SAYS BUONAPARTE IS IN BRAUNAU! SHOWS YOU’RE A FOOL. +YOU’D BETTER LISTEN MORE CAREFULLY!” + +“WHAT DEVILS THESE QUARTERMASTERS ARE! SEE, THE FIFTH COMPANY IS +TURNING INTO THE VILLAGE ALREADY... THEY WILL HAVE THEIR BUCKWHEAT +COOKED BEFORE WE REACH OUR QUARTERS.” + +“GIVE ME A BISCUIT, YOU DEVIL!” + +“AND DID YOU GIVE ME TOBACCO YESTERDAY? THAT’S JUST IT, FRIEND! AH, +WELL, NEVER MIND, HERE YOU ARE.” + +“THEY MIGHT CALL A HALT HERE OR WE’LL HAVE TO DO ANOTHER FOUR MILES +WITHOUT EATING.” + +“WASN’T IT FINE WHEN THOSE GERMANS GAVE US LIFTS! YOU JUST SIT STILL +AND ARE DRAWN ALONG.” + +“AND HERE, FRIEND, THE PEOPLE ARE QUITE BEGGARLY. THERE THEY ALL +SEEMED TO BE POLES—ALL UNDER THE RUSSIAN CROWN—BUT HERE THEY’RE +ALL REGULAR GERMANS.” + +“SINGERS TO THE FRONT” CAME THE CAPTAIN’S ORDER. + +AND FROM THE DIFFERENT RANKS SOME TWENTY MEN RAN TO THE FRONT. A +DRUMMER, THEIR LEADER, TURNED ROUND FACING THE SINGERS, AND FLOURISHING +HIS ARM, BEGAN A LONG-DRAWN-OUT SOLDIERS’ SONG, COMMENCING WITH THE +WORDS: “MORNING DAWNED, THE SUN WAS RISING,” AND CONCLUDING: “ON +THEN, BROTHERS, ON TO GLORY, LED BY FATHER KáMENSKI.” THIS SONG HAD +BEEN COMPOSED IN THE TURKISH CAMPAIGN AND NOW BEING SUNG IN AUSTRIA, THE +ONLY CHANGE BEING THAT THE WORDS “FATHER KáMENSKI” WERE REPLACED BY +“FATHER KUTúZOV.” + +HAVING JERKED OUT THESE LAST WORDS AS SOLDIERS DO AND WAVED HIS ARMS +AS IF FLINGING SOMETHING TO THE GROUND, THE DRUMMER—A LEAN, HANDSOME +SOLDIER OF FORTY—LOOKED STERNLY AT THE SINGERS AND SCREWED UP HIS +EYES. THEN HAVING SATISFIED HIMSELF THAT ALL EYES WERE FIXED ON HIM, +HE RAISED BOTH ARMS AS IF CAREFULLY LIFTING SOME INVISIBLE BUT PRECIOUS +OBJECT ABOVE HIS HEAD AND, HOLDING IT THERE FOR SOME SECONDS, SUDDENLY +FLUNG IT DOWN AND BEGAN: + +“OH, MY BOWER, OH, MY BOWER...!” + +“OH, MY BOWER NEW...!” CHIMED IN TWENTY VOICES, AND THE CASTANET +PLAYER, IN SPITE OF THE BURDEN OF HIS EQUIPMENT, RUSHED OUT TO THE FRONT +AND, WALKING BACKWARDS BEFORE THE COMPANY, JERKED HIS SHOULDERS AND +FLOURISHED HIS CASTANETS AS IF THREATENING SOMEONE. THE SOLDIERS, +SWINGING THEIR ARMS AND KEEPING TIME SPONTANEOUSLY, MARCHED WITH LONG +STEPS. BEHIND THE COMPANY THE SOUND OF WHEELS, THE CREAKING OF SPRINGS, +AND THE TRAMP OF HORSES’ HOOFS WERE HEARD. KUTúZOV AND HIS SUITE WERE +RETURNING TO THE TOWN. THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF MADE A SIGN THAT THE +MEN SHOULD CONTINUE TO MARCH AT EASE, AND HE AND ALL HIS SUITE SHOWED +PLEASURE AT THE SOUND OF THE SINGING AND THE SIGHT OF THE DANCING +SOLDIER AND THE GAY AND SMARTLY MARCHING MEN. IN THE SECOND FILE +FROM THE RIGHT FLANK, BESIDE WHICH THE CARRIAGE PASSED THE COMPANY, +A BLUE-EYED SOLDIER INVOLUNTARILY ATTRACTED NOTICE. IT WAS DóLOKHOV +MARCHING WITH PARTICULAR GRACE AND BOLDNESS IN TIME TO THE SONG AND +LOOKING AT THOSE DRIVING PAST AS IF HE PITIED ALL WHO WERE NOT AT THAT +MOMENT MARCHING WITH THE COMPANY. THE HUSSAR CORNET OF KUTúZOV’S +SUITE WHO HAD MIMICKED THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, FELL BACK FROM THE +CARRIAGE AND RODE UP TO DóLOKHOV. + +HUSSAR CORNET ZHERKóV HAD AT ONE TIME, IN PETERSBURG, BELONGED TO +THE WILD SET LED BY DóLOKHOV. ZHERKóV HAD MET DóLOKHOV ABROAD AS A +PRIVATE AND HAD NOT SEEN FIT TO RECOGNIZE HIM. BUT NOW THAT KUTúZOV HAD +SPOKEN TO THE GENTLEMAN RANKER, HE ADDRESSED HIM WITH THE CORDIALITY OF +AN OLD FRIEND. + +“MY DEAR FELLOW, HOW ARE YOU?” SAID HE THROUGH THE SINGING, MAKING +HIS HORSE KEEP PACE WITH THE COMPANY. + +“HOW AM I?” DóLOKHOV ANSWERED COLDLY. “I AM AS YOU SEE.” + +THE LIVELY SONG GAVE A SPECIAL FLAVOR TO THE TONE OF FREE AND EASY +GAIETY WITH WHICH ZHERKóV SPOKE, AND TO THE INTENTIONAL COLDNESS OF +DóLOKHOV’S REPLY. + +“AND HOW DO YOU GET ON WITH THE OFFICERS?” INQUIRED ZHERKóV. + +“ALL RIGHT. THEY ARE GOOD FELLOWS. AND HOW HAVE YOU WRIGGLED ONTO THE +STAFF?” + +“I WAS ATTACHED; I’M ON DUTY.” + +BOTH WERE SILENT. + +“SHE LET THE HAWK FLY UPWARD FROM HER WIDE RIGHT SLEEVE,” WENT THE +SONG, AROUSING AN INVOLUNTARY SENSATION OF COURAGE AND CHEERFULNESS. +THEIR CONVERSATION WOULD PROBABLY HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT BUT FOR THE EFFECT +OF THAT SONG. + +“IS IT TRUE THAT AUSTRIANS HAVE BEEN BEATEN?” ASKED DóLOKHOV. + +“THE DEVIL ONLY KNOWS! THEY SAY SO.” + +“I’M GLAD,” ANSWERED DóLOKHOV BRIEFLY AND CLEARLY, AS THE SONG +DEMANDED. + +“I SAY, COME ROUND SOME EVENING AND WE’LL HAVE A GAME OF FARO!” +SAID ZHERKóV. + +“WHY, HAVE YOU TOO MUCH MONEY?” + +“DO COME.” + +“I CAN’T. I’VE SWORN NOT TO. I WON’T DRINK AND WON’T PLAY TILL +I GET REINSTATED.” + +“WELL, THAT’S ONLY TILL THE FIRST ENGAGEMENT.” + +“WE SHALL SEE.” + +THEY WERE AGAIN SILENT. + +“COME IF YOU NEED ANYTHING. ONE CAN AT LEAST BE OF USE ON THE +STAFF...” + +DóLOKHOV SMILED. “DON’T TROUBLE. IF I WANT ANYTHING, I WON’T +BEG—I’LL TAKE IT!” + +“WELL, NEVER MIND; I ONLY...” + +“AND I ONLY...” + +“GOOD-BY.” + +“GOOD HEALTH...” + + “IT’S A LONG, LONG WAY. + TO MY NATIVE LAND...” + + +ZHERKóV TOUCHED HIS HORSE WITH THE SPURS; IT PRANCED EXCITEDLY FROM +FOOT TO FOOT UNCERTAIN WITH WHICH TO START, THEN SETTLED DOWN, GALLOPED +PAST THE COMPANY, AND OVERTOOK THE CARRIAGE, STILL KEEPING TIME TO THE +SONG. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +ON RETURNING FROM THE REVIEW, KUTúZOV TOOK THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL INTO +HIS PRIVATE ROOM AND, CALLING HIS ADJUTANT, ASKED FOR SOME PAPERS +RELATING TO THE CONDITION OF THE TROOPS ON THEIR ARRIVAL, AND THE +LETTERS THAT HAD COME FROM THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND, WHO WAS IN COMMAND OF +THE ADVANCED ARMY. PRINCE ANDREW BOLKóNSKI CAME INTO THE ROOM WITH THE +REQUIRED PAPERS. KUTúZOV AND THE AUSTRIAN MEMBER OF THE HOFKRIEGSRATH +WERE SITTING AT THE TABLE ON WHICH A PLAN WAS SPREAD OUT. + +“AH!...” SAID KUTúZOV GLANCING AT BOLKóNSKI AS IF BY THIS +EXCLAMATION HE WAS ASKING THE ADJUTANT TO WAIT, AND HE WENT ON WITH THE +CONVERSATION IN FRENCH. + +“ALL I CAN SAY, GENERAL,” SAID HE WITH A PLEASANT ELEGANCE +OF EXPRESSION AND INTONATION THAT OBLIGED ONE TO LISTEN TO EACH +DELIBERATELY SPOKEN WORD. IT WAS EVIDENT THAT KUTúZOV HIMSELF LISTENED +WITH PLEASURE TO HIS OWN VOICE. “ALL I CAN SAY, GENERAL, IS THAT IF +THE MATTER DEPENDED ON MY PERSONAL WISHES, THE WILL OF HIS MAJESTY THE +EMPEROR FRANCIS WOULD HAVE BEEN FULFILLED LONG AGO. I SHOULD LONG +AGO HAVE JOINED THE ARCHDUKE. AND BELIEVE ME ON MY HONOUR THAT TO ME +PERSONALLY IT WOULD BE A PLEASURE TO HAND OVER THE SUPREME COMMAND +OF THE ARMY INTO THE HANDS OF A BETTER INFORMED AND MORE SKILLFUL +GENERAL—OF WHOM AUSTRIA HAS SO MANY—AND TO LAY DOWN ALL THIS HEAVY +RESPONSIBILITY. BUT CIRCUMSTANCES ARE SOMETIMES TOO STRONG FOR US, +GENERAL.” + +AND KUTúZOV SMILED IN A WAY THAT SEEMED TO SAY, “YOU ARE QUITE AT +LIBERTY NOT TO BELIEVE ME AND I DON’T EVEN CARE WHETHER YOU DO OR +NOT, BUT YOU HAVE NO GROUNDS FOR TELLING ME SO. AND THAT IS THE WHOLE +POINT.” + +THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL LOOKED DISSATISFIED, BUT HAD NO OPTION BUT TO REPLY +IN THE SAME TONE. + +“ON THE CONTRARY,” HE SAID, IN A QUERULOUS AND ANGRY TONE THAT +CONTRASTED WITH HIS FLATTERING WORDS, “ON THE CONTRARY, YOUR +EXCELLENCY’S PARTICIPATION IN THE COMMON ACTION IS HIGHLY VALUED BY +HIS MAJESTY; BUT WE THINK THE PRESENT DELAY IS DEPRIVING THE SPLENDID +RUSSIAN TROOPS AND THEIR COMMANDER OF THE LAURELS THEY HAVE BEEN +ACCUSTOMED TO WIN IN THEIR BATTLES,” HE CONCLUDED HIS EVIDENTLY +PREARRANGED SENTENCE. + +KUTúZOV BOWED WITH THE SAME SMILE. + +“BUT THAT IS MY CONVICTION, AND JUDGING BY THE LAST LETTER WITH WHICH +HIS HIGHNESS THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND HAS HONORED ME, I IMAGINE THAT THE +AUSTRIAN TROOPS, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF SO SKILLFUL A LEADER AS GENERAL +MACK, HAVE BY NOW ALREADY GAINED A DECISIVE VICTORY AND NO LONGER NEED +OUR AID,” SAID KUTúZOV. + +THE GENERAL FROWNED. THOUGH THERE WAS NO DEFINITE NEWS OF AN AUSTRIAN +DEFEAT, THERE WERE MANY CIRCUMSTANCES CONFIRMING THE UNFAVORABLE RUMORS +THAT WERE AFLOAT, AND SO KUTúZOV’S SUGGESTION OF AN AUSTRIAN VICTORY +SOUNDED MUCH LIKE IRONY. BUT KUTúZOV WENT ON BLANDLY SMILING WITH THE +SAME EXPRESSION, WHICH SEEMED TO SAY THAT HE HAD A RIGHT TO SUPPOSE +SO. AND, IN FACT, THE LAST LETTER HE HAD RECEIVED FROM MACK’S ARMY +INFORMED HIM OF A VICTORY AND STATED STRATEGICALLY THE POSITION OF THE +ARMY WAS VERY FAVORABLE. + +“GIVE ME THAT LETTER,” SAID KUTúZOV TURNING TO PRINCE ANDREW. +“PLEASE HAVE A LOOK AT IT”—AND KUTúZOV WITH AN IRONICAL SMILE +ABOUT THE CORNERS OF HIS MOUTH READ TO THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL THE +FOLLOWING PASSAGE, IN GERMAN, FROM THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND’S LETTER: + +WE HAVE FULLY CONCENTRATED FORCES OF NEARLY SEVENTY THOUSAND MEN WITH +WHICH TO ATTACK AND DEFEAT THE ENEMY SHOULD HE CROSS THE LECH. ALSO, +AS WE ARE MASTERS OF ULM, WE CANNOT BE DEPRIVED OF THE ADVANTAGE OF +COMMANDING BOTH SIDES OF THE DANUBE, SO THAT SHOULD THE ENEMY NOT +CROSS THE LECH, WE CAN CROSS THE DANUBE, THROW OURSELVES ON HIS LINE +OF COMMUNICATIONS, RECROSS THE RIVER LOWER DOWN, AND FRUSTRATE HIS +INTENTION SHOULD HE TRY TO DIRECT HIS WHOLE FORCE AGAINST OUR FAITHFUL +ALLY. WE SHALL THEREFORE CONFIDENTLY AWAIT THE MOMENT WHEN THE IMPERIAL +RUSSIAN ARMY WILL BE FULLY EQUIPPED, AND SHALL THEN, IN CONJUNCTION WITH +IT, EASILY FIND A WAY TO PREPARE FOR THE ENEMY THE FATE HE DESERVES. + +KUTúZOV SIGHED DEEPLY ON FINISHING THIS PARAGRAPH AND LOOKED AT THE +MEMBER OF THE HOFKRIEGSRATH MILDLY AND ATTENTIVELY. + +“BUT YOU KNOW THE WISE MAXIM YOUR EXCELLENCY, ADVISING ONE TO EXPECT +THE WORST,” SAID THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL, EVIDENTLY WISHING TO HAVE DONE +WITH JESTS AND TO COME TO BUSINESS. HE INVOLUNTARILY LOOKED ROUND AT THE +AIDE-DE-CAMP. + +“EXCUSE ME, GENERAL,” INTERRUPTED KUTúZOV, ALSO TURNING TO PRINCE +ANDREW. “LOOK HERE, MY DEAR FELLOW, GET FROM KOZLóVSKI ALL THE +REPORTS FROM OUR SCOUTS. HERE ARE TWO LETTERS FROM COUNT NOSTITZ AND +HERE IS ONE FROM HIS HIGHNESS THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND AND HERE ARE +THESE,” HE SAID, HANDING HIM SEVERAL PAPERS, “MAKE A NEAT MEMORANDUM +IN FRENCH OUT OF ALL THIS, SHOWING ALL THE NEWS WE HAVE HAD OF THE +MOVEMENTS OF THE AUSTRIAN ARMY, AND THEN GIVE IT TO HIS EXCELLENCY.” + +PRINCE ANDREW BOWED HIS HEAD IN TOKEN OF HAVING UNDERSTOOD FROM THE +FIRST NOT ONLY WHAT HAD BEEN SAID BUT ALSO WHAT KUTúZOV WOULD HAVE +LIKED TO TELL HIM. HE GATHERED UP THE PAPERS AND WITH A BOW TO BOTH, +STEPPED SOFTLY OVER THE CARPET AND WENT OUT INTO THE WAITING ROOM. + +THOUGH NOT MUCH TIME HAD PASSED SINCE PRINCE ANDREW HAD LEFT RUSSIA, HE +HAD CHANGED GREATLY DURING THAT PERIOD. IN THE EXPRESSION OF HIS FACE, +IN HIS MOVEMENTS, IN HIS WALK, SCARCELY A TRACE WAS LEFT OF HIS FORMER +AFFECTED LANGUOR AND INDOLENCE. HE NOW LOOKED LIKE A MAN WHO HAS TIME +TO THINK OF THE IMPRESSION HE MAKES ON OTHERS, BUT IS OCCUPIED WITH +AGREEABLE AND INTERESTING WORK. HIS FACE EXPRESSED MORE SATISFACTION +WITH HIMSELF AND THOSE AROUND HIM, HIS SMILE AND GLANCE WERE BRIGHTER +AND MORE ATTRACTIVE. + +KUTúZOV, WHOM HE HAD OVERTAKEN IN POLAND, HAD RECEIVED HIM VERY KINDLY, +PROMISED NOT TO FORGET HIM, DISTINGUISHED HIM ABOVE THE OTHER ADJUTANTS, +AND HAD TAKEN HIM TO VIENNA AND GIVEN HIM THE MORE SERIOUS COMMISSIONS. +FROM VIENNA KUTúZOV WROTE TO HIS OLD COMRADE, PRINCE ANDREW’S FATHER. + +YOUR SON BIDS FAIR TO BECOME AN OFFICER DISTINGUISHED BY HIS INDUSTRY, +FIRMNESS, AND EXPEDITION. I CONSIDER MYSELF FORTUNATE TO HAVE SUCH A +SUBORDINATE BY ME. + +ON KUTúZOV’S STAFF, AMONG HIS FELLOW OFFICERS AND IN THE ARMY +GENERALLY, PRINCE ANDREW HAD, AS HE HAD HAD IN PETERSBURG SOCIETY, TWO +QUITE OPPOSITE REPUTATIONS. SOME, A MINORITY, ACKNOWLEDGED HIM TO BE +DIFFERENT FROM THEMSELVES AND FROM EVERYONE ELSE, EXPECTED GREAT THINGS +OF HIM, LISTENED TO HIM, ADMIRED, AND IMITATED HIM, AND WITH THEM PRINCE +ANDREW WAS NATURAL AND PLEASANT. OTHERS, THE MAJORITY, DISLIKED HIM AND +CONSIDERED HIM CONCEITED, COLD, AND DISAGREEABLE. BUT AMONG THESE PEOPLE +PRINCE ANDREW KNEW HOW TO TAKE HIS STAND SO THAT THEY RESPECTED AND EVEN +FEARED HIM. + +COMING OUT OF KUTúZOV’S ROOM INTO THE WAITING ROOM WITH THE PAPERS IN +HIS HAND PRINCE ANDREW CAME UP TO HIS COMRADE, THE AIDE-DE-CAMP ON DUTY, +KOZLóVSKI, WHO WAS SITTING AT THE WINDOW WITH A BOOK. + +“WELL, PRINCE?” ASKED KOZLóVSKI. + +“I AM ORDERED TO WRITE A MEMORANDUM EXPLAINING WHY WE ARE NOT +ADVANCING.” + +“AND WHY IS IT?” + +PRINCE ANDREW SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS. + +“ANY NEWS FROM MACK?” + +“NO.” + +“IF IT WERE TRUE THAT HE HAS BEEN BEATEN, NEWS WOULD HAVE COME.” + +“PROBABLY,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW MOVING TOWARD THE OUTER DOOR. + +BUT AT THAT INSTANT A TALL AUSTRIAN GENERAL IN A GREATCOAT, WITH THE +ORDER OF MARIA THERESA ON HIS NECK AND A BLACK BANDAGE ROUND HIS HEAD, +WHO HAD EVIDENTLY JUST ARRIVED, ENTERED QUICKLY, SLAMMING THE DOOR. +PRINCE ANDREW STOPPED SHORT. + +“COMMANDER IN CHIEF KUTúZOV?” SAID THE NEWLY ARRIVED GENERAL +SPEAKING QUICKLY WITH A HARSH GERMAN ACCENT, LOOKING TO BOTH SIDES AND +ADVANCING STRAIGHT TOWARD THE INNER DOOR. + +“THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF IS ENGAGED,” SAID KOZLóVSKI, GOING +HURRIEDLY UP TO THE UNKNOWN GENERAL AND BLOCKING HIS WAY TO THE DOOR. +“WHOM SHALL I ANNOUNCE?” + +THE UNKNOWN GENERAL LOOKED DISDAINFULLY DOWN AT KOZLóVSKI, WHO WAS +RATHER SHORT, AS IF SURPRISED THAT ANYONE SHOULD NOT KNOW HIM. + +“THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF IS ENGAGED,” REPEATED KOZLóVSKI CALMLY. + +THE GENERAL’S FACE CLOUDED, HIS LIPS QUIVERED AND TREMBLED. HE TOOK +OUT A NOTEBOOK, HURRIEDLY SCRIBBLED SOMETHING IN PENCIL, TORE OUT THE +LEAF, GAVE IT TO KOZLóVSKI, STEPPED QUICKLY TO THE WINDOW, AND THREW +HIMSELF INTO A CHAIR, GAZING AT THOSE IN THE ROOM AS IF ASKING, “WHY +DO THEY LOOK AT ME?” THEN HE LIFTED HIS HEAD, STRETCHED HIS NECK AS +IF HE INTENDED TO SAY SOMETHING, BUT IMMEDIATELY, WITH AFFECTED +INDIFFERENCE, BEGAN TO HUM TO HIMSELF, PRODUCING A QUEER SOUND WHICH +IMMEDIATELY BROKE OFF. THE DOOR OF THE PRIVATE ROOM OPENED AND KUTúZOV +APPEARED IN THE DOORWAY. THE GENERAL WITH THE BANDAGED HEAD BENT FORWARD +AS THOUGH RUNNING AWAY FROM SOME DANGER, AND, MAKING LONG, QUICK STRIDES +WITH HIS THIN LEGS, WENT UP TO KUTúZOV. + +“VOUS VOYEZ LE MALHEUREUX MACK,” HE UTTERED IN A BROKEN VOICE. + +KUTúZOV’S FACE AS HE STOOD IN THE OPEN DOORWAY REMAINED PERFECTLY +IMMOBILE FOR A FEW MOMENTS. THEN WRINKLES RAN OVER HIS FACE LIKE A WAVE +AND HIS FOREHEAD BECAME SMOOTH AGAIN, HE BOWED HIS HEAD RESPECTFULLY, +CLOSED HIS EYES, SILENTLY LET MACK ENTER HIS ROOM BEFORE HIM, AND CLOSED +THE DOOR HIMSELF BEHIND HIM. + +THE REPORT WHICH HAD BEEN CIRCULATED THAT THE AUSTRIANS HAD BEEN BEATEN +AND THAT THE WHOLE ARMY HAD SURRENDERED AT ULM PROVED TO BE CORRECT. +WITHIN HALF AN HOUR ADJUTANTS HAD BEEN SENT IN VARIOUS DIRECTIONS WITH +ORDERS WHICH SHOWED THAT THE RUSSIAN TROOPS, WHO HAD HITHERTO BEEN +INACTIVE, WOULD ALSO SOON HAVE TO MEET THE ENEMY. + +PRINCE ANDREW WAS ONE OF THOSE RARE STAFF OFFICERS WHOSE CHIEF INTEREST +LAY IN THE GENERAL PROGRESS OF THE WAR. WHEN HE SAW MACK AND HEARD THE +DETAILS OF HIS DISASTER HE UNDERSTOOD THAT HALF THE CAMPAIGN WAS LOST, +UNDERSTOOD ALL THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY’S POSITION, AND +VIVIDLY IMAGINED WHAT AWAITED IT AND THE PART HE WOULD HAVE TO +PLAY. INVOLUNTARILY HE FELT A JOYFUL AGITATION AT THE THOUGHT OF THE +HUMILIATION OF ARROGANT AUSTRIA AND THAT IN A WEEK’S TIME HE MIGHT, +PERHAPS, SEE AND TAKE PART IN THE FIRST RUSSIAN ENCOUNTER WITH THE +FRENCH SINCE SUVóROV MET THEM. HE FEARED THAT BONAPARTE’S GENIUS +MIGHT OUTWEIGH ALL THE COURAGE OF THE RUSSIAN TROOPS, AND AT THE SAME +TIME COULD NOT ADMIT THE IDEA OF HIS HERO BEING DISGRACED. + +EXCITED AND IRRITATED BY THESE THOUGHTS PRINCE ANDREW WENT TOWARD HIS +ROOM TO WRITE TO HIS FATHER, TO WHOM HE WROTE EVERY DAY. IN THE CORRIDOR +HE MET NESVíTSKI, WITH WHOM HE SHARED A ROOM, AND THE WAG ZHERKóV; +THEY WERE AS USUAL LAUGHING. + +“WHY ARE YOU SO GLUM?” ASKED NESVíTSKI NOTICING PRINCE ANDREW’S +PALE FACE AND GLITTERING EYES. + +“THERE’S NOTHING TO BE GAY ABOUT,” ANSWERED BOLKóNSKI. + +JUST AS PRINCE ANDREW MET NESVíTSKI AND ZHERKóV, THERE CAME TOWARD +THEM FROM THE OTHER END OF THE CORRIDOR, STRAUCH, AN AUSTRIAN GENERAL +WHO ON KUTúZOV’S STAFF IN CHARGE OF THE PROVISIONING OF THE RUSSIAN +ARMY, AND THE MEMBER OF THE HOFKRIEGSRATH WHO HAD ARRIVED THE PREVIOUS +EVENING. THERE WAS ROOM ENOUGH IN THE WIDE CORRIDOR FOR THE GENERALS TO +PASS THE THREE OFFICERS QUITE EASILY, BUT ZHERKóV, PUSHING NESVíTSKI +ASIDE WITH HIS ARM, SAID IN A BREATHLESS VOICE, + +“THEY’RE COMING!... THEY’RE COMING!... STAND ASIDE, MAKE WAY, +PLEASE MAKE WAY!” + +THE GENERALS WERE PASSING BY, LOOKING AS IF THEY WISHED TO AVOID +EMBARRASSING ATTENTIONS. ON THE FACE OF THE WAG ZHERKóV THERE SUDDENLY +APPEARED A STUPID SMILE OF GLEE WHICH HE SEEMED UNABLE TO SUPPRESS. + +“YOUR EXCELLENCY,” SAID HE IN GERMAN, STEPPING FORWARD AND +ADDRESSING THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL, “I HAVE THE HONOR TO CONGRATULATE +YOU.” + +HE BOWED HIS HEAD AND SCRAPED FIRST WITH ONE FOOT AND THEN WITH THE +OTHER, AWKWARDLY, LIKE A CHILD AT A DANCING LESSON. + +THE MEMBER OF THE HOFKRIEGSRATH LOOKED AT HIM SEVERELY BUT, SEEING THE +SERIOUSNESS OF HIS STUPID SMILE, COULD NOT BUT GIVE HIM A MOMENT’S +ATTENTION. HE SCREWED UP HIS EYES SHOWING THAT HE WAS LISTENING. + +“I HAVE THE HONOR TO CONGRATULATE YOU. GENERAL MACK HAS ARRIVED, QUITE +WELL, ONLY A LITTLE BRUISED JUST HERE,” HE ADDED, POINTING WITH A +BEAMING SMILE TO HIS HEAD. + +THE GENERAL FROWNED, TURNED AWAY, AND WENT ON. + +“GOTT, WIE NAIV!” * SAID HE ANGRILY, AFTER HE HAD GONE A FEW STEPS. + + * “GOOD GOD, WHAT SIMPLICITY!” + + +NESVíTSKI WITH A LAUGH THREW HIS ARMS ROUND PRINCE ANDREW, BUT +BOLKóNSKI, TURNING STILL PALER, PUSHED HIM AWAY WITH AN ANGRY LOOK AND +TURNED TO ZHERKóV. THE NERVOUS IRRITATION AROUSED BY THE APPEARANCE +OF MACK, THE NEWS OF HIS DEFEAT, AND THE THOUGHT OF WHAT LAY BEFORE THE +RUSSIAN ARMY FOUND VENT IN ANGER AT ZHERKóV’S UNTIMELY JEST. + +“IF YOU, SIR, CHOOSE TO MAKE A BUFFOON OF YOURSELF,” HE SAID +SHARPLY, WITH A SLIGHT TREMBLING OF THE LOWER JAW, “I CAN’T PREVENT +YOUR DOING SO; BUT I WARN YOU THAT IF YOU DARE TO PLAY THE FOOL IN MY +PRESENCE, I WILL TEACH YOU TO BEHAVE YOURSELF.” + +NESVíTSKI AND ZHERKóV WERE SO SURPRISED BY THIS OUTBURST THAT THEY +GAZED AT BOLKóNSKI SILENTLY WITH WIDE-OPEN EYES. + +“WHAT’S THE MATTER? I ONLY CONGRATULATED THEM,” SAID ZHERKóV. + +“I AM NOT JESTING WITH YOU; PLEASE BE SILENT!” CRIED BOLKóNSKI, +AND TAKING NESVíTSKI’S ARM HE LEFT ZHERKóV, WHO DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO +SAY. + +“COME, WHAT’S THE MATTER, OLD FELLOW?” SAID NESVíTSKI TRYING TO +SOOTHE HIM. + +“WHAT’S THE MATTER?” EXCLAIMED PRINCE ANDREW STANDING STILL IN +HIS EXCITEMENT. “DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT EITHER WE ARE OFFICERS +SERVING OUR TSAR AND OUR COUNTRY, REJOICING IN THE SUCCESSES AND +GRIEVING AT THE MISFORTUNES OF OUR COMMON CAUSE, OR WE ARE MERELY +LACKEYS WHO CARE NOTHING FOR THEIR MASTER’S BUSINESS. QUARANTE MILLE +HOMMES MASSACRéS ET L’ARMéE DE NOS ALLIéS DéTRUITE, ET VOUS +TROUVEZ Là LE MOT POUR RIRE,” * HE SAID, AS IF STRENGTHENING HIS +VIEWS BY THIS FRENCH SENTENCE. “C’EST BIEN POUR UN GARçON DE RIEN +COMME CET INDIVIDU DONT VOUS AVEZ FAIT UN AMI, MAIS PAS POUR VOUS, PAS +POUR VOUS. *(2) ONLY A HOBBLEDEHOY COULD AMUSE HIMSELF IN THIS +WAY,” HE ADDED IN RUSSIAN—BUT PRONOUNCING THE WORD WITH A FRENCH +ACCENT—HAVING NOTICED THAT ZHERKóV COULD STILL HEAR HIM. + + * “FORTY THOUSAND MEN MASSACRED AND THE ARMY OF OUR ALLIES + DESTROYED, AND YOU FIND THAT A CAUSE FOR JESTING!” + + * (2) “IT IS ALL VERY WELL FOR THAT GOOD-FOR-NOTHING FELLOW + OF WHOM YOU HAVE MADE A FRIEND, BUT NOT FOR YOU, NOT FOR + YOU.” + + +HE WAITED A MOMENT TO SEE WHETHER THE CORNET WOULD ANSWER, BUT HE TURNED +AND WENT OUT OF THE CORRIDOR. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +THE PáVLOGRAD HUSSARS WERE STATIONED TWO MILES FROM BRAUNAU. THE +SQUADRON IN WHICH NICHOLAS ROSTóV SERVED AS A CADET WAS QUARTERED IN +THE GERMAN VILLAGE OF SALZENECK. THE BEST QUARTERS IN THE VILLAGE WERE +ASSIGNED TO CAVALRY-CAPTAIN DENíSOV, THE SQUADRON COMMANDER, KNOWN +THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE CAVALRY DIVISION AS VáSKA DENíSOV. CADET ROSTóV, +EVER SINCE HE HAD OVERTAKEN THE REGIMENT IN POLAND, HAD LIVED WITH THE +SQUADRON COMMANDER. + +ON OCTOBER 11, THE DAY WHEN ALL WAS ASTIR AT HEADQUARTERS OVER THE NEWS +OF MACK’S DEFEAT, THE CAMP LIFE OF THE OFFICERS OF THIS SQUADRON WAS +PROCEEDING AS USUAL. DENíSOV, WHO HAD BEEN LOSING AT CARDS ALL NIGHT, +HAD NOT YET COME HOME WHEN ROSTóV RODE BACK EARLY IN THE MORNING FROM +A FORAGING EXPEDITION. ROSTóV IN HIS CADET UNIFORM, WITH A JERK TO HIS +HORSE, RODE UP TO THE PORCH, SWUNG HIS LEG OVER THE SADDLE WITH A SUPPLE +YOUTHFUL MOVEMENT, STOOD FOR A MOMENT IN THE STIRRUP AS IF LOATHE TO +PART FROM HIS HORSE, AND AT LAST SPRANG DOWN AND CALLED TO HIS ORDERLY. + +“AH, BONDARéNKO, DEAR FRIEND!” SAID HE TO THE HUSSAR WHO RUSHED UP +HEADLONG TO THE HORSE. “WALK HIM UP AND DOWN, MY DEAR FELLOW,” HE +CONTINUED, WITH THAT GAY BROTHERLY CORDIALITY WHICH GOODHEARTED YOUNG +PEOPLE SHOW TO EVERYONE WHEN THEY ARE HAPPY. + +“YES, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” ANSWERED THE UKRAINIAN GAILY, TOSSING HIS +HEAD. + +“MIND, WALK HIM UP AND DOWN WELL!” + +ANOTHER HUSSAR ALSO RUSHED TOWARD THE HORSE, BUT BONDARéNKO HAD ALREADY +THROWN THE REINS OF THE SNAFFLE BRIDLE OVER THE HORSE’S HEAD. IT WAS +EVIDENT THAT THE CADET WAS LIBERAL WITH HIS TIPS AND THAT IT PAID TO +SERVE HIM. ROSTóV PATTED THE HORSE’S NECK AND THEN HIS FLANK, AND +LINGERED FOR A MOMENT. + +“SPLENDID! WHAT A HORSE HE WILL BE!” HE THOUGHT WITH A SMILE, AND +HOLDING UP HIS SABER, HIS SPURS JINGLING, HE RAN UP THE STEPS OF THE +PORCH. HIS LANDLORD, WHO IN A WAISTCOAT AND A POINTED CAP, PITCHFORK IN +HAND, WAS CLEARING MANURE FROM THE COWHOUSE, LOOKED OUT, AND HIS FACE +IMMEDIATELY BRIGHTENED ON SEEING ROSTóV. “SCHöN GUT MORGEN! SCHöN +GUT MORGEN!” * HE SAID WINKING WITH A MERRY SMILE, EVIDENTLY PLEASED +TO GREET THE YOUNG MAN. + + * “A VERY GOOD MORNING! A VERY GOOD MORNING!” + + +“SCHON FLEISSIG?” * SAID ROSTóV WITH THE SAME GAY BROTHERLY SMILE +WHICH DID NOT LEAVE HIS EAGER FACE. “HOCH OESTREICHER! HOCH RUSSEN! +KAISER ALEXANDER HOCH!” *(2) SAID HE, QUOTING WORDS OFTEN REPEATED BY +THE GERMAN LANDLORD. + + * “BUSY ALREADY?” + + * (2) “HURRAH FOR THE AUSTRIANS! HURRAH FOR THE RUSSIANS! + HURRAH FOR EMPEROR ALEXANDER!” + + +THE GERMAN LAUGHED, CAME OUT OF THE COWSHED, PULLED OFF HIS CAP, AND +WAVING IT ABOVE HIS HEAD CRIED: + +“UND DIE GANZE WELT HOCH!” * + + * “AND HURRAH FOR THE WHOLE WORLD!” + + +ROSTóV WAVED HIS CAP ABOVE HIS HEAD LIKE THE GERMAN AND CRIED LAUGHING, +“UND VIVAT DIE GANZE WELT!” THOUGH NEITHER THE GERMAN CLEANING HIS +COWSHED NOR ROSTóV BACK WITH HIS PLATOON FROM FORAGING FOR HAY HAD ANY +REASON FOR REJOICING, THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER WITH JOYFUL DELIGHT AND +BROTHERLY LOVE, WAGGED THEIR HEADS IN TOKEN OF THEIR MUTUAL AFFECTION, +AND PARTED SMILING, THE GERMAN RETURNING TO HIS COWSHED AND ROSTóV +GOING TO THE COTTAGE HE OCCUPIED WITH DENíSOV. + +“WHAT ABOUT YOUR MASTER?” HE ASKED LAVRúSHKA, DENíSOV’S ORDERLY, +WHOM ALL THE REGIMENT KNEW FOR A ROGUE. + +“HASN’T BEEN IN SINCE THE EVENING. MUST HAVE BEEN LOSING,” +ANSWERED LAVRúSHKA. “I KNOW BY NOW, IF HE WINS HE COMES BACK EARLY TO +BRAG ABOUT IT, BUT IF HE STAYS OUT TILL MORNING IT MEANS HE’S LOST AND +WILL COME BACK IN A RAGE. WILL YOU HAVE COFFEE?” + +“YES, BRING SOME.” + +TEN MINUTES LATER LAVRúSHKA BROUGHT THE COFFEE. “HE’S COMING!” +SAID HE. “NOW FOR TROUBLE!” ROSTóV LOOKED OUT OF THE WINDOW AND +SAW DENíSOV COMING HOME. DENíSOV WAS A SMALL MAN WITH A RED FACE, +SPARKLING BLACK EYES, AND BLACK TOUSLED MUSTACHE AND HAIR. HE WORE AN +UNFASTENED CLOAK, WIDE BREECHES HANGING DOWN IN CREASES, AND A CRUMPLED +SHAKO ON THE BACK OF HIS HEAD. HE CAME UP TO THE PORCH GLOOMILY, HANGING +HIS HEAD. + +“LAVWúSKA!” HE SHOUTED LOUDLY AND ANGRILY, “TAKE IT OFF, +BLOCKHEAD!” + +“WELL, I AM TAKING IT OFF,” REPLIED LAVRúSHKA’S VOICE. + +“AH, YOU’RE UP ALREADY,” SAID DENíSOV, ENTERING THE ROOM. + +“LONG AGO,” ANSWERED ROSTóV, “I HAVE ALREADY BEEN FOR THE HAY, +AND HAVE SEEN FRäULEIN MATHILDE.” + +“WEALLY! AND I’VE BEEN LOSING, BWOTHER. I LOST YESTERDAY LIKE A +DAMNED FOOL!” CRIED DENíSOV, NOT PRONOUNCING HIS R’S. “SUCH ILL +LUCK! SUCH ILL LUCK. AS SOON AS YOU LEFT, IT BEGAN AND WENT ON. HULLO +THERE! TEA!” + +PUCKERING UP HIS FACE THOUGH SMILING, AND SHOWING HIS SHORT STRONG +TEETH, HE BEGAN WITH STUBBY FINGERS OF BOTH HANDS TO RUFFLE UP HIS THICK +TANGLED BLACK HAIR. + +“AND WHAT DEVIL MADE ME GO TO THAT WAT?” (AN OFFICER NICKNAMED +“THE RAT”) HE SAID, RUBBING HIS FOREHEAD AND WHOLE FACE WITH BOTH +HANDS. “JUST FANCY, HE DIDN’T LET ME WIN A SINGLE CAHD, NOT ONE +CAHD.” + +HE TOOK THE LIGHTED PIPE THAT WAS OFFERED TO HIM, GRIPPED IT IN HIS +FIST, AND TAPPED IT ON THE FLOOR, MAKING THE SPARKS FLY, WHILE HE +CONTINUED TO SHOUT. + +“HE LETS ONE WIN THE SINGLES AND COLLAHS IT AS SOON AS ONE DOUBLES IT; +GIVES THE SINGLES AND SNATCHES THE DOUBLES!” + +HE SCATTERED THE BURNING TOBACCO, SMASHED THE PIPE, AND THREW IT AWAY. +THEN HE REMAINED SILENT FOR A WHILE, AND ALL AT ONCE LOOKED CHEERFULLY +WITH HIS GLITTERING, BLACK EYES AT ROSTóV. + +“IF AT LEAST WE HAD SOME WOMEN HERE; BUT THERE’S NOTHING FOH ONE +TO DO BUT DWINK. IF WE COULD ONLY GET TO FIGHTING SOON. HULLO, WHO’S +THERE?” HE SAID, TURNING TO THE DOOR AS HE HEARD A TREAD OF HEAVY +BOOTS AND THE CLINKING OF SPURS THAT CAME TO A STOP, AND A RESPECTFUL +COUGH. + +“THE SQUADRON QUARTERMASTER!” SAID LAVRúSHKA. + +DENíSOV’S FACE PUCKERED STILL MORE. + +“WETCHED!” HE MUTTERED, THROWING DOWN A PURSE WITH SOME GOLD IN IT. +“WOSTóV, DEAH FELLOW, JUST SEE HOW MUCH THERE IS LEFT AND SHOVE THE +PURSE UNDAH THE PILLOW,” HE SAID, AND WENT OUT TO THE QUARTERMASTER. + +ROSTóV TOOK THE MONEY AND, MECHANICALLY ARRANGING THE OLD AND NEW COINS +IN SEPARATE PILES, BEGAN COUNTING THEM. + +“AH! TELYáNIN! HOW D’YE DO? THEY PLUCKED ME LAST NIGHT,” CAME +DENíSOV’S VOICE FROM THE NEXT ROOM. + +“WHERE? AT BYKOV’S, AT THE RAT’S... I KNEW IT,” REPLIED A PIPING +VOICE, AND LIEUTENANT TELYáNIN, A SMALL OFFICER OF THE SAME SQUADRON, +ENTERED THE ROOM. + +ROSTóV THRUST THE PURSE UNDER THE PILLOW AND SHOOK THE DAMP LITTLE HAND +WHICH WAS OFFERED HIM. TELYáNIN FOR SOME REASON HAD BEEN TRANSFERRED +FROM THE GUARDS JUST BEFORE THIS CAMPAIGN. HE BEHAVED VERY WELL IN THE +REGIMENT BUT WAS NOT LIKED; ROSTóV ESPECIALLY DETESTED HIM AND WAS +UNABLE TO OVERCOME OR CONCEAL HIS GROUNDLESS ANTIPATHY TO THE MAN. + +“WELL, YOUNG CAVALRYMAN, HOW IS MY ROOK BEHAVING?” HE ASKED. (ROOK +WAS A YOUNG HORSE TELYáNIN HAD SOLD TO ROSTóV.) + +THE LIEUTENANT NEVER LOOKED THE MAN HE WAS SPEAKING TO STRAIGHT IN THE +FACE; HIS EYES CONTINUALLY WANDERED FROM ONE OBJECT TO ANOTHER. + +“I SAW YOU RIDING THIS MORNING...” HE ADDED. + +“OH, HE’S ALL RIGHT, A GOOD HORSE,” ANSWERED ROSTóV, THOUGH THE +HORSE FOR WHICH HE HAD PAID SEVEN HUNDRED RUBBLES WAS NOT WORTH HALF +THAT SUM. “HE’S BEGUN TO GO A LITTLE LAME ON THE LEFT FORELEG,” HE +ADDED. + +“THE HOOF’S CRACKED! THAT’S NOTHING. I’LL TEACH YOU WHAT TO DO +AND SHOW YOU WHAT KIND OF RIVET TO USE.” + +“YES, PLEASE DO,” SAID ROSTóV. + +“I’LL SHOW YOU, I’LL SHOW YOU! IT’S NOT A SECRET. AND IT’S A +HORSE YOU’LL THANK ME FOR.” + +“THEN I’LL HAVE IT BROUGHT ROUND,” SAID ROSTóV WISHING TO AVOID +TELYáNIN, AND HE WENT OUT TO GIVE THE ORDER. + +IN THE PASSAGE DENíSOV, WITH A PIPE, WAS SQUATTING ON THE THRESHOLD +FACING THE QUARTERMASTER WHO WAS REPORTING TO HIM. ON SEEING ROSTóV, +DENíSOV SCREWED UP HIS FACE AND POINTING OVER HIS SHOULDER WITH HIS +THUMB TO THE ROOM WHERE TELYáNIN WAS SITTING, HE FROWNED AND GAVE A +SHUDDER OF DISGUST. + +“UGH! I DON’T LIKE THAT FELLOW,” HE SAID, REGARDLESS OF THE +QUARTERMASTER’S PRESENCE. + +ROSTóV SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS AS MUCH AS TO SAY: “NOR DO I, BUT +WHAT’S ONE TO DO?” AND, HAVING GIVEN HIS ORDER, HE RETURNED TO +TELYáNIN. + +TELYáNIN WAS SITTING IN THE SAME INDOLENT POSE IN WHICH ROSTóV HAD +LEFT HIM, RUBBING HIS SMALL WHITE HANDS. + +“WELL THERE CERTAINLY ARE DISGUSTING PEOPLE,” THOUGHT ROSTóV AS HE +ENTERED. + +“HAVE YOU TOLD THEM TO BRING THE HORSE?” ASKED TELYáNIN, GETTING UP +AND LOOKING CARELESSLY ABOUT HIM. + +“I HAVE.” + +“LET US GO OURSELVES. I ONLY CAME ROUND TO ASK DENíSOV ABOUT +YESTERDAY’S ORDER. HAVE YOU GOT IT, DENíSOV?” + +“NOT YET. BUT WHERE ARE YOU OFF TO?” + +“I WANT TO TEACH THIS YOUNG MAN HOW TO SHOE A HORSE,” SAID +TELYáNIN. + +THEY WENT THROUGH THE PORCH AND INTO THE STABLE. THE LIEUTENANT +EXPLAINED HOW TO RIVET THE HOOF AND WENT AWAY TO HIS OWN QUARTERS. + +WHEN ROSTóV WENT BACK THERE WAS A BOTTLE OF VODKA AND A SAUSAGE ON THE +TABLE. DENíSOV WAS SITTING THERE SCRATCHING WITH HIS PEN ON A SHEET OF +PAPER. HE LOOKED GLOOMILY IN ROSTóV’S FACE AND SAID: “I AM WITING +TO HER.” + +HE LEANED HIS ELBOWS ON THE TABLE WITH HIS PEN IN HIS HAND AND, +EVIDENTLY GLAD OF A CHANCE TO SAY QUICKER IN WORDS WHAT HE WANTED TO +WRITE, TOLD ROSTóV THE CONTENTS OF HIS LETTER. + +“YOU SEE, MY FWIEND,” HE SAID, “WE SLEEP WHEN WE DON’T LOVE. WE +ARE CHILDWEN OF THE DUST... BUT ONE FALLS IN LOVE AND ONE IS A GOD, ONE +IS PUA’ AS ON THE FIHST DAY OF CWEATION... WHO’S THAT NOW? SEND HIM +TO THE DEVIL, I’M BUSY!” HE SHOUTED TO LAVRúSHKA, WHO WENT UP TO +HIM NOT IN THE LEAST ABASHED. + +“WHO SHOULD IT BE? YOU YOURSELF TOLD HIM TO COME. IT’S THE +QUARTERMASTER FOR THE MONEY.” + +DENíSOV FROWNED AND WAS ABOUT TO SHOUT SOME REPLY BUT STOPPED. + +“WETCHED BUSINESS,” HE MUTTERED TO HIMSELF. “HOW MUCH IS LEFT IN +THE PUHSE?” HE ASKED, TURNING TO ROSTóV. + +“SEVEN NEW AND THREE OLD IMPERIALS.” + +“OH, IT’S WETCHED! WELL, WHAT ARE YOU STANDING THERE FOR, YOU +SCA’CWOW? CALL THE QUAHTEHMASTEH,” HE SHOUTED TO LAVRúSHKA. + +“PLEASE, DENíSOV, LET ME LEND YOU SOME: I HAVE SOME, YOU KNOW,” +SAID ROSTóV, BLUSHING. + +“DON’T LIKE BOWWOWING FROM MY OWN FELLOWS, I DON’T,” GROWLED +DENíSOV. + +“BUT IF YOU WON’T ACCEPT MONEY FROM ME LIKE A COMRADE, YOU WILL +OFFEND ME. REALLY I HAVE SOME,” ROSTóV REPEATED. + +“NO, I TELL YOU.” + +AND DENíSOV WENT TO THE BED TO GET THE PURSE FROM UNDER THE PILLOW. + +“WHERE HAVE YOU PUT IT, WOSTóV?” + +“UNDER THE LOWER PILLOW.” + +“IT’S NOT THERE.” + +DENíSOV THREW BOTH PILLOWS ON THE FLOOR. THE PURSE WAS NOT THERE. + +“THAT’S A MIWACLE.” + +“WAIT, HAVEN’T YOU DROPPED IT?” SAID ROSTóV, PICKING UP THE +PILLOWS ONE AT A TIME AND SHAKING THEM. + +HE PULLED OFF THE QUILT AND SHOOK IT. THE PURSE WAS NOT THERE. + +“DEAR ME, CAN I HAVE FORGOTTEN? NO, I REMEMBER THINKING THAT YOU KEPT +IT UNDER YOUR HEAD LIKE A TREASURE,” SAID ROSTóV. “I PUT IT JUST +HERE. WHERE IS IT?” HE ASKED, TURNING TO LAVRúSHKA. + +“I HAVEN’T BEEN IN THE ROOM. IT MUST BE WHERE YOU PUT IT.” + +“BUT IT ISN’T?...” + +“YOU’RE ALWAYS LIKE THAT; YOU THWOW A THING DOWN ANYWHERE AND FORGET +IT. FEEL IN YOUR POCKETS.” + +“NO, IF I HADN’T THOUGHT OF IT BEING A TREASURE,” SAID ROSTóV, +“BUT I REMEMBER PUTTING IT THERE.” + +LAVRúSHKA TURNED ALL THE BEDDING OVER, LOOKED UNDER THE BED AND UNDER +THE TABLE, SEARCHED EVERYWHERE, AND STOOD STILL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE +ROOM. DENíSOV SILENTLY WATCHED LAVRúSHKA’S MOVEMENTS, AND WHEN THE +LATTER THREW UP HIS ARMS IN SURPRISE SAYING IT WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND +DENíSOV GLANCED AT ROSTóV. + +“WOSTóV, YOU’VE NOT BEEN PLAYING SCHOOLBOY TWICKS...” + +ROSTóV FELT DENíSOV’S GAZE FIXED ON HIM, RAISED HIS EYES, AND +INSTANTLY DROPPED THEM AGAIN. ALL THE BLOOD WHICH HAD SEEMED CONGESTED +SOMEWHERE BELOW HIS THROAT RUSHED TO HIS FACE AND EYES. HE COULD NOT +DRAW BREATH. + +“AND THERE HASN’T BEEN ANYONE IN THE ROOM EXCEPT THE LIEUTENANT AND +YOURSELVES. IT MUST BE HERE SOMEWHERE,” SAID LAVRúSHKA. + +“NOW THEN, YOU DEVIL’S PUPPET, LOOK ALIVE AND HUNT FOR IT!” +SHOUTED DENíSOV, SUDDENLY, TURNING PURPLE AND RUSHING AT THE MAN WITH +A THREATENING GESTURE. “IF THE PURSE ISN’T FOUND I’LL FLOG YOU, +I’LL FLOG YOU ALL.” + +ROSTóV, HIS EYES AVOIDING DENíSOV, BEGAN BUTTONING HIS COAT, BUCKLED +ON HIS SABER, AND PUT ON HIS CAP. + +“I MUST HAVE THAT PURSE, I TELL YOU,” SHOUTED DENíSOV, SHAKING HIS +ORDERLY BY THE SHOULDERS AND KNOCKING HIM AGAINST THE WALL. + +“DENíSOV, LET HIM ALONE, I KNOW WHO HAS TAKEN IT,” SAID ROSTóV, +GOING TOWARD THE DOOR WITHOUT RAISING HIS EYES. DENíSOV PAUSED, THOUGHT +A MOMENT, AND, EVIDENTLY UNDERSTANDING WHAT ROSTóV HINTED AT, SEIZED +HIS ARM. + +“NONSENSE!” HE CRIED, AND THE VEINS ON HIS FOREHEAD AND NECK STOOD +OUT LIKE CORDS. “YOU ARE MAD, I TELL YOU. I WON’T ALLOW IT. +THE PURSE IS HERE! I’LL FLAY THIS SCOUNDWEL ALIVE, AND IT WILL BE +FOUND.” + +“I KNOW WHO HAS TAKEN IT,” REPEATED ROSTóV IN AN UNSTEADY VOICE, +AND WENT TO THE DOOR. + +“AND I TELL YOU, DON’T YOU DAHE TO DO IT!” SHOUTED DENíSOV, +RUSHING AT THE CADET TO RESTRAIN HIM. + +BUT ROSTóV PULLED AWAY HIS ARM AND, WITH AS MUCH ANGER AS THOUGH +DENíSOV WERE HIS WORST ENEMY, FIRMLY FIXED HIS EYES DIRECTLY ON HIS +FACE. + +“DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU’RE SAYING?” HE SAID IN A TREMBLING +VOICE. “THERE WAS NO ONE ELSE IN THE ROOM EXCEPT MYSELF. SO THAT IF IT +IS NOT SO, THEN...” + +HE COULD NOT FINISH, AND RAN OUT OF THE ROOM. + +“AH, MAY THE DEVIL TAKE YOU AND EVEWYBODY,” WERE THE LAST WORDS +ROSTóV HEARD. + +ROSTóV WENT TO TELYáNIN’S QUARTERS. + +“THE MASTER IS NOT IN, HE’S GONE TO HEADQUARTERS,” SAID +TELYáNIN’S ORDERLY. “HAS SOMETHING HAPPENED?” HE ADDED, SURPRISED +AT THE CADET’S TROUBLED FACE. + +“NO, NOTHING.” + +“YOU’VE ONLY JUST MISSED HIM,” SAID THE ORDERLY. + +THE HEADQUARTERS WERE SITUATED TWO MILES AWAY FROM SALZENECK, AND +ROSTóV, WITHOUT RETURNING HOME, TOOK A HORSE AND RODE THERE. THERE WAS +AN INN IN THE VILLAGE WHICH THE OFFICERS FREQUENTED. ROSTóV RODE UP TO +IT AND SAW TELYáNIN’S HORSE AT THE PORCH. + +IN THE SECOND ROOM OF THE INN THE LIEUTENANT WAS SITTING OVER A DISH OF +SAUSAGES AND A BOTTLE OF WINE. + +“AH, YOU’VE COME HERE TOO, YOUNG MAN!” HE SAID, SMILING AND +RAISING HIS EYEBROWS. + +“YES,” SAID ROSTóV AS IF IT COST HIM A GREAT DEAL TO UTTER THE +WORD; AND HE SAT DOWN AT THE NEAREST TABLE. + +BOTH WERE SILENT. THERE WERE TWO GERMANS AND A RUSSIAN OFFICER IN THE +ROOM. NO ONE SPOKE AND THE ONLY SOUNDS HEARD WERE THE CLATTER OF KNIVES +AND THE MUNCHING OF THE LIEUTENANT. + +WHEN TELYáNIN HAD FINISHED HIS LUNCH HE TOOK OUT OF HIS POCKET A DOUBLE +PURSE AND, DRAWING ITS RINGS ASIDE WITH HIS SMALL, WHITE, TURNED-UP +FINGERS, DREW OUT A GOLD IMPERIAL, AND LIFTING HIS EYEBROWS GAVE IT TO +THE WAITER. + +“PLEASE BE QUICK,” HE SAID. + +THE COIN WAS A NEW ONE. ROSTóV ROSE AND WENT UP TO TELYáNIN. + +“ALLOW ME TO LOOK AT YOUR PURSE,” HE SAID IN A LOW, ALMOST +INAUDIBLE, VOICE. + +WITH SHIFTING EYES BUT EYEBROWS STILL RAISED, TELYáNIN HANDED HIM THE +PURSE. + +“YES, IT’S A NICE PURSE. YES, YES,” HE SAID, GROWING SUDDENLY +PALE, AND ADDED, “LOOK AT IT, YOUNG MAN.” + +ROSTóV TOOK THE PURSE IN HIS HAND, EXAMINED IT AND THE MONEY IN IT, AND +LOOKED AT TELYáNIN. THE LIEUTENANT WAS LOOKING ABOUT IN HIS USUAL WAY +AND SUDDENLY SEEMED TO GROW VERY MERRY. + +“IF WE GET TO VIENNA I’LL GET RID OF IT THERE BUT IN THESE WRETCHED +LITTLE TOWNS THERE’S NOWHERE TO SPEND IT,” SAID HE. “WELL, LET ME +HAVE IT, YOUNG MAN, I’M GOING.” + +ROSTóV DID NOT SPEAK. + +“AND YOU? ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE LUNCH TOO? THEY FEED YOU QUITE +DECENTLY HERE,” CONTINUED TELYáNIN. “NOW THEN, LET ME HAVE IT.” + +HE STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND TO TAKE HOLD OF THE PURSE. ROSTóV LET GO OF +IT. TELYáNIN TOOK THE PURSE AND BEGAN CARELESSLY SLIPPING IT INTO THE +POCKET OF HIS RIDING BREECHES, WITH HIS EYEBROWS LIFTED AND HIS MOUTH +SLIGHTLY OPEN, AS IF TO SAY, “YES, YES, I AM PUTTING MY PURSE IN MY +POCKET AND THAT’S QUITE SIMPLE AND IS NO ONE ELSE’S BUSINESS.” + +“WELL, YOUNG MAN?” HE SAID WITH A SIGH, AND FROM UNDER HIS LIFTED +BROWS HE GLANCED INTO ROSTóV’S EYES. + +SOME FLASH AS OF AN ELECTRIC SPARK SHOT FROM TELYáNIN’S EYES TO +ROSTóV’S AND BACK, AND BACK AGAIN AND AGAIN IN AN INSTANT. + +“COME HERE,” SAID ROSTóV, CATCHING HOLD OF TELYáNIN’S ARM AND +ALMOST DRAGGING HIM TO THE WINDOW. “THAT MONEY IS DENíSOV’S; YOU +TOOK IT...” HE WHISPERED JUST ABOVE TELYáNIN’S EAR. + +“WHAT? WHAT? HOW DARE YOU? WHAT?” SAID TELYáNIN. + +BUT THESE WORDS CAME LIKE A PITEOUS, DESPAIRING CRY AND AN ENTREATY FOR +PARDON. AS SOON AS ROSTóV HEARD THEM, AN ENORMOUS LOAD OF DOUBT +FELL FROM HIM. HE WAS GLAD, AND AT THE SAME INSTANT BEGAN TO PITY THE +MISERABLE MAN WHO STOOD BEFORE HIM, BUT THE TASK HE HAD BEGUN HAD TO BE +COMPLETED. + +“HEAVEN ONLY KNOWS WHAT THE PEOPLE HERE MAY IMAGINE,” MUTTERED +TELYáNIN, TAKING UP HIS CAP AND MOVING TOWARD A SMALL EMPTY ROOM. “WE +MUST HAVE AN EXPLANATION...” + +“I KNOW IT AND SHALL PROVE IT,” SAID ROSTóV. + +“I...” + +EVERY MUSCLE OF TELYáNIN’S PALE, TERRIFIED FACE BEGAN TO QUIVER, HIS +EYES STILL SHIFTED FROM SIDE TO SIDE BUT WITH A DOWNWARD LOOK NOT RISING +TO ROSTóV’S FACE, AND HIS SOBS WERE AUDIBLE. + +“COUNT!... DON’T RUIN A YOUNG FELLOW... HERE IS THIS WRETCHED MONEY, +TAKE IT...” HE THREW IT ON THE TABLE. “I HAVE AN OLD FATHER AND +MOTHER!...” + +ROSTóV TOOK THE MONEY, AVOIDING TELYáNIN’S EYES, AND WENT OUT OF THE +ROOM WITHOUT A WORD. BUT AT THE DOOR HE STOPPED AND THEN RETRACED HIS +STEPS. “O GOD,” HE SAID WITH TEARS IN HIS EYES, “HOW COULD YOU DO +IT?” + +“COUNT...” SAID TELYáNIN DRAWING NEARER TO HIM. + +“DON’T TOUCH ME,” SAID ROSTóV, DRAWING BACK. “IF YOU NEED IT, +TAKE THE MONEY,” AND HE THREW THE PURSE TO HIM AND RAN OUT OF THE INN. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +THAT SAME EVENING THERE WAS AN ANIMATED DISCUSSION AMONG THE +SQUADRON’S OFFICERS IN DENíSOV’S QUARTERS. + +“AND I TELL YOU, ROSTóV, THAT YOU MUST APOLOGIZE TO THE COLONEL!” +SAID A TALL, GRIZZLY-HAIRED STAFF CAPTAIN, WITH ENORMOUS MUSTACHES AND +MANY WRINKLES ON HIS LARGE FEATURES, TO ROSTóV WHO WAS CRIMSON WITH +EXCITEMENT. + +THE STAFF CAPTAIN, KíRSTEN, HAD TWICE BEEN REDUCED TO THE RANKS FOR +AFFAIRS OF HONOR AND HAD TWICE REGAINED HIS COMMISSION. + +“I WILL ALLOW NO ONE TO CALL ME A LIAR!” CRIED ROSTóV. “HE TOLD +ME I LIED, AND I TOLD HIM HE LIED. AND THERE IT RESTS. HE MAY KEEP ME +ON DUTY EVERY DAY, OR MAY PLACE ME UNDER ARREST, BUT NO ONE CAN MAKE +ME APOLOGIZE, BECAUSE IF HE, AS COMMANDER OF THIS REGIMENT, THINKS IT +BENEATH HIS DIGNITY TO GIVE ME SATISFACTION, THEN...” + +“YOU JUST WAIT A MOMENT, MY DEAR FELLOW, AND LISTEN,” INTERRUPTED +THE STAFF CAPTAIN IN HIS DEEP BASS, CALMLY STROKING HIS LONG MUSTACHE. +“YOU TELL THE COLONEL IN THE PRESENCE OF OTHER OFFICERS THAT AN +OFFICER HAS STOLEN...” + +“I’M NOT TO BLAME THAT THE CONVERSATION BEGAN IN THE PRESENCE OF +OTHER OFFICERS. PERHAPS I OUGHT NOT TO HAVE SPOKEN BEFORE THEM, BUT I AM +NOT A DIPLOMATIST. THAT’S WHY I JOINED THE HUSSARS, THINKING THAT HERE +ONE WOULD NOT NEED FINESSE; AND HE TELLS ME THAT I AM LYING—SO LET HIM +GIVE ME SATISFACTION...” + +“THAT’S ALL RIGHT. NO ONE THINKS YOU A COWARD, BUT THAT’S NOT THE +POINT. ASK DENíSOV WHETHER IT IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION FOR A CADET TO +DEMAND SATISFACTION OF HIS REGIMENTAL COMMANDER?” + +DENíSOV SAT GLOOMILY BITING HIS MUSTACHE AND LISTENING TO THE +CONVERSATION, EVIDENTLY WITH NO WISH TO TAKE PART IN IT. HE ANSWERED THE +STAFF CAPTAIN’S QUESTION BY A DISAPPROVING SHAKE OF HIS HEAD. + +“YOU SPEAK TO THE COLONEL ABOUT THIS NASTY BUSINESS BEFORE OTHER +OFFICERS,” CONTINUED THE STAFF CAPTAIN, “AND BOGDáNICH” (THE +COLONEL WAS CALLED BOGDáNICH) “SHUTS YOU UP.” + +“HE DID NOT SHUT ME UP, HE SAID I WAS TELLING AN UNTRUTH.” + +“WELL, HAVE IT SO, AND YOU TALKED A LOT OF NONSENSE TO HIM AND MUST +APOLOGIZE.” + +“NOT ON ANY ACCOUNT!” EXCLAIMED ROSTóV. + +“I DID NOT EXPECT THIS OF YOU,” SAID THE STAFF CAPTAIN SERIOUSLY AND +SEVERELY. “YOU DON’T WISH TO APOLOGIZE, BUT, MAN, IT’S NOT ONLY TO +HIM BUT TO THE WHOLE REGIMENT—ALL OF US—YOU’RE TO BLAME ALL ROUND. +THE CASE IS THIS: YOU OUGHT TO HAVE THOUGHT THE MATTER OVER AND +TAKEN ADVICE; BUT NO, YOU GO AND BLURT IT ALL STRAIGHT OUT BEFORE THE +OFFICERS. NOW WHAT WAS THE COLONEL TO DO? HAVE THE OFFICER TRIED AND +DISGRACE THE WHOLE REGIMENT? DISGRACE THE WHOLE REGIMENT BECAUSE OF ONE +SCOUNDREL? IS THAT HOW YOU LOOK AT IT? WE DON’T SEE IT LIKE THAT. AND +BOGDáNICH WAS A BRICK: HE TOLD YOU YOU WERE SAYING WHAT WAS NOT TRUE. +IT’S NOT PLEASANT, BUT WHAT’S TO BE DONE, MY DEAR FELLOW? YOU LANDED +YOURSELF IN IT. AND NOW, WHEN ONE WANTS TO SMOOTH THE THING OVER, SOME +CONCEIT PREVENTS YOUR APOLOGIZING, AND YOU WISH TO MAKE THE WHOLE +AFFAIR PUBLIC. YOU ARE OFFENDED AT BEING PUT ON DUTY A BIT, BUT WHY NOT +APOLOGIZE TO AN OLD AND HONORABLE OFFICER? WHATEVER BOGDáNICH MAY +BE, ANYWAY HE IS AN HONORABLE AND BRAVE OLD COLONEL! YOU’RE QUICK AT +TAKING OFFENSE, BUT YOU DON’T MIND DISGRACING THE WHOLE REGIMENT!” +THE STAFF CAPTAIN’S VOICE BEGAN TO TREMBLE. “YOU HAVE BEEN IN THE +REGIMENT NEXT TO NO TIME, MY LAD, YOU’RE HERE TODAY AND TOMORROW +YOU’LL BE APPOINTED ADJUTANT SOMEWHERE AND CAN SNAP YOUR FINGERS WHEN +IT IS SAID ‘THERE ARE THIEVES AMONG THE PáVLOGRAD OFFICERS!’ BUT +IT’S NOT ALL THE SAME TO US! AM I NOT RIGHT, DENíSOV? IT’S NOT THE +SAME!” + +DENíSOV REMAINED SILENT AND DID NOT MOVE, BUT OCCASIONALLY LOOKED WITH +HIS GLITTERING BLACK EYES AT ROSTóV. + +“YOU VALUE YOUR OWN PRIDE AND DON’T WISH TO APOLOGIZE,” CONTINUED +THE STAFF CAPTAIN, “BUT WE OLD FELLOWS, WHO HAVE GROWN UP IN AND, GOD +WILLING, ARE GOING TO DIE IN THE REGIMENT, WE PRIZE THE HONOR OF THE +REGIMENT, AND BOGDáNICH KNOWS IT. OH, WE DO PRIZE IT, OLD FELLOW! AND +ALL THIS IS NOT RIGHT, IT’S NOT RIGHT! YOU MAY TAKE OFFENSE OR NOT BUT +I ALWAYS STICK TO MOTHER TRUTH. IT’S NOT RIGHT!” + +AND THE STAFF CAPTAIN ROSE AND TURNED AWAY FROM ROSTóV. + +“THAT’S TWUE, DEVIL TAKE IT!” SHOUTED DENíSOV, JUMPING UP. “NOW +THEN, WOSTóV, NOW THEN!” + +ROSTóV, GROWING RED AND PALE ALTERNATELY, LOOKED FIRST AT ONE OFFICER +AND THEN AT THE OTHER. + +“NO, GENTLEMEN, NO... YOU MUSTN’T THINK... I QUITE UNDERSTAND. +YOU’RE WRONG TO THINK THAT OF ME... I... FOR ME... FOR THE HONOR OF +THE REGIMENT I’D... AH WELL, I’LL SHOW THAT IN ACTION, AND FOR ME +THE HONOR OF THE FLAG... WELL, NEVER MIND, IT’S TRUE I’M TO BLAME, +TO BLAME ALL ROUND. WELL, WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT?...” + +“COME, THAT’S RIGHT, COUNT!” CRIED THE STAFF CAPTAIN, TURNING +ROUND AND CLAPPING ROSTóV ON THE SHOULDER WITH HIS BIG HAND. + +“I TELL YOU,” SHOUTED DENíSOV, “HE’S A FINE FELLOW.” + +“THAT’S BETTER, COUNT,” SAID THE STAFF CAPTAIN, BEGINNING TO +ADDRESS ROSTóV BY HIS TITLE, AS IF IN RECOGNITION OF HIS CONFESSION. +“GO AND APOLOGIZE, YOUR EXCELLENCY. YES, GO!” + +“GENTLEMEN, I’LL DO ANYTHING. NO ONE SHALL HEAR A WORD FROM ME,” +SAID ROSTóV IN AN IMPLORING VOICE, “BUT I CAN’T APOLOGIZE, BY GOD I +CAN’T, DO WHAT YOU WILL! HOW CAN I GO AND APOLOGIZE LIKE A LITTLE BOY +ASKING FORGIVENESS?” + +DENíSOV BEGAN TO LAUGH. + +“IT’LL BE WORSE FOR YOU. BOGDáNICH IS VINDICTIVE AND YOU’LL PAY +FOR YOUR OBSTINACY,” SAID KíRSTEN. + +“NO, ON MY WORD IT’S NOT OBSTINACY! I CAN’T DESCRIBE THE FEELING. +I CAN’T...” + +“WELL, IT’S AS YOU LIKE,” SAID THE STAFF CAPTAIN. “AND WHAT HAS +BECOME OF THAT SCOUNDREL?” HE ASKED DENíSOV. + +“HE HAS WEPORTED HIMSELF SICK, HE’S TO BE STWUCK OFF THE LIST +TOMOWWOW,” MUTTERED DENíSOV. + +“IT IS AN ILLNESS, THERE’S NO OTHER WAY OF EXPLAINING IT,” SAID +THE STAFF CAPTAIN. + +“ILLNESS OR NOT, HE’D BETTER NOT CWOSS MY PATH. I’D KILL HIM!” +SHOUTED DENíSOV IN A BLOODTHIRSTY TONE. + +JUST THEN ZHERKóV ENTERED THE ROOM. + +“WHAT BRINGS YOU HERE?” CRIED THE OFFICERS TURNING TO THE NEWCOMER. + +“WE’RE TO GO INTO ACTION, GENTLEMEN! MACK HAS SURRENDERED WITH HIS +WHOLE ARMY.” + +“IT’S NOT TRUE!” + +“I’VE SEEN HIM MYSELF!” + +“WHAT? SAW THE REAL MACK? WITH HANDS AND FEET?” + +“INTO ACTION! INTO ACTION! BRING HIM A BOTTLE FOR SUCH NEWS! BUT HOW +DID YOU COME HERE?” + +“I’VE BEEN SENT BACK TO THE REGIMENT ALL ON ACCOUNT OF THAT DEVIL, +MACK. AN AUSTRIAN GENERAL COMPLAINED OF ME. I CONGRATULATED HIM ON +MACK’S ARRIVAL... WHAT’S THE MATTER, ROSTóV? YOU LOOK AS IF YOU’D +JUST COME OUT OF A HOT BATH.” + +“OH, MY DEAR FELLOW, WE’RE IN SUCH A STEW HERE THESE LAST TWO +DAYS.” + +THE REGIMENTAL ADJUTANT CAME IN AND CONFIRMED THE NEWS BROUGHT BY +ZHERKóV. THEY WERE UNDER ORDERS TO ADVANCE NEXT DAY. + +“WE’RE GOING INTO ACTION, GENTLEMEN!” + +“WELL, THANK GOD! WE’VE BEEN SITTING HERE TOO LONG!” + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +KUTúZOV FELL BACK TOWARD VIENNA, DESTROYING BEHIND HIM THE BRIDGES OVER +THE RIVERS INN (AT BRAUNAU) AND TRAUN (NEAR LINZ). ON OCTOBER 23 THE +RUSSIAN TROOPS WERE CROSSING THE RIVER ENNS. AT MIDDAY THE RUSSIAN +BAGGAGE TRAIN, THE ARTILLERY, AND COLUMNS OF TROOPS WERE DEFILING +THROUGH THE TOWN OF ENNS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BRIDGE. + +IT WAS A WARM, RAINY, AUTUMNAL DAY. THE WIDE EXPANSE THAT OPENED OUT +BEFORE THE HEIGHTS ON WHICH THE RUSSIAN BATTERIES STOOD GUARDING THE +BRIDGE WAS AT TIMES VEILED BY A DIAPHANOUS CURTAIN OF SLANTING RAIN, AND +THEN, SUDDENLY SPREAD OUT IN THE SUNLIGHT, FAR-DISTANT OBJECTS COULD +BE CLEARLY SEEN GLITTERING AS THOUGH FRESHLY VARNISHED. DOWN BELOW, +THE LITTLE TOWN COULD BE SEEN WITH ITS WHITE, RED-ROOFED HOUSES, ITS +CATHEDRAL, AND ITS BRIDGE, ON BOTH SIDES OF WHICH STREAMED JOSTLING +MASSES OF RUSSIAN TROOPS. AT THE BEND OF THE DANUBE, VESSELS, AN ISLAND, +AND A CASTLE WITH A PARK SURROUNDED BY THE WATERS OF THE CONFLUENCE OF +THE ENNS AND THE DANUBE BECAME VISIBLE, AND THE ROCKY LEFT BANK OF THE +DANUBE COVERED WITH PINE FORESTS, WITH A MYSTIC BACKGROUND OF GREEN +TREETOPS AND BLUISH GORGES. THE TURRETS OF A CONVENT STOOD OUT BEYOND A +WILD VIRGIN PINE FOREST, AND FAR AWAY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ENNS THE +ENEMY’S HORSE PATROLS COULD BE DISCERNED. + +AMONG THE FIELD GUNS ON THE BROW OF THE HILL THE GENERAL IN COMMAND OF +THE REARGUARD STOOD WITH A STAFF OFFICER, SCANNING THE COUNTRY THROUGH +HIS FIELDGLASS. A LITTLE BEHIND THEM NESVíTSKI, WHO HAD BEEN SENT TO +THE REARGUARD BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, WAS SITTING ON THE TRAIL OF A +GUN CARRIAGE. A COSSACK WHO ACCOMPANIED HIM HAD HANDED HIM A KNAPSACK +AND A FLASK, AND NESVíTSKI WAS TREATING SOME OFFICERS TO PIES AND REAL +DOPPELKüMMEL. THE OFFICERS GLADLY GATHERED ROUND HIM, SOME ON THEIR +KNEES, SOME SQUATTING TURKISH FASHION ON THE WET GRASS. + +“YES, THE AUSTRIAN PRINCE WHO BUILT THAT CASTLE WAS NO FOOL. IT’S +A FINE PLACE! WHY ARE YOU NOT EATING ANYTHING, GENTLEMEN?” NESVíTSKI +WAS SAYING. + +“THANK YOU VERY MUCH, PRINCE,” ANSWERED ONE OF THE OFFICERS, PLEASED +TO BE TALKING TO A STAFF OFFICER OF SUCH IMPORTANCE. “IT’S A LOVELY +PLACE! WE PASSED CLOSE TO THE PARK AND SAW TWO DEER... AND WHAT A +SPLENDID HOUSE!” + +“LOOK, PRINCE,” SAID ANOTHER, WHO WOULD HAVE DEARLY LIKED TO TAKE +ANOTHER PIE BUT FELT SHY, AND THEREFORE PRETENDED TO BE EXAMINING THE +COUNTRYSIDE—“SEE, OUR INFANTRYMEN HAVE ALREADY GOT THERE. LOOK THERE +IN THE MEADOW BEHIND THE VILLAGE, THREE OF THEM ARE DRAGGING SOMETHING. +THEY’LL RANSACK THAT CASTLE,” HE REMARKED WITH EVIDENT APPROVAL. + +“SO THEY WILL,” SAID NESVíTSKI. “NO, BUT WHAT I SHOULD LIKE,” +ADDED HE, MUNCHING A PIE IN HIS MOIST-LIPPED HANDSOME MOUTH, “WOULD BE +TO SLIP IN OVER THERE.” + +HE POINTED WITH A SMILE TO A TURRETED NUNNERY, AND HIS EYES NARROWED AND +GLEAMED. + +“THAT WOULD BE FINE, GENTLEMEN!” + +THE OFFICERS LAUGHED. + +“JUST TO FLUTTER THE NUNS A BIT. THEY SAY THERE ARE ITALIAN GIRLS +AMONG THEM. ON MY WORD I’D GIVE FIVE YEARS OF MY LIFE FOR IT!” + +“THEY MUST BE FEELING DULL, TOO,” SAID ONE OF THE BOLDER OFFICERS, +LAUGHING. + +MEANWHILE THE STAFF OFFICER STANDING IN FRONT POINTED OUT SOMETHING TO +THE GENERAL, WHO LOOKED THROUGH HIS FIELD GLASS. + +“YES, SO IT IS, SO IT IS,” SAID THE GENERAL ANGRILY, LOWERING THE +FIELD GLASS AND SHRUGGING HIS SHOULDERS, “SO IT IS! THEY’LL BE FIRED +ON AT THE CROSSING. AND WHY ARE THEY DAWDLING THERE?” + +ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE THE ENEMY COULD BE SEEN BY THE NAKED EYE, AND FROM +THEIR BATTERY A MILK-WHITE CLOUD AROSE. THEN CAME THE DISTANT REPORT OF +A SHOT, AND OUR TROOPS COULD BE SEEN HURRYING TO THE CROSSING. + +NESVíTSKI ROSE, PUFFING, AND WENT UP TO THE GENERAL, SMILING. + +“WOULD NOT YOUR EXCELLENCY LIKE A LITTLE REFRESHMENT?” HE SAID. + +“IT’S A BAD BUSINESS,” SAID THE GENERAL WITHOUT ANSWERING HIM, +“OUR MEN HAVE BEEN WASTING TIME.” + +“HADN’T I BETTER RIDE OVER, YOUR EXCELLENCY?” ASKED NESVíTSKI. + +“YES, PLEASE DO,” ANSWERED THE GENERAL, AND HE REPEATED THE ORDER +THAT HAD ALREADY ONCE BEEN GIVEN IN DETAIL: “AND TELL THE HUSSARS +THAT THEY ARE TO CROSS LAST AND TO FIRE THE BRIDGE AS I ORDERED; AND THE +INFLAMMABLE MATERIAL ON THE BRIDGE MUST BE REINSPECTED.” + +“VERY GOOD,” ANSWERED NESVíTSKI. + +HE CALLED THE COSSACK WITH HIS HORSE, TOLD HIM TO PUT AWAY THE KNAPSACK +AND FLASK, AND SWUNG HIS HEAVY PERSON EASILY INTO THE SADDLE. + +“I’LL REALLY CALL IN ON THE NUNS,” HE SAID TO THE OFFICERS WHO +WATCHED HIM SMILINGLY, AND HE RODE OFF BY THE WINDING PATH DOWN THE +HILL. + +“NOW THEN, LET’S SEE HOW FAR IT WILL CARRY, CAPTAIN. JUST TRY!” +SAID THE GENERAL, TURNING TO AN ARTILLERY OFFICER. “HAVE A LITTLE FUN +TO PASS THE TIME.” + +“CREW, TO YOUR GUNS!” COMMANDED THE OFFICER. + +IN A MOMENT THE MEN CAME RUNNING GAILY FROM THEIR CAMPFIRES AND BEGAN +LOADING. + +“ONE!” CAME THE COMMAND. + +NUMBER ONE JUMPED BRISKLY ASIDE. THE GUN RANG OUT WITH A DEAFENING +METALLIC ROAR, AND A WHISTLING GRENADE FLEW ABOVE THE HEADS OF OUR +TROOPS BELOW THE HILL AND FELL FAR SHORT OF THE ENEMY, A LITTLE SMOKE +SHOWING THE SPOT WHERE IT BURST. + +THE FACES OF OFFICERS AND MEN BRIGHTENED UP AT THE SOUND. EVERYONE GOT +UP AND BEGAN WATCHING THE MOVEMENTS OF OUR TROOPS BELOW, AS PLAINLY +VISIBLE AS IF BUT A STONE’S THROW AWAY, AND THE MOVEMENTS OF THE +APPROACHING ENEMY FARTHER OFF. AT THE SAME INSTANT THE SUN CAME FULLY +OUT FROM BEHIND THE CLOUDS, AND THE CLEAR SOUND OF THE SOLITARY SHOT +AND THE BRILLIANCE OF THE BRIGHT SUNSHINE MERGED IN A SINGLE JOYOUS AND +SPIRITED IMPRESSION. + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +TWO OF THE ENEMY’S SHOTS HAD ALREADY FLOWN ACROSS THE BRIDGE, WHERE +THERE WAS A CRUSH. HALFWAY ACROSS STOOD PRINCE NESVíTSKI, WHO HAD +ALIGHTED FROM HIS HORSE AND WHOSE BIG BODY WAS JAMMED AGAINST THE +RAILINGS. HE LOOKED BACK LAUGHING TO THE COSSACK WHO STOOD A FEW +STEPS BEHIND HIM HOLDING TWO HORSES BY THEIR BRIDLES. EACH TIME PRINCE +NESVíTSKI TRIED TO MOVE ON, SOLDIERS AND CARTS PUSHED HIM BACK AGAIN +AND PRESSED HIM AGAINST THE RAILINGS, AND ALL HE COULD DO WAS TO SMILE. + +“WHAT A FINE FELLOW YOU ARE, FRIEND!” SAID THE COSSACK TO A CONVOY +SOLDIER WITH A WAGON, WHO WAS PRESSING ONTO THE INFANTRYMEN WHO WERE +CROWDED TOGETHER CLOSE TO HIS WHEELS AND HIS HORSES. “WHAT A FELLOW! +YOU CAN’T WAIT A MOMENT! DON’T YOU SEE THE GENERAL WANTS TO PASS?” + +BUT THE CONVOYMAN TOOK NO NOTICE OF THE WORD “GENERAL” AND SHOUTED +AT THE SOLDIERS WHO WERE BLOCKING HIS WAY. “HI THERE, BOYS! KEEP TO +THE LEFT! WAIT A BIT.” BUT THE SOLDIERS, CROWDED TOGETHER SHOULDER TO +SHOULDER, THEIR BAYONETS INTERLOCKING, MOVED OVER THE BRIDGE IN A DENSE +MASS. LOOKING DOWN OVER THE RAILS PRINCE NESVíTSKI SAW THE RAPID, NOISY +LITTLE WAVES OF THE ENNS, WHICH RIPPLING AND EDDYING ROUND THE PILES OF +THE BRIDGE CHASED EACH OTHER ALONG. LOOKING ON THE BRIDGE HE SAW EQUALLY +UNIFORM LIVING WAVES OF SOLDIERS, SHOULDER STRAPS, COVERED SHAKOS, +KNAPSACKS, BAYONETS, LONG MUSKETS, AND, UNDER THE SHAKOS, FACES WITH +BROAD CHEEKBONES, SUNKEN CHEEKS, AND LISTLESS TIRED EXPRESSIONS, AND +FEET THAT MOVED THROUGH THE STICKY MUD THAT COVERED THE PLANKS OF THE +BRIDGE. SOMETIMES THROUGH THE MONOTONOUS WAVES OF MEN, LIKE A FLECK OF +WHITE FOAM ON THE WAVES OF THE ENNS, AN OFFICER, IN A CLOAK AND WITH +A TYPE OF FACE DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF THE MEN, SQUEEZED HIS WAY ALONG; +SOMETIMES LIKE A CHIP OF WOOD WHIRLING IN THE RIVER, AN HUSSAR ON FOOT, +AN ORDERLY, OR A TOWNSMAN WAS CARRIED THROUGH THE WAVES OF INFANTRY; +AND SOMETIMES LIKE A LOG FLOATING DOWN THE RIVER, AN OFFICERS’ OR +COMPANY’S BAGGAGE WAGON, PILED HIGH, LEATHER COVERED, AND HEMMED IN ON +ALL SIDES, MOVED ACROSS THE BRIDGE. + +“IT’S AS IF A DAM HAD BURST,” SAID THE COSSACK HOPELESSLY. “ARE +THERE MANY MORE OF YOU TO COME?” + +“A MILLION ALL BUT ONE!” REPLIED A WAGGISH SOLDIER IN A TORN COAT, +WITH A WINK, AND PASSED ON FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER, AN OLD MAN. + +“IF HE” (HE MEANT THE ENEMY) “BEGINS POPPING AT THE BRIDGE NOW,” +SAID THE OLD SOLDIER DISMALLY TO A COMRADE, “YOU’LL FORGET TO +SCRATCH YOURSELF.” + +THAT SOLDIER PASSED ON, AND AFTER HIM CAME ANOTHER SITTING ON A CART. + +“WHERE THE DEVIL HAVE THE LEG BANDS BEEN SHOVED TO?” SAID AN +ORDERLY, RUNNING BEHIND THE CART AND FUMBLING IN THE BACK OF IT. + +AND HE ALSO PASSED ON WITH THE WAGON. THEN CAME SOME MERRY SOLDIERS WHO +HAD EVIDENTLY BEEN DRINKING. + +“AND THEN, OLD FELLOW, HE GIVES HIM ONE IN THE TEETH WITH THE BUTT +END OF HIS GUN...” A SOLDIER WHOSE GREATCOAT WAS WELL TUCKED UP SAID +GAILY, WITH A WIDE SWING OF HIS ARM. + +“YES, THE HAM WAS JUST DELICIOUS...” ANSWERED ANOTHER WITH A LOUD +LAUGH. AND THEY, TOO, PASSED ON, SO THAT NESVíTSKI DID NOT LEARN WHO +HAD BEEN STRUCK ON THE TEETH, OR WHAT THE HAM HAD TO DO WITH IT. + +“BAH! HOW THEY SCURRY. HE JUST SENDS A BALL AND THEY THINK THEY’LL +ALL BE KILLED,” A SERGEANT WAS SAYING ANGRILY AND REPROACHFULLY. + +“AS IT FLIES PAST ME, DADDY, THE BALL I MEAN,” SAID A YOUNG SOLDIER +WITH AN ENORMOUS MOUTH, HARDLY REFRAINING FROM LAUGHING, “I FELT LIKE +DYING OF FRIGHT. I DID, ‘PON MY WORD, I GOT THAT FRIGHTENED!” SAID +HE, AS IF BRAGGING OF HAVING BEEN FRIGHTENED. + +THAT ONE ALSO PASSED. THEN FOLLOWED A CART UNLIKE ANY THAT HAD GONE +BEFORE. IT WAS A GERMAN CART WITH A PAIR OF HORSES LED BY A GERMAN, AND +SEEMED LOADED WITH A WHOLE HOUSEFUL OF EFFECTS. A FINE BRINDLED COW WITH +A LARGE UDDER WAS ATTACHED TO THE CART BEHIND. A WOMAN WITH AN UNWEANED +BABY, AN OLD WOMAN, AND A HEALTHY GERMAN GIRL WITH BRIGHT RED CHEEKS +WERE SITTING ON SOME FEATHER BEDS. EVIDENTLY THESE FUGITIVES WERE +ALLOWED TO PASS BY SPECIAL PERMISSION. THE EYES OF ALL THE SOLDIERS +TURNED TOWARD THE WOMEN, AND WHILE THE VEHICLE WAS PASSING AT FOOT PACE +ALL THE SOLDIERS’ REMARKS RELATED TO THE TWO YOUNG ONES. EVERY FACE +BORE ALMOST THE SAME SMILE, EXPRESSING UNSEEMLY THOUGHTS ABOUT THE +WOMEN. + +“JUST SEE, THE GERMAN SAUSAGE IS MAKING TRACKS, TOO!” + +“SELL ME THE MISSIS,” SAID ANOTHER SOLDIER, ADDRESSING THE GERMAN, +WHO, ANGRY AND FRIGHTENED, STRODE ENERGETICALLY ALONG WITH DOWNCAST +EYES. + +“SEE HOW SMART SHE’S MADE HERSELF! OH, THE DEVILS!” + +“THERE, FEDóTOV, YOU SHOULD BE QUARTERED ON THEM!” + +“I HAVE SEEN AS MUCH BEFORE NOW, MATE!” + +“WHERE ARE YOU GOING?” ASKED AN INFANTRY OFFICER WHO WAS EATING AN +APPLE, ALSO HALF SMILING AS HE LOOKED AT THE HANDSOME GIRL. + +THE GERMAN CLOSED HIS EYES, SIGNIFYING THAT HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND. + +“TAKE IT IF YOU LIKE,” SAID THE OFFICER, GIVING THE GIRL AN APPLE. + +THE GIRL SMILED AND TOOK IT. NESVíTSKI LIKE THE REST OF THE MEN ON THE +BRIDGE DID NOT TAKE HIS EYES OFF THE WOMEN TILL THEY HAD PASSED. WHEN +THEY HAD GONE BY, THE SAME STREAM OF SOLDIERS FOLLOWED, WITH THE SAME +KIND OF TALK, AND AT LAST ALL STOPPED. AS OFTEN HAPPENS, THE HORSES OF +A CONVOY WAGON BECAME RESTIVE AT THE END OF THE BRIDGE, AND THE WHOLE +CROWD HAD TO WAIT. + +“AND WHY ARE THEY STOPPING? THERE’S NO PROPER ORDER!” SAID THE +SOLDIERS. “WHERE ARE YOU SHOVING TO? DEVIL TAKE YOU! CAN’T YOU WAIT? +IT’LL BE WORSE IF HE FIRES THE BRIDGE. SEE, HERE’S AN OFFICER JAMMED +IN TOO”—DIFFERENT VOICES WERE SAYING IN THE CROWD, AS THE MEN LOOKED +AT ONE ANOTHER, AND ALL PRESSED TOWARD THE EXIT FROM THE BRIDGE. + +LOOKING DOWN AT THE WATERS OF THE ENNS UNDER THE BRIDGE, NESVíTSKI +SUDDENLY HEARD A SOUND NEW TO HIM, OF SOMETHING SWIFTLY APPROACHING... +SOMETHING BIG, THAT SPLASHED INTO THE WATER. + +“JUST SEE WHERE IT CARRIES TO!” A SOLDIER NEAR BY SAID STERNLY, +LOOKING ROUND AT THE SOUND. + +“ENCOURAGING US TO GET ALONG QUICKER,” SAID ANOTHER UNEASILY. + +THE CROWD MOVED ON AGAIN. NESVíTSKI REALIZED THAT IT WAS A CANNON BALL. + +“HEY, COSSACK, MY HORSE!” HE SAID. “NOW, THEN, YOU THERE! GET OUT +OF THE WAY! MAKE WAY!” + +WITH GREAT DIFFICULTY HE MANAGED TO GET TO HIS HORSE, AND SHOUTING +CONTINUALLY HE MOVED ON. THE SOLDIERS SQUEEZED THEMSELVES TO MAKE WAY +FOR HIM, BUT AGAIN PRESSED ON HIM SO THAT THEY JAMMED HIS LEG, AND THOSE +NEAREST HIM WERE NOT TO BLAME FOR THEY WERE THEMSELVES PRESSED STILL +HARDER FROM BEHIND. + +“NESVíTSKI, NESVíTSKI! YOU NUMSKULL!” CAME A HOARSE VOICE FROM +BEHIND HIM. + +NESVíTSKI LOOKED ROUND AND SAW, SOME FIFTEEN PACES AWAY BUT SEPARATED +BY THE LIVING MASS OF MOVING INFANTRY, VáSKA DENíSOV, RED AND SHAGGY, +WITH HIS CAP ON THE BACK OF HIS BLACK HEAD AND A CLOAK HANGING JAUNTILY +OVER HIS SHOULDER. + +“TELL THESE DEVILS, THESE FIENDS, TO LET ME PASS!” SHOUTED DENíSOV +EVIDENTLY IN A FIT OF RAGE, HIS COAL-BLACK EYES WITH THEIR BLOODSHOT +WHITES GLITTERING AND ROLLING AS HE WAVED HIS SHEATHED SABER IN A SMALL +BARE HAND AS RED AS HIS FACE. + +“AH, VáSKA!” JOYFULLY REPLIED NESVíTSKI. “WHAT’S UP WITH +YOU?” + +“THE SQUADWON CAN’T PASS,” SHOUTED VáSKA DENíSOV, SHOWING HIS +WHITE TEETH FIERCELY AND SPURRING HIS BLACK THOROUGHBRED ARAB, WHICH +TWITCHED ITS EARS AS THE BAYONETS TOUCHED IT, AND SNORTED, SPURTING +WHITE FOAM FROM HIS BIT, TRAMPING THE PLANKS OF THE BRIDGE WITH HIS +HOOFS, AND APPARENTLY READY TO JUMP OVER THE RAILINGS HAD HIS RIDER LET +HIM. “WHAT IS THIS? THEY’RE LIKE SHEEP! JUST LIKE SHEEP! OUT OF THE +WAY!... LET US PASS!... STOP THERE, YOU DEVIL WITH THE CART! I’LL HACK +YOU WITH MY SABER!” HE SHOUTED, ACTUALLY DRAWING HIS SABER FROM ITS +SCABBARD AND FLOURISHING IT. + +THE SOLDIERS CROWDED AGAINST ONE ANOTHER WITH TERRIFIED FACES, AND +DENíSOV JOINED NESVíTSKI. + +“HOW’S IT YOU’RE NOT DRUNK TODAY?” SAID NESVíTSKI WHEN THE +OTHER HAD RIDDEN UP TO HIM. + +“THEY DON’T EVEN GIVE ONE TIME TO DWINK!” ANSWERED VáSKA +DENíSOV. “THEY KEEP DWAGGING THE WEGIMENT TO AND FWO ALL DAY. IF THEY +MEAN TO FIGHT, LET’S FIGHT. BUT THE DEVIL KNOWS WHAT THIS IS.” + +“WHAT A DANDY YOU ARE TODAY!” SAID NESVíTSKI, LOOKING AT +DENíSOV’S NEW CLOAK AND SADDLECLOTH. + +DENíSOV SMILED, TOOK OUT OF HIS SABRETACHE A HANDKERCHIEF THAT DIFFUSED +A SMELL OF PERFUME, AND PUT IT TO NESVíTSKI’S NOSE. + +“OF COURSE. I’M GOING INTO ACTION! I’VE SHAVED, BWUSHED MY TEETH, +AND SCENTED MYSELF.” + +THE IMPOSING FIGURE OF NESVíTSKI FOLLOWED BY HIS COSSACK, AND +THE DETERMINATION OF DENíSOV WHO FLOURISHED HIS SWORD AND SHOUTED +FRANTICALLY, HAD SUCH AN EFFECT THAT THEY MANAGED TO SQUEEZE THROUGH +TO THE FARTHER SIDE OF THE BRIDGE AND STOPPED THE INFANTRY. BESIDE THE +BRIDGE NESVíTSKI FOUND THE COLONEL TO WHOM HE HAD TO DELIVER THE ORDER, +AND HAVING DONE THIS HE RODE BACK. + +HAVING CLEARED THE WAY DENíSOV STOPPED AT THE END OF THE BRIDGE. +CARELESSLY HOLDING IN HIS STALLION THAT WAS NEIGHING AND PAWING THE +GROUND, EAGER TO REJOIN ITS FELLOWS, HE WATCHED HIS SQUADRON DRAW +NEARER. THEN THE CLANG OF HOOFS, AS OF SEVERAL HORSES GALLOPING, +RESOUNDED ON THE PLANKS OF THE BRIDGE, AND THE SQUADRON, OFFICERS IN +FRONT AND MEN FOUR ABREAST, SPREAD ACROSS THE BRIDGE AND BEGAN TO EMERGE +ON HIS SIDE OF IT. + +THE INFANTRY WHO HAD BEEN STOPPED CROWDED NEAR THE BRIDGE IN THE +TRAMPLED MUD AND GAZED WITH THAT PARTICULAR FEELING OF ILL-WILL, +ESTRANGEMENT, AND RIDICULE WITH WHICH TROOPS OF DIFFERENT ARMS USUALLY +ENCOUNTER ONE ANOTHER AT THE CLEAN, SMART HUSSARS WHO MOVED PAST THEM IN +REGULAR ORDER. + +“SMART LADS! ONLY FIT FOR A FAIR!” SAID ONE. + +“WHAT GOOD ARE THEY? THEY’RE LED ABOUT JUST FOR SHOW!” REMARKED +ANOTHER. + +“DON’T KICK UP THE DUST, YOU INFANTRY!” JESTED AN HUSSAR WHOSE +PRANCING HORSE HAD SPLASHED MUD OVER SOME FOOT SOLDIERS. + +“I’D LIKE TO PUT YOU ON A TWO DAYS’ MARCH WITH A KNAPSACK! YOUR +FINE CORDS WOULD SOON GET A BIT RUBBED,” SAID AN INFANTRYMAN, WIPING +THE MUD OFF HIS FACE WITH HIS SLEEVE. “PERCHED UP THERE, YOU’RE MORE +LIKE A BIRD THAN A MAN.” + +“THERE NOW, ZíKIN, THEY OUGHT TO PUT YOU ON A HORSE. YOU’D LOOK +FINE,” SAID A CORPORAL, CHAFFING A THIN LITTLE SOLDIER WHO BENT UNDER +THE WEIGHT OF HIS KNAPSACK. + +“TAKE A STICK BETWEEN YOUR LEGS, THAT’LL SUIT YOU FOR A HORSE!” +THE HUSSAR SHOUTED BACK. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +THE LAST OF THE INFANTRY HURRIEDLY CROSSED THE BRIDGE, SQUEEZING +TOGETHER AS THEY APPROACHED IT AS IF PASSING THROUGH A FUNNEL. AT LAST +THE BAGGAGE WAGONS HAD ALL CROSSED, THE CRUSH WAS LESS, AND THE LAST +BATTALION CAME ONTO THE BRIDGE. ONLY DENíSOV’S SQUADRON OF HUSSARS +REMAINED ON THE FARTHER SIDE OF THE BRIDGE FACING THE ENEMY, WHO COULD +BE SEEN FROM THE HILL ON THE OPPOSITE BANK BUT WAS NOT YET VISIBLE FROM +THE BRIDGE, FOR THE HORIZON AS SEEN FROM THE VALLEY THROUGH WHICH THE +RIVER FLOWED WAS FORMED BY THE RISING GROUND ONLY HALF A MILE AWAY. +AT THE FOOT OF THE HILL LAY WASTELAND OVER WHICH A FEW GROUPS OF OUR +COSSACK SCOUTS WERE MOVING. SUDDENLY ON THE ROAD AT THE TOP OF THE HIGH +GROUND, ARTILLERY AND TROOPS IN BLUE UNIFORM WERE SEEN. THESE WERE THE +FRENCH. A GROUP OF COSSACK SCOUTS RETIRED DOWN THE HILL AT A TROT. ALL +THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF DENíSOV’S SQUADRON, THOUGH THEY TRIED TO TALK +OF OTHER THINGS AND TO LOOK IN OTHER DIRECTIONS, THOUGHT ONLY OF WHAT +WAS THERE ON THE HILLTOP, AND KEPT CONSTANTLY LOOKING AT THE PATCHES +APPEARING ON THE SKYLINE, WHICH THEY KNEW TO BE THE ENEMY’S TROOPS. +THE WEATHER HAD CLEARED AGAIN SINCE NOON AND THE SUN WAS DESCENDING +BRIGHTLY UPON THE DANUBE AND THE DARK HILLS AROUND IT. IT WAS CALM, AND +AT INTERVALS THE BUGLE CALLS AND THE SHOUTS OF THE ENEMY COULD BE HEARD +FROM THE HILL. THERE WAS NO ONE NOW BETWEEN THE SQUADRON AND THE ENEMY +EXCEPT A FEW SCATTERED SKIRMISHERS. AN EMPTY SPACE OF SOME SEVEN HUNDRED +YARDS WAS ALL THAT SEPARATED THEM. THE ENEMY CEASED FIRING, AND THAT +STERN, THREATENING, INACCESSIBLE, AND INTANGIBLE LINE WHICH SEPARATES +TWO HOSTILE ARMIES WAS ALL THE MORE CLEARLY FELT. + +“ONE STEP BEYOND THAT BOUNDARY LINE WHICH RESEMBLES THE LINE DIVIDING +THE LIVING FROM THE DEAD LIES UNCERTAINTY, SUFFERING, AND DEATH. AND +WHAT IS THERE? WHO IS THERE?—THERE BEYOND THAT FIELD, THAT TREE, THAT +ROOF LIT UP BY THE SUN? NO ONE KNOWS, BUT ONE WANTS TO KNOW. YOU FEAR +AND YET LONG TO CROSS THAT LINE, AND KNOW THAT SOONER OR LATER IT MUST +BE CROSSED AND YOU WILL HAVE TO FIND OUT WHAT IS THERE, JUST AS YOU WILL +INEVITABLY HAVE TO LEARN WHAT LIES THE OTHER SIDE OF DEATH. BUT YOU ARE +STRONG, HEALTHY, CHEERFUL, AND EXCITED, AND ARE SURROUNDED BY OTHER SUCH +EXCITEDLY ANIMATED AND HEALTHY MEN.” SO THINKS, OR AT ANY RATE +FEELS, ANYONE WHO COMES IN SIGHT OF THE ENEMY, AND THAT FEELING GIVES +A PARTICULAR GLAMOUR AND GLAD KEENNESS OF IMPRESSION TO EVERYTHING THAT +TAKES PLACE AT SUCH MOMENTS. + +ON THE HIGH GROUND WHERE THE ENEMY WAS, THE SMOKE OF A CANNON ROSE, +AND A BALL FLEW WHISTLING OVER THE HEADS OF THE HUSSAR SQUADRON. THE +OFFICERS WHO HAD BEEN STANDING TOGETHER RODE OFF TO THEIR PLACES. THE +HUSSARS BEGAN CAREFULLY ALIGNING THEIR HORSES. SILENCE FELL ON THE WHOLE +SQUADRON. ALL WERE LOOKING AT THE ENEMY IN FRONT AND AT THE SQUADRON +COMMANDER, AWAITING THE WORD OF COMMAND. A SECOND AND A THIRD CANNON +BALL FLEW PAST. EVIDENTLY THEY WERE FIRING AT THE HUSSARS, BUT THE BALLS +WITH RAPID RHYTHMIC WHISTLE FLEW OVER THE HEADS OF THE HORSEMEN AND FELL +SOMEWHERE BEYOND THEM. THE HUSSARS DID NOT LOOK ROUND, BUT AT THE SOUND +OF EACH SHOT, AS AT THE WORD OF COMMAND, THE WHOLE SQUADRON WITH ITS +ROWS OF FACES SO ALIKE YET SO DIFFERENT, HOLDING ITS BREATH WHILE THE +BALL FLEW PAST, ROSE IN THE STIRRUPS AND SANK BACK AGAIN. THE SOLDIERS +WITHOUT TURNING THEIR HEADS GLANCED AT ONE ANOTHER, CURIOUS TO SEE THEIR +COMRADES’ IMPRESSION. EVERY FACE, FROM DENíSOV’S TO THAT OF THE +BUGLER, SHOWED ONE COMMON EXPRESSION OF CONFLICT, IRRITATION, AND +EXCITEMENT, AROUND CHIN AND MOUTH. THE QUARTERMASTER FROWNED, LOOKING +AT THE SOLDIERS AS IF THREATENING TO PUNISH THEM. CADET MIRóNOV DUCKED +EVERY TIME A BALL FLEW PAST. ROSTóV ON THE LEFT FLANK, MOUNTED ON HIS +ROOK—A HANDSOME HORSE DESPITE ITS GAME LEG—HAD THE HAPPY AIR OF A +SCHOOLBOY CALLED UP BEFORE A LARGE AUDIENCE FOR AN EXAMINATION IN WHICH +HE FEELS SURE HE WILL DISTINGUISH HIMSELF. HE WAS GLANCING AT EVERYONE +WITH A CLEAR, BRIGHT EXPRESSION, AS IF ASKING THEM TO NOTICE HOW CALMLY +HE SAT UNDER FIRE. BUT DESPITE HIMSELF, ON HIS FACE TOO THAT SAME +INDICATION OF SOMETHING NEW AND STERN SHOWED ROUND THE MOUTH. + +“WHO’S THAT CURTSEYING THERE? CADET MIWóNOV! THAT’S NOT WIGHT! +LOOK AT ME,” CRIED DENíSOV WHO, UNABLE TO KEEP STILL ON ONE SPOT, +KEPT TURNING HIS HORSE IN FRONT OF THE SQUADRON. + +THE BLACK, HAIRY, SNUB-NOSED FACE OF VáSKA DENíSOV, AND HIS WHOLE +SHORT STURDY FIGURE WITH THE SINEWY HAIRY HAND AND STUMPY FINGERS IN +WHICH HE HELD THE HILT OF HIS NAKED SABER, LOOKED JUST AS IT USUALLY +DID, ESPECIALLY TOWARD EVENING WHEN HE HAD EMPTIED HIS SECOND BOTTLE; HE +WAS ONLY REDDER THAN USUAL. WITH HIS SHAGGY HEAD THROWN BACK LIKE BIRDS +WHEN THEY DRINK, PRESSING HIS SPURS MERCILESSLY INTO THE SIDES OF HIS +GOOD HORSE, BEDOUIN, AND SITTING AS THOUGH FALLING BACKWARDS IN THE +SADDLE, HE GALLOPED TO THE OTHER FLANK OF THE SQUADRON AND SHOUTED IN +A HOARSE VOICE TO THE MEN TO LOOK TO THEIR PISTOLS. HE RODE UP TO +KíRSTEN. THE STAFF CAPTAIN ON HIS BROAD-BACKED, STEADY MARE CAME AT A +WALK TO MEET HIM. HIS FACE WITH ITS LONG MUSTACHE WAS SERIOUS AS ALWAYS, +ONLY HIS EYES WERE BRIGHTER THAN USUAL. + +“WELL, WHAT ABOUT IT?” SAID HE TO DENíSOV. “IT WON’T COME TO A +FIGHT. YOU’LL SEE—WE SHALL RETIRE.” + +“THE DEVIL ONLY KNOWS WHAT THEY’RE ABOUT!” MUTTERED DENíSOV. +“AH, WOSTóV,” HE CRIED NOTICING THE CADET’S BRIGHT FACE, +“YOU’VE GOT IT AT LAST.” + +AND HE SMILED APPROVINGLY, EVIDENTLY PLEASED WITH THE CADET. ROSTóV +FELT PERFECTLY HAPPY. JUST THEN THE COMMANDER APPEARED ON THE BRIDGE. +DENíSOV GALLOPED UP TO HIM. + +“YOUR EXCELLENCY! LET US ATTACK THEM! I’LL DWIVE THEM OFF.” + +“ATTACK INDEED!” SAID THE COLONEL IN A BORED VOICE, PUCKERING UP HIS +FACE AS IF DRIVING OFF A TROUBLESOME FLY. “AND WHY ARE YOU STOPPING +HERE? DON’T YOU SEE THE SKIRMISHERS ARE RETREATING? LEAD THE SQUADRON +BACK.” + +THE SQUADRON CROSSED THE BRIDGE AND DREW OUT OF RANGE OF FIRE WITHOUT +HAVING LOST A SINGLE MAN. THE SECOND SQUADRON THAT HAD BEEN IN THE FRONT +LINE FOLLOWED THEM ACROSS AND THE LAST COSSACKS QUITTED THE FARTHER SIDE +OF THE RIVER. + +THE TWO PáVLOGRAD SQUADRONS, HAVING CROSSED THE BRIDGE, RETIRED UP THE +HILL ONE AFTER THE OTHER. THEIR COLONEL, KARL BOGDáNICH SCHUBERT, CAME +UP TO DENíSOV’S SQUADRON AND RODE AT A FOOTPACE NOT FAR FROM ROSTóV, +WITHOUT TAKING ANY NOTICE OF HIM ALTHOUGH THEY WERE NOW MEETING FOR THE +FIRST TIME SINCE THEIR ENCOUNTER CONCERNING TELYáNIN. ROSTóV, FEELING +THAT HE WAS AT THE FRONT AND IN THE POWER OF A MAN TOWARD WHOM HE NOW +ADMITTED THAT HE HAD BEEN TO BLAME, DID NOT LIFT HIS EYES FROM THE +COLONEL’S ATHLETIC BACK, HIS NAPE COVERED WITH LIGHT HAIR, AND HIS RED +NECK. IT SEEMED TO ROSTóV THAT BOGDáNICH WAS ONLY PRETENDING NOT +TO NOTICE HIM, AND THAT HIS WHOLE AIM NOW WAS TO TEST THE CADET’S +COURAGE, SO HE DREW HIMSELF UP AND LOOKED AROUND HIM MERRILY; THEN IT +SEEMED TO HIM THAT BOGDáNICH RODE SO NEAR IN ORDER TO SHOW HIM HIS +COURAGE. NEXT HE THOUGHT THAT HIS ENEMY WOULD SEND THE SQUADRON ON A +DESPERATE ATTACK JUST TO PUNISH HIM—ROSTóV. THEN HE IMAGINED HOW, +AFTER THE ATTACK, BOGDáNICH WOULD COME UP TO HIM AS HE LAY WOUNDED AND +WOULD MAGNANIMOUSLY EXTEND THE HAND OF RECONCILIATION. + +THE HIGH-SHOULDERED FIGURE OF ZHERKóV, FAMILIAR TO THE PáVLOGRADS AS +HE HAD BUT RECENTLY LEFT THEIR REGIMENT, RODE UP TO THE COLONEL. +AFTER HIS DISMISSAL FROM HEADQUARTERS ZHERKóV HAD NOT REMAINED IN THE +REGIMENT, SAYING HE WAS NOT SUCH A FOOL AS TO SLAVE AT THE FRONT WHEN HE +COULD GET MORE REWARDS BY DOING NOTHING ON THE STAFF, AND HAD SUCCEEDED +IN ATTACHING HIMSELF AS AN ORDERLY OFFICER TO PRINCE BAGRATIóN. HE NOW +CAME TO HIS FORMER CHIEF WITH AN ORDER FROM THE COMMANDER OF THE REAR +GUARD. + +“COLONEL,” HE SAID, ADDRESSING ROSTóV’S ENEMY WITH AN AIR OF +GLOOMY GRAVITY AND GLANCING ROUND AT HIS COMRADES, “THERE IS AN ORDER +TO STOP AND FIRE THE BRIDGE.” + +“AN ORDER TO WHO?” ASKED THE COLONEL MOROSELY. + +“I DON’T MYSELF KNOW ‘TO WHO,’” REPLIED THE CORNET IN A +SERIOUS TONE, “BUT THE PRINCE TOLD ME TO ‘GO AND TELL THE COLONEL +THAT THE HUSSARS MUST RETURN QUICKLY AND FIRE THE BRIDGE.’” + +ZHERKóV WAS FOLLOWED BY AN OFFICER OF THE SUITE WHO RODE UP TO THE +COLONEL OF HUSSARS WITH THE SAME ORDER. AFTER HIM THE STOUT NESVíTSKI +CAME GALLOPING UP ON A COSSACK HORSE THAT COULD SCARCELY CARRY HIS +WEIGHT. + +“HOW’S THIS, COLONEL?” HE SHOUTED AS HE APPROACHED. “I TOLD YOU +TO FIRE THE BRIDGE, AND NOW SOMEONE HAS GONE AND BLUNDERED; THEY ARE ALL +BESIDE THEMSELVES OVER THERE AND ONE CAN’T MAKE ANYTHING OUT.” + +THE COLONEL DELIBERATELY STOPPED THE REGIMENT AND TURNED TO NESVíTSKI. + +“YOU SPOKE TO ME OF INFLAMMABLE MATERIAL,” SAID HE, “BUT YOU SAID +NOTHING ABOUT FIRING IT.” + +“BUT, MY DEAR SIR,” SAID NESVíTSKI AS HE DREW UP, TAKING OFF HIS +CAP AND SMOOTHING HIS HAIR WET WITH PERSPIRATION WITH HIS PLUMP HAND, +“WASN’T I TELLING YOU TO FIRE THE BRIDGE, WHEN INFLAMMABLE MATERIAL +HAD BEEN PUT IN POSITION?” + +“I AM NOT YOUR ‘DEAR SIR,’ MR. STAFF OFFICER, AND YOU DID NOT TELL +ME TO BURN THE BRIDGE! I KNOW THE SERVICE, AND IT IS MY HABIT ORDERS +STRICTLY TO OBEY. YOU SAID THE BRIDGE WOULD BE BURNED, BUT WHO WOULD IT +BURN, I COULD NOT KNOW BY THE HOLY SPIRIT!” + +“AH, THAT’S ALWAYS THE WAY!” SAID NESVíTSKI WITH A WAVE OF THE +HAND. “HOW DID YOU GET HERE?” SAID HE, TURNING TO ZHERKóV. + +“ON THE SAME BUSINESS. BUT YOU ARE DAMP! LET ME WRING YOU OUT!” + +“YOU WERE SAYING, MR. STAFF OFFICER...” CONTINUED THE COLONEL IN AN +OFFENDED TONE. + +“COLONEL,” INTERRUPTED THE OFFICER OF THE SUITE, “YOU MUST BE +QUICK OR THE ENEMY WILL BRING UP HIS GUNS TO USE GRAPESHOT.” + +THE COLONEL LOOKED SILENTLY AT THE OFFICER OF THE SUITE, AT THE STOUT +STAFF OFFICER, AND AT ZHERKóV, AND HE FROWNED. + +“I WILL THE BRIDGE FIRE,” HE SAID IN A SOLEMN TONE AS IF TO ANNOUNCE +THAT IN SPITE OF ALL THE UNPLEASANTNESS HE HAD TO ENDURE HE WOULD STILL +DO THE RIGHT THING. + +STRIKING HIS HORSE WITH HIS LONG MUSCULAR LEGS AS IF IT WERE TO BLAME +FOR EVERYTHING, THE COLONEL MOVED FORWARD AND ORDERED THE SECOND +SQUADRON, THAT IN WHICH ROSTóV WAS SERVING UNDER DENíSOV, TO RETURN TO +THE BRIDGE. + +“THERE, IT’S JUST AS I THOUGHT,” SAID ROSTóV TO HIMSELF. “HE +WISHES TO TEST ME!” HIS HEART CONTRACTED AND THE BLOOD RUSHED TO HIS +FACE. “LET HIM SEE WHETHER I AM A COWARD!” HE THOUGHT. + +AGAIN ON ALL THE BRIGHT FACES OF THE SQUADRON THE SERIOUS EXPRESSION +APPEARED THAT THEY HAD WORN WHEN UNDER FIRE. ROSTóV WATCHED HIS ENEMY, +THE COLONEL, CLOSELY—TO FIND IN HIS FACE CONFIRMATION OF HIS OWN +CONJECTURE, BUT THE COLONEL DID NOT ONCE GLANCE AT ROSTóV, AND LOOKED +AS HE ALWAYS DID WHEN AT THE FRONT, SOLEMN AND STERN. THEN CAME THE WORD +OF COMMAND. + +“LOOK SHARP! LOOK SHARP!” SEVERAL VOICES REPEATED AROUND HIM. + +THEIR SABERS CATCHING IN THE BRIDLES AND THEIR SPURS JINGLING, THE +HUSSARS HASTILY DISMOUNTED, NOT KNOWING WHAT THEY WERE TO DO. THE MEN +WERE CROSSING THEMSELVES. ROSTóV NO LONGER LOOKED AT THE COLONEL, HE +HAD NO TIME. HE WAS AFRAID OF FALLING BEHIND THE HUSSARS, SO MUCH AFRAID +THAT HIS HEART STOOD STILL. HIS HAND TREMBLED AS HE GAVE HIS HORSE INTO +AN ORDERLY’S CHARGE, AND HE FELT THE BLOOD RUSH TO HIS HEART WITH +A THUD. DENíSOV RODE PAST HIM, LEANING BACK AND SHOUTING SOMETHING. +ROSTóV SAW NOTHING BUT THE HUSSARS RUNNING ALL AROUND HIM, THEIR SPURS +CATCHING AND THEIR SABERS CLATTERING. + +“STRETCHERS!” SHOUTED SOMEONE BEHIND HIM. + +ROSTóV DID NOT THINK WHAT THIS CALL FOR STRETCHERS MEANT; HE RAN ON, +TRYING ONLY TO BE AHEAD OF THE OTHERS; BUT JUST AT THE BRIDGE, NOT +LOOKING AT THE GROUND, HE CAME ON SOME STICKY, TRODDEN MUD, STUMBLED, +AND FELL ON HIS HANDS. THE OTHERS OUTSTRIPPED HIM. + +“AT BOSS ZIDES, CAPTAIN,” HE HEARD THE VOICE OF THE COLONEL, WHO, +HAVING RIDDEN AHEAD, HAD PULLED UP HIS HORSE NEAR THE BRIDGE, WITH A +TRIUMPHANT, CHEERFUL FACE. + +ROSTóV WIPING HIS MUDDY HANDS ON HIS BREECHES LOOKED AT HIS ENEMY AND +WAS ABOUT TO RUN ON, THINKING THAT THE FARTHER HE WENT TO THE FRONT +THE BETTER. BUT BOGDáNICH, WITHOUT LOOKING AT OR RECOGNIZING ROSTóV, +SHOUTED TO HIM: + +“WHO’S THAT RUNNING ON THE MIDDLE OF THE BRIDGE? TO THE RIGHT! COME +BACK, CADET!” HE CRIED ANGRILY; AND TURNING TO DENíSOV, WHO, SHOWING +OFF HIS COURAGE, HAD RIDDEN ON TO THE PLANKS OF THE BRIDGE: + +“WHY RUN RISKS, CAPTAIN? YOU SHOULD DISMOUNT,” HE SAID. + +“OH, EVERY BULLET HAS ITS BILLET,” ANSWERED VáSKA DENíSOV, TURNING +IN HIS SADDLE. + + +MEANWHILE NESVíTSKI, ZHERKóV, AND THE OFFICER OF THE SUITE WERE +STANDING TOGETHER OUT OF RANGE OF THE SHOTS, WATCHING, NOW THE SMALL +GROUP OF MEN WITH YELLOW SHAKOS, DARK-GREEN JACKETS BRAIDED WITH CORD, +AND BLUE RIDING BREECHES, WHO WERE SWARMING NEAR THE BRIDGE, AND THEN AT +WHAT WAS APPROACHING IN THE DISTANCE FROM THE OPPOSITE SIDE—THE BLUE +UNIFORMS AND GROUPS WITH HORSES, EASILY RECOGNIZABLE AS ARTILLERY. + +“WILL THEY BURN THE BRIDGE OR NOT? WHO’LL GET THERE FIRST? WILL THEY +GET THERE AND FIRE THE BRIDGE OR WILL THE FRENCH GET WITHIN GRAPESHOT +RANGE AND WIPE THEM OUT?” THESE WERE THE QUESTIONS EACH MAN OF THE +TROOPS ON THE HIGH GROUND ABOVE THE BRIDGE INVOLUNTARILY ASKED HIMSELF +WITH A SINKING HEART—WATCHING THE BRIDGE AND THE HUSSARS IN THE BRIGHT +EVENING LIGHT AND THE BLUE TUNICS ADVANCING FROM THE OTHER SIDE WITH +THEIR BAYONETS AND GUNS. + +“UGH. THE HUSSARS WILL GET IT HOT!” SAID NESVíTSKI; “THEY ARE +WITHIN GRAPESHOT RANGE NOW.” + +“HE SHOULDN’T HAVE TAKEN SO MANY MEN,” SAID THE OFFICER OF THE +SUITE. + +“TRUE ENOUGH,” ANSWERED NESVíTSKI; “TWO SMART FELLOWS COULD HAVE +DONE THE JOB JUST AS WELL.” + +“AH, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” PUT IN ZHERKóV, HIS EYES FIXED ON THE +HUSSARS, BUT STILL WITH THAT NAïVE AIR THAT MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW +WHETHER HE WAS SPEAKING IN JEST OR IN EARNEST. “AH, YOUR EXCELLENCY! +HOW YOU LOOK AT THINGS! SEND TWO MEN? AND WHO THEN WOULD GIVE US THE +VLADíMIR MEDAL AND RIBBON? BUT NOW, EVEN IF THEY DO GET PEPPERED, THE +SQUADRON MAY BE RECOMMENDED FOR HONORS AND HE MAY GET A RIBBON. OUR +BOGDáNICH KNOWS HOW THINGS ARE DONE.” + +“THERE NOW!” SAID THE OFFICER OF THE SUITE, “THAT’S +GRAPESHOT.” + +HE POINTED TO THE FRENCH GUNS, THE LIMBERS OF WHICH WERE BEING DETACHED +AND HURRIEDLY REMOVED. + +ON THE FRENCH SIDE, AMID THE GROUPS WITH CANNON, A CLOUD OF SMOKE +APPEARED, THEN A SECOND AND A THIRD ALMOST SIMULTANEOUSLY, AND AT THE +MOMENT WHEN THE FIRST REPORT WAS HEARD A FOURTH WAS SEEN. THEN TWO +REPORTS ONE AFTER ANOTHER, AND A THIRD. + +“OH! OH!” GROANED NESVíTSKI AS IF IN FIERCE PAIN, SEIZING THE +OFFICER OF THE SUITE BY THE ARM. “LOOK! A MAN HAS FALLEN! FALLEN, +FALLEN!” + +“TWO, I THINK.” + +“IF I WERE TSAR I WOULD NEVER GO TO WAR,” SAID NESVíTSKI, TURNING +AWAY. + +THE FRENCH GUNS WERE HASTILY RELOADED. THE INFANTRY IN THEIR BLUE +UNIFORMS ADVANCED TOWARD THE BRIDGE AT A RUN. SMOKE APPEARED AGAIN +BUT AT IRREGULAR INTERVALS, AND GRAPESHOT CRACKED AND RATTLED ONTO THE +BRIDGE. BUT THIS TIME NESVíTSKI COULD NOT SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING THERE, +AS A DENSE CLOUD OF SMOKE AROSE FROM IT. THE HUSSARS HAD SUCCEEDED IN +SETTING IT ON FIRE AND THE FRENCH BATTERIES WERE NOW FIRING AT THEM, NO +LONGER TO HINDER THEM BUT BECAUSE THE GUNS WERE TRAINED AND THERE WAS +SOMEONE TO FIRE AT. + +THE FRENCH HAD TIME TO FIRE THREE ROUNDS OF GRAPESHOT BEFORE THE HUSSARS +GOT BACK TO THEIR HORSES. TWO WERE MISDIRECTED AND THE SHOT WENT TOO +HIGH, BUT THE LAST ROUND FELL IN THE MIDST OF A GROUP OF HUSSARS AND +KNOCKED THREE OF THEM OVER. + +ROSTóV, ABSORBED BY HIS RELATIONS WITH BOGDáNICH, HAD PAUSED ON THE +BRIDGE NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO. THERE WAS NO ONE TO HEW DOWN (AS HE +HAD ALWAYS IMAGINED BATTLES TO HIMSELF), NOR COULD HE HELP TO FIRE THE +BRIDGE BECAUSE HE HAD NOT BROUGHT ANY BURNING STRAW WITH HIM LIKE THE +OTHER SOLDIERS. HE STOOD LOOKING ABOUT HIM, WHEN SUDDENLY HE HEARD A +RATTLE ON THE BRIDGE AS IF NUTS WERE BEING SPILT, AND THE HUSSAR NEAREST +TO HIM FELL AGAINST THE RAILS WITH A GROAN. ROSTóV RAN UP TO HIM WITH +THE OTHERS. AGAIN SOMEONE SHOUTED, “STRETCHERS!” FOUR MEN SEIZED THE +HUSSAR AND BEGAN LIFTING HIM. + +“OOOH! FOR CHRIST’S SAKE LET ME ALONE!” CRIED THE WOUNDED MAN, BUT +STILL HE WAS LIFTED AND LAID ON THE STRETCHER. + +NICHOLAS ROSTóV TURNED AWAY AND, AS IF SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING, GAZED +INTO THE DISTANCE, AT THE WATERS OF THE DANUBE, AT THE SKY, AND AT THE +SUN. HOW BEAUTIFUL THE SKY LOOKED; HOW BLUE, HOW CALM, AND HOW DEEP! +HOW BRIGHT AND GLORIOUS WAS THE SETTING SUN! WITH WHAT SOFT GLITTER THE +WATERS OF THE DISTANT DANUBE SHONE. AND FAIRER STILL WERE THE FARAWAY +BLUE MOUNTAINS BEYOND THE RIVER, THE NUNNERY, THE MYSTERIOUS GORGES, AND +THE PINE FORESTS VEILED IN THE MIST OF THEIR SUMMITS... THERE WAS PEACE +AND HAPPINESS... “I SHOULD WISH FOR NOTHING ELSE, NOTHING, IF ONLY I +WERE THERE,” THOUGHT ROSTóV. “IN MYSELF ALONE AND IN THAT SUNSHINE +THERE IS SO MUCH HAPPINESS; BUT HERE... GROANS, SUFFERING, FEAR, AND +THIS UNCERTAINTY AND HURRY... THERE—THEY ARE SHOUTING AGAIN, AND +AGAIN ARE ALL RUNNING BACK SOMEWHERE, AND I SHALL RUN WITH THEM, AND IT, +DEATH, IS HERE ABOVE ME AND AROUND... ANOTHER INSTANT AND I SHALL NEVER +AGAIN SEE THE SUN, THIS WATER, THAT GORGE!...” + +AT THAT INSTANT THE SUN BEGAN TO HIDE BEHIND THE CLOUDS, AND OTHER +STRETCHERS CAME INTO VIEW BEFORE ROSTóV. AND THE FEAR OF DEATH AND OF +THE STRETCHERS, AND LOVE OF THE SUN AND OF LIFE, ALL MERGED INTO ONE +FEELING OF SICKENING AGITATION. + +“O LORD GOD! THOU WHO ART IN THAT HEAVEN, SAVE, FORGIVE, AND PROTECT +ME!” ROSTóV WHISPERED. + +THE HUSSARS RAN BACK TO THE MEN WHO HELD THEIR HORSES; THEIR VOICES +SOUNDED LOUDER AND CALMER, THE STRETCHERS DISAPPEARED FROM SIGHT. + +“WELL, FWIEND? SO YOU’VE SMELT POWDAH!” SHOUTED VáSKA DENíSOV +JUST ABOVE HIS EAR. + +“IT’S ALL OVER; BUT I AM A COWARD—YES, A COWARD!” THOUGHT +ROSTóV, AND SIGHING DEEPLY HE TOOK ROOK, HIS HORSE, WHICH STOOD RESTING +ONE FOOT, FROM THE ORDERLY AND BEGAN TO MOUNT. + +“WAS THAT GRAPESHOT?” HE ASKED DENíSOV. + +“YES AND NO MISTAKE!” CRIED DENíSOV. “YOU WORKED LIKE WEGULAR +BWICKS AND IT’S NASTY WORK! AN ATTACK’S PLEASANT WORK! HACKING +AWAY AT THE DOGS! BUT THIS SORT OF THING IS THE VERY DEVIL, WITH THEM +SHOOTING AT YOU LIKE A TARGET.” + +AND DENíSOV RODE UP TO A GROUP THAT HAD STOPPED NEAR ROSTóV, COMPOSED +OF THE COLONEL, NESVíTSKI, ZHERKóV, AND THE OFFICER FROM THE SUITE. + +“WELL, IT SEEMS THAT NO ONE HAS NOTICED,” THOUGHT ROSTóV. AND THIS +WAS TRUE. NO ONE HAD TAKEN ANY NOTICE, FOR EVERYONE KNEW THE SENSATION +WHICH THE CADET UNDER FIRE FOR THE FIRST TIME HAD EXPERIENCED. + +“HERE’S SOMETHING FOR YOU TO REPORT,” SAID ZHERKóV. “SEE IF I +DON’T GET PROMOTED TO A SUBLIEUTENANCY.” + +“INFORM THE PRINCE THAT I THE BRIDGE FIRED!” SAID THE COLONEL +TRIUMPHANTLY AND GAILY. + +“AND IF HE ASKS ABOUT THE LOSSES?” + +“A TRIFLE,” SAID THE COLONEL IN HIS BASS VOICE: “TWO HUSSARS +WOUNDED, AND ONE KNOCKED OUT,” HE ADDED, UNABLE TO RESTRAIN A HAPPY +SMILE, AND PRONOUNCING THE PHRASE “KNOCKED OUT” WITH RINGING +DISTINCTNESS. + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +PURSUED BY THE FRENCH ARMY OF A HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN UNDER THE COMMAND +OF BONAPARTE, ENCOUNTERING A POPULATION THAT WAS UNFRIENDLY TO IT, +LOSING CONFIDENCE IN ITS ALLIES, SUFFERING FROM SHORTNESS OF SUPPLIES, +AND COMPELLED TO ACT UNDER CONDITIONS OF WAR UNLIKE ANYTHING THAT HAD +BEEN FORESEEN, THE RUSSIAN ARMY OF THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND MEN COMMANDED +BY KUTúZOV WAS HURRIEDLY RETREATING ALONG THE DANUBE, STOPPING WHERE +OVERTAKEN BY THE ENEMY AND FIGHTING REARGUARD ACTIONS ONLY AS FAR AS +NECESSARY TO ENABLE IT TO RETREAT WITHOUT LOSING ITS HEAVY EQUIPMENT. +THERE HAD BEEN ACTIONS AT LAMBACH, AMSTETTEN, AND MELK; BUT DESPITE THE +COURAGE AND ENDURANCE—ACKNOWLEDGED EVEN BY THE ENEMY—WITH WHICH THE +RUSSIANS FOUGHT, THE ONLY CONSEQUENCE OF THESE ACTIONS WAS A YET MORE +RAPID RETREAT. AUSTRIAN TROOPS THAT HAD ESCAPED CAPTURE AT ULM AND HAD +JOINED KUTúZOV AT BRAUNAU NOW SEPARATED FROM THE RUSSIAN ARMY, AND +KUTúZOV WAS LEFT WITH ONLY HIS OWN WEAK AND EXHAUSTED FORCES. THE +DEFENSE OF VIENNA WAS NO LONGER TO BE THOUGHT OF. INSTEAD OF AN +OFFENSIVE, THE PLAN OF WHICH, CAREFULLY PREPARED IN ACCORD WITH THE +MODERN SCIENCE OF STRATEGICS, HAD BEEN HANDED TO KUTúZOV WHEN HE WAS IN +VIENNA BY THE AUSTRIAN HOFKRIEGSRATH, THE SOLE AND ALMOST UNATTAINABLE +AIM REMAINING FOR HIM WAS TO EFFECT A JUNCTION WITH THE FORCES THAT WERE +ADVANCING FROM RUSSIA, WITHOUT LOSING HIS ARMY AS MACK HAD DONE AT ULM. + +ON THE TWENTY-EIGHTH OF OCTOBER KUTúZOV WITH HIS ARMY CROSSED TO THE +LEFT BANK OF THE DANUBE AND TOOK UP A POSITION FOR THE FIRST TIME +WITH THE RIVER BETWEEN HIMSELF AND THE MAIN BODY OF THE FRENCH. ON THE +THIRTIETH HE ATTACKED MORTIER’S DIVISION, WHICH WAS ON THE LEFT BANK, +AND BROKE IT UP. IN THIS ACTION FOR THE FIRST TIME TROPHIES WERE TAKEN: +BANNERS, CANNON, AND TWO ENEMY GENERALS. FOR THE FIRST TIME, AFTER A +FORTNIGHT’S RETREAT, THE RUSSIAN TROOPS HAD HALTED AND AFTER A FIGHT +HAD NOT ONLY HELD THE FIELD BUT HAD REPULSED THE FRENCH. THOUGH THE +TROOPS WERE ILL-CLAD, EXHAUSTED, AND HAD LOST A THIRD OF THEIR NUMBER +IN KILLED, WOUNDED, SICK, AND STRAGGLERS; THOUGH A NUMBER OF SICK AND +WOUNDED HAD BEEN ABANDONED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DANUBE WITH A LETTER +IN WHICH KUTúZOV ENTRUSTED THEM TO THE HUMANITY OF THE ENEMY; AND +THOUGH THE BIG HOSPITALS AND THE HOUSES IN KREMS CONVERTED INTO MILITARY +HOSPITALS COULD NO LONGER ACCOMMODATE ALL THE SICK AND WOUNDED, YET THE +STAND MADE AT KREMS AND THE VICTORY OVER MORTIER RAISED THE SPIRITS OF +THE ARMY CONSIDERABLY. THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE ARMY AND AT HEADQUARTERS +MOST JOYFUL THOUGH ERRONEOUS RUMORS WERE RIFE OF THE IMAGINARY APPROACH +OF COLUMNS FROM RUSSIA, OF SOME VICTORY GAINED BY THE AUSTRIANS, AND OF +THE RETREAT OF THE FRIGHTENED BONAPARTE. + +PRINCE ANDREW DURING THE BATTLE HAD BEEN IN ATTENDANCE ON THE AUSTRIAN +GENERAL SCHMIDT, WHO WAS KILLED IN THE ACTION. HIS HORSE HAD BEEN +WOUNDED UNDER HIM AND HIS OWN ARM SLIGHTLY GRAZED BY A BULLET. AS A MARK +OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF’S SPECIAL FAVOR HE WAS SENT WITH THE NEWS OF +THIS VICTORY TO THE AUSTRIAN COURT, NOW NO LONGER AT VIENNA (WHICH WAS +THREATENED BY THE FRENCH) BUT AT BRüNN. DESPITE HIS APPARENTLY DELICATE +BUILD PRINCE ANDREW COULD ENDURE PHYSICAL FATIGUE FAR BETTER THAN MANY +VERY MUSCULAR MEN, AND ON THE NIGHT OF THE BATTLE, HAVING ARRIVED +AT KREMS EXCITED BUT NOT WEARY, WITH DISPATCHES FROM DOKHTúROV TO +KUTúZOV, HE WAS SENT IMMEDIATELY WITH A SPECIAL DISPATCH TO BRüNN. +TO BE SO SENT MEANT NOT ONLY A REWARD BUT AN IMPORTANT STEP TOWARD +PROMOTION. + +THE NIGHT WAS DARK BUT STARRY, THE ROAD SHOWED BLACK IN THE SNOW THAT +HAD FALLEN THE PREVIOUS DAY—THE DAY OF THE BATTLE. REVIEWING HIS +IMPRESSIONS OF THE RECENT BATTLE, PICTURING PLEASANTLY TO HIMSELF THE +IMPRESSION HIS NEWS OF A VICTORY WOULD CREATE, OR RECALLING THE SEND-OFF +GIVEN HIM BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF AND HIS FELLOW OFFICERS, PRINCE +ANDREW WAS GALLOPING ALONG IN A POST CHAISE ENJOYING THE FEELINGS OF A +MAN WHO HAS AT LENGTH BEGUN TO ATTAIN A LONG-DESIRED HAPPINESS. AS SOON +AS HE CLOSED HIS EYES HIS EARS SEEMED FILLED WITH THE RATTLE OF THE +WHEELS AND THE SENSATION OF VICTORY. THEN HE BEGAN TO IMAGINE THAT +THE RUSSIANS WERE RUNNING AWAY AND THAT HE HIMSELF WAS KILLED, BUT HE +QUICKLY ROUSED HIMSELF WITH A FEELING OF JOY, AS IF LEARNING AFRESH THAT +THIS WAS NOT SO BUT THAT ON THE CONTRARY THE FRENCH HAD RUN AWAY. HE +AGAIN RECALLED ALL THE DETAILS OF THE VICTORY AND HIS OWN CALM COURAGE +DURING THE BATTLE, AND FEELING REASSURED HE DOZED OFF.... THE DARK +STARRY NIGHT WAS FOLLOWED BY A BRIGHT CHEERFUL MORNING. THE SNOW WAS +THAWING IN THE SUNSHINE, THE HORSES GALLOPED QUICKLY, AND ON BOTH SIDES +OF THE ROAD WERE FORESTS OF DIFFERENT KINDS, FIELDS, AND VILLAGES. + +AT ONE OF THE POST STATIONS HE OVERTOOK A CONVOY OF RUSSIAN WOUNDED. +THE RUSSIAN OFFICER IN CHARGE OF THE TRANSPORT LOLLED BACK IN THE FRONT +CART, SHOUTING AND SCOLDING A SOLDIER WITH COARSE ABUSE. IN EACH OF +THE LONG GERMAN CARTS SIX OR MORE PALE, DIRTY, BANDAGED MEN WERE BEING +JOLTED OVER THE STONY ROAD. SOME OF THEM WERE TALKING (HE HEARD RUSSIAN +WORDS), OTHERS WERE EATING BREAD; THE MORE SEVERELY WOUNDED LOOKED +SILENTLY, WITH THE LANGUID INTEREST OF SICK CHILDREN, AT THE ENVOY +HURRYING PAST THEM. + +PRINCE ANDREW TOLD HIS DRIVER TO STOP, AND ASKED A SOLDIER IN WHAT +ACTION THEY HAD BEEN WOUNDED. “DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY, ON THE DANUBE,” +ANSWERED THE SOLDIER. PRINCE ANDREW TOOK OUT HIS PURSE AND GAVE THE +SOLDIER THREE GOLD PIECES. + +“THAT’S FOR THEM ALL,” HE SAID TO THE OFFICER WHO CAME UP. + +“GET WELL SOON, LADS!” HE CONTINUED, TURNING TO THE SOLDIERS. +“THERE’S PLENTY TO DO STILL.” + +“WHAT NEWS, SIR?” ASKED THE OFFICER, EVIDENTLY ANXIOUS TO START A +CONVERSATION. + +“GOOD NEWS!... GO ON!” HE SHOUTED TO THE DRIVER, AND THEY GALLOPED +ON. + +IT WAS ALREADY QUITE DARK WHEN PRINCE ANDREW RATTLED OVER THE PAVED +STREETS OF BRüNN AND FOUND HIMSELF SURROUNDED BY HIGH BUILDINGS, THE +LIGHTS OF SHOPS, HOUSES, AND STREET LAMPS, FINE CARRIAGES, AND ALL THAT +ATMOSPHERE OF A LARGE AND ACTIVE TOWN WHICH IS ALWAYS SO ATTRACTIVE TO A +SOLDIER AFTER CAMP LIFE. DESPITE HIS RAPID JOURNEY AND SLEEPLESS NIGHT, +PRINCE ANDREW WHEN HE DROVE UP TO THE PALACE FELT EVEN MORE VIGOROUS AND +ALERT THAN HE HAD DONE THE DAY BEFORE. ONLY HIS EYES GLEAMED FEVERISHLY +AND HIS THOUGHTS FOLLOWED ONE ANOTHER WITH EXTRAORDINARY CLEARNESS AND +RAPIDITY. HE AGAIN VIVIDLY RECALLED THE DETAILS OF THE BATTLE, NO LONGER +DIM, BUT DEFINITE AND IN THE CONCISE FORM IN WHICH HE IMAGINED HIMSELF +STATING THEM TO THE EMPEROR FRANCIS. HE VIVIDLY IMAGINED THE CASUAL +QUESTIONS THAT MIGHT BE PUT TO HIM AND THE ANSWERS HE WOULD GIVE. HE +EXPECTED TO BE AT ONCE PRESENTED TO THE EMPEROR. AT THE CHIEF ENTRANCE +TO THE PALACE, HOWEVER, AN OFFICIAL CAME RUNNING OUT TO MEET HIM, AND +LEARNING THAT HE WAS A SPECIAL MESSENGER LED HIM TO ANOTHER ENTRANCE. + +“TO THE RIGHT FROM THE CORRIDOR, EUER HOCHGEBOREN! THERE YOU WILL FIND +THE ADJUTANT ON DUTY,” SAID THE OFFICIAL. “HE WILL CONDUCT YOU TO +THE MINISTER OF WAR.” + +THE ADJUTANT ON DUTY, MEETING PRINCE ANDREW, ASKED HIM TO WAIT, AND WENT +IN TO THE MINISTER OF WAR. FIVE MINUTES LATER HE RETURNED AND BOWING +WITH PARTICULAR COURTESY USHERED PRINCE ANDREW BEFORE HIM ALONG A +CORRIDOR TO THE CABINET WHERE THE MINISTER OF WAR WAS AT WORK. THE +ADJUTANT BY HIS ELABORATE COURTESY APPEARED TO WISH TO WARD OFF ANY +ATTEMPT AT FAMILIARITY ON THE PART OF THE RUSSIAN MESSENGER. + +PRINCE ANDREW’S JOYOUS FEELING WAS CONSIDERABLY WEAKENED AS HE +APPROACHED THE DOOR OF THE MINISTER’S ROOM. HE FELT OFFENDED, AND +WITHOUT HIS NOTICING IT THE FEELING OF OFFENSE IMMEDIATELY TURNED INTO +ONE OF DISDAIN WHICH WAS QUITE UNCALLED FOR. HIS FERTILE MIND INSTANTLY +SUGGESTED TO HIM A POINT OF VIEW WHICH GAVE HIM A RIGHT TO DESPISE +THE ADJUTANT AND THE MINISTER. “AWAY FROM THE SMELL OF POWDER, THEY +PROBABLY THINK IT EASY TO GAIN VICTORIES!” HE THOUGHT. HIS EYES +NARROWED DISDAINFULLY, HE ENTERED THE ROOM OF THE MINISTER OF WAR WITH +PECULIARLY DELIBERATE STEPS. THIS FEELING OF DISDAIN WAS HEIGHTENED +WHEN HE SAW THE MINISTER SEATED AT A LARGE TABLE READING SOME PAPERS +AND MAKING PENCIL NOTES ON THEM, AND FOR THE FIRST TWO OR THREE MINUTES +TAKING NO NOTICE OF HIS ARRIVAL. A WAX CANDLE STOOD AT EACH SIDE OF THE +MINISTER’S BENT BALD HEAD WITH ITS GRAY TEMPLES. HE WENT ON READING +TO THE END, WITHOUT RAISING HIS EYES AT THE OPENING OF THE DOOR AND THE +SOUND OF FOOTSTEPS. + +“TAKE THIS AND DELIVER IT,” SAID HE TO HIS ADJUTANT, HANDING HIM THE +PAPERS AND STILL TAKING NO NOTICE OF THE SPECIAL MESSENGER. + +PRINCE ANDREW FELT THAT EITHER THE ACTIONS OF KUTúZOV’S ARMY +INTERESTED THE MINISTER OF WAR LESS THAN ANY OF THE OTHER MATTERS HE WAS +CONCERNED WITH, OR HE WANTED TO GIVE THE RUSSIAN SPECIAL MESSENGER THAT +IMPRESSION. “BUT THAT IS A MATTER OF PERFECT INDIFFERENCE TO ME,” HE +THOUGHT. THE MINISTER DREW THE REMAINING PAPERS TOGETHER, ARRANGED THEM +EVENLY, AND THEN RAISED HIS HEAD. HE HAD AN INTELLECTUAL AND DISTINCTIVE +HEAD, BUT THE INSTANT HE TURNED TO PRINCE ANDREW THE FIRM, INTELLIGENT +EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE CHANGED IN A WAY EVIDENTLY DELIBERATE AND +HABITUAL TO HIM. HIS FACE TOOK ON THE STUPID ARTIFICIAL SMILE (WHICH +DOES NOT EVEN ATTEMPT TO HIDE ITS ARTIFICIALITY) OF A MAN WHO IS +CONTINUALLY RECEIVING MANY PETITIONERS ONE AFTER ANOTHER. + +“FROM GENERAL FIELD MARSHAL KUTúZOV?” HE ASKED. “I HOPE IT IS +GOOD NEWS? THERE HAS BEEN AN ENCOUNTER WITH MORTIER? A VICTORY? IT WAS +HIGH TIME!” + +HE TOOK THE DISPATCH WHICH WAS ADDRESSED TO HIM AND BEGAN TO READ IT +WITH A MOURNFUL EXPRESSION. + +“OH, MY GOD! MY GOD! SCHMIDT!” HE EXCLAIMED IN GERMAN. “WHAT A +CALAMITY! WHAT A CALAMITY!” + +HAVING GLANCED THROUGH THE DISPATCH HE LAID IT ON THE TABLE AND LOOKED +AT PRINCE ANDREW, EVIDENTLY CONSIDERING SOMETHING. + +“AH WHAT A CALAMITY! YOU SAY THE AFFAIR WAS DECISIVE? BUT MORTIER IS +NOT CAPTURED.” AGAIN HE PONDERED. “I AM VERY GLAD YOU HAVE BROUGHT +GOOD NEWS, THOUGH SCHMIDT’S DEATH IS A HEAVY PRICE TO PAY FOR THE +VICTORY. HIS MAJESTY WILL NO DOUBT WISH TO SEE YOU, BUT NOT TODAY. I +THANK YOU! YOU MUST HAVE A REST. BE AT THE LEVEE TOMORROW AFTER THE +PARADE. HOWEVER, I WILL LET YOU KNOW.” + +THE STUPID SMILE, WHICH HAD LEFT HIS FACE WHILE HE WAS SPEAKING, +REAPPEARED. + +“AU REVOIR! THANK YOU VERY MUCH. HIS MAJESTY WILL PROBABLY DESIRE TO +SEE YOU,” HE ADDED, BOWING HIS HEAD. + +WHEN PRINCE ANDREW LEFT THE PALACE HE FELT THAT ALL THE INTEREST +AND HAPPINESS THE VICTORY HAD AFFORDED HIM HAD BEEN NOW LEFT IN THE +INDIFFERENT HANDS OF THE MINISTER OF WAR AND THE POLITE ADJUTANT. THE +WHOLE TENOR OF HIS THOUGHTS INSTANTANEOUSLY CHANGED; THE BATTLE SEEMED +THE MEMORY OF A REMOTE EVENT LONG PAST. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +PRINCE ANDREW STAYED AT BRüNN WITH BILíBIN, A RUSSIAN ACQUAINTANCE OF +HIS IN THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE. + +“AH, MY DEAR PRINCE! I COULD NOT HAVE A MORE WELCOME VISITOR,” +SAID BILíBIN AS HE CAME OUT TO MEET PRINCE ANDREW. “FRANZ, PUT THE +PRINCE’S THINGS IN MY BEDROOM,” SAID HE TO THE SERVANT WHO WAS +USHERING BOLKóNSKI IN. “SO YOU’RE A MESSENGER OF VICTORY, EH? +SPLENDID! AND I AM SITTING HERE ILL, AS YOU SEE.” + +AFTER WASHING AND DRESSING, PRINCE ANDREW CAME INTO THE DIPLOMAT’S +LUXURIOUS STUDY AND SAT DOWN TO THE DINNER PREPARED FOR HIM. BILíBIN +SETTLED DOWN COMFORTABLY BESIDE THE FIRE. + +AFTER HIS JOURNEY AND THE CAMPAIGN DURING WHICH HE HAD BEEN DEPRIVED OF +ALL THE COMFORTS OF CLEANLINESS AND ALL THE REFINEMENTS OF LIFE, PRINCE +ANDREW FELT A PLEASANT SENSE OF REPOSE AMONG LUXURIOUS SURROUNDINGS SUCH +AS HE HAD BEEN ACCUSTOMED TO FROM CHILDHOOD. BESIDES IT WAS PLEASANT, +AFTER HIS RECEPTION BY THE AUSTRIANS, TO SPEAK IF NOT IN RUSSIAN +(FOR THEY WERE SPEAKING FRENCH) AT LEAST WITH A RUSSIAN WHO WOULD, HE +SUPPOSED, SHARE THE GENERAL RUSSIAN ANTIPATHY TO THE AUSTRIANS WHICH WAS +THEN PARTICULARLY STRONG. + +BILíBIN WAS A MAN OF THIRTY-FIVE, A BACHELOR, AND OF THE SAME CIRCLE AS +PRINCE ANDREW. THEY HAD KNOWN EACH OTHER PREVIOUSLY IN PETERSBURG, BUT +HAD BECOME MORE INTIMATE WHEN PRINCE ANDREW WAS IN VIENNA WITH KUTúZOV. +JUST AS PRINCE ANDREW WAS A YOUNG MAN WHO GAVE PROMISE OF RISING HIGH +IN THE MILITARY PROFESSION, SO TO AN EVEN GREATER EXTENT BILíBIN GAVE +PROMISE OF RISING IN HIS DIPLOMATIC CAREER. HE WAS STILL A YOUNG MAN BUT +NO LONGER A YOUNG DIPLOMAT, AS HE HAD ENTERED THE SERVICE AT THE AGE +OF SIXTEEN, HAD BEEN IN PARIS AND COPENHAGEN, AND NOW HELD A RATHER +IMPORTANT POST IN VIENNA. BOTH THE FOREIGN MINISTER AND OUR AMBASSADOR +IN VIENNA KNEW HIM AND VALUED HIM. HE WAS NOT ONE OF THOSE MANY +DIPLOMATS WHO ARE ESTEEMED BECAUSE THEY HAVE CERTAIN NEGATIVE QUALITIES, +AVOID DOING CERTAIN THINGS, AND SPEAK FRENCH. HE WAS ONE OF THOSE, +WHO, LIKING WORK, KNEW HOW TO DO IT, AND DESPITE HIS INDOLENCE WOULD +SOMETIMES SPEND A WHOLE NIGHT AT HIS WRITING TABLE. HE WORKED WELL +WHATEVER THE IMPORT OF HIS WORK. IT WAS NOT THE QUESTION “WHAT FOR?” +BUT THE QUESTION “HOW?” THAT INTERESTED HIM. WHAT THE DIPLOMATIC +MATTER MIGHT BE HE DID NOT CARE, BUT IT GAVE HIM GREAT PLEASURE TO +PREPARE A CIRCULAR, MEMORANDUM, OR REPORT, SKILLFULLY, POINTEDLY, AND +ELEGANTLY. BILíBIN’S SERVICES WERE VALUED NOT ONLY FOR WHAT HE WROTE, +BUT ALSO FOR HIS SKILL IN DEALING AND CONVERSING WITH THOSE IN THE +HIGHEST SPHERES. + +BILíBIN LIKED CONVERSATION AS HE LIKED WORK, ONLY WHEN IT COULD BE +MADE ELEGANTLY WITTY. IN SOCIETY HE ALWAYS AWAITED AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAY +SOMETHING STRIKING AND TOOK PART IN A CONVERSATION ONLY WHEN THAT WAS +POSSIBLE. HIS CONVERSATION WAS ALWAYS SPRINKLED WITH WITTILY ORIGINAL, +FINISHED PHRASES OF GENERAL INTEREST. THESE SAYINGS WERE PREPARED IN THE +INNER LABORATORY OF HIS MIND IN A PORTABLE FORM AS IF INTENTIONALLY, SO +THAT INSIGNIFICANT SOCIETY PEOPLE MIGHT CARRY THEM FROM DRAWING ROOM TO +DRAWING ROOM. AND, IN FACT, BILíBIN’S WITTICISMS WERE HAWKED ABOUT +IN THE VIENNESE DRAWING ROOMS AND OFTEN HAD AN INFLUENCE ON MATTERS +CONSIDERED IMPORTANT. + +HIS THIN, WORN, SALLOW FACE WAS COVERED WITH DEEP WRINKLES, WHICH ALWAYS +LOOKED AS CLEAN AND WELL WASHED AS THE TIPS OF ONE’S FINGERS AFTER A +RUSSIAN BATH. THE MOVEMENT OF THESE WRINKLES FORMED THE PRINCIPAL PLAY +OF EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE. NOW HIS FOREHEAD WOULD PUCKER INTO DEEP FOLDS +AND HIS EYEBROWS WERE LIFTED, THEN HIS EYEBROWS WOULD DESCEND AND +DEEP WRINKLES WOULD CREASE HIS CHEEKS. HIS SMALL, DEEP-SET EYES ALWAYS +TWINKLED AND LOOKED OUT STRAIGHT. + +“WELL, NOW TELL ME ABOUT YOUR EXPLOITS,” SAID HE. + +BOLKóNSKI, VERY MODESTLY WITHOUT ONCE MENTIONING HIMSELF, DESCRIBED THE +ENGAGEMENT AND HIS RECEPTION BY THE MINISTER OF WAR. + +“THEY RECEIVED ME AND MY NEWS AS ONE RECEIVES A DOG IN A GAME OF +SKITTLES,” SAID HE IN CONCLUSION. + +BILíBIN SMILED AND THE WRINKLES ON HIS FACE DISAPPEARED. + +“CEPENDANT, MON CHER,” HE REMARKED, EXAMINING HIS NAILS FROM A +DISTANCE AND PUCKERING THE SKIN ABOVE HIS LEFT EYE, “MALGRé LA HAUTE +ESTIME QUE JE PROFESSE POUR THE ORTHODOX RUSSIAN ARMY, J’AVOUE QUE +VOTRE VICTOIRE N’EST PAS DES PLUS VICTORIEUSES.” * + + * “BUT MY DEAR FELLOW, WITH ALL MY RESPECT FOR THE ORTHODOX + RUSSIAN ARMY, I MUST SAY THAT YOUR VICTORY WAS NOT + PARTICULARLY VICTORIOUS.” + + +HE WENT ON TALKING IN THIS WAY IN FRENCH, UTTERING ONLY THOSE WORDS IN +RUSSIAN ON WHICH HE WISHED TO PUT A CONTEMPTUOUS EMPHASIS. + +“COME NOW! YOU WITH ALL YOUR FORCES FALL ON THE UNFORTUNATE MORTIER +AND HIS ONE DIVISION, AND EVEN THEN MORTIER SLIPS THROUGH YOUR FINGERS! +WHERE’S THE VICTORY?” + +“BUT SERIOUSLY,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, “WE CAN AT ANY RATE SAY +WITHOUT BOASTING THAT IT WAS A LITTLE BETTER THAN AT ULM...” + +“WHY DIDN’T YOU CAPTURE ONE, JUST ONE, MARSHAL FOR US?” + +“BECAUSE NOT EVERYTHING HAPPENS AS ONE EXPECTS OR WITH THE SMOOTHNESS +OF A PARADE. WE HAD EXPECTED, AS I TOLD YOU, TO GET AT THEIR REAR BY +SEVEN IN THE MORNING BUT HAD NOT REACHED IT BY FIVE IN THE AFTERNOON.” + +“AND WHY DIDN’T YOU DO IT AT SEVEN IN THE MORNING? YOU OUGHT TO HAVE +BEEN THERE AT SEVEN IN THE MORNING,” RETURNED BILíBIN WITH A SMILE. +“YOU OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN THERE AT SEVEN IN THE MORNING.” + +“WHY DID YOU NOT SUCCEED IN IMPRESSING ON BONAPARTE BY DIPLOMATIC +METHODS THAT HE HAD BETTER LEAVE GENOA ALONE?” RETORTED PRINCE ANDREW +IN THE SAME TONE. + +“I KNOW,” INTERRUPTED BILíBIN, “YOU’RE THINKING IT’S VERY +EASY TO TAKE MARSHALS, SITTING ON A SOFA BY THE FIRE! THAT IS TRUE, BUT +STILL WHY DIDN’T YOU CAPTURE HIM? SO DON’T BE SURPRISED IF NOT ONLY +THE MINISTER OF WAR BUT ALSO HIS MOST AUGUST MAJESTY THE EMPEROR AND +KING FRANCIS IS NOT MUCH DELIGHTED BY YOUR VICTORY. EVEN I, A POOR +SECRETARY OF THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY, DO NOT FEEL ANY NEED IN TOKEN OF MY +JOY TO GIVE MY FRANZ A THALER, OR LET HIM GO WITH HIS LIEBCHEN TO THE +PRATER... TRUE, WE HAVE NO PRATER HERE...” + +HE LOOKED STRAIGHT AT PRINCE ANDREW AND SUDDENLY UNWRINKLED HIS +FOREHEAD. + +“IT IS NOW MY TURN TO ASK YOU ‘WHY?’ MON CHER,” SAID BOLKóNSKI. +“I CONFESS I DO NOT UNDERSTAND: PERHAPS THERE ARE DIPLOMATIC +SUBTLETIES HERE BEYOND MY FEEBLE INTELLIGENCE, BUT I CAN’T MAKE IT +OUT. MACK LOSES A WHOLE ARMY, THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND AND THE ARCHDUKE +KARL GIVE NO SIGNS OF LIFE AND MAKE BLUNDER AFTER BLUNDER. KUTúZOV +ALONE AT LAST GAINS A REAL VICTORY, DESTROYING THE SPELL OF THE +INVINCIBILITY OF THE FRENCH, AND THE MINISTER OF WAR DOES NOT EVEN CARE +TO HEAR THE DETAILS.” + +“THAT’S JUST IT, MY DEAR FELLOW. YOU SEE IT’S HURRAH FOR THE TSAR, +FOR RUSSIA, FOR THE ORTHODOX GREEK FAITH! ALL THAT IS BEAUTIFUL, BUT +WHAT DO WE, I MEAN THE AUSTRIAN COURT, CARE FOR YOUR VICTORIES? BRING +US NICE NEWS OF A VICTORY BY THE ARCHDUKE KARL OR FERDINAND (ONE +ARCHDUKE’S AS GOOD AS ANOTHER, AS YOU KNOW) AND EVEN IF IT IS ONLY +OVER A FIRE BRIGADE OF BONAPARTE’S, THAT WILL BE ANOTHER STORY AND +WE’LL FIRE OFF SOME CANNON! BUT THIS SORT OF THING SEEMS DONE +ON PURPOSE TO VEX US. THE ARCHDUKE KARL DOES NOTHING, THE ARCHDUKE +FERDINAND DISGRACES HIMSELF. YOU ABANDON VIENNA, GIVE UP ITS +DEFENSE—AS MUCH AS TO SAY: ‘HEAVEN IS WITH US, BUT HEAVEN HELP YOU +AND YOUR CAPITAL!’ THE ONE GENERAL WHOM WE ALL LOVED, SCHMIDT, YOU +EXPOSE TO A BULLET, AND THEN YOU CONGRATULATE US ON THE VICTORY! ADMIT +THAT MORE IRRITATING NEWS THAN YOURS COULD NOT HAVE BEEN CONCEIVED. +IT’S AS IF IT HAD BEEN DONE ON PURPOSE, ON PURPOSE. BESIDES, SUPPOSE +YOU DID GAIN A BRILLIANT VICTORY, IF EVEN THE ARCHDUKE KARL GAINED A +VICTORY, WHAT EFFECT WOULD THAT HAVE ON THE GENERAL COURSE OF EVENTS? +IT’S TOO LATE NOW WHEN VIENNA IS OCCUPIED BY THE FRENCH ARMY!” + +“WHAT? OCCUPIED? VIENNA OCCUPIED?” + +“NOT ONLY OCCUPIED, BUT BONAPARTE IS AT SCHöNBRUNN, AND THE COUNT, +OUR DEAR COUNT VRBNA, GOES TO HIM FOR ORDERS.” + +AFTER THE FATIGUES AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNEY, HIS RECEPTION, AND +ESPECIALLY AFTER HAVING DINED, BOLKóNSKI FELT THAT HE COULD NOT TAKE IN +THE FULL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WORDS HE HEARD. + +“COUNT LICHTENFELS WAS HERE THIS MORNING,” BILíBIN CONTINUED, +“AND SHOWED ME A LETTER IN WHICH THE PARADE OF THE FRENCH IN VIENNA +WAS FULLY DESCRIBED: PRINCE MURAT ET TOUT LE TREMBLEMENT... YOU SEE THAT +YOUR VICTORY IS NOT A MATTER FOR GREAT REJOICING AND THAT YOU CAN’T BE +RECEIVED AS A SAVIOR.” + +“REALLY I DON’T CARE ABOUT THAT, I DON’T CARE AT ALL,” SAID +PRINCE ANDREW, BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND THAT HIS NEWS OF THE BATTLE +BEFORE KREMS WAS REALLY OF SMALL IMPORTANCE IN VIEW OF SUCH EVENTS AS +THE FALL OF AUSTRIA’S CAPITAL. “HOW IS IT VIENNA WAS TAKEN? WHAT OF +THE BRIDGE AND ITS CELEBRATED BRIDGEHEAD AND PRINCE AUERSPERG? WE HEARD +REPORTS THAT PRINCE AUERSPERG WAS DEFENDING VIENNA?” HE SAID. + +“PRINCE AUERSPERG IS ON THIS, ON OUR SIDE OF THE RIVER, AND IS +DEFENDING US—DOING IT VERY BADLY, I THINK, BUT STILL HE IS DEFENDING +US. BUT VIENNA IS ON THE OTHER SIDE. NO, THE BRIDGE HAS NOT YET BEEN +TAKEN AND I HOPE IT WILL NOT BE, FOR IT IS MINED AND ORDERS HAVE BEEN +GIVEN TO BLOW IT UP. OTHERWISE WE SHOULD LONG AGO HAVE BEEN IN THE +MOUNTAINS OF BOHEMIA, AND YOU AND YOUR ARMY WOULD HAVE SPENT A BAD +QUARTER OF AN HOUR BETWEEN TWO FIRES.” + +“BUT STILL THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE CAMPAIGN IS OVER,” SAID +PRINCE ANDREW. + +“WELL, I THINK IT IS. THE BIGWIGS HERE THINK SO TOO, BUT THEY +DAREN’T SAY SO. IT WILL BE AS I SAID AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CAMPAIGN, +IT WON’T BE YOUR SKIRMISHING AT DüRRENSTEIN, OR GUNPOWDER AT ALL, +THAT WILL DECIDE THE MATTER, BUT THOSE WHO DEVISED IT,” SAID BILíBIN +QUOTING ONE OF HIS OWN MOTS, RELEASING THE WRINKLES ON HIS FOREHEAD, AND +PAUSING. “THE ONLY QUESTION IS WHAT WILL COME OF THE MEETING BETWEEN +THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER AND THE KING OF PRUSSIA IN BERLIN? IF PRUSSIA +JOINS THE ALLIES, AUSTRIA’S HAND WILL BE FORCED AND THERE WILL BE WAR. +IF NOT IT IS MERELY A QUESTION OF SETTLING WHERE THE PRELIMINARIES OF +THE NEW CAMPO FORMIO ARE TO BE DRAWN UP.” + +“WHAT AN EXTRAORDINARY GENIUS!” PRINCE ANDREW SUDDENLY EXCLAIMED, +CLENCHING HIS SMALL HAND AND STRIKING THE TABLE WITH IT, “AND WHAT +LUCK THE MAN HAS!” + +“BUONAPARTE?” SAID BILíBIN INQUIRINGLY, PUCKERING UP HIS FOREHEAD +TO INDICATE THAT HE WAS ABOUT TO SAY SOMETHING WITTY. “BUONAPARTE?” +HE REPEATED, ACCENTUATING THE U: “I THINK, HOWEVER, NOW THAT HE LAYS +DOWN LAWS FOR AUSTRIA AT SCHöNBRUNN, IL FAUT LUI FAIRE GRâCE DE +L’U! * I SHALL CERTAINLY ADOPT AN INNOVATION AND CALL HIM SIMPLY +BONAPARTE!” + + * “WE MUST LET HIM OFF THE U!” + + +“BUT JOKING APART,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, “DO YOU REALLY THINK THE +CAMPAIGN IS OVER?” + +“THIS IS WHAT I THINK. AUSTRIA HAS BEEN MADE A FOOL OF, AND SHE IS +NOT USED TO IT. SHE WILL RETALIATE. AND SHE HAS BEEN FOOLED IN THE +FIRST PLACE BECAUSE HER PROVINCES HAVE BEEN PILLAGED—THEY SAY THE HOLY +RUSSIAN ARMY LOOTS TERRIBLY—HER ARMY IS DESTROYED, HER CAPITAL +TAKEN, AND ALL THIS FOR THE BEAUX YEUX * OF HIS SARDINIAN MAJESTY. AND +THEREFORE—THIS IS BETWEEN OURSELVES—I INSTINCTIVELY FEEL THAT WE +ARE BEING DECEIVED, MY INSTINCT TELLS ME OF NEGOTIATIONS WITH FRANCE AND +PROJECTS FOR PEACE, A SECRET PEACE CONCLUDED SEPARATELY.” + + * FINE EYES. + +“IMPOSSIBLE!” CRIED PRINCE ANDREW. “THAT WOULD BE TOO BASE.” + +“IF WE LIVE WE SHALL SEE,” REPLIED BILíBIN, HIS FACE AGAIN BECOMING +SMOOTH AS A SIGN THAT THE CONVERSATION WAS AT AN END. + +WHEN PRINCE ANDREW REACHED THE ROOM PREPARED FOR HIM AND LAY DOWN IN A +CLEAN SHIRT ON THE FEATHER BED WITH ITS WARMED AND FRAGRANT PILLOWS, HE +FELT THAT THE BATTLE OF WHICH HE HAD BROUGHT TIDINGS WAS FAR, FAR +AWAY FROM HIM. THE ALLIANCE WITH PRUSSIA, AUSTRIA’S TREACHERY, +BONAPARTE’S NEW TRIUMPH, TOMORROW’S LEVEE AND PARADE, AND THE +AUDIENCE WITH THE EMPEROR FRANCIS OCCUPIED HIS THOUGHTS. + +HE CLOSED HIS EYES, AND IMMEDIATELY A SOUND OF CANNONADING, OF MUSKETRY +AND THE RATTLING OF CARRIAGE WHEELS SEEMED TO FILL HIS EARS, AND NOW +AGAIN DRAWN OUT IN A THIN LINE THE MUSKETEERS WERE DESCENDING THE HILL, +THE FRENCH WERE FIRING, AND HE FELT HIS HEART PALPITATING AS HE RODE +FORWARD BESIDE SCHMIDT WITH THE BULLETS MERRILY WHISTLING ALL AROUND, +AND HE EXPERIENCED TENFOLD THE JOY OF LIVING, AS HE HAD NOT DONE SINCE +CHILDHOOD. + +HE WOKE UP... + +“YES, THAT ALL HAPPENED!” HE SAID, AND, SMILING HAPPILY TO HIMSELF +LIKE A CHILD, HE FELL INTO A DEEP, YOUTHFUL SLUMBER. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +NEXT DAY HE WOKE LATE. RECALLING HIS RECENT IMPRESSIONS, THE FIRST +THOUGHT THAT CAME INTO HIS MIND WAS THAT TODAY HE HAD TO BE PRESENTED +TO THE EMPEROR FRANCIS; HE REMEMBERED THE MINISTER OF WAR, THE POLITE +AUSTRIAN ADJUTANT, BILíBIN, AND LAST NIGHT’S CONVERSATION. HAVING +DRESSED FOR HIS ATTENDANCE AT COURT IN FULL PARADE UNIFORM, WHICH HE +HAD NOT WORN FOR A LONG TIME, HE WENT INTO BILíBIN’S STUDY FRESH, +ANIMATED, AND HANDSOME, WITH HIS HAND BANDAGED. IN THE STUDY WERE FOUR +GENTLEMEN OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS. WITH PRINCE HIPPOLYTE KURáGIN, +WHO WAS A SECRETARY TO THE EMBASSY, BOLKóNSKI WAS ALREADY ACQUAINTED. +BILíBIN INTRODUCED HIM TO THE OTHERS. + +THE GENTLEMEN ASSEMBLED AT BILíBIN’S WERE YOUNG, WEALTHY, GAY SOCIETY +MEN, WHO HERE, AS IN VIENNA, FORMED A SPECIAL SET WHICH BILíBIN, THEIR +LEADER, CALLED LES NôTRES. * THIS SET, CONSISTING ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY OF +DIPLOMATS, EVIDENTLY HAD ITS OWN INTERESTS WHICH HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH +WAR OR POLITICS BUT RELATED TO HIGH SOCIETY, TO CERTAIN WOMEN, AND TO +THE OFFICIAL SIDE OF THE SERVICE. THESE GENTLEMEN RECEIVED PRINCE +ANDREW AS ONE OF THEMSELVES, AN HONOR THEY DID NOT EXTEND TO MANY. FROM +POLITENESS AND TO START CONVERSATION, THEY ASKED HIM A FEW QUESTIONS +ABOUT THE ARMY AND THE BATTLE, AND THEN THE TALK WENT OFF INTO MERRY +JESTS AND GOSSIP. + + * OURS. + +“BUT THE BEST OF IT WAS,” SAID ONE, TELLING OF THE MISFORTUNE OF +A FELLOW DIPLOMAT, “THAT THE CHANCELLOR TOLD HIM FLATLY THAT HIS +APPOINTMENT TO LONDON WAS A PROMOTION AND THAT HE WAS SO TO REGARD IT. +CAN YOU FANCY THE FIGURE HE CUT?...” + +“BUT THE WORST OF IT, GENTLEMEN—I AM GIVING KURáGIN AWAY TO +YOU—IS THAT THAT MAN SUFFERS, AND THIS DON JUAN, WICKED FELLOW, IS +TAKING ADVANTAGE OF IT!” + +PRINCE HIPPOLYTE WAS LOLLING IN A LOUNGE CHAIR WITH HIS LEGS OVER ITS +ARM. HE BEGAN TO LAUGH. + +“TELL ME ABOUT THAT!” HE SAID. + +“OH, YOU DON JUAN! YOU SERPENT!” CRIED SEVERAL VOICES. + +“YOU, BOLKóNSKI, DON’T KNOW,” SAID BILíBIN TURNING TO PRINCE +ANDREW, “THAT ALL THE ATROCITIES OF THE FRENCH ARMY (I NEARLY SAID OF +THE RUSSIAN ARMY) ARE NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT THIS MAN HAS BEEN DOING +AMONG THE WOMEN!” + +“LA FEMME EST LA COMPAGNE DE L’HOMME,” * ANNOUNCED PRINCE +HIPPOLYTE, AND BEGAN LOOKING THROUGH A LORGNETTE AT HIS ELEVATED LEGS. + + * “WOMAN IS MAN’S COMPANION.” + + +BILíBIN AND THE REST OF “OURS” BURST OUT LAUGHING IN HIPPOLYTE’S +FACE, AND PRINCE ANDREW SAW THAT HIPPOLYTE, OF WHOM—HE HAD TO +ADMIT—HE HAD ALMOST BEEN JEALOUS ON HIS WIFE’S ACCOUNT, WAS THE BUTT +OF THIS SET. + +“OH, I MUST GIVE YOU A TREAT,” BILíBIN WHISPERED TO BOLKóNSKI. +“KURáGIN IS EXQUISITE WHEN HE DISCUSSES POLITICS—YOU SHOULD SEE HIS +GRAVITY!” + +HE SAT DOWN BESIDE HIPPOLYTE AND WRINKLING HIS FOREHEAD BEGAN TALKING +TO HIM ABOUT POLITICS. PRINCE ANDREW AND THE OTHERS GATHERED ROUND THESE +TWO. + +“THE BERLIN CABINET CANNOT EXPRESS A FEELING OF ALLIANCE,” BEGAN +HIPPOLYTE GAZING ROUND WITH IMPORTANCE AT THE OTHERS, “WITHOUT +EXPRESSING... AS IN ITS LAST NOTE... YOU UNDERSTAND... BESIDES, UNLESS +HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR DEROGATES FROM THE PRINCIPLE OF OUR ALLIANCE... + +“WAIT, I HAVE NOT FINISHED...” HE SAID TO PRINCE ANDREW, SEIZING +HIM BY THE ARM, “I BELIEVE THAT INTERVENTION WILL BE STRONGER THAN +NONINTERVENTION. AND...” HE PAUSED. “FINALLY ONE CANNOT IMPUTE THE +NONRECEIPT OF OUR DISPATCH OF NOVEMBER 18. THAT IS HOW IT WILL END.” +AND HE RELEASED BOLKóNSKI’S ARM TO INDICATE THAT HE HAD NOW QUITE +FINISHED. + +“DEMOSTHENES, I KNOW THEE BY THE PEBBLE THOU SECRETEST IN THY GOLDEN +MOUTH!” SAID BILíBIN, AND THE MOP OF HAIR ON HIS HEAD MOVED WITH +SATISFACTION. + +EVERYBODY LAUGHED, AND HIPPOLYTE LOUDER THAN ANYONE. HE WAS EVIDENTLY +DISTRESSED, AND BREATHED PAINFULLY, BUT COULD NOT RESTRAIN THE WILD +LAUGHTER THAT CONVULSED HIS USUALLY IMPASSIVE FEATURES. + +“WELL NOW, GENTLEMEN,” SAID BILíBIN, “BOLKóNSKI IS MY GUEST IN +THIS HOUSE AND IN BRüNN ITSELF. I WANT TO ENTERTAIN HIM AS FAR AS I +CAN, WITH ALL THE PLEASURES OF LIFE HERE. IF WE WERE IN VIENNA IT WOULD +BE EASY, BUT HERE, IN THIS WRETCHED MORAVIAN HOLE, IT IS MORE DIFFICULT, +AND I BEG YOU ALL TO HELP ME. BRüNN’S ATTRACTIONS MUST BE SHOWN HIM. +YOU CAN UNDERTAKE THE THEATER, I SOCIETY, AND YOU, HIPPOLYTE, OF COURSE +THE WOMEN.” + +“WE MUST LET HIM SEE AMELIE, SHE’S EXQUISITE!” SAID ONE OF +“OURS,” KISSING HIS FINGER TIPS. + +“IN GENERAL WE MUST TURN THIS BLOODTHIRSTY SOLDIER TO MORE HUMANE +INTERESTS,” SAID BILíBIN. + +“I SHALL SCARCELY BE ABLE TO AVAIL MYSELF OF YOUR HOSPITALITY, +GENTLEMEN, IT IS ALREADY TIME FOR ME TO GO,” REPLIED PRINCE ANDREW +LOOKING AT HIS WATCH. + +“WHERE TO?” + +“TO THE EMPEROR.” + +“OH! OH! OH!” + +“WELL, AU REVOIR, BOLKóNSKI! AU REVOIR, PRINCE! COME BACK EARLY TO +DINNER,” CRIED SEVERAL VOICES. “WE’LL TAKE YOU IN HAND.” + +“WHEN SPEAKING TO THE EMPEROR, TRY AS FAR AS YOU CAN TO PRAISE THE WAY +THAT PROVISIONS ARE SUPPLIED AND THE ROUTES INDICATED,” SAID BILíBIN, +ACCOMPANYING HIM TO THE HALL. + +“I SHOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WELL OF THEM, BUT AS FAR AS I KNOW THE FACTS, +I CAN’T,” REPLIED BOLKóNSKI, SMILING. + +“WELL, TALK AS MUCH AS YOU CAN, ANYWAY. HE HAS A PASSION FOR GIVING +AUDIENCES, BUT HE DOES NOT LIKE TALKING HIMSELF AND CAN’T DO IT, AS +YOU WILL SEE.” + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +AT THE LEVEE PRINCE ANDREW STOOD AMONG THE AUSTRIAN OFFICERS AS HE HAD +BEEN TOLD TO, AND THE EMPEROR FRANCIS MERELY LOOKED FIXEDLY INTO HIS +FACE AND JUST NODDED TO HIM WITH HIS LONG HEAD. BUT AFTER IT WAS +OVER, THE ADJUTANT HE HAD SEEN THE PREVIOUS DAY CEREMONIOUSLY INFORMED +BOLKóNSKI THAT THE EMPEROR DESIRED TO GIVE HIM AN AUDIENCE. THE EMPEROR +FRANCIS RECEIVED HIM STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM. BEFORE THE +CONVERSATION BEGAN PRINCE ANDREW WAS STRUCK BY THE FACT THAT THE EMPEROR +SEEMED CONFUSED AND BLUSHED AS IF NOT KNOWING WHAT TO SAY. + +“TELL ME, WHEN DID THE BATTLE BEGIN?” HE ASKED HURRIEDLY. + +PRINCE ANDREW REPLIED. THEN FOLLOWED OTHER QUESTIONS JUST AS SIMPLE: +“WAS KUTúZOV WELL? WHEN HAD HE LEFT KREMS?” AND SO ON. THE EMPEROR +SPOKE AS IF HIS SOLE AIM WERE TO PUT A GIVEN NUMBER OF QUESTIONS—THE +ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS, AS WAS ONLY TOO EVIDENT, DID NOT INTEREST +HIM. + +“AT WHAT O’CLOCK DID THE BATTLE BEGIN?” ASKED THE EMPEROR. + +“I CANNOT INFORM YOUR MAJESTY AT WHAT O’CLOCK THE BATTLE BEGAN AT +THE FRONT, BUT AT DüRRENSTEIN, WHERE I WAS, OUR ATTACK BEGAN AFTER +FIVE IN THE AFTERNOON,” REPLIED BOLKóNSKI GROWING MORE ANIMATED AND +EXPECTING THAT HE WOULD HAVE A CHANCE TO GIVE A RELIABLE ACCOUNT, WHICH +HE HAD READY IN HIS MIND, OF ALL HE KNEW AND HAD SEEN. BUT THE EMPEROR +SMILED AND INTERRUPTED HIM. + +“HOW MANY MILES?” + +“FROM WHERE TO WHERE, YOUR MAJESTY?” + +“FROM DüRRENSTEIN TO KREMS.” + +“THREE AND A HALF MILES, YOUR MAJESTY.” + +“THE FRENCH HAVE ABANDONED THE LEFT BANK?” + +“ACCORDING TO THE SCOUTS THE LAST OF THEM CROSSED ON RAFTS DURING THE +NIGHT.” + +“IS THERE SUFFICIENT FORAGE IN KREMS?” + +“FORAGE HAS NOT BEEN SUPPLIED TO THE EXTENT...” + +THE EMPEROR INTERRUPTED HIM. + +“AT WHAT O’CLOCK WAS GENERAL SCHMIDT KILLED?” + +“AT SEVEN O’CLOCK, I BELIEVE.” + +“AT SEVEN O’CLOCK? IT’S VERY SAD, VERY SAD!” + +THE EMPEROR THANKED PRINCE ANDREW AND BOWED. PRINCE ANDREW WITHDREW AND +WAS IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDED BY COURTIERS ON ALL SIDES. EVERYWHERE HE +SAW FRIENDLY LOOKS AND HEARD FRIENDLY WORDS. YESTERDAY’S ADJUTANT +REPROACHED HIM FOR NOT HAVING STAYED AT THE PALACE, AND OFFERED HIM +HIS OWN HOUSE. THE MINISTER OF WAR CAME UP AND CONGRATULATED HIM ON THE +MARIA THERESA ORDER OF THE THIRD GRADE, WHICH THE EMPEROR WAS CONFERRING +ON HIM. THE EMPRESS’ CHAMBERLAIN INVITED HIM TO SEE HER MAJESTY. THE +ARCHDUCHESS ALSO WISHED TO SEE HIM. HE DID NOT KNOW WHOM TO ANSWER, AND +FOR A FEW SECONDS COLLECTED HIS THOUGHTS. THEN THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR +TOOK HIM BY THE SHOULDER, LED HIM TO THE WINDOW, AND BEGAN TO TALK TO +HIM. + +CONTRARY TO BILíBIN’S FORECAST THE NEWS HE HAD BROUGHT WAS JOYFULLY +RECEIVED. A THANKSGIVING SERVICE WAS ARRANGED, KUTúZOV WAS AWARDED +THE GRAND CROSS OF MARIA THERESA, AND THE WHOLE ARMY RECEIVED REWARDS. +BOLKóNSKI WAS INVITED EVERYWHERE, AND HAD TO SPEND THE WHOLE MORNING +CALLING ON THE PRINCIPAL AUSTRIAN DIGNITARIES. BETWEEN FOUR AND FIVE +IN THE AFTERNOON, HAVING MADE ALL HIS CALLS, HE WAS RETURNING TO +BILíBIN’S HOUSE THINKING OUT A LETTER TO HIS FATHER ABOUT THE BATTLE +AND HIS VISIT TO BRüNN. AT THE DOOR HE FOUND A VEHICLE HALF FULL OF +LUGGAGE. FRANZ, BILíBIN’S MAN, WAS DRAGGING A PORTMANTEAU WITH SOME +DIFFICULTY OUT OF THE FRONT DOOR. + +BEFORE RETURNING TO BILíBIN’S PRINCE ANDREW HAD GONE TO A BOOKSHOP +TO PROVIDE HIMSELF WITH SOME BOOKS FOR THE CAMPAIGN, AND HAD SPENT SOME +TIME IN THE SHOP. + +“WHAT IS IT?” HE ASKED. + +“OH, YOUR EXCELLENCY!” SAID FRANZ, WITH DIFFICULTY ROLLING THE +PORTMANTEAU INTO THE VEHICLE, “WE ARE TO MOVE ON STILL FARTHER. THE +SCOUNDREL IS AGAIN AT OUR HEELS!” + +“EH? WHAT?” ASKED PRINCE ANDREW. + +BILíBIN CAME OUT TO MEET HIM. HIS USUALLY CALM FACE SHOWED EXCITEMENT. + +“THERE NOW! CONFESS THAT THIS IS DELIGHTFUL,” SAID HE. “THIS +AFFAIR OF THE THABOR BRIDGE, AT VIENNA.... THEY HAVE CROSSED WITHOUT +STRIKING A BLOW!” + +PRINCE ANDREW COULD NOT UNDERSTAND. + +“BUT WHERE DO YOU COME FROM NOT TO KNOW WHAT EVERY COACHMAN IN THE +TOWN KNOWS?” + +“I COME FROM THE ARCHDUCHESS’. I HEARD NOTHING THERE.” + +“AND YOU DIDN’T SEE THAT EVERYBODY IS PACKING UP?” + +“I DID NOT... WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT?” INQUIRED PRINCE ANDREW +IMPATIENTLY. + +“WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT? WHY, THE FRENCH HAVE CROSSED THE BRIDGE THAT +AUERSPERG WAS DEFENDING, AND THE BRIDGE WAS NOT BLOWN UP: SO MURAT +IS NOW RUSHING ALONG THE ROAD TO BRüNN AND WILL BE HERE IN A DAY OR +TWO.” + +“WHAT? HERE? BUT WHY DID THEY NOT BLOW UP THE BRIDGE, IF IT WAS +MINED?” + +“THAT IS WHAT I ASK YOU. NO ONE, NOT EVEN BONAPARTE, KNOWS WHY.” + +BOLKóNSKI SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS. + +“BUT IF THE BRIDGE IS CROSSED IT MEANS THAT THE ARMY TOO IS LOST? IT +WILL BE CUT OFF,” SAID HE. + +“THAT’S JUST IT,” ANSWERED BILíBIN. “LISTEN! THE FRENCH ENTERED +VIENNA AS I TOLD YOU. VERY WELL. NEXT DAY, WHICH WAS YESTERDAY, THOSE +GENTLEMEN, MESSIEURS LES MARéCHAUX, * MURAT, LANNES, AND BELLIARD, +MOUNT AND RIDE TO THE BRIDGE. (OBSERVE THAT ALL THREE ARE GASCONS.) +‘GENTLEMEN,’ SAYS ONE OF THEM, ‘YOU KNOW THE THABOR BRIDGE IS +MINED AND DOUBLY MINED AND THAT THERE ARE MENACING FORTIFICATIONS AT ITS +HEAD AND AN ARMY OF FIFTEEN THOUSAND MEN HAS BEEN ORDERED TO BLOW UP +THE BRIDGE AND NOT LET US CROSS? BUT IT WILL PLEASE OUR SOVEREIGN THE +EMPEROR NAPOLEON IF WE TAKE THIS BRIDGE, SO LET US THREE GO AND TAKE +IT!’ ‘YES, LET’S!’ SAY THE OTHERS. AND OFF THEY GO AND TAKE THE +BRIDGE, CROSS IT, AND NOW WITH THEIR WHOLE ARMY ARE ON THIS SIDE OF THE +DANUBE, MARCHING ON US, YOU, AND YOUR LINES OF COMMUNICATION.” + + * THE MARSHALLS. + +“STOP JESTING,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW SADLY AND SERIOUSLY. THIS NEWS +GRIEVED HIM AND YET HE WAS PLEASED. + +AS SOON AS HE LEARNED THAT THE RUSSIAN ARMY WAS IN SUCH A HOPELESS +SITUATION IT OCCURRED TO HIM THAT IT WAS HE WHO WAS DESTINED TO LEAD IT +OUT OF THIS POSITION; THAT HERE WAS THE TOULON THAT WOULD LIFT HIM FROM +THE RANKS OF OBSCURE OFFICERS AND OFFER HIM THE FIRST STEP TO FAME! +LISTENING TO BILíBIN HE WAS ALREADY IMAGINING HOW ON REACHING THE ARMY +HE WOULD GIVE AN OPINION AT THE WAR COUNCIL WHICH WOULD BE THE ONLY ONE +THAT COULD SAVE THE ARMY, AND HOW HE ALONE WOULD BE ENTRUSTED WITH THE +EXECUTING OF THE PLAN. + +“STOP THIS JESTING,” HE SAID. + +“I AM NOT JESTING,” BILíBIN WENT ON. “NOTHING IS TRUER OR SADDER. +THESE GENTLEMEN RIDE ONTO THE BRIDGE ALONE AND WAVE WHITE HANDKERCHIEFS; +THEY ASSURE THE OFFICER ON DUTY THAT THEY, THE MARSHALS, ARE ON +THEIR WAY TO NEGOTIATE WITH PRINCE AUERSPERG. HE LETS THEM ENTER THE +TêTE-DE-PONT. * THEY SPIN HIM A THOUSAND GASCONADES, SAYING THAT +THE WAR IS OVER, THAT THE EMPEROR FRANCIS IS ARRANGING A MEETING WITH +BONAPARTE, THAT THEY DESIRE TO SEE PRINCE AUERSPERG, AND SO ON. THE +OFFICER SENDS FOR AUERSPERG; THESE GENTLEMEN EMBRACE THE OFFICERS, CRACK +JOKES, SIT ON THE CANNON, AND MEANWHILE A FRENCH BATTALION GETS TO +THE BRIDGE UNOBSERVED, FLINGS THE BAGS OF INCENDIARY MATERIAL INTO +THE WATER, AND APPROACHES THE TêTE-DE-PONT. AT LENGTH APPEARS THE +LIEUTENANT GENERAL, OUR DEAR PRINCE AUERSPERG VON MAUTERN HIMSELF. +‘DEAREST FOE! FLOWER OF THE AUSTRIAN ARMY, HERO OF THE TURKISH WARS! +HOSTILITIES ARE ENDED, WE CAN SHAKE ONE ANOTHER’S HAND.... THE +EMPEROR NAPOLEON BURNS WITH IMPATIENCE TO MAKE PRINCE AUERSPERG’S +ACQUAINTANCE.’ IN A WORD, THOSE GENTLEMEN, GASCONS INDEED, SO +BEWILDERED HIM WITH FINE WORDS, AND HE IS SO FLATTERED BY HIS RAPIDLY +ESTABLISHED INTIMACY WITH THE FRENCH MARSHALS, AND SO DAZZLED BY THE +SIGHT OF MURAT’S MANTLE AND OSTRICH PLUMES, QU’IL N’Y VOIT QUE DU +FEU, ET OUBLIE CELUI QU’IL DEVAIT FAIRE FAIRE SUR L’ENNEMI!” *(2) +IN SPITE OF THE ANIMATION OF HIS SPEECH, BILíBIN DID NOT FORGET TO +PAUSE AFTER THIS MOT TO GIVE TIME FOR ITS DUE APPRECIATION. “THE +FRENCH BATTALION RUSHES TO THE BRIDGEHEAD, SPIKES THE GUNS, AND THE +BRIDGE IS TAKEN! BUT WHAT IS BEST OF ALL,” HE WENT ON, HIS EXCITEMENT +SUBSIDING UNDER THE DELIGHTFUL INTEREST OF HIS OWN STORY, “IS THAT THE +SERGEANT IN CHARGE OF THE CANNON WHICH WAS TO GIVE THE SIGNAL TO FIRE +THE MINES AND BLOW UP THE BRIDGE, THIS SERGEANT, SEEING THAT THE FRENCH +TROOPS WERE RUNNING ONTO THE BRIDGE, WAS ABOUT TO FIRE, BUT LANNES +STAYED HIS HAND. THE SERGEANT, WHO WAS EVIDENTLY WISER THAN HIS GENERAL, +GOES UP TO AUERSPERG AND SAYS: ‘PRINCE, YOU ARE BEING DECEIVED, HERE +ARE THE FRENCH!’ MURAT, SEEING THAT ALL IS LOST IF THE SERGEANT IS +ALLOWED TO SPEAK, TURNS TO AUERSPERG WITH FEIGNED ASTONISHMENT (HE IS A +TRUE GASCON) AND SAYS: ‘I DON’T RECOGNIZE THE WORLD-FAMOUS AUSTRIAN +DISCIPLINE, IF YOU ALLOW A SUBORDINATE TO ADDRESS YOU LIKE THAT!’ IT +WAS A STROKE OF GENIUS. PRINCE AUERSPERG FEELS HIS DIGNITY AT STAKE AND +ORDERS THE SERGEANT TO BE ARRESTED. COME, YOU MUST OWN THAT THIS AFFAIR +OF THE THABOR BRIDGE IS DELIGHTFUL! IT IS NOT EXACTLY STUPIDITY, NOR +RASCALITY....” + + * BRIDGEHEAD. + + * (2) THAT THEIR FIRE GETS INTO HIS EYES AND HE FORGETS THAT + HE OUGHT TO BE FIRING AT THE ENEMY. + +“IT MAY BE TREACHERY,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, VIVIDLY IMAGINING THE +GRAY OVERCOATS, WOUNDS, THE SMOKE OF GUNPOWDER, THE SOUNDS OF FIRING, +AND THE GLORY THAT AWAITED HIM. + +“NOT THAT EITHER. THAT PUTS THE COURT IN TOO BAD A LIGHT,” REPLIED +BILíBIN. “IT’S NOT TREACHERY NOR RASCALITY NOR STUPIDITY: IT IS +JUST AS AT ULM... IT IS...”—HE SEEMED TO BE TRYING TO FIND THE RIGHT +EXPRESSION. “C’EST... C’EST DU MACK. NOUS SOMMES MACKéS (IT IS... +IT IS A BIT OF MACK. WE ARE MACKED),” HE CONCLUDED, FEELING THAT HE +HAD PRODUCED A GOOD EPIGRAM, A FRESH ONE THAT WOULD BE REPEATED. HIS +HITHERTO PUCKERED BROW BECAME SMOOTH AS A SIGN OF PLEASURE, AND WITH A +SLIGHT SMILE HE BEGAN TO EXAMINE HIS NAILS. + +“WHERE ARE YOU OFF TO?” HE SAID SUDDENLY TO PRINCE ANDREW WHO HAD +RISEN AND WAS GOING TOWARD HIS ROOM. + +“I AM GOING AWAY.” + +“WHERE TO?” + +“TO THE ARMY.” + +“BUT YOU MEANT TO STAY ANOTHER TWO DAYS?” + +“BUT NOW I AM OFF AT ONCE.” + +AND PRINCE ANDREW AFTER GIVING DIRECTIONS ABOUT HIS DEPARTURE WENT TO +HIS ROOM. + +“DO YOU KNOW, MON CHER,” SAID BILíBIN FOLLOWING HIM, “I HAVE BEEN +THINKING ABOUT YOU. WHY ARE YOU GOING?” + +AND IN PROOF OF THE CONCLUSIVENESS OF HIS OPINION ALL THE WRINKLES +VANISHED FROM HIS FACE. + +PRINCE ANDREW LOOKED INQUIRINGLY AT HIM AND GAVE NO REPLY. + +“WHY ARE YOU GOING? I KNOW YOU THINK IT YOUR DUTY TO GALLOP BACK TO +THE ARMY NOW THAT IT IS IN DANGER. I UNDERSTAND THAT. MON CHER, IT IS +HEROISM!” + +“NOT AT ALL,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. + +“BUT AS YOU ARE A PHILOSOPHER, BE A CONSISTENT ONE, LOOK AT THE OTHER +SIDE OF THE QUESTION AND YOU WILL SEE THAT YOUR DUTY, ON THE CONTRARY, +IS TO TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. LEAVE IT TO THOSE WHO ARE NO LONGER FIT FOR +ANYTHING ELSE.... YOU HAVE NOT BEEN ORDERED TO RETURN AND HAVE NOT BEEN +DISMISSED FROM HERE; THEREFORE, YOU CAN STAY AND GO WITH US WHEREVER OUR +ILL LUCK TAKES US. THEY SAY WE ARE GOING TO OLMüTZ, AND OLMüTZ IS A +VERY DECENT TOWN. YOU AND I WILL TRAVEL COMFORTABLY IN MY CALèCHE.” + +“DO STOP JOKING, BILíBIN,” CRIED BOLKóNSKI. + +“I AM SPEAKING SINCERELY AS A FRIEND! CONSIDER! WHERE AND WHY ARE +YOU GOING, WHEN YOU MIGHT REMAIN HERE? YOU ARE FACED BY ONE OF TWO +THINGS,” AND THE SKIN OVER HIS LEFT TEMPLE PUCKERED, “EITHER YOU +WILL NOT REACH YOUR REGIMENT BEFORE PEACE IS CONCLUDED, OR YOU WILL +SHARE DEFEAT AND DISGRACE WITH KUTúZOV’S WHOLE ARMY.” + +AND BILíBIN UNWRINKLED HIS TEMPLE, FEELING THAT THE DILEMMA WAS +INSOLUBLE. + +“I CANNOT ARGUE ABOUT IT,” REPLIED PRINCE ANDREW COLDLY, BUT HE +THOUGHT: “I AM GOING TO SAVE THE ARMY.” + +“MY DEAR FELLOW, YOU ARE A HERO!” SAID BILíBIN. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIII + +THAT SAME NIGHT, HAVING TAKEN LEAVE OF THE MINISTER OF WAR, BOLKóNSKI +SET OFF TO REJOIN THE ARMY, NOT KNOWING WHERE HE WOULD FIND IT AND +FEARING TO BE CAPTURED BY THE FRENCH ON THE WAY TO KREMS. + +IN BRüNN EVERYBODY ATTACHED TO THE COURT WAS PACKING UP, AND THE HEAVY +BAGGAGE WAS ALREADY BEING DISPATCHED TO OLMüTZ. NEAR HETZELSDORF PRINCE +ANDREW STRUCK THE HIGH ROAD ALONG WHICH THE RUSSIAN ARMY WAS MOVING WITH +GREAT HASTE AND IN THE GREATEST DISORDER. THE ROAD WAS SO OBSTRUCTED +WITH CARTS THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO GET BY IN A CARRIAGE. PRINCE ANDREW +TOOK A HORSE AND A COSSACK FROM A COSSACK COMMANDER, AND HUNGRY AND +WEARY, MAKING HIS WAY PAST THE BAGGAGE WAGONS, RODE IN SEARCH OF THE +COMMANDER IN CHIEF AND OF HIS OWN LUGGAGE. VERY SINISTER REPORTS OF THE +POSITION OF THE ARMY REACHED HIM AS HE WENT ALONG, AND THE APPEARANCE OF +THE TROOPS IN THEIR DISORDERLY FLIGHT CONFIRMED THESE RUMORS. + +“CETTE ARMéE RUSSE QUE L’OR DE L’ANGLETERRE A TRANSPORTéE DES +EXTRéMITéS DE L’UNIVERS, NOUS ALLONS LUI FAIRE éPROUVER LE MêME +SORT—(LE SORT DE L’ARMéE D’ULM).” * HE REMEMBERED THESE WORDS +IN BONAPARTE’S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CAMPAIGN, +AND THEY AWOKE IN HIM ASTONISHMENT AT THE GENIUS OF HIS HERO, A FEELING +OF WOUNDED PRIDE, AND A HOPE OF GLORY. “AND SHOULD THERE BE NOTHING +LEFT BUT TO DIE?” HE THOUGHT. “WELL, IF NEED BE, I SHALL DO IT NO +WORSE THAN OTHERS.” + + * “THAT RUSSIAN ARMY WHICH HAS BEEN BROUGHT FROM THE ENDS OF + THE EARTH BY ENGLISH GOLD, WE SHALL CAUSE TO SHARE THE SAME + FATE—(THE FATE OF THE ARMY AT ULM).” + + +HE LOOKED WITH DISDAIN AT THE ENDLESS CONFUSED MASS OF DETACHMENTS, +CARTS, GUNS, ARTILLERY, AND AGAIN BAGGAGE WAGONS AND VEHICLES OF ALL +KINDS OVERTAKING ONE ANOTHER AND BLOCKING THE MUDDY ROAD, THREE AND +SOMETIMES FOUR ABREAST. FROM ALL SIDES, BEHIND AND BEFORE, AS FAR AS EAR +COULD REACH, THERE WERE THE RATTLE OF WHEELS, THE CREAKING OF CARTS +AND GUN CARRIAGES, THE TRAMP OF HORSES, THE CRACK OF WHIPS, SHOUTS, THE +URGING OF HORSES, AND THE SWEARING OF SOLDIERS, ORDERLIES, AND OFFICERS. +ALL ALONG THE SIDES OF THE ROAD FALLEN HORSES WERE TO BE SEEN, SOME +FLAYED, SOME NOT, AND BROKEN-DOWN CARTS BESIDE WHICH SOLITARY SOLDIERS +SAT WAITING FOR SOMETHING, AND AGAIN SOLDIERS STRAGGLING FROM THEIR +COMPANIES, CROWDS OF WHOM SET OFF TO THE NEIGHBORING VILLAGES, OR +RETURNED FROM THEM DRAGGING SHEEP, FOWLS, HAY, AND BULGING SACKS. AT +EACH ASCENT OR DESCENT OF THE ROAD THE CROWDS WERE YET DENSER AND THE +DIN OF SHOUTING MORE INCESSANT. SOLDIERS FLOUNDERING KNEE-DEEP IN MUD +PUSHED THE GUNS AND WAGONS THEMSELVES. WHIPS CRACKED, HOOFS SLIPPED, +TRACES BROKE, AND LUNGS WERE STRAINED WITH SHOUTING. THE OFFICERS +DIRECTING THE MARCH RODE BACKWARD AND FORWARD BETWEEN THE CARTS. THEIR +VOICES WERE BUT FEEBLY HEARD AMID THE UPROAR AND ONE SAW BY THEIR FACES +THAT THEY DESPAIRED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF CHECKING THIS DISORDER. + +“HERE IS OUR DEAR ORTHODOX RUSSIAN ARMY,” THOUGHT BOLKóNSKI, +RECALLING BILíBIN’S WORDS. + +WISHING TO FIND OUT WHERE THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF WAS, HE RODE UP TO +A CONVOY. DIRECTLY OPPOSITE TO HIM CAME A STRANGE ONE-HORSE VEHICLE, +EVIDENTLY RIGGED UP BY SOLDIERS OUT OF ANY AVAILABLE MATERIALS AND +LOOKING LIKE SOMETHING BETWEEN A CART, A CABRIOLET, AND A CALèCHE. +A SOLDIER WAS DRIVING, AND A WOMAN ENVELOPED IN SHAWLS SAT BEHIND THE +APRON UNDER THE LEATHER HOOD OF THE VEHICLE. PRINCE ANDREW RODE UP +AND WAS JUST PUTTING HIS QUESTION TO A SOLDIER WHEN HIS ATTENTION +WAS DIVERTED BY THE DESPERATE SHRIEKS OF THE WOMAN IN THE VEHICLE. AN +OFFICER IN CHARGE OF TRANSPORT WAS BEATING THE SOLDIER WHO WAS DRIVING +THE WOMAN’S VEHICLE FOR TRYING TO GET AHEAD OF OTHERS, AND THE STROKES +OF HIS WHIP FELL ON THE APRON OF THE EQUIPAGE. THE WOMAN SCREAMED +PIERCINGLY. SEEING PRINCE ANDREW SHE LEANED OUT FROM BEHIND THE APRON +AND, WAVING HER THIN ARMS FROM UNDER THE WOOLEN SHAWL, CRIED: + +“MR. AIDE-DE-CAMP! MR. AIDE-DE-CAMP!... FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE... PROTECT +ME! WHAT WILL BECOME OF US? I AM THE WIFE OF THE DOCTOR OF THE SEVENTH +CHASSEURS.... THEY WON’T LET US PASS, WE ARE LEFT BEHIND AND HAVE LOST +OUR PEOPLE...” + +“I’LL FLATTEN YOU INTO A PANCAKE!” SHOUTED THE ANGRY OFFICER TO +THE SOLDIER. “TURN BACK WITH YOUR SLUT!” + +“MR. AIDE-DE-CAMP! HELP ME!... WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?” SCREAMED THE +DOCTOR’S WIFE. + +“KINDLY LET THIS CART PASS. DON’T YOU SEE IT’S A WOMAN?” SAID +PRINCE ANDREW RIDING UP TO THE OFFICER. + +THE OFFICER GLANCED AT HIM, AND WITHOUT REPLYING TURNED AGAIN TO THE +SOLDIER. “I’LL TEACH YOU TO PUSH ON!... BACK!” + +“LET THEM PASS, I TELL YOU!” REPEATED PRINCE ANDREW, COMPRESSING HIS +LIPS. + +“AND WHO ARE YOU?” CRIED THE OFFICER, TURNING ON HIM WITH TIPSY +RAGE, “WHO ARE YOU? ARE YOU IN COMMAND HERE? EH? I AM COMMANDER HERE, +NOT YOU! GO BACK OR I’LL FLATTEN YOU INTO A PANCAKE,” REPEATED HE. +THIS EXPRESSION EVIDENTLY PLEASED HIM. + +“THAT WAS A NICE SNUB FOR THE LITTLE AIDE-DE-CAMP,” CAME A VOICE +FROM BEHIND. + +PRINCE ANDREW SAW THAT THE OFFICER WAS IN THAT STATE OF SENSELESS, +TIPSY RAGE WHEN A MAN DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE IS SAYING. HE SAW THAT HIS +CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE DOCTOR’S WIFE IN HER QUEER TRAP MIGHT EXPOSE HIM +TO WHAT HE DREADED MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THE WORLD—TO RIDICULE; BUT +HIS INSTINCT URGED HIM ON. BEFORE THE OFFICER FINISHED HIS SENTENCE +PRINCE ANDREW, HIS FACE DISTORTED WITH FURY, RODE UP TO HIM AND RAISED +HIS RIDING WHIP. + +“KIND...LY LET—THEM—PASS!” + +THE OFFICER FLOURISHED HIS ARM AND HASTILY RODE AWAY. + +“IT’S ALL THE FAULT OF THESE FELLOWS ON THE STAFF THAT THERE’S +THIS DISORDER,” HE MUTTERED. “DO AS YOU LIKE.” + +PRINCE ANDREW WITHOUT LIFTING HIS EYES RODE HASTILY AWAY FROM THE +DOCTOR’S WIFE, WHO WAS CALLING HIM HER DELIVERER, AND RECALLING WITH +A SENSE OF DISGUST THE MINUTEST DETAILS OF THIS HUMILIATING SCENE HE +GALLOPED ON TO THE VILLAGE WHERE HE WAS TOLD THAT THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF +WAS. + +ON REACHING THE VILLAGE HE DISMOUNTED AND WENT TO THE NEAREST HOUSE, +INTENDING TO REST IF BUT FOR A MOMENT, EAT SOMETHING, AND TRY TO SORT +OUT THE STINGING AND TORMENTING THOUGHTS THAT CONFUSED HIS MIND. “THIS +IS A MOB OF SCOUNDRELS AND NOT AN ARMY,” HE WAS THINKING AS HE WENT +UP TO THE WINDOW OF THE FIRST HOUSE, WHEN A FAMILIAR VOICE CALLED HIM BY +NAME. + +HE TURNED ROUND. NESVíTSKI’S HANDSOME FACE LOOKED OUT OF THE LITTLE +WINDOW. NESVíTSKI, MOVING HIS MOIST LIPS AS HE CHEWED SOMETHING, AND +FLOURISHING HIS ARM, CALLED HIM TO ENTER. + +“BOLKóNSKI! BOLKóNSKI!... DON’T YOU HEAR? EH? COME QUICK...” HE +SHOUTED. + +ENTERING THE HOUSE, PRINCE ANDREW SAW NESVíTSKI AND ANOTHER ADJUTANT +HAVING SOMETHING TO EAT. THEY HASTILY TURNED ROUND TO HIM ASKING IF HE +HAD ANY NEWS. ON THEIR FAMILIAR FACES HE READ AGITATION AND ALARM. +THIS WAS PARTICULARLY NOTICEABLE ON NESVíTSKI’S USUALLY LAUGHING +COUNTENANCE. + +“WHERE IS THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF?” ASKED BOLKóNSKI. + +“HERE, IN THAT HOUSE,” ANSWERED THE ADJUTANT. + +“WELL, IS IT TRUE THAT IT’S PEACE AND CAPITULATION?” ASKED +NESVíTSKI. + +“I WAS GOING TO ASK YOU. I KNOW NOTHING EXCEPT THAT IT WAS ALL I COULD +DO TO GET HERE.” + +“AND WE, MY DEAR BOY! IT’S TERRIBLE! I WAS WRONG TO LAUGH AT MACK, +WE’RE GETTING IT STILL WORSE,” SAID NESVíTSKI. “BUT SIT DOWN AND +HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.” + +“YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO FIND EITHER YOUR BAGGAGE OR ANYTHING ELSE NOW, +PRINCE. AND GOD ONLY KNOWS WHERE YOUR MAN PETER IS,” SAID THE OTHER +ADJUTANT. + +“WHERE ARE HEADQUARTERS?” + +“WE ARE TO SPEND THE NIGHT IN ZNAIM.” + +“WELL, I HAVE GOT ALL I NEED INTO PACKS FOR TWO HORSES,” SAID +NESVíTSKI. “THEY’VE MADE UP SPLENDID PACKS FOR ME—FIT TO CROSS +THE BOHEMIAN MOUNTAINS WITH. IT’S A BAD LOOKOUT, OLD FELLOW! BUT +WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH YOU? YOU MUST BE ILL TO SHIVER LIKE THAT,” HE +ADDED, NOTICING THAT PRINCE ANDREW WINCED AS AT AN ELECTRIC SHOCK. + +“IT’S NOTHING,” REPLIED PRINCE ANDREW. + +HE HAD JUST REMEMBERED HIS RECENT ENCOUNTER WITH THE DOCTOR’S WIFE AND +THE CONVOY OFFICER. + +“WHAT IS THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF DOING HERE?” HE ASKED. + +“I CAN’T MAKE OUT AT ALL,” SAID NESVíTSKI. + +“WELL, ALL I CAN MAKE OUT IS THAT EVERYTHING IS ABOMINABLE, +ABOMINABLE, QUITE ABOMINABLE!” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, AND HE WENT OFF TO +THE HOUSE WHERE THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF WAS. + +PASSING BY KUTúZOV’S CARRIAGE AND THE EXHAUSTED SADDLE HORSES OF +HIS SUITE, WITH THEIR COSSACKS WHO WERE TALKING LOUDLY TOGETHER, PRINCE +ANDREW ENTERED THE PASSAGE. KUTúZOV HIMSELF, HE WAS TOLD, WAS IN THE +HOUSE WITH PRINCE BAGRATIóN AND WEYROTHER. WEYROTHER WAS THE AUSTRIAN +GENERAL WHO HAD SUCCEEDED SCHMIDT. IN THE PASSAGE LITTLE KOZLóVSKI WAS +SQUATTING ON HIS HEELS IN FRONT OF A CLERK. THE CLERK, WITH CUFFS TURNED +UP, WAS HASTILY WRITING AT A TUB TURNED BOTTOM UPWARDS. KOZLóVSKI’S +FACE LOOKED WORN—HE TOO HAD EVIDENTLY NOT SLEPT ALL NIGHT. HE GLANCED +AT PRINCE ANDREW AND DID NOT EVEN NOD TO HIM. + +“SECOND LINE... HAVE YOU WRITTEN IT?” HE CONTINUED DICTATING TO THE +CLERK. “THE KIEV GRENADIERS, PODOLIAN...” + +“ONE CAN’T WRITE SO FAST, YOUR HONOR,” SAID THE CLERK, GLANCING +ANGRILY AND DISRESPECTFULLY AT KOZLóVSKI. + +THROUGH THE DOOR CAME THE SOUNDS OF KUTúZOV’S VOICE, EXCITED AND +DISSATISFIED, INTERRUPTED BY ANOTHER, AN UNFAMILIAR VOICE. FROM THE +SOUND OF THESE VOICES, THE INATTENTIVE WAY KOZLóVSKI LOOKED AT HIM, THE +DISRESPECTFUL MANNER OF THE EXHAUSTED CLERK, THE FACT THAT THE CLERK AND +KOZLóVSKI WERE SQUATTING ON THE FLOOR BY A TUB SO NEAR TO THE COMMANDER +IN CHIEF, AND FROM THE NOISY LAUGHTER OF THE COSSACKS HOLDING THE +HORSES NEAR THE WINDOW, PRINCE ANDREW FELT THAT SOMETHING IMPORTANT AND +DISASTROUS WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. + +HE TURNED TO KOZLóVSKI WITH URGENT QUESTIONS. + +“IMMEDIATELY, PRINCE,” SAID KOZLóVSKI. “DISPOSITIONS FOR +BAGRATIóN.” + +“WHAT ABOUT CAPITULATION?” + +“NOTHING OF THE SORT. ORDERS ARE ISSUED FOR A BATTLE.” + +PRINCE ANDREW MOVED TOWARD THE DOOR FROM WHENCE VOICES WERE HEARD. +JUST AS HE WAS GOING TO OPEN IT THE SOUNDS CEASED, THE DOOR OPENED, AND +KUTúZOV WITH HIS EAGLE NOSE AND PUFFY FACE APPEARED IN THE DOORWAY. +PRINCE ANDREW STOOD RIGHT IN FRONT OF KUTúZOV BUT THE EXPRESSION OF +THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF’S ONE SOUND EYE SHOWED HIM TO BE SO PREOCCUPIED +WITH THOUGHTS AND ANXIETIES AS TO BE OBLIVIOUS OF HIS PRESENCE. HE +LOOKED STRAIGHT AT HIS ADJUTANT’S FACE WITHOUT RECOGNIZING HIM. + +“WELL, HAVE YOU FINISHED?” SAID HE TO KOZLóVSKI. + +“ONE MOMENT, YOUR EXCELLENCY.” + +BAGRATIóN, A GAUNT MIDDLE-AGED MAN OF MEDIUM HEIGHT WITH A FIRM, +IMPASSIVE FACE OF ORIENTAL TYPE, CAME OUT AFTER THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. + +“I HAVE THE HONOR TO PRESENT MYSELF,” REPEATED PRINCE ANDREW RATHER +LOUDLY, HANDING KUTúZOV AN ENVELOPE. + +“AH, FROM VIENNA? VERY GOOD. LATER, LATER!” + +KUTúZOV WENT OUT INTO THE PORCH WITH BAGRATIóN. + +“WELL, GOOD-BY, PRINCE,” SAID HE TO BAGRATIóN. “MY BLESSING, AND +MAY CHRIST BE WITH YOU IN YOUR GREAT ENDEAVOR!” + +HIS FACE SUDDENLY SOFTENED AND TEARS CAME INTO HIS EYES. WITH HIS LEFT +HAND HE DREW BAGRATIóN TOWARD HIM, AND WITH HIS RIGHT, ON WHICH HE WORE +A RING, HE MADE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS OVER HIM WITH A GESTURE EVIDENTLY +HABITUAL, OFFERING HIS PUFFY CHEEK, BUT BAGRATIóN KISSED HIM ON THE +NECK INSTEAD. + +“CHRIST BE WITH YOU!” KUTúZOV REPEATED AND WENT TOWARD HIS +CARRIAGE. “GET IN WITH ME,” SAID HE TO BOLKóNSKI. + +“YOUR EXCELLENCY, I SHOULD LIKE TO BE OF USE HERE. ALLOW ME TO REMAIN +WITH PRINCE BAGRATIóN’S DETACHMENT.” + +“GET IN,” SAID KUTúZOV, AND NOTICING THAT BOLKóNSKI STILL DELAYED, +HE ADDED: “I NEED GOOD OFFICERS MYSELF, NEED THEM MYSELF!” + +THEY GOT INTO THE CARRIAGE AND DROVE FOR A FEW MINUTES IN SILENCE. + +“THERE IS STILL MUCH, MUCH BEFORE US,” HE SAID, AS IF WITH AN OLD +MAN’S PENETRATION HE UNDERSTOOD ALL THAT WAS PASSING IN BOLKóNSKI’S +MIND. “IF A TENTH PART OF HIS DETACHMENT RETURNS I SHALL THANK GOD,” +HE ADDED AS IF SPEAKING TO HIMSELF. + +PRINCE ANDREW GLANCED AT KUTúZOV’S FACE ONLY A FOOT DISTANT FROM HIM +AND INVOLUNTARILY NOTICED THE CAREFULLY WASHED SEAMS OF THE SCAR NEAR +HIS TEMPLE, WHERE AN ISMAIL BULLET HAD PIERCED HIS SKULL, AND THE EMPTY +EYE SOCKET. “YES, HE HAS A RIGHT TO SPEAK SO CALMLY OF THOSE MEN’S +DEATH,” THOUGHT BOLKóNSKI. + +“THAT IS WHY I BEG TO BE SENT TO THAT DETACHMENT,” HE SAID. + +KUTúZOV DID NOT REPLY. HE SEEMED TO HAVE FORGOTTEN WHAT HE HAD BEEN +SAYING, AND SAT PLUNGED IN THOUGHT. FIVE MINUTES LATER, GENTLY SWAYING +ON THE SOFT SPRINGS OF THE CARRIAGE, HE TURNED TO PRINCE ANDREW. +THERE WAS NOT A TRACE OF AGITATION ON HIS FACE. WITH DELICATE IRONY HE +QUESTIONED PRINCE ANDREW ABOUT THE DETAILS OF HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE +EMPEROR, ABOUT THE REMARKS HE HAD HEARD AT COURT CONCERNING THE KREMS +AFFAIR, AND ABOUT SOME LADIES THEY BOTH KNEW. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +ON NOVEMBER 1 KUTúZOV HAD RECEIVED, THROUGH A SPY, NEWS THAT THE ARMY +HE COMMANDED WAS IN AN ALMOST HOPELESS POSITION. THE SPY REPORTED THAT +THE FRENCH, AFTER CROSSING THE BRIDGE AT VIENNA, WERE ADVANCING IN +IMMENSE FORCE UPON KUTúZOV’S LINE OF COMMUNICATION WITH THE TROOPS +THAT WERE ARRIVING FROM RUSSIA. IF KUTúZOV DECIDED TO REMAIN AT KREMS, +NAPOLEON’S ARMY OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND MEN WOULD CUT HIM +OFF COMPLETELY AND SURROUND HIS EXHAUSTED ARMY OF FORTY THOUSAND, AND HE +WOULD FIND HIMSELF IN THE POSITION OF MACK AT ULM. IF KUTúZOV DECIDED +TO ABANDON THE ROAD CONNECTING HIM WITH THE TROOPS ARRIVING FROM RUSSIA, +HE WOULD HAVE TO MARCH WITH NO ROAD INTO UNKNOWN PARTS OF THE BOHEMIAN +MOUNTAINS, DEFENDING HIMSELF AGAINST SUPERIOR FORCES OF THE ENEMY AND +ABANDONING ALL HOPE OF A JUNCTION WITH BUXHöWDEN. IF KUTúZOV DECIDED +TO RETREAT ALONG THE ROAD FROM KREMS TO OLMüTZ, TO UNITE WITH THE +TROOPS ARRIVING FROM RUSSIA, HE RISKED BEING FORESTALLED ON THAT ROAD +BY THE FRENCH WHO HAD CROSSED THE VIENNA BRIDGE, AND ENCUMBERED BY HIS +BAGGAGE AND TRANSPORT, HAVING TO ACCEPT BATTLE ON THE MARCH AGAINST AN +ENEMY THREE TIMES AS STRONG, WHO WOULD HEM HIM IN FROM TWO SIDES. + +KUTúZOV CHOSE THIS LATTER COURSE. + +THE FRENCH, THE SPY REPORTED, HAVING CROSSED THE VIENNA BRIDGE, WERE +ADVANCING BY FORCED MARCHES TOWARD ZNAIM, WHICH LAY SIXTY-SIX MILES +OFF ON THE LINE OF KUTúZOV’S RETREAT. IF HE REACHED ZNAIM BEFORE THE +FRENCH, THERE WOULD BE GREAT HOPE OF SAVING THE ARMY; TO LET THE +FRENCH FORESTALL HIM AT ZNAIM MEANT THE EXPOSURE OF HIS WHOLE ARMY TO A +DISGRACE SUCH AS THAT OF ULM, OR TO UTTER DESTRUCTION. BUT TO FORESTALL +THE FRENCH WITH HIS WHOLE ARMY WAS IMPOSSIBLE. THE ROAD FOR THE FRENCH +FROM VIENNA TO ZNAIM WAS SHORTER AND BETTER THAN THE ROAD FOR THE +RUSSIANS FROM KREMS TO ZNAIM. + +THE NIGHT HE RECEIVED THE NEWS, KUTúZOV SENT BAGRATIóN’S VANGUARD, +FOUR THOUSAND STRONG, TO THE RIGHT ACROSS THE HILLS FROM THE KREMS-ZNAIM +TO THE VIENNA-ZNAIM ROAD. BAGRATIóN WAS TO MAKE THIS MARCH WITHOUT +RESTING, AND TO HALT FACING VIENNA WITH ZNAIM TO HIS REAR, AND IF HE +SUCCEEDED IN FORESTALLING THE FRENCH HE WAS TO DELAY THEM AS LONG AS +POSSIBLE. KUTúZOV HIMSELF WITH ALL HIS TRANSPORT TOOK THE ROAD TO +ZNAIM. + +MARCHING THIRTY MILES THAT STORMY NIGHT ACROSS ROADLESS HILLS, WITH HIS +HUNGRY, ILL-SHOD SOLDIERS, AND LOSING A THIRD OF HIS MEN AS STRAGGLERS +BY THE WAY, BAGRATIóN CAME OUT ON THE VIENNA-ZNAIM ROAD AT HOLLABRüNN +A FEW HOURS AHEAD OF THE FRENCH WHO WERE APPROACHING HOLLABRüNN FROM +VIENNA. KUTúZOV WITH HIS TRANSPORT HAD STILL TO MARCH FOR SOME DAYS +BEFORE HE COULD REACH ZNAIM. HENCE BAGRATIóN WITH HIS FOUR THOUSAND +HUNGRY, EXHAUSTED MEN WOULD HAVE TO DETAIN FOR DAYS THE WHOLE ENEMY ARMY +THAT CAME UPON HIM AT HOLLABRüNN, WHICH WAS CLEARLY IMPOSSIBLE. BUT +A FREAK OF FATE MADE THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE. THE SUCCESS OF THE TRICK +THAT HAD PLACED THE VIENNA BRIDGE IN THE HANDS OF THE FRENCH WITHOUT +A FIGHT LED MURAT TO TRY TO DECEIVE KUTúZOV IN A SIMILAR WAY. MEETING +BAGRATIóN’S WEAK DETACHMENT ON THE ZNAIM ROAD HE SUPPOSED IT TO BE +KUTúZOV’S WHOLE ARMY. TO BE ABLE TO CRUSH IT ABSOLUTELY HE AWAITED +THE ARRIVAL OF THE REST OF THE TROOPS WHO WERE ON THEIR WAY FROM VIENNA, +AND WITH THIS OBJECT OFFERED A THREE DAYS’ TRUCE ON CONDITION THAT +BOTH ARMIES SHOULD REMAIN IN POSITION WITHOUT MOVING. MURAT DECLARED +THAT NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE WERE ALREADY PROCEEDING, AND THAT HE +THEREFORE OFFERED THIS TRUCE TO AVOID UNNECESSARY BLOODSHED. COUNT +NOSTITZ, THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL OCCUPYING THE ADVANCED POSTS, BELIEVED +MURAT’S EMISSARY AND RETIRED, LEAVING BAGRATIóN’S DIVISION +EXPOSED. ANOTHER EMISSARY RODE TO THE RUSSIAN LINE TO ANNOUNCE THE PEACE +NEGOTIATIONS AND TO OFFER THE RUSSIAN ARMY THE THREE DAYS’ TRUCE. +BAGRATIóN REPLIED THAT HE WAS NOT AUTHORIZED EITHER TO ACCEPT OR REFUSE +A TRUCE AND SENT HIS ADJUTANT TO KUTúZOV TO REPORT THE OFFER HE HAD +RECEIVED. + +A TRUCE WAS KUTúZOV’S SOLE CHANCE OF GAINING TIME, GIVING +BAGRATIóN’S EXHAUSTED TROOPS SOME REST, AND LETTING THE TRANSPORT AND +HEAVY CONVOYS (WHOSE MOVEMENTS WERE CONCEALED FROM THE FRENCH) ADVANCE +IF BUT ONE STAGE NEARER ZNAIM. THE OFFER OF A TRUCE GAVE THE ONLY, AND +A QUITE UNEXPECTED, CHANCE OF SAVING THE ARMY. ON RECEIVING THE NEWS +HE IMMEDIATELY DISPATCHED ADJUTANT GENERAL WINTZINGERODE, WHO WAS IN +ATTENDANCE ON HIM, TO THE ENEMY CAMP. WINTZINGERODE WAS NOT MERELY +TO AGREE TO THE TRUCE BUT ALSO TO OFFER TERMS OF CAPITULATION, AND +MEANWHILE KUTúZOV SENT HIS ADJUTANTS BACK TO HASTEN TO THE UTMOST THE +MOVEMENTS OF THE BAGGAGE TRAINS OF THE ENTIRE ARMY ALONG THE KREMS-ZNAIM +ROAD. BAGRATIóN’S EXHAUSTED AND HUNGRY DETACHMENT, WHICH ALONE +COVERED THIS MOVEMENT OF THE TRANSPORT AND OF THE WHOLE ARMY, HAD TO +REMAIN STATIONARY IN FACE OF AN ENEMY EIGHT TIMES AS STRONG AS ITSELF. + +KUTúZOV’S EXPECTATIONS THAT THE PROPOSALS OF CAPITULATION (WHICH WERE +IN NO WAY BINDING) MIGHT GIVE TIME FOR PART OF THE TRANSPORT TO PASS, +AND ALSO THAT MURAT’S MISTAKE WOULD VERY SOON BE DISCOVERED, PROVED +CORRECT. AS SOON AS BONAPARTE (WHO WAS AT SCHöNBRUNN, SIXTEEN MILES +FROM HOLLABRüNN) RECEIVED MURAT’S DISPATCH WITH THE PROPOSAL OF A +TRUCE AND A CAPITULATION, HE DETECTED A RUSE AND WROTE THE FOLLOWING +LETTER TO MURAT: + +SCHöNBRUNN, 25TH BRUMAIRE, 1805, + +AT EIGHT O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING + +TO PRINCE MURAT, + +I CANNOT FIND WORDS TO EXPRESS TO YOU MY DISPLEASURE. YOU COMMAND ONLY +MY ADVANCE GUARD, AND HAVE NO RIGHT TO ARRANGE AN ARMISTICE WITHOUT MY +ORDER. YOU ARE CAUSING ME TO LOSE THE FRUITS OF A CAMPAIGN. BREAK +THE ARMISTICE IMMEDIATELY AND MARCH ON THE ENEMY. INFORM HIM THAT THE +GENERAL WHO SIGNED THAT CAPITULATION HAD NO RIGHT TO DO SO, AND THAT NO +ONE BUT THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA HAS THAT RIGHT. + +IF, HOWEVER, THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA RATIFIES THAT CONVENTION, I WILL +RATIFY IT; BUT IT IS ONLY A TRICK. MARCH ON, DESTROY THE RUSSIAN +ARMY.... YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO SEIZE ITS BAGGAGE AND ARTILLERY. + +THE RUSSIAN EMPEROR’S AIDE-DE-CAMP IS AN IMPOSTOR. OFFICERS ARE +NOTHING WHEN THEY HAVE NO POWERS; THIS ONE HAD NONE.... THE AUSTRIANS +LET THEMSELVES BE TRICKED AT THE CROSSING OF THE VIENNA BRIDGE, YOU ARE +LETTING YOURSELF BE TRICKED BY AN AIDE-DE-CAMP OF THE EMPEROR. + +NAPOLEON + +BONAPARTE’S ADJUTANT RODE FULL GALLOP WITH THIS MENACING LETTER TO +MURAT. BONAPARTE HIMSELF, NOT TRUSTING TO HIS GENERALS, MOVED WITH ALL +THE GUARDS TO THE FIELD OF BATTLE, AFRAID OF LETTING A READY VICTIM +ESCAPE, AND BAGRATIóN’S FOUR THOUSAND MEN MERRILY LIGHTED CAMPFIRES, +DRIED AND WARMED THEMSELVES, COOKED THEIR PORRIDGE FOR THE FIRST TIME +FOR THREE DAYS, AND NOT ONE OF THEM KNEW OR IMAGINED WHAT WAS IN STORE +FOR HIM. + + + + + +CHAPTER XV + +BETWEEN THREE AND FOUR O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON PRINCE ANDREW, WHO +HAD PERSISTED IN HIS REQUEST TO KUTúZOV, ARRIVED AT GRUNTH AND REPORTED +HIMSELF TO BAGRATIóN. BONAPARTE’S ADJUTANT HAD NOT YET REACHED +MURAT’S DETACHMENT AND THE BATTLE HAD NOT YET BEGUN. IN BAGRATIóN’S +DETACHMENT NO ONE KNEW ANYTHING OF THE GENERAL POSITION OF AFFAIRS. THEY +TALKED OF PEACE BUT DID NOT BELIEVE IN ITS POSSIBILITY; OTHERS TALKED +OF A BATTLE BUT ALSO DISBELIEVED IN THE NEARNESS OF AN ENGAGEMENT. +BAGRATIóN, KNOWING BOLKóNSKI TO BE A FAVORITE AND TRUSTED ADJUTANT, +RECEIVED HIM WITH DISTINCTION AND SPECIAL MARKS OF FAVOR, EXPLAINING TO +HIM THAT THERE WOULD PROBABLY BE AN ENGAGEMENT THAT DAY OR THE NEXT, AND +GIVING HIM FULL LIBERTY TO REMAIN WITH HIM DURING THE BATTLE OR TO JOIN +THE REARGUARD AND HAVE AN EYE ON THE ORDER OF RETREAT, “WHICH IS ALSO +VERY IMPORTANT.” + +“HOWEVER, THERE WILL HARDLY BE AN ENGAGEMENT TODAY,” SAID BAGRATIóN +AS IF TO REASSURE PRINCE ANDREW. + +“IF HE IS ONE OF THE ORDINARY LITTLE STAFF DANDIES SENT TO EARN A +MEDAL HE CAN GET HIS REWARD JUST AS WELL IN THE REARGUARD, BUT IF HE +WISHES TO STAY WITH ME, LET HIM... HE’LL BE OF USE HERE IF HE’S A +BRAVE OFFICER,” THOUGHT BAGRATIóN. PRINCE ANDREW, WITHOUT REPLYING, +ASKED THE PRINCE’S PERMISSION TO RIDE ROUND THE POSITION TO SEE THE +DISPOSITION OF THE FORCES, SO AS TO KNOW HIS BEARINGS SHOULD HE BE SENT +TO EXECUTE AN ORDER. THE OFFICER ON DUTY, A HANDSOME, ELEGANTLY DRESSED +MAN WITH A DIAMOND RING ON HIS FOREFINGER, WHO WAS FOND OF SPEAKING +FRENCH THOUGH HE SPOKE IT BADLY, OFFERED TO CONDUCT PRINCE ANDREW. + +ON ALL SIDES THEY SAW RAIN-SOAKED OFFICERS WITH DEJECTED FACES WHO +SEEMED TO BE SEEKING SOMETHING, AND SOLDIERS DRAGGING DOORS, BENCHES, +AND FENCING FROM THE VILLAGE. + +“THERE NOW, PRINCE! WE CAN’T STOP THOSE FELLOWS,” SAID THE STAFF +OFFICER POINTING TO THE SOLDIERS. “THE OFFICERS DON’T KEEP THEM IN +HAND. AND THERE,” HE POINTED TO A SUTLER’S TENT, “THEY CROWD IN +AND SIT. THIS MORNING I TURNED THEM ALL OUT AND NOW LOOK, IT’S FULL +AGAIN. I MUST GO THERE, PRINCE, AND SCARE THEM A BIT. IT WON’T TAKE A +MOMENT.” + +“YES, LET’S GO IN AND I WILL GET MYSELF A ROLL AND SOME CHEESE,” +SAID PRINCE ANDREW WHO HAD NOT YET HAD TIME TO EAT ANYTHING. + +“WHY DIDN’T YOU MENTION IT, PRINCE? I WOULD HAVE OFFERED YOU +SOMETHING.” + +THEY DISMOUNTED AND ENTERED THE TENT. SEVERAL OFFICERS, WITH FLUSHED AND +WEARY FACES, WERE SITTING AT THE TABLE EATING AND DRINKING. + +“NOW WHAT DOES THIS MEAN, GENTLEMEN?” SAID THE STAFF OFFICER, IN +THE REPROACHFUL TONE OF A MAN WHO HAS REPEATED THE SAME THING MORE +THAN ONCE. “YOU KNOW IT WON’T DO TO LEAVE YOUR POSTS LIKE THIS. +THE PRINCE GAVE ORDERS THAT NO ONE SHOULD LEAVE HIS POST. NOW YOU, +CAPTAIN,” AND HE TURNED TO A THIN, DIRTY LITTLE ARTILLERY OFFICER WHO +WITHOUT HIS BOOTS (HE HAD GIVEN THEM TO THE CANTEEN KEEPER TO DRY), +IN ONLY HIS STOCKINGS, ROSE WHEN THEY ENTERED, SMILING NOT ALTOGETHER +COMFORTABLY. + +“WELL, AREN’T YOU ASHAMED OF YOURSELF, CAPTAIN TúSHIN?” HE +CONTINUED. “ONE WOULD THINK THAT AS AN ARTILLERY OFFICER YOU WOULD SET +A GOOD EXAMPLE, YET HERE YOU ARE WITHOUT YOUR BOOTS! THE ALARM WILL BE +SOUNDED AND YOU’LL BE IN A PRETTY POSITION WITHOUT YOUR BOOTS!” (THE +STAFF OFFICER SMILED.) “KINDLY RETURN TO YOUR POSTS, GENTLEMEN, ALL OF +YOU, ALL!” HE ADDED IN A TONE OF COMMAND. + +PRINCE ANDREW SMILED INVOLUNTARILY AS HE LOOKED AT THE ARTILLERY OFFICER +TúSHIN, WHO SILENT AND SMILING, SHIFTING FROM ONE STOCKINGED FOOT TO +THE OTHER, GLANCED INQUIRINGLY WITH HIS LARGE, INTELLIGENT, KINDLY EYES +FROM PRINCE ANDREW TO THE STAFF OFFICER. + +“THE SOLDIERS SAY IT FEELS EASIER WITHOUT BOOTS,” SAID CAPTAIN +TúSHIN SMILING SHYLY IN HIS UNCOMFORTABLE POSITION, EVIDENTLY WISHING +TO ADOPT A JOCULAR TONE. BUT BEFORE HE HAD FINISHED HE FELT THAT HIS +JEST WAS UNACCEPTABLE AND HAD NOT COME OFF. HE GREW CONFUSED. + +“KINDLY RETURN TO YOUR POSTS,” SAID THE STAFF OFFICER TRYING TO +PRESERVE HIS GRAVITY. + +PRINCE ANDREW GLANCED AGAIN AT THE ARTILLERY OFFICER’S SMALL FIGURE. +THERE WAS SOMETHING PECULIAR ABOUT IT, QUITE UNSOLDIERLY, RATHER COMIC, +BUT EXTREMELY ATTRACTIVE. + +THE STAFF OFFICER AND PRINCE ANDREW MOUNTED THEIR HORSES AND RODE ON. + +HAVING RIDDEN BEYOND THE VILLAGE, CONTINUALLY MEETING AND OVERTAKING +SOLDIERS AND OFFICERS OF VARIOUS REGIMENTS, THEY SAW ON THEIR LEFT SOME +ENTRENCHMENTS BEING THROWN UP, THE FRESHLY DUG CLAY OF WHICH SHOWED UP +RED. SEVERAL BATTALIONS OF SOLDIERS, IN THEIR SHIRT SLEEVES DESPITE +THE COLD WIND, SWARMED IN THESE EARTHWORKS LIKE A HOST OF WHITE ANTS; +SPADEFULS OF RED CLAY WERE CONTINUALLY BEING THROWN UP FROM BEHIND THE +BANK BY UNSEEN HANDS. PRINCE ANDREW AND THE OFFICER RODE UP, LOOKED AT +THE ENTRENCHMENT, AND WENT ON AGAIN. JUST BEHIND IT THEY CAME UPON SOME +DOZENS OF SOLDIERS, CONTINUALLY REPLACED BY OTHERS, WHO RAN FROM THE +ENTRENCHMENT. THEY HAD TO HOLD THEIR NOSES AND PUT THEIR HORSES TO A +TROT TO ESCAPE FROM THE POISONED ATMOSPHERE OF THESE LATRINES. + +“VOILà L’AGRéMENT DES CAMPS, MONSIEUR LE PRINCE,” * SAID THE +STAFF OFFICER. + + * “THIS IS A PLEASURE ONE GETS IN CAMP, PRINCE.” + + +THEY RODE UP THE OPPOSITE HILL. FROM THERE THE FRENCH COULD ALREADY BE +SEEN. PRINCE ANDREW STOPPED AND BEGAN EXAMINING THE POSITION. + +“THAT’S OUR BATTERY,” SAID THE STAFF OFFICER INDICATING THE +HIGHEST POINT. “IT’S IN CHARGE OF THE QUEER FELLOW WE SAW WITHOUT +HIS BOOTS. YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING FROM THERE; LET’S GO THERE, +PRINCE.” + +“THANK YOU VERY MUCH, I WILL GO ON ALONE,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, +WISHING TO RID HIMSELF OF THIS STAFF OFFICER’S COMPANY, “PLEASE +DON’T TROUBLE YOURSELF FURTHER.” + +THE STAFF OFFICER REMAINED BEHIND AND PRINCE ANDREW RODE ON ALONE. + +THE FARTHER FORWARD AND NEARER THE ENEMY HE WENT, THE MORE ORDERLY AND +CHEERFUL WERE THE TROOPS. THE GREATEST DISORDER AND DEPRESSION HAD BEEN +IN THE BAGGAGE TRAIN HE HAD PASSED THAT MORNING ON THE ZNAIM ROAD SEVEN +MILES AWAY FROM THE FRENCH. AT GRUNTH ALSO SOME APPREHENSION AND ALARM +COULD BE FELT, BUT THE NEARER PRINCE ANDREW CAME TO THE FRENCH LINES THE +MORE CONFIDENT WAS THE APPEARANCE OF OUR TROOPS. THE SOLDIERS IN +THEIR GREATCOATS WERE RANGED IN LINES, THE SERGEANTS MAJOR AND COMPANY +OFFICERS WERE COUNTING THE MEN, POKING THE LAST MAN IN EACH SECTION IN +THE RIBS AND TELLING HIM TO HOLD HIS HAND UP. SOLDIERS SCATTERED OVER +THE WHOLE PLACE WERE DRAGGING LOGS AND BRUSHWOOD AND WERE BUILDING +SHELTERS WITH MERRY CHATTER AND LAUGHTER; AROUND THE FIRES SAT OTHERS, +DRESSED AND UNDRESSED, DRYING THEIR SHIRTS AND LEG BANDS OR MENDING +BOOTS OR OVERCOATS AND CROWDING ROUND THE BOILERS AND PORRIDGE COOKERS. +IN ONE COMPANY DINNER WAS READY, AND THE SOLDIERS WERE GAZING EAGERLY +AT THE STEAMING BOILER, WAITING TILL THE SAMPLE, WHICH A QUARTERMASTER +SERGEANT WAS CARRYING IN A WOODEN BOWL TO AN OFFICER WHO SAT ON A LOG +BEFORE HIS SHELTER, HAD BEEN TASTED. + +ANOTHER COMPANY, A LUCKY ONE FOR NOT ALL THE COMPANIES HAD VODKA, +CROWDED ROUND A POCKMARKED, BROAD-SHOULDERED SERGEANT MAJOR WHO, TILTING +A KEG, FILLED ONE AFTER ANOTHER THE CANTEEN LIDS HELD OUT TO HIM. THE +SOLDIERS LIFTED THE CANTEEN LIDS TO THEIR LIPS WITH REVERENTIAL FACES, +EMPTIED THEM, ROLLING THE VODKA IN THEIR MOUTHS, AND WALKED AWAY FROM +THE SERGEANT MAJOR WITH BRIGHTENED EXPRESSIONS, LICKING THEIR LIPS AND +WIPING THEM ON THE SLEEVES OF THEIR GREATCOATS. ALL THEIR FACES WERE +AS SERENE AS IF ALL THIS WERE HAPPENING AT HOME AWAITING PEACEFUL +ENCAMPMENT, AND NOT WITHIN SIGHT OF THE ENEMY BEFORE AN ACTION IN +WHICH AT LEAST HALF OF THEM WOULD BE LEFT ON THE FIELD. AFTER PASSING A +CHASSEUR REGIMENT AND IN THE LINES OF THE KIEV GRENADIERS—FINE FELLOWS +BUSY WITH SIMILAR PEACEFUL AFFAIRS—NEAR THE SHELTER OF THE REGIMENTAL +COMMANDER, HIGHER THAN AND DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS, PRINCE ANDREW CAME +OUT IN FRONT OF A PLATOON OF GRENADIERS BEFORE WHOM LAY A NAKED MAN. TWO +SOLDIERS HELD HIM WHILE TWO OTHERS WERE FLOURISHING THEIR SWITCHES AND +STRIKING HIM REGULARLY ON HIS BARE BACK. THE MAN SHRIEKED UNNATURALLY. +A STOUT MAJOR WAS PACING UP AND DOWN THE LINE, AND REGARDLESS OF THE +SCREAMS KEPT REPEATING: + +“IT’S A SHAME FOR A SOLDIER TO STEAL; A SOLDIER MUST BE HONEST, +HONORABLE, AND BRAVE, BUT IF HE ROBS HIS FELLOWS THERE IS NO HONOR IN +HIM, HE’S A SCOUNDREL. GO ON! GO ON!” + +SO THE SWISHING SOUND OF THE STROKES, AND THE DESPERATE BUT UNNATURAL +SCREAMS, CONTINUED. + +“GO ON, GO ON!” SAID THE MAJOR. + +A YOUNG OFFICER WITH A BEWILDERED AND PAINED EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE +STEPPED AWAY FROM THE MAN AND LOOKED ROUND INQUIRINGLY AT THE ADJUTANT +AS HE RODE BY. + +PRINCE ANDREW, HAVING REACHED THE FRONT LINE, RODE ALONG IT. OUR FRONT +LINE AND THAT OF THE ENEMY WERE FAR APART ON THE RIGHT AND LEFT FLANKS, +BUT IN THE CENTER WHERE THE MEN WITH A FLAG OF TRUCE HAD PASSED THAT +MORNING, THE LINES WERE SO NEAR TOGETHER THAT THE MEN COULD SEE ONE +ANOTHER’S FACES AND SPEAK TO ONE ANOTHER. BESIDES THE SOLDIERS WHO +FORMED THE PICKET LINE ON EITHER SIDE, THERE WERE MANY CURIOUS ONLOOKERS +WHO, JESTING AND LAUGHING, STARED AT THEIR STRANGE FOREIGN ENEMIES. + +SINCE EARLY MORNING—DESPITE AN INJUNCTION NOT TO APPROACH THE PICKET +LINE—THE OFFICERS HAD BEEN UNABLE TO KEEP SIGHT-SEERS AWAY. THE +SOLDIERS FORMING THE PICKET LINE, LIKE SHOWMEN EXHIBITING A CURIOSITY, +NO LONGER LOOKED AT THE FRENCH BUT PAID ATTENTION TO THE SIGHT-SEERS AND +GREW WEARY WAITING TO BE RELIEVED. PRINCE ANDREW HALTED TO HAVE A LOOK +AT THE FRENCH. + +“LOOK! LOOK THERE!” ONE SOLDIER WAS SAYING TO ANOTHER, POINTING TO A +RUSSIAN MUSKETEER WHO HAD GONE UP TO THE PICKET LINE WITH AN OFFICER AND +WAS RAPIDLY AND EXCITEDLY TALKING TO A FRENCH GRENADIER. “HARK TO HIM +JABBERING! FINE, ISN’T IT? IT’S ALL THE FRENCHY CAN DO TO KEEP UP +WITH HIM. THERE NOW, SíDOROV!” + +“WAIT A BIT AND LISTEN. IT’S FINE!” ANSWERED SíDOROV, WHO WAS +CONSIDERED AN ADEPT AT FRENCH. + +THE SOLDIER TO WHOM THE LAUGHERS REFERRED WAS DóLOKHOV. PRINCE ANDREW +RECOGNIZED HIM AND STOPPED TO LISTEN TO WHAT HE WAS SAYING. DóLOKHOV +HAD COME FROM THE LEFT FLANK WHERE THEIR REGIMENT WAS STATIONED, WITH +HIS CAPTAIN. + +“NOW THEN, GO ON, GO ON!” INCITED THE OFFICER, BENDING FORWARD AND +TRYING NOT TO LOSE A WORD OF THE SPEECH WHICH WAS INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO +HIM. “MORE, PLEASE: MORE! WHAT’S HE SAYING?” + +DóLOKHOV DID NOT ANSWER THE CAPTAIN; HE HAD BEEN DRAWN INTO A HOT +DISPUTE WITH THE FRENCH GRENADIER. THEY WERE NATURALLY TALKING ABOUT THE +CAMPAIGN. THE FRENCHMAN, CONFUSING THE AUSTRIANS WITH THE RUSSIANS, WAS +TRYING TO PROVE THAT THE RUSSIANS HAD SURRENDERED AND HAD FLED ALL +THE WAY FROM ULM, WHILE DóLOKHOV MAINTAINED THAT THE RUSSIANS HAD NOT +SURRENDERED BUT HAD BEATEN THE FRENCH. + +“WE HAVE ORDERS TO DRIVE YOU OFF HERE, AND WE SHALL DRIVE YOU OFF,” +SAID DóLOKHOV. + +“ONLY TAKE CARE YOU AND YOUR COSSACKS ARE NOT ALL CAPTURED!” SAID +THE FRENCH GRENADIER. + +THE FRENCH ONLOOKERS AND LISTENERS LAUGHED. + +“WE’LL MAKE YOU DANCE AS WE DID UNDER SUVóROV...,” * SAID +DóLOKHOV. + + * “ON VOUS FERA DANSER.” + + +“QU’ EST-CE QU’IL CHANTE?” * ASKED A FRENCHMAN. + + * “WHAT’S HE SINGING ABOUT?” + + +“IT’S ANCIENT HISTORY,” SAID ANOTHER, GUESSING THAT IT REFERRED TO +A FORMER WAR. “THE EMPEROR WILL TEACH YOUR SUVARA AS HE HAS TAUGHT THE +OTHERS...” + +“BONAPARTE...” BEGAN DóLOKHOV, BUT THE FRENCHMAN INTERRUPTED HIM. + +“NOT BONAPARTE. HE IS THE EMPEROR! SACRé NOM...!” CRIED HE ANGRILY. + +“THE DEVIL SKIN YOUR EMPEROR.” + +AND DóLOKHOV SWORE AT HIM IN COARSE SOLDIER’S RUSSIAN AND SHOULDERING +HIS MUSKET WALKED AWAY. + +“LET US GO, IVáN LUKíCH,” HE SAID TO THE CAPTAIN. + +“AH, THAT’S THE WAY TO TALK FRENCH,” SAID THE PICKET SOLDIERS. +“NOW, SíDOROV, YOU HAVE A TRY!” + +SíDOROV, TURNING TO THE FRENCH, WINKED, AND BEGAN TO JABBER MEANINGLESS +SOUNDS VERY FAST: “KARI, MALA, TAFA, SAFI, MUTER, KASKá,” HE SAID, +TRYING TO GIVE AN EXPRESSIVE INTONATION TO HIS VOICE. + +“HO! HO! HO! HA! HA! HA! HA! OUH! OUH!” CAME PEALS OF SUCH HEALTHY +AND GOOD-HUMORED LAUGHTER FROM THE SOLDIERS THAT IT INFECTED THE FRENCH +INVOLUNTARILY, SO MUCH SO THAT THE ONLY THING LEFT TO DO SEEMED TO BE +TO UNLOAD THE MUSKETS, EXPLODE THE AMMUNITION, AND ALL RETURN HOME AS +QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. + +BUT THE GUNS REMAINED LOADED, THE LOOPHOLES IN BLOCKHOUSES AND +ENTRENCHMENTS LOOKED OUT JUST AS MENACINGLY, AND THE UNLIMBERED CANNON +CONFRONTED ONE ANOTHER AS BEFORE. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +HAVING RIDDEN ROUND THE WHOLE LINE FROM RIGHT FLANK TO LEFT, PRINCE +ANDREW MADE HIS WAY UP TO THE BATTERY FROM WHICH THE STAFF OFFICER HAD +TOLD HIM THE WHOLE FIELD COULD BE SEEN. HERE HE DISMOUNTED, AND STOPPED +BESIDE THE FARTHEST OF THE FOUR UNLIMBERED CANNON. BEFORE THE GUNS AN +ARTILLERY SENTRY WAS PACING UP AND DOWN; HE STOOD AT ATTENTION WHEN THE +OFFICER ARRIVED, BUT AT A SIGN RESUMED HIS MEASURED, MONOTONOUS PACING. +BEHIND THE GUNS WERE THEIR LIMBERS AND STILL FARTHER BACK PICKET ROPES +AND ARTILLERYMEN’S BONFIRES. TO THE LEFT, NOT FAR FROM THE FARTHEST +CANNON, WAS A SMALL, NEWLY CONSTRUCTED WATTLE SHED FROM WHICH CAME THE +SOUND OF OFFICERS’ VOICES IN EAGER CONVERSATION. + +IT WAS TRUE THAT A VIEW OVER NEARLY THE WHOLE RUSSIAN POSITION AND THE +GREATER PART OF THE ENEMY’S OPENED OUT FROM THIS BATTERY. JUST FACING +IT, ON THE CREST OF THE OPPOSITE HILL, THE VILLAGE OF SCHöN GRABERN +COULD BE SEEN, AND IN THREE PLACES TO LEFT AND RIGHT THE FRENCH TROOPS +AMID THE SMOKE OF THEIR CAMPFIRES, THE GREATER PART OF WHOM WERE +EVIDENTLY IN THE VILLAGE ITSELF AND BEHIND THE HILL. TO THE LEFT FROM +THAT VILLAGE, AMID THE SMOKE, WAS SOMETHING RESEMBLING A BATTERY, BUT IT +WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE IT CLEARLY WITH THE NAKED EYE. OUR RIGHT FLANK WAS +POSTED ON A RATHER STEEP INCLINE WHICH DOMINATED THE FRENCH POSITION. +OUR INFANTRY WERE STATIONED THERE, AND AT THE FARTHEST POINT THE +DRAGOONS. IN THE CENTER, WHERE TúSHIN’S BATTERY STOOD AND FROM WHICH +PRINCE ANDREW WAS SURVEYING THE POSITION, WAS THE EASIEST AND MOST +DIRECT DESCENT AND ASCENT TO THE BROOK SEPARATING US FROM SCHöN +GRABERN. ON THE LEFT OUR TROOPS WERE CLOSE TO A COPSE, IN WHICH SMOKED +THE BONFIRES OF OUR INFANTRY WHO WERE FELLING WOOD. THE FRENCH LINE WAS +WIDER THAN OURS, AND IT WAS PLAIN THAT THEY COULD EASILY OUTFLANK US +ON BOTH SIDES. BEHIND OUR POSITION WAS A STEEP AND DEEP DIP, MAKING IT +DIFFICULT FOR ARTILLERY AND CAVALRY TO RETIRE. PRINCE ANDREW TOOK +OUT HIS NOTEBOOK AND, LEANING ON THE CANNON, SKETCHED A PLAN OF THE +POSITION. HE MADE SOME NOTES ON TWO POINTS, INTENDING TO MENTION THEM TO +BAGRATIóN. HIS IDEA WAS, FIRST, TO CONCENTRATE ALL THE ARTILLERY IN THE +CENTER, AND SECONDLY, TO WITHDRAW THE CAVALRY TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE +DIP. PRINCE ANDREW, BEING ALWAYS NEAR THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, CLOSELY +FOLLOWING THE MASS MOVEMENTS AND GENERAL ORDERS, AND CONSTANTLY STUDYING +HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS OF BATTLES, INVOLUNTARILY PICTURED TO HIMSELF THE +COURSE OF EVENTS IN THE FORTHCOMING ACTION IN BROAD OUTLINE. HE +IMAGINED ONLY IMPORTANT POSSIBILITIES: “IF THE ENEMY ATTACKS THE RIGHT +FLANK,” HE SAID TO HIMSELF, “THE KIEV GRENADIERS AND THE PODóLSK +CHASSEURS MUST HOLD THEIR POSITION TILL RESERVES FROM THE CENTER +COME UP. IN THAT CASE THE DRAGOONS COULD SUCCESSFULLY MAKE A FLANK +COUNTERATTACK. IF THEY ATTACK OUR CENTER WE, HAVING THE CENTER BATTERY +ON THIS HIGH GROUND, SHALL WITHDRAW THE LEFT FLANK UNDER ITS COVER, AND +RETREAT TO THE DIP BY ECHELONS.” SO HE REASONED.... ALL THE TIME +HE HAD BEEN BESIDE THE GUN, HE HAD HEARD THE VOICES OF THE OFFICERS +DISTINCTLY, BUT AS OFTEN HAPPENS HAD NOT UNDERSTOOD A WORD OF WHAT THEY +WERE SAYING. SUDDENLY, HOWEVER, HE WAS STRUCK BY A VOICE COMING FROM THE +SHED, AND ITS TONE WAS SO SINCERE THAT HE COULD NOT BUT LISTEN. + +“NO, FRIEND,” SAID A PLEASANT AND, AS IT SEEMED TO PRINCE ANDREW, A +FAMILIAR VOICE, “WHAT I SAY IS THAT IF IT WERE POSSIBLE TO KNOW +WHAT IS BEYOND DEATH, NONE OF US WOULD BE AFRAID OF IT. THAT’S SO, +FRIEND.” + +ANOTHER, A YOUNGER VOICE, INTERRUPTED HIM: “AFRAID OR NOT, YOU CAN’T +ESCAPE IT ANYHOW.” + +“ALL THE SAME, ONE IS AFRAID! OH, YOU CLEVER PEOPLE,” SAID A THIRD +MANLY VOICE INTERRUPTING THEM BOTH. “OF COURSE YOU ARTILLERY MEN ARE +VERY WISE, BECAUSE YOU CAN TAKE EVERYTHING ALONG WITH YOU—VODKA AND +SNACKS.” + +AND THE OWNER OF THE MANLY VOICE, EVIDENTLY AN INFANTRY OFFICER, +LAUGHED. + +“YES, ONE IS AFRAID,” CONTINUED THE FIRST SPEAKER, HE OF THE +FAMILIAR VOICE. “ONE IS AFRAID OF THE UNKNOWN, THAT’S WHAT IT IS. +WHATEVER WE MAY SAY ABOUT THE SOUL GOING TO THE SKY... WE KNOW THERE IS +NO SKY BUT ONLY AN ATMOSPHERE.” + +THE MANLY VOICE AGAIN INTERRUPTED THE ARTILLERY OFFICER. + +“WELL, STAND US SOME OF YOUR HERB VODKA, TúSHIN,” IT SAID. + +“WHY,” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW, “THAT’S THE CAPTAIN WHO STOOD UP +IN THE SUTLER’S HUT WITHOUT HIS BOOTS.” HE RECOGNIZED THE AGREEABLE, +PHILOSOPHIZING VOICE WITH PLEASURE. + +“SOME HERB VODKA? CERTAINLY!” SAID TúSHIN. “BUT STILL, TO +CONCEIVE A FUTURE LIFE...” + +HE DID NOT FINISH. JUST THEN THERE WAS A WHISTLE IN THE AIR; NEARER AND +NEARER, FASTER AND LOUDER, LOUDER AND FASTER, A CANNON BALL, AS IF IT +HAD NOT FINISHED SAYING WHAT WAS NECESSARY, THUDDED INTO THE GROUND NEAR +THE SHED WITH SUPER HUMAN FORCE, THROWING UP A MASS OF EARTH. THE GROUND +SEEMED TO GROAN AT THE TERRIBLE IMPACT. + +AND IMMEDIATELY TúSHIN, WITH A SHORT PIPE IN THE CORNER OF HIS MOUTH +AND HIS KIND, INTELLIGENT FACE RATHER PALE, RUSHED OUT OF THE SHED +FOLLOWED BY THE OWNER OF THE MANLY VOICE, A DASHING INFANTRY OFFICER WHO +HURRIED OFF TO HIS COMPANY, BUTTONING UP HIS COAT AS HE RAN. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVII + +MOUNTING HIS HORSE AGAIN PRINCE ANDREW LINGERED WITH THE BATTERY, +LOOKING AT THE PUFF FROM THE GUN THAT HAD SENT THE BALL. HIS EYES +RAN RAPIDLY OVER THE WIDE SPACE, BUT HE ONLY SAW THAT THE HITHERTO +MOTIONLESS MASSES OF THE FRENCH NOW SWAYED AND THAT THERE REALLY WAS +A BATTERY TO THEIR LEFT. THE SMOKE ABOVE IT HAD NOT YET DISPERSED. TWO +MOUNTED FRENCHMEN, PROBABLY ADJUTANTS, WERE GALLOPING UP THE HILL. A +SMALL BUT DISTINCTLY VISIBLE ENEMY COLUMN WAS MOVING DOWN THE HILL, +PROBABLY TO STRENGTHEN THE FRONT LINE. THE SMOKE OF THE FIRST SHOT HAD +NOT YET DISPERSED BEFORE ANOTHER PUFF APPEARED, FOLLOWED BY A REPORT. +THE BATTLE HAD BEGUN! PRINCE ANDREW TURNED HIS HORSE AND GALLOPED BACK +TO GRUNTH TO FIND PRINCE BAGRATIóN. HE HEARD THE CANNONADE BEHIND HIM +GROWING LOUDER AND MORE FREQUENT. EVIDENTLY OUR GUNS HAD BEGUN TO REPLY. +FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SLOPE, WHERE THE PARLEYS HAD TAKEN PLACE, CAME +THE REPORT OF MUSKETRY. + +LEMARROIS HAD JUST ARRIVED AT A GALLOP WITH BONAPARTE’S STERN LETTER, +AND MURAT, HUMILIATED AND ANXIOUS TO EXPIATE HIS FAULT, HAD AT ONCE +MOVED HIS FORCES TO ATTACK THE CENTER AND OUTFLANK BOTH THE RUSSIAN +WINGS, HOPING BEFORE EVENING AND BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF THE EMPEROR TO +CRUSH THE CONTEMPTIBLE DETACHMENT THAT STOOD BEFORE HIM. + +“IT HAS BEGUN. HERE IT IS!” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW, FEELING THE +BLOOD RUSH TO HIS HEART. “BUT WHERE AND HOW WILL MY TOULON PRESENT +ITSELF?” + +PASSING BETWEEN THE COMPANIES THAT HAD BEEN EATING PORRIDGE AND DRINKING +VODKA A QUARTER OF AN HOUR BEFORE, HE SAW EVERYWHERE THE SAME RAPID +MOVEMENT OF SOLDIERS FORMING RANKS AND GETTING THEIR MUSKETS READY, +AND ON ALL THEIR FACES HE RECOGNIZED THE SAME EAGERNESS THAT FILLED HIS +HEART. “IT HAS BEGUN! HERE IT IS, DREADFUL BUT ENJOYABLE!” WAS WHAT +THE FACE OF EACH SOLDIER AND EACH OFFICER SEEMED TO SAY. + +BEFORE HE HAD REACHED THE EMBANKMENTS THAT WERE BEING THROWN UP, HE SAW, +IN THE LIGHT OF THE DULL AUTUMN EVENING, MOUNTED MEN COMING TOWARD HIM. +THE FOREMOST, WEARING A COSSACK CLOAK AND LAMBSKIN CAP AND RIDING A +WHITE HORSE, WAS PRINCE BAGRATIóN. PRINCE ANDREW STOPPED, WAITING FOR +HIM TO COME UP; PRINCE BAGRATIóN REINED IN HIS HORSE AND RECOGNIZING +PRINCE ANDREW NODDED TO HIM. HE STILL LOOKED AHEAD WHILE PRINCE ANDREW +TOLD HIM WHAT HE HAD SEEN. + +THE FEELING, “IT HAS BEGUN! HERE IT IS!” WAS SEEN EVEN ON PRINCE +BAGRATIóN’S HARD BROWN FACE WITH ITS HALF-CLOSED, DULL, SLEEPY EYES. +PRINCE ANDREW GAZED WITH ANXIOUS CURIOSITY AT THAT IMPASSIVE FACE +AND WISHED HE COULD TELL WHAT, IF ANYTHING, THIS MAN WAS THINKING +AND FEELING AT THAT MOMENT. “IS THERE ANYTHING AT ALL BEHIND THAT +IMPASSIVE FACE?” PRINCE ANDREW ASKED HIMSELF AS HE LOOKED. PRINCE +BAGRATIóN BENT HIS HEAD IN SIGN OF AGREEMENT WITH WHAT PRINCE ANDREW +TOLD HIM, AND SAID, “VERY GOOD!” IN A TONE THAT SEEMED TO IMPLY THAT +EVERYTHING THAT TOOK PLACE AND WAS REPORTED TO HIM WAS EXACTLY WHAT HE +HAD FORESEEN. PRINCE ANDREW, OUT OF BREATH WITH HIS RAPID RIDE, SPOKE +QUICKLY. PRINCE BAGRATIóN, UTTERING HIS WORDS WITH AN ORIENTAL ACCENT, +SPOKE PARTICULARLY SLOWLY, AS IF TO IMPRESS THE FACT THAT THERE WAS NO +NEED TO HURRY. HOWEVER, HE PUT HIS HORSE TO A TROT IN THE DIRECTION +OF TúSHIN’S BATTERY. PRINCE ANDREW FOLLOWED WITH THE SUITE. BEHIND +PRINCE BAGRATIóN RODE AN OFFICER OF THE SUITE, THE PRINCE’S PERSONAL +ADJUTANT, ZHERKóV, AN ORDERLY OFFICER, THE STAFF OFFICER ON DUTY, +RIDING A FINE BOBTAILED HORSE, AND A CIVILIAN—AN ACCOUNTANT WHO HAD +ASKED PERMISSION TO BE PRESENT AT THE BATTLE OUT OF CURIOSITY. THE +ACCOUNTANT, A STOUT, FULL-FACED MAN, LOOKED AROUND HIM WITH A NAïVE +SMILE OF SATISFACTION AND PRESENTED A STRANGE APPEARANCE AMONG THE +HUSSARS, COSSACKS, AND ADJUTANTS, IN HIS CAMLET COAT, AS HE JOLTED ON +HIS HORSE WITH A CONVOY OFFICER’S SADDLE. + +“HE WANTS TO SEE A BATTLE,” SAID ZHERKóV TO BOLKóNSKI, POINTING +TO THE ACCOUNTANT, “BUT HE FEELS A PAIN IN THE PIT OF HIS STOMACH +ALREADY.” + +“OH, LEAVE OFF!” SAID THE ACCOUNTANT WITH A BEAMING BUT RATHER +CUNNING SMILE, AS IF FLATTERED AT BEING MADE THE SUBJECT OF ZHERKóV’S +JOKE, AND PURPOSELY TRYING TO APPEAR STUPIDER THAN HE REALLY WAS. + +“IT IS VERY STRANGE, MON MONSIEUR PRINCE,” SAID THE STAFF OFFICER. +(HE REMEMBERED THAT IN FRENCH THERE IS SOME PECULIAR WAY OF ADDRESSING A +PRINCE, BUT COULD NOT GET IT QUITE RIGHT.) + +BY THIS TIME THEY WERE ALL APPROACHING TúSHIN’S BATTERY, AND A BALL +STRUCK THE GROUND IN FRONT OF THEM. + +“WHAT’S THAT THAT HAS FALLEN?” ASKED THE ACCOUNTANT WITH A NAïVE +SMILE. + +“A FRENCH PANCAKE,” ANSWERED ZHERKóV. + +“SO THAT’S WHAT THEY HIT WITH?” ASKED THE ACCOUNTANT. “HOW +AWFUL!” + +HE SEEMED TO SWELL WITH SATISFACTION. HE HAD HARDLY FINISHED SPEAKING +WHEN THEY AGAIN HEARD AN UNEXPECTEDLY VIOLENT WHISTLING WHICH SUDDENLY +ENDED WITH A THUD INTO SOMETHING SOFT... F-F-FLOP! AND A COSSACK, RIDING +A LITTLE TO THEIR RIGHT AND BEHIND THE ACCOUNTANT, CRASHED TO EARTH WITH +HIS HORSE. ZHERKóV AND THE STAFF OFFICER BENT OVER THEIR SADDLES AND +TURNED THEIR HORSES AWAY. THE ACCOUNTANT STOPPED, FACING THE COSSACK, +AND EXAMINED HIM WITH ATTENTIVE CURIOSITY. THE COSSACK WAS DEAD, BUT THE +HORSE STILL STRUGGLED. + +PRINCE BAGRATIóN SCREWED UP HIS EYES, LOOKED ROUND, AND, SEEING THE +CAUSE OF THE CONFUSION, TURNED AWAY WITH INDIFFERENCE, AS IF TO SAY, +“IS IT WORTH WHILE NOTICING TRIFLES?” HE REINED IN HIS HORSE WITH +THE CARE OF A SKILLFUL RIDER AND, SLIGHTLY BENDING OVER, DISENGAGED HIS +SABER WHICH HAD CAUGHT IN HIS CLOAK. IT WAS AN OLD-FASHIONED SABER OF +A KIND NO LONGER IN GENERAL USE. PRINCE ANDREW REMEMBERED THE STORY OF +SUVóROV GIVING HIS SABER TO BAGRATIóN IN ITALY, AND THE RECOLLECTION +WAS PARTICULARLY PLEASANT AT THAT MOMENT. THEY HAD REACHED THE BATTERY +AT WHICH PRINCE ANDREW HAD BEEN WHEN HE EXAMINED THE BATTLEFIELD. + +“WHOSE COMPANY?” ASKED PRINCE BAGRATIóN OF AN ARTILLERYMAN STANDING +BY THE AMMUNITION WAGON. + +HE ASKED, “WHOSE COMPANY?” BUT HE REALLY MEANT, “ARE YOU +FRIGHTENED HERE?” AND THE ARTILLERYMAN UNDERSTOOD HIM. + +“CAPTAIN TúSHIN’S, YOUR EXCELLENCY!” SHOUTED THE RED-HAIRED, +FRECKLED GUNNER IN A MERRY VOICE, STANDING TO ATTENTION. + +“YES, YES,” MUTTERED BAGRATIóN AS IF CONSIDERING SOMETHING, AND HE +RODE PAST THE LIMBERS TO THE FARTHEST CANNON. + +AS HE APPROACHED, A RINGING SHOT ISSUED FROM IT DEAFENING HIM AND HIS +SUITE, AND IN THE SMOKE THAT SUDDENLY SURROUNDED THE GUN THEY COULD SEE +THE GUNNERS WHO HAD SEIZED IT STRAINING TO ROLL IT QUICKLY BACK TO ITS +FORMER POSITION. A HUGE, BROAD-SHOULDERED GUNNER, NUMBER ONE, HOLDING +A MOP, HIS LEGS FAR APART, SPRANG TO THE WHEEL; WHILE NUMBER TWO WITH +A TREMBLING HAND PLACED A CHARGE IN THE CANNON’S MOUTH. THE SHORT, +ROUND-SHOULDERED CAPTAIN TúSHIN, STUMBLING OVER THE TAIL OF THE GUN +CARRIAGE, MOVED FORWARD AND, NOT NOTICING THE GENERAL, LOOKED OUT +SHADING HIS EYES WITH HIS SMALL HAND. + +“LIFT IT TWO LINES MORE AND IT WILL BE JUST RIGHT,” CRIED HE IN A +FEEBLE VOICE TO WHICH HE TRIED TO IMPART A DASHING NOTE, ILL-SUITED TO +HIS WEAK FIGURE. “NUMBER TWO!” HE SQUEAKED. “FIRE, MEDVéDEV!” + +BAGRATIóN CALLED TO HIM, AND TúSHIN, RAISING THREE FINGERS TO HIS CAP +WITH A BASHFUL AND AWKWARD GESTURE NOT AT ALL LIKE A MILITARY SALUTE +BUT LIKE A PRIEST’S BENEDICTION, APPROACHED THE GENERAL. THOUGH +TúSHIN’S GUNS HAD BEEN INTENDED TO CANNONADE THE VALLEY, HE WAS +FIRING INCENDIARY BALLS AT THE VILLAGE OF SCHöN GRABERN VISIBLE JUST +OPPOSITE, IN FRONT OF WHICH LARGE MASSES OF FRENCH WERE ADVANCING. + +NO ONE HAD GIVEN TúSHIN ORDERS WHERE AND AT WHAT TO FIRE, BUT AFTER +CONSULTING HIS SERGEANT MAJOR, ZAKHARCHéNKO, FOR WHOM HE HAD GREAT +RESPECT, HE HAD DECIDED THAT IT WOULD BE A GOOD THING TO SET FIRE TO THE +VILLAGE. “VERY GOOD!” SAID BAGRATIóN IN REPLY TO THE OFFICER’S +REPORT, AND BEGAN DELIBERATELY TO EXAMINE THE WHOLE BATTLEFIELD EXTENDED +BEFORE HIM. THE FRENCH HAD ADVANCED NEAREST ON OUR RIGHT. BELOW THE +HEIGHT ON WHICH THE KIEV REGIMENT WAS STATIONED, IN THE HOLLOW WHERE THE +RIVULET FLOWED, THE SOUL-STIRRING ROLLING AND CRACKLING OF MUSKETRY WAS +HEARD, AND MUCH FARTHER TO THE RIGHT BEYOND THE DRAGOONS, THE OFFICER OF +THE SUITE POINTED OUT TO BAGRATIóN A FRENCH COLUMN THAT WAS OUTFLANKING +US. TO THE LEFT THE HORIZON BOUNDED BY THE ADJACENT WOOD. PRINCE +BAGRATIóN ORDERED TWO BATTALIONS FROM THE CENTER TO BE SENT TO +REINFORCE THE RIGHT FLANK. THE OFFICER OF THE SUITE VENTURED TO REMARK +TO THE PRINCE THAT IF THESE BATTALIONS WENT AWAY, THE GUNS WOULD REMAIN +WITHOUT SUPPORT. PRINCE BAGRATIóN TURNED TO THE OFFICER AND WITH HIS +DULL EYES LOOKED AT HIM IN SILENCE. IT SEEMED TO PRINCE ANDREW THAT THE +OFFICER’S REMARK WAS JUST AND THAT REALLY NO ANSWER COULD BE MADE TO +IT. BUT AT THAT MOMENT AN ADJUTANT GALLOPED UP WITH A MESSAGE FROM THE +COMMANDER OF THE REGIMENT IN THE HOLLOW AND NEWS THAT IMMENSE MASSES +OF THE FRENCH WERE COMING DOWN UPON THEM AND THAT HIS REGIMENT WAS IN +DISORDER AND WAS RETREATING UPON THE KIEV GRENADIERS. PRINCE BAGRATIóN +BOWED HIS HEAD IN SIGN OF ASSENT AND APPROVAL. HE RODE OFF AT A WALK TO +THE RIGHT AND SENT AN ADJUTANT TO THE DRAGOONS WITH ORDERS TO ATTACK THE +FRENCH. BUT THIS ADJUTANT RETURNED HALF AN HOUR LATER WITH THE NEWS THAT +THE COMMANDER OF THE DRAGOONS HAD ALREADY RETREATED BEYOND THE DIP IN +THE GROUND, AS A HEAVY FIRE HAD BEEN OPENED ON HIM AND HE WAS LOSING +MEN USELESSLY, AND SO HAD HASTENED TO THROW SOME SHARPSHOOTERS INTO THE +WOOD. + +“VERY GOOD!” SAID BAGRATIóN. + +AS HE WAS LEAVING THE BATTERY, FIRING WAS HEARD ON THE LEFT ALSO, AND +AS IT WAS TOO FAR TO THE LEFT FLANK FOR HIM TO HAVE TIME TO GO THERE +HIMSELF, PRINCE BAGRATIóN SENT ZHERKóV TO TELL THE GENERAL IN COMMAND +(THE ONE WHO HAD PARADED HIS REGIMENT BEFORE KUTúZOV AT BRAUNAU) THAT +HE MUST RETREAT AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE BEHIND THE HOLLOW IN THE REAR, +AS THE RIGHT FLANK WOULD PROBABLY NOT BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND THE ENEMY’S +ATTACK VERY LONG. ABOUT TúSHIN AND THE BATTALION THAT HAD BEEN IN +SUPPORT OF HIS BATTERY ALL WAS FORGOTTEN. PRINCE ANDREW LISTENED +ATTENTIVELY TO BAGRATIóN’S COLLOQUIES WITH THE COMMANDING OFFICERS +AND THE ORDERS HE GAVE THEM AND, TO HIS SURPRISE, FOUND THAT NO ORDERS +WERE REALLY GIVEN, BUT THAT PRINCE BAGRATIóN TRIED TO MAKE IT APPEAR +THAT EVERYTHING DONE BY NECESSITY, BY ACCIDENT, OR BY THE WILL OF +SUBORDINATE COMMANDERS WAS DONE, IF NOT BY HIS DIRECT COMMAND, AT LEAST +IN ACCORD WITH HIS INTENTIONS. PRINCE ANDREW NOTICED, HOWEVER, THAT +THOUGH WHAT HAPPENED WAS DUE TO CHANCE AND WAS INDEPENDENT OF THE +COMMANDER’S WILL, OWING TO THE TACT BAGRATIóN SHOWED, HIS PRESENCE +WAS VERY VALUABLE. OFFICERS WHO APPROACHED HIM WITH DISTURBED +COUNTENANCES BECAME CALM; SOLDIERS AND OFFICERS GREETED HIM GAILY, GREW +MORE CHEERFUL IN HIS PRESENCE, AND WERE EVIDENTLY ANXIOUS TO DISPLAY +THEIR COURAGE BEFORE HIM. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVIII + +PRINCE BAGRATIóN, HAVING REACHED THE HIGHEST POINT OF OUR RIGHT FLANK, +BEGAN RIDING DOWNHILL TO WHERE THE ROLL OF MUSKETRY WAS HEARD BUT WHERE +ON ACCOUNT OF THE SMOKE NOTHING COULD BE SEEN. THE NEARER THEY GOT TO +THE HOLLOW THE LESS THEY COULD SEE BUT THE MORE THEY FELT THE NEARNESS +OF THE ACTUAL BATTLEFIELD. THEY BEGAN TO MEET WOUNDED MEN. ONE WITH A +BLEEDING HEAD AND NO CAP WAS BEING DRAGGED ALONG BY TWO SOLDIERS WHO +SUPPORTED HIM UNDER THE ARMS. THERE WAS A GURGLE IN HIS THROAT AND HE +WAS SPITTING BLOOD. A BULLET HAD EVIDENTLY HIT HIM IN THE THROAT OR +MOUTH. ANOTHER WAS WALKING STURDILY BY HIMSELF BUT WITHOUT HIS MUSKET, +GROANING ALOUD AND SWINGING HIS ARM WHICH HAD JUST BEEN HURT, WHILE +BLOOD FROM IT WAS STREAMING OVER HIS GREATCOAT AS FROM A BOTTLE. HE HAD +THAT MOMENT BEEN WOUNDED AND HIS FACE SHOWED FEAR RATHER THAN SUFFERING. +CROSSING A ROAD THEY DESCENDED A STEEP INCLINE AND SAW SEVERAL MEN +LYING ON THE GROUND; THEY ALSO MET A CROWD OF SOLDIERS SOME OF WHOM WERE +UNWOUNDED. THE SOLDIERS WERE ASCENDING THE HILL BREATHING HEAVILY, AND +DESPITE THE GENERAL’S PRESENCE WERE TALKING LOUDLY AND GESTICULATING. +IN FRONT OF THEM ROWS OF GRAY CLOAKS WERE ALREADY VISIBLE THROUGH THE +SMOKE, AND AN OFFICER CATCHING SIGHT OF BAGRATIóN RUSHED SHOUTING AFTER +THE CROWD OF RETREATING SOLDIERS, ORDERING THEM BACK. BAGRATIóN RODE UP +TO THE RANKS ALONG WHICH SHOTS CRACKLED NOW HERE AND NOW THERE, DROWNING +THE SOUND OF VOICES AND THE SHOUTS OF COMMAND. THE WHOLE AIR REEKED WITH +SMOKE. THE EXCITED FACES OF THE SOLDIERS WERE BLACKENED WITH IT. SOME +WERE USING THEIR RAMRODS, OTHERS PUTTING POWDER ON THE TOUCHPANS OR +TAKING CHARGES FROM THEIR POUCHES, WHILE OTHERS WERE FIRING, THOUGH WHO +THEY WERE FIRING AT COULD NOT BE SEEN FOR THE SMOKE WHICH THERE WAS NO +WIND TO CARRY AWAY. A PLEASANT HUMMING AND WHISTLING OF BULLETS WERE +OFTEN HEARD. “WHAT IS THIS?” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW APPROACHING THE +CROWD OF SOLDIERS. “IT CAN’T BE AN ATTACK, FOR THEY ARE NOT MOVING; +IT CAN’T BE A SQUARE—FOR THEY ARE NOT DRAWN UP FOR THAT.” + +THE COMMANDER OF THE REGIMENT, A THIN, FEEBLE-LOOKING OLD MAN WITH A +PLEASANT SMILE—HIS EYELIDS DROOPING MORE THAN HALF OVER HIS OLD EYES, +GIVING HIM A MILD EXPRESSION, RODE UP TO BAGRATIóN AND WELCOMED HIM AS +A HOST WELCOMES AN HONORED GUEST. HE REPORTED THAT HIS REGIMENT HAD +BEEN ATTACKED BY FRENCH CAVALRY AND THAT, THOUGH THE ATTACK HAD BEEN +REPULSED, HE HAD LOST MORE THAN HALF HIS MEN. HE SAID THE ATTACK +HAD BEEN REPULSED, EMPLOYING THIS MILITARY TERM TO DESCRIBE WHAT HAD +OCCURRED TO HIS REGIMENT, BUT IN REALITY HE DID NOT HIMSELF KNOW WHAT +HAD HAPPENED DURING THAT HALF-HOUR TO THE TROOPS ENTRUSTED TO HIM, AND +COULD NOT SAY WITH CERTAINTY WHETHER THE ATTACK HAD BEEN REPULSED OR HIS +REGIMENT HAD BEEN BROKEN UP. ALL HE KNEW WAS THAT AT THE COMMENCEMENT +OF THE ACTION BALLS AND SHELLS BEGAN FLYING ALL OVER HIS REGIMENT AND +HITTING MEN AND THAT AFTERWARDS SOMEONE HAD SHOUTED “CAVALRY!” AND +OUR MEN HAD BEGUN FIRING. THEY WERE STILL FIRING, NOT AT THE CAVALRY +WHICH HAD DISAPPEARED, BUT AT FRENCH INFANTRY WHO HAD COME INTO THE +HOLLOW AND WERE FIRING AT OUR MEN. PRINCE BAGRATIóN BOWED HIS HEAD AS A +SIGN THAT THIS WAS EXACTLY WHAT HE HAD DESIRED AND EXPECTED. TURNING +TO HIS ADJUTANT HE ORDERED HIM TO BRING DOWN THE TWO BATTALIONS OF THE +SIXTH CHASSEURS WHOM THEY HAD JUST PASSED. PRINCE ANDREW WAS STRUCK BY +THE CHANGED EXPRESSION ON PRINCE BAGRATIóN’S FACE AT THIS MOMENT. IT +EXPRESSED THE CONCENTRATED AND HAPPY RESOLUTION YOU SEE ON THE FACE OF +A MAN WHO ON A HOT DAY TAKES A FINAL RUN BEFORE PLUNGING INTO THE WATER. +THE DULL, SLEEPY EXPRESSION WAS NO LONGER THERE, NOR THE AFFECTATION +OF PROFOUND THOUGHT. THE ROUND, STEADY, HAWK’S EYES LOOKED BEFORE HIM +EAGERLY AND RATHER DISDAINFULLY, NOT RESTING ON ANYTHING ALTHOUGH HIS +MOVEMENTS WERE STILL SLOW AND MEASURED. + +THE COMMANDER OF THE REGIMENT TURNED TO PRINCE BAGRATIóN, ENTREATING +HIM TO GO BACK AS IT WAS TOO DANGEROUS TO REMAIN WHERE THEY WERE. +“PLEASE, YOUR EXCELLENCY, FOR GOD’S SAKE!” HE KEPT SAYING, +GLANCING FOR SUPPORT AT AN OFFICER OF THE SUITE WHO TURNED AWAY +FROM HIM. “THERE, YOU SEE!” AND HE DREW ATTENTION TO THE BULLETS +WHISTLING, SINGING, AND HISSING CONTINUALLY AROUND THEM. HE SPOKE IN THE +TONE OF ENTREATY AND REPROACH THAT A CARPENTER USES TO A GENTLEMAN WHO +HAS PICKED UP AN AX: “WE ARE USED TO IT, BUT YOU, SIR, WILL BLISTER +YOUR HANDS.” HE SPOKE AS IF THOSE BULLETS COULD NOT KILL HIM, AND HIS +HALF-CLOSED EYES GAVE STILL MORE PERSUASIVENESS TO HIS WORDS. THE STAFF +OFFICER JOINED IN THE COLONEL’S APPEALS, BUT BAGRATIóN DID NOT REPLY; +HE ONLY GAVE AN ORDER TO CEASE FIRING AND RE-FORM, SO AS TO GIVE ROOM +FOR THE TWO APPROACHING BATTALIONS. WHILE HE WAS SPEAKING, THE CURTAIN +OF SMOKE THAT HAD CONCEALED THE HOLLOW, DRIVEN BY A RISING WIND, BEGAN +TO MOVE FROM RIGHT TO LEFT AS IF DRAWN BY AN INVISIBLE HAND, AND THE +HILL OPPOSITE, WITH THE FRENCH MOVING ABOUT ON IT, OPENED OUT BEFORE +THEM. ALL EYES FASTENED INVOLUNTARILY ON THIS FRENCH COLUMN ADVANCING +AGAINST THEM AND WINDING DOWN OVER THE UNEVEN GROUND. ONE COULD ALREADY +SEE THE SOLDIERS’ SHAGGY CAPS, DISTINGUISH THE OFFICERS FROM THE MEN, +AND SEE THE STANDARD FLAPPING AGAINST ITS STAFF. + +“THEY MARCH SPLENDIDLY,” REMARKED SOMEONE IN BAGRATIóN’S SUITE. + +THE HEAD OF THE COLUMN HAD ALREADY DESCENDED INTO THE HOLLOW. THE CLASH +WOULD TAKE PLACE ON THIS SIDE OF IT... + +THE REMAINS OF OUR REGIMENT WHICH HAD BEEN IN ACTION RAPIDLY FORMED UP +AND MOVED TO THE RIGHT; FROM BEHIND IT, DISPERSING THE LAGGARDS, CAME +TWO BATTALIONS OF THE SIXTH CHASSEURS IN FINE ORDER. BEFORE THEY HAD +REACHED BAGRATIóN, THE WEIGHTY TREAD OF THE MASS OF MEN MARCHING IN +STEP COULD BE HEARD. ON THEIR LEFT FLANK, NEAREST TO BAGRATIóN, MARCHED +A COMPANY COMMANDER, A FINE ROUND-FACED MAN, WITH A STUPID AND HAPPY +EXPRESSION—THE SAME MAN WHO HAD RUSHED OUT OF THE WATTLE SHED. AT THAT +MOMENT HE WAS CLEARLY THINKING OF NOTHING BUT HOW DASHING A FELLOW HE +WOULD APPEAR AS HE PASSED THE COMMANDER. + +WITH THE SELF-SATISFACTION OF A MAN ON PARADE, HE STEPPED LIGHTLY WITH +HIS MUSCULAR LEGS AS IF SAILING ALONG, STRETCHING HIMSELF TO HIS FULL +HEIGHT WITHOUT THE SMALLEST EFFORT, HIS EASE CONTRASTING WITH THE HEAVY +TREAD OF THE SOLDIERS WHO WERE KEEPING STEP WITH HIM. HE CARRIED CLOSE +TO HIS LEG A NARROW UNSHEATHED SWORD (SMALL, CURVED, AND NOT LIKE A REAL +WEAPON) AND LOOKED NOW AT THE SUPERIOR OFFICERS AND NOW BACK AT THE MEN +WITHOUT LOSING STEP, HIS WHOLE POWERFUL BODY TURNING FLEXIBLY. IT WAS AS +IF ALL THE POWERS OF HIS SOUL WERE CONCENTRATED ON PASSING THE COMMANDER +IN THE BEST POSSIBLE MANNER, AND FEELING THAT HE WAS DOING IT WELL HE +WAS HAPPY. “LEFT... LEFT... LEFT...” HE SEEMED TO REPEAT TO HIMSELF +AT EACH ALTERNATE STEP; AND IN TIME TO THIS, WITH STERN BUT VARIED +FACES, THE WALL OF SOLDIERS BURDENED WITH KNAPSACKS AND MUSKETS MARCHED +IN STEP, AND EACH ONE OF THESE HUNDREDS OF SOLDIERS SEEMED TO BE +REPEATING TO HIMSELF AT EACH ALTERNATE STEP, “LEFT... LEFT... +LEFT...” A FAT MAJOR SKIRTED A BUSH, PUFFING AND FALLING OUT OF +STEP; A SOLDIER WHO HAD FALLEN BEHIND, HIS FACE SHOWING ALARM AT HIS +DEFECTION, RAN AT A TROT, PANTING TO CATCH UP WITH HIS COMPANY. A CANNON +BALL, CLEAVING THE AIR, FLEW OVER THE HEADS OF BAGRATIóN AND HIS SUITE, +AND FELL INTO THE COLUMN TO THE MEASURE OF “LEFT... LEFT!” “CLOSE +UP!” CAME THE COMPANY COMMANDER’S VOICE IN JAUNTY TONES. THE +SOLDIERS PASSED IN A SEMICIRCLE ROUND SOMETHING WHERE THE BALL HAD +FALLEN, AND AN OLD TROOPER ON THE FLANK, A NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICER WHO +HAD STOPPED BESIDE THE DEAD MEN, RAN TO CATCH UP HIS LINE AND, FALLING +INTO STEP WITH A HOP, LOOKED BACK ANGRILY, AND THROUGH THE OMINOUS +SILENCE AND THE REGULAR TRAMP OF FEET BEATING THE GROUND IN UNISON, ONE +SEEMED TO HEAR LEFT... LEFT... LEFT. + +“WELL DONE, LADS!” SAID PRINCE BAGRATIóN. + +“GLAD TO DO OUR BEST, YOUR EX’LEN-LENCY!” CAME A CONFUSED SHOUT +FROM THE RANKS. A MOROSE SOLDIER MARCHING ON THE LEFT TURNED HIS EYES ON +BAGRATIóN AS HE SHOUTED, WITH AN EXPRESSION THAT SEEMED TO SAY: “WE +KNOW THAT OURSELVES!” ANOTHER, WITHOUT LOOKING ROUND, AS THOUGH +FEARING TO RELAX, SHOUTED WITH HIS MOUTH WIDE OPEN AND PASSED ON. + +THE ORDER WAS GIVEN TO HALT AND DOWN KNAPSACKS. + +BAGRATIóN RODE ROUND THE RANKS THAT HAD MARCHED PAST HIM AND +DISMOUNTED. HE GAVE THE REINS TO A COSSACK, TOOK OFF AND HANDED OVER HIS diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-9/1M-tr-seq/1M-tr-seq-01 b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-9/1M-tr-seq/1M-tr-seq-01 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bafe6f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-9/1M-tr-seq/1M-tr-seq-01 @@ -0,0 +1,10785 @@ +FELT COAT, STRETCHED HIS LEGS, AND SET HIS CAP STRAIGHT. THE HEAD OF THE +FRENCH COLUMN, WITH ITS OFFICERS LEADING, APPEARED FROM BELOW THE HILL. + +“FORWARD, WITH GOD!” SAID BAGRATIóN, IN A RESOLUTE, SONOROUS VOICE, +TURNING FOR A MOMENT TO THE FRONT LINE, AND SLIGHTLY SWINGING HIS ARMS, +HE WENT FORWARD UNEASILY OVER THE ROUGH FIELD WITH THE AWKWARD GAIT OF +A CAVALRYMAN. PRINCE ANDREW FELT THAT AN INVISIBLE POWER WAS LEADING HIM +FORWARD, AND EXPERIENCED GREAT HAPPINESS. + +THE FRENCH WERE ALREADY NEAR. PRINCE ANDREW, WALKING BESIDE BAGRATIóN, +COULD CLEARLY DISTINGUISH THEIR BANDOLIERS, RED EPAULETS, AND EVEN THEIR +FACES. (HE DISTINCTLY SAW AN OLD FRENCH OFFICER WHO, WITH GAITERED +LEGS AND TURNED-OUT TOES, CLIMBED THE HILL WITH DIFFICULTY.) PRINCE +BAGRATIóN GAVE NO FURTHER ORDERS AND SILENTLY CONTINUED TO WALK ON IN +FRONT OF THE RANKS. SUDDENLY ONE SHOT AFTER ANOTHER RANG OUT FROM THE +FRENCH, SMOKE APPEARED ALL ALONG THEIR UNEVEN RANKS, AND MUSKET SHOTS +SOUNDED. SEVERAL OF OUR MEN FELL, AMONG THEM THE ROUND-FACED OFFICER +WHO HAD MARCHED SO GAILY AND COMPLACENTLY. BUT AT THE MOMENT THE FIRST +REPORT WAS HEARD, BAGRATIóN LOOKED ROUND AND SHOUTED, “HURRAH!” + +“HURRAH—AH!—AH!” RANG A LONG-DRAWN SHOUT FROM OUR RANKS, AND +PASSING BAGRATIóN AND RACING ONE ANOTHER THEY RUSHED IN AN IRREGULAR +BUT JOYOUS AND EAGER CROWD DOWN THE HILL AT THEIR DISORDERED FOE. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIX + +THE ATTACK OF THE SIXTH CHASSEURS SECURED THE RETREAT OF OUR RIGHT +FLANK. IN THE CENTER TúSHIN’S FORGOTTEN BATTERY, WHICH HAD MANAGED TO +SET FIRE TO THE SCHöN GRABERN VILLAGE, DELAYED THE FRENCH ADVANCE. THE +FRENCH WERE PUTTING OUT THE FIRE WHICH THE WIND WAS SPREADING, AND THUS +GAVE US TIME TO RETREAT. THE RETIREMENT OF THE CENTER TO THE OTHER SIDE +OF THE DIP IN THE GROUND AT THE REAR WAS HURRIED AND NOISY, BUT THE +DIFFERENT COMPANIES DID NOT GET MIXED. BUT OUR LEFT—WHICH CONSISTED +OF THE AZóV AND PODóLSK INFANTRY AND THE PáVLOGRAD HUSSARS—WAS +SIMULTANEOUSLY ATTACKED AND OUTFLANKED BY SUPERIOR FRENCH FORCES UNDER +LANNES AND WAS THROWN INTO CONFUSION. BAGRATIóN HAD SENT ZHERKóV +TO THE GENERAL COMMANDING THAT LEFT FLANK WITH ORDERS TO RETREAT +IMMEDIATELY. + +ZHERKóV, NOT REMOVING HIS HAND FROM HIS CAP, TURNED HIS HORSE ABOUT +AND GALLOPED OFF. BUT NO SOONER HAD HE LEFT BAGRATIóN THAN HIS COURAGE +FAILED HIM. HE WAS SEIZED BY PANIC AND COULD NOT GO WHERE IT WAS +DANGEROUS. + +HAVING REACHED THE LEFT FLANK, INSTEAD OF GOING TO THE FRONT WHERE THE +FIRING WAS, HE BEGAN TO LOOK FOR THE GENERAL AND HIS STAFF WHERE THEY +COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE, AND SO DID NOT DELIVER THE ORDER. + +THE COMMAND OF THE LEFT FLANK BELONGED BY SENIORITY TO THE COMMANDER OF +THE REGIMENT KUTúZOV HAD REVIEWED AT BRAUNAU AND IN WHICH DóLOKHOV WAS +SERVING AS A PRIVATE. BUT THE COMMAND OF THE EXTREME LEFT FLANK HAD BEEN +ASSIGNED TO THE COMMANDER OF THE PáVLOGRAD REGIMENT IN WHICH ROSTóV +WAS SERVING, AND A MISUNDERSTANDING AROSE. THE TWO COMMANDERS WERE MUCH +EXASPERATED WITH ONE ANOTHER AND, LONG AFTER THE ACTION HAD BEGUN ON +THE RIGHT FLANK AND THE FRENCH WERE ALREADY ADVANCING, WERE ENGAGED +IN DISCUSSION WITH THE SOLE OBJECT OF OFFENDING ONE ANOTHER. BUT THE +REGIMENTS, BOTH CAVALRY AND INFANTRY, WERE BY NO MEANS READY FOR THE +IMPENDING ACTION. FROM PRIVATES TO GENERAL THEY WERE NOT EXPECTING A +BATTLE AND WERE ENGAGED IN PEACEFUL OCCUPATIONS, THE CAVALRY FEEDING THE +HORSES AND THE INFANTRY COLLECTING WOOD. + +“HE HIGHER ISS DAN I IN RANK,” SAID THE GERMAN COLONEL OF THE +HUSSARS, FLUSHING AND ADDRESSING AN ADJUTANT WHO HAD RIDDEN UP, “SO +LET HIM DO WHAT HE VILL, BUT I CANNOT SACRIFICE MY HUSSARS... BUGLER, +SOUNT ZE RETREAT!” + +BUT HASTE WAS BECOMING IMPERATIVE. CANNON AND MUSKETRY, MINGLING +TOGETHER, THUNDERED ON THE RIGHT AND IN THE CENTER, WHILE THE CAPOTES +OF LANNES’ SHARPSHOOTERS WERE ALREADY SEEN CROSSING THE MILLDAM AND +FORMING UP WITHIN TWICE THE RANGE OF A MUSKET SHOT. THE GENERAL IN +COMMAND OF THE INFANTRY WENT TOWARD HIS HORSE WITH JERKY STEPS, AND +HAVING MOUNTED DREW HIMSELF UP VERY STRAIGHT AND TALL AND RODE TO THE +PáVLOGRAD COMMANDER. THE COMMANDERS MET WITH POLITE BOWS BUT WITH +SECRET MALEVOLENCE IN THEIR HEARTS. + +“ONCE AGAIN, COLONEL,” SAID THE GENERAL, “I CAN’T LEAVE HALF +MY MEN IN THE WOOD. I BEG OF YOU, I BEG OF YOU,” HE REPEATED, “TO +OCCUPY THE POSITION AND PREPARE FOR AN ATTACK.” + +“I PEG OF YOU YOURSELF NOT TO MIX IN VOT IS NOT YOUR BUSINESS!” +SUDDENLY REPLIED THE IRATE COLONEL. “IF YOU VERE IN THE CAVALRY...” + +“I AM NOT IN THE CAVALRY, COLONEL, BUT I AM A RUSSIAN GENERAL AND IF +YOU ARE NOT AWARE OF THE FACT...” + +“QUITE AVARE, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” SUDDENLY SHOUTED THE COLONEL, +TOUCHING HIS HORSE AND TURNING PURPLE IN THE FACE. “VILL YOU BE SO +GOOT TO COME TO ZE FRONT AND SEE DAT ZIS POSITION ISS NO GOOT? I DON’T +VISH TO DESTROY MY MEN FOR YOUR PLEASURE!” + +“YOU FORGET YOURSELF, COLONEL. I AM NOT CONSIDERING MY OWN PLEASURE +AND I WON’T ALLOW IT TO BE SAID!” + +TAKING THE COLONEL’S OUTBURST AS A CHALLENGE TO HIS COURAGE, THE +GENERAL EXPANDED HIS CHEST AND RODE, FROWNING, BESIDE HIM TO THE +FRONT LINE, AS IF THEIR DIFFERENCES WOULD BE SETTLED THERE AMONGST THE +BULLETS. THEY REACHED THE FRONT, SEVERAL BULLETS SPED OVER THEM, AND +THEY HALTED IN SILENCE. THERE WAS NOTHING FRESH TO BE SEEN FROM THE +LINE, FOR FROM WHERE THEY HAD BEEN BEFORE IT HAD BEEN EVIDENT THAT IT +WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR CAVALRY TO ACT AMONG THE BUSHES AND BROKEN GROUND, +AS WELL AS THAT THE FRENCH WERE OUTFLANKING OUR LEFT. THE GENERAL +AND COLONEL LOOKED STERNLY AND SIGNIFICANTLY AT ONE ANOTHER LIKE TWO +FIGHTING COCKS PREPARING FOR BATTLE, EACH VAINLY TRYING TO DETECT SIGNS +OF COWARDICE IN THE OTHER. BOTH PASSED THE EXAMINATION SUCCESSFULLY. AS +THERE WAS NOTHING TO BE SAID, AND NEITHER WISHED TO GIVE OCCASION FOR +IT TO BE ALLEGED THAT HE HAD BEEN THE FIRST TO LEAVE THE RANGE OF FIRE, +THEY WOULD HAVE REMAINED THERE FOR A LONG TIME TESTING EACH OTHER’S +COURAGE HAD IT NOT BEEN THAT JUST THEN THEY HEARD THE RATTLE OF MUSKETRY +AND A MUFFLED SHOUT ALMOST BEHIND THEM IN THE WOOD. THE FRENCH HAD +ATTACKED THE MEN COLLECTING WOOD IN THE COPSE. IT WAS NO LONGER POSSIBLE +FOR THE HUSSARS TO RETREAT WITH THE INFANTRY. THEY WERE CUT OFF FROM +THE LINE OF RETREAT ON THE LEFT BY THE FRENCH. HOWEVER INCONVENIENT THE +POSITION, IT WAS NOW NECESSARY TO ATTACK IN ORDER TO CUT A WAY THROUGH +FOR THEMSELVES. + +THE SQUADRON IN WHICH ROSTóV WAS SERVING HAD SCARCELY TIME TO MOUNT +BEFORE IT WAS HALTED FACING THE ENEMY. AGAIN, AS AT THE ENNS BRIDGE, +THERE WAS NOTHING BETWEEN THE SQUADRON AND THE ENEMY, AND AGAIN THAT +TERRIBLE DIVIDING LINE OF UNCERTAINTY AND FEAR—RESEMBLING THE LINE +SEPARATING THE LIVING FROM THE DEAD—LAY BETWEEN THEM. ALL WERE +CONSCIOUS OF THIS UNSEEN LINE, AND THE QUESTION WHETHER THEY WOULD CROSS +IT OR NOT, AND HOW THEY WOULD CROSS IT, AGITATED THEM ALL. + +THE COLONEL RODE TO THE FRONT, ANGRILY GAVE SOME REPLY TO QUESTIONS PUT +TO HIM BY THE OFFICERS, AND, LIKE A MAN DESPERATELY INSISTING ON HAVING +HIS OWN WAY, GAVE AN ORDER. NO ONE SAID ANYTHING DEFINITE, BUT THE RUMOR +OF AN ATTACK SPREAD THROUGH THE SQUADRON. THE COMMAND TO FORM UP RANG +OUT AND THE SABERS WHIZZED AS THEY WERE DRAWN FROM THEIR SCABBARDS. +STILL NO ONE MOVED. THE TROOPS OF THE LEFT FLANK, INFANTRY AND HUSSARS +ALIKE, FELT THAT THE COMMANDER DID NOT HIMSELF KNOW WHAT TO DO, AND THIS +IRRESOLUTION COMMUNICATED ITSELF TO THE MEN. + +“IF ONLY THEY WOULD BE QUICK!” THOUGHT ROSTóV, FEELING THAT AT LAST +THE TIME HAD COME TO EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF AN ATTACK OF WHICH HE HAD SO +OFTEN HEARD FROM HIS FELLOW HUSSARS. + +“FO’WARD, WITH GOD, LADS!” RANG OUT DENíSOV’S VOICE. “AT A +TWOT FO’WARD!” + +THE HORSES’ CROUPS BEGAN TO SWAY IN THE FRONT LINE. ROOK PULLED AT THE +REINS AND STARTED OF HIS OWN ACCORD. + +BEFORE HIM, ON THE RIGHT, ROSTóV SAW THE FRONT LINES OF HIS HUSSARS AND +STILL FARTHER AHEAD A DARK LINE WHICH HE COULD NOT SEE DISTINCTLY BUT +TOOK TO BE THE ENEMY. SHOTS COULD BE HEARD, BUT SOME WAY OFF. + +“FASTER!” CAME THE WORD OF COMMAND, AND ROSTóV FELT ROOK’S FLANKS +DROOPING AS HE BROKE INTO A GALLOP. + +ROSTóV ANTICIPATED HIS HORSE’S MOVEMENTS AND BECAME MORE AND MORE +ELATED. HE HAD NOTICED A SOLITARY TREE AHEAD OF HIM. THIS TREE HAD BEEN +IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LINE THAT HAD SEEMED SO TERRIBLE—AND NOW HE +HAD CROSSED THAT LINE AND NOT ONLY WAS THERE NOTHING TERRIBLE, BUT +EVERYTHING WAS BECOMING MORE AND MORE HAPPY AND ANIMATED. “OH, HOW I +WILL SLASH AT HIM!” THOUGHT ROSTóV, GRIPPING THE HILT OF HIS SABER. + +“HUR-A-A-A-AH!” CAME A ROAR OF VOICES. “LET ANYONE COME MY WAY +NOW,” THOUGHT ROSTóV DRIVING HIS SPURS INTO ROOK AND LETTING HIM GO +AT A FULL GALLOP SO THAT HE OUTSTRIPPED THE OTHERS. AHEAD, THE ENEMY WAS +ALREADY VISIBLE. SUDDENLY SOMETHING LIKE A BIRCH BROOM SEEMED TO SWEEP +OVER THE SQUADRON. ROSTóV RAISED HIS SABER, READY TO STRIKE, BUT AT +THAT INSTANT THE TROOPER NIKíTENKO, WHO WAS GALLOPING AHEAD, SHOT AWAY +FROM HIM, AND ROSTóV FELT AS IN A DREAM THAT HE CONTINUED TO BE CARRIED +FORWARD WITH UNNATURAL SPEED BUT YET STAYED ON THE SAME SPOT. FROM +BEHIND HIM BONDARCHúK, AN HUSSAR HE KNEW, JOLTED AGAINST HIM AND LOOKED +ANGRILY AT HIM. BONDARCHúK’S HORSE SWERVED AND GALLOPED PAST. + +“HOW IS IT I AM NOT MOVING? I HAVE FALLEN, I AM KILLED!” ROSTóV +ASKED AND ANSWERED AT THE SAME INSTANT. HE WAS ALONE IN THE MIDDLE OF A +FIELD. INSTEAD OF THE MOVING HORSES AND HUSSARS’ BACKS, HE SAW NOTHING +BEFORE HIM BUT THE MOTIONLESS EARTH AND THE STUBBLE AROUND HIM. THERE +WAS WARM BLOOD UNDER HIS ARM. “NO, I AM WOUNDED AND THE HORSE IS +KILLED.” ROOK TRIED TO RISE ON HIS FORELEGS BUT FELL BACK, PINNING HIS +RIDER’S LEG. BLOOD WAS FLOWING FROM HIS HEAD; HE STRUGGLED BUT COULD +NOT RISE. ROSTóV ALSO TRIED TO RISE BUT FELL BACK, HIS SABRETACHE +HAVING BECOME ENTANGLED IN THE SADDLE. WHERE OUR MEN WERE, AND WHERE THE +FRENCH, HE DID NOT KNOW. THERE WAS NO ONE NEAR. + +HAVING DISENTANGLED HIS LEG, HE ROSE. “WHERE, ON WHICH SIDE, WAS NOW +THE LINE THAT HAD SO SHARPLY DIVIDED THE TWO ARMIES?” HE ASKED HIMSELF +AND COULD NOT ANSWER. “CAN SOMETHING BAD HAVE HAPPENED TO ME?” +HE WONDERED AS HE GOT UP: AND AT THAT MOMENT HE FELT THAT SOMETHING +SUPERFLUOUS WAS HANGING ON HIS BENUMBED LEFT ARM. THE WRIST FELT AS IF +IT WERE NOT HIS. HE EXAMINED HIS HAND CAREFULLY, VAINLY TRYING TO FIND +BLOOD ON IT. “AH, HERE ARE PEOPLE COMING,” HE THOUGHT JOYFULLY, +SEEING SOME MEN RUNNING TOWARD HIM. “THEY WILL HELP ME!” IN FRONT +CAME A MAN WEARING A STRANGE SHAKO AND A BLUE CLOAK, SWARTHY, SUNBURNED, +AND WITH A HOOKED NOSE. THEN CAME TWO MORE, AND MANY MORE RUNNING +BEHIND. ONE OF THEM SAID SOMETHING STRANGE, NOT IN RUSSIAN. IN AMONG THE +HINDMOST OF THESE MEN WEARING SIMILAR SHAKOS WAS A RUSSIAN HUSSAR. HE +WAS BEING HELD BY THE ARMS AND HIS HORSE WAS BEING LED BEHIND HIM. + +“IT MUST BE ONE OF OURS, A PRISONER. YES. CAN IT BE THAT THEY WILL +TAKE ME TOO? WHO ARE THESE MEN?” THOUGHT ROSTóV, SCARCELY BELIEVING +HIS EYES. “CAN THEY BE FRENCH?” HE LOOKED AT THE APPROACHING +FRENCHMEN, AND THOUGH BUT A MOMENT BEFORE HE HAD BEEN GALLOPING TO GET +AT THEM AND HACK THEM TO PIECES, THEIR PROXIMITY NOW SEEMED SO AWFUL +THAT HE COULD NOT BELIEVE HIS EYES. “WHO ARE THEY? WHY ARE THEY +RUNNING? CAN THEY BE COMING AT ME? AND WHY? TO KILL ME? ME WHOM EVERYONE +IS SO FOND OF?” HE REMEMBERED HIS MOTHER’S LOVE FOR HIM, AND HIS +FAMILY’S, AND HIS FRIENDS’, AND THE ENEMY’S INTENTION TO KILL HIM +SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE. “BUT PERHAPS THEY MAY DO IT!” FOR MORE THAN TEN +SECONDS HE STOOD NOT MOVING FROM THE SPOT OR REALIZING THE SITUATION. +THE FOREMOST FRENCHMAN, THE ONE WITH THE HOOKED NOSE, WAS ALREADY SO +CLOSE THAT THE EXPRESSION OF HIS FACE COULD BE SEEN. AND THE EXCITED, +ALIEN FACE OF THAT MAN, HIS BAYONET HANGING DOWN, HOLDING HIS BREATH, +AND RUNNING SO LIGHTLY, FRIGHTENED ROSTóV. HE SEIZED HIS PISTOL AND, +INSTEAD OF FIRING IT, FLUNG IT AT THE FRENCHMAN AND RAN WITH ALL HIS +MIGHT TOWARD THE BUSHES. HE DID NOT NOW RUN WITH THE FEELING OF DOUBT +AND CONFLICT WITH WHICH HE HAD TRODDEN THE ENNS BRIDGE, BUT WITH THE +FEELING OF A HARE FLEEING FROM THE HOUNDS. ONE SINGLE SENTIMENT, THAT +OF FEAR FOR HIS YOUNG AND HAPPY LIFE, POSSESSED HIS WHOLE BEING. RAPIDLY +LEAPING THE FURROWS, HE FLED ACROSS THE FIELD WITH THE IMPETUOSITY HE +USED TO SHOW AT CATCHPLAY, NOW AND THEN TURNING HIS GOOD-NATURED, PALE, +YOUNG FACE TO LOOK BACK. A SHUDDER OF TERROR WENT THROUGH HIM: “NO, +BETTER NOT LOOK,” HE THOUGHT, BUT HAVING REACHED THE BUSHES HE GLANCED +ROUND ONCE MORE. THE FRENCH HAD FALLEN BEHIND, AND JUST AS HE LOOKED +ROUND THE FIRST MAN CHANGED HIS RUN TO A WALK AND, TURNING, SHOUTED +SOMETHING LOUDLY TO A COMRADE FARTHER BACK. ROSTóV PAUSED. “NO, +THERE’S SOME MISTAKE,” THOUGHT HE. “THEY CAN’T HAVE WANTED TO +KILL ME.” BUT AT THE SAME TIME, HIS LEFT ARM FELT AS HEAVY AS IF +A SEVENTY-POUND WEIGHT WERE TIED TO IT. HE COULD RUN NO MORE. THE +FRENCHMAN ALSO STOPPED AND TOOK AIM. ROSTóV CLOSED HIS EYES AND STOOPED +DOWN. ONE BULLET AND THEN ANOTHER WHISTLED PAST HIM. HE MUSTERED HIS +LAST REMAINING STRENGTH, TOOK HOLD OF HIS LEFT HAND WITH HIS RIGHT, AND +REACHED THE BUSHES. BEHIND THESE WERE SOME RUSSIAN SHARPSHOOTERS. + + + + + +CHAPTER XX + +THE INFANTRY REGIMENTS THAT HAD BEEN CAUGHT UNAWARES IN THE OUTSKIRTS +OF THE WOOD RAN OUT OF IT, THE DIFFERENT COMPANIES GETTING MIXED, AND +RETREATED AS A DISORDERLY CROWD. ONE SOLDIER, IN HIS FEAR, UTTERED THE +SENSELESS CRY, “CUT OFF!” THAT IS SO TERRIBLE IN BATTLE, AND THAT +WORD INFECTED THE WHOLE CROWD WITH A FEELING OF PANIC. + +“SURROUNDED! CUT OFF? WE’RE LOST!” SHOUTED THE FUGITIVES. + +THE MOMENT HE HEARD THE FIRING AND THE CRY FROM BEHIND, THE GENERAL +REALIZED THAT SOMETHING DREADFUL HAD HAPPENED TO HIS REGIMENT, AND THE +THOUGHT THAT HE, AN EXEMPLARY OFFICER OF MANY YEARS’ SERVICE WHO +HAD NEVER BEEN TO BLAME, MIGHT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE AT HEADQUARTERS +FOR NEGLIGENCE OR INEFFICIENCY SO STAGGERED HIM THAT, FORGETTING THE +RECALCITRANT CAVALRY COLONEL, HIS OWN DIGNITY AS A GENERAL, AND ABOVE +ALL QUITE FORGETTING THE DANGER AND ALL REGARD FOR SELF-PRESERVATION, HE +CLUTCHED THE CRUPPER OF HIS SADDLE AND, SPURRING HIS HORSE, GALLOPED TO +THE REGIMENT UNDER A HAIL OF BULLETS WHICH FELL AROUND, BUT FORTUNATELY +MISSED HIM. HIS ONE DESIRE WAS TO KNOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND AT ANY +COST CORRECT, OR REMEDY, THE MISTAKE IF HE HAD MADE ONE, SO THAT HE, +AN EXEMPLARY OFFICER OF TWENTY-TWO YEARS’ SERVICE, WHO HAD NEVER BEEN +CENSURED, SHOULD NOT BE HELD TO BLAME. + +HAVING GALLOPED SAFELY THROUGH THE FRENCH, HE REACHED A FIELD BEHIND +THE COPSE ACROSS WHICH OUR MEN, REGARDLESS OF ORDERS, WERE RUNNING AND +DESCENDING THE VALLEY. THAT MOMENT OF MORAL HESITATION WHICH DECIDES +THE FATE OF BATTLES HAD ARRIVED. WOULD THIS DISORDERLY CROWD OF SOLDIERS +ATTEND TO THE VOICE OF THEIR COMMANDER, OR WOULD THEY, DISREGARDING HIM, +CONTINUE THEIR FLIGHT? DESPITE HIS DESPERATE SHOUTS THAT USED TO SEEM +SO TERRIBLE TO THE SOLDIERS, DESPITE HIS FURIOUS PURPLE COUNTENANCE +DISTORTED OUT OF ALL LIKENESS TO HIS FORMER SELF, AND THE FLOURISHING OF +HIS SABER, THE SOLDIERS ALL CONTINUED TO RUN, TALKING, FIRING INTO THE +AIR, AND DISOBEYING ORDERS. THE MORAL HESITATION WHICH DECIDED THE FATE +OF BATTLES WAS EVIDENTLY CULMINATING IN A PANIC. + +THE GENERAL HAD A FIT OF COUGHING AS A RESULT OF SHOUTING AND OF THE +POWDER SMOKE AND STOPPED IN DESPAIR. EVERYTHING SEEMED LOST. BUT AT THAT +MOMENT THE FRENCH WHO WERE ATTACKING, SUDDENLY AND WITHOUT ANY APPARENT +REASON, RAN BACK AND DISAPPEARED FROM THE OUTSKIRTS, AND RUSSIAN +SHARPSHOOTERS SHOWED THEMSELVES IN THE COPSE. IT WAS TIMóKHIN’S +COMPANY, WHICH ALONE HAD MAINTAINED ITS ORDER IN THE WOOD AND, HAVING +LAIN IN AMBUSH IN A DITCH, NOW ATTACKED THE FRENCH UNEXPECTEDLY. +TIMóKHIN, ARMED ONLY WITH A SWORD, HAD RUSHED AT THE ENEMY WITH SUCH +A DESPERATE CRY AND SUCH MAD, DRUNKEN DETERMINATION THAT, TAKEN BY +SURPRISE, THE FRENCH HAD THROWN DOWN THEIR MUSKETS AND RUN. DóLOKHOV, +RUNNING BESIDE TIMóKHIN, KILLED A FRENCHMAN AT CLOSE QUARTERS AND WAS +THE FIRST TO SEIZE THE SURRENDERING FRENCH OFFICER BY HIS COLLAR. OUR +FUGITIVES RETURNED, THE BATTALIONS RE-FORMED, AND THE FRENCH WHO HAD +NEARLY CUT OUR LEFT FLANK IN HALF WERE FOR THE MOMENT REPULSED. OUR +RESERVE UNITS WERE ABLE TO JOIN UP, AND THE FIGHT WAS AT AN END. THE +REGIMENTAL COMMANDER AND MAJOR EKONóMOV HAD STOPPED BESIDE A BRIDGE, +LETTING THE RETREATING COMPANIES PASS BY THEM, WHEN A SOLDIER CAME UP +AND TOOK HOLD OF THE COMMANDER’S STIRRUP, ALMOST LEANING AGAINST HIM. +THE MAN WAS WEARING A BLUISH COAT OF BROADCLOTH, HE HAD NO KNAPSACK +OR CAP, HIS HEAD WAS BANDAGED, AND OVER HIS SHOULDER A FRENCH MUNITION +POUCH WAS SLUNG. HE HAD AN OFFICER’S SWORD IN HIS HAND. THE SOLDIER +WAS PALE, HIS BLUE EYES LOOKED IMPUDENTLY INTO THE COMMANDER’S FACE, +AND HIS LIPS WERE SMILING. THOUGH THE COMMANDER WAS OCCUPIED IN GIVING +INSTRUCTIONS TO MAJOR EKONóMOV, HE COULD NOT HELP TAKING NOTICE OF THE +SOLDIER. + +“YOUR EXCELLENCY, HERE ARE TWO TROPHIES,” SAID DóLOKHOV, POINTING +TO THE FRENCH SWORD AND POUCH. “I HAVE TAKEN AN OFFICER PRISONER. I +STOPPED THE COMPANY.” DóLOKHOV BREATHED HEAVILY FROM WEARINESS AND +SPOKE IN ABRUPT SENTENCES. “THE WHOLE COMPANY CAN BEAR WITNESS. I BEG +YOU WILL REMEMBER THIS, YOUR EXCELLENCY!” + +“ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT,” REPLIED THE COMMANDER, AND TURNED TO MAJOR +EKONóMOV. + +BUT DóLOKHOV DID NOT GO AWAY; HE UNTIED THE HANDKERCHIEF AROUND HIS +HEAD, PULLED IT OFF, AND SHOWED THE BLOOD CONGEALED ON HIS HAIR. + +“A BAYONET WOUND. I REMAINED AT THE FRONT. REMEMBER, YOUR +EXCELLENCY!” + + +TúSHIN’S BATTERY HAD BEEN FORGOTTEN AND ONLY AT THE VERY END OF THE +ACTION DID PRINCE BAGRATIóN, STILL HEARING THE CANNONADE IN THE CENTER, +SEND HIS ORDERLY STAFF OFFICER, AND LATER PRINCE ANDREW ALSO, TO ORDER +THE BATTERY TO RETIRE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. WHEN THE SUPPORTS ATTACHED +TO TúSHIN’S BATTERY HAD BEEN MOVED AWAY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ACTION +BY SOMEONE’S ORDER, THE BATTERY HAD CONTINUED FIRING AND WAS ONLY NOT +CAPTURED BY THE FRENCH BECAUSE THE ENEMY COULD NOT SURMISE THAT ANYONE +COULD HAVE THE EFFRONTERY TO CONTINUE FIRING FROM FOUR QUITE UNDEFENDED +GUNS. ON THE CONTRARY, THE ENERGETIC ACTION OF THAT BATTERY LED THE +FRENCH TO SUPPOSE THAT HERE—IN THE CENTER—THE MAIN RUSSIAN FORCES +WERE CONCENTRATED. TWICE THEY HAD ATTEMPTED TO ATTACK THIS POINT, BUT ON +EACH OCCASION HAD BEEN DRIVEN BACK BY GRAPESHOT FROM THE FOUR ISOLATED +GUNS ON THE HILLOCK. + +SOON AFTER PRINCE BAGRATIóN HAD LEFT HIM, TúSHIN HAD SUCCEEDED IN +SETTING FIRE TO SCHöN GRABERN. + +“LOOK AT THEM SCURRYING! IT’S BURNING! JUST SEE THE SMOKE! FINE! +GRAND! LOOK AT THE SMOKE, THE SMOKE!” EXCLAIMED THE ARTILLERYMEN, +BRIGHTENING UP. + +ALL THE GUNS, WITHOUT WAITING FOR ORDERS, WERE BEING FIRED IN THE +DIRECTION OF THE CONFLAGRATION. AS IF URGING EACH OTHER ON, THE SOLDIERS +CRIED AT EACH SHOT: “FINE! THAT’S GOOD! LOOK AT IT... GRAND!” THE +FIRE, FANNED BY THE BREEZE, WAS RAPIDLY SPREADING. THE FRENCH COLUMNS +THAT HAD ADVANCED BEYOND THE VILLAGE WENT BACK; BUT AS THOUGH IN REVENGE +FOR THIS FAILURE, THE ENEMY PLACED TEN GUNS TO THE RIGHT OF THE VILLAGE +AND BEGAN FIRING THEM AT TúSHIN’S BATTERY. + +IN THEIR CHILDLIKE GLEE, AROUSED BY THE FIRE AND THEIR LUCK IN +SUCCESSFULLY CANNONADING THE FRENCH, OUR ARTILLERYMEN ONLY NOTICED THIS +BATTERY WHEN TWO BALLS, AND THEN FOUR MORE, FELL AMONG OUR GUNS, ONE +KNOCKING OVER TWO HORSES AND ANOTHER TEARING OFF A MUNITION-WAGON +DRIVER’S LEG. THEIR SPIRITS ONCE ROUSED WERE, HOWEVER, NOT DIMINISHED, +BUT ONLY CHANGED CHARACTER. THE HORSES WERE REPLACED BY OTHERS FROM A +RESERVE GUN CARRIAGE, THE WOUNDED WERE CARRIED AWAY, AND THE FOUR GUNS +WERE TURNED AGAINST THE TEN-GUN BATTERY. TúSHIN’S COMPANION OFFICER +HAD BEEN KILLED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE ENGAGEMENT AND WITHIN AN HOUR +SEVENTEEN OF THE FORTY MEN OF THE GUNS’ CREWS HAD BEEN DISABLED, BUT +THE ARTILLERYMEN WERE STILL AS MERRY AND LIVELY AS EVER. TWICE THEY +NOTICED THE FRENCH APPEARING BELOW THEM, AND THEN THEY FIRED GRAPESHOT +AT THEM. + +LITTLE TúSHIN, MOVING FEEBLY AND AWKWARDLY, KEPT TELLING HIS ORDERLY TO +“REFILL MY PIPE FOR THAT ONE!” AND THEN, SCATTERING SPARKS FROM IT, +RAN FORWARD SHADING HIS EYES WITH HIS SMALL HAND TO LOOK AT THE FRENCH. + +“SMACK AT ‘EM, LADS!” HE KEPT SAYING, SEIZING THE GUNS BY THE +WHEELS AND WORKING THE SCREWS HIMSELF. + +AMID THE SMOKE, DEAFENED BY THE INCESSANT REPORTS WHICH ALWAYS MADE HIM +JUMP, TúSHIN NOT TAKING HIS PIPE FROM HIS MOUTH RAN FROM GUN TO GUN, +NOW AIMING, NOW COUNTING THE CHARGES, NOW GIVING ORDERS ABOUT REPLACING +DEAD OR WOUNDED HORSES AND HARNESSING FRESH ONES, AND SHOUTING IN HIS +FEEBLE VOICE, SO HIGH PITCHED AND IRRESOLUTE. HIS FACE GREW MORE AND +MORE ANIMATED. ONLY WHEN A MAN WAS KILLED OR WOUNDED DID HE FROWN AND +TURN AWAY FROM THE SIGHT, SHOUTING ANGRILY AT THE MEN WHO, AS IS ALWAYS +THE CASE, HESITATED ABOUT LIFTING THE INJURED OR DEAD. THE SOLDIERS, +FOR THE MOST PART HANDSOME FELLOWS AND, AS IS ALWAYS THE CASE IN AN +ARTILLERY COMPANY, A HEAD AND SHOULDERS TALLER AND TWICE AS BROAD +AS THEIR OFFICER—ALL LOOKED AT THEIR COMMANDER LIKE CHILDREN IN AN +EMBARRASSING SITUATION, AND THE EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE WAS INVARIABLY +REFLECTED ON THEIRS. + +OWING TO THE TERRIBLE UPROAR AND THE NECESSITY FOR CONCENTRATION AND +ACTIVITY, TúSHIN DID NOT EXPERIENCE THE SLIGHTEST UNPLEASANT SENSE OF +FEAR, AND THE THOUGHT THAT HE MIGHT BE KILLED OR BADLY WOUNDED NEVER +OCCURRED TO HIM. ON THE CONTRARY, HE BECAME MORE AND MORE ELATED. IT +SEEMED TO HIM THAT IT WAS A VERY LONG TIME AGO, ALMOST A DAY, SINCE HE +HAD FIRST SEEN THE ENEMY AND FIRED THE FIRST SHOT, AND THAT THE CORNER +OF THE FIELD HE STOOD ON WAS WELL-KNOWN AND FAMILIAR GROUND. THOUGH HE +THOUGHT OF EVERYTHING, CONSIDERED EVERYTHING, AND DID EVERYTHING THE +BEST OF OFFICERS COULD DO IN HIS POSITION, HE WAS IN A STATE AKIN TO +FEVERISH DELIRIUM OR DRUNKENNESS. + +FROM THE DEAFENING SOUNDS OF HIS OWN GUNS AROUND HIM, THE WHISTLE AND +THUD OF THE ENEMY’S CANNON BALLS, FROM THE FLUSHED AND PERSPIRING +FACES OF THE CREW BUSTLING ROUND THE GUNS, FROM THE SIGHT OF THE BLOOD +OF MEN AND HORSES, FROM THE LITTLE PUFFS OF SMOKE ON THE ENEMY’S SIDE +(ALWAYS FOLLOWED BY A BALL FLYING PAST AND STRIKING THE EARTH, A MAN, A +GUN, A HORSE), FROM THE SIGHT OF ALL THESE THINGS A FANTASTIC WORLD OF +HIS OWN HAD TAKEN POSSESSION OF HIS BRAIN AND AT THAT MOMENT AFFORDED +HIM PLEASURE. THE ENEMY’S GUNS WERE IN HIS FANCY NOT GUNS BUT PIPES +FROM WHICH OCCASIONAL PUFFS WERE BLOWN BY AN INVISIBLE SMOKER. + +“THERE... HE’S PUFFING AGAIN,” MUTTERED TúSHIN TO HIMSELF, AS A +SMALL CLOUD ROSE FROM THE HILL AND WAS BORNE IN A STREAK TO THE LEFT BY +THE WIND. + +“NOW LOOK OUT FOR THE BALL... WE’LL THROW IT BACK.” + +“WHAT DO YOU WANT, YOUR HONOR?” ASKED AN ARTILLERYMAN, STANDING +CLOSE BY, WHO HEARD HIM MUTTERING. + +“NOTHING... ONLY A SHELL...” HE ANSWERED. + +“COME ALONG, OUR MATVéVNA!” HE SAID TO HIMSELF. “MATVéVNA” * +WAS THE NAME HIS FANCY GAVE TO THE FARTHEST GUN OF THE BATTERY, WHICH +WAS LARGE AND OF AN OLD PATTERN. THE FRENCH SWARMING ROUND THEIR GUNS +SEEMED TO HIM LIKE ANTS. IN THAT WORLD, THE HANDSOME DRUNKARD NUMBER ONE +OF THE SECOND GUN’S CREW WAS “UNCLE”; TúSHIN LOOKED AT HIM MORE +OFTEN THAN AT ANYONE ELSE AND TOOK DELIGHT IN HIS EVERY MOVEMENT. +THE SOUND OF MUSKETRY AT THE FOOT OF THE HILL, NOW DIMINISHING, NOW +INCREASING, SEEMED LIKE SOMEONE’S BREATHING. HE LISTENED INTENTLY TO +THE EBB AND FLOW OF THESE SOUNDS. + + * DAUGHTER OF MATTHEW. + +“AH! BREATHING AGAIN, BREATHING!” HE MUTTERED TO HIMSELF. + +HE IMAGINED HIMSELF AS AN ENORMOUSLY TALL, POWERFUL MAN WHO WAS THROWING +CANNON BALLS AT THE FRENCH WITH BOTH HANDS. + +“NOW THEN, MATVéVNA, DEAR OLD LADY, DON’T LET ME DOWN!” HE WAS +SAYING AS HE MOVED FROM THE GUN, WHEN A STRANGE, UNFAMILIAR VOICE CALLED +ABOVE HIS HEAD: “CAPTAIN TúSHIN! CAPTAIN!” + +TúSHIN TURNED ROUND IN DISMAY. IT WAS THE STAFF OFFICER WHO HAD TURNED +HIM OUT OF THE BOOTH AT GRUNTH. HE WAS SHOUTING IN A GASPING VOICE: + +“ARE YOU MAD? YOU HAVE TWICE BEEN ORDERED TO RETREAT, AND YOU...” + +“WHY ARE THEY DOWN ON ME?” THOUGHT TúSHIN, LOOKING IN ALARM AT HIS +SUPERIOR. + +“I... DON’T...” HE MUTTERED, HOLDING UP TWO FINGERS TO HIS CAP. +“I...” + +BUT THE STAFF OFFICER DID NOT FINISH WHAT HE WANTED TO SAY. A CANNON +BALL, FLYING CLOSE TO HIM, CAUSED HIM TO DUCK AND BEND OVER HIS HORSE. +HE PAUSED, AND JUST AS HE WAS ABOUT TO SAY SOMETHING MORE, ANOTHER BALL +STOPPED HIM. HE TURNED HIS HORSE AND GALLOPED OFF. + +“RETIRE! ALL TO RETIRE!” HE SHOUTED FROM A DISTANCE. + +THE SOLDIERS LAUGHED. A MOMENT LATER, AN ADJUTANT ARRIVED WITH THE SAME +ORDER. + +IT WAS PRINCE ANDREW. THE FIRST THING HE SAW ON RIDING UP TO THE SPACE +WHERE TúSHIN’S GUNS WERE STATIONED WAS AN UNHARNESSED HORSE WITH A +BROKEN LEG, THAT LAY SCREAMING PITEOUSLY BESIDE THE HARNESSED HORSES. +BLOOD WAS GUSHING FROM ITS LEG AS FROM A SPRING. AMONG THE LIMBERS LAY +SEVERAL DEAD MEN. ONE BALL AFTER ANOTHER PASSED OVER AS HE APPROACHED +AND HE FELT A NERVOUS SHUDDER RUN DOWN HIS SPINE. BUT THE MERE THOUGHT +OF BEING AFRAID ROUSED HIM AGAIN. “I CANNOT BE AFRAID,” THOUGHT HE, +AND DISMOUNTED SLOWLY AMONG THE GUNS. HE DELIVERED THE ORDER AND DID +NOT LEAVE THE BATTERY. HE DECIDED TO HAVE THE GUNS REMOVED FROM THEIR +POSITIONS AND WITHDRAWN IN HIS PRESENCE. TOGETHER WITH TúSHIN, STEPPING +ACROSS THE BODIES AND UNDER A TERRIBLE FIRE FROM THE FRENCH, HE ATTENDED +TO THE REMOVAL OF THE GUNS. + +“A STAFF OFFICER WAS HERE A MINUTE AGO, BUT SKIPPED OFF,” SAID AN +ARTILLERYMAN TO PRINCE ANDREW. “NOT LIKE YOUR HONOR!” + +PRINCE ANDREW SAID NOTHING TO TúSHIN. THEY WERE BOTH SO BUSY AS TO SEEM +NOT TO NOTICE ONE ANOTHER. WHEN HAVING LIMBERED UP THE ONLY TWO CANNON +THAT REMAINED UNINJURED OUT OF THE FOUR, THEY BEGAN MOVING DOWN THE HILL +(ONE SHATTERED GUN AND ONE UNICORN WERE LEFT BEHIND), PRINCE ANDREW RODE +UP TO TúSHIN. + +“WELL, TILL WE MEET AGAIN...” HE SAID, HOLDING OUT HIS HAND TO +TúSHIN. + +“GOOD-BY, MY DEAR FELLOW,” SAID TúSHIN. “DEAR SOUL! GOOD-BY, MY +DEAR FELLOW!” AND FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON TEARS SUDDENLY FILLED HIS +EYES. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXI + +THE WIND HAD FALLEN AND BLACK CLOUDS, MERGING WITH THE POWDER SMOKE, +HUNG LOW OVER THE FIELD OF BATTLE ON THE HORIZON. IT WAS GROWING +DARK AND THE GLOW OF TWO CONFLAGRATIONS WAS THE MORE CONSPICUOUS. THE +CANNONADE WAS DYING DOWN, BUT THE RATTLE OF MUSKETRY BEHIND AND ON THE +RIGHT SOUNDED OFTENER AND NEARER. AS SOON AS TúSHIN WITH HIS GUNS, +CONTINUALLY DRIVING ROUND OR COMING UPON WOUNDED MEN, WAS OUT OF RANGE +OF FIRE AND HAD DESCENDED INTO THE DIP, HE WAS MET BY SOME OF THE STAFF, +AMONG THEM THE STAFF OFFICER AND ZHERKóV, WHO HAD BEEN TWICE SENT TO +TúSHIN’S BATTERY BUT HAD NEVER REACHED IT. INTERRUPTING ONE +ANOTHER, THEY ALL GAVE, AND TRANSMITTED, ORDERS AS TO HOW TO PROCEED, +REPRIMANDING AND REPROACHING HIM. TúSHIN GAVE NO ORDERS, AND, +SILENTLY—FEARING TO SPEAK BECAUSE AT EVERY WORD HE FELT READY TO +WEEP WITHOUT KNOWING WHY—RODE BEHIND ON HIS ARTILLERY NAG. THOUGH +THE ORDERS WERE TO ABANDON THE WOUNDED, MANY OF THEM DRAGGED THEMSELVES +AFTER TROOPS AND BEGGED FOR SEATS ON THE GUN CARRIAGES. THE JAUNTY +INFANTRY OFFICER WHO JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE HAD RUSHED OUT OF +TúSHIN’S WATTLE SHED WAS LAID, WITH A BULLET IN HIS STOMACH, ON +“MATVéVNA’S” CARRIAGE. AT THE FOOT OF THE HILL, A PALE HUSSAR +CADET, SUPPORTING ONE HAND WITH THE OTHER, CAME UP TO TúSHIN AND ASKED +FOR A SEAT. + +“CAPTAIN, FOR GOD’S SAKE! I’VE HURT MY ARM,” HE SAID TIMIDLY. +“FOR GOD’S SAKE... I CAN’T WALK. FOR GOD’S SAKE!” + +IT WAS PLAIN THAT THIS CADET HAD ALREADY REPEATEDLY ASKED FOR A LIFT AND +BEEN REFUSED. HE ASKED IN A HESITATING, PITEOUS VOICE. + +“TELL THEM TO GIVE ME A SEAT, FOR GOD’S SAKE!” + +“GIVE HIM A SEAT,” SAID TúSHIN. “LAY A CLOAK FOR HIM TO SIT ON, +LAD,” HE SAID, ADDRESSING HIS FAVORITE SOLDIER. “AND WHERE IS THE +WOUNDED OFFICER?” + +“HE HAS BEEN SET DOWN. HE DIED,” REPLIED SOMEONE. + +“HELP HIM UP. SIT DOWN, DEAR FELLOW, SIT DOWN! SPREAD OUT THE CLOAK, +ANTóNOV.” + +THE CADET WAS ROSTóV. WITH ONE HAND HE SUPPORTED THE OTHER; HE WAS +PALE AND HIS JAW TREMBLED, SHIVERING FEVERISHLY. HE WAS PLACED ON +“MATVéVNA,” THE GUN FROM WHICH THEY HAD REMOVED THE DEAD OFFICER. +THE CLOAK THEY SPREAD UNDER HIM WAS WET WITH BLOOD WHICH STAINED HIS +BREECHES AND ARM. + +“WHAT, ARE YOU WOUNDED, MY LAD?” SAID TúSHIN, APPROACHING THE GUN +ON WHICH ROSTóV SAT. + +“NO, IT’S A SPRAIN.” + +“THEN WHAT IS THIS BLOOD ON THE GUN CARRIAGE?” INQUIRED TúSHIN. + +“IT WAS THE OFFICER, YOUR HONOR, STAINED IT,” ANSWERED THE +ARTILLERYMAN, WIPING AWAY THE BLOOD WITH HIS COAT SLEEVE, AS IF +APOLOGIZING FOR THE STATE OF HIS GUN. + +IT WAS ALL THAT THEY COULD DO TO GET THE GUNS UP THE RISE AIDED BY THE +INFANTRY, AND HAVING REACHED THE VILLAGE OF GRUNTERSDORF THEY HALTED. IT +HAD GROWN SO DARK THAT ONE COULD NOT DISTINGUISH THE UNIFORMS TEN PACES +OFF, AND THE FIRING HAD BEGUN TO SUBSIDE. SUDDENLY, NEAR BY ON THE +RIGHT, SHOUTING AND FIRING WERE AGAIN HEARD. FLASHES OF SHOT GLEAMED IN +THE DARKNESS. THIS WAS THE LAST FRENCH ATTACK AND WAS MET BY SOLDIERS +WHO HAD SHELTERED IN THE VILLAGE HOUSES. THEY ALL RUSHED OUT OF +THE VILLAGE AGAIN, BUT TúSHIN’S GUNS COULD NOT MOVE, AND THE +ARTILLERYMEN, TúSHIN, AND THE CADET EXCHANGED SILENT GLANCES AS THEY +AWAITED THEIR FATE. THE FIRING DIED DOWN AND SOLDIERS, TALKING EAGERLY, +STREAMED OUT OF A SIDE STREET. + +“NOT HURT, PETRóV?” ASKED ONE. + +“WE’VE GIVEN IT ‘EM HOT, MATE! THEY WON’T MAKE ANOTHER PUSH +NOW,” SAID ANOTHER. + +“YOU COULDN’T SEE A THING. HOW THEY SHOT AT THEIR OWN FELLOWS! +NOTHING COULD BE SEEN. PITCH-DARK, BROTHER! ISN’T THERE SOMETHING TO +DRINK?” + +THE FRENCH HAD BEEN REPULSED FOR THE LAST TIME. AND AGAIN AND AGAIN IN +THE COMPLETE DARKNESS TúSHIN’S GUNS MOVED FORWARD, SURROUNDED BY THE +HUMMING INFANTRY AS BY A FRAME. + +IN THE DARKNESS, IT SEEMED AS THOUGH A GLOOMY UNSEEN RIVER WAS FLOWING +ALWAYS IN ONE DIRECTION, HUMMING WITH WHISPERS AND TALK AND THE SOUND OF +HOOFS AND WHEELS. AMID THE GENERAL RUMBLE, THE GROANS AND VOICES OF THE +WOUNDED WERE MORE DISTINCTLY HEARD THAN ANY OTHER SOUND IN THE DARKNESS +OF THE NIGHT. THE GLOOM THAT ENVELOPED THE ARMY WAS FILLED WITH THEIR +GROANS, WHICH SEEMED TO MELT INTO ONE WITH THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT. +AFTER A WHILE THE MOVING MASS BECAME AGITATED, SOMEONE RODE PAST ON +A WHITE HORSE FOLLOWED BY HIS SUITE, AND SAID SOMETHING IN PASSING: +“WHAT DID HE SAY? WHERE TO, NOW? HALT, IS IT? DID HE THANK US?” CAME +EAGER QUESTIONS FROM ALL SIDES. THE WHOLE MOVING MASS BEGAN PRESSING +CLOSER TOGETHER AND A REPORT SPREAD THAT THEY WERE ORDERED TO HALT: +EVIDENTLY THOSE IN FRONT HAD HALTED. ALL REMAINED WHERE THEY WERE IN THE +MIDDLE OF THE MUDDY ROAD. + +FIRES WERE LIGHTED AND THE TALK BECAME MORE AUDIBLE. CAPTAIN TúSHIN, +HAVING GIVEN ORDERS TO HIS COMPANY, SENT A SOLDIER TO FIND A DRESSING +STATION OR A DOCTOR FOR THE CADET, AND SAT DOWN BY A BONFIRE THE +SOLDIERS HAD KINDLED ON THE ROAD. ROSTóV, TOO, DRAGGED HIMSELF TO THE +FIRE. FROM PAIN, COLD, AND DAMP, A FEVERISH SHIVERING SHOOK HIS WHOLE +BODY. DROWSINESS WAS IRRESISTIBLY MASTERING HIM, BUT HE KEPT AWAKE BY +AN EXCRUCIATING PAIN IN HIS ARM, FOR WHICH HE COULD FIND NO SATISFACTORY +POSITION. HE KEPT CLOSING HIS EYES AND THEN AGAIN LOOKING AT THE FIRE, +WHICH SEEMED TO HIM DAZZLINGLY RED, AND AT THE FEEBLE, ROUND-SHOULDERED +FIGURE OF TúSHIN WHO WAS SITTING CROSS-LEGGED LIKE A TURK BESIDE HIM. +TúSHIN’S LARGE, KIND, INTELLIGENT EYES WERE FIXED WITH SYMPATHY AND +COMMISERATION ON ROSTóV, WHO SAW THAT TúSHIN WITH HIS WHOLE HEART +WISHED TO HELP HIM BUT COULD NOT. + +FROM ALL SIDES WERE HEARD THE FOOTSTEPS AND TALK OF THE INFANTRY, WHO +WERE WALKING, DRIVING PAST, AND SETTLING DOWN ALL AROUND. THE SOUND +OF VOICES, THE TRAMPING FEET, THE HORSES’ HOOFS MOVING IN MUD, THE +CRACKLING OF WOOD FIRES NEAR AND AFAR, MERGED INTO ONE TREMULOUS RUMBLE. + +IT WAS NO LONGER, AS BEFORE, A DARK, UNSEEN RIVER FLOWING THROUGH THE +GLOOM, BUT A DARK SEA SWELLING AND GRADUALLY SUBSIDING AFTER A STORM. +ROSTóV LOOKED AT AND LISTENED LISTLESSLY TO WHAT PASSED BEFORE AND +AROUND HIM. AN INFANTRYMAN CAME TO THE FIRE, SQUATTED ON HIS HEELS, HELD +HIS HANDS TO THE BLAZE, AND TURNED AWAY HIS FACE. + +“YOU DON’T MIND YOUR HONOR?” HE ASKED TúSHIN. “I’VE LOST MY +COMPANY, YOUR HONOR. I DON’T KNOW WHERE... SUCH BAD LUCK!” + +WITH THE SOLDIER, AN INFANTRY OFFICER WITH A BANDAGED CHEEK CAME UP TO +THE BONFIRE, AND ADDRESSING TúSHIN ASKED HIM TO HAVE THE GUNS MOVED A +TRIFLE TO LET A WAGON GO PAST. AFTER HE HAD GONE, TWO SOLDIERS RUSHED TO +THE CAMPFIRE. THEY WERE QUARRELING AND FIGHTING DESPERATELY, EACH TRYING +TO SNATCH FROM THE OTHER A BOOT THEY WERE BOTH HOLDING ON TO. + +“YOU PICKED IT UP?... I DARE SAY! YOU’RE VERY SMART!” ONE OF THEM +SHOUTED HOARSELY. + +THEN A THIN, PALE SOLDIER, HIS NECK BANDAGED WITH A BLOODSTAINED LEG +BAND, CAME UP AND IN ANGRY TONES ASKED THE ARTILLERYMEN FOR WATER. + +“MUST ONE DIE LIKE A DOG?” SAID HE. + +TúSHIN TOLD THEM TO GIVE THE MAN SOME WATER. THEN A CHEERFUL SOLDIER +RAN UP, BEGGING A LITTLE FIRE FOR THE INFANTRY. + +“A NICE LITTLE HOT TORCH FOR THE INFANTRY! GOOD LUCK TO YOU, FELLOW +COUNTRYMEN. THANKS FOR THE FIRE—WE’LL RETURN IT WITH INTEREST,” +SAID HE, CARRYING AWAY INTO THE DARKNESS A GLOWING STICK. + +NEXT CAME FOUR SOLDIERS, CARRYING SOMETHING HEAVY ON A CLOAK, AND PASSED +BY THE FIRE. ONE OF THEM STUMBLED. + +“WHO THE DEVIL HAS PUT THE LOGS ON THE ROAD?” SNARLED HE. + +“HE’S DEAD—WHY CARRY HIM?” SAID ANOTHER. + +“SHUT UP!” + +AND THEY DISAPPEARED INTO THE DARKNESS WITH THEIR LOAD. + +“STILL ACHING?” TúSHIN ASKED ROSTóV IN A WHISPER. + +“YES.” + +“YOUR HONOR, YOU’RE WANTED BY THE GENERAL. HE IS IN THE HUT HERE,” +SAID A GUNNER, COMING UP TO TúSHIN. + +“COMING, FRIEND.” + +TúSHIN ROSE AND, BUTTONING HIS GREATCOAT AND PULLING IT STRAIGHT, +WALKED AWAY FROM THE FIRE. + +NOT FAR FROM THE ARTILLERY CAMPFIRE, IN A HUT THAT HAD BEEN PREPARED +FOR HIM, PRINCE BAGRATIóN SAT AT DINNER, TALKING WITH SOME COMMANDING +OFFICERS WHO HAD GATHERED AT HIS QUARTERS. THE LITTLE OLD MAN WITH +THE HALF-CLOSED EYES WAS THERE GREEDILY GNAWING A MUTTON BONE, AND THE +GENERAL WHO HAD SERVED BLAMELESSLY FOR TWENTY-TWO YEARS, FLUSHED BY A +GLASS OF VODKA AND THE DINNER; AND THE STAFF OFFICER WITH THE SIGNET +RING, AND ZHERKóV, UNEASILY GLANCING AT THEM ALL, AND PRINCE ANDREW, +PALE, WITH COMPRESSED LIPS AND FEVERISHLY GLITTERING EYES. + +IN A CORNER OF THE HUT STOOD A STANDARD CAPTURED FROM THE FRENCH, AND +THE ACCOUNTANT WITH THE NAïVE FACE WAS FEELING ITS TEXTURE, SHAKING HIS +HEAD IN PERPLEXITY—PERHAPS BECAUSE THE BANNER REALLY INTERESTED HIM, +PERHAPS BECAUSE IT WAS HARD FOR HIM, HUNGRY AS HE WAS, TO LOOK ON AT +A DINNER WHERE THERE WAS NO PLACE FOR HIM. IN THE NEXT HUT THERE WAS A +FRENCH COLONEL WHO HAD BEEN TAKEN PRISONER BY OUR DRAGOONS. OUR OFFICERS +WERE FLOCKING IN TO LOOK AT HIM. PRINCE BAGRATIóN WAS THANKING THE +INDIVIDUAL COMMANDERS AND INQUIRING INTO DETAILS OF THE ACTION AND OUR +LOSSES. THE GENERAL WHOSE REGIMENT HAD BEEN INSPECTED AT BRAUNAU WAS +INFORMING THE PRINCE THAT AS SOON AS THE ACTION BEGAN HE HAD WITHDRAWN +FROM THE WOOD, MUSTERED THE MEN WHO WERE WOODCUTTING, AND, ALLOWING THE +FRENCH TO PASS HIM, HAD MADE A BAYONET CHARGE WITH TWO BATTALIONS AND +HAD BROKEN UP THE FRENCH TROOPS. + +“WHEN I SAW, YOUR EXCELLENCY, THAT THEIR FIRST BATTALION WAS +DISORGANIZED, I STOPPED IN THE ROAD AND THOUGHT: ‘I’LL LET THEM +COME ON AND WILL MEET THEM WITH THE FIRE OF THE WHOLE BATTALION’—AND +THAT’S WHAT I DID.” + +THE GENERAL HAD SO WISHED TO DO THIS AND WAS SO SORRY HE HAD NOT MANAGED +TO DO IT THAT IT SEEMED TO HIM AS IF IT HAD REALLY HAPPENED. PERHAPS +IT MIGHT REALLY HAVE BEEN SO? COULD ONE POSSIBLY MAKE OUT AMID ALL THAT +CONFUSION WHAT DID OR DID NOT HAPPEN? + +“BY THE WAY, YOUR EXCELLENCY, I SHOULD INFORM YOU,” HE +CONTINUED—REMEMBERING DóLOKHOV’S CONVERSATION WITH KUTúZOV AND HIS +LAST INTERVIEW WITH THE GENTLEMAN-RANKER—“THAT PRIVATE DóLOKHOV, +WHO WAS REDUCED TO THE RANKS, TOOK A FRENCH OFFICER PRISONER IN MY +PRESENCE AND PARTICULARLY DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF.” + +“I SAW THE PáVLOGRAD HUSSARS ATTACK THERE, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” CHIMED +IN ZHERKóV, LOOKING UNEASILY AROUND. HE HAD NOT SEEN THE HUSSARS ALL +THAT DAY, BUT HAD HEARD ABOUT THEM FROM AN INFANTRY OFFICER. “THEY +BROKE UP TWO SQUARES, YOUR EXCELLENCY.” + +SEVERAL OF THOSE PRESENT SMILED AT ZHERKóV’S WORDS, EXPECTING ONE OF +HIS USUAL JOKES, BUT NOTICING THAT WHAT HE WAS SAYING REDOUNDED TO +THE GLORY OF OUR ARMS AND OF THE DAY’S WORK, THEY ASSUMED A SERIOUS +EXPRESSION, THOUGH MANY OF THEM KNEW THAT WHAT HE WAS SAYING WAS A LIE +DEVOID OF ANY FOUNDATION. PRINCE BAGRATIóN TURNED TO THE OLD COLONEL: + +“GENTLEMEN, I THANK YOU ALL; ALL ARMS HAVE BEHAVED HEROICALLY: +INFANTRY, CAVALRY, AND ARTILLERY. HOW WAS IT THAT TWO GUNS WERE +ABANDONED IN THE CENTER?” HE INQUIRED, SEARCHING WITH HIS EYES FOR +SOMEONE. (PRINCE BAGRATIóN DID NOT ASK ABOUT THE GUNS ON THE LEFT +FLANK; HE KNEW THAT ALL THE GUNS THERE HAD BEEN ABANDONED AT THE VERY +BEGINNING OF THE ACTION.) “I THINK I SENT YOU?” HE ADDED, TURNING TO +THE STAFF OFFICER ON DUTY. + +“ONE WAS DAMAGED,” ANSWERED THE STAFF OFFICER, “AND THE OTHER I +CAN’T UNDERSTAND. I WAS THERE ALL THE TIME GIVING ORDERS AND HAD ONLY +JUST LEFT.... IT IS TRUE THAT IT WAS HOT THERE,” HE ADDED, MODESTLY. + +SOMEONE MENTIONED THAT CAPTAIN TúSHIN WAS BIVOUACKING CLOSE TO THE +VILLAGE AND HAD ALREADY BEEN SENT FOR. + +“OH, BUT YOU WERE THERE?” SAID PRINCE BAGRATIóN, ADDRESSING PRINCE +ANDREW. + +“OF COURSE, WE ONLY JUST MISSED ONE ANOTHER,” SAID THE STAFF +OFFICER, WITH A SMILE TO BOLKóNSKI. + +“I HAD NOT THE PLEASURE OF SEEING YOU,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, COLDLY +AND ABRUPTLY. + +ALL WERE SILENT. TúSHIN APPEARED AT THE THRESHOLD AND MADE HIS WAY +TIMIDLY FROM BEHIND THE BACKS OF THE GENERALS. AS HE STEPPED PAST THE +GENERALS IN THE CROWDED HUT, FEELING EMBARRASSED AS HE ALWAYS WAS BY THE +SIGHT OF HIS SUPERIORS, HE DID NOT NOTICE THE STAFF OF THE BANNER AND +STUMBLED OVER IT. SEVERAL OF THOSE PRESENT LAUGHED. + +“HOW WAS IT A GUN WAS ABANDONED?” ASKED BAGRATIóN, FROWNING, NOT SO +MUCH AT THE CAPTAIN AS AT THOSE WHO WERE LAUGHING, AMONG WHOM ZHERKóV +LAUGHED LOUDEST. + +ONLY NOW, WHEN HE WAS CONFRONTED BY THE STERN AUTHORITIES, DID HIS GUILT +AND THE DISGRACE OF HAVING LOST TWO GUNS AND YET REMAINING ALIVE PRESENT +THEMSELVES TO TúSHIN IN ALL THEIR HORROR. HE HAD BEEN SO EXCITED THAT +HE HAD NOT THOUGHT ABOUT IT UNTIL THAT MOMENT. THE OFFICERS’ LAUGHTER +CONFUSED HIM STILL MORE. HE STOOD BEFORE BAGRATIóN WITH HIS LOWER +JAW TREMBLING AND WAS HARDLY ABLE TO MUTTER: “I DON’T KNOW... YOUR +EXCELLENCY... I HAD NO MEN... YOUR EXCELLENCY.” + +“YOU MIGHT HAVE TAKEN SOME FROM THE COVERING TROOPS.” + +TúSHIN DID NOT SAY THAT THERE WERE NO COVERING TROOPS, THOUGH THAT +WAS PERFECTLY TRUE. HE WAS AFRAID OF GETTING SOME OTHER OFFICER INTO +TROUBLE, AND SILENTLY FIXED HIS EYES ON BAGRATIóN AS A SCHOOLBOY WHO +HAS BLUNDERED LOOKS AT AN EXAMINER. + +THE SILENCE LASTED SOME TIME. PRINCE BAGRATIóN, APPARENTLY NOT WISHING +TO BE SEVERE, FOUND NOTHING TO SAY; THE OTHERS DID NOT VENTURE TO +INTERVENE. PRINCE ANDREW LOOKED AT TúSHIN FROM UNDER HIS BROWS AND HIS +FINGERS TWITCHED NERVOUSLY. + +“YOUR EXCELLENCY!” PRINCE ANDREW BROKE THE SILENCE WITH HIS ABRUPT +VOICE, “YOU WERE PLEASED TO SEND ME TO CAPTAIN TúSHIN’S BATTERY. I +WENT THERE AND FOUND TWO THIRDS OF THE MEN AND HORSES KNOCKED OUT, TWO +GUNS SMASHED, AND NO SUPPORTS AT ALL.” + +PRINCE BAGRATIóN AND TúSHIN LOOKED WITH EQUAL INTENTNESS AT +BOLKóNSKI, WHO SPOKE WITH SUPPRESSED AGITATION. + +“AND, IF YOUR EXCELLENCY WILL ALLOW ME TO EXPRESS MY OPINION,” HE +CONTINUED, “WE OWE TODAY’S SUCCESS CHIEFLY TO THE ACTION OF THAT +BATTERY AND THE HEROIC ENDURANCE OF CAPTAIN TúSHIN AND HIS COMPANY,” +AND WITHOUT AWAITING A REPLY, PRINCE ANDREW ROSE AND LEFT THE TABLE. + +PRINCE BAGRATIóN LOOKED AT TúSHIN, EVIDENTLY RELUCTANT TO SHOW +DISTRUST IN BOLKóNSKI’S EMPHATIC OPINION YET NOT FEELING ABLE FULLY +TO CREDIT IT, BENT HIS HEAD, AND TOLD TúSHIN THAT HE COULD GO. PRINCE +ANDREW WENT OUT WITH HIM. + +“THANK YOU; YOU SAVED ME, MY DEAR FELLOW!” SAID TúSHIN. + +PRINCE ANDREW GAVE HIM A LOOK, BUT SAID NOTHING AND WENT AWAY. HE FELT +SAD AND DEPRESSED. IT WAS ALL SO STRANGE, SO UNLIKE WHAT HE HAD HOPED. + + +“WHO ARE THEY? WHY ARE THEY HERE? WHAT DO THEY WANT? AND WHEN WILL +ALL THIS END?” THOUGHT ROSTóV, LOOKING AT THE CHANGING SHADOWS BEFORE +HIM. THE PAIN IN HIS ARM BECAME MORE AND MORE INTENSE. IRRESISTIBLE +DROWSINESS OVERPOWERED HIM, RED RINGS DANCED BEFORE HIS EYES, AND THE +IMPRESSION OF THOSE VOICES AND FACES AND A SENSE OF LONELINESS MERGED +WITH THE PHYSICAL PAIN. IT WAS THEY, THESE SOLDIERS—WOUNDED AND +UNWOUNDED—IT WAS THEY WHO WERE CRUSHING, WEIGHING DOWN, AND TWISTING +THE SINEWS AND SCORCHING THE FLESH OF HIS SPRAINED ARM AND SHOULDER. TO +RID HIMSELF OF THEM HE CLOSED HIS EYES. + +FOR A MOMENT HE DOZED, BUT IN THAT SHORT INTERVAL INNUMERABLE THINGS +APPEARED TO HIM IN A DREAM: HIS MOTHER AND HER LARGE WHITE HAND, +SóNYA’S THIN LITTLE SHOULDERS, NATáSHA’S EYES AND LAUGHTER, +DENíSOV WITH HIS VOICE AND MUSTACHE, AND TELYáNIN AND ALL THAT AFFAIR +WITH TELYáNIN AND BOGDáNICH. THAT AFFAIR WAS THE SAME THING AS THIS +SOLDIER WITH THE HARSH VOICE, AND IT WAS THAT AFFAIR AND THIS SOLDIER +THAT WERE SO AGONIZINGLY, INCESSANTLY PULLING AND PRESSING HIS ARM AND +ALWAYS DRAGGING IT IN ONE DIRECTION. HE TRIED TO GET AWAY FROM THEM, BUT +THEY WOULD NOT FOR AN INSTANT LET HIS SHOULDER MOVE A HAIR’S BREADTH. +IT WOULD NOT ACHE—IT WOULD BE WELL—IF ONLY THEY DID NOT PULL IT, BUT +IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO GET RID OF THEM. + +HE OPENED HIS EYES AND LOOKED UP. THE BLACK CANOPY OF NIGHT HUNG LESS +THAN A YARD ABOVE THE GLOW OF THE CHARCOAL. FLAKES OF FALLING SNOW WERE +FLUTTERING IN THAT LIGHT. TúSHIN HAD NOT RETURNED, THE DOCTOR HAD NOT +COME. HE WAS ALONE NOW, EXCEPT FOR A SOLDIER WHO WAS SITTING NAKED AT +THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FIRE, WARMING HIS THIN YELLOW BODY. + +“NOBODY WANTS ME!” THOUGHT ROSTóV. “THERE IS NO ONE TO HELP ME OR +PITY ME. YET I WAS ONCE AT HOME, STRONG, HAPPY, AND LOVED.” HE SIGHED +AND, DOING SO, GROANED INVOLUNTARILY. + +“EH, IS ANYTHING HURTING YOU?” ASKED THE SOLDIER, SHAKING HIS SHIRT +OUT OVER THE FIRE, AND NOT WAITING FOR AN ANSWER HE GAVE A GRUNT AND +ADDED: “WHAT A LOT OF MEN HAVE BEEN CRIPPLED TODAY—FRIGHTFUL!” + +ROSTóV DID NOT LISTEN TO THE SOLDIER. HE LOOKED AT THE SNOWFLAKES +FLUTTERING ABOVE THE FIRE AND REMEMBERED A RUSSIAN WINTER AT HIS WARM, +BRIGHT HOME, HIS FLUFFY FUR COAT, HIS QUICKLY GLIDING SLEIGH, HIS +HEALTHY BODY, AND ALL THE AFFECTION AND CARE OF HIS FAMILY. “AND WHY +DID I COME HERE?” HE WONDERED. + +NEXT DAY THE FRENCH ARMY DID NOT RENEW THEIR ATTACK, AND THE REMNANT OF +BAGRATIóN’S DETACHMENT WAS REUNITED TO KUTúZOV’S ARMY. + + + + + +BOOK THREE: 1805 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +PRINCE VASíLI WAS NOT A MAN WHO DELIBERATELY THOUGHT OUT HIS PLANS. +STILL LESS DID HE THINK OF INJURING ANYONE FOR HIS OWN ADVANTAGE. HE +WAS MERELY A MAN OF THE WORLD WHO HAD GOT ON AND TO WHOM GETTING ON HAD +BECOME A HABIT. SCHEMES AND DEVICES FOR WHICH HE NEVER RIGHTLY ACCOUNTED +TO HIMSELF, BUT WHICH FORMED THE WHOLE INTEREST OF HIS LIFE, +WERE CONSTANTLY SHAPING THEMSELVES IN HIS MIND, ARISING FROM THE +CIRCUMSTANCES AND PERSONS HE MET. OF THESE PLANS HE HAD NOT MERELY ONE +OR TWO IN HIS HEAD BUT DOZENS, SOME ONLY BEGINNING TO FORM THEMSELVES, +SOME APPROACHING ACHIEVEMENT, AND SOME IN COURSE OF DISINTEGRATION. HE +DID NOT, FOR INSTANCE, SAY TO HIMSELF: “THIS MAN NOW HAS INFLUENCE, I +MUST GAIN HIS CONFIDENCE AND FRIENDSHIP AND THROUGH HIM OBTAIN A SPECIAL +GRANT.” NOR DID HE SAY TO HIMSELF: “PIERRE IS A RICH MAN, I MUST +ENTICE HIM TO MARRY MY DAUGHTER AND LEND ME THE FORTY THOUSAND RUBLES +I NEED.” BUT WHEN HE CAME ACROSS A MAN OF POSITION HIS INSTINCT +IMMEDIATELY TOLD HIM THAT THIS MAN COULD BE USEFUL, AND WITHOUT ANY +PREMEDITATION PRINCE VASíLI TOOK THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY TO GAIN HIS +CONFIDENCE, FLATTER HIM, BECOME INTIMATE WITH HIM, AND FINALLY MAKE HIS +REQUEST. + +HE HAD PIERRE AT HAND IN MOSCOW AND PROCURED FOR HIM AN APPOINTMENT AS +GENTLEMAN OF THE BEDCHAMBER, WHICH AT THAT TIME CONFERRED THE STATUS OF +COUNCILOR OF STATE, AND INSISTED ON THE YOUNG MAN ACCOMPANYING HIM TO +PETERSBURG AND STAYING AT HIS HOUSE. WITH APPARENT ABSENT-MINDEDNESS, +YET WITH UNHESITATING ASSURANCE THAT HE WAS DOING THE RIGHT THING, +PRINCE VASíLI DID EVERYTHING TO GET PIERRE TO MARRY HIS DAUGHTER. HAD +HE THOUGHT OUT HIS PLANS BEFOREHAND HE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN SO NATURAL +AND SHOWN SUCH UNAFFECTED FAMILIARITY IN INTERCOURSE WITH EVERYBODY BOTH +ABOVE AND BELOW HIM IN SOCIAL STANDING. SOMETHING ALWAYS DREW HIM TOWARD +THOSE RICHER AND MORE POWERFUL THAN HIMSELF AND HE HAD RARE SKILL IN +SEIZING THE MOST OPPORTUNE MOMENT FOR MAKING USE OF PEOPLE. + +PIERRE, ON UNEXPECTEDLY BECOMING COUNT BEZúKHOV AND A RICH MAN, FELT +HIMSELF AFTER HIS RECENT LONELINESS AND FREEDOM FROM CARES SO BESET AND +PREOCCUPIED THAT ONLY IN BED WAS HE ABLE TO BE BY HIMSELF. HE HAD TO +SIGN PAPERS, TO PRESENT HIMSELF AT GOVERNMENT OFFICES, THE PURPOSE OF +WHICH WAS NOT CLEAR TO HIM, TO QUESTION HIS CHIEF STEWARD, TO VISIT HIS +ESTATE NEAR MOSCOW, AND TO RECEIVE MANY PEOPLE WHO FORMERLY DID NOT +EVEN WISH TO KNOW OF HIS EXISTENCE BUT WOULD NOW HAVE BEEN OFFENDED +AND GRIEVED HAD HE CHOSEN NOT TO SEE THEM. THESE DIFFERENT +PEOPLE—BUSINESSMEN, RELATIONS, AND ACQUAINTANCES ALIKE—WERE ALL +DISPOSED TO TREAT THE YOUNG HEIR IN THE MOST FRIENDLY AND FLATTERING +MANNER: THEY WERE ALL EVIDENTLY FIRMLY CONVINCED OF PIERRE’S NOBLE +QUALITIES. HE WAS ALWAYS HEARING SUCH WORDS AS: “WITH YOUR REMARKABLE +KINDNESS,” OR, “WITH YOUR EXCELLENT HEART,” “YOU ARE YOURSELF SO +HONORABLE, COUNT,” OR, “WERE HE AS CLEVER AS YOU,” AND SO ON, +TILL HE BEGAN SINCERELY TO BELIEVE IN HIS OWN EXCEPTIONAL KINDNESS AND +EXTRAORDINARY INTELLIGENCE, THE MORE SO AS IN THE DEPTH OF HIS HEART IT +HAD ALWAYS SEEMED TO HIM THAT HE REALLY WAS VERY KIND AND INTELLIGENT. +EVEN PEOPLE WHO HAD FORMERLY BEEN SPITEFUL TOWARD HIM AND EVIDENTLY +UNFRIENDLY NOW BECAME GENTLE AND AFFECTIONATE. THE ANGRY ELDEST +PRINCESS, WITH THE LONG WAIST AND HAIR PLASTERED DOWN LIKE A DOLL’S, +HAD COME INTO PIERRE’S ROOM AFTER THE FUNERAL. WITH DROOPING EYES +AND FREQUENT BLUSHES SHE TOLD HIM SHE WAS VERY SORRY ABOUT THEIR PAST +MISUNDERSTANDINGS AND DID NOT NOW FEEL SHE HAD A RIGHT TO ASK HIM FOR +ANYTHING, EXCEPT ONLY FOR PERMISSION, AFTER THE BLOW SHE HAD RECEIVED, +TO REMAIN FOR A FEW WEEKS LONGER IN THE HOUSE SHE SO LOVED AND WHERE +SHE HAD SACRIFICED SO MUCH. SHE COULD NOT REFRAIN FROM WEEPING AT THESE +WORDS. TOUCHED THAT THIS STATUESQUE PRINCESS COULD SO CHANGE, PIERRE +TOOK HER HAND AND BEGGED HER FORGIVENESS, WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT FOR. +FROM THAT DAY THE ELDEST PRINCESS QUITE CHANGED TOWARD PIERRE AND BEGAN +KNITTING A STRIPED SCARF FOR HIM. + +“DO THIS FOR MY SAKE, MON CHER; AFTER ALL, SHE HAD TO PUT UP WITH A +GREAT DEAL FROM THE DECEASED,” SAID PRINCE VASíLI TO HIM, HANDING HIM +A DEED TO SIGN FOR THE PRINCESS’ BENEFIT. + +PRINCE VASíLI HAD COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT IT WAS NECESSARY TO THROW +THIS BONE—A BILL FOR THIRTY THOUSAND RUBLES—TO THE POOR PRINCESS +THAT IT MIGHT NOT OCCUR TO HER TO SPEAK OF HIS SHARE IN THE AFFAIR OF +THE INLAID PORTFOLIO. PIERRE SIGNED THE DEED AND AFTER THAT THE PRINCESS +GREW STILL KINDER. THE YOUNGER SISTERS ALSO BECAME AFFECTIONATE TO HIM, +ESPECIALLY THE YOUNGEST, THE PRETTY ONE WITH THE MOLE, WHO OFTEN MADE +HIM FEEL CONFUSED BY HER SMILES AND HER OWN CONFUSION WHEN MEETING HIM. + +IT SEEMED SO NATURAL TO PIERRE THAT EVERYONE SHOULD LIKE HIM, AND IT +WOULD HAVE SEEMED SO UNNATURAL HAD ANYONE DISLIKED HIM, THAT HE COULD +NOT BUT BELIEVE IN THE SINCERITY OF THOSE AROUND HIM. BESIDES, HE HAD +NO TIME TO ASK HIMSELF WHETHER THESE PEOPLE WERE SINCERE OR NOT. HE +WAS ALWAYS BUSY AND ALWAYS FELT IN A STATE OF MILD AND CHEERFUL +INTOXICATION. HE FELT AS THOUGH HE WERE THE CENTER OF SOME IMPORTANT AND +GENERAL MOVEMENT; THAT SOMETHING WAS CONSTANTLY EXPECTED OF HIM, THAT IF +HE DID NOT DO IT HE WOULD GRIEVE AND DISAPPOINT MANY PEOPLE, BUT IF HE +DID THIS AND THAT, ALL WOULD BE WELL; AND HE DID WHAT WAS DEMANDED OF +HIM, BUT STILL THAT HAPPY RESULT ALWAYS REMAINED IN THE FUTURE. + +MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE, PRINCE VASíLI TOOK POSSESSION OF PIERRE’S +AFFAIRS AND OF PIERRE HIMSELF IN THOSE EARLY DAYS. FROM THE DEATH OF +COUNT BEZúKHOV HE DID NOT LET GO HIS HOLD OF THE LAD. HE HAD THE AIR OF +A MAN OPPRESSED BY BUSINESS, WEARY AND SUFFERING, WHO YET WOULD NOT, FOR +PITY’S SAKE, LEAVE THIS HELPLESS YOUTH WHO, AFTER ALL, WAS THE SON OF +HIS OLD FRIEND AND THE POSSESSOR OF SUCH ENORMOUS WEALTH, TO THE CAPRICE +OF FATE AND THE DESIGNS OF ROGUES. DURING THE FEW DAYS HE SPENT IN +MOSCOW AFTER THE DEATH OF COUNT BEZúKHOV, HE WOULD CALL PIERRE, OR +GO TO HIM HIMSELF, AND TELL HIM WHAT OUGHT TO BE DONE IN A TONE OF +WEARINESS AND ASSURANCE, AS IF HE WERE ADDING EVERY TIME: “YOU KNOW +I AM OVERWHELMED WITH BUSINESS AND IT IS PURELY OUT OF CHARITY THAT +I TROUBLE MYSELF ABOUT YOU, AND YOU ALSO KNOW QUITE WELL THAT WHAT I +PROPOSE IS THE ONLY THING POSSIBLE.” + +“WELL, MY DEAR FELLOW, TOMORROW WE ARE OFF AT LAST,” SAID PRINCE +VASíLI ONE DAY, CLOSING HIS EYES AND FINGERING PIERRE’S ELBOW, +SPEAKING AS IF HE WERE SAYING SOMETHING WHICH HAD LONG SINCE BEEN AGREED +UPON AND COULD NOT NOW BE ALTERED. “WE START TOMORROW AND I’M GIVING +YOU A PLACE IN MY CARRIAGE. I AM VERY GLAD. ALL OUR IMPORTANT BUSINESS +HERE IS NOW SETTLED, AND I OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN OFF LONG AGO. HERE IS +SOMETHING I HAVE RECEIVED FROM THE CHANCELLOR. I ASKED HIM FOR YOU, AND +YOU HAVE BEEN ENTERED IN THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS AND MADE A GENTLEMAN OF +THE BEDCHAMBER. THE DIPLOMATIC CAREER NOW LIES OPEN BEFORE YOU.” + +NOTWITHSTANDING THE TONE OF WEARIED ASSURANCE WITH WHICH THESE WORDS +WERE PRONOUNCED, PIERRE, WHO HAD SO LONG BEEN CONSIDERING HIS CAREER, +WISHED TO MAKE SOME SUGGESTION. BUT PRINCE VASíLI INTERRUPTED HIM IN +THE SPECIAL DEEP COOING TONE, PRECLUDING THE POSSIBILITY OF INTERRUPTING +HIS SPEECH, WHICH HE USED IN EXTREME CASES WHEN SPECIAL PERSUASION WAS +NEEDED. + +“MAIS, MON CHER, I DID THIS FOR MY OWN SAKE, TO SATISFY MY CONSCIENCE, +AND THERE IS NOTHING TO THANK ME FOR. NO ONE HAS EVER COMPLAINED YET OF +BEING TOO MUCH LOVED; AND BESIDES, YOU ARE FREE, YOU COULD THROW IT +UP TOMORROW. BUT YOU WILL SEE EVERYTHING FOR YOURSELF WHEN YOU GET TO +PETERSBURG. IT IS HIGH TIME FOR YOU TO GET AWAY FROM THESE TERRIBLE +RECOLLECTIONS.” PRINCE VASíLI SIGHED. “YES, YES, MY BOY. AND MY +VALET CAN GO IN YOUR CARRIAGE. AH! I WAS NEARLY FORGETTING,” HE ADDED. +“YOU KNOW, MON CHER, YOUR FATHER AND I HAD SOME ACCOUNTS TO SETTLE, SO +I HAVE RECEIVED WHAT WAS DUE FROM THE RYAZáN ESTATE AND WILL KEEP IT; +YOU WON’T REQUIRE IT. WE’LL GO INTO THE ACCOUNTS LATER.” + +BY “WHAT WAS DUE FROM THE RYAZáN ESTATE” PRINCE VASíLI MEANT +SEVERAL THOUSAND RUBLES QUITRENT RECEIVED FROM PIERRE’S PEASANTS, +WHICH THE PRINCE HAD RETAINED FOR HIMSELF. + +IN PETERSBURG, AS IN MOSCOW, PIERRE FOUND THE SAME ATMOSPHERE OF +GENTLENESS AND AFFECTION. HE COULD NOT REFUSE THE POST, OR RATHER THE +RANK (FOR HE DID NOTHING), THAT PRINCE VASíLI HAD PROCURED FOR HIM, +AND ACQUAINTANCES, INVITATIONS, AND SOCIAL OCCUPATIONS WERE SO NUMEROUS +THAT, EVEN MORE THAN IN MOSCOW, HE FELT A SENSE OF BEWILDERMENT, BUSTLE, +AND CONTINUAL EXPECTATION OF SOME GOOD, ALWAYS IN FRONT OF HIM BUT NEVER +ATTAINED. + +OF HIS FORMER BACHELOR ACQUAINTANCES MANY WERE NO LONGER IN PETERSBURG. +THE GUARDS HAD GONE TO THE FRONT; DóLOKHOV HAD BEEN REDUCED TO THE +RANKS; ANATOLE WAS IN THE ARMY SOMEWHERE IN THE PROVINCES; PRINCE ANDREW +WAS ABROAD; SO PIERRE HAD NOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEND HIS NIGHTS AS HE +USED TO LIKE TO SPEND THEM, OR TO OPEN HIS MIND BY INTIMATE TALKS WITH +A FRIEND OLDER THAN HIMSELF AND WHOM HE RESPECTED. HIS WHOLE TIME +WAS TAKEN UP WITH DINNERS AND BALLS AND WAS SPENT CHIEFLY AT PRINCE +VASíLI’S HOUSE IN THE COMPANY OF THE STOUT PRINCESS, HIS WIFE, AND +HIS BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER HéLèNE. + +LIKE THE OTHERS, ANNA PáVLOVNA SCHéRER SHOWED PIERRE THE CHANGE OF +ATTITUDE TOWARD HIM THAT HAD TAKEN PLACE IN SOCIETY. + +FORMERLY IN ANNA PáVLOVNA’S PRESENCE, PIERRE HAD ALWAYS FELT THAT +WHAT HE WAS SAYING WAS OUT OF PLACE, TACTLESS AND UNSUITABLE, THAT +REMARKS WHICH SEEMED TO HIM CLEVER WHILE THEY FORMED IN HIS MIND BECAME +FOOLISH AS SOON AS HE UTTERED THEM, WHILE ON THE CONTRARY HIPPOLYTE’S +STUPIDEST REMARKS CAME OUT CLEVER AND APT. NOW EVERYTHING PIERRE SAID +WAS CHARMANT. EVEN IF ANNA PáVLOVNA DID NOT SAY SO, HE COULD SEE THAT +SHE WISHED TO AND ONLY REFRAINED OUT OF REGARD FOR HIS MODESTY. + +IN THE BEGINNING OF THE WINTER OF 1805-6 PIERRE RECEIVED ONE OF ANNA +PáVLOVNA’S USUAL PINK NOTES WITH AN INVITATION TO WHICH WAS ADDED: +“YOU WILL FIND THE BEAUTIFUL HéLèNE HERE, WHOM IT IS ALWAYS +DELIGHTFUL TO SEE.” + +WHEN HE READ THAT SENTENCE, PIERRE FELT FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT SOME +LINK WHICH OTHER PEOPLE RECOGNIZED HAD GROWN UP BETWEEN HIMSELF AND +HéLèNE, AND THAT THOUGHT BOTH ALARMED HIM, AS IF SOME OBLIGATION WERE +BEING IMPOSED ON HIM WHICH HE COULD NOT FULFILL, AND PLEASED HIM AS AN +ENTERTAINING SUPPOSITION. + +ANNA PáVLOVNA’S “AT HOME” WAS LIKE THE FORMER ONE, ONLY THE +NOVELTY SHE OFFERED HER GUESTS THIS TIME WAS NOT MORTEMART, BUT A +DIPLOMATIST FRESH FROM BERLIN WITH THE VERY LATEST DETAILS OF THE +EMPEROR ALEXANDER’S VISIT TO POTSDAM, AND OF HOW THE TWO AUGUST +FRIENDS HAD PLEDGED THEMSELVES IN AN INDISSOLUBLE ALLIANCE TO UPHOLD +THE CAUSE OF JUSTICE AGAINST THE ENEMY OF THE HUMAN RACE. ANNA PáVLOVNA +RECEIVED PIERRE WITH A SHADE OF MELANCHOLY, EVIDENTLY RELATING TO THE +YOUNG MAN’S RECENT LOSS BY THE DEATH OF COUNT BEZúKHOV (EVERYONE +CONSTANTLY CONSIDERED IT A DUTY TO ASSURE PIERRE THAT HE WAS GREATLY +AFFLICTED BY THE DEATH OF THE FATHER HE HAD HARDLY KNOWN), AND HER +MELANCHOLY WAS JUST LIKE THE AUGUST MELANCHOLY SHE SHOWED AT THE MENTION +OF HER MOST AUGUST MAJESTY THE EMPRESS MáRYA FëDOROVNA. PIERRE FELT +FLATTERED BY THIS. ANNA PáVLOVNA ARRANGED THE DIFFERENT GROUPS IN HER +DRAWING ROOM WITH HER HABITUAL SKILL. THE LARGE GROUP, IN WHICH WERE +PRINCE VASíLI AND THE GENERALS, HAD THE BENEFIT OF THE DIPLOMAT. +ANOTHER GROUP WAS AT THE TEA TABLE. PIERRE WISHED TO JOIN THE FORMER, +BUT ANNA PáVLOVNA—WHO WAS IN THE EXCITED CONDITION OF A COMMANDER ON +A BATTLEFIELD TO WHOM THOUSANDS OF NEW AND BRILLIANT IDEAS OCCUR WHICH +THERE IS HARDLY TIME TO PUT IN ACTION—SEEING PIERRE, TOUCHED HIS +SLEEVE WITH HER FINGER, SAYING: + +“WAIT A BIT, I HAVE SOMETHING IN VIEW FOR YOU THIS EVENING.” +(SHE GLANCED AT HéLèNE AND SMILED AT HER.) “MY DEAR HéLèNE, BE +CHARITABLE TO MY POOR AUNT WHO ADORES YOU. GO AND KEEP HER COMPANY FOR +TEN MINUTES. AND THAT IT WILL NOT BE TOO DULL, HERE IS THE DEAR COUNT +WHO WILL NOT REFUSE TO ACCOMPANY YOU.” + +THE BEAUTY WENT TO THE AUNT, BUT ANNA PáVLOVNA DETAINED PIERRE, LOOKING +AS IF SHE HAD TO GIVE SOME FINAL NECESSARY INSTRUCTIONS. + +“ISN’T SHE EXQUISITE?” SHE SAID TO PIERRE, POINTING TO THE STATELY +BEAUTY AS SHE GLIDED AWAY. “AND HOW SHE CARRIES HERSELF! FOR SO YOUNG +A GIRL, SUCH TACT, SUCH MASTERLY PERFECTION OF MANNER! IT COMES FROM +HER HEART. HAPPY THE MAN WHO WINS HER! WITH HER THE LEAST WORLDLY OF MEN +WOULD OCCUPY A MOST BRILLIANT POSITION IN SOCIETY. DON’T YOU THINK SO? +I ONLY WANTED TO KNOW YOUR OPINION,” AND ANNA PáVLOVNA LET PIERRE GO. + +PIERRE, IN REPLY, SINCERELY AGREED WITH HER AS TO HéLèNE’S +PERFECTION OF MANNER. IF HE EVER THOUGHT OF HéLèNE, IT WAS JUST OF +HER BEAUTY AND HER REMARKABLE SKILL IN APPEARING SILENTLY DIGNIFIED IN +SOCIETY. + +THE OLD AUNT RECEIVED THE TWO YOUNG PEOPLE IN HER CORNER, BUT SEEMED +DESIROUS OF HIDING HER ADORATION FOR HéLèNE AND INCLINED RATHER +TO SHOW HER FEAR OF ANNA PáVLOVNA. SHE LOOKED AT HER NIECE, AS IF +INQUIRING WHAT SHE WAS TO DO WITH THESE PEOPLE. ON LEAVING THEM, ANNA +PáVLOVNA AGAIN TOUCHED PIERRE’S SLEEVE, SAYING: “I HOPE YOU WON’T +SAY THAT IT IS DULL IN MY HOUSE AGAIN,” AND SHE GLANCED AT HéLèNE. + +HéLèNE SMILED, WITH A LOOK IMPLYING THAT SHE DID NOT ADMIT THE +POSSIBILITY OF ANYONE SEEING HER WITHOUT BEING ENCHANTED. THE AUNT +COUGHED, SWALLOWED, AND SAID IN FRENCH THAT SHE WAS VERY PLEASED TO SEE +HéLèNE, THEN SHE TURNED TO PIERRE WITH THE SAME WORDS OF WELCOME +AND THE SAME LOOK. IN THE MIDDLE OF A DULL AND HALTING CONVERSATION, +HéLèNE TURNED TO PIERRE WITH THE BEAUTIFUL BRIGHT SMILE THAT SHE GAVE +TO EVERYONE. PIERRE WAS SO USED TO THAT SMILE, AND IT HAD SO LITTLE +MEANING FOR HIM, THAT HE PAID NO ATTENTION TO IT. THE AUNT WAS JUST +SPEAKING OF A COLLECTION OF SNUFFBOXES THAT HAD BELONGED TO PIERRE’S +FATHER, COUNT BEZúKHOV, AND SHOWED THEM HER OWN BOX. PRINCESS HéLèNE +ASKED TO SEE THE PORTRAIT OF THE AUNT’S HUSBAND ON THE BOX LID. + +“THAT IS PROBABLY THE WORK OF VINESSE,” SAID PIERRE, MENTIONING +A CELEBRATED MINIATURIST, AND HE LEANED OVER THE TABLE TO TAKE THE +SNUFFBOX WHILE TRYING TO HEAR WHAT WAS BEING SAID AT THE OTHER TABLE. + +HE HALF ROSE, MEANING TO GO ROUND, BUT THE AUNT HANDED HIM THE SNUFFBOX, +PASSING IT ACROSS HéLèNE’S BACK. HéLèNE STOOPED FORWARD TO MAKE +ROOM, AND LOOKED ROUND WITH A SMILE. SHE WAS, AS ALWAYS AT EVENING +PARTIES, WEARING A DRESS SUCH AS WAS THEN FASHIONABLE, CUT VERY LOW AT +FRONT AND BACK. HER BUST, WHICH HAD ALWAYS SEEMED LIKE MARBLE TO PIERRE, +WAS SO CLOSE TO HIM THAT HIS SHORTSIGHTED EYES COULD NOT BUT PERCEIVE +THE LIVING CHARM OF HER NECK AND SHOULDERS, SO NEAR TO HIS LIPS THAT +HE NEED ONLY HAVE BENT HIS HEAD A LITTLE TO HAVE TOUCHED THEM. HE WAS +CONSCIOUS OF THE WARMTH OF HER BODY, THE SCENT OF PERFUME, AND THE +CREAKING OF HER CORSET AS SHE MOVED. HE DID NOT SEE HER MARBLE BEAUTY +FORMING A COMPLETE WHOLE WITH HER DRESS, BUT ALL THE CHARM OF HER BODY +ONLY COVERED BY HER GARMENTS. AND HAVING ONCE SEEN THIS HE COULD NOT +HELP BEING AWARE OF IT, JUST AS WE CANNOT RENEW AN ILLUSION WE HAVE ONCE +SEEN THROUGH. + +“SO YOU HAVE NEVER NOTICED BEFORE HOW BEAUTIFUL I AM?” HéLèNE +SEEMED TO SAY. “YOU HAD NOT NOTICED THAT I AM A WOMAN? YES, I AM A +WOMAN WHO MAY BELONG TO ANYONE—TO YOU TOO,” SAID HER GLANCE. AND AT +THAT MOMENT PIERRE FELT THAT HéLèNE NOT ONLY COULD, BUT MUST, BE HIS +WIFE, AND THAT IT COULD NOT BE OTHERWISE. + +HE KNEW THIS AT THAT MOMENT AS SURELY AS IF HE HAD BEEN STANDING AT THE +ALTAR WITH HER. HOW AND WHEN THIS WOULD BE HE DID NOT KNOW, HE DID NOT +EVEN KNOW IF IT WOULD BE A GOOD THING (HE EVEN FELT, HE KNEW NOT WHY, +THAT IT WOULD BE A BAD THING), BUT HE KNEW IT WOULD HAPPEN. + +PIERRE DROPPED HIS EYES, LIFTED THEM AGAIN, AND WISHED ONCE MORE TO SEE +HER AS A DISTANT BEAUTY FAR REMOVED FROM HIM, AS HE HAD SEEN HER EVERY +DAY UNTIL THEN, BUT HE COULD NO LONGER DO IT. HE COULD NOT, ANY MORE +THAN A MAN WHO HAS BEEN LOOKING AT A TUFT OF STEPPE GRASS THROUGH THE +MIST AND TAKING IT FOR A TREE CAN AGAIN TAKE IT FOR A TREE AFTER HE HAS +ONCE RECOGNIZED IT TO BE A TUFT OF GRASS. SHE WAS TERRIBLY CLOSE TO HIM. +SHE ALREADY HAD POWER OVER HIM, AND BETWEEN THEM THERE WAS NO LONGER ANY +BARRIER EXCEPT THE BARRIER OF HIS OWN WILL. + +“WELL, I WILL LEAVE YOU IN YOUR LITTLE CORNER,” CAME ANNA +PáVLOVNA’S VOICE, “I SEE YOU ARE ALL RIGHT THERE.” + +AND PIERRE, ANXIOUSLY TRYING TO REMEMBER WHETHER HE HAD DONE ANYTHING +REPREHENSIBLE, LOOKED ROUND WITH A BLUSH. IT SEEMED TO HIM THAT EVERYONE +KNEW WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO HIM AS HE KNEW IT HIMSELF. + +A LITTLE LATER WHEN HE WENT UP TO THE LARGE CIRCLE, ANNA PáVLOVNA SAID +TO HIM: “I HEAR YOU ARE REFITTING YOUR PETERSBURG HOUSE?” + +THIS WAS TRUE. THE ARCHITECT HAD TOLD HIM THAT IT WAS NECESSARY, AND +PIERRE, WITHOUT KNOWING WHY, WAS HAVING HIS ENORMOUS PETERSBURG HOUSE +DONE UP. + +“THAT’S A GOOD THING, BUT DON’T MOVE FROM PRINCE VASíLI’S. IT +IS GOOD TO HAVE A FRIEND LIKE THE PRINCE,” SHE SAID, SMILING AT PRINCE +VASíLI. “I KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THAT. DON’T I? AND YOU ARE STILL SO +YOUNG. YOU NEED ADVICE. DON’T BE ANGRY WITH ME FOR EXERCISING AN OLD +WOMAN’S PRIVILEGE.” + +SHE PAUSED, AS WOMEN ALWAYS DO, EXPECTING SOMETHING AFTER THEY HAVE +MENTIONED THEIR AGE. “IF YOU MARRY IT WILL BE A DIFFERENT THING,” +SHE CONTINUED, UNITING THEM BOTH IN ONE GLANCE. PIERRE DID NOT LOOK AT +HéLèNE NOR SHE AT HIM. BUT SHE WAS JUST AS TERRIBLY CLOSE TO HIM. HE +MUTTERED SOMETHING AND COLORED. + +WHEN HE GOT HOME HE COULD NOT SLEEP FOR A LONG TIME FOR THINKING OF WHAT +HAD HAPPENED. WHAT HAD HAPPENED? NOTHING. HE HAD MERELY UNDERSTOOD THAT +THE WOMAN HE HAD KNOWN AS A CHILD, OF WHOM WHEN HER BEAUTY WAS MENTIONED +HE HAD SAID ABSENT-MINDEDLY: “YES, SHE’S GOOD LOOKING,” HE HAD +UNDERSTOOD THAT THIS WOMAN MIGHT BELONG TO HIM. + +“BUT SHE’S STUPID. I HAVE MYSELF SAID SHE IS STUPID,” HE THOUGHT. +“THERE IS SOMETHING NASTY, SOMETHING WRONG, IN THE FEELING SHE EXCITES +IN ME. I HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT HER BROTHER ANATOLE WAS IN LOVE WITH HER +AND SHE WITH HIM, THAT THERE WAS QUITE A SCANDAL AND THAT THAT’S WHY +HE WAS SENT AWAY. HIPPOLYTE IS HER BROTHER... PRINCE VASíLI IS HER +FATHER... IT’S BAD....” HE REFLECTED, BUT WHILE HE WAS THINKING THIS +(THE REFLECTION WAS STILL INCOMPLETE), HE CAUGHT HIMSELF SMILING AND WAS +CONSCIOUS THAT ANOTHER LINE OF THOUGHT HAD SPRUNG UP, AND WHILE THINKING +OF HER WORTHLESSNESS HE WAS ALSO DREAMING OF HOW SHE WOULD BE HIS +WIFE, HOW SHE WOULD LOVE HIM BECOME QUITE DIFFERENT, AND HOW ALL HE HAD +THOUGHT AND HEARD OF HER MIGHT BE FALSE. AND HE AGAIN SAW HER NOT AS THE +DAUGHTER OF PRINCE VASíLI, BUT VISUALIZED HER WHOLE BODY ONLY VEILED +BY ITS GRAY DRESS. “BUT NO! WHY DID THIS THOUGHT NEVER OCCUR TO ME +BEFORE?” AND AGAIN HE TOLD HIMSELF THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE, THAT THERE +WOULD BE SOMETHING UNNATURAL, AND AS IT SEEMED TO HIM DISHONORABLE, IN +THIS MARRIAGE. HE RECALLED HER FORMER WORDS AND LOOKS AND THE WORDS +AND LOOKS OF THOSE WHO HAD SEEN THEM TOGETHER. HE RECALLED ANNA +PáVLOVNA’S WORDS AND LOOKS WHEN SHE SPOKE TO HIM ABOUT HIS HOUSE, +RECALLED THOUSANDS OF SUCH HINTS FROM PRINCE VASíLI AND OTHERS, AND WAS +SEIZED BY TERROR LEST HE HAD ALREADY, IN SOME WAY, BOUND HIMSELF TO DO +SOMETHING THAT WAS EVIDENTLY WRONG AND THAT HE OUGHT NOT TO DO. BUT AT +THE VERY TIME HE WAS EXPRESSING THIS CONVICTION TO HIMSELF, IN ANOTHER +PART OF HIS MIND HER IMAGE ROSE IN ALL ITS WOMANLY BEAUTY. + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +IN NOVEMBER, 1805, PRINCE VASíLI HAD TO GO ON A TOUR OF INSPECTION +IN FOUR DIFFERENT PROVINCES. HE HAD ARRANGED THIS FOR HIMSELF SO AS TO +VISIT HIS NEGLECTED ESTATES AT THE SAME TIME AND PICK UP HIS SON ANATOLE +WHERE HIS REGIMENT WAS STATIONED, AND TAKE HIM TO VISIT PRINCE NICHOLAS +BOLKóNSKI IN ORDER TO ARRANGE A MATCH FOR HIM WITH THE DAUGHTER OF THAT +RICH OLD MAN. BUT BEFORE LEAVING HOME AND UNDERTAKING THESE NEW AFFAIRS, +PRINCE VASíLI HAD TO SETTLE MATTERS WITH PIERRE, WHO, IT IS TRUE, HAD +LATTERLY SPENT WHOLE DAYS AT HOME, THAT IS, IN PRINCE VASíLI’S HOUSE +WHERE HE WAS STAYING, AND HAD BEEN ABSURD, EXCITED, AND FOOLISH IN +HéLèNE’S PRESENCE (AS A LOVER SHOULD BE), BUT HAD NOT YET PROPOSED +TO HER. + +“THIS IS ALL VERY FINE, BUT THINGS MUST BE SETTLED,” SAID PRINCE +VASíLI TO HIMSELF, WITH A SORROWFUL SIGH, ONE MORNING, FEELING THAT +PIERRE WHO WAS UNDER SUCH OBLIGATIONS TO HIM (“BUT NEVER MIND THAT”) +WAS NOT BEHAVING VERY WELL IN THIS MATTER. “YOUTH, FRIVOLITY... WELL, +GOD BE WITH HIM,” THOUGHT HE, RELISHING HIS OWN GOODNESS OF HEART, +“BUT IT MUST BE BROUGHT TO A HEAD. THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW WILL BE +LëLYA’S NAME DAY. I WILL INVITE TWO OR THREE PEOPLE, AND IF HE DOES +NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT HE OUGHT TO DO THEN IT WILL BE MY AFFAIR—YES, MY +AFFAIR. I AM HER FATHER.” + +SIX WEEKS AFTER ANNA PáVLOVNA’S “AT HOME” AND AFTER THE SLEEPLESS +NIGHT WHEN HE HAD DECIDED THAT TO MARRY HéLèNE WOULD BE A CALAMITY AND +THAT HE OUGHT TO AVOID HER AND GO AWAY, PIERRE, DESPITE THAT DECISION, +HAD NOT LEFT PRINCE VASíLI’S AND FELT WITH TERROR THAT IN PEOPLE’S +EYES HE WAS EVERY DAY MORE AND MORE CONNECTED WITH HER, THAT IT WAS +IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO RETURN TO HIS FORMER CONCEPTION OF HER, THAT HE +COULD NOT BREAK AWAY FROM HER, AND THAT THOUGH IT WOULD BE A TERRIBLE +THING HE WOULD HAVE TO UNITE HIS FATE WITH HERS. HE MIGHT PERHAPS HAVE +BEEN ABLE TO FREE HIMSELF BUT THAT PRINCE VASíLI (WHO HAD RARELY BEFORE +GIVEN RECEPTIONS) NOW HARDLY LET A DAY GO BY WITHOUT HAVING AN EVENING +PARTY AT WHICH PIERRE HAD TO BE PRESENT UNLESS HE WISHED TO SPOIL +THE GENERAL PLEASURE AND DISAPPOINT EVERYONE’S EXPECTATION. PRINCE +VASíLI, IN THE RARE MOMENTS WHEN HE WAS AT HOME, WOULD TAKE PIERRE’S +HAND IN PASSING AND DRAW IT DOWNWARDS, OR ABSENT-MINDEDLY HOLD OUT HIS +WRINKLED, CLEAN-SHAVEN CHEEK FOR PIERRE TO KISS AND WOULD SAY: “TILL +TOMORROW,” OR, “BE IN TO DINNER OR I SHALL NOT SEE YOU,” OR, “I +AM STAYING IN FOR YOUR SAKE,” AND SO ON. AND THOUGH PRINCE VASíLI, +WHEN HE STAYED IN (AS HE SAID) FOR PIERRE’S SAKE, HARDLY EXCHANGED A +COUPLE OF WORDS WITH HIM, PIERRE FELT UNABLE TO DISAPPOINT HIM. +EVERY DAY HE SAID TO HIMSELF ONE AND THE SAME THING: “IT IS TIME I +UNDERSTOOD HER AND MADE UP MY MIND WHAT SHE REALLY IS. WAS I MISTAKEN +BEFORE, OR AM I MISTAKEN NOW? NO, SHE IS NOT STUPID, SHE IS AN EXCELLENT +GIRL,” HE SOMETIMES SAID TO HIMSELF “SHE NEVER MAKES A MISTAKE, +NEVER SAYS ANYTHING STUPID. SHE SAYS LITTLE, BUT WHAT SHE DOES SAY IS +ALWAYS CLEAR AND SIMPLE, SO SHE IS NOT STUPID. SHE NEVER WAS ABASHED AND +IS NOT ABASHED NOW, SO SHE CANNOT BE A BAD WOMAN!” HE HAD OFTEN BEGUN +TO MAKE REFLECTIONS OR THINK ALOUD IN HER COMPANY, AND SHE HAD ALWAYS +ANSWERED HIM EITHER BY A BRIEF BUT APPROPRIATE REMARK—SHOWING THAT IT +DID NOT INTEREST HER—OR BY A SILENT LOOK AND SMILE WHICH MORE PALPABLY +THAN ANYTHING ELSE SHOWED PIERRE HER SUPERIORITY. SHE WAS RIGHT IN +REGARDING ALL ARGUMENTS AS NONSENSE IN COMPARISON WITH THAT SMILE. + +SHE ALWAYS ADDRESSED HIM WITH A RADIANTLY CONFIDING SMILE MEANT FOR HIM +ALONE, IN WHICH THERE WAS SOMETHING MORE SIGNIFICANT THAN IN THE GENERAL +SMILE THAT USUALLY BRIGHTENED HER FACE. PIERRE KNEW THAT EVERYONE WAS +WAITING FOR HIM TO SAY A WORD AND CROSS A CERTAIN LINE, AND HE KNEW THAT +SOONER OR LATER HE WOULD STEP ACROSS IT, BUT AN INCOMPREHENSIBLE TERROR +SEIZED HIM AT THE THOUGHT OF THAT DREADFUL STEP. A THOUSAND TIMES DURING +THAT MONTH AND A HALF WHILE HE FELT HIMSELF DRAWN NEARER AND NEARER TO +THAT DREADFUL ABYSS, PIERRE SAID TO HIMSELF: “WHAT AM I DOING? I NEED +RESOLUTION. CAN IT BE THAT I HAVE NONE?” + +HE WISHED TO TAKE A DECISION, BUT FELT WITH DISMAY THAT IN THIS MATTER +HE LACKED THAT STRENGTH OF WILL WHICH HE HAD KNOWN IN HIMSELF AND REALLY +POSSESSED. PIERRE WAS ONE OF THOSE WHO ARE ONLY STRONG WHEN THEY FEEL +THEMSELVES QUITE INNOCENT, AND SINCE THAT DAY WHEN HE WAS OVERPOWERED +BY A FEELING OF DESIRE WHILE STOOPING OVER THE SNUFFBOX AT ANNA +PáVLOVNA’S, AN UNACKNOWLEDGED SENSE OF THE GUILT OF THAT DESIRE +PARALYZED HIS WILL. + +ON HéLèNE’S NAME DAY, A SMALL PARTY OF JUST THEIR OWN PEOPLE—AS +HIS WIFE SAID—MET FOR SUPPER AT PRINCE VASíLI’S. ALL THESE FRIENDS +AND RELATIONS HAD BEEN GIVEN TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE FATE OF THE YOUNG +GIRL WOULD BE DECIDED THAT EVENING. THE VISITORS WERE SEATED AT SUPPER. +PRINCESS KURáGINA, A PORTLY IMPOSING WOMAN WHO HAD ONCE BEEN HANDSOME, +WAS SITTING AT THE HEAD OF THE TABLE. ON EITHER SIDE OF HER SAT THE +MORE IMPORTANT GUESTS—AN OLD GENERAL AND HIS WIFE, AND ANNA PáVLOVNA +SCHéRER. AT THE OTHER END SAT THE YOUNGER AND LESS IMPORTANT GUESTS, +AND THERE TOO SAT THE MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY, AND PIERRE AND HéLèNE, +SIDE BY SIDE. PRINCE VASíLI WAS NOT HAVING ANY SUPPER: HE WENT ROUND +THE TABLE IN A MERRY MOOD, SITTING DOWN NOW BY ONE, NOW BY ANOTHER, OF +THE GUESTS. TO EACH OF THEM HE MADE SOME CARELESS AND AGREEABLE REMARK +EXCEPT TO PIERRE AND HéLèNE, WHOSE PRESENCE HE SEEMED NOT TO NOTICE. +HE ENLIVENED THE WHOLE PARTY. THE WAX CANDLES BURNED BRIGHTLY, THE +SILVER AND CRYSTAL GLEAMED, SO DID THE LADIES’ TOILETS AND THE GOLD +AND SILVER OF THE MEN’S EPAULETS; SERVANTS IN SCARLET LIVERIES MOVED +ROUND THE TABLE, THE CLATTER OF PLATES, KNIVES, AND GLASSES MINGLED WITH +THE ANIMATED HUM OF SEVERAL CONVERSATIONS. AT ONE END OF THE TABLE, THE +OLD CHAMBERLAIN WAS HEARD ASSURING AN OLD BARONESS THAT HE LOVED HER +PASSIONATELY, AT WHICH SHE LAUGHED; AT THE OTHER COULD BE HEARD THE +STORY OF THE MISFORTUNES OF SOME MARY VíKTOROVNA OR OTHER. AT THE +CENTER OF THE TABLE, PRINCE VASíLI ATTRACTED EVERYBODY’S ATTENTION. +WITH A FACETIOUS SMILE ON HIS FACE, HE WAS TELLING THE LADIES ABOUT LAST +WEDNESDAY’S MEETING OF THE IMPERIAL COUNCIL, AT WHICH SERGéY KUZMíCH +VYAZMíTINOV, THE NEW MILITARY GOVERNOR GENERAL OF PETERSBURG, HAD +RECEIVED AND READ THE THEN FAMOUS RESCRIPT OF THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER +FROM THE ARMY TO SERGéY KUZMíCH, IN WHICH THE EMPEROR SAID THAT HE WAS +RECEIVING FROM ALL SIDES DECLARATIONS OF THE PEOPLE’S LOYALTY, THAT +THE DECLARATION FROM PETERSBURG GAVE HIM PARTICULAR PLEASURE, AND THAT +HE WAS PROUD TO BE AT THE HEAD OF SUCH A NATION AND WOULD ENDEAVOR TO BE +WORTHY OF IT. THIS RESCRIPT BEGAN WITH THE WORDS: “SERGéY KUZMíCH, +FROM ALL SIDES REPORTS REACH ME,” ETC. + +“WELL, AND SO HE NEVER GOT FARTHER THAN: ‘SERGéY KUZMíCH’?” +ASKED ONE OF THE LADIES. + +“EXACTLY, NOT A HAIR’S BREADTH FARTHER,” ANSWERED PRINCE VASíLI, +LAUGHING, “‘SERGéY KUZMíCH... FROM ALL SIDES... FROM ALL SIDES... +SERGéY KUZMíCH...’ POOR VYAZMíTINOV COULD NOT GET ANY FARTHER! +HE BEGAN THE RESCRIPT AGAIN AND AGAIN, BUT AS SOON AS HE UTTERED +‘SERGéY’ HE SOBBED, ‘KUZ-Mí-CH,’ TEARS, AND ‘FROM ALL +SIDES’ WAS SMOTHERED IN SOBS AND HE COULD GET NO FARTHER. AND AGAIN +HIS HANDKERCHIEF, AND AGAIN: ‘SERGéY KUZMíCH, FROM ALL SIDES,’... +AND TEARS, TILL AT LAST SOMEBODY ELSE WAS ASKED TO READ IT.” + +“KUZMíCH... FROM ALL SIDES... AND THEN TEARS,” SOMEONE REPEATED +LAUGHING. + +“DON’T BE UNKIND,” CRIED ANNA PáVLOVNA FROM HER END OF THE TABLE +HOLDING UP A THREATENING FINGER. “HE IS SUCH A WORTHY AND EXCELLENT +MAN, OUR DEAR VYAZMíTINOV....” + +EVERYBODY LAUGHED A GREAT DEAL. AT THE HEAD OF THE TABLE, WHERE THE +HONORED GUESTS SAT, EVERYONE SEEMED TO BE IN HIGH SPIRITS AND UNDER THE +INFLUENCE OF A VARIETY OF EXCITING SENSATIONS. ONLY PIERRE AND +HéLèNE SAT SILENTLY SIDE BY SIDE ALMOST AT THE BOTTOM OF THE TABLE, A +SUPPRESSED SMILE BRIGHTENING BOTH THEIR FACES, A SMILE THAT HAD NOTHING +TO DO WITH SERGéY KUZMíCH—A SMILE OF BASHFULNESS AT THEIR OWN +FEELINGS. BUT MUCH AS ALL THE REST LAUGHED, TALKED, AND JOKED, MUCH +AS THEY ENJOYED THEIR RHINE WINE, SAUTé, AND ICES, AND HOWEVER THEY +AVOIDED LOOKING AT THE YOUNG COUPLE, AND HEEDLESS AND UNOBSERVANT AS +THEY SEEMED OF THEM, ONE COULD FEEL BY THE OCCASIONAL GLANCES THEY GAVE +THAT THE STORY ABOUT SERGéY KUZMíCH, THE LAUGHTER, AND THE FOOD +WERE ALL A PRETENSE, AND THAT THE WHOLE ATTENTION OF THAT COMPANY WAS +DIRECTED TO—PIERRE AND HéLèNE. PRINCE VASíLI MIMICKED THE SOBBING +OF SERGéY KUZMíCH AND AT THE SAME TIME HIS EYES GLANCED TOWARD HIS +DAUGHTER, AND WHILE HE LAUGHED THE EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE CLEARLY SAID: +“YES... IT’S GETTING ON, IT WILL ALL BE SETTLED TODAY.” ANNA +PáVLOVNA THREATENED HIM ON BEHALF OF “OUR DEAR VYAZMíTINOV,” AND +IN HER EYES, WHICH, FOR AN INSTANT, GLANCED AT PIERRE, PRINCE VASíLI +READ A CONGRATULATION ON HIS FUTURE SON-IN-LAW AND ON HIS DAUGHTER’S +HAPPINESS. THE OLD PRINCESS SIGHED SADLY AS SHE OFFERED SOME WINE TO THE +OLD LADY NEXT TO HER AND GLANCED ANGRILY AT HER DAUGHTER, AND HER SIGH +SEEMED TO SAY: “YES, THERE’S NOTHING LEFT FOR YOU AND ME BUT TO SIP +SWEET WINE, MY DEAR, NOW THAT THE TIME HAS COME FOR THESE YOUNG ONES TO +BE THUS BOLDLY, PROVOCATIVELY HAPPY.” “AND WHAT NONSENSE ALL THIS IS +THAT I AM SAYING!” THOUGHT A DIPLOMATIST, GLANCING AT THE HAPPY FACES +OF THE LOVERS. “THAT’S HAPPINESS!” + +INTO THE INSIGNIFICANT, TRIFLING, AND ARTIFICIAL INTERESTS UNITING THAT +SOCIETY HAD ENTERED THE SIMPLE FEELING OF THE ATTRACTION OF A HEALTHY +AND HANDSOME YOUNG MAN AND WOMAN FOR ONE ANOTHER. AND THIS HUMAN FEELING +DOMINATED EVERYTHING ELSE AND SOARED ABOVE ALL THEIR AFFECTED CHATTER. +JESTS FELL FLAT, NEWS WAS NOT INTERESTING, AND THE ANIMATION WAS +EVIDENTLY FORCED. NOT ONLY THE GUESTS BUT EVEN THE FOOTMEN WAITING AT +TABLE SEEMED TO FEEL THIS, AND THEY FORGOT THEIR DUTIES AS THEY LOOKED +AT THE BEAUTIFUL HéLèNE WITH HER RADIANT FACE AND AT THE RED, BROAD, +AND HAPPY THOUGH UNEASY FACE OF PIERRE. IT SEEMED AS IF THE VERY LIGHT +OF THE CANDLES WAS FOCUSED ON THOSE TWO HAPPY FACES ALONE. + +PIERRE FELT THAT HE WAS THE CENTER OF IT ALL, AND THIS BOTH PLEASED AND +EMBARRASSED HIM. HE WAS LIKE A MAN ENTIRELY ABSORBED IN SOME OCCUPATION. +HE DID NOT SEE, HEAR, OR UNDERSTAND ANYTHING CLEARLY. ONLY NOW AND +THEN DETACHED IDEAS AND IMPRESSIONS FROM THE WORLD OF REALITY SHOT +UNEXPECTEDLY THROUGH HIS MIND. + +“SO IT IS ALL FINISHED!” HE THOUGHT. “AND HOW HAS IT ALL HAPPENED? +HOW QUICKLY! NOW I KNOW THAT NOT BECAUSE OF HER ALONE, NOR OF MYSELF +ALONE, BUT BECAUSE OF EVERYONE, IT MUST INEVITABLY COME ABOUT. THEY ARE +ALL EXPECTING IT, THEY ARE SO SURE THAT IT WILL HAPPEN THAT I CANNOT, I +CANNOT, DISAPPOINT THEM. BUT HOW WILL IT BE? I DO NOT KNOW, BUT IT +WILL CERTAINLY HAPPEN!” THOUGHT PIERRE, GLANCING AT THOSE DAZZLING +SHOULDERS CLOSE TO HIS EYES. + +OR HE WOULD SUDDENLY FEEL ASHAMED OF HE KNEW NOT WHAT. HE FELT IT +AWKWARD TO ATTRACT EVERYONE’S ATTENTION AND TO BE CONSIDERED A +LUCKY MAN AND, WITH HIS PLAIN FACE, TO BE LOOKED ON AS A SORT OF PARIS +POSSESSED OF A HELEN. “BUT NO DOUBT IT ALWAYS IS AND MUST BE SO!” +HE CONSOLED HIMSELF. “AND BESIDES, WHAT HAVE I DONE TO BRING IT ABOUT? +HOW DID IT BEGIN? I TRAVELED FROM MOSCOW WITH PRINCE VASíLI. THEN THERE +WAS NOTHING. SO WHY SHOULD I NOT STAY AT HIS HOUSE? THEN I PLAYED CARDS +WITH HER AND PICKED UP HER RETICULE AND DROVE OUT WITH HER. HOW DID IT +BEGIN, WHEN DID IT ALL COME ABOUT?” AND HERE HE WAS SITTING BY HER +SIDE AS HER BETROTHED, SEEING, HEARING, FEELING HER NEARNESS, HER +BREATHING, HER MOVEMENTS, HER BEAUTY. THEN IT WOULD SUDDENLY SEEM TO HIM +THAT IT WAS NOT SHE BUT HE WAS SO UNUSUALLY BEAUTIFUL, AND THAT THAT WAS +WHY THEY ALL LOOKED SO AT HIM, AND FLATTERED BY THIS GENERAL ADMIRATION +HE WOULD EXPAND HIS CHEST, RAISE HIS HEAD, AND REJOICE AT HIS GOOD +FORTUNE. SUDDENLY HE HEARD A FAMILIAR VOICE REPEATING SOMETHING TO HIM A +SECOND TIME. BUT PIERRE WAS SO ABSORBED THAT HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT +WAS SAID. + +“I AM ASKING YOU WHEN YOU LAST HEARD FROM BOLKóNSKI,” REPEATED +PRINCE VASíLI A THIRD TIME. “HOW ABSENT-MINDED YOU ARE, MY DEAR +FELLOW.” + +PRINCE VASíLI SMILED, AND PIERRE NOTICED THAT EVERYONE WAS SMILING AT +HIM AND HéLèNE. “WELL, WHAT OF IT, IF YOU ALL KNOW IT?” THOUGHT +PIERRE. “WHAT OF IT? IT’S THE TRUTH!” AND HE HIMSELF SMILED HIS +GENTLE CHILDLIKE SMILE, AND HéLèNE SMILED TOO. + +“WHEN DID YOU GET THE LETTER? WAS IT FROM OLMüTZ?” REPEATED +PRINCE VASíLI, WHO PRETENDED TO WANT TO KNOW THIS IN ORDER TO SETTLE A +DISPUTE. + +“HOW CAN ONE TALK OR THINK OF SUCH TRIFLES?” THOUGHT PIERRE. + +“YES, FROM OLMüTZ,” HE ANSWERED, WITH A SIGH. + +AFTER SUPPER PIERRE WITH HIS PARTNER FOLLOWED THE OTHERS INTO THE +DRAWING ROOM. THE GUESTS BEGAN TO DISPERSE, SOME WITHOUT TAKING LEAVE +OF HéLèNE. SOME, AS IF UNWILLING TO DISTRACT HER FROM AN IMPORTANT +OCCUPATION, CAME UP TO HER FOR A MOMENT AND MADE HASTE TO GO AWAY, +REFUSING TO LET HER SEE THEM OFF. THE DIPLOMATIST PRESERVED A MOURNFUL +SILENCE AS HE LEFT THE DRAWING ROOM. HE PICTURED THE VANITY OF HIS +DIPLOMATIC CAREER IN COMPARISON WITH PIERRE’S HAPPINESS. THE OLD +GENERAL GRUMBLED AT HIS WIFE WHEN SHE ASKED HOW HIS LEG WAS. “OH, THE +OLD FOOL,” HE THOUGHT. “THAT PRINCESS HéLèNE WILL BE BEAUTIFUL +STILL WHEN SHE’S FIFTY.” + +“I THINK I MAY CONGRATULATE YOU,” WHISPERED ANNA PáVLOVNA TO THE +OLD PRINCESS, KISSING HER SOUNDLY. “IF I HADN’T THIS HEADACHE I’D +HAVE STAYED LONGER.” + +THE OLD PRINCESS DID NOT REPLY, SHE WAS TORMENTED BY JEALOUSY OF HER +DAUGHTER’S HAPPINESS. + +WHILE THE GUESTS WERE TAKING THEIR LEAVE PIERRE REMAINED FOR A LONG TIME +ALONE WITH HéLèNE IN THE LITTLE DRAWING ROOM WHERE THEY WERE SITTING. +HE HAD OFTEN BEFORE, DURING THE LAST SIX WEEKS, REMAINED ALONE WITH HER, +BUT HAD NEVER SPOKEN TO HER OF LOVE. NOW HE FELT THAT IT WAS INEVITABLE, +BUT HE COULD NOT MAKE UP HIS MIND TO TAKE THE FINAL STEP. HE FELT +ASHAMED; HE FELT THAT HE WAS OCCUPYING SOMEONE ELSE’S PLACE HERE +BESIDE HéLèNE. “THIS HAPPINESS IS NOT FOR YOU,” SOME INNER VOICE +WHISPERED TO HIM. “THIS HAPPINESS IS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT IN THEM +WHAT THERE IS IN YOU.” + +BUT, AS HE HAD TO SAY SOMETHING, HE BEGAN BY ASKING HER WHETHER SHE WAS +SATISFIED WITH THE PARTY. SHE REPLIED IN HER USUAL SIMPLE MANNER THAT +THIS NAME DAY OF HERS HAD BEEN ONE OF THE PLEASANTEST SHE HAD EVER HAD. + +SOME OF THE NEAREST RELATIVES HAD NOT YET LEFT. THEY WERE SITTING IN +THE LARGE DRAWING ROOM. PRINCE VASíLI CAME UP TO PIERRE WITH LANGUID +FOOTSTEPS. PIERRE ROSE AND SAID IT WAS GETTING LATE. PRINCE VASíLI GAVE +HIM A LOOK OF STERN INQUIRY, AS THOUGH WHAT PIERRE HAD JUST SAID WAS +SO STRANGE THAT ONE COULD NOT TAKE IT IN. BUT THEN THE EXPRESSION OF +SEVERITY CHANGED, AND HE DREW PIERRE’S HAND DOWNWARDS, MADE HIM SIT +DOWN, AND SMILED AFFECTIONATELY. + +“WELL, LëLYA?” HE ASKED, TURNING INSTANTLY TO HIS DAUGHTER AND +ADDRESSING HER WITH THE CARELESS TONE OF HABITUAL TENDERNESS NATURAL TO +PARENTS WHO HAVE PETTED THEIR CHILDREN FROM BABYHOOD, BUT WHICH PRINCE +VASíLI HAD ONLY ACQUIRED BY IMITATING OTHER PARENTS. + +AND HE AGAIN TURNED TO PIERRE. + +“SERGéY KUZMíCH—FROM ALL SIDES—” HE SAID, UNBUTTONING THE TOP +BUTTON OF HIS WAISTCOAT. + +PIERRE SMILED, BUT HIS SMILE SHOWED THAT HE KNEW IT WAS NOT THE STORY +ABOUT SERGéY KUZMíCH THAT INTERESTED PRINCE VASíLI JUST THEN, AND +PRINCE VASíLI SAW THAT PIERRE KNEW THIS. HE SUDDENLY MUTTERED +SOMETHING AND WENT AWAY. IT SEEMED TO PIERRE THAT EVEN THE PRINCE WAS +DISCONCERTED. THE SIGHT OF THE DISCOMPOSURE OF THAT OLD MAN OF THE WORLD +TOUCHED PIERRE: HE LOOKED AT HéLèNE AND SHE TOO SEEMED DISCONCERTED, +AND HER LOOK SEEMED TO SAY: “WELL, IT IS YOUR OWN FAULT.” + +“THE STEP MUST BE TAKEN BUT I CANNOT, I CANNOT!” THOUGHT PIERRE, +AND HE AGAIN BEGAN SPEAKING ABOUT INDIFFERENT MATTERS, ABOUT SERGéY +KUZMíCH, ASKING WHAT THE POINT OF THE STORY WAS AS HE HAD NOT HEARD IT +PROPERLY. HéLèNE ANSWERED WITH A SMILE THAT SHE TOO HAD MISSED IT. + +WHEN PRINCE VASíLI RETURNED TO THE DRAWING ROOM, THE PRINCESS, HIS +WIFE, WAS TALKING IN LOW TONES TO THE ELDERLY LADY ABOUT PIERRE. + +“OF COURSE, IT IS A VERY BRILLIANT MATCH, BUT HAPPINESS, MY DEAR...” + +“MARRIAGES ARE MADE IN HEAVEN,” REPLIED THE ELDERLY LADY. + +PRINCE VASíLI PASSED BY, SEEMING NOT TO HEAR THE LADIES, AND SAT DOWN +ON A SOFA IN A FAR CORNER OF THE ROOM. HE CLOSED HIS EYES AND SEEMED TO +BE DOZING. HIS HEAD SANK FORWARD AND THEN HE ROUSED HIMSELF. + +“ALINE,” HE SAID TO HIS WIFE, “GO AND SEE WHAT THEY ARE ABOUT.” + +THE PRINCESS WENT UP TO THE DOOR, PASSED BY IT WITH A DIGNIFIED AND +INDIFFERENT AIR, AND GLANCED INTO THE LITTLE DRAWING ROOM. PIERRE AND +HéLèNE STILL SAT TALKING JUST AS BEFORE. + +“STILL THE SAME,” SHE SAID TO HER HUSBAND. + +PRINCE VASíLI FROWNED, TWISTING HIS MOUTH, HIS CHEEKS QUIVERED AND HIS +FACE ASSUMED THE COARSE, UNPLEASANT EXPRESSION PECULIAR TO HIM. SHAKING +HIMSELF, HE ROSE, THREW BACK HIS HEAD, AND WITH RESOLUTE STEPS WENT +PAST THE LADIES INTO THE LITTLE DRAWING ROOM. WITH QUICK STEPS HE WENT +JOYFULLY UP TO PIERRE. HIS FACE WAS SO UNUSUALLY TRIUMPHANT THAT PIERRE +ROSE IN ALARM ON SEEING IT. + +“THANK GOD!” SAID PRINCE VASíLI. “MY WIFE HAS TOLD ME +EVERYTHING!” (HE PUT ONE ARM AROUND PIERRE AND THE OTHER AROUND HIS +DAUGHTER.)—“MY DEAR BOY... LëLYA... I AM VERY PLEASED.” (HIS +VOICE TREMBLED.) “I LOVED YOUR FATHER... AND SHE WILL MAKE YOU A GOOD +WIFE... GOD BLESS YOU!...” + +HE EMBRACED HIS DAUGHTER, AND THEN AGAIN PIERRE, AND KISSED HIM WITH HIS +MALODOROUS MOUTH. TEARS ACTUALLY MOISTENED HIS CHEEKS. + +“PRINCESS, COME HERE!” HE SHOUTED. + +THE OLD PRINCESS CAME IN AND ALSO WEPT. THE ELDERLY LADY WAS USING +HER HANDKERCHIEF TOO. PIERRE WAS KISSED, AND HE KISSED THE BEAUTIFUL +HéLèNE’S HAND SEVERAL TIMES. AFTER A WHILE THEY WERE LEFT ALONE +AGAIN. + +“ALL THIS HAD TO BE AND COULD NOT BE OTHERWISE,” THOUGHT PIERRE, +“SO IT IS USELESS TO ASK WHETHER IT IS GOOD OR BAD. IT IS GOOD BECAUSE +IT’S DEFINITE AND ONE IS RID OF THE OLD TORMENTING DOUBT.” PIERRE +HELD THE HAND OF HIS BETROTHED IN SILENCE, LOOKING AT HER BEAUTIFUL +BOSOM AS IT ROSE AND FELL. + +“HéLèNE!” HE SAID ALOUD AND PAUSED. + +“SOMETHING SPECIAL IS ALWAYS SAID IN SUCH CASES,” HE THOUGHT, BUT +COULD NOT REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS THAT PEOPLE SAY. HE LOOKED AT HER FACE. +SHE DREW NEARER TO HIM. HER FACE FLUSHED. + +“OH, TAKE THOSE OFF... THOSE...” SHE SAID, POINTING TO HIS +SPECTACLES. + +PIERRE TOOK THEM OFF, AND HIS EYES, BESIDES THE STRANGE LOOK EYES HAVE +FROM WHICH SPECTACLES HAVE JUST BEEN REMOVED, HAD ALSO A FRIGHTENED AND +INQUIRING LOOK. HE WAS ABOUT TO STOOP OVER HER HAND AND KISS IT, BUT +WITH A RAPID, ALMOST BRUTAL MOVEMENT OF HER HEAD, SHE INTERCEPTED HIS +LIPS AND MET THEM WITH HER OWN. HER FACE STRUCK PIERRE, BY ITS ALTERED, +UNPLEASANTLY EXCITED EXPRESSION. + +“IT IS TOO LATE NOW, IT’S DONE; BESIDES I LOVE HER,” THOUGHT +PIERRE. + +“JE VOUS AIME!” * HE SAID, REMEMBERING WHAT HAS TO BE SAID AT SUCH +MOMENTS: BUT HIS WORDS SOUNDED SO WEAK THAT HE FELT ASHAMED OF HIMSELF. + + * “I LOVE YOU.” + + +SIX WEEKS LATER HE WAS MARRIED, AND SETTLED IN COUNT BEZúKHOV’S +LARGE, NEWLY FURNISHED PETERSBURG HOUSE, THE HAPPY POSSESSOR, AS PEOPLE +SAID, OF A WIFE WHO WAS A CELEBRATED BEAUTY AND OF MILLIONS OF MONEY. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +OLD PRINCE NICHOLAS BOLKóNSKI RECEIVED A LETTER FROM PRINCE VASíLI +IN NOVEMBER, 1805, ANNOUNCING THAT HE AND HIS SON WOULD BE PAYING HIM +A VISIT. “I AM STARTING ON A JOURNEY OF INSPECTION, AND OF COURSE I +SHALL THINK NOTHING OF AN EXTRA SEVENTY MILES TO COME AND SEE YOU AT +THE SAME TIME, MY HONORED BENEFACTOR,” WROTE PRINCE VASíLI. “MY SON +ANATOLE IS ACCOMPANYING ME ON HIS WAY TO THE ARMY, SO I HOPE YOU WILL +ALLOW HIM PERSONALLY TO EXPRESS THE DEEP RESPECT THAT, EMULATING HIS +FATHER, HE FEELS FOR YOU.” + +“IT SEEMS THAT THERE WILL BE NO NEED TO BRING MARY OUT, SUITORS ARE +COMING TO US OF THEIR OWN ACCORD,” INCAUTIOUSLY REMARKED THE LITTLE +PRINCESS ON HEARING THE NEWS. + +PRINCE NICHOLAS FROWNED, BUT SAID NOTHING. + +A FORTNIGHT AFTER THE LETTER PRINCE VASíLI’S SERVANTS CAME ONE +EVENING IN ADVANCE OF HIM, AND HE AND HIS SON ARRIVED NEXT DAY. + +OLD BOLKóNSKI HAD ALWAYS HAD A POOR OPINION OF PRINCE VASíLI’S +CHARACTER, BUT MORE SO RECENTLY, SINCE IN THE NEW REIGNS OF PAUL AND +ALEXANDER PRINCE VASíLI HAD RISEN TO HIGH POSITION AND HONORS. AND NOW, +FROM THE HINTS CONTAINED IN HIS LETTER AND GIVEN BY THE LITTLE PRINCESS, +HE SAW WHICH WAY THE WIND WAS BLOWING, AND HIS LOW OPINION CHANGED INTO +A FEELING OF CONTEMPTUOUS ILL WILL. HE SNORTED WHENEVER HE MENTIONED +HIM. ON THE DAY OF PRINCE VASíLI’S ARRIVAL, PRINCE BOLKóNSKI WAS +PARTICULARLY DISCONTENTED AND OUT OF TEMPER. WHETHER HE WAS IN A BAD +TEMPER BECAUSE PRINCE VASíLI WAS COMING, OR WHETHER HIS BEING IN A BAD +TEMPER MADE HIM SPECIALLY ANNOYED AT PRINCE VASíLI’S VISIT, HE WAS +IN A BAD TEMPER, AND IN THE MORNING TíKHON HAD ALREADY ADVISED THE +ARCHITECT NOT TO GO TO THE PRINCE WITH HIS REPORT. + +“DO YOU HEAR HOW HE’S WALKING?” SAID TíKHON, DRAWING THE +ARCHITECT’S ATTENTION TO THE SOUND OF THE PRINCE’S FOOTSTEPS. +“STEPPING FLAT ON HIS HEELS—WE KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS....” + +HOWEVER, AT NINE O’CLOCK THE PRINCE, IN HIS VELVET COAT WITH A SABLE +COLLAR AND CAP, WENT OUT FOR HIS USUAL WALK. IT HAD SNOWED THE DAY +BEFORE AND THE PATH TO THE HOTHOUSE, ALONG WHICH THE PRINCE WAS IN THE +HABIT OF WALKING, HAD BEEN SWEPT: THE MARKS OF THE BROOM WERE STILL +VISIBLE IN THE SNOW AND A SHOVEL HAD BEEN LEFT STICKING IN ONE OF THE +SOFT SNOWBANKS THAT BORDERED BOTH SIDES OF THE PATH. THE PRINCE WENT +THROUGH THE CONSERVATORIES, THE SERFS’ QUARTERS, AND THE OUTBUILDINGS, +FROWNING AND SILENT. + +“CAN A SLEIGH PASS?” HE ASKED HIS OVERSEER, A VENERABLE MAN, +RESEMBLING HIS MASTER IN MANNERS AND LOOKS, WHO WAS ACCOMPANYING HIM +BACK TO THE HOUSE. + +“THE SNOW IS DEEP. I AM HAVING THE AVENUE SWEPT, YOUR HONOR.” + +THE PRINCE BOWED HIS HEAD AND WENT UP TO THE PORCH. “GOD BE +THANKED,” THOUGHT THE OVERSEER, “THE STORM HAS BLOWN OVER!” + +“IT WOULD HAVE BEEN HARD TO DRIVE UP, YOUR HONOR,” HE ADDED. “I +HEARD, YOUR HONOR, THAT A MINISTER IS COMING TO VISIT YOUR HONOR.” + +THE PRINCE TURNED ROUND TO THE OVERSEER AND FIXED HIS EYES ON HIM, +FROWNING. + +“WHAT? A MINISTER? WHAT MINISTER? WHO GAVE ORDERS?” HE SAID IN +HIS SHRILL, HARSH VOICE. “THE ROAD IS NOT SWEPT FOR THE PRINCESS MY +DAUGHTER, BUT FOR A MINISTER! FOR ME, THERE ARE NO MINISTERS!” + +“YOUR HONOR, I THOUGHT...” + +“YOU THOUGHT!” SHOUTED THE PRINCE, HIS WORDS COMING MORE AND MORE +RAPIDLY AND INDISTINCTLY. “YOU THOUGHT!... RASCALS! BLACKGUARDS!... +I’LL TEACH YOU TO THINK!” AND LIFTING HIS STICK HE SWUNG IT AND +WOULD HAVE HIT ALPáTYCH, THE OVERSEER, HAD NOT THE LATTER INSTINCTIVELY +AVOIDED THE BLOW. “THOUGHT... BLACKGUARDS...” SHOUTED THE PRINCE +RAPIDLY. + +BUT ALTHOUGH ALPáTYCH, FRIGHTENED AT HIS OWN TEMERITY IN AVOIDING THE +STROKE, CAME UP TO THE PRINCE, BOWING HIS BALD HEAD RESIGNEDLY BEFORE +HIM, OR PERHAPS FOR THAT VERY REASON, THE PRINCE, THOUGH HE CONTINUED +TO SHOUT: “BLACKGUARDS!... THROW THE SNOW BACK ON THE ROAD!” DID NOT +LIFT HIS STICK AGAIN BUT HURRIED INTO THE HOUSE. + +BEFORE DINNER, PRINCESS MARY AND MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, WHO KNEW +THAT THE PRINCE WAS IN A BAD HUMOR, STOOD AWAITING HIM; MADEMOISELLE +BOURIENNE WITH A RADIANT FACE THAT SAID: “I KNOW NOTHING, I AM THE +SAME AS USUAL,” AND PRINCESS MARY PALE, FRIGHTENED, AND WITH DOWNCAST +EYES. WHAT SHE FOUND HARDEST TO BEAR WAS TO KNOW THAT ON SUCH OCCASIONS +SHE OUGHT TO BEHAVE LIKE MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, BUT COULD NOT. +SHE THOUGHT: “IF I SEEM NOT TO NOTICE HE WILL THINK THAT I DO NOT +SYMPATHIZE WITH HIM; IF I SEEM SAD AND OUT OF SPIRITS MYSELF, HE WILL +SAY (AS HE HAS DONE BEFORE) THAT I’M IN THE DUMPS.” + +THE PRINCE LOOKED AT HIS DAUGHTER’S FRIGHTENED FACE AND SNORTED. + +“FOOL... OR DUMMY!” HE MUTTERED. + +“AND THE OTHER ONE IS NOT HERE. THEY’VE BEEN TELLING TALES,” HE +THOUGHT—REFERRING TO THE LITTLE PRINCESS WHO WAS NOT IN THE DINING +ROOM. + +“WHERE IS THE PRINCESS?” HE ASKED. “HIDING?” + +“SHE IS NOT VERY WELL,” ANSWERED MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE WITH +A BRIGHT SMILE, “SO SHE WON’T COME DOWN. IT IS NATURAL IN HER +STATE.” + +“HM! HM!” MUTTERED THE PRINCE, SITTING DOWN. + +HIS PLATE SEEMED TO HIM NOT QUITE CLEAN, AND POINTING TO A SPOT HE +FLUNG IT AWAY. TíKHON CAUGHT IT AND HANDED IT TO A FOOTMAN. THE LITTLE +PRINCESS WAS NOT UNWELL, BUT HAD SUCH AN OVERPOWERING FEAR OF THE PRINCE +THAT, HEARING HE WAS IN A BAD HUMOR, SHE HAD DECIDED NOT TO APPEAR. + +“I AM AFRAID FOR THE BABY,” SHE SAID TO MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE: +“HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT A FRIGHT MIGHT DO.” + +IN GENERAL AT BALD HILLS THE LITTLE PRINCESS LIVED IN CONSTANT FEAR, AND +WITH A SENSE OF ANTIPATHY TO THE OLD PRINCE WHICH SHE DID NOT +REALIZE BECAUSE THE FEAR WAS SO MUCH THE STRONGER FEELING. THE PRINCE +RECIPROCATED THIS ANTIPATHY, BUT IT WAS OVERPOWERED BY HIS CONTEMPT +FOR HER. WHEN THE LITTLE PRINCESS HAD GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO LIFE AT BALD +HILLS, SHE TOOK A SPECIAL FANCY TO MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, SPENT WHOLE +DAYS WITH HER, ASKED HER TO SLEEP IN HER ROOM, AND OFTEN TALKED WITH HER +ABOUT THE OLD PRINCE AND CRITICIZED HIM. + +“SO WE ARE TO HAVE VISITORS, MON PRINCE?” REMARKED MADEMOISELLE +BOURIENNE, UNFOLDING HER WHITE NAPKIN WITH HER ROSY FINGERS. “HIS +EXCELLENCY PRINCE VASíLI KURáGIN AND HIS SON, I UNDERSTAND?” SHE +SAID INQUIRINGLY. + +“HM!—HIS EXCELLENCY IS A PUPPY.... I GOT HIM HIS APPOINTMENT IN THE +SERVICE,” SAID THE PRINCE DISDAINFULLY. “WHY HIS SON IS COMING I +DON’T UNDERSTAND. PERHAPS PRINCESS ELIZABETH AND PRINCESS MARY KNOW. +I DON’T WANT HIM.” (HE LOOKED AT HIS BLUSHING DAUGHTER.) “ARE YOU +UNWELL TODAY? EH? AFRAID OF THE ‘MINISTER’ AS THAT IDIOT ALPáTYCH +CALLED HIM THIS MORNING?” + +“NO, MON PèRE.” + +THOUGH MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE HAD BEEN SO UNSUCCESSFUL IN HER CHOICE +OF A SUBJECT, SHE DID NOT STOP TALKING, BUT CHATTERED ABOUT THE +CONSERVATORIES AND THE BEAUTY OF A FLOWER THAT HAD JUST OPENED, AND +AFTER THE SOUP THE PRINCE BECAME MORE GENIAL. + +AFTER DINNER, HE WENT TO SEE HIS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW. THE LITTLE PRINCESS +WAS SITTING AT A SMALL TABLE, CHATTERING WITH MáSHA, HER MAID. SHE GREW +PALE ON SEEING HER FATHER-IN-LAW. + +SHE WAS MUCH ALTERED. SHE WAS NOW PLAIN RATHER THAN PRETTY. HER CHEEKS +HAD SUNK, HER LIP WAS DRAWN UP, AND HER EYES DRAWN DOWN. + +“YES, I FEEL A KIND OF OPPRESSION,” SHE SAID IN REPLY TO THE +PRINCE’S QUESTION AS TO HOW SHE FELT. + +“DO YOU WANT ANYTHING?” + +“NO, MERCI, MON PèRE.” + +“WELL, ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT.” + +HE LEFT THE ROOM AND WENT TO THE WAITING ROOM WHERE ALPáTYCH STOOD WITH +BOWED HEAD. + +“HAS THE SNOW BEEN SHOVELED BACK?” + +“YES, YOUR EXCELLENCY. FORGIVE ME FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE... IT WAS ONLY +MY STUPIDITY.” + +“ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT,” INTERRUPTED THE PRINCE, AND LAUGHING HIS +UNNATURAL WAY, HE STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND FOR ALPáTYCH TO KISS, AND THEN +PROCEEDED TO HIS STUDY. + +PRINCE VASíLI ARRIVED THAT EVENING. HE WAS MET IN THE AVENUE BY +COACHMEN AND FOOTMEN, WHO, WITH LOUD SHOUTS, DRAGGED HIS SLEIGHS UP TO +ONE OF THE LODGES OVER THE ROAD PURPOSELY LADEN WITH SNOW. + +PRINCE VASíLI AND ANATOLE HAD SEPARATE ROOMS ASSIGNED TO THEM. + +ANATOLE, HAVING TAKEN OFF HIS OVERCOAT, SAT WITH ARMS AKIMBO BEFORE A +TABLE ON A CORNER OF WHICH HE SMILINGLY AND ABSENT-MINDEDLY FIXED HIS +LARGE AND HANDSOME EYES. HE REGARDED HIS WHOLE LIFE AS A CONTINUAL ROUND +OF AMUSEMENT WHICH SOMEONE FOR SOME REASON HAD TO PROVIDE FOR HIM. +AND HE LOOKED ON THIS VISIT TO A CHURLISH OLD MAN AND A RICH AND UGLY +HEIRESS IN THE SAME WAY. ALL THIS MIGHT, HE THOUGHT, TURN OUT VERY WELL +AND AMUSINGLY. “AND WHY NOT MARRY HER IF SHE REALLY HAS SO MUCH MONEY? +THAT NEVER DOES ANY HARM,” THOUGHT ANATOLE. + +HE SHAVED AND SCENTED HIMSELF WITH THE CARE AND ELEGANCE WHICH HAD +BECOME HABITUAL TO HIM AND, HIS HANDSOME HEAD HELD HIGH, ENTERED HIS +FATHER’S ROOM WITH THE GOOD-HUMORED AND VICTORIOUS AIR NATURAL TO +HIM. PRINCE VASíLI’S TWO VALETS WERE BUSY DRESSING HIM, AND HE LOOKED +ROUND WITH MUCH ANIMATION AND CHEERFULLY NODDED TO HIS SON AS THE LATTER +ENTERED, AS IF TO SAY: “YES, THAT’S HOW I WANT YOU TO LOOK.” + +“I SAY, FATHER, JOKING APART, IS SHE VERY HIDEOUS?” ANATOLE ASKED, +AS IF CONTINUING A CONVERSATION THE SUBJECT OF WHICH HAD OFTEN BEEN +MENTIONED DURING THE JOURNEY. + +“ENOUGH! WHAT NONSENSE! ABOVE ALL, TRY TO BE RESPECTFUL AND CAUTIOUS +WITH THE OLD PRINCE.” + +“IF HE STARTS A ROW I’LL GO AWAY,” SAID PRINCE ANATOLE. “I +CAN’T BEAR THOSE OLD MEN! EH?” + +“REMEMBER, FOR YOU EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON THIS.” + +IN THE MEANTIME, NOT ONLY WAS IT KNOWN IN THE MAIDSERVANTS’ ROOMS THAT +THE MINISTER AND HIS SON HAD ARRIVED, BUT THE APPEARANCE OF BOTH HAD +BEEN MINUTELY DESCRIBED. PRINCESS MARY WAS SITTING ALONE IN HER ROOM, +VAINLY TRYING TO MASTER HER AGITATION. + +“WHY DID THEY WRITE, WHY DID LISE TELL ME ABOUT IT? IT CAN NEVER +HAPPEN!” SHE SAID, LOOKING AT HERSELF IN THE GLASS. “HOW SHALL I +ENTER THE DRAWING ROOM? EVEN IF I LIKE HIM I CAN’T NOW BE MYSELF WITH +HIM.” THE MERE THOUGHT OF HER FATHER’S LOOK FILLED HER WITH TERROR. +THE LITTLE PRINCESS AND MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE HAD ALREADY RECEIVED +FROM MáSHA, THE LADY’S MAID, THE NECESSARY REPORT OF HOW HANDSOME THE +MINISTER’S SON WAS, WITH HIS ROSY CHEEKS AND DARK EYEBROWS, AND WITH +WHAT DIFFICULTY THE FATHER HAD DRAGGED HIS LEGS UPSTAIRS WHILE THE SON +HAD FOLLOWED HIM LIKE AN EAGLE, THREE STEPS AT A TIME. HAVING RECEIVED +THIS INFORMATION, THE LITTLE PRINCESS AND MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, WHOSE +CHATTERING VOICES HAD REACHED HER FROM THE CORRIDOR, WENT INTO PRINCESS +MARY’S ROOM. + +“YOU KNOW THEY’VE COME, MARIE?” SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS, WADDLING +IN, AND SINKING HEAVILY INTO AN ARMCHAIR. + +SHE WAS NO LONGER IN THE LOOSE GOWN SHE GENERALLY WORE IN THE MORNING, +BUT HAD ON ONE OF HER BEST DRESSES. HER HAIR WAS CAREFULLY DONE AND HER +FACE WAS ANIMATED, WHICH, HOWEVER, DID NOT CONCEAL ITS SUNKEN AND FADED +OUTLINES. DRESSED AS SHE USED TO BE IN PETERSBURG SOCIETY, IT WAS STILL +MORE NOTICEABLE HOW MUCH PLAINER SHE HAD BECOME. SOME UNOBTRUSIVE TOUCH +HAD BEEN ADDED TO MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE’S TOILET WHICH RENDERED HER +FRESH AND PRETTY FACE YET MORE ATTRACTIVE. + +“WHAT! ARE YOU GOING TO REMAIN AS YOU ARE, DEAR PRINCESS?” SHE +BEGAN. “THEY’LL BE ANNOUNCING THAT THE GENTLEMEN ARE IN THE DRAWING +ROOM AND WE SHALL HAVE TO GO DOWN, AND YOU HAVE NOT SMARTENED YOURSELF +UP AT ALL!” + +THE LITTLE PRINCESS GOT UP, RANG FOR THE MAID, AND HURRIEDLY AND MERRILY +BEGAN TO DEVISE AND CARRY OUT A PLAN OF HOW PRINCESS MARY SHOULD BE +DRESSED. PRINCESS MARY’S SELF-ESTEEM WAS WOUNDED BY THE FACT THAT +THE ARRIVAL OF A SUITOR AGITATED HER, AND STILL MORE SO BY BOTH +HER COMPANIONS’ NOT HAVING THE LEAST CONCEPTION THAT IT COULD BE +OTHERWISE. TO TELL THEM THAT SHE FELT ASHAMED FOR HERSELF AND FOR THEM +WOULD BE TO BETRAY HER AGITATION, WHILE TO DECLINE THEIR OFFERS TO +DRESS HER WOULD PROLONG THEIR BANTER AND INSISTENCE. SHE FLUSHED, HER +BEAUTIFUL EYES GREW DIM, RED BLOTCHES CAME ON HER FACE, AND IT TOOK +ON THE UNATTRACTIVE MARTYRLIKE EXPRESSION IT SO OFTEN WORE, AS SHE +SUBMITTED HERSELF TO MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE AND LISE. BOTH THESE WOMEN +QUITE SINCERELY TRIED TO MAKE HER LOOK PRETTY. SHE WAS SO PLAIN THAT +NEITHER OF THEM COULD THINK OF HER AS A RIVAL, SO THEY BEGAN DRESSING +HER WITH PERFECT SINCERITY, AND WITH THE NAïVE AND FIRM CONVICTION +WOMEN HAVE THAT DRESS CAN MAKE A FACE PRETTY. + +“NO REALLY, MY DEAR, THIS DRESS IS NOT PRETTY,” SAID LISE, LOOKING +SIDEWAYS AT PRINCESS MARY FROM A LITTLE DISTANCE. “YOU HAVE A MAROON +DRESS, HAVE IT FETCHED. REALLY! YOU KNOW THE FATE OF YOUR WHOLE LIFE MAY +BE AT STAKE. BUT THIS ONE IS TOO LIGHT, IT’S NOT BECOMING!” + +IT WAS NOT THE DRESS, BUT THE FACE AND WHOLE FIGURE OF PRINCESS MARY +THAT WAS NOT PRETTY, BUT NEITHER MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE NOR THE LITTLE +PRINCESS FELT THIS; THEY STILL THOUGHT THAT IF A BLUE RIBBON WERE PLACED +IN THE HAIR, THE HAIR COMBED UP, AND THE BLUE SCARF ARRANGED LOWER ON +THE BEST MAROON DRESS, AND SO ON, ALL WOULD BE WELL. THEY FORGOT THAT +THE FRIGHTENED FACE AND THE FIGURE COULD NOT BE ALTERED, AND THAT +HOWEVER THEY MIGHT CHANGE THE SETTING AND ADORNMENT OF THAT FACE, IT +WOULD STILL REMAIN PITEOUS AND PLAIN. AFTER TWO OR THREE CHANGES TO +WHICH PRINCESS MARY MEEKLY SUBMITTED, JUST AS HER HAIR HAD BEEN ARRANGED +ON THE TOP OF HER HEAD (A STYLE THAT QUITE ALTERED AND SPOILED HER +LOOKS) AND SHE HAD PUT ON A MAROON DRESS WITH A PALE-BLUE SCARF, THE +LITTLE PRINCESS WALKED TWICE ROUND HER, NOW ADJUSTING A FOLD OF THE +DRESS WITH HER LITTLE HAND, NOW ARRANGING THE SCARF AND LOOKING AT HER +WITH HER HEAD BENT FIRST ON ONE SIDE AND THEN ON THE OTHER. + +“NO, IT WILL NOT DO,” SHE SAID DECIDEDLY, CLASPING HER HANDS. “NO, +MARY, REALLY THIS DRESS DOES NOT SUIT YOU. I PREFER YOU IN YOUR LITTLE +GRAY EVERYDAY DRESS. NOW PLEASE, DO IT FOR MY SAKE. KATIE,” SHE SAID +TO THE MAID, “BRING THE PRINCESS HER GRAY DRESS, AND YOU’LL SEE, +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, HOW I SHALL ARRANGE IT,” SHE ADDED, SMILING +WITH A FORETASTE OF ARTISTIC PLEASURE. + +BUT WHEN KATIE BROUGHT THE REQUIRED DRESS, PRINCESS MARY REMAINED +SITTING MOTIONLESS BEFORE THE GLASS, LOOKING AT HER FACE, AND SAW IN THE +MIRROR HER EYES FULL OF TEARS AND HER MOUTH QUIVERING, READY TO BURST +INTO SOBS. + +“COME, DEAR PRINCESS,” SAID MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, “JUST ONE MORE +LITTLE EFFORT.” + +THE LITTLE PRINCESS, TAKING THE DRESS FROM THE MAID, CAME UP TO PRINCESS +MARY. + +“WELL, NOW WE’LL ARRANGE SOMETHING QUITE SIMPLE AND BECOMING,” SHE +SAID. + +THE THREE VOICES, HERS, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE’S, AND KATIE’S, WHO +WAS LAUGHING AT SOMETHING, MINGLED IN A MERRY SOUND, LIKE THE CHIRPING +OF BIRDS. + +“NO, LEAVE ME ALONE,” SAID PRINCESS MARY. + +HER VOICE SOUNDED SO SERIOUS AND SO SAD THAT THE CHIRPING OF THE BIRDS +WAS SILENCED AT ONCE. THEY LOOKED AT THE BEAUTIFUL, LARGE, THOUGHTFUL +EYES FULL OF TEARS AND OF THOUGHTS, GAZING SHININGLY AND IMPLORINGLY AT +THEM, AND UNDERSTOOD THAT IT WAS USELESS AND EVEN CRUEL TO INSIST. + +“AT LEAST, CHANGE YOUR COIFFURE,” SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS. +“DIDN’T I TELL YOU,” SHE WENT ON, TURNING REPROACHFULLY TO +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, “MARY’S IS A FACE WHICH SUCH A COIFFURE DOES +NOT SUIT IN THE LEAST. NOT IN THE LEAST! PLEASE CHANGE IT.” + +“LEAVE ME ALONE, PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE! IT IS ALL QUITE THE SAME TO +ME,” ANSWERED A VOICE STRUGGLING WITH TEARS. + +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS HAD TO OWN TO THEMSELVES +THAT PRINCESS MARY IN THIS GUISE LOOKED VERY PLAIN, WORSE THAN USUAL, +BUT IT WAS TOO LATE. SHE WAS LOOKING AT THEM WITH AN EXPRESSION THEY +BOTH KNEW, AN EXPRESSION THOUGHTFUL AND SAD. THIS EXPRESSION IN PRINCESS +MARY DID NOT FRIGHTEN THEM (SHE NEVER INSPIRED FEAR IN ANYONE), BUT THEY +KNEW THAT WHEN IT APPEARED ON HER FACE, SHE BECAME MUTE AND WAS NOT TO +BE SHAKEN IN HER DETERMINATION. + +“YOU WILL CHANGE IT, WON’T YOU?” SAID LISE. AND AS PRINCESS MARY +GAVE NO ANSWER, SHE LEFT THE ROOM. + +PRINCESS MARY WAS LEFT ALONE. SHE DID NOT COMPLY WITH LISE’S REQUEST, +SHE NOT ONLY LEFT HER HAIR AS IT WAS, BUT DID NOT EVEN LOOK IN HER +GLASS. LETTING HER ARMS FALL HELPLESSLY, SHE SAT WITH DOWNCAST EYES AND +PONDERED. A HUSBAND, A MAN, A STRONG DOMINANT AND STRANGELY ATTRACTIVE +BEING ROSE IN HER IMAGINATION, AND CARRIED HER INTO A TOTALLY DIFFERENT +HAPPY WORLD OF HIS OWN. SHE FANCIED A CHILD, HER OWN—SUCH AS SHE HAD +SEEN THE DAY BEFORE IN THE ARMS OF HER NURSE’S DAUGHTER—AT HER +OWN BREAST, THE HUSBAND STANDING BY AND GAZING TENDERLY AT HER AND THE +CHILD. “BUT NO, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, I AM TOO UGLY,” SHE THOUGHT. + +“PLEASE COME TO TEA. THE PRINCE WILL BE OUT IN A MOMENT,” CAME THE +MAID’S VOICE AT THE DOOR. + +SHE ROUSED HERSELF, AND FELT APPALLED AT WHAT SHE HAD BEEN THINKING, AND +BEFORE GOING DOWN SHE WENT INTO THE ROOM WHERE THE ICONS HUNG AND, HER +EYES FIXED ON THE DARK FACE OF A LARGE ICON OF THE SAVIOUR LIT BY A +LAMP, SHE STOOD BEFORE IT WITH FOLDED HANDS FOR A FEW MOMENTS. A PAINFUL +DOUBT FILLED HER SOUL. COULD THE JOY OF LOVE, OF EARTHLY LOVE FOR A +MAN, BE FOR HER? IN HER THOUGHTS OF MARRIAGE PRINCESS MARY DREAMED OF +HAPPINESS AND OF CHILDREN, BUT HER STRONGEST, MOST DEEPLY HIDDEN LONGING +WAS FOR EARTHLY LOVE. THE MORE SHE TRIED TO HIDE THIS FEELING FROM +OTHERS AND EVEN FROM HERSELF, THE STRONGER IT GREW. “O GOD,” SHE +SAID, “HOW AM I TO STIFLE IN MY HEART THESE TEMPTATIONS OF THE DEVIL? +HOW AM I TO RENOUNCE FOREVER THESE VILE FANCIES, SO AS PEACEFULLY TO +FULFILL THY WILL?” AND SCARCELY HAD SHE PUT THAT QUESTION THAN GOD +GAVE HER THE ANSWER IN HER OWN HEART. “DESIRE NOTHING FOR THYSELF, +SEEK NOTHING, BE NOT ANXIOUS OR ENVIOUS. MAN’S FUTURE AND THY OWN FATE +MUST REMAIN HIDDEN FROM THEE, BUT LIVE SO THAT THOU MAYEST BE READY FOR +ANYTHING. IF IT BE GOD’S WILL TO PROVE THEE IN THE DUTIES OF MARRIAGE, +BE READY TO FULFILL HIS WILL.” WITH THIS CONSOLING THOUGHT (BUT +YET WITH A HOPE FOR THE FULFILLMENT OF HER FORBIDDEN EARTHLY LONGING) +PRINCESS MARY SIGHED, AND HAVING CROSSED HERSELF WENT DOWN, THINKING +NEITHER OF HER GOWN AND COIFFURE NOR OF HOW SHE WOULD GO IN NOR OF WHAT +SHE WOULD SAY. WHAT COULD ALL THAT MATTER IN COMPARISON WITH THE WILL OF +GOD, WITHOUT WHOSE CARE NOT A HAIR OF MAN’S HEAD CAN FALL? + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +WHEN PRINCESS MARY CAME DOWN, PRINCE VASíLI AND HIS SON WERE ALREADY +IN THE DRAWING ROOM, TALKING TO THE LITTLE PRINCESS AND MADEMOISELLE +BOURIENNE. WHEN SHE ENTERED WITH HER HEAVY STEP, TREADING ON HER HEELS, +THE GENTLEMEN AND MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE ROSE AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS, +INDICATING HER TO THE GENTLEMEN, SAID: “VOILà MARIE!” PRINCESS MARY +SAW THEM ALL AND SAW THEM IN DETAIL. SHE SAW PRINCE VASíLI’S FACE, +SERIOUS FOR AN INSTANT AT THE SIGHT OF HER, BUT IMMEDIATELY SMILING +AGAIN, AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS CURIOUSLY NOTING THE IMPRESSION +“MARIE” PRODUCED ON THE VISITORS. AND SHE SAW MADEMOISELLE +BOURIENNE, WITH HER RIBBON AND PRETTY FACE, AND HER UNUSUALLY ANIMATED +LOOK WHICH WAS FIXED ON HIM, BUT HIM SHE COULD NOT SEE, SHE ONLY SAW +SOMETHING LARGE, BRILLIANT, AND HANDSOME MOVING TOWARD HER AS SHE +ENTERED THE ROOM. PRINCE VASíLI APPROACHED FIRST, AND SHE KISSED THE +BOLD FOREHEAD THAT BENT OVER HER HAND AND ANSWERED HIS QUESTION BY +SAYING THAT, ON THE CONTRARY, SHE REMEMBERED HIM QUITE WELL. THEN +ANATOLE CAME UP TO HER. SHE STILL COULD NOT SEE HIM. SHE ONLY FELT A +SOFT HAND TAKING HERS FIRMLY, AND SHE TOUCHED WITH HER LIPS A WHITE +FOREHEAD, OVER WHICH WAS BEAUTIFUL LIGHT-BROWN HAIR SMELLING OF POMADE. +WHEN SHE LOOKED UP AT HIM SHE WAS STRUCK BY HIS BEAUTY. ANATOLE STOOD +WITH HIS RIGHT THUMB UNDER A BUTTON OF HIS UNIFORM, HIS CHEST EXPANDED +AND HIS BACK DRAWN IN, SLIGHTLY SWINGING ONE FOOT, AND, WITH HIS HEAD A +LITTLE BENT, LOOKED WITH BEAMING FACE AT THE PRINCESS WITHOUT +SPEAKING AND EVIDENTLY NOT THINKING ABOUT HER AT ALL. ANATOLE WAS NOT +QUICK-WITTED, NOR READY OR ELOQUENT IN CONVERSATION, BUT HE HAD THE +FACULTY, SO INVALUABLE IN SOCIETY, OF COMPOSURE AND IMPERTURBABLE +SELF-POSSESSION. IF A MAN LACKING IN SELF-CONFIDENCE REMAINS DUMB ON +A FIRST INTRODUCTION AND BETRAYS A CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE IMPROPRIETY OF +SUCH SILENCE AND AN ANXIETY TO FIND SOMETHING TO SAY, THE EFFECT IS +BAD. BUT ANATOLE WAS DUMB, SWUNG HIS FOOT, AND SMILINGLY EXAMINED THE +PRINCESS’ HAIR. IT WAS EVIDENT THAT HE COULD BE SILENT IN THIS WAY FOR +A VERY LONG TIME. “IF ANYONE FINDS THIS SILENCE INCONVENIENT, LET HIM +TALK, BUT I DON’T WANT TO,” HE SEEMED TO SAY. BESIDES THIS, IN HIS +BEHAVIOR TO WOMEN ANATOLE HAD A MANNER WHICH PARTICULARLY INSPIRES IN +THEM CURIOSITY, AWE, AND EVEN LOVE—A SUPERCILIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS OF +HIS OWN SUPERIORITY. IT WAS AS IF HE SAID TO THEM: “I KNOW YOU, I KNOW +YOU, BUT WHY SHOULD I BOTHER ABOUT YOU? YOU’D BE ONLY TOO GLAD, OF +COURSE.” PERHAPS HE DID NOT REALLY THINK THIS WHEN HE MET WOMEN—EVEN +PROBABLY HE DID NOT, FOR IN GENERAL HE THOUGHT VERY LITTLE—BUT HIS +LOOKS AND MANNER GAVE THAT IMPRESSION. THE PRINCESS FELT THIS, AND AS IF +WISHING TO SHOW HIM THAT SHE DID NOT EVEN DARE EXPECT TO INTEREST HIM, +SHE TURNED TO HIS FATHER. THE CONVERSATION WAS GENERAL AND ANIMATED, +THANKS TO PRINCESS LISE’S VOICE AND LITTLE DOWNY LIP THAT LIFTED OVER +HER WHITE TEETH. SHE MET PRINCE VASíLI WITH THAT PLAYFUL MANNER OFTEN +EMPLOYED BY LIVELY CHATTY PEOPLE, AND CONSISTING IN THE ASSUMPTION +THAT BETWEEN THE PERSON THEY SO ADDRESS AND THEMSELVES THERE ARE SOME +SEMI-PRIVATE, LONG-ESTABLISHED JOKES AND AMUSING REMINISCENCES, THOUGH +NO SUCH REMINISCENCES REALLY EXIST—JUST AS NONE EXISTED IN THIS CASE. +PRINCE VASíLI READILY ADOPTED HER TONE AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS ALSO +DREW ANATOLE, WHOM SHE HARDLY KNEW, INTO THESE AMUSING RECOLLECTIONS OF +THINGS THAT HAD NEVER OCCURRED. MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE ALSO SHARED THEM +AND EVEN PRINCESS MARY FELT HERSELF PLEASANTLY MADE TO SHARE IN THESE +MERRY REMINISCENCES. + +“HERE AT LEAST WE SHALL HAVE THE BENEFIT OF YOUR COMPANY ALL TO +OURSELVES, DEAR PRINCE,” SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS (OF COURSE, IN +FRENCH) TO PRINCE VASíLI. “IT’S NOT AS AT ANNETTE’S * RECEPTIONS +WHERE YOU ALWAYS RAN AWAY; YOU REMEMBER CETTE CHèRE ANNETTE!” + + * ANNA PáVLOVNA. + +“AH, BUT YOU WON’T TALK POLITICS TO ME LIKE ANNETTE!” + +“AND OUR LITTLE TEA TABLE?” + +“OH, YES!” + +“WHY IS IT YOU WERE NEVER AT ANNETTE’S?” THE LITTLE PRINCESS ASKED +ANATOLE. “AH, I KNOW, I KNOW,” SHE SAID WITH A SLY GLANCE, “YOUR +BROTHER HIPPOLYTE TOLD ME ABOUT YOUR GOINGS ON. OH!” AND SHE SHOOK HER +FINGER AT HIM, “I HAVE EVEN HEARD OF YOUR DOINGS IN PARIS!” + +“AND DIDN’T HIPPOLYTE TELL YOU?” ASKED PRINCE VASíLI, TURNING TO +HIS SON AND SEIZING THE LITTLE PRINCESS’ ARM AS IF SHE WOULD HAVE RUN +AWAY AND HE HAD JUST MANAGED TO CATCH HER, “DIDN’T HE TELL YOU HOW +HE HIMSELF WAS PINING FOR THE DEAR PRINCESS, AND HOW SHE SHOWED HIM THE +DOOR? OH, SHE IS A PEARL AMONG WOMEN, PRINCESS,” HE ADDED, TURNING TO +PRINCESS MARY. + +WHEN PARIS WAS MENTIONED, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE FOR HER PART SEIZED THE +OPPORTUNITY OF JOINING IN THE GENERAL CURRENT OF RECOLLECTIONS. + +SHE TOOK THE LIBERTY OF INQUIRING WHETHER IT WAS LONG SINCE ANATOLE +HAD LEFT PARIS AND HOW HE HAD LIKED THAT CITY. ANATOLE ANSWERED THE +FRENCHWOMAN VERY READILY AND, LOOKING AT HER WITH A SMILE, TALKED TO HER +ABOUT HER NATIVE LAND. WHEN HE SAW THE PRETTY LITTLE BOURIENNE, ANATOLE +CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT HE WOULD NOT FIND BALD HILLS DULL EITHER. +“NOT AT ALL BAD!” HE THOUGHT, EXAMINING HER, “NOT AT ALL BAD, THAT +LITTLE COMPANION! I HOPE SHE WILL BRING HER ALONG WITH HER WHEN WE’RE +MARRIED, LA PETITE EST GENTILLE.” * + + * THE LITTLE ONE IS CHARMING. + +THE OLD PRINCE DRESSED LEISURELY IN HIS STUDY, FROWNING AND CONSIDERING +WHAT HE WAS TO DO. THE COMING OF THESE VISITORS ANNOYED HIM. “WHAT ARE +PRINCE VASíLI AND THAT SON OF HIS TO ME? PRINCE VASíLI IS A SHALLOW +BRAGGART AND HIS SON, NO DOUBT, IS A FINE SPECIMEN,” HE GRUMBLED TO +HIMSELF. WHAT ANGERED HIM WAS THAT THE COMING OF THESE VISITORS REVIVED +IN HIS MIND AN UNSETTLED QUESTION HE ALWAYS TRIED TO STIFLE, ONE ABOUT +WHICH HE ALWAYS DECEIVED HIMSELF. THE QUESTION WAS WHETHER HE COULD EVER +BRING HIMSELF TO PART FROM HIS DAUGHTER AND GIVE HER TO A HUSBAND. THE +PRINCE NEVER DIRECTLY ASKED HIMSELF THAT QUESTION, KNOWING BEFOREHAND +THAT HE WOULD HAVE TO ANSWER IT JUSTLY, AND JUSTICE CLASHED NOT ONLY +WITH HIS FEELINGS BUT WITH THE VERY POSSIBILITY OF LIFE. LIFE WITHOUT +PRINCESS MARY, LITTLE AS HE SEEMED TO VALUE HER, WAS UNTHINKABLE TO +HIM. “AND WHY SHOULD SHE MARRY?” HE THOUGHT. “TO BE UNHAPPY FOR +CERTAIN. THERE’S LISE, MARRIED TO ANDREW—A BETTER HUSBAND ONE WOULD +THINK COULD HARDLY BE FOUND NOWADAYS—BUT IS SHE CONTENTED WITH HER +LOT? AND WHO WOULD MARRY MARIE FOR LOVE? PLAIN AND AWKWARD! THEY’LL +TAKE HER FOR HER CONNECTIONS AND WEALTH. ARE THERE NO WOMEN LIVING +UNMARRIED, AND EVEN THE HAPPIER FOR IT?” SO THOUGHT PRINCE BOLKóNSKI +WHILE DRESSING, AND YET THE QUESTION HE WAS ALWAYS PUTTING OFF DEMANDED +AN IMMEDIATE ANSWER. PRINCE VASíLI HAD BROUGHT HIS SON WITH THE EVIDENT +INTENTION OF PROPOSING, AND TODAY OR TOMORROW HE WOULD PROBABLY ASK +FOR AN ANSWER. HIS BIRTH AND POSITION IN SOCIETY WERE NOT BAD. “WELL, +I’VE NOTHING AGAINST IT,” THE PRINCE SAID TO HIMSELF, “BUT HE MUST +BE WORTHY OF HER. AND THAT IS WHAT WE SHALL SEE.” + +“THAT IS WHAT WE SHALL SEE! THAT IS WHAT WE SHALL SEE!” HE ADDED +ALOUD. + +HE ENTERED THE DRAWING ROOM WITH HIS USUAL ALERT STEP, GLANCING RAPIDLY +ROUND THE COMPANY. HE NOTICED THE CHANGE IN THE LITTLE PRINCESS’ +DRESS, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE’S RIBBON, PRINCESS MARY’S UNBECOMING +COIFFURE, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE’S AND ANATOLE’S SMILES, AND THE +LONELINESS OF HIS DAUGHTER AMID THE GENERAL CONVERSATION. “GOT HERSELF +UP LIKE A FOOL!” HE THOUGHT, LOOKING IRRITABLY AT HER. “SHE IS +SHAMELESS, AND HE IGNORES HER!” + +HE WENT STRAIGHT UP TO PRINCE VASíLI. + +“WELL! HOW D’YE DO? HOW D’YE DO? GLAD TO SEE YOU!” + +“FRIENDSHIP LAUGHS AT DISTANCE,” BEGAN PRINCE VASíLI IN HIS USUAL +RAPID, SELF-CONFIDENT, FAMILIAR TONE. “HERE IS MY SECOND SON; PLEASE +LOVE AND BEFRIEND HIM.” + +PRINCE BOLKóNSKI SURVEYED ANATOLE. + +“FINE YOUNG FELLOW! FINE YOUNG FELLOW!” HE SAID. “WELL, COME AND +KISS ME,” AND HE OFFERED HIS CHEEK. + +ANATOLE KISSED THE OLD MAN, AND LOOKED AT HIM WITH CURIOSITY AND PERFECT +COMPOSURE, WAITING FOR A DISPLAY OF THE ECCENTRICITIES HIS FATHER HAD +TOLD HIM TO EXPECT. + +PRINCE BOLKóNSKI SAT DOWN IN HIS USUAL PLACE IN THE CORNER OF THE SOFA +AND, DRAWING UP AN ARMCHAIR FOR PRINCE VASíLI, POINTED TO IT AND BEGAN +QUESTIONING HIM ABOUT POLITICAL AFFAIRS AND NEWS. HE SEEMED TO LISTEN +ATTENTIVELY TO WHAT PRINCE VASíLI SAID, BUT KEPT GLANCING AT PRINCESS +MARY. + +“AND SO THEY ARE WRITING FROM POTSDAM ALREADY?” HE SAID, REPEATING +PRINCE VASíLI’S LAST WORDS. THEN RISING, HE SUDDENLY WENT UP TO HIS +DAUGHTER. + +“IS IT FOR VISITORS YOU’VE GOT YOURSELF UP LIKE THAT, EH?” SAID +HE. “FINE, VERY FINE! YOU HAVE DONE UP YOUR HAIR IN THIS NEW WAY FOR +THE VISITORS, AND BEFORE THE VISITORS I TELL YOU THAT IN FUTURE YOU ARE +NEVER TO DARE TO CHANGE YOUR WAY OF DRESS WITHOUT MY CONSENT.” + +“IT WAS MY FAULT, MON PèRE,” INTERCEDED THE LITTLE PRINCESS, WITH A +BLUSH. + +“YOU MUST DO AS YOU PLEASE,” SAID PRINCE BOLKóNSKI, BOWING TO HIS +DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, “BUT SHE NEED NOT MAKE A FOOL OF HERSELF, SHE’S +PLAIN ENOUGH AS IT IS.” + +AND HE SAT DOWN AGAIN, PAYING NO MORE ATTENTION TO HIS DAUGHTER, WHO WAS +REDUCED TO TEARS. + +“ON THE CONTRARY, THAT COIFFURE SUITS THE PRINCESS VERY WELL,” SAID +PRINCE VASíLI. + +“NOW YOU, YOUNG PRINCE, WHAT’S YOUR NAME?” SAID PRINCE BOLKóNSKI, +TURNING TO ANATOLE, “COME HERE, LET US TALK AND GET ACQUAINTED.” + +“NOW THE FUN BEGINS,” THOUGHT ANATOLE, SITTING DOWN WITH A SMILE +BESIDE THE OLD PRINCE. + +“WELL, MY DEAR BOY, I HEAR YOU’VE BEEN EDUCATED ABROAD, NOT TAUGHT +TO READ AND WRITE BY THE DEACON, LIKE YOUR FATHER AND ME. NOW TELL ME, +MY DEAR BOY, ARE YOU SERVING IN THE HORSE GUARDS?” ASKED THE OLD MAN, +SCRUTINIZING ANATOLE CLOSELY AND INTENTLY. + +“NO, I HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED TO THE LINE,” SAID ANATOLE, HARDLY ABLE +TO RESTRAIN HIS LAUGHTER. + +“AH! THAT’S A GOOD THING. SO, MY DEAR BOY, YOU WISH TO SERVE THE +TSAR AND THE COUNTRY? IT IS WARTIME. SUCH A FINE FELLOW MUST SERVE. +WELL, ARE YOU OFF TO THE FRONT?” + +“NO, PRINCE, OUR REGIMENT HAS GONE TO THE FRONT, BUT I AM ATTACHED... +WHAT IS IT I AM ATTACHED TO, PAPA?” SAID ANATOLE, TURNING TO HIS +FATHER WITH A LAUGH. + +“A SPLENDID SOLDIER, SPLENDID! ‘WHAT AM I ATTACHED TO!’ HA, HA, +HA!” LAUGHED PRINCE BOLKóNSKI, AND ANATOLE LAUGHED STILL LOUDER. +SUDDENLY PRINCE BOLKóNSKI FROWNED. + +“YOU MAY GO,” HE SAID TO ANATOLE. + +ANATOLE RETURNED SMILING TO THE LADIES. + +“AND SO YOU’VE HAD HIM EDUCATED ABROAD, PRINCE VASíLI, HAVEN’T +YOU?” SAID THE OLD PRINCE TO PRINCE VASíLI. + +“I HAVE DONE MY BEST FOR HIM, AND I CAN ASSURE YOU THE EDUCATION THERE +IS MUCH BETTER THAN OURS.” + +“YES, EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT NOWADAYS, EVERYTHING IS CHANGED. THE +LAD’S A FINE FELLOW, A FINE FELLOW! WELL, COME WITH ME NOW.” HE TOOK +PRINCE VASíLI’S ARM AND LED HIM TO HIS STUDY. AS SOON AS THEY WERE +ALONE TOGETHER, PRINCE VASíLI ANNOUNCED HIS HOPES AND WISHES TO THE OLD +PRINCE. + +“WELL, DO YOU THINK I SHALL PREVENT HER, THAT I CAN’T PART FROM +HER?” SAID THE OLD PRINCE ANGRILY. “WHAT AN IDEA! I’M READY FOR IT +TOMORROW! ONLY LET ME TELL YOU, I WANT TO KNOW MY SON-IN-LAW BETTER. YOU +KNOW MY PRINCIPLES—EVERYTHING ABOVEBOARD! I WILL ASK HER TOMORROW IN +YOUR PRESENCE; IF SHE IS WILLING, THEN HE CAN STAY ON. HE CAN STAY AND +I’LL SEE.” THE OLD PRINCE SNORTED. “LET HER MARRY, IT’S ALL THE +SAME TO ME!” HE SCREAMED IN THE SAME PIERCING TONE AS WHEN PARTING +FROM HIS SON. + +“I WILL TELL YOU FRANKLY,” SAID PRINCE VASíLI IN THE TONE OF +A CRAFTY MAN CONVINCED OF THE FUTILITY OF BEING CUNNING WITH SO +KEEN-SIGHTED A COMPANION. “YOU KNOW, YOU SEE RIGHT THROUGH PEOPLE. +ANATOLE IS NO GENIUS, BUT HE IS AN HONEST, GOODHEARTED LAD; AN EXCELLENT +SON OR KINSMAN.” + +“ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT, WE’LL SEE!” + +AS ALWAYS HAPPENS WHEN WOMEN LEAD LONELY LIVES FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME +WITHOUT MALE SOCIETY, ON ANATOLE’S APPEARANCE ALL THE THREE WOMEN OF +PRINCE BOLKóNSKI’S HOUSEHOLD FELT THAT THEIR LIFE HAD NOT BEEN REAL +TILL THEN. THEIR POWERS OF REASONING, FEELING, AND OBSERVING IMMEDIATELY +INCREASED TENFOLD, AND THEIR LIFE, WHICH SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN PASSED IN +DARKNESS, WAS SUDDENLY LIT UP BY A NEW BRIGHTNESS, FULL OF SIGNIFICANCE. + +PRINCESS MARY GREW QUITE UNCONSCIOUS OF HER FACE AND COIFFURE. THE +HANDSOME OPEN FACE OF THE MAN WHO MIGHT PERHAPS BE HER HUSBAND ABSORBED +ALL HER ATTENTION. HE SEEMED TO HER KIND, BRAVE, DETERMINED, MANLY, AND +MAGNANIMOUS. SHE FELT CONVINCED OF THAT. THOUSANDS OF DREAMS OF A FUTURE +FAMILY LIFE CONTINUALLY ROSE IN HER IMAGINATION. SHE DROVE THEM AWAY AND +TRIED TO CONCEAL THEM. + +“BUT AM I NOT TOO COLD WITH HIM?” THOUGHT THE PRINCESS. “I TRY +TO BE RESERVED BECAUSE IN THE DEPTH OF MY SOUL I FEEL TOO NEAR TO HIM +ALREADY, BUT THEN HE CANNOT KNOW WHAT I THINK OF HIM AND MAY IMAGINE +THAT I DO NOT LIKE HIM.” + +AND PRINCESS MARY TRIED, BUT COULD NOT MANAGE, TO BE CORDIAL TO HER NEW +GUEST. “POOR GIRL, SHE’S DEVILISH UGLY!” THOUGHT ANATOLE. + +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, ALSO ROUSED TO GREAT EXCITEMENT BY ANATOLE’S +ARRIVAL, THOUGHT IN ANOTHER WAY. OF COURSE, SHE, A HANDSOME YOUNG WOMAN +WITHOUT ANY DEFINITE POSITION, WITHOUT RELATIONS OR EVEN A COUNTRY, DID +NOT INTEND TO DEVOTE HER LIFE TO SERVING PRINCE BOLKóNSKI, TO READING +ALOUD TO HIM AND BEING FRIENDS WITH PRINCESS MARY. MADEMOISELLE +BOURIENNE HAD LONG BEEN WAITING FOR A RUSSIAN PRINCE WHO, ABLE TO +APPRECIATE AT A GLANCE HER SUPERIORITY TO THE PLAIN, BADLY DRESSED, +UNGAINLY RUSSIAN PRINCESSES, WOULD FALL IN LOVE WITH HER AND CARRY HER +OFF; AND HERE AT LAST WAS A RUSSIAN PRINCE. MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE KNEW +A STORY, HEARD FROM HER AUNT BUT FINISHED IN HER OWN WAY, WHICH SHE +LIKED TO REPEAT TO HERSELF. IT WAS THE STORY OF A GIRL WHO HAD BEEN +SEDUCED, AND TO WHOM HER POOR MOTHER (SA PAUVRE MèRE) APPEARED, AND +REPROACHED HER FOR YIELDING TO A MAN WITHOUT BEING MARRIED. MADEMOISELLE +BOURIENNE WAS OFTEN TOUCHED TO TEARS AS IN IMAGINATION SHE TOLD THIS +STORY TO HIM, HER SEDUCER. AND NOW HE, A REAL RUSSIAN PRINCE, HAD +APPEARED. HE WOULD CARRY HER AWAY AND THEN SA PAUVRE MèRE WOULD APPEAR +AND HE WOULD MARRY HER. SO HER FUTURE SHAPED ITSELF IN MADEMOISELLE +BOURIENNE’S HEAD AT THE VERY TIME SHE WAS TALKING TO ANATOLE ABOUT +PARIS. IT WAS NOT CALCULATION THAT GUIDED HER (SHE DID NOT EVEN FOR A +MOMENT CONSIDER WHAT SHE SHOULD DO), BUT ALL THIS HAD LONG BEEN FAMILIAR +TO HER, AND NOW THAT ANATOLE HAD APPEARED IT JUST GROUPED ITSELF AROUND +HIM AND SHE WISHED AND TRIED TO PLEASE HIM AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. + +THE LITTLE PRINCESS, LIKE AN OLD WAR HORSE THAT HEARS THE TRUMPET, +UNCONSCIOUSLY AND QUITE FORGETTING HER CONDITION, PREPARED FOR THE +FAMILIAR GALLOP OF COQUETRY, WITHOUT ANY ULTERIOR MOTIVE OR ANY +STRUGGLE, BUT WITH NAïVE AND LIGHTHEARTED GAIETY. + +ALTHOUGH IN FEMALE SOCIETY ANATOLE USUALLY ASSUMED THE ROLE OF A MAN +TIRED OF BEING RUN AFTER BY WOMEN, HIS VANITY WAS FLATTERED BY THE +SPECTACLE OF HIS POWER OVER THESE THREE WOMEN. BESIDES THAT, HE WAS +BEGINNING TO FEEL FOR THE PRETTY AND PROVOCATIVE MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE +THAT PASSIONATE ANIMAL FEELING WHICH WAS APT TO MASTER HIM WITH GREAT +SUDDENNESS AND PROMPT HIM TO THE COARSEST AND MOST RECKLESS ACTIONS. + +AFTER TEA, THE COMPANY WENT INTO THE SITTING ROOM AND PRINCESS MARY WAS +ASKED TO PLAY ON THE CLAVICHORD. ANATOLE, LAUGHING AND IN HIGH SPIRITS, +CAME AND LEANED ON HIS ELBOWS, FACING HER AND BESIDE MADEMOISELLE +BOURIENNE. PRINCESS MARY FELT HIS LOOK WITH A PAINFULLY JOYOUS EMOTION. +HER FAVORITE SONATA BORE HER INTO A MOST INTIMATELY POETIC WORLD AND +THE LOOK SHE FELT UPON HER MADE THAT WORLD STILL MORE POETIC. BUT +ANATOLE’S EXPRESSION, THOUGH HIS EYES WERE FIXED ON HER, REFERRED NOT +TO HER BUT TO THE MOVEMENTS OF MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE’S LITTLE +FOOT, WHICH HE WAS THEN TOUCHING WITH HIS OWN UNDER THE CLAVICHORD. +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE WAS ALSO LOOKING AT PRINCESS MARY, AND IN HER +LOVELY EYES THERE WAS A LOOK OF FEARFUL JOY AND HOPE THAT WAS ALSO NEW +TO THE PRINCESS. + +“HOW SHE LOVES ME!” THOUGHT PRINCESS MARY. “HOW HAPPY I AM NOW, +AND HOW HAPPY I MAY BE WITH SUCH A FRIEND AND SUCH A HUSBAND! HUSBAND? +CAN IT BE POSSIBLE?” SHE THOUGHT, NOT DARING TO LOOK AT HIS FACE, BUT +STILL FEELING HIS EYES GAZING AT HER. + +IN THE EVENING, AFTER SUPPER, WHEN ALL WERE ABOUT TO RETIRE, ANATOLE +KISSED PRINCESS MARY’S HAND. SHE DID NOT KNOW HOW SHE FOUND THE +COURAGE, BUT SHE LOOKED STRAIGHT INTO HIS HANDSOME FACE AS IT CAME NEAR +TO HER SHORTSIGHTED EYES. TURNING FROM PRINCESS MARY HE WENT UP AND +KISSED MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE’S HAND. (THIS WAS NOT ETIQUETTE, BUT +THEN HE DID EVERYTHING SO SIMPLY AND WITH SUCH ASSURANCE!) MADEMOISELLE +BOURIENNE FLUSHED, AND GAVE THE PRINCESS A FRIGHTENED LOOK. + +“WHAT DELICACY!” THOUGHT THE PRINCESS. “IS IT POSSIBLE THAT +AMéLIE” (MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE) “THINKS I COULD BE JEALOUS OF HER, +AND NOT VALUE HER PURE AFFECTION AND DEVOTION TO ME?” SHE WENT UP +TO HER AND KISSED HER WARMLY. ANATOLE WENT UP TO KISS THE LITTLE +PRINCESS’ HAND. + +“NO! NO! NO! WHEN YOUR FATHER WRITES TO TELL ME THAT YOU ARE BEHAVING +WELL I WILL GIVE YOU MY HAND TO KISS. NOT TILL THEN!” SHE SAID. AND +SMILINGLY RAISING A FINGER AT HIM, SHE LEFT THE ROOM. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +THEY ALL SEPARATED, BUT, EXCEPT ANATOLE WHO FELL ASLEEP AS SOON AS HE +GOT INTO BED, ALL KEPT AWAKE A LONG TIME THAT NIGHT. + +“IS HE REALLY TO BE MY HUSBAND, THIS STRANGER WHO IS SO KIND—YES, +KIND, THAT IS THE CHIEF THING,” THOUGHT PRINCESS MARY; AND FEAR, WHICH +SHE HAD SELDOM EXPERIENCED, CAME UPON HER. SHE FEARED TO LOOK ROUND, IT +SEEMED TO HER THAT SOMEONE WAS THERE STANDING BEHIND THE SCREEN IN THE +DARK CORNER. AND THIS SOMEONE WAS HE—THE DEVIL—AND HE WAS ALSO THIS +MAN WITH THE WHITE FOREHEAD, BLACK EYEBROWS, AND RED LIPS. + +SHE RANG FOR HER MAID AND ASKED HER TO SLEEP IN HER ROOM. + +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE WALKED UP AND DOWN THE CONSERVATORY FOR A LONG +TIME THAT EVENING, VAINLY EXPECTING SOMEONE, NOW SMILING AT SOMEONE, NOW +WORKING HERSELF UP TO TEARS WITH THE IMAGINARY WORDS OF HER PAUVRE MèRE +REBUKING HER FOR HER FALL. + +THE LITTLE PRINCESS GRUMBLED TO HER MAID THAT HER BED WAS BADLY MADE. +SHE COULD NOT LIE EITHER ON HER FACE OR ON HER SIDE. EVERY POSITION WAS +AWKWARD AND UNCOMFORTABLE, AND HER BURDEN OPPRESSED HER NOW MORE THAN +EVER BECAUSE ANATOLE’S PRESENCE HAD VIVIDLY RECALLED TO HER THE TIME +WHEN SHE WAS NOT LIKE THAT AND WHEN EVERYTHING WAS LIGHT AND GAY. SHE +SAT IN AN ARMCHAIR IN HER DRESSING JACKET AND NIGHTCAP AND KATIE, SLEEPY +AND DISHEVELED, BEAT AND TURNED THE HEAVY FEATHER BED FOR THE THIRD +TIME, MUTTERING TO HERSELF. + +“I TOLD YOU IT WAS ALL LUMPS AND HOLES!” THE LITTLE PRINCESS +REPEATED. “I SHOULD BE GLAD ENOUGH TO FALL ASLEEP, SO IT’S NOT MY +FAULT!” AND HER VOICE QUIVERED LIKE THAT OF A CHILD ABOUT TO CRY. + +THE OLD PRINCE DID NOT SLEEP EITHER. TíKHON, HALF ASLEEP, HEARD HIM +PACING ANGRILY ABOUT AND SNORTING. THE OLD PRINCE FELT AS THOUGH HE +HAD BEEN INSULTED THROUGH HIS DAUGHTER. THE INSULT WAS THE MORE POINTED +BECAUSE IT CONCERNED NOT HIMSELF BUT ANOTHER, HIS DAUGHTER, WHOM HE +LOVED MORE THAN HIMSELF. HE KEPT TELLING HIMSELF THAT HE WOULD CONSIDER +THE WHOLE MATTER AND DECIDE WHAT WAS RIGHT AND HOW HE SHOULD ACT, BUT +INSTEAD OF THAT HE ONLY EXCITED HIMSELF MORE AND MORE. + +“THE FIRST MAN THAT TURNS UP—SHE FORGETS HER FATHER AND EVERYTHING +ELSE, RUNS UPSTAIRS AND DOES UP HER HAIR AND WAGS HER TAIL AND IS UNLIKE +HERSELF! GLAD TO THROW HER FATHER OVER! AND SHE KNEW I SHOULD NOTICE +IT. FR... FR... FR! AND DON’T I SEE THAT THAT IDIOT HAD EYES ONLY FOR +BOURIENNE—I SHALL HAVE TO GET RID OF HER. AND HOW IS IT SHE HAS NOT +PRIDE ENOUGH TO SEE IT? IF SHE HAS NO PRIDE FOR HERSELF SHE MIGHT AT +LEAST HAVE SOME FOR MY SAKE! SHE MUST BE SHOWN THAT THE BLOCKHEAD THINKS +NOTHING OF HER AND LOOKS ONLY AT BOURIENNE. NO, SHE HAS NO PRIDE... BUT +I’LL LET HER SEE....” + +THE OLD PRINCE KNEW THAT IF HE TOLD HIS DAUGHTER SHE WAS MAKING A +MISTAKE AND THAT ANATOLE MEANT TO FLIRT WITH MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, +PRINCESS MARY’S SELF-ESTEEM WOULD BE WOUNDED AND HIS POINT (NOT TO +BE PARTED FROM HER) WOULD BE GAINED, SO PACIFYING HIMSELF WITH THIS +THOUGHT, HE CALLED TíKHON AND BEGAN TO UNDRESS. + +“WHAT DEVIL BROUGHT THEM HERE?” THOUGHT HE, WHILE TíKHON WAS +PUTTING THE NIGHTSHIRT OVER HIS DRIED-UP OLD BODY AND GRAY-HAIRED CHEST. +“I NEVER INVITED THEM. THEY CAME TO DISTURB MY LIFE—AND THERE IS NOT +MUCH OF IT LEFT.” + +“DEVIL TAKE ‘EM!” HE MUTTERED, WHILE HIS HEAD WAS STILL COVERED BY +THE SHIRT. + +TíKHON KNEW HIS MASTER’S HABIT OF SOMETIMES THINKING ALOUD, AND +THEREFORE MET WITH UNALTERED LOOKS THE ANGRILY INQUISITIVE EXPRESSION OF +THE FACE THAT EMERGED FROM THE SHIRT. + +“GONE TO BED?” ASKED THE PRINCE. + +TíKHON, LIKE ALL GOOD VALETS, INSTINCTIVELY KNEW THE DIRECTION OF HIS +MASTER’S THOUGHTS. HE GUESSED THAT THE QUESTION REFERRED TO PRINCE +VASíLI AND HIS SON. + +“THEY HAVE GONE TO BED AND PUT OUT THEIR LIGHTS, YOUR EXCELLENCY.” + +“NO GOOD... NO GOOD...” SAID THE PRINCE RAPIDLY, AND THRUSTING HIS +FEET INTO HIS SLIPPERS AND HIS ARMS INTO THE SLEEVES OF HIS DRESSING +GOWN, HE WENT TO THE COUCH ON WHICH HE SLEPT. + +THOUGH NO WORDS HAD PASSED BETWEEN ANATOLE AND MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, +THEY QUITE UNDERSTOOD ONE ANOTHER AS TO THE FIRST PART OF THEIR ROMANCE, +UP TO THE APPEARANCE OF THE PAUVRE MèRE; THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT THEY HAD +MUCH TO SAY TO ONE ANOTHER IN PRIVATE AND SO THEY HAD BEEN SEEKING AN +OPPORTUNITY SINCE MORNING TO MEET ONE ANOTHER ALONE. WHEN PRINCESS MARY +WENT TO HER FATHER’S ROOM AT THE USUAL HOUR, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE +AND ANATOLE MET IN THE CONSERVATORY. + +PRINCESS MARY WENT TO THE DOOR OF THE STUDY WITH SPECIAL TREPIDATION. +IT SEEMED TO HER THAT NOT ONLY DID EVERYBODY KNOW THAT HER FATE WOULD BE +DECIDED THAT DAY, BUT THAT THEY ALSO KNEW WHAT SHE THOUGHT ABOUT IT. SHE +READ THIS IN TíKHON’S FACE AND IN THAT OF PRINCE VASíLI’S VALET, +WHO MADE HER A LOW BOW WHEN SHE MET HIM IN THE CORRIDOR CARRYING HOT +WATER. + +THE OLD PRINCE WAS VERY AFFECTIONATE AND CAREFUL IN HIS TREATMENT OF +HIS DAUGHTER THAT MORNING. PRINCESS MARY WELL KNEW THIS PAINSTAKING +EXPRESSION OF HER FATHER’S. HIS FACE WORE THAT EXPRESSION WHEN HIS +DRY HANDS CLENCHED WITH VEXATION AT HER NOT UNDERSTANDING A SUM IN +ARITHMETIC, WHEN RISING FROM HIS CHAIR HE WOULD WALK AWAY FROM HER, +REPEATING IN A LOW VOICE THE SAME WORDS SEVERAL TIMES OVER. + +HE CAME TO THE POINT AT ONCE, TREATING HER CEREMONIOUSLY. + +“I HAVE HAD A PROPOSITION MADE ME CONCERNING YOU,” HE SAID WITH AN +UNNATURAL SMILE. “I EXPECT YOU HAVE GUESSED THAT PRINCE VASíLI HAS +NOT COME AND BROUGHT HIS PUPIL WITH HIM” (FOR SOME REASON PRINCE +BOLKóNSKI REFERRED TO ANATOLE AS A “PUPIL”) “FOR THE SAKE OF MY +BEAUTIFUL EYES. LAST NIGHT A PROPOSITION WAS MADE ME ON YOUR ACCOUNT +AND, AS YOU KNOW MY PRINCIPLES, I REFER IT TO YOU.” + +“HOW AM I TO UNDERSTAND YOU, MON PèRE?” SAID THE PRINCESS, GROWING +PALE AND THEN BLUSHING. + +“HOW UNDERSTAND ME!” CRIED HER FATHER ANGRILY. “PRINCE VASíLI +FINDS YOU TO HIS TASTE AS A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AND MAKES A PROPOSAL TO YOU +ON HIS PUPIL’S BEHALF. THAT’S HOW IT’S TO BE UNDERSTOOD! ‘HOW +UNDERSTAND IT’!... AND I ASK YOU!” + +“I DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU THINK, FATHER,” WHISPERED THE PRINCESS. + +“I? I? WHAT OF ME? LEAVE ME OUT OF THE QUESTION. I’M NOT GOING TO +GET MARRIED. WHAT ABOUT YOU? THAT’S WHAT I WANT TO KNOW.” + +THE PRINCESS SAW THAT HER FATHER REGARDED THE MATTER WITH DISAPPROVAL, +BUT AT THAT MOMENT THE THOUGHT OCCURRED TO HER THAT HER FATE WOULD BE +DECIDED NOW OR NEVER. SHE LOWERED HER EYES SO AS NOT TO SEE THE GAZE +UNDER WHICH SHE FELT THAT SHE COULD NOT THINK, BUT WOULD ONLY BE ABLE TO +SUBMIT FROM HABIT, AND SHE SAID: “I WISH ONLY TO DO YOUR WILL, BUT IF +I HAD TO EXPRESS MY OWN DESIRE...” SHE HAD NO TIME TO FINISH. THE OLD +PRINCE INTERRUPTED HER. + +“THAT’S ADMIRABLE!” HE SHOUTED. “HE WILL TAKE YOU WITH YOUR +DOWRY AND TAKE MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE INTO THE BARGAIN. SHE’LL BE THE +WIFE, WHILE YOU...” + +THE PRINCE STOPPED. HE SAW THE EFFECT THESE WORDS HAD PRODUCED ON HIS +DAUGHTER. SHE LOWERED HER HEAD AND WAS READY TO BURST INTO TEARS. + +“NOW THEN, NOW THEN, I’M ONLY JOKING!” HE SAID. “REMEMBER THIS, +PRINCESS, I HOLD TO THE PRINCIPLE THAT A MAIDEN HAS A FULL RIGHT TO +CHOOSE. I GIVE YOU FREEDOM. ONLY REMEMBER THAT YOUR LIFE’S HAPPINESS +DEPENDS ON YOUR DECISION. NEVER MIND ME!” + +“BUT I DO NOT KNOW, FATHER!” + +“THERE’S NO NEED TO TALK! HE RECEIVES HIS ORDERS AND WILL MARRY YOU +OR ANYBODY; BUT YOU ARE FREE TO CHOOSE.... GO TO YOUR ROOM, THINK IT +OVER, AND COME BACK IN AN HOUR AND TELL ME IN HIS PRESENCE: YES OR NO. +I KNOW YOU WILL PRAY OVER IT. WELL, PRAY IF YOU LIKE, BUT YOU HAD BETTER +THINK IT OVER. GO! YES OR NO, YES OR NO, YES OR NO!” HE STILL SHOUTED +WHEN THE PRINCESS, AS IF LOST IN A FOG, HAD ALREADY STAGGERED OUT OF THE +STUDY. + +HER FATE WAS DECIDED AND HAPPILY DECIDED. BUT WHAT HER FATHER HAD SAID +ABOUT MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE WAS DREADFUL. IT WAS UNTRUE TO BE SURE, BUT +STILL IT WAS TERRIBLE, AND SHE COULD NOT HELP THINKING OF IT. SHE WAS +GOING STRAIGHT ON THROUGH THE CONSERVATORY, NEITHER SEEING NOR HEARING +ANYTHING, WHEN SUDDENLY THE WELL-KNOWN WHISPERING OF MADEMOISELLE +BOURIENNE AROUSED HER. SHE RAISED HER EYES, AND TWO STEPS AWAY SAW +ANATOLE EMBRACING THE FRENCHWOMAN AND WHISPERING SOMETHING TO HER. WITH +A HORRIFIED EXPRESSION ON HIS HANDSOME FACE, ANATOLE LOOKED AT PRINCESS +MARY, BUT DID NOT AT ONCE TAKE HIS ARM FROM THE WAIST OF MADEMOISELLE +BOURIENNE WHO HAD NOT YET SEEN HER. + +“WHO’S THAT? WHY? WAIT A MOMENT!” ANATOLE’S FACE SEEMED TO SAY. +PRINCESS MARY LOOKED AT THEM IN SILENCE. SHE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND IT. AT +LAST MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE GAVE A SCREAM AND RAN AWAY. ANATOLE BOWED TO +PRINCESS MARY WITH A GAY SMILE, AS IF INVITING HER TO JOIN IN A LAUGH AT +THIS STRANGE INCIDENT, AND THEN SHRUGGING HIS SHOULDERS WENT TO THE DOOR +THAT LED TO HIS OWN APARTMENTS. + +AN HOUR LATER, TíKHON CAME TO CALL PRINCESS MARY TO THE OLD PRINCE; +HE ADDED THAT PRINCE VASíLI WAS ALSO THERE. WHEN TíKHON CAME TO HER +PRINCESS MARY WAS SITTING ON THE SOFA IN HER ROOM, HOLDING THE WEEPING +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE IN HER ARMS AND GENTLY STROKING HER HAIR. THE +PRINCESS’ BEAUTIFUL EYES WITH ALL THEIR FORMER CALM RADIANCE WERE +LOOKING WITH TENDER AFFECTION AND PITY AT MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE’S +PRETTY FACE. + +“NO, PRINCESS, I HAVE LOST YOUR AFFECTION FOREVER!” SAID +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE. + +“WHY? I LOVE YOU MORE THAN EVER,” SAID PRINCESS MARY, “AND I WILL +TRY TO DO ALL I CAN FOR YOUR HAPPINESS.” + +“BUT YOU DESPISE ME. YOU WHO ARE SO PURE CAN NEVER UNDERSTAND BEING SO +CARRIED AWAY BY PASSION. OH, ONLY MY POOR MOTHER...” + +“I QUITE UNDERSTAND,” ANSWERED PRINCESS MARY, WITH A SAD SMILE. +“CALM YOURSELF, MY DEAR. I WILL GO TO MY FATHER,” SHE SAID, AND WENT +OUT. + +PRINCE VASíLI, WITH ONE LEG THROWN HIGH OVER THE OTHER AND A SNUFFBOX +IN HIS HAND, WAS SITTING THERE WITH A SMILE OF DEEP EMOTION ON HIS FACE, +AS IF STIRRED TO HIS HEART’S CORE AND HIMSELF REGRETTING AND LAUGHING +AT HIS OWN SENSIBILITY, WHEN PRINCESS MARY ENTERED. HE HURRIEDLY TOOK A +PINCH OF SNUFF. + +“AH, MY DEAR, MY DEAR!” HE BEGAN, RISING AND TAKING HER BY BOTH +HANDS. THEN, SIGHING, HE ADDED: “MY SON’S FATE IS IN YOUR HANDS. +DECIDE, MY DEAR, GOOD, GENTLE MARIE, WHOM I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED AS A +DAUGHTER!” + +HE DREW BACK AND A REAL TEAR APPEARED IN HIS EYE. + +“FR... FR...” SNORTED PRINCE BOLKóNSKI. “THE PRINCE IS MAKING A +PROPOSITION TO YOU IN HIS PUPIL’S—I MEAN, HIS SON’S—NAME. DO YOU +WISH OR NOT TO BE PRINCE ANATOLE KURáGIN’S WIFE? REPLY: YES OR NO,” +HE SHOUTED, “AND THEN I SHALL RESERVE THE RIGHT TO STATE MY OPINION +ALSO. YES, MY OPINION, AND ONLY MY OPINION,” ADDED PRINCE BOLKóNSKI, +TURNING TO PRINCE VASíLI AND ANSWERING HIS IMPLORING LOOK. “YES, OR +NO?” + +“MY DESIRE IS NEVER TO LEAVE YOU, FATHER, NEVER TO SEPARATE MY +LIFE FROM YOURS. I DON’T WISH TO MARRY,” SHE ANSWERED POSITIVELY, +GLANCING AT PRINCE VASíLI AND AT HER FATHER WITH HER BEAUTIFUL EYES. + +“HUMBUG! NONSENSE! HUMBUG, HUMBUG, HUMBUG!” CRIED PRINCE BOLKóNSKI, +FROWNING AND TAKING HIS DAUGHTER’S HAND; HE DID NOT KISS HER, BUT ONLY +BENDING HIS FOREHEAD TO HERS JUST TOUCHED IT, AND PRESSED HER HAND SO +THAT SHE WINCED AND UTTERED A CRY. + +PRINCE VASíLI ROSE. + +“MY DEAR, I MUST TELL YOU THAT THIS IS A MOMENT I SHALL NEVER, NEVER +FORGET. BUT, MY DEAR, WILL YOU NOT GIVE US A LITTLE HOPE OF TOUCHING +THIS HEART, SO KIND AND GENEROUS? SAY ‘PERHAPS’... THE FUTURE IS SO +LONG. SAY ‘PERHAPS.’” + +“PRINCE, WHAT I HAVE SAID IS ALL THERE IS IN MY HEART. I THANK YOU FOR +THE HONOR, BUT I SHALL NEVER BE YOUR SON’S WIFE.” + +“WELL, SO THAT’S FINISHED, MY DEAR FELLOW! I AM VERY GLAD TO HAVE +SEEN YOU. VERY GLAD! GO BACK TO YOUR ROOMS, PRINCESS. GO!” SAID +THE OLD PRINCE. “VERY, VERY GLAD TO HAVE SEEN YOU,” REPEATED HE, +EMBRACING PRINCE VASíLI. + +“MY VOCATION IS A DIFFERENT ONE,” THOUGHT PRINCESS MARY. “MY +VOCATION IS TO BE HAPPY WITH ANOTHER KIND OF HAPPINESS, THE HAPPINESS +OF LOVE AND SELF-SACRIFICE. AND COST WHAT IT MAY, I WILL ARRANGE +POOR AMéLIE’S HAPPINESS, SHE LOVES HIM SO PASSIONATELY, AND SO +PASSIONATELY REPENTS. I WILL DO ALL I CAN TO ARRANGE THE MATCH BETWEEN +THEM. IF HE IS NOT RICH I WILL GIVE HER THE MEANS; I WILL ASK MY +FATHER AND ANDREW. I SHALL BE SO HAPPY WHEN SHE IS HIS WIFE. SHE IS SO +UNFORTUNATE, A STRANGER, ALONE, HELPLESS! AND, OH GOD, HOW PASSIONATELY +SHE MUST LOVE HIM IF SHE COULD SO FAR FORGET HERSELF! PERHAPS I MIGHT +HAVE DONE THE SAME!...” THOUGHT PRINCESS MARY. + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +IT WAS LONG SINCE THE ROSTóVS HAD NEWS OF NICHOLAS. NOT TILL MIDWINTER +WAS THE COUNT AT LAST HANDED A LETTER ADDRESSED IN HIS SON’S +HANDWRITING. ON RECEIVING IT, HE RAN ON TIPTOE TO HIS STUDY IN ALARM AND +HASTE, TRYING TO ESCAPE NOTICE, CLOSED THE DOOR, AND BEGAN TO READ THE +LETTER. + +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, WHO ALWAYS KNEW EVERYTHING THAT PASSED IN THE HOUSE, +ON HEARING OF THE ARRIVAL OF THE LETTER WENT SOFTLY INTO THE ROOM AND +FOUND THE COUNT WITH IT IN HIS HAND, SOBBING AND LAUGHING AT THE SAME +TIME. + +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, THOUGH HER CIRCUMSTANCES HAD IMPROVED, WAS STILL +LIVING WITH THE ROSTóVS. + +“MY DEAR FRIEND?” SAID SHE, IN A TONE OF PATHETIC INQUIRY, PREPARED +TO SYMPATHIZE IN ANY WAY. + +THE COUNT SOBBED YET MORE. + +“NIKóLENKA... A LETTER... WA... A... S... WOUNDED... MY DARLING +BOY... THE COUNTESS... PROMOTED TO BE AN OFFICER... THANK GOD... HOW +TELL THE LITTLE COUNTESS!” + +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA SAT DOWN BESIDE HIM, WITH HER OWN HANDKERCHIEF WIPED +THE TEARS FROM HIS EYES AND FROM THE LETTER, THEN HAVING DRIED HER +OWN EYES SHE COMFORTED THE COUNT, AND DECIDED THAT AT DINNER AND TILL +TEATIME SHE WOULD PREPARE THE COUNTESS, AND AFTER TEA, WITH GOD’S +HELP, WOULD INFORM HER. + +AT DINNER ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA TALKED THE WHOLE TIME ABOUT THE WAR NEWS +AND ABOUT NIKóLENKA, TWICE ASKED WHEN THE LAST LETTER HAD BEEN RECEIVED +FROM HIM, THOUGH SHE KNEW THAT ALREADY, AND REMARKED THAT THEY MIGHT +VERY LIKELY BE GETTING A LETTER FROM HIM THAT DAY. EACH TIME THAT THESE +HINTS BEGAN TO MAKE THE COUNTESS ANXIOUS AND SHE GLANCED UNEASILY AT +THE COUNT AND AT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, THE LATTER VERY ADROITLY TURNED +THE CONVERSATION TO INSIGNIFICANT MATTERS. NATáSHA, WHO, OF THE WHOLE +FAMILY, WAS THE MOST GIFTED WITH A CAPACITY TO FEEL ANY SHADES OF +INTONATION, LOOK, AND EXPRESSION, PRICKED UP HER EARS FROM THE BEGINNING +OF THE MEAL AND WAS CERTAIN THAT THERE WAS SOME SECRET BETWEEN HER +FATHER AND ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, THAT IT HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH HER +BROTHER, AND THAT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WAS PREPARING THEM FOR IT. BOLD AS +SHE WAS, NATáSHA, WHO KNEW HOW SENSITIVE HER MOTHER WAS TO ANYTHING +RELATING TO NIKóLENKA, DID NOT VENTURE TO ASK ANY QUESTIONS AT DINNER, +BUT SHE WAS TOO EXCITED TO EAT ANYTHING AND KEPT WRIGGLING ABOUT ON HER +CHAIR REGARDLESS OF HER GOVERNESS’ REMARKS. AFTER DINNER, SHE RUSHED +HEADLONG AFTER ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA AND, DASHING AT HER, FLUNG HERSELF ON +HER NECK AS SOON AS SHE OVERTOOK HER IN THE SITTING ROOM. + +“AUNTIE, DARLING, DO TELL ME WHAT IT IS!” + +“NOTHING, MY DEAR.” + +“NO, DEAREST, SWEET ONE, HONEY, I WON’T GIVE UP—I KNOW YOU KNOW +SOMETHING.” + +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA SHOOK HER HEAD. + +“YOU ARE A LITTLE SLYBOOTS,” SHE SAID. + +“A LETTER FROM NIKóLENKA! I’M SURE OF IT!” EXCLAIMED NATáSHA, +READING CONFIRMATION IN ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S FACE. + +“BUT FOR GOD’S SAKE, BE CAREFUL, YOU KNOW HOW IT MAY AFFECT YOUR +MAMMA.” + +“I WILL, I WILL, ONLY TELL ME! YOU WON’T? THEN I WILL GO AND TELL AT +ONCE.” + +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, IN A FEW WORDS, TOLD HER THE CONTENTS OF THE LETTER, +ON CONDITION THAT SHE SHOULD TELL NO ONE. + +“NO, ON MY TRUE WORD OF HONOR,” SAID NATáSHA, CROSSING HERSELF, +“I WON’T TELL ANYONE!” AND SHE RAN OFF AT ONCE TO SóNYA. + +“NIKóLENKA... WOUNDED... A LETTER,” SHE ANNOUNCED IN GLEEFUL +TRIUMPH. + +“NICHOLAS!” WAS ALL SóNYA SAID, INSTANTLY TURNING WHITE. + +NATáSHA, SEEING THE IMPRESSION THE NEWS OF HER BROTHER’S WOUND +PRODUCED ON SóNYA, FELT FOR THE FIRST TIME THE SORROWFUL SIDE OF THE +NEWS. + +SHE RUSHED TO SóNYA, HUGGED HER, AND BEGAN TO CRY. + +“A LITTLE WOUND, BUT HE HAS BEEN MADE AN OFFICER; HE IS WELL NOW, HE +WROTE HIMSELF,” SAID SHE THROUGH HER TEARS. + +“THERE NOW! IT’S TRUE THAT ALL YOU WOMEN ARE CRYBABIES,” REMARKED +PéTYA, PACING THE ROOM WITH LARGE, RESOLUTE STRIDES. “NOW I’M VERY +GLAD, VERY GLAD INDEED, THAT MY BROTHER HAS DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF SO. +YOU ARE ALL BLUBBERERS AND UNDERSTAND NOTHING.” + +NATáSHA SMILED THROUGH HER TEARS. + +“YOU HAVEN’T READ THE LETTER?” ASKED SóNYA. + +“NO, BUT SHE SAID THAT IT WAS ALL OVER AND THAT HE’S NOW AN +OFFICER.” + +“THANK GOD!” SAID SóNYA, CROSSING HERSELF. “BUT PERHAPS SHE +DECEIVED YOU. LET US GO TO MAMMA.” + +PéTYA PACED THE ROOM IN SILENCE FOR A TIME. + +“IF I’D BEEN IN NIKóLENKA’S PLACE I WOULD HAVE KILLED EVEN MORE +OF THOSE FRENCHMEN,” HE SAID. “WHAT NASTY BRUTES THEY ARE! I’D +HAVE KILLED SO MANY THAT THERE’D HAVE BEEN A HEAP OF THEM.” + +“HOLD YOUR TONGUE, PéTYA, WHAT A GOOSE YOU ARE!” + +“I’M NOT A GOOSE, BUT THEY ARE WHO CRY ABOUT TRIFLES,” SAID +PéTYA. + +“DO YOU REMEMBER HIM?” NATáSHA SUDDENLY ASKED, AFTER A MOMENT’S +SILENCE. + +SóNYA SMILED. + +“DO I REMEMBER NICHOLAS?” + +“NO, SóNYA, BUT DO YOU REMEMBER SO THAT YOU REMEMBER HIM PERFECTLY, +REMEMBER EVERYTHING?” SAID NATáSHA, WITH AN EXPRESSIVE GESTURE, +EVIDENTLY WISHING TO GIVE HER WORDS A VERY DEFINITE MEANING. “I +REMEMBER NIKóLENKA TOO, I REMEMBER HIM WELL,” SHE SAID. “BUT I +DON’T REMEMBER BORíS. I DON’T REMEMBER HIM A BIT.” + +“WHAT! YOU DON’T REMEMBER BORíS?” ASKED SóNYA IN SURPRISE. + +“IT’S NOT THAT I DON’T REMEMBER—I KNOW WHAT HE IS LIKE, BUT NOT +AS I REMEMBER NIKóLENKA. HIM—I JUST SHUT MY EYES AND REMEMBER, +BUT BORíS... NO!” (SHE SHUT HER EYES.) “NO! THERE’S NOTHING AT +ALL.” + +“OH, NATáSHA!” SAID SóNYA, LOOKING ECSTATICALLY AND EARNESTLY AT +HER FRIEND AS IF SHE DID NOT CONSIDER HER WORTHY TO HEAR WHAT SHE MEANT +TO SAY AND AS IF SHE WERE SAYING IT TO SOMEONE ELSE, WITH WHOM JOKING +WAS OUT OF THE QUESTION, “I AM IN LOVE WITH YOUR BROTHER ONCE FOR ALL +AND, WHATEVER MAY HAPPEN TO HIM OR TO ME, SHALL NEVER CEASE TO LOVE HIM +AS LONG AS I LIVE.” + +NATáSHA LOOKED AT SóNYA WITH WONDERING AND INQUISITIVE EYES, AND SAID +NOTHING. SHE FELT THAT SóNYA WAS SPEAKING THE TRUTH, THAT THERE WAS +SUCH LOVE AS SóNYA WAS SPEAKING OF. BUT NATáSHA HAD NOT YET FELT +ANYTHING LIKE IT. SHE BELIEVED IT COULD BE, BUT DID NOT UNDERSTAND IT. + +“SHALL YOU WRITE TO HIM?” SHE ASKED. + +SóNYA BECAME THOUGHTFUL. THE QUESTION OF HOW TO WRITE TO NICHOLAS, AND +WHETHER SHE OUGHT TO WRITE, TORMENTED HER. NOW THAT HE WAS ALREADY AN +OFFICER AND A WOUNDED HERO, WOULD IT BE RIGHT TO REMIND HIM OF HERSELF +AND, AS IT MIGHT SEEM, OF THE OBLIGATIONS TO HER HE HAD TAKEN ON +HIMSELF? + +“I DON’T KNOW. I THINK IF HE WRITES, I WILL WRITE TOO,” SHE SAID, +BLUSHING. + +“AND YOU WON’T FEEL ASHAMED TO WRITE TO HIM?” + +SóNYA SMILED. + +“NO.” + +“AND I SHOULD BE ASHAMED TO WRITE TO BORíS. I’M NOT GOING TO.” + +“WHY SHOULD YOU BE ASHAMED?” + +“WELL, I DON’T KNOW. IT’S AWKWARD AND WOULD MAKE ME ASHAMED.” + +“AND I KNOW WHY SHE’D BE ASHAMED,” SAID PéTYA, OFFENDED BY +NATáSHA’S PREVIOUS REMARK. “IT’S BECAUSE SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH +THAT FAT ONE IN SPECTACLES” (THAT WAS HOW PéTYA DESCRIBED HIS +NAMESAKE, THE NEW COUNT BEZúKHOV) “AND NOW SHE’S IN LOVE WITH THAT +SINGER” (HE MEANT NATáSHA’S ITALIAN SINGING MASTER), “THAT’S +WHY SHE’S ASHAMED!” + +“PéTYA, YOU’RE A STUPID!” SAID NATáSHA. + +“NOT MORE STUPID THAN YOU, MADAM,” SAID THE NINE-YEAR-OLD PéTYA, +WITH THE AIR OF AN OLD BRIGADIER. + +THE COUNTESS HAD BEEN PREPARED BY ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S HINTS AT DINNER. +ON RETIRING TO HER OWN ROOM, SHE SAT IN AN ARMCHAIR, HER EYES FIXED ON A +MINIATURE PORTRAIT OF HER SON ON THE LID OF A SNUFFBOX, WHILE THE TEARS +KEPT COMING INTO HER EYES. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, WITH THE LETTER, CAME ON +TIPTOE TO THE COUNTESS’ DOOR AND PAUSED. + +“DON’T COME IN,” SHE SAID TO THE OLD COUNT WHO WAS FOLLOWING HER. +“COME LATER.” AND SHE WENT IN, CLOSING THE DOOR BEHIND HER. + +THE COUNT PUT HIS EAR TO THE KEYHOLE AND LISTENED. + +AT FIRST HE HEARD THE SOUND OF INDIFFERENT VOICES, THEN ANNA +MIKHáYLOVNA’S VOICE ALONE IN A LONG SPEECH, THEN A CRY, THEN SILENCE, +THEN BOTH VOICES TOGETHER WITH GLAD INTONATIONS, AND THEN FOOTSTEPS. +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA OPENED THE DOOR. HER FACE WORE THE PROUD EXPRESSION +OF A SURGEON WHO HAS JUST PERFORMED A DIFFICULT OPERATION AND ADMITS THE +PUBLIC TO APPRECIATE HIS SKILL. + +“IT IS DONE!” SHE SAID TO THE COUNT, POINTING TRIUMPHANTLY TO THE +COUNTESS, WHO SAT HOLDING IN ONE HAND THE SNUFFBOX WITH ITS PORTRAIT AND +IN THE OTHER THE LETTER, AND PRESSING THEM ALTERNATELY TO HER LIPS. + +WHEN SHE SAW THE COUNT, SHE STRETCHED OUT HER ARMS TO HIM, EMBRACED HIS +BALD HEAD, OVER WHICH SHE AGAIN LOOKED AT THE LETTER AND THE PORTRAIT, +AND IN ORDER TO PRESS THEM AGAIN TO HER LIPS, SHE SLIGHTLY PUSHED AWAY +THE BALD HEAD. VéRA, NATáSHA, SóNYA, AND PéTYA NOW ENTERED THE ROOM, +AND THE READING OF THE LETTER BEGAN. AFTER A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF +THE CAMPAIGN AND THE TWO BATTLES IN WHICH HE HAD TAKEN PART, AND HIS +PROMOTION, NICHOLAS SAID THAT HE KISSED HIS FATHER’S AND MOTHER’S +HANDS ASKING FOR THEIR BLESSING, AND THAT HE KISSED VéRA, NATáSHA, AND +PéTYA. BESIDES THAT, HE SENT GREETINGS TO MONSIEUR SCHELLING, MADAME +SCHOSS, AND HIS OLD NURSE, AND ASKED THEM TO KISS FOR HIM “DEAR +SóNYA, WHOM HE LOVED AND THOUGHT OF JUST THE SAME AS EVER.” WHEN SHE +HEARD THIS SóNYA BLUSHED SO THAT TEARS CAME INTO HER EYES AND, UNABLE +TO BEAR THE LOOKS TURNED UPON HER, RAN AWAY INTO THE DANCING HALL, +WHIRLED ROUND IT AT FULL SPEED WITH HER DRESS PUFFED OUT LIKE A BALLOON, +AND, FLUSHED AND SMILING, PLUMPED DOWN ON THE FLOOR. THE COUNTESS WAS +CRYING. + +“WHY ARE YOU CRYING, MAMMA?” ASKED VéRA. “FROM ALL HE SAYS ONE +SHOULD BE GLAD AND NOT CRY.” + +THIS WAS QUITE TRUE, BUT THE COUNT, THE COUNTESS, AND NATáSHA LOOKED +AT HER REPROACHFULLY. “AND WHO IS IT SHE TAKES AFTER?” THOUGHT THE +COUNTESS. + +NICHOLAS’ LETTER WAS READ OVER HUNDREDS OF TIMES, AND THOSE WHO WERE +CONSIDERED WORTHY TO HEAR IT HAD TO COME TO THE COUNTESS, FOR SHE +DID NOT LET IT OUT OF HER HANDS. THE TUTORS CAME, AND THE NURSES, AND +DMíTRI, AND SEVERAL ACQUAINTANCES, AND THE COUNTESS REREAD THE LETTER +EACH TIME WITH FRESH PLEASURE AND EACH TIME DISCOVERED IN IT FRESH +PROOFS OF NIKóLENKA’S VIRTUES. HOW STRANGE, HOW EXTRAORDINARY, HOW +JOYFUL IT SEEMED, THAT HER SON, THE SCARCELY PERCEPTIBLE MOTION OF WHOSE +TINY LIMBS SHE HAD FELT TWENTY YEARS AGO WITHIN HER, THAT SON ABOUT WHOM +SHE USED TO HAVE QUARRELS WITH THE TOO INDULGENT COUNT, THAT SON WHO +HAD FIRST LEARNED TO SAY “PEAR” AND THEN “GRANNY,” THAT THIS SON +SHOULD NOW BE AWAY IN A FOREIGN LAND AMID STRANGE SURROUNDINGS, A MANLY +WARRIOR DOING SOME KIND OF MAN’S WORK OF HIS OWN, WITHOUT HELP OR +GUIDANCE. THE UNIVERSAL EXPERIENCE OF AGES, SHOWING THAT CHILDREN DO +GROW IMPERCEPTIBLY FROM THE CRADLE TO MANHOOD, DID NOT EXIST FOR THE +COUNTESS. HER SON’S GROWTH TOWARD MANHOOD, AT EACH OF ITS STAGES, +HAD SEEMED AS EXTRAORDINARY TO HER AS IF THERE HAD NEVER EXISTED THE +MILLIONS OF HUMAN BEINGS WHO GREW UP IN THE SAME WAY. AS TWENTY +YEARS BEFORE, IT SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE THAT THE LITTLE CREATURE WHO LIVED +SOMEWHERE UNDER HER HEART WOULD EVER CRY, SUCK HER BREAST, AND BEGIN TO +SPEAK, SO NOW SHE COULD NOT BELIEVE THAT THAT LITTLE CREATURE COULD BE +THIS STRONG, BRAVE MAN, THIS MODEL SON AND OFFICER THAT, JUDGING BY THIS +LETTER, HE NOW WAS. + +“WHAT A STYLE! HOW CHARMINGLY HE DESCRIBES!” SAID SHE, READING THE +DESCRIPTIVE PART OF THE LETTER. “AND WHAT A SOUL! NOT A WORD ABOUT +HIMSELF.... NOT A WORD! ABOUT SOME DENíSOV OR OTHER, THOUGH HE HIMSELF, +I DARE SAY, IS BRAVER THAN ANY OF THEM. HE SAYS NOTHING ABOUT HIS +SUFFERINGS. WHAT A HEART! HOW LIKE HIM IT IS! AND HOW HE HAS REMEMBERED +EVERYBODY! NOT FORGETTING ANYONE. I ALWAYS SAID WHEN HE WAS ONLY SO +HIGH—I ALWAYS SAID....” + +FOR MORE THAN A WEEK PREPARATIONS WERE BEING MADE, ROUGH DRAFTS OF +LETTERS TO NICHOLAS FROM ALL THE HOUSEHOLD WERE WRITTEN AND COPIED OUT, +WHILE UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE COUNTESS AND THE SOLICITUDE OF THE +COUNT, MONEY AND ALL THINGS NECESSARY FOR THE UNIFORM AND EQUIPMENT +OF THE NEWLY COMMISSIONED OFFICER WERE COLLECTED. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, +PRACTICAL WOMAN THAT SHE WAS, HAD EVEN MANAGED BY FAVOR WITH ARMY +AUTHORITIES TO SECURE ADVANTAGEOUS MEANS OF COMMUNICATION FOR HERSELF +AND HER SON. SHE HAD OPPORTUNITIES OF SENDING HER LETTERS TO THE GRAND +DUKE CONSTANTINE PáVLOVICH, WHO COMMANDED THE GUARDS. THE ROSTóVS +SUPPOSED THAT THE RUSSIAN GUARDS, ABROAD, WAS QUITE A DEFINITE ADDRESS, +AND THAT IF A LETTER REACHED THE GRAND DUKE IN COMMAND OF THE GUARDS +THERE WAS NO REASON WHY IT SHOULD NOT REACH THE PáVLOGRAD REGIMENT, +WHICH WAS PRESUMABLY SOMEWHERE IN THE SAME NEIGHBORHOOD. AND SO IT WAS +DECIDED TO SEND THE LETTERS AND MONEY BY THE GRAND DUKE’S COURIER TO +BORíS AND BORíS WAS TO FORWARD THEM TO NICHOLAS. THE LETTERS WERE FROM +THE OLD COUNT, THE COUNTESS, PéTYA, VéRA, NATáSHA, AND SóNYA, AND +FINALLY THERE WERE SIX THOUSAND RUBLES FOR HIS OUTFIT AND VARIOUS OTHER +THINGS THE OLD COUNT SENT TO HIS SON. + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +ON THE TWELFTH OF NOVEMBER, KUTúZOV’S ACTIVE ARMY, IN CAMP BEFORE +OLMüTZ, WAS PREPARING TO BE REVIEWED NEXT DAY BY THE TWO EMPERORS—THE +RUSSIAN AND THE AUSTRIAN. THE GUARDS, JUST ARRIVED FROM RUSSIA, SPENT +THE NIGHT TEN MILES FROM OLMüTZ AND NEXT MORNING WERE TO COME STRAIGHT +TO THE REVIEW, REACHING THE FIELD AT OLMüTZ BY TEN O’CLOCK. + +THAT DAY NICHOLAS ROSTóV RECEIVED A LETTER FROM BORíS, TELLING HIM +THAT THE ISMáYLOV REGIMENT WAS QUARTERED FOR THE NIGHT TEN MILES FROM +OLMüTZ AND THAT HE WANTED TO SEE HIM AS HE HAD A LETTER AND MONEY FOR +HIM. ROSTóV WAS PARTICULARLY IN NEED OF MONEY NOW THAT THE TROOPS, +AFTER THEIR ACTIVE SERVICE, WERE STATIONED NEAR OLMüTZ AND THE CAMP +SWARMED WITH WELL-PROVISIONED SUTLERS AND AUSTRIAN JEWS OFFERING +ALL SORTS OF TEMPTING WARES. THE PáVLOGRADS HELD FEAST AFTER FEAST, +CELEBRATING AWARDS THEY HAD RECEIVED FOR THE CAMPAIGN, AND MADE +EXPEDITIONS TO OLMüTZ TO VISIT A CERTAIN CAROLINE THE HUNGARIAN, +WHO HAD RECENTLY OPENED A RESTAURANT THERE WITH GIRLS AS WAITRESSES. +ROSTóV, WHO HAD JUST CELEBRATED HIS PROMOTION TO A CORNETCY AND BOUGHT +DENíSOV’S HORSE, BEDOUIN, WAS IN DEBT ALL ROUND, TO HIS COMRADES AND +THE SUTLERS. ON RECEIVING BORíS’ LETTER HE RODE WITH A FELLOW OFFICER +TO OLMüTZ, DINED THERE, DRANK A BOTTLE OF WINE, AND THEN SET OFF ALONE +TO THE GUARDS’ CAMP TO FIND HIS OLD PLAYMATE. ROSTóV HAD NOT YET HAD +TIME TO GET HIS UNIFORM. HE HAD ON A SHABBY CADET JACKET, DECORATED WITH +A SOLDIER’S CROSS, EQUALLY SHABBY CADET’S RIDING BREECHES LINED WITH +WORN LEATHER, AND AN OFFICER’S SABER WITH A SWORD KNOT. THE DON HORSE +HE WAS RIDING WAS ONE HE HAD BOUGHT FROM A COSSACK DURING THE CAMPAIGN, +AND HE WORE A CRUMPLED HUSSAR CAP STUCK JAUNTILY BACK ON ONE SIDE OF HIS +HEAD. AS HE RODE UP TO THE CAMP HE THOUGHT HOW HE WOULD IMPRESS BORíS +AND ALL HIS COMRADES OF THE GUARDS BY HIS APPEARANCE—THAT OF A +FIGHTING HUSSAR WHO HAD BEEN UNDER FIRE. + +THE GUARDS HAD MADE THEIR WHOLE MARCH AS IF ON A PLEASURE TRIP, PARADING +THEIR CLEANLINESS AND DISCIPLINE. THEY HAD COME BY EASY STAGES, THEIR +KNAPSACKS CONVEYED ON CARTS, AND THE AUSTRIAN AUTHORITIES HAD PROVIDED +EXCELLENT DINNERS FOR THE OFFICERS AT EVERY HALTING PLACE. THE REGIMENTS +HAD ENTERED AND LEFT THE TOWN WITH THEIR BANDS PLAYING, AND BY THE GRAND +DUKE’S ORDERS THE MEN HAD MARCHED ALL THE WAY IN STEP (A PRACTICE ON +WHICH THE GUARDS PRIDED THEMSELVES), THE OFFICERS ON FOOT AND AT THEIR +PROPER POSTS. BORíS HAD BEEN QUARTERED, AND HAD MARCHED ALL THE +WAY, WITH BERG WHO WAS ALREADY IN COMMAND OF A COMPANY. BERG, WHO HAD +OBTAINED HIS CAPTAINCY DURING THE CAMPAIGN, HAD GAINED THE CONFIDENCE OF +HIS SUPERIORS BY HIS PROMPTITUDE AND ACCURACY AND HAD ARRANGED HIS MONEY +MATTERS VERY SATISFACTORILY. BORíS, DURING THE CAMPAIGN, HAD MADE THE +ACQUAINTANCE OF MANY PERSONS WHO MIGHT PROVE USEFUL TO HIM, AND BY +A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION HE HAD BROUGHT FROM PIERRE HAD BECOME +ACQUAINTED WITH PRINCE ANDREW BOLKóNSKI, THROUGH WHOM HE HOPED TO +OBTAIN A POST ON THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF’S STAFF. BERG AND BORíS, +HAVING RESTED AFTER YESTERDAY’S MARCH, WERE SITTING, CLEAN AND NEATLY +DRESSED, AT A ROUND TABLE IN THE CLEAN QUARTERS ALLOTTED TO THEM, +PLAYING CHESS. BERG HELD A SMOKING PIPE BETWEEN HIS KNEES. BORíS, IN +THE ACCURATE WAY CHARACTERISTIC OF HIM, WAS BUILDING A LITTLE PYRAMID OF +CHESSMEN WITH HIS DELICATE WHITE FINGERS WHILE AWAITING BERG’S MOVE, +AND WATCHED HIS OPPONENT’S FACE, EVIDENTLY THINKING ABOUT THE GAME AS +HE ALWAYS THOUGHT ONLY OF WHATEVER HE WAS ENGAGED ON. + +“WELL, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET OUT OF THAT?” HE REMARKED. + +“WE’LL TRY TO,” REPLIED BERG, TOUCHING A PAWN AND THEN REMOVING +HIS HAND. + +AT THAT MOMENT THE DOOR OPENED. + +“HERE HE IS AT LAST!” SHOUTED ROSTóV. “AND BERG TOO! OH, YOU +PETISENFANS, ALLAY CUSHAY DORMIR!” HE EXCLAIMED, IMITATING HIS RUSSIAN +NURSE’S FRENCH, AT WHICH HE AND BORíS USED TO LAUGH LONG AGO. + +“DEAR ME, HOW YOU HAVE CHANGED!” + +BORíS ROSE TO MEET ROSTóV, BUT IN DOING SO DID NOT OMIT TO STEADY AND +REPLACE SOME CHESSMEN THAT WERE FALLING. HE WAS ABOUT TO EMBRACE HIS +FRIEND, BUT NICHOLAS AVOIDED HIM. WITH THAT PECULIAR FEELING OF YOUTH, +THAT DREAD OF BEATEN TRACKS, AND WISH TO EXPRESS ITSELF IN A MANNER +DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF ITS ELDERS WHICH IS OFTEN INSINCERE, NICHOLAS +WISHED TO DO SOMETHING SPECIAL ON MEETING HIS FRIEND. HE WANTED TO PINCH +HIM, PUSH HIM, DO ANYTHING BUT KISS HIM—A THING EVERYBODY DID. BUT +NOTWITHSTANDING THIS, BORíS EMBRACED HIM IN A QUIET, FRIENDLY WAY AND +KISSED HIM THREE TIMES. + +THEY HAD NOT MET FOR NEARLY HALF A YEAR AND, BEING AT THE AGE WHEN YOUNG +MEN TAKE THEIR FIRST STEPS ON LIFE’S ROAD, EACH SAW IMMENSE CHANGES IN +THE OTHER, QUITE A NEW REFLECTION OF THE SOCIETY IN WHICH THEY HAD TAKEN +THOSE FIRST STEPS. BOTH HAD CHANGED GREATLY SINCE THEY LAST MET AND BOTH +WERE IN A HURRY TO SHOW THE CHANGES THAT HAD TAKEN PLACE IN THEM. + +“OH, YOU DAMNED DANDIES! CLEAN AND FRESH AS IF YOU’D BEEN TO A FETE, +NOT LIKE US SINNERS OF THE LINE,” CRIED ROSTóV, WITH MARTIAL SWAGGER +AND WITH BARITONE NOTES IN HIS VOICE, NEW TO BORíS, POINTING TO HIS OWN +MUD-BESPATTERED BREECHES. THE GERMAN LANDLADY, HEARING ROSTóV’S LOUD +VOICE, POPPED HER HEAD IN AT THE DOOR. + +“EH, IS SHE PRETTY?” HE ASKED WITH A WINK. + +“WHY DO YOU SHOUT SO? YOU’LL FRIGHTEN THEM!” SAID BORíS. “I DID +NOT EXPECT YOU TODAY,” HE ADDED. “I ONLY SENT YOU THE NOTE YESTERDAY +BY BOLKóNSKI—AN ADJUTANT OF KUTúZOV’S, WHO’S A FRIEND OF MINE. +I DID NOT THINK HE WOULD GET IT TO YOU SO QUICKLY.... WELL, HOW ARE YOU? +BEEN UNDER FIRE ALREADY?” ASKED BORíS. + +WITHOUT ANSWERING, ROSTóV SHOOK THE SOLDIER’S CROSS OF ST. GEORGE +FASTENED TO THE CORDING OF HIS UNIFORM AND, INDICATING A BANDAGED ARM, +GLANCED AT BERG WITH A SMILE. + +“AS YOU SEE,” HE SAID. + +“INDEED? YES, YES!” SAID BORíS, WITH A SMILE. “AND WE TOO HAVE +HAD A SPLENDID MARCH. YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, THAT HIS IMPERIAL HIGHNESS +RODE WITH OUR REGIMENT ALL THE TIME, SO THAT WE HAD EVERY COMFORT AND +EVERY ADVANTAGE. WHAT RECEPTIONS WE HAD IN POLAND! WHAT DINNERS AND +BALLS! I CAN’T TELL YOU. AND THE TSARéVICH WAS VERY GRACIOUS TO ALL +OUR OFFICERS.” + +AND THE TWO FRIENDS TOLD EACH OTHER OF THEIR DOINGS, THE ONE OF HIS +HUSSAR REVELS AND LIFE IN THE FIGHTING LINE, THE OTHER OF THE PLEASURES +AND ADVANTAGES OF SERVICE UNDER MEMBERS OF THE IMPERIAL FAMILY. + +“OH, YOU GUARDS!” SAID ROSTóV. “I SAY, SEND FOR SOME WINE.” + +BORíS MADE A GRIMACE. + +“IF YOU REALLY WANT IT,” SAID HE. + +HE WENT TO HIS BED, DREW A PURSE FROM UNDER THE CLEAN PILLOW, AND SENT +FOR WINE. + +“YES, AND I HAVE SOME MONEY AND A LETTER TO GIVE YOU,” HE ADDED. + +ROSTóV TOOK THE LETTER AND, THROWING THE MONEY ON THE SOFA, PUT BOTH +ARMS ON THE TABLE AND BEGAN TO READ. AFTER READING A FEW LINES, HE +GLANCED ANGRILY AT BERG, THEN, MEETING HIS EYES, HID HIS FACE BEHIND THE +LETTER. + +“WELL, THEY’VE SENT YOU A TIDY SUM,” SAID BERG, EYING THE HEAVY +PURSE THAT SANK INTO THE SOFA. “AS FOR US, COUNT, WE GET ALONG ON OUR +PAY. I CAN TELL YOU FOR MYSELF...” + +“I SAY, BERG, MY DEAR FELLOW,” SAID ROSTóV, “WHEN YOU GET A +LETTER FROM HOME AND MEET ONE OF YOUR OWN PEOPLE WHOM YOU WANT TO TALK +EVERYTHING OVER WITH, AND I HAPPEN TO BE THERE, I’LL GO AT ONCE, TO +BE OUT OF YOUR WAY! DO GO SOMEWHERE, ANYWHERE... TO THE DEVIL!” HE +EXCLAIMED, AND IMMEDIATELY SEIZING HIM BY THE SHOULDER AND LOOKING +AMIABLY INTO HIS FACE, EVIDENTLY WISHING TO SOFTEN THE RUDENESS OF HIS +WORDS, HE ADDED, “DON’T BE HURT, MY DEAR FELLOW; YOU KNOW I SPEAK +FROM MY HEART AS TO AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE.” + +“OH, DON’T MENTION IT, COUNT! I QUITE UNDERSTAND,” SAID BERG, +GETTING UP AND SPEAKING IN A MUFFLED AND GUTTURAL VOICE. + +“GO ACROSS TO OUR HOSTS: THEY INVITED YOU,” ADDED BORíS. + +BERG PUT ON THE CLEANEST OF COATS, WITHOUT A SPOT OR SPECK OF DUST, +STOOD BEFORE A LOOKING GLASS AND BRUSHED THE HAIR ON HIS TEMPLES +UPWARDS, IN THE WAY AFFECTED BY THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER, AND, HAVING +ASSURED HIMSELF FROM THE WAY ROSTóV LOOKED AT IT THAT HIS COAT HAD BEEN +NOTICED, LEFT THE ROOM WITH A PLEASANT SMILE. + +“OH DEAR, WHAT A BEAST I AM!” MUTTERED ROSTóV, AS HE READ THE +LETTER. + +“WHY?” + +“OH, WHAT A PIG I AM, NOT TO HAVE WRITTEN AND TO HAVE GIVEN THEM +SUCH A FRIGHT! OH, WHAT A PIG I AM!” HE REPEATED, FLUSHING SUDDENLY. +“WELL, HAVE YOU SENT GABRIEL FOR SOME WINE? ALL RIGHT LET’S HAVE +SOME!” + +IN THE LETTER FROM HIS PARENTS WAS ENCLOSED A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION +TO BAGRATIóN WHICH THE OLD COUNTESS AT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S ADVICE HAD +OBTAINED THROUGH AN ACQUAINTANCE AND SENT TO HER SON, ASKING HIM TO TAKE +IT TO ITS DESTINATION AND MAKE USE OF IT. + +“WHAT NONSENSE! MUCH I NEED IT!” SAID ROSTóV, THROWING THE LETTER +UNDER THE TABLE. + +“WHY HAVE YOU THROWN THAT AWAY?” ASKED BORíS. + +“IT IS SOME LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION... WHAT THE DEVIL DO I WANT IT +FOR!” + +“WHY ‘WHAT THE DEVIL’?” SAID BORíS, PICKING IT UP AND READING +THE ADDRESS. “THIS LETTER WOULD BE OF GREAT USE TO YOU.” + +“I WANT NOTHING, AND I WON’T BE ANYONE’S ADJUTANT.” + +“WHY NOT?” INQUIRED BORíS. + +“IT’S A LACKEY’S JOB!” + +“YOU ARE STILL THE SAME DREAMER, I SEE,” REMARKED BORíS, SHAKING +HIS HEAD. + +“AND YOU’RE STILL THE SAME DIPLOMATIST! BUT THAT’S NOT THE +POINT... COME, HOW ARE YOU?” ASKED ROSTóV. + +“WELL, AS YOU SEE. SO FAR EVERYTHING’S ALL RIGHT, BUT I CONFESS I +SHOULD MUCH LIKE TO BE AN ADJUTANT AND NOT REMAIN AT THE FRONT.” + +“WHY?” + +“BECAUSE WHEN ONCE A MAN STARTS ON MILITARY SERVICE, HE SHOULD TRY TO +MAKE AS SUCCESSFUL A CAREER OF IT AS POSSIBLE.” + +“OH, THAT’S IT!” SAID ROSTóV, EVIDENTLY THINKING OF SOMETHING +ELSE. + +HE LOOKED INTENTLY AND INQUIRINGLY INTO HIS FRIEND’S EYES, EVIDENTLY +TRYING IN VAIN TO FIND THE ANSWER TO SOME QUESTION. + +OLD GABRIEL BROUGHT IN THE WINE. + +“SHOULDN’T WE NOW SEND FOR BERG?” ASKED BORíS. “HE WOULD DRINK +WITH YOU. I CAN’T.” + +“WELL, SEND FOR HIM... AND HOW DO YOU GET ON WITH THAT GERMAN?” +ASKED ROSTóV, WITH A CONTEMPTUOUS SMILE. + +“HE IS A VERY, VERY NICE, HONEST, AND PLEASANT FELLOW,” ANSWERED +BORíS. + +AGAIN ROSTóV LOOKED INTENTLY INTO BORíS’ EYES AND SIGHED. BERG +RETURNED, AND OVER THE BOTTLE OF WINE CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE THREE +OFFICERS BECAME ANIMATED. THE GUARDSMEN TOLD ROSTóV OF THEIR MARCH AND +HOW THEY HAD BEEN MADE MUCH OF IN RUSSIA, POLAND, AND ABROAD. THEY SPOKE +OF THE SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF THEIR COMMANDER, THE GRAND DUKE, AND TOLD +STORIES OF HIS KINDNESS AND IRASCIBILITY. BERG, AS USUAL, KEPT SILENT +WHEN THE SUBJECT DID NOT RELATE TO HIMSELF, BUT IN CONNECTION WITH THE +STORIES OF THE GRAND DUKE’S QUICK TEMPER HE RELATED WITH GUSTO HOW IN +GALICIA HE HAD MANAGED TO DEAL WITH THE GRAND DUKE WHEN THE LATTER +MADE A TOUR OF THE REGIMENTS AND WAS ANNOYED AT THE IRREGULARITY OF +A MOVEMENT. WITH A PLEASANT SMILE BERG RELATED HOW THE GRAND DUKE +HAD RIDDEN UP TO HIM IN A VIOLENT PASSION, SHOUTING: “ARNAUTS!” +(“ARNAUTS” WAS THE TSARéVICH’S FAVORITE EXPRESSION WHEN HE WAS IN +A RAGE) AND CALLED FOR THE COMPANY COMMANDER. + +“WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT, COUNT, I WAS NOT AT ALL ALARMED, BECAUSE I KNEW +I WAS RIGHT. WITHOUT BOASTING, YOU KNOW, I MAY SAY THAT I KNOW THE ARMY +ORDERS BY HEART AND KNOW THE REGULATIONS AS WELL AS I DO THE LORD’S +PRAYER. SO, COUNT, THERE NEVER IS ANY NEGLIGENCE IN MY COMPANY, AND +SO MY CONSCIENCE WAS AT EASE. I CAME FORWARD....” (BERG STOOD UP AND +SHOWED HOW HE PRESENTED HIMSELF, WITH HIS HAND TO HIS CAP, AND REALLY +IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT FOR A FACE TO EXPRESS GREATER RESPECT AND +SELF-COMPLACENCY THAN HIS DID.) “WELL, HE STORMED AT ME, AS THE SAYING +IS, STORMED AND STORMED AND STORMED! IT WAS NOT A MATTER OF LIFE BUT +RATHER OF DEATH, AS THE SAYING IS. ‘ALBANIANS!’ AND ‘DEVILS!’ +AND ‘TO SIBERIA!’” SAID BERG WITH A SAGACIOUS SMILE. “I KNEW I +WAS IN THE RIGHT SO I KEPT SILENT; WAS NOT THAT BEST, COUNT?... ‘HEY, +ARE YOU DUMB?’ HE SHOUTED. STILL I REMAINED SILENT. AND WHAT DO YOU +THINK, COUNT? THE NEXT DAY IT WAS NOT EVEN MENTIONED IN THE ORDERS OF +THE DAY. THAT’S WHAT KEEPING ONE’S HEAD MEANS. THAT’S THE WAY, +COUNT,” SAID BERG, LIGHTING HIS PIPE AND EMITTING RINGS OF SMOKE. + +“YES, THAT WAS FINE,” SAID ROSTóV, SMILING. + +BUT BORíS NOTICED THAT HE WAS PREPARING TO MAKE FUN OF BERG, AND +SKILLFULLY CHANGED THE SUBJECT. HE ASKED HIM TO TELL THEM HOW AND WHERE +HE GOT HIS WOUND. THIS PLEASED ROSTóV AND HE BEGAN TALKING ABOUT IT, +AND AS HE WENT ON BECAME MORE AND MORE ANIMATED. HE TOLD THEM OF HIS +SCHöN GRABERN AFFAIR, JUST AS THOSE WHO HAVE TAKEN PART IN A BATTLE +GENERALLY DO DESCRIBE IT, THAT IS, AS THEY WOULD LIKE IT TO HAVE BEEN, +AS THEY HAVE HEARD IT DESCRIBED BY OTHERS, AND AS SOUNDS WELL, BUT NOT +AT ALL AS IT REALLY WAS. ROSTóV WAS A TRUTHFUL YOUNG MAN AND WOULD ON +NO ACCOUNT HAVE TOLD A DELIBERATE LIE. HE BEGAN HIS STORY MEANING TO +TELL EVERYTHING JUST AS IT HAPPENED, BUT IMPERCEPTIBLY, INVOLUNTARILY, +AND INEVITABLY HE LAPSED INTO FALSEHOOD. IF HE HAD TOLD THE TRUTH TO HIS +HEARERS—WHO LIKE HIMSELF HAD OFTEN HEARD STORIES OF ATTACKS AND HAD +FORMED A DEFINITE IDEA OF WHAT AN ATTACK WAS AND WERE EXPECTING TO HEAR +JUST SUCH A STORY—THEY WOULD EITHER NOT HAVE BELIEVED HIM OR, STILL +WORSE, WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT ROSTóV WAS HIMSELF TO BLAME SINCE WHAT +GENERALLY HAPPENS TO THE NARRATORS OF CAVALRY ATTACKS HAD NOT HAPPENED +TO HIM. HE COULD NOT TELL THEM SIMPLY THAT EVERYONE WENT AT A TROT AND +THAT HE FELL OFF HIS HORSE AND SPRAINED HIS ARM AND THEN RAN AS HARD AS +HE COULD FROM A FRENCHMAN INTO THE WOOD. BESIDES, TO TELL EVERYTHING AS +IT REALLY HAPPENED, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NECESSARY TO MAKE AN EFFORT OF +WILL TO TELL ONLY WHAT HAPPENED. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO TELL THE TRUTH, +AND YOUNG PEOPLE ARE RARELY CAPABLE OF IT. HIS HEARERS EXPECTED A STORY +OF HOW BESIDE HIMSELF AND ALL AFLAME WITH EXCITEMENT, HE HAD FLOWN LIKE +A STORM AT THE SQUARE, CUT HIS WAY IN, SLASHED RIGHT AND LEFT, HOW HIS +SABER HAD TASTED FLESH AND HE HAD FALLEN EXHAUSTED, AND SO ON. AND SO HE +TOLD THEM ALL THAT. + +IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS STORY, JUST AS HE WAS SAYING: “YOU CANNOT IMAGINE +WHAT A STRANGE FRENZY ONE EXPERIENCES DURING AN ATTACK,” PRINCE +ANDREW, WHOM BORíS WAS EXPECTING, ENTERED THE ROOM. PRINCE ANDREW, WHO +LIKED TO HELP YOUNG MEN, WAS FLATTERED BY BEING ASKED FOR HIS ASSISTANCE +AND BEING WELL DISPOSED TOWARD BORíS, WHO HAD MANAGED TO PLEASE HIM THE +DAY BEFORE, HE WISHED TO DO WHAT THE YOUNG MAN WANTED. HAVING BEEN SENT +WITH PAPERS FROM KUTúZOV TO THE TSARéVICH, HE LOOKED IN ON BORíS, +HOPING TO FIND HIM ALONE. WHEN HE CAME IN AND SAW AN HUSSAR OF THE LINE +RECOUNTING HIS MILITARY EXPLOITS (PRINCE ANDREW COULD NOT ENDURE +THAT SORT OF MAN), HE GAVE BORíS A PLEASANT SMILE, FROWNED AS WITH +HALF-CLOSED EYES HE LOOKED AT ROSTóV, BOWED SLIGHTLY AND WEARILY, AND +SAT DOWN LANGUIDLY ON THE SOFA: HE FELT IT UNPLEASANT TO HAVE DROPPED +IN ON BAD COMPANY. ROSTóV FLUSHED UP ON NOTICING THIS, BUT HE DID NOT +CARE, THIS WAS A MERE STRANGER. GLANCING, HOWEVER, AT BORíS, HE SAW +THAT HE TOO SEEMED ASHAMED OF THE HUSSAR OF THE LINE. + +IN SPITE OF PRINCE ANDREW’S DISAGREEABLE, IRONICAL TONE, IN SPITE OF +THE CONTEMPT WITH WHICH ROSTóV, FROM HIS FIGHTING ARMY POINT OF VIEW, +REGARDED ALL THESE LITTLE ADJUTANTS ON THE STAFF OF WHOM THE NEWCOMER +WAS EVIDENTLY ONE, ROSTóV FELT CONFUSED, BLUSHED, AND BECAME SILENT. +BORíS INQUIRED WHAT NEWS THERE MIGHT BE ON THE STAFF, AND WHAT, WITHOUT +INDISCRETION, ONE MIGHT ASK ABOUT OUR PLANS. + +“WE SHALL PROBABLY ADVANCE,” REPLIED BOLKóNSKI, EVIDENTLY RELUCTANT +TO SAY MORE IN THE PRESENCE OF A STRANGER. + +BERG TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO ASK, WITH GREAT POLITENESS, WHETHER, AS WAS +RUMORED, THE ALLOWANCE OF FORAGE MONEY TO CAPTAINS OF COMPANIES WOULD BE +DOUBLED. TO THIS PRINCE ANDREW ANSWERED WITH A SMILE THAT HE COULD +GIVE NO OPINION ON SUCH AN IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT ORDER, AND BERG LAUGHED +GAILY. + +“AS TO YOUR BUSINESS,” PRINCE ANDREW CONTINUED, ADDRESSING BORíS, +“WE WILL TALK OF IT LATER” (AND HE LOOKED ROUND AT ROSTóV). “COME +TO ME AFTER THE REVIEW AND WE WILL DO WHAT IS POSSIBLE.” + +AND, HAVING GLANCED ROUND THE ROOM, PRINCE ANDREW TURNED TO ROSTóV, +WHOSE STATE OF UNCONQUERABLE CHILDISH EMBARRASSMENT NOW CHANGING TO +ANGER HE DID NOT CONDESCEND TO NOTICE, AND SAID: “I THINK YOU WERE +TALKING OF THE SCHöN GRABERN AFFAIR? WERE YOU THERE?” + +“I WAS THERE,” SAID ROSTóV ANGRILY, AS IF INTENDING TO INSULT THE +AIDE-DE-CAMP. + +BOLKóNSKI NOTICED THE HUSSAR’S STATE OF MIND, AND IT AMUSED HIM. WITH +A SLIGHTLY CONTEMPTUOUS SMILE, HE SAID: “YES, THERE ARE MANY STORIES +NOW TOLD ABOUT THAT AFFAIR!” + +“YES, STORIES!” REPEATED ROSTóV LOUDLY, LOOKING WITH EYES SUDDENLY +GROWN FURIOUS, NOW AT BORíS, NOW AT BOLKóNSKI. “YES, MANY STORIES! +BUT OUR STORIES ARE THE STORIES OF MEN WHO HAVE BEEN UNDER THE ENEMY’S +FIRE! OUR STORIES HAVE SOME WEIGHT, NOT LIKE THE STORIES OF THOSE +FELLOWS ON THE STAFF WHO GET REWARDS WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING!” + +“OF WHOM YOU IMAGINE ME TO BE ONE?” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, WITH A QUIET +AND PARTICULARLY AMIABLE SMILE. + +A STRANGE FEELING OF EXASPERATION AND YET OF RESPECT FOR THIS MAN’S +SELF-POSSESSION MINGLED AT THAT MOMENT IN ROSTóV’S SOUL. + +“I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT YOU,” HE SAID, “I DON’T KNOW YOU AND, +FRANKLY, I DON’T WANT TO. I AM SPEAKING OF THE STAFF IN GENERAL.” + +“AND I WILL TELL YOU THIS,” PRINCE ANDREW INTERRUPTED IN A TONE OF +QUIET AUTHORITY, “YOU WISH TO INSULT ME, AND I AM READY TO AGREE WITH +YOU THAT IT WOULD BE VERY EASY TO DO SO IF YOU HAVEN’T SUFFICIENT +SELF-RESPECT, BUT ADMIT THAT THE TIME AND PLACE ARE VERY BADLY CHOSEN. +IN A DAY OR TWO WE SHALL ALL HAVE TO TAKE PART IN A GREATER AND MORE +SERIOUS DUEL, AND BESIDES, DRUBETSKóY, WHO SAYS HE IS AN OLD FRIEND +OF YOURS, IS NOT AT ALL TO BLAME THAT MY FACE HAS THE MISFORTUNE TO +DISPLEASE YOU. HOWEVER,” HE ADDED RISING, “YOU KNOW MY NAME AND +WHERE TO FIND ME, BUT DON’T FORGET THAT I DO NOT REGARD EITHER MYSELF +OR YOU AS HAVING BEEN AT ALL INSULTED, AND AS A MAN OLDER THAN YOU, MY +ADVICE IS TO LET THE MATTER DROP. WELL THEN, ON FRIDAY AFTER THE REVIEW +I SHALL EXPECT YOU, DRUBETSKóY. AU REVOIR!” EXCLAIMED PRINCE ANDREW, +AND WITH A BOW TO THEM BOTH HE WENT OUT. + +ONLY WHEN PRINCE ANDREW WAS GONE DID ROSTóV THINK OF WHAT HE OUGHT TO +HAVE SAID. AND HE WAS STILL MORE ANGRY AT HAVING OMITTED TO SAY IT. HE +ORDERED HIS HORSE AT ONCE AND, COLDLY TAKING LEAVE OF BORíS, RODE +HOME. SHOULD HE GO TO HEADQUARTERS NEXT DAY AND CHALLENGE THAT AFFECTED +ADJUTANT, OR REALLY LET THE MATTER DROP, WAS THE QUESTION THAT WORRIED +HIM ALL THE WAY. HE THOUGHT ANGRILY OF THE PLEASURE HE WOULD HAVE AT +SEEING THE FRIGHT OF THAT SMALL AND FRAIL BUT PROUD MAN WHEN COVERED BY +HIS PISTOL, AND THEN HE FELT WITH SURPRISE THAT OF ALL THE MEN HE KNEW +THERE WAS NONE HE WOULD SO MUCH LIKE TO HAVE FOR A FRIEND AS THAT VERY +ADJUTANT WHOM HE SO HATED. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +THE DAY AFTER ROSTóV HAD BEEN TO SEE BORíS, A REVIEW WAS HELD OF THE +AUSTRIAN AND RUSSIAN TROOPS, BOTH THOSE FRESHLY ARRIVED FROM RUSSIA AND +THOSE WHO HAD BEEN CAMPAIGNING UNDER KUTúZOV. THE TWO EMPERORS, +THE RUSSIAN WITH HIS HEIR THE TSARéVICH, AND THE AUSTRIAN WITH THE +ARCHDUKE, INSPECTED THE ALLIED ARMY OF EIGHTY THOUSAND MEN. + +FROM EARLY MORNING THE SMART CLEAN TROOPS WERE ON THE MOVE, FORMING UP +ON THE FIELD BEFORE THE FORTRESS. NOW THOUSANDS OF FEET AND BAYONETS +MOVED AND HALTED AT THE OFFICERS’ COMMAND, TURNED WITH BANNERS FLYING, +FORMED UP AT INTERVALS, AND WHEELED ROUND OTHER SIMILAR MASSES OF +INFANTRY IN DIFFERENT UNIFORMS; NOW WAS HEARD THE RHYTHMIC BEAT OF +HOOFS AND THE JINGLING OF SHOWY CAVALRY IN BLUE, RED, AND GREEN BRAIDED +UNIFORMS, WITH SMARTLY DRESSED BANDSMEN IN FRONT MOUNTED ON BLACK, ROAN, +OR GRAY HORSES; THEN AGAIN, SPREADING OUT WITH THE BRAZEN CLATTER OF THE +POLISHED SHINING CANNON THAT QUIVERED ON THE GUN CARRIAGES AND WITH +THE SMELL OF LINSTOCKS, CAME THE ARTILLERY WHICH CRAWLED BETWEEN THE +INFANTRY AND CAVALRY AND TOOK UP ITS APPOINTED POSITION. NOT ONLY THE +GENERALS IN FULL PARADE UNIFORMS, WITH THEIR THIN OR THICK WAISTS DRAWN +IN TO THE UTMOST, THEIR RED NECKS SQUEEZED INTO THEIR STIFF COLLARS, AND +WEARING SCARVES AND ALL THEIR DECORATIONS, NOT ONLY THE ELEGANT, POMADED +OFFICERS, BUT EVERY SOLDIER WITH HIS FRESHLY WASHED AND SHAVEN FACE AND +HIS WEAPONS CLEAN AND POLISHED TO THE UTMOST, AND EVERY HORSE GROOMED +TILL ITS COAT SHONE LIKE SATIN AND EVERY HAIR OF ITS WETTED MANE LAY +SMOOTH—FELT THAT NO SMALL MATTER WAS HAPPENING, BUT AN IMPORTANT AND +SOLEMN AFFAIR. EVERY GENERAL AND EVERY SOLDIER WAS CONSCIOUS OF HIS OWN +INSIGNIFICANCE, AWARE OF BEING BUT A DROP IN THAT OCEAN OF MEN, AND +YET AT THE SAME TIME WAS CONSCIOUS OF HIS STRENGTH AS A PART OF THAT +ENORMOUS WHOLE. + +FROM EARLY MORNING STRENUOUS ACTIVITIES AND EFFORTS HAD BEGUN AND BY TEN +O’CLOCK ALL HAD BEEN BROUGHT INTO DUE ORDER. THE RANKS WERE DRAWN +UP ON THE VAST FIELD. THE WHOLE ARMY WAS EXTENDED IN THREE LINES: THE +CAVALRY IN FRONT, BEHIND IT THE ARTILLERY, AND BEHIND THAT AGAIN THE +INFANTRY. + +A SPACE LIKE A STREET WAS LEFT BETWEEN EACH TWO LINES OF TROOPS. THE +THREE PARTS OF THAT ARMY WERE SHARPLY DISTINGUISHED: KUTúZOV’S +FIGHTING ARMY (WITH THE PáVLOGRADS ON THE RIGHT FLANK OF THE FRONT); +THOSE RECENTLY ARRIVED FROM RUSSIA, BOTH GUARDS AND REGIMENTS OF THE +LINE; AND THE AUSTRIAN TROOPS. BUT THEY ALL STOOD IN THE SAME LINES, +UNDER ONE COMMAND, AND IN A LIKE ORDER. + +LIKE WIND OVER LEAVES RAN AN EXCITED WHISPER: “THEY’RE COMING! +THEY’RE COMING!” ALARMED VOICES WERE HEARD, AND A STIR OF FINAL +PREPARATION SWEPT OVER ALL THE TROOPS. + +FROM THE DIRECTION OF OLMüTZ IN FRONT OF THEM, A GROUP WAS SEEN +APPROACHING. AND AT THAT MOMENT, THOUGH THE DAY WAS STILL, A LIGHT GUST +OF WIND BLOWING OVER THE ARMY SLIGHTLY STIRRED THE STREAMERS ON THE +LANCES AND THE UNFOLDED STANDARDS FLUTTERED AGAINST THEIR STAFFS. IT +LOOKED AS IF BY THAT SLIGHT MOTION THE ARMY ITSELF WAS EXPRESSING ITS +JOY AT THE APPROACH OF THE EMPERORS. ONE VOICE WAS HEARD SHOUTING: +“EYES FRONT!” THEN, LIKE THE CROWING OF COCKS AT SUNRISE, THIS WAS +REPEATED BY OTHERS FROM VARIOUS SIDES AND ALL BECAME SILENT. + +IN THE DEATHLIKE STILLNESS ONLY THE TRAMP OF HORSES WAS HEARD. THIS +WAS THE EMPERORS’ SUITES. THE EMPERORS RODE UP TO THE FLANK, AND THE +TRUMPETS OF THE FIRST CAVALRY REGIMENT PLAYED THE GENERAL MARCH. IT +SEEMED AS THOUGH NOT THE TRUMPETERS WERE PLAYING, BUT AS IF THE ARMY +ITSELF, REJOICING AT THE EMPERORS’ APPROACH, HAD NATURALLY BURST INTO +MUSIC. AMID THESE SOUNDS, ONLY THE YOUTHFUL KINDLY VOICE OF THE EMPEROR +ALEXANDER WAS CLEARLY HEARD. HE GAVE THE WORDS OF GREETING, AND THE +FIRST REGIMENT ROARED “HURRAH!” SO DEAFENINGLY, CONTINUOUSLY, AND +JOYFULLY THAT THE MEN THEMSELVES WERE AWED BY THEIR MULTITUDE AND THE +IMMENSITY OF THE POWER THEY CONSTITUTED. + +ROSTóV, STANDING IN THE FRONT LINES OF KUTúZOV’S ARMY WHICH THE TSAR +APPROACHED FIRST, EXPERIENCED THE SAME FEELING AS EVERY OTHER MAN IN +THAT ARMY: A FEELING OF SELF-FORGETFULNESS, A PROUD CONSCIOUSNESS OF +MIGHT, AND A PASSIONATE ATTRACTION TO HIM WHO WAS THE CAUSE OF THIS +TRIUMPH. + +HE FELT THAT AT A SINGLE WORD FROM THAT MAN ALL THIS VAST MASS (AND HE +HIMSELF AN INSIGNIFICANT ATOM IN IT) WOULD GO THROUGH FIRE AND WATER, +COMMIT CRIME, DIE, OR PERFORM DEEDS OF HIGHEST HEROISM, AND SO HE COULD +NOT BUT TREMBLE AND HIS HEART STAND STILL AT THE IMMINENCE OF THAT WORD. + +“HURRAH! HURRAH! HURRAH!” THUNDERED FROM ALL SIDES, ONE REGIMENT +AFTER ANOTHER GREETING THE TSAR WITH THE STRAINS OF THE MARCH, AND THEN +“HURRAH!”... THEN THE GENERAL MARCH, AND AGAIN “HURRAH! HURRAH!” +GROWING EVER STRONGER AND FULLER AND MERGING INTO A DEAFENING ROAR. + +TILL THE TSAR REACHED IT, EACH REGIMENT IN ITS SILENCE AND IMMOBILITY +SEEMED LIKE A LIFELESS BODY, BUT AS SOON AS HE CAME UP IT BECAME ALIVE, +ITS THUNDER JOINING THE ROAR OF THE WHOLE LINE ALONG WHICH HE HAD +ALREADY PASSED. THROUGH THE TERRIBLE AND DEAFENING ROAR OF THOSE VOICES, +AMID THE SQUARE MASSES OF TROOPS STANDING MOTIONLESS AS IF TURNED TO +STONE, HUNDREDS OF RIDERS COMPOSING THE SUITES MOVED CARELESSLY BUT +SYMMETRICALLY AND ABOVE ALL FREELY, AND IN FRONT OF THEM TWO MEN—THE +EMPERORS. UPON THEM THE UNDIVIDED, TENSELY PASSIONATE ATTENTION OF THAT +WHOLE MASS OF MEN WAS CONCENTRATED. + +THE HANDSOME YOUNG EMPEROR ALEXANDER, IN THE UNIFORM OF THE HORSE +GUARDS, WEARING A COCKED HAT WITH ITS PEAKS FRONT AND BACK, WITH HIS +PLEASANT FACE AND RESONANT THOUGH NOT LOUD VOICE, ATTRACTED EVERYONE’S +ATTENTION. + +ROSTóV WAS NOT FAR FROM THE TRUMPETERS, AND WITH HIS KEEN SIGHT HAD +RECOGNIZED THE TSAR AND WATCHED HIS APPROACH. WHEN HE WAS WITHIN TWENTY +PACES, AND NICHOLAS COULD CLEARLY DISTINGUISH EVERY DETAIL OF HIS +HANDSOME, HAPPY YOUNG FACE, HE EXPERIENCED A FEELING OF TENDERNESS +AND ECSTASY SUCH AS HE HAD NEVER BEFORE KNOWN. EVERY TRAIT AND EVERY +MOVEMENT OF THE TSAR’S SEEMED TO HIM ENCHANTING. + +STOPPING IN FRONT OF THE PáVLOGRADS, THE TSAR SAID SOMETHING IN FRENCH +TO THE AUSTRIAN EMPEROR AND SMILED. + +SEEING THAT SMILE, ROSTóV INVOLUNTARILY SMILED HIMSELF AND FELT A STILL +STRONGER FLOW OF LOVE FOR HIS SOVEREIGN. HE LONGED TO SHOW THAT LOVE IN +SOME WAY AND KNOWING THAT THIS WAS IMPOSSIBLE WAS READY TO CRY. THE TSAR +CALLED THE COLONEL OF THE REGIMENT AND SAID A FEW WORDS TO HIM. + +“OH GOD, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO ME IF THE EMPEROR SPOKE TO ME?” +THOUGHT ROSTóV. “I SHOULD DIE OF HAPPINESS!” + +THE TSAR ADDRESSED THE OFFICERS ALSO: “I THANK YOU ALL, GENTLEMEN, I +THANK YOU WITH MY WHOLE HEART.” TO ROSTóV EVERY WORD SOUNDED LIKE A +VOICE FROM HEAVEN. HOW GLADLY WOULD HE HAVE DIED AT ONCE FOR HIS TSAR! + +“YOU HAVE EARNED THE ST. GEORGE’S STANDARDS AND WILL BE WORTHY OF +THEM.” + +“OH, TO DIE, TO DIE FOR HIM,” THOUGHT ROSTóV. + +THE TSAR SAID SOMETHING MORE WHICH ROSTóV DID NOT HEAR, AND THE +SOLDIERS, STRAINING THEIR LUNGS, SHOUTED “HURRAH!” + +ROSTóV TOO, BENDING OVER HIS SADDLE, SHOUTED “HURRAH!” WITH ALL HIS +MIGHT, FEELING THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO INJURE HIMSELF BY THAT SHOUT, IF +ONLY TO EXPRESS HIS RAPTURE FULLY. + +THE TSAR STOPPED A FEW MINUTES IN FRONT OF THE HUSSARS AS IF UNDECIDED. + +“HOW CAN THE EMPEROR BE UNDECIDED?” THOUGHT ROSTóV, BUT THEN EVEN +THIS INDECISION APPEARED TO HIM MAJESTIC AND ENCHANTING, LIKE EVERYTHING +ELSE THE TSAR DID. + +THAT HESITATION LASTED ONLY AN INSTANT. THE TSAR’S FOOT, IN THE NARROW +POINTED BOOT THEN FASHIONABLE, TOUCHED THE GROIN OF THE BOBTAILED BAY +MARE HE RODE, HIS HAND IN A WHITE GLOVE GATHERED UP THE REINS, AND HE +MOVED OFF ACCOMPANIED BY AN IRREGULARLY SWAYING SEA OF AIDES-DE-CAMP. +FARTHER AND FARTHER HE RODE AWAY, STOPPING AT OTHER REGIMENTS, TILL AT +LAST ONLY HIS WHITE PLUMES WERE VISIBLE TO ROSTóV FROM AMID THE SUITES +THAT SURROUNDED THE EMPERORS. + +AMONG THE GENTLEMEN OF THE SUITE, ROSTóV NOTICED BOLKóNSKI, SITTING +HIS HORSE INDOLENTLY AND CARELESSLY. ROSTóV RECALLED THEIR QUARREL OF +YESTERDAY AND THE QUESTION PRESENTED ITSELF WHETHER HE OUGHT OR OUGHT +NOT TO CHALLENGE BOLKóNSKI. “OF COURSE NOT!” HE NOW THOUGHT. “IS +IT WORTH THINKING OR SPEAKING OF IT AT SUCH A MOMENT? AT A TIME OF SUCH +LOVE, SUCH RAPTURE, AND SUCH SELF-SACRIFICE, WHAT DO ANY OF OUR QUARRELS +AND AFFRONTS MATTER? I LOVE AND FORGIVE EVERYBODY NOW.” + +WHEN THE EMPEROR HAD PASSED NEARLY ALL THE REGIMENTS, THE TROOPS BEGAN +A CEREMONIAL MARCH PAST HIM, AND ROSTóV ON BEDOUIN, RECENTLY PURCHASED +FROM DENíSOV, RODE PAST TOO, AT THE REAR OF HIS SQUADRON—THAT IS, +ALONE AND IN FULL VIEW OF THE EMPEROR. + +BEFORE HE REACHED HIM, ROSTóV, WHO WAS A SPLENDID HORSEMAN, SPURRED +BEDOUIN TWICE AND SUCCESSFULLY PUT HIM TO THE SHOWY TROT IN WHICH THE +ANIMAL WENT WHEN EXCITED. BENDING HIS FOAMING MUZZLE TO HIS CHEST, HIS +TAIL EXTENDED, BEDOUIN, AS IF ALSO CONSCIOUS OF THE EMPEROR’S EYE +UPON HIM, PASSED SPLENDIDLY, LIFTING HIS FEET WITH A HIGH AND GRACEFUL +ACTION, AS IF FLYING THROUGH THE AIR WITHOUT TOUCHING THE GROUND. + +ROSTóV HIMSELF, HIS LEGS WELL BACK AND HIS STOMACH DRAWN IN AND FEELING +HIMSELF ONE WITH HIS HORSE, RODE PAST THE EMPEROR WITH A FROWNING BUT +BLISSFUL FACE “LIKE A VEWY DEVIL,” AS DENíSOV EXPRESSED IT. + +“FINE FELLOWS, THE PáVLOGRADS!” REMARKED THE EMPEROR. + +“MY GOD, HOW HAPPY I SHOULD BE IF HE ORDERED ME TO LEAP INTO THE FIRE +THIS INSTANT!” THOUGHT ROSTóV. + +WHEN THE REVIEW WAS OVER, THE NEWLY ARRIVED OFFICERS, AND ALSO +KUTúZOV’S, COLLECTED IN GROUPS AND BEGAN TO TALK ABOUT THE AWARDS, +ABOUT THE AUSTRIANS AND THEIR UNIFORMS, ABOUT THEIR LINES, ABOUT +BONAPARTE, AND HOW BADLY THE LATTER WOULD FARE NOW, ESPECIALLY IF THE +ESSEN CORPS ARRIVED AND PRUSSIA TOOK OUR SIDE. + +BUT THE TALK IN EVERY GROUP WAS CHIEFLY ABOUT THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER. HIS +EVERY WORD AND MOVEMENT WAS DESCRIBED WITH ECSTASY. + +THEY ALL HAD BUT ONE WISH: TO ADVANCE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AGAINST THE +ENEMY UNDER THE EMPEROR’S COMMAND. COMMANDED BY THE EMPEROR HIMSELF +THEY COULD NOT FAIL TO VANQUISH ANYONE, BE IT WHOM IT MIGHT: SO THOUGHT +ROSTóV AND MOST OF THE OFFICERS AFTER THE REVIEW. + +ALL WERE THEN MORE CONFIDENT OF VICTORY THAN THE WINNING OF TWO BATTLES +WOULD HAVE MADE THEM. + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +THE DAY AFTER THE REVIEW, BORíS, IN HIS BEST UNIFORM AND WITH HIS +COMRADE BERG’S BEST WISHES FOR SUCCESS, RODE TO OLMüTZ TO SEE +BOLKóNSKI, WISHING TO PROFIT BY HIS FRIENDLINESS AND OBTAIN FOR HIMSELF +THE BEST POST HE COULD—PREFERABLY THAT OF ADJUTANT TO SOME IMPORTANT +PERSONAGE, A POSITION IN THE ARMY WHICH SEEMED TO HIM MOST ATTRACTIVE. +“IT IS ALL VERY WELL FOR ROSTóV, WHOSE FATHER SENDS HIM TEN THOUSAND +RUBLES AT A TIME, TO TALK ABOUT NOT WISHING TO CRINGE TO ANYBODY AND NOT +BE ANYONE’S LACKEY, BUT I WHO HAVE NOTHING BUT MY BRAINS HAVE TO +MAKE A CAREER AND MUST NOT MISS OPPORTUNITIES, BUT MUST AVAIL MYSELF OF +THEM!” HE REFLECTED. + +HE DID NOT FIND PRINCE ANDREW IN OLMüTZ THAT DAY, BUT THE APPEARANCE OF +THE TOWN WHERE THE HEADQUARTERS AND THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS WERE STATIONED +AND THE TWO EMPERORS WERE LIVING WITH THEIR SUITES, HOUSEHOLDS, AND +COURTS ONLY STRENGTHENED HIS DESIRE TO BELONG TO THAT HIGHER WORLD. + +HE KNEW NO ONE, AND DESPITE HIS SMART GUARDSMAN’S UNIFORM, ALL THESE +EXALTED PERSONAGES PASSING IN THE STREETS IN THEIR ELEGANT CARRIAGES +WITH THEIR PLUMES, RIBBONS, AND MEDALS, BOTH COURTIERS AND MILITARY +MEN, SEEMED SO IMMEASURABLY ABOVE HIM, AN INSIGNIFICANT OFFICER OF THE +GUARDS, THAT THEY NOT ONLY DID NOT WISH TO, BUT SIMPLY COULD NOT, BE +AWARE OF HIS EXISTENCE. AT THE QUARTERS OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, +KUTúZOV, WHERE HE INQUIRED FOR BOLKóNSKI, ALL THE ADJUTANTS AND EVEN +THE ORDERLIES LOOKED AT HIM AS IF THEY WISHED TO IMPRESS ON HIM THAT A +GREAT MANY OFFICERS LIKE HIM WERE ALWAYS COMING THERE AND THAT EVERYBODY +WAS HEARTILY SICK OF THEM. IN SPITE OF THIS, OR RATHER BECAUSE OF +IT, NEXT DAY, NOVEMBER 15, AFTER DINNER HE AGAIN WENT TO OLMüTZ AND, +ENTERING THE HOUSE OCCUPIED BY KUTúZOV, ASKED FOR BOLKóNSKI. PRINCE +ANDREW WAS IN AND BORíS WAS SHOWN INTO A LARGE HALL PROBABLY FORMERLY +USED FOR DANCING, BUT IN WHICH FIVE BEDS NOW STOOD, AND FURNITURE OF +VARIOUS KINDS: A TABLE, CHAIRS, AND A CLAVICHORD. ONE ADJUTANT, NEAREST +THE DOOR, WAS SITTING AT THE TABLE IN A PERSIAN DRESSING GOWN, WRITING. +ANOTHER, THE RED, STOUT NESVíTSKI, LAY ON A BED WITH HIS ARMS UNDER HIS +HEAD, LAUGHING WITH AN OFFICER WHO HAD SAT DOWN BESIDE HIM. A THIRD WAS +PLAYING A VIENNESE WALTZ ON THE CLAVICHORD, WHILE A FOURTH, LYING ON +THE CLAVICHORD, SANG THE TUNE. BOLKóNSKI WAS NOT THERE. NONE OF THESE +GENTLEMEN CHANGED HIS POSITION ON SEEING BORíS. THE ONE WHO WAS WRITING +AND WHOM BORíS ADDRESSED TURNED ROUND CROSSLY AND TOLD HIM BOLKóNSKI +WAS ON DUTY AND THAT HE SHOULD GO THROUGH THE DOOR ON THE LEFT INTO THE +RECEPTION ROOM IF HE WISHED TO SEE HIM. BORíS THANKED HIM AND WENT TO +THE RECEPTION ROOM, WHERE HE FOUND SOME TEN OFFICERS AND GENERALS. + +WHEN HE ENTERED, PRINCE ANDREW, HIS EYES DROOPING CONTEMPTUOUSLY (WITH +THAT PECULIAR EXPRESSION OF POLITE WEARINESS WHICH PLAINLY SAYS, “IF +IT WERE NOT MY DUTY I WOULD NOT TALK TO YOU FOR A MOMENT”), WAS +LISTENING TO AN OLD RUSSIAN GENERAL WITH DECORATIONS, WHO STOOD VERY +ERECT, ALMOST ON TIPTOE, WITH A SOLDIER’S OBSEQUIOUS EXPRESSION ON HIS +PURPLE FACE, REPORTING SOMETHING. + +“VERY WELL, THEN, BE SO GOOD AS TO WAIT,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW TO THE +GENERAL, IN RUSSIAN, SPEAKING WITH THE FRENCH INTONATION HE AFFECTED +WHEN HE WISHED TO SPEAK CONTEMPTUOUSLY, AND NOTICING BORíS, PRINCE +ANDREW, PAYING NO MORE HEED TO THE GENERAL WHO RAN AFTER HIM IMPLORING +HIM TO HEAR SOMETHING MORE, NODDED AND TURNED TO HIM WITH A CHEERFUL +SMILE. + +AT THAT MOMENT BORíS CLEARLY REALIZED WHAT HE HAD BEFORE SURMISED, THAT +IN THE ARMY, BESIDES THE SUBORDINATION AND DISCIPLINE PRESCRIBED IN THE +MILITARY CODE, WHICH HE AND THE OTHERS KNEW IN THE REGIMENT, THERE WAS +ANOTHER, MORE IMPORTANT, SUBORDINATION, WHICH MADE THIS TIGHT-LACED, +PURPLE-FACED GENERAL WAIT RESPECTFULLY WHILE CAPTAIN PRINCE ANDREW, FOR +HIS OWN PLEASURE, CHOSE TO CHAT WITH LIEUTENANT DRUBETSKóY. MORE THAN +EVER WAS BORíS RESOLVED TO SERVE IN FUTURE NOT ACCORDING TO THE WRITTEN +CODE, BUT UNDER THIS UNWRITTEN LAW. HE FELT NOW THAT MERELY BY HAVING +BEEN RECOMMENDED TO PRINCE ANDREW HE HAD ALREADY RISEN ABOVE THE GENERAL +WHO AT THE FRONT HAD THE POWER TO ANNIHILATE HIM, A LIEUTENANT OF THE +GUARDS. PRINCE ANDREW CAME UP TO HIM AND TOOK HIS HAND. + +“I AM VERY SORRY YOU DID NOT FIND ME IN YESTERDAY. I WAS FUSSING ABOUT +WITH GERMANS ALL DAY. WE WENT WITH WEYROTHER TO SURVEY THE DISPOSITIONS. +WHEN GERMANS START BEING ACCURATE, THERE’S NO END TO IT!” + +BORíS SMILED, AS IF HE UNDERSTOOD WHAT PRINCE ANDREW WAS ALLUDING TO +AS SOMETHING GENERALLY KNOWN. BUT IT WAS THE FIRST TIME HE HAD HEARD +WEYROTHER’S NAME, OR EVEN THE TERM “DISPOSITIONS.” + +“WELL, MY DEAR FELLOW, SO YOU STILL WANT TO BE AN ADJUTANT? I HAVE +BEEN THINKING ABOUT YOU.” + +“YES, I WAS THINKING”—FOR SOME REASON BORíS COULD NOT HELP +BLUSHING—“OF ASKING THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. HE HAS HAD A LETTER FROM +PRINCE KURáGIN ABOUT ME. I ONLY WANTED TO ASK BECAUSE I FEAR THE GUARDS +WON’T BE IN ACTION,” HE ADDED AS IF IN APOLOGY. + +“ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT. WE’LL TALK IT OVER,” REPLIED PRINCE ANDREW. +“ONLY LET ME REPORT THIS GENTLEMAN’S BUSINESS, AND I SHALL BE AT +YOUR DISPOSAL.” + +WHILE PRINCE ANDREW WENT TO REPORT ABOUT THE PURPLE-FACED GENERAL, THAT +GENTLEMAN—EVIDENTLY NOT SHARING BORíS’ CONCEPTION OF THE ADVANTAGES +OF THE UNWRITTEN CODE OF SUBORDINATION—LOOKED SO FIXEDLY AT THE +PRESUMPTUOUS LIEUTENANT WHO HAD PREVENTED HIS FINISHING WHAT HE HAD TO +SAY TO THE ADJUTANT THAT BORíS FELT UNCOMFORTABLE. HE TURNED AWAY AND +WAITED IMPATIENTLY FOR PRINCE ANDREW’S RETURN FROM THE COMMANDER IN +CHIEF’S ROOM. + +“YOU SEE, MY DEAR FELLOW, I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT YOU,” +SAID PRINCE ANDREW WHEN THEY HAD GONE INTO THE LARGE ROOM WHERE THE +CLAVICHORD WAS. “IT’S NO USE YOUR GOING TO THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. +HE WOULD SAY A LOT OF PLEASANT THINGS, ASK YOU TO DINNER” (“THAT +WOULD NOT BE BAD AS REGARDS THE UNWRITTEN CODE,” THOUGHT BORíS), +“BUT NOTHING MORE WOULD COME OF IT. THERE WILL SOON BE A BATTALION OF +US AIDES-DE-CAMP AND ADJUTANTS! BUT THIS IS WHAT WE’LL DO: I HAVE +A GOOD FRIEND, AN ADJUTANT GENERAL AND AN EXCELLENT FELLOW, PRINCE +DOLGORúKOV; AND THOUGH YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT, THE FACT IS THAT NOW +KUTúZOV WITH HIS STAFF AND ALL OF US COUNT FOR NOTHING. EVERYTHING IS +NOW CENTERED ROUND THE EMPEROR. SO WE WILL GO TO DOLGORúKOV; I HAVE TO +GO THERE ANYHOW AND I HAVE ALREADY SPOKEN TO HIM ABOUT YOU. WE SHALL +SEE WHETHER HE CANNOT ATTACH YOU TO HIMSELF OR FIND A PLACE FOR YOU +SOMEWHERE NEARER THE SUN.” + +PRINCE ANDREW ALWAYS BECAME SPECIALLY KEEN WHEN HE HAD TO GUIDE A YOUNG +MAN AND HELP HIM TO WORLDLY SUCCESS. UNDER COVER OF OBTAINING HELP +OF THIS KIND FOR ANOTHER, WHICH FROM PRIDE HE WOULD NEVER ACCEPT FOR +HIMSELF, HE KEPT IN TOUCH WITH THE CIRCLE WHICH CONFERS SUCCESS AND +WHICH ATTRACTED HIM. HE VERY READILY TOOK UP BORíS’ CAUSE AND WENT +WITH HIM TO DOLGORúKOV. + +IT WAS LATE IN THE EVENING WHEN THEY ENTERED THE PALACE AT OLMüTZ +OCCUPIED BY THE EMPERORS AND THEIR RETINUES. + +THAT SAME DAY A COUNCIL OF WAR HAD BEEN HELD IN WHICH ALL THE MEMBERS OF +THE HOFKRIEGSRATH AND BOTH EMPERORS TOOK PART. AT THAT COUNCIL, CONTRARY +TO THE VIEWS OF THE OLD GENERALS KUTúZOV AND PRINCE SCHWARTZENBERG, IT +HAD BEEN DECIDED TO ADVANCE IMMEDIATELY AND GIVE BATTLE TO BONAPARTE. +THE COUNCIL OF WAR WAS JUST OVER WHEN PRINCE ANDREW ACCOMPANIED +BY BORíS ARRIVED AT THE PALACE TO FIND DOLGORúKOV. EVERYONE AT +HEADQUARTERS WAS STILL UNDER THE SPELL OF THE DAY’S COUNCIL, AT WHICH +THE PARTY OF THE YOUNG HAD TRIUMPHED. THE VOICES OF THOSE WHO COUNSELED +DELAY AND ADVISED WAITING FOR SOMETHING ELSE BEFORE ADVANCING HAD BEEN +SO COMPLETELY SILENCED AND THEIR ARGUMENTS CONFUTED BY SUCH CONCLUSIVE +EVIDENCE OF THE ADVANTAGES OF ATTACKING THAT WHAT HAD BEEN DISCUSSED +AT THE COUNCIL—THE COMING BATTLE AND THE VICTORY THAT WOULD CERTAINLY +RESULT FROM IT—NO LONGER SEEMED TO BE IN THE FUTURE BUT IN THE PAST. +ALL THE ADVANTAGES WERE ON OUR SIDE. OUR ENORMOUS FORCES, UNDOUBTEDLY +SUPERIOR TO NAPOLEON’S, WERE CONCENTRATED IN ONE PLACE, THE TROOPS +INSPIRED BY THE EMPERORS’ PRESENCE WERE EAGER FOR ACTION. THE +STRATEGIC POSITION WHERE THE OPERATIONS WOULD TAKE PLACE WAS FAMILIAR IN +ALL ITS DETAILS TO THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL WEYROTHER: A LUCKY ACCIDENT HAD +ORDAINED THAT THE AUSTRIAN ARMY SHOULD MANEUVER THE PREVIOUS YEAR ON THE +VERY FIELDS WHERE THE FRENCH HAD NOW TO BE FOUGHT; THE ADJACENT +LOCALITY WAS KNOWN AND SHOWN IN EVERY DETAIL ON THE MAPS, AND BONAPARTE, +EVIDENTLY WEAKENED, WAS UNDERTAKING NOTHING. + +DOLGORúKOV, ONE OF THE WARMEST ADVOCATES OF AN ATTACK, HAD JUST +RETURNED FROM THE COUNCIL, TIRED AND EXHAUSTED BUT EAGER AND PROUD +OF THE VICTORY THAT HAD BEEN GAINED. PRINCE ANDREW INTRODUCED HIS +PROTéGé, BUT PRINCE DOLGORúKOV POLITELY AND FIRMLY PRESSING HIS HAND +SAID NOTHING TO BORíS AND, EVIDENTLY UNABLE TO SUPPRESS THE THOUGHTS +WHICH WERE UPPERMOST IN HIS MIND AT THAT MOMENT, ADDRESSED PRINCE ANDREW +IN FRENCH. + +“AH, MY DEAR FELLOW, WHAT A BATTLE WE HAVE GAINED! GOD GRANT THAT +THE ONE THAT WILL RESULT FROM IT WILL BE AS VICTORIOUS! HOWEVER, DEAR +FELLOW,” HE SAID ABRUPTLY AND EAGERLY, “I MUST CONFESS TO HAVING +BEEN UNJUST TO THE AUSTRIANS AND ESPECIALLY TO WEYROTHER. WHAT +EXACTITUDE, WHAT MINUTENESS, WHAT KNOWLEDGE OF THE LOCALITY, WHAT +FORESIGHT FOR EVERY EVENTUALITY, EVERY POSSIBILITY EVEN TO THE SMALLEST +DETAIL! NO, MY DEAR FELLOW, NO CONDITIONS BETTER THAN OUR PRESENT ONES +COULD HAVE BEEN DEVISED. THIS COMBINATION OF AUSTRIAN PRECISION WITH +RUSSIAN VALOR—WHAT MORE COULD BE WISHED FOR?” + +“SO THE ATTACK IS DEFINITELY RESOLVED ON?” ASKED BOLKóNSKI. + +“AND DO YOU KNOW, MY DEAR FELLOW, IT SEEMS TO ME THAT BONAPARTE HAS +DECIDEDLY LOST BEARINGS, YOU KNOW THAT A LETTER WAS RECEIVED FROM HIM +TODAY FOR THE EMPEROR.” DOLGORúKOV SMILED SIGNIFICANTLY. + +“IS THAT SO? AND WHAT DID HE SAY?” INQUIRED BOLKóNSKI. + +“WHAT CAN HE SAY? TRA-DI-RI-DI-RA AND SO ON... MERELY TO GAIN TIME. +I TELL YOU HE IS IN OUR HANDS, THAT’S CERTAIN! BUT WHAT WAS MOST +AMUSING,” HE CONTINUED, WITH A SUDDEN, GOOD-NATURED LAUGH, “WAS THAT +WE COULD NOT THINK HOW TO ADDRESS THE REPLY! IF NOT AS ‘CONSUL’ +AND OF COURSE NOT AS ‘EMPEROR,’ IT SEEMED TO ME IT SHOULD BE TO +‘GENERAL BONAPARTE.’” + +“BUT BETWEEN NOT RECOGNIZING HIM AS EMPEROR AND CALLING HIM GENERAL +BONAPARTE, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE,” REMARKED BOLKóNSKI. + +“THAT’S JUST IT,” INTERRUPTED DOLGORúKOV QUICKLY, LAUGHING. +“YOU KNOW BILíBIN—HE’S A VERY CLEVER FELLOW. HE SUGGESTED +ADDRESSING HIM AS ‘USURPER AND ENEMY OF MANKIND.’” + +DOLGORúKOV LAUGHED MERRILY. + +“ONLY THAT?” SAID BOLKóNSKI. + +“ALL THE SAME, IT WAS BILíBIN WHO FOUND A SUITABLE FORM FOR THE +ADDRESS. HE IS A WISE AND CLEVER FELLOW.” + +“WHAT WAS IT?” + +“TO THE HEAD OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT... AU CHEF DU GOUVERNEMENT +FRANçAIS,” SAID DOLGORúKOV, WITH GRAVE SATISFACTION. “GOOD, +WASN’T IT?” + +“YES, BUT HE WILL DISLIKE IT EXTREMELY,” SAID BOLKóNSKI. + +“OH YES, VERY MUCH! MY BROTHER KNOWS HIM, HE’S DINED WITH HIM—THE +PRESENT EMPEROR—MORE THAN ONCE IN PARIS, AND TELLS ME HE NEVER MET A +MORE CUNNING OR SUBTLE DIPLOMATIST—YOU KNOW, A COMBINATION OF FRENCH +ADROITNESS AND ITALIAN PLAY-ACTING! DO YOU KNOW THE TALE ABOUT HIM AND +COUNT MARKóV? COUNT MARKóV WAS THE ONLY MAN WHO KNEW HOW TO HANDLE +HIM. YOU KNOW THE STORY OF THE HANDKERCHIEF? IT IS DELIGHTFUL!” + +AND THE TALKATIVE DOLGORúKOV, TURNING NOW TO BORíS, NOW TO PRINCE +ANDREW, TOLD HOW BONAPARTE WISHING TO TEST MARKóV, OUR AMBASSADOR, +PURPOSELY DROPPED A HANDKERCHIEF IN FRONT OF HIM AND STOOD LOOKING +AT MARKóV, PROBABLY EXPECTING MARKóV TO PICK IT UP FOR HIM, AND HOW +MARKóV IMMEDIATELY DROPPED HIS OWN BESIDE IT AND PICKED IT UP WITHOUT +TOUCHING BONAPARTE’S. + +“DELIGHTFUL!” SAID BOLKóNSKI. “BUT I HAVE COME TO YOU, PRINCE, +AS A PETITIONER ON BEHALF OF THIS YOUNG MAN. YOU SEE...” BUT +BEFORE PRINCE ANDREW COULD FINISH, AN AIDE-DE-CAMP CAME IN TO SUMMON +DOLGORúKOV TO THE EMPEROR. + +“OH, WHAT A NUISANCE,” SAID DOLGORúKOV, GETTING UP HURRIEDLY AND +PRESSING THE HANDS OF PRINCE ANDREW AND BORíS. “YOU KNOW I SHOULD +BE VERY GLAD TO DO ALL IN MY POWER BOTH FOR YOU AND FOR THIS DEAR YOUNG +MAN.” AGAIN HE PRESSED THE HAND OF THE LATTER WITH AN EXPRESSION OF +GOOD-NATURED, SINCERE, AND ANIMATED LEVITY. “BUT YOU SEE... ANOTHER +TIME!” + +BORíS WAS EXCITED BY THE THOUGHT OF BEING SO CLOSE TO THE HIGHER POWERS +AS HE FELT HIMSELF TO BE AT THAT MOMENT. HE WAS CONSCIOUS THAT HERE +HE WAS IN CONTACT WITH THE SPRINGS THAT SET IN MOTION THE ENORMOUS +MOVEMENTS OF THE MASS OF WHICH IN HIS REGIMENT HE FELT HIMSELF A TINY, +OBEDIENT, AND INSIGNIFICANT ATOM. THEY FOLLOWED PRINCE DOLGORúKOV OUT +INTO THE CORRIDOR AND MET—COMING OUT OF THE DOOR OF THE EMPEROR’S +ROOM BY WHICH DOLGORúKOV HAD ENTERED—A SHORT MAN IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES +WITH A CLEVER FACE AND SHARPLY PROJECTING JAW WHICH, WITHOUT SPOILING +HIS FACE, GAVE HIM A PECULIAR VIVACITY AND SHIFTINESS OF EXPRESSION. +THIS SHORT MAN NODDED TO DOLGORúKOV AS TO AN INTIMATE FRIEND AND STARED +AT PRINCE ANDREW WITH COOL INTENSITY, WALKING STRAIGHT TOWARD HIM AND +EVIDENTLY EXPECTING HIM TO BOW OR TO STEP OUT OF HIS WAY. PRINCE ANDREW +DID NEITHER: A LOOK OF ANIMOSITY APPEARED ON HIS FACE AND THE OTHER +TURNED AWAY AND WENT DOWN THE SIDE OF THE CORRIDOR. + +“WHO WAS THAT?” ASKED BORíS. + +“HE IS ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE, BUT TO ME MOST UNPLEASANT OF +MEN—THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, PRINCE ADAM CZARTORýSKI.... IT +IS SUCH MEN AS HE WHO DECIDE THE FATE OF NATIONS,” ADDED BOLKóNSKI +WITH A SIGH HE COULD NOT SUPPRESS, AS THEY PASSED OUT OF THE PALACE. + +NEXT DAY, THE ARMY BEGAN ITS CAMPAIGN, AND UP TO THE VERY BATTLE OF +AUSTERLITZ, BORíS WAS UNABLE TO SEE EITHER PRINCE ANDREW OR DOLGORúKOV +AGAIN AND REMAINED FOR A WHILE WITH THE ISMáYLOV REGIMENT. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +AT DAWN ON THE SIXTEENTH OF NOVEMBER, DENíSOV’S SQUADRON, IN +WHICH NICHOLAS ROSTóV SERVED AND WHICH WAS IN PRINCE BAGRATIóN’S +DETACHMENT, MOVED FROM THE PLACE WHERE IT HAD SPENT THE NIGHT, ADVANCING +INTO ACTION AS ARRANGED, AND AFTER GOING BEHIND OTHER COLUMNS FOR +ABOUT TWO THIRDS OF A MILE WAS STOPPED ON THE HIGHROAD. ROSTóV SAW THE +COSSACKS AND THEN THE FIRST AND SECOND SQUADRONS OF HUSSARS AND INFANTRY +BATTALIONS AND ARTILLERY PASS BY AND GO FORWARD AND THEN GENERALS +BAGRATIóN AND DOLGORúKOV RIDE PAST WITH THEIR ADJUTANTS. ALL THE FEAR +BEFORE ACTION WHICH HE HAD EXPERIENCED AS PREVIOUSLY, ALL THE INNER +STRUGGLE TO CONQUER THAT FEAR, ALL HIS DREAMS OF DISTINGUISHING HIMSELF +AS A TRUE HUSSAR IN THIS BATTLE, HAD BEEN WASTED. THEIR SQUADRON +REMAINED IN RESERVE AND NICHOLAS ROSTóV SPENT THAT DAY IN A DULL AND +WRETCHED MOOD. AT NINE IN THE MORNING, HE HEARD FIRING IN FRONT AND +SHOUTS OF HURRAH, AND SAW WOUNDED BEING BROUGHT BACK (THERE WERE NOT +MANY OF THEM), AND AT LAST HE SAW HOW A WHOLE DETACHMENT OF FRENCH +CAVALRY WAS BROUGHT IN, CONVOYED BY A SóTNYA OF COSSACKS. EVIDENTLY THE +AFFAIR WAS OVER AND, THOUGH NOT BIG, HAD BEEN A SUCCESSFUL ENGAGEMENT. +THE MEN AND OFFICERS RETURNING SPOKE OF A BRILLIANT VICTORY, OF THE +OCCUPATION OF THE TOWN OF WISCHAU AND THE CAPTURE OF A WHOLE FRENCH +SQUADRON. THE DAY WAS BRIGHT AND SUNNY AFTER A SHARP NIGHT FROST, AND +THE CHEERFUL GLITTER OF THAT AUTUMN DAY WAS IN KEEPING WITH THE NEWS OF +VICTORY WHICH WAS CONVEYED, NOT ONLY BY THE TALES OF THOSE WHO HAD TAKEN +PART IN IT, BUT ALSO BY THE JOYFUL EXPRESSION ON THE FACES OF SOLDIERS, +OFFICERS, GENERALS, AND ADJUTANTS, AS THEY PASSED ROSTóV GOING OR +COMING. AND NICHOLAS, WHO HAD VAINLY SUFFERED ALL THE DREAD THAT +PRECEDES A BATTLE AND HAD SPENT THAT HAPPY DAY IN INACTIVITY, WAS ALL +THE MORE DEPRESSED. + +“COME HERE, WOSTóV. LET’S DWINK TO DWOWN OUR GWIEF!” SHOUTED +DENíSOV, WHO HAD SETTLED DOWN BY THE ROADSIDE WITH A FLASK AND SOME +FOOD. + +THE OFFICERS GATHERED ROUND DENíSOV’S CANTEEN, EATING AND TALKING. + +“THERE! THEY ARE BRINGING ANOTHER!” CRIED ONE OF THE OFFICERS, +INDICATING A CAPTIVE FRENCH DRAGOON WHO WAS BEING BROUGHT IN ON FOOT BY +TWO COSSACKS. + +ONE OF THEM WAS LEADING BY THE BRIDLE A FINE LARGE FRENCH HORSE HE HAD +TAKEN FROM THE PRISONER. + +“SELL US THAT HORSE!” DENíSOV CALLED OUT TO THE COSSACKS. + +“IF YOU LIKE, YOUR HONOR!” + +THE OFFICERS GOT UP AND STOOD ROUND THE COSSACKS AND THEIR PRISONER. +THE FRENCH DRAGOON WAS A YOUNG ALSATIAN WHO SPOKE FRENCH WITH A GERMAN +ACCENT. HE WAS BREATHLESS WITH AGITATION, HIS FACE WAS RED, AND WHEN +HE HEARD SOME FRENCH SPOKEN HE AT ONCE BEGAN SPEAKING TO THE OFFICERS, +ADDRESSING FIRST ONE, THEN ANOTHER. HE SAID HE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN +TAKEN, IT WAS NOT HIS FAULT BUT THE CORPORAL’S WHO HAD SENT HIM TO +SEIZE SOME HORSECLOTHS, THOUGH HE HAD TOLD HIM THE RUSSIANS WERE THERE. +AND AT EVERY WORD HE ADDED: “BUT DON’T HURT MY LITTLE HORSE!” AND +STROKED THE ANIMAL. IT WAS PLAIN THAT HE DID NOT QUITE GRASP WHERE HE +WAS. NOW HE EXCUSED HIMSELF FOR HAVING BEEN TAKEN PRISONER AND NOW, +IMAGINING HIMSELF BEFORE HIS OWN OFFICERS, INSISTED ON HIS SOLDIERLY +DISCIPLINE AND ZEAL IN THE SERVICE. HE BROUGHT WITH HIM INTO OUR +REARGUARD ALL THE FRESHNESS OF ATMOSPHERE OF THE FRENCH ARMY, WHICH WAS +SO ALIEN TO US. + +THE COSSACKS SOLD THE HORSE FOR TWO GOLD PIECES, AND ROSTóV, BEING THE +RICHEST OF THE OFFICERS NOW THAT HE HAD RECEIVED HIS MONEY, BOUGHT IT. + +“BUT DON’T HURT MY LITTLE HORSE!” SAID THE ALSATIAN GOOD-NATUREDLY +TO ROSTóV WHEN THE ANIMAL WAS HANDED OVER TO THE HUSSAR. + +ROSTóV SMILINGLY REASSURED THE DRAGOON AND GAVE HIM MONEY. + +“ALLEY! ALLEY!” SAID THE COSSACK, TOUCHING THE PRISONER’S ARM TO +MAKE HIM GO ON. + +“THE EMPEROR! THE EMPEROR!” WAS SUDDENLY HEARD AMONG THE HUSSARS. + +ALL BEGAN TO RUN AND BUSTLE, AND ROSTóV SAW COMING UP THE ROAD BEHIND +HIM SEVERAL RIDERS WITH WHITE PLUMES IN THEIR HATS. IN A MOMENT EVERYONE +WAS IN HIS PLACE, WAITING. + +ROSTóV DID NOT KNOW OR REMEMBER HOW HE RAN TO HIS PLACE AND MOUNTED. +INSTANTLY HIS REGRET AT NOT HAVING BEEN IN ACTION AND HIS DEJECTED MOOD +AMID PEOPLE OF WHOM HE WAS WEARY HAD GONE, INSTANTLY EVERY THOUGHT OF +HIMSELF HAD VANISHED. HE WAS FILLED WITH HAPPINESS AT HIS NEARNESS TO +THE EMPEROR. HE FELT THAT THIS NEARNESS BY ITSELF MADE UP TO HIM FOR THE +DAY HE HAD LOST. HE WAS HAPPY AS A LOVER WHEN THE LONGED-FOR MOMENT OF +MEETING ARRIVES. NOT DARING TO LOOK ROUND AND WITHOUT LOOKING ROUND, HE +WAS ECSTATICALLY CONSCIOUS OF HIS APPROACH. HE FELT IT NOT ONLY FROM THE +SOUND OF THE HOOFS OF THE APPROACHING CAVALCADE, BUT BECAUSE AS HE DREW +NEAR EVERYTHING GREW BRIGHTER, MORE JOYFUL, MORE SIGNIFICANT, AND MORE +FESTIVE AROUND HIM. NEARER AND NEARER TO ROSTóV CAME THAT SUN SHEDDING +BEAMS OF MILD AND MAJESTIC LIGHT AROUND, AND ALREADY HE FELT HIMSELF +ENVELOPED IN THOSE BEAMS, HE HEARD HIS VOICE, THAT KINDLY, CALM, +AND MAJESTIC VOICE THAT WAS YET SO SIMPLE! AND AS IF IN ACCORD WITH +ROSTóV’S FEELING, THERE WAS A DEATHLY STILLNESS AMID WHICH WAS HEARD +THE EMPEROR’S VOICE. + +“THE PáVLOGRAD HUSSARS?” HE INQUIRED. + +“THE RESERVES, SIRE!” REPLIED A VOICE, A VERY HUMAN ONE COMPARED TO +THAT WHICH HAD SAID: “THE PáVLOGRAD HUSSARS?” + +THE EMPEROR DREW LEVEL WITH ROSTóV AND HALTED. ALEXANDER’S FACE WAS +EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN IT HAD BEEN THREE DAYS BEFORE AT THE REVIEW. IT +SHONE WITH SUCH GAIETY AND YOUTH, SUCH INNOCENT YOUTH, THAT IT SUGGESTED +THE LIVELINESS OF A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY, AND YET IT WAS THE FACE +OF THE MAJESTIC EMPEROR. CASUALLY, WHILE SURVEYING THE SQUADRON, THE +EMPEROR’S EYES MET ROSTóV’S AND RESTED ON THEM FOR NOT MORE THAN +TWO SECONDS. WHETHER OR NO THE EMPEROR UNDERSTOOD WHAT WAS GOING ON IN +ROSTóV’S SOUL (IT SEEMED TO ROSTóV THAT HE UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING), +AT ANY RATE HIS LIGHT-BLUE EYES GAZED FOR ABOUT TWO SECONDS INTO +ROSTóV’S FACE. A GENTLE, MILD LIGHT POURED FROM THEM. THEN ALL AT +ONCE HE RAISED HIS EYEBROWS, ABRUPTLY TOUCHED HIS HORSE WITH HIS LEFT +FOOT, AND GALLOPED ON. + +THE YOUNGER EMPEROR COULD NOT RESTRAIN HIS WISH TO BE PRESENT AT THE +BATTLE AND, IN SPITE OF THE REMONSTRANCES OF HIS COURTIERS, AT TWELVE +O’CLOCK LEFT THE THIRD COLUMN WITH WHICH HE HAD BEEN AND GALLOPED +TOWARD THE VANGUARD. BEFORE HE CAME UP WITH THE HUSSARS, SEVERAL +ADJUTANTS MET HIM WITH NEWS OF THE SUCCESSFUL RESULT OF THE ACTION. + +THIS BATTLE, WHICH CONSISTED IN THE CAPTURE OF A FRENCH SQUADRON, WAS +REPRESENTED AS A BRILLIANT VICTORY OVER THE FRENCH, AND SO THE +EMPEROR AND THE WHOLE ARMY, ESPECIALLY WHILE THE SMOKE HUNG OVER +THE BATTLEFIELD, BELIEVED THAT THE FRENCH HAD BEEN DEFEATED AND WERE +RETREATING AGAINST THEIR WILL. A FEW MINUTES AFTER THE EMPEROR HAD +PASSED, THE PáVLOGRAD DIVISION WAS ORDERED TO ADVANCE. IN WISCHAU +ITSELF, A PETTY GERMAN TOWN, ROSTóV SAW THE EMPEROR AGAIN. IN THE +MARKET PLACE, WHERE THERE HAD BEEN SOME RATHER HEAVY FIRING BEFORE THE +EMPEROR’S ARRIVAL, LAY SEVERAL KILLED AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS WHOM THERE +HAD NOT BEEN TIME TO MOVE. THE EMPEROR, SURROUNDED BY HIS SUITE +OF OFFICERS AND COURTIERS, WAS RIDING A BOBTAILED CHESTNUT MARE, A +DIFFERENT ONE FROM THAT WHICH HE HAD RIDDEN AT THE REVIEW, AND BENDING +TO ONE SIDE HE GRACEFULLY HELD A GOLD LORGNETTE TO HIS EYES AND LOOKED +AT A SOLDIER WHO LAY PRONE, WITH BLOOD ON HIS UNCOVERED HEAD. THE +WOUNDED SOLDIER WAS SO DIRTY, COARSE, AND REVOLTING THAT HIS PROXIMITY +TO THE EMPEROR SHOCKED ROSTóV. ROSTóV SAW HOW THE EMPEROR’S RATHER +ROUND SHOULDERS SHUDDERED AS IF A COLD SHIVER HAD RUN DOWN THEM, HOW HIS +LEFT FOOT BEGAN CONVULSIVELY TAPPING THE HORSE’S SIDE WITH THE SPUR, +AND HOW THE WELL-TRAINED HORSE LOOKED ROUND UNCONCERNED AND DID NOT +STIR. AN ADJUTANT, DISMOUNTING, LIFTED THE SOLDIER UNDER THE ARMS TO +PLACE HIM ON A STRETCHER THAT HAD BEEN BROUGHT. THE SOLDIER GROANED. + +“GENTLY, GENTLY! CAN’T YOU DO IT MORE GENTLY?” SAID THE EMPEROR +APPARENTLY SUFFERING MORE THAN THE DYING SOLDIER, AND HE RODE AWAY. + +ROSTóV SAW TEARS FILLING THE EMPEROR’S EYES AND HEARD HIM, AS HE WAS +RIDING AWAY, SAY TO CZARTORýSKI: “WHAT A TERRIBLE THING WAR IS: WHAT +A TERRIBLE THING! QUELLE TERRIBLE CHOSE QUE LA GUERRE!” + +THE TROOPS OF THE VANGUARD WERE STATIONED BEFORE WISCHAU, WITHIN SIGHT +OF THE ENEMY’S LINES, WHICH ALL DAY LONG HAD YIELDED GROUND TO US +AT THE LEAST FIRING. THE EMPEROR’S GRATITUDE WAS ANNOUNCED TO THE +VANGUARD, REWARDS WERE PROMISED, AND THE MEN RECEIVED A DOUBLE RATION OF +VODKA. THE CAMPFIRES CRACKLED AND THE SOLDIERS’ SONGS RESOUNDED +EVEN MORE MERRILY THAN ON THE PREVIOUS NIGHT. DENíSOV CELEBRATED HIS +PROMOTION TO THE RANK OF MAJOR, AND ROSTóV, WHO HAD ALREADY DRUNK +ENOUGH, AT THE END OF THE FEAST PROPOSED THE EMPEROR’S HEALTH. “NOT +‘OUR SOVEREIGN, THE EMPEROR,’ AS THEY SAY AT OFFICIAL DINNERS,” +SAID HE, “BUT THE HEALTH OF OUR SOVEREIGN, THAT GOOD, ENCHANTING, AND +GREAT MAN! LET US DRINK TO HIS HEALTH AND TO THE CERTAIN DEFEAT OF THE +FRENCH!” + +“IF WE FOUGHT BEFORE,” HE SAID, “NOT LETTING THE FRENCH PASS, AS +AT SCHöN GRABERN, WHAT SHALL WE NOT DO NOW WHEN HE IS AT THE FRONT? WE +WILL ALL DIE FOR HIM GLADLY! IS IT NOT SO, GENTLEMEN? PERHAPS I AM NOT +SAYING IT RIGHT, I HAVE DRUNK A GOOD DEAL—BUT THAT IS HOW I FEEL, AND +SO DO YOU TOO! TO THE HEALTH OF ALEXANDER THE FIRST! HURRAH!” + +“HURRAH!” RANG THE ENTHUSIASTIC VOICES OF THE OFFICERS. + +AND THE OLD CAVALRY CAPTAIN, KíRSTEN, SHOUTED ENTHUSIASTICALLY AND NO +LESS SINCERELY THAN THE TWENTY-YEAR-OLD ROSTóV. + +WHEN THE OFFICERS HAD EMPTIED AND SMASHED THEIR GLASSES, KíRSTEN FILLED +OTHERS AND, IN SHIRT SLEEVES AND BREECHES, WENT GLASS IN HAND TO THE +SOLDIERS’ BONFIRES AND WITH HIS LONG GRAY MUSTACHE, HIS WHITE CHEST +SHOWING UNDER HIS OPEN SHIRT, HE STOOD IN A MAJESTIC POSE IN THE LIGHT +OF THE CAMPFIRE, WAVING HIS UPLIFTED ARM. + +“LADS! HERE’S TO OUR SOVEREIGN, THE EMPEROR, AND VICTORY OVER +OUR ENEMIES! HURRAH!” HE EXCLAIMED IN HIS DASHING, OLD, HUSSAR’S +BARITONE. + +THE HUSSARS CROWDED ROUND AND RESPONDED HEARTILY WITH LOUD SHOUTS. + +LATE THAT NIGHT, WHEN ALL HAD SEPARATED, DENíSOV WITH HIS SHORT HAND +PATTED HIS FAVORITE, ROSTóV, ON THE SHOULDER. + +“AS THERE’S NO ONE TO FALL IN LOVE WITH ON CAMPAIGN, HE’S FALLEN +IN LOVE WITH THE TSAR,” HE SAID. + +“DENíSOV, DON’T MAKE FUN OF IT!” CRIED ROSTóV. “IT IS SUCH A +LOFTY, BEAUTIFUL FEELING, SUCH A...” + +“I BELIEVE IT, I BELIEVE IT, FWIEND, AND I SHARE AND APPWOVE...” + +“NO, YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND!” + +AND ROSTóV GOT UP AND WENT WANDERING AMONG THE CAMPFIRES, DREAMING OF +WHAT HAPPINESS IT WOULD BE TO DIE—NOT IN SAVING THE EMPEROR’S LIFE +(HE DID NOT EVEN DARE TO DREAM OF THAT), BUT SIMPLY TO DIE BEFORE HIS +EYES. HE REALLY WAS IN LOVE WITH THE TSAR AND THE GLORY OF THE RUSSIAN +ARMS AND THE HOPE OF FUTURE TRIUMPH. AND HE WAS NOT THE ONLY MAN TO +EXPERIENCE THAT FEELING DURING THOSE MEMORABLE DAYS PRECEDING THE BATTLE +OF AUSTERLITZ: NINE TENTHS OF THE MEN IN THE RUSSIAN ARMY WERE THEN IN +LOVE, THOUGH LESS ECSTATICALLY, WITH THEIR TSAR AND THE GLORY OF THE +RUSSIAN ARMS. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +THE NEXT DAY THE EMPEROR STOPPED AT WISCHAU, AND VILLIER, HIS PHYSICIAN, +WAS REPEATEDLY SUMMONED TO SEE HIM. AT HEADQUARTERS AND AMONG THE TROOPS +NEAR BY THE NEWS SPREAD THAT THE EMPEROR WAS UNWELL. HE ATE NOTHING AND +HAD SLEPT BADLY THAT NIGHT, THOSE AROUND HIM REPORTED. THE CAUSE OF THIS +INDISPOSITION WAS THE STRONG IMPRESSION MADE ON HIS SENSITIVE MIND BY +THE SIGHT OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. + +AT DAYBREAK ON THE SEVENTEENTH, A FRENCH OFFICER WHO HAD COME WITH +A FLAG OF TRUCE, DEMANDING AN AUDIENCE WITH THE RUSSIAN EMPEROR, WAS +BROUGHT INTO WISCHAU FROM OUR OUTPOSTS. THIS OFFICER WAS SAVARY. THE +EMPEROR HAD ONLY JUST FALLEN ASLEEP AND SO SAVARY HAD TO WAIT. AT MIDDAY +HE WAS ADMITTED TO THE EMPEROR, AND AN HOUR LATER HE RODE OFF WITH +PRINCE DOLGORúKOV TO THE ADVANCED POST OF THE FRENCH ARMY. + +IT WAS RUMORED THAT SAVARY HAD BEEN SENT TO PROPOSE TO ALEXANDER +A MEETING WITH NAPOLEON. TO THE JOY AND PRIDE OF THE WHOLE ARMY, A +PERSONAL INTERVIEW WAS REFUSED, AND INSTEAD OF THE SOVEREIGN, PRINCE +DOLGORúKOV, THE VICTOR AT WISCHAU, WAS SENT WITH SAVARY TO NEGOTIATE +WITH NAPOLEON IF, CONTRARY TO EXPECTATIONS, THESE NEGOTIATIONS WERE +ACTUATED BY A REAL DESIRE FOR PEACE. + +TOWARD EVENING DOLGORúKOV CAME BACK, WENT STRAIGHT TO THE TSAR, AND +REMAINED ALONE WITH HIM FOR A LONG TIME. + +ON THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH OF NOVEMBER, THE ARMY ADVANCED TWO +DAYS’ MARCH AND THE ENEMY’S OUTPOSTS AFTER A BRIEF INTERCHANGE +OF SHOTS RETREATED. IN THE HIGHEST ARMY CIRCLES FROM MIDDAY ON THE +NINETEENTH, A GREAT, EXCITEDLY BUSTLING ACTIVITY BEGAN WHICH LASTED TILL +THE MORNING OF THE TWENTIETH, WHEN THE MEMORABLE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ +WAS FOUGHT. + +TILL MIDDAY ON THE NINETEENTH, THE ACTIVITY—THE EAGER TALK, RUNNING TO +AND FRO, AND DISPATCHING OF ADJUTANTS—WAS CONFINED TO THE EMPEROR’S +HEADQUARTERS. BUT ON THE AFTERNOON OF THAT DAY, THIS ACTIVITY REACHED +KUTúZOV’S HEADQUARTERS AND THE STAFFS OF THE COMMANDERS OF COLUMNS. +BY EVENING, THE ADJUTANTS HAD SPREAD IT TO ALL ENDS AND PARTS OF THE +ARMY, AND IN THE NIGHT FROM THE NINETEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH, THE WHOLE +EIGHTY THOUSAND ALLIED TROOPS ROSE FROM THEIR BIVOUACS TO THE HUM OF +VOICES, AND THE ARMY SWAYED AND STARTED IN ONE ENORMOUS MASS SIX MILES +LONG. + +THE CONCENTRATED ACTIVITY WHICH HAD BEGUN AT THE EMPEROR’S +HEADQUARTERS IN THE MORNING AND HAD STARTED THE WHOLE MOVEMENT THAT +FOLLOWED WAS LIKE THE FIRST MOVEMENT OF THE MAIN WHEEL OF A LARGE TOWER +CLOCK. ONE WHEEL SLOWLY MOVED, ANOTHER WAS SET IN MOTION, AND A THIRD, +AND WHEELS BEGAN TO REVOLVE FASTER AND FASTER, LEVERS AND COGWHEELS TO +WORK, CHIMES TO PLAY, FIGURES TO POP OUT, AND THE HANDS TO ADVANCE WITH +REGULAR MOTION AS A RESULT OF ALL THAT ACTIVITY. + +JUST AS IN THE MECHANISM OF A CLOCK, SO IN THE MECHANISM OF THE MILITARY +MACHINE, AN IMPULSE ONCE GIVEN LEADS TO THE FINAL RESULT; AND JUST AS +INDIFFERENTLY QUIESCENT TILL THE MOMENT WHEN MOTION IS TRANSMITTED +TO THEM ARE THE PARTS OF THE MECHANISM WHICH THE IMPULSE HAS NOT YET +REACHED. WHEELS CREAK ON THEIR AXLES AS THE COGS ENGAGE ONE ANOTHER AND +THE REVOLVING PULLEYS WHIRR WITH THE RAPIDITY OF THEIR MOVEMENT, BUT A +NEIGHBORING WHEEL IS AS QUIET AND MOTIONLESS AS THOUGH IT WERE PREPARED +TO REMAIN SO FOR A HUNDRED YEARS; BUT THE MOMENT COMES WHEN THE LEVER +CATCHES IT AND OBEYING THE IMPULSE THAT WHEEL BEGINS TO CREAK AND JOINS +IN THE COMMON MOTION THE RESULT AND AIM OF WHICH ARE BEYOND ITS KEN. + +JUST AS IN A CLOCK, THE RESULT OF THE COMPLICATED MOTION OF INNUMERABLE +WHEELS AND PULLEYS IS MERELY A SLOW AND REGULAR MOVEMENT OF THE +HANDS WHICH SHOW THE TIME, SO THE RESULT OF ALL THE COMPLICATED HUMAN +ACTIVITIES OF 160,000 RUSSIANS AND FRENCH—ALL THEIR PASSIONS, DESIRES, +REMORSE, HUMILIATIONS, SUFFERINGS, OUTBURSTS OF PRIDE, FEAR, AND +ENTHUSIASM—WAS ONLY THE LOSS OF THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ, THE +SO-CALLED BATTLE OF THE THREE EMPERORS—THAT IS TO SAY, A SLOW MOVEMENT +OF THE HAND ON THE DIAL OF HUMAN HISTORY. + +PRINCE ANDREW WAS ON DUTY THAT DAY AND IN CONSTANT ATTENDANCE ON THE +COMMANDER IN CHIEF. + +AT SIX IN THE EVENING, KUTúZOV WENT TO THE EMPEROR’S HEADQUARTERS +AND AFTER STAYING BUT A SHORT TIME WITH THE TSAR WENT TO SEE THE GRAND +MARSHAL OF THE COURT, COUNT TOLSTóY. + +BOLKóNSKI TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO IN TO GET SOME DETAILS OF THE +COMING ACTION FROM DOLGORúKOV. HE FELT THAT KUTúZOV WAS UPSET +AND DISSATISFIED ABOUT SOMETHING AND THAT AT HEADQUARTERS THEY WERE +DISSATISFIED WITH HIM, AND ALSO THAT AT THE EMPEROR’S HEADQUARTERS +EVERYONE ADOPTED TOWARD HIM THE TONE OF MEN WHO KNOW SOMETHING OTHERS DO +NOT KNOW: HE THEREFORE WISHED TO SPEAK TO DOLGORúKOV. + +“WELL, HOW D’YOU DO, MY DEAR FELLOW?” SAID DOLGORúKOV, WHO WAS +SITTING AT TEA WITH BILíBIN. “THE FETE IS FOR TOMORROW. HOW IS YOUR +OLD FELLOW? OUT OF SORTS?” + +“I WON’T SAY HE IS OUT OF SORTS, BUT I FANCY HE WOULD LIKE TO BE +HEARD.” + +“BUT THEY HEARD HIM AT THE COUNCIL OF WAR AND WILL HEAR HIM WHEN HE +TALKS SENSE, BUT TO TEMPORIZE AND WAIT FOR SOMETHING NOW WHEN BONAPARTE +FEARS NOTHING SO MUCH AS A GENERAL BATTLE IS IMPOSSIBLE.” + +“YES, YOU HAVE SEEN HIM?” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. “WELL, WHAT IS +BONAPARTE LIKE? HOW DID HE IMPRESS YOU?” + +“YES, I SAW HIM, AND AM CONVINCED THAT HE FEARS NOTHING SO MUCH AS +A GENERAL ENGAGEMENT,” REPEATED DOLGORúKOV, EVIDENTLY PRIZING THIS +GENERAL CONCLUSION WHICH HE HAD ARRIVED AT FROM HIS INTERVIEW WITH +NAPOLEON. “IF HE WEREN’T AFRAID OF A BATTLE WHY DID HE ASK FOR THAT +INTERVIEW? WHY NEGOTIATE, AND ABOVE ALL WHY RETREAT, WHEN TO RETREAT IS +SO CONTRARY TO HIS METHOD OF CONDUCTING WAR? BELIEVE ME, HE IS AFRAID, +AFRAID OF A GENERAL BATTLE. HIS HOUR HAS COME! MARK MY WORDS!” + +“BUT TELL ME, WHAT IS HE LIKE, EH?” SAID PRINCE ANDREW AGAIN. + +“HE IS A MAN IN A GRAY OVERCOAT, VERY ANXIOUS THAT I SHOULD CALL +HIM ‘YOUR MAJESTY,’ BUT WHO, TO HIS CHAGRIN, GOT NO TITLE FROM +ME! THAT’S THE SORT OF MAN HE IS, AND NOTHING MORE,” REPLIED +DOLGORúKOV, LOOKING ROUND AT BILíBIN WITH A SMILE. + +“DESPITE MY GREAT RESPECT FOR OLD KUTúZOV,” HE CONTINUED, “WE +SHOULD BE A NICE SET OF FELLOWS IF WE WERE TO WAIT ABOUT AND SO GIVE HIM +A CHANCE TO ESCAPE, OR TO TRICK US, NOW THAT WE CERTAINLY HAVE HIM IN +OUR HANDS! NO, WE MUSTN’T FORGET SUVóROV AND HIS RULE—NOT TO PUT +YOURSELF IN A POSITION TO BE ATTACKED, BUT YOURSELF TO ATTACK. BELIEVE +ME IN WAR THE ENERGY OF YOUNG MEN OFTEN SHOWS THE WAY BETTER THAN ALL +THE EXPERIENCE OF OLD CUNCTATORS.” + +“BUT IN WHAT POSITION ARE WE GOING TO ATTACK HIM? I HAVE BEEN AT THE +OUTPOSTS TODAY AND IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY WHERE HIS CHIEF FORCES ARE +SITUATED,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. + +HE WISHED TO EXPLAIN TO DOLGORúKOV A PLAN OF ATTACK HE HAD HIMSELF +FORMED. + +“OH, THAT IS ALL THE SAME,” DOLGORúKOV SAID QUICKLY, AND GETTING UP +HE SPREAD A MAP ON THE TABLE. “ALL EVENTUALITIES HAVE BEEN FORESEEN. +IF HE IS STANDING BEFORE BRüNN...” + +AND PRINCE DOLGORúKOV RAPIDLY BUT INDISTINCTLY EXPLAINED WEYROTHER’S +PLAN OF A FLANKING MOVEMENT. + +PRINCE ANDREW BEGAN TO REPLY AND TO STATE HIS OWN PLAN, WHICH MIGHT +HAVE BEEN AS GOOD AS WEYROTHER’S, BUT FOR THE DISADVANTAGE THAT +WEYROTHER’S HAD ALREADY BEEN APPROVED. AS SOON AS PRINCE ANDREW BEGAN +TO DEMONSTRATE THE DEFECTS OF THE LATTER AND THE MERITS OF HIS OWN PLAN, +PRINCE DOLGORúKOV CEASED TO LISTEN TO HIM AND GAZED ABSENT-MINDEDLY NOT +AT THE MAP, BUT AT PRINCE ANDREW’S FACE. + +“THERE WILL BE A COUNCIL OF WAR AT KUTúZOV’S TONIGHT, THOUGH; YOU +CAN SAY ALL THIS THERE,” REMARKED DOLGORúKOV. + +“I WILL DO SO,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, MOVING AWAY FROM THE MAP. + +“WHATEVER ARE YOU BOTHERING ABOUT, GENTLEMEN?” SAID BILíBIN, WHO, +TILL THEN, HAD LISTENED WITH AN AMUSED SMILE TO THEIR CONVERSATION AND +NOW WAS EVIDENTLY READY WITH A JOKE. “WHETHER TOMORROW BRINGS +VICTORY OR DEFEAT, THE GLORY OF OUR RUSSIAN ARMS IS SECURE. EXCEPT YOUR +KUTúZOV, THERE IS NOT A SINGLE RUSSIAN IN COMMAND OF A COLUMN! THE +COMMANDERS ARE: HERR GENERAL WIMPFEN, LE COMTE DE LANGERON, LE PRINCE DE +LICHTENSTEIN, LE PRINCE, DE HOHENLOHE, AND FINALLY PRISHPRISH, AND SO ON +LIKE ALL THOSE POLISH NAMES.” + +“BE QUIET, BACKBITER!” SAID DOLGORúKOV. “IT IS NOT TRUE; THERE +ARE NOW TWO RUSSIANS, MILORáDOVICH, AND DOKHTúROV, AND THERE WOULD BE +A THIRD, COUNT ARAKCHéEV, IF HIS NERVES WERE NOT TOO WEAK.” + +“HOWEVER, I THINK GENERAL KUTúZOV HAS COME OUT,” SAID PRINCE +ANDREW. “I WISH YOU GOOD LUCK AND SUCCESS, GENTLEMEN!” HE ADDED AND +WENT OUT AFTER SHAKING HANDS WITH DOLGORúKOV AND BILíBIN. + +ON THE WAY HOME, PRINCE ANDREW COULD NOT REFRAIN FROM ASKING KUTúZOV, +WHO WAS SITTING SILENTLY BESIDE HIM, WHAT HE THOUGHT OF TOMORROW’S +BATTLE. + +KUTúZOV LOOKED STERNLY AT HIS ADJUTANT AND, AFTER A PAUSE, REPLIED: +“I THINK THE BATTLE WILL BE LOST, AND SO I TOLD COUNT TOLSTóY AND +ASKED HIM TO TELL THE EMPEROR. WHAT DO YOU THINK HE REPLIED? ‘BUT, MY +DEAR GENERAL, I AM ENGAGED WITH RICE AND CUTLETS, LOOK AFTER MILITARY +MATTERS YOURSELF!’ YES... THAT WAS THE ANSWER I GOT!” + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +SHORTLY AFTER NINE O’CLOCK THAT EVENING, WEYROTHER DROVE WITH HIS +PLANS TO KUTúZOV’S QUARTERS WHERE THE COUNCIL OF WAR WAS TO BE +HELD. ALL THE COMMANDERS OF COLUMNS WERE SUMMONED TO THE COMMANDER IN +CHIEF’S AND WITH THE EXCEPTION OF PRINCE BAGRATIóN, WHO DECLINED TO +COME, WERE ALL THERE AT THE APPOINTED TIME. + +WEYROTHER, WHO WAS IN FULL CONTROL OF THE PROPOSED BATTLE, BY HIS +EAGERNESS AND BRISKNESS PRESENTED A MARKED CONTRAST TO THE DISSATISFIED +AND DROWSY KUTúZOV, WHO RELUCTANTLY PLAYED THE PART OF CHAIRMAN AND +PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL OF WAR. WEYROTHER EVIDENTLY FELT HIMSELF TO BE +AT THE HEAD OF A MOVEMENT THAT HAD ALREADY BECOME UNRESTRAINABLE. HE WAS +LIKE A HORSE RUNNING DOWNHILL HARNESSED TO A HEAVY CART. WHETHER HE WAS +PULLING IT OR BEING PUSHED BY IT HE DID NOT KNOW, BUT RUSHED ALONG AT +HEADLONG SPEED WITH NO TIME TO CONSIDER WHAT THIS MOVEMENT MIGHT LEAD +TO. WEYROTHER HAD BEEN TWICE THAT EVENING TO THE ENEMY’S PICKET +LINE TO RECONNOITER PERSONALLY, AND TWICE TO THE EMPERORS, RUSSIAN AND +AUSTRIAN, TO REPORT AND EXPLAIN, AND TO HIS HEADQUARTERS WHERE HE HAD +DICTATED THE DISPOSITIONS IN GERMAN, AND NOW, MUCH EXHAUSTED, HE ARRIVED +AT KUTúZOV’S. + +HE WAS EVIDENTLY SO BUSY THAT HE EVEN FORGOT TO BE POLITE TO THE +COMMANDER IN CHIEF. HE INTERRUPTED HIM, TALKED RAPIDLY AND INDISTINCTLY, +WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE MAN HE WAS ADDRESSING, AND DID NOT REPLY TO +QUESTIONS PUT TO HIM. HE WAS BESPATTERED WITH MUD AND HAD A PITIFUL, +WEARY, AND DISTRACTED AIR, THOUGH AT THE SAME TIME HE WAS HAUGHTY AND +SELF-CONFIDENT. + +KUTúZOV WAS OCCUPYING A NOBLEMAN’S CASTLE OF MODEST DIMENSIONS NEAR +OSTRALITZ. IN THE LARGE DRAWING ROOM WHICH HAD BECOME THE COMMANDER +IN CHIEF’S OFFICE WERE GATHERED KUTúZOV HIMSELF, WEYROTHER, AND THE +MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL OF WAR. THEY WERE DRINKING TEA, AND ONLY AWAITED +PRINCE BAGRATIóN TO BEGIN THE COUNCIL. AT LAST BAGRATIóN’S ORDERLY +CAME WITH THE NEWS THAT THE PRINCE COULD NOT ATTEND. PRINCE ANDREW CAME +IN TO INFORM THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THIS AND, AVAILING HIMSELF +OF PERMISSION PREVIOUSLY GIVEN HIM BY KUTúZOV TO BE PRESENT AT THE +COUNCIL, HE REMAINED IN THE ROOM. + +“SINCE PRINCE BAGRATIóN IS NOT COMING, WE MAY BEGIN,” SAID +WEYROTHER, HURRIEDLY RISING FROM HIS SEAT AND GOING UP TO THE TABLE ON +WHICH AN ENORMOUS MAP OF THE ENVIRONS OF BRüNN WAS SPREAD OUT. + +KUTúZOV, WITH HIS UNIFORM UNBUTTONED SO THAT HIS FAT NECK BULGED OVER +HIS COLLAR AS IF ESCAPING, WAS SITTING ALMOST ASLEEP IN A LOW CHAIR, +WITH HIS PODGY OLD HANDS RESTING SYMMETRICALLY ON ITS ARMS. AT THE SOUND +OF WEYROTHER’S VOICE, HE OPENED HIS ONE EYE WITH AN EFFORT. + +“YES, YES, IF YOU PLEASE! IT IS ALREADY LATE,” SAID HE, AND NODDING +HIS HEAD HE LET IT DROOP AND AGAIN CLOSED HIS EYE. + +IF AT FIRST THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL THOUGHT THAT KUTúZOV WAS +PRETENDING TO SLEEP, THE SOUNDS HIS NOSE EMITTED DURING THE READING THAT +FOLLOWED PROVED THAT THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF AT THAT MOMENT WAS ABSORBED +BY A FAR MORE SERIOUS MATTER THAN A DESIRE TO SHOW HIS CONTEMPT FOR +THE DISPOSITIONS OR ANYTHING ELSE—HE WAS ENGAGED IN SATISFYING THE +IRRESISTIBLE HUMAN NEED FOR SLEEP. HE REALLY WAS ASLEEP. WEYROTHER, WITH +THE GESTURE OF A MAN TOO BUSY TO LOSE A MOMENT, GLANCED AT KUTúZOV AND, +HAVING CONVINCED HIMSELF THAT HE WAS ASLEEP, TOOK UP A PAPER AND IN +A LOUD, MONOTONOUS VOICE BEGAN TO READ OUT THE DISPOSITIONS FOR THE +IMPENDING BATTLE, UNDER A HEADING WHICH HE ALSO READ OUT: + +“DISPOSITIONS FOR AN ATTACK ON THE ENEMY POSITION BEHIND KOBELNITZ AND +SOKOLNITZ, NOVEMBER 30, 1805.” + +THE DISPOSITIONS WERE VERY COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT. THEY BEGAN AS +FOLLOWS: + +“AS THE ENEMY’S LEFT WING RESTS ON WOODED HILLS AND HIS RIGHT +EXTENDS ALONG KOBELNITZ AND SOKOLNITZ BEHIND THE PONDS THAT ARE THERE, +WHILE WE, ON THE OTHER HAND, WITH OUR LEFT WING BY FAR OUTFLANK HIS +RIGHT, IT IS ADVANTAGEOUS TO ATTACK THE ENEMY’S LATTER WING ESPECIALLY +IF WE OCCUPY THE VILLAGES OF SOKOLNITZ AND KOBELNITZ, WHEREBY WE +CAN BOTH FALL ON HIS FLANK AND PURSUE HIM OVER THE PLAIN BETWEEN +SCHLAPPANITZ AND THE THUERASSA FOREST, AVOIDING THE DEFILES OF +SCHLAPPANITZ AND BELLOWITZ WHICH COVER THE ENEMY’S FRONT. FOR THIS +OBJECT IT IS NECESSARY THAT... THE FIRST COLUMN MARCHES... THE SECOND +COLUMN MARCHES... THE THIRD COLUMN MARCHES...” AND SO ON, READ +WEYROTHER. + +THE GENERALS SEEMED TO LISTEN RELUCTANTLY TO THE DIFFICULT DISPOSITIONS. +THE TALL, FAIR-HAIRED GENERAL BUXHöWDEN STOOD, LEANING HIS BACK AGAINST +THE WALL, HIS EYES FIXED ON A BURNING CANDLE, AND SEEMED NOT TO LISTEN +OR EVEN TO WISH TO BE THOUGHT TO LISTEN. EXACTLY OPPOSITE WEYROTHER, +WITH HIS GLISTENING WIDE-OPEN EYES FIXED UPON HIM AND HIS MUSTACHE +TWISTED UPWARDS, SAT THE RUDDY MILORáDOVICH IN A MILITARY POSE, HIS +ELBOWS TURNED OUTWARDS, HIS HANDS ON HIS KNEES, AND HIS SHOULDERS +RAISED. HE REMAINED STUBBORNLY SILENT, GAZING AT WEYROTHER’S FACE, +AND ONLY TURNED AWAY HIS EYES WHEN THE AUSTRIAN CHIEF OF STAFF FINISHED +READING. THEN MILORáDOVICH LOOKED ROUND SIGNIFICANTLY AT THE OTHER +GENERALS. BUT ONE COULD NOT TELL FROM THAT SIGNIFICANT LOOK WHETHER HE +AGREED OR DISAGREED AND WAS SATISFIED OR NOT WITH THE ARRANGEMENTS. NEXT +TO WEYROTHER SAT COUNT LANGERON WHO, WITH A SUBTLE SMILE THAT NEVER LEFT +HIS TYPICALLY SOUTHERN FRENCH FACE DURING THE WHOLE TIME OF THE READING, +GAZED AT HIS DELICATE FINGERS WHICH RAPIDLY TWIRLED BY ITS CORNERS +A GOLD SNUFFBOX ON WHICH WAS A PORTRAIT. IN THE MIDDLE OF ONE OF THE +LONGEST SENTENCES, HE STOPPED THE ROTARY MOTION OF THE SNUFFBOX, RAISED +HIS HEAD, AND WITH INIMICAL POLITENESS LURKING IN THE CORNERS OF HIS +THIN LIPS INTERRUPTED WEYROTHER, WISHING TO SAY SOMETHING. BUT THE +AUSTRIAN GENERAL, CONTINUING TO READ, FROWNED ANGRILY AND JERKED HIS +ELBOWS, AS IF TO SAY: “YOU CAN TELL ME YOUR VIEWS LATER, BUT NOW BE SO +GOOD AS TO LOOK AT THE MAP AND LISTEN.” LANGERON LIFTED HIS EYES WITH +AN EXPRESSION OF PERPLEXITY, TURNED ROUND TO MILORáDOVICH AS IF SEEKING +AN EXPLANATION, BUT MEETING THE LATTER’S IMPRESSIVE BUT MEANINGLESS +GAZE DROOPED HIS EYES SADLY AND AGAIN TOOK TO TWIRLING HIS SNUFFBOX. + +“A GEOGRAPHY LESSON!” HE MUTTERED AS IF TO HIMSELF, BUT LOUD ENOUGH +TO BE HEARD. + +PRZEBYSZéWSKI, WITH RESPECTFUL BUT DIGNIFIED POLITENESS, HELD HIS +HAND TO HIS EAR TOWARD WEYROTHER, WITH THE AIR OF A MAN ABSORBED IN +ATTENTION. DOHKTúROV, A LITTLE MAN, SAT OPPOSITE WEYROTHER, WITH +AN ASSIDUOUS AND MODEST MIEN, AND STOOPING OVER THE OUTSPREAD MAP +CONSCIENTIOUSLY STUDIED THE DISPOSITIONS AND THE UNFAMILIAR LOCALITY. HE +ASKED WEYROTHER SEVERAL TIMES TO REPEAT WORDS HE HAD NOT CLEARLY HEARD +AND THE DIFFICULT NAMES OF VILLAGES. WEYROTHER COMPLIED AND DOHKTúROV +NOTED THEM DOWN. + +WHEN THE READING WHICH LASTED MORE THAN AN HOUR WAS OVER, LANGERON AGAIN +BROUGHT HIS SNUFFBOX TO REST AND, WITHOUT LOOKING AT WEYROTHER OR AT +ANYONE IN PARTICULAR, BEGAN TO SAY HOW DIFFICULT IT WAS TO CARRY OUT +SUCH A PLAN IN WHICH THE ENEMY’S POSITION WAS ASSUMED TO BE KNOWN, +WHEREAS IT WAS PERHAPS NOT KNOWN, SINCE THE ENEMY WAS IN MOVEMENT. +LANGERON’S OBJECTIONS WERE VALID BUT IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT THEIR CHIEF +AIM WAS TO SHOW GENERAL WEYROTHER—WHO HAD READ HIS DISPOSITIONS WITH +AS MUCH SELF-CONFIDENCE AS IF HE WERE ADDRESSING SCHOOL CHILDREN—THAT +HE HAD TO DO, NOT WITH FOOLS, BUT WITH MEN WHO COULD TEACH HIM SOMETHING +IN MILITARY MATTERS. + +WHEN THE MONOTONOUS SOUND OF WEYROTHER’S VOICE CEASED, KUTúZOV OPENED +HIS EYE AS A MILLER WAKES UP WHEN THE SOPORIFIC DRONE OF THE MILL WHEEL +IS INTERRUPTED. HE LISTENED TO WHAT LANGERON SAID, AS IF REMARKING, +“SO YOU ARE STILL AT THAT SILLY BUSINESS!” QUICKLY CLOSED HIS EYE +AGAIN, AND LET HIS HEAD SINK STILL LOWER. + +LANGERON, TRYING AS VIRULENTLY AS POSSIBLE TO STING WEYROTHER’S VANITY +AS AUTHOR OF THE MILITARY PLAN, ARGUED THAT BONAPARTE MIGHT EASILY +ATTACK INSTEAD OF BEING ATTACKED, AND SO RENDER THE WHOLE OF THIS +PLAN PERFECTLY WORTHLESS. WEYROTHER MET ALL OBJECTIONS WITH A FIRM AND +CONTEMPTUOUS SMILE, EVIDENTLY PREPARED BEFOREHAND TO MEET ALL OBJECTIONS +BE THEY WHAT THEY MIGHT. + +“IF HE COULD ATTACK US, HE WOULD HAVE DONE SO TODAY,” SAID HE. + +“SO YOU THINK HE IS POWERLESS?” SAID LANGERON. + +“HE HAS FORTY THOUSAND MEN AT MOST,” REPLIED WEYROTHER, WITH THE +SMILE OF A DOCTOR TO WHOM AN OLD WIFE WISHES TO EXPLAIN THE TREATMENT OF +A CASE. + +“IN THAT CASE HE IS INVITING HIS DOOM BY AWAITING OUR ATTACK,” SAID +LANGERON, WITH A SUBTLY IRONICAL SMILE, AGAIN GLANCING ROUND FOR SUPPORT +TO MILORáDOVICH WHO WAS NEAR HIM. + +BUT MILORáDOVICH WAS AT THAT MOMENT EVIDENTLY THINKING OF ANYTHING +RATHER THAN OF WHAT THE GENERALS WERE DISPUTING ABOUT. + +“MA FOI!” SAID HE, “TOMORROW WE SHALL SEE ALL THAT ON THE +BATTLEFIELD.” + +WEYROTHER AGAIN GAVE THAT SMILE WHICH SEEMED TO SAY THAT TO HIM IT WAS +STRANGE AND RIDICULOUS TO MEET OBJECTIONS FROM RUSSIAN GENERALS AND TO +HAVE TO PROVE TO THEM WHAT HE HAD NOT MERELY CONVINCED HIMSELF OF, BUT +HAD ALSO CONVINCED THE SOVEREIGN EMPERORS OF. + +“THE ENEMY HAS QUENCHED HIS FIRES AND A CONTINUAL NOISE IS HEARD FROM +HIS CAMP,” SAID HE. “WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? EITHER HE IS RETREATING, +WHICH IS THE ONLY THING WE NEED FEAR, OR HE IS CHANGING HIS POSITION.” +(HE SMILED IRONICALLY.) “BUT EVEN IF HE ALSO TOOK UP A POSITION IN +THE THUERASSA, HE MERELY SAVES US A GREAT DEAL OF TROUBLE AND ALL OUR +ARRANGEMENTS TO THE MINUTEST DETAIL REMAIN THE SAME.” + +“HOW IS THAT?...” BEGAN PRINCE ANDREW, WHO HAD FOR LONG BEEN WAITING +AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS HIS DOUBTS. + +KUTúZOV HERE WOKE UP, COUGHED HEAVILY, AND LOOKED ROUND AT THE +GENERALS. + +“GENTLEMEN, THE DISPOSITIONS FOR TOMORROW—OR RATHER FOR TODAY, FOR +IT IS PAST MIDNIGHT—CANNOT NOW BE ALTERED,” SAID HE. “YOU HAVE +HEARD THEM, AND WE SHALL ALL DO OUR DUTY. BUT BEFORE A BATTLE, THERE IS +NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT...” HE PAUSED, “THAN TO HAVE A GOOD SLEEP.” + +HE MOVED AS IF TO RISE. THE GENERALS BOWED AND RETIRED. IT WAS PAST +MIDNIGHT. PRINCE ANDREW WENT OUT. + +THE COUNCIL OF WAR, AT WHICH PRINCE ANDREW HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO +EXPRESS HIS OPINION AS HE HAD HOPED TO, LEFT ON HIM A VAGUE AND UNEASY +IMPRESSION. WHETHER DOLGORúKOV AND WEYROTHER, OR KUTúZOV, LANGERON, +AND THE OTHERS WHO DID NOT APPROVE OF THE PLAN OF ATTACK, WERE +RIGHT—HE DID NOT KNOW. “BUT WAS IT REALLY NOT POSSIBLE FOR KUTúZOV +TO STATE HIS VIEWS PLAINLY TO THE EMPEROR? IS IT POSSIBLE THAT ON +ACCOUNT OF COURT AND PERSONAL CONSIDERATIONS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF LIVES, +AND MY LIFE, MY LIFE,” HE THOUGHT, “MUST BE RISKED?” + +“YES, IT IS VERY LIKELY THAT I SHALL BE KILLED TOMORROW,” HE +THOUGHT. AND SUDDENLY, AT THIS THOUGHT OF DEATH, A WHOLE SERIES OF MOST +DISTANT, MOST INTIMATE, MEMORIES ROSE IN HIS IMAGINATION: HE REMEMBERED +HIS LAST PARTING FROM HIS FATHER AND HIS WIFE; HE REMEMBERED THE DAYS +WHEN HE FIRST LOVED HER. HE THOUGHT OF HER PREGNANCY AND FELT SORRY FOR +HER AND FOR HIMSELF, AND IN A NERVOUSLY EMOTIONAL AND SOFTENED MOOD HE +WENT OUT OF THE HUT IN WHICH HE WAS BILLETED WITH NESVíTSKI AND BEGAN +TO WALK UP AND DOWN BEFORE IT. + +THE NIGHT WAS FOGGY AND THROUGH THE FOG THE MOONLIGHT GLEAMED +MYSTERIOUSLY. “YES, TOMORROW, TOMORROW!” HE THOUGHT. “TOMORROW +EVERYTHING MAY BE OVER FOR ME! ALL THESE MEMORIES WILL BE NO MORE, NONE +OF THEM WILL HAVE ANY MEANING FOR ME. TOMORROW PERHAPS, EVEN CERTAINLY, +I HAVE A PRESENTIMENT THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME I SHALL HAVE TO SHOW ALL +I CAN DO.” AND HIS FANCY PICTURED THE BATTLE, ITS LOSS, THE +CONCENTRATION OF FIGHTING AT ONE POINT, AND THE HESITATION OF ALL THE +COMMANDERS. AND THEN THAT HAPPY MOMENT, THAT TOULON FOR WHICH HE HAD +SO LONG WAITED, PRESENTS ITSELF TO HIM AT LAST. HE FIRMLY AND CLEARLY +EXPRESSES HIS OPINION TO KUTúZOV, TO WEYROTHER, AND TO THE EMPERORS. +ALL ARE STRUCK BY THE JUSTNESS OF HIS VIEWS, BUT NO ONE UNDERTAKES TO +CARRY THEM OUT, SO HE TAKES A REGIMENT, A DIVISION—STIPULATES THAT NO +ONE IS TO INTERFERE WITH HIS ARRANGEMENTS—LEADS HIS DIVISION TO +THE DECISIVE POINT, AND GAINS THE VICTORY ALONE. “BUT DEATH AND +SUFFERING?” SUGGESTED ANOTHER VOICE. PRINCE ANDREW, HOWEVER, DID NOT +ANSWER THAT VOICE AND WENT ON DREAMING OF HIS TRIUMPHS. THE DISPOSITIONS +FOR THE NEXT BATTLE ARE PLANNED BY HIM ALONE. NOMINALLY HE IS ONLY AN +ADJUTANT ON KUTúZOV’S STAFF, BUT HE DOES EVERYTHING ALONE. THE NEXT +BATTLE IS WON BY HIM ALONE. KUTúZOV IS REMOVED AND HE IS APPOINTED... +“WELL AND THEN?” ASKED THE OTHER VOICE. “IF BEFORE THAT YOU ARE +NOT TEN TIMES WOUNDED, KILLED, OR BETRAYED, WELL... WHAT THEN?...” +“WELL THEN,” PRINCE ANDREW ANSWERED HIMSELF, “I DON’T KNOW +WHAT WILL HAPPEN AND DON’T WANT TO KNOW, AND CAN’T, BUT IF I WANT +THIS—WANT GLORY, WANT TO BE KNOWN TO MEN, WANT TO BE LOVED BY THEM, IT +IS NOT MY FAULT THAT I WANT IT AND WANT NOTHING BUT THAT AND LIVE ONLY +FOR THAT. YES, FOR THAT ALONE! I SHALL NEVER TELL ANYONE, BUT, OH GOD! +WHAT AM I TO DO IF I LOVE NOTHING BUT FAME AND MEN’S ESTEEM? DEATH, +WOUNDS, THE LOSS OF FAMILY—I FEAR NOTHING. AND PRECIOUS AND DEAR +AS MANY PERSONS ARE TO ME—FATHER, SISTER, WIFE—THOSE DEAREST TO +ME—YET DREADFUL AND UNNATURAL AS IT SEEMS, I WOULD GIVE THEM ALL AT +ONCE FOR A MOMENT OF GLORY, OF TRIUMPH OVER MEN, OF LOVE FROM MEN I +DON’T KNOW AND NEVER SHALL KNOW, FOR THE LOVE OF THESE MEN HERE,” HE +THOUGHT, AS HE LISTENED TO VOICES IN KUTúZOV’S COURTYARD. THE VOICES +WERE THOSE OF THE ORDERLIES WHO WERE PACKING UP; ONE VOICE, PROBABLY A +COACHMAN’S, WAS TEASING KUTúZOV’S OLD COOK WHOM PRINCE ANDREW KNEW, +AND WHO WAS CALLED TIT. HE WAS SAYING, “TIT, I SAY, TIT!” + +“WELL?” RETURNED THE OLD MAN. + +“GO, TIT, THRESH A BIT!” SAID THE WAG. + +“OH, GO TO THE DEVIL!” CALLED OUT A VOICE, DROWNED BY THE LAUGHTER +OF THE ORDERLIES AND SERVANTS. + +“ALL THE SAME, I LOVE AND VALUE NOTHING BUT TRIUMPH OVER THEM ALL, I +VALUE THIS MYSTIC POWER AND GLORY THAT IS FLOATING HERE ABOVE ME IN THIS +MIST!” + + + + + +CHAPTER XIII + +THAT SAME NIGHT, ROSTóV WAS WITH A PLATOON ON SKIRMISHING DUTY IN FRONT +OF BAGRATIóN’S DETACHMENT. HIS HUSSARS WERE PLACED ALONG THE LINE +IN COUPLES AND HE HIMSELF RODE ALONG THE LINE TRYING TO MASTER THE +SLEEPINESS THAT KEPT COMING OVER HIM. AN ENORMOUS SPACE, WITH OUR +ARMY’S CAMPFIRES DIMLY GLOWING IN THE FOG, COULD BE SEEN BEHIND HIM; +IN FRONT OF HIM WAS MISTY DARKNESS. ROSTóV COULD SEE NOTHING, PEER AS +HE WOULD INTO THAT FOGGY DISTANCE: NOW SOMETHING GLEAMED GRAY, NOW THERE +WAS SOMETHING BLACK, NOW LITTLE LIGHTS SEEMED TO GLIMMER WHERE THE ENEMY +OUGHT TO BE, NOW HE FANCIED IT WAS ONLY SOMETHING IN HIS OWN EYES. HIS +EYES KEPT CLOSING, AND IN HIS FANCY APPEARED—NOW THE EMPEROR, NOW +DENíSOV, AND NOW MOSCOW MEMORIES—AND HE AGAIN HURRIEDLY OPENED HIS +EYES AND SAW CLOSE BEFORE HIM THE HEAD AND EARS OF THE HORSE HE WAS +RIDING, AND SOMETIMES, WHEN HE CAME WITHIN SIX PACES OF THEM, THE +BLACK FIGURES OF HUSSARS, BUT IN THE DISTANCE WAS STILL THE SAME MISTY +DARKNESS. “WHY NOT?... IT MIGHT EASILY HAPPEN,” THOUGHT ROSTóV, +“THAT THE EMPEROR WILL MEET ME AND GIVE ME AN ORDER AS HE WOULD TO ANY +OTHER OFFICER; HE’LL SAY: ‘GO AND FIND OUT WHAT’S THERE.’ THERE +ARE MANY STORIES OF HIS GETTING TO KNOW AN OFFICER IN JUST SUCH A CHANCE +WAY AND ATTACHING HIM TO HIMSELF! WHAT IF HE GAVE ME A PLACE NEAR HIM? +OH, HOW I WOULD GUARD HIM, HOW I WOULD TELL HIM THE TRUTH, HOW I WOULD +UNMASK HIS DECEIVERS!” AND IN ORDER TO REALIZE VIVIDLY HIS LOVE +DEVOTION TO THE SOVEREIGN, ROSTóV PICTURED TO HIMSELF AN ENEMY OR A +DECEITFUL GERMAN, WHOM HE WOULD NOT ONLY KILL WITH PLEASURE BUT WHOM +HE WOULD SLAP IN THE FACE BEFORE THE EMPEROR. SUDDENLY A DISTANT SHOUT +AROUSED HIM. HE STARTED AND OPENED HIS EYES. + +“WHERE AM I? OH YES, IN THE SKIRMISHING LINE... PASS AND +WATCHWORD—SHAFT, OLMüTZ. WHAT A NUISANCE THAT OUR SQUADRON WILL BE IN +RESERVE TOMORROW,” HE THOUGHT. “I’LL ASK LEAVE TO GO TO THE FRONT, +THIS MAY BE MY ONLY CHANCE OF SEEING THE EMPEROR. IT WON’T BE LONG +NOW BEFORE I AM OFF DUTY. I’LL TAKE ANOTHER TURN AND WHEN I GET BACK +I’LL GO TO THE GENERAL AND ASK HIM.” HE READJUSTED HIMSELF IN THE +SADDLE AND TOUCHED UP HIS HORSE TO RIDE ONCE MORE ROUND HIS HUSSARS. IT +SEEMED TO HIM THAT IT WAS GETTING LIGHTER. TO THE LEFT HE SAW A SLOPING +DESCENT LIT UP, AND FACING IT A BLACK KNOLL THAT SEEMED AS STEEP AS A +WALL. ON THIS KNOLL THERE WAS A WHITE PATCH THAT ROSTóV COULD NOT AT +ALL MAKE OUT: WAS IT A GLADE IN THE WOOD LIT UP BY THE MOON, OR SOME +UNMELTED SNOW, OR SOME WHITE HOUSES? HE EVEN THOUGHT SOMETHING MOVED ON +THAT WHITE SPOT. “I EXPECT IT’S SNOW... THAT SPOT... A SPOT—UNE +TACHE,” HE THOUGHT. “THERE NOW... IT’S NOT A TACHE... NATáSHA... +SISTER, BLACK EYES... NA... TASHA... (WON’T SHE BE SURPRISED WHEN +I TELL HER HOW I’VE SEEN THE EMPEROR?) NATáSHA... TAKE MY +SABRETACHE...”—“KEEP TO THE RIGHT, YOUR HONOR, THERE ARE BUSHES +HERE,” CAME THE VOICE OF AN HUSSAR, PAST WHOM ROSTóV WAS RIDING IN +THE ACT OF FALLING ASLEEP. ROSTóV LIFTED HIS HEAD THAT HAD SUNK ALMOST +TO HIS HORSE’S MANE AND PULLED UP BESIDE THE HUSSAR. HE WAS SUCCUMBING +TO IRRESISTIBLE, YOUTHFUL, CHILDISH DROWSINESS. “BUT WHAT WAS I +THINKING? I MUSTN’T FORGET. HOW SHALL I SPEAK TO THE EMPEROR? NO, +THAT’S NOT IT—THAT’S TOMORROW. OH YES! NATáSHA... SABRETACHE... +SABER THEM... WHOM? THE HUSSARS... AH, THE HUSSARS WITH MUSTACHES. ALONG +THE TVERSKáYA STREET RODE THE HUSSAR WITH MUSTACHES... I THOUGHT ABOUT +HIM TOO, JUST OPPOSITE GúRYEV’S HOUSE... OLD GúRYEV.... OH, BUT +DENíSOV’S A FINE FELLOW. BUT THAT’S ALL NONSENSE. THE CHIEF THING +IS THAT THE EMPEROR IS HERE. HOW HE LOOKED AT ME AND WISHED TO SAY +SOMETHING, BUT DARED NOT.... NO, IT WAS I WHO DARED NOT. BUT THAT’S +NONSENSE, THE CHIEF THING IS NOT TO FORGET THE IMPORTANT THING I +WAS THINKING OF. YES, NA-TáSHA, SABRETACHE, OH, YES, YES! THAT’S +RIGHT!” AND HIS HEAD ONCE MORE SANK TO HIS HORSE’S NECK. ALL AT ONCE +IT SEEMED TO HIM THAT HE WAS BEING FIRED AT. “WHAT? WHAT? WHAT?... CUT +THEM DOWN! WHAT?...” SAID ROSTóV, WAKING UP. AT THE MOMENT HE OPENED +HIS EYES HE HEARD IN FRONT OF HIM, WHERE THE ENEMY WAS, THE LONG-DRAWN +SHOUTS OF THOUSANDS OF VOICES. HIS HORSE AND THE HORSE OF THE HUSSAR +NEAR HIM PRICKED THEIR EARS AT THESE SHOUTS. OVER THERE, WHERE THE +SHOUTING CAME FROM, A FIRE FLARED UP AND WENT OUT AGAIN, THEN ANOTHER, +AND ALL ALONG THE FRENCH LINE ON THE HILL FIRES FLARED UP AND THE +SHOUTING GREW LOUDER AND LOUDER. ROSTóV COULD HEAR THE SOUND OF FRENCH +WORDS BUT COULD NOT DISTINGUISH THEM. THE DIN OF MANY VOICES WAS TOO +GREAT; ALL HE COULD HEAR WAS: “AHAHAH!” AND “RRRR!” + +“WHAT’S THAT? WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF IT?” SAID ROSTóV TO THE HUSSAR +BESIDE HIM. “THAT MUST BE THE ENEMY’S CAMP!” + +THE HUSSAR DID NOT REPLY. + +“WHY, DON’T YOU HEAR IT?” ROSTóV ASKED AGAIN, AFTER WAITING FOR A +REPLY. + +“WHO CAN TELL, YOUR HONOR?” REPLIED THE HUSSAR RELUCTANTLY. + +“FROM THE DIRECTION, IT MUST BE THE ENEMY,” REPEATED ROSTóV. + +“IT MAY BE HE OR IT MAY BE NOTHING,” MUTTERED THE HUSSAR. “IT’S +DARK... STEADY!” HE CRIED TO HIS FIDGETING HORSE. + +ROSTóV’S HORSE WAS ALSO GETTING RESTIVE: IT PAWED THE FROZEN GROUND, +PRICKING ITS EARS AT THE NOISE AND LOOKING AT THE LIGHTS. THE SHOUTING +GREW STILL LOUDER AND MERGED INTO A GENERAL ROAR THAT ONLY AN ARMY +OF SEVERAL THOUSAND MEN COULD PRODUCE. THE LIGHTS SPREAD FARTHER AND +FARTHER, PROBABLY ALONG THE LINE OF THE FRENCH CAMP. ROSTóV NO LONGER +WANTED TO SLEEP. THE GAY TRIUMPHANT SHOUTING OF THE ENEMY ARMY HAD A +STIMULATING EFFECT ON HIM. “VIVE L’EMPEREUR! L’EMPEREUR!” HE NOW +HEARD DISTINCTLY. + +“THEY CAN’T BE FAR OFF, PROBABLY JUST BEYOND THE STREAM,” HE SAID +TO THE HUSSAR BESIDE HIM. + +THE HUSSAR ONLY SIGHED WITHOUT REPLYING AND COUGHED ANGRILY. THE SOUND +OF HORSE’S HOOFS APPROACHING AT A TROT ALONG THE LINE OF HUSSARS WAS +HEARD, AND OUT OF THE FOGGY DARKNESS THE FIGURE OF A SERGEANT OF HUSSARS +SUDDENLY APPEARED, LOOMING HUGE AS AN ELEPHANT. + +“YOUR HONOR, THE GENERALS!” SAID THE SERGEANT, RIDING UP TO ROSTóV. + +ROSTóV, STILL LOOKING ROUND TOWARD THE FIRES AND THE SHOUTS, RODE WITH +THE SERGEANT TO MEET SOME MOUNTED MEN WHO WERE RIDING ALONG THE LINE. +ONE WAS ON A WHITE HORSE. PRINCE BAGRATIóN AND PRINCE DOLGORúKOV WITH +THEIR ADJUTANTS HAD COME TO WITNESS THE CURIOUS PHENOMENON OF THE +LIGHTS AND SHOUTS IN THE ENEMY’S CAMP. ROSTóV RODE UP TO BAGRATIóN, +REPORTED TO HIM, AND THEN JOINED THE ADJUTANTS LISTENING TO WHAT THE +GENERALS WERE SAYING. + +“BELIEVE ME,” SAID PRINCE DOLGORúKOV, ADDRESSING BAGRATIóN, “IT +IS NOTHING BUT A TRICK! HE HAS RETREATED AND ORDERED THE REARGUARD TO +KINDLE FIRES AND MAKE A NOISE TO DECEIVE US.” + +“HARDLY,” SAID BAGRATIóN. “I SAW THEM THIS EVENING ON THAT +KNOLL; IF THEY HAD RETREATED THEY WOULD HAVE WITHDRAWN FROM THAT TOO.... +OFFICER!” SAID BAGRATIóN TO ROSTóV, “ARE THE ENEMY’S SKIRMISHERS +STILL THERE?” + +“THEY WERE THERE THIS EVENING, BUT NOW I DON’T KNOW, YOUR +EXCELLENCY. SHALL I GO WITH SOME OF MY HUSSARS TO SEE?” REPLIED +ROSTóV. + +BAGRATIóN STOPPED AND, BEFORE REPLYING, TRIED TO SEE ROSTóV’S FACE +IN THE MIST. + +“WELL, GO AND SEE,” HE SAID, AFTER A PAUSE. + +“YES, SIR.” + +ROSTóV SPURRED HIS HORSE, CALLED TO SERGEANT FéDCHENKO AND TWO OTHER +HUSSARS, TOLD THEM TO FOLLOW HIM, AND TROTTED DOWNHILL IN THE DIRECTION +FROM WHICH THE SHOUTING CAME. HE FELT BOTH FRIGHTENED AND PLEASED TO BE +RIDING ALONE WITH THREE HUSSARS INTO THAT MYSTERIOUS AND DANGEROUS MISTY +DISTANCE WHERE NO ONE HAD BEEN BEFORE HIM. BAGRATIóN CALLED TO HIM FROM +THE HILL NOT TO GO BEYOND THE STREAM, BUT ROSTóV PRETENDED NOT TO HEAR +HIM AND DID NOT STOP BUT RODE ON AND ON, CONTINUALLY MISTAKING BUSHES +FOR TREES AND GULLIES FOR MEN AND CONTINUALLY DISCOVERING HIS MISTAKES. +HAVING DESCENDED THE HILL AT A TROT, HE NO LONGER SAW EITHER OUR OWN OR +THE ENEMY’S FIRES, BUT HEARD THE SHOUTING OF THE FRENCH MORE LOUDLY +AND DISTINCTLY. IN THE VALLEY HE SAW BEFORE HIM SOMETHING LIKE A RIVER, +BUT WHEN HE REACHED IT HE FOUND IT WAS A ROAD. HAVING COME OUT ONTO +THE ROAD HE REINED IN HIS HORSE, HESITATING WHETHER TO RIDE ALONG IT OR +CROSS IT AND RIDE OVER THE BLACK FIELD UP THE HILLSIDE. TO KEEP TO THE +ROAD WHICH GLEAMED WHITE IN THE MIST WOULD HAVE BEEN SAFER BECAUSE IT +WOULD BE EASIER TO SEE PEOPLE COMING ALONG IT. “FOLLOW ME!” SAID HE, +CROSSED THE ROAD, AND BEGAN RIDING UP THE HILL AT A GALLOP TOWARD THE +POINT WHERE THE FRENCH PICKETS HAD BEEN STANDING THAT EVENING. + +“YOUR HONOR, THERE HE IS!” CRIED ONE OF THE HUSSARS BEHIND HIM. AND +BEFORE ROSTóV HAD TIME TO MAKE OUT WHAT THE BLACK THING WAS THAT HAD +SUDDENLY APPEARED IN THE FOG, THERE WAS A FLASH, FOLLOWED BY A REPORT, +AND A BULLET WHIZZING HIGH UP IN THE MIST WITH A PLAINTIVE SOUND PASSED +OUT OF HEARING. ANOTHER MUSKET MISSED FIRE BUT FLASHED IN THE PAN. +ROSTóV TURNED HIS HORSE AND GALLOPED BACK. FOUR MORE REPORTS FOLLOWED +AT INTERVALS, AND THE BULLETS PASSED SOMEWHERE IN THE FOG SINGING IN +DIFFERENT TONES. ROSTóV REINED IN HIS HORSE, WHOSE SPIRITS HAD RISEN, +LIKE HIS OWN, AT THE FIRING, AND WENT BACK AT A FOOTPACE. “WELL, SOME +MORE! SOME MORE!” A MERRY VOICE WAS SAYING IN HIS SOUL. BUT NO MORE +SHOTS CAME. + +ONLY WHEN APPROACHING BAGRATIóN DID ROSTóV LET HIS HORSE GALLOP AGAIN, +AND WITH HIS HAND AT THE SALUTE RODE UP TO THE GENERAL. + +DOLGORúKOV WAS STILL INSISTING THAT THE FRENCH HAD RETREATED AND HAD +ONLY LIT FIRES TO DECEIVE US. + +“WHAT DOES THAT PROVE?” HE WAS SAYING AS ROSTóV RODE UP. “THEY +MIGHT RETREAT AND LEAVE THE PICKETS.” + +“IT’S PLAIN THAT THEY HAVE NOT ALL GONE YET, PRINCE,” SAID +BAGRATIóN. “WAIT TILL TOMORROW MORNING, WE’LL FIND OUT EVERYTHING +TOMORROW.” + +“THE PICKET IS STILL ON THE HILL, YOUR EXCELLENCY, JUST WHERE IT WAS +IN THE EVENING,” REPORTED ROSTóV, STOOPING FORWARD WITH HIS HAND AT +THE SALUTE AND UNABLE TO REPRESS THE SMILE OF DELIGHT INDUCED BY HIS +RIDE AND ESPECIALLY BY THE SOUND OF THE BULLETS. + +“VERY GOOD, VERY GOOD,” SAID BAGRATIóN. “THANK YOU, OFFICER.” + +“YOUR EXCELLENCY,” SAID ROSTóV, “MAY I ASK A FAVOR?” + +“WHAT IS IT?” + +“TOMORROW OUR SQUADRON IS TO BE IN RESERVE. MAY I ASK TO BE ATTACHED +TO THE FIRST SQUADRON?” + +“WHAT’S YOUR NAME?” + +“COUNT ROSTóV.” + +“OH, VERY WELL, YOU MAY STAY IN ATTENDANCE ON ME.” + +“COUNT ILYá ROSTóV’S SON?” ASKED DOLGORúKOV. + +BUT ROSTóV DID NOT REPLY. + +“THEN I MAY RECKON ON IT, YOUR EXCELLENCY?” + +“I WILL GIVE THE ORDER.” + +“TOMORROW VERY LIKELY I MAY BE SENT WITH SOME MESSAGE TO THE +EMPEROR,” THOUGHT ROSTóV. + +“THANK GOD!” + +THE FIRES AND SHOUTING IN THE ENEMY’S ARMY WERE OCCASIONED BY THE FACT +THAT WHILE NAPOLEON’S PROCLAMATION WAS BEING READ TO THE TROOPS THE +EMPEROR HIMSELF RODE ROUND HIS BIVOUACS. THE SOLDIERS, ON SEEING HIM, +LIT WISPS OF STRAW AND RAN AFTER HIM, SHOUTING, “VIVE L’EMPEREUR!” +NAPOLEON’S PROCLAMATION WAS AS FOLLOWS: + +SOLDIERS! THE RUSSIAN ARMY IS ADVANCING AGAINST YOU TO AVENGE THE +AUSTRIAN ARMY OF ULM. THEY ARE THE SAME BATTALIONS YOU BROKE AT +HOLLABRüNN AND HAVE PURSUED EVER SINCE TO THIS PLACE. THE POSITION WE +OCCUPY IS A STRONG ONE, AND WHILE THEY ARE MARCHING TO GO ROUND ME ON +THE RIGHT THEY WILL EXPOSE A FLANK TO ME. SOLDIERS! I WILL MYSELF DIRECT +YOUR BATTALIONS. I WILL KEEP OUT OF FIRE IF YOU WITH YOUR HABITUAL +VALOR CARRY DISORDER AND CONFUSION INTO THE ENEMY’S RANKS, BUT SHOULD +VICTORY BE IN DOUBT, EVEN FOR A MOMENT, YOU WILL SEE YOUR EMPEROR +EXPOSING HIMSELF TO THE FIRST BLOWS OF THE ENEMY, FOR THERE MUST BE NO +DOUBT OF VICTORY, ESPECIALLY ON THIS DAY WHEN WHAT IS AT STAKE IS THE +HONOR OF THE FRENCH INFANTRY, SO NECESSARY TO THE HONOR OF OUR NATION. + +DO NOT BREAK YOUR RANKS ON THE PLEA OF REMOVING THE WOUNDED! LET EVERY +MAN BE FULLY IMBUED WITH THE THOUGHT THAT WE MUST DEFEAT THESE HIRELINGS +OF ENGLAND, INSPIRED BY SUCH HATRED OF OUR NATION! THIS VICTORY WILL +CONCLUDE OUR CAMPAIGN AND WE CAN RETURN TO WINTER QUARTERS, WHERE FRESH +FRENCH TROOPS WHO ARE BEING RAISED IN FRANCE WILL JOIN US, AND THE PEACE +I SHALL CONCLUDE WILL BE WORTHY OF MY PEOPLE, OF YOU, AND OF MYSELF. + +NAPOLEON + + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +AT FIVE IN THE MORNING IT WAS STILL QUITE DARK. THE TROOPS OF THE +CENTER, THE RESERVES, AND BAGRATIóN’S RIGHT FLANK HAD NOT YET MOVED, +BUT ON THE LEFT FLANK THE COLUMNS OF INFANTRY, CAVALRY, AND ARTILLERY, +WHICH WERE TO BE THE FIRST TO DESCEND THE HEIGHTS TO ATTACK THE FRENCH +RIGHT FLANK AND DRIVE IT INTO THE BOHEMIAN MOUNTAINS ACCORDING TO PLAN, +WERE ALREADY UP AND ASTIR. THE SMOKE OF THE CAMPFIRES, INTO WHICH THEY +WERE THROWING EVERYTHING SUPERFLUOUS, MADE THE EYES SMART. IT WAS COLD +AND DARK. THE OFFICERS WERE HURRIEDLY DRINKING TEA AND BREAKFASTING, THE +SOLDIERS, MUNCHING BISCUIT AND BEATING A TATTOO WITH THEIR FEET TO +WARM THEMSELVES, GATHERING ROUND THE FIRES THROWING INTO THE FLAMES THE +REMAINS OF SHEDS, CHAIRS, TABLES, WHEELS, TUBS, AND EVERYTHING THAT THEY +DID NOT WANT OR COULD NOT CARRY AWAY WITH THEM. AUSTRIAN COLUMN GUIDES +WERE MOVING IN AND OUT AMONG THE RUSSIAN TROOPS AND SERVED AS HERALDS +OF THE ADVANCE. AS SOON AS AN AUSTRIAN OFFICER SHOWED HIMSELF NEAR +A COMMANDING OFFICER’S QUARTERS, THE REGIMENT BEGAN TO MOVE: THE +SOLDIERS RAN FROM THE FIRES, THRUST THEIR PIPES INTO THEIR BOOTS, THEIR +BAGS INTO THE CARTS, GOT THEIR MUSKETS READY, AND FORMED RANK. THE +OFFICERS BUTTONED UP THEIR COATS, BUCKLED ON THEIR SWORDS AND POUCHES, +AND MOVED ALONG THE RANKS SHOUTING. THE TRAIN DRIVERS AND ORDERLIES +HARNESSED AND PACKED THE WAGONS AND TIED ON THE LOADS. THE ADJUTANTS AND +BATTALION AND REGIMENTAL COMMANDERS MOUNTED, CROSSED THEMSELVES, GAVE +FINAL INSTRUCTIONS, ORDERS, AND COMMISSIONS TO THE BAGGAGE MEN +WHO REMAINED BEHIND, AND THE MONOTONOUS TRAMP OF THOUSANDS OF FEET +RESOUNDED. THE COLUMN MOVED FORWARD WITHOUT KNOWING WHERE AND UNABLE, +FROM THE MASSES AROUND THEM, THE SMOKE AND THE INCREASING FOG, TO SEE +EITHER THE PLACE THEY WERE LEAVING OR THAT TO WHICH THEY WERE GOING. + +A SOLDIER ON THE MARCH IS HEMMED IN AND BORNE ALONG BY HIS REGIMENT AS +MUCH AS A SAILOR IS BY HIS SHIP. HOWEVER FAR HE HAS WALKED, WHATEVER +STRANGE, UNKNOWN, AND DANGEROUS PLACES HE REACHES, JUST AS A SAILOR IS +ALWAYS SURROUNDED BY THE SAME DECKS, MASTS, AND RIGGING OF HIS SHIP, SO +THE SOLDIER ALWAYS HAS AROUND HIM THE SAME COMRADES, THE SAME RANKS, THE +SAME SERGEANT MAJOR IVáN MíTRICH, THE SAME COMPANY DOG JACK, AND THE +SAME COMMANDERS. THE SAILOR RARELY CARES TO KNOW THE LATITUDE IN WHICH +HIS SHIP IS SAILING, BUT ON THE DAY OF BATTLE—HEAVEN KNOWS HOW AND +WHENCE—A STERN NOTE OF WHICH ALL ARE CONSCIOUS SOUNDS IN THE MORAL +ATMOSPHERE OF AN ARMY, ANNOUNCING THE APPROACH OF SOMETHING DECISIVE +AND SOLEMN, AND AWAKENING IN THE MEN AN UNUSUAL CURIOSITY. ON THE DAY OF +BATTLE THE SOLDIERS EXCITEDLY TRY TO GET BEYOND THE INTERESTS OF THEIR +REGIMENT, THEY LISTEN INTENTLY, LOOK ABOUT, AND EAGERLY ASK CONCERNING +WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND THEM. + +THE FOG HAD GROWN SO DENSE THAT THOUGH IT WAS GROWING LIGHT THEY COULD +NOT SEE TEN PACES AHEAD. BUSHES LOOKED LIKE GIGANTIC TREES AND LEVEL +GROUND LIKE CLIFFS AND SLOPES. ANYWHERE, ON ANY SIDE, ONE MIGHT +ENCOUNTER AN ENEMY INVISIBLE TEN PACES OFF. BUT THE COLUMNS ADVANCED +FOR A LONG TIME, ALWAYS IN THE SAME FOG, DESCENDING AND ASCENDING HILLS, +AVOIDING GARDENS AND ENCLOSURES, GOING OVER NEW AND UNKNOWN GROUND, AND +NOWHERE ENCOUNTERING THE ENEMY. ON THE CONTRARY, THE SOLDIERS BECAME +AWARE THAT IN FRONT, BEHIND, AND ON ALL SIDES, OTHER RUSSIAN COLUMNS +WERE MOVING IN THE SAME DIRECTION. EVERY SOLDIER FELT GLAD TO KNOW THAT +TO THE UNKNOWN PLACE WHERE HE WAS GOING, MANY MORE OF OUR MEN WERE GOING +TOO. + +“THERE NOW, THE KúRSKIES HAVE ALSO GONE PAST,” WAS BEING SAID IN +THE RANKS. + +“IT’S WONDERFUL WHAT A LOT OF OUR TROOPS HAVE GATHERED, LADS! LAST +NIGHT I LOOKED AT THE CAMPFIRES AND THERE WAS NO END OF THEM. A REGULAR +MOSCOW!” + +THOUGH NONE OF THE COLUMN COMMANDERS RODE UP TO THE RANKS OR TALKED TO +THE MEN (THE COMMANDERS, AS WE SAW AT THE COUNCIL OF WAR, WERE OUT OF +HUMOR AND DISSATISFIED WITH THE AFFAIR, AND SO DID NOT EXERT THEMSELVES +TO CHEER THE MEN BUT MERELY CARRIED OUT THE ORDERS), YET THE TROOPS +MARCHED GAILY, AS THEY ALWAYS DO WHEN GOING INTO ACTION, ESPECIALLY TO +AN ATTACK. BUT WHEN THEY HAD MARCHED FOR ABOUT AN HOUR IN THE DENSE FOG, +THE GREATER PART OF THE MEN HAD TO HALT AND AN UNPLEASANT CONSCIOUSNESS +OF SOME DISLOCATION AND BLUNDER SPREAD THROUGH THE RANKS. HOW SUCH +A CONSCIOUSNESS IS COMMUNICATED IS VERY DIFFICULT TO DEFINE, BUT IT +CERTAINLY IS COMMUNICATED VERY SURELY, AND FLOWS RAPIDLY, IMPERCEPTIBLY, +AND IRREPRESSIBLY, AS WATER DOES IN A CREEK. HAD THE RUSSIAN ARMY BEEN +ALONE WITHOUT ANY ALLIES, IT MIGHT PERHAPS HAVE BEEN A LONG TIME BEFORE +THIS CONSCIOUSNESS OF MISMANAGEMENT BECAME A GENERAL CONVICTION, BUT AS +IT WAS, THE DISORDER WAS READILY AND NATURALLY ATTRIBUTED TO THE STUPID +GERMANS, AND EVERYONE WAS CONVINCED THAT A DANGEROUS MUDDLE HAD BEEN +OCCASIONED BY THE SAUSAGE EATERS. + +“WHY HAVE WE STOPPED? IS THE WAY BLOCKED? OR HAVE WE ALREADY COME UP +AGAINST THE FRENCH?” + +“NO, ONE CAN’T HEAR THEM. THEY’D BE FIRING IF WE HAD.” + +“THEY WERE IN A HURRY ENOUGH TO START US, AND NOW HERE WE STAND IN +THE MIDDLE OF A FIELD WITHOUT RHYME OR REASON. IT’S ALL THOSE DAMNED +GERMANS’ MUDDLING! WHAT STUPID DEVILS!” + +“YES, I’D SEND THEM ON IN FRONT, BUT NO FEAR, THEY’RE CROWDING UP +BEHIND. AND NOW HERE WE STAND HUNGRY.” + +“I SAY, SHALL WE SOON BE CLEAR? THEY SAY THE CAVALRY ARE BLOCKING THE +WAY,” SAID AN OFFICER. + +“AH, THOSE DAMNED GERMANS! THEY DON’T KNOW THEIR OWN COUNTRY!” +SAID ANOTHER. + +“WHAT DIVISION ARE YOU?” SHOUTED AN ADJUTANT, RIDING UP. + +“THE EIGHTEENTH.” + +“THEN WHY ARE YOU HERE? YOU SHOULD HAVE GONE ON LONG AGO, NOW YOU +WON’T GET THERE TILL EVENING.” + +“WHAT STUPID ORDERS! THEY DON’T THEMSELVES KNOW WHAT THEY ARE +DOING!” SAID THE OFFICER AND RODE OFF. + +THEN A GENERAL RODE PAST SHOUTING SOMETHING ANGRILY, NOT IN RUSSIAN. + +“TAFA-LAFA! BUT WHAT HE’S JABBERING NO ONE CAN MAKE OUT,” SAID A +SOLDIER, MIMICKING THE GENERAL WHO HAD RIDDEN AWAY. “I’D SHOOT THEM, +THE SCOUNDRELS!” + +“WE WERE ORDERED TO BE AT THE PLACE BEFORE NINE, BUT WE HAVEN’T GOT +HALFWAY. FINE ORDERS!” WAS BEING REPEATED ON DIFFERENT SIDES. + +AND THE FEELING OF ENERGY WITH WHICH THE TROOPS HAD STARTED BEGAN TO +TURN INTO VEXATION AND ANGER AT THE STUPID ARRANGEMENTS AND AT THE +GERMANS. + +THE CAUSE OF THE CONFUSION WAS THAT WHILE THE AUSTRIAN CAVALRY WAS +MOVING TOWARD OUR LEFT FLANK, THE HIGHER COMMAND FOUND THAT OUR CENTER +WAS TOO FAR SEPARATED FROM OUR RIGHT FLANK AND THE CAVALRY WERE ALL +ORDERED TO TURN BACK TO THE RIGHT. SEVERAL THOUSAND CAVALRY CROSSED IN +FRONT OF THE INFANTRY, WHO HAD TO WAIT. + +AT THE FRONT AN ALTERCATION OCCURRED BETWEEN AN AUSTRIAN GUIDE AND A +RUSSIAN GENERAL. THE GENERAL SHOUTED A DEMAND THAT THE CAVALRY SHOULD BE +HALTED, THE AUSTRIAN ARGUED THAT NOT HE, BUT THE HIGHER COMMAND, WAS TO +BLAME. THE TROOPS MEANWHILE STOOD GROWING LISTLESS AND DISPIRITED. AFTER +AN HOUR’S DELAY THEY AT LAST MOVED ON, DESCENDING THE HILL. THE FOG +THAT WAS DISPERSING ON THE HILL LAY STILL MORE DENSELY BELOW, WHERE THEY +WERE DESCENDING. IN FRONT IN THE FOG A SHOT WAS HEARD AND THEN ANOTHER, +AT FIRST IRREGULARLY AT VARYING INTERVALS—TRATA...TAT—AND THEN MORE +AND MORE REGULARLY AND RAPIDLY, AND THE ACTION AT THE GOLDBACH STREAM +BEGAN. + +NOT EXPECTING TO COME ON THE ENEMY DOWN BY THE STREAM, AND HAVING +STUMBLED ON HIM IN THE FOG, HEARING NO ENCOURAGING WORD FROM THEIR +COMMANDERS, AND WITH A CONSCIOUSNESS OF BEING TOO LATE SPREADING THROUGH +THE RANKS, AND ABOVE ALL BEING UNABLE TO SEE ANYTHING IN FRONT OR AROUND +THEM IN THE THICK FOG, THE RUSSIANS EXCHANGED SHOTS WITH THE ENEMY +LAZILY AND ADVANCED AND AGAIN HALTED, RECEIVING NO TIMELY ORDERS FROM +THE OFFICERS OR ADJUTANTS WHO WANDERED ABOUT IN THE FOG IN THOSE UNKNOWN +SURROUNDINGS UNABLE TO FIND THEIR OWN REGIMENTS. IN THIS WAY THE ACTION +BEGAN FOR THE FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD COLUMNS, WHICH HAD GONE DOWN INTO +THE VALLEY. THE FOURTH COLUMN, WITH WHICH KUTúZOV WAS, STOOD ON THE +PRATZEN HEIGHTS. + +BELOW, WHERE THE FIGHT WAS BEGINNING, THERE WAS STILL THICK FOG; ON THE +HIGHER GROUND IT WAS CLEARING, BUT NOTHING COULD BE SEEN OF WHAT WAS +GOING ON IN FRONT. WHETHER ALL THE ENEMY FORCES WERE, AS WE SUPPOSED, +SIX MILES AWAY, OR WHETHER THEY WERE NEAR BY IN THAT SEA OF MIST, NO ONE +KNEW TILL AFTER EIGHT O’CLOCK. + +IT WAS NINE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING. THE FOG LAY UNBROKEN LIKE A SEA +DOWN BELOW, BUT HIGHER UP AT THE VILLAGE OF SCHLAPPANITZ WHERE NAPOLEON +STOOD WITH HIS MARSHALS AROUND HIM, IT WAS QUITE LIGHT. ABOVE HIM WAS +A CLEAR BLUE SKY, AND THE SUN’S VAST ORB QUIVERED LIKE A HUGE HOLLOW, +CRIMSON FLOAT ON THE SURFACE OF THAT MILKY SEA OF MIST. THE WHOLE FRENCH +ARMY, AND EVEN NAPOLEON HIMSELF WITH HIS STAFF, WERE NOT ON THE FAR SIDE +OF THE STREAMS AND HOLLOWS OF SOKOLNITZ AND SCHLAPPANITZ BEYOND WHICH WE +INTENDED TO TAKE UP OUR POSITION AND BEGIN THE ACTION, BUT WERE ON THIS +SIDE, SO CLOSE TO OUR OWN FORCES THAT NAPOLEON WITH THE NAKED EYE COULD +DISTINGUISH A MOUNTED MAN FROM ONE ON FOOT. NAPOLEON, IN THE BLUE CLOAK +WHICH HE HAD WORN ON HIS ITALIAN CAMPAIGN, SAT ON HIS SMALL GRAY ARAB +HORSE A LITTLE IN FRONT OF HIS MARSHALS. HE GAZED SILENTLY AT THE HILLS +WHICH SEEMED TO RISE OUT OF THE SEA OF MIST AND ON WHICH THE RUSSIAN +TROOPS WERE MOVING IN THE DISTANCE, AND HE LISTENED TO THE SOUNDS OF +FIRING IN THE VALLEY. NOT A SINGLE MUSCLE OF HIS FACE—WHICH IN THOSE +DAYS WAS STILL THIN—MOVED. HIS GLEAMING EYES WERE FIXED INTENTLY ON +ONE SPOT. HIS PREDICTIONS WERE BEING JUSTIFIED. PART OF THE RUSSIAN +FORCE HAD ALREADY DESCENDED INTO THE VALLEY TOWARD THE PONDS AND LAKES +AND PART WERE LEAVING THESE PRATZEN HEIGHTS WHICH HE INTENDED TO ATTACK +AND REGARDED AS THE KEY TO THE POSITION. HE SAW OVER THE MIST THAT IN +A HOLLOW BETWEEN TWO HILLS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF PRATZEN, THE RUSSIAN +COLUMNS, THEIR BAYONETS GLITTERING, WERE MOVING CONTINUOUSLY IN ONE +DIRECTION TOWARD THE VALLEY AND DISAPPEARING ONE AFTER ANOTHER INTO +THE MIST. FROM INFORMATION HE HAD RECEIVED THE EVENING BEFORE, FROM THE +SOUND OF WHEELS AND FOOTSTEPS HEARD BY THE OUTPOSTS DURING THE NIGHT, +BY THE DISORDERLY MOVEMENT OF THE RUSSIAN COLUMNS, AND FROM ALL +INDICATIONS, HE SAW CLEARLY THAT THE ALLIES BELIEVED HIM TO BE FAR AWAY +IN FRONT OF THEM, AND THAT THE COLUMNS MOVING NEAR PRATZEN CONSTITUTED +THE CENTER OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY, AND THAT THAT CENTER WAS ALREADY +SUFFICIENTLY WEAKENED TO BE SUCCESSFULLY ATTACKED. BUT STILL HE DID NOT +BEGIN THE ENGAGEMENT. + +TODAY WAS A GREAT DAY FOR HIM—THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS CORONATION. +BEFORE DAWN HE HAD SLEPT FOR A FEW HOURS, AND REFRESHED, VIGOROUS, AND +IN GOOD SPIRITS, HE MOUNTED HIS HORSE AND RODE OUT INTO THE FIELD +IN THAT HAPPY MOOD IN WHICH EVERYTHING SEEMS POSSIBLE AND EVERYTHING +SUCCEEDS. HE SAT MOTIONLESS, LOOKING AT THE HEIGHTS VISIBLE ABOVE +THE MIST, AND HIS COLD FACE WORE THAT SPECIAL LOOK OF CONFIDENT, +SELF-COMPLACENT HAPPINESS THAT ONE SEES ON THE FACE OF A BOY HAPPILY +IN LOVE. THE MARSHALS STOOD BEHIND HIM NOT VENTURING TO DISTRACT HIS +ATTENTION. HE LOOKED NOW AT THE PRATZEN HEIGHTS, NOW AT THE SUN FLOATING +UP OUT OF THE MIST. + +WHEN THE SUN HAD ENTIRELY EMERGED FROM THE FOG, AND FIELDS AND MIST WERE +AGLOW WITH DAZZLING LIGHT—AS IF HE HAD ONLY AWAITED THIS TO BEGIN THE +ACTION—HE DREW THE GLOVE FROM HIS SHAPELY WHITE HAND, MADE A SIGN +WITH IT TO THE MARSHALS, AND ORDERED THE ACTION TO BEGIN. THE MARSHALS, +ACCOMPANIED BY ADJUTANTS, GALLOPED OFF IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, AND +A FEW MINUTES LATER THE CHIEF FORCES OF THE FRENCH ARMY MOVED RAPIDLY +TOWARD THOSE PRATZEN HEIGHTS WHICH WERE BEING MORE AND MORE DENUDED BY +RUSSIAN TROOPS MOVING DOWN THE VALLEY TO THEIR LEFT. + + + + + +CHAPTER XV + +AT EIGHT O’CLOCK KUTúZOV RODE TO PRATZEN AT THE HEAD OF THE FOURTH +COLUMN, MILORáDOVICH’S, THE ONE THAT WAS TO TAKE THE PLACE OF +PRZEBYSZéWSKI’S AND LANGERON’S COLUMNS WHICH HAD ALREADY GONE DOWN +INTO THE VALLEY. HE GREETED THE MEN OF THE FOREMOST REGIMENT AND GAVE +THEM THE ORDER TO MARCH, THEREBY INDICATING THAT HE INTENDED TO LEAD +THAT COLUMN HIMSELF. WHEN HE HAD REACHED THE VILLAGE OF PRATZEN HE +HALTED. PRINCE ANDREW WAS BEHIND, AMONG THE IMMENSE NUMBER FORMING THE +COMMANDER IN CHIEF’S SUITE. HE WAS IN A STATE OF SUPPRESSED EXCITEMENT +AND IRRITATION, THOUGH CONTROLLEDLY CALM AS A MAN IS AT THE APPROACH OF +A LONG-AWAITED MOMENT. HE WAS FIRMLY CONVINCED THAT THIS WAS THE DAY OF +HIS TOULON, OR HIS BRIDGE OF ARCOLA. HOW IT WOULD COME ABOUT HE DID NOT +KNOW, BUT HE FELT SURE IT WOULD DO SO. THE LOCALITY AND THE POSITION OF +OUR TROOPS WERE KNOWN TO HIM AS FAR AS THEY COULD BE KNOWN TO ANYONE +IN OUR ARMY. HIS OWN STRATEGIC PLAN, WHICH OBVIOUSLY COULD NOT NOW +BE CARRIED OUT, WAS FORGOTTEN. NOW, ENTERING INTO WEYROTHER’S PLAN, +PRINCE ANDREW CONSIDERED POSSIBLE CONTINGENCIES AND FORMED NEW PROJECTS +SUCH AS MIGHT CALL FOR HIS RAPIDITY OF PERCEPTION AND DECISION. + +TO THE LEFT DOWN BELOW IN THE MIST, THE MUSKETRY FIRE OF UNSEEN FORCES +COULD BE HEARD. IT WAS THERE PRINCE ANDREW THOUGHT THE FIGHT WOULD +CONCENTRATE. “THERE WE SHALL ENCOUNTER DIFFICULTIES, AND THERE,” +THOUGHT HE, “I SHALL BE SENT WITH A BRIGADE OR DIVISION, AND THERE, +STANDARD IN HAND, I SHALL GO FORWARD AND BREAK WHATEVER IS IN FRONT OF +ME.” + +HE COULD NOT LOOK CALMLY AT THE STANDARDS OF THE PASSING BATTALIONS. +SEEING THEM HE KEPT THINKING, “THAT MAY BE THE VERY STANDARD WITH +WHICH I SHALL LEAD THE ARMY.” + +IN THE MORNING ALL THAT WAS LEFT OF THE NIGHT MIST ON THE HEIGHTS WAS +A HOAR FROST NOW TURNING TO DEW, BUT IN THE VALLEYS IT STILL LAY LIKE A +MILK-WHITE SEA. NOTHING WAS VISIBLE IN THE VALLEY TO THE LEFT INTO WHICH +OUR TROOPS HAD DESCENDED AND FROM WHENCE CAME THE SOUNDS OF FIRING. +ABOVE THE HEIGHTS WAS THE DARK CLEAR SKY, AND TO THE RIGHT THE VAST ORB +OF THE SUN. IN FRONT, FAR OFF ON THE FARTHER SHORE OF THAT SEA OF MIST, +SOME WOODED HILLS WERE DISCERNIBLE, AND IT WAS THERE THE ENEMY PROBABLY +WAS, FOR SOMETHING COULD BE DESCRIED. ON THE RIGHT THE GUARDS WERE +ENTERING THE MISTY REGION WITH A SOUND OF HOOFS AND WHEELS AND NOW AND +THEN A GLEAM OF BAYONETS; TO THE LEFT BEYOND THE VILLAGE SIMILAR MASSES +OF CAVALRY CAME UP AND DISAPPEARED IN THE SEA OF MIST. IN FRONT AND +BEHIND MOVED INFANTRY. THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF WAS STANDING AT THE END OF +THE VILLAGE LETTING THE TROOPS PASS BY HIM. THAT MORNING KUTúZOV SEEMED +WORN AND IRRITABLE. THE INFANTRY PASSING BEFORE HIM CAME TO A HALT +WITHOUT ANY COMMAND BEING GIVEN, APPARENTLY OBSTRUCTED BY SOMETHING IN +FRONT. + +“DO ORDER THEM TO FORM INTO BATTALION COLUMNS AND GO ROUND THE +VILLAGE!” HE SAID ANGRILY TO A GENERAL WHO HAD RIDDEN UP. “DON’T +YOU UNDERSTAND, YOUR EXCELLENCY, MY DEAR SIR, THAT YOU MUST NOT +DEFILE THROUGH NARROW VILLAGE STREETS WHEN WE ARE MARCHING AGAINST THE +ENEMY?” + +“I INTENDED TO RE-FORM THEM BEYOND THE VILLAGE, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” +ANSWERED THE GENERAL. + +KUTúZOV LAUGHED BITTERLY. + +“YOU’LL MAKE A FINE THING OF IT, DEPLOYING IN SIGHT OF THE ENEMY! +VERY FINE!” + +“THE ENEMY IS STILL FAR AWAY, YOUR EXCELLENCY. ACCORDING TO THE +DISPOSITIONS...” + +“THE DISPOSITIONS!” EXCLAIMED KUTúZOV BITTERLY. “WHO TOLD YOU +THAT?... KINDLY DO AS YOU ARE ORDERED.” + +“YES, SIR.” + +“MY DEAR FELLOW,” NESVíTSKI WHISPERED TO PRINCE ANDREW, “THE OLD +MAN IS AS SURLY AS A DOG.” + +AN AUSTRIAN OFFICER IN A WHITE UNIFORM WITH GREEN PLUMES IN HIS HAT +GALLOPED UP TO KUTúZOV AND ASKED IN THE EMPEROR’S NAME HAD THE FOURTH +COLUMN ADVANCED INTO ACTION. + +KUTúZOV TURNED ROUND WITHOUT ANSWERING AND HIS EYE HAPPENED TO FALL +UPON PRINCE ANDREW, WHO WAS BESIDE HIM. SEEING HIM, KUTúZOV’S +MALEVOLENT AND CAUSTIC EXPRESSION SOFTENED, AS IF ADMITTING THAT WHAT +WAS BEING DONE WAS NOT HIS ADJUTANT’S FAULT, AND STILL NOT ANSWERING +THE AUSTRIAN ADJUTANT, HE ADDRESSED BOLKóNSKI. + +“GO, MY DEAR FELLOW, AND SEE WHETHER THE THIRD DIVISION HAS PASSED THE +VILLAGE. TELL IT TO STOP AND AWAIT MY ORDERS.” + +HARDLY HAD PRINCE ANDREW STARTED THAN HE STOPPED HIM. + +“AND ASK WHETHER SHARPSHOOTERS HAVE BEEN POSTED,” HE ADDED. “WHAT +ARE THEY DOING? WHAT ARE THEY DOING?” HE MURMURED TO HIMSELF, STILL +NOT REPLYING TO THE AUSTRIAN. + +PRINCE ANDREW GALLOPED OFF TO EXECUTE THE ORDER. + +OVERTAKING THE BATTALIONS THAT CONTINUED TO ADVANCE, HE STOPPED +THE THIRD DIVISION AND CONVINCED HIMSELF THAT THERE REALLY WERE NO +SHARPSHOOTERS IN FRONT OF OUR COLUMNS. THE COLONEL AT THE HEAD OF THE +REGIMENT WAS MUCH SURPRISED AT THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF’S ORDER TO THROW +OUT SKIRMISHERS. HE HAD FELT PERFECTLY SURE THAT THERE WERE OTHER TROOPS +IN FRONT OF HIM AND THAT THE ENEMY MUST BE AT LEAST SIX MILES AWAY. +THERE WAS REALLY NOTHING TO BE SEEN IN FRONT EXCEPT A BARREN DESCENT +HIDDEN BY DENSE MIST. HAVING GIVEN ORDERS IN THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF’S +NAME TO RECTIFY THIS OMISSION, PRINCE ANDREW GALLOPED BACK. KUTúZOV +STILL IN THE SAME PLACE, HIS STOUT BODY RESTING HEAVILY IN THE SADDLE +WITH THE LASSITUDE OF AGE, SAT YAWNING WEARILY WITH CLOSED EYES. THE +TROOPS WERE NO LONGER MOVING, BUT STOOD WITH THE BUTTS OF THEIR MUSKETS +ON THE GROUND. + +“ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT!” HE SAID TO PRINCE ANDREW, AND TURNED TO A +GENERAL WHO, WATCH IN HAND, WAS SAYING IT WAS TIME THEY STARTED AS ALL +THE LEFT-FLANK COLUMNS HAD ALREADY DESCENDED. + +“PLENTY OF TIME, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” MUTTERED KUTúZOV IN THE MIDST OF +A YAWN. “PLENTY OF TIME,” HE REPEATED. + +JUST THEN AT A DISTANCE BEHIND KUTúZOV WAS HEARD THE SOUND OF REGIMENTS +SALUTING, AND THIS SOUND RAPIDLY CAME NEARER ALONG THE WHOLE EXTENDED +LINE OF THE ADVANCING RUSSIAN COLUMNS. EVIDENTLY THE PERSON THEY WERE +GREETING WAS RIDING QUICKLY. WHEN THE SOLDIERS OF THE REGIMENT IN FRONT +OF WHICH KUTúZOV WAS STANDING BEGAN TO SHOUT, HE RODE A LITTLE TO ONE +SIDE AND LOOKED ROUND WITH A FROWN. ALONG THE ROAD FROM PRATZEN GALLOPED +WHAT LOOKED LIKE A SQUADRON OF HORSEMEN IN VARIOUS UNIFORMS. TWO OF THEM +RODE SIDE BY SIDE IN FRONT, AT FULL GALLOP. ONE IN A BLACK UNIFORM WITH +WHITE PLUMES IN HIS HAT RODE A BOBTAILED CHESTNUT HORSE, THE OTHER WHO +WAS IN A WHITE UNIFORM RODE A BLACK ONE. THESE WERE THE TWO EMPERORS +FOLLOWED BY THEIR SUITES. KUTúZOV, AFFECTING THE MANNERS OF AN OLD +SOLDIER AT THE FRONT, GAVE THE COMMAND “ATTENTION!” AND RODE UP +TO THE EMPERORS WITH A SALUTE. HIS WHOLE APPEARANCE AND MANNER WERE +SUDDENLY TRANSFORMED. HE PUT ON THE AIR OF A SUBORDINATE WHO OBEYS +WITHOUT REASONING. WITH AN AFFECTATION OF RESPECT WHICH EVIDENTLY STRUCK +ALEXANDER UNPLEASANTLY, HE RODE UP AND SALUTED. + +THIS UNPLEASANT IMPRESSION MERELY FLITTED OVER THE YOUNG AND HAPPY FACE +OF THE EMPEROR LIKE A CLOUD OF HAZE ACROSS A CLEAR SKY AND VANISHED. +AFTER HIS ILLNESS HE LOOKED RATHER THINNER THAT DAY THAN ON THE FIELD +OF OLMüTZ WHERE BOLKóNSKI HAD SEEN HIM FOR THE FIRST TIME ABROAD, BUT +THERE WAS STILL THE SAME BEWITCHING COMBINATION OF MAJESTY AND MILDNESS +IN HIS FINE GRAY EYES, AND ON HIS DELICATE LIPS THE SAME CAPACITY FOR +VARYING EXPRESSION AND THE SAME PREVALENT APPEARANCE OF GOODHEARTED +INNOCENT YOUTH. + +AT THE OLMüTZ REVIEW HE HAD SEEMED MORE MAJESTIC; HERE HE SEEMED +BRIGHTER AND MORE ENERGETIC. HE WAS SLIGHTLY FLUSHED AFTER GALLOPING TWO +MILES, AND REINING IN HIS HORSE HE SIGHED RESTFULLY AND LOOKED ROUND +AT THE FACES OF HIS SUITE, YOUNG AND ANIMATED AS HIS OWN. CZARTORýSKI, +NOVOSíLTSEV, PRINCE VOLKóNSKY, STRóGONOV, AND THE OTHERS, ALL RICHLY +DRESSED GAY YOUNG MEN ON SPLENDID, WELL-GROOMED, FRESH, ONLY SLIGHTLY +HEATED HORSES, EXCHANGING REMARKS AND SMILING, HAD STOPPED BEHIND THE +EMPEROR. THE EMPEROR FRANCIS, A ROSY, LONG FACED YOUNG MAN, SAT VERY +ERECT ON HIS HANDSOME BLACK HORSE, LOOKING ABOUT HIM IN A LEISURELY AND +PREOCCUPIED MANNER. HE BECKONED TO ONE OF HIS WHITE ADJUTANTS AND ASKED +SOME QUESTION—“MOST LIKELY HE IS ASKING AT WHAT O’CLOCK THEY +STARTED,” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW, WATCHING HIS OLD ACQUAINTANCE WITH +A SMILE HE COULD NOT REPRESS AS HE RECALLED HIS RECEPTION AT BRüNN. +IN THE EMPERORS’ SUITE WERE THE PICKED YOUNG ORDERLY OFFICERS OF THE +GUARD AND LINE REGIMENTS, RUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN. AMONG THEM WERE GROOMS +LEADING THE TSAR’S BEAUTIFUL RELAY HORSES COVERED WITH EMBROIDERED +CLOTHS. + +AS WHEN A WINDOW IS OPENED A WHIFF OF FRESH AIR FROM THE FIELDS ENTERS +A STUFFY ROOM, SO A WHIFF OF YOUTHFULNESS, ENERGY, AND CONFIDENCE OF +SUCCESS REACHED KUTúZOV’S CHEERLESS STAFF WITH THE GALLOPING ADVENT +OF ALL THESE BRILLIANT YOUNG MEN. + +“WHY AREN’T YOU BEGINNING, MICHAEL ILARIóNOVICH?” SAID THE +EMPEROR ALEXANDER HURRIEDLY TO KUTúZOV, GLANCING COURTEOUSLY AT THE +SAME TIME AT THE EMPEROR FRANCIS. + +“I AM WAITING, YOUR MAJESTY,” ANSWERED KUTúZOV, BENDING FORWARD +RESPECTFULLY. + +THE EMPEROR, FROWNING SLIGHTLY, BENT HIS EAR FORWARD AS IF HE HAD NOT +QUITE HEARD. + +“WAITING, YOUR MAJESTY,” REPEATED KUTúZOV. (PRINCE ANDREW NOTED +THAT KUTúZOV’S UPPER LIP TWITCHED UNNATURALLY AS HE SAID THE +WORD “WAITING.”) “NOT ALL THE COLUMNS HAVE FORMED UP YET, YOUR +MAJESTY.” + +THE TSAR HEARD BUT OBVIOUSLY DID NOT LIKE THE REPLY; HE SHRUGGED HIS +RATHER ROUND SHOULDERS AND GLANCED AT NOVOSíLTSEV WHO WAS NEAR HIM, AS +IF COMPLAINING OF KUTúZOV. + +“YOU KNOW, MICHAEL ILARIóNOVICH, WE ARE NOT ON THE EMPRESS’ FIELD +WHERE A PARADE DOES NOT BEGIN TILL ALL THE TROOPS ARE ASSEMBLED,” SAID +THE TSAR WITH ANOTHER GLANCE AT THE EMPEROR FRANCIS, AS IF INVITING +HIM IF NOT TO JOIN IN AT LEAST TO LISTEN TO WHAT HE WAS SAYING. BUT THE +EMPEROR FRANCIS CONTINUED TO LOOK ABOUT HIM AND DID NOT LISTEN. + +“THAT IS JUST WHY I DO NOT BEGIN, SIRE,” SAID KUTúZOV IN A +RESOUNDING VOICE, APPARENTLY TO PRECLUDE THE POSSIBILITY OF NOT BEING +HEARD, AND AGAIN SOMETHING IN HIS FACE TWITCHED—“THAT IS JUST WHY +I DO NOT BEGIN, SIRE, BECAUSE WE ARE NOT ON PARADE AND NOT ON THE +EMPRESS’ FIELD,” SAID HE CLEARLY AND DISTINCTLY. + +IN THE EMPEROR’S SUITE ALL EXCHANGED RAPID LOOKS THAT EXPRESSED +DISSATISFACTION AND REPROACH. “OLD THOUGH HE MAY BE, HE SHOULD NOT, HE +CERTAINLY SHOULD NOT, SPEAK LIKE THAT,” THEIR GLANCES SEEMED TO SAY. + +THE TSAR LOOKED INTENTLY AND OBSERVANTLY INTO KUTúZOV’S EYE +WAITING TO HEAR WHETHER HE WOULD SAY ANYTHING MORE. BUT KUTúZOV, WITH +RESPECTFULLY BOWED HEAD, SEEMED ALSO TO BE WAITING. THE SILENCE LASTED +FOR ABOUT A MINUTE. + +“HOWEVER, IF YOU COMMAND IT, YOUR MAJESTY,” SAID KUTúZOV, LIFTING +HIS HEAD AND AGAIN ASSUMING HIS FORMER TONE OF A DULL, UNREASONING, BUT +SUBMISSIVE GENERAL. + +HE TOUCHED HIS HORSE AND HAVING CALLED MILORáDOVICH, THE COMMANDER OF +THE COLUMN, GAVE HIM THE ORDER TO ADVANCE. + +THE TROOPS AGAIN BEGAN TO MOVE, AND TWO BATTALIONS OF THE NóVGOROD AND +ONE OF THE ÁPSHERON REGIMENT WENT FORWARD PAST THE EMPEROR. + +AS THIS ÁPSHERON BATTALION MARCHED BY, THE RED-FACED MILORáDOVICH, +WITHOUT HIS GREATCOAT, WITH HIS ORDERS ON HIS BREAST AND AN ENORMOUS +TUFT OF PLUMES IN HIS COCKED HAT WORN ON ONE SIDE WITH ITS CORNERS FRONT +AND BACK, GALLOPED STRENUOUSLY FORWARD, AND WITH A DASHING SALUTE REINED +IN HIS HORSE BEFORE THE EMPEROR. + +“GOD BE WITH YOU, GENERAL!” SAID THE EMPEROR. + +“MA FOI, SIRE, NOUS FERONS CE QUI SERA DANS NOTRE POSSIBILITé, +SIRE,” * HE ANSWERED GAILY, RAISING NEVERTHELESS IRONIC SMILES AMONG +THE GENTLEMEN OF THE TSAR’S SUITE BY HIS POOR FRENCH. + + * “INDEED, SIRE, WE SHALL DO EVERYTHING IT IS POSSIBLE TO + DO, SIRE.” + + +MILORáDOVICH WHEELED HIS HORSE SHARPLY AND STATIONED HIMSELF A LITTLE +BEHIND THE EMPEROR. THE ÁPSHERON MEN, EXCITED BY THE TSAR’S PRESENCE, +PASSED IN STEP BEFORE THE EMPERORS AND THEIR SUITES AT A BOLD, BRISK +PACE. + +“LADS!” SHOUTED MILORáDOVICH IN A LOUD, SELF-CONFIDENT, AND CHEERY +VOICE, OBVIOUSLY SO ELATED BY THE SOUND OF FIRING, BY THE PROSPECT OF +BATTLE, AND BY THE SIGHT OF THE GALLANT ÁPSHERONS, HIS COMRADES IN +SUVóROV’S TIME, NOW PASSING SO GALLANTLY BEFORE THE EMPERORS, THAT HE +FORGOT THE SOVEREIGNS’ PRESENCE. “LADS, IT’S NOT THE FIRST VILLAGE +YOU’VE HAD TO TAKE,” CRIED HE. + +“GLAD TO DO OUR BEST!” SHOUTED THE SOLDIERS. + +THE EMPEROR’S HORSE STARTED AT THE SUDDEN CRY. THIS HORSE THAT HAD +CARRIED THE SOVEREIGN AT REVIEWS IN RUSSIA BORE HIM ALSO HERE ON THE +FIELD OF AUSTERLITZ, ENDURING THE HEEDLESS BLOWS OF HIS LEFT FOOT AND +PRICKING ITS EARS AT THE SOUND OF SHOTS JUST AS IT HAD DONE ON THE +EMPRESS’ FIELD, NOT UNDERSTANDING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FIRING, NOR +OF THE NEARNESS OF THE EMPEROR FRANCIS’ BLACK COB, NOR OF ALL THAT WAS +BEING SAID, THOUGHT, AND FELT THAT DAY BY ITS RIDER. + +THE EMPEROR TURNED WITH A SMILE TO ONE OF HIS FOLLOWERS AND MADE A +REMARK TO HIM, POINTING TO THE GALLANT ÁPSHERONS. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +KUTúZOV ACCOMPANIED BY HIS ADJUTANTS RODE AT A WALKING PACE BEHIND THE +CARABINEERS. + +WHEN HE HAD GONE LESS THAN HALF A MILE IN THE REAR OF THE COLUMN HE +STOPPED AT A SOLITARY, DESERTED HOUSE THAT HAD PROBABLY ONCE BEEN AN +INN, WHERE TWO ROADS PARTED. BOTH OF THEM LED DOWNHILL AND TROOPS WERE +MARCHING ALONG BOTH. + +THE FOG HAD BEGUN TO CLEAR AND ENEMY TROOPS WERE ALREADY DIMLY VISIBLE +ABOUT A MILE AND A HALF OFF ON THE OPPOSITE HEIGHTS. DOWN BELOW, ON +THE LEFT, THE FIRING BECAME MORE DISTINCT. KUTúZOV HAD STOPPED AND WAS +SPEAKING TO AN AUSTRIAN GENERAL. PRINCE ANDREW, WHO WAS A LITTLE BEHIND +LOOKING AT THEM, TURNED TO AN ADJUTANT TO ASK HIM FOR A FIELD GLASS. + +“LOOK, LOOK!” SAID THIS ADJUTANT, LOOKING NOT AT THE TROOPS IN THE +DISTANCE, BUT DOWN THE HILL BEFORE HIM. “IT’S THE FRENCH!” + +THE TWO GENERALS AND THE ADJUTANT TOOK HOLD OF THE FIELD GLASS, TRYING +TO SNATCH IT FROM ONE ANOTHER. THE EXPRESSION ON ALL THEIR FACES +SUDDENLY CHANGED TO ONE OF HORROR. THE FRENCH WERE SUPPOSED TO BE A +MILE AND A HALF AWAY, BUT HAD SUDDENLY AND UNEXPECTEDLY APPEARED JUST IN +FRONT OF US. + +“IT’S THE ENEMY?... NO!... YES, SEE IT IS!... FOR CERTAIN.... BUT +HOW IS THAT?” SAID DIFFERENT VOICES. + +WITH THE NAKED EYE PRINCE ANDREW SAW BELOW THEM TO THE RIGHT, NOT MORE +THAN FIVE HUNDRED PACES FROM WHERE KUTúZOV WAS STANDING, A DENSE FRENCH +COLUMN COMING UP TO MEET THE ÁPSHERONS. + +“HERE IT IS! THE DECISIVE MOMENT HAS ARRIVED. MY TURN HAS COME,” +THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW, AND STRIKING HIS HORSE HE RODE UP TO KUTúZOV. + +“THE ÁPSHERONS MUST BE STOPPED, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” CRIED HE. BUT AT +THAT VERY INSTANT A CLOUD OF SMOKE SPREAD ALL ROUND, FIRING WAS HEARD +QUITE CLOSE AT HAND, AND A VOICE OF NAïVE TERROR BARELY TWO STEPS FROM +PRINCE ANDREW SHOUTED, “BROTHERS! ALL’S LOST!” AND AT THIS AS IF +AT A COMMAND, EVERYONE BEGAN TO RUN. + +CONFUSED AND EVER-INCREASING CROWDS WERE RUNNING BACK TO WHERE FIVE +MINUTES BEFORE THE TROOPS HAD PASSED THE EMPERORS. NOT ONLY WOULD IT +HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT TO STOP THAT CROWD, IT WAS EVEN IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO +BE CARRIED BACK WITH IT ONESELF. BOLKóNSKI ONLY TRIED NOT TO LOSE +TOUCH WITH IT, AND LOOKED AROUND BEWILDERED AND UNABLE TO GRASP WHAT WAS +HAPPENING IN FRONT OF HIM. NESVíTSKI WITH AN ANGRY FACE, RED AND UNLIKE +HIMSELF, WAS SHOUTING TO KUTúZOV THAT IF HE DID NOT RIDE AWAY AT ONCE +HE WOULD CERTAINLY BE TAKEN PRISONER. KUTúZOV REMAINED IN THE SAME +PLACE AND WITHOUT ANSWERING DREW OUT A HANDKERCHIEF. BLOOD WAS FLOWING +FROM HIS CHEEK. PRINCE ANDREW FORCED HIS WAY TO HIM. + +“YOU ARE WOUNDED?” HE ASKED, HARDLY ABLE TO MASTER THE TREMBLING OF +HIS LOWER JAW. + +“THE WOUND IS NOT HERE, IT IS THERE!” SAID KUTúZOV, PRESSING THE +HANDKERCHIEF TO HIS WOUNDED CHEEK AND POINTING TO THE FLEEING SOLDIERS. +“STOP THEM!” HE SHOUTED, AND AT THE SAME MOMENT, PROBABLY REALIZING +THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP THEM, SPURRED HIS HORSE AND RODE TO THE +RIGHT. + +A FRESH WAVE OF THE FLYING MOB CAUGHT HIM AND BORE HIM BACK WITH IT. + +THE TROOPS WERE RUNNING IN SUCH A DENSE MASS THAT ONCE SURROUNDED BY +THEM IT WAS DIFFICULT TO GET OUT AGAIN. ONE WAS SHOUTING, “GET ON! +WHY ARE YOU HINDERING US?” ANOTHER IN THE SAME PLACE TURNED ROUND AND +FIRED IN THE AIR; A THIRD WAS STRIKING THE HORSE KUTúZOV HIMSELF RODE. +HAVING BY A GREAT EFFORT GOT AWAY TO THE LEFT FROM THAT FLOOD OF MEN, +KUTúZOV, WITH HIS SUITE DIMINISHED BY MORE THAN HALF, RODE TOWARD A +SOUND OF ARTILLERY FIRE NEAR BY. HAVING FORCED HIS WAY OUT OF THE CROWD +OF FUGITIVES, PRINCE ANDREW, TRYING TO KEEP NEAR KUTúZOV, SAW ON THE +SLOPE OF THE HILL AMID THE SMOKE A RUSSIAN BATTERY THAT WAS STILL FIRING +AND FRENCHMEN RUNNING TOWARD IT. HIGHER UP STOOD SOME RUSSIAN INFANTRY, +NEITHER MOVING FORWARD TO PROTECT THE BATTERY NOR BACKWARD WITH THE +FLEEING CROWD. A MOUNTED GENERAL SEPARATED HIMSELF FROM THE INFANTRY AND +APPROACHED KUTúZOV. OF KUTúZOV’S SUITE ONLY FOUR REMAINED. THEY WERE +ALL PALE AND EXCHANGED LOOKS IN SILENCE. + +“STOP THOSE WRETCHES!” GASPED KUTúZOV TO THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, +POINTING TO THE FLYING SOLDIERS; BUT AT THAT INSTANT, AS IF TO PUNISH +HIM FOR THOSE WORDS, BULLETS FLEW HISSING ACROSS THE REGIMENT AND ACROSS +KUTúZOV’S SUITE LIKE A FLOCK OF LITTLE BIRDS. + +THE FRENCH HAD ATTACKED THE BATTERY AND, SEEING KUTúZOV, WERE FIRING +AT HIM. AFTER THIS VOLLEY THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER CLUTCHED AT HIS LEG; +SEVERAL SOLDIERS FELL, AND A SECOND LIEUTENANT WHO WAS HOLDING THE +FLAG LET IT FALL FROM HIS HANDS. IT SWAYED AND FELL, BUT CAUGHT ON THE +MUSKETS OF THE NEAREST SOLDIERS. THE SOLDIERS STARTED FIRING WITHOUT +ORDERS. + +“OH! OH! OH!” GROANED KUTúZOV DESPAIRINGLY AND LOOKED AROUND.... +“BOLKóNSKI!” HE WHISPERED, HIS VOICE TREMBLING FROM A CONSCIOUSNESS +OF THE FEEBLENESS OF AGE, “BOLKóNSKI!” HE WHISPERED, POINTING TO +THE DISORDERED BATTALION AND AT THE ENEMY, “WHAT’S THAT?” + +BUT BEFORE HE HAD FINISHED SPEAKING, PRINCE ANDREW, FEELING TEARS OF +SHAME AND ANGER CHOKING HIM, HAD ALREADY LEAPT FROM HIS HORSE AND RUN TO +THE STANDARD. + +“FORWARD, LADS!” HE SHOUTED IN A VOICE PIERCING AS A CHILD’S. + +“HERE IT IS!” THOUGHT HE, SEIZING THE STAFF OF THE STANDARD AND +HEARING WITH PLEASURE THE WHISTLE OF BULLETS EVIDENTLY AIMED AT HIM. +SEVERAL SOLDIERS FELL. + +“HURRAH!” SHOUTED PRINCE ANDREW, AND, SCARCELY ABLE TO HOLD UP +THE HEAVY STANDARD, HE RAN FORWARD WITH FULL CONFIDENCE THAT THE WHOLE +BATTALION WOULD FOLLOW HIM. + +AND REALLY HE ONLY RAN A FEW STEPS ALONE. ONE SOLDIER MOVED AND THEN +ANOTHER AND SOON THE WHOLE BATTALION RAN FORWARD SHOUTING “HURRAH!” +AND OVERTOOK HIM. A SERGEANT OF THE BATTALION RAN UP AND TOOK THE FLAG +THAT WAS SWAYING FROM ITS WEIGHT IN PRINCE ANDREW’S HANDS, BUT HE +WAS IMMEDIATELY KILLED. PRINCE ANDREW AGAIN SEIZED THE STANDARD AND, +DRAGGING IT BY THE STAFF, RAN ON WITH THE BATTALION. IN FRONT HE SAW OUR +ARTILLERYMEN, SOME OF WHOM WERE FIGHTING, WHILE OTHERS, HAVING ABANDONED +THEIR GUNS, WERE RUNNING TOWARD HIM. HE ALSO SAW FRENCH INFANTRY +SOLDIERS WHO WERE SEIZING THE ARTILLERY HORSES AND TURNING THE GUNS +ROUND. PRINCE ANDREW AND THE BATTALION WERE ALREADY WITHIN TWENTY PACES +OF THE CANNON. HE HEARD THE WHISTLE OF BULLETS ABOVE HIM UNCEASINGLY AND +TO RIGHT AND LEFT OF HIM SOLDIERS CONTINUALLY GROANED AND DROPPED. BUT +HE DID NOT LOOK AT THEM: HE LOOKED ONLY AT WHAT WAS GOING ON IN FRONT +OF HIM—AT THE BATTERY. HE NOW SAW CLEARLY THE FIGURE OF A RED-HAIRED +GUNNER WITH HIS SHAKO KNOCKED AWRY, PULLING ONE END OF A MOP WHILE +A FRENCH SOLDIER TUGGED AT THE OTHER. HE COULD DISTINCTLY SEE THE +DISTRAUGHT YET ANGRY EXPRESSION ON THE FACES OF THESE TWO MEN, WHO +EVIDENTLY DID NOT REALIZE WHAT THEY WERE DOING. + +“WHAT ARE THEY ABOUT?” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW AS HE GAZED AT THEM. +“WHY DOESN’T THE RED-HAIRED GUNNER RUN AWAY AS HE IS UNARMED? +WHY DOESN’T THE FRENCHMAN STAB HIM? HE WILL NOT GET AWAY BEFORE THE +FRENCHMAN REMEMBERS HIS BAYONET AND STABS HIM....” + +AND REALLY ANOTHER FRENCH SOLDIER, TRAILING HIS MUSKET, RAN UP TO +THE STRUGGLING MEN, AND THE FATE OF THE RED-HAIRED GUNNER, WHO HAD +TRIUMPHANTLY SECURED THE MOP AND STILL DID NOT REALIZE WHAT AWAITED HIM, +WAS ABOUT TO BE DECIDED. BUT PRINCE ANDREW DID NOT SEE HOW IT ENDED. IT +SEEMED TO HIM AS THOUGH ONE OF THE SOLDIERS NEAR HIM HIT HIM ON THE HEAD +WITH THE FULL SWING OF A BLUDGEON. IT HURT A LITTLE, BUT THE WORST OF +IT WAS THAT THE PAIN DISTRACTED HIM AND PREVENTED HIS SEEING WHAT HE HAD +BEEN LOOKING AT. + +“WHAT’S THIS? AM I FALLING? MY LEGS ARE GIVING WAY,” THOUGHT HE, +AND FELL ON HIS BACK. HE OPENED HIS EYES, HOPING TO SEE HOW THE STRUGGLE +OF THE FRENCHMEN WITH THE GUNNERS ENDED, WHETHER THE RED-HAIRED GUNNER +HAD BEEN KILLED OR NOT AND WHETHER THE CANNON HAD BEEN CAPTURED OR +SAVED. BUT HE SAW NOTHING. ABOVE HIM THERE WAS NOW NOTHING BUT THE +SKY—THE LOFTY SKY, NOT CLEAR YET STILL IMMEASURABLY LOFTY, WITH GRAY +CLOUDS GLIDING SLOWLY ACROSS IT. “HOW QUIET, PEACEFUL, AND SOLEMN; NOT +AT ALL AS I RAN,” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW—“NOT AS WE RAN, SHOUTING +AND FIGHTING, NOT AT ALL AS THE GUNNER AND THE FRENCHMAN WITH FRIGHTENED +AND ANGRY FACES STRUGGLED FOR THE MOP: HOW DIFFERENTLY DO THOSE CLOUDS +GLIDE ACROSS THAT LOFTY INFINITE SKY! HOW WAS IT I DID NOT SEE THAT +LOFTY SKY BEFORE? AND HOW HAPPY I AM TO HAVE FOUND IT AT LAST! YES! ALL +IS VANITY, ALL FALSEHOOD, EXCEPT THAT INFINITE SKY. THERE IS NOTHING, +NOTHING, BUT THAT. BUT EVEN IT DOES NOT EXIST, THERE IS NOTHING BUT +QUIET AND PEACE. THANK GOD!...” + + + + + +CHAPTER XVII + +ON OUR RIGHT FLANK COMMANDED BY BAGRATIóN, AT NINE O’CLOCK THE BATTLE +HAD NOT YET BEGUN. NOT WISHING TO AGREE TO DOLGORúKOV’S DEMAND TO +COMMENCE THE ACTION, AND WISHING TO AVERT RESPONSIBILITY FROM HIMSELF, +PRINCE BAGRATIóN PROPOSED TO DOLGORúKOV TO SEND TO INQUIRE OF THE +COMMANDER IN CHIEF. BAGRATIóN KNEW THAT AS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE TWO +FLANKS WAS MORE THAN SIX MILES, EVEN IF THE MESSENGER WERE NOT KILLED +(WHICH HE VERY LIKELY WOULD BE), AND FOUND THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF +(WHICH WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT), HE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO GET BACK BEFORE +EVENING. + +BAGRATIóN CAST HIS LARGE, EXPRESSIONLESS, SLEEPY EYES ROUND HIS SUITE, +AND THE BOYISH FACE ROSTóV, BREATHLESS WITH EXCITEMENT AND HOPE, WAS +THE FIRST TO CATCH HIS EYE. HE SENT HIM. + +“AND IF I SHOULD MEET HIS MAJESTY BEFORE I MEET THE COMMANDER IN +CHIEF, YOUR EXCELLENCY?” SAID ROSTóV, WITH HIS HAND TO HIS CAP. + +“YOU CAN GIVE THE MESSAGE TO HIS MAJESTY,” SAID DOLGORúKOV, +HURRIEDLY INTERRUPTING BAGRATIóN. + +ON BEING RELIEVED FROM PICKET DUTY ROSTóV HAD MANAGED TO GET A FEW +HOURS’ SLEEP BEFORE MORNING AND FELT CHEERFUL, BOLD, AND RESOLUTE, +WITH ELASTICITY OF MOVEMENT, FAITH IN HIS GOOD FORTUNE, AND GENERALLY IN +THAT STATE OF MIND WHICH MAKES EVERYTHING SEEM POSSIBLE, PLEASANT, AND +EASY. + +ALL HIS WISHES WERE BEING FULFILLED THAT MORNING: THERE WAS TO BE A +GENERAL ENGAGEMENT IN WHICH HE WAS TAKING PART, MORE THAN THAT, HE WAS +ORDERLY TO THE BRAVEST GENERAL, AND STILL MORE, HE WAS GOING WITH A +MESSAGE TO KUTúZOV, PERHAPS EVEN TO THE SOVEREIGN HIMSELF. THE MORNING +WAS BRIGHT, HE HAD A GOOD HORSE UNDER HIM, AND HIS HEART WAS FULL OF +JOY AND HAPPINESS. ON RECEIVING THE ORDER HE GAVE HIS HORSE THE REIN +AND GALLOPED ALONG THE LINE. AT FIRST HE RODE ALONG THE LINE OF +BAGRATIóN’S TROOPS, WHICH HAD NOT YET ADVANCED INTO ACTION BUT WERE +STANDING MOTIONLESS; THEN HE CAME TO THE REGION OCCUPIED BY UVáROV’S +CAVALRY AND HERE HE NOTICED A STIR AND SIGNS OF PREPARATION FOR BATTLE; +HAVING PASSED UVáROV’S CAVALRY HE CLEARLY HEARD THE SOUND OF CANNON +AND MUSKETRY AHEAD OF HIM. THE FIRING GREW LOUDER AND LOUDER. + +IN THE FRESH MORNING AIR WERE NOW HEARD, NOT TWO OR THREE MUSKET SHOTS +AT IRREGULAR INTERVALS AS BEFORE, FOLLOWED BY ONE OR TWO CANNON SHOTS, +BUT A ROLL OF VOLLEYS OF MUSKETRY FROM THE SLOPES OF THE HILL BEFORE +PRATZEN, INTERRUPTED BY SUCH FREQUENT REPORTS OF CANNON THAT SOMETIMES +SEVERAL OF THEM WERE NOT SEPARATED FROM ONE ANOTHER BUT MERGED INTO A +GENERAL ROAR. + +HE COULD SEE PUFFS OF MUSKETRY SMOKE THAT SEEMED TO CHASE ONE ANOTHER +DOWN THE HILLSIDES, AND CLOUDS OF CANNON SMOKE ROLLING, SPREADING, +AND MINGLING WITH ONE ANOTHER. HE COULD ALSO, BY THE GLEAM OF BAYONETS +VISIBLE THROUGH THE SMOKE, MAKE OUT MOVING MASSES OF INFANTRY AND NARROW +LINES OF ARTILLERY WITH GREEN CAISSONS. + +ROSTóV STOPPED HIS HORSE FOR A MOMENT ON A HILLOCK TO SEE WHAT WAS +GOING ON, BUT STRAIN HIS ATTENTION AS HE WOULD HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND +OR MAKE OUT ANYTHING OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING: THERE IN THE SMOKE MEN OF +SOME SORT WERE MOVING ABOUT, IN FRONT AND BEHIND MOVED LINES OF TROOPS; +BUT WHY, WHITHER, AND WHO THEY WERE, IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE OUT. +THESE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS HAD NO DEPRESSING OR INTIMIDATING EFFECT ON HIM; +ON THE CONTRARY, THEY STIMULATED HIS ENERGY AND DETERMINATION. + +“GO ON! GO ON! GIVE IT THEM!” HE MENTALLY EXCLAIMED AT THESE SOUNDS, +AND AGAIN PROCEEDED TO GALLOP ALONG THE LINE, PENETRATING FARTHER AND +FARTHER INTO THE REGION WHERE THE ARMY WAS ALREADY IN ACTION. + +“HOW IT WILL BE THERE I DON’T KNOW, BUT ALL WILL BE WELL!” THOUGHT +ROSTóV. + +AFTER PASSING SOME AUSTRIAN TROOPS HE NOTICED THAT THE NEXT PART OF THE +LINE (THE GUARDS) WAS ALREADY IN ACTION. + +“SO MUCH THE BETTER! I SHALL SEE IT CLOSE,” HE THOUGHT. + +HE WAS RIDING ALMOST ALONG THE FRONT LINE. A HANDFUL OF MEN CAME +GALLOPING TOWARD HIM. THEY WERE OUR UHLANS WHO WITH DISORDERED +RANKS WERE RETURNING FROM THE ATTACK. ROSTóV GOT OUT OF THEIR WAY, +INVOLUNTARILY NOTICED THAT ONE OF THEM WAS BLEEDING, AND GALLOPED ON. + +“THAT IS NO BUSINESS OF MINE,” HE THOUGHT. HE HAD NOT RIDDEN MANY +HUNDRED YARDS AFTER THAT BEFORE HE SAW TO HIS LEFT, ACROSS THE WHOLE +WIDTH OF THE FIELD, AN ENORMOUS MASS OF CAVALRY IN BRILLIANT WHITE +UNIFORMS, MOUNTED ON BLACK HORSES, TROTTING STRAIGHT TOWARD HIM AND +ACROSS HIS PATH. ROSTóV PUT HIS HORSE TO FULL GALLOP TO GET OUT OF THE +WAY OF THESE MEN, AND HE WOULD HAVE GOT CLEAR HAD THEY CONTINUED AT THE +SAME SPEED, BUT THEY KEPT INCREASING THEIR PACE, SO THAT SOME OF THE +HORSES WERE ALREADY GALLOPING. ROSTóV HEARD THE THUD OF THEIR HOOFS +AND THE JINGLE OF THEIR WEAPONS AND SAW THEIR HORSES, THEIR FIGURES, AND +EVEN THEIR FACES, MORE AND MORE DISTINCTLY. THEY WERE OUR HORSE GUARDS, +ADVANCING TO ATTACK THE FRENCH CAVALRY THAT WAS COMING TO MEET THEM. + +THE HORSE GUARDS WERE GALLOPING, BUT STILL HOLDING IN THEIR HORSES. +ROSTóV COULD ALREADY SEE THEIR FACES AND HEARD THE COMMAND: +“CHARGE!” SHOUTED BY AN OFFICER WHO WAS URGING HIS THOROUGHBRED TO +FULL SPEED. ROSTóV, FEARING TO BE CRUSHED OR SWEPT INTO THE ATTACK ON +THE FRENCH, GALLOPED ALONG THE FRONT AS HARD AS HIS HORSE COULD GO, BUT +STILL WAS NOT IN TIME TO AVOID THEM. + +THE LAST OF THE HORSE GUARDS, A HUGE POCKMARKED FELLOW, FROWNED ANGRILY +ON SEEING ROSTóV BEFORE HIM, WITH WHOM HE WOULD INEVITABLY COLLIDE. +THIS GUARDSMAN WOULD CERTAINLY HAVE BOWLED ROSTóV AND HIS BEDOUIN OVER +(ROSTóV FELT HIMSELF QUITE TINY AND WEAK COMPARED TO THESE GIGANTIC MEN +AND HORSES) HAD IT NOT OCCURRED TO ROSTóV TO FLOURISH HIS WHIP BEFORE +THE EYES OF THE GUARDSMAN’S HORSE. THE HEAVY BLACK HORSE, SIXTEEN +HANDS HIGH, SHIED, THROWING BACK ITS EARS; BUT THE POCKMARKED GUARDSMAN +DROVE HIS HUGE SPURS IN VIOLENTLY, AND THE HORSE, FLOURISHING ITS TAIL +AND EXTENDING ITS NECK, GALLOPED ON YET FASTER. HARDLY HAD THE HORSE +GUARDS PASSED ROSTóV BEFORE HE HEARD THEM SHOUT, “HURRAH!” AND +LOOKING BACK SAW THAT THEIR FOREMOST RANKS WERE MIXED UP WITH SOME +FOREIGN CAVALRY WITH RED EPAULETS, PROBABLY FRENCH. HE COULD SEE NOTHING +MORE, FOR IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARDS CANNON BEGAN FIRING FROM SOMEWHERE AND +SMOKE ENVELOPED EVERYTHING. + +AT THAT MOMENT, AS THE HORSE GUARDS, HAVING PASSED HIM, DISAPPEARED IN +THE SMOKE, ROSTóV HESITATED WHETHER TO GALLOP AFTER THEM OR TO GO WHERE +HE WAS SENT. THIS WAS THE BRILLIANT CHARGE OF THE HORSE GUARDS THAT +AMAZED THE FRENCH THEMSELVES. ROSTóV WAS HORRIFIED TO HEAR LATER THAT +OF ALL THAT MASS OF HUGE AND HANDSOME MEN, OF ALL THOSE BRILLIANT, +RICH YOUTHS, OFFICERS AND CADETS, WHO HAD GALLOPED PAST HIM ON THEIR +THOUSAND-RUBLE HORSES, ONLY EIGHTEEN WERE LEFT AFTER THE CHARGE. + +“WHY SHOULD I ENVY THEM? MY CHANCE IS NOT LOST, AND MAYBE I SHALL SEE +THE EMPEROR IMMEDIATELY!” THOUGHT ROSTóV AND GALLOPED ON. + +WHEN HE CAME LEVEL WITH THE FOOT GUARDS HE NOTICED THAT ABOUT THEM AND +AROUND THEM CANNON BALLS WERE FLYING, OF WHICH HE WAS AWARE NOT SO +MUCH BECAUSE HE HEARD THEIR SOUND AS BECAUSE HE SAW UNEASINESS ON +THE SOLDIERS’ FACES AND UNNATURAL WARLIKE SOLEMNITY ON THOSE OF THE +OFFICERS. + +PASSING BEHIND ONE OF THE LINES OF A REGIMENT OF FOOT GUARDS HE HEARD A +VOICE CALLING HIM BY NAME. + +“ROSTóV!” + +“WHAT?” HE ANSWERED, NOT RECOGNIZING BORíS. + +“I SAY, WE’VE BEEN IN THE FRONT LINE! OUR REGIMENT ATTACKED!” SAID +BORíS WITH THE HAPPY SMILE SEEN ON THE FACES OF YOUNG MEN WHO HAVE BEEN +UNDER FIRE FOR THE FIRST TIME. + +ROSTóV STOPPED. + +“HAVE YOU?” HE SAID. “WELL, HOW DID IT GO?” + +“WE DROVE THEM BACK!” SAID BORíS WITH ANIMATION, GROWING TALKATIVE. +“CAN YOU IMAGINE IT?” AND HE BEGAN DESCRIBING HOW THE GUARDS, HAVING +TAKEN UP THEIR POSITION AND SEEING TROOPS BEFORE THEM, THOUGHT THEY WERE +AUSTRIANS, AND ALL AT ONCE DISCOVERED FROM THE CANNON BALLS DISCHARGED +BY THOSE TROOPS THAT THEY WERE THEMSELVES IN THE FRONT LINE AND HAD +UNEXPECTEDLY TO GO INTO ACTION. ROSTóV WITHOUT HEARING BORíS TO THE +END SPURRED HIS HORSE. + +“WHERE ARE YOU OFF TO?” ASKED BORíS. + +“WITH A MESSAGE TO HIS MAJESTY.” + +“THERE HE IS!” SAID BORíS, THINKING ROSTóV HAD SAID “HIS +HIGHNESS,” AND POINTING TO THE GRAND DUKE WHO WITH HIS HIGH SHOULDERS +AND FROWNING BROWS STOOD A HUNDRED PACES AWAY FROM THEM IN HIS HELMET +AND HORSE GUARDS’ JACKET, SHOUTING SOMETHING TO A PALE, WHITE +UNIFORMED AUSTRIAN OFFICER. + +“BUT THAT’S THE GRAND DUKE, AND I WANT THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OR THE +EMPEROR,” SAID ROSTóV, AND WAS ABOUT TO SPUR HIS HORSE. + +“COUNT! COUNT!” SHOUTED BERG WHO RAN UP FROM THE OTHER SIDE AS EAGER +AS BORíS. “COUNT! I AM WOUNDED IN MY RIGHT HAND” (AND HE SHOWED HIS +BLEEDING HAND WITH A HANDKERCHIEF TIED ROUND IT) “AND I REMAINED AT +THE FRONT. I HELD MY SWORD IN MY LEFT HAND, COUNT. ALL OUR FAMILY—THE +VON BERGS—HAVE BEEN KNIGHTS!” + +HE SAID SOMETHING MORE, BUT ROSTóV DID NOT WAIT TO HEAR IT AND RODE +AWAY. + +HAVING PASSED THE GUARDS AND TRAVERSED AN EMPTY SPACE, ROSTóV, TO AVOID +AGAIN GETTING IN FRONT OF THE FIRST LINE AS HE HAD DONE WHEN THE HORSE +GUARDS CHARGED, FOLLOWED THE LINE OF RESERVES, GOING FAR ROUND THE PLACE +WHERE THE HOTTEST MUSKET FIRE AND CANNONADE WERE HEARD. SUDDENLY HE +HEARD MUSKET FIRE QUITE CLOSE IN FRONT OF HIM AND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, +WHERE HE COULD NEVER HAVE EXPECTED THE ENEMY TO BE. + +“WHAT CAN IT BE?” HE THOUGHT. “THE ENEMY IN THE REAR OF OUR ARMY? +IMPOSSIBLE!” AND SUDDENLY HE WAS SEIZED BY A PANIC OF FEAR FOR HIMSELF +AND FOR THE ISSUE OF THE WHOLE BATTLE. “BUT BE THAT WHAT IT MAY,” +HE REFLECTED, “THERE IS NO RIDING ROUND IT NOW. I MUST LOOK FOR THE +COMMANDER IN CHIEF HERE, AND IF ALL IS LOST IT IS FOR ME TO PERISH WITH +THE REST.” + +THE FOREBODING OF EVIL THAT HAD SUDDENLY COME OVER ROSTóV WAS MORE AND +MORE CONFIRMED THE FARTHER HE RODE INTO THE REGION BEHIND THE VILLAGE OF +PRATZEN, WHICH WAS FULL OF TROOPS OF ALL KINDS. + +“WHAT DOES IT MEAN? WHAT IS IT? WHOM ARE THEY FIRING AT? WHO IS +FIRING?” ROSTóV KEPT ASKING AS HE CAME UP TO RUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN +SOLDIERS RUNNING IN CONFUSED CROWDS ACROSS HIS PATH. + +“THE DEVIL KNOWS! THEY’VE KILLED EVERYBODY! IT’S ALL UP NOW!” +HE WAS TOLD IN RUSSIAN, GERMAN, AND CZECH BY THE CROWD OF FUGITIVES WHO +UNDERSTOOD WHAT WAS HAPPENING AS LITTLE AS HE DID. + +“KILL THE GERMANS!” SHOUTED ONE. + +“MAY THE DEVIL TAKE THEM—THE TRAITORS!” + +“ZUM HENKER DIESE RUSSEN!” * MUTTERED A GERMAN. + + * “HANG THESE RUSSIANS!” + + +SEVERAL WOUNDED MEN PASSED ALONG THE ROAD, AND WORDS OF ABUSE, SCREAMS, +AND GROANS MINGLED IN A GENERAL HUBBUB, THEN THE FIRING DIED DOWN. +ROSTóV LEARNED LATER THAT RUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN SOLDIERS HAD BEEN FIRING +AT ONE ANOTHER. + +“MY GOD! WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?” THOUGHT HE. “AND HERE, WHERE AT +ANY MOMENT THE EMPEROR MAY SEE THEM.... BUT NO, THESE MUST BE ONLY A +HANDFUL OF SCOUNDRELS. IT WILL SOON BE OVER, IT CAN’T BE THAT, IT +CAN’T BE! ONLY TO GET PAST THEM QUICKER, QUICKER!” + +THE IDEA OF DEFEAT AND FLIGHT COULD NOT ENTER ROSTóV’S HEAD. THOUGH +HE SAW FRENCH CANNON AND FRENCH TROOPS ON THE PRATZEN HEIGHTS JUST WHERE +HE HAD BEEN ORDERED TO LOOK FOR THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, HE COULD NOT, +DID NOT WISH TO, BELIEVE THAT. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVIII + +ROSTóV HAD BEEN ORDERED TO LOOK FOR KUTúZOV AND THE EMPEROR NEAR THE +VILLAGE OF PRATZEN. BUT NEITHER THEY NOR A SINGLE COMMANDING OFFICER +WERE THERE, ONLY DISORGANIZED CROWDS OF TROOPS OF VARIOUS KINDS. HE +URGED ON HIS ALREADY WEARY HORSE TO GET QUICKLY PAST THESE CROWDS, BUT +THE FARTHER HE WENT THE MORE DISORGANIZED THEY WERE. THE HIGHROAD ON +WHICH HE HAD COME OUT WAS THRONGED WITH CALèCHES, CARRIAGES OF ALL +SORTS, AND RUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN SOLDIERS OF ALL ARMS, SOME WOUNDED AND +SOME NOT. THIS WHOLE MASS DRONED AND JOSTLED IN CONFUSION UNDER THE +DISMAL INFLUENCE OF CANNON BALLS FLYING FROM THE FRENCH BATTERIES +STATIONED ON THE PRATZEN HEIGHTS. + +“WHERE IS THE EMPEROR? WHERE IS KUTúZOV?” ROSTóV KEPT ASKING +EVERYONE HE COULD STOP, BUT GOT NO ANSWER FROM ANYONE. + +AT LAST SEIZING A SOLDIER BY HIS COLLAR HE FORCED HIM TO ANSWER. + +“EH, BROTHER! THEY’VE ALL BOLTED LONG AGO!” SAID THE SOLDIER, +LAUGHING FOR SOME REASON AND SHAKING HIMSELF FREE. + +HAVING LEFT THAT SOLDIER WHO WAS EVIDENTLY DRUNK, ROSTóV STOPPED THE +HORSE OF A BATMAN OR GROOM OF SOME IMPORTANT PERSONAGE AND BEGAN TO +QUESTION HIM. THE MAN ANNOUNCED THAT THE TSAR HAD BEEN DRIVEN IN A +CARRIAGE AT FULL SPEED ABOUT AN HOUR BEFORE ALONG THAT VERY ROAD AND +THAT HE WAS DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED. + +“IT CAN’T BE!” SAID ROSTóV. “IT MUST HAVE BEEN SOMEONE ELSE.” + +“I SAW HIM MYSELF,” REPLIED THE MAN WITH A SELF-CONFIDENT SMILE OF +DERISION. “I OUGHT TO KNOW THE EMPEROR BY NOW, AFTER THE TIMES I’VE +SEEN HIM IN PETERSBURG. I SAW HIM JUST AS I SEE YOU.... THERE HE SAT IN +THE CARRIAGE AS PALE AS ANYTHING. HOW THEY MADE THE FOUR BLACK HORSES +FLY! GRACIOUS ME, THEY DID RATTLE PAST! IT’S TIME I KNEW THE IMPERIAL +HORSES AND ILYá IVáNYCH. I DON’T THINK ILYá DRIVES ANYONE EXCEPT +THE TSAR!” + +ROSTóV LET GO OF THE HORSE AND WAS ABOUT TO RIDE ON, WHEN A WOUNDED +OFFICER PASSING BY ADDRESSED HIM: + +“WHO IS IT YOU WANT?” HE ASKED. “THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF? HE WAS +KILLED BY A CANNON BALL—STRUCK IN THE BREAST BEFORE OUR REGIMENT.” + +“NOT KILLED—WOUNDED!” ANOTHER OFFICER CORRECTED HIM. + +“WHO? KUTúZOV?” ASKED ROSTóV. + +“NOT KUTúZOV, BUT WHAT’S HIS NAME—WELL, NEVER MIND... THERE ARE +NOT MANY LEFT ALIVE. GO THAT WAY, TO THAT VILLAGE, ALL THE COMMANDERS +ARE THERE,” SAID THE OFFICER, POINTING TO THE VILLAGE OF HOSJERADEK, +AND HE WALKED ON. + +ROSTóV RODE ON AT A FOOTPACE NOT KNOWING WHY OR TO WHOM HE WAS NOW +GOING. THE EMPEROR WAS WOUNDED, THE BATTLE LOST. IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO +DOUBT IT NOW. ROSTóV RODE IN THE DIRECTION POINTED OUT TO HIM, IN WHICH +HE SAW TURRETS AND A CHURCH. WHAT NEED TO HURRY? WHAT WAS HE NOW TO SAY +TO THE TSAR OR TO KUTúZOV, EVEN IF THEY WERE ALIVE AND UNWOUNDED? + +“TAKE THIS ROAD, YOUR HONOR, THAT WAY YOU WILL BE KILLED AT ONCE!” A +SOLDIER SHOUTED TO HIM. “THEY’D KILL YOU THERE!” + +“OH, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?” SAID ANOTHER. “WHERE IS HE TO +GO? THAT WAY IS NEARER.” + +ROSTóV CONSIDERED, AND THEN WENT IN THE DIRECTION WHERE THEY SAID HE +WOULD BE KILLED. + +“IT’S ALL THE SAME NOW. IF THE EMPEROR IS WOUNDED, AM I TO TRY TO +SAVE MYSELF?” HE THOUGHT. HE RODE ON TO THE REGION WHERE THE GREATEST +NUMBER OF MEN HAD PERISHED IN FLEEING FROM PRATZEN. THE FRENCH HAD NOT +YET OCCUPIED THAT REGION, AND THE RUSSIANS—THE UNINJURED AND SLIGHTLY +WOUNDED—HAD LEFT IT LONG AGO. ALL ABOUT THE FIELD, LIKE HEAPS OF +MANURE ON WELL-KEPT PLOWLAND, LAY FROM TEN TO FIFTEEN DEAD AND WOUNDED +TO EACH COUPLE OF ACRES. THE WOUNDED CREPT TOGETHER IN TWOS AND THREES +AND ONE COULD HEAR THEIR DISTRESSING SCREAMS AND GROANS, SOMETIMES +FEIGNED—OR SO IT SEEMED TO ROSTóV. HE PUT HIS HORSE TO A TROT TO +AVOID SEEING ALL THESE SUFFERING MEN, AND HE FELT AFRAID—AFRAID NOT +FOR HIS LIFE, BUT FOR THE COURAGE HE NEEDED AND WHICH HE KNEW WOULD NOT +STAND THE SIGHT OF THESE UNFORTUNATES. + +THE FRENCH, WHO HAD CEASED FIRING AT THIS FIELD STREWN WITH DEAD AND +WOUNDED WHERE THERE WAS NO ONE LEFT TO FIRE AT, ON SEEING AN ADJUTANT +RIDING OVER IT TRAINED A GUN ON HIM AND FIRED SEVERAL SHOTS. THE +SENSATION OF THOSE TERRIBLE WHISTLING SOUNDS AND OF THE CORPSES AROUND +HIM MERGED IN ROSTóV’S MIND INTO A SINGLE FEELING OF TERROR AND PITY +FOR HIMSELF. HE REMEMBERED HIS MOTHER’S LAST LETTER. “WHAT WOULD SHE +FEEL,” THOUGHT HE, “IF SHE SAW ME HERE NOW ON THIS FIELD WITH THE +CANNON AIMED AT ME?” + +IN THE VILLAGE OF HOSJERADEK THERE WERE RUSSIAN TROOPS RETIRING FROM +THE FIELD OF BATTLE, WHO THOUGH STILL IN SOME CONFUSION WERE LESS +DISORDERED. THE FRENCH CANNON DID NOT REACH THERE AND THE MUSKETRY FIRE +SOUNDED FAR AWAY. HERE EVERYONE CLEARLY SAW AND SAID THAT THE BATTLE +WAS LOST. NO ONE WHOM ROSTóV ASKED COULD TELL HIM WHERE THE EMPEROR +OR KUTúZOV WAS. SOME SAID THE REPORT THAT THE EMPEROR WAS WOUNDED WAS +CORRECT, OTHERS THAT IT WAS NOT, AND EXPLAINED THE FALSE RUMOR THAT HAD +SPREAD BY THE FACT THAT THE EMPEROR’S CARRIAGE HAD REALLY GALLOPED +FROM THE FIELD OF BATTLE WITH THE PALE AND TERRIFIED OBER-HOFMARSCHAL +COUNT TOLSTóY, WHO HAD RIDDEN OUT TO THE BATTLEFIELD WITH OTHERS IN +THE EMPEROR’S SUITE. ONE OFFICER TOLD ROSTóV THAT HE HAD SEEN SOMEONE +FROM HEADQUARTERS BEHIND THE VILLAGE TO THE LEFT, AND THITHER ROSTóV +RODE, NOT HOPING TO FIND ANYONE BUT MERELY TO EASE HIS CONSCIENCE. WHEN +HE HAD RIDDEN ABOUT TWO MILES AND HAD PASSED THE LAST OF THE RUSSIAN +TROOPS, HE SAW, NEAR A KITCHEN GARDEN WITH A DITCH ROUND IT, TWO MEN +ON HORSEBACK FACING THE DITCH. ONE WITH A WHITE PLUME IN HIS HAT SEEMED +FAMILIAR TO ROSTóV; THE OTHER ON A BEAUTIFUL CHESTNUT HORSE (WHICH +ROSTóV FANCIED HE HAD SEEN BEFORE) RODE UP TO THE DITCH, STRUCK HIS +HORSE WITH HIS SPURS, AND GIVING IT THE REIN LEAPED LIGHTLY OVER. ONLY +A LITTLE EARTH CRUMBLED FROM THE BANK UNDER THE HORSE’S HIND HOOFS. +TURNING THE HORSE SHARPLY, HE AGAIN JUMPED THE DITCH, AND DEFERENTIALLY +ADDRESSED THE HORSEMAN WITH THE WHITE PLUMES, EVIDENTLY SUGGESTING +THAT HE SHOULD DO THE SAME. THE RIDER, WHOSE FIGURE SEEMED FAMILIAR +TO ROSTóV AND INVOLUNTARILY RIVETED HIS ATTENTION, MADE A GESTURE OF +REFUSAL WITH HIS HEAD AND HAND AND BY THAT GESTURE ROSTóV INSTANTLY +RECOGNIZED HIS LAMENTED AND ADORED MONARCH. + +“BUT IT CAN’T BE HE, ALONE IN THE MIDST OF THIS EMPTY FIELD!” +THOUGHT ROSTóV. AT THAT MOMENT ALEXANDER TURNED HIS HEAD AND ROSTóV +SAW THE BELOVED FEATURES THAT WERE SO DEEPLY ENGRAVED ON HIS MEMORY. THE +EMPEROR WAS PALE, HIS CHEEKS SUNKEN AND HIS EYES HOLLOW, BUT THE CHARM, +THE MILDNESS OF HIS FEATURES, WAS ALL THE GREATER. ROSTóV WAS HAPPY +IN THE ASSURANCE THAT THE RUMORS ABOUT THE EMPEROR BEING WOUNDED WERE +FALSE. HE WAS HAPPY TO BE SEEING HIM. HE KNEW THAT HE MIGHT AND EVEN +OUGHT TO GO STRAIGHT TO HIM AND GIVE THE MESSAGE DOLGORúKOV HAD ORDERED +HIM TO DELIVER. + +BUT AS A YOUTH IN LOVE TREMBLES, IS UNNERVED, AND DARES NOT UTTER THE +THOUGHTS HE HAS DREAMED OF FOR NIGHTS, BUT LOOKS AROUND FOR HELP OR A +CHANCE OF DELAY AND FLIGHT WHEN THE LONGED-FOR MOMENT COMES AND HE IS +ALONE WITH HER, SO ROSTóV, NOW THAT HE HAD ATTAINED WHAT HE HAD LONGED +FOR MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD, DID NOT KNOW HOW TO APPROACH +THE EMPEROR, AND A THOUSAND REASONS OCCURRED TO HIM WHY IT WOULD BE +INCONVENIENT, UNSEEMLY, AND IMPOSSIBLE TO DO SO. + +“WHAT! IT IS AS IF I WERE GLAD OF A CHANCE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF +HIS BEING ALONE AND DESPONDENT! A STRANGE FACE MAY SEEM UNPLEASANT OR +PAINFUL TO HIM AT THIS MOMENT OF SORROW; BESIDES, WHAT CAN I SAY TO HIM +NOW, WHEN MY HEART FAILS ME AND MY MOUTH FEELS DRY AT THE MERE SIGHT +OF HIM?” NOT ONE OF THE INNUMERABLE SPEECHES ADDRESSED TO THE EMPEROR +THAT HE HAD COMPOSED IN HIS IMAGINATION COULD HE NOW RECALL. THOSE +SPEECHES WERE INTENDED FOR QUITE OTHER CONDITIONS, THEY WERE FOR THE +MOST PART TO BE SPOKEN AT A MOMENT OF VICTORY AND TRIUMPH, GENERALLY +WHEN HE WAS DYING OF WOUNDS AND THE SOVEREIGN HAD THANKED HIM FOR HEROIC +DEEDS, AND WHILE DYING HE EXPRESSED THE LOVE HIS ACTIONS HAD PROVED. + +“BESIDES HOW CAN I ASK THE EMPEROR FOR HIS INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE RIGHT +FLANK NOW THAT IT IS NEARLY FOUR O’CLOCK AND THE BATTLE IS LOST? +NO, CERTAINLY I MUST NOT APPROACH HIM, I MUST NOT INTRUDE ON HIS +REFLECTIONS. BETTER DIE A THOUSAND TIMES THAN RISK RECEIVING AN UNKIND +LOOK OR BAD OPINION FROM HIM,” ROSTóV DECIDED; AND SORROWFULLY AND +WITH A HEART FULL DESPAIR HE RODE AWAY, CONTINUALLY LOOKING BACK AT THE +TSAR, WHO STILL REMAINED IN THE SAME ATTITUDE OF INDECISION. + +WHILE ROSTóV WAS THUS ARGUING WITH HIMSELF AND RIDING SADLY AWAY, +CAPTAIN VON TOLL CHANCED TO RIDE TO THE SAME SPOT, AND SEEING THE +EMPEROR AT ONCE RODE UP TO HIM, OFFERED HIS SERVICES, AND ASSISTED HIM +TO CROSS THE DITCH ON FOOT. THE EMPEROR, WISHING TO REST AND FEELING +UNWELL, SAT DOWN UNDER AN APPLE TREE AND VON TOLL REMAINED BESIDE HIM. +ROSTóV FROM A DISTANCE SAW WITH ENVY AND REMORSE HOW VON TOLL SPOKE +LONG AND WARMLY TO THE EMPEROR AND HOW THE EMPEROR, EVIDENTLY WEEPING, +COVERED HIS EYES WITH HIS HAND AND PRESSED VON TOLL’S HAND. + +“AND I MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN HIS PLACE!” THOUGHT ROSTóV, AND HARDLY +RESTRAINING HIS TEARS OF PITY FOR THE EMPEROR, HE RODE ON IN UTTER +DESPAIR, NOT KNOWING WHERE TO OR WHY HE WAS NOW RIDING. + +HIS DESPAIR WAS ALL THE GREATER FROM FEELING THAT HIS OWN WEAKNESS WAS +THE CAUSE OF HIS GRIEF. + +HE MIGHT... NOT ONLY MIGHT BUT SHOULD, HAVE GONE UP TO THE SOVEREIGN. IT +WAS A UNIQUE CHANCE TO SHOW HIS DEVOTION TO THE EMPEROR AND HE HAD NOT +MADE USE OF IT.... “WHAT HAVE I DONE?” THOUGHT HE. AND HE TURNED +ROUND AND GALLOPED BACK TO THE PLACE WHERE HE HAD SEEN THE EMPEROR, BUT +THERE WAS NO ONE BEYOND THE DITCH NOW. ONLY SOME CARTS AND CARRIAGES +WERE PASSING BY. FROM ONE OF THE DRIVERS HE LEARNED THAT KUTúZOV’S +STAFF WERE NOT FAR OFF, IN THE VILLAGE THE VEHICLES WERE GOING TO. +ROSTóV FOLLOWED THEM. IN FRONT OF HIM WALKED KUTúZOV’S GROOM LEADING +HORSES IN HORSECLOTHS. THEN CAME A CART, AND BEHIND THAT WALKED AN OLD, +BANDY-LEGGED DOMESTIC SERF IN A PEAKED CAP AND SHEEPSKIN COAT. + +“TIT! I SAY, TIT!” SAID THE GROOM. + +“WHAT?” ANSWERED THE OLD MAN ABSENT-MINDEDLY. + +“GO, TIT! THRESH A BIT!” + +“OH, YOU FOOL!” SAID THE OLD MAN, SPITTING ANGRILY. SOME TIME PASSED +IN SILENCE, AND THEN THE SAME JOKE WAS REPEATED. + + +BEFORE FIVE IN THE EVENING THE BATTLE HAD BEEN LOST AT ALL POINTS. MORE +THAN A HUNDRED CANNON WERE ALREADY IN THE HANDS OF THE FRENCH. + +PRZEBYSZéWSKI AND HIS CORPS HAD LAID DOWN THEIR ARMS. OTHER COLUMNS +AFTER LOSING HALF THEIR MEN WERE RETREATING IN DISORDERLY CONFUSED +MASSES. + +THE REMAINS OF LANGERON’S AND DOKHTúROV’S MINGLED FORCES WERE +CROWDING AROUND THE DAMS AND BANKS OF THE PONDS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF +AUGESD. + +AFTER FIVE O’CLOCK IT WAS ONLY AT THE AUGESD DAM THAT A HOT CANNONADE +(DELIVERED BY THE FRENCH ALONE) WAS STILL TO BE HEARD FROM NUMEROUS +BATTERIES RANGED ON THE SLOPES OF THE PRATZEN HEIGHTS, DIRECTED AT OUR +RETREATING FORCES. + +IN THE REARGUARD, DOKHTúROV AND OTHERS RALLYING SOME BATTALIONS KEPT UP +A MUSKETRY FIRE AT THE FRENCH CAVALRY THAT WAS PURSUING OUR TROOPS. IT +WAS GROWING DUSK. ON THE NARROW AUGESD DAM WHERE FOR SO MANY YEARS THE +OLD MILLER HAD BEEN ACCUSTOMED TO SIT IN HIS TASSELED CAP PEACEFULLY +ANGLING, WHILE HIS GRANDSON, WITH SHIRT SLEEVES ROLLED UP, HANDLED THE +FLOUNDERING SILVERY FISH IN THE WATERING CAN, ON THAT DAM OVER WHICH FOR +SO MANY YEARS MORAVIANS IN SHAGGY CAPS AND BLUE JACKETS HAD PEACEFULLY +DRIVEN THEIR TWO-HORSE CARTS LOADED WITH WHEAT AND HAD RETURNED DUSTY +WITH FLOUR WHITENING THEIR CARTS—ON THAT NARROW DAM AMID THE WAGONS +AND THE CANNON, UNDER THE HORSES’ HOOFS AND BETWEEN THE WAGON WHEELS, +MEN DISFIGURED BY FEAR OF DEATH NOW CROWDED TOGETHER, CRUSHING ONE +ANOTHER, DYING, STEPPING OVER THE DYING AND KILLING ONE ANOTHER, ONLY TO +MOVE ON A FEW STEPS AND BE KILLED THEMSELVES IN THE SAME WAY. + +EVERY TEN SECONDS A CANNON BALL FLEW COMPRESSING THE AIR AROUND, OR +A SHELL BURST IN THE MIDST OF THAT DENSE THRONG, KILLING SOME AND +SPLASHING WITH BLOOD THOSE NEAR THEM. + +DóLOKHOV—NOW AN OFFICER—WOUNDED IN THE ARM, AND ON FOOT, WITH +THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER ON HORSEBACK AND SOME TEN MEN OF HIS COMPANY, +REPRESENTED ALL THAT WAS LEFT OF THAT WHOLE REGIMENT. IMPELLED BY THE +CROWD, THEY HAD GOT WEDGED IN AT THE APPROACH TO THE DAM AND, JAMMED IN +ON ALL SIDES, HAD STOPPED BECAUSE A HORSE IN FRONT HAD FALLEN UNDER A +CANNON AND THE CROWD WERE DRAGGING IT OUT. A CANNON BALL KILLED SOMEONE +BEHIND THEM, ANOTHER FELL IN FRONT AND SPLASHED DóLOKHOV WITH BLOOD. +THE CROWD, PUSHING FORWARD DESPERATELY, SQUEEZED TOGETHER, MOVED A FEW +STEPS, AND AGAIN STOPPED. + +“MOVE ON A HUNDRED YARDS AND WE ARE CERTAINLY SAVED, REMAIN HERE +ANOTHER TWO MINUTES AND IT IS CERTAIN DEATH,” THOUGHT EACH ONE. + +DóLOKHOV WHO WAS IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD FORCED HIS WAY TO THE EDGE +OF THE DAM, THROWING TWO SOLDIERS OFF THEIR FEET, AND RAN ONTO THE +SLIPPERY ICE THAT COVERED THE MILLPOOL. + +“TURN THIS WAY!” HE SHOUTED, JUMPING OVER THE ICE WHICH CREAKED +UNDER HIM; “TURN THIS WAY!” HE SHOUTED TO THOSE WITH THE GUN. “IT +BEARS!...” + +THE ICE BORE HIM BUT IT SWAYED AND CREAKED, AND IT WAS PLAIN THAT IT +WOULD GIVE WAY NOT ONLY UNDER A CANNON OR A CROWD, BUT VERY SOON EVEN +UNDER HIS WEIGHT ALONE. THE MEN LOOKED AT HIM AND PRESSED TO THE +BANK, HESITATING TO STEP ONTO THE ICE. THE GENERAL ON HORSEBACK AT THE +ENTRANCE TO THE DAM RAISED HIS HAND AND OPENED HIS MOUTH TO ADDRESS +DóLOKHOV. SUDDENLY A CANNON BALL HISSED SO LOW ABOVE THE CROWD THAT +EVERYONE DUCKED. IT FLOPPED INTO SOMETHING MOIST, AND THE GENERAL FELL +FROM HIS HORSE IN A POOL OF BLOOD. NOBODY GAVE HIM A LOOK OR THOUGHT OF +RAISING HIM. + +“GET ONTO THE ICE, OVER THE ICE! GO ON! TURN! DON’T YOU HEAR? GO +ON!” INNUMERABLE VOICES SUDDENLY SHOUTED AFTER THE BALL HAD STRUCK +THE GENERAL, THE MEN THEMSELVES NOT KNOWING WHAT, OR WHY, THEY WERE +SHOUTING. + +ONE OF THE HINDMOST GUNS THAT WAS GOING ONTO THE DAM TURNED OFF ONTO THE +ICE. CROWDS OF SOLDIERS FROM THE DAM BEGAN RUNNING ONTO THE FROZEN POND. +THE ICE GAVE WAY UNDER ONE OF THE FOREMOST SOLDIERS, AND ONE LEG SLIPPED +INTO THE WATER. HE TRIED TO RIGHT HIMSELF BUT FELL IN UP TO HIS WAIST. +THE NEAREST SOLDIERS SHRANK BACK, THE GUN DRIVER STOPPED HIS HORSE, BUT +FROM BEHIND STILL CAME THE SHOUTS: “ONTO THE ICE, WHY DO YOU STOP? GO +ON! GO ON!” AND CRIES OF HORROR WERE HEARD IN THE CROWD. THE SOLDIERS +NEAR THE GUN WAVED THEIR ARMS AND BEAT THE HORSES TO MAKE THEM TURN AND +MOVE ON. THE HORSES MOVED OFF THE BANK. THE ICE, THAT HAD HELD UNDER +THOSE ON FOOT, COLLAPSED IN A GREAT MASS, AND SOME FORTY MEN WHO WERE ON +IT DASHED, SOME FORWARD AND SOME BACK, DROWNING ONE ANOTHER. + +STILL THE CANNON BALLS CONTINUED REGULARLY TO WHISTLE AND FLOP ONTO THE +ICE AND INTO THE WATER AND OFTENEST OF ALL AMONG THE CROWD THAT COVERED +THE DAM, THE POND, AND THE BANK. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIX + +ON THE PRATZEN HEIGHTS, WHERE HE HAD FALLEN WITH THE FLAGSTAFF IN HIS +HAND, LAY PRINCE ANDREW BOLKóNSKI BLEEDING PROFUSELY AND UNCONSCIOUSLY +UTTERING A GENTLE, PITEOUS, AND CHILDLIKE MOAN. + +TOWARD EVENING HE CEASED MOANING AND BECAME QUITE STILL. HE DID NOT KNOW +HOW LONG HIS UNCONSCIOUSNESS LASTED. SUDDENLY HE AGAIN FELT THAT HE WAS +ALIVE AND SUFFERING FROM A BURNING, LACERATING PAIN IN HIS HEAD. + +“WHERE IS IT, THAT LOFTY SKY THAT I DID NOT KNOW TILL NOW, BUT SAW +TODAY?” WAS HIS FIRST THOUGHT. “AND I DID NOT KNOW THIS SUFFERING +EITHER,” HE THOUGHT. “YES, I DID NOT KNOW ANYTHING, ANYTHING AT ALL +TILL NOW. BUT WHERE AM I?” + +HE LISTENED AND HEARD THE SOUND OF APPROACHING HORSES, AND VOICES +SPEAKING FRENCH. HE OPENED HIS EYES. ABOVE HIM AGAIN WAS THE SAME LOFTY +SKY WITH CLOUDS THAT HAD RISEN AND WERE FLOATING STILL HIGHER, AND +BETWEEN THEM GLEAMED BLUE INFINITY. HE DID NOT TURN HIS HEAD AND DID NOT +SEE THOSE WHO, JUDGING BY THE SOUND OF HOOFS AND VOICES, HAD RIDDEN UP +AND STOPPED NEAR HIM. + +IT WAS NAPOLEON ACCOMPANIED BY TWO AIDES-DE-CAMP. BONAPARTE RIDING +OVER THE BATTLEFIELD HAD GIVEN FINAL ORDERS TO STRENGTHEN THE BATTERIES +FIRING AT THE AUGESD DAM AND WAS LOOKING AT THE KILLED AND WOUNDED LEFT +ON THE FIELD. + +“FINE MEN!” REMARKED NAPOLEON, LOOKING AT A DEAD RUSSIAN GRENADIER, +WHO, WITH HIS FACE BURIED IN THE GROUND AND A BLACKENED NAPE, LAY ON HIS +STOMACH WITH AN ALREADY STIFFENED ARM FLUNG WIDE. + +“THE AMMUNITION FOR THE GUNS IN POSITION IS EXHAUSTED, YOUR +MAJESTY,” SAID AN ADJUTANT WHO HAD COME FROM THE BATTERIES THAT WERE +FIRING AT AUGESD. + +“HAVE SOME BROUGHT FROM THE RESERVE,” SAID NAPOLEON, AND HAVING GONE +ON A FEW STEPS HE STOPPED BEFORE PRINCE ANDREW, WHO LAY ON HIS BACK WITH +THE FLAGSTAFF THAT HAD BEEN DROPPED BESIDE HIM. (THE FLAG HAD ALREADY +BEEN TAKEN BY THE FRENCH AS A TROPHY.) + +“THAT’S A FINE DEATH!” SAID NAPOLEON AS HE GAZED AT BOLKóNSKI. + +PRINCE ANDREW UNDERSTOOD THAT THIS WAS SAID OF HIM AND THAT IT WAS +NAPOLEON WHO SAID IT. HE HEARD THE SPEAKER ADDRESSED AS SIRE. BUT HE +HEARD THE WORDS AS HE MIGHT HAVE HEARD THE BUZZING OF A FLY. NOT ONLY +DID THEY NOT INTEREST HIM, BUT HE TOOK NO NOTICE OF THEM AND AT ONCE +FORGOT THEM. HIS HEAD WAS BURNING, HE FELT HIMSELF BLEEDING TO DEATH, +AND HE SAW ABOVE HIM THE REMOTE, LOFTY, AND EVERLASTING SKY. HE KNEW IT +WAS NAPOLEON—HIS HERO—BUT AT THAT MOMENT NAPOLEON SEEMED TO HIM +SUCH A SMALL, INSIGNIFICANT CREATURE COMPARED WITH WHAT WAS PASSING NOW +BETWEEN HIMSELF AND THAT LOFTY INFINITE SKY WITH THE CLOUDS FLYING OVER +IT. AT THAT MOMENT IT MEANT NOTHING TO HIM WHO MIGHT BE STANDING OVER +HIM, OR WHAT WAS SAID OF HIM; HE WAS ONLY GLAD THAT PEOPLE WERE STANDING +NEAR HIM AND ONLY WISHED THAT THEY WOULD HELP HIM AND BRING HIM BACK TO +LIFE, WHICH SEEMED TO HIM SO BEAUTIFUL NOW THAT HE HAD TODAY LEARNED TO +UNDERSTAND IT SO DIFFERENTLY. HE COLLECTED ALL HIS STRENGTH, TO STIR AND +UTTER A SOUND. HE FEEBLY MOVED HIS LEG AND UTTERED A WEAK, SICKLY GROAN +WHICH AROUSED HIS OWN PITY. + +“AH! HE IS ALIVE,” SAID NAPOLEON. “LIFT THIS YOUNG MAN UP AND +CARRY HIM TO THE DRESSING STATION.” + +HAVING SAID THIS, NAPOLEON RODE ON TO MEET MARSHAL LANNES, WHO, HAT IN +HAND, RODE UP SMILING TO THE EMPEROR TO CONGRATULATE HIM ON THE VICTORY. + +PRINCE ANDREW REMEMBERED NOTHING MORE: HE LOST CONSCIOUSNESS FROM THE +TERRIBLE PAIN OF BEING LIFTED ONTO THE STRETCHER, THE JOLTING WHILE +BEING MOVED, AND THE PROBING OF HIS WOUND AT THE DRESSING STATION. +HE DID NOT REGAIN CONSCIOUSNESS TILL LATE IN THE DAY, WHEN WITH OTHER +WOUNDED AND CAPTURED RUSSIAN OFFICERS HE WAS CARRIED TO THE HOSPITAL. +DURING THIS TRANSFER HE FELT A LITTLE STRONGER AND WAS ABLE TO LOOK +ABOUT HIM AND EVEN SPEAK. + +THE FIRST WORDS HE HEARD ON COMING TO HIS SENSES WERE THOSE OF A FRENCH +CONVOY OFFICER, WHO SAID RAPIDLY: “WE MUST HALT HERE: THE EMPEROR +WILL PASS HERE IMMEDIATELY; IT WILL PLEASE HIM TO SEE THESE GENTLEMEN +PRISONERS.” + +“THERE ARE SO MANY PRISONERS TODAY, NEARLY THE WHOLE RUSSIAN ARMY, +THAT HE IS PROBABLY TIRED OF THEM,” SAID ANOTHER OFFICER. + +“ALL THE SAME! THEY SAY THIS ONE IS THE COMMANDER OF ALL THE EMPEROR +ALEXANDER’S GUARDS,” SAID THE FIRST ONE, INDICATING A RUSSIAN +OFFICER IN THE WHITE UNIFORM OF THE HORSE GUARDS. + +BOLKóNSKI RECOGNIZED PRINCE REPNíN WHOM HE HAD MET IN PETERSBURG +SOCIETY. BESIDE HIM STOOD A LAD OF NINETEEN, ALSO A WOUNDED OFFICER OF +THE HORSE GUARDS. + +BONAPARTE, HAVING COME UP AT A GALLOP, STOPPED HIS HORSE. + +“WHICH IS THE SENIOR?” HE ASKED, ON SEEING THE PRISONERS. + +THEY NAMED THE COLONEL, PRINCE REPNíN. + +“YOU ARE THE COMMANDER OF THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER’S REGIMENT OF HORSE +GUARDS?” ASKED NAPOLEON. + +“I COMMANDED A SQUADRON,” REPLIED REPNíN. + +“YOUR REGIMENT FULFILLED ITS DUTY HONORABLY,” SAID NAPOLEON. + +“THE PRAISE OF A GREAT COMMANDER IS A SOLDIER’S HIGHEST REWARD,” +SAID REPNíN. + +“I BESTOW IT WITH PLEASURE,” SAID NAPOLEON. “AND WHO IS THAT YOUNG +MAN BESIDE YOU?” + +PRINCE REPNíN NAMED LIEUTENANT SUKHTéLEN. + +AFTER LOOKING AT HIM NAPOLEON SMILED. + +“HE’S VERY YOUNG TO COME TO MEDDLE WITH US.” + +“YOUTH IS NO HINDRANCE TO COURAGE,” MUTTERED SUKHTéLEN IN A FAILING +VOICE. + +“A SPLENDID REPLY!” SAID NAPOLEON. “YOUNG MAN, YOU WILL GO FAR!” + +PRINCE ANDREW, WHO HAD ALSO BEEN BROUGHT FORWARD BEFORE THE EMPEROR’S +EYES TO COMPLETE THE SHOW OF PRISONERS, COULD NOT FAIL TO ATTRACT HIS +ATTENTION. NAPOLEON APPARENTLY REMEMBERED SEEING HIM ON THE BATTLEFIELD +AND, ADDRESSING HIM, AGAIN USED THE EPITHET “YOUNG MAN” THAT WAS +CONNECTED IN HIS MEMORY WITH PRINCE ANDREW. + +“WELL, AND YOU, YOUNG MAN,” SAID HE. “HOW DO YOU FEEL, MON +BRAVE?” + +THOUGH FIVE MINUTES BEFORE, PRINCE ANDREW HAD BEEN ABLE TO SAY A FEW +WORDS TO THE SOLDIERS WHO WERE CARRYING HIM, NOW WITH HIS EYES FIXED +STRAIGHT ON NAPOLEON, HE WAS SILENT.... SO INSIGNIFICANT AT THAT MOMENT +SEEMED TO HIM ALL THE INTERESTS THAT ENGROSSED NAPOLEON, SO MEAN DID HIS +HERO HIMSELF WITH HIS PALTRY VANITY AND JOY IN VICTORY APPEAR, +COMPARED TO THE LOFTY, EQUITABLE, AND KINDLY SKY WHICH HE HAD SEEN AND +UNDERSTOOD, THAT HE COULD NOT ANSWER HIM. + +EVERYTHING SEEMED SO FUTILE AND INSIGNIFICANT IN COMPARISON WITH THE +STERN AND SOLEMN TRAIN OF THOUGHT THAT WEAKNESS FROM LOSS OF BLOOD, +SUFFERING, AND THE NEARNESS OF DEATH AROUSED IN HIM. LOOKING INTO +NAPOLEON’S EYES PRINCE ANDREW THOUGHT OF THE INSIGNIFICANCE OF +GREATNESS, THE UNIMPORTANCE OF LIFE WHICH NO ONE COULD UNDERSTAND, AND +THE STILL GREATER UNIMPORTANCE OF DEATH, THE MEANING OF WHICH NO ONE +ALIVE COULD UNDERSTAND OR EXPLAIN. + +THE EMPEROR WITHOUT WAITING FOR AN ANSWER TURNED AWAY AND SAID TO ONE OF +THE OFFICERS AS HE WENT: “HAVE THESE GENTLEMEN ATTENDED TO AND TAKEN +TO MY BIVOUAC; LET MY DOCTOR, LARREY, EXAMINE THEIR WOUNDS. AU REVOIR, +PRINCE REPNíN!” AND HE SPURRED HIS HORSE AND GALLOPED AWAY. + +HIS FACE SHONE WITH SELF-SATISFACTION AND PLEASURE. + +THE SOLDIERS WHO HAD CARRIED PRINCE ANDREW HAD NOTICED AND TAKEN THE +LITTLE GOLD ICON PRINCESS MARY HAD HUNG ROUND HER BROTHER’S NECK, BUT +SEEING THE FAVOR THE EMPEROR SHOWED THE PRISONERS, THEY NOW HASTENED TO +RETURN THE HOLY IMAGE. + +PRINCE ANDREW DID NOT SEE HOW AND BY WHOM IT WAS REPLACED, BUT THE +LITTLE ICON WITH ITS THIN GOLD CHAIN SUDDENLY APPEARED UPON HIS CHEST +OUTSIDE HIS UNIFORM. + +“IT WOULD BE GOOD,” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW, GLANCING AT THE ICON HIS +SISTER HAD HUNG ROUND HIS NECK WITH SUCH EMOTION AND REVERENCE, “IT +WOULD BE GOOD IF EVERYTHING WERE AS CLEAR AND SIMPLE AS IT SEEMS TO +MARY. HOW GOOD IT WOULD BE TO KNOW WHERE TO SEEK FOR HELP IN THIS LIFE, +AND WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER IT BEYOND THE GRAVE! HOW HAPPY AND CALM I +SHOULD BE IF I COULD NOW SAY: ‘LORD, HAVE MERCY ON ME!’... BUT TO +WHOM SHOULD I SAY THAT? EITHER TO A POWER INDEFINABLE, INCOMPREHENSIBLE, +WHICH I NOT ONLY CANNOT ADDRESS BUT WHICH I CANNOT EVEN EXPRESS IN +WORDS—THE GREAT ALL OR NOTHING-” SAID HE TO HIMSELF, “OR TO +THAT GOD WHO HAS BEEN SEWN INTO THIS AMULET BY MARY! THERE IS NOTHING +CERTAIN, NOTHING AT ALL EXCEPT THE UNIMPORTANCE OF EVERYTHING I +UNDERSTAND, AND THE GREATNESS OF SOMETHING INCOMPREHENSIBLE BUT +ALL-IMPORTANT.” + +THE STRETCHERS MOVED ON. AT EVERY JOLT HE AGAIN FELT UNENDURABLE PAIN; +HIS FEVERISHNESS INCREASED AND HE GREW DELIRIOUS. VISIONS OF HIS FATHER, +WIFE, SISTER, AND FUTURE SON, AND THE TENDERNESS HE HAD FELT THE NIGHT +BEFORE THE BATTLE, THE FIGURE OF THE INSIGNIFICANT LITTLE NAPOLEON, AND +ABOVE ALL THIS THE LOFTY SKY, FORMED THE CHIEF SUBJECTS OF HIS DELIRIOUS +FANCIES. + +THE QUIET HOME LIFE AND PEACEFUL HAPPINESS OF BALD HILLS PRESENTED +ITSELF TO HIM. HE WAS ALREADY ENJOYING THAT HAPPINESS WHEN THAT +LITTLE NAPOLEON HAD SUDDENLY APPEARED WITH HIS UNSYMPATHIZING LOOK OF +SHORTSIGHTED DELIGHT AT THE MISERY OF OTHERS, AND DOUBTS AND TORMENTS +HAD FOLLOWED, AND ONLY THE HEAVENS PROMISED PEACE. TOWARD MORNING +ALL THESE DREAMS MELTED AND MERGED INTO THE CHAOS AND DARKNESS OF +UNCONCIOUSNESS AND OBLIVION WHICH IN THE OPINION OF NAPOLEON’S DOCTOR, +LARREY, WAS MUCH MORE LIKELY TO END IN DEATH THAN IN CONVALESCENCE. + +“HE IS A NERVOUS, BILIOUS SUBJECT,” SAID LARREY, “AND WILL NOT +RECOVER.” + +AND PRINCE ANDREW, WITH OTHERS FATALLY WOUNDED, WAS LEFT TO THE CARE OF +THE INHABITANTS OF THE DISTRICT. + + + + + +BOOK FOUR: 1806 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +EARLY IN THE YEAR 1806 NICHOLAS ROSTóV RETURNED HOME ON LEAVE. DENíSOV +WAS GOING HOME TO VORóNEZH AND ROSTóV PERSUADED HIM TO TRAVEL WITH HIM +AS FAR AS MOSCOW AND TO STAY WITH HIM THERE. MEETING A COMRADE AT +THE LAST POST STATION BUT ONE BEFORE MOSCOW, DENíSOV HAD DRUNK THREE +BOTTLES OF WINE WITH HIM AND, DESPITE THE JOLTING RUTS ACROSS THE +SNOW-COVERED ROAD, DID NOT ONCE WAKE UP ON THE WAY TO MOSCOW, BUT LAY +AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SLEIGH BESIDE ROSTóV, WHO GREW MORE AND MORE +IMPATIENT THE NEARER THEY GOT TO MOSCOW. + +“HOW MUCH LONGER? HOW MUCH LONGER? OH, THESE INSUFFERABLE STREETS, +SHOPS, BAKERS’ SIGNBOARDS, STREET LAMPS, AND SLEIGHS!” THOUGHT +ROSTóV, WHEN THEIR LEAVE PERMITS HAD BEEN PASSED AT THE TOWN GATE AND +THEY HAD ENTERED MOSCOW. + +“DENíSOV! WE’RE HERE! HE’S ASLEEP,” HE ADDED, LEANING FORWARD +WITH HIS WHOLE BODY AS IF IN THAT POSITION HE HOPED TO HASTEN THE SPEED +OF THE SLEIGH. + +DENíSOV GAVE NO ANSWER. + +“THERE’S THE CORNER AT THE CROSSROADS, WHERE THE CABMAN, ZAKHáR, +HAS HIS STAND, AND THERE’S ZAKHáR HIMSELF AND STILL THE SAME HORSE! +AND HERE’S THE LITTLE SHOP WHERE WE USED TO BUY GINGERBREAD! CAN’T +YOU HURRY UP? NOW THEN!” + +“WHICH HOUSE IS IT?” ASKED THE DRIVER. + +“WHY, THAT ONE, RIGHT AT THE END, THE BIG ONE. DON’T YOU SEE? +THAT’S OUR HOUSE,” SAID ROSTóV. “OF COURSE, IT’S OUR HOUSE! +DENíSOV, DENíSOV! WE’RE ALMOST THERE!” + +DENíSOV RAISED HIS HEAD, COUGHED, AND MADE NO ANSWER. + +“DMíTRI,” SAID ROSTóV TO HIS VALET ON THE BOX, “THOSE LIGHTS ARE +IN OUR HOUSE, AREN’T THEY?” + +“YES, SIR, AND THERE’S A LIGHT IN YOUR FATHER’S STUDY.” + +“THEN THEY’VE NOT GONE TO BED YET? WHAT DO YOU THINK? MIND NOW, +DON’T FORGET TO PUT OUT MY NEW COAT,” ADDED ROSTóV, FINGERING HIS +NEW MUSTACHE. “NOW THEN, GET ON,” HE SHOUTED TO THE DRIVER. “DO +WAKE UP, VáSKA!” HE WENT ON, TURNING TO DENíSOV, WHOSE HEAD +WAS AGAIN NODDING. “COME, GET ON! YOU SHALL HAVE THREE RUBLES FOR +VODKA—GET ON!” ROSTóV SHOUTED, WHEN THE SLEIGH WAS ONLY THREE +HOUSES FROM HIS DOOR. IT SEEMED TO HIM THE HORSES WERE NOT MOVING AT +ALL. AT LAST THE SLEIGH BORE TO THE RIGHT, DREW UP AT AN ENTRANCE, AND +ROSTóV SAW OVERHEAD THE OLD FAMILIAR CORNICE WITH A BIT OF PLASTER +BROKEN OFF, THE PORCH, AND THE POST BY THE SIDE OF THE PAVEMENT. HE +SPRANG OUT BEFORE THE SLEIGH STOPPED, AND RAN INTO THE HALL. THE HOUSE +STOOD COLD AND SILENT, AS IF QUITE REGARDLESS OF WHO HAD COME TO IT. +THERE WAS NO ONE IN THE HALL. “OH GOD! IS EVERYONE ALL RIGHT?” +HE THOUGHT, STOPPING FOR A MOMENT WITH A SINKING HEART, AND THEN +IMMEDIATELY STARTING TO RUN ALONG THE HALL AND UP THE WARPED STEPS OF +THE FAMILIAR STAIRCASE. THE WELL-KNOWN OLD DOOR HANDLE, WHICH ALWAYS +ANGERED THE COUNTESS WHEN IT WAS NOT PROPERLY CLEANED, TURNED AS LOOSELY +AS EVER. A SOLITARY TALLOW CANDLE BURNED IN THE ANTEROOM. + +OLD MICHAEL WAS ASLEEP ON THE CHEST. PROKóFY, THE FOOTMAN, WHO WAS +SO STRONG THAT HE COULD LIFT THE BACK OF THE CARRIAGE FROM BEHIND, SAT +PLAITING SLIPPERS OUT OF CLOTH SELVEDGES. HE LOOKED UP AT THE OPENING +DOOR AND HIS EXPRESSION OF SLEEPY INDIFFERENCE SUDDENLY CHANGED TO ONE +OF DELIGHTED AMAZEMENT. + +“GRACIOUS HEAVENS! THE YOUNG COUNT!” HE CRIED, RECOGNIZING HIS +YOUNG MASTER. “CAN IT BE? MY TREASURE!” AND PROKóFY, TREMBLING WITH +EXCITEMENT, RUSHED TOWARD THE DRAWING ROOM DOOR, PROBABLY IN ORDER TO +ANNOUNCE HIM, BUT, CHANGING HIS MIND, CAME BACK AND STOOPED TO KISS THE +YOUNG MAN’S SHOULDER. + +“ALL WELL?” ASKED ROSTóV, DRAWING AWAY HIS ARM. + +“YES, GOD BE THANKED! YES! THEY’VE JUST FINISHED SUPPER. LET ME HAVE +A LOOK AT YOU, YOUR EXCELLENCY.” + +“IS EVERYTHING QUITE ALL RIGHT?” + +“THE LORD BE THANKED, YES!” + +ROSTóV, WHO HAD COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN DENíSOV, NOT WISHING ANYONE TO +FORESTALL HIM, THREW OFF HIS FUR COAT AND RAN ON TIPTOE THROUGH THE +LARGE DARK BALLROOM. ALL WAS THE SAME: THERE WERE THE SAME OLD CARD +TABLES AND THE SAME CHANDELIER WITH A COVER OVER IT; BUT SOMEONE HAD +ALREADY SEEN THE YOUNG MASTER, AND, BEFORE HE HAD REACHED THE DRAWING +ROOM, SOMETHING FLEW OUT FROM A SIDE DOOR LIKE A TORNADO AND BEGAN +HUGGING AND KISSING HIM. ANOTHER AND YET ANOTHER CREATURE OF THE SAME +KIND SPRANG FROM A SECOND DOOR AND A THIRD; MORE HUGGING, MORE KISSING, +MORE OUTCRIES, AND TEARS OF JOY. HE COULD NOT DISTINGUISH WHICH WAS +PAPA, WHICH NATáSHA, AND WHICH PéTYA. EVERYONE SHOUTED, TALKED, AND +KISSED HIM AT THE SAME TIME. ONLY HIS MOTHER WAS NOT THERE, HE NOTICED +THAT. + +“AND I DID NOT KNOW... NICHOLAS... MY DARLING!...” + +“HERE HE IS... OUR OWN... KóLYA, * DEAR FELLOW... HOW HE HAS +CHANGED!... WHERE ARE THE CANDLES?... TEA!...” + + * NICHOLAS. + +“AND ME, KISS ME!” + +“DEAREST... AND ME!” + +SóNYA, NATáSHA, PéTYA, ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, VéRA, AND THE OLD COUNT +WERE ALL HUGGING HIM, AND THE SERFS, MEN AND MAIDS, FLOCKED INTO THE +ROOM, EXCLAIMING AND OH-ING AND AH-ING. + +PéTYA, CLINGING TO HIS LEGS, KEPT SHOUTING, “AND ME TOO!” + +NATáSHA, AFTER SHE HAD PULLED HIM DOWN TOWARD HER AND COVERED HIS FACE +WITH KISSES, HOLDING HIM TIGHT BY THE SKIRT OF HIS COAT, SPRANG AWAY AND +PRANCED UP AND DOWN IN ONE PLACE LIKE A GOAT AND SHRIEKED PIERCINGLY. + +ALL AROUND WERE LOVING EYES GLISTENING WITH TEARS OF JOY, AND ALL AROUND +WERE LIPS SEEKING A KISS. + +SóNYA TOO, ALL ROSY RED, CLUNG TO HIS ARM AND, RADIANT WITH BLISS, +LOOKED EAGERLY TOWARD HIS EYES, WAITING FOR THE LOOK FOR WHICH SHE +LONGED. SóNYA NOW WAS SIXTEEN AND SHE WAS VERY PRETTY, ESPECIALLY AT +THIS MOMENT OF HAPPY, RAPTUROUS EXCITEMENT. SHE GAZED AT HIM, NOT TAKING +HER EYES OFF HIM, AND SMILING AND HOLDING HER BREATH. HE GAVE HER A +GRATEFUL LOOK, BUT WAS STILL EXPECTANT AND LOOKING FOR SOMEONE. THE OLD +COUNTESS HAD NOT YET COME. BUT NOW STEPS WERE HEARD AT THE DOOR, STEPS +SO RAPID THAT THEY COULD HARDLY BE HIS MOTHER’S. + +YET IT WAS SHE, DRESSED IN A NEW GOWN WHICH HE DID NOT KNOW, MADE SINCE +HE HAD LEFT. ALL THE OTHERS LET HIM GO, AND HE RAN TO HER. WHEN THEY +MET, SHE FELL ON HIS BREAST, SOBBING. SHE COULD NOT LIFT HER FACE, BUT +ONLY PRESSED IT TO THE COLD BRAIDING OF HIS HUSSAR’S JACKET. DENíSOV, +WHO HAD COME INTO THE ROOM UNNOTICED BY ANYONE, STOOD THERE AND WIPED +HIS EYES AT THE SIGHT. + +“VASíLI DENíSOV, YOUR SON’S FRIEND,” HE SAID, INTRODUCING +HIMSELF TO THE COUNT, WHO WAS LOOKING INQUIRINGLY AT HIM. + +“YOU ARE MOST WELCOME! I KNOW, I KNOW,” SAID THE COUNT, KISSING AND +EMBRACING DENíSOV. “NICHOLAS WROTE US... NATáSHA, VéRA, LOOK! HERE +IS DENíSOV!” + +THE SAME HAPPY, RAPTUROUS FACES TURNED TO THE SHAGGY FIGURE OF DENíSOV. + +“DARLING DENíSOV!” SCREAMED NATáSHA, BESIDE HERSELF WITH RAPTURE, +SPRINGING TO HIM, PUTTING HER ARMS ROUND HIM, AND KISSING HIM. THIS +ESCAPADE MADE EVERYBODY FEEL CONFUSED. DENíSOV BLUSHED TOO, BUT SMILED +AND, TAKING NATáSHA’S HAND, KISSED IT. + +DENíSOV WAS SHOWN TO THE ROOM PREPARED FOR HIM, AND THE ROSTóVS ALL +GATHERED ROUND NICHOLAS IN THE SITTING ROOM. + +THE OLD COUNTESS, NOT LETTING GO OF HIS HAND AND KISSING IT EVERY +MOMENT, SAT BESIDE HIM: THE REST, CROWDING ROUND HIM, WATCHED EVERY +MOVEMENT, WORD, OR LOOK OF HIS, NEVER TAKING THEIR BLISSFULLY ADORING +EYES OFF HIM. HIS BROTHER AND SISTERS STRUGGLED FOR THE PLACES NEAREST +TO HIM AND DISPUTED WITH ONE ANOTHER WHO SHOULD BRING HIM HIS TEA, +HANDKERCHIEF, AND PIPE. + +ROSTóV WAS VERY HAPPY IN THE LOVE THEY SHOWED HIM; BUT THE FIRST +MOMENT OF MEETING HAD BEEN SO BEATIFIC THAT HIS PRESENT JOY SEEMED +INSUFFICIENT, AND HE KEPT EXPECTING SOMETHING MORE, MORE AND YET MORE. + +NEXT MORNING, AFTER THE FATIGUES OF THEIR JOURNEY, THE TRAVELERS SLEPT +TILL TEN O’CLOCK. + +IN THE ROOM NEXT THEIR BEDROOM THERE WAS A CONFUSION OF SABERS, +SATCHELS, SABRETACHES, OPEN PORTMANTEAUS, AND DIRTY BOOTS. TWO FRESHLY +CLEANED PAIRS WITH SPURS HAD JUST BEEN PLACED BY THE WALL. THE SERVANTS +WERE BRINGING IN JUGS AND BASINS, HOT WATER FOR SHAVING, AND THEIR +WELL-BRUSHED CLOTHES. THERE WAS A MASCULINE ODOR AND A SMELL OF TOBACCO. + +“HALLO, GWíSKA—MY PIPE!” CAME VASíLI DENíSOV’S HUSKY VOICE. +“WOSTóV, GET UP!” + +ROSTóV, RUBBING HIS EYES THAT SEEMED GLUED TOGETHER, RAISED HIS +DISHEVELED HEAD FROM THE HOT PILLOW. + +“WHY, IS IT LATE?” + +“LATE! IT’S NEARLY TEN O’CLOCK,” ANSWERED NATáSHA’S VOICE. +A RUSTLE OF STARCHED PETTICOATS AND THE WHISPERING AND LAUGHTER OF +GIRLS’ VOICES CAME FROM THE ADJOINING ROOM. THE DOOR WAS OPENED A +CRACK AND THERE WAS A GLIMPSE OF SOMETHING BLUE, OF RIBBONS, BLACK HAIR, +AND MERRY FACES. IT WAS NATáSHA, SóNYA, AND PéTYA, WHO HAD COME TO +SEE WHETHER THEY WERE GETTING UP. + +“NICHOLAS! GET UP!” NATáSHA’S VOICE WAS AGAIN HEARD AT THE DOOR. + +“DIRECTLY!” + +MEANWHILE, PéTYA, HAVING FOUND AND SEIZED THE SABERS IN THE OUTER ROOM, +WITH THE DELIGHT BOYS FEEL AT THE SIGHT OF A MILITARY ELDER BROTHER, AND +FORGETTING THAT IT WAS UNBECOMING FOR THE GIRLS TO SEE MEN UNDRESSED, +OPENED THE BEDROOM DOOR. + +“IS THIS YOUR SABER?” HE SHOUTED. + +THE GIRLS SPRANG ASIDE. DENíSOV HID HIS HAIRY LEGS UNDER THE BLANKET, +LOOKING WITH A SCARED FACE AT HIS COMRADE FOR HELP. THE DOOR, HAVING LET +PéTYA IN, CLOSED AGAIN. A SOUND OF LAUGHTER CAME FROM BEHIND IT. + +“NICHOLAS! COME OUT IN YOUR DRESSING GOWN!” SAID NATáSHA’S VOICE. + +“IS THIS YOUR SABER?” ASKED PéTYA. “OR IS IT YOURS?” HE SAID, +ADDRESSING THE BLACK-MUSTACHED DENíSOV WITH SERVILE DEFERENCE. + +ROSTóV HURRIEDLY PUT SOMETHING ON HIS FEET, DREW ON HIS DRESSING GOWN, +AND WENT OUT. NATáSHA HAD PUT ON ONE SPURRED BOOT AND WAS JUST GETTING +HER FOOT INTO THE OTHER. SóNYA, WHEN HE CAME IN, WAS TWIRLING ROUND AND +WAS ABOUT TO EXPAND HER DRESSES INTO A BALLOON AND SIT DOWN. THEY WERE +DRESSED ALIKE, IN NEW PALE-BLUE FROCKS, AND WERE BOTH FRESH, ROSY, AND +BRIGHT. SóNYA RAN AWAY, BUT NATáSHA, TAKING HER BROTHER’S ARM, LED +HIM INTO THE SITTING ROOM, WHERE THEY BEGAN TALKING. THEY HARDLY GAVE +ONE ANOTHER TIME TO ASK QUESTIONS AND GIVE REPLIES CONCERNING A THOUSAND +LITTLE MATTERS WHICH COULD NOT INTEREST ANYONE BUT THEMSELVES. NATáSHA +LAUGHED AT EVERY WORD HE SAID OR THAT SHE SAID HERSELF, NOT BECAUSE WHAT +THEY WERE SAYING WAS AMUSING, BUT BECAUSE SHE FELT HAPPY AND WAS UNABLE +TO CONTROL HER JOY WHICH EXPRESSED ITSELF BY LAUGHTER. + +“OH, HOW NICE, HOW SPLENDID!” SHE SAID TO EVERYTHING. + +ROSTóV FELT THAT, UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE WARM RAYS OF LOVE, THAT +CHILDLIKE SMILE WHICH HAD NOT ONCE APPEARED ON HIS FACE SINCE HE LEFT +HOME NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER EIGHTEEN MONTHS AGAIN BRIGHTENED HIS +SOUL AND HIS FACE. + +“NO, BUT LISTEN,” SHE SAID, “NOW YOU ARE QUITE A MAN, AREN’T +YOU? I’M AWFULLY GLAD YOU’RE MY BROTHER.” SHE TOUCHED HIS +MUSTACHE. “I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU MEN ARE LIKE. ARE YOU THE SAME AS +WE? NO?” + +“WHY DID SóNYA RUN AWAY?” ASKED ROSTóV. + +“AH, YES! THAT’S A WHOLE LONG STORY! HOW ARE YOU GOING TO SPEAK TO +HER—THOU OR YOU?” + +“AS MAY HAPPEN,” SAID ROSTóV. + +“NO, CALL HER YOU, PLEASE! I’LL TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT SOME OTHER +TIME. NO, I’LL TELL YOU NOW. YOU KNOW SóNYA’S MY DEAREST FRIEND. +SUCH A FRIEND THAT I BURNED MY ARM FOR HER SAKE. LOOK HERE!” + +SHE PULLED UP HER MUSLIN SLEEVE AND SHOWED HIM A RED SCAR ON HER LONG, +SLENDER, DELICATE ARM, HIGH ABOVE THE ELBOW ON THAT PART THAT IS COVERED +EVEN BY A BALL DRESS. + +“I BURNED THIS TO PROVE MY LOVE FOR HER. I JUST HEATED A RULER IN THE +FIRE AND PRESSED IT THERE!” + +SITTING ON THE SOFA WITH THE LITTLE CUSHIONS ON ITS ARMS, IN WHAT USED +TO BE HIS OLD SCHOOLROOM, AND LOOKING INTO NATáSHA’S WILDLY BRIGHT +EYES, ROSTóV RE-ENTERED THAT WORLD OF HOME AND CHILDHOOD WHICH HAD NO +MEANING FOR ANYONE ELSE, BUT GAVE HIM SOME OF THE BEST JOYS OF HIS LIFE; +AND THE BURNING OF AN ARM WITH A RULER AS A PROOF OF LOVE DID NOT SEEM +TO HIM SENSELESS, HE UNDERSTOOD AND WAS NOT SURPRISED AT IT. + +“WELL, AND IS THAT ALL?” HE ASKED. + +“WE ARE SUCH FRIENDS, SUCH FRIENDS! ALL THAT RULER BUSINESS WAS JUST +NONSENSE, BUT WE ARE FRIENDS FOREVER. SHE, IF SHE LOVES ANYONE, DOES IT +FOR LIFE, BUT I DON’T UNDERSTAND THAT, I FORGET QUICKLY.” + +“WELL, WHAT THEN?” + +“WELL, SHE LOVES ME AND YOU LIKE THAT.” + +NATáSHA SUDDENLY FLUSHED. + +“WHY, YOU REMEMBER BEFORE YOU WENT AWAY?... WELL, SHE SAYS YOU ARE TO +FORGET ALL THAT.... SHE SAYS: ‘I SHALL LOVE HIM ALWAYS, BUT LET HIM BE +FREE.’ ISN’T THAT LOVELY AND NOBLE! YES, VERY NOBLE? ISN’T IT?” +ASKED NATáSHA, SO SERIOUSLY AND EXCITEDLY THAT IT WAS EVIDENT THAT WHAT +SHE WAS NOW SAYING SHE HAD TALKED OF BEFORE, WITH TEARS. + +ROSTóV BECAME THOUGHTFUL. + +“I NEVER GO BACK ON MY WORD,” HE SAID. “BESIDES, SóNYA IS SO +CHARMING THAT ONLY A FOOL WOULD RENOUNCE SUCH HAPPINESS.” + +“NO, NO!” CRIED NATáSHA, “SHE AND I HAVE ALREADY TALKED IT OVER. +WE KNEW YOU’D SAY SO. BUT IT WON’T DO, BECAUSE YOU SEE, IF YOU SAY +THAT—IF YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF BOUND BY YOUR PROMISE—IT WILL SEEM AS +IF SHE HAD NOT MEANT IT SERIOUSLY. IT MAKES IT AS IF YOU WERE MARRYING +HER BECAUSE YOU MUST, AND THAT WOULDN’T DO AT ALL.” + +ROSTóV SAW THAT IT HAD BEEN WELL CONSIDERED BY THEM. SóNYA HAD ALREADY +STRUCK HIM BY HER BEAUTY ON THE PRECEDING DAY. TODAY, WHEN HE HAD CAUGHT +A GLIMPSE OF HER, SHE SEEMED STILL MORE LOVELY. SHE WAS A CHARMING GIRL +OF SIXTEEN, EVIDENTLY PASSIONATELY IN LOVE WITH HIM (HE DID NOT DOUBT +THAT FOR AN INSTANT). WHY SHOULD HE NOT LOVE HER NOW, AND EVEN MARRY +HER, ROSTóV THOUGHT, BUT JUST NOW THERE WERE SO MANY OTHER PLEASURES +AND INTERESTS BEFORE HIM! “YES, THEY HAVE TAKEN A WISE DECISION,” HE +THOUGHT, “I MUST REMAIN FREE.” + +“WELL THEN, THAT’S EXCELLENT,” SAID HE. “WE’LL TALK IT OVER +LATER ON. OH, HOW GLAD I AM TO HAVE YOU!” + +“WELL, AND ARE YOU STILL TRUE TO BORíS?” HE CONTINUED. + +“OH, WHAT NONSENSE!” CRIED NATáSHA, LAUGHING. “I DON’T THINK +ABOUT HIM OR ANYONE ELSE, AND I DON’T WANT ANYTHING OF THE KIND.” + +“DEAR ME! THEN WHAT ARE YOU UP TO NOW?” + +“NOW?” REPEATED NATáSHA, AND A HAPPY SMILE LIT UP HER FACE. “HAVE +YOU SEEN DUPORT?” + +“NO.” + +“NOT SEEN DUPORT—THE FAMOUS DANCER? WELL THEN, YOU WON’T +UNDERSTAND. THAT’S WHAT I’M UP TO.” + +CURVING HER ARMS, NATáSHA HELD OUT HER SKIRTS AS DANCERS DO, RAN BACK +A FEW STEPS, TURNED, CUT A CAPER, BROUGHT HER LITTLE FEET SHARPLY +TOGETHER, AND MADE SOME STEPS ON THE VERY TIPS OF HER TOES. + +“SEE, I’M STANDING! SEE!” SHE SAID, BUT COULD NOT MAINTAIN HERSELF +ON HER TOES ANY LONGER. “SO THAT’S WHAT I’M UP TO! I’LL NEVER +MARRY ANYONE, BUT WILL BE A DANCER. ONLY DON’T TELL ANYONE.” + +ROSTóV LAUGHED SO LOUD AND MERRILY THAT DENíSOV, IN HIS BEDROOM, FELT +ENVIOUS AND NATáSHA COULD NOT HELP JOINING IN. + +“NO, BUT DON’T YOU THINK IT’S NICE?” SHE KEPT REPEATING. + +“NICE! AND SO YOU NO LONGER WISH TO MARRY BORíS?” + +NATáSHA FLARED UP. “I DON’T WANT TO MARRY ANYONE. AND I’LL TELL +HIM SO WHEN I SEE HIM!” + +“DEAR ME!” SAID ROSTóV. + +“BUT THAT’S ALL RUBBISH,” NATáSHA CHATTERED ON. “AND IS +DENíSOV NICE?” SHE ASKED. + +“YES, INDEED!” + +“OH, WELL THEN, GOOD-BY: GO AND DRESS. IS HE VERY TERRIBLE, +DENíSOV?” + +“WHY TERRIBLE?” ASKED NICHOLAS. “NO, VáSKA IS A SPLENDID +FELLOW.” + +“YOU CALL HIM VáSKA? THAT’S FUNNY! AND IS HE VERY NICE?” + +“VERY.” + +“WELL THEN, BE QUICK. WE’LL ALL HAVE BREAKFAST TOGETHER.” + +AND NATáSHA ROSE AND WENT OUT OF THE ROOM ON TIPTOE, LIKE A BALLET +DANCER, BUT SMILING AS ONLY HAPPY GIRLS OF FIFTEEN CAN SMILE. WHEN +ROSTóV MET SóNYA IN THE DRAWING ROOM, HE REDDENED. HE DID NOT KNOW +HOW TO BEHAVE WITH HER. THE EVENING BEFORE, IN THE FIRST HAPPY MOMENT OF +MEETING, THEY HAD KISSED EACH OTHER, BUT TODAY THEY FELT IT COULD NOT +BE DONE; HE FELT THAT EVERYBODY, INCLUDING HIS MOTHER AND SISTERS, WAS +LOOKING INQUIRINGLY AT HIM AND WATCHING TO SEE HOW HE WOULD BEHAVE +WITH HER. HE KISSED HER HAND AND ADDRESSED HER NOT AS THOU BUT AS +YOU—SóNYA. BUT THEIR EYES MET AND SAID THOU, AND EXCHANGED TENDER +KISSES. HER LOOKS ASKED HIM TO FORGIVE HER FOR HAVING DARED, BY +NATáSHA’S INTERMEDIACY, TO REMIND HIM OF HIS PROMISE, AND THEN +THANKED HIM FOR HIS LOVE. HIS LOOKS THANKED HER FOR OFFERING HIM HIS +FREEDOM AND TOLD HER THAT ONE WAY OR ANOTHER HE WOULD NEVER CEASE TO +LOVE HER, FOR THAT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE. + +“HOW STRANGE IT IS,” SAID VéRA, SELECTING A MOMENT WHEN ALL WERE +SILENT, “THAT SóNYA AND NICHOLAS NOW SAY YOU TO ONE ANOTHER AND MEET +LIKE STRANGERS.” + +VéRA’S REMARK WAS CORRECT, AS HER REMARKS ALWAYS WERE, BUT, LIKE +MOST OF HER OBSERVATIONS, IT MADE EVERYONE FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE, NOT +ONLY SóNYA, NICHOLAS, AND NATáSHA, BUT EVEN THE OLD COUNTESS, +WHO—DREADING THIS LOVE AFFAIR WHICH MIGHT HINDER NICHOLAS FROM MAKING +A BRILLIANT MATCH—BLUSHED LIKE A GIRL. + +DENíSOV, TO ROSTóV’S SURPRISE, APPEARED IN THE DRAWING ROOM WITH +POMADED HAIR, PERFUMED, AND IN A NEW UNIFORM, LOOKING JUST AS SMART AS +HE MADE HIMSELF WHEN GOING INTO BATTLE, AND HE WAS MORE AMIABLE TO THE +LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THAN ROSTóV HAD EVER EXPECTED TO SEE HIM. + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +ON HIS RETURN TO MOSCOW FROM THE ARMY, NICHOLAS ROSTóV WAS WELCOMED +BY HIS HOME CIRCLE AS THE BEST OF SONS, A HERO, AND THEIR DARLING +NIKóLENKA; BY HIS RELATIONS AS A CHARMING, ATTRACTIVE, AND POLITE YOUNG +MAN; BY HIS ACQUAINTANCES AS A HANDSOME LIEUTENANT OF HUSSARS, A GOOD +DANCER, AND ONE OF THE BEST MATCHES IN THE CITY. + +THE ROSTóVS KNEW EVERYBODY IN MOSCOW. THE OLD COUNT HAD MONEY ENOUGH +THAT YEAR, AS ALL HIS ESTATES HAD BEEN REMORTGAGED, AND SO NICHOLAS, +ACQUIRING A TROTTER OF HIS OWN, VERY STYLISH RIDING BREECHES OF THE +LATEST CUT, SUCH AS NO ONE ELSE YET HAD IN MOSCOW, AND BOOTS OF THE +LATEST FASHION, WITH EXTREMELY POINTED TOES AND SMALL SILVER SPURS, +PASSED HIS TIME VERY GAILY. AFTER A SHORT PERIOD OF ADAPTING HIMSELF +TO THE OLD CONDITIONS OF LIFE, NICHOLAS FOUND IT VERY PLEASANT TO BE +AT HOME AGAIN. HE FELT THAT HE HAD GROWN UP AND MATURED VERY MUCH. HIS +DESPAIR AT FAILING IN A SCRIPTURE EXAMINATION, HIS BORROWING MONEY FROM +GAVRíL TO PAY A SLEIGH DRIVER, HIS KISSING SóNYA ON THE SLY—HE NOW +RECALLED ALL THIS AS CHILDISHNESS HE HAD LEFT IMMEASURABLY BEHIND. +NOW HE WAS A LIEUTENANT OF HUSSARS, IN A JACKET LACED WITH SILVER, AND +WEARING THE CROSS OF ST. GEORGE, AWARDED TO SOLDIERS FOR BRAVERY IN +ACTION, AND IN THE COMPANY OF WELL-KNOWN, ELDERLY, AND RESPECTED RACING +MEN WAS TRAINING A TROTTER OF HIS OWN FOR A RACE. HE KNEW A LADY ON ONE +OF THE BOULEVARDS WHOM HE VISITED OF AN EVENING. HE LED THE MAZURKA +AT THE ARKHáROVS’ BALL, TALKED ABOUT THE WAR WITH FIELD MARSHAL +KáMENSKI, VISITED THE ENGLISH CLUB, AND WAS ON INTIMATE TERMS WITH A +COLONEL OF FORTY TO WHOM DENíSOV HAD INTRODUCED HIM. + +HIS PASSION FOR THE EMPEROR HAD COOLED SOMEWHAT IN MOSCOW. BUT STILL, AS +HE DID NOT SEE HIM AND HAD NO OPPORTUNITY OF SEEING HIM, HE OFTEN SPOKE +ABOUT HIM AND ABOUT HIS LOVE FOR HIM, LETTING IT BE UNDERSTOOD THAT HE +HAD NOT TOLD ALL AND THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING IN HIS FEELINGS FOR THE +EMPEROR NOT EVERYONE COULD UNDERSTAND, AND WITH HIS WHOLE SOUL HE SHARED +THE ADORATION THEN COMMON IN MOSCOW FOR THE EMPEROR, WHO WAS SPOKEN OF +AS THE “ANGEL INCARNATE.” + +DURING ROSTóV’S SHORT STAY IN MOSCOW, BEFORE REJOINING THE ARMY, HE +DID NOT DRAW CLOSER TO SóNYA, BUT RATHER DRIFTED AWAY FROM HER. SHE WAS +VERY PRETTY AND SWEET, AND EVIDENTLY DEEPLY IN LOVE WITH HIM, BUT HE WAS +AT THE PERIOD OF YOUTH WHEN THERE SEEMS SO MUCH TO DO THAT THERE IS NO +TIME FOR THAT SORT OF THING AND A YOUNG MAN FEARS TO BIND HIMSELF AND +PRIZES HIS FREEDOM WHICH HE NEEDS FOR SO MANY OTHER THINGS. WHEN HE +THOUGHT OF SóNYA, DURING THIS STAY IN MOSCOW, HE SAID TO HIMSELF, +“AH, THERE WILL BE, AND THERE ARE, MANY MORE SUCH GIRLS SOMEWHERE WHOM +I DO NOT YET KNOW. THERE WILL BE TIME ENOUGH TO THINK ABOUT LOVE WHEN I +WANT TO, BUT NOW I HAVE NO TIME.” BESIDES, IT SEEMED TO HIM THAT THE +SOCIETY OF WOMEN WAS RATHER DEROGATORY TO HIS MANHOOD. HE WENT TO BALLS +AND INTO LADIES’ SOCIETY WITH AN AFFECTATION OF DOING SO AGAINST HIS +WILL. THE RACES, THE ENGLISH CLUB, SPREES WITH DENíSOV, AND VISITS TO +A CERTAIN HOUSE—THAT WAS ANOTHER MATTER AND QUITE THE THING FOR A +DASHING YOUNG HUSSAR! + +AT THE BEGINNING OF MARCH, OLD COUNT ILYá ROSTóV WAS VERY BUSY +ARRANGING A DINNER IN HONOR OF PRINCE BAGRATIóN AT THE ENGLISH CLUB. + +THE COUNT WALKED UP AND DOWN THE HALL IN HIS DRESSING GOWN, GIVING +ORDERS TO THE CLUB STEWARD AND TO THE FAMOUS FEOKTíST, THE CLUB’S +HEAD COOK, ABOUT ASPARAGUS, FRESH CUCUMBERS, STRAWBERRIES, VEAL, AND +FISH FOR THIS DINNER. THE COUNT HAD BEEN A MEMBER AND ON THE COMMITTEE +OF THE CLUB FROM THE DAY IT WAS FOUNDED. TO HIM THE CLUB ENTRUSTED THE +ARRANGEMENT OF THE FESTIVAL IN HONOR OF BAGRATIóN, FOR FEW MEN KNEW +SO WELL HOW TO ARRANGE A FEAST ON AN OPEN-HANDED, HOSPITABLE SCALE, +AND STILL FEWER MEN WOULD BE SO WELL ABLE AND WILLING TO MAKE UP OUT OF +THEIR OWN RESOURCES WHAT MIGHT BE NEEDED FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE FETE. +THE CLUB COOK AND THE STEWARD LISTENED TO THE COUNT’S ORDERS WITH +PLEASED FACES, FOR THEY KNEW THAT UNDER NO OTHER MANAGEMENT COULD THEY +SO EASILY EXTRACT A GOOD PROFIT FOR THEMSELVES FROM A DINNER COSTING +SEVERAL THOUSAND RUBLES. + +“WELL THEN, MIND AND HAVE COCKS’ COMB IN THE TURTLE SOUP, YOU +KNOW!” + +“SHALL WE HAVE THREE COLD DISHES THEN?” ASKED THE COOK. + +THE COUNT CONSIDERED. + +“WE CAN’T HAVE LESS—YES, THREE... THE MAYONNAISE, THAT’S ONE,” +SAID HE, BENDING DOWN A FINGER. + +“THEN AM I TO ORDER THOSE LARGE STERLETS?” ASKED THE STEWARD. + +“YES, IT CAN’T BE HELPED IF THEY WON’T TAKE LESS. AH, DEAR ME! I +WAS FORGETTING. WE MUST HAVE ANOTHER ENTRéE. AH, GOODNESS GRACIOUS!” +HE CLUTCHED AT HIS HEAD. “WHO IS GOING TO GET ME THE FLOWERS? DMíTRI! +EH, DMíTRI! GALLOP OFF TO OUR MOSCOW ESTATE,” HE SAID TO THE FACTOTUM +WHO APPEARED AT HIS CALL. “HURRY OFF AND TELL MAKSíM, THE GARDENER, +TO SET THE SERFS TO WORK. SAY THAT EVERYTHING OUT OF THE HOTHOUSES MUST +BE BROUGHT HERE WELL WRAPPED UP IN FELT. I MUST HAVE TWO HUNDRED POTS +HERE ON FRIDAY.” + +HAVING GIVEN SEVERAL MORE ORDERS, HE WAS ABOUT TO GO TO HIS “LITTLE +COUNTESS” TO HAVE A REST, BUT REMEMBERING SOMETHING ELSE OF +IMPORTANCE, HE RETURNED AGAIN, CALLED BACK THE COOK AND THE CLUB +STEWARD, AND AGAIN BEGAN GIVING ORDERS. A LIGHT FOOTSTEP AND THE +CLINKING OF SPURS WERE HEARD AT THE DOOR, AND THE YOUNG COUNT, HANDSOME, +ROSY, WITH A DARK LITTLE MUSTACHE, EVIDENTLY RESTED AND MADE SLEEKER BY +HIS EASY LIFE IN MOSCOW, ENTERED THE ROOM. + +“AH, MY BOY, MY HEAD’S IN A WHIRL!” SAID THE OLD MAN WITH A SMILE, +AS IF HE FELT A LITTLE CONFUSED BEFORE HIS SON. “NOW, IF YOU WOULD +ONLY HELP A BIT! I MUST HAVE SINGERS TOO. I SHALL HAVE MY OWN ORCHESTRA, +BUT SHOULDN’T WE GET THE GYPSY SINGERS AS WELL? YOU MILITARY MEN LIKE +THAT SORT OF THING.” + +“REALLY, PAPA, I BELIEVE PRINCE BAGRATIóN WORRIED HIMSELF LESS BEFORE +THE BATTLE OF SCHöN GRABERN THAN YOU DO NOW,” SAID HIS SON WITH A +SMILE. + +THE OLD COUNT PRETENDED TO BE ANGRY. + +“YES, YOU TALK, BUT TRY IT YOURSELF!” + +AND THE COUNT TURNED TO THE COOK, WHO, WITH A SHREWD AND RESPECTFUL +EXPRESSION, LOOKED OBSERVANTLY AND SYMPATHETICALLY AT THE FATHER AND +SON. + +“WHAT HAVE THE YOUNG PEOPLE COME TO NOWADAYS, EH, FEOKTíST?” SAID +HE. “LAUGHING AT US OLD FELLOWS!” + +“THAT’S SO, YOUR EXCELLENCY, ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS TO EAT A GOOD +DINNER, BUT PROVIDING IT AND SERVING IT ALL UP, THAT’S NOT THEIR +BUSINESS!” + +“THAT’S IT, THAT’S IT!” EXCLAIMED THE COUNT, AND GAILY SEIZING +HIS SON BY BOTH HANDS, HE CRIED, “NOW I’VE GOT YOU, SO TAKE THE +SLEIGH AND PAIR AT ONCE, AND GO TO BEZúKHOV’S, AND TELL HIM ‘COUNT +ILYá HAS SENT YOU TO ASK FOR STRAWBERRIES AND FRESH PINEAPPLES.’ WE +CAN’T GET THEM FROM ANYONE ELSE. HE’S NOT THERE HIMSELF, SO YOU’LL +HAVE TO GO IN AND ASK THE PRINCESSES; AND FROM THERE GO ON TO THE +RASGULYáY—THE COACHMAN IPáTKA KNOWS—AND LOOK UP THE GYPSY +ILYúSHKA, THE ONE WHO DANCED AT COUNT ORLóV’S, YOU REMEMBER, IN A +WHITE COSSACK COAT, AND BRING HIM ALONG TO ME.” + +“AND AM I TO BRING THE GYPSY GIRLS ALONG WITH HIM?” ASKED NICHOLAS, +LAUGHING. “DEAR, DEAR!...” + +AT THAT MOMENT, WITH NOISELESS FOOTSTEPS AND WITH THE BUSINESSLIKE, +PREOCCUPIED, YET MEEKLY CHRISTIAN LOOK WHICH NEVER LEFT HER FACE, ANNA +MIKHáYLOVNA ENTERED THE HALL. THOUGH SHE CAME UPON THE COUNT IN HIS +DRESSING GOWN EVERY DAY, HE INVARIABLY BECAME CONFUSED AND BEGGED HER TO +EXCUSE HIS COSTUME. + +“NO MATTER AT ALL, MY DEAR COUNT,” SHE SAID, MEEKLY CLOSING HER +EYES. “BUT I’LL GO TO BEZúKHOV’S MYSELF. PIERRE HAS ARRIVED, AND +NOW WE SHALL GET ANYTHING WE WANT FROM HIS HOTHOUSES. I HAVE TO SEE HIM +IN ANY CASE. HE HAS FORWARDED ME A LETTER FROM BORíS. THANK GOD, BORíS +IS NOW ON THE STAFF.” + +THE COUNT WAS DELIGHTED AT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S TAKING UPON HERSELF ONE +OF HIS COMMISSIONS AND ORDERED THE SMALL CLOSED CARRIAGE FOR HER. + +“TELL BEZúKHOV TO COME. I’LL PUT HIS NAME DOWN. IS HIS WIFE WITH +HIM?” HE ASKED. + +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA TURNED UP HER EYES, AND PROFOUND SADNESS WAS DEPICTED +ON HER FACE. + +“AH, MY DEAR FRIEND, HE IS VERY UNFORTUNATE,” SHE SAID. “IF WHAT +WE HEAR IS TRUE, IT IS DREADFUL. HOW LITTLE WE DREAMED OF SUCH A THING +WHEN WE WERE REJOICING AT HIS HAPPINESS! AND SUCH A LOFTY ANGELIC SOUL +AS YOUNG BEZúKHOV! YES, I PITY HIM FROM MY HEART, AND SHALL TRY TO GIVE +HIM WHAT CONSOLATION I CAN.” + +“WH-WHAT IS THE MATTER?” ASKED BOTH THE YOUNG AND OLD ROSTóV. + +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA SIGHED DEEPLY. + +“DóLOKHOV, MARY IVáNOVNA’S SON,” SHE SAID IN A MYSTERIOUS +WHISPER, “HAS COMPROMISED HER COMPLETELY, THEY SAY. PIERRE TOOK HIM +UP, INVITED HIM TO HIS HOUSE IN PETERSBURG, AND NOW... SHE HAS COME HERE +AND THAT DAREDEVIL AFTER HER!” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, WISHING TO SHOW +HER SYMPATHY FOR PIERRE, BUT BY INVOLUNTARY INTONATIONS AND A HALF SMILE +BETRAYING HER SYMPATHY FOR THE “DAREDEVIL,” AS SHE CALLED DóLOKHOV. +“THEY SAY PIERRE IS QUITE BROKEN BY HIS MISFORTUNE.” + +“DEAR, DEAR! BUT STILL TELL HIM TO COME TO THE CLUB—IT WILL ALL BLOW +OVER. IT WILL BE A TREMENDOUS BANQUET.” + +NEXT DAY, THE THIRD OF MARCH, SOON AFTER ONE O’CLOCK, TWO HUNDRED AND +FIFTY MEMBERS OF THE ENGLISH CLUB AND FIFTY GUESTS WERE AWAITING THE +GUEST OF HONOR AND HERO OF THE AUSTRIAN CAMPAIGN, PRINCE BAGRATIóN, TO +DINNER. + +ON THE FIRST ARRIVAL OF THE NEWS OF THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ, MOSCOW HAD +BEEN BEWILDERED. AT THAT TIME, THE RUSSIANS WERE SO USED TO VICTORIES +THAT ON RECEIVING NEWS OF THE DEFEAT SOME WOULD SIMPLY NOT BELIEVE IT, +WHILE OTHERS SOUGHT SOME EXTRAORDINARY EXPLANATION OF SO STRANGE AN +EVENT. IN THE ENGLISH CLUB, WHERE ALL WHO WERE DISTINGUISHED, IMPORTANT, +AND WELL INFORMED FOREGATHERED WHEN THE NEWS BEGAN TO ARRIVE IN +DECEMBER, NOTHING WAS SAID ABOUT THE WAR AND THE LAST BATTLE, AS +THOUGH ALL WERE IN A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE. THE MEN WHO SET THE TONE +IN CONVERSATION—COUNT ROSTOPCHíN, PRINCE YúRI DOLGORúKOV, VALúEV, +COUNT MARKóV, AND PRINCE VYáZEMSKI—DID NOT SHOW THEMSELVES AT THE +CLUB, BUT MET IN PRIVATE HOUSES IN INTIMATE CIRCLES, AND THE +MOSCOVITES WHO TOOK THEIR OPINIONS FROM OTHERS—ILYá ROSTóV AMONG +THEM—REMAINED FOR A WHILE WITHOUT ANY DEFINITE OPINION ON THE SUBJECT +OF THE WAR AND WITHOUT LEADERS. THE MOSCOVITES FELT THAT SOMETHING WAS +WRONG AND THAT TO DISCUSS THE BAD NEWS WAS DIFFICULT, AND SO IT WAS BEST +TO BE SILENT. BUT AFTER A WHILE, JUST AS A JURY COMES OUT OF ITS ROOM, +THE BIGWIGS WHO GUIDED THE CLUB’S OPINION REAPPEARED, AND EVERYBODY +BEGAN SPEAKING CLEARLY AND DEFINITELY. REASONS WERE FOUND FOR THE +INCREDIBLE, UNHEARD-OF, AND IMPOSSIBLE EVENT OF A RUSSIAN DEFEAT, +EVERYTHING BECAME CLEAR, AND IN ALL CORNERS OF MOSCOW THE SAME THINGS +BEGAN TO BE SAID. THESE REASONS WERE THE TREACHERY OF THE AUSTRIANS, A +DEFECTIVE COMMISSARIAT, THE TREACHERY OF THE POLE PRZEBYSZéWSKI AND OF +THE FRENCHMAN LANGERON, KUTúZOV’S INCAPACITY, AND (IT WAS WHISPERED) +THE YOUTH AND INEXPERIENCE OF THE SOVEREIGN, WHO HAD TRUSTED WORTHLESS +AND INSIGNIFICANT PEOPLE. BUT THE ARMY, THE RUSSIAN ARMY, EVERYONE +DECLARED, WAS EXTRAORDINARY AND HAD ACHIEVED MIRACLES OF VALOR. THE +SOLDIERS, OFFICERS, AND GENERALS WERE HEROES. BUT THE HERO OF HEROES WAS +PRINCE BAGRATIóN, DISTINGUISHED BY HIS SCHöN GRABERN AFFAIR AND BY +THE RETREAT FROM AUSTERLITZ, WHERE HE ALONE HAD WITHDRAWN HIS COLUMN +UNBROKEN AND HAD ALL DAY BEATEN BACK AN ENEMY FORCE TWICE AS NUMEROUS +AS HIS OWN. WHAT ALSO CONDUCED TO BAGRATIóN’S BEING SELECTED AS +MOSCOW’S HERO WAS THE FACT THAT HE HAD NO CONNECTIONS IN THE CITY +AND WAS A STRANGER THERE. IN HIS PERSON, HONOR WAS SHOWN TO A SIMPLE +FIGHTING RUSSIAN SOLDIER WITHOUT CONNECTIONS AND INTRIGUES, AND TO ONE +WHO WAS ASSOCIATED BY MEMORIES OF THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN WITH THE NAME OF +SUVóROV. MOREOVER, PAYING SUCH HONOR TO BAGRATIóN WAS THE BEST WAY OF +EXPRESSING DISAPPROVAL AND DISLIKE OF KUTúZOV. + +“HAD THERE BEEN NO BAGRATIóN, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NECESSARY TO +INVENT HIM,” SAID THE WIT SHINSHíN, PARODYING THE WORDS OF VOLTAIRE. +KUTúZOV NO ONE SPOKE OF, EXCEPT SOME WHO ABUSED HIM IN WHISPERS, +CALLING HIM A COURT WEATHERCOCK AND AN OLD SATYR. + +ALL MOSCOW REPEATED PRINCE DOLGORúKOV’S SAYING: “IF YOU GO ON +MODELING AND MODELING YOU MUST GET SMEARED WITH CLAY,” SUGGESTING +CONSOLATION FOR OUR DEFEAT BY THE MEMORY OF FORMER VICTORIES; AND THE +WORDS OF ROSTOPCHíN, THAT FRENCH SOLDIERS HAVE TO BE INCITED TO BATTLE +BY HIGHFALUTIN WORDS, AND GERMANS BY LOGICAL ARGUMENTS TO SHOW THEM +THAT IT IS MORE DANGEROUS TO RUN AWAY THAN TO ADVANCE, BUT THAT RUSSIAN +SOLDIERS ONLY NEED TO BE RESTRAINED AND HELD BACK! ON ALL SIDES, NEW AND +FRESH ANECDOTES WERE HEARD OF INDIVIDUAL EXAMPLES OF HEROISM SHOWN BY +OUR OFFICERS AND MEN AT AUSTERLITZ. ONE HAD SAVED A STANDARD, ANOTHER +HAD KILLED FIVE FRENCHMEN, A THIRD HAD LOADED FIVE CANNON SINGLEHANDED. +BERG WAS MENTIONED, BY THOSE WHO DID NOT KNOW HIM, AS HAVING, WHEN +WOUNDED IN THE RIGHT HAND, TAKEN HIS SWORD IN THE LEFT, AND GONE +FORWARD. OF BOLKóNSKI, NOTHING WAS SAID, AND ONLY THOSE WHO KNEW HIM +INTIMATELY REGRETTED THAT HE HAD DIED SO YOUNG, LEAVING A PREGNANT WIFE +WITH HIS ECCENTRIC FATHER. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +ON THAT THIRD OF MARCH, ALL THE ROOMS IN THE ENGLISH CLUB WERE FILLED +WITH A HUM OF CONVERSATION, LIKE THE HUM OF BEES SWARMING IN SPRINGTIME. +THE MEMBERS AND GUESTS OF THE CLUB WANDERED HITHER AND THITHER, SAT, +STOOD, MET, AND SEPARATED, SOME IN UNIFORM AND SOME IN EVENING DRESS, +AND A FEW HERE AND THERE WITH POWDERED HAIR AND IN RUSSIAN KAFTáNS. +POWDERED FOOTMEN, IN LIVERY WITH BUCKLED SHOES AND SMART STOCKINGS, +STOOD AT EVERY DOOR ANXIOUSLY NOTING VISITORS’ EVERY MOVEMENT IN ORDER +TO OFFER THEIR SERVICES. MOST OF THOSE PRESENT WERE ELDERLY, RESPECTED +MEN WITH BROAD, SELF-CONFIDENT FACES, FAT FINGERS, AND RESOLUTE GESTURES +AND VOICES. THIS CLASS OF GUESTS AND MEMBERS SAT IN CERTAIN HABITUAL +PLACES AND MET IN CERTAIN HABITUAL GROUPS. A MINORITY OF THOSE PRESENT +WERE CASUAL GUESTS—CHIEFLY YOUNG MEN, AMONG WHOM WERE DENíSOV, +ROSTóV, AND DóLOKHOV—WHO WAS NOW AGAIN AN OFFICER IN THE SEMëNOV +REGIMENT. THE FACES OF THESE YOUNG PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO WERE +MILITARY MEN, BORE THAT EXPRESSION OF CONDESCENDING RESPECT FOR THEIR +ELDERS WHICH SEEMS TO SAY TO THE OLDER GENERATION, “WE ARE PREPARED TO +RESPECT AND HONOR YOU, BUT ALL THE SAME REMEMBER THAT THE FUTURE BELONGS +TO US.” + +NESVíTSKI WAS THERE AS AN OLD MEMBER OF THE CLUB. PIERRE, WHO AT HIS +WIFE’S COMMAND HAD LET HIS HAIR GROW AND ABANDONED HIS SPECTACLES, +WENT ABOUT THE ROOMS FASHIONABLY DRESSED BUT LOOKING SAD AND DULL. HERE, +AS ELSEWHERE, HE WAS SURROUNDED BY AN ATMOSPHERE OF SUBSERVIENCE TO +HIS WEALTH, AND BEING IN THE HABIT OF LORDING IT OVER THESE PEOPLE, HE +TREATED THEM WITH ABSENT-MINDED CONTEMPT. + +BY HIS AGE HE SHOULD HAVE BELONGED TO THE YOUNGER MEN, BUT BY HIS WEALTH +AND CONNECTIONS HE BELONGED TO THE GROUPS OF OLD AND HONORED GUESTS, AND +SO HE WENT FROM ONE GROUP TO ANOTHER. SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT OLD MEN +WERE THE CENTER OF GROUPS WHICH EVEN STRANGERS APPROACHED RESPECTFULLY +TO HEAR THE VOICES OF WELL-KNOWN MEN. THE LARGEST CIRCLES FORMED ROUND +COUNT ROSTOPCHíN, VALúEV, AND NARýSHKIN. ROSTOPCHíN WAS DESCRIBING +HOW THE RUSSIANS HAD BEEN OVERWHELMED BY FLYING AUSTRIANS AND HAD HAD TO +FORCE THEIR WAY THROUGH THEM WITH BAYONETS. + +VALúEV WAS CONFIDENTIALLY TELLING THAT UVáROV HAD BEEN SENT FROM +PETERSBURG TO ASCERTAIN WHAT MOSCOW WAS THINKING ABOUT AUSTERLITZ. + +IN THE THIRD CIRCLE, NARýSHKIN WAS SPEAKING OF THE MEETING OF THE +AUSTRIAN COUNCIL OF WAR AT WHICH SUVóROV CROWED LIKE A COCK IN REPLY TO +THE NONSENSE TALKED BY THE AUSTRIAN GENERALS. SHINSHíN, STANDING CLOSE +BY, TRIED TO MAKE A JOKE, SAYING THAT KUTúZOV HAD EVIDENTLY FAILED TO +LEARN FROM SUVóROV EVEN SO SIMPLE A THING AS THE ART OF CROWING LIKE A +COCK, BUT THE ELDER MEMBERS GLANCED SEVERELY AT THE WIT, MAKING HIM +FEEL THAT IN THAT PLACE AND ON THAT DAY, IT WAS IMPROPER TO SPEAK SO OF +KUTúZOV. + +COUNT ILYá ROSTóV, HURRIED AND PREOCCUPIED, WENT ABOUT IN HIS SOFT +BOOTS BETWEEN THE DINING AND DRAWING ROOMS, HASTILY GREETING THE +IMPORTANT AND UNIMPORTANT, ALL OF WHOM HE KNEW, AS IF THEY WERE ALL +EQUALS, WHILE HIS EYES OCCASIONALLY SOUGHT OUT HIS FINE WELL-SET-UP +YOUNG SON, RESTING ON HIM AND WINKING JOYFULLY AT HIM. YOUNG ROSTóV +STOOD AT A WINDOW WITH DóLOKHOV, WHOSE ACQUAINTANCE HE HAD LATELY +MADE AND HIGHLY VALUED. THE OLD COUNT CAME UP TO THEM AND PRESSED +DóLOKHOV’S HAND. + +“PLEASE COME AND VISIT US... YOU KNOW MY BRAVE BOY... BEEN TOGETHER +OUT THERE... BOTH PLAYING THE HERO... AH, VASíLI IGNáTOVICH... +HOW D’YE DO, OLD FELLOW?” HE SAID, TURNING TO AN OLD MAN WHO WAS +PASSING, BUT BEFORE HE HAD FINISHED HIS GREETING THERE WAS A GENERAL +STIR, AND A FOOTMAN WHO HAD RUN IN ANNOUNCED, WITH A FRIGHTENED FACE: +“HE’S ARRIVED!” + +BELLS RANG, THE STEWARDS RUSHED FORWARD, AND—LIKE RYE SHAKEN TOGETHER +IN A SHOVEL—THE GUESTS WHO HAD BEEN SCATTERED ABOUT IN DIFFERENT ROOMS +CAME TOGETHER AND CROWDED IN THE LARGE DRAWING ROOM BY THE DOOR OF THE +BALLROOM. + +BAGRATIóN APPEARED IN THE DOORWAY OF THE ANTEROOM WITHOUT HAT OR SWORD, +WHICH, IN ACCORD WITH THE CLUB CUSTOM, HE HAD GIVEN UP TO THE HALL +PORTER. HE HAD NO LAMBSKIN CAP ON HIS HEAD, NOR HAD HE A LOADED WHIP +OVER HIS SHOULDER, AS WHEN ROSTóV HAD SEEN HIM ON THE EVE OF THE BATTLE +OF AUSTERLITZ, BUT WORE A TIGHT NEW UNIFORM WITH RUSSIAN AND FOREIGN +ORDERS, AND THE STAR OF ST. GEORGE ON HIS LEFT BREAST. EVIDENTLY JUST +BEFORE COMING TO THE DINNER HE HAD HAD HIS HAIR AND WHISKERS TRIMMED, +WHICH CHANGED HIS APPEARANCE FOR THE WORSE. THERE WAS SOMETHING NAïVELY +FESTIVE IN HIS AIR, WHICH, IN CONJUNCTION WITH HIS FIRM AND VIRILE +FEATURES, GAVE HIM A RATHER COMICAL EXPRESSION. BEKLESHëV AND THEODORE +UVáROV, WHO HAD ARRIVED WITH HIM, PAUSED AT THE DOORWAY TO ALLOW HIM, +AS THE GUEST OF HONOR, TO ENTER FIRST. BAGRATIóN WAS EMBARRASSED, NOT +WISHING TO AVAIL HIMSELF OF THEIR COURTESY, AND THIS CAUSED SOME DELAY +AT THE DOORS, BUT AFTER ALL HE DID AT LAST ENTER FIRST. HE WALKED SHYLY +AND AWKWARDLY OVER THE PARQUET FLOOR OF THE RECEPTION ROOM, NOT KNOWING +WHAT TO DO WITH HIS HANDS; HE WAS MORE ACCUSTOMED TO WALK OVER A PLOWED +FIELD UNDER FIRE, AS HE HAD DONE AT THE HEAD OF THE KURSK REGIMENT AT +SCHöN GRABERN—AND HE WOULD HAVE FOUND THAT EASIER. THE COMMITTEEMEN +MET HIM AT THE FIRST DOOR AND, EXPRESSING THEIR DELIGHT AT SEEING SUCH A +HIGHLY HONORED GUEST, TOOK POSSESSION OF HIM AS IT WERE, WITHOUT WAITING +FOR HIS REPLY, SURROUNDED HIM, AND LED HIM TO THE DRAWING ROOM. IT WAS +AT FIRST IMPOSSIBLE TO ENTER THE DRAWING ROOM DOOR FOR THE CROWD OF +MEMBERS AND GUESTS JOSTLING ONE ANOTHER AND TRYING TO GET A GOOD LOOK +AT BAGRATIóN OVER EACH OTHER’S SHOULDERS, AS IF HE WERE SOME RARE +ANIMAL. COUNT ILYá ROSTóV, LAUGHING AND REPEATING THE WORDS, “MAKE +WAY, DEAR BOY! MAKE WAY, MAKE WAY!” PUSHED THROUGH THE CROWD MORE +ENERGETICALLY THAN ANYONE, LED THE GUESTS INTO THE DRAWING ROOM, AND +SEATED THEM ON THE CENTER SOFA. THE BIGWIGS, THE MOST RESPECTED MEMBERS +OF THE CLUB, BESET THE NEW ARRIVALS. COUNT ILYá, AGAIN THRUSTING HIS +WAY THROUGH THE CROWD, WENT OUT OF THE DRAWING ROOM AND REAPPEARED A +MINUTE LATER WITH ANOTHER COMMITTEEMAN, CARRYING A LARGE SILVER SALVER +WHICH HE PRESENTED TO PRINCE BAGRATIóN. ON THE SALVER LAY SOME VERSES +COMPOSED AND PRINTED IN THE HERO’S HONOR. BAGRATIóN, ON SEEING THE +SALVER, GLANCED AROUND IN DISMAY, AS THOUGH SEEKING HELP. BUT ALL EYES +DEMANDED THAT HE SHOULD SUBMIT. FEELING HIMSELF IN THEIR POWER, HE +RESOLUTELY TOOK THE SALVER WITH BOTH HANDS AND LOOKED STERNLY AND +REPROACHFULLY AT THE COUNT WHO HAD PRESENTED IT TO HIM. SOMEONE +OBLIGINGLY TOOK THE DISH FROM BAGRATIóN (OR HE WOULD, IT SEEMED, HAVE +HELD IT TILL EVENING AND HAVE GONE IN TO DINNER WITH IT) AND DREW HIS +ATTENTION TO THE VERSES. + +“WELL, I WILL READ THEM, THEN!” BAGRATIóN SEEMED TO SAY, AND, +FIXING HIS WEARY EYES ON THE PAPER, BEGAN TO READ THEM WITH A FIXED AND +SERIOUS EXPRESSION. BUT THE AUTHOR HIMSELF TOOK THE VERSES AND BEGAN +READING THEM ALOUD. BAGRATIóN BOWED HIS HEAD AND LISTENED: + + BRING GLORY THEN TO ALEXANDER’S REIGN + AND ON THE THRONE OUR TITUS SHIELD. + A DREADED FOE BE THOU, KINDHEARTED AS A MAN, + A RHIPHEUS AT HOME, A CAESAR IN THE FIELD! + E’EN FORTUNATE NAPOLEON + KNOWS BY EXPERIENCE, NOW, BAGRATIóN, + AND DARE NOT HERCULEAN RUSSIANS TROUBLE... + +BUT BEFORE HE HAD FINISHED READING, A STENTORIAN MAJOR-DOMO ANNOUNCED +THAT DINNER WAS READY! THE DOOR OPENED, AND FROM THE DINING ROOM CAME +THE RESOUNDING STRAINS OF THE POLONAISE: + + CONQUEST’S JOYFUL THUNDER WAKEN, + TRIUMPH, VALIANT RUSSIANS, NOW!... + +AND COUNT ROSTóV, GLANCING ANGRILY AT THE AUTHOR WHO WENT ON READING +HIS VERSES, BOWED TO BAGRATIóN. EVERYONE ROSE, FEELING THAT DINNER +WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN VERSES, AND BAGRATIóN, AGAIN PRECEDING ALL THE +REST, WENT IN TO DINNER. HE WAS SEATED IN THE PLACE OF HONOR BETWEEN +TWO ALEXANDERS—BEKLESHëV AND NARýSHKIN—WHICH WAS A SIGNIFICANT +ALLUSION TO THE NAME OF THE SOVEREIGN. THREE HUNDRED PERSONS TOOK THEIR +SEATS IN THE DINING ROOM, ACCORDING TO THEIR RANK AND IMPORTANCE: THE +MORE IMPORTANT NEARER TO THE HONORED GUEST, AS NATURALLY AS WATER FLOWS +DEEPEST WHERE THE LAND LIES LOWEST. + +JUST BEFORE DINNER, COUNT ILYá ROSTóV PRESENTED HIS SON TO BAGRATIóN, +WHO RECOGNIZED HIM AND SAID A FEW WORDS TO HIM, DISJOINTED AND AWKWARD, +AS WERE ALL THE WORDS HE SPOKE THAT DAY, AND COUNT ILYá LOOKED JOYFULLY +AND PROUDLY AROUND WHILE BAGRATIóN SPOKE TO HIS SON. + +NICHOLAS ROSTóV, WITH DENíSOV AND HIS NEW ACQUAINTANCE, DóLOKHOV, SAT +ALMOST AT THE MIDDLE OF THE TABLE. FACING THEM SAT PIERRE, BESIDE PRINCE +NESVíTSKI. COUNT ILYá ROSTóV WITH THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE +SAT FACING BAGRATIóN AND, AS THE VERY PERSONIFICATION OF MOSCOW +HOSPITALITY, DID THE HONORS TO THE PRINCE. + +HIS EFFORTS HAD NOT BEEN IN VAIN. THE DINNER, BOTH THE LENTEN AND THE +OTHER FARE, WAS SPLENDID, YET HE COULD NOT FEEL QUITE AT EASE TILL THE +END OF THE MEAL. HE WINKED AT THE BUTLER, WHISPERED DIRECTIONS TO THE +FOOTMEN, AND AWAITED EACH EXPECTED DISH WITH SOME ANXIETY. EVERYTHING +WAS EXCELLENT. WITH THE SECOND COURSE, A GIGANTIC STERLET (AT SIGHT OF +WHICH ILYá ROSTóV BLUSHED WITH SELF-CONSCIOUS PLEASURE), THE FOOTMEN +BEGAN POPPING CORKS AND FILLING THE CHAMPAGNE GLASSES. AFTER THE FISH, +WHICH MADE A CERTAIN SENSATION, THE COUNT EXCHANGED GLANCES WITH +THE OTHER COMMITTEEMEN. “THERE WILL BE MANY TOASTS, IT’S TIME TO +BEGIN,” HE WHISPERED, AND TAKING UP HIS GLASS, HE ROSE. ALL WERE +SILENT, WAITING FOR WHAT HE WOULD SAY. + +“TO THE HEALTH OF OUR SOVEREIGN, THE EMPEROR!” HE CRIED, AND AT THE +SAME MOMENT HIS KINDLY EYES GREW MOIST WITH TEARS OF JOY AND ENTHUSIASM. +THE BAND IMMEDIATELY STRUCK UP “CONQUEST’S JOYFUL THUNDER +WAKEN...” ALL ROSE AND CRIED “HURRAH!” BAGRATIóN ALSO ROSE AND +SHOUTED “HURRAH!” IN EXACTLY THE SAME VOICE IN WHICH HE HAD SHOUTED +IT ON THE FIELD AT SCHöN GRABERN. YOUNG ROSTóV’S ECSTATIC VOICE +COULD BE HEARD ABOVE THE THREE HUNDRED OTHERS. HE NEARLY WEPT. “TO THE +HEALTH OF OUR SOVEREIGN, THE EMPEROR!” HE ROARED, “HURRAH!” AND +EMPTYING HIS GLASS AT ONE GULP HE DASHED IT TO THE FLOOR. MANY FOLLOWED +HIS EXAMPLE, AND THE LOUD SHOUTING CONTINUED FOR A LONG TIME. WHEN THE +VOICES SUBSIDED, THE FOOTMEN CLEARED AWAY THE BROKEN GLASS AND EVERYBODY +SAT DOWN AGAIN, SMILING AT THE NOISE THEY HAD MADE AND EXCHANGING +REMARKS. THE OLD COUNT ROSE ONCE MORE, GLANCED AT A NOTE LYING BESIDE +HIS PLATE, AND PROPOSED A TOAST, “TO THE HEALTH OF THE HERO OF OUR +LAST CAMPAIGN, PRINCE PETER IVáNOVICH BAGRATIóN!” AND AGAIN HIS BLUE +EYES GREW MOIST. “HURRAH!” CRIED THE THREE HUNDRED VOICES AGAIN, +BUT INSTEAD OF THE BAND A CHOIR BEGAN SINGING A CANTATA COMPOSED BY PAUL +IVáNOVICH KUTúZOV: + + RUSSIANS! O’ER ALL BARRIERS ON! + COURAGE CONQUEST GUARANTEES; + HAVE WE NOT BAGRATIóN? + HE BRINGS FOEMEN TO THEIR KNEES,... ETC. + +AS SOON AS THE SINGING WAS OVER, ANOTHER AND ANOTHER TOAST WAS PROPOSED +AND COUNT ILYá ROSTóV BECAME MORE AND MORE MOVED, MORE GLASS WAS +SMASHED, AND THE SHOUTING GREW LOUDER. THEY DRANK TO BEKLESHëV, +NARýSHKIN, UVáROV, DOLGORúKOV, APRáKSIN, VALúEV, TO THE COMMITTEE, +TO ALL THE CLUB MEMBERS AND TO ALL THE CLUB GUESTS, AND FINALLY TO +COUNT ILYá ROSTóV SEPARATELY, AS THE ORGANIZER OF THE BANQUET. AT THAT +TOAST, THE COUNT TOOK OUT HIS HANDKERCHIEF AND, COVERING HIS FACE, WEPT +OUTRIGHT. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +PIERRE SAT OPPOSITE DóLOKHOV AND NICHOLAS ROSTóV. AS USUAL, HE ATE AND +DRANK MUCH, AND EAGERLY. BUT THOSE WHO KNEW HIM INTIMATELY NOTICED THAT +SOME GREAT CHANGE HAD COME OVER HIM THAT DAY. HE WAS SILENT ALL THROUGH +DINNER AND LOOKED ABOUT, BLINKING AND SCOWLING, OR, WITH FIXED EYES AND +A LOOK OF COMPLETE ABSENT-MINDEDNESS, KEPT RUBBING THE BRIDGE OF HIS +NOSE. HIS FACE WAS DEPRESSED AND GLOOMY. HE SEEMED TO SEE AND HEAR +NOTHING OF WHAT WAS GOING ON AROUND HIM AND TO BE ABSORBED BY SOME +DEPRESSING AND UNSOLVED PROBLEM. + +THE UNSOLVED PROBLEM THAT TORMENTED HIM WAS CAUSED BY HINTS GIVEN BY THE +PRINCESS, HIS COUSIN, AT MOSCOW, CONCERNING DóLOKHOV’S INTIMACY WITH +HIS WIFE, AND BY AN ANONYMOUS LETTER HE HAD RECEIVED THAT MORNING, WHICH +IN THE MEAN JOCULAR WAY COMMON TO ANONYMOUS LETTERS SAID THAT HE SAW +BADLY THROUGH HIS SPECTACLES, BUT THAT HIS WIFE’S CONNECTION WITH +DóLOKHOV WAS A SECRET TO NO ONE BUT HIMSELF. PIERRE ABSOLUTELY +DISBELIEVED BOTH THE PRINCESS’ HINTS AND THE LETTER, BUT HE FEARED +NOW TO LOOK AT DóLOKHOV, WHO WAS SITTING OPPOSITE HIM. EVERY TIME +HE CHANCED TO MEET DóLOKHOV’S HANDSOME INSOLENT EYES, PIERRE FELT +SOMETHING TERRIBLE AND MONSTROUS RISING IN HIS SOUL AND TURNED QUICKLY +AWAY. INVOLUNTARILY RECALLING HIS WIFE’S PAST AND HER RELATIONS WITH +DóLOKHOV, PIERRE SAW CLEARLY THAT WHAT WAS SAID IN THE LETTER MIGHT BE +TRUE, OR MIGHT AT LEAST SEEM TO BE TRUE HAD IT NOT REFERRED TO HIS WIFE. +HE INVOLUNTARILY REMEMBERED HOW DóLOKHOV, WHO HAD FULLY RECOVERED HIS +FORMER POSITION AFTER THE CAMPAIGN, HAD RETURNED TO PETERSBURG AND COME +TO HIM. AVAILING HIMSELF OF HIS FRIENDLY RELATIONS WITH PIERRE AS A BOON +COMPANION, DóLOKHOV HAD COME STRAIGHT TO HIS HOUSE, AND PIERRE HAD PUT +HIM UP AND LENT HIM MONEY. PIERRE RECALLED HOW HéLèNE HAD SMILINGLY +EXPRESSED DISAPPROVAL OF DóLOKHOV’S LIVING AT THEIR HOUSE, AND HOW +CYNICALLY DóLOKHOV HAD PRAISED HIS WIFE’S BEAUTY TO HIM AND FROM THAT +TIME TILL THEY CAME TO MOSCOW HAD NOT LEFT THEM FOR A DAY. + +“YES, HE IS VERY HANDSOME,” THOUGHT PIERRE, “AND I KNOW HIM. IT +WOULD BE PARTICULARLY PLEASANT TO HIM TO DISHONOR MY NAME AND RIDICULE +ME, JUST BECAUSE I HAVE EXERTED MYSELF ON HIS BEHALF, BEFRIENDED HIM, +AND HELPED HIM. I KNOW AND UNDERSTAND WHAT A SPICE THAT WOULD ADD TO THE +PLEASURE OF DECEIVING ME, IF IT REALLY WERE TRUE. YES, IF IT WERE TRUE, +BUT I DO NOT BELIEVE IT. I HAVE NO RIGHT TO, AND CAN’T, BELIEVE IT.” +HE REMEMBERED THE EXPRESSION DóLOKHOV’S FACE ASSUMED IN HIS MOMENTS +OF CRUELTY, AS WHEN TYING THE POLICEMAN TO THE BEAR AND DROPPING THEM +INTO THE WATER, OR WHEN HE CHALLENGED A MAN TO A DUEL WITHOUT ANY +REASON, OR SHOT A POST-BOY’S HORSE WITH A PISTOL. THAT EXPRESSION +WAS OFTEN ON DóLOKHOV’S FACE WHEN LOOKING AT HIM. “YES, HE IS A +BULLY,” THOUGHT PIERRE, “TO KILL A MAN MEANS NOTHING TO HIM. IT MUST +SEEM TO HIM THAT EVERYONE IS AFRAID OF HIM, AND THAT MUST PLEASE HIM. +HE MUST THINK THAT I, TOO, AM AFRAID OF HIM—AND IN FACT I AM AFRAID OF +HIM,” HE THOUGHT, AND AGAIN HE FELT SOMETHING TERRIBLE AND MONSTROUS +RISING IN HIS SOUL. DóLOKHOV, DENíSOV, AND ROSTóV WERE NOW SITTING +OPPOSITE PIERRE AND SEEMED VERY GAY. ROSTóV WAS TALKING MERRILY TO HIS +TWO FRIENDS, ONE OF WHOM WAS A DASHING HUSSAR AND THE OTHER A NOTORIOUS +DUELIST AND RAKE, AND EVERY NOW AND THEN HE GLANCED IRONICALLY AT +PIERRE, WHOSE PREOCCUPIED, ABSENT-MINDED, AND MASSIVE FIGURE WAS A VERY +NOTICEABLE ONE AT THE DINNER. ROSTóV LOOKED INIMICALLY AT PIERRE, +FIRST BECAUSE PIERRE APPEARED TO HIS HUSSAR EYES AS A RICH CIVILIAN, THE +HUSBAND OF A BEAUTY, AND IN A WORD—AN OLD WOMAN; AND SECONDLY BECAUSE +PIERRE IN HIS PREOCCUPATION AND ABSENT-MINDEDNESS HAD NOT RECOGNIZED +ROSTóV AND HAD NOT RESPONDED TO HIS GREETING. WHEN THE EMPEROR’S +HEALTH WAS DRUNK, PIERRE, LOST IN THOUGHT, DID NOT RISE OR LIFT HIS +GLASS. + +“WHAT ARE YOU ABOUT?” SHOUTED ROSTóV, LOOKING AT HIM IN AN ECSTASY +OF EXASPERATION. “DON’T YOU HEAR IT’S HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR’S +HEALTH?” + +PIERRE SIGHED, ROSE SUBMISSIVELY, EMPTIED HIS GLASS, AND, WAITING TILL +ALL WERE SEATED AGAIN, TURNED WITH HIS KINDLY SMILE TO ROSTóV. + +“WHY, I DIDN’T RECOGNIZE YOU!” HE SAID. BUT ROSTóV WAS OTHERWISE +ENGAGED; HE WAS SHOUTING “HURRAH!” + +“WHY DON’T YOU RENEW THE ACQUAINTANCE?” SAID DóLOKHOV TO ROSTóV. + +“CONFOUND HIM, HE’S A FOOL!” SAID ROSTóV. + +“ONE SHOULD MAKE UP TO THE HUSBANDS OF PRETTY WOMEN,” SAID DENíSOV. + +PIERRE DID NOT CATCH WHAT THEY WERE SAYING, BUT KNEW THEY WERE TALKING +ABOUT HIM. HE REDDENED AND TURNED AWAY. + +“WELL, NOW TO THE HEALTH OF HANDSOME WOMEN!” SAID DóLOKHOV, AND +WITH A SERIOUS EXPRESSION, BUT WITH A SMILE LURKING AT THE CORNERS OF +HIS MOUTH, HE TURNED WITH HIS GLASS TO PIERRE. + +“HERE’S TO THE HEALTH OF LOVELY WOMEN, PETERKIN—AND THEIR +LOVERS!” HE ADDED. + +PIERRE, WITH DOWNCAST EYES, DRANK OUT OF HIS GLASS WITHOUT LOOKING AT +DóLOKHOV OR ANSWERING HIM. THE FOOTMAN, WHO WAS DISTRIBUTING LEAFLETS +WITH KUTúZOV’S CANTATA, LAID ONE BEFORE PIERRE AS ONE OF THE +PRINCIPAL GUESTS. HE WAS JUST GOING TO TAKE IT WHEN DóLOKHOV, LEANING +ACROSS, SNATCHED IT FROM HIS HAND AND BEGAN READING IT. PIERRE LOOKED +AT DóLOKHOV AND HIS EYES DROPPED, THE SOMETHING TERRIBLE AND MONSTROUS +THAT HAD TORMENTED HIM ALL DINNERTIME ROSE AND TOOK POSSESSION OF HIM. +HE LEANED HIS WHOLE MASSIVE BODY ACROSS THE TABLE. + +“HOW DARE YOU TAKE IT?” HE SHOUTED. + +HEARING THAT CRY AND SEEING TO WHOM IT WAS ADDRESSED, NESVíTSKI AND THE +NEIGHBOR ON HIS RIGHT QUICKLY TURNED IN ALARM TO BEZúKHOV. + +“DON’T! DON’T! WHAT ARE YOU ABOUT?” WHISPERED THEIR FRIGHTENED +VOICES. + +DóLOKHOV LOOKED AT PIERRE WITH CLEAR, MIRTHFUL, CRUEL EYES, AND THAT +SMILE OF HIS WHICH SEEMED TO SAY, “AH! THIS IS WHAT I LIKE!” + +“YOU SHAN’T HAVE IT!” HE SAID DISTINCTLY. + +PALE, WITH QUIVERING LIPS, PIERRE SNATCHED THE COPY. + +“YOU...! YOU... SCOUNDREL! I CHALLENGE YOU!” HE EJACULATED, AND, +PUSHING BACK HIS CHAIR, HE ROSE FROM THE TABLE. + +AT THE VERY INSTANT HE DID THIS AND UTTERED THOSE WORDS, PIERRE FELT +THAT THE QUESTION OF HIS WIFE’S GUILT WHICH HAD BEEN TORMENTING HIM +THE WHOLE DAY WAS FINALLY AND INDUBITABLY ANSWERED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. +HE HATED HER AND WAS FOREVER SUNDERED FROM HER. DESPITE DENíSOV’S +REQUEST THAT HE WOULD TAKE NO PART IN THE MATTER, ROSTóV AGREED TO BE +DóLOKHOV’S SECOND, AND AFTER DINNER HE DISCUSSED THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR +THE DUEL WITH NESVíTSKI, BEZúKHOV’S SECOND. PIERRE WENT HOME, BUT +ROSTóV WITH DóLOKHOV AND DENíSOV STAYED ON AT THE CLUB TILL LATE, +LISTENING TO THE GYPSIES AND OTHER SINGERS. + +“WELL THEN, TILL TOMORROW AT SOKóLNIKI,” SAID DóLOKHOV, AS HE TOOK +LEAVE OF ROSTóV IN THE CLUB PORCH. + +“AND DO YOU FEEL QUITE CALM?” ROSTóV ASKED. + +DóLOKHOV PAUSED. + +“WELL, YOU SEE, I’LL TELL YOU THE WHOLE SECRET OF DUELING IN TWO +WORDS. IF YOU ARE GOING TO FIGHT A DUEL, AND YOU MAKE A WILL AND WRITE +AFFECTIONATE LETTERS TO YOUR PARENTS, AND IF YOU THINK YOU MAY BE +KILLED, YOU ARE A FOOL AND ARE LOST FOR CERTAIN. BUT GO WITH THE FIRM +INTENTION OF KILLING YOUR MAN AS QUICKLY AND SURELY AS POSSIBLE, AND +THEN ALL WILL BE RIGHT, AS OUR BEAR HUNTSMAN AT KOSTROMá USED TO TELL +ME. ‘EVERYONE FEARS A BEAR,’ HE SAYS, ‘BUT WHEN YOU SEE ONE YOUR +FEAR’S ALL GONE, AND YOUR ONLY THOUGHT IS NOT TO LET HIM GET AWAY!’ +AND THAT’S HOW IT IS WITH ME. À DEMAIN, MON CHER.” * + + * TILL TOMORROW, MY DEAR FELLOW. + +NEXT DAY, AT EIGHT IN THE MORNING, PIERRE AND NESVíTSKI DROVE TO THE +SOKóLNIKI FOREST AND FOUND DóLOKHOV, DENíSOV, AND ROSTóV ALREADY +THERE. PIERRE HAD THE AIR OF A MAN PREOCCUPIED WITH CONSIDERATIONS WHICH +HAD NO CONNECTION WITH THE MATTER IN HAND. HIS HAGGARD FACE WAS YELLOW. +HE HAD EVIDENTLY NOT SLEPT THAT NIGHT. HE LOOKED ABOUT DISTRACTEDLY AND +SCREWED UP HIS EYES AS IF DAZZLED BY THE SUN. HE WAS ENTIRELY ABSORBED +BY TWO CONSIDERATIONS: HIS WIFE’S GUILT, OF WHICH AFTER HIS SLEEPLESS +NIGHT HE HAD NOT THE SLIGHTEST DOUBT, AND THE GUILTLESSNESS OF +DóLOKHOV, WHO HAD NO REASON TO PRESERVE THE HONOR OF A MAN WHO WAS +NOTHING TO HIM.... “I SHOULD PERHAPS HAVE DONE THE SAME THING IN HIS +PLACE,” THOUGHT PIERRE. “IT’S EVEN CERTAIN THAT I SHOULD HAVE DONE +THE SAME, THEN WHY THIS DUEL, THIS MURDER? EITHER I SHALL KILL HIM, OR +HE WILL HIT ME IN THE HEAD, OR ELBOW, OR KNEE. CAN’T I GO AWAY FROM +HERE, RUN AWAY, BURY MYSELF SOMEWHERE?” PASSED THROUGH HIS MIND. BUT +JUST AT MOMENTS WHEN SUCH THOUGHTS OCCURRED TO HIM, HE WOULD ASK IN A +PARTICULARLY CALM AND ABSENT-MINDED WAY, WHICH INSPIRED THE RESPECT OF +THE ONLOOKERS, “WILL IT BE LONG? ARE THINGS READY?” + +WHEN ALL WAS READY, THE SABERS STUCK IN THE SNOW TO MARK THE BARRIERS, +AND THE PISTOLS LOADED, NESVíTSKI WENT UP TO PIERRE. + +“I SHOULD NOT BE DOING MY DUTY, COUNT,” HE SAID IN TIMID TONES, +“AND SHOULD NOT JUSTIFY YOUR CONFIDENCE AND THE HONOR YOU HAVE DONE +ME IN CHOOSING ME FOR YOUR SECOND, IF AT THIS GRAVE, THIS VERY +GRAVE, MOMENT I DID NOT TELL YOU THE WHOLE TRUTH. I THINK THERE IS NO +SUFFICIENT GROUND FOR THIS AFFAIR, OR FOR BLOOD TO BE SHED OVER IT.... +YOU WERE NOT RIGHT, NOT QUITE IN THE RIGHT, YOU WERE IMPETUOUS...” + +“OH YES, IT IS HORRIBLY STUPID,” SAID PIERRE. + +“THEN ALLOW ME TO EXPRESS YOUR REGRETS, AND I AM SURE YOUR OPPONENT +WILL ACCEPT THEM,” SAID NESVíTSKI (WHO LIKE THE OTHERS CONCERNED IN +THE AFFAIR, AND LIKE EVERYONE IN SIMILAR CASES, DID NOT YET BELIEVE THAT +THE AFFAIR HAD COME TO AN ACTUAL DUEL). “YOU KNOW, COUNT, IT IS MUCH +MORE HONORABLE TO ADMIT ONE’S MISTAKE THAN TO LET MATTERS BECOME +IRREPARABLE. THERE WAS NO INSULT ON EITHER SIDE. ALLOW ME TO +CONVEY....” + +“NO! WHAT IS THERE TO TALK ABOUT?” SAID PIERRE. “IT’S ALL THE +SAME.... IS EVERYTHING READY?” HE ADDED. “ONLY TELL ME WHERE TO GO +AND WHERE TO SHOOT,” HE SAID WITH AN UNNATURALLY GENTLE SMILE. + +HE TOOK THE PISTOL IN HIS HAND AND BEGAN ASKING ABOUT THE WORKING OF THE +TRIGGER, AS HE HAD NOT BEFORE HELD A PISTOL IN HIS HAND—A FACT THAT HE +DID NOT WISH TO CONFESS. + +“OH YES, LIKE THAT, I KNOW, I ONLY FORGOT,” SAID HE. + +“NO APOLOGIES, NONE WHATEVER,” SAID DóLOKHOV TO DENíSOV (WHO ON +HIS SIDE HAD BEEN ATTEMPTING A RECONCILIATION), AND HE ALSO WENT UP TO +THE APPOINTED PLACE. + +THE SPOT CHOSEN FOR THE DUEL WAS SOME EIGHTY PACES FROM THE ROAD, +WHERE THE SLEIGHS HAD BEEN LEFT, IN A SMALL CLEARING IN THE PINE FOREST +COVERED WITH MELTING SNOW, THE FROST HAVING BEGUN TO BREAK UP DURING THE +LAST FEW DAYS. THE ANTAGONISTS STOOD FORTY PACES APART AT THE FARTHER +EDGE OF THE CLEARING. THE SECONDS, MEASURING THE PACES, LEFT TRACKS IN +THE DEEP WET SNOW BETWEEN THE PLACE WHERE THEY HAD BEEN STANDING AND +NESVíTSKI’S AND DóLOKHOV’S SABERS, WHICH WERE STUCK INTO THE +GROUND TEN PACES APART TO MARK THE BARRIER. IT WAS THAWING AND MISTY; AT +FORTY PACES’ DISTANCE NOTHING COULD BE SEEN. FOR THREE MINUTES ALL HAD +BEEN READY, BUT THEY STILL DELAYED AND ALL WERE SILENT. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +“WELL BEGIN!” SAID DóLOKHOV. + +“ALL RIGHT,” SAID PIERRE, STILL SMILING IN THE SAME WAY. A FEELING +OF DREAD WAS IN THE AIR. IT WAS EVIDENT THAT THE AFFAIR SO LIGHTLY BEGUN +COULD NO LONGER BE AVERTED BUT WAS TAKING ITS COURSE INDEPENDENTLY OF +MEN’S WILL. + +DENíSOV FIRST WENT TO THE BARRIER AND ANNOUNCED: “AS THE +ADVE’SAWIES HAVE WEFUSED A WECONCILIATION, PLEASE PWOCEED. TAKE YOUR +PISTOLS, AND AT THE WORD THWEE BEGIN TO ADVANCE. + +“O-NE! T-WO! THWEE!” HE SHOUTED ANGRILY AND STEPPED ASIDE. + +THE COMBATANTS ADVANCED ALONG THE TRODDEN TRACKS, NEARER AND NEARER TO +ONE ANOTHER, BEGINNING TO SEE ONE ANOTHER THROUGH THE MIST. THEY HAD THE +RIGHT TO FIRE WHEN THEY LIKED AS THEY APPROACHED THE BARRIER. DóLOKHOV +WALKED SLOWLY WITHOUT RAISING HIS PISTOL, LOOKING INTENTLY WITH HIS +BRIGHT, SPARKLING BLUE EYES INTO HIS ANTAGONIST’S FACE. HIS MOUTH WORE +ITS USUAL SEMBLANCE OF A SMILE. + +“SO I CAN FIRE WHEN I LIKE!” SAID PIERRE, AND AT THE WORD +“THREE,” HE WENT QUICKLY FORWARD, MISSING THE TRODDEN PATH AND +STEPPING INTO THE DEEP SNOW. HE HELD THE PISTOL IN HIS RIGHT HAND AT +ARM’S LENGTH, APPARENTLY AFRAID OF SHOOTING HIMSELF WITH IT. HIS LEFT +HAND HE HELD CAREFULLY BACK, BECAUSE HE WISHED TO SUPPORT HIS RIGHT +HAND WITH IT AND KNEW HE MUST NOT DO SO. HAVING ADVANCED SIX PACES AND +STRAYED OFF THE TRACK INTO THE SNOW, PIERRE LOOKED DOWN AT HIS FEET, +THEN QUICKLY GLANCED AT DóLOKHOV AND, BENDING HIS FINGER AS HE HAD BEEN +SHOWN, FIRED. NOT AT ALL EXPECTING SO LOUD A REPORT, PIERRE SHUDDERED +AT THE SOUND AND THEN, SMILING AT HIS OWN SENSATIONS, STOOD STILL. THE +SMOKE, RENDERED DENSER BY THE MIST, PREVENTED HIM FROM SEEING ANYTHING +FOR AN INSTANT, BUT THERE WAS NO SECOND REPORT AS HE HAD EXPECTED. HE +ONLY HEARD DóLOKHOV’S HURRIED STEPS, AND HIS FIGURE CAME IN VIEW +THROUGH THE SMOKE. HE WAS PRESSING ONE HAND TO HIS LEFT SIDE, WHILE +THE OTHER CLUTCHED HIS DROOPING PISTOL. HIS FACE WAS PALE. ROSTóV RAN +TOWARD HIM AND SAID SOMETHING. + +“NO-O-O!” MUTTERED DóLOKHOV THROUGH HIS TEETH, “NO, IT’S NOT +OVER.” AND AFTER STUMBLING A FEW STAGGERING STEPS RIGHT UP TO THE +SABER, HE SANK ON THE SNOW BESIDE IT. HIS LEFT HAND WAS BLOODY; HE WIPED +IT ON HIS COAT AND SUPPORTED HIMSELF WITH IT. HIS FROWNING FACE WAS +PALLID AND QUIVERED. + +“PLEA...” BEGAN DóLOKHOV, BUT COULD NOT AT FIRST PRONOUNCE THE +WORD. + +“PLEASE,” HE UTTERED WITH AN EFFORT. + +PIERRE, HARDLY RESTRAINING HIS SOBS, BEGAN RUNNING TOWARD DóLOKHOV AND +WAS ABOUT TO CROSS THE SPACE BETWEEN THE BARRIERS, WHEN DóLOKHOV CRIED: + +“TO YOUR BARRIER!” AND PIERRE, GRASPING WHAT WAS MEANT, STOPPED BY +HIS SABER. ONLY TEN PACES DIVIDED THEM. DóLOKHOV LOWERED HIS HEAD TO +THE SNOW, GREEDILY BIT AT IT, AGAIN RAISED HIS HEAD, ADJUSTED HIMSELF, +DREW IN HIS LEGS AND SAT UP, SEEKING A FIRM CENTER OF GRAVITY. HE SUCKED +AND SWALLOWED THE COLD SNOW, HIS LIPS QUIVERED BUT HIS EYES, STILL +SMILING, GLITTERED WITH EFFORT AND EXASPERATION AS HE MUSTERED HIS +REMAINING STRENGTH. HE RAISED HIS PISTOL AND AIMED. + +“SIDEWAYS! COVER YOURSELF WITH YOUR PISTOL!” EJACULATED NESVíTSKI. + +“COVER YOURSELF!” EVEN DENíSOV CRIED TO HIS ADVERSARY. + +PIERRE, WITH A GENTLE SMILE OF PITY AND REMORSE, HIS ARMS AND LEGS +HELPLESSLY SPREAD OUT, STOOD WITH HIS BROAD CHEST DIRECTLY FACING +DóLOKHOV AND LOOKED SORROWFULLY AT HIM. DENíSOV, ROSTóV, AND +NESVíTSKI CLOSED THEIR EYES. AT THE SAME INSTANT THEY HEARD A REPORT +AND DóLOKHOV’S ANGRY CRY. + +“MISSED!” SHOUTED DóLOKHOV, AND HE LAY HELPLESSLY, FACE DOWNWARDS +ON THE SNOW. + +PIERRE CLUTCHED HIS TEMPLES, AND TURNING ROUND WENT INTO THE FOREST, +TRAMPLING THROUGH THE DEEP SNOW, AND MUTTERING INCOHERENT WORDS: + +“FOLLY... FOLLY! DEATH... LIES...” HE REPEATED, PUCKERING HIS FACE. + +NESVíTSKI STOPPED HIM AND TOOK HIM HOME. + +ROSTóV AND DENíSOV DROVE AWAY WITH THE WOUNDED DóLOKHOV. + +THE LATTER LAY SILENT IN THE SLEIGH WITH CLOSED EYES AND DID NOT ANSWER +A WORD TO THE QUESTIONS ADDRESSED TO HIM. BUT ON ENTERING MOSCOW HE +SUDDENLY CAME TO AND, LIFTING HIS HEAD WITH AN EFFORT, TOOK ROSTóV, WHO +WAS SITTING BESIDE HIM, BY THE HAND. ROSTóV WAS STRUCK BY THE +TOTALLY ALTERED AND UNEXPECTEDLY RAPTUROUS AND TENDER EXPRESSION ON +DóLOKHOV’S FACE. + +“WELL? HOW DO YOU FEEL?” HE ASKED. + +“BAD! BUT IT’S NOT THAT, MY FRIEND—” SAID DóLOKHOV WITH A +GASPING VOICE. “WHERE ARE WE? IN MOSCOW, I KNOW. I DON’T MATTER, +BUT I HAVE KILLED HER, KILLED... SHE WON’T GET OVER IT! SHE WON’T +SURVIVE....” + +“WHO?” ASKED ROSTóV. + +“MY MOTHER! MY MOTHER, MY ANGEL, MY ADORED ANGEL MOTHER,” AND +DóLOKHOV PRESSED ROSTóV’S HAND AND BURST INTO TEARS. + +WHEN HE HAD BECOME A LITTLE QUIETER, HE EXPLAINED TO ROSTóV THAT HE WAS +LIVING WITH HIS MOTHER, WHO, IF SHE SAW HIM DYING, WOULD NOT SURVIVE IT. +HE IMPLORED ROSTóV TO GO ON AND PREPARE HER. + +ROSTóV WENT ON AHEAD TO DO WHAT WAS ASKED, AND TO HIS GREAT SURPRISE +LEARNED THAT DóLOKHOV THE BRAWLER, DóLOKHOV THE BULLY, LIVED IN MOSCOW +WITH AN OLD MOTHER AND A HUNCHBACK SISTER, AND WAS THE MOST AFFECTIONATE +OF SONS AND BROTHERS. + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +PIERRE HAD OF LATE RARELY SEEN HIS WIFE ALONE. BOTH IN PETERSBURG AND IN +MOSCOW THEIR HOUSE WAS ALWAYS FULL OF VISITORS. THE NIGHT AFTER THE +DUEL HE DID NOT GO TO HIS BEDROOM BUT, AS HE OFTEN DID, REMAINED IN HIS +FATHER’S ROOM, THAT HUGE ROOM IN WHICH COUNT BEZúKHOV HAD DIED. + +HE LAY DOWN ON THE SOFA MEANING TO FALL ASLEEP AND FORGET ALL THAT +HAD HAPPENED TO HIM, BUT COULD NOT DO SO. SUCH A STORM OF FEELINGS, +THOUGHTS, AND MEMORIES SUDDENLY AROSE WITHIN HIM THAT HE COULD NOT FALL +ASLEEP, NOR EVEN REMAIN IN ONE PLACE, BUT HAD TO JUMP UP AND PACE THE +ROOM WITH RAPID STEPS. NOW HE SEEMED TO SEE HER IN THE EARLY DAYS OF +THEIR MARRIAGE, WITH BARE SHOULDERS AND A LANGUID, PASSIONATE LOOK ON +HER FACE, AND THEN IMMEDIATELY HE SAW BESIDE HER DóLOKHOV’S HANDSOME, +INSOLENT, HARD, AND MOCKING FACE AS HE HAD SEEN IT AT THE BANQUET, AND +THEN THAT SAME FACE PALE, QUIVERING, AND SUFFERING, AS IT HAD BEEN WHEN +HE REELED AND SANK ON THE SNOW. + +“WHAT HAS HAPPENED?” HE ASKED HIMSELF. “I HAVE KILLED HER LOVER, +YES, KILLED MY WIFE’S LOVER. YES, THAT WAS IT! AND WHY? HOW DID I COME +TO DO IT?”—“BECAUSE YOU MARRIED HER,” ANSWERED AN INNER VOICE. + +“BUT IN WHAT WAS I TO BLAME?” HE ASKED. “IN MARRYING HER WITHOUT +LOVING HER; IN DECEIVING YOURSELF AND HER.” AND HE VIVIDLY RECALLED +THAT MOMENT AFTER SUPPER AT PRINCE VASíLI’S, WHEN HE SPOKE THOSE +WORDS HE HAD FOUND SO DIFFICULT TO UTTER: “I LOVE YOU.” “IT ALL +COMES FROM THAT! EVEN THEN I FELT IT,” HE THOUGHT. “I FELT THEN THAT +IT WAS NOT SO, THAT I HAD NO RIGHT TO DO IT. AND SO IT TURNS OUT.” + +HE REMEMBERED HIS HONEYMOON AND BLUSHED AT THE RECOLLECTION. +PARTICULARLY VIVID, HUMILIATING, AND SHAMEFUL WAS THE RECOLLECTION OF +HOW ONE DAY SOON AFTER HIS MARRIAGE HE CAME OUT OF THE BEDROOM INTO HIS +STUDY A LITTLE BEFORE NOON IN HIS SILK DRESSING GOWN AND FOUND HIS HEAD +STEWARD THERE, WHO, BOWING RESPECTFULLY, LOOKED INTO HIS FACE AND AT +HIS DRESSING GOWN AND SMILED SLIGHTLY, AS IF EXPRESSING RESPECTFUL +UNDERSTANDING OF HIS EMPLOYER’S HAPPINESS. + +“BUT HOW OFTEN I HAVE FELT PROUD OF HER, PROUD OF HER MAJESTIC BEAUTY +AND SOCIAL TACT,” THOUGHT HE; “BEEN PROUD OF MY HOUSE, IN WHICH SHE +RECEIVED ALL PETERSBURG, PROUD OF HER UNAPPROACHABILITY AND BEAUTY. SO +THIS IS WHAT I WAS PROUD OF! I THEN THOUGHT THAT I DID NOT UNDERSTAND +HER. HOW OFTEN WHEN CONSIDERING HER CHARACTER I HAVE TOLD MYSELF THAT +I WAS TO BLAME FOR NOT UNDERSTANDING HER, FOR NOT UNDERSTANDING THAT +CONSTANT COMPOSURE AND COMPLACENCY AND LACK OF ALL INTERESTS OR DESIRES, +AND THE WHOLE SECRET LIES IN THE TERRIBLE TRUTH THAT SHE IS A DEPRAVED +WOMAN. NOW I HAVE SPOKEN THAT TERRIBLE WORD TO MYSELF ALL HAS BECOME +CLEAR. + +“ANATOLE USED TO COME TO BORROW MONEY FROM HER AND USED TO KISS HER +NAKED SHOULDERS. SHE DID NOT GIVE HIM THE MONEY, BUT LET HERSELF BE +KISSED. HER FATHER IN JEST TRIED TO ROUSE HER JEALOUSY, AND SHE REPLIED +WITH A CALM SMILE THAT SHE WAS NOT SO STUPID AS TO BE JEALOUS: ‘LET +HIM DO WHAT HE PLEASES,’ SHE USED TO SAY OF ME. ONE DAY I ASKED HER IF +SHE FELT ANY SYMPTOMS OF PREGNANCY. SHE LAUGHED CONTEMPTUOUSLY AND SAID +SHE WAS NOT A FOOL TO WANT TO HAVE CHILDREN, AND THAT SHE WAS NOT GOING +TO HAVE ANY CHILDREN BY ME.” + +THEN HE RECALLED THE COARSENESS AND BLUNTNESS OF HER THOUGHTS AND THE +VULGARITY OF THE EXPRESSIONS THAT WERE NATURAL TO HER, THOUGH SHE HAD +BEEN BROUGHT UP IN THE MOST ARISTOCRATIC CIRCLES. + +“I’M NOT SUCH A FOOL.... JUST YOU TRY IT ON.... ALLEZ-VOUS +PROMENER,” * SHE USED TO SAY. OFTEN SEEING THE SUCCESS SHE HAD WITH +YOUNG AND OLD MEN AND WOMEN PIERRE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND WHY HE DID NOT +LOVE HER. + + * “YOU CLEAR OUT OF THIS.” + + +“YES, I NEVER LOVED HER,” SAID HE TO HIMSELF; “I KNEW SHE WAS A +DEPRAVED WOMAN,” HE REPEATED, “BUT DARED NOT ADMIT IT TO MYSELF. +AND NOW THERE’S DóLOKHOV SITTING IN THE SNOW WITH A FORCED SMILE AND +PERHAPS DYING, WHILE MEETING MY REMORSE WITH SOME FORCED BRAVADO!” + +PIERRE WAS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO, IN SPITE OF AN APPEARANCE OF WHAT +IS CALLED WEAK CHARACTER, DO NOT SEEK A CONFIDANT IN THEIR TROUBLES. HE +DIGESTED HIS SUFFERINGS ALONE. + +“IT IS ALL, ALL HER FAULT,” HE SAID TO HIMSELF; “BUT WHAT OF THAT? +WHY DID I BIND MYSELF TO HER? WHY DID I SAY ‘JE VOUS AIME’ * TO HER, +WHICH WAS A LIE, AND WORSE THAN A LIE? I AM GUILTY AND MUST ENDURE... +WHAT? A SLUR ON MY NAME? A MISFORTUNE FOR LIFE? OH, THAT’S +NONSENSE,” HE THOUGHT. “THE SLUR ON MY NAME AND HONOR—THAT’S ALL +APART FROM MYSELF.” + + * I LOVE YOU. + +“LOUIS XVI WAS EXECUTED BECAUSE THEY SAID HE WAS DISHONORABLE AND A +CRIMINAL,” CAME INTO PIERRE’S HEAD, “AND FROM THEIR POINT OF +VIEW THEY WERE RIGHT, AS WERE THOSE TOO WHO CANONIZED HIM AND DIED A +MARTYR’S DEATH FOR HIS SAKE. THEN ROBESPIERRE WAS BEHEADED FOR BEING +A DESPOT. WHO IS RIGHT AND WHO IS WRONG? NO ONE! BUT IF YOU ARE +ALIVE—LIVE: TOMORROW YOU’LL DIE AS I MIGHT HAVE DIED AN HOUR AGO. +AND IS IT WORTH TORMENTING ONESELF, WHEN ONE HAS ONLY A MOMENT OF LIFE +IN COMPARISON WITH ETERNITY?” + +BUT AT THE MOMENT WHEN HE IMAGINED HIMSELF CALMED BY SUCH REFLECTIONS, +SHE SUDDENLY CAME INTO HIS MIND AS SHE WAS AT THE MOMENTS WHEN HE HAD +MOST STRONGLY EXPRESSED HIS INSINCERE LOVE FOR HER, AND HE FELT THE +BLOOD RUSH TO HIS HEART AND HAD AGAIN TO GET UP AND MOVE ABOUT AND BREAK +AND TEAR WHATEVER CAME TO HIS HAND. “WHY DID I TELL HER THAT ‘JE +VOUS AIME’?” HE KEPT REPEATING TO HIMSELF. AND WHEN HE HAD SAID IT +FOR THE TENTH TIME, MOLIèRE’S WORDS: “MAIS QUE DIABLE ALLAIT-IL +FAIRE DANS CETTE GALèRE?” * OCCURRED TO HIM, AND HE BEGAN TO LAUGH AT +HIMSELF. + + * “BUT WHAT THE DEVIL WAS HE DOING IN THAT GALLEY?” + + +IN THE NIGHT HE CALLED HIS VALET AND TOLD HIM TO PACK UP TO GO TO +PETERSBURG. HE COULD NOT IMAGINE HOW HE COULD SPEAK TO HER NOW. HE +RESOLVED TO GO AWAY NEXT DAY AND LEAVE A LETTER INFORMING HER OF HIS +INTENTION TO PART FROM HER FOREVER. + +NEXT MORNING WHEN THE VALET CAME INTO THE ROOM WITH HIS COFFEE, PIERRE +WAS LYING ASLEEP ON THE OTTOMAN WITH AN OPEN BOOK IN HIS HAND. + +HE WOKE UP AND LOOKED ROUND FOR A WHILE WITH A STARTLED EXPRESSION, +UNABLE TO REALIZE WHERE HE WAS. + +“THE COUNTESS TOLD ME TO INQUIRE WHETHER YOUR EXCELLENCY WAS AT +HOME,” SAID THE VALET. + +BUT BEFORE PIERRE COULD DECIDE WHAT ANSWER HE WOULD SEND, THE COUNTESS +HERSELF IN A WHITE SATIN DRESSING GOWN EMBROIDERED WITH SILVER AND WITH +SIMPLY DRESSED HAIR (TWO IMMENSE PLAITS TWICE ROUND HER LOVELY HEAD LIKE +A CORONET) ENTERED THE ROOM, CALM AND MAJESTIC, EXCEPT THAT THERE WAS +A WRATHFUL WRINKLE ON HER RATHER PROMINENT MARBLE BROW. WITH HER +IMPERTURBABLE CALM SHE DID NOT BEGIN TO SPEAK IN FRONT OF THE VALET. +SHE KNEW OF THE DUEL AND HAD COME TO SPEAK ABOUT IT. SHE WAITED TILL THE +VALET HAD SET DOWN THE COFFEE THINGS AND LEFT THE ROOM. PIERRE LOOKED +AT HER TIMIDLY OVER HIS SPECTACLES, AND LIKE A HARE SURROUNDED BY HOUNDS +WHO LAYS BACK HER EARS AND CONTINUES TO CROUCH MOTIONLESS BEFORE HER +ENEMIES, HE TRIED TO CONTINUE READING. BUT FEELING THIS TO BE SENSELESS +AND IMPOSSIBLE, HE AGAIN GLANCED TIMIDLY AT HER. SHE DID NOT SIT DOWN +BUT LOOKED AT HIM WITH A CONTEMPTUOUS SMILE, WAITING FOR THE VALET TO +GO. + +“WELL, WHAT’S THIS NOW? WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO NOW, I SHOULD LIKE +TO KNOW?” SHE ASKED STERNLY. + +“I? WHAT HAVE I...?” STAMMERED PIERRE. + +“SO IT SEEMS YOU’RE A HERO, EH? COME NOW, WHAT WAS THIS DUEL ABOUT? +WHAT IS IT MEANT TO PROVE? WHAT? I ASK YOU.” + +PIERRE TURNED OVER HEAVILY ON THE OTTOMAN AND OPENED HIS MOUTH, BUT +COULD NOT REPLY. + +“IF YOU WON’T ANSWER, I’LL TELL YOU...” HéLèNE WENT ON. “YOU +BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU’RE TOLD. YOU WERE TOLD...” HéLèNE LAUGHED, +“THAT DóLOKHOV WAS MY LOVER,” SHE SAID IN FRENCH WITH HER COARSE +PLAINNESS OF SPEECH, UTTERING THE WORD AMANT AS CASUALLY AS ANY OTHER +WORD, “AND YOU BELIEVED IT! WELL, WHAT HAVE YOU PROVED? WHAT DOES THIS +DUEL PROVE? THAT YOU’RE A FOOL, QUE VOUS êTES UN SOT, BUT EVERYBODY +KNEW THAT. WHAT WILL BE THE RESULT? THAT I SHALL BE THE LAUGHINGSTOCK OF +ALL MOSCOW, THAT EVERYONE WILL SAY THAT YOU, DRUNK AND NOT KNOWING WHAT +YOU WERE ABOUT, CHALLENGED A MAN YOU ARE JEALOUS OF WITHOUT CAUSE.” +HéLèNE RAISED HER VOICE AND BECAME MORE AND MORE EXCITED, “A MAN +WHO’S A BETTER MAN THAN YOU IN EVERY WAY...” + +“HM... HM...!” GROWLED PIERRE, FROWNING WITHOUT LOOKING AT HER, AND +NOT MOVING A MUSCLE. + +“AND HOW COULD YOU BELIEVE HE WAS MY LOVER? WHY? BECAUSE I LIKE +HIS COMPANY? IF YOU WERE CLEVERER AND MORE AGREEABLE, I SHOULD PREFER +YOURS.” + +“DON’T SPEAK TO ME... I BEG YOU,” MUTTERED PIERRE HOARSELY. + +“WHY SHOULDN’T I SPEAK? I CAN SPEAK AS I LIKE, AND I TELL YOU +PLAINLY THAT THERE ARE NOT MANY WIVES WITH HUSBANDS SUCH AS YOU WHO +WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN LOVERS (DES AMANTS), BUT I HAVE NOT DONE SO,” +SAID SHE. + +PIERRE WISHED TO SAY SOMETHING, LOOKED AT HER WITH EYES WHOSE STRANGE +EXPRESSION SHE DID NOT UNDERSTAND, AND LAY DOWN AGAIN. HE WAS SUFFERING +PHYSICALLY AT THAT MOMENT, THERE WAS A WEIGHT ON HIS CHEST AND HE COULD +NOT BREATHE. HE KNEW THAT HE MUST DO SOMETHING TO PUT AN END TO THIS +SUFFERING, BUT WHAT HE WANTED TO DO WAS TOO TERRIBLE. + +“WE HAD BETTER SEPARATE,” HE MUTTERED IN A BROKEN VOICE. + +“SEPARATE? VERY WELL, BUT ONLY IF YOU GIVE ME A FORTUNE,” SAID +HéLèNE. “SEPARATE! THAT’S A THING TO FRIGHTEN ME WITH!” + +PIERRE LEAPED UP FROM THE SOFA AND RUSHED STAGGERING TOWARD HER. + +“I’LL KILL YOU!” HE SHOUTED, AND SEIZING THE MARBLE TOP OF A TABLE +WITH A STRENGTH HE HAD NEVER BEFORE FELT, HE MADE A STEP TOWARD HER +BRANDISHING THE SLAB. + +HéLèNE’S FACE BECAME TERRIBLE, SHE SHRIEKED AND SPRANG ASIDE. HIS +FATHER’S NATURE SHOWED ITSELF IN PIERRE. HE FELT THE FASCINATION AND +DELIGHT OF FRENZY. HE FLUNG DOWN THE SLAB, BROKE IT, AND SWOOPING +DOWN ON HER WITH OUTSTRETCHED HANDS SHOUTED, “GET OUT!” IN SUCH A +TERRIBLE VOICE THAT THE WHOLE HOUSE HEARD IT WITH HORROR. GOD KNOWS WHAT +HE WOULD HAVE DONE AT THAT MOMENT HAD HéLèNE NOT FLED FROM THE ROOM. + + +A WEEK LATER PIERRE GAVE HIS WIFE FULL POWER TO CONTROL ALL HIS ESTATES +IN GREAT RUSSIA, WHICH FORMED THE LARGER PART OF HIS PROPERTY, AND LEFT +FOR PETERSBURG ALONE. + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +TWO MONTHS HAD ELAPSED SINCE THE NEWS OF THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ AND +THE LOSS OF PRINCE ANDREW HAD REACHED BALD HILLS, AND IN SPITE OF THE +LETTERS SENT THROUGH THE EMBASSY AND ALL THE SEARCHES MADE, HIS BODY HAD +NOT BEEN FOUND NOR WAS HE ON THE LIST OF PRISONERS. WHAT WAS WORST OF +ALL FOR HIS RELATIONS WAS THE FACT THAT THERE WAS STILL A POSSIBILITY OF +HIS HAVING BEEN PICKED UP ON THE BATTLEFIELD BY THE PEOPLE OF THE +PLACE AND THAT HE MIGHT NOW BE LYING, RECOVERING OR DYING, ALONE AMONG +STRANGERS AND UNABLE TO SEND NEWS OF HIMSELF. THE GAZETTES FROM WHICH +THE OLD PRINCE FIRST HEARD OF THE DEFEAT AT AUSTERLITZ STATED, AS USUAL +VERY BRIEFLY AND VAGUELY, THAT AFTER BRILLIANT ENGAGEMENTS THE RUSSIANS +HAD HAD TO RETREAT AND HAD MADE THEIR WITHDRAWAL IN PERFECT ORDER. THE +OLD PRINCE UNDERSTOOD FROM THIS OFFICIAL REPORT THAT OUR ARMY HAD BEEN +DEFEATED. A WEEK AFTER THE GAZETTE REPORT OF THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ +CAME A LETTER FROM KUTúZOV INFORMING THE PRINCE OF THE FATE THAT HAD +BEFALLEN HIS SON. + +“YOUR SON,” WROTE KUTúZOV, “FELL BEFORE MY EYES, A STANDARD IN +HIS HAND AND AT THE HEAD OF A REGIMENT—HE FELL AS A HERO, WORTHY OF +HIS FATHER AND HIS FATHERLAND. TO THE GREAT REGRET OF MYSELF AND OF THE +WHOLE ARMY IT IS STILL UNCERTAIN WHETHER HE IS ALIVE OR NOT. I COMFORT +MYSELF AND YOU WITH THE HOPE THAT YOUR SON IS ALIVE, FOR OTHERWISE +HE WOULD HAVE BEEN MENTIONED AMONG THE OFFICERS FOUND ON THE FIELD OF +BATTLE, A LIST OF WHOM HAS BEEN SENT ME UNDER FLAG OF TRUCE.” + +AFTER RECEIVING THIS NEWS LATE IN THE EVENING, WHEN HE WAS ALONE IN HIS +STUDY, THE OLD PRINCE WENT FOR HIS WALK AS USUAL NEXT MORNING, BUT HE +WAS SILENT WITH HIS STEWARD, THE GARDENER, AND THE ARCHITECT, AND THOUGH +HE LOOKED VERY GRIM HE SAID NOTHING TO ANYONE. + +WHEN PRINCESS MARY WENT TO HIM AT THE USUAL HOUR HE WAS WORKING AT HIS +LATHE AND, AS USUAL, DID NOT LOOK ROUND AT HER. + +“AH, PRINCESS MARY!” HE SAID SUDDENLY IN AN UNNATURAL VOICE, +THROWING DOWN HIS CHISEL. (THE WHEEL CONTINUED TO REVOLVE BY ITS OWN +IMPETUS, AND PRINCESS MARY LONG REMEMBERED THE DYING CREAK OF THAT +WHEEL, WHICH MERGED IN HER MEMORY WITH WHAT FOLLOWED.) + +SHE APPROACHED HIM, SAW HIS FACE, AND SOMETHING GAVE WAY WITHIN HER. HER +EYES GREW DIM. BY THE EXPRESSION OF HER FATHER’S FACE, NOT SAD, NOT +CRUSHED, BUT ANGRY AND WORKING UNNATURALLY, SHE SAW THAT HANGING OVER +HER AND ABOUT TO CRUSH HER WAS SOME TERRIBLE MISFORTUNE, THE WORST +IN LIFE, ONE SHE HAD NOT YET EXPERIENCED, IRREPARABLE AND +INCOMPREHENSIBLE—THE DEATH OF ONE SHE LOVED. + +“FATHER! ANDREW!”—SAID THE UNGRACEFUL, AWKWARD PRINCESS WITH SUCH +AN INDESCRIBABLE CHARM OF SORROW AND SELF-FORGETFULNESS THAT HER FATHER +COULD NOT BEAR HER LOOK BUT TURNED AWAY WITH A SOB. + +“BAD NEWS! HE’S NOT AMONG THE PRISONERS NOR AMONG THE KILLED! +KUTúZOV WRITES...” AND HE SCREAMED AS PIERCINGLY AS IF HE WISHED TO +DRIVE THE PRINCESS AWAY BY THAT SCREAM... “KILLED!” + +THE PRINCESS DID NOT FALL DOWN OR FAINT. SHE WAS ALREADY PALE, BUT ON +HEARING THESE WORDS HER FACE CHANGED AND SOMETHING BRIGHTENED IN HER +BEAUTIFUL, RADIANT EYES. IT WAS AS IF JOY—A SUPREME JOY APART FROM THE +JOYS AND SORROWS OF THIS WORLD—OVERFLOWED THE GREAT GRIEF WITHIN HER. +SHE FORGOT ALL FEAR OF HER FATHER, WENT UP TO HIM, TOOK HIS HAND, AND +DRAWING HIM DOWN PUT HER ARM ROUND HIS THIN, SCRAGGY NECK. + +“FATHER,” SHE SAID, “DO NOT TURN AWAY FROM ME, LET US WEEP +TOGETHER.” + +“SCOUNDRELS! BLACKGUARDS!” SHRIEKED THE OLD MAN, TURNING HIS FACE +AWAY FROM HER. “DESTROYING THE ARMY, DESTROYING THE MEN! AND WHY? GO, +GO AND TELL LISE.” + +THE PRINCESS SANK HELPLESSLY INTO AN ARMCHAIR BESIDE HER FATHER AND +WEPT. SHE SAW HER BROTHER NOW AS HE HAD BEEN AT THE MOMENT WHEN HE TOOK +LEAVE OF HER AND OF LISE, HIS LOOK TENDER YET PROUD. SHE SAW HIM TENDER +AND AMUSED AS HE WAS WHEN HE PUT ON THE LITTLE ICON. “DID HE BELIEVE? +HAD HE REPENTED OF HIS UNBELIEF? WAS HE NOW THERE? THERE IN THE REALMS +OF ETERNAL PEACE AND BLESSEDNESS?” SHE THOUGHT. + +“FATHER, TELL ME HOW IT HAPPENED,” SHE ASKED THROUGH HER TEARS. + +“GO! GO! KILLED IN BATTLE, WHERE THE BEST OF RUSSIAN MEN AND +RUSSIA’S GLORY WERE LED TO DESTRUCTION. GO, PRINCESS MARY. GO AND TELL +LISE. I WILL FOLLOW.” + +WHEN PRINCESS MARY RETURNED FROM HER FATHER, THE LITTLE PRINCESS SAT +WORKING AND LOOKED UP WITH THAT CURIOUS EXPRESSION OF INNER, HAPPY CALM +PECULIAR TO PREGNANT WOMEN. IT WAS EVIDENT THAT HER EYES DID NOT SEE +PRINCESS MARY BUT WERE LOOKING WITHIN... INTO HERSELF... AT SOMETHING +JOYFUL AND MYSTERIOUS TAKING PLACE WITHIN HER. + +“MARY,” SHE SAID, MOVING AWAY FROM THE EMBROIDERY FRAME AND LYING +BACK, “GIVE ME YOUR HAND.” SHE TOOK HER SISTER-IN-LAW’S HAND AND +HELD IT BELOW HER WAIST. + +HER EYES WERE SMILING EXPECTANTLY, HER DOWNY LIP ROSE AND REMAINED +LIFTED IN CHILDLIKE HAPPINESS. + +PRINCESS MARY KNELT DOWN BEFORE HER AND HID HER FACE IN THE FOLDS OF HER +SISTER-IN-LAW’S DRESS. + +“THERE, THERE! DO YOU FEEL IT? I FEEL SO STRANGE. AND DO YOU KNOW, +MARY, I AM GOING TO LOVE HIM VERY MUCH,” SAID LISE, LOOKING WITH +BRIGHT AND HAPPY EYES AT HER SISTER-IN-LAW. + +PRINCESS MARY COULD NOT LIFT HER HEAD, SHE WAS WEEPING. + +“WHAT IS THE MATTER, MARY?” + +“NOTHING... ONLY I FEEL SAD... SAD ABOUT ANDREW,” SHE SAID, WIPING +AWAY HER TEARS ON HER SISTER-IN-LAW’S KNEE. + +SEVERAL TIMES IN THE COURSE OF THE MORNING PRINCESS MARY BEGAN TRYING TO +PREPARE HER SISTER-IN-LAW, AND EVERY TIME BEGAN TO CRY. UNOBSERVANT AS +WAS THE LITTLE PRINCESS, THESE TEARS, THE CAUSE OF WHICH SHE DID NOT +UNDERSTAND, AGITATED HER. SHE SAID NOTHING BUT LOOKED ABOUT UNEASILY AS +IF IN SEARCH OF SOMETHING. BEFORE DINNER THE OLD PRINCE, OF WHOM SHE WAS +ALWAYS AFRAID, CAME INTO HER ROOM WITH A PECULIARLY RESTLESS AND MALIGN +EXPRESSION AND WENT OUT AGAIN WITHOUT SAYING A WORD. SHE LOOKED AT +PRINCESS MARY, THEN SAT THINKING FOR A WHILE WITH THAT EXPRESSION OF +ATTENTION TO SOMETHING WITHIN HER THAT IS ONLY SEEN IN PREGNANT WOMEN, +AND SUDDENLY BEGAN TO CRY. + +“HAS ANYTHING COME FROM ANDREW?” SHE ASKED. + +“NO, YOU KNOW IT’S TOO SOON FOR NEWS. BUT MY FATHER IS ANXIOUS AND I +FEEL AFRAID.” + +“SO THERE’S NOTHING?” + +“NOTHING,” ANSWERED PRINCESS MARY, LOOKING FIRMLY WITH HER RADIANT +EYES AT HER SISTER-IN-LAW. + +SHE HAD DETERMINED NOT TO TELL HER AND PERSUADED HER FATHER TO HIDE THE +TERRIBLE NEWS FROM HER TILL AFTER HER CONFINEMENT, WHICH WAS EXPECTED +WITHIN A FEW DAYS. PRINCESS MARY AND THE OLD PRINCE EACH BORE AND HID +THEIR GRIEF IN THEIR OWN WAY. THE OLD PRINCE WOULD NOT CHERISH ANY HOPE: +HE MADE UP HIS MIND THAT PRINCE ANDREW HAD BEEN KILLED, AND THOUGH HE +SENT AN OFFICIAL TO AUSTRIA TO SEEK FOR TRACES OF HIS SON, HE ORDERED A +MONUMENT FROM MOSCOW WHICH HE INTENDED TO ERECT IN HIS OWN GARDEN TO HIS +MEMORY, AND HE TOLD EVERYBODY THAT HIS SON HAD BEEN KILLED. HE TRIED NOT +TO CHANGE HIS FORMER WAY OF LIFE, BUT HIS STRENGTH FAILED HIM. HE WALKED +LESS, ATE LESS, SLEPT LESS, AND BECAME WEAKER EVERY DAY. PRINCESS MARY +HOPED. SHE PRAYED FOR HER BROTHER AS LIVING AND WAS ALWAYS AWAITING NEWS +OF HIS RETURN. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +“DEAREST,” SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS AFTER BREAKFAST ON THE MORNING +OF THE NINETEENTH MARCH, AND HER DOWNY LITTLE LIP ROSE FROM OLD HABIT, +BUT AS SORROW WAS MANIFEST IN EVERY SMILE, THE SOUND OF EVERY WORD, AND +EVEN EVERY FOOTSTEP IN THAT HOUSE SINCE THE TERRIBLE NEWS HAD COME, SO +NOW THE SMILE OF THE LITTLE PRINCESS—INFLUENCED BY THE GENERAL MOOD +THOUGH WITHOUT KNOWING ITS CAUSE—WAS SUCH AS TO REMIND ONE STILL MORE +OF THE GENERAL SORROW. + +“DEAREST, I’M AFRAID THIS MORNING’S FRUSCHTIQUE *—AS FóKA THE +COOK CALLS IT—HAS DISAGREED WITH ME.” + + * FRüHSTüCK: BREAKFAST. + +“WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU, MY DARLING? YOU LOOK PALE. OH, YOU +ARE VERY PALE!” SAID PRINCESS MARY IN ALARM, RUNNING WITH HER SOFT, +PONDEROUS STEPS UP TO HER SISTER-IN-LAW. + +“YOUR EXCELLENCY, SHOULD NOT MARY BOGDáNOVNA BE SENT FOR?” SAID ONE +OF THE MAIDS WHO WAS PRESENT. (MARY BOGDáNOVNA WAS A MIDWIFE FROM THE +NEIGHBORING TOWN, WHO HAD BEEN AT BALD HILLS FOR THE LAST FORTNIGHT.) + +“OH YES,” ASSENTED PRINCESS MARY, “PERHAPS THAT’S IT. I’LL GO. +COURAGE, MY ANGEL.” SHE KISSED LISE AND WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE THE ROOM. + +“OH, NO, NO!” AND BESIDES THE PALLOR AND THE PHYSICAL SUFFERING +ON THE LITTLE PRINCESS’ FACE, AN EXPRESSION OF CHILDISH FEAR OF +INEVITABLE PAIN SHOWED ITSELF. + +“NO, IT’S ONLY INDIGESTION?... SAY IT’S ONLY INDIGESTION, SAY SO, +MARY! SAY...” AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS BEGAN TO CRY CAPRICIOUSLY LIKE +A SUFFERING CHILD AND TO WRING HER LITTLE HANDS EVEN WITH SOME +AFFECTATION. PRINCESS MARY RAN OUT OF THE ROOM TO FETCH MARY +BOGDáNOVNA. + +“MON DIEU! MON DIEU! OH!” SHE HEARD AS SHE LEFT THE ROOM. + +THE MIDWIFE WAS ALREADY ON HER WAY TO MEET HER, RUBBING HER SMALL, PLUMP +WHITE HANDS WITH AN AIR OF CALM IMPORTANCE. + +“MARY BOGDáNOVNA, I THINK IT’S BEGINNING!” SAID PRINCESS MARY +LOOKING AT THE MIDWIFE WITH WIDE-OPEN EYES OF ALARM. + +“WELL, THE LORD BE THANKED, PRINCESS,” SAID MARY BOGDáNOVNA, NOT +HASTENING HER STEPS. “YOU YOUNG LADIES SHOULD NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT +IT.” + +“BUT HOW IS IT THE DOCTOR FROM MOSCOW IS NOT HERE YET?” SAID THE +PRINCESS. (IN ACCORDANCE WITH LISE’S AND PRINCE ANDREW’S WISHES THEY +HAD SENT IN GOOD TIME TO MOSCOW FOR A DOCTOR AND WERE EXPECTING HIM AT +ANY MOMENT.) + +“NO MATTER, PRINCESS, DON’T BE ALARMED,” SAID MARY BOGDáNOVNA. +“WE’LL MANAGE VERY WELL WITHOUT A DOCTOR.” + +FIVE MINUTES LATER PRINCESS MARY FROM HER ROOM HEARD SOMETHING HEAVY +BEING CARRIED BY. SHE LOOKED OUT. THE MEN SERVANTS WERE CARRYING THE +LARGE LEATHER SOFA FROM PRINCE ANDREW’S STUDY INTO THE BEDROOM. ON +THEIR FACES WAS A QUIET AND SOLEMN LOOK. + +PRINCESS MARY SAT ALONE IN HER ROOM LISTENING TO THE SOUNDS IN THE +HOUSE, NOW AND THEN OPENING HER DOOR WHEN SOMEONE PASSED AND WATCHING +WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE PASSAGE. SOME WOMEN PASSING WITH QUIET STEPS IN +AND OUT OF THE BEDROOM GLANCED AT THE PRINCESS AND TURNED AWAY. SHE DID +NOT VENTURE TO ASK ANY QUESTIONS, AND SHUT THE DOOR AGAIN, NOW SITTING +DOWN IN HER EASY CHAIR, NOW TAKING HER PRAYER BOOK, NOW KNEELING BEFORE +THE ICON STAND. TO HER SURPRISE AND DISTRESS SHE FOUND THAT HER PRAYERS +DID NOT CALM HER EXCITEMENT. SUDDENLY HER DOOR OPENED SOFTLY AND HER OLD +NURSE, PRASKóVYA SáVISHNA, WHO HARDLY EVER CAME TO THAT ROOM AS THE +OLD PRINCE HAD FORBIDDEN IT, APPEARED ON THE THRESHOLD WITH A SHAWL +ROUND HER HEAD. + +“I’VE COME TO SIT WITH YOU A BIT, MáSHA,” SAID THE NURSE, “AND +HERE I’VE BROUGHT THE PRINCE’S WEDDING CANDLES TO LIGHT BEFORE HIS +SAINT, MY ANGEL,” SHE SAID WITH A SIGH. + +“OH, NURSE, I’M SO GLAD!” + +“GOD IS MERCIFUL, BIRDIE.” + +THE NURSE LIT THE GILT CANDLES BEFORE THE ICONS AND SAT DOWN BY THE DOOR +WITH HER KNITTING. PRINCESS MARY TOOK A BOOK AND BEGAN READING. ONLY +WHEN FOOTSTEPS OR VOICES WERE HEARD DID THEY LOOK AT ONE ANOTHER, THE +PRINCESS ANXIOUS AND INQUIRING, THE NURSE ENCOURAGING. EVERYONE IN THE +HOUSE WAS DOMINATED BY THE SAME FEELING THAT PRINCESS MARY EXPERIENCED +AS SHE SAT IN HER ROOM. BUT OWING TO THE SUPERSTITION THAT THE FEWER +THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW OF IT THE LESS A WOMAN IN TRAVAIL SUFFERS, EVERYONE +TRIED TO PRETEND NOT TO KNOW; NO ONE SPOKE OF IT, BUT APART FROM THE +ORDINARY STAID AND RESPECTFUL GOOD MANNERS HABITUAL IN THE PRINCE’S +HOUSEHOLD, A COMMON ANXIETY, A SOFTENING OF THE HEART, AND A +CONSCIOUSNESS THAT SOMETHING GREAT AND MYSTERIOUS WAS BEING ACCOMPLISHED +AT THAT MOMENT MADE ITSELF FELT. + +THERE WAS NO LAUGHTER IN THE MAIDS’ LARGE HALL. IN THE MEN SERVANTS’ +HALL ALL SAT WAITING, SILENTLY AND ALERT. IN THE OUTLYING SERFS’ +QUARTERS TORCHES AND CANDLES WERE BURNING AND NO ONE SLEPT. THE OLD +PRINCE, STEPPING ON HIS HEELS, PACED UP AND DOWN HIS STUDY AND SENT +TíKHON TO ASK MARY BOGDáNOVNA WHAT NEWS.—“SAY ONLY THAT ‘THE +PRINCE TOLD ME TO ASK,’ AND COME AND TELL ME HER ANSWER.” + +“INFORM THE PRINCE THAT LABOR HAS BEGUN,” SAID MARY BOGDáNOVNA, +GIVING THE MESSENGER A SIGNIFICANT LOOK. + +TíKHON WENT AND TOLD THE PRINCE. + +“VERY GOOD!” SAID THE PRINCE CLOSING THE DOOR BEHIND HIM, AND +TíKHON DID NOT HEAR THE SLIGHTEST SOUND FROM THE STUDY AFTER THAT. + +AFTER A WHILE HE RE-ENTERED IT AS IF TO SNUFF THE CANDLES, AND, SEEING +THE PRINCE WAS LYING ON THE SOFA, LOOKED AT HIM, NOTICED HIS PERTURBED +FACE, SHOOK HIS HEAD, AND GOING UP TO HIM SILENTLY KISSED HIM ON THE +SHOULDER AND LEFT THE ROOM WITHOUT SNUFFING THE CANDLES OR SAYING WHY HE +HAD ENTERED. THE MOST SOLEMN MYSTERY IN THE WORLD CONTINUED ITS COURSE. +EVENING PASSED, NIGHT CAME, AND THE FEELING OF SUSPENSE AND SOFTENING OF +HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF THE UNFATHOMABLE DID NOT LESSEN BUT INCREASED. +NO ONE SLEPT. + +IT WAS ONE OF THOSE MARCH NIGHTS WHEN WINTER SEEMS TO WISH TO RESUME ITS +SWAY AND SCATTERS ITS LAST SNOWS AND STORMS WITH DESPERATE FURY. A RELAY +OF HORSES HAD BEEN SENT UP THE HIGHROAD TO MEET THE GERMAN DOCTOR FROM +MOSCOW WHO WAS EXPECTED EVERY MOMENT, AND MEN ON HORSEBACK WITH LANTERNS +WERE SENT TO THE CROSSROADS TO GUIDE HIM OVER THE COUNTRY ROAD WITH ITS +HOLLOWS AND SNOW-COVERED POOLS OF WATER. + +PRINCESS MARY HAD LONG SINCE PUT ASIDE HER BOOK: SHE SAT SILENT, HER +LUMINOUS EYES FIXED ON HER NURSE’S WRINKLED FACE (EVERY LINE OF WHICH +SHE KNEW SO WELL), ON THE LOCK OF GRAY HAIR THAT ESCAPED FROM UNDER THE +KERCHIEF, AND THE LOOSE SKIN THAT HUNG UNDER HER CHIN. + +NURSE SáVISHNA, KNITTING IN HAND, WAS TELLING IN LOW TONES, SCARCELY +HEARING OR UNDERSTANDING HER OWN WORDS, WHAT SHE HAD TOLD HUNDREDS OF +TIMES BEFORE: HOW THE LATE PRINCESS HAD GIVEN BIRTH TO PRINCESS MARY +IN KISHENëV WITH ONLY A MOLDAVIAN PEASANT WOMAN TO HELP INSTEAD OF A +MIDWIFE. + +“GOD IS MERCIFUL, DOCTORS ARE NEVER NEEDED,” SHE SAID. + +SUDDENLY A GUST OF WIND BEAT VIOLENTLY AGAINST THE CASEMENT OF THE +WINDOW, FROM WHICH THE DOUBLE FRAME HAD BEEN REMOVED (BY ORDER OF THE +PRINCE, ONE WINDOW FRAME WAS REMOVED IN EACH ROOM AS SOON AS THE LARKS +RETURNED), AND, FORCING OPEN A LOOSELY CLOSED LATCH, SET THE DAMASK +CURTAIN FLAPPING AND BLEW OUT THE CANDLE WITH ITS CHILL, SNOWY DRAFT. +PRINCESS MARY SHUDDERED; HER NURSE, PUTTING DOWN THE STOCKING SHE WAS +KNITTING, WENT TO THE WINDOW AND LEANING OUT TRIED TO CATCH THE OPEN +CASEMENT. THE COLD WIND FLAPPED THE ENDS OF HER KERCHIEF AND HER LOOSE +LOCKS OF GRAY HAIR. + +“PRINCESS, MY DEAR, THERE’S SOMEONE DRIVING UP THE AVENUE!” SHE +SAID, HOLDING THE CASEMENT AND NOT CLOSING IT. “WITH LANTERNS. MOST +LIKELY THE DOCTOR.” + +“OH, MY GOD! THANK GOD!” SAID PRINCESS MARY. “I MUST GO AND MEET +HIM, HE DOES NOT KNOW RUSSIAN.” + +PRINCESS MARY THREW A SHAWL OVER HER HEAD AND RAN TO MEET THE NEWCOMER. +AS SHE WAS CROSSING THE ANTEROOM SHE SAW THROUGH THE WINDOW A CARRIAGE +WITH LANTERNS, STANDING AT THE ENTRANCE. SHE WENT OUT ON THE STAIRS. ON +A BANISTER POST STOOD A TALLOW CANDLE WHICH GUTTERED IN THE DRAFT. ON +THE LANDING BELOW, PHILIP, THE FOOTMAN, STOOD LOOKING SCARED AND HOLDING +ANOTHER CANDLE. STILL LOWER, BEYOND THE TURN OF THE STAIRCASE, ONE +COULD HEAR THE FOOTSTEP OF SOMEONE IN THICK FELT BOOTS, AND A VOICE THAT +SEEMED FAMILIAR TO PRINCESS MARY WAS SAYING SOMETHING. + +“THANK GOD!” SAID THE VOICE. “AND FATHER?” + +“GONE TO BED,” REPLIED THE VOICE OF DEMYáN THE HOUSE STEWARD, WHO +WAS DOWNSTAIRS. + +THEN THE VOICE SAID SOMETHING MORE, DEMYáN REPLIED, AND THE STEPS IN +THE FELT BOOTS APPROACHED THE UNSEEN BEND OF THE STAIRCASE MORE RAPIDLY. + +“IT’S ANDREW!” THOUGHT PRINCESS MARY. “NO IT CAN’T BE, THAT +WOULD BE TOO EXTRAORDINARY,” AND AT THE VERY MOMENT SHE THOUGHT THIS, +THE FACE AND FIGURE OF PRINCE ANDREW, IN A FUR CLOAK THE DEEP COLLAR OF +WHICH COVERED WITH SNOW, APPEARED ON THE LANDING WHERE THE FOOTMAN +STOOD WITH THE CANDLE. YES, IT WAS HE, PALE, THIN, WITH A CHANGED AND +STRANGELY SOFTENED BUT AGITATED EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE. HE CAME UP THE +STAIRS AND EMBRACED HIS SISTER. + +“YOU DID NOT GET MY LETTER?” HE ASKED, AND NOT WAITING FOR A +REPLY—WHICH HE WOULD NOT HAVE RECEIVED, FOR THE PRINCESS WAS UNABLE TO +SPEAK—HE TURNED BACK, RAPIDLY MOUNTED THE STAIRS AGAIN WITH THE +DOCTOR WHO HAD ENTERED THE HALL AFTER HIM (THEY HAD MET AT THE LAST POST +STATION), AND AGAIN EMBRACED HIS SISTER. + +“WHAT A STRANGE FATE, MáSHA DARLING!” AND HAVING TAKEN OFF HIS +CLOAK AND FELT BOOTS, HE WENT TO THE LITTLE PRINCESS’ APARTMENT. + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +THE LITTLE PRINCESS LAY SUPPORTED BY PILLOWS, WITH A WHITE CAP ON HER +HEAD (THE PAINS HAD JUST LEFT HER). STRANDS OF HER BLACK HAIR LAY ROUND +HER INFLAMED AND PERSPIRING CHEEKS, HER CHARMING ROSY MOUTH WITH ITS +DOWNY LIP WAS OPEN AND SHE WAS SMILING JOYFULLY. PRINCE ANDREW ENTERED +AND PAUSED FACING HER AT THE FOOT OF THE SOFA ON WHICH SHE WAS LYING. +HER GLITTERING EYES, FILLED WITH CHILDLIKE FEAR AND EXCITEMENT, RESTED +ON HIM WITHOUT CHANGING THEIR EXPRESSION. “I LOVE YOU ALL AND HAVE +DONE NO HARM TO ANYONE; WHY MUST I SUFFER SO? HELP ME!” HER LOOK +SEEMED TO SAY. SHE SAW HER HUSBAND, BUT DID NOT REALIZE THE SIGNIFICANCE +OF HIS APPEARANCE BEFORE HER NOW. PRINCE ANDREW WENT ROUND THE SOFA AND +KISSED HER FOREHEAD. + +“MY DARLING!” HE SAID—A WORD HE HAD NEVER USED TO HER BEFORE. +“GOD IS MERCIFUL....” + +SHE LOOKED AT HIM INQUIRINGLY AND WITH CHILDLIKE REPROACH. + +“I EXPECTED HELP FROM YOU AND I GET NONE, NONE FROM YOU EITHER!” +SAID HER EYES. SHE WAS NOT SURPRISED AT HIS HAVING COME; SHE DID +NOT REALIZE THAT HE HAD COME. HIS COMING HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH +HER SUFFERINGS OR WITH THEIR RELIEF. THE PANGS BEGAN AGAIN AND MARY +BOGDáNOVNA ADVISED PRINCE ANDREW TO LEAVE THE ROOM. + +THE DOCTOR ENTERED. PRINCE ANDREW WENT OUT AND, MEETING PRINCESS MARY, +AGAIN JOINED HER. THEY BEGAN TALKING IN WHISPERS, BUT THEIR TALK BROKE +OFF AT EVERY MOMENT. THEY WAITED AND LISTENED. + +“GO, DEAR,” SAID PRINCESS MARY. + +PRINCE ANDREW WENT AGAIN TO HIS WIFE AND SAT WAITING IN THE ROOM NEXT +TO HERS. A WOMAN CAME FROM THE BEDROOM WITH A FRIGHTENED FACE AND BECAME +CONFUSED WHEN SHE SAW PRINCE ANDREW. HE COVERED HIS FACE WITH HIS HANDS +AND REMAINED SO FOR SOME MINUTES. PITEOUS, HELPLESS, ANIMAL MOANS CAME +THROUGH THE DOOR. PRINCE ANDREW GOT UP, WENT TO THE DOOR, AND TRIED TO +OPEN IT. SOMEONE WAS HOLDING IT SHUT. + +“YOU CAN’T COME IN! YOU CAN’T!” SAID A TERRIFIED VOICE FROM +WITHIN. + +HE BEGAN PACING THE ROOM. THE SCREAMING CEASED, AND A FEW MORE SECONDS +WENT BY. THEN SUDDENLY A TERRIBLE SHRIEK—IT COULD NOT BE HERS, SHE +COULD NOT SCREAM LIKE THAT—CAME FROM THE BEDROOM. PRINCE ANDREW RAN TO +THE DOOR; THE SCREAM CEASED AND HE HEARD THE WAIL OF AN INFANT. + +“WHAT HAVE THEY TAKEN A BABY IN THERE FOR?” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW IN +THE FIRST SECOND. “A BABY? WHAT BABY...? WHY IS THERE A BABY THERE? OR +IS THE BABY BORN?” + +THEN SUDDENLY HE REALIZED THE JOYFUL SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT WAIL; TEARS +CHOKED HIM, AND LEANING HIS ELBOWS ON THE WINDOW SILL HE BEGAN TO CRY, +SOBBING LIKE A CHILD. THE DOOR OPENED. THE DOCTOR WITH HIS SHIRT SLEEVES +TUCKED UP, WITHOUT A COAT, PALE AND WITH A TREMBLING JAW, CAME OUT +OF THE ROOM. PRINCE ANDREW TURNED TO HIM, BUT THE DOCTOR GAVE HIM A +BEWILDERED LOOK AND PASSED BY WITHOUT A WORD. A WOMAN RUSHED OUT AND +SEEING PRINCE ANDREW STOPPED, HESITATING ON THE THRESHOLD. HE WENT INTO +HIS WIFE’S ROOM. SHE WAS LYING DEAD, IN THE SAME POSITION HE HAD SEEN +HER IN FIVE MINUTES BEFORE AND, DESPITE THE FIXED EYES AND THE PALLOR OF +THE CHEEKS, THE SAME EXPRESSION WAS ON HER CHARMING CHILDLIKE FACE WITH +ITS UPPER LIP COVERED WITH TINY BLACK HAIR. + +“I LOVE YOU ALL, AND HAVE DONE NO HARM TO ANYONE; AND WHAT HAVE YOU +DONE TO ME?”—SAID HER CHARMING, PATHETIC, DEAD FACE. + +IN A CORNER OF THE ROOM SOMETHING RED AND TINY GAVE A GRUNT AND SQUEALED +IN MARY BOGDáNOVNA’S TREMBLING WHITE HANDS. + + +TWO HOURS LATER PRINCE ANDREW, STEPPING SOFTLY, WENT INTO HIS FATHER’S +ROOM. THE OLD MAN ALREADY KNEW EVERYTHING. HE WAS STANDING CLOSE TO +THE DOOR AND AS SOON AS IT OPENED HIS ROUGH OLD ARMS CLOSED LIKE A VISE +ROUND HIS SON’S NECK, AND WITHOUT A WORD HE BEGAN TO SOB LIKE A CHILD. + + +THREE DAYS LATER THE LITTLE PRINCESS WAS BURIED, AND PRINCE ANDREW WENT +UP THE STEPS TO WHERE THE COFFIN STOOD, TO GIVE HER THE FAREWELL KISS. +AND THERE IN THE COFFIN WAS THE SAME FACE, THOUGH WITH CLOSED EYES. +“AH, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?” IT STILL SEEMED TO SAY, AND PRINCE +ANDREW FELT THAT SOMETHING GAVE WAY IN HIS SOUL AND THAT HE WAS GUILTY +OF A SIN HE COULD NEITHER REMEDY NOR FORGET. HE COULD NOT WEEP. THE +OLD MAN TOO CAME UP AND KISSED THE WAXEN LITTLE HANDS THAT LAY QUIETLY +CROSSED ONE ON THE OTHER ON HER BREAST, AND TO HIM, TOO, HER FACE SEEMED +TO SAY: “AH, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME, AND WHY?” AND AT THE SIGHT +THE OLD MAN TURNED ANGRILY AWAY. + + +ANOTHER FIVE DAYS PASSED, AND THEN THE YOUNG PRINCE NICHOLAS ANDRéEVICH +WAS BAPTIZED. THE WET NURSE SUPPORTED THE COVERLET WITH HER CHIN, WHILE +THE PRIEST WITH A GOOSE FEATHER ANOINTED THE BOY’S LITTLE RED AND +WRINKLED SOLES AND PALMS. + +HIS GRANDFATHER, WHO WAS HIS GODFATHER, TREMBLING AND AFRAID OF DROPPING +HIM, CARRIED THE INFANT ROUND THE BATTERED TIN FONT AND HANDED HIM OVER +TO THE GODMOTHER, PRINCESS MARY. PRINCE ANDREW SAT IN ANOTHER ROOM, +FAINT WITH FEAR LEST THE BABY SHOULD BE DROWNED IN THE FONT, AND AWAITED +THE TERMINATION OF THE CEREMONY. HE LOOKED UP JOYFULLY AT THE BABY WHEN +THE NURSE BROUGHT IT TO HIM AND NODDED APPROVAL WHEN SHE TOLD HIM THAT +THE WAX WITH THE BABY’S HAIR HAD NOT SUNK IN THE FONT BUT HAD FLOATED. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +ROSTóV’S SHARE IN DóLOKHOV’S DUEL WITH BEZúKHOV WAS HUSHED UP BY +THE EFFORTS OF THE OLD COUNT, AND INSTEAD OF BEING DEGRADED TO THE RANKS +AS HE EXPECTED HE WAS APPOINTED AN ADJUTANT TO THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF +MOSCOW. AS A RESULT HE COULD NOT GO TO THE COUNTRY WITH THE REST OF THE +FAMILY, BUT WAS KEPT ALL SUMMER IN MOSCOW BY HIS NEW DUTIES. DóLOKHOV +RECOVERED, AND ROSTóV BECAME VERY FRIENDLY WITH HIM DURING HIS +CONVALESCENCE. DóLOKHOV LAY ILL AT HIS MOTHER’S WHO LOVED HIM +PASSIONATELY AND TENDERLY, AND OLD MARY IVáNOVNA, WHO HAD GROWN FOND OF +ROSTóV FOR HIS FRIENDSHIP TO HER FéDYA, OFTEN TALKED TO HIM ABOUT HER +SON. + +“YES, COUNT,” SHE WOULD SAY, “HE IS TOO NOBLE AND PURE-SOULED FOR +OUR PRESENT, DEPRAVED WORLD. NO ONE NOW LOVES VIRTUE; IT SEEMS LIKE +A REPROACH TO EVERYONE. NOW TELL ME, COUNT, WAS IT RIGHT, WAS IT +HONORABLE, OF BEZúKHOV? AND FéDYA, WITH HIS NOBLE SPIRIT, LOVED HIM +AND EVEN NOW NEVER SAYS A WORD AGAINST HIM. THOSE PRANKS IN PETERSBURG +WHEN THEY PLAYED SOME TRICKS ON A POLICEMAN, DIDN’T THEY DO IT +TOGETHER? AND THERE! BEZúKHOV GOT OFF SCOTFREE, WHILE FéDYA HAD TO +BEAR THE WHOLE BURDEN ON HIS SHOULDERS. FANCY WHAT HE HAD TO GO THROUGH! +IT’S TRUE HE HAS BEEN REINSTATED, BUT HOW COULD THEY FAIL TO DO THAT? +I THINK THERE WERE NOT MANY SUCH GALLANT SONS OF THE FATHERLAND OUT +THERE AS HE. AND NOW—THIS DUEL! HAVE THESE PEOPLE NO FEELING, OR +HONOR? KNOWING HIM TO BE AN ONLY SON, TO CHALLENGE HIM AND SHOOT SO +STRAIGHT! IT’S WELL GOD HAD MERCY ON US. AND WHAT WAS IT FOR? WHO +DOESN’T HAVE INTRIGUES NOWADAYS? WHY, IF HE WAS SO JEALOUS, AS I SEE +THINGS HE SHOULD HAVE SHOWN IT SOONER, BUT HE LETS IT GO ON FOR MONTHS. +AND THEN TO CALL HIM OUT, RECKONING ON FéDYA NOT FIGHTING BECAUSE HE +OWED HIM MONEY! WHAT BASENESS! WHAT MEANNESS! I KNOW YOU UNDERSTAND +FéDYA, MY DEAR COUNT; THAT, BELIEVE ME, IS WHY I AM SO FOND OF YOU. FEW +PEOPLE DO UNDERSTAND HIM. HE IS SUCH A LOFTY, HEAVENLY SOUL!” + +DóLOKHOV HIMSELF DURING HIS CONVALESCENCE SPOKE TO ROSTóV IN A WAY NO +ONE WOULD HAVE EXPECTED OF HIM. + +“I KNOW PEOPLE CONSIDER ME A BAD MAN!” HE SAID. “LET THEM! I +DON’T CARE A STRAW ABOUT ANYONE BUT THOSE I LOVE; BUT THOSE I LOVE, +I LOVE SO THAT I WOULD GIVE MY LIFE FOR THEM, AND THE OTHERS I’D +THROTTLE IF THEY STOOD IN MY WAY. I HAVE AN ADORED, A PRICELESS MOTHER, +AND TWO OR THREE FRIENDS—YOU AMONG THEM—AND AS FOR THE REST I ONLY +CARE ABOUT THEM IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE HARMFUL OR USEFUL. AND MOST OF +THEM ARE HARMFUL, ESPECIALLY THE WOMEN. YES, DEAR BOY,” HE CONTINUED, +“I HAVE MET LOVING, NOBLE, HIGH-MINDED MEN, BUT I HAVE NOT YET MET +ANY WOMEN—COUNTESSES OR COOKS—WHO WERE NOT VENAL. I HAVE NOT YET MET +THAT DIVINE PURITY AND DEVOTION I LOOK FOR IN WOMEN. IF I FOUND SUCH A +ONE I’D GIVE MY LIFE FOR HER! BUT THOSE!...” AND HE MADE A GESTURE +OF CONTEMPT. “AND BELIEVE ME, IF I STILL VALUE MY LIFE IT IS +ONLY BECAUSE I STILL HOPE TO MEET SUCH A DIVINE CREATURE, WHO WILL +REGENERATE, PURIFY, AND ELEVATE ME. BUT YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND IT.” + +“OH, YES, I QUITE UNDERSTAND,” ANSWERED ROSTóV, WHO WAS UNDER HIS +NEW FRIEND’S INFLUENCE. + +IN THE AUTUMN THE ROSTóVS RETURNED TO MOSCOW. EARLY IN THE WINTER +DENíSOV ALSO CAME BACK AND STAYED WITH THEM. THE FIRST HALF OF THE +WINTER OF 1806, WHICH NICHOLAS ROSTóV SPENT IN MOSCOW, WAS ONE OF THE +HAPPIEST, MERRIEST TIMES FOR HIM AND THE WHOLE FAMILY. NICHOLAS BROUGHT +MANY YOUNG MEN TO HIS PARENTS’ HOUSE. VéRA WAS A HANDSOME GIRL +OF TWENTY; SóNYA A GIRL OF SIXTEEN WITH ALL THE CHARM OF AN OPENING +FLOWER; NATáSHA, HALF GROWN UP AND HALF CHILD, WAS NOW CHILDISHLY +AMUSING, NOW GIRLISHLY ENCHANTING. + +AT THAT TIME IN THE ROSTóVS’ HOUSE THERE PREVAILED AN AMOROUS +ATMOSPHERE CHARACTERISTIC OF HOMES WHERE THERE ARE VERY YOUNG AND VERY +CHARMING GIRLS. EVERY YOUNG MAN WHO CAME TO THE HOUSE—SEEING THOSE +IMPRESSIONABLE, SMILING YOUNG FACES (SMILING PROBABLY AT THEIR OWN +HAPPINESS), FEELING THE EAGER BUSTLE AROUND HIM, AND HEARING THE FITFUL +BURSTS OF SONG AND MUSIC AND THE INCONSEQUENT BUT FRIENDLY PRATTLE OF +YOUNG GIRLS READY FOR ANYTHING AND FULL OF HOPE—EXPERIENCED THE SAME +FEELING; SHARING WITH THE YOUNG FOLK OF THE ROSTóVS’ HOUSEHOLD A +READINESS TO FALL IN LOVE AND AN EXPECTATION OF HAPPINESS. + +AMONG THE YOUNG MEN INTRODUCED BY ROSTóV ONE OF THE FIRST WAS +DóLOKHOV, WHOM EVERYONE IN THE HOUSE LIKED EXCEPT NATáSHA. SHE ALMOST +QUARRELED WITH HER BROTHER ABOUT HIM. SHE INSISTED THAT HE WAS A BAD +MAN, AND THAT IN THE DUEL WITH BEZúKHOV, PIERRE WAS RIGHT AND DóLOKHOV +WRONG, AND FURTHER THAT HE WAS DISAGREEABLE AND UNNATURAL. + +“THERE’S NOTHING FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND,” SHE CRIED OUT WITH +RESOLUTE SELF-WILL, “HE IS WICKED AND HEARTLESS. THERE NOW, I LIKE +YOUR DENíSOV THOUGH HE IS A RAKE AND ALL THAT, STILL I LIKE HIM; SO +YOU SEE I DO UNDERSTAND. I DON’T KNOW HOW TO PUT IT... WITH THIS ONE +EVERYTHING IS CALCULATED, AND I DON’T LIKE THAT. BUT DENíSOV...” + +“OH, DENíSOV IS QUITE DIFFERENT,” REPLIED NICHOLAS, IMPLYING THAT +EVEN DENíSOV WAS NOTHING COMPARED TO DóLOKHOV—“YOU MUST UNDERSTAND +WHAT A SOUL THERE IS IN DóLOKHOV, YOU SHOULD SEE HIM WITH HIS MOTHER. +WHAT A HEART!” + +“WELL, I DON’T KNOW ABOUT THAT, BUT I AM UNCOMFORTABLE WITH HIM. AND +DO YOU KNOW HE HAS FALLEN IN LOVE WITH SóNYA?” + +“WHAT NONSENSE...” + +“I’M CERTAIN OF IT; YOU’LL SEE.” + +NATáSHA’S PREDICTION PROVED TRUE. DóLOKHOV, WHO DID NOT USUALLY CARE +FOR THE SOCIETY OF LADIES, BEGAN TO COME OFTEN TO THE HOUSE, AND THE +QUESTION FOR WHOSE SAKE HE CAME (THOUGH NO ONE SPOKE OF IT) WAS SOON +SETTLED. HE CAME BECAUSE OF SóNYA. AND SóNYA, THOUGH SHE WOULD NEVER +HAVE DARED TO SAY SO, KNEW IT AND BLUSHED SCARLET EVERY TIME DóLOKHOV +APPEARED. + +DóLOKHOV OFTEN DINED AT THE ROSTóVS’, NEVER MISSED A PERFORMANCE AT +WHICH THEY WERE PRESENT, AND WENT TO IOGEL’S BALLS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE +WHICH THE ROSTóVS ALWAYS ATTENDED. HE WAS POINTEDLY ATTENTIVE TO SóNYA +AND LOOKED AT HER IN SUCH A WAY THAT NOT ONLY COULD SHE NOT BEAR HIS +GLANCES WITHOUT COLORING, BUT EVEN THE OLD COUNTESS AND NATáSHA BLUSHED +WHEN THEY SAW HIS LOOKS. + +IT WAS EVIDENT THAT THIS STRANGE, STRONG MAN WAS UNDER THE IRRESISTIBLE +INFLUENCE OF THE DARK, GRACEFUL GIRL WHO LOVED ANOTHER. + +ROSTóV NOTICED SOMETHING NEW IN DóLOKHOV’S RELATIONS WITH SóNYA, +BUT HE DID NOT EXPLAIN TO HIMSELF WHAT THESE NEW RELATIONS WERE. +“THEY’RE ALWAYS IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE,” HE THOUGHT OF SóNYA AND +NATáSHA. BUT HE WAS NOT AS MUCH AT EASE WITH SóNYA AND DóLOKHOV AS +BEFORE AND WAS LESS FREQUENTLY AT HOME. + +IN THE AUTUMN OF 1806 EVERYBODY HAD AGAIN BEGUN TALKING OF THE WAR WITH +NAPOLEON WITH EVEN GREATER WARMTH THAN THE YEAR BEFORE. ORDERS WERE +GIVEN TO RAISE RECRUITS, TEN MEN IN EVERY THOUSAND FOR THE REGULAR ARMY, +AND BESIDES THIS, NINE MEN IN EVERY THOUSAND FOR THE MILITIA. EVERYWHERE +BONAPARTE WAS ANATHEMATIZED AND IN MOSCOW NOTHING BUT THE COMING WAR +WAS TALKED OF. FOR THE ROSTóV FAMILY THE WHOLE INTEREST OF THESE +PREPARATIONS FOR WAR LAY IN THE FACT THAT NICHOLAS WOULD NOT HEAR OF +REMAINING IN MOSCOW, AND ONLY AWAITED THE TERMINATION OF DENíSOV’S +FURLOUGH AFTER CHRISTMAS TO RETURN WITH HIM TO THEIR REGIMENT. HIS +APPROACHING DEPARTURE DID NOT PREVENT HIS AMUSING HIMSELF, BUT RATHER +GAVE ZEST TO HIS PLEASURES. HE SPENT THE GREATER PART OF HIS TIME AWAY +FROM HOME, AT DINNERS, PARTIES, AND BALLS. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +ON THE THIRD DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS NICHOLAS DINED AT HOME, A THING HE HAD +RARELY DONE OF LATE. IT WAS A GRAND FAREWELL DINNER, AS HE AND DENíSOV +WERE LEAVING TO JOIN THEIR REGIMENT AFTER EPIPHANY. ABOUT TWENTY PEOPLE +WERE PRESENT, INCLUDING DóLOKHOV AND DENíSOV. + +NEVER HAD LOVE BEEN SO MUCH IN THE AIR, AND NEVER HAD THE AMOROUS +ATMOSPHERE MADE ITSELF SO STRONGLY FELT IN THE ROSTóVS’ HOUSE AS AT +THIS HOLIDAY TIME. “SEIZE THE MOMENTS OF HAPPINESS, LOVE AND BE LOVED! +THAT IS THE ONLY REALITY IN THE WORLD, ALL ELSE IS FOLLY. IT IS THE ONE +THING WE ARE INTERESTED IN HERE,” SAID THE SPIRIT OF THE PLACE. + +NICHOLAS, HAVING AS USUAL EXHAUSTED TWO PAIRS OF HORSES, WITHOUT +VISITING ALL THE PLACES HE MEANT TO GO TO AND WHERE HE HAD BEEN INVITED, +RETURNED HOME JUST BEFORE DINNER. AS SOON AS HE ENTERED HE NOTICED AND +FELT THE TENSION OF THE AMOROUS AIR IN THE HOUSE, AND ALSO NOTICED A +CURIOUS EMBARRASSMENT AMONG SOME OF THOSE PRESENT. SóNYA, DóLOKHOV, +AND THE OLD COUNTESS WERE ESPECIALLY DISTURBED, AND TO A LESSER DEGREE +NATáSHA. NICHOLAS UNDERSTOOD THAT SOMETHING MUST HAVE HAPPENED BETWEEN +SóNYA AND DóLOKHOV BEFORE DINNER, AND WITH THE KINDLY SENSITIVENESS +NATURAL TO HIM WAS VERY GENTLE AND WARY WITH THEM BOTH AT DINNER. ON +THAT SAME EVENING THERE WAS TO BE ONE OF THE BALLS THAT IOGEL (THE +DANCING MASTER) GAVE FOR HIS PUPILS DURING THE HOLIDAYS. + +“NICHOLAS, WILL YOU COME TO IOGEL’S? PLEASE DO!” SAID NATáSHA. +“HE ASKED YOU, AND VASíLI DMíTRICH * IS ALSO GOING.” + + * DENíSOV. + +“WHERE WOULD I NOT GO AT THE COUNTESS’ COMMAND!” SAID DENíSOV, +WHO AT THE ROSTóVS’ HAD JOCULARLY ASSUMED THE ROLE OF NATáSHA’S +KNIGHT. “I’M EVEN WEADY TO DANCE THE PAS DE CHâLE.” + +“IF I HAVE TIME,” ANSWERED NICHOLAS. “BUT I PROMISED THE +ARKHáROVS; THEY HAVE A PARTY.” + +“AND YOU?” HE ASKED DóLOKHOV, BUT AS SOON AS HE HAD ASKED THE +QUESTION HE NOTICED THAT IT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PUT. + +“PERHAPS,” COLDLY AND ANGRILY REPLIED DóLOKHOV, GLANCING AT SóNYA, +AND, SCOWLING, HE GAVE NICHOLAS JUST SUCH A LOOK AS HE HAD GIVEN PIERRE +AT THE CLUB DINNER. + +“THERE IS SOMETHING UP,” THOUGHT NICHOLAS, AND HE WAS FURTHER +CONFIRMED IN THIS CONCLUSION BY THE FACT THAT DóLOKHOV LEFT IMMEDIATELY +AFTER DINNER. HE CALLED NATáSHA AND ASKED HER WHAT WAS THE MATTER. + +“AND I WAS LOOKING FOR YOU,” SAID NATáSHA RUNNING OUT TO HIM. “I +TOLD YOU, BUT YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE IT,” SHE SAID TRIUMPHANTLY. “HE +HAS PROPOSED TO SóNYA!” + +LITTLE AS NICHOLAS HAD OCCUPIED HIMSELF WITH SóNYA OF LATE, SOMETHING +SEEMED TO GIVE WAY WITHIN HIM AT THIS NEWS. DóLOKHOV WAS A SUITABLE AND +IN SOME RESPECTS A BRILLIANT MATCH FOR THE DOWERLESS, ORPHAN GIRL. FROM +THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE OLD COUNTESS AND OF SOCIETY IT WAS OUT OF THE +QUESTION FOR HER TO REFUSE HIM. AND THEREFORE NICHOLAS’ FIRST FEELING +ON HEARING THE NEWS WAS ONE OF ANGER WITH SóNYA.... HE TRIED TO SAY, +“THAT’S CAPITAL; OF COURSE SHE’LL FORGET HER CHILDISH PROMISES +AND ACCEPT THE OFFER,” BUT BEFORE HE HAD TIME TO SAY IT NATáSHA BEGAN +AGAIN. + +“AND FANCY! SHE REFUSED HIM QUITE DEFINITELY!” ADDING, AFTER A +PAUSE, “SHE TOLD HIM SHE LOVED ANOTHER.” + +“YES, MY SóNYA COULD NOT HAVE DONE OTHERWISE!” THOUGHT NICHOLAS. + +“MUCH AS MAMMA PRESSED HER, SHE REFUSED, AND I KNOW SHE WON’T CHANGE +ONCE SHE HAS SAID...” + +“AND MAMMA PRESSED HER!” SAID NICHOLAS REPROACHFULLY. + +“YES,” SAID NATáSHA. “DO YOU KNOW, NICHOLAS—DON’T BE +ANGRY—BUT I KNOW YOU WILL NOT MARRY HER. I KNOW, HEAVEN KNOWS HOW, BUT +I KNOW FOR CERTAIN THAT YOU WON’T MARRY HER.” + +“NOW YOU DON’T KNOW THAT AT ALL!” SAID NICHOLAS. “BUT I MUST +TALK TO HER. WHAT A DARLING SóNYA IS!” HE ADDED WITH A SMILE. + +“AH, SHE IS INDEED A DARLING! I’LL SEND HER TO YOU.” + +AND NATáSHA KISSED HER BROTHER AND RAN AWAY. + +A MINUTE LATER SóNYA CAME IN WITH A FRIGHTENED, GUILTY, AND SCARED +LOOK. NICHOLAS WENT UP TO HER AND KISSED HER HAND. THIS WAS THE FIRST +TIME SINCE HIS RETURN THAT THEY HAD TALKED ALONE AND ABOUT THEIR LOVE. + +“SOPHIE,” HE BEGAN, TIMIDLY AT FIRST AND THEN MORE AND MORE +BOLDLY, “IF YOU WISH TO REFUSE ONE WHO IS NOT ONLY A BRILLIANT AND +ADVANTAGEOUS MATCH BUT A SPLENDID, NOBLE FELLOW... HE IS MY FRIEND...” + +SóNYA INTERRUPTED HIM. + +“I HAVE ALREADY REFUSED,” SHE SAID HURRIEDLY. + +“IF YOU ARE REFUSING FOR MY SAKE, I AM AFRAID THAT I...” + +SóNYA AGAIN INTERRUPTED. SHE GAVE HIM AN IMPLORING, FRIGHTENED LOOK. + +“NICHOLAS, DON’T TELL ME THAT!” SHE SAID. + +“NO, BUT I MUST. IT MAY BE ARROGANT OF ME, BUT STILL IT IS BEST TO SAY +IT. IF YOU REFUSE HIM ON MY ACCOUNT, I MUST TELL YOU THE WHOLE TRUTH. I +LOVE YOU, AND I THINK I LOVE YOU MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE....” + +“THAT IS ENOUGH FOR ME,” SAID SóNYA, BLUSHING. + +“NO, BUT I HAVE BEEN IN LOVE A THOUSAND TIMES AND SHALL FALL IN +LOVE AGAIN, THOUGH FOR NO ONE HAVE I SUCH A FEELING OF FRIENDSHIP, +CONFIDENCE, AND LOVE AS I HAVE FOR YOU. THEN I AM YOUNG. MAMMA DOES +NOT WISH IT. IN A WORD, I MAKE NO PROMISE. AND I BEG YOU TO CONSIDER +DóLOKHOV’S OFFER,” HE SAID, ARTICULATING HIS FRIEND’S NAME WITH +DIFFICULTY. + +“DON’T SAY THAT TO ME! I WANT NOTHING. I LOVE YOU AS A BROTHER AND +ALWAYS SHALL, AND I WANT NOTHING MORE.” + +“YOU ARE AN ANGEL: I AM NOT WORTHY OF YOU, BUT I AM AFRAID OF +MISLEADING YOU.” + +AND NICHOLAS AGAIN KISSED HER HAND. + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +IOGEL’S WERE THE MOST ENJOYABLE BALLS IN MOSCOW. SO SAID THE MOTHERS +AS THEY WATCHED THEIR YOUNG PEOPLE EXECUTING THEIR NEWLY LEARNED STEPS, +AND SO SAID THE YOUTHS AND MAIDENS THEMSELVES AS THEY DANCED TILL THEY +WERE READY TO DROP, AND SO SAID THE GROWN-UP YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WHO +CAME TO THESE BALLS WITH AN AIR OF CONDESCENSION AND FOUND THEM MOST +ENJOYABLE. THAT YEAR TWO MARRIAGES HAD COME OF THESE BALLS. THE TWO +PRETTY YOUNG PRINCESSES GORCHAKóV MET SUITORS THERE AND WERE MARRIED +AND SO FURTHER INCREASED THE FAME OF THESE DANCES. WHAT DISTINGUISHED +THEM FROM OTHERS WAS THE ABSENCE OF HOST OR HOSTESS AND THE PRESENCE OF +THE GOOD-NATURED IOGEL, FLYING ABOUT LIKE A FEATHER AND BOWING ACCORDING +TO THE RULES OF HIS ART, AS HE COLLECTED THE TICKETS FROM ALL HIS +VISITORS. THERE WAS THE FACT THAT ONLY THOSE CAME WHO WISHED TO DANCE +AND AMUSE THEMSELVES AS GIRLS OF THIRTEEN AND FOURTEEN DO WHO ARE +WEARING LONG DRESSES FOR THE FIRST TIME. WITH SCARCELY ANY EXCEPTIONS +THEY ALL WERE, OR SEEMED TO BE, PRETTY—SO RAPTUROUS WERE THEIR SMILES +AND SO SPARKLING THEIR EYES. SOMETIMES THE BEST OF THE PUPILS, OF WHOM +NATáSHA, WHO WAS EXCEPTIONALLY GRACEFUL, WAS FIRST, EVEN DANCED THE PAS +DE CHâLE, BUT AT THIS LAST BALL ONLY THE éCOSSAISE, THE ANGLAISE, AND +THE MAZURKA, WHICH WAS JUST COMING INTO FASHION, WERE DANCED. IOGEL HAD +TAKEN A BALLROOM IN BEZúKHOV’S HOUSE, AND THE BALL, AS EVERYONE SAID, +WAS A GREAT SUCCESS. THERE WERE MANY PRETTY GIRLS AND THE ROSTóV GIRLS +WERE AMONG THE PRETTIEST. THEY WERE BOTH PARTICULARLY HAPPY AND GAY. +THAT EVENING, PROUD OF DóLOKHOV’S PROPOSAL, HER REFUSAL, AND HER +EXPLANATION WITH NICHOLAS, SóNYA TWIRLED ABOUT BEFORE SHE LEFT HOME +SO THAT THE MAID COULD HARDLY GET HER HAIR PLAITED, AND SHE WAS +TRANSPARENTLY RADIANT WITH IMPULSIVE JOY. + +NATáSHA NO LESS PROUD OF HER FIRST LONG DRESS AND OF BEING AT A REAL +BALL WAS EVEN HAPPIER. THEY WERE BOTH DRESSED IN WHITE MUSLIN WITH PINK +RIBBONS. + +NATáSHA FELL IN LOVE THE VERY MOMENT SHE ENTERED THE BALLROOM. SHE +WAS NOT IN LOVE WITH ANYONE IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITH EVERYONE. WHATEVER +PERSON SHE HAPPENED TO LOOK AT SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH FOR THAT MOMENT. + +“OH, HOW DELIGHTFUL IT IS!” SHE KEPT SAYING, RUNNING UP TO SóNYA. + +NICHOLAS AND DENíSOV WERE WALKING UP AND DOWN, LOOKING WITH KINDLY +PATRONAGE AT THE DANCERS. + +“HOW SWEET SHE IS—SHE WILL BE A WEAL BEAUTY!” SAID DENíSOV. + +“WHO?” + +“COUNTESS NATáSHA,” ANSWERED DENíSOV. + +“AND HOW SHE DANCES! WHAT GWACE!” HE SAID AGAIN AFTER A PAUSE. + +“WHO ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?” + +“ABOUT YOUR SISTER,” EJACULATED DENíSOV TESTILY. + +ROSTóV SMILED. + +“MY DEAR COUNT, YOU WERE ONE OF MY BEST PUPILS—YOU MUST DANCE,” +SAID LITTLE IOGEL COMING UP TO NICHOLAS. “LOOK HOW MANY CHARMING YOUNG +LADIES—” HE TURNED WITH THE SAME REQUEST TO DENíSOV WHO WAS ALSO A +FORMER PUPIL OF HIS. + +“NO, MY DEAR FELLOW, I’LL BE A WALLFLOWER,” SAID DENíSOV. +“DON’T YOU WECOLLECT WHAT BAD USE I MADE OF YOUR LESSONS?” + +“OH NO!” SAID IOGEL, HASTENING TO REASSURE HIM. “YOU WERE ONLY +INATTENTIVE, BUT YOU HAD TALENT—OH YES, YOU HAD TALENT!” + +THE BAND STRUCK UP THE NEWLY INTRODUCED MAZURKA. NICHOLAS COULD NOT +REFUSE IOGEL AND ASKED SóNYA TO DANCE. DENíSOV SAT DOWN BY THE OLD +LADIES AND, LEANING ON HIS SABER AND BEATING TIME WITH HIS FOOT, TOLD +THEM SOMETHING FUNNY AND KEPT THEM AMUSED, WHILE HE WATCHED THE YOUNG +PEOPLE DANCING, IOGEL WITH NATáSHA, HIS PRIDE AND HIS BEST PUPIL, WERE +THE FIRST COUPLE. NOISELESSLY, SKILLFULLY STEPPING WITH HIS LITTLE +FEET IN LOW SHOES, IOGEL FLEW FIRST ACROSS THE HALL WITH NATáSHA, WHO, +THOUGH SHY, WENT ON CAREFULLY EXECUTING HER STEPS. DENíSOV DID NOT +TAKE HIS EYES OFF HER AND BEAT TIME WITH HIS SABER IN A WAY THAT CLEARLY +INDICATED THAT IF HE WAS NOT DANCING IT WAS BECAUSE HE WOULD NOT AND NOT +BECAUSE HE COULD NOT. IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIGURE HE BECKONED TO ROSTóV +WHO WAS PASSING: + +“THIS IS NOT AT ALL THE THING,” HE SAID. “WHAT SORT OF POLISH +MAZUWKA IS THIS? BUT SHE DOES DANCE SPLENDIDLY.” + +KNOWING THAT DENíSOV HAD A REPUTATION EVEN IN POLAND FOR THE MASTERLY +WAY IN WHICH HE DANCED THE MAZURKA, NICHOLAS RAN UP TO NATáSHA: + +“GO AND CHOOSE DENíSOV. HE IS A REAL DANCER, A WONDER!” HE SAID. + +WHEN IT CAME TO NATáSHA’S TURN TO CHOOSE A PARTNER, SHE ROSE AND, +TRIPPING RAPIDLY ACROSS IN HER LITTLE SHOES TRIMMED WITH BOWS, RAN +TIMIDLY TO THE CORNER WHERE DENíSOV SAT. SHE SAW THAT EVERYBODY WAS +LOOKING AT HER AND WAITING. NICHOLAS SAW THAT DENíSOV WAS REFUSING +THOUGH HE SMILED DELIGHTEDLY. HE RAN UP TO THEM. + +“PLEASE, VASíLI DMíTRICH,” NATáSHA WAS SAYING, “DO COME!” + +“OH NO, LET ME OFF, COUNTESS,” DENíSOV REPLIED. + +“NOW THEN, VáSKA,” SAID NICHOLAS. + +“THEY COAX ME AS IF I WERE VáSKA THE CAT!” SAID DENíSOV JOKINGLY. + +“I’LL SING FOR YOU A WHOLE EVENING,” SAID NATáSHA. + +“OH, THE FAIWY! SHE CAN DO ANYTHING WITH ME!” SAID DENíSOV, AND +HE UNHOOKED HIS SABER. HE CAME OUT FROM BEHIND THE CHAIRS, CLASPED HIS +PARTNER’S HAND FIRMLY, THREW BACK HIS HEAD, AND ADVANCED HIS FOOT, +WAITING FOR THE BEAT. ONLY ON HORSE BACK AND IN THE MAZURKA WAS +DENíSOV’S SHORT STATURE NOT NOTICEABLE AND HE LOOKED THE FINE FELLOW +HE FELT HIMSELF TO BE. AT THE RIGHT BEAT OF THE MUSIC HE LOOKED SIDEWAYS +AT HIS PARTNER WITH A MERRY AND TRIUMPHANT AIR, SUDDENLY STAMPED WITH +ONE FOOT, BOUNDED FROM THE FLOOR LIKE A BALL, AND FLEW ROUND THE ROOM +TAKING HIS PARTNER WITH HIM. HE GLIDED SILENTLY ON ONE FOOT HALF ACROSS +THE ROOM, AND SEEMING NOT TO NOTICE THE CHAIRS WAS DASHING STRAIGHT AT +THEM, WHEN SUDDENLY, CLINKING HIS SPURS AND SPREADING OUT HIS LEGS, +HE STOPPED SHORT ON HIS HEELS, STOOD SO A SECOND, STAMPED ON THE SPOT +CLANKING HIS SPURS, WHIRLED RAPIDLY ROUND, AND, STRIKING HIS LEFT HEEL +AGAINST HIS RIGHT, FLEW ROUND AGAIN IN A CIRCLE. NATáSHA GUESSED WHAT +HE MEANT TO DO, AND ABANDONING HERSELF TO HIM FOLLOWED HIS LEAD HARDLY +KNOWING HOW. FIRST HE SPUN HER ROUND, HOLDING HER NOW WITH HIS LEFT, NOW +WITH HIS RIGHT HAND, THEN FALLING ON ONE KNEE HE TWIRLED HER ROUND HIM, +AND AGAIN JUMPING UP, DASHED SO IMPETUOUSLY FORWARD THAT IT SEEMED AS IF +HE WOULD RUSH THROUGH THE WHOLE SUITE OF ROOMS WITHOUT DRAWING BREATH, +AND THEN HE SUDDENLY STOPPED AND PERFORMED SOME NEW AND UNEXPECTED +STEPS. WHEN AT LAST, SMARTLY WHIRLING HIS PARTNER ROUND IN FRONT OF HER +CHAIR, HE DREW UP WITH A CLICK OF HIS SPURS AND BOWED TO HER, NATáSHA +DID NOT EVEN MAKE HIM A CURTSY. SHE FIXED HER EYES ON HIM IN AMAZEMENT, +SMILING AS IF SHE DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM. + +“WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?” SHE BROUGHT OUT. + +ALTHOUGH IOGEL DID NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THIS TO BE THE REAL MAZURKA, EVERYONE +WAS DELIGHTED WITH DENíSOV’S SKILL, HE WAS ASKED AGAIN AND AGAIN AS +A PARTNER, AND THE OLD MEN BEGAN SMILINGLY TO TALK ABOUT POLAND AND THE +GOOD OLD DAYS. DENíSOV, FLUSHED AFTER THE MAZURKA AND MOPPING HIMSELF +WITH HIS HANDKERCHIEF, SAT DOWN BY NATáSHA AND DID NOT LEAVE HER FOR +THE REST OF THE EVENING. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIII + +FOR TWO DAYS AFTER THAT ROSTóV DID NOT SEE DóLOKHOV AT HIS OWN OR AT +DóLOKHOV’S HOME: ON THE THIRD DAY HE RECEIVED A NOTE FROM HIM: + +AS I DO NOT INTEND TO BE AT YOUR HOUSE AGAIN FOR REASONS YOU KNOW +OF, AND AM GOING TO REJOIN MY REGIMENT, I AM GIVING A FAREWELL SUPPER +TONIGHT TO MY FRIENDS—COME TO THE ENGLISH HOTEL. + +ABOUT TEN O’CLOCK ROSTóV WENT TO THE ENGLISH HOTEL STRAIGHT FROM THE +THEATER, WHERE HE HAD BEEN WITH HIS FAMILY AND DENíSOV. HE WAS AT ONCE +SHOWN TO THE BEST ROOM, WHICH DóLOKHOV HAD TAKEN FOR THAT EVENING. SOME +TWENTY MEN WERE GATHERED ROUND A TABLE AT WHICH DóLOKHOV SAT BETWEEN +TWO CANDLES. ON THE TABLE WAS A PILE OF GOLD AND PAPER MONEY, AND HE +WAS KEEPING THE BANK. ROSTóV HAD NOT SEEN HIM SINCE HIS PROPOSAL AND +SóNYA’S REFUSAL AND FELT UNCOMFORTABLE AT THE THOUGHT OF HOW THEY +WOULD MEET. + +DóLOKHOV’S CLEAR, COLD GLANCE MET ROSTóV AS SOON AS HE ENTERED THE +DOOR, AS THOUGH HE HAD LONG EXPECTED HIM. + +“IT’S A LONG TIME SINCE WE MET,” HE SAID. “THANKS FOR COMING. +I’LL JUST FINISH DEALING, AND THEN ILYúSHKA WILL COME WITH HIS +CHORUS.” + +“I CALLED ONCE OR TWICE AT YOUR HOUSE,” SAID ROSTóV, REDDENING. + +DóLOKHOV MADE NO REPLY. + +“YOU MAY PUNT,” HE SAID. + +ROSTóV RECALLED AT THAT MOMENT A STRANGE CONVERSATION HE HAD ONCE HAD +WITH DóLOKHOV. “NONE BUT FOOLS TRUST TO LUCK IN PLAY,” DóLOKHOV +HAD THEN SAID. + +“OR ARE YOU AFRAID TO PLAY WITH ME?” DóLOKHOV NOW ASKED AS IF +GUESSING ROSTóV’S THOUGHT. + +BENEATH HIS SMILE ROSTóV SAW IN HIM THE MOOD HE HAD SHOWN AT THE CLUB +DINNER AND AT OTHER TIMES, WHEN AS IF TIRED OF EVERYDAY LIFE HE HAD FELT +A NEED TO ESCAPE FROM IT BY SOME STRANGE, AND USUALLY CRUEL, ACTION. + +ROSTóV FELT ILL AT EASE. HE TRIED, BUT FAILED, TO FIND SOME JOKE WITH +WHICH TO REPLY TO DóLOKHOV’S WORDS. BUT BEFORE HE HAD THOUGHT OF +ANYTHING, DóLOKHOV, LOOKING STRAIGHT IN HIS FACE, SAID SLOWLY AND +DELIBERATELY SO THAT EVERYONE COULD HEAR: + +“DO YOU REMEMBER WE HAD A TALK ABOUT CARDS... ‘HE’S A FOOL WHO +TRUSTS TO LUCK, ONE SHOULD MAKE CERTAIN,’ AND I WANT TO TRY.” + +“TO TRY HIS LUCK OR THE CERTAINTY?” ROSTóV ASKED HIMSELF. + +“WELL, YOU’D BETTER NOT PLAY,” DóLOKHOV ADDED, AND SPRINGING A +NEW PACK OF CARDS SAID: “BANK, GENTLEMEN!” + +MOVING THE MONEY FORWARD HE PREPARED TO DEAL. ROSTóV SAT DOWN BY HIS +SIDE AND AT FIRST DID NOT PLAY. DóLOKHOV KEPT GLANCING AT HIM. + +“WHY DON’T YOU PLAY?” HE ASKED. + +AND STRANGE TO SAY NICHOLAS FELT THAT HE COULD NOT HELP TAKING UP A +CARD, PUTTING A SMALL STAKE ON IT, AND BEGINNING TO PLAY. + +“I HAVE NO MONEY WITH ME,” HE SAID. + +“I’LL TRUST YOU.” + +ROSTóV STAKED FIVE RUBLES ON A CARD AND LOST, STAKED AGAIN, AND AGAIN +LOST. DóLOKHOV “KILLED,” THAT IS, BEAT, TEN CARDS OF ROSTóV’S +RUNNING. + +“GENTLEMEN,” SAID DóLOKHOV AFTER HE HAD DEALT FOR SOME TIME. +“PLEASE PLACE YOUR MONEY ON THE CARDS OR I MAY GET MUDDLED IN THE +RECKONING.” + +ONE OF THE PLAYERS SAID HE HOPED HE MIGHT BE TRUSTED. + +“YES, YOU MIGHT, BUT I AM AFRAID OF GETTING THE ACCOUNTS MIXED. SO I +ASK YOU TO PUT THE MONEY ON YOUR CARDS,” REPLIED DóLOKHOV. “DON’T +STINT YOURSELF, WE’LL SETTLE AFTERWARDS,” HE ADDED, TURNING TO +ROSTóV. + +THE GAME CONTINUED; A WAITER KEPT HANDING ROUND CHAMPAGNE. + +ALL ROSTóV’S CARDS WERE BEATEN AND HE HAD EIGHT HUNDRED RUBLES SCORED +UP AGAINST HIM. HE WROTE “800 RUBLES” ON A CARD, BUT WHILE THE +WAITER FILLED HIS GLASS HE CHANGED HIS MIND AND ALTERED IT TO HIS USUAL +STAKE OF TWENTY RUBLES. + +“LEAVE IT,” SAID DóLOKHOV, THOUGH HE DID NOT SEEM TO BE EVEN +LOOKING AT ROSTóV, “YOU’LL WIN IT BACK ALL THE SOONER. I LOSE TO +THE OTHERS BUT WIN FROM YOU. OR ARE YOU AFRAID OF ME?” HE ASKED AGAIN. + +ROSTóV SUBMITTED. HE LET THE EIGHT HUNDRED REMAIN AND LAID DOWN A SEVEN +OF HEARTS WITH A TORN CORNER, WHICH HE HAD PICKED UP FROM THE FLOOR. HE +WELL REMEMBERED THAT SEVEN AFTERWARDS. HE LAID DOWN THE SEVEN OF HEARTS, +ON WHICH WITH A BROKEN BIT OF CHALK HE HAD WRITTEN “800 RUBLES” IN +CLEAR UPRIGHT FIGURES; HE EMPTIED THE GLASS OF WARM CHAMPAGNE THAT WAS +HANDED HIM, SMILED AT DóLOKHOV’S WORDS, AND WITH A SINKING HEART, +WAITING FOR A SEVEN TO TURN UP, GAZED AT DóLOKHOV’S HANDS WHICH HELD +THE PACK. MUCH DEPENDED ON ROSTóV’S WINNING OR LOSING ON THAT SEVEN +OF HEARTS. ON THE PREVIOUS SUNDAY THE OLD COUNT HAD GIVEN HIS SON +TWO THOUSAND RUBLES, AND THOUGH HE ALWAYS DISLIKED SPEAKING OF MONEY +DIFFICULTIES HAD TOLD NICHOLAS THAT THIS WAS ALL HE COULD LET HIM HAVE +TILL MAY, AND ASKED HIM TO BE MORE ECONOMICAL THIS TIME. NICHOLAS HAD +REPLIED THAT IT WOULD BE MORE THAN ENOUGH FOR HIM AND THAT HE GAVE HIS +WORD OF HONOR NOT TO TAKE ANYTHING MORE TILL THE SPRING. NOW ONLY TWELVE +HUNDRED RUBLES WAS LEFT OF THAT MONEY, SO THAT THIS SEVEN OF HEARTS +MEANT FOR HIM NOT ONLY THE LOSS OF SIXTEEN HUNDRED RUBLES, BUT THE +NECESSITY OF GOING BACK ON HIS WORD. WITH A SINKING HEART HE WATCHED +DóLOKHOV’S HANDS AND THOUGHT, “NOW THEN, MAKE HASTE AND LET ME HAVE +THIS CARD AND I’LL TAKE MY CAP AND DRIVE HOME TO SUPPER WITH DENíSOV, +NATáSHA, AND SóNYA, AND WILL CERTAINLY NEVER TOUCH A CARD AGAIN.” AT +THAT MOMENT HIS HOME LIFE, JOKES WITH PéTYA, TALKS WITH SóNYA, DUETS +WITH NATáSHA, PIQUET WITH HIS FATHER, AND EVEN HIS COMFORTABLE BED +IN THE HOUSE ON THE POVARSKáYA ROSE BEFORE HIM WITH SUCH VIVIDNESS, +CLEARNESS, AND CHARM THAT IT SEEMED AS IF IT WERE ALL A LOST AND +UNAPPRECIATED BLISS, LONG PAST. HE COULD NOT CONCEIVE THAT A STUPID +CHANCE, LETTING THE SEVEN BE DEALT TO THE RIGHT RATHER THAN TO THE LEFT, +MIGHT DEPRIVE HIM OF ALL THIS HAPPINESS, NEWLY APPRECIATED AND NEWLY +ILLUMINED, AND PLUNGE HIM INTO THE DEPTHS OF UNKNOWN AND UNDEFINED +MISERY. THAT COULD NOT BE, YET HE AWAITED WITH A SINKING HEART THE +MOVEMENT OF DóLOKHOV’S HANDS. THOSE BROAD, REDDISH HANDS, WITH HAIRY +WRISTS VISIBLE FROM UNDER THE SHIRT CUFFS, LAID DOWN THE PACK AND TOOK +UP A GLASS AND A PIPE THAT WERE HANDED HIM. + +“SO YOU ARE NOT AFRAID TO PLAY WITH ME?” REPEATED DóLOKHOV, AND AS +IF ABOUT TO TELL A GOOD STORY HE PUT DOWN THE CARDS, LEANED BACK IN HIS +CHAIR, AND BEGAN DELIBERATELY WITH A SMILE: + +“YES, GENTLEMEN, I’VE BEEN TOLD THERE’S A RUMOR GOING ABOUT MOSCOW +THAT I’M A SHARPER, SO I ADVISE YOU TO BE CAREFUL.” + +“COME NOW, DEAL!” EXCLAIMED ROSTóV. + +“OH, THOSE MOSCOW GOSSIPS!” SAID DóLOKHOV, AND HE TOOK UP THE CARDS +WITH A SMILE. + +“AAH!” ROSTóV ALMOST SCREAMED LIFTING BOTH HANDS TO HIS HEAD. THE +SEVEN HE NEEDED WAS LYING UPPERMOST, THE FIRST CARD IN THE PACK. HE HAD +LOST MORE THAN HE COULD PAY. + +“STILL, DON’T RUIN YOURSELF!” SAID DóLOKHOV WITH A SIDE GLANCE AT +ROSTóV AS HE CONTINUED TO DEAL. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +AN HOUR AND A HALF LATER MOST OF THE PLAYERS WERE BUT LITTLE INTERESTED +IN THEIR OWN PLAY. + +THE WHOLE INTEREST WAS CONCENTRATED ON ROSTóV. INSTEAD OF SIXTEEN +HUNDRED RUBLES HE HAD A LONG COLUMN OF FIGURES SCORED AGAINST HIM, +WHICH HE HAD RECKONED UP TO TEN THOUSAND, BUT THAT NOW, AS HE VAGUELY +SUPPOSED, MUST HAVE RISEN TO FIFTEEN THOUSAND. IN REALITY IT ALREADY +EXCEEDED TWENTY THOUSAND RUBLES. DóLOKHOV WAS NO LONGER LISTENING TO +STORIES OR TELLING THEM, BUT FOLLOWED EVERY MOVEMENT OF ROSTóV’S +HANDS AND OCCASIONALLY RAN HIS EYES OVER THE SCORE AGAINST HIM. HE HAD +DECIDED TO PLAY UNTIL THAT SCORE REACHED FORTY-THREE THOUSAND. HE +HAD FIXED ON THAT NUMBER BECAUSE FORTY-THREE WAS THE SUM OF HIS AND +SóNYA’S JOINT AGES. ROSTóV, LEANING HIS HEAD ON BOTH HANDS, SAT AT +THE TABLE WHICH WAS SCRAWLED OVER WITH FIGURES, WET WITH SPILLED WINE, +AND LITTERED WITH CARDS. ONE TORMENTING IMPRESSION DID NOT LEAVE HIM: +THAT THOSE BROAD-BONED REDDISH HANDS WITH HAIRY WRISTS VISIBLE FROM +UNDER THE SHIRT SLEEVES, THOSE HANDS WHICH HE LOVED AND HATED, HELD HIM +IN THEIR POWER. + +“SIX HUNDRED RUBLES, ACE, A CORNER, A NINE... WINNING IT BACK’S +IMPOSSIBLE... OH, HOW PLEASANT IT WAS AT HOME!... THE KNAVE, DOUBLE OR +QUITS... IT CAN’T BE!... AND WHY IS HE DOING THIS TO ME?” ROSTóV +PONDERED. SOMETIMES HE STAKED A LARGE SUM, BUT DóLOKHOV REFUSED TO +ACCEPT IT AND FIXED THE STAKE HIMSELF. NICHOLAS SUBMITTED TO HIM, AND AT +ONE MOMENT PRAYED TO GOD AS HE HAD DONE ON THE BATTLEFIELD AT THE BRIDGE +OVER THE ENNS, AND THEN GUESSED THAT THE CARD THAT CAME FIRST TO HAND +FROM THE CRUMPLED HEAP UNDER THE TABLE WOULD SAVE HIM, NOW COUNTED THE +CORDS ON HIS COAT AND TOOK A CARD WITH THAT NUMBER AND TRIED STAKING THE +TOTAL OF HIS LOSSES ON IT, THEN HE LOOKED ROUND FOR AID FROM THE OTHER +PLAYERS, OR PEERED AT THE NOW COLD FACE OF DóLOKHOV AND TRIED TO READ +WHAT WAS PASSING IN HIS MIND. + +“HE KNOWS OF COURSE WHAT THIS LOSS MEANS TO ME. HE CAN’T WANT MY +RUIN. WASN’T HE MY FRIEND? WASN’T I FOND OF HIM? BUT IT’S NOT HIS +FAULT. WHAT’S HE TO DO IF HE HAS SUCH LUCK?... AND IT’S NOT MY FAULT +EITHER,” HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF, “I HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG. HAVE I +KILLED ANYONE, OR INSULTED OR WISHED HARM TO ANYONE? WHY SUCH A TERRIBLE +MISFORTUNE? AND WHEN DID IT BEGIN? SUCH A LITTLE WHILE AGO I CAME TO +THIS TABLE WITH THE THOUGHT OF WINNING A HUNDRED RUBLES TO BUY THAT +CASKET FOR MAMMA’S NAME DAY AND THEN GOING HOME. I WAS SO HAPPY, SO +FREE, SO LIGHTHEARTED! AND I DID NOT REALIZE HOW HAPPY I WAS! WHEN DID +THAT END AND WHEN DID THIS NEW, TERRIBLE STATE OF THINGS BEGIN? WHAT +MARKED THE CHANGE? I SAT ALL THE TIME IN THIS SAME PLACE AT THIS TABLE, +CHOSE AND PLACED CARDS, AND WATCHED THOSE BROAD-BONED AGILE HANDS IN THE +SAME WAY. WHEN DID IT HAPPEN AND WHAT HAS HAPPENED? I AM WELL AND STRONG +AND STILL THE SAME AND IN THE SAME PLACE. NO, IT CAN’T BE! SURELY IT +WILL ALL END IN NOTHING!” + +HE WAS FLUSHED AND BATHED IN PERSPIRATION, THOUGH THE ROOM WAS NOT HOT. +HIS FACE WAS TERRIBLE AND PITEOUS TO SEE, ESPECIALLY FROM ITS HELPLESS +EFFORTS TO SEEM CALM. + +THE SCORE AGAINST HIM REACHED THE FATEFUL SUM OF FORTY-THREE THOUSAND. +ROSTóV HAD JUST PREPARED A CARD, BY BENDING THE CORNER OF WHICH HE +MEANT TO DOUBLE THE THREE THOUSAND JUST PUT DOWN TO HIS SCORE, WHEN +DóLOKHOV, SLAMMING DOWN THE PACK OF CARDS, PUT IT ASIDE AND BEGAN +RAPIDLY ADDING UP THE TOTAL OF ROSTóV’S DEBT, BREAKING THE CHALK AS +HE MARKED THE FIGURES IN HIS CLEAR, BOLD HAND. + +“SUPPER, IT’S TIME FOR SUPPER! AND HERE ARE THE GYPSIES!” + +SOME SWARTHY MEN AND WOMEN WERE REALLY ENTERING FROM THE COLD OUTSIDE +AND SAYING SOMETHING IN THEIR GYPSY ACCENTS. NICHOLAS UNDERSTOOD THAT IT +WAS ALL OVER; BUT HE SAID IN AN INDIFFERENT TONE: + +“WELL, WON’T YOU GO ON? I HAD A SPLENDID CARD ALL READY,” AS IF IT +WERE THE FUN OF THE GAME WHICH INTERESTED HIM MOST. + +“IT’S ALL UP! I’M LOST!” THOUGHT HE. “NOW A BULLET THROUGH MY +BRAIN—THAT’S ALL THAT’S LEFT ME!” AND AT THE SAME TIME HE SAID +IN A CHEERFUL VOICE: + +“COME NOW, JUST THIS ONE MORE LITTLE CARD!” + +“ALL RIGHT!” SAID DóLOKHOV, HAVING FINISHED THE ADDITION. “ALL +RIGHT! TWENTY-ONE RUBLES,” HE SAID, POINTING TO THE FIGURE TWENTY-ONE +BY WHICH THE TOTAL EXCEEDED THE ROUND SUM OF FORTY-THREE THOUSAND; AND +TAKING UP A PACK HE PREPARED TO DEAL. ROSTóV SUBMISSIVELY UNBENT THE +CORNER OF HIS CARD AND, INSTEAD OF THE SIX THOUSAND HE HAD INTENDED, +CAREFULLY WROTE TWENTY-ONE. + +“IT’S ALL THE SAME TO ME,” HE SAID. “I ONLY WANT TO SEE WHETHER +YOU WILL LET ME WIN THIS TEN, OR BEAT IT.” + +DóLOKHOV BEGAN TO DEAL SERIOUSLY. OH, HOW ROSTóV DETESTED AT THAT +MOMENT THOSE HANDS WITH THEIR SHORT REDDISH FINGERS AND HAIRY WRISTS, +WHICH HELD HIM IN THEIR POWER.... THE TEN FELL TO HIM. + +“YOU OWE FORTY-THREE THOUSAND, COUNT,” SAID DóLOKHOV, AND +STRETCHING HIMSELF HE ROSE FROM THE TABLE. “ONE DOES GET TIRED SITTING +SO LONG,” HE ADDED. + +“YES, I’M TIRED TOO,” SAID ROSTóV. + +DóLOKHOV CUT HIM SHORT, AS IF TO REMIND HIM THAT IT WAS NOT FOR HIM TO +JEST. + +“WHEN AM I TO RECEIVE THE MONEY, COUNT?” + +ROSTóV, FLUSHING, DREW DóLOKHOV INTO THE NEXT ROOM. + +“I CANNOT PAY IT ALL IMMEDIATELY. WILL YOU TAKE AN I.O.U.?” HE SAID. + +“I SAY, ROSTóV,” SAID DóLOKHOV CLEARLY, SMILING AND LOOKING +NICHOLAS STRAIGHT IN THE EYES, “YOU KNOW THE SAYING, ‘LUCKY IN LOVE, +UNLUCKY AT CARDS.’ YOUR COUSIN IS IN LOVE WITH YOU, I KNOW.” + +“OH, IT’S TERRIBLE TO FEEL ONESELF SO IN THIS MAN’S POWER,” +THOUGHT ROSTóV. HE KNEW WHAT A SHOCK HE WOULD INFLICT ON HIS FATHER AND +MOTHER BY THE NEWS OF THIS LOSS, HE KNEW WHAT A RELIEF IT WOULD BE TO +ESCAPE IT ALL, AND FELT THAT DóLOKHOV KNEW THAT HE COULD SAVE HIM FROM +ALL THIS SHAME AND SORROW, BUT WANTED NOW TO PLAY WITH HIM AS A CAT DOES +WITH A MOUSE. + +“YOUR COUSIN...” DóLOKHOV STARTED TO SAY, BUT NICHOLAS INTERRUPTED +HIM. + +“MY COUSIN HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS AND IT’S NOT NECESSARY TO +MENTION HER!” HE EXCLAIMED FIERCELY. + +“THEN WHEN AM I TO HAVE IT?” + +“TOMORROW,” REPLIED ROSTóV AND LEFT THE ROOM. + + + + + +CHAPTER XV + +TO SAY “TOMORROW” AND KEEP UP A DIGNIFIED TONE WAS NOT DIFFICULT, +BUT TO GO HOME ALONE, SEE HIS SISTERS, BROTHER, MOTHER, AND FATHER, +CONFESS AND ASK FOR MONEY HE HAD NO RIGHT TO AFTER GIVING HIS WORD OF +HONOR, WAS TERRIBLE. + +AT HOME, THEY HAD NOT YET GONE TO BED. THE YOUNG PEOPLE, AFTER RETURNING +FROM THE THEATER, HAD HAD SUPPER AND WERE GROUPED ROUND THE CLAVICHORD. +AS SOON AS NICHOLAS ENTERED, HE WAS ENFOLDED IN THAT POETIC ATMOSPHERE +OF LOVE WHICH PERVADED THE ROSTóV HOUSEHOLD THAT WINTER AND, NOW AFTER +DóLOKHOV’S PROPOSAL AND IOGEL’S BALL, SEEMED TO HAVE GROWN THICKER +ROUND SóNYA AND NATáSHA AS THE AIR DOES BEFORE A THUNDERSTORM. SóNYA +AND NATáSHA, IN THE LIGHT-BLUE DRESSES THEY HAD WORN AT THE THEATER, +LOOKING PRETTY AND CONSCIOUS OF IT, WERE STANDING BY THE CLAVICHORD, +HAPPY AND SMILING. VéRA WAS PLAYING CHESS WITH SHINSHíN IN THE DRAWING +ROOM. THE OLD COUNTESS, WAITING FOR THE RETURN OF HER HUSBAND AND SON, +SAT PLAYING PATIENCE WITH THE OLD GENTLEWOMAN WHO LIVED IN THEIR HOUSE. +DENíSOV, WITH SPARKLING EYES AND RUFFLED HAIR, SAT AT THE CLAVICHORD +STRIKING CHORDS WITH HIS SHORT FINGERS, HIS LEGS THROWN BACK AND HIS +EYES ROLLING AS HE SANG, WITH HIS SMALL, HUSKY, BUT TRUE VOICE, SOME +VERSES CALLED “ENCHANTRESS,” WHICH HE HAD COMPOSED, AND TO WHICH HE +WAS TRYING TO FIT MUSIC: + + ENCHANTRESS, SAY, TO MY FORSAKEN LYRE + WHAT MAGIC POWER IS THIS RECALLS ME STILL? + WHAT SPARK HAS SET MY INMOST SOUL ON FIRE, + WHAT IS THIS BLISS THAT MAKES MY FINGERS THRILL? + +HE WAS SINGING IN PASSIONATE TONES, GAZING WITH HIS SPARKLING +BLACK-AGATE EYES AT THE FRIGHTENED AND HAPPY NATáSHA. + +“SPLENDID! EXCELLENT!” EXCLAIMED NATáSHA. “ANOTHER VERSE,” SHE +SAID, WITHOUT NOTICING NICHOLAS. + +“EVERYTHING’S STILL THE SAME WITH THEM,” THOUGHT NICHOLAS, +GLANCING INTO THE DRAWING ROOM, WHERE HE SAW VéRA AND HIS MOTHER WITH +THE OLD LADY. + +“AH, AND HERE’S NICHOLAS!” CRIED NATáSHA, RUNNING UP TO HIM. + +“IS PAPA AT HOME?” HE ASKED. + +“I AM SO GLAD YOU’VE COME!” SAID NATáSHA, WITHOUT ANSWERING HIM. +“WE ARE ENJOYING OURSELVES! VASíLI DMíTRICH IS STAYING A DAY LONGER +FOR MY SAKE! DID YOU KNOW?” + +“NO, PAPA IS NOT BACK YET,” SAID SóNYA. + +“NICHOLAS, HAVE YOU COME? COME HERE, DEAR!” CALLED THE OLD COUNTESS +FROM THE DRAWING ROOM. + +NICHOLAS WENT TO HER, KISSED HER HAND, AND SITTING DOWN SILENTLY AT HER +TABLE BEGAN TO WATCH HER HANDS ARRANGING THE CARDS. FROM THE DANCING +ROOM, THEY STILL HEARD THE LAUGHTER AND MERRY VOICES TRYING TO PERSUADE +NATáSHA TO SING. + +“ALL WIGHT! ALL WIGHT!” SHOUTED DENíSOV. “IT’S NO GOOD MAKING +EXCUSES NOW! IT’S YOUR TURN TO SING THE BA’CAWOLLA—I ENTWEAT +YOU!” + +THE COUNTESS GLANCED AT HER SILENT SON. + +“WHAT IS THE MATTER?” SHE ASKED. + +“OH, NOTHING,” SAID HE, AS IF WEARY OF BEING CONTINUALLY ASKED THE +SAME QUESTION. “WILL PAPA BE BACK SOON?” + +“I EXPECT SO.” + +“EVERYTHING’S THE SAME WITH THEM. THEY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT! WHERE +AM I TO GO?” THOUGHT NICHOLAS, AND WENT AGAIN INTO THE DANCING ROOM +WHERE THE CLAVICHORD STOOD. + +SóNYA WAS SITTING AT THE CLAVICHORD, PLAYING THE PRELUDE TO +DENíSOV’S FAVORITE BARCAROLLE. NATáSHA WAS PREPARING TO SING. +DENíSOV WAS LOOKING AT HER WITH ENRAPTURED EYES. + +NICHOLAS BEGAN PACING UP AND DOWN THE ROOM. + +“WHY DO THEY WANT TO MAKE HER SING? HOW CAN SHE SING? THERE’S +NOTHING TO BE HAPPY ABOUT!” THOUGHT HE. + +SóNYA STRUCK THE FIRST CHORD OF THE PRELUDE. + +“MY GOD, I’M A RUINED AND DISHONORED MAN! A BULLET THROUGH MY BRAIN +IS THE ONLY THING LEFT ME—NOT SINGING!” HIS THOUGHTS RAN ON. “GO +AWAY? BUT WHERE TO? IT’S ONE—LET THEM SING!” + +HE CONTINUED TO PACE THE ROOM, LOOKING GLOOMILY AT DENíSOV AND THE +GIRLS AND AVOIDING THEIR EYES. + +“NIKóLENKA, WHAT IS THE MATTER?” SóNYA’S EYES FIXED ON HIM +SEEMED TO ASK. SHE NOTICED AT ONCE THAT SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED TO HIM. + +NICHOLAS TURNED AWAY FROM HER. NATáSHA TOO, WITH HER QUICK INSTINCT, +HAD INSTANTLY NOTICED HER BROTHER’S CONDITION. BUT, THOUGH SHE NOTICED +IT, SHE WAS HERSELF IN SUCH HIGH SPIRITS AT THAT MOMENT, SO FAR FROM +SORROW, SADNESS, OR SELF-REPROACH, THAT SHE PURPOSELY DECEIVED HERSELF +AS YOUNG PEOPLE OFTEN DO. “NO, I AM TOO HAPPY NOW TO SPOIL MY +ENJOYMENT BY SYMPATHY WITH ANYONE’S SORROW,” SHE FELT, AND SHE SAID +TO HERSELF: “NO, I MUST BE MISTAKEN, HE MUST BE FEELING HAPPY, JUST AS +I AM.” + +“NOW, SóNYA!” SHE SAID, GOING TO THE VERY MIDDLE OF THE ROOM, WHERE +SHE CONSIDERED THE RESONANCE WAS BEST. + +HAVING LIFTED HER HEAD AND LET HER ARMS DROOP LIFELESSLY, AS BALLET +DANCERS DO, NATáSHA, RISING ENERGETICALLY FROM HER HEELS TO HER TOES, +STEPPED TO THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM AND STOOD STILL. + +“YES, THAT’S ME!” SHE SEEMED TO SAY, ANSWERING THE RAPT GAZE WITH +WHICH DENíSOV FOLLOWED HER. + +“AND WHAT IS SHE SO PLEASED ABOUT?” THOUGHT NICHOLAS, LOOKING AT HIS +SISTER. “WHY ISN’T SHE DULL AND ASHAMED?” + +NATáSHA TOOK THE FIRST NOTE, HER THROAT SWELLED, HER CHEST ROSE, +HER EYES BECAME SERIOUS. AT THAT MOMENT SHE WAS OBLIVIOUS OF HER +SURROUNDINGS, AND FROM HER SMILING LIPS FLOWED SOUNDS WHICH ANYONE MAY +PRODUCE AT THE SAME INTERVALS AND HOLD FOR THE SAME TIME, BUT WHICH +LEAVE YOU COLD A THOUSAND TIMES AND THE THOUSAND AND FIRST TIME THRILL +YOU AND MAKE YOU WEEP. + +NATáSHA, THAT WINTER, HAD FOR THE FIRST TIME BEGUN TO SING SERIOUSLY, +MAINLY BECAUSE DENíSOV SO DELIGHTED IN HER SINGING. SHE NO LONGER SANG +AS A CHILD, THERE WAS NO LONGER IN HER SINGING THAT COMICAL, CHILDISH, +PAINSTAKING EFFECT THAT HAD BEEN IN IT BEFORE; BUT SHE DID NOT YET SING +WELL, AS ALL THE CONNOISSEURS WHO HEARD HER SAID: “IT IS NOT TRAINED, +BUT IT IS A BEAUTIFUL VOICE THAT MUST BE TRAINED.” ONLY THEY GENERALLY +SAID THIS SOME TIME AFTER SHE HAD FINISHED SINGING. WHILE THAT UNTRAINED +VOICE, WITH ITS INCORRECT BREATHING AND LABORED TRANSITIONS, WAS +SOUNDING, EVEN THE CONNOISSEURS SAID NOTHING, BUT ONLY DELIGHTED IN +IT AND WISHED TO HEAR IT AGAIN. IN HER VOICE THERE WAS A VIRGINAL +FRESHNESS, AN UNCONSCIOUSNESS OF HER OWN POWERS, AND AN AS YET UNTRAINED +VELVETY SOFTNESS, WHICH SO MINGLED WITH HER LACK OF ART IN SINGING THAT +IT SEEMED AS IF NOTHING IN THAT VOICE COULD BE ALTERED WITHOUT SPOILING +IT. + +“WHAT IS THIS?” THOUGHT NICHOLAS, LISTENING TO HER WITH WIDELY +OPENED EYES. “WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO HER? HOW SHE IS SINGING TODAY!” +AND SUDDENLY THE WHOLE WORLD CENTERED FOR HIM ON ANTICIPATION OF THE +NEXT NOTE, THE NEXT PHRASE, AND EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD WAS DIVIDED INTO +THREE BEATS: “OH MIO CRUDELE AFFETTO.”... ONE, TWO, THREE... ONE, +TWO, THREE... ONE... “OH MIO CRUDELE AFFETTO.”... ONE, TWO, THREE... +ONE. “OH, THIS SENSELESS LIFE OF OURS!” THOUGHT NICHOLAS. “ALL +THIS MISERY, AND MONEY, AND DóLOKHOV, AND ANGER, AND HONOR—IT’S ALL +NONSENSE... BUT THIS IS REAL.... NOW THEN, NATáSHA, NOW THEN, DEAREST! +NOW THEN, DARLING! HOW WILL SHE TAKE THAT SI? SHE’S TAKEN IT! THANK +GOD!” AND WITHOUT NOTICING THAT HE WAS SINGING, TO STRENGTHEN THE SI +HE SUNG A SECOND, A THIRD BELOW THE HIGH NOTE. “AH, GOD! HOW FINE! DID +I REALLY TAKE IT? HOW FORTUNATE!” HE THOUGHT. + +OH, HOW THAT CHORD VIBRATED, AND HOW MOVED WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS FINEST +IN ROSTóV’S SOUL! AND THIS SOMETHING WAS APART FROM EVERYTHING ELSE +IN THE WORLD AND ABOVE EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD. “WHAT WERE LOSSES, AND +DóLOKHOV, AND WORDS OF HONOR?... ALL NONSENSE! ONE MIGHT KILL AND ROB +AND YET BE HAPPY....” + + + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +IT WAS LONG SINCE ROSTóV HAD FELT SUCH ENJOYMENT FROM MUSIC AS HE +DID THAT DAY. BUT NO SOONER HAD NATáSHA FINISHED HER BARCAROLLE THAN +REALITY AGAIN PRESENTED ITSELF. HE GOT UP WITHOUT SAYING A WORD AND WENT +DOWNSTAIRS TO HIS OWN ROOM. A QUARTER OF AN HOUR LATER THE OLD COUNT +CAME IN FROM HIS CLUB, CHEERFUL AND CONTENTED. NICHOLAS, HEARING HIM +DRIVE UP, WENT TO MEET HIM. + +“WELL—HAD A GOOD TIME?” SAID THE OLD COUNT, SMILING GAILY AND +PROUDLY AT HIS SON. + +NICHOLAS TRIED TO SAY “YES,” BUT COULD NOT: AND HE NEARLY BURST INTO +SOBS. THE COUNT WAS LIGHTING HIS PIPE AND DID NOT NOTICE HIS SON’S +CONDITION. + +“AH, IT CAN’T BE AVOIDED!” THOUGHT NICHOLAS, FOR THE FIRST AND +LAST TIME. AND SUDDENLY, IN THE MOST CASUAL TONE, WHICH MADE HIM FEEL +ASHAMED OF HIMSELF, HE SAID, AS IF MERELY ASKING HIS FATHER TO LET HIM +HAVE THE CARRIAGE TO DRIVE TO TOWN: + +“PAPA, I HAVE COME ON A MATTER OF BUSINESS. I WAS NEARLY FORGETTING. I +NEED SOME MONEY.” + +“DEAR ME!” SAID HIS FATHER, WHO WAS IN A SPECIALLY GOOD HUMOR. “I +TOLD YOU IT WOULD NOT BE ENOUGH. HOW MUCH?” + +“VERY MUCH,” SAID NICHOLAS FLUSHING, AND WITH A STUPID CARELESS +SMILE, FOR WHICH HE WAS LONG UNABLE TO FORGIVE HIMSELF, “I HAVE LOST A +LITTLE, I MEAN A GOOD DEAL, A GREAT DEAL—FORTY THREE THOUSAND.” + +“WHAT! TO WHOM?... NONSENSE!” CRIED THE COUNT, SUDDENLY REDDENING +WITH AN APOPLECTIC FLUSH OVER NECK AND NAPE AS OLD PEOPLE DO. + +“I PROMISED TO PAY TOMORROW,” SAID NICHOLAS. + +“WELL!...” SAID THE OLD COUNT, SPREADING OUT HIS ARMS AND SINKING +HELPLESSLY ON THE SOFA. + +“IT CAN’T BE HELPED! IT HAPPENS TO EVERYONE!” SAID THE SON, WITH +A BOLD, FREE, AND EASY TONE, WHILE IN HIS SOUL HE REGARDED HIMSELF AS A +WORTHLESS SCOUNDREL WHOSE WHOLE LIFE COULD NOT ATONE FOR HIS CRIME. HE +LONGED TO KISS HIS FATHER’S HANDS AND KNEEL TO BEG HIS FORGIVENESS, +BUT SAID, IN A CARELESS AND EVEN RUDE VOICE, THAT IT HAPPENS TO +EVERYONE! + +THE OLD COUNT CAST DOWN HIS EYES ON HEARING HIS SON’S WORDS AND BEGAN +BUSTLINGLY SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING. + +“YES, YES,” HE MUTTERED, “IT WILL BE DIFFICULT, I FEAR, DIFFICULT +TO RAISE... HAPPENS TO EVERYBODY! YES, WHO HAS NOT DONE IT?” + +AND WITH A FURTIVE GLANCE AT HIS SON’S FACE, THE COUNT WENT OUT OF THE +ROOM.... NICHOLAS HAD BEEN PREPARED FOR RESISTANCE, BUT HAD NOT AT ALL +EXPECTED THIS. + +“PAPA! PA-PA!” HE CALLED AFTER HIM, SOBBING, “FORGIVE ME!” AND +SEIZING HIS FATHER’S HAND, HE PRESSED IT TO HIS LIPS AND BURST INTO +TEARS. + +WHILE FATHER AND SON WERE HAVING THEIR EXPLANATION, THE MOTHER AND +DAUGHTER WERE HAVING ONE NOT LESS IMPORTANT. NATáSHA CAME RUNNING TO +HER MOTHER, QUITE EXCITED. + +“MAMMA!... MAMMA!... HE HAS MADE ME...” + +“MADE WHAT?” + +“MADE, MADE ME AN OFFER, MAMMA! MAMMA!” SHE EXCLAIMED. + +THE COUNTESS DID NOT BELIEVE HER EARS. DENíSOV HAD PROPOSED. TO WHOM? +TO THIS CHIT OF A GIRL, NATáSHA, WHO NOT SO LONG AGO WAS PLAYING WITH +DOLLS AND WHO WAS STILL HAVING LESSONS. + +“DON’T, NATáSHA! WHAT NONSENSE!” SHE SAID, HOPING IT WAS A JOKE. + +“NONSENSE, INDEED! I AM TELLING YOU THE FACT,” SAID NATáSHA +INDIGNANTLY. “I COME TO ASK YOU WHAT TO DO, AND YOU CALL IT +‘NONSENSE!’” + +THE COUNTESS SHRUGGED HER SHOULDERS. + +“IF IT IS TRUE THAT MONSIEUR DENíSOV HAS MADE YOU A PROPOSAL, TELL +HIM HE IS A FOOL, THAT’S ALL!” + +“NO, HE’S NOT A FOOL!” REPLIED NATáSHA INDIGNANTLY AND SERIOUSLY. + +“WELL THEN, WHAT DO YOU WANT? YOU’RE ALL IN LOVE NOWADAYS. WELL, +IF YOU ARE IN LOVE, MARRY HIM!” SAID THE COUNTESS, WITH A LAUGH OF +ANNOYANCE. “GOOD LUCK TO YOU!” + +“NO, MAMMA, I’M NOT IN LOVE WITH HIM, I SUPPOSE I’M NOT IN LOVE +WITH HIM.” + +“WELL THEN, TELL HIM SO.” + +“MAMMA, ARE YOU CROSS? DON’T BE CROSS, DEAR! IS IT MY FAULT?” + +“NO, BUT WHAT IS IT, MY DEAR? DO YOU WANT ME TO GO AND TELL HIM?” +SAID THE COUNTESS SMILING. + +“NO, I WILL DO IT MYSELF, ONLY TELL ME WHAT TO SAY. IT’S ALL VERY +WELL FOR YOU,” SAID NATáSHA, WITH A RESPONSIVE SMILE. “YOU SHOULD +HAVE SEEN HOW HE SAID IT! I KNOW HE DID NOT MEAN TO SAY IT, BUT IT CAME +OUT ACCIDENTLY.” + +“WELL, ALL THE SAME, YOU MUST REFUSE HIM.” + +“NO, I MUSTN’T. I AM SO SORRY FOR HIM! HE’S SO NICE.” + +“WELL THEN, ACCEPT HIS OFFER. IT’S HIGH TIME FOR YOU TO BE +MARRIED,” ANSWERED THE COUNTESS SHARPLY AND SARCASTICALLY. + +“NO, MAMMA, BUT I’M SO SORRY FOR HIM. I DON’T KNOW HOW I’M TO +SAY IT.” + +“AND THERE’S NOTHING FOR YOU TO SAY. I SHALL SPEAK TO HIM MYSELF,” +SAID THE COUNTESS, INDIGNANT THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE DARED TO TREAT THIS +LITTLE NATáSHA AS GROWN UP. + +“NO, NOT ON ANY ACCOUNT! I WILL TELL HIM MYSELF, AND YOU’LL LISTEN +AT THE DOOR,” AND NATáSHA RAN ACROSS THE DRAWING ROOM TO THE DANCING +HALL, WHERE DENíSOV WAS SITTING ON THE SAME CHAIR BY THE CLAVICHORD +WITH HIS FACE IN HIS HANDS. + +HE JUMPED UP AT THE SOUND OF HER LIGHT STEP. + +“NATALY,” HE SAID, MOVING WITH RAPID STEPS TOWARD HER, “DECIDE MY +FATE. IT IS IN YOUR HANDS.” + +“VASíLI DMíTRICH, I’M SO SORRY FOR YOU!... NO, BUT YOU ARE SO +NICE... BUT IT WON’T DO...NOT THAT... BUT AS A FRIEND, I SHALL ALWAYS +LOVE YOU.” + +DENíSOV BENT OVER HER HAND AND SHE HEARD STRANGE SOUNDS SHE DID NOT +UNDERSTAND. SHE KISSED HIS ROUGH CURLY BLACK HEAD. AT THIS INSTANT, THEY +HEARD THE QUICK RUSTLE OF THE COUNTESS’ DRESS. SHE CAME UP TO THEM. + +“VASíLI DMíTRICH, I THANK YOU FOR THE HONOR,” SHE SAID, WITH AN +EMBARRASSED VOICE, THOUGH IT SOUNDED SEVERE TO DENíSOV—“BUT MY +DAUGHTER IS SO YOUNG, AND I THOUGHT THAT, AS MY SON’S FRIEND, YOU +WOULD HAVE ADDRESSED YOURSELF FIRST TO ME. IN THAT CASE YOU WOULD NOT +HAVE OBLIGED ME TO GIVE THIS REFUSAL.” + +“COUNTESS...” SAID DENíSOV, WITH DOWNCAST EYES AND A GUILTY FACE. +HE TRIED TO SAY MORE, BUT FALTERED. + +NATáSHA COULD NOT REMAIN CALM, SEEING HIM IN SUCH A PLIGHT. SHE BEGAN +TO SOB ALOUD. + +“COUNTESS, I HAVE DONE W’ONG,” DENíSOV WENT ON IN AN UNSTEADY +VOICE, “BUT BELIEVE ME, I SO ADORE YOUR DAUGHTER AND ALL YOUR FAMILY +THAT I WOULD GIVE MY LIFE TWICE OVER...” HE LOOKED AT THE COUNTESS, +AND SEEING HER SEVERE FACE SAID: “WELL, GOOD-BY, COUNTESS,” AND +KISSING HER HAND, HE LEFT THE ROOM WITH QUICK RESOLUTE STRIDES, WITHOUT +LOOKING AT NATáSHA. + + +NEXT DAY ROSTóV SAW DENíSOV OFF. HE DID NOT WISH TO STAY ANOTHER +DAY IN MOSCOW. ALL DENíSOV’S MOSCOW FRIENDS GAVE HIM A FAREWELL +ENTERTAINMENT AT THE GYPSIES’, WITH THE RESULT THAT HE HAD NO +RECOLLECTION OF HOW HE WAS PUT IN THE SLEIGH OR OF THE FIRST THREE +STAGES OF HIS JOURNEY. + +AFTER DENíSOV’S DEPARTURE, ROSTóV SPENT ANOTHER FORTNIGHT IN MOSCOW, +WITHOUT GOING OUT OF THE HOUSE, WAITING FOR THE MONEY HIS FATHER COULD +NOT AT ONCE RAISE, AND HE SPENT MOST OF HIS TIME IN THE GIRLS’ ROOM. + +SóNYA WAS MORE TENDER AND DEVOTED TO HIM THAN EVER. IT WAS AS IF SHE +WANTED TO SHOW HIM THAT HIS LOSSES WERE AN ACHIEVEMENT THAT MADE HER +LOVE HIM ALL THE MORE, BUT NICHOLAS NOW CONSIDERED HIMSELF UNWORTHY OF +HER. + +HE FILLED THE GIRLS’ ALBUMS WITH VERSES AND MUSIC, AND HAVING AT LAST +SENT DóLOKHOV THE WHOLE FORTY-THREE THOUSAND RUBLES AND RECEIVED HIS +RECEIPT, HE LEFT AT THE END OF NOVEMBER, WITHOUT TAKING LEAVE OF ANY OF +HIS ACQUAINTANCES, TO OVERTAKE HIS REGIMENT WHICH WAS ALREADY IN POLAND. + + + + + +BOOK FIVE: 1806 - 07 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +AFTER HIS INTERVIEW WITH HIS WIFE PIERRE LEFT FOR PETERSBURG. AT THE +TORZHóK POST STATION, EITHER THERE WERE NO HORSES OR THE POSTMASTER +WOULD NOT SUPPLY THEM. PIERRE WAS OBLIGED TO WAIT. WITHOUT UNDRESSING, +HE LAY DOWN ON THE LEATHER SOFA IN FRONT OF A ROUND TABLE, PUT HIS BIG +FEET IN THEIR OVERBOOTS ON THE TABLE, AND BEGAN TO REFLECT. + +“WILL YOU HAVE THE PORTMANTEAUS BROUGHT IN? AND A BED GOT READY, AND +TEA?” ASKED HIS VALET. + +PIERRE GAVE NO ANSWER, FOR HE NEITHER HEARD NOR SAW ANYTHING. HE HAD +BEGUN TO THINK OF THE LAST STATION AND WAS STILL PONDERING ON THE SAME +QUESTION—ONE SO IMPORTANT THAT HE TOOK NO NOTICE OF WHAT WENT +ON AROUND HIM. NOT ONLY WAS HE INDIFFERENT AS TO WHETHER HE GOT TO +PETERSBURG EARLIER OR LATER, OR WHETHER HE SECURED ACCOMMODATION AT THIS +STATION, BUT COMPARED TO THE THOUGHTS THAT NOW OCCUPIED HIM IT WAS A +MATTER OF INDIFFERENCE WHETHER HE REMAINED THERE FOR A FEW HOURS OR FOR +THE REST OF HIS LIFE. + +THE POSTMASTER, HIS WIFE, THE VALET, AND A PEASANT WOMAN SELLING +TORZHóK EMBROIDERY CAME INTO THE ROOM OFFERING THEIR SERVICES. +WITHOUT CHANGING HIS CARELESS ATTITUDE, PIERRE LOOKED AT THEM OVER HIS +SPECTACLES UNABLE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY WANTED OR HOW THEY COULD GO ON +LIVING WITHOUT HAVING SOLVED THE PROBLEMS THAT SO ABSORBED HIM. HE HAD +BEEN ENGROSSED BY THE SAME THOUGHTS EVER SINCE THE DAY HE RETURNED FROM +SOKóLNIKI AFTER THE DUEL AND HAD SPENT THAT FIRST AGONIZING, SLEEPLESS +NIGHT. BUT NOW, IN THE SOLITUDE OF THE JOURNEY, THEY SEIZED HIM WITH +SPECIAL FORCE. NO MATTER WHAT HE THOUGHT ABOUT, HE ALWAYS RETURNED TO +THESE SAME QUESTIONS WHICH HE COULD NOT SOLVE AND YET COULD NOT CEASE TO +ASK HIMSELF. IT WAS AS IF THE THREAD OF THE CHIEF SCREW WHICH HELD HIS +LIFE TOGETHER WERE STRIPPED, SO THAT THE SCREW COULD NOT GET IN OR OUT, +BUT WENT ON TURNING USELESSLY IN THE SAME PLACE. + +THE POSTMASTER CAME IN AND BEGAN OBSEQUIOUSLY TO BEG HIS EXCELLENCY TO +WAIT ONLY TWO HOURS, WHEN, COME WHAT MIGHT, HE WOULD LET HIS EXCELLENCY +HAVE THE COURIER HORSES. IT WAS PLAIN THAT HE WAS LYING AND ONLY WANTED +TO GET MORE MONEY FROM THE TRAVELER. + +“IS THIS GOOD OR BAD?” PIERRE ASKED HIMSELF. “IT IS GOOD FOR ME, +BAD FOR ANOTHER TRAVELER, AND FOR HIMSELF IT’S UNAVOIDABLE, BECAUSE +HE NEEDS MONEY FOR FOOD; THE MAN SAID AN OFFICER HAD ONCE GIVEN HIM A +THRASHING FOR LETTING A PRIVATE TRAVELER HAVE THE COURIER HORSES. +BUT THE OFFICER THRASHED HIM BECAUSE HE HAD TO GET ON AS QUICKLY AS +POSSIBLE. AND I,” CONTINUED PIERRE, “SHOT DóLOKHOV BECAUSE I +CONSIDERED MYSELF INJURED, AND LOUIS XVI WAS EXECUTED BECAUSE THEY +CONSIDERED HIM A CRIMINAL, AND A YEAR LATER THEY EXECUTED THOSE WHO +EXECUTED HIM—ALSO FOR SOME REASON. WHAT IS BAD? WHAT IS GOOD? WHAT +SHOULD ONE LOVE AND WHAT HATE? WHAT DOES ONE LIVE FOR? AND WHAT AM I? +WHAT IS LIFE, AND WHAT IS DEATH? WHAT POWER GOVERNS ALL?” + +THERE WAS NO ANSWER TO ANY OF THESE QUESTIONS, EXCEPT ONE, AND THAT +NOT A LOGICAL ANSWER AND NOT AT ALL A REPLY TO THEM. THE ANSWER WAS: +“YOU’LL DIE AND ALL WILL END. YOU’LL DIE AND KNOW ALL, OR CEASE +ASKING.” BUT DYING WAS ALSO DREADFUL. + +THE TORZHóK PEDDLER WOMAN, IN A WHINING VOICE, WENT ON OFFERING HER +WARES, ESPECIALLY A PAIR OF GOATSKIN SLIPPERS. “I HAVE HUNDREDS OF +RUBLES I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH, AND SHE STANDS IN HER TATTERED +CLOAK LOOKING TIMIDLY AT ME,” HE THOUGHT. “AND WHAT DOES SHE +WANT THE MONEY FOR? AS IF THAT MONEY COULD ADD A HAIR’S BREADTH TO +HAPPINESS OR PEACE OF MIND. CAN ANYTHING IN THE WORLD MAKE HER OR ME +LESS A PREY TO EVIL AND DEATH?—DEATH WHICH ENDS ALL AND MUST COME +TODAY OR TOMORROW—AT ANY RATE, IN AN INSTANT AS COMPARED WITH +ETERNITY.” AND AGAIN HE TWISTED THE SCREW WITH THE STRIPPED THREAD, +AND AGAIN IT TURNED USELESSLY IN THE SAME PLACE. + +HIS SERVANT HANDED HIM A HALF-CUT NOVEL, IN THE FORM OF LETTERS, BY +MADAME DE SOUZA. HE BEGAN READING ABOUT THE SUFFERINGS AND VIRTUOUS +STRUGGLES OF A CERTAIN EMILIE DE MANSFELD. “AND WHY DID SHE RESIST +HER SEDUCER WHEN SHE LOVED HIM?” HE THOUGHT. “GOD COULD NOT HAVE PUT +INTO HER HEART AN IMPULSE THAT WAS AGAINST HIS WILL. MY WIFE—AS SHE +ONCE WAS—DID NOT STRUGGLE, AND PERHAPS SHE WAS RIGHT. NOTHING HAS BEEN +FOUND OUT, NOTHING DISCOVERED,” PIERRE AGAIN SAID TO HIMSELF. “ALL +WE CAN KNOW IS THAT WE KNOW NOTHING. AND THAT’S THE HEIGHT OF HUMAN +WISDOM.” + +EVERYTHING WITHIN AND AROUND HIM SEEMED CONFUSED, SENSELESS, AND +REPELLENT. YET IN THIS VERY REPUGNANCE TO ALL HIS CIRCUMSTANCES PIERRE +FOUND A KIND OF TANTALIZING SATISFACTION. + +“I MAKE BOLD TO ASK YOUR EXCELLENCY TO MOVE A LITTLE FOR THIS +GENTLEMAN,” SAID THE POSTMASTER, ENTERING THE ROOM FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER +TRAVELER, ALSO DETAINED FOR LACK OF HORSES. + +THE NEWCOMER WAS A SHORT, LARGE-BONED, YELLOW-FACED, WRINKLED OLD +MAN, WITH GRAY BUSHY EYEBROWS OVERHANGING BRIGHT EYES OF AN INDEFINITE +GRAYISH COLOR. + +PIERRE TOOK HIS FEET OFF THE TABLE, STOOD UP, AND LAY DOWN ON A BED THAT +HAD BEEN GOT READY FOR HIM, GLANCING NOW AND THEN AT THE NEWCOMER, WHO, +WITH A GLOOMY AND TIRED FACE, WAS WEARILY TAKING OFF HIS WRAPS WITH THE +AID OF HIS SERVANT, AND NOT LOOKING AT PIERRE. WITH A PAIR OF FELT BOOTS +ON HIS THIN BONY LEGS, AND KEEPING ON A WORN, NANKEEN-COVERED, SHEEPSKIN +COAT, THE TRAVELER SAT DOWN ON THE SOFA, LEANED BACK HIS BIG HEAD WITH +ITS BROAD TEMPLES AND CLOSE-CROPPED HAIR, AND LOOKED AT BEZúKHOV. THE +STERN, SHREWD, AND PENETRATING EXPRESSION OF THAT LOOK STRUCK PIERRE. HE +FELT A WISH TO SPEAK TO THE STRANGER, BUT BY THE TIME HE HAD MADE UP HIS +MIND TO ASK HIM A QUESTION ABOUT THE ROADS, THE TRAVELER HAD CLOSED HIS +EYES. HIS SHRIVELED OLD HANDS WERE FOLDED AND ON THE FINGER OF ONE OF +THEM PIERRE NOTICED A LARGE CAST IRON RING WITH A SEAL REPRESENTING A +DEATH’S HEAD. THE STRANGER SAT WITHOUT STIRRING, EITHER RESTING OR, AS +IT SEEMED TO PIERRE, SUNK IN PROFOUND AND CALM MEDITATION. HIS SERVANT +WAS ALSO A YELLOW, WRINKLED OLD MAN, WITHOUT BEARD OR MUSTACHE, +EVIDENTLY NOT BECAUSE HE WAS SHAVEN BUT BECAUSE THEY HAD NEVER GROWN. +THIS ACTIVE OLD SERVANT WAS UNPACKING THE TRAVELER’S CANTEEN AND +PREPARING TEA. HE BROUGHT IN A BOILING SAMOVAR. WHEN EVERYTHING WAS +READY, THE STRANGER OPENED HIS EYES, MOVED TO THE TABLE, FILLED A +TUMBLER WITH TEA FOR HIMSELF AND ONE FOR THE BEARDLESS OLD MAN TO WHOM +HE PASSED IT. PIERRE BEGAN TO FEEL A SENSE OF UNEASINESS, AND THE +NEED, EVEN THE INEVITABILITY, OF ENTERING INTO CONVERSATION WITH THIS +STRANGER. + +THE SERVANT BROUGHT BACK HIS TUMBLER TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, * WITH AN +UNFINISHED BIT OF NIBBLED SUGAR, AND ASKED IF ANYTHING MORE WOULD BE +WANTED. + + * TO INDICATE HE DID NOT WANT MORE TEA. + +“NO. GIVE ME THE BOOK,” SAID THE STRANGER. + +THE SERVANT HANDED HIM A BOOK WHICH PIERRE TOOK TO BE A DEVOTIONAL WORK, +AND THE TRAVELER BECAME ABSORBED IN IT. PIERRE LOOKED AT HIM. ALL AT +ONCE THE STRANGER CLOSED THE BOOK, PUTTING IN A MARKER, AND AGAIN, +LEANING WITH HIS ARMS ON THE BACK OF THE SOFA, SAT IN HIS FORMER +POSITION WITH HIS EYES SHUT. PIERRE LOOKED AT HIM AND HAD NOT TIME +TO TURN AWAY WHEN THE OLD MAN, OPENING HIS EYES, FIXED HIS STEADY AND +SEVERE GAZE STRAIGHT ON PIERRE’S FACE. + +PIERRE FELT CONFUSED AND WISHED TO AVOID THAT LOOK, BUT THE BRIGHT OLD +EYES ATTRACTED HIM IRRESISTIBLY. + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +“I HAVE THE PLEASURE OF ADDRESSING COUNT BEZúKHOV, IF I AM NOT +MISTAKEN,” SAID THE STRANGER IN A DELIBERATE AND LOUD VOICE. + +PIERRE LOOKED SILENTLY AND INQUIRINGLY AT HIM OVER HIS SPECTACLES. + +“I HAVE HEARD OF YOU, MY DEAR SIR,” CONTINUED THE STRANGER, “AND +OF YOUR MISFORTUNE.” HE SEEMED TO EMPHASIZE THE LAST WORD, AS IF TO +SAY—“YES, MISFORTUNE! CALL IT WHAT YOU PLEASE, I KNOW THAT WHAT +HAPPENED TO YOU IN MOSCOW WAS A MISFORTUNE.”—“I REGRET IT VERY +MUCH, MY DEAR SIR.” + +PIERRE FLUSHED AND, HURRIEDLY PUTTING HIS LEGS DOWN FROM THE BED, BENT +FORWARD TOWARD THE OLD MAN WITH A FORCED AND TIMID SMILE. + +“I HAVE NOT REFERRED TO THIS OUT OF CURIOSITY, MY DEAR SIR, BUT FOR +GREATER REASONS.” + +HE PAUSED, HIS GAZE STILL ON PIERRE, AND MOVED ASIDE ON THE SOFA BY WAY +OF INVITING THE OTHER TO TAKE A SEAT BESIDE HIM. PIERRE FELT RELUCTANT +TO ENTER INTO CONVERSATION WITH THIS OLD MAN, BUT, SUBMITTING TO HIM +INVOLUNTARILY, CAME UP AND SAT DOWN BESIDE HIM. + +“YOU ARE UNHAPPY, MY DEAR SIR,” THE STRANGER CONTINUED. “YOU +ARE YOUNG AND I AM OLD. I SHOULD LIKE TO HELP YOU AS FAR AS LIES IN MY +POWER.” + +“OH, YES!” SAID PIERRE, WITH A FORCED SMILE. “I AM VERY GRATEFUL +TO YOU. WHERE ARE YOU TRAVELING FROM?” + +THE STRANGER’S FACE WAS NOT GENIAL, IT WAS EVEN COLD AND SEVERE, BUT +IN SPITE OF THIS, BOTH THE FACE AND WORDS OF HIS NEW ACQUAINTANCE WERE +IRRESISTIBLY ATTRACTIVE TO PIERRE. + +“BUT IF FOR ANY REASON YOU DON’T FEEL INCLINED TO TALK TO ME,” +SAID THE OLD MAN, “SAY SO, MY DEAR SIR.” AND HE SUDDENLY SMILED, IN +AN UNEXPECTED AND TENDERLY PATERNAL WAY. + +“OH NO, NOT AT ALL! ON THE CONTRARY, I AM VERY GLAD TO MAKE YOUR +ACQUAINTANCE,” SAID PIERRE. AND AGAIN, GLANCING AT THE STRANGER’S +HANDS, HE LOOKED MORE CLOSELY AT THE RING, WITH ITS SKULL—A MASONIC +SIGN. + +“ALLOW ME TO ASK,” HE SAID, “ARE YOU A MASON?” + +“YES, I BELONG TO THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE FREEMASONS,” SAID THE +STRANGER, LOOKING DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO PIERRE’S EYES. “AND IN +THEIR NAME AND MY OWN I HOLD OUT A BROTHERLY HAND TO YOU.” + +“I AM AFRAID,” SAID PIERRE, SMILING, AND WAVERING BETWEEN THE +CONFIDENCE THE PERSONALITY OF THE FREEMASON INSPIRED IN HIM AND HIS OWN +HABIT OF RIDICULING THE MASONIC BELIEFS—“I AM AFRAID I AM VERY FAR +FROM UNDERSTANDING—HOW AM I TO PUT IT?—I AM AFRAID MY WAY OF LOOKING +AT THE WORLD IS SO OPPOSED TO YOURS THAT WE SHALL NOT UNDERSTAND ONE +ANOTHER.” + +“I KNOW YOUR OUTLOOK,” SAID THE MASON, “AND THE VIEW OF LIFE YOU +MENTION, AND WHICH YOU THINK IS THE RESULT OF YOUR OWN MENTAL EFFORTS, +IS THE ONE HELD BY THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE, AND IS THE INVARIABLE FRUIT +OF PRIDE, INDOLENCE, AND IGNORANCE. FORGIVE ME, MY DEAR SIR, BUT IF I +HAD NOT KNOWN IT I SHOULD NOT HAVE ADDRESSED YOU. YOUR VIEW OF LIFE IS A +REGRETTABLE DELUSION.” + +“JUST AS I MAY SUPPOSE YOU TO BE DELUDED,” SAID PIERRE, WITH A FAINT +SMILE. + +“I SHOULD NEVER DARE TO SAY THAT I KNOW THE TRUTH,” SAID THE MASON, +WHOSE WORDS STRUCK PIERRE MORE AND MORE BY THEIR PRECISION AND FIRMNESS. +“NO ONE CAN ATTAIN TO TRUTH BY HIMSELF. ONLY BY LAYING STONE ON STONE +WITH THE COOPERATION OF ALL, BY THE MILLIONS OF GENERATIONS FROM OUR +FOREFATHER ADAM TO OUR OWN TIMES, IS THAT TEMPLE REARED WHICH IS TO BE +A WORTHY DWELLING PLACE OF THE GREAT GOD,” HE ADDED, AND CLOSED HIS +EYES. + +“I OUGHT TO TELL YOU THAT I DO NOT BELIEVE... DO NOT BELIEVE IN +GOD,” SAID PIERRE, REGRETFULLY AND WITH AN EFFORT, FEELING IT +ESSENTIAL TO SPEAK THE WHOLE TRUTH. + +THE MASON LOOKED INTENTLY AT PIERRE AND SMILED AS A RICH MAN WITH +MILLIONS IN HAND MIGHT SMILE AT A POOR FELLOW WHO TOLD HIM THAT HE, POOR +MAN, HAD NOT THE FIVE RUBLES THAT WOULD MAKE HIM HAPPY. + +“YES, YOU DO NOT KNOW HIM, MY DEAR SIR,” SAID THE MASON. “YOU +CANNOT KNOW HIM. YOU DO NOT KNOW HIM AND THAT IS WHY YOU ARE UNHAPPY.” + +“YES, YES, I AM UNHAPPY,” ASSENTED PIERRE. “BUT WHAT AM I TO +DO?” + +“YOU KNOW HIM NOT, MY DEAR SIR, AND SO YOU ARE VERY UNHAPPY. YOU DO +NOT KNOW HIM, BUT HE IS HERE, HE IS IN ME, HE IS IN MY WORDS, HE IS IN +THEE, AND EVEN IN THOSE BLASPHEMOUS WORDS THOU HAST JUST UTTERED!” +PRONOUNCED THE MASON IN A STERN AND TREMULOUS VOICE. + +HE PAUSED AND SIGHED, EVIDENTLY TRYING TO CALM HIMSELF. + +“IF HE WERE NOT,” HE SAID QUIETLY, “YOU AND I WOULD NOT BE +SPEAKING OF HIM, MY DEAR SIR. OF WHAT, OF WHOM, ARE WE SPEAKING? WHOM +HAST THOU DENIED?” HE SUDDENLY ASKED WITH EXULTING AUSTERITY AND +AUTHORITY IN HIS VOICE. “WHO INVENTED HIM, IF HE DID NOT EXIST? WHENCE +CAME THY CONCEPTION OF THE EXISTENCE OF SUCH AN INCOMPREHENSIBLE BEING? +DIDST THOU, AND WHY DID THE WHOLE WORLD, CONCEIVE THE IDEA OF THE +EXISTENCE OF SUCH AN INCOMPREHENSIBLE BEING, A BEING ALL-POWERFUL, +ETERNAL, AND INFINITE IN ALL HIS ATTRIBUTES?...” + +HE STOPPED AND REMAINED SILENT FOR A LONG TIME. + +PIERRE COULD NOT AND DID NOT WISH TO BREAK THIS SILENCE. + +“HE EXISTS, BUT TO UNDERSTAND HIM IS HARD,” THE MASON BEGAN AGAIN, +LOOKING NOT AT PIERRE BUT STRAIGHT BEFORE HIM, AND TURNING THE LEAVES +OF HIS BOOK WITH HIS OLD HANDS WHICH FROM EXCITEMENT HE COULD NOT KEEP +STILL. “IF IT WERE A MAN WHOSE EXISTENCE THOU DIDST DOUBT I COULD +BRING HIM TO THEE, COULD TAKE HIM BY THE HAND AND SHOW HIM TO THEE. BUT +HOW CAN I, AN INSIGNIFICANT MORTAL, SHOW HIS OMNIPOTENCE, HIS INFINITY, +AND ALL HIS MERCY TO ONE WHO IS BLIND, OR WHO SHUTS HIS EYES THAT HE MAY +NOT SEE OR UNDERSTAND HIM AND MAY NOT SEE OR UNDERSTAND HIS OWN VILENESS +AND SINFULNESS?” HE PAUSED AGAIN. “WHO ART THOU? THOU DREAMEST THAT +THOU ART WISE BECAUSE THOU COULDST UTTER THOSE BLASPHEMOUS WORDS,” HE +WENT ON, WITH A SOMBER AND SCORNFUL SMILE. “AND THOU ART MORE FOOLISH +AND UNREASONABLE THAN A LITTLE CHILD, WHO, PLAYING WITH THE PARTS OF A +SKILLFULLY MADE WATCH, DARES TO SAY THAT, AS HE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND +ITS USE, HE DOES NOT BELIEVE IN THE MASTER WHO MADE IT. TO KNOW HIM IS +HARD.... FOR AGES, FROM OUR FOREFATHER ADAM TO OUR OWN DAY, WE LABOR TO +ATTAIN THAT KNOWLEDGE AND ARE STILL INFINITELY FAR FROM OUR AIM; BUT +IN OUR LACK OF UNDERSTANDING WE SEE ONLY OUR WEAKNESS AND HIS +GREATNESS....” + +PIERRE LISTENED WITH SWELLING HEART, GAZING INTO THE MASON’S FACE WITH +SHINING EYES, NOT INTERRUPTING OR QUESTIONING HIM, BUT BELIEVING WITH +HIS WHOLE SOUL WHAT THE STRANGER SAID. WHETHER HE ACCEPTED THE WISE +REASONING CONTAINED IN THE MASON’S WORDS, OR BELIEVED AS A CHILD +BELIEVES, IN THE SPEAKER’S TONE OF CONVICTION AND EARNESTNESS, OR +THE TREMOR OF THE SPEAKER’S VOICE—WHICH SOMETIMES ALMOST BROKE—OR +THOSE BRILLIANT AGED EYES GROWN OLD IN THIS CONVICTION, OR THE CALM +FIRMNESS AND CERTAINTY OF HIS VOCATION, WHICH RADIATED FROM HIS WHOLE +BEING (AND WHICH STRUCK PIERRE ESPECIALLY BY CONTRAST WITH HIS OWN +DEJECTION AND HOPELESSNESS)—AT ANY RATE, PIERRE LONGED WITH HIS WHOLE +SOUL TO BELIEVE AND HE DID BELIEVE, AND FELT A JOYFUL SENSE OF COMFORT, +REGENERATION, AND RETURN TO LIFE. + +“HE IS NOT TO BE APPREHENDED BY REASON, BUT BY LIFE,” SAID THE +MASON. + +“I DO NOT UNDERSTAND,” SAID PIERRE, FEELING WITH DISMAY DOUBTS +REAWAKENING. HE WAS AFRAID OF ANY WANT OF CLEARNESS, ANY WEAKNESS, IN +THE MASON’S ARGUMENTS; HE DREADED NOT TO BE ABLE TO BELIEVE IN HIM. +“I DON’T UNDERSTAND,” HE SAID, “HOW IT IS THAT THE MIND OF MAN +CANNOT ATTAIN THE KNOWLEDGE OF WHICH YOU SPEAK.” + +THE MASON SMILED WITH HIS GENTLE FATHERLY SMILE. + +“THE HIGHEST WISDOM AND TRUTH ARE LIKE THE PUREST LIQUID WE MAY WISH +TO IMBIBE,” HE SAID. “CAN I RECEIVE THAT PURE LIQUID INTO AN IMPURE +VESSEL AND JUDGE OF ITS PURITY? ONLY BY THE INNER PURIFICATION OF MYSELF +CAN I RETAIN IN SOME DEGREE OF PURITY THE LIQUID I RECEIVE.” + +“YES, YES, THAT IS SO,” SAID PIERRE JOYFULLY. + +“THE HIGHEST WISDOM IS NOT FOUNDED ON REASON ALONE, NOT ON THOSE +WORLDLY SCIENCES OF PHYSICS, HISTORY, CHEMISTRY, AND THE LIKE, INTO +WHICH INTELLECTUAL KNOWLEDGE IS DIVIDED. THE HIGHEST WISDOM IS ONE. +THE HIGHEST WISDOM HAS BUT ONE SCIENCE—THE SCIENCE OF THE WHOLE—THE +SCIENCE EXPLAINING THE WHOLE CREATION AND MAN’S PLACE IN IT. TO +RECEIVE THAT SCIENCE IT IS NECESSARY TO PURIFY AND RENEW ONE’S INNER +SELF, AND SO BEFORE ONE CAN KNOW, IT IS NECESSARY TO BELIEVE AND TO +PERFECT ONE’S SELF. AND TO ATTAIN THIS END, WE HAVE THE LIGHT CALLED +CONSCIENCE THAT GOD HAS IMPLANTED IN OUR SOULS.” + +“YES, YES,” ASSENTED PIERRE. + +“LOOK THEN AT THY INNER SELF WITH THE EYES OF THE SPIRIT, AND ASK +THYSELF WHETHER THOU ART CONTENT WITH THYSELF. WHAT HAST THOU ATTAINED +RELYING ON REASON ONLY? WHAT ART THOU? YOU ARE YOUNG, YOU ARE RICH, YOU +ARE CLEVER, YOU ARE WELL EDUCATED. AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH ALL THESE +GOOD GIFTS? ARE YOU CONTENT WITH YOURSELF AND WITH YOUR LIFE?” + +“NO, I HATE MY LIFE,” PIERRE MUTTERED, WINCING. + +“THOU HATEST IT. THEN CHANGE IT, PURIFY THYSELF; AND AS THOU ART +PURIFIED, THOU WILT GAIN WISDOM. LOOK AT YOUR LIFE, MY DEAR SIR. +HOW HAVE YOU SPENT IT? IN RIOTOUS ORGIES AND DEBAUCHERY, RECEIVING +EVERYTHING FROM SOCIETY AND GIVING NOTHING IN RETURN. YOU HAVE BECOME +THE POSSESSOR OF WEALTH. HOW HAVE YOU USED IT? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE +FOR YOUR NEIGHBOR? HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT OF YOUR TENS OF THOUSANDS +OF SLAVES? HAVE YOU HELPED THEM PHYSICALLY AND MORALLY? NO! YOU HAVE +PROFITED BY THEIR TOIL TO LEAD A PROFLIGATE LIFE. THAT IS WHAT YOU HAVE +DONE. HAVE YOU CHOSEN A POST IN WHICH YOU MIGHT BE OF SERVICE TO YOUR +NEIGHBOR? NO! YOU HAVE SPENT YOUR LIFE IN IDLENESS. THEN YOU MARRIED, MY +DEAR SIR—TOOK ON YOURSELF RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE GUIDANCE OF A YOUNG +WOMAN; AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? YOU HAVE NOT HELPED HER TO FIND THE WAY +OF TRUTH, MY DEAR SIR, BUT HAVE THRUST HER INTO AN ABYSS OF DECEIT AND +MISERY. A MAN OFFENDED YOU AND YOU SHOT HIM, AND YOU SAY YOU DO NOT +KNOW GOD AND HATE YOUR LIFE. THERE IS NOTHING STRANGE IN THAT, MY DEAR +SIR!” + +AFTER THESE WORDS, THE MASON, AS IF TIRED BY HIS LONG DISCOURSE, AGAIN +LEANED HIS ARMS ON THE BACK OF THE SOFA AND CLOSED HIS EYES. PIERRE +LOOKED AT THAT AGED, STERN, MOTIONLESS, ALMOST LIFELESS FACE AND MOVED +HIS LIPS WITHOUT UTTERING A SOUND. HE WISHED TO SAY, “YES, A VILE, +IDLE, VICIOUS LIFE!” BUT DARED NOT BREAK THE SILENCE. + +THE MASON CLEARED HIS THROAT HUSKILY, AS OLD MEN DO, AND CALLED HIS +SERVANT. + +“HOW ABOUT THE HORSES?” HE ASKED, WITHOUT LOOKING AT PIERRE. + +“THE EXCHANGE HORSES HAVE JUST COME,” ANSWERED THE SERVANT. “WILL +YOU NOT REST HERE?” + +“NO, TELL THEM TO HARNESS.” + +“CAN HE REALLY BE GOING AWAY LEAVING ME ALONE WITHOUT HAVING TOLD ME +ALL, AND WITHOUT PROMISING TO HELP ME?” THOUGHT PIERRE, RISING WITH +DOWNCAST HEAD; AND HE BEGAN TO PACE THE ROOM, GLANCING OCCASIONALLY AT +THE MASON. “YES, I NEVER THOUGHT OF IT, BUT I HAVE LED A CONTEMPTIBLE +AND PROFLIGATE LIFE, THOUGH I DID NOT LIKE IT AND DID NOT WANT TO,” +THOUGHT PIERRE. “BUT THIS MAN KNOWS THE TRUTH AND, IF HE WISHED TO, +COULD DISCLOSE IT TO ME.” + +PIERRE WISHED TO SAY THIS TO THE MASON, BUT DID NOT DARE TO. THE +TRAVELER, HAVING PACKED HIS THINGS WITH HIS PRACTICED HANDS, BEGAN +FASTENING HIS COAT. WHEN HE HAD FINISHED, HE TURNED TO BEZúKHOV, AND +SAID IN A TONE OF INDIFFERENT POLITENESS: + +“WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO NOW, MY DEAR SIR?” + +“I?... I’M GOING TO PETERSBURG,” ANSWERED PIERRE, IN A CHILDLIKE, +HESITATING VOICE. “I THANK YOU. I AGREE WITH ALL YOU HAVE SAID. BUT +DO NOT SUPPOSE ME TO BE SO BAD. WITH MY WHOLE SOUL I WISH TO BE WHAT YOU +WOULD HAVE ME BE, BUT I HAVE NEVER HAD HELP FROM ANYONE.... BUT IT IS +I, ABOVE ALL, WHO AM TO BLAME FOR EVERYTHING. HELP ME, TEACH ME, AND +PERHAPS I MAY...” + +PIERRE COULD NOT GO ON. HE GULPED AND TURNED AWAY. + +THE MASON REMAINED SILENT FOR A LONG TIME, EVIDENTLY CONSIDERING. + +“HELP COMES FROM GOD ALONE,” HE SAID, “BUT SUCH MEASURE OF HELP AS +OUR ORDER CAN BESTOW IT WILL RENDER YOU, MY DEAR SIR. YOU ARE GOING TO +PETERSBURG. HAND THIS TO COUNT WILLARSKI” (HE TOOK OUT HIS NOTEBOOK +AND WROTE A FEW WORDS ON A LARGE SHEET OF PAPER FOLDED IN FOUR). +“ALLOW ME TO GIVE YOU A PIECE OF ADVICE. WHEN YOU REACH THE CAPITAL, +FIRST OF ALL DEVOTE SOME TIME TO SOLITUDE AND SELF-EXAMINATION AND DO +NOT RESUME YOUR FORMER WAY OF LIFE. AND NOW I WISH YOU A GOOD JOURNEY, +MY DEAR SIR,” HE ADDED, SEEING THAT HIS SERVANT HAD ENTERED... “AND +SUCCESS.” + +THE TRAVELER WAS JOSEPH ALEXéEVICH BAZDéEV, AS PIERRE SAW FROM THE +POSTMASTER’S BOOK. BAZDéEV HAD BEEN ONE OF THE BEST-KNOWN FREEMASONS +AND MARTINISTS, EVEN IN NOVíKOV’S TIME. FOR A LONG WHILE AFTER HE HAD +GONE, PIERRE DID NOT GO TO BED OR ORDER HORSES BUT PACED UP AND DOWN +THE ROOM, PONDERING OVER HIS VICIOUS PAST, AND WITH A RAPTUROUS SENSE +OF BEGINNING ANEW PICTURED TO HIMSELF THE BLISSFUL, IRREPROACHABLE, +VIRTUOUS FUTURE THAT SEEMED TO HIM SO EASY. IT SEEMED TO HIM THAT HE HAD +BEEN VICIOUS ONLY BECAUSE HE HAD SOMEHOW FORGOTTEN HOW GOOD IT IS TO +BE VIRTUOUS. NOT A TRACE OF HIS FORMER DOUBTS REMAINED IN HIS SOUL. HE +FIRMLY BELIEVED IN THE POSSIBILITY OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF MEN UNITED IN +THE AIM OF SUPPORTING ONE ANOTHER IN THE PATH OF VIRTUE, AND THAT IS HOW +FREEMASONRY PRESENTED ITSELF TO HIM. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +ON REACHING PETERSBURG PIERRE DID NOT LET ANYONE KNOW OF HIS ARRIVAL, +HE WENT NOWHERE AND SPENT WHOLE DAYS IN READING THOMAS à KEMPIS, WHOSE +BOOK HAD BEEN SENT HIM BY SOMEONE UNKNOWN. ONE THING HE CONTINUALLY +REALIZED AS HE READ THAT BOOK: THE JOY, HITHERTO UNKNOWN TO HIM, +OF BELIEVING IN THE POSSIBILITY OF ATTAINING PERFECTION, AND IN THE +POSSIBILITY OF ACTIVE BROTHERLY LOVE AMONG MEN, WHICH JOSEPH ALEXéEVICH +HAD REVEALED TO HIM. A WEEK AFTER HIS ARRIVAL, THE YOUNG POLISH COUNT, +WILLARSKI, WHOM PIERRE HAD KNOWN SLIGHTLY IN PETERSBURG SOCIETY, CAME +INTO HIS ROOM ONE EVENING IN THE OFFICIAL AND CEREMONIOUS MANNER IN +WHICH DóLOKHOV’S SECOND HAD CALLED ON HIM, AND, HAVING CLOSED THE +DOOR BEHIND HIM AND SATISFIED HIMSELF THAT THERE WAS NOBODY ELSE IN THE +ROOM, ADDRESSED PIERRE. + +“I HAVE COME TO YOU WITH A MESSAGE AND AN OFFER, COUNT,” HE +SAID WITHOUT SITTING DOWN. “A PERSON OF VERY HIGH STANDING IN OUR +BROTHERHOOD HAS MADE APPLICATION FOR YOU TO BE RECEIVED INTO OUR ORDER +BEFORE THE USUAL TERM AND HAS PROPOSED TO ME TO BE YOUR SPONSOR. I +CONSIDER IT A SACRED DUTY TO FULFILL THAT PERSON’S WISHES. DO YOU WISH +TO ENTER THE BROTHERHOOD OF FREEMASONS UNDER MY SPONSORSHIP?” + +THE COLD, AUSTERE TONE OF THIS MAN, WHOM HE HAD ALMOST ALWAYS BEFORE MET +AT BALLS, AMIABLY SMILING IN THE SOCIETY OF THE MOST BRILLIANT WOMEN, +SURPRISED PIERRE. + +“YES, I DO WISH IT,” SAID HE. + +WILLARSKI BOWED HIS HEAD. + +“ONE MORE QUESTION, COUNT,” HE SAID, “WHICH I BEG YOU TO ANSWER +IN ALL SINCERITY—NOT AS A FUTURE MASON BUT AS AN HONEST MAN: HAVE YOU +RENOUNCED YOUR FORMER CONVICTIONS—DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD?” + +PIERRE CONSIDERED. + +“YES... YES, I BELIEVE IN GOD,” HE SAID. + +“IN THAT CASE...” BEGAN WILLARSKI, BUT PIERRE INTERRUPTED HIM. + +“YES, I DO BELIEVE IN GOD,” HE REPEATED. + +“IN THAT CASE WE CAN GO,” SAID WILLARSKI. “MY CARRIAGE IS AT YOUR +SERVICE.” + +WILLARSKI WAS SILENT THROUGHOUT THE DRIVE. TO PIERRE’S INQUIRIES AS +TO WHAT HE MUST DO AND HOW HE SHOULD ANSWER, WILLARSKI ONLY REPLIED THAT +BROTHERS MORE WORTHY THAN HE WOULD TEST HIM AND THAT PIERRE HAD ONLY TO +TELL THE TRUTH. + +HAVING ENTERED THE COURTYARD OF A LARGE HOUSE WHERE THE LODGE HAD ITS +HEADQUARTERS, AND HAVING ASCENDED A DARK STAIRCASE, THEY ENTERED A SMALL +WELL-LIT ANTEROOM WHERE THEY TOOK OFF THEIR CLOAKS WITHOUT THE AID OF +A SERVANT. FROM THERE THEY PASSED INTO ANOTHER ROOM. A MAN IN STRANGE +ATTIRE APPEARED AT THE DOOR. WILLARSKI, STEPPING TOWARD HIM, SAID +SOMETHING TO HIM IN FRENCH IN AN UNDERTONE AND THEN WENT UP TO A SMALL +WARDROBE IN WHICH PIERRE NOTICED GARMENTS SUCH AS HE HAD NEVER SEEN +BEFORE. HAVING TAKEN A KERCHIEF FROM THE CUPBOARD, WILLARSKI BOUND +PIERRE’S EYES WITH IT AND TIED IT IN A KNOT BEHIND, CATCHING SOME +HAIRS PAINFULLY IN THE KNOT. THEN HE DREW HIS FACE DOWN, KISSED HIM, AND +TAKING HIM BY THE HAND LED HIM FORWARD. THE HAIRS TIED IN THE KNOT HURT +PIERRE AND THERE WERE LINES OF PAIN ON HIS FACE AND A SHAMEFACED SMILE. +HIS HUGE FIGURE, WITH ARMS HANGING DOWN AND WITH A PUCKERED, THOUGH +SMILING FACE, MOVED AFTER WILLARSKI WITH UNCERTAIN, TIMID STEPS. + +HAVING LED HIM ABOUT TEN PACES, WILLARSKI STOPPED. + +“WHATEVER HAPPENS TO YOU,” HE SAID, “YOU MUST BEAR IT ALL MANFULLY +IF YOU HAVE FIRMLY RESOLVED TO JOIN OUR BROTHERHOOD.” (PIERRE NODDED +AFFIRMATIVELY.) “WHEN YOU HEAR A KNOCK AT THE DOOR, YOU WILL UNCOVER +YOUR EYES,” ADDED WILLARSKI. “I WISH YOU COURAGE AND SUCCESS,” +AND, PRESSING PIERRE’S HAND, HE WENT OUT. + +LEFT ALONE, PIERRE WENT ON SMILING IN THE SAME WAY. ONCE OR TWICE +HE SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS AND RAISED HIS HAND TO THE KERCHIEF, AS IF +WISHING TO TAKE IT OFF, BUT LET IT DROP AGAIN. THE FIVE MINUTES SPENT +WITH HIS EYES BANDAGED SEEMED TO HIM AN HOUR. HIS ARMS FELT NUMB, +HIS LEGS ALMOST GAVE WAY, IT SEEMED TO HIM THAT HE WAS TIRED OUT. HE +EXPERIENCED A VARIETY OF MOST COMPLEX SENSATIONS. HE FELT AFRAID OF WHAT +WOULD HAPPEN TO HIM AND STILL MORE AFRAID OF SHOWING HIS FEAR. HE FELT +CURIOUS TO KNOW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN AND WHAT WOULD BE REVEALED TO +HIM; BUT MOST OF ALL, HE FELT JOYFUL THAT THE MOMENT HAD COME WHEN HE +WOULD AT LAST START ON THAT PATH OF REGENERATION AND ON THE ACTIVELY +VIRTUOUS LIFE OF WHICH HE HAD BEEN DREAMING SINCE HE MET JOSEPH +ALEXéEVICH. LOUD KNOCKS WERE HEARD AT THE DOOR. PIERRE TOOK THE BANDAGE +OFF HIS EYES AND GLANCED AROUND HIM. THE ROOM WAS IN BLACK DARKNESS, +ONLY A SMALL LAMP WAS BURNING INSIDE SOMETHING WHITE. PIERRE WENT NEARER +AND SAW THAT THE LAMP STOOD ON A BLACK TABLE ON WHICH LAY AN OPEN BOOK. +THE BOOK WAS THE GOSPEL, AND THE WHITE THING WITH THE LAMP INSIDE WAS A +HUMAN SKULL WITH ITS CAVITIES AND TEETH. AFTER READING THE FIRST WORDS +OF THE GOSPEL: “IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD AND THE WORD WAS WITH +GOD,” PIERRE WENT ROUND THE TABLE AND SAW A LARGE OPEN BOX FILLED +WITH SOMETHING. IT WAS A COFFIN WITH BONES INSIDE. HE WAS NOT AT ALL +SURPRISED BY WHAT HE SAW. HOPING TO ENTER ON AN ENTIRELY NEW LIFE QUITE +UNLIKE THE OLD ONE, HE EXPECTED EVERYTHING TO BE UNUSUAL, EVEN MORE +UNUSUAL THAN WHAT HE WAS SEEING. A SKULL, A COFFIN, THE GOSPEL—IT +SEEMED TO HIM THAT HE HAD EXPECTED ALL THIS AND EVEN MORE. TRYING +TO STIMULATE HIS EMOTIONS HE LOOKED AROUND. “GOD, DEATH, LOVE, THE +BROTHERHOOD OF MAN,” HE KEPT SAYING TO HIMSELF, ASSOCIATING THESE +WORDS WITH VAGUE YET JOYFUL IDEAS. THE DOOR OPENED AND SOMEONE CAME IN. + +BY THE DIM LIGHT, TO WHICH PIERRE HAD ALREADY BECOME ACCUSTOMED, HE +SAW A RATHER SHORT MAN. HAVING EVIDENTLY COME FROM THE LIGHT INTO THE +DARKNESS, THE MAN PAUSED, THEN MOVED WITH CAUTIOUS STEPS TOWARD THE +TABLE AND PLACED ON IT HIS SMALL LEATHER-GLOVED HANDS. + +THIS SHORT MAN HAD ON A WHITE LEATHER APRON WHICH COVERED HIS CHEST AND +PART OF HIS LEGS; HE HAD ON A KIND OF NECKLACE ABOVE WHICH ROSE A HIGH +WHITE RUFFLE, OUTLINING HIS RATHER LONG FACE WHICH WAS LIT UP FROM +BELOW. + +“FOR WHAT HAVE YOU COME HITHER?” ASKED THE NEWCOMER, TURNING IN +PIERRE’S DIRECTION AT A SLIGHT RUSTLE MADE BY THE LATTER. “WHY HAVE +YOU, WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE TRUTH OF THE LIGHT AND WHO HAVE NOT +SEEN THE LIGHT, COME HERE? WHAT DO YOU SEEK FROM US? WISDOM, VIRTUE, +ENLIGHTENMENT?” + +AT THE MOMENT THE DOOR OPENED AND THE STRANGER CAME IN, PIERRE FELT A +SENSE OF AWE AND VENERATION SUCH AS HE HAD EXPERIENCED IN HIS BOYHOOD AT +CONFESSION; HE FELT HIMSELF IN THE PRESENCE OF ONE SOCIALLY A COMPLETE +STRANGER, YET NEARER TO HIM THROUGH THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN. WITH BATED +BREATH AND BEATING HEART HE MOVED TOWARD THE RHETOR (BY WHICH NAME THE +BROTHER WHO PREPARED A SEEKER FOR ENTRANCE INTO THE BROTHERHOOD WAS +KNOWN). DRAWING NEARER, HE RECOGNIZED IN THE RHETOR A MAN HE KNEW, +SMOLYANíNOV, AND IT MORTIFIED HIM TO THINK THAT THE NEWCOMER WAS AN +ACQUAINTANCE—HE WISHED HIM SIMPLY A BROTHER AND A VIRTUOUS INSTRUCTOR. +FOR A LONG TIME HE COULD NOT UTTER A WORD, SO THAT THE RHETOR HAD TO +REPEAT HIS QUESTION. + +“YES... I... I... DESIRE REGENERATION,” PIERRE UTTERED WITH +DIFFICULTY. + +“VERY WELL,” SAID SMOLYANíNOV, AND WENT ON AT ONCE: “HAVE YOU ANY +IDEA OF THE MEANS BY WHICH OUR HOLY ORDER WILL HELP YOU TO REACH YOUR +AIM?” SAID HE QUIETLY AND QUICKLY. + +“I... HOPE... FOR GUIDANCE... HELP... IN REGENERATION,” SAID PIERRE, +WITH A TREMBLING VOICE AND SOME DIFFICULTY IN UTTERANCE DUE TO HIS +EXCITEMENT AND TO BEING UNACCUSTOMED TO SPEAK OF ABSTRACT MATTERS IN +RUSSIAN. + +“WHAT IS YOUR CONCEPTION OF FREEMASONRY?” + +“I IMAGINE THAT FREEMASONRY IS THE FRATERNITY AND EQUALITY OF MEN WHO +HAVE VIRTUOUS AIMS,” SAID PIERRE, FEELING ASHAMED OF THE INADEQUACY +OF HIS WORDS FOR THE SOLEMNITY OF THE MOMENT, AS HE SPOKE. “I +IMAGINE...” + +“GOOD!” SAID THE RHETOR QUICKLY, APPARENTLY SATISFIED WITH +THIS ANSWER. “HAVE YOU SOUGHT FOR MEANS OF ATTAINING YOUR AIM IN +RELIGION?” + +“NO, I CONSIDERED IT ERRONEOUS AND DID NOT FOLLOW IT,” SAID PIERRE, +SO SOFTLY THAT THE RHETOR DID NOT HEAR HIM AND ASKED HIM WHAT HE WAS +SAYING. “I HAVE BEEN AN ATHEIST,” ANSWERED PIERRE. + +“YOU ARE SEEKING FOR TRUTH IN ORDER TO FOLLOW ITS LAWS IN YOUR LIFE, +THEREFORE YOU SEEK WISDOM AND VIRTUE. IS THAT NOT SO?” SAID THE +RHETOR, AFTER A MOMENT’S PAUSE. + +“YES, YES,” ASSENTED PIERRE. + +THE RHETOR CLEARED HIS THROAT, CROSSED HIS GLOVED HANDS ON HIS BREAST, +AND BEGAN TO SPEAK. + +“NOW I MUST DISCLOSE TO YOU THE CHIEF AIM OF OUR ORDER,” HE SAID, +“AND IF THIS AIM COINCIDES WITH YOURS, YOU MAY ENTER OUR BROTHERHOOD +WITH PROFIT. THE FIRST AND CHIEF OBJECT OF OUR ORDER, THE FOUNDATION ON +WHICH IT RESTS AND WHICH NO HUMAN POWER CAN DESTROY, IS THE PRESERVATION +AND HANDING ON TO POSTERITY OF A CERTAIN IMPORTANT MYSTERY... WHICH +HAS COME DOWN TO US FROM THE REMOTEST AGES, EVEN FROM THE FIRST MAN—A +MYSTERY ON WHICH PERHAPS THE FATE OF MANKIND DEPENDS. BUT SINCE THIS +MYSTERY IS OF SUCH A NATURE THAT NOBODY CAN KNOW OR USE IT UNLESS HE BE +PREPARED BY LONG AND DILIGENT SELF-PURIFICATION, NOT EVERYONE CAN HOPE +TO ATTAIN IT QUICKLY. HENCE WE HAVE A SECONDARY AIM, THAT OF PREPARING +OUR MEMBERS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO REFORM THEIR HEARTS, TO PURIFY AND +ENLIGHTEN THEIR MINDS, BY MEANS HANDED ON TO US BY TRADITION FROM THOSE +WHO HAVE STRIVEN TO ATTAIN THIS MYSTERY, AND THEREBY TO RENDER THEM +CAPABLE OF RECEIVING IT. + +“BY PURIFYING AND REGENERATING OUR MEMBERS WE TRY, THIRDLY, TO IMPROVE +THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE, OFFERING IT IN OUR MEMBERS AN EXAMPLE OF PIETY +AND VIRTUE, AND THEREBY TRY WITH ALL OUR MIGHT TO COMBAT THE EVIL WHICH +SWAYS THE WORLD. THINK THIS OVER AND I WILL COME TO YOU AGAIN.” + +“TO COMBAT THE EVIL WHICH SWAYS THE WORLD...” PIERRE REPEATED, AND A +MENTAL IMAGE OF HIS FUTURE ACTIVITY IN THIS DIRECTION ROSE IN HIS MIND. +HE IMAGINED MEN SUCH AS HE HAD HIMSELF BEEN A FORTNIGHT AGO, AND HE +ADDRESSED AN EDIFYING EXHORTATION TO THEM. HE IMAGINED TO HIMSELF +VICIOUS AND UNFORTUNATE PEOPLE WHOM HE WOULD ASSIST BY WORD AND DEED, +IMAGINED OPPRESSORS WHOSE VICTIMS HE WOULD RESCUE. OF THE THREE +OBJECTS MENTIONED BY THE RHETOR, THIS LAST, THAT OF IMPROVING MANKIND, +ESPECIALLY APPEALED TO PIERRE. THE IMPORTANT MYSTERY MENTIONED BY THE +RHETOR, THOUGH IT AROUSED HIS CURIOSITY, DID NOT SEEM TO HIM ESSENTIAL, +AND THE SECOND AIM, THAT OF PURIFYING AND REGENERATING HIMSELF, DID NOT +MUCH INTEREST HIM BECAUSE AT THAT MOMENT HE FELT WITH DELIGHT THAT HE +WAS ALREADY PERFECTLY CURED OF HIS FORMER FAULTS AND WAS READY FOR ALL +THAT WAS GOOD. + +HALF AN HOUR LATER, THE RHETOR RETURNED TO INFORM THE SEEKER OF THE +SEVEN VIRTUES, CORRESPONDING TO THE SEVEN STEPS OF SOLOMON’S TEMPLE, +WHICH EVERY FREEMASON SHOULD CULTIVATE IN HIMSELF. THESE VIRTUES WERE: +1. DISCRETION, THE KEEPING OF THE SECRETS OF THE ORDER. 2. OBEDIENCE TO +THOSE OF HIGHER RANKS IN THE ORDER. 3. MORALITY. 4. LOVE OF MANKIND. 5. +COURAGE. 6. GENEROSITY. 7. THE LOVE OF DEATH. + +“IN THE SEVENTH PLACE, TRY, BY THE FREQUENT THOUGHT OF DEATH,” THE +RHETOR SAID, “TO BRING YOURSELF TO REGARD IT NOT AS A DREADED FOE, BUT +AS A FRIEND THAT FREES THE SOUL GROWN WEARY IN THE LABORS OF VIRTUE +FROM THIS DISTRESSFUL LIFE, AND LEADS IT TO ITS PLACE OF RECOMPENSE AND +PEACE.” + +“YES, THAT MUST BE SO,” THOUGHT PIERRE, WHEN AFTER THESE WORDS THE +RHETOR WENT AWAY, LEAVING HIM TO SOLITARY MEDITATION. “IT MUST BE SO, +BUT I AM STILL SO WEAK THAT I LOVE MY LIFE, THE MEANING OF WHICH IS ONLY +NOW GRADUALLY OPENING BEFORE ME.” BUT FIVE OF THE OTHER VIRTUES WHICH +PIERRE RECALLED, COUNTING THEM ON HIS FINGERS, HE FELT ALREADY IN HIS +SOUL: COURAGE, GENEROSITY, MORALITY, LOVE OF MANKIND, AND ESPECIALLY +OBEDIENCE—WHICH DID NOT EVEN SEEM TO HIM A VIRTUE, BUT A JOY. (HE NOW +FELT SO GLAD TO BE FREE FROM HIS OWN LAWLESSNESS AND TO SUBMIT HIS WILL +TO THOSE WHO KNEW THE INDUBITABLE TRUTH.) HE FORGOT WHAT THE SEVENTH +VIRTUE WAS AND COULD NOT RECALL IT. + +THE THIRD TIME THE RHETOR CAME BACK MORE QUICKLY AND ASKED PIERRE +WHETHER HE WAS STILL FIRM IN HIS INTENTION AND DETERMINED TO SUBMIT TO +ALL THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED OF HIM. + +“I AM READY FOR EVERYTHING,” SAID PIERRE. + +“I MUST ALSO INFORM YOU,” SAID THE RHETOR, “THAT OUR ORDER +DELIVERS ITS TEACHING NOT IN WORDS ONLY BUT ALSO BY OTHER MEANS, WHICH +MAY PERHAPS HAVE A STRONGER EFFECT ON THE SINCERE SEEKER AFTER WISDOM +AND VIRTUE THAN MERE WORDS. THIS CHAMBER WITH WHAT YOU SEE THEREIN +SHOULD ALREADY HAVE SUGGESTED TO YOUR HEART, IF IT IS SINCERE, MORE THAN +WORDS COULD DO. YOU WILL PERHAPS ALSO SEE IN YOUR FURTHER INITIATION A +LIKE METHOD OF ENLIGHTENMENT. OUR ORDER IMITATES THE ANCIENT SOCIETIES +THAT EXPLAINED THEIR TEACHING BY HIEROGLYPHICS. A HIEROGLYPH,” SAID +THE RHETOR, “IS AN EMBLEM OF SOMETHING NOT COGNIZABLE BY THE SENSES +BUT WHICH POSSESSES QUALITIES RESEMBLING THOSE OF THE SYMBOL.” + +PIERRE KNEW VERY WELL WHAT A HIEROGLYPH WAS, BUT DARED NOT SPEAK. HE +LISTENED TO THE RHETOR IN SILENCE, FEELING FROM ALL HE SAID THAT HIS +ORDEAL WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN. + +“IF YOU ARE RESOLVED, I MUST BEGIN YOUR INITIATION,” SAID THE RHETOR +COMING CLOSER TO PIERRE. “IN TOKEN OF GENEROSITY I ASK YOU TO GIVE ME +ALL YOUR VALUABLES.” + +“BUT I HAVE NOTHING HERE,” REPLIED PIERRE, SUPPOSING THAT HE WAS +ASKED TO GIVE UP ALL HE POSSESSED. + +“WHAT YOU HAVE WITH YOU: WATCH, MONEY, RINGS....” + +PIERRE QUICKLY TOOK OUT HIS PURSE AND WATCH, BUT COULD NOT MANAGE FOR +SOME TIME TO GET THE WEDDING RING OFF HIS FAT FINGER. WHEN THAT HAD BEEN +DONE, THE RHETOR SAID: + +“IN TOKEN OF OBEDIENCE, I ASK YOU TO UNDRESS.” + +PIERRE TOOK OFF HIS COAT, WAISTCOAT, AND LEFT BOOT ACCORDING TO THE +RHETOR’S INSTRUCTIONS. THE MASON DREW THE SHIRT BACK FROM PIERRE’S +LEFT BREAST, AND STOOPING DOWN PULLED UP THE LEFT LEG OF HIS TROUSERS +TO ABOVE THE KNEE. PIERRE HURRIEDLY BEGAN TAKING OFF HIS RIGHT BOOT ALSO +AND WAS GOING TO TUCK UP THE OTHER TROUSER LEG TO SAVE THIS STRANGER THE +TROUBLE, BUT THE MASON TOLD HIM THAT WAS NOT NECESSARY AND GAVE HIM +A SLIPPER FOR HIS LEFT FOOT. WITH A CHILDLIKE SMILE OF EMBARRASSMENT, +DOUBT, AND SELF-DERISION, WHICH APPEARED ON HIS FACE AGAINST HIS WILL, +PIERRE STOOD WITH HIS ARMS HANGING DOWN AND LEGS APART, BEFORE HIS +BROTHER RHETOR, AND AWAITED HIS FURTHER COMMANDS. + +“AND NOW, IN TOKEN OF CANDOR, I ASK YOU TO REVEAL TO ME YOUR CHIEF +PASSION,” SAID THE LATTER. + +“MY PASSION! I HAVE HAD SO MANY,” REPLIED PIERRE. + +“THAT PASSION WHICH MORE THAN ALL OTHERS CAUSED YOU TO WAVER ON THE +PATH OF VIRTUE,” SAID THE MASON. + +PIERRE PAUSED, SEEKING A REPLY. + +“WINE? GLUTTONY? IDLENESS? LAZINESS? IRRITABILITY? ANGER? WOMEN?” +HE WENT OVER HIS VICES IN HIS MIND, NOT KNOWING TO WHICH OF THEM TO GIVE +THE PRE-EMINENCE. + +“WOMEN,” HE SAID IN A LOW, SCARCELY AUDIBLE VOICE. + +THE MASON DID NOT MOVE AND FOR A LONG TIME SAID NOTHING AFTER THIS +ANSWER. AT LAST HE MOVED UP TO PIERRE AND, TAKING THE KERCHIEF THAT LAY +ON THE TABLE, AGAIN BOUND HIS EYES. + +“FOR THE LAST TIME I SAY TO YOU—TURN ALL YOUR ATTENTION UPON +YOURSELF, PUT A BRIDLE ON YOUR SENSES, AND SEEK BLESSEDNESS, NOT IN +PASSION BUT IN YOUR OWN HEART. THE SOURCE OF BLESSEDNESS IS NOT WITHOUT +US BUT WITHIN....” + +PIERRE HAD ALREADY LONG BEEN FEELING IN HIMSELF THAT REFRESHING SOURCE +OF BLESSEDNESS WHICH NOW FLOODED HIS HEART WITH GLAD EMOTION. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +SOON AFTER THIS THERE CAME INTO THE DARK CHAMBER TO FETCH PIERRE, NOT +THE RHETOR BUT PIERRE’S SPONSOR, WILLARSKI, WHOM HE RECOGNIZED BY HIS +VOICE. TO FRESH QUESTIONS AS TO THE FIRMNESS OF HIS RESOLUTION PIERRE +REPLIED: “YES, YES, I AGREE,” AND WITH A BEAMING, CHILDLIKE SMILE, +HIS FAT CHEST UNCOVERED, STEPPING UNEVENLY AND TIMIDLY IN ONE SLIPPERED +AND ONE BOOTED FOOT, HE ADVANCED, WHILE WILLARSKI HELD A SWORD TO HIS +BARE CHEST. HE WAS CONDUCTED FROM THAT ROOM ALONG PASSAGES THAT TURNED +BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS AND WAS AT LAST BROUGHT TO THE DOORS OF THE +LODGE. WILLARSKI COUGHED, HE WAS ANSWERED BY THE MASONIC KNOCK WITH +MALLETS, THE DOORS OPENED BEFORE THEM. A BASS VOICE (PIERRE WAS STILL +BLINDFOLDED) QUESTIONED HIM AS TO WHO HE WAS, WHEN AND WHERE HE WAS +BORN, AND SO ON. THEN HE WAS AGAIN LED SOMEWHERE STILL BLINDFOLDED, +AND AS THEY WENT ALONG HE WAS TOLD ALLEGORIES OF THE TOILS OF HIS +PILGRIMAGE, OF HOLY FRIENDSHIP, OF THE ETERNAL ARCHITECT OF THE +UNIVERSE, AND OF THE COURAGE WITH WHICH HE SHOULD ENDURE TOILS AND +DANGERS. DURING THESE WANDERINGS, PIERRE NOTICED THAT HE WAS SPOKEN +OF NOW AS THE “SEEKER,” NOW AS THE “SUFFERER,” AND NOW AS THE +“POSTULANT,” TO THE ACCOMPANIMENT OF VARIOUS KNOCKINGS WITH +MALLETS AND SWORDS. AS HE WAS BEING LED UP TO SOME OBJECT HE NOTICED A +HESITATION AND UNCERTAINTY AMONG HIS CONDUCTORS. HE HEARD THOSE AROUND +HIM DISPUTING IN WHISPERS AND ONE OF THEM INSISTING THAT HE SHOULD BE +LED ALONG A CERTAIN CARPET. AFTER THAT THEY TOOK HIS RIGHT HAND, PLACED +IT ON SOMETHING, AND TOLD HIM TO HOLD A PAIR OF COMPASSES TO HIS LEFT +BREAST WITH THE OTHER HAND AND TO REPEAT AFTER SOMEONE WHO READ ALOUD +AN OATH OF FIDELITY TO THE LAWS OF THE ORDER. THE CANDLES WERE THEN +EXTINGUISHED AND SOME SPIRIT LIGHTED, AS PIERRE KNEW BY THE SMELL, AND +HE WAS TOLD THAT HE WOULD NOW SEE THE LESSER LIGHT. THE BANDAGE WAS +TAKEN OFF HIS EYES AND, BY THE FAINT LIGHT OF THE BURNING SPIRIT, +PIERRE, AS IN A DREAM, SAW SEVERAL MEN STANDING BEFORE HIM, WEARING +APRONS LIKE THE RHETOR’S AND HOLDING SWORDS IN THEIR HANDS POINTED AT +HIS BREAST. AMONG THEM STOOD A MAN WHOSE WHITE SHIRT WAS STAINED WITH +BLOOD. ON SEEING THIS, PIERRE MOVED FORWARD WITH HIS BREAST TOWARD THE +SWORDS, MEANING THEM TO PIERCE IT. BUT THE SWORDS WERE DRAWN BACK FROM +HIM AND HE WAS AT ONCE BLINDFOLDED AGAIN. + +“NOW THOU HAST SEEN THE LESSER LIGHT,” UTTERED A VOICE. THEN THE +CANDLES WERE RELIT AND HE WAS TOLD THAT HE WOULD SEE THE FULL LIGHT; THE +BANDAGE WAS AGAIN REMOVED AND MORE THAN TEN VOICES SAID TOGETHER: “SIC +TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI.” + +PIERRE GRADUALLY BEGAN TO RECOVER HIMSELF AND LOOKED ABOUT AT THE ROOM +AND AT THE PEOPLE IN IT. ROUND A LONG TABLE COVERED WITH BLACK SAT SOME +TWELVE MEN IN GARMENTS LIKE THOSE HE HAD ALREADY SEEN. SOME OF THEM +PIERRE HAD MET IN PETERSBURG SOCIETY. IN THE PRESIDENT’S CHAIR SAT A +YOUNG MAN HE DID NOT KNOW, WITH A PECULIAR CROSS HANGING FROM HIS +NECK. ON HIS RIGHT SAT THE ITALIAN ABBé WHOM PIERRE HAD MET AT +ANNA PáVLOVNA’S TWO YEARS BEFORE. THERE WERE ALSO PRESENT A VERY +DISTINGUISHED DIGNITARY AND A SWISS WHO HAD FORMERLY BEEN TUTOR AT THE +KURáGINS’. ALL MAINTAINED A SOLEMN SILENCE, LISTENING TO THE WORDS +OF THE PRESIDENT, WHO HELD A MALLET IN HIS HAND. LET INTO THE WALL WAS +A STAR-SHAPED LIGHT. AT ONE SIDE OF THE TABLE WAS A SMALL CARPET WITH +VARIOUS FIGURES WORKED UPON IT, AT THE OTHER WAS SOMETHING RESEMBLING AN +ALTAR ON WHICH LAY A TESTAMENT AND A SKULL. ROUND IT STOOD SEVEN LARGE +CANDLESTICKS LIKE THOSE USED IN CHURCHES. TWO OF THE BROTHERS LED PIERRE +UP TO THE ALTAR, PLACED HIS FEET AT RIGHT ANGLES, AND BADE HIM LIE DOWN, +SAYING THAT HE MUST PROSTRATE HIMSELF AT THE GATES OF THE TEMPLE. + +“HE MUST FIRST RECEIVE THE TROWEL,” WHISPERED ONE OF THE BROTHERS. + +“OH, HUSH, PLEASE!” SAID ANOTHER. + +PIERRE, PERPLEXED, LOOKED ROUND WITH HIS SHORTSIGHTED EYES WITHOUT +OBEYING, AND SUDDENLY DOUBTS AROSE IN HIS MIND. “WHERE AM I? WHAT AM +I DOING? AREN’T THEY LAUGHING AT ME? SHAN’T I BE ASHAMED TO REMEMBER +THIS?” BUT THESE DOUBTS ONLY LASTED A MOMENT. PIERRE GLANCED AT +THE SERIOUS FACES OF THOSE AROUND, REMEMBERED ALL HE HAD ALREADY GONE +THROUGH, AND REALIZED THAT HE COULD NOT STOP HALFWAY. HE WAS AGHAST +AT HIS HESITATION AND, TRYING TO AROUSE HIS FORMER DEVOTIONAL FEELING, +PROSTRATED HIMSELF BEFORE THE GATES OF THE TEMPLE. AND REALLY, THE +FEELING OF DEVOTION RETURNED TO HIM EVEN MORE STRONGLY THAN BEFORE. WHEN +HE HAD LAIN THERE SOME TIME, HE WAS TOLD TO GET UP, AND A WHITE LEATHER +APRON, SUCH AS THE OTHERS WORE, WAS PUT ON HIM: HE WAS GIVEN A TROWEL +AND THREE PAIRS OF GLOVES, AND THEN THE GRAND MASTER ADDRESSED HIM. HE +TOLD HIM THAT HE SHOULD TRY TO DO NOTHING TO STAIN THE WHITENESS OF THAT +APRON, WHICH SYMBOLIZED STRENGTH AND PURITY; THEN OF THE UNEXPLAINED +TROWEL, HE TOLD HIM TO TOIL WITH IT TO CLEANSE HIS OWN HEART FROM VICE, +AND INDULGENTLY TO SMOOTH WITH IT THE HEART OF HIS NEIGHBOR. AS TO THE +FIRST PAIR OF GLOVES, A MAN’S, HE SAID THAT PIERRE COULD NOT KNOW +THEIR MEANING BUT MUST KEEP THEM. THE SECOND PAIR OF MAN’S GLOVES +HE WAS TO WEAR AT THE MEETINGS, AND FINALLY OF THE THIRD, A PAIR OF +WOMEN’S GLOVES, HE SAID: “DEAR BROTHER, THESE WOMAN’S GLOVES ARE +INTENDED FOR YOU TOO. GIVE THEM TO THE WOMAN WHOM YOU SHALL HONOR MOST +OF ALL. THIS GIFT WILL BE A PLEDGE OF YOUR PURITY OF HEART TO HER WHOM +YOU SELECT TO BE YOUR WORTHY HELPMEET IN MASONRY.” AND AFTER A PAUSE, +HE ADDED: “BUT BEWARE, DEAR BROTHER, THAT THESE GLOVES DO NOT DECK +HANDS THAT ARE UNCLEAN.” WHILE THE GRAND MASTER SAID THESE LAST WORDS +IT SEEMED TO PIERRE THAT HE GREW EMBARRASSED. PIERRE HIMSELF GREW STILL +MORE CONFUSED, BLUSHED LIKE A CHILD TILL TEARS CAME TO HIS EYES, BEGAN +LOOKING ABOUT HIM UNEASILY, AND AN AWKWARD PAUSE FOLLOWED. + +THIS SILENCE WAS BROKEN BY ONE OF THE BRETHREN, WHO LED PIERRE UP TO THE +RUG AND BEGAN READING TO HIM FROM A MANUSCRIPT BOOK AN EXPLANATION OF +ALL THE FIGURES ON IT: THE SUN, THE MOON, A HAMMER, A PLUMB LINE, A +TROWEL, A ROUGH STONE AND A SQUARED STONE, A PILLAR, THREE WINDOWS, AND +SO ON. THEN A PLACE WAS ASSIGNED TO PIERRE, HE WAS SHOWN THE SIGNS OF +THE LODGE, TOLD THE PASSWORD, AND AT LAST WAS PERMITTED TO SIT DOWN. +THE GRAND MASTER BEGAN READING THE STATUTES. THEY WERE VERY LONG, AND +PIERRE, FROM JOY, AGITATION, AND EMBARRASSMENT, WAS NOT IN A STATE TO +UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS BEING READ. HE MANAGED TO FOLLOW ONLY THE LAST WORDS +OF THE STATUTES AND THESE REMAINED IN HIS MIND. + +“IN OUR TEMPLES WE RECOGNIZE NO OTHER DISTINCTIONS,” READ THE GRAND +MASTER, “BUT THOSE BETWEEN VIRTUE AND VICE. BEWARE OF MAKING ANY +DISTINCTIONS WHICH MAY INFRINGE EQUALITY. FLY TO A BROTHER’S AID +WHOEVER HE MAY BE, EXHORT HIM WHO GOETH ASTRAY, RAISE HIM THAT FALLETH, +NEVER BEAR MALICE OR ENMITY TOWARD THY BROTHER. BE KINDLY AND COURTEOUS. +KINDLE IN ALL HEARTS THE FLAME OF VIRTUE. SHARE THY HAPPINESS WITH THY +NEIGHBOR, AND MAY ENVY NEVER DIM THE PURITY OF THAT BLISS. FORGIVE THY +ENEMY, DO NOT AVENGE THYSELF EXCEPT BY DOING HIM GOOD. THUS FULFILLING +THE HIGHEST LAW THOU SHALT REGAIN TRACES OF THE ANCIENT DIGNITY WHICH +THOU HAST LOST.” + +HE FINISHED AND, GETTING UP, EMBRACED AND KISSED PIERRE, WHO, WITH TEARS +OF JOY IN HIS EYES, LOOKED ROUND HIM, NOT KNOWING HOW TO ANSWER THE +CONGRATULATIONS AND GREETINGS FROM ACQUAINTANCES THAT MET HIM ON ALL +SIDES. HE ACKNOWLEDGED NO ACQUAINTANCES BUT SAW IN ALL THESE MEN ONLY +BROTHERS, AND BURNED WITH IMPATIENCE TO SET TO WORK WITH THEM. + +THE GRAND MASTER RAPPED WITH HIS MALLET. ALL THE MASONS SAT DOWN IN +THEIR PLACES, AND ONE OF THEM READ AN EXHORTATION ON THE NECESSITY OF +HUMILITY. + +THE GRAND MASTER PROPOSED THAT THE LAST DUTY SHOULD BE PERFORMED, +AND THE DISTINGUISHED DIGNITARY WHO BORE THE TITLE OF “COLLECTOR +OF ALMS” WENT ROUND TO ALL THE BROTHERS. PIERRE WOULD HAVE LIKED +TO SUBSCRIBE ALL HE HAD, BUT FEARING THAT IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE PRIDE +SUBSCRIBED THE SAME AMOUNT AS THE OTHERS. + +THE MEETING WAS AT AN END, AND ON REACHING HOME PIERRE FELT AS IF HE HAD +RETURNED FROM A LONG JOURNEY ON WHICH HE HAD SPENT DOZENS OF YEARS, HAD +BECOME COMPLETELY CHANGED, AND HAD QUITE LEFT BEHIND HIS FORMER HABITS +AND WAY OF LIFE. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +THE DAY AFTER HE HAD BEEN RECEIVED INTO THE LODGE, PIERRE WAS SITTING AT +HOME READING A BOOK AND TRYING TO FATHOM THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SQUARE, +ONE SIDE OF WHICH SYMBOLIZED GOD, ANOTHER MORAL THINGS, A THIRD +PHYSICAL THINGS, AND THE FOURTH A COMBINATION OF THESE. NOW AND THEN +HIS ATTENTION WANDERED FROM THE BOOK AND THE SQUARE AND HE FORMED IN +IMAGINATION A NEW PLAN OF LIFE. ON THE PREVIOUS EVENING AT THE LODGE, HE +HAD HEARD THAT A RUMOR OF HIS DUEL HAD REACHED THE EMPEROR AND THAT IT +WOULD BE WISER FOR HIM TO LEAVE PETERSBURG. PIERRE PROPOSED GOING TO HIS +ESTATES IN THE SOUTH AND THERE ATTENDING TO THE WELFARE OF HIS SERFS. +HE WAS JOYFULLY PLANNING THIS NEW LIFE, WHEN PRINCE VASíLI SUDDENLY +ENTERED THE ROOM. + +“MY DEAR FELLOW, WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO IN MOSCOW? WHY HAVE YOU +QUARRELED WITH HéLèNE, MON CHER? YOU ARE UNDER A DELUSION,” SAID +PRINCE VASíLI, AS HE ENTERED. “I KNOW ALL ABOUT IT, AND I CAN TELL +YOU POSITIVELY THAT HéLèNE IS AS INNOCENT BEFORE YOU AS CHRIST WAS +BEFORE THE JEWS.” + +PIERRE WAS ABOUT TO REPLY, BUT PRINCE VASíLI INTERRUPTED HIM. + +“AND WHY DIDN’T YOU SIMPLY COME STRAIGHT TO ME AS TO A FRIEND? I +KNOW ALL ABOUT IT AND UNDERSTAND IT ALL,” HE SAID. “YOU BEHAVED AS +BECOMES A MAN WHO VALUES HIS HONOR, PERHAPS TOO HASTILY, BUT WE WON’T +GO INTO THAT. BUT CONSIDER THE POSITION IN WHICH YOU ARE PLACING HER AND +ME IN THE EYES OF SOCIETY, AND EVEN OF THE COURT,” HE ADDED, LOWERING +HIS VOICE. “SHE IS LIVING IN MOSCOW AND YOU ARE HERE. REMEMBER, +DEAR BOY,” AND HE DREW PIERRE’S ARM DOWNWARDS, “IT IS SIMPLY A +MISUNDERSTANDING. I EXPECT YOU FEEL IT SO YOURSELF. LET US WRITE HER +A LETTER AT ONCE, AND SHE’LL COME HERE AND ALL WILL BE EXPLAINED, OR +ELSE, MY DEAR BOY, LET ME TELL YOU IT’S QUITE LIKELY YOU’LL HAVE TO +SUFFER FOR IT.” + +PRINCE VASíLI GAVE PIERRE A SIGNIFICANT LOOK. + +“I KNOW FROM RELIABLE SOURCES THAT THE DOWAGER EMPRESS IS TAKING A +KEEN INTEREST IN THE WHOLE AFFAIR. YOU KNOW SHE IS VERY GRACIOUS TO +HéLèNE.” + +PIERRE TRIED SEVERAL TIMES TO SPEAK, BUT, ON ONE HAND, PRINCE VASíLI +DID NOT LET HIM AND, ON THE OTHER, PIERRE HIMSELF FEARED TO BEGIN TO +SPEAK IN THE TONE OF DECIDED REFUSAL AND DISAGREEMENT IN WHICH HE HAD +FIRMLY RESOLVED TO ANSWER HIS FATHER-IN-LAW. MOREOVER, THE WORDS OF THE +MASONIC STATUTES, “BE KINDLY AND COURTEOUS,” RECURRED TO HIM. HE +BLINKED, WENT RED, GOT UP AND SAT DOWN AGAIN, STRUGGLING WITH HIMSELF +TO DO WHAT WAS FOR HIM THE MOST DIFFICULT THING IN LIFE—TO SAY AN +UNPLEASANT THING TO A MAN’S FACE, TO SAY WHAT THE OTHER, WHOEVER +HE MIGHT BE, DID NOT EXPECT. HE WAS SO USED TO SUBMITTING TO PRINCE +VASíLI’S TONE OF CARELESS SELF-ASSURANCE THAT HE FELT HE WOULD BE +UNABLE TO WITHSTAND IT NOW, BUT HE ALSO FELT THAT ON WHAT HE SAID NOW +HIS FUTURE DEPENDED—WHETHER HE WOULD FOLLOW THE SAME OLD ROAD, OR THAT +NEW PATH SO ATTRACTIVELY SHOWN HIM BY THE MASONS, ON WHICH HE FIRMLY +BELIEVED HE WOULD BE REBORN TO A NEW LIFE. + +“NOW, DEAR BOY,” SAID PRINCE VASíLI PLAYFULLY, “SAY ‘YES,’ +AND I’LL WRITE TO HER MYSELF, AND WE WILL KILL THE FATTED CALF.” + +BUT BEFORE PRINCE VASíLI HAD FINISHED HIS PLAYFUL SPEECH, PIERRE, +WITHOUT LOOKING AT HIM, AND WITH A KIND OF FURY THAT MADE HIM LIKE HIS +FATHER, MUTTERED IN A WHISPER: + +“PRINCE, I DID NOT ASK YOU HERE. GO, PLEASE GO!” AND HE JUMPED UP +AND OPENED THE DOOR FOR HIM. + +“GO!” HE REPEATED, AMAZED AT HIMSELF AND GLAD TO SEE THE LOOK OF +CONFUSION AND FEAR THAT SHOWED ITSELF ON PRINCE VASíLI’S FACE. + +“WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH YOU? ARE YOU ILL?” + +“GO!” THE QUIVERING VOICE REPEATED. AND PRINCE VASíLI HAD TO GO +WITHOUT RECEIVING ANY EXPLANATION. + +A WEEK LATER, PIERRE, HAVING TAKEN LEAVE OF HIS NEW FRIENDS, THE MASONS, +AND LEAVING LARGE SUMS OF MONEY WITH THEM FOR ALMS, WENT AWAY TO HIS +ESTATES. HIS NEW BRETHREN GAVE HIM LETTERS TO THE KIEV AND ODESSA MASONS +AND PROMISED TO WRITE TO HIM AND GUIDE HIM IN HIS NEW ACTIVITY. + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +THE DUEL BETWEEN PIERRE AND DóLOKHOV WAS HUSHED UP AND, IN SPITE OF +THE EMPEROR’S SEVERITY REGARDING DUELS AT THAT TIME, NEITHER THE +PRINCIPALS NOR THEIR SECONDS SUFFERED FOR IT. BUT THE STORY OF THE DUEL, +CONFIRMED BY PIERRE’S RUPTURE WITH HIS WIFE, WAS THE TALK OF SOCIETY. +PIERRE WHO HAD BEEN REGARDED WITH PATRONIZING CONDESCENSION WHEN HE WAS +AN ILLEGITIMATE SON, AND PETTED AND EXTOLLED WHEN HE WAS THE BEST +MATCH IN RUSSIA, HAD SUNK GREATLY IN THE ESTEEM OF SOCIETY AFTER HIS +MARRIAGE—WHEN THE MARRIAGEABLE DAUGHTERS AND THEIR MOTHERS HAD NOTHING +TO HOPE FROM HIM—ESPECIALLY AS HE DID NOT KNOW HOW, AND DID NOT +WISH, TO COURT SOCIETY’S FAVOR. NOW HE ALONE WAS BLAMED FOR WHAT HAD +HAPPENED, HE WAS SAID TO BE INSANELY JEALOUS AND SUBJECT LIKE HIS +FATHER TO FITS OF BLOODTHIRSTY RAGE. AND WHEN AFTER PIERRE’S +DEPARTURE HéLèNE RETURNED TO PETERSBURG, SHE WAS RECEIVED BY ALL HER +ACQUAINTANCES NOT ONLY CORDIALLY, BUT EVEN WITH A SHADE OF DEFERENCE +DUE TO HER MISFORTUNE. WHEN CONVERSATION TURNED ON HER HUSBAND HéLèNE +ASSUMED A DIGNIFIED EXPRESSION, WHICH WITH CHARACTERISTIC TACT SHE HAD +ACQUIRED THOUGH SHE DID NOT UNDERSTAND ITS SIGNIFICANCE. THIS EXPRESSION +SUGGESTED THAT SHE HAD RESOLVED TO ENDURE HER TROUBLES UNCOMPLAININGLY +AND THAT HER HUSBAND WAS A CROSS LAID UPON HER BY GOD. PRINCE VASíLI +EXPRESSED HIS OPINION MORE OPENLY. HE SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS WHEN PIERRE +WAS MENTIONED AND, POINTING TO HIS FOREHEAD, REMARKED: + +“A BIT TOUCHED—I ALWAYS SAID SO.” + +“I SAID FROM THE FIRST,” DECLARED ANNA PáVLOVNA REFERRING TO +PIERRE, “I SAID AT THE TIME AND BEFORE ANYONE ELSE” (SHE INSISTED +ON HER PRIORITY) “THAT THAT SENSELESS YOUNG MAN WAS SPOILED BY THE +DEPRAVED IDEAS OF THESE DAYS. I SAID SO EVEN AT THE TIME WHEN EVERYBODY +WAS IN RAPTURES ABOUT HIM, WHEN HE HAD JUST RETURNED FROM ABROAD, AND +WHEN, IF YOU REMEMBER, HE POSED AS A SORT OF MARAT AT ONE OF MY SOIREES. +AND HOW HAS IT ENDED? I WAS AGAINST THIS MARRIAGE EVEN THEN AND FORETOLD +ALL THAT HAS HAPPENED.” + +ANNA PáVLOVNA CONTINUED TO GIVE ON FREE EVENINGS THE SAME KIND OF +SOIREES AS BEFORE—SUCH AS SHE ALONE HAD THE GIFT OF ARRANGING—AT +WHICH WAS TO BE FOUND “THE CREAM OF REALLY GOOD SOCIETY, THE BLOOM +OF THE INTELLECTUAL ESSENCE OF PETERSBURG,” AS SHE HERSELF PUT IT. +BESIDES THIS REFINED SELECTION OF SOCIETY ANNA PáVLOVNA’S RECEPTIONS +WERE ALSO DISTINGUISHED BY THE FACT THAT SHE ALWAYS PRESENTED SOME NEW +AND INTERESTING PERSON TO THE VISITORS AND THAT NOWHERE ELSE WAS THE +STATE OF THE POLITICAL THERMOMETER OF LEGITIMATE PETERSBURG COURT +SOCIETY SO DEARLY AND DISTINCTLY INDICATED. + +TOWARD THE END OF 1806, WHEN ALL THE SAD DETAILS OF NAPOLEON’S +DESTRUCTION OF THE PRUSSIAN ARMY AT JENA AND AUERSTäDT AND THE +SURRENDER OF MOST OF THE PRUSSIAN FORTRESSES HAD BEEN RECEIVED, WHEN OUR +TROOPS HAD ALREADY ENTERED PRUSSIA AND OUR SECOND WAR WITH NAPOLEON +WAS BEGINNING, ANNA PáVLOVNA GAVE ONE OF HER SOIREES. THE “CREAM OF +REALLY GOOD SOCIETY” CONSISTED OF THE FASCINATING HéLèNE, FORSAKEN +BY HER HUSBAND, MORTEMART, THE DELIGHTFUL PRINCE HIPPOLYTE WHO HAD +JUST RETURNED FROM VIENNA, TWO DIPLOMATISTS, THE OLD AUNT, A YOUNG MAN +REFERRED TO IN THAT DRAWING ROOM AS “A MAN OF GREAT MERIT” (UN HOMME +DE BEAUCOUP DE MéRITE), A NEWLY APPOINTED MAID OF HONOR AND HER MOTHER, +AND SEVERAL OTHER LESS NOTEWORTHY PERSONS. + +THE NOVELTY ANNA PáVLOVNA WAS SETTING BEFORE HER GUESTS THAT EVENING +WAS BORíS DRUBETSKóY, WHO HAD JUST ARRIVED AS A SPECIAL MESSENGER FROM +THE PRUSSIAN ARMY AND WAS AIDE-DE-CAMP TO A VERY IMPORTANT PERSONAGE. + +THE TEMPERATURE SHOWN BY THE POLITICAL THERMOMETER TO THE COMPANY THAT +EVENING WAS THIS: + +“WHATEVER THE EUROPEAN SOVEREIGNS AND COMMANDERS MAY DO TO +COUNTENANCE BONAPARTE, AND TO CAUSE ME, AND US IN GENERAL, ANNOYANCE AND +MORTIFICATION, OUR OPINION OF BONAPARTE CANNOT ALTER. WE SHALL NOT CEASE +TO EXPRESS OUR SINCERE VIEWS ON THAT SUBJECT, AND CAN ONLY SAY TO THE +KING OF PRUSSIA AND OTHERS: ‘SO MUCH THE WORSE FOR YOU. TU L’AS +VOULU, GEORGE DANDIN,’ THAT’S ALL WE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT IT!” + +WHEN BORíS, WHO WAS TO BE SERVED UP TO THE GUESTS, ENTERED THE DRAWING +ROOM, ALMOST ALL THE COMPANY HAD ASSEMBLED, AND THE CONVERSATION, GUIDED +BY ANNA PáVLOVNA, WAS ABOUT OUR DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH AUSTRIA AND +THE HOPE OF AN ALLIANCE WITH HER. + +BORíS, GROWN MORE MANLY AND LOOKING FRESH, ROSY AND SELF-POSSESSED, +ENTERED THE DRAWING ROOM ELEGANTLY DRESSED IN THE UNIFORM OF AN +AIDE-DE-CAMP AND WAS DULY CONDUCTED TO PAY HIS RESPECTS TO THE AUNT AND +THEN BROUGHT BACK TO THE GENERAL CIRCLE. + +ANNA PáVLOVNA GAVE HIM HER SHRIVELED HAND TO KISS AND INTRODUCED HIM TO +SEVERAL PERSONS WHOM HE DID NOT KNOW, GIVING HIM A WHISPERED DESCRIPTION +OF EACH. + +“PRINCE HIPPOLYTE KURáGIN—CHARMING YOUNG FELLOW; M. +KRONQ,—CHARGé D’AFFAIRES FROM COPENHAGEN—A PROFOUND INTELLECT,” +AND SIMPLY, “MR. SHíTOV—A MAN OF GREAT MERIT”—THIS OF THE MAN +USUALLY SO DESCRIBED. + +THANKS TO ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S EFFORTS, HIS OWN TASTES, AND THE +PECULIARITIES OF HIS RESERVED NATURE, BORíS HAD MANAGED DURING HIS +SERVICE TO PLACE HIMSELF VERY ADVANTAGEOUSLY. HE WAS AIDE-DE-CAMP TO A +VERY IMPORTANT PERSONAGE, HAD BEEN SENT ON A VERY IMPORTANT MISSION TO +PRUSSIA, AND HAD JUST RETURNED FROM THERE AS A SPECIAL MESSENGER. HE HAD +BECOME THOROUGHLY CONVERSANT WITH THAT UNWRITTEN CODE WITH WHICH HE HAD +BEEN SO PLEASED AT OLMüTZ AND ACCORDING TO WHICH AN ENSIGN MIGHT RANK +INCOMPARABLY HIGHER THAN A GENERAL, AND ACCORDING TO WHICH WHAT WAS +NEEDED FOR SUCCESS IN THE SERVICE WAS NOT EFFORT OR WORK, OR COURAGE, OR +PERSEVERANCE, BUT ONLY THE KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO GET ON WITH THOSE WHO CAN +GRANT REWARDS, AND HE WAS HIMSELF OFTEN SURPRISED AT THE RAPIDITY OF HIS +SUCCESS AND AT THE INABILITY OF OTHERS TO UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS. +IN CONSEQUENCE OF THIS DISCOVERY HIS WHOLE MANNER OF LIFE, ALL +HIS RELATIONS WITH OLD FRIENDS, ALL HIS PLANS FOR HIS FUTURE, WERE +COMPLETELY ALTERED. HE WAS NOT RICH, BUT WOULD SPEND HIS LAST GROAT TO +BE BETTER DRESSED THAN OTHERS, AND WOULD RATHER DEPRIVE HIMSELF OF MANY +PLEASURES THAN ALLOW HIMSELF TO BE SEEN IN A SHABBY EQUIPAGE OR APPEAR +IN THE STREETS OF PETERSBURG IN AN OLD UNIFORM. HE MADE FRIENDS WITH +AND SOUGHT THE ACQUAINTANCE OF ONLY THOSE ABOVE HIM IN POSITION AND +WHO COULD THEREFORE BE OF USE TO HIM. HE LIKED PETERSBURG AND DESPISED +MOSCOW. THE REMEMBRANCE OF THE ROSTóVS’ HOUSE AND OF HIS CHILDISH +LOVE FOR NATáSHA WAS UNPLEASANT TO HIM AND HE HAD NOT ONCE BEEN TO SEE +THE ROSTóVS SINCE THE DAY OF HIS DEPARTURE FOR THE ARMY. TO BE IN ANNA +PáVLOVNA’S DRAWING ROOM HE CONSIDERED AN IMPORTANT STEP UP IN THE +SERVICE, AND HE AT ONCE UNDERSTOOD HIS ROLE, LETTING HIS HOSTESS MAKE +USE OF WHATEVER INTEREST HE HAD TO OFFER. HE HIMSELF CAREFULLY SCANNED +EACH FACE, APPRAISING THE POSSIBILITIES OF ESTABLISHING INTIMACY WITH +EACH OF THOSE PRESENT, AND THE ADVANTAGES THAT MIGHT ACCRUE. HE TOOK +THE SEAT INDICATED TO HIM BESIDE THE FAIR HéLèNE AND LISTENED TO THE +GENERAL CONVERSATION. + +“VIENNA CONSIDERS THE BASES OF THE PROPOSED TREATY SO UNATTAINABLE +THAT NOT EVEN A CONTINUITY OF MOST BRILLIANT SUCCESSES WOULD SECURE +THEM, AND SHE DOUBTS THE MEANS WE HAVE OF GAINING THEM. THAT IS THE +ACTUAL PHRASE USED BY THE VIENNA CABINET,” SAID THE DANISH CHARGé +D’AFFAIRES. + +“THE DOUBT IS FLATTERING,” SAID “THE MAN OF PROFOUND INTELLECT,” +WITH A SUBTLE SMILE. + +“WE MUST DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE VIENNA CABINET AND THE EMPEROR OF +AUSTRIA,” SAID MORTEMART. “THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA CAN NEVER HAVE +THOUGHT OF SUCH A THING, IT IS ONLY THE CABINET THAT SAYS IT.” + +“AH, MY DEAR VICOMTE,” PUT IN ANNA PáVLOVNA, “L’UROPE” (FOR +SOME REASON SHE CALLED IT UROPE AS IF THAT WERE A SPECIALLY REFINED +FRENCH PRONUNCIATION WHICH SHE COULD ALLOW HERSELF WHEN CONVERSING WITH +A FRENCHMAN), “L’UROPE NE SERA JAMAIS NOTRE ALLIéE SINCèRE.” * + + * “EUROPE WILL NEVER BE OUR SINCERE ALLY.” + + +AFTER THAT ANNA PáVLOVNA LED UP TO THE COURAGE AND FIRMNESS OF THE KING +OF PRUSSIA, IN ORDER TO DRAW BORíS INTO THE CONVERSATION. + +BORíS LISTENED ATTENTIVELY TO EACH OF THE SPEAKERS, AWAITING HIS TURN, +BUT MANAGED MEANWHILE TO LOOK ROUND REPEATEDLY AT HIS NEIGHBOR, THE +BEAUTIFUL HéLèNE, WHOSE EYES SEVERAL TIMES MET THOSE OF THE HANDSOME +YOUNG AIDE-DE-CAMP WITH A SMILE. + +SPEAKING OF THE POSITION OF PRUSSIA, ANNA PáVLOVNA VERY NATURALLY ASKED +BORíS TO TELL THEM ABOUT HIS JOURNEY TO GLOGAU AND IN WHAT STATE HE +FOUND THE PRUSSIAN ARMY. BORíS, SPEAKING WITH DELIBERATION, TOLD THEM +IN PURE, CORRECT FRENCH MANY INTERESTING DETAILS ABOUT THE ARMIES AND +THE COURT, CAREFULLY ABSTAINING FROM EXPRESSING AN OPINION OF HIS +OWN ABOUT THE FACTS HE WAS RECOUNTING. FOR SOME TIME HE ENGROSSED THE +GENERAL ATTENTION, AND ANNA PáVLOVNA FELT THAT THE NOVELTY SHE HAD +SERVED UP WAS RECEIVED WITH PLEASURE BY ALL HER VISITORS. THE GREATEST +ATTENTION OF ALL TO BORíS’ NARRATIVE WAS SHOWN BY HéLèNE. SHE ASKED +HIM SEVERAL QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS JOURNEY AND SEEMED GREATLY INTERESTED IN +THE STATE OF THE PRUSSIAN ARMY. AS SOON AS HE HAD FINISHED SHE TURNED TO +HIM WITH HER USUAL SMILE. + +“YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST COME AND SEE ME,” SHE SAID IN A TONE THAT +IMPLIED THAT, FOR CERTAIN CONSIDERATIONS HE COULD NOT KNOW OF, THIS WAS +ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. + +“ON TUESDAY BETWEEN EIGHT AND NINE. IT WILL GIVE ME GREAT PLEASURE.” + +BORíS PROMISED TO FULFILL HER WISH AND WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN A +CONVERSATION WITH HER, WHEN ANNA PáVLOVNA CALLED HIM AWAY ON THE +PRETEXT THAT HER AUNT WISHED TO HEAR HIM. + +“YOU KNOW HER HUSBAND, OF COURSE?” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA, CLOSING HER +EYES AND INDICATING HéLèNE WITH A SORROWFUL GESTURE. “AH, SHE IS +SUCH AN UNFORTUNATE AND CHARMING WOMAN! DON’T MENTION HIM BEFORE +HER—PLEASE DON’T! IT IS TOO PAINFUL FOR HER!” + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +WHEN BORíS AND ANNA PáVLOVNA RETURNED TO THE OTHERS PRINCE HIPPOLYTE +HAD THE EAR OF THE COMPANY. + +BENDING FORWARD IN HIS ARMCHAIR HE SAID: “LE ROI DE PRUSSE!” AND +HAVING SAID THIS LAUGHED. EVERYONE TURNED TOWARD HIM. + +“LE ROI DE PRUSSE?” HIPPOLYTE SAID INTERROGATIVELY, AGAIN LAUGHING, +AND THEN CALMLY AND SERIOUSLY SAT BACK IN HIS CHAIR. ANNA PáVLOVNA +WAITED FOR HIM TO GO ON, BUT AS HE SEEMED QUITE DECIDED TO SAY NO MORE +SHE BEGAN TO TELL OF HOW AT POTSDAM THE IMPIOUS BONAPARTE HAD STOLEN THE +SWORD OF FREDERICK THE GREAT. + +“IT IS THE SWORD OF FREDERICK THE GREAT WHICH I...” SHE BEGAN, BUT +HIPPOLYTE INTERRUPTED HER WITH THE WORDS: “LE ROI DE PRUSSE...” AND +AGAIN, AS SOON AS ALL TURNED TOWARD HIM, EXCUSED HIMSELF AND SAID NO +MORE. + +ANNA PáVLOVNA FROWNED. MORTEMART, HIPPOLYTE’S FRIEND, ADDRESSED HIM +FIRMLY. + +“COME NOW, WHAT ABOUT YOUR ROI DE PRUSSE?” + +HIPPOLYTE LAUGHED AS IF ASHAMED OF LAUGHING. + +“OH, IT’S NOTHING. I ONLY WISHED TO SAY...” (HE WANTED TO REPEAT +A JOKE HE HAD HEARD IN VIENNA AND WHICH HE HAD BEEN TRYING ALL THAT +EVENING TO GET IN) “I ONLY WISHED TO SAY THAT WE ARE WRONG TO FIGHT +POUR LE ROI DE PRUSSE!” + +BORíS SMILED CIRCUMSPECTLY, SO THAT IT MIGHT BE TAKEN AS IRONICAL +OR APPRECIATIVE ACCORDING TO THE WAY THE JOKE WAS RECEIVED. EVERYBODY +LAUGHED. + +“YOUR JOKE IS TOO BAD, IT’S WITTY BUT UNJUST,” SAID ANNA +PáVLOVNA, SHAKING HER LITTLE SHRIVELED FINGER AT HIM. + +“WE ARE NOT FIGHTING POUR LE ROI DE PRUSSE, BUT FOR RIGHT PRINCIPLES. +OH, THAT WICKED PRINCE HIPPOLYTE!” SHE SAID. + +THE CONVERSATION DID NOT FLAG ALL EVENING AND TURNED CHIEFLY ON THE +POLITICAL NEWS. IT BECAME PARTICULARLY ANIMATED TOWARD THE END OF THE +EVENING WHEN THE REWARDS BESTOWED BY THE EMPEROR WERE MENTIONED. + +“YOU KNOW N— N— RECEIVED A SNUFFBOX WITH THE PORTRAIT LAST +YEAR?” SAID “THE MAN OF PROFOUND INTELLECT.” “WHY SHOULDN’T +S— S— GET THE SAME DISTINCTION?” + +“PARDON ME! A SNUFFBOX WITH THE EMPEROR’S PORTRAIT IS A REWARD BUT +NOT A DISTINCTION,” SAID THE DIPLOMATIST—“A GIFT, RATHER.” + +“THERE ARE PRECEDENTS, I MAY MENTION SCHWARZENBERG.” + +“IT’S IMPOSSIBLE,” REPLIED ANOTHER. + +“WILL YOU BET? THE RIBBON OF THE ORDER IS A DIFFERENT MATTER....” + +WHEN EVERYBODY ROSE TO GO, HéLèNE WHO HAD SPOKEN VERY LITTLE ALL +THE EVENING AGAIN TURNED TO BORíS, ASKING HIM IN A TONE OF CARESSING +SIGNIFICANT COMMAND TO COME TO HER ON TUESDAY. + +“IT IS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO ME,” SHE SAID, TURNING WITH A SMILE +TOWARD ANNA PáVLOVNA, AND ANNA PáVLOVNA, WITH THE SAME SAD SMILE WITH +WHICH SHE SPOKE OF HER EXALTED PATRONESS, SUPPORTED HéLèNE’S WISH. + +IT SEEMED AS IF FROM SOME WORDS BORíS HAD SPOKEN THAT EVENING ABOUT THE +PRUSSIAN ARMY, HéLèNE HAD SUDDENLY FOUND IT NECESSARY TO SEE HIM. +SHE SEEMED TO PROMISE TO EXPLAIN THAT NECESSITY TO HIM WHEN HE CAME ON +TUESDAY. + +BUT ON TUESDAY EVENING, HAVING COME TO HéLèNE’S SPLENDID SALON, +BORíS RECEIVED NO CLEAR EXPLANATION OF WHY IT HAD BEEN NECESSARY FOR +HIM TO COME. THERE WERE OTHER GUESTS AND THE COUNTESS TALKED LITTLE TO +HIM, AND ONLY AS HE KISSED HER HAND ON TAKING LEAVE SAID UNEXPECTEDLY +AND IN A WHISPER, WITH A STRANGELY UNSMILING FACE: “COME TO DINNER +TOMORROW... IN THE EVENING. YOU MUST COME.... COME!” + +DURING THAT STAY IN PETERSBURG, BORíS BECAME AN INTIMATE IN THE +COUNTESS’ HOUSE. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +THE WAR WAS FLAMING UP AND NEARING THE RUSSIAN FRONTIER. EVERYWHERE ONE +HEARD CURSES ON BONAPARTE, “THE ENEMY OF MANKIND.” MILITIAMEN AND +RECRUITS WERE BEING ENROLLED IN THE VILLAGES, AND FROM THE SEAT OF +WAR CAME CONTRADICTORY NEWS, FALSE AS USUAL AND THEREFORE VARIOUSLY +INTERPRETED. THE LIFE OF OLD PRINCE BOLKóNSKI, PRINCE ANDREW, AND +PRINCESS MARY HAD GREATLY CHANGED SINCE 1805. + +IN 1806 THE OLD PRINCE WAS MADE ONE OF THE EIGHT COMMANDERS IN CHIEF +THEN APPOINTED TO SUPERVISE THE ENROLLMENT DECREED THROUGHOUT RUSSIA. +DESPITE THE WEAKNESS OF AGE, WHICH HAD BECOME PARTICULARLY NOTICEABLE +SINCE THE TIME WHEN HE THOUGHT HIS SON HAD BEEN KILLED, HE DID NOT THINK +IT RIGHT TO REFUSE A DUTY TO WHICH HE HAD BEEN APPOINTED BY THE EMPEROR +HIMSELF, AND THIS FRESH OPPORTUNITY FOR ACTION GAVE HIM NEW ENERGY +AND STRENGTH. HE WAS CONTINUALLY TRAVELING THROUGH THE THREE PROVINCES +ENTRUSTED TO HIM, WAS PEDANTIC IN THE FULFILLMENT OF HIS DUTIES, SEVERE +TO CRUEL WITH HIS SUBORDINATES, AND WENT INTO EVERYTHING DOWN TO THE +MINUTEST DETAILS HIMSELF. PRINCESS MARY HAD CEASED TAKING LESSONS IN +MATHEMATICS FROM HER FATHER, AND WHEN THE OLD PRINCE WAS AT HOME WENT +TO HIS STUDY WITH THE WET NURSE AND LITTLE PRINCE NICHOLAS (AS HIS +GRANDFATHER CALLED HIM). THE BABY PRINCE NICHOLAS LIVED WITH HIS WET +NURSE AND NURSE SáVISHNA IN THE LATE PRINCESS’ ROOMS AND PRINCESS +MARY SPENT MOST OF THE DAY IN THE NURSERY, TAKING A MOTHER’S PLACE TO +HER LITTLE NEPHEW AS BEST SHE COULD. MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, TOO, SEEMED +PASSIONATELY FOND OF THE BOY, AND PRINCESS MARY OFTEN DEPRIVED HERSELF +TO GIVE HER FRIEND THE PLEASURE OF DANDLING THE LITTLE ANGEL—AS SHE +CALLED HER NEPHEW—AND PLAYING WITH HIM. + +NEAR THE ALTAR OF THE CHURCH AT BALD HILLS THERE WAS A CHAPEL OVER THE +TOMB OF THE LITTLE PRINCESS, AND IN THIS CHAPEL WAS A MARBLE MONUMENT +BROUGHT FROM ITALY, REPRESENTING AN ANGEL WITH OUTSPREAD WINGS READY TO +FLY UPWARDS. THE ANGEL’S UPPER LIP WAS SLIGHTLY RAISED AS THOUGH +ABOUT TO SMILE, AND ONCE ON COMING OUT OF THE CHAPEL PRINCE ANDREW AND +PRINCESS MARY ADMITTED TO ONE ANOTHER THAT THE ANGEL’S FACE REMINDED +THEM STRANGELY OF THE LITTLE PRINCESS. BUT WHAT WAS STILL STRANGER, +THOUGH OF THIS PRINCE ANDREW SAID NOTHING TO HIS SISTER, WAS THAT IN THE +EXPRESSION THE SCULPTOR HAD HAPPENED TO GIVE THE ANGEL’S FACE, PRINCE +ANDREW READ THE SAME MILD REPROACH HE HAD READ ON THE FACE OF HIS DEAD +WIFE: “AH, WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS TO ME?” + +SOON AFTER PRINCE ANDREW’S RETURN THE OLD PRINCE MADE OVER TO HIM A +LARGE ESTATE, BOGUCHáROVO, ABOUT TWENTY-FIVE MILES FROM BALD HILLS. +PARTLY BECAUSE OF THE DEPRESSING MEMORIES ASSOCIATED WITH BALD HILLS, +PARTLY BECAUSE PRINCE ANDREW DID NOT ALWAYS FEEL EQUAL TO BEARING WITH +HIS FATHER’S PECULIARITIES, AND PARTLY BECAUSE HE NEEDED SOLITUDE, +PRINCE ANDREW MADE USE OF BOGUCHáROVO, BEGAN BUILDING AND SPENT MOST OF +HIS TIME THERE. + +AFTER THE AUSTERLITZ CAMPAIGN PRINCE ANDREW HAD FIRMLY RESOLVED NOT +TO CONTINUE HIS MILITARY SERVICE, AND WHEN THE WAR RECOMMENCED +AND EVERYBODY HAD TO SERVE, HE TOOK A POST UNDER HIS FATHER IN THE +RECRUITMENT SO AS TO AVOID ACTIVE SERVICE. THE OLD PRINCE AND HIS SON +SEEMED TO HAVE CHANGED ROLES SINCE THE CAMPAIGN OF 1805. THE OLD MAN, +ROUSED BY ACTIVITY, EXPECTED THE BEST RESULTS FROM THE NEW CAMPAIGN, +WHILE PRINCE ANDREW ON THE CONTRARY, TAKING NO PART IN THE WAR AND +SECRETLY REGRETTING THIS, SAW ONLY THE DARK SIDE. + +ON FEBRUARY 26, 1807, THE OLD PRINCE SET OFF ON ONE OF HIS CIRCUITS. +PRINCE ANDREW REMAINED AT BALD HILLS AS USUAL DURING HIS FATHER’S +ABSENCE. LITTLE NICHOLAS HAD BEEN UNWELL FOR FOUR DAYS. THE COACHMAN WHO +HAD DRIVEN THE OLD PRINCE TO TOWN RETURNED BRINGING PAPERS AND LETTERS +FOR PRINCE ANDREW. + +NOT FINDING THE YOUNG PRINCE IN HIS STUDY THE VALET WENT WITH THE +LETTERS TO PRINCESS MARY’S APARTMENTS, BUT DID NOT FIND HIM THERE. HE +WAS TOLD THAT THE PRINCE HAD GONE TO THE NURSERY. + +“IF YOU PLEASE, YOUR EXCELLENCY, PéTRUSHA HAS BROUGHT SOME PAPERS,” +SAID ONE OF THE NURSEMAIDS TO PRINCE ANDREW WHO WAS SITTING ON A +CHILD’S LITTLE CHAIR WHILE, FROWNING AND WITH TREMBLING HANDS, HE +POURED DROPS FROM A MEDICINE BOTTLE INTO A WINEGLASS HALF FULL OF WATER. + +“WHAT IS IT?” HE SAID CROSSLY, AND, HIS HAND SHAKING +UNINTENTIONALLY, HE POURED TOO MANY DROPS INTO THE GLASS. HE THREW THE +MIXTURE ONTO THE FLOOR AND ASKED FOR SOME MORE WATER. THE MAID BROUGHT +IT. + +THERE WERE IN THE ROOM A CHILD’S COT, TWO BOXES, TWO ARMCHAIRS, A +TABLE, A CHILD’S TABLE, AND THE LITTLE CHAIR ON WHICH PRINCE ANDREW +WAS SITTING. THE CURTAINS WERE DRAWN, AND A SINGLE CANDLE WAS BURNING ON +THE TABLE, SCREENED BY A BOUND MUSIC BOOK SO THAT THE LIGHT DID NOT FALL +ON THE COT. + +“MY DEAR,” SAID PRINCESS MARY, ADDRESSING HER BROTHER FROM BESIDE +THE COT WHERE SHE WAS STANDING, “BETTER WAIT A BIT... LATER...” + +“OH, LEAVE OFF, YOU ALWAYS TALK NONSENSE AND KEEP PUTTING THINGS +OFF—AND THIS IS WHAT COMES OF IT!” SAID PRINCE ANDREW IN AN +EXASPERATED WHISPER, EVIDENTLY MEANING TO WOUND HIS SISTER. + +“MY DEAR, REALLY... IT’S BETTER NOT TO WAKE HIM... HE’S ASLEEP,” +SAID THE PRINCESS IN A TONE OF ENTREATY. + +PRINCE ANDREW GOT UP AND WENT ON TIPTOE UP TO THE LITTLE BED, WINEGLASS +IN HAND. + +“PERHAPS WE’D REALLY BETTER NOT WAKE HIM,” HE SAID HESITATING. + +“AS YOU PLEASE... REALLY... I THINK SO... BUT AS YOU PLEASE,” SAID +PRINCESS MARY, EVIDENTLY INTIMIDATED AND CONFUSED THAT HER OPINION +HAD PREVAILED. SHE DREW HER BROTHER’S ATTENTION TO THE MAID WHO WAS +CALLING HIM IN A WHISPER. + +IT WAS THE SECOND NIGHT THAT NEITHER OF THEM HAD SLEPT, WATCHING THE BOY +WHO WAS IN A HIGH FEVER. THESE LAST DAYS, MISTRUSTING THEIR HOUSEHOLD +DOCTOR AND EXPECTING ANOTHER FOR WHOM THEY HAD SENT TO TOWN, THEY HAD +BEEN TRYING FIRST ONE REMEDY AND THEN ANOTHER. WORN OUT BY SLEEPLESSNESS +AND ANXIETY THEY THREW THEIR BURDEN OF SORROW ON ONE ANOTHER AND +REPROACHED AND DISPUTED WITH EACH OTHER. + +“PéTRUSHA HAS COME WITH PAPERS FROM YOUR FATHER,” WHISPERED THE +MAID. + +PRINCE ANDREW WENT OUT. + +“DEVIL TAKE THEM!” HE MUTTERED, AND AFTER LISTENING TO THE VERBAL +INSTRUCTIONS HIS FATHER HAD SENT AND TAKING THE CORRESPONDENCE AND HIS +FATHER’S LETTER, HE RETURNED TO THE NURSERY. + +“WELL?” HE ASKED. + +“STILL THE SAME. WAIT, FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE. KARL IVáNICH ALWAYS SAYS +THAT SLEEP IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING,” WHISPERED PRINCESS MARY +WITH A SIGH. + +PRINCE ANDREW WENT UP TO THE CHILD AND FELT HIM. HE WAS BURNING HOT. + +“CONFOUND YOU AND YOUR KARL IVáNICH!” HE TOOK THE GLASS WITH THE +DROPS AND AGAIN WENT UP TO THE COT. + +“ANDREW, DON’T!” SAID PRINCESS MARY. + +BUT HE SCOWLED AT HER ANGRILY THOUGH ALSO WITH SUFFERING IN HIS EYES, +AND STOOPED GLASS IN HAND OVER THE INFANT. + +“BUT I WISH IT,” HE SAID. “I BEG YOU—GIVE IT HIM!” + +PRINCESS MARY SHRUGGED HER SHOULDERS BUT TOOK THE GLASS SUBMISSIVELY +AND CALLING THE NURSE BEGAN GIVING THE MEDICINE. THE CHILD SCREAMED +HOARSELY. PRINCE ANDREW WINCED AND, CLUTCHING HIS HEAD, WENT OUT AND SAT +DOWN ON A SOFA IN THE NEXT ROOM. + +HE STILL HAD ALL THE LETTERS IN HIS HAND. OPENING THEM MECHANICALLY HE +BEGAN READING. THE OLD PRINCE, NOW AND THEN USING ABBREVIATIONS, WROTE +IN HIS LARGE ELONGATED HAND ON BLUE PAPER AS FOLLOWS: + +HAVE JUST THIS MOMENT RECEIVED BY SPECIAL MESSENGER VERY JOYFUL +NEWS—IF IT’S NOT FALSE. BENNIGSEN SEEMS TO HAVE OBTAINED A COMPLETE +VICTORY OVER BUONAPARTE AT EYLAU. IN PETERSBURG EVERYONE IS REJOICING, +AND THE REWARDS SENT TO THE ARMY ARE INNUMERABLE. THOUGH HE IS A +GERMAN—I CONGRATULATE HIM! I CAN’T MAKE OUT WHAT THE COMMANDER AT +KóRCHEVO—A CERTAIN KHANDRIKóV—IS UP TO; TILL NOW THE ADDITIONAL +MEN AND PROVISIONS HAVE NOT ARRIVED. GALLOP OFF TO HIM AT ONCE AND +SAY I’LL HAVE HIS HEAD OFF IF EVERYTHING IS NOT HERE IN A WEEK. +HAVE RECEIVED ANOTHER LETTER ABOUT THE PREUSSISCH-EYLAU BATTLE +FROM PéTENKA—HE TOOK PART IN IT—AND IT’S ALL TRUE. WHEN +MISCHIEF-MAKERS DON’T MEDDLE EVEN A GERMAN BEATS BUONAPARTE. HE IS +SAID TO BE FLEEING IN GREAT DISORDER. MIND YOU GALLOP OFF TO KóRCHEVO +WITHOUT DELAY AND CARRY OUT INSTRUCTIONS! + +PRINCE ANDREW SIGHED AND BROKE THE SEAL OF ANOTHER ENVELOPE. IT WAS +A CLOSELY WRITTEN LETTER OF TWO SHEETS FROM BILíBIN. HE FOLDED IT UP +WITHOUT READING IT AND REREAD HIS FATHER’S LETTER, ENDING WITH THE +WORDS: “GALLOP OFF TO KóRCHEVO AND CARRY OUT INSTRUCTIONS!” + +“NO, PARDON ME, I WON’T GO NOW TILL THE CHILD IS BETTER,” THOUGHT +HE, GOING TO THE DOOR AND LOOKING INTO THE NURSERY. + +PRINCESS MARY WAS STILL STANDING BY THE COT, GENTLY ROCKING THE BABY. + +“AH YES, AND WHAT ELSE DID HE SAY THAT’S UNPLEASANT?” THOUGHT +PRINCE ANDREW, RECALLING HIS FATHER’S LETTER. “YES, WE HAVE GAINED +A VICTORY OVER BONAPARTE, JUST WHEN I’M NOT SERVING. YES, YES, HE’S +ALWAYS POKING FUN AT ME.... AH, WELL! LET HIM!” AND HE BEGAN READING +BILíBIN’S LETTER WHICH WAS WRITTEN IN FRENCH. HE READ WITHOUT +UNDERSTANDING HALF OF IT, READ ONLY TO FORGET, IF BUT FOR A MOMENT, WHAT +HE HAD TOO LONG BEEN THINKING OF SO PAINFULLY TO THE EXCLUSION OF ALL +ELSE. + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +BILíBIN WAS NOW AT ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN A DIPLOMATIC CAPACITY, AND +THOUGH HE WROTE IN FRENCH AND USED FRENCH JESTS AND FRENCH IDIOMS, +HE DESCRIBED THE WHOLE CAMPAIGN WITH A FEARLESS SELF-CENSURE AND +SELF-DERISION GENUINELY RUSSIAN. BILíBIN WROTE THAT THE OBLIGATION OF +DIPLOMATIC DISCRETION TORMENTED HIM, AND HE WAS HAPPY TO HAVE IN PRINCE +ANDREW A RELIABLE CORRESPONDENT TO WHOM HE COULD POUR OUT THE BILE HE +HAD ACCUMULATED AT THE SIGHT OF ALL THAT WAS BEING DONE IN THE ARMY. +THE LETTER WAS OLD, HAVING BEEN WRITTEN BEFORE THE BATTLE AT +PREUSSISCH-EYLAU. + +“SINCE THE DAY OF OUR BRILLIANT SUCCESS AT AUSTERLITZ,” WROTE +BILíBIN, “AS YOU KNOW, MY DEAR PRINCE, I NEVER LEAVE HEADQUARTERS. I +HAVE CERTAINLY ACQUIRED A TASTE FOR WAR, AND IT IS JUST AS WELL FOR ME; +WHAT I HAVE SEEN DURING THESE LAST THREE MONTHS IS INCREDIBLE. + +“I BEGIN AB OVO. ‘THE ENEMY OF THE HUMAN RACE,’ AS YOU KNOW, +ATTACKS THE PRUSSIANS. THE PRUSSIANS ARE OUR FAITHFUL ALLIES WHO HAVE +ONLY BETRAYED US THREE TIMES IN THREE YEARS. WE TAKE UP THEIR CAUSE, BUT +IT TURNS OUT THAT ‘THE ENEMY OF THE HUMAN RACE’ PAYS NO HEED TO +OUR FINE SPEECHES AND IN HIS RUDE AND SAVAGE WAY THROWS HIMSELF ON THE +PRUSSIANS WITHOUT GIVING THEM TIME TO FINISH THE PARADE THEY HAD BEGUN, +AND IN TWO TWISTS OF THE HAND HE BREAKS THEM TO SMITHEREENS AND INSTALLS +HIMSELF IN THE PALACE AT POTSDAM. + +“‘I MOST ARDENTLY DESIRE,’ WRITES THE KING OF PRUSSIA TO +BONAPARTE, ‘THAT YOUR MAJESTY SHOULD BE RECEIVED AND TREATED IN MY +PALACE IN A MANNER AGREEABLE TO YOURSELF, AND IN SO FAR AS CIRCUMSTANCES +ALLOWED, I HAVE HASTENED TO TAKE ALL STEPS TO THAT END. MAY I HAVE +SUCCEEDED!’ THE PRUSSIAN GENERALS PRIDE THEMSELVES ON BEING POLITE TO +THE FRENCH AND LAY DOWN THEIR ARMS AT THE FIRST DEMAND. + +“THE HEAD OF THE GARRISON AT GLOGAU, WITH TEN THOUSAND MEN, ASKS THE +KING OF PRUSSIA WHAT HE IS TO DO IF HE IS SUMMONED TO SURRENDER.... ALL +THIS IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE. + +“IN SHORT, HOPING TO SETTLE MATTERS BY TAKING UP A WARLIKE ATTITUDE, +IT TURNS OUT THAT WE HAVE LANDED OURSELVES IN WAR, AND WHAT IS MORE, +IN WAR ON OUR OWN FRONTIERS, WITH AND FOR THE KING OF PRUSSIA. WE HAVE +EVERYTHING IN PERFECT ORDER, ONLY ONE LITTLE THING IS LACKING, NAMELY, +A COMMANDER IN CHIEF. AS IT WAS CONSIDERED THAT THE AUSTERLITZ SUCCESS +MIGHT HAVE BEEN MORE DECISIVE HAD THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF NOT BEEN SO +YOUNG, ALL OUR OCTOGENARIANS WERE REVIEWED, AND OF PROZORóVSKI +AND KáMENSKI THE LATTER WAS PREFERRED. THE GENERAL COMES TO US, +SUVóROV-LIKE, IN A KIBíTKA, AND IS RECEIVED WITH ACCLAMATIONS OF JOY +AND TRIUMPH. + +“ON THE 4TH, THE FIRST COURIER ARRIVES FROM PETERSBURG. THE MAILS +ARE TAKEN TO THE FIELD MARSHAL’S ROOM, FOR HE LIKES TO DO EVERYTHING +HIMSELF. I AM CALLED IN TO HELP SORT THE LETTERS AND TAKE THOSE MEANT +FOR US. THE FIELD MARSHAL LOOKS ON AND WAITS FOR LETTERS ADDRESSED +TO HIM. WE SEARCH, BUT NONE ARE TO BE FOUND. THE FIELD MARSHAL GROWS +IMPATIENT AND SETS TO WORK HIMSELF AND FINDS LETTERS FROM THE EMPEROR +TO COUNT T., PRINCE V., AND OTHERS. THEN HE BURSTS INTO ONE OF HIS WILD +FURIES AND RAGES AT EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING, SEIZES THE LETTERS, OPENS +THEM, AND READS THOSE FROM THE EMPEROR ADDRESSED TO OTHERS. ‘AH! SO +THAT’S THE WAY THEY TREAT ME! NO CONFIDENCE IN ME! AH, ORDERED TO KEEP +AN EYE ON ME! VERY WELL THEN! GET ALONG WITH YOU!’ SO HE WRITES THE +FAMOUS ORDER OF THE DAY TO GENERAL BENNIGSEN: + +“‘I AM WOUNDED AND CANNOT RIDE AND CONSEQUENTLY CANNOT COMMAND THE +ARMY. YOU HAVE BROUGHT YOUR ARMY CORPS TO PULTúSK, ROUTED: HERE IT IS +EXPOSED, AND WITHOUT FUEL OR FORAGE, SO SOMETHING MUST BE DONE, AND, AS +YOU YOURSELF REPORTED TO COUNT BUXHöWDEN YESTERDAY, YOU MUST THINK OF +RETREATING TO OUR FRONTIER—WHICH DO TODAY.’ + +“‘FROM ALL MY RIDING,’ HE WRITES TO THE EMPEROR, ‘I HAVE GOT A +SADDLE SORE WHICH, COMING AFTER ALL MY PREVIOUS JOURNEYS, QUITE PREVENTS +MY RIDING AND COMMANDING SO VAST AN ARMY, SO I HAVE PASSED ON THE +COMMAND TO THE GENERAL NEXT IN SENIORITY, COUNT BUXHöWDEN, HAVING SENT +HIM MY WHOLE STAFF AND ALL THAT BELONGS TO IT, ADVISING HIM IF THERE IS +A LACK OF BREAD, TO MOVE FARTHER INTO THE INTERIOR OF PRUSSIA, FOR ONLY +ONE DAY’S RATION OF BREAD REMAINS, AND IN SOME REGIMENTS NONE AT ALL, +AS REPORTED BY THE DIVISION COMMANDERS, OSTERMANN AND SEDMORéTZKI, AND +ALL THAT THE PEASANTS HAD HAS BEEN EATEN UP. I MYSELF WILL REMAIN IN +HOSPITAL AT OSTROLENKA TILL I RECOVER. IN REGARD TO WHICH I HUMBLY +SUBMIT MY REPORT, WITH THE INFORMATION THAT IF THE ARMY REMAINS IN ITS +PRESENT BIVOUAC ANOTHER FORTNIGHT THERE WILL NOT BE A HEALTHY MAN LEFT +IN IT BY SPRING. + +“‘GRANT LEAVE TO RETIRE TO HIS COUNTRY SEAT TO AN OLD MAN WHO IS +ALREADY IN ANY CASE DISHONORED BY BEING UNABLE TO FULFILL THE GREAT AND +GLORIOUS TASK FOR WHICH HE WAS CHOSEN. I SHALL AWAIT YOUR MOST GRACIOUS +PERMISSION HERE IN HOSPITAL, THAT I MAY NOT HAVE TO PLAY THE PART OF A +SECRETARY RATHER THAN COMMANDER IN THE ARMY. MY REMOVAL FROM THE ARMY +DOES NOT PRODUCE THE SLIGHTEST STIR—A BLIND MAN HAS LEFT IT. THERE ARE +THOUSANDS SUCH AS I IN RUSSIA.’ + +“THE FIELD MARSHAL IS ANGRY WITH THE EMPEROR AND HE PUNISHES US ALL, +ISN’T IT LOGICAL? + +“THIS IS THE FIRST ACT. THOSE THAT FOLLOW ARE NATURALLY INCREASINGLY +INTERESTING AND ENTERTAINING. AFTER THE FIELD MARSHAL’S DEPARTURE +IT APPEARS THAT WE ARE WITHIN SIGHT OF THE ENEMY AND MUST GIVE BATTLE. +BUXHöWDEN IS COMMANDER IN CHIEF BY SENIORITY, BUT GENERAL BENNIGSEN +DOES NOT QUITE SEE IT; MORE PARTICULARLY AS IT IS HE AND HIS CORPS WHO +ARE WITHIN SIGHT OF THE ENEMY AND HE WISHES TO PROFIT BY THE OPPORTUNITY +TO FIGHT A BATTLE ‘ON HIS OWN HAND’ AS THE GERMANS SAY. HE DOES SO. +THIS IS THE BATTLE OF PULTúSK, WHICH IS CONSIDERED A GREAT VICTORY BUT +IN MY OPINION WAS NOTHING OF THE KIND. WE CIVILIANS, AS YOU KNOW, HAVE +A VERY BAD WAY OF DECIDING WHETHER A BATTLE WAS WON OR LOST. THOSE WHO +RETREAT AFTER A BATTLE HAVE LOST IT IS WHAT WE SAY; AND ACCORDING TO +THAT IT IS WE WHO LOST THE BATTLE OF PULTúSK. IN SHORT, WE RETREAT +AFTER THE BATTLE BUT SEND A COURIER TO PETERSBURG WITH NEWS OF A +VICTORY, AND GENERAL BENNIGSEN, HOPING TO RECEIVE FROM PETERSBURG THE +POST OF COMMANDER IN CHIEF AS A REWARD FOR HIS VICTORY, DOES NOT GIVE UP +THE COMMAND OF THE ARMY TO GENERAL BUXHöWDEN. DURING THIS INTERREGNUM +WE BEGIN A VERY ORIGINAL AND INTERESTING SERIES OF MANEUVERS. OUR AIM IS +NO LONGER, AS IT SHOULD BE, TO AVOID OR ATTACK THE ENEMY, BUT SOLELY TO +AVOID GENERAL BUXHöWDEN WHO BY RIGHT OF SENIORITY SHOULD BE OUR CHIEF. +SO ENERGETICALLY DO WE PURSUE THIS AIM THAT AFTER CROSSING AN UNFORDABLE +RIVER WE BURN THE BRIDGES TO SEPARATE OURSELVES FROM OUR ENEMY, WHO AT +THE MOMENT IS NOT BONAPARTE BUT BUXHöWDEN. GENERAL BUXHöWDEN WAS ALL +BUT ATTACKED AND CAPTURED BY A SUPERIOR ENEMY FORCE AS A RESULT OF ONE +OF THESE MANEUVERS THAT ENABLED US TO ESCAPE HIM. BUXHöWDEN PURSUES +US—WE SCUTTLE. HE HARDLY CROSSES THE RIVER TO OUR SIDE BEFORE WE +RECROSS TO THE OTHER. AT LAST OUR ENEMY, BUXHöWDEN, CATCHES US AND +ATTACKS. BOTH GENERALS ARE ANGRY, AND THE RESULT IS A CHALLENGE ON +BUXHöWDEN’S PART AND AN EPILEPTIC FIT ON BENNIGSEN’S. BUT AT THE +CRITICAL MOMENT THE COURIER WHO CARRIED THE NEWS OF OUR VICTORY AT +PULTúSK TO PETERSBURG RETURNS BRINGING OUR APPOINTMENT AS COMMANDER IN +CHIEF, AND OUR FIRST FOE, BUXHöWDEN, IS VANQUISHED; WE CAN NOW TURN +OUR THOUGHTS TO THE SECOND, BONAPARTE. BUT AS IT TURNS OUT, JUST AT +THAT MOMENT A THIRD ENEMY RISES BEFORE US—NAMELY THE ORTHODOX RUSSIAN +SOLDIERS, LOUDLY DEMANDING BREAD, MEAT, BISCUITS, FODDER, AND WHATNOT! +THE STORES ARE EMPTY, THE ROADS IMPASSABLE. THE ORTHODOX BEGIN LOOTING, +AND IN A WAY OF WHICH OUR LAST CAMPAIGN CAN GIVE YOU NO IDEA. HALF THE +REGIMENTS FORM BANDS AND SCOUR THE COUNTRYSIDE AND PUT EVERYTHING +TO FIRE AND SWORD. THE INHABITANTS ARE TOTALLY RUINED, THE HOSPITALS +OVERFLOW WITH SICK, AND FAMINE IS EVERYWHERE. TWICE THE MARAUDERS EVEN +ATTACK OUR HEADQUARTERS, AND THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF HAS TO ASK FOR A +BATTALION TO DISPERSE THEM. DURING ONE OF THESE ATTACKS THEY CARRIED OFF +MY EMPTY PORTMANTEAU AND MY DRESSING GOWN. THE EMPEROR PROPOSES TO GIVE +ALL COMMANDERS OF DIVISIONS THE RIGHT TO SHOOT MARAUDERS, BUT I MUCH +FEAR THIS WILL OBLIGE ONE HALF THE ARMY TO SHOOT THE OTHER.” + +AT FIRST PRINCE ANDREW READ WITH HIS EYES ONLY, BUT AFTER A WHILE, +IN SPITE OF HIMSELF (ALTHOUGH HE KNEW HOW FAR IT WAS SAFE TO TRUST +BILíBIN), WHAT HE HAD READ BEGAN TO INTEREST HIM MORE AND MORE. WHEN HE +HAD READ THUS FAR, HE CRUMPLED THE LETTER UP AND THREW IT AWAY. IT WAS +NOT WHAT HE HAD READ THAT VEXED HIM, BUT THE FACT THAT THE LIFE OUT +THERE IN WHICH HE HAD NOW NO PART COULD PERTURB HIM. HE SHUT HIS EYES, +RUBBED HIS FOREHEAD AS IF TO RID HIMSELF OF ALL INTEREST IN WHAT HE +HAD READ, AND LISTENED TO WHAT WAS PASSING IN THE NURSERY. SUDDENLY HE +THOUGHT HE HEARD A STRANGE NOISE THROUGH THE DOOR. HE WAS SEIZED WITH +ALARM LEST SOMETHING SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED TO THE CHILD WHILE HE WAS +READING THE LETTER. HE WENT ON TIPTOE TO THE NURSERY DOOR AND OPENED IT. + +JUST AS HE WENT IN HE SAW THAT THE NURSE WAS HIDING SOMETHING FROM HIM +WITH A SCARED LOOK AND THAT PRINCESS MARY WAS NO LONGER BY THE COT. + +“MY DEAR,” HE HEARD WHAT SEEMED TO HIM HER DESPAIRING WHISPER BEHIND +HIM. + +AS OFTEN HAPPENS AFTER LONG SLEEPLESSNESS AND LONG ANXIETY, HE WAS +SEIZED BY AN UNREASONING PANIC—IT OCCURRED TO HIM THAT THE CHILD WAS +DEAD. ALL THAT HE SAW AND HEARD SEEMED TO CONFIRM THIS TERROR. + +“ALL IS OVER,” HE THOUGHT, AND A COLD SWEAT BROKE OUT ON HIS +FOREHEAD. HE WENT TO THE COT IN CONFUSION, SURE THAT HE WOULD FIND IT +EMPTY AND THAT THE NURSE HAD BEEN HIDING THE DEAD BABY. HE DREW THE +CURTAIN ASIDE AND FOR SOME TIME HIS FRIGHTENED, RESTLESS EYES COULD NOT +FIND THE BABY. AT LAST HE SAW HIM: THE ROSY BOY HAD TOSSED ABOUT TILL HE +LAY ACROSS THE BED WITH HIS HEAD LOWER THAN THE PILLOW, AND WAS SMACKING +HIS LIPS IN HIS SLEEP AND BREATHING EVENLY. + +PRINCE ANDREW WAS AS GLAD TO FIND THE BOY LIKE THAT, AS IF HE HAD +ALREADY LOST HIM. HE BENT OVER HIM AND, AS HIS SISTER HAD TAUGHT HIM, +TRIED WITH HIS LIPS WHETHER THE CHILD WAS STILL FEVERISH. THE SOFT +FOREHEAD WAS MOIST. PRINCE ANDREW TOUCHED THE HEAD WITH HIS HAND; EVEN +THE HAIR WAS WET, SO PROFUSELY HAD THE CHILD PERSPIRED. HE WAS NOT DEAD, +BUT EVIDENTLY THE CRISIS WAS OVER AND HE WAS CONVALESCENT. PRINCE ANDREW +LONGED TO SNATCH UP, TO SQUEEZE, TO HOLD TO HIS HEART, THIS HELPLESS +LITTLE CREATURE, BUT DARED NOT DO SO. HE STOOD OVER HIM, GAZING AT HIS +HEAD AND AT THE LITTLE ARMS AND LEGS WHICH SHOWED UNDER THE BLANKET. HE +HEARD A RUSTLE BEHIND HIM AND A SHADOW APPEARED UNDER THE CURTAIN OF +THE COT. HE DID NOT LOOK ROUND, BUT STILL GAZING AT THE INFANT’S FACE +LISTENED TO HIS REGULAR BREATHING. THE DARK SHADOW WAS PRINCESS MARY, +WHO HAD COME UP TO THE COT WITH NOISELESS STEPS, LIFTED THE CURTAIN, +AND DROPPED IT AGAIN BEHIND HER. PRINCE ANDREW RECOGNIZED HER WITHOUT +LOOKING AND HELD OUT HIS HAND TO HER. SHE PRESSED IT. + +“HE HAS PERSPIRED,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. + +“I WAS COMING TO TELL YOU SO.” + +THE CHILD MOVED SLIGHTLY IN HIS SLEEP, SMILED, AND RUBBED HIS FOREHEAD +AGAINST THE PILLOW. + +PRINCE ANDREW LOOKED AT HIS SISTER. IN THE DIM SHADOW OF THE CURTAIN HER +LUMINOUS EYES SHONE MORE BRIGHTLY THAN USUAL FROM THE TEARS OF JOY THAT +WERE IN THEM. SHE LEANED OVER TO HER BROTHER AND KISSED HIM, SLIGHTLY +CATCHING THE CURTAIN OF THE COT. EACH MADE THE OTHER A WARNING GESTURE +AND STOOD STILL IN THE DIM LIGHT BENEATH THE CURTAIN AS IF NOT WISHING +TO LEAVE THAT SECLUSION WHERE THEY THREE WERE SHUT OFF FROM ALL THE +WORLD. PRINCE ANDREW WAS THE FIRST TO MOVE AWAY, RUFFLING HIS HAIR +AGAINST THE MUSLIN OF THE CURTAIN. + +“YES, THIS IS THE ONE THING LEFT ME NOW,” HE SAID WITH A SIGH. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +SOON AFTER HIS ADMISSION TO THE MASONIC BROTHERHOOD, PIERRE WENT TO THE +KIEV PROVINCE, WHERE HE HAD THE GREATEST NUMBER OF SERFS, TAKING WITH +HIM FULL DIRECTIONS WHICH HE HAD WRITTEN DOWN FOR HIS OWN GUIDANCE AS TO +WHAT HE SHOULD DO ON HIS ESTATES. + +WHEN HE REACHED KIEV HE SENT FOR ALL HIS STEWARDS TO THE HEAD OFFICE +AND EXPLAINED TO THEM HIS INTENTIONS AND WISHES. HE TOLD THEM THAT STEPS +WOULD BE TAKEN IMMEDIATELY TO FREE HIS SERFS—AND THAT TILL THEN THEY +WERE NOT TO BE OVERBURDENED WITH LABOR, WOMEN WHILE NURSING THEIR BABIES +WERE NOT TO BE SENT TO WORK, ASSISTANCE WAS TO BE GIVEN TO THE SERFS, +PUNISHMENTS WERE TO BE ADMONITORY AND NOT CORPORAL, AND HOSPITALS, +ASYLUMS, AND SCHOOLS WERE TO BE ESTABLISHED ON ALL THE ESTATES. SOME OF +THE STEWARDS (THERE WERE SEMILITERATE FOREMEN AMONG THEM) LISTENED WITH +ALARM, SUPPOSING THESE WORDS TO MEAN THAT THE YOUNG COUNT WAS DISPLEASED +WITH THEIR MANAGEMENT AND EMBEZZLEMENT OF MONEY, SOME AFTER THEIR FIRST +FRIGHT WERE AMUSED BY PIERRE’S LISP AND THE NEW WORDS THEY HAD NOT +HEARD BEFORE, OTHERS SIMPLY ENJOYED HEARING HOW THE MASTER TALKED, WHILE +THE CLEVEREST AMONG THEM, INCLUDING THE CHIEF STEWARD, UNDERSTOOD FROM +THIS SPEECH HOW THEY COULD BEST HANDLE THE MASTER FOR THEIR OWN ENDS. + +THE CHIEF STEWARD EXPRESSED GREAT SYMPATHY WITH PIERRE’S INTENTIONS, +BUT REMARKED THAT BESIDES THESE CHANGES IT WOULD BE NECESSARY TO GO INTO +THE GENERAL STATE OF AFFAIRS WHICH WAS FAR FROM SATISFACTORY. + +DESPITE COUNT BEZúKHOV’S ENORMOUS WEALTH, SINCE HE HAD COME INTO AN +INCOME WHICH WAS SAID TO AMOUNT TO FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND RUBLES A YEAR, +PIERRE FELT HIMSELF FAR POORER THAN WHEN HIS FATHER HAD MADE HIM +AN ALLOWANCE OF TEN THOUSAND RUBLES. HE HAD A DIM PERCEPTION OF THE +FOLLOWING BUDGET: + +ABOUT 80,000 WENT IN PAYMENTS ON ALL THE ESTATES TO THE LAND BANK, ABOUT +30,000 WENT FOR THE UPKEEP OF THE ESTATE NEAR MOSCOW, THE TOWN HOUSE, +AND THE ALLOWANCE TO THE THREE PRINCESSES; ABOUT 15,000 WAS GIVEN IN +PENSIONS AND THE SAME AMOUNT FOR ASYLUMS; 150,000 ALIMONY WAS SENT TO +THE COUNTESS; ABOUT 70,000 WENT FOR INTEREST ON DEBTS. THE BUILDING OF A +NEW CHURCH, PREVIOUSLY BEGUN, HAD COST ABOUT 10,000 IN EACH OF THE LAST +TWO YEARS, AND HE DID NOT KNOW HOW THE REST, ABOUT 100,000 RUBLES, WAS +SPENT, AND ALMOST EVERY YEAR HE WAS OBLIGED TO BORROW. BESIDES THIS THE +CHIEF STEWARD WROTE EVERY YEAR TELLING HIM OF FIRES AND BAD HARVESTS, +OR OF THE NECESSITY OF REBUILDING FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS. SO THE FIRST +TASK PIERRE HAD TO FACE WAS ONE FOR WHICH HE HAD VERY LITTLE APTITUDE OR +INCLINATION—PRACTICAL BUSINESS. + +HE DISCUSSED ESTATE AFFAIRS EVERY DAY WITH HIS CHIEF STEWARD. BUT +HE FELT THAT THIS DID NOT FORWARD MATTERS AT ALL. HE FELT THAT THESE +CONSULTATIONS WERE DETACHED FROM REAL AFFAIRS AND DID NOT LINK UP WITH +THEM OR MAKE THEM MOVE. ON THE ONE HAND, THE CHIEF STEWARD PUT THE STATE +OF THINGS TO HIM IN THE VERY WORST LIGHT, POINTING OUT THE NECESSITY OF +PAYING OFF THE DEBTS AND UNDERTAKING NEW ACTIVITIES WITH SERF LABOR, +TO WHICH PIERRE DID NOT AGREE. ON THE OTHER HAND, PIERRE DEMANDED THAT +STEPS SHOULD BE TAKEN TO LIBERATE THE SERFS, WHICH THE STEWARD MET BY +SHOWING THE NECESSITY OF FIRST PAYING OFF THE LOANS FROM THE LAND BANK, +AND THE CONSEQUENT IMPOSSIBILITY OF A SPEEDY EMANCIPATION. + +THE STEWARD DID NOT SAY IT WAS QUITE IMPOSSIBLE, BUT SUGGESTED SELLING +THE FORESTS IN THE PROVINCE OF KOSTROMá, THE LAND LOWER DOWN THE RIVER, +AND THE CRIMEAN ESTATE, IN ORDER TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE: ALL OF WHICH +OPERATIONS ACCORDING TO HIM WERE CONNECTED WITH SUCH COMPLICATED +MEASURES—THE REMOVAL OF INJUNCTIONS, PETITIONS, PERMITS, AND SO +ON—THAT PIERRE BECAME QUITE BEWILDERED AND ONLY REPLIED: + +“YES, YES, DO SO.” + +PIERRE HAD NONE OF THE PRACTICAL PERSISTENCE THAT WOULD HAVE ENABLED HIM +TO ATTEND TO THE BUSINESS HIMSELF AND SO HE DISLIKED IT AND ONLY TRIED +TO PRETEND TO THE STEWARD THAT HE WAS ATTENDING TO IT. THE STEWARD +FOR HIS PART TRIED TO PRETEND TO THE COUNT THAT HE CONSIDERED THESE +CONSULTATIONS VERY VALUABLE FOR THE PROPRIETOR AND TROUBLESOME TO +HIMSELF. + +IN KIEV PIERRE FOUND SOME PEOPLE HE KNEW, AND STRANGERS HASTENED TO MAKE +HIS ACQUAINTANCE AND JOYFULLY WELCOMED THE RICH NEWCOMER, THE +LARGEST LANDOWNER OF THE PROVINCE. TEMPTATIONS TO PIERRE’S GREATEST +WEAKNESS—THE ONE TO WHICH HE HAD CONFESSED WHEN ADMITTED TO THE +LODGE—WERE SO STRONG THAT HE COULD NOT RESIST THEM. AGAIN WHOLE DAYS, +WEEKS, AND MONTHS OF HIS LIFE PASSED IN AS GREAT A RUSH AND WERE AS MUCH +OCCUPIED WITH EVENING PARTIES, DINNERS, LUNCHES, AND BALLS, GIVING HIM +NO TIME FOR REFLECTION, AS IN PETERSBURG. INSTEAD OF THE NEW LIFE HE HAD +HOPED TO LEAD HE STILL LIVED THE OLD LIFE, ONLY IN NEW SURROUNDINGS. + +OF THE THREE PRECEPTS OF FREEMASONRY PIERRE REALIZED THAT HE DID NOT +FULFILL THE ONE WHICH ENJOINED EVERY MASON TO SET AN EXAMPLE OF MORAL +LIFE, AND THAT OF THE SEVEN VIRTUES HE LACKED TWO—MORALITY AND THE +LOVE OF DEATH. HE CONSOLED HIMSELF WITH THE THOUGHT THAT HE FULFILLED +ANOTHER OF THE PRECEPTS—THAT OF REFORMING THE HUMAN RACE—AND HAD +OTHER VIRTUES—LOVE OF HIS NEIGHBOR, AND ESPECIALLY GENEROSITY. + +IN THE SPRING OF 1807 HE DECIDED TO RETURN TO PETERSBURG. ON THE WAY HE +INTENDED TO VISIT ALL HIS ESTATES AND SEE FOR HIMSELF HOW FAR HIS ORDERS +HAD BEEN CARRIED OUT AND IN WHAT STATE WERE THE SERFS WHOM GOD HAD +ENTRUSTED TO HIS CARE AND WHOM HE INTENDED TO BENEFIT. + +THE CHIEF STEWARD, WHO CONSIDERED THE YOUNG COUNT’S ATTEMPTS ALMOST +INSANE—UNPROFITABLE TO HIMSELF, TO THE COUNT, AND TO THE SERFS—MADE +SOME CONCESSIONS. CONTINUING TO REPRESENT THE LIBERATION OF THE SERFS +AS IMPRACTICABLE, HE ARRANGED FOR THE ERECTION OF LARGE +BUILDINGS—SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, AND ASYLUMS—ON ALL THE ESTATES +BEFORE THE MASTER ARRIVED. EVERYWHERE PREPARATIONS WERE MADE NOT FOR +CEREMONIOUS WELCOMES (WHICH HE KNEW PIERRE WOULD NOT LIKE), BUT FOR JUST +SUCH GRATEFULLY RELIGIOUS ONES, WITH OFFERINGS OF ICONS AND THE BREAD +AND SALT OF HOSPITALITY, AS, ACCORDING TO HIS UNDERSTANDING OF HIS +MASTER, WOULD TOUCH AND DELUDE HIM. + +THE SOUTHERN SPRING, THE COMFORTABLE RAPID TRAVELING IN A VIENNA +CARRIAGE, AND THE SOLITUDE OF THE ROAD, ALL HAD A GLADDENING EFFECT ON +PIERRE. THE ESTATES HE HAD NOT BEFORE VISITED WERE EACH MORE PICTURESQUE +THAN THE OTHER; THE SERFS EVERYWHERE SEEMED THRIVING AND TOUCHINGLY +GRATEFUL FOR THE BENEFITS CONFERRED ON THEM. EVERYWHERE WERE RECEPTIONS, +WHICH THOUGH THEY EMBARRASSED PIERRE AWAKENED A JOYFUL FEELING IN THE +DEPTH OF HIS HEART. IN ONE PLACE THE PEASANTS PRESENTED HIM WITH BREAD +AND SALT AND AN ICON OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL, ASKING PERMISSION, +AS A MARK OF THEIR GRATITUDE FOR THE BENEFITS HE HAD CONFERRED ON THEM, +TO BUILD A NEW CHANTRY TO THE CHURCH AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE IN HONOR +OF PETER AND PAUL, HIS PATRON SAINTS. IN ANOTHER PLACE THE WOMEN WITH +INFANTS IN ARMS MET HIM TO THANK HIM FOR RELEASING THEM FROM HARD +WORK. ON A THIRD ESTATE THE PRIEST, BEARING A CROSS, CAME TO MEET +HIM SURROUNDED BY CHILDREN WHOM, BY THE COUNT’S GENEROSITY, HE WAS +INSTRUCTING IN READING, WRITING, AND RELIGION. ON ALL HIS ESTATES PIERRE +SAW WITH HIS OWN EYES BRICK BUILDINGS ERECTED OR IN COURSE OF ERECTION, +ALL ON ONE PLAN, FOR HOSPITALS, SCHOOLS, AND ALMSHOUSES, WHICH WERE SOON +TO BE OPENED. EVERYWHERE HE SAW THE STEWARDS’ ACCOUNTS, ACCORDING TO +WHICH THE SERFS’ MANORIAL LABOR HAD BEEN DIMINISHED, AND HEARD THE +TOUCHING THANKS OF DEPUTATIONS OF SERFS IN THEIR FULL-SKIRTED BLUE +COATS. + +WHAT PIERRE DID NOT KNOW WAS THAT THE PLACE WHERE THEY PRESENTED HIM +WITH BREAD AND SALT AND WISHED TO BUILD A CHANTRY IN HONOR OF PETER AND +PAUL WAS A MARKET VILLAGE WHERE A FAIR WAS HELD ON ST. PETER’S DAY, +AND THAT THE RICHEST PEASANTS (WHO FORMED THE DEPUTATION) HAD BEGUN +THE CHANTRY LONG BEFORE, BUT THAT NINE TENTHS OF THE PEASANTS IN THAT +VILLAGES WERE IN A STATE OF THE GREATEST POVERTY. HE DID NOT KNOW THAT +SINCE THE NURSING MOTHERS WERE NO LONGER SENT TO WORK ON HIS LAND, THEY +DID STILL HARDER WORK ON THEIR OWN LAND. HE DID NOT KNOW THAT THE PRIEST +WHO MET HIM WITH THE CROSS OPPRESSED THE PEASANTS BY HIS EXACTIONS, AND +THAT THE PUPILS’ PARENTS WEPT AT HAVING TO LET HIM TAKE THEIR CHILDREN +AND SECURED THEIR RELEASE BY HEAVY PAYMENTS. HE DID NOT KNOW THAT THE +BRICK BUILDINGS, BUILT TO PLAN, WERE BEING BUILT BY SERFS WHOSE MANORIAL +LABOR WAS THUS INCREASED, THOUGH LESSENED ON PAPER. HE DID NOT KNOW +THAT WHERE THE STEWARD HAD SHOWN HIM IN THE ACCOUNTS THAT THE SERFS’ +PAYMENTS HAD BEEN DIMINISHED BY A THIRD, THEIR OBLIGATORY MANORIAL WORK +HAD BEEN INCREASED BY A HALF. AND SO PIERRE WAS DELIGHTED WITH HIS VISIT +TO HIS ESTATES AND QUITE RECOVERED THE PHILANTHROPIC MOOD IN WHICH +HE HAD LEFT PETERSBURG, AND WROTE ENTHUSIASTIC LETTERS TO HIS +“BROTHER-INSTRUCTOR” AS HE CALLED THE GRAND MASTER. + +“HOW EASY IT IS, HOW LITTLE EFFORT IT NEEDS, TO DO SO MUCH GOOD,” +THOUGHT PIERRE, “AND HOW LITTLE ATTENTION WE PAY TO IT!” + +HE WAS PLEASED AT THE GRATITUDE HE RECEIVED, BUT FELT ABASHED AT +RECEIVING IT. THIS GRATITUDE REMINDED HIM OF HOW MUCH MORE HE MIGHT DO +FOR THESE SIMPLE, KINDLY PEOPLE. + +THE CHIEF STEWARD, A VERY STUPID BUT CUNNING MAN WHO SAW PERFECTLY +THROUGH THE NAïVE AND INTELLIGENT COUNT AND PLAYED WITH HIM AS WITH +A TOY, SEEING THE EFFECT THESE PREARRANGED RECEPTIONS HAD ON PIERRE, +PRESSED HIM STILL HARDER WITH PROOFS OF THE IMPOSSIBILITY AND ABOVE ALL +THE USELESSNESS OF FREEING THE SERFS, WHO WERE QUITE HAPPY AS IT WAS. + +PIERRE IN HIS SECRET SOUL AGREED WITH THE STEWARD THAT IT WOULD BE +DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE HAPPIER PEOPLE, AND THAT GOD ONLY KNEW WHAT WOULD +HAPPEN TO THEM WHEN THEY WERE FREE, BUT HE INSISTED, THOUGH RELUCTANTLY, +ON WHAT HE THOUGHT RIGHT. THE STEWARD PROMISED TO DO ALL IN HIS POWER TO +CARRY OUT THE COUNT’S WISHES, SEEING CLEARLY THAT NOT ONLY WOULD THE +COUNT NEVER BE ABLE TO FIND OUT WHETHER ALL MEASURES HAD BEEN TAKEN FOR +THE SALE OF THE LAND AND FORESTS AND TO RELEASE THEM FROM THE LAND BANK, +BUT WOULD PROBABLY NEVER EVEN INQUIRE AND WOULD NEVER KNOW THAT THE +NEWLY ERECTED BUILDINGS WERE STANDING EMPTY AND THAT THE SERFS CONTINUED +TO GIVE IN MONEY AND WORK ALL THAT OTHER PEOPLE’S SERFS GAVE—THAT IS +TO SAY, ALL THAT COULD BE GOT OUT OF THEM. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +RETURNING FROM HIS JOURNEY THROUGH SOUTH RUSSIA IN THE HAPPIEST STATE +OF MIND, PIERRE CARRIED OUT AN INTENTION HE HAD LONG HAD OF VISITING HIS +FRIEND BOLKóNSKI, WHOM HE HAD NOT SEEN FOR TWO YEARS. + +BOGUCHáROVO LAY IN A FLAT UNINTERESTING PART OF THE COUNTRY AMONG +FIELDS AND FORESTS OF FIR AND BIRCH, WHICH WERE PARTLY CUT DOWN. THE +HOUSE LAY BEHIND A NEWLY DUG POND FILLED WITH WATER TO THE BRINK AND +WITH BANKS STILL BARE OF GRASS. IT WAS AT THE END OF A VILLAGE THAT +STRETCHED ALONG THE HIGHROAD IN THE MIDST OF A YOUNG COPSE IN WHICH WERE +A FEW FIR TREES. + +THE HOMESTEAD CONSISTED OF A THRESHING FLOOR, OUTHOUSES, STABLES, A +BATHHOUSE, A LODGE, AND A LARGE BRICK HOUSE WITH SEMICIRCULAR FAçADE +STILL IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION. ROUND THE HOUSE WAS A GARDEN NEWLY LAID +OUT. THE FENCES AND GATES WERE NEW AND SOLID; TWO FIRE PUMPS AND A +WATER CART, PAINTED GREEN, STOOD IN A SHED; THE PATHS WERE STRAIGHT, +THE BRIDGES WERE STRONG AND HAD HANDRAILS. EVERYTHING BORE AN IMPRESS OF +TIDINESS AND GOOD MANAGEMENT. SOME DOMESTIC SERFS PIERRE MET, IN REPLY +TO INQUIRIES AS TO WHERE THE PRINCE LIVED, POINTED OUT A SMALL NEWLY +BUILT LODGE CLOSE TO THE POND. ANTóN, A MAN WHO HAD LOOKED AFTER PRINCE +ANDREW IN HIS BOYHOOD, HELPED PIERRE OUT OF HIS CARRIAGE, SAID THAT THE +PRINCE WAS AT HOME, AND SHOWED HIM INTO A CLEAN LITTLE ANTEROOM. + +PIERRE WAS STRUCK BY THE MODESTY OF THE SMALL THOUGH CLEAN HOUSE AFTER +THE BRILLIANT SURROUNDINGS IN WHICH HE HAD LAST MET HIS FRIEND IN +PETERSBURG. + +HE QUICKLY ENTERED THE SMALL RECEPTION ROOM WITH ITS STILL-UNPLASTERED +WOODEN WALLS REDOLENT OF PINE, AND WOULD HAVE GONE FARTHER, BUT ANTóN +RAN AHEAD ON TIPTOE AND KNOCKED AT A DOOR. + +“WELL, WHAT IS IT?” CAME A SHARP, UNPLEASANT VOICE. + +“A VISITOR,” ANSWERED ANTóN. + +“ASK HIM TO WAIT,” AND THE SOUND WAS HEARD OF A CHAIR BEING PUSHED +BACK. + +PIERRE WENT WITH RAPID STEPS TO THE DOOR AND SUDDENLY CAME FACE TO +FACE WITH PRINCE ANDREW, WHO CAME OUT FROWNING AND LOOKING OLD. PIERRE +EMBRACED HIM AND LIFTING HIS SPECTACLES KISSED HIS FRIEND ON THE CHEEK +AND LOOKED AT HIM CLOSELY. + +“WELL, I DID NOT EXPECT YOU, I AM VERY GLAD,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. + +PIERRE SAID NOTHING; HE LOOKED FIXEDLY AT HIS FRIEND WITH SURPRISE. HE +WAS STRUCK BY THE CHANGE IN HIM. HIS WORDS WERE KINDLY AND THERE WAS A +SMILE ON HIS LIPS AND FACE, BUT HIS EYES WERE DULL AND LIFELESS AND IN +SPITE OF HIS EVIDENT WISH TO DO SO HE COULD NOT GIVE THEM A JOYOUS +AND GLAD SPARKLE. PRINCE ANDREW HAD GROWN THINNER, PALER, AND MORE +MANLY-LOOKING, BUT WHAT AMAZED AND ESTRANGED PIERRE TILL HE GOT USED +TO IT WERE HIS INERTIA AND A WRINKLE ON HIS BROW INDICATING PROLONGED +CONCENTRATION ON SOME ONE THOUGHT. + +AS IS USUALLY THE CASE WITH PEOPLE MEETING AFTER A PROLONGED SEPARATION, +IT WAS LONG BEFORE THEIR CONVERSATION COULD SETTLE ON ANYTHING. THEY +PUT QUESTIONS AND GAVE BRIEF REPLIES ABOUT THINGS THEY KNEW OUGHT TO +BE TALKED OVER AT LENGTH. AT LAST THE CONVERSATION GRADUALLY SETTLED ON +SOME OF THE TOPICS AT FIRST LIGHTLY TOUCHED ON: THEIR PAST LIFE, PLANS +FOR THE FUTURE, PIERRE’S JOURNEYS AND OCCUPATIONS, THE WAR, AND SO +ON. THE PREOCCUPATION AND DESPONDENCY WHICH PIERRE HAD NOTICED IN HIS +FRIEND’S LOOK WAS NOW STILL MORE CLEARLY EXPRESSED IN THE SMILE +WITH WHICH HE LISTENED TO PIERRE, ESPECIALLY WHEN HE SPOKE WITH JOYFUL +ANIMATION OF THE PAST OR THE FUTURE. IT WAS AS IF PRINCE ANDREW WOULD +HAVE LIKED TO SYMPATHIZE WITH WHAT PIERRE WAS SAYING, BUT COULD NOT. +THE LATTER BEGAN TO FEEL THAT IT WAS IN BAD TASTE TO SPEAK OF HIS +ENTHUSIASMS, DREAMS, AND HOPES OF HAPPINESS OR GOODNESS, IN PRINCE +ANDREW’S PRESENCE. HE WAS ASHAMED TO EXPRESS HIS NEW MASONIC VIEWS, +WHICH HAD BEEN PARTICULARLY REVIVED AND STRENGTHENED BY HIS LATE TOUR. +HE CHECKED HIMSELF, FEARING TO SEEM NAïVE, YET HE FELT AN IRRESISTIBLE +DESIRE TO SHOW HIS FRIEND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE THAT HE WAS NOW A QUITE +DIFFERENT, AND BETTER, PIERRE THAN HE HAD BEEN IN PETERSBURG. + +“I CAN’T TELL YOU HOW MUCH I HAVE LIVED THROUGH SINCE THEN. I HARDLY +KNOW MYSELF AGAIN.” + +“YES, WE HAVE ALTERED MUCH, VERY MUCH, SINCE THEN,” SAID PRINCE +ANDREW. + +“WELL, AND YOU? WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS?” + +“PLANS!” REPEATED PRINCE ANDREW IRONICALLY. “MY PLANS?” HE SAID, +AS IF ASTONISHED AT THE WORD. “WELL, YOU SEE, I’M BUILDING. I MEAN +TO SETTLE HERE ALTOGETHER NEXT YEAR....” + +PIERRE LOOKED SILENTLY AND SEARCHINGLY INTO PRINCE ANDREW’S FACE, +WHICH HAD GROWN MUCH OLDER. + +“NO, I MEANT TO ASK...” PIERRE BEGAN, BUT PRINCE ANDREW INTERRUPTED +HIM. + +“BUT WHY TALK OF ME?... TALK TO ME, YES, TELL ME ABOUT YOUR TRAVELS +AND ALL YOU HAVE BEEN DOING ON YOUR ESTATES.” + +PIERRE BEGAN DESCRIBING WHAT HE HAD DONE ON HIS ESTATES, TRYING AS FAR +AS POSSIBLE TO CONCEAL HIS OWN PART IN THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT HAD BEEN +MADE. PRINCE ANDREW SEVERAL TIMES PROMPTED PIERRE’S STORY OF WHAT HE +HAD BEEN DOING, AS THOUGH IT WERE ALL AN OLD-TIME STORY, AND HE LISTENED +NOT ONLY WITHOUT INTEREST BUT EVEN AS IF ASHAMED OF WHAT PIERRE WAS +TELLING HIM. + +PIERRE FELT UNCOMFORTABLE AND EVEN DEPRESSED IN HIS FRIEND’S COMPANY +AND AT LAST BECAME SILENT. + +“I’LL TELL YOU WHAT, MY DEAR FELLOW,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, WHO +EVIDENTLY ALSO FELT DEPRESSED AND CONSTRAINED WITH HIS VISITOR, “I AM +ONLY BIVOUACKING HERE AND HAVE JUST COME TO LOOK ROUND. I AM GOING BACK +TO MY SISTER TODAY. I WILL INTRODUCE YOU TO HER. BUT OF COURSE YOU KNOW +HER ALREADY,” HE SAID, EVIDENTLY TRYING TO ENTERTAIN A VISITOR WITH +WHOM HE NOW FOUND NOTHING IN COMMON. “WE WILL GO AFTER DINNER. AND +WOULD YOU NOW LIKE TO LOOK ROUND MY PLACE?” + +THEY WENT OUT AND WALKED ABOUT TILL DINNERTIME, TALKING OF THE POLITICAL +NEWS AND COMMON ACQUAINTANCES LIKE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW EACH OTHER +INTIMATELY. PRINCE ANDREW SPOKE WITH SOME ANIMATION AND INTEREST ONLY OF +THE NEW HOMESTEAD HE WAS CONSTRUCTING AND ITS BUILDINGS, BUT EVEN HERE, +WHILE ON THE SCAFFOLDING, IN THE MIDST OF A TALK EXPLAINING THE FUTURE +ARRANGEMENTS OF THE HOUSE, HE INTERRUPTED HIMSELF: + +“HOWEVER, THIS IS NOT AT ALL INTERESTING. LET US HAVE DINNER, AND THEN +WE’LL SET OFF.” + +AT DINNER, CONVERSATION TURNED ON PIERRE’S MARRIAGE. + +“I WAS VERY MUCH SURPRISED WHEN I HEARD OF IT,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. + +PIERRE BLUSHED, AS HE ALWAYS DID WHEN IT WAS MENTIONED, AND SAID +HURRIEDLY: “I WILL TELL YOU SOME TIME HOW IT ALL HAPPENED. BUT YOU +KNOW IT IS ALL OVER, AND FOREVER.” + +“FOREVER?” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. “NOTHING’S FOREVER.” + +“BUT YOU KNOW HOW IT ALL ENDED, DON’T YOU? YOU HEARD OF THE DUEL?” + +“AND SO YOU HAD TO GO THROUGH THAT TOO!” + +“ONE THING I THANK GOD FOR IS THAT I DID NOT KILL THAT MAN,” SAID +PIERRE. + +“WHY SO?” ASKED PRINCE ANDREW. “TO KILL A VICIOUS DOG IS A VERY +GOOD THING REALLY.” + +“NO, TO KILL A MAN IS BAD—WRONG.” + +“WHY IS IT WRONG?” URGED PRINCE ANDREW. “IT IS NOT GIVEN TO MAN +TO KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS WRONG. MEN ALWAYS DID AND ALWAYS WILL +ERR, AND IN NOTHING MORE THAN IN WHAT THEY CONSIDER RIGHT AND WRONG.” + +“WHAT DOES HARM TO ANOTHER IS WRONG,” SAID PIERRE, FEELING WITH +PLEASURE THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HIS ARRIVAL PRINCE ANDREW WAS +ROUSED, HAD BEGUN TO TALK, AND WANTED TO EXPRESS WHAT HAD BROUGHT HIM TO +HIS PRESENT STATE. + +“AND WHO HAS TOLD YOU WHAT IS BAD FOR ANOTHER MAN?” HE ASKED. + +“BAD! BAD!” EXCLAIMED PIERRE. “WE ALL KNOW WHAT IS BAD FOR +OURSELVES.” + +“YES, WE KNOW THAT, BUT THE HARM I AM CONSCIOUS OF IN MYSELF IS +SOMETHING I CANNOT INFLICT ON OTHERS,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, GROWING +MORE AND MORE ANIMATED AND EVIDENTLY WISHING TO EXPRESS HIS NEW OUTLOOK +TO PIERRE. HE SPOKE IN FRENCH. “I ONLY KNOW TWO VERY REAL EVILS IN +LIFE: REMORSE AND ILLNESS. THE ONLY GOOD IS THE ABSENCE OF THOSE EVILS. +TO LIVE FOR MYSELF AVOIDING THOSE TWO EVILS IS MY WHOLE PHILOSOPHY +NOW.” + +“AND LOVE OF ONE’S NEIGHBOR, AND SELF-SACRIFICE?” BEGAN PIERRE. +“NO, I CAN’T AGREE WITH YOU! TO LIVE ONLY SO AS NOT TO DO EVIL AND +NOT TO HAVE TO REPENT IS NOT ENOUGH. I LIVED LIKE THAT, I LIVED FOR +MYSELF AND RUINED MY LIFE. AND ONLY NOW WHEN I AM LIVING, OR AT LEAST +TRYING” (PIERRE’S MODESTY MADE HIM CORRECT HIMSELF) “TO LIVE FOR +OTHERS, ONLY NOW HAVE I UNDERSTOOD ALL THE HAPPINESS OF LIFE. NO, I +SHALL NOT AGREE WITH YOU, AND YOU DO NOT REALLY BELIEVE WHAT YOU ARE +SAYING.” PRINCE ANDREW LOOKED SILENTLY AT PIERRE WITH AN IRONIC SMILE. + +“WHEN YOU SEE MY SISTER, PRINCESS MARY, YOU’LL GET ON WITH HER,” +HE SAID. “PERHAPS YOU ARE RIGHT FOR YOURSELF,” HE ADDED AFTER +A SHORT PAUSE, “BUT EVERYONE LIVES IN HIS OWN WAY. YOU LIVED FOR +YOURSELF AND SAY YOU NEARLY RUINED YOUR LIFE AND ONLY FOUND HAPPINESS +WHEN YOU BEGAN LIVING FOR OTHERS. I EXPERIENCED JUST THE REVERSE. I +LIVED FOR GLORY.—AND AFTER ALL WHAT IS GLORY? THE SAME LOVE OF OTHERS, +A DESIRE TO DO SOMETHING FOR THEM, A DESIRE FOR THEIR APPROVAL.—SO I +LIVED FOR OTHERS, AND NOT ALMOST, BUT QUITE, RUINED MY LIFE. AND I HAVE +BECOME CALMER SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE ONLY FOR MYSELF.” + +“BUT WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY LIVING ONLY FOR YOURSELF?” ASKED PIERRE, +GROWING EXCITED. “WHAT ABOUT YOUR SON, YOUR SISTER, AND YOUR +FATHER?” + +“BUT THAT’S JUST THE SAME AS MYSELF—THEY ARE NOT OTHERS,” +EXPLAINED PRINCE ANDREW. “THE OTHERS, ONE’S NEIGHBORS, LE PROCHAIN, +AS YOU AND PRINCESS MARY CALL IT, ARE THE CHIEF SOURCE OF ALL ERROR AND +EVIL. LE PROCHAIN—YOUR KIEV PEASANTS TO WHOM YOU WANT TO DO GOOD.” + +AND HE LOOKED AT PIERRE WITH A MOCKING, CHALLENGING EXPRESSION. HE +EVIDENTLY WISHED TO DRAW HIM ON. + +“YOU ARE JOKING,” REPLIED PIERRE, GROWING MORE AND MORE EXCITED. +“WHAT ERROR OR EVIL CAN THERE BE IN MY WISHING TO DO GOOD, AND EVEN +DOING A LITTLE—THOUGH I DID VERY LITTLE AND DID IT VERY BADLY? WHAT +EVIL CAN THERE BE IN IT IF UNFORTUNATE PEOPLE, OUR SERFS, PEOPLE LIKE +OURSELVES, WERE GROWING UP AND DYING WITH NO IDEA OF GOD AND TRUTH +BEYOND CEREMONIES AND MEANINGLESS PRAYERS AND ARE NOW INSTRUCTED IN +A COMFORTING BELIEF IN FUTURE LIFE, RETRIBUTION, RECOMPENSE, AND +CONSOLATION? WHAT EVIL AND ERROR ARE THERE IN IT, IF PEOPLE WERE DYING +OF DISEASE WITHOUT HELP WHILE MATERIAL ASSISTANCE COULD SO EASILY BE +RENDERED, AND I SUPPLIED THEM WITH A DOCTOR, A HOSPITAL, AND AN ASYLUM +FOR THE AGED? AND IS IT NOT A PALPABLE, UNQUESTIONABLE GOOD IF A +PEASANT, OR A WOMAN WITH A BABY, HAS NO REST DAY OR NIGHT AND I GIVE +THEM REST AND LEISURE?” SAID PIERRE, HURRYING AND LISPING. “AND +I HAVE DONE THAT THOUGH BADLY AND TO A SMALL EXTENT; BUT I HAVE DONE +SOMETHING TOWARD IT AND YOU CANNOT PERSUADE ME THAT IT WAS NOT A GOOD +ACTION, AND MORE THAN THAT, YOU CAN’T MAKE ME BELIEVE THAT YOU DO NOT +THINK SO YOURSELF. AND THE MAIN THING IS,” HE CONTINUED, “THAT I +KNOW, AND KNOW FOR CERTAIN, THAT THE ENJOYMENT OF DOING THIS GOOD IS THE +ONLY SURE HAPPINESS IN LIFE.” + +“YES, IF YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT IT’S QUITE A DIFFERENT MATTER,” SAID +PRINCE ANDREW. “I BUILD A HOUSE AND LAY OUT A GARDEN, AND YOU BUILD +HOSPITALS. THE ONE AND THE OTHER MAY SERVE AS A PASTIME. BUT WHAT’S +RIGHT AND WHAT’S GOOD MUST BE JUDGED BY ONE WHO KNOWS ALL, BUT NOT BY +US. WELL, YOU WANT AN ARGUMENT,” HE ADDED, “COME ON THEN.” + +THEY ROSE FROM THE TABLE AND SAT DOWN IN THE ENTRANCE PORCH WHICH SERVED +AS A VERANDA. + +“COME, LET’S ARGUE THEN,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, “YOU TALK OF +SCHOOLS,” HE WENT ON, CROOKING A FINGER, “EDUCATION AND SO FORTH; +THAT IS, YOU WANT TO RAISE HIM” (POINTING TO A PEASANT WHO PASSED BY +THEM TAKING OFF HIS CAP) “FROM HIS ANIMAL CONDITION AND AWAKEN IN HIM +SPIRITUAL NEEDS, WHILE IT SEEMS TO ME THAT ANIMAL HAPPINESS IS THE ONLY +HAPPINESS POSSIBLE, AND THAT IS JUST WHAT YOU WANT TO DEPRIVE HIM OF. +I ENVY HIM, BUT YOU WANT TO MAKE HIM WHAT I AM, WITHOUT GIVING HIM MY +MEANS. THEN YOU SAY, ‘LIGHTEN HIS TOIL.’ BUT AS I SEE IT, PHYSICAL +LABOR IS AS ESSENTIAL TO HIM, AS MUCH A CONDITION OF HIS EXISTENCE, AS +MENTAL ACTIVITY IS TO YOU OR ME. YOU CAN’T HELP THINKING. I GO TO BED +AFTER TWO IN THE MORNING, THOUGHTS COME AND I CAN’T SLEEP BUT TOSS +ABOUT TILL DAWN, BECAUSE I THINK AND CAN’T HELP THINKING, JUST AS +HE CAN’T HELP PLOWING AND MOWING; IF HE DIDN’T, HE WOULD GO TO THE +DRINK SHOP OR FALL ILL. JUST AS I COULD NOT STAND HIS TERRIBLE PHYSICAL +LABOR BUT SHOULD DIE OF IT IN A WEEK, SO HE COULD NOT STAND MY PHYSICAL +IDLENESS, BUT WOULD GROW FAT AND DIE. THE THIRD THING—WHAT ELSE WAS +IT YOU TALKED ABOUT?” AND PRINCE ANDREW CROOKED A THIRD FINGER. “AH, +YES, HOSPITALS, MEDICINE. HE HAS A FIT, HE IS DYING, AND YOU COME AND +BLEED HIM AND PATCH HIM UP. HE WILL DRAG ABOUT AS A CRIPPLE, A BURDEN TO +EVERYBODY, FOR ANOTHER TEN YEARS. IT WOULD BE FAR EASIER AND SIMPLER FOR +HIM TO DIE. OTHERS ARE BEING BORN AND THERE ARE PLENTY OF THEM AS IT IS. +IT WOULD BE DIFFERENT IF YOU GRUDGED LOSING A LABORER—THAT’S HOW I +REGARD HIM—BUT YOU WANT TO CURE HIM FROM LOVE OF HIM. AND HE DOES NOT +WANT THAT. AND BESIDES, WHAT A NOTION THAT MEDICINE EVER CURED ANYONE! +KILLED THEM, YES!” SAID HE, FROWNING ANGRILY AND TURNING AWAY FROM +PIERRE. + +PRINCE ANDREW EXPRESSED HIS IDEAS SO CLEARLY AND DISTINCTLY THAT IT WAS +EVIDENT HE HAD REFLECTED ON THIS SUBJECT MORE THAN ONCE, AND HE SPOKE +READILY AND RAPIDLY LIKE A MAN WHO HAS NOT TALKED FOR A LONG TIME. HIS +GLANCE BECAME MORE ANIMATED AS HIS CONCLUSIONS BECAME MORE HOPELESS. + +“OH, THAT IS DREADFUL, DREADFUL!” SAID PIERRE. “I DON’T +UNDERSTAND HOW ONE CAN LIVE WITH SUCH IDEAS. I HAD SUCH MOMENTS +MYSELF NOT LONG AGO, IN MOSCOW AND WHEN TRAVELING, BUT AT SUCH TIMES I +COLLAPSED SO THAT I DON’T LIVE AT ALL—EVERYTHING SEEMS HATEFUL TO +ME... MYSELF MOST OF ALL. THEN I DON’T EAT, DON’T WASH... AND HOW IS +IT WITH YOU?...” + +“WHY NOT WASH? THAT IS NOT CLEANLY,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW; “ON THE +CONTRARY ONE MUST TRY TO MAKE ONE’S LIFE AS PLEASANT AS POSSIBLE. +I’M ALIVE, THAT IS NOT MY FAULT, SO I MUST LIVE OUT MY LIFE AS BEST I +CAN WITHOUT HURTING OTHERS.” + +“BUT WITH SUCH IDEAS WHAT MOTIVE HAVE YOU FOR LIVING? ONE WOULD SIT +WITHOUT MOVING, UNDERTAKING NOTHING....” + +“LIFE AS IT IS LEAVES ONE NO PEACE. I SHOULD BE THANKFUL TO DO +NOTHING, BUT HERE ON THE ONE HAND THE LOCAL NOBILITY HAVE DONE ME THE +HONOR TO CHOOSE ME TO BE THEIR MARSHAL; IT WAS ALL I COULD DO TO GET +OUT OF IT. THEY COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THAT I HAVE NOT THE NECESSARY +QUALIFICATIONS FOR IT—THE KIND OF GOOD-NATURED, FUSSY SHALLOWNESS +NECESSARY FOR THE POSITION. THEN THERE’S THIS HOUSE, WHICH MUST BE +BUILT IN ORDER TO HAVE A NOOK OF ONE’S OWN IN WHICH TO BE QUIET. AND +NOW THERE’S THIS RECRUITING.” + +“WHY AREN’T YOU SERVING IN THE ARMY?” + +“AFTER AUSTERLITZ!” SAID PRINCE ANDREW GLOOMILY. “NO, THANK YOU +VERY MUCH! I HAVE PROMISED MYSELF NOT TO SERVE AGAIN IN THE ACTIVE +RUSSIAN ARMY. AND I WON’T—NOT EVEN IF BONAPARTE WERE HERE AT +SMOLéNSK THREATENING BALD HILLS—EVEN THEN I WOULDN’T SERVE IN THE +RUSSIAN ARMY! WELL, AS I WAS SAYING,” HE CONTINUED, RECOVERING HIS +COMPOSURE, “NOW THERE’S THIS RECRUITING. MY FATHER IS CHIEF IN +COMMAND OF THE THIRD DISTRICT, AND MY ONLY WAY OF AVOIDING ACTIVE +SERVICE IS TO SERVE UNDER HIM.” + +“THEN YOU ARE SERVING?” + +“I AM.” + +HE PAUSED A LITTLE WHILE. + +“AND WHY DO YOU SERVE?” + +“WHY, FOR THIS REASON! MY FATHER IS ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE MEN OF +HIS TIME. BUT HE IS GROWING OLD, AND THOUGH NOT EXACTLY CRUEL HE HAS TOO +ENERGETIC A CHARACTER. HE IS SO ACCUSTOMED TO UNLIMITED POWER THAT HE IS +TERRIBLE, AND NOW HE HAS THIS AUTHORITY OF A COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF +THE RECRUITING, GRANTED BY THE EMPEROR. IF I HAD BEEN TWO HOURS LATE +A FORTNIGHT AGO HE WOULD HAVE HAD A PAYMASTER’S CLERK AT YúKHNOVNA +HANGED,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW WITH A SMILE. “SO I AM SERVING BECAUSE +I ALONE HAVE ANY INFLUENCE WITH MY FATHER, AND NOW AND THEN CAN SAVE HIM +FROM ACTIONS WHICH WOULD TORMENT HIM AFTERWARDS.” + +“WELL, THERE YOU SEE!” + +“YES, BUT IT IS NOT AS YOU IMAGINE,” PRINCE ANDREW CONTINUED. “I +DID NOT, AND DO NOT, IN THE LEAST CARE ABOUT THAT SCOUNDREL OF A CLERK +WHO HAD STOLEN SOME BOOTS FROM THE RECRUITS; I SHOULD EVEN HAVE BEEN +VERY GLAD TO SEE HIM HANGED, BUT I WAS SORRY FOR MY FATHER—THAT AGAIN +IS FOR MYSELF.” + +PRINCE ANDREW GREW MORE AND MORE ANIMATED. HIS EYES GLITTERED FEVERISHLY +WHILE HE TRIED TO PROVE TO PIERRE THAT IN HIS ACTIONS THERE WAS NO +DESIRE TO DO GOOD TO HIS NEIGHBOR. + +“THERE NOW, YOU WISH TO LIBERATE YOUR SERFS,” HE CONTINUED; “THAT +IS A VERY GOOD THING, BUT NOT FOR YOU—I DON’T SUPPOSE YOU EVER HAD +ANYONE FLOGGED OR SENT TO SIBERIA—AND STILL LESS FOR YOUR SERFS. IF +THEY ARE BEATEN, FLOGGED, OR SENT TO SIBERIA, I DON’T SUPPOSE THEY ARE +ANY THE WORSE OFF. IN SIBERIA THEY LEAD THE SAME ANIMAL LIFE, AND THE +STRIPES ON THEIR BODIES HEAL, AND THEY ARE HAPPY AS BEFORE. BUT IT IS +A GOOD THING FOR PROPRIETORS WHO PERISH MORALLY, BRING REMORSE UPON +THEMSELVES, STIFLE THIS REMORSE AND GROW CALLOUS, AS A RESULT OF BEING +ABLE TO INFLICT PUNISHMENTS JUSTLY AND UNJUSTLY. IT IS THOSE PEOPLE I +PITY, AND FOR THEIR SAKE I SHOULD LIKE TO LIBERATE THE SERFS. YOU +MAY NOT HAVE SEEN, BUT I HAVE SEEN, HOW GOOD MEN BROUGHT UP IN THOSE +TRADITIONS OF UNLIMITED POWER, IN TIME WHEN THEY GROW MORE IRRITABLE, +BECOME CRUEL AND HARSH, ARE CONSCIOUS OF IT, BUT CANNOT RESTRAIN +THEMSELVES AND GROW MORE AND MORE MISERABLE.” + +PRINCE ANDREW SPOKE SO EARNESTLY THAT PIERRE COULD NOT HELP THINKING +THAT THESE THOUGHTS HAD BEEN SUGGESTED TO PRINCE ANDREW BY HIS +FATHER’S CASE. + +HE DID NOT REPLY. + +“SO THAT’S WHAT I’M SORRY FOR—HUMAN DIGNITY, PEACE OF MIND, +PURITY, AND NOT THE SERFS’ BACKS AND FOREHEADS, WHICH, BEAT AND SHAVE +AS YOU MAY, ALWAYS REMAIN THE SAME BACKS AND FOREHEADS.” + +“NO, NO! A THOUSAND TIMES NO! I SHALL NEVER AGREE WITH YOU,” SAID +PIERRE. + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +IN THE EVENING ANDREW AND PIERRE GOT INTO THE OPEN CARRIAGE AND DROVE TO +BALD HILLS. PRINCE ANDREW, GLANCING AT PIERRE, BROKE THE SILENCE NOW AND +THEN WITH REMARKS WHICH SHOWED THAT HE WAS IN A GOOD TEMPER. + +POINTING TO THE FIELDS, HE SPOKE OF THE IMPROVEMENTS HE WAS MAKING IN +HIS HUSBANDRY. + +PIERRE REMAINED GLOOMILY SILENT, ANSWERING IN MONOSYLLABLES AND +APPARENTLY IMMERSED IN HIS OWN THOUGHTS. + +HE WAS THINKING THAT PRINCE ANDREW WAS UNHAPPY, HAD GONE ASTRAY, DID NOT +SEE THE TRUE LIGHT, AND THAT HE, PIERRE, OUGHT TO AID, ENLIGHTEN, AND diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-9/1M-tr-seq/1M-tr-seq-02 b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-9/1M-tr-seq/1M-tr-seq-02 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fd2b603 --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-9/1M-tr-seq/1M-tr-seq-02 @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +RAISE HIM. 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HURRAH FOR THE RUSSIANS! + * (2) “IT IS ALL VERY WELL FOR THAT GOOD-FOR-NOTHING FELLOW + *(2) THAT SUITS US DOWN TO THE GROUND. + * (2) THAT THEIR FIRE GETS INTO HIS EYES AND HE FORGETS THAT + *(3) HOLLOW. + *(4) I JUST ASK YOU THAT. +ABANDONING ALL HOPE OF A JUNCTION WITH BUXHöWDEN. IF KUTúZOV DECIDED + * A BASTARD. +A BATTERY TO THEIR LEFT. THE SMOKE ABOVE IT HAD NOT YET DISPERSED. TWO +ABBé MORIO? HE IS A MOST INTERESTING MAN.” +A B C OF WAR OR OF POLITICS, AND THAT BONAPARTE WAS AN INSIGNIFICANT +A BLUE-EYED SOLDIER INVOLUNTARILY ATTRACTED NOTICE. IT WAS DóLOKHOV +ABOMINABLE, QUITE ABOMINABLE!” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, AND HE WENT OFF TO +ABOUT HER CONFINEMENT, AND HOW SHE DREADED IT, AND HAD COMPLAINED OF HER +“ABOUT MY WIFE... I AM ASHAMED AS IT IS TO LEAVE HER ON YOUR +ABOUT SUCH A BASE THING AS MONEY, AND BECAUSE THEIR YOUTH WAS OVER.... +ABOUT THE ARMY AND THE BATTLE, AND THEN THE TALK WENT OFF INTO MERRY +ABOUT THE CORNERS OF HIS MOUTH READ TO THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL THE +ABOUT THE PRINCESS’ HEALTH AND THEN LED PIERRE ALONG A STONE PASSAGE. +ABOUT TO ASK THEIR WAY OF AN ELDERLY FOOTMAN WHO HAD SPRUNG UP AS THEY +ABROAD, THE OTHER IS WITH THE GUARDS, WHO ARE STARTING ON THEIR MARCH +ABSENT-MINDED. WHEN HE ROSE TO GO, HE TOOK UP INSTEAD OF HIS OWN, THE +ACCENT. +ACCENT—HAVING NOTICED THAT ZHERKóV COULD STILL HEAR HIM. +ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE OR NOT. ANATOLE DID NOT RELEASE HIM, AND THOUGH +ACCOMPANYING HIM TO THE HALL. +ACCOMPLISHED. +ACCORDED TO THE LOWEST HIERARCHY IN HER DRAWING ROOM. BUT IN SPITE OF +“ACCORDING TO THE SCOUTS THE LAST OF THEM CROSSED ON RAFTS DURING THE +ACCOUNTANT, A STOUT, FULL-FACED MAN, LOOKED AROUND HIM WITH A NAïVE +ACCOUNTS IS A POOR CREATURE.” +ACCUSTOMED TO WIN IN THEIR BATTLES,” HE CONCLUDED HIS EVIDENTLY +ACHES, AND ONE SPENDS ALL ONE’S MONEY. HE ASKED ME FOR TONIGHT, BUT I +A CLOAK, WAITING FOR THE CONVERSATION TO FINISH. THEY LISTENED TO +A COMPANY COMMANDER, A FINE ROUND-FACED MAN, WITH A STUPID AND HAPPY +A COMPANY SMILE BUT WAS EVIDENTLY TORMENTED BY JEALOUSY; NOW SHE TURNED +A CONVOY. DIRECTLY OPPOSITE TO HIM CAME A STRANGE ONE-HORSE VEHICLE, +A CONVOY WAGON BECAME RESTIVE AT THE END OF THE BRIDGE, AND THE WHOLE +ACQUAINTANCE.’ IN A WORD, THOSE GENTLEMEN, GASCONS INDEED, SO +ACQUAINTED,” AND HE PRESSED BORíS’ HAND. “DO YOU KNOW, I HAVE NOT +A CRASH. +ACROSS THE TABLE TO CLINK GLASSES WITH THE COUNT, WITH THE CHILDREN, AND +A CRY OF: “THE GENERAL TO THE THIRD COMPANY,” THE MISSING OFFICER +ACTION THEY HAD BEEN WOUNDED. “DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY, ON THE DANUBE,” +A CUP OF TEA?” +A DARK-GREEN DRESS COAT, KNEE BREECHES OF THE COLOR OF CUISSE DE NYMPHE + A DAY OR TWO, THEN BLISS UNSPOILT, +ADDED. +ADDED. +ADDED, ADDRESSING PRINCE VASíLI, AND WITHOUT WAITING FOR AN ANSWER SHE +ADDED HE, MUNCHING A PIE IN HIS MOIST-LIPPED HANDSOME MOUTH, “WOULD BE +ADDED IN A TONE ADMITTING OF NO REJOINDER AND RAISING HER EYEBROWS. +ADDED, NOTICING THAT PRINCE ANDREW WINCED AS AT AN ELECTRIC SHOCK. +ADDED, NOT NOTICING HIS VISITOR’S SARCASTIC SMILE. +ADDING, “YOUR EXCELLENCY.” +ADDRESSING LORRAIN IN FRENCH WHICH HE PRONOUNCED BADLY. +ADDRESSING THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL, “I HAVE THE HONOR TO CONGRATULATE +ADDRESSING THE ENGLISHMAN. +ADDRESSING THE MOTHER. +ADDRESS ROSTóV BY HIS TITLE, AS IF IN RECOGNITION OF HIS CONFESSION. +ADIEU, DEAR AND KIND FRIEND; MAY OUR DIVINE SAVIOUR AND HIS MOST HOLY +“ADIEU, MA BONNE,” ANSWERED PRINCE VASíLI TURNING AWAY FROM HER. +“ADIEU, MARY,” SAID HE GENTLY TO HIS SISTER, TAKING HER BY THE HAND +ADIEU, PRINCE! MAY GOD SUPPORT YOU...” +ADJUTANT. +ADJUTANT BY HIS ELABORATE COURTESY APPEARED TO WISH TO WARD OFF ANY +ADJUTANTS.” +ADJUTANT, ZHERKóV, AN ORDERLY OFFICER, THE STAFF OFFICER ON DUTY, +ADMINISTERED. COME.” +ADMIRED HIS REGIMENT, REJOICED IN IT, AND THAT HIS WHOLE MIND WAS +ADMIT—HE HAD ALMOST BEEN JEALOUS ON HIS WIFE’S ACCOUNT, WAS THE BUTT +ADMITTED THAT HE HAD BEEN TO BLAME, DID NOT LIFT HIS EYES FROM THE +A DOOR OF ONE OF THE INNER ROOMS OPENED AND ONE OF THE PRINCESSES, THE +ADVANCING.” +ADVANCING BY FORCED MARCHES TOWARD ZNAIM, WHICH LAY SIXTY-SIX MILES +ADVANCING FROM RUSSIA, WITHOUT LOSING HIS ARMY AS MACK HAD DONE AT ULM. +ADVANCING STRAIGHT TOWARD THE INNER DOOR. +ADVISE YOU TO APPEAL TO RUMYáNTSEV THROUGH PRINCE GOLíTSYN. THAT WOULD +A FATHER COULD FOR THEIR EDUCATION, AND THEY HAVE BOTH TURNED OUT FOOLS. +A FELLOW DIPLOMAT, “THAT THE CHANCELLOR TOLD HIM FLATLY THAT HIS +A FEW HOURS AHEAD OF THE FRENCH WHO WERE APPROACHING HOLLABRüNN FROM +AFFAIR, AND ABOUT SOME LADIES THEY BOTH KNEW. +AFFAIR OF THE THABOR BRIDGE, AT VIENNA.... THEY HAVE CROSSED WITHOUT +AFFAIR PUBLIC. YOU ARE OFFENDED AT BEING PUT ON DUTY A BIT, BUT WHY NOT +AFFAIRS OF HONOR AND HAD TWICE REGAINED HIS COMMISSION. +AFFECTED LANGUOR AND INDOLENCE. HE NOW LOOKED LIKE A MAN WHO HAS TIME +AFFECTIONATE AS IT WAS—EXPRESSED A SENSE OF HIS OWN SUPERIORITY. +AFFECTIONATE EYES, NOW CAME UP AND TOOK HIS ARM. BEFORE HE LOOKED ROUND +AFFECTIONATELY. +A FIGHT LED MURAT TO TRY TO DECEIVE KUTúZOV IN A SIMILAR WAY. MEETING +“A FINE LAD! MY WORD! A FINE LAD!... HIS FATHER LIES ON HIS DEATHBED +“A FINE MESS WE’VE MADE OF IT!” HE REMARKED. +A FINE PLACE! WHY ARE YOU NOT EATING ANYTHING, GENTLEMEN?” NESVíTSKI +A FOOTMAN CAME IN TO SUMMON BORíS—THE PRINCESS WAS GOING. PIERRE, IN +A FORAGING EXPEDITION. ROSTóV IN HIS CADET UNIFORM, WITH A JERK TO HIS +A FOREIGNER, IN SPITE OF ALL DIFFERENCES OF FAITH, UNDERSTOOD THE FULL +A FORMER WAR. “THE EMPEROR WILL TEACH YOUR SUVARA AS HE HAS TAUGHT THE +A FREAK OF FATE MADE THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE. THE SUCCESS OF THE TRICK +“A FRENCH PANCAKE,” ANSWERED ZHERKóV. +AFTER A FEW MINUTES’ BUSTLE BESIDE THE HIGH BEDSTEAD, THOSE WHO HAD +AFTER ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA HAD DRIVEN OFF WITH HER SON TO VISIT COUNT CYRIL +AFTER HIS DISMISSAL FROM HEADQUARTERS ZHERKóV HAD NOT REMAINED IN THE +AFTER HIS JOURNEY AND THE CAMPAIGN DURING WHICH HE HAD BEEN DEPRIVED OF +AFTER HIS RECEPTION BY THE AUSTRIANS, TO SPEAK IF NOT IN RUSSIAN +AFTER INSPECTING THE CARRIAGE HIMSELF AND SEEING THE TRUNKS PUT IN, HE +AFTER LOSING HER OWN FATHER. SHE IS VERY GOOD-NATURED, AND MY FATHER +AFTER NATáSHA DOWN THE PASSAGE INTO THE SITTING ROOM WITH FLUSHED FACE +AFTER RECEIVING HER VISITORS, THE COUNTESS WAS SO TIRED THAT SHE GAVE +AFTER THE ATTACK, BOGDáNICH WOULD COME UP TO HIM AS HE LAY WOUNDED AND +AFTER THE FATIGUES AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNEY, HIS RECEPTION, AND +AFTER THE MURDER OF THE DUC THERE WAS ONE MARTYR MORE IN HEAVEN AND ONE +“AFTER THE NEXT AFFAIR... EPAULETTES.” +AFTER WASHING AND DRESSING, PRINCE ANDREW CAME INTO THE DIPLOMAT’S +AGAIN ARE ALL RUNNING BACK SOMEWHERE, AND I SHALL RUN WITH THEM, AND IT, +AGAIN BEGAN TO LAUGH. SHE EVIDENTLY FELT UNABLE TO LOOK AT HIM +AGAIN DRAWN OUT IN A THIN LINE THE MUSKETEERS WERE DESCENDING THE HILL, +AGAIN EXPRESSING DEEP SORROW. +AGAIN GOING ON TIPTOE TO THE RECEPTION ROOM WHERE THEY HAD LEFT PRINCE +AGAIN. I MUST GO THERE, PRINCE, AND SCARE THEM A BIT. IT WON’T TAKE A +AGAIN ON ALL THE BRIGHT FACES OF THE SQUADRON THE SERIOUS EXPRESSION +AGAIN ON THE SOFA. THEY WERE SILENT FOR A WHILE. +AGAIN RECALLED ALL THE DETAILS OF THE VICTORY AND HIS OWN CALM COURAGE +AGAIN SEE THE SUN, THIS WATER, THAT GORGE!...” +AGAIN SHOOK WITH A DEEP RINGING LAUGH, THE LAUGH OF ONE WHO ALWAYS EATS +AGAINST ONE OF THE COLUMNS IN A RESPECTFUL ATTITUDE IMPLYING THAT HE, +AGAIN STRUCK UP, THE COUNT AND COUNTESS KISSED, AND THE GUESTS, LEAVING +AGAINST THEM AND WINDING DOWN OVER THE UNEVEN GROUND. ONE COULD ALREADY +AGAINST THE WALL, AND THE SECOND OF THE THREE SISTERS RUSHED OUT +“AGAINST YOUR WILL HE WILL SAVE AND HAVE MERCY ON YOU AND BRING YOU +AGAIN TURNING TO THE COUNT. “ZAT IS HOW VE OLD HUSSARS LOOK AT IT, AND +AGAIN WHEN HE PASSED TO ANOTHER GROUP WHOSE CENTER WAS THE ABBé. +AGE...” +AGITATED. +AGO HAVE JOINED THE ARCHDUKE. AND BELIEVE ME ON MY HONOUR THAT TO ME +A GOOD EXAMPLE, YET HERE YOU ARE WITHOUT YOUR BOOTS! THE ALARM WILL BE +AGREEABLE AND INTERESTING WORK. HIS FACE EXPRESSED MORE SATISFACTION +AGUE. +A HANDSOME ADJUTANT. THIS WAS PRINCE BOLKóNSKI. BESIDE HIM WAS HIS +“AH, BONDARéNKO, DEAR FRIEND!” SAID HE TO THE HUSSAR WHO RUSHED UP +“AH, COUNT ROSTóV!” EXCLAIMED PIERRE JOYFULLY. “THEN YOU ARE HIS +“AH, DEAR FRIEND,” REPLIED PRINCESS MARY, “I HAVE ASKED YOU NEVER +“AH, DON’T TALK TO ME! LAST WINTER SHE WHEEDLED HERSELF IN HERE AND +A HEAVENLY FEELING. BORíS WAS TELLING HIS NEW FRIEND PIERRE WHO THE +“AH, FROM VIENNA? VERY GOOD. LATER, LATER!” +“AH, HERE SHE IS!” HE EXCLAIMED LAUGHING. “MY PET, WHOSE NAME DAY +“AH! HERE’S THE WARRIOR! WANTS TO VANQUISH BUONAPARTE?” SAID THE +“AH, I KNOW WHAT IT IS.” +“AH, IS IT YOU, COUSIN?” +“AH, MADAM, IT IS A GREAT SACRAMENT,” REPLIED THE PRIEST, PASSING +“AH, MAY THE DEVIL TAKE YOU AND EVEWYBODY,” WERE THE LAST WORDS +“AH! MON AMI, I ONLY PRAY, AND HOPE THAT GOD WILL HEAR ME. +“AH, MONEY, COUNT, MONEY! HOW MUCH SORROW IT CAUSES IN THE WORLD,” +“AH! MY DEAR!... AH! MARY!...” THEY SUDDENLY EXCLAIMED, AND THEN +“AH, MY DEAR FRIEND! FORGET THE WRONGS THAT MAY HAVE BEEN DONE YOU. +“AH, MY DEAR! HE IS SO RICH, AND WE ARE SO POOR!” +“AH! MY DEAR, I AM AFRAID YOU AND YOUR MONK ARE WASTING YOUR +“AH, MY DEAR, I HARDLY KNEW YOU,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WITH A +“AH, MY DEAR PRINCE! I COULD NOT HAVE A MORE WELCOME VISITOR,” +“AH, MY DEAR,” SAID THE COUNTESS, “MY LIFE IS NOT ALL ROSES +“AH, MY FRIEND!” SAID HE, TAKING PIERRE BY THE ELBOW; AND THERE WAS +“AH, MY FRIEND!” SHE SAID, TOUCHING HIS ARM AS SHE HAD DONE HER +“AH, MY LOVE,” ANSWERED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, “GOD GRANT YOU NEVER +A HOARSE VOICE TO THE MEN TO LOOK TO THEIR PISTOLS. HE RODE UP TO +A HOST WELCOMES AN HONORED GUEST. HE REPORTED THAT HIS REGIMENT HAD +“AH, PRINCE! IN WHAT SAD CIRCUMSTANCES WE MEET AGAIN! AND HOW IS OUR +“AH!...” SAID KUTúZOV GLANCING AT BOLKóNSKI AS IF BY THIS +“AH!” SAID KUTúZOV. “I HOPE THIS WILL BE A LESSON TO YOU. DO YOUR +“AH! TELYáNIN! HOW D’YE DO? THEY PLUCKED ME LAST NIGHT,” CAME +“AH, THAT IS JUST WHAT I TELL HIM!” SAID SHE. “I DON’T +“AH, THAT’S ALWAYS THE WAY!” SAID NESVíTSKI WITH A WAVE OF THE +“AH, THAT’S THE WAY TO TALK FRENCH,” SAID THE PICKET SOLDIERS. +“AH, TIMóKHIN!” SAID HE, RECOGNIZING THE RED-NOSED CAPTAIN WHO HAD +“AH, VáSKA!” JOYFULLY REPLIED NESVíTSKI. “WHAT’S UP WITH +“AH WHAT A CALAMITY! YOU SAY THE AFFAIR WAS DECISIVE? BUT MORTIER IS +“AH! WHAT JOY FOR THE PRINCESS!” EXCLAIMED SHE: “AT LAST! I MUST +“AH, WOSTóV,” HE CRIED NOTICING THE CADET’S BRIGHT FACE, +“AH, YES! DO TELL US ALL ABOUT IT, VICOMTE,” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA, +“AH YES, MY DEAR,” SAID THE COUNT, ADDRESSING THE VISITOR AND +“AH, YOU ARE SENDING OFF A LETTER, PRINCESS? I HAVE ALREADY DISPATCHED +“AH, YOU’RE UP ALREADY,” SAID DENíSOV, ENTERING THE ROOM. +“AH, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” PUT IN ZHERKóV, HIS EYES FIXED ON THE +“AH, YOU’VE COME HERE TOO, YOUNG MAN!” HE SAID, SMILING AND +AIDE-DE-CAMP. +AIDE-DE-CAMP, AND SAT DOWN IN THE LADY’S CHAIR, PLACING HIS HUGE HANDS +AIDE-DE-CAMP, “DAT ONE LIFFS AFTER DE SIRD STROKE.” +AIDES-DE-CAMP TO INQUIRE AFTER THE COUNT’S HEALTH, CAME HIMSELF +AIM REMAINING FOR HIM WAS TO EFFECT A JUNCTION WITH THE FORCES THAT WERE +AIM—TO ESTABLISH PEACE IN EUROPE ON FIRM FOUNDATIONS—HAS NOW DECIDED +A KEG, FILLED ONE AFTER ANOTHER THE CANTEEN LIDS HELD OUT TO HIM. THE +A KIND NO LONGER IN GENERAL USE. PRINCE ANDREW REMEMBERED THE STORY OF +A LANGUOR OF MOTION AND SPEECH, RESULTING FROM WEAKNESS, GAVE HER A +A LARGE UDDER WAS ATTACHED TO THE CART BEHIND. A WOMAN WITH AN UNWEANED +A LAUGH STILL MORE SO, HE QUITTED THE TABLE. +ALCOHOL, AND SOUNDS OF VOICES AND SHOUTING IN THE DISTANCE. +ALERT THAN HE HAD DONE THE DAY BEFORE. ONLY HIS EYES GLEAMED FEVERISHLY +A LETTER HAS BEEN WRITTEN TO THE EMPEROR IN WHICH THE COUNT ASKS FOR +A LIFE I CAN’T DECIDE OR THINK PROPERLY ABOUT ANYTHING. ONE’S HEAD +ALIGHT, AND LET HER PASS INTO THE HOUSE BEFORE HIM. OLD TíKHON, WEARING +ALIGHTED FROM HIS HORSE AND WHOSE BIG BODY WAS JAMMED AGAINST THE +A LITTLE TO THEIR RIGHT AND BEHIND THE ACCOUNTANT, CRASHED TO EARTH WITH +“A LITTLE VOLCANO!” +ALL ALONG THE SIDES OF THE ROAD FALLEN HORSES WERE TO BE SEEN, SOME +ALL, AND YOUR FUTURE DEPENDS ON HIM. REMEMBER THAT, MY DEAR, AND BE NICE +ALL AS THEY SHOULD BE? THAT’S RIGHT! THE GREAT THING IS THE SERVING, +ALL BE KILLED,” A SERGEANT WAS SAYING ANGRILY AND REPROACHFULLY. +ALL DONE CASUALLY IN A MOMENT OF ANGER, OF ILLNESS, AND WAS AFTERWARDS +ALL FOUR, LIKE A FLOCK OF SCARED BIRDS, GOT UP AND LEFT THE ROOM. +“ALL HAVE SECRETS OF THEIR OWN,” ANSWERED NATáSHA, GETTING WARMER. +ALL HER CLOTHES IN PETERSBURG AND THAT HEAVEN KNEW WHAT SHE WOULD HAVE +ALL HER INVITATIONS WITHOUT EXCEPTION, WRITTEN IN FRENCH, AND DELIVERED +ALL HIS DECISIONS AND INTENTIONS. HE WENT TO KURáGIN’S. +ALL HIS PROPERTY, NOT TO US HIS DIRECT HEIRS, BUT TO PIERRE.” +“ALL I CAN SAY, GENERAL,” SAID HE WITH A PLEASANT ELEGANCE +ALL, LIKE CHILDREN OF MY OWN, AS YOU KNOW.” +ALL LIKE THAT; ONE CAN’T UNMARRY. DON’T BE AFRAID; I WON’T TELL +ALL MOSCOW TALKS OF NOTHING BUT WAR. ONE OF MY TWO BROTHERS IS ALREADY +ALL MY TROUBLE WILL HAVE BEEN THROWN AWAY.... I SHALL NOT BE ABLE TO +ALLOWED TO PASS BY SPECIAL PERMISSION. THE EYES OF ALL THE SOLDIERS +ALLOWED TO SPEAK, TURNS TO AUERSPERG WITH FEIGNED ASTONISHMENT (HE IS A +“ALLOW ME, SIR,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW IN RUSSIAN IN A COLD, +“ALLOW ME TO LOOK AT YOUR PURSE,” HE SAID IN A LOW, ALMOST +ALL REGULAR GERMANS.” +“ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT!” SAID THE OLD COUNT. “HE ALWAYS FLARES UP! +“ALL RIGHT. FIFTY IMPERIALS ... THAT I WILL DRINK A WHOLE BOTTLE OF +“ALL RIGHT. THEY ARE GOOD FELLOWS. AND HOW HAVE YOU WRIGGLED ONTO THE +ALL SIDES, MOVED ACROSS THE BRIDGE. +ALL THE COMFORTS OF CLEANLINESS AND ALL THE REFINEMENTS OF LIFE, PRINCE +ALL THE MOSCOW LADIES HAVE CONSPIRED TO GIVE HIM ALL THEIR SONS AS +ALL THE OLD FEMININE ARTS. BUT AS SOON AS THE PRINCE HAD GONE HER FACE +“ALL THE SAME, ONE IS AFRAID! OH, YOU CLEVER PEOPLE,” SAID A THIRD +ALL THE SOLDIERS’ REMARKS RELATED TO THE TWO YOUNG ONES. EVERY FACE +ALL THE UNMARRIED LADIES AND EVEN THE MARRIED ONES EXCEPT THE VERY +ALL THIS IS NOT RIGHT, IT’S NOT RIGHT! YOU MAY TAKE OFFENSE OR NOT BUT +ALL THIS, ROSE AND APPROACHED THE PRINCESS. HE SEEMED UNABLE TO BEAR THE +ALLY. WE SHALL THEREFORE CONFIDENTLY AWAIT THE MOMENT WHEN THE IMPERIAL +ALMOST DRAGGING HIM TO THE WINDOW. “THAT MONEY IS DENíSOV’S; YOU +ALMOST FRIGHTENED, EYES AS SHE PASSED HIM. +ALMOST TIME,” SHE ADDED, GIVING PIERRE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THEY WERE +“ALONE ALL THE SAME, WITHOUT MY FRIENDS.... AND HE EXPECTS ME NOT TO +ALONE APPLYING HER HANDKERCHIEF TO HER EYES. AT LAST SHE RANG. +ALONE AT LAST GAINS A REAL VICTORY, DESTROYING THE SPELL OF THE +ALONE... THAT TREMENDOUS FORTUNE... AND WHAT IS HIS LIFE WORTH? IT’S A +ALONG THE BROAD COUNTRY ROAD, EDGED ON BOTH SIDES BY TREES, CAME A HIGH, +ALREADY.” +ALREADY BEEN CHOOSING A CAREER FOR THREE MONTHS, AND HAD NOT DECIDED +ALREADY KNOWN IN MOSCOW AND THAT THE LADIES ABOUT HIS FATHER—WHO WERE +ALREADY OPENING A DOOR. +ALREADY PREPARED...” +ALREADY SEATED IN THE DRAWING ROOM. THE COUNT TOOK THE GENTLEMEN INTO +ALSO IN FRENCH: +ALSO THE ABBé MORIO. DO YOU KNOW THAT PROFOUND THINKER? HE HAS BEEN +ALSO TO THE SOLDIERS. LOOKING AT THEIR BOOTS HE SEVERAL TIMES SHOOK HIS +ALTERED IN SHAPE BY ITS PRESSURE ON THE TABLE, NOW AT HER STILL MORE +ALTHOUGH PRINCE VASíLI LISTENED RELUCTANTLY AND NOT VERY POLITELY +ALTHOUGH THE HALL PORTER SAW SOMEONE’S CARRIAGE STANDING AT THE +ALWAYS ACCOMPANIED ANY REFERENCE OF HERS TO THE IMPERIAL FAMILY, “HAS +ALWAYS, ALWAYS ANXIOUS! ESPECIALLY JUST AT THIS AGE, SO DANGEROUS BOTH +ALWAYS BE MY DAUGHTERS’ FIRST CONFIDANTE, AND THAT IF NICHOLAS, WITH +ALWAYS BE THE CHIEF DESIRE OF EVERYONE ELSE. +ALWAYS BETTER TO “BOW TOO LOW THAN NOT BOW LOW ENOUGH.” SO THE +ALWAYS CALLED NATáSHA A COSSACK) AND SHE STROKED THE CHILD’S ARM AS +ALWAYS WON. HOWEVER MUCH HE DRANK, HE NEVER LOST HIS CLEARHEADEDNESS. +AM.” +A MAN WHO ON A HOT DAY TAKES A FINAL RUN BEFORE PLUNGING INTO THE WATER. +AMBASSADORS TO COMPLIMENT THE USURPER.” +A MEMBER OF THE HOFKRIEGSRATH FROM VIENNA HAD COME TO KUTúZOV THE DAY +AMID THE SMOKE OF THEIR CAMPFIRES, THE GREATER PART OF WHOM WERE +“A MILLION ALL BUT ONE!” REPLIED A WAGGISH SOLDIER IN A TORN COAT, +A MOMENT, AND, EVIDENTLY UNDERSTANDING WHAT ROSTóV HINTED AT, SEIZED +A MOMENT. THE SICK MAN WAS GIVEN SOMETHING TO DRINK, THERE WAS A +A MOMENT, “YES, BRING ME SEVEN HUNDRED RUBLES, YES! BUT MIND, DON’T +AMONG THE CHILDREN, IN THE SPECIAL SENSE THEY ATTACHED TO IT.) “WHY +AMONG THE FIELD GUNS ON THE BROW OF THE HILL THE GENERAL IN COMMAND OF +AMONG THEM. ON MY WORD I’D GIVE FIVE YEARS OF MY LIFE FOR IT!” +AMONG THE WOMEN!” +A MOP, HIS LEGS FAR APART, SPRANG TO THE WHEEL; WHILE NUMBER TWO WITH +A MOST SERIOUS, DEFERENTIAL, AND INNOCENT EXPRESSION. +AN AIR OF IMPORTANCE THAT SHOWED THAT SHE FELT SHE QUITE KNEW WHAT SHE +AN ANONYMOUS VOLUNTEER, AND DAVID WIDGER +ANATOLE AND PIERRE. +ANATOLE LIVED, PIERRE ENTERED THE LIGHTED PORCH, ASCENDED THE STAIRS, +ANATOLE STOPPED HIM. +ANATOLE TURNED TO THE ENGLISHMAN AND TAKING HIM BY ONE OF THE BUTTONS +ANATOLE WITH HIS SWAGGERING AIR STRODE UP TO THE WINDOW. HE WANTED TO +ANCESTOR OF THE BOLKóNSKIS. PRINCE ANDREW, LOOKING AGAIN AT THAT +AND A BALL FLEW WHISTLING OVER THE HEADS OF THE HUSSAR SQUADRON. THE +AND A CASTLE WITH A PARK SURROUNDED BY THE WATERS OF THE CONFLUENCE OF +AND A CONVOY OF CROATS. BESIDE KUTúZOV SAT AN AUSTRIAN GENERAL, IN +AND A FLASK, AND NESVíTSKI WAS TREATING SOME OFFICERS TO PIES AND REAL +AND AGAIN SHE BEGAN TO SOB, MORE BITTERLY THAN BEFORE. NATáSHA LIFTED +AND A LETTER; IT IS A PREMIUM FOR THE MAN WHO WRITES A HISTORY OF + * AND ALL THAT FOLLOWS THEREFROM. +AND ALSO THAT MURAT’S MISTAKE WOULD VERY SOON BE DISCOVERED, PROVED +AND AM AT YOUR SERVICE TO HELP YOU NURSE MY UNCLE. I IMAGINE WHAT YOU +AND ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA (WHO FOUND IT NECESSARY TO ACCOMPANY HIM) WAS +AND ARE DRAWN ALONG.” +“AND ARE THE HOURS THE SAME? AND THE WALKS IN THE AVENUES? AND THE +AND ARTILLERYMEN’S BONFIRES. TO THE LEFT, NOT FAR FROM THE FARTHEST +AND AS HE WAVED HIS ARMS TO IMPERSONATE THE POLICEMAN, HIS PORTLY FORM +AND ASK HIM, I!... DOES THAT SATISFY YOU?” +AND ASKING THEM ALL TO BE SEATED BEGAN: +AND A TIMID SMILE. +“AND AT YOUR AGE WHAT SECRETS CAN THERE BE BETWEEN NATáSHA AND +AND BEGAN DANCING ROUND THE ROOM WITH IT. +AND BILíBIN UNWRINKLED HIS TEMPLE, FEELING THAT THE DILEMMA WAS +AND BLUE RIDING BREECHES, WHO WERE SWARMING NEAR THE BRIDGE, AND THEN AT +AND BORíS, HAVING APPARENTLY RELIEVED HIMSELF OF AN ONEROUS DUTY AND +AND BORíS. HE IS HIS GODSON,” SHE ADDED, HER TONE SUGGESTING THAT +AND BORíS SAYS IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE. YOU KNOW I HAVE TOLD HIM ALL ABOUT +AND BROKE IT UP. IN THIS ACTION FOR THE FIRST TIME TROPHIES WERE TAKEN: +AND BY A SERVANT WHO PASSED OUT ON TIPTOE WITHOUT HEEDING THEM. THEY +AND CAREFULLY PLACED HER IN AN EASY CHAIR. +AND CEASED TALKING WHEN VéRA ENTERED. SóNYA AND NATáSHA LOOKED AT +AND CHARACTER BUT ALIKE IN THE SOCIAL CIRCLE TO WHICH THEY BELONGED. +AND COMMENDATION ARE ESSENTIAL, JUST AS GREASE IS NECESSARY TO WHEELS +AND COMPELLED TO ACT UNDER CONDITIONS OF WAR UNLIKE ANYTHING THAT HAD +AND COMPLACENTLY SEATED HIMSELF ON THE SOFA. +AND COUNTESS ALIKE—TURNED TO LOOK AT HER AS IF WONDERING WHY SHE HAD +AND DECIDED IN HIS OWN MIND THAT ALL WAS AS IT SHOULD BE, AND THAT IN +AND DENíSOV RODE UP TO A GROUP THAT HAD STOPPED NEAR ROSTóV, COMPOSED +AND DENíSOV WENT TO THE BED TO GET THE PURSE FROM UNDER THE PILLOW. +AND DESPERATION AS THOUGH HE WERE AT THAT MOMENT FACING SOME GREAT +AND DEVOTION, OR OF WEARINESS AND HOPE OF RESTING BEFORE LONG. PRINCE +“AND DID YOU GIVE ME TOBACCO YESTERDAY? THAT’S JUST IT, FRIEND! AH, +AND DóLOKHOV SWORE AT HIM IN COARSE SOLDIER’S RUSSIAN AND SHOULDERING +AND DON’T FORGET TO GIVE HIM THE ROSTóVS’ INVITATION. THEY ASK HIM +AND DRAWING UP AGAIN NEXT MOMENT WHEN HER FACE BROKE INTO A SMILE OF +AND DREW IT DOWNWARDS AS IF WISHING TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER IT WAS FIRMLY +AND EVERY STRAP IN PLACE, AND SHONE WITH CLEANLINESS. AND NOT ONLY +AND EXAMINED HIM WITH ATTENTIVE CURIOSITY. THE COSSACK WAS DEAD, BUT THE +AND FEAR. +AND FEELING AT THAT MOMENT. “IS THERE ANYTHING AT ALL BEHIND THAT +AND FELL INTO THE COLUMN TO THE MEASURE OF “LEFT... LEFT!” “CLOSE +AND FELL ON HIS HANDS. THE OTHERS OUTSTRIPPED HIM. +AND FENCING FROM THE VILLAGE. +AND FLASK, AND SWUNG HIS HEAVY PERSON EASILY INTO THE SADDLE. +AND FROM THE DIFFERENT RANKS SOME TWENTY MEN RAN TO THE FRONT. A +AND FUSSILY IN THE EASY CHAIR, “HOW IS IT ANNETTE NEVER GOT MARRIED? +AND GET AWAY TO ATTEND TO HER DUTIES AS HOSTESS. BUT PIERRE NOW +AND GOOD-HUMORED LAUGHTER FROM THE SOLDIERS THAT IT INFECTED THE FRENCH +AND GUN CARRIAGES, THE TRAMP OF HORSES, THE CRACK OF WHIPS, SHOUTS, THE +AND HAD AN OPINION ABOUT EVERYTHING), BUT ABOVE ALL AT HIS CAPACITY FOR +AND HAD MORE THAN ONCE IMPRESSED ON HIS DAUGHTER THAT MICHAEL IVáNOVICH +AND HAD REMAINED AWAY TILL HE WAS TWENTY. WHEN HE RETURNED TO MOSCOW +AND HAD TAKEN HIM TO VIENNA AND GIVEN HIM THE MORE SERIOUS COMMISSIONS. +AND HAIR, WITHOUT LOOKING AT HER EYES, WITH SUCH CONTEMPT THAT THE +AND HAPPINESS... “I SHOULD WISH FOR NOTHING ELSE, NOTHING, IF ONLY I +AND HAPPINESS THE VICTORY HAD AFFORDED HIM HAD BEEN NOW LEFT IN THE +AND HARDLY ABLE TO RESTRAIN HIS JERKY MOVEMENTS, AND FROM THE WAY HE +AND HASTENED TO REASSURE HIM. +AND HAVE SEEN FRäULEIN MATHILDE.” +AND HAVING DONE THIS HE RODE BACK. +AND HAVING GOT RID OF THIS YOUNG MAN WHO DID NOT KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE, SHE +AND HE ALSO PASSED ON WITH THE WAGON. THEN CAME SOME MERRY SOLDIERS WHO +AND HEALTH. ALL WHO TALKED TO HER, AND AT EACH WORD SAW HER BRIGHT SMILE +AND HE AMUSES HIMSELF SETTING A POLICEMAN ASTRIDE A BEAR! FOR SHAME, +AND HE CAUGHT THE BEAR, TOOK IT IN HIS ARMS, LIFTED IT FROM THE GROUND, +AND HE DOESN’T CARE AT ALL FOR JULIE.” +AND HE EXPERIENCED TENFOLD THE JOY OF LIVING, AS HE HAD NOT DONE SINCE +AND HE INDICATED WITH HIS DELICATE FINGERS WHAT HE MEANT BY A PINCH. +AND HE LEFT THE ROOM, FOLLOWED BY THE LOW BUT RINGING LAUGHTER OF THE +“AND HERE, FRIEND, THE PEOPLE ARE QUITE BEGGARLY. THERE THEY ALL +AND HE RELEASED BOLKóNSKI’S ARM TO INDICATE THAT HE HAD NOW QUITE +AND HER FACE WAS TEARFUL. +AND HER SHORT, DOWNY, SMILING LIP LIFTED WHEN SHE BEGAN TO SPEAK JUST AS +AND HE SMILED APPROVINGLY, EVIDENTLY PLEASED WITH THE CADET. ROSTóV +AND HILLS IN THE DISTANCE—AND DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE INHABITANTS +AND HIS EYEBROWS WERE LIFTED, THEN HIS EYEBROWS WOULD DESCEND AND +AND HIS FOREHEAD BECAME SMOOTH AGAIN, HE BOWED HIS HEAD RESPECTFULLY, +AND HIS HEAD TILTING YET FURTHER BACK. “WHY IS IT SO LONG?” THOUGHT +AND HIS KIND, INTELLIGENT FACE RATHER PALE, RUSHED OUT OF THE SHED +AND HIS ONE DIVISION, AND EVEN THEN MORTIER SLIPS THROUGH YOUR FINGERS! +AND HIS THOUGHTS FOLLOWED ONE ANOTHER WITH EXTRAORDINARY CLEARNESS AND +AND HIS VISIT TO BRüNN. AT THE DOOR HE FOUND A VEHICLE HALF FULL OF +“AND HOW DO YOU GET ON WITH THE OFFICERS?” INQUIRED ZHERKóV. + * “AND HURRAH FOR THE WHOLE WORLD!” +AND HURRIEDLY REMOVED. +“AND I AM STILL ARGUING WITH YOUR HUSBAND. I CAN’T UNDERSTAND WHY HE +AND I BEG YOU ALL TO HELP ME. BRüNN’S ATTRACTIONS MUST BE SHOWN HIM. +AND I DON’T NOW.” +“AND IF HE ASKS ABOUT THE LOSSES?” +“AND I HAD NO IDEA!...” EXCLAIMED PRINCESS MARY. “AH, ANDREW, I +“AND I?” HE SAID; “DO YOU THINK IT IS EASIER FOR ME? I AM AS WORN +AND IMMEDIATELY TúSHIN, WITH A SHORT PIPE IN THE CORNER OF HIS MOUTH +AND INDEED EVERYBODY IN THE ROOM LOOKED WITH A SMILE OF PLEASURE AT THE +AND IN PROOF OF THE CONCLUSIVENESS OF HIS OPINION ALL THE WRINKLES +AND INVOLUNTARILY NOTICED THE CAREFULLY WASHED SEAMS OF THE SCAR NEAR +“AND I ONLY...” +“AND I SHOULD SO LIKE TO THANK UNCLE ONCE FOR ALL HIS KINDNESS TO ME +AND IS NOTHING UNWORTHY OF YOU, BUT IT WILL COMFORT ME. PROMISE, +“AND I TELL YOU, DON’T YOU DAHE TO DO IT!” SHOUTED DENíSOV, +“AND I TELL YOU, ROSTóV, THAT YOU MUST APOLOGIZE TO THE COLONEL!” +“AND IT MUST SEEM TO YOU,” SAID BORíS FLUSHING SLIGHTLY, BUT NOT +AND IVY, WITH A GLEAM OF WHITE SHOULDERS, GLOSSY HAIR, AND SPARKLING +AND JULIE WERE SAYING TO ONE ANOTHER. THE GOVERNESS KEPT LOOKING ROUND +AND KINDS OF DESSERT, IN ORDER TO SEND A FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE DINNER +AND KISSED HER. +AND KISSING HER, AND THEN HE LEFT THE ROOM WITH RAPID STEPS. +AND KUTúZOV SMILED IN A WAY THAT SEEMED TO SAY, “YOU ARE QUITE AT +AND LEGS ALWAYS FELL INTO UNNATURAL POSITIONS. +AND LET US TALK SENSIBLY WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME, BE IT A DAY OR BE IT +AND LIFTED IT TO HIS LIPS, THREW BACK HIS HEAD, AND RAISED HIS FREE HAND +AND LIGHT, JOYOUS STEPS. AT THE VISITORS’ REQUEST THE YOUNG PEOPLE +AND LIKE A PRACTICAL PETERSBURG LADY WHO KNOWS HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF +AND LIKE HIM. WRITE AND TELL ME HOW HE RECEIVES YOU. IF HE IS ALL +“AND LISE, YOUR WIFE?” +AND LITTLE TABLES. DURING BALLS GIVEN AT THE HOUSE PIERRE, WHO DID NOT +AND LOOKING CARELESSLY ABOUT HIM. +AND MAKING A WIDE SWEEP WITH HIS ARM, AMID A THUNDER OF APPLAUSE AND +AND MAKING PENCIL NOTES ON THEM, AND FOR THE FIRST TWO OR THREE MINUTES +“AND ME? WOULD YOU LIKE TO KISS ME?” SHE WHISPERED ALMOST INAUDIBLY, +AND MIRTH THAT SHONE IN ALL THEIR FACES. EVIDENTLY IN THE BACK ROOMS, +AND MORE ATTRACTIVE. +AND MOST ADVANTAGEOUS STYLE, LIKE A WELL-GARNISHED JOINT OF ROAST BEEF +AND MOVED TO THE RIGHT; FROM BEHIND IT, DISPERSING THE LAGGARDS, CAME +AND MURAT, HUMILIATED AND ANXIOUS TO EXPIATE HIS FAULT, HAD AT ONCE +AND MY FATHER WAS MUCH AFFECTED BY IT. HE SAYS THE COUNT WAS THE LAST +AND NEXT BALLS, ABOUT THEATRICALS, AND WHO WOULD MEET WHOM, AND WHEN AND +AND NO CONNECTIONS. YET, THOUGH ANATOLE SPENT TENS OF THOUSANDS OF +AND NOT BECOME VEHEMENT, BUT ALMOST ALWAYS DID BECOME VEHEMENT, SCOLDED, +AND NOT IN THE HABIT OF RUNNING, TROTTED AWKWARDLY STUMBLING ON HIS +AND NOT ONLY AT THE SAME HOUR BUT AT THE SAME MINUTE. WITH THOSE ABOUT +AND NOT WITH HIS EYES. +AND OF GOOD FAMILY AND THAT’S ALL I WANT.” +AND ON ALL THEIR FACES HE RECOGNIZED THE SAME EAGERNESS THAT FILLED HIS +“AND OUR SHARE?” ASKED THE PRINCESS SMILING IRONICALLY, AS IF +AND PAINFULLY FELT. MY FATHER TALKS OF NOTHING BUT MARCHES AND +AND PARTED SMILING, THE GERMAN RETURNING TO HIS COWSHED AND ROSTóV +AND PRESSED HIM AGAINST THE RAILINGS, AND ALL HE COULD DO WAS TO SMILE. +AND PRINCE ANDREW AFTER GIVING DIRECTIONS ABOUT HIS DEPARTURE WENT TO +AND PROVE MY DEVOTION TO HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR AND TO RUSSIA!” +AND PUT THE MATTER BEFORE THE EMPEROR,” SAID PRINCESS ANNA +AND REFINED EXPRESSION ON THE FACES OF THOSE PRESENT HE WAS ALWAYS +AND REPLACING THEIR PURSES AND POCKETBOOKS, ENTERED THE BALLROOM. FIRST +“ANDRé,” SAID HIS WIFE, ADDRESSING HER HUSBAND IN THE SAME +AND RESIGNATION TO THE WILL OF GOD. “IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THESE +AND RESPECT AS FEW HARDHEARTED MEN WOULD HAVE AROUSED. ALTHOUGH HE WAS +AND RESPECTFULLY THAT THE PRINCE GAVE HIM A SEARCHING GLANCE. +AND RETURNED A GLOVE PIERRE HAD DROPPED; THE DOCTORS BECAME RESPECTFULLY +ANDREW. +“ANDREW, ALREADY!” SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS, TURNING PALE AND +ANDREW, “AND AT ANNA PáVLOVNA’S THEY LISTEN TO ME. AND THAT STUPID +ANDREW APPARENTLY KNEW THIS AS WELL AS TíKHON; HE LOOKED AT HIS WATCH +ANDREW AS ONE OF THEMSELVES, AN HONOR THEY DID NOT EXTEND TO MANY. FROM +ANDREW. “BESIDES, IN THE ACTIONS OF A STATESMAN ONE HAS TO DISTINGUISH +ANDREW CAME UP, STROKED HER HAIR, AND ASKED IF SHE FELT RESTED AFTER +ANDREW DID NOT SPEAK; HE WAS BOTH PLEASED AND DISPLEASED THAT HIS FATHER +ANDREW DID NOT TELL HIS FATHER THAT HE WOULD NO DOUBT LIVE A LONG TIME +ANDREW? DON’T FORGET THAT SHE HAS GROWN UP AND BEEN EDUCATED IN +ANDREW ENTERED THE PASSAGE. KUTúZOV HIMSELF, HE WAS TOLD, WAS IN THE +ANDREW FELT A PLEASANT SENSE OF REPOSE AMONG LUXURIOUS SURROUNDINGS SUCH +ANDREW HAD ALREADY HEARD FROM HIS WIFE IN THE PRESENCE OF OTHERS SOME +ANDREW HAD GONE AND MADE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS IN HIS DIRECTION. FROM +ANDREW, “I AM ONLY SURPRISED AT YOUR OPINION OF BONAPARTE. YOU +“ANDREW, I BLESS YOU WITH THIS ICON AND YOU MUST PROMISE ME YOU WILL +ANDREW?’ I DID INDEED.” SHE LAUGHED. “HE IS SO WELL RECEIVED +“ANDREW, IF YOU HAD FAITH YOU WOULD HAVE TURNED TO GOD AND ASKED HIM +ANDREW... IS FATHER’S WAY OF TREATING RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS. I DON’T +ANDREW. “LOOK HERE, MY DEAR FELLOW, GET FROM KOZLóVSKI ALL THE +ANDREW MADE HIS WAY UP TO THE BATTERY FROM WHICH THE STAFF OFFICER HAD +ANDREW...” SHE SAID TIMIDLY AFTER A MOMENT’S SILENCE, “I HAVE A +ANDREW SHOOK HIMSELF AS IF WAKING UP, AND HIS FACE ASSUMED THE LOOK IT +ANDREW SLOWLY, NOT TAKING HIS EYES OFF HIS WIFE. +ANDREW STRUCK THE HIGH ROAD ALONG WHICH THE RUSSIAN ARMY WAS MOVING WITH +ANDREW, “THAT ALL THE ATROCITIES OF THE FRENCH ARMY (I NEARLY SAID OF +ANDREW WAS GALLOPING ALONG IN A POST CHAISE ENJOYING THE FEELINGS OF A +ANDREW WAS NATURAL AND PLEASANT. OTHERS, THE MAJORITY, DISLIKED HIM AND +ANDRúSHA!...” SAID SHE, PUTTING HER HAND IN HER RETICULE BUT NOT YET +ANDRúSHA—THE SLENDER MISCHIEVOUS BOY WHO HAD BEEN HER PLAYFELLOW IN +AND SAY, “I AM SO DELIGHTED... MAMMA’S HEALTH... AND COUNTESS +AND SCAPEGRACES OF PETERSBURG. +AND SCARCELY BREATHING, WATCHED FROM HER AMBUSH WITH SPARKLING EYES. +AND SCENTED MYSELF.” +AND SEEING THAT THE ELDER VISITOR WAS NOT LISTENING, HE TURNED TO THE +AND SEE THE STANDARD FLAPPING AGAINST ITS STAFF. +AND SHE BEGAN TO CRY AGAIN BECAUSE HE HAD SUCH A NOBLE SOUL. +AND SHE FOUND THEM ON MY TABLE AND SAID SHE’D SHOW THEM TO MAMMA, AND +AND SHE SET OFF AT A RUN ALONG THE PASSAGE. +AND SHE’S EVEN IN MY WAY. YOU KNOW I ALWAYS WAS A SAVAGE, AND NOW AM +“AND SHE’S IN LOVE WITH BORíS ALREADY. JUST FANCY!” SAID THE +AND SHE SMILED HER ECSTATIC SMILE. +AND SHE WON’T SAY ANYTHING TO MAMMA. NICHOLAS WILL TELL HER HIMSELF, +AND SHOUTED TO THE MUSICIANS TO PLAY FASTER. FASTER, FASTER, AND FASTER; +“AND SHOWED ME A LETTER IN WHICH THE PARADE OF THE FRENCH IN VIENNA +AND SHOW YOU WHAT KIND OF RIVET TO USE.” +AND SIGHING DISDAINFULLY, HE AGAIN CHANGED HIS POSITION. +AND SILENT WHEN THE TALK RELATED TO ANY TOPIC THAT HAD NO DIRECT BEARING +AND SIT. THIS MORNING I TURNED THEM ALL OUT AND NOW LOOK, IT’S FULL +AND SOCIAL TOPICS WERE ENDED AND THE TIME HAD COME FOR INTIMATE +“AND SO HE IS! QUITE BLIND!” +AND SOMETIMES FLUNG THE EXERCISE BOOK AWAY. +AND SOMETIMES LAUGHED. NEAREST OF ALL TO THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF WALKED +AND SOMETIMES LIKE A LOG FLOATING DOWN THE RIVER, AN OFFICERS’ OR +AND SO THE ANECDOTE ENDED. THOUGH IT WAS UNINTELLIGIBLE WHY HE HAD TOLD +“AND SO YOU THINK NAPOLEON WILL MANAGE TO GET AN ARMY ACROSS?” ASKED +AND STOOD, HANGING HER HEAD. +AND SUDDENLY, AS IF HE HAD STUDIED HER SUFFICIENTLY AND HAD FORMED A +AND SUDDENLY DETERMINES TO SPEAK OUT. +AND SUDDENLY SEEMED TO GROW VERY MERRY. +AND TAKING NESVíTSKI’S ARM HE LEFT ZHERKóV, WHO DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO +“AND TELL MR. DóLOKHOV THAT I WON’T FORGET HIM—HE MAY BE QUITE +“AND THAT OTHER ONE WITH HIM, THE AUSTRIAN, LOOKED AS IF HE WERE +AND THAT THE WHOLE ARMY HAD SURRENDERED AT ULM PROVED TO BE CORRECT. +“AND THAT WOULD BE SPLENDID,” SAID PIERRE. +AND THE BRILLIANCE OF THE BRIGHT SUNSHINE MERGED IN A SINGLE JOYOUS AND +AND THE COMMANDER, TURNING TO LOOK AT THE ADJUTANT, DIRECTED HIS JERKY +AND THE CONSTANT GLEAM OF HER WHITE TEETH, THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE IN A +AND THE CONVERSATION AGAIN TURNED ON THE WAR, ON BONAPARTE, AND THE +“AND THE FETE AT THE ENGLISH AMBASSADOR’S? TODAY IS WEDNESDAY. I +AND THE GENERAL IN WHITE, ACCOMPANIED BY THE SUITE, WALKED BETWEEN THE +AND THE GLORY THAT AWAITED HIM. +AND THE LATTER—UNCONSCIOUS THAT HE WAS BEING REFLECTED IN THE HUSSAR +AND THE MEN’S AT THE OTHER. +AND THE MUNCHING OF THE LIEUTENANT. +AND THEN AT THE OTHER. +“AND THEN OF COURSE MY FAMILY HAS ALSO TO BE CONSIDERED,” PRINCE +“AND THEN, OLD FELLOW, HE GIVES HIM ONE IN THE TEETH WITH THE BUTT +AND THE ORDERS HE GAVE THEM AND, TO HIS SURPRISE, FOUND THAT NO ORDERS +AND THE OWNER OF THE MANLY VOICE, EVIDENTLY AN INFANTRY OFFICER, +AND THE PRINCE BEGAN EXPLAINING ALL THE BLUNDERS WHICH, ACCORDING TO +“AND THE PRISONERS HE KILLED IN AFRICA? THAT WAS HORRIBLE!” SAID THE +AND THE RATTLING OF CARRIAGE WHEELS SEEMED TO FILL HIS EARS, AND NOW +“AND THERE HASN’T BEEN ANYONE IN THE ROOM EXCEPT THE LIEUTENANT AND +AND THE STAFF CAPTAIN ROSE AND TURNED AWAY FROM ROSTóV. +AND THE TRAMP OF HORSES’ HOOFS WERE HEARD. KUTúZOV AND HIS SUITE WERE +AND THE VISITORS TRY TO GUESS FROM THESE GLANCES WHO, OR WHAT, THEY ARE +... AND THE WISH, WHICH CONSTITUTES THE EMPEROR’S SOLE AND ABSOLUTE +AND THEY AWOKE IN HIM ASTONISHMENT AT THE GENIUS OF HIS HERO, A FEELING +“AND THEY SAID KUTúZOV WAS BLIND OF ONE EYE?” +“AND THIS IS GRATITUDE—THIS IS RECOGNITION FOR THOSE WHO HAVE +AND THIS “WELL!” SOUNDED COLDLY IRONIC, AS IF HE WERE SAYING: “NOW +AND THOUGHTFULLY SHAKING HIS HEAD. DID HE FEAR GOING TO THE WAR, OR WAS +AND THREW THEM ROUND THE LITTLE GIRL WHO HAD RUN IN. +AND THRILL OF SUSPENSE USUAL AT SUCH MOMENTS. OUTSIDE THE HOUSE, BEYOND +AND TO PIERRE, GLANCING AT HIM AGAIN. +AND UNEXPECTEDLY AGAIN BEGAN TO CRY. +AND UNTIL YOU HAVE CEASED TO LOVE THE WOMAN OF YOUR CHOICE AND HAVE SEEN +AND WAIT FOR HER, SHE WENT SILENTLY TOWARD THE DOOR THAT EVERYONE WAS +AND, WALKING BACKWARDS BEFORE THE COMPANY, JERKED HIS SHOULDERS AND +AND WARMLY PRESSING HIS HAND LOOKED AFFECTIONATELY OVER HIS SPECTACLES +AND WAS CROSSING HIMSELF WITH HIS RIGHT HAND, TURNING HIS EYES UPWARD +AND WAS JUST PUTTING HIS QUESTION TO A SOLDIER WHEN HIS ATTENTION +AND WAS THEREFORE OUT OF SORTS, A STATE OF MIND WHICH WITH HER ALWAYS +AND, WAVING HER THIN ARMS FROM UNDER THE WOOLEN SHAWL, CRIED: +“AND WE, MY DEAR BOY! IT’S TERRIBLE! I WAS WRONG TO LAUGH AT MACK, +AND WENT IN AT THE OPEN DOOR. THERE WAS NO ONE IN THE ANTEROOM; EMPTY +AND WENT OUT OF THE CORRIDOR. +AND WENT TO THE DOOR. +“AND WHAT ABOUT HIS CHARACTER?” ASKED THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER. +“AND WHAT A WELL-PRESERVED MAN HE WAS!” REMARKED THE AIDE-DE-CAMP. +“AND WHAT DEVIL MADE ME GO TO THAT WAT?” (AN OFFICER NICKNAMED +“AND WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS LATEST COMEDY, THE CORONATION AT +“AND WHERE IS LISE?” HE ASKED, ANSWERING HER QUESTION ONLY BY A +AND WHICH HAD ALWAYS OPENED SO QUIETLY, BURST NOISILY OPEN AND BANGED +AND WHILE KUTúZOV WAS TURNING MANAGED TO MAKE A GRIMACE AND THEN ASSUME +“AND WHO ARE YOU?” CRIED THE OFFICER, TURNING ON HIM WITH TIPSY +“AND WHO WILL INHERIT HIS WEALTH?” HE ADDED IN A WHISPER. +“AND WHY ARE CHILDREN BORN TO SUCH MEN AS YOU? IF YOU WERE NOT A +“AND WHY ARE THEY STOPPING? THERE’S NO PROPER ORDER!” SAID THE +“AND WHY DIDN’T YOU DO IT AT SEVEN IN THE MORNING? YOU OUGHT TO HAVE +“AND WHY IS IT?” +“AND WHY THE DEUCE ARE WE GOING TO FIGHT BONAPARTE?” REMARKED +“AND WILL SHE SOON BE CONFINED?” AND SHAKING HIS HEAD REPROACHFULLY +AND WILL THEN INHERIT EVERYTHING UNDER THE WILL? AND IF THE WILL AND +AND WIPING THEIR FACES WITH THEIR CAMBRIC HANDKERCHIEFS. +AND WISHED HE COULD TELL WHAT, IF ANYTHING, THIS MAN WAS THINKING +AND WISH YOU TO HAVE AS GOOD AN OPINION OF ME. DON’T UPSET YOURSELF, +“AND WITHOUT HOLDING ON TO ANYTHING. IS THAT RIGHT?” +AND WITH THE FAMILIARITY AND EASY GRACE PECULIAR TO HIM, HE RAISED THE +AND WITH THIS OBJECT OFFERED A THREE DAYS’ TRUCE ON CONDITION THAT +AND YET LONG TO CROSS THAT LINE, AND KNOW THAT SOONER OR LATER IT MUST +AND YOU.” +“AND YOU? ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE LUNCH TOO? THEY FEED YOU QUITE +“AND YOU DIDN’T SEE THAT EVERYBODY IS PACKING UP?” +AND YOU, MON COUSIN, SEEM TO CONSIDER ME A PERFECT FOOL,” SAID THE +AND YOUR CAPITAL!’ THE ONE GENERAL WHOM WE ALL LOVED, SCHMIDT, YOU +“AND YOU TOO!” +AN ENTREATY, A THREAT, AND ABOVE ALL CONVICTION THAT SHE WOULD HERSELF +ANGER AND WALKING UP TO THE REGIMENT WISHED TO FIND A FURTHER EXCUSE FOR +ANGRILY AND DISRESPECTFULLY AT KOZLóVSKI. +ANGRILY BLOWING HIS NOSE. HARDLY HAD PRINCE ANDREW GONE WHEN THE STUDY +ANGRILY, CAME IN AT THE OTHER DOOR. NATáSHA CHECKED HER FIRST IMPULSE +ANGRILY PULLING DOWN HIS TIGHT SCARF. +ANGRY WITH ME FOR COMING? YOU HAVE CHANGED SO, ANDRúSHA,” SHE ADDED, +ANIMATED, AND HANDSOME, WITH HIS HAND BANDAGED. IN THE STUDY WERE FOUR +AN INN IN THE VILLAGE WHICH THE OFFICERS FREQUENTED. ROSTóV RODE UP TO +AN INSPECTION ANYWHERE IN THE HEART OF RUSSIA. +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA CAME OUT LAST. SHE APPROACHED PIERRE WITH SLOW, QUIET +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA INSTANTLY GUESSED HER INTENTION AND STOOPED TO BE +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA LOOKED AT VéRA AND PAUSED. THE COUNTESS PRESSED HER +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA PAUSED AND WAITED FOR HIM TO COME UP. +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S FACE EXPRESSED A CONSCIOUSNESS THAT THE DECISIVE +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S WAS THE MOST DISTINCT. +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA TOOK OFF HER GLOVES AND, OCCUPYING THE POSITION SHE +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WAS ALREADY EMBRACING HER AND WEEPING. THE COUNTESS +ANNA PáVLOVNA ALMOST CLOSED HER EYES TO INDICATE THAT NEITHER SHE NOR +ANNA PáVLOVNA DISAPPROVED. +ANNA PáVLOVNA HAD ALREADY MANAGED TO SPEAK TO LISE ABOUT THE MATCH SHE +ANNA PáVLOVNA IN DISMAY DETAINED HIM WITH THE WORDS: “DO YOU KNOW THE +ANNA PáVLOVNA’S ALARM WAS JUSTIFIED, FOR PIERRE TURNED AWAY FROM THE +ANNA PáVLOVNA’S DRAWING ROOM WAS GRADUALLY FILLING. THE HIGHEST +ANNA PáVLOVNA SMILED AND PROMISED TO TAKE PIERRE IN HAND. SHE KNEW HIS +ANNA PáVLOVNA’S RECEPTION WAS IN FULL SWING. THE SPINDLES HUMMED +ANNA PáVLOVNA’S SOIREE. THE MATTER WAS MENTIONED TO THE EMPEROR, AN +“ANNETTE, FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE DON’T REFUSE ME,” THE COUNTESS +AN OLD FRIEND. +AN OLD POWDERED MANSERVANT WHO WAS SITTING IN THE ANTECHAMBER ROSE +AN ORDERLY, OR A TOWNSMAN WAS CARRIED THROUGH THE WAVES OF INFANTRY; +AN ORDERLY’S CHARGE, AND HE FELT THE BLOOD RUSH TO HIS HEART WITH +“AN ORDER TO WHO?” ASKED THE COLONEL MOROSELY. +ANOTHER. +ANOTHER—A CHILDLIKE, KINDLY, EVEN RATHER SILLY LOOK, WHICH SEEMED TO +ANOTHER. ALL BECAME SILENT AND TURNED TO LOOK AT THE PALE TEAR-WORN ANNA +ANOTHER, A YOUNGER VOICE, INTERRUPTED HIM: “AFRAID OR NOT, YOU CAN’T +ANOTHER COMPANY, A LUCKY ONE FOR NOT ALL THE COMPANIES HAD VODKA, +ANOTHER GROUP. +ANOTHER, HARDLY ABLE TO SUPPRESS THEIR LAUGHTER. +ANOTHER HUSSAR ALSO RUSHED TOWARD THE HORSE, BUT BONDARéNKO HAD ALREADY +“ANOTHER ISMAIL COMRADE,” SAID HE. “A BRAVE OFFICER! ARE YOU +ANOTHER PIE BUT FELT SHY, AND THEREFORE PRETENDED TO BE EXAMINING THE +ANOTHER’S FACES AND SPEAK TO ONE ANOTHER. BESIDES THE SOLDIERS WHO +ANOTHER TIME HE INTERRUPTED, SAYING: +ANOTHER VOICE, FROM A MAN OF MEDIUM HEIGHT WITH CLEAR BLUE EYES, +ANOTHER WHO WISHED TO GET AWAY. WITH HIS HEAD BENT, AND HIS BIG FEET +AN OUTSIDER IS OUT OF PLACE HERE.... NO, DON’T DISTRESS YOURSELF.... +ANSWERED.” +ANSWERED HER, AS HE HAD THE COUNTESS, ONLY IN MONOSYLLABLES. THE OTHER +ANSWERED LAVRúSHKA. “I KNOW BY NOW, IF HE WINS HE COMES BACK EARLY TO +ANSWERED PIERRE, TRYING TO REMEMBER WHO THIS YOUNG MAN WAS. +ANSWERED THE SOLDIER. PRINCE ANDREW TOOK OUT HIS PURSE AND GAVE THE +ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS, AS WAS ONLY TOO EVIDENT, DID NOT INTEREST +ANSWER THAN THE ONE PRINCE ANDREW GAVE TO THIS NAïVE QUESTION. +ANTECHAMBER EXPERIENCED THE SAME FEELING OF RESPECT AND EVEN FEAR WHEN +ANTEROOM WITH HIM. +ANTICHRIST—I REALLY BELIEVE HE IS ANTICHRIST—I WILL HAVE NOTHING +ANY CLEVER CONVERSATION THAT WAS TO BE HEARD. SEEING THE SELF-CONFIDENT +“ANY NEWS FROM MACK?” +ANYONE, AND SO YOU DON’T DESERVE TO HAVE THEM.” +ANYONE, BUT YOU KNOW IT YOURSELF.” +ANYONE ELSE DOES THE SAME, I WILL PAY HIM A HUNDRED IMPERIALS. DO YOU +ANYONE ELSE HAD A RIGHT TO CRITICIZE WHAT THE EMPRESS DESIRED OR WAS +ANYONE IF HE IS IN DISFAVOR. NOW COME HERE.” +ANYONE. THEY WISHED TO ADMINISTER THE SACRAMENT OF UNCTION.” +ANYONE WHO WANTED TO SEE HIM COULD COME THE HUNDRED MILES FROM MOSCOW TO +ANYTHING, BUT WAS ONLY CONSCIOUS OF HER STERN FATHER’S WITHERED FACE +ANYTHING. DO YOU KNOW I HAVE SENT FOR PIERRE? THE COUNT,” POINTING TO +ANYTHING ELSE.... YOU HAVE NOT BEEN ORDERED TO RETURN AND HAVE NOT BEEN +ANYTHING FOR HIS HAPPINESS! AND MY AFFAIRS ARE IN SUCH A BAD WAY THAT MY +ANYTHING. HERE IS A LETTER TO PRINCE VASíLI, AND HERE IS MONEY. WRITE +ANYTHING MIGHT HAPPEN, ONLY NOT THAT. +ANYTHING TO SAY, SAY IT. THESE TWO THINGS CAN BE DONE TOGETHER,” HE +ANYTHING WRONG IN MY BEHAVIOR. BUT I’LL JUST TELL MAMMA HOW YOU ARE +A PARTICULAR GLAMOUR AND GLAD KEENNESS OF IMPRESSION TO EVERYTHING THAT +APARTMENTS ASSIGNED TO PRINCE VASíLI. +A PEG ON WHICH TO HANG THE PRINCE’S FAVORITE TOPIC, HE LOOKED +A PLAN OF MARRIAGE FOR YOU. IT IS NEITHER MORE NOR LESS THAN WITH PRINCE +A POLICEMAN AND THE BEAR BACK TO BACK AND PUT THE BEAR INTO THE MOYKA +APOLOGIZE.” +APOLOGIZE TO AN OLD AND HONORABLE OFFICER? WHATEVER BOGDáNICH MAY +A PORTRAIT SO CHARACTERISTIC OF THE ORIGINAL AS TO BE AMUSING. +APPARENTLY SHE HAD FORGOTTEN HER AGE AND BY FORCE OF HABIT EMPLOYED +APPARENTLY THE SIGHT OF THEM ROUSED NO PLEASANT FEELING IN VéRA. +APPEAR AS IF HE DID NOT WANT ANY OF THAT WINE, BUT WAS MORTIFIED BECAUSE +APPEARED A STUPID SMILE OF GLEE WHICH HE SEEMED UNABLE TO SUPPRESS. +APPEARED FROM BEHIND HIS COMPANY AND, THOUGH HE WAS A MIDDLE-AGED MAN +APPEARED IN THE DOORWAY. THE GENERAL WITH THE BANDAGED HEAD BENT FORWARD +APPEARED ON HIS NOSE, THE REDNESS OF WHICH WAS EVIDENTLY DUE TO +APPEARED PUNCTUALLY TO THE APPOINTED HOUR. EVERYONE SITTING IN THIS +APPEARED, QUITE OUT OF KEEPING WITH HIS FEATURES, THAT SEEMED TO DERIDE +APPEARED SHY OF HER UNQUESTIONABLE AND ALL TOO VICTORIOUS BEAUTY. SHE +APPEARED THAT THEY HAD WORN WHEN UNDER FIRE. ROSTóV WATCHED HIS ENEMY, +APPEARED, THEN A SECOND AND A THIRD ALMOST SIMULTANEOUSLY, AND AT THE +APPEARING ON THE SKYLINE, WHICH THEY KNEW TO BE THE ENEMY’S TROOPS. +APPLE, ALSO HALF SMILING AS HE LOOKED AT THE HANDSOME GIRL. +APPOINTMENT TO LONDON WAS A PROMOTION AND THAT HE WAS SO TO REGARD IT. +APPRECIATION OF THE VICOMTE’S EPIGRAM, PIERRE AGAIN BROKE INTO THE +APPROACH, BUT EVEN IN THIS ROOM THERE NOW STOOD AN EMPTY BATH, AND WATER +APPROACHED. +APPROACHED THE DOOR OF THE MINISTER’S ROOM. HE FELT OFFENDED, AND +APPROACHING ENEMY FARTHER OFF. AT THE SAME INSTANT THE SUN CAME FULLY +APRáKSINA...” AND THEN, AGAIN RUSTLING, PASS INTO THE ANTEROOM, PUT +APRáKSINS’ I HEARD A LADY ASKING, ‘IS THAT THE FAMOUS PRINCE +APRON UNDER THE LEATHER HOOD OF THE VEHICLE. PRINCE ANDREW RODE UP +À PROPOS OF MARRIAGES: DO YOU KNOW THAT A WHILE AGO THAT UNIVERSAL +A QUITE UNEXPECTED, CHANCE OF SAVING THE ARMY. ON RECEIVING THE NEWS +ARCHDUCHESS ALSO WISHED TO SEE HIM. HE DID NOT KNOW WHOM TO ANSWER, AND +ARCHDUKE’S AS GOOD AS ANOTHER, AS YOU KNOW) AND EVEN IF IT IS ONLY +ARE ALL STUPID; BUT I KNOW THIS: AN ILLEGITIMATE SON CANNOT INHERIT... +A REAL ONE, BUT THAT THEY WOULD TALK OF THAT LATER. PRINCESS MARY WAS +ARE—AT THE HEART OF AFFAIRS AND OF THE WORLD—IS THE TALK ALL OF +ARE BEING DECEIVED, MY INSTINCT TELLS ME OF NEGOTIATIONS WITH FRANCE AND +ARE CHILDWEN OF THE DUST... BUT ONE FALLS IN LOVE AND ONE IS A GOD, ONE +ARE DISTRIBUTED. WHY HAS FATE GIVEN YOU TWO SUCH SPLENDID CHILDREN? +ARE HERE?” +ARE, MONSIEUR PIERRE!” +ARE NOT MANY LEFT OF US OLD FRIENDS! THAT’S WHY I SO VALUE YOUR +A REPLY UNNECESSARY. SHE SMILINGLY WAITED. ALL THE TIME THE STORY WAS +ARE THE FRENCH!’ MURAT, SEEING THAT ALL IS LOST IF THE SERGEANT IS +ARE WE TO FIND SUVóROVS NOW? JE VOUS DEMANDE UN PEU,” *(4) SAID HE, +ARE WRAPPED UP IN YOU, AND THAT IN SPITE OF THE DISTANCE SEPARATING US +“ARE YOU GOING TO COUNT CYRIL VLADíMIROVICH, MY DEAR?” SAID THE +“ARE YOU LIVING WITH YOUR MOTHER?” +“ARE YOU NOT ASHAMED TO DEPRIVE US OF YOUR CHARMING WIFE?” +“ARE YOU READY?” HE ASKED HIS WIFE, LOOKING PAST HER. +A RING, HE MADE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS OVER HIM WITH A GESTURE EVIDENTLY +ARM. HE BEGAN TO LAUGH. +ARM WAVERED STILL MORE WITH THE STRAIN. ONE HAND MOVED AS IF TO CLUTCH +ARMY, AND THE MEMBER OF THE HOFKRIEGSRATH WHO HAD ARRIVED THE PREVIOUS +ARMY WAS VERY FAVORABLE. +ARMY.... YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO SEIZE ITS BAGGAGE AND ARTILLERY. +ARRANGED AND HOW NICE IT ALL WAS? THERE’S UNCLE SHINSHíN’S BROTHER +ARRIVAL OF YOUNG PRINCE ANDREW AND HIS WIFE WAS DAILY EXPECTED, BUT +ARRIVED FROM RUSSIA. WITH THIS OBJECT HE INTENDED TO MEET THE REGIMENT; +ARTILLERY SENTRY WAS PACING UP AND DOWN; HE STOOD AT ATTENTION WHEN THE +ARTLESS SMILE, SHE HAD MET HIM IN SECLUDED PASSAGES. +A RULE TO SPEAK OUT... WELL, WHAT ANSWER AM I TO TAKE? WILL YOU COME TO +AS A DENSE CLOUD OF SMOKE AROSE FROM IT. THE HUSSARS HAD SUCCEEDED IN +AS A FRENCHMAN WOULD SPEAK AFTER SPENDING ABOUT A YEAR IN RUSSIA. +AS A MAN RECENTLY RETURNED FROM ABROAD, IN A POLITICAL CONVERSATION IN +ASCENDED THE CARPETED STAIRS. +A SCHOOLBOY WHO IS TOLD TO REPEAT A LESSON HE HAS NOT LEARNED. SPOTS +AS CLEAR AS DAY, AND CAN GO SO FAR ASTRAY. THAT IS THE ONLY THING +A SENSE OF DISGUST THE MINUTEST DETAILS OF THIS HUMILIATING SCENE HE +“AS FAR AS THE SERVICE GOES HE IS QUITE PUNCTILIOUS, YOUR EXCELLENCY; +AS HE ALWAYS DID WHEN AT THE FRONT, SOLEMN AND STERN. THEN CAME THE WORD +AS HE APPROACHED, A RINGING SHOT ISSUED FROM IT DEAFENING HIM AND HIS +AS HE CLOSED HIS EYES HIS EARS SEEMED FILLED WITH THE RATTLE OF THE +AS HE HAD BEEN ACCUSTOMED TO FROM CHILDHOOD. BESIDES IT WAS PLEASANT, +AS HE LAY BACK IN HIS ARMCHAIR, LOOKING IN ANOTHER DIRECTION. +AS HE LIKED, NOW IN PETERSBURG I HEAR HE HAS BEEN DOING SUCH TERRIBLE +AS HE RODE BY. +AS HE SAID THIS HE ROSE, WENT TO HIS SISTER, AND, STOOPING, KISSED +AS HE SAID THIS PRINCE ANDREW WAS LESS THAN EVER LIKE THAT BOLKóNSKI +AS HE SAT ON THE SLOPING LEDGE. AS HE BEGAN SLIPPING DOWN, HIS HEAD AND +AS HE WAS LEAVING THE BATTERY, FIRING WAS HEARD ON THE LEFT ALSO, AND +AS HE WOULD HAVE DONE TO A STRANGER. +A SHOT, AND OUR TROOPS COULD BE SEEN HURRYING TO THE CROSSING. +ASIDE AND TURNING SHARPLY AWAY; BUT RISING IMMEDIATELY, HE PACED UP AND +ASIDE WITH HIS ARM, SAID IN A BREATHLESS VOICE, +AS IF AT TIMES THERE RADIATED FROM THEM SHAFTS OF WARM LIGHT)—WERE +AS IF FLINGING SOMETHING TO THE GROUND, THE DRUMMER—A LEAN, HANDSOME +AS IF GUESSING WHAT IT WAS ABOUT. +AS IF RUNNING A SWORD THROUGH AN INVISIBLE FOE, AND GLARING SAVAGELY +AS IF SHE HAD ASKED HIM TO DO IT. +AS IF TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER HIS FATHER’S HABITS HAD CHANGED SINCE HE +AS IF TO EXPLAIN SUCH A QUESTION. +AS IF TO REASSURE PRINCE ANDREW. +A SIGN OF APPROACHING ANGER. “I WAS FORGETTING... DO YOU WISH IT +A SIN, A GREAT SIN, IT IS HATRED OF THAT VILE WOMAN!” ALMOST SHRIEKED +AS IN A SPOILED CHILD, A CONTINUAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF HER CHARMING DEFECT, +“AS IT FLIES PAST ME, DADDY, THE BALL I MEAN,” SAID A YOUNG SOLDIER +AS IT WAS TOO FAR TO THE LEFT FLANK FOR HIM TO HAVE TIME TO GO THERE +“AS I WAS SAYING TO YOU, ANDREW, BE KIND AND GENEROUS AS YOU ALWAYS +AS I WRITE? +ASK; BUT TO PROVE MY DEVOTION TO YOU AND HOW I RESPECT YOUR FATHER’S +ASKED PERMISSION TO BE PRESENT AT THE BATTLE OUT OF CURIOSITY. THE +ASKED THE ITALIAN HOW HE STOOD RUSSIAN CLIMATE. THE ITALIAN’S +ASKED THE PRINCE’S PERMISSION TO RIDE ROUND THE POSITION TO SEE THE +ASKED THE SON. +ASKED. “THEY SAY OLD MAIDS HAVE A MANIA FOR MATCHMAKING, AND THOUGH I +ASK FORGIVENESS. +ASKING FORGIVENESS?” +“ASK THE COUNT TO COME TO ME.” +ASLEEP. PRINCE ANDREW FELT SORRY FOR HIS SISTER. +A SMALL RECEPTION, AND JUST SEE HOW BADLY I AM DRESSED.” AND SHE +A SMELL OF PERFUME, AND PUT IT TO NESVíTSKI’S NOSE. +A SMILE OF JOY AND SATISFACTION LIT UP HER EAGER FACE. +A SMILE THAT BROADENED HIS ROUND FACE MORE AND MORE, PREPARED THE +AS OFTEN HAPPENS IN EARLY YOUTH, ESPECIALLY TO ONE WHO LEADS A LONELY +A SOLDIER WAS DRIVING, AND A WOMAN ENVELOPED IN SHAWLS SAT BEHIND THE +A SON OF NICHOLAS BOLKóNSKI, I SHALL BE ASHAMED!” +AS SERENE AS IF ALL THIS WERE HAPPENING AT HOME AWAITING PEACEFUL +AS SHE BECAME ANIMATED THE PRINCE LOOKED AT HER MORE AND MORE STERNLY, +AS SHE NAMED THE EMPRESS, ANNA PáVLOVNA’S FACE SUDDENLY ASSUMED AN +AS SHE ROSE TO GO TO HER OWN ROOM. +ASSIDUITY OF ITS COMMANDER THE REGIMENT, IN COMPARISON WITH OTHERS THAT +ASSIGNED TO CAVALRY-CAPTAIN DENíSOV, THE SQUADRON COMMANDER, KNOWN +AS SOON AS ALL IS OVER,” AND PRINCE VASíLI SIGHED TO INTIMATE WHAT HE +AS SOON AS HE LEARNED THAT THE RUSSIAN ARMY WAS IN SUCH A HOPELESS +ASSUMING QUITE THE POSE OF A SOCIETY WOMAN (HEAVEN KNOWS WHEN AND WHERE +AS THE BEARERS, AMONG WHOM WAS ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, PASSED THE YOUNG MAN +AS THE RIGHT FLANK WOULD PROBABLY NOT BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND THE ENEMY’S +AS THEY SAID IN MOSCOW SOCIETY. HE SEEMED TO BE CONDESCENDING TO +AS THOUGH RUNNING AWAY FROM SOME DANGER, AND, MAKING LONG, QUICK STRIDES +A STOUT MAJOR WAS PACING UP AND DOWN THE LINE, AND REGARDLESS OF THE +A STRANGE CAPRICE OF HIS EMPLOYER’S WAS ADMITTED TO TABLE THOUGH THE +AS WAS HIS CUSTOM WHEN AT HOME—TAKING LEAVE OF A GOOD-LOOKING, +AS WE ARE MASTERS OF ULM, WE CANNOT BE DEPRIVED OF THE ADVANTAGE OF +AS WITH HIS FEET. +AS ZE SANCTITY OF ITS ALLIANCES...” HE SPOKE THIS LAST WORD WITH +AT?” +AT ALL. HE SAID TO ME, ‘I AM SORRY I CAN DO SO LITTLE FOR YOU, DEAR +AT ALL LIKE THE CONDUCT OF A GREAT MAN!” +A TALL, STOUT, AND PROUD-LOOKING WOMAN, WITH A ROUND-FACED SMILING +AT ANNA PáVLOVNA’S, THAT IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO GET RID OF ANNA +AT ANY OF THEM BUT SMILING ON ALL, AS IF GRACIOUSLY ALLOWING EACH THE +AT A SOLDIER IN THE RANKS OF THE THIRD COMPANY IN A GREATCOAT OF BLUISH +AT BALD HILLS, PRINCE NICHOLAS ANDRéEVICH BOLKóNSKI’S ESTATE, THE +AT BALD HILLS WITH HIS WIFE. THIS PLEASURE WILL BE BUT A BRIEF ONE, +“AT BOSS ZIDES, CAPTAIN,” HE HEARD THE VOICE OF THE COLONEL, WHO, +AT EACH ALTERNATE STEP; AND IN TIME TO THIS, WITH STERN BUT VARIED +AT EASE BY HIM, “BUT I HOPE I HAVE NOT OFFENDED YOU. I ALWAYS MAKE IT +AT EIGHT O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING +A TêTE-à-TêTE TALK WITH THE FRIEND OF HER CHILDHOOD, PRINCESS ANNA +AT HER REFLECTION IN THE GLASS. “SHE FLATTERS ME,” THOUGHT THE +AT HIS ESTATE. AS REGULARITY IS A PRIME CONDITION FACILITATING ACTIVITY, +A THREATENING GESTURE. “IF THE PURSE ISN’T FOUND I’LL FLOG YOU, +A THUD. DENíSOV RODE PAST HIM, LEANING BACK AND SHOUTING SOMETHING. +AT INTERVALS THE BUGLE CALLS AND THE SHOUTS OF THE ENEMY COULD BE HEARD +AT KREMS EXCITED BUT NOT WEARY, WITH DISPATCHES FROM DOKHTúROV TO +AT LAST ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, STILL WITH THE SAME EXPRESSION, PALE BUT +ATMOSPHERE OF A LARGE AND ACTIVE TOWN WHICH IS ALWAYS SO ATTRACTIVE TO A + AT NIGHTTIME IN THE MOON’S FAIR GLOW +AT ONCE TRANSFERRED TO THE GUARDS AS A CORNET, HAD BEEN EDUCATED FROM +AT ONCE, WHEN SHE HEARD THE YOUNG MAN’S DISCREET STEPS APPROACHING +AT ONE ANOTHER, AND ALL PRESSED TOWARD THE EXIT FROM THE BRIDGE. +“AT ONE DRAUGHT, OR HE LOSES!” SHOUTED A FOURTH. +AT ONE OF THE POST STATIONS HE OVERTOOK A CONVOY OF RUSSIAN WOUNDED. +AT PRINCE ANDREW AND DID NOT EVEN NOD TO HIM. +AT PRINCE ANDREW, EVIDENTLY CONSIDERING SOMETHING. +A TREAT TO HER GUESTS. AS A CLEVER MAîTRE D’HôTEL SERVES UP AS A +A TREMBLING HAND PLACED A CHARGE IN THE CANNON’S MOUTH. THE SHORT, +“A TRIFLE,” SAID THE COLONEL IN HIS BASS VOICE: “TWO HUSSARS +A TRUCE AND SENT HIS ADJUTANT TO KUTúZOV TO REPORT THE OFFER HE HAD +A TRUCE WAS KUTúZOV’S SOLE CHANCE OF GAINING TIME, GIVING +“AT SEVEN O’CLOCK, I BELIEVE.” +“AT SEVEN O’CLOCK? IT’S VERY SAD, VERY SAD!” +AT SOMEONE UNSEEN. “MR. PITT, AS A TRAITOR TO THE NATION AND TO THE +“ATTACK INDEED!” SAID THE COLONEL IN A BORED VOICE, PUCKERING UP HIS +ATTACK VERY LONG. ABOUT TúSHIN AND THE BATTALION THAT HAD BEEN IN +ATTEMPT AT FAMILIARITY ON THE PART OF THE RUSSIAN MESSENGER. +ATTENDANCE ON HIM, TO THE ENEMY CAMP. WINTZINGERODE WAS NOT MERELY +“ATTENDEZ,” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA, REFLECTING, “I’LL SPEAK TO +ATTENTION. HE SCREWED UP HIS EYES SHOWING THAT HE WAS LISTENING. +“ATT-ENTION!” SHOUTED THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER IN A SOUL-SHAKING +ATTENTION TO HER SEVERE REMARK—AND BEGAN TO LAUGH. SHE LAUGHED, AND IN +ATTENTION TO HIS STORY. +ATTENTIVELY TO BAGRATIóN’S COLLOQUIES WITH THE COMMANDING OFFICERS +ATTENTIVE TO HIM. COUNT CYRIL VLADíMIROVICH IS YOUR GODFATHER AFTER +AT THAT INSTANT THE SUN BEGAN TO HIDE BEHIND THE CLOUDS, AND OTHER +AT THAT MOMENT ANNA PáVLOVNA CAME UP AND, LOOKING SEVERELY AT PIERRE, +AT THAT MOMENT, ON THE ROAD FROM THE TOWN ON WHICH SIGNALERS HAD BEEN +AT THAT TIME, A VERY HIGH RUFFLE, AND A BROWN DRESS COAT. THIS STOUT +AT THE APPOINTED HOUR THE PRINCE, POWDERED AND SHAVEN, ENTERED THE +AT THE CADET’S TROUBLED FACE. +AT THE DOOR PRINCE ANDREW AND THE FIGURE OF THE OLD MAN IN A WHITE +AT THE FOOT OF THE HILL LAY WASTELAND OVER WHICH A FEW GROUPS OF OUR +AT THE FRENCH. +AT THE LEVEE PRINCE ANDREW STOOD AMONG THE AUSTRIAN OFFICERS AS HE HAD +AT THE MEN’S END OF THE TABLE THE TALK GREW MORE AND MORE ANIMATED. +AT THE RAZUMóVSKI’S BALL ... AND COUNTESS APRáKSINA ... I WAS +AT THE SIGHT OF THE LETTER RED PATCHES SHOWED THEMSELVES ON THE +AT THE SOLDIERS AS IF THREATENING TO PUNISH THEM. CADET MIRóNOV DUCKED +AT THE SOLDIERS WHO WERE BLOCKING HIS WAY. “HI THERE, BOYS! KEEP TO +AT THE STEAMING BOILER, WAITING TILL THE SAMPLE, WHICH A QUARTERMASTER +AT THIS A SUDDEN CHANGE EVIDENTLY TOOK PLACE IN THE PRINCESS’ IDEAS; +AT THIS BIG, STOUT, QUIET MAN, WONDERING HOW SUCH A CLUMSY, MODEST +AT THIS MOMENT THAT TERRIBLE DOOR, WHICH PIERRE HAD WATCHED SO LONG +“AT WHAT O’CLOCK DID THE BATTLE BEGIN?” ASKED THE EMPEROR. +“AT WHAT O’CLOCK WAS GENERAL SCHMIDT KILLED?” +AT WHICH PRINCE ANDREW HAD BEEN WHEN HE EXAMINED THE BATTLEFIELD. +A TYPE OF FACE DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF THE MEN, SQUEEZED HIS WAY ALONG; +AUDIBLE THE WHOLE LENGTH OF THE TABLE. +AUDIENCE OVER HIS SPECTACLES AND CONTINUED. +AUDIENCES, BUT HE DOES NOT LIKE TALKING HIMSELF AND CAN’T DO IT, AS +AUDIENCE, WHICH PRODUCED AN EFFECT UNFAVORABLE TO THE NARRATOR. SEVERAL +AUDIENCE WITH THE EMPEROR FRANCIS OCCUPIED HIS THOUGHTS. +AUERSPERG WAS DEFENDING, AND THE BRIDGE WAS NOT BLOWN UP: SO MURAT +AUNT, ANNA PáVLOVNA MENTIONED EACH ONE’S NAME AND THEN LEFT THEM. +AUNT AS SHE CONDUCTED HIM TO HER. +AUNTIE ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA TOLD ME, UNDER THE SEAL OF STRICT SECRECY, OF +AUNT,” OR “YOU DO NOT KNOW MY AUNT?” AND VERY GRAVELY CONDUCTED +AUNT WITHOUT WAITING TO HEAR HER SPEECH ABOUT HER MAJESTY’S HEALTH. +“AU REVOIR! THANK YOU VERY MUCH. HIS MAJESTY WILL PROBABLY DESIRE TO +AUSTRIAN ADJUTANT, BILíBIN, AND LAST NIGHT’S CONVERSATION. HAVING +AUSTRIAN TROOPS, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF SO SKILLFUL A LEADER AS GENERAL +AUTHOR: LEO TOLSTOY + * “A VERY GOOD MORNING! A VERY GOOD MORNING!” +A VIGOROUS ATTACK ON THE ORATOR. +AVOID DOING CERTAIN THINGS, AND SPEAK FRENCH. HE WAS ONE OF THOSE, +AWAITING A REPLY. HE FROWNED. +AWARE OF A STIR ALL AROUND. HE LOOKED UP: DóLOKHOV WAS STANDING ON THE +AWARE OF HIS WEAKNESSES. +AWAY. +AWAY. +AWAY. +AWAY AT THE DOGS! BUT THIS SORT OF THING IS THE VERY DEVIL, WITH THEM +AWAY FROM HIM. THE ALLIANCE WITH PRUSSIA, AUSTRIA’S TREACHERY, +AWAY WITH A GRIMACE AS IF TO SAY THAT EVERYTHING DóLOKHOV HAD SAID TO +AWFUL!” +AWFUL...” AND HE BURST INTO TEARS. +A WHISPER THAT THE PRINCE WAS SLEEPING, AND HASTILY CLOSED THE DOOR. +A WHITE UNIFORM THAT LOOKED STRANGE AMONG THE RUSSIAN BLACK ONES. THE +A WHOLE MONTH AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE SEEN HIM IN SOCIETY. +A WIG, PUT HIS HEAD OUT OF THE DOOR OF THE ANTECHAMBER, REPORTED IN +A WILD BEAST.... IN POLAND, IF YOU PLEASE, HE NEARLY KILLED A JEW.” +AWKWARDNESS OR INTENTIONALLY (NO ONE COULD HAVE SAID WHICH) AFTER THE +A WOMAN AND, LIKE A CHAINED CONVICT, YOU LOSE ALL FREEDOM! AND ALL YOU +A WORD TO YOU AND YOU... WHAT?” HE ADDED WITH RENEWED IRRITATION, “I +A YOUNG OFFICER WITH A BEWILDERED AND PAINED EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE +BABY, AN OLD WOMAN, AND A HEALTHY GERMAN GIRL WITH BRIGHT RED CHEEKS +BACK!” +BACK.” +BACK, AND BOSOM—WHICH IN THE FASHION OF THOSE DAYS WERE VERY MUCH +BACK, CADET!” HE CRIED ANGRILY; AND TURNING TO DENíSOV, WHO, SHOWING +BACK HER HAIR, KISSED HIM FULL ON THE LIPS. +BACK TO MOSCOW. ANATOLE KURáGIN’S FATHER MANAGED SOMEHOW TO GET HIS +BADLY—ALL THIS DEBAUCHERY, DISSIPATION, AND THE REST OF IT!” +BAGGAGE AND TRANSPORT, HAVING TO ACCEPT BATTLE ON THE MARCH AGAINST AN +BAGGAGE TRAIN, THE ARTILLERY, AND COLUMNS OF TROOPS WERE DEFILING +BAGGAGE WAS ALREADY BEING DISPATCHED TO OLMüTZ. NEAR HETZELSDORF PRINCE +BAGRATIóN.” +BAGRATIóN, A GAUNT MIDDLE-AGED MAN OF MEDIUM HEIGHT WITH A FIRM, +BAGRATIóN AS HE SHOUTED, WITH AN EXPRESSION THAT SEEMED TO SAY: “WE +BAGRATIóN BENT HIS HEAD IN SIGN OF AGREEMENT WITH WHAT PRINCE ANDREW +BAGRATIóN CALLED TO HIM, AND TúSHIN, RAISING THREE FINGERS TO HIS CAP +BAGRATIóN. HIS IDEA WAS, FIRST, TO CONCENTRATE ALL THE ARTILLERY IN THE +BAGRATIóN, KNOWING BOLKóNSKI TO BE A FAVORITE AND TRUSTED ADJUTANT, +BAGRATIóN ORDERED TWO BATTALIONS FROM THE CENTER TO BE SENT TO +BAGRATIóN REPLIED THAT HE WAS NOT AUTHORIZED EITHER TO ACCEPT OR REFUSE +BAGRATIóN RODE ROUND THE RANKS THAT HAD MARCHED PAST HIM AND +BAGRATIóN’S EXHAUSTED TROOPS SOME REST, AND LETTING THE TRANSPORT AND +BAGRATIóN’S HARD BROWN FACE WITH ITS HALF-CLOSED, DULL, SLEEPY EYES. +BAGRATIóN’S WEAK DETACHMENT ON THE ZNAIM ROAD HE SUPPOSED IT TO BE +“BAH! HOW THEY SCURRY. HE JUST SENDS A BALL AND THEY THINK THEY’LL +BALD HEAD. +BALD HILLS, WHILE HE HIMSELF NEEDED NO ONE AND NOTHING. HE USED TO +BALL, CLEAVING THE AIR, FLEW OVER THE HEADS OF BAGRATIóN AND HIS SUITE, +BALL FLEW PAST. EVIDENTLY THEY WERE FIRING AT THE HUSSARS, BUT THE BALLS +BALL FLEW PAST, ROSE IN THE STIRRUPS AND SANK BACK AGAIN. THE SOLDIERS +BAND STRUCK UP IN THE GALLERY, AND THE GUESTS SETTLED DOWN IN THEIR +BANGING THE TABLE WITH A DETERMINED AND DRUNKEN GESTURE AND PREPARING TO +BANK BY UNSEEN HANDS. PRINCE ANDREW AND THE OFFICER RODE UP, LOOKED AT +BANNERS, CANNON, AND TWO ENEMY GENERALS. FOR THE FIRST TIME, AFTER A +BARE HAND AS RED AS HIS FACE. +“BARON FUNKE HAS BEEN RECOMMENDED TO THE DOWAGER EMPRESS BY HER +BARON FUNKE TO BE APPOINTED FIRST SECRETARY AT VIENNA? THE BARON BY ALL +“BâTON DE GUEULES, ENGRêLé DE GUEULES D’AZUR—MAISON CONDé,” +BATTALION CAME ONTO THE BRIDGE. ONLY DENíSOV’S SQUADRON OF HUSSARS +BATTALION COMMANDERS WHO SMILINGLY PRESSED FORWARD (IT WAS PLAIN THAT +BATTLE,” REPLIED MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA’S DEEP VOICE, WHICH EASILY +BE AFRAID.” +“BE A MAN, MY FRIEND. I WILL LOOK AFTER YOUR INTERESTS,” SAID SHE IN +BEAMING SMILE TO HIS HEAD. +BE ANNOUNCED HAD PASSED STRAIGHT THROUGH THE GLASS PORCH BETWEEN THE +BE,” ANSWERED THE PRINCESS JOYFULLY. +BE, ANYWAY HE IS AN HONORABLE AND BRAVE OLD COLONEL! YOU’RE QUICK AT +BEARERS AND THE SHUFFLING OF THEIR FEET GREW MORE HURRIED, AS IF THE +BEAUCOUP D’ESTIME, AND AGAIN HER FACE CLOUDED OVER WITH SADNESS. +BEAUTIFUL.” +BEAUTIFUL BOSOM, ON WHICH SHE READJUSTED A DIAMOND NECKLACE. FROM TIME +BEAUTIFUL HEAD AND LOOKING OVER HER CLASSICALLY MOLDED SHOULDER AS SHE +“BEAUTIFUL,” SAID THE DOCTOR IN ANSWER TO A REMARK ABOUT THE +BEAUTIFUL YOUNG PRINCESS WHO WAS SITTING SOME WAY OFF, THE CENTER OF +BE BEST DESCRIBED AS STRENGTH OF WILL. PIERRE WAS ALWAYS ASTONISHED AT +BECAME QUITE PLEASANT AGAIN. +BECAUSE HE ROSE SUPERIOR TO THE REVOLUTION, SUPPRESSED ITS ABUSES, +BECAUSE HIS LINE WAS NOT STRAIGHT, HE REACHED THE THIRD COMPANY. +“BECAUSE I HATE GHOST STORIES,” SAID PRINCE HIPPOLYTE IN A TONE +“BECAUSE NOT EVERYTHING HAPPENS AS ONE EXPECTS OR WITH THE SMOOTHNESS +BE CLEARLY SEEN GLITTERING AS THOUGH FRESHLY VARNISHED. DOWN BELOW, +BECOME HER SOCIAL VOCATION AND, SOMETIMES EVEN WHEN SHE DID NOT +BECOME OF THAT SCOUNDREL?” HE ASKED DENíSOV. +BE CROSSED AND YOU WILL HAVE TO FIND OUT WHAT IS THERE, JUST AS YOU WILL +BED. +BE DIFFICULT TO RETURN TO THE OLD REGIME.” +BEDROOM. PIERRE DID NOT EAT ANYTHING THOUGH HE WOULD VERY MUCH HAVE +BE EASY, BUT HERE, IN THIS WRETCHED MORAVIAN HOLE, IT IS MORE DIFFICULT, +BEEN ATTACKED BY FRENCH CAVALRY AND THAT, THOUGH THE ATTACK HAD BEEN +BEEN COMPOSED IN THE TURKISH CAMPAIGN AND NOW BEING SUNG IN AUSTRIA, THE +BEEN DESTROYED OR NOT. AND IF THEY HAVE SOMEHOW BEEN OVERLOOKED, YOU +BEEN FORESEEN, THE RUSSIAN ARMY OF THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND MEN COMMANDED +BEEN FORWARDED BY COURIER TO THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. +BEEN INTRIGUING!” +BEEN MORE AMUSING THAN THE DRAWING ROOM TALK OF SOCIETY SCANDALS, THE +BEEN PUT OFF,” SAID THE PRINCE, WHO, LIKE A WOUND-UP CLOCK, BY FORCE +BEEN REPRIMANDED ON ACCOUNT OF THE BLUE GREATCOAT. +BEEN TELLING US SUCH A TALE ABOUT MADEMOISELLE GEORGE AND BUONAPARTE!” +BEEN THERE AT SEVEN IN THE MORNING,” RETURNED BILíBIN WITH A SMILE. +BEEN TOLD TO, AND THE EMPEROR FRANCIS MERELY LOOKED FIXEDLY INTO HIS +BEEN UP TO HEAVEN ONLY KNOWS WHAT! AND THEY HAVE HAD TO SUFFER FOR IT. +BEEN WAITING FOR.” AND BURSTING INTO TEARS SHE HID HER FACE IN HER +BEFORE ANNA PáVLOVNA AND THE OTHERS HAD TIME TO SMILE THEIR +BEFORE HE COULD REACH ZNAIM. HENCE BAGRATIóN WITH HIS FOUR THOUSAND +BEFORE HE HAD REACHED THE EMBANKMENTS THAT WERE BEING THROWN UP, HE SAW, +BEFORE HIM. THE FRENCH HAD ADVANCED NEAREST ON OUR RIGHT. BELOW THE +BEFORE HIS SHELTER, HAD BEEN TASTED. +BEFORE. “HOW OFTEN WE SIN, HOW MUCH WE DECEIVE, AND ALL FOR WHAT? I AM +BEFORE. IT WAS A GERMAN CART WITH A PAIR OF HORSES LED BY A GERMAN, AND +BEFORE KREMS WAS REALLY OF SMALL IMPORTANCE IN VIEW OF SUCH EVENTS AS +BEFORE RETURNING TO BILíBIN’S PRINCE ANDREW HAD GONE TO A BOOKSHOP +BEFORE THE HEIGHTS ON WHICH THE RUSSIAN BATTERIES STOOD GUARDING THE +BEFORE THEY REACHED THE ROOM FROM WHICH THE SOUNDS OF THE CLAVICHORD +BEFORE WITH PROPOSALS AND DEMANDS FOR HIM TO JOIN UP WITH THE ARMY OF +BEFORE YESTERDAY DURING MY DAILY WALK THROUGH THE VILLAGE I WITNESSED A +BEGAN CROSSING HIMSELF WITH THE HAND THAT HELD THE TAPER. +BEGAN RIDING DOWNHILL TO WHERE THE ROLL OF MUSKETRY WAS HEARD BUT WHERE +BEGAN TO ARRIVE; AND SLOWLY TURNING HER EYES FROM THE VISITOR TO HER +BEGAN TO WAIL LIKE A BABY WITHOUT KNOWING WHY, EXCEPT THAT SóNYA WAS +BEGAN, WITH A BLUSH THAT LOOKED VERY STRANGE ON HER THIN, DIGNIFIED, +BEG—I’LL TAKE IT!” +BEG YOU TO DRESS YOUR MEN DECENTLY.” +BEHAVING HIMSELF, AND IN GENERAL...” +BEHAVING WITH BORíS.” +BEHIND EACH CHAIR—STOOD WAITING FOR THE PRINCE TO ENTER. THE HEAD +BEHIND HER BACK. THE FRENCH DOCTOR HELD NO TAPER; HE WAS LEANING +BEHIND HIM. +BEHIND HIM STOOD THE AIDE-DE-CAMP, THE DOCTORS, AND THE MENSERVANTS; +BEHIND THE CHAIR, HELD IT IN POSITION. BY THE CHAIR STOOD THE PRIESTS, +BEHIND THE GUNS WERE THEIR LIMBERS AND STILL FARTHER BACK PICKET ROPES +BEHIND THE PINEAPPLES AT HER HUSBAND WHOSE FACE AND BALD HEAD SEEMED +BEING TOLD SHE SAT UPRIGHT, GLANCING NOW AT HER BEAUTIFUL ROUND ARM, +“BELIEVE ME, PRINCE, A MOTHER’S HEART WILL NEVER FORGET WHAT YOU +“BELIEVE ME, PRINCESS, I AM READY TO DO ALL I CAN,” ANSWERED PRINCE +BELOW THE SHOULDER. PIERRE WENT WITH ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA INTO THE SMALL +BENEATH HIS DIGNITY TO GIVE ME SATISFACTION, THEN...” +BENT ARM TO MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA. HE DREW HIMSELF UP, A SMILE OF DEBONAIR +BE. OF THE FOUR CRYSTAL GLASSES ENGRAVED WITH THE COUNT’S MONOGRAM +BE OVERTHROWN BY THE ANGEL WHOM IT HAS PLEASED THE ALMIGHTY, IN HIS +BERG ALWAYS SPOKE QUIETLY, POLITELY, AND WITH GREAT PRECISION. HIS +BERG AS MUCH AS YOU PLEASE,” SHE FINISHED QUICKLY. +BERG SMILED JOYOUSLY. THE COUNT, FOLLOWED BY HIS GUESTS, WENT INTO THE +BE SEEN FROM THE HILL ON THE OPPOSITE BANK BUT WAS NOT YET VISIBLE FROM +BESIDE HIM AND WAS LISTENING NAïVELY TO HIS WORDS. +BESIDE HIM. THIS HUSSAR, WITH A GRAVE FACE AND WITHOUT A SMILE OR A +BESIDES! BUT DON’T LET’S TALK ABOUT ME; TELL ME HOW YOU MANAGED +“BESIDES THAT, PETER NIKOLáEVICH, BY EXCHANGING INTO THE GUARDS +“BESIDES,” THOUGHT HE, “ALL SUCH ‘WORDS OF HONOR’ ARE +BESIDE THE BED. PIERRE OBEDIENTLY SAT DOWN, HIS EYES ASKING IF HE WERE +BESIDE THE FARTHEST OF THE FOUR UNLIMBERED CANNON. BEFORE THE GUNS AN +BESIDE THEMSELVES OVER THERE AND ONE CAN’T MAKE ANYTHING OUT.” +BESIDE WHOM SAT ONLY ONE ELDERLY LADY, WHO WITH HER THIN CAREWORN FACE +BEST FAMILIES IN RUSSIA, BUT SHE WAS POOR, AND HAVING LONG BEEN OUT OF +BESTOWED ON VéRA BY NICHOLAS, WAS CONSIDERED VERY STINGING), “AND +BE THE BEST WAY.” +BETRAYAL OF THE BOURBON CAUSE. THE SOVEREIGNS! WHY, THEY ARE SENDING +BETRAYING BY THIS DESPERATE AND PROVOCATIVE PROPOSITION HIS EXTREME +BETTER DURING THOSE AWFUL MOMENTS—THE FATHER WHO SO REMEMBERED +BETWEEN FOREFINGER AND THUMB, AND AN OLD SERVANT, BENDING OVER FROM +BETWEEN HIS ACTS AS A PRIVATE PERSON, AS A GENERAL, AND AS AN EMPEROR. +BETWEEN THREE AND FOUR O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON PRINCE ANDREW, WHO +BEWILDERED HIM WITH FINE WORDS, AND HE IS SO FLATTERED BY HIS RAPIDLY +BEZúKHOVA. BUT YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THAT I HAVE NO DESIRE FOR THE POST. +BEZúKHOV’S HOUSE THAT NIGHT HAD GATHERED TO FORTIFY THEMSELVES. +BIG PEOPLE I WRITE A NOTE: ‘PRINCESS SO-AND-SO DESIRES AN INTERVIEW +BILíBIN AND THE REST OF “OURS” BURST OUT LAUGHING IN HIPPOLYTE’S +BILíBIN CAME OUT TO MEET HIM. HIS USUALLY CALM FACE SHOWED EXCITEMENT. +BILíBIN INTRODUCED HIM TO THE OTHERS. +BILíBIN. “IT’S NOT TREACHERY NOR RASCALITY NOR STUPIDITY: IT IS +BILíBIN LIKED CONVERSATION AS HE LIKED WORK, ONLY WHEN IT COULD BE +BILíBIN’S HOUSE THINKING OUT A LETTER TO HIS FATHER ABOUT THE BATTLE +BILíBIN SMILED AND THE WRINKLES ON HIS FACE DISAPPEARED. +BILíBIN WAS A MAN OF THIRTY-FIVE, A BACHELOR, AND OF THE SAME CIRCLE AS +BIT AND I’LL GET ROUND HIM.... LISTEN! I’LL TAKE YOUR BET TOMORROW, +BITING HER UNDERLIP. AT SIGHT OF PIERRE HER EXPRESSION SHOWED AN +BLACKEST INGRATITUDE—IN THIS HOUSE...” +BLEEDING HEAD AND NO CAP WAS BEING DRAGGED ALONG BY TWO SOLDIERS WHO +BLOCKHEAD!” +BLOCKING THE WAY FOR EVERYONE. THE COUNTESS TRIED TO MAKE HIM TALK, +BLOOD FROM IT WAS STREAMING OVER HIS GREATCOAT AS FROM A BOTTLE. HE HAD +BLOOD RUSH TO HIS HEART. “BUT WHERE AND HOW WILL MY TOULON PRESENT +BLUE MOUNTAINS BEYOND THE RIVER, THE NUNNERY, THE MYSTERIOUS GORGES, AND +BLUE-STRIPED FEATHER BED AND HUGGING HER FRIEND. WITH AN EFFORT SóNYA +BLUSHING: +BLUSHING AND DROPPING HER EYES. +BODICE, WITH BLACK CURLS TOSSED BACKWARD, THIN BARE ARMS, LITTLE LEGS +BODY WAS STRIKINGLY OUT OF PROPORTION TO HER SHORT LEGS. PRINCE VASíLI +BOGDáNICH KNOWS HOW THINGS ARE DONE.” +BOGDáNICH WAS A BRICK: HE TOLD YOU YOU WERE SAYING WHAT WAS NOT TRUE. +BOLDLY, WITH SAUCY GAIETY, CONFIDENT THAT HER PRANK WOULD BE TAKEN IN +BOLD, TALL, CLOSE HANDWRITING. +BOLKóNSKAYA, VERY PRETTY AND ROSY, THOUGH RATHER TOO PLUMP FOR HER AGE. +“BOLKóNSKI! BOLKóNSKI!... DON’T YOU HEAR? EH? COME QUICK...” HE +BOLKóNSKI, OPPOSITE WHICH HUNG ANOTHER SUCH FRAME WITH A BADLY PAINTED +BOLKóNSKI SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS. +BOLKóNSKI THAT THE EMPEROR DESIRED TO GIVE HIM AN AUDIENCE. THE EMPEROR +BOLKóNSKI, THE LITTLE PRINCESS’ HUSBAND. HE WAS A VERY HANDSOME YOUNG +BOLKóNSKI, TURNING STILL PALER, PUSHED HIM AWAY WITH AN ANGRY LOOK AND +BOLKóNSKI, VERY MODESTLY WITHOUT ONCE MENTIONING HIMSELF, DESCRIBED THE +BOLKóNSKI WAS INVITED EVERYWHERE, AND HAD TO SPEND THE WHOLE MORNING +BONAPARTE!” +“BONAPARTE...” BEGAN DóLOKHOV, BUT THE FRENCHMAN INTERRUPTED HIM. +“BONAPARTE HAS SAID SO,” REMARKED PRINCE ANDREW WITH A SARCASTIC +BONAPARTE’S ADJUTANT RODE FULL GALLOP WITH THIS MENACING LETTER TO +BONAPARTE’S NEW TRIUMPH, TOMORROW’S LEVEE AND PARADE, AND THE +BONAPARTE’S SIDE.” +BONAPARTE, THAT THEY DESIRE TO SEE PRINCE AUERSPERG, AND SO ON. THE +BOOKCASES WITH KEYS IN THE LOCKS, THE HIGH DESK FOR WRITING WHILE + BOOK EIGHT: 1811 - 12 + BOOK ELEVEN: 1812 + BOOK FIFTEEN: 1812 - 13 + BOOK FIVE: 1806 - 07 + BOOK FOUR: 1806 + BOOK FOURTEEN: 1812 +BOOK FROM THE HIGH DESK. + BOOK NINE: 1812 + BOOK ONE: 1805 +BOOK ONE: 1805 + BOOK SEVEN: 1810 - 11 + BOOK SIX: 1808 - 10 + BOOK TEN: 1812 + BOOK THIRTEEN: 1812 + BOOK THREE: 1805 + BOOK TWELVE: 1812 + BOOK TWO: 1805 +BOOK TWO: 1805 +BOOTS AND THE CLINKING OF SPURS THAT CAME TO A STOP, AND A RESPECTFUL +BOOTS OR OVERCOATS AND CROWDING ROUND THE BOILERS AND PORRIDGE COOKERS. +BORE ALMOST THE SAME SMILE, EXPRESSING UNSEEMLY THOUGHTS ABOUT THE +BORíS ALSO,” SHE WENT ON, GAINING A LITTLE STRENGTH; “HE IS NICE... +BORíS BLUSHED. +BORíS BOWED AGAIN POLITELY. +BORíS BOWED POLITELY. PRINCE VASíLI WITHOUT ACKNOWLEDGING THE BOW +“BORíS, COME HERE,” SAID SHE WITH A SLY AND SIGNIFICANT LOOK. “I +BORíS FELT THAT PIERRE DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM BUT DID NOT CONSIDER +BORíS FOLLOWED HER, SMILING. +BORíS. “HE WANTED TO THANK YOU HIMSELF.” +BORíS KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THE BOULOGNE EXPEDITION; HE DID NOT READ THE +BORíS LOOKED ATTENTIVELY AND KINDLY AT HER EAGER FACE, BUT DID NOT +BORíS, OR BETWEEN YOU TWO? IT’S ALL NONSENSE!” +BORíS PAUSED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM, LOOKED ROUND, BRUSHED A LITTLE +BORíS QUIETLY LEFT THE ROOM AND WENT IN SEARCH OF NATáSHA. THE PLUMP +BORíS SAID NO MORE, BUT LOOKED INQUIRINGLY AT HIS MOTHER WITHOUT TAKING +“BORíS,” SHE SAID TO HER SON WITH A SMILE, “I SHALL GO IN TO SEE +BORíS WITH A SMILE. +BORíS WITH SEVERITY. “I AM GLAD.... ARE YOU HERE ON LEAVE?” HE WENT +BóRY, WHO HAD ONLY JUST ENTERED A REGIMENT OF THE LINE AND WAS BEING +BOTH ARMIES SHOULD REMAIN IN POSITION WITHOUT MOVING. MURAT DECLARED +BOTH BEGAN TO CRY AND KISSED AGAIN. MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE ALSO BEGAN TO +BOTH KURáGIN AND DóLOKHOV WERE AT THAT TIME NOTORIOUS AMONG THE RAKES +BOTH LAUGHED. +BOTH WERE SILENT. +BOTH WERE SILENT. THERE WERE TWO GERMANS AND A RUSSIAN OFFICER IN THE +BOTTLE. I’LL DO IT.... BRING A BOTTLE!” +BOTTLES, CLOAKS, AND OVERSHOES WERE LYING ABOUT; THERE WAS A SMELL OF +BOULOGNE EXPEDITION. +BOURIENNE. I EMBRACE YOU AS I LOVE YOU. +BOURIENNE RAPIDLY, IN HER PLEASANT MELLOW TONES AND WITH GUTTURAL R’S. +BOURIENNE. THOUGH IN THE NEW REIGN HE WAS FREE TO RETURN TO THE +BOURIENNE WERE ALREADY AWAITING HIM TOGETHER WITH HIS ARCHITECT, WHO BY +BOWED HIS HEAD IN SIGN OF ASSENT AND APPROVAL. HE RODE OFF AT A WALK TO +BOWS AND TRYING TO ESCAPE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE FROM THE GLANCES FIXED +BOY RAN AFTER THEM ANGRILY, AS IF VEXED THAT THEIR PROGRAM HAD BEEN +BRAG ABOUT IT, BUT IF HE STAYS OUT TILL MORNING IT MEANS HE’S LOST AND +BRAUNAU HAD HALTED HALF A MILE FROM THE TOWN, WAITING TO BE INSPECTED +BRAVE OFFICER,” THOUGHT BAGRATIóN. PRINCE ANDREW, WITHOUT REPLYING, +BRIDGE BECAUSE HE HAD NOT BROUGHT ANY BURNING STRAW WITH HIM LIKE THE +BRIDGE. BUT THIS TIME NESVíTSKI COULD NOT SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING THERE, +BRIDGE, CROSS IT, AND NOW WITH THEIR WHOLE ARMY ARE ON THIS SIDE OF THE +BRIDGE DID NOT TAKE HIS EYES OFF THE WOMEN TILL THEY HAD PASSED. WHEN + * BRIDGEHEAD. +BRIDGE IS TAKEN! BUT WHAT IS BEST OF ALL,” HE WENT ON, HIS EXCITEMENT +BRIDGE NESVíTSKI FOUND THE COLONEL TO WHOM HE HAD TO DELIVER THE ORDER, +BRIDGE NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO. THERE WAS NO ONE TO HEW DOWN (AS HE +BRIDGE. SOMETIMES THROUGH THE MONOTONOUS WAVES OF MEN, LIKE A FLECK OF +BRIDGE WAS AT TIMES VEILED BY A DIAPHANOUS CURTAIN OF SLANTING RAIN, AND +BRIGHTLY UPON THE DANUBE AND THE DARK HILLS AROUND IT. IT WAS CALM, AND +BRING ME SUCH TATTERED AND DIRTY NOTES AS LAST TIME, BUT NICE CLEAN ONES +BRISKLY FROM CORNER TO CORNER OF THE ROOM, LOOKING STRAIGHT BEFORE HIM +BROAD CHEEKBONES, SUNKEN CHEEKS, AND LISTLESS TIRED EXPRESSIONS, AND +BROKEN GLASS REMAINED IN THAT POSITION WITHOUT TAKING HIS EYES FROM THE +BROTHER A SMALL, OVAL, ANTIQUE, DARK-FACED ICON OF THE SAVIOUR IN A GOLD +BROTHERLY LOVE, WAGGED THEIR HEADS IN TOKEN OF THEIR MUTUAL AFFECTION, +BROUGHT AT ONCE?” +BROUGHT INTO THE ROOM HAD VANISHED; AND AS IF ANSWERING A QUESTION NO +BROWS HE GLANCED INTO ROSTóV’S EYES. +BRUNETTE WITH A TENDER LOOK IN HER EYES WHICH WERE VEILED BY LONG +BUGLER, SHOWED ONE COMMON EXPRESSION OF CONFLICT, IRRITATION, AND +BUILD PRINCE ANDREW COULD ENDURE PHYSICAL FATIGUE FAR BETTER THAN MANY +“BUONAPARTE HIMSELF!... JUST LISTEN TO THE FOOL, WHAT HE DOESN’T +“BUONAPARTE?” SAID BILíBIN INQUIRINGLY, PUCKERING UP HIS FOREHEAD +BUONAPARTES. BUT I WARN YOU, IF YOU DON’T TELL ME THAT THIS MEANS WAR, +“BUONAPARTE WAS BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON IN HIS MOUTH. HE HAS GOT +BURDEN TO HIM, AND BóRY’S LIFE IS ONLY JUST BEGINNING....” +BURN, I COULD NOT KNOW BY THE HOLY SPIRIT!” +BURNT HIS BOATS, AND I BELIEVE THAT WE ARE READY TO BURN OURS.” + * “BUSY ALREADY?” +BUSY, AND BUSY MAKING HIS FATHER COMFORTABLE, WHILE EVIDENTLY HE, +BUSY WITH HIS ROAST MEAT, HOPED HE HAD BEEN FORGOTTEN: “DIDN’T +BUSY WITH SIMILAR PEACEFUL AFFAIRS—NEAR THE SHELTER OF THE REGIMENTAL +BUT ALSO FOR HIS SKILL IN DEALING AND CONVERSING WITH THOSE IN THE +BUT AN HOUR.... TELL ME ALL YOU KNOW ABOUT THE WILL, AND ABOVE ALL WHERE +BUT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA DID NOT OBEY HIM. +BUT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WENT FORWARD A STEP OR TWO TO KEEP HER HOLD ON THE +“BUT AS IT IS, I KNOW EVERY WORD SHE UTTERS. SHE WILL COME RUNNING TO +BUT AS SHE PASSED THE SITTING ROOM SHE NOTICED TWO COUPLES SITTING, +“BUT AS YOU ARE A PHILOSOPHER, BE A CONSISTENT ONE, LOOK AT THE OTHER +BUT AT IRREGULAR INTERVALS, AND GRAPESHOT CRACKED AND RATTLED ONTO THE +BUT AT THAT INSTANT A TALL AUSTRIAN GENERAL IN A GREATCOAT, WITH THE +BUT AT THE INCREDIBLE BOLDNESS AND SMARTNESS OF THIS LITTLE GIRL WHO HAD +“BUT A VERY KIND MAN, PRINCE,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WITH A +BUT BORíS AGAIN INTERRUPTED HIM. +BUT BORíS SPOKE DISTINCTLY, CLEARLY, AND DRYLY, LOOKING STRAIGHT INTO +“BUT DO YOU KNOW, MY DEAR, THAT WAS A CAPITAL JOKE,” SAID THE COUNT; +BUT ENOUGH OF GOSSIP. I AM AT THE END OF MY SECOND SHEET OF PAPER, AND +BUT EXTREMELY ATTRACTIVE. +BUT GOD WILL SUPPORT YOU: YOU ARE YOUNG, AND ARE NOW, I HOPE, IN COMMAND +BUT HE IMMEDIATELY RECALLED HIS PROMISE TO PRINCE ANDREW NOT TO GO +“BUT HE MUST BE A FREEMASON,” SAID HE, REFERRING TO THE ABBé WHOM +BUT HE WENT ON NAïVELY LOOKING AROUND THROUGH HIS SPECTACLES AS IF IN +BUT HIS AIM TO CONSIDER, AND HE REACHED IT. BUT TIE YOURSELF UP WITH +BUT HIS CHARACTER...” SAID TIMóKHIN. +BUT HOPELESS: “THE SOVEREIGNS, MADAME... WHAT HAVE THEY DONE FOR LOUIS +“BUT HOW ARE YOU TO GET THAT BALANCE?” PIERRE WAS BEGINNING. +“BUT IF THE BRIDGE IS CROSSED IT MEANS THAT THE ARMY TOO IS LOST? IT +BUT IF THE COUNT, GETTING MORE AND MORE INTO THE SWING OF IT, CHARMED +“BUT IF YOU WON’T ACCEPT MONEY FROM ME LIKE A COMRADE, YOU WILL +“BUT I JUST WISH TO SAY, TO AVOID MISUNDERSTANDINGS, THAT YOU ARE +BUT IN HIS USUAL IMPULSIVE AND HEARTY WAY HE TOOK BORíS BY THE HAND +BUT IN THE CENTER WHERE THE MEN WITH A FLAG OF TRUCE HAD PASSED THAT +“BUT I REMEMBER PUTTING IT THERE.” +“BUT IT ISN’T?...” +BUT IT LIFTED ALL THE MORE SWEETLY, AND WAS ESPECIALLY CHARMING WHEN SHE +“BUT JOKING APART,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, “DO YOU REALLY THINK THE +BUTLER, NAPKIN ON ARM, WAS SCANNING THE SETTING OF THE TABLE, MAKING +BUT LIKE A PRIEST’S BENEDICTION, APPROACHED THE GENERAL. THOUGH + * “BUT MY DEAR FELLOW, WITH ALL MY RESPECT FOR THE ORTHODOX +“BUT, MY DEAR MONSIEUR PIERRE,” SAID SHE, “HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THE +“BUT, MY DEAR PRINCESS,” ANSWERED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA BLANDLY BUT +“BUT, MY DEAR,” SAID PRINCE VASíLI SUDDENLY, CLUTCHING THE LITTLE +“BUT, MY DEAR SIR,” SAID NESVíTSKI AS HE DREW UP, TAKING OFF HIS +“BUT, MY POOR CATICHE, IT IS AS CLEAR AS DAYLIGHT! HE WILL THEN BE THE +BUT NEITHER ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA NOR THE FOOTMAN NOR THE COACHMAN, WHO +BUT NOT CONCEALING THE FACT THAT SHE WOULD NOT BE DISTRESSED IF THEY +“BUT NOW I AM OFF AT ONCE.” +BUT NOW WE ARE ALL GOING TO ——’S.” + BUT OH! TILL THEN I CANNOT LIVE!... +“BUT ONE CANNOT DELAY, PRINCE, AT SUCH A MOMENT! CONSIDER THAT THE +BUT ONLY A SORT OF PUPPET SHOW AT WHICH THE MEN OF THE DAY WERE PLAYING, +BUT PIERRE CONTINUED HIS SPEECH WITHOUT HEEDING HER. +BUT PIERRE THOUGHT IT NECESSARY TO ASK: “HOW IS...” AND HESITATED, +“BUT, PRINCE,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, “AFTER SUCH A SOLEMN +“BUT REALLY, HADN’T I BETTER GO AWAY?” HE ASKED, LOOKING KINDLY AT +BUT ROSTóV PULLED AWAY HIS ARM AND, WITH AS MUCH ANGER AS THOUGH +“BUT SERIOUSLY,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, “WE CAN AT ANY RATE SAY +“BUT STILL THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE CAMPAIGN IS OVER,” SAID +“BUT THAT IS MY CONVICTION, AND JUDGING BY THE LAST LETTER WITH WHICH +“BUT THE BEST OF IT WAS,” SAID ONE, TELLING OF THE MISFORTUNE OF +BUT THE CONVOYMAN TOOK NO NOTICE OF THE WORD “GENERAL” AND SHOUTED +BUT THE GUNS REMAINED LOADED, THE LOOPHOLES IN BLOCKHOUSES AND +BUT THE PRINCESS DID NOT LISTEN TO HIM. +BUT THE QUESTION “HOW?” THAT INTERESTED HIM. WHAT THE DIPLOMATIC +BUT THESE WORDS CAME LIKE A PITEOUS, DESPAIRING CRY AND AN ENTREATY FOR +BUT THE SMILE DID NOT ENHANCE VéRA’S BEAUTY AS SMILES GENERALLY DO; +“BUT THE WORST OF IT, GENTLEMEN—I AM GIVING KURáGIN AWAY TO +“BUT THEY SAY THAT WAR HAS BEEN DECLARED,” REPLIED THE VISITOR. +BUT THOSE TEARS WERE PLEASANT TO THEM BOTH. +BUT TO HELP ENGLAND AND AUSTRIA AGAINST THE GREATEST MAN IN THE WORLD IS +BUT UNABASHED. +“BUT WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN UP TO?” ASKED THE COUNTESS. +“BUT WHAT IS THERE TO SAY ABOUT ME?” SAID PIERRE, HIS FACE RELAXING +“BUT WHERE DO YOU COME FROM NOT TO KNOW WHAT EVERY COACHMAN IN THE +“BUT WHERE IS SóNYA?” +“BUT WHY DO YOU EXPECT THAT HE WILL LEAVE US ANYTHING?” +BUT WON’T YOU COME TO THIS OTHER TABLE?” REPEATED ANNA PáVLOVNA. +“BUT YOU KNOW THE WISE MAXIM YOUR EXCELLENCY, ADVISING ONE TO EXPECT +“BUT YOU MEANT TO STAY ANOTHER TWO DAYS?” +“BUT YOU MUST DECIDE ON SOMETHING! YOUR FATHER EXPECTS IT.” +BWICKS AND IT’S NASTY WORK! AN ATTACK’S PLEASANT WORK! HACKING +BY A SCARLET-LIVERIED FOOTMAN THAT MORNING, RAN AS FOLLOWS: +BY FINDING HUSBANDS FOR ME (MOST OF WHOM I DON’T EVEN KNOW), THE +BY KUTúZOV WAS HURRIEDLY RETREATING ALONG THE DANUBE, STOPPING WHERE +BY LEO TOLSTOY/TOLSTOI +BY SIX HORSES AT A SMART TROT. BEHIND THE CALèCHE GALLOPED THE SUITE +BY THE AMMUNITION WAGON. +BY THE AMUSING SCENE SHE FORESAW. SHE DREW HER WOOL DOWN THROUGH THE +BY THE CLATTER OF KNIVES AND FORKS, THE VOICES OF VISITORS, AND THE +BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. DESPITE THE UN-RUSSIAN APPEARANCE OF THE +BY THE FRENCH WHO HAD CROSSED THE VIENNA BRIDGE, AND ENCUMBERED BY HIS +BY THEIR REDNESS TO CONTRAST MORE THAN USUAL WITH HIS GRAY HAIR. AT THE +BY THE LIVING MASS OF MOVING INFANTRY, VáSKA DENíSOV, RED AND SHAGGY, +BY THE SOFTNESS AND FLEXIBILITY OF HER SMALL LIMBS, AND BY A CERTAIN +BY THE WAY, BAGRATIóN CAME OUT ON THE VIENNA-ZNAIM ROAD AT HOLLABRüNN +BY THE WHOLE OF THE COUNT’S PLUMP FIGURE, IN MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA FOUND +BY THIS TIME THEY WERE ALL APPROACHING TúSHIN’S BATTERY, AND A BALL +BY WHICH THE PRINCE WAS TO ENTER. PRINCE ANDREW WAS LOOKING AT A LARGE +CAHD.” +CALAMITY! WHAT A CALAMITY!” +CALèCHE STOPPED IN FRONT OF THE REGIMENT. KUTúZOV AND THE AUSTRIAN +CALLED EVERYONE WITHOUT EXCEPTION AND WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST VARIATION +CALLED HIM A GREAT MAN,” REMARKED THE VICOMTE. +CALL HIM BUT CHANGED HER MIND. “LET HIM LOOK FOR ME,” THOUGHT SHE. +CALLING ON THE PRINCIPAL AUSTRIAN DIGNITARIES. BETWEEN FOUR AND FIVE +CALLS.’” +CALM, AND PENETRATING, A LOOK I LOVED SO WELL AND SEEM TO SEE BEFORE ME +CALMER. +“CALM YOURSELF, PRINCESS! IT SEEMS SO TO YOU BECAUSE.... I ASSURE YOU +CAME GALLOPING UP ON A COSSACK HORSE THAT COULD SCARCELY CARRY HIS +CAME IN. +CAME MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA AND THE COUNT, BOTH WITH MERRY COUNTENANCES. THE +CAME NATURALLY TO HER, BUT WAS NOW VERY ILL-SUITED TO HER CAREWORN FACE. +CAME OUT—WEARING A VELVET COAT WITH A SINGLE STAR ON HIS BREAST, +CAME OVER HIS FACE. HE SAID NOTHING TO HER BUT LOOKED AT HER FOREHEAD +CAME, THE PRETTY, FAIR-HAIRED FRENCHWOMAN, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, +CAME TO HIS FORMER CHIEF WITH AN ORDER FROM THE COMMANDER OF THE REAR +CAMPAIGN IS OVER?” +CAMPAIGN. THE FRENCHMAN, CONFUSING THE AUSTRIANS WITH THE RUSSIANS, WAS +CANAL. AND THERE WAS THE BEAR SWIMMING ABOUT WITH THE POLICEMAN ON HIS +“CAN I SEE THE COUNT?” PIERRE AGAIN ASKED. +CANNON, WAS A SMALL, NEWLY CONSTRUCTED WATTLE SHED FROM WHICH CAME THE +CANNOT LEAVE THE ESTATE TO PIERRE. PIERRE IS ILLEGITIMATE.” +“CAN ONE BE WELL WHILE SUFFERING MORALLY? CAN ONE BE CALM IN TIMES +CAN RUSH OFF ALONE IN A CARRIAGE TO MOSCOW, TO PETERSBURG, TO THOSE +CAN’T BE DONE. AND BESIDES, IF SHE TELLS MAMMA” (SóNYA LOOKED UPON +CAN’T, DO WHAT YOU WILL! HOW CAN I GO AND APOLOGIZE LIKE A LITTLE BOY +CANVAS AND, SCARCELY ABLE TO REFRAIN FROM LAUGHING, STOOPED AS IF TRYING +CAN, WITH ALL THE PLEASURES OF LIFE HERE. IF WE WERE IN VIENNA IT WOULD +CAN YOU FANCY THE FIGURE HE CUT?...” +CAP AND SMOOTHING HIS HAIR WET WITH PERSPIRATION WITH HIS PLUMP HAND, +“CAPITAL!” SAID PRINCE HIPPOLYTE IN ENGLISH, AND BEGAN SLAPPING HIS +CAPITALS, HE STILL CONTINUED TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY, REMARKING THAT +CAPTAIN,” AND HE TURNED TO A THIN, DIRTY LITTLE ARTILLERY OFFICER WHO +CAPTAIN AND HIS DRAWN-IN STOMACH, AND MIMICKED HIS EXPRESSION AND POSE +CAPTAIN, HIS NOSE GROWING REDDER AS HE GAVE A SMILE WHICH SHOWED WHERE +“CAPTAIN TúSHIN’S, YOUR EXCELLENCY!” SHOUTED THE RED-HAIRED, +CAPTAIN UP AND DOWN AS HE CAME UP PANTING, SLACKENING HIS PACE AS HE +CAP, WHO HAD COME SAILING IN FROM ANOTHER ROOM AS SOON AS THE GUESTS +CARD GAME HE WAS VERY FOND OF, WAS THAT OF LISTENER, ESPECIALLY WHEN HE +CARDINAL VIRTUES IN HER GAVE HER LESSONS IN ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY +CARDS AND SUPPER WERE OVER, BUT THE VISITORS HAD NOT YET DISPERSED. +CARED ABOUT; ANNA PáVLOVNA OBSERVED THESE GREETINGS WITH MOURNFUL AND +CAREFULLY STRETCHING HIS NECK SO AS NOT TO TOUCH THE QUILT, FOLLOWED HER +CARELESSLY HOLDING IN HIS STALLION THAT WAS NEIGHING AND PAWING THE +CARRIAGE AND RODE UP TO DóLOKHOV. +CARRIAGE. “GET IN WITH ME,” SAID HE TO BOLKóNSKI. +CARRIAGE?” HE ASKED HIS MOTHER WITH A SMILE. +CARRIAGE, HER HUSBAND WAS ADJUSTING HIS SABER; PRINCE HIPPOLYTE, UNDER +CARRIAGE, MOVED FORWARD AND, NOT NOTICING THE GENERAL, LOOKED OUT +CARRIED THE SICK MAN DISPERSED. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA TOUCHED PIERRE’S +CARRIED THE WHOLE LENGTH OF THE TABLE. +“CARROT ICES.” +CARRYING HER BURDEN SO LIGHTLY. OLD MEN AND DULL DISPIRITED YOUNG ONES +CARTS, GUNS, ARTILLERY, AND AGAIN BAGGAGE WAGONS AND VEHICLES OF ALL +CART, SHOUTING AND SCOLDING A SOLDIER WITH COARSE ABUSE. IN EACH OF +CASES ONLY ONE GOES WRONG, BUT IT IS HER FANCY AND MINE. THEY HAVE BEEN +“CATCH HOLD OF MY ARM OR YOU’LL DROP HIM!” HE HEARD ONE OF THE +CATCHING AND THEIR SABERS CLATTERING. +CATHEDRAL, AND ITS BRIDGE, ON BOTH SIDES OF WHICH STREAMED JOSTLING + *CATHERINE. +CATHERINE’S COURT, COUNT BEZúKHOV. +CATHERINE’S DAY, COUNT BEZúKHOV, AND ABOUT HIS ILLEGITIMATE SON +“CATICHE HAS HAD TEA SERVED IN THE SMALL DRAWING ROOM,” SAID PRINCE +CATICHE,” * MUTTERED THE PRINCE, SEATING HIMSELF WEARILY ON THE CHAIR +CAUGHT UP THE OBJECT OF CONTENTION AND RAN INTO THE BEDROOM. THE ELDEST +CAUSE OF THE CONFUSION, TURNED AWAY WITH INDIFFERENCE, AS IF TO SAY, +CAUTIOUS MOVEMENTS OF THOSE WHO CROWDED ROUND THE INVALID CHAIR THAT +CENSURE, BUT ASKED HIM NOT TO BE TOO HARD ON THE POOR OLD MAN. “WHAT +CENTER, AND SECONDLY, TO WITHDRAW THE CAVALRY TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE +“CEPENDANT, MON CHER,” HE REMARKED, EXAMINING HIS NAILS FROM A +“CERTAINLY; BUT ABOUT KUTúZOV, I DON’T PROMISE.” +“CERTAINLY HE MUST BE MOVED ONTO THE BED; HERE IT WILL BE +“CETTE ARMéE RUSSE QUE L’OR DE L’ANGLETERRE A TRANSPORTéE DES +CHAIR AND PACING UP AND DOWN THE ROOM FOLLOWED BY TíKHON, WHO RAN AFTER +CHAIR, WRAPPED IN A POWDERING MANTLE, ENTRUSTING HIS HEAD TO TíKHON. +CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE DOCTOR’S WIFE IN HER QUEER TRAP MIGHT EXPOSE HIM +CHANGED: HER EYES BECAME FIXED, AND THEN A SHIVER PASSED DOWN HER BROAD +CHANGE IN THE EXPRESSION OF HIS FIXED EYES, WATCHED THE REGIMENTAL +CHANGING HIS TONE OR ATTITUDE, “IT MUST SEEM TO YOU THAT EVERYONE IS +CHANGING THE EXPRESSION OF HER EYES. “I AM A WOMAN, AND YOU THINK WE +CHANGING UNCONSCIOUSLY FROM RUSSIAN TO FRENCH AS HE WENT ON—TO EXPLAIN +CHANNEL. I THINK THE EXPEDITION IS QUITE FEASIBLE. IF ONLY VILLENEUVE + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I +CHAPTER I +CHAPTER I + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II +CHAPTER II +CHAPTER II + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III +CHAPTER III +CHAPTER III + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV +CHAPTER IV +CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX +CHAPTER IX +CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V +CHAPTER V +CHAPTER V + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI +CHAPTER VI +CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII +CHAPTER VII +CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII +CHAPTER VIII +CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X +CHAPTER X +CHAPTER X + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI +CHAPTER XI +CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII +CHAPTER XII +CHAPTER XII 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XVI + CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVI +CHAPTER XVI +CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVII +CHAPTER XVII +CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XVIII +CHAPTER XVIII +CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XX + CHAPTER XX + CHAPTER XX + CHAPTER XX + CHAPTER XX + CHAPTER XX + CHAPTER XX + CHAPTER XX + CHAPTER XX +CHAPTER XX + CHAPTER XXI + CHAPTER XXI + CHAPTER XXI + CHAPTER XXI + CHAPTER XXI + CHAPTER XXI + CHAPTER XXI + CHAPTER XXI +CHAPTER XXI + CHAPTER XXII + CHAPTER XXII + CHAPTER XXII + CHAPTER XXII + CHAPTER XXII + CHAPTER XXII + CHAPTER XXII +CHAPTER XXII + CHAPTER XXIII + CHAPTER XXIII + CHAPTER XXIII + CHAPTER XXIII + CHAPTER XXIII +CHAPTER XXIII + CHAPTER XXIV + CHAPTER XXIV + CHAPTER XXIV + CHAPTER XXIV +CHAPTER XXIV + CHAPTER XXIX + CHAPTER XXIX + CHAPTER XXV + CHAPTER XXV + CHAPTER XXV + CHAPTER XXV +CHAPTER XXV + CHAPTER XXVI + CHAPTER XXVI + CHAPTER XXVI + CHAPTER XXVI +CHAPTER XXVI + CHAPTER XXVII + CHAPTER XXVII + CHAPTER XXVII +CHAPTER XXVII + CHAPTER XXVIII + CHAPTER XXVIII + CHAPTER XXVIII +CHAPTER XXVIII + CHAPTER XXX + CHAPTER XXX + CHAPTER XXXI + CHAPTER XXXI + CHAPTER XXXII + CHAPTER XXXII + CHAPTER XXXIII + CHAPTER XXXIII + CHAPTER XXXIV + CHAPTER XXXIV + CHAPTER XXXIX + CHAPTER XXXV + CHAPTER XXXVI + CHAPTER XXXVII + CHAPTER XXXVIII +CHARACTERISTICALLY NOBLE WRINKLES OF HIS HANDSOME, RUDDY FACE. HE LAY +CHARACTER SET ENCODING: UTF-8 +CHARMING AGE WHEN A GIRL IS NO LONGER A CHILD, THOUGH THE CHILD IS NOT +“CHARMING!” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA WITH AN INQUIRING GLANCE AT THE +“CHARMING!” WHISPERED THE LITTLE PRINCESS, STICKING THE NEEDLE INTO +CHASSEUR REGIMENT AND IN THE LINES OF THE KIEV GRENADIERS—FINE FELLOWS +CHASSEURS MUST HOLD THEIR POSITION TILL RESERVES FROM THE CENTER +CHASSEURS.... THEY WON’T LET US PASS, WE ARE LEFT BEHIND AND HAVE LOST +CHECKED HANDKERCHIEF) TO ILLUSTRATE THE THEORY THAT ALL MEN ARE EQUALS, +CHEERFUL WERE THE TROOPS. THE GREATEST DISORDER AND DEPRESSION HAD BEEN +CHEST TO BACK THAN ACROSS THE SHOULDERS. HE HAD ON A BRAND-NEW UNIFORM +CHILDHOOD. +CHILDHOOD. +CHILDHOOD AND LIVED FOR YEARS AT A TIME. THE GUARDS HAD ALREADY LEFT +CHILDHOOD; THAT SAME JULIE KARáGINA WHO HAD BEEN AT THE ROSTóVS’ +CHILD IN A TOYSHOP, DID NOT KNOW WHICH WAY TO LOOK, AFRAID OF MISSING +CHILDISH BARE SHOULDERS WHICH AFTER HER RUN HEAVED AND SHOOK HER +CHILDLIKE WAY THROUGH HIS SPECTACLES. +CHILDREN ARE THE BANE OF MY LIFE. IT IS THE CROSS I HAVE TO BEAR. THAT +CHILDREN,” SHE SAID, IN HER LOUD, FULL-TONED VOICE WHICH DROWNED ALL +CHILDREN. THE GERMAN TUTOR WAS TRYING TO REMEMBER ALL THE DISHES, WINES, +CHOICE HAS FALLEN. I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU WILL THINK OF IT, BUT +“CHRIST BE WITH YOU!” KUTúZOV REPEATED AND WENT TOWARD HIS +CHRISTIAN...” +CIRCUMSTANCES, HE NEVERTHELESS DELIVERED THE DEFINITE ORDER THAT THE +CIRCUMSTANCES I MAY BE PLACED. BUT IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH... IF +CIRCUMSTANTIALLY AND WITH EVIDENT SATISFACTION. +CITIES WONDERED AT HER, LAUGHED PRIVATELY AT HER RUDENESSES, AND TOLD +CLATTERING. THESE MEN PRESSED CLOSE TO THE WALL TO LET PIERRE AND ANNA +CLAVICHORD. +CLAVICHORD AND HARP. JULIE BY GENERAL REQUEST PLAYED FIRST. AFTER SHE +CLEAN, AND IN CLOTH COVERS CAREFULLY TIED WITH TAPES. +CLEAN SHIRT ON THE FEATHER BED WITH ITS WARMED AND FRAGRANT PILLOWS, HE +CLEAR, INSOLENT EYES IN THE GENERAL’S FACE. +CLEARLY WORDED THE DAY BEFORE, NAMELY, THAT THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF +CLENCHING HIS SMALL HAND AND STRIKING THE TABLE WITH IT, “AND WHAT +CLERK. “THE KIEV GRENADIERS, PODOLIAN...” +CLEVER WITH VéRA,” SAID THE COUNT. “WELL, WHAT OF THAT? SHE’S +CLIMB OUT OF THE WINDOW. +CLOAK, HE ASKED WHETHER THEY WANTED THE COUNT OR THE PRINCESSES, AND, +CLOSE-CROPPED HAIR, SPECTACLES, THE LIGHT-COLORED BREECHES FASHIONABLE +CLOSED HIS EYES, SILENTLY LET MACK ENTER HIS ROOM BEFORE HIM, AND CLOSED +CLOSER!” SHE WHISPERED. +CLOSE TO HER, BEGAN TO WHISPER SOMETHING. +CLOSE TO HER, OF HIS BREATH AND THE SMELL OF HIM, AND COULD THINK ONLY +CLOSE TO HER; THE RED PATCHES ON HER FACE CAME AND WENT, AND IT WAS +CLOSE, WAS GAZING WITH ASTONISHMENT AT THE ANGRY FACE OF THE PRINCESS +CLOTH, WHICH CONTRASTED WITH THE OTHERS. “WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN AFTER? +CLOUDED HIS MOTHER’S FACE, AND HE SMILED SLIGHTLY. +CLOUDLESS, NORTHERN, SUMMER NIGHT. PIERRE TOOK AN OPEN CAB INTENDING +COAT OF ARMS ON THE TABLE. HE EXPLAINED THIS TO HER WITH AS MUCH GRAVITY +“COLONEL,” HE SAID, ADDRESSING ROSTóV’S ENEMY WITH AN AIR OF +“COLONEL,” INTERRUPTED THE OFFICER OF THE SUITE, “YOU MUST BE +COLONEL OF HUSSARS WHO, GROWING MORE AND MORE FLUSHED, ATE AND DRANK SO +COLONEL OF HUSSARS WITH THE SAME ORDER. AFTER HIM THE STOUT NESVíTSKI +COLONEL’S ATHLETIC BACK, HIS NAPE COVERED WITH LIGHT HAIR, AND HIS RED +COLONEL WAS CALLED BOGDáNICH) “SHUTS YOU UP.” +COLUMNS, WITH A HIGH SILK-CURTAINED MAHOGANY BEDSTEAD ON ONE SIDE AND +“COME ALONG!” +“COME HERE,” SAID ROSTóV, CATCHING HOLD OF TELYáNIN’S ARM AND +COME... HE TOLD ME HIMSELF... BUT STILL I SHOULD NOT CRY,” AND SHE +“COME IF YOU NEED ANYTHING. ONE CAN AT LEAST BE OF USE ON THE +COME IN A MOMENT. PETRúSHKA!” HE CALLED TO HIS VALET: “COME HERE, +COME INTO THE HALL. PRINCE HIPPOLYTE STOOD CLOSE TO THE PRETTY, PREGNANT +“COME, I WILL GO WITH YOU. TRY TO WEEP, NOTHING GIVES SUCH RELIEF AS +“COME, MY DEAR ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, LET CATICHE DO AS SHE PLEASES. YOU +“COME NEARER, COME NEARER, FRIEND! I USED TO BE THE ONLY ONE TO TELL +“COME NOW! YOU WITH ALL YOUR FORCES FALL ON THE UNFORTUNATE MORTIER +“COME ON THEN,” CRIED PIERRE. “COME ON!... AND WE’LL TAKE BRUIN +“COME OVER HERE, HéLèNE, DEAR,” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA TO THE +“COME, THAT’S RIGHT, COUNT!” CRIED THE STAFF CAPTAIN, TURNING +COME UP. IN THAT CASE THE DRAGOONS COULD SUCCESSFULLY MAKE A FLANK +COME UP TO HIM. +“COME, WHAT’S THE MATTER, OLD FELLOW?” SAID NESVíTSKI TRYING TO +COMFORTABLY. +COMING FOR ME TO TAKE ME THERE.” +COMING FROM THE STUDY. THE PRINCE WALKED IN QUICKLY AND JAUNTILY AS WAS +COMING OUT OF KUTúZOV’S ROOM INTO THE WAITING ROOM WITH THE PAPERS IN +COMMANDER AMONG THEM! HM!...” +COMMANDER, AWAITING THE WORD OF COMMAND. A SECOND AND A THIRD CANNON +COMMANDER, BUT NOW THAT THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF ADDRESSED HIM HE DREW +COMMANDER, HIGHER THAN AND DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS, PRINCE ANDREW CAME +COMMANDER IN CHIEF AND OF HIS OWN LUGGAGE. VERY SINISTER REPORTS OF THE +“COMMANDER IN CHIEF KUTúZOV?” SAID THE NEWLY ARRIVED GENERAL +COMMANDER IN CHIEF’S REGARDING THE REGIMENT. BEHIND KUTúZOV, AT A +COMMANDER IN CHIEF WOULD OTHERWISE BE DISSATISFIED. ON HEARING THIS THE +COMMANDER OF THE REGIMENT IN THE HOLLOW AND NEWS THAT IMMENSE MASSES +“COMMANDER OF THE THIRD COMPANY WANTED BY THE GENERAL!... COMMANDER TO +COMMANDER’S BACK AND MIMICKED HIS EVERY MOVEMENT. EACH TIME THE +COMMANDER STARTED AND BENT FORWARD, THE HUSSAR STARTED AND BENT FORWARD +COMMANDER’S WILL, OWING TO THE TACT BAGRATIóN SHOWED, HIS PRESENCE +COMMANDING BOTH SIDES OF THE DANUBE, SO THAT SHOULD THE ENEMY NOT +COMMAND. “SERGEANTS MAJOR!... HOW SOON WILL HE BE HERE?” HE ASKED +COMME CET INDIVIDU DONT VOUS AVEZ FAIT UN AMI, MAIS PAS POUR VOUS, PAS +COMME IL FAUT, THAT’S A DIFFERENT MATTER; BUT THE KURáGINS’ SET OF +COMMENTARIES), AND RESTING ON HIS ELBOW, BEGAN READING IT IN THE MIDDLE. +COMMISSARIAT, AND THE REGIMENT HAD MARCHED SOME SEVEN HUNDRED MILES. +COMMIT MURDER HE HAD RESTORED IT TO THE RIGHTFUL KING, I SHOULD HAVE +COMMITTED A REVERSE ACT OF IMPOLITENESS. FIRST HE HAD LEFT A LADY BEFORE +COMMON SENSE AND FRANK PLAINNESS OF SPEECH. MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA WAS KNOWN +COMPANIES, CROWDS OF WHOM SET OFF TO THE NEIGHBORING VILLAGES, OR +COMPANY AND OVERTOOK THE NEXT ONE. +COMPANY COMMANDERS CALCULATED AND RECKONED, AND BY MORNING THE +COMPANY’S BAGGAGE WAGON, PILED HIGH, LEATHER COVERED, AND HEMMED IN ON +COMPLETED. +COMPLY. ANNA PáVLOVNA ARRANGED A GROUP ROUND HIM, INVITING EVERYONE TO +COMRADE NESVíTSKI, A TALL STAFF OFFICER, EXTREMELY STOUT, WITH A +COMRADES’ IMPRESSION. EVERY FACE, FROM DENíSOV’S TO THAT OF THE +CONCEIT PREVENTS YOUR APOLOGIZING, AND YOU WISH TO MAKE THE WHOLE +CONCEIVE A FUTURE LIFE...” +CONCERNED WITH A THOUGHT THAT ALWAYS OCCUPIED HER: “NOW YOU SEE IF I +CONCERNED WITH, OR HE WANTED TO GIVE THE RUSSIAN SPECIAL MESSENGER THAT +CONCERNING WHICH NO ONE COULD BE AT EASE. IT WAS THE STATE OF THE +CONCLUDED, CONSCIOUS—AS WERE OTHERS—AFTER THE WORDS WERE UTTERED +CONDITION, AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER THAT INFORMED THEM THAT SHE HAD LEFT +CONDITION! IT’S VERY HARD.” +CONFESSION, COMMUNION WAS ADMINISTERED TO THE DYING MAN, PREPARATIONS +CONFIDENCE,” SAID SHE, REPEATING THE MISTAKE OF SO MANY PARENTS WHO +CONFORM. HOWEVER PAINFUL IT MAY BE TO ME, SHOULD THE ALMIGHTY LAY +CONFORM TO THEM AND FOLLOW THEM, AND LET US BE PERSUADED THAT THE LESS +CONFRONTED ONE ANOTHER AS BEFORE. +CONFUSING THEIR MINDS BY DWELLING ON MYSTICAL BOOKS THAT MERELY AWAKEN +CONJECTURE, BUT THE COLONEL DID NOT ONCE GLANCE AT ROSTóV, AND LOOKED +“CONNAISSEZ-VOUS LE PROVERBE:* ‘JEROME, JEROME, DO NOT ROAM, BUT +CONNECTIONS... WELL, THEN, YOU JUST...” +CONSERVATORY AND PANTRY INTO THE LARGE MARBLE DINING HALL, WHERE TABLES +CONSERVATORY. THERE SHE PAUSED AND STOOD LISTENING TO THE CONVERSATION +CONSERVATORY TO THE PLACE AMONG THE TUBS WHERE SHE HAD BEEN HIDING. +CONSIDERABLE PAUSE WHICH MADE PIERRE FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE. +CONSIDER CHARACTERISTIC OF THE COUNTRY—RUMORS OF WAR ARE HEARD +CONSIDERED AN ADEPT AT FRENCH. +CONSIDERED HIM CONCEITED, COLD, AND DISAGREEABLE. BUT AMONG THESE PEOPLE +CONSIDERED IMPORTANT. +CONSIDERED IT HIS DUTY TO VISIT HIM AND WAITED IN THE LOFTY ANTECHAMBER +CONSIDERED IT PROPER TO SHOW AN INTEREST IN THE GENERAL CONVERSATION BY +“CONSIDER MY POSITION, PETER NIKOLáEVICH. WERE I IN THE CAVALRY I +CONSIDER, PRINCE ANDREW. TWO... FREDERICK AND SUVóROV; MOREAU!... +CONSIDER YOURSELF INCAPABLE AND YOUR LIFE A SPOILED LIFE. YOU HAVE +CONSULTING HIS SERGEANT MAJOR, ZAKHARCHéNKO, FOR WHOM HE HAD GREAT +CONTAINING LESSONS IN GEOMETRY WRITTEN BY HIMSELF AND DREW UP A CHAIR +CONTEMPLATED BETWEEN ANATOLE AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS’ SISTER-IN-LAW. +CONTEMPTUOUS LOOK THAT SHOWED ITSELF ON HIS FACE. +CONTENTED AND HAPPY WITH HIM. I ONLY WISH YOU WERE ALL AS HAPPY AS I +CONTENTION. + CONTENTS +CONTINUALLY AND RAPIDLY TOUCHING HER ROSY NETHER LIP WHEN NECESSARY +CONTINUALLY, BRINGING VISITORS TO THE COUNTESS ROSTóVA’S BIG HOUSE ON +CONTINUALLY CHANGING FROM FRENCH TO RUSSIAN. +CONTINUALLY GLANCED AT PRINCE ANDREW; PRINCE ANDREW RUBBED HIS FOREHEAD +CONTINUALLY HE MOVED ON. THE SOLDIERS SQUEEZED THEMSELVES TO MAKE WAY +CONTINUALLY RECEIVING MANY PETITIONERS ONE AFTER ANOTHER. +CONTINUED. DURING THIS INTERVAL PIERRE NOTICED THAT PRINCE VASíLI +CONTINUED HIS WORK. +CONTINUED. “ONE WOULD THINK THAT AS AN ARTILLERY OFFICER YOU WOULD SET +CONTINUED PRINCE VASíLI, RETURNING TO HIS THEME, APPARENTLY NOT +CONTINUED THE VICOMTE. “I PITY THE POOR HUSBAND, THAT LITTLE OFFICER +CONTINUED TO EXPLAIN HOW BY EXCHANGING INTO THE GUARDS HE HAD ALREADY +CONTINUED TO SHOUT. +CONTINUED, WITH THAT GAY BROTHERLY CORDIALITY WHICH GOODHEARTED YOUNG +CONTINUOUS, VARIED, AND ORDERLY ACTIVITY. THE MOTION OF THE SMALL FOOT +CONTRARY TO BILíBIN’S FORECAST THE NEWS HE HAD BROUGHT WAS JOYFULLY +CONTRARY. WE WANTED LIBERTY, BUT BUONAPARTE HAS DESTROYED IT.” +CONTRASTED WITH HIS FLATTERING WORDS, “ON THE CONTRARY, YOUR +CONVENIENTLY TO KEEP THEM UNDER OBSERVATION, BROUGHT THEM INTO THE +CONVENTIONAL THINGS WITH NO DEFINITE MEANING, ESPECIALLY IF +CONVERSATION. +CONVERSATION. +CONVERSATION ALWAYS RELATED ENTIRELY TO HIMSELF; HE WOULD REMAIN CALM +CONVERSATION, AND THOUGH ANNA PáVLOVNA FELT SURE HE WOULD SAY SOMETHING +CONVERSATION BEGAN PRINCE ANDREW WAS STRUCK BY THE FACT THAT THE EMPEROR +CONVERSATION BUT THINK IT NECESSARY TO MOVE ABOUT AND TALK, IN ORDER +CONVERSATION, EVIDENTLY WITH NO WISH TO TAKE PART IN IT. HE ANSWERED THE +CONVERSATION, GAVE NO REPLY. +CONVERSATION IN FRENCH. +CONVERSATION—“I OFTEN THINK HOW UNFAIRLY SOMETIMES THE JOYS OF LIFE +COOKED BEFORE WE REACH OUR QUARTERS.” +COQUETTISH MANNER IN WHICH SHE SPOKE TO OTHER MEN, “THE VICOMTE HAS +CORRECT. +CORRECT. AS SOON AS BONAPARTE (WHO WAS AT SCHöNBRUNN, SIXTEEN MILES +CORRIDOR TO THE CABINET WHERE THE MINISTER OF WAR WAS AT WORK. THE +COSSACK SCOUTS WERE MOVING. SUDDENLY ON THE ROAD AT THE TOP OF THE HIGH +“COSSACK!” SHE SAID THREATENINGLY. +COUGH. +COUGHING OF THE MUSICIANS WERE HEARD FROM THE GALLERY. +COULD BE DISCERNED. +COULD BE FELT, BUT THE NEARER PRINCE ANDREW CAME TO THE FRENCH LINES THE +COULD BE SEEN, AND IN THREE PLACES TO LEFT AND RIGHT THE FRENCH TROOPS +COULD GET MORE REWARDS BY DOING NOTHING ON THE STAFF, AND HAD SUCCEEDED +COULD HEAR. “I THANK YOU ALL! GOD BE PRAISED!” AND HE RODE PAST THAT +COULD NOT HELP SEEING THESE PEOPLE, TOOK ANY NOTICE OF THEM. “IT SEEMS +COULD NOT MOVE IT. HE SMASHED A PANE. +COULD NOT SAY WITH CERTAINTY WHETHER THE ATTACK HAD BEEN REPULSED OR HIS +COULD NOT THINK OF IT WITHOUT TEARS, AND DID NOT KNOW WHICH HAD BEHAVED +COULD REACH, THERE WERE THE RATTLE OF WHEELS, THE CREAKING OF CARTS +COUNT. +COUNT AGAINST HIM, HE NEVERTHELESS ON THE DAY OF HIS ARRIVAL WENT TO +COUNT, AND HAVING KISSED HIS WIFE’S HAND HE WENT BACK TO HIS STUDY. +COUNT BEZúKHOV’S DISTRESS SOME FIFTEEN TIMES. +COUNT COMING OUT FROM THE DINING HALL INTO THE ANTEROOM, AND HE ADDED: +“COUNT!... DON’T RUIN A YOUNG FELLOW... HERE IS THIS WRETCHED MONEY, +COUNTENANCE. +COUNTENANCES BECAME CALM; SOLDIERS AND OFFICERS GREETED HIM GAILY, GREW +COUNTERATTACK. IF THEY ATTACK OUR CENTER WE, HAVING THE CENTER BATTERY +COUNTERMARCHES, THINGS OF WHICH I UNDERSTAND NOTHING; AND THE DAY +“COUNTESS APRáKSINA, POOR THING, HAS LOST HER HUSBAND AND SHE HAS +COUNTESS’ GIGANTIC FOOTMAN IN HIS BASS VOICE, ENTERING THE DRAWING +COUNTESS. “I HAVE NEVER SEEN A HANDSOMER MAN.” +COUNTESS ROSTóVA’S CARRIAGE IN WHICH THEY WERE SEATED DROVE OVER THE +COUNTESS ROSTóVA, WITH HER DAUGHTERS AND A LARGE NUMBER OF GUESTS, WAS +COUNTESS WITH A GENTLE SMILE, LOOKING AT BORíS AND WENT ON, EVIDENTLY +COUNT. HE HAS, NO DOUBT, FORGOTTEN IT AND WILL WISH TO DESTROY IT. +COUNT IS VERY FOND OF PIERRE, LOOKED AFTER HIS EDUCATION, AND WROTE TO +“COUNT LICHTENFELS WAS HERE THIS MORNING,” BILíBIN CONTINUED, +“COUNT ROSTóV ASKS YOU TO COME TO DINNER TODAY,” SAID HE, AFTER A +COUNTRY DO WE GET ANY REST? THEATRICALS, HUNTING, AND HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT +COUNTRYSIDE—“SEE, OUR INFANTRYMEN HAVE ALREADY GOT THERE. LOOK THERE +“COUNT...” SAID TELYáNIN DRAWING NEARER TO HIM. +COUNT’S NIECE, ENTERED WITH A COLD, STERN FACE. THE LENGTH OF HER +COUNT’S SERVICES, HIS REQUEST WOULD BE GRANTED?...” +COUNT’S VISITORS SETTLED THEMSELVES, SOME IN THE TWO DRAWING ROOMS, +COUNT, WITH PLAYFUL CEREMONY SOMEWHAT IN BALLET STYLE, OFFERED HIS +COUNT,” YET ASHAMED TO CALL HIM “FATHER.” +COUPLE. IN THE INTERVALS OF THE DANCE THE COUNT, BREATHING DEEPLY, WAVED +COURAGE AND ENDURANCE—ACKNOWLEDGED EVEN BY THE ENEMY—WITH WHICH THE +“COURAGE, COURAGE, MY FRIEND! HE HAS ASKED TO SEE YOU. THAT IS +COURAGE. NEXT HE THOUGHT THAT HIS ENEMY WOULD SEND THE SQUADRON ON A +COURAGE, SO HE DREW HIMSELF UP AND LOOKED AROUND HIM MERRILY; THEN IT +COURSE OF EVENTS IN THE FORTHCOMING ACTION IN BROAD OUTLINE. HE +COURTIERLIKE QUICKNESS AND TACT HABITUAL TO HER, ANNA PáVLOVNA +“COUSINAGE—DANGEREUX VOISINAGE,” * SHE ADDED. + * COUSINHOOD IS A DANGEROUS NEIGHBORHOOD. +COVERED THIS MOVEMENT OF THE TRANSPORT AND OF THE WHOLE ARMY, HAD TO +COVER OF THE SMALL BOX, AND ASSUMED HIS USUAL TRANQUIL AND IMPENETRABLE +COWSHED NOR ROSTóV BACK WITH HIS PLATOON FROM FORAGING FOR HAY HAD ANY +COYNESS AND RESERVE OF MANNER, SHE REMINDED ONE OF A PRETTY, HALF-GROWN +CREAKS OR MAKES MORE NOISE THAN IT SHOULD, AND HASTENS TO CHECK THE +CREAM.” +“CREW, TO YOUR GUNS!” COMMANDED THE OFFICER. +CRIED HER EYES OUT,” SHE SAID, GROWING MORE AND MORE LIVELY. +CRITICISM AND WAS ABOUT TO REPLY, WHEN THE EXPECTED FOOTSTEPS WERE HEARD +CROSSED HIMSELF AND KISSED THE ICON. THERE WAS A LOOK OF TENDERNESS, FOR +CROSSED THE BALLROOM, POINTING TO NATáSHA. +CROSSING A ROAD THEY DESCENDED A STEEP INCLINE AND SAW SEVERAL MEN +CROSS THE LECH, WE CAN CROSS THE DANUBE, THROW OURSELVES ON HIS LINE +CROWDED ROUND A POCKMARKED, BROAD-SHOULDERED SERGEANT MAJOR WHO, TILTING +CROWDED TOGETHER CLOSE TO HIS WHEELS AND HIS HORSES. “WHAT A FELLOW! +CROWD HAD TO WAIT. +CROWD OF SOLDIERS. “IT CAN’T BE AN ATTACK, FOR THEY ARE NOT MOVING; +CRUSH THE CONTEMPTIBLE DETACHMENT THAT STOOD BEFORE HIM. +CRY. “I NEED FIVE HUNDRED RUBLES, AND HAVE ONLY ONE TWENTY-FIVE-RUBLE +CRYING. SóNYA TRIED TO LIFT HER HEAD TO ANSWER BUT COULD NOT, AND +CRY OR TO LAUGH. PRINCE ANDREW SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS AND FROWNED, AS +CRY. PRINCE ANDREW EVIDENTLY FELT ILL AT EASE, BUT TO THE TWO WOMEN +CUNNING SMILE, AS IF FLATTERED AT BEING MADE THE SUBJECT OF ZHERKóV’S +CUPBOARDS, AND LITTLE TABLES. THE QUILT OF A HIGH, WHITE FEATHER BED WAS +CUP OF VODKA FOR THE MEN FROM ME,” HE ADDED SO THAT THE SOLDIERS +CURLY HEAD TO HER KNEES AND MADE THE WHOLE ROOM RING WITH HER LAUGHTER. +CURRENT OF HIS THOUGHTS, “THAT ANATOLE IS COSTING ME FORTY THOUSAND +CUT!” +DAMNED FOOL!” CRIED DENíSOV, NOT PRONOUNCING HIS R’S. “SUCH ILL +DANCE) BEGAN TO SOUND, ALL THE DOORWAYS OF THE BALLROOM WERE SUDDENLY +DANGER. “I AM CONVINCED THAT WE RUSSIANS MUST DIE OR CONQUER,” HE +DANUBE COVERED WITH PINE FORESTS, WITH A MYSTIC BACKGROUND OF GREEN +DANUBE, MARCHING ON US, YOU, AND YOUR LINES OF COMMUNICATION.” +DARED COMPLAIN, I WHO AM DEPRIVED OF ALL WHO ARE DEAR TO ME? AH, IF +DARED TO TREAT MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA IN THIS FASHION. +DAREN’T SAY SO. IT WILL BE AS I SAID AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CAMPAIGN, +DARK-HAIRED MAN. THIS WAS THE CELEBRATED PETERSBURG DOCTOR, LORRAIN. +DARK HAIRS WERE ALREADY SHOWING ON HIS UPPER LIP, AND HIS WHOLE FACE +DARTED FORWARD AT EVERY WORD OR GESTURE OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, +DARTED IN AND STOPPED SHORT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM. IT WAS EVIDENT +DAUGHTER AND PLACING AN ARM ON THE BACK OF THE CHAIR ON WHICH SHE SAT, +DAUGHTER, ENTERED THE DRAWING ROOM, THEIR DRESSES RUSTLING. +DAUGHTER GOT UP TO GO AND THE TWO YOUNG MEN ROSE TO LET THEM PASS. +DAUGHTER’S FACE THAT IT WAS ONLY MISCHIEF, SHE SHOOK A FINGER AT HER +DAY HE IS SENSIBLE, WELL EDUCATED, AND GOOD-NATURED, AND THE NEXT HE’S +DAY... NATáSHA, WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE IT?...” +DAYS.” +DAY,” SAID THE VISITOR. “WHAT A CHARMING CHILD,” SHE ADDED, +DAY WAS MAPPED OUT, THE PRINCE RESTED AND THE PRINCESS PLAYED THE +DAY WE ARE KEEPING. BUT MIND YOU COME TO DINNER OR I SHALL BE OFFENDED, +DEAR AND PRECIOUS FRIEND, HOW TERRIBLE AND FRIGHTFUL A THING IS +DEAR AND PRECIOUS FRIEND, YOUR LETTER OF THE 13TH HAS GIVEN ME GREAT +“DEAR COUNTESS, WHAT AN AGE... SHE HAS BEEN LAID UP, POOR CHILD ... +“DEAR, DEAR! JUST LOOK AT HER!” EXCLAIMED THE COUNTESS AS SHE +“DEAR DOCTOR,” SAID SHE, “THIS YOUNG MAN IS THE COUNT’S SON. IS +‘DEAREST FOE! FLOWER OF THE AUSTRIAN ARMY, HERO OF THE TURKISH WARS! +DEAR INVALID?” SAID SHE, AS THOUGH UNAWARE OF THE COLD OFFENSIVE LOOK +“DEAR ME, CAN I HAVE FORGOTTEN? NO, I REMEMBER THINKING THAT YOU KEPT +DEAR, MERRY CHILD. I HAVE GROWN SO FOND OF HER.” +“DEAR PRINCESS, I BEG AND IMPLORE YOU, HAVE SOME PITY ON HIM! JE VOUS +DEAR, THERE’S FRIENDSHIP FOR YOU,” HE REPEATED. “HE’S JOINING +DEAR. WE WILL SEE HOW TARáS DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF TODAY. HE SAYS COUNT +DEATH, IS HERE ABOVE ME AND AROUND... ANOTHER INSTANT AND I SHALL NEVER +DEATH,” THOUGHT BOLKóNSKI. +DECENTLY HERE,” CONTINUED TELYáNIN. “NOW THEN, LET ME HAVE IT.” +DECLARED THAT HE WILL LEAVE IT TO THE FRENCH PEOPLE THEMSELVES TO CHOOSE +DECLARES IN ZE MANIFESSTO ZAT HE CANNOT FIEW WIZ INDIFFERENCE ZE DANGER +DECLINED: I HAVE MY DAUGHTERS TO CONSIDER.” +DEEPLY. +DEEP WRINKLES WOULD CREASE HIS CHEEKS. HIS SMALL, DEEP-SET EYES ALWAYS +DEFEAT, THERE WERE MANY CIRCUMSTANCES CONFIRMING THE UNFAVORABLE RUMORS +DEFECTION, RAN AT A TROT, PANTING TO CATCH UP WITH HIS COMPANY. A CANNON +DEFENDING US—DOING IT VERY BADLY, I THINK, BUT STILL HE IS DEFENDING +DEFENSE—AS MUCH AS TO SAY: ‘HEAVEN IS WITH US, BUT HEAVEN HELP YOU +DEFENSE OF VIENNA WAS NO LONGER TO BE THOUGHT OF. INSTEAD OF AN +DEFERENTIAL YOUNG MAN WHO HAD ENTERED. “BRING ME...” HE REFLECTED +DEFINITE IDEA OF HER, HE TURNED AWAY AND ADDRESSED MICHAEL IVáNOVICH. +DELIBERATELY SPOKEN WORD. IT WAS EVIDENT THAT KUTúZOV HIMSELF LISTENED +DELICATE DARK DOWN WAS JUST PERCEPTIBLE, WAS TOO SHORT FOR HER TEETH, +DELIGHT. SO YOU STILL LOVE ME, MY ROMANTIC JULIE? SEPARATION, OF WHICH +DEMANDED. +DEMAND SATISFACTION OF HIS REGIMENTAL COMMANDER?” +“DEMOSTHENES, I KNOW THEE BY THE PEBBLE THOU SECRETEST IN THY GOLDEN +DENíSOV. +DENíSOV BEGAN TO LAUGH. +DENíSOV FROWNED AND WAS ABOUT TO SHOUT SOME REPLY BUT STOPPED. +DENíSOV GALLOPED UP TO HIM. +DENíSOV GLANCED AT ROSTóV. +DENíSOV JOINED NESVíTSKI. +“DENíSOV, LET HIM ALONE, I KNOW WHO HAS TAKEN IT,” SAID ROSTóV, +DENíSOV REMAINED SILENT AND DID NOT MOVE, BUT OCCASIONALLY LOOKED WITH +DENíSOV SAT GLOOMILY BITING HIS MUSTACHE AND LISTENING TO THE +DENíSOV SCREWED UP HIS FACE AND POINTING OVER HIS SHOULDER WITH HIS +DENíSOV’S FACE PUCKERED STILL MORE. +DENíSOV SMILED, TOOK OUT OF HIS SABRETACHE A HANDKERCHIEF THAT DIFFUSED +DENíSOV’S NEW CLOAK AND SADDLECLOTH. +DENíSOV’S VOICE FROM THE NEXT ROOM. +DENíSOV. “THEY KEEP DWAGGING THE WEGIMENT TO AND FWO ALL DAY. IF THEY +DENíSOV THREW BOTH PILLOWS ON THE FLOOR. THE PURSE WAS NOT THERE. +DENíSOV WERE HIS WORST ENEMY, FIRMLY FIXED HIS EYES DIRECTLY ON HIS +DEPRECATING EXPRESSION OF A DOG WHEN IT RAPIDLY BUT FEEBLY WAGS ITS +DEPRESSED, “I SHALL BE ONLY TOO GLAD IF YOU RELIEVE ME OF THAT YOUNG +“DERE HAS NEFFER BEEN A GASE,” A GERMAN DOCTOR WAS SAYING TO AN +DESCRIPTION OF THE LAST PETERSBURG FETE SHE ADDRESSED HER BROTHER: +DESCRIPTION. THE OLD MAN BEGAN TO SING, IN THE CRACKED VOICE OF OLD AGE: +DESPERATE ATTACK JUST TO PUNISH HIM—ROSTóV. THEN HE IMAGINED HOW, +DESPERATION SLAMMED THE DOOR WITH ALL HER MIGHT. +DESPITE THE GENERAL’S PRESENCE WERE TALKING LOUDLY AND GESTICULATING. +DESTINY OF OUR ADORED MONARCH. HE WILL SAVE EUROPE!” + DESTROYED, AND YOU FIND THAT A CAUSE FOR JESTING!” +DETACHMENT NO ONE KNEW ANYTHING OF THE GENERAL POSITION OF AFFAIRS. THEY +DETAILS OF HIS DISASTER HE UNDERSTOOD THAT HALF THE CAMPAIGN WAS LOST, +DEVOURED HIM WITH HIS EYES, DRAWING HIMSELF UP OBSEQUIOUSLY, AND FROM +DIAMONDS, SHE PASSED BETWEEN THE MEN WHO MADE WAY FOR HER, NOT LOOKING +DID, ESPECIALLY TOWARD EVENING WHEN HE HAD EMPTIED HIS SECOND BOTTLE; HE +DID NOT SEE YOU.” +DID NOT SUIT HER FADED FEATURES, ALWAYS PLAYED ROUND HER LIPS EXPRESSED, +DID NOT WAIT TO BE CALLED. THE SHAPELY FIGURE OF THE FAIR-HAIRED +DID NOVOSíLTSEV GET? NONE. THE ENGLISH HAVE NOT UNDERSTOOD AND CANNOT +DID SHE NOT SHOW ANY TRACE OF COQUETRY, BUT ON THE CONTRARY SHE EVEN +DID YOU COME HERE?” +“‘DIEU ME LA DONNE, GARE à QUI LA TOUCHE!’’ * THEY SAY HE WAS +“DIEU! MON DIEU!” MUTTERED ANNA PáVLOVNA IN A TERRIFIED WHISPER. +“DIEU SAIT QUAND REVIENDRA. GO TO THE DINING ROOM.” +“DIEU SAIT QUAND REVIENDRA.” HUMMED THE PRINCE OUT OF TUNE AND, WITH +DIFFERED ONLY IN THAT ONE HAD A LITTLE MOLE ON HER LIP WHICH MADE HER +DIFFERENT FROM THEMSELVES AND FROM EVERYONE ELSE, EXPECTED GREAT THINGS +DIFFICULT FOR ARTILLERY AND CAVALRY TO RETIRE. PRINCE ANDREW TOOK +DIFFICULTY. +DIFFICULTY OUT OF THE FRONT DOOR. +DIM, BUT DEFINITE AND IN THE CONCISE FORM IN WHICH HE IMAGINED HIMSELF +DINING ROOM WHERE HIS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, PRINCESS MARY, AND MADEMOISELLE +DINNER ALL WHO CAME “TO CONGRATULATE.” THE COUNTESS WISHED TO HAVE +DINNER AT THE ROSTóVS’?” +DINNER,” CRIED SEVERAL VOICES. “WE’LL TAKE YOU IN HAND.” +DIN OF SHOUTING MORE INCESSANT. SOLDIERS FLOUNDERING KNEE-DEEP IN MUD +DIPLOMATIST?” ASKED PRINCE ANDREW AFTER A MOMENTARY SILENCE. +DIPLOMATS, EVIDENTLY HAD ITS OWN INTERESTS WHICH HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH +DIPLOMATS WHO ARE ESTEEMED BECAUSE THEY HAVE CERTAIN NEGATIVE QUALITIES, +DIP. PRINCE ANDREW, BEING ALWAYS NEAR THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, CLOSELY +DIRECT DESCENT AND ASCENT TO THE BROOK SEPARATING US FROM SCHöN +DIRECTING THE MARCH RODE BACKWARD AND FORWARD BETWEEN THE CARTS. THEIR +DIRTY FEATHER BED ON THE TOP OF THE CHEST, CRUMPLING HER GAUZY PINK +DISAGREEABLE TONE TO PRINCE HIPPOLYTE WHO WAS BLOCKING HIS PATH. +DISAPPEARED HE NOTICED THAT THE EYES OF ALL IN THE ROOM TURNED TO HIM +DISAPPROVINGLY, BUT IN WHISPERS AND AS A GREAT SECRET. +DISASTROUS WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. +DISCIPLINE, IF YOU ALLOW A SUBORDINATE TO ADDRESS YOU LIKE THAT!’ IT +DISCUSS SO MINUTELY AND ACUTELY ALL THE RECENT EUROPEAN MILITARY AND +DISGRACE SUCH AS THAT OF ULM, OR TO UTTER DESTRUCTION. BUT TO FORESTALL +DISGRACE THE WHOLE REGIMENT? DISGRACE THE WHOLE REGIMENT BECAUSE OF ONE +DISMISSED FROM HERE; THEREFORE, YOU CAN STAY AND GO WITH US WHEREVER OUR +DISMOUNTED. HE GAVE THE REINS TO A COSSACK, TOOK OFF AND HANDED OVER HIS +DISORDER AND WAS RETREATING UPON THE KIEV GRENADIERS. PRINCE BAGRATIóN +DISPATCH? YOU KNOW EVERYTHING.” +DISPOSITION OF THE FORCES, SO AS TO KNOW HIS BEARINGS SHOULD HE BE SENT +DISPUTE WITH THE FRENCH GRENADIER. THEY WERE NATURALLY TALKING ABOUT THE +DISRESPECTFUL MANNER OF THE EXHAUSTED CLERK, THE FACT THAT THE CLERK AND +DISSATISFIED, INTERRUPTED BY ANOTHER, AN UNFAMILIAR VOICE. FROM THE +DISSIPATED LIFE OF HIS SON ANATOLE, THE SON WHOM THEY WERE PLANNING TO +DISTANCE AND PUCKERING THE SKIN ABOVE HIS LEFT EYE, “MALGRé LA HAUTE +DISTANCE THAT ALLOWED EVERY SOFTLY SPOKEN WORD TO BE HEARD, FOLLOWED +DISTINCTLY, BUT AS OFTEN HAPPENS HAD NOT UNDERSTOOD A WORD OF WHAT THEY +DISTINCTNESS. +DISTINGUISHED AIR WHICH INSPIRED RESPECT. PRINCESS ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA +DISTINGUISHED HIM FROM EVERYONE ELSE IN THAT DRAWING ROOM. +DISTRESSED, AND BREATHED PAINFULLY, BUT COULD NOT RESTRAIN THE WILD +DISTRESSED THAT HIS STOUT AND CLUMSY BODY TOOK UP SO MUCH ROOM AND DOING +DISTURBED. +DIVINE SAVIOUR HAS LEFT FOR OUR GUIDANCE HERE BELOW. LET US TRY TO +DMíTRI, A MAN OF GOOD FAMILY WHO HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP IN THE COUNT’S +DMíTRIEVNA. +DMíTRIEVNA PRODUCED NO LESS IMPRESSION BY SLIGHT EXERTIONS—THE LEAST +DMíTRIEVNA’S DEEP VOICE SUDDENLY INQUIRED FROM THE OTHER END OF THE +“DO COME.” +DOCTOR’S WIFE. +DOCTOR’S WIFE, WHO WAS CALLING HIM HER DELIVERER, AND RECALLING WITH +DOCTOR WITH A BOW AND APPROACHED THEM SILENTLY AND WITH A LOOK OF +DOES NOT EVEN ATTEMPT TO HIDE ITS ARTIFICIALITY) OF A MAN WHO IS +DOESN’T MAKE A MESS OF THINGS!” +DOES SHE BOTHER ME?” AND SHE ADDED, TURNING TO VéRA, “YOU’LL +DOING RIGHT. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA NODDED APPROVINGLY. AGAIN PIERRE FELL +DO IT.” +DóLOKHOV. +DóLOKHOV. +DóLOKHOV, AN OFFICER OF THE SEMëNOV REGIMENT, A NOTORIOUS GAMBLER AND +DóLOKHOV CLIMBED CAREFULLY AND SLOWLY THROUGH THE WINDOW AND LOWERED +DóLOKHOV DID NOT ANSWER THE CAPTAIN; HE HAD BEEN DRAWN INTO A HOT +DóLOKHOV HAS BEEN DEGRADED TO THE RANKS AND BEZúKHOV’S SON SENT +DóLOKHOV HURRIEDLY INTERRUPTED. +DóLOKHOV LOOKED ROUND BUT DID NOT SAY ANYTHING, NOR DID THE MOCKING +DóLOKHOV’S BACK IN HIS WHITE SHIRT, AND HIS CURLY HEAD, WERE LIT +DóLOKHOV SLOWLY STRAIGHTENED HIS BENT KNEE, LOOKING STRAIGHT WITH HIS +DóLOKHOV SMILED. “DON’T TROUBLE. IF I WANT ANYTHING, I WON’T +DóLOKHOV’S REPLY. +DóLOKHOV STILL SAT IN THE SAME POSITION, ONLY HIS HEAD WAS THROWN +DóLOKHOV STOOD FROWNING AND DID NOT SPEAK. PIERRE JUMPED UPON THE +DóLOKHOV’S WORDS INTO ENGLISH. A THIN YOUNG LAD, AN HUSSAR OF THE +DóLOKHOV, THE BOTTLE OF RUM STILL IN HIS HAND, JUMPED ONTO THE WINDOW +DóLOKHOV TURNED ROUND AND, AGAIN HOLDING ON WITH BOTH HANDS, ARRANGED +DóLOKHOV WAS HOLDING THE ENGLISHMAN’S HAND AND CLEARLY AND DISTINCTLY +DóLOKHOV WAS OF MEDIUM HEIGHT, WITH CURLY HAIR AND LIGHT-BLUE EYES. HE +DóLOKHOV, WHO HAD ALREADY CHANGED INTO A SOLDIER’S GRAY GREATCOAT, +DOMESTIC SERFS WERE CROWDING IN THE HALL, WAITING TO BID GOOD-BY TO +DONE FOR HIM! I HOPE THAT HERE IN MOSCOW NO ONE WILL RECEIVE HIM, IN +DONE SHALL BE. NOW LISTEN! GIVE THIS LETTER TO MICHAEL ILARIóNOVICH. * +DONE THE JOB JUST AS WELL.” +DO NEXT. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WITH HER EYES INDICATED A CHAIR THAT STOOD +“DO NOT LET US LOSE ANY TIME...” +“DON’T, BORíS! YOU ARE SUCH A DIPLOMAT THAT IT IS REALLY +DON’T FEEL THAT WEAKNESS IN MYSELF AS YET, I KNOW A LITTLE PERSON WHO +DON’T GET PROMOTED TO A SUBLIEUTENANCY.” +“DON’T JOKE; I MEAN TO HAVE A SERIOUS TALK WITH YOU. DO YOU KNOW +“DON’T KICK UP THE DUST, YOU INFANTRY!” JESTED AN HUSSAR WHOSE +DON’T KNOW HOW TO HIDE WHAT I FEEL.” AS HE SPOKE HE KEPT GLANCING +DON’T KNOW ME. WE HAVE NOT MET FOR SUCH A LONG TIME... NOT SINCE WE +“DON’T LIKE BOWWOWING FROM MY OWN FELLOWS, I DON’T,” GROWLED +“DON’T MENTION IT, GENERAL, AS IF I’D BE SO BOLD!” REPLIED THE +DON’T NEED IT? NOW YOU SHALL JUDGE BETWEEN US. I ALWAYS TELL HIM: HERE +“DON’T TEASE! WELL, AND WHAT HAS BEEN DECIDED ABOUT NOVOSíLTSEV’S +“DON’T TOUCH HIM! YOU’LL STARTLE HIM AND THEN HE’LL BE KILLED. +“DON’T TOUCH ME,” SAID ROSTóV, DRAWING BACK. “IF YOU NEED IT, +DON’T TROUBLE YOURSELF FURTHER.” +DON’T WISH TO LET ME GO, I’LL STAY. BUT I KNOW I AM NO USE ANYWHERE +“DON’T YOU WANT TO? WELL, THEN, COME HERE,” SAID SHE, AND +DOOR, AND ADDED IN A WHISPER SO THAT HER SON SHOULD NOT HEAR, “WISH ME +DOOR OPENED QUICKLY AND THE STERN FIGURE OF THE OLD MAN IN THE WHITE +DOOR. WHILE HE WAS GETTING DOWN FROM THE CARRIAGE STEPS TWO MEN, WHO +DOPPELKüMMEL. THE OFFICERS GLADLY GATHERED ROUND HIM, SOME ON THEIR +“DO PROMISE, DO PROMISE, VASíLI!” CRIED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA AS HE +“DO STOP JOKING, BILíBIN,” CRIED BOLKóNSKI. +DO THE DOCTORS SAY?” ASKED THE PRINCESS AFTER A PAUSE, HER WORN FACE +DO THE RIGHT THING. +DO THEY LOOK AT ME?” THEN HE LIFTED HIS HEAD, STRETCHED HIS NECK AS +DO THIS FOR MY SON—AND I SHALL ALWAYS REGARD YOU AS A BENEFACTOR,” +DO TO GET HERE.” +DOWN!” +DOWN. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA INDICATED BY HER ATTITUDE HER CONSCIOUSNESS OF +DOWN LAWS FOR AUSTRIA AT SCHöNBRUNN, IL FAUT LUI FAIRE GRâCE DE +DOWN, LIGHTLY TOUCHED HIS DAUGHTER’S HAIR AND SAT DOWN AGAIN. +DOWN ON A SOFA NEAR THE SILVER SAMOVAR, AS IF ALL SHE WAS DOING WAS A +DOWN ON ONE OF THE TUBS, PICKED IT UP. +DOWN ON THE SOFA, FACING HER BROTHER. “SHE IS QUITE A CHILD: SUCH A +DOWN THE ROOM FOR A LONG TIME, NO LONGER PIERCING AN IMAGINARY FOE WITH +DOWN THE WAX, THE SEAL, AND THE PAPER, WITH HIS ACCUSTOMED RAPIDITY. +DOWN TO HER NECK AND SHOULDERS WHILE NICHOLAS WAS SPEAKING. +DOWNWARDS AS WAS HIS HABIT. +DOWNWARD. WHEN PIERRE CAME UP THE COUNT WAS GAZING STRAIGHT AT HIM, BUT +“DO YOU KNOW,” HE SAID AT LAST, EVIDENTLY UNABLE TO CHECK THE SAD +“DO YOU KNOW, MON CHER,” SAID BILíBIN FOLLOWING HIM, “I HAVE BEEN +“DO YOU KNOW?” SAID PIERRE, AS IF SUDDENLY STRUCK BY A HAPPY +“DO YOU KNOW, THAT FAT PIERRE WHO SAT OPPOSITE ME IS SO FUNNY!” SAID + *DO YOU KNOW THE PROVERB? +“DO YOU KNOW, YOU ARE A TERRIBLE CHAP FOR ALL YOUR INNOCENT AIRS,” +“DO YOU OR DO YOU NOT KNOW WHERE THAT WILL IS?” INSISTED PRINCE +DO YOU REMAIN SILENT WHEN HEAVEN KNOWS WHO PERMITS HERSELF TO +“DO YOU REMEMBER ME?” ASKED BORíS QUIETLY WITH A PLEASANT SMILE. +“DO YOU SEE?... MY DOLL... MIMI... YOU SEE...” WAS ALL NATáSHA +“DO YOU THINK HE CAN LAST TILL MORNING?” ASKED THE GERMAN, +“DO YOU THINK SO?... REALLY? TRULY?” SHE SAID, QUICKLY SMOOTHING HER +“DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU’RE SAYING?” HE SAID IN A TREMBLING +DOZENS OF SOLDIERS, CONTINUALLY REPLACED BY OTHERS, WHO RAN FROM THE +DRAGOONS. IN THE CENTER, WHERE TúSHIN’S BATTERY STOOD AND FROM WHICH +DRAW BREATH. +DRAWING ROOM. +DRAWING ROOM. +DRAWING ROOM. +DRAWING ROOM. AND, IN FACT, BILíBIN’S WITTICISMS WERE HAWKED ABOUT +DRAWING ROOM, APPROACHING NOW A SILENT, NOW A TOO-NOISY GROUP, AND BY A +DRAWING ROOM, HELPED TO RECEIVE AND ENTERTAIN THE VISITORS. THE YOUNG +DRESS AS FRESH AND ELEGANT AS THE OTHER. PRINCE ANDREW ROSE AND POLITELY +DRESSED AND UNDRESSED, DRYING THEIR SHIRTS AND LEG BANDS OR MENDING +DRESSED FOR HIS ATTENDANCE AT COURT IN FULL PARADE UNIFORM, WHICH HE +DRESS, GIRDLED WITH A BROAD RIBBON JUST BELOW THE BREAST. +DRESSING GOWN LOOKED OUT. +DRESSING GOWN, SPECTACLED AND WIGLESS, SHOUTING IN AN ANGRY VOICE. +DRESS UNDER HER, HIDING HER FACE WITH HER SLENDER FINGERS, AND SOBBING +DREW HER CHAIR NEARER TO THAT OF THE COUNTESS. +DREW HIS SABER, AND WITH A HAPPY AND RESOLUTE COUNTENANCE, OPENING +DRIED AND WARMED THEMSELVES, COOKED THEIR PORRIDGE FOR THE FIRST TIME +DRIVING INTO THE COURT OF COUNT BEZúKHOV’S HOUSE. AS THE WHEELS +DROOPING TAIL. +DROPPED IT INTO A LEATHER POUCH ATTACHED TO THE LATHE, AND, APPROACHING +DROPPING HER VOICE. “MY WRETCHED LAWSUIT TAKES ALL I HAVE AND MAKES NO +DROPPING INTO HIS USUAL AFTER-DINNER NAP, AND LAUGHED AT EVERYTHING. +DRUBETSKáYA, WHO AS A MEMBER OF THE HOUSEHOLD WAS ALSO SEATED IN THE +DRUMMER, THEIR LEADER, TURNED ROUND FACING THE SINGERS, AND FLOURISHING +DUC EVEN THE MOST PARTIAL CEASED TO REGARD HIM AS A HERO. IF TO SOME +DUELIST, WHO WAS LIVING WITH ANATOLE. PIERRE SMILED, LOOKING ABOUT HIM +DULL EXPRESSION. +DULL EYES LOOKED AT HIM IN SILENCE. IT SEEMED TO PRINCE ANDREW THAT THE +DULL WITHOUT YOU,” SAID SHE, GIVING HIM A TENDER SMILE. +DURING THE BATTLE, AND FEELING REASSURED HE DOZED OFF.... THE DARK +DURING THE FIVE YEARS HE HAD KNOWN HER, AND HOW HER HEAD HAD CRACKED +DUST FROM THE SLEEVE OF HIS UNIFORM, AND GOING UP TO A MIRROR EXAMINED +DUTIES ON YOU, AND YOU MUST BE A MAN.” +DUTY. THE EMPEROR IS GRACIOUS, AND I SHAN’T FORGET YOU IF YOU DESERVE +DYING FATHER. “IT IS PAINFUL, BUT IT DOES ONE GOOD. IT UPLIFTS THE +DYING MAN, BUT PASSED BY HIM, JOINED THE ELDEST PRINCESS, AND MOVED +DYING MAN WISHED TO SEE, HER OWN ADMISSION WAS ASSURED. CASTING A RAPID +DYING OF FRIGHT. I DID, ‘PON MY WORD, I GOT THAT FRIGHTENED!” SAID +EACH ASCENT OR DESCENT OF THE ROAD THE CROWDS WERE YET DENSER AND THE +EACH OTHER’S ARMS WARMLY PRESSING THEIR LIPS TO WHATEVER PLACE THEY +EACH TIME HE TOUCHED HIS FOREHEAD. HIS FACE WORE A CALM LOOK OF PIETY +EACH VISITOR PERFORMED THE CEREMONY OF GREETING THIS OLD AUNT WHOM NOT +EAGERLY AND RATHER DISDAINFULLY, NOT RESTING ON ANYTHING ALTHOUGH HIS +EASY. AND TELL ME, PLEASE—I’VE BEEN MEANING TO ASK—HOW IS HE +EASY TO TAKE MARSHALS, SITTING ON A SOFA BY THE FIRE! THAT IS TRUE, BUT +EBOOK OR ONLINE AT WWW.GUTENBERG.ORG +éCOSSAISE WAS ENDED, HE CLAPPED HIS HANDS TO THE MUSICIANS AND SHOUTED +EFFECTED THE DANGEROUS CROSSING OF THE STRAITS OF DOVER AND CAPTURED +EFFECT ON EVERYONE, SMILED AND, EVIDENTLY UNMOVED BY WHAT HAD BEEN +EFFORT. THE BOTTLE WAS EMPTYING PERCEPTIBLY AND RISING STILL HIGHER +EFFORT TO LOOK AT THE SERVANT WHO STOOD CONSTANTLY AT THE HEAD OF THE +EFFORT TO MOVE HER SHOULDERS OR BEND HER ARMS WHEN TURNING, OR STAMP +EFFORT TO SAY THIS. “WITHOUT A NAME AND WITHOUT MEANS... AND IT +EFFRAYéE, AS HE CALLED IT, SHOES, AND SILK STOCKINGS. +EGGED ON AGAINST EACH OTHER. +“EH, EH, FRIEND! COME HERE A BIT,” SAID SHE, ASSUMING A SOFT HIGH +“EH? WHAT?” ASKED PRINCE ANDREW. +EH?... WHAT THEN?... EH?” +EITHER. DON’T I KNOW THAT AT THE RATE WE ARE LIVING OUR MEANS WON’T +ELDER DAUGHTER, COUNTESS VéRA, WITH A SMILE. +ELDERLY FACE, AND SHE TOOK THE MONEY FROM UNDER THE HANDKERCHIEF. +ELDERS. +ELDEST PRINCESS, WHO WERE SITTING UNDER THE PORTRAIT OF CATHERINE THE +ELDEST WHO WAS READING—THE ONE WHO HAD MET ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. THE +ELEGANTLY. BILíBIN’S SERVICES WERE VALUED NOT ONLY FOR WHAT HE WROTE, +ELSE,” REPLIED ANNA PáVLOVNA. +EMBARRASSING ATTENTIONS. ON THE FACE OF THE WAG ZHERKóV THERE SUDDENLY +EMBARRASSMENT LOOKED PIERRE STRAIGHT IN THE FACE. +EMBITTERED LOOK CLOUDED HER ONCE HANDSOME FACE, BUT ONLY FOR A MOMENT; +EMBROIDERED COURT UNIFORM, KNEE BREECHES, AND SHOES, AND HAD STARS ON +EMITTING A SMOKE RING. +EMPEROR, ABOUT THE REMARKS HE HAD HEARD AT COURT CONCERNING THE KREMS +EMPEROR FRANCIS WOULD HAVE BEEN FULFILLED LONG AGO. I SHOULD LONG +EMPEROR NAPOLEON BURNS WITH IMPATIENCE TO MAKE PRINCE AUERSPERG’S +EMPEROR NAPOLEON IF WE TAKE THIS BRIDGE, SO LET US THREE GO AND TAKE +EMPHATICALLY. +EMPTIED THEM, ROLLING THE VODKA IN THEIR MOUTHS, AND WALKED AWAY FROM +ENCAMPMENT, AND NOT WITHIN SIGHT OF THE ENEMY BEFORE AN ACTION IN +EN CONJURE...” +ENCOUNTER ONE ANOTHER AT THE CLEAN, SMART HUSSARS WHO MOVED PAST THEM IN +“ENCOURAGING US TO GET ALONG QUICKER,” SAID ANOTHER UNEASILY. +ENDED WITH A THUD INTO SOMETHING SOFT... F-F-FLOP! AND A COSSACK, RIDING +ENDING PIERRE’S UNPLEASANT AND UNAMIABLE OUTBURST. AFTER THE ANECDOTE +END OF HIS GUN...” A SOLDIER WHOSE GREATCOAT WAS WELL TUCKED UP SAID +ENDURE THIS MAN WHO IS A MENACE TO EVERYTHING.” +ENEMY’S HORSE PATROLS COULD BE DISCERNED. +ENEMY THREE TIMES AS STRONG, WHO WOULD HEM HIM IN FROM TWO SIDES. +ENGAGEMENT AND HIS RECEPTION BY THE MINISTER OF WAR. +“ENGLAND IS DONE FOR,” SAID HE, SCOWLING AND POINTING HIS FINGER +ENGROSSED BY IT, YET HIS STRUT SEEMED TO INDICATE THAT, BESIDES MILITARY +ENJOYED NARRATING ALL THIS, AND DID NOT SEEM TO SUSPECT THAT OTHERS, +ENORMOUS TABLE WOULD SAY: “WELL, DMíTRI, YOU’LL SEE THAT THINGS ARE +ENOUGH TO SEE A LONG WAY IN THE DESERTED STREET AND IT SEEMED MORE LIKE +ENTERED. +ENTERED HIS FATHER’S DRESSING ROOM (NOT WITH THE CONTEMPTUOUS LOOK AND +ENTERED, THE BRONZE HANDLE OF ONE OF THE DOORS TURNED AND PRINCE VASíLI +ENTERED THEIR HEADS THAT IT COULD HAVE BEEN OTHERWISE AT THIS MEETING. +ENTERED THE ROOM. +ENTERED THE ROOM. +ENTERING THE HOUSE, PRINCE ANDREW SAW NESVíTSKI AND ANOTHER ADJUTANT +ENTER THAT ROOM. +ENTRANCE, AFTER SCRUTINIZING THE MOTHER AND SON (WHO WITHOUT ASKING TO +ENTRANCE. THE PRINCE WAS WORKING AT THE LATHE AND AFTER GLANCING ROUND +ENTREATIES. SOON AFTER ANNA PáVLOVNA’S RECEPTION ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA +ENTRENCHMENTS BEING THROWN UP, THE FRESHLY DUG CLAY OF WHICH SHOWED UP +ENTRENCHMENTS LOOKED OUT JUST AS MENACINGLY, AND THE UNLIMBERED CANNON +ENTRENCHMENT. THEY HAD TO HOLD THEIR NOSES AND PUT THEIR HORSES TO A +EPAULETTES HAD BEEN PACKING WITH HIS VALET IN THE ROOMS ASSIGNED TO HIM. +EQUALITY. HAVE PEOPLE SINCE THE REVOLUTION BECOME HAPPIER? ON THE +EQUIP HIM.” +ESCAPE, AND BAGRATIóN’S FOUR THOUSAND MEN MERRILY LIGHTED CAMPFIRES, +ESCAPE IT ANYHOW.” +ESCORTED HIM TO THE DOOR, REPEATING SOMETHING TO HIM SEVERAL TIMES IN +ESPECIALLY AFTER HAVING DINED, BOLKóNSKI FELT THAT HE COULD NOT TAKE IN +ESSENTIAL, AND AFTER A SHORT INTERVAL FOLLOWED HER. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA +ESTABLISHED INTIMACY WITH THE FRENCH MARSHALS, AND SO DAZZLED BY THE +ESTIME QUE JE PROFESSE POUR THE ORTHODOX RUSSIAN ARMY, J’AVOUE QUE +ESTRANGEMENT, AND RIDICULE WITH WHICH TROOPS OF DIFFERENT ARMS USUALLY +“EVEN IF IT WERE A GREAT DEAL OF TROUBLE...” ANSWERED PRINCE ANDREW, +EVENING LIGHT AND THE BLUE TUNICS ADVANCING FROM THE OTHER SIDE WITH +EVENING. THERE WAS ROOM ENOUGH IN THE WIDE CORRIDOR FOR THE GENERALS TO +EVEN IN HIS WAY; BUT ALL AT ONCE HE FELT THAT THIS WOULD NOT DO, AND +EVEN IN THE BEST, MOST FRIENDLY AND SIMPLEST RELATIONS OF LIFE, PRAISE +EVENLY, AND THEN RAISED HIS HEAD. HE HAD AN INTELLECTUAL AND DISTINCTIVE +EVEN MORE SO. I LIKE BEING ALONE.... FATHER LIKES HER VERY MUCH. SHE AND +EVEN PUSHED ASIDE, HE BEGAN WRAPPING IT ROUND THE PRINCESS. EITHER FROM +EVENT MUST BE ALLOWED TO DISTURB THE APPOINTED ORDER OF THE DAY. PRINCE +EVEN TRY TO DO SO. ALL WERE WATCHING THE COUNT AND MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA. +EVER SINCE HE HAD OVERTAKEN THE REGIMENT IN POLAND, HAD LIVED WITH THE +“EVERYBODY IS WONDERING TO WHOM THE COUNT WILL LEAVE HIS FORTUNE, +EVERYBODY LAUGHED, AND HIPPOLYTE LOUDER THAN ANYONE. HE WAS EVIDENTLY +EVERY MUSCLE OF TELYáNIN’S PALE, TERRIFIED FACE BEGAN TO QUIVER, HIS +EVERYONE. +EVERYONE AGAIN LOOKED TOWARD THE DOOR, WHICH CREAKED AS THE SECOND +“EVERYONE HAS HIS ACHILLES’ HEEL,” CONTINUED PRINCE ANDREW. +EVERYONE, INCLUDING ANNA PáVLOVNA, FELT THIS. +EVERYONE’S SITUATION. TOUT COMPRENDRE, C’EST TOUT PARDONNER. * THINK +EVERYONE WAITED, SO EMPHATICALLY AND EAGERLY DID HE DEMAND THEIR +EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY AT LAST AND HAD SPOKEN SUCH PATHETIC WORDS TO +EVERYTHING BEFORE YOU, EVERYTHING. AND YOU....” +EVERYTHING FROM THE TABLE NAPKINS TO THE SILVER, CHINA, AND GLASS BORE +EVERYTHING. I OFTEN WONDER AT YOU, ANNETTE—HOW AT YOUR AGE YOU +EVERYTHING, ONLY I HAVE NOTHING....” +EVERYTHING!” SAID NICHOLAS. “AND I WILL PROVE IT TO YOU.” +EVERYTHING THAT TOOK PLACE AND WAS REPORTED TO HIM WAS EXACTLY WHAT HE +EVERY TIME A BALL FLEW PAST. ROSTóV ON THE LEFT FLANK, MOUNTED ON HIS +EVERYWHERE. HE MIGHT EASILY BECOME AIDE-DE-CAMP TO THE EMPEROR. YOU KNOW +EVIDENT DUTY.” SHE PAUSED. ALL WERE SILENT, EXPECTANT OF WHAT WAS TO +EVIDENTLY DID NOT EXPECT. +EVIDENTLY GLAD OF A CHANCE TO SAY QUICKER IN WORDS WHAT HE WANTED TO +EVIDENTLY IN A FIT OF RAGE, HIS COAL-BLACK EYES WITH THEIR BLOODSHOT +EVIDENTLY IN THE VILLAGE ITSELF AND BEHIND THE HILL. TO THE LEFT FROM +EVIDENTLY LISTENING TO HERSELF WITH PLEASURE, AND SPEAKING WITH +EVIDENTLY RIGGED UP BY SOLDIERS OUT OF ANY AVAILABLE MATERIALS AND +EVIDENTLY THE PRINCE UNDERSTOOD HER, AND ALSO UNDERSTOOD, AS HE HAD DONE +EVIDENT THAT HE NOT ONLY KNEW EVERYONE IN THE DRAWING ROOM, BUT HAD +EVIDENT THAT THE CADET WAS LIBERAL WITH HIS TIPS AND THAT IT PAID TO +EXACTING, SO THAT WITHOUT BEING A HARDHEARTED MAN HE INSPIRED SUCH FEAR +EXACTITUDE. HE ALWAYS CAME TO TABLE UNDER PRECISELY THE SAME CONDITIONS, +EXAGGERATED GRASSEYEMENT, “THE PRINCE HAS BEEN SCOLDING MICHAEL +EXAGGERATION QUITE CONTRARY TO CHRISTIAN SIMPLICITY. LET US RATHER READ +EXCEEDINGLY LOFTY, THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD AND THE FOOTMEN—ONE +EXCELLENCY?... NOBODY KNOWS.” +EXCELLENCY’S PARTICIPATION IN THE COMMON ACTION IS HIGHLY VALUED BY +EXCEPT A FEW SCATTERED SKIRMISHERS. AN EMPTY SPACE OF SOME SEVEN HUNDRED +EXCEPT IN THE ARMY; I AM NOT A DIPLOMAT OR A GOVERNMENT CLERK.—I +EXCEPTION MADE, AND BORíS TRANSFERRED INTO THE REGIMENT OF SEMëNOV +EXCEPT VENERATION COULD SUCH A MAN AS MY FATHER EVOKE? AND I AM SO +EXCITED AND IRRITATED BY THESE THOUGHTS PRINCE ANDREW WENT TOWARD HIS +EXCITEDLY ANIMATED AND HEALTHY MEN.” SO THINKS, OR AT ANY RATE +EXCITEMENT. +EXCITEMENT. +EXCITEMENT, AROUND CHIN AND MOUTH. THE QUARTERMASTER FROWNED, LOOKING +EXCLAIMED IN EXCELLENT FRENCH. +EXCLAMATION HE WAS ASKING THE ADJUTANT TO WAIT, AND HE WENT ON WITH THE +“EXCUSE ME, GENERAL,” INTERRUPTED KUTúZOV, ALSO TURNING TO PRINCE +EXCUSE ME, VICOMTE—I MUST TELL IT IN RUSSIAN OR THE POINT WILL BE +EXECUTING OF THE PLAN. +EXPECTATIONS OF THOSE WHO KNEW HER. THE SUBDUED SMILE WHICH, THOUGH IT +EXPECTED TO BE AT ONCE PRESENTED TO THE EMPEROR. AT THE CHIEF ENTRANCE +EXPECT HE HAS FORGOTTEN ME. HE PAID ME ATTENTIONS IN THOSE DAYS,” SAID +EXPECTING A CRISIS.” +EXPECTING ANYTHING FROM YOURSELF IN THE FUTURE, YOU WILL FEEL AT EVERY +EXPECTING THAT HE WOULD HAVE A CHANCE TO GIVE A RELIABLE ACCOUNT, WHICH +EXPECTING THE SUMMONS TO ZAKúSKA, * AVOID ENGAGING IN ANY LONG +EXPECTING TO HEAR SOMETHING VERY PROFOUND. AT LAST HE CAME UP TO MORIO. +EXPECTING TWO VERY INTERESTING MEN TONIGHT, LE VICOMTE DE MORTEMART, WHO +EXPEDITION.... BUT WHAT’S THE SOUTHERN ARMY TO DO? PRUSSIA IS +EXPERIENCING A NEW AND PECULIAR PLEASURE. SóNYA, MUTTERING TO HERSELF, +EXPLAINED HOW TO RIVET THE HOOF AND WENT AWAY TO HIS OWN QUARTERS. +EXPLAINING THAT DóLOKHOV WAS BETTING WITH STEVENS, AN ENGLISH NAVAL +EXPLANATIONS, HOWEVER CLEAR THEY MIGHT BE. WHETHER IT WAS THE +EXPOSED—AND SHE SEEMED TO BRING THE GLAMOUR OF A BALLROOM WITH HER AS +EXPOSED. ANOTHER EMISSARY RODE TO THE RUSSIAN LINE TO ANNOUNCE THE PEACE +EXPOSED! IF I WERE ASKED WHAT I DESIRE MOST ON EARTH, IT WOULD BE TO BE +EXPOSE TO A BULLET, AND THEN YOU CONGRATULATE US ON THE VICTORY! ADMIT +EXPRESSED IMPETUOSITY AND ENTHUSIASM. NICHOLAS BLUSHED WHEN HE ENTERED +EXPRESSED THE CONCENTRATED AND HAPPY RESOLUTION YOU SEE ON THE FACE OF +EXPRESSING... AS IN ITS LAST NOTE... YOU UNDERSTAND... BESIDES, UNLESS +EXPRESSION. “C’EST... C’EST DU MACK. NOUS SOMMES MACKéS (IT IS... +EXPRESSION, EVIDENTLY HABITUAL TO HIM WHEN CONVERSING WITH WOMEN. +EXPRESSION. IT WAS THE HEAVY TREAD OF PRINCESS MARY THAT HE HEARD. +EXPRESSION OF PROFOUND AND SINCERE DEVOTION AND RESPECT MINGLED WITH +EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE CHANGED IN A WAY EVIDENTLY DELIBERATE AND +EXPRESSION ONLY IN HER MORE AND MORE BEAMING FACE AND QUIVERING NOSE. +EXPRESSIONS WITH THE CHOICEST FRENCH PHRASES—WHICH WAS A PECULIARITY +EXPRESSION—THE SAME MAN WHO HAD RUSHED OUT OF THE WATTLE SHED. AT THAT +EXPRESSION. VéRA WAS GOOD-LOOKING, NOT AT ALL STUPID, QUICK AT +EXPRESSION WHICH WAS NEVER TO BE SEEN ON IT IN A DRAWING ROOM. HIS EYES +EXTERNALLY WAS ALL IN ORDER, BUT HAD IT PLEASED THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF +EXTRAORDINARY MAY HAPPEN TO ONE THAT HONOR AND DISHONOR WILL BE ALL THE +EXTRéMITéS DE L’UNIVERS, NOUS ALLONS LUI FAIRE éPROUVER LE MêME +EXTRICATED HIMSELF FROM AN AWKWARD SITUATION AND PLACED ANOTHER IN IT, +EYEBROWS WHICH, WHEN HE FROWNED, SOMETIMES HID THE GLEAM OF HIS SHREWD, +EYE OF A NEEDLE THAN FOR A RICH MAN TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD, ARE +EYES. +EYES AND EARS INTENT ON THE COLONEL. +EYES HAD UTTERED FRENCH PHRASES BETWEEN HIS TEETH. EVERY MUSCLE OF HIS +EYES LIT UP SO THAT HER FACE WAS ENTIRELY TRANSFORMED. THEN SHE SUDDENLY +EYE SOCKET. “YES, HE HAS A RIGHT TO SPEAK SO CALMLY OF THOSE MEN’S +EYES STILL SHIFTED FROM SIDE TO SIDE BUT WITH A DOWNWARD LOOK NOT RISING +EYES. THE ENGLISHMAN LOOKED ON SIDEWAYS, PURSING UP HIS LIPS. THE MAN +EYES. THEN HAVING SATISFIED HIMSELF THAT ALL EYES WERE FIXED ON HIM, +EYES. THE SICK MAN WAS TURNED ON TO HIS SIDE WITH HIS FACE TO THE WALL. +EYES, WENT WITH UNUSUALLY HURRIED STEPS DOWN THE LONG CORRIDOR LEADING +FACE. +FACE, ALREADY GROWING OLD, THOUGH HE WAS DRESSED LIKE A MOST FASHIONABLE +FACE, AND AGAIN AT THE ARM, AND ON HIS FACE A FEEBLE, PITEOUS SMILE +FACE AND JUST NODDED TO HIM WITH HIS LONG HEAD. BUT AFTER IT WAS +FACE, AND PRINCE ANDREW SAW THAT HIPPOLYTE, OF WHOM—HE HAD TO +FACE AS IF DRIVING OFF A TROUBLESOME FLY. “AND WHY ARE YOU STOPPING +FACE ASSUMED A FORCED UNNATURAL EXPRESSION AS SOON AS SHE LOOKED IN A +FACE ASSUMED ITS MELANCHOLY EXPRESSION), “HE WAS MENTIONED AT HER +FACE CHANGED INTO A WINNING AND PITEOUS LOOK OF FEAR. HER BEAUTIFUL EYES +FACE; HIS EYES CONTINUALLY WANDERED FROM ONE OBJECT TO ANOTHER. +FACE INSTANTLY CHANGED AND ASSUMED AN OFFENSIVELY AFFECTED, SUGARY +FACE IN THE LACE OF HER MOTHER’S MANTILLA—NOT PAYING THE LEAST +FACE. “LET HIM SEE WHETHER I AM A COWARD!” HE THOUGHT. +FACE LOOKED WORN—HE TOO HAD EVIDENTLY NOT SLEPT ALL NIGHT. HE GLANCED +FACES, THE WALL OF SOLDIERS BURDENED WITH KNAPSACKS AND MUSKETS MARCHED +FACE TO PRINCE ANDREW, SMILED, AND WAVED HIS HAND. +FACE, WHICH HAD BEEN SO RADIANTLY HAPPY ALL THAT SAINT’S DAY, SUDDENLY +FACING THE QUARTERMASTER WHO WAS REPORTING TO HIM. ON SEEING ROSTóV, +FACT. +FACT OF A GREAT MAN EXECUTING A DUC—OR EVEN AN ORDINARY MAN WHO—IS +FAILED. BORíS ON THE CONTRARY AT ONCE FOUND HIS FOOTING, AND RELATED +FAITHFULLY AS I CAN, WITHOUT DISQUIETING MYSELF BY EXAMINING MY FEELINGS +‘FAITHFUL SLAVE,’ AS YOU CALL YOURSELF! BUT HOW DO YOU DO? I SEE I +FALLEN!” +FALLEN, AND AN OLD TROOPER ON THE FLANK, A NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICER WHO +FAMILIAR VOICE. “ONE IS AFRAID OF THE UNKNOWN, THAT’S WHAT IT IS. +FAMILIAR VOICE, “WHAT I SAY IS THAT IF IT WERE POSSIBLE TO KNOW +FAMILY CONSULTATION; IS IT NOT SO, PRINCE?” +“FANCY, WITH HIS POWERFUL MIND, INDULGING IN SUCH NONSENSE!” +FAR. BY INTRIGUES, VIOLENCE, EXILE, AND EXECUTIONS, FRENCH SOCIETY—I +FAST AS HER NIMBLE LITTLE FEET WOULD CARRY HER. BORíS DID NOT LAUGH. +FAST ASLEEP WITH HIS HEAD ON HIS ARM. +FATE AND IN SPITE OF THE PLEASURES AND DISTRACTIONS AROUND ME I CANNOT +FATE, HER FATHER-IN-LAW, AND HER HUSBAND. AFTER CRYING SHE HAD FALLEN + FATE—(THE FATE OF THE ARMY AT ULM).” +FAT FINGER. +FATHER AND SON. THIS LASTED ABOUT TWO MINUTES, WHICH TO PIERRE SEEMED AN +FATHER-IN-LAW AND NOW AT PRINCESS MARY. WHEN THEY LEFT THE TABLE SHE +FATHER IN ORDER TO PUZZLE OR TEST HIS SISTER. +“FATHER KUTúZOV.” +FATHER’S FACE WITH AN EAGER AND RESPECTFUL LOOK. “HOW IS YOUR +FATHER’S FRIENDSHIP FOR YOU; BUT NOW I ENTREAT YOU FOR GOD’S SAKE TO +FATHER’S RIDICULE OF THE NEW MEN, AND DREW HIM ON AND LISTENED TO HIM +FATHER’S STUDY AS THE LATTER WISHED TO SAY GOOD-BY TO HIM ALONE. ALL +FATHER THERE WOULD BE NOTHING I COULD REPROACH YOU WITH,” SAID ANNA +FATHER TO BE A CONNECTION OF PRINCE VASíLI’S. THE ELDERLY LADY WHO +FATHER TO THE AMBASSADOR’S ENTERTAINMENT; SHE WORE A BALL DRESS AND +FAVORITE, “HOW IS IT YOU HAVE SO LITTLE TACT? DON’T YOU SEE YOU ARE +FEAR APPEARED ON HER FLUSHED FACE. +FEARED HIM. +FEARING TO BE CAPTURED BY THE FRENCH ON THE WAY TO KREMS. +FEARING TO RELAX, SHOUTED WITH HIS MOUTH WIDE OPEN AND PASSED ON. +FEAR WOULD PREVENT HER UNDERSTANDING ANY OF HER FATHER’S FURTHER +FEATURES. NICHOLAS WAS SHORT WITH CURLY HAIR AND AN OPEN EXPRESSION. +FEEBLE VOICE OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF WAS HEARD. THE REGIMENT ROARED, +FEEBLE VOICE TO WHICH HE TRIED TO IMPART A DASHING NOTE, ILL-SUITED TO +FEELING OF SICKENING AGITATION. +FEELINGS IN OTHERS, AND IF NEVER HAVING FELT THEM I CANNOT APPROVE OF +FEEL LIKE IT, SHE BECAME ENTHUSIASTIC IN ORDER NOT TO DISAPPOINT THE +FEELS, ANYONE WHO COMES IN SIGHT OF THE ENEMY, AND THAT FEELING GIVES +FEET THAT MOVED THROUGH THE STICKY MUD THAT COVERED THE PLANKS OF THE +FEET WERE THE ONLY SOUNDS THAT COULD BE HEARD. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, WITH +FEIGNED SEVERITY. “YOU SPOIL HER, ILYá,” SHE ADDED, TURNING TO HER +FELL FROM HIM. HE WAS GLAD, AND AT THE SAME INSTANT BEGAN TO PITY THE +FELLOW COULD HAVE PLAYED SUCH A PRANK ON A POLICEMAN. +FELLOWS HAVE ALL LOST YOUR WITS, OR I HAVE OUTLIVED MINE. MAY GOD HELP +FELLOW! WHAT YOU HAVE JUST SAID IS GOOD, VERY GOOD. OF COURSE YOU +FELT IT INDECOROUS TO SPEAK OF HER PREGNANCY BEFORE PIERRE, THOUGH THE +FELT PERFECTLY HAPPY. JUST THEN THE COMMANDER APPEARED ON THE BRIDGE. +FELT THAT THE BATTLE OF WHICH HE HAD BROUGHT TIDINGS WAS FAR, FAR +FELT THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF GOING TO SLEEP ON SUCH A NIGHT. IT WAS LIGHT +FERDINAND DISGRACES HIMSELF. YOU ABANDON VIENNA, GIVE UP ITS +FESTIVITIES AND FIREWORKS ARE BECOMING WEARISOME.” +FETCH THE FRENCHMAN, MOREAU,” HE SAID, ALLUDING TO THE INVITATION MADE +FEU, ET OUBLIE CELUI QU’IL DEVAIT FAIRE FAIRE SUR L’ENNEMI!” *(2) +FIELD GLASS AND SHRUGGING HIS SHOULDERS, “SO IT IS! THEY’LL BE FIRED +FIGHT BONAPARTE BY THIS NEW SCIENCE YOU CALL ‘STRATEGY.’” +FIGHT. YOU’LL SEE—WE SHALL RETIRE.” +FILLED BY THE DOMESTIC SERFS—THE MEN ON ONE SIDE AND THE WOMEN ON +FIND, AND STILL SEEKS, SOME SECRET MOTIVE IN OUR ACTIONS. WHAT ANSWER +FINE CORDS WOULD SOON GET A BIT RUBBED,” SAID AN INFANTRYMAN, WIPING + * FINE EYES. +FINE! I DON’T WANT ANYTHING, PRINCE.” +FINE,” SAID A CORPORAL, CHAFFING A THIN LITTLE SOLDIER WHO BENT UNDER +FINGERS, DREW OUT A GOLD IMPERIAL, AND LIFTING HIS EYEBROWS GAVE IT TO +FINISHED. +FINISHED PHRASES OF GENERAL INTEREST. THESE SAYINGS WERE PREPARED IN THE +FIRING INCENDIARY BALLS AT THE VILLAGE OF SCHöN GRABERN VISIBLE JUST +FIRMNESS, AND EXPEDITION. I CONSIDER MYSELF FORTUNATE TO HAVE SUCH A +FIRST APPEARANCE IN SOCIETY. ANNA PáVLOVNA GREETED HIM WITH THE NOD SHE + FIRST EPILOGUE: 1813 - 20 +FIRST HE HAD EVER WRITTEN. BORíS AND NATáSHA WERE AT THE OTHER WINDOW +FIRST NOT ONLY WHAT HAD BEEN SAID BUT ALSO WHAT KUTúZOV WOULD HAVE +“FIRST OF ALL, DEAR FRIEND, TELL ME HOW YOU ARE. SET YOUR FRIEND’S +“FIRST OF ALL YOU MUST DRINK!” +FIRST OF ONE AND THEN OF ANOTHER PRIEST. +FIRST PLACE BECAUSE HER PROVINCES HAVE BEEN PILLAGED—THEY SAY THE HOLY +“FIRST-RATE,” SAID PIERRE, LOOKING AT DóLOKHOV, WHO WITH A BOTTLE +FIRST TIME SINCE THEIR ENCOUNTER CONCERNING TELYáNIN. ROSTóV, FEELING +FIRST TO ONE SIDE AND THEN TO THE OTHER WATCHED THE SMOKERS WITH EVIDENT +FIST, AND TAPPED IT ON THE FLOOR, MAKING THE SPARKS FLY, WHILE HE +FIVE IN THE AFTERNOON,” REPLIED BOLKóNSKI GROWING MORE ANIMATED AND +FIVE TIMES. HE ENTERED THE ROOM SOFTLY. THE LITTLE PRINCESS, PLUMP AND +FIVE YEARS, IF HE GOES ON LIKE THIS?” PRESENTLY HE ADDED: “THAT’S +FIXED ON. +FIXED ON HER. +FIXED STRAIGHT ON HIS SON’S. SOMETHING TWITCHED IN THE LOWER PART OF +FLABBY THAT THEY LOOKED HEAVIER BELOW, WERE TWITCHING VIOLENTLY; BUT +FLANK,” HE SAID TO HIMSELF, “THE KIEV GRENADIERS AND THE PODóLSK +FLAYED, SOME NOT, AND BROKEN-DOWN CARTS BESIDE WHICH SOLITARY SOLDIERS +FLOURISHED HIS CASTANETS AS IF THREATENING SOMEONE. THE SOLDIERS, +FLOURISHING HIS ARM, CALLED HIM TO ENTER. +FLOWER TUBS AND HID THERE. +FLUNG IT DOWN AND BEGAN: +FOLLOWED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA OUT OF THE CARRIAGE, AND ONLY THEN BEGAN +FOLLOWED BY A COSSACK. +FOLLOWED BY THE OWNER OF THE MANLY VOICE, A DASHING INFANTRY OFFICER WHO +FOLLOWED HIM IN, AS IF THERE WERE NOW NO FURTHER NEED FOR PERMISSION TO +FOLLOWED SINGLY. THE FOOTMEN BEGAN MOVING ABOUT, CHAIRS SCRAPED, THE +FOLLOW, FOR THIS WAS CLEARLY ONLY A PRELUDE. +FOLLOWING PASSAGE, IN GERMAN, FROM THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND’S LETTER: +FOLLOWING THE MASS MOVEMENTS AND GENERAL ORDERS, AND CONSTANTLY STUDYING +FOLLOWING THE PRINCESS, WHOM A FOOTMAN WAS HELPING INTO THE CARRIAGE. +FOLLOWS THAT PIERRE WILL NOT BE PIERRE BUT WILL BECOME COUNT BEZúKHOV, +FOLLOWS THE CURRENT OF HIS OWN THOUGHTS, “THINGS WILL HAVE GONE TOO +FOOTING THAT ALL WHO KNEW THEM, INCLUDING ANATOLE HIMSELF, RESPECTED HIM +FOOTMEN AND COOKS WERE GETTING THE SUPPER, COUNT BEZúKHOV HAD A +FOOT TO FOOT UNCERTAIN WITH WHICH TO START, THEN SETTLED DOWN, GALLOPED +FOR A FEW SECONDS COLLECTED HIS THOUGHTS. THEN THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR +“FORAGE HAS NOT BEEN SUPPLIED TO THE EXTENT...” +FOR A LONG TIME PIERRE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND, BUT WHEN HE DID, HE JUMPED +FOR A MERE FANCY?” SAID NICHOLAS TAKING HER HAND. +FOR ANYTHING AND I NEVER WILL AGAIN, NOR HAVE I EVER REMINDED YOU OF MY +FOREHEAD. +FOREHEAD, WETTING HIM WITH HER TEARS. THEN AFTER A PAUSE SHE SAID: +“FOREVER?” SAID THE LITTLE GIRL. “TILL DEATH ITSELF?” +FOR EVERYTHING, THE COLONEL MOVED FORWARD AND ORDERED THE SECOND +FORGETTING THAT SHE WAS DANCING WITH A GROWN-UP PARTNER SHE BENT HER +FOR GIRLS AND BOYS.” +FORGOTTEN. OUR DUTY, MY DEAR, IS TO RECTIFY HIS MISTAKE, TO EASE HIS +FOR HIM. +FOR HIM, BUT AGAIN PRESSED ON HIM SO THAT THEY JAMMED HIS LEG, AND THOSE +FORMED THE PICKET LINE ON EITHER SIDE, THERE WERE MANY CURIOUS ONLOOKERS +“FOR ME? FOR ME?... TRYING FOR ME!...” SAID SHE. +FORMER POSITION. A HUGE, BROAD-SHOULDERED GUNNER, NUMBER ONE, HOLDING +“FOR NOT DILLY-DALLYING AND NOT HANGING TO A WOMAN’S APRON STRINGS. +FOR RUSSIA, FOR THE ORTHODOX GREEK FAITH! ALL THAT IS BEAUTIFUL, BUT +FOR SOME DAYS IN MOSCOW AND WAS STAYING AS USUAL AT HIS FATHER’S +FOR THE ATTAINMENT OF THAT PURPOSE. +FOR THE COUNTESS.” +FOR THE GOOD WE HAVE DONE THEM.’ FATHER TOOK HER WHEN SHE WAS HOMELESS +FOR THE TWO APPROACHING BATTALIONS. WHILE HE WAS SPEAKING, THE CURTAIN +(FOR THEY WERE SPEAKING FRENCH) AT LEAST WITH A RUSSIAN WHO WOULD, HE +FOR THREE DAYS, AND NOT ONE OF THEM KNEW OR IMAGINED WHAT WAS IN STORE +FORTNIGHT’S RETREAT, THE RUSSIAN TROOPS HAD HALTED AND AFTER A FIGHT +“FOR TOMORROW!” SAID HE, QUICKLY FINDING THE PAGE AND MAKING A + * “FORTY THOUSAND MEN MASSACRED AND THE ARMY OF OUR ALLIES +FORWARD AND, STOOPING OVER THE DYING MAN, BECKONED TO LORRAIN FROM +FORWARD BESIDE SCHMIDT WITH THE BULLETS MERRILY WHISTLING ALL AROUND, +FORWARD. “COMPANY COMMANDERS!” HE SHOUTED IN A VOICE ACCUSTOMED TO +FOR YOUR OBSTINACY,” SAID KíRSTEN. +FOR YOUR SAKE.” +FOUND.” +FOUND EXPRESSION IN CALLING HER MAID “MY DEAR” AND SPEAKING TO HER +FOUND THEM TO BE SO TIRESOME THAT IT WEARIED HIM TO LOOK AT OR LISTEN TO +FOUR THOUSAND STRONG, TO THE RIGHT ACROSS THE HILLS FROM THE KREMS-ZNAIM +FOUR TIMES—TILL I GET WHAT I WANT. I DON’T MIND WHAT THEY THINK OF +FRAGMENTARY SENTENCES TRIED TO EXPLAIN ABOUT A DOLL WHICH SHE PRODUCED +FRANCIS RECEIVED HIM STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM. BEFORE THE +FRANTICALLY, HAD SUCH AN EFFECT THAT THEY MANAGED TO SQUEEZE THROUGH +FRECKLED GUNNER IN A MERRY VOICE, STANDING TO ATTENTION. +FREEDOM I COULD UNDERSTAND IT AND SHOULD BE THE FIRST TO ENTER THE ARMY; +FRENCH. A GROUP OF COSSACK SCOUTS RETIRED DOWN THE HILL AT A TROT. ALL +FRENCH BATTALION RUSHES TO THE BRIDGEHEAD, SPIKES THE GUNS, AND THE +FRENCH. BUT THIS ADJUTANT RETURNED HALF AN HOUR LATER WITH THE NEWS THAT +FRENCH FAMILIES. HE IS ONE OF THE GENUINE éMIGRéS, THE GOOD ONES. AND +FRENCH FORESTALL HIM AT ZNAIM MEANT THE EXPOSURE OF HIS WHOLE ARMY TO A +FRENCHMAN, HOLDING HIM DOWN BY THE SLEEVE IN A FRIENDLY WAY TO PREVENT +FRENCH SINCE SUVóROV MET THEM. HE FEARED THAT BONAPARTE’S GENIUS +FRENCH, THERE WOULD BE GREAT HOPE OF SAVING THE ARMY; TO LET THE +FRENCH THOUGH HE SPOKE IT BADLY, OFFERED TO CONDUCT PRINCE ANDREW. +FRENCH, TURNING TO A GENERAL, “MY HUSBAND IS DESERTING ME? HE IS GOING +FRENCHWOMAN BLUSHED AND WENT AWAY WITHOUT A WORD. WHEN HE REACHED HIS +FRIEND...” +FRIEND.” +FRIEND A MODEL OF PERFECTION BECAUSE PRINCE ANDREW POSSESSED IN THE +FRIENDLY WORDS TO OFFICERS HE HAD KNOWN IN THE TURKISH WAR, SOMETIMES +FRIEND’S HAND. +FRIENDSHIP.” +FRIENDSHIP AT ALL; I SIMPLY FEEL THAT THE ARMY IS MY VOCATION.” +FRIEND, THAT I LOOK ON MARRIAGE AS A DIVINE INSTITUTION TO WHICH WE MUST +FRIGHTENED HERE?” AND THE ARTILLERYMAN UNDERSTOOD HIM. +FRIGID POLITENESS. +FROCK AND HAIR. +FROM BEHIND. +“FROM DüRRENSTEIN TO KREMS.” +“FROM GENERAL FIELD MARSHAL KUTúZOV?” HE ASKED. “I HOPE IT IS +“FROM HéLOïSE?” ASKED THE PRINCE WITH A COLD SMILE THAT SHOWED HIS +FROM HIM. “HE USED TO HAVE A PREDILECTION FOR BACCHUS.” +FROM HIM. “THERE, YOU SEE!” AND HE DREW ATTENTION TO THE BULLETS +FROM HOLLABRüNN) RECEIVED MURAT’S DISPATCH WITH THE PROPOSAL OF A +FROM LA GRIPPE; GRIPPE BEING THEN A NEW WORD IN ST. PETERSBURG, USED +FROM LAUGHING. +FROM PASSING, “WON’T THIS BE TOO MUCH FOR POOR UNCLE AT A MOMENT +FROM PRINCE ANDREW TO THE STAFF OFFICER. +FROM SITTING ON THE OUTER SILL WAS BEING FORCED OUT BY TWO FOOTMEN, WHO +FROM THAT DISTORTED MOUTH ISSUED AN INDISTINCT, HOARSE SOUND. ANNA +FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SLOPE, WHERE THE PARLEYS HAD TAKEN PLACE, CAME +FROM THE DOCTOR TO PIERRE. TO HIM, IN A PARTICULARLY RESPECTFUL AND +FROM THE FOLDS OF HER FROCK. +FROM THE GUARDS JUST BEFORE THIS CAMPAIGN. HE BEHAVED VERY WELL IN THE +FROM THE HILL. THERE WAS NO ONE NOW BETWEEN THE SQUADRON AND THE ENEMY +FROM THE RANKS. A MOROSE SOLDIER MARCHING ON THE LEFT TURNED HIS EYES ON +FROM THE REVOLUTION LEAVING THE PEOPLE TO ANARCHY, AND NAPOLEON ALONE +FROM THE RIGHT FLANK, BESIDE WHICH THE CARRIAGE PASSED THE COMPANY, +FROM THE SHELF THE FIRST BOOK THAT CAME TO HIS HAND (IT WAS CAESAR’S +FROM THE WAY THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER SALUTED THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF AND +FROM VARIOUS PEOPLE AND RETELLING THE TOWN GOSSIP. +FROM VIENNA KUTúZOV WROTE TO HIS OLD COMRADE, PRINCE ANDREW’S FATHER. +FROM VIENNA TO ZNAIM WAS SHORTER AND BETTER THAN THE ROAD FOR THE +FROM WEEPING AND SAT DOWN BESIDE DR. LORRAIN, WHO WAS SITTING IN A +“FROM WHAT I HAVE HEARD,” SAID PIERRE, BLUSHING AND BREAKING INTO +“FROM WHERE TO WHERE, YOUR MAJESTY?” +FROM WHICH THEY HAD DASHED OUT SO IMPETUOUSLY, THE CONVERSATION HAD +FRONT AND MEN FOUR ABREAST, SPREAD ACROSS THE BRIDGE AND BEGAN TO EMERGE +FRONT. PIERRE STOOD SMILING BUT SILENT. ONE MAN, OLDER THAN THE OTHERS +FRO WITH DIGNITY, OFFERED SURMISES ABOUT THE WEATHER, OR TOUCHED ON +FURTHER BACK TILL HIS CURLY HAIR TOUCHED HIS SHIRT COLLAR, AND THE HAND +GAIETY WITH WHICH ZHERKóV SPOKE, AND TO THE INTENTIONAL COLDNESS OF +GAILY, WITH A WIDE SWING OF HIS ARM. +GAINED A STEP ON HIS OLD COMRADES OF THE CADET CORPS; HOW IN WARTIME +GALLANTRY LIT UP HIS FACE AND AS SOON AS THE LAST FIGURE OF THE +GALLOPED ON TO THE VILLAGE WHERE HE WAS TOLD THAT THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF +“GAVE HIM LEAVE? LEAVE? THAT’S JUST LIKE YOU YOUNG MEN,” SAID THE +GAVE HIS HAND TO THE PLAGUE-STRICKEN; BUT ... BUT THERE ARE OTHER ACTS +GAZED AT BOLKóNSKI SILENTLY WITH WIDE-OPEN EYES. +GENEALOGICAL TREE, SHOOK HIS HEAD, LAUGHING AS A MAN LAUGHS WHO LOOKS AT +GENERAL!” +GENERAL.” +GENERAL COMMOTION. SOME EIGHT OR NINE YOUNG MEN WERE CROWDING ANXIOUSLY +“GENERAL, I MUST OBEY ORDERS, BUT I AM NOT BOUND TO ENDURE...” +“GENERAL KUTúZOV,” SAID BOLKóNSKI, SPEAKING FRENCH AND STRESSING +GENERALLY, PRINCE ANDREW HAD, AS HE HAD HAD IN PETERSBURG SOCIETY, TWO +GENERALLY THE STRONGER! I KNOW VERY WELL THAT COUNT NICHOLAS IS TOO +GENERAL—OF WHOM AUSTRIA HAS SO MANY—AND TO LAY DOWN ALL THIS HEAVY +GENERALS AND STATESMEN OF THE DAY. THE OLD PRINCE SEEMED CONVINCED NOT +GENERAL SCHMIDT, WHO WAS KILLED IN THE ACTION. HIS HORSE HAD BEEN +GENERAL’S THREE-CORNERED HAT, AND HELD IT, PULLING AT THE PLUME, +GENERAL WERE TALKING IN LOW VOICES AND KUTúZOV SMILED SLIGHTLY AS +GENERAL WHO HAD SUCCEEDED SCHMIDT. IN THE PASSAGE LITTLE KOZLóVSKI WAS +GENERAL WHO SIGNED THAT CAPITULATION HAD NO RIGHT TO DO SO, AND THAT NO +GENOA AND LUCCA LAYING THEIR PETITIONS BEFORE MONSIEUR BUONAPARTE, AND +GENTLE LOOK OF HER LARGE LUMINOUS EYES, VERY BEAUTIFUL AT THAT MOMENT, +“GENTLEMEN, I’LL DO ANYTHING. NO ONE SHALL HEAR A WORD FROM ME,” +GENTLEMEN, IT IS ALREADY TIME FOR ME TO GO,” REPLIED PRINCE ANDREW +GENTLEMEN, MESSIEURS LES MARéCHAUX, * MURAT, LANNES, AND BELLIARD, +GENTLEMEN OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS. WITH PRINCE HIPPOLYTE KURáGIN, +‘GENTLEMEN,’ SAYS ONE OF THEM, ‘YOU KNOW THE THABOR BRIDGE IS +“GENTLEMEN, WHO WISHES TO BET WITH ME? I’LL DO THE SAME THING!” +GERMAN ACCENT, “FOR THE REASSON ZAT ZE EMPEROR KNOWS ZAT. HE +GESTURE. ANNA PáVLOVNA MEDITATED. +“GET IN,” SAID KUTúZOV, AND NOTICING THAT BOLKóNSKI STILL DELAYED, +GET READY TO DANCE IN THE LARGE HALL, AND THE SOUND OF THE FEET AND THE +GET THERE AND FIRE THE BRIDGE OR WILL THE FRENCH GET WITHIN GRAPESHOT +“GET WELL SOON, LADS!” HE CONTINUED, TURNING TO THE SOLDIERS. +GIDDY EVEN ON A STAIRCASE,” EXCLAIMED SEVERAL VOICES. +GILT FRAME, NEW TO HIM, CONTAINING THE GENEALOGICAL TREE OF THE PRINCES +GIRLISH ADORATION THAT HER SMILE COULD NOT FOR A SINGLE INSTANT IMPOSE +GIRL, YOU AND YOUR SISTERS ARE NOT HEIRESSES! IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE ME, +GIST OF THE MATTER LAY IN THAT. +“GIVE ME A BISCUIT, YOU DEVIL!” +GIVE ME SATISFACTION...” +“GIVE ME THAT LETTER,” SAID KUTúZOV TURNING TO PRINCE ANDREW. +“GIVE ME TIME TO COLLECT MY WITS, FATHER,” SAID HE, WITH A SMILE +GIVEN HIM BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF AND HIS FELLOW OFFICERS, PRINCE +GIVEN TO BLOW IT UP. OTHERWISE WE SHOULD LONG AGO HAVE BEEN IN THE +GIVES THE SINGLES AND SNATCHES THE DOUBLES!” +GIVING HIM A MILD EXPRESSION, RODE UP TO BAGRATIóN AND WELCOMED HIM AS +GIVING HIM FULL LIBERTY TO REMAIN WITH HIM DURING THE BATTLE OR TO JOIN +“GLAD TO DO OUR BEST, YOUR EX’LEN-LENCY!” CAME A CONFUSED SHOUT +GLANCE AT ALL THOSE IN THE ROOM AND NOTICING THE COUNT’S CONFESSOR +GLANCED ASKANCE AT HER HUSBAND’S FACE, AND HER OWN ASSUMED THE TIMID, +GLANCED UP AT HER THROUGH TEARS OF LAUGHTER, AND AGAIN HID HER FACE. +GLANCING FOR SUPPORT AT AN OFFICER OF THE SUITE WHO TURNED AWAY +GLANCING UP AT HIM FROM UNDER HER BROWS, SMILING, AND ALMOST CRYING FROM +GLASS, “OR I WON’T LET YOU GO!” +GLASS. SHE WENT ON READING: +GLASS, SMILED, AND WALKED TOWARD THE OTHER DOOR. NATáSHA WAS ABOUT TO +GLEAMED. +GLITTERING TEETH AND SPARKLING EYES. SHE TOLD OF AN ACCIDENT THEY HAD +GLOOMY GRAVITY AND GLANCING ROUND AT HIS COMRADES, “THERE IS AN ORDER +GO. +“GO AND APOLOGIZE, YOUR EXCELLENCY. YES, GO!” +“GOD BE THANKED THAT YOU ARE IN TIME,” SAID SHE TO ONE OF THE +GODFATHER,” SHE ADDED, AS IF SHE ATTACHED NO IMPORTANCE AT ALL TO THE + * GOD HAS GIVEN IT TO ME, LET HIM WHO TOUCHES IT BEWARE! +“GOD HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT! WELL, GO ON,” HE CONTINUED, +GOES UP TO AUERSPERG AND SAYS: ‘PRINCE, YOU ARE BEING DECEIVED, HERE +“GO IN, ANNETTE, OR YOU WILL CATCH COLD,” SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS, +“GOING?” AND HE WENT ON WRITING. +GOING TO THE COTTAGE HE OCCUPIED WITH DENíSOV. +GOING TOWARD THE DOOR WITHOUT RAISING HIS EYES. DENíSOV PAUSED, THOUGHT +GOLD-EMBROIDERED VELVET BAG. HER PRETTY LITTLE UPPER LIP, ON WHICH A +GOLDEN.”) HE CAST HAPPY, SIDELONG GLANCES AT HIS SON FROM UNDER HIS +GOLíTSYN AND HE HAS REFUSED. BE THE KINDHEARTED MAN YOU ALWAYS WERE,” +GONE OUT OF THE CONSERVATORY SHE FOLLOWED AND CALLED BORíS TO HER. +“GONE? THAT’S ALL RIGHT!” SAID HE; AND LOOKING ANGRILY AT THE +GOOD AND NOBLE IN YOU WILL BE LOST. IT WILL ALL BE WASTED ON TRIFLES. +“GOOD-BY.” +GOOD-BY!” +“GOOD-BY, MY DEAR,” SAID SHE TO THE COUNTESS WHO SAW HER TO THE + * “GOOD GOD, WHAT SIMPLICITY!” +“GOOD HEALTH...” +GOOD HORSE, BEDOUIN, AND SITTING AS THOUGH FALLING BACKWARDS IN THE +GOOD LUCK.” +GOODNESS, TO GIVE US AS SOVEREIGN! TO SAY NOTHING OF MY BROTHERS, THIS +“GOOD NEWS!... GO ON!” HE SHOUTED TO THE DRIVER, AND THEY GALLOPED +GOOD NEWS? THERE HAS BEEN AN ENCOUNTER WITH MORTIER? A VICTORY? IT WAS +GOOD NEWS, THOUGH SCHMIDT’S DEATH IS A HEAVY PRICE TO PAY FOR THE +“GOOD NIGHT, LISE,” SAID HE, RISING AND COURTEOUSLY KISSING HER HAND +GOOD PART. +GOOD STORIES ABOUT HER, WHILE NONE THE LESS ALL WITHOUT EXCEPTION +“GO ON, GO ON!” SAID THE MAJOR. +“GO ON, YOU MUST DRINK IT ALL,” SAID ANATOLE, GIVING PIERRE THE LAST +GOT BACK TO THEIR HORSES. TWO WERE MISDIRECTED AND THE SHOT WENT TOO +GO THROUGH YOUR PERFORMANCE.” +“GOTT, WIE NAIV!” * SAID HE ANGRILY, AFTER HE HAD GONE A FEW STEPS. +GOT UP AND SAID SOMETHING TO THE LADIES. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA STEPPED +GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO HIS TABLE, HAD UNEXPECTEDLY SELECTED MICHAEL +GRABERN. ON THE LEFT OUR TROOPS WERE CLOSE TO A COPSE, IN WHICH SMOKED +GRACEFUL AND MUSCULAR ARMS AND NECK. BY THE GRACE OF HER MOVEMENTS, +GRACEFUL POSE UNDER A PORTRAIT OF CATHERINE, LEANING HIS ELBOW ON A +GRANDEE OF CATHERINE’S TIME WHO NOW LAY DYING IN MOSCOW. THE YOUNG MAN +GRANDFATHER, WORE IT IN ALL HIS WARS.” (SHE STILL DID NOT TAKE OUT +GRANTED. +GRAPESHOT.” +GRAVITY!” +GRAY OVERCOATS, WOUNDS, THE SMOKE OF GUNPOWDER, THE SOUNDS OF FIRING, +GREAT AND TALKING EAGERLY. AS SOON AS THEY SAW PIERRE AND HIS COMPANION +GREAT DEAL. OF THE TWO SOUPS HE CHOSE TURTLE WITH SAVORY PATTIES AND +GREATER PART OF THE ENEMY’S OPENED OUT FROM THIS BATTERY. JUST FACING +GREATER ZEAL THAN HIS DUTY AS A COMMANDER. THANKS TO THE STRICTNESS AND +GREAT FAVOR TO ASK OF YOU.” +GREAT HASTE AND IN THE GREATEST DISORDER. THE ROAD WAS SO OBSTRUCTED +GREATNESS OF SOUL?” SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS, SMILING AND DRAWING HER +GREAT SIN. HOW CAN ONE JUDGE FATHER? BUT EVEN IF ONE MIGHT, WHAT FEELING +GREEDINESS THAT HE WANTED IT, BUT SIMPLY FROM A CONSCIENTIOUS DESIRE FOR +GREW WEARY WAITING TO BE RELIEVED. PRINCE ANDREW HALTED TO HAVE A LOOK +GRIEVED HIM AND YET HE WAS PLEASED. +GRIEVING AT THE MISFORTUNES OF OUR COMMON CAUSE, OR WE ARE MERELY +GRIMACE. “I HAVE LONG WANTED TO ASK YOU, ANDREW, WHY YOU HAVE CHANGED +GROANING ALOUD AND SWINGING HIS ARM WHICH HAD JUST BEEN HURT, WHILE +GROUND, ARTILLERY AND TROOPS IN BLUE UNIFORM WERE SEEN. THESE WERE THE +GROUND, EAGER TO REJOIN ITS FELLOWS, HE WATCHED HIS SQUADRON DRAW +GROUP OF MEN WITH YELLOW SHAKOS, DARK-GREEN JACKETS BRAIDED WITH CORD, +GROUP WHERE THE VICOMTE WAS STILL TALKING, AND AGAIN PRETENDED TO +GROWING IMPATIENT, AND STAMPED HER FOOT, READY TO CRY AT HIS NOT COMING +GROWING LOUDER AND MORE FREQUENT. EVIDENTLY OUR GUNS HAD BEGUN TO REPLY. +GROWN-UP YOUNG PEOPLE: VéRA BESIDE BERG, AND PIERRE BESIDE BORíS; AND +GUARD. +GUARDS. HERE IS MY HAND ON IT. ARE YOU SATISFIED?” +GUARDS WITH THE RANK OF CORNET. HE RECEIVED, HOWEVER, NO APPOINTMENT +GUESS WHAT HE WANTED; SHE POINTED FIRST TO PIERRE, THEN TO SOME DRINK, +GUESTS JOINED IN. EVERYONE LAUGHED, NOT AT MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA’S ANSWER +GUESTS. NATáSHA, WHO SAT OPPOSITE, WAS LOOKING AT BORíS AS GIRLS OF +GUESTS RETURNED TO THE DRAWING ROOM AND TO THE COUNT’S STUDY. +GUESTS WERE ALL CONVERSING WITH ONE ANOTHER. “THE RAZUMóVSKIS... IT +GUESTS WERE AND EXCHANGING GLANCES WITH NATáSHA, WHO WAS SITTING +GUN CARRIAGE. A COSSACK WHO ACCOMPANIED HIM HAD HANDED HIM A KNAPSACK +GUT MORGEN!” * HE SAID WINKING WITH A MERRY SMILE, EVIDENTLY PLEASED +HABITUAL, OFFERING HIS PUFFY CHEEK, BUT BAGRATIóN KISSED HIM ON THE +HABITUAL TO HIM. HIS FACE TOOK ON THE STUPID ARTIFICIAL SMILE (WHICH +HAD ALWAYS IMAGINED BATTLES TO HIMSELF), NOR COULD HE HELP TO FIRE THE +HAD ANY NEWS. ON THEIR FAMILIAR FACES HE READ AGITATION AND ALARM. +HAD APPARENTLY BEEN RUNNING), “AND I DID SO WISH TO HAVE ANOTHER TALK +HAD BECOME MORE INTIMATE WHEN PRINCE ANDREW WAS IN VIENNA WITH KUTúZOV. +HAD BEEN PLAYING CARDS WITH THE MAJORITY OF THE MORE DISTINGUISHED AND +HAD BEEN PUT IN POSITION?” +HAD BEEN REPULSED, EMPLOYING THIS MILITARY TERM TO DESCRIBE WHAT HAD +HAD BEEN SITTING WITH THE OLD AUNT ROSE HURRIEDLY AND OVERTOOK PRINCE +HAD BEEN SPILLED ON THE CARPET. THEY WERE MET BY A DEACON WITH A CENSER +HAD BEEN STRUCK ON THE TEETH, OR WHAT THE HAM HAD TO DO WITH IT. +HAD CHANGED GREATLY DURING THAT PERIOD. IN THE EXPRESSION OF HIS FACE, +HAD COME FROM THE LEFT FLANK WHERE THEIR REGIMENT WAS STATIONED, WITH +HAD CONQUERED, SETTLED DOWN IN AN ARMCHAIR, INVITING PRINCE VASíLI TO +HAD DONE IN PETERSBURG AT ANNA SCHéRER’S RECEPTION. +HAD ENDURED TO GAIN HER END. +HAD EVIDENTLY BEEN DRINKING. +HAD FALLEN THE PREVIOUS DAY—THE DAY OF THE BATTLE. REVIEWING HIS +HAD FORESEEN. PRINCE ANDREW, OUT OF BREATH WITH HIS RAPID RIDE, SPOKE +HAD HAD IN ANNA PáVLOVNA’S DRAWING ROOM. PIERRE REMOVED HIS FEET FROM +HAD HAPPENED DURING THAT HALF-HOUR TO THE TROOPS ENTRUSTED TO HIM, AND +HAD LEFT HER KINDLY AND TEAR-WORN FACE AND IT NOW EXPRESSED ONLY ANXIETY +HAD NOT EXASPERATED THE VICOMTE, AND HAD CONVINCED HERSELF THAT IT WAS +HAD NOT FINISHED SAYING WHAT WAS NECESSARY, THUDDED INTO THE GROUND NEAR +HAD NO TIME. HE WAS AFRAID OF FALLING BEHIND THE HUSSARS, SO MUCH AFRAID +HAD NOT ONLY HELD THE FIELD BUT HAD REPULSED THE FRENCH. THOUGH THE +HAD NOT WORN FOR A LONG TIME, HE WENT INTO BILíBIN’S STUDY FRESH, +HAD NOT YET COME HOME WHEN ROSTóV RODE BACK EARLY IN THE MORNING FROM +HAD NOT YET ENTERED EITHER THE MILITARY OR CIVIL SERVICE, AS HE HAD ONLY +“HADN’T I BETTER RIDE OVER, YOUR EXCELLENCY?” ASKED NESVíTSKI. +HAD ONLY MET ONCE BEFORE FOR A SHORT TIME AT HIS WEDDING, WERE IN +HAD ON THE SPáSSKI HILL WHICH MIGHT HAVE BEEN SERIOUS FOR HER IN HER +HAD PERISHED BY HIS OWN MAGNANIMITY, AND THAT THERE WERE PARTICULAR +HAD PERSISTED IN HIS REQUEST TO KUTúZOV, ARRIVED AT GRUNTH AND REPORTED +HAD PLAYED A LITTLE AIR WITH VARIATIONS ON THE HARP, SHE JOINED THE +HAD PRODUCED A GOOD EPIGRAM, A FRESH ONE THAT WOULD BE REPEATED. HIS +HAD REACHED BRAUNAU AT THE SAME TIME, WAS IN SPLENDID CONDITION. THERE +HAD STOPPED BESIDE THE DEAD MEN, RAN TO CATCH UP HIS LINE AND, FALLING +HAD THE AIR OF A MAN HAPPILY PERFORMING ONE OF THE MOST SOLEMN DUTIES OF +HAD THE AIR OF ONE WHO HAS SUDDENLY LOST FAITH IN THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE. +HAD UTTERED THEM. +HA, HA, HA! MARY!” +HAIR ABOVE HIS BROAD FOREHEAD WHICH REMINDED ONE OF A LION, AND THE DEEP +HALF-CLOSED EYES GAVE STILL MORE PERSUASIVENESS TO HIS WORDS. THE STAFF +HALFWAY THROUGH SUPPER PRINCE ANDREW LEANED HIS ELBOWS ON THE TABLE AND, +HALF WHISPER, “EVERYONE KNOWS COUNT CYRIL’S REPUTATION.... HE HAS +HAND AND SAID, “COME.” PIERRE WENT WITH HER TO THE BED ON WHICH THE +HAND. AND THERE,” HE POINTED TO A SUTLER’S TENT, “THEY CROWD IN +HAND HE DREW BAGRATIóN TOWARD HIM, AND WITH HIS RIGHT, ON WHICH HE WORE +HAND. “HOW DID YOU GET HERE?” SAID HE, TURNING TO ZHERKóV. +HANDKERCHIEF AND RUSHED FROM THE ROOM. +HANDKERCHIEFS TO THEIR EYES, AND JUST IN FRONT OF THEM THEIR ELDEST +HANDLELESS CUP BEFORE A TABLE ON WHICH TEA AND A COLD SUPPER WERE LAID +HANDS. +HANDS....” +HANDS.” +HAND SHE WENT UP TO HER HUSBAND AND KISSED HIM ON THE FOREHEAD. +HANDS. “JUST FANCY, HE DIDN’T LET ME WIN A SINGLE CAHD, NOT ONE +HANDS, LOOKED ATTENTIVELY INTO PRINCE VASíLI’S EYES EVIDENTLY +HANDSOME AND A TERRIBLE SCAPEGRACE. THAT IS ALL I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FIND +HANDSOME YOUNG OFFICER ENTERING HIS ROOM. PIERRE PAUSED. HE HAD LEFT +HANDS WERE SYMMETRICALLY PLACED ON THE GREEN SILK QUILT, THE PALMS +HAND THAT WAS FREE, AND TURNING SIDEWAYS FELT THE PULSE AND REFLECTED +HAND THEM TO THE EMPEROR AFTER MY DEATH. NOW HERE IS A LOMBARD BOND +HAND TO HER HEART, WITH A BEATIFIC SMILE AND OBVIOUSLY EQUALLY READY TO +HAND, WAS CLEARING MANURE FROM THE COWHOUSE, LOOKED OUT, AND HIS FACE +HANGING DOWN (SHE HAD HANDED HER RETICULE TO THE COUNTESS), AND ONLY HER +HANGING HIS HEAD, MEEKLY FOLLOWED HER. +HAPPENED TO TOUCH. MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE STOOD NEAR THEM PRESSING HER +HAPPY SMILE, AMBLING LIGHTLY UP TO THE COUNT’S NIECE. “I HAVE COME, +HARDER FROM BEHIND. +HARDLY ABLE TO RESTRAIN HER TEARS AND MAINTAIN THE ARTIFICIAL SMILE +HARDLY HAD BORíS GONE THAN SóNYA, FLUSHED, IN TEARS, AND MUTTERING +“HAS ANYTHING HAPPENED?” SHE ASKED. “I AM SO TERRIFIED.” +HAS BEATEN THE GERMANS. THEY BEAT NO ONE—EXCEPT ONE ANOTHER. HE MADE +“HAS HE TAKEN HIS MEDICINE?” +HAS MARRIED HIS FIRST COUSIN. AND WE ARE ONLY SECOND COUSINS, YOU KNOW. +“HASN’T BEEN IN SINCE THE EVENING. MUST HAVE BEEN LOSING,” +HAS PICKED UP AN AX: “WE ARE USED TO IT, BUT YOU, SIR, WILL BLISTER +“HAS PRINCE VASíLI AGED MUCH?” ASKED THE COUNTESS. “I HAVE NOT +HAS RECEIVED A LETTER AND IS EXPECTING A VISIT FROM PRINCE VASíLI. IN +HAS RETAINED IN FULL FORCE.” +HAS SO MANY RELATIVES IN MOSCOW! SO YOU ARE BORíS? OF COURSE. WELL, NOW +HAS TO BE CUNNING AND CRUEL.” +HAVE ALWAYS, THANK GOD, BEEN MY CHILDREN’S FRIEND AND HAD THEIR FULL +HAVE A ROOM OF YOUR OWN,” AND SHE TOOK THE INKSTAND FROM NICHOLAS. +HAVE DONE FOR US.” +HAVE DONE YOUR BEST TO INCREASE HIS MENTAL SUFFERINGS.” +HAVE FRIGHTENED YOU—SIT DOWN AND TELL ME ALL THE NEWS.” +HAVE GONE THROUGH,” AND SHE SYMPATHETICALLY TURNED UP HER EYES. +HAVE HEARD THE SOBS. IT SEEMS AS THOUGH MANKIND HAS FORGOTTEN THE +HAVE IT, YOUNG MAN, I’M GOING.” +HAVE LOOKED AT IT. TAKE IT. WELL, NOW GO. GO.” +HAVE, MY DEAR! I TASTED IT. THE THOUSAND RUBLES I PAID FOR TARáS WERE +HAVE NOTHING TO COMPLAIN OF.” +HAVE OF HOPE AND STRENGTH MERELY WEIGHS YOU DOWN AND TORMENTS YOU WITH +HAVE RECEIVED VERY LITTLE, PRINCE VASíLI NOTHING, AND IT IS MONSIEUR +HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.” +HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL YOU. HERE, HERE!” AND SHE LED HIM INTO THE +HAVE TO CALL IN THE FRENCH, SO THAT BIRDS OF A FEATHER MAY FIGHT +HAVE TWO FOOTMEN BEHIND HER CARRIAGE, AND VERY BIG ONES. THAT WAS HER +“HAVE YOU A COMPLAINT TO MAKE?” KUTúZOV ASKED WITH A SLIGHT FROWN. +“HAVE YOU NEVER THOUGHT OF MARRYING YOUR PRODIGAL SON ANATOLE?” SHE +“HAVE YOU TOLD THEM TO BRING THE HORSE?” ASKED TELYáNIN, GETTING UP +HAVING CLEARED THE WAY DENíSOV STOPPED AT THE END OF THE BRIDGE. +HAVING GIVEN THEM TO THE ROSY NATáSHA, WHO BEAMED WITH THE PLEASURE +HAVING GLANCED THROUGH THE DISPATCH HE LAID IT ON THE TABLE AND LOOKED +HAVING JERKED OUT THESE LAST WORDS AS SOLDIERS DO AND WAVED HIS ARMS +HAVING LOST A SINGLE MAN. THE SECOND SQUADRON THAT HAD BEEN IN THE FRONT +HAVING READ THUS FAR, PRINCESS MARY SIGHED AND GLANCED INTO THE MIRROR +HAVING RIDDEN AHEAD, HAD PULLED UP HIS HORSE NEAR THE BRIDGE, WITH A +HAVING RIDDEN BEYOND THE VILLAGE, CONTINUALLY MEETING AND OVERTAKING +HAVING RIDDEN ROUND THE WHOLE LINE FROM RIGHT FLANK TO LEFT, PRINCE +HAVING SAID THIS SHE WENT UP TO THE DOCTOR. +HAVING SOMETHING TO EAT. THEY HASTILY TURNED ROUND TO HIM ASKING IF HE +HAVING STUCK AN AMBER MOUTHPIECE FAR INTO HIS MOUTH, WAS INHALING THE +HAVING THANKED ANNA PáVLOVNA FOR HER CHARMING SOIREE, THE GUESTS BEGAN +HAVING TURNED WITH WORDS OF COMFORT TO HER COMPANION, REALIZED THAT +HEAD. +HEAD AND AN ARMY OF FIFTEEN THOUSAND MEN HAS BEEN ORDERED TO BLOW UP +HEAD AND LIPS INDICATING VERY LITTLE HOPE FOR THE PATIENT. +HEAD, BUT THE INSTANT HE TURNED TO PRINCE ANDREW THE FIRM, INTELLIGENT +HE ADDED AS IF SPEAKING TO HIMSELF. +HE ADDED: “I NEED GOOD OFFICERS MYSELF, NEED THEM MYSELF!” +HEADLONG TO THE HORSE. “WALK HIM UP AND DOWN, MY DEAR FELLOW,” HE +HEAD SADLY, POINTING THEM OUT TO THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL WITH AN EXPRESSION +HEALTH?” +“HEALTH AND HAPPINESS TO HER WHOSE NAME DAY WE ARE KEEPING AND TO HER +“HEALTH TO YOUR EX... LEN... LEN... LENCY!” AND AGAIN ALL BECAME +“HE ALWAYS WAS RATHER HARSH; AND NOW I SHOULD THINK HE’S GETTING +HEARD, AND MUCH FARTHER TO THE RIGHT BEYOND THE DRAGOONS, THE OFFICER OF +HEARD ON EVERY SIDE. +HEARD RESPECTFULLY CONGRATULATING THE DYING MAN ON HAVING RECEIVED THE +HEARD THAT THE WAR WAS BEING DISCUSSED HAD TURNED FROM HIS PARTNER WITH +HEARING HOW ILL HE IS.” +HEARING THAT THEY WISHED TO SEE THE COUNT, SAID HIS EXCELLENCY WAS WORSE +HEART. “IT HAS BEGUN! HERE IT IS, DREADFUL BUT ENJOYABLE!” WAS WHAT +HEARTRENDING SCENE.... IT WAS A CONVOY OF CONSCRIPTS ENROLLED FROM OUR +HEART! YOU ARE A MADAME DE GENLIS AND NOTHING MORE” (THIS NICKNAME, +HE, AS IF BRAGGING OF HAVING BEEN FRIGHTENED. +HE ASKED, “WHOSE COMPANY?” BUT HE REALLY MEANT, “ARE YOU +“HEAVEN ONLY KNOWS, MY DEAR! THESE RICH GRANDEES ARE SO SELFISH. +“HEAVEN ONLY KNOWS WHAT THE PEOPLE HERE MAY IMAGINE,” MUTTERED +“HEAVENS! WHAT A VIRULENT ATTACK!” REPLIED THE PRINCE, NOT IN THE +HEAVY CONVOYS (WHOSE MOVEMENTS WERE CONCEALED FROM THE FRENCH) ADVANCE +HE BOWED HIS HEAD AND SCRAPED FIRST WITH ONE FOOT AND THEN WITH THE +HE CALLED THE COSSACK WITH HIS HORSE, TOLD HIM TO PUT AWAY THE KNAPSACK +HE CAUGHT A MOMENTARY GLIMPSE BETWEEN THEIR HEADS AND BACKS OF THE DYING +HE CAUTIOUSLY RELEASED THE SHOULDER SHE LEANED ON, LOOKED INTO HER FACE, +“HE CHOSE HIS FRIENDS BADLY,” INTERPOSED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. +HE CLOSED HIS EYES, AND IMMEDIATELY A SOUND OF CANNONADING, OF MUSKETRY +HE COMMANDED WAS IN AN ALMOST HOPELESS POSITION. THE SPY REPORTED THAT +“HE COULD NOT DO THAT. THE PEOPLE ONLY GAVE HIM POWER THAT HE MIGHT +HE COULD NOT FINISH, AND RAN OUT OF THE ROOM. +HE COULD NOT STOP SHORT FOR THE SAKE OF ONE MAN’S LIFE.” +HE DID NOT FINISH HIS SENTENCE, BUT HIS TONE SHOWED HOW HIGHLY HE +HE DID NOT FINISH. JUST THEN THERE WAS A WHISTLE IN THE AIR; NEARER AND +“HE DID NOT SHUT ME UP, HE SAID I WAS TELLING AN UNTRUTH.” +HE DISARMED HIS HEARERS. +HE DRESSED FOR DINNER. THE OLD PRINCE ALWAYS DRESSED IN OLD-FASHIONED +HE DREW UP HIS CHAIR, AND CONTINUED TO EXPLAIN. +HE EMBRACED HER. SHE SCREAMED AND FELL UNCONSCIOUS ON HIS SHOULDER. +HE FEELS SURE HE WILL DISTINGUISH HIMSELF. HE WAS GLANCING AT EVERYONE +HE GLANCED AT HIS COUSIN AND THE YOUNG LADY VISITOR; AND THEY WERE BOTH +HE GLANCED ROUND AT HER. SHE GAVE HIM A PASSIONATELY ANGRY GLANCE, AND +HE HAD ALREADY PROMISED PRINCE ANATOLE TO COME TO HIS GATHERING; +“HE HAD ANOTHER STROKE ABOUT HALF AN HOUR AGO. COURAGE, MY +HE HAD BEEN BESIDE THE GUN, HE HAD HEARD THE VOICES OF THE OFFICERS +HE HAD BUT RECENTLY LEFT THEIR REGIMENT, RODE UP TO THE COLONEL. +HE HAD JUST REMEMBERED HIS RECENT ENCOUNTER WITH THE DOCTOR’S WIFE AND +HE HAD MET THAT EVENING. +HE HAD NOT FINISHED THE LAST VERSE BEFORE THE YOUNG PEOPLE BEGAN TO +HE HAD READY IN HIS MIND, OF ALL HE KNEW AND HAD SEEN. BUT THE EMPEROR +HE HAD THE HOFS-KRIEGS-WURST-SCHNAPPS-RATH ON HIS HANDS. IT WOULD HAVE +“HE HAS MADE WILLS ENOUGH!” QUIETLY REMARKED THE PRINCESS. “BUT HE +“HE HAS WEPORTED HIMSELF SICK, HE’S TO BE STWUCK OFF THE LIST +HEIGHT ON WHICH THE KIEV REGIMENT WAS STATIONED, IN THE HOLLOW WHERE THE +HEIGHT WITHOUT THE SMALLEST EFFORT, HIS EASE CONTRASTING WITH THE HEAVY +HE IMMEDIATELY DISPATCHED ADJUTANT GENERAL WINTZINGERODE, WHO WAS IN +HE INDICATED A PLACE BESIDE HIM TO HIS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW. A FOOTMAN MOVED +“HE IS A GREAT TACTICIAN!” SAID THE PRINCE TO HIS SON, POINTING TO +HE IS AN AIDE-DE-CAMP OF KUTúZOV’S AND WILL BE HERE TONIGHT.” +HE IS BETTER ACQUAINTED THAN ANYONE ELSE, DOES NOT LISTEN TO OTHERS BUT +HE IS BóRY’S GODFATHER—AND ALLOW HIM SOMETHING FOR HIS MAINTENANCE, +“HE IS DOZING,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, OBSERVING THAT ONE OF THE +“HE IS JUST THE SAME AS EVER,” REPLIED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, +“HE IS LEAVING ME HERE, GOD KNOWS WHY, WHEN HE MIGHT HAVE HAD +“HE IS NO MORE....” +HE IS SO FRANK AND HAS SO MUCH HEART. HE IS SO PURE AND POETIC THAT +HE IS UNCLE’S AIDE-DE-CAMP, A MOST BRILLIANT POSITION. HE IS SO +“HE IS VERY MUCH ALTERED NOW,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. “WELL, AS +HE KEPT NODDING TO SHOW THAT HE UNDERSTOOD, ANATOLE WENT ON TRANSLATING +HE LAUGHED IN HIS USUAL DRY, COLD, UNPLEASANT WAY, WITH HIS LIPS ONLY +HELD OUT HIS CHEEK. +HE LEANED HIS ELBOWS ON THE TABLE WITH HIS PEN IN HIS HAND AND, +“HE LETS ONE WIN THE SINGLES AND COLLAHS IT AS SOON AS ONE DOUBLES IT; +HE LOOKED STRAIGHT AT PRINCE ANDREW AND SUDDENLY UNWRINKLED HIS +HE LOOKED WITH DISDAIN AT THE ENDLESS CONFUSED MASS OF DETACHMENTS, +HELPLESSLY AND HE MADE A FRUITLESS EFFORT TO PULL IT FORWARD. WHETHER HE +HE MET NESVíTSKI, WITH WHOM HE SHARED A ROOM, AND THE WAG ZHERKóV; +HE MUST RETREAT AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE BEHIND THE HOLLOW IN THE REAR, +HE NEVER COULD APPRECIATE IT. NO, MON COUSIN,” SHE ADDED WITH A SIGH, +HE NOTICED EVERYTHING...” +HE ONLY GAVE AN ORDER TO CEASE FIRING AND RE-FORM, SO AS TO GIVE ROOM + HE OUGHT TO BE FIRING AT THE ENEMY. +HE PATTED HER ON THE SHOULDER AND HIMSELF CLOSED THE DOOR AFTER HER. +HE POINTED TO THE FRENCH GUNS, THE LIMBERS OF WHICH WERE BEING DETACHED +HE POINTED WITH A SMILE TO A TURRETED NUNNERY, AND HIS EYES NARROWED AND +HE PULLED OFF THE QUILT AND SHOOK IT. THE PURSE WAS NOT THERE. +HE PUT ON THE AIR OF ONE WHO FINDS IT IMPOSSIBLE TO REPLY TO SUCH +HER. +HER. +HE RAISED BOTH ARMS AS IF CAREFULLY LIFTING SOME INVISIBLE BUT PRECIOUS +HER BADGE AS MAID OF HONOR. THE YOUTHFUL LITTLE PRINCESS BOLKóNSKAYA, +HER BROTHER SHOOK HIS HEAD INCREDULOUSLY. +HERE? DON’T YOU SEE THE SKIRMISHERS ARE RETREATING? LEAD THE SQUADRON +HERE!” EXCLAIMED DIFFERENT VOICES; AND THE HEAVY BREATHING OF THE +“HERE, IN THAT HOUSE,” ANSWERED THE ADJUTANT. +HERE, IS HE NOT? PLEASE ANNOUNCE ME.” +HERE IS ONE FROM HIS HIGHNESS THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND AND HERE ARE +“HERE IS OUR DEAR ORTHODOX RUSSIAN ARMY,” THOUGHT BOLKóNSKI, +“HERE IS SOME SORT OF KEY TO THE MYSTERIES THAT YOUR HéLOïSE HAS +(HE REMEMBERED THAT IN FRENCH THERE IS SOME PECULIAR WAY OF ADDRESSING A +HE REPEATED, ACCENTUATING THE U: “I THINK, HOWEVER, NOW THAT HE LAYS +HERE PRINCE HIPPOLYTE PAUSED, EVIDENTLY COLLECTING HIS IDEAS WITH +HERE PRINCE HIPPOLYTE SPLUTTERED AND BURST OUT LAUGHING LONG BEFORE HIS +HERE’S ANOTHER ADMIRER OF THAT POWDER-MONKEY EMPEROR OF YOURS,” HE +“HERE’S SOMETHING FOR YOU TO REPORT,” SAID ZHERKóV. “SEE IF I +HERE THE CONVERSATION SEEMED INTERESTING AND HE STOOD WAITING FOR AN +HERE. WHERE IS IT?” HE ASKED, TURNING TO LAVRúSHKA. +HER EYES, AND THEN QUICKLY WENT TO HIS PLACE AND SAT DOWN. “SIT DOWN, +HER FACE BECAME SAD. +HER FACE SUDDENLY FLUSHED WITH RECKLESS AND JOYOUS RESOLUTION. SHE HALF +“HER FATHER IS VERY RICH AND STINGY. HE LIVES IN THE COUNTRY. HE IS +HER FATHER WAS TIDY. SHE PUT DOWN THE GEOMETRY BOOK AND EAGERLY BROKE +HER FOOT—WHICH EVERYONE APPRECIATED IN VIEW OF HER SIZE AND HABITUAL +HER FOREHEAD. HIS FINE EYES LIT UP WITH A THOUGHTFUL, KINDLY, AND +HER FRIEND, THE PRINCESS’ EYES—LARGE, DEEP AND LUMINOUS (IT SEEMED +HER GUESTS, FIRST THE VICOMTE AND THEN THE ABBé, AS PECULIARLY CHOICE +HER HANDSOME ELDEST DAUGHTER WERE IN THE DRAWING ROOM WITH THE VISITORS +HER HEAD AND CONTINUED IN A WHISPER: “HAS HE PERFORMED HIS FINAL DUTY, +HER HEAD TOWARD THE DARKNESS OF THE OPEN DOORWAY. +HER HUSBAND LOOKED AT HER AS IF SURPRISED TO NOTICE THAT SOMEONE BESIDES +HER LIP DESCENDED. SHE BROUGHT HER FACE CLOSE TO HER SISTER-IN-LAW’S +HER LONG HAIR CAME DOWN....” HERE HE COULD CONTAIN HIMSELF NO +HER MOTHER AND BURST INTO SUCH A LOUD, RINGING FIT OF LAUGHTER THAT EVEN +HER NECK. +HEROISM!” +HERO LESS ON EARTH.” +HER OVER HIS SPECTACLES. +HER OWN ON THE SUBJECT. +HER PATH. +HER PLAINLY AS SHE IS, OR ELSE YOU WILL MAKE A CRUEL AND IRREVOCABLE +“HERSELF,” CAME THE ANSWER IN A ROUGH VOICE, AND MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA +HERSELF DISINTERESTEDLY AT THE HEAD OF AN ALLIANCE HAVING FOR ITS OBJECT +HERSELF IN HERE FOR? BUT I WILL GIVE HER A PIECE OF MY MIND. THE TIME +HERSELF SHOULD SHE GLANCE ROUND. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, WITH A MEEK, +HERSELF WISH TO DIE, THAT HIS END WAS NOT ONLY TOUCHING BUT EDIFYING. AS +HER SISTER DROPPED THE PORTFOLIO. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, STOOPING, QUICKLY +HER SISTER-IN-LAW’S ROOM. PRINCE ANDREW IN A TRAVELING COAT WITHOUT +HER SLEEVES AND PUFFING HEAVILY. +HER TEMPLES. PRINCESS MARY, SUPPORTING HER SISTER-IN-LAW, STILL LOOKED +HER TENDERLY AND ATTENTIVELY, SAID SEVERELY: +HER THIN LIPS GREW WHITE, THOUGH HER EYES DID NOT CHANGE, AND HER VOICE +HER TONE WAS NOW QUERULOUS AND HER LIP DRAWN UP, GIVING HER NOT A +HER UP, HUGGED HER, AND, SMILING THROUGH HER TEARS, BEGAN COMFORTING +HER. WHY DO YOU SAY ALL THIS TO ME?” +HER WITH A GRIMACE THAT DISTORTED HIS HANDSOME FACE, KISSED ANNA +HER WORK AS IF TO TESTIFY THAT THE INTEREST AND FASCINATION OF THE STORY +HER. “YOU KNOW, CATICHE, THAT WE—YOU THREE SISTERS, MáMONTOV, AND +HE SAD AT LEAVING HIS WIFE?—PERHAPS BOTH, BUT EVIDENTLY HE DID NOT +HE SAID. +HE SAID NO MORE, BUT EXPRESSED HIS RESIGNATION TO CRUEL FATE BY A +“HE’S A LOW FELLOW, SAY WHAT YOU WILL,” REMARKED PRINCE HIPPOLYTE. +HE SAT DOWN BESIDE HIPPOLYTE AND WRINKLING HIS FOREHEAD BEGAN TALKING +HE SAT DOWN BY HIS WIFE, HIS ELBOWS ON HIS KNEES AND HIS HANDS RUFFLING +HE SAT UNDER FIRE. BUT DESPITE HIMSELF, ON HIS FACE TOO THAT SAME +HE SCATTERED THE BURNING TOBACCO, SMASHED THE PIPE, AND THREW IT AWAY. +“HE’S COMING!” SHOUTED THE SIGNALER AT THAT MOMENT. +HE SEEMED TO SWELL WITH SATISFACTION. HE HAD HARDLY FINISHED SPEAKING +HE SEIZED HIS SON BY THE HAND WITH SMALL BONY FINGERS, SHOOK IT, LOOKED +HE SENT FOR PIERRE AND SAID TO HIM: “MY DEAR FELLOW, IF YOU ARE GOING +“HE SHOULDN’T HAVE TAKEN SO MANY MEN,” SAID THE OFFICER OF THE +HE SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS. A FOOTMAN CONDUCTED BORíS DOWN ONE FLIGHT OF +HE SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS AND SPREAD OUT HIS HANDS. PIERRE WISHED TO +HE SIGHED. +HE SIGNED WITH A FLOURISH AND SUDDENLY TURNING TO HIS SON BEGAN TO +HE SPOKE SO RAPIDLY THAT HE DID NOT FINISH HALF HIS WORDS, BUT HIS SON +HE SPOKE WITH SUCH SELF-CONFIDENCE THAT HIS HEARERS COULD NOT BE SURE +HE STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND TO TAKE HOLD OF THE PURSE. ROSTóV LET GO OF +HE SUDDENLY BLUSHED CRIMSON, AND IT WAS PLAIN THAT HE HAD MADE A GREAT +HE SUDDENLY CRIED. “EVEN WITHOUT A BET, THERE! TELL THEM TO BRING ME A +HE TALKED TO PIERRE), THE OLD MAN WAS SITTING ON A LARGE LEATHER-COVERED +HE (THOUGH PIERRE HAD NOT MENTIONED BONAPARTE), “BUT BONAPARTE WHEN +HE THREW THE BOTTLE TO THE ENGLISHMAN, WHO CAUGHT IT NEATLY. DóLOKHOV +HE TOLD HER SHE WAS STILL THE SAME CRYBABY AS EVER. PRINCESS MARY HAD +HE TOOK THE DISPATCH WHICH WAS ADDRESSED TO HIM AND BEGAN TO READ IT +HE TOOK THE LIGHTED PIPE THAT WAS OFFERED TO HIM, GRIPPED IT IN HIS +HE TURNED AWAY. +HE TURNED ROUND. NESVíTSKI’S HANDSOME FACE LOOKED OUT OF THE LITTLE +HE TURNED TO KOZLóVSKI WITH URGENT QUESTIONS. +HE UNDERSTOOD HIS COMMANDER’S WISH. +HE VOUCHSAFE ITS REVELATION TO US THROUGH HIS DIVINE SPIRIT. +HE WAITED A MOMENT TO SEE WHETHER THE CORNET WOULD ANSWER, BUT HE TURNED +“HE WANTS TO SEE A BATTLE,” SAID ZHERKóV TO BOLKóNSKI, POINTING +HE WAS AFRAID OF FINDING IN HER A RIVAL FOR COUNT BEZúKHOV’S FORTUNE, +HE WAS ASLEEP IN HIS CORNER AND WOKE HIM UP. ROUSING HIMSELF, PIERRE +HE WAS TOUCHED, BUT ALSO A GLEAM OF IRONY ON HIS FACE. +HE WENT ON TALKING IN THIS WAY IN FRENCH, UTTERING ONLY THOSE WORDS IN +“HE WILL GET UP IN TWENTY MINUTES. LET US GO ACROSS TO MARY’S +HE WOKE UP... +HE WORE THE AIR OF A MAN LITTLE CONCERNED IN WHAT THE TWO LADIES WERE +HE WORKED WENT STEP BY STEP TOWARD HIS GOAL. HE WAS FREE, HE HAD NOTHING +HE WOULD GIVE AN OPINION AT THE WAR COUNCIL WHICH WOULD BE THE ONLY ONE +HE WOULD HAVE TO MARCH WITH NO ROAD INTO UNKNOWN PARTS OF THE BOHEMIAN +“HEY, COSSACK, MY HORSE!” HE SAID. “NOW, THEN, YOU THERE! GET OUT +HID HER FACE STILL DEEPER IN THE BED. NATáSHA WEPT, SITTING ON THE +HIGH, BUT THE LAST ROUND FELL IN THE MIDST OF A GROUP OF HUSSARS AND +HIGHEST DEGREE JUST THE VERY QUALITIES PIERRE LACKED, AND WHICH MIGHT +HIGHEST POINT. “IT’S IN CHARGE OF THE QUEER FELLOW WE SAW WITHOUT +HIGHEST SPHERES. +“HIGHLY SATISFIED, YOUR EXCELLENCY!” +HIGH TIME!” +HILL. +HILL ONE AFTER THE OTHER. THEIR COLONEL, KARL BOGDáNICH SCHUBERT, CAME +HILL OPPOSITE, WITH THE FRENCH MOVING ABOUT ON IT, OPENED OUT BEFORE +HIM!” +HIM. +HIM. +HIM.” +HIM AND EVERYTHING HE COULD SAY HAD LONG BEEN KNOWN TO HIM, THAT HE WAS +HIM AND, WITH A CHRISTIAN MILDNESS THAT EXPRESSED FORGIVENESS OF HIS +HIM AND WOULD NOT HAVE OTHERS DO SO.” +HIM AS A MAN, BUT WHAT CAN ONE DO?” +HIM A TAPER. HE LIT IT AND, DISTRACTED BY OBSERVING THOSE AROUND HIM, +HIM BE HERE....” +HIM, BONAPARTE HAD MADE IN HIS CAMPAIGNS AND EVEN IN POLITICS. HIS +HIM BUT TO THE WHOLE REGIMENT—ALL OF US—YOU’RE TO BLAME ALL ROUND. +HIM BY THE ARM, “I BELIEVE THAT INTERVENTION WILL BE STRONGER THAN +HIM DIE FEELING THAT HE IS RENDERING UNHAPPY THOSE WHO...” +HIM EVERYONE BEGAN TO STIR: STEPS WERE AUDIBLE AND WHISPERS, AMONG WHICH +HIM EXCEPT THE YOUNG PRINCESSES.... THEY ARE STILL YOUNG....” SHE BENT +HIM, FROM HIS DAUGHTER TO HIS SERFS, THE PRINCE WAS SHARP AND INVARIABLY +HIM, FROM HIS WEARY, BORED EXPRESSION TO HIS QUIET, MEASURED STEP, +HIM, HANDING HIM DIFFERENT ARTICLES OF CLOTHING. “WHAT OF SWEDEN? HOW +HIM, HE’S A SCOUNDREL. GO ON! GO ON!” +HIM. HE STROKED HER HAIR AND THEN PATTED HER AWKWARDLY ON THE BACK OF +HIM. “MORE, PLEASE: MORE! WHAT’S HE SAYING?” +HIM NOT IN THE LEAST ABASHED. +HIM... OLGA, GO AND SEE WHETHER UNCLE’S BEEF TEA IS READY—IT IS +HIM OR HER TO A LITTLE OLD LADY, WEARING LARGE BOWS OF RIBBON IN HER +HIM. “REMEMBER THIS, PRINCE ANDREW, IF THEY KILL YOU IT WILL HURT ME, +HIMSELF, BUT ONLY DESIRES THE GOOD OF MANKIND. AND WHAT HAVE THEY +HIMSELF FALL INTO A TRAP MOREAU SET HIM, AND FROM WHICH HE DID NOT KNOW +HIMSELF INTO A CHAIR, GAZING AT THOSE IN THE ROOM AS IF ASKING, “WHY +HIMSELF ON A SOFA WITH HIS FACE TO THE WALL. PIERRE HID HIS FACE, FROM +HIMSELF ON HIS SEAT. +HIMSELF, PRINCE BAGRATIóN SENT ZHERKóV TO TELL THE GENERAL IN COMMAND +HIMSELF TO BAGRATIóN. BONAPARTE’S ADJUTANT HAD NOT YET REACHED +HIMSELF UNDERTOOK HIS DAUGHTER’S EDUCATION, AND TO DEVELOP THESE TWO +HIMSELF UP, SLIGHTLY ARCHING HIS BACK. IT WAS PLAIN THAT THE COMMANDER +HIMSELF UP TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT IT SEEMED HE COULD NOT HAVE SUSTAINED +HIM. THAT’S A THING I HATE! EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE.” +HIM THAT THERE WOULD PROBABLY BE AN ENGAGEMENT THAT DAY OR THE NEXT, AND +HIM, THOUGH, BETWEEN YOU AND ME, HE ALWAYS SEEMED TO ME A POOR SORT +HIM TO COME UP; PRINCE BAGRATIóN REINED IN HIS HORSE AND RECOGNIZING +HIM TO DESPATCH PART OF THE ARMY ABROAD AND TO CREATE A NEW CONDITION +HIM TO GO BACK AS IT WAS TOO DANGEROUS TO REMAIN WHERE THEY WERE. +HIM. “WHAT IS THIS? THEY’RE LIKE SHEEP! JUST LIKE SHEEP! OUT OF THE +HIPPOLYTE, AND BEGAN LOOKING THROUGH A LORGNETTE AT HIS ELEVATED LEGS. +HIPPOLYTE BURST OUT LAUGHING. +HIPPOLYTE GAZING ROUND WITH IMPORTANCE AT THE OTHERS, “WITHOUT +HIPPOLYTE IN THE CARRIAGE, “YOUR LITTLE PRINCESS IS VERY NICE, VERY +HIPPOLYTE IS AT LEAST A QUIET FOOL, BUT ANATOLE IS AN ACTIVE ONE. THAT +HIPPOLYTE “—SO DULL—. IT HAS BEEN A DELIGHTFUL EVENING, HAS IT +HIPPOLYTE SPLUTTERED AGAIN, AND AMID HIS LAUGHTER SAID, “AND YOU WERE +HIS ARM. +HIS ARM, BEGAN A LONG-DRAWN-OUT SOLDIERS’ SONG, COMMENCING WITH THE +HIS BOOTS. YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING FROM THERE; LET’S GO THERE, +HIS BREAST AND A SERENE EXPRESSION ON HIS FLAT FACE. HE SPOKE IN THAT +HIS CAPTAIN. +HIS CAREER. MOREOVER, HE COULD SEE BY HER MANNERS THAT SHE WAS ONE OF +“HIS CHILDREN ARE ALL ILLEGITIMATE. I THINK PIERRE ALSO IS +HIS COMPANION. THE LATTER, A FRESH, ROSY OFFICER OF THE GUARDS, +HIS DAUGHTER, PRINCESS HéLèNE, PASSED BETWEEN THE CHAIRS, LIGHTLY +HIS DOOR, WHICH CREAKED SLIGHTLY WHEN OPENED. +HIS EXCITEMENT. “DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT EITHER WE ARE OFFICERS +HIS EYES AND THOUGHT HE WOULD NEVER OPEN THEM AGAIN. SUDDENLY HE WAS +HIS EYES SEEMED LARGER THAN USUAL WHEN HE GLANCED ROUND AND NOTICED +HIS FACE, BEGAN TO TALK—AS ONE WHO HAS LONG HAD SOMETHING ON HIS MIND +HIS FACE SUDDENLY SOFTENED AND TEARS CAME INTO HIS EYES. WITH HIS LEFT +HIS FATHER DISMISSED THE ABBé AND SAID TO THE YOUNG MAN, “NOW GO +HIS FATHER’S PART OF THE HOUSE. ENTERING THE DRAWING ROOM, WHERE THE +HIS FATHER WHO HAD BROUGHT IT FROM THE SIEGE OF OCHáKOV. ALL THESE +HIS FIELDGLASS. A LITTLE BEHIND THEM NESVíTSKI, WHO HAD BEEN SENT TO +HIS GLITTERING BLACK EYES AT ROSTóV. +HIS GRAVE, EVEN RATHER GLOOMY, LOOK WAS INSTANTANEOUSLY REPLACED BY +HIS GRAY HAIR. +HIS HAND OVER THE THIN GRIZZLED STRANDS OF HAIR COMBED BACK ACROSS HIS +HIS HAND PRINCE ANDREW CAME UP TO HIS COMRADE, THE AIDE-DE-CAMP ON DUTY, +HIS HANDSOME FACE. NATáSHA, VERY STILL, PEERED OUT FROM HER AMBUSH, +HIS HEAD. +HIS HIGHNESS THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND HAS HONORED ME, I IMAGINE THAT THE +HIS HORSE KEEP PACE WITH THE COMPANY. +HIS HORSE WITH A CONVOY OFFICER’S SADDLE. +HIS HORSE. ZHERKóV AND THE STAFF OFFICER BENT OVER THEIR SADDLES AND +HIS IMAGINARY SWORD, BUT SMILING AT THE REMEMBRANCE OF THAT PLEASANT, +HIS IMPULSIVE NATURE, DOES GET INTO MISCHIEF (A BOY CAN’T HELP IT), HE +HIS INSTINCT URGED HIM ON. BEFORE THE OFFICER FINISHED HIS SENTENCE +HIS IN THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE. +HIS KINDLY, SIMPLE, AND MODEST EXPRESSION. ANNA PáVLOVNA TURNED TOWARD +HIS LEGS. PRESSING AGAINST BOTH SIDES OF THE WINDOW, HE ADJUSTED HIMSELF +HIS LIFE. HE WALKED ABOUT IN FRONT OF THE LINE AND AT EVERY STEP PULLED +HIS MAJESTY; BUT WE THINK THE PRESENT DELAY IS DEPRIVING THE SPLENDID +HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR DEROGATES FROM THE PRINCIPLE OF OUR ALLIANCE... +HIS MIND THAT THEY WOULD BE FRIENDS. +HIS MOUTH AWRY, PREPARED TO SHOUT. THE REGIMENT FLUTTERED LIKE A BIRD +HIS MOUTH VERY CLEARLY REVEALED SOMETHING UNEXPECTEDLY COARSE AND +HIS MUSCULAR LEGS AS IF SAILING ALONG, STRETCHING HIMSELF TO HIS FULL +HIS MUSKET WALKED AWAY. +HIS NEIGHBORS’ GLASSES, NOT NEGLECTING HIS OWN. THE COUNTESS IN TURN, +HIS NOBLE SOUL PEACEFULLY TO LEAVE THIS...” +HIS NOSE. +HIS OWN HELPLESSNESS. AT SIGHT OF THIS SMILE PIERRE FELT AN UNEXPECTED +HIS OWN HOUSE. THE MINISTER OF WAR CAME UP AND CONGRATULATED HIM ON THE +HIS PLATE ROUND AND MOVING HIS WINEGLASSES ABOUT WITH AS MUCH DECISION +HIS POCKETBOOK. +HIS PORTRAIT, “DEFINITELY DEMANDED THAT HE SHOULD BE CALLED.” +HIS PRIVATE ROOM AND, CALLING HIS ADJUTANT, ASKED FOR SOME PAPERS +HIS REPUTATION FIGHTING THEM.” +HIS RIDING WHIP. +HIS RISING. “THIS UNFORTUNATE FETE AT THE AMBASSADOR’S DEPRIVES ME +HIS ROOM. +HIS ROOMS UPSTAIRS. +HIS ROUTINE, RETIRED AS USUAL AFTER DINNER. THE LITTLE PRINCESS WAS IN +HIS SCANTY GRAY HAIRS OVER HIS BALD PATCH, ALSO ASKED THEM TO DINNER. +HIS SHOULDERS. +HIS SHOULDERS. “WOMEN, MY DEAR FELLOW; WOMEN!” +HIS SKILL?” HE CONCLUDED. +HIS SON ONLY SMILED. +HIS STUDY AND SHOWED THEM HIS CHOICE COLLECTION OF TURKISH PIPES. FROM +HIS SUITE, WITH THEIR COSSACKS WHO WERE TALKING LOUDLY TOGETHER, PRINCE +HIS TEMPLE, WHERE AN ISMAIL BULLET HAD PIERCED HIS SKULL, AND THE EMPTY +HIS THIN, WORN, SALLOW FACE WAS COVERED WITH DEEP WRINKLES, WHICH ALWAYS +HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS OF BATTLES, INVOLUNTARILY PICTURED TO HIMSELF THE +HIS UTMOST TO LOOK AS SMALL AS POSSIBLE. HE LOOKED AT THE COUNT, WHO +HIS WEAK FIGURE. “NUMBER TWO!” HE SQUEAKED. “FIRE, MEDVéDEV!” +HIS WONT, AS IF INTENTIONALLY CONTRASTING THE BRISKNESS OF HIS MANNERS +HIS YOUNGEST BOY, HAD ALL SETTLED DOWN IN THE DRAWING ROOM AND WERE +HITHERTO PUCKERED BROW BECAME SMOOTH AS A SIGN OF PLEASURE, AND WITH A +HITTING MEN AND THAT AFTERWARDS SOMEONE HAD SHOUTED “CAVALRY!” AND +“HM... HM...” MUTTERED THE OLD PRINCE TO HIMSELF, FINISHING WHAT HE +“HM.... IF YOU WISH TO KILL HIM, TO KILL HIM OUTRIGHT, YOU CAN SEE +“HO! HO! HO! HA! HA! HA! HA! OUH! OUH!” CAME PEALS OF SUCH HEALTHY +“HO, HO!” SAID THE OLD MAN, CASTING HIS EYES ON HER ROUNDED FIGURE. +HOLDING HIGH HER FIFTY-YEAR-OLD HEAD WITH ITS GRAY CURLS, SHE STOOD +HOLDING THE BOTTLE WAS LIFTED HIGHER AND HIGHER AND TREMBLED WITH THE +HOLDING UP HIS SABER, HIS SPURS JINGLING, HE RAN UP THE STEPS OF THE +HOLDING UP THE FOLDS OF HER DRESS, AND THE SMILE SHONE STILL MORE +HOLLOW AND WERE FIRING AT OUR MEN. PRINCE BAGRATIóN BOWED HIS HEAD AS A +HOMMES MASSACRéS ET L’ARMéE DE NOS ALLIéS DéTRUITE, ET VOUS +HONORABLE, AND BRAVE, BUT IF HE ROBS HIS FELLOWS THERE IS NO HONOR IN +HOOFS, AND APPARENTLY READY TO JUMP OVER THE RAILINGS HAD HIS RIDER LET +“H-O-O-W ARE YOU STANDING? WHERE’S YOUR LEG? YOUR LEG?” SHOUTED +HOPE YOU WILL CHANGE YOUR OPINIONS, MY DEAR MONSIEUR PIERRE.” +HORROR AND FEAR. ALL WERE STILL. PIERRE TOOK HIS HANDS FROM HIS EYES. +HORROR-STRUCK. BUT WHEN SHE SAW THAT PIERRE’S SACRILEGIOUS WORDS + * HORS D’OEUVRES. +HORSE FOR WHICH HE HAD PAID SEVEN HUNDRED RUBBLES WAS NOT WORTH HALF +HORSE, RODE UP TO THE PORCH, SWUNG HIS LEG OVER THE SADDLE WITH A SUPPLE +HORSES NEAR THE WINDOW, PRINCE ANDREW FELT THAT SOMETHING IMPORTANT AND +HORSE STILL STRUGGLED. +HORSE—THAT I’LL WARRANT,” SAID SHINSHíN, PATTING HIM ON THE +HORSE YOU’LL THANK ME FOR.” +HOSPITALS COULD NO LONGER ACCOMMODATE ALL THE SICK AND WOUNDED, YET THE +HOSTESS LOOK TOWARD THE DOOR, AND NOW AND THEN GLANCE AT ONE ANOTHER, +HOSTILITIES ARE ENDED, WE CAN SHAKE ONE ANOTHER’S HAND.... THE +HOUR ALONE WITH THE DYING MAN, PASSED OUT, SLIGHTLY ACKNOWLEDGING THEIR +HOUR. SUDDENLY THE BROAD MUSCLES AND LINES OF THE COUNT’S FACE BEGAN +HOUSE AND NOW MANAGED ALL HIS AFFAIRS, STEPPED SOFTLY INTO THE ROOM. +HOUSE FOR YOUR WIFE IS READY. PRINCESS MARY WILL TAKE HER THERE AND +HOUSEHOLD. AND THERE IN FACT WAS SóNYA LYING FACE DOWNWARD ON NURSE’S +HOUSE. THOUGH HE EXPECTED THAT THE STORY OF HIS ESCAPADE WOULD BE +HOUSE WAS BRILLIANT WITH LIGHTS SHINING THROUGH ITS LOFTY WINDOWS. THE +HOUSE WITH PRINCE BAGRATIóN AND WEYROTHER. WEYROTHER WAS THE AUSTRIAN +HOUSE, YOU KNOW, AND DANCED WITH THE CHILDREN. BE SURE TO INVITE HIM, MY +“HOW ABOUT MY SON BORíS, PRINCE?” SAID SHE, HURRYING AFTER HIM INTO +“HOW AM I?” DóLOKHOV ANSWERED COLDLY. “I AM AS YOU SEE.” +HOW BRIGHT AND GLORIOUS WAS THE SETTING SUN! WITH WHAT SOFT GLITTER THE +“HOW CAN HE TALK LIKE THAT?” THOUGHT PIERRE. HE CONSIDERED HIS +“HOW DO YOU DO, COUSIN?” SAID PIERRE. “YOU DON’T RECOGNIZE +“HOW DO YOU DO, MY DEAR? I WISH YOU MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF YOUR NAME +“HOW DO YOU EXPECT HIM TO ANSWER YOU ALL AT ONCE?” SAID PRINCE +HOW DO YOU JUDGE OF IT?” HE ADDED, ADDRESSING NICHOLAS, WHO WHEN HE +HOWEVER, FOR HE WILL LEAVE US AGAIN TO TAKE PART IN THIS UNHAPPY WAR +“HOWEVER, THERE WILL HARDLY BE AN ENGAGEMENT TODAY,” SAID BAGRATIóN +“HOW FUNNY YOU ARE!” HE SAID, BENDING DOWN TO HER AND BLUSHING STILL +“HOW HANDSOME THE OLD MAN STILL WAS ONLY A YEAR AGO!” REMARKED THE +“HOW IS IT,” SHE BEGAN, AS USUAL IN FRENCH, SETTLING DOWN BRISKLY +“HOW IS THE COUNT? CAN I SEE HIM?” ASKED PIERRE, AWKWARDLY AS USUAL, +“HOW LOVELY!” SAID EVERYONE WHO SAW HER; AND THE VICOMTE LIFTED HIS +“HOW MANY MILES?” +HOW MUCH ANXIETY ONE HAS HAD TO GO THROUGH THAT WE MIGHT REJOICE IN +“HOW OFTEN HAVE I ASKED YOU NOT TO TAKE MY THINGS?” SHE SAID. “YOU +“HOW PLAINLY ALL THESE YOUNG PEOPLE WEAR THEIR HEARTS ON THEIR +“HOW’S IT YOU’RE NOT DRUNK TODAY?” SAID NESVíTSKI WHEN THE +“HOW’S THIS, COLONEL?” HE SHOUTED AS HE APPROACHED. “I TOLD YOU +HOW STUPID YOU MEN ALL ARE NOT TO HAVE MARRIED HER! EXCUSE ME FOR SAYING + HOW SWEET, AS FANCIES WANDER FREE, +“HOW THOROUGHLY LIKE HIM THAT IS!” HE SAID TO PRINCESS MARY, WHO HAD +HOW TO ARRANGE IT. WHAT DO YOU THINK?” +HOW TO ESCAPE?” +HOW WE WENT TO THE SPARROW HILLS WITH MADAME JACQUOT?... IT’S SUCH AN +HOW YOU LOOK AT THINGS! SEND TWO MEN? AND WHO THEN WOULD GIVE US THE +HUMILIATION OF ARROGANT AUSTRIA AND THAT IN A WEEK’S TIME HE MIGHT, +HUM WITH VOICES. ON ALL SIDES SOLDIERS WERE RUNNING TO AND FRO, THROWING +HUNGARIAN?” SAID THE COMMANDER WITH AN AUSTERE GIBE. +HUNGRY, EXHAUSTED MEN WOULD HAVE TO DETAIN FOR DAYS THE WHOLE ENEMY ARMY +HUNGRY, ILL-SHOD SOLDIERS, AND LOSING A THIRD OF HIS MEN AS STRAGGLERS + HURRAH FOR EMPEROR ALEXANDER!” +HURRIEDLY UNCLASPED HIS HANDS, STOPPED AT A TABLE AS IF TYING THE +HURRIEDLY UP TO THE UNKNOWN GENERAL AND BLOCKING HIS WAY TO THE DOOR. +HURRIED OFF TO HIS COMPANY, BUTTONING UP HIS COAT AS HE RAN. +HURRYING PAST THEM. +HUSBAND. +HUSBAND. PRINCE ANDREW’S EYES WERE CLOSED, SO WEARY AND SLEEPY DID HE +HUSSAR AND BEGAN LIFTING HIM. +HUSSAR, “AND WHY ARE YOU EXCITING YOURSELF? DO YOU THINK THE FRENCH +HUSSAR CORNET ZHERKóV HAD AT ONE TIME, IN PETERSBURG, BELONGED TO +HUSSARS BEGAN CAREFULLY ALIGNING THEIR HORSES. SILENCE FELL ON THE WHOLE +HUSSARS, BUT STILL WITH THAT NAïVE AIR THAT MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW +HUSSARS, COSSACKS, AND ADJUTANTS, IN HIS CAMLET COAT, AS HE JOLTED ON +HUSSARS HASTILY DISMOUNTED, NOT KNOWING WHAT THEY WERE TO DO. THE MEN +“I...” +“I ALSO WANTED TO ASK YOU,” CONTINUED PRINCE ANDREW, “IF I’M +I ALWAYS STICK TO MOTHER TRUTH. IT’S NOT RIGHT!” +I AM AFRAID OF HIM.” +“I AM AFRAID OF MIXING THE FIGURES,” PIERRE REPLIED; “BUT IF YOU +“I AM AWAITING ORDERS TO JOIN MY NEW REGIMENT, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” +I AM DISSATISFIED WITH YOUR YOUNGER SON? BETWEEN OURSELVES” (AND HER +“I AM EXPECTING YOU, PIERRE,” SAID THE SAME VOICE, BUT GENTLY AND +“I AM FOND OF YOU, ESPECIALLY AS YOU ARE THE ONE LIVE MAN AMONG OUR +“I AM GLAD I HAVE SPOKEN OUT FULLY. PERHAPS YOU DID NOT LIKE IT? YOU +“I AM GLAD I WAS ABLE TO DO YOU A SERVICE, MY DEAR ANNA +“I AM GOING AWAY.” +“I AM LIVING AT COUNTESS ROSTóVA’S,” REPLIED BORíS, AGAIN +“I AM NOT JESTING,” BILíBIN WENT ON. “NOTHING IS TRUER OR SADDER. +“I AM NOT JESTING WITH YOU; PLEASE BE SILENT!” CRIED BOLKóNSKI, +“I AM NOT SPEAKING OF REGICIDE, I AM SPEAKING ABOUT IDEAS.” +“I AM NOT YOUR ‘DEAR SIR,’ MR. STAFF OFFICER, AND YOU DID NOT TELL +“I AM ORDERED TO WRITE A MEMORANDUM EXPLAINING WHY WE ARE NOT +“I AM QUITE OF YOUR OPINION,” REPLIED NICHOLAS, FLAMING UP, TURNING +“I AM SO ENCHANTED BY THE BRILLIANCY OF THE WIT AND CULTURE OF THE +I AM SORRY FOR THAT,” HE WENT ON. +“I AM SO SORRY FOR THE POOR COUNT,” SAID THE VISITOR. “HE IS IN +“I AM SPEAKING SINCERELY AS A FRIEND! CONSIDER! WHERE AND WHY ARE +“I AM SPEAKING ZE TRUCE,” REPLIED THE HUSSAR WITH A SMILE. +I AM TO DO; I WANTED TO CONSULT YOU SERIOUSLY.” +I AM TOLD.” +“I AM VERY GLAD I DID NOT GO TO THE AMBASSADOR’S,” SAID PRINCE +“I AM VERY SORRY, MA’AM,” ANSWERED THE MAID. +“I AM VERY, VERY GRATEFUL TO YOU, MON CHER,” OR “MA CHèRE”—HE +“I AM YOUR FAITHFUL SLAVE AND TO YOU ALONE I CAN CONFESS THAT MY +“I BET A HUNDRED ON STEVENS!” SHOUTED ONE. +“I BET FIFTY IMPERIALS”—HE SPOKE FRENCH THAT THE ENGLISHMAN MIGHT +“I BET ON DóLOKHOV!” CRIED A THIRD. “KURáGIN, YOU PART OUR +I CANNOT AGREE WITH YOU ABOUT PIERRE, WHOM I KNEW AS A CHILD. HE ALWAYS +“I CANNOT ARGUE ABOUT IT,” REPLIED PRINCE ANDREW COLDLY, BUT HE +I CANNOT FIND WORDS TO EXPRESS TO YOU MY DISPLEASURE. YOU COMMAND ONLY +“I CANNOT INFORM YOUR MAJESTY AT WHAT O’CLOCK THE BATTLE BEGAN AT +I CAN’T...” +“I CAN’T BEAR THE SIGHT OF THAT WOMAN.” +“I CAN TELL YOU MORE,” CONTINUED PRINCE VASíLI, SEIZING HER HAND, +“I CAN’T HELP IT,” SAID THE PRINCE. “LAVATER WOULD HAVE SAID I +“I CAN’T. I’VE SWORN NOT TO. I WON’T DRINK AND WON’T PLAY TILL +“I CAN’T MAKE OUT AT ALL,” SAID NESVíTSKI. +I CAN’T,” REPLIED BOLKóNSKI, SMILING. +“ICE PUDDING, BUT YOU WON’T GET ANY,” SAID MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA. +“I COME FROM THE ARCHDUCHESS’. I HEARD NOTHING THERE.” +“I CONFESS I DO NOT UNDERSTAND: PERHAPS THERE ARE DIPLOMATIC +I CONFESS I UNDERSTAND VERY LITTLE ABOUT ALL THESE MATTERS OF WILLS AND +I CONSIDER IT MY DUTY TO LET YOU KNOW OF IT. HE IS SAID TO BE VERY +I COULD NOT HAVE DONE IT MYSELF, I SHOULD NOT HAVE HAD THE COURAGE, BUT +“I DID NOT EXPECT THIS OF YOU,” SAID THE STAFF CAPTAIN SERIOUSLY AND +“I DID NOT... WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT?” INQUIRED PRINCE ANDREW +IDIOT!... BUT WHAT’S THE GOOD?...” AND HE WAVED HIS ARM. +IDLERS HAVE FAILED TO BEAT THE GERMANS. SINCE THE WORLD BEGAN EVERYBODY +“I’D LIKE TO PUT YOU ON A TWO DAYS’ MARCH WITH A KNAPSACK! YOUR +“I DO NOT THINK I HAVE COMPLAINED OF MY WIFE TO YOU, MáSHA, OR BLAMED +“I DON’T AT ALL SAY THAT ALL THE PLANS ARE GOOD,” SAID PRINCE +“I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT IS IN THIS PAPER,” SAID THE YOUNGER OF +“I DON’T KNOW, GENERAL....” +“I DON’T LIKE YOUR MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE AT ALL,” SAID PRINCE +“I DON’T LIKE YOU TO TALK LIKE THAT.” +“I DON’T MYSELF KNOW ‘TO WHO,’” REPLIED THE CORNET IN A +“I DON’T SAY IT’S A PLAN I APPROVE OF,” SAID THE SON; “I AM +I DON’T SPEAK OF ANATOLE, YOUR YOUNGEST. I DON’T LIKE HIM,” SHE +“I DON’T UNDERSTAND IT,” REPLIED PRINCE ANDREW. “WOMEN WHO ARE +“I DON’T UNDERSTAND, MAMMA—WHAT IS HIS ATTITUDE TO PIERRE?” +“I DON’T UNDERSTAND!” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. +“I DON’T UNDERSTAND. WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?” +I DON’T WANT TO HAVE YOU LIKE OUR SILLY LADIES. GET USED TO IT AND +IF ALL THE POWERS OF HIS SOUL WERE CONCENTRATED ON PASSING THE COMMANDER +“IF ANYONE COMES MEDDLING AGAIN,” SAID HE, EMITTING THE WORDS +IF A SOLDIER, HE SHOULD BE DRESSED IN REGULATION UNIFORM LIKE THE +“IF AT LEAST WE HAD SOME WOMEN HERE; BUT THERE’S NOTHING FOH ONE +“IF BUONAPARTE REMAINS ON THE THRONE OF FRANCE A YEAR LONGER,” THE +IF BUT ONE STAGE NEARER ZNAIM. THE OFFER OF A TRUCE GAVE THE ONLY, AND +“IF HE” (HE MEANT THE ENEMY) “BEGINS POPPING AT THE BRIDGE NOW,” +IF HE INTENDED TO SAY SOMETHING, BUT IMMEDIATELY, WITH AFFECTED +“IF HE IS BETTER, ASK PIERRE TO DINE WITH US. HE HAS BEEN TO THE +“IF HE IS ONE OF THE ORDINARY LITTLE STAFF DANDIES SENT TO EARN A +IF, HOWEVER, THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA RATIFIES THAT CONVENTION, I WILL +IF IN SEARCH OF SOMETHING. ON HIS WAY TO THE AUNT HE BOWED TO THE LITTLE +“IF IT DOES NOT WEIGH A HUNDREDWEIGHT AND WON’T BREAK MY NECK... +IF IT IS TO LAST. PRINCE VASíLI KNEW THIS, AND HAVING ONCE REALIZED +“IF IT WERE NOT FOR MY SINCERE AFFECTION AND DEVOTION TO UNCLE,” +“IF IT WERE TRUE THAT HE HAS BEEN BEATEN, NEWS WOULD HAVE COME.” +“IF I WERE TSAR I WOULD NEVER GO TO WAR,” SAID NESVíTSKI, TURNING +“IF NO ONE FOUGHT EXCEPT ON HIS OWN CONVICTION, THERE WOULD BE NO +IF NOT IT IS MERELY A QUESTION OF SETTLING WHERE THE PRELIMINARIES OF +“IF ONLY I KNEW THAT ANYTHING BESIDES HUMILIATION WOULD COME OF +IF THE WHOLE WORLD HAD GONE CRAZY.” +“IF THEY HAD KNOWN THAT YOU WISHED IT, THE ENTERTAINMENT WOULD HAVE +IF TO SAY THAT THIS WAS NO MORE THAN SHE HAD EXPECTED. +“IF WE GET TO VIENNA I’LL GET RID OF IT THERE BUT IN THESE WRETCHED +“IF WE LIVE WE SHALL SEE,” REPLIED BILíBIN, HIS FACE AGAIN BECOMING +“IF YOU HAD TOLD ME SOONER, MAMMA, I WOULD HAVE GONE,” SHE REPLIED +“IF YOU HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO, COUNT (OR PRINCE), AND IF THE +“IF YOU, SIR, CHOOSE TO MAKE A BUFFOON OF YOURSELF,” HE SAID +IF YOU STILL TRY TO DEFEND THE INFAMIES AND HORRORS PERPETRATED BY THAT +I GET REINSTATED.” +“I HAVE.” +“I HAVE ALREADY TOLD YOU, PAPA,” SAID HIS SON, “THAT IF YOU +“I HAVE COME WITH MY MOTHER TO SEE THE COUNT, BUT IT SEEMS HE IS NOT +“I HAVE FOUR SONS IN THE ARMY BUT STILL I DON’T FRET. IT IS ALL +I HAVE HAD A LETTER FROM MY BROTHER, WHO ANNOUNCES HIS SPEEDY ARRIVAL +“I HAVEN’T BEEN IN THE ROOM. IT MUST BE WHERE YOU PUT IT.” +“I HAVE SAID NOTHING TO YOU, BUT YOU HAVE ALREADY BEEN TALKED TO. AND +“I HAVE SEEN AS MUCH BEFORE NOW, MATE!” +“I HAVE THE HONOR TO CONGRATULATE YOU. GENERAL MACK HAS ARRIVED, QUITE +“I HAVE THE HONOR TO PRESENT MYSELF,” REPEATED PRINCE ANDREW RATHER +I HAVE WRITTEN THAT HE SHOULD MAKE USE OF YOU IN PROPER PLACES AND NOT +“I HEAR YOU HAVE GIVEN ORDERS TO HARNESS,” SHE CRIED, PANTING (SHE +“I HOPE THIS WILL PROVE THE LAST DROP THAT WILL MAKE THE GLASS RUN +“I KNEW SOMEONE WHO RECEIVED THAT SACRAMENT SEVEN TIMES.” +“I KNEW THE PRINCESS AT ONCE,” PUT IN MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE. +“I KNEW YOU WOULD BE HERE,” REPLIED PIERRE. “I WILL COME TO SUPPER +“I KNOW, I KNOW,” ANSWERED PRINCE VASíLI IN HIS MONOTONOUS VOICE. +“I KNOW,” INTERRUPTED BILíBIN, “YOU’RE THINKING IT’S VERY +“I KNOW IT AND SHALL PROVE IT,” SAID ROSTóV. +“I KNOW, MY DEAR, KIND PRINCESS,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, SEIZING +“I KNOW THAT NO ONE CAN HELP IF NATURE DOES NOT DO HER WORK,” SAID +“I KNOW THE WILL WAS MADE, BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT IT IS INVALID; +“I KNOW WHO HAS TAKEN IT,” REPEATED ROSTóV IN AN UNSTEADY VOICE, +“I KNOW YOUR HEART,” REPEATED THE PRINCE. “I VALUE YOUR FRIENDSHIP +“I’LL DRINK IT! LET’S HAVE A BOTTLE OF RUM!” SHOUTED PIERRE, +ILLEGITIMATE.” +I’LL FIND YOU ANOTHER PLACE.” +“I’LL FLATTEN YOU INTO A PANCAKE!” SHOUTED THE ANGRY OFFICER TO +I’LL FLOG YOU ALL.” +ILL! I WAS ONLY THERE A FEW MOMENTS AND HARDLY SAID A WORD...” +“I’LL LET TWO MORE LETTERS PASS, BUT THE THIRD I’LL READ,” SAID +ILL LUCK TAKES US. THEY SAY WE ARE GOING TO OLMüTZ, AND OLMüTZ IS A +“ILLNESS OR NOT, HE’D BETTER NOT CWOSS MY PATH. I’D KILL HIM!” +ILLNESS. PRINCE VASíLI SAID SOMETHING TO LORRAIN IN PASSING AND WENT +“I’LL REALLY CALL IN ON THE NUNS,” HE SAID TO THE OFFICERS WHO +“I’LL SHOW YOU, I’LL SHOW YOU! IT’S NOT A SECRET. AND IT’S A +ILL-SUITED TO THE FAMILY CIRCLE OF WHICH PIERRE WAS ALMOST A MEMBER. +IMAGINED ONLY IMPORTANT POSSIBILITIES: “IF THE ENEMY ATTACKS THE RIGHT +IMAGINE THAT THEIR CHILDREN HAVE NO SECRETS FROM THEM. “I KNOW I SHALL +“I’M GLAD,” ANSWERED DóLOKHOV BRIEFLY AND CLEARLY, AS THE SONG +“I’M GLAD, GLAD, TO SEE YOU,” HE SAID, LOOKING ATTENTIVELY INTO +IMMEDIATELY.” +IMMEDIATELY BRIGHTENED ON SEEING ROSTóV. “SCHöN GUT MORGEN! SCHöN +IMMEDIATELY BROKE OFF. THE DOOR OF THE PRIVATE ROOM OPENED AND KUTúZOV +“IMMEDIATELY, PRINCE,” SAID KOZLóVSKI. “DISPOSITIONS FOR +IMMENSE FORCE UPON KUTúZOV’S LINE OF COMMUNICATION WITH THE TROOPS +IMMOBILE FOR A FEW MOMENTS. THEN WRINKLES RAN OVER HIS FACE LIKE A WAVE +“I’M NOT TO BLAME THAT THE CONVERSATION BEGAN IN THE PRESENCE OF +IMPASSIVE FACE OF ORIENTAL TYPE, CAME OUT AFTER THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. +IMPASSIVE FACE?” PRINCE ANDREW ASKED HIMSELF AS HE LOOKED. PRINCE +IMPATIENCE, WHILE THE PRINCESS JUMPED UP AND WITH A GESTURE OF +IMPATIENTLY. +IMPATIENTLY, “I CAME HERE NOT TO WRANGLE WITH YOU, BUT TO TALK ABOUT +IMPERIALS ... OR DO YOU WISH TO MAKE IT A HUNDRED?” ADDED HE, +IMPORTANCE OF THE RITE NOW BEING PERFORMED AND EVEN APPROVED OF IT. HE +IMPORTANT POST IN VIENNA. BOTH THE FOREIGN MINISTER AND OUR AMBASSADOR +IMPORTANT. WHAT IS IMPORTANT ARE THE RIGHTS OF MAN, EMANCIPATION FROM +IMPOSSIBLE...” +“IMPOSSIBLE!” CRIED PRINCE ANDREW. “THAT WOULD BE TOO BASE.” +IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO NOTICE HIS FACE. DóLOKHOV WAS A MAN OF SMALL MEANS +IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP HIM, SHE RALLIED HER FORCES AND JOINED THE VICOMTE IN +IMPRESSION. “BUT THAT IS A MATTER OF PERFECT INDIFFERENCE TO ME,” HE +IMPRESSION HIS NEWS OF A VICTORY WOULD CREATE, OR RECALLING THE SEND-OFF +IMPRESSIONS OF THE RECENT BATTLE, PICTURING PLEASANTLY TO HIMSELF THE +IMPRESSIVELY, BLOCKING THE WAY TO THE BEDROOM AND PREVENTING THE OTHER +IMPROVEMENT. HIS SATIRE HAS BEEN LESS BITTER OF LATE, AND THERE WAS A +“I’M QUITE WORN OUT BY THESE CALLERS. HOWEVER, I’LL SEE HER AND +“I MUST HAVE THAT PURSE, I TELL YOU,” SHOUTED DENíSOV, SHAKING HIS +I MYSELF HAVE EXPERIENCED ... AND SO ... BECAUSE ... NO, EXCUSE ME! +INABILITY TO ENTER A ROOM AND CONVERSE IN IT WAS, HOWEVER, REDEEMED BY +IN ACCORD WITH HIS INTENTIONS. PRINCE ANDREW NOTICED, HOWEVER, THAT +INACTIVE AND HAS LEFT THE UNIVERSITY TO JOIN THE ARMY. I WILL CONFESS TO +INACTIVE, WOULD ALSO SOON HAVE TO MEET THE ENEMY. +IN AMAZEMENT. +“IN A MINUTE, IN A MINUTE,” HE SAID, DIPPING HIS PEN. +“IN A MOMENT. À PROPOS,” SHE ADDED, BECOMING CALM AGAIN, “I AM +IN A MOMENT THE MEN CAME RUNNING GAILY FROM THEIR CAMPFIRES AND BEGAN +“IN AN HOUR’S TIME, I SHOULD SAY.” +INAPPROPRIATE, SHE WAS UNABLE TO STOP HIM. +IN A TONE ONLY USED BY PERSONS WHO ARE CERTAIN THAT THOSE THEY CALL WILL +IN ATTACHING HIMSELF AS AN ORDERLY OFFICER TO PRINCE BAGRATIóN. HE NOW +INAUDIBLE, VOICE. +“IN A WORD, A HEARTY ONE...” SAID THE SUBALTERN, LAUGHING (THE +IN BONAPARTE’S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CAMPAIGN, +IN BRüNN EVERYBODY ATTACHED TO THE COURT WAS PACKING UP, AND THE HEAVY +INCESSANTLY, REPEATING PETERSBURG REMINISCENCES AND EVEN PHRASES. PRINCE +IN CHIEF, AND FROM THE NOISY LAUGHTER OF THE COSSACKS HOLDING THE +IN CHIEF WOULD BE. THOUGH THE AIDE-DE-CAMP DID NOT KNOW THESE +IN CLEAN NOTES, WAS LYING READY UNDER A HANDKERCHIEF ON THE COUNTESS’ +INDICATION OF SOMETHING NEW AND STERN SHOWED ROUND THE MOUTH. +INDIFFERENCE, BEGAN TO HUM TO HIMSELF, PRODUCING A QUEER SOUND WHICH +INDIFFERENT HANDS OF THE MINISTER OF WAR AND THE POLITE ADJUTANT. THE +INDIFFERENTLY TO HIS WIFE’S CHATTER WITH PRINCE HIPPOLYTE WHO HAD ALSO +INDISCRETION, NODDED AND SAID: “I HOPE TO SEE YOU AGAIN, BUT I ALSO +INDISTINCT WORDS, SHRUGGING HIS SHOULDERS AND GESTICULATING. +“I NEVER COULD UNDERSTAND HOW NATALY MADE UP HER MIND TO MARRY THAT +INEVITABLY HAVE TO LEARN WHAT LIES THE OTHER SIDE OF DEATH. BUT YOU ARE +IN EXACTLY THE SAME MANNER. NESVíTSKI LAUGHED AND NUDGED THE OTHERS TO +INFAMOUS, VILE WOMAN!” +INFLAMMABLE MATERIAL ON THE BRIDGE MUST BE REINSPECTED.” +INFLUENCE IN SOCIETY, HOWEVER, IS A CAPITAL WHICH HAS TO BE ECONOMIZED +INFORMED HIM OF A VICTORY AND STATED STRATEGICALLY THE POSITION OF THE +“INFORM THE PRINCE THAT I THE BRIDGE FIRED!” SAID THE COLONEL +IN FRENCH OUT OF ALL THIS, SHOWING ALL THE NEWS WE HAVE HAD OF THE +IN FRONT OF THEM ROWS OF GRAY CLOAKS WERE ALREADY VISIBLE THROUGH THE +“IN GENERAL WE MUST TURN THIS BLOODTHIRSTY SOLDIER TO MORE HUMANE +IN GEOMETRY WERE AMONG THE GREATEST DELIGHTS OF HER LIFE. +IN GOD’S HANDS. YOU MAY DIE IN YOUR BED OR GOD MAY SPARE YOU IN A +INGRATIATING AND APPEALING SMILE, AND TOOK HIS HAND THAT HE MIGHT NOT GO +INHABITANTS ON WHOM THEY WERE QUARTERED. BRAUNAU WAS THE HEADQUARTERS OF +IN HALF AN HOUR ALL WAS AGAIN IN ORDER, ONLY THE SQUARES HAD BECOME GRAY +INHERITANCE; BUT I DO KNOW THAT SINCE THIS YOUNG MAN, WHOM WE ALL USED +IN HIS HORSE, SAID TO HIM: +IN HIS MOVEMENTS, IN HIS WALK, SCARCELY A TRACE WAS LEFT OF HIS FORMER +IN HIS SADDLE. +IN HIS TONE, “MY DEAR,” WHETHER THEY WERE ABOVE OR BELOW HIM IN +IN HIS VOICE A SINCERITY AND WEAKNESS PIERRE HAD NEVER OBSERVED IN IT +IN HIS WRITING TABLE, AND THIS IS A PAPER HE HAS FORGOTTEN....” +IN.’ I DO NOT KNOW HOW FAR HE WAS JUSTIFIED IN SAYING SO.” +INJURIES—AND THAT MEN ATTRIBUTE THE GREATEST MERIT TO SKILL IN KILLING +IN KILLED, WOUNDED, SICK, AND STRAGGLERS; THOUGH A NUMBER OF SICK AND +IN LACE-FRILLED DRAWERS, AND FEET IN LOW SLIPPERS—WAS JUST AT THAT +INNER LABORATORY OF HIS MIND IN A PORTABLE FORM AS IF INTENTIONALLY, SO +INNOCENT AND UNTRIED?” +IN NO WAY BINDING) MIGHT GIVE TIME FOR PART OF THE TRANSPORT TO PASS, +IN OCTOBER, 1805, A RUSSIAN ARMY WAS OCCUPYING THE VILLAGES AND TOWNS OF +IN ONE COMPANY DINNER WAS READY, AND THE SOLDIERS WERE GAZING EAGERLY +IN ONLY HIS STOCKINGS, ROSE WHEN THEY ENTERED, SMILING NOT ALTOGETHER +IN PASSING PRINCE VASíLI SEIZED PIERRE’S HAND AND SAID TO ANNA +IN PERPLEXITY, AND ONLY LATER GRASPED THAT A STROKE WAS AN ATTACK OF +IN PETERSBURG AND THAT A COPY, WHICH HE HAD HIMSELF SEEN, HAD THAT DAY +IN PRINCESS DRUBETSKáYA’S CASE HE FELT, AFTER HER SECOND APPEAL, +INQUIRINGLY AT THE YOUNG PRINCE, WONDERING WHAT WOULD FOLLOW. +INQUIRY. THE SON NOTICED THAT AN EXPRESSION OF PROFOUND SORROW SUDDENLY +IN RETIREMENT AND HAD NOW NO INFLUENCE IN POLITICAL AFFAIRS, EVERY HIGH +IN SEPARATE PILES, BEGAN COUNTING THEM. +IN SOCIETY IT SEEMS AS IF THERE WERE SOMETHING IN THEM, BUT THERE’S +INSOLENT INTELLIGENCE OF HIS EYES, PRODUCED AN EFFECT WHICH MADE IT +INSOLUBLE. +IN SOME WAY ESSENTIAL. +IN SPITE OF REPEATED DEMANDS BOOTS HAD NOT BEEN ISSUED BY THE AUSTRIAN +IN SPITE OF THE ANIMATION OF HIS SPEECH, BILíBIN DID NOT FORGET TO +INSTANTLY DROPPED THEM AGAIN. ALL THE BLOOD WHICH HAD SEEMED CONGESTED +INSTEAD OF BLACK. THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER WALKED WITH HIS JERKY STEPS +IN STEP, AND EACH ONE OF THESE HUNDREDS OF SOLDIERS SEEMED TO BE +INSTRUMENT HE COULD NOT BEGIN TO SPEAK. +INTELLECTUAL PRIDE,” SAID THE PRINCESS, FOLLOWING THE TRAIN OF HER OWN +INTELLIGENT, AND RESOLUTE YOUNG MAN. +INTELLIGENT, HOW IS IT YOU DON’T SEE THAT IF THE COUNT HAS WRITTEN A +INTEMPERANCE, AND HIS MOUTH TWITCHED NERVOUSLY. THE GENERAL LOOKED THE +INTENDING TO REST IF BUT FOR A MOMENT, EAT SOMETHING, AND TRY TO SORT +INTENDS TO EXPOSE HIS PRECIOUS PERSON TO THE CHANCES OF WAR. GOD GRANT +INTENTION SHOULD HE TRY TO DIRECT HIS WHOLE FORCE AGAINST OUR FAITHFUL +INTERCOURSE WITH YOUNG WOMEN. +INTERESTED THE MINISTER OF WAR LESS THAN ANY OF THE OTHER MATTERS HE WAS +INTERESTING.” +INTERESTING BUT HARDLY FEASIBLE.” +INTERESTS,” SAID BILíBIN. +INTERFERE, MAKING A SCENE ON THE VERY THRESHOLD OF A DYING MAN’S ROOM? +INTERRUPTING ONE ANOTHER AND MINGLING WITH THE RUSTLING OF DRESSES AND +IN THE AFTERNOON, HAVING MADE ALL HIS CALLS, HE WAS RETURNING TO +IN THE BAGGAGE TRAIN HE HAD PASSED THAT MORNING ON THE ZNAIM ROAD SEVEN +IN THE BEST POSSIBLE MANNER, AND FEELING THAT HE WAS DOING IT WELL HE +IN THE COUNTRY.” +IN THE COUNT’S ROOM, WHICH WAS FULL OF TOBACCO SMOKE, THEY TALKED +IN THE DINING ROOM, WHICH LIKE ALL THE ROOMS IN THE HOUSE WAS +IN THE DRAWING ROOM THE CONVERSATION WAS STILL GOING ON. +IN THE DRAWING ROOM, WAITING FOR BORíS TO COME OUT. SHE WAS ALREADY +IN THE GARDEN, OR SUPERINTENDING THE BUILDING THAT WAS ALWAYS GOING ON +IN THE HOUSE WAS DONE IN HASTE AT THAT TIME), AND PIERRE AND ANNA +IN THE LIGHT OF THE DULL AUTUMN EVENING, MOUNTED MEN COMING TOWARD HIM. +IN THE MEADOW BEHIND THE VILLAGE, THREE OF THEM ARE DRAGGING SOMETHING. +IN THE MIDST OF A CONVERSATION ON POLITICAL MATTERS ANNA PáVLOVNA BURST +IN THE MIDST OF THE THIRD éCOSSAISE THERE WAS A CLATTER OF CHAIRS BEING +IN THE MILITARY PROFESSION, SO TO AN EVEN GREATER EXTENT BILíBIN GAVE +IN THE MORNING ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA SAID TO PIERRE: +IN THE PASSAGE DENíSOV, WITH A PIPE, WAS SQUATTING ON THE THRESHOLD +IN THE SAME ORDER IN WHICH THEY HAD ENTERED BUT WITH REDDER FACES, THE +IN THE SAME TONE. +IN THE SAME TONE. +IN THE SECOND ROOM OF THE INN THE LIEUTENANT WAS SITTING OVER A DISH OF +IN THE SMALL CIRCULAR ROOM. AROUND THE TABLE ALL WHO WERE AT COUNT +IN THE SUTLER’S HUT WITHOUT HIS BOOTS.” HE RECOGNIZED THE AGREEABLE, +IN THE VIENNESE DRAWING ROOMS AND OFTEN HAD AN INFLUENCE ON MATTERS +IN THIS PART OF THE HOUSE AND DID NOT EVEN KNOW OF THE EXISTENCE OF +IN THIS ROOM IT WAS ALMOST DARK; ONLY TWO TINY LAMPS WERE BURNING BEFORE +INTO A CARELESS, MERRY SMILE. “WHAT AM I? AN ILLEGITIMATE SON!” +“INTO ACTION! INTO ACTION! BRING HIM A BOTTLE FOR SUCH NEWS! BUT HOW +INTO BORíS’ EYES. AFTER HE HAD GONE PIERRE CONTINUED PACING UP AND +INTO HER RADIANT SMILE. +IN TOO”—DIFFERENT VOICES WERE SAYING IN THE CROWD, AS THE MEN LOOKED +INTO STEP WITH A HOP, LOOKED BACK ANGRILY, AND THROUGH THE OMINOUS +INTO THE DISTANCE, AT THE WATERS OF THE DANUBE, AT THE SKY, AND AT THE +IN TO THE MINISTER OF WAR. FIVE MINUTES LATER HE RETURNED AND BOWING +INTO THE NAïVELY SYMMETRICAL POSE OF AN EGYPTIAN STATUE, EVIDENTLY +INTO WHICH WE HAVE BEEN DRAWN, GOD KNOWS HOW OR WHY. NOT ONLY WHERE YOU +INTRIGUER!” SHE HISSED VICIOUSLY, AND TUGGED WITH ALL HER MIGHT AT THE +INVALID CHAIR, A WAX TAPER IN HIS LEFT HAND, WAS LEANING HIS LEFT ARM ON +INVALID,” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA, EXCHANGING AN ALARMED GLANCE WITH HER +IN VIENNA KNEW HIM AND VALUED HIM. HE WAS NOT ONE OF THOSE MANY +INVINCIBILITY OF THE FRENCH, AND THE MINISTER OF WAR DOES NOT EVEN CARE +INVITATION TO ANNA PáVLOVNA’S RECEPTION AND HAD SAT LISTENING TO +INVOLUNTARILY CAME CLOSER TO HIM. +INVOLUNTARILY, SO MUCH SO THAT THE ONLY THING LEFT TO DO SEEMED TO BE +IN WHICH KUTúZOV ENTRUSTED THEM TO THE HUMANITY OF THE ENEMY; AND +“I OFTEN THINK,” SHE CONTINUED AFTER A SHORT PAUSE, DRAWING NEARER +“I OFTEN THINK, THOUGH, PERHAPS IT’S A SIN,” SAID THE PRINCESS, +“I RECOGNIZE YOU ONLY TOO WELL, TOO WELL.” +“I RELY ON YOU, MY DEAR,” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA, ALSO IN A LOW TONE. +“I REQUEST YOU TO HAVE THE GOODNESS TO CHANGE YOUR COAT,” HE SAID AS +IRONICAL VOICE. +IRREPRESSIBLE HATRED. +IRREPROACHABLY WASHED, BRUSHED, AND BUTTONED, HELD HIS PIPE IN THE +IRRITATION. +IS ALL I HAVE TO SAY TO YOU. THE COUNT IS VERY, VERY ILL, AND YOU MUST +IS A MOB OF SCOUNDRELS AND NOT AN ARMY,” HE WAS THINKING AS HE WENT +IS AN ADMIRABLE BOOK WHICH CALMS AND ELEVATES THE SOUL. ADIEU! GIVE +“I SAW YOU RIDING THIS MORNING...” HE ADDED. +“I SAY, COME ROUND SOME EVENING AND WE’LL HAVE A GAME OF FARO!” +“I SAY, FéDESHON!... DID HE SAY WHEN THE BATTLES ARE TO BEGIN? YOU +“I SAY SO,” HE CONTINUED DESPERATELY, “BECAUSE THE BOURBONS FLED +“I SAY, THIS IS FOLLY! HE’LL BE KILLED,” SAID THIS MORE SENSIBLE +IS BETRAYING US! RUSSIA ALONE MUST SAVE EUROPE. OUR GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN +IS CONNECTED WITH THE MONTMORENCYS THROUGH THE ROHANS, ONE OF THE BEST +IS GOING AS A CADET. THERE’S NO ONE TO INTEREST HIMSELF FOR HIM. TO +“I SHALL ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT IN THIS WORLD ONE MUST EXPECT NO REWARD, +“I SHALL AT ANY RATE NOT RUN AFTER A YOUNG MAN BEFORE VISITORS...” +“I SHALL BE DELIGHTED TO MEET THEM,” SAID THE PRINCE. “BUT +I SHALL BE IN A MORE PROMINENT POSITION,” CONTINUED BERG, “AND +I SHALL BE VERY CHARMED TO SEE YOU TONIGHT BETWEEN 7 AND 10—ANNETTE +“I SHALL PROBABLY DIE BEFORE YOU. SO REMEMBER, THESE ARE MY MEMOIRS; +“I SHALL SCARCELY BE ABLE TO AVAIL MYSELF OF YOUR HOSPITALITY, +“I SHOULD LIKE,” SAID THE VICOMTE, “TO ASK HOW MONSIEUR EXPLAINS +“I SHOULD LIKE TO GO TO KURáGIN’S,” THOUGHT HE. +“I SHOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WELL OF THEM, BUT AS FAR AS I KNOW THE FACTS, +“I SHOULD THINK HE HAS A SCORE OF THEM.” +“I SHOULD THINK NOT,” SAID VéRA, “BECAUSE THERE CAN NEVER BE +“‘I SHOWED THEM THE PATH TO GLORY, BUT THEY DID NOT FOLLOW +IS HOW I EXPLAIN IT TO MYSELF. IT CAN’T BE HELPED!” +“IS IT CERTAIN?” SHE SAID. +“IS IT POSSIBLE?” EXCLAIMED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. “OH, HOW AWFUL! +“IS IT TRUE THAT AUSTRIANS HAVE BEEN BEATEN?” ASKED DóLOKHOV. +“IS IT WORTH WHILE NOTICING TRIFLES?” HE REINED IN HIS HORSE WITH +IS MY WITNESS,” AND SHE MADE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS, “I LOVE HER SO +IS NOT SO, THEN...” +IS NOW RUSHING ALONG THE ROAD TO BRüNN AND WILL BE HERE IN A DAY OR +“ISN’T SHE TOO YOUNG? I HAVE HEARD THAT IT HARMS THE VOICE TO TRAIN +IS PUA’ AS ON THE FIHST DAY OF CWEATION... WHO’S THAT NOW? SEND HIM +IS SO I DON’T KNOW...” +“IS THAT MARY PRACTICING? LET’S GO QUIETLY AND TAKE HER BY +“IS THE ENGLISHMAN BRAGGING?... EH? IS IT ALL RIGHT?” SAID ANATOLE. +IS THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM.” HE SAID THIS SMILING IN A WAY +“IS THERE SUFFICIENT FORAGE IN KREMS?” +“IS THIS THE WAY TO THE PRINCESSES’ APARTMENTS?” ASKED ANNA +“I STILL CAN’T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE AFRAID OF,” SAID PRINCE +IS TO TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. LEAVE IT TO THOSE WHO ARE NO LONGER FIT FOR +IS VERY UNHAPPY WITH HER FATHER. SHE IS A RELATION OF YOURS, PRINCESS +IT?” +ITALIAN: “‘DIO MI L’HA DATO. GUAI A CHI LA TOCCHI!’’ +ITALIAN TO GIVE HER LESSONS.” +“IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE BRINGING UP,” REMARKED THE VISITOR. +IT ALL VERY WELL FOR PRINCE VASíLI TOLD ME HIMSELF. BESIDES, CYRIL +ITALY AND ON THE RHINE; HOW FIFTY THOUSAND RUSSIANS AND AS MANY ENGLISH +IT. AND HE IS SO CLEVER AND SO GOOD!” SAID NATáSHA. “DON’T +IT AND SAW TELYáNIN’S HORSE AT THE PORCH. +IT...” ANSWERED HER SON COLDLY. “BUT I HAVE PROMISED AND WILL DO IT +IT AT THAT AGE.” +IT. BUT AT THAT MOMENT AN ADJUTANT GALLOPED UP WITH A MESSAGE FROM THE +IT CAN’T BE A SQUARE—FOR THEY ARE NOT DRAWN UP FOR THAT.” +IT CAN’T BE HELPED!” SAID THE COUNT, SHRUGGING HIS SHOULDERS AND +IT, EASILY FIND A WAY TO PREPARE FOR THE ENEMY THE FATE HE DESERVES. +I TELL YOU BUONAPARTE WAS A GREAT TACTICIAN? HERE, HE SAYS THE SAME +“I TELL YOU,” SHOUTED DENíSOV, “HE’S A FINE FELLOW.” +IT ESCAPE FROM HIS HANDSOME MOUTH IN RINGS. THIS WAS LIEUTENANT BERG, AN +IT. FEEL IN YOUR POCKETS.” +IT HAD APPEARED. THE COUNT SAT ON THE SOFA BETWEEN TWO GUESTS WHO WERE +IT HAD THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF CONTINUED TO LOOK AT HIM, AND SO KUTúZOV, +“IT HAS BEGUN. HERE IT IS!” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW, FEELING THE +“I... THAT’S DIFFERENT. WHY SPEAK OF ME? I DON’T WANT ANY OTHER +“I THINK,” SAID THE PRINCE WITH A SMILE, “THAT IF YOU HAD BEEN +“I THOUGHT PERHAPS SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED,” SHE SAID WITH HER +“I THOUGHT TODAY’S FETE HAD BEEN CANCELED. I CONFESS ALL THESE +IT IS A BIT OF MACK. WE ARE MACKED),” HE CONCLUDED, FEELING THAT HE +“IT IS AN ILLNESS, THERE’S NO OTHER WAY OF EXPLAINING IT,” SAID +“IT IS DREADFUL, DREADFUL!” SHE WAS SAYING, “BUT COST ME WHAT IT + IT IS FOR THEE THUS SWELLS HER HEART, +“IT IS FOR THE REASSON, MY GOOT SIR,” SAID HE, SPEAKING WITH A +IT IS FOR YOU TO TALK OR THINK OF SUCH MATTERS. IT IS NO EASIER FOR +IT IS. MY DEAR PET!” +“IT IS NOW MY TURN TO ASK YOU ‘WHY?’ MON CHER,” SAID BOLKóNSKI. +IT IS SAID ‘THERE ARE THIEVES AMONG THE PáVLOGRAD OFFICERS!’ BUT +IT IS TERRIBLE TO THINK.... THIS IS MY SON,” SHE ADDED, INDICATING +“IT IS THE BUONAPARTISTS WHO SAY THAT,” REPLIED THE VICOMTE WITHOUT +“IT IS VERY GOOD OF YOU, MONSIEUR PIERRE, TO COME AND VISIT A POOR +“IT IS VERY STRANGE, MON MONSIEUR PRINCE,” SAID THE STAFF OFFICER. +IT IS. YOU MUST KNOW. WE WILL TAKE IT AT ONCE AND SHOW IT TO THE +“IT’LL BE WORSE FOR YOU. BOGDáNICH IS VINDICTIVE AND YOU’LL PAY +IT’LL BE WORSE IF HE FIRES THE BRIDGE. SEE, HERE’S AN OFFICER JAMMED +“IT MAY BE TREACHERY,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, VIVIDLY IMAGINING THE +IT NECESSARY TO INTRODUCE HIMSELF, AND WITHOUT EXPERIENCING THE LEAST +IT, ON THE CREST OF THE OPPOSITE HILL, THE VILLAGE OF SCHöN GRABERN +IT, OR WHY IT HAD TO BE TOLD IN RUSSIAN, STILL ANNA PáVLOVNA AND THE +IT,’” PRINCE ANDREW CONTINUED AFTER A SHORT SILENCE, AGAIN QUOTING +“IT’S A BAD BUSINESS, EH?” +“IT’S A BAD BUSINESS,” SAID THE GENERAL WITHOUT ANSWERING HIM, +“IT’S ALL ABOUT THE WAR,” THE COUNT SHOUTED DOWN THE TABLE. “YOU +“IT’S ALL OVER; BUT I AM A COWARD—YES, A COWARD!” THOUGHT +“IT’S ALL THE FAULT OF THESE FELLOWS ON THE STAFF THAT THERE’S +“IT’S ALL VERY WELL FOR YOU... I AM NOT ENVIOUS... I LOVE YOU AND + “IT’S A LONG, LONG WAY. +“IT’S ANCIENT HISTORY,” SAID ANOTHER, GUESSING THAT IT REFERRED TO +“IT’S A SHAME FOR A SOLDIER TO STEAL; A SOLDIER MUST BE HONEST, +“IT’S AS IF A DAM HAD BURST,” SAID THE COSSACK HOPELESSLY. “ARE +IT’S AS IF IT HAD BEEN DONE ON PURPOSE, ON PURPOSE. BESIDES, SUPPOSE +“IT’S DIFFERENT ON DIFFERENT DAYS,” ANSWERED THE CAPTAIN. “ONE +IT SEEMED QUITE NATURAL THAT THEY SHOULD CRY, AND APPARENTLY IT NEVER +“IT SEEMS FUNNY TO ME,” SAID PIERRE, “THAT YOU, YOU SHOULD +“IT SEEMS THAT WHILE HE WAS ABROAD THIS YOUNG MAN WAS ALLOWED TO DO +ITSELF?” +“IT’S EMPTY.” +ITS HANDSOME, SENSUAL MOUTH, AND ITS COLD, MAJESTIC EXPRESSION, WAS +“IT’S IN THE INLAID PORTFOLIO THAT HE KEEPS UNDER HIS PILLOW,” +ITS LAST MARCH THE DAY BEFORE—PRESENTED A WELL-ORDERED ARRAY OF TWO +IT’S NOT ALL THE SAME TO US! AM I NOT RIGHT, DENíSOV? IT’S NOT THE +“IT’S NOT AT ALL FROM FRIENDSHIP,” DECLARED NICHOLAS, FLARING +“IT’S NOT GOING TO BE A GHOST STORY?” SAID HE, SITTING DOWN BESIDE +“IT’S NOTHING, NOTHING; LEAVE ME ALONE!” SOBBED SóNYA. +“IT’S NOTHING,” REPLIED PRINCE ANDREW. +IT’S NOT PLEASANT, BUT WHAT’S TO BE DONE, MY DEAR FELLOW? YOU LANDED +“IT’S NOT THERE.” +“IT’S NOT TRUE!” +IT’S SPLENDID. I AM VERY GLAD TO HAVE MADE YOUR ACQUAINTANCE. IT’S +“IT’S THAT PROTéGé OF YOURS, THAT SWEET PRINCESS DRUBETSKáYA, +IT’S TOO LATE NOW WHEN VIENNA IS OCCUPIED BY THE FRENCH ARMY!” +IT. TELYáNIN TOOK THE PURSE AND BEGAN CARELESSLY SLIPPING IT INTO THE +IT TIMIDLY AND TENDERLY ON HER SON’S ARM, “BE AFFECTIONATE AND +IT UNDER THE TERMS OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE INCLUDED WITH THIS +IT UNDER YOUR HEAD LIKE A TREASURE,” SAID ROSTóV. “I PUT IT JUST +“IT VON’T GO BEGGING,” REPLIED THE GERMAN WITH A SMILE. +“IT WAS ALL THEY COULD DO TO RESCUE THE POOR MAN,” CONTINUED THE +IT WAS ALREADY QUITE DARK WHEN PRINCE ANDREW RATTLED OVER THE PAVED +IT WAS A WARM, RAINY, AUTUMNAL DAY. THE WIDE EXPANSE THAT OPENED OUT +IT WAS EVIDENT THAT HE DID NOT LIKE THE VICOMTE AND WAS AIMING HIS +IT WAS EVIDENT THAT HE PERFORMED HIS DUTY AS A SUBORDINATE WITH EVEN +IT WAS EVIDENT THAT PRINCE ANDREW WAS NOT INTERESTED IN SUCH ABSTRACT +IT WAS, IN FACT, SOLELY TO MEET PRINCE VASíLI THAT SHE HAD OBTAINED AN +IT WAS IN JULY, 1805, AND THE SPEAKER WAS THE WELL-KNOWN ANNA PáVLOVNA +IT WAS JUST THE MOMENT BEFORE A BIG DINNER WHEN THE ASSEMBLED GUESTS, +IT WAS PAST ONE O’CLOCK WHEN PIERRE LEFT HIS FRIEND. IT WAS A +IT WAS PLAIN THAT THIS “WELL?” REFERRED TO MUCH THAT THEY BOTH +IT WAS PLEASANT AND TOUCHING TO SEE THESE LITTLE GIRLS IN LOVE; BUT +IT WAS ST. NATALIA’S DAY AND THE NAME DAY OF TWO OF THE ROSTóVS—THE +IT WAS TRUE THAT A VIEW OVER NEARLY THE WHOLE RUSSIAN POSITION AND THE +IT WON’T BE YOUR SKIRMISHING AT DüRRENSTEIN, OR GUNPOWDER AT ALL, +“IT WOULD NOT BE TURNED OFF THE FIELD EVEN ON THE TSARíTSIN +IT!’ ‘YES, LET’S!’ SAY THE OTHERS. AND OFF THEY GO AND TAKE THE +IVáNOVICH. HE IS IN A VERY BAD HUMOR, VERY MOROSE. BE PREPARED.” +IVáNOVICH (WHO ALWAYS WENT INTO A CORNER TO BLOW HIS NOSE ON HIS +“I’VE BEEN SENT BACK TO THE REGIMENT ALL ON ACCOUNT OF THAT DEVIL, +“I’VE COME TO SAY GOOD-BY.” +“I’VE SEEN HIM MYSELF!” +“I WANT A GREAT DEAL, COUNT! I WANT FIVE HUNDRED RUBLES,” AND TAKING +“I WANT TO KNOW!” +“I WANT TO TEACH THIS YOUNG MAN HOW TO SHOE A HORSE,” SAID +“I WAS ATTACHED; I’M ON DUTY.” +“I WAS GOING TO ASK YOU. I KNOW NOTHING EXCEPT THAT IT WAS ALL I COULD +I WAS SAYING, PRINCE VASíLI IS THE NEXT HEIR THROUGH HIS WIFE, BUT THE +“I WAS TOLD A CHARMING MOSCOW STORY TODAY AND MUST TREAT YOU TO IT. +“I WILL ALLOW NO ONE TO CALL ME A LIAR!” CRIED ROSTóV. “HE TOLD +“I WILL DO IT ALL, FATHER,” HE SAID. +“I WILL,” REPLIED NATáSHA. +“I WILL THE BRIDGE FIRE,” HE SAID IN A SOLEMN TONE AS IF TO ANNOUNCE +“I WILL, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” SAID TIMóKHIN, SHOWING BY HIS SMILE THAT +“I WISHED TO GET A NAP, MON COUSIN, BUT I CAN’T.” +“I WONDER, IS IT NOT TOO LATE TO ADMINISTER UNCTION?” ASKED THE +JABBERING! FINE, ISN’T IT? IT’S ALL THE FRENCHY CAN DO TO KEEP UP +JACKET. +“JACOB, BRING A BOTTLE!” SHOUTED THE HOST, A TALL, HANDSOME FELLOW +JERKED AWAY HIS PLATE, WHICH TíKHON BRISKLY CAUGHT. “SUVóROV!... +JESTS AND GOSSIP. +JEST WAS UNACCEPTABLE AND HAD NOT COME OFF. HE GREW CONFUSED. +JINGLING SOUND IT PRESENTED ARMS. THEN AMIDST A DEAD SILENCE THE +JOINED KUTúZOV AT BRAUNAU NOW SEPARATED FROM THE RUSSIAN ARMY, AND +JOINS THE ALLIES, AUSTRIA’S HAND WILL BE FORCED AND THERE WILL BE WAR. +JOKE, AND PURPOSELY TRYING TO APPEAR STUPIDER THAN HE REALLY WAS. +JOKES, SIT ON THE CANNON, AND MEANWHILE A FRENCH BATTALION GETS TO +JOLTED OVER THE STONY ROAD. SOME OF THEM WERE TALKING (HE HEARD RUSSIAN +JOVIAL OLD GENTLEMAN, WHO STANDING BESIDE HIS TALL AND STOUT PARTNER, +JOYFUL, BUT AN ANIMAL, SQUIRREL-LIKE EXPRESSION. SHE PAUSED AS IF SHE +JOY TO GIVE MY FRANZ A THALER, OR LET HIM GO WITH HIS LIEBCHEN TO THE +JULIE +JULIE WROTE IN FRENCH: +JUMPED DOWN. HE SMELT STRONGLY OF RUM. +JUNCTION ADVISABLE, MEANT, AMONG OTHER ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT OF HIS VIEW, +JUST ABOVE HIS EAR. +JUST AS AT ULM... IT IS...”—HE SEEMED TO BE TRYING TO FIND THE RIGHT +JUST AS HE WAS GOING TO OPEN IT THE SOUNDS CEASED, THE DOOR OPENED, AND +JUST AS PRINCE ANDREW MET NESVíTSKI AND ZHERKóV, THERE CAME TOWARD +JUST AS PRINCE ANDREW WAS A YOUNG MAN WHO GAVE PROMISE OF RISING HIGH +JUST AS THE ARCHITECT, GARDENER, OR PRINCESS MARY DID, TILL THE PRINCE +JUST AS THE MOTHER AND SON, HAVING REACHED THE MIDDLE OF THE HALL, WERE +JUST COME OUT OF A HOT BATH.” +JUST COMPLETED. HE LAY WITH HIS HEAD PROPPED HIGH ON THE PILLOWS. HIS +“JUST LOOK AT THE MASTER! A REGULAR EAGLE HE IS!” LOUDLY REMARKED +JUST RETURNED FROM ABROAD WHERE HE HAD BEEN EDUCATED, AND THIS WAS HIS +“JUST SEE, THE GERMAN SAUSAGE IS MAKING TRACKS, TOO!” +“JUST SEE WHERE IT CARRIES TO!” A SOLDIER NEAR BY SAID STERNLY, +JUST THEN A CLOSED CARRIAGE AND ANOTHER WITH A HOOD DROVE UP TO THE +JUST THEN ANOTHER VISITOR ENTERED THE DRAWING ROOM: PRINCE ANDREW +JUST THEN ZHERKóV ENTERED THE ROOM. +“JUST TO FLUTTER THE NUNS A BIT. THEY SAY THERE ARE ITALIAN GIRLS +JUST UNDER THE ICONS; HIS LARGE THICK HANDS OUTSIDE THE QUILT. INTO THE +JUST VISIBLE BEHIND A SCREEN. A SMALL DOG BEGAN TO BARK. +KAISER ALEXANDER HOCH!” *(2) SAID HE, QUOTING WORDS OFTEN REPEATED BY +KARL GIVE NO SIGNS OF LIFE AND MAKE BLUNDER AFTER BLUNDER. KUTúZOV +KEEP FROM LAUGHTER PROVOKED BY A SWARTHY HUSSAR OFFICER WHO WALKED +KEEPING PIERRE CLOSE BESIDE HER, ENTERED THE ROOM EVEN MORE BOLDLY THAN +KEEP YOU LONG AS AN ADJUTANT: A BAD POSITION! TELL HIM I REMEMBER +KEPT LOOKING ROUND TOWARD THE DRAWING ROOM DOOR. IT OPENED AND NICHOLAS +KEPT TURNING HIS HORSE IN FRONT OF THE SQUADRON. +KILLED AND IF I HAVE A SON, DO NOT LET HIM BE TAKEN AWAY FROM YOU—AS I +KIND, BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN A BENEFACTOR TO THEM BOTH. AS STERNE SAYS: +KINDHEARTED, AND BECAUSE THEY—FRIENDS FROM CHILDHOOD—HAD TO THINK +“KIND...LY LET—THEM—PASS!” +“KINDLY LET THIS CART PASS. DON’T YOU SEE IT’S A WOMAN?” SAID +“KINDLY RETURN TO YOUR POSTS,” SAID THE STAFF OFFICER TRYING TO +KINDLY, SMILING, HANDSOME FACE AND MOIST EYES. NESVíTSKI COULD HARDLY +KINDNESS!” HE TURNED TO GO. +KIND OF TALK, AND AT LAST ALL STOPPED. AS OFTEN HAPPENS, THE HORSES OF +KIND RELATION. BUT, NATALY, YOU KNOW MY LOVE FOR MY SON: I WOULD DO +KINDS OVERTAKING ONE ANOTHER AND BLOCKING THE MUDDY ROAD, THREE AND +KING FRANCIS IS NOT MUCH DELIGHTED BY YOUR VICTORY. EVEN I, A POOR +KíRSTEN. THE STAFF CAPTAIN ON HIS BROAD-BACKED, STEADY MARE CAME AT A +KISSED HER HAND, PRESENTING TO HER HIS BALD, SCENTED, AND SHINING HEAD, +KISSING EACH OTHER ON THE FACE, AND THEN TO PRINCE ANDREW’S SURPRISE +“KISS ME HERE,” AND HE TOUCHED HIS CHEEK: “THANKS, THANKS!” +“KISS THE DOLL,” SAID SHE. +KITTEN WHICH PROMISES TO BECOME A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE CAT. SHE EVIDENTLY +KNAPSACKS, BAYONETS, LONG MUSKETS, AND, UNDER THE SHAKOS, FACES WITH +KNEES, SOME SQUATTING TURKISH FASHION ON THE WET GRASS. +KNEE WITH THE PALM OF HIS HAND. +KNEW....” +KNEW WHAT THOSE SOCIETY WOMEN ARE, AND WOMEN IN GENERAL! MY FATHER IS +KNOCKED THREE OF THEM OVER. +KNOW HIS CHARACTER: NOBLE, UPRIGHT ... BUT YOU SEE HE HAS NO ONE WITH +KNOW HOW FOND THE COUNT IS OF HER.” +KNOW HOW TO DANCE, HAD LIKED SITTING IN THIS ROOM TO WATCH THE LADIES +KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM.” +KNOW HOW TO EQUIP BORíS.” SHE TOOK OUT HER HANDKERCHIEF AND BEGAN TO +KNOW HOW TO EXPRESS IT ... NOT BY A BALANCE OF POLITICAL POWER....” +KNOWLEDGE. +KNOW MY SON’S GOING, MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA? MY SON IS GOING.” +KNOWN AS LA FEMME LA PLUS SéDUISANTE DE PéTERSBOURG, * WAS ALSO THERE. +KNOW THAT OURSELVES!” ANOTHER, WITHOUT LOOKING ROUND, AS THOUGH +KNOW! THE PRUSSIANS ARE UP IN ARMS NOW. THE AUSTRIANS, YOU SEE, ARE +“KNOW THIS, MáSHA: I CAN’T REPROACH, HAVE NOT REPROACHED, AND NEVER +KNOW WHAT IT IS TO BE LEFT A WIDOW WITHOUT MEANS AND WITH A SON YOU LOVE +KNOW YOURSELF THAT LAST WINTER THE COUNT MADE A WILL BY WHICH HE LEFT +KOZLóVSKI WERE SQUATTING ON THE FLOOR BY A TUB SO NEAR TO THE COMMANDER +KOZLóVSKI, WHO WAS SITTING AT THE WINDOW WITH A BOOK. +“KURáGIN IS EXQUISITE WHEN HE DISCUSSES POLITICS—YOU SHOULD SEE HIS +KURáGIN WAS EXPECTING THE USUAL SET FOR CARDS THAT EVENING, AFTER WHICH + *KUTúZOV. +KUTúZOV BOWED WITH THE SAME SMILE. +KUTúZOV CHOSE THIS LATTER COURSE. +KUTúZOV DID NOT REPLY. HE SEEMED TO HAVE FORGOTTEN WHAT HE HAD BEEN +KUTúZOV FELL BACK TOWARD VIENNA, DESTROYING BEHIND HIM THE BRIDGES OVER +KUTúZOV, HE WAS SENT IMMEDIATELY WITH A SPECIAL DISPATCH TO BRüNN. +KUTúZOV ... RECOMMEND BORíS TO HIM AS ADJUTANT! THEN I SHALL BE AT +KUTúZOV’S EXPECTATIONS THAT THE PROPOSALS OF CAPITULATION (WHICH WERE +KUTúZOV’S FACE AS HE STOOD IN THE OPEN DOORWAY REMAINED PERFECTLY +KUTúZOV SIGHED DEEPLY ON FINISHING THIS PARAGRAPH AND LOOKED AT THE +KUTúZOV’S WHOLE ARMY. TO BE ABLE TO CRUSH IT ABSOLUTELY HE AWAITED +KUTúZOV TURNED AWAY. THE SAME SMILE OF THE EYES WITH WHICH HE HAD +KUTúZOV WALKED SLOWLY AND LANGUIDLY PAST THOUSANDS OF EYES WHICH WERE +KUTúZOV WALKED THROUGH THE RANKS, SOMETIMES STOPPING TO SAY A FEW +KUTúZOV WAS LEFT WITH ONLY HIS OWN WEAK AND EXHAUSTED FORCES. THE +KUTúZOV WENT OUT INTO THE PORCH WITH BAGRATIóN. +KUTúZOV, WHOM HE HAD OVERTAKEN IN POLAND, HAD RECEIVED HIM VERY KINDLY, +KUTúZOV WITH HIS EAGLE NOSE AND PUFFY FACE APPEARED IN THE DOORWAY. +“LA BALANCE Y EST... * A GERMAN KNOWS HOW TO SKIN A FLINT, AS THE +LACKEYS WHO CARE NOTHING FOR THEIR MASTER’S BUSINESS. QUARANTE MILLE +LACK THE BUMP OF PATERNITY.” +LADIES’ END AN EVEN CHATTER OF VOICES WAS HEARD ALL THE TIME, AT THE +LAD JUMPED AWKWARDLY BACK INTO THE ROOM, TRIPPING OVER HIS SPURS. +LADY, ADDING THE PRIEST’S CLERICAL TITLE, AS IF SHE HAD NO OPINION OF +LADY VISITOR. +“LA FEMME EST LA COMPAGNE DE L’HOMME,” * ANNOUNCED PRINCE +LANGUAGE: ENGLISH +LARGER CIRCLE. +LASHES, THICK BLACK PLAITS COILING TWICE ROUND HER HEAD, AND A TAWNY +LAST DECIDING SERIOUSLY TO PROVE TO THIS YOUTH HOW FOOLISH HIS WORDS +LAST LONG? IT’S ALL THE CLUB AND HIS EASYGOING NATURE. EVEN IN THE +LAST MOMENTS BY NOT LETTING HIM COMMIT THIS INJUSTICE, AND NOT TO LET +LAST SUMMER, IS SO NOBLE-MINDED AND FULL OF THAT REAL YOUTHFULNESS WHICH +LAST UPDATED: JANUARY 21, 2019 +LATE IN STARTING HER PRACTICE ON THE CLAVICHORD, WENT INTO THE SITTING +LATHE?” ASKED PRINCE ANDREW WITH A SCARCELY PERCEPTIBLE SMILE WHICH +LATTER THREW UP HIS ARMS IN SURPRISE SAYING IT WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND +LAUGH. +LAUGH. AND THEY, TOO, PASSED ON, SO THAT NESVíTSKI DID NOT LEARN WHO +LAUGHED. +LAUGHED. “I DREAMED LAST NIGHT...”—“YOU WERE NOT EXPECTING +LAUGHED SPASMODICALLY AS HE STOOD IN THE PORCH WAITING FOR THE VICOMTE +LAUGHED. “VéRA’S SPITEFUL; NEVER MIND HER! AND ALL WILL COME RIGHT +LAUGHING. +LAUGHTER LED BY NATáSHA. BOTH PARTNERS STOOD STILL, BREATHING HEAVILY +LAUGHTER THAT CONVULSED HIS USUALLY IMPASSIVE FEATURES. +LAUGHTER, THE SHOUTING OF FAMILIAR VOICES, THE GROWLING OF A BEAR, AND +LAVRúSHKA TURNED ALL THE BEDDING OVER, LOOKED UNDER THE BED AND UNDER +“LAVWúSKA!” HE SHOUTED LOUDLY AND ANGRILY, “TAKE IT OFF, +LAWS OF ITS DIVINE SAVIOUR, WHO PREACHED LOVE AND FORGIVENESS OF +LAY IN THE GENERAL PROGRESS OF THE WAR. WHEN HE SAW MACK AND HEARD THE +LEADER, CALLED LES NôTRES. * THIS SET, CONSISTING ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY OF +LEAF, GAVE IT TO KOZLóVSKI, STEPPED QUICKLY TO THE WINDOW, AND THREW +LEANING HIS ELBOW ON HIS KNEE AND COVERING HIS FACE WITH HIS HAND. AFTER +LEARNING THAT HE WAS A SPECIAL MESSENGER LED HIM TO ANOTHER ENTRANCE. +LEARNING, WAS WELL BROUGHT UP, AND HAD A PLEASANT VOICE; WHAT SHE SAID +LEAST DISCONCERTED BY THIS RECEPTION. HE HAD JUST ENTERED, WEARING AN +LEAVE ME ALONE WITH HIM!” +LE CHARMANT HIPPOLYTE WAS SURPRISING BY HIS EXTRAORDINARY RESEMBLANCE +LEFT...” A FAT MAJOR SKIRTED A BUSH, PUFFING AND FALLING OUT OF +LEFT BANK OF THE DANUBE AND TOOK UP A POSITION FOR THE FIRST TIME +LEFT BUT TO DIE?” HE THOUGHT. “WELL, IF NEED BE, I SHALL DO IT NO +LEFT HIM, RUBBING HIS SMALL WHITE HANDS. +LEFT LIKE THIS. EVERY MOMENT IS PRECIOUS. I CAN’T THINK WHY HIS NIECES +LEFT THE CHAIR ON WHICH HE HAD BEEN LEANING, AND—WITH AN AIR +LEGAL HEIR TO EVERYTHING AND YOU WON’T GET ANYTHING. YOU MUST KNOW, +LEGS, LOOKED DIRECTLY AT PRINCE VASíLI WITH NO SIGN OF EMOTION IN HER +LEMARROIS HAD JUST ARRIVED AT A GALLOP WITH BONAPARTE’S STERN LETTER, +LENGTH PORTRAIT OF CATHERINE THE GREAT. THE SAME PEOPLE WERE STILL +LEONINE HEAD. THIS HEAD, WITH ITS REMARKABLY BROAD BROW AND CHEEKBONES, +LESSON, WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE: “MATHEMATICS ARE MOST IMPORTANT, MADAM! +LESS THAN YOU DO, BUT BE A MAN!” +“LET GO, I TELL YOU! I WILL TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY. I MYSELF WILL GO +LET HER KNOW.” +“LET HIM DO IT, LET HIM DO IT,” SAID DóLOKHOV, SMILING. +“LET’S COME, QUICK, QUICK!” AND WITH A GLANCE ROUND, SHE SMILED AT +LETTER ARE NOT DESTROYED, THEN YOU WILL HAVE NOTHING BUT THE CONSOLATION +LETTERS THAT HAD COME FROM THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND, WHO WAS IN COMMAND OF +LETTER TO MURAT: +LETTER TO THE EMPEROR BEGGING HIM TO RECOGNIZE PIERRE AS LEGITIMATE, IT +“LET THEM PASS, I TELL YOU!” REPEATED PRINCE ANDREW, COMPRESSING HIS +LET THEMSELVES BE TRICKED AT THE CROSSING OF THE VIENNA BRIDGE, YOU ARE +LETTING YOURSELF BE TRICKED BY AN AIDE-DE-CAMP OF THE EMPEROR. +“LET US GO AND HAVE SUPPER,” HE SAID WITH A SIGH, GOING TO THE DOOR. +“LET US GO, IVáN LUKíCH,” HE SAID TO THE CAPTAIN. +“LET US GO OURSELVES. I ONLY CAME ROUND TO ASK DENíSOV ABOUT +“LET US GO TO HER, I MUST SAY GOOD-BY. OR—GO AND WAKE AND I’LL +“LIBERTY AND EQUALITY,” SAID THE VICOMTE CONTEMPTUOUSLY, AS IF AT +LIBERTY NOT TO BELIEVE ME AND I DON’T EVEN CARE WHETHER YOU DO OR +LID, DREW OUT A DRAWER, AND TOOK OUT AN EXERCISE BOOK FILLED WITH HIS +LIEUTENANT GENERAL, OUR DEAR PRINCE AUERSPERG VON MAUTERN HIMSELF. +LIFE, ALL ALONE—FOR PAPA IS ALWAYS BUSY, AND I... WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT +LIFE, AND CAN’T, FOR I KNOW NO OTHER. BUT THINK, ANDREW: FOR A YOUNG +LIFE GUARDS, WHO HAD BEEN LOSING THAT EVENING, CLIMBED ON THE WINDOW +LIFE, HE FELT AN UNACCOUNTABLE TENDERNESS FOR THIS YOUNG MAN AND MADE UP +“LIFT IT TWO LINES MORE AND IT WILL BE JUST RIGHT,” CRIED HE IN A +LIGHT BLUE VIENNESE CALèCHE, SLIGHTLY CREAKING ON ITS SPRINGS AND DRAWN +LIGHTED MIRRORS WHICH REPEATED THEIR REFLECTIONS SEVERAL TIMES. NOW +LIGHT. IT WAS EVIDENT THAT THE MORE LIFELESS HE SEEMED AT ORDINARY +LIGHTLY, MORE LIGHTLY, AND YET MORE LIGHTLY WHIRLED THE COUNT, FLYING +LIGHTS OF SHOPS, HOUSES, AND STREET LAMPS, FINE CARRIAGES, AND ALL THAT +LIKE A BIRD THAN A MAN.” +LIKE A CHILD, HE FELL INTO A DEEP, YOUTHFUL SLUMBER. +LIKED TO. HE LOOKED INQUIRINGLY AT HIS MONITRESS AND SAW THAT SHE WAS +LIKED TO TELL HIM. HE GATHERED UP THE PAPERS AND WITH A BOW TO BOTH, +LIKES HER WAY OF READING. SHE READS TO HIM IN THE EVENINGS AND READS +LIKE THAT SIX MONTHS AGO?” +LIKE THESE IF ONE HAS ANY FEELING?” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA. “YOU ARE +LINE AND THAT OF THE ENEMY WERE FAR APART ON THE RIGHT AND LEFT FLANKS, +LINE FOLLOWED THEM ACROSS AND THE LAST COSSACKS QUITTED THE FARTHER SIDE +LINEN SHIRT UNFASTENED IN FRONT. “WAIT A BIT, YOU FELLOWS.... HERE IS +LINE—THE OFFICERS HAD BEEN UNABLE TO KEEP SIGHT-SEERS AWAY. THE +LINGERED FOR A MOMENT. +LIPS. +“LISE, I BEG YOU TO DESIST,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW STILL MORE +“LISE!” SAID PRINCE ANDREW DRYLY, RAISING HIS VOICE TO THE PITCH +LISE SIGHED TOO. +LISE? TAKE HER TO YOUR ROOM AND I’LL GO TO FATHER. HOW IS HE? JUST THE +“LISE!” WAS ALL PRINCE ANDREW SAID. BUT THAT ONE WORD EXPRESSED +LISE, YOUNG BOLKóNSKI’S WIFE, THIS VERY EVENING, AND PERHAPS THE +“LISTEN, DEAR ANNETTE,” SAID THE PRINCE, SUDDENLY TAKING ANNA +LISTENED ATTENTIVELY. HIS FAVORITE OCCUPATION WHEN NOT PLAYING BOSTON, A +LISTENED, REFRAINING FROM A REPLY, AND INVOLUNTARILY WONDERED HOW THIS +LISTENING TO BILíBIN HE WAS ALREADY IMAGINING HOW ON REACHING THE ARMY +“LISTEN!” SAID HE; “DON’T WORRY ABOUT YOUR WIFE: WHAT CAN BE +LISTEN TO HIS TALE. +“LISTEN TO ME, PRINCE,” SAID SHE. “I HAVE NEVER YET ASKED YOU +LISTEN, WHILE WAITING TILL IT WOULD BE TIME TO LEAVE. HER TASK WAS +LIT ROOM ADJOINING THE COUNT’S RECEPTION ROOM. IT WAS ONE OF THOSE +LITTLE FINGERS. “ALL RIGHT! THEN IT’S SETTLED?” +LITTLE FRENCHY, SUCCESSFUL ONLY BECAUSE THERE WERE NO LONGER ANY +LITTLE PRINCESS. +LITTLE PRINCESS, AND HAVING ASKED FOR A NEEDLE BEGAN TRACING THE CONDé +LITTLE PRINCESS, SHRUGGING HER SHOULDERS. +LITTLE TABLE, AND ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA NOTICED THAT SOMETHING WAS AGITATING +LITTLE TOWNS THERE’S NOWHERE TO SPEND IT,” SAID HE. “WELL, LET ME +LITTLE WAVES OF THE ENNS, WHICH RIPPLING AND EDDYING ROUND THE PILES OF +LITTLE WHILE, FELT AS IF THEY TOO WERE BECOMING, LIKE HER, FULL OF LIFE +LIVELY DISPOSITION, BENT OVER HER FRAME TO HIDE A SMILE PROBABLY EVOKED +LIVELY LITTLE GIRL’S LOOK MADE HIM INCLINED TO LAUGH WITHOUT KNOWING +LIVERY, GET UP BEHIND THE CARRIAGE, AND COME WITH ME WHILE I MAKE SOME +LOADING. +LOCALITY AND SURROUNDINGS—FRUIT GARDENS, STONE FENCES, TILED ROOFS, +LOFTINESS OF SOUL. SHE HAS REFUSED TO EVACUATE MALTA. SHE WANTED TO +LONDON—COULD PRONOUNCE PITT’S SENTENCE, HE SAW A WELL-BUILT AND +“LONG AGO,” ANSWERED ROSTóV, “I HAVE ALREADY BEEN FOR THE HAY, +LONGER AND WENT ON, BETWEEN GASPS OF LAUGHTER: “AND THE WHOLE WORLD +LONGER TO HINDER THEM BUT BECAUSE THE GUNS WERE TRAINED AND THERE WAS +LOOK AT ME,” CRIED DENíSOV WHO, UNABLE TO KEEP STILL ON ONE SPOT, +“LOOK AT PAPA!” SHOUTED NATáSHA TO THE WHOLE COMPANY, AND QUITE +“LOOK AT PAPA!” THOUGH AS IT WAS THEY NEVER TOOK THEIR EYES OFF THE +LOOKED AS CLEAN AND WELL WASHED AS THE TIPS OF ONE’S FINGERS AFTER A +LOOKED AT TELYáNIN. THE LIEUTENANT WAS LOOKING ABOUT IN HIS USUAL WAY +LOOKED LIKE TRADESPEOPLE, RAN HURRIEDLY FROM THE ENTRANCE AND HID IN THE +LOOKED STRAIGHT AT HIS ADJUTANT’S FACE WITHOUT RECOGNIZING HIM. +LOOKED VERY THOUGHTFUL AND TENDER. WITH HIS HANDS BEHIND HIM HE PACED +LOOK FOR HER. +LOOKING AT HER OWN HANDSOME FACE SHE SEEMED TO BECOME STILL COLDER AND +LOOKING AT HIS WATCH. +LOOKING AT PIERRE. “AT THE PRESENT TIME IT IS DIFFICULT TO KNOW THE +LOOKING AT THE GROUND, HE CAME ON SOME STICKY, TRODDEN MUD, STUMBLED, +LOOKING AT THE PUFF FROM THE GUN THAT HAD SENT THE BALL. HIS EYES +LOOKING AT THOSE DRIVING PAST AS IF HE PITIED ALL WHO WERE NOT AT THAT +LOOKING DOWN AT THE WATERS OF THE ENNS UNDER THE BRIDGE, NESVíTSKI +LOOKING LIKE SOMETHING BETWEEN A CART, A CABRIOLET, AND A CALèCHE. +LOOKING ROUND AT THE SOUND. +LOOKING WITH DISMAY AT HER HUSBAND. +“LOOK! LOOK THERE!” ONE SOLDIER WAS SAYING TO ANOTHER, POINTING TO A +“LOOK, PRINCE,” SAID ANOTHER, WHO WOULD HAVE DEARLY LIKED TO TAKE +“LOOK SHARP! LOOK SHARP!” SEVERAL VOICES REPEATED AROUND HIM. +LORRAIN CONSIDERED. +LORRAIN, PURSING UP HIS LIPS, WAVED A SEVERELY NEGATIVE FINGER BEFORE +LORRAIN’S INSTRUCTIONS. THE GERMAN DOCTOR WENT UP TO LORRAIN. +LOSING CONFIDENCE IN ITS ALLIES, SUFFERING FROM SHORTNESS OF SUPPLIES, +LOST....” AND PRINCE HIPPOLYTE BEGAN TO TELL HIS STORY IN SUCH RUSSIAN +LOST COUNT OF HIS CHILDREN, BUT THIS PIERRE WAS HIS FAVORITE.” +LOUDLY, HANDING KUTúZOV AN ENVELOPE. +LOUD THAT THOSE IN THE DRAWING ROOM HEARD HER AND WERE STARTLED. “WHY +LOVE, LOVE OF ONE’S NEIGHBOR, LOVE OF ONE’S ENEMY, IS WORTHIER, +LOVERS OF MUSIC DO WHEN THEY HEAR A FALSE NOTE. THE TWO WOMEN LET GO +LOVING AND HONORING HIM. “WHY, I HAVE NOT YET HAD TIME TO SETTLE +LOWER ONE, AND SOMETHING LIKE TWO DISTINCT SMILES PLAYED CONTINUALLY +LOW TONES. +LUCK! SUCH ILL LUCK. AS SOON AS YOU LEFT, IT BEGAN AND WENT ON. HULLO +LUCK THE MAN HAS!” +LUGGAGE. FRANZ, BILíBIN’S MAN, WAS DRAGGING A PORTMANTEAU WITH SOME +L’U! * I SHALL CERTAINLY ADOPT AN INNOVATION AND CALL HIM SIMPLY +LUXURIOUS STUDY AND SAT DOWN TO THE DINNER PREPARED FOR HIM. BILíBIN +LYING ON THE GROUND; THEY ALSO MET A CROWD OF SOLDIERS SOME OF WHOM WERE +MA CHèRE! ON BEHALF OF THE WHOLE FAMILY I BEG YOU TO COME, MON CHER!” +“MA CHèRE, THERE IS A TIME FOR EVERYTHING,” SAID THE COUNTESS WITH +MACHINE OR SET IT IN PROPER MOTION, SO ANNA PáVLOVNA MOVED ABOUT HER +MACK. AN AUSTRIAN GENERAL COMPLAINED OF ME. I CONGRATULATED HIM ON +MACK, HAVE BY NOW ALREADY GAINED A DECISIVE VICTORY AND NO LONGER NEED +MACK’S ARRIVAL... WHAT’S THE MATTER, ROSTóV? YOU LOOK AS IF YOU’D +“MADAME DE GENLIS! MADAME DE GENLIS!” SHOUTED LAUGHING VOICES +“MADAME, I DOUBT MY ABILITY BEFORE SUCH AN AUDIENCE,” SAID HE, +MADE A GRIMACE, AS IF EXPECTING SOMETHING UNPLEASANT. +MADE ELEGANTLY WITTY. IN SOCIETY HE ALWAYS AWAITED AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAY +MADE FOR THE SACRAMENT OF UNCTION, AND IN HIS HOUSE THERE WAS THE BUSTLE +MADEIRA”... “HUNGARIAN”... OR “RHINE WINE” AS THE CASE MIGHT +MAID OF HONOR’S HAND TO HIS LIPS, KISSED IT, AND SWUNG IT TO AND FRO +MAID WITH THE DECANTER IN HER HASTE HAD NOT CLOSED THE DOOR (EVERYTHING +MAJESTICALLY ENTERED THE ROOM. HE WAS WEARING HIS LONG COAT WITH THREE +MAJESTIC FIGURE OF HIS FATHER, COUNT BEZúKHOV, WITH THAT GRAY MANE OF +MAJESTY’S AND YOU WERE PITIED....” +MAJESTY, “WHO, THANK GOD, WAS BETTER TODAY.” AND EACH VISITOR, +MAKE A REMARK, FOR THE CONVERSATION INTERESTED HIM, BUT ANNA PáVLOVNA, +MAKE SOMETHING EXCEPTIONAL OF THEM,” SAID THE VISITOR. +MAKES THINGS TRYING FOR YOU, DOESN’T IT?” PRINCE ANDREW ASKED +MAKE THEM LOOK AT THE WAG. +“MALBROOK S’EN VA-T-EN GUERRE. DIEU SAIT QUAND REVIENDRA.” * +MAMMA HAS SENT FOR ME TO GO AND DINE AT THE APRáKSINS’. READ THE +“MAMMA!” RANG OUT THE CLEAR CONTRALTO NOTES OF HER CHILDISH VOICE, +“MAMMA TOLD ME TO ASK YOU TO JOIN THE DANCERS.” +“MAMMA! WHAT SWEETS ARE WE GOING TO HAVE?” AND NATáSHA’S VOICE +“MAMMA! WHAT SWEETS ARE WE GOING TO HAVE?” NATáSHA AGAIN CRIED +MAN. +MANAGED TO UTTER (TO HER EVERYTHING SEEMED FUNNY). SHE LEANED AGAINST +MAN. EITHER THIS LOOK MEANT NOTHING BUT THAT AS LONG AS ONE HAS EYES +MANE—WHICH, THOUGH HE SAW OTHER FACES AS WELL, HE HAD NOT LOST SIGHT +MAN.... HERE HE IS, AND THE COUNT HAS NOT ONCE ASKED FOR HIM.” +MAN IS THE COUNT’S SON,” SHE ADDED MORE SOFTLY. “WHAT A TERRIBLE +MANLY VOICE INTERRUPTING THEM BOTH. “OF COURSE YOU ARTILLERY MEN ARE +MANNER HE WORE IN DRAWING ROOMS, BUT WITH THE ANIMATED FACE WITH WHICH +MANNER NOR A DESIRE TO ENTER INTO CONVERSATION, BUT SPEAKING SO QUIETLY +MANNERS, WHO EVIDENTLY CONSIDERED HIMSELF A CELEBRITY BUT OUT OF +MAN, OF MEDIUM HEIGHT, WITH FIRM, CLEARCUT FEATURES. EVERYTHING ABOUT +MAN? ON SUCH MATTERS I AM ONLY SEVERE WITH MYSELF. I UNDERSTAND SUCH +MAN’S HAND AND MOVING HER LIPS AS IF TO SEND IT A KISS. PIERRE, +MAN’S HIGH, STOUT, UNCOVERED CHEST AND POWERFUL SHOULDERS, RAISED BY +MAN’S PENETRATION HE UNDERSTOOD ALL THAT WAS PASSING IN BOLKóNSKI’S +MAN’S SIMPLE-MINDED EAGERNESS, WAS EXPLAINING HIS PET THEORY. BOTH +MAN. THE REVOLUTION WAS A GRAND THING!” CONTINUED MONSIEUR PIERRE, +MAN WHO HAS AT LENGTH BEGUN TO ATTAIN A LONG-DESIRED HAPPINESS. AS SOON +MAN WITH A DIAMOND RING ON HIS FOREFINGER, WHO WAS FOND OF SPEAKING +MANY WRINKLES ON HIS LARGE FEATURES, TO ROSTóV WHO WAS CRIMSON WITH +MARCHING THIRTY MILES THAT STORMY NIGHT ACROSS ROADLESS HILLS, WITH HIS +MARCHING WITH PARTICULAR GRACE AND BOLDNESS IN TIME TO THE SONG AND +MARIA THERESA ORDER OF THE THIRD GRADE, WHICH THE EMPEROR WAS CONFERRING + * “MARLBOROUGH IS GOING TO THE WARS; GOD KNOWS WHEN HE’LL +MARRIAGEABLE DAUGHTERS, AND OF THE YOUNG LADIES THEMSELVES, TOWARD +MARRY!” CONCLUDED PRINCE ANDREW. +MARY +MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA. +MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA AND THE COUNTESS BURST OUT LAUGHING, AND ALL THE +“MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA?” CAME HER VOICE FROM THERE. +MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA, CURVED HIS ARMS, BEAT TIME, STRAIGHTENED HIS +MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA ON HER RIGHT AND ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA ON HER LEFT, THE +“MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA! WHAT KIND OF ICE PUDDING? I DON’T LIKE ICE +“MáRYA LVóVNA KARáGINA AND HER DAUGHTER!” ANNOUNCED THE +MARY, AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS. PRINCE ANDREW HAD BEEN CALLED TO HIS +MARY BOLKóNSKAYA.” +MARY ENTERED THE ANTECHAMBER AS USUAL AT THE TIME APPOINTED FOR THE +MARY, HAVING TAKEN AND CLOSED THE EXERCISE BOOK WITH THE NEXT DAY’S +MASSES OF RUSSIAN TROOPS. AT THE BEND OF THE DANUBE, VESSELS, AN ISLAND, +MASS. LOOKING DOWN OVER THE RAILS PRINCE NESVíTSKI SAW THE RAPID, NOISY +MATCHMAKING CHRONICLES OF MOSCOW NOW SPEAK OF ME AS THE FUTURE COUNTESS +MATTER MIGHT BE HE DID NOT CARE, BUT IT GAVE HIM GREAT PLEASURE TO +MATTERS, SOCIAL INTERESTS AND THE FAIR SEX OCCUPIED NO SMALL PART OF HIS +MAY CHRIST BE WITH YOU IN YOUR GREAT ENDEAVOR!” +MAY I SHALL DO MY DUTY. I WILL COME AND SPEND THE NIGHT. HE MUST NOT BE +MAY LAUGH AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE, BUT ALL THE SAME BONAPARTE IS A GREAT +ME!” +ME.” +ME?” +MEADOW.” +MEAN GOOD FRENCH SOCIETY—WILL HAVE BEEN FOREVER DESTROYED, AND +MEANT BY THE WORDS ALL IS OVER, “AND THE COUNT’S PAPERS ARE OPENED, +MEAN TO FIGHT, LET’S FIGHT. BUT THE DEVIL KNOWS WHAT THIS IS.” +MEANWHILE KUTúZOV SENT HIS ADJUTANTS BACK TO HASTEN TO THE UTMOST THE +MEANWHILE NESVíTSKI, ZHERKóV, AND THE OFFICER OF THE SUITE WERE +MEANWHILE PRINCE VASíLI HAD OPENED THE DOOR INTO THE PRINCESS’ ROOM. +MEANWHILE THE STAFF OFFICER STANDING IN FRONT POINTED OUT SOMETHING TO +MEANWHILE THE YOUNGER GENERATION: BORíS, THE OFFICER, ANNA +ME APOLOGIZE, BECAUSE IF HE, AS COMMANDER OF THIS REGIMENT, THINKS IT +ME; BUT, MY DEAR, I AM GETTING ON FOR SIXTY AND MUST BE PREPARED FOR +ME, BUT THAT HE’LL MARRY JULIE. YOU SEE HOW HE’S BEEN WITH HER ALL +MEDAL HE CAN GET HIS REWARD JUST AS WELL IN THE REARGUARD, BUT IF HE +MEDITATIVELY AND RAPIDLY: +ME!” HE BEGAN TO LAUGH. “WELL, WHAT OF IT! I HOPE WE’LL GET BETTER +ME. I AM USED TO SUFFERING.” +ME I LIED, AND I TOLD HIM HE LIED. AND THERE IT RESTS. HE MAY KEEP ME +MEMBER OF THE HOFKRIEGSRATH MILDLY AND ATTENTIVELY. +MEMORY, HIS EXTENSIVE READING (HE HAD READ EVERYTHING, KNEW EVERYTHING, +MEMORY, I WILL DO THE IMPOSSIBLE—YOUR SON SHALL BE TRANSFERRED TO THE +MEN OF THE SAME KIND HIDING IN THE SHADOW OF THE HOUSE ON BOTH SIDES. +MEN’S END THE VOICES SOUNDED LOUDER AND LOUDER, ESPECIALLY THAT OF THE +MEN SHOULD BE IN THEIR GREATCOATS AND IN MARCHING ORDER, AND THAT THE +MEN SHOULD CONTINUE TO MARCH AT EASE, AND HE AND ALL HIS SUITE SHOWED +MEN USELESSLY, AND SO HAD HASTENED TO THROW SOME SHARPSHOOTERS INTO THE +MEN WAS TO ATTACK THE FRENCH FROM DIFFERENT SIDES. THE OLD PRINCE DID +MEN, WHO HERE, AS IN VIENNA, FORMED A SPECIAL SET WHICH BILíBIN, THEIR +ME OF HER OWN ACCORD IN THE EVENING AND TELL ME EVERYTHING. PERHAPS I +ME ONLY THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY NOT TO FORGET BORíS. BUT HE HAD +ME, PIERRE. I SHALL NOT FORGET YOUR INTERESTS.” +ME!” ROSTóV WHISPERED. +MERRILY. +MERRILY AND PRETTILY AS EVER. +MERRILY TO EVERYONE AT ONCE, SAT DOWN AND GAILY ARRANGED HERSELF IN HER +MERRY. +METALLIC ROAR, AND A WHISTLING GRENADE FLEW ABOVE THE HEADS OF OUR +METHODS THAT HE HAD BETTER LEAVE GENOA ALONE?” RETORTED PRINCE ANDREW +ME TO BURN THE BRIDGE! I KNOW THE SERVICE, AND IT IS MY HABIT ORDERS +ME TO INFORM YOU... BUT, DON’T BE UNEASY,” HE ADDED, NOTICING THAT +ME! WHAT WILL BECOME OF US? I AM THE WIFE OF THE DOCTOR OF THE SEVENTH +MICHAEL IVáNOVICH ARE THE TWO PEOPLE TO WHOM HE IS ALWAYS GENTLE AND +“MICHAEL IVáNOVICH!” CRIED THE OLD PRINCE TO THE ARCHITECT WHO, +MICHAEL IVáNOVICH DID NOT AT ALL KNOW WHEN “YOU AND I” HAD SAID +MIDDLE, A CRY WAS HEARD, THEN PRINCESS MARY’S HEAVY TREAD AND THE +MIDDLE OF HIS MOUTH AND WITH RED LIPS GENTLY INHALED THE SMOKE, LETTING +MIDDLE OF THE DRAWING ROOM ON THE FIRST CHAIR HE HAD COME ACROSS, +MIGHT BE UP TO ON THE SLY” (SHE MEANT THAT THEY WOULD BE KISSING), +MIGHT EASILY SUCCEED TO THE POST; HOW POPULAR HE WAS WITH EVERYONE IN +MIGHT OUTWEIGH ALL THE COURAGE OF THE RUSSIAN TROOPS, AND AT THE SAME +MIKHáYLOVNA. +MIKHáYLOVNA AND SNATCHING THE PORTFOLIO FROM HER. +MIKHáYLOVNA AS SHE ENTERED, AND AT THE BIG STOUT FIGURE OF PIERRE WHO, +MIKHáYLOVNA DRUBETSKáYA. ROSTóV, THE FATHER, IS ILYá, AND HIS SON IS +MIKHáYLOVNA ENTHUSIASTICALLY, QUITE FORGETTING ALL THE HUMILIATION SHE +MIKHáYLOVNA EVINCED NO SURPRISE, SHE ONLY SMILED FAINTLY AND SIGHED, AS +MIKHáYLOVNA IN PASSING INSTINCTIVELY GLANCED INTO THE ROOM, WHERE +MIKHáYLOVNA LOOKED ATTENTIVELY AT THE SICK MAN’S EYES, TRYING TO +MIKHáYLOVNA MADE A HURRIED SIGN WITH HER EYES, GLANCING AT THE SICK +MIKHáYLOVNA OF ONE OF THEM. +MIKHáYLOVNA, OR YOU WILL NOT HOLD OUT.” +MIKHáYLOVNA PASS AND DID NOT EVINCE THE LEAST SURPRISE AT SEEING THEM +MIKHáYLOVNA RETURNED TO THE ROSTóVS’ AND WENT TO BED. ON WAKING IN +MIKHáYLOVNA?” SAID HE. “LET US WAIT UNTIL EVENING. THE DOCTORS ARE +MIKHáYLOVNA,” SAID PRINCE VASíLI, ARRANGING HIS LACE FRILL, AND IN +MIKHáYLOVNA’S SON; NICHOLAS, THE UNDERGRADUATE, THE COUNT’S ELDEST +MIKHáYLOVNA. THOUGH THE LATTER HELD ON TENACIOUSLY, HER VOICE LOST NONE +MIKHáYLOVNA, WHOM SHE HAD NOT SEEN PROPERLY SINCE SHE RETURNED FROM +MIKHELSON’S ARMY I UNDERSTAND—TOLSTóY ‘S TOO... A SIMULTANEOUS +MILAN?” ASKED ANNA PáVLOVNA, “AND OF THE COMEDY OF THE PEOPLE OF +MILES AWAY FROM THE FRENCH. AT GRUNTH ALSO SOME APPREHENSION AND ALARM +“MIND, ANNETTE, I HOPE YOU HAVE NOT PLAYED A WICKED TRICK ON ME,” +MIND AT REST,” SAID HE WITHOUT ALTERING HIS TONE, BENEATH THE +MIND EASY,” SAID HE IN ABRUPT SENTENCES WHILE SEALING HIS LETTER. +MIND. “IF A TENTH PART OF HIS DETACHMENT RETURNS I SHALL THANK GOD,” +“MIND, NO HOLDING ON!” CRIED ANOTHER. +MIND ONCE FOR ALL THAT WHAT HE SAW HAPPENING AROUND HIM THAT EVENING WAS +“MIND, WALK HIM UP AND DOWN WELL!” +MINED?” +MINED AND DOUBLY MINED AND THAT THERE ARE MENACING FORTIFICATIONS AT ITS +MINE. I HAVE WRITTEN TO MY POOR MOTHER,” SAID THE SMILING MADEMOISELLE +MINISTERS AND GREAT PEOPLE, AND KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM ALL! IT’S +MINISTER’S BENT BALD HEAD WITH ITS GRAY TEMPLES. HE WENT ON READING +MINUTES LATER THE ELDEST SISTER CAME OUT WITH A PALE HARD FACE, AGAIN +MISERABLE MAN WHO STOOD BEFORE HIM, BUT THE TASK HE HAD BEGUN HAD TO BE +MISTAKE. MARRY WHEN YOU ARE OLD AND GOOD FOR NOTHING—OR ALL THAT IS +MODERN SCIENCE OF STRATEGICS, HAD BEEN HANDED TO KUTúZOV WHEN HE WAS IN +MOMENT!” +MOMENT.” +MOMENT HAD ARRIVED. WITH THE AIR OF A PRACTICAL PETERSBURG LADY SHE NOW, +MOMENT HE WAS CLEARLY THINKING OF NOTHING BUT HOW DASHING A FELLOW HE +MOMENT IMAGINED HIMSELF TO BE NAPOLEON IN PERSON AND TO HAVE JUST +MOMENT MARCHING WITH THE COMPANY. THE HUSSAR CORNET OF KUTúZOV’S +MOMENT WHEN THE FIRST REPORT WAS HEARD A FOURTH WAS SEEN. THEN TWO +“MON DIEU, MON DIEU!” SHE MUTTERED, AND LIFTING HER DRESS WITH ONE +MONK HE RECEIVED AND HAD A LONG TALK WITH.” +MONSIEUR BUONAPARTE SITTING ON A THRONE AND GRANTING THE PETITIONS OF +MORE AND HOLDING OUT THE LETTER. +MORE ANIMATED. “AND BELIEVE ME, THEY ARE REAPING THE REWARD OF THEIR +MOREAU WOULD HAVE BEEN A PRISONER IF SUVóROV HAD HAD A FREE HAND; BUT +MORE, BUT HE WAITED AND DID NOTHING. +MORE CHEERFUL IN HIS PRESENCE, AND WERE EVIDENTLY ANXIOUS TO DISPLAY +MORE CONFIDENT WAS THE APPEARANCE OF OUR TROOPS. THE SOLDIERS IN +MORE NATURAL AND ANIMATED THAN USUAL, SO THAT THE WRINKLES ROUND +MORE THAN THEY DID ANATOLE. DóLOKHOV COULD PLAY ALL GAMES AND NEARLY +MORE THAN TIMóKHIN HAD DONE WHEN HE WAS REPRIMANDED BY THE REGIMENTAL +MORE TO DO WITH YOU AND YOU ARE NO LONGER MY FRIEND, NO LONGER MY +MORNING. +MORNING GREETING, CROSSING HERSELF WITH TREPIDATION AND REPEATING A +MORNING OR EVENING THAN NIGHT. ON THE WAY PIERRE REMEMBERED THAT ANATOLE +MORNING, THE LINES WERE SO NEAR TOGETHER THAT THE MEN COULD SEE ONE +MORNING TILL NIGHT AND ABSTEMIOUS, SO OF COURSE I AM WELL.” +MORSELS. THE GROUP ABOUT MORTEMART IMMEDIATELY BEGAN DISCUSSING THE +MOSCOW FOR HIS EQUIPMENT, WAS TO JOIN THEM ON THE MARCH TO RADZIVíLOV. +“MOSCOW HAS NOTHING ELSE TO DO BUT GOSSIP,” BORíS WENT ON. +MOSCOW WHEN BORíS WAS A BOY OF FOURTEEN, AND HAD QUITE FORGOTTEN HIM, +MOST IN PEOPLE. AS TO HIS INHERITANCE AND THE PART PLAYED BY PRINCE +MOST JOYFUL THOUGH ERRONEOUS RUMORS WERE RIFE OF THE IMAGINARY APPROACH +MOST OF THE GUESTS, UNCERTAIN HOW TO REGARD THIS SALLY, LOOKED AT THE +MOTHER!...” +MOTHER AND THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER—BOTH NAMED NATALY. EVER SINCE +MOTHER, DRAWING HER HAND FROM BENEATH HER OLD MANTLE AND LAYING +MOTHER KEEP YOU IN THEIR HOLY AND ALL-POWERFUL CARE! +MOTHER, PUSHING AWAY HER DAUGHTER WITH PRETENDED STERNNESS, AND TURNING +MOTHERS USED TO BE MARRIED AT TWELVE OR THIRTEEN.” +MOTIONLESS MASSES OF THE FRENCH NOW SWAYED AND THAT THERE REALLY WAS +MOTIVE OF HIS VISIT, “IS IT TRUE THAT THE DOWAGER EMPRESS WANTS +MOUNTAINS, DEFENDING HIMSELF AGAINST SUPERIOR FORCES OF THE ENEMY AND +MOUNTAINS OF BOHEMIA, AND YOU AND YOUR ARMY WOULD HAVE SPENT A BAD +MOUNT AND RIDE TO THE BRIDGE. (OBSERVE THAT ALL THREE ARE GASCONS.) +MOUNTED FRENCHMEN, PROBABLY ADJUTANTS, WERE GALLOPING UP THE HILL. A +MOUNTING HIS HORSE AGAIN PRINCE ANDREW LINGERED WITH THE BATTERY, +MOUTH ALL SEEMED PUCKERED INTO A VACANT, WEARIED GRIMACE, AND HIS ARMS +MOUTH. ANOTHER WAS WALKING STURDILY BY HIMSELF BUT WITHOUT HIS MUSKET, +MOUTH FULL OF FALSE TEETH, AS IF SHE WERE TRYING TO CHEAT OLD AGE.... +MOUTH!” SAID BILíBIN, AND THE MOP OF HAIR ON HIS HEAD MOVED WITH +MOVED HIS FORCES TO ATTACK THE CENTER AND OUTFLANK BOTH THE RUSSIAN +MOVEMENT OF SOLDIERS FORMING RANKS AND GETTING THEIR MUSKETS READY, +MOVEMENTS OF THE AUSTRIAN ARMY, AND THEN GIVE IT TO HIS EXCELLENCY.” +MOVEMENTS OF THE BAGGAGE TRAINS OF THE ENTIRE ARMY ALONG THE KREMS-ZNAIM +MOVEMENTS OF THE BEARERS, AND THE COLD LISTLESS GAZE FIXED ITSELF UPON +MOVEMENTS WERE STILL SLOW AND MEASURED. +MOVING A CHAIR CLOSE TO HERS SEATED HIMSELF BESIDE HER. +“MR. AIDE-DE-CAMP! HELP ME!... WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?” SCREAMED THE +“MR. AIDE-DE-CAMP! MR. AIDE-DE-CAMP!... FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE... PROTECT +MUCH, AND ALL OF YOU, ONLY VéRA... AND WHAT FOR? WHAT HAVE I DONE +MUCH PRETTIER. PIERRE WAS RECEIVED AS IF HE WERE A CORPSE OR A LEPER. +MUCH THAT THE COUNT HELD HIM UP AS A PATTERN TO THE OTHER GUESTS. BERG +MURAT. BONAPARTE HIMSELF, NOT TRUSTING TO HIS GENERALS, MOVED WITH ALL +MURAT’S DETACHMENT AND THE BATTLE HAD NOT YET BEGUN. IN BAGRATIóN’S +MURAT’S EMISSARY AND RETIRED, LEAVING BAGRATIóN’S DIVISION +MURDER OF THE DUC D’ENGHIEN. THE VICOMTE SAID THAT THE DUC D’ENGHIEN +MUST BE BROKEN OFF ... AND THEN YOU KNOW, ANDRé...” (SHE LOOKED +MUST EXCUSE ME,” SAID HE, PUTTING PIERRE AT EASE INSTEAD OF BEING PUT +MUST HAVE AN EXPLANATION...” +MUST HAVE PITY ON A YOUNG MAN IN MISFORTUNE. YOU KNOW HE HAS IMPORTANT +MUST PUT IN AN APPEARANCE THERE,” SAID THE PRINCE. “MY DAUGHTER IS +MY ADVANCE GUARD, AND HAVE NO RIGHT TO ARRANGE AN ARMISTICE WITHOUT MY +“MY DEAR ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA,” SAID HE WITH HIS USUAL FAMILIARITY AND +“MY DEAR BENEFACTOR! THIS IS WHAT I EXPECTED FROM YOU—I KNEW YOUR +“MY DEAR BORíS,” SAID PRINCESS ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA TO HER SON AS +“MY DEAR!” EXCLAIMED HIS MOTHER IMPLORINGLY, AGAIN LAYING HER HAND +“MY DEAR FELLOW, HOW ARE YOU?” SAID HE THROUGH THE SINGING, MAKING +“MY DEAR FELLOW, YOU ARE A HERO!” SAID BILíBIN. +“MY DEAR PRINCESS CATHERINE SEMëNOVNA,” BEGAN PRINCE VASíLI +“MY DEAR,” SHE SAID TO HER SON, ONCE MORE STIMULATING HIM BY A +MY DEAR, WHETHER THE WILL AND LETTER WERE WRITTEN, AND WHETHER THEY HAVE +MY FATHER HAS NOT SPOKEN TO ME OF A SUITOR, BUT HAS ONLY TOLD ME THAT HE +MY FRIEND... I ONLY NEED SEE PRINCE VASíLI SERGéEVICH: HE IS STAYING +“MY FRIEND,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA IN GENTLE TONES, ADDRESSING +MY GEOMETRY LESSONS,” SAID PRINCESS MARY GLEEFULLY, AS IF HER LESSONS +“MY PART IS PLAYED OUT,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. “WHAT’S THE USE OF +MY RELATIONS WITH HIM, TRANSIENT AS THEY WERE, HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE +MY RESPECTS TO MONSIEUR YOUR FATHER AND MY COMPLIMENTS TO MADEMOISELLE +MYSTICAL BOOK I AM SENDING YOU; IT HAS AN ENORMOUS SUCCESS HERE. THOUGH +MY WIFE—ARE THE COUNT’S ONLY DIRECT HEIRS. I KNOW, I KNOW HOW HARD +“MY WIFE,” CONTINUED PRINCE ANDREW, “IS AN EXCELLENT WOMAN, ONE +NAME. +NAME-DAY PARTY. +NAPKIN, FROM BEHIND THE NEXT MAN’S SHOULDERS AND WHISPERED: “DRY +NAPOLEON +NAPOLEON HAPPENED TO FALL INTO ONE OF THE FAINTING FITS TO WHICH HE WAS +NAPOLEON’S ARMY OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND MEN WOULD CUT HIM +NAPOLEON’S WORDS. “‘I OPENED MY ANTECHAMBERS AND THEY CROWDED +NARROWED DISDAINFULLY, HE ENTERED THE ROOM OF THE MINISTER OF WAR WITH +“NATáLYA ILYNíCHNA BEHAVES VERY WELL TO ME,” REMARKED BORíS. “I +NATáSHA BLUSHED AND LAUGHED. +NATáSHA CAME IN AND WALKING STRAIGHT UP TO PIERRE SAID, LAUGHING AND +NATáSHA CONSIDERED. +NATáSHA DID NOT LIKE THE VISITOR’S TONE OF CONDESCENSION TO CHILDISH +“NATáSHA,” HE SAID, “YOU KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU, BUT....” +NATáSHA KEPT PULLING EVERYONE BY SLEEVE OR DRESS, URGING THEM TO +NATáSHA KISSED HER ON THE HAIR. +NATáSHA ONLY DESISTED WHEN SHE HAD BEEN TOLD THAT THERE WOULD BE +NATáSHA, RAISING HER FACE FOR A MOMENT FROM HER MOTHER’S MANTILLA, +NATáSHA SAW THERE WAS NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF AND SO SHE BRAVED EVEN +NATáSHA’S LARGE MOUTH WIDENED, MAKING HER LOOK QUITE UGLY, AND SHE +NATáSHA, STOPPING SUDDENLY. “I FEEL SO HAPPY!” +NEARER, FASTER AND LOUDER, LOUDER AND FASTER, A CANNON BALL, AS IF IT +NEARER. THEN THE CLANG OF HOOFS, AS OF SEVERAL HORSES GALLOPING, +NEAREST HIM WERE NOT TO BLAME FOR THEY WERE THEMSELVES PRESSED STILL +NEAR SIXTY, DEAR FRIEND... I TOO... ALL WILL END IN DEATH, ALL! DEATH IS +NEAR THE STRANGE LADY. PRINCE VASíLI IN FRONT OF THE DOOR, NEAR THE +NECESSARY. HALFWAY UP THE STAIRS THEY WERE ALMOST KNOCKED OVER BY +NECESSARY,” SAID THE YOUNGER OF THE TWO SPEAKERS, EVIDENTLY IN THE +NECESSARY TO ENABLE IT TO RETREAT WITHOUT LOSING ITS HEAVY EQUIPMENT. +NECESSARY TO GO ON INSISTING DAY AFTER DAY AND HOUR AFTER HOUR, AND EVEN +NECESSARY TO TAKE SOME PART IN IT. +NECK AND THE CORNERS OF HER MOUTH DROOPED. +NECK INSTEAD. +NECK. IT SEEMED TO ROSTóV THAT BOGDáNICH WAS ONLY PRETENDING NOT +NEED TO HURRY. HOWEVER, HE PUT HIS HORSE TO A TROT IN THE DIRECTION +NEGOTIATIONS AND TO OFFER THE RUSSIAN ARMY THE THREE DAYS’ TRUCE. +NEITHER I NOR MY MOTHER WOULD EVER ASK OR TAKE ANYTHING FROM HIM.” +NEITHER QUICKLY NOR SLOWLY. AT THIS NATáSHA DASHED SWIFTLY AMONG THE +NESVíTSKI. +NESVíTSKI AND ZHERKóV WERE SO SURPRISED BY THIS OUTBURST THAT THEY +NESVíTSKI LOOKED ROUND AND SAW, SOME FIFTEEN PACES AWAY BUT SEPARATED +“NESVíTSKI, NESVíTSKI! YOU NUMSKULL!” CAME A HOARSE VOICE FROM +NESVíTSKI ROSE, PUFFING, AND WENT UP TO THE GENERAL, SMILING. +NESVíTSKI. “THEY’VE MADE UP SPLENDID PACKS FOR ME—FIT TO CROSS +NESVíTSKI TRIED TO MOVE ON, SOLDIERS AND CARTS PUSHED HIM BACK AGAIN +NESVíTSKI WITH A LAUGH THREW HIS ARMS ROUND PRINCE ANDREW, BUT +NEUTRAL... I KNOW THAT. WHAT ABOUT AUSTRIA?” SAID HE, RISING FROM HIS +NEUTRALITY IS JUST A TRAP. I HAVE FAITH ONLY IN GOD AND THE LOFTY +NEVER FAVORABLY DISPOSED TOWARD HIM—WOULD HAVE USED IT TO TURN THE +“NEVER, NEVER MARRY, MY DEAR FELLOW! THAT’S MY ADVICE: NEVER MARRY +NEVER TAKE IT OFF. DO YOU PROMISE?” +NEVER THOUGHT MUCH OF HIM.” +NEVER UNDERSTAND IT, BECAUSE YOU’VE NEVER LOVED ANYONE. YOU HAVE NO +NEWS I MAY TAKE BACK TO MY POOR BOY.” +NEXT DAY HE WOKE LATE. RECALLING HIS RECENT IMPRESSIONS, THE FIRST +NEXT DAY PRINCE VASíLI HAD ARRIVED AND SETTLED IN THE COUNT’S HOUSE. +NEXT GLANCED ROUND IN ALARM. +NICE INDEED, QUITE FRENCH,” AND HE KISSED THE TIPS OF HIS FINGERS. +NICHOLAS’ CAREER AND AM HEARTLESS AND UNGRATEFUL, WHILE TRULY... GOD +NICHOLAS. I NEVER KNEW ANY MADAME JACQUOT.” +“NICHOLAS IS GOING AWAY IN A WEEK’S TIME, HIS... PAPERS... HAVE +NICHOLAS ROSTóV TURNED AWAY AND, AS IF SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING, GAZED +NICHOLAS SAT AT SOME DISTANCE FROM SóNYA, BESIDE JULIE KARáGINA, TO +NICHOLAS WAS TO GO WITH HIM TO THE REGIMENT; THEN CAME ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA +(NICKNAMED IN SOCIETY, “THE KING OF PRUSSIA”) EVER SINCE THE EMPEROR +NIGHT.” +NIGHT A MOTLEY THRONG OF PEOPLE SAT THERE, NOT MERRYMAKING, BUT SOMBERLY +NIGHT LONG WITHOUT CLOSING THEIR EYES, WHILE THE ADJUTANTS AND +NIGHT, SO DARK THAT THE COACHMAN COULD NOT SEE THE CARRIAGE POLE. +NINETY THOUSAND STRONG, WAS TO THREATEN PRUSSIA SO AS TO BRING HER OUT +“NO.” +“NO, ANDREW, I MUST SAY YOU HAVE CHANGED. OH, HOW YOU HAVE....” +“NO, BUT DO PROMISE! I WON’T LET YOU GO! MY DEAR BENEFACTOR...” +“NO, BUT IMAGINE THE OLD COUNTESS ZúBOVA, WITH FALSE CURLS AND HER +“NO, BUT I SAY,” SAID PIERRE, CALMING DOWN, “YOU ARE A WONDERFUL +“NO,” CRIED HE, BECOMING MORE AND MORE EAGER, “NAPOLEON IS GREAT +“NO, FIFTY,” REPLIED THE LATTER. +“NO, FRIEND, HE IS SHARPER-EYED THAN YOU ARE. BOOTS AND LEG BANDS... +“NO, FRIEND,” SAID A PLEASANT AND, AS IT SEEMED TO PRINCE ANDREW, A +NO FRUIT. I NEVER COULD UNDERSTAND THE FONDNESS SOME PEOPLE HAVE FOR +“NO, GENTLEMEN, NO... YOU MUSTN’T THINK... I QUITE UNDERSTAND. +“NO, HE THINKS ONLY OF HIMSELF,” MUTTERED THE PRINCESS WITHOUT +“NO, IF I HADN’T THOUGHT OF IT BEING A TREASURE,” SAID ROSTóV, +“NO, I HAVE A WICKED HEART.” +“NO, I HAVE NOT; BUT THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN THINKING AND WANTED +“NO, IMPOSSIBLE!” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, LAUGHING AND PRESSING +“NO, IT CAN’T BE HELPED, LAD,” SAID THE PRINCE. “THEY’RE +“NO, I TELL YOU.” +“NO, I WON’T PROMISE THAT. YOU DON’T KNOW HOW KUTúZOV IS PESTERED +“NO, I WON’T,” SAID PIERRE, PUSHING ANATOLE ASIDE, AND HE WENT UP +NO LONGER A YOUNG DIPLOMAT, AS HE HAD ENTERED THE SERVICE AT THE AGE +NO LONGER LOOKED AT THE FRENCH BUT PAID ATTENTION TO THE SIGHT-SEERS AND +NO MORE. SHE IS SO AFFECTED. ASK HER IN,” SHE SAID TO THE FOOTMAN IN A +NONE TO ANYONE.” +NONINTERVENTION. AND...” HE PAUSED. “FINALLY ONE CANNOT IMPUTE THE +“NON, MADAME.” HE SMILED QUITE INAPPROPRIATELY. +“NO, NO, PLEASE NOT... YOU ARE MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE,” SAID +“NO, NOTHING.” +NONRECEIPT OF OUR DISPATCH OF NOVEMBER 18. THAT IS HOW IT WILL END.” +NONSENSE, BUT IT WOULD IN FACT HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT TO GIVE ANY OTHER +“NONSENSE!” HE CRIED, AND THE VEINS ON HIS FOREHEAD AND NECK STOOD +“NONSENSE, NONSENSE!” CRIED THE OLD MAN, SHAKING HIS PIGTAIL TO +NONSENSE OUT OF YOUR HEAD.” +NO ONE HAD GIVEN TúSHIN ORDERS WHERE AND AT WHAT TO FIRE, BUT AFTER +NO ONE WOULD UNDERSTAND THAT IT WAS NOT TO QUENCH HIS THIRST OR FROM +“NO, ON MY WORD IT’S NOT OBSTINACY! I CAN’T DESCRIBE THE FEELING. +“NO, PETER NIKOLáEVICH; I ONLY WANT TO SHOW THAT IN THE CAVALRY +“NO—PROMISE THAT YOU WILL NOT REFUSE! IT WILL GIVE YOU NO TROUBLE +NO RESTRICTIONS WHATSOEVER. YOU MAY COPY IT, GIVE IT AWAY OR RE-USE +“NO? SHE IS VERY NICE AND KIND AND, ABOVE ALL, SHE’S MUCH TO BE +NO SKY BUT ONLY AN ATMOSPHERE.” +NOSTITZ, THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL OCCUPYING THE ADVANCED POSTS, BELIEVED +NOT A DIPLOMATIST. THAT’S WHY I JOINED THE HUSSARS, THINKING THAT HERE +“NO TALKING IN THE RANKS!... NO TALKING, NO TALKING!” +“NOT ALL, FOR YOU WILL NOT BE THERE; NOT ALL,” SAID PRINCE HIPPOLYTE +NOT ANSWER. THE HUSSAR AT THAT MOMENT NOTICED THE FACE OF THE RED-NOSED +“NOT AT ALL,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. +NOT ATTRACT A MOMENT’S ATTENTION TO THEIR OWN EVOLUTIONS AND DID NOT +“NOT BONAPARTE. HE IS THE EMPEROR! SACRé NOM...!” CRIED HE ANGRILY. +“NOT BOUND TO ENDURE INSULTS,” DóLOKHOV CONCLUDED IN LOUD, RINGING +NOT, BUT YOU HAVE NO GROUNDS FOR TELLING ME SO. AND THAT IS THE WHOLE +NOT CAPTURED.” AGAIN HE PONDERED. “I AM VERY GLAD YOU HAVE BROUGHT +NOT? DELIGHTFUL!” +NOT DISFIGURED BY THE APPROACH OF DEATH. IT WAS THE SAME AS PIERRE +NOTE. I AM IN SUCH A STATE.... MY ONLY HOPE NOW IS IN COUNT CYRIL +NOT EVINCE THE LEAST INTEREST DURING THIS EXPLANATION, BUT AS IF HE WERE +NOT EXIST. +NOT FORSAKE HIM. HE WILL FULFILL HIS VOCATION AND CRUSH THE HYDRA OF +NOT GO TO ANY LARGE GATHERINGS, BUT ONLY TO SMALL RECEPTIONS. PRINCE +NOT HAVE CAUSED HIM TO EXPECT THAT HONOR. THE PRINCE, WHO GENERALLY KEPT +“NO, THERE IS NO CHANGE. I ONLY CAME TO HAVE A TALK ABOUT BUSINESS, +NOTHING. +NOTHING ABOUT FIRING IT.” +NOTHING ABOUT IT AND HAVE NOT THOUGHT ABOUT IT. MOSCOW IS CHIEFLY BUSY +NOTHING BUT MEANNESS, DECEIT, ENVY, INTRIGUE, AND INGRATITUDE—THE +NOTHING. I AM VERY AMIABLE AND HAVE A CAUSTIC WIT,” CONTINUED PRINCE +NOTHING IS SO NECESSARY FOR A YOUNG MAN AS THE SOCIETY OF CLEVER +NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING! NO, DON’T MARRY, MY DEAR FELLOW; DON’T +“NOTHING OF THE SORT. ORDERS ARE ISSUED FOR A BATTLE.” +NOTHING WHEN THEY HAVE NO POWERS; THIS ONE HAD NONE.... THE AUSTRIANS +NOTICED THAT HE WAS PALE AND THAT HIS JAW QUIVERED AND SHOOK AS IF IN AN +NOTICED THAT THEY HAD NOT COME TO THE FRONT ENTRANCE BUT TO THE BACK +NOTICED THE LOOK OF TERROR WITH WHICH PIERRE REGARDED THAT LIFELESS ARM, +NOTICING WHAT A BAD STATE OF THINGS IT WAS. THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER +NOT ILL-SPENT. HE IS WORTH IT!” +NO TIME. I HOPE, MY DEAR FRIEND, YOU WILL CARRY OUT YOUR FATHER’S +“NOT IN THE LEAST,” REPLIED THE VICOMTE. “AFTER THE MURDER OF THE +NOT, IT WAS DECIDED AT A CONSULTATION BETWEEN THE BATTALION COMMANDERS +NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO, AND GLANCED INQUIRINGLY AT HIS GUIDE. ANNA +NOT KNOWING WHETHER IT WOULD BE PROPER TO CALL THE DYING MAN “THE +“NOT LET THE WIFE HAVE HIM?” SAID THE OLD MAN, AND LAUGHED. +NOT LETTING THE ABBé AND PIERRE ESCAPE, ANNA PáVLOVNA, THE MORE +NOT LISTENING TO IT CONTINUED TO DRESS WHILE WALKING ABOUT, AND THREE +NOT LOVE LIBERTY AND EQUALITY? EVEN OUR SAVIOUR PREACHED LIBERTY AND +“NOT ON ANY ACCOUNT!” EXCLAIMED ROSTóV. +“NOT ONLY OCCUPIED, BUT BONAPARTE IS AT SCHöNBRUNN, AND THE COUNT, +NOT RIGHT.” +NOT SEE HIM AT ALL.” +“NOT THAT EITHER. THAT PUTS THE COURT IN TOO BAD A LIGHT,” REPLIED +NOT TWO MINUTES HAD PASSED BEFORE PRINCE VASíLI WITH HEAD ERECT +NOT USED TO IT. SHE WILL RETALIATE. AND SHE HAS BEEN FOOLED IN THE +NOT WANTED HERE? GO TO THE OTHER GIRLS, OR...” +NOT WORSE THAN THIS ONE.” +“NOT YET. BUT WHERE ARE YOU OFF TO?” +NOT YET DISPERSED BEFORE ANOTHER PUFF APPEARED, FOLLOWED BY A REPORT. +NOT YOU! GO BACK OR I’LL FLATTEN YOU INTO A PANCAKE,” REPEATED HE. +“NOW ABOUT YOUR FAMILY. DO YOU KNOW THAT SINCE YOUR DAUGHTER CAME +“NO, WAIT, PIERRE! THE PRINCESS IS TOO KIND TO WISH TO DEPRIVE ME OF +NOW APPROACHED THE SICK MAN WITH THE NOISELESS STEP OF ONE IN FULL VIGOR +NOW AT HER, MOVED AS IF ABOUT TO RISE TOO, BUT CHANGED HIS MIND. +“NOW COME, COME! BE REASONABLE. I KNOW YOUR EXCELLENT HEART.” +“NO! WHAT KIND, MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA? WHAT KIND?” SHE ALMOST SCREAMED; +NOWHERE TO HUNT WITH YOUR DOGS? BUT WHAT IS TO BE DONE, OLD MAN? JUST +“NOW I AM ALL RIGHT,” SHE SAID, AND ASKING THE VICOMTE TO BEGIN, SHE +“NOW I SEE IT ALL! I KNOW WHO HAS BEEN INTRIGUING—I KNOW!” CRIED +NOW ON ONE SIDE, NOW ON THE OTHER, GIVING HIS FACE AN UNPLEASANT +NOW PERMISSIBLE; “THE DOOR TO THE LEFT, MA’AM.” +NOW ROSE AND TOOK THEIR LEAVE. THE VISITOR’S DAUGHTER WAS ALREADY +“NOW, SíDOROV, YOU HAVE A TRY!” +“NOW THEN, GO AWAY AND TAKE YOUR MONSTROSITY WITH YOU,” SAID THE +“NOW THEN, GO ON, GO ON!” INCITED THE OFFICER, BENDING FORWARD AND +“NOW THEN, LET’S SEE HOW FAR IT WILL CARRY, CAPTAIN. JUST TRY!” +“NOW THEN, YOU DEVIL’S PUPPET, LOOK ALIVE AND HUNT FOR IT!” +“NOW, VéRA, WHAT DOES IT MATTER TO YOU?” SAID NATáSHA IN DEFENSE, +“NOW WHAT DOES THIS MEAN, GENTLEMEN?” SAID THE STAFF OFFICER, IN +“NO, YOU’LL NEVER MANAGE HIM THAT WAY,” SAID ANATOLE. “WAIT A +NUMBER ONE JUMPED BRISKLY ASIDE. THE GUN RANG OUT WITH A DEAFENING +NURSERY.” +OBJECT ABOVE HIS HEAD AND, HOLDING IT THERE FOR SOME SECONDS, SUDDENLY +OBVIOUSLY STRANGE TO HER TO THINK THAT THIS STERN HANDSOME MAN SHOULD BE +OBVIOUSLY TRYING TO RESTRAIN WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF DECORUM THE EXCITEMENT +OCCASIONALLY DREW IT DOWN TO MEET THE LOWER LIP. AS IS ALWAYS THE CASE +OCCUPIED. HE WAS HIMSELF ALWAYS OCCUPIED: WRITING HIS MEMOIRS, SOLVING +OCCURRED TO HIM, THOUGH THE QUESTION HE WAS ABOUT TO ASK WAS THE CHIEF +OCCURRED TO HIS REGIMENT, BUT IN REALITY HE DID NOT HIMSELF KNOW WHAT +ODýNTSOVA HAD MARRIED AN OLD MAN, AND THAT THERE WAS A SUITOR FOR MARY, +O’ERPASSED,” SAID AN OLD PRIEST TO A LADY WHO HAD TAKEN A SEAT +OF A BATTLE BUT ALSO DISBELIEVED IN THE NEARNESS OF AN ENGAGEMENT. +OF AFFAIRS?” CONCLUDED HIS FATHER. “BUT IT TROUBLES ME. I DON’T +OF A GIRL, BUT I LIKE HER.” +OF A GUN AT ISMAIL. +OF A MAN WHO ENJOYS LIFE AND KNOWS HOW TO LIVE, HE SWAYED TO AND +OF AN IMMENSE FORTUNE. THE WILL HAS NOT YET BEEN OPENED. I KNOW YOU +OF A PARADE. WE HAD EXPECTED, AS I TOLD YOU, TO GET AT THEIR REAR BY +OF A PLEASURE, AND OBLIGES ME TO INTERRUPT YOU. I AM VERY SORRY TO LEAVE +OF A RULING PRINCE, IN A CROWN—AN ALLEGED DESCENDANT OF RúRIK AND +OF ASSURANCE AND HASTE, PIERRE CONCLUDED THAT IT WAS ALL ABSOLUTELY +OF AWE AND EVEN SERVILITY. A DEFERENCE SUCH AS HE HAD NEVER BEFORE +OF BONAPARTE. +OF BONAPARTE, ENCOUNTERING A POPULATION THAT WAS UNFRIENDLY TO IT, +OF CAPACITY FOR PHILOSOPHICAL MEDITATION (TO WHICH HE HIMSELF WAS +OF COLUMNS FROM RUSSIA, OF SOME VICTORY GAINED BY THE AUSTRIANS, AND OF +OF COMMAND. +OF COMMUNICATIONS, RECROSS THE RIVER LOWER DOWN, AND FRUSTRATE HIS +OF COUNT BEZúKHOV’S DEATH. SHE SAID THE COUNT HAD DIED AS SHE WOULD +“OF COURSE. I’M GOING INTO ACTION! I’VE SHAVED, BWUSHED MY TEETH, +“OF COURSE. WHAT IS IT?” +OF DEEP BASS VOICES, AND IN THE INTERVALS SIGHS AND THE SHUFFLING OF +OF EACH SHOT, AS AT THE WORD OF COMMAND, THE WHOLE SQUADRON WITH ITS +OF EVERYTHING. ONE MUST THINK OF THE FUTURE, OF ALL OF YOU... I LOVE YOU +OF EXPRESSION AND INTONATION THAT OBLIGED ONE TO LISTEN TO EACH +OF EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE. NOW HIS FOREHEAD WOULD PUCKER INTO DEEP FOLDS +OF FACE, EVIDENTLY WORN OUT WITH CHILDBEARING—SHE HAD HAD TWELVE. +OFF COMPLETELY AND SURROUND HIS EXHAUSTED ARMY OF FORTY THOUSAND, AND HE +OF FELLOW. AS FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS PEOPLE HAVE AMUSED THEMSELVES +OFFENDED TONE. +OFFEND ME. REALLY I HAVE SOME,” ROSTóV REPEATED. +OFFENSIVE, THE PLAN OF WHICH, CAREFULLY PREPARED IN ACCORD WITH THE +OFFERED A MOST STRIKING CONTRAST TO HIS QUIET, LITTLE WIFE. IT WAS +OFF HIS CLOAK. +OFF HIS COURAGE, HAD RIDDEN ON TO THE PLANKS OF THE BRIDGE: +OFFICER ARRIVED, BUT AT A SIGN RESUMED HIS MEASURED, MONOTONOUS PACING. +OFFICER AS IN A LOOKING GLASS—STARTED, MOVED FORWARD, AND ANSWERED: +OFFICER HAS STOLEN...” +OFFICER IN CHARGE OF TRANSPORT WAS BEATING THE SOLDIER WHO WAS DRIVING +OFFICER IN THE SEMëNOV REGIMENT WITH WHOM BORíS WAS TO TRAVEL TO JOIN +OFFICER JOINED IN THE COLONEL’S APPEALS, BUT BAGRATIóN DID NOT REPLY; +OFFICER OF THE SUITE BY THE ARM. “LOOK! A MAN HAS FALLEN! FALLEN, +OFFICER POINTING TO THE SOLDIERS. “THE OFFICERS DON’T KEEP THEM IN +OFFICERS,” CONTINUED THE STAFF CAPTAIN, “AND BOGDáNICH” (THE +OFFICER SENDS FOR AUERSPERG; THESE GENTLEMEN EMBRACE THE OFFICERS, CRACK +OFFICERS. NOW WHAT WAS THE COLONEL TO DO? HAVE THE OFFICER TRIED AND +OFFICER’S REMARK WAS JUST AND THAT REALLY NO ANSWER COULD BE MADE TO +OFFICERS WERE COUNTING THE MEN, POKING THE LAST MAN IN EACH SECTION IN +OFFICERS WHO HAD BEEN STANDING TOGETHER RODE OFF TO THEIR PLACES. THE +OFFICER, THAT HE WOULD DRINK A BOTTLE OF RUM SITTING ON THE OUTER LEDGE +OFFICIAL APPOINTED TO THE PROVINCE IN WHICH THE PRINCE’S ESTATE LAY +OFF ON THE LINE OF KUTúZOV’S RETREAT. IF HE REACHED ZNAIM BEFORE THE +OF FOR A SINGLE MOMENT DURING THE WHOLE SERVICE. HE JUDGED BY THE +OF HABIT SAID THINGS HE DID NOT EVEN WISH TO BE BELIEVED. +OF HAVING BEEN DUTIFUL ET TOUT CE QUI S’ENSUIT!* THAT’S CERTAIN.” +OF HER NEUTRALITY AND DRAW HER INTO THE WAR; HOW PART OF THAT ARMY WAS +OF HER SAINT’S-DAY FETE, TURNED AWAY AT ONCE AND ADDRESSED HERSELF TO +OF HIM, LISTENED TO HIM, ADMIRED, AND IMITATED HIM, AND WITH THEM PRINCE +OF HIS COAT AND LOOKING DOWN AT HIM—THE ENGLISHMAN WAS SHORT—BEGAN +OF HIS MOUTH AND WINKING AT THE COUNT. +OF HIS OWN, GOODNESS ONLY KNOWS WHY, HE LEAVES ME AND LOCKS ME UP ALONE +OF HIS SPEECH. “VOUS COMPTEZ VOUS FAIRE DES RENTES SUR L’éTAT; * +OF HIS WHIP FELL ON THE APRON OF THE EQUIPAGE. THE WOMAN SCREAMED +OF HOW TO GET AWAY QUICKLY TO HER OWN ROOM TO MAKE OUT THE PROBLEM IN +OF IT. PRINCE ANDREW” (HE ALWAYS SPOKE THUS OF HIS SON) “HAS BEEN +OF ITS HONEYED FIRMNESS AND SOFTNESS. +OF ITS RIGHTFUL KING,” SHE CONCLUDED, TRYING TO BE AMIABLE TO THE +OF IT. THE ONLY QUESTION IS, HAS IT BEEN DESTROYED OR NOT? IF NOT, THEN +OF LIFE, WITH HIS DELICATE WHITE FINGERS RAISED FROM THE GREEN QUILT THE +OF LOVE AND SADNESS. IT WAS PLAIN THAT SHE WAS FOLLOWING A TRAIN OF +OF MACK’S DEFEAT, THE CAMP LIFE OF THE OFFICERS OF THIS SQUADRON WAS +OF MACK, THE NEWS OF HIS DEFEAT, AND THE THOUGHT OF WHAT LAY BEFORE THE +OF MINGLED SHAME AND VEXATION. +OF ONE ANOTHER, AND THEN, AS IF AFRAID OF BEING TOO LATE, SEIZED EACH +OF OTHER THINGS AND TO LOOK IN OTHER DIRECTIONS, THOUGHT ONLY OF WHAT +OF PROFOUND THOUGHT. THE ROUND, STEADY, HAWK’S EYES LOOKED BEFORE HIM +OF PRUSSIA’S CONSENT BY ASSAULT. YOU ARE SO ELOQUENT. WILL YOU GIVE ME +OF REFLECTION ARE GENERALLY IN A SERIOUS FRAME OF MIND. AT SUCH MOMENTS +OF RUM IN HIS HAND WAS APPROACHING THE WINDOW, FROM WHICH THE LIGHT OF +OF,” SAID THE PRINCESS IN THE SAME PETULANTLY PLAYFUL TONE IN WHICH +OF SIXTEEN, HAD BEEN IN PARIS AND COPENHAGEN, AND NOW HELD A RATHER +OF SMOKE THAT HAD CONCEALED THE HOLLOW, DRIVEN BY A RISING WIND, BEGAN +OF SOMETHING TOO LARGE AND UNSUITED TO THE PLACE, CAME OVER HER FACE +OF SóNYA, WHO BLUSHED AND SMILED UNNATURALLY. IN THE MIDST OF HIS TALK +OF SPEECH AND OF THE PRESS—AND ONLY FOR THAT REASON DID HE OBTAIN +OFTEN HEARD. “WHAT IS THIS?” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW APPROACHING THE +OF THAT SONG. +OF THE ACTION BALLS AND SHELLS BEGAN FLYING ALL OVER HIS REGIMENT AND +OF THE ACTUAL BATTLEFIELD. THEY BEGAN TO MEET WOUNDED MEN. ONE WITH A +OF THE ARMY INTO THE HANDS OF A BETTER INFORMED AND MORE SKILLFUL +OF THE BEHAVIOR OF THE ELDEST PRINCESS AND PRINCE VASíLI SHE SPOKE +OF THE COLONEL, NESVíTSKI, ZHERKóV, AND THE OFFICER FROM THE SUITE. +OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF’S SPECIAL FAVOR HE WAS SENT WITH THE NEWS OF +OF THE FRENCH WERE COMING DOWN UPON THEM AND THAT HIS REGIMENT WAS IN +OF THE GUARDS, A GIRL OF FIFTEEN, AND A PLUMP ROSY-FACED BOY IN A SHORT +OF THE LATHE HE REMOVED HIS FOOT FROM THE PEDAL, WIPED HIS CHISEL, +OF THE LEAN SINEWY HAND, SHOWED THAT THE PRINCE STILL POSSESSED THE +OF THEM FORGOT WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND WHAT WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN IN THE +OF THE OFT-REPEATED PASSAGE OF THE SONATA. PRINCE ANDREW STOPPED AND +OF THE RIVER. +OF THE ROAD WERE FORESTS OF DIFFERENT KINDS, FIELDS, AND VILLAGES. +OF THE SERVICE THE VOICES OF THE PRIESTS SUDDENLY CEASED, THEY WHISPERED +OF THE THABOR BRIDGE IS DELIGHTFUL! IT IS NOT EXACTLY STUPIDITY, NOR +OF THE THIRD COMPANY!” +OF THE THIRD FLOOR WINDOW WITH HIS LEGS HANGING OUT. +OF THE UPPER LIP FORMED A SHARP WEDGE AND CLOSED FIRMLY ON THE FIRM +OF THE WAR THAT HAD BEEN ANNOUNCED IN A MANIFESTO, AND ABOUT THE +OF THE WAY! MAKE WAY!” +OF THIRTEEN, HIDING SOMETHING IN THE FOLDS OF HER SHORT MUSLIN FROCK, +OF THIS DELICIOUS RUSSIAN TEA,” LORRAIN WAS SAYING WITH AN AIR OF +OF THIS SET. +OF THOSE RARE WOMEN WITH WHOM A MAN’S HONOR IS SAFE; BUT, O GOD, WHAT +OF TúSHIN’S BATTERY. PRINCE ANDREW FOLLOWED WITH THE SUITE. BEHIND + OF WHOM YOU HAVE MADE A FRIEND, BUT NOT FOR YOU, NOT FOR +OF WOUNDED PRIDE, AND A HOPE OF GLORY. “AND SHOULD THERE BE NOTHING +OF YOU.” +OH, ANDREW! WHAT A TREASURE OF A WIFE YOU HAVE,” SAID SHE, SITTING +“OH DEAR, WHAT AM I THINKING ABOUT? I’VE MIXED EVERYTHING UP. ONE +“OH, DON’T SPEAK OF HIS GOING, DON’T! I WON’T HEAR IT SPOKEN +“OH, DON’T SPEAK TO ME OF AUSTRIA. PERHAPS I DON’T UNDERSTAND +“OH, EVERY BULLET HAS ITS BILLET,” ANSWERED VáSKA DENíSOV, TURNING +“OH, HEAVEN! HOW ILL HE IS!” EXCLAIMED THE MOTHER. +“OH, HE IS IN A DREADFUL STATE,” SAID THE MOTHER TO HER SON WHEN +“OH, HE IS SO KIND!” ANSWERED PRINCESS MARY. +“OH, HE’S ALL RIGHT, A GOOD HORSE,” ANSWERED ROSTóV, THOUGH THE +“OH, HOW DREADFUL! HOW CAN YOU LAUGH AT IT, COUNT?” +“OH, HOW NICE,” THOUGHT NATáSHA; AND WHEN SóNYA AND NICHOLAS HAD +“OH, I MUST GIVE YOU A TREAT,” BILíBIN WHISPERED TO BOLKóNSKI. +“OH! I THOUGHT YOU WERE IN YOUR ROOM,” SHE SAID, FOR SOME REASON +“OH, IT’S WETCHED! WELL, WHAT ARE YOU STANDING THERE FOR, YOU +“OH, LEAVE OFF!” SAID THE ACCOUNTANT WITH A BEAMING BUT RATHER +“OH, LITTLE COUNTESS!” ... AND THE COUNT BEGAN BUSTLING TO GET OUT +“OH, MY BOWER NEW...!” CHIMED IN TWENTY VOICES, AND THE CASTANET +“OH, MY BOWER, OH, MY BOWER...!” +“OH, MY DEAR FELLOW, WE’RE IN SUCH A STEW HERE THESE LAST TWO +“OH, MY GOD! MY GOD! SCHMIDT!” HE EXCLAIMED IN GERMAN. “WHAT A +“OH NO, NOT AT ALL TOO YOUNG!” REPLIED THE COUNT. “WHY, OUR +“OH! OH!” EXCLAIMED SEVERAL VOICES. +“OH! OH!” GROANED NESVíTSKI AS IF IN FIERCE PAIN, SEIZING THE +“OH! OH! OH!” +“OH! OH! OH!” HE MUTTERED, LOOKING DOWN FROM THE WINDOW AT THE +“OH, WELL, WELL!” REMARKED THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER. “STILL, ONE +“OH, WHAT A TERRIBLE STATE HE IS IN! ONE WOULD NOT KNOW HIM, HE IS SO +“OH, YOU DON JUAN! YOU SERPENT!” CRIED SEVERAL VOICES. +“OH, YOUR EXCELLENCY!” SAID FRANZ, WITH DIFFICULTY ROLLING THE +OLD AGE AND TOBACCO, WHICH SHE HAD KNOWN SO LONG. “NOW, MADAM, THESE +OLD COUNT BEZúKHOV, AND HIS INHERITANCE. FANCY! THE THREE PRINCESSES +OLDER VISITORS. THEY NOW, STRETCHING THEMSELVES AFTER SITTING SO LONG, +OLDEST ROSE. MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA PAUSED AT THE DOOR. TALL AND STOUT, +OLD FATHER, AND ENTERING THE MILITARY SERVICE, MY DEAR. AND THERE WAS A +OLD MAN CONTINUED TO FOLD AND SEAL HIS LETTER, SNATCHING UP AND THROWING +OLD MAN, LIVING ALONE IN THE COUNTRY FOR SO MANY YEARS, COULD KNOW AND +OLD MAN, SHAKING HIS POWDERED HEAD AS MUCH AS THE TAIL, WHICH TíKHON +OLGA WENT OUT. PIERRE STOOD LOOKING AT THE SISTERS; THEN HE BOWED AND +“O LORD GOD! THOU WHO ART IN THAT HEAVEN, SAVE, FORGIVE, AND PROTECT +ON. +ON ACCOUNT OF THE SMOKE NOTHING COULD BE SEEN. THE NEARER THEY GOT TO +ON A CHAIR IN THE BALLROOM, CROSSING ONE LEG HIGH OVER THE OTHER, +ON A HOT DISH. +ON ALL SIDES. THE COUNTESS ROSE AND WENT INTO THE BALLROOM. +ON ALL SIDES THEY SAW RAIN-SOAKED OFFICERS WITH DEJECTED FACES WHO +ON ANYTHING. IT WAS ABOUT THIS CHOICE THAT PRINCE ANDREW WAS SPEAKING. +ON AT THE CROSSING. AND WHY ARE THEY DAWDLING THERE?” +ON BOTH SIDES. BEHIND OUR POSITION WAS A STEEP AND DEEP DIP, MAKING IT +ONCE BEEN IN TO SEE THE COUNT. HE HAS NOT SENT FOR ME.... I AM SORRY FOR +ONCE MORE THE CONVERSATIONS CONCENTRATED, THE LADIES’ AT THE ONE END +ON CLOAKS OR MANTLES, AND DRIVE AWAY. THE CONVERSATION WAS ON THE CHIEF +ON DUTY EVERY DAY, OR MAY PLACE ME UNDER ARREST, BUT NO ONE CAN MAKE +ONE ANOTHER. +ONE BUT THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA HAS THAT RIGHT. +“ONE!” CAME THE COMMAND. +“ONE CAN’T EVERYWHERE SAY ALL ONE THINKS, MON CHER. WELL, HAVE +“ONE CAN’T WRITE SO FAST, YOUR HONOR,” SAID THE CLERK, GLANCING +ONE CONSIDERS THAT BY TOMORROW ONE MAY BE DEAD, OR SOMETHING SO +ONE FEELS AS IF ONE WERE IN THE COUNTRY.” +ONE FOOT, FROM THE ORDERLY AND BEGAN TO MOUNT. +ONE HAD PUT BUT WHICH WAS ALWAYS IN HER MIND, “AND HOW MUCH SUFFERING, +“ONE MOMENT, YOUR EXCELLENCY.” +“ONE MUST ADMIT,” CONTINUED PRINCE ANDREW, “THAT NAPOLEON AS A MAN +“ONE MUST BE INDULGENT TO LITTLE WEAKNESSES; WHO IS FREE FROM THEM, +ONE OF DISDAIN WHICH WAS QUITE UNCALLED FOR. HIS FERTILE MIND INSTANTLY +ONE OF THE GUESTS. “THE VICOMTE IS A WONDERFUL RACONTEUR,” SAID SHE +ONE OF THEM KNEW, NOT ONE OF THEM WANTED TO KNOW, AND NOT ONE OF THEM +ONE OF THEM WAS A SALLOW, CLEAN-SHAVEN CIVILIAN WITH A THIN AND WRINKLED +ONE OF THE NEXT ARRIVALS WAS A STOUT, HEAVILY BUILT YOUNG MAN WITH +ONE PAIR AT EACH WINDOW. SHE STOPPED AND SMILED SCORNFULLY. SóNYA WAS +ONE QUITE AT HOME, AND FROM HABIT IMMEDIATELY LAY DOWN ON THE SOFA, TOOK +ONE REVIEWS THE PAST AND PLANS FOR THE FUTURE. PRINCE ANDREW’S FACE +ONE SELDOM FINDS NOWADAYS AMONG OUR OLD MEN OF TWENTY AND, PARTICULARLY, +“ONE STEP BEYOND THAT BOUNDARY LINE WHICH RESEMBLES THE LINE DIVIDING +“ONE THING I ASK OF YOUR EXCELLENCY,” DóLOKHOV SAID IN HIS FIRM, +ONE.... WHOM, I ASK YOU, CAN WE RELY ON?... ENGLAND WITH HER COMMERCIAL +ONE WORD AFTER ANOTHER, CAME THROUGH THE OPEN DOOR. SHE WAS SPEAKING AS +ONE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR A MAN TO STRETCH HIMSELF +ONE WOULD HAVE TO... THE METROPOLITAN HIMSELF... AND EVEN THEN IT +ONE WOULD NOT NEED FINESSE; AND HE TELLS ME THAT I AM LYING—SO LET HIM +ON HER LIPS, SHE GOT UP AND LEFT THE ROOM. ALL NICHOLAS’ ANIMATION +ON HIM BY THE DOCTORS, CLERGY, AND RELATIVES OF THE FAMILY. PRINCE +ON HIMSELF. HE COULD REMAIN SILENT FOR HOURS WITHOUT BEING AT ALL PUT +ON HIM. THE EMPRESS’ CHAMBERLAIN INVITED HIM TO SEE HER MAJESTY. THE +ON HIS ARM AS IF THAT TOUCH MIGHT SOOTHE OR ROUSE HIM. +ON HIS SABER, AND PUT ON HIS CAP. +ON HIS SEAT, LOWERED HIS HANDS, MOVED A LITTLE TO THE RIGHT AND THEN TO +ON HIS SIDE OF IT. +ON IN HIS USUAL TONE OF INDIFFERENCE. +ON KUTúZOV’S STAFF, AMONG HIS FELLOW OFFICERS AND IN THE ARMY +ONLOOKERS FOR WHAT WAS TO FOLLOW. AS SOON AS THE PROVOCATIVELY GAY +ONLY BY THE ELITE. +ONLY CHANGE BEING THAT THE WORDS “FATHER KáMENSKI” WERE REPLACED BY +“ONLY FOOLS AND RAKES FALL ILL, MY BOY. YOU KNOW ME: I AM BUSY FROM +ONLY HIS EYES WERE BRIGHTER THAN USUAL. +“ONLY TAKE CARE YOU AND YOUR COSSACKS ARE NOT ALL CAPTURED!” SAID +ONLY TELLING YOU WHAT IT IS. NAPOLEON HAS ALSO FORMED HIS PLAN BY NOW, +ONLY THAT ALL THE MEN OF THE DAY WERE MERE BABIES WHO DID NOT KNOW THE +“ON MY HONOR!” +ON NOVEMBER 1 KUTúZOV HAD RECEIVED, THROUGH A SPY, NEWS THAT THE ARMY +ON OCTOBER 11, 1805, ONE OF THE INFANTRY REGIMENTS THAT HAD JUST REACHED +ON OCTOBER 11, THE DAY WHEN ALL WAS ASTIR AT HEADQUARTERS OVER THE NEWS +ON PURPOSE TO VEX US. THE ARCHDUKE KARL DOES NOTHING, THE ARCHDUKE +ON REACHING THE VILLAGE HE DISMOUNTED AND WENT TO THE NEAREST HOUSE, +ON RETURNING FROM THE REVIEW, KUTúZOV TOOK THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL INTO +ON SNOWY-WHITE SMOOTH PILLOWS, EVIDENTLY FRESHLY CHANGED, PIERRE +ON THE ARM OF A COLONEL OF HUSSARS, A MAN OF IMPORTANCE TO THEM BECAUSE +ON THE ARM SAID: +“ON THE CONTRARY,” HE SAID, IN A QUERULOUS AND ANGRY TONE THAT +ON THE CONTRARY IT GAVE HER AN UNNATURAL, AND THEREFORE UNPLEASANT, +“ON THE CONTRARY,” REPLIED THE PRINCE, WHO HAD PLAINLY BECOME +ON THE EVENING OF THE LAST DAY’S MARCH AN ORDER HAD BEEN RECEIVED THAT +ON THE FRENCH SIDE, AMID THE GROUPS WITH CANNON, A CLOUD OF SMOKE +ON THE HIGH GROUND WHERE THE ENEMY WAS, THE SMOKE OF A CANNON ROSE, +‘ON THE MARCH’ IT MEANT IN GREATCOATS?” SAID HE REPROACHFULLY TO +ON THE MORNING OF THE DAY THAT THE YOUNG COUPLE WERE TO ARRIVE, PRINCESS +ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE THE ENEMY COULD BE SEEN BY THE NAKED EYE, AND FROM +ON THE OTHER AN IMMENSE CASE CONTAINING ICONS, WAS BRIGHTLY ILLUMINATED +ON THE OTHER SIDE, THE CHILDREN, TUTORS, AND GOVERNESSES. FROM BEHIND +“ON THE SAME BUSINESS. BUT YOU ARE DAMP! LET ME WRING YOU OUT!” +ON THE SOFT SPRINGS OF THE CARRIAGE, HE TURNED TO PRINCE ANDREW. +ON THE TWENTY-EIGHTH OF OCTOBER KUTúZOV WITH HIS ARMY CROSSED TO THE +ON THE WAY TO HIS SISTER’S ROOM, IN THE PASSAGE WHICH CONNECTED ONE +ON THIS HIGH GROUND, SHALL WITHDRAW THE LEFT FLANK UNDER ITS COVER, AND + * “ON VOUS FERA DANSER.” +ON YOU. YOU COMPLAIN OF OUR SEPARATION. WHAT THEN SHOULD I SAY, IF I +“OOOH! FOR CHRIST’S SAKE LET ME ALONE!” CRIED THE WOUNDED MAN, BUT +OPENED THE DOOR WHICH MOVED NOISELESSLY AND EASILY. SHE PAUSED AT THE +OPINION,” SAID SHE, TURNING TO THE YOUNG MAN WHO, HAVING COME QUITE +OPINIONS, BUT YOU SEE WHAT A CAPITAL, GOOD-NATURED FELLOW I AM.” AND +OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS HIS OWN VIEWS, AS YOUNG PEOPLE ARE FOND OF DOING. +OPPOSITE, IN FRONT OF WHICH LARGE MASSES OF FRENCH WERE ADVANCING. +OPPOSITE. PIERRE SPOKE LITTLE BUT EXAMINED THE NEW FACES, AND ATE A +ORDERED THE HORSES TO BE HARNESSED. ONLY THOSE THINGS HE ALWAYS KEPT +ORDERLY BY THE SHOULDERS AND KNOCKING HIM AGAINST THE WALL. +ORDERLY, RUNNING BEHIND THE CART AND FUMBLING IN THE BACK OF IT. +ORDER NOT TO LOSE HIS HEAD AND DO FOOLISH THINGS HE MUST NOT ACT ON HIS +ORDER OF MARIA THERESA ON HIS NECK AND A BLACK BANDAGE ROUND HIS HEAD, +ORDERS THE SERGEANT TO BE ARRESTED. COME, YOU MUST OWN THAT THIS AFFAIR +ORDERS TO ADMIT NO MORE, BUT THE PORTER WAS TOLD TO BE SURE TO INVITE TO +ORDERS WHICH SHOWED THAT THE RUSSIAN TROOPS, WHO HAD HITHERTO BEEN +ORDER TO MAKE BORíS’ BETTER ACQUAINTANCE, PROMISED TO COME TO DINNER, +ORDER. YOU ARE CAUSING ME TO LOSE THE FRUITS OF A CAMPAIGN. BREAK +ORLóV NEVER GAVE SUCH A DINNER AS OURS WILL BE!” +OR PRINCE VASíLI. FORTY THOUSAND SERFS AND MILLIONS OF RUBLES! I KNOW +OR WHETHER SOME OTHER THOUGHT FLITTED ACROSS HIS DYING BRAIN, AT ANY +OTHER.” +OTHER, AWKWARDLY, LIKE A CHILD AT A DANCING LESSON. +OTHER BEFORE THE SERVICE WAS CONCLUDED. PIERRE PAID NO MORE ATTENTION +OTHER HAD RIDDEN UP TO HIM. +OTHER LADY VISITORS WERE FARTHER DOWN. AT THE OTHER END SAT THE COUNT, +OTHER OFFICERS. PERHAPS I OUGHT NOT TO HAVE SPOKEN BEFORE THEM, BUT I AM +OTHERS...” +OTHERS.” +OTHERS APPRECIATED PRINCE HIPPOLYTE’S SOCIAL TACT IN SO AGREEABLY +OTHER’S HANDS, KISSING THEM AND PULLING THEM AWAY, AND AGAIN BEGAN +OTHER SOLDIERS. HE STOOD LOOKING ABOUT HIM, WHEN SUDDENLY HE HEARD A +OTHERS. “WELL, YOU OLD SINNER,” SHE WENT ON, TURNING TO THE COUNT +OTHER YOUNG LADIES IN BEGGING NATáSHA AND NICHOLAS, WHO WERE NOTED FOR +OUGHT TO KNOW WHERE THEY ARE, AND MUST FIND THEM, BECAUSE...” +“OUI, MADAME,” REPLIED HE, LOOKING AROUND HIM. +OUR AID,” SAID KUTúZOV. +OUR DEAR COUNT VRBNA, GOES TO HIM FOR ORDERS.” +OUR HEARTS ARE UNITED BY INDISSOLUBLE BONDS, MY HEART REBELS AGAINST +OUR INFANTRY WERE STATIONED THERE, AND AT THE FARTHEST POINT THE +OUR MEN HAD BEGUN FIRING. THEY WERE STILL FIRING, NOT AT THE CAVALRY +“OUR MEN HAVE BEEN WASTING TIME.” +OUR PEOPLE...” + * OURS. +“OURS,” KISSING HIS FINGER TIPS. +OUR TURN NEXT.” +OUT: +OUT ABOUT HIM. +OUT A NOTEBOOK, HURRIEDLY SCRIBBLED SOMETHING IN PENCIL, TORE OUT THE +OUT AS A POST HORSE, BUT STILL I MUST HAVE A TALK WITH YOU, CATICHE, A +OUT EVERYONE HAS BEEN ENRAPTURED BY HER? THEY SAY SHE IS AMAZINGLY +OUT FROM BEHIND THE CLOUDS, AND THE CLEAR SOUND OF THE SOLITARY SHOT +OUT HER CAMBRIC HANDKERCHIEF SHE BEGAN WIPING HER HUSBAND’S WAISTCOAT. +OUT HIS NOTEBOOK AND, LEANING ON THE CANNON, SKETCHED A PLAN OF THE +OUT IN FRONT OF A PLATOON OF GRENADIERS BEFORE WHOM LAY A NAKED MAN. TWO +OUT LIKE CORDS. “YOU ARE MAD, I TELL YOU. I WON’T ALLOW IT. +OUT. MACK LOSES A WHOLE ARMY, THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND AND THE ARCHDUKE +OUT OF COUNTENANCE HIMSELF OR MAKING OTHERS UNCOMFORTABLE, BUT AS +OUT OF THIS POSITION; THAT HERE WAS THE TOULON THAT WOULD LIFT HIM FROM +OUT THE STINGING AND TORMENTING THOUGHTS THAT CONFUSED HIS MIND. “THIS +OUT UNTIL, AT THE FIRST PAUSE, THE GUESTS RISE WITH A RUSTLE OF DRESSES +OUT WHETHER SHE WAS CONSIDERING WHAT HE HAD JUST SAID OR WHETHER SHE WAS +OVER A FIRE BRIGADE OF BONAPARTE’S, THAT WILL BE ANOTHER STORY AND +OVER,” ANNA PáVLOVNA CONTINUED. “THE SOVEREIGNS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO +OVER BEAMED WITH IRREPRESSIBLE DELIGHT.) “IT’S IN THE EMPEROR’S +OVERCOME A CERTAIN SECRET SORROW THAT HAS BEEN IN MY HEART EVER SINCE +OVERFLOWED WITH ANIMATION AND IMPULSIVENESS. TO BE AN ENTHUSIAST HAD +“OVERFLOWING WITH AMIABILITY. HIS POSITION HAS NOT TURNED HIS HEAD +OVER HIS SHOULDER. +OVER HIS SPECTACLES, AND THEN AGAIN RESUMING HIS WALK, MUTTERING +OVERTAKEN BY THE ENEMY AND FIGHTING REARGUARD ACTIONS ONLY AS FAR AS +OVER, THE ADJUTANT HE HAD SEEN THE PREVIOUS DAY CEREMONIOUSLY INFORMED +OVER THEIR HEADS, UNSTRAPPING THEIR OVERCOATS AND DRAWING THE SLEEVES ON +OWNER OF ONE OF THE LARGEST FORTUNES IN RUSSIA, I AM MUCH AMUSED TO +OWN IDEAS TONIGHT, BUT MUST YIELD HIMSELF UP ENTIRELY TO THE WILL OF +PALE, AND ADDED, “LOOK AT IT, YOUNG MAN.” +PALE FACE AND GLITTERING EYES. +PALE, NOW BLUSHED AND STRAINED EVERY NERVE TO OVERHEAR WHAT NICHOLAS +“PAPA,” SAID HIS BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER IN THE SAME TONE AS BEFORE, +“PAPA, WE SHALL BE LATE,” SAID PRINCESS HéLèNE, TURNING HER +PAPER AND HER HAND MOVED RAPIDLY OVER IT. THIS IS THE REPLY SHE WROTE, +PAPER. HE LOOKED GLOOMILY IN ROSTóV’S FACE AND SAID: “I AM WITING +PAPERS AND IT WAS THE FIRST TIME HE HAD HEARD VILLENEUVE’S NAME. +PAPERS AND STILL TAKING NO NOTICE OF THE SPECIAL MESSENGER. +PARADE. HOWEVER, I WILL LET YOU KNOW.” +PARADE... I AM THE FIRST TO APOLOGIZE, YOU KNOW ME!... HE WAS VERY +PARDON. AS SOON AS ROSTóV HEARD THEM, AN ENORMOUS LOAD OF DOUBT +PART. ANNA PáVLOVNA SCHéRER ON THE CONTRARY, DESPITE HER FORTY YEARS, +PART FROM HIS HORSE, AND AT LAST SPRANG DOWN AND CALLED TO HIS ORDERLY. +PARTICULAR EMPHASIS AS IF IN IT LAY THE GIST OF THE MATTER. +PARTICULARLY ADDICTED), HE REGARDED EVEN THIS NOT AS A DEFECT BUT AS A +PARTICULARLY AGREEABLE BEFORE GOING AWAY. BESIDES THIS HE WAS +PARTICULARLY ON THE WORD POSSIBLE... “AS PO-O-OSSIBLE,” HE ENDED, +PARTICULARLY STRIKING AMONG ALL THESE DRUNKEN VOICES BY ITS SOBER + PARTICULARLY VICTORIOUS.” +PASSED OUT BY A BACK DOOR, BUT RETURNED TO THEIR PLACES ONE AFTER THE +PASSING BETWEEN THE COMPANIES THAT HAD BEEN EATING PORRIDGE AND DRINKING +PASSING BY KUTúZOV’S CARRIAGE AND THE EXHAUSTED SADDLE HORSES OF +PASSIONATELY ONCE MORE TO ENJOY THAT DISSIPATION HE WAS SO ACCUSTOMED TO +PASS THE THREE OFFICERS QUITE EASILY, BUT ZHERKóV, PUSHING NESVíTSKI +PAST THE COMPANY, AND OVERTOOK THE CARRIAGE, STILL KEEPING TIME TO THE +PATHETIC SMILE, AS THOUGH SHE TOO KNEW THAT COUNT ROSTóV DESERVED THIS +PATRONESS. SHE ADDED THAT HER MAJESTY HAD DEIGNED TO SHOW BARON FUNKE +PAUL HAD EXILED HIM TO HIS COUNTRY ESTATE HAD LIVED THERE CONTINUOUSLY +PAUSE AFTER THIS MOT TO GIVE TIME FOR ITS DUE APPRECIATION. “THE +PAUSED. “I AM GOING BECAUSE THE LIFE I AM LEADING HERE DOES NOT SUIT +PAUSING. “THE ONLY QUESTION IS WHAT WILL COME OF THE MEETING BETWEEN +PáVLOVNA. +PáVLOVNA: “EDUCATE THIS BEAR FOR ME! HE HAS BEEN STAYING WITH ME +PáVLOVNA HAD HAD A COUGH FOR SOME DAYS. SHE WAS, AS SHE SAID, SUFFERING +PáVLOVNA, LOOKING UP PENSIVELY. +PáVLOVNA’S HAND AND FOR SOME REASON DRAWING IT DOWNWARDS. “ARRANGE +PáVLOVNA’S HAND, AND SCREWING UP HIS EYES SCANNED THE WHOLE COMPANY. +PáVLOVNA’S WAS THE FIRST HE HAD ATTENDED IN RUSSIA. HE KNEW THAT ALL +PEACE. THE OLD MAN WAS BESIDE HIMSELF: MOVED THE CHAIR ON WHICH HE WAS +PEARLS ON THEIR BARE SHOULDERS, LOOKED AT THEMSELVES IN THE BRILLIANTLY +PECULIAR FORM OF BEAUTY. EVERYONE BRIGHTENED AT THE SIGHT OF THIS PRETTY +PECULIARLY DELIBERATE STEPS. THIS FEELING OF DISDAIN WAS HEIGHTENED +PEOPLE AND STARTING TO JOIN THE ARMY. YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE STATE OF +“PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS TOO CLEVER WITH THEIR ELDEST CHILDREN AND TRY TO +PEOPLE,” HE WENT ON, TURNING TO ANNA PáVLOVNA, “HE EVER WAS A HERO, +PEOPLE SHOW TO EVERYONE WHEN THEY ARE HAPPY. +PEOPLE WERE IN ONE OF THE INNER ROOMS, NOT CONSIDERING IT NECESSARY TO +PERCEPTION BEFITTING A MAN OF THE WORLD, HE INDICATED BY A MOVEMENT OF +PERFORM! PRUSSIA HAS ALWAYS DECLARED THAT BUONAPARTE IS INVINCIBLE, AND +“PERHAPS LATER ON I MAY TELL YOU, MY DEAR BOY, THAT IF I HAD NOT BEEN +PERHAPS, SEE AND TAKE PART IN THE FIRST RUSSIAN ENCOUNTER WITH THE +“PERHAPS THE COUNT DID NOT ASK FOR ME,” SAID PIERRE WHEN HE REACHED +“PERMIT ME, PRINCESS, TO KNOW WHAT IS NECESSARY AND WHAT IS NOT +PERSONAGE HE WAS REFERRING TO. +PERSONALLY IT WOULD BE A PLEASURE TO HAND OVER THE SUPREME COMMAND +PERSONS, AMONG THEM THE ELDERLY LADY AND ANNA PáVLOVNA, DID HOWEVER +PETERSBURG, AND HAD BEEN EXPELLED FROM THERE FOR RIOTOUS CONDUCT AND +PETERSBURG. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, WITH HER TEAR-WORN BUT PLEASANT FACE, +PETERSBURG. BUT NOW THIS HEAD WAS SWAYING HELPLESSLY WITH THE UNEVEN +PETERSBURG—NO ONE KNOWS WHO WILL INHERIT HIS IMMENSE FORTUNE, PIERRE +PETERSBURG ON THE TENTH OF AUGUST, AND HER SON, WHO HAD REMAINED IN +PETERSBURG SOCIETY WAS ASSEMBLED THERE: PEOPLE DIFFERING WIDELY IN AGE +PETERSBURG TO PROCURE AN APPOINTMENT IN THE GUARDS FOR HER ONLY SON. +PéTYA! GOOD MAN!” CRIED HE, ADDRESSING PIERRE. +PE VELL. AND VE MUST DISCUSS IT AS LITTLE AS PO-O-OSSIBLE”... HE DWELT +PHILOSOPHIZING VOICE WITH PLEASURE. +PICK UP THE GLOVE HIMSELF AND TO PASS ROUND THE DOCTORS WHO WERE NOT +PIERCINGLY. SEEING PRINCE ANDREW SHE LEANED OUT FROM BEHIND THE APRON +PIERRE. +PIERRE. +PIERRE, AFTER ALL, HAD NOT MANAGED TO CHOOSE A CAREER FOR HIMSELF IN +PIERRE AND HIMSELF WAS IN THE ROOM, AND ADDRESSED HER IN A TONE OF +PIERRE AT THE AGE OF TEN HAD BEEN SENT ABROAD WITH AN ABBé AS TUTOR, +PIERRE COULD NOT MAKE OUT WHAT IT WAS ALL ABOUT, AND STILL LESS WHAT +PIERRE DID NOT UNDERSTAND A WORD, BUT THE CONVICTION THAT ALL THIS HAD +PIERRE DRANK ONE GLASS AFTER ANOTHER, LOOKING FROM UNDER HIS BROWS AT +PIERRE GAVE HER AN INQUIRING LOOK. SHE KISSED THE YOUNG MAN ON HIS +PIERRE HAD BEEN EDUCATED ABROAD, AND THIS RECEPTION AT ANNA +PIERRE HAD COME JUST AT DINNERTIME AND WAS SITTING AWKWARDLY IN THE +PIERRE HAD TAKEN PART IN TYING A POLICEMAN TO A BEAR. HE HAD NOW BEEN +PIERRE, HAVING MADE UP HIS MIND TO OBEY HIS MONITRESS IMPLICITLY, MOVED +PIERRE HEARD HER SAY: +PIERRE. HE WENT UP TO HIM, TOOK HIS HAND (A THING HE NEVER USED TO DO), +PIERRE. IT SEEMED TO HIM THAT MORE THAN HALF AN HOUR HAD ELAPSED. +PIERRE LISTENED TO THE COLONEL’S SPEECH AND NODDED APPROVINGLY. +PIERRE LOOKED AT HER OVER HIS SPECTACLES. +PIERRE LOOKED AT HIS FRIEND AND, NOTICING THAT HE DID NOT LIKE THE +PIERRE LOOKED OVER HIS SPECTACLES WITH NAïVE SURPRISE, NOW AT HIM AND +PIERRE LOOKED QUESTIONINGLY AT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA TO SEE WHAT HE WAS TO +PIERRE MURMURED SOMETHING UNINTELLIGIBLE, AND CONTINUED TO LOOK ROUND AS +“PIERRE, MY DEAR, COME HERE. I THINK HE WILL NOT BE OUT OF PLACE IN A +PIERRE, NOT KNOWING WHOM TO ANSWER, LOOKED AT THEM ALL AND SMILED. HIS +PIERRE REACHING THE HOUSE FIRST WENT INTO PRINCE ANDREW’S STUDY LIKE +PIERRE ROSE TO HELP HIM. +PIERRE RUBBED HIS FOREHEAD. +PIERRE SAT DOWN WITH HIS LITTLE PARTNER. NATáSHA WAS PERFECTLY HAPPY; +PIERRE SAT UP ON THE SOFA, WITH HIS LEGS TUCKED UNDER HIM. +PIERRE SAW THAT BORíS WISHED TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT, AND BEING OF THE +PIERRE SEIZED THE CROSSBEAM, TUGGED, AND WRENCHED THE OAK FRAME OUT WITH +PIERRE’S EYES. +PIERRE’S HAND TO SHOW THAT THERE WAS NO NEED TO ASK THE QUESTION. HE +“PIERRE!” SHE SAID. +PIERRE SHOOK HIS HEAD AND ARMS AS IF ATTACKED BY MOSQUITOES OR BEES. +PIERRE’S LEGITIMATION? DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT IN CONSIDERATION OF THE +PIERRE SMILED IN HIS GOOD-NATURED WAY AS IF AFRAID FOR HIS COMPANION’S +PIERRE’S MIND WAS IN SUCH A CONFUSED STATE THAT THE WORD “STROKE” +PIERRE’S OUTBURST ANNA PáVLOVNA, DESPITE HER SOCIAL EXPERIENCE, WAS +PIERRE’S REMARKS, ROSE AND MADE A SIGN TO HIS WIFE THAT IT WAS TIME TO +PIERRE, THE ONE WHO HAD BEHAVED SO IMPROPERLY AT ANNA PáVLOVNA’S +PIERRE THREW OFF HIS CLOAK AND ENTERED THE FIRST ROOM, IN WHICH WERE THE +PIERRE TOOK OFF HIS SPECTACLES, WHICH MADE HIS FACE SEEM DIFFERENT AND +PIERRE TURNED HIS WHOLE BODY, MAKING THE SOFA CREAK. HE LIFTED HIS EAGER +PIERRE UNDERSTOOD NOTHING OF ALL THIS AND COLORING SHYLY LOOKED IN +PIERRE WAS EVIDENT. SHE KEPT AN ANXIOUS WATCH ON HIM WHEN HE APPROACHED +PIERRE, WAS ONLY BUSY CAUSING HIM ANNOYANCE. +PIERRE WAS SILENT. +PIERRE WAS SITTING IN THE DRAWING ROOM WHERE SHINSHíN HAD ENGAGED HIM, +PIERRE WAS STAYING AT PRINCE VASíLI KURáGIN’S AND SHARING THE +PIERRE WAS STILL AFRAID THAT THIS OFFICER MIGHT INADVERTENTLY SAY +PIERRE WAS UNGAINLY. STOUT, ABOUT THE AVERAGE HEIGHT, BROAD, WITH HUGE +PIERRE WAS VERY FOND OF. +PIERRE WELL KNEW THIS LARGE ROOM DIVIDED BY COLUMNS AND AN ARCH, ITS +PIERRE WELL REMEMBERED THIS SMALL CIRCULAR DRAWING ROOM WITH ITS MIRRORS +PIERRE WENT IN AT THE DOOR, STEPPING ON THE SOFT CARPET, AND NOTICED +PIERRE WENT OUT. +PIERRE, WHO HAD BEEN GROWING MORE AND MORE AGITATED AS HE LISTENED TO +PIERRE WHO HAS INHERITED ALL THE PROPERTY AND HAS BESIDES BEEN +PIERRE, WHO WAS LAGGING BEHIND, TO FOLLOW. THOUGH HE DID NOT SEE WHY IT +PILLOWS ONE AT A TIME AND SHAKING THEM. +PINEAPPLE ICE. BEFORE THE ICES, CHAMPAGNE WAS SERVED ROUND. THE BAND +PITIED. SHE HAS NO ONE, NO ONE. TO TELL THE TRUTH, I DON’T NEED HER, +PITY FOR ME. WHY IS IT?” +PLACE AND EVERYTHING WAITING FOR HIM IN THE ARCHIVES DEPARTMENT! ISN’T +PLACED A CHAIR FOR HER. +PLACED THEM ON THE WINDOW SILL, THOUGH IT WAS ALREADY QUITE LIGHT. +PLACES. THEN THE STRAINS OF THE COUNT’S HOUSEHOLD BAND WERE REPLACED +PLACE! WE PASSED CLOSE TO THE PARK AND SAW TWO DEER... AND WHAT A +PLACING THE BOTTLE ON THE WINDOW SILL WHERE HE COULD REACH IT EASILY, +PLAIN THAT SHE UNDERSTOOD NOTHING AND WAS SO FRIGHTENED THAT HER +PLAN CHIMERICAL. +PLAYER, IN SPITE OF THE BURDEN OF HIS EQUIPMENT, RUSHED OUT TO THE FRONT +PLAYING WITH THE BALL OF WORSTED AS A KITTEN SHOULD. +PLAY. INVOLUNTARILY HE FELT A JOYFUL AGITATION AT THE THOUGHT OF THE +PLEASANT SMILE, AS IF IT WERE OBVIOUS TO HIM THAT HIS SUCCESS MUST +PLEASANT SMILE—HIS EYELIDS DROOPING MORE THAN HALF OVER HIS OLD EYES, +“PLEASE, ANDREW, FOR MY SAKE!...” +“PLEASE BE QUICK,” HE SAID. +PLEASED!” AND HE HELD OUT HIS HAND TO THE CAPTAIN. +“PLEASE, DENíSOV, LET ME LEND YOU SOME: I HAVE SOME, YOU KNOW,” +PLEASED TO TAKE ME AS AN AIDE-DE-CAMP....” +PLEASED WITH. +“PLEASE HAVE A LOOK AT IT”—AND KUTúZOV WITH AN IRONICAL SMILE +PLEASE MAKE WAY!” +“PLEASE, YOUR EXCELLENCY, FOR GOD’S SAKE!” HE KEPT SAYING, +PLEASURE AND LISTENED TO THE CONVERSATION OF HIS TWO NEIGHBORS, WHOM HE +PLEASURE AT THE SOUND OF THE SINGING AND THE SIGHT OF THE DANCING +PLEASURE TO HERSELF AND TO ALL AROUND HER. “I HAVE BROUGHT MY WORK,” +POCKET AND THAT’S QUITE SIMPLE AND IS NO ONE ELSE’S BUSINESS.” +POCKET OF HIS RIDING BREECHES, WITH HIS EYEBROWS LIFTED AND HIS MOUTH +POINT.” +POINT. ASK DENíSOV WHETHER IT IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION FOR A CADET TO +POINTING TO NICHOLAS, “HIS FRIEND BORíS HAS BECOME AN OFFICER, AND +POLICE TRIED TO INTERFERE, AND WHAT DID THE YOUNG MEN DO? THEY TIED +POLITENESS AND AFFECTED SYMPATHY OF WHICH INDIFFERENCE AND EVEN IRONY +POLITENESS AND TO START CONVERSATION, THEY ASKED HIM A FEW QUESTIONS +POLITENESS MODESTLY PLACED HIMSELF AT THE DISPOSAL OF THE CIRCLE IN +POLITICAL EVENTS. +POORER THAN THE POOREST BEGGAR. A THOUSAND THANKS, DEAR FRIEND, FOR THE +POOR RESOURCES I HAVE FOR ENTERTAINING A WOMAN USED TO THE BEST SOCIETY. +PORCH. HIS LANDLORD, WHO IN A WAISTCOAT AND A POINTED CAP, PITCHFORK IN +PORCH. PRINCE ANDREW GOT OUT OF THE CARRIAGE, HELPED HIS LITTLE WIFE TO +PORTFOLIO. +PORTFOLIO, AND CHANGED HER GRIP. +PORTFOLIO SHE HELD IN HER HAND. “ALL I KNOW IS THAT HIS REAL WILL IS +PORTFOLIO WERE THE ONLY SOUNDS AUDIBLE, BUT IT WAS EVIDENT THAT IF +PORTMANTEAU INTO THE VEHICLE, “WE ARE TO MOVE ON STILL FARTHER. THE +PORTRAIT (EVIDENTLY BY THE HAND OF THE ARTIST BELONGING TO THE ESTATE) +POSITION. HE MADE SOME NOTES ON TWO POINTS, INTENDING TO MENTION THEM TO +POSITION IS NOW A TERRIBLE ONE,” CONTINUED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, SADLY, +POSITION NOW, PETER NIKOLáEVICH...” +POSITION OF THAT INSIGNIFICANT INDIVIDUAL WAS SUCH AS COULD CERTAINLY +POSITION OF THE ARMY REACHED HIM AS HE WENT ALONG, AND THE APPEARANCE OF +POSSESSOR OF THE FINEST FORTUNE IN RUSSIA. IT IS RUMORED THAT PRINCE +POSSIBLE. GOD PRESERVE US FROM THAT TERRIBLE MISFORTUNE! +POSSIBLE. HIS CONVERSATION WAS ALWAYS SPRINKLED WITH WITTILY ORIGINAL, +POSSIBLE. KUTúZOV HIMSELF WITH ALL HIS TRANSPORT TOOK THE ROAD TO +POSTED ON A RATHER STEEP INCLINE WHICH DOMINATED THE FRENCH POSITION. +POSTED, TWO MEN APPEARED ON HORSE BACK. THEY WERE AN AIDE-DE-CAMP +POSTING DATE: JANUARY 10, 2009 [EBOOK #2600] +POTëMKINS OR SUVóROVS LEFT TO OPPOSE HIM; BUT HE WAS ALSO CONVINCED +POUR VOUS. *(2) ONLY A HOBBLEDEHOY COULD AMUSE HIMSELF IN THIS +POWDER,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW BANTERINGLY YET TENDERLY. +POWER.” +POWERFUL NATION LIKE RUSSIA—BARBARIC AS SHE IS SAID TO BE—TO PLACE +PRANCING HORSE HAD SPLASHED MUD OVER SOME FOOT SOLDIERS. +PRATER... TRUE, WE HAVE NO PRATER HERE...” +PRAYED THAT THE DAILY INTERVIEW MIGHT PASS OFF WELL. +PREARRANGED SENTENCE. +PREENING ITS PLUMAGE AND BECAME MOTIONLESS. +PREGNANT,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, FOLLOWING EVERY MOVEMENT OF HIS +PREJUDICES, AND EQUALITY OF CITIZENSHIP, AND ALL THESE IDEAS NAPOLEON +PREPARE A CIRCULAR, MEMORANDUM, OR REPORT, SKILLFULLY, POINTEDLY, AND +PREPARED TO CONTINUE, BUT JUST THEN ANNA PáVLOVNA, WHO HAD KEPT A +PRESENCE, I WILL TEACH YOU TO BEHAVE YOURSELF.” +PRESENTED HE WAS AS LITTLE ABLE AS HIS FATHER TO CHANGE HIS OPINION. HE +PRESENT I AM FREE AND AM ALL RIGHT. ONLY I HAVEN’T THE LEAST IDEA WHAT +PRESENT, SUDDENLY PUSHED FORWARD WITH A SCARED AND ANGRY LOOK AND WANTED +PRESERVED ALL THAT WAS GOOD IN IT—EQUALITY OF CITIZENSHIP AND FREEDOM +PRESERVE HIS GRAVITY. +PRESSED TWO FINGERS MORE AND MORE RIGIDLY TO HIS CAP, AS IF IN THIS +PRESSURE LAY HIS ONLY HOPE OF SALVATION. +PRETENDING TO DO SOMETHING REAL. PRINCE ANDREW GAILY BORE WITH HIS +PRETENSE OF HELPING, WAS IN EVERYONE’S WAY. +PRETEXT. THE FACT IS HE HAS COME TO SEE COUNT CYRIL VLADíMIROVICH, +PREVENTED HER FROM GOING ON WITH IT. +PRIDE. “THAT LAWSUIT TAUGHT ME MUCH. WHEN I WANT TO SEE ONE OF THOSE +PRIESTS; “ALL WE RELATIVES HAVE BEEN IN SUCH ANXIETY. THIS YOUNG +PRINCE. +PRINCE.” +PRINCE. AND GOD ONLY KNOWS WHERE YOUR MAN PETER IS,” SAID THE OTHER +PRINCE ANDREW. +PRINCE ANDREW AND HIS SISTER, HAND IN HAND, KISSED ONE ANOTHER, AND +PRINCE ANDREW, BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND THAT HIS NEWS OF THE BATTLE +PRINCE ANDREW BOWED HIS HEAD IN TOKEN OF HAVING UNDERSTOOD FROM THE +PRINCE ANDREW CAUGHT HIM BY THE HAND. +PRINCE ANDREW COULD NOT UNDERSTAND. +PRINCE ANDREW DURING THE BATTLE HAD BEEN IN ATTENDANCE ON THE AUSTRIAN +PRINCE ANDREW, EVIDENTLY CONFUSED. “I KNOW THAT OUT OF A MILLION +PRINCE ANDREW FELT THAT EITHER THE ACTIONS OF KUTúZOV’S ARMY +PRINCE ANDREW FOLLOWED HER WITH A COURTEOUS BUT SAD EXPRESSION. +PRINCE ANDREW FROWNED AGAIN, EXPRESSING HIS ANNOYANCE WITH WHOEVER WAS +PRINCE ANDREW GAZED WITH ANXIOUS CURIOSITY AT THAT IMPASSIVE FACE +PRINCE ANDREW GLANCED AGAIN AT THE ARTILLERY OFFICER’S SMALL FIGURE. +PRINCE ANDREW GLANCED AT KUTúZOV’S FACE ONLY A FOOT DISTANT FROM HIM +PRINCE ANDREW HAD GONE OUT INTO THE HALL, AND, TURNING HIS SHOULDERS +PRINCE ANDREW, HAVING REACHED THE FRONT LINE, RODE ALONG IT. OUR FRONT +PRINCE ANDREW, HIS FACE DISTORTED WITH FURY, RODE UP TO HIM AND RAISED +PRINCE ANDREW KEPT LOOKING WITH AN AMUSED SMILE FROM PIERRE TO THE +PRINCE ANDREW KNEW HOW TO TAKE HIS STAND SO THAT THEY RESPECTED AND EVEN +PRINCE ANDREW LOOKED ANNA PáVLOVNA STRAIGHT IN THE FACE WITH A +PRINCE ANDREW LOOKED INQUIRINGLY AT HIM AND GAVE NO REPLY. +PRINCE ANDREW LOOKED KINDLY AT HIM, YET HIS GLANCE—FRIENDLY AND +PRINCE ANDREW LOOKED STERNLY AT HER AND AN EXPRESSION OF ANGER SUDDENLY +PRINCE ANDREW MOVED TOWARD THE DOOR FROM WHENCE VOICES WERE HEARD. +PRINCE ANDREW NODDED TO HIM. HE STILL LOOKED AHEAD WHILE PRINCE ANDREW +PRINCE ANDREW ONLY SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS AT PIERRE’S CHILDISH WORDS. +PRINCE ANDREW REPLIED. THEN FOLLOWED OTHER QUESTIONS JUST AS SIMPLE: +PRINCE ANDREW RIDING UP TO THE OFFICER. +PRINCE ANDREW ROSE, SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS, AND WALKED ABOUT THE ROOM. +PRINCE ANDREW SAW THAT THE OFFICER WAS IN THAT STATE OF SENSELESS, +PRINCE ANDREW’S CALM MANNER OF TREATING EVERYBODY, HIS EXTRAORDINARY +PRINCE ANDREW SCREWED UP HIS EYES AND TURNED AWAY. PIERRE, WHO FROM +PRINCE ANDREW, SEEING THAT HIS FATHER INSISTED, BEGAN—AT FIRST +PRINCE ANDREW SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS. +PRINCE ANDREW SIGHED AND MADE NO REPLY. +PRINCE ANDREW’S JOYOUS FEELING WAS CONSIDERABLY WEAKENED AS HE +PRINCE ANDREW SMILED. +PRINCE ANDREW SMILED AS HE LOOKED AT HIS SISTER, AS WE SMILE AT THOSE WE +PRINCE ANDREW SMILED INVOLUNTARILY AS HE LOOKED AT THE ARTILLERY OFFICER +PRINCE ANDREW SMILED IRONICALLY. +PRINCE ANDREW STAYED AT BRüNN WITH BILíBIN, A RUSSIAN ACQUAINTANCE OF +PRINCE ANDREW STOOD RIGHT IN FRONT OF KUTúZOV BUT THE EXPRESSION OF +PRINCE ANDREW STOPPED SHORT. +PRINCE ANDREW. THEY HAD KNOWN EACH OTHER PREVIOUSLY IN PETERSBURG, BUT +PRINCE ANDREW TOLD HIS DRIVER TO STOP, AND ASKED A SOLDIER IN WHAT +PRINCE ANDREW WAS ONE OF THOSE RARE STAFF OFFICERS WHOSE CHIEF INTEREST +PRINCE ANDREW WAS SILENT, BUT THE PRINCESS NOTICED THE IRONICAL AND +PRINCE ANDREW WAS SURVEYING THE POSITION, WAS THE EASIEST AND MOST +PRINCE ANDREW WAS TO LEAVE NEXT EVENING. THE OLD PRINCE, NOT ALTERING +PRINCE ANDREW WHEN HE DROVE UP TO THE PALACE FELT EVEN MORE VIGOROUS AND +PRINCE ANDREW, WHO HAD EVIDENTLY WISHED TO TONE DOWN THE AWKWARDNESS OF +PRINCE ANDREW WITHOUT LIFTING HIS EYES RODE HASTILY AWAY FROM THE +“PRINCE AUERSPERG IS ON THIS, ON OUR SIDE OF THE RIVER, AND IS +PRINCE BAGRATIóN, HAVING REACHED THE HIGHEST POINT OF OUR RIGHT FLANK, +PRINCE BAGRATIóN RODE AN OFFICER OF THE SUITE, THE PRINCE’S PERSONAL +PRINCE BAGRATIóN SCREWED UP HIS EYES, LOOKED ROUND, AND, SEEING THE +PRINCE, BUT COULD NOT GET IT QUITE RIGHT.) +PRINCE HIPPOLYTE APPROACHED THE LITTLE PRINCESS AND, BENDING HIS FACE +PRINCE HIPPOLYTE, HAVING BROUGHT THE WORKBAG, JOINED THE CIRCLE AND +PRINCE HIPPOLYTE HURRIEDLY PUT ON HIS CLOAK, WHICH IN THE LATEST FASHION +PRINCE HIPPOLYTE WAS LOLLING IN A LOUNGE CHAIR WITH HIS LEGS OVER ITS +PRINCE HIPPOLYTE, WHO HAD BEEN GAZING AT THE VICOMTE FOR SOME TIME +PRINCE? HOW PRICELESS ARE THOSE LAST MOMENTS! IT CAN MAKE THINGS NO +“PRINCE, HUMANUM EST ERRARE, * BUT...” REPLIED THE DOCTOR, +PRINCE, SHE PREPARED TO LISTEN. +PRINCE’S HOUSEHOLD. GENERAL IN CHIEF PRINCE NICHOLAS ANDRéEVICH +PRINCESS AND PRINCE VASíLI, RECOVERING THEMSELVES, FOLLOWED HER. A FEW +PRINCESS, AND STARED FIXEDLY AT HER THROUGH HIS EYEGLASS. +PRINCESS ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA INTERVENED IN THE CONVERSATION, EVIDENTLY +“PRINCESS DRUBETSKáYA TO SEE PRINCE VASíLI SERGéEVICH,” HE CALLED +“PRINCESSE, AU REVOIR,” CRIED HE, STUMBLING WITH HIS TONGUE AS WELL +PRINCESSES, SAT IN A CORNER KNITTING A STOCKING. PIERRE HAD NEVER BEEN +PRINCESSES SPENT MOST OF THEIR TIME, HE GREETED THE LADIES, TWO OF WHOM +PRINCESSES WAS COMING TO TAKE HER TURN AT WATCHING. “LET US GO.” +PRINCESS’ FACE. SHE TOOK IT QUICKLY AND BENT HER HEAD OVER IT. +PRINCESS HAD BEEN CRYING AFTER DINNER AND HAD SPOKEN OF HER FOREBODINGS +PRINCESS HéLèNE, PRINCE VASíLI’S DAUGHTER, AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS +PRINCESS. I AM AT YOUR COMMAND.’ YES, HE IS A FINE FELLOW AND A VERY +“PRINCESS, I MUST WARN YOU,” SHE ADDED, LOWERING HER VOICE AND +PRINCESS, LOOKING AT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA AS AT A STRANGER. +PRINCESS MARY COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THE BOLDNESS OF HER BROTHER’S +PRINCESS MARY DID NOT LISTEN TO THE END, BUT CONTINUING HER TRAIN OF +PRINCESS MARY LOOKED AT HER BROTHER IN SURPRISE. SHE DID NOT UNDERSTAND +PRINCESS MARY ROSE AND MOVED TO THE DOOR, THEN STOPPED AND SAID: +PRINCESS MARY WAS FIRST SURPRISED AND THEN AGHAST AT THIS QUESTION. +PRINCESS MARY WENT BACK TO HER ROOM WITH THE SAD, SCARED EXPRESSION THAT +PRINCESS NEVER SAW THE BEAUTIFUL EXPRESSION OF HER OWN EYES—THE LOOK +PRINCESS’ ROOM, A CARRIAGE CONTAINING PIERRE (WHO HAD BEEN SENT FOR) +PRINCESS ROSE. “IT’S NOW TWO O’CLOCK AND YOU DINE AT FOUR. THERE +PRINCESS SUDDENLY, HER PRETTY FACE ALL AT ONCE DISTORTED BY A TEARFUL +PRINCESS, TURNING AWAY AND CONTINUING TO READ. BUT JULIE DID NOT FLATTER +PRINCESS WENT IN WITH THE DRINK SHE HAD PREPARED ACCORDING TO +PRINCESS WITH A PLEASED SMILE, AS TO AN INTIMATE ACQUAINTANCE. +PRINCESS WITH THE EXPRESSION WOMEN ASSUME WHEN THEY SUPPOSE THEY ARE +PRINCE’S THINGS IN MY BEDROOM,” SAID HE TO THE SERVANT WHO WAS +PRINCE TO GET UP, TíKHON CAME TO CALL THE YOUNG PRINCE TO HIS FATHER. +PRINCE VASíLI ALWAYS SPOKE LANGUIDLY, LIKE AN ACTOR REPEATING A STALE +PRINCE VASíLI AND THE ELDEST PRINCESS WERE SITTING CLOSE TOGETHER +“PRINCE VASíLI ARRIVED IN MOSCOW YESTERDAY. I HEAR HE HAS COME ON +PRINCE VASíLI BECAME THOUGHTFUL AND FROWNED. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA SAW THAT +PRINCE VASíLI BENT HIS HEAD AND SPREAD OUT HIS HANDS. +PRINCE VASíLI CAME NEXT. HE STAGGERED TO THE SOFA ON WHICH PIERRE WAS +PRINCE VASíLI DID NOT REPLY, THOUGH, WITH THE QUICKNESS OF MEMORY AND +PRINCE VASíLI KEPT THE PROMISE HE HAD GIVEN TO PRINCESS DRUBETSKáYA +PRINCE VASíLI LOOKED QUESTIONINGLY AT THE PRINCESS, BUT COULD NOT MAKE +PRINCE VASíLI ROSE. “OH!” SAID HE WITH REPROACH AND SURPRISE, +PRINCE VASíLI SAID NO MORE AND HIS CHEEKS BEGAN TO TWITCH NERVOUSLY, +PRINCE VASíLI SAW THE PRINCESS OFF. SHE HELD A HANDKERCHIEF TO HER EYES +PRINCE VASíLI’S DAUGHTER, THE BEAUTIFUL HéLèNE, CAME TO TAKE HER +PRINCE VASíLI’S FACE SO OUT OF KEEPING WITH HIS DIGNITY THAT PIERRE +PRINCE VASíLI SMILED. +“PRINCE VASíLI’S SON, HE, AND A CERTAIN DóLOKHOV HAVE, IT IS SAID, +PRINCE VASíLI STARED AT HER AND AT BORíS QUESTIONINGLY AND PERPLEXED. +PRINCE VASíLI WAS SEATED IN AN EASY CHAIR IN HIS FAMILIAR ATTITUDE, +PRINCE VASíLI WISHED TO OBTAIN THIS POST FOR HIS SON, BUT OTHERS WERE +PRIVATE AND HAD NOT SEEN FIT TO RECOGNIZE HIM. BUT NOW THAT KUTúZOV HAD +PRIVILEGE OF ADMIRING HER BEAUTIFUL FIGURE AND SHAPELY SHOULDERS, +“PROBABLY,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW MOVING TOWARD THE OUTER DOOR. +PROBABLY THINK IT EASY TO GAIN VICTORIES!” HE THOUGHT. HIS EYES +PROBABLY TO STRENGTHEN THE FRONT LINE. THE SMOKE OF THE FIRST SHOT HAD +PROBLEMS IN HIGHER MATHEMATICS, TURNING SNUFFBOXES ON A LATHE, WORKING +PROCEEDING AS USUAL. DENíSOV, WHO HAD BEEN LOSING AT CARDS ALL NIGHT, +PRODUCED AN EFFECT SHE GLANCED AT ANNA PáVLOVNA, AT ONCE ADOPTED JUST +PROGRESS. WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT, I HAVE LITERALLY NOT A PENNY AND DON’T +PROJECTS FOR PEACE, A SECRET PEACE CONCLUDED SEPARATELY.” +PROMINENT GRAY EYES. THEN SHE SHOOK HER HEAD AND GLANCED UP AT THE ICONS +PROMISED? NOTHING! AND WHAT LITTLE THEY HAVE PROMISED THEY WILL NOT +PROMISED NOT TO FORGET HIM, DISTINGUISHED HIM ABOVE THE OTHER ADJUTANTS, +PROMISE OF RISING IN HIS DIPLOMATIC CAREER. HE WAS STILL A YOUNG MAN BUT +PROMISE TO PRINCE ANDREW WAS OF NO ACCOUNT, BECAUSE BEFORE HE GAVE IT +PROMOTION. +PROMOTION...” +PROPER, AND REGULAR MOTION. BUT AMID THESE CARES HER ANXIETY ABOUT +PROSPECT OF SPENDING AN EVENING WITH A POOR INVALID IS NOT TOO TERRIBLE, +PROVERB SAYS,” REMARKED SHINSHíN, MOVING HIS PIPE TO THE OTHER SIDE +P.S. LET ME HAVE NEWS OF YOUR BROTHER AND HIS CHARMING LITTLE WIFE. +PUCKERING UP HIS FACE THOUGH SMILING, AND SHOWING HIS SHORT STRONG +PULLING HIM BY THE CHAIN AND TRYING TO SET HIM AT THE OTHERS. +PURSE. +PURSE AND, DRAWING ITS RINGS ASIDE WITH HIS SMALL, WHITE, TURNED-UP +PURSE UNDAH THE PILLOW,” HE SAID, AND WENT OUT TO THE QUARTERMASTER. +PURSUED BY THE FRENCH ARMY OF A HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN UNDER THE COMMAND +PUSHED BACK IN THE SITTING ROOM WHERE THE COUNT AND MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA +PUSHED THE GUNS AND WAGONS THEMSELVES. WHIPS CRACKED, HOOFS SLIPPED, +PUT A LITTLE ASIDE AND TO SEND SOMETHING TO MY FATHER,” HE WENT ON, +PUT IT IN A CARRIAGE, AND SET OFF WITH IT TO VISIT SOME ACTRESSES! THE +PUT IT OFF. PERHAPS GOD WILL HELP ME TO FIND A WAY TO PREPARE HIM!... +PUTTING THEM DOWN. WHEN THEY’VE BEEN PUT DOWN, THE WAR WITH BUONAPARTE +PUZZLED THE DEVIL HIMSELF! WHEN YOU GET THERE YOU’LL FIND OUT WHAT +QUARTERMASTER FOR THE MONEY.” +QUARTERMASTER’S PRESENCE. +QUARTER OF AN HOUR BETWEEN TWO FIRES.” +QUARTERS AND RIDING UP TO CAPTAIN TIMóKHIN WHO WAS WALKING IN FRONT. +QUARTERS NEAR BRAUNAU, WHERE THEY HOPED TO RECEIVE BOOTS AND CLOTHES AND +QUEER,” HE ADDED AFTER A PAUSE, “THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE SUSPECTED +“QU’ EST-CE QU’IL CHANTE?” * ASKED A FRENCHMAN. +QUESTIONED PRINCE ANDREW ABOUT THE DETAILS OF HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE +QUESTIONS OF HEALTH, SOMETIMES IN RUSSIAN AND SOMETIMES IN VERY BAD BUT +QUESTIONS THAT MIGHT BE PUT TO HIM AND THE ANSWERS HE WOULD GIVE. HE +QUICK. +QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. +QUICKLY. PRINCE BAGRATIóN, UTTERING HIS WORDS WITH AN ORIENTAL ACCENT, +QUICKLY ROUSED HIMSELF WITH A FEELING OF JOY, AS IF LEARNING AFRESH THAT +QUICKLY TURNED AWAY, A SCARCELY PERCEPTIBLE SMILE FLITTING OVER HIS +QUICK OR THE ENEMY WILL BRING UP HIS GUNS TO USE GRAPESHOT.” +QUIETLY AND HUMOROUSLY HOW HE HAD KNOWN THAT DOLL MIMI WHEN SHE WAS +QUIETLY AND SAID IN A WHISPER: “PLEASE WALK IN.” +QUILT. THE EYES AND FACE OF THE SICK MAN SHOWED IMPATIENCE. HE MADE AN +QUITE ASTONISHING. HOW DID YOU GET THINGS SETTLED? I COULDN’T POSSIBLY +QUITE CERTAIN. AH! IT IS VERY DREADFUL...” +QUITE MISTAKEN IF YOU RECKON ME OR MY MOTHER AMONG SUCH PEOPLE. WE ARE +QUITE OPPOSITE REPUTATIONS. SOME, A MINORITY, ACKNOWLEDGED HIM TO BE +QUITE REMEMBER HOW, BUT DON’T YOU REMEMBER THAT IT COULD ALL BE +“QUITE RIGHT,” SAID THE ENGLISHMAN. +QUITE TRUE; HE HAD BEEN INDEBTED TO HER FATHER FOR THE FIRST STEPS IN +“QUITE WELL? ALL RIGHT THEN, SIT DOWN.” HE TOOK THE EXERCISE BOOK +QUIVERING IN HIS BREAST AND A TICKLING IN HIS NOSE, AND TEARS DIMMED HIS +QUOTING ONE OF HIS OWN MOTS, RELEASING THE WRINKLES ON HIS FOREHEAD, AND +RADIANTLY ON HER BEAUTIFUL FACE. PIERRE GAZED AT HER WITH RAPTUROUS, +RAGE, “WHO ARE YOU? ARE YOU IN COMMAND HERE? EH? I AM COMMANDER HERE, +RAILINGS. HE LOOKED BACK LAUGHING TO THE COSSACK WHO STOOD A FEW +RAISING HIS EYEBROWS. +RAISING HIS SOFT FOOT BACKWARDS, BOWING HIS PERSPIRING HEAD, SMILING +RAN FORWARD ON EACH SUCH OCCASION, FEARING TO MISS A SINGLE WORD OF THE +RANGE AND WIPE THEM OUT?” THESE WERE THE QUESTIONS EACH MAN OF THE +RANK AND IMPORTANCE, WHO WAS THE FIRST TO ARRIVE AT HER RECEPTION. ANNA +RANK—“I THANK YOU FOR MYSELF AND FOR OUR TWO DEAR ONES WHOSE NAME +RANKS. +RANKS IN THIS REGIMENT.” +RAN RAPIDLY OVER THE WIDE SPACE, BUT HE ONLY SAW THAT THE HITHERTO +RAPIDITY. HE AGAIN VIVIDLY RECALLED THE DETAILS OF THE BATTLE, NO LONGER +RAPID RETREAT. AUSTRIAN TROOPS THAT HAD ESCAPED CAPTURE AT ULM AND HAD +RARELY LEFT HER AND WHICH MADE HER PLAIN, SICKLY FACE YET PLAINER. SHE +RASCALITY....” +RATE HE GLANCED AT THE REFRACTORY ARM, AT PIERRE’S TERROR-STRICKEN +RATHER CONFINE OURSELVES TO STUDYING THOSE SUBLIME RULES WHICH OUR +RATHER SHORT, AS IF SURPRISED THAT ANYONE SHOULD NOT KNOW HIM. +RATIFY IT; BUT IT IS ONLY A TRICK. MARCH ON, DESTROY THE RUSSIAN +RATTLE ON THE BRIDGE AS IF NUTS WERE BEING SPILT, AND THE HUSSAR NEAREST +RAYS OF GENTLE LIGHT SHONE FROM HER LARGE, TIMID EYES. THOSE EYES LIT +REACHED BAGRATIóN, THE WEIGHTY TREAD OF THE MASS OF MEN MARCHING IN +REACHED TO HIS VERY HEELS, AND, STUMBLING IN IT, RAN OUT INTO THE PORCH +REACHING THE LARGE HOUSE NEAR THE HORSE GUARDS’ BARRACKS, IN WHICH +“READ THIS IF YOU LIKE, FATHER,” SAID THE PRINCESS, BLUSHING STILL +READY TO EMBRACE THE COUNTESS AT THE APPROPRIATE MOMENT. +REALLY ALL THE SAME TO ME WHEN MY SON’S FATE IS AT STAKE.” THE +REALLY...” BUT HE DID NOT SAY WHAT “IT REALLY” WAS. “FOR THE +“REALLY I DON’T CARE ABOUT THAT, I DON’T CARE AT ALL,” SAID +“REALLY, I DON’T YET KNOW. I DON’T LIKE EITHER THE ONE OR THE +“REALLY, TRULY!” ANSWERED NATáSHA, PUSHING IN A CRISP LOCK THAT HAD +REAL STATE OF FRENCH PUBLIC OPINION.” +REAPPEARED. +REASON FOR REJOICING, THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER WITH JOYFUL DELIGHT AND +REASON OF HER FRIEND’S SORROW, “I’M SURE VéRA HAS SAID SOMETHING +REASONS FOR BUONAPARTE’S HATRED OF HIM. +RECALLING BILíBIN’S WORDS. +RECEIVED. +RECEIVED AS A SAVIOR.” +RECEIVED. A THANKSGIVING SERVICE WAS ARRANGED, KUTúZOV WAS AWARDED +RECEIVED BY THE EMPEROR. HAD YOU HEARD?” +RECEIVED HIM WITH DISTINCTION AND SPECIAL MARKS OF FAVOR, EXPLAINING TO +RECEIVED WAS SHOWN HIM. A STRANGE LADY, THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN TALKING TO +RECEPTION. +RECEPTION HALL: MICHAEL IVáNOVICH, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, PRINCESS +RECOGNIZED AS LEGITIMATE; SO THAT HE IS NOW COUNT BEZúKHOV AND +RECOGNIZED HIM AND STOPPED TO LISTEN TO WHAT HE WAS SAYING. DóLOKHOV +RECOGNIZES HIS HIGH VOCATION AND WILL BE TRUE TO IT. THAT IS THE ONE +RECOMMENDED TO THE EMPRESS) AND AT THE SAME TIME TO CONSOLE HIM, SO SHE +RECRUITING. NONE OF THEM HAD YET SEEN THE MANIFESTO, BUT THEY ALL KNEW +RED HANDS; HE DID NOT KNOW, AS THE SAYING IS, HOW TO ENTER A DRAWING +RED PATCHES APPEARED ON PRINCESS MARY’S FACE AND SHE WAS SILENT AS IF +RED. SEVERAL BATTALIONS OF SOLDIERS, IN THEIR SHIRT SLEEVES DESPITE +REFINED FRENCH IN WHICH OUR GRANDFATHERS NOT ONLY SPOKE BUT THOUGHT, AND +REFORM BY MARRYING HIM TO PRINCE ANDREW’S SISTER. +REGARDING HIM WITH A SMILE OF APPROBATION. +REGARD TO THIS PROJECT OF MARRIAGE FOR ME, I WILL TELL YOU, DEAR SWEET +REGIMENTAL COMMANDER COOLING DOWN A LITTLE. “LEAVE INDEED.... ONE SAYS +REGIMENTAL COMMANDER HUNG HIS HEAD, SILENTLY SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS, AND +REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, OVERTAKING THE THIRD COMPANY ON ITS WAY TO ITS +REGIMENTAL COMMANDER WAS NICKNAMED KING OF HEARTS). +REGIMENT, AND BOGDáNICH KNOWS IT. OH, WE DO PRIZE IT, OLD FELLOW! AND +REGIMENT BUT WAS NOT LIKED; ROSTóV ESPECIALLY DETESTED HIM AND WAS +REGIMENT HAD BEEN BROKEN UP. ALL HE KNEW WAS THAT AT THE COMMENCEMENT +REGIMENT HAD JUST THE APPEARANCE OF ANY RUSSIAN REGIMENT PREPARING FOR +REGIMENT—INSTEAD OF THE STRAGGLING, DISORDERLY CROWD IT HAD BEEN ON +REGIMENT NEXT TO NO TIME, MY LAD, YOU’RE HERE TODAY AND TOMORROW +REGIMENT, SAYING HE WAS NOT SUCH A FOOL AS TO SLAVE AT THE FRONT WHEN HE +REGRET. DRAWING ROOMS, GOSSIP, BALLS, VANITY, AND TRIVIALITY—THESE ARE +REGRET HER WORDS. BUT SHE WENT ON HURRIEDLY: +REGULARITY IN HIS HOUSEHOLD WAS CARRIED TO THE HIGHEST POINT OF +REGULAR ORDER. +REINFORCE THE RIGHT FLANK. THE OFFICER OF THE SUITE VENTURED TO REMARK +REJECTS ALL KNOWLEDGE THAT DOES NOT COME FROM HIM; AND THE LESS WE SEEK +RELATING TO THE CONDITION OF THE TROOPS ON THEIR ARRIVAL, AND THE +RELAYS. +RELUCTANTLY, BUT GRADUALLY WITH MORE AND MORE ANIMATION, AND FROM HABIT +REMAINED ON THE FARTHER SIDE OF THE BRIDGE FACING THE ENEMY, WHO COULD +REMAINS OF SUPPER. A FOOTMAN, THINKING NO ONE SAW HIM, WAS DRINKING ON +REMAIN STATIONARY IN FACE OF AN ENEMY EIGHT TIMES AS STRONG AS ITSELF. +REMARKED. “WELL, SIT DOWN: LET’S HAVE A TALK.” +REMARKS AT HIM, THOUGH WITHOUT LOOKING AT HIM. +REMEMBERED IT THREE MONTHS BEFORE, WHEN THE COUNT HAD SENT HIM TO +REMEMBER HOW WE AND NICHOLAS, ALL THREE OF US, TALKED IN THE SITTING +“REMEMBER THAT YOU WILL ANSWER FOR THE CONSEQUENCES,” SAID PRINCE +REPEATED FROM THE OPENING WORDS OF THE MANIFESTO: +REPEATING THE TERMS OF THE BET, ADDRESSING HIMSELF PARTICULARLY TO +REPEATING THE TERMS OF THE WAGER TO HIM IN ENGLISH. +REPEATING TO HIMSELF AT EACH ALTERNATE STEP, “LEFT... LEFT... +REPENTED AND ADDED: “I AM GLAD; REALLY, DEAR, I AM VERY GLAD.” +REPLIED. +REPLIED, “AND IT IS THAT HE WOULD BE MERCIFUL TO HIM AND WOULD ALLOW +REPLIED, AND THE FOUR SIMPLY LOOKED AT ONE ANOTHER. SHE LINGERED IN THE +REPLIED BORíS, BETRAYING NEITHER ANNOYANCE AT THE PRINCE’S BRUSQUE +REPLIED PRINCE VASíLI. +REPLY. +REPLY TO HIS LOOK, AND WENT STILL FASTER ALONG THE PASSAGE. +REPORT, AND BEGAN DELIBERATELY TO EXAMINE THE WHOLE BATTLEFIELD EXTENDED +REPORTS FROM OUR SCOUTS. HERE ARE TWO LETTERS FROM COUNT NOSTITZ AND +REPORTS ONE AFTER ANOTHER, AND A THIRD. +REPORTS THAT PRINCE AUERSPERG WAS DEFENDING VIENNA?” HE SAID. +REPRESENTATIVE BUT ONE OF THE GREAT CENTURY, AND THAT IT IS HIS OWN +REPROACHED HIM FOR NOT HAVING STAYED AT THE PALACE, AND OFFERED HIM +REPULSED, HE HAD LOST MORE THAN HALF HIS MEN. HE SAID THE ATTACK +REQUIRED PAPERS. KUTúZOV AND THE AUSTRIAN MEMBER OF THE HOFKRIEGSRATH +RESCUE. PIERRE HAD MANAGED TO START A CONVERSATION WITH THE ABBé ABOUT +RESOLUTE IN THE DISCHARGE OF DUTY, RAN OUT AND TOUCHING PIERRE LIGHTLY +RESOLVED NOT TO BE THE FIRST TO BREAK SILENCE, IF SHE HAD TO WAIT TILL +RESOUNDED ON THE PLANKS OF THE BRIDGE, AND THE SQUADRON, OFFICERS IN +RESPECTED AND FEARED HER. +RESPECTFULLY WHEN THE MILITARY GOVERNOR, HAVING STAYED ABOUT HALF AN +RESPECT, HE HAD DECIDED THAT IT WOULD BE A GOOD THING TO SET FIRE TO THE +RESPONSIBILITY. BUT CIRCUMSTANCES ARE SOMETIMES TOO STRONG FOR US, +RESPONSIBILITY OF THAT DEED.” +REST, AND THEN...” +RESTED ON PRINCE ANDREW’S FACE. +RESTING, AND TO HALT FACING VIENNA WITH ZNAIM TO HIS REAR, AND IF HE +RESTRAINED ANIMATION AS HE STOOD SIPPING TEA FROM A DELICATE CHINESE +RESTRAINING HER ANGRY TEARS. +RESUMED HER DUTIES AS HOSTESS AND CONTINUED TO LISTEN AND WATCH, READY +RESUMED ITS FORMER COLD, ARTIFICIAL EXPRESSION. SHE RETURNED TO THE +RETREAT TO THE DIP BY ECHELONS.” SO HE REASONED.... ALL THE TIME + RETURN.” +RETURNED FROM THEM DRAGGING SHEEP, FOWLS, HAY, AND BULGING SACKS. AT +RETURNED TO MOSCOW AND WENT STRAIGHT TO HER RICH RELATIONS, THE +RETURNED TO PETERSBURG QUITE CRESTFALLEN. +RETURNING HIS SMILE. +RETURNING TO HIS HOBBY; “TELL ME HOW THE GERMANS HAVE TAUGHT YOU TO +RETURNING TO THE TOWN. THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF MADE A SIGN THAT THE +RETURN TO HER THE WHOLE EVENING. +REVERENCE AND WAS BEYOND QUESTION. +REVOIR! ”—AND SHE LEFT THE HALL. +REVOLUTION, WHICH HAS BECOME MORE TERRIBLE THAN EVER IN THE PERSON OF +RICH?” +RIDING A FINE BOBTAILED HORSE, AND A CIVILIAN—AN ACCOUNTANT WHO HAD +RID THEM OF THE BOURBONS AND BECAUSE THEY SAW THAT HE WAS A GREAT +RIGHT ACROSS THE SKULL. HAVING SAID THIS HE GLANCED AT NATáSHA. +RIGHT HAND, WHICH WAS LYING PALM DOWNWARDS, A WAX TAPER HAD BEEN THRUST +RIGHT LIGHT.... IN MY OPINION PERPETUAL PEACE IS POSSIBLE BUT—I DO NOT +RIGHTLY SUPPOSES THAT MATTERS HAVE ALREADY GONE TOO FAR. I THINK IT WILL +RIGHT. SELFISH, VAIN, STUPID, TRIVIAL IN EVERYTHING—THAT’S WHAT +RIGHT—SERVE HIM. NICHOLAS BOLKóNSKI’S SON NEED NOT SERVE UNDER +RIGHTS OF MAN, IS SENTENCED TO...” BUT BEFORE PIERRE—WHO AT THAT +RING, CRIED FROM THE WINDOW: “COME HERE; PART THE BETS!” THIS WAS +RINGING, DELIBERATE VOICE. “I ASK AN OPPORTUNITY TO ATONE FOR MY FAULT +RISEN AND WAS GOING TOWARD HIS ROOM. +RITE WHICH EVERYONE EXPECTED OF HIM, AND THAT HE WAS THEREFORE BOUND +RIVER FLOWED WAS FORMED BY THE RISING GROUND ONLY HALF A MILE AWAY. +RIVULET FLOWED, THE SOUL-STIRRING ROLLING AND CRACKLING OF MUSKETRY WAS +ROAD. BAGRATIóN’S EXHAUSTED AND HUNGRY DETACHMENT, WHICH ALONE +RODE PAST THE LIMBERS TO THE FARTHEST CANNON. +ROLLED SOFTLY OVER THE STRAW BENEATH THE WINDOWS, ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, +ROLLING THEM UP. MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA ALWAYS SPOKE IN RUSSIAN. +ROOF LIT UP BY THE SUN? NO ONE KNOWS, BUT ONE WANTS TO KNOW. YOU FEAR +ROOK—A HANDSOME HORSE DESPITE ITS GAME LEG—HAD THE HAPPY AIR OF A +ROOM AFTER SUPPER? WHY, WE SETTLED HOW EVERYTHING WAS TO BE. I DON’T +ROOM. ALL WERE SILENT. +ROOM AND STILL LESS HOW TO LEAVE ONE; THAT IS, HOW TO SAY SOMETHING +ROOM. DENíSOV SILENTLY WATCHED LAVRúSHKA’S MOVEMENTS, AND WHEN THE +ROOM, GREW SILENT AND GAZED WITH EYES FULL OF CURIOSITY OR EXPECTANCY AT +ROOM,” HE SAID. +ROOM. NO ONE SPOKE AND THE ONLY SOUNDS HEARD WERE THE CLATTER OF KNIVES +ROOM. THE COUNTESS REFLECTED A MOMENT AND TOOK A PINCH FROM A GOLD +ROOM. THE PRINCE STOOD STILL; HIS LIVELY GLITTERING EYES FROM UNDER +ROOM TO WRITE TO HIS FATHER, TO WHOM HE WROTE EVERY DAY. IN THE CORRIDOR +ROOM, WHERE YOU WILL BE RANGED SIDE BY SIDE WITH A COURT LACKEY AND AN +ROOM WITH A LOOK OF ALARM. BETWEEN TWELVE AND TWO O’CLOCK, AS THE +ROOM WITHOUT A WORD. BUT AT THE DOOR HE STOPPED AND THEN RETRACED HIS +ROOM WITH THE INKSTAND IN HER HAND. +ROSE AND WITH HER HEAVY TREAD WENT UP TO THE TABLE. SHE TOOK A SHEET OF +ROSE, BY A GLANCE INVITING PIERRE, WHO SAT OPPOSITE, TO LISTEN TO WHAT +ROSE FROM AN ENSIGN AND BECAME EMPEROR. WELL, WELL, GOD GRANT IT,” HE +ROSTóV, ABSORBED BY HIS RELATIONS WITH BOGDáNICH, HAD PAUSED ON THE +ROSTóV, AND SIGHING DEEPLY HE TOOK ROOK, HIS HORSE, WHICH STOOD RESTING +ROSTóV DID NOT SPEAK. +ROSTóV DID NOT THINK WHAT THIS CALL FOR STRETCHERS MEANT; HE RAN ON, +ROSTóV FELT DENíSOV’S GAZE FIXED ON HIM, RAISED HIS EYES, AND +ROSTóV, GROWING RED AND PALE ALTERNATELY, LOOKED FIRST AT ONE OFFICER +ROSTóV HEARD. +ROSTóV, HIS EYES AVOIDING DENíSOV, BEGAN BUTTONING HIS COAT, BUCKLED +ROSTóV’S AND BACK, AND BACK AGAIN AND AGAIN IN AN INSTANT. +ROSTóV SAW NOTHING BUT THE HUSSARS RUNNING ALL AROUND HIM, THEIR SPURS +ROSTóV SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS AS MUCH AS TO SAY: “NOR DO I, BUT +ROSTóVS, WITH WHOM SHE STAYED WHEN IN THE TOWN AND WHERE HER DARLING +ROSTóV THRUST THE PURSE UNDER THE PILLOW AND SHOOK THE DAMP LITTLE HAND +ROSTóV TOOK THE MONEY AND, MECHANICALLY ARRANGING THE OLD AND NEW COINS +ROSTóV TOOK THE MONEY, AVOIDING TELYáNIN’S EYES, AND WENT OUT OF THE +ROSTóV TOOK THE PURSE IN HIS HAND, EXAMINED IT AND THE MONEY IN IT, AND +ROSTóV WAVED HIS CAP ABOVE HIS HEAD LIKE THE GERMAN AND CRIED LAUGHING, +ROSTóV WENT TO TELYáNIN’S QUARTERS. +ROSTóV WIPING HIS MUDDY HANDS ON HIS BREECHES LOOKED AT HIS ENEMY AND +ROSTóV, WITHOUT RETURNING HOME, TOOK A HORSE AND RODE THERE. THERE WAS +ROSY, WAS SITTING IN AN EASY CHAIR WITH HER WORK IN HER HANDS, TALKING +ROUND AND CLAPPING ROSTóV ON THE SHOULDER WITH HIS BIG HAND. +ROUND AND NOTICES HERE A SPINDLE THAT HAS STOPPED OR THERE ONE THAT +ROUND AN OPEN WINDOW. THREE OTHERS WERE ROMPING WITH A YOUNG BEAR, ONE +ROUND MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA, NOW ON HIS TOES, NOW ON HIS HEELS; UNTIL, +ROUND-SHOULDERED CAPTAIN TúSHIN, STUMBLING OVER THE TAIL OF THE GUN +ROUND THE TWO CORNERS OF THE MOUTH; THIS, TOGETHER WITH THE RESOLUTE, +“ROUSSEAU’S CONTRAT SOCIAL,” SAID THE VICOMTE WITH A TOLERANT +ROWS OF FACES SO ALIKE YET SO DIFFERENT, HOLDING ITS BREATH WHILE THE +ROWS OF STATUES IN NICHES) AND LOOKING SIGNIFICANTLY AT THE LADY’S OLD +ROYALIST EMIGRANT. +RUBBING HIS BALD HEAD AND ANGRILY PULLING BACK TOWARD HIM THE LITTLE +RUBLES A YEAR? AND,” HE WENT ON AFTER A PAUSE, “WHAT WILL IT BE IN +RUBLES, DóLOKHOV LIVED WITH HIM AND HAD PLACED HIMSELF ON SUCH A +RUM WITHOUT TAKING IT FROM MY MOUTH, SITTING OUTSIDE THE WINDOW ON THIS +RUNNING INTO SóNYA’S ROOM AND NOT FINDING HER THERE, NATáSHA RAN TO +RUNNING TO THE DOOR AND THE NOISE OF A CHAIR FALLING OVER, AND A GIRL +RUSHED OUT APPARENTLY BESIDE HERSELF WITH DELIGHT. +RUSHING AT THE CADET TO RESTRAIN HIM. +RUSH TO OBEY THE SUMMONS. “SEND DMíTRI TO ME!” +RUSSIAN ARMY FOUND VENT IN ANGER AT ZHERKóV’S UNTIMELY JEST. + RUSSIAN ARMY, I MUST SAY THAT YOUR VICTORY WAS NOT +RUSSIAN ARMY LOOTS TERRIBLY—HER ARMY IS DESTROYED, HER CAPITAL +RUSSIAN ARMY WILL BE FULLY EQUIPPED, AND SHALL THEN, IN CONJUNCTION WITH +RUSSIAN BATH. THE MOVEMENT OF THESE WRINKLES FORMED THE PRINCIPAL PLAY +RUSSIAN MUSKETEER WHO HAD GONE UP TO THE PICKET LINE WITH AN OFFICER AND +RUSSIAN ON WHICH HE WISHED TO PUT A CONTEMPTUOUS EMPHASIS. +RUSSIANS FOUGHT, THE ONLY CONSEQUENCE OF THESE ACTIONS WAS A YET MORE +RUSSIANS FROM KREMS TO ZNAIM. +RUSSIAN TROOPS AND THEIR COMMANDER OF THE LAURELS THEY HAVE BEEN +RUSSIAN TROOPS WERE CROSSING THE RIVER ENNS. AT MIDDAY THE RUSSIAN +RUSSIA WERE SETTLING NEAR THE FORTRESS OF BRAUNAU AND BURDENING THE +SABER WHICH HAD CAUGHT IN HIS CLOAK. IT WAS AN OLD-FASHIONED SABER OF +SACRAMENT, ALLOW HIM A MOMENT’S PEACE! HERE, PIERRE, TELL THEM YOUR +SACRAMENT. THE DYING MAN LAY AS LIFELESS AND IMMOVABLE AS BEFORE. AROUND +SACRIFICED EVERYTHING FOR HIS SAKE!” SHE CRIED. “IT’S SPLENDID! +SACRIFICED MYSELF. BUT ONLY THE BASE, THE VILE SUCCEED! I KNOW WHO HAS +SADDLE, HE GALLOPED TO THE OTHER FLANK OF THE SQUADRON AND SHOUTED IN +SADNESS, AND THIS OCCURRED EVERY TIME SHE MENTIONED HER ILLUSTRIOUS +SAD VOICE, AS IF SAYING: “VERY WELL, FINISH ME OFF.” +SAID. +SAID: +SAID A TALL, GRIZZLY-HAIRED STAFF CAPTAIN, WITH ENORMOUS MUSTACHES AND +SAID BILíBIN AS HE CAME OUT TO MEET PRINCE ANDREW. “FRANZ, PUT THE +SAID DóLOKHOV. +SAID HE. +SAID HE. “NOW FOR TROUBLE!” ROSTóV LOOKED OUT OF THE WINDOW AND +SAID IT, AND THEY ALL FELT AWKWARD. +SAID PRINCE ANDREW, AS HE ENTERED THE STUDY, RUBBING HIS SMALL WHITE +SAID PRINCE ANDREW WHO HAD NOT YET HAD TIME TO EAT ANYTHING. +SAID ROSTóV, BLUSHING. +SAID ROSTóV IN AN IMPLORING VOICE, “BUT I CAN’T APOLOGIZE, BY GOD I +SAID SHE IN FRENCH, DISPLAYING HER BAG AND ADDRESSING ALL PRESENT. +SAID SHE, UTTERING THE WORD WITH PECULIAR ASSURANCE AND UNCONCERN, “I +SAID SHINSHíN, LAUGHING IRONICALLY AND MIXING THE MOST ORDINARY RUSSIAN +SAID: “THAT’S BAD! GO ON, GO ON.” +SAID THE COUNTESS. “BUT I AM IN GREAT NEED OF THIS SUM.” +SAID THE GENERAL, TURNING TO AN ARTILLERY OFFICER. “HAVE A LITTLE FUN +SAID: “THEN I WILL GO TO MY ROOMS. YOU WILL LET ME KNOW WHEN I CAN SEE +SAID THE OLD SOLDIER DISMALLY TO A COMRADE, “YOU’LL FORGET TO +SAID THE PRINCESS, IGNORING HIS QUESTION. “NOW I KNOW! YES; IF I HAVE +SAID TO HER, WENT TO THE LOOKING GLASS AND ARRANGED HER HAIR AND SCARF. +SAID YESTERDAY... LET HIM GROW UP WITH YOU.... PLEASE.” +SAID ZHERKóV. +SAKE THAT THE LATTER MIGHT SAY SOMETHING HE WOULD AFTERWARDS REGRET. +SAME!” +SAME?” +SAME EXPRESSION, WHICH SEEMED TO SAY THAT HE HAD A RIGHT TO SUPPOSE +SAME FIRM PRESSURE OF THE HAND AND THE SAME QUICK, REPEATED BOWS. AS +SAME MIND HE BEGAN EXPLAINING THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE +SAME!” PIERRE OFTEN INDULGED IN REFLECTIONS OF THIS SORT, NULLIFYING +SAME STATE OF EXCITEMENT AS WHEN SHE HAD SLAMMED THE DOOR OF HER ROOM. +SAME TIME FELT SHY. +SAME. YOU’LL BE ALL RIGHT ANYWHERE. BUT LOOK HERE: GIVE UP VISITING +SANG THE QUARTETTE, “THE BROOK,” WITH WHICH EVERYONE WAS DELIGHTED. +SARCASTIC SMILE. +SAT DOWN AT HER WRITING TABLE, ON WHICH STOOD MINIATURE PORTRAITS AND +SATISFACTION. +SATISFIED WITH HIM?” HE ASKED THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER. +SAT UP AND BEGAN WIPING HER EYES AND EXPLAINING. +SAT WAITING FOR SOMETHING, AND AGAIN SOLDIERS STRAGGLING FROM THEIR +SAUSAGES AND A BOTTLE OF WINE. +SAVIOUR’S WORDS, THAT IT IS EASIER FOR A CAMEL TO GO THROUGH THE +SAW—COVERED TO THE WAIST BY A BRIGHT GREEN QUILT—THE FAMILIAR, +SAW DENíSOV COMING HOME. DENíSOV WAS A SMALL MAN WITH A RED FACE, +SAW FRIENDLY LOOKS AND HEARD FRIENDLY WORDS. YESTERDAY’S ADJUTANT +SAW HIS SMILE, WHICH SAID NOTHING, UNLESS PERHAPS, “OPINIONS ARE +SAY. +SAYING. +SAYING, AND SAT PLUNGED IN THOUGHT. FIVE MINUTES LATER, GENTLY SWAYING +SAYING SOMETHING WITTY AND STINGING. +SAYING THAT THE RUSSIAN LADIES ARE NOT EQUAL TO THE FRENCH? ONE HAS TO +SAYING THIS HE AGAIN TURNED ROUND, DROPPED HIS HANDS, TOOK THE BOTTLE +SAY SOMETHING BUT COULD NOT. HER BROTHER HAD GUESSED RIGHT: THE LITTLE +SAY THAT THERE ARE ONLY TWO SOURCES OF HUMAN VICE—IDLENESS AND +SCABBARD AND FLOURISHING IT. +SCA’CWOW? CALL THE QUAHTEHMASTEH,” HE SHOUTED TO LAVRúSHKA. +SCARRED AND PUFFY FACE. +SCHéRER.” +SCHéRER, MAID OF HONOR AND FAVORITE OF THE EMPRESS MáRYA FëDOROVNA. +SCHöNBRUNN, 25TH BRUMAIRE, 1805, +“SCHON FLEISSIG?” * SAID ROSTóV WITH THE SAME GAY BROTHERLY SMILE +SCHOOLBOY CALLED UP BEFORE A LARGE AUDIENCE FOR AN EXAMINATION IN WHICH +“SCHUBERT, THE COLONEL OF THE PáVLOGRAD HUSSARS, IS DINING WITH US +SCOUNDREL IS AGAIN AT OUR HEELS!” +SCOUNDREL? IS THAT HOW YOU LOOK AT IT? WE DON’T SEE IT LIKE THAT. AND +SCRATCH FROM ONE PARAGRAPH TO ANOTHER WITH HIS HARD NAIL. +SCRATCH YOURSELF.” +SCREAMS, CONTINUED. +SCREAMS KEPT REPEATING: +SCREWING UP HIS EYES AND SHAKING WITH SUPPRESSED LAUGHTER, AND UNABLE +SEARCH OF SOMEBODY AND ANSWERED ALL HER QUESTIONS IN MONOSYLLABLES. HE +SEAT. + SECOND EPILOGUE +“SECOND LINE... HAVE YOU WRITTEN IT?” HE CONTINUED DICTATING TO THE +SECRETARY OF THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY, DO NOT FEEL ANY NEED IN TOKEN OF MY +SEDATE, AND THE NAïVETé OF HIS YOUTHFUL EGOTISM WAS SO OBVIOUS, THAT +SEE HIS FACE. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA LEFT HIM, AND WHEN SHE RETURNED HE WAS +“SEE HOW SMART SHE’S MADE HERSELF! OH, THE DEVILS!” +SEE HOW THESE NESTLINGS ARE GROWING UP,” AND SHE POINTED TO THE GIRLS. +SEEING ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA AND HER SON, PRINCE VASíLI DISMISSED THE +SEEM. +SEEMED CONFUSED AND BLUSHED AS IF NOT KNOWING WHAT TO SAY. +SEEMED LOADED WITH A WHOLE HOUSEFUL OF EFFECTS. A FINE BRINDLED COW WITH +SEEMED READY TO LIFT ITS TAIL, JUMP DOWN ON ITS SOFT PAWS, AND BEGIN +SEEMED TO BE POLES—ALL UNDER THE RUSSIAN CROWN—BUT HERE THEY’RE +SEEMED TO BE SEEKING SOMETHING, AND SOLDIERS DRAGGING DOORS, BENCHES, +SEEMED TO GROAN AT THE TERRIBLE IMPACT. +SEEMED TO HEAR LEFT... LEFT... LEFT. +SEEMED TO HIM THAT BOGDáNICH RODE SO NEAR IN ORDER TO SHOW HIM HIS +SEEMED TO ME TO HAVE AN EXCELLENT HEART, AND THAT IS THE QUALITY I VALUE +SEEMED TO WISH, BUT TO BE UNABLE, TO DIMINISH ITS EFFECT. +SEEMING TO GROW SUDDENLY SMALLER, AND RESPECTFULLY RECEIVED THE BLESSING +SEEN HIM SINCE WE ACTED TOGETHER AT THE RUMYáNTSOVS’ THEATRICALS. I +SEEN. PRINCE ANDREW STOPPED AND BEGAN EXAMINING THE POSITION. +SEEN. THE LINES OF THAT MOUTH WERE REMARKABLY FINELY CURVED. THE MIDDLE +SEE THE SOLDIERS’ SHAGGY CAPS, DISTINGUISH THE OFFICERS FROM THE MEN, +SEE WHETHER IT WAS FIRMLY PLAITED, AND GRASPING HIS BY THE HAND. “THE +SEE YOU,” HE ADDED, BOWING HIS HEAD. +SELF-CONFIDENCE, WHILE HIS BODY WAS THIN AND WEAK. HIS EYES, NOSE, AND +SELF-CONFIDENT FRENCH; THEN AGAIN, LIKE A MAN WEARY BUT UNFLINCHING IN +SELF-SATISFIED. +SELF-SATISFIED, YOUTHFUL, AND CONSTANT SMILE OF ANIMATION, AND BY THE +“SELL ME THE MISSIS,” SAID ANOTHER SOLDIER, ADDRESSING THE GERMAN, +“SEMëN! DO YOU KNOW THE DANIEL COOPER?” +SENSATION OF FEAR AND RESPECT WHICH THE OLD MAN INSPIRED IN ALL AROUND +SENTIMENTS,” HE SEEMED TO BE SAYING, “SO MUCH THE WORSE FOR YOU!” +SENT INSTEAD OF OUR DEAR WINTZINGERODE YOU WOULD HAVE CAPTURED THE KING +SENT TO MOSCOW. THE STORY TOLD ABOUT HIM AT COUNT ROSTóV’S WAS TRUE. +SENT YOU. RELIGIOUS! I DON’T INTERFERE WITH ANYONE’S BELIEF... I +SEPARATELY THROUGH HIS THIN COMPRESSED LIPS, “I WILL THROW HIM DOWN +SEPARATION! THOUGH I TELL MYSELF THAT HALF MY LIFE AND HALF MY HAPPINESS +SERGEANT IN CHARGE OF THE CANNON WHICH WAS TO GIVE THE SIGNAL TO FIRE +SERGEANT WAS CARRYING IN A WOODEN BOWL TO AN OFFICER WHO SAT ON A LOG +SERIOUSNESS OF HIS STUPID SMILE, COULD NOT BUT GIVE HIM A MOMENT’S +SERIOUS TONE, “BUT THE PRINCE TOLD ME TO ‘GO AND TELL THE COLONEL +SERVANTS SAY IN A FRIGHTENED WHISPER. “CATCH HOLD FROM UNDERNEATH. +SERVANTS WITH LANTERNS WERE BUSTLING ABOUT IN THE PORCH. THE IMMENSE +SERVE HIM. ROSTóV PATTED THE HORSE’S NECK AND THEN HIS FLANK, AND +SERVICE. A LITTLE BEHIND THEM STOOD THE TWO YOUNGER PRINCESSES HOLDING +SERVICE... IT CAN’T BE HELPED... ONE IS SOMETIMES A BIT HASTY ON +SERVING OUR TSAR AND OUR COUNTRY, REJOICING IN THE SUCCESSES AND +SET OFF TO REJOIN THE ARMY, NOT KNOWING WHERE HE WOULD FIND IT AND +SETTING IT ON FIRE AND THE FRENCH BATTERIES WERE NOW FIRING AT THEM, NO +SETTING, ON A FINELY WROUGHT SILVER CHAIN. +SETTLED DOWN COMFORTABLY BESIDE THE FIRE. +SETTLED INTO THREE GROUPS. ONE, CHIEFLY MASCULINE, HAD FORMED ROUND +“SETTLED!” REPLIED BORíS. +SET WITHOUT WHOM MY WIFE CANNOT EXIST, AND THOSE WOMEN.... IF YOU ONLY +SEVEN IN THE MORNING BUT HAD NOT REACHED IT BY FIVE IN THE AFTERNOON.” +“SEVEN NEW AND THREE OLD IMPERIALS.” +SEVERELY. “YOU DON’T WISH TO APOLOGIZE, BUT, MAN, IT’S NOT ONLY TO +SEVERITY. THE DANCE GREW LIVELIER AND LIVELIER. THE OTHER COUPLES COULD +SHADING HIS EYES WITH HIS SMALL HAND. +SHADOW OF THE WALL. PAUSING FOR A MOMENT, PIERRE NOTICED SEVERAL OTHER +SHAKO ON THE BACK OF HIS HEAD. HE CAME UP TO THE PORCH GLOOMILY, HANGING +SHALL REPROACH MY WIFE WITH ANYTHING, AND I CANNOT REPROACH MYSELF +“SHALL WE HAVE TIME TO CHANGE CLOTHES?” +SHARE DEFEAT AND DISGRACE WITH KUTúZOV’S WHOLE ARMY.” +SHARPLY, WITH A SLIGHT TREMBLING OF THE LOWER JAW, “I CAN’T PREVENT +SHAWL HAD BEEN ADJUSTED HE KEPT HIS ARM AROUND HER FOR A LONG TIME, AS +SHE ADDED HURRIEDLY. “NO, DON’T BE ANGRY, BUT PROMISE! I HAVE ASKED +SHE ADDED, TURNING TO HER HOSTESS. “YOU WROTE THAT IT WAS TO BE QUITE +SHE BECAME STILL MORE ANIMATED AND CHATTERED AWAY GIVING HIM GREETINGS +SHE BEGAN TO SMILE AND TALK. HE ASKED ABOUT MUTUAL ACQUAINTANCES, AND +SHE BROUGHT INTO PRINCESS MARY’S STRENUOUS, MOURNFUL, AND GLOOMY +SHE CAME UP FEARLESS AND GAY TO KISS HER HAND. “I KNOW SHE’S A SCAMP +SHE CAUGHT THE YOUNG OFFICER BY HIS CUFFS, AND A LOOK OF SOLEMNITY AND +SHE CROSSED HERSELF, KISSED THE ICON, AND HANDED IT TO ANDREW. +SHED, AND ITS TONE WAS SO SINCERE THAT HE COULD NOT BUT LISTEN. +SHE FALTERED. “YOU ARE ON GOOD TERMS WITH MICHAEL ILARIóNOVICH +SHE FELT GUILTY. +SHE GAVE HER COMPANION AN ANGRY GLANCE. +SHE GREW CONFUSED, GLANCED ROUND, AND, SEEING THE DOLL SHE HAD THROWN +SHE HAD A FAN IN HER HAND THAT ONE OF THE LADIES HAD GIVEN HER TO HOLD. +SHE HAD BEEN MARRIED DURING THE PREVIOUS WINTER, AND BEING PREGNANT DID +SHE HAD FINISHED SPEAKING TO HIM, AND NOW HE CONTINUED TO SPEAK TO +SHE HAD FIRST ENTERED THE ROOM—THE SMILE OF A PERFECTLY BEAUTIFUL +SHE HAD JUST VACATED. “YOU HAVE MADE THE PLACE WARM, I MUST SAY,” HE +SHE HAD LEARNED IT) SHE TALKED WITH HER PARTNER, FANNING HERSELF AND +SHE HAD SPOKEN TO HIPPOLYTE IN THE DRAWING ROOM AND WHICH WAS SO PLAINLY +SHE HAS A BROTHER; I THINK YOU KNOW HIM, HE MARRIED LISE MEINEN LATELY. +SHE HURRIEDLY ASCENDED THE NARROW DIMLY LIT STONE STAIRCASE, CALLING TO +SHE LED HIM INTO THE DARK DRAWING ROOM AND PIERRE WAS GLAD NO ONE COULD +“SHE LET THE HAWK FLY UPWARD FROM HER WIDE RIGHT SLEEVE,” WENT THE +SHE LOOKED ROUND AND SEEING THAT HER FRIEND WAS NOT IN THE ROOM RAN TO +SHE LOOKED TIMIDLY AT HER BROTHER. +SHELTERS WITH MERRY CHATTER AND LAUGHTER; AROUND THE FIRES SAT OTHERS, +SHE MOVED TOWARD ANNA PáVLOVNA. HéLèNE WAS SO LOVELY THAT NOT ONLY +SHE MUST BE ON THE CHEST IN THE PASSAGE. THE CHEST IN THE PASSAGE WAS +“SHE NEEDS REST,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW WITH A FROWN. “DON’T YOU, +SHE PUSHED THE LITTLE DOG OFF HER LAP AND SMOOTHED HER DRESS. +SHE ROSE AND SMOOTHED HER HAIR, WHICH WAS AS USUAL SO EXTREMELY SMOOTH +“SHE SAID.... OH YES! SHE SAID, ‘GIRL,’ TO THE MAID, ‘PUT ON A +SHE SAID, TRYING TO SMILE THOUGH TEARS WERE IN HER EYES. +SHE SEEMED THAT DAY TO BE MORE THAN EVER KIND AND AFFECTIONATE TO +SHE SMILED AS SHE UTTERED HIS PET NAME, “ANDRúSHA.” IT WAS +SHE SUDDENLY PAUSED, SMILING AT HER OWN IMPETUOSITY. +SHE TOOK A PAIR OF PEAR-SHAPED RUBY EARRINGS FROM HER HUGE RETICULE AND, +SHE TOOK HIS ARM AND WITH A HAPPY FACE WENT WITH HIM INTO THE ADJOINING +SHE TRIED TO PASS ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, BUT THE LATTER SPRANG SO AS TO BAR +SHE TURNED AWAY AND GAVE HER HAND TO THE COUNT, WHO COULD HARDLY KEEP +SHE TURNED AWAY FROM HIM AND GLANCED AT HER YOUNGER BROTHER, WHO WAS +SHE TURNED TO GO, BUT HE STOPPED HER WITH A GESTURE AND TOOK AN UNCUT +SHE UNDERSTOOD ALL THE GRAVITY OF HER FRIEND’S TROUBLE. +(SHE USED THE WORD “DIPLOMAT,” WHICH WAS JUST THEN MUCH IN VOGUE +SHE WAS DANCING WITH A GROWN-UP MAN, WHO HAD BEEN ABROAD. SHE WAS +“SHE WAS SO TIRED THAT SHE HAS FALLEN ASLEEP ON THE SOFA IN MY ROOM. +“SHE WENT. SUDDENLY THERE WAS A GREAT WIND. THE GIRL LOST HER HAT AND +“SHE WILL GO TO THE COUNTRY.” +SHINSHíN, A COUSIN OF THE COUNTESS’, A MAN WITH “A SHARP TONGUE” +SHINSHíN. “HE HAS STOPPED AUSTRIA’S CACKLE AND I FEAR IT WILL BE +SHIRT, AND IN EVERY KNAPSACK THE APPOINTED NUMBER OF ARTICLES, “AWL, +SHOD IN A TARTAR BOOT EMBROIDERED WITH SILVER, AND THE FIRM PRESSURE +SHOOTING AT YOU LIKE A TARGET.” +SHORT STURDY FIGURE WITH THE SINEWY HAIRY HAND AND STUMPY FINGERS IN +SHOULDER AND TAKING HIS FEET OFF THE SOFA. +SHOULDERS AND DROPPED HIS EYES AS IF STARTLED BY SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY +SHOULDERS AND EYES, ALMOST CLOSING THE LATTER, SIGHED, AND MOVED AWAY +SHOULDERS. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WITH JUST THE SAME MOVEMENT RAISED HER +SHOULDERS, TURNED OUT HIS TOES, TAPPED GENTLY WITH HIS FOOT, AND, BY +SHOULDER, THEIR BAYONETS INTERLOCKING, MOVED OVER THE BRIDGE IN A DENSE +SHOULD GET NOT MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED RUBLES EVERY FOUR MONTHS, EVEN +SHOUTED. +SHOUTED DENíSOV IN A BLOODTHIRSTY TONE. +SHOUTED DENíSOV, SUDDENLY, TURNING PURPLE AND RUSHING AT THE MAN WITH +SHOUTED THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, THRUSTING FORWARD HIS JAW AND POINTING +SHOUTED TO HIM: +SHOWED A PAPER SHE HELD IN HER HAND—WITH THE VERSES NICHOLAS HAD +SHOWED GREATNESS OF SOUL BY NOT FEARING TO TAKE ON HIMSELF THE WHOLE +SHOWED THAT, IN SPITE OF ALL HIS LOVE AND RESPECT FOR HIS FATHER, HE WAS +SHOW HER OVER, AND THEY’LL TALK NINETEEN TO THE DOZEN. THAT’S +SHOWING THE CREASES WHERE IT HAD BEEN FOLDED AND THICK GOLD EPAULETTES +SHOWING THE SPOT WHERE IT BURST. +SHUDDER OF DISGUST. +“SHUT UP!” CRIED DóLOKHOV, PUSHING HIM AWAY FROM THE WINDOW. THE +SICK MAN HAD BEEN LAID IN A STATELY POSE IN KEEPING WITH THE CEREMONY +SIDE OF THE QUESTION AND YOU WILL SEE THAT YOUR DUTY, ON THE CONTRARY, +SIDE (ONLY NOW DID PIERRE REALIZE HOW NEAR DEATH HIS FATHER WAS), AND +SíDOROV, TURNING TO THE FRENCH, WINKED, AND BEGAN TO JABBER MEANINGLESS +SIGHED. “I HAVE LOVED YOU LIKE A SON FROM THE FIRST. TRUST YOURSELF TO + SIGHING ITS MESSAGE OUT TO THEE... +SIGHT OF MURAT’S MANTLE AND OSTRICH PLUMES, QU’IL N’Y VOIT QUE DU +SIGHT OF TEARS AND WAS READY TO CRY HIMSELF. +SIGNIFICANTLY AT HER HUSBAND) “I’M AFRAID, I’M AFRAID!” SHE +SIGN OF STRENGTH. +SIGNS TO THE FOOTMEN, AND ANXIOUSLY GLANCING FROM THE CLOCK TO THE DOOR +SIGN THAT THIS WAS EXACTLY WHAT HE HAD DESIRED AND EXPECTED. TURNING +SILENCE AND THE REGULAR TRAMP OF FEET BEATING THE GROUND IN UNISON, ONE +SILENCE AT PRINCESS ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. AFTER HER TALK WITH PIERRE, ANNA +SILENCE ENSUED. THE COUNTESS LOOKED AT HER CALLERS, SMILING AFFABLY, +SILENT. +SILENT AND SEEMED CONFUSED. THE PRINCE ASKED HER ABOUT HER FATHER, AND +SILENT AS HE PASSED BY, AND MOVED TO MAKE WAY FOR HIM. AT FIRST PIERRE +SILENT. AT FIRST KUTúZOV STOOD STILL WHILE THE REGIMENT MOVED; THEN HE +SILENTLY, WITH THE LANGUID INTEREST OF SICK CHILDREN, AT THE ENVOY +SILENT PRAYER. EVERY MORNING SHE CAME IN LIKE THAT, AND EVERY MORNING +SILKEN HANGINGS. ON LEAVING THE BED BOTH PRINCE VASíLI AND THE PRINCESS +SILL, LEANED OVER, AND LOOKED DOWN. +SILL. “LISTEN!” CRIED HE, STANDING THERE AND ADDRESSING THOSE IN THE +SILL TO ATTRACT ATTENTION. “WAIT A BIT, KURáGIN. LISTEN! IF +SIMPLY LOOKING AT HIM. +SINCE EARLY MORNING—DESPITE AN INJUNCTION NOT TO APPROACH THE PICKET +SINCE HIS APPOINTMENT AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF. HE TOLD ME HIMSELF THAT +SINCE THEN PIERRE HAD NOT BEEN DISTURBED AND HAD SPENT THE WHOLE TIME IN +“SINGERS TO THE FRONT” CAME THE CAPTAIN’S ORDER. +SIR, FOR SHAME! IT WOULD BE BETTER IF YOU WENT TO THE WAR.” +SISTER, CATICHE, WITH A VICIOUS AND DETERMINED LOOK STEADILY FIXED ON +SISTER-IN-LAW’S FRIENDSHIP FOR YOU. SHE WAS NOT EXPECTING US?” +SISTER’S, BUT WHILE IN HER CASE EVERYTHING WAS LIT UP BY A JOYOUS, +SISTER’S ROOM HIS WIFE WAS ALREADY AWAKE AND HER MERRY VOICE, HURRYING +SISTER,” WAS ALL SHE SAID, IN A DRY AND MOURNFUL TONE. +SISTER WITH THE MOLE. +SIT DOWN! SIT DOWN, MICHAEL IVáNOVICH!” +SITTING AND DROPPED ONTO IT, COVERING HIS FACE WITH HIS HAND. PIERRE +SITTING CLOSE TO NICHOLAS WHO WAS COPYING OUT SOME VERSES FOR HER, THE +SITTING DOWN BESIDE HIM SHE BEGAN TO SPEAK ABOUT HIS FATHER; BUT HE +SITTING HERE IN ALMOST THE SAME POSITIONS AS BEFORE, WHISPERING TO ONE +SITTING IN A CONSPICUOUS PLACE AND TALKING TO HIM LIKE A GROWN-UP LADY. +SITTING NOISILY BACKWARD AND FORWARD, MADE EFFORTS TO CONTROL HIMSELF +SITTING ROOM. +SITTING SO FOR A WHILE HE ROSE, AND, LOOKING ABOUT HIM WITH FRIGHTENED +SITUATION IT OCCURRED TO HIM THAT IT WAS HE WHO WAS DESTINED TO LEAD IT +SIXTH CHASSEURS WHOM THEY HAD JUST PASSED. PRINCE ANDREW WAS STRUCK BY +SIXTH STROKE. THE DOCTORS PRONOUNCED RECOVERY IMPOSSIBLE. AFTER A MUTE +SKITTLES,” SAID HE IN CONCLUSION. +SLEEP AT NIGHT. COME NOW, WHERE HAS THIS GREAT COMMANDER OF YOURS SHOWN +SLEEVES!” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, POINTING TO NICHOLAS AS HE WENT OUT. +SLENDER LITTLE GIRL. +SLIGHTLY OPEN, AS IF TO SAY, “YES, YES, I AM PUTTING MY PURSE IN MY +SLIGHTLY SARCASTIC SMILE. “I AM BORíS, SON OF PRINCESS ANNA +SLIGHT SMILE HE BEGAN TO EXAMINE HIS NAILS. +SMALL BUT DISTINCTLY VISIBLE ENEMY COLUMN WAS MOVING DOWN THE HILL, +SMALL OLD MAN, WITH POWDERED WIG, SMALL WITHERED HANDS, AND BUSHY GRAY +“SMART LADS! ONLY FIT FOR A FAIR!” SAID ONE. +SMASH SOMETHING. PUSHING AWAY THE FOOTMEN HE TUGGED AT THE FRAME, BUT +SMEARED WITH CHALK—AS WHITE AS FLOUR! I SUPPOSE THEY POLISH HIM UP AS +SMILE. +SMILE. +SMILE. +SMILE. +SMILE. +SMILE. +SMILE, AND ENGAGED THE SMILING JULIE IN A CONFIDENTIAL CONVERSATION +SMILE, AND PRONOUNCING THE PHRASE “KNOCKED OUT” WITH RINGING +SMILED AND INTERRUPTED HIM. +SMILE OF SATISFACTION AND PRESENTED A STRANGE APPEARANCE AMONG THE +SMILE ON HIS LIPS CHANGE. +SMILE WAS UNLIKE THE HALF-SMILE OF OTHER PEOPLE. WHEN HE SMILED, +SMILING AT HIS REASSURING THOUGHTS. +SMILING, BUT IN SPITE OF HERSELF HER EYES UNDER THEIR THICK LONG LASHES +SMILING. “CELA NOUS CONVIENT à MERVEILLE.*(2) SUVóROV NOW—HE KNEW +SMILING JOYFULLY; AND SNATCHING THE SHAWL FROM THE FOOTMAN, WHOM HE +SMILINGLY INCLINING HIS HEAD. +SMILING OVER THE FAN. +SMOKE, AND AN OFFICER CATCHING SIGHT OF BAGRATIóN RUSHED SHOUTING AFTER +SMOKE SPASMODICALLY AND SCREWING UP HIS EYES. THIS WAS AN OLD BACHELOR, +SMOKE. THE EXCITED FACES OF THE SOLDIERS WERE BLACKENED WITH IT. SOME +SMOKING AND TALKING. HE NEITHER SMOKED NOR TALKED, BUT BENDING HIS HEAD +SMOOTH AS A SIGN THAT THE CONVERSATION WAS AT AN END. +SMOOTHING DOWN HER DRESS WITH AN INQUIRING LOOK AT HER MOTHER, WHEN +SNACKS.” +SNUFFBOX WITH HER HUSBAND’S PORTRAIT ON IT. +SO. AND, IN FACT, THE LAST LETTER HE HAD RECEIVED FROM MACK’S ARMY +SOAP, AND ALL,” AS THE SOLDIERS SAY. THERE WAS ONLY ONE CIRCUMSTANCE +SO BEAUTIFUL THAT VERY OFTEN IN SPITE OF THE PLAINNESS OF HER FACE +SO, BUT YOU HAVE NO SENSE ABOUT WOMEN. WHAT AN ARGUMENTATIVE FELLOW YOU +SOCIETY. +SOCIETY, AND SO HER POSITION NOW IS NOT A ROSY ONE. WE SHOULD ENTER INTO +SOCIETY HAD LOST HER FORMER INFLUENTIAL CONNECTIONS. SHE HAD NOW COME TO +SOCIETY, MORE ESPECIALLY OF THE FEMININE SOCIETY, IN WHICH I HAVE HAD +SOCIETY WOMAN TO BE BURIED IN THE COUNTRY DURING THE BEST YEARS OF HER +SO CONVULSIVELY THAT HER BARE LITTLE SHOULDERS SHOOK. NATáSHA’S +SO DELIGHTED...” CAME THE SOUNDS OF ANIMATED FEMININE VOICES, +SO FOR FRIENDSHIP’S SAKE HE IS LEAVING THE UNIVERSITY AND ME, HIS +SOFT STEPS OF THE FOOTMEN. AT ONE END OF THE TABLE SAT THE COUNTESS WITH +SO HE SIMPLY HELD OUT HIS BRISTLY CHEEK (AS YET UNSHAVEN) AND, REGARDING +SO ILL THAT HE MAY DIE AT ANY MOMENT, AND DR. LORRAIN HAS COME FROM +“SO IT DOES,” THOUGHT PIERRE. +SO IT SEEMS TO ME.” +SOLDIER AFTER CAMP LIFE. DESPITE HIS RAPID JOURNEY AND SLEEPLESS NIGHT, +SOLDIER AND THE GAY AND SMARTLY MARCHING MEN. IN THE SECOND FILE +SOLDIER. “I’LL TEACH YOU TO PUSH ON!... BACK!” +SOLDIER OF FORTY—LOOKED STERNLY AT THE SINGERS AND SCREWED UP HIS +SOLDIERS, AFTER A TWENTY-MILE MARCH, WERE KEPT MENDING AND CLEANING ALL +SOLDIERS AND OFFICERS OF VARIOUS REGIMENTS, THEY SAW ON THEIR LEFT SOME +SOLDIERS’ BOOTS. MORE THAN HALF THE MEN’S BOOTS WERE IN HOLES. BUT +SOLDIERS FORMING THE PICKET LINE, LIKE SHOWMEN EXHIBITING A CURIOSITY, +SOLDIERS HELD HIM WHILE TWO OTHERS WERE FLOURISHING THEIR SWITCHES AND +SOLDIERS LIFTED THE CANTEEN LIDS TO THEIR LIPS WITH REVERENTIAL FACES, +SOLDIERS PASSED IN A SEMICIRCLE ROUND SOMETHING WHERE THE BALL HAD +SOLDIERS. THE COMPANY MARCHED ON GAILY. THE SOLDIERS’ VOICES COULD BE +SOLDIERS TO CHANGE INTO THEIR GREATCOATS. THE COMPANY COMMANDERS RAN OFF +SOLDIERS. “WHERE ARE YOU SHOVING TO? DEVIL TAKE YOU! CAN’T YOU WAIT? +SOLDIER THREE GOLD PIECES. +SOLDIER WITH A WAGON, WHO WAS PRESSING ONTO THE INFANTRYMEN WHO WERE +SOLDIER, WITH HIS CLEAR BLUE EYES, STEPPED FORWARD FROM THE RANKS, WENT +SOLEMN INTEREST AND SILENT APPROVAL. THE AUNT SPOKE TO EACH OF THEM IN +SOMEDAY I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT OUR PARTING AND ALL THAT WAS SAID THEN. +SOME FLASH AS OF AN ELECTRIC SPARK SHOT FROM TELYáNIN’S EYES TO +“SOME HERB VODKA? CERTAINLY!” SAID TúSHIN. “BUT STILL, TO +SOME INSPECTION BUSINESS,” REMARKED THE VISITOR. +SOME IN THE SITTING ROOM, SOME IN THE LIBRARY. +SOME MEN WHO, CARRYING PAILS, CAME RUNNING DOWNSTAIRS, THEIR BOOTS +SOMEONE RICH AND DISTINGUéE, AND IT IS ON YOU THAT HIS RELATIONS’ +SOMEONE TO FIRE AT. +SOMETHING.” +SOMETHING AS SHE WHISPERED: +SOMETHING BIG, THAT SPLASHED INTO THE WATER. +SOMETHING DISCONCERTING TO HIMSELF. +SOMETHING LIKE QUALMS OF CONSCIENCE. SHE HAD REMINDED HIM OF WHAT WAS +SOMETHING STRIKING AND TOOK PART IN A CONVERSATION ONLY WHEN THAT WAS +SOMETHING TO DRINK?” +SOMETIMES FOUR ABREAST. FROM ALL SIDES, BEHIND AND BEFORE, AS FAR AS EAR +SOMETIMES LIKE A CHIP OF WOOD WHIRLING IN THE RIVER, AN HUSSAR ON FOOT, +SOMETIMES ON HIS WAY BACK FROM THE ANTEROOM HE WOULD PASS THROUGH THE +SOMETIMES SPEND A WHOLE NIGHT AT HIS WRITING TABLE. HE WORKED WELL +SOME TWENTY MEN OF HIS SUITE. THESE GENTLEMEN TALKED AMONG THEMSELVES +SOMEWHERE BELOW HIS THROAT RUSHED TO HIS FACE AND EYES. HE COULD NOT +SOMEWHERE BEYOND THEM. THE HUSSARS DID NOT LOOK ROUND, BUT AT THE SOUND +SON.” +SONG. +SONG, AROUSING AN INVOLUNTARY SENSATION OF COURAGE AND CHEERFULNESS. +SON, ILYá? ONLY FANCY, I DIDN’T KNOW YOU AT FIRST. DO YOU REMEMBER +SON MADE NO REJOINDER, BUT IT WAS EVIDENT THAT WHATEVER ARGUMENTS WERE +SON’S AFFAIR HUSHED UP, BUT EVEN HE WAS ORDERED OUT OF PETERSBURG.” +SON’S ARRIVAL: HE GAVE ORDERS TO ADMIT HIM TO HIS APARTMENTS WHILE +SON, SAT AT THE TABLE WRITING. HE GLANCED ROUND. +SON; SóNYA, THE COUNT’S FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD NIECE, AND LITTLE PéTYA, +SON’S WHEN SPEAKING TO HIM THAT AFTERNOON, “BELIEVE ME I SUFFER NO +SóNYA AND FAT LITTLE PéTYA DOUBLED UP WITH LAUGHTER. +SóNYA COULD NOT CONTINUE, AND AGAIN HID HER FACE IN HER HANDS AND IN +SóNYA DID NOT PULL IT AWAY, AND LEFT OFF CRYING. NATáSHA, NOT STIRRING +“SóNYA, DON’T BELIEVE HER, DARLING! DON’T BELIEVE HER! DO YOU +SóNYA SAT UP. THE LITTLE KITTEN BRIGHTENED, ITS EYES SHONE, AND IT +SóNYA, SHAKING OFF SOME DOWN WHICH CLUNG TO HER AND TUCKING AWAY THE +“SóNYA,” SHE SUDDENLY EXCLAIMED, AS IF SHE HAD GUESSED THE TRUE +SóNYA TREMBLED ALL OVER AND BLUSHED TO HER EARS AND BEHIND THEM AND +“SóNYA! WHAT IS ANYONE IN THE WORLD TO ME? YOU ALONE ARE +“SóNYA! WHAT IS IT? WHAT IS THE MATTER?... OO... OO... OO...!” AND +“SóNYA, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? HOW CAN YOU?” SAID HE, RUNNING +SOON AS HE HAD SEEN A VISITOR OFF HE RETURNED TO ONE OF THOSE WHO WERE +SOON AS THE CONVERSATION CONCERNED HIMSELF HE WOULD BEGIN TO TALK +SOONER?” +“Só-O-ONYA! LOOK HERE! HOW CAN YOU TORTURE ME AND YOURSELF LIKE THAT, +SOOTHE HIM. +SOPHIE—I CAN’T REPEAT THEM—THAT IT MADE THE COUNT QUITE ILL AND HE +SOPHIE, THE ROSY, LAUGHTER-LOVING, YOUNGEST PRINCESS WITH THE MOLE, +SORROWFUL, AND ALL-FORGIVING EXPRESSION ON HER FACE, STOOD BY THE DOOR +SORT—(LE SORT DE L’ARMéE D’ULM).” * HE REMEMBERED THESE WORDS +SO THAT HIS MOUTH, THE MOST STRIKING FEATURE OF HIS FACE, WAS CLEARLY +SO THAT SHE FELT HERSELF SURROUNDED ON ALL SIDES BY THE ACRID SCENT OF + * SO THAT SQUARES MATTERS. +“SO THAT’S WHAT THEY HIT WITH?” ASKED THE ACCOUNTANT. “HOW +SO THE SWISHING SOUND OF THE STROKES, AND THE DESPERATE BUT UNNATURAL +SO THE WORSE THE CONDITION IT WAS IN, THE BETTER PLEASED THE COMMANDER +“SO THEY WILL,” SAID NESVíTSKI. “NO, BUT WHAT I SHOULD LIKE,” +SO TO ME? WHAT HAVE I DONE TO YOU? YOU ARE GOING TO THE WAR AND HAVE NO +SOUL TO SEE SUCH MEN AS THE OLD COUNT AND HIS WORTHY SON,” SAID SHE. +SOUNDED AND YOU’LL BE IN A PRETTY POSITION WITHOUT YOUR BOOTS!” (THE +SOUNDED LOUDER AND CALMER, THE STRETCHERS DISAPPEARED FROM SIGHT. +SOUNDED MUCH LIKE IRONY. BUT KUTúZOV WENT ON BLANDLY SMILING WITH THE +SOUNDED STILL MORE FIRM AND RESOLUTE. +SOUND OF FOOTSTEPS. +SOUND OF KISSING. WHEN PRINCE ANDREW WENT IN THE TWO PRINCESSES, WHO +SOUND OF OFFICERS’ VOICES IN EAGER CONVERSATION. +SOUND OF THAT SENTENCE: “CONTEZ NOUS çELA, VICOMTE.” +SOUND OF THESE VOICES, THE INATTENTIVE WAY KOZLóVSKI LOOKED AT HIM, THE +SOUNDS VERY FAST: “KARI, MALA, TAFA, SAFI, MUTER, KASKá,” HE SAID, +SO WIDELY FROM A PRIVATE. +“SOYEZ TRANQUILLE, LISE, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE PRETTIER THAN ANYONE +“SO YOU ARE REALLY GOING TO THE WAR, ANDREW?” SHE SAID SIGHING. +SO YOUNG, AND BURDENED WITH SUCH RICHES—TO WHAT TEMPTATIONS HE WILL BE +SPADEFULS OF RED CLAY WERE CONTINUALLY BEING THROWN UP FROM BEHIND THE +SPARKLING BLACK EYES, AND BLACK TOUSLED MUSTACHE AND HAIR. HE WORE AN +SPEAKING OF BERG AS HER “INTENDED.” THE COUNT SAT BETWEEN THEM AND +SPEAKING PLAYFULLY OF A MATTER THAT EVIDENTLY DISTRESSED HIM. +SPEAKING QUICKLY WITH A HARSH GERMAN ACCENT, LOOKING TO BOTH SIDES AND +SPEAKING VERY GENTLY. +SPECIALLY AMIABLE MOOD THAT DAY. +SPECIALLY CHOICE DELICACY A PIECE OF MEAT THAT NO ONE WHO HAD SEEN IT IN +SPECTACLES AND WHITE DRESSING GOWN, IN WHICH HE RECEIVED NO ONE BUT HIS +SPEND TIME IN READING WHAT IS UNINTELLIGIBLE AND CAN THEREFORE BEAR +SPIRITED IMPRESSION. +SPIRIT WILL NOT AND CANNOT UNDERSTAND THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER’S +SPITE OF HIS MONEY. THEY WANTED TO INTRODUCE HIM TO ME, BUT I QUITE +SPLENDID! AND I AM SITTING HERE ILL, AS YOU SEE.” +SPLENDID HOUSE!” +SPLENDIDLY.” +SPLENDID SOLDIERS. BESIDES HE BEGAN BY ATTACKING GERMANS. AND ONLY +“SPLENDID! WHAT A HORSE HE WILL BE!” HE THOUGHT WITH A SMILE, AND +SPOIL HER, BUT REALLY THAT SEEMS THE BEST PLAN. WITH HER ELDER SISTER I +SPOKE AS IF HIS SOLE AIM WERE TO PUT A GIVEN NUMBER OF QUESTIONS—THE +SPOKEN TO THE GENTLEMAN RANKER, HE ADDRESSED HIM WITH THE CORDIALITY OF +SPOKE PARTICULARLY SLOWLY, AS IF TO IMPRESS THE FACT THAT THERE WAS NO +SPOKE SMILINGLY AND LISTENED WITH A LAUGH. +SPOKE TO THE TACITURN MICHAEL IVáNOVICH MORE OFTEN THAN TO ANYONE ELSE. +SPOT” (HE STOOPED AND POINTED TO THE SLOPING LEDGE OUTSIDE THE WINDOW) +SPREAD APART, HE BEGAN EXPLAINING HIS REASONS FOR THINKING THE ABBé’S +SPREADING OUT HIS LEGS AND PUTTING HIS HANDS ON HIS KNEES WITH THE AIR +SPREAD OUT HER ARMS TO SHOW HER SHORT-WAISTED, LACE-TRIMMED, DAINTY GRAY +SPREAD OUT HIS ARMS WITH A CHOLERIC GESTURE. +SPRING UP WITH MORE ENERGY AND AGAIN PLAY WITH HER COUSIN AS SOON AS +SQUADRON. ALL WERE LOOKING AT THE ENEMY IN FRONT AND AT THE SQUADRON +SQUADRON COMMANDER. +SQUADRON IN WHICH NICHOLAS ROSTóV SERVED AS A CADET WAS QUARTERED IN +SQUADRON MAY BE RECOMMENDED FOR HONORS AND HE MAY GET A RIBBON. OUR +SQUADRON’S OFFICERS IN DENíSOV’S QUARTERS. +SQUADRON, THAT IN WHICH ROSTóV WAS SERVING UNDER DENíSOV, TO RETURN TO +SQUATTING ON HIS HEELS IN FRONT OF A CLERK. THE CLERK, WITH CUFFS TURNED +STAFF...” +STAFF?” +STAFF CAPTAIN’S QUESTION BY A DISAPPROVING SHAKE OF HIS HEAD. +STAFF OFFICER. +STAFF OFFICER, AND AT ZHERKóV, AND HE FROWNED. +STAFF OFFICER SMILED.) “KINDLY RETURN TO YOUR POSTS, GENTLEMEN, ALL OF +STAIRS AND UP ANOTHER, TO PIERRE’S ROOMS. +STANDING TOGETHER OUT OF RANGE OF THE SHOTS, WATCHING, NOW THE SMALL +STANDING UP, ON WHICH LAY AN OPEN EXERCISE BOOK, AND THE LATHE WITH +STAND MADE AT KREMS AND THE VICTORY OVER MORTIER RAISED THE SPIRITS OF +STARRY NIGHT WAS FOLLOWED BY A BRIGHT CHEERFUL MORNING. THE SNOW WAS +STARS ON HIS BREAST. HE SEEMED TO HAVE GROWN THINNER SINCE THE MORNING; +STARTING FROM THEIR SOCKETS TO WATCH THEIR CHIEF. ON REACHING THE +START MY APPRENTICESHIP AS OLD MAID.” +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WAR AND PEACE *** +STATING THEM TO THE EMPEROR FRANCIS. HE VIVIDLY IMAGINED THE CASUAL +STAYED HIS HAND. THE SERGEANT, WHO WAS EVIDENTLY WISER THAN HIS GENERAL, +STAYING THE WHOLE EVENING, I HOPE?” +STEADILY AND CEASELESSLY ON ALL SIDES. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE AUNT, +STEP; A SOLDIER WHO HAD FALLEN BEHIND, HIS FACE SHOWING ALARM AT HIS +STEP COULD BE HEARD. ON THEIR LEFT FLANK, NEAREST TO BAGRATIóN, MARCHED +STEPPED AWAY FROM THE MAN AND LOOKED ROUND INQUIRINGLY AT THE ADJUTANT +STEPPED SOFTLY OVER THE CARPET AND WENT OUT INTO THE WAITING ROOM. +STEPS. +STEPS BEHIND HIM HOLDING TWO HORSES BY THEIR BRIDLES. EACH TIME PRINCE +STEPS. BEHIND THE COMPANY THE SOUND OF WHEELS, THE CREAKING OF SPRINGS, +STEPS DOWN THE LINE. HE WAS EVIDENTLY PLEASED AT HIS OWN DISPLAY OF +STEPS, HER WORKBAG ON HER ARM, AND GAILY SPREADING OUT HER DRESS SAT +STEPS. “O GOD,” HE SAID WITH TEARS IN HIS EYES, “HOW COULD YOU DO +STEP THAT FOR YOU ALL IS ENDED, ALL IS CLOSED EXCEPT THE DRAWING +STERN BUT HANDSOME FACE REALLY JOINED IN THE DANCE. WHAT WAS EXPRESSED +STERN EYES ON HIS SON. +STERNLY WITH A THREATENING AND FORBIDDING MOVEMENT OF HER HEAD. +STERN, THREATENING, INACCESSIBLE, AND INTANGIBLE LINE WHICH SEPARATES +STILL FIVE MEN BETWEEN HIM AND DóLOKHOV WITH HIS BLUISH-GRAY UNIFORM. +STILL GAZED AT THE SPOT WHERE PIERRE’S FACE HAD BEEN BEFORE HE SAT +STILL HE WAS LIFTED AND LAID ON THE STRETCHER. +STILL IN THE DRAWING ROOM, DREW A CHAIR TOWARD HIM OR HER, AND JAUNTILY +STILL, I WILL TAKE BORíS AND GO TO SEE HIM AT ONCE, AND I SHALL SPEAK +STILL LOOKING SILENTLY AT HER BROTHER AND HER BEAUTIFUL EYES WERE FULL +STILL QUITE A YOUNG LADY, BEFORE HER NOSE WAS BROKEN; HOW SHE HAD AGED +STILL SMILING, SHE GRACEFULLY MOVED AWAY, TURNING AND GLANCING AT HER +STILL SOUND, YELLOWISH TEETH. +“STILL THE SAME; BUT WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT, THIS NOISE...” SAID THE +STILL WHY DIDN’T YOU CAPTURE HIM? SO DON’T BE SURPRISED IF NOT ONLY +STIR AROUND HIM, THEN THE PEOPLE RESUMED THEIR PLACES AND THE SERVICE +STONES OF THE PAVEMENT. +STOOD WAITING BY THE DOOR. +“STOP JESTING,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW SADLY AND SERIOUSLY. THIS NEWS +STOPPED AND GLANCED INQUIRINGLY OVER HIS SPECTACLES AT HIS GUIDE. ANNA +STOPPING OCCASIONALLY AT A CORNER TO MAKE MENACING GESTURES AT THE WALL, +“STOP THIS JESTING,” HE SAID. +STOUTER!...” +STRAIGHT INTO HIS SON’S FACE WITH KEEN EYES WHICH SEEMED TO SEE +STRAINS OF DANIEL COOPER (SOMEWHAT RESEMBLING THOSE OF A MERRY PEASANT +STRAW COVERED STREET AND TURNED INTO THE WIDE COURTYARD OF COUNT CYRIL +STRAYED FROM UNDER HER FRIEND’S PLAITS. +STREETS OF BRüNN AND FOUND HIMSELF SURROUNDED BY HIGH BUILDINGS, THE +STRETCHERS CAME INTO VIEW BEFORE ROSTóV. AND THE FEAR OF DEATH AND OF +“STRETCHERS!” SHOUTED SOMEONE BEHIND HIM. +(STRICTLY SPEAKING, DANIEL COOPER WAS ONE FIGURE OF THE ANGLAISE.) +STRICTLY TO OBEY. YOU SAID THE BRIDGE WOULD BE BURNED, BUT WHO WOULD IT +STRIKING A BLOW!” +STRIKING HIM REGULARLY ON HIS BARE BACK. THE MAN SHRIEKED UNNATURALLY. +STRIKING HIS HORSE WITH HIS LONG MUSCULAR LEGS AS IF IT WERE TO BLAME +STRONG, HEALTHY, CHEERFUL, AND EXCITED, AND ARE SURROUNDED BY OTHER SUCH +STRUCK THE GROUND IN FRONT OF THEM. +STRUCK TWO AND ANOTHER WITH A SHRILL TONE JOINED IN FROM THE DRAWING +STUDY, ON THE BLUE SOFA, THE CONFIDENTIAL SOFA? WHY CANNOT I NOW, AS +STYLE, WEARING AN ANTIQUE COAT AND POWDERED HAIR; AND WHEN PRINCE ANDREW +SUBJECT, AND WAS THUS AT THE DUC’S MERCY. THE LATTER SPARED HIM, AND +SUBJECT UNDER DISCUSSION THAN THOSE THEY ARE TALKING WITH. +SUBORDINATE BY ME. +SUBORDINATE COMMANDERS WAS DONE, IF NOT BY HIS DIRECT COMMAND, AT LEAST +SUBSIDING UNDER THE DELIGHTFUL INTEREST OF HIS OWN STORY, “IS THAT THE +SUBTLETIES HERE BEYOND MY FEEBLE INTELLIGENCE, BUT I CAN’T MAKE IT +SUCCEEDED IN FORESTALLING THE FRENCH HE WAS TO DELAY THEM AS LONG AS +SUCCEEDED IN SETTING TWO LOQUACIOUS TALKERS AT ONE ANOTHER. +SUCH BAD HEALTH, AND NOW THIS VEXATION ABOUT HIS SON IS ENOUGH TO KILL +SUCH THINGS ABOUT BONAPARTE, BUT UNDERSTANDING THAT HE WAS WANTED AS +SUDDENLY. +SUDDENLY DóLOKHOV MADE A BACKWARD MOVEMENT WITH HIS SPINE, AND HIS ARM +SUDDENLY FROM THE NEXT ROOM WERE HEARD THE FOOTSTEPS OF BOYS AND GIRLS +SUDDENLY HEARD A SOUND NEW TO HIM, OF SOMETHING SWIFTLY APPROACHING... +SUDDENLY PRINCE HIPPOLYTE STARTED UP MAKING SIGNS TO EVERYONE TO ATTEND, +SUDDENLY SHE JUMPED UP ONTO A TUB TO BE HIGHER THAN HE, EMBRACED HIM SO +SUDDENLY THE ANGRY, SQUIRREL-LIKE EXPRESSION OF THE PRINCESS’ PRETTY +SUGGESTED TO HIM A BLOW FROM SOMETHING. HE LOOKED AT PRINCE VASíLI +SUGGESTED TO HIM A POINT OF VIEW WHICH GAVE HIM A RIGHT TO DESPISE +SUGGESTION AND PRESSED HIS LIPS TO THE LARGE BONED, FLESHY HAND. NEITHER +SUITE. +SUITE, AND IN THE SMOKE THAT SUDDENLY SURROUNDED THE GUN THEY COULD SEE +SUITE AND SAID IN FRENCH: +SUITE WHO HAD MIMICKED THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, FELL BACK FROM THE +SUMPTUOUS BUT COLD APARTMENTS KNOWN TO PIERRE ONLY FROM THE FRONT +SUN. HOW BEAUTIFUL THE SKY LOOKED; HOW BLUE, HOW CALM, AND HOW DEEP! +SUPERSTITION, AND ONLY TWO VIRTUES—ACTIVITY AND INTELLIGENCE. HE +SUPPORTED HIM UNDER THE ARMS. THERE WAS A GURGLE IN HIS THROAT AND HE +SUPPORT OF HIS BATTERY ALL WAS FORGOTTEN. PRINCE ANDREW LISTENED +SUPPOSED, SHARE THE GENERAL RUSSIAN ANTIPATHY TO THE AUSTRIANS WHICH WAS +SUPPOSE THAT I SHOULD LOOK SEVERELY ON YOUR AFFECTION FOR THAT YOUNG +“SURELY HE WILL LEAVE SOMETHING TO BORíS,” SAID THE COUNTESS. +SURPRISE.” +SURRENDERED BUT HAD BEATEN THE FRENCH. +SURVEYING THE GUESTS, AND LEISURELY ARRANGED HER WIDE SLEEVES AS IF +SUVóROV GIVING HIS SABER TO BAGRATIóN IN ITALY, AND THE RECOLLECTION +SUVóROV’S WARS. SEND IT TO THE ACADEMY. HERE ARE SOME JOTTINGS FOR +SWALLOWING HIS R’S, AND PRONOUNCING THE LATIN WORDS WITH A FRENCH +SWEETER, AND BETTER THAN THE FEELINGS WHICH THE BEAUTIFUL EYES OF A +SWEETEST COMFORTS TO MY POOR HEART, WHICH HAS ALREADY SUFFERED SO MUCH. +SWEETLY. IT WAS THE THIRD TIME THAT DAY THAT, WITH AN ECSTATIC AND +SWEET, SO GOOD-NATURED, AND HER POSITION NOW IS A VERY HARD ONE.” +SWINGING THEIR ARMS AND KEEPING TIME SPONTANEOUSLY, MARCHED WITH LONG +SYMMETRICALLY ON HIS KNEES IN THE NAïVE ATTITUDE OF AN EGYPTIAN STATUE, +TABLE. +TABLE AND BECOMING MORE ANIMATED AND TALKING MORE RAPIDLY: “WHAT IF +TABLE. DENíSOV WAS SITTING THERE SCRATCHING WITH HIS PEN ON A SHEET OF +TABLE LINEN, HE WOULD CALL DMíTRI VASíLEVICH, A MAN OF GOOD FAMILY AND +TABLE THAT HE HAD PUSHED AWAY. “BUT... IN SHORT, THE FACT IS... YOU +TABLE. “WHAT ARE YOU THUMPING THE TABLE FOR?” SHE DEMANDED OF THE +“TAKE A GLASS OF BOILED WATER AND PUT A PINCH OF CREAM OF TARTAR,” +TAKE A SEAT BESIDE HER. +“TAKE A STICK BETWEEN YOUR LEGS, THAT’LL SUIT YOU FOR A HORSE!” +TAKE IT...” HE THREW IT ON THE TABLE. “I HAVE AN OLD FATHER AND +“TAKE IT IF YOU LIKE,” SAID THE OFFICER, GIVING THE GIRL AN APPLE. +“TAKE IT RIGHT OUT, OR THEY’LL THINK I’M HOLDING ON,” SAID +TAKEN ADVICE; BUT NO, YOU GO AND BLURT IT ALL STRAIGHT OUT BEFORE THE +TAKEN, AND ALL THIS FOR THE BEAUX YEUX * OF HIS SARDINIAN MAJESTY. AND +TAKEN AND I HOPE IT WILL NOT BE, FOR IT IS MINED AND ORDERS HAVE BEEN +TAKE PART IN RECEIVING THE VISITORS. THE COUNT MET THE GUESTS AND SAW +TAKES PLACE AT SUCH MOMENTS. +TAKE THE MONEY,” AND HE THREW THE PURSE TO HIM AND RAN OUT OF THE INN. +TAKE THESE AWAY. PUT THIS ON THE SEAT AND THIS TO THE RIGHT.” +“TAKE THIS AND DELIVER IT,” SAID HE TO HIS ADJUTANT, HANDING HIM THE +TAKING ADVANTAGE OF IT!” +TAKING A GLASS FROM THE TABLE HE WENT UP TO PIERRE. +TAKING A LETTER ADDRESSED IN A WOMAN’S HAND FROM A BAG HANGING ABOVE +TAKING CHARGES FROM THEIR POUCHES, WHILE OTHERS WERE FIRING, THOUGH WHO +TAKING LEAVE OF ANNA PáVLOVNA. “IT IS SETTLED,” SHE ADDED IN A LOW +TAKING NO NOTICE OF HIS ARRIVAL. A WAX CANDLE STOOD AT EACH SIDE OF THE +TAKING OFFENSE, BUT YOU DON’T MIND DISGRACING THE WHOLE REGIMENT!” +TAKING OUT WHAT SHE WAS HOLDING INSIDE IT, AS IF WHAT SHE HELD WERE +TALKED OF PEACE BUT DID NOT BELIEVE IN ITS POSSIBILITY; OTHERS TALKED +TALKING ABOUT ME? LET US TALK ABOUT YOU,” HE ADDED AFTER A SILENCE, +TALKING. SEEING THEM PASS, PRINCE VASíLI DREW BACK WITH OBVIOUS +TALKING TOO LOUDLY AND VEHEMENTLY WITH THE ABBé, SO SHE HURRIED TO THE +TANGLED BLACK HAIR. +TASTE. AND SHE HAD A LADY’S MAID, ALSO BIG. SHE SAID....” +TEACHER’S FAULT OR THE PUPIL’S, THIS SAME THING HAPPENED EVERY DAY: +TEACH YOU TO DRESS THE MEN IN FANCY COATS FOR A PARADE.... EH...?” +TEARS.” +TEETH, HE BEGAN WITH STUBBY FINGERS OF BOTH HANDS TO RUFFLE UP HIS THICK +TELLING HER THINGS. SHE HAS HAD A DREAM AND IS FRIGHTENED.” +TELLING ME WHAT FORCES ARE BEING COLLECTED AGAINST HIM! WHILE YOU AND I +“TELL ME ABOUT THAT!” HE SAID. +TELL ME,” HE ADDED WITH STUDIED CARELESSNESS AS IF IT HAD ONLY JUST +“TELL ME, MY DEAR,” SAID SHE TO NATáSHA, “IS MIMI A RELATION OF +“TELL ME, WHEN DID THE BATTLE BEGIN?” HE ASKED HURRIEDLY. +“TELL THESE DEVILS, THESE FIENDS, TO LET ME PASS!” SHOUTED DENíSOV +TELL YOU FOR THE TENTH TIME THAT IF THE LETTER TO THE EMPEROR AND THE +TELYáNIN. +TELYáNIN. +TELYáNIN, AND HE WENT OUT TO GIVE THE ORDER. +TELYáNIN’S ORDERLY. “HAS SOMETHING HAPPENED?” HE ADDED, SURPRISED +TELYáNIN, TAKING UP HIS CAP AND MOVING TOWARD A SMALL EMPTY ROOM. “WE +TELYáNIN WAS SITTING IN THE SAME INDOLENT POSE IN WHICH ROSTóV HAD +TEMPTATION SHE SLIPPED QUIETLY BEHIND ONE OF THE COLUMNS. IN THE MIDST +TENACIOUS ENDURANCE AND VIGOR OF HARDY OLD AGE. AFTER A FEW MORE TURNS +TENDERLY SAD VOICE, SHE SAID: +TEN MINUTES LATER LAVRúSHKA BROUGHT THE COFFEE. “HE’S COMING!” +TERRIBLE AND HOLY SECRETS OF PROVIDENCE WHILE WE REMAIN IN THIS FLESH +TERRIBLE DRAGON, A LADY DISTINGUISHED NOT FOR WEALTH OR RANK, BUT FOR +TERRIBLY TRUE. I PITY PRINCE VASíLI BUT AM STILL MORE SORRY FOR PIERRE. +TêTE-DE-PONT. * THEY SPIN HIM A THOUSAND GASCONADES, SAYING THAT +“THANK GOD,” SAID HIS SON SMILING. +“THANK YOU, MY DEAR.” SHE KISSED HIM ON THE FOREHEAD AND SAT DOWN +“THANK YOU VERY MUCH, I WILL GO ON ALONE,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, +“THANK YOU VERY MUCH, PRINCE,” ANSWERED ONE OF THE OFFICERS, PLEASED +THANK YOU! YOU MUST HAVE A REST. BE AT THE LEVEE TOMORROW AFTER THE +THAN ONCE. “YOU KNOW IT WON’T DO TO LEAVE YOUR POSTS LIKE THIS. +THAN WITH POLITICS,” SAID HE IN HIS QUIET IRONICAL TONE. “I KNOW +“THAT ABBé IS VERY INTERESTING BUT HE DOES NOT SEE THE THING IN THE +THAT AFFAIR FOR ME AND I SHALL ALWAYS BE YOUR MOST DEVOTED SLAVE-SLAFE +THAT AFTERNOON. SHE FELT THAT AS SHE BROUGHT WITH HER THE PERSON THE +THAT ALL EUROPE IS POWERLESS BEFORE HIM.... AND I DON’T BELIEVE A +THAT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WHOM I WOULD NOT TAKE FOR A HOUSEMAID... THE +THAT BOTH HER SLENDER BARE ARMS CLASPED HIM ABOVE HIS NECK, AND, TOSSING +THAT CAME UPON HIM AT HOLLABRüNN, WHICH WAS CLEARLY IMPOSSIBLE. BUT +THAT COULD SAVE THE ARMY, AND HOW HE ALONE WOULD BE ENTRUSTED WITH THE +THAT EVENING TO BID A LAST FAREWELL TO THE CELEBRATED GRANDEE OF +THAT EVERYTHING DONE BY NECESSITY, BY ACCIDENT, OR BY THE WILL OF +THAT EVERYTHING WAS SPLENDID. “JUST FANCY: WANTS TO BE AN HUSSAR. +THAT FRIENDSHIP?” REMARKED THE COUNT IN AN INQUIRING TONE. +THAT HAD ALREADY ONCE BEEN GIVEN IN DETAIL: “AND TELL THE HUSSARS +THAT HAD PLACED THE VIENNA BRIDGE IN THE HANDS OF THE FRENCH WITHOUT +THAT HE DECIDED TO GO. THE THOUGHT IMMEDIATELY OCCURRED TO HIM THAT HIS +“THAT HERE LIVES COUNT CYRIL VLADíMIROVICH BEZúKHOV SO RICH, ALL +THAT HE WAS AT THE FRONT AND IN THE POWER OF A MAN TOWARD WHOM HE NOW +THAT HIS HEART STOOD STILL. HIS HAND TREMBLED AS HE GAVE HIS HORSE INTO +THAT HIS REMARKS WERE TOO ENTHUSIASTIC AND EMPHATIC FOR THE OCCASION AND +THAT IF HE ASKED ON BEHALF OF ALL WHO BEGGED OF HIM, HE WOULD SOON BE +THAT IMPRINT OF NEWNESS FOUND IN THE HOUSEHOLDS OF THE NEWLY MARRIED. +THAT INSIGNIFICANT SOCIETY PEOPLE MIGHT CARRY THEM FROM DRAWING ROOM TO +THAT IN SPITE OF ALL THE UNPLEASANTNESS HE HAD TO ENDURE HE WOULD STILL +THAT IN THIS WORLD THERE IS NEITHER HONOR NOR JUSTICE. IN THIS WORLD ONE +“THAT IS ALL NONSENSE.” PRINCE ANDREW AGAIN INTERRUPTED HIM, “LET +“THAT IS DOUBTFUL,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. “MONSIEUR LE VICOMTE QUITE +THAT IS NOT YET READY. +THAT IS STILL TOO FRESH. AH, DEAR FRIEND, YOU ARE HAPPY NOT TO KNOW +“THAT IS WHAT I ASK YOU. NO ONE, NOT EVEN BONAPARTE, KNOWS WHY.” +“THAT IS WHY I BEG TO BE SENT TO THAT DETACHMENT,” HE SAID. +“THAT IS, WITH ILYá ROSTóV WHO MARRIED NATALY SHINSHINá,” SAID +THAT IT SEEMED TO BE MADE OF ONE PIECE WITH HER HEAD AND COVERED WITH +THAT I WAS UNGRATEFUL, AND THAT MAMMA WOULD NEVER ALLOW HIM TO MARRY +“THAT LETTER WAS WRITTEN, THOUGH IT WAS NOT SENT, AND THE EMPEROR KNEW +THAT MAKES ME UNHAPPY. BUT EVEN IN THIS I CAN SEE LATELY A SHADE OF +THAT MOMENT BEEN WOUNDED AND HIS FACE SHOWED FEAR RATHER THAN SUFFERING. +THAT MORE IRRITATING NEWS THAN YOURS COULD NOT HAVE BEEN CONCEIVED. +THAT NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE WERE ALREADY PROCEEDING, AND THAT HE +THAT ONE ALSO PASSED. THEN FOLLOWED A CART UNLIKE ANY THAT HAD GONE +THAT PIERRE COULD NO LONGER SEE THE REDDISH-YELLOW FACE WITH ITS GRAY +THAT PROVISIONS ARE SUPPLIED AND THE ROUTES INDICATED,” SAID BILíBIN, + * “THAT RUSSIAN ARMY WHICH HAS BEEN BROUGHT FROM THE ENDS OF +“THAT’S ALL RIGHT. NO ONE THINKS YOU A COWARD, BUT THAT’S NOT THE +THAT SAME EVENING THERE WAS AN ANIMATED DISCUSSION AMONG THE +THAT SAME NIGHT, HAVING TAKEN LEAVE OF THE MINISTER OF WAR, BOLKóNSKI +“THAT’S A MIWACLE.” +“THAT’S BETTER, COUNT,” SAID THE STAFF CAPTAIN, BEGINNING TO +“THAT’S FINE,” SAID HE. +“THAT’S FOR THEM ALL,” HE SAID TO THE OFFICER WHO CAME UP. +THAT SHE HAD NOT INTENDED HER FLIGHT TO BRING HER SO FAR. BEHIND HER IN +THAT SHOWED THAT HIS FATHER’S FOIBLES DID NOT PREVENT HIS SON FROM +“THAT’S HOW WE USED TO DANCE IN OUR TIME, MA CHèRE,” SAID THE +THAT’S IT.” AND WITH A COMPLACENT SIGH HE WOULD RETURN TO THE +“THAT’S JUST IT,” ANSWERED BILíBIN. “LISTEN! THE FRENCH ENTERED +“THAT’S JUST IT, MY DEAR FELLOW. YOU SEE IT’S HURRAH FOR THE TSAR, +THAT SMILE WAS IMMEDIATELY REFLECTED ON PIERRE’S FACE. +“THAT’S NOT THE POINT, MY DEAR.” +THAT SOLDIER PASSED ON, AND AFTER HIM CAME ANOTHER SITTING ON A CART. +“THAT’S OUR BATTERY,” SAID THE STAFF OFFICER INDICATING THE +THAT STOOD BEFORE HIS PLATE, PIERRE HELD OUT ONE AT RANDOM AND DRANK +“THAT’S TRUE!” +“THAT’S TWUE, DEVIL TAKE IT!” SHOUTED DENíSOV, JUMPING UP. “NOW +THAT SUM. “HE’S BEGUN TO GO A LITTLE LAME ON THE LEFT FORELEG,” HE +“THAT’S WHAT COMES OF A MODERN EDUCATION,” EXCLAIMED THE VISITOR. +THAT’S WHY I HAVE COME... I AM A RELATION. I SHALL NOT DISTURB HIM, +THAT THE CORSICAN MONSTER WHO IS DESTROYING THE PEACE OF EUROPE MAY +THAT THE HUSSARS MUST RETURN QUICKLY AND FIRE THE BRIDGE.’” +THAT THERE WERE NO POLITICAL DIFFICULTIES IN EUROPE AND NO REAL WAR, +THAT THE STRANGE LADY, THE AIDE-DE-CAMP, AND SOME OF THE SERVANTS, ALL +THAT THEY ARE TO CROSS LAST AND TO FIRE THE BRIDGE AS I ORDERED; AND THE +THAT THEY DESPAIRED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF CHECKING THIS DISORDER. +THAT THEY MAY RUN SMOOTHLY. +THAT TONIGHT HE WAS A PERSON OBLIGED TO PERFORM SOME SORT OF AWFUL +THAT VILLAGE, AMID THE SMOKE, WAS SOMETHING RESEMBLING A BATTERY, BUT IT +“THAT WAS A DANIEL COOPER!” EXCLAIMED MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA, TUCKING UP +“THAT WAS A NICE SNUB FOR THE LITTLE AIDE-DE-CAMP,” CAME A VOICE +THAT WERE AFLOAT, AND SO KUTúZOV’S SUGGESTION OF AN AUSTRIAN VICTORY +THAT WERE ARRIVING FROM RUSSIA. IF KUTúZOV DECIDED TO REMAIN AT KREMS, + THAT WHILE HER FINGERS TOUCH THE HARP +THAT WILL DECIDE THE MATTER, BUT THOSE WHO DEVISED IT,” SAID BILíBIN +“THAT WOULD BE A FINE THING!” SAID SHE. “I NEVER WANTED ANYTHING +“THAT WOULD BE FINE, GENTLEMEN!” +“THAT WOULD TAKE TOO LONG TO TELL,” ANSWERED THE SON. +THAT YEAR TO MOREAU TO ENTER THE RUSSIAN SERVICE.... “WONDERFUL!... +THAWING IN THE SUNSHINE, THE HORSES GALLOPED QUICKLY, AND ON BOTH SIDES +THE 18TH BRUMAIRE; WAS NOT THAT AN IMPOSTURE? IT WAS A SWINDLE, AND NOT +THE ABBé. ANOTHER, OF YOUNG PEOPLE, WAS GROUPED ROUND THE BEAUTIFUL +THE ABBé MORIO AND MANY OTHERS HAD ALSO COME. +THE ADJUTANT AND THE MINISTER. “AWAY FROM THE SMELL OF POWDER, THEY +THE ADJUTANT ON DUTY, MEETING PRINCE ANDREW, ASKED HIM TO WAIT, AND WENT +THE ADJUTANT ON DUTY,” SAID THE OFFICIAL. “HE WILL CONDUCT YOU TO +THE ADVANCED ARMY. PRINCE ANDREW BOLKóNSKI CAME INTO THE ROOM WITH THE +THE ADVANTAGES ARE FAR LESS THAN IN THE INFANTRY. JUST CONSIDER MY OWN +THE AGILITY WITH WHICH HE CAPERED ABOUT ON HIS LIGHT FEET, MáRYA +THE AIDE-DE-CAMP WAS SENT TO CONFIRM THE ORDER WHICH HAD NOT BEEN +THE AIDE-DE-CAMP WITH A RESPECTFUL POLITENESS EVIDENTLY RELATING TO THE +THE ANTEROOM. “I CAN’T REMAIN ANY LONGER IN PETERSBURG. TELL ME WHAT +THE ARCHDUCHY OF AUSTRIA, AND YET OTHER REGIMENTS FRESHLY ARRIVING FROM +THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND AND MACK, AND KUTúZOV, NOT CONSIDERING THIS +THE ARCHITECT. +THE ARMISTICE IMMEDIATELY AND MARCH ON THE ENEMY. INFORM HIM THAT THE +THE ARMY, AND ABOUT WHOM NATáSHA HAD TEASED HER ELDER SISTER VéRA, +THE ARMY CONSIDERABLY. THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE ARMY AND AT HEADQUARTERS +THE ARMY NOW THAT IT IS IN DANGER. I UNDERSTAND THAT. MON CHER, IT IS +THE ARMY WAS A GREAT GRIEF TO ME. THIS YOUNG MAN, OF WHOM I SPOKE TO YOU +THE ARRIVAL OF THE REST OF THE TROOPS WHO WERE ON THEIR WAY FROM VIENNA, +THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL LOOKED DISSATISFIED, BUT HAD NO OPTION BUT TO REPLY +THE BAGGAGE WAGONS HAD ALL CROSSED, THE CRUSH WAS LESS, AND THE LAST +THE BALANCE OF POWER, AND THE LATTER, EVIDENTLY INTERESTED BY THE YOUNG +THE BARON. +THE BATTALION COMMANDER. “OH, MY GOD!” HE ADDED, STEPPING RESOLUTELY +THE BATTALION COMMANDER PERCEIVED THE JOVIAL IRONY AND LAUGHED. +THE BATTLE HAD BEGUN! PRINCE ANDREW TURNED HIS HORSE AND GALLOPED BACK +“THE BERLIN CABINET CANNOT EXPRESS A FEELING OF ALLIANCE,” BEGAN +THE BETTER. BUT BOGDáNICH, WITHOUT LOOKING AT OR RECOGNIZING ROSTóV, +THE BLACK, HAIRY, SNUB-NOSED FACE OF VáSKA DENíSOV, AND HIS WHOLE +THE BOHEMIAN MOUNTAINS WITH. IT’S A BAD LOOKOUT, OLD FELLOW! BUT +THE BONFIRES OF OUR INFANTRY WHO WERE FELLING WOOD. THE FRENCH LINE WAS +THE BOOTS. +THE BOTTLE OF RUM WAS BROUGHT. THE WINDOW FRAME WHICH PREVENTED ANYONE +THE BRIDGE. +THE BRIDGE AND ITS CELEBRATED BRIDGEHEAD AND PRINCE AUERSPERG? WE HEARD +THE BRIDGE AND NOT LET US CROSS? BUT IT WILL PLEASE OUR SOVEREIGN THE +THE BRIDGE CHASED EACH OTHER ALONG. LOOKING ON THE BRIDGE HE SAW EQUALLY +THE BRIDGE, FOR THE HORIZON AS SEEN FROM THE VALLEY THROUGH WHICH THE +THE BRIDGE UNOBSERVED, FLINGS THE BAGS OF INCENDIARY MATERIAL INTO +“‘THE BROOK,’” SUGGESTED NICHOLAS. +THE CARD TABLES WERE DRAWN OUT, SETS MADE UP FOR BOSTON, AND THE +THE CARE OF A SKILLFUL RIDER AND, SLIGHTLY BENDING OVER, DISENGAGED HIS +THE CARVED BACK OF A VELVET CHAIR HE HAD TURNED ROUND FOR THE PURPOSE, +THE CASE IS THIS: YOU OUGHT TO HAVE THOUGHT THE MATTER OVER AND +THE CHAIR FOR HER. +THE CHANGED EXPRESSION ON PRINCE BAGRATIóN’S FACE AT THIS MOMENT. IT +THE CHANTING OF THE SERVICE CEASED, AND THE VOICE OF THE PRIEST WAS +THE CHEERFUL MOOD OF THEIR OFFICERS AFTER THE INSPECTION INFECTED THE +THE CLEAR BLUE EYES LOOKED AT THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF JUST AS BOLDLY AS +THE CLEVER THOUGH SHY, BUT OBSERVANT AND NATURAL, EXPRESSION WHICH +THE CLIMATE,” SAID HE. +THE COACH WITH SIX HORSES WAS WAITING AT THE PORCH. IT WAS AN AUTUMN +THE COIN WAS A NEW ONE. ROSTóV ROSE AND WENT UP TO TELYáNIN. +THE COLD WIND, SWARMED IN THESE EARTHWORKS LIKE A HOST OF WHITE ANTS; +THE COLONEL, CLOSELY—TO FIND IN HIS FACE CONFIRMATION OF HIS OWN +THE COLONEL DELIBERATELY STOPPED THE REGIMENT AND TURNED TO NESVíTSKI. +THE COLONEL LOOKED SILENTLY AT THE OFFICER OF THE SUITE, AT THE STOUT +THE COLONEL TOLD THEM THAT THE DECLARATION OF WAR HAD ALREADY APPEARED +THE COLONEL WAS A STOUT, TALL, PLETHORIC GERMAN, EVIDENTLY DEVOTED TO +“THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF IS ENGAGED,” REPEATED KOZLóVSKI CALMLY. +“THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF IS ENGAGED,” SAID KOZLóVSKI, GOING +THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF IS EXPECTED AND YOU LEAVE YOUR PLACE? EH? I’LL +THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, KUTúZOV. +THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF’S ONE SOUND EYE SHOWED HIM TO BE SO PREOCCUPIED +THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF WOULD INSPECT THE REGIMENT ON THE MARCH. THOUGH +THE COMMANDER OF THE COMPANY, WITH HIS EYES FIXED ON HIS SUPERIOR, +THE COMMANDER OF THE DRAGOONS HAD ALREADY RETREATED BEYOND THE DIP IN +THE COMMANDER OF THE REGIMENT, A THIN, FEEBLE-LOOKING OLD MAN WITH A +THE COMMANDER OF THE REGIMENT TURNED TO PRINCE BAGRATIóN, ENTREATING +THE COMMANDER OF THE REGIMENT WAS AN ELDERLY, CHOLERIC, STOUT, AND +THE COMMANDER WITH A TONE OF SUFFERING IN HIS VOICE, WHILE THERE WERE +THE COMPANY COMMANDER MIGHT GET KILLED AND HE, AS SENIOR IN THE COMPANY, +THE CONVERSATION, “ALMOST ALL THE ARISTOCRACY HAS ALREADY GONE OVER TO +THE CONVERSATION BROKE UP INTO INSIGNIFICANT SMALL TALK ABOUT THE LAST +THE CONVERSATION WAS HUSHED. +THE CONVOY OFFICER. +THE COUNT BURST OUT LAUGHING. THE OTHER GUESTS SEEING THAT SHINSHíN +THE COUNT CAME WADDLING IN TO SEE HIS WIFE WITH A RATHER GUILTY LOOK AS +THE COUNT DANCED WELL AND KNEW IT. BUT HIS PARTNER COULD NOT AND DID NOT +THE COUNT, DYING WITH LAUGHTER. +THE COUNTESS AS HER MOTHER AND CALLED HER SO) “THAT I AM SPOILING +THE COUNTESS EXCHANGED GLANCES WITH ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. THE LATTER +THE COUNTESS’ EYES FILLED WITH TEARS AND SHE PONDERED IN SILENCE. +THE COUNTESS TRIED TO FROWN, BUT COULD NOT. MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA SHOOK HER +THE COUNTESS WAS A WOMAN OF ABOUT FORTY-FIVE, WITH A THIN ORIENTAL TYPE +THE COUNTESS WAS UPSET BY HER FRIEND’S SORROW AND HUMILIATING POVERTY, +THE COUNTESS, WITH A SMILE. +THE COUNT, HOLDING HIS CARDS FANWISE, KEPT HIMSELF WITH DIFFICULTY FROM +“THE COUNT IS SUFFERING PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY, AND APPARENTLY YOU +THE COUNT JUMPED UP AND, SWAYING FROM SIDE TO SIDE, SPREAD HIS ARMS WIDE +THE COUNT, MY UNCLE; BUT YOU, MY DEAR, HAD BETTER GO TO PIERRE MEANWHILE +THE COUNT WAS BEGINNING TO BREATHE HEAVILY AND QUICKLY WHICH WAS ALWAYS +THE COUNT WENT IN FIRST WITH MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA, THE COUNTESS FOLLOWED +THE CROWD MOVED ON AGAIN. NESVíTSKI REALIZED THAT IT WAS A CANNON BALL. +THE CROWD OF RETREATING SOLDIERS, ORDERING THEM BACK. BAGRATIóN RODE UP +THE CRYSTAL DECANTERS AND FRUIT VASES, THE COUNT KEPT GLANCING AT HIS +THE DETERMINATION OF DENíSOV WHO FLOURISHED HIS SWORD AND SHOUTED +“THE DEVIL ONLY KNOWS! THEY SAY SO.” +“THE DEVIL ONLY KNOWS WHAT THEY’RE ABOUT!” MUTTERED DENíSOV. +“THE DEVIL SKIN YOUR EMPEROR.” +THE DINNER SAT SILENT, GLANCING WITH A FRIGHTENED LOOK NOW AT HER +“THE DIVINE MERCY IS INEXHAUSTIBLE! UNCTION IS ABOUT TO BE +THE DOCTOR CAST A RAPID GLANCE UPWARDS AND SILENTLY SHRUGGED HIS +THE DOCTOR GLANCED AT HIS WATCH. +THE DOOR. +THE DOOR HIMSELF BEHIND HIM. +THE DOORWAY APPEARED A STUDENT WITH A CRIMSON COAT COLLAR, AN OFFICER +THE DRAWING ROOM. HE EVIDENTLY TRIED TO FIND SOMETHING TO SAY, BUT +THE DULL, SLEEPY EXPRESSION WAS NO LONGER THERE, NOR THE AFFECTATION +THE DUTIES OF WIFE AND MOTHER UPON ME I SHALL TRY TO PERFORM THEM AS + THE EARTH BY ENGLISH GOLD, WE SHALL CAUSE TO SHARE THE SAME +THE ELDERLY LADY WAS A PRINCESS DRUBETSKáYA, BELONGING TO ONE OF THE +THE ELDERS BEGAN TALKING ABOUT BONAPARTE. JULIE KARáGINA TURNED TO +THE ELDEST PRINCESS PAUSED IN HER READING AND SILENTLY STARED AT HIM +THE EMPEROR ABOUT HIM; SO THAT IN THE CASE OF HIS DEATH—AND HE IS +THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER AND THE KING OF PRUSSIA IN BERLIN? IF PRUSSIA +“THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER,” SAID SHE, WITH THE MELANCHOLY WHICH +THE EMPEROR INTERRUPTED HIM. +THE EMPEROR SPOKE TO HIM MOST GRACIOUSLY. ANNETTE AND I WERE SPEAKING OF +THE EMPEROR THANKED PRINCE ANDREW AND BOWED. PRINCE ANDREW WITHDREW AND +THE ENCHANTED CIRCLE I CANNOT ESCAPE FROM. I AM NOW GOING TO THE WAR, +THE ENGLISHMAN NODDED, BUT GAVE NO INDICATION WHETHER HE INTENDED TO +THE ENGLISHMAN TOOK OUT HIS PURSE AND BEGAN COUNTING OUT THE MONEY. +THE ENGLISH WILL COME OFF BADLY, YOU KNOW, IF NAPOLEON GETS ACROSS THE +THE ENNS AND THE DANUBE BECAME VISIBLE, AND THE ROCKY LEFT BANK OF THE +THE ENORMOUSLY HIGH STUDY DOOR OPENED AND SHOWED THE FIGURE OF A RATHER +THE ENORMOUS STUDY WAS FULL OF THINGS EVIDENTLY IN CONSTANT USE. +THE ENTRENCHMENT, AND WENT ON AGAIN. JUST BEHIND IT THEY CAME UPON SOME +THE EPISTLES AND GOSPELS. LET US NOT SEEK TO PENETRATE WHAT MYSTERIES +“THE EXECUTION OF THE DUC D’ENGHIEN,” DECLARED MONSIEUR PIERRE, +THE EXERCISE BOOK CONTAINING GEOMETRICAL FIGURES. +THE EXPRESSION SHE SAW ON THE MAID OF HONOR’S FACE, AND AGAIN RELAPSED +THE EYES OF THE GENERAL AND THE SOLDIER MET. THE GENERAL BECAME SILENT, +THE FACE OF EACH SOLDIER AND EACH OFFICER SEEMED TO SAY. +THE FACE OF THE LITTLE PRINCESS CHANGED. SHE SIGHED AND SAID: “YES, +THE FACES OF OFFICERS AND MEN BRIGHTENED UP AT THE SOUND. EVERYONE GOT +“THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS,” SAID SHE SIGNIFICANTLY, AND ALSO IN A +THE FALL OF AUSTRIA’S CAPITAL. “HOW IS IT VIENNA WAS TAKEN? WHAT OF +(THE FAMILY SOLICITOR) “AND HE SAYS THE SAME.” +THE FARTHER FORWARD AND NEARER THE ENEMY HE WENT, THE MORE ORDERLY AND +THE FEATHER BED. NATáSHA BEGAN CONSOLING HER, BUT HER FACE SHOWED THAT +THE FEELING, “IT HAS BEGUN! HERE IT IS!” WAS SEEN EVEN ON PRINCE +THE FIRE OF LIFE HAD SEEMED EXTINGUISHED, NOW FLASHED WITH BRILLIANT +THE FIRST DOOR ON THE LEFT LED INTO THE PRINCESSES’ APARTMENTS. THE +THE FIRST TIME. SOMETIMES THAT SAME LOOK FELL ON PIERRE, AND THAT FUNNY +THE FOREMAN OF A SPINNING MILL, WHEN HE HAS SET THE HANDS TO WORK, GOES +THE FOREMOST, WEARING A COSSACK CLOAK AND LAMBSKIN CAP AND RIDING A +THE FRENCH, AFTER CROSSING THE BRIDGE AT VIENNA, WERE ADVANCING IN +THE FRENCH GRENADIER. +THE FRENCH GUNS WERE HASTILY RELOADED. THE INFANTRY IN THEIR BLUE +THE FRENCH HAD TIME TO FIRE THREE ROUNDS OF GRAPESHOT BEFORE THE HUSSARS +“THE FRENCH HAVE ABANDONED THE LEFT BANK?” +THE FRENCH ONLOOKERS AND LISTENERS LAUGHED. +THE FRENCH SENTENCES WHICH TO THEM WERE MEANINGLESS, WITH AN AIR OF +THE FRENCH, THE SPY REPORTED, HAVING CROSSED THE VIENNA BRIDGE, WERE +THE FRENCH WERE FIRING, AND HE FELT HIS HEART PALPITATING AS HE RODE +THE FRENCH WITH HIS WHOLE ARMY WAS IMPOSSIBLE. THE ROAD FOR THE FRENCH +THE FRIENDS WERE SILENT. NEITHER CARED TO BEGIN TALKING. PIERRE +THE FRONT, BUT AT DüRRENSTEIN, WHERE I WAS, OUR ATTACK BEGAN AFTER +THE FULFILLMENT OF DUTY, HE ROSE TO SEE SOME VISITORS OFF AND, STROKING +THE FULL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WORDS HE HEARD. +THE GATES, A GROUP OF UNDERTAKERS, WHO HID WHENEVER A CARRIAGE DROVE UP, +THE GENERAL FROWNED. THOUGH THERE WAS NO DEFINITE NEWS OF AN AUSTRIAN +THE GENERAL FROWNED, TURNED AWAY, AND WENT ON. +THE GENERAL’S FACE CLOUDED, HIS LIPS QUIVERED AND TREMBLED. HE TOOK +THE GENERALS WERE PASSING BY, LOOKING AS IF THEY WISHED TO AVOID +THE GENERAL... THIRD COMPANY TO THE COMMANDER.” THE WORDS PASSED ALONG +THE GENERAL, WHO LOOKED THROUGH HIS FIELD GLASS. +THE GENTLEMEN AROUND. +THE GENTLEMEN ASSEMBLED AT BILíBIN’S WERE YOUNG, WEALTHY, GAY SOCIETY +THE GERMAN CLOSED HIS EYES, SIGNIFYING THAT HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND. +THE GERMAN LANDLORD. +THE GERMAN LAUGHED, CAME OUT OF THE COWSHED, PULLED OFF HIS CAP, AND +THE GERMAN VILLAGE OF SALZENECK. THE BEST QUARTERS IN THE VILLAGE WERE +THE GIRL SMILED AND TOOK IT. NESVíTSKI LIKE THE REST OF THE MEN ON THE +THE GLEAMING ICONS STOOD A LONG INVALID CHAIR, AND IN THAT CHAIR +THE GOOD-NATURED EXPRESSION STILL MORE APPARENT, AND GAZED AT HIS FRIEND +THE GRAND CROSS OF MARIA THERESA, AND THE WHOLE ARMY RECEIVED REWARDS. +THE GRAY-HAIRED VALET WAS SITTING DROWSILY LISTENING TO THE SNORING OF +THE GREATEST WAR THERE EVER WAS, AND I KNOW NOTHING AND AM FIT FOR +THE GROUND, AS A HEAVY FIRE HAD BEEN OPENED ON HIM AND HE WAS LOSING +THE GROUP ROUND MORTEMART TO LISTEN TO WHAT WAS BEING SAID THERE, AND +THE GUARDS TO THE FIELD OF BATTLE, AFRAID OF LETTING A READY VICTIM +THE GUESTS GOT UP AND TOOK THEIR LEAVE, PROMISING TO RETURN TO DINNER. +THE GUESTS, KNOWING OF THE AFFAIR WITH THE BEAR, LOOKED WITH CURIOSITY +THE GUNNERS WHO HAD SEIZED IT STRAINING TO ROLL IT QUICKLY BACK TO ITS +THE HALL PORTER, “I KNOW COUNT CYRIL VLADíMIROVICH IS VERY ILL... +THE HALL PORTER SULLENLY PULLED A BELL THAT RANG UPSTAIRS, AND TURNED +THE HAND NOR A SINGLE MUSCLE OF THE COUNT’S FACE STIRRED. ONCE MORE +THE HANDSOME VéRA SMILED CONTEMPTUOUSLY BUT DID NOT SEEM AT ALL HURT. +THE HANDSOME VéRA, WHO PRODUCED SUCH AN IRRITATING AND UNPLEASANT +THE HEAD OF THE COLUMN HAD ALREADY DESCENDED INTO THE HOLLOW. THE CLASH +THE HEADQUARTERS WERE SITUATED TWO MILES AWAY FROM SALZENECK, AND +THE HEAD THAT HE WAS CONSIDERING THIS INFORMATION. +THE HIGH-SHOULDERED FIGURE OF ZHERKóV, FAMILIAR TO THE PáVLOGRADS AS +THE HOLLOW THE LESS THEY COULD SEE BUT THE MORE THEY FELT THE NEARNESS +THE HONOR OF BEING RECEIVED, THAT I HAVE NOT YET HAD TIME TO THINK OF +THE HONOR OF THE FLAG... WELL, NEVER MIND, IT’S TRUE I’M TO BLAME, +“THE HOOF’S CRACKED! THAT’S NOTHING. I’LL TEACH YOU WHAT TO DO +“THE HOURS ARE THE SAME, AND THE LATHE, AND ALSO THE MATHEMATICS AND +THE HOUSE WHERE THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF WAS. +THE HUSSARS.” +THE HUSSAR SHOUTED BACK. +THE HUSSARS RAN BACK TO THE MEN WHO HELD THEIR HORSES; THEIR VOICES +THE ICONS AND THERE WAS A PLEASANT SCENT OF FLOWERS AND BURNT PASTILLES. +THE ICONS, AS THOUGH DECLARING TO ALL THAT SHE COULD NOT ANSWER FOR +THE IMPOSING FIGURE OF NESVíTSKI FOLLOWED BY HIS COSSACK, AND +THE INFANTRY WHO HAD BEEN STOPPED CROWDED NEAR THE BRIDGE IN THE +THE INTELLECTUAL LIGHTS OF PETERSBURG WERE GATHERED THERE AND, LIKE A +THEIR BATTERY A MILK-WHITE CLOUD AROSE. THEN CAME THE DISTANT REPORT OF +THEIR BAYONETS AND GUNS. +THEIR CONVERSATION WOULD PROBABLY HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT BUT FOR THE EFFECT +THEIR COURAGE BEFORE HIM. +THEIR DOUBTS AND EXCITE THEIR IMAGINATION, GIVING THEM A BENT FOR +THEIR GREATCOATS WERE RANGED IN LINES, THE SERGEANTS MAJOR AND COMPANY +THEIR JOURNEY. SHE ANSWERED HIM AND CONTINUED HER CHATTER. +THEIR LONG HAIR FALLING OVER THEIR MAGNIFICENT GLITTERING VESTMENTS, +THEIR MUSICAL TALENT, TO SING SOMETHING. NATáSHA, WHO WAS TREATED AS +THEIR OWN FORM OF GOVERNMENT; AND I BELIEVE THAT ONCE FREE FROM THE +THEIR SABERS CATCHING IN THE BRIDLES AND THEIR SPURS JINGLING, THE +THEIR SEATS, WENT UP TO “CONGRATULATE” THE COUNTESS, AND REACHED +THEIR THICK, BUSHY EYEBROWS STERNLY SCANNED ALL PRESENT AND RESTED ON +THEIR WAY TO NEGOTIATE WITH PRINCE AUERSPERG. HE LETS THEM ENTER THE +THEIR WOMAN’S WAY! I AM GLAD TO HAVE HER. SIT DOWN AND TALK. ABOUT +THE KITCHEN WOULD HAVE CARED TO EAT, SO ANNA PáVLOVNA SERVED UP TO +THE LANDING. “I’D BETTER GO TO MY OWN ROOM.” +THE LARGE TABLE COVERED WITH BOOKS AND PLANS, THE TALL GLASS-FRONTED +THE LAST OF THE INFANTRY HURRIEDLY CROSSED THE BRIDGE, SQUEEZING +THE LAST SYLLABLE OF THE GENERAL’S NAME LIKE A FRENCHMAN, “HAS BEEN +THE LATE EMPEROR, AND WAS NICKNAMED ‘THE KING OF PRUSSIA.’ HE IS +THE LEFT, AND TOOK UP THE BOTTLE. ANATOLE BROUGHT TWO CANDLES AND +THE LEFT! WAIT A BIT.” BUT THE SOLDIERS, CROWDED TOGETHER SHOULDER TO +THE LETTER AWAY, AND LEANING HIS ELBOWS ON THE TABLE HE DREW TOWARD HIM +THE LIEUTENANT NEVER LOOKED THE MAN HE WAS SPEAKING TO STRAIGHT IN THE +“THE LIMITS OF HUMAN LIFE ... ARE FIXED AND MAY NOT BE +THE LINES AND AN ADJUTANT RAN TO LOOK FOR THE MISSING OFFICER. +THE LITTLE KITTEN, FEASTING HER EYES ON HIM, SEEMED READY AT ANY MOMENT +THE LITTLE PRINCESS DID NOT, OR DID NOT WISH TO, HEAR HIS WORDS. SHE WAS +THE LITTLE PRINCESS DURING THE WHOLE DISCUSSION AND THE REST OF +THE LITTLE PRINCESS ENTERED THE ROOM. THE PASSAGE BROKE OFF IN THE +THE LITTLE PRINCESS HAD ALSO LEFT THE TEA TABLE AND FOLLOWED HéLèNE. +THE LITTLE PRINCESS HAD GROWN STOUTER DURING THIS TIME, BUT HER EYES +THE LITTLE PRINCESS, KISSING HER. “I KNOW YOU ALREADY THROUGH MY +THE LITTLE PRINCESS LAY IN THE ARMCHAIR, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE CHAFING +THE LITTLE PRINCESS. SHE FELT, AS COURTIERS DO WHEN THE TSAR ENTERS, THE +THE LITTLE PRINCESS TALKED INCESSANTLY, HER SHORT, DOWNY UPPER LIP +THE LITTLE PRINCESS WENT ROUND THE TABLE WITH QUICK, SHORT, SWAYING +THE LITTLE TOWN COULD BE SEEN WITH ITS WHITE, RED-ROOFED HOUSES, ITS +THE LIVELY SONG GAVE A SPECIAL FLAVOR TO THE TONE OF FREE AND EASY +THE LIVING FROM THE DEAD LIES UNCERTAINTY, SUFFERING, AND DEATH. AND +THE LONG GERMAN CARTS SIX OR MORE PALE, DIRTY, BANDAGED MEN WERE BEING +THE MAGNIFICENT RECEPTION ROOM WAS CROWDED. EVERYONE STOOD UP +THE MAINTENANCE OF THE BALANCE OF POWER OF EUROPE, AND IT WOULD SAVE THE +THEM. ALL EYES FASTENED INVOLUNTARILY ON THIS FRENCH COLUMN ADVANCING +THE MANAGER OF ALL HIS AFFAIRS, AND WHILE LOOKING WITH PLEASURE AT THE +THEM. AND AMONG ALL THESE FACES THAT HE FOUND SO TEDIOUS, NONE SEEMED +THE MANLY VOICE AGAIN INTERRUPTED THE ARTILLERY OFFICER. +THE MARCH: IN THEIR GREATCOATS, AND PACKS, AND WITHOUT ANY PREPARATION + * THE MARSHALLS. +“THE MASTER IS NOT IN, HE’S GONE TO HEADQUARTERS,” SAID +THE MATTER DEPENDED ON MY PERSONAL WISHES, THE WILL OF HIS MAJESTY THE +“THE MEANS ARE ... THE BALANCE OF POWER IN EUROPE AND THE RIGHTS OF +THE MEMBER OF THE HOFKRIEGSRATH LOOKED AT HIM SEVERELY BUT, SEEING THE +THE MEMORY OF A REMOTE EVENT LONG PAST. +THE MEN AND WOMEN HAD SEPARATED AS IN CHURCH. ALL WERE SILENTLY CROSSING +THEM FROM THE OTHER END OF THE CORRIDOR, STRAUCH, AN AUSTRIAN GENERAL +THE MILITARY GOVERNOR OF MOSCOW, WHO HAD BEEN ASSIDUOUS IN SENDING +THE MINES AND BLOW UP THE BRIDGE, THIS SERGEANT, SEEING THAT THE FRENCH +THE MINISTER OF WAR.” +THE MINISTER OF WAR BUT ALSO HIS MOST AUGUST MAJESTY THE EMPEROR AND +THEM, NEITHER DO I CONDEMN THEM. ONLY IT SEEMS TO ME THAT CHRISTIAN +THEM NOW! AND YET REALLY THE ANXIETY IS GREATER NOW THAN THE JOY. ONE IS +THEM OFF, INVITING THEM ALL TO DINNER. +THE MOMENT PRINCE ANDREW ENTERED THE ROOM HAD WATCHED HIM WITH GLAD, +THE MORNING, CARRIAGES WITH SIX HORSES HAD BEEN COMING AND GOING +THE MORNING SHE TOLD THE ROSTóVS AND ALL HER ACQUAINTANCES THE DETAILS + * THE MOST FASCINATING WOMAN IN PETERSBURG. +THE MOTHER SMOOTHED THE FOLDS OF HER DYED SILK DRESS BEFORE A LARGE +THE MOTHERS, WIVES, AND CHILDREN OF THE MEN WHO WERE GOING AND SHOULD +THEMSELVES, AND THE READING OF THE CHURCH SERVICE, THE SUBDUED CHANTING +THE MUD OFF HIS FACE WITH HIS SLEEVE. “PERCHED UP THERE, YOU’RE MORE +THEN....” +THE NATIONS? ADORABLE! IT IS ENOUGH TO MAKE ONE’S HEAD WHIRL! IT IS AS +THEN BELIEVE AN EXPERT. I HAVE JUST BEEN TALKING TO DMíTRI ONúFRICH” +THEN, BROTHERS, ON TO GLORY, LED BY FATHER KáMENSKI.” THIS SONG HAD +THE NEW CAMPO FORMIO ARE TO BE DRAWN UP.” +THE NEWS OF COUNT BEZúKHOV’S DEATH REACHED US BEFORE YOUR LETTER +THEN HE REMAINED SILENT FOR A WHILE, AND ALL AT ONCE LOOKED CHEERFULLY +THE NIGHT HE RECEIVED THE NEWS, KUTúZOV SENT BAGRATIóN’S VANGUARD, +THE NIGHT WAS DARK BUT STARRY, THE ROAD SHOWED BLACK IN THE SNOW THAT +“THEN I’LL HAVE IT BROUGHT ROUND,” SAID ROSTóV WISHING TO AVOID +“THEN IT IS CERTAIN?” SAID THE PRINCE. +THEN NAMED PRINCE VASíLI IN AN INQUIRING WHISPER, THEN POINTED TO THE +THEN NICHOLAS SANG A SONG HE HAD JUST LEARNED: +THE NOBLEST ROLE ON EARTH, AND HE IS SO VIRTUOUS AND NOBLE THAT GOD WILL +THEN PARTICULARLY STRONG. +THEN SHE SLIPPED DOWN AMONG THE FLOWERPOTS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TUBS +THEN SHE SMILED AGAIN AND CLUTCHED PRINCE VASíLI’S ARM MORE TIGHTLY. +THEN, SUDDENLY SPREAD OUT IN THE SUNLIGHT, FAR-DISTANT OBJECTS COULD +“THEN TOMORROW YOU WILL SPEAK TO THE EMPEROR?” +THE NURSE, AS SHE STOOD IN ONE OF THE DOORWAYS. +THE NURSERY, BUT SóNYA WAS NOT THERE EITHER. NATáSHA CONCLUDED THAT +THEN WITH THE UNERRING OFFICIAL MEMORY THAT CHARACTERIZED HIM HE +THEN, WOSTóV, NOW THEN!” +THE OFFICER FLOURISHED HIS ARM AND HASTILY RODE AWAY. +THE OFFICER GLANCED AT HIM, AND WITHOUT REPLYING TURNED AGAIN TO THE +THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF DENíSOV’S SQUADRON, THOUGH THEY TRIED TO TALK +THE OFFICERS LAUGHED. +THE OFFICIAL SIDE OF THE SERVICE. THESE GENTLEMEN RECEIVED PRINCE +THE OLD MAN MADE A DEPARTURE FROM HIS USUAL ROUTINE IN HONOR OF HIS +THE OLD MAN WAS IN A GOOD TEMPER AFTER HIS NAP BEFORE DINNER. (HE +THE OLD MAN WAS SILENT. +THE OLD PRINCE’S FACE. +THE OLD PRINCE STOPPED WRITING AND, AS IF NOT UNDERSTANDING, FIXED HIS +(THE ONE WHO HAD PARADED HIS REGIMENT BEFORE KUTúZOV AT BRAUNAU) THAT +“THE ONLY THING THAT IS HARD FOR ME... I WILL TELL YOU THE TRUTH, +THE ONLY YOUNG PEOPLE REMAINING IN THE DRAWING ROOM, NOT COUNTING THE +THE ORDER WAS GIVEN TO HALT AND DOWN KNAPSACKS. +THE OTHER, GLANCED INQUIRINGLY WITH HIS LARGE, INTELLIGENT, KINDLY EYES +THE OTHER MEN IN THE ROOM, HER ANXIETY COULD ONLY HAVE REFERENCE TO +THE OTHERS. AGAIN SOMEONE SHOUTED, “STRETCHERS!” FOUR MEN SEIZED THE +THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM. “HOW YOUNG-LOOKING HE IS!” +THE OTHER—WHO WITH BEAMING FACES HAD COME TO SEE THEIR MASTER MAKING +THE PAINED EXPRESSION HIS JOKE HAD BROUGHT TO HIS SISTER’S FACE, HE +“THE PAST ALWAYS SEEMS GOOD,” SAID HE, “BUT DID NOT SUVóROV +THE PATCHES GREW DEEPER ON HER FOREHEAD, NECK, AND CHEEKS. SHE TRIED TO +THE PATHETIC IMPORTANCE OF THESE LAST MOMENTS OF MEETING BETWEEN THE +THE PáVLOGRAD HUSSARS WERE STATIONED TWO MILES FROM BRAUNAU. THE +THE PEOPLE,” THE ABBé WAS SAYING. “IT IS ONLY NECESSARY FOR ONE +THE PINE FORESTS VEILED IN THE MIST OF THEIR SUMMITS... THERE WAS PEACE +THE PLACE OF MOURNING FOR THE YOUNGER FEMALE GENERATION IN THE ROSTóV +THE PLAN OF OPERATION FOR THE COMING CAMPAIGN. HE EXPLAINED HOW AN ARMY, +THE PLEASURE OF SPENDING THE EVENING WITH YOU.” +THE PORTFOLIO SO FIRMLY THAT IT WAS PLAIN SHE WOULD NOT LET GO EASILY. +THE POSTILION STARTED, THE CARRIAGE WHEELS RATTLED. PRINCE HIPPOLYTE +THE POVARSKáYA, SO WELL KNOWN TO ALL MOSCOW. THE COUNTESS HERSELF AND +THE PRIESTS AND DEACONS AND SOME SERVANTS ALSO WENT IN AT THE DOOR. +THE PRIESTS, ROSE AND OFFERED HIM HER SEAT; AN AIDE-DE-CAMP PICKED UP +THE PRIM VISITOR COULD NOT HELP JOINING IN. +THE PRINCE AGAIN LAUGHED HIS FRIGID LAUGH. +THE PRINCE ANSWERED NOTHING, BUT SHE LOOKED AT HIM SIGNIFICANTLY, +THE PRINCE BOWED TO SIGNIFY HIS RESPECT AND GRATITUDE. +THE PRINCE GAVE ORDERS THAT NO ONE SHOULD LEAVE HIS POST. NOW YOU, +THE PRINCESS. +THE PRINCESS AND HASTILY ADJUSTING HIS LORGNETTE, AS IF WITHOUT THIS +THE PRINCESS BENT OVER THE EXERCISE BOOK ON THE TABLE. +THE PRINCESS BLUSHED, AND RAISED HER ARMS WITH A GESTURE OF DESPAIR. +THE PRINCESS CONTINUED TO LOOK AT HIM WITHOUT MOVING, AND WITH THE SAME +THE PRINCESS DID NOT REPLY. THEIR EFFORTS IN THE STRUGGLE FOR THE +THE PRINCESS DID SPEAK, HER WORDS WOULD NOT BE FLATTERING TO ANNA +THE PRINCESS’ EYES GREW DIM, SHE COULD NOT SEE AND COULD NOT HEAR +THE PRINCESS GAVE A WRONG ANSWER. +THE PRINCESS GAVE NO REPLY AND DID NOT EVEN SMILE, BUT LEFT THE ROOM AS +THE PRINCESS GLANCED AT HER WATCH AND, SEEING THAT SHE WAS FIVE MINUTES +THE PRINCESS, HOLDING HER LITTLE DOG ON HER LAP WITH HER THIN BONY +THE PRINCESS LET GO. +THE PRINCESS LISTENED, SMILING. +THE PRINCESS LOOKED IN A SCARED WAY AT HER FATHER’S EYES GLITTERING +THE PRINCESS, NOW QUITE CHANGED. “AND WHAT DOES SHE COME WORMING +THE PRINCESS, PICKING UP HER DRESS, WAS TAKING HER SEAT IN THE DARK +THE PRINCESS PONDERED AWHILE WITH A THOUGHTFUL SMILE AND HER LUMINOUS +THE PRINCESS RESTED HER BARE ROUND ARM ON A LITTLE TABLE AND CONSIDERED +THE PRINCESS SAID NOTHING, BUT SUDDENLY HER SHORT DOWNY LIP QUIVERED. +THE PRINCESS SMILED AS PEOPLE DO WHO THINK THEY KNOW MORE ABOUT THE +THE PRINCESS SMILED. SHE ROSE WITH THE SAME UNCHANGING SMILE WITH WHICH +THE PRINCESS STARTED. EVIDENTLY PIERRE’S WORDS TOUCHED HER TO THE +THE PRINCESS, WHO HAD A STRAIGHT, RIGID BODY, ABNORMALLY LONG FOR HER +THE PRINCESS WISHED TO RISE, BUT THE PRINCE HELD HER BY THE HAND. SHE +THE PRINCE STERNLY; “I’M AFRAID YOU WRITE MUCH NONSENSE. I’LL READ +THE PRINCE WAS SILENT AND LOOKED INDIFFERENT. BUT, WITH THE WOMANLY AND +THE PRINCE, WHO WAS IN HIS LARGE STUDY. FROM THE FAR SIDE OF THE HOUSE +THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OF WAR AND PEACE, BY LEO TOLSTOY +THE PUHSE?” HE ASKED, TURNING TO ROSTóV. +THE PURSE IS HERE! I’LL FLAY THIS SCOUNDWEL ALIVE, AND IT WILL BE +THE QUESTION AROSE WHETHER THE TROOPS WERE TO BE IN MARCHING ORDER OR +THE RANKS OF OBSCURE OFFICERS AND OFFER HIM THE FIRST STEP TO FAME! +THE RAS...” HE DID NOT FINISH. +“THE RAT”) HE SAID, RUBBING HIS FOREHEAD AND WHOLE FACE WITH BOTH +THERE. +THERE.” +THERE ANY HOPE?” +THERE ARE NO DIFFICULTIES IN YOUR WAY.... BUT NICHOLAS IS MY COUSIN... +THERE ARE THINGS IN IT DIFFICULT FOR THE FEEBLE HUMAN MIND TO GRASP, IT +THE REARGUARD AND HAVE AN EYE ON THE ORDER OF RETREAT, “WHICH IS ALSO +THE REARGUARD BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, WAS SITTING ON THE TRAIL OF A +THE REARGUARD STOOD WITH A STAFF OFFICER, SCANNING THE COUNTRY THROUGH +“THERE, FEDóTOV, YOU SHOULD BE QUARTERED ON THEM!” +THEREFORE OFFERED THIS TRUCE TO AVOID UNNECESSARY BLOODSHED. COUNT +THEREFORE—THIS IS BETWEEN OURSELVES—I INSTINCTIVELY FEEL THAT WE +THE REGIMENTAL ADJUTANT CAME IN AND CONFIRMED THE NEWS BROUGHT BY +THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, FLUSHING, RAN TO HIS HORSE, SEIZED THE STIRRUP +THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, GOING UP TO THE LINE HIMSELF, ORDERED THE +(THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER’S FACE NOW THAT THE INSPECTION WAS HAPPILY +THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER SOUGHT OUT DóLOKHOV IN THE RANKS AND, REINING +THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER WAS AFRAID HE MIGHT BE BLAMED FOR THIS AND DID +THE REGIMENT, AND HOW SATISFIED HIS FATHER WAS WITH HIM. BERG EVIDENTLY +THE REGIMENT BROKE UP INTO COMPANIES, WHICH WENT TO THEIR APPOINTED +THE REGIMENT I’D... AH WELL, I’LL SHOW THAT IN ACTION, AND FOR ME +THERE, GOD ONLY KNOWS WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED! YOU KNOW, UNCLE PROMISED +THERE HAD BEEN ACTIONS AT LAMBACH, AMSTETTEN, AND MELK; BUT DESPITE THE +THERE?” HE SAID, TURNING TO THE DOOR AS HE HEARD A TREAD OF HEAVY +“THERE IS IN MOSCOW A LADY, UNE DAME, AND SHE IS VERY STINGY. SHE MUST +“THERE IS NOTHING SO REFRESHING AFTER A SLEEPLESS NIGHT AS A CUP +“THERE IS ONE THING I CONSTANTLY PRAY GOD TO GRANT, MON COUSIN,” SHE +THERE IS ONLY MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE....” +THERE IS SO MUCH HAPPINESS; BUT HERE... GROANS, SUFFERING, FEAR, AND +“THERE IS STILL MUCH, MUCH BEFORE US,” HE SAID, AS IF WITH AN OLD +“THERE IS STILL TIME, MY DEAR. YOU MUST REMEMBER, CATICHE, THAT IT WAS +“THERE, IT’S JUST AS I THOUGHT,” SAID ROSTóV TO HIMSELF. “HE +“THERE, LEAVE BRUIN ALONE; HERE’S A BET ON.” +THE REMAINS OF OUR REGIMENT WHICH HAD BEEN IN ACTION RAPIDLY FORMED UP +THERE MANY MORE OF YOU TO COME?” +“THERE NOW! CONFESS THAT THIS IS DELIGHTFUL,” SAID HE. “THIS +“THERE NOW! DIDN’T I TELL YOU, MICHAEL MíTRICH, THAT IF IT WAS SAID +“THERE NOW, PRINCE! WE CAN’T STOP THOSE FELLOWS,” SAID THE STAFF +“THERE NOW!” SAID THE OFFICER OF THE SUITE, “THAT’S +“THERE NOW!... SO YOU, TOO, ARE IN THE GREAT WORLD?” SAID HE TO +THERE. NOW THEN!” +“THERE NOW, ZíKIN, THEY OUGHT TO PUT YOU ON A HORSE. YOU’D LOOK +THE REPORT OF MUSKETRY. +THE REPORT WHICH HAD BEEN CIRCULATED THAT THE AUSTRIANS HAD BEEN BEATEN +THE REPROACHFUL TONE OF A MAN WHO HAS REPEATED THE SAME THING MORE +THERE, SHE GLIDED UP TO HIM WITH A SORT OF AMBLE, NOT EXACTLY BOWING YET +“THERE’S NOTHING TO BE GAY ABOUT,” ANSWERED BOLKóNSKI. +“THERE’S PLENTY TO DO STILL.” +THERE! TEA!” +THERE. THEN, AS HAPPENS TO PEOPLE OF WEAK CHARACTER, HE DESIRED SO +THE RETREAT OF THE FRIGHTENED BONAPARTE. +THERE WAS A CRUSH. HALFWAY ACROSS STOOD PRINCE NESVíTSKI, WHO HAD +THERE WAS A GENERAL MOVEMENT AS THE PRINCESS, SMILING AND TALKING +THERE WAS GENERALLY A DRINKING BOUT, FINISHING WITH VISITS OF A KIND +THERE WAS NOT A TRACE OF AGITATION ON HIS FACE. WITH DELICATE IRONY HE +THERE WAS NOW NO ONE IN THE RECEPTION ROOM EXCEPT PRINCE VASíLI AND THE +THERE WAS SOMETHING PECULIAR ABOUT IT, QUITE UNSOLDIERLY, RATHER COMIC, +“THERE, WHAT EGOTISTS MEN ALL ARE: ALL, ALL EGOTISTS! JUST FOR A WHIM +THE RIBS AND TELLING HIM TO HOLD HIS HAND UP. SOLDIERS SCATTERED OVER +THE RIGHT AND SENT AN ADJUTANT TO THE DRAGOONS WITH ORDERS TO ATTACK THE +THE RIVERS INN (AT BRAUNAU) AND TRAUN (NEAR LINZ). ON OCTOBER 23 THE +THE ROOM WAS CROWDED WITH SMALL PIECES OF FURNITURE, WHATNOTS, +THE RUSSIAN ARMY) ARE NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT THIS MAN HAS BEEN DOING +THE RUSSIAN EMPEROR’S AIDE-DE-CAMP IS AN IMPOSTOR. OFFICERS ARE +THE RUSSIAN OFFICER IN CHARGE OF THE TRANSPORT LOLLED BACK IN THE FRONT +THE RUSSIANS WERE RUNNING AWAY AND THAT HE HIMSELF WAS KILLED, BUT HE +THE RUSTLE OF A WOMAN’S DRESS WAS HEARD IN THE NEXT ROOM. PRINCE +THE SAME WORDS, ABOUT THEIR HEALTH AND HER OWN, AND THE HEALTH OF HER +THE SCRAPING OF CHAIRS. THEN ONE OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS BEGAN WHICH LAST +THE SEAL OF HER LETTER. IT WAS FROM HER MOST INTIMATE FRIEND FROM +THE SECOND PRINCESS HAD JUST COME FROM THE SICKROOM WITH HER EYES RED +THESE GENTLEMEN RIDE ONTO THE BRIDGE ALONE AND WAVE WHITE HANDKERCHIEFS; +THESE,” HE SAID, HANDING HIM SEVERAL PAPERS, “MAKE A NEAT MEMORANDUM +THESE LATTER THE BUTLER THRUST MYSTERIOUSLY FORWARD, WRAPPED IN A +THESE POIGNANT JOYS AND SORROWS. YOU ARE FORTUNATE, FOR THE LATTER ARE +THE SERGEANT MAJOR WITH BRIGHTENED EXPRESSIONS, LICKING THEIR LIPS AND +THESE ROOMS. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, ADDRESSING A MAID WHO WAS HURRYING PAST +THE SERVICE AND PATRIOTICALLY RUSSIAN. HE RESENTED SHINSHíN’S REMARK. +THE SERVICE BEFORE EVERYTHING. THANKS, THANKS!” AND HE WENT ON +THESE THINGS. I ABSOLUTELY MUST SEE HIM, HOWEVER PAINFUL IT MAY BE FOR +THESE WORDS HE REPEATED TO EVERYONE WITHOUT EXCEPTION OR VARIATION, AND +THE SHED WITH SUPER HUMAN FORCE, THROWING UP A MASS OF EARTH. THE GROUND +THE SICK MAN WAS SO SURROUNDED BY DOCTORS, PRINCESSES, AND SERVANTS +THE SKY, THE DAWN MERGING WITH THE AFTERGLOW OF SUNSET, WAS VISIBLE. +THE SLY WHAT WAS LEFT IN THE GLASSES. FROM THE THIRD ROOM CAME SOUNDS OF +THE SOFA. THE PRINCESS CAME IN. SHE HAD CHANGED HER GOWN FOR A HOUSE +THE SOLDIERS CROWDED AGAINST ONE ANOTHER WITH TERRIFIED FACES, AND +“THE SOLDIERS SAY IT FEELS EASIER WITHOUT BOOTS,” SAID CAPTAIN +THE SOLDIER TO WHOM THE LAUGHERS REFERRED WAS DóLOKHOV. PRINCE ANDREW +THE SOLDIER. “TURN BACK WITH YOUR SLUT!” +THE SON, LOWERING HIS EYES, FOLLOWED HER QUIETLY. +THE SON, OR PIERRE, WHOM IT HAD BEEN PITIFUL TO SEE, SO STRICKEN WAS HE +THE SON SIGHED, THUS ADMITTING THAT HIS FATHER HAD UNDERSTOOD HIM. THE +THE SOUND OF VOICES AND THE SHOUTS OF COMMAND. THE WHOLE AIR REEKED WITH +“THE SOVEREIGNS? I DO NOT SPEAK OF RUSSIA,” SAID THE VICOMTE, POLITE +THE SPECTATORS BY THE UNEXPECTEDNESS OF HIS ADROIT MANEUVERS AND +THE SPOT INDICATED TO HIM. HE MADE NO REPLY ON HIS FATHER’S FAVORITE +THE SQUADRON CROSSED THE BRIDGE AND DREW OUT OF RANGE OF FIRE WITHOUT +“THE SQUADRON QUARTERMASTER!” SAID LAVRúSHKA. +“THE SQUADWON CAN’T PASS,” SHOUTED VáSKA DENíSOV, SHOWING HIS +THE STAFF CAPTAIN. +THE STAFF CAPTAIN, “BUT WE OLD FELLOWS, WHO HAVE GROWN UP IN AND, GOD +THE STAFF CAPTAIN IN HIS DEEP BASS, CALMLY STROKING HIS LONG MUSTACHE. +THE STAFF CAPTAIN, KíRSTEN, HAD TWICE BEEN REDUCED TO THE RANKS FOR +THE STAFF CAPTAIN’S VOICE BEGAN TO TREMBLE. “YOU HAVE BEEN IN THE +THE STAFF OFFICER AND PRINCE ANDREW MOUNTED THEIR HORSES AND RODE ON. +THE STAFF OFFICER REMAINED BEHIND AND PRINCE ANDREW RODE ON ALONE. +THE STORY WAS VERY PRETTY AND INTERESTING, ESPECIALLY AT THE POINT +THE STRETCHERS, AND LOVE OF THE SUN AND OF LIFE, ALL MERGED INTO ONE +THE STUDY, LIKE PISTOL SHOTS, CAME THE FREQUENT SOUND OF THE OLD MAN +THE STUPID SMILE, WHICH HAD LEFT HIS FACE WHILE HE WAS SPEAKING, +THE SUBJECT OF HER REQUEST AND MUST NOT BE SHOWN BEFORE THE REQUEST WAS +THE SUITE POINTED OUT TO BAGRATIóN A FRENCH COLUMN THAT WAS OUTFLANKING +THE TABLE, ONTO WHICH HE THREW IT. +THE TABLE, SEARCHED EVERYWHERE, AND STOOD STILL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE +THE TABLE, SUMMONED HIS DAUGHTER. HE NEVER GAVE HIS CHILDREN A BLESSING, +THE THIRD!” +THE THIRD COMPANY WAS THE LAST, AND KUTúZOV PONDERED, APPARENTLY TRYING +THE THIRD GROUP WAS GATHERED ROUND MORTEMART AND ANNA PáVLOVNA. +THE THIRD INTERRUPTION CAME WHEN PRINCE ANDREW WAS FINISHING HIS +“THE THIRD, I SAID THE THIRD!” CRIED THE PRINCE ABRUPTLY, PUSHING +THE TIPSY GUESTS WHO WERE AGAIN CROWDING ROUND THE WINDOW, AND LISTENING +THE TROOPS IN THEIR DISORDERLY FLIGHT CONFIRMED THESE RUMORS. +THE TWO LADIES, ADDRESSING PRINCE VASíLI AND POINTING TO AN INLAID +THE TWO PáVLOGRAD SQUADRONS, HAVING CROSSED THE BRIDGE, RETIRED UP THE +THE TWO YOUNG MEN, THE STUDENT AND THE OFFICER, FRIENDS FROM CHILDHOOD, +THE UNKNOWN GENERAL LOOKED DISDAINFULLY DOWN AT KOZLóVSKI, WHO WAS +“THE UNPLEASANT THINGS WERE SAID TO ME,” REMARKED VéRA, “I SAID +THE VICOMTE APPRECIATED THIS SILENT PRAISE AND SMILING GRATEFULLY +THE VICOMTE BOWED AND SMILED COURTEOUSLY IN TOKEN OF HIS WILLINGNESS TO +“THE VICOMTE KNEW THE DUC PERSONALLY,” WHISPERED ANNA PáVLOVNA TO +THE VICOMTE MERELY SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS. PIERRE LOOKED SOLEMNLY AT HIS +THE VICOMTE’S STORY. PRINCE VASíLI’S WORDS FRIGHTENED HER, AN +THE VICOMTE TOLD HIS TALE VERY NEATLY. IT WAS AN ANECDOTE, THEN CURRENT, +THE VICOMTE WAS A NICE-LOOKING YOUNG MAN WITH SOFT FEATURES AND POLISHED +THE VICOMTE WHO WAS MEETING HIM FOR THE FIRST TIME SAW CLEARLY THAT +THE VICOMTE WISHED TO BEGIN HIS STORY AND GAVE A SUBTLE SMILE. +THE VISITOR, COMPELLED TO LOOK ON AT THIS FAMILY SCENE, THOUGHT IT +THE VISITOR MADE A GESTURE WITH HER HAND. +THE VISITOR, NOT KNOWING WHAT TO SAY, SHOOK HER HEAD. +THE WAITER. +THE WAR IS OVER, THAT THE EMPEROR FRANCIS IS ARRANGING A MEETING WITH +THE WATER, AND APPROACHES THE TêTE-DE-PONT. AT LENGTH APPEARS THE +THE WAY FROM ULM, WHILE DóLOKHOV MAINTAINED THAT THE RUSSIANS HAD NOT +THE WAY HE WALKED THROUGH THE RANKS BEHIND THE GENERALS, BENDING FORWARD +THE WEATHER HAD CLEARED AGAIN SINCE NOON AND THE SUN WAS DESCENDING +THE WEIGHT OF HIS KNAPSACK. +THE WELL-KNOWN PRINCE BOLKóNSKI WHO HAD TO RETIRE FROM THE ARMY UNDER +THE WHOLE PLACE WERE DRAGGING LOGS AND BRUSHWOOD AND WERE BUILDING +THE WHOLE STORY OF LIFE. YOU TALK OF BONAPARTE AND HIS CAREER,” SAID +“THE WIFE!” SAID THE OLD PRINCE, BRIEFLY AND SIGNIFICANTLY. +THE WILD SET LED BY DóLOKHOV. ZHERKóV HAD MET DóLOKHOV ABROAD AS A +THE WILL AND LETTER WILL BE DELIVERED TO THE EMPEROR, AND THE PETITION +“THE WILL WILL SHOW THAT, MY DEAR; OUR FATE ALSO DEPENDS ON IT.” +THE WINDOW SILL, BUT REFRAINED FROM TOUCHING IT. PIERRE AGAIN COVERED +THE WOMAN’S VEHICLE FOR TRYING TO GET AHEAD OF OTHERS, AND THE STROKES +THE WOMEN.” +THE WORD OF COMMAND RANG OUT, AND AGAIN THE REGIMENT QUIVERED, AS WITH A +THE WORDS OF THE ORDER WERE NOT CLEAR TO THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, AND +THE WORST,” SAID THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL, EVIDENTLY WISHING TO HAVE DONE +“THEY ARE REGULAR BRIGANDS, ESPECIALLY DóLOKHOV,” REPLIED THE +THEY ASSURE THE OFFICER ON DUTY THAT THEY, THE MARSHALS, ARE ON +THEY BECAME SILENT, AND PIERRE THOUGHT HE SAW THE PRINCESS HIDE +THEY BOTH FELT HAPPY). “WE HAD OUR HANDS FULL LAST NIGHT. HOWEVER, I +THEY CONTAIN; FOR HOW CAN WE, MISERABLE SINNERS THAT WE ARE, KNOW THE +THEY DISMOUNTED AND ENTERED THE TENT. SEVERAL OFFICERS, WITH FLUSHED AND +“THEY DON’T EVEN GIVE ONE TIME TO DWINK!” ANSWERED VáSKA +THEY DO THE GUNS.” +THEY ENTERED THE ELEGANT, NEWLY DECORATED, AND LUXURIOUS DINING ROOM. +THEY ENTERED THE LARGE HALL, FROM WHICH ONE OF THE DOORS LED TO THE +THEY GAVE HER AN ATTRACTION MORE POWERFUL THAN THAT OF BEAUTY. BUT THE +“THEY GIVE LITTLE HOPE,” REPLIED THE PRINCE. +THEY GOT INTO THE CARRIAGE AND DROVE FOR A FEW MINUTES IN SILENCE. +THEY HAD GONE BY, THE SAME STREAM OF SOLDIERS FOLLOWED, WITH THE SAME +THEY HAD LIFTED THE DYING MAN AND WERE MOVING HIM. +THEY HAD LOOKED AT THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, SEEMING BY THEIR EXPRESSION +THEY HAD WHEN SHE WAS NOT THINKING OF HERSELF. AS WITH EVERYONE, HER +THEY’LL RANSACK THAT CASTLE,” HE REMARKED WITH EVIDENT APPROVAL. +THEY’LL SAY SO AGAIN AND AGAIN, AND THAT WILL BE THE END OF IT. MY +“THEY MARCH SPLENDIDLY,” REMARKED SOMEONE IN BAGRATIóN’S SUITE. +“THEY MIGHT CALL A HALT HERE OR WE’LL HAVE TO DO ANOTHER FOUR MILES +“THEY MUST BE FEELING DULL, TOO,” SAID ONE OF THE BOLDER OFFICERS, +THEY MUST LOOK SOMEWHERE, OR IT MEANT TOO MUCH. PIERRE HESITATED, +THE YOUNG MAN, FLATTERED, SAT DOWN NEARER TO HER WITH A COQUETTISH +THE YOUNG MAN HAD DEPARTED. “THERE IS NEVER ANY ‘IMPOSSIBLE’ WITH +“THE YOUNG MAN’S A REAL HUSSAR!” SHOUTED THE COLONEL, AGAIN +THE YOUNG PEOPLE, AT THE COUNTESS’ INSTIGATION, GATHERED ROUND THE +THE YOUNG PRINCESS BOLKóNSKAYA HAD BROUGHT SOME WORK IN A +THE YOUNG PRINCE. THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD WERE ALL GATHERED IN THE +“THEY RECEIVED ME AND MY NEWS AS ONE RECEIVES A DOG IN A GAME OF +“THEY’RE COMING!... THEY’RE COMING!... STAND ASIDE, MAKE WAY, +THEY RODE UP THE OPPOSITE HILL. FROM THERE THE FRENCH COULD ALREADY BE +“THEY SAY THE BALL WILL BE VERY GOOD,” REPLIED THE PRINCESS, DRAWING +THEY SEIZED HIM BY HIS ARMS; BUT HE WAS SO STRONG THAT EVERYONE WHO +THEY STOOD SILENT, FACING ONE ANOTHER. THE OLD MAN’S SHARP EYES WERE +THEY TOO COULD, LIKE NATáSHA AND BORíS, ESCAPE FROM THE DRAWING ROOM. +“THEY’VE BEEN SAYING SO A LONG WHILE,” SAID THE COUNT, “AND +THEY WENT THROUGH THE PORCH AND INTO THE STABLE. THE LIEUTENANT +THEY WENT UP TO THE DOOR OF THE SITTING ROOM FROM WHICH CAME THE SOUND +THEY WERE AGAIN SILENT. +THEY WERE AS USUAL LAUGHING. +THEY WERE FIRING AT COULD NOT BE SEEN FOR THE SMOKE WHICH THERE WAS NO +THEY WERE IN THE CARRIAGE. “HE HARDLY RECOGNIZES ANYBODY.” +THICK, BUSHY EYEBROWS. PRINCE ANDREW WENT UP AND KISSED HIS FATHER ON +THICK-SET GENERAL WITH GRIZZLED EYEBROWS AND WHISKERS, AND WIDER FROM +THIN FACE. HER EYES, ALWAYS SAD, NOW LOOKED WITH PARTICULAR HOPELESSNESS +THIN FACE WAS NOW QUIVERING WITH NERVOUS EXCITEMENT; HIS EYES, IN WHICH +THING.” +THING CAN BE ARRANGED. IT SHALL BE ON YOUR FAMILY’S BEHALF THAT I’LL +THING I HAVE FAITH IN! OUR GOOD AND WONDERFUL SOVEREIGN HAS TO PERFORM +THINGS AND SUPPER DISHES STOOD IN DISORDER, AND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE +THINGS,” AND THE SKIN OVER HIS LEFT TEMPLE PUCKERED, “EITHER YOU +THINGS, BUT AUSTRIA NEVER HAS WISHED, AND DOES NOT WISH, FOR WAR. SHE +THINGS HAD TO BE. FROM THE PASSAGE THEY WENT INTO A LARGE, DIMLY +THINGS. SHE DID NOT REPLY, BUT LOOKED AT HER SERIOUSLY. +THINGS THAT HE HAS BEEN EXPELLED BY THE POLICE.” +THINKING ABOUT YOU. WHY ARE YOU GOING?” +THINKING OF?” SHE WENT ON, TURNING TO PRINCE HIPPOLYTE. “FETCH ME MY +THINK THAT HE IS YOUR FATHER ... PERHAPS IN THE AGONY OF DEATH.” SHE +THINK THE REGIMENT IS NOT A BAD ONE, EH?” +THINK WE THOROUGHLY UNDERSTAND. +“THINK WHAT YOU PLEASE! I KNOW YOU ARE JUST LIKE FATHER. THINK AS +THIRD COMPANY HE SUDDENLY STOPPED. HIS SUITE, NOT HAVING EXPECTED THIS, +“THIRTEEN, FOURTEEN, FIFTEEN, SIXTEEN,” SHE COUNTED ON HER SLENDER +THIRTEEN LOOK AT THE BOY THEY ARE IN LOVE WITH AND HAVE JUST KISSED FOR +THIRTIETH HE ATTACKED MORTIER’S DIVISION, WHICH WAS ON THE LEFT BANK, +THIRTY,” SAID HE, LOOKING AT SHINSHíN AND THE COUNT WITH A JOYFUL, +THIS ACTION WAS SO UNLIKE HER USUAL COMPOSURE AND THE FEAR DEPICTED ON +THIS BLACK-EYED, WIDE-MOUTHED GIRL, NOT PRETTY BUT FULL OF LIFE—WITH +THIS BUONAPARTE HAS TURNED ALL THEIR HEADS; THEY ALL THINK OF HOW HE +THIS DEFECT WAS NOT DUE TO ANY FAULT OF THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, FOR +THIS DISORDER,” HE MUTTERED. “DO AS YOU LIKE.” +THIS DOOR LED INTO A BACK ANTEROOM. AN OLD MAN, A SERVANT OF THE +THIS EBOOK IS FOR THE USE OF ANYONE ANYWHERE AT NO COST AND WITH ALMOST +THIS EXPECTATION DID NOT UPSET THE REGULAR ROUTINE OF LIFE IN THE OLD +THIS EXPRESSION EVIDENTLY PLEASED HIM. +THIS FACT OUGHT TO GIVE PRINCE VASíLI MUCH SATISFACTION. +THIS HE’LL SOON HAVE US, TOO, FOR HIS SUBJECTS! HOW ARE YOU?” AND HE +THIS HOUSE AND IN BRüNN ITSELF. I WANT TO ENTERTAIN HIM AS FAR AS I +“THIS IS ABSURD! COME, LET GO I TELL YOU.” + * “THIS IS A PLEASURE ONE GETS IN CAMP, PRINCE.” +“THIS IS DóLOKHOV,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. +“THIS IS FOR BORíS FROM ME, FOR HIS OUTFIT.” +“THIS IS WHAT I THINK. AUSTRIA HAS BEEN MADE A FOOL OF, AND SHE IS +“THIS IS WHAT I WANT, MY DEAR FELLOW,” SAID THE COUNT TO THE +THIS LOWEST-GRADE GREETING, A LOOK OF ANXIETY AND FEAR, AS AT THE SIGHT +THIS MAGNANIMITY BONAPARTE SUBSEQUENTLY REPAID BY DEATH. +THIS MEANT THAT TíKHON WAS NOT HANDING HIM THE WAISTCOAT HE WANTED. +THIS MURDERER AND VILLAIN! WE ALONE MUST AVENGE THE BLOOD OF THE JUST +THIS POETIC AND PURE INTIMACY, WERE WHAT MY HEART NEEDED. BUT ENOUGH OF +THIS REINFORCEMENT. +THIS RESEMBLANCE HE WAS EXCEEDINGLY UGLY. HIS FEATURES WERE LIKE HIS +THIS SAME ROOM WAS DIMLY LIGHTED BY TWO CANDLES. ON ONE SMALL TABLE TEA +THIS! THE CHIEF NEWS, ABOUT WHICH ALL MOSCOW GOSSIPS, IS THE DEATH OF +THIS UNCERTAINTY AND HURRY... THERE—THEY ARE SHOUTING AGAIN, AND +THIS VERY SENTENCE ABOUT COUNTESS ZúBOVA AND THIS SAME LAUGH PRINCE +THIS VICTORY TO THE AUSTRIAN COURT, NOW NO LONGER AT VIENNA (WHICH WAS +THIS WAS NOT SO BUT THAT ON THE CONTRARY THE FRENCH HAD RUN AWAY. HE +THIS WAS PARTICULARLY NOTICEABLE ON NESVíTSKI’S USUALLY LAUGHING +THIS WAS THE COUNT’S FAVORITE DANCE, WHICH HE HAD DANCED IN HIS YOUTH. +“THIS WON’T DO, PRINCESS; IT WON’T DO,” SAID HE, WHEN PRINCESS +THIS YOUNG JACOBIN WAS NOT SO TERRIBLE AS HIS WORDS SUGGESTED. ALL WERE +THOSE HOFS-KRIEGS-WURST-RATHS ARE! SUVóROV COULDN’T MANAGE THEM SO +THOSE KURáGINS AND LEADING THAT SORT OF LIFE. IT SUITS YOU SO +“THOSE WERE EXTREMES, NO DOUBT, BUT THEY ARE NOT WHAT IS MOST +THOSE WHO WERE GUIDING HIM. +THOSE WHO WERE HOLDING HIM UNDER THE ARMPITS, AND OF HIS GRAY, CURLY, +THOSE WHO WERE IN THE DIMLY LIT RECEPTION ROOM SPOKE IN NERVOUS +THOSE WOMEN—MOSTLY MOTHERS—WHO, HAVING ONCE MADE UP THEIR MINDS, +THOUGH EMBRACING HER. +THOUGH HE MAY PERHAPS OUTLIVE US ALL, AS I SINCERELY HOPE HE WILL...” +THOUGH NOT MUCH TIME HAD PASSED SINCE PRINCE ANDREW HAD LEFT RUSSIA, HE +THOUGH POLITENESS PREVENTED HIS SHOWING IMPATIENCE, LEFT THE OLD WOMAN +THOUGH SHE WERE GROWN UP, WAS EVIDENTLY VERY PROUD OF THIS BUT AT THE +THOUGH THE BIG HOSPITALS AND THE HOUSES IN KREMS CONVERTED INTO MILITARY +THOUGHT: “I AM GOING TO SAVE THE ARMY.” +THOUGHT INDEPENDENT OF HER SISTER-IN-LAW’S WORDS. IN THE MIDST OF A +THOUGHT OF HIS FRIEND AND HOW MUCH HE EXPECTED OF HIM IN THE FUTURE. +THOUGHTS. +THOUGHT, “SERIOUSLY, I HAVE LONG BEEN THINKING OF IT.... LEADING SUCH +THOUGHTS RATHER THAN THE TREND OF THE CONVERSATION—“AND THAT’S A +THOUGHT THAT CAME INTO HIS MIND WAS THAT TODAY HE HAD TO BE PRESENTED +THOUGHT. THE MINISTER DREW THE REMAINING PAPERS TOGETHER, ARRANGED THEM +THOUGHT TURNED TO HER SISTER-IN-LAW WITH A TENDER GLANCE AT HER FIGURE. +THOUGH WHAT HAPPENED WAS DUE TO CHANCE AND WAS INDEPENDENT OF THE +THOUGH WHAT SHE SAID WAS QUITE JUST, PERHAPS FOR THAT VERY REASON NO ONE +THOUSAND AUSTRIANS, WITH A HUNDRED THOUSAND RUSSIANS, WERE TO OPERATE IN +THOUSAND MEN BREATHLESSLY GAZING AT HIM AND THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER DID +THOUSAND MEN EACH OF WHOM KNEW HIS PLACE AND HIS DUTY, HAD EVERY BUTTON +THREATENED BY THE FRENCH) BUT AT BRüNN. DESPITE HIS APPARENTLY DELICATE +“THREE AND A HALF MILES, YOUR MAJESTY.” +THREE MONTHS AGO, DRAW FRESH MORAL STRENGTH FROM YOUR LOOK, SO GENTLE, +THROUGH HIM, AND AGAIN LAUGHED HIS FRIGID LAUGH. +THROUGH HIS LORGNETTE, SUDDENLY TURNED COMPLETELY ROUND TOWARD THE +THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE CAVALRY DIVISION AS VáSKA DENíSOV. CADET ROSTóV, +THROUGH THAT DOOR WAS HEARD A NOISE OF THINGS BEING MOVED ABOUT, AND +THROUGH THE CLOSED DOORS CAME THE SOUND OF DIFFICULT PASSAGES—TWENTY +THROUGH THE DOOR. +THROUGH THE DOOR CAME THE REGULAR HUM OF A LATHE. THE PRINCESS TIMIDLY +THROUGH THE DOOR CAME THE SOUNDS OF KUTúZOV’S VOICE, EXCITED AND +THROUGH THE DOOR ON TIPTOE. HE COULD NOT WALK WELL ON TIPTOE AND HIS +THROUGH THE TOWN OF ENNS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BRIDGE. +THROWN THE REINS OF THE SNAFFLE BRIDLE OVER THE HORSE’S HEAD. IT WAS +THUMB TO THE ROOM WHERE TELYáNIN WAS SITTING, HE FROWNED AND GAVE A +THUMPING THE TABLE. +THUMPING THE TABLE; “AND VE MUST TIE FOR OUR EMPEROR, AND ZEN ALL VILL +TíKHON, AT HER HUSBAND, AND AT THE FOOTMAN WHO ACCOMPANIED THEM. +TíKHON KNEW THAT NEITHER THE SON’S ARRIVAL NOR ANY OTHER UNUSUAL +TILL SHE WAS TWENTY, AND ARRANGED HER LIFE SO THAT HER WHOLE TIME WAS +TILL THE GENERAL ASKED HIM TO RESTORE IT. ALL HIS ABSENT-MINDEDNESS AND +TILL YOU CAN SAY TO YOURSELF THAT YOU HAVE DONE ALL YOU ARE CAPABLE OF, +TIME, ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA SENT SOMEONE TO CALL HER SON, AND WENT INTO THE +TIME COULD NOT ADMIT THE IDEA OF HIS HERO BEING DISGRACED. +TIME IN THE SHOP. +TIMES REPEATED—OF A SONATA BY DUSSEK. +TIMES, THE MORE IMPASSIONED HE BECAME IN THESE MOMENTS OF ALMOST MORBID +TIMES UNEXPECTEDLY INTERRUPTED. ONCE HE STOPPED IT BY SHOUTING: “THE +TIME TO TIME HE WENT OUT TO ASK: “HASN’T SHE COME YET?” THEY +TIMóKHIN TO THE SUBALTERN BESIDE HIM. +TINT IN HER COMPLEXION AND ESPECIALLY IN THE COLOR OF HER SLENDER BUT +TIPSY RAGE WHEN A MAN DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE IS SAYING. HE SAW THAT HIS +TIRESOME,” SAID NATáSHA IN A MORTIFIED VOICE THAT TREMBLED SLIGHTLY. +TITLE: WAR AND PEACE +TO ABANDON THE ROAD CONNECTING HIM WITH THE TROOPS ARRIVING FROM RUSSIA, +TO ACCEPT THEIR SERVICES. HE TOOK THE GLOVE IN SILENCE FROM THE +TO ADOPT A JOCULAR TONE. BUT BEFORE HE HAD FINISHED HE FELT THAT HIS +TO A FOOTMAN DRESSED IN KNEE BREECHES, SHOES, AND A SWALLOW-TAIL COAT, +TO AGREE TO THE TRUCE BUT ALSO TO OFFER TERMS OF CAPITULATION, AND +TO ANOTHER. “HOW EVIDENTLY HE BELONGS TO THE BEST SOCIETY,” SAID SHE +TO A THIRD; AND THE VICOMTE WAS SERVED UP TO THE COMPANY IN THE CHOICEST +TO A TUNE IN WHICH THE WEARY MUSICIANS BLUNDERED, AND WHILE TIRED +TO BALANCE HIMSELF. ONE OF THE FOOTMEN WHO HAD STOOPED TO PICK UP SOME +TO BE ALL RIGHT,” PIERRE CONCLUDED, AND FOLLOWED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. +TO BE GREW STRONGER, AND HE MEEKLY FOLLOWED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WHO WAS +TO BEHAVE HERE AS YOU DID IN PETERSBURG, YOU WILL END VERY BADLY; THAT +TO BE PARTED FROM HER HUSBAND AND BE LEFT ALONE IN THE COUNTRY, IN HER +“TO BE QUITE FRANK, MARY, I EXPECT FATHER’S CHARACTER SOMETIMES +TO BE SO SENT MEANT NOT ONLY A REWARD BUT AN IMPORTANT STEP TOWARD +“TO BE SURE, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” REPLIED THE ARCHITECT. +TO BE TALKING TO A STAFF OFFICER OF SUCH IMPORTANCE. “IT’S A LOVELY +TO BLAME ALL ROUND. WELL, WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT?...” +TO BORE HIM SO MUCH AS THAT OF HIS PRETTY WIFE. HE TURNED AWAY FROM +TO CONTROL HERSELF ANY LONGER, SHE JUMPED UP AND RUSHED FROM THE ROOM AS +TODAY, AND THAT HIS EXCELLENCY WAS NOT RECEIVING ANYONE. +TODAY. HE HAS BEEN HERE ON LEAVE AND IS TAKING NICHOLAS BACK WITH HIM. +“TODAY WHEN I REMEMBERED THAT ALL THESE DELIGHTFUL ASSOCIATIONS +TO DINNER. I SUPPOSE HE WON’T GO?” SHE CONTINUED, TURNING TO THE +TO DISTRACTION! ONE LEARNS MANY THINGS THEN,” SHE ADDED WITH A CERTAIN +TO DO BUT DWINK. IF WE COULD ONLY GET TO FIGHTING SOON. HULLO, WHO’S +TO DRESS IN HERE; AND THAT ANDREW HAD QUITE CHANGED, AND THAT KITTY +TO DRIVE STRAIGHT HOME. BUT THE NEARER HE DREW TO THE HOUSE THE MORE HE +TO EACH NEW ARRIVAL ANNA PáVLOVNA SAID, “YOU HAVE NOT YET SEEN MY + * TO ERR IS HUMAN. +TOES TOWARD THE GENERAL. THE CAPTAIN’S FACE SHOWED THE UNEASINESS OF +TO EXECUTE AN ORDER. THE OFFICER ON DUTY, A HANDSOME, ELEGANTLY DRESSED +TO FATHOM WHAT HE HAS BEEN PLEASED TO CONCEAL FROM US, THE SOONER WILL + TO FEEL THAT IN THIS WORLD THERE’S ONE +TO FIRE THE BRIDGE, AND NOW SOMEONE HAS GONE AND BLUNDERED; THEY ARE ALL +TOGETHER AS THEY APPROACHED IT AS IF PASSING THROUGH A FUNNEL. AT LAST +TOGETHER. THE GERMAN, PAHLEN, HAS BEEN SENT TO NEW YORK IN AMERICA, TO +TO GET HIMSELF KILLED. TELL ME WHAT THIS WRETCHED WAR IS FOR?” SHE +TO GIVE YOU THE LOVE YOU DO NOT FEEL, AND YOUR PRAYER WOULD HAVE BEEN +TO GO BY THE BACK STAIRS, YET JUDGING BY ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S AIR +TO GREET THE YOUNG MAN. +TO GRUNTH TO FIND PRINCE BAGRATIóN. HE HEARD THE CANNONADE BEHIND HIM +TO HEAR THE DETAILS.” +TO HELP AT ANY POINT WHERE THE CONVERSATION MIGHT HAPPEN TO FLAG. AS +TO HER.” +TO HER? I AM SO GRATEFUL TO YOU THAT I WOULD WILLINGLY SACRIFICE +TO HIM ABOUT POLITICS. PRINCE ANDREW AND THE OTHERS GATHERED ROUND THESE +TO HIM, AS YOU SO WELL KNOW HOW TO BE.” +TO HIM FELL AGAINST THE RAILS WITH A GROAN. ROSTóV RAN UP TO HIM WITH +TO HIMSELF, FOR IN HIM ALONE IS TRUTH AND PEACE,” SAID SHE IN A VOICE +TO HIM STRAIGHT OUT. LET PEOPLE THINK WHAT THEY WILL OF ME, IT’S +TO HIS ADJUTANT HE ORDERED HIM TO BRING DOWN THE TWO BATTALIONS OF THE +TO HIS BEAUTIFUL SISTER, BUT YET MORE BY THE FACT THAT IN SPITE OF +TO HIS LEG A NARROW UNSHEATHED SWORD (SMALL, CURVED, AND NOT LIKE A REAL +TO HIS PEOPLE IN GERMANY; AND HE FELT GREATLY OFFENDED WHEN THE BUTLER +TO INDICATE THAT HE WAS ABOUT TO SAY SOMETHING WITTY. “BUONAPARTE?” +TO JOIN SOME SWEDISH FORCES AT STRALSUND; HOW TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY +TO KNOW AS PLAIN MONSIEUR PIERRE, HAS BECOME COUNT BEZúKHOV AND THE +TO KUTúZOV’S STAFF DESPITE ALL ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S ENDEAVORS AND +TOLD HIM, AND SAID, “VERY GOOD!” IN A TONE THAT SEEMED TO IMPLY THAT +TOLD HIM THE WHOLE FIELD COULD BE SEEN. HERE HE DISMOUNTED, AND STOPPED +TOLD HIM WHAT HE HAD SEEN. +TOLD THE COUNT SUCH VILE, DISGRACEFUL THINGS ABOUT US, ESPECIALLY ABOUT +TO LOOK UNDER THE UNIFORMS HE WOULD HAVE FOUND ON EVERY MAN A CLEAN +TO MAKE OUT THE PATTERN. +TO MAKE SCENES. THIS LAST CONSIDERATION MOVED HIM. +TO ME ALL ABOUT IT, AND I WILL HELP YOU IN EVERYTHING.” PIERRE HAD +TO MOVE FROM RIGHT TO LEFT AS IF DRAWN BY AN INVISIBLE HAND, AND THE +TOMOWWOW,” MUTTERED DENíSOV. + TO MY NATIVE LAND...” +TONE AND MANNER, HERE IN MOSCOW TO ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WHOM HE HAD PLACED +TONE OF ENTREATY AND REPROACH THAT A CARPENTER USES TO A GENTLEMAN WHO +TONE OF VOICE. “COME HERE, MY FRIEND...” AND SHE OMINOUSLY TUCKED +TONES. +TONE. “WHAT HAS BEEN DECIDED? THEY HAVE DECIDED THAT BUONAPARTE HAS +“TONIGHT, NOT LATER,” SAID HE IN A LOW VOICE, AND HE MOVED AWAY +TO NOTICE HIM, AND THAT HIS WHOLE AIM NOW WAS TO TEST THE CADET’S +TOOK A HORSE AND A COSSACK FROM A COSSACK COMMANDER, AND HUNGRY AND +TOOK HER SISTER-IN-LAW’S ARM AND DREW HER INTO ANOTHER ROOM. +TOOK HIM BY THE SHOULDER, LED HIM TO THE WINDOW, AND BEGAN TO TALK TO +TOOK IT...” HE WHISPERED JUST ABOVE TELYáNIN’S EAR. +TOOK UP HER WORK. +TOOLS LAID READY TO HAND AND SHAVINGS SCATTERED AROUND—ALL INDICATED +TOO, MIGHT HAVE THEIR OWN INTERESTS. BUT ALL HE SAID WAS SO PRETTILY +TO ONE ANOTHER, AND THE OLD SERVANT WHO WAS HOLDING THE COUNT’S HAND +TOO SEEMED STRANGE; AT ONE MOMENT THEY LOOKED IMPUDENTLY SLY AND AT THE +TO PASS THE TIME.” +TO PETERSBURG, LOOK ROUND, AND CHOOSE YOUR PROFESSION. I WILL AGREE TO +TOPIC—MAKING FUN OF THE MILITARY MEN OF THE DAY, AND MORE PARTICULARLY +TOPIC OF THE DAY: THE ILLNESS OF THE WEALTHY AND CELEBRATED BEAU OF +TO PIERRE HE SAID NOTHING, MERELY GIVING HIS ARM A SYMPATHETIC SQUEEZE +TO PLEASE YOU...” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. BUT IMMEDIATELY, NOTICING +TO PRESENT THE REGIMENT IN PARADE ORDER, ON THE PRINCIPLE THAT IT IS +TO PRINCE MURAT, +“TO PRINCE VASíLI. HE WAS SO KIND. HE AT ONCE AGREED TO EVERYTHING, +TO PROVIDE HIMSELF WITH SOME BOOKS FOR THE CAMPAIGN, AND HAD SPENT SOME +TO RECOLLECT SOMETHING. PRINCE ANDREW STEPPED FORWARD FROM AMONG THE +TO REST AFTER THEIR HARD MARCHES. +TO RETREAT ALONG THE ROAD FROM KREMS TO OLMüTZ, TO UNITE WITH THE +TO ROSTóV’S FACE, AND HIS SOBS WERE AUDIBLE. +TO RUN OUT TO HER, AND REMAINED IN HER HIDING PLACE, WATCHING—AS +TO SEIZE HOLD OF DóLOKHOV’S SHIRT. +TO SHOW THAT THEY ARE NOT AT ALL IMPATIENT FOR THEIR FOOD. THE HOST AND +TO SHOW THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL THE WRETCHED STATE IN WHICH THE TROOPS +TO SLIP IN OVER THERE.” +TO START HER GAMBOLS AGAIN AND DISPLAY HER KITTENISH NATURE. +TO STOP AND FIRE THE BRIDGE.” +TO TAKE THEIR LEAVE. +TO TEAR OPEN THE VEIL OF CONVENTION THAT SEPARATES A COMMANDER IN CHIEF +TO TELL YOU. THERE IS A WAR NOW AGAINST NAPOLEON. IF IT WERE A WAR FOR +TO THE ACCOUNTANT, “BUT HE FEELS A PAIN IN THE PIT OF HIS STOMACH +“TO THE ARMY.” +TO THE BACK OF THE HOUSE, TO THE ROOM OF THE ELDEST PRINCESS. +TO THE DEVIL, I’M BUSY!” HE SHOUTED TO LAVRúSHKA, WHO WENT UP TO +TO THE EFFECT THAT THE DUC D’ENGHIEN HAD GONE SECRETLY TO PARIS TO +TO THE ELDERLY LADY, EVEN BETRAYING SOME IMPATIENCE, SHE GAVE HIM AN +“TO THE EMPEROR.” +TO THE EMPEROR FRANCIS; HE REMEMBERED THE MINISTER OF WAR, THE POLITE +TO THE END, WITHOUT RAISING HIS EYES AT THE OPENING OF THE DOOR AND THE +TO THE FARTHER SIDE OF THE BRIDGE AND STOPPED THE INFANTRY. BESIDE THE +TO THE FOOTMAN WHO WAS HELPING HIM ON WITH HIS CLOAK, LISTENED +TO THE FRONTIER. OUR DEAR EMPEROR HAS LEFT PETERSBURG AND IT IS THOUGHT +TO THE FRONT OF THE REGIMENT AND EXAMINED IT FROM A DISTANCE. +TO THE IMPERIAL FAMILY AS WELL AS TO ALL MOSCOW AND PETERSBURG, AND BOTH +TO THEIR CHATTER. ANATOLE KEPT ON REFILLING PIERRE’S GLASS WHILE +TO THEIR COMPANIES, THE SERGEANTS MAJOR BEGAN BUSTLING (THE GREATCOATS +TO THE LAST MEETING BETWEEN FATHER AND SON, IT WAS SO TOUCHING THAT SHE +TO THEN BEEN IN REGULAR ORDER AND SILENT BEGAN TO SWAY AND STRETCH AND +TO THE PALACE, HOWEVER, AN OFFICIAL CAME RUNNING OUT TO MEET HIM, AND +TO THE PRINCE AND SMILING AMIABLY AT HIM AS IF TO SHOW THAT POLITICAL +TO THE PRINCE THAT IF THESE BATTALIONS WENT AWAY, THE GUNS WOULD REMAIN +TO THE RANKS ALONG WHICH SHOTS CRACKLED NOW HERE AND NOW THERE, DROWNING +TO THE RANKS,” SAID THE CAPTAIN SOFTLY. +“TO THE RIGHT FROM THE CORRIDOR, EUER HOCHGEBOREN! THERE YOU WILL FIND +TO THE VIENNA-ZNAIM ROAD. BAGRATIóN WAS TO MAKE THIS MARCH WITHOUT +TO THE VISITOR SHE ADDED: “SHE IS MY YOUNGEST GIRL.” +TO THE WINDOW. +TO THINK OF THE IMPRESSION HE MAKES ON OTHERS, BUT IS OCCUPIED WITH +TO THINK OF THE INTERVIEW WITH HIS DYING FATHER WHICH AWAITED HIM. HE +TO THIS OCCURRENCE THAN TO THE REST OF WHAT WENT ON, HAVING MADE UP HIS +TO TIME SHE SMOOTHED THE FOLDS OF HER DRESS, AND WHENEVER THE STORY +TO TURN THE COUNT’S HEAVY BODY TOWARD THE WALL. +TO TWITCH. THE TWITCHING INCREASED, THE HANDSOME MOUTH WAS DRAWN TO ONE +TOUCHED HIM WAS SENT FLYING. +TOUCHING HIS ARM, BUT WHEN HE SAW PIERRE’S BEAMING FACE HE GAVE HIM AN +TOUCH, “YOU PROMISED ME!” + * TO UNDERSTAND ALL IS TO FORGIVE ALL. +TO UNLOAD THE MUSKETS, EXPLODE THE AMMUNITION, AND ALL RETURN HOME AS +TOWARD HIM WHOM HE MAY GIVE ME FOR HUSBAND. +TOWARD THE SOFA SHE HAD INDICATED. AS SOON AS ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA HAD +TO WARN ME OF THE HUMOR MY FATHER IS IN. I DO NOT ALLOW MYSELF TO JUDGE +TO WHAT HE DREADED MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THE WORLD—TO RIDICULE; BUT +TOWN KNOWS?” +TO YOU SINCE DINNER? HASN’T SHE?” +TRACES BROKE, AND LUNGS WERE STRAINED WITH SHOUTING. THE OFFICERS +TRAMPLED MUD AND GAZED WITH THAT PARTICULAR FEELING OF ILL-WILL, +TRANSLATORS: LOUISE AND AYLMER MAUDE +TRAVELING EFFECTS OF PRINCE ANDREW’S WERE IN VERY GOOD ORDER: NEW, +TREADING HEAVILY HE STEPPED DOWN FROM THE CARRIAGE JUST AS IF THOSE TWO +TREAD OF THE SOLDIERS WHO WERE KEEPING STEP WITH HIM. HE CARRIED CLOSE +TREETOPS AND BLUISH GORGES. THE TURRETS OF A CONVENT STOOD OUT BEYOND A +TREMBLED NERVOUSLY; THIS WAS SUFFICIENT TO CAUSE HIS WHOLE BODY TO SLIP +TREMBLING WITH EMOTION, SOLEMNLY HOLDING UP IN BOTH HANDS BEFORE HER +TRIANGLES ARE EQUAL; PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ANGLE ABC...” +TRIUMPHANT, CHEERFUL FACE. +TRIUMPHANTLY AND GAILY. +TROOPS ARRIVING FROM RUSSIA, HE RISKED BEING FORESTALLED ON THAT ROAD +TROOPS BELOW THE HILL AND FELL FAR SHORT OF THE ENEMY, A LITTLE SMOKE +TROOPS ON THE HIGH GROUND ABOVE THE BRIDGE INVOLUNTARILY ASKED HIMSELF +TROOPS WERE ILL-CLAD, EXHAUSTED, AND HAD LOST A THIRD OF THEIR NUMBER +TROOPS WERE RUNNING ONTO THE BRIDGE, WAS ABOUT TO FIRE, BUT LANNES +TROT TO ESCAPE FROM THE POISONED ATMOSPHERE OF THESE LATRINES. +TROUVEZ Là LE MOT POUR RIRE,” * HE SAID, AS IF STRENGTHENING HIS +TRUCE AND A CAPITULATION, HE DETECTED A RUSE AND WROTE THE FOLLOWING +“TRUE ENOUGH,” ANSWERED NESVíTSKI; “TWO SMART FELLOWS COULD HAVE +TRUE GASCON) AND SAYS: ‘I DON’T RECOGNIZE THE WORLD-FAMOUS AUSTRIAN +“TRUST IN HIS MERCY!” AND POINTING OUT A SMALL SOFA FOR HIM TO SIT +TRYING NOT TO LOSE A WORD OF THE SPEECH WHICH WAS INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO +TRYING ONLY TO BE AHEAD OF THE OTHERS; BUT JUST AT THE BRIDGE, NOT +TRYING THROUGH THE DOWAGER EMPRESS MáRYA FëDOROVNA TO SECURE IT FOR +TRYING TO GET SOMETHING OUT OF THE RICH MAN?” +TRYING TO GIVE AN EXPRESSIVE INTONATION TO HIS VOICE. +TRYING TO PROVE THAT THE RUSSIANS HAD SURRENDERED AND HAD FLED ALL +“TRY TO SERVE WELL AND SHOW YOURSELF WORTHY,” ADDED HE, ADDRESSING +TURNED FROM CAPTAIN TIMóKHIN AGAIN FLITTED OVER HIS FACE. HE TURNED +TURNED OUT SPLENDIDLY ALL THE SAME,” HE ADDED, WINKING AT VéRA. +TURNED ROUND. THE OFFICER EVIDENTLY HAD COMPLETE CONTROL OF HIS FACE, +TURNED THEIR HORSES AWAY. THE ACCOUNTANT STOPPED, FACING THE COSSACK, +TURNED TO ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, ANSWERING HER QUERY BY A MOVEMENT OF THE +TURNED TO HER. +TURNED TO HIS WIFE. +TURNED TO SPEAK TO HIS DAUGHTER, THE BEAUTIFUL HéLèNE. +TURNED TOWARD HER BROTHER, AND THROUGH HER TEARS THE LOVING, WARM, +TURNED TOWARD THE WOMEN, AND WHILE THE VEHICLE WAS PASSING AT FOOT PACE +TURNED TO ZHERKóV. THE NERVOUS IRRITATION AROUSED BY THE APPEARANCE +TURNING AWAY FROM THE GIRLS, WHO AT ONCE ASSUMED AN AIR OF INATTENTION. +TURNING HIS PARTNER ROUND TO HER SEAT, HE EXECUTED THE FINAL PAS, +TURNING INTO THE VILLAGE ALREADY... THEY WILL HAVE THEIR BUCKWHEAT +TURN NOW, BUT THAT HE WILL DO ALL HE CAN TO LET HIS TURN COME AS LATE AS +TURN SPINDLES AT HOME!’?” SAID SHINSHíN, PUCKERING HIS BROWS AND +TúSHIN’S GUNS HAD BEEN INTENDED TO CANNONADE THE VALLEY, HE WAS +TúSHIN SMILING SHYLY IN HIS UNCOMFORTABLE POSITION, EVIDENTLY WISHING +TúSHIN, WHO SILENT AND SMILING, SHIFTING FROM ONE STOCKINGED FOOT TO +TWINKLED AND LOOKED OUT STRAIGHT. +TWITCHED ITS EARS AS THE BAYONETS TOUCHED IT, AND SNORTED, SPURTING +TWO. +TWO.” +TWO BATTALIONS OF THE SIXTH CHASSEURS IN FINE ORDER. BEFORE THEY HAD +TWO FOOTMEN, THE PRINCESS’ AND HIS OWN, STOOD HOLDING A SHAWL AND +TWO FRONT TEETH WERE MISSING THAT HAD BEEN KNOCKED OUT BY THE BUTT END +TWO HOSTILE ARMIES WAS ALL THE MORE CLEARLY FELT. +“TWO, I THINK.” +TWO OF THE ENEMY’S SHOTS HAD ALREADY FLOWN ACROSS THE BRIDGE, WHERE +“TWO SUCH CHARMING CHILDREN. AND REALLY YOU APPRECIATE THEM LESS THAN +TWO YOUNGER ONES WERE EMBROIDERING: BOTH WERE ROSY AND PRETTY AND THEY +“UGH! I DON’T LIKE THAT FELLOW,” HE SAID, REGARDLESS OF THE +“UGH. THE HUSSARS WILL GET IT HOT!” SAID NESVíTSKI; “THEY ARE +UNABLE TO ASK FOR HIMSELF, HE BECAME CHARY OF USING HIS INFLUENCE. BUT +UNABLE TO OVERCOME OR CONCEAL HIS GROUNDLESS ANTIPATHY TO THE MAN. +UNACCUSTOMED BRIGHTNESS, BUT HE WAS LOOKING NOT AT HIS SISTER BUT OVER +UN BâTARD!”* SHE ADDED, AS IF SUPPOSING THAT THIS TRANSLATION OF THE +UNCHANGING SMILE. +UNCHANGING STONILY SEVERE EXPRESSION; AND, SITTING DOWN OPPOSITE THE +UNCONSCIOUS LITTLE PRINCESS, HE SHOOK HIS HEAD REPROVINGLY AND SLAMMED +“UND DIE GANZE WELT HOCH!” * +UNDER AN INVISIBLE CAP—TO SEE WHAT WENT ON IN THE WORLD. SHE WAS +UNDER AN OBLIGATION, ASSUMING AN AIR OF MUCH GREATER IMPORTANCE THAN HE +UNDERSTAND?” +UNDERSTAND AND STATE THE PATIENT’S CONDITION. +UNDERSTAND HIM, BUT HE DID NOT SPEAK IT VERY WELL—“I BET FIFTY +UNDERSTAND HIM IT WAS SO MUCH THE WORSE FOR THEM—DID NOT GO UP TO THE +UNDERSTAND HOW A MAN OF HIS IMMENSE INTELLECT CAN FAIL TO SEE WHAT IS +UNDERSTANDING BUT NOT WISHING TO APPEAR TO DO SO. THE PRINCESS AS USUAL +UNDERSTAND IT; I DON’T IN THE LEAST UNDERSTAND WHY MEN CAN’T LIVE +UNDERSTAND THE SELF-ABNEGATION OF OUR EMPEROR WHO WANTS NOTHING FOR +UNDERSTAND... WHAT A SOUL HE HAS!” +UNDERSTOOD ALL THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY’S POSITION, AND +UNDERSTOOD HIM. THE OLD MAN GOT UP AND GAVE THE LETTER TO HIS SON. +UNDERSTOOD THAT SHE WAS BEING ASKED TO ENTERTAIN THIS YOUNG MAN, AND +UNDERSTOOD THE REVOLUTION AND QUELLED IT, AND SO FOR THE GENERAL GOOD, +UNDERSTOOD WITHOUT NAMING. +“UNDER THE LOWER PILLOW.” +“UND VIVAT DIE GANZE WELT!” THOUGH NEITHER THE GERMAN CLEANING HIS +UNEASILY AS IF PREPARING TO RESENT ANY SLIGHT THAT MIGHT BE PUT UPON THE +UNEXPECTEDLY KIND AND PLEASANT SMILE. +UNFASTENED CLOAK, WIDE BREECHES HANGING DOWN IN CREASES, AND A CRUMPLED +UNIFORM LIVING WAVES OF SOLDIERS, SHOULDER STRAPS, COVERED SHAKOS, +UNIFORMS ADVANCED TOWARD THE BRIDGE AT A RUN. SMOKE APPEARED AGAIN +UNIFORMS AND GROUPS WITH HORSES, EASILY RECOGNIZABLE AS ARTILLERY. +UNLICKED BEAR! A PERFECTLY ABSURD AND STUPID FELLOW, AND A GAMBLER TOO, +UNPLEASANT. +UNPLEASANT THINGS TO EVERYONE AND UPSET THEM. LET’S GO TO THE +UNWOUNDED. THE SOLDIERS WERE ASCENDING THE HILL BREATHING HEAVILY, AND +UP AND BEGAN WATCHING THE MOVEMENTS OF OUR TROOPS BELOW, AS PLAINLY +UP AND TURNING AWAY AS IF FROM A SHAMEFUL ASPERSION. “IT IS NOT FROM +UP!” CAME THE COMPANY COMMANDER’S VOICE IN JAUNTY TONES. THE +UP FOR LOST TIME. +UP FROM BOTH SIDES. EVERYONE CROWDED TO THE WINDOW, THE ENGLISHMAN IN +UP FROM THE SOFA, SEIZED BORíS UNDER THE ELBOW IN HIS QUICK, CLUMSY +UP HER DOWNY LITTLE LIP. “ALL THE PRETTY WOMEN IN SOCIETY WILL BE +UP HER SLEEVES STILL HIGHER. PIERRE APPROACHED, LOOKING AT HER IN A +UPON ANYONE, AND IT WAS CLEAR THAT THE KITTEN HAD SETTLED DOWN ONLY TO +UPPER LIP AND HER HALF-OPEN MOUTH—SEEMED TO BE HER OWN SPECIAL AND +UP THEIR KNAPSACKS WITH A JERK OF THEIR SHOULDERS AND PULLING THE STRAPS +UP THE WHOLE OF HER THIN, SICKLY FACE AND MADE IT BEAUTIFUL. HER BROTHER +UP TO DENíSOV’S SQUADRON AND RODE AT A FOOTPACE NOT FAR FROM ROSTóV, +UP TO HER. +UP TO THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, AND PRESENTED ARMS. +UP TO THEIR GALLERY, ADDRESSING THE FIRST VIOLIN: +UP TO THE WINDOW OF THE FIRST HOUSE, WHEN A FAMILIAR VOICE CALLED HIM BY +UP, WAS HASTILY WRITING AT A TUB TURNED BOTTOM UPWARDS. KOZLóVSKI’S +URGING OF HORSES, AND THE SWEARING OF SOLDIERS, ORDERLIES, AND OFFICERS. +US?...” “AH! MARY, YOU HAVE GOT THINNER?...” “AND YOU HAVE GROWN +US. BUT VIENNA IS ON THE OTHER SIDE. NO, THE BRIDGE HAS NOT YET BEEN +USED TO BE. DON’T JUDGE LISE HARSHLY,” SHE BEGAN. “SHE IS SO +USED TO SAY THAT A NAP “AFTER DINNER WAS SILVER—BEFORE DINNER, +USHERING BOLKóNSKI IN. “SO YOU’RE A MESSENGER OF VICTORY, EH? +US NICE NEWS OF A VICTORY BY THE ARCHDUKE KARL OR FERDINAND (ONE +US TALK BUSINESS. HAVE YOU BEEN TO THE HORSE GUARDS?” +US. TO THE LEFT THE HORIZON BOUNDED BY THE ADJACENT WOOD. PRINCE +USUAL. +USUAL IN FRENCH, AND AS IF AFTER LONG SELF-RESTRAINT SHE WISHED TO MAKE +USURPER, THE WHOLE NATION WILL CERTAINLY THROW ITSELF INTO THE ARMS +VACANCIES OCCUR MUCH MORE FREQUENTLY IN THE FOOT GUARDS. THEN JUST THINK +VANISHED FROM HIS FACE. +VANISHED. HE WAITED FOR THE FIRST PAUSE IN THE CONVERSATION, AND THEN +VARNISH. +VASíLI. +VASíLI AND THE ELDEST PRINCESS. PIERRE CONCLUDED THAT THIS ALSO WAS +VASíLI, “BUT IT IS DIFFICULT FOR ME TO ASK THE EMPEROR. I SHOULD +VASíLI, HIS CHEEKS TWITCHING MORE THAN EVER. +VASíLI IN THE ANTEROOM. ALL THE AFFECTATION OF INTEREST SHE HAD ASSUMED +VASíLI, IT IS VERY SAD FOR BOTH. AH, MY DEAR FRIEND, OUR DIVINE +VASíLI PLAYED A VERY DESPICABLE PART IN THIS AFFAIR AND THAT HE +VASíLI SEVERELY. “YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.” +VASíLI’S SON ANATOLE, WHOM THEY WISH TO REFORM BY MARRYING HIM TO +VASíLI’S SON, HIPPOLYTE, HAD COME WITH MORTEMART, WHOM HE INTRODUCED. +VASíLI TO ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. “GO AND TAKE SOMETHING, MY POOR ANNA +VASíLI TO ANNA PáVLOVNA. +VASíLI UNDERSTOOD IT AS AN EXPRESSION OF WEARINESS. +VASíLI WENT ON, TESTILY PUSHING AWAY A LITTLE TABLE WITHOUT LOOKING AT +VASíLI, WHO HAD GROWN THINNER AND PALER DURING THE LAST FEW DAYS, +“VE MUST VIGHT TO THE LAST TR-R-OP OF OUR PLOOD!” SAID THE COLONEL, +VENETIAN MIRROR IN THE WALL, AND IN HER TRODDEN-DOWN SHOES BRISKLY +“VéRA,” SHE SAID TO HER ELDEST DAUGHTER WHO WAS EVIDENTLY NOT A +VéRA WITH GUILTY, HAPPY FACES. +VERSES IN THE BOSOM OF HER DRESS CLOSE TO HER BONY LITTLE CHEST, RAN +VERY CLEVER BUT ECCENTRIC, AND A BORE. THE POOR GIRL IS VERY UNHAPPY. +VERY DECENT TOWN. YOU AND I WILL TRAVEL COMFORTABLY IN MY CALèCHE.” +VERY FINE WHEN HE SAID THAT,” HE REMARKED, REPEATING THE WORDS IN +“VERY GOOD,” ANSWERED NESVíTSKI. +“VERY GOOD!” SAID BAGRATIóN. +VERY IMPORTANT.” +“VERY INTERESTING.” +“VERY LIKELY IT WOULD BE SPLENDID, BUT IT WILL NEVER COME ABOUT....” +“VERY LOVELY,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. +VERY MUSCULAR MEN, AND ON THE NIGHT OF THE BATTLE, HAVING ARRIVED +VERY POOR, BUT FOR MY OWN PART AT ANY RATE, FOR THE VERY REASON THAT +“VERY,” SAID PIERRE. +VERY SERIOUS TALK.” +“VERY SILLY,” SAID VéRA. “I AM ASHAMED OF YOU. SECRETS INDEED!” +VERY STRICTLY TO SOCIAL DISTINCTIONS AND RARELY ADMITTED EVEN IMPORTANT +VERY TRYING,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, APPARENTLY SPEAKING LIGHTLY OF THEIR +VERY WELL...” +“VERY WELL, VERY WELL...” +VERY WISE, BECAUSE YOU CAN TAKE EVERYTHING ALONG WITH YOU—VODKA AND +VICOMTE AND FROM THE VICOMTE TO THEIR HOSTESS. IN THE FIRST MOMENT OF +VICOMTE CONTINUED, WITH THE AIR OF A MAN WHO, IN A MATTER WITH WHICH +VICOMTE WHO WAS CONTINUING HIS STORY. +VICTORY. HIS MAJESTY WILL NO DOUBT WISH TO SEE YOU, BUT NOT TODAY. I +VICTORY, WHAT EFFECT WOULD THAT HAVE ON THE GENERAL COURSE OF EVENTS? +VIENNA AS I TOLD YOU. VERY WELL. NEXT DAY, WHICH WAS YESTERDAY, THOSE +VIENNA BY THE AUSTRIAN HOFKRIEGSRATH, THE SOLE AND ALMOST UNATTAINABLE +VIENNA. KUTúZOV WITH HIS TRANSPORT HAD STILL TO MARCH FOR SOME DAYS +VIEWS BY THIS FRENCH SENTENCE. “C’EST BIEN POUR UN GARçON DE RIEN +VILE, INFAMOUS PAPER, BUT I THOUGHT THE THING WAS INVALID.” +“VILE WOMAN!” SHOUTED THE PRINCESS, DARTING UNEXPECTEDLY AT ANNA +VILLAGE. “VERY GOOD!” SAID BAGRATIóN IN REPLY TO THE OFFICER’S +VISIBLE AS IF BUT A STONE’S THROW AWAY, AND THE MOVEMENTS OF THE +VISIT MADEMOISELLE GEORGE; THAT AT HER HOUSE HE CAME UPON BONAPARTE, +VISITOR ALLUDED TO, THOUGH SHE HAD ALREADY HEARD ABOUT THE CAUSE OF +VISITOR. “AND TO THINK IT IS CYRIL VLADíMIROVICH BEZúKHOV’S SON +VISITOR. “HE IS A SON OF MáRYA IVáNOVNA DóLOKHOVA, SUCH A WORTHY +VISITORS ON HIS RIGHT. MIDWAY DOWN THE LONG TABLE ON ONE SIDE SAT THE +VIVIDLY IMAGINED WHAT AWAITED IT AND THE PART HE WOULD HAVE TO +VLADíMIR MEDAL AND RIBBON? BUT NOW, EVEN IF THEY DO GET PEPPERED, THE +VLADíMIROVICH BEZúKHOV, COUNTESS ROSTóVA SAT FOR A LONG TIME ALL +VLADíMIROVICH BEZúKHOV. IF HE WILL NOT ASSIST HIS GODSON—YOU KNOW +VLADíMIROVICH BEZúKHOV’S HOUSE. “MY DEAR BORíS,” SAID THE +VLADíMIROVICH IS MY MOTHER’S SECOND COUSIN. HE’S ALSO MY BóRY’S +VODKA A QUARTER OF AN HOUR BEFORE, HE SAW EVERYWHERE THE SAME RAPID +VOICE. +VOICE, AND LIEUTENANT TELYáNIN, A SMALL OFFICER OF THE SAME SQUADRON, +VOICE, OPENING HIS DOOR. +VOICE SUDDENLY SHRIEKED: “BUT IF I HEAR THAT YOU HAVE NOT BEHAVED LIKE +VOICES WERE BUT FEEBLY HEARD AMID THE UPROAR AND ONE SAW BY THEIR FACES +VOICE. “THERE WAS NO ONE ELSE IN THE ROOM EXCEPT MYSELF. SO THAT IF IT +VOICE WHICH EXPRESSED JOY FOR HIMSELF, SEVERITY FOR THE REGIMENT, AND +“VOILà L’AGRéMENT DES CAMPS, MONSIEUR LE PRINCE,” * SAID THE +VOLUME YOU HAVE SENT ME AND WHICH HAS SUCH SUCCESS IN MOSCOW. YET SINCE +VOTRE VICTOIRE N’EST PAS DES PLUS VICTORIEUSES.” * +“VOUS VOYEZ LE MALHEUREUX MACK,” HE UTTERED IN A BROKEN VOICE. +VREATENING RUSSIA AND ZAT ZE SAFETY AND DIGNITY OF ZE EMPIRE AS VELL + WAFTING SWEET MUSIC O’ER THE LEA, +WAISTCOAT. “IT’S THE SAUTé, MOST LIKELY,” SHE ADDED WITH A SMILE. +“WAIT A BIT AND LISTEN. IT’S FINE!” ANSWERED SíDOROV, WHO WAS +“WAIT A BIT, HE IS NOT DRUNK YET! A BOTTLE HERE,” SAID ANATOLE, AND +“WAIT A BIT, HERE’S A LETTER FOR YOU,” SAID THE OLD MAN SUDDENLY, +“WAIT A MOMENT, I’LL GET MY WORK.... NOW THEN, WHAT ARE YOU +“WAIT!” CRIED DóLOKHOV, HAMMERING WITH THE BOTTLE ON THE WINDOW +WAITED IN EXPECTATION OF AN IMPORTANT ORDER FOR AN EXPENSIVE FUNERAL. +“WAIT, HAVEN’T YOU DROPPED IT?” SAID ROSTóV, PICKING UP THE +“WAIT, I HAVE NOT FINISHED...” HE SAID TO PRINCE ANDREW, SEIZING +WAITING FOR—SOME IMPORTANT RELATION WHO HAS NOT YET ARRIVED, OR A DISH +WAITING TO SEE WHAT HE WOULD DO. HE STOOD A LITTLE WHILE BEFORE THE +“WAIT—JUST A WORD! WHEN HE HAS BEEN TRANSFERRED TO THE GUARDS...” +WALK TO MEET HIM. HIS FACE WITH ITS LONG MUSTACHE WAS SERIOUS AS ALWAYS, +WALLS HUNG ROUND WITH PERSIAN CARPETS. THE PART OF THE ROOM BEHIND THE +WANTS TO GO TO THE WAR,” REPLIED PIERRE, ADDRESSING THE PRINCESS +“WANTS TO TURN ON THE OTHER SIDE,” WHISPERED THE SERVANT, AND GOT UP +WANT TO DANCE WELL. HER ENORMOUS FIGURE STOOD ERECT, HER POWERFUL ARMS +WAR AND PEACE +WAR, EVEN HERE AMID FIELDWORK AND THE CALM OF NATURE—WHICH TOWNSFOLK +WAR HAS DEPRIVED ME OF ONE OF THE ASSOCIATIONS NEAREST MY HEART. I MEAN +WAR OR POLITICS BUT RELATED TO HIGH SOCIETY, TO CERTAIN WOMEN, AND TO +WARS,” HE SAID. +WAS. +WAS ABOUT TO RUN ON, THINKING THAT THE FARTHER HE WENT TO THE FRONT +WAS ABOUT TWENTY-FIVE. LIKE ALL INFANTRY OFFICERS HE WORE NO MUSTACHE, +WAS ABOUT, WENT ACROSS THE ROOM TO WHERE PIERRE WAS STANDING AND GAVE +WAS ACCUSTOMED TO UNDERSTAND HIM. HE LED HIM TO THE DESK, RAISED THE +“WAS A POLITICAL NECESSITY, AND IT SEEMS TO ME THAT NAPOLEON +WAS A STROKE OF GENIUS. PRINCE AUERSPERG FEELS HIS DIGNITY AT STAKE AND +WAS AT HOME LAST, AND, HAVING ASSURED HIMSELF THAT THEY HAD NOT, HE +WAS A YOUNG HORSE TELYáNIN HAD SOLD TO ROSTóV.) +WAS CHARMING... YOU ARE VERY KIND... COUNTESS APRáKSINA...” WAS HEARD +WAS COMING, AND TURNING TO HER MOTHER: +WAS DIVERTED BY THE DESPERATE SHRIEKS OF THE WOMAN IN THE VEHICLE. AN +WAS DULLED BY IMBECILITY AND A CONSTANT EXPRESSION OF SULLEN +WAS FULLY DESCRIBED: PRINCE MURAT ET TOUT LE TREMBLEMENT... YOU SEE THAT +WAS GREAT ON THE BRIDGE OF ARCOLA, AND IN THE HOSPITAL AT JAFFA WHERE HE +WAS HAPPY. “LEFT... LEFT... LEFT...” HE SEEMED TO REPEAT TO HIMSELF +WAS HOLDING FAST TO PLAIT, WOULD ALLOW. +WAS IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDED BY COURTIERS ON ALL SIDES. EVERYWHERE HE +WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE IT CLEARLY WITH THE NAKED EYE. OUR RIGHT FLANK WAS +WAS IN THE WAY AND WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO DID NOT NOTICE THE FACT. MOST OF +“WAS KUTúZOV WELL? WHEN HAD HE LEFT KREMS?” AND SO ON. THE EMPEROR +WAS NECESSARY FOR HIM TO GO TO THE COUNT AT ALL, STILL LESS WHY HE HAD +WAS “NOT A WHIT WORSE THAN YOU OR I.” AT DINNER THE PRINCE USUALLY +“WASN’T I TELLING YOU TO FIRE THE BRIDGE, WHEN INFLAMMABLE MATERIAL +“WASN’T IT FINE WHEN THOSE GERMANS GAVE US LIFTS! YOU JUST SIT STILL +WAS ONLY REDDER THAN USUAL. WITH HIS SHAGGY HEAD THROWN BACK LIKE BIRDS +WAS PARTICULARLY PLEASANT AT THAT MOMENT. THEY HAD REACHED THE BATTERY +WAS RAPIDLY AND EXCITEDLY TALKING TO A FRENCH GRENADIER. “HARK TO HIM +WAS RATHER OUT OF PLACE IN THIS BRILLIANT SOCIETY, THE WHOLE COMPANY HAD +WAS SAYING. +WAS SPITTING BLOOD. A BULLET HAD EVIDENTLY HIT HIM IN THE THROAT OR +WAS STANDING BESIDE THE PRINCESS, AND THEY WERE BOTH SPEAKING IN EXCITED +WAS STRICTER.” +WAS TALKING CAME UP TO LISTEN. BERG, OBLIVIOUS OF IRONY OR INDIFFERENCE, +WAS TALL AND FAIR, AND HIS CALM AND HANDSOME FACE HAD REGULAR, DELICATE +“WAS THAT GRAPESHOT?” HE ASKED DENíSOV. +WAS THERE ON THE HILLTOP, AND KEPT CONSTANTLY LOOKING AT THE PATCHES +WAS TRUE AND APPROPRIATE, YET, STRANGE TO SAY, EVERYONE—THE VISITORS +WAS TRUE. NO ONE HAD TAKEN ANY NOTICE, FOR EVERYONE KNEW THE SENSATION +WAS VERY VALUABLE. OFFICERS WHO APPROACHED HIM WITH DISTURBED +WAS WRITING. “I’LL DO IT.” +WATCHED HER COUSIN WHO WAS GOING TO JOIN THE ARMY, WITH SUCH PASSIONATE +WATCHED HIM. SHE SMILED, HID HER FACE IN HER HANDKERCHIEF, AND REMAINED +WATCHED HIM SMILINGLY, AND HE RODE OFF BY THE WINDING PATH DOWN THE +WATCHFUL EYE ON THE YOUNG MAN WHO SO ALARMED HER, NOTICED THAT HE WAS +WATCHING AND IT CREAKED VERY SLIGHTLY AS SHE DISAPPEARED BEHIND IT. +“WATCHING OVER HIS INTERESTS” MEANT, BUT HE DECIDED THAT ALL THESE +WATCH THE CHANGE IN THE TONE AND MANNERS OF THE MAMMAS BURDENED BY +WATERS OF THE DISTANT DANUBE SHONE. AND FAIRER STILL WERE THE FARAWAY +WAVING IT ABOVE HIS HEAD CRIED: +WAY, AND, BLUSHING FAR MORE THAN BORíS, BEGAN TO SPEAK WITH A FEELING +WAY,” HE ADDED IN RUSSIAN—BUT PRONOUNCING THE WORD WITH A FRENCH +WAY!... LET US PASS!... STOP THERE, YOU DEVIL WITH THE CART! I’LL HACK +WEAK HUMAN UNDERSTANDING CANNOT GRASP, IT SEEMS TO ME RATHER USELESS TO +“WE ALL HAVE OUR WEAKNESSES,” SAID KUTúZOV SMILING AND WALKING AWAY +“WEALLY! AND I’VE BEEN LOSING, BWOTHER. I LOST YESTERDAY LIKE A +WEAPON) AND LOOKED NOW AT THE SUPERIOR OFFICERS AND NOW BACK AT THE MEN +“WE ARE TO SPEND THE NIGHT IN ZNAIM.” +WEARINESS OF TONE, “IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO DO WHAT YOU +WEARY FACES, WERE SITTING AT THE TABLE EATING AND DRINKING. +WEARY, MAKING HIS WAY PAST THE BAGGAGE WAGONS, RODE IN SEARCH OF THE +WEARY OF IT AND IT WAS NOT AT ALL WHAT HE WANTED. HE TURNED AWAY AND +WEATHER, AND COUNTESS APRáKSINA. NOW AND THEN THEY GLANCED AT ONE +WEATHER. “THE WEATHER IS BEAUTIFUL, PRINCESS; AND BESIDES, IN MOSCOW +“WE DON’T INTERFERE WITH YOU AND BERG.” +‘WE DON’T LOVE PEOPLE SO MUCH FOR THE GOOD THEY HAVE DONE US, AS +WE HAD NOT RELIGION TO CONSOLE US LIFE WOULD BE VERY SAD. WHY DO YOU +WE HAVE FULLY CONCENTRATED FORCES OF NEARLY SEVENTY THOUSAND MEN WITH +“WE HAVE ORDERS TO DRIVE YOU OFF HERE, AND WE SHALL DRIVE YOU OFF,” +“WE HERE IN MOSCOW ARE MORE OCCUPIED WITH DINNER PARTIES AND SCANDAL +WEIGHT. +WEIGHT THEY WERE CARRYING WERE TOO MUCH FOR THEM. +WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE. AND WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE BOULOGNE EXPEDITION? +WELCOME FOR THE APPROACHING CHIEF. +WE LET OUR FEEBLE HUMAN MINDS ROAM, THE BETTER WE SHALL PLEASE GOD, WHO +WELFARE OF HIS SOUL IS AT STAKE. AH, IT IS AWFUL: THE DUTIES OF A +WELL.” +WELL.” +“WELL, ALL I CAN MAKE OUT IS THAT EVERYTHING IS ABOMINABLE, +WELL!” AND HE TURNED TO GO. +WELL AND, IN PARTICULAR, DRINKS WELL. “SO DO COME AND DINE WITH US!” +“WELL, AND TO WHOM DID YOU APPLY ABOUT BóRY?” ASKED THE COUNTESS. +“WELL, AREN’T YOU ASHAMED OF YOURSELF, CAPTAIN TúSHIN?” HE +“WELL, AU REVOIR, BOLKóNSKI! AU REVOIR, PRINCE! COME BACK EARLY TO +“WELL, AU REVOIR! GOOD-BY! YOU HEAR HER?” +“WELL DONE!... FINE FELLOW!... THERE’S A BET FOR YOU!... DEVIL TAKE +“WELL DONE, LADS!” SAID PRINCE BAGRATIóN. +WELL EDUCATED AND CLEVER. THIS IS ALL THAT HIS FOREIGN EDUCATION HAS +WELL ENOUGH TO BE SURE THAT THIS WILL NOT TURN YOUR HEAD, BUT IT IMPOSES +WE’LL FIRE OFF SOME CANNON! BUT THIS SORT OF THING SEEMS DONE +“WELL, FWIEND? SO YOU’VE SMELT POWDAH!” SHOUTED VáSKA DENíSOV +“WELL, GOOD-BY, PRINCE,” SAID HE TO BAGRATIóN. “MY BLESSING, AND +“WELL? HAS HE BEEN DEGRADED INTO A FIELD MARSHAL, OR INTO A SOLDIER? +“WELL, HAVE IT SO, AND YOU TALKED A LOT OF NONSENSE TO HIM AND MUST +“WELL, HAVE YOU FINISHED?” SAID HE TO KOZLóVSKI. +“WELL!” HE SAID, TURNING TO HIS WIFE. +“WELL, HE’S REALLY A GOOD FELLOW, ONE CAN SERVE UNDER HIM,” SAID +“WELL, HOW IS HE?” +“WELL, I AM TAKING IT OFF,” REPLIED LAVRúSHKA’S VOICE. +“WELL, IF YOU DO, SO MUCH THE BETTER, AND YOU CAN GO BACK TO HER!” +“WELL, I HAVE GOT ALL I NEED INTO PACKS FOR TWO HORSES,” SAID +“WELL, IS IT TRUE THAT IT’S PEACE AND CAPITULATION?” ASKED +“WELL, I SUPPOSE IT IS TIME WE WERE AT TABLE?” SAID MáRYA +“WELL, I THINK IT IS. THE BIGWIGS HERE THINK SO TOO, BUT THEY +“WELL, IT’S AS YOU LIKE,” SAID THE STAFF CAPTAIN. “AND WHAT HAS +“WELL, IT SEEMS THAT NO ONE HAS NOTICED,” THOUGHT ROSTóV. AND THIS +WELL KNOWN, SO MUCH APPRECIATED BY EVERYONE. THE OTHER DAY AT THE +“WELL, LET’S GO AND SING ‘THE BROOK.’” +“WELL, LITTLE COUNTESS? WHAT A SAUTé OF GAME AU MADèRE WE ARE TO +“WELL, MADAM,” HE BEGAN, STOOPING OVER THE BOOK CLOSE TO HIS +“WE’LL MAKE YOU DANCE AS WE DID UNDER SUVóROV...,” * SAID +“WELL, MAYBE!” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. “GO, MáSHA; I’LL COME +“WELL, MICHAEL IVáNOVICH, OUR BONAPARTE WILL BE HAVING A BAD TIME +“WELL, MICHAEL MíTRICH, SIR?” HE SAID, ADDRESSING ONE OF THE +“WELL, MON CHER,” SAID THE VICOMTE, HAVING SEATED HIMSELF BESIDE +“WELL, MY BOY, YOU’LL GET ALONG WHEREVER YOU GO—FOOT OR +“WELL, MY DEAR?” ASKED THE COUNTESS. +“WELL, MY DEAR?” SAID PRINCE VASíLI, TAKING HER HAND AND BENDING IT +WELL, NEVER MIND, HERE YOU ARE.” +“WELL, NEVER MIND; I ONLY...” +“WELL NOW, GENTLEMEN,” SAID BILíBIN, “BOLKóNSKI IS MY GUEST IN +“WELL, NOW, GOOD-BY!” HE GAVE HIS SON HIS HAND TO KISS, AND EMBRACED +“WELL NOW, ISN’T SHE A FOOL!” SHOUTED THE PRINCE, PUSHING THE BOOK +“WELL, NOW TELL ME ABOUT YOUR EXPLOITS,” SAID HE. +“WELL, NOW YOU’VE DONE WHAT YOU WANTED,” PUT IN NICHOLAS—“SAID +“WELL, OF COURSE, OF COURSE!” +WELL, ONLY A LITTLE BRUISED JUST HERE,” HE ADDED, POINTING WITH A +“WELL, PRINCE?” ASKED KOZLóVSKI. +“WELL, PRINCE, SO GENOA AND LUCCA ARE NOW JUST FAMILY ESTATES OF THE +“WELL, REALLY, CATICHE! CAN’T YOU UNDERSTAND! YOU ARE SO +“WELL, REALLY, MAMMA! WHY SHOULD YOU? WHAT IS THERE TO BE SURPRISED +“WELL,” SAID SHE, “HOW’S MY COSSACK?” (MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA +“WELL, STAND US SOME OF YOUR HERB VODKA, TúSHIN,” IT SAID. +“WELL, TALK AS MUCH AS YOU CAN, ANYWAY. HE HAS A PASSION FOR GIVING +“WELL, THANK GOD! WE’VE BEEN SITTING HERE TOO LONG!” +“WELL, THAT IS HARDLY A SUFFICIENT REASON, MAMMA...” +“WELL, THAT’S ALL RIGHT,” CONTINUED THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER. “A +“WELL, THAT’S ONLY TILL THE FIRST ENGAGEMENT.” +“WELL, THEN GO OFF TO YOUR BUONAPARTE! MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, +“WELL, THEN, I WON’T; ONLY FORGIVE ME, SóNYA!” HE DREW HER TO HIM +“WELL, THEN, LET’S BE QUICK. BORíS, COME HERE,” SAID NATáSHA. +“WELL, THEN, OLD CHAP, MON TRèS HONORABLE ALPHONSE KáRLOVICH,” +“WELL THERE CERTAINLY ARE DISGUSTING PEOPLE,” THOUGHT ROSTóV AS HE +“WELL, THIS IS STRANGE! DO YOU SUPPOSE I... WHO COULD THINK?... I KNOW +“WELL, WHAT ABOUT IT?” SAID HE TO DENíSOV. “IT WON’T COME TO A +“WELL, WHY ARE YOU GOING TO THE WAR?” ASKED PIERRE. +“WELL, WHY DON’T YOU SPEAK? WHOM HAVE YOU GOT THERE DRESSED UP AS A +“WELL, YOUNG CAVALRYMAN, HOW IS MY ROOK BEHAVING?” HE ASKED. (ROOK +“WELL, YOUNG MAN?” HE SAID WITH A SIGH, AND FROM UNDER HIS LIFTED +“WELL, YOUR EXCELLENCY, WHAT? YOUR EXCELLENCY! BUT WHAT ABOUT YOUR +“WELL, YOU SEE, COUNT, I WANT SOME MONEY.” +“WELL, YOU SEE, MY DEAR PRINCESS AND COUSIN, CATHERINE SEMëNOVNA,” +“WELL, YOU’VE TOLD ME NOTHING NEW,” AND THE OLD MAN REPEATED, +“WE MAY AS WELL GO BACK,” SAID THE SON IN FRENCH. + * “WE MUST LET HIM OFF THE U!” +“WE MUST LET HIM SEE AMELIE, SHE’S EXQUISITE!” SAID ONE OF +WENT FURTHER IN AMONG THE PLANTS AND THREW DOWN THE DOLL. “CLOSER, +WENT INTO THE RECEPTION ROOM FAMILIAR TO PIERRE, WITH TWO ITALIAN +WENT IN WITH NICHOLAS. AFTER THEM OTHER COUPLES FOLLOWED, FILLING THE +WENT ON TO THE GAME WITHOUT OMITTING A SINGLE DISH OR ONE OF THE WINES. +WENT TO THE CARRIAGE. +WENT, WITH THE SMILE OF A COQUETTISH GIRL, WHICH AT ONE TIME PROBABLY +WE PARTED. WHY ARE WE NOT TOGETHER AS WE WERE LAST SUMMER, IN YOUR BIG +WEPT TOO. THEY WEPT BECAUSE THEY WERE FRIENDS, AND BECAUSE THEY WERE +WERE BEING SET OUT FOR EIGHTY PEOPLE; AND LOOKING AT THE FOOTMEN, WHO +WERE BRINGING IN SILVER AND CHINA, MOVING TABLES, AND UNFOLDING DAMASK +WERE CHILDREN. YOU MIGHT THINK THAT I... I UNDERSTAND, QUITE UNDERSTAND. +WERE CROSSING THEMSELVES. ROSTóV NO LONGER LOOKED AT THE COLONEL, HE +WERE EVIDENTLY FLURRIED AND INTIMIDATED BY THE DIRECTIONS AND SHOUTS OF +WERE EXPECTING MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA AKHROSíMOVA, KNOWN IN SOCIETY AS LE +WE’RE GETTING IT STILL WORSE,” SAID NESVíTSKI. “BUT SIT DOWN AND +“WE’RE GOING INTO ACTION, GENTLEMEN!” +WERE, “HIGH-SOUNDING WORDS WHICH HAVE LONG BEEN DISCREDITED. WHO DOES +WERE NEAR HIM. EVERYBODY SAID THAT BUONAPARTE HIMSELF WAS AT BRAUNAU.” +WERE NICHOLAS AND SóNYA, THE NIECE. SóNYA WAS A SLENDER LITTLE +WERE NOT IN VERY GOOD CONDITION), AND INSTANTLY THE SQUARES THAT HAD UP +WERE OF THE SAME AGE AND BOTH HANDSOME FELLOWS, THOUGH NOT ALIKE. BORíS +WERE ONLY 217 SICK AND STRAGGLERS. EVERYTHING WAS IN GOOD ORDER EXCEPT +WERE REALLY GIVEN, BUT THAT PRINCE BAGRATIóN TRIED TO MAKE IT APPEAR +WERE SAYING. SUDDENLY, HOWEVER, HE WAS STRUCK BY A VOICE COMING FROM THE +WERE SITTING AT EMBROIDERY FRAMES WHILE A THIRD READ ALOUD. IT WAS THE +WERE SITTING AT THE TABLE ON WHICH A PLAN WAS SPREAD OUT. +WERE SITTING ON SOME FEATHER BEDS. EVIDENTLY THESE FUGITIVES WERE +WERE TALKING AND LISTENING TOO EAGERLY AND TOO NATURALLY, WHICH WAS WHY +WERE THE POTëMKINS, SUVóROVS, AND ORLóVS GERMANS? NO, LAD, EITHER YOU +WERE THEREFORE AWKWARD. +WERE THERE,” THOUGHT ROSTóV. “IN MYSELF ALONE AND IN THAT SUNSHINE +WERE TO BE SEVERE WITH HER AND TO FORBID IT ... GOODNESS KNOWS WHAT THEY +“WE’RE TO GO INTO ACTION, GENTLEMEN! MACK HAS SURRENDERED WITH HIS +WERE TO LAND AT NAPLES, AND HOW A TOTAL FORCE OF FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND +WERE USING THEIR RAMRODS, OTHERS PUTTING POWDER ON THE TOUCHPANS OR +WERE WAITING FOR THEM TO COME OUT. +“WE SHALL BE LATE.” +“WE SHALL SEE.” +“WETCHED BUSINESS,” HE MUTTERED TO HIMSELF. “HOW MUCH IS LEFT IN +“WETCHED!” HE MUTTERED, THROWING DOWN A PURSE WITH SOME GOLD IN IT. +“WE’VE GOT TO IT AT LAST—WHY DID YOU NOT TELL ME ABOUT IT +“WE’VE SAID GOOD-BY. GO!” HE SUDDENLY SHOUTED IN A LOUD, ANGRY +“WE WILL TALK OF IT LATER,” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA WITH A SMILE. +WE WOMEN, PRINCE,” AND SHE SMILED TENDERLY, “ALWAYS KNOW HOW TO SAY +“WHAT ABOUT CAPITULATION?” +“WHAT ABOUT YOUR MASTER?” HE ASKED LAVRúSHKA, DENíSOV’S ORDERLY, +“WHAT A CHARMING CREATURE YOUR YOUNGER GIRL IS,” SAID THE VISITOR; +“WHAT A CLEVER MAN YOUR FATHER IS,” SAID SHE; “PERHAPS THAT IS WHY +“WHAT A DANDY YOU ARE TODAY!” SAID NESVíTSKI, LOOKING AT +“WHAT A DELIGHTFUL WOMAN THIS LITTLE PRINCESS IS!” SAID PRINCE +“WHAT A FINE FELLOW YOU ARE, FRIEND!” SAID THE COSSACK TO A CONVOY +“WHAT AN EXTRAORDINARY GENIUS!” PRINCE ANDREW SUDDENLY EXCLAIMED, +“WHAT A NICE FIGURE THE POLICEMAN MUST HAVE CUT, MY DEAR!” SHOUTED +“WHAT A PITY YOU WEREN’T AT THE ARKHáROVS’ ON THURSDAY. IT WAS SO +“WHAT ARE YOU DOING!” SHE CRIED VEHEMENTLY. “HE IS DYING AND YOU +“WHAT ARE YOU MAKING SUCH A NOISE ABOUT OVER THERE?” MáRYA +“WHAT ARE YOUR COMMANDS, LITTLE COUNTESS?” +“WHAT?” ASKED THE COMMANDER. +“WHAT A TREASURE THAT DMíTRI IS,” ADDED THE COUNT WITH A SMILE WHEN +WHAT A VOICE SHE HAS; THOUGH SHE’S MY DAUGHTER, I TELL THE TRUTH +“WHAT BRINGS YOU HERE?” CRIED THE OFFICERS TURNING TO THE NEWCOMER. +WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY RUBLES! I EVEN MANAGE TO +“WHAT CAN ONE SAY ABOUT IT?” REPLIED THE PRINCE IN A COLD, LISTLESS +WHAT CHANCE HAS MICHAEL KUTúZOV? NO, MY DEAR BOY,” HE CONTINUED, +“WHAT DEVILS THESE QUARTERMASTERS ARE! SEE, THE FIFTH COMPANY IS +WHAT DO WE, I MEAN THE AUSTRIAN COURT, CARE FOR YOUR VICTORIES? BRING +“WHAT DO YOU THANK ME FOR?” +WHATEVER. +“WHATEVER IS THIS? THIS!” HE SHOUTED AND STOOD STILL. “COMMANDER +WHATEVER THE IMPORT OF HIS WORK. IT WAS NOT THE QUESTION “WHAT FOR?” +WHATEVER WE MAY SAY ABOUT THE SOUL GOING TO THE SKY... WE KNOW THERE IS +“WHAT FOR? I DON’T KNOW. I MUST. BESIDES THAT I AM GOING....” HE +“WHAT GOOD ARE THEY? THEY’RE LED ABOUT JUST FOR SHOW!” REMARKED +“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MLLE SCHéRER? SHE WILL BE QUITE ILL NOW,” +“WHAT? HERE? BUT WHY DID THEY NOT BLOW UP THE BRIDGE, IF IT WAS +WHAT HE WAS ABOUT; YET THEY BEAT HIM à PLATE COUTURE,*(3) AND WHERE +WHAT HE WAS LAUGHING AT. EVERYTHING HER FATHER DID INSPIRED HER WITH +“WHAT IS BAD, FATHER?” +WHAT IS BEYOND DEATH, NONE OF US WOULD BE AFRAID OF IT. THAT’S SO, +“WHAT IS IT?” ASKED THE COUNTESS, STARTLED; BUT SEEING BY HER +“WHAT IS IT, DEAR?” +“WHAT IS IT?” HE ASKED. +“WHAT IS IT? WHAT?” ASKED BOTH PRINCESSES WHEN THEY SAW FOR A MOMENT +“WHAT IS IT YOU ARE AFRAID OF, LISE? I DON’T UNDERSTAND,” SAID HE. +“WHAT IS THAT?” ASKED THE COUNTESS AS IF SHE DID NOT KNOW WHAT THE +“WHAT IS THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF DOING HERE?” HE ASKED. +“WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU, MY DEAR?” SHE SAID CROSSLY TO THE MAID +WHAT IS THERE? WHO IS THERE?—THERE BEYOND THAT FIELD, THAT TREE, THAT +“WHAT IS THE SOMETHING?” ASKED HE. +WHAT IT MUST BE FOR HER, POOR THING, AFTER WHAT SHE HAS BEEN USED TO, +“WHAT MANNERS! I THOUGHT THEY WOULD NEVER GO,” SAID THE COUNTESS, +“WHAT, MONSIEUR PIERRE... DO YOU CONSIDER THAT ASSASSINATION SHOWS +“WHAT NEWS, SIR?” ASKED THE OFFICER, EVIDENTLY ANXIOUS TO START A +“WHAT NEXT? HAVE YOU GONE MAD?... NO ONE WOULD LET YOU!... WHY, YOU GO +“WHAT NEXT?” THE PRINCESS INTERRUPTED, SMILING SARDONICALLY AND NOT +“WHAT? OCCUPIED? VIENNA OCCUPIED?” +“WHAT? REVOLUTION AND REGICIDE A GRAND THING?... WELL, AFTER THAT... +“WHAT? SAW THE REAL MACK? WITH HANDS AND FEET?” +“WHAT SHALL WE SING?” SHE SAID. + * “WHAT’S HE SINGING ABOUT?” +WHAT SHE WAS HOLDING IN HER RETICULE.) “SO YOU PROMISE?” +“WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT? WHY, THE FRENCH HAVE CROSSED THE BRIDGE THAT +WHAT’S ONE TO DO?” AND, HAVING GIVEN HIS ORDER, HE RETURNED TO +WHAT’S ONE TO DO, MY DEAR?” +“WHAT’S THAT THAT HAS FALLEN?” ASKED THE ACCOUNTANT WITH A NAïVE +“WHAT’S THE GOOD OF DENYING IT, MY DEAR? OUR DEAR COUNTESS WAS TOO +“WHAT’S THE MATTER?” EXCLAIMED PRINCE ANDREW STANDING STILL IN +“WHAT’S THE MATTER? I ONLY CONGRATULATED THEM,” SAID ZHERKóV. +WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH YOU? YOU MUST BE ILL TO SHIVER LIKE THAT,” HE +“WHAT’S TO BE DONE? SHE’S PRETTY! I WILL DO EVERYTHING. MAKE YOUR +WHAT WAS APPROACHING IN THE DISTANCE FROM THE OPPOSITE SIDE—THE BLUE +WHAT WE FATHERS HAVE TO PUT UP WITH.... IS THIS PRINCESS OF YOURS +“WHAT? WHAT? HOW DARE YOU? WHAT?” SAID TELYáNIN. +“WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOW?” THOUGHT SHE. +“WHAT WOULD IT COST YOU TO SAY A WORD TO THE EMPEROR, AND THEN HE +“WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE ME DO?” HE SAID AT LAST. “YOU KNOW I DID ALL +“WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE, MY DEAR FELLOW?” ANSWERED PIERRE, SHRUGGING +“WHAT YOU SAID JUST NOW WAS SPLENDID!” SAID HIS PARTNER JULIE. +WHEELS AND THE SENSATION OF VICTORY. THEN HE BEGAN TO IMAGINE THAT +WHEN ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA RETURNED FROM COUNT BEZúKHOV’S THE MONEY, ALL +“WHEN ARE YOU STARTING?” HE ASKED. +WHEN BORíS APPEARED AT HIS DOOR PIERRE WAS PACING UP AND DOWN HIS ROOM, +“WHEN HE LOOKED AT MY FEET, FRIEND... WELL, THINKS I...” +WHEN HE NEEDS REPOSE? WORLDLY CONVERSATION AT A MOMENT WHEN HIS SOUL IS +“WHEN HER CONFINEMENT IS DUE, SEND TO MOSCOW FOR AN ACCOUCHEUR.... LET +WHEN HE SAW THE MINISTER SEATED AT A LARGE TABLE READING SOME PAPERS +WHEN I SAY SHE’LL BE A SINGER, A SECOND SALOMONI! WE HAVE ENGAGED AN +WHEN NATáSHA RAN OUT OF THE DRAWING ROOM SHE ONLY WENT AS FAR AS THE +WHEN PRINCE ANDREW ENTERED THE STUDY THE OLD MAN IN HIS OLD-AGE +WHEN PRINCE ANDREW LEFT THE PALACE HE FELT THAT ALL THE INTEREST +WHEN PRINCE ANDREW REACHED THE ROOM PREPARED FOR HIM AND LAY DOWN IN A +WHEN ROSTóV WENT BACK THERE WAS A BOTTLE OF VODKA AND A SAUSAGE ON THE +WHEN SHE BEGAN TO SPEAK PASSED THROUGH SUCH TRANSITIONS AS SHE HERSELF +WHEN SHE HAD SEEN HER GUESTS OUT. +WHEN SHE SAID THIS, HE DID NOT REPLY AND ONLY BOWED, BUT AGAIN EVERYBODY +WHEN SHE SAW PIERRE ENTER. THOUGH HE WAS CERTAINLY RATHER BIGGER THAN +WHEN SHE TOOK HER SEAT OPPOSITE AND BEAMED UPON HIM ALSO WITH HER +“WHEN SPEAKING TO THE EMPEROR, TRY AS FAR AS YOU CAN TO PRAISE THE WAY +WHEN STARTING ON A JOURNEY OR CHANGING THEIR MODE OF LIFE, MEN CAPABLE +WHEN TELYáNIN HAD FINISHED HIS LUNCH HE TOOK OUT OF HIS POCKET A DOUBLE +WHEN THE EAGER BUT MISREPEATED WORDS HAD REACHED THEIR DESTINATION IN +WHEN THE MILITARY GOVERNOR HAD GONE, PRINCE VASíLI SAT DOWN ALL ALONE +WHEN THE TWENTY MINUTES HAD ELAPSED AND THE TIME HAD COME FOR THE OLD +WHEN THEY AGAIN HEARD AN UNEXPECTEDLY VIOLENT WHISTLING WHICH SUDDENLY +WHEN THEY DRINK, PRESSING HIS SPURS MERCILESSLY INTO THE SIDES OF HIS +“WHEN WOULD YOU LIKE THEM, YOUR EXCELLENCY?” ASKED DMíTRI. “ALLOW +WHERE. +“WHERE ARE HEADQUARTERS?” +“WHERE ARE YOU GOING?” ASKED AN INFANTRY OFFICER WHO WAS EATING AN +“WHERE ARE YOU OFF TO?” HE SAID SUDDENLY TO PRINCE ANDREW WHO HAD +“WHERE? AT BYKOV’S, AT THE RAT’S... I KNEW IT,” REPLIED A PIPING +“WHERE HAVE YOU PUT IT, WOSTóV?” +“WHERE IS DóLOKHOV?” ASKED KUTúZOV. +“WHERE IS THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF?” ASKED BOLKóNSKI. +WHERE’S THE VICTORY?” +“WHERE THE DEVIL HAVE THE LEG BANDS BEEN SHOVED TO?” SAID AN +WHERE THE RIVALS SUDDENLY RECOGNIZED ONE ANOTHER; AND THE LADIES LOOKED +“WHERE TO?” +“WHERE TO?” +WHETHER HE WAS SPEAKING IN JEST OR IN EARNEST. “AH, YOUR EXCELLENCY! +WHETHER WHAT HE SAID WAS VERY WITTY OR VERY STUPID. HE WAS DRESSED IN +WHICH A FAINT SMILE FORGOT TO FADE THOUGH HIS FEATURES NOW EXPRESSED +WHICH AT LEAST HALF OF THEM WOULD BE LEFT ON THE FIELD. AFTER PASSING A +WHICH DID NOT LEAVE HIS EAGER FACE. “HOCH OESTREICHER! HOCH RUSSEN! +WHICH FORMS AN IMPENETRABLE VEIL BETWEEN US AND THE ETERNAL? LET US +WHICH HAD DISAPPEARED, BUT AT FRENCH INFANTRY WHO HAD COME INTO THE +WHICH HAD LOST ALL DIGNITY, AND AT THE TWITCHING CHEEKS OF PRINCE +WHICH HE FOUND HIMSELF. ANNA PáVLOVNA WAS OBVIOUSLY SERVING HIM UP AS +WHICH HE HELD THE HILT OF HIS NAKED SABER, LOOKED JUST AS IT USUALLY +WHICH INDICATES THAT PATIENCE IS EXHAUSTED. +WHICH INTIMATED THAT HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS ABOUT AND IF OTHERS DID NOT +WHICH IT IS DIFFICULT TO JUSTIFY.” +WHICH SEEMED TO SAY THAT HE WAS NOT BLAMING ANYONE, BUT COULD NOT HELP +WHICH SEEMED TO STAND RATHER THAN LIE DOWN ON HIS MASSIVE SHOULDERS. HE +WHICH SEVERAL OTHERS JOINED BUT WHICH BORED PIERRE. WHEN THE MUSIC BEGAN +WHICH SHE NEITHER WISHED, NOR COULD, NOR CONSIDERED IT NECESSARY, TO +WHICH SHOWED THAT HE ONLY UNDERSTOOD THE MEANING OF HIS WORDS AFTER HE +WHICH STOOD ON HER RIGHT. IT REFLECTED A WEAK, UNGRACEFUL FIGURE AND +WHICH THE CADET UNDER FIRE FOR THE FIRST TIME HAD EXPERIENCED. +WHICH TO ATTACK AND DEFEAT THE ENEMY SHOULD HE CROSS THE LECH. ALSO, +WHICH WAS LITTERED WITH BOOKS AND PAPERS. THE PRINCESS WAS AS UNTIDY AS +WHICH WAS OFFERED HIM. TELYáNIN FOR SOME REASON HAD BEEN TRANSFERRED +WHILE IN THE ROSTóVS’ BALLROOM THE SIXTH ANGLAISE WAS BEING DANCED, +WHILE THE COUNT WAS BEING TURNED OVER, ONE OF HIS ARMS FELL BACK +WHILE THE COUPLES WERE ARRANGING THEMSELVES AND THE MUSICIANS TUNING UP, +WHILE THESE CONVERSATIONS WERE GOING ON IN THE RECEPTION ROOM AND THE +WHILE THE YOUNGEST, THE ONE WITH THE MOLE, WHO WAS OF A CHEERFUL AND +WHISPERED, AND A SHUDDER RAN DOWN HER BACK. +WHISPERED TO ONE ANOTHER, CASTING SIGNIFICANT LOOKS AT HIM WITH A KIND +WHISPERING, AND BETRAYING BY EVERY WORD AND MOVEMENT THAT THEY NONE +WHISPERS. +WHISPERS, AND, WHENEVER ANYONE WENT INTO OR CAME FROM THE DYING MAN’S +WHISTLING, SINGING, AND HISSING CONTINUALLY AROUND THEM. HE SPOKE IN THE +WHITE FOAM FROM HIS BIT, TRAMPING THE PLANKS OF THE BRIDGE WITH HIS +WHITE FOAM ON THE WAVES OF THE ENNS, AN OFFICER, IN A CLOAK AND WITH +WHITE HORSE, WAS PRINCE BAGRATIóN. PRINCE ANDREW STOPPED, WAITING FOR +WHITE ONE, THE WHITE ONE!” +WHITES GLITTERING AND ROLLING AS HE WAVED HIS SHEATHED SABER IN A SMALL +WHITE TEETH FIERCELY AND SPURRING HIS BLACK THOROUGHBRED ARAB, WHICH +WHO ALSO ENJOYED THE FAMOUS ACTRESS’ FAVORS, AND THAT IN HIS PRESENCE +WHO ALWAYS SOLVED QUESTIONS THAT SEEMED TO HIM PERPLEXING BY DECIDING +WHO AMUSES HIMSELF IN THIS SENSIBLE MANNER! AND HE WAS SAID TO BE SO +WHO, ANGRY AND FRIGHTENED, STRODE ENERGETICALLY ALONG WITH DOWNCAST +WHO, AS THEY PASSED THROUGH IN THEIR BALL DRESSES WITH DIAMONDS AND +WHO CAME TO CONGRATULATE, AND WHO CONSTANTLY SUCCEEDED ONE ANOTHER IN +WHO EVIDENTLY UNDERSTOOD HIS CASE AND WISHED HIM NOTHING BUT GOOD, +(WHO GAZED WITH CURIOSITY AT THE SOLDIERS) WERE NOT RUSSIANS, THE +WHO GIVES HIMSELF THE AIRS OF A MONARCH.” +WHO HAD EVIDENTLY JUST ARRIVED, ENTERED QUICKLY, SLAMMING THE DOOR. +WHO HAD GROWN OLD IN SOCIETY AND AT COURT. HE WENT UP TO ANNA PáVLOVNA, +WHO HAD HIM UNDER OBSERVATION, INTERRUPTED: +WHO HAD LOLLED IN ANNA PáVLOVNA’S EASY CHAIRS AND WITH HALF-CLOSED +WHO HAD SPOKEN TO HIM ON BEHALF OF HER ONLY SON BORíS ON THE EVENING OF +WHO HAD WISHED TO STOP THE AFFAIR RAN TO A CORNER OF THE ROOM AND THREW +WHO, JESTING AND LAUGHING, STARED AT THEIR STRANGE FOREIGN ENEMIES. +WHO KEPT HER WAITING SOME MINUTES. “DON’T YOU WISH TO SERVE ME? THEN +WHO KISSED HIS HAND. +WHOLE ARMY.” +WHOLE BODY JERKED AT EACH STEP. THE ELDEST PRINCESS FOLLOWED HIM, AND +WHOLE DINING HALL, AND LAST OF ALL THE CHILDREN, TUTORS, AND GOVERNESSES +WHOLE SET. YES, YOU’RE ALL RIGHT! CHOOSE WHAT YOU WILL; IT’S ALL THE +WHOLE TENOR OF HIS THOUGHTS INSTANTANEOUSLY CHANGED; THE BATTLE SEEMED +WHO, LIKING WORK, KNEW HOW TO DO IT, AND DESPITE HIS INDOLENCE WOULD +WHO LOOKED AT HER, AFTER BEING IN HER COMPANY AND TALKING TO HER A +WHOM ALL THE REGIMENT KNEW FOR A ROGUE. +WHOM DID YOU APPLY?” +WHOM HE HAD PROMISED TO TAKE HOME. +WHOM HE WAS AGAIN TALKING WITH THE SAME INVOLUNTARY SMILE. SóNYA WORE +WHOM I MENTION THIS, BECAUSE I LIKE YOU.” +“WHOM SHALL I ANNOUNCE?” +WHO ON KUTúZOV’S STAFF IN CHARGE OF THE PROVISIONING OF THE RUSSIAN +WHO RAN DOWNSTAIRS AND LOOKED OVER FROM THE HALFWAY LANDING. +“WHO SACRIFICED EVERYTHING FOR HIM,” CHIMED IN THE PRINCESS, WHO +“WHOSE COMPANY?” ASKED PRINCE BAGRATIóN OF AN ARTILLERYMAN STANDING +“WHO SHOULD IT BE? YOU YOURSELF TOLD HIM TO COME. IT’S THE +“WHO’S THAT CURTSEYING THERE? CADET MIWóNOV! THAT’S NOT WIGHT! +“WHO’S THAT RUNNING ON THE MIDDLE OF THE BRIDGE? TO THE RIGHT! COME + WHO STILL IS THINKING BUT OF THEE! +WHO STOOD IN THE MIDST OF THE GROUP, WITHOUT A COAT, AND WITH HIS FINE +“WHO TOLD YOU THAT? WHO?” CRIED THE PRINCE. “SUVóROV!” AND HE +WHO WAS A SECRETARY TO THE EMBASSY, BOLKóNSKI WAS ALREADY ACQUAINTED. +WHO WAS KISSING HER HAND, “YOU’RE FEELING DULL IN MOSCOW, I DARESAY? +“WHO WAS THAT? THE MILITARY GOVERNOR HIMSELF?” WAS BEING ASKED AT +WHY. +“WHY A BLUE COAT? OFF WITH IT... SERGEANT MAJOR! CHANGE HIS COAT... +“WHY ARE YOU GOING? I KNOW YOU THINK IT YOUR DUTY TO GALLOP BACK TO +“WHY ARE YOU SO GLUM?” ASKED NESVíTSKI NOTICING PRINCE ANDREW’S +“WHY DIDN’T YOU CAPTURE ONE, JUST ONE, MARSHAL FOR US?” +“WHY DIDN’T YOU MENTION IT, PRINCE? I WOULD HAVE OFFERED YOU +“WHY DID YOU NOT SUCCEED IN IMPRESSING ON BONAPARTE BY DIPLOMATIC +“WHY DON’T YOU SPEAK, COUSIN?” SUDDENLY SHRIEKED THE PRINCESS SO +“WHY DO YOU SAY THIS YOUNG MAN IS SO RICH?” ASKED THE COUNTESS, +“WHY, HAVE YOU TOO MUCH MONEY?” +“WHY NO, MY DEAR FELLOW,” SAID THE ASTONISHED NARRATOR, SHRUGGING +“WHY RUN RISKS, CAPTAIN? YOU SHOULD DISMOUNT,” HE SAID. +“WHY SHOULD I MIND MONSIEUR PIERRE BEING HERE?” EXCLAIMED THE LITTLE +“WHY TALK NONSENSE? SAY WHAT YOU WANT.” +“WHY, THIS IS A PALACE!” SHE SAID TO HER HUSBAND, LOOKING AROUND +“WHY,” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW, “THAT’S THE CAPTAIN WHO STOOD UP +WIDER THAN OURS, AND IT WAS PLAIN THAT THEY COULD EASILY OUTFLANK US +WIFE AND HER TALL CAP WITH ITS LIGHT-BLUE RIBBONS, AND BUSILY FILLED +WILD VIRGIN PINE FOREST, AND FAR AWAY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ENNS THE +WILL ALL THE SAME NEVER BE LIKE THOSE PETERSBURG YOUNG MEN.” +WILL BE CUT OFF,” SAID HE. +WILL BEGIN. AND HE SAYS BUONAPARTE IS IN BRAUNAU! SHOWS YOU’RE A FOOL. +WILL BE MY TEACHER...” AND LOWERING HIS BIG ARM HE OFFERED IT TO THE +WILL CERTAINLY BE GRANTED. PIERRE WILL GET EVERYTHING AS THE LEGITIMATE +WILL COME!” +WILL COME BACK IN A RAGE. WILL YOU HAVE COFFEE?” +WILLING, ARE GOING TO DIE IN THE REGIMENT, WE PRIZE THE HONOR OF THE +WILL IN PIERRE’S FAVOR ARE AMONG THE COUNT’S PAPERS, THEN, MY DEAR +WILL JUST BE TIME.” +WILL NOT REACH YOUR REGIMENT BEFORE PEACE IS CONCLUDED, OR YOU WILL +WILL NOT REST UNTIL THEY HAVE GAINED THEIR END, AND ARE PREPARED IF +“WILL THEY BURN THE BRIDGE OR NOT? WHO’LL GET THERE FIRST? WILL THEY +WILL THEY CROSS POMERANIA?” +WINDOW AND FROM DóLOKHOV’S BACK. ANATOLE STOOD ERECT WITH STARING +WINDOW. NESVíTSKI, MOVING HIS MOIST LIPS AS HE CHEWED SOMETHING, AND +WINDOW SILL. +WINDOW SILL, WITH A PALE BUT RADIANT FACE. +WINDOWS OPENING INTO THE CONSERVATORY, WITH ITS LARGE BUST AND FULL +WIND TO CARRY AWAY. A PLEASANT HUMMING AND WHISTLING OF BULLETS WERE +WINE WITH DIGNITY AND LOOKING TO THE COUNT FOR APPROVAL. +WINGS, HOPING BEFORE EVENING AND BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF THE EMPEROR TO +WING WITH THE OTHER, PRINCE ANDREW MET MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE SMILING +WIPING THEM ON THE SLEEVES OF THEIR GREATCOATS. ALL THEIR FACES WERE +WISH?” +WISHED BOTH TO REBUKE HIM (FOR DARING TO SPEAK AS HE HAD DONE OF A MAN +WISHED TO SAY SOMETHING MORE, BUT AT THAT MOMENT PRINCE VASíLI AND HIS +WISHED TO SEE THE REGIMENT JUST IN THE STATE IN WHICH IT HAD BEEN ON +WISHED TO TAKE ANOTHER SEAT SO AS NOT TO TROUBLE THE LADY, AND ALSO TO +WISHES; THAT IS MY ONLY REASON FOR BEING HERE. I CAME SIMPLY TO HELP HIM +WISHES TO STAY WITH ME, LET HIM... HE’LL BE OF USE HERE IF HE’S A +WISHES TO TEST ME!” HIS HEART CONTRACTED AND THE BLOOD RUSHED TO HIS +WISHING TO FIND OUT WHERE THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF WAS, HE RODE UP TO +WISHING TO RID HIMSELF OF THIS STAFF OFFICER’S COMPANY, “PLEASE +WISHING TO SHOW HER CONNECTIONS AND KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT WENT ON IN +WISH TO BE SEEN IN THAT MOOD, FOR HEARING FOOTSTEPS IN THE PASSAGE HE +WITH A BASHFUL AND AWKWARD GESTURE NOT AT ALL LIKE A MILITARY SALUTE +WITH A BOTTLE WRAPPED IN A NAPKIN PASSED HIM BY. HE FROWNED, TRYING TO +WITH A CLEAR, BRIGHT EXPRESSION, AS IF ASKING THEM TO NOTICE HOW CALMLY +WITH A DECANTER ON A TRAY AS “MY DEAR” AND “MY SWEET,” ASKED +WITH A DECOROUS SMILE OF SELF-SATISFACTION AT BEING ABLE CLEARLY TO +WITH A DISTRESSED FACE LEFT THE ROOM TO FIND SóNYA. +WITH A FRIENDLY SMILE. +WITH A LOOK OF NERVOUS AGITATION SUCH AS PIERRE HAD NEVER BEFORE SEEN ON +WITH A LOOK THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WHICH COULD NOT BE UNDERSTOOD BY MORTAL +WITH A MOURNFUL EXPRESSION. +WITH AN ENORMOUS MOUTH, HARDLY REFRAINING FROM LAUGHING, “I FELT LIKE +WITH AN F, AS A VILLAGE ELDER OF MINE WRITES IN HIS REPORTS. SHE IS RICH +WITH ANYTHING IN REGARD TO HER; AND THAT ALWAYS WILL BE SO IN WHATEVER +WITH A PLEASANT FEELING THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING à LA LOUIS XV IN THE +WITH A SENSE OF RELIEF AT HAVING PERFORMED A VEXATIOUS DUTY AND DID NOT +WITH A SIGH. THIS MIGHT HAVE BEEN TAKEN AS AN EXPRESSION OF SORROW +WITH A SINKING HEART—WATCHING THE BRIDGE AND THE HUSSARS IN THE BRIGHT +WITH A THOROUGHLY ATTRACTIVE WOMAN, HER DEFECT—THE SHORTNESS OF HER +WITH A WINK, AND PASSED ON FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER, AN OLD MAN. +WITH CARTS THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO GET BY IN A CARRIAGE. PRINCE ANDREW +WITH ENJOYMENT, GAZING WITH EVER-INCREASING AMIABILITY AT THE OTHER +WITH EVIDENT PLEASURE. +WITH EXAGGERATED POLITENESS. +WITH FRIGHTENED EYES; THE SECOND ASSUMED PRECISELY THE SAME EXPRESSION; +WITH GOSSIP,” HE CONTINUED. “JUST NOW THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT YOU AND +WITH GREAT DIFFICULTY HE MANAGED TO GET TO HIS HORSE, AND SHOUTING +WITH GRIEF, THOUGH HE TRIED HARD TO HIDE IT IN ORDER NOT TO SADDEN HIS +WITH HER BEAUTIFUL EYES FULL OF TEARS AT THE DOOR THROUGH WHICH PRINCE +WITH HER TO THE SIDE OF THE ROOM WHERE STOOD THE HIGH BEDSTEAD WITH ITS +WITH HIM REMAINED IN HIS ROOM; A SMALL BOX, A LARGE CANTEEN FITTED +WITH HIMSELF AND THOSE AROUND HIM, HIS SMILE AND GLANCE WERE BRIGHTER +WITH HIM. THERE NOW, SíDOROV!” +WITH HIS CAP ON THE BACK OF HIS BLACK HEAD AND A CLOAK HANGING JAUNTILY +WITH HIS DAUGHTER, PRINCESS MARY, AND HER COMPANION, MADEMOISELLE +WITH HIS FOOT. +WITH HIS GLITTERING, BLACK EYES AT ROSTóV. +WITH HIS SMALL HAND. +WITH HIS THIN LEGS, WENT UP TO KUTúZOV. +WITHIN GRAPESHOT RANGE NOW.” +WITHIN HALF AN HOUR ADJUTANTS HAD BEEN SENT IN VARIOUS DIRECTIONS WITH +WITH IT HIDDEN FOR AWHILE; THEN LOOKING UP AND SEEING PIERRE SHE +WITH JESTS AND TO COME TO BUSINESS. HE INVOLUNTARILY LOOKED ROUND AT THE +WITH LIGHTED TAPERS IN THEIR HANDS, SLOWLY AND SOLEMNLY CONDUCTING THE +“WITH MY FATHER AND SISTER, REMEMBER,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW GENTLY. +WITH NONE OF THE EMBARRASSMENT SO COMMONLY SHOWN BY YOUNG MEN IN THEIR +WITH ONE ANOTHER. AGAIN THE FOOTMEN RUSHED ABOUT, CHAIRS SCRAPED, AND +WITH ONE LEG CROSSED HIGH ABOVE THE OTHER. HIS CHEEKS, WHICH WERE SO +WITHOUT AN INNER STRUGGLE; “AT SUCH A MOMENT AS THIS ONE MUST THINK +WITHOUT AT ALL NOTICING THAT HIS INVOLUNTARY SMILE HAD STABBED THE HEART +WITHOUT BOASTING THAT IT WAS A LITTLE BETTER THAN AT ULM...” +WITHOUT EATING.” +WITHOUT HIS BOOTS (HE HAD GIVEN THEM TO THE CANTEEN KEEPER TO DRY), +WITHOUT HIS NOTICING IT THE FEELING OF OFFENSE IMMEDIATELY TURNED INTO +WITHOUT LAUGHING, BUT COULD NOT RESIST LOOKING AT HIM: SO TO BE OUT OF +WITHOUT LOSING STEP, HIS WHOLE POWERFUL BODY TURNING FLEXIBLY. IT WAS AS +WITHOUT OMITTING HER DUTIES AS HOSTESS, THREW SIGNIFICANT GLANCES FROM +WITHOUT SUPPORT. PRINCE BAGRATIóN TURNED TO THE OFFICER AND WITH HIS +WITHOUT TAKING ANY NOTICE OF HIM ALTHOUGH THEY WERE NOW MEETING FOR THE +WITHOUT TURNING THEIR HEADS GLANCED AT ONE ANOTHER, CURIOUS TO SEE THEIR +WITHOUT WARS. HOW IS IT THAT WE WOMEN DON’T WANT ANYTHING OF THE KIND, +WITH PARTICULAR COURTESY USHERED PRINCE ANDREW BEFORE HIM ALONG A +WITH PLEASURE TO HIS OWN VOICE. “ALL I CAN SAY, GENERAL, IS THAT IF +WITH PRINCE BAGRATIóN’S DETACHMENT.” +WITH RAPID RHYTHMIC WHISTLE FLEW OVER THE HEADS OF THE HORSEMEN AND FELL +WITH RED LIGHT LIKE A RUSSIAN CHURCH DURING EVENING SERVICE. UNDER +WITH SHIFTING EYES BUT EYEBROWS STILL RAISED, TELYáNIN HANDED HIM THE +WITH SHINSHíN. BERG GAVE HIS ARM TO VéRA. THE SMILING JULIE KARáGINA +WITH SILVER PLATE, TWO TURKISH PISTOLS AND A SABER—A PRESENT FROM +WITH SO AND-SO,’ AND THEN I TAKE A CAB AND GO MYSELF TWO, THREE, OR +WITH SOMETHING MORE THAN CURIOSITY AND SYMPATHY. HE NOTICED THAT THEY +WITH SUCH EXACTITUDE THAT NESVíTSKI COULD NOT HELP LAUGHING. KUTúZOV +WITH TENDER SMILES WAS SAYING TO VéRA THAT LOVE IS NOT AN EARTHLY BUT +WITH THE EXPRESSION WITH WHICH PEOPLE COMPLIMENT THEIR HOST AT A BALL. +WITH THE FLIRTATIOUSNESS OF A HANDSOME YOUTH AT SóNYA AND THE YOUNG +WITH THE GENTLE, PATRONIZING INTONATION NATURAL TO A MAN OF IMPORTANCE +WITH THE HUSSAR COLONEL ON HIS LEFT AND SHINSHíN AND THE OTHER MALE +WITH THE RANK OF LIEUTENANT; BUT AS IT IS I RECEIVE TWO HUNDRED AND +WITH THE RIVER BETWEEN HIMSELF AND THE MAIN BODY OF THE FRENCH. ON THE +WITH THE SAME EXPRESSION ON HIS FULL, CHEERFUL, CLEAN-SHAVEN FACE, THE +WITH THE SELF-SATISFACTION OF A MAN ON PARADE, HE STEPPED LIGHTLY WITH +WITH THESE WORDS SHE GREETED PRINCE VASíLI KURáGIN, A MAN OF HIGH +WITH THE STRICT FORMALITY OF HIS HOUSE. AT THAT MOMENT THE GREAT CLOCK +WITH THOUGHTS AND ANXIETIES AS TO BE OBLIVIOUS OF HIS PRESENCE. HE +WITH TREMBLING HANDS, THREW HIS BODY ACROSS THE SADDLE, RIGHTED HIMSELF, +WITH UPRAISED ARMS. +WITH US.” +WITH YOU ALONE! GOD KNOWS HOW LONG WE MAY AGAIN BE PARTED. YOU ARE NOT +“WITH YOU I WILL BE QUITE FRANK,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. “THERE +WITH YOU. MAY I?” HE ADDED IN A LOW VOICE SO AS NOT TO DISTURB THE +WOMAN, BUT THERE, JUST FANCY! THOSE THREE GOT HOLD OF A BEAR SOMEWHERE, + * “WOMAN IS MAN’S COMPANION.” +WOMAN. WITH A SLIGHT RUSTLE OF HER WHITE DRESS TRIMMED WITH MOSS +WOMEN. +WOMEN.” +WOMEN ARE WHEN YOU SEE THEM IN THEIR TRUE COLORS! WHEN YOU MEET THEM +WOMEN, ‘WOMEN AND WINE’ I DON’T UNDERSTAND!” +WONDERFUL CLASSIC BEAUTY OF HER FIGURE, HIS FACE ON THE CONTRARY +WON’T GO.” +“WON’T YOU COME OVER TO THE OTHER TABLE?” SUGGESTED ANNA +WOOD. +WORD; AND HE SAT DOWN AT THE NEAREST TABLE. +WORD OR SLIGHT REARRANGEMENT KEPT THE CONVERSATIONAL MACHINE IN STEADY, +WORDS: “MORNING DAWNED, THE SUN WAS RISING,” AND CONCLUDING: “ON +WORDS), OTHERS WERE EATING BREAD; THE MORE SEVERELY WOUNDED LOOKED +WORD THAT HARDENBURG SAYS, OR HAUGWITZ EITHER. THIS FAMOUS PRUSSIAN +WORD WOULD EFFECTIVELY PROVE TO PRINCE VASíLI THE INVALIDITY OF HIS +WORK AND STUDY. AND IF PIERRE WAS OFTEN STRUCK BY ANDREW’S LACK +WORKBAG.” +WORK NEARER TO HER. +WORLD!” +WORLD A QUITE DIFFERENT ATMOSPHERE, CARELESS, LIGHTHEARTED, AND +WORSE, AND IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO PREPARE HIM IF HE IS SO ILL. +WORSE THAN OTHERS.” +“WOSTóV, DEAH FELLOW, JUST SEE HOW MUCH THERE IS LEFT AND SHOVE THE +“WOSTóV, YOU’VE NOT BEEN PLAYING SCHOOLBOY TWICKS...” +WOULD AGAIN HAVE RISEN HAD NOT THE PRINCE STILL HELD HER FAST, “THOUGH +WOULD APPEAR AS HE PASSED THE COMMANDER. +WOULD BE TRANSFERRED TO THE GUARDS AT ONCE?” SAID SHE. +WOULD FIND HIMSELF IN THE POSITION OF MACK AT ULM. IF KUTúZOV DECIDED +WOULD HAVE TAKEN THE ICON, BUT SHE STOPPED HIM. ANDREW UNDERSTOOD, +WOULD I NOT GIVE NOW TO BE UNMARRIED! YOU ARE THE FIRST AND ONLY ONE TO +WOULD MAGNANIMOUSLY EXTEND THE HAND OF RECONCILIATION. +WOULD NOT SEE US FOR A WHOLE FORTNIGHT. I KNOW IT WAS THEN HE WROTE THIS +“WOULD NOT SUCH A MEETING BE TOO TRYING FOR HIM, DEAR ANNA +“WOULD NOT YOUR EXCELLENCY LIKE A LITTLE REFRESHMENT?” HE SAID. +WOULD TAKE PLACE ON THIS SIDE OF IT... +WOUNDED, AND ONE KNOCKED OUT,” HE ADDED, UNABLE TO RESTRAIN A HAPPY +WOUNDED HAD BEEN ABANDONED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DANUBE WITH A LETTER +WOUNDED UNDER HIM AND HIS OWN ARM SLIGHTLY GRAZED BY A BULLET. AS A MARK +WRATH. HAVING SNAPPED AT AN OFFICER FOR AN UNPOLISHED BADGE, AT ANOTHER +WRINGING HER HANDS. +“WRITE TO HER AND LET ME KNOW HOW HER FATHER LOOKS AT THE MATTER. AU +WRITE, TOLD ROSTóV THE CONTENTS OF HIS LETTER. +WRITING, SO THAT HIS QUILL SPLUTTERED AND SQUEAKED. “IF YOU HAVE +WRITTEN, “STILL, I SHOULD NOT CRY, BUT YOU CAN’T... NO ONE CAN +XVII, FOR THE QUEEN, OR FOR MADAME ELIZABETH? NOTHING!” AND HE BECAME +YARDS WAS ALL THAT SEPARATED THEM. THE ENEMY CEASED FIRING, AND THAT +YEARS OLDER THAN HER SISTER AND BEHAVED ALREADY LIKE A GROWN-UP PERSON), +YEARS ... THEN I WILL ASK FOR YOUR HAND.” +“YES.” +“YES, AND EVEN TOMORROW,” REPLIED HER BROTHER. +“YES, AND HE IS OVER SIXTY. I HEAR THE COUNT NO LONGER RECOGNIZES +“YES AND NO MISTAKE!” CRIED DENíSOV. “YOU WORKED LIKE WEGULAR +“YES, A REGULAR VOLCANO,” SAID THE COUNT. “TAKES AFTER ME! AND +“YES, BRING SOME.” +“YES, BUT BETWEEN OURSELVES,” SAID THE PRINCESS, “THAT IS A +“YES, BUT YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE. THERE ARE YOUR SISTERS...” +“YES, DMíTRI, CLEAN ONES, PLEASE,” SAID THE COUNTESS, SIGHING +“YES, FATHER, I HAVE COME TO YOU AND BROUGHT MY WIFE WHO IS +“YES, I AM, BUT PLEASE DON’T LET US DO LIKE THAT.... IN ANOTHER FOUR +“YES: IDEAS OF ROBBERY, MURDER, AND REGICIDE,” AGAIN INTERJECTED AN +“YES, IF HAVING OBTAINED POWER, WITHOUT AVAILING HIMSELF OF IT TO +“YES, I HAVE HEARD OF HIS SCHEME FOR PERPETUAL PEACE, AND IT IS VERY +“YES, I KNEW IT LONG AGO BUT HAD FORGOTTEN. I KNEW THAT I COULD EXPECT +“YES, IMMEDIATELY, IMMEDIATELY! HEY, WHO’S THERE?” HE CALLED OUT +“YES, INDEED,” REPLIED THE PRINCESS WITH A SIGH. “SO HE MAY HAVE +“YES, IT IS ALL VERY HORRID,” INTERRUPTED PIERRE, “VERY HORRID.” +“YES, IT’S A NICE PURSE. YES, YES,” HE SAID, GROWING SUDDENLY +“YES, IT SEEMS HE IS ILL. PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS DISTURBING HIM,” +“YES, IT’S FROM JULIE,” REPLIED THE PRINCESS WITH A TIMID GLANCE +“YES, I WAS A FOOL! I STILL BELIEVED IN PEOPLE, LOVED THEM, AND +“YES, I WAS BROUGHT UP QUITE DIFFERENTLY,” REMARKED THE HANDSOME +“YES, JUST THE SAME. THOUGH I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOUR OPINION WILL +“YES, LET’S GO IN AND I WILL GET MYSELF A ROLL AND SOME CHEESE,” +“YES, MY DEAR, THIS IS A GREAT LOSS FOR US ALL, NOT TO SPEAK OF YOU. +“YES, NOW YOU MAY BE GLAD!” SAID SHE; “THIS IS WHAT YOU HAVE +“YES, ONE IS AFRAID,” CONTINUED THE FIRST SPEAKER, HE OF THE +“YES, PLEASE DO,” ANSWERED THE GENERAL, AND HE REPEATED THE ORDER +“YES, PLEASE DO,” SAID ROSTóV. +“YES,” REPLIED A FOOTMAN IN A BOLD LOUD VOICE, AS IF ANYTHING WERE +“YES,” SAID ROSTóV AS IF IT COST HIM A GREAT DEAL TO UTTER THE +“YES,” SAID THE COUNTESS WHEN THE BRIGHTNESS THESE YOUNG PEOPLE HAD +“YES, SO IT IS, SO IT IS,” SAID THE GENERAL ANGRILY, LOWERING THE +YESTERDAY’S ORDER. HAVE YOU GOT IT, DENíSOV?” +“YES, THAT ALL HAPPENED!” HE SAID, AND, SMILING HAPPILY TO HIMSELF +“YES, THE AUSTRIAN PRINCE WHO BUILT THAT CASTLE WAS NO FOOL. IT’S +“YES, THE HAM WAS JUST DELICIOUS...” ANSWERED ANOTHER WITH A LOUD +“YES, THESE VERSES NICHOLAS WROTE HIMSELF AND I COPIED SOME OTHERS, +“YES, THEY ARE SPLENDID, SPLENDID YOUNGSTERS,” CHIMED IN THE COUNT, +“YES, YES, GO AND TELL THEM TO GET IT READY,” SHE ANSWERED, +“YES, YES; JUST SO! BRING IT. GIVE IT TO THE COUNTESS.” +“YES, YES,” MUTTERED BAGRATIóN AS IF CONSIDERING SOMETHING, AND HE +“YES, YES, OF COURSE,” INTERRUPTED PRINCE VASíLI IMPATIENTLY, +“YES, YES, OF COURSE!” PIERRE CHIMED IN, PLEASED AT THE ARRIVAL OF +YES! YES! YES! DON’T LOOK AT ME WITH SUCH SURPRISE. IF YOU MARRY +“YES, YOU’RE QUITE RIGHT,” CONTINUED THE COUNTESS. “TILL NOW I +“YES, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” ANSWERED THE UKRAINIAN GAILY, TOSSING HIS +YET A YOUNG WOMAN. ESCAPING FROM HER FATHER SHE RAN TO HIDE HER FLUSHED +YET. HE FELT THAT HE MUST NOT SAY IT. +YET THE LADIES THEMSELVES COULD NOT HELP LAUGHING. + YOU.” +YOU.” +YOU?” +YOU, ALL!” HE ADDED IN A TONE OF COMMAND. +“YOU ALWAYS MANAGE TO DO THINGS AT THE WRONG TIME,” CONTINUED VéRA. +“YOU AND YOUR GENERALS WON’T GET ON AGAINST BUONAPARTE; YOU’LL +“YOU ARE GOOD IN EVERY WAY, ANDREW, BUT YOU HAVE A KIND OF +“YOU ARE IN LOVE WITH ME?” NATáSHA BROKE IN. +“YOU ARE MISTAKEN,” SAID BORíS DELIBERATELY, WITH A BOLD AND +“YOU ARE OFF TO THE WAR, PRINCE?” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA. +YOU AT LAST DECIDED ON ANYTHING? ARE YOU GOING TO BE A GUARDSMAN OR A +“YOU AT LEAST MUST TACKLE HIM PROPERLY, OR ELSE IF HE GOES ON LIKE +“YOU, BOLKóNSKI, DON’T KNOW,” SAID BILíBIN TURNING TO PRINCE +YOU, BUT WE’LL SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN. BUONAPARTE HAS BECOME A GREAT +YOU!” CAME FROM DIFFERENT SIDES. +“YOU CAME RUSHING INTO THE DRAWING ROOM SO THAT EVERYONE FELT ASHAMED +YOU CAN’T WAIT A MOMENT! DON’T YOU SEE THE GENERAL WANTS TO PASS?” +YOU CAN UNDERTAKE THE THEATER, I SOCIETY, AND YOU, HIPPOLYTE, OF COURSE +YOU CRY, SóNYA, DEAR LOVE, DARLING SóNYA!” AND SHE KISSED HER AND +YOU’D BETTER LISTEN MORE CAREFULLY!” +YOU, DEAR MARY, THAT IN SPITE OF HIS EXTREME YOUTH HIS DEPARTURE FOR +YOU DID GAIN A BRILLIANT VICTORY, IF EVEN THE ARCHDUKE KARL GAINED A +“YOU DON’T SAY SO!” REPLIED THE COUNTESS. +“YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY I SAY THIS,” HE CONTINUED, “BUT IT IS + * YOU EXPECT TO MAKE AN INCOME OUT OF THE GOVERNMENT. +“YOU GIVE ME YOUR WORD OF HONOR NOT TO GO?” +YOU GOING, WHEN YOU MIGHT REMAIN HERE? YOU ARE FACED BY ONE OF TWO +“YOU HAD BETTER GO.” +“YOU HAD BETTER TAKE CARE!” SAID THE COUNTESS. +“YOU HAVE A TRY, HERCULES,” SAID HE, TURNING TO PIERRE. +“YOU HAVE BEEN IN PARIS RECENTLY, I BELIEVE? I SUPPOSE IT’S VERY +“YOU HAVE NOT YET SEEN MY HUSBAND?” +“YOU HAVE ONLY LATELY ARRIVED?” THE COUNTESS ASKED HIM. +YOU—IS THAT THAT MAN SUFFERS, AND THIS DON JUAN, WICKED FELLOW, IS +“YOU JUST WAIT A MOMENT, MY DEAR FELLOW, AND LISTEN,” INTERRUPTED +“YOU KNOW, PRINCE, I AM NOT A BONAPARTIST!” +“YOU KNOW,” SAID THE PRINCESS IN THE SAME TONE OF VOICE AND STILL IN +“YOU LIVE IN THE COUNTRY AND DON’T THINK THE LIFE TERRIBLE,” HE +YOU’LL BE APPOINTED ADJUTANT SOMEWHERE AND CAN SNAP YOUR FINGERS WHEN +YOU’LL LIKE IT,” AND HE PATTED HER CHEEK. “IT WILL DRIVE ALL THE +“YOU MUST EXCUSE ME, DEAR VICOMTE,” SAID PRINCE VASíLI TO THE +“YOU MUST LOOK FOR HUSBANDS FOR THEM WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT....” +“YOU MUST WALK, WALK AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE,” HE +“YOU, MY LITTLE COUNTESS, ARE A NOTORIOUS SPENDTHRIFT,” SAID THE +“YOU NEED NOT HAVE SAID THAT TO ME, FATHER,” SAID THE SON WITH A +YOUNG EVER TO BE MORE TO ME THAN A FRIEND, BUT THIS SWEET FRIENDSHIP, +YOUNG LADIES. “I CAN JUST IMAGINE WHAT A FUNNY FIGURE THAT POLICEMAN +YOUNG LADY VISITOR AND THE COUNTESS’ ELDEST DAUGHTER (WHO WAS FOUR +YOUNG MAN CAN INSPIRE IN A ROMANTIC AND LOVING YOUNG GIRL LIKE YOURSELF. +YOUNG MAN. HE SAT WITH HIS LEGS UP ON THE SOFA AS IF QUITE AT HOME AND, +YOUNG MAN WAS AN ILLEGITIMATE SON OF COUNT BEZúKHOV, A WELL-KNOWN +YOUNG NICHOLAS ROSTóV, WHO WITH HIS ENTHUSIASM COULD NOT BEAR TO REMAIN +YOUNG ROSTóV. +YOUNG WOMAN, SO SOON TO BECOME A MOTHER, SO FULL OF LIFE AND HEALTH, AND +“YOU OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN THERE AT SEVEN IN THE MORNING.” +YOU PLEASE, BUT DO THIS FOR MY SAKE! PLEASE DO! FATHER’S FATHER, OUR +“YOUR DOCTOR TELLS YOU TO GO TO BED EARLIER,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. +YOUR DOING SO; BUT I WARN YOU THAT IF YOU DARE TO PLAY THE FOOL IN MY +“YOU’RE ALWAYS LIKE THAT; YOU THWOW A THING DOWN ANYWHERE AND FORGET +YOUR ENCHANTING PARTY,” SAID HE, TURNING TO ANNA PáVLOVNA. +YOU’RE WRONG TO THINK THAT OF ME... I... FOR ME... FOR THE HONOR OF +“YOUR EXCELLENCY...” +“YOUR EXCELLENCY, I SHOULD LIKE TO BE OF USE HERE. ALLOW ME TO REMAIN +“YOUR EXCELLENCY, IT’S THE OFFICER DóLOKHOV, WHO HAS BEEN REDUCED +“YOUR EXCELLENCY! LET US ATTACK THEM! I’LL DWIVE THEM OFF.” +“YOUR EXCELLENCY,” SAID HE IN GERMAN, STEPPING FORWARD AND +“YOUR EXCELLENCY, YOU GAVE HIM LEAVE YOURSELF, ON THE MARCH.” +YOUR FATHER.” +YOUR FATHER IS RICH, I DON’T REGARD MYSELF AS A RELATION OF HIS, AND +YOUR FATHER THE TRUTH WHEN HE WAS IN FAVOR, AND IN YOUR CASE IT’S MY +YOUR GREATEST PLEASURE IS TO BE UNPLEASANT TO PEOPLE! GO AND FLIRT WITH +YOUR HANDS.” HE SPOKE AS IF THOSE BULLETS COULD NOT KILL HIM, AND HIS +YOUR INTERESTS AS WITH A KINSWOMAN, A GOOD, KIND, TRUE RELATION. AND I +YOUR OLD FATHER...” HE PAUSED UNEXPECTEDLY, AND THEN IN A QUERULOUS +YOURS? A DAUGHTER, I SUPPOSE?” +YOURSELF IN IT. AND NOW, WHEN ONE WANTS TO SMOOTH THE THING OVER, SOME +YOURSELVES. IT MUST BE HERE SOMEWHERE,” SAID LAVRúSHKA. +YOUR SON BIDS FAIR TO BECOME AN OFFICER DISTINGUISHED BY HIS INDUSTRY, +YOUR VICTORY IS NOT A MATTER FOR GREAT REJOICING AND THAT YOU CAN’T BE +YOU SAY SO MUCH THAT IS BAD, DOES NOT SEEM TO HAVE HAD ITS USUAL EFFECT +“YOU SEE! I HAVE ASKED,” WHISPERED NATáSHA TO HER LITTLE BROTHER +“YOU SEE, MY DEAR... WHAT’S THAT MESS?” SHE SAID, POINTING TO HIS +“YOU SEE, MY FWIEND,” HE SAID, “WE SLEEP WHEN WE DON’T LOVE. WE +“YOU SEE YOURS IS ALREADY AN OFFICER IN THE GUARDS, WHILE MY NICHOLAS +“YOU SPEAK TO THE COLONEL ABOUT THIS NASTY BUSINESS BEFORE OTHER +“YOU SPOKE TO ME OF INFLAMMABLE MATERIAL,” SAID HE, “BUT YOU SAID +YOU TELL ME THAT AMONG SOME GOOD THINGS IT CONTAINS OTHERS WHICH OUR +“YOU TELL THE COLONEL IN THE PRESENCE OF OTHER OFFICERS THAT AN +YOUTH AND HIS WISH TO EXPRESS ALL THAT WAS IN HIS MIND. +YOUTHFULLY GLITTERING EYES. +YOUTHFUL MOVEMENT, STOOD FOR A MOMENT IN THE STIRRUP AS IF LOATHE TO +“YOU THINK I’M AN OLD MAN AND DON’T UNDERSTAND THE PRESENT STATE +“YOU THINK SO?” REJOINED ANNA PáVLOVNA IN ORDER TO SAY SOMETHING +“YOU TOLD ME TO REMIND YOU OF THE OFFICER DóLOKHOV, REDUCED TO THE +YOU TO READ WHEN I AM GONE. YOU WILL FIND THEM USEFUL.” +“YOU TREAT ME LIKE AN INVALID OR A CHILD. I SEE IT ALL! DID YOU BEHAVE +YOU UNDERSTAND THAT MY SOLE DESIRE IS CONSCIENTIOUSLY TO CARRY OUT HIS +“YOU VALUE YOUR OWN PRIDE AND DON’T WISH TO APOLOGIZE,” CONTINUED +“YOU’VE BEEN IN A HURRY. THAT’S BAD!” +“YOU’VE GOT IT AT LAST.” +“YOU’VE GROWN OLDER, TíKHON,” HE SAID IN PASSING TO THE OLD MAN, +“YOU’VE ONLY JUST MISSED HIM,” SAID THE ORDERLY. +YOU WANT TO KNOW WHETHER I AM HAPPY? NO! IS SHE HAPPY? NO! BUT WHY THIS +YOU WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF YOUR COMPANY?” +“YOU WERE MEANING TO GO OUT, WEREN’T YOU, MAMMA? DO YOU WANT THE +“YOU WERE SAYING, MR. STAFF OFFICER...” CONTINUED THE COLONEL IN AN +YOU WILL SEE.” +“YOU WILL SOON BE DRESSING YOUR MEN IN PETTICOATS! WHAT IS THIS?” +YOU WITH MY SABER!” HE SHOUTED, ACTUALLY DRAWING HIS SABER FROM ITS +YOU WON’T ASK!” +“YOU WON’T ASK,” NATáSHA’S LITTLE BROTHER WAS SAYING; “I KNOW +“YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO FIND EITHER YOUR BAGGAGE OR ANYTHING ELSE NOW, +“YOU WON’T BEAR ME A GRUDGE, PROKHóR IGNáTYCH?” SAID THE +“ZAT, MY DEAR SIR, IS VY...” HE CONCLUDED, DRINKING A TUMBLER OF +ZERE’S AN END OF IT! AND HOW DO YOU, A YOUNG MAN AND A YOUNG HUSSAR, +ZHERKóV. 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DISCRETION, THE KEEPING OF THE SECRETS OF THE ORDER. 2. OBEDIENCE TO +30,000 WENT FOR THE UPKEEP OF THE ESTATE NEAR MOSCOW, THE TOWN HOUSE, +“AAH!” ROSTóV ALMOST SCREAMED LIFTING BOTH HANDS TO HIS HEAD. THE +ABANDONED IN THE CENTER?” HE INQUIRED, SEARCHING WITH HIS EYES FOR +A BANISTER POST STOOD A TALLOW CANDLE WHICH GUTTERED IN THE DRAFT. ON +A BATTLEFIELD TO WHOM THOUSANDS OF NEW AND BRILLIANT IDEAS OCCUR WHICH +“A BAYONET WOUND. I REMAINED AT THE FRONT. REMEMBER, YOUR +“A BIT TOUCHED—I ALWAYS SAID SO.” +ABLE TO INFLICT PUNISHMENTS JUSTLY AND UNJUSTLY. IT IS THOSE PEOPLE I +A BOLD, FREE, AND EASY TONE, WHILE IN HIS SOUL HE REGARDED HIMSELF AS A +ABOUT 80,000 WENT IN PAYMENTS ON ALL THE ESTATES TO THE LAND BANK, ABOUT +ABOUT A MILE AND A HALF OFF ON THE OPPOSITE HEIGHTS. DOWN BELOW, ON +ABOUT HER NATIVE LAND. WHEN HE SAW THE PRETTY LITTLE BOURIENNE, ANATOLE +ABOUT HIM AND ABOUT HIS LOVE FOR HIM, LETTING IT BE UNDERSTOOD THAT HE +ABOUT HIM AND EVEN SPEAK. +ABOUT HIM. HE REDDENED AND TURNED AWAY. +ABOUT HIM OR ANYONE ELSE, AND I DON’T WANT ANYTHING OF THE KIND.” +ABOUT MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE WAS DREADFUL. IT WAS UNTRUE TO BE SURE, BUT +ABOUT SERGéY KUZMíCH THAT INTERESTED PRINCE VASíLI JUST THEN, AND +ABOUT TEN O’CLOCK ROSTóV WENT TO THE ENGLISH HOTEL STRAIGHT FROM THE +ABOUT THE AUSTRIANS AND THEIR UNIFORMS, ABOUT THEIR LINES, ABOUT +ABOUT THE OLD PRINCE AND CRITICIZED HIM. +ABOUT TILL DAWN, BECAUSE I THINK AND CAN’T HELP THINKING, JUST AS +ABOUT TO SMILE, AND ONCE ON COMING OUT OF THE CHAPEL PRINCE ANDREW AND +ABOUT TWO THIRDS OF A MILE WAS STOPPED ON THE HIGHROAD. ROSTóV SAW THE +“ABOUT YOUR SISTER,” EJACULATED DENíSOV TESTILY. +ABOVE ALL THIS THE LOFTY SKY, FORMED THE CHIEF SUBJECTS OF HIS DELIRIOUS +ABOVE AND BELOW HIM IN SOCIAL STANDING. SOMETHING ALWAYS DREW HIM TOWARD +ABOVE HIS HEAD: “CAPTAIN TúSHIN! CAPTAIN!” +ABOVE THE HEIGHTS WAS THE DARK CLEAR SKY, AND TO THE RIGHT THE VAST ORB +A BRIGHT SMILE, “SO SHE WON’T COME DOWN. IT IS NATURAL IN HER +A BRILLIANT MATCH—BLUSHED LIKE A GIRL. +ABSENCE. LITTLE NICHOLAS HAD BEEN UNWELL FOR FOUR DAYS. THE COACHMAN WHO +ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. +A CASE. +A CAVALRYMAN. PRINCE ANDREW FELT THAT AN INVISIBLE POWER WAS LEADING HIM +ACCENT. HE WAS BREATHLESS WITH AGITATION, HIS FACE WAS RED, AND WHEN +ACCEPT IT AND FIXED THE STAKE HIMSELF. NICHOLAS SUBMITTED TO HIM, AND AT +ACCOMPANIED BY ADJUTANTS, GALLOPED OFF IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, AND +ACCOUNT OF COURT AND PERSONAL CONSIDERATIONS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF LIVES, +A CELEBRATED MINIATURIST, AND HE LEANED OVER THE TABLE TO TAKE THE +A CEREMONIAL MARCH PAST HIM, AND ROSTóV ON BEDOUIN, RECENTLY PURCHASED +A CERTAIN HOUSE—THAT WAS ANOTHER MATTER AND QUITE THE THING FOR A +A CHANCE TO ESCAPE, OR TO TRICK US, NOW THAT WE CERTAINLY HAVE HIM IN +A CLEAR BLUE SKY, AND THE SUN’S VAST ORB QUIVERED LIKE A HUGE HOLLOW, +A CLOSELY WRITTEN LETTER OF TWO SHEETS FROM BILíBIN. HE FOLDED IT UP +A COMFORTING BELIEF IN FUTURE LIFE, RETRIBUTION, RECOMPENSE, AND +A COMMANDER IN CHIEF. AS IT WAS CONSIDERED THAT THE AUSTERLITZ SUCCESS +A COMMANDING OFFICER’S QUARTERS, THE REGIMENT BEGAN TO MOVE: THE +A CONSCIOUSNESS IS COMMUNICATED IS VERY DIFFICULT TO DEFINE, BUT IT +A CORONET) ENTERED THE ROOM, CALM AND MAJESTIC, EXCEPT THAT THERE WAS +ACQUAINTANCE—HE WISHED HIM SIMPLY A BROTHER AND A VIRTUOUS INSTRUCTOR. +ACQUAINTANCE OF MANY PERSONS WHO MIGHT PROVE USEFUL TO HIM, AND BY +ACQUAINTANCE,” SAID PIERRE. AND AGAIN, GLANCING AT THE STRANGER’S +ACQUAINTANCES NOT ONLY CORDIALLY, BUT EVEN WITH A SHADE OF DEFERENCE +ACQUAINTED WITH PRINCE ANDREW BOLKóNSKI, THROUGH WHOM HE HOPED TO +ACQUIRED THOUGH SHE DID NOT UNDERSTAND ITS SIGNIFICANCE. THIS EXPRESSION +ACQUIRING A TROTTER OF HIS OWN, VERY STYLISH RIDING BREECHES OF THE +A CRAFTY MAN CONVINCED OF THE FUTILITY OF BEING CUNNING WITH SO +ACROSS HIS PATH. ROSTóV PUT HIS HORSE TO FULL GALLOP TO GET OUT OF THE +ACROSS, SNATCHED IT FROM HIS HAND AND BEGAN READING IT. PIERRE LOOKED +ACROSS THE BODIES AND UNDER A TERRIBLE FIRE FROM THE FRENCH, HE ATTENDED +ACTION, AND IN THE COMPANY OF WELL-KNOWN, ELDERLY, AND RESPECTED RACING +ACTION, AND MORE THAN THAT, YOU CAN’T MAKE ME BELIEVE THAT YOU DO NOT +ACTION, AS IF FLYING THROUGH THE AIR WITHOUT TOUCHING THE GROUND. +ACTION DID PRINCE BAGRATIóN, STILL HEARING THE CANNONADE IN THE CENTER, +ACTION—HE DREW THE GLOVE FROM HIS SHAPELY WHITE HAND, MADE A SIGN +ACTIVITIES OF 160,000 RUSSIANS AND FRENCH—ALL THEIR PASSIONS, DESIRES, +ACTIVITY, TúSHIN DID NOT EXPERIENCE THE SLIGHTEST UNPLEASANT SENSE OF +ACTUAL PHRASE USED BY THE VIENNA CABINET,” SAID THE DANISH CHARGé +ACTUATED BY A REAL DESIRE FOR PEACE. +ADDED: “WHAT A LOT OF MEN HAVE BEEN CRIPPLED TODAY—FRIGHTFUL!” +ADDRESSED AN EDIFYING EXHORTATION TO THEM. HE IMAGINED TO HIMSELF +ADDRESSED THE HORSEMAN WITH THE WHITE PLUMES, EVIDENTLY SUGGESTING +ADDRESS. HE IS A WISE AND CLEVER FELLOW.” +ADDRESSING FIRST ONE, THEN ANOTHER. HE SAID HE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN +ADDRESSING HER WITH THE CARELESS TONE OF HABITUAL TENDERNESS NATURAL TO +ADDRESSING HIM AS ‘USURPER AND ENEMY OF MANKIND.’” +ADDRESSING THE BLACK-MUSTACHED DENíSOV WITH SERVILE DEFERENCE. +A DEED TO SIGN FOR THE PRINCESS’ BENEFIT. +A DESIRE TO DO SOMETHING FOR THEM, A DESIRE FOR THEIR APPROVAL.—SO I +A DESPERATE CRY AND SUCH MAD, DRUNKEN DETERMINATION THAT, TAKEN BY +A DESPOT. WHO IS RIGHT AND WHO IS WRONG? NO ONE! BUT IF YOU ARE +A DINNER WHERE THERE WAS NO PLACE FOR HIM. IN THE NEXT HUT THERE WAS A +ADJUTANT ON KUTúZOV’S STAFF, BUT HE DOES EVERYTHING ALONE. THE NEXT +ADJUTANT, OR REALLY LET THE MATTER DROP, WAS THE QUESTION THAT WORRIED +ADJUTANTS MET HIM WITH NEWS OF THE SUCCESSFUL RESULT OF THE ACTION. +ADJUTANT WHOM HE SO HATED. + A DREADED FOE BE THOU, KINDHEARTED AS A MAN, +ADROITNESS AND ITALIAN PLAY-ACTING! DO YOU KNOW THE TALE ABOUT HIM AND +ADVANCING TO ATTACK THE FRENCH CAVALRY THAT WAS COMING TO MEET THEM. +ADVANTAGEOUS MATCH BUT A SPLENDID, NOBLE FELLOW... HE IS MY FRIEND...” +ADVE’SAWIES HAVE WEFUSED A WECONCILIATION, PLEASE PWOCEED. TAKE YOUR +ADVICE IS TO LET THE MATTER DROP. WELL THEN, ON FRIDAY AFTER THE REVIEW +A FEELING OF CONTEMPTUOUS ILL WILL. HE SNORTED WHENEVER HE MENTIONED +A FEW FIR TREES. +A FEW MINUTES LATER THE CHIEF FORCES OF THE FRENCH ARMY MOVED RAPIDLY +A FEW STEPS, TURNED, CUT A CAPER, BROUGHT HER LITTLE FEET SHARPLY +AFFAIR. I AM HER FATHER.” +AFFAIRS AND OF PIERRE HIMSELF IN THOSE EARLY DAYS. FROM THE DEATH OF +AFFAIR WAS OVER AND, THOUGH NOT BIG, HAD BEEN A SUCCESSFUL ENGAGEMENT. +AFFECTATION. PRINCESS MARY RAN OUT OF THE ROOM TO FETCH MARY +AFFECTIONATE LETTERS TO YOUR PARENTS, AND IF YOU THINK YOU MAY BE +AFFIRMATIVELY.) “WHEN YOU HEAR A KNOCK AT THE DOOR, YOU WILL UNCOVER +AFFLICTED BY THE DEATH OF THE FATHER HE HAD HARDLY KNOWN), AND HER +A FIRST INTRODUCTION AND BETRAYS A CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE IMPROPRIETY OF +A FLAG OF TRUCE, DEMANDING AN AUDIENCE WITH THE RUSSIAN EMPEROR, WAS +A FORTNIGHT AFTER THE LETTER PRINCE VASíLI’S SERVANTS CAME ONE +A FORTNIGHT AGO HE WOULD HAVE HAD A PAYMASTER’S CLERK AT YúKHNOVNA +AFRAID OF A GENERAL BATTLE. HIS HOUR HAS COME! MARK MY WORDS!” +A FRENCHMAN), “L’UROPE NE SERA JAMAIS NOTRE ALLIéE SINCèRE.” * +A FRENCH SOLDIER TUGGED AT THE OTHER. HE COULD DISTINCTLY SEE THE +A FRESH WAVE OF THE FLYING MOB CAUGHT HIM AND BORE HIM BACK WITH IT. +A FRIEND OLDER THAN HIMSELF AND WHOM HE RESPECTED. HIS WHOLE TIME +AFTER ANOTHER GREETING THE TSAR WITH THE STRAINS OF THE MARCH, AND THEN +“AFTER AUSTERLITZ!” SAID PRINCE ANDREW GLOOMILY. “NO, THANK YOU +AFTER A WHILE HE RE-ENTERED IT AS IF TO SNUFF THE CANDLES, AND, SEEING +AFTER A WHILE THE MOVING MASS BECAME AGITATED, SOMEONE RODE PAST ON +AFTER DENíSOV’S DEPARTURE, ROSTóV SPENT ANOTHER FORTNIGHT IN MOSCOW, +AFTER DINNER. HE CALLED NATáSHA AND ASKED HER WHAT WAS THE MATTER. +AFTER DINNER, HE WENT TO SEE HIS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW. THE LITTLE PRINCESS +AFTER FIVE O’CLOCK IT WAS ONLY AT THE AUGESD DAM THAT A HOT CANNONADE +AFTER HIS ILLNESS HE LOOKED RATHER THINNER THAT DAY THAN ON THE FIELD +AFTER HIS INTERVIEW WITH HIS WIFE PIERRE LEFT FOR PETERSBURG. AT THE +AFTER LOOKING AT HIM NAPOLEON SMILED. +AFTER LOSING HALF THEIR MEN WERE RETREATING IN DISORDERLY CONFUSED +AFTER PASSING SOME AUSTRIAN TROOPS HE NOTICED THAT THE NEXT PART OF THE +AFTER RECEIVING THIS NEWS LATE IN THE EVENING, WHEN HE WAS ALONE IN HIS +AFTER SUPPER PIERRE WITH HIS PARTNER FOLLOWED THE OTHERS INTO THE +AFTER TEA, THE COMPANY WENT INTO THE SITTING ROOM AND PRINCESS MARY WAS +AFTER THAT ANNA PáVLOVNA LED UP TO THE COURAGE AND FIRMNESS OF THE KING +AFTER THE AUSTERLITZ CAMPAIGN PRINCE ANDREW HAD FIRMLY RESOLVED NOT +AFTER THE BATTLE BUT SEND A COURIER TO PETERSBURG WITH NEWS OF A +AFTER THEIR ACTIVE SERVICE, WERE STATIONED NEAR OLMüTZ AND THE CAMP +AFTER THESE WORDS, THE MASON, AS IF TIRED BY HIS LONG DISCOURSE, AGAIN +AFTER THE SOUP THE PRINCE BECAME MORE GENIAL. +AFTER TROOPS AND BEGGED FOR SEATS ON THE GUN CARRIAGES. THE JAUNTY +AFTER TWO IN THE MORNING, THOUGHTS COME AND I CAN’T SLEEP BUT TOSS +AGAIN. +AGAIN. +AGAIN, AND LET HIS HEAD SINK STILL LOWER. +AGAIN AND REMAINED FOR A WHILE WITH THE ISMáYLOV REGIMENT. +AGAIN, AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS CURIOUSLY NOTING THE IMPRESSION +AGAIN, AS SOON AS ALL TURNED TOWARD HIM, EXCUSED HIMSELF AND SAID NO +AGAIN GETTING IN FRONT OF THE FIRST LINE AS HE HAD DONE WHEN THE HORSE +AGAIN JOINED HER. THEY BEGAN TALKING IN WHISPERS, BUT THEIR TALK BROKE +AGAIN ROSTóV LOOKED INTENTLY INTO BORíS’ EYES AND SIGHED. BERG +AGAINST HIS RIGHT, FLEW ROUND AGAIN IN A CIRCLE. NATáSHA GUESSED WHAT +AGAINST THE FRENCH?” +AGAINST THE MUSLIN OF THE CURTAIN. +AGAINST THE PILLOW. +A GENERAL ENGAGEMENT,” REPEATED DOLGORúKOV, EVIDENTLY PRIZING THIS +“A GEOGRAPHY LESSON!” HE MUTTERED AS IF TO HIMSELF, BUT LOUD ENOUGH +A GIRL, SUCH TACT, SUCH MASTERLY PERFECTION OF MANNER! IT COMES FROM +A GLIMPSE OF HER, SHE SEEMED STILL MORE LOVELY. SHE WAS A CHARMING GIRL +AGLOW WITH DAZZLING LIGHT—AS IF HE HAD ONLY AWAITED THIS TO BEGIN THE +A GOLD SNUFFBOX ON WHICH WAS A PORTRAIT. IN THE MIDDLE OF ONE OF THE +A GOOD FRIEND, AN ADJUTANT GENERAL AND AN EXCELLENT FELLOW, PRINCE +A GOOD THING FOR PROPRIETORS WHO PERISH MORALLY, BRING REMORSE UPON +AGREED OR DISAGREED AND WAS SATISFIED OR NOT WITH THE ARRANGEMENTS. NEXT +“AH, AND HERE’S NICHOLAS!” CRIED NATáSHA, RUNNING UP TO HIM. +“AH! BREATHING AGAIN, BREATHING!” HE MUTTERED TO HIMSELF. +“AH, BUT YOU WON’T TALK POLITICS TO ME LIKE ANNETTE!” +“AH! HE IS ALIVE,” SAID NAPOLEON. “LIFT THIS YOUNG MAN UP AND +“AH, IT CAN’T BE AVOIDED!” THOUGHT NICHOLAS, FOR THE FIRST AND +“AH, MY BOY, MY HEAD’S IN A WHIRL!” SAID THE OLD MAN WITH A SMILE, +“AH, MY DEAR FELLOW, WHAT A BATTLE WE HAVE GAINED! GOD GRANT THAT +“AH, MY DEAR FRIEND, HE IS VERY UNFORTUNATE,” SHE SAID. “IF WHAT +“AH, MY DEAR, MY DEAR!” HE BEGAN, RISING AND TAKING HER BY BOTH +“AH, MY DEAR VICOMTE,” PUT IN ANNA PáVLOVNA, “L’UROPE” (FOR +A HOAR FROST NOW TURNING TO DEW, BUT IN THE VALLEYS IT STILL LAY LIKE A +A HOLLOW BETWEEN TWO HILLS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF PRATZEN, THE RUSSIAN +A HORRIFIED EXPRESSION ON HIS HANDSOME FACE, ANATOLE LOOKED AT PRINCESS +“AH, PRINCESS MARY!” HE SAID SUDDENLY IN AN UNNATURAL VOICE, +“AH, SHE IS INDEED A DARLING! I’LL SEND HER TO YOU.” +“AH! THAT’S A GOOD THING. SO, MY DEAR BOY, YOU WISH TO SERVE THE +“AH, THERE WILL BE, AND THERE ARE, MANY MORE SUCH GIRLS SOMEWHERE WHOM +“AH, THOSE DAMNED GERMANS! THEY DON’T KNOW THEIR OWN COUNTRY!” +“AH, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?” IT STILL SEEMED TO SAY, AND PRINCE +“AH YES, AND WHAT ELSE DID HE SAY THAT’S UNPLEASANT?” THOUGHT +“AH, YES! THAT’S A WHOLE LONG STORY! HOW ARE YOU GOING TO SPEAK TO +AIDE-DE-CAMP. +AIDE-DE-CAMP AND WAS DULY CONDUCTED TO PAY HIS RESPECTS TO THE AUNT AND +AID OF HIS SERVANT, AND NOT LOOKING AT PIERRE. WITH A PAIR OF FELT BOOTS +AIM?” SAID HE QUIETLY AND QUICKLY. +AIM WAS TO SHOW GENERAL WEYROTHER—WHO HAD READ HIS DISPOSITIONS WITH +AIR, AND DISOBEYING ORDERS. THE MORAL HESITATION WHICH DECIDED THE FATE +A JOKE HE HAD HEARD IN VIENNA AND WHICH HE HAD BEEN TRYING ALL THAT +A LACK OF BREAD, TO MOVE FARTHER INTO THE INTERIOR OF PRUSSIA, FOR ONLY +ALARM LEST SOMETHING SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED TO THE CHILD WHILE HE WAS +ALARM, SUPPOSING THESE WORDS TO MEAN THAT THE YOUNG COUNT WAS DISPLEASED +A LETTER AT ONCE, AND SHE’LL COME HERE AND ALL WILL BE EXPLAINED, OR +“A LETTER FROM NIKóLENKA! I’M SURE OF IT!” EXCLAIMED NATáSHA, +A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION HE HAD BROUGHT FROM PIERRE HAD BECOME +ALEXANDER PRINCE VASíLI HAD RISEN TO HIGH POSITION AND HONORS. AND NOW, +ALEXANDER’S GUARDS,” SAID THE FIRST ONE, INDICATING A RUSSIAN +ALEXANDER UNPLEASANTLY, HE RODE UP AND SALUTED. +ALEXANDER WAS CLEARLY HEARD. HE GAVE THE WORDS OF GREETING, AND THE +ALEXéEVICH. LOUD KNOCKS WERE HEARD AT THE DOOR. PIERRE TOOK THE BANDAGE +ALIEN FACE OF THAT MAN, HIS BAYONET HANGING DOWN, HOLDING HIS BREATH, +ALIKE, FELT THAT THE COMMANDER DID NOT HIMSELF KNOW WHAT TO DO, AND THIS +“ALINE,” HE SAID TO HIS WIFE, “GO AND SEE WHAT THEY ARE ABOUT.” +A LITTLE EARTH CRUMBLED FROM THE BANK UNDER THE HORSE’S HIND HOOFS. +A LITTLE LATER WHEN HE WENT UP TO THE LARGE CIRCLE, ANNA PáVLOVNA SAID +“A LITTLE WOUND, BUT HE HAS BEEN MADE AN OFFICER; HE IS WELL NOW, HE +ALIVE AND SUFFERING FROM A BURNING, LACERATING PAIN IN HIS HEAD. +ALIVE COULD UNDERSTAND OR EXPLAIN. +ALIVE—LIVE: TOMORROW YOU’LL DIE AS I MIGHT HAVE DIED AN HOUR AGO. +ALL.” +ALL, AND WITHOUT PROMISING TO HELP ME?” THOUGHT PIERRE, RISING WITH +ALL ARE STRUCK BY THE JUSTNESS OF HIS VIEWS, BUT NO ONE UNDERTAKES TO +ALL AROUND WERE LOVING EYES GLISTENING WITH TEARS OF JOY, AND ALL AROUND +ALL. AT LAST THE SLEIGH BORE TO THE RIGHT, DREW UP AT AN ENTRANCE, AND +ALL BEGAN TO RUN AND BUSTLE, AND ROSTóV SAW COMING UP THE ROAD BEHIND +ALL COMMANDERS OF DIVISIONS THE RIGHT TO SHOOT MARAUDERS, BUT I MUCH +ALL EXPECTING IT, THEY ARE SO SURE THAT IT WILL HAPPEN THAT I CANNOT, I +“ALLEY! ALLEY!” SAID THE COSSACK, TOUCHING THE PRISONER’S ARM TO +ALL FOR HIS RELATIONS WAS THE FACT THAT THERE WAS STILL A POSSIBILITY OF +ALL HER ATTENTION. HE SEEMED TO HER KIND, BRAVE, DETERMINED, MANLY, AND +ALL HIS WISHES WERE BEING FULFILLED THAT MORNING: THERE WAS TO BE A +ALL-IMPORTANT.” +“ALL IS OVER,” HE THOUGHT, AND A COLD SWEAT BROKE OUT ON HIS +ALL ITS DETAILS TO THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL WEYROTHER: A LUCKY ACCIDENT HAD +ALL MAKE OUT: WAS IT A GLADE IN THE WOOD LIT UP BY THE MOON, OR SOME +ALL MOSCOW REPEATED PRINCE DOLGORúKOV’S SAYING: “IF YOU GO ON +ALL MOSCOW, THAT EVERYONE WILL SAY THAT YOU, DRUNK AND NOT KNOWING WHAT +ALL ON ONE PLAN, FOR HOSPITALS, SCHOOLS, AND ALMSHOUSES, WHICH WERE SOON +ALLOWED, I HAVE HASTENED TO TAKE ALL STEPS TO THAT END. MAY I HAVE +ALLOW HIM PERSONALLY TO EXPRESS THE DEEP RESPECT THAT, EMULATING HIS +“ALLOW ME TO ASK,” HE SAID, “ARE YOU A MASON?” +“ALLOW ME TO GIVE YOU A PIECE OF ADVICE. WHEN YOU REACH THE CAPITAL, +ALL PALE AND EXCHANGED LOOKS IN SILENCE. +ALL QUITE FORGETTING THE DANGER AND ALL REGARD FOR SELF-PRESERVATION, HE +“ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT!” HE SAID TO PRINCE ANDREW, AND TURNED TO A +“ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT,” INTERRUPTED THE PRINCE, AND LAUGHING HIS +“ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT,” REPLIED THE COMMANDER, AND TURNED TO MAJOR +“ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT, WE’LL SEE!” +“ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT. WE’LL TALK IT OVER,” REPLIED PRINCE ANDREW. +“ALL RIGHT!” SAID DóLOKHOV, HAVING FINISHED THE ADDITION. “ALL +“ALL RIGHT,” SAID PIERRE, STILL SMILING IN THE SAME WAY. A FEELING +ALL ROSTóV’S CARDS WERE BEATEN AND HE HAD EIGHT HUNDRED RUBLES SCORED +ALL SORTS OF TEMPTING WARES. THE PáVLOGRADS HELD FEAST AFTER FEAST, +ALL THAT HAS HAPPENED.” +ALL THAT THE PEASANTS HAD HAS BEEN EATEN UP. I MYSELF WILL REMAIN IN +ALL THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED OF HIM. +ALL THE ADVANTAGES WERE ON OUR SIDE. OUR ENORMOUS FORCES, UNDOUBTEDLY +ALL THE FIGURES ON IT: THE SUN, THE MOON, A HAMMER, A PLUMB LINE, A +ALL THE GUNS, WITHOUT WAITING FOR ORDERS, WERE BEING FIRED IN THE +“ALL THE SAME, I LOVE AND VALUE NOTHING BUT TRIUMPH OVER THEM ALL, I +“ALL THE SAME, IT WAS BILíBIN WHO FOUND A SUITABLE FORM FOR THE +“ALL THE SAME! THEY SAY THIS ONE IS THE COMMANDER OF ALL THE EMPEROR +ALL THESE DREAMS MELTED AND MERGED INTO THE CHAOS AND DARKNESS OF +ALL THIS END?” THOUGHT ROSTóV, LOOKING AT THE CHANGING SHADOWS BEFORE +“ALL THIS HAD TO BE AND COULD NOT BE OTHERWISE,” THOUGHT PIERRE, +ALL THIS SHAME AND SORROW, BUT WANTED NOW TO PLAY WITH HIM AS A CAT DOES +ALLUSION TO THE NAME OF THE SOVEREIGN. THREE HUNDRED PERSONS TOOK THEIR +“ALL WELL?” ASKED ROSTóV, DRAWING AWAY HIS ARM. +ALL WERE SEATED AGAIN, TURNED WITH HIS KINDLY SMILE TO ROSTóV. +ALL WERE SILENT. TúSHIN APPEARED AT THE THRESHOLD AND MADE HIS WAY +ALL WERE THEN MORE CONFIDENT OF VICTORY THAN THE WINNING OF TWO BATTLES +“ALL WIGHT! ALL WIGHT!” SHOUTED DENíSOV. “IT’S NO GOOD MAKING +ALL YOUR VALUABLES.” +ALMOST AT THE MIDDLE OF THE TABLE. FACING THEM SAT PIERRE, BESIDE PRINCE +ALONE AND IN FULL VIEW OF THE EMPEROR. +ALONE, BUT BECAUSE OF EVERYONE, IT MUST INEVITABLY COME ABOUT. THEY ARE +ALONE, IN WHICH THERE WAS SOMETHING MORE SIGNIFICANT THAN IN THE GENERAL +ALONE TOGETHER, PRINCE VASíLI ANNOUNCED HIS HOPES AND WISHES TO THE OLD +ALONE WITH HéLèNE IN THE LITTLE DRAWING ROOM WHERE THEY WERE SITTING. +ALONE WITH HER, SO ROSTóV, NOW THAT HE HAD ATTAINED WHAT HE HAD LONGED +ALONE WITHOUT ANY ALLIES, IT MIGHT PERHAPS HAVE BEEN A LONG TIME BEFORE +A LONG-AWAITED MOMENT. HE WAS FIRMLY CONVINCED THAT THIS WAS THE DAY OF +A LOOK AT YOU, YOUR EXCELLENCY.” +A LOOK OF COMPLETE ABSENT-MINDEDNESS, KEPT RUBBING THE BRIDGE OF HIS +ALOUD. +A LOUD, MONOTONOUS VOICE BEGAN TO READ OUT THE DISPOSITIONS FOR THE +ALOUD TO HIM AND BEING FRIENDS WITH PRINCESS MARY. MADEMOISELLE +ALREADY, BUT THEN HE CANNOT KNOW WHAT I THINK OF HIM AND MAY IMAGINE +ALREADY IN ANY CASE DISHONORED BY BEING UNABLE TO FULFILL THE GREAT AND +ALREADY LOST HIM. HE BENT OVER HIM AND, AS HIS SISTER HAD TAUGHT HIM, +ALREADY PASSED. THROUGH THE TERRIBLE AND DEAFENING ROAR OF THOSE VOICES, +ALREADY SEEN THE YOUNG MASTER, AND, BEFORE HE HAD REACHED THE DRAWING +ALREADY VISIBLE. SUDDENLY SOMETHING LIKE A BIRCH BROOM SEEMED TO SWEEP +ALSO. YES, MY OPINION, AND ONLY MY OPINION,” ADDED PRINCE BOLKóNSKI, +ALTAR ON WHICH LAY A TESTAMENT AND A SKULL. ROUND IT STOOD SEVEN LARGE +ALTAR WITH HER. HOW AND WHEN THIS WOULD BE HE DID NOT KNOW, HE DID NOT +ALTHOUGH IN FEMALE SOCIETY ANATOLE USUALLY ASSUMED THE ROLE OF A MAN +ALTHOUGH IOGEL DID NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THIS TO BE THE REAL MAZURKA, EVERYONE +ALWAYS AFRAID, CAME INTO HER ROOM WITH A PECULIARLY RESTLESS AND MALIGN +ALWAYS CLEAR AND SIMPLE, SO SHE IS NOT STUPID. SHE NEVER WAS ABASHED AND +ALWAYS DRAGGING IT IN ONE DIRECTION. HE TRIED TO GET AWAY FROM THEM, BUT +(ALWAYS FOLLOWED BY A BALL FLYING PAST AND STRIKING THE EARTH, A MAN, A +ALWAYS IN ONE DIRECTION, HUMMING WITH WHISPERS AND TALK AND THE SOUND OF +ALWAYS POKING FUN AT ME.... AH, WELL! LET HIM!” AND HE BEGAN READING +ALWAYS SHALL, AND I WANT NOTHING MORE.” +ALWAYS SURROUNDED BY THE SAME DECKS, MASTS, AND RIGGING OF HIS SHIP, SO +A MAN OPPRESSED BY BUSINESS, WEARY AND SUFFERING, WHO YET WOULD NOT, FOR +AMAZED THE FRENCH THEMSELVES. ROSTóV WAS HORRIFIED TO HEAR LATER THAT +A MEETING WITH NAPOLEON. TO THE JOY AND PRIDE OF THE WHOLE ARMY, A +AMéLIE” (MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE) “THINKS I COULD BE JEALOUS OF HER, +AMIABLY INTO HIS FACE, EVIDENTLY WISHING TO SOFTEN THE RUDENESS OF HIS +AMID PEOPLE OF WHOM HE WAS WEARY HAD GONE, INSTANTLY EVERY THOUGHT OF +AMID THE SMOKE, DEAFENED BY THE INCESSANT REPORTS WHICH ALWAYS MADE HIM +AMID THE SQUARE MASSES OF TROOPS STANDING MOTIONLESS AS IF TURNED TO +A MINUTE LATER SóNYA CAME IN WITH A FRIGHTENED, GUILTY, AND SCARED +AM I TO GO?” THOUGHT NICHOLAS, AND WENT AGAIN INTO THE DANCING ROOM +AMONG THE GENTLEMEN OF THE SUITE, ROSTóV NOTICED BOLKóNSKI, SITTING +AMONG THEM THE STAFF OFFICER AND ZHERKóV, WHO HAD BEEN TWICE SENT TO +AMONG THE YOUNG MEN INTRODUCED BY ROSTóV ONE OF THE FIRST WAS +A MOVEMENT. WITH A PLEASANT SMILE BERG RELATED HOW THE GRAND DUKE +AM STAYING IN FOR YOUR SAKE,” AND SO ON. AND THOUGH PRINCE VASíLI, +AMUSING,” HE CONTINUED, WITH A SUDDEN, GOOD-NATURED LAUGH, “WAS THAT +AMUSING, NOW GIRLISHLY ENCHANTING. +A MUSKETRY FIRE AT THE FRENCH CAVALRY THAT WAS PURSUING OUR TROOPS. IT +AN ALLOWANCE OF TEN THOUSAND RUBLES. HE HAD A DIM PERCEPTION OF THE +AN ASSIDUOUS AND MODEST MIEN, AND STOOPING OVER THE OUTSPREAD MAP +ANATOLE. “AH, I KNOW, I KNOW,” SHE SAID WITH A SLY GLANCE, “YOUR +ANATOLE CAME UP TO HER. SHE STILL COULD NOT SEE HIM. SHE ONLY FELT A +ANATOLE EMBRACING THE FRENCHWOMAN AND WHISPERING SOMETHING TO HER. WITH +ANATOLE, HAVING TAKEN OFF HIS OVERCOAT, SAT WITH ARMS AKIMBO BEFORE A +ANATOLE IS ACCOMPANYING ME ON HIS WAY TO THE ARMY, SO I HOPE YOU WILL +ANATOLE IS NO GENIUS, BUT HE IS AN HONEST, GOODHEARTED LAD; AN EXCELLENT +ANATOLE KISSED THE OLD MAN, AND LOOKED AT HIM WITH CURIOSITY AND PERFECT +ANATOLE RETURNED SMILING TO THE LADIES. +ANATOLE’S EXPRESSION, THOUGH HIS EYES WERE FIXED ON HER, REFERRED NOT +“ANATOLE USED TO COME TO BORROW MONEY FROM HER AND USED TO KISS HER +AN ATTACK. BUT WHEN THEY HAD MARCHED FOR ABOUT AN HOUR IN THE DENSE FOG, +AN AUSTRIAN OFFICER IN A WHITE UNIFORM WITH GREEN PLUMES IN HIS HAT +AND ABOUT NIKóLENKA, TWICE ASKED WHEN THE LAST LETTER HAD BEEN RECEIVED +AND ABRUPTLY. +AND A BULLET WHIZZING HIGH UP IN THE MIST WITH A PLAINTIVE SOUND PASSED +AND ACCEPT THE OFFER,” BUT BEFORE HE HAD TIME TO SAY IT NATáSHA BEGAN +AND ACQUAINTANCES, INVITATIONS, AND SOCIAL OCCUPATIONS WERE SO NUMEROUS +AND, ADDRESSING HIM, AGAIN USED THE EPITHET “YOUNG MAN” THAT WAS +AND ADVANTAGES OF SERVICE UNDER MEMBERS OF THE IMPERIAL FAMILY. +AND A FEW HERE AND THERE WITH POWDERED HAIR AND IN RUSSIAN KAFTáNS. +AND AFFRONTS MATTER? I LOVE AND FORGIVE EVERYBODY NOW.” +AND AFTER STAYING BUT A SHORT TIME WITH THE TSAR WENT TO SEE THE GRAND +AND AGAIN IT TURNED USELESSLY IN THE SAME PLACE. +AND AGAIN JUMPING UP, DASHED SO IMPETUOUSLY FORWARD THAT IT SEEMED AS IF +AND AGAIN PROCEEDED TO GALLOP ALONG THE LINE, PENETRATING FARTHER AND +AND ALL ALONG THE FRENCH LINE ON THE HILL FIRES FLARED UP AND THE +AND ALL HIS COMRADES OF THE GUARDS BY HIS APPEARANCE—THAT OF A +AND ALL HIS MERCY TO ONE WHO IS BLIND, OR WHO SHUTS HIS EYES THAT HE MAY +AND ALL YOU HAVE BEEN DOING ON YOUR ESTATES.” +“AND AM I TO BRING THE GYPSY GIRLS ALONG WITH HIM?” ASKED NICHOLAS, +AND A MUFFLED SHOUT ALMOST BEHIND THEM IN THE WOOD. THE FRENCH HAD +AND AMUSED AS HE WAS WHEN HE PUT ON THE LITTLE ICON. “DID HE BELIEVE? +AND AMUSE THEMSELVES AS GIRLS OF THIRTEEN AND FOURTEEN DO WHO ARE +AND AMUSINGLY. “AND WHY NOT MARRY HER IF SHE REALLY HAS SO MUCH MONEY? +AND ANATOLE MET IN THE CONSERVATORY. +AND ANGRY FACES STRUGGLED FOR THE MOP: HOW DIFFERENTLY DO THOSE CLOUDS +AND ANXIETY THEY THREW THEIR BURDEN OF SORROW ON ONE ANOTHER AND +AND AS HE WENT ON BECAME MORE AND MORE ANIMATED. HE TOLD THEM OF HIS +AND, AS IT MIGHT SEEM, OF THE OBLIGATIONS TO HER HE HAD TAKEN ON +“AND ASK WHETHER SHARPSHOOTERS HAVE BEEN POSTED,” HE ADDED. “WHAT +AND AS THEY WENT ALONG HE WAS TOLD ALLEGORIES OF THE TOILS OF HIS +AND, AS YOU KNOW MY PRINCIPLES, I REFER IT TO YOU.” +AND AT EVERY WORD HE ADDED: “BUT DON’T HURT MY LITTLE HORSE!” AND +AND AT LAST BECAME SILENT. +AND AT THE PEOPLE IN IT. ROUND A LONG TABLE COVERED WITH BLACK SAT SOME +AND AWKWARDLY OVER THE PARQUET FLOOR OF THE RECEPTION ROOM, NOT KNOWING +AND BACK, GALLOPED STRENUOUSLY FORWARD, AND WITH A DASHING SALUTE REINED +AND BEGAN FIRING THEM AT TúSHIN’S BATTERY. +AND BEGAN TO SPEAK. +AND BEING WELL DISPOSED TOWARD BORíS, WHO HAD MANAGED TO PLEASE HIM THE +AND BESIDES THIS, NINE MEN IN EVERY THOUSAND FOR THE MILITIA. EVERYWHERE +AND CALLING THE NURSE BEGAN GIVING THE MEDICINE. THE CHILD SCREAMED +AND COLONEL LOOKED STERNLY AND SIGNIFICANTLY AT ONE ANOTHER LIKE TWO +AND CONFLICT WITH WHICH HE HAD TRODDEN THE ENNS BRIDGE, BUT WITH THE +AND CONNECTIONS HE BELONGED TO THE GROUPS OF OLD AND HONORED GUESTS, AND +AND CONTINUAL EXPECTATION OF SOME GOOD, ALWAYS IN FRONT OF HIM BUT NEVER +AND COULD NOT ANSWER. “CAN SOMETHING BAD HAVE HAPPENED TO ME?” +AND COUNT ILYá ROSTóV BECAME MORE AND MORE MOVED, MORE GLASS WAS +AND COUNT ROSTóV, GLANCING ANGRILY AT THE AUTHOR WHO WENT ON READING + AND DARE NOT HERCULEAN RUSSIANS TROUBLE... +AND DARK. THE OFFICERS WERE HURRIEDLY DRINKING TEA AND BREAKFASTING, THE +“AND DIDN’T HIPPOLYTE TELL YOU?” ASKED PRINCE VASíLI, TURNING TO +AND DISHEVELED, BEAT AND TURNED THE HEAVY FEATHER BED FOR THE THIRD +AND DISMOUNTED SLOWLY AMONG THE GUNS. HE DELIVERED THE ORDER AND DID +AND DISSATISFIED ABOUT SOMETHING AND THAT AT HEADQUARTERS THEY WERE +AND DISTINCTLY. IN THE VALLEY HE SAW BEFORE HIM SOMETHING LIKE A RIVER, +AND, DOING SO, GROANED INVOLUNTARILY. +AND DóLOKHOV’S ANGRY CRY. +“AND DO YOU FEEL QUITE CALM?” ROSTóV ASKED. +“AND DO YOU KNOW, MY DEAR FELLOW, IT SEEMS TO ME THAT BONAPARTE HAS +AND, DRAWING UP AN ARMCHAIR FOR PRINCE VASíLI, POINTED TO IT AND BEGAN +AND DROPPED IT AGAIN BEHIND HER. PRINCE ANDREW RECOGNIZED HER WITHOUT +AND DROWSY KUTúZOV, WHO RELUCTANTLY PLAYED THE PART OF CHAIRMAN AND +AND ECSTASY SUCH AS HE HAD NEVER BEFORE KNOWN. EVERY TRAIT AND EVERY +AND EVEN NOW NEVER SAYS A WORD AGAINST HIM. THOSE PRANKS IN PETERSBURG +AND EVEN PRINCESS MARY FELT HERSELF PLEASANTLY MADE TO SHARE IN THESE +AND EVERYBODY HAD TO SERVE, HE TOOK A POST UNDER HIS FATHER IN THE +AND EXPLAINED TO THEM HIS INTENTIONS AND WISHES. HE TOLD THEM THAT STEPS +AND EXTENDING ITS NECK, GALLOPED ON YET FASTER. HARDLY HAD THE HORSE +“AND FANCY! SHE REFUSED HIM QUITE DEFINITELY!” ADDING, AFTER A +AND FELL ON HIS BACK. HE OPENED HIS EYES, HOPING TO SEE HOW THE STRUGGLE +AND FIGHTING, NOT AT ALL AS THE GUNNER AND THE FRENCHMAN WITH FRIGHTENED +AND, FLUSHED AND SMILING, PLUMPED DOWN ON THE FLOOR. THE COUNTESS WAS +AND FOR THE ISSUE OF THE WHOLE BATTLE. “BUT BE THAT WHAT IT MAY,” +AND FRENCHMEN RUNNING TOWARD IT. HIGHER UP STOOD SOME RUSSIAN INFANTRY, +AND FREQUENT BLUSHES SHE TOLD HIM SHE WAS VERY SORRY ABOUT THEIR PAST +AND FRO, AND DISPATCHING OF ADJUTANTS—WAS CONFINED TO THE EMPEROR’S +AND FROWNING BROWS STOOD A HUNDRED PACES AWAY FROM THEM IN HIS HELMET +AND GALLOPED ALONG THE LINE. AT FIRST HE RODE ALONG THE LINE OF +AND GALLOPED OFF. BUT NO SOONER HAD HE LEFT BAGRATIóN THAN HIS COURAGE +AND GLAD SPARKLE. PRINCE ANDREW HAD GROWN THINNER, PALER, AND MORE +AND GRIEVED HAD HE CHOSEN NOT TO SEE THEM. THESE DIFFERENT +AND GROANS MINGLED IN A GENERAL HUBBUB, THEN THE FIRING DIED DOWN. +AND HANDING ON TO POSTERITY OF A CERTAIN IMPORTANT MYSTERY... WHICH +AND HANDSOME YOUNG MAN AND WOMAN FOR ONE ANOTHER. AND THIS HUMAN FEELING +AND HAPPY THOUGH UNEASY FACE OF PIERRE. IT SEEMED AS IF THE VERY LIGHT +AND, HAVING GLANCED ROUND THE ROOM, PRINCE ANDREW TURNED TO ROSTóV, +AND HE AGAIN BEGAN SPEAKING ABOUT INDIFFERENT MATTERS, ABOUT SERGéY +AND HE AGAIN TURNED TO PIERRE. +AND HE FELT A NERVOUS SHUDDER RUN DOWN HIS SPINE. BUT THE MERE THOUGHT +AND HE LOOKED AT PIERRE WITH A MOCKING, CHALLENGING EXPRESSION. HE +AND HE LOOKED ON THIS VISIT TO A CHURLISH OLD MAN AND A RICH AND UGLY +AND HELPED HIM. I KNOW AND UNDERSTAND WHAT A SPICE THAT WOULD ADD TO THE +AND HERE’S THE LITTLE SHOP WHERE WE USED TO BUY GINGERBREAD! CAN’T +AND HER LOOK SEEMED TO SAY: “WELL, IT IS YOUR OWN FAULT.” +AND HER SON. SHE HAD OPPORTUNITIES OF SENDING HER LETTERS TO THE GRAND +AND HE SAT DOWN AGAIN, PAYING NO MORE ATTENTION TO HIS DAUGHTER, WHO WAS +AND HE SAW ABOVE HIM THE REMOTE, LOFTY, AND EVERLASTING SKY. HE KNEW IT +AND HE WALKED ON. +AND HE WORE A CRUMPLED HUSSAR CAP STUCK JAUNTILY BACK ON ONE SIDE OF HIS +AND HE WOULD MARRY HER. SO HER FUTURE SHAPED ITSELF IN MADEMOISELLE +AND HIS BACK DRAWN IN, SLIGHTLY SWINGING ONE FOOT, AND, WITH HIS HEAD A +AND HIS LIPS WERE SMILING. THOUGH THE COMMANDER WAS OCCUPIED IN GIVING +AND HORSE GUARDS’ JACKET, SHOUTING SOMETHING TO A PALE, WHITE +AND HORSES) HAD IT NOT OCCURRED TO ROSTóV TO FLOURISH HIS WHIP BEFORE +“AND HOW COULD YOU BELIEVE HE WAS MY LOVER? WHY? BECAUSE I LIKE +AND HOW HAPPY I MAY BE WITH SUCH A FRIEND AND SUCH A HUSBAND! HUSBAND? +AND HOW HAS IT ENDED? I WAS AGAINST THIS MARRIAGE EVEN THEN AND FORETOLD +“AND HOW SHE DANCES! WHAT GWACE!” HE SAID AGAIN AFTER A PAUSE. +AND HOW THE WELL-TRAINED HORSE LOOKED ROUND UNCONCERNED AND DID NOT +“AND I DID NOT KNOW... NICHOLAS... MY DARLING!...” +“AND IF I SHOULD MEET HIS MAJESTY BEFORE I MEET THE COMMANDER IN +“AND IF THIS AIM COINCIDES WITH YOURS, YOU MAY ENTER OUR BROTHERHOOD +“AND, IF YOUR EXCELLENCY WILL ALLOW ME TO EXPRESS MY OPINION,” HE +“AND I KNOW WHY SHE’D BE ASHAMED,” SAID PéTYA, OFFENDED BY +AND I’LL WRITE TO HER MYSELF, AND WE WILL KILL THE FATTED CALF.” +“AND I MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN HIS PLACE!” THOUGHT ROSTóV, AND HARDLY +AND IMPOSSIBLE, HE AGAIN GLANCED TIMIDLY AT HER. SHE DID NOT SIT DOWN +AND IN A WAY OF WHICH OUR LAST CAMPAIGN CAN GIVE YOU NO IDEA. HALF THE +AND IN A WHISPER, WITH A STRANGELY UNSMILING FACE: “COME TO DINNER +AND INDULGENTLY TO SMOOTH WITH IT THE HEART OF HIS NEIGHBOR. AS TO THE +AND INEVITABLY HE LAPSED INTO FALSEHOOD. IF HE HAD TOLD THE TRUTH TO HIS +AND IN ORDER TO PRESS THEM AGAIN TO HER LIPS, SHE SLIGHTLY PUSHED AWAY +AND INSIGNIFICANT PEOPLE. BUT THE ARMY, THE RUSSIAN ARMY, EVERYONE +AND INTERESTING PERSON TO THE VISITORS AND THAT NOWHERE ELSE WAS THE +AND INTERESTS BEFORE HIM! “YES, THEY HAVE TAKEN A WISE DECISION,” HE +AND INTO LADIES’ SOCIETY WITH AN AFFECTATION OF DOING SO AGAINST HIS +AND IN TWO TWISTS OF THE HAND HE BREAKS THEM TO SMITHEREENS AND INSTALLS +AND IRREPRESSIBLY, AS WATER DOES IN A CREEK. HAD THE RUSSIAN ARMY BEEN +AND IRRITATION, THOUGH CONTROLLEDLY CALM AS A MAN IS AT THE APPROACH OF +“AND I SHOULD BE ASHAMED TO WRITE TO BORíS. I’M NOT GOING TO.” +AND IS IT WORTH TORMENTING ONESELF, WHEN ONE HAS ONLY A MOMENT OF LIFE +“AND I WAS LOOKING FOR YOU,” SAID NATáSHA RUNNING OUT TO HIM. “I +“AND I WILL TELL YOU THIS,” PRINCE ANDREW INTERRUPTED IN A TONE OF +AND I WON’T ALLOW IT TO BE SAID!” +AND KáMENSKI THE LATTER WAS PREFERRED. THE GENERAL COMES TO US, +AND LEAVING LARGE SUMS OF MONEY WITH THEM FOR ALMS, WENT AWAY TO HIS +AND LITTERED WITH CARDS. ONE TORMENTING IMPRESSION DID NOT LEAVE HIM: +AND LOOKED AT HER IN SUCH A WAY THAT NOT ONLY COULD SHE NOT BEAR HIS +AND LOOKED AT HIM CLOSELY. +AND LOOKS OF THOSE WHO HAD SEEN THEM TOGETHER. HE RECALLED ANNA +“AND LOVE OF ONE’S NEIGHBOR, AND SELF-SACRIFICE?” BEGAN PIERRE. +AND MAJESTIC VOICE THAT WAS YET SO SIMPLE! AND AS IF IN ACCORD WITH +“AND MAMMA PRESSED HER!” SAID NICHOLAS REPROACHFULLY. +AND MARTINISTS, EVEN IN NOVíKOV’S TIME. FOR A LONG WHILE AFTER HE HAD +“AND ME, KISS ME!” +AND MERRY FACES. IT WAS NATáSHA, SóNYA, AND PéTYA, WHO HAD COME TO +AND MINGLING WITH ONE ANOTHER. HE COULD ALSO, BY THE GLEAM OF BAYONETS +AND MORE REGULARLY AND RAPIDLY, AND THE ACTION AT THE GOLDBACH STREAM +AND MOVED ALONG THE RANKS SHOUTING. THE TRAIN DRIVERS AND ORDERLIES +AND MUSKETRY AHEAD OF HIM. THE FIRING GREW LOUDER AND LOUDER. +AND MY LIFE, MY LIFE,” HE THOUGHT, “MUST BE RISKED?” +AND NATáSHA, IN THE LIGHT-BLUE DRESSES THEY HAD WORN AT THE THEATER, +AND NATáSHA KISSED HER BROTHER AND RAN AWAY. +AND NATáSHA ROSE AND WENT OUT OF THE ROOM ON TIPTOE, LIKE A BALLET +AND NICHOLAS AGAIN KISSED HER HAND. +AND NOT VALUE HER PURE AFFECTION AND DEVOTION TO ME?” SHE WENT UP +“AND NOW, IN TOKEN OF CANDOR, I ASK YOU TO REVEAL TO ME YOUR CHIEF +AND NOW THERE’S DóLOKHOV SITTING IN THE SNOW WITH A FORCED SMILE AND +AND OF COURSE NOT AS ‘EMPEROR,’ IT SEEMED TO ME IT SHOULD BE TO +AND ONE BOOTED FOOT, HE ADVANCED, WHILE WILLARSKI HELD A SWORD TO HIS +AND ONE COULD HEAR THEIR DISTRESSING SCREAMS AND GROANS, SOMETIMES +AND ONLY TURNED AWAY HIS EYES WHEN THE AUSTRIAN CHIEF OF STAFF FINISHED + AND ON THE THRONE OUR TITUS SHIELD. +AND OPENED THE DOOR FOR HIM. +“AND OUR LITTLE TEA TABLE?” +AND OUT OF THE BEDROOM GLANCED AT THE PRINCESS AND TURNED AWAY. SHE DID +AND OVERTOOK HIM. A SERGEANT OF THE BATTALION RAN UP AND TOOK THE FLAG +AND PARTICULARLY AMIABLE SMILE. +AND PART WERE LEAVING THESE PRATZEN HEIGHTS WHICH HE INTENDED TO ATTACK +AND PAUSED FACING HER AT THE FOOT OF THE SOFA ON WHICH SHE WAS LYING. +AND PIERRE, ANXIOUSLY TRYING TO REMEMBER WHETHER HE HAD DONE ANYTHING +AND, PRESSING PIERRE’S HAND, HE WENT OUT. +AND PRINCE ANDREW, WITH OTHERS FATALLY WOUNDED, WAS LEFT TO THE CARE OF +AND PRINCE DOLGORúKOV RAPIDLY BUT INDISTINCTLY EXPLAINED WEYROTHER’S +AND PRINCESS MARY TRIED, BUT COULD NOT MANAGE, TO BE CORDIAL TO HER NEW +AND PROFLIGATE LIFE, THOUGH I DID NOT LIKE IT AND DID NOT WANT TO,” +AND PROMISED TO WRITE TO HIM AND GUIDE HIM IN HIS NEW ACTIVITY. +AND PROUDLY AROUND WHILE BAGRATIóN SPOKE TO HIS SON. +AND REALLY ANOTHER FRENCH SOLDIER, TRAILING HIS MUSKET, RAN UP TO +AND REALLY HE ONLY RAN A FEW STEPS ALONE. ONE SOLDIER MOVED AND THEN +AND REGARDED AS THE KEY TO THE POSITION. HE SAW OVER THE MIST THAT IN +AND RELATIONS HAD BEEN GIVEN TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE FATE OF THE YOUNG +AND REMAINED SO FOR SOME MINUTES. PITEOUS, HELPLESS, ANIMAL MOANS CAME +ANDREW. +ANDREW. +ANDREW A RELIABLE CORRESPONDENT TO WHOM HE COULD POUR OUT THE BILE HE +“ANDREW, DON’T!” SAID PRINCESS MARY. +ANDREW FELT THAT SOMETHING GAVE WAY IN HIS SOUL AND THAT HE WAS GUILTY +ANDREW IN HIS BOYHOOD, HELPED PIERRE OUT OF HIS CARRIAGE, SAID THAT THE +ANDREW. “I WISH YOU GOOD LUCK AND SUCCESS, GENTLEMEN!” HE ADDED AND +ANDREW, PAYING NO MORE HEED TO THE GENERAL WHO RAN AFTER HIM IMPLORING +ANDREW READ THE SAME MILD REPROACH HE HAD READ ON THE FACE OF HIS DEAD +ANDREW’S PRESENCE. HE WAS ASHAMED TO EXPRESS HIS NEW MASONIC VIEWS, +ANDREW, TOLD HOW BONAPARTE WISHING TO TEST MARKóV, OUR AMBASSADOR, +ANDREW WAS IN AND BORíS WAS SHOWN INTO A LARGE HALL PROBABLY FORMERLY +ANDREW WENT OUT WITH HIM. +ANDREW, WHOM BORíS WAS EXPECTING, ENTERED THE ROOM. PRINCE ANDREW, WHO +AND ROSTóV GOT UP AND WENT WANDERING AMONG THE CAMPFIRES, DREAMING OF +AND RUNNING SO LIGHTLY, FRIGHTENED ROSTóV. HE SEIZED HIS PISTOL AND, +AND SALT AND AN ICON OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL, ASKING PERMISSION, +AND SALT OF HOSPITALITY, AS, ACCORDING TO HIS UNDERSTANDING OF HIS +AND SAW THAT THE LAMP STOOD ON A BLACK TABLE ON WHICH LAY AN OPEN BOOK. +AND SAYING SOMETHING IN THEIR GYPSY ACCENTS. NICHOLAS UNDERSTOOD THAT IT +AND, SCOWLING, HE GAVE NICHOLAS JUST SUCH A LOOK AS HE HAD GIVEN PIERRE +AND SECURED THEIR RELEASE BY HEAVY PAYMENTS. HE DID NOT KNOW THAT THE +AND SEEING HER SEVERE FACE SAID: “WELL, GOOD-BY, COUNTESS,” AND +AND SEVERAL OTHER LESS NOTEWORTHY PERSONS. +AND SHE WITH HIM, THAT THERE WAS QUITE A SCANDAL AND THAT THAT’S WHY +“AND SHOULD NOT JUSTIFY YOUR CONFIDENCE AND THE HONOR YOU HAVE DONE +AND SHOWN SUCH UNAFFECTED FAMILIARITY IN INTERCOURSE WITH EVERYBODY BOTH +AND SILVER OF THE MEN’S EPAULETS; SERVANTS IN SCARLET LIVERIES MOVED +AND SIMPLY, “MR. SHíTOV—A MAN OF GREAT MERIT”—THIS OF THE MAN +AND SINFULNESS?” HE PAUSED AGAIN. “WHO ART THOU? THOU DREAMEST THAT +AND SOCIAL TACT,” THOUGHT HE; “BEEN PROUD OF MY HOUSE, IN WHICH SHE +AND SO FURTHER INCREASED THE FAME OF THESE DANCES. WHAT DISTINGUISHED +AND SOLEMN, AND AWAKENING IN THE MEN AN UNUSUAL CURIOSITY. ON THE DAY OF +AND SO SAID THE YOUTHS AND MAIDENS THEMSELVES AS THEY DANCED TILL THEY +AND SO SPARKLING THEIR EYES. SOMETIMES THE BEST OF THE PUPILS, OF WHOM +“AND SO THEY ARE WRITING FROM POTSDAM ALREADY?” HE SAID, REPEATING +AND SOUGHT THE ACQUAINTANCE OF ONLY THOSE ABOVE HIM IN POSITION AND +“AND SO YOU HAD TO GO THROUGH THAT TOO!” +“AND SO YOU’VE HAD HIM EDUCATED ABROAD, PRINCE VASíLI, HAVEN’T +AND STILL FEWER MEN WOULD BE SO WELL ABLE AND WILLING TO MAKE UP OUT OF +AND STILL THE SAME AND IN THE SAME PLACE. NO, IT CAN’T BE! SURELY IT +AND STOOD STILL IN THE DIM LIGHT BENEATH THE CURTAIN AS IF NOT WISHING +AND STOOPED GLASS IN HAND OVER THE INFANT. +AND STOPPED NEAR HIM. +AND STRANGE TO SAY NICHOLAS FELT THAT HE COULD NOT HELP TAKING UP A +AND STRENGTH. HE WAS CONTINUALLY TRAVELING THROUGH THE THREE PROVINCES +AND SUDDENLY BEGAN TO CRY. +AND SUDDENLY THE WHOLE WORLD CENTERED FOR HIM ON ANTICIPATION OF THE +AND SWALLOWED THE COLD SNOW, HIS LIPS QUIVERED BUT HIS EYES, STILL +AND, TAKING NATáSHA’S HAND, KISSED IT. +AND TEARS, TILL AT LAST SOMEBODY ELSE WAS ASKED TO READ IT.” +AND TEAR WHATEVER CAME TO HIS HAND. “WHY DID I TELL HER THAT ‘JE +AND THAT DAREDEVIL AFTER HER!” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, WISHING TO SHOW +AND THAT HER HUSBAND WAS A CROSS LAID UPON HER BY GOD. PRINCE VASíLI +AND THAT IF A LETTER REACHED THE GRAND DUKE IN COMMAND OF THE GUARDS +AND THAT’S HOW IT IS WITH ME. À DEMAIN, MON CHER.” * +AND THAT THE RICHEST PEASANTS (WHO FORMED THE DEPUTATION) HAD BEGUN +AND THE ALLOWANCE TO THE THREE PRINCESSES; ABOUT 15,000 WAS GIVEN IN +AND THE BOYISH FACE ROSTóV, BREATHLESS WITH EXCITEMENT AND HOPE, WAS +AND THE BURNING OF AN ARM WITH A RULER AS A PROOF OF LOVE DID NOT SEEM +AND THE CANNON, UNDER THE HORSES’ HOOFS AND BETWEEN THE WAGON WHEELS, +AND THE CONSEQUENT IMPOSSIBILITY OF A SPEEDY EMANCIPATION. +AND THE COUNT TURNED TO THE COOK, WHO, WITH A SHREWD AND RESPECTFUL +AND THE CRIMEAN ESTATE, IN ORDER TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE: ALL OF WHICH +AND THE DIFFICULT NAMES OF VILLAGES. WEYROTHER COMPLIED AND DOHKTúROV +AND THE DISGRACE OF HAVING LOST TWO GUNS AND YET REMAINING ALIVE PRESENT +AND THE DISTINGUISHED DIGNITARY WHO BORE THE TITLE OF “COLLECTOR +AND THE FEELING OF ENERGY WITH WHICH THE TROOPS HAD STARTED BEGAN TO +AND THE JINGLE OF THEIR WEAPONS AND SAW THEIR HORSES, THEIR FIGURES, AND +AND THEN CALMLY AND SERIOUSLY SAT BACK IN HIS CHAIR. ANNA PáVLOVNA +AND THEN HE SUDDENLY STOPPED AND PERFORMED SOME NEW AND UNEXPECTED +AND THEN TO CALL HIM OUT, RECKONING ON FéDYA NOT FIGHTING BECAUSE HE +AND THE OLD CAVALRY CAPTAIN, KíRSTEN, SHOUTED ENTHUSIASTICALLY AND NO +AND THE OLD COUNTESS WERE ESPECIALLY DISTURBED, AND TO A LESSER DEGREE +“AND THE OTHER ONE IS NOT HERE. THEY’VE BEEN TELLING TALES,” HE +AND THE OTHERS WHO DID NOT APPROVE OF THE PLAN OF ATTACK, WERE +AND THE PISTOLS LOADED, NESVíTSKI WENT UP TO PIERRE. +AND THE READING OF THE LETTER BEGAN. AFTER A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF +AND THERE IN THE COFFIN WAS THE SAME FACE, THOUGH WITH CLOSED EYES. +AND THERE IS NOTHING TO THANK ME FOR. NO ONE HAS EVER COMPLAINED YET OF +“AND THERE’S NOTHING FOR YOU TO SAY. I SHALL SPEAK TO HIM MYSELF,” +AND THERE TOO SAT THE MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY, AND PIERRE AND HéLèNE, +AND THE REWARDS SENT TO THE ARMY ARE INNUMERABLE. THOUGH HE IS A +AND THE SAME LOOK. IN THE MIDDLE OF A DULL AND HALTING CONVERSATION, +AND THE SECOND AIM, THAT OF PURIFYING AND REGENERATING HIMSELF, DID NOT +AND THE TALKATIVE DOLGORúKOV, TURNING NOW TO BORíS, NOW TO PRINCE +AND THE TRAVELER BECAME ABSORBED IN IT. PIERRE LOOKED AT HIM. ALL AT +AND THE TWO EMPERORS WERE LIVING WITH THEIR SUITES, HOUSEHOLDS, AND +AND THE TWO FRIENDS TOLD EACH OTHER OF THEIR DOINGS, THE ONE OF HIS +AND THE WHOLE SECRET LIES IN THE TERRIBLE TRUTH THAT SHE IS A DEPRAVED +AND THEY DISAPPEARED INTO THE DARKNESS WITH THEIR LOAD. +AND THREE PAIRS OF GLOVES, AND THEN THE GRAND MASTER ADDRESSED HIM. HE +AND TOOK HOLD OF THE COMMANDER’S STIRRUP, ALMOST LEANING AGAINST HIM. +AND ‘TO SIBERIA!’” SAID BERG WITH A SAGACIOUS SMILE. “I KNEW I +AND TRIUMPH. +AND TWO OR THREE FRIENDS—YOU AMONG THEM—AND AS FOR THE REST I ONLY +AND UNREASONABLE THAN A LITTLE CHILD, WHO, PLAYING WITH THE PARTS OF A +AND VIRTUE, AND THEREBY TRY WITH ALL OUR MIGHT TO COMBAT THE EVIL WHICH +AND VIRTUE THAN MERE WORDS. THIS CHAMBER WITH WHAT YOU SEE THEREIN +AND VOICES. THIS CLASS OF GUESTS AND MEMBERS SAT IN CERTAIN HABITUAL +AND WAS A STRANGER THERE. IN HIS PERSON, HONOR WAS SHOWN TO A SIMPLE +AND WAS GOING TO TUCK UP THE OTHER TROUSER LEG TO SAVE THIS STRANGER THE +AND WATCHED HIS OPPONENT’S FACE, EVIDENTLY THINKING ABOUT THE GAME AS +AND WAY OF LIFE. +AND WELL INFORMED FOREGATHERED WHEN THE NEWS BEGAN TO ARRIVE IN +AND WENT OUT. NATáSHA HAD PUT ON ONE SPURRED BOOT AND WAS JUST GETTING +AND, WHATEVER MAY HAPPEN TO HIM OR TO ME, SHALL NEVER CEASE TO LOVE HIM +“AND WHAT IS SHE SO PLEASED ABOUT?” THOUGHT NICHOLAS, LOOKING AT HIS +AND WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER IT BEYOND THE GRAVE! HOW HAPPY AND CALM I +AND WHEELS BEGAN TO REVOLVE FASTER AND FASTER, LEVERS AND COGWHEELS TO +AND WHERE TO SHOOT,” HE SAID WITH AN UNNATURALLY GENTLE SMILE. +“AND WHO HAS TOLD YOU WHAT IS BAD FOR ANOTHER MAN?” HE ASKED. +AND WHOM BORíS ADDRESSED TURNED ROUND CROSSLY AND TOLD HIM BOLKóNSKI +AND WHO WAS CALLED TIT. HE WAS SAYING, “TIT, I SAY, TIT!” +“AND WHY DIDN’T YOU SIMPLY COME STRAIGHT TO ME AS TO A FRIEND? I +“AND WHY DO YOU SERVE?” +AND WITH A BOW TO THEM BOTH HE WENT OUT. +AND WITH A FURTIVE GLANCE AT HIS SON’S FACE, THE COUNT WENT OUT OF THE +AND WITH A HOOKED NOSE. THEN CAME TWO MORE, AND MANY MORE RUNNING +AND WITH BARITONE NOTES IN HIS VOICE, NEW TO BORíS, POINTING TO HIS OWN +AND WITH HIS HAND AT THE SALUTE RODE UP TO THE GENERAL. +AND WITHOUT AWAITING A REPLY, PRINCE ANDREW ROSE AND LEFT THE TABLE. +AND WROTE A FEW WORDS ON A LARGE SHEET OF PAPER FOLDED IN FOUR). +AND YET BE HAPPY....” +“AND YOU?” HE ASKED DóLOKHOV, BUT AS SOON AS HE HAD ASKED THE +AND YOUNG PEOPLE ARE RARELY CAPABLE OF IT. HIS HEARERS EXPECTED A STORY +“AND YOU’RE STILL THE SAME DIPLOMATIST! BUT THAT’S NOT THE +“AND YOU WON’T FEEL ASHAMED TO WRITE TO HIM?” +A NEED TO ESCAPE FROM IT BY SOME STRANGE, AND USUALLY CRUEL, ACTION. +AN EXCRUCIATING PAIN IN HIS ARM, FOR WHICH HE COULD FIND NO SATISFACTORY +AN EXEMPLARY OFFICER OF TWENTY-TWO YEARS’ SERVICE, WHO HAD NEVER BEEN +AN EXPLANATION, BUT MEETING THE LATTER’S IMPRESSIVE BUT MEANINGLESS +AN EXPRESSION OF PERPLEXITY, TURNED ROUND TO MILORáDOVICH AS IF SEEKING +AN EYE ON ME! VERY WELL THEN! GET ALONG WITH YOU!’ SO HE WRITES THE +ANGERED THE COUNTESS WHEN IT WAS NOT PROPERLY CLEANED, TURNED AS LOOSELY +ANGER HE DID NOT CONDESCEND TO NOTICE, AND SAID: “I THINK YOU WERE +ANGLING, WHILE HIS GRANDSON, WITH SHIRT SLEEVES ROLLED UP, HANDLED THE +ANGRILY AT HIM. BONDARCHúK’S HORSE SWERVED AND GALLOPED PAST. +ANGRY—BUT I KNOW YOU WILL NOT MARRY HER. I KNOW, HEAVEN KNOWS HOW, BUT +AN HOUR AND A HALF LATER MOST OF THE PLAYERS WERE BUT LITTLE INTERESTED +AN HOUR LATER, TíKHON CAME TO CALL PRINCESS MARY TO THE OLD PRINCE; +AN HOUR’S DELAY THEY AT LAST MOVED ON, DESCENDING THE HILL. THE FOG +“A NICE LITTLE HOT TORCH FOR THE INFANTRY! GOOD LUCK TO YOU, FELLOW +AN ILLEGITIMATE SON, AND PETTED AND EXTOLLED WHEN HE WAS THE BEST +ANIMAL. COUNT ILYá ROSTóV, LAUGHING AND REPEATING THE WORDS, “MAKE +ANIMAL WENT WHEN EXCITED. BENDING HIS FOAMING MUZZLE TO HIS CHEST, HIS +ANIMATION OF THE PAST OR THE FUTURE. IT WAS AS IF PRINCE ANDREW WOULD +AN IMMEDIATE ANSWER. PRINCE VASíLI HAD BROUGHT HIS SON WITH THE EVIDENT +AN INDESCRIBABLE CHARM OF SORROW AND SELF-FORGETFULNESS THAT HER FATHER +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, IN A FEW WORDS, TOLD HER THE CONTENTS OF THE LETTER, +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA OPENED THE DOOR. HER FACE WORE THE PROUD EXPRESSION +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA SAT DOWN BESIDE HIM, WITH HER OWN HANDKERCHIEF WIPED +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA SHOOK HER HEAD. +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA SIGHED DEEPLY. +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, THOUGH HER CIRCUMSTANCES HAD IMPROVED, WAS STILL +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA TURNED UP HER EYES, AND PROFOUND SADNESS WAS DEPICTED +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, WHO ALWAYS KNEW EVERYTHING THAT PASSED IN THE HOUSE, + * ANNA PáVLOVNA. +ANNA PáVLOVNA CONTINUED TO GIVE ON FREE EVENINGS THE SAME KIND OF +ANNA PáVLOVNA FROWNED. MORTEMART, HIPPOLYTE’S FRIEND, ADDRESSED HIM +ANNA PáVLOVNA GAVE HIM HER SHRIVELED HAND TO KISS AND INTRODUCED HIM TO +ANNA PáVLOVNA’S “AT HOME” WAS LIKE THE FORMER ONE, ONLY THE +ANNA PáVLOVNA’S TWO YEARS BEFORE. THERE WERE ALSO PRESENT A VERY +ANNOUNCE HIM, BUT, CHANGING HIS MIND, CAME BACK AND STOOPED TO KISS THE +ANNOYANCE. “GOOD LUCK TO YOU!” +AN OATH OF FIDELITY TO THE LAWS OF THE ORDER. THE CANDLES WERE THEN +AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS HIS DOUBTS. +ANOTHER.” +ANOTHER AND SOON THE WHOLE BATTALION RAN FORWARD SHOUTING “HURRAH!” +ANOTHER CANDLE. STILL LOWER, BEYOND THE TURN OF THE STAIRCASE, ONE +ANOTHER, DYING, STEPPING OVER THE DYING AND KILLING ONE ANOTHER, ONLY TO +ANOTHER FIVE DAYS PASSED, AND THEN THE YOUNG PRINCE NICHOLAS ANDRéEVICH +ANOTHER GROUP WAS AT THE TEA TABLE. PIERRE WISHED TO JOIN THE FORMER, +ANOTHER, MORE IMPORTANT, SUBORDINATION, WHICH MADE THIS TIGHT-LACED, +ANOTHER OF THE PRECEPTS—THAT OF REFORMING THE HUMAN RACE—AND HAD +ANOTHER, THE RED, STOUT NESVíTSKI, LAY ON A BED WITH HIS ARMS UNDER HIS +ANOTHER, THEY ALL GAVE, AND TRANSMITTED, ORDERS AS TO HOW TO PROCEED, +ANOTHER TWO MINUTES AND IT IS CERTAIN DEATH,” THOUGHT EACH ONE. +ANSWER. AT LAST HE MOVED UP TO PIERRE AND, TAKING THE KERCHIEF THAT LAY +ANSWERED HIM EITHER BY A BRIEF BUT APPROPRIATE REMARK—SHOWING THAT IT +ANSWERED THE GENERAL. +ANSWER THAT VOICE AND WENT ON DREAMING OF HIS TRIUMPHS. THE DISPOSITIONS +ANTóNOV.” +AN UNEXPECTED AND TENDERLY PATERNAL WAY. +ANY MOMENT.) +ANY MOMENT THE EMPEROR MAY SEE THEM.... BUT NO, THESE MUST BE ONLY A +ANYONE FLOGGED OR SENT TO SIBERIA—AND STILL LESS FOR YOUR SERFS. IF +ANYONE IN PARTICULAR, BEGAN TO SAY HOW DIFFICULT IT WAS TO CARRY OUT +ANY THE WORSE OFF. IN SIBERIA THEY LEAD THE SAME ANIMAL LIFE, AND THE +ANYTHING, DóLOKHOV, LOOKING STRAIGHT IN HIS FACE, SAID SLOWLY AND +ANYTHING, EXCEPT ONLY FOR PERMISSION, AFTER THE BLOW SHE HAD RECEIVED, +ANYTHING. IF IT BE GOD’S WILL TO PROVE THEE IN THE DUTIES OF MARRIAGE, +ANYTHING LIKE IT. SHE BELIEVED IT COULD BE, BUT DID NOT UNDERSTAND IT. +ANYTHING, WHEN SUDDENLY THE WELL-KNOWN WHISPERING OF MADEMOISELLE +ANY WOMEN—COUNTESSES OR COOKS—WHO WERE NOT VENAL. I HAVE NOT YET MET +APART FROM MYSELF.” +A PARTNER, AND THE OLD MEN BEGAN SMILINGLY TO TALK ABOUT POLAND AND THE +APOLOGIZING FOR THE STATE OF HIS GUN. +APPARENTLY IMMERSED IN HIS OWN THOUGHTS. +APPARENTLY SUFFERING MORE THAN THE DYING SOLDIER, AND HE RODE AWAY. +APPEARED. +APPEARED. HE WOULD CARRY HER AWAY AND THEN SA PAUVRE MèRE WOULD APPEAR +APPEARED TO HIM IN A DREAM: HIS MOTHER AND HER LARGE WHITE HAND, +APPRECIATE AT A GLANCE HER SUPERIORITY TO THE PLAIN, BADLY DRESSED, +APPROACHED FIRST, EXPERIENCED THE SAME FEELING AS EVERY OTHER MAN IN +APPROACHED KUTúZOV. OF KUTúZOV’S SUITE ONLY FOUR REMAINED. THEY WERE +APPROACHING. AND AT THAT MOMENT, THOUGH THE DAY WAS STILL, A LIGHT GUST +APPROACHING DEPARTURE DID NOT PREVENT HIS AMUSING HIMSELF, BUT RATHER +APRONS LIKE THE RHETOR’S AND HOLDING SWORDS IN THEIR HANDS POINTED AT +APRON, SUCH AS THE OTHERS WORE, WAS PUT ON HIM: HE WAS GIVEN A TROWEL +APRON, WHICH SYMBOLIZED STRENGTH AND PURITY; THEN OF THE UNEXPLAINED +A RAGE) AND CALLED FOR THE COMPANY COMMANDER. +ARCHDUKE, INSPECTED THE ALLIED ARMY OF EIGHTY THOUSAND MEN. +ARCHITECT NOT TO GO TO THE PRINCE WITH HIS REPORT. +ARCHITECT’S ATTENTION TO THE SOUND OF THE PRINCE’S FOOTSTEPS. +ARE CLEVER, YOU ARE WELL EDUCATED. AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH ALL THESE +ARE MANY STORIES OF HIS GETTING TO KNOW AN OFFICER IN JUST SUCH A CHANCE +ARE NOW TWO RUSSIANS, MILORáDOVICH, AND DOKHTúROV, AND THERE WOULD BE +A REPROACH TO EVERYONE. NOW TELL ME, COUNT, WAS IT RIGHT, WAS IT +ARE TAKEN TO THE FIELD MARSHAL’S ROOM, FOR HE LIKES TO DO EVERYTHING +ARE THERE,” SAID THE OFFICER, POINTING TO THE VILLAGE OF HOSJERADEK, +ARE THEY DOING? WHAT ARE THEY DOING?” HE MURMURED TO HIMSELF, STILL +ARE VERY PALE!” SAID PRINCESS MARY IN ALARM, RUNNING WITH HER SOFT, +ARE WITHIN SIGHT OF THE ENEMY AND HE WISHES TO PROFIT BY THE OPPORTUNITY +ARE YOU DUMB?’ HE SHOUTED. STILL I REMAINED SILENT. AND WHAT DO YOU +“ARE YOU MAD? YOU HAVE TWICE BEEN ORDERED TO RETREAT, AND YOU...” +ARE YOUNG AND I AM OLD. I SHOULD LIKE TO HELP YOU AS FAR AS LIES IN MY + A RHIPHEUS AT HOME, A CAESAR IN THE FIELD! +ARITHMETIC, WHEN RISING FROM HIS CHAIR HE WOULD WALK AWAY FROM HER, +ARKHáROVS; THEY HAVE A PARTY.” +ARMS AND THE HOPE OF FUTURE TRIUMPH. AND HE WAS NOT THE ONLY MAN TO +ARM’S LENGTH, APPARENTLY AFRAID OF SHOOTING HIMSELF WITH IT. HIS LEFT +ARMS ON THE TABLE AND BEGAN TO READ. AFTER READING A FEW LINES, HE +ARMY, AND EVEN NAPOLEON HIMSELF WITH HIS STAFF, WERE NOT ON THE FAR SIDE +ARMY, AND IN THE NIGHT FROM THE NINETEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH, THE WHOLE +ARMY’S CAMPFIRES DIMLY GLOWING IN THE FOG, COULD BE SEEN BEHIND HIM; +ARMY. YOU HAVE BROUGHT YOUR ARMY CORPS TO PULTúSK, ROUTED: HERE IT IS +(“ARNAUTS” WAS THE TSARéVICH’S FAVORITE EXPRESSION WHEN HE WAS IN +AROUND HIM. AN INFANTRYMAN CAME TO THE FIRE, SQUATTED ON HIS HEELS, HELD +AROUND THEM CANNON BALLS WERE FLYING, OF WHICH HE WAS AWARE NOT SO +AROUSED HIM. HE STARTED AND OPENED HIS EYES. +ARRANGEMENT OF THE FESTIVAL IN HONOR OF BAGRATIóN, FOR FEW MEN KNEW +ARRANGEMENTS OF THE HOUSE, HE INTERRUPTED HIMSELF: +ARRANGEMENTS TO THE MINUTEST DETAIL REMAIN THE SAME.” +ARRANGING A DINNER IN HONOR OF PRINCE BAGRATIóN AT THE ENGLISH CLUB. +ARRIVAL, THOUGHT IN ANOTHER WAY. OF COURSE, SHE, A HANDSOME YOUNG WOMAN +ARTILLERY COMPANY, A HEAD AND SHOULDERS TALLER AND TWICE AS BROAD +ARTILLERYMAN TO PRINCE ANDREW. “NOT LIKE YOUR HONOR!” +ARTILLERYMAN, WIPING AWAY THE BLOOD WITH HIS COAT SLEEVE, AS IF +ARTILLERYMEN, SOME OF WHOM WERE FIGHTING, WHILE OTHERS, HAVING ABANDONED +ARTILLERYMEN, TúSHIN, AND THE CADET EXCHANGED SILENT GLANCES AS THEY +A RUSTLE OF STARCHED PETTICOATS AND THE WHISPERING AND LAUGHTER OF +AS A CHILD, THERE WAS NO LONGER IN HER SINGING THAT COMICAL, CHILDISH, +AS A FRIEND THAT FREES THE SOUL GROWN WEARY IN THE LABORS OF VIRTUE +AS ALWAYS HAPPENS WHEN WOMEN LEAD LONELY LIVES FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME +AS A MARK OF THEIR GRATITUDE FOR THE BENEFITS HE HAD CONFERRED ON THEM, +AS A PETITIONER ON BEHALF OF THIS YOUNG MAN. YOU SEE...” BUT +AS A TRUE HUSSAR IN THIS BATTLE, HAD BEEN WASTED. THEIR SQUADRON +AS AUTHOR OF THE MILITARY PLAN, ARGUED THAT BONAPARTE MIGHT EASILY +AS A VERANDA. +AS BORíS. “COUNT! I AM WOUNDED IN MY RIGHT HAND” (AND HE SHOWED HIS +AS ELSEWHERE, HE WAS SURROUNDED BY AN ATMOSPHERE OF SUBSERVIENCE TO +A SERVANT. FROM THERE THEY PASSED INTO ANOTHER ROOM. A MAN IN STRANGE +A SEVENTY-POUND WEIGHT WERE TIED TO IT. HE COULD RUN NO MORE. THE +AS EVER. A SOLITARY TALLOW CANDLE BURNED IN THE ANTEROOM. +AS FAR AS MOSCOW AND TO STAY WITH HIM THERE. MEETING A COMRADE AT +ASHAMED; HE FELT THAT HE WAS OCCUPYING SOMEONE ELSE’S PLACE HERE +ASHAMED OF HIMSELF, HE SAID, AS IF MERELY ASKING HIS FATHER TO LET HIM +AS HE EXPECTED HE WAS APPOINTED AN ADJUTANT TO THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF +AS HE FELT HIMSELF TO BE AT THAT MOMENT. HE WAS CONSCIOUS THAT HERE +A SHELL BURST IN THE MIDST OF THAT DENSE THRONG, KILLING SOME AND +AS HIS OWN. WHAT ALSO CONDUCED TO BAGRATIóN’S BEING SELECTED AS +A SHORT PAUSE, “BUT EVERYONE LIVES IN HIS OWN WAY. YOU LIVED FOR +AS I DO NOT INTEND TO BE AT YOUR HOUSE AGAIN FOR REASONS YOU KNOW +AS IF ASTONISHED AT THE WORD. “WELL, YOU SEE, I’M BUILDING. I MEAN +AS IF CONTINUING A CONVERSATION THE SUBJECT OF WHICH HAD OFTEN BEEN +AS IF HE FELT A LITTLE CONFUSED BEFORE HIS SON. “NOW, IF YOU WOULD +AS IF SHE HAD TO GIVE SOME FINAL NECESSARY INSTRUCTIONS. +AS IF STIRRED TO HIS HEART’S CORE AND HIMSELF REGRETTING AND LAUGHING +AS IMPRACTICABLE, HE ARRANGED FOR THE ERECTION OF LARGE +AS I REMEMBER NIKóLENKA. HIM—I JUST SHUT MY EYES AND REMEMBER, +AS IS USUALLY THE CASE WITH PEOPLE MEETING AFTER A PROLONGED SEPARATION, +ASKED AND ANSWERED AT THE SAME INSTANT. HE WAS ALONE IN THE MIDDLE OF A +ASKED HIM TO TELL THE EMPEROR. WHAT DO YOU THINK HE REPLIED? ‘BUT, MY +ASKED NATáSHA, SO SERIOUSLY AND EXCITEDLY THAT IT WAS EVIDENT THAT WHAT +ASKED ONE OF THE LADIES. +ASKED ROSTóV, WITH A CONTEMPTUOUS SMILE. +ASKED TO GIVE UP ALL HE POSSESSED. +ASKED TO PLAY ON THE CLAVICHORD. ANATOLE, LAUGHING AND IN HIGH SPIRITS, +ASKED TO SEE THE PORTRAIT OF THE AUNT’S HUSBAND ON THE BOX LID. +ASKED WEYROTHER SEVERAL TIMES TO REPEAT WORDS HE HAD NOT CLEARLY HEARD +ASK HIMSELF. IT WAS AS IF THE THREAD OF THE CHIEF SCREW WHICH HELD HIS +“ASK HIM TO WAIT,” AND THE SOUND WAS HEARD OF A CHAIR BEING PUSHED +ASKING.” BUT DYING WAS ALSO DREADFUL. +ASK YOU TO PUT THE MONEY ON YOUR CARDS,” REPLIED DóLOKHOV. “DON’T +ASLEEP, NOR EVEN REMAIN IN ONE PLACE, BUT HAD TO JUMP UP AND PACE THE +A SLIGHTLY CONTEMPTUOUS SMILE, HE SAID: “YES, THERE ARE MANY STORIES +A SLIPPER FOR HIS LEFT FOOT. WITH A CHILDLIKE SMILE OF EMBARRASSMENT, +AS LONG AS I LIVE.” +AS MANY PERSONS ARE TO ME—FATHER, SISTER, WIFE—THOSE DEAREST TO +“AS MAY HAPPEN,” SAID ROSTóV. +A SMILE HE COULD NOT REPRESS AS HE RECALLED HIS RECEPTION AT BRüNN. +AS MUCH SELF-CONFIDENCE AS IF HE WERE ADDRESSING SCHOOL CHILDREN—THAT +AS OFTEN HAPPENS AFTER LONG SLEEPLESSNESS AND LONG ANXIETY, HE WAS +A SOLDIER ON THE MARCH IS HEMMED IN AND BORNE ALONG BY HIS REGIMENT AS +A SOLDIER’S CROSS, EQUALLY SHABBY CADET’S RIDING BREECHES LINED WITH +A SPACE LIKE A STREET WAS LEFT BETWEEN EACH TWO LINES OF TROOPS. THE +“A SPLENDID REPLY!” SAID NAPOLEON. “YOUNG MAN, YOU WILL GO FAR!” +“A SPLENDID SOLDIER, SPLENDID! ‘WHAT AM I ATTACHED TO!’ HA, HA, +AS POSSIBLE TO CONCEAL HIS OWN PART IN THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT HAD BEEN +AS REPORTED BY THE DIVISION COMMANDERS, OSTERMANN AND SEDMORéTZKI, AND +AS SHE SAT IN HER ROOM. BUT OWING TO THE SUPERSTITION THAT THE FEWER +AS SHE WAS CROSSING THE ANTEROOM SHE SAW THROUGH THE WINDOW A CARRIAGE +ASSIGNED TO THE COMMANDER OF THE PáVLOGRAD REGIMENT IN WHICH ROSTóV +AS SOMETHING GENERALLY KNOWN. BUT IT WAS THE FIRST TIME HE HAD HEARD +AS SOON AS NICHOLAS ENTERED, HE WAS ENFOLDED IN THAT POETIC ATMOSPHERE +AS SOON AS THE SINGING WAS OVER, ANOTHER AND ANOTHER TOAST WAS PROPOSED +ASSUMED A DIGNIFIED EXPRESSION, WHICH WITH CHARACTERISTIC TACT SHE HAD +ASSURED HIMSELF FROM THE WAY ROSTóV LOOKED AT IT THAT HIS COAT HAD BEEN +“A STAFF OFFICER WAS HERE A MINUTE AGO, BUT SKIPPED OFF,” SAID AN +A STAR-SHAPED LIGHT. AT ONE SIDE OF THE TABLE WAS A SMALL CARPET WITH +AS THE “ANGEL INCARNATE.” +“AS THE ENEMY’S LEFT WING RESTS ON WOODED HILLS AND HIS RIGHT +AS THE GUEST OF HONOR, TO ENTER FIRST. BAGRATIóN WAS EMBARRASSED, NOT +AS THEIR OFFICER—ALL LOOKED AT THEIR COMMANDER LIKE CHILDREN IN AN +“AS THERE’S NO ONE TO FALL IN LOVE WITH ON CAMPAIGN, HE’S FALLEN +AS THEY ENJOYED THEIR RHINE WINE, SAUTé, AND ICES, AND HOWEVER THEY +AS THEY HAVE HEARD IT DESCRIBED BY OTHERS, AND AS SOUNDS WELL, BUT NOT +AS THEY WATCHED THEIR YOUNG PEOPLE EXECUTING THEIR NEWLY LEARNED STEPS, +AS THIS ÁPSHERON BATTALION MARCHED BY, THE RED-FACED MILORáDOVICH, +A STORM AT THE SQUARE, CUT HIS WAY IN, SLASHED RIGHT AND LEFT, HOW HIS +A STORY, HEARD FROM HER AUNT BUT FINISHED IN HER OWN WAY, WHICH SHE +“AS TO YOUR BUSINESS,” PRINCE ANDREW CONTINUED, ADDRESSING BORíS, +A STRANGE FEELING OF EXASPERATION AND YET OF RESPECT FOR THIS MAN’S +A STUFFY ROOM, SO A WHIFF OF YOUTHFULNESS, ENERGY, AND CONFIDENCE OF +A SUFFERING CHILD AND TO WRING HER LITTLE HANDS EVEN WITH SOME +AS WELL AS THAT THE FRENCH WERE OUTFLANKING OUR LEFT. THE GENERAL +AS WERE ALL THE WORDS HE SPOKE THAT DAY, AND COUNT ILYá LOOKED JOYFULLY +AS WHEN A WINDOW IS OPENED A WHIFF OF FRESH AIR FROM THE FIELDS ENTERS +ASYLUMS, AND SCHOOLS WERE TO BE ESTABLISHED ON ALL THE ESTATES. SOME OF +AS YOU AND PRINCESS MARY CALL IT, ARE THE CHIEF SOURCE OF ALL ERROR AND +AS YOU MAY, ALWAYS REMAIN THE SAME BACKS AND FOREHEADS.” +AS YOUNG BEZúKHOV! YES, I PITY HIM FROM MY HEART, AND SHALL TRY TO GIVE +AS YOUNG PEOPLE OFTEN DO. “NO, I AM TOO HAPPY NOW TO SPOIL MY +“AS YOU PLEASE... REALLY... I THINK SO... BUT AS YOU PLEASE,” SAID +“AS YOU SEE,” HE SAID. +AT A COMMAND, EVERYONE BEGAN TO RUN. +AT A FULL GALLOP SO THAT HE OUTSTRIPPED THE OTHERS. AHEAD, THE ENEMY WAS +AT ALL AS I RAN,” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW—“NOT AS WE RAN, SHOUTING +AT ALL AS IT REALLY WAS. ROSTóV WAS A TRUTHFUL YOUNG MAN AND WOULD ON +AT ANY RATE HIS LIGHT-BLUE EYES GAZED FOR ABOUT TWO SECONDS INTO +AT A SOLDIER WHO LAY PRONE, WITH BLOOD ON HIS UNCOVERED HEAD. THE +AT BAGRATIóN OVER EACH OTHER’S SHOULDERS, AS IF HE WERE SOME RARE +AT BALLS, AMIABLY SMILING IN THE SOCIETY OF THE MOST BRILLIANT WOMEN, +AT DAWN ON THE SIXTEENTH OF NOVEMBER, DENíSOV’S SQUADRON, IN +AT DAYBREAK ON THE SEVENTEENTH, A FRENCH OFFICER WHO HAD COME WITH +AT DINNER ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA TALKED THE WHOLE TIME ABOUT THE WAR NEWS +AT DINNER, CONVERSATION TURNED ON PIERRE’S MARRIAGE. +AT DóLOKHOV AND HIS EYES DROPPED, THE SOMETHING TERRIBLE AND MONSTROUS +AT EIGHT O’CLOCK KUTúZOV RODE TO PRATZEN AT THE HEAD OF THE FOURTH +A TERRIBLE THING! QUELLE TERRIBLE CHOSE QUE LA GUERRE!” +AT FIRST HE HEARD THE SOUND OF INDIFFERENT VOICES, THEN ANNA +AT FIRST IMPOSSIBLE TO ENTER THE DRAWING ROOM DOOR FOR THE CROWD OF +AT FIRST IRREGULARLY AT VARYING INTERVALS—TRATA...TAT—AND THEN MORE +AT FIRST PRINCE ANDREW READ WITH HIS EYES ONLY, BUT AFTER A WHILE, +AT FIVE IN THE MORNING IT WAS STILL QUITE DARK. THE TROOPS OF THE +AT HER REPROACHFULLY. “AND WHO IS IT SHE TAKES AFTER?” THOUGHT THE +AT HER TIMIDLY OVER HIS SPECTACLES, AND LIKE A HARE SURROUNDED BY HOUNDS +AT HIM. AFTER THIS VOLLEY THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER CLUTCHED AT HIS LEG; +A THIRD, COUNT ARAKCHéEV, IF HIS NERVES WERE NOT TOO WEAK.” +AT HIS HESITATION AND, TRYING TO AROUSE HIS FORMER DEVOTIONAL FEELING, +AT HIS OWN SENSIBILITY, WHEN PRINCESS MARY ENTERED. HE HURRIEDLY TOOK A +AT HIS PARTNER WITH A MERRY AND TRIUMPHANT AIR, SUDDENLY STAMPED WITH +AT HOME AGAIN. HE FELT THAT HE HAD GROWN UP AND MATURED VERY MUCH. HIS +AT HOME, THEY HAD NOT YET GONE TO BED. THE YOUNG PEOPLE, AFTER RETURNING +AT INTERVALS, AND THE BULLETS PASSED SOMEWHERE IN THE FOG SINGING IN +AT IRREGULAR INTERVALS AS BEFORE, FOLLOWED BY ONE OR TWO CANNON SHOTS, +AT KUTúZOV’S. +AT LAST SEIZING A SOLDIER BY HIS COLLAR HE FORCED HIM TO ANSWER. +“AT LEAST, CHANGE YOUR COIFFURE,” SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS. +AT MARKóV, PROBABLY EXPECTING MARKóV TO PICK IT UP FOR HIM, AND HOW +ATMOSPHERE CHARACTERISTIC OF HOMES WHERE THERE ARE VERY YOUNG AND VERY +ATMOSPHERE MADE ITSELF SO STRONGLY FELT IN THE ROSTóVS’ HOUSE AS AT +ATMOSPHERE OF AN ARMY, ANNOUNCING THE APPROACH OF SOMETHING DECISIVE +AT ONE ANOTHER. +A TOY, SEEING THE EFFECT THESE PREARRANGED RECEPTIONS HAD ON PIERRE, +AT PRINCE ANDREW WITH COOL INTENSITY, WALKING STRAIGHT TOWARD HIM AND +AT SCHöN GRABERN, WHAT SHALL WE NOT DO NOW WHEN HE IS AT THE FRONT? WE +AT SIX IN THE EVENING, KUTúZOV WENT TO THE EMPEROR’S HEADQUARTERS +ATTACKED THE MEN COLLECTING WOOD IN THE COPSE. IT WAS NO LONGER POSSIBLE +ATTACK INSTEAD OF BEING ATTACKED, AND SO RENDER THE WHOLE OF THIS +ATTACK OUR HEADQUARTERS, AND THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF HAS TO ASK FOR A +ATTACKS. BOTH GENERALS ARE ANGRY, AND THE RESULT IS A CHALLENGE ON +ATTACKS THE PRUSSIANS. THE PRUSSIANS ARE OUR FAITHFUL ALLIES WHO HAVE +ATTAINED. +ATTAIN THAT KNOWLEDGE AND ARE STILL INFINITELY FAR FROM OUR AIM; BUT +ATTEND TO THE VOICE OF THEIR COMMANDER, OR WOULD THEY, DISREGARDING HIM, +ATTENTION. +ATTENTION. DOHKTúROV, A LITTLE MAN, SAT OPPOSITE WEYROTHER, WITH +ATTENTION. HE LOOKED NOW AT THE PRATZEN HEIGHTS, NOW AT THE SUN FLOATING +ATTENTION. NAPOLEON APPARENTLY REMEMBERED SEEING HIM ON THE BATTLEFIELD +ATTENTION OF ALL TO BORíS’ NARRATIVE WAS SHOWN BY HéLèNE. SHE ASKED +ATTENTION TO SOMETHING WITHIN HER THAT IS ONLY SEEN IN PREGNANT WOMEN, +ATTENTION TO THE VERSES. +ATTENTIVELY TO WHAT PRINCE VASíLI SAID, BUT KEPT GLANCING AT PRINCESS +AT THAT MOMENT, AS THE HORSE GUARDS, HAVING PASSED HIM, DISAPPEARED IN +AT THAT MOMENT BORíS CLEARLY REALIZED WHAT HE HAD BEFORE SURMISED, THAT +AT THAT MOMENT MADE ITSELF FELT. +AT THAT MOMENT THE DOOR OPENED. +AT THAT MOMENT, WITH NOISELESS FOOTSTEPS AND WITH THE BUSINESSLIKE, +AT THAT TIME IN THE ROSTóVS’ HOUSE THERE PREVAILED AN AMOROUS +AT THE ARKHáROVS’ BALL, TALKED ABOUT THE WAR WITH FIELD MARSHAL +AT THE BEAUTIFUL HéLèNE WITH HER RADIANT FACE AND AT THE RED, BROAD, +AT THE BEGINNING OF MARCH, OLD COUNT ILYá ROSTóV WAS VERY BUSY +AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SLEIGH BESIDE ROSTóV, WHO GREW MORE AND MORE +AT THE CLUB DINNER. +AT THE COUNCIL—THE COMING BATTLE AND THE VICTORY THAT WOULD CERTAINLY +AT THE DOOR,” AND NATáSHA RAN ACROSS THE DRAWING ROOM TO THE DANCING +AT THE DOORS, BUT AFTER ALL HE DID AT LAST ENTER FIRST. HE WALKED SHYLY +AT THE FACES OF HIS SUITE, YOUNG AND ANIMATED AS HIS OWN. CZARTORýSKI, +AT THE FRONT AN ALTERCATION OCCURRED BETWEEN AN AUSTRIAN GUIDE AND A +AT THE HEAD OF A MOVEMENT THAT HAD ALREADY BECOME UNRESTRAINABLE. HE WAS +AT THE LEAST FIRING. THE EMPEROR’S GRATITUDE WAS ANNOUNCED TO THE +AT THEM. +AT THEM AND HACK THEM TO PIECES, THEIR PROXIMITY NOW SEEMED SO AWFUL +AT THE MAP, BUT AT PRINCE ANDREW’S FACE. +AT THE MOMENT THE DOOR OPENED AND THE STRANGER CAME IN, PIERRE FELT A +AT THE OLMüTZ REVIEW HE HAD SEEMED MORE MAJESTIC; HERE HE SEEMED +AT THE PERIOD OF YOUTH WHEN THERE SEEMS SO MUCH TO DO THAT THERE IS NO +AT THE SOUND AND THEN, SMILING AT HIS OWN SENSATIONS, STOOD STILL. THE +AT THE VERY INSTANT HE DID THIS AND UTTERED THOSE WORDS, PIERRE FELT +AT THE WORLD IS SO OPPOSED TO YOURS THAT WE SHALL NOT UNDERSTAND ONE +ATTIRE APPEARED AT THE DOOR. WILLARSKI, STEPPING TOWARD HIM, SAID +ATTITUDE TOWARD HIM THAT HAD TAKEN PLACE IN SOCIETY. +AUGESD. +“AUNTIE, DARLING, DO TELL ME WHAT IT IS!” +AUSTERLITZ, BORíS WAS UNABLE TO SEE EITHER PRINCE ANDREW OR DOLGORúKOV +AUSTRIAN AND RUSSIAN TROOPS, BOTH THOSE FRESHLY ARRIVED FROM RUSSIA AND +AUSTRIAN ARMY OF ULM. THEY ARE THE SAME BATTALIONS YOU BROKE AT +AUSTRIAN COUNCIL OF WAR AT WHICH SUVóROV CROWED LIKE A COCK IN REPLY TO +AUSTRIAN GENERAL, CONTINUING TO READ, FROWNED ANGRILY AND JERKED HIS +AUSTRIANS, AND ALL AT ONCE DISCOVERED FROM THE CANNON BALLS DISCHARGED +AUSTRIAN, TO REPORT AND EXPLAIN, AND TO HIS HEADQUARTERS WHERE HE HAD +AUSTRIA,” SAID MORTEMART. “THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA CAN NEVER HAVE +AUTHORITIES TO SECURE ADVANTAGEOUS MEANS OF COMMUNICATION FOR HERSELF +AUTHORITY IN HIS VOICE. “WHO INVENTED HIM, IF HE DID NOT EXIST? WHENCE +A VERY BAD WAY OF DECIDING WHETHER A BATTLE WAS WON OR LOST. THOSE WHO +A VERY LONG TIME. “IF ANYONE FINDS THIS SILENCE INCONVENIENT, LET HIM +A VICTORY OVER BONAPARTE, JUST WHEN I’M NOT SERVING. YES, YES, HE’S +A VISIT. “I AM STARTING ON A JOURNEY OF INSPECTION, AND OF COURSE I +“A VISITOR,” ANSWERED ANTóN. +AVOIDED LOOKING AT THE YOUNG COUPLE, AND HEEDLESS AND UNOBSERVANT AS +AVOIDED THE BLOW. “THOUGHT... BLACKGUARDS...” SHOUTED THE PRINCE +AVOID GENERAL BUXHöWDEN WHO BY RIGHT OF SENIORITY SHOULD BE OUR CHIEF. +AVOIDING GARDENS AND ENCLOSURES, GOING OVER NEW AND UNKNOWN GROUND, AND +AVOID SEEING ALL THESE SUFFERING MEN, AND HE FELT AFRAID—AFRAID NOT +AWAITED THEIR FATE. THE FIRING DIED DOWN AND SOLDIERS, TALKING EAGERLY, +AWARE OF HIS EXISTENCE. AT THE QUARTERS OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, +AWARE THAT IN FRONT, BEHIND, AND ON ALL SIDES, OTHER RUSSIAN COLUMNS +AWAY. +AWAY AND HE HAD JUST MANAGED TO CATCH HER, “DIDN’T HE TELL YOU HOW +AWAY? BUT WHERE TO? IT’S ONE—LET THEM SING!” +AWAY FROM HER. “DESTROYING THE ARMY, DESTROYING THE MEN! AND WHY? GO, +AWAY HER TEARS ON HER SISTER-IN-LAW’S KNEE. +AWAY. INVOLUNTARILY RECALLING HIS WIFE’S PAST AND HER RELATIONS WITH +A WEEK LATER PIERRE GAVE HIS WIFE FULL POWER TO CONTROL ALL HIS ESTATES +A WEEK LATER, PIERRE, HAVING TAKEN LEAVE OF HIS NEW FRIENDS, THE MASONS, +A WHITE HORSE FOLLOWED BY HIS SUITE, AND SAID SOMETHING IN PASSING: +AWKWARD AND UNCOMFORTABLE, AND HER BURDEN OPPRESSED HER NOW MORE THAN +AWKWARD TO ATTRACT EVERYONE’S ATTENTION AND TO BE CONSIDERED A +A WORD TO THE QUESTIONS ADDRESSED TO HIM. BUT ON ENTERING MOSCOW HE +A WORTHY DWELLING PLACE OF THE GREAT GOD,” HE ADDED, AND CLOSED HIS +A WRATHFUL WRINKLE ON HER RATHER PROMINENT MARBLE BROW. WITH HER +A YAWN. “PLENTY OF TIME,” HE REPEATED. +BACK. +BACK, “GIVE ME YOUR HAND.” SHE TOOK HER SISTER-IN-LAW’S HAND AND +BACK TO THE HOUSE. +BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS AND WAS AT LAST BROUGHT TO THE DOORS OF THE +“BAD! BAD!” EXCLAIMED PIERRE. “WE ALL KNOW WHAT IS BAD FOR +BAD. BUT ANATOLE WAS DUMB, SWUNG HIS FOOT, AND SMILINGLY EXAMINED THE +“BAD! BUT IT’S NOT THAT, MY FRIEND—” SAID DóLOKHOV WITH A +BAD FOR ANOTHER TRAVELER, AND FOR HIMSELF IT’S UNAVOIDABLE, BECAUSE +BADLY THROUGH HIS SPECTACLES, BUT THAT HIS WIFE’S CONNECTION WITH +“BAD NEWS! HE’S NOT AMONG THE PRISONERS NOR AMONG THE KILLED! +BAGRATIóN AND DOLGORúKOV RIDE PAST WITH THEIR ADJUTANTS. ALL THE FEAR +BAGRATIóN APPEARED IN THE DOORWAY OF THE ANTEROOM WITHOUT HAT OR SWORD, +BAGRATIóN CAST HIS LARGE, EXPRESSIONLESS, SLEEPY EYES ROUND HIS SUITE, +BAGRATIóN GAVE NO FURTHER ORDERS AND SILENTLY CONTINUED TO WALK ON IN +BAGRATIóN’S DETACHMENT WAS REUNITED TO KUTúZOV’S ARMY. +BAGRATIóN STOPPED AND, BEFORE REPLYING, TRIED TO SEE ROSTóV’S FACE +BAGRATIóN’S TROOPS, WHICH HAD NOT YET ADVANCED INTO ACTION BUT WERE +BAGRATIóN. “WAIT TILL TOMORROW MORNING, WE’LL FIND OUT EVERYTHING +BAGS INTO THE CARTS, GOT THEIR MUSKETS READY, AND FORMED RANK. THE +BALD HEAD, OVER WHICH SHE AGAIN LOOKED AT THE LETTER AND THE PORTRAIT, +BALD HILLS. PRINCE ANDREW, GLANCING AT PIERRE, BROKE THE SILENCE NOW AND +BALL, FLYING CLOSE TO HIM, CAUSED HIM TO DUCK AND BEND OVER HIS HORSE. +BALLROOM. +BALLS! I CAN’T TELL YOU. AND THE TSARéVICH WAS VERY GRACIOUS TO ALL +BALL WAS EVEN HAPPIER. THEY WERE BOTH DRESSED IN WHITE MUSLIN WITH PINK +BANDAGE WAS AGAIN REMOVED AND MORE THAN TEN VOICES SAID TOGETHER: “SIC +BAND, CAME UP AND IN ANGRY TONES ASKED THE ARTILLERYMEN FOR WATER. +BANDY-LEGGED DOMESTIC SERF IN A PEAKED CAP AND SHEEPSKIN COAT. +BANK, HESITATING TO STEP ONTO THE ICE. THE GENERAL ON HORSEBACK AT THE +BARE CHEST. HE WAS CONDUCTED FROM THAT ROOM ALONG PASSAGES THAT TURNED +BARITONE. +BARRIER EXCEPT THE BARRIER OF HIS OWN WILL. +BATHHOUSE, A LODGE, AND A LARGE BRICK HOUSE WITH SEMICIRCULAR FAçADE +BATTALION AND REGIMENTAL COMMANDERS MOUNTED, CROSSED THEMSELVES, GAVE +BATTALIONS AND ARTILLERY PASS BY AND GO FORWARD AND THEN GENERALS +BATTALION TO DISPERSE THEM. DURING ONE OF THESE ATTACKS THEY CARRIED OFF +BATTALION WOULD FOLLOW HIM. +BATTERIES RANGED ON THE SLOPES OF THE PRATZEN HEIGHTS, DIRECTED AT OUR +BATTERY AND THE HEROIC ENDURANCE OF CAPTAIN TúSHIN AND HIS COMPANY,” +BATTERY WHEN TWO BALLS, AND THEN FOUR MORE, FELL AMONG OUR GUNS, ONE +BATTLE. +BATTLE, A LIST OF WHOM HAS BEEN SENT ME UNDER FLAG OF TRUCE.” +BATTLE, AND BY THE SIGHT OF THE GALLANT ÁPSHERONS, HIS COMRADES IN +BATTLE AND, IN SPITE OF THE REMONSTRANCES OF HIS COURTIERS, AT TWELVE +BATTLE AND WERE ENGAGED IN PEACEFUL OCCUPATIONS, THE CAVALRY FEEDING THE +BATTLEFIELD.” +BATTLE IS WON BY HIM ALONE. KUTúZOV IS REMOVED AND HE IS APPOINTED... +BATTLE THE SOLDIERS EXCITEDLY TRY TO GET BEYOND THE INTERESTS OF THEIR +BEAMS OF MILD AND MAJESTIC LIGHT AROUND, AND ALREADY HE FELT HIMSELF +BE ANYONE’S LACKEY, BUT I WHO HAVE NOTHING BUT MY BRAINS HAVE TO +BEARS!...” +BEAR THE WHOLE BURDEN ON HIS SHOULDERS. FANCY WHAT HE HAD TO GO THROUGH! +BE AT STAKE. BUT THIS ONE IS TOO LIGHT, IT’S NOT BECOMING!” +BEAUTIFUL EYES GREW DIM, RED BLOTCHES CAME ON HER FACE, AND IT TOOK +BEAUTIFUL EYES. LAST NIGHT A PROPOSITION WAS MADE ME ON YOUR ACCOUNT +BEAUTIFUL HéLèNE, WHOSE EYES SEVERAL TIMES MET THOSE OF THE HANDSOME +BEAUTIFUL, RADIANT EYES. IT WAS AS IF JOY—A SUPREME JOY APART FROM THE +BEAUTY AS SHE GLIDED AWAY. “AND HOW SHE CARRIES HERSELF! FOR SO YOUNG +BE BETTER DRESSED THAN OTHERS, AND WOULD RATHER DEPRIVE HIMSELF OF MANY +BE BROUGHT HERE WELL WRAPPED UP IN FELT. I MUST HAVE TWO HUNDRED POTS +BE CARRIED BACK WITH IT ONESELF. BOLKóNSKI ONLY TRIED NOT TO LOSE +BE CARRIED OUT, WAS FORGOTTEN. NOW, ENTERING INTO WEYROTHER’S PLAN, +BECAUSE HE COULD NOT. IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIGURE HE BECKONED TO ROSTóV +BECAUSE IT CONCERNED NOT HIMSELF BUT ANOTHER, HIS DAUGHTER, WHOM HE +“BECAUSE WHEN ONCE A MAN STARTS ON MILITARY SERVICE, HE SHOULD TRY TO +BECOME A HABIT. SCHEMES AND DEVICES FOR WHICH HE NEVER RIGHTLY ACCOUNTED +BECOME CALMER SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE ONLY FOR MYSELF.” +BECOME COMPLETELY CHANGED, AND HAD QUITE LEFT BEHIND HIS FORMER HABITS +BECOME CRUEL AND HARSH, ARE CONSCIOUS OF IT, BUT CANNOT RESTRAIN +BECOME HABITUAL TO HIM AND, HIS HANDSOME HEAD HELD HIGH, ENTERED HIS +BECOMES A MAN WHO VALUES HIS HONOR, PERHAPS TOO HASTILY, BUT WE WON’T +BECOME THOROUGHLY CONVERSANT WITH THAT UNWRITTEN CODE WITH WHICH HE HAD +BE DONE; HE FELT THAT EVERYBODY, INCLUDING HIS MOTHER AND SISTERS, WAS +BEDOUIN TWICE AND SUCCESSFULLY PUT HIM TO THE SHOWY TROT IN WHICH THE +BE DOZING. HIS HEAD SANK FORWARD AND THEN HE ROUSED HIMSELF. +BEEN ABLE TO FREE HIMSELF BUT THAT PRINCE VASíLI (WHO HAD RARELY BEFORE +BEEN BEWILDERED. AT THAT TIME, THE RUSSIANS WERE SO USED TO VICTORIES +BEEN BROUGHT UP IN THE MOST ARISTOCRATIC CIRCLES. +BEEN ENGROSSED BY THE SAME THOUGHTS EVER SINCE THE DAY HE RETURNED FROM +BEEN LOOKING AT. +BEEN MINUTELY DESCRIBED. PRINCESS MARY WAS SITTING ALONE IN HER ROOM, +BEEN READY, BUT THEY STILL DELAYED AND ALL WERE SILENT. +BEEN RECOMMENDED TO PRINCE ANDREW HE HAD ALREADY RISEN ABOVE THE GENERAL +BEEN REFUSED. HE ASKED IN A HESITATING, PITEOUS VOICE. +BEEN SO PLEASED AT OLMüTZ AND ACCORDING TO WHICH AN ENSIGN MIGHT RANK +BEEN TAKEN BY THE FRENCH AS A TROPHY.) +BEEN THINKING ABOUT YOU.” +BEEN TRYING FIRST ONE REMEDY AND THEN ANOTHER. WORN OUT BY SLEEPLESSNESS +BEEN UNDER FIRE ALREADY?” ASKED BORíS. +BEEN UNJUST TO THE AUSTRIANS AND ESPECIALLY TO WEYROTHER. WHAT +BEEN VICIOUS ONLY BECAUSE HE HAD SOMEHOW FORGOTTEN HOW GOOD IT IS TO +BEFALLEN HIS SON. +BEFORE ACTION WHICH HE HAD EXPERIENCED AS PREVIOUSLY, ALL THE INNER +BEFORE?” AND AGAIN HE TOLD HIMSELF THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE, THAT THERE +BEFORE AND THE PATH TO THE HOTHOUSE, ALONG WHICH THE PRINCE WAS IN THE +BEFORE AND WAS LESS FREQUENTLY AT HOME. +BEFORE COMING TO THE DINNER HE HAD HAD HIS HAIR AND WHISKERS TRIMMED, +BEFORE DAWN HE HAD SLEPT FOR A FEW HOURS, AND REFRESHED, VIGOROUS, AND +BEFORE DINNER, PRINCESS MARY AND MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, WHO KNEW +BEFORE FIVE IN THE EVENING THE BATTLE HAD BEEN LOST AT ALL POINTS. MORE +BEFORE GOING DOWN SHE WENT INTO THE ROOM WHERE THE ICONS HUNG AND, HER +BEFORE. HAVING TAKEN A KERCHIEF FROM THE CUPBOARD, WILLARSKI BOUND +BEFORE HE REACHED HIM, ROSTóV, WHO WAS A SPLENDID HORSEMAN, SPURRED +BEFORE HIM BUT THE MOTIONLESS EARTH AND THE STUBBLE AROUND HIM. THERE +BEFORE HIM, ON THE RIGHT, ROSTóV SAW THE FRONT LINES OF HIS HUSSARS AND +BEFORE IT WAS HALTED FACING THE ENEMY. AGAIN, AS AT THE ENNS BRIDGE, +BEFORE, OR AM I MISTAKEN NOW? NO, SHE IS NOT STUPID, SHE IS AN EXCELLENT +BEFORE PRINCE ANDREW COULD FINISH, AN AIDE-DE-CAMP CAME IN TO SUMMON +BEFORE ROSTóV HAD TIME TO MAKE OUT WHAT THE BLACK THING WAS THAT HAD +BEFORE THE BATTLE, THE FIGURE OF THE INSIGNIFICANT LITTLE NAPOLEON, AND +BEFORE THE JEWS.” +BEFORE THE MASTER ARRIVED. EVERYWHERE PREPARATIONS WERE MADE NOT FOR +BEFORE THE USUAL TERM AND HAS PROPOSED TO ME TO BE YOUR SPONSOR. I +BEGAN. +BEGAN FOR THE FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD COLUMNS, WHICH HAD GONE DOWN INTO +BEGAN POPPING CORKS AND FILLING THE CHAMPAGNE GLASSES. AFTER THE FISH, +BEGAN READING. THE OLD PRINCE, NOW AND THEN USING ABBREVIATIONS, WROTE +BEGAN SPEAKING CLEARLY AND DEFINITELY. REASONS WERE FOUND FOR THE +BEGAN. “THEY’LL BE ANNOUNCING THAT THE GENTLEMEN ARE IN THE DRAWING +BEGAN TO BE SAID. THESE REASONS WERE THE TREACHERY OF THE AUSTRIANS, A +BEGAN TO DEVISE AND CARRY OUT A PLAN OF HOW PRINCESS MARY SHOULD BE +BEGIN,” HE WHISPERED, AND TAKING UP HIS GLASS, HE ROSE. ALL WERE +BEGINNING OF THE ACTION.) “I THINK I SENT YOU?” HE ADDED, TURNING TO +BEGINNING TO FEEL FOR THE PRETTY AND PROVOCATIVE MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE +BEGIN THE ENGAGEMENT. +BEGIN, WHEN DID IT ALL COME ABOUT?” AND HERE HE WAS SITTING BY HER +BEGUN TO THINK OF THE LAST STATION AND WAS STILL PONDERING ON THE SAME +BEHAVIOR TO WOMEN ANATOLE HAD A MANNER WHICH PARTICULARLY INSPIRES IN +BEHIND. AND NOW HERE WE STAND HUNGRY.” +BEHIND HIM BONDARCHúK, AN HUSSAR HE KNEW, JOLTED AGAINST HIM AND LOOKED +BEHIND MOVED INFANTRY. THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF WAS STANDING AT THE END OF +BEHIND. ONE OF THEM SAID SOMETHING STRANGE, NOT IN RUSSIAN. IN AMONG THE +BEHIND THE EMPEROR. THE ÁPSHERON MEN, EXCITED BY THE TSAR’S PRESENCE, +BEHIND THEM, ANOTHER FELL IN FRONT AND SPLASHED DóLOKHOV WITH BLOOD. +BEING (AND WHICH STRUCK PIERRE ESPECIALLY BY CONTRAST WITH HIS OWN +BEING CARRIED BY. SHE LOOKED OUT. THE MEN SERVANTS WERE CARRYING THE +BEING IMPOSED ON HIM WHICH HE COULD NOT FULFILL, AND PLEASED HIM AS AN +BEING MOVED, AND THE PROBING OF HIS WOUND AT THE DRESSING STATION. +BEING ROSE IN HER IMAGINATION, AND CARRIED HER INTO A TOTALLY DIFFERENT +BEING SAID, THOUGHT, AND FELT THAT DAY BY ITS RIDER. +BEING TOO MUCH LOVED; AND BESIDES, YOU ARE FREE, YOU COULD THROW IT +BELIEVED HE WOULD BE REBORN TO A NEW LIFE. +BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU’RE TOLD. YOU WERE TOLD...” HéLèNE LAUGHED, +“BELIEVE ME,” SAID PRINCE DOLGORúKOV, ADDRESSING BAGRATIóN, “IT +BELIEVES, IN THE SPEAKER’S TONE OF CONVICTION AND EARNESTNESS, OR +BELLS RANG, THE STEWARDS RUSHED FORWARD, AND—LIKE RYE SHAKEN TOGETHER +BELOW. +BELOW, WHERE THE FIGHT WAS BEGINNING, THERE WAS STILL THICK FOG; ON THE +BENDING FORWARD IN HIS ARMCHAIR HE SAID: “LE ROI DE PRUSSE!” AND +BENDING HIS FOREHEAD TO HERS JUST TOUCHED IT, AND PRESSED HER HAND SO +BENEATH HIS SMILE ROSTóV SAW IN HIM THE MOOD HE HAD SHOWN AT THE CLUB +BE OUT OF YOUR WAY! DO GO SOMEWHERE, ANYWHERE... TO THE DEVIL!” HE +BE PARTED FROM HER) WOULD BE GAINED, SO PACIFYING HIMSELF WITH THIS +“BE QUIET, BACKBITER!” SAID DOLGORúKOV. “IT IS NOT TRUE; THERE +BE READY TO FULFILL HIS WILL.” WITH THIS CONSOLING THOUGHT (BUT +BERG PUT ON THE CLEANEST OF COATS, WITHOUT A SPOT OR SPECK OF DUST, +BERG TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO ASK, WITH GREAT POLITENESS, WHETHER, AS WAS +BERG WAS MENTIONED, BY THOSE WHO DID NOT KNOW HIM, AS HAVING, WHEN +BE SHAKEN IN HER DETERMINATION. +BESIDE HéLèNE. “THIS HAPPINESS IS NOT FOR YOU,” SOME INNER VOICE +BESIDE HIM. “THAT MUST BE THE ENEMY’S CAMP!” +“BESIDES HOW CAN I ASK THE EMPEROR FOR HIS INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE RIGHT +BESIDES THIS REFINED SELECTION OF SOCIETY ANNA PáVLOVNA’S RECEPTIONS +BESIDE THE OLD PRINCE. +BEST OF OFFICERS COULD DO IN HIS POSITION, HE WAS IN A STATE AKIN TO +BE TALKED OVER AT LENGTH. AT LAST THE CONVERSATION GRADUALLY SETTLED ON +BE THEY WHAT THEY MIGHT. +BE THUS BOLDLY, PROVOCATIVELY HAPPY.” “AND WHAT NONSENSE ALL THIS IS +BETRAYING HER SYMPATHY FOR THE “DAREDEVIL,” AS SHE CALLED DóLOKHOV. +BETTER NOT LOOK,” HE THOUGHT, BUT HAVING REACHED THE BUSHES HE GLANCED +BETWEEN HIMSELF AND THAT LOFTY INFINITE SKY WITH THE CLOUDS FLYING OVER +BETWEEN THEM GLEAMED BLUE INFINITY. HE DID NOT TURN HIS HEAD AND DID NOT +BE VERY GLAD TO DO ALL IN MY POWER BOTH FOR YOU AND FOR THIS DEAR YOUNG +BE VIRTUOUS. NOT A TRACE OF HIS FORMER DOUBTS REMAINED IN HIS SOUL. HE +BEWILDERED LOOK AND PASSED BY WITHOUT A WORD. A WOMAN RUSHED OUT AND +BE WORTHY OF HER. AND THAT IS WHAT WE SHALL SEE.” +BEYOND CEREMONIES AND MEANINGLESS PRAYERS AND ARE NOW INSTRUCTED IN +BILíBIN, “AS YOU KNOW, MY DEAR PRINCE, I NEVER LEAVE HEADQUARTERS. I +BILíBIN’S LETTER WHICH WAS WRITTEN IN FRENCH. HE READ WITHOUT +BILíBIN WAS NOW AT ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN A DIPLOMATIC CAPACITY, AND +BILíBIN), WHAT HE HAD READ BEGAN TO INTEREST HIM MORE AND MORE. WHEN HE +BLACK-AGATE EYES AT THE FRIGHTENED AND HAPPY NATáSHA. +BLACK FIGURES OF HUSSARS, BUT IN THE DISTANCE WAS STILL THE SAME MISTY +BLAME. THE TROOPS MEANWHILE STOOD GROWING LISTLESS AND DISPIRITED. AFTER +BLEED HIM AND PATCH HIM UP. HE WILL DRAG ABOUT AS A CRIPPLE, A BURDEN TO +BLEEDING HAND WITH A HANDKERCHIEF TIED ROUND IT) “AND I REMAINED AT +BLINDFOLDED) QUESTIONED HIM AS TO WHO HE WAS, WHEN AND WHERE HE WAS +BLINKED, WENT RED, GOT UP AND SAT DOWN AGAIN, STRUGGLING WITH HIMSELF +BLISSFUL FACE “LIKE A VEWY DEVIL,” AS DENíSOV EXPRESSED IT. +BLOOD ON IT. “AH, HERE ARE PEOPLE COMING,” HE THOUGHT JOYFULLY, +BLOOD. ON SEEING THIS, PIERRE MOVED FORWARD WITH HIS BREAST TOWARD THE +BLOOD RUSH TO HIS HEART AND HAD AGAIN TO GET UP AND MOVE ABOUT AND BREAK +BLOOD WAS GUSHING FROM ITS LEG AS FROM A SPRING. AMONG THE LIMBERS LAY +BLUSH. +BLUSHING. +BLUSHING—“OF ASKING THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. HE HAS HAD A LETTER FROM +BODY. DROWSINESS WAS IRRESISTIBLY MASTERING HIM, BUT HE KEPT AWAKE BY +BOGDáNOVNA. +BOGDáNOVNA ADVISED PRINCE ANDREW TO LEAVE THE ROOM. +BOGUCHáROVO LAY IN A FLAT UNINTERESTING PART OF THE COUNTRY AMONG +BOLD FOREHEAD THAT BENT OVER HER HAND AND ANSWERED HIS QUESTION BY +BOLDLY, “IF YOU WISH TO REFUSE ONE WHO IS NOT ONLY A BRILLIANT AND +“BOLKóNSKI!” HE WHISPERED, HIS VOICE TREMBLING FROM A CONSCIOUSNESS +BOLKóNSKI IN ORDER TO ARRANGE A MATCH FOR HIM WITH THE DAUGHTER OF THAT +BOLKóNSKI NOTICED THE HUSSAR’S STATE OF MIND, AND IT AMUSED HIM. WITH +BOLKóNSKI RECOGNIZED PRINCE REPNíN WHOM HE HAD MET IN PETERSBURG +BOLKóNSKI REFERRED TO ANATOLE AS A “PUPIL”) “FOR THE SAKE OF MY +BOLKóNSKI TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO IN TO GET SOME DETAILS OF THE +BOLKóNSKI, WHO SPOKE WITH SUPPRESSED AGITATION. +BOLKóNSKI, WISHING TO PROFIT BY HIS FRIENDLINESS AND OBTAIN FOR HIMSELF +BONAPARTE, AND HOW BADLY THE LATTER WOULD FARE NOW, ESPECIALLY IF THE +BONAPARTE, HAVING COME UP AT A GALLOP, STOPPED HIS HORSE. +BONAPARTE LIKE? HOW DID HE IMPRESS YOU?” +BONAPARTE, ‘THAT YOUR MAJESTY SHOULD BE RECEIVED AND TREATED IN MY +BONAPARTE, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE,” REMARKED BOLKóNSKI. +BONAPARTE WAS ANATHEMATIZED AND IN MOSCOW NOTHING BUT THE COMING WAR +BOOK FIVE: 1806 - 07 +BOOK FOUR: 1806 +BOOK HAD BEEN SENT HIM BY SOMEONE UNKNOWN. ONE THING HE CONTINUALLY +BOOK THREE: 1805 +BOOTS BETWEEN THE DINING AND DRAWING ROOMS, HASTILY GREETING THE +BORíS. +BORíS AND BORíS WAS TO FORWARD THEM TO NICHOLAS. THE LETTERS WERE FROM +BORíS, GROWN MORE MANLY AND LOOKING FRESH, ROSY AND SELF-POSSESSED, +BORíS INQUIRED WHAT NEWS THERE MIGHT BE ON THE STAFF, AND WHAT, WITHOUT +BORíS LISTENED ATTENTIVELY TO EACH OF THE SPEAKERS, AWAITING HIS TURN, +BORíS MADE A GRIMACE. +BORíS PROMISED TO FULFILL HER WISH AND WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN A +BORíS RECEIVED NO CLEAR EXPLANATION OF WHY IT HAD BEEN NECESSARY FOR +BORíS ROSE TO MEET ROSTóV, BUT IN DOING SO DID NOT OMIT TO STEADY AND +BORíS SMILED, AS IF HE UNDERSTOOD WHAT PRINCE ANDREW WAS ALLUDING TO +BORíS SMILED CIRCUMSPECTLY, SO THAT IT MIGHT BE TAKEN AS IRONICAL +BORíS TO TELL THEM ABOUT HIS JOURNEY TO GLOGAU AND IN WHAT STATE HE +BORíS WAS EXCITED BY THE THOUGHT OF BEING SO CLOSE TO THE HIGHER POWERS +BORíS WITH THE HAPPY SMILE SEEN ON THE FACES OF YOUNG MEN WHO HAVE BEEN +BORN, AND SO ON. THEN HE WAS AGAIN LED SOMEWHERE STILL BLINDFOLDED, +BOSOM AS IT ROSE AND FELL. +BOTH KNEW, AN EXPRESSION THOUGHTFUL AND SAD. THIS EXPRESSION IN PRINCESS +BOTTLES OF WINE WITH HIM AND, DESPITE THE JOLTING RUTS ACROSS THE +BOURIENNE AROUSED HER. SHE RAISED HER EYES, AND TWO STEPS AWAY SAW +BOURIENNE FLUSHED, AND GAVE THE PRINCESS A FRIGHTENED LOOK. +BOURIENNE HAD LONG BEEN WAITING FOR A RUSSIAN PRINCE WHO, ABLE TO +BOURIENNE—I SHALL HAVE TO GET RID OF HER. AND HOW IS IT SHE HAS NOT +BOURIENNE. PRINCESS MARY FELT HIS LOOK WITH A PAINFULLY JOYOUS EMOTION. +BOURIENNE’S HEAD AT THE VERY TIME SHE WAS TALKING TO ANATOLE ABOUT +BOURIENNE, UNFOLDING HER WHITE NAPKIN WITH HER ROSY FINGERS. “HIS +BOURIENNE WAS OFTEN TOUCHED TO TEARS AS IN IMAGINATION SHE TOLD THIS +BOURIENNE. WHEN SHE ENTERED WITH HER HEAVY STEP, TREADING ON HER HEELS, +BOURIENNE WHO HAD NOT YET SEEN HER. +BOURIENNE WITH A RADIANT FACE THAT SAID: “I KNOW NOTHING, I AM THE +BOURIENNE, WITH HER RIBBON AND PRETTY FACE, AND HER UNUSUALLY ANIMATED +BOWED HEAD. +BOY... THE COUNTESS... PROMOTED TO BE AN OFFICER... THANK GOD... HOW +BRAGGART AND HIS SON, NO DOUBT, IS A FINE SPECIMEN,” HE GRUMBLED TO +BRAIN—THAT’S ALL THAT’S LEFT ME!” AND AT THE SAME TIME HE SAID +BRANDISHING THE SLAB. +BRAVE?” +BREAST WITH THE OTHER HAND AND TO REPEAT AFTER SOMEONE WHO READ ALOUD +BREATH AND BEATING HEART HE MOVED TOWARD THE RHETOR (BY WHICH NAME THE +BREATHING, HER MOVEMENTS, HER BEAUTY. THEN IT WOULD SUDDENLY SEEM TO HIM +BREECHES AND ARM. +BRICK BUILDINGS, BUILT TO PLAN, WERE BEING BUILT BY SERFS WHOSE MANORIAL +BRIGHT AND HAPPY EYES AT HER SISTER-IN-LAW. +BRIGHTENING UP. +BRIGHTER AND MORE ENERGETIC. HE WAS SLIGHTLY FLUSHED AFTER GALLOPING TWO +BRIGHT HOME, HIS FLUFFY FUR COAT, HIS QUICKLY GLIDING SLEIGH, HIS +BRIGHT. SóNYA RAN AWAY, BUT NATáSHA, TAKING HER BROTHER’S ARM, LED +BRIGHT, SPARKLING BLUE EYES INTO HIS ANTAGONIST’S FACE. HIS MOUTH WORE + BRING GLORY THEN TO ALEXANDER’S REIGN +BRING HIMSELF TO PART FROM HIS DAUGHTER AND GIVE HER TO A HUSBAND. THE +BRING HIM TO THEE, COULD TAKE HIM BY THE HAND AND SHOW HIM TO THEE. BUT +BROKEN LEG, THAT LAY SCREAMING PITEOUSLY BESIDE THE HARNESSED HORSES. +BROKEN OFF, THE PORCH, AND THE POST BY THE SIDE OF THE PAVEMENT. HE +BROKE UP TWO SQUARES, YOUR EXCELLENCY.” +BROTHER, AND THAT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WAS PREPARING THEM FOR IT. BOLD AS +BROTHER HIPPOLYTE TOLD ME ABOUT YOUR GOINGS ON. OH!” AND SHE SHOOK HER +BROTHERHOOD HAS MADE APPLICATION FOR YOU TO BE RECEIVED INTO OUR ORDER +BROTHERHOOD OF MAN,” HE KEPT SAYING TO HIMSELF, ASSOCIATING THESE +“BROTHER-INSTRUCTOR” AS HE CALLED THE GRAND MASTER. +BROTHER RHETOR, AND AWAITED HIS FURTHER COMMANDS. +BROTHERS, AND BURNED WITH IMPATIENCE TO SET TO WORK WITH THEM. +BROTHERS MORE WORTHY THAN HE WOULD TEST HIM AND THAT PIERRE HAD ONLY TO +BROTHER WHO PREPARED A SEEKER FOR ENTRANCE INTO THE BROTHERHOOD WAS +BROUGHT FROM ITALY, REPRESENTING AN ANGEL WITH OUTSPREAD WINGS READY TO +BROUGHT HIS SNUFFBOX TO REST AND, WITHOUT LOOKING AT WEYROTHER OR AT +BROUGHT INTO WISCHAU FROM OUR OUTPOSTS. THIS OFFICER WAS SAVARY. THE +BUILDINGS—SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, AND ASYLUMS—ON ALL THE ESTATES +BUILT IN ORDER TO HAVE A NOOK OF ONE’S OWN IN WHICH TO BE QUIET. AND +BUILT LODGE CLOSE TO THE POND. ANTóN, A MAN WHO HAD LOOKED AFTER PRINCE +BULLETS. THEY REACHED THE FRONT, SEVERAL BULLETS SPED OVER THEM, AND +BULLY,” THOUGHT PIERRE, “TO KILL A MAN MEANS NOTHING TO HIM. IT MUST +BURSTS OF SONG AND MUSIC AND THE INCONSEQUENT BUT FRIENDLY PRATTLE OF +BUSINESS!” +BUSTLINGLY SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING. +BUT ALTHOUGH ALPáTYCH, FRIGHTENED AT HIS OWN TEMERITY IN AVOIDING THE +“BUT AM I NOT TOO COLD WITH HIM?” THOUGHT THE PRINCESS. “I TRY +BUT ANNA PáVLOVNA—WHO WAS IN THE EXCITED CONDITION OF A COMMANDER ON +BUT A ROLL OF VOLLEYS OF MUSKETRY FROM THE SLOPES OF THE HILL BEFORE +BUT AS A YOUTH IN LOVE TREMBLES, IS UNNERVED, AND DARES NOT UTTER THE +BUT, AS HE HAD TO SAY SOMETHING, HE BEGAN BY ASKING HER WHETHER SHE WAS +BUT AS SORROW WAS MANIFEST IN EVERY SMILE, THE SOUND OF EVERY WORD, AND +BUT ATTACKED AND CAPTURED BY A SUPERIOR ENEMY FORCE AS A RESULT OF ONE +BUT AT THAT MOMENT THE THOUGHT OCCURRED TO HER THAT HER FATE WOULD BE +BUT AT THE MOMENT WHEN HE IMAGINED HIMSELF CALMED BY SUCH REFLECTIONS, +BUT BEFORE HE HAD FINISHED READING, A STENTORIAN MAJOR-DOMO ANNOUNCED +BUT BEFORE HE HAD FINISHED SPEAKING, PRINCE ANDREW, FEELING TEARS OF +BUT BEFORE PIERRE COULD DECIDE WHAT ANSWER HE WOULD SEND, THE COUNTESS +BUT BEFORE PRINCE VASíLI HAD FINISHED HIS PLAYFUL SPEECH, PIERRE, +“BUT BETWEEN NOT RECOGNIZING HIM AS EMPEROR AND CALLING HIM GENERAL +BUT BORíS... NO!” (SHE SHUT HER EYES.) “NO! THERE’S NOTHING AT +BUT BORíS NOTICED THAT HE WAS PREPARING TO MAKE FUN OF BERG, AND +BUT DóLOKHOV DID NOT GO AWAY; HE UNTIED THE HANDKERCHIEF AROUND HIS +“BUT DON’T HURT MY LITTLE HORSE!” SAID THE ALSATIAN GOOD-NATUREDLY +BUT EVIDENTLY THE CRISIS WAS OVER AND HE WAS CONVALESCENT. PRINCE ANDREW +“BUT FOR GOD’S SAKE, BE CAREFUL, YOU KNOW HOW IT MAY AFFECT YOUR +BUT HAD NEVER SPOKEN TO HER OF LOVE. NOW HE FELT THAT IT WAS INEVITABLE, +BUT HAD ON ONE OF HER BEST DRESSES. HER HAIR WAS CAREFULLY DONE AND HER +BUT HASTE WAS BECOMING IMPERATIVE. CANNON AND MUSKETRY, MINGLING +BUT HE COULD NOT MAKE UP HIS MIND TO TAKE THE FINAL STEP. HE FELT +BUT HE DID NOT EXPLAIN TO HIMSELF WHAT THESE NEW RELATIONS WERE. +BUT HE SCOWLED AT HER ANGRILY THOUGH ALSO WITH SUFFERING IN HIS EYES, +“BUT HOW IS IT THE DOCTOR FROM MOSCOW IS NOT HERE YET?” SAID THE +“BUT HOW OFTEN I HAVE FELT PROUD OF HER, PROUD OF HER MAJESTIC BEAUTY +BUT I AM STILL SO WEAK THAT I LOVE MY LIFE, THE MEANING OF WHICH IS ONLY +BUT I DO NOT BELIEVE IT. I HAVE NO RIGHT TO, AND CAN’T, BELIEVE IT.” +“BUT I DO NOT KNOW, FATHER!” +“BUT IF FOR ANY REASON YOU DON’T FEEL INCLINED TO TALK TO ME,” +BUT I HAVE KILLED HER, KILLED... SHE WON’T GET OVER IT! SHE WON’T +“BUT I HAVE NOTHING HERE,” REPLIED PIERRE, SUPPOSING THAT HE WAS +BUT INSTEAD OF THE BAND A CHOIR BEGAN SINGING A CANTATA COMPOSED BY PAUL +“BUT IN WHAT POSITION ARE WE GOING TO ATTACK HIM? I HAVE BEEN AT THE +“BUT IN WHAT WAS I TO BLAME?” HE ASKED. “IN MARRYING HER WITHOUT +“BUT IT CAN’T BE HE, ALONE IN THE MIDST OF THIS EMPTY FIELD!” +BUT IT IS A BEAUTIFUL VOICE THAT MUST BE TRAINED.” ONLY THEY GENERALLY +“BUT IT MUST BE BROUGHT TO A HEAD. THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW WILL BE +BUT IT WAS TOO LATE. SHE WAS LOOKING AT THEM WITH AN EXPRESSION THEY +“BUT I WISH IT,” HE SAID. “I BEG YOU—GIVE IT HIM!” +BUT JOYOUS AND EAGER CROWD DOWN THE HILL AT THEIR DISORDERED FOE. +BUT LOOKED AT HIM WITH A CONTEMPTUOUS SMILE, WAITING FOR THE VALET TO +BUT MANAGED MEANWHILE TO LOOK ROUND REPEATEDLY AT HIS NEIGHBOR, THE +BUT MILORáDOVICH WAS AT THAT MOMENT EVIDENTLY THINKING OF ANYTHING +“BUT NOTHING MORE WOULD COME OF IT. THERE WILL SOON BE A BATTALION OF +BUT ONLY CHANGED CHARACTER. THE HORSES WERE REPLACED BY OTHERS FROM A +BUT ON THE LEFT FLANK THE COLUMNS OF INFANTRY, CAVALRY, AND ARTILLERY, +BUT ON TUESDAY EVENING, HAVING COME TO HéLèNE’S SPLENDID SALON, +BUT OUR STORIES ARE THE STORIES OF MEN WHO HAVE BEEN UNDER THE ENEMY’S +BUT REMARKED THAT BESIDES THESE CHANGES IT WOULD BE NECESSARY TO GO INTO +BUT ROSTóV DID NOT REPLY. +BUT SAID, IN A CARELESS AND EVEN RUDE VOICE, THAT IT HAPPENS TO +“BUT SHE’S STUPID. I HAVE MYSELF SAID SHE IS STUPID,” HE THOUGHT. +BUT SHE WAS TOO EXCITED TO EAT ANYTHING AND KEPT WRIGGLING ABOUT ON HER +BUT SHOULDN’T WE GET THE GYPSY SINGERS AS WELL? YOU MILITARY MEN LIKE +“BUT TELL ME, WHAT IS HE LIKE, EH?” SAID PRINCE ANDREW AGAIN. +“BUT THAT’S ALL RUBBISH,” NATáSHA CHATTERED ON. “AND IS +“BUT THAT’S JUST THE SAME AS MYSELF—THEY ARE NOT OTHERS,” +“BUT THAT’S THE GRAND DUKE, AND I WANT THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OR THE +BUT THE OFFICER THRASHED HIM BECAUSE HE HAD TO GET ON AS QUICKLY AS +BUT THE STAFF OFFICER DID NOT FINISH WHAT HE WANTED TO SAY. A CANNON +BUT THE TALK IN EVERY GROUP WAS CHIEFLY ABOUT THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER. HIS +“BUT THEY HEARD HIM AT THE COUNCIL OF WAR AND WILL HEAR HIM WHEN HE +BUT TO GO HOME ALONE, SEE HIS SISTERS, BROTHER, MOTHER, AND FATHER, +BUTTON OF HIS WAISTCOAT. +BUT WENT ON TURNING USELESSLY IN THE SAME PLACE. +“BUT WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY LIVING ONLY FOR YOURSELF?” ASKED PIERRE, + * “BUT WHAT THE DEVIL WAS HE DOING IN THAT GALLEY?” +BUT WHEN HE REACHED IT HE FOUND IT WAS A ROAD. HAVING COME OUT ONTO +BUT WHEN KATIE BROUGHT THE REQUIRED DRESS, PRINCESS MARY REMAINED +BUT WHICH POSSESSES QUALITIES RESEMBLING THOSE OF THE SYMBOL.” +“BUT WHY TALK OF ME?... TALK TO ME, YES, TELL ME ABOUT YOUR TRAVELS +BUT WHY, WHITHER, AND WHO THEY WERE, IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE OUT. +“BUT WITH SUCH IDEAS WHAT MOTIVE HAVE YOU FOR LIVING? ONE WOULD SIT +BUT WOULD PROBABLY NEVER EVEN INQUIRE AND WOULD NEVER KNOW THAT THE +“BUT YOU DESPISE ME. YOU WHO ARE SO PURE CAN NEVER UNDERSTAND BEING SO +“BUT YOU KNOW HOW IT ALL ENDED, DON’T YOU? YOU HEARD OF THE DUEL?” +BUXHöWDEN IS COMMANDER IN CHIEF BY SENIORITY, BUT GENERAL BENNIGSEN +BUXHöWDEN’S PART AND AN EPILEPTIC FIT ON BENNIGSEN’S. BUT AT THE +BY A FAR MORE SERIOUS MATTER THAN A DESIRE TO SHOW HIS CONTEMPT FOR +BY A FEELING OF DESIRE WHILE STOOPING OVER THE SNUFFBOX AT ANNA +BY ANNA PáVLOVNA, WAS ABOUT OUR DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH AUSTRIA AND +BY BOLKóNSKI—AN ADJUTANT OF KUTúZOV’S, WHO’S A FRIEND OF MINE. +BY BORíS ARRIVED AT THE PALACE TO FIND DOLGORúKOV. EVERYONE AT +BY EVENING, THE ADJUTANTS HAD SPREAD IT TO ALL ENDS AND PARTS OF THE +BY HER HUSBAND, MORTEMART, THE DELIGHTFUL PRINCE HIPPOLYTE WHO HAD +BY HIGHFALUTIN WORDS, AND GERMANS BY LOGICAL ARGUMENTS TO SHOW THEM +BY HIS AGE HE SHOULD HAVE BELONGED TO THE YOUNGER MEN, BUT BY HIS WEALTH +BY HIS HOME CIRCLE AS THE BEST OF SONS, A HERO, AND THEIR DARLING +BY ITS GRAY DRESS. “BUT NO! WHY DID THIS THOUGHT NEVER OCCUR TO ME +“BY PURIFYING AND REGENERATING OUR MEMBERS WE TRY, THIRDLY, TO IMPROVE +BY SOMEONE’S ORDER, THE BATTERY HAD CONTINUED FIRING AND WAS ONLY NOT +BY THE DIM LIGHT, TO WHICH PIERRE HAD ALREADY BECOME ACCUSTOMED, HE +BY THE DISORDERLY MOVEMENT OF THE RUSSIAN COLUMNS, AND FROM ALL +BY THE FIRE. ONE OF THEM STUMBLED. +“BY THE WAY, YOUR EXCELLENCY, I SHOULD INFORM YOU,” HE +BY THOSE TROOPS THAT THEY WERE THEMSELVES IN THE FRONT LINE AND HAD +BY, TRIED TO MAKE A JOKE, SAYING THAT KUTúZOV HAD EVIDENTLY FAILED TO +BY TWO CONSIDERATIONS: HIS WIFE’S GUILT, OF WHICH AFTER HIS SLEEPLESS +BY “WHAT WAS DUE FROM THE RYAZáN ESTATE” PRINCE VASíLI MEANT +BY WHICH THE TOTAL EXCEEDED THE ROUND SUM OF FORTY-THREE THOUSAND; AND +CADET, SUPPORTING ONE HAND WITH THE OTHER, CAME UP TO TúSHIN AND ASKED +CALLED HER NEPHEW—AND PLAYING WITH HIM. +CALLED HIM THIS MORNING?” +CALLED THE COLONEL OF THE REGIMENT AND SAID A FEW WORDS TO HIM. +CALLING HIM A COURT WEATHERCOCK AND AN OLD SATYR. +CALLING HIM IN A WHISPER. +“CALM YOURSELF, MY DEAR. I WILL GO TO MY FATHER,” SHE SAID, AND WENT +CAME A LETTER FROM KUTúZOV INFORMING THE PRINCE OF THE FATE THAT HAD +CAME A MAN WEARING A STRANGE SHAKO AND A BLUE CLOAK, SWARTHY, SUNBURNED, +CAME AND LEANED ON HIS ELBOWS, FACING HER AND BESIDE MADEMOISELLE +CAME IN FROM HIS CLUB, CHEERFUL AND CONTENTED. NICHOLAS, HEARING HIM +CAME THY CONCEPTION OF THE EXISTENCE OF SUCH AN INCOMPREHENSIBLE BEING? +CAME TOGETHER AND CROWDED IN THE LARGE DRAWING ROOM BY THE DOOR OF THE +CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT HE WOULD NOT FIND BALD HILLS DULL EITHER. +CAME TO THESE BALLS WITH AN AIR OF CONDESCENSION AND FOUND THEM MOST +CAME WITH THE NEWS THAT THE PRINCE COULD NOT ATTEND. PRINCE ANDREW CAME +“CAN A SLEIGH PASS?” HE ASKED HIS OVERSEER, A VENERABLE MAN, +CAN BOTH FALL ON HIS FLANK AND PURSUE HIM OVER THE PLAIN BETWEEN +CANDLESTICKS LIKE THOSE USED IN CHURCHES. TWO OF THE BROTHERS LED PIERRE +CANDLES WERE RELIT AND HE WAS TOLD THAT HE WOULD SEE THE FULL LIGHT; THE +“CAN HE REALLY BE GOING AWAY LEAVING ME ALONE WITHOUT HAVING TOLD ME +CAN I RETAIN IN SOME DEGREE OF PURITY THE LIQUID I RECEIVE.” +CAN IT BE POSSIBLE?” SHE THOUGHT, NOT DARING TO LOOK AT HIS FACE, BUT +CANNONADE WAS DYING DOWN, BUT THE RATTLE OF MUSKETRY BEHIND AND ON THE +CANNON AIMED AT ME?” +CANNON AND THE CROWD WERE DRAGGING IT OUT. A CANNON BALL KILLED SOMEONE +CANNON BALLS AT THE FRENCH WITH BOTH HANDS. +CANNOT ATTAIN THE KNOWLEDGE OF WHICH YOU SPEAK.” +CANNOT, DISAPPOINT THEM. BUT HOW WILL IT BE? I DO NOT KNOW, BUT IT +CANNOT KNOW HIM. YOU DO NOT KNOW HIM AND THAT IS WHY YOU ARE UNHAPPY.” +CAN SAY ALL THIS THERE,” REMARKED DOLGORúKOV. +CAN’T BEAR THOSE OLD MEN! EH?” +CAN’T BE! ONLY TO GET PAST THEM QUICKER, QUICKER!” +CAN’T GET THEM FROM ANYONE ELSE. HE’S NOT THERE HIMSELF, SO YOU’LL +CAN’T UNDERSTAND. I WAS THERE ALL THE TIME GIVING ORDERS AND HAD ONLY +CAN WITHOUT HURTING OTHERS.” +“CAN YOU IMAGINE IT?” AND HE BEGAN DESCRIBING HOW THE GUARDS, HAVING +CAPABLE OF RECEIVING IT. +“CAPTAIN, FOR GOD’S SAKE! I’VE HURT MY ARM,” HE SAID TIMIDLY. +CAPTAIN VON TOLL CHANCED TO RIDE TO THE SAME SPOT, AND SEEING THE +CAPTURED BY THE FRENCH BECAUSE THE ENEMY COULD NOT SURMISE THAT ANYONE +CARABINEERS. +CARD, PUTTING A SMALL STAKE ON IT, AND BEGINNING TO PLAY. +CARE ABOUT THEM IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE HARMFUL OR USEFUL. AND MOST OF +CAREFULLY WROTE TWENTY-ONE. +CARE, THIS WAS A MERE STRANGER. GLANCING, HOWEVER, AT BORíS, HE SAW +CARRIAGE, AND THE SOLITUDE OF THE ROAD, ALL HAD A GLADDENING EFFECT ON +CARRIAGE AT FULL SPEED ABOUT AN HOUR BEFORE ALONG THAT VERY ROAD AND +CARRIED AWAY BY PASSION. OH, ONLY MY POOR MOTHER...” +CARRIED THE SOVEREIGN AT REVIEWS IN RUSSIA BORE HIM ALSO HERE ON THE +CARRY HIM TO THE DRESSING STATION.” +CARRY OUT THE COUNT’S WISHES, SEEING CLEARLY THAT NOT ONLY WOULD THE +CARRY THEM OUT, SO HE TAKES A REGIMENT, A DIVISION—STIPULATES THAT NO +CASEMENT. THE COLD WIND FLAPPED THE ENDS OF HER KERCHIEF AND HER LOOSE +CASKET FOR MAMMA’S NAME DAY AND THEN GOING HOME. I WAS SO HAPPY, SO +CATCHES IT AND OBEYING THE IMPULSE THAT WHEEL BEGINS TO CREAK AND JOINS +CATCHING THE CURTAIN OF THE COT. EACH MADE THE OTHER A WARNING GESTURE +CAVALRY AND HERE HE NOTICED A STIR AND SIGNS OF PREPARATION FOR BATTLE; +CAVALRY IN FRONT, BEHIND IT THE ARTILLERY, AND BEHIND THAT AGAIN THE +CAVALRY WAS BROUGHT IN, CONVOYED BY A SóTNYA OF COSSACKS. EVIDENTLY THE +CELEBRATING AWARDS THEY HAD RECEIVED FOR THE CAMPAIGN, AND MADE +CENSURED, SHOULD NOT BE HELD TO BLAME. +CENTER OF THE TABLE, PRINCE VASíLI ATTRACTED EVERYBODY’S ATTENTION. +CENTER, THE RESERVES, AND BAGRATIóN’S RIGHT FLANK HAD NOT YET MOVED, +CEREMONIOUS WELCOMES (WHICH HE KNEW PIERRE WOULD NOT LIKE), BUT FOR JUST +CERTAINLY IS COMMUNICATED VERY SURELY, AND FLOWS RAPIDLY, IMPERCEPTIBLY, +CERTAINLY SHOULD NOT, SPEAK LIKE THAT,” THEIR GLANCES SEEMED TO SAY. +CERTAIN, NOTHING AT ALL EXCEPT THE UNIMPORTANCE OF EVERYTHING I +CERTAIN. THERE’S LISE, MARRIED TO ANDREW—A BETTER HUSBAND ONE WOULD +CHAIR, AND BEGAN DELIBERATELY WITH A SMILE: +CHAIR, HE DREW UP WITH A CLICK OF HIS SPURS AND BOWED TO HER, NATáSHA +CHAIR REGARDLESS OF HER GOVERNESS’ REMARKS. AFTER DINNER, SHE RUSHED +CHANCE, LETTING THE SEVEN BE DEALT TO THE RIGHT RATHER THAN TO THE LEFT, +CHANCE OF DELAY AND FLIGHT WHEN THE LONGED-FOR MOMENT COMES AND HE IS +CHANGED!... WHERE ARE THE CANDLES?... TEA!...” +CHAPTER I +CHAPTER I +CHAPTER I +CHAPTER II +CHAPTER II +CHAPTER II +CHAPTER III +CHAPTER III +CHAPTER III +CHAPTER IV +CHAPTER IV +CHAPTER IV +CHAPTER IX +CHAPTER IX +CHAPTER IX +CHAPTER V +CHAPTER V +CHAPTER V +CHAPTER VI +CHAPTER VI +CHAPTER VI +CHAPTER VII +CHAPTER VII +CHAPTER VII +CHAPTER VIII +CHAPTER VIII +CHAPTER VIII +CHAPTER X +CHAPTER X +CHAPTER X +CHAPTER XI +CHAPTER XI +CHAPTER XI +CHAPTER XII +CHAPTER XII +CHAPTER XII +CHAPTER XIII +CHAPTER XIII +CHAPTER XIV +CHAPTER XIV +CHAPTER XIX +CHAPTER XIX +CHAPTER XV +CHAPTER XV +CHAPTER XVI +CHAPTER XVI +CHAPTER XVII +CHAPTER XVIII +CHAPTER XX +CHAPTER XXI +CHARACTER, BUT MORE SO RECENTLY, SINCE IN THE NEW REIGNS OF PAUL AND +“CHARGE!” SHOUTED BY AN OFFICER WHO WAS URGING HIS THOROUGHBRED TO +CHARITABLE TO MY POOR AUNT WHO ADORES YOU. GO AND KEEP HER COMPANY FOR +CHARMING GIRLS. EVERY YOUNG MAN WHO CAME TO THE HOUSE—SEEING THOSE +CHARMING THAT ONLY A FOOL WOULD RENOUNCE SUCH HAPPINESS.” +CHATTERING VOICES HAD REACHED HER FROM THE CORRIDOR, WENT INTO PRINCESS +CHESSMEN WITH HIS DELICATE WHITE FINGERS WHILE AWAITING BERG’S MOVE, +CHIEF, AND OUR FIRST FOE, BUXHöWDEN, IS VANQUISHED; WE CAN NOW TURN +CHIEF’S AND WITH THE EXCEPTION OF PRINCE BAGRATIóN, WHO DECLINED TO +CHIEF’S ROOM. +CHIEF STEWARD WROTE EVERY YEAR TELLING HIM OF FIRES AND BAD HARVESTS, +CHIEF, YOUR EXCELLENCY?” SAID ROSTóV, WITH HIS HAND TO HIS CAP. +CHILD. “BUT NO, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, I AM TOO UGLY,” SHE THOUGHT. +CHILDLIKE SMILE WHICH HAD NOT ONCE APPEARED ON HIS FACE SINCE HE LEFT +CHILD’S LITTLE CHAIR WHILE, FROWNING AND WITH TREMBLING HANDS, HE +CHOKED HIM, AND LEANING HIS ELBOWS ON THE WINDOW SILL HE BEGAN TO CRY, +CHOOSE. I GIVE YOU FREEDOM. ONLY REMEMBER THAT YOUR LIFE’S HAPPINESS +CHORUS.” +CHOSE AND PLACED CARDS, AND WATCHED THOSE BROAD-BONED AGILE HANDS IN THE +CIRCUMSTANCES AND PERSONS HE MET. OF THESE PLANS HE HAD NOT MERELY ONE +CLANKING HIS SPURS, WHIRLED RAPIDLY ROUND, AND, STRIKING HIS LEFT HEEL +CLAVICHORD WAS. “IT’S NO USE YOUR GOING TO THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. +CLEANED PAIRS WITH SPURS HAD JUST BEEN PLACED BY THE WALL. THE SERVANTS +CLEAR. +CLEARNESS, AND CHARM THAT IT SEEMED AS IF IT WERE ALL A LOST AND +CLEAR UPRIGHT FIGURES; HE EMPTIED THE GLASS OF WARM CHAMPAGNE THAT WAS +CLINKING OF SPURS WERE HEARD AT THE DOOR, AND THE YOUNG COUNT, HANDSOME, +CLOAK AND FELT BOOTS, HE WENT TO THE LITTLE PRINCESS’ APARTMENT. +CLOAK LOOKING TIMIDLY AT ME,” HE THOUGHT. “AND WHAT DOES SHE +CLOCK. ONE WHEEL SLOWLY MOVED, ANOTHER WAS SET IN MOTION, AND A THIRD, +CLOSE BY, WHO HEARD HIM MUTTERING. +CLOSER TOGETHER AND A REPORT SPREAD THAT THEY WERE ORDERED TO HALT: +CLOSE THAT THE EXPRESSION OF HIS FACE COULD BE SEEN. AND THE EXCITED, +CLOTHS. +CLOUDS GLIDING SLOWLY ACROSS IT. “HOW QUIET, PEACEFUL, AND SOLEMN; NOT +CLUB, BUT MET IN PRIVATE HOUSES IN INTIMATE CIRCLES, AND THE +CLUTCHED THE CRUPPER OF HIS SADDLE AND, SPURRING HIS HORSE, GALLOPED TO +COACHMAN’S, WAS TEASING KUTúZOV’S OLD COOK WHOM PRINCE ANDREW KNEW, +COACHMEN AND FOOTMEN, WHO, WITH LOUD SHOUTS, DRAGGED HIS SLEIGHS UP TO +COATS. +COAT, THE TRAVELER SAT DOWN ON THE SOFA, LEANED BACK HIS BIG HEAD WITH +COCK, BUT THE ELDER MEMBERS GLANCED SEVERELY AT THE WIT, MAKING HIM +CODE, BUT UNDER THIS UNWRITTEN LAW. HE FELT NOW THAT MERELY BY HAVING +COIFFURE, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE’S AND ANATOLE’S SMILES, AND THE +COLLAPSED SO THAT I DON’T LIVE AT ALL—EVERYTHING SEEMS HATEFUL TO +COLLAR AND CAP, WENT OUT FOR HIS USUAL WALK. IT HAD SNOWED THE DAY +COLONEL OF FORTY TO WHOM DENíSOV HAD INTRODUCED HIM. +COLUMN ADVANCED INTO ACTION. +COLUMN COMING UP TO MEET THE ÁPSHERONS. +COLUMN MARCHES... THE THIRD COLUMN MARCHES...” AND SO ON, READ +COLUMN, MILORáDOVICH’S, THE ONE THAT WAS TO TAKE THE PLACE OF +COLUMNS, THEIR BAYONETS GLITTERING, WERE MOVING CONTINUOUSLY IN ONE +“COME ALONG, OUR MATVéVNA!” HE SAID TO HIMSELF. “MATVéVNA” * +“COME, DEAR PRINCESS,” SAID MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, “JUST ONE MORE +“COME HERE, WOSTóV. LET’S DWINK TO DWOWN OUR GWIEF!” SHOUTED +COME. HE WAS ALONE NOW, EXCEPT FOR A SOLDIER WHO WAS SITTING NAKED AT +“COME LATER.” AND SHE WENT IN, CLOSING THE DOOR BEHIND HER. +“COME, LET’S ARGUE THEN,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, “YOU TALK OF +“COME NOW, DEAL!” EXCLAIMED ROSTóV. +“COME NOW, JUST THIS ONE MORE LITTLE CARD!” +“COME NOW, WHAT ABOUT YOUR ROI DE PRUSSE?” +COME ON AND WILL MEET THEM WITH THE FIRE OF THE WHOLE BATTALION’—AND +COMES FROM THAT! EVEN THEN I FELT IT,” HE THOUGHT. “I FELT THEN THAT +COME, WERE ALL THERE AT THE APPOINTED TIME. +COMING ACTION FROM DOLGORúKOV. HE FELT THAT KUTúZOV WAS UPSET +COMING. AND NICHOLAS, WHO HAD VAINLY SUFFERED ALL THE DREAD THAT +COMING CLOSER TO PIERRE. “IN TOKEN OF GENEROSITY I ASK YOU TO GIVE ME +“COMING, FRIEND.” +COMING TO US OF THEIR OWN ACCORD,” INCAUTIOUSLY REMARKED THE LITTLE +COMMANDER IN CHIEF. +COMMANDER IN CHIEF. BAGRATIóN KNEW THAT AS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE TWO +COMMANDER IN CHIEF. HE INTERRUPTED HIM, TALKED RAPIDLY AND INDISTINCTLY, +COMMANDER IN CHIEF HERE, AND IF ALL IS LOST IT IS FOR ME TO PERISH WITH +COMMANDER IN CHIEF’S SUITE. HE WAS IN A STATE OF SUPPRESSED EXCITEMENT +COMMANDERS. AND THEN THAT HAPPY MOMENT, THAT TOULON FOR WHICH HE HAD +COMMANDERS, AND WITH A CONSCIOUSNESS OF BEING TOO LATE SPREADING THROUGH +COMMANDERS ARE: HERR GENERAL WIMPFEN, LE COMTE DE LANGERON, LE PRINCE DE +COMMAND OF THE INFANTRY WENT TOWARD HIS HORSE WITH JERKY STEPS, AND +COMMAND OF THE THIRD DISTRICT, AND MY ONLY WAY OF AVOIDING ACTIVE +COMMAND TO THE GENERAL NEXT IN SENIORITY, COUNT BUXHöWDEN, HAVING SENT +COMMENCE THE ACTION, AND WISHING TO AVERT RESPONSIBILITY FROM HIMSELF, +COMMISERATION ON ROSTóV, WHO SAW THAT TúSHIN WITH HIS WHOLE HEART +COMMIT CRIME, DIE, OR PERFORM DEEDS OF HIGHEST HEROISM, AND SO HE COULD +COMPANION, DóLOKHOV HAD COME STRAIGHT TO HIS HOUSE, AND PIERRE HAD PUT +COMPANY, WHICH ALONE HAD MAINTAINED ITS ORDER IN THE WOOD AND, HAVING +COMPANY, YOUR HONOR. I DON’T KNOW WHERE... SUCH BAD LUCK!” +COMPARED TO THE LOFTY, EQUITABLE, AND KINDLY SKY WHICH HE HAD SEEN AND +COMPLETELY ALTERED. HE WAS NOT RICH, BUT WOULD SPEND HIS LAST GROAT TO +COMPOSED AND PRINTED IN THE HERO’S HONOR. BAGRATIóN, ON SEEING THE +COMPOSURE, “NOW THERE’S THIS RECRUITING. MY FATHER IS CHIEF IN +COMPOSURE, WAITING FOR A DISPLAY OF THE ECCENTRICITIES HIS FATHER HAD +COMRADE BERG’S BEST WISHES FOR SUCCESS, RODE TO OLMüTZ TO SEE +CONCENTRATE. “THERE WE SHALL ENCOUNTER DIFFICULTIES, AND THERE,” +CONCENTRATION OF FIGHTING AT ONE POINT, AND THE HESITATION OF ALL THE +CONCENTRATION ON SOME ONE THOUGHT. +CONCLUDE OUR CAMPAIGN AND WE CAN RETURN TO WINTER QUARTERS, WHERE FRESH +CONDITION. +CONFESS AND ASK FOR MONEY HE HAD NO RIGHT TO AFTER GIVING HIS WORD OF +CONFESSION; HE FELT HIMSELF IN THE PRESENCE OF ONE SOCIALLY A COMPLETE +CONFIDENCE, AND LOVE AS I HAVE FOR YOU. THEN I AM YOUNG. MAMMA DOES +CONFIDENCE, FLATTER HIM, BECOME INTIMATE WITH HIM, AND FINALLY MAKE HIS +CONFIDENCE THE PERSONALITY OF THE FREEMASON INSPIRED IN HIM AND HIS OWN +CONFIRMED BY PIERRE’S RUPTURE WITH HIS WIFE, WAS THE TALK OF SOCIETY. +CONFIRMED IN THIS CONCLUSION BY THE FACT THAT DóLOKHOV LEFT IMMEDIATELY +“CONFOUND HIM, HE’S A FOOL!” SAID ROSTóV. +“CONFOUND YOU AND YOUR KARL IVáNICH!” HE TOOK THE GLASS WITH THE +CONFUSED AND EVER-INCREASING CROWDS WERE RUNNING BACK TO WHERE FIVE +CONFUSED HIM STILL MORE. HE STOOD BEFORE BAGRATIóN WITH HIS LOWER +CONFUSED WHEN SHE SAW PRINCE ANDREW. HE COVERED HIS FACE WITH HIS HANDS +CONFUSION AND FEAR THAT SHOWED ITSELF ON PRINCE VASíLI’S FACE. +CONFUSION WHAT DID OR DID NOT HAPPEN? +CONGRATULATIONS AND GREETINGS FROM ACQUAINTANCES THAT MET HIM ON ALL +CONNECTED IN HIS MEMORY WITH PRINCE ANDREW. + CONQUEST’S JOYFUL THUNDER WAKEN, +CONSCIENCE THAT GOD HAS IMPLANTED IN OUR SOULS.” +CONSCIENTIOUSLY STUDIED THE DISPOSITIONS AND THE UNFAMILIAR LOCALITY. HE +CONSCIOUSNESS THAT SOMETHING GREAT AND MYSTERIOUS WAS BEING ACCOMPLISHED +CONSCIOUS OF THE WARMTH OF HER BODY, THE SCENT OF PERFUME, AND THE +CONSCIOUS OF THIS UNSEEN LINE, AND THE QUESTION WHETHER THEY WOULD CROSS +CONSCIOUS THAT ANOTHER LINE OF THOUGHT HAD SPRUNG UP, AND WHILE THINKING +CONSERVATORIES AND THE BEAUTY OF A FLOWER THAT HAD JUST OPENED, AND +CONSIDERED HIM A CRIMINAL, AND A YEAR LATER THEY EXECUTED THOSE WHO +CONSIDERED MYSELF INJURED, AND LOUIS XVI WAS EXECUTED BECAUSE THEY +CONSIDERED WORTHY TO HEAR IT HAD TO COME TO THE COUNTESS, FOR SHE +CONSIDER IT A SACRED DUTY TO FULFILL THAT PERSON’S WISHES. DO YOU WISH +CONSOLATION FOR OUR DEFEAT BY THE MEMORY OF FORMER VICTORIES; AND THE +CONSOLATION? WHAT EVIL AND ERROR ARE THERE IN IT, IF PEOPLE WERE DYING +CONSTANT COMPOSURE AND COMPLACENCY AND LACK OF ALL INTERESTS OR DESIRES, +CONSTANTLY CONSIDERED IT A DUTY TO ASSURE PIERRE THAT HE WAS GREATLY +CONSULTATIONS VERY VALUABLE FOR THE PROPRIETOR AND TROUBLESOME TO +CONSULTATIONS WERE DETACHED FROM REAL AFFAIRS AND DID NOT LINK UP WITH +CONTEMPTUOUS SMILE, EVIDENTLY PREPARED BEFOREHAND TO MEET ALL OBJECTIONS +CONTINUALLY DRIVING ROUND OR COMING UPON WOUNDED MEN, WAS OUT OF RANGE +CONTINUED—REMEMBERING DóLOKHOV’S CONVERSATION WITH KUTúZOV AND HIS +CONTINUED, “WE OWE TODAY’S SUCCESS CHIEFLY TO THE ACTION OF THAT +CONTINUE THEIR FLIGHT? DESPITE HIS DESPERATE SHOUTS THAT USED TO SEEM +CONTRARY ONE MUST TRY TO MAKE ONE’S LIFE AS PLEASANT AS POSSIBLE. +CONVALESCENCE. DóLOKHOV LAY ILL AT HIS MOTHER’S WHO LOVED HIM +CONVERSATION WITH HER, WHEN ANNA PáVLOVNA CALLED HIM AWAY ON THE +CONVEY....” +CONVOY OFFICER, WHO SAID RAPIDLY: “WE MUST HALT HERE: THE EMPEROR +COOK CALLS IT—HAS DISAGREED WITH ME.” +CORDS ON HIS COAT AND TOOK A CARD WITH THAT NUMBER AND TRIED STAKING THE +CORNER OF HIS CARD AND, INSTEAD OF THE SIX THOUSAND HE HAD INTENDED, +CORRECT, OTHERS THAT IT WAS NOT, AND EXPLAINED THE FALSE RUMOR THAT HAD +COSSACKS AND THEN THE FIRST AND SECOND SQUADRONS OF HUSSARS AND INFANTRY +COST CORRECT, OR REMEDY, THE MISTAKE IF HE HAD MADE ONE, SO THAT HE, +COUGHED, SWALLOWED, AND SAID IN FRENCH THAT SHE WAS VERY PLEASED TO SEE +COULD BE HEARD ABOVE THE THREE HUNDRED OTHERS. HE NEARLY WEPT. “TO THE +COULD BE HEARD. IT WAS THERE PRINCE ANDREW THOUGHT THE FIGHT WOULD +COULD CLEARLY DISTINGUISH THEIR BANDOLIERS, RED EPAULETS, AND EVEN THEIR +COULD DISCLOSE IT TO ME.” +COULD HAVE BEEN DEVISED. THIS COMBINATION OF AUSTRIAN PRECISION WITH +COULD HAVE THE EFFRONTERY TO CONTINUE FIRING FROM FOUR QUITE UNDEFENDED +COULD HEAR THE FOOTSTEP OF SOMEONE IN THICK FELT BOOTS, AND A VOICE THAT +COULD NO LONGER BE AVERTED BUT WAS TAKING ITS COURSE INDEPENDENTLY OF +COULD NOT BEAR HER LOOK BUT TURNED AWAY WITH A SOB. +COULD NOT BREAK AWAY FROM HER, AND THAT THOUGH IT WOULD BE A TERRIBLE +COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE, AND SO DID NOT DELIVER THE ORDER. +COULD NOT REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS THAT PEOPLE SAY. HE LOOKED AT HER FACE. +COULD NOT REPLY. +COULD NOT SCREAM LIKE THAT—CAME FROM THE BEDROOM. PRINCE ANDREW RAN TO +COUNCIL, HE REMAINED IN THE ROOM. +COUNCILOR OF STATE, AND INSISTED ON THE YOUNG MAN ACCOMPANYING HIM TO +COUNT BEZúKHOV HE DID NOT LET GO HIS HOLD OF THE LAD. HE HAD THE AIR OF +“COUNT! COUNT!” SHOUTED BERG WHO RAN UP FROM THE OTHER SIDE AS EAGER +COUNTENANCE BONAPARTE, AND TO CAUSE ME, AND US IN GENERAL, ANNOYANCE AND +COUNTESS. +COUNTESS HAD NOT YET COME. BUT NOW STEPS WERE HEARD AT THE DOOR, STEPS +COUNTESS. HER SON’S GROWTH TOWARD MANHOOD, AT EACH OF ITS STAGES, +COUNTESS’ HOUSE. +“COUNTESS, I HAVE DONE W’ONG,” DENíSOV WENT ON IN AN UNSTEADY +“COUNTESS NATáSHA,” ANSWERED DENíSOV. +“COUNTESS...” SAID DENíSOV, WITH DOWNCAST EYES AND A GUILTY FACE. +COUNTESS” TO HAVE A REST, BUT REMEMBERING SOMETHING ELSE OF +COUNTESS, WHO SAT HOLDING IN ONE HAND THE SNUFFBOX WITH ITS PORTRAIT AND +COUNT ILYá ROSTóV, HURRIED AND PREOCCUPIED, WENT ABOUT IN HIS SOFT +COUNT ILYá ROSTóV SEPARATELY, AS THE ORGANIZER OF THE BANQUET. AT THAT +“COUNT ILYá ROSTóV’S SON?” ASKED DOLGORúKOV. +COUNT MARKóV, AND PRINCE VYáZEMSKI—DID NOT SHOW THEMSELVES AT THE +COUNT MARKóV? COUNT MARKóV WAS THE ONLY MAN WHO KNEW HOW TO HANDLE +COUNT, MONEY AND ALL THINGS NECESSARY FOR THE UNIFORM AND EQUIPMENT +COUNT NEVER BE ABLE TO FIND OUT WHETHER ALL MEASURES HAD BEEN TAKEN FOR +COUNT ROSTOPCHíN, VALúEV, AND NARýSHKIN. ROSTOPCHíN WAS DESCRIBING +“COUNT ROSTóV.” +COUNTRYMEN. THANKS FOR THE FIRE—WE’LL RETURN IT WITH INTEREST,” +COUNT,” SAID BERG, LIGHTING HIS PIPE AND EMITTING RINGS OF SMOKE. +COUNT TOLSTóY, WHO HAD RIDDEN OUT TO THE BATTLEFIELD WITH OTHERS IN +COUPLE OF WORDS WITH HIM, PIERRE FELT UNABLE TO DISAPPOINT HIM. +COURAGE. 6. GENEROSITY. 7. THE LOVE OF DEATH. +COURAGE, BUT SHE LOOKED STRAIGHT INTO HIS HANDSOME FACE AS IT CAME NEAR + COURAGE CONQUEST GUARANTEES; +COURAGE HAD IT NOT BEEN THAT JUST THEN THEY HEARD THE RATTLE OF MUSKETRY +COURAGE, MY ANGEL.” SHE KISSED LISE AND WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE THE ROOM. +COURSE.” PERHAPS HE DID NOT REALLY THINK THIS WHEN HE MET WOMEN—EVEN +COURTS ONLY STRENGTHENED HIS DESIRE TO BELONG TO THAT HIGHER WORLD. +COVERED HIS EYES WITH HIS HAND AND PRESSED VON TOLL’S HAND. +COVERED WITH MELTING SNOW, THE FROST HAVING BEGUN TO BREAK UP DURING THE +“COVER YOURSELF!” EVEN DENíSOV CRIED TO HIS ADVERSARY. +CRACK AND THERE WAS A GLIMPSE OF SOMETHING BLUE, OF RIBBONS, BLACK HAIR, +CRACKLING OF WOOD FIRES NEAR AND AFAR, MERGED INTO ONE TREMULOUS RUMBLE. +CREAKING OF HER CORSET AS SHE MOVED. HE DID NOT SEE HER MARBLE BEAUTY +CRIED AT EACH SHOT: “FINE! THAT’S GOOD! LOOK AT IT... GRAND!” THE +CRIMINAL,” CAME INTO PIERRE’S HEAD, “AND FROM THEIR POINT OF +CRIMSON FLOAT ON THE SURFACE OF THAT MILKY SEA OF MIST. THE WHOLE FRENCH +CRITICAL MOMENT THE COURIER WHO CARRIED THE NEWS OF OUR VICTORY AT +CROSSED ONE ON THE OTHER ON HER BREAST, AND TO HIM, TOO, HER FACE SEEMED +CROSSED THE ROAD, AND BEGAN RIDING UP THE HILL AT A GALLOP TOWARD THE +CROSS IT AND RIDE OVER THE BLACK FIELD UP THE HILLSIDE. TO KEEP TO THE +CROWDING AROUND THE DAMS AND BANKS OF THE PONDS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF +CROWD, THEY HAD GOT WEDGED IN AT THE APPROACH TO THE DAM AND, JAMMED IN +CRUSHED, BUT ANGRY AND WORKING UNNATURALLY, SHE SAW THAT HANGING OVER +CRYING. +CURIOUS EMBARRASSMENT AMONG SOME OF THOSE PRESENT. SóNYA, DóLOKHOV, +CURIOUS TO KNOW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN AND WHAT WOULD BE REVEALED TO +CURTAIN ASIDE AND FOR SOME TIME HIS FRIGHTENED, RESTLESS EYES COULD NOT +CURTAIN FLAPPING AND BLEW OUT THE CANDLE WITH ITS CHILL, SNOWY DRAFT. +CURVING HER ARMS, NATáSHA HELD OUT HER SKIRTS AS DANCERS DO, RAN BACK +CYNICALLY DóLOKHOV HAD PRAISED HIS WIFE’S BEAUTY TO HIM AND FROM THAT +D’AFFAIRES. +DANCER, AND ONE OF THE BEST MATCHES IN THE CITY. +DANCER, BUT SMILING AS ONLY HAPPY GIRLS OF FIFTEEN CAN SMILE. WHEN +DANCERS DO, NATáSHA, RISING ENERGETICALLY FROM HER HEELS TO HER TOES, +DANCING MASTER) GAVE FOR HIS PUPILS DURING THE HOLIDAYS. +DANGEROUS. +DANGERS. DURING THESE WANDERINGS, PIERRE NOTICED THAT HE WAS SPOKEN +DARK AND THE GLOW OF TWO CONFLAGRATIONS WAS THE MORE CONSPICUOUS. THE +DARK CORNER. AND THIS SOMEONE WAS HE—THE DEVIL—AND HE WAS ALSO THIS +DARKNESS, THE MAN PAUSED, THEN MOVED WITH CAUTIOUS STEPS TOWARD THE +DARKNESS, WAS SUDDENLY LIT UP BY A NEW BRIGHTNESS, FULL OF SIGNIFICANCE. +DARKNESS. “WHY NOT?... IT MIGHT EASILY HAPPEN,” THOUGHT ROSTóV, +DARK... STEADY!” HE CRIED TO HIS FIDGETING HORSE. +“DARLING DENíSOV!” SCREAMED NATáSHA, BESIDE HERSELF WITH RAPTURE, +DASHING YOUNG HUSSAR! +DAUGHTER!” +DAUGHTER. +DAUGHTER, AND WHILE HE LAUGHED THE EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE CLEARLY SAID: +DAUGHTER, BUT FOR A MINISTER! FOR ME, THERE ARE NO MINISTERS!” +DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, “BUT SHE NEED NOT MAKE A FOOL OF HERSELF, SHE’S +DAUGHTER IS SO YOUNG, AND I THOUGHT THAT, AS MY SON’S FRIEND, YOU +DAUGHTER.)—“MY DEAR BOY... LëLYA... I AM VERY PLEASED.” (HIS + * DAUGHTER OF MATTHEW. +DAUGHTER OF PRINCE VASíLI, BUT VISUALIZED HER WHOLE BODY ONLY VEILED +DAUGHTER’S HAPPINESS. +DAUGHTER. SHE LOWERED HER HEAD AND WAS READY TO BURST INTO TEARS. +DAUGHTER WERE HAVING ONE NOT LESS IMPORTANT. NATáSHA CAME RUNNING TO +DAY BEFORE, HE WISHED TO DO WHAT THE YOUNG MAN WANTED. HAVING BEEN SENT +DAY HE HAD LOST. HE WAS HAPPY AS A LOVER WHEN THE LONGED-FOR MOMENT OF +DAY IN MOSCOW. ALL DENíSOV’S MOSCOW FRIENDS GAVE HIM A FAREWELL +DAYS’ MARCH AND THE ENEMY’S OUTPOSTS AFTER A BRIEF INTERCHANGE +DAYS WAS STILL THIN—MOVED. HIS GLEAMING EYES WERE FIXED INTENTLY ON +DAYS WITH HER, ASKED HER TO SLEEP IN HER ROOM, AND OFTEN TALKED WITH HER +DAY UNTIL THEN, BUT HE COULD NO LONGER DO IT. HE COULD NOT, ANY MORE +DEAD. ALL THAT HE SAW AND HEARD SEEMED TO CONFIRM THIS TERROR. +DEAD OR WOUNDED HORSES AND HARNESSING FRESH ONES, AND SHOUTING IN HIS +DEAR BOY,” AND HE DREW PIERRE’S ARM DOWNWARDS, “IT IS SIMPLY A +“DEAR, DEAR! BUT STILL TELL HIM TO COME TO THE CLUB—IT WILL ALL BLOW +“DEAREST... AND ME!” +“DEAREST, I’M AFRAID THIS MORNING’S FRUSCHTIQUE *—AS FóKA THE +“DEAREST,” SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS AFTER BREAKFAST ON THE MORNING +DEAR FELLOW!” AND FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON TEARS SUDDENLY FILLED HIS +DEAR GENERAL, I AM ENGAGED WITH RICE AND CUTLETS, LOOK AFTER MILITARY +“DEAR ME, HOW YOU HAVE CHANGED!” +“DEAR ME!” SAID HIS FATHER, WHO WAS IN A SPECIALLY GOOD HUMOR. “I +“DEAR ME!” SAID ROSTóV. +“DEAR ME! THEN WHAT ARE YOU UP TO NOW?” +DEAR SIR—TOOK ON YOURSELF RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE GUIDANCE OF A YOUNG +DEATH’S HEAD. THE STRANGER SAT WITHOUT STIRRING, EITHER RESTING OR, AS +DE BEAUCOUP DE MéRITE), A NEWLY APPOINTED MAID OF HONOR AND HER MOTHER, +DECEITFUL GERMAN, WHOM HE WOULD NOT ONLY KILL WITH PLEASURE BUT WHOM +DECEIVED YOU. LET US GO TO MAMMA.” +DECEMBER, NOTHING WAS SAID ABOUT THE WAR AND THE LAST BATTLE, AS +DE CHâLE, BUT AT THIS LAST BALL ONLY THE éCOSSAISE, THE ANGLAISE, AND +DECIDEDLY LOST BEARINGS, YOU KNOW THAT A LETTER WAS RECEIVED FROM HIM +DECIDED NOW OR NEVER. SHE LOWERED HER EYES SO AS NOT TO SEE THE GAZE +DECIDED THAT DAY, BUT THAT THEY ALSO KNEW WHAT SHE THOUGHT ABOUT IT. SHE +DECIDED TO PLAY UNTIL THAT SCORE REACHED FORTY-THREE THOUSAND. HE +DECIDED TO SEND THE LETTERS AND MONEY BY THE GRAND DUKE’S COURIER TO +DECIDE, MY DEAR, GOOD, GENTLE MARIE, WHOM I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED AS A +DECLARED, WAS EXTRAORDINARY AND HAD ACHIEVED MIRACLES OF VALOR. THE +DEEDS, AND WHILE DYING HE EXPRESSED THE LOVE HIS ACTIONS HAD PROVED. +DEEPEST WHERE THE LAND LIES LOWEST. +DEFEATED. A WEEK AFTER THE GAZETTE REPORT OF THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ +DEFECTIVE COMMISSARIAT, THE TREACHERY OF THE POLE PRZEBYSZéWSKI AND OF +DEFILE THROUGH NARROW VILLAGE STREETS WHEN WE ARE MARCHING AGAINST THE +DEJECTION AND HOPELESSNESS)—AT ANY RATE, PIERRE LONGED WITH HIS WHOLE +DELAY AND ADVISED WAITING FOR SOMETHING ELSE BEFORE ADVANCING HAD BEEN +DELIBERATELY SO THAT EVERYONE COULD HEAR: +“DELIGHTFUL!” SAID BOLKóNSKI. “BUT I HAVE COME TO YOU, PRINCE, +DELIGHTFUL TO SEE.” +DELIGHT OF FRENZY. HE FLUNG DOWN THE SLAB, BROKE IT, AND SWOOPING +(DELIVERED BY THE FRENCH ALONE) WAS STILL TO BE HEARD FROM NUMEROUS +DELIVERS ITS TEACHING NOT IN WORDS ONLY BUT ALSO BY OTHER MEANS, WHICH +DEMANDED THAT HE SHOULD SUBMIT. FEELING HIMSELF IN THEIR POWER, HE + * DENíSOV. +DENíSOV?” +DENíSOV ALSO CAME BACK AND STAYED WITH THEM. THE FIRST HALF OF THE +DENíSOV, AND NOW MOSCOW MEMORIES—AND HE AGAIN HURRIEDLY OPENED HIS +DENíSOV BENT OVER HER HAND AND SHE HEARD STRANGE SOUNDS SHE DID NOT +DENíSOV, DENíSOV! WE’RE ALMOST THERE!” +“DENíSOV, DON’T MAKE FUN OF IT!” CRIED ROSTóV. “IT IS SUCH A +DENíSOV FIRST WENT TO THE BARRIER AND ANNOUNCED: “AS THE +DENíSOV GAVE NO ANSWER. +DENíSOV NICE?” SHE ASKED. +DENíSOV RAISED HIS HEAD, COUGHED, AND MADE NO ANSWER. +DENíSOV’S A FINE FELLOW. BUT THAT’S ALL NONSENSE. THE CHIEF THING +DENíSOV’S FAVORITE BARCAROLLE. NATáSHA WAS PREPARING TO SING. +DENíSOV’S HORSE, BEDOUIN, WAS IN DEBT ALL ROUND, TO HIS COMRADES AND +DENíSOV’S SHORT STATURE NOT NOTICEABLE AND HE LOOKED THE FINE FELLOW +DENíSOV, TO ROSTóV’S SURPRISE, APPEARED IN THE DRAWING ROOM WITH +DENíSOV WAS LOOKING AT HER WITH ENRAPTURED EYES. +DENíSOV WAS SHOWN TO THE ROOM PREPARED FOR HIM, AND THE ROSTóVS ALL +“DENíSOV! WE’RE HERE! HE’S ASLEEP,” HE ADDED, LEANING FORWARD +DENíSOV, WHO HAD SETTLED DOWN BY THE ROADSIDE WITH A FLASK AND SOME +DENíSOV WITH HIS VOICE AND MUSTACHE, AND TELYáNIN AND ALL THAT AFFAIR +DENíSOV, WITH SPARKLING EYES AND RUFFLED HAIR, SAT AT THE CLAVICHORD +DEPARTURE HéLèNE RETURNED TO PETERSBURG, SHE WAS RECEIVED BY ALL HER +DEPENDS ON YOUR DECISION. NEVER MIND ME!” +DEPRAVED IDEAS OF THESE DAYS. I SAID SO EVEN AT THE TIME WHEN EVERYBODY +DEPRAVED WOMAN,” HE REPEATED, “BUT DARED NOT ADMIT IT TO MYSELF. +DEPRESSING AND UNSOLVED PROBLEM. +DEPTH OF HIS HEART. IN ONE PLACE THE PEASANTS PRESENTED HIM WITH BREAD +DERISION. “I OUGHT TO KNOW THE EMPEROR BY NOW, AFTER THE TIMES I’VE +DESCENDING THE VALLEY. THAT MOMENT OF MORAL HESITATION WHICH DECIDES +DESCENT LIT UP, AND FACING IT A BLACK KNOLL THAT SEEMED AS STEEP AS A +DESCRIPTIVE PART OF THE LETTER. “AND WHAT A SOUL! NOT A WORD ABOUT +DESIRE TO DO GOOD TO HIS NEIGHBOR. +DESIRE TO SHOW HIS FRIEND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE THAT HE WAS NOW A QUITE +DESIROUS OF HIDING HER ADORATION FOR HéLèNE AND INCLINED RATHER +DESPAIR AT FAILING IN A SCRIPTURE EXAMINATION, HIS BORROWING MONEY FROM +DESPAIR, NOT KNOWING WHERE TO OR WHY HE WAS NOW RIDING. +DESPITE COUNT BEZúKHOV’S ENORMOUS WEALTH, SINCE HE HAD COME INTO AN +“DESPITE MY GREAT RESPECT FOR OLD KUTúZOV,” HE CONTINUED, “WE +DESPITE THE WEAKNESS OF AGE, WHICH HAD BECOME PARTICULARLY NOTICEABLE +DESTRUCTION OF THE PRUSSIAN ARMY AT JENA AND AUERSTäDT AND THE +DETACHMENT, MOVED FROM THE PLACE WHERE IT HAD SPENT THE NIGHT, ADVANCING +DETAIL! NO, MY DEAR FELLOW, NO CONDITIONS BETTER THAN OUR PRESENT ONES +“DEVIL TAKE ‘EM!” HE MUTTERED, WHILE HIS HEAD WAS STILL COVERED BY +“DEVIL TAKE THEM!” HE MUTTERED, AND AFTER LISTENING TO THE VERBAL +DEVOID OF ANY FOUNDATION. PRINCE BAGRATIóN TURNED TO THE OLD COLONEL: +DEVOTION TO THE SOVEREIGN, ROSTóV PICTURED TO HIMSELF AN ENEMY OR A +DICTATED THE DISPOSITIONS IN GERMAN, AND NOW, MUCH EXHAUSTED, HE ARRIVED +DID I COME HERE?” HE WONDERED. +DID NEITHER: A LOOK OF ANIMOSITY APPEARED ON HIS FACE AND THE OTHER +DID NOT, AND DO NOT, IN THE LEAST CARE ABOUT THAT SCOUNDREL OF A CLERK +DID NOT CALM HER EXCITEMENT. SUDDENLY HER DOOR OPENED SOFTLY AND HER OLD +DID NOT DRAW CLOSER TO SóNYA, BUT RATHER DRIFTED AWAY FROM HER. SHE WAS +DID NOT EVEN MAKE HIM A CURTSY. SHE FIXED HER EYES ON HIM IN AMAZEMENT, +DID NOT, FOR INSTANCE, SAY TO HIMSELF: “THIS MAN NOW HAS INFLUENCE, I +DID NOT INTEREST HER—OR BY A SILENT LOOK AND SMILE WHICH MORE PALPABLY +DID NOT LET HIM AND, ON THE OTHER, PIERRE HIMSELF FEARED TO BEGIN TO +DID NOT LET IT OUT OF HER HANDS. THE TUTORS CAME, AND THE NURSES, AND +DID NOT WANT OR COULD NOT CARRY AWAY WITH THEM. AUSTRIAN COLUMN GUIDES +DID NOT WISH TO, BELIEVE THAT. +DID NOT WISH TO CONFESS. +“DIDN’T I TELL YOU,” SHE WENT ON, TURNING REPROACHFULLY TO +DID STILL HARDER WORK ON THEIR OWN LAND. HE DID NOT KNOW THAT THE PRIEST +DIDST THOU, AND WHY DID THE WHOLE WORLD, CONCEIVE THE IDEA OF THE +DID THAT DAY. BUT NO SOONER HAD NATáSHA FINISHED HER BARCAROLLE THAN +DID THEY NOT INTEREST HIM, BUT HE TOOK NO NOTICE OF THEM AND AT ONCE +DID THIS AND THAT, ALL WOULD BE WELL; AND HE DID WHAT WAS DEMANDED OF +DIFFERENT, AND BETTER, PIERRE THAN HE HAD BEEN IN PETERSBURG. +DIFFERENT COMPANIES DID NOT GET MIXED. BUT OUR LEFT—WHICH CONSISTED +DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF ITS ELDERS WHICH IS OFTEN INSINCERE, NICHOLAS +DIFFERENT ONE FROM THAT WHICH HE HAD RIDDEN AT THE REVIEW, AND BENDING +DIFFERENT TONES. ROSTóV REINED IN HIS HORSE, WHOSE SPIRITS HAD RISEN, +DIFFICULTIES HAD TOLD NICHOLAS THAT THIS WAS ALL HE COULD LET HIM HAVE +DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE HAPPIER PEOPLE, AND THAT GOD ONLY KNEW WHAT WOULD +DIFFICULTY. +DIFFICULTY. +DIGESTED HIS SUFFERINGS ALONE. +DINNER. +DINNER AND AT OTHER TIMES, WHEN AS IF TIRED OF EVERYDAY LIFE HE HAD FELT +DINNER AND LOOKED ABOUT, BLINKING AND SCOWLING, OR, WITH FIXED EYES AND +DINNER, BUT PROVIDING IT AND SERVING IT ALL UP, THAT’S NOT THEIR +DIPLOMATIC CAREER IN COMPARISON WITH PIERRE’S HAPPINESS. THE OLD +DIPLOMATIC DISCRETION TORMENTED HIM, AND HE WAS HAPPY TO HAVE IN PRINCE +DIPLOMATIST FRESH FROM BERLIN WITH THE VERY LATEST DETAILS OF THE +DIRECTED TO—PIERRE AND HéLèNE. PRINCE VASíLI MIMICKED THE SOBBING +DIRECTION OF THE CONFLAGRATION. AS IF URGING EACH OTHER ON, THE SOLDIERS +DIRECTION TOWARD THE VALLEY AND DISAPPEARING ONE AFTER ANOTHER INTO +“DIRECTLY!” +DISBELIEVED BOTH THE PRINCESS’ HINTS AND THE LETTER, BUT HE FEARED +DISCIPLINE AND ZEAL IN THE SERVICE. HE BROUGHT WITH HIM INTO OUR +DISCONCERTED. THE SIGHT OF THE DISCOMPOSURE OF THAT OLD MAN OF THE WORLD +DISHEVELED HEAD FROM THE HOT PILLOW. +DISMAL INFLUENCE OF CANNON BALLS FLYING FROM THE FRENCH BATTERIES +DISORDERED. THE FRENCH CANNON DID NOT REACH THERE AND THE MUSKETRY FIRE +DISORGANIZED, I STOPPED IN THE ROAD AND THOUGHT: ‘I’LL LET THEM +DISPLEASE YOU. HOWEVER,” HE ADDED RISING, “YOU KNOW MY NAME AND +DISPOSED TO TREAT THE YOUNG HEIR IN THE MOST FRIENDLY AND FLATTERING +DISPOSITIONS...” +“DISPOSITIONS FOR AN ATTACK ON THE ENEMY POSITION BEHIND KOBELNITZ AND +DISPUTE. +DISSATISFACTION AND REPROACH. “OLD THOUGH HE MAY BE, HE SHOULD NOT, HE +DISSATISFIED WITH HIM, AND ALSO THAT AT THE EMPEROR’S HEADQUARTERS +DISTANCE, BUT DOWN THE HILL BEFORE HIM. “IT’S THE FRENCH!” +DISTANCE WHERE NO ONE HAD BEEN BEFORE HIM. BAGRATIóN CALLED TO HIM FROM +DISTANT, MOST INTIMATE, MEMORIES ROSE IN HIS IMAGINATION: HE REMEMBERED +DISTINCTIONS WHICH MAY INFRINGE EQUALITY. FLY TO A BROTHER’S AID +DISTINGUISH A MOUNTED MAN FROM ONE ON FOOT. NAPOLEON, IN THE BLUE CLOAK +DISTINGUISHED DIGNITARY AND A SWISS WHO HAD FORMERLY BEEN TUTOR AT THE +DISTORTED OUT OF ALL LIKENESS TO HIS FORMER SELF, AND THE FLOURISHING OF +DISTRAUGHT YET ANGRY EXPRESSION ON THE FACES OF THESE TWO MEN, WHO +DISTRUST IN BOLKóNSKI’S EMPHATIC OPINION YET NOT FEELING ABLE FULLY +DMíTRI, AND SEVERAL ACQUAINTANCES, AND THE COUNTESS REREAD THE LETTER +“DMíTRI,” SAID ROSTóV TO HIS VALET ON THE BOX, “THOSE LIGHTS ARE +DO?” +DOCTOR AND EXPECTING ANOTHER FOR WHOM THEY HAD SENT TO TOWN, THEY HAD +DOCTOR WHO HAD ENTERED THE HALL AFTER HIM (THEY HAD MET AT THE LAST POST +DOES NOT PRODUCE THE SLIGHTEST STIR—A BLIND MAN HAS LEFT IT. THERE ARE +DOES NOT QUITE SEE IT; MORE PARTICULARLY AS IT IS HE AND HIS CORPS WHO +DOESN’T HAVE INTRIGUES NOWADAYS? WHY, IF HE WAS SO JEALOUS, AS I SEE +DOING A LITTLE—THOUGH I DID VERY LITTLE AND DID IT VERY BADLY? WHAT +DOING!” SAID THE OFFICER AND RODE OFF. +“DO I REMEMBER NICHOLAS?” +DOLGORúKOV; AND THOUGH YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT, THE FACT IS THAT NOW +DOLGORúKOV LAUGHED MERRILY. +DOLGORúKOV, LOOKING ROUND AT BILíBIN WITH A SMILE. +DOLGORúKOV, ONE OF THE WARMEST ADVOCATES OF AN ATTACK, HAD JUST +DOLGORúKOV, THE VICTOR AT WISCHAU, WAS SENT WITH SAVARY TO NEGOTIATE +DOLGORúKOV TO THE EMPEROR. +DOLGORúKOV WAS STILL INSISTING THAT THE FRENCH HAD RETREATED AND HAD +DOLLS AND WHO WAS STILL HAVING LESSONS. +DóLOKHOV AND LOOKED SORROWFULLY AT HIM. DENíSOV, ROSTóV, AND +DóLOKHOV, AND WORDS OF HONOR?... ALL NONSENSE! ONE MIGHT KILL AND ROB +DóLOKHOV BEGAN TO DEAL SERIOUSLY. OH, HOW ROSTóV DETESTED AT THAT +DóLOKHOV CUT HIM SHORT, AS IF TO REMIND HIM THAT IT WAS NOT FOR HIM TO +DóLOKHOV HIMSELF DURING HIS CONVALESCENCE SPOKE TO ROSTóV IN A WAY NO +DóLOKHOV LOOKED AT PIERRE WITH CLEAR, MIRTHFUL, CRUEL EYES, AND THAT +DóLOKHOV MADE NO REPLY. +“DóLOKHOV, MARY IVáNOVNA’S SON,” SHE SAID IN A MYSTERIOUS +DóLOKHOV—NOW AN OFFICER—WOUNDED IN THE ARM, AND ON FOOT, WITH +DóLOKHOV OFTEN DINED AT THE ROSTóVS’, NEVER MISSED A PERFORMANCE AT +DóLOKHOV OR ANSWERING HIM. THE FOOTMAN, WHO WAS DISTRIBUTING LEAFLETS +DóLOKHOV PAUSED. +DóLOKHOV, PIERRE SAW CLEARLY THAT WHAT WAS SAID IN THE LETTER MIGHT BE +DóLOKHOV PRESSED ROSTóV’S HAND AND BURST INTO TEARS. +DóLOKHOV’S CLEAR, COLD GLANCE MET ROSTóV AS SOON AS HE ENTERED THE +DóLOKHOV’S FACE. +DóLOKHOV’S HAND. +DóLOKHOV’S HANDS AND THOUGHT, “NOW THEN, MAKE HASTE AND LET ME HAVE +DóLOKHOV’S HOME: ON THE THIRD DAY HE RECEIVED A NOTE FROM HIM: +DóLOKHOV, SLAMMING DOWN THE PACK OF CARDS, PUT IT ASIDE AND BEGAN +DóLOKHOV’S OFFER,” HE SAID, ARTICULATING HIS FRIEND’S NAME WITH +DóLOKHOV’S PROPOSAL AND IOGEL’S BALL, SEEMED TO HAVE GROWN THICKER +DóLOKHOV’S SECOND, AND AFTER DINNER HE DISCUSSED THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR +DóLOKHOV. SUDDENLY A CANNON BALL HISSED SO LOW ABOVE THE CROWD THAT +DóLOKHOV WAS A SECRET TO NO ONE BUT HIMSELF. PIERRE ABSOLUTELY +DóLOKHOV, WHO HAD NO REASON TO PRESERVE THE HONOR OF A MAN WHO WAS +DóLOKHOV, WHOM EVERYONE IN THE HOUSE LIKED EXCEPT NATáSHA. SHE ALMOST +DóLOKHOV WHO WAS IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD FORCED HIS WAY TO THE EDGE +DOMINATED EVERYTHING ELSE AND SOARED ABOVE ALL THEIR AFFECTED CHATTER. +DONE. HAVE YOU CHOSEN A POST IN WHICH YOU MIGHT BE OF SERVICE TO YOUR +DONE NO HARM TO ANYONE; WHY MUST I SUFFER SO? HELP ME!” HER LOOK +DONE, THE RHETOR SAID: +DONE TO ME?”—SAID HER CHARMING, PATHETIC, DEAD FACE. +DONE UP. +DO NOT BREAK YOUR RANKS ON THE PLEA OF REMOVING THE WOUNDED! LET EVERY +DO NOT SUPPOSE ME TO BE SO BAD. WITH MY WHOLE SOUL I WISH TO BE WHAT YOU +“DON’T BE UNKIND,” CRIED ANNA PáVLOVNA FROM HER END OF THE TABLE +DON’T CARE A STRAW ABOUT ANYONE BUT THOSE I LOVE; BUT THOSE I LOVE, +“DON’T COME IN,” SHE SAID TO THE OLD COUNT WHO WAS FOLLOWING HER. +“DON’T! DON’T! WHAT ARE YOU ABOUT?” WHISPERED THEIR FRIGHTENED +DON’T FORGET TO PUT OUT MY NEW COAT,” ADDED ROSTóV, FINGERING HIS +DON’T KNOW AND NEVER SHALL KNOW, FOR THE LOVE OF THESE MEN HERE,” HE +“DON’T, NATáSHA! WHAT NONSENSE!” SHE SAID, HOPING IT WAS A JOKE. +DON’T REMEMBER BORíS. I DON’T REMEMBER HIM A BIT.” +“DON’T SAY THAT TO ME! I WANT NOTHING. I LOVE YOU AS A BROTHER AND +“DON’T SPEAK TO ME... I BEG YOU,” MUTTERED PIERRE HOARSELY. +DON’T UNDERSTAND. PERHAPS PRINCESS ELIZABETH AND PRINCESS MARY KNOW. +“DON’T YOU WECOLLECT WHAT BAD USE I MADE OF YOUR LESSONS?” +DOOR AND HIS EXPRESSION OF SLEEPY INDIFFERENCE SUDDENLY CHANGED TO ONE +DOOR, AS THOUGH HE HAD LONG EXPECTED HIM. +DOOR BEHIND HIM AND SATISFIED HIMSELF THAT THERE WAS NOBODY ELSE IN THE +“DO ORDER THEM TO FORM INTO BATTALION COLUMNS AND GO ROUND THE +DOOR? OH, SHE IS A PEARL AMONG WOMEN, PRINCESS,” HE ADDED, TURNING TO + DO, SIRE.” +“DO THIS FOR MY SAKE, MON CHER; AFTER ALL, SHE HAD TO PUT UP WITH A +DOUBLED. TO THIS PRINCE ANDREW ANSWERED WITH A SMILE THAT HE COULD +DOUBT, AND SELF-DERISION, WHICH APPEARED ON HIS FACE AGAINST HIS WILL, +DOUBT FILLED HER SOUL. COULD THE JOY OF LOVE, OF EARTHLY LOVE FOR A +DOUBT IT NOW. ROSTóV RODE IN THE DIRECTION POINTED OUT TO HIM, IN WHICH +DOUBT OF VICTORY, ESPECIALLY ON THIS DAY WHEN WHAT IS AT STAKE IS THE +DOWN, AND SMILED AFFECTIONATELY. +DOWN BELOW, BUT HIGHER UP AT THE VILLAGE OF SCHLAPPANITZ WHERE NAPOLEON +DOWNCAST HEAD; AND HE BEGAN TO PACE THE ROOM, GLANCING OCCASIONALLY AT +DOWN IN HER EASY CHAIR, NOW TAKING HER PRAYER BOOK, NOW KNEELING BEFORE +DOWN ON A SOFA IN THE NEXT ROOM. +DOWN. ONE BULLET AND THEN ANOTHER WHISTLED PAST HIM. HE MUSTERED HIS +DOWN ON HER WITH OUTSTRETCHED HANDS SHOUTED, “GET OUT!” IN SUCH A +DOWNSTAIRS TO HIS OWN ROOM. A QUARTER OF AN HOUR LATER THE OLD COUNT +DOWN THE HILLSIDES, AND CLOUDS OF CANNON SMOKE ROLLING, SPREADING, +DOWNY LIP WAS OPEN AND SHE WAS SMILING JOYFULLY. PRINCE ANDREW ENTERED +DOWRY AND TAKE MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE INTO THE BARGAIN. SHE’LL BE THE +“DO YOU HEAR HOW HE’S WALKING?” SAID TíKHON, DRAWING THE +DO YOU KNOW HE HAS FALLEN IN LOVE WITH SóNYA?” +“DO YOU REMEMBER HIM?” NATáSHA SUDDENLY ASKED, AFTER A MOMENT’S +“DO YOU REMEMBER WE HAD A TALK ABOUT CARDS... ‘HE’S A FOOL WHO +“DO YOU WANT ANYTHING?” +DRAGGING IT BY THE STAFF, RAN ON WITH THE BATTALION. IN FRONT HE SAW OUR +DRANK MUCH, AND EAGERLY. BUT THOSE WHO KNEW HIM INTIMATELY NOTICED THAT +DRAWING HIM DOWN PUT HER ARM ROUND HIS THIN, SCRAGGY NECK. +DRAWING ROOM. THE GUESTS BEGAN TO DISPERSE, SOME WITHOUT TAKING LEAVE +DRAWING ROOM WITH HER HABITUAL SKILL. THE LARGE GROUP, IN WHICH WERE +DRESSED ALIKE, IN NEW PALE-BLUE FROCKS, AND WERE BOTH FRESH, ROSY, AND +DRESSED, AT A ROUND TABLE IN THE CLEAN QUARTERS ALLOTTED TO THEM, +DRESSED GAY YOUNG MEN ON SPLENDID, WELL-GROOMED, FRESH, ONLY SLIGHTLY +DRESSED. PRINCESS MARY’S SELF-ESTEEM WAS WOUNDED BY THE FACT THAT +DRESS, HAVE IT FETCHED. REALLY! YOU KNOW THE FATE OF YOUR WHOLE LIFE MAY +DRESS HER WOULD PROLONG THEIR BANTER AND INSISTENCE. SHE FLUSHED, HER +DRESSING GOWN EVERY DAY, HE INVARIABLY BECAME CONFUSED AND BEGGED HER TO +DRESS, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE’S RIBBON, PRINCESS MARY’S UNBECOMING +DRESS WITH HER LITTLE HAND, NOW ARRANGING THE SCARF AND LOOKING AT HER +DREW ANATOLE, WHOM SHE HARDLY KNEW, INTO THESE AMUSING RECOLLECTIONS OF +DREW IN HIS LEGS AND SAT UP, SEEKING A FIRM CENTER OF GRAVITY. HE SUCKED +DRINK?” +DRINK SHOP OR FALL ILL. JUST AS I COULD NOT STAND HIS TERRIBLE PHYSICAL +DRIVEN THEIR TWO-HORSE CARTS LOADED WITH WHEAT AND HAD RETURNED DUSTY +DRIVER’S LEG. THEIR SPIRITS ONCE ROUSED WERE, HOWEVER, NOT DIMINISHED, +DRIVE THE PRINCESS AWAY BY THAT SCREAM... “KILLED!” +DRIVE UP, WENT TO MEET HIM. +DROOPING AS HE BROKE INTO A GALLOP. +DROPS AND AGAIN WENT UP TO THE COT. +DROVE HIS HUGE SPURS IN VIOLENTLY, AND THE HORSE, FLOURISHING ITS TAIL +DROWSINESS OVERPOWERED HIM, RED RINGS DANCED BEFORE HIS EYES, AND THE +DRY HANDS CLENCHED WITH VEXATION AT HER NOT UNDERSTANDING A SUM IN +DUEL HE DID NOT GO TO HIS BEDROOM BUT, AS HE OFTEN DID, REMAINED IN HIS +DUELIST AND RAKE, AND EVERY NOW AND THEN HE GLANCED IRONICALLY AT +DUEL PROVE? THAT YOU’RE A FOOL, QUE VOUS êTES UN SOT, BUT EVERYBODY +DUE TO HER MISFORTUNE. WHEN CONVERSATION TURNED ON HER HUSBAND HéLèNE +DUKE CONSTANTINE PáVLOVICH, WHO COMMANDED THE GUARDS. THE ROSTóVS +DUKE’S ORDERS THE MEN HAD MARCHED ALL THE WAY IN STEP (A PRACTICE ON +DURING ROSTóV’S SHORT STAY IN MOSCOW, BEFORE REJOINING THE ARMY, HE +DURING THAT STAY IN PETERSBURG, BORíS BECAME AN INTIMATE IN THE +DURING THIS TRANSFER HE FELT A LITTLE STRONGER AND WAS ABLE TO LOOK +EACH FACE, APPRAISING THE POSSIBILITIES OF ESTABLISHING INTIMACY WITH +EACH OCCASION HAD BEEN DRIVEN BACK BY GRAPESHOT FROM THE FOUR ISOLATED +EACH OF THOSE PRESENT, AND THE ADVANTAGES THAT MIGHT ACCRUE. HE TOOK +EACH TIME WITH FRESH PLEASURE AND EACH TIME DISCOVERED IN IT FRESH +EAGERNESS AND BRISKNESS PRESENTED A MARKED CONTRAST TO THE DISSATISFIED +EAGER QUESTIONS FROM ALL SIDES. THE WHOLE MOVING MASS BEGAN PRESSING +EARLY IN THE YEAR 1806 NICHOLAS ROSTóV RETURNED HOME ON LEAVE. DENíSOV +EASY. +EDGE OF THE CLEARING. THE SECONDS, MEASURING THE PACES, LEFT TRACKS IN + E’EN FORTUNATE NAPOLEON +EFFORTS TO SEEM CALM. +“EH, BROTHER! THEY’VE ALL BOLTED LONG AGO!” SAID THE SOLDIER, +EH, DMíTRI! GALLOP OFF TO OUR MOSCOW ESTATE,” HE SAID TO THE FACTOTUM +“EH, IS ANYTHING HURTING YOU?” ASKED THE SOLDIER, SHAKING HIS SHIRT +“EH, IS SHE PRETTY?” HE ASKED WITH A WINK. +EIGHTY THOUSAND ALLIED TROOPS ROSE FROM THEIR BIVOUACS TO THE HUM OF +EITHER,” HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF, “I HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG. HAVE I +EITHER,” HE THOUGHT. “YES, I DID NOT KNOW ANYTHING, ANYTHING AT ALL +EITHER THE PLACE THEY WERE LEAVING OR THAT TO WHICH THEY WERE GOING. +EKONóMOV. +ELATED. HE HAD NOTICED A SOLITARY TREE AHEAD OF HIM. THIS TREE HAD BEEN +ELBOWS, AS IF TO SAY: “YOU CAN TELL ME YOUR VIEWS LATER, BUT NOW BE SO +ELBOWS TURNED OUTWARDS, HIS HANDS ON HIS KNEES, AND HIS SHOULDERS +ELDERS WHICH SEEMS TO SAY TO THE OLDER GENERATION, “WE ARE PREPARED TO +ELSE. +ELSE. +ELSE, MY DEAR BOY, LET ME TELL YOU IT’S QUITE LIKELY YOU’LL HAVE TO +ELSE, RUNS UPSTAIRS AND DOES UP HER HAIR AND WAGS HER TAIL AND IS UNLIKE +ELSE THE TSAR DID. +EMBARRASSED HIM. HE WAS LIKE A MAN ENTIRELY ABSORBED IN SOME OCCUPATION. +EMBARRASSED VOICE, THOUGH IT SOUNDED SEVERE TO DENíSOV—“BUT MY +EMBARRASSING SITUATION, AND THE EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE WAS INVARIABLY +EMBRACED HIM AND LIFTING HIS SPECTACLES KISSED HIS FRIEND ON THE CHEEK +EMBRACING DENíSOV. “NICHOLAS WROTE US... NATáSHA, VéRA, LOOK! HERE +EMBRACING PRINCE VASíLI. +EMPEROR ALEXANDER HURRIEDLY TO KUTúZOV, GLANCING COURTEOUSLY AT THE +EMPEROR ALEXANDER’S VISIT TO POTSDAM, AND OF HOW THE TWO AUGUST +EMPEROR AND THE WHOLE ARMY, ESPECIALLY WHILE THE SMOKE HUNG OVER +EMPEROR AT ONCE RODE UP TO HIM, OFFERED HIS SERVICES, AND ASSISTED HIM +EMPEROR FRANCIS CONTINUED TO LOOK ABOUT HIM AND DID NOT LISTEN. +EMPEROR HAD ONLY JUST FALLEN ASLEEP AND SO SAVARY HAD TO WAIT. AT MIDDAY +EMPEROR HIMSELF RODE ROUND HIS BIVOUACS. THE SOLDIERS, ON SEEING HIM, +EMPEROR NOT EVERYONE COULD UNDERSTAND, AND WITH HIS WHOLE SOUL HE SHARED +EMPEROR,” SAID ROSTóV, AND WAS ABOUT TO SPUR HIS HORSE. +EMPEROR’S ARRIVAL, LAY SEVERAL KILLED AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS WHOM THERE +EMPEROR’S EYES MET ROSTóV’S AND RESTED ON THEM FOR NOT MORE THAN +EMPERORS. UPON THEM THE UNDIVIDED, TENSELY PASSIONATE ATTENTION OF THAT +EMPEROR. THE EMPEROR FRANCIS, A ROSY, LONG FACED YOUNG MAN, SAT VERY +EMPEROR,” THOUGHT ROSTóV. +EMPEROR WAS PALE, HIS CHEEKS SUNKEN AND HIS EYES HOLLOW, BUT THE CHARM, +EMPLOYED BY LIVELY CHATTY PEOPLE, AND CONSISTING IN THE ASSUMPTION +EMPRESS’ FIELD, NOT UNDERSTANDING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FIRING, NOR +EMPRESS’ FIELD,” SAID HE CLEARLY AND DISTINCTLY. +EMPTY AND THAT THE NURSE HAD BEEN HIDING THE DEAD BABY. HE DREW THE +EMPTYING HIS GLASS AT ONE GULP HE DASHED IT TO THE FLOOR. MANY FOLLOWED + ENCHANTRESS, SAY, TO MY FORSAKEN LYRE +ENCOUNTER AN ENEMY INVISIBLE TEN PACES OFF. BUT THE COLUMNS ADVANCED +END OF THE MEAL. HE WINKED AT THE BUTLER, WHISPERED DIRECTIONS TO THE +END SPURRED HIS HORSE. +ENEMIES, HE TRIED TO CONTINUE READING. BUT FEELING THIS TO BE SENSELESS +ENEMY?” +ENEMY, DO NOT AVENGE THYSELF EXCEPT BY DOING HIM GOOD. THUS FULFILLING +ENEMY UNDER THE EMPEROR’S COMMAND. COMMANDED BY THE EMPEROR HIMSELF +ENERGETIC A CHARACTER. HE IS SO ACCUSTOMED TO UNLIMITED POWER THAT HE IS +ENERGETICALLY THAN ANYONE, LED THE GUESTS INTO THE DRAWING ROOM, AND +ENGAGED; HE WAS SHOUTING “HURRAH!” +ENJOYABLE. THAT YEAR TWO MARRIAGES HAD COME OF THESE BALLS. THE TWO +ENJOYMENT BY SYMPATHY WITH ANYONE’S SORROW,” SHE FELT, AND SHE SAID +ENLIGHTENMENT?” +ENLIGHTEN THEIR MINDS, BY MEANS HANDED ON TO US BY TRADITION FROM THOSE +ENORMOUS WHOLE. +ENOUGH, AT THE END OF THE FEAST PROPOSED THE EMPEROR’S HEALTH. “NOT +“ENOUGH! WHAT NONSENSE! ABOVE ALL, TRY TO BE RESPECTFUL AND CAUTIOUS +ENTERED, AS IF TO SAY: “YES, THAT’S HOW I WANT YOU TO LOOK.” +ENTERED THE DRAWING ROOM ELEGANTLY DRESSED IN THE UNIFORM OF AN +ENTERED THE ROOM. +ENTERED THE ROOM. PRINCE VASíLI APPROACHED FIRST, AND SHE KISSED THE +ENTERING THE HOUSE OCCUPIED BY KUTúZOV, ASKED FOR BOLKóNSKI. PRINCE +ENTERING THE MISTY REGION WITH A SOUND OF HOOFS AND WHEELS AND NOW AND +ENTERTAINING SUPPOSITION. +ENTERTAINMENT AT THE GYPSIES’, WITH THE RESULT THAT HE HAD NO +ENTER THE DRAWING ROOM? EVEN IF I LIKE HIM I CAN’T NOW BE MYSELF WITH +ENTHUSIASMS, DREAMS, AND HOPES OF HAPPINESS OR GOODNESS, IN PRINCE +ENTHUSIASM—WAS ONLY THE LOSS OF THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ, THE +ENTICE HIM TO MARRY MY DAUGHTER AND LEND ME THE FORTY THOUSAND RUBLES +ENTRANCE TO THE DAM RAISED HIS HAND AND OPENED HIS MOUTH TO ADDRESS +ENTRUSTED TO HIM, WAS PEDANTIC IN THE FULFILLMENT OF HIS DUTIES, SEVERE +ENTRUSTED TO HIS CARE AND WHOM HE INTENDED TO BENEFIT. +ENVELOPED IN THOSE BEAMS, HE HEARD HIS VOICE, THAT KINDLY, CALM, +ENVIOUS AND NATáSHA COULD NOT HELP JOINING IN. +EQUALS, WHILE HIS EYES OCCASIONALLY SOUGHT OUT HIS FINE WELL-SET-UP +ERECT, ALMOST ON TIPTOE, WITH A SOLDIER’S OBSEQUIOUS EXPRESSION ON HIS +ERECT ON HIS HANDSOME BLACK HORSE, LOOKING ABOUT HIM IN A LEISURELY AND +ERR, AND IN NOTHING MORE THAN IN WHAT THEY CONSIDER RIGHT AND WRONG.” +ESCAPADE MADE EVERYBODY FEEL CONFUSED. DENíSOV BLUSHED TOO, BUT SMILED +ESCAPE IT ALL, AND FELT THAT DóLOKHOV KNEW THAT HE COULD SAVE HIM FROM +ESPECIALLY APPEALED TO PIERRE. THE IMPORTANT MYSTERY MENTIONED BY THE +ESPECIALLY THE YOUNGEST, THE PRETTY ONE WITH THE MOLE, WHO OFTEN MADE +ESSEN CORPS ARRIVED AND PRUSSIA TOOK OUR SIDE. +ESSENTIAL TO SPEAK THE WHOLE TRUTH. +ESTATE NEAR MOSCOW, AND TO RECEIVE MANY PEOPLE WHO FORMERLY DID NOT +ESTATES. HIS NEW BRETHREN GAVE HIM LETTERS TO THE KIEV AND ODESSA MASONS +ESTATES IN THE SOUTH AND THERE ATTENDING TO THE WELFARE OF HIS SERFS. +ETERNAL, AND INFINITE IN ALL HIS ATTRIBUTES?...” +ETERNITY.” AND AGAIN HE TWISTED THE SCREW WITH THE STRIPPED THREAD, + * “EUROPE WILL NEVER BE OUR SINCERE ALLY.” +EVEN BY A BALL DRESS. +EVEN DENíSOV WAS NOTHING COMPARED TO DóLOKHOV—“YOU MUST UNDERSTAND +EVEN EVERY FOOTSTEP IN THAT HOUSE SINCE THE TERRIBLE NEWS HAD COME, SO +EVENING. +EVENING IN ADVANCE OF HIM, AND HE AND HIS SON ARRIVED NEXT DAY. +EVENING PASSED, NIGHT CAME, AND THE FEELING OF SUSPENSE AND SOFTENING OF +EVENING TO GET IN) “I ONLY WISHED TO SAY THAT WE ARE WRONG TO FIGHT +EVENING WAS THIS: +EVENING WHEN THE REWARDS BESTOWED BY THE EMPEROR WERE MENTIONED. +EVEN KNOW IF IT WOULD BE A GOOD THING (HE EVEN FELT, HE KNEW NOT WHY, +EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN IT HAD BEEN THREE DAYS BEFORE AT THE REVIEW. IT +EVEN MORE MERRILY THAN ON THE PREVIOUS NIGHT. DENíSOV CELEBRATED HIS +EVEN PEOPLE WHO HAD FORMERLY BEEN SPITEFUL TOWARD HIM AND EVIDENTLY +EVEN THEIR FACES, MORE AND MORE DISTINCTLY. THEY WERE OUR HORSE GUARDS, +EVENT. IN THE ENGLISH CLUB, WHERE ALL WHO WERE DISTINGUISHED, IMPORTANT, +EVEN WISH TO KNOW OF HIS EXISTENCE BUT WOULD NOW HAVE BEEN OFFENDED +EVER BECAUSE ANATOLE’S PRESENCE HAD VIVIDLY RECALLED TO HER THE TIME +EVER WAS BORíS RESOLVED TO SERVE IN FUTURE NOT ACCORDING TO THE WRITTEN +EVERY ADVANTAGE. WHAT RECEPTIONS WE HAD IN POLAND! WHAT DINNERS AND +EVERYBODY, FOR ANOTHER TEN YEARS. IT WOULD BE FAR EASIER AND SIMPLER FOR +EVERYBODY LAUGHED A GREAT DEAL. AT THE HEAD OF THE TABLE, WHERE THE +EVERYBODY! NOT FORGETTING ANYONE. I ALWAYS SAID WHEN HE WAS ONLY SO +EVERY DAY HE SAID TO HIMSELF ONE AND THE SAME THING: “IT IS TIME I +EVERYONE! +EVERYONE ADOPTED TOWARD HIM THE TONE OF MEN WHO KNOW SOMETHING OTHERS DO +EVERYONE DUCKED. IT FLOPPED INTO SOMETHING MOIST, AND THE GENERAL FELL +EVERYONE HE COULD STOP, BUT GOT NO ANSWER FROM ANYONE. +EVERY TEN SECONDS A CANNON BALL FLEW COMPRESSING THE AIR AROUND, OR +EVERYTHING BECAME CLEAR, AND IN ALL CORNERS OF MOSCOW THE SAME THINGS +EVERYTHING FROM SOCIETY AND GIVING NOTHING IN RETURN. YOU HAVE BECOME +EVERYTHING!” (HE PUT ONE ARM AROUND PIERRE AND THE OTHER AROUND HIS +EVERYTHING IN PERFECT ORDER, ONLY ONE LITTLE THING IS LACKING, NAMELY, +EVERYTHING IS CALCULATED, AND I DON’T LIKE THAT. BUT DENíSOV...” +EVERYTHING MAY BE OVER FOR ME! ALL THESE MEMORIES WILL BE NO MORE, NONE +EVERYTHING OVER WITH, AND I HAPPEN TO BE THERE, I’LL GO AT ONCE, TO +EVERYTHING SEEMED SO FUTILE AND INSIGNIFICANT IN COMPARISON WITH THE +“EVERYTHING’S STILL THE SAME WITH THEM,” THOUGHT NICHOLAS, +“EVERYTHING’S THE SAME WITH THEM. THEY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT! WHERE +EVERYTHING WAS BECOMING MORE AND MORE HAPPY AND ANIMATED. “OH, HOW I +EVERYTHING WITHIN AND AROUND HIM SEEMED CONFUSED, SENSELESS, AND +EVERY WORD AND MOVEMENT WAS DESCRIBED WITH ECSTASY. +EVIDENCE OF THE ADVANTAGES OF ATTACKING THAT WHAT HAD BEEN DISCUSSED +EVIDENT HE HAD REFLECTED ON THIS SUBJECT MORE THAN ONCE, AND HE SPOKE +EVIDENTLY ALSO FELT DEPRESSED AND CONSTRAINED WITH HIS VISITOR, “I AM +EVIDENTLY DID NOT REALIZE WHAT THEY WERE DOING. +EVIDENTLY EXPECTING HIM TO BOW OR TO STEP OUT OF HIS WAY. PRINCE ANDREW +EVIDENTLY FORCED. NOT ONLY THE GUESTS BUT EVEN THE FOOTMEN WAITING AT +EVIDENTLY NOT BECAUSE HE WAS SHAVEN BUT BECAUSE THEY HAD NEVER GROWN. +EVIDENTLY THOSE IN FRONT HAD HALTED. ALL REMAINED WHERE THEY WERE IN THE +EVIDENTLY WEAKENED, WAS UNDERTAKING NOTHING. +EVIDENTLY WISHED TO DRAW HIM ON. +EVIDENTLY WISHING TO GIVE HER WORDS A VERY DEFINITE MEANING. “I +EVIL CAN THERE BE IN IT IF UNFORTUNATE PEOPLE, OUR SERFS, PEOPLE LIKE +EVIL. LE PROCHAIN—YOUR KIEV PEASANTS TO WHOM YOU WANT TO DO GOOD.” +EXACTITUDE, WHAT MINUTENESS, WHAT KNOWLEDGE OF THE LOCALITY, WHAT +“EXACTLY, NOT A HAIR’S BREADTH FARTHER,” ANSWERED PRINCE VASíLI, +EXALTED PERSONAGES PASSING IN THE STREETS IN THEIR ELEGANT CARRIAGES +EXASPERATED WHISPER, EVIDENTLY MEANING TO WOUND HIS SISTER. +EXASPERATED WITH ONE ANOTHER AND, LONG AFTER THE ACTION HAD BEGUN ON +EXCEEDED TWENTY THOUSAND RUBLES. DóLOKHOV WAS NO LONGER LISTENING TO +EXCELLENCY!” +EXCELLENCY... I HAD NO MEN... YOUR EXCELLENCY.” +EXCELLENCY PRINCE VASíLI KURáGIN AND HIS SON, I UNDERSTAND?” SHE +EXCELLENCY. SHALL I GO WITH SOME OF MY HUSSARS TO SEE?” REPLIED +EXCELLENT DINNERS FOR THE OFFICERS AT EVERY HALTING PLACE. THE REGIMENTS +EXCEPT TO PIERRE AND HéLèNE, WHOSE PRESENCE HE SEEMED NOT TO NOTICE. +EXCITEMENT AND TO BEING UNACCUSTOMED TO SPEAK OF ABSTRACT MATTERS IN +EXCITEMENT, RUSHED TOWARD THE DRAWING ROOM DOOR, PROBABLY IN ORDER TO +EXCLAIMED, AND IMMEDIATELY SEIZING HIM BY THE SHOULDER AND LOOKING +EXCUSE HIS COSTUME. +EXCUSES NOW! IT’S YOUR TURN TO SING THE BA’CAWOLLA—I ENTWEAT +EXECUTED HIM—ALSO FOR SOME REASON. WHAT IS BAD? WHAT IS GOOD? WHAT +EXISTENCE OF SUCH AN INCOMPREHENSIBLE BEING, A BEING ALL-POWERFUL, +EXPECTED THIS. +EXPEDITIONS TO OLMüTZ TO VISIT A CERTAIN CAROLINE THE HUNGARIAN, +EXPERIENCED A VARIETY OF MOST COMPLEX SENSATIONS. HE FELT AFRAID OF WHAT +EXPERIENCE THAT FEELING DURING THOSE MEMORABLE DAYS PRECEDING THE BATTLE +EXPLAINED PRINCE ANDREW. “THE OTHERS, ONE’S NEIGHBORS, LE PROCHAIN, +EXPLANATION WITH NICHOLAS, SóNYA TWIRLED ABOUT BEFORE SHE LEFT HOME +EXPOSED, AND WITHOUT FUEL OR FORAGE, SO SOMETHING MUST BE DONE, AND, AS +EXPOSING HIMSELF TO THE FIRST BLOWS OF THE ENEMY, FOR THERE MUST BE NO +EXPRESSED DISAPPROVAL OF DóLOKHOV’S LIVING AT THEIR HOUSE, AND HOW +EXPRESSED HIS OPINION MORE OPENLY. HE SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS WHEN PIERRE +EXPRESSES HIS OPINION TO KUTúZOV, TO WEYROTHER, AND TO THE EMPERORS. +EXPRESS HIS OPINION AS HE HAD HOPED TO, LEFT ON HIM A VAGUE AND UNEASY +EXPRESSING DISAPPROVAL AND DISLIKE OF KUTúZOV. +EXPRESSION AND WENT OUT AGAIN WITHOUT SAYING A WORD. SHE LOOKED AT +EXPRESSION, LOOKED OBSERVANTLY AND SYMPATHETICALLY AT THE FATHER AND +EXPRESSION OF HER FATHER’S. HIS FACE WORE THAT EXPRESSION WHEN HIS +EXPRESSION SHE DID NOT UNDERSTAND, AND LAY DOWN AGAIN. HE WAS SUFFERING +EXPRESSION THE SCULPTOR HAD HAPPENED TO GIVE THE ANGEL’S FACE, PRINCE +EXPRESSION, THOUGH MANY OF THEM KNEW THAT WHAT HE WAS SAYING WAS A LIE +EXTENDS ALONG KOBELNITZ AND SOKOLNITZ BEHIND THE PONDS THAT ARE THERE, +EXTINGUISHED AND SOME SPIRIT LIGHTED, AS PIERRE KNEW BY THE SMELL, AND +EXTRAORDINARY INTELLIGENCE, THE MORE SO AS IN THE DEPTH OF HIS HEART IT +EYES. +EYES. +EYES AND INDICATING HéLèNE WITH A SORROWFUL GESTURE. “AH, SHE IS +EYES AND SAW CLOSE BEFORE HIM THE HEAD AND EARS OF THE HORSE HE WAS +EYES AT HER SISTER-IN-LAW. +EYES ATTRACTED HIM IRRESISTIBLY. +EYES. “BUT I’LL GO TO BEZúKHOV’S MYSELF. PIERRE HAS ARRIVED, AND +EYES FIXED ON THE DARK FACE OF A LARGE ICON OF THE SAVIOUR LIT BY A +“EYES FRONT!” THEN, LIKE THE CROWING OF COCKS AT SUNRISE, THIS WAS +EYES FULL OF TEARS AND OF THOUGHTS, GAZING SHININGLY AND IMPLORINGLY AT +EYES GREW DIM. BY THE EXPRESSION OF HER FATHER’S FACE, NOT SAD, NOT +EYES GREW MOIST. “HURRAH!” CRIED THE THREE HUNDRED VOICES AGAIN, +EYES. HE REALLY WAS IN LOVE WITH THE TSAR AND THE GLORY OF THE RUSSIAN +EYES HE WAS EVERY DAY MORE AND MORE CONNECTED WITH HER, THAT IT WAS +EYES. HIS SHRIVELED OLD HANDS WERE FOLDED AND ON THE FINGER OF ONE OF +EYES KEPT CLOSING, AND IN HIS FANCY APPEARED—NOW THE EMPEROR, NOW +EYES OFF HIM. HIS BROTHER AND SISTERS STRUGGLED FOR THE PLACES NEAREST +EYES ROLLING AS HE SANG, WITH HIS SMALL, HUSKY, BUT TRUE VOICE, SOME +EYES, ROSTóV RE-ENTERED THAT WORLD OF HOME AND CHILDHOOD WHICH HAD NO +EYES TO COMPLETE THE SHOW OF PRISONERS, COULD NOT FAIL TO ATTRACT HIS +EYES. WHAT SHE FOUND HARDEST TO BEAR WAS TO KNOW THAT ON SUCH OCCASIONS +FACE ASSUMED THE COARSE, UNPLEASANT EXPRESSION PECULIAR TO HIM. SHAKING +FACES. (HE DISTINCTLY SAW AN OLD FRENCH OFFICER WHO, WITH GAITERED +FACE, SHOOK HIS HEAD, AND GOING UP TO HIM SILENTLY KISSED HIM ON THE +FACES OF THE CREW BUSTLING ROUND THE GUNS, FROM THE SIGHT OF THE BLOOD +FACE WAS ANIMATED, WHICH, HOWEVER, DID NOT CONCEAL ITS SUNKEN AND FADED +FACE WITH PRINCE ANDREW, WHO CAME OUT FROWNING AND LOOKING OLD. PIERRE +FACULTY, SO INVALUABLE IN SOCIETY, OF COMPOSURE AND IMPERTURBABLE +FAILED HIM. HE WAS SEIZED BY PANIC AND COULD NOT GO WHERE IT WAS +FAINT WITH FEAR LEST THE BABY SHOULD BE DROWNED IN THE FONT, AND AWAITED +FAIRE DANS CETTE GALèRE?” * OCCURRED TO HIM, AND HE BEGAN TO LAUGH AT +FALSE. HE WAS HAPPY TO BE SEEING HIM. HE KNEW THAT HE MIGHT AND EVEN +FAMILIAR GALLOP OF COQUETRY, WITHOUT ANY ULTERIOR MOTIVE OR ANY +FAMILIAR TO ROSTóV; THE OTHER ON A BEAUTIFUL CHESTNUT HORSE (WHICH +FAMILY, BUT WAS KEPT ALL SUMMER IN MOSCOW BY HIS NEW DUTIES. DóLOKHOV +FAMILY LIFE CONTINUALLY ROSE IN HER IMAGINATION. SHE DROVE THEM AWAY AND +FAMILY’S, AND HIS FRIENDS’, AND THE ENEMY’S INTENTION TO KILL HIM +FAMILY, WAS THE MOST GIFTED WITH A CAPACITY TO FEEL ANY SHADES OF +FAMOUS ORDER OF THE DAY TO GENERAL BENNIGSEN: +FANCIES. +FARTHER AND FARTHER HE RODE AWAY, STOPPING AT OTHER REGIMENTS, TILL AT +FARTHER INTO THE REGION WHERE THE ARMY WAS ALREADY IN ACTION. +FARTHER, PROBABLY ALONG THE LINE OF THE FRENCH CAMP. ROSTóV NO LONGER +FASTENED TO THE CORDING OF HIS UNIFORM AND, INDICATING A BANDAGED ARM, +FASTENING HIS COAT. WHEN HE HAD FINISHED, HE TURNED TO BEZúKHOV, AND +“FASTER!” CAME THE WORD OF COMMAND, AND ROSTóV FELT ROOK’S FLANKS +FATE. IT IS IN YOUR HANDS.” +FATHER?” +FATHER AND ANDREW. I SHALL BE SO HAPPY WHEN SHE IS HIS WIFE. SHE IS SO +FATHER AND ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, THAT IT HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH HER +“FATHER! ANDREW!”—SAID THE UNGRACEFUL, AWKWARD PRINCESS WITH SUCH +FATHER, COUNT BEZúKHOV, AND SHOWED THEM HER OWN BOX. PRINCESS HéLèNE +FATHER, HE FEELS FOR YOU.” +FATHER... IT’S BAD....” HE REFLECTED, BUT WHILE HE WAS THINKING THIS +FATHER, MUTTERED IN A WHISPER: +FATHER’S CASE. +“FATHER,” SHE SAID, “DO NOT TURN AWAY FROM ME, LET US WEEP +FATHER’S LETTER, HE RETURNED TO THE NURSERY. +FATHER’S NATURE SHOWED ITSELF IN PIERRE. HE FELT THE FASCINATION AND +FATHER’S ROOM, THAT HUGE ROOM IN WHICH COUNT BEZúKHOV HAD DIED. +FATHER’S ROOM WITH THE GOOD-HUMORED AND VICTORIOUS AIR NATURAL TO +“FATHER, TELL ME HOW IT HAPPENED,” SHE ASKED THROUGH HER TEARS. +FATHER TO FITS OF BLOODTHIRSTY RAGE. AND WHEN AFTER PIERRE’S +FATHER WITH A LAUGH. +FAULT!” AND HER VOICE QUIVERED LIKE THAT OF A CHILD ABOUT TO CRY. +FAULT. WHAT’S HE TO DO IF HE HAS SUCH LUCK?... AND IT’S NOT MY FAULT +FEAR, AND THE THOUGHT THAT HE MIGHT BE KILLED OR BADLY WOUNDED NEVER +FEAR’S ALL GONE, AND YOUR ONLY THOUGHT IS NOT TO LET HIM GET AWAY!’ +FEARS NOTHING SO MUCH AS A GENERAL BATTLE IS IMPOSSIBLE.” +FEAR THIS WILL OBLIGE ONE HALF THE ARMY TO SHOOT THE OTHER.” +FEATURES, GAVE HIM A RATHER COMICAL EXPRESSION. BEKLESHëV AND THEODORE +FéDYA, MY DEAR COUNT; THAT, BELIEVE ME, IS WHY I AM SO FOND OF YOU. FEW +FEEBLE VOICE, SO HIGH PITCHED AND IRRESOLUTE. HIS FACE GREW MORE AND +FEEL AFRAID.” +FEELING OF A HARE FLEEING FROM THE HOUNDS. ONE SINGLE SENTIMENT, THAT +FEELING OF DEVOTION RETURNED TO HIM EVEN MORE STRONGLY THAN BEFORE. WHEN +FEELINGS. BUT MUCH AS ALL THE REST LAUGHED, TALKED, AND JOKED, MUCH +FEELING; SHARING WITH THE YOUNG FOLK OF THE ROSTóVS’ HOUSEHOLD A +FEEL THAT IN THAT PLACE AND ON THAT DAY, IT WAS IMPROPER TO SPEAK SO OF +FEEL,” THOUGHT HE, “IF SHE SAW ME HERE NOW ON THIS FIELD WITH THE +FEET IN LOW SHOES, IOGEL FLEW FIRST ACROSS THE HALL WITH NATáSHA, WHO, +FEET IN THEIR OVERBOOTS ON THE TABLE, AND BEGAN TO REFLECT. +FEET INTO HIS SLIPPERS AND HIS ARMS INTO THE SLEEVES OF HIS DRESSING +FEIGNED—OR SO IT SEEMED TO ROSTóV. HE PUT HIS HORSE TO A TROT TO +FELLOW.” +FELLOW.” +FELLOW,” HE SAID ABRUPTLY AND EAGERLY, “I MUST CONFESS TO HAVING +FELLOWS ON THE STAFF WHO GET REWARDS WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING!” +FELT A WISH TO SPEAK TO THE STRANGER, BUT BY THE TIME HE HAD MADE UP HIS +FELT COAT, STRETCHED HIS LEGS, AND SET HIS CAP STRAIGHT. THE HEAD OF THE +FELT SO GLAD TO BE FREE FROM HIS OWN LAWLESSNESS AND TO SUBMIT HIS WILL +FELT THE TENSION OF THE AMOROUS AIR IN THE HOUSE, AND ALSO NOTICED A +FESTIVE AROUND HIM. NEARER AND NEARER TO ROSTóV CAME THAT SUN SHEDDING +FESTIVE IN HIS AIR, WHICH, IN CONJUNCTION WITH HIS FIRM AND VIRILE +FEVERISH DELIRIUM OR DRUNKENNESS. +FIELD. INSTEAD OF THE MOVING HORSES AND HUSSARS’ BACKS, HE SAW NOTHING +FIELD OF AUSTERLITZ, ENDURING THE HEEDLESS BLOWS OF HIS LEFT FOOT AND +FIELDS AND FORESTS OF FIR AND BIRCH, WHICH WERE PARTLY CUT DOWN. THE +FIELD UNDER FIRE, AS HE HAD DONE AT THE HEAD OF THE KURSK REGIMENT AT +FIFTY MEMBERS OF THE ENGLISH CLUB AND FIFTY GUESTS WERE AWAITING THE +FIGHTING ARMY (WITH THE PáVLOGRADS ON THE RIGHT FLANK OF THE FRONT); +FIGHTING COCKS PREPARING FOR BATTLE, EACH VAINLY TRYING TO DETECT SIGNS +FIGHTING HUSSAR WHO HAD BEEN UNDER FIRE. +FIGHTING RUSSIAN SOLDIER WITHOUT CONNECTIONS AND INTRIGUES, AND TO ONE +FIGURE OF TúSHIN WHO WAS SITTING CROSS-LEGGED LIKE A TURK BESIDE HIM. +FINAL INSTRUCTIONS, ORDERS, AND COMMISSIONS TO THE BAGGAGE MEN +FINALLY THERE WERE SIX THOUSAND RUBLES FOR HIS OUTFIT AND VARIOUS OTHER +FINDS YOU TO HIS TASTE AS A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AND MAKES A PROPOSAL TO YOU +FIND THE BABY. AT LAST HE SAW HIM: THE ROSY BOY HAD TOSSED ABOUT TILL HE +“FINE FELLOWS, THE PáVLOGRADS!” REMARKED THE EMPEROR. +“FINE MEN!” REMARKED NAPOLEON, LOOKING AT A DEAD RUSSIAN GRENADIER, +“FINE YOUNG FELLOW! FINE YOUNG FELLOW!” HE SAID. “WELL, COME AND +FINGER AT HIM, “I HAVE EVEN HEARD OF YOUR DOINGS IN PARIS!” +FINGERS TWITCHED NERVOUSLY. +FIRE AND PRESSED IT THERE!” +FIRED IN THE AIR; A THIRD WAS STRIKING THE HORSE KUTúZOV HIMSELF RODE. +FIRE, FANNED BY THE BREEZE, WAS RAPIDLY SPREADING. THE FRENCH COLUMNS +FIRE. FROM PAIN, COLD, AND DAMP, A FEVERISH SHIVERING SHOOK HIS WHOLE +FIRE! OUR STORIES HAVE SOME WEIGHT, NOT LIKE THE STORIES OF THOSE +FIRES WERE LIGHTED AND THE TALK BECAME MORE AUDIBLE. CAPTAIN TúSHIN, +FIRING AT AUGESD. +FIRING AT THE AUGESD DAM AND WAS LOOKING AT THE KILLED AND WOUNDED LEFT +FIRING IN THE VALLEY. NOT A SINGLE MUSCLE OF HIS FACE—WHICH IN THOSE +FIRING?” ROSTóV KEPT ASKING AS HE CAME UP TO RUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN +FIRING WAS, HE BEGAN TO LOOK FOR THE GENERAL AND HIS STAFF WHERE THEY +FIRMLY. +FIRMLY BELIEVED IN THE POSSIBILITY OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF MEN UNITED IN +FIRMLY RESOLVED TO ANSWER HIS FATHER-IN-LAW. MOREOVER, THE WORDS OF THE +FIRMNESS AND CERTAINTY OF HIS VOCATION, WHICH RADIATED FROM HIS WHOLE +FIRST BECAUSE PIERRE APPEARED TO HIS HUSSAR EYES AS A RICH CIVILIAN, THE +FIRST OF ALL DEVOTE SOME TIME TO SOLITUDE AND SELF-EXAMINATION AND DO +FIRST PAIR OF GLOVES, A MAN’S, HE SAID THAT PIERRE COULD NOT KNOW +FIRST REGIMENT ROARED “HURRAH!” SO DEAFENINGLY, CONTINUOUSLY, AND +FISH FOR THIS DINNER. THE COUNT HAD BEEN A MEMBER AND ON THE COMMITTEE +FIVE MINUTES LATER PRINCESS MARY FROM HER ROOM HEARD SOMETHING HEAVY +FIXING HIS WEARY EYES ON THE PAPER, BEGAN TO READ THEM WITH A FIXED AND +FLAG LET IT FALL FROM HIS HANDS. IT SWAYED AND FELL, BUT CAUGHT ON THE +FLANK; HE KNEW THAT ALL THE GUNS THERE HAD BEEN ABANDONED AT THE VERY +FLANK. IN THE CENTER TúSHIN’S FORGOTTEN BATTERY, WHICH HAD MANAGED TO +FLANK NOW THAT IT IS NEARLY FOUR O’CLOCK AND THE BATTLE IS LOST? +FLANKS WAS MORE THAN SIX MILES, EVEN IF THE MESSENGER WERE NOT KILLED +FLATTERED BY THIS. ANNA PáVLOVNA ARRANGED THE DIFFERENT GROUPS IN HER +FLEEING CROWD. A MOUNTED GENERAL SEPARATED HIMSELF FROM THE INFANTRY AND +FLOUNDERING SILVERY FISH IN THE WATERING CAN, ON THAT DAM OVER WHICH FOR +FLOWER; NATáSHA, HALF GROWN UP AND HALF CHILD, WAS NOW CHILDISHLY +FLUNG IT AWAY. TíKHON CAUGHT IT AND HANDED IT TO A FOOTMAN. THE LITTLE +FLUTTERING ABOVE THE FIRE AND REMEMBERED A RUSSIAN WINTER AT HIS WARM, +FLUTTERING IN THAT LIGHT. TúSHIN HAD NOT RETURNED, THE DOCTOR HAD NOT +FLY! GRACIOUS ME, THEY DID RATTLE PAST! IT’S TIME I KNEW THE IMPERIAL +FLY UPWARDS. THE ANGEL’S UPPER LIP WAS SLIGHTLY RAISED AS THOUGH +FOLLOWED BY THEIR SUITES. KUTúZOV, AFFECTING THE MANNERS OF AN OLD +FOLLOWED PROVED THAT THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF AT THAT MOMENT WAS ABSORBED +FOLLOWED WAS LIKE THE FIRST MOVEMENT OF THE MAIN WHEEL OF A LARGE TOWER +FOLLOWING BUDGET: +FOLLOWS: +“FOLLY... FOLLY! DEATH... LIES...” HE REPEATED, PUCKERING HIS FACE. +FOOD. +FOOLISH AS SOON AS HE UTTERED THEM, WHILE ON THE CONTRARY HIPPOLYTE’S +“FOOL... OR DUMMY!” HE MUTTERED. +FOOT, AND GALLOPED ON. +FOOTMEN, AND AWAITED EACH EXPECTED DISH WITH SOME ANXIETY. EVERYTHING +FOOTSTEPS. PIERRE ROSE AND SAID IT WAS GETTING LATE. PRINCE VASíLI GAVE +FOOT, WHICH HE WAS THEN TOUCHING WITH HIS OWN UNDER THE CLAVICHORD. +FOR!” +FOR ABOUT A MINUTE. +FOR A LONG TIME, ALWAYS IN THE SAME FOG, DESCENDING AND ASCENDING HILLS, +FOR A LONG TIME HE COULD NOT UTTER A WORD, SO THAT THE RHETOR HAD TO +FOR A MOMENT HE DOZED, BUT IN THAT SHORT INTERVAL INNUMERABLE THINGS +FOR AN ANSWER. HIS BIRTH AND POSITION IN SOCIETY WERE NOT BAD. “WELL, +FOR AN INSTANT, BUT THERE WAS NO SECOND REPORT AS HE HAD EXPECTED. HE +FOR A SEAT. +FORCE HAD ALREADY DESCENDED INTO THE VALLEY TOWARD THE PONDS AND LAKES +FORCE THEIR WAY THROUGH THEM WITH BAYONETS. +FOREFATHER ADAM TO OUR OWN TIMES, IS THAT TEMPLE REARED WHICH IS TO BE +FOREHEAD. HE WENT TO THE COT IN CONFUSION, SURE THAT HE WOULD FIND IT +FOREHEAD, OVER WHICH WAS BEAUTIFUL LIGHT-BROWN HAIR SMELLING OF POMADE. +FOREHEAD WAS MOIST. PRINCE ANDREW TOUCHED THE HEAD WITH HIS HAND; EVEN +FOREIGN CAVALRY WITH RED EPAULETS, PROBABLY FRENCH. HE COULD SEE NOTHING +FORESIGHT FOR EVERY EVENTUALITY, EVERY POSSIBILITY EVEN TO THE SMALLEST +FORESTALL HIM, THREW OFF HIS FUR COAT AND RAN ON TIPTOE THROUGH THE +“FOREVER?” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. “NOTHING’S FOREVER.” +FORGET ALL THAT.... SHE SAYS: ‘I SHALL LOVE HIM ALWAYS, BUT LET HIM BE +FORGET. BUT, MY DEAR, WILL YOU NOT GIVE US A LITTLE HOPE OF TOUCHING +FORGETTING THAT IT WAS UNBECOMING FOR THE GIRLS TO SEE MEN UNDRESSED, +“FOR GOD’S SAKE... I CAN’T WALK. FOR GOD’S SAKE!” +FORGOT THEM. HIS HEAD WAS BURNING, HE FELT HIMSELF BLEEDING TO DEATH, +FORGOT THE SOVEREIGNS’ PRESENCE. “LADS, IT’S NOT THE FIRST VILLAGE +FOR HER. WHEN THE LITTLE PRINCESS HAD GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO LIFE AT BALD +FOR HIM, PRINCE BAGRATIóN SAT AT DINNER, TALKING WITH SOME COMMANDING +FOR HIMSELF. HE REMEMBERED HIS MOTHER’S LAST LETTER. “WHAT WOULD SHE +FOR HIS LIFE, BUT FOR THE COURAGE HE NEEDED AND WHICH HE KNEW WOULD NOT +FOR HIS PART TRIED TO PRETEND TO THE COUNT THAT HE CONSIDERED THESE +FOR HIS REPLY, SURROUNDED HIM, AND LED HIM TO THE DRAWING ROOM. IT WAS +FOR LIFE, BUT I DON’T UNDERSTAND THAT, I FORGET QUICKLY.” +FORMED. +FORMED A DEFINITE IDEA OF WHAT AN ATTACK WAS AND WERE EXPECTING TO HEAR +FORMED UP AT INTERVALS, AND WHEELED ROUND OTHER SIMILAR MASSES OF +FORMERLY IN ANNA PáVLOVNA’S PRESENCE, PIERRE HAD ALWAYS FELT THAT +FORMER POSITION AFTER THE CAMPAIGN, HAD RETURNED TO PETERSBURG AND COME +FORMER PUPIL OF HIS. +FORMING A COMPLETE WHOLE WITH HER DRESS, BUT ALL THE CHARM OF HER BODY +FORMING UP WITHIN TWICE THE RANGE OF A MUSKET SHOT. THE GENERAL IN +FOR MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD, DID NOT KNOW HOW TO APPROACH +FOR MORE THAN A WEEK PREPARATIONS WERE BEING MADE, ROUGH DRAFTS OF +FOR MY SAKE! DID YOU KNOW?” +FOR NEGLIGENCE OR INEFFICIENCY SO STAGGERED HIM THAT, FORGETTING THE +FOR PETERSBURG ALONE. +FOR PRINCE ANDREW. +FOR THAT. YES, FOR THAT ALONE! I SHALL NEVER TELL ANYONE, BUT, OH GOD! +FOR THE AGED? AND IS IT NOT A PALPABLE, UNQUESTIONABLE GOOD IF A +FOR THE FUTURE, PIERRE’S JOURNEYS AND OCCUPATIONS, THE WAR, AND SO +FOR THE HUSSARS TO RETREAT WITH THE INFANTRY. THEY WERE CUT OFF FROM +“FOR THE LAST TIME I SAY TO YOU—TURN ALL YOUR ATTENTION UPON +FOR THE MOST PART HANDSOME FELLOWS AND, AS IS ALWAYS THE CASE IN AN +FOR THEMSELVES. +FOR THE NEXT BATTLE ARE PLANNED BY HIM ALONE. NOMINALLY HE IS ONLY AN +FOR THESE SIMPLE, KINDLY PEOPLE. +FOR THE SOCIETY OF LADIES, BEGAN TO COME OFTEN TO THE HOUSE, AND THE +FOR THE TENTH TIME, MOLIèRE’S WORDS: “MAIS QUE DIABLE ALLAIT-IL +FOR THIS FAILURE, THE ENEMY PLACED TEN GUNS TO THE RIGHT OF THE VILLAGE +FOR TREES AND GULLIES FOR MEN AND CONTINUALLY DISCOVERING HIS MISTAKES. +FORTUNE. SUDDENLY HE HEARD A FAMILIAR VOICE REPEATING SOMETHING TO HIM A +FOR TWO DAYS AFTER THAT ROSTóV DID NOT SEE DóLOKHOV AT HIS OWN OR AT +FORTY PACES’ DISTANCE NOTHING COULD BE SEEN. FOR THREE MINUTES ALL HAD +FOR US. THE FIELD MARSHAL LOOKS ON AND WAITS FOR LETTERS ADDRESSED +FORWARD, AND EXPERIENCED GREAT HAPPINESS. +“FORWARD, LADS!” HE SHOUTED IN A VOICE PIERCING AS A CHILD’S. +FORWARD. OF BOLKóNSKI, NOTHING WAS SAID, AND ONLY THOSE WHO KNEW HIM +FORWARD TOWARD THE OLD MAN WITH A FORCED AND TIMID SMILE. +“FORWARD, WITH GOD!” SAID BAGRATIóN, IN A RESOLUTE, SONOROUS VOICE, +FORWARD WITH UNNATURAL SPEED BUT YET STAYED ON THE SAME SPOT. FROM +“FOR WHAT HAVE YOU COME HITHER?” ASKED THE NEWCOMER, TURNING IN +FOR WINE. +FOR YOUR NEIGHBOR? HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT OF YOUR TENS OF THOUSANDS +FOUND A KIND OF TANTALIZING SATISFACTION. +FOUND OUT, NOTHING DISCOVERED,” PIERRE AGAIN SAID TO HIMSELF. “ALL +FOUND THE COUNT WITH IT IN HIS HAND, SOBBING AND LAUGHING AT THE SAME +FOUND THE PRUSSIAN ARMY. BORíS, SPEAKING WITH DELIBERATION, TOLD THEM +“FO’WARD, WITH GOD, LADS!” RANG OUT DENíSOV’S VOICE. “AT A +FRANçAIS,” SAID DOLGORúKOV, WITH GRAVE SATISFACTION. “GOOD, +FRANKLY, I DON’T WANT TO. I AM SPEAKING OF THE STAFF IN GENERAL.” +FREEDOM AND TOLD HER THAT ONE WAY OR ANOTHER HE WOULD NEVER CEASE TO +FREE.’ ISN’T THAT LOVELY AND NOBLE! YES, VERY NOBLE? ISN’T IT?” +FREEMASONRY PRESENTED ITSELF TO HIM. +FREE, SO LIGHTHEARTED! AND I DID NOT REALIZE HOW HAPPY I WAS! WHEN DID +FRENCH!” +FRENCH COLONEL WHO HAD BEEN TAKEN PRISONER BY OUR DRAGOONS. OUR OFFICERS +FRENCH COLUMN, WITH ITS OFFICERS LEADING, APPEARED FROM BELOW THE HILL. +FRENCH, HE DID NOT KNOW. THERE WAS NO ONE NEAR. +FRENCHMAN ALSO STOPPED AND TOOK AIM. ROSTóV CLOSED HIS EYES AND STOOPED +FRENCHMAN REMEMBERS HIS BAYONET AND STABS HIM....” +FRENCHMEN, AND THOUGH BUT A MOMENT BEFORE HE HAD BEEN GALLOPING TO GET +FRENCH PRONUNCIATION WHICH SHE COULD ALLOW HERSELF WHEN CONVERSING WITH +FRENCH, SMOKE APPEARED ALL ALONG THEIR UNEVEN RANKS, AND MUSKET SHOTS +FRENCH TO PASS HIM, HAD MADE A BAYONET CHARGE WITH TWO BATTALIONS AND +FRENCH) TO PRINCE VASíLI. “IT’S NOT AS AT ANNETTE’S * RECEPTIONS +FRENCH TO SUPPOSE THAT HERE—IN THE CENTER—THE MAIN RUSSIAN FORCES +FRENCH TROOPS WHO ARE BEING RAISED IN FRANCE WILL JOIN US, AND THE PEACE +FRENCH WERE PUTTING OUT THE FIRE WHICH THE WIND WAS SPREADING, AND THUS +FRENCHWOMAN VERY READILY AND, LOOKING AT HER WITH A SMILE, TALKED TO HER +FRESH AND PRETTY FACE YET MORE ATTRACTIVE. +FRESH ANECDOTES WERE HEARD OF INDIVIDUAL EXAMPLES OF HEROISM SHOWN BY +FRESHNESS, AN UNCONSCIOUSNESS OF HER OWN POWERS, AND AN AS YET UNTRAINED +“FR... FR...” SNORTED PRINCE BOLKóNSKI. “THE PRINCE IS MAKING A +FRIEND BOLKóNSKI, WHOM HE HAD NOT SEEN FOR TWO YEARS. +FRIEND, BUT NICHOLAS AVOIDED HIM. WITH THAT PECULIAR FEELING OF YOUTH, +FRIENDS HAD PLEDGED THEMSELVES IN AN INDISSOLUBLE ALLIANCE TO UPHOLD +“FRIENDSHIP LAUGHS AT DISTANCE,” BEGAN PRINCE VASíLI IN HIS USUAL +FRIEND’S LOOK WAS NOW STILL MORE CLEARLY EXPRESSED IN THE SMILE +FRIGHT WERE AMUSED BY PIERRE’S LISP AND THE NEW WORDS THEY HAD NOT +FROM ACTIONS WHICH WOULD TORMENT HIM AFTERWARDS.” +“‘FROM ALL MY RIDING,’ HE WRITES TO THE EMPEROR, ‘I HAVE GOT A +FROM ALL SIDES REPORTS REACH ME,” ETC. +FROM ALL SIDES WERE HEARD THE FOOTSTEPS AND TALK OF THE INFANTRY, WHO +FROM BEHIND STILL CAME THE SHOUTS: “ONTO THE ICE, WHY DO YOU STOP? GO +FROM DENíSOV, RODE PAST TOO, AT THE REAR OF HIS SQUADRON—THAT IS, +FROM EARLY MORNING STRENUOUS ACTIVITIES AND EFFORTS HAD BEGUN AND BY TEN +FROM EARLY MORNING THE SMART CLEAN TROOPS WERE ON THE MOVE, FORMING UP +FROM HEADQUARTERS BEHIND THE VILLAGE TO THE LEFT, AND THITHER ROSTóV +FROM HIM, AND ROSTóV FELT AS IN A DREAM THAT HE CONTINUED TO BE CARRIED +FROM HIM, THOUGH SHE KNEW THAT ALREADY, AND REMARKED THAT THEY MIGHT +FROM HIS CHEEK. PRINCE ANDREW FORCED HIS WAY TO HIM. +FROM HIS HORSE IN A POOL OF BLOOD. NOBODY GAVE HIM A LOOK OR THOUGHT OF +FROM HIS SON. +FROM HOME, AT DINNERS, PARTIES, AND BALLS. +FROM MáSHA, THE LADY’S MAID, THE NECESSARY REPORT OF HOW HANDSOME THE +FROM MY HEART AS TO AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE.” +FROM PéTENKA—HE TOOK PART IN IT—AND IT’S ALL TRUE. WHEN +FROM THAT DAY THE ELDEST PRINCESS QUITE CHANGED TOWARD PIERRE AND BEGAN +FROM THE ARMY TO SERGéY KUZMíCH, IN WHICH THE EMPEROR SAID THAT HE WAS +FROM THE CRUMPLED HEAP UNDER THE TABLE WOULD SAVE HIM, NOW COUNTED THE +FROM THE DEAFENING SOUNDS OF HIS OWN GUNS AROUND HIM, THE WHISTLE AND +“FROM THE DIRECTION, IT MUST BE THE ENEMY,” REPEATED ROSTóV. +FROM THE DIRECTION OF OLMüTZ IN FRONT OF THEM, A GROUP WAS SEEN +FROM THE DRAWING ROOM. +FROM THE FIELD OF BATTLE WITH THE PALE AND TERRIFIED OBER-HOFMARSCHAL +FROM THE HINTS CONTAINED IN HIS LETTER AND GIVEN BY THE LITTLE PRINCESS, +FROM THE MASSES AROUND THEM, THE SMOKE AND THE INCREASING FOG, TO SEE +FROM THE THEATER, HAD HAD SUPPER AND WERE GROUPED ROUND THE CLAVICHORD. +FROM THE WOOD, MUSTERED THE MEN WHO WERE WOODCUTTING, AND, ALLOWING THE +FROM THIS DISTRESSFUL LIFE, AND LEADS IT TO ITS PLACE OF RECOMPENSE AND +FROM UNDERSTANDING—HOW AM I TO PUT IT?—I AM AFRAID MY WAY OF LOOKING +FROM WHICH OCCASIONAL PUFFS WERE BLOWN BY AN INVISIBLE SMOKER. +FROM WHICH SPECTACLES HAVE JUST BEEN REMOVED, HAD ALSO A FRIGHTENED AND +FROM WHICH THE SHOUTING CAME. HE FELT BOTH FRIGHTENED AND PLEASED TO BE +FRONT. +FRONT AND BACK. HER BUST, WHICH HAD ALWAYS SEEMED LIKE MARBLE TO PIERRE, +FRONT LINE, AS IF THEIR DIFFERENCES WOULD BE SETTLED THERE AMONGST THE +FRONT OF THE INFANTRY, WHO HAD TO WAIT. +FRONT OF THE RANKS. SUDDENLY ONE SHOT AFTER ANOTHER RANG OUT FROM THE +FRONT OF US. +FROWNING. +FROWNING AND SILENT. +FROWNING AND TAKING HIS DAUGHTER’S HAND; HE DID NOT KISS HER, BUT ONLY + * FRüHSTüCK: BREAKFAST. +FUGITIVES RETURNED, THE BATTALIONS RE-FORMED, AND THE FRENCH WHO HAD +FULFILL THE ONE WHICH ENJOINED EVERY MASON TO SET AN EXAMPLE OF MORAL +FULFILL THY WILL?” AND SCARCELY HAD SHE PUT THAT QUESTION THAN GOD +FULL SPEED. ROSTóV, FEARING TO BE CRUSHED OR SWEPT INTO THE ATTACK ON +FURIES AND RAGES AT EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING, SEIZES THE LETTERS, OPENS +FURLOUGH AFTER CHRISTMAS TO RETURN WITH HIM TO THEIR REGIMENT. HIS +GAILY. +GALICIA HE HAD MANAGED TO DEAL WITH THE GRAND DUKE WHEN THE LATTER +GALLOPED UP TO KUTúZOV AND ASKED IN THE EMPEROR’S NAME HAD THE FOURTH +GALLOPING TOWARD HIM. THEY WERE OUR UHLANS WHO WITH DISORDERED +GASPING VOICE. “WHERE ARE WE? IN MOSCOW, I KNOW. I DON’T MATTER, +GATHERED ROUND NICHOLAS IN THE SITTING ROOM. +GAVE HER THE ANSWER IN HER OWN HEART. “DESIRE NOTHING FOR THYSELF, +GAVE NO ANSWER, SHE LEFT THE ROOM. +GAVE US TIME TO RETREAT. THE RETIREMENT OF THE CENTER TO THE OTHER SIDE +GAVE ZEST TO HIS PLEASURES. HE SPENT THE GREATER PART OF HIS TIME AWAY +GAVRíL TO PAY A SLEIGH DRIVER, HIS KISSING SóNYA ON THE SLY—HE NOW +GAZED AT HIS DELICATE FINGERS WHICH RAPIDLY TWIRLED BY ITS CORNERS +GAZE DROOPED HIS EYES SADLY AND AGAIN TOOK TO TWIRLING HIS SNUFFBOX. +GENERAL ATTENTION, AND ANNA PáVLOVNA FELT THAT THE NOVELTY SHE HAD +‘GENERAL BONAPARTE.’” +GENERAL CONCLUSION WHICH HE HAD ARRIVED AT FROM HIS INTERVIEW WITH +GENERAL CONVERSATION. +GENERAL ENGAGEMENT IN WHICH HE WAS TAKING PART, MORE THAN THAT, HE WAS +GENERAL EXPANDED HIS CHEST AND RODE, FROWNING, BESIDE HIM TO THE +GENERAL GRUMBLED AT HIS WIFE WHEN SHE ASKED HOW HIS LEG WAS. “OH, THE +GENERAL, IN RUSSIAN, SPEAKING WITH THE FRENCH INTONATION HE AFFECTED +GENERALLY DO DESCRIBE IT, THAT IS, AS THEY WOULD LIKE IT TO HAVE BEEN, +GENERALLY HAPPENS TO THE NARRATORS OF CAVALRY ATTACKS HAD NOT HAPPENED +GENERAL MOVEMENT; THAT SOMETHING WAS CONSTANTLY EXPECTED OF HIM, THAT IF +GENERAL ROAR. +GENERALS. +GENERALS. BUT ONE COULD NOT TELL FROM THAT SIGNIFICANT LOOK WHETHER HE +GENERALS IN FULL PARADE UNIFORMS, WITH THEIR THIN OR THICK WAISTS DRAWN +GENERALS IN THE CROWDED HUT, FEELING EMBARRASSED AS HE ALWAYS WAS BY THE +GENERALS WERE SAYING. +GENERAL WHO HAD SERVED BLAMELESSLY FOR TWENTY-TWO YEARS, FLUSHED BY A +GENERAL WHO, WATCH IN HAND, WAS SAYING IT WAS TIME THEY STARTED AS ALL +GENTLE CHILDLIKE SMILE, AND HéLèNE SMILED TOO. +GENTLEMAN—EVIDENTLY NOT SHARING BORíS’ CONCEPTION OF THE ADVANTAGES +GENTLEMAN OF THE BEDCHAMBER, WHICH AT THAT TIME CONFERRED THE STATUS OF +GENTLEMAN,” SAID THE POSTMASTER, ENTERING THE ROOM FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER +GENTLEMEN CHANGED HIS POSITION ON SEEING BORíS. THE ONE WHO WAS WRITING +“GENTLEMEN, I THANK YOU ALL; ALL ARMS HAVE BEHAVED HEROICALLY: +“GENTLEMEN,” SAID DóLOKHOV AFTER HE HAD DEALT FOR SOME TIME. +“GENTLEMEN, THE DISPOSITIONS FOR TOMORROW—OR RATHER FOR TODAY, FOR +GENTLENESS AND AFFECTION. HE COULD NOT REFUSE THE POST, OR RATHER THE +“GENTLY, GENTLY! CAN’T YOU DO IT MORE GENTLY?” SAID THE EMPEROR +GERMAN—I CONGRATULATE HIM! I CAN’T MAKE OUT WHAT THE COMMANDER AT +GERMANS. +GERMANS, AND EVERYONE WAS CONVINCED THAT A DANGEROUS MUDDLE HAD BEEN +GERMANS’ MUDDLING! WHAT STUPID DEVILS!” +GET MARRIED. WHAT ABOUT YOU? THAT’S WHAT I WANT TO KNOW.” +“GET ONTO THE ICE, OVER THE ICE! GO ON! TURN! DON’T YOU HEAR? GO +GETTING UP AND SPEAKING IN A MUFFLED AND GUTTURAL VOICE. +GIRL,” HE SOMETIMES SAID TO HIMSELF “SHE NEVER MAKES A MISTAKE, +GIRLS AND AVOIDING THEIR EYES. +GIRLS’ VOICES CAME FROM THE ADJOINING ROOM. THE DOOR WAS OPENED A +GIRL WOULD BE DECIDED THAT EVENING. THE VISITORS WERE SEATED AT SUPPER. +“GIVE HIM A SEAT,” SAID TúSHIN. “LAY A CLOAK FOR HIM TO SIT ON, +GIVE NO OPINION ON SUCH AN IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT ORDER, AND BERG LAUGHED +GIVEN RECEPTIONS) NOW HARDLY LET A DAY GO BY WITHOUT HAVING AN EVENING +GIVEN TO RAISE RECRUITS, TEN MEN IN EVERY THOUSAND FOR THE REGULAR ARMY, +GIVING THE MESSENGER A SIGNIFICANT LOOK. +“GLAD TO DO OUR BEST!” SHOUTED THE SOLDIERS. +GLAD, VERY GLAD INDEED, THAT MY BROTHER HAS DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF SO. +GLANCE BECAME MORE ANIMATED AS HIS CONCLUSIONS BECAME MORE HOPELESS. +GLANCED ANGRILY AT BERG, THEN, MEETING HIS EYES, HID HIS FACE BEHIND THE +GLANCED AT BERG WITH A SMILE. +GLANCES WITHOUT COLORING, BUT EVEN THE OLD COUNTESS AND NATáSHA BLUSHED +GLANCING AT PRINCE VASíLI AND AT HER FATHER WITH HER BEAUTIFUL EYES. +GLANCING INTO THE DRAWING ROOM, WHERE HE SAW VéRA AND HIS MOTHER WITH +GLASS. +GLASS. LETTING HER ARMS FALL HELPLESSLY, SHE SAT WITH DOWNCAST EYES AND +GLASS OF VODKA AND THE DINNER; AND THE STAFF OFFICER WITH THE SIGNET +GLIDE ACROSS THAT LOFTY INFINITE SKY! HOW WAS IT I DID NOT SEE THAT +GLOOM, BUT A DARK SEA SWELLING AND GRADUALLY SUBSIDING AFTER A STORM. +GLORIOUS TASK FOR WHICH HE WAS CHOSEN. I SHALL AWAIT YOUR MOST GRACIOUS +GO. +“GO ACROSS TO OUR HOSTS: THEY INVITED YOU,” ADDED BORíS. +“GO AND CHOOSE DENíSOV. HE IS A REAL DANCER, A WONDER!” HE SAID. +GO AND TELL LISE.” +GOD!” AND WITHOUT NOTICING THAT HE WAS SINGING, TO STRENGTHEN THE SI +GOD BE WITH HIM,” THOUGHT HE, RELISHING HIS OWN GOODNESS OF HEART, +“GOD BE WITH YOU, GENERAL!” SAID THE EMPEROR. +“GO, DEAR,” SAID PRINCESS MARY. +“GOD IS MERCIFUL....” +“GOD IS MERCIFUL, BIRDIE.” +“GOD IS MERCIFUL, DOCTORS ARE NEVER NEEDED,” SHE SAID. +GOD,” PIERRE WENT ROUND THE TABLE AND SAW A LARGE OPEN BOX FILLED +GOD,” SAID PIERRE, REGRETFULLY AND WITH AN EFFORT, FEELING IT +GOD, WITHOUT WHOSE CARE NOT A HAIR OF MAN’S HEAD CAN FALL? +“GO! GO! KILLED IN BATTLE, WHERE THE BEST OF RUSSIAN MEN AND +“GO!” HE REPEATED, AMAZED AT HIMSELF AND GLAD TO SEE THE LOOK OF +GOING ON, BUT STRAIN HIS ATTENTION AS HE WOULD HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND +GOING ON IN FRONT. WHETHER ALL THE ENEMY FORCES WERE, AS WE SUPPOSED, +GOING STRAIGHT ON THROUGH THE CONSERVATORY, NEITHER SEEING NOR HEARING +GOING. THE EMPEROR WAS WOUNDED, THE BATTLE LOST. IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO +GO INTO THAT. BUT CONSIDER THE POSITION IN WHICH YOU ARE PLACING HER AND +“GO, MY DEAR FELLOW, AND SEE WHETHER THE THIRD DIVISION HAS PASSED THE +GONE, PIERRE DID NOT GO TO BED OR ORDER HORSES BUT PACED UP AND DOWN +“GONE TO BED?” ASKED THE PRINCE. +“GONE TO BED,” REPLIED THE VOICE OF DEMYáN THE HOUSE STEWARD, WHO +GOOD AS TO LOOK AT THE MAP AND LISTEN.” LANGERON LIFTED HIS EYES WITH +“GOOD-BY, MY DEAR FELLOW,” SAID TúSHIN. “DEAR SOUL! GOOD-BY, MY +GOOD GIFTS? ARE YOU CONTENT WITH YOURSELF AND WITH YOUR LIFE?” +GOOD-NATURED, SINCERE, AND ANIMATED LEVITY. “BUT YOU SEE... ANOTHER +GOOD OLD DAYS. DENíSOV, FLUSHED AFTER THE MAZURKA AND MOPPING HIMSELF +“GOOD!” SAID THE RHETOR QUICKLY, APPARENTLY SATISFIED WITH +GOOD THING REALLY.” +“GO ON! GO ON! GIVE IT THEM!” HE MENTALLY EXCLAIMED AT THESE SOUNDS, +GOOT TO COME TO ZE FRONT AND SEE DAT ZIS POSITION ISS NO GOOT? I DON’T +GO? THAT WAY IS NEARER.” +“GO!” THE QUIVERING VOICE REPEATED. AND PRINCE VASíLI HAD TO GO +GO THERE ANYHOW AND I HAVE ALREADY SPOKEN TO HIM ABOUT YOU. WE SHALL +GOT INTO BED, ALL KEPT AWAKE A LONG TIME THAT NIGHT. +“GO, TIT! THRESH A BIT!” +“GO, TIT, THRESH A BIT!” SAID THE WAG. +GO TO HIM HIMSELF, AND TELL HIM WHAT OUGHT TO BE DONE IN A TONE OF +GOWN, HE WENT TO THE COUCH ON WHICH HE SLEPT. +“GRACIOUS HEAVENS! THE YOUNG COUNT!” HE CRIED, RECOGNIZING HIS +GRANDFATHER CALLED HIM). THE BABY PRINCE NICHOLAS LIVED WITH HIS WET +GRAND! LOOK AT THE SMOKE, THE SMOKE!” EXCLAIMED THE ARTILLERYMEN, +“‘GRANT LEAVE TO RETIRE TO HIS COUNTRY SEAT TO AN OLD MAN WHO IS +GRANT.” NOR DID HE SAY TO HIMSELF: “PIERRE IS A RICH MAN, I MUST +GRANT REWARDS, AND HE WAS HIMSELF OFTEN SURPRISED AT THE RAPIDITY OF HIS +GRATEFUL FOR THE BENEFITS CONFERRED ON THEM. EVERYWHERE WERE RECEPTIONS, +GRATEFUL LOOK, BUT WAS STILL EXPECTANT AND LOOKING FOR SOMEONE. THE OLD +GRAVE, MOMENT I DID NOT TELL YOU THE WHOLE TRUTH. I THINK THERE IS NO +GRAY EVERYDAY DRESS. NOW PLEASE, DO IT FOR MY SAKE. KATIE,” SHE SAID +GRAYISH COLOR. +GREAT; ALL HE COULD HEAR WAS: “AHAHAH!” AND “RRRR!” +GREAT DEAL FROM THE DECEASED,” SAID PRINCE VASíLI TO HIM, HANDING HIM +GREATER REASONS.” +GREAT MAN! LET US DRINK TO HIS HEALTH AND TO THE CERTAIN DEFEAT OF THE +GREAT MANY OFFICERS LIKE HIM WERE ALWAYS COMING THERE AND THAT EVERYBODY +GREATNESS....” +GREATNESS, THE UNIMPORTANCE OF LIFE WHICH NO ONE COULD UNDERSTAND, AND +GREETING WAS RIDING QUICKLY. WHEN THE SOLDIERS OF THE REGIMENT IN FRONT +GREW STILL KINDER. THE YOUNGER SISTERS ALSO BECAME AFFECTIONATE TO HIM, +GREW STILL LOUDER AND MERGED INTO A GENERAL ROAR THAT ONLY AN ARMY +GROANS, WHICH SEEMED TO MELT INTO ONE WITH THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT. +GROUND LIKE CLIFFS AND SLOPES. ANYWHERE, ON ANY SIDE, ONE MIGHT +GROUND TEN PACES APART TO MARK THE BARRIER. IT WAS THAWING AND MISTY; AT +GROW IMPERCEPTIBLY FROM THE CRADLE TO MANHOOD, DID NOT EXIST FOR THE +GROWING EVER STRONGER AND FULLER AND MERGING INTO A DEAFENING ROAR. +GROWING EXCITED. “WHAT ABOUT YOUR SON, YOUR SISTER, AND YOUR +GROWN FURIOUS, NOW AT BORíS, NOW AT BOLKóNSKI. “YES, MANY STORIES! +GUARD AND LINE REGIMENTS, RUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN. AMONG THEM WERE GROOMS +GUARDS?” ASKED NAPOLEON. +GUARDS CHARGED, FOLLOWED THE LINE OF RESERVES, GOING FAR ROUND THE PLACE +GUARDS PASSED ROSTóV BEFORE HE HEARD THEM SHOUT, “HURRAH!” AND +GUARDS. PRINCE ANDREW CAME UP TO HIM AND TOOK HIS HAND. +GUARDS, THAT THEY NOT ONLY DID NOT WISH TO, BUT SIMPLY COULD NOT, BE +GUARDS, WEARING A COCKED HAT WITH ITS PEAKS FRONT AND BACK, WITH HIS +GUESSING ROSTóV’S THOUGHT. +GUEST OF HONOR AND HERO OF THE AUSTRIAN CAMPAIGN, PRINCE BAGRATIóN, TO +GUEST. “POOR GIRL, SHE’S DEVILISH UGLY!” THOUGHT ANATOLE. +GUIDANCE. THE UNIVERSAL EXPERIENCE OF AGES, SHOWING THAT CHILDREN DO +GUN, A HORSE), FROM THE SIGHT OF ALL THESE THINGS A FANTASTIC WORLD OF +GUNNER WITH HIS SHAKO KNOCKED AWRY, PULLING ONE END OF A MOP WHILE +GUNS. ON THE CONTRARY, THE ENERGETIC ACTION OF THAT BATTERY LED THE +GUNS ON THE HILLOCK. +GUNS SMASHED, AND NO SUPPORTS AT ALL.” +HABIT OF RIDICULING THE MASONIC BELIEFS—“I AM AFRAID I AM VERY FAR +HABIT OF WALKING, HAD BEEN SWEPT: THE MARKS OF THE BROOM WERE STILL +HAD ACCUMULATED AT THE SIGHT OF ALL THAT WAS BEING DONE IN THE ARMY. +HAD ALSO CONVINCED THE SOVEREIGN EMPERORS OF. +HAD ALWAYS SEEMED TO HIM THAT HE REALLY WAS VERY KIND AND INTELLIGENT. +HAD A SPLENDID MARCH. YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, THAT HIS IMPERIAL HIGHNESS +HAD BEEN ADDED TO MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE’S TOILET WHICH RENDERED HER +HAD BEEN CARRIED OUT AND IN WHAT STATE WERE THE SERFS WHOM GOD HAD +HAD BEEN DECIDED TO ADVANCE IMMEDIATELY AND GIVE BATTLE TO BONAPARTE. +HAD BEEN DOING, AS THOUGH IT WERE ALL AN OLD-TIME STORY, AND HE LISTENED +HAD BEEN GOT READY FOR HIM, GLANCING NOW AND THEN AT THE NEWCOMER, WHO, +HAD BEEN INCREASED BY A HALF. AND SO PIERRE WAS DELIGHTED WITH HIS VISIT +HAD BEEN INSULTED THROUGH HIS DAUGHTER. THE INSULT WAS THE MORE POINTED +HAD BEEN KILLED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE ENGAGEMENT AND WITHIN AN HOUR +HAD BEEN KILLED OR NOT AND WHETHER THE CANNON HAD BEEN CAPTURED OR +HAD BROKEN UP THE FRENCH TROOPS. +HAD COME INTO PIERRE’S ROOM AFTER THE FUNERAL. WITH DROOPING EYES +HAD CROSSED THAT LINE AND NOT ONLY WAS THERE NOTHING TERRIBLE, BUT +HAD DRIVEN THE OLD PRINCE TO TOWN RETURNED BRINGING PAPERS AND LETTERS +HAD ENTERED AND LEFT THE TOWN WITH THEIR BANDS PLAYING, AND BY THE GRAND +HAD ENTERED. THE MOST SOLEMN MYSTERY IN THE WORLD CONTINUED ITS COURSE. +HAD FIRST LEARNED TO SAY “PEAR” AND THEN “GRANNY,” THAT THIS SON +HAD FIRST SEEN THE ENEMY AND FIRED THE FIRST SHOT, AND THAT THE CORNER +HAD FIXED ON THAT NUMBER BECAUSE FORTY-THREE WAS THE SUM OF HIS AND +HAD FOLLOWED, AND ONLY THE HEAVENS PROMISED PEACE. TOWARD MORNING +HAD FOLLOWED HIM LIKE AN EAGLE, THREE STEPS AT A TIME. HAVING RECEIVED +HAD GROWN SO DARK THAT ONE COULD NOT DISTINGUISH THE UNIFORMS TEN PACES +HAD HAD TO RETREAT AND HAD MADE THEIR WITHDRAWAL IN PERFECT ORDER. THE +HAD HAPPENED TO HIM, BUT COULD NOT DO SO. SUCH A STORM OF FEELINGS, +HAD HAPPENED. WHAT HAD HAPPENED? NOTHING. HE HAD MERELY UNDERSTOOD THAT +HAD HEARD THAT A RUMOR OF HIS DUEL HAD REACHED THE EMPEROR AND THAT IT +HAD HE REPENTED OF HIS UNBELIEF? WAS HE NOW THERE? THERE IN THE REALMS +HAD INSTANTLY NOTICED HER BROTHER’S CONDITION. BUT, THOUGH SHE NOTICED +HAD KILLED FIVE FRENCHMEN, A THIRD HAD LOADED FIVE CANNON SINGLEHANDED. +HAD LEFT PARIS AND HOW HE HAD LIKED THAT CITY. ANATOLE ANSWERED THE +HAD NEVER BEEN TO BLAME, MIGHT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE AT HEADQUARTERS +HAD NO CONNECTION WITH THE MATTER IN HAND. HIS HAGGARD FACE WAS YELLOW. +HAD NOT BEEN TIME TO MOVE. THE EMPEROR, SURROUNDED BY HIS SUITE +HAD NOT KNOWN IT I SHOULD NOT HAVE ADDRESSED YOU. YOUR VIEW OF LIFE IS A +HAD NOT LEFT PRINCE VASíLI’S AND FELT WITH TERROR THAT IN PEOPLE’S +HAD NOT TOLD ALL AND THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING IN HIS FEELINGS FOR THE +HAD NOT YET BEGUN. NOT WISHING TO AGREE TO DOLGORúKOV’S DEMAND TO +HAD PREVAILED. SHE DREW HER BROTHER’S ATTENTION TO THE MAID WHO WAS +HAD READ, AND LISTENED TO WHAT WAS PASSING IN THE NURSERY. SUDDENLY HE +HAD READ THUS FAR, HE CRUMPLED THE LETTER UP AND THREW IT AWAY. IT WAS +HAD REVEALED TO HIM. A WEEK AFTER HIS ARRIVAL, THE YOUNG POLISH COUNT, +HAD RIDDEN UP TO HIM IN A VIOLENT PASSION, SHOUTING: “ARNAUTS!” +HAD SEEMED AS EXTRAORDINARY TO HER AS IF THERE HAD NEVER EXISTED THE +HAD SENT IN GOOD TIME TO MOSCOW FOR A DOCTOR AND WERE EXPECTING HIM AT +HAD SLEPT BADLY THAT NIGHT, THOSE AROUND HIM REPORTED. THE CAUSE OF THIS +HAD SUNK, HER LIP WAS DRAWN UP, AND HER EYES DRAWN DOWN. +HAD THE EAR OF THE COMPANY. +HAD THEN SAID. +“HAD THERE BEEN NO BAGRATIóN, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NECESSARY TO +HAIRS PAINFULLY IN THE KNOT. THEN HE DREW HIS FACE DOWN, KISSED HIM, AND +HA!” LAUGHED PRINCE BOLKóNSKI, AND ANATOLE LAUGHED STILL LOUDER. +HALF AN HOUR LATER, THE RHETOR RETURNED TO INFORM THE SEEKER OF THE +HALF-CLOSED EYES HE LOOKED AT ROSTóV, BOWED SLIGHTLY AND WEARILY, AND +HALFWAY. FINE ORDERS!” WAS BEING REPEATED ON DIFFERENT SIDES. +HALL ALL SAT WAITING, SILENTLY AND ALERT. IN THE OUTLYING SERFS’ +“HALLO, GWíSKA—MY PIPE!” CAME VASíLI DENíSOV’S HUSKY VOICE. +HALL, WHERE DENíSOV WAS SITTING ON THE SAME CHAIR BY THE CLAVICHORD +HALTED. PRINCE ANDREW WAS BEHIND, AMONG THE IMMENSE NUMBER FORMING THE +HALTED, THE AUSTRIAN ARGUED THAT NOT HE, BUT THE HIGHER COMMAND, WAS TO +HANDED HIM, SMILED AT DóLOKHOV’S WORDS, AND WITH A SINKING HEART, +HANDFUL OF SCOUNDRELS. IT WILL SOON BE OVER, IT CAN’T BE THAT, IT +HAND HE HELD CAREFULLY BACK, BECAUSE HE WISHED TO SUPPORT HIS RIGHT +HAND IN PASSING AND DRAW IT DOWNWARDS, OR ABSENT-MINDEDLY HOLD OUT HIS +HANDKERCHIEF, AND PIPE. +HANDKERCHIEF TO HIS WOUNDED CHEEK AND POINTING TO THE FLEEING SOLDIERS. +HAND, LAY PRINCE ANDREW BOLKóNSKI BLEEDING PROFUSELY AND UNCONSCIOUSLY +HAND, RODE UP SMILING TO THE EMPEROR TO CONGRATULATE HIM ON THE VICTORY. +HANDS AND OCCASIONALLY RAN HIS EYES OVER THE SCORE AGAINST HIM. HE HAD +HANDS ASKING FOR THEIR BLESSING, AND THAT HE KISSED VéRA, NATáSHA, AND +HANDS, HE LOOKED MORE CLOSELY AT THE RING, WITH ITS SKULL—A MASONIC +HANDS HIGH, SHIED, THROWING BACK ITS EARS; BUT THE POCKMARKED GUARDSMAN +HANDSOME, HAPPY YOUNG FACE, HE EXPERIENCED A FEELING OF TENDERNESS +HANDSOME OPEN FACE OF THE MAN WHO MIGHT PERHAPS BE HER HUSBAND ABSORBED +HANDS THAT ARE UNCLEAN.” WHILE THE GRAND MASTER SAID THESE LAST WORDS +HANDS. THEN, SIGHING, HE ADDED: “MY SON’S FATE IS IN YOUR HANDS. +HANDS WHICH SHOW THE TIME, SO THE RESULT OF ALL THE COMPLICATED HUMAN +HAND TO HIS EAR TOWARD WEYROTHER, WITH THE AIR OF A MAN ABSORBED IN +HAND WITH IT AND KNEW HE MUST NOT DO SO. HAVING ADVANCED SIX PACES AND +HANDWRITING. ON RECEIVING IT, HE RAN ON TIPTOE TO HIS STUDY IN ALARM AND +HANGED,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW WITH A SMILE. “SO I AM SERVING BECAUSE + * “HANG THESE RUSSIANS!” +HAPPENED, HE WAS SAID TO BE INSANELY JEALOUS AND SUBJECT LIKE HIS +HAPPENED TO YOU IN MOSCOW WAS A MISFORTUNE.”—“I REGRET IT VERY +HAPPENING IN FRONT OF HIM. NESVíTSKI WITH AN ANGRY FACE, RED AND UNLIKE +HAPPEN!” SHE SAID, LOOKING AT HERSELF IN THE GLASS. “HOW SHALL I +HAPPEN TO THEM WHEN THEY WERE FREE, BUT HE INSISTED, THOUGH RELUCTANTLY, +HAPPIEST, MERRIEST TIMES FOR HIM AND THE WHOLE FAMILY. NICHOLAS BROUGHT +HAPPINESS AND OF CHILDREN, BUT HER STRONGEST, MOST DEEPLY HIDDEN LONGING +HAPPINESS), FEELING THE EAGER BUSTLE AROUND HIM, AND HEARING THE FITFUL +HAPPINESS OR PEACE OF MIND. CAN ANYTHING IN THE WORLD MAKE HER OR ME +HAPPINESS POSSIBLE, AND THAT IS JUST WHAT YOU WANT TO DEPRIVE HIM OF. +HAPPINESS. THE OLD PRINCESS SIGHED SADLY AS SHE OFFERED SOME WINE TO THE +HAPPY AND SMILING. VéRA WAS PLAYING CHESS WITH SHINSHíN IN THE DRAWING +HAPPY WORLD OF HIS OWN. SHE FANCIED A CHILD, HER OWN—SUCH AS SHE HAD +HARD.... FOR AGES, FROM OUR FOREFATHER ADAM TO OUR OWN DAY, WE LABOR TO +HARDLY HAD PRINCE ANDREW STARTED THAN HE STOPPED HIM. +“HARDLY,” SAID BAGRATIóN. “I SAW THEM THIS EVENING ON THAT +HARNESSED AND PACKED THE WAGONS AND TIED ON THE LOADS. THE ADJUTANTS AND +“HAS ANYTHING COME FROM ANDREW?” SHE ASKED. +HAS BLUNDERED LOOKS AT AN EXAMINER. +HAS COME DOWN TO US FROM THE REMOTEST AGES, EVEN FROM THE FIRST MAN—A +HAS HIS STAND, AND THERE’S ZAKHáR HIMSELF AND STILL THE SAME HORSE! +HAS PROPOSED TO SóNYA!” +HASTENING HER STEPS. “YOU YOUNG LADIES SHOULD NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT +HASTE, TRYING TO ESCAPE NOTICE, CLOSED THE DOOR, AND BEGAN TO READ THE +“HAS THE SNOW BEEN SHOVELED BACK?” +HAST THOU DENIED?” HE SUDDENLY ASKED WITH EXULTING AUSTERITY AND +HAVE BEEN AS GOOD AS WEYROTHER’S, BUT FOR THE DISADVANTAGE THAT +HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT TO STOP THAT CROWD, IT WAS EVEN IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO +HAVE CERTAINLY ACQUIRED A TASTE FOR WAR, AND IT IS JUST AS WELL FOR ME; +HAVE DARED TO SAY SO, KNEW IT AND BLUSHED SCARLET EVERY TIME DóLOKHOV +HAVE DONE THE SAME!...” THOUGHT PRINCESS MARY. +HAVE JUST THIS MOMENT RECEIVED BY SPECIAL MESSENGER VERY JOYFUL +HAVE KILLED SO MANY THAT THERE’D HAVE BEEN A HEAP OF THEM.” +HAVE LIKED TO SYMPATHIZE WITH WHAT PIERRE WAS SAYING, BUT COULD NOT. +HAVE OBLIGED ME TO GIVE THIS REFUSAL.” +HAVE RECEIVED ANOTHER LETTER ABOUT THE PREUSSISCH-EYLAU BATTLE +HAVE SAID. AND HE WAS STILL MORE ANGRY AT HAVING OMITTED TO SAY IT. HE +HAVE SEEN HOW HE SAID IT! I KNOW HE DID NOT MEAN TO SAY IT, BUT IT CAME +“HAVE SOME BROUGHT FROM THE RESERVE,” SAID NAPOLEON, AND HAVING GONE +HAVE STAYED LONGER.” +HAVE THE CARRIAGE TO DRIVE TO TOWN: +HAVE THE COURIER HORSES. IT WAS PLAIN THAT HE WAS LYING AND ONLY WANTED +HAVE TO GO IN AND ASK THE PRINCESSES; AND FROM THERE GO ON TO THE +HAVE TO PROVE TO THEM WHAT HE HAD NOT MERELY CONVINCED HIMSELF OF, BUT +HAVE VIRTUOUS AIMS,” SAID PIERRE, FEELING ASHAMED OF THE INADEQUACY + HAVE WE NOT BAGRATIóN? +“HAVE YOU?” HE SAID. “WELL, HOW DID IT GO?” +HAVING BECOME ENTANGLED IN THE SADDLE. WHERE OUR MEN WERE, AND WHERE THE +HAVING BY A GREAT EFFORT GOT AWAY TO THE LEFT FROM THAT FLOOD OF MEN, +HAVING CONVINCED HIMSELF THAT HE WAS ASLEEP, TOOK UP A PAPER AND IN +HAVING DESCENDED THE HILL AT A TROT, HE NO LONGER SAW EITHER OUR OWN OR +HAVING DISENTANGLED HIS LEG, HE ROSE. “WHERE, ON WHICH SIDE, WAS NOW +HAVING ENTERED THE COURTYARD OF A LARGE HOUSE WHERE THE LODGE HAD ITS +HAVING GALLOPED SAFELY THROUGH THE FRENCH, HE REACHED A FIELD BEHIND +HAVING GIVEN ORDERS TO HIS COMPANY, SENT A SOLDIER TO FIND A DRESSING +HAVING GIVEN SEVERAL MORE ORDERS, HE WAS ABOUT TO GO TO HIS “LITTLE +HAVING LED HIM ABOUT TEN PACES, WILLARSKI STOPPED. +HAVING LEFT THAT SOLDIER WHO WAS EVIDENTLY DRUNK, ROSTóV STOPPED THE +HAVING LIFTED HER HEAD AND LET HER ARMS DROOP LIFELESSLY, AS BALLET +HAVING MOUNTED DREW HIMSELF UP VERY STRAIGHT AND TALL AND RODE TO THE +HAVING PASSED THE GUARDS AND TRAVERSED AN EMPTY SPACE, ROSTóV, TO AVOID +HAVING PASSED UVáROV’S CAVALRY HE CLEARLY HEARD THE SOUND OF CANNON +HAVING REACHED THE LEFT FLANK, INSTEAD OF GOING TO THE FRONT WHERE THE +HAVING RESTED AFTER YESTERDAY’S MARCH, WERE SITTING, CLEAN AND NEATLY +HAVING SAID THIS LAUGHED. EVERYONE TURNED TOWARD HIM. +HAVING SAID THIS, NAPOLEON RODE ON TO MEET MARSHAL LANNES, WHO, HAT IN +HEAD AND AT THE LITTLE ARMS AND LEGS WHICH SHOWED UNDER THE BLANKET. HE +HEAD. AS HE RODE UP TO THE CAMP HE THOUGHT HOW HE WOULD IMPRESS BORíS +HEAD COOK, ABOUT ASPARAGUS, FRESH CUCUMBERS, STRAWBERRIES, VEAL, AND +HE ADDED: “BUT BEWARE, DEAR BROTHER, THAT THESE GLOVES DO NOT DECK +HE ADDED THAT PRINCE VASíLI WAS ALSO THERE. WHEN TíKHON CAME TO HER +HEAD IN PERPLEXITY—PERHAPS BECAUSE THE BANNER REALLY INTERESTED HIM, +HEAD, LAUGHING WITH AN OFFICER WHO HAD SAT DOWN BESIDE HIM. A THIRD WAS +HEADLONG AFTER ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA AND, DASHING AT HER, FLUNG HERSELF ON +HEADLONG SPEED WITH NO TIME TO CONSIDER WHAT THIS MOVEMENT MIGHT LEAD +HEAD, PULLED IT OFF, AND SHOWED THE BLOOD CONGEALED ON HIS HAIR. +HEADQUARTERS, AND HAVING ASCENDED A DARK STAIRCASE, THEY ENTERED A SMALL +HEADQUARTERS. BUT ON THE AFTERNOON OF THAT DAY, THIS ACTIVITY REACHED +HEADQUARTERS IN THE MORNING AND HAD STARTED THE WHOLE MOVEMENT THAT +HEADQUARTERS WAS STILL UNDER THE SPELL OF THE DAY’S COUNCIL, AT WHICH +HEAD (THE PAINS HAD JUST LEFT HER). STRANDS OF HER BLACK HAIR LAY ROUND +HEALTH?” +HEALTH OF OUR SOVEREIGN, THE EMPEROR!” HE ROARED, “HURRAH!” AND +HEALTH WAS DRUNK, PIERRE, LOST IN THOUGHT, DID NOT RISE OR LIFT HIS +HEALTHY BODY, AND ALL THE AFFECTION AND CARE OF HIS FAMILY. “AND WHY +HE ALWAYS THOUGHT ONLY OF WHATEVER HE WAS ENGAGED ON. +HEARD.” +HEARD, AND AGAIN SOMETHING IN HIS FACE TWITCHED—“THAT IS JUST WHY +HEARD, AND OUT OF THE FOGGY DARKNESS THE FIGURE OF A SERGEANT OF HUSSARS +HEARD A RUSTLE BEHIND HIM AND A SHADOW APPEARED UNDER THE CURTAIN OF +HEARD BEFORE, OTHERS SIMPLY ENJOYED HEARING HOW THE MASTER TALKED, WHILE +HEARD CURSES ON BONAPARTE, “THE ENEMY OF MANKIND.” MILITIAMEN AND +HEARD DISTINCTLY. +HEARD MUSKET FIRE QUITE CLOSE IN FRONT OF HIM AND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, +HEARD THEM, AND WE SHALL ALL DO OUR DUTY. BUT BEFORE A BATTLE, THERE IS +HEARD THE QUICK RUSTLE OF THE COUNTESS’ DRESS. SHE CAME UP TO THEM. +HEARD THE WORDS AS HE MIGHT HAVE HEARD THE BUZZING OF A FLY. NOT ONLY +HEARD THIS SóNYA BLUSHED SO THAT TEARS CAME INTO HER EYES AND, UNABLE +HEARD, YOUR HONOR, THAT A MINISTER IS COMING TO VISIT YOUR HONOR.” +HEARERS—WHO LIKE HIMSELF HAD OFTEN HEARD STORIES OF ATTACKS AND HAD +HEARING OR UNDERSTANDING HER OWN WORDS, WHAT SHE HAD TOLD HUNDREDS OF +HEARING THAT CRY AND SEEING TO WHOM IT WAS ADDRESSED, NESVíTSKI AND THE +HEARING THESE WORDS HER FACE CHANGED AND SOMETHING BRIGHTENED IN HER +HEARING WITH PLEASURE THE WHISTLE OF BULLETS EVIDENTLY AIMED AT HIM. +HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF THE UNFATHOMABLE DID NOT LESSEN BUT INCREASED. +“HE ASKED YOU, AND VASíLI DMíTRICH * IS ALSO GOING.” +HEATED HORSES, EXCHANGING REMARKS AND SMILING, HAD STOPPED BEHIND THE +“HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT A FRIGHT MIGHT DO.” +HE BEGAN PACING THE ROOM. THE SCREAMING CEASED, AND A FEW MORE SECONDS +HE BEGAN THE RESCRIPT AGAIN AND AGAIN, BUT AS SOON AS HE UTTERED + HE BRINGS FOEMEN TO THEIR KNEES,... ETC. +HE CAME TO THE POINT AT ONCE, TREATING HER CEREMONIOUSLY. +HE CAN’T HELP PLOWING AND MOWING; IF HE DIDN’T, HE WOULD GO TO THE +HE CHANCED TO MEET DóLOKHOV’S HANDSOME INSOLENT EYES, PIERRE FELT +HE CHECKED HIMSELF, FEARING TO SEEM NAïVE, YET HE FELT AN IRRESISTIBLE +HE CLUTCHED AT HIS HEAD. “WHO IS GOING TO GET ME THE FLOWERS? DMíTRI! +HE CONSOLED HIMSELF. “AND BESIDES, WHAT HAVE I DONE TO BRING IT ABOUT? +HE CONTINUED TO PACE THE ROOM, LOOKING GLOOMILY AT DENíSOV AND THE +HE COULD FROM A FRENCHMAN INTO THE WOOD. BESIDES, TO TELL EVERYTHING AS +HE COULD NOT LOOK CALMLY AT THE STANDARDS OF THE PASSING BATTALIONS. +HE COULD SEE PUFFS OF MUSKETRY SMOKE THAT SEEMED TO CHASE ONE ANOTHER +HE DESCRIBED THE WHOLE CAMPAIGN WITH A FEARLESS SELF-CENSURE AND +HE DID NOT DO IT HE WOULD GRIEVE AND DISAPPOINT MANY PEOPLE, BUT IF HE +(HE DID NOT EVEN DARE TO DREAM OF THAT), BUT SIMPLY TO DIE BEFORE HIS +HE DID NOT FIND PRINCE ANDREW IN OLMüTZ THAT DAY, BUT THE APPEARANCE OF +HE DID NOT LOOK AT THEM: HE LOOKED ONLY AT WHAT WAS GOING ON IN FRONT +HE DID NOT REGAIN CONSCIOUSNESS TILL LATE IN THE DAY, WHEN WITH OTHER +HE DID NOT REPLY. +HE DID NOT SEE, HEAR, OR UNDERSTAND ANYTHING CLEARLY. ONLY NOW AND +HE DID NOT SEE HIM AND HAD NO OPPORTUNITY OF SEEING HIM, HE OFTEN SPOKE +HE DISCUSSED ESTATE AFFAIRS EVERY DAY WITH HIS CHIEF STEWARD. BUT +HE DREW BACK AND A REAL TEAR APPEARED IN HIS EYE. +HE EMBRACED HIS DAUGHTER, AND THEN AGAIN PIERRE, AND KISSED HIM WITH HIS +HE ENLIVENED THE WHOLE PARTY. THE WAX CANDLES BURNED BRIGHTLY, THE +HE ENTERED THE DRAWING ROOM WITH HIS USUAL ALERT STEP, GLANCING RAPIDLY +“HE EXISTS, BUT TO UNDERSTAND HIM IS HARD,” THE MASON BEGAN AGAIN, +HE FELT HIMSELF TO BE. AT THE RIGHT BEAT OF THE MUSIC HE LOOKED SIDEWAYS +HE FELT THAT AT A SINGLE WORD FROM THAT MAN ALL THIS VAST MASS (AND HE +HE FELT THAT THIS DID NOT FORWARD MATTERS AT ALL. HE FELT THAT THESE +HE FILLED THE GIRLS’ ALBUMS WITH VERSES AND MUSIC, AND HAVING AT LAST +HE. “FINE, VERY FINE! YOU HAVE DONE UP YOUR HAIR IN THIS NEW WAY FOR +HE FINISHED AND, GETTING UP, EMBRACED AND KISSED PIERRE, WHO, WITH TEARS +HE, GOING TO THE DOOR AND LOOKING INTO THE NURSERY. +HE GOT HIS WOUND. THIS PLEASED ROSTóV AND HE BEGAN TALKING ABOUT IT, +HE HAD BEEN ORDERED TO LOOK FOR THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, HE COULD NOT, +HE HAD EVIDENTLY NOT SLEPT THAT NIGHT. HE LOOKED ABOUT DISTRACTEDLY AND +HE HAD LAIN THERE SOME TIME, HE WAS TOLD TO GET UP, AND A WHITE LEATHER +HE HAD LEFT. ALL THE OTHERS LET HIM GO, AND HE RAN TO HER. WHEN THEY +HE HAD LEFT PETERSBURG, AND WROTE ENTHUSIASTIC LETTERS TO HIS +HE HAD NOT THOUGHT ABOUT IT UNTIL THAT MOMENT. THE OFFICERS’ LAUGHTER +HE HAD OFTEN BEFORE, DURING THE LAST SIX WEEKS, REMAINED ALONE WITH HER, +HE HAD PIERRE AT HAND IN MOSCOW AND PROCURED FOR HIM AN APPOINTMENT AS +HE HAD RIDDEN ABOUT TWO MILES AND HAD PASSED THE LAST OF THE RUSSIAN +HE HAD SAID ABSENT-MINDEDLY: “YES, SHE’S GOOD LOOKING,” HE HAD +HE HAD TO DO, NOT WITH FOOLS, BUT WITH MEN WHO COULD TEACH HIM SOMETHING +HE HAD TOO LONG BEEN THINKING OF SO PAINFULLY TO THE EXCLUSION OF ALL +HE HALF ROSE, MEANING TO GO ROUND, BUT THE AUNT HANDED HIM THE SNUFFBOX, +“HE HAS BEEN SET DOWN. HE DIED,” REPLIED SOMEONE. +“HE HAS FORTY THOUSAND MEN AT MOST,” REPLIED WEYROTHER, WITH THE +“HE HAS PERSPIRED,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. +HE HATED HER AND WAS FOREVER SUNDERED FROM HER. DESPITE DENíSOV’S +HE HEARD SOME FRENCH SPOKEN HE AT ONCE BEGAN SPEAKING TO THE OFFICERS, +“HE HIGHER ISS DAN I IN RANK,” SAID THE GERMAN COLONEL OF THE +HE HIMSELF WAS PINING FOR THE DEAR PRINCESS, AND HOW SHE SHOWED HIM THE +HE IMAGINED HIMSELF AS AN ENORMOUSLY TALL, POWERFUL MAN WHO WAS THROWING +HE IMAGINED MEN SUCH AS HE HAD HIMSELF BEEN A FORTNIGHT AGO, AND HE +HE IMPLORED ROSTóV TO GO ON AND PREPARE HER. +HE INVOLUNTARILY REMEMBERED HOW DóLOKHOV, WHO HAD FULLY RECOVERED HIS +HEIRESS IN THE SAME WAY. ALL THIS MIGHT, HE THOUGHT, TURN OUT VERY WELL +“HE IS A MAN IN A GRAY OVERCOAT, VERY ANXIOUS THAT I SHOULD CALL +“HE IS A NERVOUS, BILIOUS SUBJECT,” SAID LARREY, “AND WILL NOT +“HE IS A VERY, VERY NICE, HONEST, AND PLEASANT FELLOW,” ANSWERED +“HE IS NOT TO BE APPREHENDED BY REASON, BUT BY LIFE,” SAID THE +“HE IS ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE, BUT TO ME MOST UNPLEASANT OF +HE JUMPED UP AT THE SOUND OF HER LIGHT STEP. +HE KNEW NO ONE, AND DESPITE HIS SMART GUARDSMAN’S UNIFORM, ALL THESE +HE KNEW THIS AT THAT MOMENT AS SURELY AS IF HE HAD BEEN STANDING AT THE +“HE KNOWS OF COURSE WHAT THIS LOSS MEANS TO ME. HE CAN’T WANT MY +HE LACKED THAT STRENGTH OF WILL WHICH HE HAD KNOWN IN HIMSELF AND REALLY +HE. “LAUGHING AT US OLD FELLOWS!” +HE LAY DOWN ON THE LEATHER SOFA IN FRONT OF A ROUND TABLE, PUT HIS BIG +HE LAY DOWN ON THE SOFA MEANING TO FALL ASLEEP AND FORGET ALL THAT +HELD. ALL THE COMMANDERS OF COLUMNS WERE SUMMONED TO THE COMMANDER IN +HELD IT BELOW HER WAIST. +HELD IT TILL EVENING AND HAVE GONE IN TO DINNER WITH IT) AND DREW HIS +HELD THE HAND OF HIS BETROTHED IN SILENCE, LOOKING AT HER BEAUTIFUL +HE LEANED HIS WHOLE MASSIVE BODY ACROSS THE TABLE. +HE LEFT THE ROOM AND WENT TO THE WAITING ROOM WHERE ALPáTYCH STOOD WITH +HéLèNE.” +HéLèNE, AND THAT THOUGHT BOTH ALARMED HIM, AS IF SOME OBLIGATION WERE +“HéLèNE!” HE SAID ALOUD AND PAUSED. +HéLèNE NOR SHE AT HIM. BUT SHE WAS JUST AS TERRIBLY CLOSE TO HIM. HE +HéLèNE RAISED HER VOICE AND BECAME MORE AND MORE EXCITED, “A MAN +HéLèNE SAT SILENTLY SIDE BY SIDE ALMOST AT THE BOTTOM OF THE TABLE, A +HéLèNE. “SEPARATE! THAT’S A THING TO FRIGHTEN ME WITH!” +HéLèNE’S FACE BECAME TERRIBLE, SHE SHRIEKED AND SPRANG ASIDE. HIS +HéLèNE’S HAND SEVERAL TIMES. AFTER A WHILE THEY WERE LEFT ALONE +HéLèNE SMILED, WITH A LOOK IMPLYING THAT SHE DID NOT ADMIT THE +HéLèNE’S PRESENCE (AS A LOVER SHOULD BE), BUT HAD NOT YET PROPOSED +HéLèNE STILL SAT TALKING JUST AS BEFORE. +HéLèNE, THEN SHE TURNED TO PIERRE WITH THE SAME WORDS OF WELCOME +HéLèNE TURNED TO PIERRE WITH THE BEAUTIFUL BRIGHT SMILE THAT SHE GAVE +HE LISTENED AND HEARD THE SOUND OF APPROACHING HORSES, AND VOICES +HE LOOKED INTENTLY AND INQUIRINGLY INTO HIS FRIEND’S EYES, EVIDENTLY +HE LOOKED VERY GRIM HE SAID NOTHING TO ANYONE. +HELP BEING AWARE OF IT, JUST AS WE CANNOT RENEW AN ILLUSION WE HAVE ONCE +“HELP COMES FROM GOD ALONE,” HE SAID, “BUT SUCH MEASURE OF HELP AS +“HELP HIM UP. SIT DOWN, DEAR FELLOW, SIT DOWN! SPREAD OUT THE CLOAK, +HELPLESSLY ON THE SOFA. +HELPLESSLY SPREAD OUT, STOOD WITH HIS BROAD CHEST DIRECTLY FACING +HELP, WOULD INFORM HER. +HE MADE HIMSELF WHEN GOING INTO BATTLE, AND HE WAS MORE AMIABLE TO THE +HE MADE UP HIS MIND THAT PRINCE ANDREW HAD BEEN KILLED, AND THOUGH HE +HE MARKED THE FIGURES IN HIS CLEAR, BOLD HAND. +HE MEANT TO DO, AND ABANDONING HERSELF TO HIM FOLLOWED HIS LEAD HARDLY +HE MIGHT BE, DID NOT EXPECT. HE WAS SO USED TO SUBMITTING TO PRINCE +HE MIGHT... NOT ONLY MIGHT BUT SHOULD, HAVE GONE UP TO THE SOVEREIGN. IT +HE MOVED AS IF TO RISE. THE GENERALS BOWED AND RETIRED. IT WAS PAST +“HE MUST FIRST RECEIVE THE TROWEL,” WHISPERED ONE OF THE BROTHERS. +HE MUST THINK THAT I, TOO, AM AFRAID OF HIM—AND IN FACT I AM AFRAID OF +HE NEED ONLY HAVE BENT HIS HEAD A LITTLE TO HAVE TOUCHED THEM. HE WAS +HE NEEDS MONEY FOR FOOD; THE MAN SAID AN OFFICER HAD ONCE GIVEN HIM A +HE OPENED HIS EYES AND LOOKED UP. THE BLACK CANOPY OF NIGHT HUNG LESS +HE PASSED IT. PIERRE BEGAN TO FEEL A SENSE OF UNEASINESS, AND THE +HE PAUSED A LITTLE WHILE. +HE PAUSED, AND JUST AS HE WAS ABOUT TO SAY SOMETHING MORE, ANOTHER BALL +HE PAUSED AND SIGHED, EVIDENTLY TRYING TO CALM HIMSELF. +HE PAUSED, HIS GAZE STILL ON PIERRE, AND MOVED ASIDE ON THE SOFA BY WAY +HE QUICKLY ENTERED THE SMALL RECEPTION ROOM WITH ITS STILL-UNPLASTERED +HER. +HER ALREADY,” HE SAID, EVIDENTLY TRYING TO ENTERTAIN A VISITOR WITH +HER AND ABOUT TO CRUSH HER WAS SOME TERRIBLE MISFORTUNE, THE WORST +HER AND FOR HIMSELF, AND IN A NERVOUSLY EMOTIONAL AND SOFTENED MOOD HE +HER AS A DISTANT BEAUTY FAR REMOVED FROM HIM, AS HE HAD SEEN HER EVERY +HER BEAUTY AND HER REMARKABLE SKILL IN APPEARING SILENTLY DIGNIFIED IN +HER BECAUSE YOU MUST, AND THAT WOULDN’T DO AT ALL.” +HER COMPANIONS’ NOT HAVING THE LEAST CONCEPTION THAT IT COULD BE +“HERE AT LEAST WE SHALL HAVE THE BENEFIT OF YOUR COMPANY ALL TO +HERE,” CAME THE VOICE OF AN HUSSAR, PAST WHOM ROSTóV WAS RIDING IN +HE REELED AND SANK ON THE SNOW. +HE REFLECTED, “THERE IS NO RIDING ROUND IT NOW. I MUST LOOK FOR THE +“HERE HE IS AT LAST!” SHOUTED ROSTóV. “AND BERG TOO! OH, YOU +“HERE HE IS... OUR OWN... KóLYA, * DEAR FELLOW... HOW HE HAS +HERE IS NOW SETTLED, AND I OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN OFF LONG AGO. HERE IS +“HERE IT IS! THE DECISIVE MOMENT HAS ARRIVED. MY TURN HAS COME,” +“HERE IT IS!” THOUGHT HE, SEIZING THE STAFF OF THE STANDARD AND +HERE I’VE BROUGHT THE PRINCE’S WEDDING CANDLES TO LIGHT BEFORE HIS +HE REMEMBERED HIS HONEYMOON AND BLUSHED AT THE RECOLLECTION. +HE REMEMBERED THE EXPRESSION DóLOKHOV’S FACE ASSUMED IN HIS MOMENTS +HERE ON FRIDAY.” +HERE, RUN AWAY, BURY MYSELF SOMEWHERE?” PASSED THROUGH HIS MIND. BUT +“HERE’S TO THE HEALTH OF LOVELY WOMEN, PETERKIN—AND THEIR +HER EYES BECAME SERIOUS. AT THAT MOMENT SHE WAS OBLIVIOUS OF HER +HER EYES OFF HIM, AND SMILING AND HOLDING HER BREATH. HE GAVE HER A +HER EYES WERE SMILING EXPECTANTLY, HER DOWNY LIP ROSE AND REMAINED +HER FACE, AND THEN IMMEDIATELY HE SAW BESIDE HER DóLOKHOV’S HANDSOME, +HER FATE WAS DECIDED AND HAPPILY DECIDED. BUT WHAT HER FATHER HAD SAID +HER FAVORITE SONATA BORE HER INTO A MOST INTIMATELY POETIC WORLD AND +HER FOOT INTO THE OTHER. SóNYA, WHEN HE CAME IN, WAS TWIRLING ROUND AND +HER FRIEND AS IF SHE DID NOT CONSIDER HER WORTHY TO HEAR WHAT SHE MEANT +HER GLITTERING EYES, FILLED WITH CHILDLIKE FEAR AND EXCITEMENT, RESTED +HER HANDKERCHIEF TOO. PIERRE WAS KISSED, AND HE KISSED THE BEAUTIFUL +HER HEART. HAPPY THE MAN WHO WINS HER! WITH HER THE LEAST WORLDLY OF MEN +HER. HOW OFTEN WHEN CONSIDERING HER CHARACTER I HAVE TOLD MYSELF THAT +HER IN FIVE MINUTES BEFORE AND, DESPITE THE FIXED EYES AND THE PALLOR OF +HER INFLAMED AND PERSPIRING CHEEKS, HER CHARMING ROSY MOUTH WITH ITS +HER LITTLE NEPHEW AS BEST SHE COULD. MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, TOO, SEEMED +HER MOTHER, QUITE EXCITED. +HER NECK AS SOON AS SHE OVERTOOK HER IN THE SITTING ROOM. +HERO HIMSELF WITH HIS PALTRY VANITY AND JOY IN VICTORY APPEAR, +HER—PLEASE DON’T! IT IS TOO PAINFUL FOR HER!” +HER, ROSTóV THOUGHT, BUT JUST NOW THERE WERE SO MANY OTHER PLEASURES +HER?” SAID THE OLD PRINCE ANGRILY. “WHAT AN IDEA! I’M READY FOR IT +HER SEDUCER WHEN SHE LOVED HIM?” HE THOUGHT. “GOD COULD NOT HAVE PUT +HERSELF! GLAD TO THROW HER FATHER OVER! AND SHE KNEW I SHOULD NOTICE +HERSELF IN A WHITE SATIN DRESSING GOWN EMBROIDERED WITH SILVER AND WITH +HER SUFFERINGS OR WITH THEIR RELIEF. THE PANGS BEGAN AGAIN AND MARY +HER SYMPATHY FOR PIERRE, BUT BY INVOLUNTARY INTONATIONS AND A HALF SMILE +HER—THOU OR YOU?” +HER VOICE SOUNDED SO SERIOUS AND SO SAD THAT THE CHIRPING OF THE BIRDS +HER WHITE TEETH. SHE MET PRINCE VASíLI WITH THAT PLAYFUL MANNER OFTEN +HER WITH PERFECT SINCERITY, AND WITH THE NAïVE AND FIRM CONVICTION +HE SAID. “PERHAPS YOU ARE RIGHT FOR YOURSELF,” HE ADDED AFTER +HE SAID SOMETHING MORE, BUT ROSTóV DID NOT WAIT TO HEAR IT AND RODE +“HE’S ARRIVED!” +HE SAW FRENCH CANNON AND FRENCH TROOPS ON THE PRATZEN HEIGHTS JUST WHERE +HE SAW TURRETS AND A CHURCH. WHAT NEED TO HURRY? WHAT WAS HE NOW TO SAY +HE SAW WHICH WAY THE WIND WAS BLOWING, AND HIS LOW OPINION CHANGED INTO +“HE’S DEAD—WHY CARRY HIM?” SAID ANOTHER. +HE SHAVED AND SCENTED HIMSELF WITH THE CARE AND ELEGANCE WHICH HAD +HE SHOUTED, “AND THEN I SHALL RESERVE THE RIGHT TO STATE MY OPINION +HE SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS AND RAISED HIS HAND TO THE KERCHIEF, AS IF +HESITATING VOICE. “I THANK YOU. I AGREE WITH ALL YOU HAVE SAID. BUT +HESITATION AND UNCERTAINTY AMONG HIS CONDUCTORS. HE HEARD THOSE AROUND +(HE SMILED IRONICALLY.) “BUT EVEN IF HE ALSO TOOK UP A POSITION IN +HE SPREAD A MAP ON THE TABLE. “ALL EVENTUALITIES HAVE BEEN FORESEEN. +HE STILL HAD ALL THE LETTERS IN HIS HAND. OPENING THEM MECHANICALLY HE +HE STOPPED AND REMAINED SILENT FOR A LONG TIME. +HE STOPPED SHORT ON HIS HEELS, STOOD SO A SECOND, STAMPED ON THE SPOT +HE SUNG A SECOND, A THIRD BELOW THE HIGH NOTE. “AH, GOD! HOW FINE! DID +“HE’S VERY YOUNG TO COME TO MEDDLE WITH US.” +HE THOUGHT OUT HIS PLANS BEFOREHAND HE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN SO NATURAL +HE THOUGHT, STOPPING FOR A MOMENT WITH A SINKING HEART, AND THEN +HE TOOK THE PISTOL IN HIS HAND AND BEGAN ASKING ABOUT THE WORKING OF THE +HE TOUCHED HIS HORSE AND HAVING CALLED MILORáDOVICH, THE COMMANDER OF +HE TRIED TO SAY MORE, BUT FALTERED. +HE UNHOOKED HIS SABER. HE CAME OUT FROM BEHIND THE CHAIRS, CLASPED HIS +HE WAS ADMITTED TO THE EMPEROR, AND AN HOUR LATER HE RODE OFF WITH +HE WAS EVIDENTLY SO BUSY THAT HE EVEN FORGOT TO BE POLITE TO THE +HE WAS FLUSHED AND BATHED IN PERSPIRATION, THOUGH THE ROOM WAS NOT HOT. +HE WAS IN CONTACT WITH THE SPRINGS THAT SET IN MOTION THE ENORMOUS +HE WAS JOYFULLY PLANNING THIS NEW LIFE, WHEN PRINCE VASíLI SUDDENLY +HE WAS PLEASED AT THE GRATITUDE HE RECEIVED, BUT FELT ABASHED AT +HE WAS PROUD TO BE AT THE HEAD OF SUCH A NATION AND WOULD ENDEAVOR TO BE +HE WAS RIDING ALMOST ALONG THE FRONT LINE. A HANDFUL OF MEN CAME +HE WAS RIDING WAS ONE HE HAD BOUGHT FROM A COSSACK DURING THE CAMPAIGN, +HE WAS SENT AWAY. HIPPOLYTE IS HER BROTHER... PRINCE VASíLI IS HER +HE WAS SENT. THIS WAS THE BRILLIANT CHARGE OF THE HORSE GUARDS THAT +HE WAS SINGING IN PASSIONATE TONES, GAZING WITH HIS SPARKLING +HE WAS THINKING THAT PRINCE ANDREW WAS UNHAPPY, HAD GONE ASTRAY, DID NOT +HE WAS TOLD IN RUSSIAN, GERMAN, AND CZECH BY THE CROWD OF FUGITIVES WHO +HE WAS TOLD THAT HE WOULD NOW SEE THE LESSER LIGHT. THE BANDAGE WAS +HE WAS TO WEAR AT THE MEETINGS, AND FINALLY OF THE THIRD, A PAIR OF +HE WENT FORWARD UNEASILY OVER THE ROUGH FIELD WITH THE AWKWARD GAIT OF +HE WENT NOWHERE AND SPENT WHOLE DAYS IN READING THOMAS à KEMPIS, WHOSE +HE WENT OVER HIS VICES IN HIS MIND, NOT KNOWING TO WHICH OF THEM TO GIVE +HE WENT STRAIGHT UP TO PRINCE VASíLI. +HE WENT TO HIS BED, DREW A PURSE FROM UNDER THE CLEAN PILLOW, AND SENT +HE WILL HIT ME IN THE HEAD, OR ELBOW, OR KNEE. CAN’T I GO AWAY FROM +HE WISHED TO EXPLAIN TO DOLGORúKOV A PLAN OF ATTACK HE HAD HIMSELF +HE WISHED TO TAKE A DECISION, BUT FELT WITH DISMAY THAT IN THIS MATTER +HE WOKE UP AND LOOKED ROUND FOR A WHILE WITH A STARTLED EXPRESSION, +HE WONDERED AS HE GOT UP: AND AT THAT MOMENT HE FELT THAT SOMETHING +HE WOULD CERTAINLY BE TAKEN PRISONER. KUTúZOV REMAINED IN THE SAME +HE WOULD EXPAND HIS CHEST, RAISE HIS HEAD, AND REJOICE AT HIS GOOD +HE WOULD HAVE BEEN MENTIONED AMONG THE OFFICERS FOUND ON THE FIELD OF +HE WOULD HAVE DONE AT THAT MOMENT HAD HéLèNE NOT FLED FROM THE ROOM. +HE WOULD INTO THAT FOGGY DISTANCE: NOW SOMETHING GLEAMED GRAY, NOW THERE +HE WOULD RUSH THROUGH THE WHOLE SUITE OF ROOMS WITHOUT DRAWING BREATH, +HE WOULD SAY A LOT OF PLEASANT THINGS, ASK YOU TO DINNER” (“THAT +HE WOULD SLAP IN THE FACE BEFORE THE EMPEROR. SUDDENLY A DISTANT SHOUT +HIDDEN BY DENSE MIST. HAVING GIVEN ORDERS IN THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF’S +HIGHER GROUND IT WAS CLEARING, BUT NOTHING COULD BE SEEN OF WHAT WAS +HIGH—I ALWAYS SAID....” +HIGHLY HONORED GUEST, TOOK POSSESSION OF HIM AS IT WERE, WITHOUT WAITING +HIGHNESS,” AND POINTING TO THE GRAND DUKE WHO WITH HIS HIGH SHOULDERS +HILLS, SHE TOOK A SPECIAL FANCY TO MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, SPENT WHOLE +HIM. +HIM. +HIM. +HIM ALL THE WAY. HE THOUGHT ANGRILY OF THE PLEASURE HE WOULD HAVE AT +HIM A LOOK OF STERN INQUIRY, AS THOUGH WHAT PIERRE HAD JUST SAID WAS +HIM AND DID NOT STOP BUT RODE ON AND ON, CONTINUALLY MISTAKING BUSHES +HIM AND HéLèNE. “WELL, WHAT OF IT, IF YOU ALL KNOW IT?” THOUGHT +HIM AND HE WAS AT ONCE BLINDFOLDED AGAIN. +HIM, AND ONLY AS HE KISSED HER HAND ON TAKING LEAVE SAID UNEXPECTEDLY +HIM AND SHE WISHED AND TRIED TO PLEASE HIM AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. +HIM. “AND WHY SHOULD SHE MARRY?” HE THOUGHT. “TO BE UNHAPPY FOR +HIM; BUT MOST OF ALL, HE FELT JOYFUL THAT THE MOMENT HAD COME WHEN HE +HIM, BUT STILL THAT HAPPY RESULT ALWAYS REMAINED IN THE FUTURE. +HIM, CARRIED THE INFANT ROUND THE BATTERED TIN FONT AND HANDED HIM OVER +HIM DISPUTING IN WHISPERS AND ONE OF THEM INSISTING THAT HE SHOULD BE +HIM DO WHAT HE PLEASES,’ SHE USED TO SAY OF ME. ONE DAY I ASKED HER IF +HIM FEEL CONFUSED BY HER SMILES AND HER OWN CONFUSION WHEN MEETING HIM. +HIM FOR THOSE WORDS, BULLETS FLEW HISSING ACROSS THE REGIMENT AND ACROSS +HIM FULL DIRECTIONS WHICH HE HAD WRITTEN DOWN FOR HIS OWN GUIDANCE AS TO +HIM?” HE ASKED. +HIM, HE DOES NOT KNOW RUSSIAN.” +HIM HE IS A FOOL, THAT’S ALL!” +HIM,” HE THOUGHT, AND AGAIN HE FELT SOMETHING TERRIBLE AND MONSTROUS +HIM IF NOT TO JOIN IN AT LEAST TO LISTEN TO WHAT HE WAS SAYING. BUT THE +HIM INTO THE SITTING ROOM, WHERE THEY BEGAN TALKING. THEY HARDLY GAVE +HIM MERGED IN ROSTóV’S MIND INTO A SINGLE FEELING OF TERROR AND PITY +HIM MY WHOLE STAFF AND ALL THAT BELONGS TO IT, ADVISING HIM IF THERE IS +HIM. ON THE DAY OF PRINCE VASíLI’S ARRIVAL, PRINCE BOLKóNSKI WAS +HIM, OR PERHAPS FOR THAT VERY REASON, THE PRINCE, THOUGH HE CONTINUED +HIM, OR WHAT WAS SAID OF HIM; HE WAS ONLY GLAD THAT PEOPLE WERE STANDING +HIM OUT OF THE BOOTH AT GRUNTH. HE WAS SHOUTING IN A GASPING VOICE: +HIM PLEASURE. THE ENEMY’S GUNS WERE IN HIS FANCY NOT GUNS BUT PIPES +HIM. PRINCE VASíLI’S TWO VALETS WERE BUSY DRESSING HIM, AND HE LOOKED +HIM, PUSH HIM, DO ANYTHING BUT KISS HIM—A THING EVERYBODY DID. BUT +HIM. ROSTóV WAS PARTICULARLY IN NEED OF MONEY NOW THAT THE TROOPS, +HIMSELF. +HIMSELF. +HIMSELF? +HIMSELF AFTER HIS RECENT LONELINESS AND FREEDOM FROM CARES SO BESET AND +HIMSELF, AND THIS FRESH OPPORTUNITY FOR ACTION GAVE HIM NEW ENERGY +HIMSELF AN INSIGNIFICANT ATOM IN IT) WOULD GO THROUGH FIRE AND WATER, +HIMSELF HAD VANISHED. HE WAS FILLED WITH HAPPINESS AT HIS NEARNESS TO +HIMSELF, HE KEPT IN TOUCH WITH THE CIRCLE WHICH CONFERS SUCCESS AND +HIMSELF, HE ROSE, THREW BACK HIS HEAD, AND WITH RESOLUTE STEPS WENT +HIMSELF. I AM CALLED IN TO HELP SORT THE LETTERS AND TAKE THOSE MEANT +HIMSELF IN THE PALACE AT POTSDAM. +HIMSELF.... NOT A WORD! ABOUT SOME DENíSOV OR OTHER, THOUGH HE HIMSELF, +HIMSELF ONE WITH HIS HORSE, RODE PAST THE EMPEROR WITH A FROWNING BUT +HIMSELF TO THE COUNT, WHO WAS LOOKING INQUIRINGLY AT HIM. +HIMSELF, WAS SHOUTING TO KUTúZOV THAT IF HE DID NOT RIDE AWAY AT ONCE +HIMSELF. WHAT ANGERED HIM WAS THAT THE COMING OF THESE VISITORS REVIVED +HIM SEVERAL QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS JOURNEY AND SEEMED GREATLY INTERESTED IN +HIM SEVERAL RIDERS WITH WHITE PLUMES IN THEIR HATS. IN A MOMENT EVERYONE +HIM SO WHEN I SEE HIM!” +HIM SURROUNDED BY CHILDREN WHOM, BY THE COUNT’S GENEROSITY, HE WAS +HIM.” THE MERE THOUGHT OF HER FATHER’S LOOK FILLED HER WITH TERROR. +HIM. THE PAIN IN HIS ARM BECAME MORE AND MORE INTENSE. IRRESISTIBLE +HIM TO COME. THERE WERE OTHER GUESTS AND THE COUNTESS TALKED LITTLE TO +HIM TO DELIVER. +HIM TO DIE. OTHERS ARE BEING BORN AND THERE ARE PLENTY OF THEM AS IT IS. +HIM TO HEAR SOMETHING MORE, NODDED AND TURNED TO HIM WITH A CHEERFUL +HIM TOO, JUST OPPOSITE GúRYEV’S HOUSE... OLD GúRYEV.... OH, BUT +HIM UP AND LENT HIM MONEY. PIERRE RECALLED HOW HéLèNE HAD SMILINGLY +HIM WHAT CONSOLATION I CAN.” +HIM WITH HER USUAL SMILE. +HIM. YOU KNOW THE STORY OF THE HANDKERCHIEF? IT IS DELIGHTFUL!” +HIM ‘YOUR MAJESTY,’ BUT WHO, TO HIS CHAGRIN, GOT NO TITLE FROM +HINDMOST OF THESE MEN WEARING SIMILAR SHAKOS WAS A RUSSIAN HUSSAR. HE +HINTS BEGAN TO MAKE THE COUNTESS ANXIOUS AND SHE GLANCED UNEASILY AT +HIPPOLYTE INTERRUPTED HER WITH THE WORDS: “LE ROI DE PRUSSE...” AND +HIPPOLYTE LAUGHED AS IF ASHAMED OF LAUGHING. +HIS ACQUAINTANCE AND JOYFULLY WELCOMED THE RICH NEWCOMER, THE +HIS ACQUAINTANCES, TO OVERTAKE HIS REGIMENT WHICH WAS ALREADY IN POLAND. +HIS ATTENTION WANDERED FROM THE BOOK AND THE SQUARE AND HE FORMED IN +HIS BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER HéLèNE. +HIS BEING ALONE AND DESPONDENT! A STRANGE FACE MAY SEEM UNPLEASANT OR +HIS BREAST. AMONG THEM STOOD A MAN WHOSE WHITE SHIRT WAS STAINED WITH +HIS CAMP,” SAID HE. “WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? EITHER HE IS RETREATING, +HIS COLLAR AS IF ESCAPING, WAS SITTING ALMOST ASLEEP IN A LOW CHAIR, +HIS COMPANY? IF YOU WERE CLEVERER AND MORE AGREEABLE, I SHOULD PREFER +HIS DAUGHTER THAT MORNING. PRINCESS MARY WELL KNEW THIS PAINSTAKING +HIS DESPAIR WAS ALL THE GREATER FROM FEELING THAT HIS OWN WEAKNESS WAS +HIS DRESSING GOWN AND SMILED SLIGHTLY, AS IF EXPRESSING RESPECTFUL +HIS EASY LIFE IN MOSCOW, ENTERED THE ROOM. +HIS EFFORTS HAD NOT BEEN IN VAIN. THE DINNER, BOTH THE LENTEN AND THE +HIS EXAMPLE, AND THE LOUD SHOUTING CONTINUED FOR A LONG TIME. WHEN THE +HIS EYE AS A MILLER WAKES UP WHEN THE SOPORIFIC DRONE OF THE MILL WHEEL +HIS EYES AT THE SIGHT. +HIS EYES. “CAN THEY BE FRENCH?” HE LOOKED AT THE APPROACHING +HIS EYES HE HEARD IN FRONT OF HIM, WHERE THE ENEMY WAS, THE LONG-DRAWN +HIS FACE, GAVE HIM A PECULIAR VIVACITY AND SHIFTINESS OF EXPRESSION. +HIS FACE SHONE WITH SELF-SATISFACTION AND PLEASURE. +HIS FACE WAS TERRIBLE AND PITEOUS TO SEE, ESPECIALLY FROM ITS HELPLESS +HIS FAT CHEST UNCOVERED, STEPPING UNEVENLY AND TIMIDLY IN ONE SLIPPERED +HIS FATHER AND HIS FATHERLAND. TO THE GREAT REGRET OF MYSELF AND OF THE +HIS FATHER’S PECULIARITIES, AND PARTLY BECAUSE HE NEEDED SOLITUDE, +HIS FEVERISHNESS INCREASED AND HE GREW DELIRIOUS. VISIONS OF HIS FATHER, +HIS FUTURE DEPENDED—WHETHER HE WOULD FOLLOW THE SAME OLD ROAD, OR THAT +HIS GRANDFATHER, WHO WAS HIS GODFATHER, TREMBLING AND AFRAID OF DROPPING +HIS HAND. +HIS HAND AND AT THE HEAD OF A REGIMENT—HE FELL AS A HERO, WORTHY OF +HIS HANDKERCHIEF, AND AGAIN: ‘SERGéY KUZMíCH, FROM ALL SIDES,’... +HIS HANDS TO THE BLAZE, AND TURNED AWAY HIS FACE. +HIS HAVING BEEN PICKED UP ON THE BATTLEFIELD BY THE PEOPLE OF THE +HIS HEAD. +HIS HEAD AND AGAIN ASSUMING HIS FORMER TONE OF A DULL, UNREASONING, BUT +HIS HEAD, AND WITH INIMICAL POLITENESS LURKING IN THE CORNERS OF HIS +HIS HEAD HE LET IT DROOP AND AGAIN CLOSED HIS EYE. +HIS HORSE INDOLENTLY AND CARELESSLY. ROSTóV RECALLED THEIR QUARREL OF +HIS HUGE FIGURE, WITH ARMS HANGING DOWN AND WITH A PUCKERED, THOUGH +HIS HUSBANDRY. +HIS LAST PARTING FROM HIS FATHER AND HIS WIFE; HE REMEMBERED THE DAYS +HIS LEGS ALMOST GAVE WAY, IT SEEMED TO HIM THAT HE WAS TIRED OUT. HE +HIS LIPS IN HIS SLEEP AND BREATHING EVENLY. +HIS LIPS WITHOUT UTTERING A SOUND. HE WISHED TO SAY, “YES, A VILE, +HIS LOWER JAW. +HIS MOUTH, HE TURNED WITH HIS GLASS TO PIERRE. +HIS OLD FRIEND AND THE POSSESSOR OF SUCH ENORMOUS WEALTH, TO THE CAPRICE +HIS OWN HAD TAKEN POSSESSION OF HIS BRAIN AND AT THAT MOMENT AFFORDED +HIS OWN PLEASURE, CHOSE TO CHAT WITH LIEUTENANT DRUBETSKóY. MORE THAN +HIS OWN SUPERIORITY. IT WAS AS IF HE SAID TO THEM: “I KNOW YOU, I KNOW +HIS OWN WAY, GAVE AN ORDER. NO ONE SAID ANYTHING DEFINITE, BUT THE RUMOR +HIS PASSION FOR THE EMPEROR HAD COOLED SOMEWHAT IN MOSCOW. BUT STILL, AS +HIS PISTOL, AND THEN HE FELT WITH SURPRISE THAT OF ALL THE MEN HE KNEW +HIS PLATE, AND PROPOSED A TOAST, “TO THE HEALTH OF THE HERO OF OUR +HIS PLATE SEEMED TO HIM NOT QUITE CLEAN, AND POINTING TO A SPOT HE +HIS PRESENT STATE. +HIS RELATIONS WITH OLD FRIENDS, ALL HIS PLANS FOR HIS FUTURE, WERE +HIS SABER. ONLY TEN PACES DIVIDED THEM. DóLOKHOV LOWERED HIS HEAD TO +HIS SABER, THE SOLDIERS ALL CONTINUED TO RUN, TALKING, FIRING INTO THE +HIS SERVANT HANDED HIM A HALF-CUT NOVEL, IN THE FORM OF LETTERS, BY +HIS SHIP IS SAILING, BUT ON THE DAY OF BATTLE—HEAVEN KNOWS HOW AND +HIS SHRILL, HARSH VOICE. “THE ROAD IS NOT SWEPT FOR THE PRINCESS MY +HIS SIDE HAD BEEN ATTEMPTING A RECONCILIATION), AND HE ALSO WENT UP TO +HIS SON AND SEIZING THE LITTLE PRINCESS’ ARM AS IF SHE WOULD HAVE RUN +HIS SON BY BOTH HANDS, HE CRIED, “NOW I’VE GOT YOU, SO TAKE THE +HIS SPEECH, WHICH HE USED IN EXTREME CASES WHEN SPECIAL PERSUASION WAS +HIS SUPERIORS BY HIS PROMPTITUDE AND ACCURACY AND HAD ARRANGED HIS MONEY +HIS TIME. BUT HE IS GROWING OLD, AND THOUGH NOT EXACTLY CRUEL HE HAS TOO +HIS TIME THERE. +HIS TOULON, OR HIS BRIDGE OF ARCOLA. HOW IT WOULD COME ABOUT HE DID NOT +HIS TYPICALLY SOUTHERN FRENCH FACE DURING THE WHOLE TIME OF THE READING, +HIS USUAL JOKES, BUT NOTICING THAT WHAT HE WAS SAYING REDOUNDED TO +HIS VERSES, BOWED TO BAGRATIóN. EVERYONE ROSE, FEELING THAT DINNER +HIS VOICE. “SHE IS LIVING IN MOSCOW AND YOU ARE HERE. REMEMBER, +HIS WEALTH, AND BEING IN THE HABIT OF LORDING IT OVER THESE PEOPLE, HE +HIS WEAPONS CLEAN AND POLISHED TO THE UTMOST, AND EVERY HORSE GROOMED +HIS WHOLE SOUL WHAT THE STRANGER SAID. WHETHER HE ACCEPTED THE WISE +HIS WIFE, AND BY AN ANONYMOUS LETTER HE HAD RECEIVED THAT MORNING, WHICH +HIS WIFE SAID—MET FOR SUPPER AT PRINCE VASíLI’S. ALL THESE FRIENDS +HIS WIFE’S ROOM. SHE WAS LYING DEAD, IN THE SAME POSITION HE HAD SEEN +“HM!—HIS EXCELLENCY IS A PUPPY.... I GOT HIM HIS APPOINTMENT IN THE +“HM... HM...!” GROWLED PIERRE, FROWNING WITHOUT LOOKING AT HER, AND +“HM! HM!” MUTTERED THE PRINCE, SITTING DOWN. +HOARSELY. PRINCE ANDREW WINCED AND, CLUTCHING HIS HEAD, WENT OUT AND SAT +HOLDING UP A THREATENING FINGER. “HE IS SUCH A WORTHY AND EXCELLENT +“HOLD YOUR TONGUE, PéTYA, WHAT A GOOSE YOU ARE!” +HOLLABRüNN AND HAVE PURSUED EVER SINCE TO THIS PLACE. THE POSITION WE +HOLLOWS AND SNOW-COVERED POOLS OF WATER. +HOME NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER EIGHTEEN MONTHS AGAIN BRIGHTENED HIS +HOME READING A BOOK AND TRYING TO FATHOM THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SQUARE, +HOME,” SAID THE VALET. +HOME. SHOULD HE GO TO HEADQUARTERS NEXT DAY AND CHALLENGE THAT AFFECTED +HONORABLE, COUNT,” OR, “WERE HE AS CLEVER AS YOU,” AND SO ON, +HONORABLE, OF BEZúKHOV? AND FéDYA, WITH HIS NOBLE SPIRIT, LOVED HIM +HONORED GUESTS SAT, EVERYONE SEEMED TO BE IN HIGH SPIRITS AND UNDER THE +HONOR? KNOWING HIM TO BE AN ONLY SON, TO CHALLENGE HIM AND SHOOT SO +HONOR OF THE FRENCH INFANTRY, SO NECESSARY TO THE HONOR OF OUR NATION. +HONOR TO CHOOSE ME TO BE THEIR MARSHAL; IT WAS ALL I COULD DO TO GET +HONOR, WAS TERRIBLE. +HOOFS AND THE JINGLING OF SHOWY CAVALRY IN BLUE, RED, AND GREEN BRAIDED +HOOFS AND WHEELS. AMID THE GENERAL RUMBLE, THE GROANS AND VOICES OF THE +HOPED. SHE PRAYED FOR HER BROTHER AS LIVING AND WAS ALWAYS AWAITING NEWS +HOPED TO LEAD HE STILL LIVED THE OLD LIFE, ONLY IN NEW SURROUNDINGS. +HOPING TO FIND HIM ALONE. WHEN HE CAME IN AND SAW AN HUSSAR OF THE LINE +HORSE A LITTLE IN FRONT OF HIS MARSHALS. HE GAZED SILENTLY AT THE HILLS +HORSE OF A BATMAN OR GROOM OF SOME IMPORTANT PERSONAGE AND BEGAN TO +HORSES AND ILYá IVáNYCH. I DON’T THINK ILYá DRIVES ANYONE EXCEPT +HORSES AND THE INFANTRY COLLECTING WOOD. +HORSES IN HORSECLOTHS. THEN CAME A CART, AND BEHIND THAT WALKED AN OLD, +HORSES WERE ALREADY GALLOPING. ROSTóV HEARD THE THUD OF THEIR HOOFS +HORSE WITH HIS SPURS, AND GIVING IT THE REIN LEAPED LIGHTLY OVER. ONLY +HOSPITAL AT OSTROLENKA TILL I RECOVER. IN REGARD TO WHICH I HUMBLY +HOSPITALITY, DID THE HONORS TO THE PRINCE. +HOSPITALS. THE ONE AND THE OTHER MAY SERVE AS A PASTIME. BUT WHAT’S +HOURS’ SLEEP BEFORE MORNING AND FELT CHEERFUL, BOLD, AND RESOLUTE, +HOUSEHOLD, A COMMON ANXIETY, A SOFTENING OF THE HEART, AND A +HOUSE LAY BEHIND A NEWLY DUG POND FILLED WITH WATER TO THE BRINK AND +HOUSE, NOW AND THEN OPENING HER DOOR WHEN SOMEONE PASSED AND WATCHING +HOUSES FROM HIS DOOR. IT SEEMED TO HIM THE HORSES WERE NOT MOVING AT +HOUSE WAS DOMINATED BY THE SAME FEELING THAT PRINCESS MARY EXPERIENCED +“HOW ABOUT THE HORSES?” HE ASKED, WITHOUT LOOKING AT PIERRE. +HOW AM I TO RENOUNCE FOREVER THESE VILE FANCIES, SO AS PEACEFULLY TO +“HOW AM I TO UNDERSTAND YOU, MON PèRE?” SAID THE PRINCESS, GROWING +HOW CAN I, AN INSIGNIFICANT MORTAL, SHOW HIS OMNIPOTENCE, HIS INFINITY, +“HOW CAN ONE TALK OR THINK OF SUCH TRIFLES?” THOUGHT PIERRE. +“HOW CAN THE EMPEROR BE UNDECIDED?” THOUGHT ROSTóV, BUT THEN EVEN +“HOW DARE YOU TAKE IT?” HE SHOUTED. +HOW DID IT BEGIN? I TRAVELED FROM MOSCOW WITH PRINCE VASíLI. THEN THERE +HOW D’YE DO, OLD FELLOW?” HE SAID, TURNING TO AN OLD MAN WHO WAS +“HOW EASY IT IS, HOW LITTLE EFFORT IT NEEDS, TO DO SO MUCH GOOD,” +HOWEVER, AT NINE O’CLOCK THE PRINCE, IN HIS VELVET COAT WITH A SABLE +“HOWEVER, IF YOU COMMAND IT, YOUR MAJESTY,” SAID KUTúZOV, LIFTING +“HOWEVER, I THINK GENERAL KUTúZOV HAS COME OUT,” SAID PRINCE +HOWEVER THEY MIGHT CHANGE THE SETTING AND ADORNMENT OF THAT FACE, IT +“HOWEVER, THIS IS NOT AT ALL INTERESTING. LET US HAVE DINNER, AND THEN +HOW HAVE YOU SPENT IT? IN RIOTOUS ORGIES AND DEBAUCHERY, RECEIVING +“HOW IS IT I AM NOT MOVING? I HAVE FALLEN, I AM KILLED!” ROSTóV +“HOW IS THAT?...” BEGAN PRINCE ANDREW, WHO HAD FOR LONG BEEN WAITING +HOW IS THAT?” SAID DIFFERENT VOICES. +“HOW IT WILL BE THERE I DON’T KNOW, BUT ALL WILL BE WELL!” THOUGHT +HOW LONG HIS UNCONSCIOUSNESS LASTED. SUDDENLY HE AGAIN FELT THAT HE WAS +“HOW MUCH LONGER? HOW MUCH LONGER? OH, THESE INSUFFERABLE STREETS, +HOW ONE DAY SOON AFTER HIS MARRIAGE HE CAME OUT OF THE BEDROOM INTO HIS +HOW QUICKLY! NOW I KNOW THAT NOT BECAUSE OF HER ALONE, NOR OF MYSELF +“HOW SHE LOVES ME!” THOUGHT PRINCESS MARY. “HOW HAPPY I AM NOW, +“HOW STRANGE IT IS,” SAID VéRA, SELECTING A MOMENT WHEN ALL WERE +“HOW SWEET SHE IS—SHE WILL BE A WEAL BEAUTY!” SAID DENíSOV. +HOW THE RUSSIANS HAD BEEN OVERWHELMED BY FLYING AUSTRIANS AND HAD HAD TO +HOW THEY HAD BEEN MADE MUCH OF IN RUSSIA, POLAND, AND ABROAD. THEY SPOKE +HOW TO BEHAVE WITH HER. THE EVENING BEFORE, IN THE FIRST HAPPY MOMENT OF +“HOW UNDERSTAND ME!” CRIED HER FATHER ANGRILY. “PRINCE VASíLI +“HOW WAS IT A GUN WAS ABANDONED?” ASKED BAGRATIóN, FROWNING, NOT SO +HUGGING AND KISSING HIM. ANOTHER AND YET ANOTHER CREATURE OF THE SAME +HUMAN SKULL WITH ITS CAVITIES AND TEETH. AFTER READING THE FIRST WORDS +“HUMBUG! NONSENSE! HUMBUG, HUMBUG, HUMBUG!” CRIED PRINCE BOLKóNSKI, +HUMILITY. +HUMMING INFANTRY AS BY A FRAME. +HUMOR AND DISSATISFIED WITH THE AFFAIR, AND SO DID NOT EXERT THEMSELVES +HUNDRED RUBLES HE HAD A LONG COLUMN OF FIGURES SCORED AGAINST HIM, +HUNDRED RUBLES WAS LEFT OF THAT MONEY, SO THAT THIS SEVEN OF HEARTS +HUNDRED YARDS AFTER THAT BEFORE HE SAW TO HIS LEFT, ACROSS THE WHOLE +HUNG LOW OVER THE FIELD OF BATTLE ON THE HORIZON. IT WAS GROWING +“HUR-A-A-A-AH!” CAME A ROAR OF VOICES. “LET ANYONE COME MY WAY +“HURRAH—AH!—AH!” RANG A LONG-DRAWN SHOUT FROM OUR RANKS, AND +“HURRAH! HURRAH! HURRAH!” THUNDERED FROM ALL SIDES, ONE REGIMENT +“HURRAH!” RANG THE ENTHUSIASTIC VOICES OF THE OFFICERS. +“HURRAH!” SHOUTED PRINCE ANDREW, AND, SCARCELY ABLE TO HOLD UP +“HURRAH!”... THEN THE GENERAL MARCH, AND AGAIN “HURRAH! HURRAH!” +HURRIEDLY INTERRUPTING BAGRATIóN. +HURRIEDLY: “I WILL TELL YOU SOME TIME HOW IT ALL HAPPENED. BUT YOU +HUSBAND OF A BEAUTY, AND IN A WORD—AN OLD WOMAN; AND SECONDLY BECAUSE +HUSSAR REVELS AND LIFE IN THE FIGHTING LINE, THE OTHER OF THE PLEASURES +HUSSARS, FLUSHING AND ADDRESSING AN ADJUTANT WHO HAD RIDDEN UP, “SO +HUSSARS, TOLD THEM TO FOLLOW HIM, AND TROTTED DOWNHILL IN THE DIRECTION +“I...” +I, ABOVE ALL, WHO AM TO BLAME FOR EVERYTHING. HELP ME, TEACH ME, AND +I ALONE HAVE ANY INFLUENCE WITH MY FATHER, AND NOW AND THEN CAN SAVE HIM +“I AM.” +I AM.” +“I AM AFRAID FOR THE BABY,” SHE SAID TO MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE: +“I AM AFRAID,” SAID PIERRE, SMILING, AND WAVERING BETWEEN THE +“I AM ASKING YOU WHEN YOU LAST HEARD FROM BOLKóNSKI,” REPEATED +“I AM NOT IN THE CAVALRY, COLONEL, BUT I AM A RUSSIAN GENERAL AND IF +“I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT YOU,” HE SAID, “I DON’T KNOW YOU AND, +I AM OVERWHELMED WITH BUSINESS AND IT IS PURELY OUT OF CHARITY THAT +“I AM READY FOR EVERYTHING,” SAID PIERRE. +“I AM SO GLAD YOU’VE COME!” SAID NATáSHA, WITHOUT ANSWERING HIM. +“I AM VERY SORRY YOU DID NOT FIND ME IN YESTERDAY. I WAS FUSSING ABOUT +“I AM WAITING, YOUR MAJESTY,” ANSWERED KUTúZOV, BENDING FORWARD +“‘I AM WOUNDED AND CANNOT RIDE AND CONSEQUENTLY CANNOT COMMAND THE +“I BEGIN AB OVO. ‘THE ENEMY OF THE HUMAN RACE,’ AS YOU KNOW, +“I BELIEVE IT, I BELIEVE IT, FWIEND, AND I SHARE AND APPWOVE...” +“I BESTOW IT WITH PLEASURE,” SAID NAPOLEON. “AND WHO IS THAT YOUNG +“I BURNED THIS TO PROVE MY LOVE FOR HER. I JUST HEATED A RULER IN THE +“I CALLED ONCE OR TWICE AT YOUR HOUSE,” SAID ROSTóV, REDDENING. +I CAN DO.” AND HIS FANCY PICTURED THE BATTLE, ITS LOSS, THE +“I CANNOT PAY IT ALL IMMEDIATELY. WILL YOU TAKE AN I.O.U.?” HE SAID. +“I CAN’T TELL YOU HOW MUCH I HAVE LIVED THROUGH SINCE THEN. I HARDLY +ICE AND INTO THE WATER AND OFTENEST OF ALL AMONG THE CROWD THAT COVERED +ICE. CROWDS OF SOLDIERS FROM THE DAM BEGAN RUNNING ONTO THE FROZEN POND. +“I COMMANDED A SQUADRON,” REPLIED REPNíN. +I DARE SAY, IS BRAVER THAN ANY OF THEM. HE SAYS NOTHING ABOUT HIS +IDEA OF THE MEANS BY WHICH OUR HOLY ORDER WILL HELP YOU TO REACH YOUR +I DID NOT THINK HE WOULD GET IT TO YOU SO QUICKLY.... WELL, HOW ARE YOU? +IDLENESS, BUT WOULD GROW FAT AND DIE. THE THIRD THING—WHAT ELSE WAS +IDLE, VICIOUS LIFE!” BUT DARED NOT BREAK THE SILENCE. +I DOING? AREN’T THEY LAUGHING AT ME? SHAN’T I BE ASHAMED TO REMEMBER +I DO NOT BEGIN, SIRE, BECAUSE WE ARE NOT ON PARADE AND NOT ON THE +“I DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU THINK, FATHER,” WHISPERED THE PRINCESS. +“I DO NOT UNDERSTAND,” SAID PIERRE, FEELING WITH DISMAY DOUBTS +I DO NOT YET KNOW. THERE WILL BE TIME ENOUGH TO THINK ABOUT LOVE WHEN I +“I... DON’T...” HE MUTTERED, HOLDING UP TWO FINGERS TO HIS CAP. +“I DON’T KNOW. I THINK IF HE WRITES, I WILL WRITE TOO,” SHE SAID, +“I DON’T UNDERSTAND,” HE SAID, “HOW IT IS THAT THE MIND OF MAN +I DON’T WANT HIM.” (HE LOOKED AT HIS BLUSHING DAUGHTER.) “ARE YOU +I ENVY HIM, BUT YOU WANT TO MAKE HIM WHAT I AM, WITHOUT GIVING HIM MY +“I EXPECTED HELP FROM YOU AND I GET NONE, NONE FROM YOU EITHER!” +“I EXPECT SO.” +IF ABOUT TO TELL A GOOD STORY HE PUT DOWN THE CARDS, LEANED BACK IN HIS +IF AT FIRST THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL THOUGHT THAT KUTúZOV WAS +IF COMPLAINING OF KUTúZOV. +“IF HE COULD ATTACK US, HE WOULD HAVE DONE SO TODAY,” SAID HE. +IF HE IS STANDING BEFORE BRüNN...” +“IF HE STARTS A ROW I’LL GO AWAY,” SAID PRINCE ANATOLE. “I +“IF HE WERE NOT,” HE SAID QUIETLY, “YOU AND I WOULD NOT BE +“IF I’D BEEN IN NIKóLENKA’S PLACE I WOULD HAVE KILLED EVEN MORE +“IF I HAVE TIME,” ANSWERED NICHOLAS. “BUT I PROMISED THE +IF IN SEARCH OF SOMETHING. BEFORE DINNER THE OLD PRINCE, OF WHOM SHE WAS +“IF IT IS TRUE THAT MONSIEUR DENíSOV HAS MADE YOU A PROPOSAL, TELL +“IF ONLY THEY WOULD BE QUICK!” THOUGHT ROSTóV, FEELING THAT AT LAST +IF SHE HAD NOT MEANT IT SERIOUSLY. IT MAKES IT AS IF YOU WERE MARRYING +“IF WE FOUGHT BEFORE,” HE SAID, “NOT LETTING THE FRENCH PASS, AS +IF WE OCCUPY THE VILLAGES OF SOKOLNITZ AND KOBELNITZ, WHEREBY WE +IF YOU ARE IN LOVE, MARRY HIM!” SAID THE COUNTESS, WITH A LAUGH OF +“IF YOU ARE REFUSING FOR MY SAKE, I AM AFRAID THAT I...” +“IF YOU ARE RESOLVED, I MUST BEGIN YOUR INITIATION,” SAID THE RHETOR +IF YOU HAVE FIRMLY RESOLVED TO JOIN OUR BROTHERHOOD.” (PIERRE NODDED +“IF YOU LIKE, YOUR HONOR!” +“IF YOU PLEASE, YOUR EXCELLENCY, PéTRUSHA HAS BROUGHT SOME PAPERS,” +“IF YOU REALLY WANT IT,” SAID HE. +“IF YOU WON’T ANSWER, I’LL TELL YOU...” HéLèNE WENT ON. “YOU +“I HAD NOT THE PLEASURE OF SEEING YOU,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, COLDLY +I HAD TO EXPRESS MY OWN DESIRE...” SHE HAD NO TIME TO FINISH. THE OLD +“I HAVE ALREADY REFUSED,” SHE SAID HURRIEDLY. +I HAVE A PRESENTIMENT THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME I SHALL HAVE TO SHOW ALL +“I HAVE COME TO YOU WITH A MESSAGE AND AN OFFER, COUNT,” HE +“I HAVE DONE MY BEST FOR HIM, AND I CAN ASSURE YOU THE EDUCATION THERE +I HAVE DONE THAT THOUGH BADLY AND TO A SMALL EXTENT; BUT I HAVE DONE +“I HAVE HAD A PROPOSITION MADE ME CONCERNING YOU,” HE SAID WITH AN +“I HAVE HEARD OF YOU, MY DEAR SIR,” CONTINUED THE STRANGER, “AND +“I HAVE MET LOVING, NOBLE, HIGH-MINDED MEN, BUT I HAVE NOT YET MET +“I HAVE NO MONEY WITH ME,” HE SAID. +“I HAVE NOT REFERRED TO THIS OUT OF CURIOSITY, MY DEAR SIR, BUT FOR +I HAVE RECEIVED WHAT WAS DUE FROM THE RYAZáN ESTATE AND WILL KEEP IT; +“I HAVE THE PLEASURE OF ADDRESSING COUNT BEZúKHOV, IF I AM NOT +“I... HOPE... FOR GUIDANCE... HELP... IN REGENERATION,” SAID PIERRE, +“I IMAGINE THAT FREEMASONRY IS THE FRATERNITY AND EQUALITY OF MEN WHO +“I?... I’M GOING TO PETERSBURG,” ANSWERED PIERRE, IN A CHILDLIKE, +“I INTENDED TO RE-FORM THEM BEYOND THE VILLAGE, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” +“I? I? WHAT OF ME? LEAVE ME OUT OF THE QUESTION. I’M NOT GOING TO +I KNOW FOR CERTAIN THAT YOU WON’T MARRY HER.” +“I KNOW FROM RELIABLE SOURCES THAT THE DOWAGER EMPRESS IS TAKING A +“I KNOW PEOPLE CONSIDER ME A BAD MAN!” HE SAID. “LET THEM! I +“I KNOW YOUR OUTLOOK,” SAID THE MASON, “AND THE VIEW OF LIFE YOU +I KNOW YOU WILL PRAY OVER IT. WELL, PRAY IF YOU LIKE, BUT YOU HAD BETTER +I’LL GO TO THE GENERAL AND ASK HIM.” HE READJUSTED HIMSELF IN THE +I’LL JUST FINISH DEALING, AND THEN ILYúSHKA WILL COME WITH HIS +“I’LL KILL YOU!” HE SHOUTED, AND SEIZING THE MARBLE TOP OF A TABLE +I’LL LET HER SEE....” +I’LL SEE.” THE OLD PRINCE SNORTED. “LET HER MARRY, IT’S ALL THE +“I’LL SING FOR YOU A WHOLE EVENING,” SAID NATáSHA. +I’LL TEACH YOU TO THINK!” AND LIFTING HIS STICK HE SWUNG IT AND +“I’LL TELL YOU WHAT, MY DEAR FELLOW,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, WHO +“I’LL TRUST YOU.” +ILLUMINED, AND PLUNGE HIM INTO THE DEPTHS OF UNKNOWN AND UNDEFINED +I LOVE SO THAT I WOULD GIVE MY LIFE FOR THEM, AND THE OTHERS I’D + * “I LOVE YOU.” + * I LOVE YOU. +“I LOVE YOU ALL, AND HAVE DONE NO HARM TO ANYONE; AND WHAT HAVE YOU +ILYá HAS SENT YOU TO ASK FOR STRAWBERRIES AND FRESH PINEAPPLES.’ WE +ILYúSHKA, THE ONE WHO DANCED AT COUNT ORLóV’S, YOU REMEMBER, IN A +IMAGINATION A NEW PLAN OF LIFE. ON THE PREVIOUS EVENING AT THE LODGE, HE +IMAGINE...” +IMAGINED OPPRESSORS WHOSE VICTIMS HE WOULD RESCUE. OF THE THREE +IMAGINING HIMSELF BEFORE HIS OWN OFFICERS, INSISTED ON HIS SOLDIERLY +“I MAKE BOLD TO ASK YOUR EXCELLENCY TO MOVE A LITTLE FOR THIS +I’M ALIVE, THAT IS NOT MY FAULT, SO I MUST LIVE OUT MY LIFE AS BEST I +“I’M CERTAIN OF IT; YOU’LL SEE.” +IMMEDIATELY. +IMMEDIATELY STARTING TO RUN ALONG THE HALL AND UP THE WARPED STEPS OF +IMMEDIATELY TOLD HIM THAT THIS MAN COULD BE USEFUL, AND WITHOUT ANY +IMMENSITY OF THE POWER THEY CONSTITUTED. +“I’M NOT A GOOSE, BUT THEY ARE WHO CRY ABOUT TRIFLES,” SAID +“I’M NOT SUCH A FOOL.... JUST YOU TRY IT ON.... ALLEZ-VOUS +“‘I MOST ARDENTLY DESIRE,’ WRITES THE KING OF PRUSSIA TO +IMPATIENT AND SETS TO WORK HIMSELF AND FINDS LETTERS FROM THE EMPEROR +IMPATIENT THE NEARER THEY GOT TO MOSCOW. +IMPENDING ACTION. FROM PRIVATES TO GENERAL THEY WERE NOT EXPECTING A +IMPENDING BATTLE, UNDER A HEADING WHICH HE ALSO READ OUT: +IMPERTURBABLE CALM SHE DID NOT BEGIN TO SPEAK IN FRONT OF THE VALET. +IMPETUS, AND PRINCESS MARY LONG REMEMBERED THE DYING CREAK OF THAT +IMPLIED THAT, FOR CERTAIN CONSIDERATIONS HE COULD NOT KNOW OF, THIS WAS +IMPORTANCE, HE RETURNED AGAIN, CALLED BACK THE COOK AND THE CLUB +IMPORTANT AND UNIMPORTANT, ALL OF WHOM HE KNEW, AS IF THEY WERE ALL +IMPOSSIBLE!” AND SUDDENLY HE WAS SEIZED BY A PANIC OF FEAR FOR HIMSELF +IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO RETURN TO HIS FORMER CONCEPTION OF HER, THAT HE +IMPOSSIBLE... OH, HOW PLEASANT IT WAS AT HOME!... THE KNAVE, DOUBLE OR +IMPRESSIONABLE, SMILING YOUNG FACES (SMILING PROBABLY AT THEIR OWN +IMPRESSION OF THOSE VOICES AND FACES AND A SENSE OF LONELINESS MERGED +IMPRESSION. WHETHER DOLGORúKOV AND WEYROTHER, OR KUTúZOV, LANGERON, +“I MUST ALSO INFORM YOU,” SAID THE RHETOR, “THAT OUR ORDER +IN 1806 THE OLD PRINCE WAS MADE ONE OF THE EIGHT COMMANDERS IN CHIEF +IN A BAD TEMPER, AND IN THE MORNING TíKHON HAD ALREADY ADVISED THE +IN A CHEERFUL VOICE: +IN A CORNER OF THE HUT STOOD A STANDARD CAPTURED FROM THE FRENCH, AND +IN A CORNER OF THE ROOM SOMETHING RED AND TINY GAVE A GRUNT AND SQUEALED +IN A DAY OR TWO WE SHALL ALL HAVE TO TAKE PART IN A GREATER AND MORE +IN ALL SINCERITY—NOT AS A FUTURE MASON BUT AS AN HONEST MAN: HAVE YOU +IN, AND SINKING HEAVILY INTO AN ARMCHAIR. +IN ANY CASE. HE HAS FORWARDED ME A LETTER FROM BORíS. THANK GOD, BORíS +IN A SHOVEL—THE GUESTS WHO HAD BEEN SCATTERED ABOUT IN DIFFERENT ROOMS +INATTENTIVE, BUT YOU HAD TALENT—OH YES, YOU HAD TALENT!” +IN CHIEF’S OFFICE WERE GATHERED KUTúZOV HIMSELF, WEYROTHER, AND THE +INCLINATION—PRACTICAL BUSINESS. +INCOME WHICH WAS SAID TO AMOUNT TO FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND RUBLES A YEAR, +INCOMPARABLY HIGHER THAN A GENERAL, AND ACCORDING TO WHICH WHAT WAS +IN COMPARISON WITH ETERNITY?” +INCOMPREHENSIBLE—THE DEATH OF ONE SHE LOVED. +IN CONSEQUENCE OF THIS DISCOVERY HIS WHOLE MANNER OF LIFE, ALL +INCONVENIENT, UNSEEMLY, AND IMPOSSIBLE TO DO SO. +IN CONVERSATION—COUNT ROSTOPCHíN, PRINCE YúRI DOLGORúKOV, VALúEV, +IN COUPLES AND HE HIMSELF RODE ALONG THE LINE TRYING TO MASTER THE +INCREASED TENFOLD, AND THEIR LIFE, WHICH SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN PASSED IN +INCREASING, SEEMED LIKE SOMEONE’S BREATHING. HE LISTENED INTENTLY TO +INCREDIBLE, UNHEARD-OF, AND IMPOSSIBLE EVENT OF A RUSSIAN DEFEAT, + * “INDEED, SIRE, WE SHALL DO EVERYTHING IT IS POSSIBLE TO +“INDEED? YES, YES!” SAID BORíS, WITH A SMILE. “AND WE TOO HAVE +INDICATED THAT IF HE WAS NOT DANCING IT WAS BECAUSE HE WOULD NOT AND NOT +INDICATING A CAPTIVE FRENCH DRAGOON WHO WAS BEING BROUGHT IN ON FOOT BY +INDICATING HER TO THE GENTLEMEN, SAID: “VOILà MARIE!” PRINCESS MARY +INDICATIONS, HE SAW CLEARLY THAT THE ALLIES BELIEVED HIM TO BE FAR AWAY +INDIFFERENT AIR, AND GLANCED INTO THE LITTLE DRAWING ROOM. PIERRE AND +INDIFFERENTLY QUIESCENT TILL THE MOMENT WHEN MOTION IS TRANSMITTED +INDIGNANTLY. “I COME TO ASK YOU WHAT TO DO, AND YOU CALL IT +INDISCRETION, ONE MIGHT ASK ABOUT OUR PLANS. +IN DISCUSSION WITH THE SOLE OBJECT OF OFFENDING ONE ANOTHER. BUT THE +INDISPOSITION WAS THE STRONG IMPRESSION MADE ON HIS SENSITIVE MIND BY +INDIVIDUAL COMMANDERS AND INQUIRING INTO DETAILS OF THE ACTION AND OUR +I NEED.” BUT WHEN HE CAME ACROSS A MAN OF POSITION HIS INSTINCT +“I NEVER GO BACK ON MY WORD,” HE SAID. “BESIDES, SóNYA IS SO +“I NEVER INVITED THEM. THEY CAME TO DISTURB MY LIFE—AND THERE IS NOT +INEVITABLE PAIN SHOWED ITSELF. +INFANTRY. +INFANTRY AND CAVALRY AND TOOK UP ITS APPOINTED POSITION. NOT ONLY THE +INFANTRY, AND HAVING REACHED THE VILLAGE OF GRUNTERSDORF THEY HALTED. IT +INFANTRY, CAVALRY, AND ARTILLERY. HOW WAS IT THAT TWO GUNS WERE +INFANTRY IN DIFFERENT UNIFORMS; NOW WAS HEARD THE RHYTHMIC BEAT OF +INFANTRY OFFICER WHO JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE HAD RUSHED OUT OF +INFANTS IN ARMS MET HIM TO THANK HIM FOR RELEASING THEM FROM HARD +INFLUENCE OF A VARIETY OF EXCITING SENSATIONS. ONLY PIERRE AND +INFLUENCE OF THE DARK, GRACEFUL GIRL WHO LOVED ANOTHER. +INFORMING THE PRINCE THAT AS SOON AS THE ACTION BEGAN HE HAD WITHDRAWN +“INFORM THE PRINCE THAT LABOR HAS BEGUN,” SAID MARY BOGDáNOVNA, +IN FOUR DIFFERENT PROVINCES. HE HAD ARRANGED THIS FOR HIMSELF SO AS TO +IN FRENCH. +IN FRONT OF HIM AND THAT THE ENEMY MUST BE AT LEAST SIX MILES AWAY. +IN FRONT OF HIM WAS MISTY DARKNESS. ROSTóV COULD SEE NOTHING, PEER AS +IN FRONT OF THEM, AND THAT THE COLUMNS MOVING NEAR PRATZEN CONSTITUTED +IN GENERAL AT BALD HILLS THE LITTLE PRINCESS LIVED IN CONSTANT FEAR, AND +IN GOOD SPIRITS, HE MOUNTED HIS HORSE AND RODE OUT INTO THE FIELD +IN GREAT RUSSIA, WHICH FORMED THE LARGER PART OF HIS PROPERTY, AND LEFT +IN HAND. +IN HER EYES, WHICH, FOR AN INSTANT, GLANCED AT PIERRE, PRINCE VASíLI +IN HIS FINE GRAY EYES, AND ON HIS DELICATE LIPS THE SAME CAPACITY FOR +IN HIS HAND, WAS SITTING THERE WITH A SMILE OF DEEP EMOTION ON HIS FACE, +IN HIS HORSE BEFORE THE EMPEROR. +IN HIS LARGE ELONGATED HAND ON BLUE PAPER AS FOLLOWS: +IN HIS MIND AN UNSETTLED QUESTION HE ALWAYS TRIED TO STIFLE, ONE ABOUT +IN IT BY SPRING. +IN KIEV PIERRE FOUND SOME PEOPLE HE KNEW, AND STRANGERS HASTENED TO MAKE +IN KISHENëV WITH ONLY A MOLDAVIAN PEASANT WOMAN TO HELP INSTEAD OF A +IN LIFE, ONE SHE HAD NOT YET EXPERIENCED, IRREPARABLE AND +IN LOVE. THE MARSHALS STOOD BEHIND HIM NOT VENTURING TO DISTRACT HIS +IN LOVE WITH THE TSAR,” HE SAID. +IN MARY BOGDáNOVNA’S TREMBLING WHITE HANDS. +IN ME. I HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT HER BROTHER ANATOLE WAS IN LOVE WITH HER +IN MILITARY MATTERS. +IN MY OPINION WAS NOTHING OF THE KIND. WE CIVILIANS, AS YOU KNOW, HAVE +INNOCENT YOUTH. +IN NOVEMBER, 1805, ANNOUNCING THAT HE AND HIS SON WOULD BE PAYING HIM +IN NOVEMBER, 1805, PRINCE VASíLI HAD TO GO ON A TOUR OF INSPECTION +INN, WHERE TWO ROADS PARTED. BOTH OF THEM LED DOWNHILL AND TROOPS WERE +IN ON BAD COMPANY. ROSTóV FLUSHED UP ON NOTICING THIS, BUT HE DID NOT +IN OUR ARMY. HIS OWN STRATEGIC PLAN, WHICH OBVIOUSLY COULD NOT NOW +IN OUR HOUSE, AREN’T THEY?” +IN OUR LACK OF UNDERSTANDING WE SEE ONLY OUR WEAKNESS AND HIS +“IN OUR TEMPLES WE RECOGNIZE NO OTHER DISTINCTIONS,” READ THE GRAND +IN PETERSBURG, AS IN MOSCOW, PIERRE FOUND THE SAME ATMOSPHERE OF +IN PURE, CORRECT FRENCH MANY INTERESTING DETAILS ABOUT THE ARMIES AND +INQUIRING LOOK. HE WAS ABOUT TO STOOP OVER HER HAND AND KISS IT, BUT +INQUIRING WHAT SHE WAS TO DO WITH THESE PEOPLE. ON LEAVING THEM, ANNA +IN ROSTóV’S SOUL! AND THIS SOMETHING WAS APART FROM EVERYTHING ELSE +INSANE—UNPROFITABLE TO HIMSELF, TO THE COUNT, AND TO THE SERFS—MADE +“IN SHORT, HOPING TO SETTLE MATTERS BY TAKING UP A WARLIKE ATTITUDE, +INSIGNIFICANCE, AWARE OF BEING BUT A DROP IN THAT OCEAN OF MEN, AND +IN SILENCE, AND THEN THE SAME JOKE WAS REPEATED. +INSOLENT, HARD, AND MOCKING FACE AS HE HAD SEEN IT AT THE BANQUET, AND +IN SOME RESPECTS A BRILLIANT MATCH FOR THE DOWERLESS, ORPHAN GIRL. FROM +INSPIRED BY THE EMPERORS’ PRESENCE WERE EAGER FOR ACTION. THE +IN SPITE OF HIMSELF (ALTHOUGH HE KNEW HOW FAR IT WAS SAFE TO TRUST +IN SPITE OF PRINCE ANDREW’S DISAGREEABLE, IRONICAL TONE, IN SPITE OF +IN SPITE OF THIS, BOTH THE FACE AND WORDS OF HIS NEW ACQUAINTANCE WERE +INSTANTLY HIS REGRET AT NOT HAVING BEEN IN ACTION AND HIS DEJECTED MOOD +INSTEAD OF FIRING IT, FLUNG IT AT THE FRENCHMAN AND RAN WITH ALL HIS +INSTEAD OF THAT HE ONLY EXCITED HIMSELF MORE AND MORE. +INSTRUCTING IN READING, WRITING, AND RELIGION. ON ALL HIS ESTATES PIERRE +INSTRUCTIONS HIS FATHER HAD SENT AND TAKING THE CORRESPONDENCE AND HIS +INSTRUCTIONS TO MAJOR EKONóMOV, HE COULD NOT HELP TAKING NOTICE OF THE +INSUFFICIENT, AND HE KEPT EXPECTING SOMETHING MORE, MORE AND YET MORE. +INTENDED FOR YOU TOO. GIVE THEM TO THE WOMAN WHOM YOU SHALL HONOR MOST +INTENDED TO TAKE UP OUR POSITION AND BEGIN THE ACTION, BUT WERE ON THIS +INTENDED TO VISIT ALL HIS ESTATES AND SEE FOR HIMSELF HOW FAR HIS ORDERS +INTENTION OF KILLING YOUR MAN AS QUICKLY AND SURELY AS POSSIBLE, AND +INTENTION OF PROPOSING, AND TODAY OR TOMORROW HE WOULD PROBABLY ASK +INTENTION TO PART FROM HER FOREVER. +INTERESTING AND ENTERTAINING. AFTER THE FIELD MARSHAL’S DEPARTURE +INTERPRETED. THE LIFE OF OLD PRINCE BOLKóNSKI, PRINCE ANDREW, AND +INTERVENE. PRINCE ANDREW LOOKED AT TúSHIN FROM UNDER HIS BROWS AND HIS +INTERVIEW? WHY NEGOTIATE, AND ABOVE ALL WHY RETREAT, WHEN TO RETREAT IS +“IN THAT CASE...” BEGAN WILLARSKI, BUT PIERRE INTERRUPTED HIM. +“IN THAT CASE HE IS INVITING HIS DOOM BY AWAITING OUR ATTACK,” SAID +“IN THAT CASE WE CAN GO,” SAID WILLARSKI. “MY CARRIAGE IS AT YOUR +IN THAT HAPPY MOOD IN WHICH EVERYTHING SEEMS POSSIBLE AND EVERYTHING +IN THE ARMY, BESIDES THE SUBORDINATION AND DISCIPLINE PRESCRIBED IN THE +IN THE ASSURANCE THAT THE RUMORS ABOUT THE EMPEROR BEING WOUNDED WERE +IN THE AUTUMN OF 1806 EVERYBODY HAD AGAIN BEGUN TALKING OF THE WAR WITH +IN THE AUTUMN THE ROSTóVS RETURNED TO MOSCOW. EARLY IN THE WINTER +IN THE BEGINNING OF THE WINTER OF 1805-6 PIERRE RECEIVED ONE OF ANNA +IN THE COMMON MOTION THE RESULT AND AIM OF WHICH ARE BEYOND ITS KEN. +IN THE DARKNESS, IT SEEMED AS THOUGH A GLOOMY UNSEEN RIVER WAS FLOWING +IN THE DEATHLIKE STILLNESS ONLY THE TRAMP OF HORSES WAS HEARD. THIS +IN THE DRAWING ROOM, TALKING TO THE LITTLE PRINCESS AND MADEMOISELLE +IN THE EMPEROR’S SUITE ALL EXCHANGED RAPID LOOKS THAT EXPRESSED +IN THE EMPERORS’ SUITE WERE THE PICKED YOUNG ORDERLY OFFICERS OF THE +IN THE EVENING, AFTER SUPPER, WHEN ALL WERE ABOUT TO RETIRE, ANATOLE +IN THE EVENING ANDREW AND PIERRE GOT INTO THE OPEN CARRIAGE AND DROVE TO +IN THE EVENING,” REPORTED ROSTóV, STOOPING FORWARD WITH HIS HAND AT +IN THE FRESH MORNING AIR WERE NOW HEARD, NOT TWO OR THREE MUSKET SHOTS +IN THE HAIR, THE HAIR COMBED UP, AND THE BLUE SCARF ARRANGED LOWER ON +IN THE HOUSE ON THE POVARSKáYA ROSE BEFORE HIM WITH SUCH VIVIDNESS, +IN THEIR CHILDLIKE GLEE, AROUSED BY THE FIRE AND THEIR LUCK IN +IN THEIR OWN PLAY. +IN THEIR POWER. +IN THE LETTER FROM HIS PARENTS WAS ENCLOSED A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION +IN THE MEAN JOCULAR WAY COMMON TO ANONYMOUS LETTERS SAID THAT HE SAW +IN THE MEANTIME, NOT ONLY WAS IT KNOWN IN THE MAIDSERVANTS’ ROOMS THAT +IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS STORY, JUST AS HE WAS SAYING: “YOU CANNOT IMAGINE +IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LINE THAT HAD SEEMED SO TERRIBLE—AND NOW HE +IN THE MIST. +IN THE MORNING ALL THAT WAS LEFT OF THE NIGHT MIST ON THE HEIGHTS WAS +IN THE NIGHT HE CALLED HIS VALET AND TOLD HIM TO PACK UP TO GO TO +IN THE OTHER THE LETTER, AND PRESSING THEM ALTERNATELY TO HER LIPS. +IN THE REARGUARD, DOKHTúROV AND OTHERS RALLYING SOME BATTALIONS KEPT UP +IN THE ROOM NEXT THEIR BEDROOM THERE WAS A CONFUSION OF SABERS, +“IN THE SEVENTH PLACE, TRY, BY THE FREQUENT THOUGHT OF DEATH,” THE +IN THE SPRING OF 1807 HE DECIDED TO RETURN TO PETERSBURG. ON THE WAY HE +IN THE STREETS OF PETERSBURG IN AN OLD UNIFORM. HE MADE FRIENDS WITH +IN THE THIRD CIRCLE, NARýSHKIN WAS SPEAKING OF THE MEETING OF THE +IN THE VILLAGE OF HOSJERADEK THERE WERE RUSSIAN TROOPS RETIRING FROM +IN THE WORLD AND ABOVE EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD. “WHAT WERE LOSSES, AND +INTIMATELY. PRINCE ANDREW SPOKE WITH SOME ANIMATION AND INTEREST ONLY OF +INTIMATELY REGRETTED THAT HE HAD DIED SO YOUNG, LEAVING A PREGNANT WIFE +INTO ACTION AS ARRANGED, AND AFTER GOING BEHIND OTHER COLUMNS FOR +INTO HER HEART AN IMPULSE THAT WAS AGAINST HIS WILL. MY WIFE—AS SHE +INTO HIS ROOM ONE EVENING IN THE OFFICIAL AND CEREMONIOUS MANNER IN +IN TO INFORM THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THIS AND, AVAILING HIMSELF +“IN TOKEN OF OBEDIENCE, I ASK YOU TO UNDRESS.” +INTONATION, LOOK, AND EXPRESSION, PRICKED UP HER EARS FROM THE BEGINNING +INTO SOBS. +INTO THE CORRIDOR AND MET—COMING OUT OF THE DOOR OF THE EMPEROR’S +INTO THE INSIGNIFICANT, TRIFLING, AND ARTIFICIAL INTERESTS UNITING THAT +IN TO THE UTMOST, THEIR RED NECKS SQUEEZED INTO THEIR STIFF COLLARS, AND +INTO THE VALLEY. HE GREETED THE MEN OF THE FOREMOST REGIMENT AND GAVE +INTO THE WATER. HE TRIED TO RIGHT HIMSELF BUT FELL IN UP TO HIS WAIST. +INTO THE WATER, OR WHEN HE CHALLENGED A MAN TO A DUEL WITHOUT ANY +INTOXICATION. HE FELT AS THOUGH HE WERE THE CENTER OF SOME IMPORTANT AND +INVENT HIM,” SAID THE WIT SHINSHíN, PARODYING THE WORDS OF VOLTAIRE. +INVOLUNTARILY, CAME UP AND SAT DOWN BESIDE HIM. +INVOLUNTARILY NOTICED THAT ONE OF THEM WAS BLEEDING, AND GALLOPED ON. +IN WAR ON OUR OWN FRONTIERS, WITH AND FOR THE KING OF PRUSSIA. WE HAVE +IN ZHERKóV, LOOKING UNEASILY AROUND. HE HAD NOT SEEN THE HUSSARS ALL +IOGEL’S WERE THE MOST ENJOYABLE BALLS IN MOSCOW. SO SAID THE MOTHERS +I ONLY WANTED TO KNOW YOUR OPINION,” AND ANNA PáVLOVNA LET PIERRE GO. +“I OUGHT TO TELL YOU THAT I DO NOT BELIEVE... DO NOT BELIEVE IN +“I PEG OF YOU YOURSELF NOT TO MIX IN VOT IS NOT YOUR BUSINESS!” +“I PROMISED TO PAY TOMORROW,” SAID NICHOLAS. +“I QUITE UNDERSTAND,” ANSWERED PRINCESS MARY, WITH A SAD SMILE. +I REALLY TAKE IT? HOW FORTUNATE!” HE THOUGHT. +IRREPARABLE. THERE WAS NO INSULT ON EITHER SIDE. ALLOW ME TO +IRRESISTIBLE HUMAN NEED FOR SLEEP. HE REALLY WAS ASLEEP. WEYROTHER, WITH +IRRESISTIBLY ATTRACTIVE TO PIERRE. +IRRESOLUTION COMMUNICATED ITSELF TO THE MEN. +“I SAID FROM THE FIRST,” DECLARED ANNA PáVLOVNA REFERRING TO +IS A VERY GOOD THING, BUT NOT FOR YOU—I DON’T SUPPOSE YOU EVER HAD +“I SAW HIM MYSELF,” REPLIED THE MAN WITH A SELF-CONFIDENT SMILE OF +“I SAW THE PáVLOGRAD HUSSARS ATTACK THERE, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” CHIMED +“I SAY, BERG, MY DEAR FELLOW,” SAID ROSTóV, “WHEN YOU GET A +“I SAY, FATHER, JOKING APART, IS SHE VERY HIDEOUS?” ANATOLE ASKED, +“I SAY, ROSTóV,” SAID DóLOKHOV CLEARLY, SMILING AND LOOKING +“I SAY, SHALL WE SOON BE CLEAR? THEY SAY THE CAVALRY ARE BLOCKING THE +“I SAY, WE’VE BEEN IN THE FRONT LINE! OUR REGIMENT ATTACKED!” SAID +IS CALLED WEAK CHARACTER, DO NOT SEEK A CONFIDANT IN THEIR TROUBLES. HE +IS DENíSOV!” +“IS EVERYTHING QUITE ALL RIGHT?” +IS FOR MYSELF.” +IS GOOD TO HAVE A FRIEND LIKE THE PRINCE,” SHE SAID, SMILING AT PRINCE +I SHALL CONCLUDE WILL BE WORTHY OF MY PEOPLE, OF YOU, AND OF MYSELF. +I SHALL EXPECT YOU, DRUBETSKóY. AU REVOIR!” EXCLAIMED PRINCE ANDREW, +“IS HE REALLY TO BE MY HUSBAND, THIS STRANGER WHO IS SO KIND—YES, +“I SHOULD NEVER DARE TO SAY THAT I KNOW THE TRUTH,” SAID THE MASON, +“I SHOULD NOT BE DOING MY DUTY, COUNT,” HE SAID IN TIMID TONES, +IS INTERRUPTED. HE LISTENED TO WHAT LANGERON SAID, AS IF REMARKING, +“IS IT FOR VISITORS YOU’VE GOT YOURSELF UP LIKE THAT, EH?” SAID +IS MUCH BETTER THAN OURS.” +IS NOT ABASHED NOW, SO SHE CANNOT BE A BAD WOMAN!” HE HAD OFTEN BEGUN +IS NOTHING BUT A TRICK! HE HAS RETREATED AND ORDERED THE REARGUARD TO +IS NOT MY FAULT THAT I WANT IT AND WANT NOTHING BUT THAT AND LIVE ONLY +IS NOW ON THE STAFF.” +ISN’T IT LOGICAL? +“ISN’T SHE EXQUISITE?” SHE SAID TO PIERRE, POINTING TO THE STATELY +“IS PAPA AT HOME?” HE ASKED. +IS SO FOND OF?” HE REMEMBERED HIS MOTHER’S LOVE FOR HIM, AND HIS +IS, STORMED AND STORMED AND STORMED! IT WAS NOT A MATTER OF LIFE BUT +IS SUCH MEN AS HE WHO DECIDE THE FATE OF NATIONS,” ADDED BOLKóNSKI +“IS THAT SO? AND WHAT DID HE SAY?” INQUIRED BOLKóNSKI. +IS THAT THE EMPEROR IS HERE. HOW HE LOOKED AT ME AND WISHED TO SAY +IS THE BABY BORN?” +IS THE ONE HELD BY THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE, AND IS THE INVARIABLE FRUIT +IS THE ONLY THING LEFT ME—NOT SINGING!” HIS THOUGHTS RAN ON. “GO +“IS THIS GOOD OR BAD?” PIERRE ASKED HIMSELF. “IT IS GOOD FOR ME, +“IS THIS YOUR SABER?” ASKED PéTYA. “OR IS IT YOURS?” HE SAID, +“IS THIS YOUR SABER?” HE SHOUTED. +IS VANITY, ALL FALSEHOOD, EXCEPT THAT INFINITE SKY. THERE IS NOTHING, +IT. +IT. +IT.” +IT AND WISHED TO HEAR IT AGAIN. IN HER VOICE THERE WAS A VIRGINAL +IT APPEARS THAT WE ARE WITHIN SIGHT OF THE ENEMY AND MUST GIVE BATTLE. +IT. AT THAT MOMENT IT MEANT NOTHING TO HIM WHO MIGHT BE STANDING OVER +“IT CAN’T BE HELPED! IT HAPPENS TO EVERYONE!” SAID THE SON, WITH +“IT CAN’T BE!” SAID ROSTóV. “IT MUST HAVE BEEN SOMEONE ELSE.” +IT DASHED, SOME FORWARD AND SOME BACK, DROWNING ONE ANOTHER. +I TELL HER HOW I’VE SEEN THE EMPEROR?) NATáSHA... TAKE MY +I TELL YOU HE IS IN OUR HANDS, THAT’S CERTAIN! BUT WHAT WAS MOST +IT. FR... FR... FR! AND DON’T I SEE THAT THAT IDIOT HAD EYES ONLY FOR +“I THINK I MAY CONGRATULATE YOU,” WHISPERED ANNA PáVLOVNA TO THE +“I THINK THE BATTLE WILL BE LOST, AND SO I TOLD COUNT TOLSTóY AND +I THINK THERE WERE NOT MANY SUCH GALLANT SONS OF THE FATHERLAND OUT +IT. IF YOU REFUSE HIM ON MY ACCOUNT, I MUST TELL YOU THE WHOLE TRUTH. I +“IT IS ALL, ALL HER FAULT,” HE SAID TO HIMSELF; “BUT WHAT OF THAT? +“IT IS ALL VERY WELL FOR ROSTóV, WHOSE FATHER SENDS HIM TEN THOUSAND +“IT IS DONE!” SHE SAID TO THE COUNT, POINTING TRIUMPHANTLY TO THE +“IT IS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO ME,” SHE SAID, TURNING WITH A SMILE +IT IS PAST MIDNIGHT—CANNOT NOW BE ALTERED,” SAID HE. “YOU HAVE +“IT IS SOME LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION... WHAT THE DEVIL DO I WANT IT +“IT IS THE SWORD OF FREDERICK THE GREAT WHICH I...” SHE BEGAN, BUT +“IT IS TOO LATE NOW, IT’S DONE; BESIDES I LOVE HER,” THOUGHT +“IT MAY BE HE OR IT MAY BE NOTHING,” MUTTERED THE HUSSAR. “IT’S +IT MIGHT REALLY HAVE BEEN SO? COULD ONE POSSIBLY MAKE OUT AMID ALL THAT +“IT MUST BE ONE OF OURS, A PRISONER. YES. CAN IT BE THAT THEY WILL +IT, NEXT DAY, NOVEMBER 15, AFTER DINNER HE AGAIN WENT TO OLMüTZ AND, +“I TOLD YOU IT WAS ALL LUMPS AND HOLES!” THE LITTLE PRINCESS +IT ON HIS COAT AND SUPPORTED HIMSELF WITH IT. HIS FROWNING FACE WAS +IT ON SOMETHING, AND TOLD HIM TO HOLD A PAIR OF COMPASSES TO HIS LEFT +IT ON THE FIELD AT SCHöN GRABERN. YOUNG ROSTóV’S ECSTATIC VOICE +IT OR NOT, AND HOW THEY WOULD CROSS IT, AGITATED THEM ALL. +IT REALLY HAPPENED, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NECESSARY TO MAKE AN EFFORT OF +IT RIGHT TO REFUSE A DUTY TO WHICH HE HAD BEEN APPOINTED BY THE EMPEROR +I TROUBLE MYSELF ABOUT YOU, AND YOU ALSO KNOW QUITE WELL THAT WHAT I +“IT’S A LACKEY’S JOB!” +“IT’S ALL THE SAME NOW. IF THE EMPEROR IS WOUNDED, AM I TO TRY TO +“IT’S ALL THE SAME TO ME,” HE SAID. “I ONLY WANT TO SEE WHETHER +“IT’S ALL UP! I’M LOST!” THOUGHT HE. “NOW A BULLET THROUGH MY +“IT’S A LONG TIME SINCE WE MET,” HE SAID. “THANKS FOR COMING. +“IT’S ANDREW!” THOUGHT PRINCESS MARY. “NO IT CAN’T BE, THAT +ITS BROAD TEMPLES AND CLOSE-CROPPED HAIR, AND LOOKED AT BEZúKHOV. THE +IT’S DEFINITE AND ONE IS RID OF THE OLD TORMENTING DOUBT.” PIERRE +IT SEEMED AS IF FROM SOME WORDS BORíS HAD SPOKEN THAT EVENING ABOUT THE +IT SEEMED AS IF NOTHING IN THAT VOICE COULD BE ALTERED WITHOUT SPOILING +IT SEEMED SO NATURAL TO PIERRE THAT EVERYONE SHOULD LIKE HIM, AND IT +IT SEEMED TO HER THAT NOT ONLY DID EVERYBODY KNOW THAT HER FATE WOULD BE +IT SEEMED TO HIM THAT HE WAS BEING FIRED AT. “WHAT? WHAT? WHAT?... CUT +IT SEEMED TO PIERRE, SUNK IN PROFOUND AND CALM MEDITATION. HIS SERVANT +IT SEEMED TO PIERRE THAT HE GREW EMBARRASSED. PIERRE HIMSELF GREW STILL +“IT SEEMS THAT THERE WILL BE NO NEED TO BRING MARY OUT, SUITORS ARE +ITSELF, A PETTY GERMAN TOWN, ROSTóV SAW THE EMPEROR AGAIN. IN THE +ITSELF, REJOICING AT THE EMPERORS’ APPROACH, HAD NATURALLY BURST INTO +ITSELF TO HIM. HE WAS ALREADY ENJOYING THAT HAPPINESS WHEN THAT +IT, SHE WAS HERSELF IN SUCH HIGH SPIRITS AT THAT MOMENT, SO FAR FROM +“IT’S IMPOSSIBLE,” REPLIED ANOTHER. +“IT’S NOT THAT I DON’T REMEMBER—I KNOW WHAT HE IS LIKE, BUT NOT +“IT’S PLAIN THAT THEY HAVE NOT ALL GONE YET, PRINCE,” SAID +“IT’S THE ENEMY?... NO!... YES, SEE IT IS!... FOR CERTAIN.... BUT +ITS THUNDER JOINING THE ROAR OF THE WHOLE LINE ALONG WHICH HE HAD +IT’S TRUE HE HAS BEEN REINSTATED, BUT HOW COULD THEY FAIL TO DO THAT? +ITS UPPER LIP COVERED WITH TINY BLACK HAIR. +ITS USE, HE DOES NOT BELIEVE IN THE MASTER WHO MADE IT. TO KNOW HIM IS +ITS USUAL SEMBLANCE OF A SMILE. +“IT’S WONDERFUL WHAT A LOT OF OUR TROOPS HAVE GATHERED, LADS! LAST +IT TO BE ALLEGED THAT HE HAD BEEN THE FIRST TO LEAVE THE RANGE OF FIRE, +IT TO ITS DESTINATION AND MAKE USE OF IT. +IT TURNS OUT THAT ‘THE ENEMY OF THE HUMAN RACE’ PAYS NO HEED TO +IT TURNS OUT THAT WE HAVE LANDED OURSELVES IN WAR, AND WHAT IS MORE, +IT WAS ALL THAT THEY COULD DO TO GET THE GUNS UP THE RISE AIDED BY THE +IT WAS EVIDENT THAT THIS STRANGE, STRONG MAN WAS UNDER THE IRRESISTIBLE +IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO GET RID OF THEM. +IT WAS LATE IN THE EVENING WHEN THEY ENTERED THE PALACE AT OLMüTZ +IT WAS LONG BEFORE THEIR CONVERSATION COULD SETTLE ON ANYTHING. THEY +IT WAS LONG SINCE ROSTóV HAD FELT SUCH ENJOYMENT FROM MUSIC AS HE +IT WAS LONG SINCE THE ROSTóVS HAD NEWS OF NICHOLAS. NOT TILL MIDWINTER +“IT WAS MY FAULT, MON PèRE,” INTERCEDED THE LITTLE PRINCESS, WITH A +IT WAS NAPOLEON ACCOMPANIED BY TWO AIDES-DE-CAMP. BONAPARTE RIDING +IT WAS NINE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING. THE FOG LAY UNBROKEN LIKE A SEA +IT WAS NO LONGER, AS BEFORE, A DARK, UNSEEN RIVER FLOWING THROUGH THE +IT WAS NOT SO, THAT I HAD NO RIGHT TO DO IT. AND SO IT TURNS OUT.” +IT WAS NOT THE DRESS, BUT THE FACE AND WHOLE FIGURE OF PRINCESS MARY +IT WAS ONE OF THOSE MARCH NIGHTS WHEN WINTER SEEMS TO WISH TO RESUME ITS +IT WAS PLAIN THAT THIS CADET HAD ALREADY REPEATEDLY ASKED FOR A LIFT AND +IT WAS PRINCE ANDREW. THE FIRST THING HE SAW ON RIDING UP TO THE SPACE +IT WAS RUMORED THAT SAVARY HAD BEEN SENT TO PROPOSE TO ALEXANDER +IT WAS THAT THE PAIN DISTRACTED HIM AND PREVENTED HIS SEEING WHAT HE HAD +IT WAS, THE DISORDER WAS READILY AND NATURALLY ATTRIBUTED TO THE STUPID +“IT WAS THE OFFICER, YOUR HONOR, STAINED IT,” ANSWERED THE +IT WAS THE SECOND NIGHT THAT NEITHER OF THEM HAD SLEPT, WATCHING THE BOY +IT WERE NOT HIS. HE EXAMINED HIS HAND CAREFULLY, VAINLY TRYING TO FIND +IT WERE NOT MY DUTY I WOULD NOT TALK TO YOU FOR A MOMENT”), WAS +IT WITH YOU?...” +IT WORTH THINKING OR SPEAKING OF IT AT SUCH A MOMENT? AT A TIME OF SUCH +IT WOULD BE DIFFERENT IF YOU GRUDGED LOSING A LABORER—THAT’S HOW I +“IT WOULD BE GOOD,” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW, GLANCING AT THE ICON HIS +IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT FOR A FACE TO EXPRESS GREATER RESPECT AND +“IT WOULD HAVE BEEN HARD TO DRIVE UP, YOUR HONOR,” HE ADDED. “I +IT WOULD NOT ACHE—IT WOULD BE WELL—IF ONLY THEY DID NOT PULL IT, BUT +IT YOU TALKED ABOUT?” AND PRINCE ANDREW CROOKED A THIRD FINGER. “AH, +IVáNOVICH KUTúZOV: +“I’VE COME TO SIT WITH YOU A BIT, MáSHA,” SAID THE NURSE, “AND +I’VE NOTHING AGAINST IT,” THE PRINCE SAID TO HIMSELF, “BUT HE MUST +“I WANT NOTHING, AND I WON’T BE ANYONE’S ADJUTANT.” +“I WAS COMING TO TELL YOU SO.” +I WAS RIGHT. WITHOUT BOASTING, YOU KNOW, I MAY SAY THAT I KNOW THE ARMY +“I WAS THERE,” SAID ROSTóV ANGRILY, AS IF INTENDING TO INSULT THE +I WAS TO BLAME FOR NOT UNDERSTANDING HER, FOR NOT UNDERSTANDING THAT +“I WAS VERY MUCH SURPRISED WHEN I HEARD OF IT,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. +“I? WHAT HAVE I...?” STAMMERED PIERRE. +“I WILL DO SO,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, MOVING AWAY FROM THE MAP. +“I WILL GIVE THE ORDER.” +“I WILL, I WILL, ONLY TELL ME! YOU WON’T? THEN I WILL GO AND TELL AT +“I WILL TELL YOU FRANKLY,” SAID PRINCE VASíLI IN THE TONE OF +“I WON’T SAY HE IS OUT OF SORTS, BUT I FANCY HE WOULD LIKE TO BE +“I WON’T TELL ANYONE!” AND SHE RAN OFF AT ONCE TO SóNYA. +JAW TREMBLING AND WAS HARDLY ABLE TO MUTTER: “I DON’T KNOW... YOUR +JEST. +JESTS FELL FLAT, NEWS WAS NOT INTERESTING, AND THE ANIMATION WAS +“JE VOUS AIME!” * HE SAID, REMEMBERING WHAT HAS TO BE SAID AT SUCH +JOY AND HAPPINESS. ON RECEIVING THE ORDER HE GAVE HIS HORSE THE REIN +JOY AT THE APPROACH OF THE EMPERORS. ONE VOICE WAS HEARD SHOUTING: +JOYFUL AND MYSTERIOUS TAKING PLACE WITHIN HER. +JOYFUL IT SEEMED, THAT HER SON, THE SCARCELY PERCEPTIBLE MOTION OF WHOSE +JOYFULLY THAT THE MEN THEMSELVES WERE AWED BY THEIR MULTITUDE AND THE +JOYFULLY UP TO PIERRE. HIS FACE WAS SO UNUSUALLY TRIUMPHANT THAT PIERRE +JOYS AND SORROWS OF THIS WORLD—OVERFLOWED THE GREAT GRIEF WITHIN HER. +JUMP, TúSHIN NOT TAKING HIS PIPE FROM HIS MOUTH RAN FROM GUN TO GUN, +JUST AS HE WENT IN HE SAW THAT THE NURSE WAS HIDING SOMETHING FROM HIM +“JUST AS I MAY SUPPOSE YOU TO BE DELUDED,” SAID PIERRE, WITH A FAINT +JUST AS IN A CLOCK, THE RESULT OF THE COMPLICATED MOTION OF INNUMERABLE +JUST AS IN THE MECHANISM OF A CLOCK, SO IN THE MECHANISM OF THE MILITARY +JUST AT MOMENTS WHEN SUCH THOUGHTS OCCURRED TO HIM, HE WOULD ASK IN A +JUST BEFORE DINNER, COUNT ILYá ROSTóV PRESENTED HIS SON TO BAGRATIóN, +JUST LEFT.... IT IS TRUE THAT IT WAS HOT THERE,” HE ADDED, MODESTLY. +JUST RETURNED FROM VIENNA, TWO DIPLOMATISTS, THE OLD AUNT, A YOUNG MAN +JUST SUCH A STORY—THEY WOULD EITHER NOT HAVE BELIEVED HIM OR, STILL +JUST THEN AT A DISTANCE BEHIND KUTúZOV WAS HEARD THE SOUND OF REGIMENTS +KáMENSKI, VISITED THE ENGLISH CLUB, AND WAS ON INTIMATE TERMS WITH A +KEEN INTEREST IN THE WHOLE AFFAIR. YOU KNOW SHE IS VERY GRACIOUS TO +KEEN-SIGHTED A COMPANION. “YOU KNOW, YOU SEE RIGHT THROUGH PEOPLE. +KEPT COMING INTO HER EYES. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, WITH THE LETTER, CAME ON +KERCHIEF, AND THE LOOSE SKIN THAT HUNG UNDER HER CHIN. +KIEV PROVINCE, WHERE HE HAD THE GREATEST NUMBER OF SERFS, TAKING WITH +KILLED ANYONE, OR INSULTED OR WISHED HARM TO ANYONE? WHY SUCH A TERRIBLE +KILLED BY A CANNON BALL—STRUCK IN THE BREAST BEFORE OUR REGIMENT.” +KILLED.” ROOK TRIED TO RISE ON HIS FORELEGS BUT FELL BACK, PINNING HIS +KILLED THEM, YES!” SAID HE, FROWNING ANGRILY AND TURNING AWAY FROM +KILLED, YOU ARE A FOOL AND ARE LOST FOR CERTAIN. BUT GO WITH THE FIRM +KILL ME.” BUT AT THE SAME TIME, HIS LEFT ARM FELT AS HEAVY AS IF +“KILL THE GERMANS!” SHOUTED ONE. +KINDLE FIRES AND MAKE A NOISE TO DECEIVE US.” +KINDLE IN ALL HEARTS THE FLAME OF VIRTUE. SHARE THY HAPPINESS WITH THY +KINDNESS,” OR, “WITH YOUR EXCELLENT HEART,” “YOU ARE YOURSELF SO +KIND SPRANG FROM A SECOND DOOR AND A THIRD; MORE HUGGING, MORE KISSING, +KIND, THAT IS THE CHIEF THING,” THOUGHT PRINCESS MARY; AND FEAR, WHICH +KING OF PRUSSIA AND OTHERS: ‘SO MUCH THE WORSE FOR YOU. TU L’AS +KING OF PRUSSIA WHAT HE IS TO DO IF HE IS SUMMONED TO SURRENDER.... ALL +KISSED. HER FATHER IN JEST TRIED TO ROUSE HER JEALOUSY, AND SHE REPLIED +KISSED HER FOREHEAD. +KISSED HIM AT THE SAME TIME. ONLY HIS MOTHER WAS NOT THERE, HE NOTICED +KISSED HIM THREE TIMES. +KISSED MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE’S HAND. (THIS WAS NOT ETIQUETTE, BUT +KISSED PRINCESS MARY’S HAND. SHE DID NOT KNOW HOW SHE FOUND THE +KISSES. HER LOOKS ASKED HIM TO FORGIVE HER FOR HAVING DARED, BY +KISSING HER HAND, HE LEFT THE ROOM WITH QUICK RESOLUTE STRIDES, WITHOUT +KISS ME,” AND HE OFFERED HIS CHEEK. +KNAPSACKS CONVEYED ON CARTS, AND THE AUSTRIAN AUTHORITIES HAD PROVIDED +KNEW THAT. WHAT WILL BE THE RESULT? THAT I SHALL BE THE LAUGHINGSTOCK OF +KNEW THAT WHEN IT APPEARED ON HER FACE, SHE BECAME MUTE AND WAS NOT TO +KNEW TILL AFTER EIGHT O’CLOCK. +KNEW WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO HIM AS HE KNEW IT HIMSELF. +KNIGHT. “I’M EVEN WEADY TO DANCE THE PAS DE CHâLE.” +KNITTING A STRIPED SCARF FOR HIM. +KNITTING, WENT TO THE WINDOW AND LEANING OUT TRIED TO CATCH THE OPEN +KNOCKING OVER TWO HORSES AND ANOTHER TEARING OFF A MUNITION-WAGON +KNOLL; IF THEY HAD RETREATED THEY WOULD HAVE WITHDRAWN FROM THAT TOO.... +KNOW!” +KNOW ALL ABOUT IT AND UNDERSTAND IT ALL,” HE SAID. “YOU BEHAVED AS +KNOW, AND KNOW FOR CERTAIN, THAT THE ENJOYMENT OF DOING THIS GOOD IS THE +KNOW, BUT HE FELT SURE IT WOULD DO SO. THE LOCALITY AND THE POSITION OF +KNOW GOD AND HATE YOUR LIFE. THERE IS NOTHING STRANGE IN THAT, MY DEAR +KNOWING HOW. FIRST HE SPUN HER ROUND, HOLDING HER NOW WITH HIS LEFT, NOW +KNOWING THAT DENíSOV HAD A REPUTATION EVEN IN POLAND FOR THE MASTERLY +KNOW IT IS ALL OVER, AND FOREVER.” +KNOW MY PRINCIPLES—EVERYTHING ABOVEBOARD! I WILL ASK HER TOMORROW IN +KNOW MYSELF AGAIN.” +KNOWN). DRAWING NEARER, HE RECOGNIZED IN THE RHETOR A MAN HE KNEW, + KNOWS BY EXPERIENCE, NOW, BAGRATIóN, +KóRCHEVO—A CERTAIN KHANDRIKóV—IS UP TO; TILL NOW THE ADDITIONAL +KRONQ,—CHARGé D’AFFAIRES FROM COPENHAGEN—A PROFOUND INTELLECT,” +KURáGINS’. ALL MAINTAINED A SOLEMN SILENCE, LISTENING TO THE WORDS +KUTúZOV. +KUTúZOV ACCOMPANIED BY HIS ADJUTANTS RODE AT A WALKING PACE BEHIND THE +KUTúZOV HERE WOKE UP, COUGHED HEAVILY, AND LOOKED ROUND AT THE +KUTúZOV LAUGHED BITTERLY. +KUTúZOV LOOKED STERNLY AT HIS ADJUTANT AND, AFTER A PAUSE, REPLIED: +KUTúZOV NO ONE SPOKE OF, EXCEPT SOME WHO ABUSED HIM IN WHISPERS, +KUTúZOV’S, COLLECTED IN GROUPS AND BEGAN TO TALK ABOUT THE AWARDS, +KUTúZOV’S HEADQUARTERS AND THE STAFFS OF THE COMMANDERS OF COLUMNS. +KUTúZOV’S SUITE LIKE A FLOCK OF LITTLE BIRDS. +KUTúZOV, THERE IS NOT A SINGLE RUSSIAN IN COMMAND OF A COLUMN! THE +KUTúZOV TURNED ROUND WITHOUT ANSWERING AND HIS EYE HAPPENED TO FALL +KUTúZOV WAS OCCUPYING A NOBLEMAN’S CASTLE OF MODEST DIMENSIONS NEAR +KUTúZOV, WHERE HE INQUIRED FOR BOLKóNSKI, ALL THE ADJUTANTS AND EVEN +KUTúZOV WITH HIS STAFF AND ALL OF US COUNT FOR NOTHING. EVERYTHING IS +KUTúZOV, WITH HIS SUITE DIMINISHED BY MORE THAN HALF, RODE TOWARD A +KUTúZOV, WITH HIS UNIFORM UNBUTTONED SO THAT HIS FAT NECK BULGED OVER +KUTúZOV WRITES...” AND HE SCREAMED AS PIERCINGLY AS IF HE WISHED TO +KUZMíCH, ASKING WHAT THE POINT OF THE STORY WAS AS HE HAD NOT HEARD IT +“KUZMíCH... FROM ALL SIDES... AND THEN TEARS,” SOMEONE REPEATED +LABOR BUT SHOULD DIE OF IT IN A WEEK, SO HE COULD NOT STAND MY PHYSICAL +LABOR IS AS ESSENTIAL TO HIM, AS MUCH A CONDITION OF HIS EXISTENCE, AS +LABOR WAS THUS INCREASED, THOUGH LESSENED ON PAPER. HE DID NOT KNOW +LAD,” HE SAID, ADDRESSING HIS FAVORITE SOLDIER. “AND WHERE IS THE +LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THAN ROSTóV HAD EVER EXPECTED TO SEE HIM. +LADIES AND, LEANING ON HIS SABER AND BEATING TIME WITH HIS FOOT, TOLD +LADIES—” HE TURNED WITH THE SAME REQUEST TO DENíSOV WHO WAS ALSO A +LAD’S A FINE FELLOW, A FINE FELLOW! WELL, COME WITH ME NOW.” HE TOOK +“LADS! HERE’S TO OUR SOVEREIGN, THE EMPEROR, AND VICTORY OVER +“LADS!” SHOUTED MILORáDOVICH IN A LOUD, SELF-CONFIDENT, AND CHEERY +LAIN IN AMBUSH IN A DITCH, NOW ATTACKED THE FRENCH UNEXPECTEDLY. +LAMP, SHE STOOD BEFORE IT WITH FOLDED HANDS FOR A FEW MOMENTS. A PAINFUL +LANCES AND THE UNFOLDED STANDARDS FLUTTERED AGAINST THEIR STAFFS. IT +LANGERON’S OBJECTIONS WERE VALID BUT IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT THEIR CHIEF +LANGERON, TRYING AS VIRULENTLY AS POSSIBLE TO STING WEYROTHER’S VANITY +LANGERON, WITH A SUBTLY IRONICAL SMILE, AGAIN GLANCING ROUND FOR SUPPORT +LANNES AND WAS THROWN INTO CONFUSION. BAGRATIóN HAD SENT ZHERKóV +LARGE AND HANDSOME EYES. HE REGARDED HIS WHOLE LIFE AS A CONTINUAL ROUND +LARGE DARK BALLROOM. ALL WAS THE SAME: THERE WERE THE SAME OLD CARD +LARGE ESTATE, BOGUCHáROVO, ABOUT TWENTY-FIVE MILES FROM BALD HILLS. +LARGE LEATHER SOFA FROM PRINCE ANDREW’S STUDY INTO THE BEDROOM. ON +LARGE, NEWLY FURNISHED PETERSBURG HOUSE, THE HAPPY POSSESSOR, AS PEOPLE +LARGEST LANDOWNER OF THE PROVINCE. TEMPTATIONS TO PIERRE’S GREATEST +LARREY, WAS MUCH MORE LIKELY TO END IN DEATH THAN IN CONVALESCENCE. +LAST CAMPAIGN, PRINCE PETER IVáNOVICH BAGRATIóN!” AND AGAIN HIS BLUE +LAST FEW DAYS. THE ANTAGONISTS STOOD FORTY PACES APART AT THE FARTHER +LAST INTERVIEW WITH THE GENTLEMAN-RANKER—“THAT PRIVATE DóLOKHOV, +LAST MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE GAVE A SCREAM AND RAN AWAY. ANATOLE BOWED TO +LAST ONLY HIS WHITE PLUMES WERE VISIBLE TO ROSTóV FROM AMID THE SUITES +LAST REMAINING STRENGTH, TOOK HOLD OF HIS LEFT HAND WITH HIS RIGHT, AND +LAST TIME. AND SUDDENLY, IN THE MOST CASUAL TONE, WHICH MADE HIM FEEL +“LATE! IT’S NEARLY TEN O’CLOCK,” ANSWERED NATáSHA’S VOICE. +LATER ON. OH, HOW GLAD I AM TO HAVE YOU!” +LATEST CUT, SUCH AS NO ONE ELSE YET HAD IN MOSCOW, AND BOOTS OF THE +LATEST FASHION, WITH EXTREMELY POINTED TOES AND SMALL SILVER SPURS, +LATE THAT NIGHT, WHEN ALL HAD SEPARATED, DENíSOV WITH HIS SHORT HAND +LATHE AND, AS USUAL, DID NOT LOOK ROUND AT HER. +LATTERLY SPENT WHOLE DAYS AT HOME, THAT IS, IN PRINCE VASíLI’S HOUSE +LAUGHED. +LAUGHED AT EVERY WORD HE SAID OR THAT SHE SAID HERSELF, NOT BECAUSE WHAT +LAUGHED LOUDEST. +LAUGHING. +LAUGHING. “DEAR, DEAR!...” +LAUGHING FOR SOME REASON AND SHAKING HIMSELF FREE. +LAUGHING, “‘SERGéY KUZMíCH... FROM ALL SIDES... FROM ALL SIDES... +LAY ACROSS THE BED WITH HIS HEAD LOWER THAN THE PILLOW, AND WAS SMACKING +LAZILY AND ADVANCED AND AGAIN HALTED, RECEIVING NO TIMELY ORDERS FROM +LEADING THE TSAR’S BEAUTIFUL RELAY HORSES COVERED WITH EMBROIDERED +LEANED HIS ARMS ON THE BACK OF THE SOFA AND CLOSED HIS EYES. PIERRE +LEANING WITH HIS ARMS ON THE BACK OF THE SOFA, SAT IN HIS FORMER +LEAPING THE FURROWS, HE FLED ACROSS THE FIELD WITH THE IMPETUOSITY HE +LEARNED THAT DóLOKHOV THE BRAWLER, DóLOKHOV THE BULLY, LIVED IN MOSCOW +LEARN FROM SUVóROV EVEN SO SIMPLE A THING AS THE ART OF CROWING LIKE A +LEAST HAVE SOME FOR MY SAKE! SHE MUST BE SHOWN THAT THE BLOCKHEAD THINKS +“LEAVE IT,” SAID DóLOKHOV, THOUGH HE DID NOT SEEM TO BE EVEN +“LEAVE ME ALONE, PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE! IT IS ALL QUITE THE SAME TO +LEAVE OF HER AND OF LISE, HIS LOOK TENDER YET PROUD. SHE SAW HIM TENDER +LEAVE OF ROSTóV IN THE CLUB PORCH. +LEAVE YOU COLD A THOUSAND TIMES AND THE THOUSAND AND FIRST TIME THRILL +LED ALONG A CERTAIN CARPET. AFTER THAT THEY TOOK HIS RIGHT HAND, PLACED +LEFT ALONE, PIERRE WENT ON SMILING IN THE SAME WAY. ONCE OR TWICE +LEFT BREAST, AND STOOPING DOWN PULLED UP THE LEFT LEG OF HIS TROUSERS +LEFT FOOT BEGAN CONVULSIVELY TAPPING THE HORSE’S SIDE WITH THE SPUR, +LEGS AND TURNED-OUT TOES, CLIMBED THE HILL WITH DIFFICULTY.) PRINCE +LëLYA’S NAME DAY. I WILL INVITE TWO OR THREE PEOPLE, AND IF HE DOES +“LE ROI DE PRUSSE?” HIPPOLYTE SAID INTERROGATIVELY, AGAIN LAUGHING, +LESS A PREY TO EVIL AND DEATH?—DEATH WHICH ENDS ALL AND MUST COME +LESS, ATE LESS, SLEPT LESS, AND BECAME WEAKER EVERY DAY. PRINCESS MARY +LESS SINCERELY THAN THE TWENTY-YEAR-OLD ROSTóV. +LET HIM DO WHAT HE VILL, BUT I CANNOT SACRIFICE MY HUSSARS... BUGLER, +LETTER. +LETTER. +LETTER. +LETTER FROM HOME AND MEET ONE OF YOUR OWN PEOPLE WHOM YOU WANT TO TALK +LETTER, HE NOW WAS. +LETTERS SENT THROUGH THE EMBASSY AND ALL THE SEARCHES MADE, HIS BODY HAD +LETTERS TO NICHOLAS FROM ALL THE HOUSEHOLD WERE WRITTEN AND COPIED OUT, +LETTERS TO PRINCESS MARY’S APARTMENTS, BUT DID NOT FIND HIM THERE. HE +LETTING THE RETREATING COMPANIES PASS BY THEM, WHEN A SOLDIER CAME UP +LICHTENSTEIN, LE PRINCE, DE HOHENLOHE, AND FINALLY PRISHPRISH, AND SO ON +LIFE, AND THAT OF THE SEVEN VIRTUES HE LACKED TWO—MORALITY AND THE +“LIFE AS IT IS LEAVES ONE NO PEACE. I SHOULD BE THANKFUL TO DO +LIFE FROM YOURS. I DON’T WISH TO MARRY,” SHE ANSWERED POSITIVELY, +LIFE: REMORSE AND ILLNESS. THE ONLY GOOD IS THE ABSENCE OF THOSE EVILS. +LIFE TOGETHER WERE STRIPPED, SO THAT THE SCREW COULD NOT GET IN OR OUT, +LIFE, WHICH SEEMED TO HIM SO BEAUTIFUL NOW THAT HE HAD TODAY LEARNED TO +LIFTED IN CHILDLIKE HAPPINESS. +LIFT HIS STICK AGAIN BUT HURRIED INTO THE HOUSE. +LIGHTS AND SHOUTS IN THE ENEMY’S CAMP. ROSTóV RODE UP TO BAGRATIóN, +LIKE A HORSE RUNNING DOWNHILL HARNESSED TO A HEAVY CART. WHETHER HE WAS +LIKE ALL THOSE POLISH NAMES.” +LIKED TO HELP YOUNG MEN, WAS FLATTERED BY BEING ASKED FOR HIS ASSISTANCE +LIKED TO REPEAT TO HERSELF. IT WAS THE STORY OF A GIRL WHO HAD BEEN +LIKE HIS OWN, AT THE FIRING, AND WENT BACK AT A FOOTPACE. “WELL, SOME +LIKELY THE DOCTOR.” +LIKE METHOD OF ENLIGHTENMENT. OUR ORDER IMITATES THE ANCIENT SOCIETIES +LIKE STRANGERS.” +LIKE THE OTHERS, ANNA PáVLOVNA SCHéRER SHOWED PIERRE THE CHANGE OF +LIKE WIND OVER LEAVES RAN AN EXCITED WHISPER: “THEY’RE COMING! +LINE; AND THE AUSTRIAN TROOPS. BUT THEY ALL STOOD IN THE SAME LINES, +LINE, FOR FROM WHERE THEY HAD BEEN BEFORE IT HAD BEEN EVIDENT THAT IT +LINE OF THE ADVANCING RUSSIAN COLUMNS. EVIDENTLY THE PERSON THEY WERE +LINES OF ARTILLERY WITH GREEN CAISSONS. +LINE (THE GUARDS) WAS ALREADY IN ACTION. +LINE TO RECONNOITER PERSONALLY, AND TWICE TO THE EMPERORS, RUSSIAN AND +LINK WHICH OTHER PEOPLE RECOGNIZED HAD GROWN UP BETWEEN HIMSELF AND +LIPS AND MET THEM WITH HER OWN. HER FACE STRUCK PIERRE, BY ITS ALTERED, +LISE. I WILL FOLLOW.” +LISTENED TO HIS REGULAR BREATHING. THE DARK SHADOW WAS PRINCESS MARY, +LISTENED TO THE RHETOR IN SILENCE, FEELING FROM ALL HE SAID THAT HIS +LISTENING TO AN OLD RUSSIAN GENERAL WITH DECORATIONS, WHO STOOD VERY +LISTENING TO THE GYPSIES AND OTHER SINGERS. +LITTLE AS NICHOLAS HAD OCCUPIED HIMSELF WITH SóNYA OF LATE, SOMETHING +LITTLE BENT, LOOKED WITH BEAMING FACE AT THE PRINCESS WITHOUT +LITTLE COMPANION! I HOPE SHE WILL BRING HER ALONG WITH HER WHEN WE’RE +LITTLE CREATURE, BUT DARED NOT DO SO. HE STOOD OVER HIM, GAZING AT HIS +LITTLE EFFORT.” +LITTLE GOLD ICON PRINCESS MARY HAD HUNG ROUND HER BROTHER’S NECK, BUT +LITTLE ICON WITH ITS THIN GOLD CHAIN SUDDENLY APPEARED UPON HIS CHEST +LITTLE, I MEAN A GOOD DEAL, A GREAT DEAL—FORTY THREE THOUSAND.” +LITTLE MATTERS WHICH COULD NOT INTEREST ANYONE BUT THEMSELVES. NATáSHA +LITTLE NAPOLEON HAD SUDDENLY APPEARED WITH HIS UNSYMPATHIZING LOOK OF +LITTLE NATáSHA AS GROWN UP. +LITTLE PRINCESS WALKED TWICE ROUND HER, NOW ADJUSTING A FOLD OF THE +LITTLE TúSHIN, MOVING FEEBLY AND AWKWARDLY, KEPT TELLING HIS ORDERLY TO +LIT WISPS OF STRAW AND RAN AFTER HIM, SHOUTING, “VIVE L’EMPEREUR!” +LIVED FOR GLORY.—AND AFTER ALL WHAT IS GLORY? THE SAME LOVE OF OTHERS, +LIVED FOR OTHERS, AND NOT ALMOST, BUT QUITE, RUINED MY LIFE. AND I HAVE +LIVING WITH HIS MOTHER, WHO, IF SHE SAW HIM DYING, WOULD NOT SURVIVE IT. +LIVING WITHOUT HAVING SOLVED THE PROBLEMS THAT SO ABSORBED HIM. HE HAD +LIVING WITH THE ROSTóVS. +LOCALITY WAS KNOWN AND SHOWN IN EVERY DETAIL ON THE MAPS, AND BONAPARTE, +LOCKS OF GRAY HAIR. +LODGE—WERE SO STRONG THAT HE COULD NOT RESIST THEM. AGAIN WHOLE DAYS, +LODGE. WILLARSKI COUGHED, HE WAS ANSWERED BY THE MASONIC KNOCK WITH +LOFTY, BEAUTIFUL FEELING, SUCH A...” +LOFTY SKY BEFORE? AND HOW HAPPY I AM TO HAVE FOUND IT AT LAST! YES! ALL +LONELINESS OF HIS DAUGHTER AMID THE GENERAL CONVERSATION. “GOT HERSELF +LONG. +LONG AND WARMLY TO THE EMPEROR AND HOW THE EMPEROR, EVIDENTLY WEEPING, +LONGED. SóNYA NOW WAS SIXTEEN AND SHE WAS VERY PRETTY, ESPECIALLY AT +LONGED TO KISS HIS FATHER’S HANDS AND KNEEL TO BEG HIS FORGIVENESS, +LONGED TO SNATCH UP, TO SQUEEZE, TO HOLD TO HIS HEART, THIS HELPLESS +LONGEST SENTENCES, HE STOPPED THE ROTARY MOTION OF THE SNUFFBOX, RAISED +LONG. SAY ‘PERHAPS.’” +“LOOK AT THEM SCURRYING! IT’S BURNING! JUST SEE THE SMOKE! FINE! +LOOKED AS IF BY THAT SLIGHT MOTION THE ARMY ITSELF WAS EXPRESSING ITS +LOOKED AT THAT AGED, STERN, MOTIONLESS, ALMOST LIFELESS FACE AND MOVED +LOOKED EAGERLY TOWARD HIS EYES, WAITING FOR THE LOOK FOR WHICH SHE +LOOKING ABOUT HIM UNEASILY, AND AN AWKWARD PAUSE FOLLOWED. +LOOKING AND HELD OUT HIS HAND TO HER. SHE PRESSED IT. +LOOKING AT HER AND WAITING. NICHOLAS SAW THAT DENíSOV WAS REFUSING +LOOKING AT NATáSHA. +LOOKING AT ROSTóV, “YOU’LL WIN IT BACK ALL THE SOONER. I LOSE TO +LOOKING AT THE MIDWIFE WITH WIDE-OPEN EYES OF ALARM. +LOOKING AT THEM, TURNED TO AN ADJUTANT TO ASK HIM FOR A FIELD GLASS. +LOOKING BACK SAW THAT THEIR FOREMOST RANKS WERE MIXED UP WITH SOME +LOOKING INQUIRINGLY AT HIM AND WATCHING TO SEE HOW HE WOULD BEHAVE +LOOKING NOT AT PIERRE BUT STRAIGHT BEFORE HIM, AND TURNING THE LEAVES +LOOKING PRETTY AND CONSCIOUS OF IT, WERE STANDING BY THE CLAVICHORD, +LOOKING WITH A SCARED FACE AT HIS COMRADE FOR HELP. THE DOOR, HAVING LET +LOOKING WITH TENDER AFFECTION AND PITY AT MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE’S +“LOOK, LOOK!” SAID THIS ADJUTANT, LOOKING NOT AT THE TROOPS IN THE +LOOK. NICHOLAS WENT UP TO HER AND KISSED HER HAND. THIS WAS THE FIRST +LOOK OR BAD OPINION FROM HIM,” ROSTóV DECIDED; AND SORROWFULLY AND +LOOKS AND MANNER GAVE THAT IMPRESSION. THE PRINCESS FELT THIS, AND AS IF +LOOKS) AND SHE HAD PUT ON A MAROON DRESS WITH A PALE-BLUE SCARF, THE +“LOOK THEN AT THY INNER SELF WITH THE EYES OF THE SPIRIT, AND ASK +LOOK WHICH WAS FIXED ON HIM, BUT HIM SHE COULD NOT SEE, SHE ONLY SAW +LOSSES. THE GENERAL WHOSE REGIMENT HAD BEEN INSPECTED AT BRAUNAU WAS +LOST. DóLOKHOV “KILLED,” THAT IS, BEAT, TEN CARDS OF ROSTóV’S +LOST MORE THAN HE COULD PAY. +LOT? AND WHO WOULD MARRY MARIE FOR LOVE? PLAIN AND AWKWARD! THEY’LL +“LOUIS XVI WAS EXECUTED BECAUSE THEY SAID HE WAS DISHONORABLE AND A +LOVE AGAIN, THOUGH FOR NO ONE HAVE I SUCH A FEELING OF FRIENDSHIP, +LOVE AND BEFRIEND HIM.” +LOVED MORE THAN HIMSELF. HE KEPT TELLING HIMSELF THAT HE WOULD CONSIDER +LOVE FOR NATáSHA WAS UNPLEASANT TO HIM AND HE HAD NOT ONCE BEEN TO SEE +LOVE HER. +LOVE HER, FOR THAT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE. +LOVE HIM ALL THE MORE, BUT NICHOLAS NOW CONSIDERED HIMSELF UNWORTHY OF +LOVELY EYES THERE WAS A LOOK OF FEARFUL JOY AND HOPE THAT WAS ALSO NEW +LOVE OF DEATH. HE CONSOLED HIMSELF WITH THE THOUGHT THAT HE FULFILLED +LOVERS!” HE ADDED. +LOVE, SUCH RAPTURE, AND SUCH SELF-SACRIFICE, WHAT DO ANY OF OUR QUARRELS +LOVE, THOUGH LESS ECSTATICALLY, WITH THEIR TSAR AND THE GLORY OF THE +LOVE YOU.” +LOVE YOU, AND I THINK I LOVE YOU MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE....” +LOVING HER; IN DECEIVING YOURSELF AND HER.” AND HE VIVIDLY RECALLED +LUCKY MAN AND, WITH HIS PLAIN FACE, TO BE LOOKED ON AS A SORT OF PARIS +LUMINOUS EYES FIXED ON HER NURSE’S WRINKLED FACE (EVERY LINE OF WHICH +LUMINOUS EYES SHONE MORE BRIGHTLY THAN USUAL FROM THE TEARS OF JOY THAT +MACHINE, AN IMPULSE ONCE GIVEN LEADS TO THE FINAL RESULT; AND JUST AS +MADAME DE SOUZA. HE BEGAN READING ABOUT THE SUFFERINGS AND VIRTUOUS +MADE AND HIGHLY VALUED. THE OLD COUNT CAME UP TO THEM AND PRESSED +MADE A TOUR OF THE REGIMENTS AND WAS ANNOYED AT THE IRREGULARITY OF +“MADE, MADE ME AN OFFER, MAMMA! MAMMA!” SHE EXCLAIMED. +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE. +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, ALSO ROUSED TO GREAT EXCITEMENT BY ANATOLE’S +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS HAD TO OWN TO THEMSELVES +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, HOW I SHALL ARRANGE IT,” SHE ADDED, SMILING +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE IN HER ARMS AND GENTLY STROKING HER HAIR. THE +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, “MARY’S IS A FACE WHICH SUCH A COIFFURE DOES +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE WALKED UP AND DOWN THE CONSERVATORY FOR A LONG +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE WAS ALSO LOOKING AT PRINCESS MARY, AND IN HER +MADE. PRINCE ANDREW SEVERAL TIMES PROMPTED PIERRE’S STORY OF WHAT HE +MADE USE OF IT.... “WHAT HAVE I DONE?” THOUGHT HE. AND HE TURNED +“MADE WHAT?” +“MA FOI!” SAID HE, “TOMORROW WE SHALL SEE ALL THAT ON THE +“MA FOI, SIRE, NOUS FERONS CE QUI SERA DANS NOTRE POSSIBILITé, +MAGNANIMOUS. SHE FELT CONVINCED OF THAT. THOUSANDS OF DREAMS OF A FUTURE +MAID. +MAID’S VOICE AT THE DOOR. +MAINLY BECAUSE DENíSOV SO DELIGHTED IN HER SINGING. SHE NO LONGER SANG +“MAIS, MON CHER, I DID THIS FOR MY OWN SAKE, TO SATISFY MY CONSCIENCE, +MAJESTY.” +MAJESTY,” SAID AN ADJUTANT WHO HAD COME FROM THE BATTERIES THAT WERE +MAKE A CAREER AND MUST NOT MISS OPPORTUNITIES, BUT MUST AVAIL MYSELF OF +MAKE AS SUCCESSFUL A CAREER OF IT AS POSSIBLE.” +MAKE HIM GO ON. +MALEVOLENT AND CAUSTIC EXPRESSION SOFTENED, AS IF ADMITTING THAT WHAT +MALLETS AND SWORDS. AS HE WAS BEING LED UP TO SOME OBJECT HE NOTICED A +MALLETS, THE DOORS OPENED BEFORE THEM. A BASS VOICE (PIERRE WAS STILL +MALODOROUS MOUTH. TEARS ACTUALLY MOISTENED HIS CHEEKS. +MAMMA.” +“MAMMA, ARE YOU CROSS? DON’T BE CROSS, DEAR! IS IT MY FAULT?” +“MAMMA!... MAMMA!... HE HAS MADE ME...” +MAN.” AGAIN HE PRESSED THE HAND OF THE LATTER WITH AN EXPRESSION OF +MAN AND HELP HIM TO WORLDLY SUCCESS. UNDER COVER OF OBTAINING HELP +MAN, AND THAT IN THE DUEL WITH BEZúKHOV, PIERRE WAS RIGHT AND DóLOKHOV +MAN, BE FOR HER? IN HER THOUGHTS OF MARRIAGE PRINCESS MARY DREAMED OF +MAN BE FULLY IMBUED WITH THE THOUGHT THAT WE MUST DEFEAT THESE HIRELINGS +MAN BESIDE YOU?” +MAN; BY HIS ACQUAINTANCES AS A HANDSOME LIEUTENANT OF HUSSARS, A GOOD +MAN, HAD NOT THE FIVE RUBLES THAT WOULD MAKE HIM HAPPY. +MAN IS AS SURLY AS A DOG.” +MANLY-LOOKING, BUT WHAT AMAZED AND ESTRANGED PIERRE TILL HE GOT USED +MANNER: THEY WERE ALL EVIDENTLY FIRMLY CONVINCED OF PIERRE’S NOBLE +MAN, OUR DEAR VYAZMíTINOV....” +MANURE ON WELL-KEPT PLOWLAND, LAY FROM TEN TO FIFTEEN DEAD AND WOUNDED +MAN, WITH GRAY BUSHY EYEBROWS OVERHANGING BRIGHT EYES OF AN INDEFINITE +MAN WITH THE WHITE FOREHEAD, BLACK EYEBROWS, AND RED LIPS. +MANY OF THEM), AND AT LAST HE SAW HOW A WHOLE DETACHMENT OF FRENCH +MANY YOUNG MEN TO HIS PARENTS’ HOUSE. VéRA WAS A HANDSOME GIRL +MARCHED GAILY, AS THEY ALWAYS DO WHEN GOING INTO ACTION, ESPECIALLY TO +MARCHING ALONG BOTH. +MARE HE RODE, HIS HAND IN A WHITE GLOVE GATHERED UP THE REINS, AND HE +“MARIE” PRODUCED ON THE VISITORS. AND SHE SAW MADEMOISELLE +MARKED THE CHANGE? I SAT ALL THE TIME IN THIS SAME PLACE AT THIS TABLE, +MARKET PLACE, WHERE THERE HAD BEEN SOME RATHER HEAVY FIRING BEFORE THE +MARKóV IMMEDIATELY DROPPED HIS OWN BESIDE IT AND PICKED IT UP WITHOUT +“MARRIAGES ARE MADE IN HEAVEN,” REPLIED THE ELDERLY LADY. +MARRIAGE—WHEN THE MARRIAGEABLE DAUGHTERS AND THEIR MOTHERS HAD NOTHING +MARRIED,” ANSWERED THE COUNTESS SHARPLY AND SARCASTICALLY. +MARRIED, LA PETITE EST GENTILLE.” * +MARRY ANYONE, BUT WILL BE A DANCER. ONLY DON’T TELL ANYONE.” +MARSHAL OF THE COURT, COUNT TOLSTóY. +MARTYR’S DEATH FOR HIS SAKE. THEN ROBESPIERRE WAS BEHEADED FOR BEING +MARY. +MARY. +“MARY BOGDáNOVNA, I THINK IT’S BEGINNING!” SAID PRINCESS MARY +MARY, BUT DID NOT AT ONCE TAKE HIS ARM FROM THE WAIST OF MADEMOISELLE +MARY DID NOT FRIGHTEN THEM (SHE NEVER INSPIRED FEAR IN ANYONE), BUT THEY +MARY. HOW GOOD IT WOULD BE TO KNOW WHERE TO SEEK FOR HELP IN THIS LIFE, +MARY, I AM GOING TO LOVE HIM VERY MUCH,” SAID LISE, LOOKING WITH +MARY, REALLY THIS DRESS DOES NOT SUIT YOU. I PREFER YOU IN YOUR LITTLE +MARY! SAY...” AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS BEGAN TO CRY CAPRICIOUSLY LIKE +“MARY,” SHE SAID, MOVING AWAY FROM THE EMBROIDERY FRAME AND LYING +MARY SPENT MOST OF THE DAY IN THE NURSERY, TAKING A MOTHER’S PLACE TO +MARY’S ROOM. +MASON. +MASONIC STATUTES, “BE KINDLY AND COURTEOUS,” RECURRED TO HIM. HE +MASSES. +MASTER, “BUT THOSE BETWEEN VIRTUE AND VICE. BEWARE OF MAKING ANY +MASTER’S THOUGHTS. HE GUESSED THAT THE QUESTION REFERRED TO PRINCE +MASTER, WOULD TOUCH AND DELUDE HIM. +MATCH IN RUSSIA, HAD SUNK GREATLY IN THE ESTEEM OF SOCIETY AFTER HIS +MATHEMATICS FROM HER FATHER, AND WHEN THE OLD PRINCE WAS AT HOME WENT +MATTER OF INDIFFERENCE WHETHER HE REMAINED THERE FOR A FEW HOURS OR FOR +MATTERS VERY SATISFACTORILY. BORíS, DURING THE CAMPAIGN, HAD MADE THE +MATTERS YOURSELF!’ YES... THAT WAS THE ANSWER I GOT!” +“MATVéVNA’S” CARRIAGE. AT THE FOOT OF THE HILL, A PALE HUSSAR +“MATVéVNA,” THE GUN FROM WHICH THEY HAD REMOVED THE DEAD OFFICER. +MAY NOT HAVE SEEN, BUT I HAVE SEEN, HOW GOOD MEN BROUGHT UP IN THOSE +MAY PERHAPS HAVE A STRONGER EFFECT ON THE SINCERE SEEKER AFTER WISDOM +“MAY THE DEVIL TAKE THEM—THE TRAITORS!” +MAZUWKA IS THIS? BUT SHE DOES DANCE SPLENDIDLY.” +ME.” +MEANING FOR ANYONE ELSE, BUT GAVE HIM SOME OF THE BEST JOYS OF HIS LIFE; +MEANING FOR HIM, THAT HE PAID NO ATTENTION TO IT. THE AUNT WAS JUST +MEANS. THEN YOU SAY, ‘LIGHTEN HIS TOIL.’ BUT AS I SEE IT, PHYSICAL +ME,” ANSWERED A VOICE STRUGGLING WITH TEARS. +MEANT FOR HIM NOT ONLY THE LOSS OF SIXTEEN HUNDRED RUBLES, BUT THE +MEANT TO DOUBLE THE THREE THOUSAND JUST PUT DOWN TO HIS SCORE, WHEN +MEANWHILE, PéTYA, HAVING FOUND AND SEIZED THE SABERS IN THE OUTER ROOM, +MEASURES—THE REMOVAL OF INJUNCTIONS, PETITIONS, PERMITS, AND SO +MEETING ARRIVES. NOT DARING TO LOOK ROUND AND WITHOUT LOOKING ROUND, HE +MEETING, THEY HAD KISSED EACH OTHER, BUT TODAY THEY FELT IT COULD NOT +ME. ‘EVERYONE FEARS A BEAR,’ HE SAYS, ‘BUT WHEN YOU SEE ONE YOUR +ME IN CHOOSING ME FOR YOUR SECOND, IF AT THIS GRAVE, THIS VERY +ME IN THE EYES OF SOCIETY, AND EVEN OF THE COURT,” HE ADDED, LOWERING +ME IN WAR THE ENERGY OF YOUNG MEN OFTEN SHOWS THE WAY BETTER THAN ALL +ME, JUST BECAUSE I HAVE EXERTED MYSELF ON HIS BEHALF, BEFRIENDED HIM, +MELANCHOLY WAS JUST LIKE THE AUGUST MELANCHOLY SHE SHOWED AT THE MENTION +MEMBERS AND GUESTS JOSTLING ONE ANOTHER AND TRYING TO GET A GOOD LOOK +MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL OF WAR. THEY WERE DRINKING TEA, AND ONLY AWAITED +MEMORY, AND HE TOLD EVERYBODY THAT HIS SON HAD BEEN KILLED. HE TRIED NOT +ME... MYSELF MOST OF ALL. THEN I DON’T EAT, DON’T WASH... AND HOW IS +MEN AND PROVISIONS HAVE NOT ARRIVED. GALLOP OFF TO HIM AT ONCE AND +MEN DISFIGURED BY FEAR OF DEATH NOW CROWDED TOGETHER, CRUSHING ONE +MEN, SEEMED SO IMMEASURABLY ABOVE HIM, AN INSIGNIFICANT OFFICER OF THE +MEN’S WILL. +MEN TAKE THEIR FIRST STEPS ON LIFE’S ROAD, EACH SAW IMMENSE CHANGES IN +MENTAL ACTIVITY IS TO YOU OR ME. YOU CAN’T HELP THINKING. I GO TO BED +MENTAL IMAGE OF HIS FUTURE ACTIVITY IN THIS DIRECTION ROSE IN HIS MIND. +MEN—THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, PRINCE ADAM CZARTORýSKI.... IT +MENTION, AND WHICH YOU THINK IS THE RESULT OF YOUR OWN MENTAL EFFORTS, +MENTIONED DURING THE JOURNEY. +MENTIONED THEIR AGE. “IF YOU MARRY IT WILL BE A DIFFERENT THING,” +MENTION HER!” HE EXCLAIMED FIERCELY. +MEN WAS TRAINING A TROTTER OF HIS OWN FOR A RACE. HE KNEW A LADY ON ONE +MEN WITH BROAD, SELF-CONFIDENT FACES, FAT FINGERS, AND RESOLUTE GESTURES +MERRY REMINISCENCES. +MESSAGE TO KUTúZOV, PERHAPS EVEN TO THE SOVEREIGN HIMSELF. THE MORNING +ME! THAT’S THE SORT OF MAN HE IS, AND NOTHING MORE,” REPLIED +MET HIM AT THE FIRST DOOR AND, EXPRESSING THEIR DELIGHT AT SEEING SUCH A +MET, SHE FELL ON HIS BREAST, SOBBING. SHE COULD NOT LIFT HER FACE, BUT +ME—YET DREADFUL AND UNNATURAL AS IT SEEMS, I WOULD GIVE THEM ALL AT +MIDDLE OF THE MUDDY ROAD. +MIDNIGHT. PRINCE ANDREW WENT OUT. +MIDWIFE. +MIGHT, AND A PASSIONATE ATTRACTION TO HIM WHO WAS THE CAUSE OF THIS +MIGHT DEPRIVE HIM OF ALL THIS HAPPINESS, NEWLY APPRECIATED AND NEWLY +MIGHT, FEELING THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO INJURE HIMSELF BY THAT SHOUT, IF +MIGHT HAVE BEEN MORE DECISIVE HAD THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF NOT BEEN SO +MIGHT RETREAT AND LEAVE THE PICKETS.” +MIGHT TOWARD THE BUSHES. HE DID NOT NOW RUN WITH THE FEELING OF DOUBT +MIKHáYLOVNA ENTERED THE HALL. THOUGH SHE CAME UPON THE COUNT IN HIS +MIKHáYLOVNA’S VOICE ALONE IN A LONG SPEECH, THEN A CRY, THEN SILENCE, +MILE AND A HALF AWAY, BUT HAD SUDDENLY AND UNEXPECTEDLY APPEARED JUST IN +MILES, AND REINING IN HIS HORSE HE SIGHED RESTFULLY AND LOOKED ROUND +MILITARY CODE, WHICH HE AND THE OTHERS KNEW IN THE REGIMENT, THERE WAS +MILITARY MEN, BORE THAT EXPRESSION OF CONDESCENDING RESPECT FOR THEIR +MILK-WHITE SEA. NOTHING WAS VISIBLE IN THE VALLEY TO THE LEFT INTO WHICH +MILLIONS IN HAND MIGHT SMILE AT A POOR FELLOW WHO TOLD HIM THAT HE, POOR +MILLIONS OF HUMAN BEINGS WHO GREW UP IN THE SAME WAY. AS TWENTY +MILORáDOVICH WHEELED HIS HORSE SHARPLY AND STATIONED HIMSELF A LITTLE +MIND TO ASK HIM A QUESTION ABOUT THE ROADS, THE TRAVELER HAD CLOSED HIS +MINIATURE PORTRAIT OF HER SON ON THE LID OF A SNUFFBOX, WHILE THE TEARS +MINISTER’S SON WAS, WITH HIS ROSY CHEEKS AND DARK EYEBROWS, AND WITH +MINUTE LATER WITH ANOTHER COMMITTEEMAN, CARRYING A LARGE SILVER SALVER +MINUTES BEFORE THE TROOPS HAD PASSED THE EMPERORS. NOT ONLY WOULD IT +MINUTEST DETAILS HIMSELF. PRINCESS MARY HAD CEASED TAKING LESSONS IN +MIRROR HER EYES FULL OF TEARS AND HER MOUTH QUIVERING, READY TO BURST +MISCHIEF-MAKERS DON’T MEDDLE EVEN A GERMAN BEATS BUONAPARTE. HE IS +MISERY. A MAN OFFENDED YOU AND YOU SHOT HIM, AND YOU SAY YOU DO NOT +MISERY. THAT COULD NOT BE, YET HE AWAITED WITH A SINKING HEART THE +MISFORTUNE? AND WHEN DID IT BEGIN? SUCH A LITTLE WHILE AGO I CAME TO +MISLEADING YOU.” +MISSED HIM. HIS ONE DESIRE WAS TO KNOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND AT ANY +“MISSED!” SHOUTED DóLOKHOV, AND HE LAY HELPLESSLY, FACE DOWNWARDS +MIST!” +MISTAKE AND THAT ANATOLE MEANT TO FLIRT WITH MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, +MISTAKEN,” SAID THE STRANGER IN A DELIBERATE AND LOUD VOICE. +MIST AND TAKING IT FOR A TREE CAN AGAIN TAKE IT FOR A TREE AFTER HE HAS +MISUNDERSTANDING. I EXPECT YOU FEEL IT SO YOURSELF. LET US WRITE HER +MISUNDERSTANDINGS AND DID NOT NOW FEEL SHE HAD A RIGHT TO ASK HIM FOR +MIXTURE ONTO THE FLOOR AND ASKED FOR SOME MORE WATER. THE MAID BROUGHT +MODELING AND MODELING YOU MUST GET SMEARED WITH CLAY,” SUGGESTING +MOMENT CONSIDER WHAT SHE SHOULD DO), BUT ALL THIS HAD LONG BEEN FAMILIAR +MOMENT OF MEETING HAD BEEN SO BEATIFIC THAT HIS PRESENT JOY SEEMED +MOMENT, SAT BESIDE HIM: THE REST, CROWDING ROUND HIM, WATCHED EVERY +MOMENTS: BUT HIS WORDS SOUNDED SO WEAK THAT HE FELT ASHAMED OF HIMSELF. +MOMENT THE FRENCH WHO WERE ATTACKING, SUDDENLY AND WITHOUT ANY APPARENT +MOMENT THOSE HANDS WITH THEIR SHORT REDDISH FINGERS AND HAIRY WRISTS, +“MON DIEU! MON DIEU! OH!” SHE HEARD AS SHE LEFT THE ROOM. +MONUMENT FROM MOSCOW WHICH HE INTENDED TO ERECT IN HIS OWN GARDEN TO HIS +MORE. +MORE AND MORE ANIMATED AND EVIDENTLY WISHING TO EXPRESS HIS NEW OUTLOOK +MORE ANIMATED. ONLY WHEN A MAN WAS KILLED OR WOUNDED DID HE FROWN AND +MORE CONFIRMED THE FARTHER HE RODE INTO THE REGION BEHIND THE VILLAGE OF +MORE CONFUSED, BLUSHED LIKE A CHILD TILL TEARS CAME TO HIS EYES, BEGAN +MORE CUNNING OR SUBTLE DIPLOMATIST—YOU KNOW, A COMBINATION OF FRENCH +MORE, FOR IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARDS CANNON BEGAN FIRING FROM SOMEWHERE AND +MORE HONORABLE TO ADMIT ONE’S MISTAKE THAN TO LET MATTERS BECOME +MORE IMPORTANT GUESTS—AN OLD GENERAL AND HIS WIFE, AND ANNA PáVLOVNA +MORE IMPORTANT NEARER TO THE HONORED GUEST, AS NATURALLY AS WATER FLOWS +MORE NOTICEABLE HOW MUCH PLAINER SHE HAD BECOME. SOME UNOBTRUSIVE TOUCH +MORE OUTCRIES, AND TEARS OF JOY. HE COULD NOT DISTINGUISH WHICH WAS +MORE! SOME MORE!” A MERRY VOICE WAS SAYING IN HIS SOUL. BUT NO MORE +MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE, PRINCE VASíLI TOOK POSSESSION OF PIERRE’S +MORTIFICATION, OUR OPINION OF BONAPARTE CANNOT ALTER. WE SHALL NOT CEASE +MOSCOVITES WHO TOOK THEIR OPINIONS FROM OTHERS—ILYá ROSTóV AMONG +MOSCOW!” +MOSCOW AFTER THE DEATH OF COUNT BEZúKHOV, HE WOULD CALL PIERRE, OR +MOSCOW. AS A RESULT HE COULD NOT GO TO THE COUNTRY WITH THE REST OF THE +MOSCOW’S HERO WAS THE FACT THAT HE HAD NO CONNECTIONS IN THE CITY +MOSCOW THEIR HOUSE WAS ALWAYS FULL OF VISITORS. THE NIGHT AFTER THE +MOSCOW. THE REMEMBRANCE OF THE ROSTóVS’ HOUSE AND OF HIS CHILDISH +MOSCOW WHO WAS EXPECTED EVERY MOMENT, AND MEN ON HORSEBACK WITH LANTERNS +MOST OF HER OBSERVATIONS, IT MADE EVERYONE FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE, NOT +MOST PART TO BE SPOKEN AT A MOMENT OF VICTORY AND TRIUMPH, GENERALLY +MOST STRONGLY EXPRESSED HIS INSINCERE LOVE FOR HER, AND HE FELT THE +MOTHER BY THE NEWS OF THIS LOSS, HE KNEW WHAT A RELIEF IT WOULD BE TO +MOVED AND HALTED AT THE OFFICERS’ COMMAND, TURNED WITH BANNERS FLYING, +MOVED OFF ACCOMPANIED BY AN IRREGULARLY SWAYING SEA OF AIDES-DE-CAMP. +MOVEMENT OF DóLOKHOV’S HANDS. THOSE BROAD, REDDISH HANDS, WITH HAIRY +MOVEMENT OF THE TSAR’S SEEMED TO HIM ENCHANTING. +MOVEMENTS OF THE MASS OF WHICH IN HIS REGIMENT HE FELT HIMSELF A TINY, +MOVEMENT, WORD, OR LOOK OF HIS, NEVER TAKING THEIR BLISSFULLY ADORING +MOVE ON A FEW STEPS AND BE KILLED THEMSELVES IN THE SAME WAY. +“MOVE ON A HUNDRED YARDS AND WE ARE CERTAINLY SAVED, REMAIN HERE +MOVE ON. THE HORSES MOVED OFF THE BANK. THE ICE, THAT HAD HELD UNDER +MOVING THE MONEY FORWARD HE PREPARED TO DEAL. ROSTóV SAT DOWN BY HIS +MOVING TOWARD OUR LEFT FLANK, THE HIGHER COMMAND FOUND THAT OUR CENTER +MUCH AS A SAILOR IS BY HIS SHIP. HOWEVER FAR HE HAS WALKED, WHATEVER +“MUCH AS MAMMA PRESSED HER, SHE REFUSED, AND I KNOW SHE WON’T CHANGE +MUCH AT THE CAPTAIN AS AT THOSE WHO WERE LAUGHING, AMONG WHOM ZHERKóV +MUCH BECAUSE HE HEARD THEIR SOUND AS BECAUSE HE SAW UNEASINESS ON +MUCH INTEREST HIM BECAUSE AT THAT MOMENT HE FELT WITH DELIGHT THAT HE +MUCH, MY DEAR SIR.” +MUCH OF IT LEFT.” +MUCH TO SAY TO ONE ANOTHER IN PRIVATE AND SO THEY HAD BEEN SEEKING AN +MUD-BESPATTERED BREECHES. THE GERMAN LANDLADY, HEARING ROSTóV’S LOUD +MUSIC. AMID THESE SOUNDS, ONLY THE YOUTHFUL KINDLY VOICE OF THE EMPEROR +MUSKETS OF THE NEAREST SOLDIERS. THE SOLDIERS STARTED FIRING WITHOUT +MUSTACHE. “I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU MEN ARE LIKE. ARE YOU THE SAME AS +MUST GAIN HIS CONFIDENCE AND FRIENDSHIP AND THROUGH HIM OBTAIN A SPECIAL +“MUST ONE DIE LIKE A DOG?” SAID HE. +MUST REMAIN HIDDEN FROM THEE, BUT LIVE SO THAT THOU MAYEST BE READY FOR +MUTTERED SOMETHING AND COLORED. +“MY COUSIN HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS AND IT’S NOT NECESSARY TO +“MY DARLING!” HE SAID—A WORD HE HAD NEVER USED TO HER BEFORE. +MY DEAR BOY, ARE YOU SERVING IN THE HORSE GUARDS?” ASKED THE OLD MAN, +“MY DEAR COUNT, YOU WERE ONE OF MY BEST PUPILS—YOU MUST DANCE,” +“MY DEAR FELLOW,” NESVíTSKI WHISPERED TO PRINCE ANDREW, “THE OLD +“MY DEAR FELLOW, WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO IN MOSCOW? WHY HAVE YOU +“MY DEAR FRIEND?” SAID SHE, IN A TONE OF PATHETIC INQUIRY, PREPARED +“MY DEAR,” HE HEARD WHAT SEEMED TO HIM HER DESPAIRING WHISPER BEHIND +“MY DEAR, I MUST TELL YOU THAT THIS IS A MOMENT I SHALL NEVER, NEVER +“MY DEAR, REALLY... IT’S BETTER NOT TO WAKE HIM... HE’S ASLEEP,” +“MY DEAR,” SAID PRINCESS MARY, ADDRESSING HER BROTHER FROM BESIDE +MY DEAR SIR,” HE ADDED, SEEING THAT HIS SERVANT HAD ENTERED... “AND +“MY DESIRE IS NEVER TO LEAVE YOU, FATHER, NEVER TO SEPARATE MY +MY EMPTY PORTMANTEAU AND MY DRESSING GOWN. THE EMPEROR PROPOSES TO GIVE +“MY GOD, HOW HAPPY I SHOULD BE IF HE ORDERED ME TO LEAP INTO THE FIRE +“MY GOD, I’M A RUINED AND DISHONORED MAN! A BULLET THROUGH MY BRAIN +“MY GOD! WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?” THOUGHT HE. “AND HERE, WHERE AT +MY MEN IN THE WOOD. I BEG OF YOU, I BEG OF YOU,” HE REPEATED, “TO +“MY MOTHER! MY MOTHER, MY ANGEL, MY ADORED ANGEL MOTHER,” AND +“MY PASSION! I HAVE HAD SO MANY,” REPLIED PIERRE. +MY RIDING AND COMMANDING SO VAST AN ARMY, SO I HAVE PASSED ON THE +MYSELF AND RUINED MY LIFE. AND ONLY NOW WHEN I AM LIVING, OR AT LEAST +MYSELF AND YOU WITH THE HOPE THAT YOUR SON IS ALIVE, FOR OTHERWISE +MYSELF NOT LONG AGO, IN MOSCOW AND WHEN TRAVELING, BUT AT SUCH TIMES I +MYSTERIOUSLY. “YES, TOMORROW, TOMORROW!” HE THOUGHT. “TOMORROW +MYSTERY IS OF SUCH A NATURE THAT NOBODY CAN KNOW OR USE IT UNLESS HE BE +MYSTERY ON WHICH PERHAPS THE FATE OF MANKIND DEPENDS. BUT SINCE THIS +MY STUPIDITY.” +“MY VOCATION IS A DIFFERENT ONE,” THOUGHT PRINCESS MARY. “MY +NAKED SHOULDERS. SHE DID NOT GIVE HIM THE MONEY, BUT LET HERSELF BE +NAMESAKE, THE NEW COUNT BEZúKHOV) “AND NOW SHE’S IN LOVE WITH THAT +NAME TO RECTIFY THIS OMISSION, PRINCE ANDREW GALLOPED BACK. KUTúZOV +NAPOLEON +NAPOLEON. “IF HE WEREN’T AFRAID OF A BATTLE WHY DID HE ASK FOR THAT +NAPOLEON’S EYES PRINCE ANDREW THOUGHT OF THE INSIGNIFICANCE OF +NAPOLEON’S PROCLAMATION WAS AS FOLLOWS: +NAPOLEON WHO SAID IT. HE HEARD THE SPEAKER ADDRESSED AS SIRE. BUT HE +NAPOLEON WITH EVEN GREATER WARMTH THAN THE YEAR BEFORE. ORDERS WERE +NARýSHKIN, UVáROV, DOLGORúKOV, APRáKSIN, VALúEV, TO THE COMMITTEE, +“NATALY,” HE SAID, MOVING WITH RAPID STEPS TOWARD HER, “DECIDE MY +NATáSHA, AFTER SHE HAD PULLED HIM DOWN TOWARD HER AND COVERED HIS FACE +NATáSHA, AND SóNYA, AND WILL CERTAINLY NEVER TOUCH A CARD AGAIN.” AT +NATáSHA. BUT HE WAS NOT AS MUCH AT EASE WITH SóNYA AND DóLOKHOV AS +NATáSHA COULD NOT REMAIN CALM, SEEING HIM IN SUCH A PLIGHT. SHE BEGAN +NATáSHA FELL IN LOVE THE VERY MOMENT SHE ENTERED THE BALLROOM. SHE +NATáSHA FLARED UP. “I DON’T WANT TO MARRY ANYONE. AND I’LL TELL +NATáSHA LOOKED AT SóNYA WITH WONDERING AND INQUISITIVE EYES, AND SAID +NATáSHA. NICHOLAS UNDERSTOOD THAT SOMETHING MUST HAVE HAPPENED BETWEEN +NATáSHA NO LESS PROUD OF HER FIRST LONG DRESS AND OF BEING AT A REAL +NATáSHA, SEEING THE IMPRESSION THE NEWS OF HER BROTHER’S WOUND +NATáSHA’S INTERMEDIACY, TO REMIND HIM OF HIS PROMISE, AND THEN +NATáSHA SMILED THROUGH HER TEARS. +NATáSHA’S PREDICTION PROVED TRUE. DóLOKHOV, WHO DID NOT USUALLY CARE +NATáSHA’S PREVIOUS REMARK. “IT’S BECAUSE SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH +NATáSHA SUDDENLY FLUSHED. +NATáSHA, THAT WINTER, HAD FOR THE FIRST TIME BEGUN TO SING SERIOUSLY, +NATáSHA TOOK THE FIRST NOTE, HER THROAT SWELLED, HER CHEST ROSE, +NATáSHA TO SING. +NATáSHA, WHO WAS EXCEPTIONALLY GRACEFUL, WAS FIRST, EVEN DANCED THE PAS +NATURAL TO HIM WAS VERY GENTLE AND WARY WITH THEM BOTH AT DINNER. ON +NEAR BY THE NEWS SPREAD THAT THE EMPEROR WAS UNWELL. HE ATE NOTHING AND +NEAR EVERYTHING GREW BRIGHTER, MORE JOYFUL, MORE SIGNIFICANT, AND MORE +NEAR HIM AND ONLY WISHED THAT THEY WOULD HELP HIM AND BRING HIM BACK TO +NEAR HIM PRICKED THEIR EARS AT THESE SHOUTS. OVER THERE, WHERE THE +NEARLY CUT OUR LEFT FLANK IN HALF WERE FOR THE MOMENT REPULSED. OUR +NEAR THE ALTAR OF THE CHURCH AT BALD HILLS THERE WAS A CHAPEL OVER THE +NEAR THE GUN WAVED THEIR ARMS AND BEAT THE HORSES TO MAKE THEM TURN AND +NECESSARY FOR THE POSITION. THEN THERE’S THIS HOUSE, WHICH MUST BE +NECESSITY OF GOING BACK ON HIS WORD. WITH A SINKING HEART HE WATCHED +NECK. ON HIS RIGHT SAT THE ITALIAN ABBé WHOM PIERRE HAD MET AT +NEEDED. +NEEDED FOR SUCCESS IN THE SERVICE WAS NOT EFFORT OR WORK, OR COURAGE, OR +NEED, EVEN THE INEVITABILITY, OF ENTERING INTO CONVERSATION WITH THIS +NEED SOME MONEY.” +NEIGHBOR, AND MAY ENVY NEVER DIM THE PURITY OF THAT BLISS. FORGIVE THY +NEIGHBORING TOWN, WHO HAD BEEN AT BALD HILLS FOR THE LAST FORTNIGHT.) +NEIGHBORING WHEEL IS AS QUIET AND MOTIONLESS AS THOUGH IT WERE PREPARED +NEIGHBOR? NO! YOU HAVE SPENT YOUR LIFE IN IDLENESS. THEN YOU MARRIED, MY +NEIGHBOR ON HIS RIGHT QUICKLY TURNED IN ALARM TO BEZúKHOV. +NEITHER MOVING FORWARD TO PROTECT THE BATTERY NOR BACKWARD WITH THE +NEITHER OF HER GOWN AND COIFFURE NOR OF HOW SHE WOULD GO IN NOR OF WHAT +NEITHER OF THEM COULD THINK OF HER AS A RIVAL, SO THEY BEGAN DRESSING +NESVíTSKI CLOSED THEIR EYES. AT THE SAME INSTANT THEY HEARD A REPORT +NESVíTSKI. COUNT ILYá ROSTóV WITH THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE +NESVíTSKI’S AND DóLOKHOV’S SABERS, WHICH WERE STUCK INTO THE +NESVíTSKI STOPPED HIM AND TOOK HIM HOME. +NESVíTSKI WAS THERE AS AN OLD MEMBER OF THE CLUB. PIERRE, WHO AT HIS +NEVER BEAR MALICE OR ENMITY TOWARD THY BROTHER. BE KINDLY AND COURTEOUS. +NEVER HAD LOVE BEEN SO MUCH IN THE AIR, AND NEVER HAD THE AMOROUS +NEVER SAYS ANYTHING STUPID. SHE SAYS LITTLE, BUT WHAT SHE DOES SAY IS +NEVER TO DARE TO CHANGE YOUR WAY OF DRESS WITHOUT MY CONSENT.” +NEW CHURCH, PREVIOUSLY BEGUN, HAD COST ABOUT 10,000 IN EACH OF THE LAST +NEW FRIEND’S INFLUENCE. +NEWLY ERECTED BUILDINGS WERE STANDING EMPTY AND THAT THE SERFS CONTINUED +NEW MUSTACHE. “NOW THEN, GET ON,” HE SHOUTED TO THE DRIVER. “DO +NEW PACK OF CARDS SAID: “BANK, GENTLEMEN!” +NEW PATH SO ATTRACTIVELY SHOWN HIM BY THE MASONS, ON WHICH HE FIRMLY +NEWS. +NEWS AND COMMON ACQUAINTANCES LIKE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW EACH OTHER +NEWS—IF IT’S NOT FALSE. BENNIGSEN SEEMS TO HAVE OBTAINED A COMPLETE +NEXT CAME FOUR SOLDIERS, CARRYING SOMETHING HEAVY ON A CLOAK, AND PASSED +NEXT DAY, AT EIGHT IN THE MORNING, PIERRE AND NESVíTSKI DROVE TO THE +NEXT DAY ROSTóV SAW DENíSOV OFF. HE DID NOT WISH TO STAY ANOTHER +NEXT DAY, THE ARMY BEGAN ITS CAMPAIGN, AND UP TO THE VERY BATTLE OF +NEXT DAY THE FRENCH ARMY DID NOT RENEW THEIR ATTACK, AND THE REMNANT OF +NEXT DAY, THE THIRD OF MARCH, SOON AFTER ONE O’CLOCK, TWO HUNDRED AND +NEXT MORNING, AFTER THE FATIGUES OF THEIR JOURNEY, THE TRAVELERS SLEPT +NEXT MORNING WHEN THE VALET CAME INTO THE ROOM WITH HIS COFFEE, PIERRE +NEXT NOTE, THE NEXT PHRASE, AND EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD WAS DIVIDED INTO +“NICE! AND SO YOU NO LONGER WISH TO MARRY BORíS?” +NICE... BUT IT WON’T DO...NOT THAT... BUT AS A FRIEND, I SHALL ALWAYS + * NICHOLAS. +NICHOLAS AND DENíSOV WERE WALKING UP AND DOWN, LOOKING WITH KINDLY +NICHOLAS BEGAN PACING UP AND DOWN THE ROOM. +“NICHOLAS! COME OUT IN YOUR DRESSING GOWN!” SAID NATáSHA’S VOICE. +“NICHOLAS, DON’T TELL ME THAT!” SHE SAID. +“NICHOLAS! GET UP!” NATáSHA’S VOICE WAS AGAIN HEARD AT THE DOOR. +“NICHOLAS, HAVE YOU COME? COME HERE, DEAR!” CALLED THE OLD COUNTESS +NICHOLAS, HAVING AS USUAL EXHAUSTED TWO PAIRS OF HORSES, WITHOUT +NICHOLAS’ LETTER WAS READ OVER HUNDREDS OF TIMES, AND THOSE WHO WERE +NICHOLAS ROSTóV, WITH DENíSOV AND HIS NEW ACQUAINTANCE, DóLOKHOV, SAT +NICHOLAS STRAIGHT IN THE EYES, “YOU KNOW THE SAYING, ‘LUCKY IN LOVE, +NICHOLAS TRIED TO SAY “YES,” BUT COULD NOT: AND HE NEARLY BURST INTO +NICHOLAS TURNED AWAY FROM HER. NATáSHA TOO, WITH HER QUICK INSTINCT, +“NICHOLAS!” WAS ALL SóNYA SAID, INSTANTLY TURNING WHITE. +NICHOLAS WENT TO HER, KISSED HER HAND, AND SITTING DOWN SILENTLY AT HER +“NICHOLAS, WILL YOU COME TO IOGEL’S? PLEASE DO!” SAID NATáSHA. +NIGHT. BUT NOW, IN THE SOLITUDE OF THE JOURNEY, THEY SEIZED HIM WITH +NIGHT HE HAD NOT THE SLIGHTEST DOUBT, AND THE GUILTLESSNESS OF +NIGHT I LOOKED AT THE CAMPFIRES AND THERE WAS NO END OF THEM. A REGULAR +NIGHT WHEN HE HAD DECIDED THAT TO MARRY HéLèNE WOULD BE A CALAMITY AND +“NIKóLENKA... A LETTER... WA... A... S... WOUNDED... MY DARLING +NIKóLENKA; BY HIS RELATIONS AS A CHARMING, ATTRACTIVE, AND POLITE YOUNG +“NIKóLENKA, WHAT IS THE MATTER?” SóNYA’S EYES FIXED ON HIM +“NIKóLENKA... WOUNDED... A LETTER,” SHE ANNOUNCED IN GLEEFUL +NINETEENTH, A GREAT, EXCITEDLY BUSTLING ACTIVITY BEGAN WHICH LASTED TILL +“NO.” +“NO.” +NO?” +NO ACCOUNT HAVE TOLD A DELIBERATE LIE. HE BEGAN HIS STORY MEANING TO +“NO APOLOGIES, NONE WHATEVER,” SAID DóLOKHOV TO DENíSOV (WHO ON +“NOBODY WANTS ME!” THOUGHT ROSTóV. “THERE IS NO ONE TO HELP ME OR +“NO, BUT DON’T YOU THINK IT’S NICE?” SHE KEPT REPEATING. +“NO, BUT I HAVE BEEN IN LOVE A THOUSAND TIMES AND SHALL FALL IN +“NO, BUT I MUST. IT MAY BE ARROGANT OF ME, BUT STILL IT IS BEST TO SAY +“NO, BUT LISTEN,” SHE SAID, “NOW YOU ARE QUITE A MAN, AREN’T +“NO, BUT SHE SAID THAT IT WAS ALL OVER AND THAT HE’S NOW AN +“NO, BUT WHAT IS IT, MY DEAR? DO YOU WANT ME TO GO AND TELL HIM?” +“NO, CALL HER YOU, PLEASE! I’LL TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT SOME OTHER +NO, CERTAINLY I MUST NOT APPROACH HIM, I MUST NOT INTRUDE ON HIS +“NO, DEAREST, SWEET ONE, HONEY, I WON’T GIVE UP—I KNOW YOU KNOW +“NO. GIVE ME THE BOOK,” SAID THE STRANGER. +“NO GOOD... NO GOOD...” SAID THE PRINCE RAPIDLY, AND THRUSTING HIS +“NO, HE’S NOT A FOOL!” REPLIED NATáSHA INDIGNANTLY AND SERIOUSLY. +“NO, I CAN’T AGREE WITH YOU! TO LIVE ONLY SO AS NOT TO DO EVIL AND +“NO, I CONSIDERED IT ERRONEOUS AND DID NOT FOLLOW IT,” SAID PIERRE, +“NO, I HATE MY LIFE,” PIERRE MUTTERED, WINCING. +“NO, I HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED TO THE LINE,” SAID ANATOLE, HARDLY ABLE +“NO, I MEANT TO ASK...” PIERRE BEGAN, BUT PRINCE ANDREW INTERRUPTED +“NO, I MUSTN’T. I AM SO SORRY FOR HIM! HE’S SO NICE.” +“NO, IT’S A SPRAIN.” +“NO, IT’S ONLY INDIGESTION?... SAY IT’S ONLY INDIGESTION, SAY SO, +“NO, IT WILL NOT DO,” SHE SAID DECIDEDLY, CLASPING HER HANDS. “NO, +“NO, I WILL DO IT MYSELF, ONLY TELL ME WHAT TO SAY. IT’S ALL VERY +“NO, LEAVE ME ALONE,” SAID PRINCESS MARY. +NO LONGER, AS IT SHOULD BE, TO AVOID OR ATTACK THE ENEMY, BUT SOLELY TO +“NO, MAMMA, BUT I’M SO SORRY FOR HIM. I DON’T KNOW HOW I’M TO +“NO, MAMMA, I’M NOT IN LOVE WITH HIM, I SUPPOSE I’M NOT IN LOVE +“NO MATTER AT ALL, MY DEAR COUNT,” SHE SAID, MEEKLY CLOSING HER +“NO MATTER, PRINCESS, DON’T BE ALARMED,” SAID MARY BOGDáNOVNA. +“NO, MERCI, MON PèRE.” +“NO, MON PèRE.” +“NO, MY DEAR FELLOW, I’LL BE A WALLFLOWER,” SAID DENíSOV. +“NO, NO! A THOUSAND TIMES NO! I SHALL NEVER AGREE WITH YOU,” SAID +“NO, NO!” CRIED NATáSHA, “SHE AND I HAVE ALREADY TALKED IT OVER. +“NO! NO! NO! WHEN YOUR FATHER WRITES TO TELL ME THAT YOU ARE BEHAVING +“NO, NOT ON ANY ACCOUNT! I WILL TELL HIM MYSELF, AND YOU’LL LISTEN +‘NONSENSE!’” +NONSENSE... BUT THIS IS REAL.... NOW THEN, NATáSHA, NOW THEN, DEAREST! +NONSENSE, BUT WE ARE FRIENDS FOREVER. SHE, IF SHE LOVES ANYONE, DOES IT +NONSENSE,” HE THOUGHT. “THE SLUR ON MY NAME AND HONOR—THAT’S ALL +“NONSENSE, INDEED! I AM TELLING YOU THE FACT,” SAID NATáSHA +NONSENSE, THE CHIEF THING IS NOT TO FORGET THE IMPORTANT THING I +“NO ONE CAN ATTAIN TO TRUTH BY HIMSELF. ONLY BY LAYING STONE ON STONE +“NO, ONE CAN’T HEAR THEM. THEY’D BE FIRING IF WE HAD.” +NO ONE SLEPT. +“NO, ON MY TRUE WORD OF HONOR,” SAID NATáSHA, CROSSING HERSELF, +“NO-O-O!” MUTTERED DóLOKHOV THROUGH HIS TEETH, “NO, IT’S NOT +“NO, PAPA IS NOT BACK YET,” SAID SóNYA. +“NO, PARDON ME, I WON’T GO NOW TILL THE CHILD IS BETTER,” THOUGHT +“NO, PRINCE, OUR REGIMENT HAS GONE TO THE FRONT, BUT I AM ATTACHED... +“NO, PRINCESS, I HAVE LOST YOUR AFFECTION FOREVER!” SAID +“NO REALLY, MY DEAR, THIS DRESS IS NOT PRETTY,” SAID LISE, LOOKING +NOSE. HIS FACE WAS DEPRESSED AND GLOOMY. HE SEEMED TO SEE AND HEAR +“NO, SóNYA, BUT DO YOU REMEMBER SO THAT YOU REMEMBER HIM PERFECTLY, +NO SUCH REMINISCENCES REALLY EXIST—JUST AS NONE EXISTED IN THIS CASE. +NOT A DISTINCTION,” SAID THE DIPLOMATIST—“A GIFT, RATHER.” +NOT A LOGICAL ANSWER AND NOT AT ALL A REPLY TO THEM. THE ANSWER WAS: +“NOT AT ALL BAD!” HE THOUGHT, EXAMINING HER, “NOT AT ALL BAD, THAT +NOT AT ONCE RAISE, AND HE SPENT MOST OF HIS TIME IN THE GIRLS’ ROOM. +NOT BEEN FOUND NOR WAS HE ON THE LIST OF PRISONERS. WHAT WAS WORST OF +NOT BREATHE. HE KNEW THAT HE MUST DO SOMETHING TO PUT AN END TO THIS +NOT BUT BELIEVE IN THE SINCERITY OF THOSE AROUND HIM. BESIDES, HE HAD +NOT BUT TREMBLE AND HIS HEART STAND STILL AT THE IMMINENCE OF THAT WORD. +NOT COME AND BROUGHT HIS PUPIL WITH HIM” (FOR SOME REASON PRINCE +NOTED THEM DOWN. +“NO, TELL THEM TO HARNESS.” +NOT EXPECTING TO COME ON THE ENEMY DOWN BY THE STREAM, AND HAVING +NOT EXPECT YOU TODAY,” HE ADDED. “I ONLY SENT YOU THE NOTE YESTERDAY +NOT FAR FROM THE ARTILLERY CAMPFIRE, IN A HUT THAT HAD BEEN PREPARED +NOT FINDING THE YOUNG PRINCE IN HIS STUDY THE VALET WENT WITH THE +“NOTHING,” ANSWERED PRINCESS MARY, LOOKING FIRMLY WITH HER RADIANT +NOTHING, BUT HERE ON THE ONE HAND THE LOCAL NOBILITY HAVE DONE ME THE +NOTHING, BUT THAT. BUT EVEN IT DOES NOT EXIST, THERE IS NOTHING BUT +NOTHING COULD BE SEEN. PITCH-DARK, BROTHER! ISN’T THERE SOMETHING TO +NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT...” HE PAUSED, “THAN TO HAVE A GOOD SLEEP.” +“NOTHING, MY DEAR.” +NOTHING OF HER AND LOOKS ONLY AT BOURIENNE. NO, SHE HAS NO PRIDE... BUT +NOTHING OF WHAT WAS GOING ON AROUND HIM AND TO BE ABSORBED BY SOME +“NOTHING... ONLY A SHELL...” HE ANSWERED. +“NOTHING... ONLY I FEEL SAD... SAD ABOUT ANDREW,” SHE SAID, WIPING +NOTHING. SHE FELT THAT SóNYA WAS SPEAKING THE TRUTH, THAT THERE WAS +NOTHING TO BE HAPPY ABOUT!” THOUGHT HE. +NOTHING TO HIM.... “I SHOULD PERHAPS HAVE DONE THE SAME THING IN HIS +“NOT HURT, PETRóV?” ASKED ONE. +NOTICEABLE ONE AT THE DINNER. ROSTóV LOOKED INIMICALLY AT PIERRE, +NOTICED, LEFT THE ROOM WITH A PLEASANT SMILE. +NOTICED THE FRENCH APPEARING BELOW THEM, AND THEN THEY FIRED GRAPESHOT +NO TIME FOR REFLECTION, AS IN PETERSBURG. INSTEAD OF THE NEW LIFE HE HAD +NO TIME TO ASK HIMSELF WHETHER THESE PEOPLE WERE SINCERE OR NOT. HE +NOT INTEND TO DEVOTE HER LIFE TO SERVING PRINCE BOLKóNSKI, TO READING +“NOT KILLED—WOUNDED!” ANOTHER OFFICER CORRECTED HIM. +NOT KNOW: HE THEREFORE WISHED TO SPEAK TO DOLGORúKOV. +NOT KNOW HIM, BUT HE IS HERE, HE IS IN ME, HE IS IN MY WORDS, HE IS IN +“NOT KUTúZOV, BUT WHAT’S HIS NAME—WELL, NEVER MIND... THERE ARE +NOT LEAVE THE BATTERY. HE DECIDED TO HAVE THE GUNS REMOVED FROM THEIR +NOT LIKE US SINNERS OF THE LINE,” CRIED ROSTóV, WITH MARTIAL SWAGGER +NOT MANY LEFT ALIVE. GO THAT WAY, TO THAT VILLAGE, ALL THE COMMANDERS +“NOT MORE STUPID THAN YOU, MADAM,” SAID THE NINE-YEAR-OLD PéTYA, +NOT MOVING A MUSCLE. +“NO, TO KILL A MAN IS BAD—WRONG.” +NOT ONLY WITHOUT INTEREST BUT EVEN AS IF ASHAMED OF WHAT PIERRE WAS +NOT REALIZE THAT HE HAD COME. HIS COMING HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH +NOT REPLYING TO THE AUSTRIAN. +NOT RESUME YOUR FORMER WAY OF LIFE. AND NOW I WISH YOU A GOOD JOURNEY, +NOT RISE. ROSTóV ALSO TRIED TO RISE BUT FELL BACK, HIS SABRETACHE +“NOT SEEN DUPORT—THE FAMOUS DANCER? WELL THEN, YOU WON’T +NOT SEE OR UNDERSTAND HIM AND MAY NOT SEE OR UNDERSTAND HIS OWN VILENESS +NOT SEE TEN PACES AHEAD. BUSHES LOOKED LIKE GIGANTIC TREES AND LEVEL +NOT SUIT IN THE LEAST. NOT IN THE LEAST! PLEASE CHANGE IT.” +NOT TEN TIMES WOUNDED, KILLED, OR BETRAYED, WELL... WHAT THEN?...” +NOT TO CHALLENGE BOLKóNSKI. “OF COURSE NOT!” HE NOW THOUGHT. “IS +NOT TO HAVE TO REPENT IS NOT ENOUGH. I LIVED LIKE THAT, I LIVED FOR +NOT TO NOTICE ONE ANOTHER. WHEN HAVING LIMBERED UP THE ONLY TWO CANNON +NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT HE OUGHT TO DO THEN IT WILL BE MY AFFAIR—YES, MY +NOT VENTURE TO ASK ANY QUESTIONS, AND SHUT THE DOOR AGAIN, NOW SITTING +NOT WHAT HE HAD READ THAT VEXED HIM, BUT THE FACT THAT THE LIFE OUT +NOT WISH IT. IN A WORD, I MAKE NO PROMISE. AND I BEG YOU TO CONSIDER +NOTWITHSTANDING THE TONE OF WEARIED ASSURANCE WITH WHICH THESE WORDS +NOTWITHSTANDING THIS, BORíS EMBRACED HIM IN A QUIET, FRIENDLY WAY AND +NOVELTY SHE OFFERED HER GUESTS THIS TIME WAS NOT MORTEMART, BUT A +NOVOSíLTSEV, PRINCE VOLKóNSKY, STRóGONOV, AND THE OTHERS, ALL RICHLY +NOW.” +NOW AIMING, NOW COUNTING THE CHARGES, NOW GIVING ORDERS ABOUT REPLACING +NOW BEFORE I AM OFF DUTY. I’LL TAKE ANOTHER TURN AND WHEN I GET BACK +NOW CENTERED ROUND THE EMPEROR. SO WE WILL GO TO DOLGORúKOV; I HAVE TO +“NOW, DEAR BOY,” SAID PRINCE VASíLI PLAYFULLY, “SAY ‘YES,’ +NOW GRADUALLY OPENING BEFORE ME.” BUT FIVE OF THE OTHER VIRTUES WHICH +“NO! WHAT IS THERE TO TALK ABOUT?” SAID PIERRE. “IT’S ALL THE +NOWHERE ENCOUNTERING THE ENEMY. ON THE CONTRARY, THE SOLDIERS BECAME +NOW HE WAS A LIEUTENANT OF HUSSARS, IN A JACKET LACED WITH SILVER, AND +“NOW I MUST DISCLOSE TO YOU THE CHIEF AIM OF OUR ORDER,” HE SAID, +“NOW LOOK OUT FOR THE BALL... WE’LL THROW IT BACK.” +“NOW?” REPEATED NATáSHA, AND A HAPPY SMILE LIT UP HER FACE. “HAVE +NOW,” SAID ANOTHER. +“NOW, SóNYA!” SHE SAID, GOING TO THE VERY MIDDLE OF THE ROOM, WHERE +“NOW THE FUN BEGINS,” THOUGHT ANATOLE, SITTING DOWN WITH A SMILE +NOW THEN, DARLING! HOW WILL SHE TAKE THAT SI? SHE’S TAKEN IT! THANK +“NOW THEN, MATVéVNA, DEAR OLD LADY, DON’T LET ME DOWN!” HE WAS +“NOW THEN, NOW THEN, I’M ONLY JOKING!” HE SAID. “REMEMBER THIS, +“NOW THEN, VáSKA,” SAID NICHOLAS. +NOW THERE’S THIS RECRUITING.” +NOW THE SMILE OF THE LITTLE PRINCESS—INFLUENCED BY THE GENERAL MOOD +NOW,” THOUGHT ROSTóV DRIVING HIS SPURS INTO ROOK AND LETTING HIM GO +“NOW THOU HAST SEEN THE LESSER LIGHT,” UTTERED A VOICE. THEN THE +NOW TOLD ABOUT THAT AFFAIR!” +NOW TO LOOK AT DóLOKHOV, WHO WAS SITTING OPPOSITE HIM. EVERY TIME +NOW WAS EVIDENTLY READY WITH A JOKE. “WHETHER TOMORROW BRINGS +NOW WE SHALL GET ANYTHING WE WANT FROM HIS HOTHOUSES. I HAVE TO SEE HIM +NOW, WHEN MY HEART FAILS ME AND MY MOUTH FEELS DRY AT THE MERE SIGHT +“NOW YOU DON’T KNOW THAT AT ALL!” SAID NICHOLAS. “BUT I MUST +“NOW YOU, YOUNG PRINCE, WHAT’S YOUR NAME?” SAID PRINCE BOLKóNSKI, +“NO, YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND!” +“NO, YOU KNOW IT’S TOO SOON FOR NEWS. BUT MY FATHER IS ANXIOUS AND I +NUMBER OF MEN HAD PERISHED IN FLEEING FROM PRATZEN. THE FRENCH HAD NOT +NURSE AND NURSE SáVISHNA IN THE LATE PRINCESS’ ROOMS AND PRINCESS +NURSE, PRASKóVYA SáVISHNA, WHO HARDLY EVER CAME TO THAT ROOM AS THE +NURSE SáVISHNA, KNITTING IN HAND, WAS TELLING IN LOW TONES, SCARCELY +NURSE’S FRENCH, AT WHICH HE AND BORíS USED TO LAUGH LONG AGO. +OBEDIENCE—WHICH DID NOT EVEN SEEM TO HIM A VIRTUE, BUT A JOY. (HE NOW +OBEDIENT, AND INSIGNIFICANT ATOM. THEY FOLLOWED PRINCE DOLGORúKOV OUT +OBEYING, AND SUDDENLY DOUBTS AROSE IN HIS MIND. “WHERE AM I? WHAT AM +OBJECT IT IS NECESSARY THAT... THE FIRST COLUMN MARCHES... THE SECOND +OBJECTS MENTIONED BY THE RHETOR, THIS LAST, THAT OF IMPROVING MANKIND, +OBLIGINGLY TOOK THE DISH FROM BAGRATIóN (OR HE WOULD, IT SEEMED, HAVE +OBTAIN A POST ON THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF’S STAFF. BERG AND BORíS, +OBTAINED HIS CAPTAINCY DURING THE CAMPAIGN, HAD GAINED THE CONFIDENCE OF +OBTAINED THROUGH AN ACQUAINTANCE AND SENT TO HER SON, ASKING HIM TO TAKE +OCCASIONED BY THE SAUSAGE EATERS. +OCCUPATION, CAME UP TO HER FOR A MOMENT AND MADE HASTE TO GO AWAY, +OCCUPATION OF THE TOWN OF WISCHAU AND THE CAPTURE OF A WHOLE FRENCH +OCCUPIED BY THE EMPERORS AND THEIR RETINUES. +OCCUPIED WITH EVENING PARTIES, DINNERS, LUNCHES, AND BALLS, GIVING HIM +OCCUPY IS A STRONG ONE, AND WHILE THEY ARE MARCHING TO GO ROUND ME ON +OCCUPY THE POSITION AND PREPARE FOR AN ATTACK.” +OCCURRED TO HIM. ON THE CONTRARY, HE BECAME MORE AND MORE ELATED. IT +O’CLOCK ALL HAD BEEN BROUGHT INTO DUE ORDER. THE RANKS WERE DRAWN +O’CLOCK LEFT THE THIRD COLUMN WITH WHICH HE HAD BEEN AND GALLOPED +OF ALL THAT MASS OF HUGE AND HANDSOME MEN, OF ALL THOSE BRILLIANT, +OF ALL THESE BRILLIANT YOUNG MEN. +OF ALL. THIS GIFT WILL BE A PLEDGE OF YOUR PURITY OF HEART TO HER WHOM +OF ALMS” WENT ROUND TO ALL THE BROTHERS. PIERRE WOULD HAVE LIKED +OF AMUSEMENT WHICH SOMEONE FOR SOME REASON HAD TO PROVIDE FOR HIM. +OF AN ATTACK SPREAD THROUGH THE SQUADRON. THE COMMAND TO FORM UP RANG +OF, AND AM GOING TO REJOIN MY REGIMENT, I AM GIVING A FAREWELL SUPPER +OF A SIN HE COULD NEITHER REMEDY NOR FORGET. HE COULD NOT WEEP. THE +OF A SUBJECT, SHE DID NOT STOP TALKING, BUT CHATTERED ABOUT THE +OF A SURGEON WHO HAS JUST PERFORMED A DIFFICULT OPERATION AND ADMITS THE +OF AUSTERLITZ, BUT WORE A TIGHT NEW UNIFORM WITH RUSSIAN AND FOREIGN +OF AUSTERLITZ: NINE TENTHS OF THE MEN IN THE RUSSIAN ARMY WERE THEN IN +OF BAGRATIóN’S DETACHMENT. HIS HUSSARS WERE PLACED ALONG THE LINE +OF BATTLES WAS EVIDENTLY CULMINATING IN A PANIC. +OF BEGINNING ANEW PICTURED TO HIMSELF THE BLISSFUL, IRREPROACHABLE, +OF BEING AFRAID ROUSED HIM AGAIN. “I CANNOT BE AFRAID,” THOUGHT HE, +OF BELIEVING IN THE POSSIBILITY OF ATTAINING PERFECTION, AND IN THE +OF BIRDS. +OF BLESSEDNESS WHICH NOW FLOODED HIS HEART WITH GLAD EMOTION. +OF CAVALRY CAME UP AND DISAPPEARED IN THE SEA OF MIST. IN FRONT AND +OF CONTEMPT. “AND BELIEVE ME, IF I STILL VALUE MY LIFE IT IS +“OF COURSE, IT IS A VERY BRILLIANT MATCH, BUT HAPPINESS, MY DEAR...” +“OF COURSE, WE ONLY JUST MISSED ONE ANOTHER,” SAID THE STAFF +OF COWARDICE IN THE OTHER. BOTH PASSED THE EXAMINATION SUCCESSFULLY. AS +OF CRUELTY, AS WHEN TYING THE POLICEMAN TO THE BEAR AND DROPPING THEM +OF DELIGHTED AMAZEMENT. +OF DISEASE WITHOUT HELP WHILE MATERIAL ASSISTANCE COULD SO EASILY BE +OF DREAD WAS IN THE AIR. IT WAS EVIDENT THAT THE AFFAIR SO LIGHTLY BEGUN +OF EACH. +OF ENGLAND, INSPIRED BY SUCH HATRED OF OUR NATION! THIS VICTORY WILL +OF ETERNAL PEACE AND BLESSEDNESS?” SHE THOUGHT. +OF EXASPERATION. “DON’T YOU HEAR IT’S HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR’S +OFF; AND HERE AT LAST WAS A RUSSIAN PRINCE. MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE KNEW +OFF, AND THE FIRING HAD BEGUN TO SUBSIDE. SUDDENLY, NEAR BY ON THE +OFF—AND THIS IS WHAT COMES OF IT!” SAID PRINCE ANDREW IN AN +OF FATE AND THE DESIGNS OF ROGUES. DURING THE FEW DAYS HE SPENT IN +OFF AT EVERY MOMENT. THEY WAITED AND LISTENED. +OF FEAR FOR HIS YOUNG AND HAPPY LIFE, POSSESSED HIS WHOLE BEING. RAPIDLY +OFF HIS EYES AND GLANCED AROUND HIM. THE ROOM WAS IN BLACK DARKNESS, +OFFICER.” +OFFICER AND A WOUNDED HERO, WOULD IT BE RIGHT TO REMIND HIM OF HERSELF +OFFICER IN THE WHITE UNIFORM OF THE HORSE GUARDS. +OFFICER PASSING BY ADDRESSED HIM: +OFFICERS. +OFFICER!” SAID BAGRATIóN TO ROSTóV, “ARE THE ENEMY’S SKIRMISHERS +OFFICERS BECAME ANIMATED. THE GUARDSMEN TOLD ROSTóV OF THEIR MARCH AND +OFFICERS, BUT EVERY SOLDIER WITH HIS FRESHLY WASHED AND SHAVEN FACE AND +OFFICERS BUTTONED UP THEIR COATS, BUCKLED ON THEIR SWORDS AND POUCHES, +OFFICERS, GENERALS, AND ADJUTANTS, AS THEY PASSED ROSTóV GOING OR +OFFICERS WHO HAD GATHERED AT HIS QUARTERS. THE LITTLE OLD MAN WITH +OFFICER, WITH A SMILE TO BOLKóNSKI. +OF FIRE AND HAD DESCENDED INTO THE DIP, HE WAS MET BY SOME OF THE STAFF, +OF FUGITIVES, PRINCE ANDREW, TRYING TO KEEP NEAR KUTúZOV, SAW ON THE +OF HEARTS. ON THE PREVIOUS SUNDAY THE OLD COUNT HAD GIVEN HIS SON +OF HEARTS WITH A TORN CORNER, WHICH HE HAD PICKED UP FROM THE FLOOR. HE +OF HéLèNE. SOME, AS IF UNWILLING TO DISTRACT HER FROM AN IMPORTANT +OF HER MOST AUGUST MAJESTY THE EMPRESS MáRYA FëDOROVNA. PIERRE FELT +OF HER WORTHLESSNESS HE WAS ALSO DREAMING OF HOW SHE WOULD BE HIS +OF HIM—AT THE BATTERY. HE NOW SAW CLEARLY THE FIGURE OF A RED-HAIRED +OF HIM?” NOT ONE OF THE INNUMERABLE SPEECHES ADDRESSED TO THE EMPEROR +OF HIS APPEARANCE BEFORE HER NOW. PRINCE ANDREW WENT ROUND THE SOFA AND +OF HIS BOOK WITH HIS OLD HANDS WHICH FROM EXCITEMENT HE COULD NOT KEEP +OF HIS COMMISSIONS AND ORDERED THE SMALL CLOSED CARRIAGE FOR HER. +OF HIS FORMER BACHELOR ACQUAINTANCES MANY WERE NO LONGER IN PETERSBURG. +OF HIS RETURN. +OF HIS WORDS FOR THE SOLEMNITY OF THE MOMENT, AS HE SPOKE. “I +OF HORSES HAD BEEN SENT UP THE HIGHROAD TO MEET THE GERMAN DOCTOR FROM +OF HORSE’S HOOFS APPROACHING AT A TROT ALONG THE LINE OF HUSSARS WAS +OF HOW BESIDE HIMSELF AND ALL AFLAME WITH EXCITEMENT, HE HAD FLOWN LIKE +OF INVITING THE OTHER TO TAKE A SEAT BESIDE HIM. PIERRE FELT RELUCTANT +OF JOY IN HIS EYES, LOOKED ROUND HIM, NOT KNOWING HOW TO ANSWER THE +OF LANNES’ SHARPSHOOTERS WERE ALREADY SEEN CROSSING THE MILLDAM AND +OF LOVE AND SELF-SACRIFICE. AND COST WHAT IT MAY, I WILL ARRANGE +OF LOVE WHICH PERVADED THE ROSTóV HOUSEHOLD THAT WINTER AND, NOW AFTER +OF MEN AND HORSES, FROM THE LITTLE PUFFS OF SMOKE ON THE ENEMY’S SIDE +OF MIND, PIERRE CARRIED OUT AN INTENTION HE HAD LONG HAD OF VISITING HIS +OF NOW AS THE “SEEKER,” NOW AS THE “SUFFERER,” AND NOW AS THE +OF OFFICERS AND COURTIERS, WAS RIDING A BOBTAILED CHESTNUT MARE, A +OF OLMüTZ WHERE BOLKóNSKI HAD SEEN HIM FOR THE FIRST TIME ABROAD, BUT +OF PERMISSION PREVIOUSLY GIVEN HIM BY KUTúZOV TO BE PRESENT AT THE +OF PETER AND PAUL, HIS PATRON SAINTS. IN ANOTHER PLACE THE WOMEN WITH +OF PRIDE, INDOLENCE, AND IGNORANCE. FORGIVE ME, MY DEAR SIR, BUT IF I +OF PRUSSIA, IN ORDER TO DRAW BORíS INTO THE CONVERSATION. +OF SERGéY KUZMíCH AND AT THE SAME TIME HIS EYES GLANCED TOWARD HIS +OF SEVERAL THOUSAND MEN COULD PRODUCE. THE LIGHTS SPREAD FARTHER AND +OF SHOTS RETREATED. IN THE HIGHEST ARMY CIRCLES FROM MIDDAY ON THE +OF SIXTEEN, EVIDENTLY PASSIONATELY IN LOVE WITH HIM (HE DID NOT DOUBT +OF SLAVES? HAVE YOU HELPED THEM PHYSICALLY AND MORALLY? NO! YOU HAVE +OF SOME DISLOCATION AND BLUNDER SPREAD THROUGH THE RANKS. HOW SUCH +OF SONS AND BROTHERS. +OFTEN HEARD FROM HIS FELLOW HUSSARS. +OFTEN THAN AT ANYONE ELSE AND TOOK DELIGHT IN HIS EVERY MOVEMENT. +OF THE ADVANCE. AS SOON AS AN AUSTRIAN OFFICER SHOWED HIMSELF NEAR +OF THE AZóV AND PODóLSK INFANTRY AND THE PáVLOGRAD HUSSARS—WAS +OF THE BOULEVARDS WHOM HE VISITED OF AN EVENING. HE LED THE MAZURKA +OF THE CAMPFIRE, WAVING HIS UPLIFTED ARM. +OF THE CANDLES WAS FOCUSED ON THOSE TWO HAPPY FACES ALONE. +OF THE CANNON. HE HEARD THE WHISTLE OF BULLETS ABOVE HIM UNCEASINGLY AND +OF THE CLUB, BESET THE NEW ARRIVALS. COUNT ILYá, AGAIN THRUSTING HIS +OF THE CLUB FROM THE DAY IT WAS FOUNDED. TO HIM THE CLUB ENTRUSTED THE +OF THE DAM, THROWING TWO SOLDIERS OFF THEIR FEET, AND RAN ONTO THE +OF THE DIP IN THE GROUND AT THE REAR WAS HURRIED AND NOISY, BUT THE +OF THE EMPEROR LIKE A CLOUD OF HAZE ACROSS A CLEAR SKY AND VANISHED. +OF THE ENEMY’S LINES, WHICH ALL DAY LONG HAD YIELDED GROUND TO US +OF THE FEEBLENESS OF AGE, “BOLKóNSKI!” HE WHISPERED, POINTING TO +OF THE FIELD HE STOOD ON WAS WELL-KNOWN AND FAMILIAR GROUND. THOUGH HE +OF THE FRENCHMEN WITH THE GUNNERS ENDED, WHETHER THE RED-HAIRED GUNNER +OF THE GENERAL SORROW. +OF THE GOSPEL: “IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD AND THE WORD WAS WITH +OF THE HAND ON THE DIAL OF HUMAN HISTORY. +OF THE INTELLECTUAL ESSENCE OF PETERSBURG,” AS SHE HERSELF PUT IT. +OF THE LOVERS. “THAT’S HAPPINESS!” +OF THE MAIDS WHO WAS PRESENT. (MARY BOGDáNOVNA WAS A MIDWIFE FROM THE +OF THE MAJESTIC EMPEROR. CASUALLY, WHILE SURVEYING THE SQUADRON, THE +OF THE MEAL AND WAS CERTAIN THAT THERE WAS SOME SECRET BETWEEN HER +OF THEM WILL HAVE ANY MEANING FOR ME. TOMORROW PERHAPS, EVEN CERTAINLY, +OF THE NEARNESS OF THE EMPEROR FRANCIS’ BLACK COB, NOR OF ALL THAT WAS +OF THE NEWLY COMMISSIONED OFFICER WERE COLLECTED. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, +OF THE NIGHT. THE GLOOM THAT ENVELOPED THE ARMY WAS FILLED WITH THEIR +OF THE NINETEENTH MARCH, AND HER DOWNY LITTLE LIP ROSE FROM OLD HABIT, +OF THE ORDERLIES AND SERVANTS. +OF THE PRESIDENT, WHO HELD A MALLET IN HIS HAND. LET INTO THE WALL WAS +OF THE ROOM. PRINCE ANDREW TURNED TO HIM, BUT THE DOCTOR GAVE HIM A +OF THE SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF THEIR COMMANDER, THE GRAND DUKE, AND TOLD +OF THE SECOND GUN’S CREW WAS “UNCLE”; TúSHIN LOOKED AT HIM MORE +OF THESE MANEUVERS THAT ENABLED US TO ESCAPE HIM. BUXHöWDEN PURSUES +OF THE SLEIGH. +OF THE STATUTES AND THESE REMAINED IN HIS MIND. +OF THE STREAMS AND HOLLOWS OF SOKOLNITZ AND SCHLAPPANITZ BEYOND WHICH WE +OF THE SUN. IN FRONT, FAR OFF ON THE FARTHER SHORE OF THAT SEA OF MIST, +OF THE THREE PRECEPTS OF FREEMASONRY PIERRE REALIZED THAT HE DID NOT +OF THE UNWRITTEN CODE OF SUBORDINATION—LOOKED SO FIXEDLY AT THE +OF THE VICTORY THAT HAD BEEN GAINED. PRINCE ANDREW INTRODUCED HIS +OF THE WAR AND WITHOUT LEADERS. THE MOSCOVITES FELT THAT SOMETHING WAS +OF THE WOOD RAN OUT OF IT, THE DIFFERENT COMPANIES GETTING MIXED, AND +OF THINGS TO HIM IN THE VERY WORST LIGHT, POINTING OUT THE NECESSITY OF +OF THIS KIND FOR ANOTHER, WHICH FROM PRIDE HE WOULD NEVER ACCEPT FOR +OF THOSE FRENCHMEN,” HE SAID. “WHAT NASTY BRUTES THEY ARE! I’D +OF TRUTH, MY DEAR SIR, BUT HAVE THRUST HER INTO AN ABYSS OF DECEIT AND +OF TWENTY; SóNYA A GIRL OF SIXTEEN WITH ALL THE CHARM OF AN OPENING +OF VOICES, THE TRAMPING FEET, THE HORSES’ HOOFS MOVING IN MUD, THE +OF WEYROTHER’S VOICE, HE OPENED HIS ONE EYE WITH AN EFFORT. +OF WHICH KUTúZOV WAS STANDING BEGAN TO SHOUT, HE RODE A LITTLE TO ONE +“OF WHOM YOU IMAGINE ME TO BE ONE?” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, WITH A QUIET +OF WIND BLOWING OVER THE ARMY SLIGHTLY STIRRED THE STREAMERS ON THE +OF YOUR MISFORTUNE.” HE SEEMED TO EMPHASIZE THE LAST WORD, AS IF TO +OF YOURS, IS NOT AT ALL TO BLAME THAT MY FACE HAS THE MISFORTUNE TO +“OH, BUT YOU WERE THERE?” SAID PRINCE BAGRATIóN, ADDRESSING PRINCE +“OH DEAR, WHAT A BEAST I AM!” MUTTERED ROSTóV, AS HE READ THE +“OH, DENíSOV IS QUITE DIFFERENT,” REPLIED NICHOLAS, IMPLYING THAT +“OH, DON’T MENTION IT, COUNT! I QUITE UNDERSTAND,” SAID BERG, +“OH GOD, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO ME IF THE EMPEROR SPOKE TO ME?” +“OH, GO TO THE DEVIL!” CALLED OUT A VOICE, DROWNED BY THE LAUGHTER +“OH, HOW DELIGHTFUL IT IS!” SHE KEPT SAYING, RUNNING UP TO SóNYA. +OH, HOW I WOULD GUARD HIM, HOW I WOULD TELL HIM THE TRUTH, HOW I WOULD +“OH, HOW NICE, HOW SPLENDID!” SHE SAID TO EVERYTHING. +OH, HOW THAT CHORD VIBRATED, AND HOW MOVED WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS FINEST +“OH, HUSH, PLEASE!” SAID ANOTHER. +“OH, IT’S NOTHING. I ONLY WISHED TO SAY...” (HE WANTED TO REPEAT +“OH, IT’S TERRIBLE TO FEEL ONESELF SO IN THIS MAN’S POWER,” +“OH, LEAVE OFF, YOU ALWAYS TALK NONSENSE AND KEEP PUTTING THINGS +“OH, MY GOD! THANK GOD!” SAID PRINCESS MARY. “I MUST GO AND MEET +“OH, NATáSHA!” SAID SóNYA, LOOKING ECSTATICALLY AND EARNESTLY AT +“OH NO, LET ME OFF, COUNTESS,” DENíSOV REPLIED. +“OH, NO, NO!” AND BESIDES THE PALLOR AND THE PHYSICAL SUFFERING +“OH NO, NOT AT ALL! ON THE CONTRARY, I AM VERY GLAD TO MAKE YOUR +“OH NO!” SAID IOGEL, HASTENING TO REASSURE HIM. “YOU WERE ONLY +“OH, NOTHING,” SAID HE, AS IF WEARY OF BEING CONTINUALLY ASKED THE +“OH, NURSE, I’M SO GLAD!” +“OH! OH! OH!” GROANED KUTúZOV DESPAIRINGLY AND LOOKED AROUND.... +“OH, TAKE THOSE OFF... THOSE...” SHE SAID, POINTING TO HIS +“OH, THAT IS ALL THE SAME,” DOLGORúKOV SAID QUICKLY, AND GETTING UP +“OH, THAT IS DREADFUL, DREADFUL!” SAID PIERRE. “I DON’T +“OH, THAT’S IT!” SAID ROSTóV, EVIDENTLY THINKING OF SOMETHING +OH, THAT WICKED PRINCE HIPPOLYTE!” SHE SAID. +“OH, THE FAIWY! SHE CAN DO ANYTHING WITH ME!” SAID DENíSOV, AND +“OH, THOSE MOSCOW GOSSIPS!” SAID DóLOKHOV, AND HE TOOK UP THE CARDS +“OH, TO DIE, TO DIE FOR HIM,” THOUGHT ROSTóV. +“OH, VERY WELL, YOU MAY STAY IN ATTENDANCE ON ME.” +“OH, WELL THEN, GOOD-BY: GO AND DRESS. IS HE VERY TERRIBLE, +“OH, WHAT A NUISANCE,” SAID DOLGORúKOV, GETTING UP HURRIEDLY AND +“OH, WHAT A PIG I AM, NOT TO HAVE WRITTEN AND TO HAVE GIVEN THEM +“OH, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?” SAID ANOTHER. “WHERE IS HE TO +“OH, WHAT NONSENSE!” CRIED NATáSHA, LAUGHING. “I DON’T THINK +“OH, YES!” +“OH YES,” ASSENTED PRINCESS MARY, “PERHAPS THAT’S IT. I’LL GO. +“OH, YES, I QUITE UNDERSTAND,” ANSWERED ROSTóV, WHO WAS UNDER HIS +“OH YES, IT IS HORRIBLY STUPID,” SAID PIERRE. +“OH YES, LIKE THAT, I KNOW, I ONLY FORGOT,” SAID HE. +“OH, YES!” SAID PIERRE, WITH A FORCED SMILE. “I AM VERY GRATEFUL +“OH YES, VERY MUCH! MY BROTHER KNOWS HIM, HE’S DINED WITH HIM—THE +“OH, YOU DAMNED DANDIES! CLEAN AND FRESH AS IF YOU’D BEEN TO A FETE, +“OH, YOU FOOL!” SAID THE OLD MAN, SPITTING ANGRILY. SOME TIME PASSED +“OH, YOU GUARDS!” SAID ROSTóV. “I SAY, SEND FOR SOME WINE.” +OLD BOLKóNSKI HAD ALWAYS HAD A POOR OPINION OF PRINCE VASíLI’S +OLD CHAMBERLAIN WAS HEARD ASSURING AN OLD BARONESS THAT HE LOVED HER +OLD FELLOW? OUT OF SORTS?” +OLD FOOL,” HE THOUGHT. “THAT PRINCESS HéLèNE WILL BE BEAUTIFUL +OLD GABRIEL BROUGHT IN THE WINE. +OLD LADY NEXT TO HER AND GLANCED ANGRILY AT HER DAUGHTER, AND HER SIGH +OLD MAN TOO CAME UP AND KISSED THE WAXEN LITTLE HANDS THAT LAY QUIETLY +OLD MICHAEL WAS ASLEEP ON THE CHEST. PROKóFY, THE FOOTMAN, WHO WAS +OLD MILLER HAD BEEN ACCUSTOMED TO SIT IN HIS TASSELED CAP PEACEFULLY +OLD PRINCE HAD FORBIDDEN IT, APPEARED ON THE THRESHOLD WITH A SHAWL +OLD PRINCE NICHOLAS BOLKóNSKI RECEIVED A LETTER FROM PRINCE VASíLI +OLD PRINCESS, KISSING HER SOUNDLY. “IF I HADN’T THIS HEADACHE I’D +OLD PRINCE UNDERSTOOD FROM THIS OFFICIAL REPORT THAT OUR ARMY HAD BEEN +OLMüTZ AND THAT HE WANTED TO SEE HIM AS HE HAD A LETTER AND MONEY FOR +OLMüTZ, WAS PREPARING TO BE REVIEWED NEXT DAY BY THE TWO EMPERORS—THE +ON A FEW STEPS HE STOPPED BEFORE PRINCE ANDREW, WHO LAY ON HIS BACK WITH +ON ALL SIDES, HAD STOPPED BECAUSE A HORSE IN FRONT HAD FALLEN UNDER A +ON AROUND HIM. NOT ONLY WAS HE INDIFFERENT AS TO WHETHER HE GOT TO +ON A SOFA IN A FAR CORNER OF THE ROOM. HE CLOSED HIS EYES AND SEEMED TO +ON BEING RELIEVED FROM PICKET DUTY ROSTóV HAD MANAGED TO GET A FEW +ONCE.” +“ONCE AGAIN, COLONEL,” SAID THE GENERAL, “I CAN’T LEAVE HALF +ONCE FOR A MOMENT OF GLORY, OF TRIUMPH OVER MEN, OF LOVE FROM MEN I +ONCE HE RAISED HIS EYEBROWS, ABRUPTLY TOUCHED HIS HORSE WITH HIS LEFT +ONCE RECOGNIZED IT TO BE A TUFT OF GRASS. SHE WAS TERRIBLY CLOSE TO HIM. +ONCE SHE HAS SAID...” +ONCE THE STRANGER CLOSED THE BOOK, PUTTING IN A MARKER, AND AGAIN, +ONCE WAS—DID NOT STRUGGLE, AND PERHAPS SHE WAS RIGHT. NOTHING HAS BEEN +ON CONDITION THAT SHE SHOULD TELL NO ONE. +ONE ANOTHER, BEGINNING TO SEE ONE ANOTHER THROUGH THE MIST. THEY HAD THE +ONE ANOTHER TIME TO ASK QUESTIONS AND GIVE REPLIES CONCERNING A THOUSAND +ONE DAY’S RATION OF BREAD REMAINS, AND IN SOME REGIMENTS NONE AT ALL, +ONE FOOT, BOUNDED FROM THE FLOOR LIKE A BALL, AND FLEW ROUND THE ROOM +ONE I’D GIVE MY LIFE FOR HER! BUT THOSE!...” AND HE MADE A GESTURE +ONE IS TO INTERFERE WITH HIS ARRANGEMENTS—LEADS HIS DIVISION TO +ONE MOMENT PRAYED TO GOD AS HE HAD DONE ON THE BATTLEFIELD AT THE BRIDGE +“ONE MORE QUESTION, COUNT,” HE SAID, “WHICH I BEG YOU TO ANSWER +ONE OF THE ÁPSHERON REGIMENT WENT FORWARD PAST THE EMPEROR. +ONE OF THE HINDMOST GUNS THAT WAS GOING ONTO THE DAM TURNED OFF ONTO THE +ONE OF THE LODGES OVER THE ROAD PURPOSELY LADEN WITH SNOW. +ONE OF THEM WAS LEADING BY THE BRIDLE A FINE LARGE FRENCH HORSE HE HAD +ONE OF THE PLAYERS SAID HE HOPED HE MIGHT BE TRUSTED. +ONE. “OH, THIS SENSELESS LIFE OF OURS!” THOUGHT NICHOLAS. “ALL +(ONE SHATTERED GUN AND ONE UNICORN WERE LEFT BEHIND), PRINCE ANDREW RODE +“ONE SHOULD MAKE UP TO THE HUSBANDS OF PRETTY WOMEN,” SAID DENíSOV. +ONE SIDE OF WHICH SYMBOLIZED GOD, ANOTHER MORAL THINGS, A THIRD +ONE SPOT. HIS PREDICTIONS WERE BEING JUSTIFIED. PART OF THE RUSSIAN +“ONE THING I THANK GOD FOR IS THAT I DID NOT KILL THAT MAN,” SAID +“O-NE! T-WO! THWEE!” HE SHOUTED ANGRILY AND STEPPED ASIDE. +“ONE WAS DAMAGED,” ANSWERED THE STAFF OFFICER, “AND THE OTHER I +ONE WAS ON A WHITE HORSE. PRINCE BAGRATIóN AND PRINCE DOLGORúKOV WITH +ONE WOULD HAVE EXPECTED OF HIM. +ON FEBRUARY 26, 1807, THE OLD PRINCE SET OFF ON ONE OF HIS CIRCUITS. +ON! GO ON!” AND CRIES OF HORROR WERE HEARD IN THE CROWD. THE SOLDIERS +ON HEARING OF THE ARRIVAL OF THE LETTER WENT SOFTLY INTO THE ROOM AND +ON HEARING THE NEWS WAS ONE OF ANGER WITH SóNYA.... HE TRIED TO SAY, +ON HéLèNE’S NAME DAY, A SMALL PARTY OF JUST THEIR OWN PEOPLE—AS +ON HER FACE. +ON HER PRIORITY) “THAT THAT SENSELESS YOUNG MAN WAS SPOILED BY THE +ON HER TOES ANY LONGER. “SO THAT’S WHAT I’M UP TO! I’LL NEVER +ON HIM WITHOUT CHANGING THEIR EXPRESSION. “I LOVE YOU ALL AND HAVE +ON HIS PUPIL’S BEHALF. THAT’S HOW IT’S TO BE UNDERSTOOD! ‘HOW +ON HIS RETURN TO MOSCOW FROM THE ARMY, NICHOLAS ROSTóV WAS WELCOMED +ON HIS THIN BONY LEGS, AND KEEPING ON A WORN, NANKEEN-COVERED, SHEEPSKIN +ON HORSEBACK FACING THE DITCH. ONE WITH A WHITE PLUME IN HIS HAT SEEMED +ON!” INNUMERABLE VOICES SUDDENLY SHOUTED AFTER THE BALL HAD STRUCK +ONLY A SMALL LAMP WAS BURNING INSIDE SOMETHING WHITE. PIERRE WENT NEARER +ONLY BECAUSE I STILL HOPE TO MEET SUCH A DIVINE CREATURE, WHO WILL +ONLY BETRAYED US THREE TIMES IN THREE YEARS. WE TAKE UP THEIR CAUSE, BUT +ONLY BIVOUACKING HERE AND HAVE JUST COME TO LOOK ROUND. I AM GOING BACK +ONLY COVERED BY HER GARMENTS. AND HAVING ONCE SEEN THIS HE COULD NOT +ONLY HEARD DóLOKHOV’S HURRIED STEPS, AND HIS FIGURE CAME IN VIEW +ONLY HELP A BIT! I MUST HAVE SINGERS TOO. I SHALL HAVE MY OWN ORCHESTRA, +“ONLY LET ME REPORT THIS GENTLEMAN’S BUSINESS, AND I SHALL BE AT +ONLY LIT FIRES TO DECEIVE US. +ONLY NOW, WHEN HE WAS CONFRONTED BY THE STERN AUTHORITIES, DID HIS GUILT +ONLY PRESSED IT TO THE COLD BRAIDING OF HIS HUSSAR’S JACKET. DENíSOV, +ONLY SóNYA, NICHOLAS, AND NATáSHA, BUT EVEN THE OLD COUNTESS, +ONLY SURE HAPPINESS IN LIFE.” +“ONLY THAT?” SAID BOLKóNSKI. +ONLY TO EXPRESS HIS RAPTURE FULLY. +ONLY WHEN APPROACHING BAGRATIóN DID ROSTóV LET HIS HORSE GALLOP AGAIN, +ONLY WHEN PRINCE ANDREW WAS GONE DID ROSTóV THINK OF WHAT HE OUGHT TO +ON OUR RIGHT FLANK COMMANDED BY BAGRATIóN, AT NINE O’CLOCK THE BATTLE +ON REACHING PETERSBURG PIERRE DID NOT LET ANYONE KNOW OF HIS ARRIVAL, +ON RETIRING TO HER OWN ROOM, SHE SAT IN AN ARMCHAIR, HER EYES FIXED ON A +ON SEEING ROSTóV BEFORE HIM, WITH WHOM HE WOULD INEVITABLY COLLIDE. +ON—THAT PIERRE BECAME QUITE BEWILDERED AND ONLY REPLIED: +ON THAT THIRD OF MARCH, ALL THE ROOMS IN THE ENGLISH CLUB WERE FILLED +“ON THE 4TH, THE FIRST COURIER ARRIVES FROM PETERSBURG. THE MAILS +“ON THE CONTRARY, THAT COIFFURE SUITS THE PRINCESS VERY WELL,” SAID +ON THE CONTRARY, THEY STIMULATED HIS ENERGY AND DETERMINATION. +ON THE COT. +ON THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH OF NOVEMBER, THE ARMY ADVANCED TWO +ON THE FIELD. +ON THE FIELD BEFORE THE FORTRESS. NOW THOUSANDS OF FEET AND BAYONETS +ON THE FIRST ARRIVAL OF THE NEWS OF THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ, MOSCOW HAD +ON THE GROUND. +ON THE LITTLE PRINCESS’ FACE, AN EXPRESSION OF CHILDISH FEAR OF +ON THE PRATZEN HEIGHTS, WHERE HE HAD FALLEN WITH THE FLAGSTAFF IN HIS +ON. THE PREOCCUPATION AND DESPONDENCY WHICH PIERRE HAD NOTICED IN HIS +ON THE SNOW. +ON THE TABLE, AGAIN BOUND HIS EYES. +ON THE THIRD DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS NICHOLAS DINED AT HOME, A THING HE HAD +ON THE TOP OF HER HEAD (A STYLE THAT QUITE ALTERED AND SPOILED HER +ON THE TWELFTH OF NOVEMBER, KUTúZOV’S ACTIVE ARMY, IN CAMP BEFORE +ON THE UNATTRACTIVE MARTYRLIKE EXPRESSION IT SO OFTEN WORE, AS SHE +ON THE WAY HOME, PRINCE ANDREW COULD NOT REFRAIN FROM ASKING KUTúZOV, +“ON TUESDAY BETWEEN EIGHT AND NINE. IT WILL GIVE ME GREAT PLEASURE.” +ON WHAT HE THOUGHT RIGHT. THE STEWARD PROMISED TO DO ALL IN HIS POWER TO +ON WHICH ROSTóV SAT. +ON WHICH WITH A BROKEN BIT OF CHALK HE HAD WRITTEN “800 RUBLES” IN +OPENED EYES. “WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO HER? HOW SHE IS SINGING TODAY!” +OPENED THE BEDROOM DOOR. +OPEN IT. SOMEONE WAS HOLDING IT SHUT. +OPERATIONS ACCORDING TO HIM WERE CONNECTED WITH SUCH COMPLICATED +OPPORTUNITY OF JOINING IN THE GENERAL CURRENT OF RECOLLECTIONS. +OPPORTUNITY SINCE MORNING TO MEET ONE ANOTHER ALONE. WHEN PRINCESS MARY +OPPOSITE PIERRE AND SEEMED VERY GAY. ROSTóV WAS TALKING MERRILY TO HIS +OR ANYBODY; BUT YOU ARE FREE TO CHOOSE.... GO TO YOUR ROOM, THINK IT +OR APPRECIATIVE ACCORDING TO THE WAY THE JOKE WAS RECEIVED. EVERYBODY +“OR ARE YOU AFRAID TO PLAY WITH ME?” DóLOKHOV NOW ASKED AS IF +OR CAP, HIS HEAD WAS BANDAGED, AND OVER HIS SHOULDER A FRENCH MUNITION +ORDAINED THAT THE AUSTRIAN ARMY SHOULD MANEUVER THE PREVIOUS YEAR ON THE +ORDEAL WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN. +ORDER. +ORDERED HIS HORSE AT ONCE AND, COLDLY TAKING LEAVE OF BORíS, RODE +ORDERED TO TURN BACK TO THE RIGHT. SEVERAL THOUSAND CAVALRY CROSSED IN +ORDERLY TO THE BRAVEST GENERAL, AND STILL MORE, HE WAS GOING WITH A +ORDERS. +ORDERS, AND THE STAR OF ST. GEORGE ON HIS LEFT BREAST. EVIDENTLY JUST +ORDERS BY HEART AND KNOW THE REGULATIONS AS WELL AS I DO THE LORD’S +ORDERS TO THE CLUB STEWARD AND TO THE FAMOUS FEOKTíST, THE CLUB’S +ORDINARY STAID AND RESPECTFUL GOOD MANNERS HABITUAL IN THE PRINCE’S +OR EVEN TO WISH TO BE THOUGHT TO LISTEN. EXACTLY OPPOSITE WEYROTHER, +OR GRAY HORSES; THEN AGAIN, SPREADING OUT WITH THE BRAZEN CLATTER OF THE +OR HE WOULD SUDDENLY FEEL ASHAMED OF HE KNEW NOT WHAT. HE FELT IT +OR KUTúZOV WAS. SOME SAID THE REPORT THAT THE EMPEROR WAS WOUNDED WAS +OR MAKE OUT ANYTHING OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING: THERE IN THE SMOKE MEN OF +OR OF THE NECESSITY OF REBUILDING FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS. SO THE FIRST +OR TWO IN HIS HEAD BUT DOZENS, SOME ONLY BEGINNING TO FORM THEMSELVES, +OR YOU AS HAVING BEEN AT ALL INSULTED, AND AS A MAN OLDER THAN YOU, MY +OSTRALITZ. IN THE LARGE DRAWING ROOM WHICH HAD BECOME THE COMMANDER +OTHER FARE, WAS SPLENDID, YET HE COULD NOT FEEL QUITE AT EASE TILL THE +OTHER OFFICER; HE’LL SAY: ‘GO AND FIND OUT WHAT’S THERE.’ THERE +OTHERS AND EVEN FROM HERSELF, THE STRONGER IT GREW. “O GOD,” SHE +OTHERS AND, IN SHIRT SLEEVES AND BREECHES, WENT GLASS IN HAND TO THE +OTHERS, ONLY NOW HAVE I UNDERSTOOD ALL THE HAPPINESS OF LIFE. NO, I +OTHER VIRTUES—LOVE OF HIS NEIGHBOR, AND ESPECIALLY GENEROSITY. +OTHERWISE. TO TELL THEM THAT SHE FELT ASHAMED FOR HERSELF AND FOR THEM +OUGHT TO BE, NOW HE FANCIED IT WAS ONLY SOMETHING IN HIS OWN EYES. HIS +OUGHT TO GO STRAIGHT TO HIM AND GIVE THE MESSAGE DOLGORúKOV HAD ORDERED +OUR ENEMIES! HURRAH!” HE EXCLAIMED IN HIS DASHING, OLD, HUSSAR’S +OUR FINE SPEECHES AND IN HIS RUDE AND SAVAGE WAY THROWS HIMSELF ON THE +OUR HANDS! NO, WE MUSTN’T FORGET SUVóROV AND HIS RULE—NOT TO PUT +OUR MEMBERS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO REFORM THEIR HEARTS, TO PURIFY AND +OUR OFFICERS.” +OUR OFFICERS AND MEN AT AUSTERLITZ. ONE HAD SAVED A STANDARD, ANOTHER +OUR ORDER CAN BESTOW IT WILL RENDER YOU, MY DEAR SIR. YOU ARE GOING TO +OUR PRESENT, DEPRAVED WORLD. NO ONE NOW LOVES VIRTUE; IT SEEMS LIKE +OURSELVES.” +OURSELVES, DEAR PRINCE,” SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS (OF COURSE, IN +OURSELVES, WERE GROWING UP AND DYING WITH NO IDEA OF GOD AND TRUTH +‘OUR SOVEREIGN, THE EMPEROR,’ AS THEY SAY AT OFFICIAL DINNERS,” +OUR THOUGHTS TO THE SECOND, BONAPARTE. BUT AS IT TURNS OUT, JUST AT +OUR TROOPS HAD DESCENDED AND FROM WHENCE CAME THE SOUNDS OF FIRING. +OUR TROOPS WERE KNOWN TO HIM AS FAR AS THEY COULD BE KNOWN TO ANYONE +OUT. +OUT ACCIDENTLY.” +OUT AND THE SABERS WHIZZED AS THEY WERE DRAWN FROM THEIR SCABBARDS. +OUTLINES. DRESSED AS SHE USED TO BE IN PETERSBURG SOCIETY, IT WAS STILL +OUT OF HEARING. ANOTHER MUSKET MISSED FIRE BUT FLASHED IN THE PAN. +OUT OF IT. THEY COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THAT I HAVE NOT THE NECESSARY +OUT OVER THE FIRE, AND NOT WAITING FOR AN ANSWER HE GAVE A GRUNT AND +OUTPOSTS TODAY AND IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY WHERE HIS CHIEF FORCES ARE +OUTRIGHT. +OUTSIDE HIS UNIFORM. +OUT SKIRMISHERS. HE HAD FELT PERFECTLY SURE THAT THERE WERE OTHER TROOPS +OUT. THE FENCES AND GATES WERE NEW AND SOLID; TWO FIRE PUMPS AND A +OUT THERE... BOTH PLAYING THE HERO... AH, VASíLI IGNáTOVICH... +OVER.” AND AFTER STUMBLING A FEW STAGGERING STEPS RIGHT UP TO THE +OVER, AND COME BACK IN AN HOUR AND TELL ME IN HIS PRESENCE: YES OR NO. +OVERFLOW WITH SICK, AND FAMINE IS EVERYWHERE. TWICE THE MARAUDERS EVEN +OVER HIS SHOULDER, AS WHEN ROSTóV HAD SEEN HIM ON THE EVE OF THE BATTLE +OVER. IT WILL BE A TREMENDOUS BANQUET.” +OVERTAKING THE BATTALIONS THAT CONTINUED TO ADVANCE, HE STOPPED +OVER THE BATTLEFIELD HAD GIVEN FINAL ORDERS TO STRENGTHEN THE BATTERIES +OVER THE ENNS, AND THEN GUESSED THAT THE CARD THAT CAME FIRST TO HAND +OVER THE SQUADRON. ROSTóV RAISED HIS SABER, READY TO STRIKE, BUT AT +OWED HIM MONEY! WHAT BASENESS! WHAT MEANNESS! I KNOW YOU UNDERSTAND +OWING TO THE TERRIBLE UPROAR AND THE NECESSITY FOR CONCENTRATION AND +OWN ABOUT THE FACTS HE WAS RECOUNTING. FOR SOME TIME HE ENGROSSED THE +OWN BREAST, THE HUSBAND STANDING BY AND GAZING TENDERLY AT HER AND THE +OWN EYES SHE COMFORTED THE COUNT, AND DECIDED THAT AT DINNER AND TILL +PACE. +PACES, AND NICHOLAS COULD CLEARLY DISTINGUISH EVERY DETAIL OF HIS +PACING ANGRILY ABOUT AND SNORTING. THE OLD PRINCE FELT AS THOUGH HE +PAINFUL TO HIM AT THIS MOMENT OF SORROW; BESIDES, WHAT CAN I SAY TO HIM +PAINSTAKING EFFECT THAT HAD BEEN IN IT BEFORE; BUT SHE DID NOT YET SING +PALACE IN A MANNER AGREEABLE TO YOURSELF, AND IN SO FAR AS CIRCUMSTANCES +PALE AND HIS JAW TREMBLED, SHIVERING FEVERISHLY. HE WAS PLACED ON +PALE AND THEN BLUSHING. +PALE ON SEEING HER FATHER-IN-LAW. +PALE, WITH COMPRESSED LIPS AND FEVERISHLY GLITTERING EYES. +PALE, WITH QUIVERING LIPS, PIERRE SNATCHED THE COPY. +PALLID AND QUIVERED. +“PAPA, I HAVE COME ON A MATTER OF BUSINESS. I WAS NEARLY FORGETTING. I +“PAPA! PA-PA!” HE CALLED AFTER HIM, SOBBING, “FORGIVE ME!” AND +PAPA, WHICH NATáSHA, AND WHICH PéTYA. EVERYONE SHOUTED, TALKED, AND +PARALYZED HIS WILL. +“PARDON ME! A SNUFFBOX WITH THE EMPEROR’S PORTRAIT IS A REWARD BUT +PARENTS WHO HAVE PETTED THEIR CHILDREN FROM BABYHOOD, BUT WHICH PRINCE +PARIS. IT WAS NOT CALCULATION THAT GUIDED HER (SHE DID NOT EVEN FOR A +PARTICULARLY CALM AND ABSENT-MINDED WAY, WHICH INSPIRED THE RESPECT OF +PARTICULARLY DISCONTENTED AND OUT OF TEMPER. WHETHER HE WAS IN A BAD +PARTICULARLY VIVID, HUMILIATING, AND SHAMEFUL WAS THE RECOLLECTION OF +PARTIES, WEARING A DRESS SUCH AS WAS THEN FASHIONABLE, CUT VERY LOW AT +PART IN IT, BUT ALSO BY THE JOYFUL EXPRESSION ON THE FACES OF SOLDIERS, +PARTLY BECAUSE OF THE DEPRESSING MEMORIES ASSOCIATED WITH BALD HILLS, +PARTLY BECAUSE PRINCE ANDREW DID NOT ALWAYS FEEL EQUAL TO BEARING WITH +PARTNER’S HAND FIRMLY, THREW BACK HIS HEAD, AND ADVANCED HIS FOOT, +PART OF HIS LEGS; HE HAD ON A KIND OF NECKLACE ABOVE WHICH ROSE A HIGH +PART OF HIS MIND HER IMAGE ROSE IN ALL ITS WOMANLY BEAUTY. +PARTY AT WHICH PIERRE HAD TO BE PRESENT UNLESS HE WISHED TO SPOIL +PASSED HIS TIME VERY GAILY. AFTER A SHORT PERIOD OF ADAPTING HIMSELF +PASSED IN STEP BEFORE THE EMPERORS AND THEIR SUITES AT A BOLD, BRISK +PASSED, THE PáVLOGRAD DIVISION WAS ORDERED TO ADVANCE. IN WISCHAU +PASSING BAGRATIóN AND RACING ONE ANOTHER THEY RUSHED IN AN IRREGULAR +PASSING BEHIND ONE OF THE LINES OF A REGIMENT OF FOOT GUARDS HE HEARD A +PASSING, BUT BEFORE HE HAD FINISHED HIS GREETING THERE WAS A GENERAL +PASSING IT ACROSS HéLèNE’S BACK. HéLèNE STOOPED FORWARD TO MAKE +PASSIONATELY AND TENDERLY, AND OLD MARY IVáNOVNA, WHO HAD GROWN FOND OF +PASSIONATELY, AT WHICH SHE LAUGHED; AT THE OTHER COULD BE HEARD THE +PASSIONATELY FOND OF THE BOY, AND PRINCESS MARY OFTEN DEPRIVED HERSELF +PASSIONATELY REPENTS. I WILL DO ALL I CAN TO ARRANGE THE MATCH BETWEEN +PASSION BUT IN YOUR OWN HEART. THE SOURCE OF BLESSEDNESS IS NOT WITHOUT +PASSION,” SAID THE LATTER. +PAST THE LADIES INTO THE LITTLE DRAWING ROOM. WITH QUICK STEPS HE WENT +PATH OF VIRTUE,” SAID THE MASON. +PATRONAGE AT THE DANCERS. +PATTED HIS FAVORITE, ROSTóV, ON THE SHOULDER. +PAUL WAS A MARKET VILLAGE WHERE A FAIR WAS HELD ON ST. PETER’S DAY, +PAUSE, “SHE TOLD HIM SHE LOVED ANOTHER.” +PáVLOGRAD COMMANDER. THE COMMANDERS MET WITH POLITE BOWS BUT WITH +PáVLOVNA AGAIN TOUCHED PIERRE’S SLEEVE, SAYING: “I HOPE YOU WON’T +PáVLOVNA’S, AN UNACKNOWLEDGED SENSE OF THE GUILT OF THAT DESIRE +PáVLOVNA’S DRAWING ROOM HE CONSIDERED AN IMPORTANT STEP UP IN THE +PáVLOVNA, SHAKING HER LITTLE SHRIVELED FINGER AT HIM. +PáVLOVNA’S USUAL PINK NOTES WITH AN INVITATION TO WHICH WAS ADDED: +PáVLOVNA’S VOICE, “I SEE YOU ARE ALL RIGHT THERE.” +PáVLOVNA’S WORDS AND LOOKS WHEN SHE SPOKE TO HIM ABOUT HIS HOUSE, +PáVLOVNA THREATENED HIM ON BEHALF OF “OUR DEAR VYAZMíTINOV,” AND +PAY. I CAN TELL YOU FOR MYSELF...” +PAYING OFF THE DEBTS AND UNDERTAKING NEW ACTIVITIES WITH SERF LABOR, +PAYMENTS HAD BEEN DIMINISHED BY A THIRD, THEIR OBLIGATORY MANORIAL WORK +PEACE.” +PEASANT, OR A WOMAN WITH A BABY, HAS NO REST DAY OR NIGHT AND I GIVE +PECULIARITIES OF HIS RESERVED NATURE, BORíS HAD MANAGED DURING HIS +PECULIAR TO PREGNANT WOMEN. IT WAS EVIDENT THAT HER EYES DID NOT SEE +PENSIONS AND THE SAME AMOUNT FOR ASYLUMS; 150,000 ALIMONY WAS SENT TO +PEOPLE—BUSINESSMEN, RELATIONS, AND ACQUAINTANCES ALIKE—WERE ALL +PEOPLE DANCING, IOGEL WITH NATáSHA, HIS PRIDE AND HIS BEST PUPIL, WERE +PEOPLE DO UNDERSTAND HIM. HE IS SUCH A LOFTY, HEAVENLY SOUL!” +PERFECTION OF MANNER. IF HE EVER THOUGHT OF HéLèNE, IT WAS JUST OF +PERFECT ONE’S SELF. AND TO ATTAIN THIS END, WE HAVE THE LIGHT CALLED +PERHAPS BECAUSE IT WAS HARD FOR HIM, HUNGRY AS HE WAS, TO LOOK ON AT +“PERHAPS,” COLDLY AND ANGRILY REPLIED DóLOKHOV, GLANCING AT SóNYA, +PERHAPS DYING, WHILE MEETING MY REMORSE WITH SOME FORCED BRAVADO!” +PERHAPS I MAY...” +“PERHAPS WE’D REALLY BETTER NOT WAKE HIM,” HE SAID HESITATING. +PERMISSION HERE IN HOSPITAL, THAT I MAY NOT HAVE TO PLAY THE PART OF A +PERSEVERANCE, BUT ONLY THE KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO GET ON WITH THOSE WHO CAN +PERSONAGE, A POSITION IN THE ARMY WHICH SEEMED TO HIM MOST ATTRACTIVE. +PERSONAL INTERVIEW WAS REFUSED, AND INSTEAD OF THE SOVEREIGN, PRINCE +PERSON SHE HAPPENED TO LOOK AT SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH FOR THAT MOMENT. +PETERSBURG. +PETERSBURG AND STAYING AT HIS HOUSE. WITH APPARENT ABSENT-MINDEDNESS, +PETERSBURG EARLIER OR LATER, OR WHETHER HE SECURED ACCOMMODATION AT THIS +PETERSBURG. HAND THIS TO COUNT WILLARSKI” (HE TOOK OUT HIS NOTEBOOK +PETERSBURG. HE COULD NOT IMAGINE HOW HE COULD SPEAK TO HER NOW. HE +PETERSBURG. IT IS HIGH TIME FOR YOU TO GET AWAY FROM THESE TERRIBLE +PETERSBURG TO ASCERTAIN WHAT MOSCOW WAS THINKING ABOUT AUSTERLITZ. +PETISENFANS, ALLAY CUSHAY DORMIR!” HE EXCLAIMED, IMITATING HIS RUSSIAN +“PéTRUSHA HAS COME WITH PAPERS FROM YOUR FATHER,” WHISPERED THE +PéTYA. +PéTYA. BESIDES THAT, HE SENT GREETINGS TO MONSIEUR SCHELLING, MADAME +PéTYA, CLINGING TO HIS LEGS, KEPT SHOUTING, “AND ME TOO!” +PéTYA IN, CLOSED AGAIN. A SOUND OF LAUGHTER CAME FROM BEHIND IT. +PéTYA PACED THE ROOM IN SILENCE FOR A TIME. +PéTYA, PACING THE ROOM WITH LARGE, RESOLUTE STRIDES. “NOW I’M VERY +“PéTYA, YOU’RE A STUPID!” SAID NATáSHA. +PHYSICALLY AT THAT MOMENT, THERE WAS A WEIGHT ON HIS CHEST AND HE COULD +PHYSICAL THINGS, AND THE FOURTH A COMBINATION OF THESE. NOW AND THEN +PIERRE. +PIERRE. +PIERRE. +PIERRE. +PIERRE AND THERE WERE LINES OF PAIN ON HIS FACE AND A SHAMEFACED SMILE. +PIERRE, AS IN A DREAM, SAW SEVERAL MEN STANDING BEFORE HIM, WEARING +PIERRE BEGAN DESCRIBING WHAT HE HAD DONE ON HIS ESTATES, TRYING AS FAR +PIERRE BLUSHED, AS HE ALWAYS DID WHEN IT WAS MENTIONED, AND SAID +PIERRE CLUTCHED HIS TEMPLES, AND TURNING ROUND WENT INTO THE FOREST, +PIERRE CONSIDERED. +PIERRE COULD NOT AND DID NOT WISH TO BREAK THIS SILENCE. +PIERRE COULD NOT GO ON. HE GULPED AND TURNED AWAY. +PIERRE DID NOT CATCH WHAT THEY WERE SAYING, BUT KNEW THEY WERE TALKING +PIERRE DROPPED HIS EYES, LIFTED THEM AGAIN, AND WISHED ONCE MORE TO SEE +PIERRE FELT CONFUSED AND WISHED TO AVOID THAT LOOK, BUT THE BRIGHT OLD +PIERRE FELT HIMSELF FAR POORER THAN WHEN HIS FATHER HAD MADE HIM +PIERRE FELT THAT HE WAS THE CENTER OF IT ALL, AND THIS BOTH PLEASED AND +PIERRE FELT UNCOMFORTABLE AND EVEN DEPRESSED IN HIS FRIEND’S COMPANY +PIERRE FLUSHED AND, HURRIEDLY PUTTING HIS LEGS DOWN FROM THE BED, BENT +PIERRE, FROM JOY, AGITATION, AND EMBARRASSMENT, WAS NOT IN A STATE TO +PIERRE GAVE NO ANSWER, FOR HE NEITHER HEARD NOR SAW ANYTHING. HE HAD +PIERRE GRADUALLY BEGAN TO RECOVER HIMSELF AND LOOKED ABOUT AT THE ROOM +PIERRE HAD ALREADY LONG BEEN FEELING IN HIMSELF THAT REFRESHING SOURCE +PIERRE HAD MET IN PETERSBURG SOCIETY. IN THE PRESIDENT’S CHAIR SAT A +PIERRE HAD NONE OF THE PRACTICAL PERSISTENCE THAT WOULD HAVE ENABLED HIM +PIERRE HAD OF LATE RARELY SEEN HIS WIFE ALONE. BOTH IN PETERSBURG AND IN +PIERRE, HARDLY RESTRAINING HIS SOBS, BEGAN RUNNING TOWARD DóLOKHOV AND +PIERRE IN HIS PREOCCUPATION AND ABSENT-MINDEDNESS HAD NOT RECOGNIZED +PIERRE IN HIS SECRET SOUL AGREED WITH THE STEWARD THAT IT WOULD BE +PIERRE, IN REPLY, SINCERELY AGREED WITH HER AS TO HéLèNE’S +PIERRE, “I SAID AT THE TIME AND BEFORE ANYONE ELSE” (SHE INSISTED +PIERRE KNEW VERY WELL WHAT A HIEROGLYPH WAS, BUT DARED NOT SPEAK. HE +PIERRE LEAPED UP FROM THE SOFA AND RUSHED STAGGERING TOWARD HER. +PIERRE LISTENED WITH SWELLING HEART, GAZING INTO THE MASON’S FACE WITH +PIERRE LOOKED SILENTLY AND INQUIRINGLY AT HIM OVER HIS SPECTACLES. +PIERRE LOOKED SILENTLY AND SEARCHINGLY INTO PRINCE ANDREW’S FACE, +PIERRE, ON UNEXPECTEDLY BECOMING COUNT BEZúKHOV AND A RICH MAN, FELT +PIERRE PAUSED, SEEKING A REPLY. +PIERRE, PERPLEXED, LOOKED ROUND WITH HIS SHORTSIGHTED EYES WITHOUT +PIERRE QUICKLY TOOK OUT HIS PURSE AND WATCH, BUT COULD NOT MANAGE FOR +PIERRE RECALLED, COUNTING THEM ON HIS FINGERS, HE FELT ALREADY IN HIS +PIERRE REMAINED GLOOMILY SILENT, ANSWERING IN MONOSYLLABLES AND +PIERRE SAID NOTHING; HE LOOKED FIXEDLY AT HIS FRIEND WITH SURPRISE. HE +PIERRE SAT OPPOSITE DóLOKHOV AND NICHOLAS ROSTóV. AS USUAL, HE ATE AND +PIERRE’S DIRECTION AT A SLIGHT RUSTLE MADE BY THE LATTER. “WHY HAVE +PIERRE’S EYES WITH IT AND TIED IT IN A KNOT BEHIND, CATCHING SOME +PIERRE SIGHED, ROSE SUBMISSIVELY, EMPTIED HIS GLASS, AND, WAITING TILL +PIERRE SMILED, BUT HIS SMILE SHOWED THAT HE KNEW IT WAS NOT THE STORY +PIERRE STOOD WITH HIS ARMS HANGING DOWN AND LEGS APART, BEFORE HIS +PIERRE. THE ESTATES HE HAD NOT BEFORE VISITED WERE EACH MORE PICTURESQUE +PIERRE TOOK HIS FEET OFF THE TABLE, STOOD UP, AND LAY DOWN ON A BED THAT +PIERRE TOOK OFF HIS COAT, WAISTCOAT, AND LEFT BOOT ACCORDING TO THE +PIERRE TOOK THEM OFF, AND HIS EYES, BESIDES THE STRANGE LOOK EYES HAVE +PIERRE TRIED SEVERAL TIMES TO SPEAK, BUT, ON ONE HAND, PRINCE VASíLI +PIERRE TURNED OVER HEAVILY ON THE OTTOMAN AND OPENED HIS MOUTH, BUT +PIERRE WAS ABOUT TO REPLY, BUT PRINCE VASíLI INTERRUPTED HIM. +PIERRE WAS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO, IN SPITE OF AN APPEARANCE OF WHAT +PIERRE WAS STRUCK BY THE MODESTY OF THE SMALL THOUGH CLEAN HOUSE AFTER +PIERRE WENT WITH RAPID STEPS TO THE DOOR AND SUDDENLY CAME FACE TO +PIERRE. “WHAT OF IT? IT’S THE TRUTH!” AND HE HIMSELF SMILED HIS +PIERRE WHO HAD BEEN REGARDED WITH PATRONIZING CONDESCENSION WHEN HE WAS +PIERRE, WHOSE PREOCCUPIED, ABSENT-MINDED, AND MASSIVE FIGURE WAS A VERY +PIERRE WHO WAS UNDER SUCH OBLIGATIONS TO HIM (“BUT NEVER MIND THAT”) +PIERRE WISHED TO SAY SOMETHING, LOOKED AT HER WITH EYES WHOSE STRANGE +PIERRE WISHED TO SAY THIS TO THE MASON, BUT DID NOT DARE TO. THE +PIERRE, WITH A GENTLE SMILE OF PITY AND REMORSE, HIS ARMS AND LEGS +PIERRE, WITH DOWNCAST EYES, DRANK OUT OF HIS GLASS WITHOUT LOOKING AT +PIERRE, WITHOUT KNOWING WHY, WAS HAVING HIS ENORMOUS PETERSBURG HOUSE +PILGRIMAGE, OF HOLY FRIENDSHIP, OF THE ETERNAL ARCHITECT OF THE +PINCH OF SNUFF. +PISTOLS, AND AT THE WORD THWEE BEGIN TO ADVANCE. +PITY, AND FOR THEIR SAKE I SHOULD LIKE TO LIBERATE THE SERFS. YOU +PITY ME. YET I WAS ONCE AT HOME, STRONG, HAPPY, AND LOVED.” HE SIGHED +PITY’S SAKE, LEAVE THIS HELPLESS YOUTH WHO, AFTER ALL, WAS THE SON OF +PLACE AND THAT HE MIGHT NOW BE LYING, RECOVERING OR DYING, ALONE AMONG +PLACE AND WITHOUT ANSWERING DREW OUT A HANDKERCHIEF. BLOOD WAS FLOWING +PLACE HIM ON A STRETCHER THAT HAD BEEN BROUGHT. THE SOLDIER GROANED. +PLACES AND MET IN CERTAIN HABITUAL GROUPS. A MINORITY OF THOSE PRESENT +PLACE,” THOUGHT PIERRE. “IT’S EVEN CERTAIN THAT I SHOULD HAVE DONE +PLAIN ENOUGH AS IT IS.” +PLAINLY THAT THERE ARE NOT MANY WIVES WITH HUSBANDS SUCH AS YOU WHO +PLAINNESS OF SPEECH, UTTERING THE WORD AMANT AS CASUALLY AS ANY OTHER +PLAITING SLIPPERS OUT OF CLOTH SELVEDGES. HE LOOKED UP AT THE OPENING +PLAN OF A FLANKING MOVEMENT. +PLAN PERFECTLY WORTHLESS. WEYROTHER MET ALL OBJECTIONS WITH A FIRM AND +“PLANS!” REPEATED PRINCE ANDREW IRONICALLY. “MY PLANS?” HE SAID, +PLANS TO KUTúZOV’S QUARTERS WHERE THE COUNCIL OF WAR WAS TO BE +PLAYERS, OR PEERED AT THE NOW COLD FACE OF DóLOKHOV AND TRIED TO READ +PLAYING A VIENNESE WALTZ ON THE CLAVICHORD, WHILE A FOURTH, LYING ON +PLAYING CHESS. BERG HELD A SMOKING PIPE BETWEEN HIS KNEES. BORíS, IN +“PLEA...” BEGAN DóLOKHOV, BUT COULD NOT AT FIRST PRONOUNCE THE +PLEASANT FACE AND RESONANT THOUGH NOT LOUD VOICE, ATTRACTED EVERYONE’S +“PLEASE COME AND VISIT US... YOU KNOW MY BRAVE BOY... BEEN TOGETHER +“PLEASE COME TO TEA. THE PRINCE WILL BE OUT IN A MOMENT,” CAME THE +PLEASED FACES, FOR THEY KNEW THAT UNDER NO OTHER MANAGEMENT COULD THEY +“PLEASE,” HE UTTERED WITH AN EFFORT. +“PLEASE PLACE YOUR MONEY ON THE CARDS OR I MAY GET MUDDLED IN THE +“PLEASE, VASíLI DMíTRICH,” NATáSHA WAS SAYING, “DO COME!” +PLEASURE OF DECEIVING ME, IF IT REALLY WERE TRUE. YES, IF IT WERE TRUE, +PLEASURES THAN ALLOW HIMSELF TO BE SEEN IN A SHABBY EQUIPAGE OR APPEAR +PLEASURE THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HIS ARRIVAL PRINCE ANDREW WAS +“PLENTY OF TIME, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” MUTTERED KUTúZOV IN THE MIDST OF +POINT... COME, HOW ARE YOU?” ASKED ROSTóV. +POINTED BOOT THEN FASHIONABLE, TOUCHED THE GROIN OF THE BOBTAILED BAY +POINTING TO THE FIELDS, HE SPOKE OF THE IMPROVEMENTS HE WAS MAKING IN +POINTING TO THE FLYING SOLDIERS; BUT AT THAT INSTANT, AS IF TO PUNISH +POINT WHERE THE FRENCH PICKETS HAD BEEN STANDING THAT EVENING. +POLISHED SHINING CANNON THAT QUIVERED ON THE GUN CARRIAGES AND WITH +POLITICAL NEWS. IT BECAME PARTICULARLY ANIMATED TOWARD THE END OF THE +POMADED HAIR, PERFUMED, AND IN A NEW UNIFORM, LOOKING JUST AS SMART AS +PONDERED. A HUSBAND, A MAN, A STRONG DOMINANT AND STRANGELY ATTRACTIVE +PONDERED. SOMETIMES HE STAKED A LARGE SUM, BUT DóLOKHOV REFUSED TO +PONDEROUS STEPS UP TO HER SISTER-IN-LAW. +POOR AMéLIE’S HAPPINESS, SHE LOVES HIM SO PASSIONATELY, AND SO +PORTER. HE HAD NO LAMBSKIN CAP ON HIS HEAD, NOR HAD HE A LOADED WHIP +POSITION. HE KEPT CLOSING HIS EYES AND THEN AGAIN LOOKING AT THE FIRE, +POSITION, IT WAS NOW NECESSARY TO ATTACK IN ORDER TO CUT A WAY THROUGH +POSITIONS AND WITHDRAWN IN HIS PRESENCE. TOGETHER WITH TúSHIN, STEPPING +POSITION WITH HIS EYES SHUT. PIERRE LOOKED AT HIM AND HAD NOT TIME +POSSESSED OF A HELEN. “BUT NO DOUBT IT ALWAYS IS AND MUST BE SO!” +POSSESSED. PIERRE WAS ONE OF THOSE WHO ARE ONLY STRONG WHEN THEY FEEL +POSSIBILITY OF ACTIVE BROTHERLY LOVE AMONG MEN, WHICH JOSEPH ALEXéEVICH +POSSIBILITY OF ANYONE SEEING HER WITHOUT BEING ENCHANTED. THE AUNT +POSSIBLE. AND I,” CONTINUED PIERRE, “SHOT DóLOKHOV BECAUSE I +POSTMASTER’S BOOK. BAZDéEV HAD BEEN ONE OF THE BEST-KNOWN FREEMASONS +POST OF COMMANDER IN CHIEF AS A REWARD FOR HIS VICTORY, DOES NOT GIVE UP +“POSTULANT,” TO THE ACCOMPANIMENT OF VARIOUS KNOCKINGS WITH +POUCH WAS SLUNG. HE HAD AN OFFICER’S SWORD IN HIS HAND. THE SOLDIER +POURED DROPS FROM A MEDICINE BOTTLE INTO A WINEGLASS HALF FULL OF WATER. +POUR LE ROI DE PRUSSE!” +POWDERED FOOTMEN, IN LIVERY WITH BUCKLED SHOES AND SMART STOCKINGS, +POWDER SMOKE AND STOPPED IN DESPAIR. EVERYTHING SEEMED LOST. BUT AT THAT +POWER.” +PRACTICAL WOMAN THAT SHE WAS, HAD EVEN MANAGED BY FAVOR WITH ARMY +PRANCED UP AND DOWN IN ONE PLACE LIKE A GOAT AND SHRIEKED PIERCINGLY. +PRATZEN HEIGHTS. +PRATZEN, INTERRUPTED BY SUCH FREQUENT REPORTS OF CANNON THAT SOMETIMES +PRATZEN, WHICH WAS FULL OF TROOPS OF ALL KINDS. +PRAYER. SO, COUNT, THERE NEVER IS ANY NEGLIGENCE IN MY COMPANY, AND +PRECEDES A BATTLE AND HAD SPENT THAT HAPPY DAY IN INACTIVITY, WAS ALL +PREMEDITATION PRINCE VASíLI TOOK THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY TO GAIN HIS +PREOCCUPIED MANNER. HE BECKONED TO ONE OF HIS WHITE ADJUTANTS AND ASKED +PREOCCUPIED THAT ONLY IN BED WAS HE ABLE TO BE BY HIMSELF. HE HAD TO +PREOCCUPIED, YET MEEKLY CHRISTIAN LOOK WHICH NEVER LEFT HER FACE, ANNA +PREPARATIONS FOR WAR LAY IN THE FACT THAT NICHOLAS WOULD NOT HEAR OF +PREPARATION SWEPT OVER ALL THE TROOPS. +PREPARED BY LONG AND DILIGENT SELF-PURIFICATION, NOT EVERYONE CAN HOPE +PREPARE HER SISTER-IN-LAW, AND EVERY TIME BEGAN TO CRY. UNOBSERVANT AS +PREPARING TEA. HE BROUGHT IN A BOILING SAMOVAR. WHEN EVERYTHING WAS +PRESENCE AND PARTICULARLY DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF.” +PRESENT BIVOUAC ANOTHER FORTNIGHT THERE WILL NOT BE A HEALTHY MAN LEFT +PRESENT EMPEROR—MORE THAN ONCE IN PARIS, AND TELLS ME HE NEVER MET A +PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL OF WAR. WEYROTHER EVIDENTLY FELT HIMSELF TO BE +PRESSED HIM STILL HARDER WITH PROOFS OF THE IMPOSSIBILITY AND ABOVE ALL +PRESSING THE HANDS OF PRINCE ANDREW AND BORíS. “YOU KNOW I SHOULD +PRESUMPTUOUS LIEUTENANT WHO HAD PREVENTED HIS FINISHING WHAT HE HAD TO +PRETENDING TO SLEEP, THE SOUNDS HIS NOSE EMITTED DURING THE READING THAT +PRETEXT THAT HER AUNT WISHED TO HEAR HIM. +PRETTY FACE. +PRETTY YOUNG PRINCESSES GORCHAKóV MET SUITORS THERE AND WERE MARRIED +PREUSSISCH-EYLAU. +PRICKING ITS EARS AT THE NOISE AND LOOKING AT THE LIGHTS. THE SHOUTING +PRICKING ITS EARS AT THE SOUND OF SHOTS JUST AS IT HAD DONE ON THE +PRIDE ENOUGH TO SEE IT? IF SHE HAS NO PRIDE FOR HERSELF SHE MIGHT AT +PRINCE. +PRINCE ANDREW ALWAYS BECAME SPECIALLY KEEN WHEN HE HAD TO GUIDE A YOUNG +PRINCE ANDREW BEGAN TO REPLY AND TO STATE HIS OWN PLAN, WHICH MIGHT +PRINCE ANDREW CONSIDERED POSSIBLE CONTINGENCIES AND FORMED NEW PROJECTS +PRINCE ANDREW DID NOT SEE HOW AND BY WHOM IT WAS REPLACED, BUT THE +PRINCE ANDREW EXPRESSED HIS IDEAS SO CLEARLY AND DISTINCTLY THAT IT WAS +PRINCE ANDREW GALLOPED OFF TO EXECUTE THE ORDER. +PRINCE ANDREW GAVE HIM A LOOK, BUT SAID NOTHING AND WENT AWAY. HE FELT +PRINCE ANDREW GOT UP AND WENT ON TIPTOE UP TO THE LITTLE BED, WINEGLASS +PRINCE ANDREW GREW MORE AND MORE ANIMATED. HIS EYES GLITTERED FEVERISHLY +PRINCE ANDREW. “I BUILD A HOUSE AND LAY OUT A GARDEN, AND YOU BUILD +PRINCE ANDREW LOOKED AT HIS SISTER. IN THE DIM SHADOW OF THE CURTAIN HER +PRINCE ANDREW MADE USE OF BOGUCHáROVO, BEGAN BUILDING AND SPENT MOST OF +PRINCE ANDREW, RECALLING HIS FATHER’S LETTER. “YES, WE HAVE GAINED +PRINCE ANDREW REMAINED AT BALD HILLS AS USUAL DURING HIS FATHER’S +PRINCE ANDREW REMEMBERED NOTHING MORE: HE LOST CONSCIOUSNESS FROM THE +PRINCE ANDREW SAID NOTHING TO TúSHIN. THEY WERE BOTH SO BUSY AS TO SEEM +PRINCE ANDREW SHOUTED, “BROTHERS! ALL’S LOST!” AND AT THIS AS IF +PRINCE ANDREW SIGHED AND BROKE THE SEAL OF ANOTHER ENVELOPE. IT WAS +PRINCE ANDREW SPOKE SO EARNESTLY THAT PIERRE COULD NOT HELP THINKING +PRINCE ANDREW UNDERSTOOD THAT THIS WAS SAID OF HIM AND THAT IT WAS +PRINCE ANDREW WAS AS GLAD TO FIND THE BOY LIKE THAT, AS IF HE HAD +PRINCE ANDREW WAS ON DUTY THAT DAY AND IN CONSTANT ATTENDANCE ON THE +PRINCE ANDREW WENT AGAIN TO HIS WIFE AND SAT WAITING IN THE ROOM NEXT +PRINCE ANDREW WENT OUT. +PRINCE ANDREW WENT UP TO THE CHILD AND FELT HIM. HE WAS BURNING HOT. +PRINCE ANDREW, WHO HAD ALSO BEEN BROUGHT FORWARD BEFORE THE EMPEROR’S +PRINCE BAGRATIóN AND TúSHIN LOOKED WITH EQUAL INTENTNESS AT +PRINCE BAGRATIóN, DISTINGUISHED BY HIS SCHöN GRABERN AFFAIR AND BY +PRINCE BAGRATIóN LOOKED AT TúSHIN, EVIDENTLY RELUCTANT TO SHOW +PRINCE BAGRATIóN PROPOSED TO DOLGORúKOV TO SEND TO INQUIRE OF THE +PRINCE BAGRATIóN TO BEGIN THE COUNCIL. AT LAST BAGRATIóN’S ORDERLY +PRINCE BOLKóNSKI SAT DOWN IN HIS USUAL PLACE IN THE CORNER OF THE SOFA +PRINCE BOLKóNSKI’S HOUSEHOLD FELT THAT THEIR LIFE HAD NOT BEEN REAL +PRINCE BOLKóNSKI SURVEYED ANATOLE. +PRINCE DOLGORúKOV CEASED TO LISTEN TO HIM AND GAZED ABSENT-MINDEDLY NOT +PRINCE DOLGORúKOV TO THE ADVANCED POST OF THE FRENCH ARMY. +“PRINCE HIPPOLYTE KURáGIN—CHARMING YOUNG FELLOW; M. +“PRINCE, I DID NOT ASK YOU HERE. GO, PLEASE GO!” AND HE JUMPED UP +PRINCE INTERRUPTED HER. +PRINCE KURáGIN ABOUT ME. I ONLY WANTED TO ASK BECAUSE I FEAR THE GUARDS +PRINCE NEVER DIRECTLY ASKED HIMSELF THAT QUESTION, KNOWING BEFOREHAND +PRINCE NICHOLAS FROWNED, BUT SAID NOTHING. +PRINCE, ONE WINDOW FRAME WAS REMOVED IN EACH ROOM AS SOON AS THE LARKS +PRINCE REPNíN!” AND HE SPURRED HIS HORSE AND GALLOPED AWAY. +PRINCE REPNíN NAMED LIEUTENANT SUKHTéLEN. +PRINCE’S QUESTION AS TO HOW SHE FELT. +PRINCESS ANXIOUS AND INQUIRING, THE NURSE ENCOURAGING. EVERYONE IN THE +PRINCESS’ BEAUTIFUL EYES WITH ALL THEIR FORMER CALM RADIANCE WERE +“PRINCESS, COME HERE!” HE SHOUTED. +PRINCESS FELT THIS; THEY STILL THOUGHT THAT IF A BLUE RIBBON WERE PLACED +PRINCESS’ HAIR. IT WAS EVIDENT THAT HE COULD BE SILENT IN THIS WAY FOR +PRINCESS’ HAND. +PRINCESS, HIS COUSIN, AT MOSCOW, CONCERNING DóLOKHOV’S INTIMACY WITH +PRINCESS, I HOLD TO THE PRINCIPLE THAT A MAIDEN HAS A FULL RIGHT TO +PRINCESS. (IN ACCORDANCE WITH LISE’S AND PRINCE ANDREW’S WISHES THEY +PRINCESS KURáGINA, A PORTLY IMPOSING WOMAN WHO HAD ONCE BEEN HANDSOME, +PRINCESS MARY. +PRINCESS MARY ADMITTED TO ONE ANOTHER THAT THE ANGEL’S FACE REMINDED +PRINCESS MARY BUT WERE LOOKING WITHIN... INTO HERSELF... AT SOMETHING +PRINCESS MARY COULD NOT LIFT HER HEAD, SHE WAS WEEPING. +PRINCESS MARY, EVIDENTLY INTIMIDATED AND CONFUSED THAT HER OPINION +PRINCESS MARY GREW QUITE UNCONSCIOUS OF HER FACE AND COIFFURE. THE +PRINCESS MARY HAD GREATLY CHANGED SINCE 1805. +PRINCESS MARY HAD LONG SINCE PUT ASIDE HER BOOK: SHE SAT SILENT, HER +PRINCESS MARY KNELT DOWN BEFORE HER AND HID HER FACE IN THE FOLDS OF HER +PRINCESS MARY, LITTLE AS HE SEEMED TO VALUE HER, WAS UNTHINKABLE TO +PRINCESS MARY LOOKED AT THEM IN SILENCE. SHE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND IT. AT +PRINCESS MARY SAT ALONE IN HER ROOM LISTENING TO THE SOUNDS IN THE +PRINCESS MARY SHRUGGED HER SHOULDERS BUT TOOK THE GLASS SUBMISSIVELY +PRINCESS MARY SHUDDERED; HER NURSE, PUTTING DOWN THE STOCKING SHE WAS +PRINCESS MARY SIGHED, AND HAVING CROSSED HERSELF WENT DOWN, THINKING +PRINCESS MARY’S SELF-ESTEEM WOULD BE WOUNDED AND HIS POINT (NOT TO +PRINCESS MARY, THEN SAT THINKING FOR A WHILE WITH THAT EXPRESSION OF +PRINCESS MARY THREW A SHAWL OVER HER HEAD AND RAN TO MEET THE NEWCOMER. +PRINCESS MARY WAS LEFT ALONE. SHE DID NOT COMPLY WITH LISE’S REQUEST, +PRINCESS MARY WAS SITTING ON THE SOFA IN HER ROOM, HOLDING THE WEEPING +PRINCESS MARY WAS STILL STANDING BY THE COT, GENTLY ROCKING THE BABY. +PRINCESS MARY WENT TO THE DOOR OF THE STUDY WITH SPECIAL TREPIDATION. +PRINCESS MARY WITH A GAY SMILE, AS IF INVITING HER TO JOIN IN A LAUGH AT +“PRINCESS, MY DEAR, THERE’S SOMEONE DRIVING UP THE AVENUE!” SHE +PRINCESS ON HEARING THE NEWS. +PRINCESS WAS NOT UNWELL, BUT HAD SUCH AN OVERPOWERING FEAR OF THE PRINCE +PRINCESS, WITH THE LONG WAIST AND HAIR PLASTERED DOWN LIKE A DOLL’S, +PRINCE, STEPPING ON HIS HEELS, PACED UP AND DOWN HIS STUDY AND SENT +PRINCE TOLD ME TO ASK,’ AND COME AND TELL ME HER ANSWER.” +PRINCE VASíLI. +PRINCE VASíLI AND ANATOLE HAD SEPARATE ROOMS ASSIGNED TO THEM. +PRINCE VASíLI AND THAT SON OF HIS TO ME? PRINCE VASíLI IS A SHALLOW +PRINCE VASíLI AND THE GENERALS, HAD THE BENEFIT OF THE DIPLOMAT. +PRINCE VASíLI ARRIVED THAT EVENING. HE WAS MET IN THE AVENUE BY +PRINCE VASíLI, AS HE ENTERED. “I KNOW ALL ABOUT IT, AND I CAN TELL +PRINCE VASíLI A THIRD TIME. “HOW ABSENT-MINDED YOU ARE, MY DEAR +PRINCE VASíLI DID EVERYTHING TO GET PIERRE TO MARRY HIS DAUGHTER. HAD +PRINCE VASíLI FROWNED, TWISTING HIS MOUTH, HIS CHEEKS QUIVERED AND HIS +PRINCE VASíLI GAVE PIERRE A SIGNIFICANT LOOK. +PRINCE VASíLI HAD COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT IT WAS NECESSARY TO THROW +PRINCE VASíLI HAD TO SETTLE MATTERS WITH PIERRE, WHO, IT IS TRUE, HAD +PRINCE VASíLI PASSED BY, SEEMING NOT TO HEAR THE LADIES, AND SAT DOWN +PRINCE VASíLI READILY ADOPTED HER TONE AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS ALSO +PRINCE VASíLI ROSE. +PRINCE VASíLI’S ARM AND LED HIM TO HIS STUDY. AS SOON AS THEY WERE +PRINCE VASíLI SAW THAT PIERRE KNEW THIS. HE SUDDENLY MUTTERED +PRINCE VASíLI’S LAST WORDS. THEN RISING, HE SUDDENLY WENT UP TO HIS +PRINCE VASíLI SMILED, AND PIERRE NOTICED THAT EVERYONE WAS SMILING AT +PRINCE VASíLI WAS NOT A MAN WHO DELIBERATELY THOUGHT OUT HIS PLANS. +PRINCE VASíLI, WHO PRETENDED TO WANT TO KNOW THIS IN ORDER TO SETTLE A +PRINCE VASíLI, WITH ONE LEG THROWN HIGH OVER THE OTHER AND A SNUFFBOX +PRINCE WAS AT HOME, AND SHOWED HIM INTO A CLEAN LITTLE ANTEROOM. +“PRINCE, WHAT I HAVE SAID IS ALL THERE IS IN MY HEART. I THANK YOU FOR +PRINCIPAL GUESTS. HE WAS JUST GOING TO TAKE IT WHEN DóLOKHOV, LEANING +PRINCIPALS NOR THEIR SECONDS SUFFERED FOR IT. BUT THE STORY OF THE DUEL, +PRISONERS.” +PRIZES HIS FREEDOM WHICH HE NEEDS FOR SO MANY OTHER THINGS. WHEN HE +PROBABLY HE DID NOT, FOR IN GENERAL HE THOUGHT VERY LITTLE—BUT HIS +PROCEEDED TO HIS STUDY. +PRODUCE AT THE SAME INTERVALS AND HOLD FOR THE SAME TIME, BUT WHICH +PRODUCED ON SóNYA, FELT FOR THE FIRST TIME THE SORROWFUL SIDE OF THE +PROFITED BY THEIR TOIL TO LEAD A PROFLIGATE LIFE. THAT IS WHAT YOU HAVE +PROMENER,” * SHE USED TO SAY. OFTEN SEEING THE SUCCESS SHE HAD WITH +PROMOTION, NICHOLAS SAID THAT HE KISSED HIS FATHER’S AND MOTHER’S +PROMOTION TO THE RANK OF MAJOR, AND ROSTóV, WHO HAD ALREADY DRUNK +PRONOUNCED THE MASON IN A STERN AND TREMULOUS VOICE. +PROOFS OF NIKóLENKA’S VIRTUES. HOW STRANGE, HOW EXTRAORDINARY, HOW +PROPERLY. HéLèNE ANSWERED WITH A SMILE THAT SHE TOO HAD MISSED IT. +PROPER POSTS. BORíS HAD BEEN QUARTERED, AND HAD MARCHED ALL THE +PROPOSE IS THE ONLY THING POSSIBLE.” +PROPOSITION TO YOU IN HIS PUPIL’S—I MEAN, HIS SON’S—NAME. DO YOU +PROSTRATED HIMSELF BEFORE THE GATES OF THE TEMPLE. AND REALLY, THE +PROTéGé, BUT PRINCE DOLGORúKOV POLITELY AND FIRMLY PRESSING HIS HAND +PROUDLY AT HIS SON. +PRUSSIA, AND HAD JUST RETURNED FROM THERE AS A SPECIAL MESSENGER. HE HAD +PRUSSIAN ARMY, HéLèNE HAD SUDDENLY FOUND IT NECESSARY TO SEE HIM. +PRUSSIANS WITHOUT GIVING THEM TIME TO FINISH THE PARADE THEY HAD BEGUN, +PRZEBYSZéWSKI AND HIS CORPS HAD LAID DOWN THEIR ARMS. OTHER COLUMNS +PRZEBYSZéWSKI’S AND LANGERON’S COLUMNS WHICH HAD ALREADY GONE DOWN +PRZEBYSZéWSKI, WITH RESPECTFUL BUT DIGNIFIED POLITENESS, HELD HIS +PUBLIC TO APPRECIATE HIS SKILL. +PULLING IT OR BEING PUSHED BY IT HE DID NOT KNOW, BUT RUSHED ALONG AT +PULTúSK TO PETERSBURG RETURNS BRINGING OUR APPOINTMENT AS COMMANDER IN +PUNISHMENTS WERE TO BE ADMONITORY AND NOT CORPORAL, AND HOSPITALS, +PURIFIED, THOU WILT GAIN WISDOM. LOOK AT YOUR LIFE, MY DEAR SIR. +PURITY, AND NOT THE SERFS’ BACKS AND FOREHEADS, WHICH, BEAT AND SHAVE +PURPLE-FACED GENERAL WAIT RESPECTFULLY WHILE CAPTAIN PRINCE ANDREW, FOR +PURPLE FACE, REPORTING SOMETHING. +PURPOSELY DROPPED A HANDKERCHIEF IN FRONT OF HIM AND STOOD LOOKING +PURSE THAT SANK INTO THE SOFA. “AS FOR US, COUNT, WE GET ALONG ON OUR +PUSHING BACK HIS CHAIR, HE ROSE FROM THE TABLE. +PUT QUESTIONS AND GAVE BRIEF REPLIES ABOUT THINGS THEY KNEW OUGHT TO +PUTTING THE NIGHTSHIRT OVER HIS DRIED-UP OLD BODY AND GRAY-HAIRED CHEST. +QUALIFICATIONS FOR IT—THE KIND OF GOOD-NATURED, FUSSY SHALLOWNESS +QUALITIES. HE WAS ALWAYS HEARING SUCH WORDS AS: “WITH YOUR REMARKABLE +QUARRELED WITH HéLèNE, MON CHER? YOU ARE UNDER A DELUSION,” SAID +QUARRELED WITH HER BROTHER ABOUT HIM. SHE INSISTED THAT HE WAS A BAD +QUARTERS TORCHES AND CANDLES WERE BURNING AND NO ONE SLEPT. THE OLD +QUESTION FOR HER TO REFUSE HIM. AND THEREFORE NICHOLAS’ FIRST FEELING +QUESTION FOR WHOSE SAKE HE CAME (THOUGH NO ONE SPOKE OF IT) WAS SOON +QUESTION HE NOTICED THAT IT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PUT. +QUESTION HIM. THE MAN ANNOUNCED THAT THE TSAR HAD BEEN DRIVEN IN A +QUESTIONING HIM ABOUT POLITICAL AFFAIRS AND NEWS. HE SEEMED TO LISTEN +QUESTION—ONE SO IMPORTANT THAT HE TOOK NO NOTICE OF WHAT WENT +QUESTIONS PUT TO HIM. HE WAS BESPATTERED WITH MUD AND HAD A PITIFUL, +QUICK-WITTED, NOR READY OR ELOQUENT IN CONVERSATION, BUT HE HAD THE +QUIET AND PEACE. THANK GOD!...” +QUIET AUTHORITY, “YOU WISH TO INSULT ME, AND I AM READY TO AGREE WITH +“QUITE AVARE, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” SUDDENLY SHOUTED THE COLONEL, +QUITE CLOSE AT HAND, AND A VOICE OF NAïVE TERROR BARELY TWO STEPS FROM +QUITE HEARD. +QUITE SINCERELY TRIED TO MAKE HER LOOK PRETTY. SHE WAS SO PLAIN THAT +QUITS... IT CAN’T BE!... AND WHY IS HE DOING THIS TO ME?” ROSTóV +RAISED. HE REMAINED STUBBORNLY SILENT, GAZING AT WEYROTHER’S FACE, +RAISING HIM. +RAN AHEAD ON TIPTOE AND KNOCKED AT A DOOR. +RAN FORWARD SHADING HIS EYES WITH HIS SMALL HAND TO LOOK AT THE FRENCH. +RANK (FOR HE DID NOTHING), THAT PRINCE VASíLI HAD PROCURED FOR HIM, +RANKS; ANATOLE WAS IN THE ARMY SOMEWHERE IN THE PROVINCES; PRINCE ANDREW +RANKS WERE RETURNING FROM THE ATTACK. ROSTóV GOT OUT OF THEIR WAY, +RAN UP, BEGGING A LITTLE FIRE FOR THE INFANTRY. +RAPIDLY. +RAPIDLY ADDING UP THE TOTAL OF ROSTóV’S DEBT, BREAKING THE CHALK AS +RAPIDLY AND INDISTINCTLY. “YOU THOUGHT!... RASCALS! BLACKGUARDS!... +RAPID, SELF-CONFIDENT, FAMILIAR TONE. “HERE IS MY SECOND SON; PLEASE +RARELY DONE OF LATE. IT WAS A GRAND FAREWELL DINNER, AS HE AND DENíSOV +RASGULYáY—THE COACHMAN IPáTKA KNOWS—AND LOOK UP THE GYPSY +RATHER OF DEATH, AS THE SAYING IS. ‘ALBANIANS!’ AND ‘DEVILS!’ +RATHER ROUND SHOULDERS AND GLANCED AT NOVOSíLTSEV WHO WAS NEAR HIM, AS +RATHER THAN OF WHAT THE GENERALS WERE DISPUTING ABOUT. +REACHED THE BUSHES. BEHIND THESE WERE SOME RUSSIAN SHARPSHOOTERS. +REACHED. WHEELS CREAK ON THEIR AXLES AS THE COGS ENGAGE ONE ANOTHER AND +READ A CONGRATULATION ON HIS FUTURE SON-IN-LAW AND ON HIS DAUGHTER’S +READILY AND RAPIDLY LIKE A MAN WHO HAS NOT TALKED FOR A LONG TIME. HIS +READINESS TO FALL IN LOVE AND AN EXPECTATION OF HAPPINESS. +READING CONFIRMATION IN ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S FACE. +READING THE LETTER. HE WENT ON TIPTOE TO THE NURSERY DOOR AND OPENED IT. +READING THEM ALOUD. BAGRATIóN BOWED HIS HEAD AND LISTENED: +READING. THEN MILORáDOVICH LOOKED ROUND SIGNIFICANTLY AT THE OTHER +READ THIS IN TíKHON’S FACE AND IN THAT OF PRINCE VASíLI’S VALET, +READY, THE STRANGER OPENED HIS EYES, MOVED TO THE TABLE, FILLED A +REALITY AGAIN PRESENTED ITSELF. HE GOT UP WITHOUT SAYING A WORD AND WENT +REALIZE BECAUSE THE FEAR WAS SO MUCH THE STRONGER FEELING. THE PRINCE +REALIZED AS HE READ THAT BOOK: THE JOY, HITHERTO UNKNOWN TO HIM, +REALIZED THAT SOMETHING DREADFUL HAD HAPPENED TO HIS REGIMENT, AND THE +REALLY GOOD SOCIETY” CONSISTED OF THE FASCINATING HéLèNE, FORSAKEN +“REALLY, PAPA, I BELIEVE PRINCE BAGRATIóN WORRIED HIMSELF LESS BEFORE +REARGUARD ALL THE FRESHNESS OF ATMOSPHERE OF THE FRENCH ARMY, WHICH WAS +REASONING CONTAINED IN THE MASON’S WORDS, OR BELIEVED AS A CHILD +REASON, OR SHOT A POST-BOY’S HORSE WITH A PISTOL. THAT EXPRESSION +REASON, RAN BACK AND DISAPPEARED FROM THE OUTSKIRTS, AND RUSSIAN +REAWAKENING. HE WAS AFRAID OF ANY WANT OF CLEARNESS, ANY WEAKNESS, IN +REBUKING HER FOR HER FALL. +RECALCITRANT CAVALRY COLONEL, HIS OWN DIGNITY AS A GENERAL, AND ABOVE +RECALLED ALL THIS AS CHILDISHNESS HE HAD LEFT IMMEASURABLY BEHIND. +RECALLED THOUSANDS OF SUCH HINTS FROM PRINCE VASíLI AND OTHERS, AND WAS +RECEIPT, HE LEFT AT THE END OF NOVEMBER, WITHOUT TAKING LEAVE OF ANY OF +RECEIVED ALL PETERSBURG, PROUD OF HER UNAPPROACHABILITY AND BEAUTY. SO +RECEIVED AND READ THE THEN FAMOUS RESCRIPT OF THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER +RECEIVED PIERRE WITH A SHADE OF MELANCHOLY, EVIDENTLY RELATING TO THE +RECEIVE THAT SCIENCE IT IS NECESSARY TO PURIFY AND RENEW ONE’S INNER +RECEIVING FROM ALL SIDES DECLARATIONS OF THE PEOPLE’S LOYALTY, THAT +RECEIVING IT. THIS GRATITUDE REMINDED HIM OF HOW MUCH MORE HE MIGHT DO +RECEPTION ROOM IF HE WISHED TO SEE HIM. BORíS THANKED HIM AND WENT TO +RECIPROCATED THIS ANTIPATHY, BUT IT WAS OVERPOWERED BY HIS CONTEMPT +RECKONING.” +RECOGNIZED HIS LAMENTED AND ADORED MONARCH. +RECOGNIZED THE TSAR AND WATCHED HIS APPROACH. WHEN HE WAS WITHIN TWENTY +RECOLLECTION OF HOW HE WAS PUT IN THE SLEIGH OR OF THE FIRST THREE +RECOLLECTIONS.” PRINCE VASíLI SIGHED. “YES, YES, MY BOY. AND MY +RECOUNTING HIS MILITARY EXPLOITS (PRINCE ANDREW COULD NOT ENDURE +RECOVER.” +RECOVERED, AND ROSTóV BECAME VERY FRIENDLY WITH HIM DURING HIS +RECROSS TO THE OTHER. AT LAST OUR ENEMY, BUXHöWDEN, CATCHES US AND +RECRUITMENT SO AS TO AVOID ACTIVE SERVICE. THE OLD PRINCE AND HIS SON +RECRUITS WERE BEING ENROLLED IN THE VILLAGES, AND FROM THE SEAT OF +REDUCED TO TEARS. +REFERRED TO IN THAT DRAWING ROOM AS “A MAN OF GREAT MERIT” (UN HOMME +“REFILL MY PIPE FOR THAT ONE!” AND THEN, SCATTERING SPARKS FROM IT, +REFLECTED ON THEIRS. +REFLECTIONS. BETTER DIE A THOUSAND TIMES THAN RISK RECEIVING AN UNKIND +REFUSAL WITH HIS HEAD AND HAND AND BY THAT GESTURE ROSTóV INSTANTLY +REFUSE IOGEL AND ASKED SóNYA TO DANCE. DENíSOV SAT DOWN BY THE OLD +REFUSING TO LET HER SEE THEM OFF. THE DIPLOMATIST PRESERVED A MOURNFUL +REGARDED ALL THESE LITTLE ADJUTANTS ON THE STAFF OF WHOM THE NEWCOMER +REGARD HIM—BUT YOU WANT TO CURE HIM FROM LOVE OF HIM. AND HE DOES NOT +REGARDING ALL ARGUMENTS AS NONSENSE IN COMPARISON WITH THAT SMILE. +REGENERATE, PURIFY, AND ELEVATE ME. BUT YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND IT.” +REGENERATION, AND RETURN TO LIFE. +REGIMENTAL COMMANDER AND MAJOR EKONóMOV HAD STOPPED BESIDE A BRIDGE, +REGIMENTS, BOTH CAVALRY AND INFANTRY, WERE BY NO MEANS READY FOR THE +REGIMENTS FORM BANDS AND SCOUR THE COUNTRYSIDE AND PUT EVERYTHING +REGIMENT. THE FACES OF THESE YOUNG PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO WERE +REGIMENT, THEY LISTEN INTENTLY, LOOK ABOUT, AND EAGERLY ASK CONCERNING +REGIMENT WAS MUCH SURPRISED AT THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF’S ORDER TO THROW +REGRETTABLE DELUSION.” +REGULAR MOTION AS A RESULT OF ALL THAT ACTIVITY. +REINS AND STARTED OF HIS OWN ACCORD. +RELATING TO NIKóLENKA, DID NOT VENTURE TO ASK ANY QUESTIONS AT DINNER, +RELIGION?” +RELYING ON REASON ONLY? WHAT ART THOU? YOU ARE YOUNG, YOU ARE RICH, YOU +REMAINED ALONE WITH HIM FOR A LONG TIME. +REMAINED IN RESERVE AND NICHOLAS ROSTóV SPENT THAT DAY IN A DULL AND +REMAINING IN MOSCOW, AND ONLY AWAITED THE TERMINATION OF DENíSOV’S +REMAINING STRENGTH. HE RAISED HIS PISTOL AND AIMED. +REMAINS OF SHEDS, CHAIRS, TABLES, WHEELS, TUBS, AND EVERYTHING THAT THEY +REMARKS. THE OLD COUNT ROSE ONCE MORE, GLANCED AT A NOTE LYING BESIDE +REMARKS WHICH SEEMED TO HIM CLEVER WHILE THEY FORMED IN HIS MIND BECAME +REMARK TO HIM, POINTING TO THE GALLANT ÁPSHERONS. +REMEMBER EVERYTHING?” SAID NATáSHA, WITH AN EXPRESSIVE GESTURE, +“REMEMBER, FOR YOU EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON THIS.” +REMEMBER NIKóLENKA TOO, I REMEMBER HIM WELL,” SHE SAID. “BUT I +REMORSE, HUMILIATIONS, SUFFERINGS, OUTBURSTS OF PRIDE, FEAR, AND +RENDERED, AND I SUPPLIED THEM WITH A DOCTOR, A HOSPITAL, AND AN ASYLUM +RENOUNCED YOUR FORMER CONVICTIONS—DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD?” +REPEATED BY OTHERS FROM VARIOUS SIDES AND ALL BECAME SILENT. +REPEATED. “I SHOULD BE GLAD ENOUGH TO FALL ASLEEP, SO IT’S NOT MY +REPEAT HIS QUESTION. +REPEATING IN A LOW VOICE THE SAME WORDS SEVERAL TIMES OVER. +REPELLENT. YET IN THIS VERY REPUGNANCE TO ALL HIS CIRCUMSTANCES PIERRE +REPLACE SOME CHESSMEN THAT WERE FALLING. HE WAS ABOUT TO EMBRACE HIS +REPLIED THAT IT WOULD BE MORE THAN ENOUGH FOR HIM AND THAT HE GAVE HIS +REPLIED: “YES, YES, I AGREE,” AND WITH A BEAMING, CHILDLIKE SMILE, +REPLY. +REPLY—WHICH HE WOULD NOT HAVE RECEIVED, FOR THE PRINCESS WAS UNABLE TO +REPORTED TO HIM, AND THEN JOINED THE ADJUTANTS LISTENING TO WHAT THE +REPORT WAS HEARD, BAGRATIóN LOOKED ROUND AND SHOUTED, “HURRAH!” +REPREHENSIBLE, LOOKED ROUND WITH A BLUSH. IT SEEMED TO HIM THAT EVERYONE +REPRESENTED ALL THAT WAS LEFT OF THAT WHOLE REGIMENT. IMPELLED BY THE +REPRESENTED AS A BRILLIANT VICTORY OVER THE FRENCH, AND SO THE +REPRIMANDING AND REPROACHING HIM. TúSHIN GAVE NO ORDERS, AND, +REPROACHED AND DISPUTED WITH EACH OTHER. +REPROACHED HER FOR YIELDING TO A MAN WITHOUT BEING MARRIED. MADEMOISELLE +REPROACHFULLY AT THE COUNT WHO HAD PRESENTED IT TO HIM. SOMEONE +REQUEST. +REQUEST THAT HE WOULD TAKE NO PART IN THE MATTER, ROSTóV AGREED TO BE +RESEMBLING HIS MASTER IN MANNERS AND LOOKS, WHO WAS ACCOMPANYING HIM +RESERVE GUN CARRIAGE, THE WOUNDED WERE CARRIED AWAY, AND THE FOUR GUNS +RESERVE TOMORROW,” HE THOUGHT. “I’LL ASK LEAVE TO GO TO THE FRONT, +RESERVE UNITS WERE ABLE TO JOIN UP, AND THE FIGHT WAS AT AN END. THE +RESOLUTELY TOOK THE SALVER WITH BOTH HANDS AND LOOKED STERNLY AND +RESOLUTE SELF-WILL, “HE IS WICKED AND HEARTLESS. THERE NOW, I LIKE +RESOLUTION. CAN IT BE THAT I HAVE NONE?” +RESOLVED TO GO AWAY NEXT DAY AND LEAVE A LETTER INFORMING HER OF HIS +RESOUNDED. THE COLUMN MOVED FORWARD WITHOUT KNOWING WHERE AND UNABLE, +RESOUNDING VOICE, APPARENTLY TO PRECLUDE THE POSSIBILITY OF NOT BEING +RESPECT AND HONOR YOU, BUT ALL THE SAME REMEMBER THAT THE FUTURE BELONGS +RESPECTFULLY. +RESPECTFULLY BOWED HEAD, SEEMED ALSO TO BE WAITING. THE SILENCE LASTED +RESTRAINING HIS TEARS OF PITY FOR THE EMPEROR, HE RODE ON IN UTTER +REST, WENT IN TO DINNER. HE WAS SEATED IN THE PLACE OF HONOR BETWEEN +RESULT FROM IT—NO LONGER SEEMED TO BE IN THE FUTURE BUT IN THE PAST. +“RETIRE! ALL TO RETIRE!” HE SHOUTED FROM A DISTANCE. +RETREAT AFTER A BATTLE HAVE LOST IT IS WHAT WE SAY; AND ACCORDING TO +RETREATED AS A DISORDERLY CROWD. ONE SOLDIER, IN HIS FEAR, UTTERED THE +RETREATING AGAINST THEIR WILL. A FEW MINUTES AFTER THE EMPEROR HAD +RETREATING FORCES. +RETREATING TO OUR FRONTIER—WHICH DO TODAY.’ +RETURNED), AND, FORCING OPEN A LOOSELY CLOSED LATCH, SET THE DAMASK +RETURNED, AND OVER THE BOTTLE OF WINE CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE THREE +RETURNED FROM A LONG JOURNEY ON WHICH HE HAD SPENT DOZENS OF YEARS, HAD +RETURNED FROM THE COUNCIL, TIRED AND EXHAUSTED BUT EAGER AND PROUD +RETURNED HOME JUST BEFORE DINNER. AS SOON AS HE ENTERED HE NOTICED AND +RETURNING FROM HIS JOURNEY THROUGH SOUTH RUSSIA IN THE HAPPIEST STATE +RETURN THE HOLY IMAGE. +RHETOR, AFTER A MOMENT’S PAUSE. +RHETOR SAID, “TO BRING YOURSELF TO REGARD IT NOT AS A DREADED FOE, BUT +RHETOR’S INSTRUCTIONS. THE MASON DREW THE SHIRT BACK FROM PIERRE’S +RHETOR, THOUGH IT AROUSED HIS CURIOSITY, DID NOT SEEM TO HIM ESSENTIAL, +RHETOR WENT AWAY, LEAVING HIM TO SOLITARY MEDITATION. “IT MUST BE SO, +RIBBONS. +RICHEST OF THE OFFICERS NOW THAT HE HAD RECEIVED HIS MONEY, BOUGHT IT. +RICH OLD MAN. BUT BEFORE LEAVING HOME AND UNDERTAKING THESE NEW AFFAIRS, +RICH YOUTHS, OFFICERS AND CADETS, WHO HAD GALLOPED PAST HIM ON THEIR +RIDE AND ESPECIALLY BY THE SOUND OF THE BULLETS. +RIDER’S LEG. BLOOD WAS FLOWING FROM HIS HEAD; HE STRUGGLED BUT COULD +RID HIMSELF OF THEM HE CLOSED HIS EYES. +RIDING ALONE WITH THREE HUSSARS INTO THAT MYSTERIOUS AND DANGEROUS MISTY +RIDING, AND SOMETIMES, WHEN HE CAME WITHIN SIX PACES OF THEM, THE +RIDING AWAY, SAY TO CZARTORýSKI: “WHAT A TERRIBLE THING WAR IS: WHAT +RIDING OVER IT TRAINED A GUN ON HIM AND FIRED SEVERAL SHOTS. THE +RIGHT. +RIGHT!” AND HIS HEAD ONCE MORE SANK TO HIS HORSE’S NECK. ALL AT ONCE +RIGHT AND WHAT’S GOOD MUST BE JUDGED BY ONE WHO KNOWS ALL, BUT NOT BY +RIGHT FLANK AND DRIVE IT INTO THE BOHEMIAN MOUNTAINS ACCORDING TO PLAN, +RIGHT—HE DID NOT KNOW. “BUT WAS IT REALLY NOT POSSIBLE FOR KUTúZOV +RIGHT, IT IS ADVANTAGEOUS TO ATTACK THE ENEMY’S LATTER WING ESPECIALLY +RIGHT, SHOUTING AND FIRING WERE AGAIN HEARD. FLASHES OF SHOT GLEAMED IN +RIGHT SOUNDED OFTENER AND NEARER. AS SOON AS TúSHIN WITH HIS GUNS, +RIGHT TO FIRE WHEN THEY LIKED AS THEY APPROACHED THE BARRIER. DóLOKHOV +RIGHT! TWENTY-ONE RUBLES,” HE SAID, POINTING TO THE FIGURE TWENTY-ONE +RING, AND ZHERKóV, UNEASILY GLANCING AT THEM ALL, AND PRINCE ANDREW, +RISING IN HIS SOUL. DóLOKHOV, DENíSOV, AND ROSTóV WERE NOW SITTING +RIVER WE BURN THE BRIDGES TO SEPARATE OURSELVES FROM OUR ENEMY, WHO AT +ROAD WHICH GLEAMED WHITE IN THE MIST WOULD HAVE BEEN SAFER BECAUSE IT +RODE, NOT HOPING TO FIND ANYONE BUT MERELY TO EASE HIS CONSCIENCE. WHEN +RODE SIDE BY SIDE IN FRONT, AT FULL GALLOP. ONE IN A BLACK UNIFORM WITH +RODE WITH OUR REGIMENT ALL THE TIME, SO THAT WE HAD EVERY COMFORT AND +ROOM. +ROOM, ADDRESSED PIERRE. +ROOM, ALMOST ALL THE COMPANY HAD ASSEMBLED, AND THE CONVERSATION, GUIDED +ROOM, AND LOOKED ROUND WITH A SMILE. SHE WAS, AS ALWAYS AT EVENING +ROOM AND WE SHALL HAVE TO GO DOWN, AND YOU HAVE NOT SMARTENED YOURSELF +ROOM BY WHICH DOLGORúKOV HAD ENTERED—A SHORT MAN IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES +ROOM, EXCLAIMING AND OH-ING AND AH-ING. +ROOM.... NICHOLAS HAD BEEN PREPARED FOR RESISTANCE, BUT HAD NOT AT ALL +ROOM, SOMETHING FLEW OUT FROM A SIDE DOOR LIKE A TORNADO AND BEGAN +ROOM. THE OLD COUNTESS, WAITING FOR THE RETURN OF HER HUSBAND AND SON, +ROOM. THE OLD MAN ALREADY KNEW EVERYTHING. HE WAS STANDING CLOSE TO +ROOM, THEY STILL HEARD THE LAUGHTER AND MERRY VOICES TRYING TO PERSUADE +ROOM WITH RAPID STEPS. NOW HE SEEMED TO SEE HER IN THE EARLY DAYS OF +ROSE IN ALARM ON SEEING IT. +“ROSTóV!” +ROSTóV. +ROSTóV. +ROSTóV. +ROSTóV AND DENíSOV DROVE AWAY WITH THE WOUNDED DóLOKHOV. +ROSTóV, AND DóLOKHOV—WHO WAS NOW AGAIN AN OFFICER IN THE SEMëNOV +ROSTóV AND HAD NOT RESPONDED TO HIS GREETING. WHEN THE EMPEROR’S +ROSTóV AND MOST OF THE OFFICERS AFTER THE REVIEW. +ROSTóV ANTICIPATED HIS HORSE’S MOVEMENTS AND BECAME MORE AND MORE +ROSTóV AS HE CONTINUED TO DEAL. +ROSTóV BECAME THOUGHTFUL. +ROSTóV CONSIDERED, AND THEN WENT IN THE DIRECTION WHERE THEY SAID HE +ROSTóV COULD ALREADY SEE THEIR FACES AND HEARD THE COMMAND: +ROSTóV DID NOT KNOW OR REMEMBER HOW HE RAN TO HIS PLACE AND MOUNTED. +ROSTóV DID NOT LISTEN TO THE SOLDIER. HE LOOKED AT THE SNOWFLAKES +ROSTóV FANCIED HE HAD SEEN BEFORE) RODE UP TO THE DITCH, STRUCK HIS +(ROSTóV FELT HIMSELF QUITE TINY AND WEAK COMPARED TO THESE GIGANTIC MEN +ROSTóV FELT ILL AT EASE. HE TRIED, BUT FAILED, TO FIND SOME JOKE WITH +ROSTóV FELT THAT, UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE WARM RAYS OF LOVE, THAT +ROSTóV, FLUSHING, DREW DóLOKHOV INTO THE NEXT ROOM. +ROSTóV FOLLOWED THEM. IN FRONT OF HIM WALKED KUTúZOV’S GROOM LEADING +ROSTóV FOR HIS FRIENDSHIP TO HER FéDYA, OFTEN TALKED TO HIM ABOUT HER +ROSTóV FROM A DISTANCE SAW WITH ENVY AND REMORSE HOW VON TOLL SPOKE +ROSTóV HAD BEEN ORDERED TO LOOK FOR KUTúZOV AND THE EMPEROR NEAR THE +ROSTóV HAD JUST PREPARED A CARD, BY BENDING THE CORNER OF WHICH HE +ROSTóV HIMSELF, HIS LEGS WELL BACK AND HIS STOMACH DRAWN IN AND FEELING +ROSTóV HURRIEDLY PUT SOMETHING ON HIS FEET, DREW ON HIS DRESSING GOWN, +ROSTóV LAUGHED SO LOUD AND MERRILY THAT DENíSOV, IN HIS BEDROOM, FELT +ROSTóV LEARNED LATER THAT RUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN SOLDIERS HAD BEEN FIRING +ROSTóV LET GO OF THE HORSE AND WAS ABOUT TO RIDE ON, WHEN A WOUNDED +ROSTóV LOOKED AT AND LISTENED LISTLESSLY TO WHAT PASSED BEFORE AND +ROSTóV MET SóNYA IN THE DRAWING ROOM, HE REDDENED. HE DID NOT KNOW +ROSTóV NOTICED SOMETHING NEW IN DóLOKHOV’S RELATIONS WITH SóNYA, +ROSTóV RECALLED AT THAT MOMENT A STRANGE CONVERSATION HE HAD ONCE HAD +ROSTóV RODE ON AT A FOOTPACE NOT KNOWING WHY OR TO WHOM HE WAS NOW +ROSTóV, RUBBING HIS EYES THAT SEEMED GLUED TOGETHER, RAISED HIS +ROSTóV SAW OVERHEAD THE OLD FAMILIAR CORNICE WITH A BIT OF PLASTER +ROSTóV SAW TEARS FILLING THE EMPEROR’S EYES AND HEARD HIM, AS HE WAS +ROSTóV SAW THAT IT HAD BEEN WELL CONSIDERED BY THEM. SóNYA HAD ALREADY +ROSTóV’S FACE. A GENTLE, MILD LIGHT POURED FROM THEM. THEN ALL AT +ROSTóV’S FEELING, THERE WAS A DEATHLY STILLNESS AMID WHICH WAS HEARD +ROSTóV’S HORSE WAS ALSO GETTING RESTIVE: IT PAWED THE FROZEN GROUND, +ROSTóV SMILED. +ROSTóV SMILINGLY REASSURED THE DRAGOON AND GAVE HIM MONEY. +ROSTóV SPURRED HIS HORSE, CALLED TO SERGEANT FéDCHENKO AND TWO OTHER +ROSTóV’S SHARE IN DóLOKHOV’S DUEL WITH BEZúKHOV WAS HUSHED UP BY +ROSTóV’S SOUL (IT SEEMED TO ROSTóV THAT HE UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING), +ROSTóV STAKED FIVE RUBLES ON A CARD AND LOST, STAKED AGAIN, AND AGAIN +ROSTóV, STANDING IN THE FRONT LINES OF KUTúZOV’S ARMY WHICH THE TSAR +ROSTóV, STILL LOOKING ROUND TOWARD THE FIRES AND THE SHOUTS, RODE WITH +ROSTóV STOPPED. +ROSTóV STOPPED HIS HORSE FOR A MOMENT ON A HILLOCK TO SEE WHAT WAS +ROSTóV SUBMITTED. HE LET THE EIGHT HUNDRED REMAIN AND LAID DOWN A SEVEN +ROSTóV TOO, BENDING OVER HIS SADDLE, SHOUTED “HURRAH!” WITH ALL HIS +ROSTóV TOOK THE LETTER AND, THROWING THE MONEY ON THE SOFA, PUT BOTH +ROSTóV TURNED HIS HORSE AND GALLOPED BACK. FOUR MORE REPORTS FOLLOWED +ROSTóV WAS NOT FAR FROM THE TRUMPETERS, AND WITH HIS KEEN SIGHT HAD +ROSTóV WAS VERY HAPPY IN THE LOVE THEY SHOWED HIM; BUT THE FIRST +ROSTóV WENT ON AHEAD TO DO WHAT WAS ASKED, AND TO HIS GREAT SURPRISE +ROSTóV, WHEN THEIR LEAVE PERMITS HAD BEEN PASSED AT THE TOWN GATE AND +ROSTóV, WHO HAD COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN DENíSOV, NOT WISHING ANYONE TO +ROSTóV, WHO HAD JUST CELEBRATED HIS PROMOTION TO A CORNETCY AND BOUGHT +ROSTóV WITH DóLOKHOV AND DENíSOV STAYED ON AT THE CLUB TILL LATE, +ROSY, WITH A DARK LITTLE MUSTACHE, EVIDENTLY RESTED AND MADE SLEEKER BY +ROUND AND GALLOPED BACK TO THE PLACE WHERE HE HAD SEEN THE EMPEROR, BUT +ROUND HER HEAD. +ROUND HIS SON’S NECK, AND WITHOUT A WORD HE BEGAN TO SOB LIKE A CHILD. +ROUND ONCE MORE. THE FRENCH HAD FALLEN BEHIND, AND JUST AS HE LOOKED +ROUND. PRINCE ANDREW AND THE BATTALION WERE ALREADY WITHIN TWENTY PACES +ROUND SHOULDERS SHUDDERED AS IF A COLD SHIVER HAD RUN DOWN THEM, HOW HIS +ROUND SóNYA AND NATáSHA AS THE AIR DOES BEFORE A THUNDERSTORM. SóNYA +ROUND THE COMPANY. HE NOTICED THE CHANGE IN THE LITTLE PRINCESS’ +ROUND THE FIRST MAN CHANGED HIS RUN TO A WALK AND, TURNING, SHOUTED +ROUND THE TABLE, THE CLATTER OF PLATES, KNIVES, AND GLASSES MINGLED WITH +ROUND WITH MUCH ANIMATION AND CHEERFULLY NODDED TO HIS SON AS THE LATTER +ROUSED BY ACTIVITY, EXPECTED THE BEST RESULTS FROM THE NEW CAMPAIGN, +ROUSED, HAD BEGUN TO TALK, AND WANTED TO EXPRESS WHAT HAD BROUGHT HIM TO +RUBBED HIS FOREHEAD AS IF TO RID HIMSELF OF ALL INTEREST IN WHAT HE +RUBLES AT A TIME, TO TALK ABOUT NOT WISHING TO CRINGE TO ANYBODY AND NOT +RUBLES I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH, AND SHE STANDS IN HER TATTERED +RUG AND BEGAN READING TO HIM FROM A MANUSCRIPT BOOK AN EXPLANATION OF +RUIN. WASN’T HE MY FRIEND? WASN’T I FOND OF HIM? BUT IT’S NOT HIS +RUMORED, THE ALLOWANCE OF FORAGE MONEY TO CAPTAINS OF COMPANIES WOULD BE +RUNNING. +RUNNING BESIDE TIMóKHIN, KILLED A FRENCHMAN AT CLOSE QUARTERS AND WAS +RUNNING? CAN THEY BE COMING AT ME? AND WHY? TO KILL ME? ME WHOM EVERYONE +RUSSIAN. +RUSSIAN AND THE AUSTRIAN. THE GUARDS, JUST ARRIVED FROM RUSSIA, SPENT +RUSSIAN ARMS. +RUSSIAN ARMY. AND I WON’T—NOT EVEN IF BONAPARTE WERE HERE AT +RUSSIAN ARMY! WELL, AS I WAS SAYING,” HE CONTINUED, RECOVERING HIS +RUSSIAN GENERAL. THE GENERAL SHOUTED A DEMAND THAT THE CAVALRY SHOULD BE + RUSSIANS! O’ER ALL BARRIERS ON! +RUSSIAN TROOPS MOVING DOWN THE VALLEY TO THEIR LEFT. +RUSSIAN VALOR—WHAT MORE COULD BE WISHED FOR?” +RUSSIA’S GLORY WERE LED TO DESTRUCTION. GO, PRINCESS MARY. GO AND TELL +SABER HAD TASTED FLESH AND HE HAD FALLEN EXHAUSTED, AND SO ON. AND SO HE +SABER, HE SANK ON THE SNOW BESIDE IT. HIS LEFT HAND WAS BLOODY; HE WIPED +SABER THEM... WHOM? THE HUSSARS... AH, THE HUSSARS WITH MUSTACHES. ALONG +SABRETACHE...”—“KEEP TO THE RIGHT, YOUR HONOR, THERE ARE BUSHES +SAD AND DEPRESSED. IT WAS ALL SO STRANGE, SO UNLIKE WHAT HE HAD HOPED. +SADDLE AND TOUCHED UP HIS HORSE TO RIDE ONCE MORE ROUND HIS HUSSARS. IT +SADDLE SORE WHICH, COMING AFTER ALL MY PREVIOUS JOURNEYS, QUITE PREVENTS +SAID. +SAID A GUNNER, COMING UP TO TúSHIN. +SAID ANOTHER. +SAID HE, BENDING DOWN A FINGER. +SAID HE, “BUT THE HEALTH OF OUR SOVEREIGN, THAT GOOD, ENCHANTING, AND +SAID HE, CARRYING AWAY INTO THE DARKNESS A GLOWING STICK. +SAID HER EYES. SHE WAS NOT SURPRISED AT HIS HAVING COME; SHE DID +SAID, HOLDING THE CASEMENT AND NOT CLOSING IT. “WITH LANTERNS. MOST +SAID, “HOW AM I TO STIFLE IN MY HEART THESE TEMPTATIONS OF THE DEVIL? +SAID IN A TONE OF INDIFFERENT POLITENESS: +SAID INQUIRINGLY. +SAID LITTLE IOGEL COMING UP TO NICHOLAS. “LOOK HOW MANY CHARMING YOUNG +SAID NOTHING TO BORíS AND, EVIDENTLY UNABLE TO SUPPRESS THE THOUGHTS +SAID, OF A WIFE WHO WAS A CELEBRATED BEAUTY AND OF MILLIONS OF MONEY. +SAID ONE OF THE NURSEMAIDS TO PRINCE ANDREW WHO WAS SITTING ON A +SAID PRINCE ANDREW WHEN THEY HAD GONE INTO THE LARGE ROOM WHERE THE +SAID REPNíN. +SAID SHE. +SAID THE COUNTESS, INDIGNANT THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE DARED TO TREAT THIS +SAID THE COUNTESS SMILING. +SAID THE OLD MAN, “SAY SO, MY DEAR SIR.” AND HE SUDDENLY SMILED, IN +SAID THE PRINCESS IN A TONE OF ENTREATY. +SAID THIS SOME TIME AFTER SHE HAD FINISHED SINGING. WHILE THAT UNTRAINED +SAID TO BE FLEEING IN GREAT DISORDER. MIND YOU GALLOP OFF TO KóRCHEVO +SAID, WITHOUT NOTICING NICHOLAS. +SAID WITHOUT SITTING DOWN. “A PERSON OF VERY HIGH STANDING IN OUR +SAINT, MY ANGEL,” SHE SAID WITH A SIGH. +SALUTING, AND THIS SOUND RAPIDLY CAME NEARER ALONG THE WHOLE EXTENDED +SALVER, GLANCED AROUND IN DISMAY, AS THOUGH SEEKING HELP. BUT ALL EYES +SAME AS USUAL,” AND PRINCESS MARY PALE, FRIGHTENED, AND WITH DOWNCAST +SAME COMMANDERS. THE SAILOR RARELY CARES TO KNOW THE LATITUDE IN WHICH +SAME.... IS EVERYTHING READY?” HE ADDED. “ONLY TELL ME WHERE TO GO +SAME MOMENT HIS KINDLY EYES GREW MOIST WITH TEARS OF JOY AND ENTHUSIASM. +SAME QUESTION. “WILL PAPA BE BACK SOON?” +SAME SERGEANT MAJOR IVáN MíTRICH, THE SAME COMPANY DOG JACK, AND THE +SAME SPEED, BUT THEY KEPT INCREASING THEIR PACE, SO THAT SOME OF THE +SAME TIME AT THE EMPEROR FRANCIS. +SAME TO ME!” HE SCREAMED IN THE SAME PIERCING TONE AS WHEN PARTING +SAME WAY. WHEN DID IT HAPPEN AND WHAT HAS HAPPENED? I AM WELL AND STRONG +SATCHELS, SABRETACHES, OPEN PORTMANTEAUS, AND DIRTY BOOTS. TWO FRESHLY +SAT DOWN AGAIN, SMILING AT THE NOISE THEY HAD MADE AND EXCHANGING +SAT DOWN LANGUIDLY ON THE SOFA: HE FELT IT UNPLEASANT TO HAVE DROPPED +SAT FACING BAGRATIóN AND, AS THE VERY PERSONIFICATION OF MOSCOW +SAT IN AN ARMCHAIR IN HER DRESSING JACKET AND NIGHTCAP AND KATIE, SLEEPY +SATISFIED WITH THE PARTY. SHE REPLIED IN HER USUAL SIMPLE MANNER THAT +SAT PLAYING PATIENCE WITH THE OLD GENTLEWOMAN WHO LIVED IN THEIR HOUSE. +SAVED. BUT HE SAW NOTHING. ABOVE HIM THERE WAS NOW NOTHING BUT THE +SAVE MYSELF?” HE THOUGHT. HE RODE ON TO THE REGION WHERE THE GREATEST +SAW A RATHER SHORT MAN. HAVING EVIDENTLY COME FROM THE LIGHT INTO THE +SAW THE BELOVED FEATURES THAT WERE SO DEEPLY ENGRAVED ON HIS MEMORY. THE +SAW THEM ALL AND SAW THEM IN DETAIL. SHE SAW PRINCE VASíLI’S FACE, +SAW WITH HIS OWN EYES BRICK BUILDINGS ERECTED OR IN COURSE OF ERECTION, +SAY (AS HE HAS DONE BEFORE) THAT I’M IN THE DUMPS.” +SAY I’LL HAVE HIS HEAD OFF IF EVERYTHING IS NOT HERE IN A WEEK. +SAYING AS HE MOVED FROM THE GUN, WHEN A STRANGE, UNFAMILIAR VOICE CALLED +SAYING. “I HAVE BEEN AN ATHEIST,” ANSWERED PIERRE. +SAYING IT RIGHT, I HAVE DRUNK A GOOD DEAL—BUT THAT IS HOW I FEEL, AND +SAYING.” PRINCE ANDREW LOOKED SILENTLY AT PIERRE WITH AN IRONIC SMILE. +SAYING THAT HE MUST PROSTRATE HIMSELF AT THE GATES OF THE TEMPLE. +SAYING THAT, ON THE CONTRARY, SHE REMEMBERED HIM QUITE WELL. THEN +SAY IT.” +SAY THAT IT IS DULL IN MY HOUSE AGAIN,” AND SHE GLANCED AT HéLèNE. +SAY TO THE ADJUTANT THAT BORíS FELT UNCOMFORTABLE. HE TURNED AWAY AND +SAY—“YES, MISFORTUNE! CALL IT WHAT YOU PLEASE, I KNOW THAT WHAT +SCHéRER. AT THE OTHER END SAT THE YOUNGER AND LESS IMPORTANT GUESTS, +SCHLAPPANITZ AND BELLOWITZ WHICH COVER THE ENEMY’S FRONT. FOR THIS +SCHLAPPANITZ AND THE THUERASSA FOREST, AVOIDING THE DEFILES OF +SCHöN GRABERN AFFAIR, JUST AS THOSE WHO HAVE TAKEN PART IN A BATTLE +SCHöN GRABERN—AND HE WOULD HAVE FOUND THAT EASIER. THE COMMITTEEMEN +SCHOOLS,” HE WENT ON, CROOKING A FINGER, “EDUCATION AND SO FORTH; +SCHOSS, AND HIS OLD NURSE, AND ASKED THEM TO KISS FOR HIM “DEAR +SCIENCE EXPLAINING THE WHOLE CREATION AND MAN’S PLACE IN IT. TO +“SCOUNDRELS! BLACKGUARDS!” SHRIEKED THE OLD MAN, TURNING HIS FACE +SCREWED UP HIS EYES AS IF DAZZLED BY THE SUN. HE WAS ENTIRELY ABSORBED +SCRUTINIZING ANATOLE CLOSELY AND INTENTLY. +SEATED THEM ON THE CENTER SOFA. THE BIGWIGS, THE MOST RESPECTED MEMBERS +SEATS IN THE DINING ROOM, ACCORDING TO THEIR RANK AND IMPORTANCE: THE +SECONDS HE STOOD NOT MOVING FROM THE SPOT OR REALIZING THE SITUATION. +SECOND TIME. BUT PIERRE WAS SO ABSORBED THAT HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT +SECRETARY RATHER THAN COMMANDER IN THE ARMY. MY REMOVAL FROM THE ARMY +SECRETLY REGRETTING THIS, SAW ONLY THE DARK SIDE. +SECRET MALEVOLENCE IN THEIR HEARTS. +SEDUCED, AND TO WHOM HER POOR MOTHER (SA PAUVRE MèRE) APPEARED, AND +“SEE, I’M STANDING! SEE!” SHE SAID, BUT COULD NOT MAINTAIN HERSELF +SEEING PRINCE ANDREW STOPPED, HESITATING ON THE THRESHOLD. HE WENT INTO +SEEING SOME MEN RUNNING TOWARD HIM. “THEY WILL HELP ME!” IN FRONT +SEEING THAT SMILE, ROSTóV INVOLUNTARILY SMILED HIMSELF AND FELT A STILL +SEEING THE FAVOR THE EMPEROR SHOWED THE PRISONERS, THEY NOW HASTENED TO +SEEING THE FRIGHT OF THAT SMALL AND FRAIL BUT PROUD MAN WHEN COVERED BY +SEEING THEM HE KEPT THINKING, “THAT MAY BE THE VERY STANDARD WITH +SEEK NOTHING, BE NOT ANXIOUS OR ENVIOUS. MAN’S FUTURE AND THY OWN FATE +SEEMED AS THOUGH NOT THE TRUMPETERS WERE PLAYING, BUT AS IF THE ARMY +SEEMED FAMILIAR TO PRINCESS MARY WAS SAYING SOMETHING. +SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE. “BUT PERHAPS THEY MAY DO IT!” FOR MORE THAN TEN +SEEMED LIKE A LIFELESS BODY, BUT AS SOON AS HE CAME UP IT BECAME ALIVE, +SEEMED TO ASK. SHE NOTICED AT ONCE THAT SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED TO HIM. +SEEMED TO GIVE WAY WITHIN HIM AT THIS NEWS. DóLOKHOV WAS A SUITABLE AND +SEEMED TO HAVE CHANGED ROLES SINCE THE CAMPAIGN OF 1805. THE OLD MAN, +SEEMED TO HER THAT SOMEONE WAS THERE STANDING BEHIND THE SCREEN IN THE +SEEMED TO HIM ALL THE INTERESTS THAT ENGROSSED NAPOLEON, SO MEAN DID HIS +SEEMED TO HIM AS THOUGH ONE OF THE SOLDIERS NEAR HIM HIT HIM ON THE HEAD +SEEMED TO HIM LIKE ANTS. IN THAT WORLD, THE HANDSOME DRUNKARD NUMBER ONE +SEEMED TO HIM THAT HE HAD EXPECTED ALL THIS AND EVEN MORE. TRYING +SEEMED TO HIM THAT IT WAS A VERY LONG TIME AGO, ALMOST A DAY, SINCE HE +SEEMED TO HIM THAT IT WAS GETTING LIGHTER. TO THE LEFT HE SAW A SLOPING +SEEMED TO SAY. SHE SAW HER HUSBAND, BUT DID NOT REALIZE THE SIGNIFICANCE +SEEMED TO SAY: “YES, THERE’S NOTHING LEFT FOR YOU AND ME BUT TO SIP +SEEMED TO SAY. “YOU HAD NOT NOTICED THAT I AM A WOMAN? YES, I AM A +SEEM TO HIM THAT EVERYONE IS AFRAID OF HIM, AND THAT MUST PLEASE HIM. +SEEN HIM IN PETERSBURG. I SAW HIM JUST AS I SEE YOU.... THERE HE SAT IN +SEEN THE DAY BEFORE IN THE ARMS OF HER NURSE’S DAUGHTER—AT HER +SEEN THE LIGHT, COME HERE? WHAT DO YOU SEEK FROM US? WISDOM, VIRTUE, +SEEN THROUGH. +SEEN YOU. VERY GLAD! GO BACK TO YOUR ROOMS, PRINCESS. GO!” SAID +SEE THE TRUE LIGHT, AND THAT HE, PIERRE, OUGHT TO AID, ENLIGHTEN, AND +SEE THOSE WHO, JUDGING BY THE SOUND OF HOOFS AND VOICES, HAD RIDDEN UP +SEE WHETHER HE CANNOT ATTACH YOU TO HIMSELF OR FIND A PLACE FOR YOU +SEE WHETHER THEY WERE GETTING UP. +SEIZED BY AN UNREASONING PANIC—IT OCCURRED TO HIM THAT THE CHILD WAS +SEIZED BY TERROR LEST HE HAD ALREADY, IN SOME WAY, BOUND HIMSELF TO DO +SEIZED HIM AT THE THOUGHT OF THAT DREADFUL STEP. A THOUSAND TIMES DURING +SEIZE SOME HORSECLOTHS, THOUGH HE HAD TOLD HIM THE RUSSIANS WERE THERE. +SEIZING HIS FATHER’S HAND, HE PRESSED IT TO HIS LIPS AND BURST INTO +SEIZING THE MOST OPPORTUNE MOMENT FOR MAKING USE OF PEOPLE. +SELF, AND SO BEFORE ONE CAN KNOW, IT IS NECESSARY TO BELIEVE AND TO +SELF-COMPLACENCY THAN HIS DID.) “WELL, HE STORMED AT ME, AS THE SAYING +SELF-COMPLACENT HAPPINESS THAT ONE SEES ON THE FACE OF A BOY HAPPILY +SELF-CONFIDENT. +SELF-DERISION GENUINELY RUSSIAN. BILíBIN WROTE THAT THE OBLIGATION OF +SELF-POSSESSION. IF A MAN LACKING IN SELF-CONFIDENCE REMAINS DUMB ON +SELF-POSSESSION MINGLED AT THAT MOMENT IN ROSTóV’S SOUL. +SELF-RESPECT, BUT ADMIT THAT THE TIME AND PLACE ARE VERY BADLY CHOSEN. +“SELL US THAT HORSE!” DENíSOV CALLED OUT TO THE COSSACKS. +SEMI-PRIVATE, LONG-ESTABLISHED JOKES AND AMUSING REMINISCENCES, THOUGH +SEND HIS ORDERLY STAFF OFFICER, AND LATER PRINCE ANDREW ALSO, TO ORDER +SENSATION OF THOSE TERRIBLE WHISTLING SOUNDS AND OF THE CORPSES AROUND +SENSELESS CRY, “CUT OFF!” THAT IS SO TERRIBLE IN BATTLE, AND THAT +SENSE OF AWE AND VENERATION SUCH AS HE HAD EXPERIENCED IN HIS BOYHOOD AT +SENT AN OFFICIAL TO AUSTRIA TO SEEK FOR TRACES OF HIS SON, HE ORDERED A +SENT DóLOKHOV THE WHOLE FORTY-THREE THOUSAND RUBLES AND RECEIVED HIS +“SEPARATE? VERY WELL, BUT ONLY IF YOU GIVE ME A FORTUNE,” SAID +SEPARATING THE LIVING FROM THE DEAD—LAY BETWEEN THEM. ALL WERE +‘SERGéY’ HE SOBBED, ‘KUZ-Mí-CH,’ TEARS, AND ‘FROM ALL +“SERGéY KUZMíCH—FROM ALL SIDES—” HE SAID, UNBUTTONING THE TOP +SERGéY KUZMíCH...’ POOR VYAZMíTINOV COULD NOT GET ANY FARTHER! +SERIOUS DUEL, AND BESIDES, DRUBETSKóY, WHO SAYS HE IS AN OLD FRIEND +SERIOUS EXPRESSION. BUT THE AUTHOR HIMSELF TOOK THE VERSES AND BEGAN +SERIOUS FOR AN INSTANT AT THE SIGHT OF HER, BUT IMMEDIATELY SMILING +SERVANT. +SERVED UP WAS RECEIVED WITH PLEASURE BY ALL HER VISITORS. THE GREATEST +SERVICE.” +SERVICE, AND HE AT ONCE UNDERSTOOD HIS ROLE, LETTING HIS HOSTESS MAKE +SERVICE IS TO SERVE UNDER HIM.” +SERVICE,” SAID THE PRINCE DISDAINFULLY. “WHY HIS SON IS COMING I +SERVICE TO PLACE HIMSELF VERY ADVANTAGEOUSLY. HE WAS AIDE-DE-CAMP TO A +SERVING AS A PRIVATE. BUT THE COMMAND OF THE EXTREME LEFT FLANK HAD BEEN +SET FIRE TO THE SCHöN GRABERN VILLAGE, DELAYED THE FRENCH ADVANCE. THE +SETTING FIRE TO SCHöN GRABERN. +SETTLED. HE CAME BECAUSE OF SóNYA. AND SóNYA, THOUGH SHE WOULD NEVER +SEVEN HE NEEDED WAS LYING UPPERMOST, THE FIRST CARD IN THE PACK. HE HAD +SEVENTEEN OF THE FORTY MEN OF THE GUNS’ CREWS HAD BEEN DISABLED, BUT +SEVEN VIRTUES, CORRESPONDING TO THE SEVEN STEPS OF SOLOMON’S TEMPLE, +SEVERAL DEAD MEN. ONE BALL AFTER ANOTHER PASSED OVER AS HE APPROACHED +SEVERAL OF THEM WERE NOT SEPARATED FROM ONE ANOTHER BUT MERGED INTO A +SEVERAL OF THOSE PRESENT SMILED AT ZHERKóV’S WORDS, EXPECTING ONE OF +SEVERAL PERSONS WHOM HE DID NOT KNOW, GIVING HIM A WHISPERED DESCRIPTION +SEVERAL SOLDIERS FELL. +SEVERAL SOLDIERS FELL, AND A SECOND LIEUTENANT WHO WAS HOLDING THE +SEVERAL THOUSAND RUBLES. +SEVERAL THOUSAND RUBLES QUITRENT RECEIVED FROM PIERRE’S PEASANTS, +SEVERAL TIMES IN THE COURSE OF THE MORNING PRINCESS MARY BEGAN TRYING TO +SEVERAL WOUNDED MEN PASSED ALONG THE ROAD, AND WORDS OF ABUSE, SCREAMS, +SEVERE GAZE STRAIGHT ON PIERRE’S FACE. +SEVERITY CHANGED, AND HE DREW PIERRE’S HAND DOWNWARDS, MADE HIM SIT +SHALL NOT AGREE WITH YOU, AND YOU DO NOT REALLY BELIEVE WHAT YOU ARE +SHALL THINK NOTHING OF AN EXTRA SEVENTY MILES TO COME AND SEE YOU AT +“SHALL WE HAVE THREE COLD DISHES THEN?” ASKED THE COOK. +“SHALL YOU WRITE TO HIM?” SHE ASKED. +SHAME AND ANGER CHOKING HIM, HAD ALREADY LEAPT FROM HIS HORSE AND RUN TO +SHAMELESS, AND HE IGNORES HER!” +SHARPSHOOTERS IN FRONT OF OUR COLUMNS. THE COLONEL AT THE HEAD OF THE +SHARPSHOOTERS SHOWED THEMSELVES IN THE COPSE. IT WAS TIMóKHIN’S +SHE ALREADY HAD POWER OVER HIM, AND BETWEEN THEM THERE WAS NO LONGER ANY +SHE ALWAYS ADDRESSED HIM WITH A RADIANTLY CONFIDING SMILE MEANT FOR HIM +SHE APPROACHED HIM, SAW HIS FACE, AND SOMETHING GAVE WAY WITHIN HER. HER +SHE BEGAN TO TELL OF HOW AT POTSDAM THE IMPIOUS BONAPARTE HAD STOLEN THE +SHE CONSIDERED THE RESONANCE WAS BEST. +SHE CONTINUED, UNITING THEM BOTH IN ONE GLANCE. PIERRE DID NOT LOOK AT +SHE COULD NOT LIE EITHER ON HER FACE OR ON HER SIDE. EVERY POSITION WAS +SHE DREW NEARER TO HIM. HER FACE FLUSHED. +SHE FELT ANY SYMPTOMS OF PREGNANCY. SHE LAUGHED CONTEMPTUOUSLY AND SAID +SHE FORGOT ALL FEAR OF HER FATHER, WENT UP TO HIM, TOOK HIS HAND, AND +(SHE GLANCED AT HéLèNE AND SMILED AT HER.) “MY DEAR HéLèNE, BE +SHE HAD DETERMINED NOT TO TELL HER AND PERSUADED HER FATHER TO HIDE THE +SHE HAD SACRIFICED SO MUCH. SHE COULD NOT REFRAIN FROM WEEPING AT THESE +SHE HAD SELDOM EXPERIENCED, CAME UPON HER. SHE FEARED TO LOOK ROUND, IT +“SHE IS NOT VERY WELL,” ANSWERED MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE WITH +SHE KNEW OF THE DUEL AND HAD COME TO SPEAK ABOUT IT. SHE WAITED TILL THE +SHE KNEW SO WELL), ON THE LOCK OF GRAY HAIR THAT ESCAPED FROM UNDER THE +SHE LOOKED AT HIM INQUIRINGLY AND WITH CHILDLIKE REPROACH. +SHE MUST LOVE HIM IF SHE COULD SO FAR FORGET HERSELF! PERHAPS I MIGHT +SHE NOT ONLY LEFT HER HAIR AS IT WAS, BUT DID NOT EVEN LOOK IN HER +SHE OUGHT TO BEHAVE LIKE MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, BUT COULD NOT. +SHE PAUSED, AS WOMEN ALWAYS DO, EXPECTING SOMETHING AFTER THEY HAVE +SHE PULLED UP HER MUSLIN SLEEVE AND SHOWED HIM A RED SCAR ON HER LONG, +SHE RANG FOR HER MAID AND ASKED HER TO SLEEP IN HER ROOM. +SHE ROUSED HERSELF, AND FELT APPALLED AT WHAT SHE HAD BEEN THINKING, AND +SHE RUSHED TO SóNYA, HUGGED HER, AND BEGAN TO CRY. +SHE SEEMED TO PROMISE TO EXPLAIN THAT NECESSITY TO HIM WHEN HE CAME ON +SHE SUDDENLY CAME INTO HIS MIND AS SHE WAS AT THE MOMENTS WHEN HE HAD +SHE THOUGHT: “IF I SEEM NOT TO NOTICE HE WILL THINK THAT I DO NOT +SHE TOOK THE LIBERTY OF INQUIRING WHETHER IT WAS LONG SINCE ANATOLE +SHE TURNED TO HIS FATHER. THE CONVERSATION WAS GENERAL AND ANIMATED, +SHE USED TO HAVE QUARRELS WITH THE TOO INDULGENT COUNT, THAT SON WHO +SHE WAS MUCH ALTERED. SHE WAS NOW PLAIN RATHER THAN PRETTY. HER CHEEKS +SHE WAS, NATáSHA, WHO KNEW HOW SENSITIVE HER MOTHER WAS TO ANYTHING +SHE WAS NO LONGER IN THE LOOSE GOWN SHE GENERALLY WORE IN THE MORNING, +SHE WAS NOT A FOOL TO WANT TO HAVE CHILDREN, AND THAT SHE WAS NOT GOING +SHE WAS NOW SAYING SHE HAD TALKED OF BEFORE, WITH TEARS. +SHE WISHED TO AND ONLY REFRAINED OUT OF REGARD FOR HIS MODESTY. +SHE WOULD SAY. WHAT COULD ALL THAT MATTER IN COMPARISON WITH THE WILL OF +SHINING EYES, NOT INTERRUPTING OR QUESTIONING HIM, BUT BELIEVING WITH +SHONE WITH SUCH GAIETY AND YOUTH, SUCH INNOCENT YOUTH, THAT IT SUGGESTED +SHOPS, BAKERS’ SIGNBOARDS, STREET LAMPS, AND SLEIGHS!” THOUGHT +SHORTLY AFTER NINE O’CLOCK THAT EVENING, WEYROTHER DROVE WITH HIS +SHORTSIGHTED DELIGHT AT THE MISERY OF OTHERS, AND DOUBTS AND TORMENTS +SHOTS CAME. +SHOULD ALREADY HAVE SUGGESTED TO YOUR HEART, IF IT IS SINCERE, MORE THAN +SHOULD BE A NICE SET OF FELLOWS IF WE WERE TO WAIT ABOUT AND SO GIVE HIM +SHOULD BE GLAD AND NOT CRY.” +SHOULD BE IF I COULD NOW SAY: ‘LORD, HAVE MERCY ON ME!’... BUT TO +SHOULDER AND LEFT THE ROOM WITHOUT SNUFFING THE CANDLES OR SAYING WHY HE +SHOULDERS CLOSE TO HIS EYES. +SHOULD MUCH LIKE TO BE AN ADJUTANT AND NOT REMAIN AT THE FRONT.” +SHOULD NOW BE AWAY IN A FOREIGN LAND AMID STRANGE SURROUNDINGS, A MANLY +“SHOULDN’T WE NOW SEND FOR BERG?” ASKED BORíS. “HE WOULD DRINK +SHOULD ONE LOVE AND WHAT HATE? WHAT DOES ONE LIVE FOR? AND WHAT AM I? +SHOUTED HOARSELY. +SHOUTED “HURRAH!” IN EXACTLY THE SAME VOICE IN WHICH HE HAD SHOUTED +SHOUTING. +SHOUTING CAME FROM, A FIRE FLARED UP AND WENT OUT AGAIN, THEN ANOTHER, +SHOUTING GREW LOUDER AND LOUDER. ROSTóV COULD HEAR THE SOUND OF FRENCH +SHOUTS OF HURRAH, AND SAW WOUNDED BEING BROUGHT BACK (THERE WERE NOT +SHOUTS OF THOUSANDS OF VOICES. HIS HORSE AND THE HORSE OF THE HUSSAR +SHOWED HOW HE PRESENTED HIMSELF, WITH HIS HAND TO HIS CAP, AND REALLY +SHOWING THE NECESSITY OF FIRST PAYING OFF THE LOANS FROM THE LAND BANK, +SHOWING UNDER HIS OPEN SHIRT, HE STOOD IN A MAJESTIC POSE IN THE LIGHT +SHOWN, FIRED. NOT AT ALL EXPECTING SO LOUD A REPORT, PIERRE SHUDDERED +SHOWN TO THE BEST ROOM, WHICH DóLOKHOV HAD TAKEN FOR THAT EVENING. SOME +“SHUT UP!” +SIDE AND AT FIRST DID NOT PLAY. DóLOKHOV KEPT GLANCING AT HIM. +SIDE AND LOOKED ROUND WITH A FROWN. ALONG THE ROAD FROM PRATZEN GALLOPED +SIDE AS HER BETROTHED, SEEING, HEARING, FEELING HER NEARNESS, HER +SIDE BY SIDE. PRINCE VASíLI WAS NOT HAVING ANY SUPPER: HE WENT ROUND +SIDES. HE ACKNOWLEDGED NO ACQUAINTANCES BUT SAW IN ALL THESE MEN ONLY +SIDE, SO CLOSE TO OUR OWN FORCES THAT NAPOLEON WITH THE NAKED EYE COULD +SIDES’ WAS SMOTHERED IN SOBS AND HE COULD GET NO FARTHER. AND AGAIN +SIDEWAYS AT PRINCESS MARY FROM A LITTLE DISTANCE. “YOU HAVE A MAROON +“SIDEWAYS! COVER YOURSELF WITH YOUR PISTOL!” EJACULATED NESVíTSKI. +SIGHT OF HIS SUPERIORS, HE DID NOT NOTICE THE STAFF OF THE BANNER AND +SIGN. +SIGNIFICANT COMMAND TO COME TO HER ON TUESDAY. +SIGN PAPERS, TO PRESENT HIMSELF AT GOVERNMENT OFFICES, THE PURPOSE OF +SILENCE. +SILENCE AS HE LEFT THE DRAWING ROOM. HE PICTURED THE VANITY OF HIS +SILENTLY—FEARING TO SPEAK BECAUSE AT EVERY WORD HE FELT READY TO +SILENT, “THAT SóNYA AND NICHOLAS NOW SAY YOU TO ONE ANOTHER AND MEET +SILENT, WAITING FOR WHAT HE WOULD SAY. +SILVER AND CRYSTAL GLEAMED, SO DID THE LADIES’ TOILETS AND THE GOLD +SIMPLY DRESSED HAIR (TWO IMMENSE PLAITS TWICE ROUND HER LOVELY HEAD LIKE +SIMULTANEOUSLY ATTACKED AND OUTFLANKED BY SUPERIOR FRENCH FORCES UNDER +“SINCE PRINCE BAGRATIóN IS NOT COMING, WE MAY BEGIN,” SAID +“SINCE THE DAY OF OUR BRILLIANT SUCCESS AT AUSTERLITZ,” WROTE +SINCE THE NURSING MOTHERS WERE NO LONGER SENT TO WORK ON HIS LAND, THEY +SINCE THE TIME WHEN HE THOUGHT HIS SON HAD BEEN KILLED, HE DID NOT THINK +SINGER” (HE MEANT NATáSHA’S ITALIAN SINGING MASTER), “THAT’S +SIR!” +SIRE,” * HE ANSWERED GAILY, RAISING NEVERTHELESS IRONIC SMILES AMONG +SISTER, BLACK EYES... NA... TASHA... (WON’T SHE BE SURPRISED WHEN +SISTER HAD HUNG ROUND HIS NECK WITH SUCH EMOTION AND REVERENCE, “IT +SISTER-IN-LAW’S DRESS. +SISTER. “WHY ISN’T SHE DULL AND ASHAMED?” +SITTING AT TEA WITH BILíBIN. “THE FETE IS FOR TOMORROW. HOW IS YOUR +SITTING MOTIONLESS BEFORE THE GLASS, LOOKING AT HER FACE, AND SAW IN THE +SITTING ON THE SOFA WITH THE LITTLE CUSHIONS ON ITS ARMS, IN WHAT USED +SITUATED,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. +“SIX HUNDRED RUBLES, ACE, A CORNER, A NINE... WINNING IT BACK’S +SIX MILES AWAY, OR WHETHER THEY WERE NEAR BY IN THAT SEA OF MIST, NO ONE +SIX WEEKS AFTER ANNA PáVLOVNA’S “AT HOME” AND AFTER THE SLEEPLESS +SIX WEEKS LATER HE WAS MARRIED, AND SETTLED IN COUNT BEZúKHOV’S +SKILLFULLY CHANGED THE SUBJECT. HE ASKED HIM TO TELL THEM HOW AND WHERE +SKILLFULLY MADE WATCH, DARES TO SAY THAT, AS HE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND +SKY—THE LOFTY SKY, NOT CLEAR YET STILL IMMEASURABLY LOFTY, WITH GRAY +SKY WITH CLOUDS THAT HAD RISEN AND WERE FLOATING STILL HIGHER, AND +SLEEPINESS THAT KEPT COMING OVER HIM. AN ENORMOUS SPACE, WITH OUR +SLEEVE WITH HER FINGER, SAYING: +SLEIGH AND PAIR AT ONCE, AND GO TO BEZúKHOV’S, AND TELL HIM ‘COUNT +SLENDER, DELICATE ARM, HIGH ABOVE THE ELBOW ON THAT PART THAT IS COVERED +SLIPPERY ICE THAT COVERED THE MILLPOOL. +SLOPE OF THE HILL AMID THE SMOKE A RUSSIAN BATTERY THAT WAS STILL FIRING +“SMACK AT ‘EM, LADS!” HE KEPT SAYING, SEIZING THE GUNS BY THE +SMALL CLOUD ROSE FROM THE HILL AND WAS BORNE IN A STREAK TO THE LEFT BY +SMASHED, AND THE SHOUTING GREW LOUDER. THEY DRANK TO BEKLESHëV, +SMILE. +SMILE. +SMILE. +SMILE, FOR WHICH HE WAS LONG UNABLE TO FORGIVE HIMSELF, “I HAVE LOST A +SMILE OF A DOCTOR TO WHOM AN OLD WIFE WISHES TO EXPLAIN THE TREATMENT OF +SMILE OF HIS WHICH SEEMED TO SAY, “AH! THIS IS WHAT I LIKE!” +SMILE ON HIS LIPS AND FACE, BUT HIS EYES WERE DULL AND LIFELESS AND IN +SMILE THAT USUALLY BRIGHTENED HER FACE. PIERRE KNEW THAT EVERYONE WAS +SMILING AS IF SHE DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM. +SMILING FACE, MOVED AFTER WILLARSKI WITH UNCERTAIN, TIMID STEPS. +SMILING, GLITTERED WITH EFFORT AND EXASPERATION AS HE MUSTERED HIS +SMILINGLY RAISING A FINGER AT HIM, SHE LEFT THE ROOM. +SMOKE ENVELOPED EVERYTHING. +SMOKE, RENDERED DENSER BY THE MIST, PREVENTED HIM FROM SEEING ANYTHING +SMOLéNSK THREATENING BALD HILLS—EVEN THEN I WOULDN’T SERVE IN THE +SMOLYANíNOV, AND IT MORTIFIED HIM TO THINK THAT THE NEWCOMER WAS AN +SMOOTH—FELT THAT NO SMALL MATTER WAS HAPPENING, BUT AN IMPORTANT AND +SNOW-COVERED ROAD, DID NOT ONCE WAKE UP ON THE WAY TO MOSCOW, BUT LAY +SNUFFBOX WHILE TRYING TO HEAR WHAT WAS BEING SAID AT THE OTHER TABLE. +SO ALIEN TO US. +SOBBING LIKE A CHILD. THE DOOR OPENED. THE DOCTOR WITH HIS SHIRT SLEEVES +SOBS. THE COUNT WAS LIGHTING HIS PIPE AND DID NOT NOTICE HIS SON’S +SO-CALLED BATTLE OF THE THREE EMPERORS—THAT IS TO SAY, A SLOW MOVEMENT +SOCIETY. +SOCIETY. BESIDE HIM STOOD A LAD OF NINETEEN, ALSO A WOUNDED OFFICER OF +SOCIETY HAD ENTERED THE SIMPLE FEELING OF THE ATTRACTION OF A HEALTHY +SOCIETY OF WOMEN WAS RATHER DEROGATORY TO HIS MANHOOD. HE WENT TO BALLS +SOCIETY SO DEARLY AND DISTINCTLY INDICATED. +SO COMPLETELY SILENCED AND THEIR ARGUMENTS CONFUTED BY SUCH CONCLUSIVE +SO CONTRARY TO HIS METHOD OF CONDUCTING WAR? BELIEVE ME, HE IS AFRAID, +SO DO YOU TOO! TO THE HEALTH OF ALEXANDER THE FIRST! HURRAH!” +SO EASILY EXTRACT A GOOD PROFIT FOR THEMSELVES FROM A DINNER COSTING +SO ENERGETICALLY DO WE PURSUE THIS AIM THAT AFTER CROSSING AN UNFORDABLE +SOFT HAND TAKING HERS FIRMLY, AND SHE TOUCHED WITH HER LIPS A WHITE +SOFT SNOWBANKS THAT BORDERED BOTH SIDES OF THE PATH. THE PRINCE WENT +SO HE WENT FROM ONE GROUP TO ANOTHER. SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT OLD MEN +“SO I CAN FIRE WHEN I LIKE!” SAID PIERRE, AND AT THE WORD +SOIREES AS BEFORE—SUCH AS SHE ALONE HAD THE GIFT OF ARRANGING—AT +“SO IT IS ALL FINISHED!” HE THOUGHT. “AND HOW HAS IT ALL HAPPENED? +“SO IT IS USELESS TO ASK WHETHER IT IS GOOD OR BAD. IT IS GOOD BECAUSE +“SO IT SEEMS YOU’RE A HERO, EH? COME NOW, WHAT WAS THIS DUEL ABOUT? +SOKóLNIKI AFTER THE DUEL AND HAD SPENT THAT FIRST AGONIZING, SLEEPLESS +SOKóLNIKI FOREST AND FOUND DóLOKHOV, DENíSOV, AND ROSTóV ALREADY +SOKOLNITZ, NOVEMBER 30, 1805.” +SOLDIER. +SOLDIER AT THE FRONT, GAVE THE COMMAND “ATTENTION!” AND RODE UP +SOLDIER, MIMICKING THE GENERAL WHO HAD RIDDEN AWAY. “I’D SHOOT THEM, +SOLDIERS’ BONFIRES AND WITH HIS LONG GRAY MUSTACHE, HIS WHITE CHEST +SOLDIERS HAD KINDLED ON THE ROAD. ROSTóV, TOO, DRAGGED HIMSELF TO THE +SOLDIER SHOUTED TO HIM. “THEY’D KILL YOU THERE!” +SOLDIERS, LOUDLY DEMANDING BREAD, MEAT, BISCUITS, FODDER, AND WHATNOT! +SOLDIERS, MUNCHING BISCUIT AND BEATING A TATTOO WITH THEIR FEET TO +SOLDIERS, OFFICERS, AND GENERALS WERE HEROES. BUT THE HERO OF HEROES WAS +SOLDIERS ONLY NEED TO BE RESTRAINED AND HELD BACK! ON ALL SIDES, NEW AND +SOLDIERS RAN FROM THE FIRES, THRUST THEIR PIPES INTO THEIR BOOTS, THEIR +SOLDIERS RUNNING IN CONFUSED CROWDS ACROSS HIS PATH. +SOLDIERS, STRAINING THEIR LUNGS, SHOUTED “HURRAH!” +SOLDIERS! THE RUSSIAN ARMY IS ADVANCING AGAINST YOU TO AVENGE THE +SOLDIERS WHO WERE SEIZING THE ARTILLERY HORSES AND TURNING THE GUNS +SOLDIER WITH THE HARSH VOICE, AND IT WAS THAT AFFAIR AND THIS SOLDIER +SOLEMN AFFAIR. EVERY GENERAL AND EVERY SOLDIER WAS CONSCIOUS OF HIS OWN +SO LONG,” HE ADDED. +SO LONG WAITED, PRESENTS ITSELF TO HIM AT LAST. HE FIRMLY AND CLEARLY +SO MANY YEARS MORAVIANS IN SHAGGY CAPS AND BLUE JACKETS HAD PEACEFULLY +SOME!” +SOME APPROACHING ACHIEVEMENT, AND SOME IN COURSE OF DISINTEGRATION. HE +SOME CONCESSIONS. CONTINUING TO REPRESENT THE LIBERATION OF THE SERFS +SOME GREAT CHANGE HAD COME OVER HIM THAT DAY. HE WAS SILENT ALL THROUGH +SOME NOT. THIS WHOLE MASS DRONED AND JOSTLED IN CONFUSION UNDER THE +SOME OF THE NEAREST RELATIVES HAD NOT YET LEFT. THEY WERE SITTING IN +SOME OF THE TOPICS AT FIRST LIGHTLY TOUCHED ON: THEIR PAST LIFE, PLANS +SOMEONE MENTIONED THAT CAPTAIN TúSHIN WAS BIVOUACKING CLOSE TO THE +SOMEONE. (PRINCE BAGRATIóN DID NOT ASK ABOUT THE GUNS ON THE LEFT +SOME QUESTION—“MOST LIKELY HE IS ASKING AT WHAT O’CLOCK THEY +SOME REASON SHE CALLED IT UROPE AS IF THAT WERE A SPECIALLY REFINED +SOME SORT WERE MOVING ABOUT, IN FRONT AND BEHIND MOVED LINES OF TROOPS; +SOME SWARTHY MEN AND WOMEN WERE REALLY ENTERING FROM THE COLD OUTSIDE +SOMETHING.” +SOMETHING AND WENT AWAY. IT SEEMED TO PIERRE THAT EVEN THE PRINCE WAS +SOMETHING, BUT DARED NOT.... NO, IT WAS I WHO DARED NOT. BUT THAT’S +SOMETHING I CANNOT INFLICT ON OTHERS,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, GROWING +SOMETHING I HAVE RECEIVED FROM THE CHANCELLOR. I ASKED HIM FOR YOU, AND +SOMETHING LARGE, BRILLIANT, AND HANDSOME MOVING TOWARD HER AS SHE +SOMETHING LOUDLY TO A COMRADE FARTHER BACK. ROSTóV PAUSED. “NO, +“SOMETHING SPECIAL IS ALWAYS SAID IN SUCH CASES,” HE THOUGHT, BUT +SOMETHING TERRIBLE AND MONSTROUS RISING IN HIS SOUL AND TURNED QUICKLY +SOMETHING THAT WAS EVIDENTLY WRONG AND THAT HE OUGHT NOT TO DO. BUT AT +SOMETHING TO HIM IN FRENCH IN AN UNDERTONE AND THEN WENT UP TO A SMALL +SOMETHING TOWARD IT AND YOU CANNOT PERSUADE ME THAT IT WAS NOT A GOOD +SOME TIME TO GET THE WEDDING RING OFF HIS FAT FINGER. WHEN THAT HAD BEEN +SOME WAY AND KNOWING THAT THIS WAS IMPOSSIBLE WAS READY TO CRY. THE TSAR +SOMEWHERE NEARER THE SUN.” +SOMEWHERE UNDER HER HEART WOULD EVER CRY, SUCK HER BREAST, AND BEGIN TO +SOME WOODED HILLS WERE DISCERNIBLE, AND IT WAS THERE THE ENEMY PROBABLY +“SO MUCH THE BETTER! I SHALL SEE IT CLOSE,” HE THOUGHT. +SO MY CONSCIENCE WAS AT EASE. I CAME FORWARD....” (BERG STOOD UP AND +SON. +SON. +SON OR KINSMAN.” +SóNYA AGAIN INTERRUPTED. SHE GAVE HIM AN IMPLORING, FRIGHTENED LOOK. +SóNYA AND DóLOKHOV BEFORE DINNER, AND WITH THE KINDLY SENSITIVENESS +SóNYA BECAME THOUGHTFUL. THE QUESTION OF HOW TO WRITE TO NICHOLAS, AND +SóNYA INTERRUPTED HIM. +SóNYA, NATáSHA, PéTYA, ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, VéRA, AND THE OLD COUNT +SóNYA’S JOINT AGES. ROSTóV, LEANING HIS HEAD ON BOTH HANDS, SAT AT +SóNYA SMILED. +SóNYA SMILED. +SóNYA’S REFUSAL AND FELT UNCOMFORTABLE AT THE THOUGHT OF HOW THEY +SóNYA’S THIN LITTLE SHOULDERS, NATáSHA’S EYES AND LAUGHTER, +SóNYA STRUCK THE FIRST CHORD OF THE PRELUDE. +SóNYA TOO, ALL ROSY RED, CLUNG TO HIS ARM AND, RADIANT WITH BLISS, +SóNYA WAS MORE TENDER AND DEVOTED TO HIM THAN EVER. IT WAS AS IF SHE +SóNYA WAS SITTING AT THE CLAVICHORD, PLAYING THE PRELUDE TO +SóNYA, WHOM HE LOVED AND THOUGHT OF JUST THE SAME AS EVER.” WHEN SHE +SOON AFTER HIS ADMISSION TO THE MASONIC BROTHERHOOD, PIERRE WENT TO THE +SOON AFTER PRINCE ANDREW’S RETURN THE OLD PRINCE MADE OVER TO HIM A +SOON AFTER PRINCE BAGRATIóN HAD LEFT HIM, TúSHIN HAD SUCCEEDED IN +SOON AFTER THIS THERE CAME INTO THE DARK CHAMBER TO FETCH PIERRE, NOT +SOONER OR LATER HE WOULD STEP ACROSS IT, BUT AN INCOMPREHENSIBLE TERROR +SO ON. THEN A PLACE WAS ASSIGNED TO PIERRE, HE WAS SHOWN THE SIGNS OF +“SOPHIE,” HE BEGAN, TIMIDLY AT FIRST AND THEN MORE AND MORE +SO RAPID THAT THEY COULD HARDLY BE HIS MOTHER’S. +SORROW, SADNESS, OR SELF-REPROACH, THAT SHE PURPOSELY DECEIVED HERSELF +SORTS, AND RUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN SOLDIERS OF ALL ARMS, SOME WOUNDED AND +SO SOFTLY THAT THE RHETOR DID NOT HEAR HIM AND ASKED HIM WHAT HE WAS +SO STRANGE THAT ONE COULD NOT TAKE IT IN. BUT THEN THE EXPRESSION OF +SO STRONG THAT HE COULD LIFT THE BACK OF THE CARRIAGE FROM BEHIND, SAT +SO TERRIBLE TO THE SOLDIERS, DESPITE HIS FURIOUS PURPLE COUNTENANCE +“SO THAT’S WHAT I’M SORRY FOR—HUMAN DIGNITY, PEACE OF MIND, +SO THAT THE MAID COULD HARDLY GET HER HAIR PLAITED, AND SHE WAS +“SO THE ATTACK IS DEFINITELY RESOLVED ON?” ASKED BOLKóNSKI. +“SO THERE’S NOTHING?” +SOUL AND HIS FACE. +SOUL: COURAGE, GENEROSITY, MORALITY, LOVE OF MANKIND, AND ESPECIALLY +SOUL TO BELIEVE AND HE DID BELIEVE, AND FELT A JOYFUL SENSE OF COMFORT, +SOUNDED FAR AWAY. HERE EVERYONE CLEARLY SAW AND SAID THAT THE BATTLE +SOUNDED. SEVERAL OF OUR MEN FELL, AMONG THEM THE ROUND-FACED OFFICER +SOUNDING, EVEN THE CONNOISSEURS SAID NOTHING, BUT ONLY DELIGHTED IN +SOUND OF ARTILLERY FIRE NEAR BY. HAVING FORCED HIS WAY OUT OF THE CROWD +SOUND OF THE HOOFS OF THE APPROACHING CAVALCADE, BUT BECAUSE AS HE DREW +SOUND OF WHEELS AND FOOTSTEPS HEARD BY THE OUTPOSTS DURING THE NIGHT, +SOUNT ZE RETREAT!” +“SO WE ARE TO HAVE VISITORS, MON PRINCE?” REMARKED MADEMOISELLE +SO WELL HOW TO ARRANGE A FEAST ON AN OPEN-HANDED, HOSPITABLE SCALE, +“SO YOU ARE NOT AFRAID TO PLAY WITH ME?” REPEATED DóLOKHOV, AND AS +“SO YOU ARE STILL AT THAT SILLY BUSINESS!” QUICKLY CLOSED HIS EYE +“SO YOU HAVE NEVER NOTICED BEFORE HOW BEAUTIFUL I AM?” HéLèNE +“SO YOU THINK HE IS POWERLESS?” SAID LANGERON. +SPEAK—HE TURNED BACK, RAPIDLY MOUNTED THE STAIRS AGAIN WITH THE +SPEAKING AND EVIDENTLY NOT THINKING ABOUT HER AT ALL. ANATOLE WAS NOT +SPEAKING AS IF HE WERE SAYING SOMETHING WHICH HAD LONG SINCE BEEN AGREED +SPEAKING FRENCH. HE OPENED HIS EYES. ABOVE HIM AGAIN WAS THE SAME LOFTY +SPEAKING OF A COLLECTION OF SNUFFBOXES THAT HAD BELONGED TO PIERRE’S +SPEAKING OF HIM, MY DEAR SIR. OF WHAT, OF WHOM, ARE WE SPEAKING? WHOM +SPEAKING OF THE POSITION OF PRUSSIA, ANNA PáVLOVNA VERY NATURALLY ASKED +SPEAKING TO AN AUSTRIAN GENERAL. PRINCE ANDREW, WHO WAS A LITTLE BEHIND +SPEAK IN THE TONE OF DECIDED REFUSAL AND DISAGREEMENT IN WHICH HE HAD +SPEAK, SO NOW SHE COULD NOT BELIEVE THAT THAT LITTLE CREATURE COULD BE +SPECIAL FORCE. NO MATTER WHAT HE THOUGHT ABOUT, HE ALWAYS RETURNED TO +SPECTACLE OF HIS POWER OVER THESE THREE WOMEN. BESIDES THAT, HE WAS +SPECTACLES. +SPECTACLES UNABLE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY WANTED OR HOW THEY COULD GO ON +SPEECHES WERE INTENDED FOR QUITE OTHER CONDITIONS, THEY WERE FOR THE +SPENT, AND ALMOST EVERY YEAR HE WAS OBLIGED TO BORROW. BESIDES THIS THE +SPIRITUAL NEEDS, WHILE IT SEEMS TO ME THAT ANIMAL HAPPINESS IS THE ONLY +SPITE OF HIS EVIDENT WISH TO DO SO HE COULD NOT GIVE THEM A JOYOUS +SPLASHING WITH BLOOD THOSE NEAR THEM. +“SPLENDID! EXCELLENT!” EXCLAIMED NATáSHA. “ANOTHER VERSE,” SHE +SPOKE IN ABRUPT SENTENCES. “THE WHOLE COMPANY CAN BEAR WITNESS. I BEG +SPRANG OUT BEFORE THE SLEIGH STOPPED, AND RAN INTO THE HALL. THE HOUSE +SPREAD BY THE FACT THAT THE EMPEROR’S CARRIAGE HAD REALLY GALLOPED +SPRINGING TO HIM, PUTTING HER ARMS ROUND HIM, AND KISSING HIM. THIS +SQUADRON. THE DAY WAS BRIGHT AND SUNNY AFTER A SHARP NIGHT FROST, AND +S— S— GET THE SAME DISTINCTION?” +STAFF WERE NOT FAR OFF, IN THE VILLAGE THE VEHICLES WERE GOING TO. +STAGES OF HIS JOURNEY. +STAIRS AND EMBRACED HIS SISTER. +STAKE OF TWENTY RUBLES. +STANDARD IN HAND, I SHALL GO FORWARD AND BREAK WHATEVER IS IN FRONT OF +STANDING MOTIONLESS; THEN HE CAME TO THE REGION OCCUPIED BY UVáROV’S +STAND THE SIGHT OF THESE UNFORTUNATES. +STARTED,” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW, WATCHING HIS OLD ACQUAINTANCE WITH +STATE.” +STATE OF THE POLITICAL THERMOMETER OF LEGITIMATE PETERSBURG COURT +STATION), AND AGAIN EMBRACED HIS SISTER. +STATION, BUT COMPARED TO THE THOUGHTS THAT NOW OCCUPIED HIM IT WAS A +STATIONED ON THE PRATZEN HEIGHTS. +STATION OR A DOCTOR FOR THE CADET, AND SAT DOWN BY A BONFIRE THE +STEPPED TO THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM AND STOOD STILL. +“STEPPING FLAT ON HIS HEELS—WE KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS....” +STEPPING INTO THE DEEP SNOW. HE HELD THE PISTOL IN HIS RIGHT HAND AT +STEPS, AND AGAIN STOPPED. +STEPS SHOULD BE TAKEN TO LIBERATE THE SERFS, WHICH THE STEWARD MET BY +STEPS. WHEN AT LAST, SMARTLY WHIRLING HIS PARTNER ROUND IN FRONT OF HER +STERN AND SOLEMN TRAIN OF THOUGHT THAT WEAKNESS FROM LOSS OF BLOOD, +STERN, SHREWD, AND PENETRATING EXPRESSION OF THAT LOOK STRUCK PIERRE. HE +STEWARD, AND AGAIN BEGAN GIVING ORDERS. A LIGHT FOOTSTEP AND THE +STEWARD THERE, WHO, BOWING RESPECTFULLY, LOOKED INTO HIS FACE AND AT +“STILL ACHING?” TúSHIN ASKED ROSTóV IN A WHISPER. +“STILL, DON’T RUIN YOURSELF!” SAID DóLOKHOV WITH A SIDE GLANCE AT +STILL FARTHER AHEAD A DARK LINE WHICH HE COULD NOT SEE DISTINCTLY BUT +STILL FEELING HIS EYES GAZING AT HER. +STILL. “IF IT WERE A MAN WHOSE EXISTENCE THOU DIDST DOUBT I COULD +STILL IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION. ROUND THE HOUSE WAS A GARDEN NEWLY LAID +STILL IN THE SAME PLACE, HIS STOUT BODY RESTING HEAVILY IN THE SADDLE +STILL IT WAS TERRIBLE, AND SHE COULD NOT HELP THINKING OF IT. SHE WAS +STILL LESS DID HE THINK OF INJURING ANYONE FOR HIS OWN ADVANTAGE. HE +STILL NO ONE MOVED. THE TROOPS OF THE LEFT FLANK, INFANTRY AND HUSSARS +STILL THE CANNON BALLS CONTINUED REGULARLY TO WHISTLE AND FLOP ONTO THE +STILL THERE?” +“STILL THE SAME,” SHE SAID TO HER HUSBAND. +“STILL THE SAME. WAIT, FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE. KARL IVáNICH ALWAYS SAYS +STILL WAS NOT IN TIME TO AVOID THEM. +STILL WHEN SHE’S FIFTY.” +STIMULATING EFFECT ON HIM. “VIVE L’EMPEREUR! L’EMPEREUR!” HE NOW +STINT YOURSELF, WE’LL SETTLE AFTERWARDS,” HE ADDED, TURNING TO +STIR. AN ADJUTANT, DISMOUNTING, LIFTED THE SOLDIER UNDER THE ARMS TO +STIR, AND A FOOTMAN WHO HAD RUN IN ANNOUNCED, WITH A FRIGHTENED FACE: +STOMACH WITH AN ALREADY STIFFENED ARM FLUNG WIDE. +STONE, HUNDREDS OF RIDERS COMPOSING THE SUITES MOVED CARELESSLY BUT +STOOD AT A WINDOW WITH DóLOKHOV, WHOSE ACQUAINTANCE HE HAD LATELY +STOOD AT EVERY DOOR ANXIOUSLY NOTING VISITORS’ EVERY MOVEMENT IN ORDER +STOOD BEFORE A LOOKING GLASS AND BRUSHED THE HAIR ON HIS TEMPLES +STOOD COLD AND SILENT, AS IF QUITE REGARDLESS OF WHO HAD COME TO IT. +STOOD, MET, AND SEPARATED, SOME IN UNIFORM AND SOME IN EVENING DRESS, +STOOD WITH HIS MARSHALS AROUND HIM, IT WAS QUITE LIGHT. ABOVE HIM WAS +STOOD WITH THE CANDLE. YES, IT WAS HE, PALE, THIN, WITH A CHANGED AND +STOPPED AT A SOLITARY, DESERTED HOUSE THAT HAD PROBABLY ONCE BEEN AN +STOPPED HIM. HE TURNED HIS HORSE AND GALLOPED OFF. +STOPPED THE COMPANY.” DóLOKHOV BREATHED HEAVILY FROM WEARINESS AND +STOPPING IN FRONT OF THE PáVLOGRADS, THE TSAR SAID SOMETHING IN FRENCH +“STOP THEM!” HE SHOUTED, AND AT THE SAME MOMENT, PROBABLY REALIZING +“STOP THOSE WRETCHES!” GASPED KUTúZOV TO THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, +STORIES OF HIS KINDNESS AND IRASCIBILITY. BERG, AS USUAL, KEPT SILENT +STORIES OF THE GRAND DUKE’S QUICK TEMPER HE RELATED WITH GUSTO HOW IN +STORIES OR TELLING THEM, BUT FOLLOWED EVERY MOVEMENT OF ROSTóV’S +STORY OF THE MISFORTUNES OF SOME MARY VíKTOROVNA OR OTHER. AT THE +STORY TO HIM, HER SEDUCER. AND NOW HE, A REAL RUSSIAN PRINCE, HAD +STRAIGHT! IT’S WELL GOD HAD MERCY ON US. AND WHAT WAS IT FOR? WHO +STRAIGHT ON NAPOLEON, HE WAS SILENT.... SO INSIGNIFICANT AT THAT MOMENT +STRANGE AND RIDICULOUS TO MEET OBJECTIONS FROM RUSSIAN GENERALS AND TO +STRANGELY SOFTENED BUT AGITATED EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE. HE CAME UP THE +STRANGER. +STRANGER, LOOKING DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO PIERRE’S EYES. “AND IN +STRANGERS AND UNABLE TO SEND NEWS OF HIMSELF. THE GAZETTES FROM WHICH +STRANGER, YET NEARER TO HIM THROUGH THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN. WITH BATED +STRANGE, UNKNOWN, AND DANGEROUS PLACES HE REACHES, JUST AS A SAILOR IS +STRATEGIC POSITION WHERE THE OPERATIONS WOULD TAKE PLACE WAS FAMILIAR IN +STRAYED OFF THE TRACK INTO THE SNOW, PIERRE LOOKED DOWN AT HIS FEET, +STREAMED OUT OF A SIDE STREET. +STRETCHED ALONG THE HIGHROAD IN THE MIDST OF A YOUNG COPSE IN WHICH WERE +STRETCHING HIMSELF HE ROSE FROM THE TABLE. “ONE DOES GET TIRED SITTING +STRIKING CHORDS WITH HIS SHORT FINGERS, HIS LEGS THROWN BACK AND HIS +STRIPES ON THEIR BODIES HEAL, AND THEY ARE HAPPY AS BEFORE. BUT IT IS +STROKE, CAME UP TO THE PRINCE, BOWING HIS BALD HEAD RESIGNEDLY BEFORE +STROKED THE ANIMAL. IT WAS PLAIN THAT HE DID NOT QUITE GRASP WHERE HE +STRONGER FLOW OF LOVE FOR HIS SOVEREIGN. HE LONGED TO SHOW THAT LOVE IN +STRUCK HIM BY HER BEAUTY ON THE PRECEDING DAY. TODAY, WHEN HE HAD CAUGHT +STRUGGLE, BUT WITH NAïVE AND LIGHTHEARTED GAIETY. +STRUGGLES OF A CERTAIN EMILIE DE MANSFELD. “AND WHY DID SHE RESIST +STRUGGLE TO CONQUER THAT FEAR, ALL HIS DREAMS OF DISTINGUISHING HIMSELF +STUDY. +STUDY A LITTLE BEFORE NOON IN HIS SILK DRESSING GOWN AND FOUND HIS HEAD +STUDY, THE OLD PRINCE WENT FOR HIS WALK AS USUAL NEXT MORNING, BUT HE +STUMBLED ON HIM IN THE FOG, HEARING NO ENCOURAGING WORD FROM THEIR +STUMBLED OVER IT. SEVERAL OF THOSE PRESENT LAUGHED. +STUPIDEST REMARKS CAME OUT CLEVER AND APT. NOW EVERYTHING PIERRE SAID +SUBMISSIVE GENERAL. +SUBMIT FROM HABIT, AND SHE SAID: “I WISH ONLY TO DO YOUR WILL, BUT IF +SUBMIT MY REPORT, WITH THE INFORMATION THAT IF THE ARMY REMAINS IN ITS +SUBMITTED HERSELF TO MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE AND LISE. BOTH THESE WOMEN +SUBSCRIBED THE SAME AMOUNT AS THE OTHERS. +SUCCEEDED!’ THE PRUSSIAN GENERALS PRIDE THEMSELVES ON BEING POLITE TO +SUCCEEDS. HE SAT MOTIONLESS, LOOKING AT THE HEIGHTS VISIBLE ABOVE +SUCCESS.” +SUCCESS AND AT THE INABILITY OF OTHERS TO UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS. +SUCCESSFULLY CANNONADING THE FRENCH, OUR ARTILLERYMEN ONLY NOTICED THIS +SUCCESS REACHED KUTúZOV’S CHEERLESS STAFF WITH THE GALLOPING ADVENT +SUCH A FRIEND THAT I BURNED MY ARM FOR HER SAKE. LOOK HERE!” +SUCH A FRIGHT! OH, WHAT A PIG I AM!” HE REPEATED, FLUSHING SUDDENLY. +SUCH AN UNFORTUNATE AND CHARMING WOMAN! DON’T MENTION HIM BEFORE +SUCH A PLAN IN WHICH THE ENEMY’S POSITION WAS ASSUMED TO BE KNOWN, +SUCH A SMALL, INSIGNIFICANT CREATURE COMPARED WITH WHAT WAS PASSING NOW +SUCH AS MIGHT CALL FOR HIS RAPIDITY OF PERCEPTION AND DECISION. +SUCH GRATEFULLY RELIGIOUS ONES, WITH OFFERINGS OF ICONS AND THE BREAD +SUCH LOVE AS SóNYA WAS SPEAKING OF. BUT NATáSHA HAD NOT YET FELT +SUCH SILENCE AND AN ANXIETY TO FIND SOMETHING TO SAY, THE EFFECT IS +SUDDENLY A GUST OF WIND BEAT VIOLENTLY AGAINST THE CASEMENT OF THE +SUDDENLY APPEARED IN THE FOG, THERE WAS A FLASH, FOLLOWED BY A REPORT, +SUDDENLY APPEARED, LOOMING HUGE AS AN ELEPHANT. +SUDDENLY CAME TO AND, LIFTING HIS HEAD WITH AN EFFORT, TOOK ROSTóV, WHO +SUDDENLY CHANGED TO ONE OF HORROR. THE FRENCH WERE SUPPOSED TO BE A +SUDDENLY PRINCE BOLKóNSKI FROWNED. +SUDDENLY REPLIED THE IRATE COLONEL. “IF YOU VERE IN THE CAVALRY...” +SUDDENLY TRANSFORMED. HE PUT ON THE AIR OF A SUBORDINATE WHO OBEYS +SUDDENNESS AND PROMPT HIM TO THE COARSEST AND MOST RECKLESS ACTIONS. +SUFFER FOR IT.” +SUFFERING, AND THE NEARNESS OF DEATH AROUSED IN HIM. LOOKING INTO +SUFFERING, BUT WHAT HE WANTED TO DO WAS TOO TERRIBLE. +SUFFERING?” SUGGESTED ANOTHER VOICE. PRINCE ANDREW, HOWEVER, DID NOT +SUFFERINGS. WHAT A HEART! HOW LIKE HIM IT IS! AND HOW HE HAS REMEMBERED +SUFFICIENT GROUND FOR THIS AFFAIR, OR FOR BLOOD TO BE SHED OVER IT.... +SUFFICIENTLY WEAKENED TO BE SUCCESSFULLY ATTACKED. BUT STILL HE DID NOT +SUGGESTED THAT SHE HAD RESOLVED TO ENDURE HER TROUBLES UNCOMPLAININGLY +SUPERFLUOUS WAS HANGING ON HIS BENUMBED LEFT ARM. THE WRIST FELT AS IF +SUPERIOR. +SUPERIOR TO NAPOLEON’S, WERE CONCENTRATED IN ONE PLACE, THE TROOPS +“SUPPER, IT’S TIME FOR SUPPER! AND HERE ARE THE GYPSIES!” +SUPPOSED, MUST HAVE RISEN TO FIFTEEN THOUSAND. IN REALITY IT ALREADY +SUPPOSED THAT THE RUSSIAN GUARDS, ABROAD, WAS QUITE A DEFINITE ADDRESS, +SUPPRESSED SMILE BRIGHTENING BOTH THEIR FACES, A SMILE THAT HAD NOTHING +SURPRISED BY WHAT HE SAW. HOPING TO ENTER ON AN ENTIRELY NEW LIFE QUITE +SURPRISED PIERRE. +SURPRISE, THE FRENCH HAD THROWN DOWN THEIR MUSKETS AND RUN. DóLOKHOV, +SURRENDER OF MOST OF THE PRUSSIAN FORTRESSES HAD BEEN RECEIVED, WHEN OUR +“SURROUNDED! CUT OFF? WE’RE LOST!” SHOUTED THE FUGITIVES. +SURROUNDINGS, AND FROM HER SMILING LIPS FLOWED SOUNDS WHICH ANYONE MAY +SURROUNDINGS UNABLE TO FIND THEIR OWN REGIMENTS. IN THIS WAY THE ACTION +SURVIVE....” +SUVóROV-LIKE, IN A KIBíTKA, AND IS RECEIVED WITH ACCLAMATIONS OF JOY +SUVóROV. MOREOVER, PAYING SUCH HONOR TO BAGRATIóN WAS THE BEST WAY OF +SUVóROV’S TIME, NOW PASSING SO GALLANTLY BEFORE THE EMPERORS, THAT HE +SWARMED WITH WELL-PROVISIONED SUTLERS AND AUSTRIAN JEWS OFFERING +SWAY AND SCATTERS ITS LAST SNOWS AND STORMS WITH DESPERATE FURY. A RELAY +SWAYS THE WORLD. THINK THIS OVER AND I WILL COME TO YOU AGAIN.” +SWEET WINE, MY DEAR, NOW THAT THE TIME HAS COME FOR THESE YOUNG ONES TO +SWORD OF FREDERICK THE GREAT. +SWORDS, MEANING THEM TO PIERCE IT. BUT THE SWORDS WERE DRAWN BACK FROM +SYMMETRICALLY AND ABOVE ALL FREELY, AND IN FRONT OF THEM TWO MEN—THE +SYMPATHIZE WITH HIM; IF I SEEM SAD AND OUT OF SPIRITS MYSELF, HE WILL +TABLE, A CHILD’S TABLE, AND THE LITTLE CHAIR ON WHICH PRINCE ANDREW +TABLE AND PLACED ON IT HIS SMALL LEATHER-GLOVED HANDS. +TABLE BEGAN TO WATCH HER HANDS ARRANGING THE CARDS. FROM THE DANCING +TABLE ON A CORNER OF WHICH HE SMILINGLY AND ABSENT-MINDEDLY FIXED HIS +TABLES AND THE SAME CHANDELIER WITH A COVER OVER IT; BUT SOMEONE HAD +TABLE SEEMED TO FEEL THIS, AND THEY FORGOT THEIR DUTIES AS THEY LOOKED +TACHE,” HE THOUGHT. “THERE NOW... IT’S NOT A TACHE... NATáSHA... +“TAFA-LAFA! BUT WHAT HE’S JABBERING NO ONE CAN MAKE OUT,” SAID A +TAIL EXTENDED, BEDOUIN, AS IF ALSO CONSCIOUS OF THE EMPEROR’S EYE +TAKE HER FOR HER CONNECTIONS AND WEALTH. ARE THERE NO WOMEN LIVING +TAKE HIS EYES OFF HER AND BEAT TIME WITH HIS SABER IN A WAY THAT CLEARLY +TAKE ME TOO? WHO ARE THESE MEN?” THOUGHT ROSTóV, SCARCELY BELIEVING +TAKEN A BALLROOM IN BEZúKHOV’S HOUSE, AND THE BALL, AS EVERYONE SAID, +TAKEN FROM THE PRISONER. +TAKEN, IT WAS NOT HIS FAULT BUT THE CORPORAL’S WHO HAD SENT HIM TO +TAKEN OFF HIS EYES AND, BY THE FAINT LIGHT OF THE BURNING SPIRIT, +TAKEN UP THEIR POSITION AND SEEING TROOPS BEFORE THEM, THOUGHT THEY WERE +“TAKE THIS ROAD, YOUR HONOR, THAT WAY YOU WILL BE KILLED AT ONCE!” A +TAKING HIM BY THE HAND LED HIM FORWARD. THE HAIRS TIED IN THE KNOT HURT +TAKING HIS PARTNER WITH HIM. HE GLIDED SILENTLY ON ONE FOOT HALF ACROSS +TAKING THE COLONEL’S OUTBURST AS A CHALLENGE TO HIS COURAGE, THE +TAKING UP A PACK HE PREPARED TO DEAL. ROSTóV SUBMISSIVELY UNBENT THE +TALK, BUT I DON’T WANT TO,” HE SEEMED TO SAY. BESIDES THIS, IN HIS +TALKING OF THE SCHöN GRABERN AFFAIR? WERE YOU THERE?” +TALKS SENSE, BUT TO TEMPORIZE AND WAIT FOR SOMETHING NOW WHEN BONAPARTE +TALK TO HER. WHAT A DARLING SóNYA IS!” HE ADDED WITH A SMILE. +TASK PIERRE HAD TO FACE WAS ONE FOR WHICH HE HAD VERY LITTLE APTITUDE OR +TEA?” ASKED HIS VALET. +TEARS. +TEATIME SHE WOULD PREPARE THE COUNTESS, AND AFTER TEA, WITH GOD’S +“TELL BEZúKHOV TO COME. I’LL PUT HIS NAME DOWN. IS HIS WIFE WITH +TELL EVERYTHING JUST AS IT HAPPENED, BUT IMPERCEPTIBLY, INVOLUNTARILY, +TELLING HIM. +TELL THE LITTLE COUNTESS!” +“TELL THEM TO GIVE ME A SEAT, FOR GOD’S SAKE!” +TELL THE TRUTH. +TEMPER BECAUSE PRINCE VASíLI WAS COMING, OR WHETHER HIS BEING IN A BAD +TEMPER MADE HIM SPECIALLY ANNOYED AT PRINCE VASíLI’S VISIT, HE WAS +TEN MINUTES. AND THAT IT WILL NOT BE TOO DULL, HERE IS THE DEAR COUNT +TERRIBLE, AND NOW HE HAS THIS AUTHORITY OF A COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF +TERRIBLE DIVIDING LINE OF UNCERTAINTY AND FEAR—RESEMBLING THE LINE +TERRIBLE NEWS FROM HER TILL AFTER HER CONFINEMENT, WHICH WAS EXPECTED +TERRIBLE PAIN OF BEING LIFTED ONTO THE STRETCHER, THE JOLTING WHILE +TERRIBLE VOICE THAT THE WHOLE HOUSE HEARD IT WITH HORROR. GOD KNOWS WHAT +THAN A HUNDRED CANNON WERE ALREADY IN THE HANDS OF THE FRENCH. +THAN A MAN WHO HAS BEEN LOOKING AT A TUFT OF STEPPE GRASS THROUGH THE +THAN ANYTHING ELSE SHOWED PIERRE HER SUPERIORITY. SHE WAS RIGHT IN +THAN A YARD ABOVE THE GLOW OF THE CHARCOAL. FLAKES OF FALLING SNOW WERE +THAN FIVE HUNDRED PACES FROM WHERE KUTúZOV WAS STANDING, A DENSE FRENCH +THANKED HIM FOR HIS LOVE. HIS LOOKS THANKED HER FOR OFFERING HIM HIS +THANKED,” THOUGHT THE OVERSEER, “THE STORM HAS BLOWN OVER!” +“THANK GOD!” +“THANK GOD!” SAID PRINCE VASíLI. “MY WIFE HAS TOLD ME +“THANK GOD!” SAID SóNYA, CROSSING HERSELF. “BUT PERHAPS SHE +“THANK GOD!” SAID THE VOICE. “AND FATHER?” +THANKS TO ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S EFFORTS, HIS OWN TASTES, AND THE +THANKS TO PRINCESS LISE’S VOICE AND LITTLE DOWNY LIP THAT LIFTED OVER +THANK YOU WITH MY WHOLE HEART.” TO ROSTóV EVERY WORD SOUNDED LIKE A +“THANK YOU; YOU SAVED ME, MY DEAR FELLOW!” SAID TúSHIN. +THAN THE OTHER; THE SERFS EVERYWHERE SEEMED THRIVING AND TOUCHINGLY +THAT. +THAT ARMY: A FEELING OF SELF-FORGETFULNESS, A PROUD CONSCIOUSNESS OF +THAT BETWEEN THE PERSON THEY SO ADDRESS AND THEMSELVES THERE ARE SOME +THAT COLUMN HIMSELF. WHEN HE HAD REACHED THE VILLAGE OF PRATZEN HE +THAT DAY, BUT HAD HEARD ABOUT THEM FROM AN INFANTRY OFFICER. “THEY +THAT DAY NICHOLAS ROSTóV RECEIVED A LETTER FROM BORíS, TELLING HIM +THAT DINNER WAS READY! THE DOOR OPENED, AND FROM THE DINING ROOM CAME +THAT DIVINE PURITY AND DEVOTION I LOOK FOR IN WOMEN. IF I FOUND SUCH A +“THAT DóLOKHOV WAS MY LOVER,” SHE SAID IN FRENCH WITH HER COARSE +THAT DREADFUL ABYSS, PIERRE SAID TO HIMSELF: “WHAT AM I DOING? I NEED +THAT DREAD OF BEATEN TRACKS, AND WISH TO EXPRESS ITSELF IN A MANNER +THAT END AND WHEN DID THIS NEW, TERRIBLE STATE OF THINGS BEGIN? WHAT +THAT EVENING, PROUD OF DóLOKHOV’S PROPOSAL, HER REFUSAL, AND HER +THAT, EVEN MORE THAN IN MOSCOW, HE FELT A SENSE OF BEWILDERMENT, BUSTLE, +THAT EXPLAINED THEIR TEACHING BY HIEROGLYPHICS. A HIEROGLYPH,” SAID +THAT FAT ONE IN SPECTACLES” (THAT WAS HOW PéTYA DESCRIBED HIS +THAT FOR AN INSTANT). WHY SHOULD HE NOT LOVE HER NOW, AND EVEN MARRY +THAT GOD WHO HAS BEEN SEWN INTO THIS AMULET BY MARY! THERE IS NOTHING +THAT HAD ADVANCED BEYOND THE VILLAGE WENT BACK; BUT AS THOUGH IN REVENGE +THAT HAD TORMENTED HIM ALL DINNERTIME ROSE AND TOOK POSSESSION OF HIM. +THAT, HEARING HE WAS IN A BAD HUMOR, SHE HAD DECIDED NOT TO APPEAR. +THAT HE COULD NOT BELIEVE HIS EYES. “WHO ARE THEY? WHY ARE THEY +THAT HE FELL OFF HIS HORSE AND SPRAINED HIS ARM AND THEN RAN AS HARD AS +THAT HE HAD COMPOSED IN HIS IMAGINATION COULD HE NOW RECALL. THOSE +THAT HE IS PROBABLY TIRED OF THEM,” SAID ANOTHER OFFICER. +THAT HE OUGHT TO AVOID HER AND GO AWAY, PIERRE, DESPITE THAT DECISION, +THAT HE SHOULD DO THE SAME. THE RIDER, WHOSE FIGURE SEEMED FAMILIAR +THAT HESITATION LASTED ONLY AN INSTANT. THE TSAR’S FOOT, IN THE NARROW +THAT HE TOO SEEMED ASHAMED OF THE HUSSAR OF THE LINE. +THAT HE WAS DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED. +THAT HE WOULD HAVE TO ANSWER IT JUSTLY, AND JUSTICE CLASHED NOT ONLY +THAT I AM SAYING!” THOUGHT A DIPLOMATIST, GLANCING AT THE HAPPY FACES +THAT I DO NOT LIKE HIM.” +THAT—IF YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF BOUND BY YOUR PROMISE—IT WILL SEEM AS +THAT I’M A SHARPER, SO I ADVISE YOU TO BE CAREFUL.” +THAT INSTANT THE TROOPER NIKíTENKO, WHO WAS GALLOPING AHEAD, SHOT AWAY +“THAT IS ENOUGH FOR ME,” SAID SóNYA, BLUSHING. +“THAT IS JUST WHY I DO NOT BEGIN, SIRE,” SAID KUTúZOV IN A +“THAT IS NO BUSINESS OF MINE,” HE THOUGHT. HE HAD NOT RIDDEN MANY +“THAT IS PROBABLY THE WORK OF VINESSE,” SAID PIERRE, MENTIONING +THAT IS THE ONLY REALITY IN THE WORLD, ALL ELSE IS FOLLY. IT IS THE ONE +“THAT IS WHAT WE SHALL SEE! THAT IS WHAT WE SHALL SEE!” HE ADDED +THAT IS, YOU WANT TO RAISE HIM” (POINTING TO A PEASANT WHO PASSED BY +THAT IT IS MORE DANGEROUS TO RUN AWAY THAN TO ADVANCE, BUT THAT RUSSIAN +THAT IT IS WE WHO LOST THE BATTLE OF PULTúSK. IN SHORT, WE RETREAT +THAT IT MIGHT NOT OCCUR TO HER TO SPEAK OF HIS SHARE IN THE AFFAIR OF +THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP THEM, SPURRED HIS HORSE AND RODE TO THE +THAT IT WAS NOT SHE BUT HE WAS SO UNUSUALLY BEAUTIFUL, AND THAT THAT WAS +THAT IT WOULD BE A BAD THING), BUT HE KNEW IT WOULD HAPPEN. +THAT I WOULD GIVE MY LIFE TWICE OVER...” HE LOOKED AT THE COUNTESS, +THAT?... KINDLY DO AS YOU ARE ORDERED.” +THAT KUTúZOV’S UPPER LIP TWITCHED UNNATURALLY AS HE SAID THE +THAT LED TO HIS OWN APARTMENTS. +THAT MOMENT AFTER SUPPER AT PRINCE VASíLI’S, WHEN HE SPOKE THOSE +THAT MOMENT A THIRD ENEMY RISES BEFORE US—NAMELY THE ORTHODOX RUSSIAN +THAT MOMENT HIS HOME LIFE, JOKES WITH PéTYA, TALKS WITH SóNYA, DUETS +THAT MOMENT PIERRE FELT THAT HéLèNE NOT ONLY COULD, BUT MUST, BE HIS +THAT MONTH AND A HALF WHILE HE FELT HIMSELF DRAWN NEARER AND NEARER TO +THAT NEVER DOES ANY HARM,” THOUGHT ANATOLE. +THAT NOT EVEN A CONTINUITY OF MOST BRILLIANT SUCCESSES WOULD SECURE +THAT ON RECEIVING NEWS OF THE DEFEAT SOME WOULD SIMPLY NOT BELIEVE IT, +THAT PASSIONATE ANIMAL FEELING WHICH WAS APT TO MASTER HIM WITH GREAT +“THAT PASSION WHICH MORE THAN ALL OTHERS CAUSED YOU TO WAVER ON THE +THAT PECULIAR EXPRESSION OF POLITE WEARINESS WHICH PLAINLY SAYS, “IF +THAT PRINCESS MARY IN THIS GUISE LOOKED VERY PLAIN, WORSE THAN USUAL, +THAT REMAINED UNINJURED OUT OF THE FOUR, THEY BEGAN MOVING DOWN THE HILL +“THAT’S ADMIRABLE!” HE SHOUTED. “HE WILL TAKE YOU WITH YOUR +“THAT’S A FINE DEATH!” SAID NAPOLEON AS HE GAZED AT BOLKóNSKI. +“THAT’S A GOOD THING, BUT DON’T MOVE FROM PRINCE VASíLI’S. IT +THAT SAME DAY A COUNCIL OF WAR HAD BEEN HELD IN WHICH ALL THE MEMBERS OF +THAT SAME EVENING THERE WAS TO BE ONE OF THE BALLS THAT IOGEL (THE +THAT SAME NIGHT, ROSTóV WAS WITH A PLATOON ON SKIRMISHING DUTY IN FRONT +“THAT’S CAPITAL; OF COURSE SHE’LL FORGET HER CHILDISH PROMISES +THAT SHE WINCED AND UTTERED A CRY. +“THAT’S IT, THAT’S IT!” EXCLAIMED THE COUNT, AND GAILY SEIZING +“THAT’S JUST IT,” INTERRUPTED DOLGORúKOV QUICKLY, LAUGHING. +THAT SLEEP IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING,” WHISPERED PRINCESS MARY +THAT’S NOT IT—THAT’S TOMORROW. OH YES! NATáSHA... SABRETACHE... +THAT SORT OF MAN), HE GAVE BORíS A PLEASANT SMILE, FROWNED AS WITH +THAT SORT OF THING.” +THAT’S OUR HOUSE,” SAID ROSTóV. “OF COURSE, IT’S OUR HOUSE! +“THAT’S SO, YOUR EXCELLENCY, ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS TO EAT A GOOD +THAT STATE OF MIND WHICH MAKES EVERYTHING SEEM POSSIBLE, PLEASANT, AND +THAT’S THE WAY THEY TREAT ME! NO CONFIDENCE IN ME! AH, ORDERED TO KEEP +THAT SURROUNDED THE EMPERORS. +THAT’S WHAT I DID.” +“THAT THE EMPEROR WILL MEET ME AND GIVE ME AN ORDER AS HE WOULD TO ANY +THAT THE ISMáYLOV REGIMENT WAS QUARTERED FOR THE NIGHT TEN MILES FROM +THAT THE PRINCE WAS IN A BAD HUMOR, STOOD AWAITING HIM; MADEMOISELLE +THAT THE PUPILS’ PARENTS WEPT AT HAVING TO LET HIM TAKE THEIR CHILDREN +THAT THE QUESTION OF HIS WIFE’S GUILT WHICH HAD BEEN TORMENTING HIM +THAT THESE THOUGHTS HAD BEEN SUGGESTED TO PRINCE ANDREW BY HIS +THAT THE STORY ABOUT SERGéY KUZMíCH, THE LAUGHTER, AND THE FOOD +THAT THOSE BROAD-BONED REDDISH HANDS WITH HAIRY WRISTS VISIBLE FROM +THAT VERY INSTANT A CLOUD OF SMOKE SPREAD ALL ROUND, FIRING WAS HEARD +THAT WAS DISPERSING ON THE HILL LAY STILL MORE DENSELY BELOW, WHERE THEY +THAT WAS GOOD. +THAT WAS NOT PRETTY, BUT NEITHER MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE NOR THE LITTLE +THAT WAS SWAYING FROM ITS WEIGHT IN PRINCE ANDREW’S HANDS, BUT HE +THAT WERE SO AGONIZINGLY, INCESSANTLY PULLING AND PRESSING HIS ARM AND +THAT WHERE THE STEWARD HAD SHOWN HIM IN THE ACCOUNTS THAT THE SERFS’ +THAT WHICH HAD SAID: “THE PáVLOGRAD HUSSARS?” +THAT WHILE NAPOLEON’S PROCLAMATION WAS BEING READ TO THE TROOPS THE +THAT WHITE SPOT. “I EXPECT IT’S SNOW... THAT SPOT... A SPOT—UNE +THAT YEAR, AS ALL HIS ESTATES HAD BEEN REMORTGAGED, AND SO NICHOLAS, +THE ACCOUNTANT WITH THE NAïVE FACE WAS FEELING ITS TEXTURE, SHAKING HIS +THE ACCURATE WAY CHARACTERISTIC OF HIM, WAS BUILDING A LITTLE PYRAMID OF +THE ACT OF FALLING ASLEEP. ROSTóV LIFTED HIS HEAD THAT HAD SUNK ALMOST +THE ADDRESS. “THIS LETTER WOULD BE OF GREAT USE TO YOU.” +THE ADORATION THEN COMMON IN MOSCOW FOR THE EMPEROR, WHO WAS SPOKEN OF +THE AFFAIR, AND LIKE EVERYONE IN SIMILAR CASES, DID NOT YET BELIEVE THAT +THE AFFAIR HAD COME TO AN ACTUAL DUEL). “YOU KNOW, COUNT, IT IS MUCH +THE AIM OF SUPPORTING ONE ANOTHER IN THE PATH OF VIRTUE, AND THAT IS HOW +“THE AMMUNITION FOR THE GUNS IN POSITION IS EXHAUSTED, YOUR +THE ANIMATED HUM OF SEVERAL CONVERSATIONS. AT ONE END OF THE TABLE, THE +THE APPOINTED PLACE. +“THE ÁPSHERONS MUST BE STOPPED, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” CRIED HE. BUT AT +THE ARRIVAL OF A SUITOR AGITATED HER, AND STILL MORE SO BY BOTH +THE ARTILLERYMEN WERE STILL AS MERRY AND LIVELY AS EVER. TWICE THEY +THEATER, WHERE HE HAD BEEN WITH HIS FAMILY AND DENíSOV. HE WAS AT ONCE +THE ATTACK OF THE SIXTH CHASSEURS SECURED THE RETREAT OF OUR RIGHT +THE AUSTRIAN ADJUTANT, HE ADDRESSED BOLKóNSKI. +THE BALD HEAD. VéRA, NATáSHA, SóNYA, AND PéTYA NOW ENTERED THE ROOM, +THE BAND IMMEDIATELY STRUCK UP “CONQUEST’S JOYFUL THUNDER +THE BAND STRUCK UP THE NEWLY INTRODUCED MAZURKA. NICHOLAS COULD NOT +THE BATTERY TO RETIRE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. WHEN THE SUPPORTS ATTACHED +THE BATTLEFIELD, BELIEVED THAT THE FRENCH HAD BEEN DEFEATED AND WERE +THE BATTLE OF SCHöN GRABERN THAN YOU DO NOW,” SAID HIS SON WITH A +THE BEAUTY WENT TO THE AUNT, BUT ANNA PáVLOVNA DETAINED PIERRE, LOOKING +THE BEDCHAMBER. THE DIPLOMATIC CAREER NOW LIES OPEN BEFORE YOU.” +THE BEST MAROON DRESS, AND SO ON, ALL WOULD BE WELL. THEY FORGOT THAT +THE BEST POST HE COULD—PREFERABLY THAT OF ADJUTANT TO SOME IMPORTANT +THE BIGWIGS WHO GUIDED THE CLUB’S OPINION REAPPEARED, AND EVERYBODY +THE BONFIRE, AND ADDRESSING TúSHIN ASKED HIM TO HAVE THE GUNS MOVED A +THE BOOK WAS THE GOSPEL, AND THE WHITE THING WITH THE LAMP INSIDE WAS A +THE BRIDGES WERE STRONG AND HAD HANDRAILS. EVERYTHING BORE AN IMPRESS OF +THE BRILLIANT SURROUNDINGS IN WHICH HE HAD LAST MET HIS FRIEND IN +THE CADET WAS ROSTóV. WITH ONE HAND HE SUPPORTED THE OTHER; HE WAS +THE CAMPAIGN AND THE TWO BATTLES IN WHICH HE HAD TAKEN PART, AND HIS +THE CAMPFIRE. THEY WERE QUARRELING AND FIGHTING DESPERATELY, EACH TRYING +THE CARRIAGE AS PALE AS ANYTHING. HOW THEY MADE THE FOUR BLACK HORSES +THE CASE, HESITATED ABOUT LIFTING THE INJURED OR DEAD. THE SOLDIERS, +THE CAUSE OF HIS GRIEF. +THE CAUSE OF JUSTICE AGAINST THE ENEMY OF THE HUMAN RACE. ANNA PáVLOVNA +THE CAUSE OF THE CONFUSION WAS THAT WHILE THE AUSTRIAN CAVALRY WAS +THE CENTER OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY, AND THAT THAT CENTER WAS ALREADY +THE CHANTRY LONG BEFORE, BUT THAT NINE TENTHS OF THE PEASANTS IN THAT +THE CHEEKS, THE SAME EXPRESSION WAS ON HER CHARMING CHILDLIKE FACE WITH +THE CHEERFUL GLITTER OF THAT AUTUMN DAY WAS IN KEEPING WITH THE NEWS OF +THE CHIEF STEWARD, A VERY STUPID BUT CUNNING MAN WHO SAW PERFECTLY +THE CHIEF STEWARD EXPRESSED GREAT SYMPATHY WITH PIERRE’S INTENTIONS, +THE CHIEF STEWARD, WHO CONSIDERED THE YOUNG COUNT’S ATTEMPTS ALMOST +THE CHILD MOVED SLIGHTLY IN HIS SLEEP, SMILED, AND RUBBED HIS FOREHEAD +THE CLAVICHORD, SANG THE TUNE. BOLKóNSKI WAS NOT THERE. NONE OF THESE +THE CLEVEREST AMONG THEM, INCLUDING THE CHIEF STEWARD, UNDERSTOOD FROM +THE CLOAK THEY SPREAD UNDER HIM WAS WET WITH BLOOD WHICH STAINED HIS +THE CLUB COOK AND THE STEWARD LISTENED TO THE COUNT’S ORDERS WITH +THE COLD, AUSTERE TONE OF THIS MAN, WHOM HE HAD ALMOST ALWAYS BEFORE MET +THE COLONEL RODE TO THE FRONT, ANGRILY GAVE SOME REPLY TO QUESTIONS PUT +THE COLUMN, GAVE HIM THE ORDER TO ADVANCE. +THE COMBATANTS ADVANCED ALONG THE TRODDEN TRACKS, NEARER AND NEARER TO +THE COMMAND OF THE ARMY TO GENERAL BUXHöWDEN. DURING THIS INTERREGNUM +THE COMMAND OF THE LEFT FLANK BELONGED BY SENIORITY TO THE COMMANDER OF +THE COMPLETE DARKNESS TúSHIN’S GUNS MOVED FORWARD, SURROUNDED BY THE +THE CONCENTRATED ACTIVITY WHICH HAD BEGUN AT THE EMPEROR’S +THE CONTEMPT WITH WHICH ROSTóV, FROM HIS FIGHTING ARMY POINT OF VIEW, +THE CONVERSATION DID NOT FLAG ALL EVENING AND TURNED CHIEFLY ON THE +THE CONVERSATION TO INSIGNIFICANT MATTERS. NATáSHA, WHO, OF THE WHOLE +THE COPSE ACROSS WHICH OUR MEN, REGARDLESS OF ORDERS, WERE RUNNING AND +THE COSSACKS SOLD THE HORSE FOR TWO GOLD PIECES, AND ROSTóV, BEING THE +THE COT. HE DID NOT LOOK ROUND, BUT STILL GAZING AT THE INFANT’S FACE +THE COT WHERE SHE WAS STANDING, “BETTER WAIT A BIT... LATER...” +THE COUNCIL OF WAR, AT WHICH PRINCE ANDREW HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO +THE COUNCIL OF WAR WAS JUST OVER WHEN PRINCE ANDREW ACCOMPANIED +THE COUNT AND AT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, THE LATTER VERY ADROITLY TURNED +THE COUNT CONSIDERED. +THE COUNTESS; ABOUT 70,000 WENT FOR INTEREST ON DEBTS. THE BUILDING OF A +THE COUNTESS DID NOT BELIEVE HER EARS. DENíSOV HAD PROPOSED. TO WHOM? +THE COUNTESS GLANCED AT HER SILENT SON. +THE COUNTESS HAD BEEN PREPARED BY ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S HINTS AT DINNER. +THE COUNTESS SHRUGGED HER SHOULDERS. +“THE COUNTESS TOLD ME TO INQUIRE WHETHER YOUR EXCELLENCY WAS AT +THE COUNT PUT HIS EAR TO THE KEYHOLE AND LISTENED. +THE COUNT SOBBED YET MORE. +THE COUNT WALKED UP AND DOWN THE HALL IN HIS DRESSING GOWN, GIVING +THE COUNT WAS DELIGHTED AT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S TAKING UPON HERSELF ONE +THE COURT, CAREFULLY ABSTAINING FROM EXPRESSING AN OPINION OF HIS +THE CROWD, PUSHING FORWARD DESPERATELY, SQUEEZED TOGETHER, MOVED A FEW +THE DAM, THE POND, AND THE BANK. +THE DARKNESS. THIS WAS THE LAST FRENCH ATTACK AND WAS MET BY SOLDIERS +THE DAY AFTER HE HAD BEEN RECEIVED INTO THE LODGE, PIERRE WAS SITTING AT +THE DAY AFTER ROSTóV HAD BEEN TO SEE BORíS, A REVIEW WAS HELD OF THE +THE DAY AFTER THE REVIEW, BORíS, IN HIS BEST UNIFORM AND WITH HIS +THE DAY. THAT’S WHAT KEEPING ONE’S HEAD MEANS. THAT’S THE WAY, +THE DECISIVE POINT, AND GAINS THE VICTORY ALONE. “BUT DEATH AND +THE DECLARATION FROM PETERSBURG GAVE HIM PARTICULAR PLEASURE, AND THAT +THE DEEP WET SNOW BETWEEN THE PLACE WHERE THEY HAD BEEN STANDING AND +“THE DEVIL KNOWS! THEY’VE KILLED EVERYBODY! IT’S ALL UP NOW!” +THE DISORDERED BATTALION AND AT THE ENEMY, “WHAT’S THAT?” +“THE DISPOSITIONS!” EXCLAIMED KUTúZOV BITTERLY. “WHO TOLD YOU +THE DISPOSITIONS OR ANYTHING ELSE—HE WAS ENGAGED IN SATISFYING THE +THE DISPOSITIONS WERE VERY COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT. THEY BEGAN AS +THE DOCTOR ENTERED. PRINCE ANDREW WENT OUT AND, MEETING PRINCESS MARY, +THE DOOR AND AS SOON AS IT OPENED HIS ROUGH OLD ARMS CLOSED LIKE A VISE +THE DOOR; THE SCREAM CEASED AND HE HEARD THE WAIL OF AN INFANT. +THE DOOR, WAS SITTING AT THE TABLE IN A PERSIAN DRESSING GOWN, WRITING. +“THE DOUBT IS FLATTERING,” SAID “THE MAN OF PROFOUND INTELLECT,” +THE DUEL BETWEEN PIERRE AND DóLOKHOV WAS HUSHED UP AND, IN SPITE OF +THE DUEL WITH NESVíTSKI, BEZúKHOV’S SECOND. PIERRE WENT HOME, BUT +THEE, AND EVEN IN THOSE BLASPHEMOUS WORDS THOU HAST JUST UTTERED!” +THE EBB AND FLOW OF THESE SOUNDS. +THE EFFORTS OF THE OLD COUNT, AND INSTEAD OF BEING DEGRADED TO THE RANKS +“THE EIGHTEENTH.” +THE EMPEROR, AND A THOUSAND REASONS OCCURRED TO HIM WHY IT WOULD BE +THE EMPEROR DREW LEVEL WITH ROSTóV AND HALTED. ALEXANDER’S FACE WAS +THE EMPEROR, FROWNING SLIGHTLY, BENT HIS EAR FORWARD AS IF HE HAD NOT +THE EMPEROR. HE FELT THAT THIS NEARNESS BY ITSELF MADE UP TO HIM FOR THE +THE EMPEROR IMMEDIATELY!” THOUGHT ROSTóV AND GALLOPED ON. +THE EMPEROR’S HORSE STARTED AT THE SUDDEN CRY. THIS HORSE THAT HAD +THE EMPEROR’S SEVERITY REGARDING DUELS AT THAT TIME, NEITHER THE +THE EMPEROR’S SUITE. ONE OFFICER TOLD ROSTóV THAT HE HAD SEEN SOMEONE +THE EMPEROR’S VOICE. +“THE EMPEROR! THE EMPEROR!” WAS SUDDENLY HEARD AMONG THE HUSSARS. +THE EMPEROR TURNED WITH A SMILE TO ONE OF HIS FOLLOWERS AND MADE A +THE EMPEROR WITHOUT WAITING FOR AN ANSWER TURNED AWAY AND SAID TO ONE OF +“THE ENEMY HAS QUENCHED HIS FIRES AND A CONTINUAL NOISE IS HEARD FROM +“THE ENEMY IS STILL FAR AWAY, YOUR EXCELLENCY. ACCORDING TO THE +THE ENEMY’S FIRES, BUT HEARD THE SHOUTING OF THE FRENCH MORE LOUDLY +THE EVENING AGAIN TURNED TO BORíS, ASKING HIM IN A TONE OF CARESSING +“THE EXCHANGE HORSES HAVE JUST COME,” ANSWERED THE SERVANT. “WILL +THE EXPERIENCE OF OLD CUNCTATORS.” +THE EYES OF THE GUARDSMAN’S HORSE. THE HEAVY BLACK HORSE, SIXTEEN +THE FACE AND FIGURE OF PRINCE ANDREW, IN A FUR CLOAK THE DEEP COLLAR OF +THE FACE THAT EMERGED FROM THE SHIRT. +THE FAMILIAR STAIRCASE. THE WELL-KNOWN OLD DOOR HANDLE, WHICH ALWAYS +THE FARTHER HE WENT THE MORE DISORGANIZED THEY WERE. THE HIGHROAD ON +THE FATE OF BATTLES HAD ARRIVED. WOULD THIS DISORDERLY CROWD OF SOLDIERS +THE FELT BOOTS APPROACHED THE UNSEEN BEND OF THE STAIRCASE MORE RAPIDLY. +“THE FIELD MARSHAL IS ANGRY WITH THE EMPEROR AND HE PUNISHES US ALL, +THE FIELD OF BATTLE, WHO THOUGH STILL IN SOME CONFUSION WERE LESS +THE FIRES AND SHOUTING IN THE ENEMY’S ARMY WERE OCCASIONED BY THE FACT +THE FIRST COUPLE. NOISELESSLY, SKILLFULLY STEPPING WITH HIS LITTLE +“THE FIRST MAN THAT TURNS UP—SHE FORGETS HER FATHER AND EVERYTHING +THE FIRST SECOND. “A BABY? WHAT BABY...? WHY IS THERE A BABY THERE? OR +THE FIRST TO CATCH HIS EYE. HE SENT HIM. +THE FIRST TO SEIZE THE SURRENDERING FRENCH OFFICER BY HIS COLLAR. OUR +THE FIRST WORDS HE HEARD ON COMING TO HIS SENSES WERE THOSE OF A FRENCH +THE FLAGSTAFF THAT HAD BEEN DROPPED BESIDE HIM. (THE FLAG HAD ALREADY +THE FOG HAD BEGUN TO CLEAR AND ENEMY TROOPS WERE ALREADY DIMLY VISIBLE +THE FOG HAD GROWN SO DENSE THAT THOUGH IT WAS GROWING LIGHT THEY COULD +THE FOREBODING OF EVIL THAT HAD SUDDENLY COME OVER ROSTóV WAS MORE AND +THE FOREMOST FRENCHMAN, THE ONE WITH THE HOOKED NOSE, WAS ALREADY SO +THE FORESTS IN THE PROVINCE OF KOSTROMá, THE LAND LOWER DOWN THE RIVER, +THE FRENCH AND LAY DOWN THEIR ARMS AT THE FIRST DEMAND. +THE FRENCH DRAGOON WAS A YOUNG ALSATIAN WHO SPOKE FRENCH WITH A GERMAN +THE FRENCH, GALLOPED ALONG THE FRONT AS HARD AS HIS HORSE COULD GO, BUT +THE FRENCH HAD ATTACKED THE BATTERY AND, SEEING KUTúZOV, WERE FIRING +THE FRENCH HAD BEEN REPULSED FOR THE LAST TIME. AND AGAIN AND AGAIN IN +THE FRENCHMAN LANGERON, KUTúZOV’S INCAPACITY, AND (IT WAS WHISPERED) +THE FRENCH WERE ALREADY NEAR. PRINCE ANDREW, WALKING BESIDE BAGRATIóN, +THE FRENCH, WHO HAD CEASED FIRING AT THIS FIELD STREWN WITH DEAD AND +THE FRIGHTENED FACE AND THE FIGURE COULD NOT BE ALTERED, AND THAT +THE FRONT. I HELD MY SWORD IN MY LEFT HAND, COUNT. ALL OUR FAMILY—THE +THE GAME CONTINUED; A WAITER KEPT HANDING ROUND CHAMPAGNE. +THE GENERAL HAD A FIT OF COUGHING AS A RESULT OF SHOUTING AND OF THE +THE GENERAL HAD SO WISHED TO DO THIS AND WAS SO SORRY HE HAD NOT MANAGED +THE GENERAL PLEASURE AND DISAPPOINT EVERYONE’S EXPECTATION. PRINCE +THE GENERALS SEEMED TO LISTEN RELUCTANTLY TO THE DIFFICULT DISPOSITIONS. +THE GENERAL STATE OF AFFAIRS WHICH WAS FAR FROM SATISFACTORY. +THE GENERAL, THE MEN THEMSELVES NOT KNOWING WHAT, OR WHY, THEY WERE +THE GENTLEMEN AND MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE ROSE AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS, +THE GENTLEMEN OF THE TSAR’S SUITE BY HIS POOR FRENCH. +THE GESTURE OF A MAN TOO BUSY TO LOSE A MOMENT, GLANCED AT KUTúZOV AND, +THE GIRLS SPRANG ASIDE. DENíSOV HID HIS HAIRY LEGS UNDER THE BLANKET, +THE GLORY OF OUR ARMS AND OF THE DAY’S WORK, THEY ASSUMED A SERIOUS +THE GOOD-NATURED IOGEL, FLYING ABOUT LIKE A FEATHER AND BOWING ACCORDING +THE GRAND MASTER BEGAN READING THE STATUTES. THEY WERE VERY LONG, AND +THE GRAND MASTER PROPOSED THAT THE LAST DUTY SHOULD BE PERFORMED, +THE GRAND MASTER RAPPED WITH HIS MALLET. ALL THE MASONS SAT DOWN IN +THE GREATER PART OF THE MEN HAD TO HALT AND AN UNPLEASANT CONSCIOUSNESS +THE GUARDS HAD GONE TO THE FRONT; DóLOKHOV HAD BEEN REDUCED TO THE +THE GUARDS HAD MADE THEIR WHOLE MARCH AS IF ON A PLEASURE TRIP, PARADING +THE GUESTS. TO EACH OF THEM HE MADE SOME CARELESS AND AGREEABLE REMARK +THE HAIR WAS WET, SO PROFUSELY HAD THE CHILD PERSPIRED. HE WAS NOT DEAD, +THE HALF-CLOSED EYES WAS THERE GREEDILY GNAWING A MUTTON BONE, AND THE +THE HANDSOME YOUNG EMPEROR ALEXANDER, IN THE UNIFORM OF THE HORSE +“THE HEAD OF THE GARRISON AT GLOGAU, WITH TEN THOUSAND MEN, ASKS THE +THE HEAVY STANDARD, HE RAN FORWARD WITH FULL CONFIDENCE THAT THE WHOLE +THE HIGHEST LAW THOU SHALT REGAIN TRACES OF THE ANCIENT DIGNITY WHICH +“THE HIGHEST WISDOM AND TRUTH ARE LIKE THE PUREST LIQUID WE MAY WISH +THE HIGHEST WISDOM HAS BUT ONE SCIENCE—THE SCIENCE OF THE WHOLE—THE +“THE HIGHEST WISDOM IS NOT FOUNDED ON REASON ALONE, NOT ON THOSE +THE HILL NOT TO GO BEYOND THE STREAM, BUT ROSTóV PRETENDED NOT TO HEAR +THE HOFKRIEGSRATH AND BOTH EMPERORS TOOK PART. AT THAT COUNCIL, CONTRARY +THE HOMESTEAD CONSISTED OF A THRESHING FLOOR, OUTHOUSES, STABLES, A +THE HONOR, BUT I SHALL NEVER BE YOUR SON’S WIFE.” +THE HOPE OF AN ALLIANCE WITH HER. +THE HORSE GUARDS. +THE HORSE GUARDS WERE GALLOPING, BUT STILL HOLDING IN THEIR HORSES. +THE HORSES’ CROUPS BEGAN TO SWAY IN THE FRONT LINE. ROOK PULLED AT THE +THE HUSSAR DID NOT REPLY. +THE HUSSAR ONLY SIGHED WITHOUT REPLYING AND COUGHED ANGRILY. THE SOUND +THE HUSSARS CROWDED ROUND AND RESPONDED HEARTILY WITH LOUD SHOUTS. +THE ICE BORE HIM BUT IT SWAYED AND CREAKED, AND IT WAS PLAIN THAT IT +THE ICE GAVE WAY UNDER ONE OF THE FOREMOST SOLDIERS, AND ONE LEG SLIPPED +THE ICON STAND. TO HER SURPRISE AND DISTRESS SHE FOUND THAT HER PRAYERS +THE IDEA OF DEFEAT AND FLIGHT COULD NOT ENTER ROSTóV’S HEAD. THOUGH +THE INFANTRY REGIMENTS THAT HAD BEEN CAUGHT UNAWARES IN THE OUTSKIRTS +THE INHABITANTS OF THE DISTRICT. +THE INLAID PORTFOLIO. PIERRE SIGNED THE DEED AND AFTER THAT THE PRINCESS +THEIR ADJUTANTS HAD COME TO WITNESS THE CURIOUS PHENOMENON OF THE +THEIR CLEANLINESS AND DISCIPLINE. THEY HAD COME BY EASY STAGES, THEIR +THEIR FACES WAS A QUIET AND SOLEMN LOOK. +THEIR GRIEF IN THEIR OWN WAY. THE OLD PRINCE WOULD NOT CHERISH ANY HOPE: +THEIR GUNS, WERE RUNNING TOWARD HIM. HE ALSO SAW FRENCH INFANTRY +THEIR MARRIAGE, WITH BARE SHOULDERS AND A LANGUID, PASSIONATE LOOK ON +THEIR MEANING BUT MUST KEEP THEM. THE SECOND PAIR OF MAN’S GLOVES +THEIR NAME AND MY OWN I HOLD OUT A BROTHERLY HAND TO YOU.” +THEIR OWN RESOURCES WHAT MIGHT BE NEEDED FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE FETE. +THEIR PLACES, AND ONE OF THEM READ AN EXHORTATION ON THE NECESSITY OF +THE LANDING BELOW, PHILIP, THE FOOTMAN, STOOD LOOKING SCARED AND HOLDING +THE LARGE DRAWING ROOM. PRINCE VASíLI CAME UP TO PIERRE WITH LANGUID +THE LAST OF THE HORSE GUARDS, A HUGE POCKMARKED FELLOW, FROWNED ANGRILY +THE LAST POST STATION BUT ONE BEFORE MOSCOW, DENíSOV HAD DRUNK THREE +THE LATTER BEGAN TO FEEL THAT IT WAS IN BAD TASTE TO SPEAK OF HIS +THE LATTER LAY SILENT IN THE SLEIGH WITH CLOSED EYES AND DID NOT ANSWER +THE LEFT-FLANK COLUMNS HAD ALREADY DESCENDED. +THE LEFT, THE FIRING BECAME MORE DISTINCT. KUTúZOV HAD STOPPED AND WAS +THE LETTER WAS OLD, HAVING BEEN WRITTEN BEFORE THE BATTLE AT +THE LINE OF RETREAT ON THE LEFT BY THE FRENCH. HOWEVER INCONVENIENT THE +THE LINE THAT HAD SO SHARPLY DIVIDED THE TWO ARMIES?” HE ASKED HIMSELF + * THE LITTLE ONE IS CHARMING. +THE LITTLE PRINCESS AND MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE HAD ALREADY RECEIVED +THE LITTLE PRINCESS GOT UP, RANG FOR THE MAID, AND HURRIEDLY AND MERRILY +THE LITTLE PRINCESS GRUMBLED TO HER MAID THAT HER BED WAS BADLY MADE. +THE LITTLE PRINCESS LAY SUPPORTED BY PILLOWS, WITH A WHITE CAP ON HER +THE LITTLE PRINCESS, LIKE AN OLD WAR HORSE THAT HEARS THE TRUMPET, +THE LITTLE PRINCESS, TAKING THE DRESS FROM THE MAID, CAME UP TO PRINCESS +THE LIVELINESS OF A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY, AND YET IT WAS THE FACE +THE LIVING CHARM OF HER NECK AND SHOULDERS, SO NEAR TO HIS LIPS THAT +THE LODGE, TOLD THE PASSWORD, AND AT LAST WAS PERMITTED TO SIT DOWN. +THE LOOK SHE FELT UPON HER MADE THAT WORLD STILL MORE POETIC. BUT +“THE LORD BE THANKED, YES!” +THE LOSS OF PRINCE ANDREW HAD REACHED BALD HILLS, AND IN SPITE OF THE +THEM.” +THEM, AND READS THOSE FROM THE EMPEROR ADDRESSED TO OTHERS. ‘AH! SO +THEM, AND SHE DOUBTS THE MEANS WE HAVE OF GAINING THEM. THAT IS THE +THEM, AND UNDERSTOOD THAT IT WAS USELESS AND EVEN CRUEL TO INSIST. +THE MAN WAS WEARING A BLUISH COAT OF BROADCLOTH, HE HAD NO KNAPSACK +THEM ARE HARMFUL, ESPECIALLY THE WOMEN. YES, DEAR BOY,” HE CONTINUED, +THE MASON CLEARED HIS THROAT HUSKILY, AS OLD MEN DO, AND CALLED HIS +THE MASON DID NOT MOVE AND FOR A LONG TIME SAID NOTHING AFTER THIS +THE MASON LOOKED INTENTLY AT PIERRE AND SMILED AS A RICH MAN WITH +THE MASON REMAINED SILENT FOR A LONG TIME, EVIDENTLY CONSIDERING. +THE MASON’S ARGUMENTS; HE DREADED NOT TO BE ABLE TO BELIEVE IN HIM. +THE MASON SMILED WITH HIS GENTLE FATHERLY SMILE. +THE MASON. “YES, I NEVER THOUGHT OF IT, BUT I HAVE LED A CONTEMPTIBLE +THE MAZURKA, WHICH WAS JUST COMING INTO FASHION, WERE DANCED. IOGEL HAD +THEM CURIOSITY, AWE, AND EVEN LOVE—A SUPERCILIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS OF +THEM DOWN! WHAT?...” SAID ROSTóV, WAKING UP. AT THE MOMENT HE OPENED +THE MEETING WAS AT AN END, AND ON REACHING HOME PIERRE FELT AS IF HE HAD +THE MEMBERS AND GUESTS OF THE CLUB WANDERED HITHER AND THITHER, SAT, +THE MEN AND OFFICERS RETURNING SPOKE OF A BRILLIANT VICTORY, OF THE +THE MEN (THE COMMANDERS, AS WE SAW AT THE COUNCIL OF WAR, WERE OUT OF +THEM FROM OTHERS WAS THE ABSENCE OF HOST OR HOSTESS AND THE PRESENCE OF +THEM!” HE REFLECTED. +THE MIDDLE OF A FIELD WITHOUT RHYME OR REASON. IT’S ALL THOSE DAMNED +THE MIDWIFE WAS ALREADY ON HER WAY TO MEET HER, RUBBING HER SMALL, PLUMP +THEM. IF HE IS NOT RICH I WILL GIVE HER THE MEANS; I WILL ASK MY +THE MILDNESS OF HIS FEATURES, WAS ALL THE GREATER. ROSTóV WAS HAPPY +THE MINISTER AND HIS SON HAD ARRIVED, BUT THE APPEARANCE OF BOTH HAD +THEM IN THE THICK FOG, THE RUSSIANS EXCHANGED SHOTS WITH THE ENEMY +THE MIST, AND HIS COLD FACE WORE THAT SPECIAL LOOK OF CONFIDENT, +THE MIST. FROM INFORMATION HE HAD RECEIVED THE EVENING BEFORE, FROM THE +THEM IT WAS DIFFICULT TO GET OUT AGAIN. ONE WAS SHOUTING, “GET ON! +THE MOMENT HE HEARD THE FIRING AND THE CRY FROM BEHIND, THE GENERAL +THE MOMENT IS NOT BONAPARTE BUT BUXHöWDEN. GENERAL BUXHöWDEN WAS ALL +THE MORE DEPRESSED. +THEM OR MAKE THEM MOVE. ON THE ONE HAND, THE CHIEF STEWARD PUT THE STATE +THE MORNING OF THE TWENTIETH, WHEN THE MEMORABLE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ +THEM PIERRE NOTICED A LARGE CAST IRON RING WITH A SEAL REPRESENTING A +THEM—REMAINED FOR A WHILE WITHOUT ANY DEFINITE OPINION ON THE SUBJECT +THEM REST AND LEISURE?” SAID PIERRE, HURRYING AND LISPING. “AND +THEMSELVES AND GROW MORE AND MORE MISERABLE.” +THEMSELVES QUITE INNOCENT, AND SINCE THAT DAY WHEN HE WAS OVERPOWERED +THEMSELVES, STIFLE THIS REMORSE AND GROW CALLOUS, AS A RESULT OF BEING +THEMSELVES TO TúSHIN IN ALL THEIR HORROR. HE HAD BEEN SO EXCITED THAT +THEM SOMETHING FUNNY AND KEPT THEM AMUSED, WHILE HE WATCHED THE YOUNG +THEM STRANGELY OF THE LITTLE PRINCESS. BUT WHAT WAS STILL STRANGER, +THEM TAKING OFF HIS CAP) “FROM HIS ANIMAL CONDITION AND AWAKEN IN HIM +THEM THE ORDER TO MARCH, THEREBY INDICATING THAT HE INTENDED TO LEAD +THEM, WHEN SUDDENLY, CLINKING HIS SPURS AND SPREADING OUT HIS LEGS, +THEN A GENERAL RODE PAST SHOUTING SOMETHING ANGRILY, NOT IN RUSSIAN. +THEN A GLEAM OF BAYONETS; TO THE LEFT BEYOND THE VILLAGE SIMILAR MASSES +“THEN ALLOW ME TO EXPRESS YOUR REGRETS, AND I AM SURE YOUR OPPONENT +THEN ALL WILL BE RIGHT, AS OUR BEAR HUNTSMAN AT KOSTROMá USED TO TELL +“THEN AM I TO ORDER THOSE LARGE STERLETS?” ASKED THE STEWARD. +THEN APPOINTED TO SUPERVISE THE ENROLLMENT DECREED THROUGHOUT RUSSIA. +THEN A THIN, PALE SOLDIER, HIS NECK BANDAGED WITH A BLOODSTAINED LEG +THEN BOTH VOICES TOGETHER WITH GLAD INTONATIONS, AND THEN FOOTSTEPS. +THEN BROUGHT BACK TO THE GENERAL CIRCLE. +THEN DETACHED IDEAS AND IMPRESSIONS FROM THE WORLD OF REALITY SHOT +THE NEAREST SOLDIERS SHRANK BACK, THE GUN DRIVER STOPPED HIS HORSE, BUT +THE NEWCOMER WAS A SHORT, LARGE-BONED, YELLOW-FACED, WRINKLED OLD +THE NEW HOMESTEAD HE WAS CONSTRUCTING AND ITS BUILDINGS, BUT EVEN HERE, +THE NEXT DAY THE EMPEROR STOPPED AT WISCHAU, AND VILLIER, HIS PHYSICIAN, +THEN HE DID EVERYTHING SO SIMPLY AND WITH SUCH ASSURANCE!) MADEMOISELLE +THEN HE RECALLED THE COARSENESS AND BLUNTNESS OF HER THOUGHTS AND THE +THE NIGHT TEN MILES FROM OLMüTZ AND NEXT MORNING WERE TO COME STRAIGHT +THE NIGHT WAS FOGGY AND THROUGH THE FOG THE MOONLIGHT GLEAMED +“THEN I MAY RECKON ON IT, YOUR EXCELLENCY?” +THE NONSENSE TALKED BY THE AUSTRIAN GENERALS. SHINSHíN, STANDING CLOSE +THE NOVELTY ANNA PáVLOVNA WAS SETTING BEFORE HER GUESTS THAT EVENING +THEN QUICKLY GLANCED AT DóLOKHOV AND, BENDING HIS FINGER AS HE HAD BEEN +THEN SUDDENLY HE REALIZED THE JOYFUL SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT WAIL; TEARS +THEN THAT SAME FACE PALE, QUIVERING, AND SUFFERING, AS IT HAD BEEN WHEN +THEN THE VOICE SAID SOMETHING MORE, DEMYáN REPLIED, AND THE STEPS IN +“THEN THEY’VE NOT GONE TO BED YET? WHAT DO YOU THINK? MIND NOW, +THE NURSE BROUGHT IT TO HIM AND NODDED APPROVAL WHEN SHE TOLD HIM THAT +THE NURSE LIT THE GILT CANDLES BEFORE THE ICONS AND SAT DOWN BY THE DOOR +“THEN WHAT IS THIS BLOOD ON THE GUN CARRIAGE?” INQUIRED TúSHIN. +“THEN WHEN AM I TO HAVE IT?” +“THEN WHY ARE YOU HERE? YOU SHOULD HAVE GONE ON LONG AGO, NOW YOU +THEN WITH REMARKS WHICH SHOWED THAT HE WAS IN A GOOD TEMPER. +“THEN YOU ARE SERVING?” +THE OFFICERS AS HE WENT: “HAVE THESE GENTLEMEN ATTENDED TO AND TAKEN +THE OFFICERS GATHERED ROUND DENíSOV’S CANTEEN, EATING AND TALKING. +THE OFFICERS GOT UP AND STOOD ROUND THE COSSACKS AND THEIR PRISONER. +THE OFFICERS OR ADJUTANTS WHO WANDERED ABOUT IN THE FOG IN THOSE UNKNOWN +THE OLD AUNT RECEIVED THE TWO YOUNG PEOPLE IN HER CORNER, BUT SEEMED +THE OLD COUNT CAST DOWN HIS EYES ON HEARING HIS SON’S WORDS AND BEGAN +THE OLD COUNTESS, NOT LETTING GO OF HIS HAND AND KISSING IT EVERY +THE OLD COUNT PRETENDED TO BE ANGRY. +THE OLD COUNT, THE COUNTESS, PéTYA, VéRA, NATáSHA, AND SóNYA, AND +THE OLD LADY. +THE OLD MAN TURNED ANGRILY AWAY. +THE OLD PRINCE DID NOT SLEEP EITHER. TíKHON, HALF ASLEEP, HEARD HIM +THE OLD PRINCE DRESSED LEISURELY IN HIS STUDY, FROWNING AND CONSIDERING +THE OLD PRINCE FIRST HEARD OF THE DEFEAT AT AUSTERLITZ STATED, AS USUAL +THE OLD PRINCE KNEW THAT IF HE TOLD HIS DAUGHTER SHE WAS MAKING A +THE OLD PRINCESS CAME IN AND ALSO WEPT. THE ELDERLY LADY WAS USING +THE OLD PRINCESS DID NOT REPLY, SHE WAS TORMENTED BY JEALOUSY OF HER +THE OLD PRINCE. “VERY, VERY GLAD TO HAVE SEEN YOU,” REPEATED HE, +THE OLD PRINCE WAS VERY AFFECTIONATE AND CAREFUL IN HIS TREATMENT OF +THE ONE THAT WILL RESULT FROM IT WILL BE AS VICTORIOUS! HOWEVER, DEAR +THE ONLOOKERS, “WILL IT BE LONG? ARE THINGS READY?” +THE ORDERLIES LOOKED AT HIM AS IF THEY WISHED TO IMPRESS ON HIM THAT A +THE ORDERS WERE TO ABANDON THE WOUNDED, MANY OF THEM DRAGGED THEMSELVES +THE OTHER CLUTCHED HIS DROOPING PISTOL. HIS FACE WAS PALE. ROSTóV RAN +THE OTHER COMMITTEEMEN. “THERE WILL BE MANY TOASTS, IT’S TIME TO +THE OTHER, QUITE A NEW REFLECTION OF THE SOCIETY IN WHICH THEY HAD TAKEN +THE OTHERS BUT WIN FROM YOU. OR ARE YOU AFRAID OF ME?” HE ASKED AGAIN. +THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FIRE, WARMING HIS THIN YELLOW BODY. +THE PACK. MUCH DEPENDED ON ROSTóV’S WINNING OR LOSING ON THAT SEVEN +THE PARTY OF THE YOUNG HAD TRIUMPHED. THE VOICES OF THOSE WHO COUNSELED +“THE PáVLOGRAD HUSSARS?” HE INQUIRED. +THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW OF IT THE LESS A WOMAN IN TRAVAIL SUFFERS, EVERYONE +“THE PICKET IS STILL ON THE HILL, YOUR EXCELLENCY, JUST WHERE IT WAS +THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE OLD COUNTESS AND OF SOCIETY IT WAS OUT OF THE +THE POSSESSOR OF WEALTH. HOW HAVE YOU USED IT? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE +THE POSTMASTER CAME IN AND BEGAN OBSEQUIOUSLY TO BEG HIS EXCELLENCY TO +THE POSTMASTER, HIS WIFE, THE VALET, AND A PEASANT WOMAN SELLING +“THE PRAISE OF A GREAT COMMANDER IS A SOLDIER’S HIGHEST REWARD,” +THE PRE-EMINENCE. +THE PRIEST WITH A GOOSE FEATHER ANOINTED THE BOY’S LITTLE RED AND +THE PRINCE BOWED HIS HEAD AND WENT UP TO THE PORCH. “GOD BE +THE PRINCE LOOKED AT HIS DAUGHTER’S FRIGHTENED FACE AND SNORTED. +THE PRINCESS DID NOT FALL DOWN OR FAINT. SHE WAS ALREADY PALE, BUT ON +THE PRINCESS SANK HELPLESSLY INTO AN ARMCHAIR BESIDE HER FATHER AND +THE PRINCESS SAW THAT HER FATHER REGARDED THE MATTER WITH DISAPPROVAL, +THE PRINCESS WENT UP TO THE DOOR, PASSED BY IT WITH A DIGNIFIED AND +THE PRINCE STOPPED. HE SAW THE EFFECT THESE WORDS HAD PRODUCED ON HIS +THE PRINCE TURNED ROUND TO THE OVERSEER AND FIXED HIS EYES ON HIM, +THE PRINCE WAS LYING ON THE SOFA, LOOKED AT HIM, NOTICED HIS PERTURBED +THE PRUSSIAN ARMY AND WAS AIDE-DE-CAMP TO A VERY IMPORTANT PERSONAGE. +THE QUIET HOME LIFE AND PEACEFUL HAPPINESS OF BALD HILLS PRESENTED +THE RANKS. +THE RANKS, AND ABOVE ALL BEING UNABLE TO SEE ANYTHING IN FRONT OR AROUND +“THERE ARE PRECEDENTS, I MAY MENTION SCHWARZENBERG.” +“THERE ARE SO MANY PRISONERS TODAY, NEARLY THE WHOLE RUSSIAN ARMY, +THERE AS HE. AND NOW—THIS DUEL! HAVE THESE PEOPLE NO FEELING, OR +THE RECEPTION ROOM, WHERE HE FOUND SOME TEN OFFICERS AND GENERALS. +THE RECRUITING, GRANTED BY THE EMPEROR. IF I HAD BEEN TWO HOURS LATE +(THE REFLECTION WAS STILL INCOMPLETE), HE CAUGHT HIMSELF SMILING AND WAS +THEREFORE MET WITH UNALTERED LOOKS THE ANGRILY INQUISITIVE EXPRESSION OF +THEREFORE YOU SEEK WISDOM AND VIRTUE. IS THAT NOT SO?” SAID THE +THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER ON HORSEBACK AND SOME TEN MEN OF HIS COMPANY, +THE REGIMENT KUTúZOV HAD REVIEWED AT BRAUNAU AND IN WHICH DóLOKHOV WAS +THE REGIMENT UNDER A HAIL OF BULLETS WHICH FELL AROUND, BUT FORTUNATELY +“THERE HE IS!” SAID BORíS, THINKING ROSTóV HAD SAID “HIS +“THERE... HE’S PUFFING AGAIN,” MUTTERED TúSHIN TO HIMSELF, AS A +THERE IN WHICH HE HAD NOW NO PART COULD PERTURB HIM. HE SHUT HIS EYES, +THERE IS HARDLY TIME TO PUT IN ACTION—SEEING PIERRE, TOUCHED HIS +“THERE IS SOMETHING NASTY, SOMETHING WRONG, IN THE FEELING SHE EXCITES +“THERE IS SOMETHING UP,” THOUGHT NICHOLAS, AND HE WAS FURTHER +THE REMAINS OF LANGERON’S AND DOKHTúROV’S MINGLED FORCES WERE +“THERE NOW! IT’S TRUE THAT ALL YOU WOMEN ARE CRYBABIES,” REMARKED +“THERE NOW, THE KúRSKIES HAVE ALSO GONE PAST,” WAS BEING SAID IN +“THERE NOW, YOU WISH TO LIBERATE YOUR SERFS,” HE CONTINUED; “THAT +THERE. PIERRE HAD THE AIR OF A MAN PREOCCUPIED WITH CONSIDERATIONS WHICH +“THE RESERVES, SIRE!” REPLIED A VOICE, A VERY HUMAN ONE COMPARED TO +“THERE’S NO NEED TO TALK! HE RECEIVES HIS ORDERS AND WILL MARRY YOU +“THERE’S NOTHING FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND,” SHE CRIED OUT WITH +THE RESOUNDING STRAINS OF THE POLONAISE: +THERE’S SOME MISTAKE,” THOUGHT HE. “THEY CAN’T HAVE WANTED TO +THE REST.” +“THERE’S THE CORNER AT THE CROSSROADS, WHERE THE CABMAN, ZAKHáR, +THE REST OF HIS LIFE. +THE REST OF THE EVENING. +“THERE, THERE! DO YOU FEEL IT? I FEEL SO STRANGE. AND DO YOU KNOW, +“THERE! THEY ARE BRINGING ANOTHER!” CRIED ONE OF THE OFFICERS, +THE RETREAT FROM AUSTERLITZ, WHERE HE ALONE HAD WITHDRAWN HIS COLUMN +THE REVOLVING PULLEYS WHIRR WITH THE RAPIDITY OF THEIR MOVEMENT, BUT A +THERE WAS NO ANSWER TO ANY OF THESE QUESTIONS, EXCEPT ONE, AND THAT +THERE WAS NO LAUGHTER IN THE MAIDS’ LARGE HALL. IN THE MEN SERVANTS’ +THERE WAS NONE HE WOULD SO MUCH LIKE TO HAVE FOR A FRIEND AS THAT VERY +THERE WAS NO ONE BEYOND THE DITCH NOW. ONLY SOME CARTS AND CARRIAGES +THERE WAS NO ONE IN THE HALL. “OH GOD! IS EVERYONE ALL RIGHT?” +THERE WAS NO REASON WHY IT SHOULD NOT REACH THE PáVLOGRAD REGIMENT, +THERE WAS NOTHING BETWEEN THE SQUADRON AND THE ENEMY, AND AGAIN THAT +THERE WAS NOTHING TO BE SAID, AND NEITHER WISHED TO GIVE OCCASION FOR +THERE WAS REALLY NOTHING TO BE SEEN IN FRONT EXCEPT A BARREN DESCENT +THERE WAS STILL THE SAME BEWITCHING COMBINATION OF MAJESTY AND MILDNESS +THERE WERE IN THE ROOM A CHILD’S COT, TWO BOXES, TWO ARMCHAIRS, A +“THERE WILL BE A COUNCIL OF WAR AT KUTúZOV’S TONIGHT, THOUGH; YOU +THE RHETOR BUT PIERRE’S SPONSOR, WILLARSKI, WHOM HE RECOGNIZED BY HIS +THE RHETOR CLEARED HIS THROAT, CROSSED HIS GLOVED HANDS ON HIS BREAST, +THE RHETOR, “IS AN EMBLEM OF SOMETHING NOT COGNIZABLE BY THE SENSES +THE RIGHT FLANK AND THE FRENCH WERE ALREADY ADVANCING, WERE ENGAGED +THE RIGHT THEY WILL EXPOSE A FLANK TO ME. SOLDIERS! I WILL MYSELF DIRECT +THE ROAD HE REINED IN HIS HORSE, HESITATING WHETHER TO RIDE ALONG IT OR +THE ROOM, AND SEEMING NOT TO NOTICE THE CHAIRS WAS DASHING STRAIGHT AT +THE ROOM, PONDERING OVER HIS VICIOUS PAST, AND WITH A RAPTUROUS SENSE +THE ROSTóVS KNEW EVERYBODY IN MOSCOW. THE OLD COUNT HAD MONEY ENOUGH +THE ROSTóVS SINCE THE DAY OF HIS DEPARTURE FOR THE ARMY. TO BE IN ANNA +THE RUSSIAN WITH HIS HEIR THE TSARéVICH, AND THE AUSTRIAN WITH THE +THE SALE OF THE LAND AND FORESTS AND TO RELEASE THEM FROM THE LAND BANK, +THE SALUTE AND UNABLE TO REPRESS THE SMILE OF DELIGHT INDUCED BY HIS +THE SAME HAPPY, RAPTUROUS FACES TURNED TO THE SHAGGY FIGURE OF DENíSOV. +THE SAME, THEN WHY THIS DUEL, THIS MURDER? EITHER I SHALL KILL HIM, OR +THE SAME TIME, MY HONORED BENEFACTOR,” WROTE PRINCE VASíLI. “MY SON +THE SCORE AGAINST HIM REACHED THE FATEFUL SUM OF FORTY-THREE THOUSAND. +THE SCOUNDRELS!” +THE SEAT INDICATED TO HIM BESIDE THE FAIR HéLèNE AND LISTENED TO THE +THE SERGEANT TO MEET SOME MOUNTED MEN WHO WERE RIDING ALONG THE LINE. +THE SERIOUS FACES OF THOSE AROUND, REMEMBERED ALL HE HAD ALREADY GONE +THE SERVANT BROUGHT BACK HIS TUMBLER TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, * WITH AN +THE SERVANT HANDED HIM A BOOK WHICH PIERRE TOOK TO BE A DEVOTIONAL WORK, +THESE SAME QUESTIONS WHICH HE COULD NOT SOLVE AND YET COULD NOT CEASE TO +THESE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS HAD NO DEPRESSING OR INTIMIDATING EFFECT ON HIM; +THE SHIRT. +THE SIGHT OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. +THE SILENCE LASTED SOME TIME. PRINCE BAGRATIóN, APPARENTLY NOT WISHING +THE SINEWS AND SCORCHING THE FLESH OF HIS SPRAINED ARM AND SHOULDER. TO +THE SMELL OF LINSTOCKS, CAME THE ARTILLERY WHICH CRAWLED BETWEEN THE +THE SMOKE, ROSTóV HESITATED WHETHER TO GALLOP AFTER THEM OR TO GO WHERE +THE SNOW, GREEDILY BIT AT IT, AGAIN RAISED HIS HEAD, ADJUSTED HIMSELF, +“THE SNOW IS DEEP. I AM HAVING THE AVENUE SWEPT, YOUR HONOR.” +THE SOLDIER ALWAYS HAS AROUND HIM THE SAME COMRADES, THE SAME RANKS, THE +THE SOLDIERS’ FACES AND UNNATURAL WARLIKE SOLEMNITY ON THOSE OF THE +THE SOLDIERS LAUGHED. A MOMENT LATER, AN ADJUTANT ARRIVED WITH THE SAME +THE SOLDIERS WHO HAD CARRIED PRINCE ANDREW HAD NOTICED AND TAKEN THE +THE SOUND OF MUSKETRY AT THE FOOT OF THE HILL, NOW DIMINISHING, NOW +THE SOUTHERN SPRING, THE COMFORTABLE RAPID TRAVELING IN A VIENNA +THE SPECIAL DEEP COOING TONE, PRECLUDING THE POSSIBILITY OF INTERRUPTING +THE SPOT CHOSEN FOR THE DUEL WAS SOME EIGHTY PACES FROM THE ROAD, +THE SQUADRON IN WHICH ROSTóV WAS SERVING HAD SCARCELY TIME TO MOUNT +THE STAFF OFFICER ON DUTY. +THE STANDARD. +THE STATE OF THE PRUSSIAN ARMY. AS SOON AS HE HAD FINISHED SHE TURNED TO +“THE STEP MUST BE TAKEN BUT I CANNOT, I CANNOT!” THOUGHT PIERRE, +THE STEWARD DID NOT SAY IT WAS QUITE IMPOSSIBLE, BUT SUGGESTED SELLING +THE STEWARDS (THERE WERE SEMILITERATE FOREMEN AMONG THEM) LISTENED WITH +THE STILL GREATER UNIMPORTANCE OF DEATH, THE MEANING OF WHICH NO ONE +THE STORES ARE EMPTY, THE ROADS IMPASSABLE. THE ORTHODOX BEGIN LOOTING, +THE STRANGER’S FACE WAS NOT GENIAL, IT WAS EVEN COLD AND SEVERE, BUT +THE STRETCHERS MOVED ON. AT EVERY JOLT HE AGAIN FELT UNENDURABLE PAIN; +THE STRUGGLING MEN, AND THE FATE OF THE RED-HAIRED GUNNER, WHO HAD +THE SUTLERS. ON RECEIVING BORíS’ LETTER HE RODE WITH A FELLOW OFFICER +THE TABLE IN A MERRY MOOD, SITTING DOWN NOW BY ONE, NOW BY ANOTHER, OF +THE TABLE, SCREENED BY A BOUND MUSIC BOOK SO THAT THE LIGHT DID NOT FALL +THE TABLE WHICH WAS SCRAWLED OVER WITH FIGURES, WET WITH SPILLED WINE, +THE TALL, FAIR-HAIRED GENERAL BUXHöWDEN STOOD, LEANING HIS BACK AGAINST +THE TEARS FROM HIS EYES AND FROM THE LETTER, THEN HAVING DRIED HER +THE TEMPERATURE SHOWN BY THE POLITICAL THERMOMETER TO THE COMPANY THAT +THE TERMINATION OF THE CEREMONY. HE LOOKED UP JOYFULLY AT THE BABY WHEN +THE THIRD DIVISION AND CONVINCED HIMSELF THAT THERE REALLY WERE NO +THE THIRD TIME THE RHETOR CAME BACK MORE QUICKLY AND ASKED PIERRE +THE THREE VOICES, HERS, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE’S, AND KATIE’S, WHO +THE THUERASSA, HE MERELY SAVES US A GREAT DEAL OF TROUBLE AND ALL OUR +THE TIME HAD COME TO EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF AN ATTACK OF WHICH HE HAD SO +THE TORZHóK PEDDLER WOMAN, IN A WHINING VOICE, WENT ON OFFERING HER +THE TOWN WHERE THE HEADQUARTERS AND THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS WERE STATIONED +THE TRAVELER WAS JOSEPH ALEXéEVICH BAZDéEV, AS PIERRE SAW FROM THE +THE TREMOR OF THE SPEAKER’S VOICE—WHICH SOMETIMES ALMOST BROKE—OR +THE TROOPS AGAIN BEGAN TO MOVE, AND TWO BATTALIONS OF THE NóVGOROD AND +THE TROOPS OF THE VANGUARD WERE STATIONED BEFORE WISCHAU, WITHIN SIGHT +THE TROOPS WERE RUNNING IN SUCH A DENSE MASS THAT ONCE SURROUNDED BY +THE TSAR!” +THE TSAR ADDRESSED THE OFFICERS ALSO: “I THANK YOU ALL, GENTLEMEN, I +THE TSAR HEARD BUT OBVIOUSLY DID NOT LIKE THE REPLY; HE SHRUGGED HIS +THE TSAR LOOKED INTENTLY AND OBSERVANTLY INTO KUTúZOV’S EYE +THE TSAR SAID SOMETHING MORE WHICH ROSTóV DID NOT HEAR, AND THE +THE TSAR STOPPED A FEW MINUTES IN FRONT OF THE HUSSARS AS IF UNDECIDED. +THE TSAR WITH ANOTHER GLANCE AT THE EMPEROR FRANCIS, AS IF INVITING +THE TVERSKáYA STREET RODE THE HUSSAR WITH MUSTACHES... I THOUGHT ABOUT +THE TWO GENERALS AND THE ADJUTANT TOOK HOLD OF THE FIELD GLASS, TRYING +THE UNSOLVED PROBLEM THAT TORMENTED HIM WAS CAUSED BY HINTS GIVEN BY THE +THE USELESSNESS OF FREEING THE SERFS, WHO WERE QUITE HAPPY AS IT WAS. +THE VALLEY. THE FOURTH COLUMN, WITH WHICH KUTúZOV WAS, STOOD ON THE +THE VERY TIME HE WAS EXPRESSING THIS CONVICTION TO HIMSELF, IN ANOTHER +THE VILLAGE AGAIN, BUT TúSHIN’S GUNS COULD NOT MOVE, AND THE +THE VILLAGE LETTING THE TROOPS PASS BY HIM. THAT MORNING KUTúZOV SEEMED +THE VISITORS, AND BEFORE THE VISITORS I TELL YOU THAT IN FUTURE YOU ARE +THE WALL, HIS EYES FIXED ON A BURNING CANDLE, AND SEEMED NOT TO LISTEN +THE WAR WAS FLAMING UP AND NEARING THE RUSSIAN FRONTIER. EVERYWHERE ONE +THE WAX WITH THE BABY’S HAIR HAD NOT SUNK IN THE FONT BUT HAD FLOATED. +THE WHOLE DAY WAS FINALLY AND INDUBITABLY ANSWERED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. +THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE, OFFERING IT IN OUR MEMBERS AN EXAMPLE OF PIETY +THE WHOLE INTEREST WAS CONCENTRATED ON ROSTóV. INSTEAD OF SIXTEEN +THE WHOLE MATTER AND DECIDE WHAT WAS RIGHT AND HOW HE SHOULD ACT, BUT +THE WIND. +THE WIND HAD FALLEN AND BLACK CLOUDS, MERGING WITH THE POWDER SMOKE, +THE WOMAN HE HAD KNOWN AS A CHILD, OF WHOM WHEN HER BEAUTY WAS MENTIONED +“THE WOUND IS NOT HERE, IT IS THERE!” SAID KUTúZOV, PRESSING THE +THEY ALL HAD BUT ONE WISH: TO ADVANCE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AGAINST THE +THEY ALL SEPARATED, BUT, EXCEPT ANATOLE WHO FELL ASLEEP AS SOON AS HE +THEY ALL WERE, OR SEEMED TO BE, PRETTY—SO RAPTUROUS WERE THEIR SMILES +THEY ARE BEATEN, FLOGGED, OR SENT TO SIBERIA, I DON’T SUPPOSE THEY ARE +“THEY CAN’T BE FAR OFF, PROBABLY JUST BEYOND THE STREAM,” HE SAID +“THEY COAX ME AS IF I WERE VáSKA THE CAT!” SAID DENíSOV JOKINGLY. +THEY COULD NOT FAIL TO VANQUISH ANYONE, BE IT WHOM IT MIGHT: SO THOUGHT +THEY HAD ENTERED MOSCOW. +THEY HAD NOT MET FOR NEARLY HALF A YEAR AND, BEING AT THE AGE WHEN YOUNG +THEY HALTED IN SILENCE. THERE WAS NOTHING FRESH TO BE SEEN FROM THE +“THEY HAVE GONE TO BED AND PUT OUT THEIR LIGHTS, YOUR EXCELLENCY.” +THEY NAMED THE COLONEL, PRINCE REPNíN. +THE YOUNGER EMPEROR COULD NOT RESTRAIN HIS WISH TO BE PRESENT AT THE +THE YOUTH AND INEXPERIENCE OF THE SOVEREIGN, WHO HAD TRUSTED WORTHLESS +THEY QUITE UNDERSTOOD ONE ANOTHER AS TO THE FIRST PART OF THEIR ROMANCE, +“THEY’RE ALWAYS IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE,” HE THOUGHT OF SóNYA AND +THEY’RE COMING!” ALARMED VOICES WERE HEARD, AND A STIR OF FINAL +THEY ROSE FROM THE TABLE AND SAT DOWN IN THE ENTRANCE PORCH WHICH SERVED +“THEY SAY PIERRE IS QUITE BROKEN BY HIS MISFORTUNE.” +THEY SEEMED OF THEM, ONE COULD FEEL BY THE OCCASIONAL GLANCES THEY GAVE +THEY WENT OUT AND WALKED ABOUT TILL DINNERTIME, TALKING OF THE POLITICAL +“THEY WERE IN A HURRY ENOUGH TO START US, AND NOW HERE WE STAND IN +THEY WERE SAYING WAS AMUSING, BUT BECAUSE SHE FELT HAPPY AND WAS UNABLE +“THEY WERE THERE THIS EVENING, BUT NOW I DON’T KNOW, YOUR +THEY WOULD HAVE REMAINED THERE FOR A LONG TIME TESTING EACH OTHER’S +THEY WOULD NOT FOR AN INSTANT LET HIS SHOULDER MOVE A HAIR’S BREADTH. +THING HE WOULD HAVE TO UNITE HIS FATE WITH HERS. HE MIGHT PERHAPS HAVE +THINGS HE SHOULD HAVE SHOWN IT SOONER, BUT HE LETS IT GO ON FOR MONTHS. +THINGS THAT HAD NEVER OCCURRED. MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE ALSO SHARED THEM +THINGS THE OLD COUNT SENT TO HIS SON. +THING WE ARE INTERESTED IN HERE,” SAID THE SPIRIT OF THE PLACE. +THINK COULD HARDLY BE FOUND NOWADAYS—BUT IS SHE CONTENTED WITH HER +THINK, COUNT? THE NEXT DAY IT WAS NOT EVEN MENTIONED IN THE ORDERS OF +THINKING? I MUSTN’T FORGET. HOW SHALL I SPEAK TO THE EMPEROR? NO, +THINK IT OVER. GO! YES OR NO, YES OR NO, YES OR NO!” HE STILL SHOUTED +THINK SO YOURSELF. AND THE MAIN THING IS,” HE CONTINUED, “THAT I +THIN LIPS INTERRUPTED WEYROTHER, WISHING TO SAY SOMETHING. BUT THE +THIS ACTIVE OLD SERVANT WAS UNPACKING THE TRAVELER’S CANTEEN AND +THIS ANSWER. “HAVE YOU SOUGHT FOR MEANS OF ATTAINING YOUR AIM IN +THIS BATTLE, WHICH CONSISTED IN THE CAPTURE OF A FRENCH SQUADRON, WAS +THIS BONE—A BILL FOR THIRTY THOUSAND RUBLES—TO THE POOR PRINCESS +THIS?” BUT THESE DOUBTS ONLY LASTED A MOMENT. PIERRE GLANCED AT +THIS CARD AND I’LL TAKE MY CAP AND DRIVE HOME TO SUPPER WITH DENíSOV, +THIS CONSCIOUSNESS OF MISMANAGEMENT BECAME A GENERAL CONVICTION, BUT AS +THIS GUARDSMAN WOULD CERTAINLY HAVE BOWLED ROSTóV AND HIS BEDOUIN OVER +THIS HEART, SO KIND AND GENEROUS? SAY ‘PERHAPS’... THE FUTURE IS SO +THIS HOLIDAY TIME. “SEIZE THE MOMENTS OF HAPPINESS, LOVE AND BE LOVED! +THIS INDECISION APPEARED TO HIM MAJESTIC AND ENCHANTING, LIKE EVERYTHING +THIS INFORMATION, THE LITTLE PRINCESS AND MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, WHOSE +THIS INSTANT!” THOUGHT ROSTóV. +THIS IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE. +“THIS IS ALL VERY FINE, BUT THINGS MUST BE SETTLED,” SAID PRINCE +“THIS IS NOT AT ALL THE THING,” HE SAID. “WHAT SORT OF POLISH +THIS IS THE BATTLE OF PULTúSK, WHICH IS CONSIDERED A GREAT VICTORY BUT +“THIS IS THE FIRST ACT. THOSE THAT FOLLOW ARE NATURALLY INCREASINGLY +THIS IS WHAT I WAS PROUD OF! I THEN THOUGHT THAT I DID NOT UNDERSTAND +THIS MARRIAGE. HE RECALLED HER FORMER WORDS AND LOOKS AND THE WORDS +THIS MAY BE MY ONLY CHANCE OF SEEING THE EMPEROR. IT WON’T BE LONG +THIS MISERY, AND MONEY, AND DóLOKHOV, AND ANGER, AND HONOR—IT’S ALL +THIS MOMENT OF HAPPY, RAPTUROUS EXCITEMENT. SHE GAZED AT HIM, NOT TAKING +THIS NAME DAY OF HERS HAD BEEN ONE OF THE PLEASANTEST SHE HAD EVER HAD. +THIS SHORT MAN HAD ON A WHITE LEATHER APRON WHICH COVERED HIS CHEST AND +THIS SHORT MAN NODDED TO DOLGORúKOV AS TO AN INTIMATE FRIEND AND STARED +THIS SILENCE WAS BROKEN BY ONE OF THE BRETHREN, WHO LED PIERRE UP TO THE +THIS SPEECH HOW THEY COULD BEST HANDLE THE MASTER FOR THEIR OWN ENDS. +THIS STRANGE INCIDENT, AND THEN SHRUGGING HIS SHOULDERS WENT TO THE DOOR +THIS STRONG, BRAVE MAN, THIS MODEL SON AND OFFICER THAT, JUDGING BY THIS +THIS TABLE WITH THE THOUGHT OF WINNING A HUNDRED RUBLES TO BUY THAT +THIS UNPLEASANT IMPRESSION MERELY FLITTED OVER THE YOUNG AND HAPPY FACE +THIS—WANT GLORY, WANT TO BE KNOWN TO MEN, WANT TO BE LOVED BY THEM, IT +THIS WAS QUITE TRUE, BUT THE COUNT, THE COUNTESS, AND NATáSHA LOOKED +THIS WAS TRUE. THE ARCHITECT HAD TOLD HIM THAT IT WAS NECESSARY, AND +THOSE BRILLIANT AGED EYES GROWN OLD IN THIS CONVICTION, OR THE CALM +THOSE FIRST STEPS. BOTH HAD CHANGED GREATLY SINCE THEY LAST MET AND BOTH +THOSE OF HIGHER RANKS IN THE ORDER. 3. MORALITY. 4. LOVE OF MANKIND. 5. +THOSE ON FOOT, COLLAPSED IN A GREAT MASS, AND SOME FORTY MEN WHO WERE ON +THOSE RECENTLY ARRIVED FROM RUSSIA, BOTH GUARDS AND REGIMENTS OF THE +THOSE RICHER AND MORE POWERFUL THAN HIMSELF AND HE HAD RARE SKILL IN +THOSE WHO HAD BEEN CAMPAIGNING UNDER KUTúZOV. THE TWO EMPERORS, +THOU ART WISE BECAUSE THOU COULDST UTTER THOSE BLASPHEMOUS WORDS,” HE +THOUGH ALL WERE IN A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE. THE MEN WHO SET THE TONE +THOUGH FIVE MINUTES BEFORE, PRINCE ANDREW HAD BEEN ABLE TO SAY A FEW +THOUGH HE SMILED DELIGHTEDLY. HE RAN UP TO THEM. +THOUGH HE WROTE IN FRENCH AND USED FRENCH JESTS AND FRENCH IDIOMS, +THOUGH MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE HAD BEEN SO UNSUCCESSFUL IN HER CHOICE +THOUGH NONE OF THE COLUMN COMMANDERS RODE UP TO THE RANKS OR TALKED TO +THOUGH NO WORDS HAD PASSED BETWEEN ANATOLE AND MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, +THOUGH OF THIS PRINCE ANDREW SAID NOTHING TO HIS SISTER, WAS THAT IN THE +THOUGH SHY, WENT ON CAREFULLY EXECUTING HER STEPS. DENíSOV DID NOT +THOUGHT AND HEARD OF HER MIGHT BE FALSE. AND HE AGAIN SAW HER NOT AS THE +THOUGHT. AND SUDDENLY, AT THIS THOUGHT OF DEATH, A WHOLE SERIES OF MOST +THOUGHT, AS HE LISTENED TO VOICES IN KUTúZOV’S COURTYARD. THE VOICES +THOUGHT, HE CALLED TíKHON AND BEGAN TO UNDRESS. +THOUGHT HE HEARD A STRANGE NOISE THROUGH THE DOOR. HE WAS SEIZED WITH +THOUGHT HE, “I SHALL BE SENT WITH A BRIGADE OR DIVISION, AND THERE, +THOUGHT, “I MUST REMAIN FREE.” +THOUGHT OF EVERYTHING, CONSIDERED EVERYTHING, AND DID EVERYTHING THE +THOUGHT OF SóNYA, DURING THIS STAY IN MOSCOW, HE SAID TO HIMSELF, +THOUGHT OF SUCH A THING, IT IS ONLY THE CABINET THAT SAYS IT.” +THOUGHT PIERRE, “AND HOW LITTLE ATTENTION WE PAY TO IT!” +THOUGHT PIERRE. “BUT THIS MAN KNOWS THE TRUTH AND, IF HE WISHED TO, +THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW, AND STRIKING HIS HORSE HE RODE UP TO KUTúZOV. +THOUGHT—REFERRING TO THE LITTLE PRINCESS WHO WAS NOT IN THE DINING +THOUGHT ROSTóV. AT THAT MOMENT ALEXANDER TURNED HIS HEAD AND ROSTóV +THOUGHT ROSTóV. HE KNEW WHAT A SHOCK HE WOULD INFLICT ON HIS FATHER AND +THOUGHT ROSTóV. “I SHOULD DIE OF HAPPINESS!” +THOUGHTS, AND MEMORIES SUDDENLY AROSE WITHIN HIM THAT HE COULD NOT FALL +THOUGHTS HE HAS DREAMED OF FOR NIGHTS, BUT LOOKS AROUND FOR HELP OR A +THOUGHT THAT HE, AN EXEMPLARY OFFICER OF MANY YEARS’ SERVICE WHO +THOUGH WITHOUT KNOWING ITS CAUSE—WAS SUCH AS TO REMIND ONE STILL MORE +THOU HAST LOST.” +“THOU HATEST IT. THEN CHANGE IT, PURIFY THYSELF; AND AS THOU ART +THOUSAND-RUBLE HORSES, ONLY EIGHTEEN WERE LEFT AFTER THE CHARGE. +THOUSANDS SUCH AS I IN RUSSIA.’ +THRASHING FOR LETTING A PRIVATE TRAVELER HAVE THE COURIER HORSES. +THREE BEATS: “OH MIO CRUDELE AFFETTO.”... ONE, TWO, THREE... ONE, +THREE DAYS LATER THE LITTLE PRINCESS WAS BURIED, AND PRINCE ANDREW WENT +“THREE,” HE WENT QUICKLY FORWARD, MISSING THE TRODDEN PATH AND +THREE PARTS OF THAT ARMY WERE SHARPLY DISTINGUISHED: KUTúZOV’S +THROTTLE IF THEY STOOD IN MY WAY. I HAVE AN ADORED, A PRICELESS MOTHER, +THROUGH, AND REALIZED THAT HE COULD NOT STOP HALFWAY. HE WAS AGHAST +THROUGH THE CONSERVATORIES, THE SERFS’ QUARTERS, AND THE OUTBUILDINGS, +THROUGH THE DOOR. PRINCE ANDREW GOT UP, WENT TO THE DOOR, AND TRIED TO +THROUGH THE NAïVE AND INTELLIGENT COUNT AND PLAYED WITH HIM AS WITH +THROUGH THE SMOKE. HE WAS PRESSING ONE HAND TO HIS LEFT SIDE, WHILE +THROWING DOWN HIS CHISEL. (THE WHEEL CONTINUED TO REVOLVE BY ITS OWN +THUD OF THE ENEMY’S CANNON BALLS, FROM THE FLUSHED AND PERSPIRING +THYSELF WHETHER THOU ART CONTENT WITH THYSELF. WHAT HAST THOU ATTAINED +TIDINESS AND GOOD MANAGEMENT. SOME DOMESTIC SERFS PIERRE MET, IN REPLY +TíKHON DID NOT HEAR THE SLIGHTEST SOUND FROM THE STUDY AFTER THAT. +TíKHON KNEW HIS MASTER’S HABIT OF SOMETIMES THINKING ALOUD, AND +TíKHON, LIKE ALL GOOD VALETS, INSTINCTIVELY KNEW THE DIRECTION OF HIS +TíKHON TO ASK MARY BOGDáNOVNA WHAT NEWS.—“SAY ONLY THAT ‘THE +TíKHON WENT AND TOLD THE PRINCE. +TILL HE BEGAN SINCERELY TO BELIEVE IN HIS OWN EXCEPTIONAL KINDNESS AND +TILL ITS COAT SHONE LIKE SATIN AND EVERY HAIR OF ITS WETTED MANE LAY +TILL MAY, AND ASKED HIM TO BE MORE ECONOMICAL THIS TIME. NICHOLAS HAD +TILL MIDDAY ON THE NINETEENTH, THE ACTIVITY—THE EAGER TALK, RUNNING TO +TILL NOW. BUT WHERE AM I?” +TILL TEN O’CLOCK. +TILL THEN, HAD LISTENED WITH AN AMUSED SMILE TO THEIR CONVERSATION AND +TILL THEN. THEIR POWERS OF REASONING, FEELING, AND OBSERVING IMMEDIATELY +TILL THE TSAR REACHED IT, EACH REGIMENT IN ITS SILENCE AND IMMOBILITY + * TILL TOMORROW, MY DEAR FELLOW. +TIME!” +TIME. +TIME FOR THAT SORT OF THING AND A YOUNG MAN FEARS TO BIND HIMSELF AND +TIME, MUTTERING TO HERSELF. +TIME. NO, I’LL TELL YOU NOW. YOU KNOW SóNYA’S MY DEAREST FRIEND. +TIMES BEFORE: HOW THE LATE PRINCESS HAD GIVEN BIRTH TO PRINCESS MARY +TIME SINCE HIS RETURN THAT THEY HAD TALKED ALONE AND ABOUT THEIR LOVE. +TIME THAT EVENING, VAINLY EXPECTING SOMEONE, NOW SMILING AT SOMEONE, NOW +TIME TILL THEY CAME TO MOSCOW HAD NOT LEFT THEM FOR A DAY. +TIME TO GET HIS UNIFORM. HE HAD ON A SHABBY CADET JACKET, DECORATED WITH +TIMIDLY FROM BEHIND THE BACKS OF THE GENERALS. AS HE STEPPED PAST THE +TIMIDLY TO THE CORNER WHERE DENíSOV SAT. SHE SAW THAT EVERYBODY WAS +TIMóKHIN, ARMED ONLY WITH A SWORD, HAD RUSHED AT THE ENEMY WITH SUCH +TINY LIMBS SHE HAD FELT TWENTY YEARS AGO WITHIN HER, THAT SON ABOUT WHOM +TIPTOE TO THE COUNTESS’ DOOR AND PAUSED. +TIRED OF BEING RUN AFTER BY WOMEN, HIS VANITY WAS FLATTERED BY THE +“TIT! I SAY, TIT!” SAID THE GROOM. +TO ABOVE THE KNEE. PIERRE HURRIEDLY BEGAN TAKING OFF HIS RIGHT BOOT ALSO +TO ALL THE CLUB MEMBERS AND TO ALL THE CLUB GUESTS, AND FINALLY TO +TOAST, THE COUNT TOOK OUT HIS HANDKERCHIEF AND, COVERING HIS FACE, WEPT +TO ATTAIN IT QUICKLY. HENCE WE HAVE A SECONDARY AIM, THAT OF PREPARING +TO ATTEND TO THE BUSINESS HIMSELF AND SO HE DISLIKED IT AND ONLY TRIED +TO BAGRATIóN WHICH THE OLD COUNTESS AT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S ADVICE HAD +TO BEAR THE LOOKS TURNED UPON HER, RAN AWAY INTO THE DANCING HALL, +TO BE HEARD. +TO BE HIS OLD SCHOOLROOM, AND LOOKING INTO NATáSHA’S WILDLY BRIGHT +TO BE OPENED. EVERYWHERE HE SAW THE STEWARDS’ ACCOUNTS, ACCORDING TO +TO BE RESERVED BECAUSE IN THE DEPTH OF MY SOUL I FEEL TOO NEAR TO HIM +TO BE SEVERE, FOUND NOTHING TO SAY; THE OTHERS DID NOT VENTURE TO +TO BE SILENT. BUT AFTER A WHILE, JUST AS A JURY COMES OUT OF ITS ROOM, +TO BUILD A NEW CHANTRY TO THE CHURCH AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE IN HONOR +TO CHANGE HIS FORMER WAY OF LIFE, BUT HIS STRENGTH FAILED HIM. HE WALKED +TO CHEER THE MEN BUT MERELY CARRIED OUT THE ORDERS), YET THE TROOPS +“TO COMBAT THE EVIL WHICH SWAYS THE WORLD...” PIERRE REPEATED, AND A +TO CONTINUE HIS MILITARY SERVICE, AND WHEN THE WAR RECOMMENCED +TO CONTROL HER JOY WHICH EXPRESSED ITSELF BY LAUGHTER. +TO COUNT T., PRINCE V., AND OTHERS. THEN HE BURSTS INTO ONE OF HIS WILD +TO CREDIT IT, BENT HIS HEAD, AND TOLD TúSHIN THAT HE COULD GO. PRINCE +TO CROSS THE DITCH ON FOOT. THE EMPEROR, WISHING TO REST AND FEELING +TO CRUEL WITH HIS SUBORDINATES, AND WENT INTO EVERYTHING DOWN TO THE +TODAY FOR THE EMPEROR.” DOLGORúKOV SMILED SIGNIFICANTLY. +TODAY OR TOMORROW—AT ANY RATE, IN AN INSTANT AS COMPARED WITH +TODAY WAS A GREAT DAY FOR HIM—THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS CORONATION. +TODAY?” WAS HIS FIRST THOUGHT. “AND I DID NOT KNOW THIS SUFFERING +TO DEMONSTRATE THE DEFECTS OF THE LATTER AND THE MERITS OF HIS OWN PLAN, +TO DO IT?”—“BECAUSE YOU MARRIED HER,” ANSWERED AN INNER VOICE. +TO DO IT THAT IT SEEMED TO HIM AS IF IT HAD REALLY HAPPENED. PERHAPS +TO DO WHAT WAS FOR HIM THE MOST DIFFICULT THING IN LIFE—TO SAY AN +TO DO WITH SERGéY KUZMíCH—A SMILE OF BASHFULNESS AT THEIR OWN +TO EACH COUPLE OF ACRES. THE WOUNDED CREPT TOGETHER IN TWOS AND THREES +TO ENTER INTO CONVERSATION WITH THIS OLD MAN, BUT, SUBMITTING TO HIM +TO ENTER THE BROTHERHOOD OF FREEMASONS UNDER MY SPONSORSHIP?” +TO EVERYONE. PIERRE WAS SO USED TO THAT SMILE, AND IT HAD SO LITTLE +TO EXPRESS OUR SINCERE VIEWS ON THAT SUBJECT, AND CAN ONLY SAY TO THE +TO FIGHT A BATTLE ‘ON HIS OWN HAND’ AS THE GERMANS SAY. HE DOES SO. +TO FIRE AND SWORD. THE INHABITANTS ARE TOTALLY RUINED, THE HOSPITALS +TOGETHER.” +TOGETHER, AND MADE SOME STEPS ON THE VERY TIPS OF HER TOES. +TOGETHER? AND THERE! BEZúKHOV GOT OFF SCOTFREE, WHILE FéDYA HAD TO +TOGETHER, THUNDERED ON THE RIGHT AND IN THE CENTER, WHILE THE CAPOTES +TO GET MORE MONEY FROM THE TRAVELER. +TO GIVE HER FRIEND THE PLEASURE OF DANDLING THE LITTLE ANGEL—AS SHE +TO GIVE IN MONEY AND WORK ALL THAT OTHER PEOPLE’S SERFS GAVE—THAT IS +TO HAVE ANY CHILDREN BY ME.” +TO HEAR THE VOICES OF WELL-KNOWN MEN. THE LARGEST CIRCLES FORMED ROUND +TO HER. +TO HER AND KISSED HER WARMLY. ANATOLE WENT UP TO KISS THE LITTLE +TO HER, AND NOW THAT ANATOLE HAD APPEARED IT JUST GROUPED ITSELF AROUND +TO HER BUT TO THE MOVEMENTS OF MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE’S LITTLE +TO HERS. A WOMAN CAME FROM THE BEDROOM WITH A FRIGHTENED FACE AND BECAME +TO HERSELF: “NO, I MUST BE MISTAKEN, HE MUST BE FEELING HAPPY, JUST AS +TO HER SHORTSIGHTED EYES. TURNING FROM PRINCESS MARY HE WENT UP AND +TO HIM AND DISPUTED WITH ONE ANOTHER WHO SHOULD BRING HIM HIS TEA, +TO HIM. AVAILING HIMSELF OF HIS FRIENDLY RELATIONS WITH PIERRE AS A BOON +TO HIM BY THE OFFICERS, AND, LIKE A MAN DESPERATELY INSISTING ON HAVING +TO HIM. HE COULD NOT TELL THEM SIMPLY THAT EVERYONE WENT AT A TROT AND +TO HIM: “I HEAR YOU ARE REFITTING YOUR PETERSBURG HOUSE?” +TO HIMSELF, BUT WHICH FORMED THE WHOLE INTEREST OF HIS LIFE, +TO HIM SENSELESS, HE UNDERSTOOD AND WAS NOT SURPRISED AT IT. +TO HIM. WE SEARCH, BUT NONE ARE TO BE FOUND. THE FIELD MARSHAL GROWS +TO HIS ESTATES AND QUITE RECOVERED THE PHILANTHROPIC MOOD IN WHICH +TO HIS HORSE’S MANE AND PULLED UP BESIDE THE HUSSAR. HE WAS SUCCUMBING +TO HIS STUDY WITH THE WET NURSE AND LITTLE PRINCE NICHOLAS (AS HIS +TO HOPE FROM HIM—ESPECIALLY AS HE DID NOT KNOW HOW, AND DID NOT +TO IMBIBE,” HE SAID. “CAN I RECEIVE THAT PURE LIQUID INTO AN IMPURE + * TO INDICATE HE DID NOT WANT MORE TEA. +TO INQUIRIES AS TO WHERE THE PRINCE LIVED, POINTED OUT A SMALL NEWLY +TO IRRESISTIBLE, YOUTHFUL, CHILDISH DROWSINESS. “BUT WHAT WAS I +TO IT WERE HIS INERTIA AND A WRINKLE ON HIS BROW INDICATING PROLONGED +TO KNOW?” SHE ASKED STERNLY. +TO KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS WRONG. MEN ALWAYS DID AND ALWAYS WILL +TOLD HIM THAT HE SHOULD TRY TO DO NOTHING TO STAIN THE WHITENESS OF THAT +TOLD HIM TO EXPECT. +TOLD THEM ALL THAT. +TOLD YOU, BUT YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE IT,” SHE SAID TRIUMPHANTLY. “HE +TOLD YOU IT WOULD NOT BE ENOUGH. HOW MUCH?” +TO LEAVE THAT SECLUSION WHERE THEY THREE WERE SHUT OFF FROM ALL THE +TO LIVE FOR MYSELF AVOIDING THOSE TWO EVILS IS MY WHOLE PHILOSOPHY +TO MAKE REFLECTIONS OR THINK ALOUD IN HER COMPANY, AND SHE HAD ALWAYS +TOMB OF THE LITTLE PRINCESS, AND IN THIS CHAPEL WAS A MARBLE MONUMENT +TO ME AFTER THE REVIEW AND WE WILL DO WHAT IS POSSIBLE.” +TO MILORáDOVICH WHO WAS NEAR HIM. +TOMORROW.” +TOMORROW... IN THE EVENING. YOU MUST COME.... COME!” +TOMORROW! ONLY LET ME TELL YOU, I WANT TO KNOW MY SON-IN-LAW BETTER. YOU +TOMORROW,” OR, “BE IN TO DINNER OR I SHALL NOT SEE YOU,” OR, “I +“TOMORROW OUR SQUADRON IS TO BE IN RESERVE. MAY I ASK TO BE ATTACHED +“TOMORROW,” REPLIED ROSTóV AND LEFT THE ROOM. +“TOMORROW VERY LIKELY I MAY BE SENT WITH SOME MESSAGE TO THE +TO MY BIVOUAC; LET MY DOCTOR, LARREY, EXAMINE THEIR WOUNDS. AU REVOIR, +TO MY SISTER TODAY. I WILL INTRODUCE YOU TO HER. BUT OF COURSE YOU KNOW +TONIGHT TO MY FRIENDS—COME TO THE ENGLISH HOTEL. +TOO. +TO OFFER THEIR SERVICES. MOST OF THOSE PRESENT WERE ELDERLY, RESPECTED +TOOK HER HAND AND BEGGED HER FORGIVENESS, WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT FOR. +TOOK TO BE THE ENEMY. SHOTS COULD BE HEARD, BUT SOME WAY OFF. +TO OLMüTZ, DINED THERE, DRANK A BOTTLE OF WINE, AND THEN SET OFF ALONE +TO ONE SIDE HE GRACEFULLY HELD A GOLD LORGNETTE TO HIS EYES AND LOOKED +TO PIERRE. HE SPOKE IN FRENCH. “I ONLY KNOW TWO VERY REAL EVILS IN +TO PRETEND TO THE STEWARD THAT HE WAS ATTENDING TO IT. THE STEWARD +TO RAISE... HAPPENS TO EVERYBODY! YES, WHO HAS NOT DONE IT?” +TO READ AND WRITE BY THE DEACON, LIKE YOUR FATHER AND ME. NOW TELL ME, +TO REMAIN FOR A FEW WEEKS LONGER IN THE HOUSE SHE SO LOVED AND WHERE +TO REMAIN SO FOR A HUNDRED YEARS; BUT THE MOMENT COMES WHEN THE LEVER +TO RESTRAIN HIS LAUGHTER. +TO RIGHT AND LEFT OF HIM SOLDIERS CONTINUALLY GROANED AND DROPPED. BUT +TO ROSTóV AND INVOLUNTARILY RIVETED HIS ATTENTION, MADE A GESTURE OF +TO ROSTóV WHEN THE ANIMAL WAS HANDED OVER TO THE HUSSAR. +TORZHóK EMBROIDERY CAME INTO THE ROOM OFFERING THEIR SERVICES. +TORZHóK POST STATION, EITHER THERE WERE NO HORSES OR THE POSTMASTER +TO SAY: “AH, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME, AND WHY?” AND AT THE SIGHT +TO SAY, ALL THAT COULD BE GOT OUT OF THEM. +TO SAY AND AS IF SHE WERE SAYING IT TO SOMEONE ELSE, WITH WHOM JOKING +TO SAY MORE IN THE PRESENCE OF A STRANGER. +TO SAY “TOMORROW” AND KEEP UP A DIGNIFIED TONE WAS NOT DIFFICULT, +TO SET THE SERFS TO WORK. SAY THAT EVERYTHING OUT OF THE HOTHOUSES MUST +TO SETTLE HERE ALTOGETHER NEXT YEAR....” +TO SHOUT: “BLACKGUARDS!... THROW THE SNOW BACK ON THE ROAD!” DID NOT +TO SHOW HER FEAR OF ANNA PáVLOVNA. SHE LOOKED AT HER NIECE, AS IF +TO SNATCH FROM THE OTHER A BOOT THEY WERE BOTH HOLDING ON TO. +TO SNATCH IT FROM ONE ANOTHER. THE EXPRESSION ON ALL THEIR FACES +TO SOB ALOUD. +TO STATE HIS VIEWS PLAINLY TO THE EMPEROR? IS IT POSSIBLE THAT ON +TO STIMULATE HIS EMOTIONS HE LOOKED AROUND. “GOD, DEATH, LOVE, THE +TO SUBSCRIBE ALL HE HAD, BUT FEARING THAT IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE PRIDE +TO SYMPATHIZE IN ANY WAY. +TOTALLY ALTERED AND UNEXPECTEDLY RAPTUROUS AND TENDER EXPRESSION ON +TOTAL OF HIS LOSSES ON IT, THEN HE LOOKED ROUND FOR AID FROM THE OTHER +TO THE AUSTRIAN EMPEROR AND SMILED. +TO THE EMPEROR SHOCKED ROSTóV. ROSTóV SAW HOW THE EMPEROR’S RATHER +TO THE EMPERORS WITH A SALUTE. HIS WHOLE APPEARANCE AND MANNER WERE +TO THE FIRST SQUADRON?” +TO THE FRENCH SWORD AND POUCH. “I HAVE TAKEN AN OFFICER PRISONER. I +TO THE GENERAL COMMANDING THAT LEFT FLANK WITH ORDERS TO RETREAT +TO THE GODMOTHER, PRINCESS MARY. PRINCE ANDREW SAT IN ANOTHER ROOM, +TO THE GUARDS’ CAMP TO FIND HIS OLD PLAYMATE. ROSTóV HAD NOT YET HAD +“TO THE HEAD OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT... AU CHEF DU GOUVERNEMENT +“TO THE HEALTH OF OUR SOVEREIGN, THE EMPEROR!” HE CRIED, AND AT THE +TO THE HUSSAR BESIDE HIM. +TO THE LEFT DOWN BELOW IN THE MIST, THE MUSKETRY FIRE OF UNSEEN FORCES +TO THE MAID, “BRING THE PRINCESS HER GRAY DRESS, AND YOU’LL SEE, +TO THEM ARE THE PARTS OF THE MECHANISM WHICH THE IMPULSE HAS NOT YET +TO THE OLD CONDITIONS OF LIFE, NICHOLAS FOUND IT VERY PLEASANT TO BE +TO THE PRINCESS. +TO THE REMOVAL OF THE GUNS. +TO THE REVIEW, REACHING THE FIELD AT OLMüTZ BY TEN O’CLOCK. +TO THE RULES OF HIS ART, AS HE COLLECTED THE TICKETS FROM ALL HIS +TO THE TSAR OR TO KUTúZOV, EVEN IF THEY WERE ALIVE AND UNWOUNDED? +TO THE UNKNOWN PLACE WHERE HE WAS GOING, MANY MORE OF OUR MEN WERE GOING +TO THE VIEWS OF THE OLD GENERALS KUTúZOV AND PRINCE SCHWARTZENBERG, IT +TO THIS CHIT OF A GIRL, NATáSHA, WHO NOT SO LONG AGO WAS PLAYING WITH +TO THOSE WHO KNEW THE INDUBITABLE TRUTH.) HE FORGOT WHAT THE SEVENTH +“TO TRY HIS LUCK OR THE CERTAINTY?” ROSTóV ASKED HIMSELF. +TO TURN AWAY WHEN THE OLD MAN, OPENING HIS EYES, FIXED HIS STEADY AND +TO TúSHIN’S BATTERY HAD BEEN MOVED AWAY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ACTION +TOUCHED PIERRE: HE LOOKED AT HéLèNE AND SHE TOO SEEMED DISCONCERTED, +TOUCHING BONAPARTE’S. +TOUCHING HIS HORSE AND TURNING PURPLE IN THE FACE. “VILL YOU BE SO +TOUCHING THANKS OF DEPUTATIONS OF SERFS IN THEIR FULL-SKIRTED BLUE +TOUCH WITH IT, AND LOOKED AROUND BEWILDERED AND UNABLE TO GRASP WHAT WAS +TO US.” +TO WALK UP AND DOWN BEFORE IT. +TOWARD ANNA PáVLOVNA, AND ANNA PáVLOVNA, WITH THE SAME SAD SMILE WITH +TOWARD EVENING DOLGORúKOV CAME BACK, WENT STRAIGHT TO THE TSAR, AND +TOWARD EVENING HE CEASED MOANING AND BECAME QUITE STILL. HE DID NOT KNOW +TOWARD HIM AND SAID SOMETHING. +TOWARD THE END OF 1806, WHEN ALL THE SAD DETAILS OF NAPOLEON’S +TOWARD THE VANGUARD. BEFORE HE CAME UP WITH THE HUSSARS, SEVERAL +TOWARD THOSE PRATZEN HEIGHTS WHICH WERE BEING MORE AND MORE DENUDED BY +TO. WEYROTHER HAD BEEN TWICE THAT EVENING TO THE ENEMY’S PICKET +TO WEYROTHER SAT COUNT LANGERON WHO, WITH A SUBTLE SMILE THAT NEVER LEFT +TO WHAT HE MUST DO AND HOW HE SHOULD ANSWER, WILLARSKI ONLY REPLIED THAT +TO WHICH PIERRE DID NOT AGREE. ON THE OTHER HAND, PIERRE DEMANDED THAT +“TO YOUR BARRIER!” AND PIERRE, GRASPING WHAT WAS MEANT, STOPPED BY +TO YOU. WHERE ARE YOU TRAVELING FROM?” +TRADITIONS OF UNLIMITED POWER, IN TIME WHEN THEY GROW MORE IRRITABLE, +TRAMPLING THROUGH THE DEEP SNOW, AND MUTTERING INCOHERENT WORDS: +TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI.” +TRANSPARENTLY RADIANT WITH IMPULSIVE JOY. +TRAVELER, ALSO DETAINED FOR LACK OF HORSES. +TRAVELER, HAVING PACKED HIS THINGS WITH HIS PRACTICED HANDS, BEGAN +TREATED THEM WITH ABSENT-MINDED CONTEMPT. +TRIED TO CONCEAL THEM. +TRIED TO PRETEND NOT TO KNOW; NO ONE SPOKE OF IT, BUT APART FROM THE +TRIED WITH HIS LIPS WHETHER THE CHILD WAS STILL FEVERISH. THE SOFT +TRIFLE TO LET A WAGON GO PAST. AFTER HE HAD GONE, TWO SOLDIERS RUSHED TO +TRIGGER, AS HE HAD NOT BEFORE HELD A PISTOL IN HIS HAND—A FACT THAT HE +TRIPPING RAPIDLY ACROSS IN HER LITTLE SHOES TRIMMED WITH BOWS, RAN +TRIUMPH. +TRIUMPH. +TRIUMPHANTLY SECURED THE MOP AND STILL DID NOT REALIZE WHAT AWAITED HIM, + TRIUMPH, VALIANT RUSSIANS, NOW!... +TROOPS HAD ALREADY ENTERED PRUSSIA AND OUR SECOND WAR WITH NAPOLEON +TROOPS, HE SAW, NEAR A KITCHEN GARDEN WITH A DITCH ROUND IT, TWO MEN +TROOPS WERE MOVING IN THE DISTANCE, AND HE LISTENED TO THE SOUNDS OF +TROOPS WERE NO LONGER MOVING, BUT STOOD WITH THE BUTTS OF THEIR MUSKETS +TROUBLE, AND SILENTLY FIXED HIS EYES ON BAGRATIóN AS A SCHOOLBOY WHO +TROUBLE, BUT THE MASON TOLD HIM THAT WAS NOT NECESSARY AND GAVE HIM +TROWEL, A ROUGH STONE AND A SQUARED STONE, A PILLAR, THREE WINDOWS, AND +TROWEL, HE TOLD HIM TO TOIL WITH IT TO CLEANSE HIS OWN HEART FROM VICE, +TRUE, OR MIGHT AT LEAST SEEM TO BE TRUE HAD IT NOT REFERRED TO HIS WIFE. +TRUMPETS OF THE FIRST CAVALRY REGIMENT PLAYED THE GENERAL MARCH. IT +TRUSTS TO LUCK, ONE SHOULD MAKE CERTAIN,’ AND I WANT TO TRY.” +TRYING IN VAIN TO FIND THE ANSWER TO SOME QUESTION. +TRYING” (PIERRE’S MODESTY MADE HIM CORRECT HIMSELF) “TO LIVE FOR +TRY TO DO ALL I CAN FOR YOUR HAPPINESS.” +TSAR AND THE COUNTRY? IT IS WARTIME. SUCH A FINE FELLOW MUST SERVE. +TSAR, WHO STILL REMAINED IN THE SAME ATTITUDE OF INDECISION. +TUCKED UP, WITHOUT A COAT, PALE AND WITH A TREMBLING JAW, CAME OUT +TUESDAY. +TUFT OF PLUMES IN HIS COCKED HAT WORN ON ONE SIDE WITH ITS CORNERS FRONT +TUMBLER WITH TEA FOR HIMSELF AND ONE FOR THE BEARDLESS OLD MAN TO WHOM +TURN AWAY FROM THE SIGHT, SHOUTING ANGRILY AT THE MEN WHO, AS IS ALWAYS +TURNED AWAY AND WENT DOWN THE SIDE OF THE CORRIDOR. +TURNING FOR A MOMENT TO THE FRONT LINE, AND SLIGHTLY SWINGING HIS ARMS, +TURNING THE HORSE SHARPLY, HE AGAIN JUMPED THE DITCH, AND DEFERENTIALLY +TURNING TO ANATOLE, “COME HERE, LET US TALK AND GET ACQUAINTED.” +TURNING TO PRINCE VASíLI AND ANSWERING HIS IMPLORING LOOK. “YES, OR +TURN INTO VEXATION AND ANGER AT THE STUPID ARRANGEMENTS AND AT THE +“TURN THIS WAY!” HE SHOUTED, JUMPING OVER THE ICE WHICH CREAKED +TúSHIN. +TúSHIN DID NOT SAY THAT THERE WERE NO COVERING TROOPS, THOUGH THAT +TúSHIN ROSE AND, BUTTONING HIS GREATCOAT AND PULLING IT STRAIGHT, +TúSHIN’S BATTERY BUT HAD NEVER REACHED IT. INTERRUPTING ONE +TúSHIN’S BATTERY HAD BEEN FORGOTTEN AND ONLY AT THE VERY END OF THE +TúSHIN’S LARGE, KIND, INTELLIGENT EYES WERE FIXED WITH SYMPATHY AND +TúSHIN’S WATTLE SHED WAS LAID, WITH A BULLET IN HIS STOMACH, ON +TúSHIN TOLD THEM TO GIVE THE MAN SOME WATER. THEN A CHEERFUL SOLDIER +TúSHIN TURNED ROUND IN DISMAY. IT WAS THE STAFF OFFICER WHO HAD TURNED +TWELVE MEN IN GARMENTS LIKE THOSE HE HAD ALREADY SEEN. SOME OF THEM +TWENTY MEN WERE GATHERED ROUND A TABLE AT WHICH DóLOKHOV SAT BETWEEN +TWISTED UPWARDS, SAT THE RUDDY MILORáDOVICH IN A MILITARY POSE, HIS +TWO ALEXANDERS—BEKLESHëV AND NARýSHKIN—WHICH WAS A SIGNIFICANT +TWO CANDLES. ON THE TABLE WAS A PILE OF GOLD AND PAPER MONEY, AND HE +TWO COSSACKS. +TWO FRIENDS, ONE OF WHOM WAS A DASHING HUSSAR AND THE OTHER A NOTORIOUS +TWO HOURS LATER PRINCE ANDREW, STEPPING SOFTLY, WENT INTO HIS FATHER’S +TWO MONTHS HAD ELAPSED SINCE THE NEWS OF THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ AND +TWO SECONDS. WHETHER OR NO THE EMPEROR UNDERSTOOD WHAT WAS GOING ON IN +TWOT FO’WARD!” +TWO THOUSAND RUBLES, AND THOUGH HE ALWAYS DISLIKED SPEAKING OF MONEY +TWO, THREE... ONE... “OH MIO CRUDELE AFFETTO.”... ONE, TWO, THREE... +TWO YEARS, AND HE DID NOT KNOW HOW THE REST, ABOUT 100,000 RUBLES, WAS +UNABLE TO REALIZE WHERE HE WAS. +UNABLE TO WITHSTAND IT NOW, BUT HE ALSO FELT THAT ON WHAT HE SAID NOW +UNAPPRECIATED BLISS, LONG PAST. HE COULD NOT CONCEIVE THAT A STUPID +UNBROKEN AND HAD ALL DAY BEATEN BACK AN ENEMY FORCE TWICE AS NUMEROUS +UNCONCIOUSNESS AND OBLIVION WHICH IN THE OPINION OF NAPOLEON’S DOCTOR, +UNCONSCIOUSLY AND QUITE FORGETTING HER CONDITION, PREPARED FOR THE +UNDER FIRE FOR THE FIRST TIME. +UNDER HIM; “TURN THIS WAY!” HE SHOUTED TO THOSE WITH THE GUN. “IT +UNDER HIS WEIGHT ALONE. THE MEN LOOKED AT HIM AND PRESSED TO THE +UNDER ONE COMMAND, AND IN A LIKE ORDER. +UNDERSTAND, AGITATED HER. SHE SAID NOTHING BUT LOOKED ABOUT UNEASILY AS +UNDERSTAND, AND THE GREATNESS OF SOMETHING INCOMPREHENSIBLE BUT +UNDERSTAND HOW ONE CAN LIVE WITH SUCH IDEAS. I HAD SUCH MOMENTS +UNDERSTANDING HALF OF IT, READ ONLY TO FORGET, IF BUT FOR A MOMENT, WHAT +UNDERSTANDING OF HIS EMPLOYER’S HAPPINESS. +UNDERSTAND IT’!... AND I ASK YOU!” +UNDERSTAND IT SO DIFFERENTLY. HE COLLECTED ALL HIS STRENGTH, TO STIR AND +UNDERSTAND. SHE KISSED HIS ROUGH CURLY BLACK HEAD. AT THIS INSTANT, THEY +UNDERSTAND. THAT’S WHAT I’M UP TO.” +UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS BEING READ. HE MANAGED TO FOLLOW ONLY THE LAST WORDS +UNDERSTOOD HER AND MADE UP MY MIND WHAT SHE REALLY IS. WAS I MISTAKEN +UNDERSTOOD, THAT HE COULD NOT ANSWER HIM. +UNDERSTOOD THAT THIS WOMAN MIGHT BELONG TO HIM. +UNDERSTOOD WHAT WAS HAPPENING AS LITTLE AS HE DID. +UNDER THE SHIRT SLEEVES, THOSE HANDS WHICH HE LOVED AND HATED, HELD HIM +UNDER THE TABLE. +UNDER WHICH SHE FELT THAT SHE COULD NOT THINK, BUT WOULD ONLY BE ABLE TO +UNEXPECTEDLY THROUGH HIS MIND. +UNEXPECTEDLY TO GO INTO ACTION. ROSTóV WITHOUT HEARING BORíS TO THE +UNFINISHED BIT OF NIBBLED SUGAR, AND ASKED IF ANYTHING MORE WOULD BE +UNFORTUNATE, A STRANGER, ALONE, HELPLESS! AND, OH GOD, HOW PASSIONATELY +UNFRIENDLY NOW BECAME GENTLE AND AFFECTIONATE. THE ANGRY ELDEST +UNGAINLY RUSSIAN PRINCESSES, WOULD FALL IN LOVE WITH HER AND CARRY HER +UNIFORMED AUSTRIAN OFFICER. +UNIFORMS, MOUNTED ON BLACK HORSES, TROTTING STRAIGHT TOWARD HIM AND +UNIFORMS, WITH SMARTLY DRESSED BANDSMEN IN FRONT MOUNTED ON BLACK, ROAN, +UNINTENTIONALLY, HE POURED TOO MANY DROPS INTO THE GLASS. HE THREW THE +UNIVERSE, AND OF THE COURAGE WITH WHICH HE SHOULD ENDURE TOILS AND +UNLIKE THE OLD ONE, HE EXPECTED EVERYTHING TO BE UNUSUAL, EVEN MORE +UNLUCKY AT CARDS.’ YOUR COUSIN IS IN LOVE WITH YOU, I KNOW.” +UNMARRIED, AND EVEN THE HAPPIER FOR IT?” SO THOUGHT PRINCE BOLKóNSKI +UNMASK HIS DECEIVERS!” AND IN ORDER TO REALIZE VIVIDLY HIS LOVE +UNMELTED SNOW, OR SOME WHITE HOUSES? HE EVEN THOUGHT SOMETHING MOVED ON +UNNATURAL SMILE. “I EXPECT YOU HAVE GUESSED THAT PRINCE VASíLI HAS +UNNATURAL WAY, HE STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND FOR ALPáTYCH TO KISS, AND THEN +UNPLEASANTLY EXCITED EXPRESSION. +UNPLEASANT THING TO A MAN’S FACE, TO SAY WHAT THE OTHER, WHOEVER +UNUSUAL THAN WHAT HE WAS SEEING. A SKULL, A COFFIN, THE GOSPEL—IT +UNWELL, SAT DOWN UNDER AN APPLE TREE AND VON TOLL REMAINED BESIDE HIM. +UNWELL TODAY? EH? AFRAID OF THE ‘MINISTER’ AS THAT IDIOT ALPáTYCH +UNWOUNDED—IT WAS THEY WHO WERE CRUSHING, WEIGHING DOWN, AND TWISTING +UP AGAINST HIM. HE WROTE “800 RUBLES” ON A CARD, BUT WHILE THE +UP A GLASS AND A PIPE THAT WERE HANDED HIM. +UP AT ALL!” +UP, INVITED HIM TO HIS HOUSE IN PETERSBURG, AND NOW... SHE HAS COME HERE +UP LIKE A FOOL!” HE THOUGHT, LOOKING IRRITABLY AT HER. “SHE IS +UPON AND COULD NOT NOW BE ALTERED. “WE START TOMORROW AND I’M GIVING +UPON HIM, PASSED SPLENDIDLY, LIFTING HIS FEET WITH A HIGH AND GRACEFUL +UPON PRINCE ANDREW, WHO WAS BESIDE HIM. SEEING HIM, KUTúZOV’S +UP ON THE VAST FIELD. THE WHOLE ARMY WAS EXTENDED IN THREE LINES: THE +UP OUT OF THE MIST. +UP THE STEPS TO WHERE THE COFFIN STOOD, TO GIVE HER THE FAREWELL KISS. +UP TOMORROW. BUT YOU WILL SEE EVERYTHING FOR YOURSELF WHEN YOU GET TO +UP TO THE ALTAR, PLACED HIS FEET AT RIGHT ANGLES, AND BADE HIM LIE DOWN, +UP TO THE APPEARANCE OF THE PAUVRE MèRE; THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT THEY HAD +UP TO TúSHIN. +UPWARDS, IN THE WAY AFFECTED BY THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER, AND, HAVING +URGED ON HIS ALREADY WEARY HORSE TO GET QUICKLY PAST THESE CROWDS, BUT +US AIDES-DE-CAMP AND ADJUTANTS! BUT THIS IS WHAT WE’LL DO: I HAVE +US BUT WITHIN....” +USED FOR DANCING, BUT IN WHICH FIVE BEDS NOW STOOD, AND FURNITURE OF +USED TO LIKE TO SPEND THEM, OR TO OPEN HIS MIND BY INTIMATE TALKS WITH +USED TO SHOW AT CATCHPLAY, NOW AND THEN TURNING HIS GOOD-NATURED, PALE, +USE OF WHATEVER INTEREST HE HAD TO OFFER. HE HIMSELF CAREFULLY SCANNED +USUALLY SO DESCRIBED. +US. WELL, YOU WANT AN ARGUMENT,” HE ADDED, “COME ON THEN.” +US—WE SCUTTLE. HE HARDLY CROSSES THE RIVER TO OUR SIDE BEFORE WE +UTTER A SOUND. HE FEEBLY MOVED HIS LEG AND UTTERED A WEAK, SICKLY GROAN +UTTERING A GENTLE, PITEOUS, AND CHILDLIKE MOAN. +UVáROV, WHO HAD ARRIVED WITH HIM, PAUSED AT THE DOORWAY TO ALLOW HIM, +VAINLY TRYING TO MASTER HER AGITATION. +VALET CAN GO IN YOUR CARRIAGE. AH! I WAS NEARLY FORGETTING,” HE ADDED. +VALET HAD SET DOWN THE COFFEE THINGS AND LEFT THE ROOM. PIERRE LOOKED +VALOR CARRY DISORDER AND CONFUSION INTO THE ENEMY’S RANKS, BUT SHOULD +VALUE THIS MYSTIC POWER AND GLORY THAT IS FLOATING HERE ABOVE ME IN THIS +VALúEV WAS CONFIDENTIALLY TELLING THAT UVáROV HAD BEEN SENT FROM +VANGUARD, REWARDS WERE PROMISED, AND THE MEN RECEIVED A DOUBLE RATION OF +VARIOUS FIGURES WORKED UPON IT, AT THE OTHER WAS SOMETHING RESEMBLING AN +VARIOUS KINDS: A TABLE, CHAIRS, AND A CLAVICHORD. ONE ADJUTANT, NEAREST +VARYING EXPRESSION AND THE SAME PREVALENT APPEARANCE OF GOODHEARTED +VASíLI AND HIS SON. +“VASíLI DENíSOV, YOUR SON’S FRIEND,” HE SAID, INTRODUCING +“VASíLI DMíTRICH, I’M SO SORRY FOR YOU!... NO, BUT YOU ARE SO +“VASíLI DMíTRICH, I THANK YOU FOR THE HONOR,” SHE SAID, WITH AN +VASíLI HAD ONLY ACQUIRED BY IMITATING OTHER PARENTS. +VASíLI. “I KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THAT. DON’T I? AND YOU ARE STILL SO +VASíLI, IN THE RARE MOMENTS WHEN HE WAS AT HOME, WOULD TAKE PIERRE’S +VASíLI ONE DAY, CLOSING HIS EYES AND FINGERING PIERRE’S ELBOW, +VASíLI’S HOUSE IN THE COMPANY OF THE STOUT PRINCESS, HIS WIFE, AND +VASíLI’S TONE OF CARELESS SELF-ASSURANCE THAT HE FELT HE WOULD BE +VASíLI TO HIMSELF, WITH A SORROWFUL SIGH, ONE MORNING, FEELING THAT +VELVETY SOFTNESS, WHICH SO MINGLED WITH HER LACK OF ART IN SINGING THAT +VéRA’S REMARK WAS CORRECT, AS HER REMARKS ALWAYS WERE, BUT, LIKE +VERSES CALLED “ENCHANTRESS,” WHICH HE HAD COMPOSED, AND TO WHICH HE +“VERY.” +VERY BRIEFLY AND VAGUELY, THAT AFTER BRILLIANT ENGAGEMENTS THE RUSSIANS +VERY FIELDS WHERE THE FRENCH HAD NOW TO BE FOUGHT; THE ADJACENT +VERY FINE!” +VERY GLAD TO SEE HIM HANGED, BUT I WAS SORRY FOR MY FATHER—THAT AGAIN +“VERY GOOD!” SAID THE PRINCE CLOSING THE DOOR BEHIND HIM, AND +“VERY GOOD, VERY GOOD,” SAID BAGRATIóN. “THANK YOU, OFFICER.” +VERY IMPORTANT PERSONAGE, HAD BEEN SENT ON A VERY IMPORTANT MISSION TO +VERY LIKELY BE GETTING A LETTER FROM HIM THAT DAY. EACH TIME THAT THESE +VERY MUCH! I HAVE PROMISED MYSELF NOT TO SERVE AGAIN IN THE ACTIVE +“VERY MUCH,” SAID NICHOLAS FLUSHING, AND WITH A STUPID CARELESS +VERY PRETTY AND SWEET, AND EVIDENTLY DEEPLY IN LOVE WITH HIM, BUT HE WAS +“VERY WELL,” SAID SMOLYANíNOV, AND WENT ON AT ONCE: “HAVE YOU ANY +“VERY WELL, THEN, BE SO GOOD AS TO WAIT,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW TO THE +VESSEL AND JUDGE OF ITS PURITY? ONLY BY THE INNER PURIFICATION OF MYSELF +VICIOUS AND UNFORTUNATE PEOPLE WHOM HE WOULD ASSIST BY WORD AND DEED, +VICTORY, AND GENERAL BENNIGSEN, HOPING TO RECEIVE FROM PETERSBURG THE +VICTORY BE IN DOUBT, EVEN FOR A MOMENT, YOU WILL SEE YOUR EMPEROR +VICTORY OR DEFEAT, THE GLORY OF OUR RUSSIAN ARMS IS SECURE. EXCEPT YOUR +VICTORY OVER BUONAPARTE AT EYLAU. IN PETERSBURG EVERYONE IS REJOICING, +VICTORY WHICH WAS CONVEYED, NOT ONLY BY THE TALES OF THOSE WHO HAD TAKEN +“VIENNA CONSIDERS THE BASES OF THE PROPOSED TREATY SO UNATTAINABLE +VIEW THEY WERE RIGHT, AS WERE THOSE TOO WHO CANONIZED HIM AND DIED A +VILLAGE AND HAD ALREADY BEEN SENT FOR. +VILLAGE!” HE SAID ANGRILY TO A GENERAL WHO HAD RIDDEN UP. “DON’T +VILLAGE OF PRATZEN. BUT NEITHER THEY NOR A SINGLE COMMANDING OFFICER +VILLAGES WERE IN A STATE OF THE GREATEST POVERTY. HE DID NOT KNOW THAT +VILLAGE. TELL IT TO STOP AND AWAIT MY ORDERS.” +VIRTUE WAS AND COULD NOT RECALL IT. +VIRTUOUS FUTURE THAT SEEMED TO HIM SO EASY. IT SEEMED TO HIM THAT HE HAD +VIRTUOUS LIFE OF WHICH HE HAD BEEN DREAMING SINCE HE MET JOSEPH +VISH TO DESTROY MY MEN FOR YOUR PLEASURE!” +VISIBLE IN THE SNOW AND A SHOVEL HAD BEEN LEFT STICKING IN ONE OF THE +VISIBLE THROUGH THE SMOKE, MAKE OUT MOVING MASSES OF INFANTRY AND NARROW +VISIT HIS NEGLECTED ESTATES AT THE SAME TIME AND PICK UP HIS SON ANATOLE +VISITING ALL THE PLACES HE MEANT TO GO TO AND WHERE HE HAD BEEN INVITED, +VISITORS. THERE WAS THE FACT THAT ONLY THOSE CAME WHO WISHED TO DANCE +VOCATION IS TO BE HAPPY WITH ANOTHER KIND OF HAPPINESS, THE HAPPINESS +VODKA—GET ON!” ROSTóV SHOUTED, WHEN THE SLEIGH WAS ONLY THREE +VODKA. THE CAMPFIRES CRACKLED AND THE SOLDIERS’ SONGS RESOUNDED +VOICE. +VOICE, “BUT BELIEVE ME, I SO ADORE YOUR DAUGHTER AND ALL YOUR FAMILY +VOICE CALLING HIM BY NAME. +VOICE FROM HEAVEN. HOW GLADLY WOULD HE HAVE DIED AT ONCE FOR HIS TSAR! +VOICE, OBVIOUSLY SO ELATED BY THE SOUND OF FIRING, BY THE PROSPECT OF +VOICE, POPPED HER HEAD IN AT THE DOOR. +VOICES. +VOICES, AND THE ARMY SWAYED AND STARTED IN ONE ENORMOUS MASS SIX MILES +VOICES SUBSIDED, THE FOOTMEN CLEARED AWAY THE BROKEN GLASS AND EVERYBODY +VOICE. TO FRESH QUESTIONS AS TO THE FIRMNESS OF HIS RESOLUTION PIERRE +VOICE TREMBLED.) “I LOVED YOUR FATHER... AND SHE WILL MAKE YOU A GOOD +VOICE, WITH ITS INCORRECT BREATHING AND LABORED TRANSITIONS, WAS +VOICE, “YOU WERE PLEASED TO SEND ME TO CAPTAIN TúSHIN’S BATTERY. I +VON BERGS—HAVE BEEN KNIGHTS!” +VOULU, GEORGE DANDIN,’ THAT’S ALL WE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT IT!” +VOUS AIME’?” HE KEPT REPEATING TO HIMSELF. AND WHEN HE HAD SAID IT +VULGARITY OF THE EXPRESSIONS THAT WERE NATURAL TO HER, THOUGH SHE HAD +VYAZMíTINOV, THE NEW MILITARY GOVERNOR GENERAL OF PETERSBURG, HAD +“WAIT A BIT, I HAVE SOMETHING IN VIEW FOR YOU THIS EVENING.” +WAITED FOR HIM TO GO ON, BUT AS HE SEEMED QUITE DECIDED TO SAY NO MORE +WAITED IMPATIENTLY FOR PRINCE ANDREW’S RETURN FROM THE COMMANDER IN +WAITER FILLED HIS GLASS HE CHANGED HIS MIND AND ALTERED IT TO HIS USUAL +WAITING FOR A SEVEN TO TURN UP, GAZED AT DóLOKHOV’S HANDS WHICH HELD +WAITING FOR HIM TO SAY A WORD AND CROSS A CERTAIN LINE, AND HE KNEW THAT +WAITING FOR THE BEAT. ONLY ON HORSE BACK AND IN THE MAZURKA WAS +WAITING TO HEAR WHETHER HE WOULD SAY ANYTHING MORE. BUT KUTúZOV, WITH +“WAITING, YOUR MAJESTY,” REPEATED KUTúZOV. (PRINCE ANDREW NOTED +WAIT ONLY TWO HOURS, WHEN, COME WHAT MIGHT, HE WOULD LET HIS EXCELLENCY +WAKEN...” ALL ROSE AND CRIED “HURRAH!” BAGRATIóN ALSO ROSE AND +WAKE UP, VáSKA!” HE WENT ON, TURNING TO DENíSOV, WHOSE HEAD +WALKED AWAY FROM THE FIRE. +WALKED SLOWLY WITHOUT RAISING HIS PISTOL, LOOKING INTENTLY WITH HIS +WALL. ON THIS KNOLL THERE WAS A WHITE PATCH THAT ROSTóV COULD NOT AT +WANTED. +WANTED TO SHOW HIM THAT HIS LOSSES WERE AN ACHIEVEMENT THAT MADE HER +WANTED TO SLEEP. THE GAY TRIUMPHANT SHOUTING OF THE ENEMY ARMY HAD A +WANT THAT. AND BESIDES, WHAT A NOTION THAT MEDICINE EVER CURED ANYONE! +WANT THE MONEY FOR? AS IF THAT MONEY COULD ADD A HAIR’S BREADTH TO +WANT TO, BUT NOW I HAVE NO TIME.” BESIDES, IT SEEMED TO HIM THAT THE +WAR CAME CONTRADICTORY NEWS, FALSE AS USUAL AND THEREFORE VARIOUSLY +WARDROBE IN WHICH PIERRE NOTICED GARMENTS SUCH AS HE HAD NEVER SEEN +WARES, ESPECIALLY A PAIR OF GOATSKIN SLIPPERS. “I HAVE HUNDREDS OF +WARM THEMSELVES, GATHERING ROUND THE FIRES THROWING INTO THE FLAMES THE +WARRIOR DOING SOME KIND OF MAN’S WORK OF HIS OWN, WITHOUT HELP OR +WAS ABOUT TO BE DECIDED. BUT PRINCE ANDREW DID NOT SEE HOW IT ENDED. IT +WAS ABOUT TO CROSS THE SPACE BETWEEN THE BARRIERS, WHEN DóLOKHOV CRIED: +WAS ABOUT TO EXPAND HER DRESSES INTO A BALLOON AND SIT DOWN. THEY WERE +WAS ABROAD; SO PIERRE HAD NOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEND HIS NIGHTS AS HE +WAS AGAIN NODDING. “COME, GET ON! YOU SHALL HAVE THREE RUBLES FOR +WAS A GREAT SUCCESS. THERE WERE MANY PRETTY GIRLS AND THE ROSTóV GIRLS +WAS ALL OVER; BUT HE SAID IN AN INDIFFERENT TONE: +WAS ALREADY PERFECTLY CURED OF HIS FORMER FAULTS AND WAS READY FOR ALL +WAS ALSO A YELLOW, WRINKLED OLD MAN, WITHOUT BEARD OR MUSTACHE, +WAS ALWAYS BUSY AND ALWAYS FELT IN A STATE OF MILD AND CHEERFUL +WAS A UNIQUE CHANCE TO SHOW HIS DEVOTION TO THE EMPEROR AND HE HAD NOT +WAS BAPTIZED. THE WET NURSE SUPPORTED THE COVERLET WITH HER CHIN, WHILE +WAS BEGINNING, ANNA PáVLOVNA GAVE ONE OF HER SOIREES. THE “CREAM OF +WAS BEING DONE WAS NOT HIS ADJUTANT’S FAULT, AND STILL NOT ANSWERING +WAS BEING HELD BY THE ARMS AND HIS HORSE WAS BEING LED BEHIND HIM. +WAS BORíS DRUBETSKóY, WHO HAD JUST ARRIVED AS A SPECIAL MESSENGER FROM +WAS BRIGHT, HE HAD A GOOD HORSE UNDER HIM, AND HIS HEART WAS FULL OF +WAS CHARMANT. EVEN IF ANNA PáVLOVNA DID NOT SAY SO, HE COULD SEE THAT +WAS DELIGHTED WITH DENíSOV’S SKILL, HE WAS ASKED AGAIN AND AGAIN AS +WAS DOWNSTAIRS. +WAS ECSTATICALLY CONSCIOUS OF HIS APPROACH. HE FELT IT NOT ONLY FROM THE +WAS EVIDENTLY ONE, ROSTóV FELT CONFUSED, BLUSHED, AND BECAME SILENT. +WAS EXCELLENT. WITH THE SECOND COURSE, A GIGANTIC STERLET (AT SIGHT OF +WAS FOR EARTHLY LOVE. THE MORE SHE TRIED TO HIDE THIS FEELING FROM +WAS FORGETTING. WE MUST HAVE ANOTHER ENTRéE. AH, GOODNESS GRACIOUS!” +WAS, FOR SOMETHING COULD BE DESCRIED. ON THE RIGHT THE GUARDS WERE +WAS FOUGHT. +WAS GOING HOME TO VORóNEZH AND ROSTóV PERSUADED HIM TO TRAVEL WITH HIM +WAS GROWING DUSK. ON THE NARROW AUGESD DAM WHERE FOR SO MANY YEARS THE +WAS HEARTILY SICK OF THEM. IN SPITE OF THIS, OR RATHER BECAUSE OF +WAS IMMEDIATELY KILLED. PRINCE ANDREW AGAIN SEIZED THE STANDARD AND, +WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR CAVALRY TO ACT AMONG THE BUSHES AND BROKEN GROUND, +WAS IN A WHITE UNIFORM RODE A BLACK ONE. THESE WERE THE TWO EMPERORS +WAS IN HIS PLACE, WAITING. +WAS IN RAPTURES ABOUT HIM, WHEN HE HAD JUST RETURNED FROM ABROAD, AND +WAS IN THE RIGHT SO I KEPT SILENT; WAS NOT THAT BEST, COUNT?... ‘HEY, +WAS KEEPING THE BANK. ROSTóV HAD NOT SEEN HIM SINCE HIS PROPOSAL AND +WAS LARGE AND OF AN OLD PATTERN. THE FRENCH SWARMING ROUND THEIR GUNS +WAS LAUGHING AT SOMETHING, MINGLED IN A MERRY SOUND, LIKE THE CHIRPING +WAS LOST. NO ONE WHOM ROSTóV ASKED COULD TELL HIM WHERE THE EMPEROR +WAS LYING ASLEEP ON THE OTTOMAN WITH AN OPEN BOOK IN HIS HAND. +WAS MENTIONED AND, POINTING TO HIS FOREHEAD, REMARKED: +WAS MERELY A MAN OF THE WORLD WHO HAD GOT ON AND TO WHOM GETTING ON HAD +WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN VERSES, AND BAGRATIóN, AGAIN PRECEDING ALL THE +WAS NAPOLEON—HIS HERO—BUT AT THAT MOMENT NAPOLEON SEEMED TO HIM +WAS NOT BEHAVING VERY WELL IN THIS MATTER. “YOUTH, FRIVOLITY... WELL, +WAS NOTHING. SO WHY SHOULD I NOT STAY AT HIS HOUSE? THEN I PLAYED CARDS +WAS NOT IN LOVE WITH ANYONE IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITH EVERYONE. WHATEVER +WAS. NOW HE EXCUSED HIMSELF FOR HAVING BEEN TAKEN PRISONER AND NOW, +WASN’T IT?” +WAS OFTEN ON DóLOKHOV’S FACE WHEN LOOKING AT HIM. “YES, HE IS A +WAS ON DUTY AND THAT HE SHOULD GO THROUGH THE DOOR ON THE LEFT INTO THE +WAS OUT OF THE QUESTION, “I AM IN LOVE WITH YOUR BROTHER ONCE FOR ALL +WAS PALE, HIS BLUE EYES LOOKED IMPUDENTLY INTO THE COMMANDER’S FACE, +WAS PERFECTLY TRUE. HE WAS AFRAID OF GETTING SOME OTHER OFFICER INTO +WAS REPEATEDLY SUMMONED TO SEE HIM. AT HEADQUARTERS AND AMONG THE TROOPS +WAS SAID. +WAS SERVING, AND A MISUNDERSTANDING AROSE. THE TWO COMMANDERS WERE MUCH +WAS SILENCED AT ONCE. THEY LOOKED AT THE BEAUTIFUL, LARGE, THOUGHTFUL +WAS SILENT WITH HIS STEWARD, THE GARDENER, AND THE ARCHITECT, AND THOUGH +WAS SITTING AT A SMALL TABLE, CHATTERING WITH MáSHA, HER MAID. SHE GREW +WAS SITTING AT THE HEAD OF THE TABLE. ON EITHER SIDE OF HER SAT THE +WAS SITTING BESIDE HIM, BY THE HAND. ROSTóV WAS STRUCK BY THE +WAS SITTING. THE CURTAINS WERE DRAWN, AND A SINGLE CANDLE WAS BURNING ON +WAS SO CLOSE TO HIM THAT HIS SHORTSIGHTED EYES COULD NOT BUT PERCEIVE +WAS SOMETHING BLACK, NOW LITTLE LIGHTS SEEMED TO GLIMMER WHERE THE ENEMY +WAS STRUCK BY THE CHANGE IN HIM. HIS WORDS WERE KINDLY AND THERE WAS A +WAS TAKEN UP WITH DINNERS AND BALLS AND WAS SPENT CHIEFLY AT PRINCE +WAS TALKED OF. FOR THE ROSTóV FAMILY THE WHOLE INTEREST OF THESE +WAS THE COUNT AT LAST HANDED A LETTER ADDRESSED IN HIS SON’S +WAS THE EMPERORS’ SUITES. THE EMPERORS RODE UP TO THE FLANK, AND THE +WAS THE LITTLE PRINCESS, THESE TEARS, THE CAUSE OF WHICH SHE DID NOT +WAS THE NAME HIS FANCY GAVE TO THE FARTHEST GUN OF THE BATTERY, WHICH +WAS THINKING OF. YES, NA-TáSHA, SABRETACHE, OH, YES, YES! THAT’S +WAS TOLD THAT THE PRINCE HAD GONE TO THE NURSERY. +WAS TOO FAR SEPARATED FROM OUR RIGHT FLANK AND THE CAVALRY WERE ALL +WAS TRYING TO FIT MUSIC: +WAS WARM BLOOD UNDER HIS ARM. “NO, I AM WOUNDED AND THE HORSE IS +WATCHWORD—SHAFT, OLMüTZ. WHAT A NUISANCE THAT OUR SQUADRON WILL BE IN +WATER. +WATER CART, PAINTED GREEN, STOOD IN A SHED; THE PATHS WERE STRAIGHT, +WAY AND ATTACHING HIM TO HIMSELF! WHAT IF HE GAVE ME A PLACE NEAR HIM? +WAY, DEAR BOY! MAKE WAY, MAKE WAY!” PUSHED THROUGH THE CROWD MORE +WAY IN WHICH HE DANCED THE MAZURKA, NICHOLAS RAN UP TO NATáSHA: +WAY OF THESE MEN, AND HE WOULD HAVE GOT CLEAR HAD THEY CONTINUED AT THE +WAY,” SAID AN OFFICER. +WAY THROUGH THE CROWD, WENT OUT OF THE DRAWING ROOM AND REAPPEARED A +WAY, WITH BERG WHO WAS ALREADY IN COMMAND OF A COMPANY. BERG, WHO HAD +WEAKNESS—THE ONE TO WHICH HE HAD CONFESSED WHEN ADMITTED TO THE +“WE ARE ENJOYING OURSELVES! VASíLI DMíTRICH IS STAYING A DAY LONGER +“WE ARE NOT FIGHTING POUR LE ROI DE PRUSSE, BUT FOR RIGHT PRINCIPLES. +“WE ARE SUCH FRIENDS, SUCH FRIENDS! ALL THAT RULER BUSINESS WAS JUST +WEARINESS AND ASSURANCE, AS IF HE WERE ADDING EVERY TIME: “YOU KNOW +WEARING LONG DRESSES FOR THE FIRST TIME. WITH SCARCELY ANY EXCEPTIONS +WEARING SCARVES AND ALL THEIR DECORATIONS, NOT ONLY THE ELEGANT, POMADED +WEARING THE CROSS OF ST. GEORGE, AWARDED TO SOLDIERS FOR BRAVERY IN +WEARY, AND DISTRACTED AIR, THOUGH AT THE SAME TIME HE WAS HAUGHTY AND +WE BEGIN A VERY ORIGINAL AND INTERESTING SERIES OF MANEUVERS. OUR AIM IS +WE CAN KNOW IS THAT WE KNOW NOTHING. AND THAT’S THE HEIGHT OF HUMAN +“WE CAN’T HAVE LESS—YES, THREE... THE MAYONNAISE, THAT’S ONE,” +WE COULD NOT THINK HOW TO ADDRESS THE REPLY! IF NOT AS ‘CONSUL’ +WEDNESDAY’S MEETING OF THE IMPERIAL COUNCIL, AT WHICH SERGéY KUZMíCH +“WE DROVE THEM BACK!” SAID BORíS WITH ANIMATION, GROWING TALKATIVE. +WEEKS, AND MONTHS OF HIS LIFE PASSED IN AS GREAT A RUSH AND WERE AS MUCH +WEEP WITHOUT KNOWING WHY—RODE BEHIND ON HIS ARTILLERY NAG. THOUGH +“WE HAD BETTER SEPARATE,” HE MUTTERED IN A BROKEN VOICE. +WE HEAR IS TRUE, IT IS DREADFUL. HOW LITTLE WE DREAMED OF SUCH A THING +WE KNEW YOU’D SAY SO. BUT IT WON’T DO, BECAUSE YOU SEE, IF YOU SAY +“WELL, ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT.” +“WELL, ALL THE SAME, YOU MUST REFUSE HIM.” +“WELL, AND ARE YOU STILL TRUE TO BORíS?” HE CONTINUED. +“WELL, AND IS THAT ALL?” HE ASKED. +“WELL, AND SO HE NEVER GOT FARTHER THAN: ‘SERGéY KUZMíCH’?” +“WELL AND THEN?” ASKED THE OTHER VOICE. “IF BEFORE THAT YOU ARE +“WELL, AND YOU? WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS?” +“WELL, AND YOU, YOUNG MAN,” SAID HE. “HOW DO YOU FEEL, MON +WELL, ARE YOU OFF TO THE FRONT?” +WELL, AS ALL THE CONNOISSEURS WHO HEARD HER SAID: “IT IS NOT TRAINED, +“WELL, AS YOU SEE. SO FAR EVERYTHING’S ALL RIGHT, BUT I CONFESS I +“WELL BEGIN!” SAID DóLOKHOV. +WELL-BRUSHED CLOTHES. THERE WAS A MASCULINE ODOR AND A SMELL OF TOBACCO. +“WELL, DO YOU THINK I SHALL PREVENT HER, THAT I CAN’T PART FROM +WELL FOR YOU,” SAID NATáSHA, WITH A RESPONSIVE SMILE. “YOU SHOULD +“WELL, GO AND SEE,” HE SAID, AFTER A PAUSE. +“WELL—HAD A GOOD TIME?” SAID THE OLD COUNT, SMILING GAILY AND +“WELL, HAVE YOU SENT GABRIEL FOR SOME WINE? ALL RIGHT LET’S HAVE +“WELL?” HE ASKED. +“WELL, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET OUT OF THAT?” HE REMARKED. +“WELL? HOW DO YOU FEEL?” HE ASKED. +“WELL! HOW D’YE DO? HOW D’YE DO? GLAD TO SEE YOU!” +“WELL, HOW D’YOU DO, MY DEAR FELLOW?” SAID DOLGORúKOV, WHO WAS +“WELL, I DID NOT EXPECT YOU, I AM VERY GLAD,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. +“WELL, I DON’T KNOW ABOUT THAT, BUT I AM UNCOMFORTABLE WITH HIM. AND +“WELL, I DON’T KNOW. IT’S AWKWARD AND WOULD MAKE ME ASHAMED.” +WELL I WILL GIVE YOU MY HAND TO KISS. NOT TILL THEN!” SHE SAID. AND +“WELL, I WILL LEAVE YOU IN YOUR LITTLE CORNER,” CAME ANNA +“WELL, I WILL READ THEM, THEN!” BAGRATIóN SEEMED TO SAY, AND, +“WELL, LëLYA?” HE ASKED, TURNING INSTANTLY TO HIS DAUGHTER AND +WELL-LIT ANTEROOM WHERE THEY TOOK OFF THEIR CLOAKS WITHOUT THE AID OF +“WE’LL MANAGE VERY WELL WITHOUT A DOCTOR.” +“WELL, MY DEAR BOY, I HEAR YOU’VE BEEN EDUCATED ABROAD, NOT TAUGHT +“WELL, MY DEAR FELLOW, SO YOU STILL WANT TO BE AN ADJUTANT? I HAVE +“WELL, MY DEAR FELLOW, TOMORROW WE ARE OFF AT LAST,” SAID PRINCE +“WELL, NOW TO THE HEALTH OF HANDSOME WOMEN!” SAID DóLOKHOV, AND +“WELL, NOW WE’LL ARRANGE SOMETHING QUITE SIMPLE AND BECOMING,” SHE +WELL REMEMBERED THAT SEVEN AFTERWARDS. HE LAID DOWN THE SEVEN OF HEARTS, +“WELL?” RETURNED THE OLD MAN. +“WELL!...” SAID THE OLD COUNT, SPREADING OUT HIS ARMS AND SINKING +“WELL, SEND FOR HIM... AND HOW DO YOU GET ON WITH THAT GERMAN?” +WE’LL SET OFF.” +“WELL, SHE LOVES ME AND YOU LIKE THAT.” +“WELL, SO THAT’S FINISHED, MY DEAR FELLOW! I AM VERY GLAD TO HAVE +“WELL, THE LORD BE THANKED, PRINCESS,” SAID MARY BOGDáNOVNA, NOT +“WELL THEN, ACCEPT HIS OFFER. IT’S HIGH TIME FOR YOU TO BE +“WELL THEN, BE QUICK. WE’LL ALL HAVE BREAKFAST TOGETHER.” +“WELL THEN, MIND AND HAVE COCKS’ COMB IN THE TURTLE SOUP, YOU +“WELL THEN,” PRINCE ANDREW ANSWERED HIMSELF, “I DON’T KNOW +“WELL THEN, TELL HIM SO.” +“WELL THEN, THAT’S EXCELLENT,” SAID HE. “WE’LL TALK IT OVER +“WELL THEN, TILL TOMORROW AT SOKóLNIKI,” SAID DóLOKHOV, AS HE TOOK +“WELL THEN, WHAT DO YOU WANT? YOU’RE ALL IN LOVE NOWADAYS. WELL, +“WELL, THERE YOU SEE!” +“WELL, THEY’VE SENT YOU A TIDY SUM,” SAID BERG, EYING THE HEAVY +“WELL, TILL WE MEET AGAIN...” HE SAID, HOLDING OUT HIS HAND TO +“WE’LL TRY TO,” REPLIED BERG, TOUCHING A PAWN AND THEN REMOVING +“WELL, WHAT IS IT?” CAME A SHARP, UNPLEASANT VOICE. +“WELL, WHAT’S THIS NOW? WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO NOW, I SHOULD LIKE +“WELL, WHAT THEN?” +“WELL, WON’T YOU GO ON? I HAD A SPLENDID CARD ALL READY,” AS IF IT +“WELL, YOU’D BETTER NOT PLAY,” DóLOKHOV ADDED, AND SPRINGING A +“WELL, YOU SEE, I’LL TELL YOU THE WHOLE SECRET OF DUELING IN TWO +“WE MUST DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE VIENNA CABINET AND THE EMPEROR OF +WE? NO?” +WENT ABOUT THE ROOMS FASHIONABLY DRESSED BUT LOOKING SAD AND DULL. HERE, +WENT BY. THEN SUDDENLY A TERRIBLE SHRIEK—IT COULD NOT BE HERS, SHE +WENT ON, WITH A SOMBER AND SCORNFUL SMILE. “AND THOU ART MORE FOOLISH +WENT OUT AFTER SHAKING HANDS WITH DOLGORúKOV AND BILíBIN. +WENT OUT OF THE HUT IN WHICH HE WAS BILLETED WITH NESVíTSKI AND BEGAN +WENT THERE AND FOUND TWO THIRDS OF THE MEN AND HORSES KNOCKED OUT, TWO +WENT TO HER FATHER’S ROOM AT THE USUAL HOUR, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE +WEPT. SHE SAW HER BROTHER NOW AS HE HAD BEEN AT THE MOMENT WHEN HE TOOK +WERE ALL A PRETENSE, AND THAT THE WHOLE ATTENTION OF THAT COMPANY WAS +WERE ALL HUGGING HIM, AND THE SERFS, MEN AND MAIDS, FLOCKED INTO THE +WERE ALREADY UP AND ASTIR. THE SMOKE OF THE CAMPFIRES, INTO WHICH THEY +WERE ALSO DISTINGUISHED BY THE FACT THAT SHE ALWAYS PRESENTED SOME NEW +WERE AMONG THE PRETTIEST. THEY WERE BOTH PARTICULARLY HAPPY AND GAY. +WERE BRINGING IN JUGS AND BASINS, HOT WATER FOR SHAVING, AND THEIR +WERE CASUAL GUESTS—CHIEFLY YOUNG MEN, AMONG WHOM WERE DENíSOV, +WERE CONCENTRATED. TWICE THEY HAD ATTEMPTED TO ATTACK THIS POINT, BUT ON +WERE CONSTANTLY SHAPING THEMSELVES IN HIS MIND, ARISING FROM THE +WERE DESCENDING. IN FRONT IN THE FOG A SHOT WAS HEARD AND THEN ANOTHER, +WERE FLOCKING IN TO LOOK AT HIM. PRINCE BAGRATIóN WAS THANKING THE +WERE IN A HURRY TO SHOW THE CHANGES THAT HAD TAKEN PLACE IN THEM. +WERE IN THEM. SHE LEANED OVER TO HER BROTHER AND KISSED HIM, SLIGHTLY +WERE LEAVING TO JOIN THEIR REGIMENT AFTER EPIPHANY. ABOUT TWENTY PEOPLE +WERE LIPS SEEKING A KISS. +WERE MOVING IN AND OUT AMONG THE RUSSIAN TROOPS AND SERVED AS HERALDS +WERE MOVING IN THE SAME DIRECTION. EVERY SOLDIER FELT GLAD TO KNOW THAT +WERE NOT TO BE OVERBURDENED WITH LABOR, WOMEN WHILE NURSING THEIR BABIES +WERE NOT TO BE SENT TO WORK, ASSISTANCE WAS TO BE GIVEN TO THE SERFS, +WERE PASSING BY. FROM ONE OF THE DRIVERS HE LEARNED THAT KUTúZOV’S +WERE PRESENT, INCLUDING DóLOKHOV AND DENíSOV. +WERE PRONOUNCED, PIERRE, WHO HAD SO LONG BEEN CONSIDERING HIS CAREER, +WERE READY TO DROP, AND SO SAID THE GROWN-UP YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WHO +WERE SENT TO THE CROSSROADS TO GUIDE HIM OVER THE COUNTRY ROAD WITH ITS +WERE THE CENTER OF GROUPS WHICH EVEN STRANGERS APPROACHED RESPECTFULLY +WERE THE FUN OF THE GAME WHICH INTERESTED HIM MOST. +WERE THERE, ONLY DISORGANIZED CROWDS OF TROOPS OF VARIOUS KINDS. HE +WERE THOSE OF THE ORDERLIES WHO WERE PACKING UP; ONE VOICE, PROBABLY A +WERE THROWING EVERYTHING SUPERFLUOUS, MADE THE EYES SMART. IT WAS COLD +WERE TURNED AGAINST THE TEN-GUN BATTERY. TúSHIN’S COMPANION OFFICER +WERE WALKING, DRIVING PAST, AND SETTLING DOWN ALL AROUND. THE SOUND +“WE SHALL PROBABLY ADVANCE,” REPLIED BOLKóNSKI, EVIDENTLY RELUCTANT +“WE’VE GIVEN IT ‘EM HOT, MATE! THEY WON’T MAKE ANOTHER PUSH +“WE WERE ORDERED TO BE AT THE PLACE BEFORE NINE, BUT WE HAVEN’T GOT +“WE WILL TALK OF IT LATER” (AND HE LOOKED ROUND AT ROSTóV). “COME +WEYROTHER. +WEYROTHER AGAIN GAVE THAT SMILE WHICH SEEMED TO SAY THAT TO HIM IT WAS +WEYROTHER, HURRIEDLY RISING FROM HIS SEAT AND GOING UP TO THE TABLE ON +WEYROTHER’S HAD ALREADY BEEN APPROVED. AS SOON AS PRINCE ANDREW BEGAN +WEYROTHER’S NAME, OR EVEN THE TERM “DISPOSITIONS.” +WEYROTHER, WHO WAS IN FULL CONTROL OF THE PROPOSED BATTLE, BY HIS +WHAT A HEART!” +“WHAT? A MINISTER? WHAT MINISTER? WHO GAVE ORDERS?” HE SAID IN +WHAT AM I TO DO IF I LOVE NOTHING BUT FAME AND MEN’S ESTEEM? DEATH, +“WHAT?” ANSWERED THE OLD MAN ABSENT-MINDEDLY. +“WHAT ARE THEY ABOUT?” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW AS HE GAZED AT THEM. +“WHAT ARE YOU ABOUT?” SHOUTED ROSTóV, LOOKING AT HIM IN AN ECSTASY +“WHAT! ARE YOU GOING TO REMAIN AS YOU ARE, DEAR PRINCESS?” SHE +“WHAT, ARE YOU WOUNDED, MY LAD?” SAID TúSHIN, APPROACHING THE GUN +WHAT? A SLUR ON MY NAME? A MISFORTUNE FOR LIFE? OH, THAT’S +WHAT A SOUL THERE IS IN DóLOKHOV, YOU SHOULD SEE HIM WITH HIS MOTHER. +“WHAT A STRANGE FATE, MáSHA DARLING!” AND HAVING TAKEN OFF HIS +WHAT A STRANGE FRENZY ONE EXPERIENCES DURING AN ATTACK,” PRINCE +“WHAT A STYLE! HOW CHARMINGLY HE DESCRIBES!” SAID SHE, READING THE +“WHAT CAN HE SAY? TRA-DI-RI-DI-RA AND SO ON... MERELY TO GAIN TIME. +“WHAT CAN IT BE?” HE THOUGHT. “THE ENEMY IN THE REAR OF OUR ARMY? +“WHAT DELICACY!” THOUGHT THE PRINCESS. “IS IT POSSIBLE THAT +“WHAT DEVIL BROUGHT THEM HERE?” THOUGHT HE, WHILE TíKHON WAS +“WHAT DID HE SAY? WHERE TO, NOW? HALT, IS IT? DID HE THANK US?” CAME +WHAT DIFFICULTY THE FATHER HAD DRAGGED HIS LEGS UPSTAIRS WHILE THE SON +“WHAT DIVISION ARE YOU?” SHOUTED AN ADJUTANT, RIDING UP. +“WHAT DOES HARM TO ANOTHER IS WRONG,” SAID PIERRE, FEELING WITH +“WHAT DOES IT MEAN? WHAT IS IT? WHOM ARE THEY FIRING AT? WHO IS +“WHAT DOES THAT PROVE?” HE WAS SAYING AS ROSTóV RODE UP. “THEY +“WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?” SHE BROUGHT OUT. +“WHAT DO YOU WANT, YOUR HONOR?” ASKED AN ARTILLERYMAN, STANDING +“WHAT ERROR OR EVIL CAN THERE BE IN MY WISHING TO DO GOOD, AND EVEN +“WHATEVER ARE YOU BOTHERING ABOUT, GENTLEMEN?” SAID BILíBIN, WHO, +“WHATEVER HAPPENS TO YOU,” HE SAID, “YOU MUST BEAR IT ALL MANFULLY +“WHATEVER THE EUROPEAN SOVEREIGNS AND COMMANDERS MAY DO TO +WHAT HAPPINESS IT WOULD BE TO DIE—NOT IN SAVING THE EMPEROR’S LIFE +“WHAT HAS HAPPENED?” HE ASKED HIMSELF. “I HAVE KILLED HER LOVER, +“WHAT HAVE THE YOUNG PEOPLE COME TO NOWADAYS, EH, FEOKTíST?” SAID +“WHAT HAVE THEY TAKEN A BABY IN THERE FOR?” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW IN +“WHAT?” HE ANSWERED, NOT RECOGNIZING BORíS. +WHAT HE SHOULD DO ON HIS ESTATES. +WHAT HE WAS SAYING WAS OUT OF PLACE, TACTLESS AND UNSUITABLE, THAT +WHAT HE WAS TO DO. THE COMING OF THESE VISITORS ANNOYED HIM. “WHAT ARE +WHAT I HAVE SEEN DURING THESE LAST THREE MONTHS IS INCREDIBLE. +WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND THEM. +“WHAT IS IT?” +“WHAT IS IT?” HE SAID CROSSLY, AND, HIS HAND SHAKING +WHAT IS IT I AM ATTACHED TO, PAPA?” SAID ANATOLE, TURNING TO HIS +WHAT IS IT MEANT TO PROVE? WHAT? I ASK YOU.” +WHAT IS LIFE, AND WHAT IS DEATH? WHAT POWER GOVERNS ALL?” +“WHAT IS THE MATTER, MARY?” +“WHAT IS THE MATTER?” SHE ASKED. +“WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU, MY DARLING? YOU LOOK PALE. OH, YOU + WHAT IS THIS BLISS THAT MAKES MY FINGERS THRILL? +“WHAT IS THIS?” THOUGHT NICHOLAS, LISTENING TO HER WITH WIDELY +“WHAT IS YOUR CONCEPTION OF FREEMASONRY?” +“WHAT! IT IS AS IF I WERE GLAD OF A CHANCE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF +WHAT LOOKED LIKE A SQUADRON OF HORSEMEN IN VARIOUS UNIFORMS. TWO OF THEM + WHAT MAGIC POWER IS THIS RECALLS ME STILL? +“WHAT NONSENSE...” +“WHAT NONSENSE! MUCH I NEED IT!” SAID ROSTóV, THROWING THE LETTER +WHAT PIERRE DID NOT KNOW WAS THAT THE PLACE WHERE THEY PRESENTED HIM + WHAT SPARK HAS SET MY INMOST SOUL ON FIRE, +“WHAT’S THAT? WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF IT?” SAID ROSTóV TO THE HUSSAR +“WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH YOU? ARE YOU ILL?” +“WHAT’S THIS? AM I FALLING? MY LEGS ARE GIVING WAY,” THOUGHT HE, +“WHAT STUPID ORDERS! THEY DON’T THEMSELVES KNOW WHAT THEY ARE +“WHAT’S YOUR NAME?” +WHAT THERE IS IN YOU.” +WHAT TO DO WITH HIS HANDS; HE WAS MORE ACCUSTOMED TO WALK OVER A PLOWED +“WHAT! TO WHOM?... NONSENSE!” CRIED THE COUNT, SUDDENLY REDDENING +WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE PASSAGE. SOME WOMEN PASSING WITH QUIET STEPS IN +“WHAT WAS IT?” +WHAT WAS PASSING IN HIS MIND. +WHAT WILL HAPPEN AND DON’T WANT TO KNOW, AND CAN’T, BUT IF I WANT +“WHAT! YOU DON’T REMEMBER BORíS?” ASKED SóNYA IN SURPRISE. +“WHAT YOU HAVE WITH YOU: WATCH, MONEY, RINGS....” +WHEELS AND PULLEYS IS MERELY A SLOW AND REGULAR MOVEMENT OF THE +WHEELS AND WORKING THE SCREWS HIMSELF. +WHEEL, WHICH MERGED IN HER MEMORY WITH WHAT FOLLOWED.) +WHEN ALL WAS READY, THE SABERS STUCK IN THE SNOW TO MARK THE BARRIERS, +“WHEN AM I TO RECEIVE THE MONEY, COUNT?” +WHEN BORíS AND ANNA PáVLOVNA RETURNED TO THE OTHERS PRINCE HIPPOLYTE +WHEN BORíS, WHO WAS TO BE SERVED UP TO THE GUESTS, ENTERED THE DRAWING +WHENCE—A STERN NOTE OF WHICH ALL ARE CONSCIOUS SOUNDS IN THE MORAL +“WHEN DID YOU GET THE LETTER? WAS IT FROM OLMüTZ?” REPEATED +WHEN EVERYBODY ROSE TO GO, HéLèNE WHO HAD SPOKEN VERY LITTLE ALL +WHEN FOOTSTEPS OR VOICES WERE HEARD DID THEY LOOK AT ONE ANOTHER, THE +WHEN GERMANS START BEING ACCURATE, THERE’S NO END TO IT!” +WHEN HE CAME LEVEL WITH THE FOOT GUARDS HE NOTICED THAT ABOUT THEM AND +WHEN HE ENTERED, PRINCE ANDREW, HIS EYES DROOPING CONTEMPTUOUSLY (WITH +WHEN HE FIRST LOVED HER. HE THOUGHT OF HER PREGNANCY AND FELT SORRY FOR +WHEN HE GOT HOME HE COULD NOT SLEEP FOR A LONG TIME FOR THINKING OF WHAT +WHEN HE HAD BECOME A LITTLE QUIETER, HE EXPLAINED TO ROSTóV THAT HE WAS +WHEN HE HAD GONE LESS THAN HALF A MILE IN THE REAR OF THE COLUMN HE +WHEN HE REACHED KIEV HE SENT FOR ALL HIS STEWARDS TO THE HEAD OFFICE +WHEN HE READ THAT SENTENCE, PIERRE FELT FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT SOME +WHEN HE STAYED IN (AS HE SAID) FOR PIERRE’S SAKE, HARDLY EXCHANGED A +WHEN HE WAS DYING OF WOUNDS AND THE SOVEREIGN HAD THANKED HIM FOR HEROIC +WHEN HE WISHED TO SPEAK CONTEMPTUOUSLY, AND NOTICING BORíS, PRINCE +WHEN, IF YOU REMEMBER, HE POSED AS A SORT OF MARAT AT ONE OF MY SOIREES. +“WHEN I SAW, YOUR EXCELLENCY, THAT THEIR FIRST BATTALION WAS +WHEN IT CAME TO NATáSHA’S TURN TO CHOOSE A PARTNER, SHE ROSE AND, +WHEN PARIS WAS MENTIONED, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE FOR HER PART SEIZED THE +WHEN PRINCESS MARY CAME DOWN, PRINCE VASíLI AND HIS SON WERE ALREADY +WHEN PRINCESS MARY RETURNED FROM HER FATHER, THE LITTLE PRINCESS SAT +WHEN PRINCESS MARY WENT TO HIM AT THE USUAL HOUR HE WAS WORKING AT HIS +WHEN PRINCE VASíLI RETURNED TO THE DRAWING ROOM, THE PRINCESS, HIS +WHEN SHE LOOKED UP AT HIM SHE WAS STRUCK BY HIS BEAUTY. ANATOLE STOOD +WHEN SHE SAW THE COUNT, SHE STRETCHED OUT HER ARMS TO HIM, EMBRACED HIS +WHEN SHE WAS NOT LIKE THAT AND WHEN EVERYTHING WAS LIGHT AND GAY. SHE +WHEN THE EMPEROR HAD PASSED NEARLY ALL THE REGIMENTS, THE TROOPS BEGAN +WHEN THE MONOTONOUS SOUND OF WEYROTHER’S VOICE CEASED, KUTúZOV OPENED +WHEN THE OFFICERS HAD EMPTIED AND SMASHED THEIR GLASSES, KíRSTEN FILLED +WHEN THE PRINCESS, AS IF LOST IN A FOG, HAD ALREADY STAGGERED OUT OF THE +WHEN THE READING WHICH LASTED MORE THAN AN HOUR WAS OVER, LANGERON AGAIN +WHEN THE REVIEW WAS OVER, THE NEWLY ARRIVED OFFICERS, AND ALSO +WHEN THE SUBJECT DID NOT RELATE TO HIMSELF, BUT IN CONNECTION WITH THE +WHEN THE SUN HAD ENTIRELY EMERGED FROM THE FOG, AND FIELDS AND MIST WERE +WHEN THEY PLAYED SOME TRICKS ON A POLICEMAN, DIDN’T THEY DO IT +WHEN THEY SAW HIS LOOKS. +WHEN WE WERE REJOICING AT HIS HAPPINESS! AND SUCH A LOFTY ANGELIC SOUL +WHEN YOU BEGAN LIVING FOR OTHERS. I EXPERIENCED JUST THE REVERSE. I +“WHEN YOU SEE MY SISTER, PRINCESS MARY, YOU’LL GET ON WITH HER,” +“WHERE AM I? OH YES, IN THE SKIRMISHING LINE... PASS AND +WHERE A PARADE DOES NOT BEGIN TILL ALL THE TROOPS ARE ASSEMBLED,” SAID +“WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO NOW, MY DEAR SIR?” +“WHERE ARE YOU OFF TO?” ASKED BORíS. +WHEREAS IT WAS PERHAPS NOT KNOWN, SINCE THE ENEMY WAS IN MOVEMENT. +WHERE HE COULD NEVER HAVE EXPECTED THE ENEMY TO BE. +WHERE HE WAS STAYING, AND HAD BEEN ABSURD, EXCITED, AND FOOLISH IN +WHERE HIS REGIMENT WAS STATIONED, AND TAKE HIM TO VISIT PRINCE NICHOLAS +“WHERE IS IT, THAT LOFTY SKY THAT I DID NOT KNOW TILL NOW, BUT SAW +“WHERE IS THE EMPEROR? WHERE IS KUTúZOV?” ROSTóV KEPT ASKING +“WHERE IS THE PRINCESS?” HE ASKED. “HIDING?” +WHERE THE CLAVICHORD STOOD. +WHERE THE HOTTEST MUSKET FIRE AND CANNONADE WERE HEARD. SUDDENLY HE +WHERE THE SLEIGHS HAD BEEN LEFT, IN A SMALL CLEARING IN THE PINE FOREST +WHERE TO FIND ME, BUT DON’T FORGET THAT I DO NOT REGARD EITHER MYSELF +WHERE TúSHIN’S GUNS WERE STATIONED WAS AN UNHARNESSED HORSE WITH A +“WHERE WOULD I NOT GO AT THE COUNTESS’ COMMAND!” SAID DENíSOV, +WHERE YOU ALWAYS RAN AWAY; YOU REMEMBER CETTE CHèRE ANNETTE!” +WHETHER HE WAS STILL FIRM IN HIS INTENTION AND DETERMINED TO SUBMIT TO +WHETHER SHE OUGHT TO WRITE, TORMENTED HER. NOW THAT HE WAS ALREADY AN +WHICH AN ENORMOUS MAP OF THE ENVIRONS OF BRüNN WAS SPREAD OUT. +WHICH AROUSED HIS OWN PITY. +WHICH ATTRACTED HIM. HE VERY READILY TOOK UP BORíS’ CAUSE AND WENT +WHICH CHANGED HIS APPEARANCE FOR THE WORSE. THERE WAS SOMETHING NAïVELY +WHICH COVERED WITH SNOW, APPEARED ON THE LANDING WHERE THE FOOTMAN +WHICH DENíSOV FOLLOWED HER. +WHICH DóLOKHOV’S SECOND HAD CALLED ON HIM, AND, HAVING CLOSED THE +WHICH EVERY FREEMASON SHOULD CULTIVATE IN HIMSELF. THESE VIRTUES WERE: +WHICH HAD BEEN PARTICULARLY REVIVED AND STRENGTHENED BY HIS LATE TOUR. +WHICH HAD GROWN MUCH OLDER. +WHICH HE ALWAYS DECEIVED HIMSELF. THE QUESTION WAS WHETHER HE COULD EVER +WHICH HE HAD COME OUT WAS THRONGED WITH CALèCHES, CARRIAGES OF ALL +WHICH HE HAD RECKONED UP TO TEN THOUSAND, BUT THAT NOW, AS HE VAGUELY +WHICH HE HAD WORN ON HIS ITALIAN CAMPAIGN, SAT ON HIS SMALL GRAY ARAB +WHICH HELD HIM IN THEIR POWER.... THE TEN FELL TO HIM. +WHICH HE PRESENTED TO PRINCE BAGRATIóN. ON THE SALVER LAY SOME VERSES +(WHICH HE VERY LIKELY WOULD BE), AND FOUND THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF +“WHICH HOUSE IS IT?” ASKED THE DRIVER. +WHICH ILYá ROSTóV BLUSHED WITH SELF-CONSCIOUS PLEASURE), THE FOOTMEN +WHICH, IN ACCORD WITH THE CLUB CUSTOM, HE HAD GIVEN UP TO THE HALL +WHICH I NOT ONLY CANNOT ADDRESS BUT WHICH I CANNOT EVEN EXPRESS IN +WHICH INTELLECTUAL KNOWLEDGE IS DIVIDED. THE HIGHEST WISDOM IS ONE. +WHICH I SHALL LEAD THE ARMY.” +WHICH IS THE ONLY THING WE NEED FEAR, OR HE IS CHANGING HIS POSITION.” +“WHICH IS THE SENIOR?” HE ASKED, ON SEEING THE PRISONERS. +WHICH IT RESTS AND WHICH NO HUMAN POWER CAN DESTROY, IS THE PRESERVATION +WHICH MADE A CERTAIN SENSATION, THE COUNT EXCHANGED GLANCES WITH +WHICH NICHOLAS ROSTóV SERVED AND WHICH WAS IN PRINCE BAGRATIóN’S +WHICH PRINCESS MARY MEEKLY SUBMITTED, JUST AS HER HAIR HAD BEEN ARRANGED +WHICH SEEMED TO HIM DAZZLINGLY RED, AND AT THE FEEBLE, ROUND-SHOULDERED +WHICH SEEMED TO RISE OUT OF THE SEA OF MIST AND ON WHICH THE RUSSIAN +WHICH SHE SPOKE OF HER EXALTED PATRONESS, SUPPORTED HéLèNE’S WISH. +WHICH THE GUARDS PRIDED THEMSELVES), THE OFFICERS ON FOOT AND AT THEIR +WHICH THE PRINCE HAD RETAINED FOR HIMSELF. +WHICH THE ROSTóVS ALWAYS ATTENDED. HE WAS POINTEDLY ATTENTIVE TO SóNYA +WHICH THE SERFS’ MANORIAL LABOR HAD BEEN DIMINISHED, AND HEARD THE +WHICH THEY WERE PRESENT, AND WENT TO IOGEL’S BALLS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE +WHICH THOUGH THEY EMBARRASSED PIERRE AWAKENED A JOYFUL FEELING IN THE +WHICH TO REPLY TO DóLOKHOV’S WORDS. BUT BEFORE HE HAD THOUGHT OF +WHICH WAS A LIE, AND WORSE THAN A LIE? I AM GUILTY AND MUST ENDURE... +WHICH WAS NOT CLEAR TO HIM, TO QUESTION HIS CHIEF STEWARD, TO VISIT HIS +WHICH WAS PRESUMABLY SOMEWHERE IN THE SAME NEIGHBORHOOD. AND SO IT WAS +WHICH WAS TO BE FOUND “THE CREAM OF REALLY GOOD SOCIETY, THE BLOOM +WHICH WERE TO BE THE FIRST TO DESCEND THE HEIGHTS TO ATTACK THE FRENCH +WHICH WERE UPPERMOST IN HIS MIND AT THAT MOMENT, ADDRESSED PRINCE ANDREW +(WHICH WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT), HE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO GET BACK BEFORE +WHILE DRESSING, AND YET THE QUESTION HE WAS ALWAYS PUTTING OFF DEMANDED +WHILE FATHER AND SON WERE HAVING THEIR EXPLANATION, THE MOTHER AND +WHILE HE TRIED TO PROVE TO PIERRE THAT IN HIS ACTIONS THERE WAS NO +WHILE ON THE SCAFFOLDING, IN THE MIDST OF A TALK EXPLAINING THE FUTURE +WHILE OTHERS SOUGHT SOME EXTRAORDINARY EXPLANATION OF SO STRANGE AN +WHILE PRINCE ANDREW ON THE CONTRARY, TAKING NO PART IN THE WAR AND +WHILE PRINCE ANDREW WENT TO REPORT ABOUT THE PURPLE-FACED GENERAL, THAT +WHILE ROSTóV WAS THUS ARGUING WITH HIMSELF AND RIDING SADLY AWAY, +WHILE THE GUESTS WERE TAKING THEIR LEAVE PIERRE REMAINED FOR A LONG TIME +WHILE UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE COUNTESS AND THE SOLICITUDE OF THE +WHILE WE, ON THE OTHER HAND, WITH OUR LEFT WING BY FAR OUTFLANK HIS +WHIRLED ROUND IT AT FULL SPEED WITH HER DRESS PUFFED OUT LIKE A BALLOON, +WHISPERED TO HIM. “THIS HAPPINESS IS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT IN THEM +WHISPER, “HAS COMPROMISED HER COMPLETELY, THEY SAY. PIERRE TOOK HIM +WHITE COSSACK COAT, AND BRING HIM ALONG TO ME.” +WHITE HANDS WITH AN AIR OF CALM IMPORTANCE. +WHITE PLUMES IN HIS HAT RODE A BOBTAILED CHESTNUT HORSE, THE OTHER WHO +WHITE RUFFLE, OUTLINING HIS RATHER LONG FACE WHICH WAS LIT UP FROM +“WHO?” +WHO APPEARED AT HIS CALL. “HURRY OFF AND TELL MAKSíM, THE GARDENER, +“WHO ARE THEY? WHY ARE THEY HERE? WHAT DO THEY WANT? AND WHEN WILL +“WHO ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?” +“WHO?” ASKED ROSTóV. +WHO AT THE FRONT HAD THE POWER TO ANNIHILATE HIM, A LIEUTENANT OF THE +WHO AT THE ROSTóVS’ HAD JOCULARLY ASSUMED THE ROLE OF NATáSHA’S +“WHO CAN TELL, YOUR HONOR?” REPLIED THE HUSSAR RELUCTANTLY. +WHO COULD THEREFORE BE OF USE TO HIM. HE LIKED PETERSBURG AND DESPISED +WHO—DREADING THIS LOVE AFFAIR WHICH MIGHT HINDER NICHOLAS FROM MAKING +WHOEVER HE MAY BE, EXHORT HIM WHO GOETH ASTRAY, RAISE HIM THAT FALLETH, +WHO HAD COME INTO THE ROOM UNNOTICED BY ANYONE, STOOD THERE AND WIPED +WHO HAD COME UP TO THE COT WITH NOISELESS STEPS, LIFTED THE CURTAIN, +WHO HAD MARCHED SO GAILY AND COMPLACENTLY. BUT AT THE MOMENT THE FIRST +WHO HAD RECENTLY OPENED A RESTAURANT THERE WITH GIRLS AS WAITRESSES. +WHO HAD SHELTERED IN THE VILLAGE HOUSES. THEY ALL RUSHED OUT OF +WHO HAD STOLEN SOME BOOTS FROM THE RECRUITS; I SHOULD EVEN HAVE BEEN +WHO HAVE STRIVEN TO ATTAIN THIS MYSTERY, AND THEREBY TO RENDER THEM +“WHO IS IT YOU WANT?” HE ASKED. “THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF? HE WAS +“WHO? KUTúZOV?” ASKED ROSTóV. +WHO LAYS BACK HER EARS AND CONTINUES TO CROUCH MOTIONLESS BEFORE HER +WHOLE ARMY IT IS STILL UNCERTAIN WHETHER HE IS ALIVE OR NOT. I COMFORT +WHOLE MASS OF MEN WAS CONCENTRATED. +WHO MADE HER A LOW BOW WHEN SHE MET HIM IN THE CORRIDOR CARRYING HOT +WHO MET HIM WITH THE CROSS OPPRESSED THE PEASANTS BY HIS EXACTIONS, AND +WHOM HE NOW FOUND NOTHING IN COMMON. “WE WILL GO AFTER DINNER. AND +WHOM SHOULD I SAY THAT? EITHER TO A POWER INDEFINABLE, INCOMPREHENSIBLE, +WHO RECOGNIZED HIM AND SAID A FEW WORDS TO HIM, DISJOINTED AND AWKWARD, +WHO REMAINED BEHIND, AND THE MONOTONOUS TRAMP OF THOUSANDS OF FEET +WHO’S A BETTER MAN THAN YOU IN EVERY WAY...” +WHOSE STATE OF UNCONQUERABLE CHILDISH EMBARRASSMENT NOW CHANGING TO +WHOSE WORDS STRUCK PIERRE MORE AND MORE BY THEIR PRECISION AND FIRMNESS. +“WHO’S THAT? WHY? WAIT A MOMENT!” ANATOLE’S FACE SEEMED TO SAY. +“WHO THE DEVIL HAS PUT THE LOGS ON THE ROAD?” SNARLED HE. +WHO WAS ASSOCIATED BY MEMORIES OF THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN WITH THE NAME OF +WHO WAS IN A HIGH FEVER. THESE LAST DAYS, MISTRUSTING THEIR HOUSEHOLD +WHO WAS PASSING: +WHO WAS REDUCED TO THE RANKS, TOOK A FRENCH OFFICER PRISONER IN MY +WHO WAS SITTING SILENTLY BESIDE HIM, WHAT HE THOUGHT OF TOMORROW’S +“WHO WAS THAT?” ASKED BORíS. +WHO WILL NOT REFUSE TO ACCOMPANY YOU.” +WHO, WITH HIS FACE BURIED IN THE GROUND AND A BLACKENED NAPE, LAY ON HIS +“WH-WHAT IS THE MATTER?” ASKED BOTH THE YOUNG AND OLD ROSTóV. +“WHY?” +“WHY?” +“WHY AREN’T YOU BEGINNING, MICHAEL ILARIóNOVICH?” SAID THE +“WHY AREN’T YOU SERVING IN THE ARMY?” +“WHY ARE THEY DOWN ON ME?” THOUGHT TúSHIN, LOOKING IN ALARM AT HIS +“WHY ARE YOU CRYING, MAMMA?” ASKED VéRA. “FROM ALL HE SAYS ONE +WHY ARE YOU HINDERING US?” ANOTHER IN THE SAME PLACE TURNED ROUND AND +WHY DID I BIND MYSELF TO HER? WHY DID I SAY ‘JE VOUS AIME’ * TO HER, +“WHY DID SóNYA RUN AWAY?” ASKED ROSTóV. +“WHY DID THEY WRITE, WHY DID LISE TELL ME ABOUT IT? IT CAN NEVER +WHY DOESN’T THE FRENCHMAN STAB HIM? HE WILL NOT GET AWAY BEFORE THE +“WHY DOESN’T THE RED-HAIRED GUNNER RUN AWAY AS HE IS UNARMED? +“WHY, DON’T YOU HEAR IT?” ROSTóV ASKED AGAIN, AFTER WAITING FOR A +“WHY DON’T YOU PLAY?” HE ASKED. +“WHY DON’T YOU RENEW THE ACQUAINTANCE?” SAID DóLOKHOV TO ROSTóV. +“WHY DO THEY WANT TO MAKE HER SING? HOW CAN SHE SING? THERE’S +“WHY DO YOU SHOUT SO? YOU’LL FRIGHTEN THEM!” SAID BORíS. “I DID +“WHY, FOR THIS REASON! MY FATHER IS ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE MEN OF +“WHY HAVE WE STOPPED? IS THE WAY BLOCKED? OR HAVE WE ALREADY COME UP +“WHY HAVE YOU THROWN THAT AWAY?” ASKED BORíS. +“WHY, I DIDN’T RECOGNIZE YOU!” HE SAID. BUT ROSTóV WAS OTHERWISE +“WHY? I LOVE YOU MORE THAN EVER,” SAID PRINCESS MARY, “AND I WILL +“WHY, IS IT LATE?” +“WHY IS IT WRONG?” URGED PRINCE ANDREW. “IT IS NOT GIVEN TO MAN +“WHY IS IT YOU WERE NEVER AT ANNETTE’S?” THE LITTLE PRINCESS ASKED +“WHY NOT?” INQUIRED BORíS. +“WHY NOT WASH? THAT IS NOT CLEANLY,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW; “ON THE +WHY SHE’S ASHAMED!” +“WHY SHOULD I ENVY THEM? MY CHANCE IS NOT LOST, AND MAYBE I SHALL SEE +“WHY SHOULDN’T I SPEAK? I CAN SPEAK AS I LIKE, AND I TELL YOU +“WHY SHOULD YOU BE ASHAMED?” +“WHY SO?” ASKED PRINCE ANDREW. “TO KILL A VICIOUS DOG IS A VERY +“WHY TERRIBLE?” ASKED NICHOLAS. “NO, VáSKA IS A SPLENDID +“WHY, THAT ONE, RIGHT AT THE END, THE BIG ONE. DON’T YOU SEE? +WHY THEY ALL LOOKED SO AT HIM, AND FLATTERED BY THIS GENERAL ADMIRATION +“WHY ‘WHAT THE DEVIL’?” SAID BORíS, PICKING IT UP AND READING +“WHY, YOU REMEMBER BEFORE YOU WENT AWAY?... WELL, SHE SAYS YOU ARE TO +WIDTH OF THE FIELD, AN ENORMOUS MASS OF CAVALRY IN BRILLIANT WHITE +WIFE: “AH, WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS TO ME?” +WIFE, AND THAT IT COULD NOT BE OTHERWISE. +WIFE... GOD BLESS YOU!...” +WIFE, HOW SHE WOULD LOVE HIM BECOME QUITE DIFFERENT, AND HOW ALL HE HAD +WIFE’S COMMAND HAD LET HIS HAIR GROW AND ABANDONED HIS SPECTACLES, +WIFE, SISTER, AND FUTURE SON, AND THE TENDERNESS HE HAD FELT THE NIGHT +WIFE, WAS TALKING IN LOW TONES TO THE ELDERLY LADY ABOUT PIERRE. +WIFE, WHILE YOU...” +WILL ACCEPT THEM,” SAID NESVíTSKI (WHO LIKE THE OTHERS CONCERNED IN +WILL ALL DIE FOR HIM GLADLY! IS IT NOT SO, GENTLEMEN? PERHAPS I AM NOT +WILL ALL END IN NOTHING!” +WILLARSKI BOWED HIS HEAD. +WILLARSKI WAS SILENT THROUGHOUT THE DRIVE. TO PIERRE’S INQUIRIES AS +WILLARSKI, WHOM PIERRE HAD KNOWN SLIGHTLY IN PETERSBURG SOCIETY, CAME +WILL CERTAINLY HAPPEN!” THOUGHT PIERRE, GLANCING AT THOSE DAZZLING +WILL PASS HERE IMMEDIATELY; IT WILL PLEASE HIM TO SEE THESE GENTLEMEN +WILL SLASH AT HIM!” THOUGHT ROSTóV, GRIPPING THE HILT OF HIS SABER. +WILL. THE RACES, THE ENGLISH CLUB, SPREES WITH DENíSOV, AND VISITS TO +WILL TO TELL ONLY WHAT HAPPENED. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO TELL THE TRUTH, +“WILL YOU BET? THE RIBBON OF THE ORDER IS A DIFFERENT MATTER....” +“WILL YOU HAVE THE PORTMANTEAUS BROUGHT IN? AND A BED GOT READY, AND +WINDOW, FROM WHICH THE DOUBLE FRAME HAD BEEN REMOVED (BY ORDER OF THE +“WINE? GLUTTONY? IDLENESS? LAZINESS? IRRITABILITY? ANGER? WOMEN?” +WINTER OF 1806, WHICH NICHOLAS ROSTóV SPENT IN MOSCOW, WAS ONE OF THE +WISDOM.” +WISHED TO DO SOMETHING SPECIAL ON MEETING HIS FRIEND. HE WANTED TO PINCH +WISHED TO HELP HIM BUT COULD NOT. +WISHED TO MAKE SOME SUGGESTION. BUT PRINCE VASíLI INTERRUPTED HIM IN +WISHING TO AVAIL HIMSELF OF THEIR COURTESY, AND THIS CAUSED SOME DELAY +WISHING TO SHOW HIM THAT SHE DID NOT EVEN DARE EXPECT TO INTEREST HIM, +WISHING TO TAKE IT OFF, BUT LET IT DROP AGAIN. THE FIVE MINUTES SPENT +WISH OR NOT TO BE PRINCE ANATOLE KURáGIN’S WIFE? REPLY: YES OR NO,” +WISH, TO COURT SOCIETY’S FAVOR. NOW HE ALONE WAS BLAMED FOR WHAT HAD +WITH A CALM SMILE THAT SHE WAS NOT SO STUPID AS TO BE JEALOUS: ‘LET +WITH A CLEVER FACE AND SHARPLY PROJECTING JAW WHICH, WITHOUT SPOILING +WITH A FACETIOUS SMILE ON HIS FACE, HE WAS TELLING THE LADIES ABOUT LAST +WITH A FORETASTE OF ARTISTIC PLEASURE. +WITH A GLOOMY AND TIRED FACE, WAS WEARILY TAKING OFF HIS WRAPS WITH THE +WITH A HEART FULL DESPAIR HE RODE AWAY, CONTINUALLY LOOKING BACK AT THE +WITH A HUM OF CONVERSATION, LIKE THE HUM OF BEES SWARMING IN SPRINGTIME. +“WITH A MESSAGE TO HIS MAJESTY.” +WITH A MOUSE. +WITH AN APOPLECTIC FLUSH OVER NECK AND NAPE AS OLD PEOPLE DO. +WITH AN OLD MOTHER AND A HUNCHBACK SISTER, AND WAS THE MOST AFFECTIONATE +WITH A RAPID, ALMOST BRUTAL MOVEMENT OF HER HEAD, SHE INTERCEPTED HIS +WITH A SCARED LOOK AND THAT PRINCESS MARY WAS NO LONGER BY THE COT. +WITH A SENSE OF ANTIPATHY TO THE OLD PRINCE WHICH SHE DID NOT +WITH A SERIOUS EXPRESSION, BUT WITH A SMILE LURKING AT THE CORNERS OF +WITH A SIGH. +WITH A SIGH HE COULD NOT SUPPRESS, AS THEY PASSED OUT OF THE PALACE. +WITH A SMILE. +WITH A STRENGTH HE HAD NEVER BEFORE FELT, HE MADE A STEP TOWARD HER +WITH A SUBTLE SMILE. +WITH A TREMBLING VOICE AND SOME DIFFICULTY IN UTTERANCE DUE TO HIS +WITH BANKS STILL BARE OF GRASS. IT WAS AT THE END OF A VILLAGE THAT +WITH BREAD AND SALT AND WISHED TO BUILD A CHANTRY IN HONOR OF PETER AND +WITH DóLOKHOV. “NONE BUT FOOLS TRUST TO LUCK IN PLAY,” DóLOKHOV +WITH ELASTICITY OF MOVEMENT, FAITH IN HIS GOOD FORTUNE, AND GENERALLY IN +WITH FLOUR WHITENING THEIR CARTS—ON THAT NARROW DAM AMID THE WAGONS +WITH GERMANS ALL DAY. WE WENT WITH WEYROTHER TO SURVEY THE DISPOSITIONS. +WITH HER AND PICKED UP HER RETICULE AND DROVE OUT WITH HER. HOW DID IT +WITH HER HEAD BENT FIRST ON ONE SIDE AND THEN ON THE OTHER. +WITH HER. HE KISSED HER HAND AND ADDRESSED HER NOT AS THOU BUT AS +WITH HER KNITTING. PRINCESS MARY TOOK A BOOK AND BEGAN READING. ONLY +WITH HIM.” +WITH HIM TO DOLGORúKOV. +WITH HIS ECCENTRIC FATHER. +WITH HIS EYES BANDAGED SEEMED TO HIM AN HOUR. HIS ARMS FELT NUMB, +WITH HIS FACE IN HIS HANDS. +WITH HIS FEELINGS BUT WITH THE VERY POSSIBILITY OF LIFE. LIFE WITHOUT +WITH HIS GLISTENING WIDE-OPEN EYES FIXED UPON HIM AND HIS MUSTACHE +WITH HIS HANDKERCHIEF, SAT DOWN BY NATáSHA AND DID NOT LEAVE HER FOR +WITH HIS PODGY OLD HANDS RESTING SYMMETRICALLY ON ITS ARMS. AT THE SOUND +WITH HIS RIGHT HAND, THEN FALLING ON ONE KNEE HE TWIRLED HER ROUND HIM, +WITH HIS RIGHT THUMB UNDER A BUTTON OF HIS UNIFORM, HIS CHEST EXPANDED +WITH HIS WHOLE BODY AS IF IN THAT POSITION HE HOPED TO HASTEN THE SPEED +WITHIN. +WITHIN A FEW DAYS. PRINCESS MARY AND THE OLD PRINCE EACH BORE AND HID +WITH IT TO THE MARSHALS, AND ORDERED THE ACTION TO BEGIN. THE MARSHALS, +WITH KISSES, HOLDING HIM TIGHT BY THE SKIRT OF HIS COAT, SPRANG AWAY AND +WITH KUTúZOV’S CANTATA, LAID ONE BEFORE PIERRE AS ONE OF THE +WITH LANTERNS, STANDING AT THE ENTRANCE. SHE WENT OUT ON THE STAIRS. ON +WITH NAPOLEON IF, CONTRARY TO EXPECTATIONS, THESE NEGOTIATIONS WERE +WITH NATáSHA, PIQUET WITH HIS FATHER, AND EVEN HIS COMFORTABLE BED +WITHOUT ANSWERING, ROSTóV SHOOK THE SOLDIER’S CROSS OF ST. GEORGE +WITHOUT ANY COMMAND BEING GIVEN, APPARENTLY OBSTRUCTED BY SOMETHING IN +WITHOUT ANY DEFINITE POSITION, WITHOUT RELATIONS OR EVEN A COUNTRY, DID +WITHOUT CHANGING HIS CARELESS ATTITUDE, PIERRE LOOKED AT THEM OVER HIS +WITHOUT DELAY AND CARRY OUT INSTRUCTIONS! +WITHOUT GOING OUT OF THE HOUSE, WAITING FOR THE MONEY HIS FATHER COULD +WITHOUT HIS GREATCOAT, WITH HIS ORDERS ON HIS BREAST AND AN ENORMOUS +WITHOUT LOOKING AT HIM, AND WITH A KIND OF FURY THAT MADE HIM LIKE HIS +WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE MAN HE WAS ADDRESSING, AND DID NOT REPLY TO +WITHOUT MALE SOCIETY, ON ANATOLE’S APPEARANCE ALL THE THREE WOMEN OF +WITHOUT MOVING, UNDERTAKING NOTHING....” +WITHOUT READING IT AND REREAD HIS FATHER’S LETTER, ENDING WITH THE +WITHOUT REASONING. WITH AN AFFECTATION OF RESPECT WHICH EVIDENTLY STRUCK +WITHOUT RECEIVING ANY EXPLANATION. +WITH PAPERS FROM KUTúZOV TO THE TSARéVICH, HE LOOKED IN ON BORíS, +WITH PROFIT. THE FIRST AND CHIEF OBJECT OF OUR ORDER, THE FOUNDATION ON +WITH SOMETHING. IT WAS A COFFIN WITH BONES INSIDE. HE WAS NOT AT ALL +WITH TELYáNIN AND BOGDáNICH. THAT AFFAIR WAS THE SAME THING AS THIS +WITH THE AIR OF AN OLD BRIGADIER. +WITH THE COOPERATION OF ALL, BY THE MILLIONS OF GENERATIONS FROM OUR +WITH THE DELIGHT BOYS FEEL AT THE SIGHT OF A MILITARY ELDER BROTHER, AND +WITH THE FULL SWING OF A BLUDGEON. IT HURT A LITTLE, BUT THE WORST OF +WITH THEIR MANAGEMENT AND EMBEZZLEMENT OF MONEY, SOME AFTER THEIR FIRST +WITH THEIR PLUMES, RIBBONS, AND MEDALS, BOTH COURTIERS AND MILITARY +WITH THE LASSITUDE OF AGE, SAT YAWNING WEARILY WITH CLOSED EYES. THE +WITH THE NAKED EYE PRINCE ANDREW SAW BELOW THEM TO THE RIGHT, NOT MORE +WITH THE OLD PRINCE.” +WITH THE PHYSICAL PAIN. IT WAS THEY, THESE SOLDIERS—WOUNDED AND +WITH THE SOLDIER, AN INFANTRY OFFICER WITH A BANDAGED CHEEK CAME UP TO +WITH WHICH HE LISTENED TO PIERRE, ESPECIALLY WHEN HE SPOKE WITH JOYFUL +WITH YOU. I CAN’T.” +WOMAN; AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? YOU HAVE NOT HELPED HER TO FIND THE WAY +WOMAN. NOW I HAVE SPOKEN THAT TERRIBLE WORD TO MYSELF ALL HAS BECOME +WOMAN’S PRIVILEGE.” +WOMAN WHO MAY BELONG TO ANYONE—TO YOU TOO,” SAID HER GLANCE. AND AT +WOMEN HAVE THAT DRESS CAN MAKE A FACE PRETTY. +“WOMEN,” HE SAID IN A LOW, SCARCELY AUDIBLE VOICE. +WOMEN’S GLOVES, HE SAID: “DEAR BROTHER, THESE WOMAN’S GLOVES ARE +WON’T BE IN ACTION,” HE ADDED AS IF IN APOLOGY. +WON’T GET THERE TILL EVENING.” +WOODEN WALLS REDOLENT OF PINE, AND WOULD HAVE GONE FARTHER, BUT ANTóN +WORD. +WORD, “AND YOU BELIEVED IT! WELL, WHAT HAVE YOU PROVED? WHAT DOES THIS +WORD INFECTED THE WHOLE CROWD WITH A FEELING OF PANIC. +WORD OF HONOR NOT TO TAKE ANYTHING MORE TILL THE SPRING. NOW ONLY TWELVE +WORDS BUT COULD NOT DISTINGUISH THEM. THE DIN OF MANY VOICES WAS TOO +WORDS COULD DO. YOU WILL PERHAPS ALSO SEE IN YOUR FURTHER INITIATION A +WORDS: “GALLOP OFF TO KóRCHEVO AND CARRY OUT INSTRUCTIONS!” +WORDS, HE ADDED, “DON’T BE HURT, MY DEAR FELLOW; YOU KNOW I SPEAK +WORDS HE HAD FOUND SO DIFFICULT TO UTTER: “I LOVE YOU.” “IT ALL +WORDS. IF YOU ARE GOING TO FIGHT A DUEL, AND YOU MAKE A WILL AND WRITE +WORDS OF ROSTOPCHíN, THAT FRENCH SOLDIERS HAVE TO BE INCITED TO BATTLE +WORDS—THE GREAT ALL OR NOTHING-” SAID HE TO HIMSELF, “OR TO +WORDS TO THE SOLDIERS WHO WERE CARRYING HIM, NOW WITH HIS EYES FIXED +WORDS. TOUCHED THAT THIS STATUESQUE PRINCESS COULD SO CHANGE, PIERRE +WORDS WITH VAGUE YET JOYFUL IDEAS. THE DOOR OPENED AND SOMEONE CAME IN. +WORD “WAITING.”) “NOT ALL THE COLUMNS HAVE FORMED UP YET, YOUR +WORK, CHIMES TO PLAY, FIGURES TO POP OUT, AND THE HANDS TO ADVANCE WITH +WORKING AND LOOKED UP WITH THAT CURIOUS EXPRESSION OF INNER, HAPPY CALM +WORKING HERSELF UP TO TEARS WITH THE IMAGINARY WORDS OF HER PAUVRE MèRE +WORK. ON A THIRD ESTATE THE PRIEST, BEARING A CROSS, CAME TO MEET +WORLDLY SCIENCES OF PHYSICS, HISTORY, CHEMISTRY, AND THE LIKE, INTO +WORLD. PRINCE ANDREW WAS THE FIRST TO MOVE AWAY, RUFFLING HIS HAIR +WORN AND IRRITABLE. THE INFANTRY PASSING BEFORE HIM CAME TO A HALT +WORN LEATHER, AND AN OFFICER’S SABER WITH A SWORD KNOT. THE DON HORSE +WORSE, WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT ROSTóV WAS HIMSELF TO BLAME SINCE WHAT +WORTHLESS SCOUNDREL WHOSE WHOLE LIFE COULD NOT ATONE FOR HIS CRIME. HE +WORTHY OF IT. THIS RESCRIPT BEGAN WITH THE WORDS: “SERGéY KUZMíCH, +“WOSTóV, GET UP!” +WOULD AT LAST START ON THAT PATH OF REGENERATION AND ON THE ACTIVELY +WOULD BE EASIER TO SEE PEOPLE COMING ALONG IT. “FOLLOW ME!” SAID HE, +WOULD BE GOOD IF EVERYTHING WERE AS CLEAR AND SIMPLE AS IT SEEMS TO +WOULD BE KILLED. +WOULD BE PARTICULARLY PLEASANT TO HIM TO DISHONOR MY NAME AND RIDICULE +WOULD BE SOMETHING UNNATURAL, AND AS IT SEEMED TO HIM DISHONORABLE, IN +WOULD BE TAKEN IMMEDIATELY TO FREE HIS SERFS—AND THAT TILL THEN THEY +WOULD BE TO BETRAY HER AGITATION, WHILE TO DECLINE THEIR OFFERS TO +WOULD BE TOO EXTRAORDINARY,” AND AT THE VERY MOMENT SHE THOUGHT THIS, +WOULD BE WISER FOR HIM TO LEAVE PETERSBURG. PIERRE PROPOSED GOING TO HIS +WOULD GIVE WAY NOT ONLY UNDER A CANNON OR A CROWD, BUT VERY SOON EVEN +WOULD HAPPEN TO HIM AND STILL MORE AFRAID OF SHOWING HIS FEAR. HE FELT +WOULD HAVE ADDRESSED YOURSELF FIRST TO ME. IN THAT CASE YOU WOULD NOT +WOULD HAVE HIT ALPáTYCH, THE OVERSEER, HAD NOT THE LATTER INSTINCTIVELY +WOULD HAVE MADE THEM. +WOULD HAVE ME BE, BUT I HAVE NEVER HAD HELP FROM ANYONE.... BUT IT IS +WOULD HAVE SEEMED SO UNNATURAL HAD ANYONE DISLIKED HIM, THAT HE COULD +WOULD MEET. +WOULD NOT BE BAD AS REGARDS THE UNWRITTEN CODE,” THOUGHT BORíS), +WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN LOVERS (DES AMANTS), BUT I HAVE NOT DONE SO,” +WOULD NOT SUPPLY THEM. PIERRE WAS OBLIGED TO WAIT. WITHOUT UNDRESSING, +WOULD OCCUPY A MOST BRILLIANT POSITION IN SOCIETY. DON’T YOU THINK SO? +WOULD STILL REMAIN PITEOUS AND PLAIN. AFTER TWO OR THREE CHANGES TO +“WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT, COUNT, I WAS NOT AT ALL ALARMED, BECAUSE I KNEW +WOULD YOU NOW LIKE TO LOOK ROUND MY PLACE?” +WOUNDED AND CAPTURED RUSSIAN OFFICERS HE WAS CARRIED TO THE HOSPITAL. +WOUNDED—HAD LEFT IT LONG AGO. ALL ABOUT THE FIELD, LIKE HEAPS OF +WOUNDED IN THE RIGHT HAND, TAKEN HIS SWORD IN THE LEFT, AND GONE +WOUNDED OFFICER?” +WOUNDED SOLDIER WAS SO DIRTY, COARSE, AND REVOLTING THAT HIS PROXIMITY +WOUNDED WERE MORE DISTINCTLY HEARD THAN ANY OTHER SOUND IN THE DARKNESS +WOUNDED WHERE THERE WAS NO ONE LEFT TO FIRE AT, ON SEEING AN ADJUTANT +WOUNDS, THE LOSS OF FAMILY—I FEAR NOTHING. AND PRECIOUS AND DEAR +WRETCHED MOOD. AT NINE IN THE MORNING, HE HEARD FIRING IN FRONT AND +WRINKLED, CLEAN-SHAVEN CHEEK FOR PIERRE TO KISS AND WOULD SAY: “TILL +WRINKLED SOLES AND PALMS. +WRISTS VISIBLE FROM UNDER THE SHIRT CUFFS, LAID DOWN THE PACK AND TOOK +WRONG, AND FURTHER THAT HE WAS DISAGREEABLE AND UNNATURAL. +WRONG AND THAT TO DISCUSS THE BAD NEWS WAS DIFFICULT, AND SO IT WAS BEST +WROTE HIMSELF,” SAID SHE THROUGH HER TEARS. +YEAR?” SAID “THE MAN OF PROFOUND INTELLECT.” “WHY SHOULDN’T +YEARS BEFORE, IT SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE THAT THE LITTLE CREATURE WHO LIVED +“YES.” +“YES, AND I HAVE SOME MONEY AND A LETTER TO GIVE YOU,” HE ADDED. +“YES, BUT HE WILL DISLIKE IT EXTREMELY,” SAID BOLKóNSKI. +“YES, BUT IT IS NOT AS YOU IMAGINE,” PRINCE ANDREW CONTINUED. “I +“YES, COUNT,” SHE WOULD SAY, “HE IS TOO NOBLE AND PURE-SOULED FOR +“YES, EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT NOWADAYS, EVERYTHING IS CHANGED. THE +“YES, FROM OLMüTZ,” HE ANSWERED, WITH A SIGH. +“YES, GENTLEMEN, I’VE BEEN TOLD THERE’S A RUMOR GOING ABOUT MOSCOW +“YES, GOD BE THANKED! YES! THEY’VE JUST FINISHED SUPPER. LET ME HAVE +“YES, HE IS VERY HANDSOME,” THOUGHT PIERRE, “AND I KNOW HIM. IT +YES, HOSPITALS, MEDICINE. HE HAS A FIT, HE IS DYING, AND YOU COME AND +“YES, I BELONG TO THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE FREEMASONS,” SAID THE +“YES, I DO BELIEVE IN GOD,” HE REPEATED. +“YES, I DO WISH IT,” SAID HE. +“YES, I’D SEND THEM ON IN FRONT, BUT NO FEAR, THEY’RE CROWDING UP +“YES, I FEEL A KIND OF OPPRESSION,” SHE SAID IN REPLY TO THE +“YES, IF YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT IT’S QUITE A DIFFERENT MATTER,” SAID +“YES... I... I... DESIRE REGENERATION,” PIERRE UTTERED WITH +“YES, I’M TIRED TOO,” SAID ROSTóV. +“YES, INDEED!” +“YES, I NEVER LOVED HER,” SAID HE TO HIMSELF; “I KNEW SHE WAS A +“YES, I SAW HIM, AND AM CONVINCED THAT HE FEARS NOTHING SO MUCH AS +“YES, IT CAN’T BE HELPED IF THEY WON’T TAKE LESS. AH, DEAR ME! I +“YES, IT IS VERY LIKELY THAT I SHALL BE KILLED TOMORROW,” HE +“YES... IT’S GETTING ON, IT WILL ALL BE SETTLED TODAY.” ANNA +“YES, I WAS THINKING”—FOR SOME REASON BORíS COULD NOT HELP +YES, KILLED MY WIFE’S LOVER. YES, THAT WAS IT! AND WHY? HOW DID I COME +“YES, MY SóNYA COULD NOT HAVE DONE OTHERWISE!” THOUGHT NICHOLAS. +“YES,” SAID NATáSHA. “DO YOU KNOW, NICHOLAS—DON’T BE +“YES, SIR.” +“YES, SIR.” +“YES, SIR, AND THERE’S A LIGHT IN YOUR FATHER’S STUDY.” +“YES, STORIES!” REPEATED ROSTóV LOUDLY, LOOKING WITH EYES SUDDENLY +YESTERDAY AND THE QUESTION PRESENTED ITSELF WHETHER HE OUGHT OR OUGHT +“YES, THAT MUST BE SO,” THOUGHT PIERRE, WHEN AFTER THESE WORDS THE +“YES, THAT’S ME!” SHE SEEMED TO SAY, ANSWERING THE RAPT GAZE WITH +“YES, THAT WAS FINE,” SAID ROSTóV, SMILING. +“YES, THIS IS THE ONE THING LEFT ME NOW,” HE SAID WITH A SIGH. +“YES, WE HAVE ALTERED MUCH, VERY MUCH, SINCE THEN,” SAID PRINCE +“YES, WE KNOW THAT, BUT THE HARM I AM CONSCIOUS OF IN MYSELF IS +“YES, YES,” ASSENTED PIERRE. +“YES, YES,” ASSENTED PIERRE. +“YES, YES, DO SO.” +“YES, YES,” HE MUTTERED, “IT WILL BE DIFFICULT, I FEAR, DIFFICULT +“YES, YES, I AM UNHAPPY,” ASSENTED PIERRE. “BUT WHAT AM I TO +“YES... YES, I BELIEVE IN GOD,” HE SAID. +“YES, YES, IF YOU PLEASE! IT IS ALREADY LATE,” SAID HE, AND NODDING +“YES, YES, THAT IS SO,” SAID PIERRE JOYFULLY. +“YES, YOU DO NOT KNOW HIM, MY DEAR SIR,” SAID THE MASON. “YOU +“YES, YOU HAVE SEEN HIM?” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. “WELL, WHAT IS +“YES, YOU MIGHT, BUT I AM AFRAID OF GETTING THE ACCOUNTS MIXED. SO I +“YES, YOUR EXCELLENCY. FORGIVE ME FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE... IT WAS ONLY +“YES, YOU TALK, BUT TRY IT YOURSELF!” +YET AT THE SAME TIME WAS CONSCIOUS OF HIS STRENGTH AS A PART OF THAT +YET IT WAS SHE, DRESSED IN A NEW GOWN WHICH HE DID NOT KNOW, MADE SINCE +YET OCCUPIED THAT REGION, AND THE RUSSIANS—THE UNINJURED AND SLIGHTLY +YET WITH A HOPE FOR THE FULFILLMENT OF HER FORBIDDEN EARTHLY LONGING) +YET WITH UNHESITATING ASSURANCE THAT HE WAS DOING THE RIGHT THING, +YOU!” +“YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST COME AND SEE ME,” SHE SAID IN A TONE THAT +YOU AND MAKE YOU WEEP. +YOU A PLACE IN MY CARRIAGE. I AM VERY GLAD. ALL OUR IMPORTANT BUSINESS +“YOU ARE A LITTLE SLYBOOTS,” SHE SAID. +YOU ARE ALL BLUBBERERS AND UNDERSTAND NOTHING.” +“YOU ARE AN ANGEL: I AM NOT WORTHY OF YOU, BUT I AM AFRAID OF +“YOU ARE JOKING,” REPLIED PIERRE, GROWING MORE AND MORE EXCITED. +“YOU ARE MOST WELCOME! I KNOW, I KNOW,” SAID THE COUNT, KISSING AND +YOU ARE NOT AWARE OF THE FACT...” +“YOU ARE SEEKING FOR TRUTH IN ORDER TO FOLLOW ITS LAWS IN YOUR LIFE, +“YOU ARE STILL THE SAME DREAMER, I SEE,” REMARKED BORíS, SHAKING +“YOU ARE THE COMMANDER OF THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER’S REGIMENT OF HORSE +“YOU ARE UNHAPPY, MY DEAR SIR,” THE STRANGER CONTINUED. “YOU +“YOU ARE WOUNDED?” HE ASKED, HARDLY ABLE TO MASTER THE TREMBLING OF +YOU, BUT WHY SHOULD I BOTHER ABOUT YOU? YOU’D BE ONLY TOO GLAD, OF +“YOU CALL HIM VáSKA? THAT’S FUNNY! AND IS HE VERY NICE?” +“YOU CAN GIVE THE MESSAGE TO HIS MAJESTY,” SAID DOLGORúKOV, +“YOU CAN’T COME IN! YOU CAN’T!” SAID A TERRIFIED VOICE FROM + * “YOU CLEAR OUT OF THIS.” +“YOU COULDN’T SEE A THING. HOW THEY SHOT AT THEIR OWN FELLOWS! +“YOU DID NOT GET MY LETTER?” HE ASKED, AND NOT WAITING FOR A +“YOU DON’T MIND YOUR HONOR?” HE ASKED TúSHIN. “I’VE LOST MY +“YOU FORGET YOURSELF, COLONEL. I AM NOT CONSIDERING MY OWN PLEASURE +YOU HAVE BEEN ENTERED IN THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS AND MADE A GENTLEMAN OF +“YOU HAVE EARNED THE ST. GEORGE’S STANDARDS AND WILL BE WORTHY OF +“YOU HAVEN’T READ THE LETTER?” ASKED SóNYA. +YOU HURRY UP? NOW THEN!” +YOU? I’M AWFULLY GLAD YOU’RE MY BROTHER.” SHE TOUCHED HIS +“YOU KNOW BILíBIN—HE’S A VERY CLEVER FELLOW. HE SUGGESTED +“YOU KNOW HER HUSBAND, OF COURSE?” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA, CLOSING HER +“YOU KNOW HIM NOT, MY DEAR SIR, AND SO YOU ARE VERY UNHAPPY. YOU DO +“YOU KNOW, MICHAEL ILARIóNOVICH, WE ARE NOT ON THE EMPRESS’ FIELD +“YOU KNOW, MON CHER, YOUR FATHER AND I HAD SOME ACCOUNTS TO SETTLE, SO +“YOU KNOW N— N— RECEIVED A SNUFFBOX WITH THE PORTRAIT LAST +“YOU KNOW THEY’VE COME, MARIE?” SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS, WADDLING +“YOU’LL DIE AND ALL WILL END. YOU’LL DIE AND KNOW ALL, OR CEASE +“YOU’LL MAKE A FINE THING OF IT, DEPLOYING IN SIGHT OF THE ENEMY! +“YOU MAY GO,” HE SAID TO ANATOLE. +“YOU MAY PUNT,” HE SAID. +“YOU MIGHT HAVE TAKEN SOME FROM THE COVERING TROOPS.” +“YOU MUST DO AS YOU PLEASE,” SAID PRINCE BOLKóNSKI, BOWING TO HIS +YOUNG AIDE-DE-CAMP WITH A SMILE. +YOUNG, ALL OUR OCTOGENARIANS WERE REVIEWED, AND OF PROZORóVSKI +YOUNG AND OLD MEN AND WOMEN PIERRE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND WHY HE DID NOT +YOUNG FACE TO LOOK BACK. A SHUDDER OF TERROR WENT THROUGH HIM: “NO, +YOUNG GIRLS READY FOR ANYTHING AND FULL OF HOPE—EXPERIENCED THE SAME +YOUNG MAN HE DID NOT KNOW, WITH A PECULIAR CROSS HANGING FROM HIS +YOUNG MAN’S RECENT LOSS BY THE DEATH OF COUNT BEZúKHOV (EVERYONE +YOUNG MAN’S SHOULDER. +YOUNG MASTER. “CAN IT BE? MY TREASURE!” AND PROKóFY, TREMBLING WITH +YOUNG SON, RESTING ON HIM AND WINKING JOYFULLY AT HIM. YOUNG ROSTóV +YOUNG. YOU NEED ADVICE. DON’T BE ANGRY WITH ME FOR EXERCISING AN OLD +YOU NOT REST HERE?” +“YOU OWE FORTY-THREE THOUSAND, COUNT,” SAID DóLOKHOV, AND +“YOU PICKED IT UP?... I DARE SAY! YOU’RE VERY SMART!” ONE OF THEM +YOU POSITIVELY THAT HéLèNE IS AS INNOCENT BEFORE YOU AS CHRIST WAS +YOUR BATTALIONS. I WILL KEEP OUT OF FIRE IF YOU WITH YOUR HABITUAL +“YOUR COUSIN...” DóLOKHOV STARTED TO SAY, BUT NICHOLAS INTERRUPTED +YOUR DENíSOV THOUGH HE IS A RAKE AND ALL THAT, STILL I LIKE HIM; SO +YOUR DISPOSAL.” +“YOUR EXCELLENCY, HERE ARE TWO TROPHIES,” SAID DóLOKHOV, POINTING +“YOUR EXCELLENCY!” PRINCE ANDREW BROKE THE SILENCE WITH HIS ABRUPT +“YOUR EXCELLENCY,” SAID ROSTóV, “MAY I ASK A FAVOR?” +“YOUR EXCELLENCY, SHOULD NOT MARY BOGDáNOVNA BE SENT FOR?” SAID ONE +YOUR EYES,” ADDED WILLARSKI. “I WISH YOU COURAGE AND SUCCESS,” +“YOUR HONOR, I THOUGHT...” +“YOUR HONOR, THE GENERALS!” SAID THE SERGEANT, RIDING UP TO ROSTóV. +“YOUR HONOR, THERE HE IS!” CRIED ONE OF THE HUSSARS BEHIND HIM. AND +“YOUR HONOR, YOU’RE WANTED BY THE GENERAL. HE IS IN THE HUT HERE,” +“YOUR JOKE IS TOO BAD, IT’S WITTY BUT UNJUST,” SAID ANNA +YOUR PRESENCE; IF SHE IS WILLING, THEN HE CAN STAY ON. HE CAN STAY AND +“YOUR REGIMENT FULFILLED ITS DUTY HONORABLY,” SAID NAPOLEON. +YOURS.” +YOURSELF AND SAY YOU NEARLY RUINED YOUR LIFE AND ONLY FOUND HAPPINESS +YOURSELF IN A POSITION TO BE ATTACKED, BUT YOURSELF TO ATTACK. BELIEVE +YOURSELF, PUT A BRIDLE ON YOUR SENSES, AND SEEK BLESSEDNESS, NOT IN +“YOUR SON,” WROTE KUTúZOV, “FELL BEFORE MY EYES, A STANDARD IN +YOU?” SAID THE OLD PRINCE TO PRINCE VASíLI. +YOU SEE I DO UNDERSTAND. I DON’T KNOW HOW TO PUT IT... WITH THIS ONE +“YOU SEE, MY DEAR FELLOW, I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT YOU,” +YOU SEEN DUPORT?” +YOU SELECT TO BE YOUR WORTHY HELPMEET IN MASONRY.” AND AFTER A PAUSE, +“YOU SHAN’T HAVE IT!” HE SAID DISTINCTLY. +YOU—SóNYA. BUT THEIR EYES MET AND SAID THOU, AND EXCHANGED TENDER +YOU THAT IT WOULD BE VERY EASY TO DO SO IF YOU HAVEN’T SUFFICIENT +“YOUTH IS NO HINDRANCE TO COURAGE,” MUTTERED SUKHTéLEN IN A FAILING +“YOU THOUGHT!” SHOUTED THE PRINCE, HIS WORDS COMING MORE AND MORE +YOU UNDERSTAND, YOUR EXCELLENCY, MY DEAR SIR, THAT YOU MUST NOT +YOU’VE HAD TO TAKE,” CRIED HE. +YOU WERE ABOUT, CHALLENGED A MAN YOU ARE JEALOUS OF WITHOUT CAUSE.” +YOU WERE NOT RIGHT, NOT QUITE IN THE RIGHT, YOU WERE IMPETUOUS...” +YOU, WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE TRUTH OF THE LIGHT AND WHO HAVE NOT +“YOU WILL CHANGE IT, WON’T YOU?” SAID LISE. AND AS PRINCESS MARY +“YOU WILL FIND THE BEAUTIFUL HéLèNE HERE, WHOM IT IS ALWAYS +YOU WILL LET ME WIN THIS TEN, OR BEAT IT.” +YOU WILL REMEMBER THIS, YOUR EXCELLENCY!” +YOU WON’T REQUIRE IT. WE’LL GO INTO THE ACCOUNTS LATER.” +YOU YOURSELF REPORTED TO COUNT BUXHöWDEN YESTERDAY, YOU MUST THINK OF +“YOU...! YOU... SCOUNDREL! I CHALLENGE YOU!” HE EJACULATED, AND, +ZHERKóV, NOT REMOVING HIS HAND FROM HIS CAP, TURNED HIS HORSE ABOUT +“ZUM HENKER DIESE RUSSEN!” * MUTTERED A GERMAN. diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-9/1M-tr-seq/sort-1M-tr-seq-02 b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-9/1M-tr-seq/sort-1M-tr-seq-02 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1c6f3e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/inputs-s-9/1M-tr-seq/sort-1M-tr-seq-02 @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +PRINCE ANDREW WITH ONE WORD, ONE ARGUMENT, +RAISE HIM. 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You may copy it, give it away or re-use +it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this +eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: War and Peace + +Author: Leo Tolstoy + +Translators: Louise and Aylmer Maude + +Posting Date: January 10, 2009 [EBook #2600] + +Last Updated: January 21, 2019 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WAR AND PEACE *** + + + + +An Anonymous Volunteer, and David Widger + + + + + + +WAR AND PEACE + + +By Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi + + + + + + CONTENTS + + + BOOK ONE: 1805 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + CHAPTER XXIII + + CHAPTER XXIV + + CHAPTER XXV + + CHAPTER XXVI + + CHAPTER XXVII + + CHAPTER XXVIII + + + BOOK TWO: 1805 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + + BOOK THREE: 1805 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + + BOOK FOUR: 1806 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + + BOOK FIVE: 1806 - 07 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + + BOOK SIX: 1808 - 10 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + CHAPTER XXIII + + CHAPTER XXIV + + CHAPTER XXV + + CHAPTER XXVI + + + BOOK SEVEN: 1810 - 11 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + + BOOK EIGHT: 1811 - 12 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + + BOOK NINE: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + CHAPTER XXIII + + + BOOK TEN: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + CHAPTER XXIII + + CHAPTER XXIV + + CHAPTER XXV + + CHAPTER XXVI + + CHAPTER XXVII + + CHAPTER XXVIII + + CHAPTER XXIX + + CHAPTER XXX + + CHAPTER XXXI + + CHAPTER XXXII + + CHAPTER XXXIII + + CHAPTER XXXIV + + CHAPTER XXXV + + CHAPTER XXXVI + + CHAPTER XXXVII + + CHAPTER XXXVIII + + CHAPTER XXXIX + + + BOOK ELEVEN: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + CHAPTER XXIII + + CHAPTER XXIV + + CHAPTER XXV + + CHAPTER XXVI + + CHAPTER XXVII + + CHAPTER XXVIII + + CHAPTER XXIX + + CHAPTER XXX + + CHAPTER XXXI + + CHAPTER XXXII + + CHAPTER XXXIII + + CHAPTER XXXIV + + + BOOK TWELVE: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + + BOOK THIRTEEN: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + + BOOK FOURTEEN: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + + BOOK FIFTEEN: 1812 - 13 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + + FIRST EPILOGUE: 1813 - 20 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + + SECOND EPILOGUE + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + + + + + + + + + +BOOK ONE: 1805 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the +Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, +if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that +Antichrist--I really believe he is Antichrist--I will have nothing +more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my +'faithful slave,' as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I +have frightened you--sit down and tell me all the news." + +It was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna Pavlovna +Scherer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Marya Fedorovna. +With these words she greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin, a man of high +rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna +Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering +from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used +only by the elite. + +All her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered +by a scarlet-liveried footman that morning, ran as follows: + +"If you have nothing better to do, Count (or Prince), and if the +prospect of spending an evening with a poor invalid is not too terrible, +I shall be very charmed to see you tonight between 7 and 10--Annette +Scherer." + +"Heavens! what a virulent attack!" replied the prince, not in the +least disconcerted by this reception. He had just entered, wearing an +embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on +his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that +refined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and +with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance +who had grown old in society and at court. He went up to Anna Pavlovna, +kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, +and complacently seated himself on the sofa. + +"First of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. Set your friend's +mind at rest," said he without altering his tone, beneath the +politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony +could be discerned. + +"Can one be well while suffering morally? Can one be calm in times +like these if one has any feeling?" said Anna Pavlovna. "You are +staying the whole evening, I hope?" + +"And the fete at the English ambassador's? Today is Wednesday. I +must put in an appearance there," said the prince. "My daughter is +coming for me to take me there." + +"I thought today's fete had been canceled. I confess all these +festivities and fireworks are becoming wearisome." + +"If they had known that you wished it, the entertainment would have +been put off," said the prince, who, like a wound-up clock, by force +of habit said things he did not even wish to be believed. + +"Don't tease! Well, and what has been decided about Novosiltsev's +dispatch? You know everything." + +"What can one say about it?" replied the prince in a cold, listless +tone. "What has been decided? They have decided that Buonaparte has +burnt his boats, and I believe that we are ready to burn ours." + +Prince Vasili always spoke languidly, like an actor repeating a stale +part. Anna Pavlovna Scherer on the contrary, despite her forty years, +overflowed with animation and impulsiveness. To be an enthusiast had +become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not +feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the +expectations of those who knew her. The subdued smile which, though it +did not suit her faded features, always played round her lips expressed, +as in a spoiled child, a continual consciousness of her charming defect, +which she neither wished, nor could, nor considered it necessary, to +correct. + +In the midst of a conversation on political matters Anna Pavlovna burst +out: + +"Oh, don't speak to me of Austria. Perhaps I don't understand +things, but Austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war. She +is betraying us! Russia alone must save Europe. Our gracious sovereign +recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it. That is the one +thing I have faith in! Our good and wonderful sovereign has to perform +the noblest role on earth, and he is so virtuous and noble that God will +not forsake him. He will fulfill his vocation and crush the hydra of +revolution, which has become more terrible than ever in the person of +this murderer and villain! We alone must avenge the blood of the just +one.... Whom, I ask you, can we rely on?... England with her commercial +spirit will not and cannot understand the Emperor Alexander's +loftiness of soul. She has refused to evacuate Malta. She wanted to +find, and still seeks, some secret motive in our actions. What answer +did Novosiltsev get? None. The English have not understood and cannot +understand the self-abnegation of our Emperor who wants nothing for +himself, but only desires the good of mankind. And what have they +promised? Nothing! And what little they have promised they will not +perform! Prussia has always declared that Buonaparte is invincible, and +that all Europe is powerless before him.... And I don't believe a +word that Hardenburg says, or Haugwitz either. This famous Prussian +neutrality is just a trap. I have faith only in God and the lofty +destiny of our adored monarch. He will save Europe!" + +She suddenly paused, smiling at her own impetuosity. + +"I think," said the prince with a smile, "that if you had been +sent instead of our dear Wintzingerode you would have captured the King +of Prussia's consent by assault. You are so eloquent. Will you give me +a cup of tea?" + +"In a moment. A propos," she added, becoming calm again, "I am +expecting two very interesting men tonight, le Vicomte de Mortemart, who +is connected with the Montmorencys through the Rohans, one of the best +French families. He is one of the genuine emigres, the good ones. And +also the Abbe Morio. Do you know that profound thinker? He has been +received by the Emperor. Had you heard?" + +"I shall be delighted to meet them," said the prince. "But +tell me," he added with studied carelessness as if it had only just +occurred to him, though the question he was about to ask was the chief +motive of his visit, "is it true that the Dowager Empress wants +Baron Funke to be appointed first secretary at Vienna? The baron by all +accounts is a poor creature." + +Prince Vasili wished to obtain this post for his son, but others were +trying through the Dowager Empress Marya Fedorovna to secure it for +the baron. + +Anna Pavlovna almost closed her eyes to indicate that neither she nor +anyone else had a right to criticize what the Empress desired or was +pleased with. + +"Baron Funke has been recommended to the Dowager Empress by her +sister," was all she said, in a dry and mournful tone. + +As she named the Empress, Anna Pavlovna's face suddenly assumed an +expression of profound and sincere devotion and respect mingled with +sadness, and this occurred every time she mentioned her illustrious +patroness. She added that Her Majesty had deigned to show Baron Funke +beaucoup d'estime, and again her face clouded over with sadness. + +The prince was silent and looked indifferent. But, with the womanly and +courtierlike quickness and tact habitual to her, Anna Pavlovna +wished both to rebuke him (for daring to speak as he had done of a man +recommended to the Empress) and at the same time to console him, so she +said: + +"Now about your family. Do you know that since your daughter came +out everyone has been enraptured by her? They say she is amazingly +beautiful." + +The prince bowed to signify his respect and gratitude. + +"I often think," she continued after a short pause, drawing nearer +to the prince and smiling amiably at him as if to show that political +and social topics were ended and the time had come for intimate +conversation--"I often think how unfairly sometimes the joys of life +are distributed. Why has fate given you two such splendid children? +I don't speak of Anatole, your youngest. I don't like him," she +added in a tone admitting of no rejoinder and raising her eyebrows. +"Two such charming children. And really you appreciate them less than +anyone, and so you don't deserve to have them." + +And she smiled her ecstatic smile. + +"I can't help it," said the prince. "Lavater would have said I +lack the bump of paternity." + +"Don't joke; I mean to have a serious talk with you. Do you know +I am dissatisfied with your younger son? Between ourselves" (and her +face assumed its melancholy expression), "he was mentioned at Her +Majesty's and you were pitied...." + +The prince answered nothing, but she looked at him significantly, +awaiting a reply. He frowned. + +"What would you have me do?" he said at last. "You know I did all +a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools. +Hippolyte is at least a quiet fool, but Anatole is an active one. That +is the only difference between them." He said this smiling in a way +more natural and animated than usual, so that the wrinkles round +his mouth very clearly revealed something unexpectedly coarse and +unpleasant. + +"And why are children born to such men as you? If you were not a +father there would be nothing I could reproach you with," said Anna +Pavlovna, looking up pensively. + +"I am your faithful slave and to you alone I can confess that my +children are the bane of my life. It is the cross I have to bear. That +is how I explain it to myself. It can't be helped!" + +He said no more, but expressed his resignation to cruel fate by a +gesture. Anna Pavlovna meditated. + +"Have you never thought of marrying your prodigal son Anatole?" she +asked. "They say old maids have a mania for matchmaking, and though I +don't feel that weakness in myself as yet, I know a little person who +is very unhappy with her father. She is a relation of yours, Princess +Mary Bolkonskaya." + +Prince Vasili did not reply, though, with the quickness of memory and +perception befitting a man of the world, he indicated by a movement of +the head that he was considering this information. + +"Do you know," he said at last, evidently unable to check the sad +current of his thoughts, "that Anatole is costing me forty thousand +rubles a year? And," he went on after a pause, "what will it be in +five years, if he goes on like this?" Presently he added: "That's +what we fathers have to put up with.... Is this princess of yours +rich?" + +"Her father is very rich and stingy. He lives in the country. He is +the well-known Prince Bolkonski who had to retire from the army under +the late Emperor, and was nicknamed 'the King of Prussia.' He is +very clever but eccentric, and a bore. The poor girl is very unhappy. +She has a brother; I think you know him, he married Lise Meinen lately. +He is an aide-de-camp of Kutuzov's and will be here tonight." + +"Listen, dear Annette," said the prince, suddenly taking Anna +Pavlovna's hand and for some reason drawing it downwards. "Arrange +that affair for me and I shall always be your most devoted slave-slafe +with an f, as a village elder of mine writes in his reports. She is rich +and of good family and that's all I want." + +And with the familiarity and easy grace peculiar to him, he raised the +maid of honor's hand to his lips, kissed it, and swung it to and fro +as he lay back in his armchair, looking in another direction. + +"Attendez," said Anna Pavlovna, reflecting, "I'll speak to +Lise, young Bolkonski's wife, this very evening, and perhaps the +thing can be arranged. It shall be on your family's behalf that I'll +start my apprenticeship as old maid." + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +Anna Pavlovna's drawing room was gradually filling. The highest +Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age +and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. +Prince Vasili's daughter, the beautiful Helene, came to take her +father to the ambassador's entertainment; she wore a ball dress and +her badge as maid of honor. The youthful little Princess Bolkonskaya, +known as la femme la plus seduisante de Petersbourg, * was also there. +She had been married during the previous winter, and being pregnant did +not go to any large gatherings, but only to small receptions. Prince +Vasili's son, Hippolyte, had come with Mortemart, whom he introduced. +The Abbe Morio and many others had also come. + + * The most fascinating woman in Petersburg. + +To each new arrival Anna Pavlovna said, "You have not yet seen my +aunt," or "You do not know my aunt?" and very gravely conducted +him or her to a little old lady, wearing large bows of ribbon in her +cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests +began to arrive; and slowly turning her eyes from the visitor to her +aunt, Anna Pavlovna mentioned each one's name and then left them. + +Each visitor performed the ceremony of greeting this old aunt whom not +one of them knew, not one of them wanted to know, and not one of them +cared about; Anna Pavlovna observed these greetings with mournful and +solemn interest and silent approval. The aunt spoke to each of them in +the same words, about their health and her own, and the health of Her +Majesty, "who, thank God, was better today." And each visitor, +though politeness prevented his showing impatience, left the old woman +with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not +return to her the whole evening. + +The young Princess Bolkonskaya had brought some work in a +gold-embroidered velvet bag. Her pretty little upper lip, on which a +delicate dark down was just perceptible, was too short for her teeth, +but it lifted all the more sweetly, and was especially charming when she +occasionally drew it down to meet the lower lip. As is always the case +with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect--the shortness of her +upper lip and her half-open mouth--seemed to be her own special and +peculiar form of beauty. Everyone brightened at the sight of this pretty +young woman, so soon to become a mother, so full of life and health, and +carrying her burden so lightly. Old men and dull dispirited young ones +who looked at her, after being in her company and talking to her a +little while, felt as if they too were becoming, like her, full of life +and health. All who talked to her, and at each word saw her bright smile +and the constant gleam of her white teeth, thought that they were in a +specially amiable mood that day. + +The little princess went round the table with quick, short, swaying +steps, her workbag on her arm, and gaily spreading out her dress sat +down on a sofa near the silver samovar, as if all she was doing was a +pleasure to herself and to all around her. "I have brought my work," +said she in French, displaying her bag and addressing all present. +"Mind, Annette, I hope you have not played a wicked trick on me," +she added, turning to her hostess. "You wrote that it was to be quite +a small reception, and just see how badly I am dressed." And she +spread out her arms to show her short-waisted, lace-trimmed, dainty gray +dress, girdled with a broad ribbon just below the breast. + +"Soyez tranquille, Lise, you will always be prettier than anyone +else," replied Anna Pavlovna. + +"You know," said the princess in the same tone of voice and still in +French, turning to a general, "my husband is deserting me? He is going +to get himself killed. Tell me what this wretched war is for?" she +added, addressing Prince Vasili, and without waiting for an answer she +turned to speak to his daughter, the beautiful Helene. + +"What a delightful woman this little princess is!" said Prince +Vasili to Anna Pavlovna. + +One of the next arrivals was a stout, heavily built young man with +close-cropped hair, spectacles, the light-colored breeches fashionable +at that time, a very high ruffle, and a brown dress coat. This stout +young man was an illegitimate son of Count Bezukhov, a well-known +grandee of Catherine's time who now lay dying in Moscow. The young man +had not yet entered either the military or civil service, as he had only +just returned from abroad where he had been educated, and this was his +first appearance in society. Anna Pavlovna greeted him with the nod she +accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room. But in spite of +this lowest-grade greeting, a look of anxiety and fear, as at the sight +of something too large and unsuited to the place, came over her face +when she saw Pierre enter. Though he was certainly rather bigger than +the other men in the room, her anxiety could only have reference to +the clever though shy, but observant and natural, expression which +distinguished him from everyone else in that drawing room. + +"It is very good of you, Monsieur Pierre, to come and visit a poor +invalid," said Anna Pavlovna, exchanging an alarmed glance with her +aunt as she conducted him to her. + +Pierre murmured something unintelligible, and continued to look round as +if in search of something. On his way to the aunt he bowed to the little +princess with a pleased smile, as to an intimate acquaintance. + +Anna Pavlovna's alarm was justified, for Pierre turned away from the +aunt without waiting to hear her speech about Her Majesty's health. +Anna Pavlovna in dismay detained him with the words: "Do you know the +Abbe Morio? He is a most interesting man." + +"Yes, I have heard of his scheme for perpetual peace, and it is very +interesting but hardly feasible." + +"You think so?" rejoined Anna Pavlovna in order to say something +and get away to attend to her duties as hostess. But Pierre now +committed a reverse act of impoliteness. First he had left a lady before +she had finished speaking to him, and now he continued to speak to +another who wished to get away. With his head bent, and his big feet +spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbe's +plan chimerical. + +"We will talk of it later," said Anna Pavlovna with a smile. + +And having got rid of this young man who did not know how to behave, she +resumed her duties as hostess and continued to listen and watch, ready +to help at any point where the conversation might happen to flag. As +the foreman of a spinning mill, when he has set the hands to work, goes +round and notices here a spindle that has stopped or there one that +creaks or makes more noise than it should, and hastens to check the +machine or set it in proper motion, so Anna Pavlovna moved about her +drawing room, approaching now a silent, now a too-noisy group, and by a +word or slight rearrangement kept the conversational machine in steady, +proper, and regular motion. But amid these cares her anxiety about +Pierre was evident. She kept an anxious watch on him when he approached +the group round Mortemart to listen to what was being said there, and +again when he passed to another group whose center was the abbe. + +Pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception at Anna +Pavlovna's was the first he had attended in Russia. He knew that all +the intellectual lights of Petersburg were gathered there and, like a +child in a toyshop, did not know which way to look, afraid of missing +any clever conversation that was to be heard. Seeing the self-confident +and refined expression on the faces of those present he was always +expecting to hear something very profound. At last he came up to Morio. +Here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an +opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +Anna Pavlovna's reception was in full swing. The spindles hummed +steadily and ceaselessly on all sides. With the exception of the aunt, +beside whom sat only one elderly lady, who with her thin careworn face +was rather out of place in this brilliant society, the whole company had +settled into three groups. One, chiefly masculine, had formed round +the abbe. Another, of young people, was grouped round the beautiful +Princess Helene, Prince Vasili's daughter, and the little Princess +Bolkonskaya, very pretty and rosy, though rather too plump for her age. +The third group was gathered round Mortemart and Anna Pavlovna. + +The vicomte was a nice-looking young man with soft features and polished +manners, who evidently considered himself a celebrity but out of +politeness modestly placed himself at the disposal of the circle in +which he found himself. Anna Pavlovna was obviously serving him up as +a treat to her guests. As a clever maitre d'hotel serves up as a +specially choice delicacy a piece of meat that no one who had seen it in +the kitchen would have cared to eat, so Anna Pavlovna served up to +her guests, first the vicomte and then the abbe, as peculiarly choice +morsels. The group about Mortemart immediately began discussing the +murder of the Duc d'Enghien. The vicomte said that the Duc d'Enghien +had perished by his own magnanimity, and that there were particular +reasons for Buonaparte's hatred of him. + +"Ah, yes! Do tell us all about it, Vicomte," said Anna Pavlovna, +with a pleasant feeling that there was something a la Louis XV in the +sound of that sentence: "Contez nous cela, Vicomte." + +The vicomte bowed and smiled courteously in token of his willingness to +comply. Anna Pavlovna arranged a group round him, inviting everyone to +listen to his tale. + +"The vicomte knew the duc personally," whispered Anna Pavlovna to +one of the guests. "The vicomte is a wonderful raconteur," said she +to another. "How evidently he belongs to the best society," said she +to a third; and the vicomte was served up to the company in the choicest +and most advantageous style, like a well-garnished joint of roast beef +on a hot dish. + +The vicomte wished to begin his story and gave a subtle smile. + +"Come over here, Helene, dear," said Anna Pavlovna to the +beautiful young princess who was sitting some way off, the center of +another group. + +The princess smiled. She rose with the same unchanging smile with which +she had first entered the room--the smile of a perfectly beautiful +woman. With a slight rustle of her white dress trimmed with moss +and ivy, with a gleam of white shoulders, glossy hair, and sparkling +diamonds, she passed between the men who made way for her, not looking +at any of them but smiling on all, as if graciously allowing each the +privilege of admiring her beautiful figure and shapely shoulders, +back, and bosom--which in the fashion of those days were very much +exposed--and she seemed to bring the glamour of a ballroom with her as +she moved toward Anna Pavlovna. Helene was so lovely that not only +did she not show any trace of coquetry, but on the contrary she even +appeared shy of her unquestionable and all too victorious beauty. She +seemed to wish, but to be unable, to diminish its effect. + +"How lovely!" said everyone who saw her; and the vicomte lifted his +shoulders and dropped his eyes as if startled by something extraordinary +when she took her seat opposite and beamed upon him also with her +unchanging smile. + +"Madame, I doubt my ability before such an audience," said he, +smilingly inclining his head. + +The princess rested her bare round arm on a little table and considered +a reply unnecessary. She smilingly waited. All the time the story was +being told she sat upright, glancing now at her beautiful round arm, +altered in shape by its pressure on the table, now at her still more +beautiful bosom, on which she readjusted a diamond necklace. From time +to time she smoothed the folds of her dress, and whenever the story +produced an effect she glanced at Anna Pavlovna, at once adopted just +the expression she saw on the maid of honor's face, and again relapsed +into her radiant smile. + +The little princess had also left the tea table and followed Helene. + +"Wait a moment, I'll get my work.... Now then, what are you +thinking of?" she went on, turning to Prince Hippolyte. "Fetch me my +workbag." + +There was a general movement as the princess, smiling and talking +merrily to everyone at once, sat down and gaily arranged herself in her +seat. + +"Now I am all right," she said, and asking the vicomte to begin, she +took up her work. + +Prince Hippolyte, having brought the workbag, joined the circle and +moving a chair close to hers seated himself beside her. + +Le charmant Hippolyte was surprising by his extraordinary resemblance +to his beautiful sister, but yet more by the fact that in spite of +this resemblance he was exceedingly ugly. His features were like his +sister's, but while in her case everything was lit up by a joyous, +self-satisfied, youthful, and constant smile of animation, and by the +wonderful classic beauty of her figure, his face on the contrary +was dulled by imbecility and a constant expression of sullen +self-confidence, while his body was thin and weak. His eyes, nose, and +mouth all seemed puckered into a vacant, wearied grimace, and his arms +and legs always fell into unnatural positions. + +"It's not going to be a ghost story?" said he, sitting down beside +the princess and hastily adjusting his lorgnette, as if without this +instrument he could not begin to speak. + +"Why no, my dear fellow," said the astonished narrator, shrugging +his shoulders. + +"Because I hate ghost stories," said Prince Hippolyte in a tone +which showed that he only understood the meaning of his words after he +had uttered them. + +He spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure +whether what he said was very witty or very stupid. He was dressed in +a dark-green dress coat, knee breeches of the color of cuisse de nymphe +effrayee, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings. + +The vicomte told his tale very neatly. It was an anecdote, then current, +to the effect that the Duc d'Enghien had gone secretly to Paris to +visit Mademoiselle George; that at her house he came upon Bonaparte, +who also enjoyed the famous actress' favors, and that in his presence +Napoleon happened to fall into one of the fainting fits to which he was +subject, and was thus at the duc's mercy. The latter spared him, and +this magnanimity Bonaparte subsequently repaid by death. + +The story was very pretty and interesting, especially at the point +where the rivals suddenly recognized one another; and the ladies looked +agitated. + +"Charming!" said Anna Pavlovna with an inquiring glance at the +little princess. + +"Charming!" whispered the little princess, sticking the needle into +her work as if to testify that the interest and fascination of the story +prevented her from going on with it. + +The vicomte appreciated this silent praise and smiling gratefully +prepared to continue, but just then Anna Pavlovna, who had kept a +watchful eye on the young man who so alarmed her, noticed that he was +talking too loudly and vehemently with the abbe, so she hurried to the +rescue. Pierre had managed to start a conversation with the abbe about +the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young +man's simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory. Both +were talking and listening too eagerly and too naturally, which was why +Anna Pavlovna disapproved. + +"The means are ... the balance of power in Europe and the rights of +the people," the abbe was saying. "It is only necessary for one +powerful nation like Russia--barbaric as she is said to be--to place +herself disinterestedly at the head of an alliance having for its object +the maintenance of the balance of power of Europe, and it would save the +world!" + +"But how are you to get that balance?" Pierre was beginning. + +At that moment Anna Pavlovna came up and, looking severely at Pierre, +asked the Italian how he stood Russian climate. The Italian's +face instantly changed and assumed an offensively affected, sugary +expression, evidently habitual to him when conversing with women. + +"I am so enchanted by the brilliancy of the wit and culture of the +society, more especially of the feminine society, in which I have had +the honor of being received, that I have not yet had time to think of +the climate," said he. + +Not letting the abbe and Pierre escape, Anna Pavlovna, the more +conveniently to keep them under observation, brought them into the +larger circle. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +Just then another visitor entered the drawing room: Prince Andrew +Bolkonski, the little princess' husband. He was a very handsome young +man, of medium height, with firm, clearcut features. Everything about +him, from his weary, bored expression to his quiet, measured step, +offered a most striking contrast to his quiet, little wife. It was +evident that he not only knew everyone in the drawing room, but had +found them to be so tiresome that it wearied him to look at or listen to +them. And among all these faces that he found so tedious, none seemed +to bore him so much as that of his pretty wife. He turned away from +her with a grimace that distorted his handsome face, kissed Anna +Pavlovna's hand, and screwing up his eyes scanned the whole company. + +"You are off to the war, Prince?" said Anna Pavlovna. + +"General Kutuzov," said Bolkonski, speaking French and stressing +the last syllable of the general's name like a Frenchman, "has been +pleased to take me as an aide-de-camp...." + +"And Lise, your wife?" + +"She will go to the country." + +"Are you not ashamed to deprive us of your charming wife?" + +"Andre," said his wife, addressing her husband in the same +coquettish manner in which she spoke to other men, "the vicomte has +been telling us such a tale about Mademoiselle George and Buonaparte!" + +Prince Andrew screwed up his eyes and turned away. Pierre, who from +the moment Prince Andrew entered the room had watched him with glad, +affectionate eyes, now came up and took his arm. Before he looked round +Prince Andrew frowned again, expressing his annoyance with whoever was +touching his arm, but when he saw Pierre's beaming face he gave him an +unexpectedly kind and pleasant smile. + +"There now!... So you, too, are in the great world?" said he to +Pierre. + +"I knew you would be here," replied Pierre. "I will come to supper +with you. May I?" he added in a low voice so as not to disturb the +vicomte who was continuing his story. + +"No, impossible!" said Prince Andrew, laughing and pressing +Pierre's hand to show that there was no need to ask the question. He +wished to say something more, but at that moment Prince Vasili and his +daughter got up to go and the two young men rose to let them pass. + +"You must excuse me, dear Vicomte," said Prince Vasili to the +Frenchman, holding him down by the sleeve in a friendly way to prevent +his rising. "This unfortunate fete at the ambassador's deprives me +of a pleasure, and obliges me to interrupt you. I am very sorry to leave +your enchanting party," said he, turning to Anna Pavlovna. + +His daughter, Princess Helene, passed between the chairs, lightly +holding up the folds of her dress, and the smile shone still more +radiantly on her beautiful face. Pierre gazed at her with rapturous, +almost frightened, eyes as she passed him. + +"Very lovely," said Prince Andrew. + +"Very," said Pierre. + +In passing Prince Vasili seized Pierre's hand and said to Anna +Pavlovna: "Educate this bear for me! He has been staying with me +a whole month and this is the first time I have seen him in society. +Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever +women." + + +Anna Pavlovna smiled and promised to take Pierre in hand. She knew his +father to be a connection of Prince Vasili's. The elderly lady who +had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook Prince +Vasili in the anteroom. All the affectation of interest she had assumed +had left her kindly and tear-worn face and it now expressed only anxiety +and fear. + +"How about my son Boris, Prince?" said she, hurrying after him into +the anteroom. "I can't remain any longer in Petersburg. Tell me what +news I may take back to my poor boy." + +Although Prince Vasili listened reluctantly and not very politely +to the elderly lady, even betraying some impatience, she gave him an +ingratiating and appealing smile, and took his hand that he might not go +away. + +"What would it cost you to say a word to the Emperor, and then he +would be transferred to the Guards at once?" said she. + +"Believe me, Princess, I am ready to do all I can," answered Prince +Vasili, "but it is difficult for me to ask the Emperor. I should +advise you to appeal to Rumyantsev through Prince Golitsyn. That would +be the best way." + +The elderly lady was a Princess Drubetskaya, belonging to one of the +best families in Russia, but she was poor, and having long been out of +society had lost her former influential connections. She had now come to +Petersburg to procure an appointment in the Guards for her only son. +It was, in fact, solely to meet Prince Vasili that she had obtained an +invitation to Anna Pavlovna's reception and had sat listening to +the vicomte's story. Prince Vasili's words frightened her, an +embittered look clouded her once handsome face, but only for a moment; +then she smiled again and clutched Prince Vasili's arm more tightly. + +"Listen to me, Prince," said she. "I have never yet asked you +for anything and I never will again, nor have I ever reminded you of my +father's friendship for you; but now I entreat you for God's sake to +do this for my son--and I shall always regard you as a benefactor," +she added hurriedly. "No, don't be angry, but promise! I have asked +Golitsyn and he has refused. Be the kindhearted man you always were," +she said, trying to smile though tears were in her eyes. + +"Papa, we shall be late," said Princess Helene, turning her +beautiful head and looking over her classically molded shoulder as she +stood waiting by the door. + +Influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized +if it is to last. Prince Vasili knew this, and having once realized +that if he asked on behalf of all who begged of him, he would soon be +unable to ask for himself, he became chary of using his influence. But +in Princess Drubetskaya's case he felt, after her second appeal, +something like qualms of conscience. She had reminded him of what was +quite true; he had been indebted to her father for the first steps in +his career. Moreover, he could see by her manners that she was one of +those women--mostly mothers--who, having once made up their minds, +will not rest until they have gained their end, and are prepared if +necessary to go on insisting day after day and hour after hour, and even +to make scenes. This last consideration moved him. + +"My dear Anna Mikhaylovna," said he with his usual familiarity and +weariness of tone, "it is almost impossible for me to do what you +ask; but to prove my devotion to you and how I respect your father's +memory, I will do the impossible--your son shall be transferred to the +Guards. Here is my hand on it. Are you satisfied?" + +"My dear benefactor! This is what I expected from you--I knew your +kindness!" He turned to go. + +"Wait--just a word! When he has been transferred to the Guards..." +she faltered. "You are on good terms with Michael Ilarionovich +Kutuzov ... recommend Boris to him as adjutant! Then I shall be at +rest, and then..." + +Prince Vasili smiled. + +"No, I won't promise that. You don't know how Kutuzov is pestered +since his appointment as Commander in Chief. He told me himself that +all the Moscow ladies have conspired to give him all their sons as +adjutants." + +"No, but do promise! I won't let you go! My dear benefactor..." + +"Papa," said his beautiful daughter in the same tone as before, +"we shall be late." + +"Well, au revoir! Good-by! You hear her?" + +"Then tomorrow you will speak to the Emperor?" + +"Certainly; but about Kutuzov, I don't promise." + +"Do promise, do promise, Vasili!" cried Anna Mikhaylovna as he +went, with the smile of a coquettish girl, which at one time probably +came naturally to her, but was now very ill-suited to her careworn face. + +Apparently she had forgotten her age and by force of habit employed +all the old feminine arts. But as soon as the prince had gone her face +resumed its former cold, artificial expression. She returned to the +group where the vicomte was still talking, and again pretended to +listen, while waiting till it would be time to leave. Her task was +accomplished. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +"And what do you think of this latest comedy, the coronation at +Milan?" asked Anna Pavlovna, "and of the comedy of the people of +Genoa and Lucca laying their petitions before Monsieur Buonaparte, and +Monsieur Buonaparte sitting on a throne and granting the petitions of +the nations? Adorable! It is enough to make one's head whirl! It is as +if the whole world had gone crazy." + +Prince Andrew looked Anna Pavlovna straight in the face with a +sarcastic smile. + +"'Dieu me la donne, gare a qui la touche!'' * They say he was +very fine when he said that," he remarked, repeating the words in +Italian: "'Dio mi l'ha dato. Guai a chi la tocchi!'' + + * God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware! + +"I hope this will prove the last drop that will make the glass run +over," Anna Pavlovna continued. "The sovereigns will not be able to +endure this man who is a menace to everything." + +"The sovereigns? I do not speak of Russia," said the vicomte, polite +but hopeless: "The sovereigns, madame... What have they done for Louis +XVII, for the Queen, or for Madame Elizabeth? Nothing!" and he became +more animated. "And believe me, they are reaping the reward of their +betrayal of the Bourbon cause. The sovereigns! Why, they are sending +ambassadors to compliment the usurper." + +And sighing disdainfully, he again changed his position. + +Prince Hippolyte, who had been gazing at the vicomte for some time +through his lorgnette, suddenly turned completely round toward the +little princess, and having asked for a needle began tracing the Conde +coat of arms on the table. He explained this to her with as much gravity +as if she had asked him to do it. + +"Baton de gueules, engrele de gueules d'azur--maison Conde," +said he. + +The princess listened, smiling. + +"If Buonaparte remains on the throne of France a year longer," the +vicomte continued, with the air of a man who, in a matter with which +he is better acquainted than anyone else, does not listen to others but +follows the current of his own thoughts, "things will have gone too +far. By intrigues, violence, exile, and executions, French society--I +mean good French society--will have been forever destroyed, and +then...." + +He shrugged his shoulders and spread out his hands. Pierre wished to +make a remark, for the conversation interested him, but Anna Pavlovna, +who had him under observation, interrupted: + +"The Emperor Alexander," said she, with the melancholy which +always accompanied any reference of hers to the Imperial family, "has +declared that he will leave it to the French people themselves to choose +their own form of government; and I believe that once free from the +usurper, the whole nation will certainly throw itself into the arms +of its rightful king," she concluded, trying to be amiable to the +royalist emigrant. + +"That is doubtful," said Prince Andrew. "Monsieur le Vicomte quite +rightly supposes that matters have already gone too far. I think it will +be difficult to return to the old regime." + +"From what I have heard," said Pierre, blushing and breaking into +the conversation, "almost all the aristocracy has already gone over to +Bonaparte's side." + +"It is the Buonapartists who say that," replied the vicomte without +looking at Pierre. "At the present time it is difficult to know the +real state of French public opinion." + +"Bonaparte has said so," remarked Prince Andrew with a sarcastic +smile. + +It was evident that he did not like the vicomte and was aiming his +remarks at him, though without looking at him. + +"'I showed them the path to glory, but they did not follow +it,'" Prince Andrew continued after a short silence, again quoting +Napoleon's words. "'I opened my antechambers and they crowded +in.' I do not know how far he was justified in saying so." + +"Not in the least," replied the vicomte. "After the murder of the +duc even the most partial ceased to regard him as a hero. If to some +people," he went on, turning to Anna Pavlovna, "he ever was a hero, +after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one +hero less on earth." + +Before Anna Pavlovna and the others had time to smile their +appreciation of the vicomte's epigram, Pierre again broke into the +conversation, and though Anna Pavlovna felt sure he would say something +inappropriate, she was unable to stop him. + +"The execution of the Duc d'Enghien," declared Monsieur Pierre, +"was a political necessity, and it seems to me that Napoleon +showed greatness of soul by not fearing to take on himself the whole +responsibility of that deed." + +"Dieu! Mon Dieu!" muttered Anna Pavlovna in a terrified whisper. + +"What, Monsieur Pierre... Do you consider that assassination shows +greatness of soul?" said the little princess, smiling and drawing her +work nearer to her. + +"Oh! Oh!" exclaimed several voices. + +"Capital!" said Prince Hippolyte in English, and began slapping his +knee with the palm of his hand. + +The vicomte merely shrugged his shoulders. Pierre looked solemnly at his +audience over his spectacles and continued. + +"I say so," he continued desperately, "because the Bourbons fled +from the Revolution leaving the people to anarchy, and Napoleon alone +understood the Revolution and quelled it, and so for the general good, +he could not stop short for the sake of one man's life." + +"Won't you come over to the other table?" suggested Anna +Pavlovna. + +But Pierre continued his speech without heeding her. + +"No," cried he, becoming more and more eager, "Napoleon is great +because he rose superior to the Revolution, suppressed its abuses, +preserved all that was good in it--equality of citizenship and freedom +of speech and of the press--and only for that reason did he obtain +power." + +"Yes, if having obtained power, without availing himself of it to +commit murder he had restored it to the rightful king, I should have +called him a great man," remarked the vicomte. + +"He could not do that. The people only gave him power that he might +rid them of the Bourbons and because they saw that he was a great +man. The Revolution was a grand thing!" continued Monsieur Pierre, +betraying by this desperate and provocative proposition his extreme +youth and his wish to express all that was in his mind. + +"What? Revolution and regicide a grand thing?... Well, after that... +But won't you come to this other table?" repeated Anna Pavlovna. + +"Rousseau's Contrat Social," said the vicomte with a tolerant +smile. + +"I am not speaking of regicide, I am speaking about ideas." + +"Yes: ideas of robbery, murder, and regicide," again interjected an +ironical voice. + +"Those were extremes, no doubt, but they are not what is most +important. What is important are the rights of man, emancipation from +prejudices, and equality of citizenship, and all these ideas Napoleon +has retained in full force." + +"Liberty and equality," said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at +last deciding seriously to prove to this youth how foolish his words +were, "high-sounding words which have long been discredited. Who does +not love liberty and equality? Even our Saviour preached liberty and +equality. Have people since the Revolution become happier? On the +contrary. We wanted liberty, but Buonaparte has destroyed it." + +Prince Andrew kept looking with an amused smile from Pierre to the +vicomte and from the vicomte to their hostess. In the first moment of +Pierre's outburst Anna Pavlovna, despite her social experience, was +horror-struck. But when she saw that Pierre's sacrilegious words +had not exasperated the vicomte, and had convinced herself that it was +impossible to stop him, she rallied her forces and joined the vicomte in +a vigorous attack on the orator. + +"But, my dear Monsieur Pierre," said she, "how do you explain the +fact of a great man executing a duc--or even an ordinary man who--is +innocent and untried?" + +"I should like," said the vicomte, "to ask how monsieur explains +the 18th Brumaire; was not that an imposture? It was a swindle, and not +at all like the conduct of a great man!" + +"And the prisoners he killed in Africa? That was horrible!" said the +little princess, shrugging her shoulders. + +"He's a low fellow, say what you will," remarked Prince Hippolyte. + +Pierre, not knowing whom to answer, looked at them all and smiled. His +smile was unlike the half-smile of other people. When he smiled, +his grave, even rather gloomy, look was instantaneously replaced by +another--a childlike, kindly, even rather silly look, which seemed to +ask forgiveness. + +The vicomte who was meeting him for the first time saw clearly that +this young Jacobin was not so terrible as his words suggested. All were +silent. + +"How do you expect him to answer you all at once?" said Prince +Andrew. "Besides, in the actions of a statesman one has to distinguish +between his acts as a private person, as a general, and as an emperor. +So it seems to me." + +"Yes, yes, of course!" Pierre chimed in, pleased at the arrival of +this reinforcement. + +"One must admit," continued Prince Andrew, "that Napoleon as a man +was great on the bridge of Arcola, and in the hospital at Jaffa where he +gave his hand to the plague-stricken; but ... but there are other acts +which it is difficult to justify." + +Prince Andrew, who had evidently wished to tone down the awkwardness of +Pierre's remarks, rose and made a sign to his wife that it was time to +go. + +Suddenly Prince Hippolyte started up making signs to everyone to attend, +and asking them all to be seated began: + +"I was told a charming Moscow story today and must treat you to it. +Excuse me, Vicomte--I must tell it in Russian or the point will be +lost...." And Prince Hippolyte began to tell his story in such Russian +as a Frenchman would speak after spending about a year in Russia. +Everyone waited, so emphatically and eagerly did he demand their +attention to his story. + +"There is in Moscow a lady, une dame, and she is very stingy. She must +have two footmen behind her carriage, and very big ones. That was her +taste. And she had a lady's maid, also big. She said...." + +Here Prince Hippolyte paused, evidently collecting his ideas with +difficulty. + +"She said.... Oh yes! She said, 'Girl,' to the maid, 'put on a +livery, get up behind the carriage, and come with me while I make some +calls.'" + +Here Prince Hippolyte spluttered and burst out laughing long before his +audience, which produced an effect unfavorable to the narrator. Several +persons, among them the elderly lady and Anna Pavlovna, did however +smile. + +"She went. Suddenly there was a great wind. The girl lost her hat and +her long hair came down...." Here he could contain himself no +longer and went on, between gasps of laughter: "And the whole world +knew...." + +And so the anecdote ended. Though it was unintelligible why he had told +it, or why it had to be told in Russian, still Anna Pavlovna and the +others appreciated Prince Hippolyte's social tact in so agreeably +ending Pierre's unpleasant and unamiable outburst. After the anecdote +the conversation broke up into insignificant small talk about the last +and next balls, about theatricals, and who would meet whom, and when and +where. + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +Having thanked Anna Pavlovna for her charming soiree, the guests began +to take their leave. + +Pierre was ungainly. Stout, about the average height, broad, with huge +red hands; he did not know, as the saying is, how to enter a drawing +room and still less how to leave one; that is, how to say something +particularly agreeable before going away. Besides this he was +absent-minded. When he rose to go, he took up instead of his own, the +general's three-cornered hat, and held it, pulling at the plume, +till the general asked him to restore it. All his absent-mindedness and +inability to enter a room and converse in it was, however, redeemed by +his kindly, simple, and modest expression. Anna Pavlovna turned toward +him and, with a Christian mildness that expressed forgiveness of his +indiscretion, nodded and said: "I hope to see you again, but I also +hope you will change your opinions, my dear Monsieur Pierre." + +When she said this, he did not reply and only bowed, but again everybody +saw his smile, which said nothing, unless perhaps, "Opinions are +opinions, but you see what a capital, good-natured fellow I am." And +everyone, including Anna Pavlovna, felt this. + +Prince Andrew had gone out into the hall, and, turning his shoulders +to the footman who was helping him on with his cloak, listened +indifferently to his wife's chatter with Prince Hippolyte who had also +come into the hall. Prince Hippolyte stood close to the pretty, pregnant +princess, and stared fixedly at her through his eyeglass. + +"Go in, Annette, or you will catch cold," said the little princess, +taking leave of Anna Pavlovna. "It is settled," she added in a low +voice. + +Anna Pavlovna had already managed to speak to Lise about the match she +contemplated between Anatole and the little princess' sister-in-law. + +"I rely on you, my dear," said Anna Pavlovna, also in a low tone. +"Write to her and let me know how her father looks at the matter. Au +revoir! "--and she left the hall. + +Prince Hippolyte approached the little princess and, bending his face +close to her, began to whisper something. + +Two footmen, the princess' and his own, stood holding a shawl and +a cloak, waiting for the conversation to finish. They listened to +the French sentences which to them were meaningless, with an air of +understanding but not wishing to appear to do so. The princess as usual +spoke smilingly and listened with a laugh. + +"I am very glad I did not go to the ambassador's," said Prince +Hippolyte "--so dull--. It has been a delightful evening, has it +not? Delightful!" + +"They say the ball will be very good," replied the princess, drawing +up her downy little lip. "All the pretty women in society will be +there." + +"Not all, for you will not be there; not all," said Prince Hippolyte +smiling joyfully; and snatching the shawl from the footman, whom he +even pushed aside, he began wrapping it round the princess. Either from +awkwardness or intentionally (no one could have said which) after the +shawl had been adjusted he kept his arm around her for a long time, as +though embracing her. + +Still smiling, she gracefully moved away, turning and glancing at her +husband. Prince Andrew's eyes were closed, so weary and sleepy did he +seem. + +"Are you ready?" he asked his wife, looking past her. + +Prince Hippolyte hurriedly put on his cloak, which in the latest fashion +reached to his very heels, and, stumbling in it, ran out into the porch +following the princess, whom a footman was helping into the carriage. + +"Princesse, au revoir," cried he, stumbling with his tongue as well +as with his feet. + +The princess, picking up her dress, was taking her seat in the dark +carriage, her husband was adjusting his saber; Prince Hippolyte, under +pretense of helping, was in everyone's way. + +"Allow me, sir," said Prince Andrew in Russian in a cold, +disagreeable tone to Prince Hippolyte who was blocking his path. + +"I am expecting you, Pierre," said the same voice, but gently and +affectionately. + +The postilion started, the carriage wheels rattled. Prince Hippolyte +laughed spasmodically as he stood in the porch waiting for the vicomte +whom he had promised to take home. + +"Well, mon cher," said the vicomte, having seated himself beside +Hippolyte in the carriage, "your little princess is very nice, very +nice indeed, quite French," and he kissed the tips of his fingers. +Hippolyte burst out laughing. + +"Do you know, you are a terrible chap for all your innocent airs," +continued the vicomte. "I pity the poor husband, that little officer +who gives himself the airs of a monarch." + +Hippolyte spluttered again, and amid his laughter said, "And you were +saying that the Russian ladies are not equal to the French? One has to +know how to deal with them." + +Pierre reaching the house first went into Prince Andrew's study like +one quite at home, and from habit immediately lay down on the sofa, took +from the shelf the first book that came to his hand (it was Caesar's +Commentaries), and resting on his elbow, began reading it in the middle. + +"What have you done to Mlle Scherer? She will be quite ill now," +said Prince Andrew, as he entered the study, rubbing his small white +hands. + +Pierre turned his whole body, making the sofa creak. He lifted his eager +face to Prince Andrew, smiled, and waved his hand. + +"That abbe is very interesting but he does not see the thing in the +right light.... In my opinion perpetual peace is possible but--I do not +know how to express it ... not by a balance of political power...." + +It was evident that Prince Andrew was not interested in such abstract +conversation. + +"One can't everywhere say all one thinks, mon cher. Well, have +you at last decided on anything? Are you going to be a guardsman or a +diplomatist?" asked Prince Andrew after a momentary silence. + +Pierre sat up on the sofa, with his legs tucked under him. + +"Really, I don't yet know. I don't like either the one or the +other." + +"But you must decide on something! Your father expects it." + +Pierre at the age of ten had been sent abroad with an abbe as tutor, +and had remained away till he was twenty. When he returned to Moscow +his father dismissed the abbe and said to the young man, "Now go +to Petersburg, look round, and choose your profession. I will agree to +anything. Here is a letter to Prince Vasili, and here is money. Write +to me all about it, and I will help you in everything." Pierre had +already been choosing a career for three months, and had not decided +on anything. It was about this choice that Prince Andrew was speaking. +Pierre rubbed his forehead. + +"But he must be a Freemason," said he, referring to the abbe whom +he had met that evening. + +"That is all nonsense." Prince Andrew again interrupted him, "let +us talk business. Have you been to the Horse Guards?" + +"No, I have not; but this is what I have been thinking and wanted +to tell you. There is a war now against Napoleon. If it were a war for +freedom I could understand it and should be the first to enter the army; +but to help England and Austria against the greatest man in the world is +not right." + +Prince Andrew only shrugged his shoulders at Pierre's childish words. +He put on the air of one who finds it impossible to reply to such +nonsense, but it would in fact have been difficult to give any other +answer than the one Prince Andrew gave to this naive question. + +"If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no +wars," he said. + +"And that would be splendid," said Pierre. + +Prince Andrew smiled ironically. + +"Very likely it would be splendid, but it will never come about...." + +"Well, why are you going to the war?" asked Pierre. + +"What for? I don't know. I must. Besides that I am going...." He +paused. "I am going because the life I am leading here does not suit +me!" + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +The rustle of a woman's dress was heard in the next room. Prince +Andrew shook himself as if waking up, and his face assumed the look it +had had in Anna Pavlovna's drawing room. Pierre removed his feet from +the sofa. The princess came in. She had changed her gown for a house +dress as fresh and elegant as the other. Prince Andrew rose and politely +placed a chair for her. + +"How is it," she began, as usual in French, settling down briskly +and fussily in the easy chair, "how is it Annette never got married? +How stupid you men all are not to have married her! Excuse me for saying +so, but you have no sense about women. What an argumentative fellow you +are, Monsieur Pierre!" + +"And I am still arguing with your husband. I can't understand why he +wants to go to the war," replied Pierre, addressing the princess +with none of the embarrassment so commonly shown by young men in their +intercourse with young women. + +The princess started. Evidently Pierre's words touched her to the +quick. + +"Ah, that is just what I tell him!" said she. "I don't +understand it; I don't in the least understand why men can't live +without wars. How is it that we women don't want anything of the kind, +don't need it? Now you shall judge between us. I always tell him: Here +he is Uncle's aide-de-camp, a most brilliant position. He is so +well known, so much appreciated by everyone. The other day at the +Apraksins' I heard a lady asking, 'Is that the famous Prince +Andrew?' I did indeed." She laughed. "He is so well received +everywhere. He might easily become aide-de-camp to the Emperor. You know +the Emperor spoke to him most graciously. Annette and I were speaking of +how to arrange it. What do you think?" + +Pierre looked at his friend and, noticing that he did not like the +conversation, gave no reply. + +"When are you starting?" he asked. + +"Oh, don't speak of his going, don't! I won't hear it spoken +of," said the princess in the same petulantly playful tone in which +she had spoken to Hippolyte in the drawing room and which was so plainly +ill-suited to the family circle of which Pierre was almost a member. +"Today when I remembered that all these delightful associations +must be broken off ... and then you know, Andre..." (she looked +significantly at her husband) "I'm afraid, I'm afraid!" she +whispered, and a shudder ran down her back. + +Her husband looked at her as if surprised to notice that someone besides +Pierre and himself was in the room, and addressed her in a tone of +frigid politeness. + +"What is it you are afraid of, Lise? I don't understand," said he. + +"There, what egotists men all are: all, all egotists! Just for a whim +of his own, goodness only knows why, he leaves me and locks me up alone +in the country." + +"With my father and sister, remember," said Prince Andrew gently. + +"Alone all the same, without my friends.... And he expects me not to +be afraid." + +Her tone was now querulous and her lip drawn up, giving her not a +joyful, but an animal, squirrel-like expression. She paused as if she +felt it indecorous to speak of her pregnancy before Pierre, though the +gist of the matter lay in that. + +"I still can't understand what you are afraid of," said Prince +Andrew slowly, not taking his eyes off his wife. + +The princess blushed, and raised her arms with a gesture of despair. + +"No, Andrew, I must say you have changed. Oh, how you have...." + +"Your doctor tells you to go to bed earlier," said Prince Andrew. +"You had better go." + +The princess said nothing, but suddenly her short downy lip quivered. +Prince Andrew rose, shrugged his shoulders, and walked about the room. + +Pierre looked over his spectacles with naive surprise, now at him and +now at her, moved as if about to rise too, but changed his mind. + +"Why should I mind Monsieur Pierre being here?" exclaimed the little +princess suddenly, her pretty face all at once distorted by a tearful +grimace. "I have long wanted to ask you, Andrew, why you have changed +so to me? What have I done to you? You are going to the war and have no +pity for me. Why is it?" + +"Lise!" was all Prince Andrew said. But that one word expressed +an entreaty, a threat, and above all conviction that she would herself +regret her words. But she went on hurriedly: + +"You treat me like an invalid or a child. I see it all! Did you behave +like that six months ago?" + +"Lise, I beg you to desist," said Prince Andrew still more +emphatically. + +Pierre, who had been growing more and more agitated as he listened to +all this, rose and approached the princess. He seemed unable to bear the +sight of tears and was ready to cry himself. + +"Calm yourself, Princess! It seems so to you because.... I assure you +I myself have experienced ... and so ... because ... No, excuse me! +An outsider is out of place here.... No, don't distress yourself.... +Good-by!" + +Prince Andrew caught him by the hand. + +"No, wait, Pierre! The princess is too kind to wish to deprive me of +the pleasure of spending the evening with you." + +"No, he thinks only of himself," muttered the princess without +restraining her angry tears. + +"Lise!" said Prince Andrew dryly, raising his voice to the pitch +which indicates that patience is exhausted. + +Suddenly the angry, squirrel-like expression of the princess' pretty +face changed into a winning and piteous look of fear. Her beautiful eyes +glanced askance at her husband's face, and her own assumed the timid, +deprecating expression of a dog when it rapidly but feebly wags its +drooping tail. + +"Mon Dieu, mon Dieu!" she muttered, and lifting her dress with one +hand she went up to her husband and kissed him on the forehead. + +"Good night, Lise," said he, rising and courteously kissing her hand +as he would have done to a stranger. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +The friends were silent. Neither cared to begin talking. Pierre +continually glanced at Prince Andrew; Prince Andrew rubbed his forehead +with his small hand. + +"Let us go and have supper," he said with a sigh, going to the door. + +They entered the elegant, newly decorated, and luxurious dining room. +Everything from the table napkins to the silver, china, and glass bore +that imprint of newness found in the households of the newly married. +Halfway through supper Prince Andrew leaned his elbows on the table and, +with a look of nervous agitation such as Pierre had never before seen on +his face, began to talk--as one who has long had something on his mind +and suddenly determines to speak out. + +"Never, never marry, my dear fellow! That's my advice: never marry +till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are capable of, +and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen +her plainly as she is, or else you will make a cruel and irrevocable +mistake. Marry when you are old and good for nothing--or all that is +good and noble in you will be lost. It will all be wasted on trifles. +Yes! Yes! Yes! Don't look at me with such surprise. If you marry +expecting anything from yourself in the future, you will feel at every +step that for you all is ended, all is closed except the drawing +room, where you will be ranged side by side with a court lackey and an +idiot!... But what's the good?..." and he waved his arm. + +Pierre took off his spectacles, which made his face seem different and +the good-natured expression still more apparent, and gazed at his friend +in amazement. + +"My wife," continued Prince Andrew, "is an excellent woman, one +of those rare women with whom a man's honor is safe; but, O God, what +would I not give now to be unmarried! You are the first and only one to +whom I mention this, because I like you." + +As he said this Prince Andrew was less than ever like that Bolkonski +who had lolled in Anna Pavlovna's easy chairs and with half-closed +eyes had uttered French phrases between his teeth. Every muscle of his +thin face was now quivering with nervous excitement; his eyes, in which +the fire of life had seemed extinguished, now flashed with brilliant +light. It was evident that the more lifeless he seemed at ordinary +times, the more impassioned he became in these moments of almost morbid +irritation. + +"You don't understand why I say this," he continued, "but it is +the whole story of life. You talk of Bonaparte and his career," said +he (though Pierre had not mentioned Bonaparte), "but Bonaparte when +he worked went step by step toward his goal. He was free, he had nothing +but his aim to consider, and he reached it. But tie yourself up with +a woman and, like a chained convict, you lose all freedom! And all you +have of hope and strength merely weighs you down and torments you with +regret. Drawing rooms, gossip, balls, vanity, and triviality--these are +the enchanted circle I cannot escape from. I am now going to the war, +the greatest war there ever was, and I know nothing and am fit for +nothing. I am very amiable and have a caustic wit," continued Prince +Andrew, "and at Anna Pavlovna's they listen to me. And that stupid +set without whom my wife cannot exist, and those women.... If you only +knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is +right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything--that's what +women are when you see them in their true colors! When you meet them +in society it seems as if there were something in them, but there's +nothing, nothing, nothing! No, don't marry, my dear fellow; don't +marry!" concluded Prince Andrew. + +"It seems funny to me," said Pierre, "that you, you should +consider yourself incapable and your life a spoiled life. You have +everything before you, everything. And you...." + +He did not finish his sentence, but his tone showed how highly he +thought of his friend and how much he expected of him in the future. + +"How can he talk like that?" thought Pierre. He considered his +friend a model of perfection because Prince Andrew possessed in the +highest degree just the very qualities Pierre lacked, and which might +be best described as strength of will. Pierre was always astonished at +Prince Andrew's calm manner of treating everybody, his extraordinary +memory, his extensive reading (he had read everything, knew everything, +and had an opinion about everything), but above all at his capacity for +work and study. And if Pierre was often struck by Andrew's lack +of capacity for philosophical meditation (to which he himself was +particularly addicted), he regarded even this not as a defect but as a +sign of strength. + +Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise +and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels +that they may run smoothly. + +"My part is played out," said Prince Andrew. "What's the use of +talking about me? Let us talk about you," he added after a silence, +smiling at his reassuring thoughts. + +That smile was immediately reflected on Pierre's face. + +"But what is there to say about me?" said Pierre, his face relaxing +into a careless, merry smile. "What am I? An illegitimate son!" +He suddenly blushed crimson, and it was plain that he had made a great +effort to say this. "Without a name and without means... And it +really..." But he did not say what "it really" was. "For the +present I am free and am all right. Only I haven't the least idea what +I am to do; I wanted to consult you seriously." + +Prince Andrew looked kindly at him, yet his glance--friendly and +affectionate as it was--expressed a sense of his own superiority. + +"I am fond of you, especially as you are the one live man among our +whole set. Yes, you're all right! Choose what you will; it's all the +same. You'll be all right anywhere. But look here: give up visiting +those Kuragins and leading that sort of life. It suits you so +badly--all this debauchery, dissipation, and the rest of it!" + +"What would you have, my dear fellow?" answered Pierre, shrugging +his shoulders. "Women, my dear fellow; women!" + +"I don't understand it," replied Prince Andrew. "Women who are +comme il faut, that's a different matter; but the Kuragins' set of +women, 'women and wine' I don't understand!" + +Pierre was staying at Prince Vasili Kuragin's and sharing the +dissipated life of his son Anatole, the son whom they were planning to +reform by marrying him to Prince Andrew's sister. + +"Do you know?" said Pierre, as if suddenly struck by a happy +thought, "seriously, I have long been thinking of it.... Leading such +a life I can't decide or think properly about anything. One's head +aches, and one spends all one's money. He asked me for tonight, but I +won't go." + +"You give me your word of honor not to go?" + +"On my honor!" + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +It was past one o'clock when Pierre left his friend. It was a +cloudless, northern, summer night. Pierre took an open cab intending +to drive straight home. But the nearer he drew to the house the more he +felt the impossibility of going to sleep on such a night. It was light +enough to see a long way in the deserted street and it seemed more like +morning or evening than night. On the way Pierre remembered that Anatole +Kuragin was expecting the usual set for cards that evening, after which +there was generally a drinking bout, finishing with visits of a kind +Pierre was very fond of. + +"I should like to go to Kuragin's," thought he. + +But he immediately recalled his promise to Prince Andrew not to go +there. Then, as happens to people of weak character, he desired so +passionately once more to enjoy that dissipation he was so accustomed to +that he decided to go. The thought immediately occurred to him that his +promise to Prince Andrew was of no account, because before he gave it +he had already promised Prince Anatole to come to his gathering; +"besides," thought he, "all such 'words of honor' are +conventional things with no definite meaning, especially if +one considers that by tomorrow one may be dead, or something so +extraordinary may happen to one that honor and dishonor will be all the +same!" Pierre often indulged in reflections of this sort, nullifying +all his decisions and intentions. He went to Kuragin's. + +Reaching the large house near the Horse Guards' barracks, in which +Anatole lived, Pierre entered the lighted porch, ascended the stairs, +and went in at the open door. There was no one in the anteroom; empty +bottles, cloaks, and overshoes were lying about; there was a smell of +alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance. + +Cards and supper were over, but the visitors had not yet dispersed. +Pierre threw off his cloak and entered the first room, in which were the +remains of supper. A footman, thinking no one saw him, was drinking on +the sly what was left in the glasses. From the third room came sounds of +laughter, the shouting of familiar voices, the growling of a bear, and +general commotion. Some eight or nine young men were crowding anxiously +round an open window. Three others were romping with a young bear, one +pulling him by the chain and trying to set him at the others. + +"I bet a hundred on Stevens!" shouted one. + +"Mind, no holding on!" cried another. + +"I bet on Dolokhov!" cried a third. "Kuragin, you part our +hands." + +"There, leave Bruin alone; here's a bet on." + +"At one draught, or he loses!" shouted a fourth. + +"Jacob, bring a bottle!" shouted the host, a tall, handsome fellow +who stood in the midst of the group, without a coat, and with his fine +linen shirt unfastened in front. "Wait a bit, you fellows.... Here is +Petya! Good man!" cried he, addressing Pierre. + +Another voice, from a man of medium height with clear blue eyes, +particularly striking among all these drunken voices by its sober +ring, cried from the window: "Come here; part the bets!" This was +Dolokhov, an officer of the Semenov regiment, a notorious gambler and +duelist, who was living with Anatole. Pierre smiled, looking about him +merrily. + +"I don't understand. What's it all about?" + +"Wait a bit, he is not drunk yet! A bottle here," said Anatole, and +taking a glass from the table he went up to Pierre. + +"First of all you must drink!" + +Pierre drank one glass after another, looking from under his brows at +the tipsy guests who were again crowding round the window, and listening +to their chatter. Anatole kept on refilling Pierre's glass while +explaining that Dolokhov was betting with Stevens, an English naval +officer, that he would drink a bottle of rum sitting on the outer ledge +of the third floor window with his legs hanging out. + +"Go on, you must drink it all," said Anatole, giving Pierre the last +glass, "or I won't let you go!" + +"No, I won't," said Pierre, pushing Anatole aside, and he went up +to the window. + +Dolokhov was holding the Englishman's hand and clearly and distinctly +repeating the terms of the bet, addressing himself particularly to +Anatole and Pierre. + +Dolokhov was of medium height, with curly hair and light-blue eyes. He +was about twenty-five. Like all infantry officers he wore no mustache, +so that his mouth, the most striking feature of his face, was clearly +seen. The lines of that mouth were remarkably finely curved. The middle +of the upper lip formed a sharp wedge and closed firmly on the firm +lower one, and something like two distinct smiles played continually +round the two corners of the mouth; this, together with the resolute, +insolent intelligence of his eyes, produced an effect which made it +impossible not to notice his face. Dolokhov was a man of small means +and no connections. Yet, though Anatole spent tens of thousands of +rubles, Dolokhov lived with him and had placed himself on such a +footing that all who knew them, including Anatole himself, respected him +more than they did Anatole. Dolokhov could play all games and nearly +always won. However much he drank, he never lost his clearheadedness. +Both Kuragin and Dolokhov were at that time notorious among the rakes +and scapegraces of Petersburg. + +The bottle of rum was brought. The window frame which prevented anyone +from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who +were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of +the gentlemen around. + +Anatole with his swaggering air strode up to the window. He wanted to +smash something. Pushing away the footmen he tugged at the frame, but +could not move it. He smashed a pane. + +"You have a try, Hercules," said he, turning to Pierre. + +Pierre seized the crossbeam, tugged, and wrenched the oak frame out with +a crash. + +"Take it right out, or they'll think I'm holding on," said +Dolokhov. + +"Is the Englishman bragging?... Eh? Is it all right?" said Anatole. + +"First-rate," said Pierre, looking at Dolokhov, who with a bottle +of rum in his hand was approaching the window, from which the light of +the sky, the dawn merging with the afterglow of sunset, was visible. + +Dolokhov, the bottle of rum still in his hand, jumped onto the window +sill. "Listen!" cried he, standing there and addressing those in the +room. All were silent. + +"I bet fifty imperials"--he spoke French that the Englishman might +understand him, but he did not speak it very well--"I bet fifty +imperials ... or do you wish to make it a hundred?" added he, +addressing the Englishman. + +"No, fifty," replied the latter. + +"All right. Fifty imperials ... that I will drink a whole bottle of +rum without taking it from my mouth, sitting outside the window on this +spot" (he stooped and pointed to the sloping ledge outside the window) +"and without holding on to anything. Is that right?" + +"Quite right," said the Englishman. + +Anatole turned to the Englishman and taking him by one of the buttons +of his coat and looking down at him--the Englishman was short--began +repeating the terms of the wager to him in English. + +"Wait!" cried Dolokhov, hammering with the bottle on the window +sill to attract attention. "Wait a bit, Kuragin. Listen! If +anyone else does the same, I will pay him a hundred imperials. Do you +understand?" + +The Englishman nodded, but gave no indication whether he intended to +accept this challenge or not. Anatole did not release him, and though +he kept nodding to show that he understood, Anatole went on translating +Dolokhov's words into English. A thin young lad, an hussar of the +Life Guards, who had been losing that evening, climbed on the window +sill, leaned over, and looked down. + +"Oh! Oh! Oh!" he muttered, looking down from the window at the +stones of the pavement. + +"Shut up!" cried Dolokhov, pushing him away from the window. The +lad jumped awkwardly back into the room, tripping over his spurs. + +Placing the bottle on the window sill where he could reach it easily, +Dolokhov climbed carefully and slowly through the window and lowered +his legs. Pressing against both sides of the window, he adjusted himself +on his seat, lowered his hands, moved a little to the right and then to +the left, and took up the bottle. Anatole brought two candles and +placed them on the window sill, though it was already quite light. +Dolokhov's back in his white shirt, and his curly head, were lit +up from both sides. Everyone crowded to the window, the Englishman in +front. Pierre stood smiling but silent. One man, older than the others +present, suddenly pushed forward with a scared and angry look and wanted +to seize hold of Dolokhov's shirt. + +"I say, this is folly! He'll be killed," said this more sensible +man. + +Anatole stopped him. + +"Don't touch him! You'll startle him and then he'll be killed. +Eh?... What then?... Eh?" + +Dolokhov turned round and, again holding on with both hands, arranged +himself on his seat. + +"If anyone comes meddling again," said he, emitting the words +separately through his thin compressed lips, "I will throw him down +there. Now then!" + +Saying this he again turned round, dropped his hands, took the bottle +and lifted it to his lips, threw back his head, and raised his free hand +to balance himself. One of the footmen who had stooped to pick up some +broken glass remained in that position without taking his eyes from the +window and from Dolokhov's back. Anatole stood erect with staring +eyes. The Englishman looked on sideways, pursing up his lips. The man +who had wished to stop the affair ran to a corner of the room and threw +himself on a sofa with his face to the wall. Pierre hid his face, from +which a faint smile forgot to fade though his features now expressed +horror and fear. All were still. Pierre took his hands from his eyes. +Dolokhov still sat in the same position, only his head was thrown +further back till his curly hair touched his shirt collar, and the hand +holding the bottle was lifted higher and higher and trembled with the +effort. The bottle was emptying perceptibly and rising still higher +and his head tilting yet further back. "Why is it so long?" thought +Pierre. It seemed to him that more than half an hour had elapsed. +Suddenly Dolokhov made a backward movement with his spine, and his arm +trembled nervously; this was sufficient to cause his whole body to slip +as he sat on the sloping ledge. As he began slipping down, his head and +arm wavered still more with the strain. One hand moved as if to clutch +the window sill, but refrained from touching it. Pierre again covered +his eyes and thought he would never open them again. Suddenly he was +aware of a stir all around. He looked up: Dolokhov was standing on the +window sill, with a pale but radiant face. + +"It's empty." + +He threw the bottle to the Englishman, who caught it neatly. Dolokhov +jumped down. He smelt strongly of rum. + +"Well done!... Fine fellow!... There's a bet for you!... Devil take +you!" came from different sides. + +The Englishman took out his purse and began counting out the money. +Dolokhov stood frowning and did not speak. Pierre jumped upon the +window sill. + +"Gentlemen, who wishes to bet with me? I'll do the same thing!" +he suddenly cried. "Even without a bet, there! Tell them to bring me a +bottle. I'll do it.... Bring a bottle!" + +"Let him do it, let him do it," said Dolokhov, smiling. + +"What next? Have you gone mad?... No one would let you!... Why, you go +giddy even on a staircase," exclaimed several voices. + +"I'll drink it! Let's have a bottle of rum!" shouted Pierre, +banging the table with a determined and drunken gesture and preparing to +climb out of the window. + +They seized him by his arms; but he was so strong that everyone who +touched him was sent flying. + +"No, you'll never manage him that way," said Anatole. "Wait a +bit and I'll get round him.... Listen! I'll take your bet tomorrow, +but now we are all going to ----'s." + +"Come on then," cried Pierre. "Come on!... And we'll take Bruin +with us." + +And he caught the bear, took it in his arms, lifted it from the ground, +and began dancing round the room with it. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +Prince Vasili kept the promise he had given to Princess Drubetskaya +who had spoken to him on behalf of her only son Boris on the evening of +Anna Pavlovna's soiree. The matter was mentioned to the Emperor, an +exception made, and Boris transferred into the regiment of Semenov +Guards with the rank of cornet. He received, however, no appointment +to Kutuzov's staff despite all Anna Mikhaylovna's endeavors and +entreaties. Soon after Anna Pavlovna's reception Anna Mikhaylovna +returned to Moscow and went straight to her rich relations, the +Rostovs, with whom she stayed when in the town and where her darling +Bory, who had only just entered a regiment of the line and was being +at once transferred to the Guards as a cornet, had been educated from +childhood and lived for years at a time. The Guards had already left +Petersburg on the tenth of August, and her son, who had remained in +Moscow for his equipment, was to join them on the march to Radzivilov. + +It was St. Natalia's day and the name day of two of the Rostovs--the +mother and the youngest daughter--both named Nataly. Ever since +the morning, carriages with six horses had been coming and going +continually, bringing visitors to the Countess Rostova's big house on +the Povarskaya, so well known to all Moscow. The countess herself and +her handsome eldest daughter were in the drawing room with the visitors +who came to congratulate, and who constantly succeeded one another in +relays. + +The countess was a woman of about forty-five, with a thin Oriental type +of face, evidently worn out with childbearing--she had had twelve. +A languor of motion and speech, resulting from weakness, gave her a +distinguished air which inspired respect. Princess Anna Mikhaylovna +Drubetskaya, who as a member of the household was also seated in the +drawing room, helped to receive and entertain the visitors. The young +people were in one of the inner rooms, not considering it necessary to +take part in receiving the visitors. The count met the guests and saw +them off, inviting them all to dinner. + +"I am very, very grateful to you, mon cher," or "ma chere"--he +called everyone without exception and without the slightest variation +in his tone, "my dear," whether they were above or below him in +rank--"I thank you for myself and for our two dear ones whose name +day we are keeping. But mind you come to dinner or I shall be offended, +ma chere! On behalf of the whole family I beg you to come, mon cher!" +These words he repeated to everyone without exception or variation, and +with the same expression on his full, cheerful, clean-shaven face, the +same firm pressure of the hand and the same quick, repeated bows. As +soon as he had seen a visitor off he returned to one of those who were +still in the drawing room, drew a chair toward him or her, and jauntily +spreading out his legs and putting his hands on his knees with the air +of a man who enjoys life and knows how to live, he swayed to and +fro with dignity, offered surmises about the weather, or touched on +questions of health, sometimes in Russian and sometimes in very bad but +self-confident French; then again, like a man weary but unflinching in +the fulfillment of duty, he rose to see some visitors off and, stroking +his scanty gray hairs over his bald patch, also asked them to dinner. +Sometimes on his way back from the anteroom he would pass through the +conservatory and pantry into the large marble dining hall, where tables +were being set out for eighty people; and looking at the footmen, who +were bringing in silver and china, moving tables, and unfolding damask +table linen, he would call Dmitri Vasilevich, a man of good family and +the manager of all his affairs, and while looking with pleasure at the +enormous table would say: "Well, Dmitri, you'll see that things are +all as they should be? That's right! The great thing is the serving, +that's it." And with a complacent sigh he would return to the +drawing room. + +"Marya Lvovna Karagina and her daughter!" announced the +countess' gigantic footman in his bass voice, entering the drawing +room. The countess reflected a moment and took a pinch from a gold +snuffbox with her husband's portrait on it. + +"I'm quite worn out by these callers. However, I'll see her and +no more. She is so affected. Ask her in," she said to the footman in a +sad voice, as if saying: "Very well, finish me off." + +A tall, stout, and proud-looking woman, with a round-faced smiling +daughter, entered the drawing room, their dresses rustling. + +"Dear Countess, what an age... She has been laid up, poor child ... +at the Razumovski's ball ... and Countess Apraksina ... I was +so delighted..." came the sounds of animated feminine voices, +interrupting one another and mingling with the rustling of dresses and +the scraping of chairs. Then one of those conversations began which last +out until, at the first pause, the guests rise with a rustle of dresses +and say, "I am so delighted... Mamma's health... and Countess +Apraksina..." and then, again rustling, pass into the anteroom, put +on cloaks or mantles, and drive away. The conversation was on the chief +topic of the day: the illness of the wealthy and celebrated beau of +Catherine's day, Count Bezukhov, and about his illegitimate son +Pierre, the one who had behaved so improperly at Anna Pavlovna's +reception. + +"I am so sorry for the poor count," said the visitor. "He is in +such bad health, and now this vexation about his son is enough to kill +him!" + +"What is that?" asked the countess as if she did not know what the +visitor alluded to, though she had already heard about the cause of +Count Bezukhov's distress some fifteen times. + +"That's what comes of a modern education," exclaimed the visitor. +"It seems that while he was abroad this young man was allowed to do +as he liked, now in Petersburg I hear he has been doing such terrible +things that he has been expelled by the police." + +"You don't say so!" replied the countess. + +"He chose his friends badly," interposed Anna Mikhaylovna. +"Prince Vasili's son, he, and a certain Dolokhov have, it is said, +been up to heaven only knows what! And they have had to suffer for it. +Dolokhov has been degraded to the ranks and Bezukhov's son sent +back to Moscow. Anatole Kuragin's father managed somehow to get his +son's affair hushed up, but even he was ordered out of Petersburg." + +"But what have they been up to?" asked the countess. + +"They are regular brigands, especially Dolokhov," replied the +visitor. "He is a son of Marya Ivanovna Dolokhova, such a worthy +woman, but there, just fancy! Those three got hold of a bear somewhere, +put it in a carriage, and set off with it to visit some actresses! The +police tried to interfere, and what did the young men do? They tied +a policeman and the bear back to back and put the bear into the Moyka +Canal. And there was the bear swimming about with the policeman on his +back!" + +"What a nice figure the policeman must have cut, my dear!" shouted +the count, dying with laughter. + +"Oh, how dreadful! How can you laugh at it, Count?" + +Yet the ladies themselves could not help laughing. + +"It was all they could do to rescue the poor man," continued the +visitor. "And to think it is Cyril Vladimirovich Bezukhov's son +who amuses himself in this sensible manner! And he was said to be so +well educated and clever. This is all that his foreign education has +done for him! I hope that here in Moscow no one will receive him, in +spite of his money. They wanted to introduce him to me, but I quite +declined: I have my daughters to consider." + +"Why do you say this young man is so rich?" asked the countess, +turning away from the girls, who at once assumed an air of inattention. +"His children are all illegitimate. I think Pierre also is +illegitimate." + +The visitor made a gesture with her hand. + +"I should think he has a score of them." + +Princess Anna Mikhaylovna intervened in the conversation, evidently +wishing to show her connections and knowledge of what went on in +society. + +"The fact of the matter is," said she significantly, and also in a +half whisper, "everyone knows Count Cyril's reputation.... He has +lost count of his children, but this Pierre was his favorite." + +"How handsome the old man still was only a year ago!" remarked the +countess. "I have never seen a handsomer man." + +"He is very much altered now," said Anna Mikhaylovna. "Well, as +I was saying, Prince Vasili is the next heir through his wife, but the +count is very fond of Pierre, looked after his education, and wrote to +the Emperor about him; so that in the case of his death--and he is +so ill that he may die at any moment, and Dr. Lorrain has come from +Petersburg--no one knows who will inherit his immense fortune, Pierre +or Prince Vasili. Forty thousand serfs and millions of rubles! I know +it all very well for Prince Vasili told me himself. Besides, Cyril +Vladimirovich is my mother's second cousin. He's also my Bory's +godfather," she added, as if she attached no importance at all to the +fact. + +"Prince Vasili arrived in Moscow yesterday. I hear he has come on +some inspection business," remarked the visitor. + +"Yes, but between ourselves," said the princess, "that is a +pretext. The fact is he has come to see Count Cyril Vladimirovich, +hearing how ill he is." + +"But do you know, my dear, that was a capital joke," said the count; +and seeing that the elder visitor was not listening, he turned to the +young ladies. "I can just imagine what a funny figure that policeman +cut!" + +And as he waved his arms to impersonate the policeman, his portly form +again shook with a deep ringing laugh, the laugh of one who always eats +well and, in particular, drinks well. "So do come and dine with us!" +he said. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +Silence ensued. The countess looked at her callers, smiling affably, +but not concealing the fact that she would not be distressed if they +now rose and took their leave. The visitor's daughter was already +smoothing down her dress with an inquiring look at her mother, when +suddenly from the next room were heard the footsteps of boys and girls +running to the door and the noise of a chair falling over, and a girl +of thirteen, hiding something in the folds of her short muslin frock, +darted in and stopped short in the middle of the room. It was evident +that she had not intended her flight to bring her so far. Behind her in +the doorway appeared a student with a crimson coat collar, an officer +of the Guards, a girl of fifteen, and a plump rosy-faced boy in a short +jacket. + +The count jumped up and, swaying from side to side, spread his arms wide +and threw them round the little girl who had run in. + +"Ah, here she is!" he exclaimed laughing. "My pet, whose name day +it is. My dear pet!" + +"Ma chere, there is a time for everything," said the countess with +feigned severity. "You spoil her, Ilya," she added, turning to her +husband. + +"How do you do, my dear? I wish you many happy returns of your name +day," said the visitor. "What a charming child," she added, +addressing the mother. + +This black-eyed, wide-mouthed girl, not pretty but full of life--with +childish bare shoulders which after her run heaved and shook her +bodice, with black curls tossed backward, thin bare arms, little legs +in lace-frilled drawers, and feet in low slippers--was just at that +charming age when a girl is no longer a child, though the child is not +yet a young woman. Escaping from her father she ran to hide her flushed +face in the lace of her mother's mantilla--not paying the least +attention to her severe remark--and began to laugh. She laughed, and in +fragmentary sentences tried to explain about a doll which she produced +from the folds of her frock. + +"Do you see?... My doll... Mimi... You see..." was all Natasha +managed to utter (to her everything seemed funny). She leaned against +her mother and burst into such a loud, ringing fit of laughter that even +the prim visitor could not help joining in. + +"Now then, go away and take your monstrosity with you," said the +mother, pushing away her daughter with pretended sternness, and turning +to the visitor she added: "She is my youngest girl." + +Natasha, raising her face for a moment from her mother's mantilla, +glanced up at her through tears of laughter, and again hid her face. + +The visitor, compelled to look on at this family scene, thought it +necessary to take some part in it. + +"Tell me, my dear," said she to Natasha, "is Mimi a relation of +yours? A daughter, I suppose?" + +Natasha did not like the visitor's tone of condescension to childish +things. She did not reply, but looked at her seriously. + +Meanwhile the younger generation: Boris, the officer, Anna +Mikhaylovna's son; Nicholas, the undergraduate, the count's eldest +son; Sonya, the count's fifteen-year-old niece, and little Petya, +his youngest boy, had all settled down in the drawing room and were +obviously trying to restrain within the bounds of decorum the excitement +and mirth that shone in all their faces. Evidently in the back rooms, +from which they had dashed out so impetuously, the conversation had +been more amusing than the drawing room talk of society scandals, the +weather, and Countess Apraksina. Now and then they glanced at one +another, hardly able to suppress their laughter. + +The two young men, the student and the officer, friends from childhood, +were of the same age and both handsome fellows, though not alike. Boris +was tall and fair, and his calm and handsome face had regular, delicate +features. Nicholas was short with curly hair and an open expression. +Dark hairs were already showing on his upper lip, and his whole face +expressed impetuosity and enthusiasm. Nicholas blushed when he entered +the drawing room. He evidently tried to find something to say, but +failed. Boris on the contrary at once found his footing, and related +quietly and humorously how he had known that doll Mimi when she was +still quite a young lady, before her nose was broken; how she had aged +during the five years he had known her, and how her head had cracked +right across the skull. Having said this he glanced at Natasha. +She turned away from him and glanced at her younger brother, who was +screwing up his eyes and shaking with suppressed laughter, and unable +to control herself any longer, she jumped up and rushed from the room as +fast as her nimble little feet would carry her. Boris did not laugh. + +"You were meaning to go out, weren't you, Mamma? Do you want the +carriage?" he asked his mother with a smile. + +"Yes, yes, go and tell them to get it ready," she answered, +returning his smile. + +Boris quietly left the room and went in search of Natasha. The plump +boy ran after them angrily, as if vexed that their program had been +disturbed. + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +The only young people remaining in the drawing room, not counting the +young lady visitor and the countess' eldest daughter (who was four +years older than her sister and behaved already like a grown-up person), +were Nicholas and Sonya, the niece. Sonya was a slender little +brunette with a tender look in her eyes which were veiled by long +lashes, thick black plaits coiling twice round her head, and a tawny +tint in her complexion and especially in the color of her slender but +graceful and muscular arms and neck. By the grace of her movements, +by the softness and flexibility of her small limbs, and by a certain +coyness and reserve of manner, she reminded one of a pretty, half-grown +kitten which promises to become a beautiful little cat. She evidently +considered it proper to show an interest in the general conversation by +smiling, but in spite of herself her eyes under their thick long lashes +watched her cousin who was going to join the army, with such passionate +girlish adoration that her smile could not for a single instant impose +upon anyone, and it was clear that the kitten had settled down only to +spring up with more energy and again play with her cousin as soon as +they too could, like Natasha and Boris, escape from the drawing room. + +"Ah yes, my dear," said the count, addressing the visitor and +pointing to Nicholas, "his friend Boris has become an officer, and +so for friendship's sake he is leaving the university and me, his +old father, and entering the military service, my dear. And there was a +place and everything waiting for him in the Archives Department! Isn't +that friendship?" remarked the count in an inquiring tone. + +"But they say that war has been declared," replied the visitor. + +"They've been saying so a long while," said the count, "and +they'll say so again and again, and that will be the end of it. My +dear, there's friendship for you," he repeated. "He's joining +the hussars." + +The visitor, not knowing what to say, shook her head. + +"It's not at all from friendship," declared Nicholas, flaring +up and turning away as if from a shameful aspersion. "It is not from +friendship at all; I simply feel that the army is my vocation." + +He glanced at his cousin and the young lady visitor; and they were both +regarding him with a smile of approbation. + +"Schubert, the colonel of the Pavlograd Hussars, is dining with us +today. He has been here on leave and is taking Nicholas back with him. +It can't be helped!" said the count, shrugging his shoulders and +speaking playfully of a matter that evidently distressed him. + +"I have already told you, Papa," said his son, "that if you +don't wish to let me go, I'll stay. But I know I am no use anywhere +except in the army; I am not a diplomat or a government clerk.--I +don't know how to hide what I feel." As he spoke he kept glancing +with the flirtatiousness of a handsome youth at Sonya and the young +lady visitor. + +The little kitten, feasting her eyes on him, seemed ready at any moment +to start her gambols again and display her kittenish nature. + +"All right, all right!" said the old count. "He always flares up! +This Buonaparte has turned all their heads; they all think of how he +rose from an ensign and became Emperor. Well, well, God grant it," he +added, not noticing his visitor's sarcastic smile. + +The elders began talking about Bonaparte. Julie Karagina turned to +young Rostov. + +"What a pity you weren't at the Arkharovs' on Thursday. It was so +dull without you," said she, giving him a tender smile. + +The young man, flattered, sat down nearer to her with a coquettish +smile, and engaged the smiling Julie in a confidential conversation +without at all noticing that his involuntary smile had stabbed the heart +of Sonya, who blushed and smiled unnaturally. In the midst of his talk +he glanced round at her. She gave him a passionately angry glance, and +hardly able to restrain her tears and maintain the artificial smile +on her lips, she got up and left the room. All Nicholas' animation +vanished. He waited for the first pause in the conversation, and then +with a distressed face left the room to find Sonya. + +"How plainly all these young people wear their hearts on their +sleeves!" said Anna Mikhaylovna, pointing to Nicholas as he went out. +"Cousinage--dangereux voisinage," * she added. + + * Cousinhood is a dangerous neighborhood. + +"Yes," said the countess when the brightness these young people had +brought into the room had vanished; and as if answering a question no +one had put but which was always in her mind, "and how much suffering, +how much anxiety one has had to go through that we might rejoice in +them now! And yet really the anxiety is greater now than the joy. One is +always, always anxious! Especially just at this age, so dangerous both +for girls and boys." + +"It all depends on the bringing up," remarked the visitor. + +"Yes, you're quite right," continued the countess. "Till now I +have always, thank God, been my children's friend and had their full +confidence," said she, repeating the mistake of so many parents who +imagine that their children have no secrets from them. "I know I shall +always be my daughters' first confidante, and that if Nicholas, with +his impulsive nature, does get into mischief (a boy can't help it), he +will all the same never be like those Petersburg young men." + +"Yes, they are splendid, splendid youngsters," chimed in the count, +who always solved questions that seemed to him perplexing by deciding +that everything was splendid. "Just fancy: wants to be an hussar. +What's one to do, my dear?" + +"What a charming creature your younger girl is," said the visitor; +"a little volcano!" + +"Yes, a regular volcano," said the count. "Takes after me! And +what a voice she has; though she's my daughter, I tell the truth +when I say she'll be a singer, a second Salomoni! We have engaged an +Italian to give her lessons." + +"Isn't she too young? I have heard that it harms the voice to train +it at that age." + +"Oh no, not at all too young!" replied the count. "Why, our +mothers used to be married at twelve or thirteen." + +"And she's in love with Boris already. Just fancy!" said the +countess with a gentle smile, looking at Boris and went on, evidently +concerned with a thought that always occupied her: "Now you see if I +were to be severe with her and to forbid it ... goodness knows what they +might be up to on the sly" (she meant that they would be kissing), +"but as it is, I know every word she utters. She will come running to +me of her own accord in the evening and tell me everything. Perhaps I +spoil her, but really that seems the best plan. With her elder sister I +was stricter." + +"Yes, I was brought up quite differently," remarked the handsome +elder daughter, Countess Vera, with a smile. + +But the smile did not enhance Vera's beauty as smiles generally do; +on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, +expression. Vera was good-looking, not at all stupid, quick at +learning, was well brought up, and had a pleasant voice; what she said +was true and appropriate, yet, strange to say, everyone--the visitors +and countess alike--turned to look at her as if wondering why she had +said it, and they all felt awkward. + +"People are always too clever with their eldest children and try to +make something exceptional of them," said the visitor. + +"What's the good of denying it, my dear? Our dear countess was too +clever with Vera," said the count. "Well, what of that? She's +turned out splendidly all the same," he added, winking at Vera. + +The guests got up and took their leave, promising to return to dinner. + +"What manners! I thought they would never go," said the countess, +when she had seen her guests out. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIII + +When Natasha ran out of the drawing room she only went as far as the +conservatory. There she paused and stood listening to the conversation +in the drawing room, waiting for Boris to come out. She was already +growing impatient, and stamped her foot, ready to cry at his not coming +at once, when she heard the young man's discreet steps approaching +neither quickly nor slowly. At this Natasha dashed swiftly among the +flower tubs and hid there. + +Boris paused in the middle of the room, looked round, brushed a little +dust from the sleeve of his uniform, and going up to a mirror examined +his handsome face. Natasha, very still, peered out from her ambush, +waiting to see what he would do. He stood a little while before the +glass, smiled, and walked toward the other door. Natasha was about to +call him but changed her mind. "Let him look for me," thought she. +Hardly had Boris gone than Sonya, flushed, in tears, and muttering +angrily, came in at the other door. Natasha checked her first impulse +to run out to her, and remained in her hiding place, watching--as +under an invisible cap--to see what went on in the world. She was +experiencing a new and peculiar pleasure. Sonya, muttering to herself, +kept looking round toward the drawing room door. It opened and Nicholas +came in. + +"Sonya, what is the matter with you? How can you?" said he, running +up to her. + +"It's nothing, nothing; leave me alone!" sobbed Sonya. + +"Ah, I know what it is." + +"Well, if you do, so much the better, and you can go back to her!" + +"So-o-onya! Look here! How can you torture me and yourself like that, +for a mere fancy?" said Nicholas taking her hand. + +Sonya did not pull it away, and left off crying. Natasha, not stirring +and scarcely breathing, watched from her ambush with sparkling eyes. +"What will happen now?" thought she. + +"Sonya! What is anyone in the world to me? You alone are +everything!" said Nicholas. "And I will prove it to you." + +"I don't like you to talk like that." + +"Well, then, I won't; only forgive me, Sonya!" He drew her to him +and kissed her. + +"Oh, how nice," thought Natasha; and when Sonya and Nicholas had +gone out of the conservatory she followed and called Boris to her. + +"Boris, come here," said she with a sly and significant look. "I +have something to tell you. Here, here!" and she led him into the +conservatory to the place among the tubs where she had been hiding. + +Boris followed her, smiling. + +"What is the something?" asked he. + +She grew confused, glanced round, and, seeing the doll she had thrown +down on one of the tubs, picked it up. + +"Kiss the doll," said she. + +Boris looked attentively and kindly at her eager face, but did not +reply. + +"Don't you want to? Well, then, come here," said she, and +went further in among the plants and threw down the doll. "Closer, +closer!" she whispered. + +She caught the young officer by his cuffs, and a look of solemnity and +fear appeared on her flushed face. + +"And me? Would you like to kiss me?" she whispered almost inaudibly, +glancing up at him from under her brows, smiling, and almost crying from +excitement. + +Boris blushed. + +"How funny you are!" he said, bending down to her and blushing still +more, but he waited and did nothing. + +Suddenly she jumped up onto a tub to be higher than he, embraced him so +that both her slender bare arms clasped him above his neck, and, tossing +back her hair, kissed him full on the lips. + +Then she slipped down among the flowerpots on the other side of the tubs +and stood, hanging her head. + +"Natasha," he said, "you know that I love you, but...." + +"You are in love with me?" Natasha broke in. + +"Yes, I am, but please don't let us do like that.... In another four +years ... then I will ask for your hand." + +Natasha considered. + +"Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen," she counted on her slender +little fingers. "All right! Then it's settled?" + +A smile of joy and satisfaction lit up her eager face. + +"Settled!" replied Boris. + +"Forever?" said the little girl. "Till death itself?" + +She took his arm and with a happy face went with him into the adjoining +sitting room. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +After receiving her visitors, the countess was so tired that she gave +orders to admit no more, but the porter was told to be sure to invite to +dinner all who came "to congratulate." The countess wished to have +a tete-a-tete talk with the friend of her childhood, Princess Anna +Mikhaylovna, whom she had not seen properly since she returned from +Petersburg. Anna Mikhaylovna, with her tear-worn but pleasant face, +drew her chair nearer to that of the countess. + +"With you I will be quite frank," said Anna Mikhaylovna. "There +are not many left of us old friends! That's why I so value your +friendship." + +Anna Mikhaylovna looked at Vera and paused. The countess pressed her +friend's hand. + +"Vera," she said to her eldest daughter who was evidently not a +favorite, "how is it you have so little tact? Don't you see you are +not wanted here? Go to the other girls, or..." + +The handsome Vera smiled contemptuously but did not seem at all hurt. + +"If you had told me sooner, Mamma, I would have gone," she replied +as she rose to go to her own room. + +But as she passed the sitting room she noticed two couples sitting, +one pair at each window. She stopped and smiled scornfully. Sonya was +sitting close to Nicholas who was copying out some verses for her, the +first he had ever written. Boris and Natasha were at the other window +and ceased talking when Vera entered. Sonya and Natasha looked at +Vera with guilty, happy faces. + +It was pleasant and touching to see these little girls in love; but +apparently the sight of them roused no pleasant feeling in Vera. + +"How often have I asked you not to take my things?" she said. "You +have a room of your own," and she took the inkstand from Nicholas. + +"In a minute, in a minute," he said, dipping his pen. + +"You always manage to do things at the wrong time," continued Vera. +"You came rushing into the drawing room so that everyone felt ashamed +of you." + +Though what she said was quite just, perhaps for that very reason no one +replied, and the four simply looked at one another. She lingered in the +room with the inkstand in her hand. + +"And at your age what secrets can there be between Natasha and +Boris, or between you two? It's all nonsense!" + +"Now, Vera, what does it matter to you?" said Natasha in defense, +speaking very gently. + +She seemed that day to be more than ever kind and affectionate to +everyone. + +"Very silly," said Vera. "I am ashamed of you. Secrets indeed!" + +"All have secrets of their own," answered Natasha, getting warmer. +"We don't interfere with you and Berg." + +"I should think not," said Vera, "because there can never be +anything wrong in my behavior. But I'll just tell Mamma how you are +behaving with Boris." + +"Natalya Ilynichna behaves very well to me," remarked Boris. "I +have nothing to complain of." + +"Don't, Boris! You are such a diplomat that it is really +tiresome," said Natasha in a mortified voice that trembled slightly. +(She used the word "diplomat," which was just then much in vogue +among the children, in the special sense they attached to it.) "Why +does she bother me?" And she added, turning to Vera, "You'll +never understand it, because you've never loved anyone. You have no +heart! You are a Madame de Genlis and nothing more" (this nickname, +bestowed on Vera by Nicholas, was considered very stinging), "and +your greatest pleasure is to be unpleasant to people! Go and flirt with +Berg as much as you please," she finished quickly. + +"I shall at any rate not run after a young man before visitors..." + +"Well, now you've done what you wanted," put in Nicholas--"said +unpleasant things to everyone and upset them. Let's go to the +nursery." + +All four, like a flock of scared birds, got up and left the room. + +"The unpleasant things were said to me," remarked Vera, "I said +none to anyone." + +"Madame de Genlis! Madame de Genlis!" shouted laughing voices +through the door. + +The handsome Vera, who produced such an irritating and unpleasant +effect on everyone, smiled and, evidently unmoved by what had been +said to her, went to the looking glass and arranged her hair and scarf. +Looking at her own handsome face she seemed to become still colder and +calmer. + + +In the drawing room the conversation was still going on. + +"Ah, my dear," said the countess, "my life is not all roses +either. Don't I know that at the rate we are living our means won't +last long? It's all the Club and his easygoing nature. Even in the +country do we get any rest? Theatricals, hunting, and heaven knows what +besides! But don't let's talk about me; tell me how you managed +everything. I often wonder at you, Annette--how at your age you +can rush off alone in a carriage to Moscow, to Petersburg, to those +ministers and great people, and know how to deal with them all! It's +quite astonishing. How did you get things settled? I couldn't possibly +do it." + +"Ah, my love," answered Anna Mikhaylovna, "God grant you never +know what it is to be left a widow without means and with a son you love +to distraction! One learns many things then," she added with a certain +pride. "That lawsuit taught me much. When I want to see one of those +big people I write a note: 'Princess So-and-So desires an interview +with So and-So,' and then I take a cab and go myself two, three, or +four times--till I get what I want. I don't mind what they think of +me." + +"Well, and to whom did you apply about Bory?" asked the countess. +"You see yours is already an officer in the Guards, while my Nicholas +is going as a cadet. There's no one to interest himself for him. To +whom did you apply?" + +"To Prince Vasili. He was so kind. He at once agreed to everything, +and put the matter before the Emperor," said Princess Anna +Mikhaylovna enthusiastically, quite forgetting all the humiliation she +had endured to gain her end. + +"Has Prince Vasili aged much?" asked the countess. "I have not +seen him since we acted together at the Rumyantsovs' theatricals. I +expect he has forgotten me. He paid me attentions in those days," said +the countess, with a smile. + +"He is just the same as ever," replied Anna Mikhaylovna, +"overflowing with amiability. His position has not turned his head +at all. He said to me, 'I am sorry I can do so little for you, dear +Princess. I am at your command.' Yes, he is a fine fellow and a very +kind relation. But, Nataly, you know my love for my son: I would do +anything for his happiness! And my affairs are in such a bad way that my +position is now a terrible one," continued Anna Mikhaylovna, sadly, +dropping her voice. "My wretched lawsuit takes all I have and makes no +progress. Would you believe it, I have literally not a penny and don't +know how to equip Boris." She took out her handkerchief and began to +cry. "I need five hundred rubles, and have only one twenty-five-ruble +note. I am in such a state.... My only hope now is in Count Cyril +Vladimirovich Bezukhov. If he will not assist his godson--you know +he is Bory's godfather--and allow him something for his maintenance, +all my trouble will have been thrown away.... I shall not be able to +equip him." + +The countess' eyes filled with tears and she pondered in silence. + +"I often think, though, perhaps it's a sin," said the princess, +"that here lives Count Cyril Vladimirovich Bezukhov so rich, all +alone... that tremendous fortune... and what is his life worth? It's a +burden to him, and Bory's life is only just beginning...." + +"Surely he will leave something to Boris," said the countess. + +"Heaven only knows, my dear! These rich grandees are so selfish. +Still, I will take Boris and go to see him at once, and I shall speak +to him straight out. Let people think what they will of me, it's +really all the same to me when my son's fate is at stake." The +princess rose. "It's now two o'clock and you dine at four. There +will just be time." + +And like a practical Petersburg lady who knows how to make the most of +time, Anna Mikhaylovna sent someone to call her son, and went into the +anteroom with him. + +"Good-by, my dear," said she to the countess who saw her to the +door, and added in a whisper so that her son should not hear, "Wish me +good luck." + +"Are you going to Count Cyril Vladimirovich, my dear?" said the +count coming out from the dining hall into the anteroom, and he added: +"If he is better, ask Pierre to dine with us. He has been to the +house, you know, and danced with the children. Be sure to invite him, my +dear. We will see how Taras distinguishes himself today. He says Count +Orlov never gave such a dinner as ours will be!" + + + + + +CHAPTER XV + +"My dear Boris," said Princess Anna Mikhaylovna to her son as +Countess Rostova's carriage in which they were seated drove over the +straw covered street and turned into the wide courtyard of Count Cyril +Vladimirovich Bezukhov's house. "My dear Boris," said the +mother, drawing her hand from beneath her old mantle and laying +it timidly and tenderly on her son's arm, "be affectionate and +attentive to him. Count Cyril Vladimirovich is your godfather after +all, and your future depends on him. Remember that, my dear, and be nice +to him, as you so well know how to be." + +"If only I knew that anything besides humiliation would come of +it..." answered her son coldly. "But I have promised and will do it +for your sake." + +Although the hall porter saw someone's carriage standing at the +entrance, after scrutinizing the mother and son (who without asking to +be announced had passed straight through the glass porch between the +rows of statues in niches) and looking significantly at the lady's old +cloak, he asked whether they wanted the count or the princesses, and, +hearing that they wished to see the count, said his excellency was worse +today, and that his excellency was not receiving anyone. + +"We may as well go back," said the son in French. + +"My dear!" exclaimed his mother imploringly, again laying her hand +on his arm as if that touch might soothe or rouse him. + +Boris said no more, but looked inquiringly at his mother without taking +off his cloak. + +"My friend," said Anna Mikhaylovna in gentle tones, addressing +the hall porter, "I know Count Cyril Vladimirovich is very ill... +that's why I have come... I am a relation. I shall not disturb him, +my friend... I only need see Prince Vasili Sergeevich: he is staying +here, is he not? Please announce me." + +The hall porter sullenly pulled a bell that rang upstairs, and turned +away. + +"Princess Drubetskaya to see Prince Vasili Sergeevich," he called +to a footman dressed in knee breeches, shoes, and a swallow-tail coat, +who ran downstairs and looked over from the halfway landing. + +The mother smoothed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large +Venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly +ascended the carpeted stairs. + +"My dear," she said to her son, once more stimulating him by a +touch, "you promised me!" + +The son, lowering his eyes, followed her quietly. + +They entered the large hall, from which one of the doors led to the +apartments assigned to Prince Vasili. + +Just as the mother and son, having reached the middle of the hall, were +about to ask their way of an elderly footman who had sprung up as they +entered, the bronze handle of one of the doors turned and Prince Vasili +came out--wearing a velvet coat with a single star on his breast, +as was his custom when at home--taking leave of a good-looking, +dark-haired man. This was the celebrated Petersburg doctor, Lorrain. + +"Then it is certain?" said the prince. + +"Prince, humanum est errare, * but..." replied the doctor, +swallowing his r's, and pronouncing the Latin words with a French +accent. + + * To err is human. + +"Very well, very well..." + +Seeing Anna Mikhaylovna and her son, Prince Vasili dismissed the +doctor with a bow and approached them silently and with a look of +inquiry. The son noticed that an expression of profound sorrow suddenly +clouded his mother's face, and he smiled slightly. + +"Ah, Prince! In what sad circumstances we meet again! And how is our +dear invalid?" said she, as though unaware of the cold offensive look +fixed on her. + +Prince Vasili stared at her and at Boris questioningly and perplexed. +Boris bowed politely. Prince Vasili without acknowledging the bow +turned to Anna Mikhaylovna, answering her query by a movement of the +head and lips indicating very little hope for the patient. + +"Is it possible?" exclaimed Anna Mikhaylovna. "Oh, how awful! +It is terrible to think.... This is my son," she added, indicating +Boris. "He wanted to thank you himself." + +Boris bowed again politely. + +"Believe me, Prince, a mother's heart will never forget what you +have done for us." + +"I am glad I was able to do you a service, my dear Anna +Mikhaylovna," said Prince Vasili, arranging his lace frill, and in +tone and manner, here in Moscow to Anna Mikhaylovna whom he had placed +under an obligation, assuming an air of much greater importance than he +had done in Petersburg at Anna Scherer's reception. + +"Try to serve well and show yourself worthy," added he, addressing +Boris with severity. "I am glad.... Are you here on leave?" he went +on in his usual tone of indifference. + +"I am awaiting orders to join my new regiment, your excellency," +replied Boris, betraying neither annoyance at the prince's brusque +manner nor a desire to enter into conversation, but speaking so quietly +and respectfully that the prince gave him a searching glance. + +"Are you living with your mother?" + +"I am living at Countess Rostova's," replied Boris, again +adding, "your excellency." + +"That is, with Ilya Rostov who married Nataly Shinshina," said +Anna Mikhaylovna. + +"I know, I know," answered Prince Vasili in his monotonous voice. +"I never could understand how Nataly made up her mind to marry that +unlicked bear! A perfectly absurd and stupid fellow, and a gambler too, +I am told." + +"But a very kind man, Prince," said Anna Mikhaylovna with a +pathetic smile, as though she too knew that Count Rostov deserved this +censure, but asked him not to be too hard on the poor old man. "What +do the doctors say?" asked the princess after a pause, her worn face +again expressing deep sorrow. + +"They give little hope," replied the prince. + +"And I should so like to thank Uncle once for all his kindness to me +and Boris. He is his godson," she added, her tone suggesting that +this fact ought to give Prince Vasili much satisfaction. + +Prince Vasili became thoughtful and frowned. Anna Mikhaylovna saw that +he was afraid of finding in her a rival for Count Bezukhov's fortune, +and hastened to reassure him. + +"If it were not for my sincere affection and devotion to Uncle," +said she, uttering the word with peculiar assurance and unconcern, "I +know his character: noble, upright ... but you see he has no one with +him except the young princesses.... They are still young...." She bent +her head and continued in a whisper: "Has he performed his final duty, +Prince? How priceless are those last moments! It can make things no +worse, and it is absolutely necessary to prepare him if he is so ill. +We women, Prince," and she smiled tenderly, "always know how to say +these things. I absolutely must see him, however painful it may be for +me. I am used to suffering." + +Evidently the prince understood her, and also understood, as he had done +at Anna Pavlovna's, that it would be difficult to get rid of Anna +Mikhaylovna. + +"Would not such a meeting be too trying for him, dear Anna +Mikhaylovna?" said he. "Let us wait until evening. The doctors are +expecting a crisis." + +"But one cannot delay, Prince, at such a moment! Consider that the +welfare of his soul is at stake. Ah, it is awful: the duties of a +Christian..." + +A door of one of the inner rooms opened and one of the princesses, the +count's niece, entered with a cold, stern face. The length of her +body was strikingly out of proportion to her short legs. Prince Vasili +turned to her. + +"Well, how is he?" + +"Still the same; but what can you expect, this noise..." said the +princess, looking at Anna Mikhaylovna as at a stranger. + +"Ah, my dear, I hardly knew you," said Anna Mikhaylovna with a +happy smile, ambling lightly up to the count's niece. "I have come, +and am at your service to help you nurse my uncle. I imagine what you +have gone through," and she sympathetically turned up her eyes. + +The princess gave no reply and did not even smile, but left the room as +Anna Mikhaylovna took off her gloves and, occupying the position she +had conquered, settled down in an armchair, inviting Prince Vasili to +take a seat beside her. + +"Boris," she said to her son with a smile, "I shall go in to see +the count, my uncle; but you, my dear, had better go to Pierre meanwhile +and don't forget to give him the Rostovs' invitation. They ask him +to dinner. I suppose he won't go?" she continued, turning to the +prince. + +"On the contrary," replied the prince, who had plainly become +depressed, "I shall be only too glad if you relieve me of that young +man.... Here he is, and the count has not once asked for him." + +He shrugged his shoulders. A footman conducted Boris down one flight of +stairs and up another, to Pierre's rooms. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +Pierre, after all, had not managed to choose a career for himself in +Petersburg, and had been expelled from there for riotous conduct and +sent to Moscow. The story told about him at Count Rostov's was true. +Pierre had taken part in tying a policeman to a bear. He had now been +for some days in Moscow and was staying as usual at his father's +house. Though he expected that the story of his escapade would be +already known in Moscow and that the ladies about his father--who were +never favorably disposed toward him--would have used it to turn the +count against him, he nevertheless on the day of his arrival went to +his father's part of the house. Entering the drawing room, where the +princesses spent most of their time, he greeted the ladies, two of whom +were sitting at embroidery frames while a third read aloud. It was the +eldest who was reading--the one who had met Anna Mikhaylovna. The +two younger ones were embroidering: both were rosy and pretty and they +differed only in that one had a little mole on her lip which made her +much prettier. Pierre was received as if he were a corpse or a leper. +The eldest princess paused in her reading and silently stared at him +with frightened eyes; the second assumed precisely the same expression; +while the youngest, the one with the mole, who was of a cheerful and +lively disposition, bent over her frame to hide a smile probably evoked +by the amusing scene she foresaw. She drew her wool down through the +canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying +to make out the pattern. + +"How do you do, cousin?" said Pierre. "You don't recognize +me?" + +"I recognize you only too well, too well." + +"How is the count? Can I see him?" asked Pierre, awkwardly as usual, +but unabashed. + +"The count is suffering physically and mentally, and apparently you +have done your best to increase his mental sufferings." + +"Can I see the count?" Pierre again asked. + +"Hm.... If you wish to kill him, to kill him outright, you can see +him... Olga, go and see whether Uncle's beef tea is ready--it is +almost time," she added, giving Pierre to understand that they were +busy, and busy making his father comfortable, while evidently he, +Pierre, was only busy causing him annoyance. + +Olga went out. Pierre stood looking at the sisters; then he bowed and +said: "Then I will go to my rooms. You will let me know when I can see +him." + +And he left the room, followed by the low but ringing laughter of the +sister with the mole. + +Next day Prince Vasili had arrived and settled in the count's house. +He sent for Pierre and said to him: "My dear fellow, if you are going +to behave here as you did in Petersburg, you will end very badly; that +is all I have to say to you. The count is very, very ill, and you must +not see him at all." + +Since then Pierre had not been disturbed and had spent the whole time in +his rooms upstairs. + +When Boris appeared at his door Pierre was pacing up and down his room, +stopping occasionally at a corner to make menacing gestures at the wall, +as if running a sword through an invisible foe, and glaring savagely +over his spectacles, and then again resuming his walk, muttering +indistinct words, shrugging his shoulders and gesticulating. + +"England is done for," said he, scowling and pointing his finger +at someone unseen. "Mr. Pitt, as a traitor to the nation and to the +rights of man, is sentenced to..." But before Pierre--who at that +moment imagined himself to be Napoleon in person and to have just +effected the dangerous crossing of the Straits of Dover and captured +London--could pronounce Pitt's sentence, he saw a well-built and +handsome young officer entering his room. Pierre paused. He had left +Moscow when Boris was a boy of fourteen, and had quite forgotten him, +but in his usual impulsive and hearty way he took Boris by the hand +with a friendly smile. + +"Do you remember me?" asked Boris quietly with a pleasant smile. +"I have come with my mother to see the count, but it seems he is not +well." + +"Yes, it seems he is ill. People are always disturbing him," +answered Pierre, trying to remember who this young man was. + +Boris felt that Pierre did not recognize him but did not consider +it necessary to introduce himself, and without experiencing the least +embarrassment looked Pierre straight in the face. + +"Count Rostov asks you to come to dinner today," said he, after a +considerable pause which made Pierre feel uncomfortable. + +"Ah, Count Rostov!" exclaimed Pierre joyfully. "Then you are his +son, Ilya? Only fancy, I didn't know you at first. Do you remember +how we went to the Sparrow Hills with Madame Jacquot?... It's such an +age..." + +"You are mistaken," said Boris deliberately, with a bold and +slightly sarcastic smile. "I am Boris, son of Princess Anna +Mikhaylovna Drubetskaya. Rostov, the father, is Ilya, and his son is +Nicholas. I never knew any Madame Jacquot." + +Pierre shook his head and arms as if attacked by mosquitoes or bees. + +"Oh dear, what am I thinking about? I've mixed everything up. One +has so many relatives in Moscow! So you are Boris? Of course. Well, now +we know where we are. And what do you think of the Boulogne expedition? +The English will come off badly, you know, if Napoleon gets across the +Channel. I think the expedition is quite feasible. If only Villeneuve +doesn't make a mess of things!" + +Boris knew nothing about the Boulogne expedition; he did not read the +papers and it was the first time he had heard Villeneuve's name. + +"We here in Moscow are more occupied with dinner parties and scandal +than with politics," said he in his quiet ironical tone. "I know +nothing about it and have not thought about it. Moscow is chiefly busy +with gossip," he continued. "Just now they are talking about you and +your father." + +Pierre smiled in his good-natured way as if afraid for his companion's +sake that the latter might say something he would afterwards regret. +But Boris spoke distinctly, clearly, and dryly, looking straight into +Pierre's eyes. + +"Moscow has nothing else to do but gossip," Boris went on. +"Everybody is wondering to whom the count will leave his fortune, +though he may perhaps outlive us all, as I sincerely hope he will..." + +"Yes, it is all very horrid," interrupted Pierre, "very horrid." + +Pierre was still afraid that this officer might inadvertently say +something disconcerting to himself. + +"And it must seem to you," said Boris flushing slightly, but not +changing his tone or attitude, "it must seem to you that everyone is +trying to get something out of the rich man?" + +"So it does," thought Pierre. + +"But I just wish to say, to avoid misunderstandings, that you are +quite mistaken if you reckon me or my mother among such people. We are +very poor, but for my own part at any rate, for the very reason that +your father is rich, I don't regard myself as a relation of his, and +neither I nor my mother would ever ask or take anything from him." + +For a long time Pierre could not understand, but when he did, he jumped +up from the sofa, seized Boris under the elbow in his quick, clumsy +way, and, blushing far more than Boris, began to speak with a feeling +of mingled shame and vexation. + +"Well, this is strange! Do you suppose I... who could think?... I know +very well..." + +But Boris again interrupted him. + +"I am glad I have spoken out fully. Perhaps you did not like it? You +must excuse me," said he, putting Pierre at ease instead of being put +at ease by him, "but I hope I have not offended you. I always make it +a rule to speak out... Well, what answer am I to take? Will you come to +dinner at the Rostovs'?" + +And Boris, having apparently relieved himself of an onerous duty and +extricated himself from an awkward situation and placed another in it, +became quite pleasant again. + +"No, but I say," said Pierre, calming down, "you are a wonderful +fellow! What you have just said is good, very good. Of course you +don't know me. We have not met for such a long time... not since we +were children. You might think that I... I understand, quite understand. +I could not have done it myself, I should not have had the courage, but +it's splendid. I am very glad to have made your acquaintance. It's +queer," he added after a pause, "that you should have suspected +me!" He began to laugh. "Well, what of it! I hope we'll get better +acquainted," and he pressed Boris' hand. "Do you know, I have not +once been in to see the count. He has not sent for me.... I am sorry for +him as a man, but what can one do?" + +"And so you think Napoleon will manage to get an army across?" asked +Boris with a smile. + +Pierre saw that Boris wished to change the subject, and being of the +same mind he began explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the +Boulogne expedition. + +A footman came in to summon Boris--the princess was going. Pierre, in +order to make Boris' better acquaintance, promised to come to dinner, +and warmly pressing his hand looked affectionately over his spectacles +into Boris' eyes. After he had gone Pierre continued pacing up and +down the room for a long time, no longer piercing an imaginary foe with +his imaginary sword, but smiling at the remembrance of that pleasant, +intelligent, and resolute young man. + +As often happens in early youth, especially to one who leads a lonely +life, he felt an unaccountable tenderness for this young man and made up +his mind that they would be friends. + +Prince Vasili saw the princess off. She held a handkerchief to her eyes +and her face was tearful. + +"It is dreadful, dreadful!" she was saying, "but cost me what it +may I shall do my duty. I will come and spend the night. He must not be +left like this. Every moment is precious. I can't think why his nieces +put it off. Perhaps God will help me to find a way to prepare him!... +Adieu, Prince! May God support you..." + +"Adieu, ma bonne," answered Prince Vasili turning away from her. + +"Oh, he is in a dreadful state," said the mother to her son when +they were in the carriage. "He hardly recognizes anybody." + +"I don't understand, Mamma--what is his attitude to Pierre?" +asked the son. + +"The will will show that, my dear; our fate also depends on it." + +"But why do you expect that he will leave us anything?" + +"Ah, my dear! He is so rich, and we are so poor!" + +"Well, that is hardly a sufficient reason, Mamma..." + +"Oh, Heaven! How ill he is!" exclaimed the mother. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVII + +After Anna Mikhaylovna had driven off with her son to visit Count Cyril +Vladimirovich Bezukhov, Countess Rostova sat for a long time all +alone applying her handkerchief to her eyes. At last she rang. + +"What is the matter with you, my dear?" she said crossly to the maid +who kept her waiting some minutes. "Don't you wish to serve me? Then +I'll find you another place." + +The countess was upset by her friend's sorrow and humiliating poverty, +and was therefore out of sorts, a state of mind which with her always +found expression in calling her maid "my dear" and speaking to her +with exaggerated politeness. + +"I am very sorry, ma'am," answered the maid. + +"Ask the count to come to me." + +The count came waddling in to see his wife with a rather guilty look as +usual. + +"Well, little countess? What a saute of game au madere we are to +have, my dear! I tasted it. The thousand rubles I paid for Taras were +not ill-spent. He is worth it!" + +He sat down by his wife, his elbows on his knees and his hands ruffling +his gray hair. + +"What are your commands, little countess?" + +"You see, my dear... What's that mess?" she said, pointing to his +waistcoat. "It's the saute, most likely," she added with a smile. +"Well, you see, Count, I want some money." + +Her face became sad. + +"Oh, little countess!" ... and the count began bustling to get out +his pocketbook. + +"I want a great deal, Count! I want five hundred rubles," and taking +out her cambric handkerchief she began wiping her husband's waistcoat. + +"Yes, immediately, immediately! Hey, who's there?" he called out +in a tone only used by persons who are certain that those they call will +rush to obey the summons. "Send Dmitri to me!" + +Dmitri, a man of good family who had been brought up in the count's +house and now managed all his affairs, stepped softly into the room. + +"This is what I want, my dear fellow," said the count to the +deferential young man who had entered. "Bring me..." he reflected +a moment, "yes, bring me seven hundred rubles, yes! But mind, don't +bring me such tattered and dirty notes as last time, but nice clean ones +for the countess." + +"Yes, Dmitri, clean ones, please," said the countess, sighing +deeply. + +"When would you like them, your excellency?" asked Dmitri. "Allow +me to inform you... But, don't be uneasy," he added, noticing that +the count was beginning to breathe heavily and quickly which was always +a sign of approaching anger. "I was forgetting... Do you wish it +brought at once?" + +"Yes, yes; just so! Bring it. Give it to the countess." + +"What a treasure that Dmitri is," added the count with a smile when +the young man had departed. "There is never any 'impossible' with +him. That's a thing I hate! Everything is possible." + +"Ah, money, Count, money! How much sorrow it causes in the world," +said the countess. "But I am in great need of this sum." + +"You, my little countess, are a notorious spendthrift," said the +count, and having kissed his wife's hand he went back to his study. + +When Anna Mikhaylovna returned from Count Bezukhov's the money, all +in clean notes, was lying ready under a handkerchief on the countess' +little table, and Anna Mikhaylovna noticed that something was agitating +her. + +"Well, my dear?" asked the countess. + +"Oh, what a terrible state he is in! One would not know him, he is so +ill! I was only there a few moments and hardly said a word..." + +"Annette, for heaven's sake don't refuse me," the countess +began, with a blush that looked very strange on her thin, dignified, +elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief. + +Anna Mikhaylovna instantly guessed her intention and stooped to be +ready to embrace the countess at the appropriate moment. + +"This is for Boris from me, for his outfit." + +Anna Mikhaylovna was already embracing her and weeping. The countess +wept too. They wept because they were friends, and because they were +kindhearted, and because they--friends from childhood--had to think +about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over.... +But those tears were pleasant to them both. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVIII + +Countess Rostova, with her daughters and a large number of guests, was +already seated in the drawing room. The count took the gentlemen into +his study and showed them his choice collection of Turkish pipes. From +time to time he went out to ask: "Hasn't she come yet?" They +were expecting Marya Dmitrievna Akhrosimova, known in society as le +terrible dragon, a lady distinguished not for wealth or rank, but for +common sense and frank plainness of speech. Marya Dmitrievna was known +to the Imperial family as well as to all Moscow and Petersburg, and both +cities wondered at her, laughed privately at her rudenesses, and told +good stories about her, while none the less all without exception +respected and feared her. + +In the count's room, which was full of tobacco smoke, they talked +of the war that had been announced in a manifesto, and about the +recruiting. None of them had yet seen the manifesto, but they all knew +it had appeared. The count sat on the sofa between two guests who were +smoking and talking. He neither smoked nor talked, but bending his head +first to one side and then to the other watched the smokers with evident +pleasure and listened to the conversation of his two neighbors, whom he +egged on against each other. + +One of them was a sallow, clean-shaven civilian with a thin and wrinkled +face, already growing old, though he was dressed like a most fashionable +young man. He sat with his legs up on the sofa as if quite at home and, +having stuck an amber mouthpiece far into his mouth, was inhaling the +smoke spasmodically and screwing up his eyes. This was an old bachelor, +Shinshin, a cousin of the countess', a man with "a sharp tongue" +as they said in Moscow society. He seemed to be condescending to +his companion. The latter, a fresh, rosy officer of the Guards, +irreproachably washed, brushed, and buttoned, held his pipe in the +middle of his mouth and with red lips gently inhaled the smoke, letting +it escape from his handsome mouth in rings. This was Lieutenant Berg, an +officer in the Semenov regiment with whom Boris was to travel to join +the army, and about whom Natasha had teased her elder sister Vera, +speaking of Berg as her "intended." The count sat between them and +listened attentively. His favorite occupation when not playing boston, a +card game he was very fond of, was that of listener, especially when he +succeeded in setting two loquacious talkers at one another. + +"Well, then, old chap, mon tres honorable Alphonse Karlovich," +said Shinshin, laughing ironically and mixing the most ordinary Russian +expressions with the choicest French phrases--which was a peculiarity +of his speech. "Vous comptez vous faire des rentes sur l'etat; * +you want to make something out of your company?" + + * You expect to make an income out of the government. + +"No, Peter Nikolaevich; I only want to show that in the cavalry +the advantages are far less than in the infantry. Just consider my own +position now, Peter Nikolaevich..." + +Berg always spoke quietly, politely, and with great precision. His +conversation always related entirely to himself; he would remain calm +and silent when the talk related to any topic that had no direct bearing +on himself. He could remain silent for hours without being at all put +out of countenance himself or making others uncomfortable, but as +soon as the conversation concerned himself he would begin to talk +circumstantially and with evident satisfaction. + +"Consider my position, Peter Nikolaevich. Were I in the cavalry I +should get not more than two hundred rubles every four months, even +with the rank of lieutenant; but as it is I receive two hundred and +thirty," said he, looking at Shinshin and the count with a joyful, +pleasant smile, as if it were obvious to him that his success must +always be the chief desire of everyone else. + +"Besides that, Peter Nikolaevich, by exchanging into the Guards +I shall be in a more prominent position," continued Berg, "and +vacancies occur much more frequently in the Foot Guards. Then just think +what can be done with two hundred and thirty rubles! I even manage to +put a little aside and to send something to my father," he went on, +emitting a smoke ring. + +"La balance y est... * A German knows how to skin a flint, as the +proverb says," remarked Shinshin, moving his pipe to the other side +of his mouth and winking at the count. + + * So that squares matters. + +The count burst out laughing. The other guests seeing that Shinshin +was talking came up to listen. Berg, oblivious of irony or indifference, +continued to explain how by exchanging into the Guards he had already +gained a step on his old comrades of the Cadet Corps; how in wartime +the company commander might get killed and he, as senior in the company, +might easily succeed to the post; how popular he was with everyone in +the regiment, and how satisfied his father was with him. Berg evidently +enjoyed narrating all this, and did not seem to suspect that others, +too, might have their own interests. But all he said was so prettily +sedate, and the naivete of his youthful egotism was so obvious, that +he disarmed his hearers. + +"Well, my boy, you'll get along wherever you go--foot or +horse--that I'll warrant," said Shinshin, patting him on the +shoulder and taking his feet off the sofa. + +Berg smiled joyously. The count, followed by his guests, went into the +drawing room. + +It was just the moment before a big dinner when the assembled guests, +expecting the summons to zakuska, * avoid engaging in any long +conversation but think it necessary to move about and talk, in order +to show that they are not at all impatient for their food. The host and +hostess look toward the door, and now and then glance at one another, +and the visitors try to guess from these glances who, or what, they are +waiting for--some important relation who has not yet arrived, or a dish +that is not yet ready. + + * Hors d'oeuvres. + +Pierre had come just at dinnertime and was sitting awkwardly in the +middle of the drawing room on the first chair he had come across, +blocking the way for everyone. The countess tried to make him talk, +but he went on naively looking around through his spectacles as if in +search of somebody and answered all her questions in monosyllables. He +was in the way and was the only one who did not notice the fact. Most of +the guests, knowing of the affair with the bear, looked with curiosity +at this big, stout, quiet man, wondering how such a clumsy, modest +fellow could have played such a prank on a policeman. + +"You have only lately arrived?" the countess asked him. + +"Oui, madame," replied he, looking around him. + +"You have not yet seen my husband?" + +"Non, madame." He smiled quite inappropriately. + +"You have been in Paris recently, I believe? I suppose it's very +interesting." + +"Very interesting." + +The countess exchanged glances with Anna Mikhaylovna. The latter +understood that she was being asked to entertain this young man, and +sitting down beside him she began to speak about his father; but he +answered her, as he had the countess, only in monosyllables. The other +guests were all conversing with one another. "The Razumovskis... It +was charming... You are very kind... Countess Apraksina..." was heard +on all sides. The countess rose and went into the ballroom. + +"Marya Dmitrievna?" came her voice from there. + +"Herself," came the answer in a rough voice, and Marya Dmitrievna +entered the room. + +All the unmarried ladies and even the married ones except the very +oldest rose. Marya Dmitrievna paused at the door. Tall and stout, +holding high her fifty-year-old head with its gray curls, she stood +surveying the guests, and leisurely arranged her wide sleeves as if +rolling them up. Marya Dmitrievna always spoke in Russian. + +"Health and happiness to her whose name day we are keeping and to her +children," she said, in her loud, full-toned voice which drowned all +others. "Well, you old sinner," she went on, turning to the count +who was kissing her hand, "you're feeling dull in Moscow, I daresay? +Nowhere to hunt with your dogs? But what is to be done, old man? Just +see how these nestlings are growing up," and she pointed to the girls. +"You must look for husbands for them whether you like it or not...." + +"Well," said she, "how's my Cossack?" (Marya Dmitrievna +always called Natasha a Cossack) and she stroked the child's arm as +she came up fearless and gay to kiss her hand. "I know she's a scamp +of a girl, but I like her." + +She took a pair of pear-shaped ruby earrings from her huge reticule and, +having given them to the rosy Natasha, who beamed with the pleasure +of her saint's-day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to +Pierre. + +"Eh, eh, friend! Come here a bit," said she, assuming a soft high +tone of voice. "Come here, my friend..." and she ominously tucked +up her sleeves still higher. Pierre approached, looking at her in a +childlike way through his spectacles. + +"Come nearer, come nearer, friend! I used to be the only one to tell +your father the truth when he was in favor, and in your case it's my +evident duty." She paused. All were silent, expectant of what was to +follow, for this was clearly only a prelude. + +"A fine lad! My word! A fine lad!... His father lies on his deathbed +and he amuses himself setting a policeman astride a bear! For shame, +sir, for shame! It would be better if you went to the war." + +She turned away and gave her hand to the count, who could hardly keep +from laughing. + +"Well, I suppose it is time we were at table?" said Marya +Dmitrievna. + +The count went in first with Marya Dmitrievna, the countess followed +on the arm of a colonel of hussars, a man of importance to them because +Nicholas was to go with him to the regiment; then came Anna Mikhaylovna +with Shinshin. Berg gave his arm to Vera. The smiling Julie Karagina +went in with Nicholas. After them other couples followed, filling the +whole dining hall, and last of all the children, tutors, and governesses +followed singly. The footmen began moving about, chairs scraped, the +band struck up in the gallery, and the guests settled down in their +places. Then the strains of the count's household band were replaced +by the clatter of knives and forks, the voices of visitors, and the +soft steps of the footmen. At one end of the table sat the countess with +Marya Dmitrievna on her right and Anna Mikhaylovna on her left, the +other lady visitors were farther down. At the other end sat the count, +with the hussar colonel on his left and Shinshin and the other male +visitors on his right. Midway down the long table on one side sat the +grown-up young people: Vera beside Berg, and Pierre beside Boris; and +on the other side, the children, tutors, and governesses. From behind +the crystal decanters and fruit vases, the count kept glancing at his +wife and her tall cap with its light-blue ribbons, and busily filled +his neighbors' glasses, not neglecting his own. The countess in turn, +without omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from +behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed +by their redness to contrast more than usual with his gray hair. At the +ladies' end an even chatter of voices was heard all the time, at the +men's end the voices sounded louder and louder, especially that of the +colonel of hussars who, growing more and more flushed, ate and drank so +much that the count held him up as a pattern to the other guests. Berg +with tender smiles was saying to Vera that love is not an earthly but +a heavenly feeling. Boris was telling his new friend Pierre who the +guests were and exchanging glances with Natasha, who was sitting +opposite. Pierre spoke little but examined the new faces, and ate a +great deal. Of the two soups he chose turtle with savory patties and +went on to the game without omitting a single dish or one of the wines. +These latter the butler thrust mysteriously forward, wrapped in a +napkin, from behind the next man's shoulders and whispered: "Dry +Madeira"... "Hungarian"... or "Rhine wine" as the case might +be. Of the four crystal glasses engraved with the count's monogram +that stood before his plate, Pierre held out one at random and drank +with enjoyment, gazing with ever-increasing amiability at the other +guests. Natasha, who sat opposite, was looking at Boris as girls of +thirteen look at the boy they are in love with and have just kissed for +the first time. Sometimes that same look fell on Pierre, and that funny +lively little girl's look made him inclined to laugh without knowing +why. + +Nicholas sat at some distance from Sonya, beside Julie Karagina, to +whom he was again talking with the same involuntary smile. Sonya wore +a company smile but was evidently tormented by jealousy; now she turned +pale, now blushed and strained every nerve to overhear what Nicholas +and Julie were saying to one another. The governess kept looking round +uneasily as if preparing to resent any slight that might be put upon the +children. The German tutor was trying to remember all the dishes, wines, +and kinds of dessert, in order to send a full description of the dinner +to his people in Germany; and he felt greatly offended when the butler +with a bottle wrapped in a napkin passed him by. He frowned, trying to +appear as if he did not want any of that wine, but was mortified because +no one would understand that it was not to quench his thirst or from +greediness that he wanted it, but simply from a conscientious desire for +knowledge. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIX + +At the men's end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. +The colonel told them that the declaration of war had already appeared +in Petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day +been forwarded by courier to the commander in chief. + +"And why the deuce are we going to fight Bonaparte?" remarked +Shinshin. "He has stopped Austria's cackle and I fear it will be +our turn next." + +The colonel was a stout, tall, plethoric German, evidently devoted to +the service and patriotically Russian. He resented Shinshin's remark. + +"It is for the reasson, my goot sir," said he, speaking with a +German accent, "for the reasson zat ze Emperor knows zat. He +declares in ze manifessto zat he cannot fiew wiz indifference ze danger +vreatening Russia and zat ze safety and dignity of ze Empire as vell +as ze sanctity of its alliances..." he spoke this last word with +particular emphasis as if in it lay the gist of the matter. + +Then with the unerring official memory that characterized him he +repeated from the opening words of the manifesto: + +... and the wish, which constitutes the Emperor's sole and absolute +aim--to establish peace in Europe on firm foundations--has now decided +him to despatch part of the army abroad and to create a new condition +for the attainment of that purpose. + +"Zat, my dear sir, is vy..." he concluded, drinking a tumbler of +wine with dignity and looking to the count for approval. + +"Connaissez-vous le Proverbe:* 'Jerome, Jerome, do not roam, but +turn spindles at home!'?" said Shinshin, puckering his brows and +smiling. "Cela nous convient a merveille.*(2) Suvorov now--he knew +what he was about; yet they beat him a plate couture,*(3) and where +are we to find Suvorovs now? Je vous demande un peu," *(4) said he, +continually changing from French to Russian. + + *Do you know the proverb? + + *(2) That suits us down to the ground. + + *(3) Hollow. + + *(4) I just ask you that. + +"Ve must vight to the last tr-r-op of our plood!" said the colonel, +thumping the table; "and ve must tie for our Emperor, and zen all vill +pe vell. And ve must discuss it as little as po-o-ossible"... he dwelt +particularly on the word possible... "as po-o-ossible," he ended, +again turning to the count. "Zat is how ve old hussars look at it, and +zere's an end of it! And how do you, a young man and a young hussar, +how do you judge of it?" he added, addressing Nicholas, who when he +heard that the war was being discussed had turned from his partner with +eyes and ears intent on the colonel. + +"I am quite of your opinion," replied Nicholas, flaming up, turning +his plate round and moving his wineglasses about with as much decision +and desperation as though he were at that moment facing some great +danger. "I am convinced that we Russians must die or conquer," he +concluded, conscious--as were others--after the words were uttered +that his remarks were too enthusiastic and emphatic for the occasion and +were therefore awkward. + +"What you said just now was splendid!" said his partner Julie. + +Sonya trembled all over and blushed to her ears and behind them and +down to her neck and shoulders while Nicholas was speaking. + +Pierre listened to the colonel's speech and nodded approvingly. + +"That's fine," said he. + +"The young man's a real hussar!" shouted the colonel, again +thumping the table. + +"What are you making such a noise about over there?" Marya +Dmitrievna's deep voice suddenly inquired from the other end of the +table. "What are you thumping the table for?" she demanded of the +hussar, "and why are you exciting yourself? Do you think the French +are here?" + +"I am speaking ze truce," replied the hussar with a smile. + +"It's all about the war," the count shouted down the table. "You +know my son's going, Marya Dmitrievna? My son is going." + +"I have four sons in the army but still I don't fret. It is all +in God's hands. You may die in your bed or God may spare you in a +battle," replied Marya Dmitrievna's deep voice, which easily +carried the whole length of the table. + +"That's true!" + +Once more the conversations concentrated, the ladies' at the one end +and the men's at the other. + +"You won't ask," Natasha's little brother was saying; "I know +you won't ask!" + +"I will," replied Natasha. + +Her face suddenly flushed with reckless and joyous resolution. She half +rose, by a glance inviting Pierre, who sat opposite, to listen to what +was coming, and turning to her mother: + +"Mamma!" rang out the clear contralto notes of her childish voice, +audible the whole length of the table. + +"What is it?" asked the countess, startled; but seeing by her +daughter's face that it was only mischief, she shook a finger at her +sternly with a threatening and forbidding movement of her head. + +The conversation was hushed. + +"Mamma! What sweets are we going to have?" and Natasha's voice +sounded still more firm and resolute. + +The countess tried to frown, but could not. Marya Dmitrievna shook her +fat finger. + +"Cossack!" she said threateningly. + +Most of the guests, uncertain how to regard this sally, looked at the +elders. + +"You had better take care!" said the countess. + +"Mamma! What sweets are we going to have?" Natasha again cried +boldly, with saucy gaiety, confident that her prank would be taken in +good part. + +Sonya and fat little Petya doubled up with laughter. + +"You see! I have asked," whispered Natasha to her little brother +and to Pierre, glancing at him again. + +"Ice pudding, but you won't get any," said Marya Dmitrievna. + +Natasha saw there was nothing to be afraid of and so she braved even +Marya Dmitrievna. + +"Marya Dmitrievna! What kind of ice pudding? I don't like ice +cream." + +"Carrot ices." + +"No! What kind, Marya Dmitrievna? What kind?" she almost screamed; +"I want to know!" + +Marya Dmitrievna and the countess burst out laughing, and all the +guests joined in. Everyone laughed, not at Marya Dmitrievna's answer +but at the incredible boldness and smartness of this little girl who had +dared to treat Marya Dmitrievna in this fashion. + +Natasha only desisted when she had been told that there would be +pineapple ice. Before the ices, champagne was served round. The band +again struck up, the count and countess kissed, and the guests, leaving +their seats, went up to "congratulate" the countess, and reached +across the table to clink glasses with the count, with the children, and +with one another. Again the footmen rushed about, chairs scraped, and +in the same order in which they had entered but with redder faces, the +guests returned to the drawing room and to the count's study. + + + + + +CHAPTER XX + +The card tables were drawn out, sets made up for boston, and the +count's visitors settled themselves, some in the two drawing rooms, +some in the sitting room, some in the library. + +The count, holding his cards fanwise, kept himself with difficulty from +dropping into his usual after-dinner nap, and laughed at everything. +The young people, at the countess' instigation, gathered round the +clavichord and harp. Julie by general request played first. After she +had played a little air with variations on the harp, she joined the +other young ladies in begging Natasha and Nicholas, who were noted for +their musical talent, to sing something. Natasha, who was treated as +though she were grown up, was evidently very proud of this but at the +same time felt shy. + +"What shall we sing?" she said. + +"'The Brook,'" suggested Nicholas. + +"Well, then, let's be quick. Boris, come here," said Natasha. +"But where is Sonya?" + +She looked round and seeing that her friend was not in the room ran to +look for her. + +Running into Sonya's room and not finding her there, Natasha ran to +the nursery, but Sonya was not there either. Natasha concluded that +she must be on the chest in the passage. The chest in the passage was +the place of mourning for the younger female generation in the Rostov +household. And there in fact was Sonya lying face downward on Nurse's +dirty feather bed on the top of the chest, crumpling her gauzy pink +dress under her, hiding her face with her slender fingers, and sobbing +so convulsively that her bare little shoulders shook. Natasha's +face, which had been so radiantly happy all that saint's day, suddenly +changed: her eyes became fixed, and then a shiver passed down her broad +neck and the corners of her mouth drooped. + +"Sonya! What is it? What is the matter?... Oo... Oo... Oo...!" And +Natasha's large mouth widened, making her look quite ugly, and she +began to wail like a baby without knowing why, except that Sonya was +crying. Sonya tried to lift her head to answer but could not, and +hid her face still deeper in the bed. Natasha wept, sitting on the +blue-striped feather bed and hugging her friend. With an effort Sonya +sat up and began wiping her eyes and explaining. + +"Nicholas is going away in a week's time, his... papers... have +come... he told me himself... but still I should not cry," and she +showed a paper she held in her hand--with the verses Nicholas had +written, "still, I should not cry, but you can't... no one can +understand... what a soul he has!" + +And she began to cry again because he had such a noble soul. + +"It's all very well for you... I am not envious... I love you and +Boris also," she went on, gaining a little strength; "he is nice... +there are no difficulties in your way.... But Nicholas is my cousin... +one would have to... the Metropolitan himself... and even then it +can't be done. And besides, if she tells Mamma" (Sonya looked upon +the countess as her mother and called her so) "that I am spoiling +Nicholas' career and am heartless and ungrateful, while truly... God +is my witness," and she made the sign of the cross, "I love her so +much, and all of you, only Vera... And what for? What have I done +to her? I am so grateful to you that I would willingly sacrifice +everything, only I have nothing...." + +Sonya could not continue, and again hid her face in her hands and in +the feather bed. Natasha began consoling her, but her face showed that +she understood all the gravity of her friend's trouble. + +"Sonya," she suddenly exclaimed, as if she had guessed the true +reason of her friend's sorrow, "I'm sure Vera has said something +to you since dinner? Hasn't she?" + +"Yes, these verses Nicholas wrote himself and I copied some others, +and she found them on my table and said she'd show them to Mamma, and +that I was ungrateful, and that Mamma would never allow him to marry +me, but that he'll marry Julie. You see how he's been with her all +day... Natasha, what have I done to deserve it?..." + +And again she began to sob, more bitterly than before. Natasha lifted +her up, hugged her, and, smiling through her tears, began comforting +her. + +"Sonya, don't believe her, darling! Don't believe her! Do you +remember how we and Nicholas, all three of us, talked in the sitting +room after supper? Why, we settled how everything was to be. I don't +quite remember how, but don't you remember that it could all be +arranged and how nice it all was? There's Uncle Shinshin's brother +has married his first cousin. And we are only second cousins, you know. +And Boris says it is quite possible. You know I have told him all about +it. And he is so clever and so good!" said Natasha. "Don't +you cry, Sonya, dear love, darling Sonya!" and she kissed her and +laughed. "Vera's spiteful; never mind her! And all will come right +and she won't say anything to Mamma. Nicholas will tell her himself, +and he doesn't care at all for Julie." + +Natasha kissed her on the hair. + +Sonya sat up. The little kitten brightened, its eyes shone, and it +seemed ready to lift its tail, jump down on its soft paws, and begin +playing with the ball of worsted as a kitten should. + +"Do you think so?... Really? Truly?" she said, quickly smoothing her +frock and hair. + +"Really, truly!" answered Natasha, pushing in a crisp lock that had +strayed from under her friend's plaits. + +Both laughed. + +"Well, let's go and sing 'The Brook.'" + +"Come along!" + +"Do you know, that fat Pierre who sat opposite me is so funny!" said +Natasha, stopping suddenly. "I feel so happy!" + +And she set off at a run along the passage. + +Sonya, shaking off some down which clung to her and tucking away the +verses in the bosom of her dress close to her bony little chest, ran +after Natasha down the passage into the sitting room with flushed face +and light, joyous steps. At the visitors' request the young people +sang the quartette, "The Brook," with which everyone was delighted. +Then Nicholas sang a song he had just learned: + + At nighttime in the moon's fair glow + How sweet, as fancies wander free, + To feel that in this world there's one + Who still is thinking but of thee! + + That while her fingers touch the harp + Wafting sweet music o'er the lea, + It is for thee thus swells her heart, + Sighing its message out to thee... + + A day or two, then bliss unspoilt, + But oh! till then I cannot live!... + +He had not finished the last verse before the young people began to +get ready to dance in the large hall, and the sound of the feet and the +coughing of the musicians were heard from the gallery. + + +Pierre was sitting in the drawing room where Shinshin had engaged him, +as a man recently returned from abroad, in a political conversation in +which several others joined but which bored Pierre. When the music began +Natasha came in and walking straight up to Pierre said, laughing and +blushing: + +"Mamma told me to ask you to join the dancers." + +"I am afraid of mixing the figures," Pierre replied; "but if you +will be my teacher..." And lowering his big arm he offered it to the +slender little girl. + +While the couples were arranging themselves and the musicians tuning up, +Pierre sat down with his little partner. Natasha was perfectly happy; +she was dancing with a grown-up man, who had been abroad. She was +sitting in a conspicuous place and talking to him like a grown-up lady. +She had a fan in her hand that one of the ladies had given her to hold. +Assuming quite the pose of a society woman (heaven knows when and where +she had learned it) she talked with her partner, fanning herself and +smiling over the fan. + +"Dear, dear! Just look at her!" exclaimed the countess as she +crossed the ballroom, pointing to Natasha. + +Natasha blushed and laughed. + +"Well, really, Mamma! Why should you? What is there to be surprised +at?" + + +In the midst of the third ecossaise there was a clatter of chairs being +pushed back in the sitting room where the count and Marya Dmitrievna +had been playing cards with the majority of the more distinguished and +older visitors. They now, stretching themselves after sitting so long, +and replacing their purses and pocketbooks, entered the ballroom. First +came Marya Dmitrievna and the count, both with merry countenances. The +count, with playful ceremony somewhat in ballet style, offered his +bent arm to Marya Dmitrievna. He drew himself up, a smile of debonair +gallantry lit up his face and as soon as the last figure of the +ecossaise was ended, he clapped his hands to the musicians and shouted +up to their gallery, addressing the first violin: + +"Semen! Do you know the Daniel Cooper?" + +This was the count's favorite dance, which he had danced in his youth. +(Strictly speaking, Daniel Cooper was one figure of the anglaise.) + +"Look at Papa!" shouted Natasha to the whole company, and quite +forgetting that she was dancing with a grown-up partner she bent her +curly head to her knees and made the whole room ring with her laughter. + +And indeed everybody in the room looked with a smile of pleasure at the +jovial old gentleman, who standing beside his tall and stout partner, +Marya Dmitrievna, curved his arms, beat time, straightened his +shoulders, turned out his toes, tapped gently with his foot, and, by +a smile that broadened his round face more and more, prepared the +onlookers for what was to follow. As soon as the provocatively gay +strains of Daniel Cooper (somewhat resembling those of a merry peasant +dance) began to sound, all the doorways of the ballroom were suddenly +filled by the domestic serfs--the men on one side and the women on +the other--who with beaming faces had come to see their master making +merry. + +"Just look at the master! A regular eagle he is!" loudly remarked +the nurse, as she stood in one of the doorways. + +The count danced well and knew it. But his partner could not and did not +want to dance well. Her enormous figure stood erect, her powerful arms +hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her +stern but handsome face really joined in the dance. What was expressed +by the whole of the count's plump figure, in Marya Dmitrievna found +expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose. +But if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed +the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and +the agility with which he capered about on his light feet, Marya +Dmitrievna produced no less impression by slight exertions--the least +effort to move her shoulders or bend her arms when turning, or stamp +her foot--which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual +severity. The dance grew livelier and livelier. The other couples could +not attract a moment's attention to their own evolutions and did not +even try to do so. All were watching the count and Marya Dmitrievna. +Natasha kept pulling everyone by sleeve or dress, urging them to +"look at Papa!" though as it was they never took their eyes off the +couple. In the intervals of the dance the count, breathing deeply, waved +and shouted to the musicians to play faster. Faster, faster, and faster; +lightly, more lightly, and yet more lightly whirled the count, flying +round Marya Dmitrievna, now on his toes, now on his heels; until, +turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, +raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspiring head, smiling +and making a wide sweep with his arm, amid a thunder of applause and +laughter led by Natasha. Both partners stood still, breathing heavily +and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs. + +"That's how we used to dance in our time, ma chere," said the +count. + +"That was a Daniel Cooper!" exclaimed Marya Dmitrievna, tucking up +her sleeves and puffing heavily. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXI + +While in the Rostovs' ballroom the sixth anglaise was being danced, +to a tune in which the weary musicians blundered, and while tired +footmen and cooks were getting the supper, Count Bezukhov had a +sixth stroke. The doctors pronounced recovery impossible. After a mute +confession, communion was administered to the dying man, preparations +made for the sacrament of unction, and in his house there was the bustle +and thrill of suspense usual at such moments. Outside the house, beyond +the gates, a group of undertakers, who hid whenever a carriage drove up, +waited in expectation of an important order for an expensive funeral. +The Military Governor of Moscow, who had been assiduous in sending +aides-de-camp to inquire after the count's health, came himself +that evening to bid a last farewell to the celebrated grandee of +Catherine's court, Count Bezukhov. + +The magnificent reception room was crowded. Everyone stood up +respectfully when the Military Governor, having stayed about half an +hour alone with the dying man, passed out, slightly acknowledging their +bows and trying to escape as quickly as possible from the glances fixed +on him by the doctors, clergy, and relatives of the family. Prince +Vasili, who had grown thinner and paler during the last few days, +escorted him to the door, repeating something to him several times in +low tones. + +When the Military Governor had gone, Prince Vasili sat down all alone +on a chair in the ballroom, crossing one leg high over the other, +leaning his elbow on his knee and covering his face with his hand. After +sitting so for a while he rose, and, looking about him with frightened +eyes, went with unusually hurried steps down the long corridor leading +to the back of the house, to the room of the eldest princess. + +Those who were in the dimly lit reception room spoke in nervous +whispers, and, whenever anyone went into or came from the dying man's +room, grew silent and gazed with eyes full of curiosity or expectancy at +his door, which creaked slightly when opened. + +"The limits of human life ... are fixed and may not be +o'erpassed," said an old priest to a lady who had taken a seat +beside him and was listening naively to his words. + +"I wonder, is it not too late to administer unction?" asked the +lady, adding the priest's clerical title, as if she had no opinion of +her own on the subject. + +"Ah, madam, it is a great sacrament," replied the priest, passing +his hand over the thin grizzled strands of hair combed back across his +bald head. + +"Who was that? The Military Governor himself?" was being asked at +the other side of the room. "How young-looking he is!" + +"Yes, and he is over sixty. I hear the count no longer recognizes +anyone. They wished to administer the sacrament of unction." + +"I knew someone who received that sacrament seven times." + +The second princess had just come from the sickroom with her eyes red +from weeping and sat down beside Dr. Lorrain, who was sitting in a +graceful pose under a portrait of Catherine, leaning his elbow on a +table. + +"Beautiful," said the doctor in answer to a remark about the +weather. "The weather is beautiful, Princess; and besides, in Moscow +one feels as if one were in the country." + +"Yes, indeed," replied the princess with a sigh. "So he may have +something to drink?" + +Lorrain considered. + +"Has he taken his medicine?" + +"Yes." + +The doctor glanced at his watch. + +"Take a glass of boiled water and put a pinch of cream of tartar," +and he indicated with his delicate fingers what he meant by a pinch. + +"Dere has neffer been a gase," a German doctor was saying to an +aide-de-camp, "dat one liffs after de sird stroke." + +"And what a well-preserved man he was!" remarked the aide-de-camp. +"And who will inherit his wealth?" he added in a whisper. + +"It von't go begging," replied the German with a smile. + +Everyone again looked toward the door, which creaked as the second +princess went in with the drink she had prepared according to +Lorrain's instructions. The German doctor went up to Lorrain. + +"Do you think he can last till morning?" asked the German, +addressing Lorrain in French which he pronounced badly. + +Lorrain, pursing up his lips, waved a severely negative finger before +his nose. + +"Tonight, not later," said he in a low voice, and he moved away +with a decorous smile of self-satisfaction at being able clearly to +understand and state the patient's condition. + +Meanwhile Prince Vasili had opened the door into the princess' room. + +In this room it was almost dark; only two tiny lamps were burning before +the icons and there was a pleasant scent of flowers and burnt pastilles. +The room was crowded with small pieces of furniture, whatnots, +cupboards, and little tables. The quilt of a high, white feather bed was +just visible behind a screen. A small dog began to bark. + +"Ah, is it you, cousin?" + +She rose and smoothed her hair, which was as usual so extremely smooth +that it seemed to be made of one piece with her head and covered with +varnish. + +"Has anything happened?" she asked. "I am so terrified." + +"No, there is no change. I only came to have a talk about business, +Catiche," * muttered the prince, seating himself wearily on the chair +she had just vacated. "You have made the place warm, I must say," he +remarked. "Well, sit down: let's have a talk." + + *Catherine. + +"I thought perhaps something had happened," she said with her +unchanging stonily severe expression; and, sitting down opposite the +prince, she prepared to listen. + +"I wished to get a nap, mon cousin, but I can't." + +"Well, my dear?" said Prince Vasili, taking her hand and bending it +downwards as was his habit. + +It was plain that this "well?" referred to much that they both +understood without naming. + +The princess, who had a straight, rigid body, abnormally long for her +legs, looked directly at Prince Vasili with no sign of emotion in her +prominent gray eyes. Then she shook her head and glanced up at the icons +with a sigh. This might have been taken as an expression of sorrow +and devotion, or of weariness and hope of resting before long. Prince +Vasili understood it as an expression of weariness. + +"And I?" he said; "do you think it is easier for me? I am as worn +out as a post horse, but still I must have a talk with you, Catiche, a +very serious talk." + +Prince Vasili said no more and his cheeks began to twitch nervously, +now on one side, now on the other, giving his face an unpleasant +expression which was never to be seen on it in a drawing room. His eyes +too seemed strange; at one moment they looked impudently sly and at the +next glanced round in alarm. + +The princess, holding her little dog on her lap with her thin bony +hands, looked attentively into Prince Vasili's eyes evidently +resolved not to be the first to break silence, if she had to wait till +morning. + +"Well, you see, my dear princess and cousin, Catherine Semenovna," +continued Prince Vasili, returning to his theme, apparently not +without an inner struggle; "at such a moment as this one must think +of everything. One must think of the future, of all of you... I love you +all, like children of my own, as you know." + +The princess continued to look at him without moving, and with the same +dull expression. + +"And then of course my family has also to be considered," Prince +Vasili went on, testily pushing away a little table without looking at +her. "You know, Catiche, that we--you three sisters, Mamontov, and +my wife--are the count's only direct heirs. I know, I know how hard +it is for you to talk or think of such matters. It is no easier for +me; but, my dear, I am getting on for sixty and must be prepared for +anything. Do you know I have sent for Pierre? The count," pointing to +his portrait, "definitely demanded that he should be called." + +Prince Vasili looked questioningly at the princess, but could not make +out whether she was considering what he had just said or whether she was +simply looking at him. + +"There is one thing I constantly pray God to grant, mon cousin," she +replied, "and it is that He would be merciful to him and would allow +his noble soul peacefully to leave this..." + +"Yes, yes, of course," interrupted Prince Vasili impatiently, +rubbing his bald head and angrily pulling back toward him the little +table that he had pushed away. "But... in short, the fact is... you +know yourself that last winter the count made a will by which he left +all his property, not to us his direct heirs, but to Pierre." + +"He has made wills enough!" quietly remarked the princess. "But he +cannot leave the estate to Pierre. Pierre is illegitimate." + +"But, my dear," said Prince Vasili suddenly, clutching the little +table and becoming more animated and talking more rapidly: "what if +a letter has been written to the Emperor in which the count asks for +Pierre's legitimation? Do you understand that in consideration of the +count's services, his request would be granted?..." + +The princess smiled as people do who think they know more about the +subject under discussion than those they are talking with. + +"I can tell you more," continued Prince Vasili, seizing her hand, +"that letter was written, though it was not sent, and the Emperor knew +of it. The only question is, has it been destroyed or not? If not, then +as soon as all is over," and Prince Vasili sighed to intimate what he +meant by the words all is over, "and the count's papers are opened, +the will and letter will be delivered to the Emperor, and the petition +will certainly be granted. Pierre will get everything as the legitimate +son." + +"And our share?" asked the princess smiling ironically, as if +anything might happen, only not that. + +"But, my poor Catiche, it is as clear as daylight! He will then be the +legal heir to everything and you won't get anything. You must know, +my dear, whether the will and letter were written, and whether they have +been destroyed or not. And if they have somehow been overlooked, you +ought to know where they are, and must find them, because..." + +"What next?" the princess interrupted, smiling sardonically and not +changing the expression of her eyes. "I am a woman, and you think we +are all stupid; but I know this: an illegitimate son cannot inherit... +un batard!"* she added, as if supposing that this translation of the +word would effectively prove to Prince Vasili the invalidity of his +contention. + + * A bastard. + +"Well, really, Catiche! Can't you understand! You are so +intelligent, how is it you don't see that if the count has written a +letter to the Emperor begging him to recognize Pierre as legitimate, it +follows that Pierre will not be Pierre but will become Count Bezukhov, +and will then inherit everything under the will? And if the will and +letter are not destroyed, then you will have nothing but the consolation +of having been dutiful et tout ce qui s'ensuit!* That's certain." + + * And all that follows therefrom. + +"I know the will was made, but I also know that it is invalid; +and you, mon cousin, seem to consider me a perfect fool," said the +princess with the expression women assume when they suppose they are +saying something witty and stinging. + +"My dear Princess Catherine Semenovna," began Prince Vasili +impatiently, "I came here not to wrangle with you, but to talk about +your interests as with a kinswoman, a good, kind, true relation. And I +tell you for the tenth time that if the letter to the Emperor and the +will in Pierre's favor are among the count's papers, then, my dear +girl, you and your sisters are not heiresses! If you don't believe me, +then believe an expert. I have just been talking to Dmitri Onufrich" +(the family solicitor) "and he says the same." + +At this a sudden change evidently took place in the princess' ideas; +her thin lips grew white, though her eyes did not change, and her voice +when she began to speak passed through such transitions as she herself +evidently did not expect. + +"That would be a fine thing!" said she. "I never wanted anything +and I don't now." + +She pushed the little dog off her lap and smoothed her dress. + +"And this is gratitude--this is recognition for those who have +sacrificed everything for his sake!" she cried. "It's splendid! +Fine! I don't want anything, Prince." + +"Yes, but you are not the only one. There are your sisters..." +replied Prince Vasili. + +But the princess did not listen to him. + +"Yes, I knew it long ago but had forgotten. I knew that I could expect +nothing but meanness, deceit, envy, intrigue, and ingratitude--the +blackest ingratitude--in this house..." + +"Do you or do you not know where that will is?" insisted Prince +Vasili, his cheeks twitching more than ever. + +"Yes, I was a fool! I still believed in people, loved them, and +sacrificed myself. But only the base, the vile succeed! I know who has +been intriguing!" + +The princess wished to rise, but the prince held her by the hand. She +had the air of one who has suddenly lost faith in the whole human race. +She gave her companion an angry glance. + +"There is still time, my dear. You must remember, Catiche, that it was +all done casually in a moment of anger, of illness, and was afterwards +forgotten. Our duty, my dear, is to rectify his mistake, to ease his +last moments by not letting him commit this injustice, and not to let +him die feeling that he is rendering unhappy those who..." + +"Who sacrificed everything for him," chimed in the princess, who +would again have risen had not the prince still held her fast, "though +he never could appreciate it. No, mon cousin," she added with a sigh, +"I shall always remember that in this world one must expect no reward, +that in this world there is neither honor nor justice. In this world one +has to be cunning and cruel." + +"Now come, come! Be reasonable. I know your excellent heart." + +"No, I have a wicked heart." + +"I know your heart," repeated the prince. "I value your friendship +and wish you to have as good an opinion of me. Don't upset yourself, +and let us talk sensibly while there is still time, be it a day or be it +but an hour.... Tell me all you know about the will, and above all where +it is. You must know. We will take it at once and show it to the +count. He has, no doubt, forgotten it and will wish to destroy it. +You understand that my sole desire is conscientiously to carry out his +wishes; that is my only reason for being here. I came simply to help him +and you." + +"Now I see it all! I know who has been intriguing--I know!" cried +the princess. + +"That's not the point, my dear." + +"It's that protege of yours, that sweet Princess Drubetskaya, +that Anna Mikhaylovna whom I would not take for a housemaid... the +infamous, vile woman!" + +"Do not let us lose any time..." + +"Ah, don't talk to me! Last winter she wheedled herself in here and +told the count such vile, disgraceful things about us, especially about +Sophie--I can't repeat them--that it made the count quite ill and he +would not see us for a whole fortnight. I know it was then he wrote this +vile, infamous paper, but I thought the thing was invalid." + +"We've got to it at last--why did you not tell me about it +sooner?" + +"It's in the inlaid portfolio that he keeps under his pillow," +said the princess, ignoring his question. "Now I know! Yes; if I have +a sin, a great sin, it is hatred of that vile woman!" almost shrieked +the princess, now quite changed. "And what does she come worming +herself in here for? But I will give her a piece of my mind. The time +will come!" + + + + + +CHAPTER XXII + +While these conversations were going on in the reception room and the +princess' room, a carriage containing Pierre (who had been sent for) +and Anna Mikhaylovna (who found it necessary to accompany him) was +driving into the court of Count Bezukhov's house. As the wheels +rolled softly over the straw beneath the windows, Anna Mikhaylovna, +having turned with words of comfort to her companion, realized that +he was asleep in his corner and woke him up. Rousing himself, Pierre +followed Anna Mikhaylovna out of the carriage, and only then began +to think of the interview with his dying father which awaited him. He +noticed that they had not come to the front entrance but to the back +door. While he was getting down from the carriage steps two men, who +looked like tradespeople, ran hurriedly from the entrance and hid in the +shadow of the wall. Pausing for a moment, Pierre noticed several other +men of the same kind hiding in the shadow of the house on both sides. +But neither Anna Mikhaylovna nor the footman nor the coachman, who +could not help seeing these people, took any notice of them. "It seems +to be all right," Pierre concluded, and followed Anna Mikhaylovna. +She hurriedly ascended the narrow dimly lit stone staircase, calling to +Pierre, who was lagging behind, to follow. Though he did not see why it +was necessary for him to go to the count at all, still less why he had +to go by the back stairs, yet judging by Anna Mikhaylovna's air +of assurance and haste, Pierre concluded that it was all absolutely +necessary. Halfway up the stairs they were almost knocked over by +some men who, carrying pails, came running downstairs, their boots +clattering. These men pressed close to the wall to let Pierre and Anna +Mikhaylovna pass and did not evince the least surprise at seeing them +there. + +"Is this the way to the princesses' apartments?" asked Anna +Mikhaylovna of one of them. + +"Yes," replied a footman in a bold loud voice, as if anything were +now permissible; "the door to the left, ma'am." + +"Perhaps the count did not ask for me," said Pierre when he reached +the landing. "I'd better go to my own room." + +Anna Mikhaylovna paused and waited for him to come up. + +"Ah, my friend!" she said, touching his arm as she had done her +son's when speaking to him that afternoon, "believe me I suffer no +less than you do, but be a man!" + +"But really, hadn't I better go away?" he asked, looking kindly at +her over his spectacles. + +"Ah, my dear friend! Forget the wrongs that may have been done you. +Think that he is your father ... perhaps in the agony of death." She +sighed. "I have loved you like a son from the first. Trust yourself to +me, Pierre. I shall not forget your interests." + +Pierre did not understand a word, but the conviction that all this had +to be grew stronger, and he meekly followed Anna Mikhaylovna who was +already opening a door. + +This door led into a back anteroom. An old man, a servant of the +princesses, sat in a corner knitting a stocking. Pierre had never been +in this part of the house and did not even know of the existence of +these rooms. Anna Mikhaylovna, addressing a maid who was hurrying past +with a decanter on a tray as "my dear" and "my sweet," asked +about the princess' health and then led Pierre along a stone passage. +The first door on the left led into the princesses' apartments. The +maid with the decanter in her haste had not closed the door (everything +in the house was done in haste at that time), and Pierre and Anna +Mikhaylovna in passing instinctively glanced into the room, where +Prince Vasili and the eldest princess were sitting close together +talking. Seeing them pass, Prince Vasili drew back with obvious +impatience, while the princess jumped up and with a gesture of +desperation slammed the door with all her might. + +This action was so unlike her usual composure and the fear depicted on +Prince Vasili's face so out of keeping with his dignity that Pierre +stopped and glanced inquiringly over his spectacles at his guide. Anna +Mikhaylovna evinced no surprise, she only smiled faintly and sighed, as +if to say that this was no more than she had expected. + +"Be a man, my friend. I will look after your interests," said she in +reply to his look, and went still faster along the passage. + +Pierre could not make out what it was all about, and still less what +"watching over his interests" meant, but he decided that all these +things had to be. From the passage they went into a large, dimly +lit room adjoining the count's reception room. It was one of those +sumptuous but cold apartments known to Pierre only from the front +approach, but even in this room there now stood an empty bath, and water +had been spilled on the carpet. They were met by a deacon with a censer +and by a servant who passed out on tiptoe without heeding them. They +went into the reception room familiar to Pierre, with two Italian +windows opening into the conservatory, with its large bust and full +length portrait of Catherine the Great. The same people were still +sitting here in almost the same positions as before, whispering to one +another. All became silent and turned to look at the pale tear-worn Anna +Mikhaylovna as she entered, and at the big stout figure of Pierre who, +hanging his head, meekly followed her. + +Anna Mikhaylovna's face expressed a consciousness that the decisive +moment had arrived. With the air of a practical Petersburg lady she now, +keeping Pierre close beside her, entered the room even more boldly than +that afternoon. She felt that as she brought with her the person the +dying man wished to see, her own admission was assured. Casting a rapid +glance at all those in the room and noticing the count's confessor +there, she glided up to him with a sort of amble, not exactly bowing yet +seeming to grow suddenly smaller, and respectfully received the blessing +first of one and then of another priest. + +"God be thanked that you are in time," said she to one of the +priests; "all we relatives have been in such anxiety. This young +man is the count's son," she added more softly. "What a terrible +moment!" + +Having said this she went up to the doctor. + +"Dear doctor," said she, "this young man is the count's son. Is +there any hope?" + +The doctor cast a rapid glance upwards and silently shrugged his +shoulders. Anna Mikhaylovna with just the same movement raised her +shoulders and eyes, almost closing the latter, sighed, and moved away +from the doctor to Pierre. To him, in a particularly respectful and +tenderly sad voice, she said: + +"Trust in His mercy!" and pointing out a small sofa for him to sit +and wait for her, she went silently toward the door that everyone was +watching and it creaked very slightly as she disappeared behind it. + +Pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved +toward the sofa she had indicated. As soon as Anna Mikhaylovna had +disappeared he noticed that the eyes of all in the room turned to him +with something more than curiosity and sympathy. He noticed that they +whispered to one another, casting significant looks at him with a kind +of awe and even servility. A deference such as he had never before +received was shown him. A strange lady, the one who had been talking to +the priests, rose and offered him her seat; an aide-de-camp picked up +and returned a glove Pierre had dropped; the doctors became respectfully +silent as he passed by, and moved to make way for him. At first Pierre +wished to take another seat so as not to trouble the lady, and also to +pick up the glove himself and to pass round the doctors who were not +even in his way; but all at once he felt that this would not do, and +that tonight he was a person obliged to perform some sort of awful +rite which everyone expected of him, and that he was therefore bound +to accept their services. He took the glove in silence from the +aide-de-camp, and sat down in the lady's chair, placing his huge hands +symmetrically on his knees in the naive attitude of an Egyptian statue, +and decided in his own mind that all was as it should be, and that in +order not to lose his head and do foolish things he must not act on his +own ideas tonight, but must yield himself up entirely to the will of +those who were guiding him. + +Not two minutes had passed before Prince Vasili with head erect +majestically entered the room. He was wearing his long coat with three +stars on his breast. He seemed to have grown thinner since the morning; +his eyes seemed larger than usual when he glanced round and noticed +Pierre. He went up to him, took his hand (a thing he never used to do), +and drew it downwards as if wishing to ascertain whether it was firmly +fixed on. + +"Courage, courage, my friend! He has asked to see you. That is +well!" and he turned to go. + +But Pierre thought it necessary to ask: "How is..." and hesitated, +not knowing whether it would be proper to call the dying man "the +count," yet ashamed to call him "father." + +"He had another stroke about half an hour ago. Courage, my +friend..." + +Pierre's mind was in such a confused state that the word "stroke" +suggested to him a blow from something. He looked at Prince Vasili +in perplexity, and only later grasped that a stroke was an attack of +illness. Prince Vasili said something to Lorrain in passing and went +through the door on tiptoe. He could not walk well on tiptoe and his +whole body jerked at each step. The eldest princess followed him, and +the priests and deacons and some servants also went in at the door. +Through that door was heard a noise of things being moved about, and +at last Anna Mikhaylovna, still with the same expression, pale but +resolute in the discharge of duty, ran out and touching Pierre lightly +on the arm said: + +"The divine mercy is inexhaustible! Unction is about to be +administered. Come." + +Pierre went in at the door, stepping on the soft carpet, and noticed +that the strange lady, the aide-de-camp, and some of the servants, all +followed him in, as if there were now no further need for permission to +enter that room. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXIII + +Pierre well knew this large room divided by columns and an arch, its +walls hung round with Persian carpets. The part of the room behind the +columns, with a high silk-curtained mahogany bedstead on one side and +on the other an immense case containing icons, was brightly illuminated +with red light like a Russian church during evening service. Under +the gleaming icons stood a long invalid chair, and in that chair +on snowy-white smooth pillows, evidently freshly changed, Pierre +saw--covered to the waist by a bright green quilt--the familiar, +majestic figure of his father, Count Bezukhov, with that gray mane of +hair above his broad forehead which reminded one of a lion, and the deep +characteristically noble wrinkles of his handsome, ruddy face. He lay +just under the icons; his large thick hands outside the quilt. Into the +right hand, which was lying palm downwards, a wax taper had been thrust +between forefinger and thumb, and an old servant, bending over from +behind the chair, held it in position. By the chair stood the priests, +their long hair falling over their magnificent glittering vestments, +with lighted tapers in their hands, slowly and solemnly conducting the +service. A little behind them stood the two younger princesses holding +handkerchiefs to their eyes, and just in front of them their eldest +sister, Catiche, with a vicious and determined look steadily fixed on +the icons, as though declaring to all that she could not answer for +herself should she glance round. Anna Mikhaylovna, with a meek, +sorrowful, and all-forgiving expression on her face, stood by the door +near the strange lady. Prince Vasili in front of the door, near the +invalid chair, a wax taper in his left hand, was leaning his left arm on +the carved back of a velvet chair he had turned round for the purpose, +and was crossing himself with his right hand, turning his eyes upward +each time he touched his forehead. His face wore a calm look of piety +and resignation to the will of God. "If you do not understand these +sentiments," he seemed to be saying, "so much the worse for you!" + +Behind him stood the aide-de-camp, the doctors, and the menservants; +the men and women had separated as in church. All were silently crossing +themselves, and the reading of the church service, the subdued chanting +of deep bass voices, and in the intervals sighs and the shuffling of +feet were the only sounds that could be heard. Anna Mikhaylovna, with +an air of importance that showed that she felt she quite knew what she +was about, went across the room to where Pierre was standing and gave +him a taper. He lit it and, distracted by observing those around him, +began crossing himself with the hand that held the taper. + +Sophie, the rosy, laughter-loving, youngest princess with the mole, +watched him. She smiled, hid her face in her handkerchief, and remained +with it hidden for awhile; then looking up and seeing Pierre she +again began to laugh. She evidently felt unable to look at him +without laughing, but could not resist looking at him: so to be out of +temptation she slipped quietly behind one of the columns. In the midst +of the service the voices of the priests suddenly ceased, they whispered +to one another, and the old servant who was holding the count's hand +got up and said something to the ladies. Anna Mikhaylovna stepped +forward and, stooping over the dying man, beckoned to Lorrain from +behind her back. The French doctor held no taper; he was leaning +against one of the columns in a respectful attitude implying that he, +a foreigner, in spite of all differences of faith, understood the full +importance of the rite now being performed and even approved of it. He +now approached the sick man with the noiseless step of one in full vigor +of life, with his delicate white fingers raised from the green quilt the +hand that was free, and turning sideways felt the pulse and reflected +a moment. The sick man was given something to drink, there was a +stir around him, then the people resumed their places and the service +continued. During this interval Pierre noticed that Prince Vasili +left the chair on which he had been leaning, and--with an air +which intimated that he knew what he was about and if others did not +understand him it was so much the worse for them--did not go up to the +dying man, but passed by him, joined the eldest princess, and moved +with her to the side of the room where stood the high bedstead with its +silken hangings. On leaving the bed both Prince Vasili and the princess +passed out by a back door, but returned to their places one after the +other before the service was concluded. Pierre paid no more attention +to this occurrence than to the rest of what went on, having made up his +mind once for all that what he saw happening around him that evening was +in some way essential. + +The chanting of the service ceased, and the voice of the priest was +heard respectfully congratulating the dying man on having received the +sacrament. The dying man lay as lifeless and immovable as before. Around +him everyone began to stir: steps were audible and whispers, among which +Anna Mikhaylovna's was the most distinct. + +Pierre heard her say: + +"Certainly he must be moved onto the bed; here it will be +impossible..." + +The sick man was so surrounded by doctors, princesses, and servants +that Pierre could no longer see the reddish-yellow face with its gray +mane--which, though he saw other faces as well, he had not lost sight +of for a single moment during the whole service. He judged by the +cautious movements of those who crowded round the invalid chair that +they had lifted the dying man and were moving him. + +"Catch hold of my arm or you'll drop him!" he heard one of the +servants say in a frightened whisper. "Catch hold from underneath. +Here!" exclaimed different voices; and the heavy breathing of the +bearers and the shuffling of their feet grew more hurried, as if the +weight they were carrying were too much for them. + +As the bearers, among whom was Anna Mikhaylovna, passed the young man +he caught a momentary glimpse between their heads and backs of the dying +man's high, stout, uncovered chest and powerful shoulders, raised by +those who were holding him under the armpits, and of his gray, curly, +leonine head. This head, with its remarkably broad brow and cheekbones, +its handsome, sensual mouth, and its cold, majestic expression, was +not disfigured by the approach of death. It was the same as Pierre +remembered it three months before, when the count had sent him to +Petersburg. But now this head was swaying helplessly with the uneven +movements of the bearers, and the cold listless gaze fixed itself upon +nothing. + +After a few minutes' bustle beside the high bedstead, those who had +carried the sick man dispersed. Anna Mikhaylovna touched Pierre's +hand and said, "Come." Pierre went with her to the bed on which the +sick man had been laid in a stately pose in keeping with the ceremony +just completed. He lay with his head propped high on the pillows. His +hands were symmetrically placed on the green silk quilt, the palms +downward. When Pierre came up the count was gazing straight at him, but +with a look the significance of which could not be understood by mortal +man. Either this look meant nothing but that as long as one has eyes +they must look somewhere, or it meant too much. Pierre hesitated, +not knowing what to do, and glanced inquiringly at his guide. Anna +Mikhaylovna made a hurried sign with her eyes, glancing at the sick +man's hand and moving her lips as if to send it a kiss. Pierre, +carefully stretching his neck so as not to touch the quilt, followed her +suggestion and pressed his lips to the large boned, fleshy hand. Neither +the hand nor a single muscle of the count's face stirred. Once more +Pierre looked questioningly at Anna Mikhaylovna to see what he was to +do next. Anna Mikhaylovna with her eyes indicated a chair that stood +beside the bed. Pierre obediently sat down, his eyes asking if he were +doing right. Anna Mikhaylovna nodded approvingly. Again Pierre fell +into the naively symmetrical pose of an Egyptian statue, evidently +distressed that his stout and clumsy body took up so much room and doing +his utmost to look as small as possible. He looked at the count, who +still gazed at the spot where Pierre's face had been before he sat +down. Anna Mikhaylovna indicated by her attitude her consciousness of +the pathetic importance of these last moments of meeting between the +father and son. This lasted about two minutes, which to Pierre seemed an +hour. Suddenly the broad muscles and lines of the count's face began +to twitch. The twitching increased, the handsome mouth was drawn to one +side (only now did Pierre realize how near death his father was), and +from that distorted mouth issued an indistinct, hoarse sound. Anna +Mikhaylovna looked attentively at the sick man's eyes, trying to +guess what he wanted; she pointed first to Pierre, then to some drink, +then named Prince Vasili in an inquiring whisper, then pointed to the +quilt. The eyes and face of the sick man showed impatience. He made an +effort to look at the servant who stood constantly at the head of the +bed. + +"Wants to turn on the other side," whispered the servant, and got up +to turn the count's heavy body toward the wall. + +Pierre rose to help him. + +While the count was being turned over, one of his arms fell back +helplessly and he made a fruitless effort to pull it forward. Whether he +noticed the look of terror with which Pierre regarded that lifeless arm, +or whether some other thought flitted across his dying brain, at any +rate he glanced at the refractory arm, at Pierre's terror-stricken +face, and again at the arm, and on his face a feeble, piteous smile +appeared, quite out of keeping with his features, that seemed to deride +his own helplessness. At sight of this smile Pierre felt an unexpected +quivering in his breast and a tickling in his nose, and tears dimmed his +eyes. The sick man was turned on to his side with his face to the wall. +He sighed. + +"He is dozing," said Anna Mikhaylovna, observing that one of the +princesses was coming to take her turn at watching. "Let us go." + +Pierre went out. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXIV + +There was now no one in the reception room except Prince Vasili and the +eldest princess, who were sitting under the portrait of Catherine the +Great and talking eagerly. As soon as they saw Pierre and his companion +they became silent, and Pierre thought he saw the princess hide +something as she whispered: + +"I can't bear the sight of that woman." + +"Catiche has had tea served in the small drawing room," said Prince +Vasili to Anna Mikhaylovna. "Go and take something, my poor Anna +Mikhaylovna, or you will not hold out." + +To Pierre he said nothing, merely giving his arm a sympathetic squeeze +below the shoulder. Pierre went with Anna Mikhaylovna into the small +drawing room. + +"There is nothing so refreshing after a sleepless night as a cup +of this delicious Russian tea," Lorrain was saying with an air of +restrained animation as he stood sipping tea from a delicate Chinese +handleless cup before a table on which tea and a cold supper were laid +in the small circular room. Around the table all who were at Count +Bezukhov's house that night had gathered to fortify themselves. +Pierre well remembered this small circular drawing room with its mirrors +and little tables. During balls given at the house Pierre, who did not +know how to dance, had liked sitting in this room to watch the ladies +who, as they passed through in their ball dresses with diamonds and +pearls on their bare shoulders, looked at themselves in the brilliantly +lighted mirrors which repeated their reflections several times. Now +this same room was dimly lighted by two candles. On one small table tea +things and supper dishes stood in disorder, and in the middle of the +night a motley throng of people sat there, not merrymaking, but somberly +whispering, and betraying by every word and movement that they none +of them forgot what was happening and what was about to happen in the +bedroom. Pierre did not eat anything though he would very much have +liked to. He looked inquiringly at his monitress and saw that she was +again going on tiptoe to the reception room where they had left Prince +Vasili and the eldest princess. Pierre concluded that this also was +essential, and after a short interval followed her. Anna Mikhaylovna +was standing beside the princess, and they were both speaking in excited +whispers. + +"Permit me, Princess, to know what is necessary and what is not +necessary," said the younger of the two speakers, evidently in the +same state of excitement as when she had slammed the door of her room. + +"But, my dear princess," answered Anna Mikhaylovna blandly but +impressively, blocking the way to the bedroom and preventing the other +from passing, "won't this be too much for poor Uncle at a moment +when he needs repose? Worldly conversation at a moment when his soul is +already prepared..." + +Prince Vasili was seated in an easy chair in his familiar attitude, +with one leg crossed high above the other. His cheeks, which were so +flabby that they looked heavier below, were twitching violently; but +he wore the air of a man little concerned in what the two ladies were +saying. + +"Come, my dear Anna Mikhaylovna, let Catiche do as she pleases. You +know how fond the count is of her." + +"I don't even know what is in this paper," said the younger of +the two ladies, addressing Prince Vasili and pointing to an inlaid +portfolio she held in her hand. "All I know is that his real will is +in his writing table, and this is a paper he has forgotten...." + +She tried to pass Anna Mikhaylovna, but the latter sprang so as to bar +her path. + +"I know, my dear, kind princess," said Anna Mikhaylovna, seizing +the portfolio so firmly that it was plain she would not let go easily. +"Dear princess, I beg and implore you, have some pity on him! Je vous +en conjure..." + +The princess did not reply. Their efforts in the struggle for the +portfolio were the only sounds audible, but it was evident that if +the princess did speak, her words would not be flattering to Anna +Mikhaylovna. Though the latter held on tenaciously, her voice lost none +of its honeyed firmness and softness. + +"Pierre, my dear, come here. I think he will not be out of place in a +family consultation; is it not so, Prince?" + +"Why don't you speak, cousin?" suddenly shrieked the princess so +loud that those in the drawing room heard her and were startled. "Why +do you remain silent when heaven knows who permits herself to +interfere, making a scene on the very threshold of a dying man's room? +Intriguer!" she hissed viciously, and tugged with all her might at the +portfolio. + +But Anna Mikhaylovna went forward a step or two to keep her hold on the +portfolio, and changed her grip. + +Prince Vasili rose. "Oh!" said he with reproach and surprise, +"this is absurd! Come, let go I tell you." + +The princess let go. + +"And you too!" + +But Anna Mikhaylovna did not obey him. + +"Let go, I tell you! I will take the responsibility. I myself will go +and ask him, I!... does that satisfy you?" + +"But, Prince," said Anna Mikhaylovna, "after such a solemn +sacrament, allow him a moment's peace! Here, Pierre, tell them your +opinion," said she, turning to the young man who, having come quite +close, was gazing with astonishment at the angry face of the princess +which had lost all dignity, and at the twitching cheeks of Prince +Vasili. + +"Remember that you will answer for the consequences," said Prince +Vasili severely. "You don't know what you are doing." + +"Vile woman!" shouted the princess, darting unexpectedly at Anna +Mikhaylovna and snatching the portfolio from her. + +Prince Vasili bent his head and spread out his hands. + +At this moment that terrible door, which Pierre had watched so long +and which had always opened so quietly, burst noisily open and banged +against the wall, and the second of the three sisters rushed out +wringing her hands. + +"What are you doing!" she cried vehemently. "He is dying and you +leave me alone with him!" + +Her sister dropped the portfolio. Anna Mikhaylovna, stooping, quickly +caught up the object of contention and ran into the bedroom. The eldest +princess and Prince Vasili, recovering themselves, followed her. A few +minutes later the eldest sister came out with a pale hard face, again +biting her underlip. At sight of Pierre her expression showed an +irrepressible hatred. + +"Yes, now you may be glad!" said she; "this is what you have +been waiting for." And bursting into tears she hid her face in her +handkerchief and rushed from the room. + +Prince Vasili came next. He staggered to the sofa on which Pierre was +sitting and dropped onto it, covering his face with his hand. Pierre +noticed that he was pale and that his jaw quivered and shook as if in an +ague. + +"Ah, my friend!" said he, taking Pierre by the elbow; and there was +in his voice a sincerity and weakness Pierre had never observed in it +before. "How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? I am +near sixty, dear friend... I too... All will end in death, all! Death is +awful..." and he burst into tears. + +Anna Mikhaylovna came out last. She approached Pierre with slow, quiet +steps. + +"Pierre!" she said. + +Pierre gave her an inquiring look. She kissed the young man on his +forehead, wetting him with her tears. Then after a pause she said: + +"He is no more...." + +Pierre looked at her over his spectacles. + +"Come, I will go with you. Try to weep, nothing gives such relief as +tears." + +She led him into the dark drawing room and Pierre was glad no one could +see his face. Anna Mikhaylovna left him, and when she returned he was +fast asleep with his head on his arm. + +In the morning Anna Mikhaylovna said to Pierre: + +"Yes, my dear, this is a great loss for us all, not to speak of you. +But God will support you: you are young, and are now, I hope, in command +of an immense fortune. The will has not yet been opened. I know you +well enough to be sure that this will not turn your head, but it imposes +duties on you, and you must be a man." + +Pierre was silent. + +"Perhaps later on I may tell you, my dear boy, that if I had not been +there, God only knows what would have happened! You know, Uncle promised +me only the day before yesterday not to forget Boris. But he had +no time. I hope, my dear friend, you will carry out your father's +wish?" + +Pierre understood nothing of all this and coloring shyly looked in +silence at Princess Anna Mikhaylovna. After her talk with Pierre, Anna +Mikhaylovna returned to the Rostovs' and went to bed. On waking in +the morning she told the Rostovs and all her acquaintances the details +of Count Bezukhov's death. She said the count had died as she would +herself wish to die, that his end was not only touching but edifying. As +to the last meeting between father and son, it was so touching that she +could not think of it without tears, and did not know which had behaved +better during those awful moments--the father who so remembered +everything and everybody at last and had spoken such pathetic words to +the son, or Pierre, whom it had been pitiful to see, so stricken was he +with grief, though he tried hard to hide it in order not to sadden his +dying father. "It is painful, but it does one good. It uplifts the +soul to see such men as the old count and his worthy son," said she. +Of the behavior of the eldest princess and Prince Vasili she spoke +disapprovingly, but in whispers and as a great secret. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXV + +At Bald Hills, Prince Nicholas Andreevich Bolkonski's estate, the +arrival of young Prince Andrew and his wife was daily expected, but +this expectation did not upset the regular routine of life in the old +prince's household. General in Chief Prince Nicholas Andreevich +(nicknamed in society, "the King of Prussia") ever since the Emperor +Paul had exiled him to his country estate had lived there continuously +with his daughter, Princess Mary, and her companion, Mademoiselle +Bourienne. Though in the new reign he was free to return to the +capitals, he still continued to live in the country, remarking that +anyone who wanted to see him could come the hundred miles from Moscow to +Bald Hills, while he himself needed no one and nothing. He used to +say that there are only two sources of human vice--idleness and +superstition, and only two virtues--activity and intelligence. He +himself undertook his daughter's education, and to develop these two +cardinal virtues in her gave her lessons in algebra and geometry +till she was twenty, and arranged her life so that her whole time was +occupied. He was himself always occupied: writing his memoirs, solving +problems in higher mathematics, turning snuffboxes on a lathe, working +in the garden, or superintending the building that was always going on +at his estate. As regularity is a prime condition facilitating activity, +regularity in his household was carried to the highest point of +exactitude. He always came to table under precisely the same conditions, +and not only at the same hour but at the same minute. With those about +him, from his daughter to his serfs, the prince was sharp and invariably +exacting, so that without being a hardhearted man he inspired such fear +and respect as few hardhearted men would have aroused. Although he was +in retirement and had now no influence in political affairs, every high +official appointed to the province in which the prince's estate lay +considered it his duty to visit him and waited in the lofty antechamber +just as the architect, gardener, or Princess Mary did, till the prince +appeared punctually to the appointed hour. Everyone sitting in this +antechamber experienced the same feeling of respect and even fear when +the enormously high study door opened and showed the figure of a rather +small old man, with powdered wig, small withered hands, and bushy gray +eyebrows which, when he frowned, sometimes hid the gleam of his shrewd, +youthfully glittering eyes. + +On the morning of the day that the young couple were to arrive, Princess +Mary entered the antechamber as usual at the time appointed for the +morning greeting, crossing herself with trepidation and repeating a +silent prayer. Every morning she came in like that, and every morning +prayed that the daily interview might pass off well. + +An old powdered manservant who was sitting in the antechamber rose +quietly and said in a whisper: "Please walk in." + +Through the door came the regular hum of a lathe. The princess timidly +opened the door which moved noiselessly and easily. She paused at the +entrance. The prince was working at the lathe and after glancing round +continued his work. + +The enormous study was full of things evidently in constant use. +The large table covered with books and plans, the tall glass-fronted +bookcases with keys in the locks, the high desk for writing while +standing up, on which lay an open exercise book, and the lathe with +tools laid ready to hand and shavings scattered around--all indicated +continuous, varied, and orderly activity. The motion of the small foot +shod in a Tartar boot embroidered with silver, and the firm pressure +of the lean sinewy hand, showed that the prince still possessed the +tenacious endurance and vigor of hardy old age. After a few more turns +of the lathe he removed his foot from the pedal, wiped his chisel, +dropped it into a leather pouch attached to the lathe, and, approaching +the table, summoned his daughter. He never gave his children a blessing, +so he simply held out his bristly cheek (as yet unshaven) and, regarding +her tenderly and attentively, said severely: + +"Quite well? All right then, sit down." He took the exercise book +containing lessons in geometry written by himself and drew up a chair +with his foot. + +"For tomorrow!" said he, quickly finding the page and making a +scratch from one paragraph to another with his hard nail. + +The princess bent over the exercise book on the table. + +"Wait a bit, here's a letter for you," said the old man suddenly, +taking a letter addressed in a woman's hand from a bag hanging above +the table, onto which he threw it. + +At the sight of the letter red patches showed themselves on the +princess' face. She took it quickly and bent her head over it. + +"From Heloise?" asked the prince with a cold smile that showed his +still sound, yellowish teeth. + +"Yes, it's from Julie," replied the princess with a timid glance +and a timid smile. + +"I'll let two more letters pass, but the third I'll read," said +the prince sternly; "I'm afraid you write much nonsense. I'll read +the third!" + +"Read this if you like, Father," said the princess, blushing still +more and holding out the letter. + +"The third, I said the third!" cried the prince abruptly, pushing +the letter away, and leaning his elbows on the table he drew toward him +the exercise book containing geometrical figures. + +"Well, madam," he began, stooping over the book close to his +daughter and placing an arm on the back of the chair on which she sat, +so that she felt herself surrounded on all sides by the acrid scent of +old age and tobacco, which she had known so long. "Now, madam, these +triangles are equal; please note that the angle ABC..." + +The princess looked in a scared way at her father's eyes glittering +close to her; the red patches on her face came and went, and it was +plain that she understood nothing and was so frightened that her +fear would prevent her understanding any of her father's further +explanations, however clear they might be. Whether it was the +teacher's fault or the pupil's, this same thing happened every day: +the princess' eyes grew dim, she could not see and could not hear +anything, but was only conscious of her stern father's withered face +close to her, of his breath and the smell of him, and could think only +of how to get away quickly to her own room to make out the problem in +peace. The old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was +sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself +and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, +and sometimes flung the exercise book away. + +The princess gave a wrong answer. + +"Well now, isn't she a fool!" shouted the prince, pushing the book +aside and turning sharply away; but rising immediately, he paced up and +down, lightly touched his daughter's hair and sat down again. + +He drew up his chair, and continued to explain. + +"This won't do, Princess; it won't do," said he, when Princess +Mary, having taken and closed the exercise book with the next day's +lesson, was about to leave: "Mathematics are most important, madam! +I don't want to have you like our silly ladies. Get used to it and +you'll like it," and he patted her cheek. "It will drive all the +nonsense out of your head." + +She turned to go, but he stopped her with a gesture and took an uncut +book from the high desk. + +"Here is some sort of Key to the Mysteries that your Heloise has +sent you. Religious! I don't interfere with anyone's belief... I +have looked at it. Take it. Well, now go. Go." + +He patted her on the shoulder and himself closed the door after her. + +Princess Mary went back to her room with the sad, scared expression that +rarely left her and which made her plain, sickly face yet plainer. She +sat down at her writing table, on which stood miniature portraits and +which was littered with books and papers. The princess was as untidy as +her father was tidy. She put down the geometry book and eagerly broke +the seal of her letter. It was from her most intimate friend from +childhood; that same Julie Karagina who had been at the Rostovs' +name-day party. + +Julie wrote in French: + +Dear and precious Friend, How terrible and frightful a thing is +separation! Though I tell myself that half my life and half my happiness +are wrapped up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us +our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against +fate and in spite of the pleasures and distractions around me I cannot +overcome a certain secret sorrow that has been in my heart ever since +we parted. Why are we not together as we were last summer, in your big +study, on the blue sofa, the confidential sofa? Why cannot I now, as +three months ago, draw fresh moral strength from your look, so gentle, +calm, and penetrating, a look I loved so well and seem to see before me +as I write? + +Having read thus far, Princess Mary sighed and glanced into the mirror +which stood on her right. It reflected a weak, ungraceful figure and +thin face. Her eyes, always sad, now looked with particular hopelessness +at her reflection in the glass. "She flatters me," thought the +princess, turning away and continuing to read. But Julie did not flatter +her friend, the princess' eyes--large, deep and luminous (it seemed +as if at times there radiated from them shafts of warm light)--were +so beautiful that very often in spite of the plainness of her face +they gave her an attraction more powerful than that of beauty. But the +princess never saw the beautiful expression of her own eyes--the look +they had when she was not thinking of herself. As with everyone, her +face assumed a forced unnatural expression as soon as she looked in a +glass. She went on reading: + +All Moscow talks of nothing but war. One of my two brothers is already +abroad, the other is with the Guards, who are starting on their march +to the frontier. Our dear Emperor has left Petersburg and it is thought +intends to expose his precious person to the chances of war. God grant +that the Corsican monster who is destroying the peace of Europe may +be overthrown by the angel whom it has pleased the Almighty, in His +goodness, to give us as sovereign! To say nothing of my brothers, this +war has deprived me of one of the associations nearest my heart. I mean +young Nicholas Rostov, who with his enthusiasm could not bear to remain +inactive and has left the university to join the army. I will confess to +you, dear Mary, that in spite of his extreme youth his departure for +the army was a great grief to me. This young man, of whom I spoke to you +last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which +one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, +he is so frank and has so much heart. He is so pure and poetic that +my relations with him, transient as they were, have been one of the +sweetest comforts to my poor heart, which has already suffered so much. +Someday I will tell you about our parting and all that was said then. +That is still too fresh. Ah, dear friend, you are happy not to know +these poignant joys and sorrows. You are fortunate, for the latter are +generally the stronger! I know very well that Count Nicholas is too +young ever to be more to me than a friend, but this sweet friendship, +this poetic and pure intimacy, were what my heart needed. But enough of +this! The chief news, about which all Moscow gossips, is the death of +old Count Bezukhov, and his inheritance. Fancy! The three princesses +have received very little, Prince Vasili nothing, and it is Monsieur +Pierre who has inherited all the property and has besides been +recognized as legitimate; so that he is now Count Bezukhov and +possessor of the finest fortune in Russia. It is rumored that Prince +Vasili played a very despicable part in this affair and that he +returned to Petersburg quite crestfallen. + +I confess I understand very little about all these matters of wills and +inheritance; but I do know that since this young man, whom we all used +to know as plain Monsieur Pierre, has become Count Bezukhov and the +owner of one of the largest fortunes in Russia, I am much amused to +watch the change in the tone and manners of the mammas burdened by +marriageable daughters, and of the young ladies themselves, toward +him, though, between you and me, he always seemed to me a poor sort +of fellow. As for the past two years people have amused themselves +by finding husbands for me (most of whom I don't even know), the +matchmaking chronicles of Moscow now speak of me as the future Countess +Bezukhova. But you will understand that I have no desire for the post. +A propos of marriages: do you know that a while ago that universal +auntie Anna Mikhaylovna told me, under the seal of strict secrecy, of +a plan of marriage for you. It is neither more nor less than with Prince +Vasili's son Anatole, whom they wish to reform by marrying him to +someone rich and distinguee, and it is on you that his relations' +choice has fallen. I don't know what you will think of it, but +I consider it my duty to let you know of it. He is said to be very +handsome and a terrible scapegrace. That is all I have been able to find +out about him. + +But enough of gossip. I am at the end of my second sheet of paper, and +Mamma has sent for me to go and dine at the Apraksins'. Read the +mystical book I am sending you; it has an enormous success here. Though +there are things in it difficult for the feeble human mind to grasp, it +is an admirable book which calms and elevates the soul. Adieu! Give +my respects to monsieur your father and my compliments to Mademoiselle +Bourienne. I embrace you as I love you. + +JULIE + +P.S. Let me have news of your brother and his charming little wife. + +The princess pondered awhile with a thoughtful smile and her luminous +eyes lit up so that her face was entirely transformed. Then she suddenly +rose and with her heavy tread went up to the table. She took a sheet of +paper and her hand moved rapidly over it. This is the reply she wrote, +also in French: + +Dear and precious Friend, Your letter of the 13th has given me great +delight. So you still love me, my romantic Julie? Separation, of which +you say so much that is bad, does not seem to have had its usual effect +on you. You complain of our separation. What then should I say, if I +dared complain, I who am deprived of all who are dear to me? Ah, if +we had not religion to console us life would be very sad. Why do you +suppose that I should look severely on your affection for that young +man? On such matters I am only severe with myself. I understand such +feelings in others, and if never having felt them I cannot approve of +them, neither do I condemn them. Only it seems to me that Christian +love, love of one's neighbor, love of one's enemy, is worthier, +sweeter, and better than the feelings which the beautiful eyes of a +young man can inspire in a romantic and loving young girl like yourself. + +The news of Count Bezukhov's death reached us before your letter +and my father was much affected by it. He says the count was the last +representative but one of the great century, and that it is his own +turn now, but that he will do all he can to let his turn come as late as +possible. God preserve us from that terrible misfortune! + +I cannot agree with you about Pierre, whom I knew as a child. He always +seemed to me to have an excellent heart, and that is the quality I value +most in people. As to his inheritance and the part played by Prince +Vasili, it is very sad for both. Ah, my dear friend, our divine +Saviour's words, that it is easier for a camel to go through the +eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God, are +terribly true. I pity Prince Vasili but am still more sorry for Pierre. +So young, and burdened with such riches--to what temptations he will be +exposed! If I were asked what I desire most on earth, it would be to be +poorer than the poorest beggar. A thousand thanks, dear friend, for the +volume you have sent me and which has such success in Moscow. Yet since +you tell me that among some good things it contains others which our +weak human understanding cannot grasp, it seems to me rather useless to +spend time in reading what is unintelligible and can therefore bear +no fruit. I never could understand the fondness some people have for +confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken +their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for +exaggeration quite contrary to Christian simplicity. Let us rather read +the Epistles and Gospels. Let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries +they contain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, know the +terrible and holy secrets of Providence while we remain in this flesh +which forms an impenetrable veil between us and the Eternal? Let us +rather confine ourselves to studying those sublime rules which our +divine Saviour has left for our guidance here below. Let us try to +conform to them and follow them, and let us be persuaded that the less +we let our feeble human minds roam, the better we shall please God, who +rejects all knowledge that does not come from Him; and the less we seek +to fathom what He has been pleased to conceal from us, the sooner will +He vouchsafe its revelation to us through His divine Spirit. + +My father has not spoken to me of a suitor, but has only told me that he +has received a letter and is expecting a visit from Prince Vasili. In +regard to this project of marriage for me, I will tell you, dear sweet +friend, that I look on marriage as a divine institution to which we must +conform. However painful it may be to me, should the Almighty lay +the duties of wife and mother upon me I shall try to perform them as +faithfully as I can, without disquieting myself by examining my feelings +toward him whom He may give me for husband. + +I have had a letter from my brother, who announces his speedy arrival +at Bald Hills with his wife. This pleasure will be but a brief one, +however, for he will leave us again to take part in this unhappy war +into which we have been drawn, God knows how or why. Not only where you +are--at the heart of affairs and of the world--is the talk all of +war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature--which townsfolk +consider characteristic of the country--rumors of war are heard +and painfully felt. My father talks of nothing but marches and +countermarches, things of which I understand nothing; and the day +before yesterday during my daily walk through the village I witnessed a +heartrending scene.... It was a convoy of conscripts enrolled from our +people and starting to join the army. You should have seen the state of +the mothers, wives, and children of the men who were going and should +have heard the sobs. It seems as though mankind has forgotten the +laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of +injuries--and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing +one another. + +Adieu, dear and kind friend; may our divine Saviour and His most Holy +Mother keep you in their holy and all-powerful care! + +MARY + +"Ah, you are sending off a letter, Princess? I have already dispatched +mine. I have written to my poor mother," said the smiling Mademoiselle +Bourienne rapidly, in her pleasant mellow tones and with guttural r's. +She brought into Princess Mary's strenuous, mournful, and gloomy +world a quite different atmosphere, careless, lighthearted, and +self-satisfied. + +"Princess, I must warn you," she added, lowering her voice and +evidently listening to herself with pleasure, and speaking with +exaggerated grasseyement, "the prince has been scolding Michael +Ivanovich. He is in a very bad humor, very morose. Be prepared." + +"Ah, dear friend," replied Princess Mary, "I have asked you never +to warn me of the humor my father is in. I do not allow myself to judge +him and would not have others do so." + +The princess glanced at her watch and, seeing that she was five minutes +late in starting her practice on the clavichord, went into the sitting +room with a look of alarm. Between twelve and two o'clock, as the +day was mapped out, the prince rested and the princess played the +clavichord. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXVI + +The gray-haired valet was sitting drowsily listening to the snoring of +the prince, who was in his large study. From the far side of the house +through the closed doors came the sound of difficult passages--twenty +times repeated--of a sonata by Dussek. + +Just then a closed carriage and another with a hood drove up to the +porch. Prince Andrew got out of the carriage, helped his little wife to +alight, and let her pass into the house before him. Old Tikhon, wearing +a wig, put his head out of the door of the antechamber, reported in +a whisper that the prince was sleeping, and hastily closed the door. +Tikhon knew that neither the son's arrival nor any other unusual +event must be allowed to disturb the appointed order of the day. Prince +Andrew apparently knew this as well as Tikhon; he looked at his watch +as if to ascertain whether his father's habits had changed since he +was at home last, and, having assured himself that they had not, he +turned to his wife. + +"He will get up in twenty minutes. Let us go across to Mary's +room," he said. + +The little princess had grown stouter during this time, but her eyes +and her short, downy, smiling lip lifted when she began to speak just as +merrily and prettily as ever. + +"Why, this is a palace!" she said to her husband, looking around +with the expression with which people compliment their host at a ball. +"Let's come, quick, quick!" And with a glance round, she smiled at +Tikhon, at her husband, and at the footman who accompanied them. + +"Is that Mary practicing? Let's go quietly and take her by +surprise." + +Prince Andrew followed her with a courteous but sad expression. + +"You've grown older, Tikhon," he said in passing to the old man, +who kissed his hand. + +Before they reached the room from which the sounds of the clavichord +came, the pretty, fair-haired Frenchwoman, Mademoiselle Bourienne, +rushed out apparently beside herself with delight. + +"Ah! what joy for the princess!" exclaimed she: "At last! I must +let her know." + +"No, no, please not... You are Mademoiselle Bourienne," said +the little princess, kissing her. "I know you already through my +sister-in-law's friendship for you. She was not expecting us?" + +They went up to the door of the sitting room from which came the sound +of the oft-repeated passage of the sonata. Prince Andrew stopped and +made a grimace, as if expecting something unpleasant. + +The little princess entered the room. The passage broke off in the +middle, a cry was heard, then Princess Mary's heavy tread and the +sound of kissing. When Prince Andrew went in the two princesses, who +had only met once before for a short time at his wedding, were in +each other's arms warmly pressing their lips to whatever place they +happened to touch. Mademoiselle Bourienne stood near them pressing her +hand to her heart, with a beatific smile and obviously equally ready to +cry or to laugh. Prince Andrew shrugged his shoulders and frowned, as +lovers of music do when they hear a false note. The two women let go +of one another, and then, as if afraid of being too late, seized each +other's hands, kissing them and pulling them away, and again began +kissing each other on the face, and then to Prince Andrew's surprise +both began to cry and kissed again. Mademoiselle Bourienne also began to +cry. Prince Andrew evidently felt ill at ease, but to the two women +it seemed quite natural that they should cry, and apparently it never +entered their heads that it could have been otherwise at this meeting. + +"Ah! my dear!... Ah! Mary!..." they suddenly exclaimed, and then +laughed. "I dreamed last night..."--"You were not expecting +us?..." "Ah! Mary, you have got thinner?..." "And you have grown +stouter!..." + +"I knew the princess at once," put in Mademoiselle Bourienne. + +"And I had no idea!..." exclaimed Princess Mary. "Ah, Andrew, I +did not see you." + +Prince Andrew and his sister, hand in hand, kissed one another, and +he told her she was still the same crybaby as ever. Princess Mary had +turned toward her brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, +gentle look of her large luminous eyes, very beautiful at that moment, +rested on Prince Andrew's face. + +The little princess talked incessantly, her short, downy upper lip +continually and rapidly touching her rosy nether lip when necessary +and drawing up again next moment when her face broke into a smile of +glittering teeth and sparkling eyes. She told of an accident they had +had on the Spasski Hill which might have been serious for her in her +condition, and immediately after that informed them that she had left +all her clothes in Petersburg and that heaven knew what she would have +to dress in here; and that Andrew had quite changed, and that Kitty +Odyntsova had married an old man, and that there was a suitor for Mary, +a real one, but that they would talk of that later. Princess Mary was +still looking silently at her brother and her beautiful eyes were full +of love and sadness. It was plain that she was following a train of +thought independent of her sister-in-law's words. In the midst of a +description of the last Petersburg fete she addressed her brother: + +"So you are really going to the war, Andrew?" she said sighing. + +Lise sighed too. + +"Yes, and even tomorrow," replied her brother. + +"He is leaving me here, God knows why, when he might have had +promotion..." + +Princess Mary did not listen to the end, but continuing her train of +thought turned to her sister-in-law with a tender glance at her figure. + +"Is it certain?" she said. + +The face of the little princess changed. She sighed and said: "Yes, +quite certain. Ah! it is very dreadful..." + +Her lip descended. She brought her face close to her sister-in-law's +and unexpectedly again began to cry. + +"She needs rest," said Prince Andrew with a frown. "Don't you, +Lise? Take her to your room and I'll go to Father. How is he? Just the +same?" + +"Yes, just the same. Though I don't know what your opinion will +be," answered the princess joyfully. + +"And are the hours the same? And the walks in the avenues? And the +lathe?" asked Prince Andrew with a scarcely perceptible smile which +showed that, in spite of all his love and respect for his father, he was +aware of his weaknesses. + +"The hours are the same, and the lathe, and also the mathematics and +my geometry lessons," said Princess Mary gleefully, as if her lessons +in geometry were among the greatest delights of her life. + +When the twenty minutes had elapsed and the time had come for the old +prince to get up, Tikhon came to call the young prince to his father. +The old man made a departure from his usual routine in honor of his +son's arrival: he gave orders to admit him to his apartments while +he dressed for dinner. The old prince always dressed in old-fashioned +style, wearing an antique coat and powdered hair; and when Prince Andrew +entered his father's dressing room (not with the contemptuous look and +manner he wore in drawing rooms, but with the animated face with which +he talked to Pierre), the old man was sitting on a large leather-covered +chair, wrapped in a powdering mantle, entrusting his head to Tikhon. + +"Ah! here's the warrior! Wants to vanquish Buonaparte?" said the +old man, shaking his powdered head as much as the tail, which Tikhon +was holding fast to plait, would allow. + +"You at least must tackle him properly, or else if he goes on like +this he'll soon have us, too, for his subjects! How are you?" And he +held out his cheek. + +The old man was in a good temper after his nap before dinner. (He +used to say that a nap "after dinner was silver--before dinner, +golden.") He cast happy, sidelong glances at his son from under his +thick, bushy eyebrows. Prince Andrew went up and kissed his father on +the spot indicated to him. He made no reply on his father's favorite +topic--making fun of the military men of the day, and more particularly +of Bonaparte. + +"Yes, Father, I have come to you and brought my wife who is +pregnant," said Prince Andrew, following every movement of his +father's face with an eager and respectful look. "How is your +health?" + +"Only fools and rakes fall ill, my boy. You know me: I am busy from +morning till night and abstemious, so of course I am well." + +"Thank God," said his son smiling. + +"God has nothing to do with it! Well, go on," he continued, +returning to his hobby; "tell me how the Germans have taught you to +fight Bonaparte by this new science you call 'strategy.'" + +Prince Andrew smiled. + +"Give me time to collect my wits, Father," said he, with a smile +that showed that his father's foibles did not prevent his son from +loving and honoring him. "Why, I have not yet had time to settle +down!" + +"Nonsense, nonsense!" cried the old man, shaking his pigtail to +see whether it was firmly plaited, and grasping his by the hand. "The +house for your wife is ready. Princess Mary will take her there and +show her over, and they'll talk nineteen to the dozen. That's +their woman's way! I am glad to have her. Sit down and talk. About +Mikhelson's army I understand--Tolstoy 's too... a simultaneous +expedition.... But what's the southern army to do? Prussia is +neutral... I know that. What about Austria?" said he, rising from his +chair and pacing up and down the room followed by Tikhon, who ran after +him, handing him different articles of clothing. "What of Sweden? How +will they cross Pomerania?" + +Prince Andrew, seeing that his father insisted, began--at first +reluctantly, but gradually with more and more animation, and from habit +changing unconsciously from Russian to French as he went on--to explain +the plan of operation for the coming campaign. He explained how an army, +ninety thousand strong, was to threaten Prussia so as to bring her out +of her neutrality and draw her into the war; how part of that army was +to join some Swedish forces at Stralsund; how two hundred and twenty +thousand Austrians, with a hundred thousand Russians, were to operate in +Italy and on the Rhine; how fifty thousand Russians and as many English +were to land at Naples, and how a total force of five hundred thousand +men was to attack the French from different sides. The old prince did +not evince the least interest during this explanation, but as if he were +not listening to it continued to dress while walking about, and three +times unexpectedly interrupted. Once he stopped it by shouting: "The +white one, the white one!" + +This meant that Tikhon was not handing him the waistcoat he wanted. +Another time he interrupted, saying: + +"And will she soon be confined?" and shaking his head reproachfully +said: "That's bad! Go on, go on." + +The third interruption came when Prince Andrew was finishing his +description. The old man began to sing, in the cracked voice of old age: +"Malbrook s'en va-t-en guerre. Dieu sait quand reviendra." * + + * "Marlborough is going to the wars; God knows when he'll + return." + + +His son only smiled. + +"I don't say it's a plan I approve of," said the son; "I am +only telling you what it is. Napoleon has also formed his plan by now, +not worse than this one." + +"Well, you've told me nothing new," and the old man repeated, +meditatively and rapidly: + +"Dieu sait quand reviendra. Go to the dining room." + + + + + +CHAPTER XXVII + +At the appointed hour the prince, powdered and shaven, entered the +dining room where his daughter-in-law, Princess Mary, and Mademoiselle +Bourienne were already awaiting him together with his architect, who by +a strange caprice of his employer's was admitted to table though the +position of that insignificant individual was such as could certainly +not have caused him to expect that honor. The prince, who generally kept +very strictly to social distinctions and rarely admitted even important +government officials to his table, had unexpectedly selected Michael +Ivanovich (who always went into a corner to blow his nose on his +checked handkerchief) to illustrate the theory that all men are equals, +and had more than once impressed on his daughter that Michael Ivanovich +was "not a whit worse than you or I." At dinner the prince usually +spoke to the taciturn Michael Ivanovich more often than to anyone else. + +In the dining room, which like all the rooms in the house was +exceedingly lofty, the members of the household and the footmen--one +behind each chair--stood waiting for the prince to enter. The head +butler, napkin on arm, was scanning the setting of the table, making +signs to the footmen, and anxiously glancing from the clock to the door +by which the prince was to enter. Prince Andrew was looking at a large +gilt frame, new to him, containing the genealogical tree of the Princes +Bolkonski, opposite which hung another such frame with a badly painted +portrait (evidently by the hand of the artist belonging to the estate) +of a ruling prince, in a crown--an alleged descendant of Rurik and +ancestor of the Bolkonskis. Prince Andrew, looking again at that +genealogical tree, shook his head, laughing as a man laughs who looks at +a portrait so characteristic of the original as to be amusing. + +"How thoroughly like him that is!" he said to Princess Mary, who had +come up to him. + +Princess Mary looked at her brother in surprise. She did not understand +what he was laughing at. Everything her father did inspired her with +reverence and was beyond question. + +"Everyone has his Achilles' heel," continued Prince Andrew. +"Fancy, with his powerful mind, indulging in such nonsense!" + +Princess Mary could not understand the boldness of her brother's +criticism and was about to reply, when the expected footsteps were heard +coming from the study. The prince walked in quickly and jauntily as was +his wont, as if intentionally contrasting the briskness of his manners +with the strict formality of his house. At that moment the great clock +struck two and another with a shrill tone joined in from the drawing +room. The prince stood still; his lively glittering eyes from under +their thick, bushy eyebrows sternly scanned all present and rested on +the little princess. She felt, as courtiers do when the Tsar enters, the +sensation of fear and respect which the old man inspired in all around +him. He stroked her hair and then patted her awkwardly on the back of +her neck. + +"I'm glad, glad, to see you," he said, looking attentively into +her eyes, and then quickly went to his place and sat down. "Sit down, +sit down! Sit down, Michael Ivanovich!" + +He indicated a place beside him to his daughter-in-law. A footman moved +the chair for her. + +"Ho, ho!" said the old man, casting his eyes on her rounded figure. +"You've been in a hurry. That's bad!" + +He laughed in his usual dry, cold, unpleasant way, with his lips only +and not with his eyes. + +"You must walk, walk as much as possible, as much as possible," he +said. + +The little princess did not, or did not wish to, hear his words. She was +silent and seemed confused. The prince asked her about her father, and +she began to smile and talk. He asked about mutual acquaintances, and +she became still more animated and chattered away giving him greetings +from various people and retelling the town gossip. + +"Countess Apraksina, poor thing, has lost her husband and she has +cried her eyes out," she said, growing more and more lively. + +As she became animated the prince looked at her more and more sternly, +and suddenly, as if he had studied her sufficiently and had formed a +definite idea of her, he turned away and addressed Michael Ivanovich. + +"Well, Michael Ivanovich, our Bonaparte will be having a bad time +of it. Prince Andrew" (he always spoke thus of his son) "has been +telling me what forces are being collected against him! While you and I +never thought much of him." + +Michael Ivanovich did not at all know when "you and I" had said +such things about Bonaparte, but understanding that he was wanted as +a peg on which to hang the prince's favorite topic, he looked +inquiringly at the young prince, wondering what would follow. + +"He is a great tactician!" said the prince to his son, pointing to +the architect. + +And the conversation again turned on the war, on Bonaparte, and the +generals and statesmen of the day. The old prince seemed convinced not +only that all the men of the day were mere babies who did not know the +A B C of war or of politics, and that Bonaparte was an insignificant +little Frenchy, successful only because there were no longer any +Potemkins or Suvorovs left to oppose him; but he was also convinced +that there were no political difficulties in Europe and no real war, +but only a sort of puppet show at which the men of the day were playing, +pretending to do something real. Prince Andrew gaily bore with his +father's ridicule of the new men, and drew him on and listened to him +with evident pleasure. + +"The past always seems good," said he, "but did not Suvorov +himself fall into a trap Moreau set him, and from which he did not know +how to escape?" + +"Who told you that? Who?" cried the prince. "Suvorov!" And he +jerked away his plate, which Tikhon briskly caught. "Suvorov!... +Consider, Prince Andrew. Two... Frederick and Suvorov; Moreau!... +Moreau would have been a prisoner if Suvorov had had a free hand; but +he had the Hofs-kriegs-wurst-schnapps-Rath on his hands. It would have +puzzled the devil himself! When you get there you'll find out what +those Hofs-kriegs-wurst-Raths are! Suvorov couldn't manage them so +what chance has Michael Kutuzov? No, my dear boy," he continued, +"you and your generals won't get on against Buonaparte; you'll +have to call in the French, so that birds of a feather may fight +together. The German, Pahlen, has been sent to New York in America, to +fetch the Frenchman, Moreau," he said, alluding to the invitation made +that year to Moreau to enter the Russian service.... "Wonderful!... +Were the Potemkins, Suvorovs, and Orlovs Germans? No, lad, either you +fellows have all lost your wits, or I have outlived mine. May God help +you, but we'll see what will happen. Buonaparte has become a great +commander among them! Hm!..." + +"I don't at all say that all the plans are good," said Prince +Andrew, "I am only surprised at your opinion of Bonaparte. You +may laugh as much as you like, but all the same Bonaparte is a great +general!" + +"Michael Ivanovich!" cried the old prince to the architect who, +busy with his roast meat, hoped he had been forgotten: "Didn't +I tell you Buonaparte was a great tactician? Here, he says the same +thing." + +"To be sure, your excellency," replied the architect. + +The prince again laughed his frigid laugh. + +"Buonaparte was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He has got +splendid soldiers. Besides he began by attacking Germans. And only +idlers have failed to beat the Germans. Since the world began everybody +has beaten the Germans. They beat no one--except one another. He made +his reputation fighting them." + +And the prince began explaining all the blunders which, according to +him, Bonaparte had made in his campaigns and even in politics. His +son made no rejoinder, but it was evident that whatever arguments were +presented he was as little able as his father to change his opinion. He +listened, refraining from a reply, and involuntarily wondered how this +old man, living alone in the country for so many years, could know and +discuss so minutely and acutely all the recent European military and +political events. + +"You think I'm an old man and don't understand the present state +of affairs?" concluded his father. "But it troubles me. I don't +sleep at night. Come now, where has this great commander of yours shown +his skill?" he concluded. + +"That would take too long to tell," answered the son. + +"Well, then go off to your Buonaparte! Mademoiselle Bourienne, +here's another admirer of that powder-monkey emperor of yours," he +exclaimed in excellent French. + +"You know, Prince, I am not a Bonapartist!" + +"Dieu sait quand reviendra." hummed the prince out of tune and, with +a laugh still more so, he quitted the table. + +The little princess during the whole discussion and the rest of +the dinner sat silent, glancing with a frightened look now at her +father-in-law and now at Princess Mary. When they left the table she +took her sister-in-law's arm and drew her into another room. + +"What a clever man your father is," said she; "perhaps that is why +I am afraid of him." + +"Oh, he is so kind!" answered Princess Mary. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXVIII + +Prince Andrew was to leave next evening. The old prince, not altering +his routine, retired as usual after dinner. The little princess was in +her sister-in-law's room. Prince Andrew in a traveling coat without +epaulettes had been packing with his valet in the rooms assigned to him. +After inspecting the carriage himself and seeing the trunks put in, he +ordered the horses to be harnessed. Only those things he always kept +with him remained in his room; a small box, a large canteen fitted +with silver plate, two Turkish pistols and a saber--a present from +his father who had brought it from the siege of Ochakov. All these +traveling effects of Prince Andrew's were in very good order: new, +clean, and in cloth covers carefully tied with tapes. + +When starting on a journey or changing their mode of life, men capable +of reflection are generally in a serious frame of mind. At such moments +one reviews the past and plans for the future. Prince Andrew's face +looked very thoughtful and tender. With his hands behind him he paced +briskly from corner to corner of the room, looking straight before him +and thoughtfully shaking his head. Did he fear going to the war, or was +he sad at leaving his wife?--perhaps both, but evidently he did not +wish to be seen in that mood, for hearing footsteps in the passage he +hurriedly unclasped his hands, stopped at a table as if tying the +cover of the small box, and assumed his usual tranquil and impenetrable +expression. It was the heavy tread of Princess Mary that he heard. + +"I hear you have given orders to harness," she cried, panting (she +had apparently been running), "and I did so wish to have another talk +with you alone! God knows how long we may again be parted. You are not +angry with me for coming? You have changed so, Andrusha," she added, +as if to explain such a question. + +She smiled as she uttered his pet name, "Andrusha." It was +obviously strange to her to think that this stern handsome man should be +Andrusha--the slender mischievous boy who had been her playfellow in +childhood. + +"And where is Lise?" he asked, answering her question only by a +smile. + +"She was so tired that she has fallen asleep on the sofa in my room. +Oh, Andrew! What a treasure of a wife you have," said she, sitting +down on the sofa, facing her brother. "She is quite a child: such a +dear, merry child. I have grown so fond of her." + +Prince Andrew was silent, but the princess noticed the ironical and +contemptuous look that showed itself on his face. + +"One must be indulgent to little weaknesses; who is free from them, +Andrew? Don't forget that she has grown up and been educated in +society, and so her position now is not a rosy one. We should enter into +everyone's situation. Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner. * Think +what it must be for her, poor thing, after what she has been used to, +to be parted from her husband and be left alone in the country, in her +condition! It's very hard." + + * To understand all is to forgive all. + +Prince Andrew smiled as he looked at his sister, as we smile at those we +think we thoroughly understand. + +"You live in the country and don't think the life terrible," he +replied. + +"I... that's different. Why speak of me? I don't want any other +life, and can't, for I know no other. But think, Andrew: for a young +society woman to be buried in the country during the best years of her +life, all alone--for Papa is always busy, and I... well, you know what +poor resources I have for entertaining a woman used to the best society. +There is only Mademoiselle Bourienne...." + +"I don't like your Mademoiselle Bourienne at all," said Prince +Andrew. + +"No? She is very nice and kind and, above all, she's much to be +pitied. She has no one, no one. To tell the truth, I don't need her, +and she's even in my way. You know I always was a savage, and now am +even more so. I like being alone.... Father likes her very much. She and +Michael Ivanovich are the two people to whom he is always gentle and +kind, because he has been a benefactor to them both. As Sterne says: +'We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as +for the good we have done them.' Father took her when she was homeless +after losing her own father. She is very good-natured, and my father +likes her way of reading. She reads to him in the evenings and reads +splendidly." + +"To be quite frank, Mary, I expect Father's character sometimes +makes things trying for you, doesn't it?" Prince Andrew asked +suddenly. + +Princess Mary was first surprised and then aghast at this question. + +"For me? For me?... Trying for me!..." said she. + +"He always was rather harsh; and now I should think he's getting +very trying," said Prince Andrew, apparently speaking lightly of their +father in order to puzzle or test his sister. + +"You are good in every way, Andrew, but you have a kind of +intellectual pride," said the princess, following the train of her own +thoughts rather than the trend of the conversation--"and that's a +great sin. How can one judge Father? But even if one might, what feeling +except veneration could such a man as my father evoke? And I am so +contented and happy with him. I only wish you were all as happy as I +am." + +Her brother shook his head incredulously. + +"The only thing that is hard for me... I will tell you the truth, +Andrew... is Father's way of treating religious subjects. I don't +understand how a man of his immense intellect can fail to see what is +as clear as day, and can go so far astray. That is the only thing +that makes me unhappy. But even in this I can see lately a shade of +improvement. His satire has been less bitter of late, and there was a +monk he received and had a long talk with." + +"Ah! my dear, I am afraid you and your monk are wasting your +powder," said Prince Andrew banteringly yet tenderly. + +"Ah! mon ami, I only pray, and hope that God will hear me. +Andrew..." she said timidly after a moment's silence, "I have a +great favor to ask of you." + +"What is it, dear?" + +"No--promise that you will not refuse! It will give you no trouble +and is nothing unworthy of you, but it will comfort me. Promise, +Andrusha!..." said she, putting her hand in her reticule but not yet +taking out what she was holding inside it, as if what she held were +the subject of her request and must not be shown before the request was +granted. + +She looked timidly at her brother. + +"Even if it were a great deal of trouble..." answered Prince Andrew, +as if guessing what it was about. + +"Think what you please! I know you are just like Father. Think as +you please, but do this for my sake! Please do! Father's father, our +grandfather, wore it in all his wars." (She still did not take out +what she was holding in her reticule.) "So you promise?" + +"Of course. What is it?" + +"Andrew, I bless you with this icon and you must promise me you will +never take it off. Do you promise?" + +"If it does not weigh a hundredweight and won't break my neck... +To please you..." said Prince Andrew. But immediately, noticing +the pained expression his joke had brought to his sister's face, he +repented and added: "I am glad; really, dear, I am very glad." + +"Against your will He will save and have mercy on you and bring you +to Himself, for in Him alone is truth and peace," said she in a voice +trembling with emotion, solemnly holding up in both hands before her +brother a small, oval, antique, dark-faced icon of the Saviour in a gold +setting, on a finely wrought silver chain. + +She crossed herself, kissed the icon, and handed it to Andrew. + +"Please, Andrew, for my sake!..." + +Rays of gentle light shone from her large, timid eyes. Those eyes lit +up the whole of her thin, sickly face and made it beautiful. Her brother +would have taken the icon, but she stopped him. Andrew understood, +crossed himself and kissed the icon. There was a look of tenderness, for +he was touched, but also a gleam of irony on his face. + +"Thank you, my dear." She kissed him on the forehead and sat down +again on the sofa. They were silent for a while. + +"As I was saying to you, Andrew, be kind and generous as you always +used to be. Don't judge Lise harshly," she began. "She is so +sweet, so good-natured, and her position now is a very hard one." + +"I do not think I have complained of my wife to you, Masha, or blamed +her. Why do you say all this to me?" + +Red patches appeared on Princess Mary's face and she was silent as if +she felt guilty. + +"I have said nothing to you, but you have already been talked to. And +I am sorry for that," he went on. + +The patches grew deeper on her forehead, neck, and cheeks. She tried to +say something but could not. Her brother had guessed right: the little +princess had been crying after dinner and had spoken of her forebodings +about her confinement, and how she dreaded it, and had complained of her +fate, her father-in-law, and her husband. After crying she had fallen +asleep. Prince Andrew felt sorry for his sister. + +"Know this, Masha: I can't reproach, have not reproached, and never +shall reproach my wife with anything, and I cannot reproach myself +with anything in regard to her; and that always will be so in whatever +circumstances I may be placed. But if you want to know the truth... if +you want to know whether I am happy? No! Is she happy? No! But why this +is so I don't know..." + +As he said this he rose, went to his sister, and, stooping, kissed +her forehead. His fine eyes lit up with a thoughtful, kindly, and +unaccustomed brightness, but he was looking not at his sister but over +her head toward the darkness of the open doorway. + +"Let us go to her, I must say good-by. Or--go and wake and I'll +come in a moment. Petrushka!" he called to his valet: "Come here, +take these away. Put this on the seat and this to the right." + +Princess Mary rose and moved to the door, then stopped and said: +"Andrew, if you had faith you would have turned to God and asked Him +to give you the love you do not feel, and your prayer would have been +answered." + +"Well, maybe!" said Prince Andrew. "Go, Masha; I'll come +immediately." + +On the way to his sister's room, in the passage which connected one +wing with the other, Prince Andrew met Mademoiselle Bourienne smiling +sweetly. It was the third time that day that, with an ecstatic and +artless smile, she had met him in secluded passages. + +"Oh! I thought you were in your room," she said, for some reason +blushing and dropping her eyes. + +Prince Andrew looked sternly at her and an expression of anger suddenly +came over his face. He said nothing to her but looked at her forehead +and hair, without looking at her eyes, with such contempt that the +Frenchwoman blushed and went away without a word. When he reached his +sister's room his wife was already awake and her merry voice, hurrying +one word after another, came through the open door. She was speaking as +usual in French, and as if after long self-restraint she wished to make +up for lost time. + +"No, but imagine the old Countess Zubova, with false curls and her +mouth full of false teeth, as if she were trying to cheat old age.... +Ha, ha, ha! Mary!" + +This very sentence about Countess Zubova and this same laugh Prince +Andrew had already heard from his wife in the presence of others some +five times. He entered the room softly. The little princess, plump and +rosy, was sitting in an easy chair with her work in her hands, talking +incessantly, repeating Petersburg reminiscences and even phrases. Prince +Andrew came up, stroked her hair, and asked if she felt rested after +their journey. She answered him and continued her chatter. + +The coach with six horses was waiting at the porch. It was an autumn +night, so dark that the coachman could not see the carriage pole. +Servants with lanterns were bustling about in the porch. The immense +house was brilliant with lights shining through its lofty windows. The +domestic serfs were crowding in the hall, waiting to bid good-by to +the young prince. The members of the household were all gathered in the +reception hall: Michael Ivanovich, Mademoiselle Bourienne, Princess +Mary, and the little princess. Prince Andrew had been called to his +father's study as the latter wished to say good-by to him alone. All +were waiting for them to come out. + +When Prince Andrew entered the study the old man in his old-age +spectacles and white dressing gown, in which he received no one but his +son, sat at the table writing. He glanced round. + +"Going?" And he went on writing. + +"I've come to say good-by." + +"Kiss me here," and he touched his cheek: "Thanks, thanks!" + +"What do you thank me for?" + +"For not dilly-dallying and not hanging to a woman's apron strings. +The Service before everything. Thanks, thanks!" And he went on +writing, so that his quill spluttered and squeaked. "If you have +anything to say, say it. These two things can be done together," he +added. + +"About my wife... I am ashamed as it is to leave her on your +hands...." + +"Why talk nonsense? Say what you want." + +"When her confinement is due, send to Moscow for an accoucheur.... Let +him be here...." + +The old prince stopped writing and, as if not understanding, fixed his +stern eyes on his son. + +"I know that no one can help if nature does not do her work," said +Prince Andrew, evidently confused. "I know that out of a million +cases only one goes wrong, but it is her fancy and mine. They have been +telling her things. She has had a dream and is frightened." + +"Hm... Hm..." muttered the old prince to himself, finishing what he +was writing. "I'll do it." + +He signed with a flourish and suddenly turning to his son began to +laugh. + +"It's a bad business, eh?" + +"What is bad, Father?" + +"The wife!" said the old prince, briefly and significantly. + +"I don't understand!" said Prince Andrew. + +"No, it can't be helped, lad," said the prince. "They're +all like that; one can't unmarry. Don't be afraid; I won't tell +anyone, but you know it yourself." + +He seized his son by the hand with small bony fingers, shook it, looked +straight into his son's face with keen eyes which seemed to see +through him, and again laughed his frigid laugh. + +The son sighed, thus admitting that his father had understood him. The +old man continued to fold and seal his letter, snatching up and throwing +down the wax, the seal, and the paper, with his accustomed rapidity. + +"What's to be done? She's pretty! I will do everything. Make your +mind easy," said he in abrupt sentences while sealing his letter. + +Andrew did not speak; he was both pleased and displeased that his father +understood him. The old man got up and gave the letter to his son. + +"Listen!" said he; "don't worry about your wife: what can be +done shall be. Now listen! Give this letter to Michael Ilarionovich. * +I have written that he should make use of you in proper places and not +keep you long as an adjutant: a bad position! Tell him I remember +and like him. Write and tell me how he receives you. If he is all +right--serve him. Nicholas Bolkonski's son need not serve under +anyone if he is in disfavor. Now come here." + + *Kutuzov. + +He spoke so rapidly that he did not finish half his words, but his son +was accustomed to understand him. He led him to the desk, raised the +lid, drew out a drawer, and took out an exercise book filled with his +bold, tall, close handwriting. + +"I shall probably die before you. So remember, these are my memoirs; +hand them to the Emperor after my death. Now here is a Lombard bond +and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of +Suvorov's wars. Send it to the Academy. Here are some jottings for +you to read when I am gone. You will find them useful." + +Andrew did not tell his father that he would no doubt live a long time +yet. He felt that he must not say it. + +"I will do it all, Father," he said. + +"Well, now, good-by!" He gave his son his hand to kiss, and embraced +him. "Remember this, Prince Andrew, if they kill you it will hurt me, +your old father..." he paused unexpectedly, and then in a querulous +voice suddenly shrieked: "but if I hear that you have not behaved like +a son of Nicholas Bolkonski, I shall be ashamed!" + +"You need not have said that to me, Father," said the son with a +smile. + +The old man was silent. + +"I also wanted to ask you," continued Prince Andrew, "if I'm +killed and if I have a son, do not let him be taken away from you--as I +said yesterday... let him grow up with you.... Please." + +"Not let the wife have him?" said the old man, and laughed. + +They stood silent, facing one another. The old man's sharp eyes were +fixed straight on his son's. Something twitched in the lower part of +the old prince's face. + +"We've said good-by. Go!" he suddenly shouted in a loud, angry +voice, opening his door. + +"What is it? What?" asked both princesses when they saw for a moment +at the door Prince Andrew and the figure of the old man in a white +dressing gown, spectacled and wigless, shouting in an angry voice. + +Prince Andrew sighed and made no reply. + +"Well!" he said, turning to his wife. + +And this "Well!" sounded coldly ironic, as if he were saying: "Now +go through your performance." + +"Andrew, already!" said the little princess, turning pale and +looking with dismay at her husband. + +He embraced her. She screamed and fell unconscious on his shoulder. + +He cautiously released the shoulder she leaned on, looked into her face, +and carefully placed her in an easy chair. + +"Adieu, Mary," said he gently to his sister, taking her by the hand +and kissing her, and then he left the room with rapid steps. + +The little princess lay in the armchair, Mademoiselle Bourienne chafing +her temples. Princess Mary, supporting her sister-in-law, still looked +with her beautiful eyes full of tears at the door through which Prince +Andrew had gone and made the sign of the cross in his direction. From +the study, like pistol shots, came the frequent sound of the old man +angrily blowing his nose. Hardly had Prince Andrew gone when the study +door opened quickly and the stern figure of the old man in the white +dressing gown looked out. + +"Gone? That's all right!" said he; and looking angrily at the +unconscious little princess, he shook his head reprovingly and slammed +the door. + + + + + +BOOK TWO: 1805 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +In October, 1805, a Russian army was occupying the villages and towns of +the Archduchy of Austria, and yet other regiments freshly arriving from +Russia were settling near the fortress of Braunau and burdening the +inhabitants on whom they were quartered. Braunau was the headquarters of +the commander in chief, Kutuzov. + +On October 11, 1805, one of the infantry regiments that had just reached +Braunau had halted half a mile from the town, waiting to be inspected +by the commander in chief. Despite the un-Russian appearance of the +locality and surroundings--fruit gardens, stone fences, tiled roofs, +and hills in the distance--and despite the fact that the inhabitants +(who gazed with curiosity at the soldiers) were not Russians, the +regiment had just the appearance of any Russian regiment preparing for +an inspection anywhere in the heart of Russia. + +On the evening of the last day's march an order had been received that +the commander in chief would inspect the regiment on the march. Though +the words of the order were not clear to the regimental commander, and +the question arose whether the troops were to be in marching order or +not, it was decided at a consultation between the battalion commanders +to present the regiment in parade order, on the principle that it is +always better to "bow too low than not bow low enough." So the +soldiers, after a twenty-mile march, were kept mending and cleaning all +night long without closing their eyes, while the adjutants and +company commanders calculated and reckoned, and by morning the +regiment--instead of the straggling, disorderly crowd it had been on +its last march the day before--presented a well-ordered array of two +thousand men each of whom knew his place and his duty, had every button +and every strap in place, and shone with cleanliness. And not only +externally was all in order, but had it pleased the commander in chief +to look under the uniforms he would have found on every man a clean +shirt, and in every knapsack the appointed number of articles, "awl, +soap, and all," as the soldiers say. There was only one circumstance +concerning which no one could be at ease. It was the state of the +soldiers' boots. More than half the men's boots were in holes. But +this defect was not due to any fault of the regimental commander, for +in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the Austrian +commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred miles. + +The commander of the regiment was an elderly, choleric, stout, and +thick-set general with grizzled eyebrows and whiskers, and wider from +chest to back than across the shoulders. He had on a brand-new uniform +showing the creases where it had been folded and thick gold epaulettes +which seemed to stand rather than lie down on his massive shoulders. He +had the air of a man happily performing one of the most solemn duties of +his life. He walked about in front of the line and at every step pulled +himself up, slightly arching his back. It was plain that the commander +admired his regiment, rejoiced in it, and that his whole mind was +engrossed by it, yet his strut seemed to indicate that, besides military +matters, social interests and the fair sex occupied no small part of his +thoughts. + +"Well, Michael Mitrich, sir?" he said, addressing one of the +battalion commanders who smilingly pressed forward (it was plain that +they both felt happy). "We had our hands full last night. However, I +think the regiment is not a bad one, eh?" + +The battalion commander perceived the jovial irony and laughed. + +"It would not be turned off the field even on the Tsaritsin +Meadow." + +"What?" asked the commander. + +At that moment, on the road from the town on which signalers had been +posted, two men appeared on horse back. They were an aide-de-camp +followed by a Cossack. + +The aide-de-camp was sent to confirm the order which had not been +clearly worded the day before, namely, that the commander in chief +wished to see the regiment just in the state in which it had been on +the march: in their greatcoats, and packs, and without any preparation +whatever. + +A member of the Hofkriegsrath from Vienna had come to Kutuzov the day +before with proposals and demands for him to join up with the army of +the Archduke Ferdinand and Mack, and Kutuzov, not considering this +junction advisable, meant, among other arguments in support of his view, +to show the Austrian general the wretched state in which the troops +arrived from Russia. With this object he intended to meet the regiment; +so the worse the condition it was in, the better pleased the commander +in chief would be. Though the aide-de-camp did not know these +circumstances, he nevertheless delivered the definite order that the +men should be in their greatcoats and in marching order, and that the +commander in chief would otherwise be dissatisfied. On hearing this the +regimental commander hung his head, silently shrugged his shoulders, and +spread out his arms with a choleric gesture. + +"A fine mess we've made of it!" he remarked. + +"There now! Didn't I tell you, Michael Mitrich, that if it was said +'on the march' it meant in greatcoats?" said he reproachfully to +the battalion commander. "Oh, my God!" he added, stepping resolutely +forward. "Company commanders!" he shouted in a voice accustomed to +command. "Sergeants major!... How soon will he be here?" he asked +the aide-de-camp with a respectful politeness evidently relating to the +personage he was referring to. + +"In an hour's time, I should say." + +"Shall we have time to change clothes?" + +"I don't know, General...." + +The regimental commander, going up to the line himself, ordered the +soldiers to change into their greatcoats. The company commanders ran off +to their companies, the sergeants major began bustling (the greatcoats +were not in very good condition), and instantly the squares that had up +to then been in regular order and silent began to sway and stretch and +hum with voices. On all sides soldiers were running to and fro, throwing +up their knapsacks with a jerk of their shoulders and pulling the straps +over their heads, unstrapping their overcoats and drawing the sleeves on +with upraised arms. + +In half an hour all was again in order, only the squares had become gray +instead of black. The regimental commander walked with his jerky steps +to the front of the regiment and examined it from a distance. + +"Whatever is this? This!" he shouted and stood still. "Commander +of the third company!" + +"Commander of the third company wanted by the general!... commander to +the general... third company to the commander." The words passed along +the lines and an adjutant ran to look for the missing officer. + +When the eager but misrepeated words had reached their destination in +a cry of: "The general to the third company," the missing officer +appeared from behind his company and, though he was a middle-aged man +and not in the habit of running, trotted awkwardly stumbling on his +toes toward the general. The captain's face showed the uneasiness of +a schoolboy who is told to repeat a lesson he has not learned. Spots +appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to +intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously. The general looked the +captain up and down as he came up panting, slackening his pace as he +approached. + +"You will soon be dressing your men in petticoats! What is this?" +shouted the regimental commander, thrusting forward his jaw and pointing +at a soldier in the ranks of the third company in a greatcoat of bluish +cloth, which contrasted with the others. "What have you been after? +The commander in chief is expected and you leave your place? Eh? I'll +teach you to dress the men in fancy coats for a parade.... Eh...?" + +The commander of the company, with his eyes fixed on his superior, +pressed two fingers more and more rigidly to his cap, as if in this +pressure lay his only hope of salvation. + +"Well, why don't you speak? Whom have you got there dressed up as a +Hungarian?" said the commander with an austere gibe. + +"Your excellency..." + +"Well, your excellency, what? Your excellency! But what about your +excellency?... nobody knows." + +"Your excellency, it's the officer Dolokhov, who has been reduced +to the ranks," said the captain softly. + +"Well? Has he been degraded into a field marshal, or into a soldier? +If a soldier, he should be dressed in regulation uniform like the +others." + +"Your excellency, you gave him leave yourself, on the march." + +"Gave him leave? Leave? That's just like you young men," said the +regimental commander cooling down a little. "Leave indeed.... One says +a word to you and you... What?" he added with renewed irritation, "I +beg you to dress your men decently." + +And the commander, turning to look at the adjutant, directed his jerky +steps down the line. He was evidently pleased at his own display of +anger and walking up to the regiment wished to find a further excuse for +wrath. Having snapped at an officer for an unpolished badge, at another +because his line was not straight, he reached the third company. + +"H-o-o-w are you standing? Where's your leg? Your leg?" shouted +the commander with a tone of suffering in his voice, while there were +still five men between him and Dolokhov with his bluish-gray uniform. + +Dolokhov slowly straightened his bent knee, looking straight with his +clear, insolent eyes in the general's face. + +"Why a blue coat? Off with it... Sergeant major! Change his coat... +the ras..." he did not finish. + +"General, I must obey orders, but I am not bound to endure..." +Dolokhov hurriedly interrupted. + +"No talking in the ranks!... No talking, no talking!" + +"Not bound to endure insults," Dolokhov concluded in loud, ringing +tones. + +The eyes of the general and the soldier met. The general became silent, +angrily pulling down his tight scarf. + +"I request you to have the goodness to change your coat," he said as +he turned away. + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +"He's coming!" shouted the signaler at that moment. + +The regimental commander, flushing, ran to his horse, seized the stirrup +with trembling hands, threw his body across the saddle, righted himself, +drew his saber, and with a happy and resolute countenance, opening +his mouth awry, prepared to shout. The regiment fluttered like a bird +preening its plumage and became motionless. + +"Att-ention!" shouted the regimental commander in a soul-shaking +voice which expressed joy for himself, severity for the regiment, and +welcome for the approaching chief. + +Along the broad country road, edged on both sides by trees, came a high, +light blue Viennese caleche, slightly creaking on its springs and drawn +by six horses at a smart trot. Behind the caleche galloped the suite +and a convoy of Croats. Beside Kutuzov sat an Austrian general, in +a white uniform that looked strange among the Russian black ones. The +caleche stopped in front of the regiment. Kutuzov and the Austrian +general were talking in low voices and Kutuzov smiled slightly as +treading heavily he stepped down from the carriage just as if those two +thousand men breathlessly gazing at him and the regimental commander did +not exist. + +The word of command rang out, and again the regiment quivered, as with a +jingling sound it presented arms. Then amidst a dead silence the +feeble voice of the commander in chief was heard. The regiment roared, +"Health to your ex... len... len... lency!" and again all became +silent. At first Kutuzov stood still while the regiment moved; then he +and the general in white, accompanied by the suite, walked between the +ranks. + +From the way the regimental commander saluted the commander in chief and +devoured him with his eyes, drawing himself up obsequiously, and from +the way he walked through the ranks behind the generals, bending forward +and hardly able to restrain his jerky movements, and from the way he +darted forward at every word or gesture of the commander in chief, +it was evident that he performed his duty as a subordinate with even +greater zeal than his duty as a commander. Thanks to the strictness and +assiduity of its commander the regiment, in comparison with others that +had reached Braunau at the same time, was in splendid condition. There +were only 217 sick and stragglers. Everything was in good order except +the boots. + +Kutuzov walked through the ranks, sometimes stopping to say a few +friendly words to officers he had known in the Turkish war, sometimes +also to the soldiers. Looking at their boots he several times shook his +head sadly, pointing them out to the Austrian general with an expression +which seemed to say that he was not blaming anyone, but could not help +noticing what a bad state of things it was. The regimental commander +ran forward on each such occasion, fearing to miss a single word of the +commander in chief's regarding the regiment. Behind Kutuzov, at a +distance that allowed every softly spoken word to be heard, followed +some twenty men of his suite. These gentlemen talked among themselves +and sometimes laughed. Nearest of all to the commander in chief walked +a handsome adjutant. This was Prince Bolkonski. Beside him was his +comrade Nesvitski, a tall staff officer, extremely stout, with a +kindly, smiling, handsome face and moist eyes. Nesvitski could hardly +keep from laughter provoked by a swarthy hussar officer who walked +beside him. This hussar, with a grave face and without a smile or a +change in the expression of his fixed eyes, watched the regimental +commander's back and mimicked his every movement. Each time the +commander started and bent forward, the hussar started and bent forward +in exactly the same manner. Nesvitski laughed and nudged the others to +make them look at the wag. + +Kutuzov walked slowly and languidly past thousands of eyes which were +starting from their sockets to watch their chief. On reaching the +third company he suddenly stopped. His suite, not having expected this, +involuntarily came closer to him. + +"Ah, Timokhin!" said he, recognizing the red-nosed captain who had +been reprimanded on account of the blue greatcoat. + +One would have thought it impossible for a man to stretch himself +more than Timokhin had done when he was reprimanded by the regimental +commander, but now that the commander in chief addressed him he drew +himself up to such an extent that it seemed he could not have sustained +it had the commander in chief continued to look at him, and so Kutuzov, +who evidently understood his case and wished him nothing but good, +quickly turned away, a scarcely perceptible smile flitting over his +scarred and puffy face. + +"Another Ismail comrade," said he. "A brave officer! Are you +satisfied with him?" he asked the regimental commander. + +And the latter--unconscious that he was being reflected in the hussar +officer as in a looking glass--started, moved forward, and answered: +"Highly satisfied, your excellency!" + +"We all have our weaknesses," said Kutuzov smiling and walking away +from him. "He used to have a predilection for Bacchus." + +The regimental commander was afraid he might be blamed for this and did +not answer. The hussar at that moment noticed the face of the red-nosed +captain and his drawn-in stomach, and mimicked his expression and pose +with such exactitude that Nesvitski could not help laughing. Kutuzov +turned round. The officer evidently had complete control of his face, +and while Kutuzov was turning managed to make a grimace and then assume +a most serious, deferential, and innocent expression. + +The third company was the last, and Kutuzov pondered, apparently trying +to recollect something. Prince Andrew stepped forward from among the +suite and said in French: + +"You told me to remind you of the officer Dolokhov, reduced to the +ranks in this regiment." + +"Where is Dolokhov?" asked Kutuzov. + +Dolokhov, who had already changed into a soldier's gray greatcoat, +did not wait to be called. The shapely figure of the fair-haired +soldier, with his clear blue eyes, stepped forward from the ranks, went +up to the commander in chief, and presented arms. + +"Have you a complaint to make?" Kutuzov asked with a slight frown. + +"This is Dolokhov," said Prince Andrew. + +"Ah!" said Kutuzov. "I hope this will be a lesson to you. Do your +duty. The Emperor is gracious, and I shan't forget you if you deserve +well." + +The clear blue eyes looked at the commander in chief just as boldly as +they had looked at the regimental commander, seeming by their expression +to tear open the veil of convention that separates a commander in chief +so widely from a private. + +"One thing I ask of your excellency," Dolokhov said in his firm, +ringing, deliberate voice. "I ask an opportunity to atone for my fault +and prove my devotion to His Majesty the Emperor and to Russia!" + +Kutuzov turned away. The same smile of the eyes with which he had +turned from Captain Timokhin again flitted over his face. He turned +away with a grimace as if to say that everything Dolokhov had said to +him and everything he could say had long been known to him, that he was +weary of it and it was not at all what he wanted. He turned away and +went to the carriage. + +The regiment broke up into companies, which went to their appointed +quarters near Braunau, where they hoped to receive boots and clothes and +to rest after their hard marches. + +"You won't bear me a grudge, Prokhor Ignatych?" said the +regimental commander, overtaking the third company on its way to its +quarters and riding up to Captain Timokhin who was walking in front. +(The regimental commander's face now that the inspection was happily +over beamed with irrepressible delight.) "It's in the Emperor's +service... it can't be helped... one is sometimes a bit hasty on +parade... I am the first to apologize, you know me!... He was very +pleased!" And he held out his hand to the captain. + +"Don't mention it, General, as if I'd be so bold!" replied the +captain, his nose growing redder as he gave a smile which showed where +two front teeth were missing that had been knocked out by the butt end +of a gun at Ismail. + +"And tell Mr. Dolokhov that I won't forget him--he may be quite +easy. And tell me, please--I've been meaning to ask--how is he +behaving himself, and in general..." + +"As far as the service goes he is quite punctilious, your excellency; +but his character..." said Timokhin. + +"And what about his character?" asked the regimental commander. + +"It's different on different days," answered the captain. "One +day he is sensible, well educated, and good-natured, and the next he's +a wild beast.... In Poland, if you please, he nearly killed a Jew." + +"Oh, well, well!" remarked the regimental commander. "Still, one +must have pity on a young man in misfortune. You know he has important +connections... Well, then, you just..." + +"I will, your excellency," said Timokhin, showing by his smile that +he understood his commander's wish. + +"Well, of course, of course!" + +The regimental commander sought out Dolokhov in the ranks and, reining +in his horse, said to him: + +"After the next affair... epaulettes." + +Dolokhov looked round but did not say anything, nor did the mocking +smile on his lips change. + +"Well, that's all right," continued the regimental commander. "A +cup of vodka for the men from me," he added so that the soldiers +could hear. "I thank you all! God be praised!" and he rode past that +company and overtook the next one. + +"Well, he's really a good fellow, one can serve under him," said +Timokhin to the subaltern beside him. + +"In a word, a hearty one..." said the subaltern, laughing (the +regimental commander was nicknamed King of Hearts). + +The cheerful mood of their officers after the inspection infected the +soldiers. The company marched on gaily. The soldiers' voices could be +heard on every side. + +"And they said Kutuzov was blind of one eye?" + +"And so he is! Quite blind!" + +"No, friend, he is sharper-eyed than you are. Boots and leg bands... +he noticed everything..." + +"When he looked at my feet, friend... well, thinks I..." + +"And that other one with him, the Austrian, looked as if he were +smeared with chalk--as white as flour! I suppose they polish him up as +they do the guns." + +"I say, Fedeshon!... Did he say when the battles are to begin? You +were near him. Everybody said that Buonaparte himself was at Braunau." + +"Buonaparte himself!... Just listen to the fool, what he doesn't +know! The Prussians are up in arms now. The Austrians, you see, are +putting them down. When they've been put down, the war with Buonaparte +will begin. And he says Buonaparte is in Braunau! Shows you're a fool. +You'd better listen more carefully!" + +"What devils these quartermasters are! See, the fifth company is +turning into the village already... they will have their buckwheat +cooked before we reach our quarters." + +"Give me a biscuit, you devil!" + +"And did you give me tobacco yesterday? That's just it, friend! Ah, +well, never mind, here you are." + +"They might call a halt here or we'll have to do another four miles +without eating." + +"Wasn't it fine when those Germans gave us lifts! You just sit still +and are drawn along." + +"And here, friend, the people are quite beggarly. There they all +seemed to be Poles--all under the Russian crown--but here they're +all regular Germans." + +"Singers to the front" came the captain's order. + +And from the different ranks some twenty men ran to the front. A +drummer, their leader, turned round facing the singers, and flourishing +his arm, began a long-drawn-out soldiers' song, commencing with the +words: "Morning dawned, the sun was rising," and concluding: "On +then, brothers, on to glory, led by Father Kamenski." This song had +been composed in the Turkish campaign and now being sung in Austria, the +only change being that the words "Father Kamenski" were replaced by +"Father Kutuzov." + +Having jerked out these last words as soldiers do and waved his arms +as if flinging something to the ground, the drummer--a lean, handsome +soldier of forty--looked sternly at the singers and screwed up his +eyes. Then having satisfied himself that all eyes were fixed on him, +he raised both arms as if carefully lifting some invisible but precious +object above his head and, holding it there for some seconds, suddenly +flung it down and began: + +"Oh, my bower, oh, my bower...!" + +"Oh, my bower new...!" chimed in twenty voices, and the castanet +player, in spite of the burden of his equipment, rushed out to the front +and, walking backwards before the company, jerked his shoulders and +flourished his castanets as if threatening someone. The soldiers, +swinging their arms and keeping time spontaneously, marched with long +steps. Behind the company the sound of wheels, the creaking of springs, +and the tramp of horses' hoofs were heard. Kutuzov and his suite were +returning to the town. The commander in chief made a sign that the +men should continue to march at ease, and he and all his suite showed +pleasure at the sound of the singing and the sight of the dancing +soldier and the gay and smartly marching men. In the second file +from the right flank, beside which the carriage passed the company, +a blue-eyed soldier involuntarily attracted notice. It was Dolokhov +marching with particular grace and boldness in time to the song and +looking at those driving past as if he pitied all who were not at that +moment marching with the company. The hussar cornet of Kutuzov's +suite who had mimicked the regimental commander, fell back from the +carriage and rode up to Dolokhov. + +Hussar cornet Zherkov had at one time, in Petersburg, belonged to +the wild set led by Dolokhov. Zherkov had met Dolokhov abroad as a +private and had not seen fit to recognize him. But now that Kutuzov had +spoken to the gentleman ranker, he addressed him with the cordiality of +an old friend. + +"My dear fellow, how are you?" said he through the singing, making +his horse keep pace with the company. + +"How am I?" Dolokhov answered coldly. "I am as you see." + +The lively song gave a special flavor to the tone of free and easy +gaiety with which Zherkov spoke, and to the intentional coldness of +Dolokhov's reply. + +"And how do you get on with the officers?" inquired Zherkov. + +"All right. They are good fellows. And how have you wriggled onto the +staff?" + +"I was attached; I'm on duty." + +Both were silent. + +"She let the hawk fly upward from her wide right sleeve," went the +song, arousing an involuntary sensation of courage and cheerfulness. +Their conversation would probably have been different but for the effect +of that song. + +"Is it true that Austrians have been beaten?" asked Dolokhov. + +"The devil only knows! They say so." + +"I'm glad," answered Dolokhov briefly and clearly, as the song +demanded. + +"I say, come round some evening and we'll have a game of faro!" +said Zherkov. + +"Why, have you too much money?" + +"Do come." + +"I can't. I've sworn not to. I won't drink and won't play till +I get reinstated." + +"Well, that's only till the first engagement." + +"We shall see." + +They were again silent. + +"Come if you need anything. One can at least be of use on the +staff..." + +Dolokhov smiled. "Don't trouble. If I want anything, I won't +beg--I'll take it!" + +"Well, never mind; I only..." + +"And I only..." + +"Good-by." + +"Good health..." + + "It's a long, long way. + To my native land..." + + +Zherkov touched his horse with the spurs; it pranced excitedly from +foot to foot uncertain with which to start, then settled down, galloped +past the company, and overtook the carriage, still keeping time to the +song. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +On returning from the review, Kutuzov took the Austrian general into +his private room and, calling his adjutant, asked for some papers +relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the +letters that had come from the Archduke Ferdinand, who was in command of +the advanced army. Prince Andrew Bolkonski came into the room with the +required papers. Kutuzov and the Austrian member of the Hofkriegsrath +were sitting at the table on which a plan was spread out. + +"Ah!..." said Kutuzov glancing at Bolkonski as if by this +exclamation he was asking the adjutant to wait, and he went on with the +conversation in French. + +"All I can say, General," said he with a pleasant elegance +of expression and intonation that obliged one to listen to each +deliberately spoken word. It was evident that Kutuzov himself listened +with pleasure to his own voice. "All I can say, General, is that if +the matter depended on my personal wishes, the will of His Majesty the +Emperor Francis would have been fulfilled long ago. I should long +ago have joined the archduke. And believe me on my honour that to me +personally it would be a pleasure to hand over the supreme command +of the army into the hands of a better informed and more skillful +general--of whom Austria has so many--and to lay down all this heavy +responsibility. But circumstances are sometimes too strong for us, +General." + +And Kutuzov smiled in a way that seemed to say, "You are quite at +liberty not to believe me and I don't even care whether you do or +not, but you have no grounds for telling me so. And that is the whole +point." + +The Austrian general looked dissatisfied, but had no option but to reply +in the same tone. + +"On the contrary," he said, in a querulous and angry tone that +contrasted with his flattering words, "on the contrary, your +excellency's participation in the common action is highly valued by +His Majesty; but we think the present delay is depriving the splendid +Russian troops and their commander of the laurels they have been +accustomed to win in their battles," he concluded his evidently +prearranged sentence. + +Kutuzov bowed with the same smile. + +"But that is my conviction, and judging by the last letter with which +His Highness the Archduke Ferdinand has honored me, I imagine that the +Austrian troops, under the direction of so skillful a leader as General +Mack, have by now already gained a decisive victory and no longer need +our aid," said Kutuzov. + +The general frowned. Though there was no definite news of an Austrian +defeat, there were many circumstances confirming the unfavorable rumors +that were afloat, and so Kutuzov's suggestion of an Austrian victory +sounded much like irony. But Kutuzov went on blandly smiling with the +same expression, which seemed to say that he had a right to suppose +so. And, in fact, the last letter he had received from Mack's army +informed him of a victory and stated strategically the position of the +army was very favorable. + +"Give me that letter," said Kutuzov turning to Prince Andrew. +"Please have a look at it"--and Kutuzov with an ironical smile +about the corners of his mouth read to the Austrian general the +following passage, in German, from the Archduke Ferdinand's letter: + +We have fully concentrated forces of nearly seventy thousand men with +which to attack and defeat the enemy should he cross the Lech. Also, +as we are masters of Ulm, we cannot be deprived of the advantage of +commanding both sides of the Danube, so that should the enemy not +cross the Lech, we can cross the Danube, throw ourselves on his line +of communications, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his +intention should he try to direct his whole force against our faithful +ally. We shall therefore confidently await the moment when the Imperial +Russian army will be fully equipped, and shall then, in conjunction with +it, easily find a way to prepare for the enemy the fate he deserves. + +Kutuzov sighed deeply on finishing this paragraph and looked at the +member of the Hofkriegsrath mildly and attentively. + +"But you know the wise maxim your excellency, advising one to expect +the worst," said the Austrian general, evidently wishing to have done +with jests and to come to business. He involuntarily looked round at the +aide-de-camp. + +"Excuse me, General," interrupted Kutuzov, also turning to Prince +Andrew. "Look here, my dear fellow, get from Kozlovski all the +reports from our scouts. Here are two letters from Count Nostitz and +here is one from His Highness the Archduke Ferdinand and here are +these," he said, handing him several papers, "make a neat memorandum +in French out of all this, showing all the news we have had of the +movements of the Austrian army, and then give it to his excellency." + +Prince Andrew bowed his head in token of having understood from the +first not only what had been said but also what Kutuzov would have +liked to tell him. He gathered up the papers and with a bow to both, +stepped softly over the carpet and went out into the waiting room. + +Though not much time had passed since Prince Andrew had left Russia, he +had changed greatly during that period. In the expression of his face, +in his movements, in his walk, scarcely a trace was left of his former +affected languor and indolence. He now looked like a man who has time +to think of the impression he makes on others, but is occupied with +agreeable and interesting work. His face expressed more satisfaction +with himself and those around him, his smile and glance were brighter +and more attractive. + +Kutuzov, whom he had overtaken in Poland, had received him very kindly, +promised not to forget him, distinguished him above the other adjutants, +and had taken him to Vienna and given him the more serious commissions. +From Vienna Kutuzov wrote to his old comrade, Prince Andrew's father. + +Your son bids fair to become an officer distinguished by his industry, +firmness, and expedition. I consider myself fortunate to have such a +subordinate by me. + +On Kutuzov's staff, among his fellow officers and in the army +generally, Prince Andrew had, as he had had in Petersburg society, two +quite opposite reputations. Some, a minority, acknowledged him to be +different from themselves and from everyone else, expected great things +of him, listened to him, admired, and imitated him, and with them Prince +Andrew was natural and pleasant. Others, the majority, disliked him and +considered him conceited, cold, and disagreeable. But among these people +Prince Andrew knew how to take his stand so that they respected and even +feared him. + +Coming out of Kutuzov's room into the waiting room with the papers in +his hand Prince Andrew came up to his comrade, the aide-de-camp on duty, +Kozlovski, who was sitting at the window with a book. + +"Well, Prince?" asked Kozlovski. + +"I am ordered to write a memorandum explaining why we are not +advancing." + +"And why is it?" + +Prince Andrew shrugged his shoulders. + +"Any news from Mack?" + +"No." + +"If it were true that he has been beaten, news would have come." + +"Probably," said Prince Andrew moving toward the outer door. + +But at that instant a tall Austrian general in a greatcoat, with the +order of Maria Theresa on his neck and a black bandage round his head, +who had evidently just arrived, entered quickly, slamming the door. +Prince Andrew stopped short. + +"Commander in Chief Kutuzov?" said the newly arrived general +speaking quickly with a harsh German accent, looking to both sides and +advancing straight toward the inner door. + +"The commander in chief is engaged," said Kozlovski, going +hurriedly up to the unknown general and blocking his way to the door. +"Whom shall I announce?" + +The unknown general looked disdainfully down at Kozlovski, who was +rather short, as if surprised that anyone should not know him. + +"The commander in chief is engaged," repeated Kozlovski calmly. + +The general's face clouded, his lips quivered and trembled. He took +out a notebook, hurriedly scribbled something in pencil, tore out the +leaf, gave it to Kozlovski, stepped quickly to the window, and threw +himself into a chair, gazing at those in the room as if asking, "Why +do they look at me?" Then he lifted his head, stretched his neck as +if he intended to say something, but immediately, with affected +indifference, began to hum to himself, producing a queer sound which +immediately broke off. The door of the private room opened and Kutuzov +appeared in the doorway. The general with the bandaged head bent forward +as though running away from some danger, and, making long, quick strides +with his thin legs, went up to Kutuzov. + +"Vous voyez le malheureux Mack," he uttered in a broken voice. + +Kutuzov's face as he stood in the open doorway remained perfectly +immobile for a few moments. Then wrinkles ran over his face like a wave +and his forehead became smooth again, he bowed his head respectfully, +closed his eyes, silently let Mack enter his room before him, and closed +the door himself behind him. + +The report which had been circulated that the Austrians had been beaten +and that the whole army had surrendered at Ulm proved to be correct. +Within half an hour adjutants had been sent in various directions with +orders which showed that the Russian troops, who had hitherto been +inactive, would also soon have to meet the enemy. + +Prince Andrew was one of those rare staff officers whose chief interest +lay in the general progress of the war. When he saw Mack and heard the +details of his disaster he understood that half the campaign was lost, +understood all the difficulties of the Russian army's position, and +vividly imagined what awaited it and the part he would have to +play. Involuntarily he felt a joyful agitation at the thought of the +humiliation of arrogant Austria and that in a week's time he might, +perhaps, see and take part in the first Russian encounter with the +French since Suvorov met them. He feared that Bonaparte's genius +might outweigh all the courage of the Russian troops, and at the same +time could not admit the idea of his hero being disgraced. + +Excited and irritated by these thoughts Prince Andrew went toward his +room to write to his father, to whom he wrote every day. In the corridor +he met Nesvitski, with whom he shared a room, and the wag Zherkov; +they were as usual laughing. + +"Why are you so glum?" asked Nesvitski noticing Prince Andrew's +pale face and glittering eyes. + +"There's nothing to be gay about," answered Bolkonski. + +Just as Prince Andrew met Nesvitski and Zherkov, there came toward +them from the other end of the corridor, Strauch, an Austrian general +who on Kutuzov's staff in charge of the provisioning of the Russian +army, and the member of the Hofkriegsrath who had arrived the previous +evening. There was room enough in the wide corridor for the generals to +pass the three officers quite easily, but Zherkov, pushing Nesvitski +aside with his arm, said in a breathless voice, + +"They're coming!... they're coming!... Stand aside, make way, +please make way!" + +The generals were passing by, looking as if they wished to avoid +embarrassing attentions. On the face of the wag Zherkov there suddenly +appeared a stupid smile of glee which he seemed unable to suppress. + +"Your excellency," said he in German, stepping forward and +addressing the Austrian general, "I have the honor to congratulate +you." + +He bowed his head and scraped first with one foot and then with the +other, awkwardly, like a child at a dancing lesson. + +The member of the Hofkriegsrath looked at him severely but, seeing the +seriousness of his stupid smile, could not but give him a moment's +attention. He screwed up his eyes showing that he was listening. + +"I have the honor to congratulate you. General Mack has arrived, quite +well, only a little bruised just here," he added, pointing with a +beaming smile to his head. + +The general frowned, turned away, and went on. + +"Gott, wie naiv!" * said he angrily, after he had gone a few steps. + + * "Good God, what simplicity!" + + +Nesvitski with a laugh threw his arms round Prince Andrew, but +Bolkonski, turning still paler, pushed him away with an angry look and +turned to Zherkov. The nervous irritation aroused by the appearance +of Mack, the news of his defeat, and the thought of what lay before the +Russian army found vent in anger at Zherkov's untimely jest. + +"If you, sir, choose to make a buffoon of yourself," he said +sharply, with a slight trembling of the lower jaw, "I can't prevent +your doing so; but I warn you that if you dare to play the fool in my +presence, I will teach you to behave yourself." + +Nesvitski and Zherkov were so surprised by this outburst that they +gazed at Bolkonski silently with wide-open eyes. + +"What's the matter? I only congratulated them," said Zherkov. + +"I am not jesting with you; please be silent!" cried Bolkonski, +and taking Nesvitski's arm he left Zherkov, who did not know what to +say. + +"Come, what's the matter, old fellow?" said Nesvitski trying to +soothe him. + +"What's the matter?" exclaimed Prince Andrew standing still in +his excitement. "Don't you understand that either we are officers +serving our Tsar and our country, rejoicing in the successes and +grieving at the misfortunes of our common cause, or we are merely +lackeys who care nothing for their master's business. Quarante mille +hommes massacres et l'armee de nos allies detruite, et vous +trouvez la le mot pour rire," * he said, as if strengthening his +views by this French sentence. "C'est bien pour un garcon de rien +comme cet individu dont vous avez fait un ami, mais pas pour vous, pas +pour vous. *(2) Only a hobbledehoy could amuse himself in this +way," he added in Russian--but pronouncing the word with a French +accent--having noticed that Zherkov could still hear him. + + * "Forty thousand men massacred and the army of our allies + destroyed, and you find that a cause for jesting!" + + * (2) "It is all very well for that good-for-nothing fellow + of whom you have made a friend, but not for you, not for + you." + + +He waited a moment to see whether the cornet would answer, but he turned +and went out of the corridor. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +The Pavlograd Hussars were stationed two miles from Braunau. The +squadron in which Nicholas Rostov served as a cadet was quartered in +the German village of Salzeneck. The best quarters in the village were +assigned to cavalry-captain Denisov, the squadron commander, known +throughout the whole cavalry division as Vaska Denisov. Cadet Rostov, +ever since he had overtaken the regiment in Poland, had lived with the +squadron commander. + +On October 11, the day when all was astir at headquarters over the news +of Mack's defeat, the camp life of the officers of this squadron was +proceeding as usual. Denisov, who had been losing at cards all night, +had not yet come home when Rostov rode back early in the morning from +a foraging expedition. Rostov in his cadet uniform, with a jerk to his +horse, rode up to the porch, swung his leg over the saddle with a supple +youthful movement, stood for a moment in the stirrup as if loathe to +part from his horse, and at last sprang down and called to his orderly. + +"Ah, Bondarenko, dear friend!" said he to the hussar who rushed up +headlong to the horse. "Walk him up and down, my dear fellow," he +continued, with that gay brotherly cordiality which goodhearted young +people show to everyone when they are happy. + +"Yes, your excellency," answered the Ukrainian gaily, tossing his +head. + +"Mind, walk him up and down well!" + +Another hussar also rushed toward the horse, but Bondarenko had already +thrown the reins of the snaffle bridle over the horse's head. It was +evident that the cadet was liberal with his tips and that it paid to +serve him. Rostov patted the horse's neck and then his flank, and +lingered for a moment. + +"Splendid! What a horse he will be!" he thought with a smile, and +holding up his saber, his spurs jingling, he ran up the steps of the +porch. His landlord, who in a waistcoat and a pointed cap, pitchfork in +hand, was clearing manure from the cowhouse, looked out, and his face +immediately brightened on seeing Rostov. "Schon gut Morgen! Schon +gut Morgen!" * he said winking with a merry smile, evidently pleased +to greet the young man. + + * "A very good morning! A very good morning!" + + +"Schon fleissig?" * said Rostov with the same gay brotherly smile +which did not leave his eager face. "Hoch Oestreicher! Hoch Russen! +Kaiser Alexander hoch!" *(2) said he, quoting words often repeated by +the German landlord. + + * "Busy already?" + + * (2) "Hurrah for the Austrians! Hurrah for the Russians! + Hurrah for Emperor Alexander!" + + +The German laughed, came out of the cowshed, pulled off his cap, and +waving it above his head cried: + +"Und die ganze Welt hoch!" * + + * "And hurrah for the whole world!" + + +Rostov waved his cap above his head like the German and cried laughing, +"Und vivat die ganze Welt!" Though neither the German cleaning his +cowshed nor Rostov back with his platoon from foraging for hay had any +reason for rejoicing, they looked at each other with joyful delight and +brotherly love, wagged their heads in token of their mutual affection, +and parted smiling, the German returning to his cowshed and Rostov +going to the cottage he occupied with Denisov. + +"What about your master?" he asked Lavrushka, Denisov's orderly, +whom all the regiment knew for a rogue. + +"Hasn't been in since the evening. Must have been losing," +answered Lavrushka. "I know by now, if he wins he comes back early to +brag about it, but if he stays out till morning it means he's lost and +will come back in a rage. Will you have coffee?" + +"Yes, bring some." + +Ten minutes later Lavrushka brought the coffee. "He's coming!" +said he. "Now for trouble!" Rostov looked out of the window and +saw Denisov coming home. Denisov was a small man with a red face, +sparkling black eyes, and black tousled mustache and hair. He wore an +unfastened cloak, wide breeches hanging down in creases, and a crumpled +shako on the back of his head. He came up to the porch gloomily, hanging +his head. + +"Lavwuska!" he shouted loudly and angrily, "take it off, +blockhead!" + +"Well, I am taking it off," replied Lavrushka's voice. + +"Ah, you're up already," said Denisov, entering the room. + +"Long ago," answered Rostov, "I have already been for the hay, +and have seen Fraulein Mathilde." + +"Weally! And I've been losing, bwother. I lost yesterday like a +damned fool!" cried Denisov, not pronouncing his r's. "Such ill +luck! Such ill luck. As soon as you left, it began and went on. Hullo +there! Tea!" + +Puckering up his face though smiling, and showing his short strong +teeth, he began with stubby fingers of both hands to ruffle up his thick +tangled black hair. + +"And what devil made me go to that wat?" (an officer nicknamed +"the rat") he said, rubbing his forehead and whole face with both +hands. "Just fancy, he didn't let me win a single cahd, not one +cahd." + +He took the lighted pipe that was offered to him, gripped it in his +fist, and tapped it on the floor, making the sparks fly, while he +continued to shout. + +"He lets one win the singles and collahs it as soon as one doubles it; +gives the singles and snatches the doubles!" + +He scattered the burning tobacco, smashed the pipe, and threw it away. +Then he remained silent for a while, and all at once looked cheerfully +with his glittering, black eyes at Rostov. + +"If at least we had some women here; but there's nothing foh one +to do but dwink. If we could only get to fighting soon. Hullo, who's +there?" he said, turning to the door as he heard a tread of heavy +boots and the clinking of spurs that came to a stop, and a respectful +cough. + +"The squadron quartermaster!" said Lavrushka. + +Denisov's face puckered still more. + +"Wetched!" he muttered, throwing down a purse with some gold in it. +"Wostov, deah fellow, just see how much there is left and shove the +purse undah the pillow," he said, and went out to the quartermaster. + +Rostov took the money and, mechanically arranging the old and new coins +in separate piles, began counting them. + +"Ah! Telyanin! How d'ye do? They plucked me last night," came +Denisov's voice from the next room. + +"Where? At Bykov's, at the rat's... I knew it," replied a piping +voice, and Lieutenant Telyanin, a small officer of the same squadron, +entered the room. + +Rostov thrust the purse under the pillow and shook the damp little hand +which was offered him. Telyanin for some reason had been transferred +from the Guards just before this campaign. He behaved very well in the +regiment but was not liked; Rostov especially detested him and was +unable to overcome or conceal his groundless antipathy to the man. + +"Well, young cavalryman, how is my Rook behaving?" he asked. (Rook +was a young horse Telyanin had sold to Rostov.) + +The lieutenant never looked the man he was speaking to straight in the +face; his eyes continually wandered from one object to another. + +"I saw you riding this morning..." he added. + +"Oh, he's all right, a good horse," answered Rostov, though the +horse for which he had paid seven hundred rubbles was not worth half +that sum. "He's begun to go a little lame on the left foreleg," he +added. + +"The hoof's cracked! That's nothing. I'll teach you what to do +and show you what kind of rivet to use." + +"Yes, please do," said Rostov. + +"I'll show you, I'll show you! It's not a secret. And it's a +horse you'll thank me for." + +"Then I'll have it brought round," said Rostov wishing to avoid +Telyanin, and he went out to give the order. + +In the passage Denisov, with a pipe, was squatting on the threshold +facing the quartermaster who was reporting to him. On seeing Rostov, +Denisov screwed up his face and pointing over his shoulder with his +thumb to the room where Telyanin was sitting, he frowned and gave a +shudder of disgust. + +"Ugh! I don't like that fellow," he said, regardless of the +quartermaster's presence. + +Rostov shrugged his shoulders as much as to say: "Nor do I, but +what's one to do?" and, having given his order, he returned to +Telyanin. + +Telyanin was sitting in the same indolent pose in which Rostov had +left him, rubbing his small white hands. + +"Well there certainly are disgusting people," thought Rostov as he +entered. + +"Have you told them to bring the horse?" asked Telyanin, getting up +and looking carelessly about him. + +"I have." + +"Let us go ourselves. I only came round to ask Denisov about +yesterday's order. Have you got it, Denisov?" + +"Not yet. But where are you off to?" + +"I want to teach this young man how to shoe a horse," said +Telyanin. + +They went through the porch and into the stable. The lieutenant +explained how to rivet the hoof and went away to his own quarters. + +When Rostov went back there was a bottle of vodka and a sausage on the +table. Denisov was sitting there scratching with his pen on a sheet of +paper. He looked gloomily in Rostov's face and said: "I am witing +to her." + +He leaned his elbows on the table with his pen in his hand and, +evidently glad of a chance to say quicker in words what he wanted to +write, told Rostov the contents of his letter. + +"You see, my fwiend," he said, "we sleep when we don't love. We +are childwen of the dust... but one falls in love and one is a God, one +is pua' as on the fihst day of cweation... Who's that now? Send him +to the devil, I'm busy!" he shouted to Lavrushka, who went up to +him not in the least abashed. + +"Who should it be? You yourself told him to come. It's the +quartermaster for the money." + +Denisov frowned and was about to shout some reply but stopped. + +"Wetched business," he muttered to himself. "How much is left in +the puhse?" he asked, turning to Rostov. + +"Seven new and three old imperials." + +"Oh, it's wetched! Well, what are you standing there for, you +sca'cwow? Call the quahtehmasteh," he shouted to Lavrushka. + +"Please, Denisov, let me lend you some: I have some, you know," +said Rostov, blushing. + +"Don't like bowwowing from my own fellows, I don't," growled +Denisov. + +"But if you won't accept money from me like a comrade, you will +offend me. Really I have some," Rostov repeated. + +"No, I tell you." + +And Denisov went to the bed to get the purse from under the pillow. + +"Where have you put it, Wostov?" + +"Under the lower pillow." + +"It's not there." + +Denisov threw both pillows on the floor. The purse was not there. + +"That's a miwacle." + +"Wait, haven't you dropped it?" said Rostov, picking up the +pillows one at a time and shaking them. + +He pulled off the quilt and shook it. The purse was not there. + +"Dear me, can I have forgotten? No, I remember thinking that you kept +it under your head like a treasure," said Rostov. "I put it just +here. Where is it?" he asked, turning to Lavrushka. + +"I haven't been in the room. It must be where you put it." + +"But it isn't?..." + +"You're always like that; you thwow a thing down anywhere and forget +it. Feel in your pockets." + +"No, if I hadn't thought of it being a treasure," said Rostov, +"but I remember putting it there." + +Lavrushka turned all the bedding over, looked under the bed and under +the table, searched everywhere, and stood still in the middle of the +room. Denisov silently watched Lavrushka's movements, and when the +latter threw up his arms in surprise saying it was nowhere to be found +Denisov glanced at Rostov. + +"Wostov, you've not been playing schoolboy twicks..." + +Rostov felt Denisov's gaze fixed on him, raised his eyes, and +instantly dropped them again. All the blood which had seemed congested +somewhere below his throat rushed to his face and eyes. He could not +draw breath. + +"And there hasn't been anyone in the room except the lieutenant and +yourselves. It must be here somewhere," said Lavrushka. + +"Now then, you devil's puppet, look alive and hunt for it!" +shouted Denisov, suddenly, turning purple and rushing at the man with +a threatening gesture. "If the purse isn't found I'll flog you, +I'll flog you all." + +Rostov, his eyes avoiding Denisov, began buttoning his coat, buckled +on his saber, and put on his cap. + +"I must have that purse, I tell you," shouted Denisov, shaking his +orderly by the shoulders and knocking him against the wall. + +"Denisov, let him alone, I know who has taken it," said Rostov, +going toward the door without raising his eyes. Denisov paused, thought +a moment, and, evidently understanding what Rostov hinted at, seized +his arm. + +"Nonsense!" he cried, and the veins on his forehead and neck stood +out like cords. "You are mad, I tell you. I won't allow it. +The purse is here! I'll flay this scoundwel alive, and it will be +found." + +"I know who has taken it," repeated Rostov in an unsteady voice, +and went to the door. + +"And I tell you, don't you dahe to do it!" shouted Denisov, +rushing at the cadet to restrain him. + +But Rostov pulled away his arm and, with as much anger as though +Denisov were his worst enemy, firmly fixed his eyes directly on his +face. + +"Do you understand what you're saying?" he said in a trembling +voice. "There was no one else in the room except myself. So that if it +is not so, then..." + +He could not finish, and ran out of the room. + +"Ah, may the devil take you and evewybody," were the last words +Rostov heard. + +Rostov went to Telyanin's quarters. + +"The master is not in, he's gone to headquarters," said +Telyanin's orderly. "Has something happened?" he added, surprised +at the cadet's troubled face. + +"No, nothing." + +"You've only just missed him," said the orderly. + +The headquarters were situated two miles away from Salzeneck, and +Rostov, without returning home, took a horse and rode there. There was +an inn in the village which the officers frequented. Rostov rode up to +it and saw Telyanin's horse at the porch. + +In the second room of the inn the lieutenant was sitting over a dish of +sausages and a bottle of wine. + +"Ah, you've come here too, young man!" he said, smiling and +raising his eyebrows. + +"Yes," said Rostov as if it cost him a great deal to utter the +word; and he sat down at the nearest table. + +Both were silent. There were two Germans and a Russian officer in the +room. No one spoke and the only sounds heard were the clatter of knives +and the munching of the lieutenant. + +When Telyanin had finished his lunch he took out of his pocket a double +purse and, drawing its rings aside with his small, white, turned-up +fingers, drew out a gold imperial, and lifting his eyebrows gave it to +the waiter. + +"Please be quick," he said. + +The coin was a new one. Rostov rose and went up to Telyanin. + +"Allow me to look at your purse," he said in a low, almost +inaudible, voice. + +With shifting eyes but eyebrows still raised, Telyanin handed him the +purse. + +"Yes, it's a nice purse. Yes, yes," he said, growing suddenly +pale, and added, "Look at it, young man." + +Rostov took the purse in his hand, examined it and the money in it, and +looked at Telyanin. The lieutenant was looking about in his usual way +and suddenly seemed to grow very merry. + +"If we get to Vienna I'll get rid of it there but in these wretched +little towns there's nowhere to spend it," said he. "Well, let me +have it, young man, I'm going." + +Rostov did not speak. + +"And you? Are you going to have lunch too? They feed you quite +decently here," continued Telyanin. "Now then, let me have it." + +He stretched out his hand to take hold of the purse. Rostov let go of +it. Telyanin took the purse and began carelessly slipping it into the +pocket of his riding breeches, with his eyebrows lifted and his mouth +slightly open, as if to say, "Yes, yes, I am putting my purse in my +pocket and that's quite simple and is no one else's business." + +"Well, young man?" he said with a sigh, and from under his lifted +brows he glanced into Rostov's eyes. + +Some flash as of an electric spark shot from Telyanin's eyes to +Rostov's and back, and back again and again in an instant. + +"Come here," said Rostov, catching hold of Telyanin's arm and +almost dragging him to the window. "That money is Denisov's; you +took it..." he whispered just above Telyanin's ear. + +"What? What? How dare you? What?" said Telyanin. + +But these words came like a piteous, despairing cry and an entreaty for +pardon. As soon as Rostov heard them, an enormous load of doubt +fell from him. He was glad, and at the same instant began to pity the +miserable man who stood before him, but the task he had begun had to be +completed. + +"Heaven only knows what the people here may imagine," muttered +Telyanin, taking up his cap and moving toward a small empty room. "We +must have an explanation..." + +"I know it and shall prove it," said Rostov. + +"I..." + +Every muscle of Telyanin's pale, terrified face began to quiver, his +eyes still shifted from side to side but with a downward look not rising +to Rostov's face, and his sobs were audible. + +"Count!... Don't ruin a young fellow... here is this wretched money, +take it..." He threw it on the table. "I have an old father and +mother!..." + +Rostov took the money, avoiding Telyanin's eyes, and went out of the +room without a word. But at the door he stopped and then retraced his +steps. "O God," he said with tears in his eyes, "how could you do +it?" + +"Count..." said Telyanin drawing nearer to him. + +"Don't touch me," said Rostov, drawing back. "If you need it, +take the money," and he threw the purse to him and ran out of the inn. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +That same evening there was an animated discussion among the +squadron's officers in Denisov's quarters. + +"And I tell you, Rostov, that you must apologize to the colonel!" +said a tall, grizzly-haired staff captain, with enormous mustaches and +many wrinkles on his large features, to Rostov who was crimson with +excitement. + +The staff captain, Kirsten, had twice been reduced to the ranks for +affairs of honor and had twice regained his commission. + +"I will allow no one to call me a liar!" cried Rostov. "He told +me I lied, and I told him he lied. And there it rests. He may keep me +on duty every day, or may place me under arrest, but no one can make +me apologize, because if he, as commander of this regiment, thinks it +beneath his dignity to give me satisfaction, then..." + +"You just wait a moment, my dear fellow, and listen," interrupted +the staff captain in his deep bass, calmly stroking his long mustache. +"You tell the colonel in the presence of other officers that an +officer has stolen..." + +"I'm not to blame that the conversation began in the presence of +other officers. Perhaps I ought not to have spoken before them, but I am +not a diplomatist. That's why I joined the hussars, thinking that here +one would not need finesse; and he tells me that I am lying--so let him +give me satisfaction..." + +"That's all right. No one thinks you a coward, but that's not the +point. Ask Denisov whether it is not out of the question for a cadet to +demand satisfaction of his regimental commander?" + +Denisov sat gloomily biting his mustache and listening to the +conversation, evidently with no wish to take part in it. He answered the +staff captain's question by a disapproving shake of his head. + +"You speak to the colonel about this nasty business before other +officers," continued the staff captain, "and Bogdanich" (the +colonel was called Bogdanich) "shuts you up." + +"He did not shut me up, he said I was telling an untruth." + +"Well, have it so, and you talked a lot of nonsense to him and must +apologize." + +"Not on any account!" exclaimed Rostov. + +"I did not expect this of you," said the staff captain seriously and +severely. "You don't wish to apologize, but, man, it's not only to +him but to the whole regiment--all of us--you're to blame all round. +The case is this: you ought to have thought the matter over and +taken advice; but no, you go and blurt it all straight out before the +officers. Now what was the colonel to do? Have the officer tried and +disgrace the whole regiment? Disgrace the whole regiment because of one +scoundrel? Is that how you look at it? We don't see it like that. And +Bogdanich was a brick: he told you you were saying what was not true. +It's not pleasant, but what's to be done, my dear fellow? You landed +yourself in it. And now, when one wants to smooth the thing over, some +conceit prevents your apologizing, and you wish to make the whole +affair public. You are offended at being put on duty a bit, but why not +apologize to an old and honorable officer? Whatever Bogdanich may +be, anyway he is an honorable and brave old colonel! You're quick at +taking offense, but you don't mind disgracing the whole regiment!" +The staff captain's voice began to tremble. "You have been in the +regiment next to no time, my lad, you're here today and tomorrow +you'll be appointed adjutant somewhere and can snap your fingers when +it is said 'There are thieves among the Pavlograd officers!' But +it's not all the same to us! Am I not right, Denisov? It's not the +same!" + +Denisov remained silent and did not move, but occasionally looked with +his glittering black eyes at Rostov. + +"You value your own pride and don't wish to apologize," continued +the staff captain, "but we old fellows, who have grown up in and, God +willing, are going to die in the regiment, we prize the honor of the +regiment, and Bogdanich knows it. Oh, we do prize it, old fellow! And +all this is not right, it's not right! You may take offense or not but +I always stick to mother truth. It's not right!" + +And the staff captain rose and turned away from Rostov. + +"That's twue, devil take it!" shouted Denisov, jumping up. "Now +then, Wostov, now then!" + +Rostov, growing red and pale alternately, looked first at one officer +and then at the other. + +"No, gentlemen, no... you mustn't think... I quite understand. +You're wrong to think that of me... I... for me... for the honor of +the regiment I'd... Ah well, I'll show that in action, and for me +the honor of the flag... Well, never mind, it's true I'm to blame, +to blame all round. Well, what else do you want?..." + +"Come, that's right, Count!" cried the staff captain, turning +round and clapping Rostov on the shoulder with his big hand. + +"I tell you," shouted Denisov, "he's a fine fellow." + +"That's better, Count," said the staff captain, beginning to +address Rostov by his title, as if in recognition of his confession. +"Go and apologize, your excellency. Yes, go!" + +"Gentlemen, I'll do anything. No one shall hear a word from me," +said Rostov in an imploring voice, "but I can't apologize, by God I +can't, do what you will! How can I go and apologize like a little boy +asking forgiveness?" + +Denisov began to laugh. + +"It'll be worse for you. Bogdanich is vindictive and you'll pay +for your obstinacy," said Kirsten. + +"No, on my word it's not obstinacy! I can't describe the feeling. +I can't..." + +"Well, it's as you like," said the staff captain. "And what has +become of that scoundrel?" he asked Denisov. + +"He has weported himself sick, he's to be stwuck off the list +tomowwow," muttered Denisov. + +"It is an illness, there's no other way of explaining it," said +the staff captain. + +"Illness or not, he'd better not cwoss my path. I'd kill him!" +shouted Denisov in a bloodthirsty tone. + +Just then Zherkov entered the room. + +"What brings you here?" cried the officers turning to the newcomer. + +"We're to go into action, gentlemen! Mack has surrendered with his +whole army." + +"It's not true!" + +"I've seen him myself!" + +"What? Saw the real Mack? With hands and feet?" + +"Into action! Into action! Bring him a bottle for such news! But how +did you come here?" + +"I've been sent back to the regiment all on account of that devil, +Mack. An Austrian general complained of me. I congratulated him on +Mack's arrival... What's the matter, Rostov? You look as if you'd +just come out of a hot bath." + +"Oh, my dear fellow, we're in such a stew here these last two +days." + +The regimental adjutant came in and confirmed the news brought by +Zherkov. They were under orders to advance next day. + +"We're going into action, gentlemen!" + +"Well, thank God! We've been sitting here too long!" + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +Kutuzov fell back toward Vienna, destroying behind him the bridges over +the rivers Inn (at Braunau) and Traun (near Linz). On October 23 the +Russian troops were crossing the river Enns. At midday the Russian +baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling +through the town of Enns on both sides of the bridge. + +It was a warm, rainy, autumnal day. The wide expanse that opened out +before the heights on which the Russian batteries stood guarding the +bridge was at times veiled by a diaphanous curtain of slanting rain, and +then, suddenly spread out in the sunlight, far-distant objects could +be clearly seen glittering as though freshly varnished. Down below, +the little town could be seen with its white, red-roofed houses, its +cathedral, and its bridge, on both sides of which streamed jostling +masses of Russian troops. At the bend of the Danube, vessels, an island, +and a castle with a park surrounded by the waters of the confluence of +the Enns and the Danube became visible, and the rocky left bank of the +Danube covered with pine forests, with a mystic background of green +treetops and bluish gorges. The turrets of a convent stood out beyond a +wild virgin pine forest, and far away on the other side of the Enns the +enemy's horse patrols could be discerned. + +Among the field guns on the brow of the hill the general in command of +the rearguard stood with a staff officer, scanning the country through +his fieldglass. A little behind them Nesvitski, who had been sent to +the rearguard by the commander in chief, was sitting on the trail of a +gun carriage. A Cossack who accompanied him had handed him a knapsack +and a flask, and Nesvitski was treating some officers to pies and real +doppelkummel. The officers gladly gathered round him, some on their +knees, some squatting Turkish fashion on the wet grass. + +"Yes, the Austrian prince who built that castle was no fool. It's +a fine place! Why are you not eating anything, gentlemen?" Nesvitski +was saying. + +"Thank you very much, Prince," answered one of the officers, pleased +to be talking to a staff officer of such importance. "It's a lovely +place! We passed close to the park and saw two deer... and what a +splendid house!" + +"Look, Prince," said another, who would have dearly liked to take +another pie but felt shy, and therefore pretended to be examining the +countryside--"See, our infantrymen have already got there. Look there +in the meadow behind the village, three of them are dragging something. +They'll ransack that castle," he remarked with evident approval. + +"So they will," said Nesvitski. "No, but what I should like," +added he, munching a pie in his moist-lipped handsome mouth, "would be +to slip in over there." + +He pointed with a smile to a turreted nunnery, and his eyes narrowed and +gleamed. + +"That would be fine, gentlemen!" + +The officers laughed. + +"Just to flutter the nuns a bit. They say there are Italian girls +among them. On my word I'd give five years of my life for it!" + +"They must be feeling dull, too," said one of the bolder officers, +laughing. + +Meanwhile the staff officer standing in front pointed out something to +the general, who looked through his field glass. + +"Yes, so it is, so it is," said the general angrily, lowering the +field glass and shrugging his shoulders, "so it is! They'll be fired +on at the crossing. And why are they dawdling there?" + +On the opposite side the enemy could be seen by the naked eye, and from +their battery a milk-white cloud arose. Then came the distant report of +a shot, and our troops could be seen hurrying to the crossing. + +Nesvitski rose, puffing, and went up to the general, smiling. + +"Would not your excellency like a little refreshment?" he said. + +"It's a bad business," said the general without answering him, +"our men have been wasting time." + +"Hadn't I better ride over, your excellency?" asked Nesvitski. + +"Yes, please do," answered the general, and he repeated the order +that had already once been given in detail: "and tell the hussars +that they are to cross last and to fire the bridge as I ordered; and the +inflammable material on the bridge must be reinspected." + +"Very good," answered Nesvitski. + +He called the Cossack with his horse, told him to put away the knapsack +and flask, and swung his heavy person easily into the saddle. + +"I'll really call in on the nuns," he said to the officers who +watched him smilingly, and he rode off by the winding path down the +hill. + +"Now then, let's see how far it will carry, Captain. Just try!" +said the general, turning to an artillery officer. "Have a little fun +to pass the time." + +"Crew, to your guns!" commanded the officer. + +In a moment the men came running gaily from their campfires and began +loading. + +"One!" came the command. + +Number one jumped briskly aside. The gun rang out with a deafening +metallic roar, and a whistling grenade flew above the heads of our +troops below the hill and fell far short of the enemy, a little smoke +showing the spot where it burst. + +The faces of officers and men brightened up at the sound. Everyone got +up and began watching the movements of our troops below, as plainly +visible as if but a stone's throw away, and the movements of the +approaching enemy farther off. At the same instant the sun came fully +out from behind the clouds, and the clear sound of the solitary shot +and the brilliance of the bright sunshine merged in a single joyous and +spirited impression. + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +Two of the enemy's shots had already flown across the bridge, where +there was a crush. Halfway across stood Prince Nesvitski, who had +alighted from his horse and whose big body was jammed against the +railings. He looked back laughing to the Cossack who stood a few +steps behind him holding two horses by their bridles. Each time Prince +Nesvitski tried to move on, soldiers and carts pushed him back again +and pressed him against the railings, and all he could do was to smile. + +"What a fine fellow you are, friend!" said the Cossack to a convoy +soldier with a wagon, who was pressing onto the infantrymen who were +crowded together close to his wheels and his horses. "What a fellow! +You can't wait a moment! Don't you see the general wants to pass?" + +But the convoyman took no notice of the word "general" and shouted +at the soldiers who were blocking his way. "Hi there, boys! Keep to +the left! Wait a bit." But the soldiers, crowded together shoulder to +shoulder, their bayonets interlocking, moved over the bridge in a dense +mass. Looking down over the rails Prince Nesvitski saw the rapid, noisy +little waves of the Enns, which rippling and eddying round the piles of +the bridge chased each other along. Looking on the bridge he saw equally +uniform living waves of soldiers, shoulder straps, covered shakos, +knapsacks, bayonets, long muskets, and, under the shakos, faces with +broad cheekbones, sunken cheeks, and listless tired expressions, and +feet that moved through the sticky mud that covered the planks of the +bridge. Sometimes through the monotonous waves of men, like a fleck of +white foam on the waves of the Enns, an officer, in a cloak and with +a type of face different from that of the men, squeezed his way along; +sometimes like a chip of wood whirling in the river, an hussar on foot, +an orderly, or a townsman was carried through the waves of infantry; +and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers' or +company's baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered, and hemmed in on +all sides, moved across the bridge. + +"It's as if a dam had burst," said the Cossack hopelessly. "Are +there many more of you to come?" + +"A million all but one!" replied a waggish soldier in a torn coat, +with a wink, and passed on followed by another, an old man. + +"If he" (he meant the enemy) "begins popping at the bridge now," +said the old soldier dismally to a comrade, "you'll forget to +scratch yourself." + +That soldier passed on, and after him came another sitting on a cart. + +"Where the devil have the leg bands been shoved to?" said an +orderly, running behind the cart and fumbling in the back of it. + +And he also passed on with the wagon. Then came some merry soldiers who +had evidently been drinking. + +"And then, old fellow, he gives him one in the teeth with the butt +end of his gun..." a soldier whose greatcoat was well tucked up said +gaily, with a wide swing of his arm. + +"Yes, the ham was just delicious..." answered another with a loud +laugh. And they, too, passed on, so that Nesvitski did not learn who +had been struck on the teeth, or what the ham had to do with it. + +"Bah! How they scurry. He just sends a ball and they think they'll +all be killed," a sergeant was saying angrily and reproachfully. + +"As it flies past me, Daddy, the ball I mean," said a young soldier +with an enormous mouth, hardly refraining from laughing, "I felt like +dying of fright. I did, 'pon my word, I got that frightened!" said +he, as if bragging of having been frightened. + +That one also passed. Then followed a cart unlike any that had gone +before. It was a German cart with a pair of horses led by a German, and +seemed loaded with a whole houseful of effects. A fine brindled cow with +a large udder was attached to the cart behind. A woman with an unweaned +baby, an old woman, and a healthy German girl with bright red cheeks +were sitting on some feather beds. Evidently these fugitives were +allowed to pass by special permission. The eyes of all the soldiers +turned toward the women, and while the vehicle was passing at foot pace +all the soldiers' remarks related to the two young ones. Every face +bore almost the same smile, expressing unseemly thoughts about the +women. + +"Just see, the German sausage is making tracks, too!" + +"Sell me the missis," said another soldier, addressing the German, +who, angry and frightened, strode energetically along with downcast +eyes. + +"See how smart she's made herself! Oh, the devils!" + +"There, Fedotov, you should be quartered on them!" + +"I have seen as much before now, mate!" + +"Where are you going?" asked an infantry officer who was eating an +apple, also half smiling as he looked at the handsome girl. + +The German closed his eyes, signifying that he did not understand. + +"Take it if you like," said the officer, giving the girl an apple. + +The girl smiled and took it. Nesvitski like the rest of the men on the +bridge did not take his eyes off the women till they had passed. When +they had gone by, the same stream of soldiers followed, with the same +kind of talk, and at last all stopped. As often happens, the horses of +a convoy wagon became restive at the end of the bridge, and the whole +crowd had to wait. + +"And why are they stopping? There's no proper order!" said the +soldiers. "Where are you shoving to? Devil take you! Can't you wait? +It'll be worse if he fires the bridge. See, here's an officer jammed +in too"--different voices were saying in the crowd, as the men looked +at one another, and all pressed toward the exit from the bridge. + +Looking down at the waters of the Enns under the bridge, Nesvitski +suddenly heard a sound new to him, of something swiftly approaching... +something big, that splashed into the water. + +"Just see where it carries to!" a soldier near by said sternly, +looking round at the sound. + +"Encouraging us to get along quicker," said another uneasily. + +The crowd moved on again. Nesvitski realized that it was a cannon ball. + +"Hey, Cossack, my horse!" he said. "Now, then, you there! get out +of the way! Make way!" + +With great difficulty he managed to get to his horse, and shouting +continually he moved on. The soldiers squeezed themselves to make way +for him, but again pressed on him so that they jammed his leg, and those +nearest him were not to blame for they were themselves pressed still +harder from behind. + +"Nesvitski, Nesvitski! you numskull!" came a hoarse voice from +behind him. + +Nesvitski looked round and saw, some fifteen paces away but separated +by the living mass of moving infantry, Vaska Denisov, red and shaggy, +with his cap on the back of his black head and a cloak hanging jauntily +over his shoulder. + +"Tell these devils, these fiends, to let me pass!" shouted Denisov +evidently in a fit of rage, his coal-black eyes with their bloodshot +whites glittering and rolling as he waved his sheathed saber in a small +bare hand as red as his face. + +"Ah, Vaska!" joyfully replied Nesvitski. "What's up with +you?" + +"The squadwon can't pass," shouted Vaska Denisov, showing his +white teeth fiercely and spurring his black thoroughbred Arab, which +twitched its ears as the bayonets touched it, and snorted, spurting +white foam from his bit, tramping the planks of the bridge with his +hoofs, and apparently ready to jump over the railings had his rider let +him. "What is this? They're like sheep! Just like sheep! Out of the +way!... Let us pass!... Stop there, you devil with the cart! I'll hack +you with my saber!" he shouted, actually drawing his saber from its +scabbard and flourishing it. + +The soldiers crowded against one another with terrified faces, and +Denisov joined Nesvitski. + +"How's it you're not drunk today?" said Nesvitski when the +other had ridden up to him. + +"They don't even give one time to dwink!" answered Vaska +Denisov. "They keep dwagging the wegiment to and fwo all day. If they +mean to fight, let's fight. But the devil knows what this is." + +"What a dandy you are today!" said Nesvitski, looking at +Denisov's new cloak and saddlecloth. + +Denisov smiled, took out of his sabretache a handkerchief that diffused +a smell of perfume, and put it to Nesvitski's nose. + +"Of course. I'm going into action! I've shaved, bwushed my teeth, +and scented myself." + +The imposing figure of Nesvitski followed by his Cossack, and +the determination of Denisov who flourished his sword and shouted +frantically, had such an effect that they managed to squeeze through +to the farther side of the bridge and stopped the infantry. Beside the +bridge Nesvitski found the colonel to whom he had to deliver the order, +and having done this he rode back. + +Having cleared the way Denisov stopped at the end of the bridge. +Carelessly holding in his stallion that was neighing and pawing the +ground, eager to rejoin its fellows, he watched his squadron draw +nearer. Then the clang of hoofs, as of several horses galloping, +resounded on the planks of the bridge, and the squadron, officers in +front and men four abreast, spread across the bridge and began to emerge +on his side of it. + +The infantry who had been stopped crowded near the bridge in the +trampled mud and gazed with that particular feeling of ill-will, +estrangement, and ridicule with which troops of different arms usually +encounter one another at the clean, smart hussars who moved past them in +regular order. + +"Smart lads! Only fit for a fair!" said one. + +"What good are they? They're led about just for show!" remarked +another. + +"Don't kick up the dust, you infantry!" jested an hussar whose +prancing horse had splashed mud over some foot soldiers. + +"I'd like to put you on a two days' march with a knapsack! Your +fine cords would soon get a bit rubbed," said an infantryman, wiping +the mud off his face with his sleeve. "Perched up there, you're more +like a bird than a man." + +"There now, Zikin, they ought to put you on a horse. You'd look +fine," said a corporal, chaffing a thin little soldier who bent under +the weight of his knapsack. + +"Take a stick between your legs, that'll suit you for a horse!" +the hussar shouted back. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +The last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing +together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel. At last +the baggage wagons had all crossed, the crush was less, and the last +battalion came onto the bridge. Only Denisov's squadron of hussars +remained on the farther side of the bridge facing the enemy, who could +be seen from the hill on the opposite bank but was not yet visible from +the bridge, for the horizon as seen from the valley through which the +river flowed was formed by the rising ground only half a mile away. +At the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our +Cossack scouts were moving. Suddenly on the road at the top of the high +ground, artillery and troops in blue uniform were seen. These were the +French. A group of Cossack scouts retired down the hill at a trot. All +the officers and men of Denisov's squadron, though they tried to talk +of other things and to look in other directions, thought only of what +was there on the hilltop, and kept constantly looking at the patches +appearing on the skyline, which they knew to be the enemy's troops. +The weather had cleared again since noon and the sun was descending +brightly upon the Danube and the dark hills around it. It was calm, and +at intervals the bugle calls and the shouts of the enemy could be heard +from the hill. There was no one now between the squadron and the enemy +except a few scattered skirmishers. An empty space of some seven hundred +yards was all that separated them. The enemy ceased firing, and that +stern, threatening, inaccessible, and intangible line which separates +two hostile armies was all the more clearly felt. + +"One step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing +the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. And +what is there? Who is there?--there beyond that field, that tree, that +roof lit up by the sun? No one knows, but one wants to know. You fear +and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must +be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will +inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. But you are +strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and are surrounded by other such +excitedly animated and healthy men." So thinks, or at any rate +feels, anyone who comes in sight of the enemy, and that feeling gives +a particular glamour and glad keenness of impression to everything that +takes place at such moments. + +On the high ground where the enemy was, the smoke of a cannon rose, +and a ball flew whistling over the heads of the hussar squadron. The +officers who had been standing together rode off to their places. The +hussars began carefully aligning their horses. Silence fell on the whole +squadron. All were looking at the enemy in front and at the squadron +commander, awaiting the word of command. A second and a third cannon +ball flew past. Evidently they were firing at the hussars, but the balls +with rapid rhythmic whistle flew over the heads of the horsemen and fell +somewhere beyond them. The hussars did not look round, but at the sound +of each shot, as at the word of command, the whole squadron with its +rows of faces so alike yet so different, holding its breath while the +ball flew past, rose in the stirrups and sank back again. The soldiers +without turning their heads glanced at one another, curious to see their +comrades' impression. Every face, from Denisov's to that of the +bugler, showed one common expression of conflict, irritation, and +excitement, around chin and mouth. The quartermaster frowned, looking +at the soldiers as if threatening to punish them. Cadet Mironov ducked +every time a ball flew past. Rostov on the left flank, mounted on his +Rook--a handsome horse despite its game leg--had the happy air of a +schoolboy called up before a large audience for an examination in which +he feels sure he will distinguish himself. He was glancing at everyone +with a clear, bright expression, as if asking them to notice how calmly +he sat under fire. But despite himself, on his face too that same +indication of something new and stern showed round the mouth. + +"Who's that curtseying there? Cadet Miwonov! That's not wight! +Look at me," cried Denisov who, unable to keep still on one spot, +kept turning his horse in front of the squadron. + +The black, hairy, snub-nosed face of Vaska Denisov, and his whole +short sturdy figure with the sinewy hairy hand and stumpy fingers in +which he held the hilt of his naked saber, looked just as it usually +did, especially toward evening when he had emptied his second bottle; he +was only redder than usual. With his shaggy head thrown back like birds +when they drink, pressing his spurs mercilessly into the sides of his +good horse, Bedouin, and sitting as though falling backwards in the +saddle, he galloped to the other flank of the squadron and shouted in +a hoarse voice to the men to look to their pistols. He rode up to +Kirsten. The staff captain on his broad-backed, steady mare came at a +walk to meet him. His face with its long mustache was serious as always, +only his eyes were brighter than usual. + +"Well, what about it?" said he to Denisov. "It won't come to a +fight. You'll see--we shall retire." + +"The devil only knows what they're about!" muttered Denisov. +"Ah, Wostov," he cried noticing the cadet's bright face, +"you've got it at last." + +And he smiled approvingly, evidently pleased with the cadet. Rostov +felt perfectly happy. Just then the commander appeared on the bridge. +Denisov galloped up to him. + +"Your excellency! Let us attack them! I'll dwive them off." + +"Attack indeed!" said the colonel in a bored voice, puckering up his +face as if driving off a troublesome fly. "And why are you stopping +here? Don't you see the skirmishers are retreating? Lead the squadron +back." + +The squadron crossed the bridge and drew out of range of fire without +having lost a single man. The second squadron that had been in the front +line followed them across and the last Cossacks quitted the farther side +of the river. + +The two Pavlograd squadrons, having crossed the bridge, retired up the +hill one after the other. Their colonel, Karl Bogdanich Schubert, came +up to Denisov's squadron and rode at a footpace not far from Rostov, +without taking any notice of him although they were now meeting for the +first time since their encounter concerning Telyanin. Rostov, feeling +that he was at the front and in the power of a man toward whom he now +admitted that he had been to blame, did not lift his eyes from the +colonel's athletic back, his nape covered with light hair, and his red +neck. It seemed to Rostov that Bogdanich was only pretending not +to notice him, and that his whole aim now was to test the cadet's +courage, so he drew himself up and looked around him merrily; then it +seemed to him that Bogdanich rode so near in order to show him his +courage. Next he thought that his enemy would send the squadron on a +desperate attack just to punish him--Rostov. Then he imagined how, +after the attack, Bogdanich would come up to him as he lay wounded and +would magnanimously extend the hand of reconciliation. + +The high-shouldered figure of Zherkov, familiar to the Pavlograds as +he had but recently left their regiment, rode up to the colonel. +After his dismissal from headquarters Zherkov had not remained in the +regiment, saying he was not such a fool as to slave at the front when he +could get more rewards by doing nothing on the staff, and had succeeded +in attaching himself as an orderly officer to Prince Bagration. He now +came to his former chief with an order from the commander of the rear +guard. + +"Colonel," he said, addressing Rostov's enemy with an air of +gloomy gravity and glancing round at his comrades, "there is an order +to stop and fire the bridge." + +"An order to who?" asked the colonel morosely. + +"I don't myself know 'to who,'" replied the cornet in a +serious tone, "but the prince told me to 'go and tell the colonel +that the hussars must return quickly and fire the bridge.'" + +Zherkov was followed by an officer of the suite who rode up to the +colonel of hussars with the same order. After him the stout Nesvitski +came galloping up on a Cossack horse that could scarcely carry his +weight. + +"How's this, Colonel?" he shouted as he approached. "I told you +to fire the bridge, and now someone has gone and blundered; they are all +beside themselves over there and one can't make anything out." + +The colonel deliberately stopped the regiment and turned to Nesvitski. + +"You spoke to me of inflammable material," said he, "but you said +nothing about firing it." + +"But, my dear sir," said Nesvitski as he drew up, taking off his +cap and smoothing his hair wet with perspiration with his plump hand, +"wasn't I telling you to fire the bridge, when inflammable material +had been put in position?" + +"I am not your 'dear sir,' Mr. Staff Officer, and you did not tell +me to burn the bridge! I know the service, and it is my habit orders +strictly to obey. You said the bridge would be burned, but who would it +burn, I could not know by the holy spirit!" + +"Ah, that's always the way!" said Nesvitski with a wave of the +hand. "How did you get here?" said he, turning to Zherkov. + +"On the same business. But you are damp! Let me wring you out!" + +"You were saying, Mr. Staff Officer..." continued the colonel in an +offended tone. + +"Colonel," interrupted the officer of the suite, "You must be +quick or the enemy will bring up his guns to use grapeshot." + +The colonel looked silently at the officer of the suite, at the stout +staff officer, and at Zherkov, and he frowned. + +"I will the bridge fire," he said in a solemn tone as if to announce +that in spite of all the unpleasantness he had to endure he would still +do the right thing. + +Striking his horse with his long muscular legs as if it were to blame +for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second +squadron, that in which Rostov was serving under Denisov, to return to +the bridge. + +"There, it's just as I thought," said Rostov to himself. "He +wishes to test me!" His heart contracted and the blood rushed to his +face. "Let him see whether I am a coward!" he thought. + +Again on all the bright faces of the squadron the serious expression +appeared that they had worn when under fire. Rostov watched his enemy, +the colonel, closely--to find in his face confirmation of his own +conjecture, but the colonel did not once glance at Rostov, and looked +as he always did when at the front, solemn and stern. Then came the word +of command. + +"Look sharp! Look sharp!" several voices repeated around him. + +Their sabers catching in the bridles and their spurs jingling, the +hussars hastily dismounted, not knowing what they were to do. The men +were crossing themselves. Rostov no longer looked at the colonel, he +had no time. He was afraid of falling behind the hussars, so much afraid +that his heart stood still. His hand trembled as he gave his horse into +an orderly's charge, and he felt the blood rush to his heart with +a thud. Denisov rode past him, leaning back and shouting something. +Rostov saw nothing but the hussars running all around him, their spurs +catching and their sabers clattering. + +"Stretchers!" shouted someone behind him. + +Rostov did not think what this call for stretchers meant; he ran on, +trying only to be ahead of the others; but just at the bridge, not +looking at the ground, he came on some sticky, trodden mud, stumbled, +and fell on his hands. The others outstripped him. + +"At boss zides, Captain," he heard the voice of the colonel, who, +having ridden ahead, had pulled up his horse near the bridge, with a +triumphant, cheerful face. + +Rostov wiping his muddy hands on his breeches looked at his enemy and +was about to run on, thinking that the farther he went to the front +the better. But Bogdanich, without looking at or recognizing Rostov, +shouted to him: + +"Who's that running on the middle of the bridge? To the right! Come +back, Cadet!" he cried angrily; and turning to Denisov, who, showing +off his courage, had ridden on to the planks of the bridge: + +"Why run risks, Captain? You should dismount," he said. + +"Oh, every bullet has its billet," answered Vaska Denisov, turning +in his saddle. + + +Meanwhile Nesvitski, Zherkov, and the officer of the suite were +standing together out of range of the shots, watching, now the small +group of men with yellow shakos, dark-green jackets braided with cord, +and blue riding breeches, who were swarming near the bridge, and then at +what was approaching in the distance from the opposite side--the blue +uniforms and groups with horses, easily recognizable as artillery. + +"Will they burn the bridge or not? Who'll get there first? Will they +get there and fire the bridge or will the French get within grapeshot +range and wipe them out?" These were the questions each man of the +troops on the high ground above the bridge involuntarily asked himself +with a sinking heart--watching the bridge and the hussars in the bright +evening light and the blue tunics advancing from the other side with +their bayonets and guns. + +"Ugh. The hussars will get it hot!" said Nesvitski; "they are +within grapeshot range now." + +"He shouldn't have taken so many men," said the officer of the +suite. + +"True enough," answered Nesvitski; "two smart fellows could have +done the job just as well." + +"Ah, your excellency," put in Zherkov, his eyes fixed on the +hussars, but still with that naive air that made it impossible to know +whether he was speaking in jest or in earnest. "Ah, your excellency! +How you look at things! Send two men? And who then would give us the +Vladimir medal and ribbon? But now, even if they do get peppered, the +squadron may be recommended for honors and he may get a ribbon. Our +Bogdanich knows how things are done." + +"There now!" said the officer of the suite, "that's +grapeshot." + +He pointed to the French guns, the limbers of which were being detached +and hurriedly removed. + +On the French side, amid the groups with cannon, a cloud of smoke +appeared, then a second and a third almost simultaneously, and at the +moment when the first report was heard a fourth was seen. Then two +reports one after another, and a third. + +"Oh! Oh!" groaned Nesvitski as if in fierce pain, seizing the +officer of the suite by the arm. "Look! A man has fallen! Fallen, +fallen!" + +"Two, I think." + +"If I were Tsar I would never go to war," said Nesvitski, turning +away. + +The French guns were hastily reloaded. The infantry in their blue +uniforms advanced toward the bridge at a run. Smoke appeared again +but at irregular intervals, and grapeshot cracked and rattled onto the +bridge. But this time Nesvitski could not see what was happening there, +as a dense cloud of smoke arose from it. The hussars had succeeded in +setting it on fire and the French batteries were now firing at them, no +longer to hinder them but because the guns were trained and there was +someone to fire at. + +The French had time to fire three rounds of grapeshot before the hussars +got back to their horses. Two were misdirected and the shot went too +high, but the last round fell in the midst of a group of hussars and +knocked three of them over. + +Rostov, absorbed by his relations with Bogdanich, had paused on the +bridge not knowing what to do. There was no one to hew down (as he +had always imagined battles to himself), nor could he help to fire the +bridge because he had not brought any burning straw with him like the +other soldiers. He stood looking about him, when suddenly he heard a +rattle on the bridge as if nuts were being spilt, and the hussar nearest +to him fell against the rails with a groan. Rostov ran up to him with +the others. Again someone shouted, "Stretchers!" Four men seized the +hussar and began lifting him. + +"Oooh! For Christ's sake let me alone!" cried the wounded man, but +still he was lifted and laid on the stretcher. + +Nicholas Rostov turned away and, as if searching for something, gazed +into the distance, at the waters of the Danube, at the sky, and at the +sun. How beautiful the sky looked; how blue, how calm, and how deep! +How bright and glorious was the setting sun! With what soft glitter the +waters of the distant Danube shone. And fairer still were the faraway +blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and +the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits... There was peace +and happiness... "I should wish for nothing else, nothing, if only I +were there," thought Rostov. "In myself alone and in that sunshine +there is so much happiness; but here... groans, suffering, fear, and +this uncertainty and hurry... There--they are shouting again, and +again are all running back somewhere, and I shall run with them, and it, +death, is here above me and around... Another instant and I shall never +again see the sun, this water, that gorge!..." + +At that instant the sun began to hide behind the clouds, and other +stretchers came into view before Rostov. And the fear of death and of +the stretchers, and love of the sun and of life, all merged into one +feeling of sickening agitation. + +"O Lord God! Thou who art in that heaven, save, forgive, and protect +me!" Rostov whispered. + +The hussars ran back to the men who held their horses; their voices +sounded louder and calmer, the stretchers disappeared from sight. + +"Well, fwiend? So you've smelt powdah!" shouted Vaska Denisov +just above his ear. + +"It's all over; but I am a coward--yes, a coward!" thought +Rostov, and sighing deeply he took Rook, his horse, which stood resting +one foot, from the orderly and began to mount. + +"Was that grapeshot?" he asked Denisov. + +"Yes and no mistake!" cried Denisov. "You worked like wegular +bwicks and it's nasty work! An attack's pleasant work! Hacking +away at the dogs! But this sort of thing is the very devil, with them +shooting at you like a target." + +And Denisov rode up to a group that had stopped near Rostov, composed +of the colonel, Nesvitski, Zherkov, and the officer from the suite. + +"Well, it seems that no one has noticed," thought Rostov. And this +was true. No one had taken any notice, for everyone knew the sensation +which the cadet under fire for the first time had experienced. + +"Here's something for you to report," said Zherkov. "See if I +don't get promoted to a sublieutenancy." + +"Inform the prince that I the bridge fired!" said the colonel +triumphantly and gaily. + +"And if he asks about the losses?" + +"A trifle," said the colonel in his bass voice: "two hussars +wounded, and one knocked out," he added, unable to restrain a happy +smile, and pronouncing the phrase "knocked out" with ringing +distinctness. + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +Pursued by the French army of a hundred thousand men under the command +of Bonaparte, encountering a population that was unfriendly to it, +losing confidence in its allies, suffering from shortness of supplies, +and compelled to act under conditions of war unlike anything that had +been foreseen, the Russian army of thirty-five thousand men commanded +by Kutuzov was hurriedly retreating along the Danube, stopping where +overtaken by the enemy and fighting rearguard actions only as far as +necessary to enable it to retreat without losing its heavy equipment. +There had been actions at Lambach, Amstetten, and Melk; but despite the +courage and endurance--acknowledged even by the enemy--with which the +Russians fought, the only consequence of these actions was a yet more +rapid retreat. Austrian troops that had escaped capture at Ulm and had +joined Kutuzov at Braunau now separated from the Russian army, and +Kutuzov was left with only his own weak and exhausted forces. The +defense of Vienna was no longer to be thought of. Instead of an +offensive, the plan of which, carefully prepared in accord with the +modern science of strategics, had been handed to Kutuzov when he was in +Vienna by the Austrian Hofkriegsrath, the sole and almost unattainable +aim remaining for him was to effect a junction with the forces that were +advancing from Russia, without losing his army as Mack had done at Ulm. + +On the twenty-eighth of October Kutuzov with his army crossed to the +left bank of the Danube and took up a position for the first time +with the river between himself and the main body of the French. On the +thirtieth he attacked Mortier's division, which was on the left bank, +and broke it up. In this action for the first time trophies were taken: +banners, cannon, and two enemy generals. For the first time, after a +fortnight's retreat, the Russian troops had halted and after a fight +had not only held the field but had repulsed the French. Though the +troops were ill-clad, exhausted, and had lost a third of their number +in killed, wounded, sick, and stragglers; though a number of sick and +wounded had been abandoned on the other side of the Danube with a letter +in which Kutuzov entrusted them to the humanity of the enemy; and +though the big hospitals and the houses in Krems converted into military +hospitals could no longer accommodate all the sick and wounded, yet the +stand made at Krems and the victory over Mortier raised the spirits of +the army considerably. Throughout the whole army and at headquarters +most joyful though erroneous rumors were rife of the imaginary approach +of columns from Russia, of some victory gained by the Austrians, and of +the retreat of the frightened Bonaparte. + +Prince Andrew during the battle had been in attendance on the Austrian +General Schmidt, who was killed in the action. His horse had been +wounded under him and his own arm slightly grazed by a bullet. As a mark +of the commander in chief's special favor he was sent with the news of +this victory to the Austrian court, now no longer at Vienna (which was +threatened by the French) but at Brunn. Despite his apparently delicate +build Prince Andrew could endure physical fatigue far better than many +very muscular men, and on the night of the battle, having arrived +at Krems excited but not weary, with dispatches from Dokhturov to +Kutuzov, he was sent immediately with a special dispatch to Brunn. +To be so sent meant not only a reward but an important step toward +promotion. + +The night was dark but starry, the road showed black in the snow that +had fallen the previous day--the day of the battle. Reviewing his +impressions of the recent battle, picturing pleasantly to himself the +impression his news of a victory would create, or recalling the send-off +given him by the commander in chief and his fellow officers, Prince +Andrew was galloping along in a post chaise enjoying the feelings of a +man who has at length begun to attain a long-desired happiness. As soon +as he closed his eyes his ears seemed filled with the rattle of the +wheels and the sensation of victory. Then he began to imagine that +the Russians were running away and that he himself was killed, but he +quickly roused himself with a feeling of joy, as if learning afresh that +this was not so but that on the contrary the French had run away. He +again recalled all the details of the victory and his own calm courage +during the battle, and feeling reassured he dozed off.... The dark +starry night was followed by a bright cheerful morning. The snow was +thawing in the sunshine, the horses galloped quickly, and on both sides +of the road were forests of different kinds, fields, and villages. + +At one of the post stations he overtook a convoy of Russian wounded. +The Russian officer in charge of the transport lolled back in the front +cart, shouting and scolding a soldier with coarse abuse. In each of +the long German carts six or more pale, dirty, bandaged men were being +jolted over the stony road. Some of them were talking (he heard Russian +words), others were eating bread; the more severely wounded looked +silently, with the languid interest of sick children, at the envoy +hurrying past them. + +Prince Andrew told his driver to stop, and asked a soldier in what +action they had been wounded. "Day before yesterday, on the Danube," +answered the soldier. Prince Andrew took out his purse and gave the +soldier three gold pieces. + +"That's for them all," he said to the officer who came up. + +"Get well soon, lads!" he continued, turning to the soldiers. +"There's plenty to do still." + +"What news, sir?" asked the officer, evidently anxious to start a +conversation. + +"Good news!... Go on!" he shouted to the driver, and they galloped +on. + +It was already quite dark when Prince Andrew rattled over the paved +streets of Brunn and found himself surrounded by high buildings, the +lights of shops, houses, and street lamps, fine carriages, and all that +atmosphere of a large and active town which is always so attractive to a +soldier after camp life. Despite his rapid journey and sleepless night, +Prince Andrew when he drove up to the palace felt even more vigorous and +alert than he had done the day before. Only his eyes gleamed feverishly +and his thoughts followed one another with extraordinary clearness and +rapidity. He again vividly recalled the details of the battle, no longer +dim, but definite and in the concise form in which he imagined himself +stating them to the Emperor Francis. He vividly imagined the casual +questions that might be put to him and the answers he would give. He +expected to be at once presented to the Emperor. At the chief entrance +to the palace, however, an official came running out to meet him, and +learning that he was a special messenger led him to another entrance. + +"To the right from the corridor, Euer Hochgeboren! There you will find +the adjutant on duty," said the official. "He will conduct you to +the Minister of War." + +The adjutant on duty, meeting Prince Andrew, asked him to wait, and went +in to the Minister of War. Five minutes later he returned and bowing +with particular courtesy ushered Prince Andrew before him along a +corridor to the cabinet where the Minister of War was at work. The +adjutant by his elaborate courtesy appeared to wish to ward off any +attempt at familiarity on the part of the Russian messenger. + +Prince Andrew's joyous feeling was considerably weakened as he +approached the door of the minister's room. He felt offended, and +without his noticing it the feeling of offense immediately turned into +one of disdain which was quite uncalled for. His fertile mind instantly +suggested to him a point of view which gave him a right to despise +the adjutant and the minister. "Away from the smell of powder, they +probably think it easy to gain victories!" he thought. His eyes +narrowed disdainfully, he entered the room of the Minister of War with +peculiarly deliberate steps. This feeling of disdain was heightened +when he saw the minister seated at a large table reading some papers +and making pencil notes on them, and for the first two or three minutes +taking no notice of his arrival. A wax candle stood at each side of the +minister's bent bald head with its gray temples. He went on reading +to the end, without raising his eyes at the opening of the door and the +sound of footsteps. + +"Take this and deliver it," said he to his adjutant, handing him the +papers and still taking no notice of the special messenger. + +Prince Andrew felt that either the actions of Kutuzov's army +interested the Minister of War less than any of the other matters he was +concerned with, or he wanted to give the Russian special messenger that +impression. "But that is a matter of perfect indifference to me," he +thought. The minister drew the remaining papers together, arranged them +evenly, and then raised his head. He had an intellectual and distinctive +head, but the instant he turned to Prince Andrew the firm, intelligent +expression on his face changed in a way evidently deliberate and +habitual to him. His face took on the stupid artificial smile (which +does not even attempt to hide its artificiality) of a man who is +continually receiving many petitioners one after another. + +"From General Field Marshal Kutuzov?" he asked. "I hope it is +good news? There has been an encounter with Mortier? A victory? It was +high time!" + +He took the dispatch which was addressed to him and began to read it +with a mournful expression. + +"Oh, my God! My God! Schmidt!" he exclaimed in German. "What a +calamity! What a calamity!" + +Having glanced through the dispatch he laid it on the table and looked +at Prince Andrew, evidently considering something. + +"Ah what a calamity! You say the affair was decisive? But Mortier is +not captured." Again he pondered. "I am very glad you have brought +good news, though Schmidt's death is a heavy price to pay for the +victory. His Majesty will no doubt wish to see you, but not today. I +thank you! You must have a rest. Be at the levee tomorrow after the +parade. However, I will let you know." + +The stupid smile, which had left his face while he was speaking, +reappeared. + +"Au revoir! Thank you very much. His Majesty will probably desire to +see you," he added, bowing his head. + +When Prince Andrew left the palace he felt that all the interest +and happiness the victory had afforded him had been now left in the +indifferent hands of the Minister of War and the polite adjutant. The +whole tenor of his thoughts instantaneously changed; the battle seemed +the memory of a remote event long past. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +Prince Andrew stayed at Brunn with Bilibin, a Russian acquaintance of +his in the diplomatic service. + +"Ah, my dear prince! I could not have a more welcome visitor," +said Bilibin as he came out to meet Prince Andrew. "Franz, put the +prince's things in my bedroom," said he to the servant who was +ushering Bolkonski in. "So you're a messenger of victory, eh? +Splendid! And I am sitting here ill, as you see." + +After washing and dressing, Prince Andrew came into the diplomat's +luxurious study and sat down to the dinner prepared for him. Bilibin +settled down comfortably beside the fire. + +After his journey and the campaign during which he had been deprived of +all the comforts of cleanliness and all the refinements of life, Prince +Andrew felt a pleasant sense of repose among luxurious surroundings such +as he had been accustomed to from childhood. Besides it was pleasant, +after his reception by the Austrians, to speak if not in Russian +(for they were speaking French) at least with a Russian who would, he +supposed, share the general Russian antipathy to the Austrians which was +then particularly strong. + +Bilibin was a man of thirty-five, a bachelor, and of the same circle as +Prince Andrew. They had known each other previously in Petersburg, but +had become more intimate when Prince Andrew was in Vienna with Kutuzov. +Just as Prince Andrew was a young man who gave promise of rising high +in the military profession, so to an even greater extent Bilibin gave +promise of rising in his diplomatic career. He was still a young man but +no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age +of sixteen, had been in Paris and Copenhagen, and now held a rather +important post in Vienna. Both the foreign minister and our ambassador +in Vienna knew him and valued him. He was not one of those many +diplomats who are esteemed because they have certain negative qualities, +avoid doing certain things, and speak French. He was one of those, +who, liking work, knew how to do it, and despite his indolence would +sometimes spend a whole night at his writing table. He worked well +whatever the import of his work. It was not the question "What for?" +but the question "How?" that interested him. What the diplomatic +matter might be he did not care, but it gave him great pleasure to +prepare a circular, memorandum, or report, skillfully, pointedly, and +elegantly. Bilibin's services were valued not only for what he wrote, +but also for his skill in dealing and conversing with those in the +highest spheres. + +Bilibin liked conversation as he liked work, only when it could be +made elegantly witty. In society he always awaited an opportunity to say +something striking and took part in a conversation only when that was +possible. His conversation was always sprinkled with wittily original, +finished phrases of general interest. These sayings were prepared in the +inner laboratory of his mind in a portable form as if intentionally, so +that insignificant society people might carry them from drawing room to +drawing room. And, in fact, Bilibin's witticisms were hawked about +in the Viennese drawing rooms and often had an influence on matters +considered important. + +His thin, worn, sallow face was covered with deep wrinkles, which always +looked as clean and well washed as the tips of one's fingers after a +Russian bath. The movement of these wrinkles formed the principal play +of expression on his face. Now his forehead would pucker into deep folds +and his eyebrows were lifted, then his eyebrows would descend and +deep wrinkles would crease his cheeks. His small, deep-set eyes always +twinkled and looked out straight. + +"Well, now tell me about your exploits," said he. + +Bolkonski, very modestly without once mentioning himself, described the +engagement and his reception by the Minister of War. + +"They received me and my news as one receives a dog in a game of +skittles," said he in conclusion. + +Bilibin smiled and the wrinkles on his face disappeared. + +"Cependant, mon cher," he remarked, examining his nails from a +distance and puckering the skin above his left eye, "malgre la haute +estime que je professe pour the Orthodox Russian army, j'avoue que +votre victoire n'est pas des plus victorieuses." * + + * "But my dear fellow, with all my respect for the Orthodox + Russian army, I must say that your victory was not + particularly victorious." + + +He went on talking in this way in French, uttering only those words in +Russian on which he wished to put a contemptuous emphasis. + +"Come now! You with all your forces fall on the unfortunate Mortier +and his one division, and even then Mortier slips through your fingers! +Where's the victory?" + +"But seriously," said Prince Andrew, "we can at any rate say +without boasting that it was a little better than at Ulm..." + +"Why didn't you capture one, just one, marshal for us?" + +"Because not everything happens as one expects or with the smoothness +of a parade. We had expected, as I told you, to get at their rear by +seven in the morning but had not reached it by five in the afternoon." + +"And why didn't you do it at seven in the morning? You ought to have +been there at seven in the morning," returned Bilibin with a smile. +"You ought to have been there at seven in the morning." + +"Why did you not succeed in impressing on Bonaparte by diplomatic +methods that he had better leave Genoa alone?" retorted Prince Andrew +in the same tone. + +"I know," interrupted Bilibin, "you're thinking it's very +easy to take marshals, sitting on a sofa by the fire! That is true, but +still why didn't you capture him? So don't be surprised if not only +the Minister of War but also his Most August Majesty the Emperor and +King Francis is not much delighted by your victory. Even I, a poor +secretary of the Russian Embassy, do not feel any need in token of my +joy to give my Franz a thaler, or let him go with his Liebchen to the +Prater... True, we have no Prater here..." + +He looked straight at Prince Andrew and suddenly unwrinkled his +forehead. + +"It is now my turn to ask you 'why?' mon cher," said Bolkonski. +"I confess I do not understand: perhaps there are diplomatic +subtleties here beyond my feeble intelligence, but I can't make it +out. Mack loses a whole army, the Archduke Ferdinand and the Archduke +Karl give no signs of life and make blunder after blunder. Kutuzov +alone at last gains a real victory, destroying the spell of the +invincibility of the French, and the Minister of War does not even care +to hear the details." + +"That's just it, my dear fellow. You see it's hurrah for the Tsar, +for Russia, for the Orthodox Greek faith! All that is beautiful, but +what do we, I mean the Austrian court, care for your victories? Bring +us nice news of a victory by the Archduke Karl or Ferdinand (one +archduke's as good as another, as you know) and even if it is only +over a fire brigade of Bonaparte's, that will be another story and +we'll fire off some cannon! But this sort of thing seems done +on purpose to vex us. The Archduke Karl does nothing, the Archduke +Ferdinand disgraces himself. You abandon Vienna, give up its +defense--as much as to say: 'Heaven is with us, but heaven help you +and your capital!' The one general whom we all loved, Schmidt, you +expose to a bullet, and then you congratulate us on the victory! Admit +that more irritating news than yours could not have been conceived. +It's as if it had been done on purpose, on purpose. Besides, suppose +you did gain a brilliant victory, if even the Archduke Karl gained a +victory, what effect would that have on the general course of events? +It's too late now when Vienna is occupied by the French army!" + +"What? Occupied? Vienna occupied?" + +"Not only occupied, but Bonaparte is at Schonbrunn, and the count, +our dear Count Vrbna, goes to him for orders." + +After the fatigues and impressions of the journey, his reception, and +especially after having dined, Bolkonski felt that he could not take in +the full significance of the words he heard. + +"Count Lichtenfels was here this morning," Bilibin continued, +"and showed me a letter in which the parade of the French in Vienna +was fully described: Prince Murat et tout le tremblement... You see that +your victory is not a matter for great rejoicing and that you can't be +received as a savior." + +"Really I don't care about that, I don't care at all," said +Prince Andrew, beginning to understand that his news of the battle +before Krems was really of small importance in view of such events as +the fall of Austria's capital. "How is it Vienna was taken? What of +the bridge and its celebrated bridgehead and Prince Auersperg? We heard +reports that Prince Auersperg was defending Vienna?" he said. + +"Prince Auersperg is on this, on our side of the river, and is +defending us--doing it very badly, I think, but still he is defending +us. But Vienna is on the other side. No, the bridge has not yet been +taken and I hope it will not be, for it is mined and orders have been +given to blow it up. Otherwise we should long ago have been in the +mountains of Bohemia, and you and your army would have spent a bad +quarter of an hour between two fires." + +"But still this does not mean that the campaign is over," said +Prince Andrew. + +"Well, I think it is. The bigwigs here think so too, but they +daren't say so. It will be as I said at the beginning of the campaign, +it won't be your skirmishing at Durrenstein, or gunpowder at all, +that will decide the matter, but those who devised it," said Bilibin +quoting one of his own mots, releasing the wrinkles on his forehead, and +pausing. "The only question is what will come of the meeting between +the Emperor Alexander and the King of Prussia in Berlin? If Prussia +joins the Allies, Austria's hand will be forced and there will be war. +If not it is merely a question of settling where the preliminaries of +the new Campo Formio are to be drawn up." + +"What an extraordinary genius!" Prince Andrew suddenly exclaimed, +clenching his small hand and striking the table with it, "and what +luck the man has!" + +"Buonaparte?" said Bilibin inquiringly, puckering up his forehead +to indicate that he was about to say something witty. "Buonaparte?" +he repeated, accentuating the u: "I think, however, now that he lays +down laws for Austria at Schonbrunn, il faut lui faire grace de +l'u! * I shall certainly adopt an innovation and call him simply +Bonaparte!" + + * "We must let him off the u!" + + +"But joking apart," said Prince Andrew, "do you really think the +campaign is over?" + +"This is what I think. Austria has been made a fool of, and she is +not used to it. She will retaliate. And she has been fooled in the +first place because her provinces have been pillaged--they say the Holy +Russian army loots terribly--her army is destroyed, her capital +taken, and all this for the beaux yeux * of His Sardinian Majesty. And +therefore--this is between ourselves--I instinctively feel that we +are being deceived, my instinct tells me of negotiations with France and +projects for peace, a secret peace concluded separately." + + * Fine eyes. + +"Impossible!" cried Prince Andrew. "That would be too base." + +"If we live we shall see," replied Bilibin, his face again becoming +smooth as a sign that the conversation was at an end. + +When Prince Andrew reached the room prepared for him and lay down in a +clean shirt on the feather bed with its warmed and fragrant pillows, he +felt that the battle of which he had brought tidings was far, far +away from him. The alliance with Prussia, Austria's treachery, +Bonaparte's new triumph, tomorrow's levee and parade, and the +audience with the Emperor Francis occupied his thoughts. + +He closed his eyes, and immediately a sound of cannonading, of musketry +and the rattling of carriage wheels seemed to fill his ears, and now +again drawn out in a thin line the musketeers were descending the hill, +the French were firing, and he felt his heart palpitating as he rode +forward beside Schmidt with the bullets merrily whistling all around, +and he experienced tenfold the joy of living, as he had not done since +childhood. + +He woke up... + +"Yes, that all happened!" he said, and, smiling happily to himself +like a child, he fell into a deep, youthful slumber. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +Next day he woke late. Recalling his recent impressions, the first +thought that came into his mind was that today he had to be presented +to the Emperor Francis; he remembered the Minister of War, the polite +Austrian adjutant, Bilibin, and last night's conversation. Having +dressed for his attendance at court in full parade uniform, which he +had not worn for a long time, he went into Bilibin's study fresh, +animated, and handsome, with his hand bandaged. In the study were four +gentlemen of the diplomatic corps. With Prince Hippolyte Kuragin, +who was a secretary to the embassy, Bolkonski was already acquainted. +Bilibin introduced him to the others. + +The gentlemen assembled at Bilibin's were young, wealthy, gay society +men, who here, as in Vienna, formed a special set which Bilibin, their +leader, called les notres. * This set, consisting almost exclusively of +diplomats, evidently had its own interests which had nothing to do with +war or politics but related to high society, to certain women, and to +the official side of the service. These gentlemen received Prince +Andrew as one of themselves, an honor they did not extend to many. From +politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions +about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry +jests and gossip. + + * Ours. + +"But the best of it was," said one, telling of the misfortune of +a fellow diplomat, "that the Chancellor told him flatly that his +appointment to London was a promotion and that he was so to regard it. +Can you fancy the figure he cut?..." + +"But the worst of it, gentlemen--I am giving Kuragin away to +you--is that that man suffers, and this Don Juan, wicked fellow, is +taking advantage of it!" + +Prince Hippolyte was lolling in a lounge chair with his legs over its +arm. He began to laugh. + +"Tell me about that!" he said. + +"Oh, you Don Juan! You serpent!" cried several voices. + +"You, Bolkonski, don't know," said Bilibin turning to Prince +Andrew, "that all the atrocities of the French army (I nearly said of +the Russian army) are nothing compared to what this man has been doing +among the women!" + +"La femme est la compagne de l'homme," * announced Prince +Hippolyte, and began looking through a lorgnette at his elevated legs. + + * "Woman is man's companion." + + +Bilibin and the rest of "ours" burst out laughing in Hippolyte's +face, and Prince Andrew saw that Hippolyte, of whom--he had to +admit--he had almost been jealous on his wife's account, was the butt +of this set. + +"Oh, I must give you a treat," Bilibin whispered to Bolkonski. +"Kuragin is exquisite when he discusses politics--you should see his +gravity!" + +He sat down beside Hippolyte and wrinkling his forehead began talking +to him about politics. Prince Andrew and the others gathered round these +two. + +"The Berlin cabinet cannot express a feeling of alliance," began +Hippolyte gazing round with importance at the others, "without +expressing... as in its last note... you understand... Besides, unless +His Majesty the Emperor derogates from the principle of our alliance... + +"Wait, I have not finished..." he said to Prince Andrew, seizing +him by the arm, "I believe that intervention will be stronger than +nonintervention. And..." he paused. "Finally one cannot impute the +nonreceipt of our dispatch of November 18. That is how it will end." +And he released Bolkonski's arm to indicate that he had now quite +finished. + +"Demosthenes, I know thee by the pebble thou secretest in thy golden +mouth!" said Bilibin, and the mop of hair on his head moved with +satisfaction. + +Everybody laughed, and Hippolyte louder than anyone. He was evidently +distressed, and breathed painfully, but could not restrain the wild +laughter that convulsed his usually impassive features. + +"Well now, gentlemen," said Bilibin, "Bolkonski is my guest in +this house and in Brunn itself. I want to entertain him as far as I +can, with all the pleasures of life here. If we were in Vienna it would +be easy, but here, in this wretched Moravian hole, it is more difficult, +and I beg you all to help me. Brunn's attractions must be shown him. +You can undertake the theater, I society, and you, Hippolyte, of course +the women." + +"We must let him see Amelie, she's exquisite!" said one of +"ours," kissing his finger tips. + +"In general we must turn this bloodthirsty soldier to more humane +interests," said Bilibin. + +"I shall scarcely be able to avail myself of your hospitality, +gentlemen, it is already time for me to go," replied Prince Andrew +looking at his watch. + +"Where to?" + +"To the Emperor." + +"Oh! Oh! Oh!" + +"Well, au revoir, Bolkonski! Au revoir, Prince! Come back early to +dinner," cried several voices. "We'll take you in hand." + +"When speaking to the Emperor, try as far as you can to praise the way +that provisions are supplied and the routes indicated," said Bilibin, +accompanying him to the hall. + +"I should like to speak well of them, but as far as I know the facts, +I can't," replied Bolkonski, smiling. + +"Well, talk as much as you can, anyway. He has a passion for giving +audiences, but he does not like talking himself and can't do it, as +you will see." + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +At the levee Prince Andrew stood among the Austrian officers as he had +been told to, and the Emperor Francis merely looked fixedly into his +face and just nodded to him with his long head. But after it was +over, the adjutant he had seen the previous day ceremoniously informed +Bolkonski that the Emperor desired to give him an audience. The Emperor +Francis received him standing in the middle of the room. Before the +conversation began Prince Andrew was struck by the fact that the Emperor +seemed confused and blushed as if not knowing what to say. + +"Tell me, when did the battle begin?" he asked hurriedly. + +Prince Andrew replied. Then followed other questions just as simple: +"Was Kutuzov well? When had he left Krems?" and so on. The Emperor +spoke as if his sole aim were to put a given number of questions--the +answers to these questions, as was only too evident, did not interest +him. + +"At what o'clock did the battle begin?" asked the Emperor. + +"I cannot inform Your Majesty at what o'clock the battle began at +the front, but at Durrenstein, where I was, our attack began after +five in the afternoon," replied Bolkonski growing more animated and +expecting that he would have a chance to give a reliable account, which +he had ready in his mind, of all he knew and had seen. But the Emperor +smiled and interrupted him. + +"How many miles?" + +"From where to where, Your Majesty?" + +"From Durrenstein to Krems." + +"Three and a half miles, Your Majesty." + +"The French have abandoned the left bank?" + +"According to the scouts the last of them crossed on rafts during the +night." + +"Is there sufficient forage in Krems?" + +"Forage has not been supplied to the extent..." + +The Emperor interrupted him. + +"At what o'clock was General Schmidt killed?" + +"At seven o'clock, I believe." + +"At seven o'clock? It's very sad, very sad!" + +The Emperor thanked Prince Andrew and bowed. Prince Andrew withdrew and +was immediately surrounded by courtiers on all sides. Everywhere he +saw friendly looks and heard friendly words. Yesterday's adjutant +reproached him for not having stayed at the palace, and offered him +his own house. The Minister of War came up and congratulated him on the +Maria Theresa Order of the third grade, which the Emperor was conferring +on him. The Empress' chamberlain invited him to see Her Majesty. The +archduchess also wished to see him. He did not know whom to answer, and +for a few seconds collected his thoughts. Then the Russian ambassador +took him by the shoulder, led him to the window, and began to talk to +him. + +Contrary to Bilibin's forecast the news he had brought was joyfully +received. A thanksgiving service was arranged, Kutuzov was awarded +the Grand Cross of Maria Theresa, and the whole army received rewards. +Bolkonski was invited everywhere, and had to spend the whole morning +calling on the principal Austrian dignitaries. Between four and five +in the afternoon, having made all his calls, he was returning to +Bilibin's house thinking out a letter to his father about the battle +and his visit to Brunn. At the door he found a vehicle half full of +luggage. Franz, Bilibin's man, was dragging a portmanteau with some +difficulty out of the front door. + +Before returning to Bilibin's Prince Andrew had gone to a bookshop +to provide himself with some books for the campaign, and had spent some +time in the shop. + +"What is it?" he asked. + +"Oh, your excellency!" said Franz, with difficulty rolling the +portmanteau into the vehicle, "we are to move on still farther. The +scoundrel is again at our heels!" + +"Eh? What?" asked Prince Andrew. + +Bilibin came out to meet him. His usually calm face showed excitement. + +"There now! Confess that this is delightful," said he. "This +affair of the Thabor Bridge, at Vienna.... They have crossed without +striking a blow!" + +Prince Andrew could not understand. + +"But where do you come from not to know what every coachman in the +town knows?" + +"I come from the archduchess'. I heard nothing there." + +"And you didn't see that everybody is packing up?" + +"I did not... What is it all about?" inquired Prince Andrew +impatiently. + +"What's it all about? Why, the French have crossed the bridge that +Auersperg was defending, and the bridge was not blown up: so Murat +is now rushing along the road to Brunn and will be here in a day or +two." + +"What? Here? But why did they not blow up the bridge, if it was +mined?" + +"That is what I ask you. No one, not even Bonaparte, knows why." + +Bolkonski shrugged his shoulders. + +"But if the bridge is crossed it means that the army too is lost? It +will be cut off," said he. + +"That's just it," answered Bilibin. "Listen! The French entered +Vienna as I told you. Very well. Next day, which was yesterday, those +gentlemen, messieurs les marechaux, * Murat, Lannes, and Belliard, +mount and ride to the bridge. (Observe that all three are Gascons.) +'Gentlemen,' says one of them, 'you know the Thabor Bridge is +mined and doubly mined and that there are menacing fortifications at its +head and an army of fifteen thousand men has been ordered to blow up +the bridge and not let us cross? But it will please our sovereign the +Emperor Napoleon if we take this bridge, so let us three go and take +it!' 'Yes, let's!' say the others. And off they go and take the +bridge, cross it, and now with their whole army are on this side of the +Danube, marching on us, you, and your lines of communication." + + * The marshalls. + +"Stop jesting," said Prince Andrew sadly and seriously. This news +grieved him and yet he was pleased. + +As soon as he learned that the Russian army was in such a hopeless +situation it occurred to him that it was he who was destined to lead it +out of this position; that here was the Toulon that would lift him from +the ranks of obscure officers and offer him the first step to fame! +Listening to Bilibin he was already imagining how on reaching the army +he would give an opinion at the war council which would be the only one +that could save the army, and how he alone would be entrusted with the +executing of the plan. + +"Stop this jesting," he said. + +"I am not jesting," Bilibin went on. "Nothing is truer or sadder. +These gentlemen ride onto the bridge alone and wave white handkerchiefs; +they assure the officer on duty that they, the marshals, are on +their way to negotiate with Prince Auersperg. He lets them enter the +tete-de-pont. * They spin him a thousand gasconades, saying that +the war is over, that the Emperor Francis is arranging a meeting with +Bonaparte, that they desire to see Prince Auersperg, and so on. The +officer sends for Auersperg; these gentlemen embrace the officers, crack +jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a French battalion gets to +the bridge unobserved, flings the bags of incendiary material into +the water, and approaches the tete-de-pont. At length appears the +lieutenant general, our dear Prince Auersperg von Mautern himself. +'Dearest foe! Flower of the Austrian army, hero of the Turkish wars! +Hostilities are ended, we can shake one another's hand.... The +Emperor Napoleon burns with impatience to make Prince Auersperg's +acquaintance.' In a word, those gentlemen, Gascons indeed, so +bewildered him with fine words, and he is so flattered by his rapidly +established intimacy with the French marshals, and so dazzled by the +sight of Murat's mantle and ostrich plumes, qu'il n'y voit que du +feu, et oublie celui qu'il devait faire faire sur l'ennemi!" *(2) +In spite of the animation of his speech, Bilibin did not forget to +pause after this mot to give time for its due appreciation. "The +French battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the +bridge is taken! But what is best of all," he went on, his excitement +subsiding under the delightful interest of his own story, "is that the +sergeant in charge of the cannon which was to give the signal to fire +the mines and blow up the bridge, this sergeant, seeing that the French +troops were running onto the bridge, was about to fire, but Lannes +stayed his hand. The sergeant, who was evidently wiser than his general, +goes up to Auersperg and says: 'Prince, you are being deceived, here +are the French!' Murat, seeing that all is lost if the sergeant is +allowed to speak, turns to Auersperg with feigned astonishment (he is a +true Gascon) and says: 'I don't recognize the world-famous Austrian +discipline, if you allow a subordinate to address you like that!' It +was a stroke of genius. Prince Auersperg feels his dignity at stake and +orders the sergeant to be arrested. Come, you must own that this affair +of the Thabor Bridge is delightful! It is not exactly stupidity, nor +rascality...." + + * Bridgehead. + + * (2) That their fire gets into his eyes and he forgets that + he ought to be firing at the enemy. + +"It may be treachery," said Prince Andrew, vividly imagining the +gray overcoats, wounds, the smoke of gunpowder, the sounds of firing, +and the glory that awaited him. + +"Not that either. That puts the court in too bad a light," replied +Bilibin. "It's not treachery nor rascality nor stupidity: it is +just as at Ulm... it is..."--he seemed to be trying to find the right +expression. "C'est... c'est du Mack. Nous sommes mackes (It is... +it is a bit of Mack. We are Macked)," he concluded, feeling that he +had produced a good epigram, a fresh one that would be repeated. His +hitherto puckered brow became smooth as a sign of pleasure, and with a +slight smile he began to examine his nails. + +"Where are you off to?" he said suddenly to Prince Andrew who had +risen and was going toward his room. + +"I am going away." + +"Where to?" + +"To the army." + +"But you meant to stay another two days?" + +"But now I am off at once." + +And Prince Andrew after giving directions about his departure went to +his room. + +"Do you know, mon cher," said Bilibin following him, "I have been +thinking about you. Why are you going?" + +And in proof of the conclusiveness of his opinion all the wrinkles +vanished from his face. + +Prince Andrew looked inquiringly at him and gave no reply. + +"Why are you going? I know you think it your duty to gallop back to +the army now that it is in danger. I understand that. Mon cher, it is +heroism!" + +"Not at all," said Prince Andrew. + +"But as you are a philosopher, be a consistent one, look at the other +side of the question and you will see that your duty, on the contrary, +is to take care of yourself. Leave it to those who are no longer fit for +anything else.... You have not been ordered to return and have not been +dismissed from here; therefore, you can stay and go with us wherever our +ill luck takes us. They say we are going to Olmutz, and Olmutz is a +very decent town. You and I will travel comfortably in my caleche." + +"Do stop joking, Bilibin," cried Bolkonski. + +"I am speaking sincerely as a friend! Consider! Where and why are +you going, when you might remain here? You are faced by one of two +things," and the skin over his left temple puckered, "either you +will not reach your regiment before peace is concluded, or you will +share defeat and disgrace with Kutuzov's whole army." + +And Bilibin unwrinkled his temple, feeling that the dilemma was +insoluble. + +"I cannot argue about it," replied Prince Andrew coldly, but he +thought: "I am going to save the army." + +"My dear fellow, you are a hero!" said Bilibin. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIII + +That same night, having taken leave of the Minister of War, Bolkonski +set off to rejoin the army, not knowing where he would find it and +fearing to be captured by the French on the way to Krems. + +In Brunn everybody attached to the court was packing up, and the heavy +baggage was already being dispatched to Olmutz. Near Hetzelsdorf Prince +Andrew struck the high road along which the Russian army was moving with +great haste and in the greatest disorder. The road was so obstructed +with carts that it was impossible to get by in a carriage. Prince Andrew +took a horse and a Cossack from a Cossack commander, and hungry and +weary, making his way past the baggage wagons, rode in search of the +commander in chief and of his own luggage. Very sinister reports of the +position of the army reached him as he went along, and the appearance of +the troops in their disorderly flight confirmed these rumors. + +"Cette armee russe que l'or de l'Angleterre a transportee des +extremites de l'univers, nous allons lui faire eprouver le meme +sort--(le sort de l'armee d'Ulm)." * He remembered these words +in Bonaparte's address to his army at the beginning of the campaign, +and they awoke in him astonishment at the genius of his hero, a feeling +of wounded pride, and a hope of glory. "And should there be nothing +left but to die?" he thought. "Well, if need be, I shall do it no +worse than others." + + * "That Russian army which has been brought from the ends of + the earth by English gold, we shall cause to share the same + fate--(the fate of the army at Ulm)." + + +He looked with disdain at the endless confused mass of detachments, +carts, guns, artillery, and again baggage wagons and vehicles of all +kinds overtaking one another and blocking the muddy road, three and +sometimes four abreast. From all sides, behind and before, as far as ear +could reach, there were the rattle of wheels, the creaking of carts +and gun carriages, the tramp of horses, the crack of whips, shouts, the +urging of horses, and the swearing of soldiers, orderlies, and officers. +All along the sides of the road fallen horses were to be seen, some +flayed, some not, and broken-down carts beside which solitary soldiers +sat waiting for something, and again soldiers straggling from their +companies, crowds of whom set off to the neighboring villages, or +returned from them dragging sheep, fowls, hay, and bulging sacks. At +each ascent or descent of the road the crowds were yet denser and the +din of shouting more incessant. Soldiers floundering knee-deep in mud +pushed the guns and wagons themselves. Whips cracked, hoofs slipped, +traces broke, and lungs were strained with shouting. The officers +directing the march rode backward and forward between the carts. Their +voices were but feebly heard amid the uproar and one saw by their faces +that they despaired of the possibility of checking this disorder. + +"Here is our dear Orthodox Russian army," thought Bolkonski, +recalling Bilibin's words. + +Wishing to find out where the commander in chief was, he rode up to +a convoy. Directly opposite to him came a strange one-horse vehicle, +evidently rigged up by soldiers out of any available materials and +looking like something between a cart, a cabriolet, and a caleche. +A soldier was driving, and a woman enveloped in shawls sat behind the +apron under the leather hood of the vehicle. Prince Andrew rode up +and was just putting his question to a soldier when his attention +was diverted by the desperate shrieks of the woman in the vehicle. An +officer in charge of transport was beating the soldier who was driving +the woman's vehicle for trying to get ahead of others, and the strokes +of his whip fell on the apron of the equipage. The woman screamed +piercingly. Seeing Prince Andrew she leaned out from behind the apron +and, waving her thin arms from under the woolen shawl, cried: + +"Mr. Aide-de-camp! Mr. Aide-de-camp!... For heaven's sake... Protect +me! What will become of us? I am the wife of the doctor of the Seventh +Chasseurs.... They won't let us pass, we are left behind and have lost +our people..." + +"I'll flatten you into a pancake!" shouted the angry officer to +the soldier. "Turn back with your slut!" + +"Mr. Aide-de-camp! Help me!... What does it all mean?" screamed the +doctor's wife. + +"Kindly let this cart pass. Don't you see it's a woman?" said +Prince Andrew riding up to the officer. + +The officer glanced at him, and without replying turned again to the +soldier. "I'll teach you to push on!... Back!" + +"Let them pass, I tell you!" repeated Prince Andrew, compressing his +lips. + +"And who are you?" cried the officer, turning on him with tipsy +rage, "who are you? Are you in command here? Eh? I am commander here, +not you! Go back or I'll flatten you into a pancake," repeated he. +This expression evidently pleased him. + +"That was a nice snub for the little aide-de-camp," came a voice +from behind. + +Prince Andrew saw that the officer was in that state of senseless, +tipsy rage when a man does not know what he is saying. He saw that his +championship of the doctor's wife in her queer trap might expose him +to what he dreaded more than anything in the world--to ridicule; but +his instinct urged him on. Before the officer finished his sentence +Prince Andrew, his face distorted with fury, rode up to him and raised +his riding whip. + +"Kind...ly let--them--pass!" + +The officer flourished his arm and hastily rode away. + +"It's all the fault of these fellows on the staff that there's +this disorder," he muttered. "Do as you like." + +Prince Andrew without lifting his eyes rode hastily away from the +doctor's wife, who was calling him her deliverer, and recalling with +a sense of disgust the minutest details of this humiliating scene he +galloped on to the village where he was told that the commander in chief +was. + +On reaching the village he dismounted and went to the nearest house, +intending to rest if but for a moment, eat something, and try to sort +out the stinging and tormenting thoughts that confused his mind. "This +is a mob of scoundrels and not an army," he was thinking as he went +up to the window of the first house, when a familiar voice called him by +name. + +He turned round. Nesvitski's handsome face looked out of the little +window. Nesvitski, moving his moist lips as he chewed something, and +flourishing his arm, called him to enter. + +"Bolkonski! Bolkonski!... Don't you hear? Eh? Come quick..." he +shouted. + +Entering the house, Prince Andrew saw Nesvitski and another adjutant +having something to eat. They hastily turned round to him asking if he +had any news. On their familiar faces he read agitation and alarm. +This was particularly noticeable on Nesvitski's usually laughing +countenance. + +"Where is the commander in chief?" asked Bolkonski. + +"Here, in that house," answered the adjutant. + +"Well, is it true that it's peace and capitulation?" asked +Nesvitski. + +"I was going to ask you. I know nothing except that it was all I could +do to get here." + +"And we, my dear boy! It's terrible! I was wrong to laugh at Mack, +we're getting it still worse," said Nesvitski. "But sit down and +have something to eat." + +"You won't be able to find either your baggage or anything else now, +Prince. And God only knows where your man Peter is," said the other +adjutant. + +"Where are headquarters?" + +"We are to spend the night in Znaim." + +"Well, I have got all I need into packs for two horses," said +Nesvitski. "They've made up splendid packs for me--fit to cross +the Bohemian mountains with. It's a bad lookout, old fellow! But +what's the matter with you? You must be ill to shiver like that," he +added, noticing that Prince Andrew winced as at an electric shock. + +"It's nothing," replied Prince Andrew. + +He had just remembered his recent encounter with the doctor's wife and +the convoy officer. + +"What is the commander in chief doing here?" he asked. + +"I can't make out at all," said Nesvitski. + +"Well, all I can make out is that everything is abominable, +abominable, quite abominable!" said Prince Andrew, and he went off to +the house where the commander in chief was. + +Passing by Kutuzov's carriage and the exhausted saddle horses of +his suite, with their Cossacks who were talking loudly together, Prince +Andrew entered the passage. Kutuzov himself, he was told, was in the +house with Prince Bagration and Weyrother. Weyrother was the Austrian +general who had succeeded Schmidt. In the passage little Kozlovski was +squatting on his heels in front of a clerk. The clerk, with cuffs turned +up, was hastily writing at a tub turned bottom upwards. Kozlovski's +face looked worn--he too had evidently not slept all night. He glanced +at Prince Andrew and did not even nod to him. + +"Second line... have you written it?" he continued dictating to the +clerk. "The Kiev Grenadiers, Podolian..." + +"One can't write so fast, your honor," said the clerk, glancing +angrily and disrespectfully at Kozlovski. + +Through the door came the sounds of Kutuzov's voice, excited and +dissatisfied, interrupted by another, an unfamiliar voice. From the +sound of these voices, the inattentive way Kozlovski looked at him, the +disrespectful manner of the exhausted clerk, the fact that the clerk and +Kozlovski were squatting on the floor by a tub so near to the commander +in chief, and from the noisy laughter of the Cossacks holding the +horses near the window, Prince Andrew felt that something important and +disastrous was about to happen. + +He turned to Kozlovski with urgent questions. + +"Immediately, Prince," said Kozlovski. "Dispositions for +Bagration." + +"What about capitulation?" + +"Nothing of the sort. Orders are issued for a battle." + +Prince Andrew moved toward the door from whence voices were heard. +Just as he was going to open it the sounds ceased, the door opened, and +Kutuzov with his eagle nose and puffy face appeared in the doorway. +Prince Andrew stood right in front of Kutuzov but the expression of +the commander in chief's one sound eye showed him to be so preoccupied +with thoughts and anxieties as to be oblivious of his presence. He +looked straight at his adjutant's face without recognizing him. + +"Well, have you finished?" said he to Kozlovski. + +"One moment, your excellency." + +Bagration, a gaunt middle-aged man of medium height with a firm, +impassive face of Oriental type, came out after the commander in chief. + +"I have the honor to present myself," repeated Prince Andrew rather +loudly, handing Kutuzov an envelope. + +"Ah, from Vienna? Very good. Later, later!" + +Kutuzov went out into the porch with Bagration. + +"Well, good-by, Prince," said he to Bagration. "My blessing, and +may Christ be with you in your great endeavor!" + +His face suddenly softened and tears came into his eyes. With his left +hand he drew Bagration toward him, and with his right, on which he wore +a ring, he made the sign of the cross over him with a gesture evidently +habitual, offering his puffy cheek, but Bagration kissed him on the +neck instead. + +"Christ be with you!" Kutuzov repeated and went toward his +carriage. "Get in with me," said he to Bolkonski. + +"Your excellency, I should like to be of use here. Allow me to remain +with Prince Bagration's detachment." + +"Get in," said Kutuzov, and noticing that Bolkonski still delayed, +he added: "I need good officers myself, need them myself!" + +They got into the carriage and drove for a few minutes in silence. + +"There is still much, much before us," he said, as if with an old +man's penetration he understood all that was passing in Bolkonski's +mind. "If a tenth part of his detachment returns I shall thank God," +he added as if speaking to himself. + +Prince Andrew glanced at Kutuzov's face only a foot distant from him +and involuntarily noticed the carefully washed seams of the scar near +his temple, where an Ismail bullet had pierced his skull, and the empty +eye socket. "Yes, he has a right to speak so calmly of those men's +death," thought Bolkonski. + +"That is why I beg to be sent to that detachment," he said. + +Kutuzov did not reply. He seemed to have forgotten what he had been +saying, and sat plunged in thought. Five minutes later, gently swaying +on the soft springs of the carriage, he turned to Prince Andrew. +There was not a trace of agitation on his face. With delicate irony he +questioned Prince Andrew about the details of his interview with the +Emperor, about the remarks he had heard at court concerning the Krems +affair, and about some ladies they both knew. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +On November 1 Kutuzov had received, through a spy, news that the army +he commanded was in an almost hopeless position. The spy reported that +the French, after crossing the bridge at Vienna, were advancing in +immense force upon Kutuzov's line of communication with the troops +that were arriving from Russia. If Kutuzov decided to remain at Krems, +Napoleon's army of one hundred and fifty thousand men would cut him +off completely and surround his exhausted army of forty thousand, and he +would find himself in the position of Mack at Ulm. If Kutuzov decided +to abandon the road connecting him with the troops arriving from Russia, +he would have to march with no road into unknown parts of the Bohemian +mountains, defending himself against superior forces of the enemy and +abandoning all hope of a junction with Buxhowden. If Kutuzov decided +to retreat along the road from Krems to Olmutz, to unite with the +troops arriving from Russia, he risked being forestalled on that road +by the French who had crossed the Vienna bridge, and encumbered by his +baggage and transport, having to accept battle on the march against an +enemy three times as strong, who would hem him in from two sides. + +Kutuzov chose this latter course. + +The French, the spy reported, having crossed the Vienna bridge, were +advancing by forced marches toward Znaim, which lay sixty-six miles +off on the line of Kutuzov's retreat. If he reached Znaim before the +French, there would be great hope of saving the army; to let the +French forestall him at Znaim meant the exposure of his whole army to a +disgrace such as that of Ulm, or to utter destruction. But to forestall +the French with his whole army was impossible. The road for the French +from Vienna to Znaim was shorter and better than the road for the +Russians from Krems to Znaim. + +The night he received the news, Kutuzov sent Bagration's vanguard, +four thousand strong, to the right across the hills from the Krems-Znaim +to the Vienna-Znaim road. Bagration was to make this march without +resting, and to halt facing Vienna with Znaim to his rear, and if he +succeeded in forestalling the French he was to delay them as long as +possible. Kutuzov himself with all his transport took the road to +Znaim. + +Marching thirty miles that stormy night across roadless hills, with his +hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers +by the way, Bagration came out on the Vienna-Znaim road at Hollabrunn +a few hours ahead of the French who were approaching Hollabrunn from +Vienna. Kutuzov with his transport had still to march for some days +before he could reach Znaim. Hence Bagration with his four thousand +hungry, exhausted men would have to detain for days the whole enemy army +that came upon him at Hollabrunn, which was clearly impossible. But +a freak of fate made the impossible possible. The success of the trick +that had placed the Vienna bridge in the hands of the French without +a fight led Murat to try to deceive Kutuzov in a similar way. Meeting +Bagration's weak detachment on the Znaim road he supposed it to be +Kutuzov's whole army. To be able to crush it absolutely he awaited +the arrival of the rest of the troops who were on their way from Vienna, +and with this object offered a three days' truce on condition that +both armies should remain in position without moving. Murat declared +that negotiations for peace were already proceeding, and that he +therefore offered this truce to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. Count +Nostitz, the Austrian general occupying the advanced posts, believed +Murat's emissary and retired, leaving Bagration's division +exposed. Another emissary rode to the Russian line to announce the peace +negotiations and to offer the Russian army the three days' truce. +Bagration replied that he was not authorized either to accept or refuse +a truce and sent his adjutant to Kutuzov to report the offer he had +received. + +A truce was Kutuzov's sole chance of gaining time, giving +Bagration's exhausted troops some rest, and letting the transport and +heavy convoys (whose movements were concealed from the French) advance +if but one stage nearer Znaim. The offer of a truce gave the only, and +a quite unexpected, chance of saving the army. On receiving the news +he immediately dispatched Adjutant General Wintzingerode, who was in +attendance on him, to the enemy camp. Wintzingerode was not merely +to agree to the truce but also to offer terms of capitulation, and +meanwhile Kutuzov sent his adjutants back to hasten to the utmost the +movements of the baggage trains of the entire army along the Krems-Znaim +road. Bagration's exhausted and hungry detachment, which alone +covered this movement of the transport and of the whole army, had to +remain stationary in face of an enemy eight times as strong as itself. + +Kutuzov's expectations that the proposals of capitulation (which were +in no way binding) might give time for part of the transport to pass, +and also that Murat's mistake would very soon be discovered, proved +correct. As soon as Bonaparte (who was at Schonbrunn, sixteen miles +from Hollabrunn) received Murat's dispatch with the proposal of a +truce and a capitulation, he detected a ruse and wrote the following +letter to Murat: + +Schonbrunn, 25th Brumaire, 1805, + +at eight o'clock in the morning + +To PRINCE MURAT, + +I cannot find words to express to you my displeasure. You command only +my advance guard, and have no right to arrange an armistice without my +order. You are causing me to lose the fruits of a campaign. Break +the armistice immediately and march on the enemy. Inform him that the +general who signed that capitulation had no right to do so, and that no +one but the Emperor of Russia has that right. + +If, however, the Emperor of Russia ratifies that convention, I will +ratify it; but it is only a trick. March on, destroy the Russian +army.... You are in a position to seize its baggage and artillery. + +The Russian Emperor's aide-de-camp is an impostor. Officers are +nothing when they have no powers; this one had none.... The Austrians +let themselves be tricked at the crossing of the Vienna bridge, you are +letting yourself be tricked by an aide-de-camp of the Emperor. + +NAPOLEON + +Bonaparte's adjutant rode full gallop with this menacing letter to +Murat. Bonaparte himself, not trusting to his generals, moved with all +the Guards to the field of battle, afraid of letting a ready victim +escape, and Bagration's four thousand men merrily lighted campfires, +dried and warmed themselves, cooked their porridge for the first time +for three days, and not one of them knew or imagined what was in store +for him. + + + + + +CHAPTER XV + +Between three and four o'clock in the afternoon Prince Andrew, who +had persisted in his request to Kutuzov, arrived at Grunth and reported +himself to Bagration. Bonaparte's adjutant had not yet reached +Murat's detachment and the battle had not yet begun. In Bagration's +detachment no one knew anything of the general position of affairs. They +talked of peace but did not believe in its possibility; others talked +of a battle but also disbelieved in the nearness of an engagement. +Bagration, knowing Bolkonski to be a favorite and trusted adjutant, +received him with distinction and special marks of favor, explaining to +him that there would probably be an engagement that day or the next, and +giving him full liberty to remain with him during the battle or to join +the rearguard and have an eye on the order of retreat, "which is also +very important." + +"However, there will hardly be an engagement today," said Bagration +as if to reassure Prince Andrew. + +"If he is one of the ordinary little staff dandies sent to earn a +medal he can get his reward just as well in the rearguard, but if he +wishes to stay with me, let him... he'll be of use here if he's a +brave officer," thought Bagration. Prince Andrew, without replying, +asked the prince's permission to ride round the position to see the +disposition of the forces, so as to know his bearings should he be sent +to execute an order. The officer on duty, a handsome, elegantly dressed +man with a diamond ring on his forefinger, who was fond of speaking +French though he spoke it badly, offered to conduct Prince Andrew. + +On all sides they saw rain-soaked officers with dejected faces who +seemed to be seeking something, and soldiers dragging doors, benches, +and fencing from the village. + +"There now, Prince! We can't stop those fellows," said the staff +officer pointing to the soldiers. "The officers don't keep them in +hand. And there," he pointed to a sutler's tent, "they crowd in +and sit. This morning I turned them all out and now look, it's full +again. I must go there, Prince, and scare them a bit. It won't take a +moment." + +"Yes, let's go in and I will get myself a roll and some cheese," +said Prince Andrew who had not yet had time to eat anything. + +"Why didn't you mention it, Prince? I would have offered you +something." + +They dismounted and entered the tent. Several officers, with flushed and +weary faces, were sitting at the table eating and drinking. + +"Now what does this mean, gentlemen?" said the staff officer, in +the reproachful tone of a man who has repeated the same thing more +than once. "You know it won't do to leave your posts like this. +The prince gave orders that no one should leave his post. Now you, +Captain," and he turned to a thin, dirty little artillery officer who +without his boots (he had given them to the canteen keeper to dry), +in only his stockings, rose when they entered, smiling not altogether +comfortably. + +"Well, aren't you ashamed of yourself, Captain Tushin?" he +continued. "One would think that as an artillery officer you would set +a good example, yet here you are without your boots! The alarm will be +sounded and you'll be in a pretty position without your boots!" (The +staff officer smiled.) "Kindly return to your posts, gentlemen, all of +you, all!" he added in a tone of command. + +Prince Andrew smiled involuntarily as he looked at the artillery officer +Tushin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to +the other, glanced inquiringly with his large, intelligent, kindly eyes +from Prince Andrew to the staff officer. + +"The soldiers say it feels easier without boots," said Captain +Tushin smiling shyly in his uncomfortable position, evidently wishing +to adopt a jocular tone. But before he had finished he felt that his +jest was unacceptable and had not come off. He grew confused. + +"Kindly return to your posts," said the staff officer trying to +preserve his gravity. + +Prince Andrew glanced again at the artillery officer's small figure. +There was something peculiar about it, quite unsoldierly, rather comic, +but extremely attractive. + +The staff officer and Prince Andrew mounted their horses and rode on. + +Having ridden beyond the village, continually meeting and overtaking +soldiers and officers of various regiments, they saw on their left some +entrenchments being thrown up, the freshly dug clay of which showed up +red. Several battalions of soldiers, in their shirt sleeves despite +the cold wind, swarmed in these earthworks like a host of white ants; +spadefuls of red clay were continually being thrown up from behind the +bank by unseen hands. Prince Andrew and the officer rode up, looked at +the entrenchment, and went on again. Just behind it they came upon some +dozens of soldiers, continually replaced by others, who ran from the +entrenchment. They had to hold their noses and put their horses to a +trot to escape from the poisoned atmosphere of these latrines. + +"Voila l'agrement des camps, monsieur le prince," * said the +staff officer. + + * "This is a pleasure one gets in camp, Prince." + + +They rode up the opposite hill. From there the French could already be +seen. Prince Andrew stopped and began examining the position. + +"That's our battery," said the staff officer indicating the +highest point. "It's in charge of the queer fellow we saw without +his boots. You can see everything from there; let's go there, +Prince." + +"Thank you very much, I will go on alone," said Prince Andrew, +wishing to rid himself of this staff officer's company, "please +don't trouble yourself further." + +The staff officer remained behind and Prince Andrew rode on alone. + +The farther forward and nearer the enemy he went, the more orderly and +cheerful were the troops. The greatest disorder and depression had been +in the baggage train he had passed that morning on the Znaim road seven +miles away from the French. At Grunth also some apprehension and alarm +could be felt, but the nearer Prince Andrew came to the French lines the +more confident was the appearance of our troops. The soldiers in +their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company +officers were counting the men, poking the last man in each section in +the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up. Soldiers scattered over +the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building +shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, +dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending +boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers. +In one company dinner was ready, and the soldiers were gazing eagerly +at the steaming boiler, waiting till the sample, which a quartermaster +sergeant was carrying in a wooden bowl to an officer who sat on a log +before his shelter, had been tasted. + +Another company, a lucky one for not all the companies had vodka, +crowded round a pockmarked, broad-shouldered sergeant major who, tilting +a keg, filled one after another the canteen lids held out to him. The +soldiers lifted the canteen lids to their lips with reverential faces, +emptied them, rolling the vodka in their mouths, and walked away from +the sergeant major with brightened expressions, licking their lips and +wiping them on the sleeves of their greatcoats. All their faces were +as serene as if all this were happening at home awaiting peaceful +encampment, and not within sight of the enemy before an action in +which at least half of them would be left on the field. After passing a +chasseur regiment and in the lines of the Kiev grenadiers--fine fellows +busy with similar peaceful affairs--near the shelter of the regimental +commander, higher than and different from the others, Prince Andrew came +out in front of a platoon of grenadiers before whom lay a naked man. Two +soldiers held him while two others were flourishing their switches and +striking him regularly on his bare back. The man shrieked unnaturally. +A stout major was pacing up and down the line, and regardless of the +screams kept repeating: + +"It's a shame for a soldier to steal; a soldier must be honest, +honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in +him, he's a scoundrel. Go on! Go on!" + +So the swishing sound of the strokes, and the desperate but unnatural +screams, continued. + +"Go on, go on!" said the major. + +A young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face +stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant +as he rode by. + +Prince Andrew, having reached the front line, rode along it. Our front +line and that of the enemy were far apart on the right and left flanks, +but in the center where the men with a flag of truce had passed that +morning, the lines were so near together that the men could see one +another's faces and speak to one another. Besides the soldiers who +formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers +who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies. + +Since early morning--despite an injunction not to approach the picket +line--the officers had been unable to keep sight-seers away. The +soldiers forming the picket line, like showmen exhibiting a curiosity, +no longer looked at the French but paid attention to the sight-seers and +grew weary waiting to be relieved. Prince Andrew halted to have a look +at the French. + +"Look! Look there!" one soldier was saying to another, pointing to a +Russian musketeer who had gone up to the picket line with an officer and +was rapidly and excitedly talking to a French grenadier. "Hark to him +jabbering! Fine, isn't it? It's all the Frenchy can do to keep up +with him. There now, Sidorov!" + +"Wait a bit and listen. It's fine!" answered Sidorov, who was +considered an adept at French. + +The soldier to whom the laughers referred was Dolokhov. Prince Andrew +recognized him and stopped to listen to what he was saying. Dolokhov +had come from the left flank where their regiment was stationed, with +his captain. + +"Now then, go on, go on!" incited the officer, bending forward and +trying not to lose a word of the speech which was incomprehensible to +him. "More, please: more! What's he saying?" + +Dolokhov did not answer the captain; he had been drawn into a hot +dispute with the French grenadier. They were naturally talking about the +campaign. The Frenchman, confusing the Austrians with the Russians, was +trying to prove that the Russians had surrendered and had fled all +the way from Ulm, while Dolokhov maintained that the Russians had not +surrendered but had beaten the French. + +"We have orders to drive you off here, and we shall drive you off," +said Dolokhov. + +"Only take care you and your Cossacks are not all captured!" said +the French grenadier. + +The French onlookers and listeners laughed. + +"We'll make you dance as we did under Suvorov...," * said +Dolokhov. + + * "On vous fera danser." + + +"Qu' est-ce qu'il chante?" * asked a Frenchman. + + * "What's he singing about?" + + +"It's ancient history," said another, guessing that it referred to +a former war. "The Emperor will teach your Suvara as he has taught the +others..." + +"Bonaparte..." began Dolokhov, but the Frenchman interrupted him. + +"Not Bonaparte. He is the Emperor! Sacre nom...!" cried he angrily. + +"The devil skin your Emperor." + +And Dolokhov swore at him in coarse soldier's Russian and shouldering +his musket walked away. + +"Let us go, Ivan Lukich," he said to the captain. + +"Ah, that's the way to talk French," said the picket soldiers. +"Now, Sidorov, you have a try!" + +Sidorov, turning to the French, winked, and began to jabber meaningless +sounds very fast: "Kari, mala, tafa, safi, muter, Kaska," he said, +trying to give an expressive intonation to his voice. + +"Ho! ho! ho! Ha! ha! ha! ha! Ouh! ouh!" came peals of such healthy +and good-humored laughter from the soldiers that it infected the French +involuntarily, so much so that the only thing left to do seemed to be +to unload the muskets, explode the ammunition, and all return home as +quickly as possible. + +But the guns remained loaded, the loopholes in blockhouses and +entrenchments looked out just as menacingly, and the unlimbered cannon +confronted one another as before. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +Having ridden round the whole line from right flank to left, Prince +Andrew made his way up to the battery from which the staff officer had +told him the whole field could be seen. Here he dismounted, and stopped +beside the farthest of the four unlimbered cannon. Before the guns an +artillery sentry was pacing up and down; he stood at attention when the +officer arrived, but at a sign resumed his measured, monotonous pacing. +Behind the guns were their limbers and still farther back picket ropes +and artillerymen's bonfires. To the left, not far from the farthest +cannon, was a small, newly constructed wattle shed from which came the +sound of officers' voices in eager conversation. + +It was true that a view over nearly the whole Russian position and the +greater part of the enemy's opened out from this battery. Just facing +it, on the crest of the opposite hill, the village of Schon Grabern +could be seen, and in three places to left and right the French troops +amid the smoke of their campfires, the greater part of whom were +evidently in the village itself and behind the hill. To the left from +that village, amid the smoke, was something resembling a battery, but it +was impossible to see it clearly with the naked eye. Our right flank was +posted on a rather steep incline which dominated the French position. +Our infantry were stationed there, and at the farthest point the +dragoons. In the center, where Tushin's battery stood and from which +Prince Andrew was surveying the position, was the easiest and most +direct descent and ascent to the brook separating us from Schon +Grabern. On the left our troops were close to a copse, in which smoked +the bonfires of our infantry who were felling wood. The French line was +wider than ours, and it was plain that they could easily outflank us +on both sides. Behind our position was a steep and deep dip, making it +difficult for artillery and cavalry to retire. Prince Andrew took +out his notebook and, leaning on the cannon, sketched a plan of the +position. He made some notes on two points, intending to mention them to +Bagration. His idea was, first, to concentrate all the artillery in the +center, and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the +dip. Prince Andrew, being always near the commander in chief, closely +following the mass movements and general orders, and constantly studying +historical accounts of battles, involuntarily pictured to himself the +course of events in the forthcoming action in broad outline. He +imagined only important possibilities: "If the enemy attacks the right +flank," he said to himself, "the Kiev grenadiers and the Podolsk +chasseurs must hold their position till reserves from the center +come up. In that case the dragoons could successfully make a flank +counterattack. If they attack our center we, having the center battery +on this high ground, shall withdraw the left flank under its cover, and +retreat to the dip by echelons." So he reasoned.... All the time +he had been beside the gun, he had heard the voices of the officers +distinctly, but as often happens had not understood a word of what they +were saying. Suddenly, however, he was struck by a voice coming from the +shed, and its tone was so sincere that he could not but listen. + +"No, friend," said a pleasant and, as it seemed to Prince Andrew, a +familiar voice, "what I say is that if it were possible to know +what is beyond death, none of us would be afraid of it. That's so, +friend." + +Another, a younger voice, interrupted him: "Afraid or not, you can't +escape it anyhow." + +"All the same, one is afraid! Oh, you clever people," said a third +manly voice interrupting them both. "Of course you artillery men are +very wise, because you can take everything along with you--vodka and +snacks." + +And the owner of the manly voice, evidently an infantry officer, +laughed. + +"Yes, one is afraid," continued the first speaker, he of the +familiar voice. "One is afraid of the unknown, that's what it is. +Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is +no sky but only an atmosphere." + +The manly voice again interrupted the artillery officer. + +"Well, stand us some of your herb vodka, Tushin," it said. + +"Why," thought Prince Andrew, "that's the captain who stood up +in the sutler's hut without his boots." He recognized the agreeable, +philosophizing voice with pleasure. + +"Some herb vodka? Certainly!" said Tushin. "But still, to +conceive a future life..." + +He did not finish. Just then there was a whistle in the air; nearer and +nearer, faster and louder, louder and faster, a cannon ball, as if it +had not finished saying what was necessary, thudded into the ground near +the shed with super human force, throwing up a mass of earth. The ground +seemed to groan at the terrible impact. + +And immediately Tushin, with a short pipe in the corner of his mouth +and his kind, intelligent face rather pale, rushed out of the shed +followed by the owner of the manly voice, a dashing infantry officer who +hurried off to his company, buttoning up his coat as he ran. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVII + +Mounting his horse again Prince Andrew lingered with the battery, +looking at the puff from the gun that had sent the ball. His eyes +ran rapidly over the wide space, but he only saw that the hitherto +motionless masses of the French now swayed and that there really was +a battery to their left. The smoke above it had not yet dispersed. Two +mounted Frenchmen, probably adjutants, were galloping up the hill. A +small but distinctly visible enemy column was moving down the hill, +probably to strengthen the front line. The smoke of the first shot had +not yet dispersed before another puff appeared, followed by a report. +The battle had begun! Prince Andrew turned his horse and galloped back +to Grunth to find Prince Bagration. He heard the cannonade behind him +growing louder and more frequent. Evidently our guns had begun to reply. +From the bottom of the slope, where the parleys had taken place, came +the report of musketry. + +Lemarrois had just arrived at a gallop with Bonaparte's stern letter, +and Murat, humiliated and anxious to expiate his fault, had at once +moved his forces to attack the center and outflank both the Russian +wings, hoping before evening and before the arrival of the Emperor to +crush the contemptible detachment that stood before him. + +"It has begun. Here it is!" thought Prince Andrew, feeling the +blood rush to his heart. "But where and how will my Toulon present +itself?" + +Passing between the companies that had been eating porridge and drinking +vodka a quarter of an hour before, he saw everywhere the same rapid +movement of soldiers forming ranks and getting their muskets ready, +and on all their faces he recognized the same eagerness that filled his +heart. "It has begun! Here it is, dreadful but enjoyable!" was what +the face of each soldier and each officer seemed to say. + +Before he had reached the embankments that were being thrown up, he saw, +in the light of the dull autumn evening, mounted men coming toward him. +The foremost, wearing a Cossack cloak and lambskin cap and riding a +white horse, was Prince Bagration. Prince Andrew stopped, waiting for +him to come up; Prince Bagration reined in his horse and recognizing +Prince Andrew nodded to him. He still looked ahead while Prince Andrew +told him what he had seen. + +The feeling, "It has begun! Here it is!" was seen even on Prince +Bagration's hard brown face with its half-closed, dull, sleepy eyes. +Prince Andrew gazed with anxious curiosity at that impassive face +and wished he could tell what, if anything, this man was thinking +and feeling at that moment. "Is there anything at all behind that +impassive face?" Prince Andrew asked himself as he looked. Prince +Bagration bent his head in sign of agreement with what Prince Andrew +told him, and said, "Very good!" in a tone that seemed to imply that +everything that took place and was reported to him was exactly what he +had foreseen. Prince Andrew, out of breath with his rapid ride, spoke +quickly. Prince Bagration, uttering his words with an Oriental accent, +spoke particularly slowly, as if to impress the fact that there was no +need to hurry. However, he put his horse to a trot in the direction +of Tushin's battery. Prince Andrew followed with the suite. Behind +Prince Bagration rode an officer of the suite, the prince's personal +adjutant, Zherkov, an orderly officer, the staff officer on duty, +riding a fine bobtailed horse, and a civilian--an accountant who had +asked permission to be present at the battle out of curiosity. The +accountant, a stout, full-faced man, looked around him with a naive +smile of satisfaction and presented a strange appearance among the +hussars, Cossacks, and adjutants, in his camlet coat, as he jolted on +his horse with a convoy officer's saddle. + +"He wants to see a battle," said Zherkov to Bolkonski, pointing +to the accountant, "but he feels a pain in the pit of his stomach +already." + +"Oh, leave off!" said the accountant with a beaming but rather +cunning smile, as if flattered at being made the subject of Zherkov's +joke, and purposely trying to appear stupider than he really was. + +"It is very strange, mon Monsieur Prince," said the staff officer. +(He remembered that in French there is some peculiar way of addressing a +prince, but could not get it quite right.) + +By this time they were all approaching Tushin's battery, and a ball +struck the ground in front of them. + +"What's that that has fallen?" asked the accountant with a naive +smile. + +"A French pancake," answered Zherkov. + +"So that's what they hit with?" asked the accountant. "How +awful!" + +He seemed to swell with satisfaction. He had hardly finished speaking +when they again heard an unexpectedly violent whistling which suddenly +ended with a thud into something soft... f-f-flop! and a Cossack, riding +a little to their right and behind the accountant, crashed to earth with +his horse. Zherkov and the staff officer bent over their saddles and +turned their horses away. The accountant stopped, facing the Cossack, +and examined him with attentive curiosity. The Cossack was dead, but the +horse still struggled. + +Prince Bagration screwed up his eyes, looked round, and, seeing the +cause of the confusion, turned away with indifference, as if to say, +"Is it worth while noticing trifles?" He reined in his horse with +the care of a skillful rider and, slightly bending over, disengaged his +saber which had caught in his cloak. It was an old-fashioned saber of +a kind no longer in general use. Prince Andrew remembered the story of +Suvorov giving his saber to Bagration in Italy, and the recollection +was particularly pleasant at that moment. They had reached the battery +at which Prince Andrew had been when he examined the battlefield. + +"Whose company?" asked Prince Bagration of an artilleryman standing +by the ammunition wagon. + +He asked, "Whose company?" but he really meant, "Are you +frightened here?" and the artilleryman understood him. + +"Captain Tushin's, your excellency!" shouted the red-haired, +freckled gunner in a merry voice, standing to attention. + +"Yes, yes," muttered Bagration as if considering something, and he +rode past the limbers to the farthest cannon. + +As he approached, a ringing shot issued from it deafening him and his +suite, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the gun they could see +the gunners who had seized it straining to roll it quickly back to its +former position. A huge, broad-shouldered gunner, Number One, holding +a mop, his legs far apart, sprang to the wheel; while Number Two with +a trembling hand placed a charge in the cannon's mouth. The short, +round-shouldered Captain Tushin, stumbling over the tail of the gun +carriage, moved forward and, not noticing the general, looked out +shading his eyes with his small hand. + +"Lift it two lines more and it will be just right," cried he in a +feeble voice to which he tried to impart a dashing note, ill-suited to +his weak figure. "Number Two!" he squeaked. "Fire, Medvedev!" + +Bagration called to him, and Tushin, raising three fingers to his cap +with a bashful and awkward gesture not at all like a military salute +but like a priest's benediction, approached the general. Though +Tushin's guns had been intended to cannonade the valley, he was +firing incendiary balls at the village of Schon Grabern visible just +opposite, in front of which large masses of French were advancing. + +No one had given Tushin orders where and at what to fire, but after +consulting his sergeant major, Zakharchenko, for whom he had great +respect, he had decided that it would be a good thing to set fire to the +village. "Very good!" said Bagration in reply to the officer's +report, and began deliberately to examine the whole battlefield extended +before him. The French had advanced nearest on our right. Below the +height on which the Kiev regiment was stationed, in the hollow where the +rivulet flowed, the soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was +heard, and much farther to the right beyond the dragoons, the officer of +the suite pointed out to Bagration a French column that was outflanking +us. To the left the horizon bounded by the adjacent wood. Prince +Bagration ordered two battalions from the center to be sent to +reinforce the right flank. The officer of the suite ventured to remark +to the prince that if these battalions went away, the guns would remain +without support. Prince Bagration turned to the officer and with his +dull eyes looked at him in silence. It seemed to Prince Andrew that the +officer's remark was just and that really no answer could be made to +it. But at that moment an adjutant galloped up with a message from the +commander of the regiment in the hollow and news that immense masses +of the French were coming down upon them and that his regiment was in +disorder and was retreating upon the Kiev grenadiers. Prince Bagration +bowed his head in sign of assent and approval. He rode off at a walk to +the right and sent an adjutant to the dragoons with orders to attack the +French. But this adjutant returned half an hour later with the news that +the commander of the dragoons had already retreated beyond the dip in +the ground, as a heavy fire had been opened on him and he was losing +men uselessly, and so had hastened to throw some sharpshooters into the +wood. + +"Very good!" said Bagration. + +As he was leaving the battery, firing was heard on the left also, and +as it was too far to the left flank for him to have time to go there +himself, Prince Bagration sent Zherkov to tell the general in command +(the one who had paraded his regiment before Kutuzov at Braunau) that +he must retreat as quickly as possible behind the hollow in the rear, +as the right flank would probably not be able to withstand the enemy's +attack very long. About Tushin and the battalion that had been in +support of his battery all was forgotten. Prince Andrew listened +attentively to Bagration's colloquies with the commanding officers +and the orders he gave them and, to his surprise, found that no orders +were really given, but that Prince Bagration tried to make it appear +that everything done by necessity, by accident, or by the will of +subordinate commanders was done, if not by his direct command, at least +in accord with his intentions. Prince Andrew noticed, however, that +though what happened was due to chance and was independent of the +commander's will, owing to the tact Bagration showed, his presence +was very valuable. Officers who approached him with disturbed +countenances became calm; soldiers and officers greeted him gaily, grew +more cheerful in his presence, and were evidently anxious to display +their courage before him. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVIII + +Prince Bagration, having reached the highest point of our right flank, +began riding downhill to where the roll of musketry was heard but where +on account of the smoke nothing could be seen. The nearer they got to +the hollow the less they could see but the more they felt the nearness +of the actual battlefield. They began to meet wounded men. One with a +bleeding head and no cap was being dragged along by two soldiers who +supported him under the arms. There was a gurgle in his throat and he +was spitting blood. A bullet had evidently hit him in the throat or +mouth. Another was walking sturdily by himself but without his musket, +groaning aloud and swinging his arm which had just been hurt, while +blood from it was streaming over his greatcoat as from a bottle. He had +that moment been wounded and his face showed fear rather than suffering. +Crossing a road they descended a steep incline and saw several men +lying on the ground; they also met a crowd of soldiers some of whom were +unwounded. The soldiers were ascending the hill breathing heavily, and +despite the general's presence were talking loudly and gesticulating. +In front of them rows of gray cloaks were already visible through the +smoke, and an officer catching sight of Bagration rushed shouting after +the crowd of retreating soldiers, ordering them back. Bagration rode up +to the ranks along which shots crackled now here and now there, drowning +the sound of voices and the shouts of command. The whole air reeked with +smoke. The excited faces of the soldiers were blackened with it. Some +were using their ramrods, others putting powder on the touchpans or +taking charges from their pouches, while others were firing, though who +they were firing at could not be seen for the smoke which there was no +wind to carry away. A pleasant humming and whistling of bullets were +often heard. "What is this?" thought Prince Andrew approaching the +crowd of soldiers. "It can't be an attack, for they are not moving; +it can't be a square--for they are not drawn up for that." + +The commander of the regiment, a thin, feeble-looking old man with a +pleasant smile--his eyelids drooping more than half over his old eyes, +giving him a mild expression, rode up to Bagration and welcomed him as +a host welcomes an honored guest. He reported that his regiment had +been attacked by French cavalry and that, though the attack had been +repulsed, he had lost more than half his men. He said the attack +had been repulsed, employing this military term to describe what had +occurred to his regiment, but in reality he did not himself know what +had happened during that half-hour to the troops entrusted to him, and +could not say with certainty whether the attack had been repulsed or his +regiment had been broken up. All he knew was that at the commencement +of the action balls and shells began flying all over his regiment and +hitting men and that afterwards someone had shouted "Cavalry!" and +our men had begun firing. They were still firing, not at the cavalry +which had disappeared, but at French infantry who had come into the +hollow and were firing at our men. Prince Bagration bowed his head as a +sign that this was exactly what he had desired and expected. Turning +to his adjutant he ordered him to bring down the two battalions of the +Sixth Chasseurs whom they had just passed. Prince Andrew was struck by +the changed expression on Prince Bagration's face at this moment. It +expressed the concentrated and happy resolution you see on the face of +a man who on a hot day takes a final run before plunging into the water. +The dull, sleepy expression was no longer there, nor the affectation +of profound thought. The round, steady, hawk's eyes looked before him +eagerly and rather disdainfully, not resting on anything although his +movements were still slow and measured. + +The commander of the regiment turned to Prince Bagration, entreating +him to go back as it was too dangerous to remain where they were. +"Please, your excellency, for God's sake!" he kept saying, +glancing for support at an officer of the suite who turned away +from him. "There, you see!" and he drew attention to the bullets +whistling, singing, and hissing continually around them. He spoke in the +tone of entreaty and reproach that a carpenter uses to a gentleman who +has picked up an ax: "We are used to it, but you, sir, will blister +your hands." He spoke as if those bullets could not kill him, and his +half-closed eyes gave still more persuasiveness to his words. The staff +officer joined in the colonel's appeals, but Bagration did not reply; +he only gave an order to cease firing and re-form, so as to give room +for the two approaching battalions. While he was speaking, the curtain +of smoke that had concealed the hollow, driven by a rising wind, began +to move from right to left as if drawn by an invisible hand, and the +hill opposite, with the French moving about on it, opened out before +them. All eyes fastened involuntarily on this French column advancing +against them and winding down over the uneven ground. One could already +see the soldiers' shaggy caps, distinguish the officers from the men, +and see the standard flapping against its staff. + +"They march splendidly," remarked someone in Bagration's suite. + +The head of the column had already descended into the hollow. The clash +would take place on this side of it... + +The remains of our regiment which had been in action rapidly formed up +and moved to the right; from behind it, dispersing the laggards, came +two battalions of the Sixth Chasseurs in fine order. Before they had +reached Bagration, the weighty tread of the mass of men marching in +step could be heard. On their left flank, nearest to Bagration, marched +a company commander, a fine round-faced man, with a stupid and happy +expression--the same man who had rushed out of the wattle shed. At that +moment he was clearly thinking of nothing but how dashing a fellow he +would appear as he passed the commander. + +With the self-satisfaction of a man on parade, he stepped lightly with +his muscular legs as if sailing along, stretching himself to his full +height without the smallest effort, his ease contrasting with the heavy +tread of the soldiers who were keeping step with him. He carried close +to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real +weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men +without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly. It was as +if all the powers of his soul were concentrated on passing the commander +in the best possible manner, and feeling that he was doing it well he +was happy. "Left... left... left..." he seemed to repeat to himself +at each alternate step; and in time to this, with stern but varied +faces, the wall of soldiers burdened with knapsacks and muskets marched +in step, and each one of these hundreds of soldiers seemed to be +repeating to himself at each alternate step, "Left... left... +left..." A fat major skirted a bush, puffing and falling out of +step; a soldier who had fallen behind, his face showing alarm at his +defection, ran at a trot, panting to catch up with his company. A cannon +ball, cleaving the air, flew over the heads of Bagration and his suite, +and fell into the column to the measure of "Left... left!" "Close +up!" came the company commander's voice in jaunty tones. The +soldiers passed in a semicircle round something where the ball had +fallen, and an old trooper on the flank, a noncommissioned officer who +had stopped beside the dead men, ran to catch up his line and, falling +into step with a hop, looked back angrily, and through the ominous +silence and the regular tramp of feet beating the ground in unison, one +seemed to hear left... left... left. + +"Well done, lads!" said Prince Bagration. + +"Glad to do our best, your ex'len-lency!" came a confused shout +from the ranks. A morose soldier marching on the left turned his eyes on +Bagration as he shouted, with an expression that seemed to say: "We +know that ourselves!" Another, without looking round, as though +fearing to relax, shouted with his mouth wide open and passed on. + +The order was given to halt and down knapsacks. + +Bagration rode round the ranks that had marched past him and +dismounted. He gave the reins to a Cossack, took off and handed over his +felt coat, stretched his legs, and set his cap straight. The head of the +French column, with its officers leading, appeared from below the hill. + +"Forward, with God!" said Bagration, in a resolute, sonorous voice, +turning for a moment to the front line, and slightly swinging his arms, +he went forward uneasily over the rough field with the awkward gait of +a cavalryman. Prince Andrew felt that an invisible power was leading him +forward, and experienced great happiness. + +The French were already near. Prince Andrew, walking beside Bagration, +could clearly distinguish their bandoliers, red epaulets, and even their +faces. (He distinctly saw an old French officer who, with gaitered +legs and turned-out toes, climbed the hill with difficulty.) Prince +Bagration gave no further orders and silently continued to walk on in +front of the ranks. Suddenly one shot after another rang out from the +French, smoke appeared all along their uneven ranks, and musket shots +sounded. Several of our men fell, among them the round-faced officer +who had marched so gaily and complacently. But at the moment the first +report was heard, Bagration looked round and shouted, "Hurrah!" + +"Hurrah--ah!--ah!" rang a long-drawn shout from our ranks, and +passing Bagration and racing one another they rushed in an irregular +but joyous and eager crowd down the hill at their disordered foe. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIX + +The attack of the Sixth Chasseurs secured the retreat of our right +flank. In the center Tushin's forgotten battery, which had managed to +set fire to the Schon Grabern village, delayed the French advance. The +French were putting out the fire which the wind was spreading, and thus +gave us time to retreat. The retirement of the center to the other side +of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the +different companies did not get mixed. But our left--which consisted +of the Azov and Podolsk infantry and the Pavlograd hussars--was +simultaneously attacked and outflanked by superior French forces under +Lannes and was thrown into confusion. Bagration had sent Zherkov +to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat +immediately. + +Zherkov, not removing his hand from his cap, turned his horse about +and galloped off. But no sooner had he left Bagration than his courage +failed him. He was seized by panic and could not go where it was +dangerous. + +Having reached the left flank, instead of going to the front where the +firing was, he began to look for the general and his staff where they +could not possibly be, and so did not deliver the order. + +The command of the left flank belonged by seniority to the commander of +the regiment Kutuzov had reviewed at Braunau and in which Dolokhov was +serving as a private. But the command of the extreme left flank had been +assigned to the commander of the Pavlograd regiment in which Rostov +was serving, and a misunderstanding arose. The two commanders were much +exasperated with one another and, long after the action had begun on +the right flank and the French were already advancing, were engaged +in discussion with the sole object of offending one another. But the +regiments, both cavalry and infantry, were by no means ready for the +impending action. From privates to general they were not expecting a +battle and were engaged in peaceful occupations, the cavalry feeding the +horses and the infantry collecting wood. + +"He higher iss dan I in rank," said the German colonel of the +hussars, flushing and addressing an adjutant who had ridden up, "so +let him do what he vill, but I cannot sacrifice my hussars... Bugler, +sount ze retreat!" + +But haste was becoming imperative. Cannon and musketry, mingling +together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes +of Lannes' sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and +forming up within twice the range of a musket shot. The general in +command of the infantry went toward his horse with jerky steps, and +having mounted drew himself up very straight and tall and rode to the +Pavlograd commander. The commanders met with polite bows but with +secret malevolence in their hearts. + +"Once again, Colonel," said the general, "I can't leave half +my men in the wood. I beg of you, I beg of you," he repeated, "to +occupy the position and prepare for an attack." + +"I peg of you yourself not to mix in vot is not your business!" +suddenly replied the irate colonel. "If you vere in the cavalry..." + +"I am not in the cavalry, Colonel, but I am a Russian general and if +you are not aware of the fact..." + +"Quite avare, your excellency," suddenly shouted the colonel, +touching his horse and turning purple in the face. "Vill you be so +goot to come to ze front and see dat zis position iss no goot? I don't +vish to destroy my men for your pleasure!" + +"You forget yourself, Colonel. I am not considering my own pleasure +and I won't allow it to be said!" + +Taking the colonel's outburst as a challenge to his courage, the +general expanded his chest and rode, frowning, beside him to the +front line, as if their differences would be settled there amongst the +bullets. They reached the front, several bullets sped over them, and +they halted in silence. There was nothing fresh to be seen from the +line, for from where they had been before it had been evident that it +was impossible for cavalry to act among the bushes and broken ground, +as well as that the French were outflanking our left. The general +and colonel looked sternly and significantly at one another like two +fighting cocks preparing for battle, each vainly trying to detect signs +of cowardice in the other. Both passed the examination successfully. As +there was nothing to be said, and neither wished to give occasion for +it to be alleged that he had been the first to leave the range of fire, +they would have remained there for a long time testing each other's +courage had it not been that just then they heard the rattle of musketry +and a muffled shout almost behind them in the wood. The French had +attacked the men collecting wood in the copse. It was no longer possible +for the hussars to retreat with the infantry. They were cut off from +the line of retreat on the left by the French. However inconvenient the +position, it was now necessary to attack in order to cut a way through +for themselves. + +The squadron in which Rostov was serving had scarcely time to mount +before it was halted facing the enemy. Again, as at the Enns bridge, +there was nothing between the squadron and the enemy, and again that +terrible dividing line of uncertainty and fear--resembling the line +separating the living from the dead--lay between them. All were +conscious of this unseen line, and the question whether they would cross +it or not, and how they would cross it, agitated them all. + +The colonel rode to the front, angrily gave some reply to questions put +to him by the officers, and, like a man desperately insisting on having +his own way, gave an order. No one said anything definite, but the rumor +of an attack spread through the squadron. The command to form up rang +out and the sabers whizzed as they were drawn from their scabbards. +Still no one moved. The troops of the left flank, infantry and hussars +alike, felt that the commander did not himself know what to do, and this +irresolution communicated itself to the men. + +"If only they would be quick!" thought Rostov, feeling that at last +the time had come to experience the joy of an attack of which he had so +often heard from his fellow hussars. + +"Fo'ward, with God, lads!" rang out Denisov's voice. "At a +twot fo'ward!" + +The horses' croups began to sway in the front line. Rook pulled at the +reins and started of his own accord. + +Before him, on the right, Rostov saw the front lines of his hussars and +still farther ahead a dark line which he could not see distinctly but +took to be the enemy. Shots could be heard, but some way off. + +"Faster!" came the word of command, and Rostov felt Rook's flanks +drooping as he broke into a gallop. + +Rostov anticipated his horse's movements and became more and more +elated. He had noticed a solitary tree ahead of him. This tree had been +in the middle of the line that had seemed so terrible--and now he +had crossed that line and not only was there nothing terrible, but +everything was becoming more and more happy and animated. "Oh, how I +will slash at him!" thought Rostov, gripping the hilt of his saber. + +"Hur-a-a-a-ah!" came a roar of voices. "Let anyone come my way +now," thought Rostov driving his spurs into Rook and letting him go +at a full gallop so that he outstripped the others. Ahead, the enemy was +already visible. Suddenly something like a birch broom seemed to sweep +over the squadron. Rostov raised his saber, ready to strike, but at +that instant the trooper Nikitenko, who was galloping ahead, shot away +from him, and Rostov felt as in a dream that he continued to be carried +forward with unnatural speed but yet stayed on the same spot. From +behind him Bondarchuk, an hussar he knew, jolted against him and looked +angrily at him. Bondarchuk's horse swerved and galloped past. + +"How is it I am not moving? I have fallen, I am killed!" Rostov +asked and answered at the same instant. He was alone in the middle of a +field. Instead of the moving horses and hussars' backs, he saw nothing +before him but the motionless earth and the stubble around him. There +was warm blood under his arm. "No, I am wounded and the horse is +killed." Rook tried to rise on his forelegs but fell back, pinning his +rider's leg. Blood was flowing from his head; he struggled but could +not rise. Rostov also tried to rise but fell back, his sabretache +having become entangled in the saddle. Where our men were, and where the +French, he did not know. There was no one near. + +Having disentangled his leg, he rose. "Where, on which side, was now +the line that had so sharply divided the two armies?" he asked himself +and could not answer. "Can something bad have happened to me?" +he wondered as he got up: and at that moment he felt that something +superfluous was hanging on his benumbed left arm. The wrist felt as if +it were not his. He examined his hand carefully, vainly trying to find +blood on it. "Ah, here are people coming," he thought joyfully, +seeing some men running toward him. "They will help me!" In front +came a man wearing a strange shako and a blue cloak, swarthy, sunburned, +and with a hooked nose. Then came two more, and many more running +behind. One of them said something strange, not in Russian. In among the +hindmost of these men wearing similar shakos was a Russian hussar. He +was being held by the arms and his horse was being led behind him. + +"It must be one of ours, a prisoner. Yes. Can it be that they will +take me too? Who are these men?" thought Rostov, scarcely believing +his eyes. "Can they be French?" He looked at the approaching +Frenchmen, and though but a moment before he had been galloping to get +at them and hack them to pieces, their proximity now seemed so awful +that he could not believe his eyes. "Who are they? Why are they +running? Can they be coming at me? And why? To kill me? Me whom everyone +is so fond of?" He remembered his mother's love for him, and his +family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him +seemed impossible. "But perhaps they may do it!" For more than ten +seconds he stood not moving from the spot or realizing the situation. +The foremost Frenchman, the one with the hooked nose, was already so +close that the expression of his face could be seen. And the excited, +alien face of that man, his bayonet hanging down, holding his breath, +and running so lightly, frightened Rostov. He seized his pistol and, +instead of firing it, flung it at the Frenchman and ran with all his +might toward the bushes. He did not now run with the feeling of doubt +and conflict with which he had trodden the Enns bridge, but with the +feeling of a hare fleeing from the hounds. One single sentiment, that +of fear for his young and happy life, possessed his whole being. Rapidly +leaping the furrows, he fled across the field with the impetuosity he +used to show at catchplay, now and then turning his good-natured, pale, +young face to look back. A shudder of terror went through him: "No, +better not look," he thought, but having reached the bushes he glanced +round once more. The French had fallen behind, and just as he looked +round the first man changed his run to a walk and, turning, shouted +something loudly to a comrade farther back. Rostov paused. "No, +there's some mistake," thought he. "They can't have wanted to +kill me." But at the same time, his left arm felt as heavy as if +a seventy-pound weight were tied to it. He could run no more. The +Frenchman also stopped and took aim. Rostov closed his eyes and stooped +down. One bullet and then another whistled past him. He mustered his +last remaining strength, took hold of his left hand with his right, and +reached the bushes. Behind these were some Russian sharpshooters. + + + + + +CHAPTER XX + +The infantry regiments that had been caught unawares in the outskirts +of the wood ran out of it, the different companies getting mixed, and +retreated as a disorderly crowd. One soldier, in his fear, uttered the +senseless cry, "Cut off!" that is so terrible in battle, and that +word infected the whole crowd with a feeling of panic. + +"Surrounded! Cut off? We're lost!" shouted the fugitives. + +The moment he heard the firing and the cry from behind, the general +realized that something dreadful had happened to his regiment, and the +thought that he, an exemplary officer of many years' service who +had never been to blame, might be held responsible at headquarters +for negligence or inefficiency so staggered him that, forgetting the +recalcitrant cavalry colonel, his own dignity as a general, and above +all quite forgetting the danger and all regard for self-preservation, he +clutched the crupper of his saddle and, spurring his horse, galloped to +the regiment under a hail of bullets which fell around, but fortunately +missed him. His one desire was to know what was happening and at any +cost correct, or remedy, the mistake if he had made one, so that he, +an exemplary officer of twenty-two years' service, who had never been +censured, should not be held to blame. + +Having galloped safely through the French, he reached a field behind +the copse across which our men, regardless of orders, were running and +descending the valley. That moment of moral hesitation which decides +the fate of battles had arrived. Would this disorderly crowd of soldiers +attend to the voice of their commander, or would they, disregarding him, +continue their flight? Despite his desperate shouts that used to seem +so terrible to the soldiers, despite his furious purple countenance +distorted out of all likeness to his former self, and the flourishing of +his saber, the soldiers all continued to run, talking, firing into the +air, and disobeying orders. The moral hesitation which decided the fate +of battles was evidently culminating in a panic. + +The general had a fit of coughing as a result of shouting and of the +powder smoke and stopped in despair. Everything seemed lost. But at that +moment the French who were attacking, suddenly and without any apparent +reason, ran back and disappeared from the outskirts, and Russian +sharpshooters showed themselves in the copse. It was Timokhin's +company, which alone had maintained its order in the wood and, having +lain in ambush in a ditch, now attacked the French unexpectedly. +Timokhin, armed only with a sword, had rushed at the enemy with such +a desperate cry and such mad, drunken determination that, taken by +surprise, the French had thrown down their muskets and run. Dolokhov, +running beside Timokhin, killed a Frenchman at close quarters and was +the first to seize the surrendering French officer by his collar. Our +fugitives returned, the battalions re-formed, and the French who had +nearly cut our left flank in half were for the moment repulsed. Our +reserve units were able to join up, and the fight was at an end. The +regimental commander and Major Ekonomov had stopped beside a bridge, +letting the retreating companies pass by them, when a soldier came up +and took hold of the commander's stirrup, almost leaning against him. +The man was wearing a bluish coat of broadcloth, he had no knapsack +or cap, his head was bandaged, and over his shoulder a French munition +pouch was slung. He had an officer's sword in his hand. The soldier +was pale, his blue eyes looked impudently into the commander's face, +and his lips were smiling. Though the commander was occupied in giving +instructions to Major Ekonomov, he could not help taking notice of the +soldier. + +"Your excellency, here are two trophies," said Dolokhov, pointing +to the French sword and pouch. "I have taken an officer prisoner. I +stopped the company." Dolokhov breathed heavily from weariness and +spoke in abrupt sentences. "The whole company can bear witness. I beg +you will remember this, your excellency!" + +"All right, all right," replied the commander, and turned to Major +Ekonomov. + +But Dolokhov did not go away; he untied the handkerchief around his +head, pulled it off, and showed the blood congealed on his hair. + +"A bayonet wound. I remained at the front. Remember, your +excellency!" + + +Tushin's battery had been forgotten and only at the very end of the +action did Prince Bagration, still hearing the cannonade in the center, +send his orderly staff officer, and later Prince Andrew also, to order +the battery to retire as quickly as possible. When the supports attached +to Tushin's battery had been moved away in the middle of the action +by someone's order, the battery had continued firing and was only not +captured by the French because the enemy could not surmise that anyone +could have the effrontery to continue firing from four quite undefended +guns. On the contrary, the energetic action of that battery led the +French to suppose that here--in the center--the main Russian forces +were concentrated. Twice they had attempted to attack this point, but on +each occasion had been driven back by grapeshot from the four isolated +guns on the hillock. + +Soon after Prince Bagration had left him, Tushin had succeeded in +setting fire to Schon Grabern. + +"Look at them scurrying! It's burning! Just see the smoke! Fine! +Grand! Look at the smoke, the smoke!" exclaimed the artillerymen, +brightening up. + +All the guns, without waiting for orders, were being fired in the +direction of the conflagration. As if urging each other on, the soldiers +cried at each shot: "Fine! That's good! Look at it... Grand!" The +fire, fanned by the breeze, was rapidly spreading. The French columns +that had advanced beyond the village went back; but as though in revenge +for this failure, the enemy placed ten guns to the right of the village +and began firing them at Tushin's battery. + +In their childlike glee, aroused by the fire and their luck in +successfully cannonading the French, our artillerymen only noticed this +battery when two balls, and then four more, fell among our guns, one +knocking over two horses and another tearing off a munition-wagon +driver's leg. Their spirits once roused were, however, not diminished, +but only changed character. The horses were replaced by others from a +reserve gun carriage, the wounded were carried away, and the four guns +were turned against the ten-gun battery. Tushin's companion officer +had been killed at the beginning of the engagement and within an hour +seventeen of the forty men of the guns' crews had been disabled, but +the artillerymen were still as merry and lively as ever. Twice they +noticed the French appearing below them, and then they fired grapeshot +at them. + +Little Tushin, moving feebly and awkwardly, kept telling his orderly to +"refill my pipe for that one!" and then, scattering sparks from it, +ran forward shading his eyes with his small hand to look at the French. + +"Smack at 'em, lads!" he kept saying, seizing the guns by the +wheels and working the screws himself. + +Amid the smoke, deafened by the incessant reports which always made him +jump, Tushin not taking his pipe from his mouth ran from gun to gun, +now aiming, now counting the charges, now giving orders about replacing +dead or wounded horses and harnessing fresh ones, and shouting in his +feeble voice, so high pitched and irresolute. His face grew more and +more animated. Only when a man was killed or wounded did he frown and +turn away from the sight, shouting angrily at the men who, as is always +the case, hesitated about lifting the injured or dead. The soldiers, +for the most part handsome fellows and, as is always the case in an +artillery company, a head and shoulders taller and twice as broad +as their officer--all looked at their commander like children in an +embarrassing situation, and the expression on his face was invariably +reflected on theirs. + +Owing to the terrible uproar and the necessity for concentration and +activity, Tushin did not experience the slightest unpleasant sense of +fear, and the thought that he might be killed or badly wounded never +occurred to him. On the contrary, he became more and more elated. It +seemed to him that it was a very long time ago, almost a day, since he +had first seen the enemy and fired the first shot, and that the corner +of the field he stood on was well-known and familiar ground. Though he +thought of everything, considered everything, and did everything the +best of officers could do in his position, he was in a state akin to +feverish delirium or drunkenness. + +From the deafening sounds of his own guns around him, the whistle and +thud of the enemy's cannon balls, from the flushed and perspiring +faces of the crew bustling round the guns, from the sight of the blood +of men and horses, from the little puffs of smoke on the enemy's side +(always followed by a ball flying past and striking the earth, a man, a +gun, a horse), from the sight of all these things a fantastic world of +his own had taken possession of his brain and at that moment afforded +him pleasure. The enemy's guns were in his fancy not guns but pipes +from which occasional puffs were blown by an invisible smoker. + +"There... he's puffing again," muttered Tushin to himself, as a +small cloud rose from the hill and was borne in a streak to the left by +the wind. + +"Now look out for the ball... we'll throw it back." + +"What do you want, your honor?" asked an artilleryman, standing +close by, who heard him muttering. + +"Nothing... only a shell..." he answered. + +"Come along, our Matvevna!" he said to himself. "Matvevna" * +was the name his fancy gave to the farthest gun of the battery, which +was large and of an old pattern. The French swarming round their guns +seemed to him like ants. In that world, the handsome drunkard Number One +of the second gun's crew was "uncle"; Tushin looked at him more +often than at anyone else and took delight in his every movement. +The sound of musketry at the foot of the hill, now diminishing, now +increasing, seemed like someone's breathing. He listened intently to +the ebb and flow of these sounds. + + * Daughter of Matthew. + +"Ah! Breathing again, breathing!" he muttered to himself. + +He imagined himself as an enormously tall, powerful man who was throwing +cannon balls at the French with both hands. + +"Now then, Matvevna, dear old lady, don't let me down!" he was +saying as he moved from the gun, when a strange, unfamiliar voice called +above his head: "Captain Tushin! Captain!" + +Tushin turned round in dismay. It was the staff officer who had turned +him out of the booth at Grunth. He was shouting in a gasping voice: + +"Are you mad? You have twice been ordered to retreat, and you..." + +"Why are they down on me?" thought Tushin, looking in alarm at his +superior. + +"I... don't..." he muttered, holding up two fingers to his cap. +"I..." + +But the staff officer did not finish what he wanted to say. A cannon +ball, flying close to him, caused him to duck and bend over his horse. +He paused, and just as he was about to say something more, another ball +stopped him. He turned his horse and galloped off. + +"Retire! All to retire!" he shouted from a distance. + +The soldiers laughed. A moment later, an adjutant arrived with the same +order. + +It was Prince Andrew. The first thing he saw on riding up to the space +where Tushin's guns were stationed was an unharnessed horse with a +broken leg, that lay screaming piteously beside the harnessed horses. +Blood was gushing from its leg as from a spring. Among the limbers lay +several dead men. One ball after another passed over as he approached +and he felt a nervous shudder run down his spine. But the mere thought +of being afraid roused him again. "I cannot be afraid," thought he, +and dismounted slowly among the guns. He delivered the order and did +not leave the battery. He decided to have the guns removed from their +positions and withdrawn in his presence. Together with Tushin, stepping +across the bodies and under a terrible fire from the French, he attended +to the removal of the guns. + +"A staff officer was here a minute ago, but skipped off," said an +artilleryman to Prince Andrew. "Not like your honor!" + +Prince Andrew said nothing to Tushin. They were both so busy as to seem +not to notice one another. When having limbered up the only two cannon +that remained uninjured out of the four, they began moving down the hill +(one shattered gun and one unicorn were left behind), Prince Andrew rode +up to Tushin. + +"Well, till we meet again..." he said, holding out his hand to +Tushin. + +"Good-by, my dear fellow," said Tushin. "Dear soul! Good-by, my +dear fellow!" and for some unknown reason tears suddenly filled his +eyes. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXI + +The wind had fallen and black clouds, merging with the powder smoke, +hung low over the field of battle on the horizon. It was growing +dark and the glow of two conflagrations was the more conspicuous. The +cannonade was dying down, but the rattle of musketry behind and on the +right sounded oftener and nearer. As soon as Tushin with his guns, +continually driving round or coming upon wounded men, was out of range +of fire and had descended into the dip, he was met by some of the staff, +among them the staff officer and Zherkov, who had been twice sent to +Tushin's battery but had never reached it. Interrupting one +another, they all gave, and transmitted, orders as to how to proceed, +reprimanding and reproaching him. Tushin gave no orders, and, +silently--fearing to speak because at every word he felt ready to +weep without knowing why--rode behind on his artillery nag. Though +the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves +after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages. The jaunty +infantry officer who just before the battle had rushed out of +Tushin's wattle shed was laid, with a bullet in his stomach, on +"Matvevna's" carriage. At the foot of the hill, a pale hussar +cadet, supporting one hand with the other, came up to Tushin and asked +for a seat. + +"Captain, for God's sake! I've hurt my arm," he said timidly. +"For God's sake... I can't walk. For God's sake!" + +It was plain that this cadet had already repeatedly asked for a lift and +been refused. He asked in a hesitating, piteous voice. + +"Tell them to give me a seat, for God's sake!" + +"Give him a seat," said Tushin. "Lay a cloak for him to sit on, +lad," he said, addressing his favorite soldier. "And where is the +wounded officer?" + +"He has been set down. He died," replied someone. + +"Help him up. Sit down, dear fellow, sit down! Spread out the cloak, +Antonov." + +The cadet was Rostov. With one hand he supported the other; he was +pale and his jaw trembled, shivering feverishly. He was placed on +"Matvevna," the gun from which they had removed the dead officer. +The cloak they spread under him was wet with blood which stained his +breeches and arm. + +"What, are you wounded, my lad?" said Tushin, approaching the gun +on which Rostov sat. + +"No, it's a sprain." + +"Then what is this blood on the gun carriage?" inquired Tushin. + +"It was the officer, your honor, stained it," answered the +artilleryman, wiping away the blood with his coat sleeve, as if +apologizing for the state of his gun. + +It was all that they could do to get the guns up the rise aided by the +infantry, and having reached the village of Gruntersdorf they halted. It +had grown so dark that one could not distinguish the uniforms ten paces +off, and the firing had begun to subside. Suddenly, near by on the +right, shouting and firing were again heard. Flashes of shot gleamed in +the darkness. This was the last French attack and was met by soldiers +who had sheltered in the village houses. They all rushed out of +the village again, but Tushin's guns could not move, and the +artillerymen, Tushin, and the cadet exchanged silent glances as they +awaited their fate. The firing died down and soldiers, talking eagerly, +streamed out of a side street. + +"Not hurt, Petrov?" asked one. + +"We've given it 'em hot, mate! They won't make another push +now," said another. + +"You couldn't see a thing. How they shot at their own fellows! +Nothing could be seen. Pitch-dark, brother! Isn't there something to +drink?" + +The French had been repulsed for the last time. And again and again in +the complete darkness Tushin's guns moved forward, surrounded by the +humming infantry as by a frame. + +In the darkness, it seemed as though a gloomy unseen river was flowing +always in one direction, humming with whispers and talk and the sound of +hoofs and wheels. Amid the general rumble, the groans and voices of the +wounded were more distinctly heard than any other sound in the darkness +of the night. The gloom that enveloped the army was filled with their +groans, which seemed to melt into one with the darkness of the night. +After a while the moving mass became agitated, someone rode past on +a white horse followed by his suite, and said something in passing: +"What did he say? Where to, now? Halt, is it? Did he thank us?" came +eager questions from all sides. The whole moving mass began pressing +closer together and a report spread that they were ordered to halt: +evidently those in front had halted. All remained where they were in the +middle of the muddy road. + +Fires were lighted and the talk became more audible. Captain Tushin, +having given orders to his company, sent a soldier to find a dressing +station or a doctor for the cadet, and sat down by a bonfire the +soldiers had kindled on the road. Rostov, too, dragged himself to the +fire. From pain, cold, and damp, a feverish shivering shook his whole +body. Drowsiness was irresistibly mastering him, but he kept awake by +an excruciating pain in his arm, for which he could find no satisfactory +position. He kept closing his eyes and then again looking at the fire, +which seemed to him dazzlingly red, and at the feeble, round-shouldered +figure of Tushin who was sitting cross-legged like a Turk beside him. +Tushin's large, kind, intelligent eyes were fixed with sympathy and +commiseration on Rostov, who saw that Tushin with his whole heart +wished to help him but could not. + +From all sides were heard the footsteps and talk of the infantry, who +were walking, driving past, and settling down all around. The sound +of voices, the tramping feet, the horses' hoofs moving in mud, the +crackling of wood fires near and afar, merged into one tremulous rumble. + +It was no longer, as before, a dark, unseen river flowing through the +gloom, but a dark sea swelling and gradually subsiding after a storm. +Rostov looked at and listened listlessly to what passed before and +around him. An infantryman came to the fire, squatted on his heels, held +his hands to the blaze, and turned away his face. + +"You don't mind your honor?" he asked Tushin. "I've lost my +company, your honor. I don't know where... such bad luck!" + +With the soldier, an infantry officer with a bandaged cheek came up to +the bonfire, and addressing Tushin asked him to have the guns moved a +trifle to let a wagon go past. After he had gone, two soldiers rushed to +the campfire. They were quarreling and fighting desperately, each trying +to snatch from the other a boot they were both holding on to. + +"You picked it up?... I dare say! You're very smart!" one of them +shouted hoarsely. + +Then a thin, pale soldier, his neck bandaged with a bloodstained leg +band, came up and in angry tones asked the artillerymen for water. + +"Must one die like a dog?" said he. + +Tushin told them to give the man some water. Then a cheerful soldier +ran up, begging a little fire for the infantry. + +"A nice little hot torch for the infantry! Good luck to you, fellow +countrymen. Thanks for the fire--we'll return it with interest," +said he, carrying away into the darkness a glowing stick. + +Next came four soldiers, carrying something heavy on a cloak, and passed +by the fire. One of them stumbled. + +"Who the devil has put the logs on the road?" snarled he. + +"He's dead--why carry him?" said another. + +"Shut up!" + +And they disappeared into the darkness with their load. + +"Still aching?" Tushin asked Rostov in a whisper. + +"Yes." + +"Your honor, you're wanted by the general. He is in the hut here," +said a gunner, coming up to Tushin. + +"Coming, friend." + +Tushin rose and, buttoning his greatcoat and pulling it straight, +walked away from the fire. + +Not far from the artillery campfire, in a hut that had been prepared +for him, Prince Bagration sat at dinner, talking with some commanding +officers who had gathered at his quarters. The little old man with +the half-closed eyes was there greedily gnawing a mutton bone, and the +general who had served blamelessly for twenty-two years, flushed by a +glass of vodka and the dinner; and the staff officer with the signet +ring, and Zherkov, uneasily glancing at them all, and Prince Andrew, +pale, with compressed lips and feverishly glittering eyes. + +In a corner of the hut stood a standard captured from the French, and +the accountant with the naive face was feeling its texture, shaking his +head in perplexity--perhaps because the banner really interested him, +perhaps because it was hard for him, hungry as he was, to look on at +a dinner where there was no place for him. In the next hut there was a +French colonel who had been taken prisoner by our dragoons. Our officers +were flocking in to look at him. Prince Bagration was thanking the +individual commanders and inquiring into details of the action and our +losses. The general whose regiment had been inspected at Braunau was +informing the prince that as soon as the action began he had withdrawn +from the wood, mustered the men who were woodcutting, and, allowing the +French to pass him, had made a bayonet charge with two battalions and +had broken up the French troops. + +"When I saw, your excellency, that their first battalion was +disorganized, I stopped in the road and thought: 'I'll let them +come on and will meet them with the fire of the whole battalion'--and +that's what I did." + +The general had so wished to do this and was so sorry he had not managed +to do it that it seemed to him as if it had really happened. Perhaps +it might really have been so? Could one possibly make out amid all that +confusion what did or did not happen? + +"By the way, your excellency, I should inform you," he +continued--remembering Dolokhov's conversation with Kutuzov and his +last interview with the gentleman-ranker--"that Private Dolokhov, +who was reduced to the ranks, took a French officer prisoner in my +presence and particularly distinguished himself." + +"I saw the Pavlograd hussars attack there, your excellency," chimed +in Zherkov, looking uneasily around. He had not seen the hussars all +that day, but had heard about them from an infantry officer. "They +broke up two squares, your excellency." + +Several of those present smiled at Zherkov's words, expecting one of +his usual jokes, but noticing that what he was saying redounded to +the glory of our arms and of the day's work, they assumed a serious +expression, though many of them knew that what he was saying was a lie +devoid of any foundation. Prince Bagration turned to the old colonel: + +"Gentlemen, I thank you all; all arms have behaved heroically: +infantry, cavalry, and artillery. How was it that two guns were +abandoned in the center?" he inquired, searching with his eyes for +someone. (Prince Bagration did not ask about the guns on the left +flank; he knew that all the guns there had been abandoned at the very +beginning of the action.) "I think I sent you?" he added, turning to +the staff officer on duty. + +"One was damaged," answered the staff officer, "and the other I +can't understand. I was there all the time giving orders and had only +just left.... It is true that it was hot there," he added, modestly. + +Someone mentioned that Captain Tushin was bivouacking close to the +village and had already been sent for. + +"Oh, but you were there?" said Prince Bagration, addressing Prince +Andrew. + +"Of course, we only just missed one another," said the staff +officer, with a smile to Bolkonski. + +"I had not the pleasure of seeing you," said Prince Andrew, coldly +and abruptly. + +All were silent. Tushin appeared at the threshold and made his way +timidly from behind the backs of the generals. As he stepped past the +generals in the crowded hut, feeling embarrassed as he always was by the +sight of his superiors, he did not notice the staff of the banner and +stumbled over it. Several of those present laughed. + +"How was it a gun was abandoned?" asked Bagration, frowning, not so +much at the captain as at those who were laughing, among whom Zherkov +laughed loudest. + +Only now, when he was confronted by the stern authorities, did his guilt +and the disgrace of having lost two guns and yet remaining alive present +themselves to Tushin in all their horror. He had been so excited that +he had not thought about it until that moment. The officers' laughter +confused him still more. He stood before Bagration with his lower +jaw trembling and was hardly able to mutter: "I don't know... your +excellency... I had no men... your excellency." + +"You might have taken some from the covering troops." + +Tushin did not say that there were no covering troops, though that +was perfectly true. He was afraid of getting some other officer into +trouble, and silently fixed his eyes on Bagration as a schoolboy who +has blundered looks at an examiner. + +The silence lasted some time. Prince Bagration, apparently not wishing +to be severe, found nothing to say; the others did not venture to +intervene. Prince Andrew looked at Tushin from under his brows and his +fingers twitched nervously. + +"Your excellency!" Prince Andrew broke the silence with his abrupt +voice, "you were pleased to send me to Captain Tushin's battery. I +went there and found two thirds of the men and horses knocked out, two +guns smashed, and no supports at all." + +Prince Bagration and Tushin looked with equal intentness at +Bolkonski, who spoke with suppressed agitation. + +"And, if your excellency will allow me to express my opinion," he +continued, "we owe today's success chiefly to the action of that +battery and the heroic endurance of Captain Tushin and his company," +and without awaiting a reply, Prince Andrew rose and left the table. + +Prince Bagration looked at Tushin, evidently reluctant to show +distrust in Bolkonski's emphatic opinion yet not feeling able fully +to credit it, bent his head, and told Tushin that he could go. Prince +Andrew went out with him. + +"Thank you; you saved me, my dear fellow!" said Tushin. + +Prince Andrew gave him a look, but said nothing and went away. He felt +sad and depressed. It was all so strange, so unlike what he had hoped. + + +"Who are they? Why are they here? What do they want? And when will +all this end?" thought Rostov, looking at the changing shadows before +him. The pain in his arm became more and more intense. Irresistible +drowsiness overpowered him, red rings danced before his eyes, and the +impression of those voices and faces and a sense of loneliness merged +with the physical pain. It was they, these soldiers--wounded and +unwounded--it was they who were crushing, weighing down, and twisting +the sinews and scorching the flesh of his sprained arm and shoulder. To +rid himself of them he closed his eyes. + +For a moment he dozed, but in that short interval innumerable things +appeared to him in a dream: his mother and her large white hand, +Sonya's thin little shoulders, Natasha's eyes and laughter, +Denisov with his voice and mustache, and Telyanin and all that affair +with Telyanin and Bogdanich. That affair was the same thing as this +soldier with the harsh voice, and it was that affair and this soldier +that were so agonizingly, incessantly pulling and pressing his arm and +always dragging it in one direction. He tried to get away from them, but +they would not for an instant let his shoulder move a hair's breadth. +It would not ache--it would be well--if only they did not pull it, but +it was impossible to get rid of them. + +He opened his eyes and looked up. The black canopy of night hung less +than a yard above the glow of the charcoal. Flakes of falling snow were +fluttering in that light. Tushin had not returned, the doctor had not +come. He was alone now, except for a soldier who was sitting naked at +the other side of the fire, warming his thin yellow body. + +"Nobody wants me!" thought Rostov. "There is no one to help me or +pity me. Yet I was once at home, strong, happy, and loved." He sighed +and, doing so, groaned involuntarily. + +"Eh, is anything hurting you?" asked the soldier, shaking his shirt +out over the fire, and not waiting for an answer he gave a grunt and +added: "What a lot of men have been crippled today--frightful!" + +Rostov did not listen to the soldier. He looked at the snowflakes +fluttering above the fire and remembered a Russian winter at his warm, +bright home, his fluffy fur coat, his quickly gliding sleigh, his +healthy body, and all the affection and care of his family. "And why +did I come here?" he wondered. + +Next day the French army did not renew their attack, and the remnant of +Bagration's detachment was reunited to Kutuzov's army. + + + + + +BOOK THREE: 1805 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +Prince Vasili was not a man who deliberately thought out his plans. +Still less did he think of injuring anyone for his own advantage. He +was merely a man of the world who had got on and to whom getting on had +become a habit. Schemes and devices for which he never rightly accounted +to himself, but which formed the whole interest of his life, +were constantly shaping themselves in his mind, arising from the +circumstances and persons he met. Of these plans he had not merely one +or two in his head but dozens, some only beginning to form themselves, +some approaching achievement, and some in course of disintegration. He +did not, for instance, say to himself: "This man now has influence, I +must gain his confidence and friendship and through him obtain a special +grant." Nor did he say to himself: "Pierre is a rich man, I must +entice him to marry my daughter and lend me the forty thousand rubles +I need." But when he came across a man of position his instinct +immediately told him that this man could be useful, and without any +premeditation Prince Vasili took the first opportunity to gain his +confidence, flatter him, become intimate with him, and finally make his +request. + +He had Pierre at hand in Moscow and procured for him an appointment as +Gentleman of the Bedchamber, which at that time conferred the status of +Councilor of State, and insisted on the young man accompanying him to +Petersburg and staying at his house. With apparent absent-mindedness, +yet with unhesitating assurance that he was doing the right thing, +Prince Vasili did everything to get Pierre to marry his daughter. Had +he thought out his plans beforehand he could not have been so natural +and shown such unaffected familiarity in intercourse with everybody both +above and below him in social standing. Something always drew him toward +those richer and more powerful than himself and he had rare skill in +seizing the most opportune moment for making use of people. + +Pierre, on unexpectedly becoming Count Bezukhov and a rich man, felt +himself after his recent loneliness and freedom from cares so beset and +preoccupied that only in bed was he able to be by himself. He had to +sign papers, to present himself at government offices, the purpose of +which was not clear to him, to question his chief steward, to visit his +estate near Moscow, and to receive many people who formerly did not +even wish to know of his existence but would now have been offended +and grieved had he chosen not to see them. These different +people--businessmen, relations, and acquaintances alike--were all +disposed to treat the young heir in the most friendly and flattering +manner: they were all evidently firmly convinced of Pierre's noble +qualities. He was always hearing such words as: "With your remarkable +kindness," or, "With your excellent heart," "You are yourself so +honorable, Count," or, "Were he as clever as you," and so on, +till he began sincerely to believe in his own exceptional kindness and +extraordinary intelligence, the more so as in the depth of his heart it +had always seemed to him that he really was very kind and intelligent. +Even people who had formerly been spiteful toward him and evidently +unfriendly now became gentle and affectionate. The angry eldest +princess, with the long waist and hair plastered down like a doll's, +had come into Pierre's room after the funeral. With drooping eyes +and frequent blushes she told him she was very sorry about their past +misunderstandings and did not now feel she had a right to ask him for +anything, except only for permission, after the blow she had received, +to remain for a few weeks longer in the house she so loved and where +she had sacrificed so much. She could not refrain from weeping at these +words. Touched that this statuesque princess could so change, Pierre +took her hand and begged her forgiveness, without knowing what for. +From that day the eldest princess quite changed toward Pierre and began +knitting a striped scarf for him. + +"Do this for my sake, mon cher; after all, she had to put up with a +great deal from the deceased," said Prince Vasili to him, handing him +a deed to sign for the princess' benefit. + +Prince Vasili had come to the conclusion that it was necessary to throw +this bone--a bill for thirty thousand rubles--to the poor princess +that it might not occur to her to speak of his share in the affair of +the inlaid portfolio. Pierre signed the deed and after that the princess +grew still kinder. The younger sisters also became affectionate to him, +especially the youngest, the pretty one with the mole, who often made +him feel confused by her smiles and her own confusion when meeting him. + +It seemed so natural to Pierre that everyone should like him, and it +would have seemed so unnatural had anyone disliked him, that he could +not but believe in the sincerity of those around him. Besides, he had +no time to ask himself whether these people were sincere or not. He +was always busy and always felt in a state of mild and cheerful +intoxication. He felt as though he were the center of some important and +general movement; that something was constantly expected of him, that if +he did not do it he would grieve and disappoint many people, but if he +did this and that, all would be well; and he did what was demanded of +him, but still that happy result always remained in the future. + +More than anyone else, Prince Vasili took possession of Pierre's +affairs and of Pierre himself in those early days. From the death of +Count Bezukhov he did not let go his hold of the lad. He had the air of +a man oppressed by business, weary and suffering, who yet would not, for +pity's sake, leave this helpless youth who, after all, was the son of +his old friend and the possessor of such enormous wealth, to the caprice +of fate and the designs of rogues. During the few days he spent in +Moscow after the death of Count Bezukhov, he would call Pierre, or +go to him himself, and tell him what ought to be done in a tone of +weariness and assurance, as if he were adding every time: "You know +I am overwhelmed with business and it is purely out of charity that +I trouble myself about you, and you also know quite well that what I +propose is the only thing possible." + +"Well, my dear fellow, tomorrow we are off at last," said Prince +Vasili one day, closing his eyes and fingering Pierre's elbow, +speaking as if he were saying something which had long since been agreed +upon and could not now be altered. "We start tomorrow and I'm giving +you a place in my carriage. I am very glad. All our important business +here is now settled, and I ought to have been off long ago. Here is +something I have received from the chancellor. I asked him for you, and +you have been entered in the diplomatic corps and made a Gentleman of +the Bedchamber. The diplomatic career now lies open before you." + +Notwithstanding the tone of wearied assurance with which these words +were pronounced, Pierre, who had so long been considering his career, +wished to make some suggestion. But Prince Vasili interrupted him in +the special deep cooing tone, precluding the possibility of interrupting +his speech, which he used in extreme cases when special persuasion was +needed. + +"Mais, mon cher, I did this for my own sake, to satisfy my conscience, +and there is nothing to thank me for. No one has ever complained yet of +being too much loved; and besides, you are free, you could throw it +up tomorrow. But you will see everything for yourself when you get to +Petersburg. It is high time for you to get away from these terrible +recollections." Prince Vasili sighed. "Yes, yes, my boy. And my +valet can go in your carriage. Ah! I was nearly forgetting," he added. +"You know, mon cher, your father and I had some accounts to settle, so +I have received what was due from the Ryazan estate and will keep it; +you won't require it. We'll go into the accounts later." + +By "what was due from the Ryazan estate" Prince Vasili meant +several thousand rubles quitrent received from Pierre's peasants, +which the prince had retained for himself. + +In Petersburg, as in Moscow, Pierre found the same atmosphere of +gentleness and affection. He could not refuse the post, or rather the +rank (for he did nothing), that Prince Vasili had procured for him, +and acquaintances, invitations, and social occupations were so numerous +that, even more than in Moscow, he felt a sense of bewilderment, bustle, +and continual expectation of some good, always in front of him but never +attained. + +Of his former bachelor acquaintances many were no longer in Petersburg. +The Guards had gone to the front; Dolokhov had been reduced to the +ranks; Anatole was in the army somewhere in the provinces; Prince Andrew +was abroad; so Pierre had not the opportunity to spend his nights as he +used to like to spend them, or to open his mind by intimate talks with +a friend older than himself and whom he respected. His whole time +was taken up with dinners and balls and was spent chiefly at Prince +Vasili's house in the company of the stout princess, his wife, and +his beautiful daughter Helene. + +Like the others, Anna Pavlovna Scherer showed Pierre the change of +attitude toward him that had taken place in society. + +Formerly in Anna Pavlovna's presence, Pierre had always felt that +what he was saying was out of place, tactless and unsuitable, that +remarks which seemed to him clever while they formed in his mind became +foolish as soon as he uttered them, while on the contrary Hippolyte's +stupidest remarks came out clever and apt. Now everything Pierre said +was charmant. Even if Anna Pavlovna did not say so, he could see that +she wished to and only refrained out of regard for his modesty. + +In the beginning of the winter of 1805-6 Pierre received one of Anna +Pavlovna's usual pink notes with an invitation to which was added: +"You will find the beautiful Helene here, whom it is always +delightful to see." + +When he read that sentence, Pierre felt for the first time that some +link which other people recognized had grown up between himself and +Helene, and that thought both alarmed him, as if some obligation were +being imposed on him which he could not fulfill, and pleased him as an +entertaining supposition. + +Anna Pavlovna's "At Home" was like the former one, only the +novelty she offered her guests this time was not Mortemart, but a +diplomatist fresh from Berlin with the very latest details of the +Emperor Alexander's visit to Potsdam, and of how the two august +friends had pledged themselves in an indissoluble alliance to uphold +the cause of justice against the enemy of the human race. Anna Pavlovna +received Pierre with a shade of melancholy, evidently relating to the +young man's recent loss by the death of Count Bezukhov (everyone +constantly considered it a duty to assure Pierre that he was greatly +afflicted by the death of the father he had hardly known), and her +melancholy was just like the august melancholy she showed at the mention +of her most august Majesty the Empress Marya Fedorovna. Pierre felt +flattered by this. Anna Pavlovna arranged the different groups in her +drawing room with her habitual skill. The large group, in which were +Prince Vasili and the generals, had the benefit of the diplomat. +Another group was at the tea table. Pierre wished to join the former, +but Anna Pavlovna--who was in the excited condition of a commander on +a battlefield to whom thousands of new and brilliant ideas occur which +there is hardly time to put in action--seeing Pierre, touched his +sleeve with her finger, saying: + +"Wait a bit, I have something in view for you this evening." +(She glanced at Helene and smiled at her.) "My dear Helene, be +charitable to my poor aunt who adores you. Go and keep her company for +ten minutes. And that it will not be too dull, here is the dear count +who will not refuse to accompany you." + +The beauty went to the aunt, but Anna Pavlovna detained Pierre, looking +as if she had to give some final necessary instructions. + +"Isn't she exquisite?" she said to Pierre, pointing to the stately +beauty as she glided away. "And how she carries herself! For so young +a girl, such tact, such masterly perfection of manner! It comes from +her heart. Happy the man who wins her! With her the least worldly of men +would occupy a most brilliant position in society. Don't you think so? +I only wanted to know your opinion," and Anna Pavlovna let Pierre go. + +Pierre, in reply, sincerely agreed with her as to Helene's +perfection of manner. If he ever thought of Helene, it was just of +her beauty and her remarkable skill in appearing silently dignified in +society. + +The old aunt received the two young people in her corner, but seemed +desirous of hiding her adoration for Helene and inclined rather +to show her fear of Anna Pavlovna. She looked at her niece, as if +inquiring what she was to do with these people. On leaving them, Anna +Pavlovna again touched Pierre's sleeve, saying: "I hope you won't +say that it is dull in my house again," and she glanced at Helene. + +Helene smiled, with a look implying that she did not admit the +possibility of anyone seeing her without being enchanted. The aunt +coughed, swallowed, and said in French that she was very pleased to see +Helene, then she turned to Pierre with the same words of welcome +and the same look. In the middle of a dull and halting conversation, +Helene turned to Pierre with the beautiful bright smile that she gave +to everyone. Pierre was so used to that smile, and it had so little +meaning for him, that he paid no attention to it. The aunt was just +speaking of a collection of snuffboxes that had belonged to Pierre's +father, Count Bezukhov, and showed them her own box. Princess Helene +asked to see the portrait of the aunt's husband on the box lid. + +"That is probably the work of Vinesse," said Pierre, mentioning +a celebrated miniaturist, and he leaned over the table to take the +snuffbox while trying to hear what was being said at the other table. + +He half rose, meaning to go round, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox, +passing it across Helene's back. Helene stooped forward to make +room, and looked round with a smile. She was, as always at evening +parties, wearing a dress such as was then fashionable, cut very low at +front and back. Her bust, which had always seemed like marble to Pierre, +was so close to him that his shortsighted eyes could not but perceive +the living charm of her neck and shoulders, so near to his lips that +he need only have bent his head a little to have touched them. He was +conscious of the warmth of her body, the scent of perfume, and the +creaking of her corset as she moved. He did not see her marble beauty +forming a complete whole with her dress, but all the charm of her body +only covered by her garments. And having once seen this he could not +help being aware of it, just as we cannot renew an illusion we have once +seen through. + +"So you have never noticed before how beautiful I am?" Helene +seemed to say. "You had not noticed that I am a woman? Yes, I am a +woman who may belong to anyone--to you too," said her glance. And at +that moment Pierre felt that Helene not only could, but must, be his +wife, and that it could not be otherwise. + +He knew this at that moment as surely as if he had been standing at the +altar with her. How and when this would be he did not know, he did not +even know if it would be a good thing (he even felt, he knew not why, +that it would be a bad thing), but he knew it would happen. + +Pierre dropped his eyes, lifted them again, and wished once more to see +her as a distant beauty far removed from him, as he had seen her every +day until then, but he could no longer do it. He could not, any more +than a man who has been looking at a tuft of steppe grass through the +mist and taking it for a tree can again take it for a tree after he has +once recognized it to be a tuft of grass. She was terribly close to him. +She already had power over him, and between them there was no longer any +barrier except the barrier of his own will. + +"Well, I will leave you in your little corner," came Anna +Pavlovna's voice, "I see you are all right there." + +And Pierre, anxiously trying to remember whether he had done anything +reprehensible, looked round with a blush. It seemed to him that everyone +knew what had happened to him as he knew it himself. + +A little later when he went up to the large circle, Anna Pavlovna said +to him: "I hear you are refitting your Petersburg house?" + +This was true. The architect had told him that it was necessary, and +Pierre, without knowing why, was having his enormous Petersburg house +done up. + +"That's a good thing, but don't move from Prince Vasili's. It +is good to have a friend like the prince," she said, smiling at Prince +Vasili. "I know something about that. Don't I? And you are still so +young. You need advice. Don't be angry with me for exercising an old +woman's privilege." + +She paused, as women always do, expecting something after they have +mentioned their age. "If you marry it will be a different thing," +she continued, uniting them both in one glance. Pierre did not look at +Helene nor she at him. But she was just as terribly close to him. He +muttered something and colored. + +When he got home he could not sleep for a long time for thinking of what +had happened. What had happened? Nothing. He had merely understood that +the woman he had known as a child, of whom when her beauty was mentioned +he had said absent-mindedly: "Yes, she's good looking," he had +understood that this woman might belong to him. + +"But she's stupid. I have myself said she is stupid," he thought. +"There is something nasty, something wrong, in the feeling she excites +in me. I have been told that her brother Anatole was in love with her +and she with him, that there was quite a scandal and that that's why +he was sent away. Hippolyte is her brother... Prince Vasili is her +father... It's bad...." he reflected, but while he was thinking this +(the reflection was still incomplete), he caught himself smiling and was +conscious that another line of thought had sprung up, and while thinking +of her worthlessness he was also dreaming of how she would be his +wife, how she would love him become quite different, and how all he had +thought and heard of her might be false. And he again saw her not as the +daughter of Prince Vasili, but visualized her whole body only veiled +by its gray dress. "But no! Why did this thought never occur to me +before?" and again he told himself that it was impossible, that there +would be something unnatural, and as it seemed to him dishonorable, in +this marriage. He recalled her former words and looks and the words +and looks of those who had seen them together. He recalled Anna +Pavlovna's words and looks when she spoke to him about his house, +recalled thousands of such hints from Prince Vasili and others, and was +seized by terror lest he had already, in some way, bound himself to do +something that was evidently wrong and that he ought not to do. But at +the very time he was expressing this conviction to himself, in another +part of his mind her image rose in all its womanly beauty. + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +In November, 1805, Prince Vasili had to go on a tour of inspection +in four different provinces. He had arranged this for himself so as to +visit his neglected estates at the same time and pick up his son Anatole +where his regiment was stationed, and take him to visit Prince Nicholas +Bolkonski in order to arrange a match for him with the daughter of that +rich old man. But before leaving home and undertaking these new affairs, +Prince Vasili had to settle matters with Pierre, who, it is true, had +latterly spent whole days at home, that is, in Prince Vasili's house +where he was staying, and had been absurd, excited, and foolish in +Helene's presence (as a lover should be), but had not yet proposed +to her. + +"This is all very fine, but things must be settled," said Prince +Vasili to himself, with a sorrowful sigh, one morning, feeling that +Pierre who was under such obligations to him ("But never mind that") +was not behaving very well in this matter. "Youth, frivolity... well, +God be with him," thought he, relishing his own goodness of heart, +"but it must be brought to a head. The day after tomorrow will be +Lelya's name day. I will invite two or three people, and if he does +not understand what he ought to do then it will be my affair--yes, my +affair. I am her father." + +Six weeks after Anna Pavlovna's "At Home" and after the sleepless +night when he had decided that to marry Helene would be a calamity and +that he ought to avoid her and go away, Pierre, despite that decision, +had not left Prince Vasili's and felt with terror that in people's +eyes he was every day more and more connected with her, that it was +impossible for him to return to his former conception of her, that he +could not break away from her, and that though it would be a terrible +thing he would have to unite his fate with hers. He might perhaps have +been able to free himself but that Prince Vasili (who had rarely before +given receptions) now hardly let a day go by without having an evening +party at which Pierre had to be present unless he wished to spoil +the general pleasure and disappoint everyone's expectation. Prince +Vasili, in the rare moments when he was at home, would take Pierre's +hand in passing and draw it downwards, or absent-mindedly hold out his +wrinkled, clean-shaven cheek for Pierre to kiss and would say: "Till +tomorrow," or, "Be in to dinner or I shall not see you," or, "I +am staying in for your sake," and so on. And though Prince Vasili, +when he stayed in (as he said) for Pierre's sake, hardly exchanged a +couple of words with him, Pierre felt unable to disappoint him. +Every day he said to himself one and the same thing: "It is time I +understood her and made up my mind what she really is. Was I mistaken +before, or am I mistaken now? No, she is not stupid, she is an excellent +girl," he sometimes said to himself "she never makes a mistake, +never says anything stupid. She says little, but what she does say is +always clear and simple, so she is not stupid. She never was abashed and +is not abashed now, so she cannot be a bad woman!" He had often begun +to make reflections or think aloud in her company, and she had always +answered him either by a brief but appropriate remark--showing that it +did not interest her--or by a silent look and smile which more palpably +than anything else showed Pierre her superiority. She was right in +regarding all arguments as nonsense in comparison with that smile. + +She always addressed him with a radiantly confiding smile meant for him +alone, in which there was something more significant than in the general +smile that usually brightened her face. Pierre knew that everyone was +waiting for him to say a word and cross a certain line, and he knew that +sooner or later he would step across it, but an incomprehensible terror +seized him at the thought of that dreadful step. A thousand times during +that month and a half while he felt himself drawn nearer and nearer to +that dreadful abyss, Pierre said to himself: "What am I doing? I need +resolution. Can it be that I have none?" + +He wished to take a decision, but felt with dismay that in this matter +he lacked that strength of will which he had known in himself and really +possessed. Pierre was one of those who are only strong when they feel +themselves quite innocent, and since that day when he was overpowered +by a feeling of desire while stooping over the snuffbox at Anna +Pavlovna's, an unacknowledged sense of the guilt of that desire +paralyzed his will. + +On Helene's name day, a small party of just their own people--as +his wife said--met for supper at Prince Vasili's. All these friends +and relations had been given to understand that the fate of the young +girl would be decided that evening. The visitors were seated at supper. +Princess Kuragina, a portly imposing woman who had once been handsome, +was sitting at the head of the table. On either side of her sat the +more important guests--an old general and his wife, and Anna Pavlovna +Scherer. At the other end sat the younger and less important guests, +and there too sat the members of the family, and Pierre and Helene, +side by side. Prince Vasili was not having any supper: he went round +the table in a merry mood, sitting down now by one, now by another, of +the guests. To each of them he made some careless and agreeable remark +except to Pierre and Helene, whose presence he seemed not to notice. +He enlivened the whole party. The wax candles burned brightly, the +silver and crystal gleamed, so did the ladies' toilets and the gold +and silver of the men's epaulets; servants in scarlet liveries moved +round the table, the clatter of plates, knives, and glasses mingled with +the animated hum of several conversations. At one end of the table, the +old chamberlain was heard assuring an old baroness that he loved her +passionately, at which she laughed; at the other could be heard the +story of the misfortunes of some Mary Viktorovna or other. At the +center of the table, Prince Vasili attracted everybody's attention. +With a facetious smile on his face, he was telling the ladies about last +Wednesday's meeting of the Imperial Council, at which Sergey Kuzmich +Vyazmitinov, the new military governor general of Petersburg, had +received and read the then famous rescript of the Emperor Alexander +from the army to Sergey Kuzmich, in which the Emperor said that he was +receiving from all sides declarations of the people's loyalty, that +the declaration from Petersburg gave him particular pleasure, and that +he was proud to be at the head of such a nation and would endeavor to be +worthy of it. This rescript began with the words: "Sergey Kuzmich, +From all sides reports reach me," etc. + +"Well, and so he never got farther than: 'Sergey Kuzmich'?" +asked one of the ladies. + +"Exactly, not a hair's breadth farther," answered Prince Vasili, +laughing, "'Sergey Kuzmich... From all sides... From all sides... +Sergey Kuzmich...' Poor Vyazmitinov could not get any farther! +He began the rescript again and again, but as soon as he uttered +'Sergey' he sobbed, 'Kuz-mi-ch,' tears, and 'From all +sides' was smothered in sobs and he could get no farther. And again +his handkerchief, and again: 'Sergey Kuzmich, From all sides,'... +and tears, till at last somebody else was asked to read it." + +"Kuzmich... From all sides... and then tears," someone repeated +laughing. + +"Don't be unkind," cried Anna Pavlovna from her end of the table +holding up a threatening finger. "He is such a worthy and excellent +man, our dear Vyazmitinov...." + +Everybody laughed a great deal. At the head of the table, where the +honored guests sat, everyone seemed to be in high spirits and under the +influence of a variety of exciting sensations. Only Pierre and +Helene sat silently side by side almost at the bottom of the table, a +suppressed smile brightening both their faces, a smile that had nothing +to do with Sergey Kuzmich--a smile of bashfulness at their own +feelings. But much as all the rest laughed, talked, and joked, much +as they enjoyed their Rhine wine, saute, and ices, and however they +avoided looking at the young couple, and heedless and unobservant as +they seemed of them, one could feel by the occasional glances they gave +that the story about Sergey Kuzmich, the laughter, and the food +were all a pretense, and that the whole attention of that company was +directed to--Pierre and Helene. Prince Vasili mimicked the sobbing +of Sergey Kuzmich and at the same time his eyes glanced toward his +daughter, and while he laughed the expression on his face clearly said: +"Yes... it's getting on, it will all be settled today." Anna +Pavlovna threatened him on behalf of "our dear Vyazmitinov," and +in her eyes, which, for an instant, glanced at Pierre, Prince Vasili +read a congratulation on his future son-in-law and on his daughter's +happiness. The old princess sighed sadly as she offered some wine to the +old lady next to her and glanced angrily at her daughter, and her sigh +seemed to say: "Yes, there's nothing left for you and me but to sip +sweet wine, my dear, now that the time has come for these young ones to +be thus boldly, provocatively happy." "And what nonsense all this is +that I am saying!" thought a diplomatist, glancing at the happy faces +of the lovers. "That's happiness!" + +Into the insignificant, trifling, and artificial interests uniting that +society had entered the simple feeling of the attraction of a healthy +and handsome young man and woman for one another. And this human feeling +dominated everything else and soared above all their affected chatter. +Jests fell flat, news was not interesting, and the animation was +evidently forced. Not only the guests but even the footmen waiting at +table seemed to feel this, and they forgot their duties as they looked +at the beautiful Helene with her radiant face and at the red, broad, +and happy though uneasy face of Pierre. It seemed as if the very light +of the candles was focused on those two happy faces alone. + +Pierre felt that he was the center of it all, and this both pleased and +embarrassed him. He was like a man entirely absorbed in some occupation. +He did not see, hear, or understand anything clearly. Only now and +then detached ideas and impressions from the world of reality shot +unexpectedly through his mind. + +"So it is all finished!" he thought. "And how has it all happened? +How quickly! Now I know that not because of her alone, nor of myself +alone, but because of everyone, it must inevitably come about. They are +all expecting it, they are so sure that it will happen that I cannot, I +cannot, disappoint them. But how will it be? I do not know, but it +will certainly happen!" thought Pierre, glancing at those dazzling +shoulders close to his eyes. + +Or he would suddenly feel ashamed of he knew not what. He felt it +awkward to attract everyone's attention and to be considered a +lucky man and, with his plain face, to be looked on as a sort of Paris +possessed of a Helen. "But no doubt it always is and must be so!" +he consoled himself. "And besides, what have I done to bring it about? +How did it begin? I traveled from Moscow with Prince Vasili. Then there +was nothing. So why should I not stay at his house? Then I played cards +with her and picked up her reticule and drove out with her. How did it +begin, when did it all come about?" And here he was sitting by her +side as her betrothed, seeing, hearing, feeling her nearness, her +breathing, her movements, her beauty. Then it would suddenly seem to him +that it was not she but he was so unusually beautiful, and that that was +why they all looked so at him, and flattered by this general admiration +he would expand his chest, raise his head, and rejoice at his good +fortune. Suddenly he heard a familiar voice repeating something to him a +second time. But Pierre was so absorbed that he did not understand what +was said. + +"I am asking you when you last heard from Bolkonski," repeated +Prince Vasili a third time. "How absent-minded you are, my dear +fellow." + +Prince Vasili smiled, and Pierre noticed that everyone was smiling at +him and Helene. "Well, what of it, if you all know it?" thought +Pierre. "What of it? It's the truth!" and he himself smiled his +gentle childlike smile, and Helene smiled too. + +"When did you get the letter? Was it from Olmutz?" repeated +Prince Vasili, who pretended to want to know this in order to settle a +dispute. + +"How can one talk or think of such trifles?" thought Pierre. + +"Yes, from Olmutz," he answered, with a sigh. + +After supper Pierre with his partner followed the others into the +drawing room. The guests began to disperse, some without taking leave +of Helene. Some, as if unwilling to distract her from an important +occupation, came up to her for a moment and made haste to go away, +refusing to let her see them off. The diplomatist preserved a mournful +silence as he left the drawing room. He pictured the vanity of his +diplomatic career in comparison with Pierre's happiness. The old +general grumbled at his wife when she asked how his leg was. "Oh, the +old fool," he thought. "That Princess Helene will be beautiful +still when she's fifty." + +"I think I may congratulate you," whispered Anna Pavlovna to the +old princess, kissing her soundly. "If I hadn't this headache I'd +have stayed longer." + +The old princess did not reply, she was tormented by jealousy of her +daughter's happiness. + +While the guests were taking their leave Pierre remained for a long time +alone with Helene in the little drawing room where they were sitting. +He had often before, during the last six weeks, remained alone with her, +but had never spoken to her of love. Now he felt that it was inevitable, +but he could not make up his mind to take the final step. He felt +ashamed; he felt that he was occupying someone else's place here +beside Helene. "This happiness is not for you," some inner voice +whispered to him. "This happiness is for those who have not in them +what there is in you." + +But, as he had to say something, he began by asking her whether she was +satisfied with the party. She replied in her usual simple manner that +this name day of hers had been one of the pleasantest she had ever had. + +Some of the nearest relatives had not yet left. They were sitting in +the large drawing room. Prince Vasili came up to Pierre with languid +footsteps. Pierre rose and said it was getting late. Prince Vasili gave +him a look of stern inquiry, as though what Pierre had just said was +so strange that one could not take it in. But then the expression of +severity changed, and he drew Pierre's hand downwards, made him sit +down, and smiled affectionately. + +"Well, Lelya?" he asked, turning instantly to his daughter and +addressing her with the careless tone of habitual tenderness natural to +parents who have petted their children from babyhood, but which Prince +Vasili had only acquired by imitating other parents. + +And he again turned to Pierre. + +"Sergey Kuzmich--From all sides--" he said, unbuttoning the top +button of his waistcoat. + +Pierre smiled, but his smile showed that he knew it was not the story +about Sergey Kuzmich that interested Prince Vasili just then, and +Prince Vasili saw that Pierre knew this. He suddenly muttered +something and went away. It seemed to Pierre that even the prince was +disconcerted. The sight of the discomposure of that old man of the world +touched Pierre: he looked at Helene and she too seemed disconcerted, +and her look seemed to say: "Well, it is your own fault." + +"The step must be taken but I cannot, I cannot!" thought Pierre, +and he again began speaking about indifferent matters, about Sergey +Kuzmich, asking what the point of the story was as he had not heard it +properly. Helene answered with a smile that she too had missed it. + +When Prince Vasili returned to the drawing room, the princess, his +wife, was talking in low tones to the elderly lady about Pierre. + +"Of course, it is a very brilliant match, but happiness, my dear..." + +"Marriages are made in heaven," replied the elderly lady. + +Prince Vasili passed by, seeming not to hear the ladies, and sat down +on a sofa in a far corner of the room. He closed his eyes and seemed to +be dozing. His head sank forward and then he roused himself. + +"Aline," he said to his wife, "go and see what they are about." + +The princess went up to the door, passed by it with a dignified and +indifferent air, and glanced into the little drawing room. Pierre and +Helene still sat talking just as before. + +"Still the same," she said to her husband. + +Prince Vasili frowned, twisting his mouth, his cheeks quivered and his +face assumed the coarse, unpleasant expression peculiar to him. Shaking +himself, he rose, threw back his head, and with resolute steps went +past the ladies into the little drawing room. With quick steps he went +joyfully up to Pierre. His face was so unusually triumphant that Pierre +rose in alarm on seeing it. + +"Thank God!" said Prince Vasili. "My wife has told me +everything!" (He put one arm around Pierre and the other around his +daughter.)--"My dear boy... Lelya... I am very pleased." (His +voice trembled.) "I loved your father... and she will make you a good +wife... God bless you!..." + +He embraced his daughter, and then again Pierre, and kissed him with his +malodorous mouth. Tears actually moistened his cheeks. + +"Princess, come here!" he shouted. + +The old princess came in and also wept. The elderly lady was using +her handkerchief too. Pierre was kissed, and he kissed the beautiful +Helene's hand several times. After a while they were left alone +again. + +"All this had to be and could not be otherwise," thought Pierre, +"so it is useless to ask whether it is good or bad. It is good because +it's definite and one is rid of the old tormenting doubt." Pierre +held the hand of his betrothed in silence, looking at her beautiful +bosom as it rose and fell. + +"Helene!" he said aloud and paused. + +"Something special is always said in such cases," he thought, but +could not remember what it was that people say. He looked at her face. +She drew nearer to him. Her face flushed. + +"Oh, take those off... those..." she said, pointing to his +spectacles. + +Pierre took them off, and his eyes, besides the strange look eyes have +from which spectacles have just been removed, had also a frightened and +inquiring look. He was about to stoop over her hand and kiss it, but +with a rapid, almost brutal movement of her head, she intercepted his +lips and met them with her own. Her face struck Pierre, by its altered, +unpleasantly excited expression. + +"It is too late now, it's done; besides I love her," thought +Pierre. + +"Je vous aime!" * he said, remembering what has to be said at such +moments: but his words sounded so weak that he felt ashamed of himself. + + * "I love you." + + +Six weeks later he was married, and settled in Count Bezukhov's +large, newly furnished Petersburg house, the happy possessor, as people +said, of a wife who was a celebrated beauty and of millions of money. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +Old Prince Nicholas Bolkonski received a letter from Prince Vasili +in November, 1805, announcing that he and his son would be paying him +a visit. "I am starting on a journey of inspection, and of course I +shall think nothing of an extra seventy miles to come and see you at +the same time, my honored benefactor," wrote Prince Vasili. "My son +Anatole is accompanying me on his way to the army, so I hope you will +allow him personally to express the deep respect that, emulating his +father, he feels for you." + +"It seems that there will be no need to bring Mary out, suitors are +coming to us of their own accord," incautiously remarked the little +princess on hearing the news. + +Prince Nicholas frowned, but said nothing. + +A fortnight after the letter Prince Vasili's servants came one +evening in advance of him, and he and his son arrived next day. + +Old Bolkonski had always had a poor opinion of Prince Vasili's +character, but more so recently, since in the new reigns of Paul and +Alexander Prince Vasili had risen to high position and honors. And now, +from the hints contained in his letter and given by the little princess, +he saw which way the wind was blowing, and his low opinion changed into +a feeling of contemptuous ill will. He snorted whenever he mentioned +him. On the day of Prince Vasili's arrival, Prince Bolkonski was +particularly discontented and out of temper. Whether he was in a bad +temper because Prince Vasili was coming, or whether his being in a bad +temper made him specially annoyed at Prince Vasili's visit, he was +in a bad temper, and in the morning Tikhon had already advised the +architect not to go to the prince with his report. + +"Do you hear how he's walking?" said Tikhon, drawing the +architect's attention to the sound of the prince's footsteps. +"Stepping flat on his heels--we know what that means...." + +However, at nine o'clock the prince, in his velvet coat with a sable +collar and cap, went out for his usual walk. It had snowed the day +before and the path to the hothouse, along which the prince was in the +habit of walking, had been swept: the marks of the broom were still +visible in the snow and a shovel had been left sticking in one of the +soft snowbanks that bordered both sides of the path. The prince went +through the conservatories, the serfs' quarters, and the outbuildings, +frowning and silent. + +"Can a sleigh pass?" he asked his overseer, a venerable man, +resembling his master in manners and looks, who was accompanying him +back to the house. + +"The snow is deep. I am having the avenue swept, your honor." + +The prince bowed his head and went up to the porch. "God be +thanked," thought the overseer, "the storm has blown over!" + +"It would have been hard to drive up, your honor," he added. "I +heard, your honor, that a minister is coming to visit your honor." + +The prince turned round to the overseer and fixed his eyes on him, +frowning. + +"What? A minister? What minister? Who gave orders?" he said in +his shrill, harsh voice. "The road is not swept for the princess my +daughter, but for a minister! For me, there are no ministers!" + +"Your honor, I thought..." + +"You thought!" shouted the prince, his words coming more and more +rapidly and indistinctly. "You thought!... Rascals! Blackguards!... +I'll teach you to think!" and lifting his stick he swung it and +would have hit Alpatych, the overseer, had not the latter instinctively +avoided the blow. "Thought... Blackguards..." shouted the prince +rapidly. + +But although Alpatych, frightened at his own temerity in avoiding the +stroke, came up to the prince, bowing his bald head resignedly before +him, or perhaps for that very reason, the prince, though he continued +to shout: "Blackguards!... Throw the snow back on the road!" did not +lift his stick again but hurried into the house. + +Before dinner, Princess Mary and Mademoiselle Bourienne, who knew +that the prince was in a bad humor, stood awaiting him; Mademoiselle +Bourienne with a radiant face that said: "I know nothing, I am the +same as usual," and Princess Mary pale, frightened, and with downcast +eyes. What she found hardest to bear was to know that on such occasions +she ought to behave like Mademoiselle Bourienne, but could not. +She thought: "If I seem not to notice he will think that I do not +sympathize with him; if I seem sad and out of spirits myself, he will +say (as he has done before) that I'm in the dumps." + +The prince looked at his daughter's frightened face and snorted. + +"Fool... or dummy!" he muttered. + +"And the other one is not here. They've been telling tales," he +thought--referring to the little princess who was not in the dining +room. + +"Where is the princess?" he asked. "Hiding?" + +"She is not very well," answered Mademoiselle Bourienne with +a bright smile, "so she won't come down. It is natural in her +state." + +"Hm! Hm!" muttered the prince, sitting down. + +His plate seemed to him not quite clean, and pointing to a spot he +flung it away. Tikhon caught it and handed it to a footman. The little +princess was not unwell, but had such an overpowering fear of the prince +that, hearing he was in a bad humor, she had decided not to appear. + +"I am afraid for the baby," she said to Mademoiselle Bourienne: +"Heaven knows what a fright might do." + +In general at Bald Hills the little princess lived in constant fear, and +with a sense of antipathy to the old prince which she did not +realize because the fear was so much the stronger feeling. The prince +reciprocated this antipathy, but it was overpowered by his contempt +for her. When the little princess had grown accustomed to life at Bald +Hills, she took a special fancy to Mademoiselle Bourienne, spent whole +days with her, asked her to sleep in her room, and often talked with her +about the old prince and criticized him. + +"So we are to have visitors, mon prince?" remarked Mademoiselle +Bourienne, unfolding her white napkin with her rosy fingers. "His +Excellency Prince Vasili Kuragin and his son, I understand?" she +said inquiringly. + +"Hm!--his excellency is a puppy.... I got him his appointment in the +service," said the prince disdainfully. "Why his son is coming I +don't understand. Perhaps Princess Elizabeth and Princess Mary know. +I don't want him." (He looked at his blushing daughter.) "Are you +unwell today? Eh? Afraid of the 'minister' as that idiot Alpatych +called him this morning?" + +"No, mon pere." + +Though Mademoiselle Bourienne had been so unsuccessful in her choice +of a subject, she did not stop talking, but chattered about the +conservatories and the beauty of a flower that had just opened, and +after the soup the prince became more genial. + +After dinner, he went to see his daughter-in-law. The little princess +was sitting at a small table, chattering with Masha, her maid. She grew +pale on seeing her father-in-law. + +She was much altered. She was now plain rather than pretty. Her cheeks +had sunk, her lip was drawn up, and her eyes drawn down. + +"Yes, I feel a kind of oppression," she said in reply to the +prince's question as to how she felt. + +"Do you want anything?" + +"No, merci, mon pere." + +"Well, all right, all right." + +He left the room and went to the waiting room where Alpatych stood with +bowed head. + +"Has the snow been shoveled back?" + +"Yes, your excellency. Forgive me for heaven's sake... It was only +my stupidity." + +"All right, all right," interrupted the prince, and laughing his +unnatural way, he stretched out his hand for Alpatych to kiss, and then +proceeded to his study. + +Prince Vasili arrived that evening. He was met in the avenue by +coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to +one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow. + +Prince Vasili and Anatole had separate rooms assigned to them. + +Anatole, having taken off his overcoat, sat with arms akimbo before a +table on a corner of which he smilingly and absent-mindedly fixed his +large and handsome eyes. He regarded his whole life as a continual round +of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him. +And he looked on this visit to a churlish old man and a rich and ugly +heiress in the same way. All this might, he thought, turn out very well +and amusingly. "And why not marry her if she really has so much money? +That never does any harm," thought Anatole. + +He shaved and scented himself with the care and elegance which had +become habitual to him and, his handsome head held high, entered his +father's room with the good-humored and victorious air natural to +him. Prince Vasili's two valets were busy dressing him, and he looked +round with much animation and cheerfully nodded to his son as the latter +entered, as if to say: "Yes, that's how I want you to look." + +"I say, Father, joking apart, is she very hideous?" Anatole asked, +as if continuing a conversation the subject of which had often been +mentioned during the journey. + +"Enough! What nonsense! Above all, try to be respectful and cautious +with the old prince." + +"If he starts a row I'll go away," said Prince Anatole. "I +can't bear those old men! Eh?" + +"Remember, for you everything depends on this." + +In the meantime, not only was it known in the maidservants' rooms that +the minister and his son had arrived, but the appearance of both had +been minutely described. Princess Mary was sitting alone in her room, +vainly trying to master her agitation. + +"Why did they write, why did Lise tell me about it? It can never +happen!" she said, looking at herself in the glass. "How shall I +enter the drawing room? Even if I like him I can't now be myself with +him." The mere thought of her father's look filled her with terror. +The little princess and Mademoiselle Bourienne had already received +from Masha, the lady's maid, the necessary report of how handsome the +minister's son was, with his rosy cheeks and dark eyebrows, and with +what difficulty the father had dragged his legs upstairs while the son +had followed him like an eagle, three steps at a time. Having received +this information, the little princess and Mademoiselle Bourienne, whose +chattering voices had reached her from the corridor, went into Princess +Mary's room. + +"You know they've come, Marie?" said the little princess, waddling +in, and sinking heavily into an armchair. + +She was no longer in the loose gown she generally wore in the morning, +but had on one of her best dresses. Her hair was carefully done and her +face was animated, which, however, did not conceal its sunken and faded +outlines. Dressed as she used to be in Petersburg society, it was still +more noticeable how much plainer she had become. Some unobtrusive touch +had been added to Mademoiselle Bourienne's toilet which rendered her +fresh and pretty face yet more attractive. + +"What! Are you going to remain as you are, dear princess?" she +began. "They'll be announcing that the gentlemen are in the drawing +room and we shall have to go down, and you have not smartened yourself +up at all!" + +The little princess got up, rang for the maid, and hurriedly and merrily +began to devise and carry out a plan of how Princess Mary should be +dressed. Princess Mary's self-esteem was wounded by the fact that +the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both +her companions' not having the least conception that it could be +otherwise. To tell them that she felt ashamed for herself and for them +would be to betray her agitation, while to decline their offers to +dress her would prolong their banter and insistence. She flushed, her +beautiful eyes grew dim, red blotches came on her face, and it took +on the unattractive martyrlike expression it so often wore, as she +submitted herself to Mademoiselle Bourienne and Lise. Both these women +quite sincerely tried to make her look pretty. She was so plain that +neither of them could think of her as a rival, so they began dressing +her with perfect sincerity, and with the naive and firm conviction +women have that dress can make a face pretty. + +"No really, my dear, this dress is not pretty," said Lise, looking +sideways at Princess Mary from a little distance. "You have a maroon +dress, have it fetched. Really! You know the fate of your whole life may +be at stake. But this one is too light, it's not becoming!" + +It was not the dress, but the face and whole figure of Princess Mary +that was not pretty, but neither Mademoiselle Bourienne nor the little +princess felt this; they still thought that if a blue ribbon were placed +in the hair, the hair combed up, and the blue scarf arranged lower on +the best maroon dress, and so on, all would be well. They forgot that +the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that +however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it +would still remain piteous and plain. After two or three changes to +which Princess Mary meekly submitted, just as her hair had been arranged +on the top of her head (a style that quite altered and spoiled her +looks) and she had put on a maroon dress with a pale-blue scarf, the +little princess walked twice round her, now adjusting a fold of the +dress with her little hand, now arranging the scarf and looking at her +with her head bent first on one side and then on the other. + +"No, it will not do," she said decidedly, clasping her hands. "No, +Mary, really this dress does not suit you. I prefer you in your little +gray everyday dress. Now please, do it for my sake. Katie," she said +to the maid, "bring the princess her gray dress, and you'll see, +Mademoiselle Bourienne, how I shall arrange it," she added, smiling +with a foretaste of artistic pleasure. + +But when Katie brought the required dress, Princess Mary remained +sitting motionless before the glass, looking at her face, and saw in the +mirror her eyes full of tears and her mouth quivering, ready to burst +into sobs. + +"Come, dear princess," said Mademoiselle Bourienne, "just one more +little effort." + +The little princess, taking the dress from the maid, came up to Princess +Mary. + +"Well, now we'll arrange something quite simple and becoming," she +said. + +The three voices, hers, Mademoiselle Bourienne's, and Katie's, who +was laughing at something, mingled in a merry sound, like the chirping +of birds. + +"No, leave me alone," said Princess Mary. + +Her voice sounded so serious and so sad that the chirping of the birds +was silenced at once. They looked at the beautiful, large, thoughtful +eyes full of tears and of thoughts, gazing shiningly and imploringly at +them, and understood that it was useless and even cruel to insist. + +"At least, change your coiffure," said the little princess. +"Didn't I tell you," she went on, turning reproachfully to +Mademoiselle Bourienne, "Mary's is a face which such a coiffure does +not suit in the least. Not in the least! Please change it." + +"Leave me alone, please leave me alone! It is all quite the same to +me," answered a voice struggling with tears. + +Mademoiselle Bourienne and the little princess had to own to themselves +that Princess Mary in this guise looked very plain, worse than usual, +but it was too late. She was looking at them with an expression they +both knew, an expression thoughtful and sad. This expression in Princess +Mary did not frighten them (she never inspired fear in anyone), but they +knew that when it appeared on her face, she became mute and was not to +be shaken in her determination. + +"You will change it, won't you?" said Lise. And as Princess Mary +gave no answer, she left the room. + +Princess Mary was left alone. She did not comply with Lise's request, +she not only left her hair as it was, but did not even look in her +glass. Letting her arms fall helplessly, she sat with downcast eyes and +pondered. A husband, a man, a strong dominant and strangely attractive +being rose in her imagination, and carried her into a totally different +happy world of his own. She fancied a child, her own--such as she had +seen the day before in the arms of her nurse's daughter--at her +own breast, the husband standing by and gazing tenderly at her and the +child. "But no, it is impossible, I am too ugly," she thought. + +"Please come to tea. The prince will be out in a moment," came the +maid's voice at the door. + +She roused herself, and felt appalled at what she had been thinking, and +before going down she went into the room where the icons hung and, her +eyes fixed on the dark face of a large icon of the Saviour lit by a +lamp, she stood before it with folded hands for a few moments. A painful +doubt filled her soul. Could the joy of love, of earthly love for a +man, be for her? In her thoughts of marriage Princess Mary dreamed of +happiness and of children, but her strongest, most deeply hidden longing +was for earthly love. The more she tried to hide this feeling from +others and even from herself, the stronger it grew. "O God," she +said, "how am I to stifle in my heart these temptations of the devil? +How am I to renounce forever these vile fancies, so as peacefully to +fulfill Thy will?" And scarcely had she put that question than God +gave her the answer in her own heart. "Desire nothing for thyself, +seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. Man's future and thy own fate +must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for +anything. If it be God's will to prove thee in the duties of marriage, +be ready to fulfill His will." With this consoling thought (but +yet with a hope for the fulfillment of her forbidden earthly longing) +Princess Mary sighed, and having crossed herself went down, thinking +neither of her gown and coiffure nor of how she would go in nor of what +she would say. What could all that matter in comparison with the will of +God, without Whose care not a hair of man's head can fall? + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +When Princess Mary came down, Prince Vasili and his son were already +in the drawing room, talking to the little princess and Mademoiselle +Bourienne. When she entered with her heavy step, treading on her heels, +the gentlemen and Mademoiselle Bourienne rose and the little princess, +indicating her to the gentlemen, said: "Voila Marie!" Princess Mary +saw them all and saw them in detail. She saw Prince Vasili's face, +serious for an instant at the sight of her, but immediately smiling +again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression +"Marie" produced on the visitors. And she saw Mademoiselle +Bourienne, with her ribbon and pretty face, and her unusually animated +look which was fixed on him, but him she could not see, she only saw +something large, brilliant, and handsome moving toward her as she +entered the room. Prince Vasili approached first, and she kissed the +bold forehead that bent over her hand and answered his question by +saying that, on the contrary, she remembered him quite well. Then +Anatole came up to her. She still could not see him. She only felt a +soft hand taking hers firmly, and she touched with her lips a white +forehead, over which was beautiful light-brown hair smelling of pomade. +When she looked up at him she was struck by his beauty. Anatole stood +with his right thumb under a button of his uniform, his chest expanded +and his back drawn in, slightly swinging one foot, and, with his head a +little bent, looked with beaming face at the princess without +speaking and evidently not thinking about her at all. Anatole was not +quick-witted, nor ready or eloquent in conversation, but he had the +faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable +self-possession. If a man lacking in self-confidence remains dumb on +a first introduction and betrays a consciousness of the impropriety of +such silence and an anxiety to find something to say, the effect is +bad. But Anatole was dumb, swung his foot, and smilingly examined the +princess' hair. It was evident that he could be silent in this way for +a very long time. "If anyone finds this silence inconvenient, let him +talk, but I don't want to," he seemed to say. Besides this, in his +behavior to women Anatole had a manner which particularly inspires in +them curiosity, awe, and even love--a supercilious consciousness of +his own superiority. It was as if he said to them: "I know you, I know +you, but why should I bother about you? You'd be only too glad, of +course." Perhaps he did not really think this when he met women--even +probably he did not, for in general he thought very little--but his +looks and manner gave that impression. The princess felt this, and as if +wishing to show him that she did not even dare expect to interest him, +she turned to his father. The conversation was general and animated, +thanks to Princess Lise's voice and little downy lip that lifted over +her white teeth. She met Prince Vasili with that playful manner often +employed by lively chatty people, and consisting in the assumption +that between the person they so address and themselves there are some +semi-private, long-established jokes and amusing reminiscences, though +no such reminiscences really exist--just as none existed in this case. +Prince Vasili readily adopted her tone and the little princess also +drew Anatole, whom she hardly knew, into these amusing recollections of +things that had never occurred. Mademoiselle Bourienne also shared them +and even Princess Mary felt herself pleasantly made to share in these +merry reminiscences. + +"Here at least we shall have the benefit of your company all to +ourselves, dear prince," said the little princess (of course, in +French) to Prince Vasili. "It's not as at Annette's * receptions +where you always ran away; you remember cette chere Annette!" + + * Anna Pavlovna. + +"Ah, but you won't talk politics to me like Annette!" + +"And our little tea table?" + +"Oh, yes!" + +"Why is it you were never at Annette's?" the little princess asked +Anatole. "Ah, I know, I know," she said with a sly glance, "your +brother Hippolyte told me about your goings on. Oh!" and she shook her +finger at him, "I have even heard of your doings in Paris!" + +"And didn't Hippolyte tell you?" asked Prince Vasili, turning to +his son and seizing the little princess' arm as if she would have run +away and he had just managed to catch her, "didn't he tell you how +he himself was pining for the dear princess, and how she showed him the +door? Oh, she is a pearl among women, Princess," he added, turning to +Princess Mary. + +When Paris was mentioned, Mademoiselle Bourienne for her part seized the +opportunity of joining in the general current of recollections. + +She took the liberty of inquiring whether it was long since Anatole +had left Paris and how he had liked that city. Anatole answered the +Frenchwoman very readily and, looking at her with a smile, talked to her +about her native land. When he saw the pretty little Bourienne, Anatole +came to the conclusion that he would not find Bald Hills dull either. +"Not at all bad!" he thought, examining her, "not at all bad, that +little companion! I hope she will bring her along with her when we're +married, la petite est gentille." * + + * The little one is charming. + +The old prince dressed leisurely in his study, frowning and considering +what he was to do. The coming of these visitors annoyed him. "What are +Prince Vasili and that son of his to me? Prince Vasili is a shallow +braggart and his son, no doubt, is a fine specimen," he grumbled to +himself. What angered him was that the coming of these visitors revived +in his mind an unsettled question he always tried to stifle, one about +which he always deceived himself. The question was whether he could ever +bring himself to part from his daughter and give her to a husband. The +prince never directly asked himself that question, knowing beforehand +that he would have to answer it justly, and justice clashed not only +with his feelings but with the very possibility of life. Life without +Princess Mary, little as he seemed to value her, was unthinkable to +him. "And why should she marry?" he thought. "To be unhappy for +certain. There's Lise, married to Andrew--a better husband one would +think could hardly be found nowadays--but is she contented with her +lot? And who would marry Marie for love? Plain and awkward! They'll +take her for her connections and wealth. Are there no women living +unmarried, and even the happier for it?" So thought Prince Bolkonski +while dressing, and yet the question he was always putting off demanded +an immediate answer. Prince Vasili had brought his son with the evident +intention of proposing, and today or tomorrow he would probably ask +for an answer. His birth and position in society were not bad. "Well, +I've nothing against it," the prince said to himself, "but he must +be worthy of her. And that is what we shall see." + +"That is what we shall see! That is what we shall see!" he added +aloud. + +He entered the drawing room with his usual alert step, glancing rapidly +round the company. He noticed the change in the little princess' +dress, Mademoiselle Bourienne's ribbon, Princess Mary's unbecoming +coiffure, Mademoiselle Bourienne's and Anatole's smiles, and the +loneliness of his daughter amid the general conversation. "Got herself +up like a fool!" he thought, looking irritably at her. "She is +shameless, and he ignores her!" + +He went straight up to Prince Vasili. + +"Well! How d'ye do? How d'ye do? Glad to see you!" + +"Friendship laughs at distance," began Prince Vasili in his usual +rapid, self-confident, familiar tone. "Here is my second son; please +love and befriend him." + +Prince Bolkonski surveyed Anatole. + +"Fine young fellow! Fine young fellow!" he said. "Well, come and +kiss me," and he offered his cheek. + +Anatole kissed the old man, and looked at him with curiosity and perfect +composure, waiting for a display of the eccentricities his father had +told him to expect. + +Prince Bolkonski sat down in his usual place in the corner of the sofa +and, drawing up an armchair for Prince Vasili, pointed to it and began +questioning him about political affairs and news. He seemed to listen +attentively to what Prince Vasili said, but kept glancing at Princess +Mary. + +"And so they are writing from Potsdam already?" he said, repeating +Prince Vasili's last words. Then rising, he suddenly went up to his +daughter. + +"Is it for visitors you've got yourself up like that, eh?" said +he. "Fine, very fine! You have done up your hair in this new way for +the visitors, and before the visitors I tell you that in future you are +never to dare to change your way of dress without my consent." + +"It was my fault, mon pere," interceded the little princess, with a +blush. + +"You must do as you please," said Prince Bolkonski, bowing to his +daughter-in-law, "but she need not make a fool of herself, she's +plain enough as it is." + +And he sat down again, paying no more attention to his daughter, who was +reduced to tears. + +"On the contrary, that coiffure suits the princess very well," said +Prince Vasili. + +"Now you, young prince, what's your name?" said Prince Bolkonski, +turning to Anatole, "come here, let us talk and get acquainted." + +"Now the fun begins," thought Anatole, sitting down with a smile +beside the old prince. + +"Well, my dear boy, I hear you've been educated abroad, not taught +to read and write by the deacon, like your father and me. Now tell me, +my dear boy, are you serving in the Horse Guards?" asked the old man, +scrutinizing Anatole closely and intently. + +"No, I have been transferred to the line," said Anatole, hardly able +to restrain his laughter. + +"Ah! That's a good thing. So, my dear boy, you wish to serve the +Tsar and the country? It is wartime. Such a fine fellow must serve. +Well, are you off to the front?" + +"No, Prince, our regiment has gone to the front, but I am attached... +what is it I am attached to, Papa?" said Anatole, turning to his +father with a laugh. + +"A splendid soldier, splendid! 'What am I attached to!' Ha, ha, +ha!" laughed Prince Bolkonski, and Anatole laughed still louder. +Suddenly Prince Bolkonski frowned. + +"You may go," he said to Anatole. + +Anatole returned smiling to the ladies. + +"And so you've had him educated abroad, Prince Vasili, haven't +you?" said the old prince to Prince Vasili. + +"I have done my best for him, and I can assure you the education there +is much better than ours." + +"Yes, everything is different nowadays, everything is changed. The +lad's a fine fellow, a fine fellow! Well, come with me now." He took +Prince Vasili's arm and led him to his study. As soon as they were +alone together, Prince Vasili announced his hopes and wishes to the old +prince. + +"Well, do you think I shall prevent her, that I can't part from +her?" said the old prince angrily. "What an idea! I'm ready for it +tomorrow! Only let me tell you, I want to know my son-in-law better. You +know my principles--everything aboveboard! I will ask her tomorrow in +your presence; if she is willing, then he can stay on. He can stay and +I'll see." The old prince snorted. "Let her marry, it's all the +same to me!" he screamed in the same piercing tone as when parting +from his son. + +"I will tell you frankly," said Prince Vasili in the tone of +a crafty man convinced of the futility of being cunning with so +keen-sighted a companion. "You know, you see right through people. +Anatole is no genius, but he is an honest, goodhearted lad; an excellent +son or kinsman." + +"All right, all right, we'll see!" + +As always happens when women lead lonely lives for any length of time +without male society, on Anatole's appearance all the three women of +Prince Bolkonski's household felt that their life had not been real +till then. Their powers of reasoning, feeling, and observing immediately +increased tenfold, and their life, which seemed to have been passed in +darkness, was suddenly lit up by a new brightness, full of significance. + +Princess Mary grew quite unconscious of her face and coiffure. The +handsome open face of the man who might perhaps be her husband absorbed +all her attention. He seemed to her kind, brave, determined, manly, and +magnanimous. She felt convinced of that. Thousands of dreams of a future +family life continually rose in her imagination. She drove them away and +tried to conceal them. + +"But am I not too cold with him?" thought the princess. "I try +to be reserved because in the depth of my soul I feel too near to him +already, but then he cannot know what I think of him and may imagine +that I do not like him." + +And Princess Mary tried, but could not manage, to be cordial to her new +guest. "Poor girl, she's devilish ugly!" thought Anatole. + +Mademoiselle Bourienne, also roused to great excitement by Anatole's +arrival, thought in another way. Of course, she, a handsome young woman +without any definite position, without relations or even a country, did +not intend to devote her life to serving Prince Bolkonski, to reading +aloud to him and being friends with Princess Mary. Mademoiselle +Bourienne had long been waiting for a Russian prince who, able to +appreciate at a glance her superiority to the plain, badly dressed, +ungainly Russian princesses, would fall in love with her and carry her +off; and here at last was a Russian prince. Mademoiselle Bourienne knew +a story, heard from her aunt but finished in her own way, which she +liked to repeat to herself. It was the story of a girl who had been +seduced, and to whom her poor mother (sa pauvre mere) appeared, and +reproached her for yielding to a man without being married. Mademoiselle +Bourienne was often touched to tears as in imagination she told this +story to him, her seducer. And now he, a real Russian prince, had +appeared. He would carry her away and then sa pauvre mere would appear +and he would marry her. So her future shaped itself in Mademoiselle +Bourienne's head at the very time she was talking to Anatole about +Paris. It was not calculation that guided her (she did not even for a +moment consider what she should do), but all this had long been familiar +to her, and now that Anatole had appeared it just grouped itself around +him and she wished and tried to please him as much as possible. + +The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, +unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the +familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any +struggle, but with naive and lighthearted gaiety. + +Although in female society Anatole usually assumed the role of a man +tired of being run after by women, his vanity was flattered by the +spectacle of his power over these three women. Besides that, he was +beginning to feel for the pretty and provocative Mademoiselle Bourienne +that passionate animal feeling which was apt to master him with great +suddenness and prompt him to the coarsest and most reckless actions. + +After tea, the company went into the sitting room and Princess Mary was +asked to play on the clavichord. Anatole, laughing and in high spirits, +came and leaned on his elbows, facing her and beside Mademoiselle +Bourienne. Princess Mary felt his look with a painfully joyous emotion. +Her favorite sonata bore her into a most intimately poetic world and +the look she felt upon her made that world still more poetic. But +Anatole's expression, though his eyes were fixed on her, referred not +to her but to the movements of Mademoiselle Bourienne's little +foot, which he was then touching with his own under the clavichord. +Mademoiselle Bourienne was also looking at Princess Mary, and in her +lovely eyes there was a look of fearful joy and hope that was also new +to the princess. + +"How she loves me!" thought Princess Mary. "How happy I am now, +and how happy I may be with such a friend and such a husband! Husband? +Can it be possible?" she thought, not daring to look at his face, but +still feeling his eyes gazing at her. + +In the evening, after supper, when all were about to retire, Anatole +kissed Princess Mary's hand. She did not know how she found the +courage, but she looked straight into his handsome face as it came near +to her shortsighted eyes. Turning from Princess Mary he went up and +kissed Mademoiselle Bourienne's hand. (This was not etiquette, but +then he did everything so simply and with such assurance!) Mademoiselle +Bourienne flushed, and gave the princess a frightened look. + +"What delicacy!" thought the princess. "Is it possible that +Amelie" (Mademoiselle Bourienne) "thinks I could be jealous of her, +and not value her pure affection and devotion to me?" She went up +to her and kissed her warmly. Anatole went up to kiss the little +princess' hand. + +"No! No! No! When your father writes to tell me that you are behaving +well I will give you my hand to kiss. Not till then!" she said. And +smilingly raising a finger at him, she left the room. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +They all separated, but, except Anatole who fell asleep as soon as he +got into bed, all kept awake a long time that night. + +"Is he really to be my husband, this stranger who is so kind--yes, +kind, that is the chief thing," thought Princess Mary; and fear, which +she had seldom experienced, came upon her. She feared to look round, it +seemed to her that someone was there standing behind the screen in the +dark corner. And this someone was he--the devil--and he was also this +man with the white forehead, black eyebrows, and red lips. + +She rang for her maid and asked her to sleep in her room. + +Mademoiselle Bourienne walked up and down the conservatory for a long +time that evening, vainly expecting someone, now smiling at someone, now +working herself up to tears with the imaginary words of her pauvre mere +rebuking her for her fall. + +The little princess grumbled to her maid that her bed was badly made. +She could not lie either on her face or on her side. Every position was +awkward and uncomfortable, and her burden oppressed her now more than +ever because Anatole's presence had vividly recalled to her the time +when she was not like that and when everything was light and gay. She +sat in an armchair in her dressing jacket and nightcap and Katie, sleepy +and disheveled, beat and turned the heavy feather bed for the third +time, muttering to herself. + +"I told you it was all lumps and holes!" the little princess +repeated. "I should be glad enough to fall asleep, so it's not my +fault!" and her voice quivered like that of a child about to cry. + +The old prince did not sleep either. Tikhon, half asleep, heard him +pacing angrily about and snorting. The old prince felt as though he +had been insulted through his daughter. The insult was the more pointed +because it concerned not himself but another, his daughter, whom he +loved more than himself. He kept telling himself that he would consider +the whole matter and decide what was right and how he should act, but +instead of that he only excited himself more and more. + +"The first man that turns up--she forgets her father and everything +else, runs upstairs and does up her hair and wags her tail and is unlike +herself! Glad to throw her father over! And she knew I should notice +it. Fr... fr... fr! And don't I see that that idiot had eyes only for +Bourienne--I shall have to get rid of her. And how is it she has not +pride enough to see it? If she has no pride for herself she might at +least have some for my sake! She must be shown that the blockhead thinks +nothing of her and looks only at Bourienne. No, she has no pride... but +I'll let her see...." + +The old prince knew that if he told his daughter she was making a +mistake and that Anatole meant to flirt with Mademoiselle Bourienne, +Princess Mary's self-esteem would be wounded and his point (not to +be parted from her) would be gained, so pacifying himself with this +thought, he called Tikhon and began to undress. + +"What devil brought them here?" thought he, while Tikhon was +putting the nightshirt over his dried-up old body and gray-haired chest. +"I never invited them. They came to disturb my life--and there is not +much of it left." + +"Devil take 'em!" he muttered, while his head was still covered by +the shirt. + +Tikhon knew his master's habit of sometimes thinking aloud, and +therefore met with unaltered looks the angrily inquisitive expression of +the face that emerged from the shirt. + +"Gone to bed?" asked the prince. + +Tikhon, like all good valets, instinctively knew the direction of his +master's thoughts. He guessed that the question referred to Prince +Vasili and his son. + +"They have gone to bed and put out their lights, your excellency." + +"No good... no good..." said the prince rapidly, and thrusting his +feet into his slippers and his arms into the sleeves of his dressing +gown, he went to the couch on which he slept. + +Though no words had passed between Anatole and Mademoiselle Bourienne, +they quite understood one another as to the first part of their romance, +up to the appearance of the pauvre mere; they understood that they had +much to say to one another in private and so they had been seeking an +opportunity since morning to meet one another alone. When Princess Mary +went to her father's room at the usual hour, Mademoiselle Bourienne +and Anatole met in the conservatory. + +Princess Mary went to the door of the study with special trepidation. +It seemed to her that not only did everybody know that her fate would be +decided that day, but that they also knew what she thought about it. She +read this in Tikhon's face and in that of Prince Vasili's valet, +who made her a low bow when she met him in the corridor carrying hot +water. + +The old prince was very affectionate and careful in his treatment of +his daughter that morning. Princess Mary well knew this painstaking +expression of her father's. His face wore that expression when his +dry hands clenched with vexation at her not understanding a sum in +arithmetic, when rising from his chair he would walk away from her, +repeating in a low voice the same words several times over. + +He came to the point at once, treating her ceremoniously. + +"I have had a proposition made me concerning you," he said with an +unnatural smile. "I expect you have guessed that Prince Vasili has +not come and brought his pupil with him" (for some reason Prince +Bolkonski referred to Anatole as a "pupil") "for the sake of my +beautiful eyes. Last night a proposition was made me on your account +and, as you know my principles, I refer it to you." + +"How am I to understand you, mon pere?" said the princess, growing +pale and then blushing. + +"How understand me!" cried her father angrily. "Prince Vasili +finds you to his taste as a daughter-in-law and makes a proposal to you +on his pupil's behalf. That's how it's to be understood! 'How +understand it'!... And I ask you!" + +"I do not know what you think, Father," whispered the princess. + +"I? I? What of me? Leave me out of the question. I'm not going to +get married. What about you? That's what I want to know." + +The princess saw that her father regarded the matter with disapproval, +but at that moment the thought occurred to her that her fate would be +decided now or never. She lowered her eyes so as not to see the gaze +under which she felt that she could not think, but would only be able to +submit from habit, and she said: "I wish only to do your will, but if +I had to express my own desire..." She had no time to finish. The old +prince interrupted her. + +"That's admirable!" he shouted. "He will take you with your +dowry and take Mademoiselle Bourienne into the bargain. She'll be the +wife, while you..." + +The prince stopped. He saw the effect these words had produced on his +daughter. She lowered her head and was ready to burst into tears. + +"Now then, now then, I'm only joking!" he said. "Remember this, +Princess, I hold to the principle that a maiden has a full right to +choose. I give you freedom. Only remember that your life's happiness +depends on your decision. Never mind me!" + +"But I do not know, Father!" + +"There's no need to talk! He receives his orders and will marry you +or anybody; but you are free to choose.... Go to your room, think it +over, and come back in an hour and tell me in his presence: yes or no. +I know you will pray over it. Well, pray if you like, but you had better +think it over. Go! Yes or no, yes or no, yes or no!" he still shouted +when the princess, as if lost in a fog, had already staggered out of the +study. + +Her fate was decided and happily decided. But what her father had said +about Mademoiselle Bourienne was dreadful. It was untrue to be sure, but +still it was terrible, and she could not help thinking of it. She was +going straight on through the conservatory, neither seeing nor hearing +anything, when suddenly the well-known whispering of Mademoiselle +Bourienne aroused her. She raised her eyes, and two steps away saw +Anatole embracing the Frenchwoman and whispering something to her. With +a horrified expression on his handsome face, Anatole looked at Princess +Mary, but did not at once take his arm from the waist of Mademoiselle +Bourienne who had not yet seen her. + +"Who's that? Why? Wait a moment!" Anatole's face seemed to say. +Princess Mary looked at them in silence. She could not understand it. At +last Mademoiselle Bourienne gave a scream and ran away. Anatole bowed to +Princess Mary with a gay smile, as if inviting her to join in a laugh at +this strange incident, and then shrugging his shoulders went to the door +that led to his own apartments. + +An hour later, Tikhon came to call Princess Mary to the old prince; +he added that Prince Vasili was also there. When Tikhon came to her +Princess Mary was sitting on the sofa in her room, holding the weeping +Mademoiselle Bourienne in her arms and gently stroking her hair. The +princess' beautiful eyes with all their former calm radiance were +looking with tender affection and pity at Mademoiselle Bourienne's +pretty face. + +"No, Princess, I have lost your affection forever!" said +Mademoiselle Bourienne. + +"Why? I love you more than ever," said Princess Mary, "and I will +try to do all I can for your happiness." + +"But you despise me. You who are so pure can never understand being so +carried away by passion. Oh, only my poor mother..." + +"I quite understand," answered Princess Mary, with a sad smile. +"Calm yourself, my dear. I will go to my father," she said, and went +out. + +Prince Vasili, with one leg thrown high over the other and a snuffbox +in his hand, was sitting there with a smile of deep emotion on his face, +as if stirred to his heart's core and himself regretting and laughing +at his own sensibility, when Princess Mary entered. He hurriedly took a +pinch of snuff. + +"Ah, my dear, my dear!" he began, rising and taking her by both +hands. Then, sighing, he added: "My son's fate is in your hands. +Decide, my dear, good, gentle Marie, whom I have always loved as a +daughter!" + +He drew back and a real tear appeared in his eye. + +"Fr... fr..." snorted Prince Bolkonski. "The prince is making a +proposition to you in his pupil's--I mean, his son's--name. Do you +wish or not to be Prince Anatole Kuragin's wife? Reply: yes or no," +he shouted, "and then I shall reserve the right to state my opinion +also. Yes, my opinion, and only my opinion," added Prince Bolkonski, +turning to Prince Vasili and answering his imploring look. "Yes, or +no?" + +"My desire is never to leave you, Father, never to separate my +life from yours. I don't wish to marry," she answered positively, +glancing at Prince Vasili and at her father with her beautiful eyes. + +"Humbug! Nonsense! Humbug, humbug, humbug!" cried Prince Bolkonski, +frowning and taking his daughter's hand; he did not kiss her, but only +bending his forehead to hers just touched it, and pressed her hand so +that she winced and uttered a cry. + +Prince Vasili rose. + +"My dear, I must tell you that this is a moment I shall never, never +forget. But, my dear, will you not give us a little hope of touching +this heart, so kind and generous? Say 'perhaps'... The future is so +long. Say 'perhaps.'" + +"Prince, what I have said is all there is in my heart. I thank you for +the honor, but I shall never be your son's wife." + +"Well, so that's finished, my dear fellow! I am very glad to have +seen you. Very glad! Go back to your rooms, Princess. Go!" said +the old prince. "Very, very glad to have seen you," repeated he, +embracing Prince Vasili. + +"My vocation is a different one," thought Princess Mary. "My +vocation is to be happy with another kind of happiness, the happiness +of love and self-sacrifice. And cost what it may, I will arrange +poor Amelie's happiness, she loves him so passionately, and so +passionately repents. I will do all I can to arrange the match between +them. If he is not rich I will give her the means; I will ask my +father and Andrew. I shall be so happy when she is his wife. She is so +unfortunate, a stranger, alone, helpless! And, oh God, how passionately +she must love him if she could so far forget herself! Perhaps I might +have done the same!..." thought Princess Mary. + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +It was long since the Rostovs had news of Nicholas. Not till midwinter +was the count at last handed a letter addressed in his son's +handwriting. On receiving it, he ran on tiptoe to his study in alarm and +haste, trying to escape notice, closed the door, and began to read the +letter. + +Anna Mikhaylovna, who always knew everything that passed in the house, +on hearing of the arrival of the letter went softly into the room and +found the count with it in his hand, sobbing and laughing at the same +time. + +Anna Mikhaylovna, though her circumstances had improved, was still +living with the Rostovs. + +"My dear friend?" said she, in a tone of pathetic inquiry, prepared +to sympathize in any way. + +The count sobbed yet more. + +"Nikolenka... a letter... wa... a... s... wounded... my darling +boy... the countess... promoted to be an officer... thank God... How +tell the little countess!" + +Anna Mikhaylovna sat down beside him, with her own handkerchief wiped +the tears from his eyes and from the letter, then having dried her +own eyes she comforted the count, and decided that at dinner and till +teatime she would prepare the countess, and after tea, with God's +help, would inform her. + +At dinner Anna Mikhaylovna talked the whole time about the war news +and about Nikolenka, twice asked when the last letter had been received +from him, though she knew that already, and remarked that they might +very likely be getting a letter from him that day. Each time that these +hints began to make the countess anxious and she glanced uneasily at +the count and at Anna Mikhaylovna, the latter very adroitly turned +the conversation to insignificant matters. Natasha, who, of the whole +family, was the most gifted with a capacity to feel any shades of +intonation, look, and expression, pricked up her ears from the beginning +of the meal and was certain that there was some secret between her +father and Anna Mikhaylovna, that it had something to do with her +brother, and that Anna Mikhaylovna was preparing them for it. Bold as +she was, Natasha, who knew how sensitive her mother was to anything +relating to Nikolenka, did not venture to ask any questions at dinner, +but she was too excited to eat anything and kept wriggling about on her +chair regardless of her governess' remarks. After dinner, she rushed +headlong after Anna Mikhaylovna and, dashing at her, flung herself on +her neck as soon as she overtook her in the sitting room. + +"Auntie, darling, do tell me what it is!" + +"Nothing, my dear." + +"No, dearest, sweet one, honey, I won't give up--I know you know +something." + +Anna Mikhaylovna shook her head. + +"You are a little slyboots," she said. + +"A letter from Nikolenka! I'm sure of it!" exclaimed Natasha, +reading confirmation in Anna Mikhaylovna's face. + +"But for God's sake, be careful, you know how it may affect your +mamma." + +"I will, I will, only tell me! You won't? Then I will go and tell at +once." + +Anna Mikhaylovna, in a few words, told her the contents of the letter, +on condition that she should tell no one. + +"No, on my true word of honor," said Natasha, crossing herself, +"I won't tell anyone!" and she ran off at once to Sonya. + +"Nikolenka... wounded... a letter," she announced in gleeful +triumph. + +"Nicholas!" was all Sonya said, instantly turning white. + +Natasha, seeing the impression the news of her brother's wound +produced on Sonya, felt for the first time the sorrowful side of the +news. + +She rushed to Sonya, hugged her, and began to cry. + +"A little wound, but he has been made an officer; he is well now, he +wrote himself," said she through her tears. + +"There now! It's true that all you women are crybabies," remarked +Petya, pacing the room with large, resolute strides. "Now I'm very +glad, very glad indeed, that my brother has distinguished himself so. +You are all blubberers and understand nothing." + +Natasha smiled through her tears. + +"You haven't read the letter?" asked Sonya. + +"No, but she said that it was all over and that he's now an +officer." + +"Thank God!" said Sonya, crossing herself. "But perhaps she +deceived you. Let us go to Mamma." + +Petya paced the room in silence for a time. + +"If I'd been in Nikolenka's place I would have killed even more +of those Frenchmen," he said. "What nasty brutes they are! I'd +have killed so many that there'd have been a heap of them." + +"Hold your tongue, Petya, what a goose you are!" + +"I'm not a goose, but they are who cry about trifles," said +Petya. + +"Do you remember him?" Natasha suddenly asked, after a moment's +silence. + +Sonya smiled. + +"Do I remember Nicholas?" + +"No, Sonya, but do you remember so that you remember him perfectly, +remember everything?" said Natasha, with an expressive gesture, +evidently wishing to give her words a very definite meaning. "I +remember Nikolenka too, I remember him well," she said. "But I +don't remember Boris. I don't remember him a bit." + +"What! You don't remember Boris?" asked Sonya in surprise. + +"It's not that I don't remember--I know what he is like, but not +as I remember Nikolenka. Him--I just shut my eyes and remember, +but Boris... No!" (She shut her eyes.) "No! there's nothing at +all." + +"Oh, Natasha!" said Sonya, looking ecstatically and earnestly at +her friend as if she did not consider her worthy to hear what she meant +to say and as if she were saying it to someone else, with whom joking +was out of the question, "I am in love with your brother once for all +and, whatever may happen to him or to me, shall never cease to love him +as long as I live." + +Natasha looked at Sonya with wondering and inquisitive eyes, and said +nothing. She felt that Sonya was speaking the truth, that there was +such love as Sonya was speaking of. But Natasha had not yet felt +anything like it. She believed it could be, but did not understand it. + +"Shall you write to him?" she asked. + +Sonya became thoughtful. The question of how to write to Nicholas, and +whether she ought to write, tormented her. Now that he was already an +officer and a wounded hero, would it be right to remind him of herself +and, as it might seem, of the obligations to her he had taken on +himself? + +"I don't know. I think if he writes, I will write too," she said, +blushing. + +"And you won't feel ashamed to write to him?" + +Sonya smiled. + +"No." + +"And I should be ashamed to write to Boris. I'm not going to." + +"Why should you be ashamed?" + +"Well, I don't know. It's awkward and would make me ashamed." + +"And I know why she'd be ashamed," said Petya, offended by +Natasha's previous remark. "It's because she was in love with +that fat one in spectacles" (that was how Petya described his +namesake, the new Count Bezukhov) "and now she's in love with that +singer" (he meant Natasha's Italian singing master), "that's +why she's ashamed!" + +"Petya, you're a stupid!" said Natasha. + +"Not more stupid than you, madam," said the nine-year-old Petya, +with the air of an old brigadier. + +The countess had been prepared by Anna Mikhaylovna's hints at dinner. +On retiring to her own room, she sat in an armchair, her eyes fixed on a +miniature portrait of her son on the lid of a snuffbox, while the tears +kept coming into her eyes. Anna Mikhaylovna, with the letter, came on +tiptoe to the countess' door and paused. + +"Don't come in," she said to the old count who was following her. +"Come later." And she went in, closing the door behind her. + +The count put his ear to the keyhole and listened. + +At first he heard the sound of indifferent voices, then Anna +Mikhaylovna's voice alone in a long speech, then a cry, then silence, +then both voices together with glad intonations, and then footsteps. +Anna Mikhaylovna opened the door. Her face wore the proud expression +of a surgeon who has just performed a difficult operation and admits the +public to appreciate his skill. + +"It is done!" she said to the count, pointing triumphantly to the +countess, who sat holding in one hand the snuffbox with its portrait and +in the other the letter, and pressing them alternately to her lips. + +When she saw the count, she stretched out her arms to him, embraced his +bald head, over which she again looked at the letter and the portrait, +and in order to press them again to her lips, she slightly pushed away +the bald head. Vera, Natasha, Sonya, and Petya now entered the room, +and the reading of the letter began. After a brief description of +the campaign and the two battles in which he had taken part, and his +promotion, Nicholas said that he kissed his father's and mother's +hands asking for their blessing, and that he kissed Vera, Natasha, and +Petya. Besides that, he sent greetings to Monsieur Schelling, Madame +Schoss, and his old nurse, and asked them to kiss for him "dear +Sonya, whom he loved and thought of just the same as ever." When she +heard this Sonya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable +to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, +whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, +and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor. The countess was +crying. + +"Why are you crying, Mamma?" asked Vera. "From all he says one +should be glad and not cry." + +This was quite true, but the count, the countess, and Natasha looked +at her reproachfully. "And who is it she takes after?" thought the +countess. + +Nicholas' letter was read over hundreds of times, and those who were +considered worthy to hear it had to come to the countess, for she +did not let it out of her hands. The tutors came, and the nurses, and +Dmitri, and several acquaintances, and the countess reread the letter +each time with fresh pleasure and each time discovered in it fresh +proofs of Nikolenka's virtues. How strange, how extraordinary, how +joyful it seemed, that her son, the scarcely perceptible motion of whose +tiny limbs she had felt twenty years ago within her, that son about whom +she used to have quarrels with the too indulgent count, that son who +had first learned to say "pear" and then "granny," that this son +should now be away in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, a manly +warrior doing some kind of man's work of his own, without help or +guidance. The universal experience of ages, showing that children do +grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the +countess. Her son's growth toward manhood, at each of its stages, +had seemed as extraordinary to her as if there had never existed the +millions of human beings who grew up in the same way. As twenty +years before, it seemed impossible that the little creature who lived +somewhere under her heart would ever cry, suck her breast, and begin to +speak, so now she could not believe that that little creature could be +this strong, brave man, this model son and officer that, judging by this +letter, he now was. + +"What a style! How charmingly he describes!" said she, reading the +descriptive part of the letter. "And what a soul! Not a word about +himself.... Not a word! About some Denisov or other, though he himself, +I dare say, is braver than any of them. He says nothing about his +sufferings. What a heart! How like him it is! And how he has remembered +everybody! Not forgetting anyone. I always said when he was only so +high--I always said...." + +For more than a week preparations were being made, rough drafts of +letters to Nicholas from all the household were written and copied out, +while under the supervision of the countess and the solicitude of the +count, money and all things necessary for the uniform and equipment +of the newly commissioned officer were collected. Anna Mikhaylovna, +practical woman that she was, had even managed by favor with army +authorities to secure advantageous means of communication for herself +and her son. She had opportunities of sending her letters to the Grand +Duke Constantine Pavlovich, who commanded the Guards. The Rostovs +supposed that The Russian Guards, Abroad, was quite a definite address, +and that if a letter reached the Grand Duke in command of the Guards +there was no reason why it should not reach the Pavlograd regiment, +which was presumably somewhere in the same neighborhood. And so it was +decided to send the letters and money by the Grand Duke's courier to +Boris and Boris was to forward them to Nicholas. The letters were from +the old count, the countess, Petya, Vera, Natasha, and Sonya, and +finally there were six thousand rubles for his outfit and various other +things the old count sent to his son. + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +On the twelfth of November, Kutuzov's active army, in camp before +Olmutz, was preparing to be reviewed next day by the two Emperors--the +Russian and the Austrian. The Guards, just arrived from Russia, spent +the night ten miles from Olmutz and next morning were to come straight +to the review, reaching the field at Olmutz by ten o'clock. + +That day Nicholas Rostov received a letter from Boris, telling him +that the Ismaylov regiment was quartered for the night ten miles from +Olmutz and that he wanted to see him as he had a letter and money for +him. Rostov was particularly in need of money now that the troops, +after their active service, were stationed near Olmutz and the camp +swarmed with well-provisioned sutlers and Austrian Jews offering +all sorts of tempting wares. The Pavlograds held feast after feast, +celebrating awards they had received for the campaign, and made +expeditions to Olmutz to visit a certain Caroline the Hungarian, +who had recently opened a restaurant there with girls as waitresses. +Rostov, who had just celebrated his promotion to a cornetcy and bought +Denisov's horse, Bedouin, was in debt all round, to his comrades and +the sutlers. On receiving Boris' letter he rode with a fellow officer +to Olmutz, dined there, drank a bottle of wine, and then set off alone +to the Guards' camp to find his old playmate. Rostov had not yet had +time to get his uniform. He had on a shabby cadet jacket, decorated with +a soldier's cross, equally shabby cadet's riding breeches lined with +worn leather, and an officer's saber with a sword knot. The Don horse +he was riding was one he had bought from a Cossack during the campaign, +and he wore a crumpled hussar cap stuck jauntily back on one side of his +head. As he rode up to the camp he thought how he would impress Boris +and all his comrades of the Guards by his appearance--that of a +fighting hussar who had been under fire. + +The Guards had made their whole march as if on a pleasure trip, parading +their cleanliness and discipline. They had come by easy stages, their +knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the Austrian authorities had provided +excellent dinners for the officers at every halting place. The regiments +had entered and left the town with their bands playing, and by the Grand +Duke's orders the men had marched all the way in step (a practice on +which the Guards prided themselves), the officers on foot and at their +proper posts. Boris had been quartered, and had marched all the +way, with Berg who was already in command of a company. Berg, who had +obtained his captaincy during the campaign, had gained the confidence of +his superiors by his promptitude and accuracy and had arranged his money +matters very satisfactorily. Boris, during the campaign, had made the +acquaintance of many persons who might prove useful to him, and by +a letter of recommendation he had brought from Pierre had become +acquainted with Prince Andrew Bolkonski, through whom he hoped to +obtain a post on the commander in chief's staff. Berg and Boris, +having rested after yesterday's march, were sitting, clean and neatly +dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, +playing chess. Berg held a smoking pipe between his knees. Boris, in +the accurate way characteristic of him, was building a little pyramid of +chessmen with his delicate white fingers while awaiting Berg's move, +and watched his opponent's face, evidently thinking about the game as +he always thought only of whatever he was engaged on. + +"Well, how are you going to get out of that?" he remarked. + +"We'll try to," replied Berg, touching a pawn and then removing +his hand. + +At that moment the door opened. + +"Here he is at last!" shouted Rostov. "And Berg too! Oh, you +petisenfans, allay cushay dormir!" he exclaimed, imitating his Russian +nurse's French, at which he and Boris used to laugh long ago. + +"Dear me, how you have changed!" + +Boris rose to meet Rostov, but in doing so did not omit to steady and +replace some chessmen that were falling. He was about to embrace his +friend, but Nicholas avoided him. With that peculiar feeling of youth, +that dread of beaten tracks, and wish to express itself in a manner +different from that of its elders which is often insincere, Nicholas +wished to do something special on meeting his friend. He wanted to pinch +him, push him, do anything but kiss him--a thing everybody did. But +notwithstanding this, Boris embraced him in a quiet, friendly way and +kissed him three times. + +They had not met for nearly half a year and, being at the age when young +men take their first steps on life's road, each saw immense changes in +the other, quite a new reflection of the society in which they had taken +those first steps. Both had changed greatly since they last met and both +were in a hurry to show the changes that had taken place in them. + +"Oh, you damned dandies! Clean and fresh as if you'd been to a fete, +not like us sinners of the line," cried Rostov, with martial swagger +and with baritone notes in his voice, new to Boris, pointing to his own +mud-bespattered breeches. The German landlady, hearing Rostov's loud +voice, popped her head in at the door. + +"Eh, is she pretty?" he asked with a wink. + +"Why do you shout so? You'll frighten them!" said Boris. "I did +not expect you today," he added. "I only sent you the note yesterday +by Bolkonski--an adjutant of Kutuzov's, who's a friend of mine. +I did not think he would get it to you so quickly.... Well, how are you? +Been under fire already?" asked Boris. + +Without answering, Rostov shook the soldier's Cross of St. George +fastened to the cording of his uniform and, indicating a bandaged arm, +glanced at Berg with a smile. + +"As you see," he said. + +"Indeed? Yes, yes!" said Boris, with a smile. "And we too have +had a splendid march. You know, of course, that His Imperial Highness +rode with our regiment all the time, so that we had every comfort and +every advantage. What receptions we had in Poland! What dinners and +balls! I can't tell you. And the Tsarevich was very gracious to all +our officers." + +And the two friends told each other of their doings, the one of his +hussar revels and life in the fighting line, the other of the pleasures +and advantages of service under members of the Imperial family. + +"Oh, you Guards!" said Rostov. "I say, send for some wine." + +Boris made a grimace. + +"If you really want it," said he. + +He went to his bed, drew a purse from under the clean pillow, and sent +for wine. + +"Yes, and I have some money and a letter to give you," he added. + +Rostov took the letter and, throwing the money on the sofa, put both +arms on the table and began to read. After reading a few lines, he +glanced angrily at Berg, then, meeting his eyes, hid his face behind the +letter. + +"Well, they've sent you a tidy sum," said Berg, eying the heavy +purse that sank into the sofa. "As for us, Count, we get along on our +pay. I can tell you for myself..." + +"I say, Berg, my dear fellow," said Rostov, "when you get a +letter from home and meet one of your own people whom you want to talk +everything over with, and I happen to be there, I'll go at once, to +be out of your way! Do go somewhere, anywhere... to the devil!" he +exclaimed, and immediately seizing him by the shoulder and looking +amiably into his face, evidently wishing to soften the rudeness of his +words, he added, "Don't be hurt, my dear fellow; you know I speak +from my heart as to an old acquaintance." + +"Oh, don't mention it, Count! I quite understand," said Berg, +getting up and speaking in a muffled and guttural voice. + +"Go across to our hosts: they invited you," added Boris. + +Berg put on the cleanest of coats, without a spot or speck of dust, +stood before a looking glass and brushed the hair on his temples +upwards, in the way affected by the Emperor Alexander, and, having +assured himself from the way Rostov looked at it that his coat had been +noticed, left the room with a pleasant smile. + +"Oh dear, what a beast I am!" muttered Rostov, as he read the +letter. + +"Why?" + +"Oh, what a pig I am, not to have written and to have given them +such a fright! Oh, what a pig I am!" he repeated, flushing suddenly. +"Well, have you sent Gabriel for some wine? All right let's have +some!" + +In the letter from his parents was enclosed a letter of recommendation +to Bagration which the old countess at Anna Mikhaylovna's advice had +obtained through an acquaintance and sent to her son, asking him to take +it to its destination and make use of it. + +"What nonsense! Much I need it!" said Rostov, throwing the letter +under the table. + +"Why have you thrown that away?" asked Boris. + +"It is some letter of recommendation... what the devil do I want it +for!" + +"Why 'What the devil'?" said Boris, picking it up and reading +the address. "This letter would be of great use to you." + +"I want nothing, and I won't be anyone's adjutant." + +"Why not?" inquired Boris. + +"It's a lackey's job!" + +"You are still the same dreamer, I see," remarked Boris, shaking +his head. + +"And you're still the same diplomatist! But that's not the +point... Come, how are you?" asked Rostov. + +"Well, as you see. So far everything's all right, but I confess I +should much like to be an adjutant and not remain at the front." + +"Why?" + +"Because when once a man starts on military service, he should try to +make as successful a career of it as possible." + +"Oh, that's it!" said Rostov, evidently thinking of something +else. + +He looked intently and inquiringly into his friend's eyes, evidently +trying in vain to find the answer to some question. + +Old Gabriel brought in the wine. + +"Shouldn't we now send for Berg?" asked Boris. "He would drink +with you. I can't." + +"Well, send for him... and how do you get on with that German?" +asked Rostov, with a contemptuous smile. + +"He is a very, very nice, honest, and pleasant fellow," answered +Boris. + +Again Rostov looked intently into Boris' eyes and sighed. Berg +returned, and over the bottle of wine conversation between the three +officers became animated. The Guardsmen told Rostov of their march and +how they had been made much of in Russia, Poland, and abroad. They spoke +of the sayings and doings of their commander, the Grand Duke, and told +stories of his kindness and irascibility. Berg, as usual, kept silent +when the subject did not relate to himself, but in connection with the +stories of the Grand Duke's quick temper he related with gusto how in +Galicia he had managed to deal with the Grand Duke when the latter +made a tour of the regiments and was annoyed at the irregularity of +a movement. With a pleasant smile Berg related how the Grand Duke +had ridden up to him in a violent passion, shouting: "Arnauts!" +("Arnauts" was the Tsarevich's favorite expression when he was in +a rage) and called for the company commander. + +"Would you believe it, Count, I was not at all alarmed, because I knew +I was right. Without boasting, you know, I may say that I know the Army +Orders by heart and know the Regulations as well as I do the Lord's +Prayer. So, Count, there never is any negligence in my company, and +so my conscience was at ease. I came forward...." (Berg stood up and +showed how he presented himself, with his hand to his cap, and really +it would have been difficult for a face to express greater respect and +self-complacency than his did.) "Well, he stormed at me, as the saying +is, stormed and stormed and stormed! It was not a matter of life but +rather of death, as the saying is. 'Albanians!' and 'devils!' +and 'To Siberia!'" said Berg with a sagacious smile. "I knew I +was in the right so I kept silent; was not that best, Count?... 'Hey, +are you dumb?' he shouted. Still I remained silent. And what do you +think, Count? The next day it was not even mentioned in the Orders of +the Day. That's what keeping one's head means. That's the way, +Count," said Berg, lighting his pipe and emitting rings of smoke. + +"Yes, that was fine," said Rostov, smiling. + +But Boris noticed that he was preparing to make fun of Berg, and +skillfully changed the subject. He asked him to tell them how and where +he got his wound. This pleased Rostov and he began talking about it, +and as he went on became more and more animated. He told them of his +Schon Grabern affair, just as those who have taken part in a battle +generally do describe it, that is, as they would like it to have been, +as they have heard it described by others, and as sounds well, but not +at all as it really was. Rostov was a truthful young man and would on +no account have told a deliberate lie. He began his story meaning to +tell everything just as it happened, but imperceptibly, involuntarily, +and inevitably he lapsed into falsehood. If he had told the truth to his +hearers--who like himself had often heard stories of attacks and had +formed a definite idea of what an attack was and were expecting to hear +just such a story--they would either not have believed him or, still +worse, would have thought that Rostov was himself to blame since what +generally happens to the narrators of cavalry attacks had not happened +to him. He could not tell them simply that everyone went at a trot and +that he fell off his horse and sprained his arm and then ran as hard as +he could from a Frenchman into the wood. Besides, to tell everything as +it really happened, it would have been necessary to make an effort of +will to tell only what happened. It is very difficult to tell the truth, +and young people are rarely capable of it. His hearers expected a story +of how beside himself and all aflame with excitement, he had flown like +a storm at the square, cut his way in, slashed right and left, how his +saber had tasted flesh and he had fallen exhausted, and so on. And so he +told them all that. + +In the middle of his story, just as he was saying: "You cannot imagine +what a strange frenzy one experiences during an attack," Prince +Andrew, whom Boris was expecting, entered the room. Prince Andrew, who +liked to help young men, was flattered by being asked for his assistance +and being well disposed toward Boris, who had managed to please him the +day before, he wished to do what the young man wanted. Having been sent +with papers from Kutuzov to the Tsarevich, he looked in on Boris, +hoping to find him alone. When he came in and saw an hussar of the line +recounting his military exploits (Prince Andrew could not endure +that sort of man), he gave Boris a pleasant smile, frowned as with +half-closed eyes he looked at Rostov, bowed slightly and wearily, and +sat down languidly on the sofa: he felt it unpleasant to have dropped +in on bad company. Rostov flushed up on noticing this, but he did not +care, this was a mere stranger. Glancing, however, at Boris, he saw +that he too seemed ashamed of the hussar of the line. + +In spite of Prince Andrew's disagreeable, ironical tone, in spite of +the contempt with which Rostov, from his fighting army point of view, +regarded all these little adjutants on the staff of whom the newcomer +was evidently one, Rostov felt confused, blushed, and became silent. +Boris inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without +indiscretion, one might ask about our plans. + +"We shall probably advance," replied Bolkonski, evidently reluctant +to say more in the presence of a stranger. + +Berg took the opportunity to ask, with great politeness, whether, as was +rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be +doubled. To this Prince Andrew answered with a smile that he could +give no opinion on such an important government order, and Berg laughed +gaily. + +"As to your business," Prince Andrew continued, addressing Boris, +"we will talk of it later" (and he looked round at Rostov). "Come +to me after the review and we will do what is possible." + +And, having glanced round the room, Prince Andrew turned to Rostov, +whose state of unconquerable childish embarrassment now changing to +anger he did not condescend to notice, and said: "I think you were +talking of the Schon Grabern affair? Were you there?" + +"I was there," said Rostov angrily, as if intending to insult the +aide-de-camp. + +Bolkonski noticed the hussar's state of mind, and it amused him. With +a slightly contemptuous smile, he said: "Yes, there are many stories +now told about that affair!" + +"Yes, stories!" repeated Rostov loudly, looking with eyes suddenly +grown furious, now at Boris, now at Bolkonski. "Yes, many stories! +But our stories are the stories of men who have been under the enemy's +fire! Our stories have some weight, not like the stories of those +fellows on the staff who get rewards without doing anything!" + +"Of whom you imagine me to be one?" said Prince Andrew, with a quiet +and particularly amiable smile. + +A strange feeling of exasperation and yet of respect for this man's +self-possession mingled at that moment in Rostov's soul. + +"I am not talking about you," he said, "I don't know you and, +frankly, I don't want to. I am speaking of the staff in general." + +"And I will tell you this," Prince Andrew interrupted in a tone of +quiet authority, "you wish to insult me, and I am ready to agree with +you that it would be very easy to do so if you haven't sufficient +self-respect, but admit that the time and place are very badly chosen. +In a day or two we shall all have to take part in a greater and more +serious duel, and besides, Drubetskoy, who says he is an old friend +of yours, is not at all to blame that my face has the misfortune to +displease you. However," he added rising, "you know my name and +where to find me, but don't forget that I do not regard either myself +or you as having been at all insulted, and as a man older than you, my +advice is to let the matter drop. Well then, on Friday after the review +I shall expect you, Drubetskoy. Au revoir!" exclaimed Prince Andrew, +and with a bow to them both he went out. + +Only when Prince Andrew was gone did Rostov think of what he ought to +have said. And he was still more angry at having omitted to say it. He +ordered his horse at once and, coldly taking leave of Boris, rode +home. Should he go to headquarters next day and challenge that affected +adjutant, or really let the matter drop, was the question that worried +him all the way. He thought angrily of the pleasure he would have at +seeing the fright of that small and frail but proud man when covered by +his pistol, and then he felt with surprise that of all the men he knew +there was none he would so much like to have for a friend as that very +adjutant whom he so hated. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +The day after Rostov had been to see Boris, a review was held of the +Austrian and Russian troops, both those freshly arrived from Russia and +those who had been campaigning under Kutuzov. The two Emperors, +the Russian with his heir the Tsarevich, and the Austrian with the +Archduke, inspected the allied army of eighty thousand men. + +From early morning the smart clean troops were on the move, forming up +on the field before the fortress. Now thousands of feet and bayonets +moved and halted at the officers' command, turned with banners flying, +formed up at intervals, and wheeled round other similar masses of +infantry in different uniforms; now was heard the rhythmic beat of +hoofs and the jingling of showy cavalry in blue, red, and green braided +uniforms, with smartly dressed bandsmen in front mounted on black, roan, +or gray horses; then again, spreading out with the brazen clatter of the +polished shining cannon that quivered on the gun carriages and with +the smell of linstocks, came the artillery which crawled between the +infantry and cavalry and took up its appointed position. Not only the +generals in full parade uniforms, with their thin or thick waists drawn +in to the utmost, their red necks squeezed into their stiff collars, and +wearing scarves and all their decorations, not only the elegant, pomaded +officers, but every soldier with his freshly washed and shaven face and +his weapons clean and polished to the utmost, and every horse groomed +till its coat shone like satin and every hair of its wetted mane lay +smooth--felt that no small matter was happening, but an important and +solemn affair. Every general and every soldier was conscious of his own +insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and +yet at the same time was conscious of his strength as a part of that +enormous whole. + +From early morning strenuous activities and efforts had begun and by ten +o'clock all had been brought into due order. The ranks were drawn +up on the vast field. The whole army was extended in three lines: the +cavalry in front, behind it the artillery, and behind that again the +infantry. + +A space like a street was left between each two lines of troops. The +three parts of that army were sharply distinguished: Kutuzov's +fighting army (with the Pavlograds on the right flank of the front); +those recently arrived from Russia, both Guards and regiments of the +line; and the Austrian troops. But they all stood in the same lines, +under one command, and in a like order. + +Like wind over leaves ran an excited whisper: "They're coming! +They're coming!" Alarmed voices were heard, and a stir of final +preparation swept over all the troops. + +From the direction of Olmutz in front of them, a group was seen +approaching. And at that moment, though the day was still, a light gust +of wind blowing over the army slightly stirred the streamers on the +lances and the unfolded standards fluttered against their staffs. It +looked as if by that slight motion the army itself was expressing its +joy at the approach of the Emperors. One voice was heard shouting: +"Eyes front!" Then, like the crowing of cocks at sunrise, this was +repeated by others from various sides and all became silent. + +In the deathlike stillness only the tramp of horses was heard. This +was the Emperors' suites. The Emperors rode up to the flank, and the +trumpets of the first cavalry regiment played the general march. It +seemed as though not the trumpeters were playing, but as if the army +itself, rejoicing at the Emperors' approach, had naturally burst into +music. Amid these sounds, only the youthful kindly voice of the Emperor +Alexander was clearly heard. He gave the words of greeting, and the +first regiment roared "Hurrah!" so deafeningly, continuously, and +joyfully that the men themselves were awed by their multitude and the +immensity of the power they constituted. + +Rostov, standing in the front lines of Kutuzov's army which the Tsar +approached first, experienced the same feeling as every other man in +that army: a feeling of self-forgetfulness, a proud consciousness of +might, and a passionate attraction to him who was the cause of this +triumph. + +He felt that at a single word from that man all this vast mass (and he +himself an insignificant atom in it) would go through fire and water, +commit crime, die, or perform deeds of highest heroism, and so he could +not but tremble and his heart stand still at the imminence of that word. + +"Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!" thundered from all sides, one regiment +after another greeting the Tsar with the strains of the march, and then +"Hurrah!"... Then the general march, and again "Hurrah! Hurrah!" +growing ever stronger and fuller and merging into a deafening roar. + +Till the Tsar reached it, each regiment in its silence and immobility +seemed like a lifeless body, but as soon as he came up it became alive, +its thunder joining the roar of the whole line along which he had +already passed. Through the terrible and deafening roar of those voices, +amid the square masses of troops standing motionless as if turned to +stone, hundreds of riders composing the suites moved carelessly but +symmetrically and above all freely, and in front of them two men--the +Emperors. Upon them the undivided, tensely passionate attention of that +whole mass of men was concentrated. + +The handsome young Emperor Alexander, in the uniform of the Horse +Guards, wearing a cocked hat with its peaks front and back, with his +pleasant face and resonant though not loud voice, attracted everyone's +attention. + +Rostov was not far from the trumpeters, and with his keen sight had +recognized the Tsar and watched his approach. When he was within twenty +paces, and Nicholas could clearly distinguish every detail of his +handsome, happy young face, he experienced a feeling of tenderness +and ecstasy such as he had never before known. Every trait and every +movement of the Tsar's seemed to him enchanting. + +Stopping in front of the Pavlograds, the Tsar said something in French +to the Austrian Emperor and smiled. + +Seeing that smile, Rostov involuntarily smiled himself and felt a still +stronger flow of love for his sovereign. He longed to show that love in +some way and knowing that this was impossible was ready to cry. The Tsar +called the colonel of the regiment and said a few words to him. + +"Oh God, what would happen to me if the Emperor spoke to me?" +thought Rostov. "I should die of happiness!" + +The Tsar addressed the officers also: "I thank you all, gentlemen, I +thank you with my whole heart." To Rostov every word sounded like a +voice from heaven. How gladly would he have died at once for his Tsar! + +"You have earned the St. George's standards and will be worthy of +them." + +"Oh, to die, to die for him," thought Rostov. + +The Tsar said something more which Rostov did not hear, and the +soldiers, straining their lungs, shouted "Hurrah!" + +Rostov too, bending over his saddle, shouted "Hurrah!" with all his +might, feeling that he would like to injure himself by that shout, if +only to express his rapture fully. + +The Tsar stopped a few minutes in front of the hussars as if undecided. + +"How can the Emperor be undecided?" thought Rostov, but then even +this indecision appeared to him majestic and enchanting, like everything +else the Tsar did. + +That hesitation lasted only an instant. The Tsar's foot, in the narrow +pointed boot then fashionable, touched the groin of the bobtailed bay +mare he rode, his hand in a white glove gathered up the reins, and he +moved off accompanied by an irregularly swaying sea of aides-de-camp. +Farther and farther he rode away, stopping at other regiments, till at +last only his white plumes were visible to Rostov from amid the suites +that surrounded the Emperors. + +Among the gentlemen of the suite, Rostov noticed Bolkonski, sitting +his horse indolently and carelessly. Rostov recalled their quarrel of +yesterday and the question presented itself whether he ought or ought +not to challenge Bolkonski. "Of course not!" he now thought. "Is +it worth thinking or speaking of it at such a moment? At a time of such +love, such rapture, and such self-sacrifice, what do any of our quarrels +and affronts matter? I love and forgive everybody now." + +When the Emperor had passed nearly all the regiments, the troops began +a ceremonial march past him, and Rostov on Bedouin, recently purchased +from Denisov, rode past too, at the rear of his squadron--that is, +alone and in full view of the Emperor. + +Before he reached him, Rostov, who was a splendid horseman, spurred +Bedouin twice and successfully put him to the showy trot in which the +animal went when excited. Bending his foaming muzzle to his chest, his +tail extended, Bedouin, as if also conscious of the Emperor's eye +upon him, passed splendidly, lifting his feet with a high and graceful +action, as if flying through the air without touching the ground. + +Rostov himself, his legs well back and his stomach drawn in and feeling +himself one with his horse, rode past the Emperor with a frowning but +blissful face "like a vewy devil," as Denisov expressed it. + +"Fine fellows, the Pavlograds!" remarked the Emperor. + +"My God, how happy I should be if he ordered me to leap into the fire +this instant!" thought Rostov. + +When the review was over, the newly arrived officers, and also +Kutuzov's, collected in groups and began to talk about the awards, +about the Austrians and their uniforms, about their lines, about +Bonaparte, and how badly the latter would fare now, especially if the +Essen corps arrived and Prussia took our side. + +But the talk in every group was chiefly about the Emperor Alexander. His +every word and movement was described with ecstasy. + +They all had but one wish: to advance as soon as possible against the +enemy under the Emperor's command. Commanded by the Emperor himself +they could not fail to vanquish anyone, be it whom it might: so thought +Rostov and most of the officers after the review. + +All were then more confident of victory than the winning of two battles +would have made them. + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +The day after the review, Boris, in his best uniform and with his +comrade Berg's best wishes for success, rode to Olmutz to see +Bolkonski, wishing to profit by his friendliness and obtain for himself +the best post he could--preferably that of adjutant to some important +personage, a position in the army which seemed to him most attractive. +"It is all very well for Rostov, whose father sends him ten thousand +rubles at a time, to talk about not wishing to cringe to anybody and not +be anyone's lackey, but I who have nothing but my brains have to +make a career and must not miss opportunities, but must avail myself of +them!" he reflected. + +He did not find Prince Andrew in Olmutz that day, but the appearance of +the town where the headquarters and the diplomatic corps were stationed +and the two Emperors were living with their suites, households, and +courts only strengthened his desire to belong to that higher world. + +He knew no one, and despite his smart Guardsman's uniform, all these +exalted personages passing in the streets in their elegant carriages +with their plumes, ribbons, and medals, both courtiers and military +men, seemed so immeasurably above him, an insignificant officer of the +Guards, that they not only did not wish to, but simply could not, be +aware of his existence. At the quarters of the commander in chief, +Kutuzov, where he inquired for Bolkonski, all the adjutants and even +the orderlies looked at him as if they wished to impress on him that a +great many officers like him were always coming there and that everybody +was heartily sick of them. In spite of this, or rather because of +it, next day, November 15, after dinner he again went to Olmutz and, +entering the house occupied by Kutuzov, asked for Bolkonski. Prince +Andrew was in and Boris was shown into a large hall probably formerly +used for dancing, but in which five beds now stood, and furniture of +various kinds: a table, chairs, and a clavichord. One adjutant, nearest +the door, was sitting at the table in a Persian dressing gown, writing. +Another, the red, stout Nesvitski, lay on a bed with his arms under his +head, laughing with an officer who had sat down beside him. A third was +playing a Viennese waltz on the clavichord, while a fourth, lying on +the clavichord, sang the tune. Bolkonski was not there. None of these +gentlemen changed his position on seeing Boris. The one who was writing +and whom Boris addressed turned round crossly and told him Bolkonski +was on duty and that he should go through the door on the left into the +reception room if he wished to see him. Boris thanked him and went to +the reception room, where he found some ten officers and generals. + +When he entered, Prince Andrew, his eyes drooping contemptuously (with +that peculiar expression of polite weariness which plainly says, "If +it were not my duty I would not talk to you for a moment"), was +listening to an old Russian general with decorations, who stood very +erect, almost on tiptoe, with a soldier's obsequious expression on his +purple face, reporting something. + +"Very well, then, be so good as to wait," said Prince Andrew to the +general, in Russian, speaking with the French intonation he affected +when he wished to speak contemptuously, and noticing Boris, Prince +Andrew, paying no more heed to the general who ran after him imploring +him to hear something more, nodded and turned to him with a cheerful +smile. + +At that moment Boris clearly realized what he had before surmised, that +in the army, besides the subordination and discipline prescribed in the +military code, which he and the others knew in the regiment, there was +another, more important, subordination, which made this tight-laced, +purple-faced general wait respectfully while Captain Prince Andrew, for +his own pleasure, chose to chat with Lieutenant Drubetskoy. More than +ever was Boris resolved to serve in future not according to the written +code, but under this unwritten law. He felt now that merely by having +been recommended to Prince Andrew he had already risen above the general +who at the front had the power to annihilate him, a lieutenant of the +Guards. Prince Andrew came up to him and took his hand. + +"I am very sorry you did not find me in yesterday. I was fussing about +with Germans all day. We went with Weyrother to survey the dispositions. +When Germans start being accurate, there's no end to it!" + +Boris smiled, as if he understood what Prince Andrew was alluding to +as something generally known. But it was the first time he had heard +Weyrother's name, or even the term "dispositions." + +"Well, my dear fellow, so you still want to be an adjutant? I have +been thinking about you." + +"Yes, I was thinking"--for some reason Boris could not help +blushing--"of asking the commander in chief. He has had a letter from +Prince Kuragin about me. I only wanted to ask because I fear the Guards +won't be in action," he added as if in apology. + +"All right, all right. We'll talk it over," replied Prince Andrew. +"Only let me report this gentleman's business, and I shall be at +your disposal." + +While Prince Andrew went to report about the purple-faced general, that +gentleman--evidently not sharing Boris' conception of the advantages +of the unwritten code of subordination--looked so fixedly at the +presumptuous lieutenant who had prevented his finishing what he had to +say to the adjutant that Boris felt uncomfortable. He turned away and +waited impatiently for Prince Andrew's return from the commander in +chief's room. + +"You see, my dear fellow, I have been thinking about you," +said Prince Andrew when they had gone into the large room where the +clavichord was. "It's no use your going to the commander in chief. +He would say a lot of pleasant things, ask you to dinner" ("That +would not be bad as regards the unwritten code," thought Boris), +"but nothing more would come of it. There will soon be a battalion of +us aides-de-camp and adjutants! But this is what we'll do: I have +a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, Prince +Dolgorukov; and though you may not know it, the fact is that now +Kutuzov with his staff and all of us count for nothing. Everything is +now centered round the Emperor. So we will go to Dolgorukov; I have to +go there anyhow and I have already spoken to him about you. We shall +see whether he cannot attach you to himself or find a place for you +somewhere nearer the sun." + +Prince Andrew always became specially keen when he had to guide a young +man and help him to worldly success. Under cover of obtaining help +of this kind for another, which from pride he would never accept for +himself, he kept in touch with the circle which confers success and +which attracted him. He very readily took up Boris' cause and went +with him to Dolgorukov. + +It was late in the evening when they entered the palace at Olmutz +occupied by the Emperors and their retinues. + +That same day a council of war had been held in which all the members of +the Hofkriegsrath and both Emperors took part. At that council, contrary +to the views of the old generals Kutuzov and Prince Schwartzenberg, it +had been decided to advance immediately and give battle to Bonaparte. +The council of war was just over when Prince Andrew accompanied +by Boris arrived at the palace to find Dolgorukov. Everyone at +headquarters was still under the spell of the day's council, at which +the party of the young had triumphed. The voices of those who counseled +delay and advised waiting for something else before advancing had been +so completely silenced and their arguments confuted by such conclusive +evidence of the advantages of attacking that what had been discussed +at the council--the coming battle and the victory that would certainly +result from it--no longer seemed to be in the future but in the past. +All the advantages were on our side. Our enormous forces, undoubtedly +superior to Napoleon's, were concentrated in one place, the troops +inspired by the Emperors' presence were eager for action. The +strategic position where the operations would take place was familiar in +all its details to the Austrian General Weyrother: a lucky accident had +ordained that the Austrian army should maneuver the previous year on the +very fields where the French had now to be fought; the adjacent +locality was known and shown in every detail on the maps, and Bonaparte, +evidently weakened, was undertaking nothing. + +Dolgorukov, one of the warmest advocates of an attack, had just +returned from the council, tired and exhausted but eager and proud +of the victory that had been gained. Prince Andrew introduced his +protege, but Prince Dolgorukov politely and firmly pressing his hand +said nothing to Boris and, evidently unable to suppress the thoughts +which were uppermost in his mind at that moment, addressed Prince Andrew +in French. + +"Ah, my dear fellow, what a battle we have gained! God grant that +the one that will result from it will be as victorious! However, dear +fellow," he said abruptly and eagerly, "I must confess to having +been unjust to the Austrians and especially to Weyrother. What +exactitude, what minuteness, what knowledge of the locality, what +foresight for every eventuality, every possibility even to the smallest +detail! No, my dear fellow, no conditions better than our present ones +could have been devised. This combination of Austrian precision with +Russian valor--what more could be wished for?" + +"So the attack is definitely resolved on?" asked Bolkonski. + +"And do you know, my dear fellow, it seems to me that Bonaparte has +decidedly lost bearings, you know that a letter was received from him +today for the Emperor." Dolgorukov smiled significantly. + +"Is that so? And what did he say?" inquired Bolkonski. + +"What can he say? Tra-di-ri-di-ra and so on... merely to gain time. +I tell you he is in our hands, that's certain! But what was most +amusing," he continued, with a sudden, good-natured laugh, "was that +we could not think how to address the reply! If not as 'Consul' +and of course not as 'Emperor,' it seemed to me it should be to +'General Bonaparte.'" + +"But between not recognizing him as Emperor and calling him General +Bonaparte, there is a difference," remarked Bolkonski. + +"That's just it," interrupted Dolgorukov quickly, laughing. +"You know Bilibin--he's a very clever fellow. He suggested +addressing him as 'Usurper and Enemy of Mankind.'" + +Dolgorukov laughed merrily. + +"Only that?" said Bolkonski. + +"All the same, it was Bilibin who found a suitable form for the +address. He is a wise and clever fellow." + +"What was it?" + +"To the Head of the French Government... Au chef du gouvernement +francais," said Dolgorukov, with grave satisfaction. "Good, +wasn't it?" + +"Yes, but he will dislike it extremely," said Bolkonski. + +"Oh yes, very much! My brother knows him, he's dined with him--the +present Emperor--more than once in Paris, and tells me he never met a +more cunning or subtle diplomatist--you know, a combination of French +adroitness and Italian play-acting! Do you know the tale about him and +Count Markov? Count Markov was the only man who knew how to handle +him. You know the story of the handkerchief? It is delightful!" + +And the talkative Dolgorukov, turning now to Boris, now to Prince +Andrew, told how Bonaparte wishing to test Markov, our ambassador, +purposely dropped a handkerchief in front of him and stood looking +at Markov, probably expecting Markov to pick it up for him, and how +Markov immediately dropped his own beside it and picked it up without +touching Bonaparte's. + +"Delightful!" said Bolkonski. "But I have come to you, Prince, +as a petitioner on behalf of this young man. You see..." but +before Prince Andrew could finish, an aide-de-camp came in to summon +Dolgorukov to the Emperor. + +"Oh, what a nuisance," said Dolgorukov, getting up hurriedly and +pressing the hands of Prince Andrew and Boris. "You know I should +be very glad to do all in my power both for you and for this dear young +man." Again he pressed the hand of the latter with an expression of +good-natured, sincere, and animated levity. "But you see... another +time!" + +Boris was excited by the thought of being so close to the higher powers +as he felt himself to be at that moment. He was conscious that here +he was in contact with the springs that set in motion the enormous +movements of the mass of which in his regiment he felt himself a tiny, +obedient, and insignificant atom. They followed Prince Dolgorukov out +into the corridor and met--coming out of the door of the Emperor's +room by which Dolgorukov had entered--a short man in civilian clothes +with a clever face and sharply projecting jaw which, without spoiling +his face, gave him a peculiar vivacity and shiftiness of expression. +This short man nodded to Dolgorukov as to an intimate friend and stared +at Prince Andrew with cool intensity, walking straight toward him and +evidently expecting him to bow or to step out of his way. Prince Andrew +did neither: a look of animosity appeared on his face and the other +turned away and went down the side of the corridor. + +"Who was that?" asked Boris. + +"He is one of the most remarkable, but to me most unpleasant of +men--the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Adam Czartoryski.... It +is such men as he who decide the fate of nations," added Bolkonski +with a sigh he could not suppress, as they passed out of the palace. + +Next day, the army began its campaign, and up to the very battle of +Austerlitz, Boris was unable to see either Prince Andrew or Dolgorukov +again and remained for a while with the Ismaylov regiment. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +At dawn on the sixteenth of November, Denisov's squadron, in +which Nicholas Rostov served and which was in Prince Bagration's +detachment, moved from the place where it had spent the night, advancing +into action as arranged, and after going behind other columns for +about two thirds of a mile was stopped on the highroad. Rostov saw the +Cossacks and then the first and second squadrons of hussars and infantry +battalions and artillery pass by and go forward and then Generals +Bagration and Dolgorukov ride past with their adjutants. All the fear +before action which he had experienced as previously, all the inner +struggle to conquer that fear, all his dreams of distinguishing himself +as a true hussar in this battle, had been wasted. Their squadron +remained in reserve and Nicholas Rostov spent that day in a dull and +wretched mood. At nine in the morning, he heard firing in front and +shouts of hurrah, and saw wounded being brought back (there were not +many of them), and at last he saw how a whole detachment of French +cavalry was brought in, convoyed by a sotnya of Cossacks. Evidently the +affair was over and, though not big, had been a successful engagement. +The men and officers returning spoke of a brilliant victory, of the +occupation of the town of Wischau and the capture of a whole French +squadron. The day was bright and sunny after a sharp night frost, and +the cheerful glitter of that autumn day was in keeping with the news of +victory which was conveyed, not only by the tales of those who had taken +part in it, but also by the joyful expression on the faces of soldiers, +officers, generals, and adjutants, as they passed Rostov going or +coming. And Nicholas, who had vainly suffered all the dread that +precedes a battle and had spent that happy day in inactivity, was all +the more depressed. + +"Come here, Wostov. Let's dwink to dwown our gwief!" shouted +Denisov, who had settled down by the roadside with a flask and some +food. + +The officers gathered round Denisov's canteen, eating and talking. + +"There! They are bringing another!" cried one of the officers, +indicating a captive French dragoon who was being brought in on foot by +two Cossacks. + +One of them was leading by the bridle a fine large French horse he had +taken from the prisoner. + +"Sell us that horse!" Denisov called out to the Cossacks. + +"If you like, your honor!" + +The officers got up and stood round the Cossacks and their prisoner. +The French dragoon was a young Alsatian who spoke French with a German +accent. He was breathless with agitation, his face was red, and when +he heard some French spoken he at once began speaking to the officers, +addressing first one, then another. He said he would not have been +taken, it was not his fault but the corporal's who had sent him to +seize some horsecloths, though he had told him the Russians were there. +And at every word he added: "But don't hurt my little horse!" and +stroked the animal. It was plain that he did not quite grasp where he +was. Now he excused himself for having been taken prisoner and now, +imagining himself before his own officers, insisted on his soldierly +discipline and zeal in the service. He brought with him into our +rearguard all the freshness of atmosphere of the French army, which was +so alien to us. + +The Cossacks sold the horse for two gold pieces, and Rostov, being the +richest of the officers now that he had received his money, bought it. + +"But don't hurt my little horse!" said the Alsatian good-naturedly +to Rostov when the animal was handed over to the hussar. + +Rostov smilingly reassured the dragoon and gave him money. + +"Alley! Alley!" said the Cossack, touching the prisoner's arm to +make him go on. + +"The Emperor! The Emperor!" was suddenly heard among the hussars. + +All began to run and bustle, and Rostov saw coming up the road behind +him several riders with white plumes in their hats. In a moment everyone +was in his place, waiting. + +Rostov did not know or remember how he ran to his place and mounted. +Instantly his regret at not having been in action and his dejected mood +amid people of whom he was weary had gone, instantly every thought of +himself had vanished. He was filled with happiness at his nearness to +the Emperor. He felt that this nearness by itself made up to him for the +day he had lost. He was happy as a lover when the longed-for moment of +meeting arrives. Not daring to look round and without looking round, he +was ecstatically conscious of his approach. He felt it not only from the +sound of the hoofs of the approaching cavalcade, but because as he drew +near everything grew brighter, more joyful, more significant, and more +festive around him. Nearer and nearer to Rostov came that sun shedding +beams of mild and majestic light around, and already he felt himself +enveloped in those beams, he heard his voice, that kindly, calm, +and majestic voice that was yet so simple! And as if in accord with +Rostov's feeling, there was a deathly stillness amid which was heard +the Emperor's voice. + +"The Pavlograd hussars?" he inquired. + +"The reserves, sire!" replied a voice, a very human one compared to +that which had said: "The Pavlograd hussars?" + +The Emperor drew level with Rostov and halted. Alexander's face was +even more beautiful than it had been three days before at the review. It +shone with such gaiety and youth, such innocent youth, that it suggested +the liveliness of a fourteen-year-old boy, and yet it was the face +of the majestic Emperor. Casually, while surveying the squadron, the +Emperor's eyes met Rostov's and rested on them for not more than +two seconds. Whether or no the Emperor understood what was going on in +Rostov's soul (it seemed to Rostov that he understood everything), +at any rate his light-blue eyes gazed for about two seconds into +Rostov's face. A gentle, mild light poured from them. Then all at +once he raised his eyebrows, abruptly touched his horse with his left +foot, and galloped on. + +The younger Emperor could not restrain his wish to be present at the +battle and, in spite of the remonstrances of his courtiers, at twelve +o'clock left the third column with which he had been and galloped +toward the vanguard. Before he came up with the hussars, several +adjutants met him with news of the successful result of the action. + +This battle, which consisted in the capture of a French squadron, was +represented as a brilliant victory over the French, and so the +Emperor and the whole army, especially while the smoke hung over +the battlefield, believed that the French had been defeated and were +retreating against their will. A few minutes after the Emperor had +passed, the Pavlograd division was ordered to advance. In Wischau +itself, a petty German town, Rostov saw the Emperor again. In the +market place, where there had been some rather heavy firing before the +Emperor's arrival, lay several killed and wounded soldiers whom there +had not been time to move. The Emperor, surrounded by his suite +of officers and courtiers, was riding a bobtailed chestnut mare, a +different one from that which he had ridden at the review, and bending +to one side he gracefully held a gold lorgnette to his eyes and looked +at a soldier who lay prone, with blood on his uncovered head. The +wounded soldier was so dirty, coarse, and revolting that his proximity +to the Emperor shocked Rostov. Rostov saw how the Emperor's rather +round shoulders shuddered as if a cold shiver had run down them, how his +left foot began convulsively tapping the horse's side with the spur, +and how the well-trained horse looked round unconcerned and did not +stir. An adjutant, dismounting, lifted the soldier under the arms to +place him on a stretcher that had been brought. The soldier groaned. + +"Gently, gently! Can't you do it more gently?" said the Emperor +apparently suffering more than the dying soldier, and he rode away. + +Rostov saw tears filling the Emperor's eyes and heard him, as he was +riding away, say to Czartoryski: "What a terrible thing war is: what +a terrible thing! Quelle terrible chose que la guerre!" + +The troops of the vanguard were stationed before Wischau, within sight +of the enemy's lines, which all day long had yielded ground to us +at the least firing. The Emperor's gratitude was announced to the +vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of +vodka. The campfires crackled and the soldiers' songs resounded +even more merrily than on the previous night. Denisov celebrated his +promotion to the rank of major, and Rostov, who had already drunk +enough, at the end of the feast proposed the Emperor's health. "Not +'our Sovereign, the Emperor,' as they say at official dinners," +said he, "but the health of our Sovereign, that good, enchanting, and +great man! Let us drink to his health and to the certain defeat of the +French!" + +"If we fought before," he said, "not letting the French pass, as +at Schon Grabern, what shall we not do now when he is at the front? We +will all die for him gladly! Is it not so, gentlemen? Perhaps I am not +saying it right, I have drunk a good deal--but that is how I feel, and +so do you too! To the health of Alexander the First! Hurrah!" + +"Hurrah!" rang the enthusiastic voices of the officers. + +And the old cavalry captain, Kirsten, shouted enthusiastically and no +less sincerely than the twenty-year-old Rostov. + +When the officers had emptied and smashed their glasses, Kirsten filled +others and, in shirt sleeves and breeches, went glass in hand to the +soldiers' bonfires and with his long gray mustache, his white chest +showing under his open shirt, he stood in a majestic pose in the light +of the campfire, waving his uplifted arm. + +"Lads! here's to our Sovereign, the Emperor, and victory over +our enemies! Hurrah!" he exclaimed in his dashing, old, hussar's +baritone. + +The hussars crowded round and responded heartily with loud shouts. + +Late that night, when all had separated, Denisov with his short hand +patted his favorite, Rostov, on the shoulder. + +"As there's no one to fall in love with on campaign, he's fallen +in love with the Tsar," he said. + +"Denisov, don't make fun of it!" cried Rostov. "It is such a +lofty, beautiful feeling, such a..." + +"I believe it, I believe it, fwiend, and I share and appwove..." + +"No, you don't understand!" + +And Rostov got up and went wandering among the campfires, dreaming of +what happiness it would be to die--not in saving the Emperor's life +(he did not even dare to dream of that), but simply to die before his +eyes. He really was in love with the Tsar and the glory of the Russian +arms and the hope of future triumph. And he was not the only man to +experience that feeling during those memorable days preceding the battle +of Austerlitz: nine tenths of the men in the Russian army were then in +love, though less ecstatically, with their Tsar and the glory of the +Russian arms. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +The next day the Emperor stopped at Wischau, and Villier, his physician, +was repeatedly summoned to see him. At headquarters and among the troops +near by the news spread that the Emperor was unwell. He ate nothing and +had slept badly that night, those around him reported. The cause of this +indisposition was the strong impression made on his sensitive mind by +the sight of the killed and wounded. + +At daybreak on the seventeenth, a French officer who had come with +a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the Russian Emperor, was +brought into Wischau from our outposts. This officer was Savary. The +Emperor had only just fallen asleep and so Savary had to wait. At midday +he was admitted to the Emperor, and an hour later he rode off with +Prince Dolgorukov to the advanced post of the French army. + +It was rumored that Savary had been sent to propose to Alexander +a meeting with Napoleon. To the joy and pride of the whole army, a +personal interview was refused, and instead of the Sovereign, Prince +Dolgorukov, the victor at Wischau, was sent with Savary to negotiate +with Napoleon if, contrary to expectations, these negotiations were +actuated by a real desire for peace. + +Toward evening Dolgorukov came back, went straight to the Tsar, and +remained alone with him for a long time. + +On the eighteenth and nineteenth of November, the army advanced two +days' march and the enemy's outposts after a brief interchange +of shots retreated. In the highest army circles from midday on the +nineteenth, a great, excitedly bustling activity began which lasted till +the morning of the twentieth, when the memorable battle of Austerlitz +was fought. + +Till midday on the nineteenth, the activity--the eager talk, running to +and fro, and dispatching of adjutants--was confined to the Emperor's +headquarters. But on the afternoon of that day, this activity reached +Kutuzov's headquarters and the staffs of the commanders of columns. +By evening, the adjutants had spread it to all ends and parts of the +army, and in the night from the nineteenth to the twentieth, the whole +eighty thousand allied troops rose from their bivouacs to the hum of +voices, and the army swayed and started in one enormous mass six miles +long. + +The concentrated activity which had begun at the Emperor's +headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that +followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower +clock. One wheel slowly moved, another was set in motion, and a third, +and wheels began to revolve faster and faster, levers and cogwheels to +work, chimes to play, figures to pop out, and the hands to advance with +regular motion as a result of all that activity. + +Just as in the mechanism of a clock, so in the mechanism of the military +machine, an impulse once given leads to the final result; and just as +indifferently quiescent till the moment when motion is transmitted +to them are the parts of the mechanism which the impulse has not yet +reached. Wheels creak on their axles as the cogs engage one another and +the revolving pulleys whirr with the rapidity of their movement, but a +neighboring wheel is as quiet and motionless as though it were prepared +to remain so for a hundred years; but the moment comes when the lever +catches it and obeying the impulse that wheel begins to creak and joins +in the common motion the result and aim of which are beyond its ken. + +Just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable +wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular movement of the +hands which show the time, so the result of all the complicated human +activities of 160,000 Russians and French--all their passions, desires, +remorse, humiliations, sufferings, outbursts of pride, fear, and +enthusiasm--was only the loss of the battle of Austerlitz, the +so-called battle of the three Emperors--that is to say, a slow movement +of the hand on the dial of human history. + +Prince Andrew was on duty that day and in constant attendance on the +commander in chief. + +At six in the evening, Kutuzov went to the Emperor's headquarters +and after staying but a short time with the Tsar went to see the grand +marshal of the court, Count Tolstoy. + +Bolkonski took the opportunity to go in to get some details of the +coming action from Dolgorukov. He felt that Kutuzov was upset +and dissatisfied about something and that at headquarters they were +dissatisfied with him, and also that at the Emperor's headquarters +everyone adopted toward him the tone of men who know something others do +not know: he therefore wished to speak to Dolgorukov. + +"Well, how d'you do, my dear fellow?" said Dolgorukov, who was +sitting at tea with Bilibin. "The fete is for tomorrow. How is your +old fellow? Out of sorts?" + +"I won't say he is out of sorts, but I fancy he would like to be +heard." + +"But they heard him at the council of war and will hear him when he +talks sense, but to temporize and wait for something now when Bonaparte +fears nothing so much as a general battle is impossible." + +"Yes, you have seen him?" said Prince Andrew. "Well, what is +Bonaparte like? How did he impress you?" + +"Yes, I saw him, and am convinced that he fears nothing so much as +a general engagement," repeated Dolgorukov, evidently prizing this +general conclusion which he had arrived at from his interview with +Napoleon. "If he weren't afraid of a battle why did he ask for that +interview? Why negotiate, and above all why retreat, when to retreat is +so contrary to his method of conducting war? Believe me, he is afraid, +afraid of a general battle. His hour has come! Mark my words!" + +"But tell me, what is he like, eh?" said Prince Andrew again. + +"He is a man in a gray overcoat, very anxious that I should call +him 'Your Majesty,' but who, to his chagrin, got no title from +me! That's the sort of man he is, and nothing more," replied +Dolgorukov, looking round at Bilibin with a smile. + +"Despite my great respect for old Kutuzov," he continued, "we +should be a nice set of fellows if we were to wait about and so give him +a chance to escape, or to trick us, now that we certainly have him in +our hands! No, we mustn't forget Suvorov and his rule--not to put +yourself in a position to be attacked, but yourself to attack. Believe +me in war the energy of young men often shows the way better than all +the experience of old Cunctators." + +"But in what position are we going to attack him? I have been at the +outposts today and it is impossible to say where his chief forces are +situated," said Prince Andrew. + +He wished to explain to Dolgorukov a plan of attack he had himself +formed. + +"Oh, that is all the same," Dolgorukov said quickly, and getting up +he spread a map on the table. "All eventualities have been foreseen. +If he is standing before Brunn..." + +And Prince Dolgorukov rapidly but indistinctly explained Weyrother's +plan of a flanking movement. + +Prince Andrew began to reply and to state his own plan, which might +have been as good as Weyrother's, but for the disadvantage that +Weyrother's had already been approved. As soon as Prince Andrew began +to demonstrate the defects of the latter and the merits of his own plan, +Prince Dolgorukov ceased to listen to him and gazed absent-mindedly not +at the map, but at Prince Andrew's face. + +"There will be a council of war at Kutuzov's tonight, though; you +can say all this there," remarked Dolgorukov. + +"I will do so," said Prince Andrew, moving away from the map. + +"Whatever are you bothering about, gentlemen?" said Bilibin, who, +till then, had listened with an amused smile to their conversation and +now was evidently ready with a joke. "Whether tomorrow brings +victory or defeat, the glory of our Russian arms is secure. Except your +Kutuzov, there is not a single Russian in command of a column! The +commanders are: Herr General Wimpfen, le Comte de Langeron, le Prince de +Lichtenstein, le Prince, de Hohenlohe, and finally Prishprish, and so on +like all those Polish names." + +"Be quiet, backbiter!" said Dolgorukov. "It is not true; there +are now two Russians, Miloradovich, and Dokhturov, and there would be +a third, Count Arakcheev, if his nerves were not too weak." + +"However, I think General Kutuzov has come out," said Prince +Andrew. "I wish you good luck and success, gentlemen!" he added and +went out after shaking hands with Dolgorukov and Bilibin. + +On the way home, Prince Andrew could not refrain from asking Kutuzov, +who was sitting silently beside him, what he thought of tomorrow's +battle. + +Kutuzov looked sternly at his adjutant and, after a pause, replied: +"I think the battle will be lost, and so I told Count Tolstoy and +asked him to tell the Emperor. What do you think he replied? 'But, my +dear general, I am engaged with rice and cutlets, look after military +matters yourself!' Yes... That was the answer I got!" + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +Shortly after nine o'clock that evening, Weyrother drove with his +plans to Kutuzov's quarters where the council of war was to be +held. All the commanders of columns were summoned to the commander in +chief's and with the exception of Prince Bagration, who declined to +come, were all there at the appointed time. + +Weyrother, who was in full control of the proposed battle, by his +eagerness and briskness presented a marked contrast to the dissatisfied +and drowsy Kutuzov, who reluctantly played the part of chairman and +president of the council of war. Weyrother evidently felt himself to be +at the head of a movement that had already become unrestrainable. He was +like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. Whether he was +pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at +headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead +to. Weyrother had been twice that evening to the enemy's picket +line to reconnoiter personally, and twice to the Emperors, Russian and +Austrian, to report and explain, and to his headquarters where he had +dictated the dispositions in German, and now, much exhausted, he arrived +at Kutuzov's. + +He was evidently so busy that he even forgot to be polite to the +commander in chief. He interrupted him, talked rapidly and indistinctly, +without looking at the man he was addressing, and did not reply to +questions put to him. He was bespattered with mud and had a pitiful, +weary, and distracted air, though at the same time he was haughty and +self-confident. + +Kutuzov was occupying a nobleman's castle of modest dimensions near +Ostralitz. In the large drawing room which had become the commander +in chief's office were gathered Kutuzov himself, Weyrother, and the +members of the council of war. They were drinking tea, and only awaited +Prince Bagration to begin the council. At last Bagration's orderly +came with the news that the prince could not attend. Prince Andrew came +in to inform the commander in chief of this and, availing himself +of permission previously given him by Kutuzov to be present at the +council, he remained in the room. + +"Since Prince Bagration is not coming, we may begin," said +Weyrother, hurriedly rising from his seat and going up to the table on +which an enormous map of the environs of Brunn was spread out. + +Kutuzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over +his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, +with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. At the sound +of Weyrother's voice, he opened his one eye with an effort. + +"Yes, yes, if you please! It is already late," said he, and nodding +his head he let it droop and again closed his eye. + +If at first the members of the council thought that Kutuzov was +pretending to sleep, the sounds his nose emitted during the reading that +followed proved that the commander in chief at that moment was absorbed +by a far more serious matter than a desire to show his contempt for +the dispositions or anything else--he was engaged in satisfying the +irresistible human need for sleep. He really was asleep. Weyrother, with +the gesture of a man too busy to lose a moment, glanced at Kutuzov and, +having convinced himself that he was asleep, took up a paper and in +a loud, monotonous voice began to read out the dispositions for the +impending battle, under a heading which he also read out: + +"Dispositions for an attack on the enemy position behind Kobelnitz and +Sokolnitz, November 30, 1805." + +The dispositions were very complicated and difficult. They began as +follows: + +"As the enemy's left wing rests on wooded hills and his right +extends along Kobelnitz and Sokolnitz behind the ponds that are there, +while we, on the other hand, with our left wing by far outflank his +right, it is advantageous to attack the enemy's latter wing especially +if we occupy the villages of Sokolnitz and Kobelnitz, whereby we +can both fall on his flank and pursue him over the plain between +Schlappanitz and the Thuerassa forest, avoiding the defiles of +Schlappanitz and Bellowitz which cover the enemy's front. For this +object it is necessary that... The first column marches... The second +column marches... The third column marches..." and so on, read +Weyrother. + +The generals seemed to listen reluctantly to the difficult dispositions. +The tall, fair-haired General Buxhowden stood, leaning his back against +the wall, his eyes fixed on a burning candle, and seemed not to listen +or even to wish to be thought to listen. Exactly opposite Weyrother, +with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache +twisted upwards, sat the ruddy Miloradovich in a military pose, his +elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders +raised. He remained stubbornly silent, gazing at Weyrother's face, +and only turned away his eyes when the Austrian chief of staff finished +reading. Then Miloradovich looked round significantly at the other +generals. But one could not tell from that significant look whether he +agreed or disagreed and was satisfied or not with the arrangements. Next +to Weyrother sat Count Langeron who, with a subtle smile that never left +his typically southern French face during the whole time of the reading, +gazed at his delicate fingers which rapidly twirled by its corners +a gold snuffbox on which was a portrait. In the middle of one of the +longest sentences, he stopped the rotary motion of the snuffbox, raised +his head, and with inimical politeness lurking in the corners of his +thin lips interrupted Weyrother, wishing to say something. But the +Austrian general, continuing to read, frowned angrily and jerked his +elbows, as if to say: "You can tell me your views later, but now be so +good as to look at the map and listen." Langeron lifted his eyes with +an expression of perplexity, turned round to Miloradovich as if seeking +an explanation, but meeting the latter's impressive but meaningless +gaze drooped his eyes sadly and again took to twirling his snuffbox. + +"A geography lesson!" he muttered as if to himself, but loud enough +to be heard. + +Przebyszewski, with respectful but dignified politeness, held his +hand to his ear toward Weyrother, with the air of a man absorbed in +attention. Dohkturov, a little man, sat opposite Weyrother, with +an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the outspread map +conscientiously studied the dispositions and the unfamiliar locality. He +asked Weyrother several times to repeat words he had not clearly heard +and the difficult names of villages. Weyrother complied and Dohkturov +noted them down. + +When the reading which lasted more than an hour was over, Langeron again +brought his snuffbox to rest and, without looking at Weyrother or at +anyone in particular, began to say how difficult it was to carry out +such a plan in which the enemy's position was assumed to be known, +whereas it was perhaps not known, since the enemy was in movement. +Langeron's objections were valid but it was obvious that their chief +aim was to show General Weyrother--who had read his dispositions with +as much self-confidence as if he were addressing school children--that +he had to do, not with fools, but with men who could teach him something +in military matters. + +When the monotonous sound of Weyrother's voice ceased, Kutuzov opened +his eye as a miller wakes up when the soporific drone of the mill wheel +is interrupted. He listened to what Langeron said, as if remarking, +"So you are still at that silly business!" quickly closed his eye +again, and let his head sink still lower. + +Langeron, trying as virulently as possible to sting Weyrother's vanity +as author of the military plan, argued that Bonaparte might easily +attack instead of being attacked, and so render the whole of this +plan perfectly worthless. Weyrother met all objections with a firm and +contemptuous smile, evidently prepared beforehand to meet all objections +be they what they might. + +"If he could attack us, he would have done so today," said he. + +"So you think he is powerless?" said Langeron. + +"He has forty thousand men at most," replied Weyrother, with the +smile of a doctor to whom an old wife wishes to explain the treatment of +a case. + +"In that case he is inviting his doom by awaiting our attack," said +Langeron, with a subtly ironical smile, again glancing round for support +to Miloradovich who was near him. + +But Miloradovich was at that moment evidently thinking of anything +rather than of what the generals were disputing about. + +"Ma foi!" said he, "tomorrow we shall see all that on the +battlefield." + +Weyrother again gave that smile which seemed to say that to him it was +strange and ridiculous to meet objections from Russian generals and to +have to prove to them what he had not merely convinced himself of, but +had also convinced the sovereign Emperors of. + +"The enemy has quenched his fires and a continual noise is heard from +his camp," said he. "What does that mean? Either he is retreating, +which is the only thing we need fear, or he is changing his position." +(He smiled ironically.) "But even if he also took up a position in +the Thuerassa, he merely saves us a great deal of trouble and all our +arrangements to the minutest detail remain the same." + +"How is that?..." began Prince Andrew, who had for long been waiting +an opportunity to express his doubts. + +Kutuzov here woke up, coughed heavily, and looked round at the +generals. + +"Gentlemen, the dispositions for tomorrow--or rather for today, for +it is past midnight--cannot now be altered," said he. "You have +heard them, and we shall all do our duty. But before a battle, there is +nothing more important..." he paused, "than to have a good sleep." + +He moved as if to rise. The generals bowed and retired. It was past +midnight. Prince Andrew went out. + +The council of war, at which Prince Andrew had not been able to +express his opinion as he had hoped to, left on him a vague and uneasy +impression. Whether Dolgorukov and Weyrother, or Kutuzov, Langeron, +and the others who did not approve of the plan of attack, were +right--he did not know. "But was it really not possible for Kutuzov +to state his views plainly to the Emperor? Is it possible that on +account of court and personal considerations tens of thousands of lives, +and my life, my life," he thought, "must be risked?" + +"Yes, it is very likely that I shall be killed tomorrow," he +thought. And suddenly, at this thought of death, a whole series of most +distant, most intimate, memories rose in his imagination: he remembered +his last parting from his father and his wife; he remembered the days +when he first loved her. He thought of her pregnancy and felt sorry for +her and for himself, and in a nervously emotional and softened mood he +went out of the hut in which he was billeted with Nesvitski and began +to walk up and down before it. + +The night was foggy and through the fog the moonlight gleamed +mysteriously. "Yes, tomorrow, tomorrow!" he thought. "Tomorrow +everything may be over for me! All these memories will be no more, none +of them will have any meaning for me. Tomorrow perhaps, even certainly, +I have a presentiment that for the first time I shall have to show all +I can do." And his fancy pictured the battle, its loss, the +concentration of fighting at one point, and the hesitation of all the +commanders. And then that happy moment, that Toulon for which he had +so long waited, presents itself to him at last. He firmly and clearly +expresses his opinion to Kutuzov, to Weyrother, and to the Emperors. +All are struck by the justness of his views, but no one undertakes to +carry them out, so he takes a regiment, a division--stipulates that no +one is to interfere with his arrangements--leads his division to +the decisive point, and gains the victory alone. "But death and +suffering?" suggested another voice. Prince Andrew, however, did not +answer that voice and went on dreaming of his triumphs. The dispositions +for the next battle are planned by him alone. Nominally he is only an +adjutant on Kutuzov's staff, but he does everything alone. The next +battle is won by him alone. Kutuzov is removed and he is appointed... +"Well and then?" asked the other voice. "If before that you are +not ten times wounded, killed, or betrayed, well... what then?..." +"Well then," Prince Andrew answered himself, "I don't know +what will happen and don't want to know, and can't, but if I want +this--want glory, want to be known to men, want to be loved by them, it +is not my fault that I want it and want nothing but that and live only +for that. Yes, for that alone! I shall never tell anyone, but, oh God! +what am I to do if I love nothing but fame and men's esteem? Death, +wounds, the loss of family--I fear nothing. And precious and dear +as many persons are to me--father, sister, wife--those dearest to +me--yet dreadful and unnatural as it seems, I would give them all at +once for a moment of glory, of triumph over men, of love from men I +don't know and never shall know, for the love of these men here," he +thought, as he listened to voices in Kutuzov's courtyard. The voices +were those of the orderlies who were packing up; one voice, probably a +coachman's, was teasing Kutuzov's old cook whom Prince Andrew knew, +and who was called Tit. He was saying, "Tit, I say, Tit!" + +"Well?" returned the old man. + +"Go, Tit, thresh a bit!" said the wag. + +"Oh, go to the devil!" called out a voice, drowned by the laughter +of the orderlies and servants. + +"All the same, I love and value nothing but triumph over them all, I +value this mystic power and glory that is floating here above me in this +mist!" + + + + + +CHAPTER XIII + +That same night, Rostov was with a platoon on skirmishing duty in front +of Bagration's detachment. His hussars were placed along the line +in couples and he himself rode along the line trying to master the +sleepiness that kept coming over him. An enormous space, with our +army's campfires dimly glowing in the fog, could be seen behind him; +in front of him was misty darkness. Rostov could see nothing, peer as +he would into that foggy distance: now something gleamed gray, now there +was something black, now little lights seemed to glimmer where the enemy +ought to be, now he fancied it was only something in his own eyes. His +eyes kept closing, and in his fancy appeared--now the Emperor, now +Denisov, and now Moscow memories--and he again hurriedly opened his +eyes and saw close before him the head and ears of the horse he was +riding, and sometimes, when he came within six paces of them, the +black figures of hussars, but in the distance was still the same misty +darkness. "Why not?... It might easily happen," thought Rostov, +"that the Emperor will meet me and give me an order as he would to any +other officer; he'll say: 'Go and find out what's there.' There +are many stories of his getting to know an officer in just such a chance +way and attaching him to himself! What if he gave me a place near him? +Oh, how I would guard him, how I would tell him the truth, how I would +unmask his deceivers!" And in order to realize vividly his love +devotion to the sovereign, Rostov pictured to himself an enemy or a +deceitful German, whom he would not only kill with pleasure but whom +he would slap in the face before the Emperor. Suddenly a distant shout +aroused him. He started and opened his eyes. + +"Where am I? Oh yes, in the skirmishing line... pass and +watchword--shaft, Olmutz. What a nuisance that our squadron will be in +reserve tomorrow," he thought. "I'll ask leave to go to the front, +this may be my only chance of seeing the Emperor. It won't be long +now before I am off duty. I'll take another turn and when I get back +I'll go to the general and ask him." He readjusted himself in the +saddle and touched up his horse to ride once more round his hussars. It +seemed to him that it was getting lighter. To the left he saw a sloping +descent lit up, and facing it a black knoll that seemed as steep as a +wall. On this knoll there was a white patch that Rostov could not at +all make out: was it a glade in the wood lit up by the moon, or some +unmelted snow, or some white houses? He even thought something moved on +that white spot. "I expect it's snow... that spot... a spot--une +tache," he thought. "There now... it's not a tache... Natasha... +sister, black eyes... Na... tasha... (Won't she be surprised when +I tell her how I've seen the Emperor?) Natasha... take my +sabretache..."--"Keep to the right, your honor, there are bushes +here," came the voice of an hussar, past whom Rostov was riding in +the act of falling asleep. Rostov lifted his head that had sunk almost +to his horse's mane and pulled up beside the hussar. He was succumbing +to irresistible, youthful, childish drowsiness. "But what was I +thinking? I mustn't forget. How shall I speak to the Emperor? No, +that's not it--that's tomorrow. Oh yes! Natasha... sabretache... +saber them... Whom? The hussars... Ah, the hussars with mustaches. Along +the Tverskaya Street rode the hussar with mustaches... I thought about +him too, just opposite Guryev's house... Old Guryev.... Oh, but +Denisov's a fine fellow. But that's all nonsense. The chief thing +is that the Emperor is here. How he looked at me and wished to say +something, but dared not.... No, it was I who dared not. But that's +nonsense, the chief thing is not to forget the important thing I +was thinking of. Yes, Na-tasha, sabretache, oh, yes, yes! That's +right!" And his head once more sank to his horse's neck. All at once +it seemed to him that he was being fired at. "What? What? What?... Cut +them down! What?..." said Rostov, waking up. At the moment he opened +his eyes he heard in front of him, where the enemy was, the long-drawn +shouts of thousands of voices. His horse and the horse of the hussar +near him pricked their ears at these shouts. Over there, where the +shouting came from, a fire flared up and went out again, then another, +and all along the French line on the hill fires flared up and the +shouting grew louder and louder. Rostov could hear the sound of French +words but could not distinguish them. The din of many voices was too +great; all he could hear was: "ahahah!" and "rrrr!" + +"What's that? What do you make of it?" said Rostov to the hussar +beside him. "That must be the enemy's camp!" + +The hussar did not reply. + +"Why, don't you hear it?" Rostov asked again, after waiting for a +reply. + +"Who can tell, your honor?" replied the hussar reluctantly. + +"From the direction, it must be the enemy," repeated Rostov. + +"It may be he or it may be nothing," muttered the hussar. "It's +dark... Steady!" he cried to his fidgeting horse. + +Rostov's horse was also getting restive: it pawed the frozen ground, +pricking its ears at the noise and looking at the lights. The shouting +grew still louder and merged into a general roar that only an army +of several thousand men could produce. The lights spread farther and +farther, probably along the line of the French camp. Rostov no longer +wanted to sleep. The gay triumphant shouting of the enemy army had a +stimulating effect on him. "Vive l'Empereur! l'Empereur!" he now +heard distinctly. + +"They can't be far off, probably just beyond the stream," he said +to the hussar beside him. + +The hussar only sighed without replying and coughed angrily. The sound +of horse's hoofs approaching at a trot along the line of hussars was +heard, and out of the foggy darkness the figure of a sergeant of hussars +suddenly appeared, looming huge as an elephant. + +"Your honor, the generals!" said the sergeant, riding up to Rostov. + +Rostov, still looking round toward the fires and the shouts, rode with +the sergeant to meet some mounted men who were riding along the line. +One was on a white horse. Prince Bagration and Prince Dolgorukov with +their adjutants had come to witness the curious phenomenon of the +lights and shouts in the enemy's camp. Rostov rode up to Bagration, +reported to him, and then joined the adjutants listening to what the +generals were saying. + +"Believe me," said Prince Dolgorukov, addressing Bagration, "it +is nothing but a trick! He has retreated and ordered the rearguard to +kindle fires and make a noise to deceive us." + +"Hardly," said Bagration. "I saw them this evening on that +knoll; if they had retreated they would have withdrawn from that too.... +Officer!" said Bagration to Rostov, "are the enemy's skirmishers +still there?" + +"They were there this evening, but now I don't know, your +excellency. Shall I go with some of my hussars to see?" replied +Rostov. + +Bagration stopped and, before replying, tried to see Rostov's face +in the mist. + +"Well, go and see," he said, after a pause. + +"Yes, sir." + +Rostov spurred his horse, called to Sergeant Fedchenko and two other +hussars, told them to follow him, and trotted downhill in the direction +from which the shouting came. He felt both frightened and pleased to be +riding alone with three hussars into that mysterious and dangerous misty +distance where no one had been before him. Bagration called to him from +the hill not to go beyond the stream, but Rostov pretended not to hear +him and did not stop but rode on and on, continually mistaking bushes +for trees and gullies for men and continually discovering his mistakes. +Having descended the hill at a trot, he no longer saw either our own or +the enemy's fires, but heard the shouting of the French more loudly +and distinctly. In the valley he saw before him something like a river, +but when he reached it he found it was a road. Having come out onto +the road he reined in his horse, hesitating whether to ride along it or +cross it and ride over the black field up the hillside. To keep to the +road which gleamed white in the mist would have been safer because it +would be easier to see people coming along it. "Follow me!" said he, +crossed the road, and began riding up the hill at a gallop toward the +point where the French pickets had been standing that evening. + +"Your honor, there he is!" cried one of the hussars behind him. And +before Rostov had time to make out what the black thing was that had +suddenly appeared in the fog, there was a flash, followed by a report, +and a bullet whizzing high up in the mist with a plaintive sound passed +out of hearing. Another musket missed fire but flashed in the pan. +Rostov turned his horse and galloped back. Four more reports followed +at intervals, and the bullets passed somewhere in the fog singing in +different tones. Rostov reined in his horse, whose spirits had risen, +like his own, at the firing, and went back at a footpace. "Well, some +more! Some more!" a merry voice was saying in his soul. But no more +shots came. + +Only when approaching Bagration did Rostov let his horse gallop again, +and with his hand at the salute rode up to the general. + +Dolgorukov was still insisting that the French had retreated and had +only lit fires to deceive us. + +"What does that prove?" he was saying as Rostov rode up. "They +might retreat and leave the pickets." + +"It's plain that they have not all gone yet, Prince," said +Bagration. "Wait till tomorrow morning, we'll find out everything +tomorrow." + +"The picket is still on the hill, your excellency, just where it was +in the evening," reported Rostov, stooping forward with his hand at +the salute and unable to repress the smile of delight induced by his +ride and especially by the sound of the bullets. + +"Very good, very good," said Bagration. "Thank you, officer." + +"Your excellency," said Rostov, "may I ask a favor?" + +"What is it?" + +"Tomorrow our squadron is to be in reserve. May I ask to be attached +to the first squadron?" + +"What's your name?" + +"Count Rostov." + +"Oh, very well, you may stay in attendance on me." + +"Count Ilya Rostov's son?" asked Dolgorukov. + +But Rostov did not reply. + +"Then I may reckon on it, your excellency?" + +"I will give the order." + +"Tomorrow very likely I may be sent with some message to the +Emperor," thought Rostov. + +"Thank God!" + +The fires and shouting in the enemy's army were occasioned by the fact +that while Napoleon's proclamation was being read to the troops the +Emperor himself rode round his bivouacs. The soldiers, on seeing him, +lit wisps of straw and ran after him, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur!" +Napoleon's proclamation was as follows: + +Soldiers! The Russian army is advancing against you to avenge the +Austrian army of Ulm. They are the same battalions you broke at +Hollabrunn and have pursued ever since to this place. The position we +occupy is a strong one, and while they are marching to go round me on +the right they will expose a flank to me. Soldiers! I will myself direct +your battalions. I will keep out of fire if you with your habitual +valor carry disorder and confusion into the enemy's ranks, but should +victory be in doubt, even for a moment, you will see your Emperor +exposing himself to the first blows of the enemy, for there must be no +doubt of victory, especially on this day when what is at stake is the +honor of the French infantry, so necessary to the honor of our nation. + +Do not break your ranks on the plea of removing the wounded! Let every +man be fully imbued with the thought that we must defeat these hirelings +of England, inspired by such hatred of our nation! This victory will +conclude our campaign and we can return to winter quarters, where fresh +French troops who are being raised in France will join us, and the peace +I shall conclude will be worthy of my people, of you, and of myself. + +NAPOLEON + + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +At five in the morning it was still quite dark. The troops of the +center, the reserves, and Bagration's right flank had not yet moved, +but on the left flank the columns of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, +which were to be the first to descend the heights to attack the French +right flank and drive it into the Bohemian mountains according to plan, +were already up and astir. The smoke of the campfires, into which they +were throwing everything superfluous, made the eyes smart. It was cold +and dark. The officers were hurriedly drinking tea and breakfasting, the +soldiers, munching biscuit and beating a tattoo with their feet to +warm themselves, gathering round the fires throwing into the flames the +remains of sheds, chairs, tables, wheels, tubs, and everything that they +did not want or could not carry away with them. Austrian column guides +were moving in and out among the Russian troops and served as heralds +of the advance. As soon as an Austrian officer showed himself near +a commanding officer's quarters, the regiment began to move: the +soldiers ran from the fires, thrust their pipes into their boots, their +bags into the carts, got their muskets ready, and formed rank. The +officers buttoned up their coats, buckled on their swords and pouches, +and moved along the ranks shouting. The train drivers and orderlies +harnessed and packed the wagons and tied on the loads. The adjutants and +battalion and regimental commanders mounted, crossed themselves, gave +final instructions, orders, and commissions to the baggage men +who remained behind, and the monotonous tramp of thousands of feet +resounded. The column moved forward without knowing where and unable, +from the masses around them, the smoke and the increasing fog, to see +either the place they were leaving or that to which they were going. + +A soldier on the march is hemmed in and borne along by his regiment as +much as a sailor is by his ship. However far he has walked, whatever +strange, unknown, and dangerous places he reaches, just as a sailor is +always surrounded by the same decks, masts, and rigging of his ship, so +the soldier always has around him the same comrades, the same ranks, the +same sergeant major Ivan Mitrich, the same company dog Jack, and the +same commanders. The sailor rarely cares to know the latitude in which +his ship is sailing, but on the day of battle--heaven knows how and +whence--a stern note of which all are conscious sounds in the moral +atmosphere of an army, announcing the approach of something decisive +and solemn, and awakening in the men an unusual curiosity. On the day of +battle the soldiers excitedly try to get beyond the interests of their +regiment, they listen intently, look about, and eagerly ask concerning +what is going on around them. + +The fog had grown so dense that though it was growing light they could +not see ten paces ahead. Bushes looked like gigantic trees and level +ground like cliffs and slopes. Anywhere, on any side, one might +encounter an enemy invisible ten paces off. But the columns advanced +for a long time, always in the same fog, descending and ascending hills, +avoiding gardens and enclosures, going over new and unknown ground, and +nowhere encountering the enemy. On the contrary, the soldiers became +aware that in front, behind, and on all sides, other Russian columns +were moving in the same direction. Every soldier felt glad to know that +to the unknown place where he was going, many more of our men were going +too. + +"There now, the Kurskies have also gone past," was being said in +the ranks. + +"It's wonderful what a lot of our troops have gathered, lads! Last +night I looked at the campfires and there was no end of them. A regular +Moscow!" + +Though none of the column commanders rode up to the ranks or talked to +the men (the commanders, as we saw at the council of war, were out of +humor and dissatisfied with the affair, and so did not exert themselves +to cheer the men but merely carried out the orders), yet the troops +marched gaily, as they always do when going into action, especially to +an attack. But when they had marched for about an hour in the dense fog, +the greater part of the men had to halt and an unpleasant consciousness +of some dislocation and blunder spread through the ranks. How such +a consciousness is communicated is very difficult to define, but it +certainly is communicated very surely, and flows rapidly, imperceptibly, +and irrepressibly, as water does in a creek. Had the Russian army been +alone without any allies, it might perhaps have been a long time before +this consciousness of mismanagement became a general conviction, but as +it was, the disorder was readily and naturally attributed to the stupid +Germans, and everyone was convinced that a dangerous muddle had been +occasioned by the sausage eaters. + +"Why have we stopped? Is the way blocked? Or have we already come up +against the French?" + +"No, one can't hear them. They'd be firing if we had." + +"They were in a hurry enough to start us, and now here we stand in +the middle of a field without rhyme or reason. It's all those damned +Germans' muddling! What stupid devils!" + +"Yes, I'd send them on in front, but no fear, they're crowding up +behind. And now here we stand hungry." + +"I say, shall we soon be clear? They say the cavalry are blocking the +way," said an officer. + +"Ah, those damned Germans! They don't know their own country!" +said another. + +"What division are you?" shouted an adjutant, riding up. + +"The Eighteenth." + +"Then why are you here? You should have gone on long ago, now you +won't get there till evening." + +"What stupid orders! They don't themselves know what they are +doing!" said the officer and rode off. + +Then a general rode past shouting something angrily, not in Russian. + +"Tafa-lafa! But what he's jabbering no one can make out," said a +soldier, mimicking the general who had ridden away. "I'd shoot them, +the scoundrels!" + +"We were ordered to be at the place before nine, but we haven't got +halfway. Fine orders!" was being repeated on different sides. + +And the feeling of energy with which the troops had started began to +turn into vexation and anger at the stupid arrangements and at the +Germans. + +The cause of the confusion was that while the Austrian cavalry was +moving toward our left flank, the higher command found that our center +was too far separated from our right flank and the cavalry were all +ordered to turn back to the right. Several thousand cavalry crossed in +front of the infantry, who had to wait. + +At the front an altercation occurred between an Austrian guide and a +Russian general. The general shouted a demand that the cavalry should be +halted, the Austrian argued that not he, but the higher command, was to +blame. The troops meanwhile stood growing listless and dispirited. After +an hour's delay they at last moved on, descending the hill. The fog +that was dispersing on the hill lay still more densely below, where they +were descending. In front in the fog a shot was heard and then another, +at first irregularly at varying intervals--trata...tat--and then more +and more regularly and rapidly, and the action at the Goldbach Stream +began. + +Not expecting to come on the enemy down by the stream, and having +stumbled on him in the fog, hearing no encouraging word from their +commanders, and with a consciousness of being too late spreading through +the ranks, and above all being unable to see anything in front or around +them in the thick fog, the Russians exchanged shots with the enemy +lazily and advanced and again halted, receiving no timely orders from +the officers or adjutants who wandered about in the fog in those unknown +surroundings unable to find their own regiments. In this way the action +began for the first, second, and third columns, which had gone down into +the valley. The fourth column, with which Kutuzov was, stood on the +Pratzen Heights. + +Below, where the fight was beginning, there was still thick fog; on the +higher ground it was clearing, but nothing could be seen of what was +going on in front. Whether all the enemy forces were, as we supposed, +six miles away, or whether they were near by in that sea of mist, no one +knew till after eight o'clock. + +It was nine o'clock in the morning. The fog lay unbroken like a sea +down below, but higher up at the village of Schlappanitz where Napoleon +stood with his marshals around him, it was quite light. Above him was +a clear blue sky, and the sun's vast orb quivered like a huge hollow, +crimson float on the surface of that milky sea of mist. The whole French +army, and even Napoleon himself with his staff, were not on the far side +of the streams and hollows of Sokolnitz and Schlappanitz beyond which we +intended to take up our position and begin the action, but were on this +side, so close to our own forces that Napoleon with the naked eye could +distinguish a mounted man from one on foot. Napoleon, in the blue cloak +which he had worn on his Italian campaign, sat on his small gray Arab +horse a little in front of his marshals. He gazed silently at the hills +which seemed to rise out of the sea of mist and on which the Russian +troops were moving in the distance, and he listened to the sounds of +firing in the valley. Not a single muscle of his face--which in those +days was still thin--moved. His gleaming eyes were fixed intently on +one spot. His predictions were being justified. Part of the Russian +force had already descended into the valley toward the ponds and lakes +and part were leaving these Pratzen Heights which he intended to attack +and regarded as the key to the position. He saw over the mist that in +a hollow between two hills near the village of Pratzen, the Russian +columns, their bayonets glittering, were moving continuously in one +direction toward the valley and disappearing one after another into +the mist. From information he had received the evening before, from the +sound of wheels and footsteps heard by the outposts during the night, +by the disorderly movement of the Russian columns, and from all +indications, he saw clearly that the allies believed him to be far away +in front of them, and that the columns moving near Pratzen constituted +the center of the Russian army, and that that center was already +sufficiently weakened to be successfully attacked. But still he did not +begin the engagement. + +Today was a great day for him--the anniversary of his coronation. +Before dawn he had slept for a few hours, and refreshed, vigorous, and +in good spirits, he mounted his horse and rode out into the field +in that happy mood in which everything seems possible and everything +succeeds. He sat motionless, looking at the heights visible above +the mist, and his cold face wore that special look of confident, +self-complacent happiness that one sees on the face of a boy happily +in love. The marshals stood behind him not venturing to distract his +attention. He looked now at the Pratzen Heights, now at the sun floating +up out of the mist. + +When the sun had entirely emerged from the fog, and fields and mist were +aglow with dazzling light--as if he had only awaited this to begin the +action--he drew the glove from his shapely white hand, made a sign +with it to the marshals, and ordered the action to begin. The marshals, +accompanied by adjutants, galloped off in different directions, and +a few minutes later the chief forces of the French army moved rapidly +toward those Pratzen Heights which were being more and more denuded by +Russian troops moving down the valley to their left. + + + + + +CHAPTER XV + +At eight o'clock Kutuzov rode to Pratzen at the head of the fourth +column, Miloradovich's, the one that was to take the place of +Przebyszewski's and Langeron's columns which had already gone down +into the valley. He greeted the men of the foremost regiment and gave +them the order to march, thereby indicating that he intended to lead +that column himself. When he had reached the village of Pratzen he +halted. Prince Andrew was behind, among the immense number forming the +commander in chief's suite. He was in a state of suppressed excitement +and irritation, though controlledly calm as a man is at the approach of +a long-awaited moment. He was firmly convinced that this was the day of +his Toulon, or his bridge of Arcola. How it would come about he did not +know, but he felt sure it would do so. The locality and the position of +our troops were known to him as far as they could be known to anyone +in our army. His own strategic plan, which obviously could not now +be carried out, was forgotten. Now, entering into Weyrother's plan, +Prince Andrew considered possible contingencies and formed new projects +such as might call for his rapidity of perception and decision. + +To the left down below in the mist, the musketry fire of unseen forces +could be heard. It was there Prince Andrew thought the fight would +concentrate. "There we shall encounter difficulties, and there," +thought he, "I shall be sent with a brigade or division, and there, +standard in hand, I shall go forward and break whatever is in front of +me." + +He could not look calmly at the standards of the passing battalions. +Seeing them he kept thinking, "That may be the very standard with +which I shall lead the army." + +In the morning all that was left of the night mist on the heights was +a hoar frost now turning to dew, but in the valleys it still lay like a +milk-white sea. Nothing was visible in the valley to the left into which +our troops had descended and from whence came the sounds of firing. +Above the heights was the dark clear sky, and to the right the vast orb +of the sun. In front, far off on the farther shore of that sea of mist, +some wooded hills were discernible, and it was there the enemy probably +was, for something could be descried. On the right the Guards were +entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and +then a gleam of bayonets; to the left beyond the village similar masses +of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist. In front and +behind moved infantry. The commander in chief was standing at the end of +the village letting the troops pass by him. That morning Kutuzov seemed +worn and irritable. The infantry passing before him came to a halt +without any command being given, apparently obstructed by something in +front. + +"Do order them to form into battalion columns and go round the +village!" he said angrily to a general who had ridden up. "Don't +you understand, your excellency, my dear sir, that you must not +defile through narrow village streets when we are marching against the +enemy?" + +"I intended to re-form them beyond the village, your excellency," +answered the general. + +Kutuzov laughed bitterly. + +"You'll make a fine thing of it, deploying in sight of the enemy! +Very fine!" + +"The enemy is still far away, your excellency. According to the +dispositions..." + +"The dispositions!" exclaimed Kutuzov bitterly. "Who told you +that?... Kindly do as you are ordered." + +"Yes, sir." + +"My dear fellow," Nesvitski whispered to Prince Andrew, "the old +man is as surly as a dog." + +An Austrian officer in a white uniform with green plumes in his hat +galloped up to Kutuzov and asked in the Emperor's name had the fourth +column advanced into action. + +Kutuzov turned round without answering and his eye happened to fall +upon Prince Andrew, who was beside him. Seeing him, Kutuzov's +malevolent and caustic expression softened, as if admitting that what +was being done was not his adjutant's fault, and still not answering +the Austrian adjutant, he addressed Bolkonski. + +"Go, my dear fellow, and see whether the third division has passed the +village. Tell it to stop and await my orders." + +Hardly had Prince Andrew started than he stopped him. + +"And ask whether sharpshooters have been posted," he added. "What +are they doing? What are they doing?" he murmured to himself, still +not replying to the Austrian. + +Prince Andrew galloped off to execute the order. + +Overtaking the battalions that continued to advance, he stopped +the third division and convinced himself that there really were no +sharpshooters in front of our columns. The colonel at the head of the +regiment was much surprised at the commander in chief's order to throw +out skirmishers. He had felt perfectly sure that there were other troops +in front of him and that the enemy must be at least six miles away. +There was really nothing to be seen in front except a barren descent +hidden by dense mist. Having given orders in the commander in chief's +name to rectify this omission, Prince Andrew galloped back. Kutuzov +still in the same place, his stout body resting heavily in the saddle +with the lassitude of age, sat yawning wearily with closed eyes. The +troops were no longer moving, but stood with the butts of their muskets +on the ground. + +"All right, all right!" he said to Prince Andrew, and turned to a +general who, watch in hand, was saying it was time they started as all +the left-flank columns had already descended. + +"Plenty of time, your excellency," muttered Kutuzov in the midst of +a yawn. "Plenty of time," he repeated. + +Just then at a distance behind Kutuzov was heard the sound of regiments +saluting, and this sound rapidly came nearer along the whole extended +line of the advancing Russian columns. Evidently the person they were +greeting was riding quickly. When the soldiers of the regiment in front +of which Kutuzov was standing began to shout, he rode a little to one +side and looked round with a frown. Along the road from Pratzen galloped +what looked like a squadron of horsemen in various uniforms. Two of them +rode side by side in front, at full gallop. One in a black uniform with +white plumes in his hat rode a bobtailed chestnut horse, the other who +was in a white uniform rode a black one. These were the two Emperors +followed by their suites. Kutuzov, affecting the manners of an old +soldier at the front, gave the command "Attention!" and rode up +to the Emperors with a salute. His whole appearance and manner were +suddenly transformed. He put on the air of a subordinate who obeys +without reasoning. With an affectation of respect which evidently struck +Alexander unpleasantly, he rode up and saluted. + +This unpleasant impression merely flitted over the young and happy face +of the Emperor like a cloud of haze across a clear sky and vanished. +After his illness he looked rather thinner that day than on the field +of Olmutz where Bolkonski had seen him for the first time abroad, but +there was still the same bewitching combination of majesty and mildness +in his fine gray eyes, and on his delicate lips the same capacity for +varying expression and the same prevalent appearance of goodhearted +innocent youth. + +At the Olmutz review he had seemed more majestic; here he seemed +brighter and more energetic. He was slightly flushed after galloping two +miles, and reining in his horse he sighed restfully and looked round +at the faces of his suite, young and animated as his own. Czartoryski, +Novosiltsev, Prince Volkonsky, Strogonov, and the others, all richly +dressed gay young men on splendid, well-groomed, fresh, only slightly +heated horses, exchanging remarks and smiling, had stopped behind the +Emperor. The Emperor Francis, a rosy, long faced young man, sat very +erect on his handsome black horse, looking about him in a leisurely and +preoccupied manner. He beckoned to one of his white adjutants and asked +some question--"Most likely he is asking at what o'clock they +started," thought Prince Andrew, watching his old acquaintance with +a smile he could not repress as he recalled his reception at Brunn. +In the Emperors' suite were the picked young orderly officers of the +Guard and line regiments, Russian and Austrian. Among them were grooms +leading the Tsar's beautiful relay horses covered with embroidered +cloths. + +As when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters +a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of +success reached Kutuzov's cheerless staff with the galloping advent +of all these brilliant young men. + +"Why aren't you beginning, Michael Ilarionovich?" said the +Emperor Alexander hurriedly to Kutuzov, glancing courteously at the +same time at the Emperor Francis. + +"I am waiting, Your Majesty," answered Kutuzov, bending forward +respectfully. + +The Emperor, frowning slightly, bent his ear forward as if he had not +quite heard. + +"Waiting, Your Majesty," repeated Kutuzov. (Prince Andrew noted +that Kutuzov's upper lip twitched unnaturally as he said the +word "waiting.") "Not all the columns have formed up yet, Your +Majesty." + +The Tsar heard but obviously did not like the reply; he shrugged his +rather round shoulders and glanced at Novosiltsev who was near him, as +if complaining of Kutuzov. + +"You know, Michael Ilarionovich, we are not on the Empress' Field +where a parade does not begin till all the troops are assembled," said +the Tsar with another glance at the Emperor Francis, as if inviting +him if not to join in at least to listen to what he was saying. But the +Emperor Francis continued to look about him and did not listen. + +"That is just why I do not begin, sire," said Kutuzov in a +resounding voice, apparently to preclude the possibility of not being +heard, and again something in his face twitched--"That is just why +I do not begin, sire, because we are not on parade and not on the +Empress' Field," said he clearly and distinctly. + +In the Emperor's suite all exchanged rapid looks that expressed +dissatisfaction and reproach. "Old though he may be, he should not, he +certainly should not, speak like that," their glances seemed to say. + +The Tsar looked intently and observantly into Kutuzov's eye +waiting to hear whether he would say anything more. But Kutuzov, with +respectfully bowed head, seemed also to be waiting. The silence lasted +for about a minute. + +"However, if you command it, Your Majesty," said Kutuzov, lifting +his head and again assuming his former tone of a dull, unreasoning, but +submissive general. + +He touched his horse and having called Miloradovich, the commander of +the column, gave him the order to advance. + +The troops again began to move, and two battalions of the Novgorod and +one of the Apsheron regiment went forward past the Emperor. + +As this Apsheron battalion marched by, the red-faced Miloradovich, +without his greatcoat, with his Orders on his breast and an enormous +tuft of plumes in his cocked hat worn on one side with its corners front +and back, galloped strenuously forward, and with a dashing salute reined +in his horse before the Emperor. + +"God be with you, general!" said the Emperor. + +"Ma foi, sire, nous ferons ce qui sera dans notre possibilite, +sire," * he answered gaily, raising nevertheless ironic smiles among +the gentlemen of the Tsar's suite by his poor French. + + * "Indeed, Sire, we shall do everything it is possible to + do, Sire." + + +Miloradovich wheeled his horse sharply and stationed himself a little +behind the Emperor. The Apsheron men, excited by the Tsar's presence, +passed in step before the Emperors and their suites at a bold, brisk +pace. + +"Lads!" shouted Miloradovich in a loud, self-confident, and cheery +voice, obviously so elated by the sound of firing, by the prospect of +battle, and by the sight of the gallant Apsherons, his comrades in +Suvorov's time, now passing so gallantly before the Emperors, that he +forgot the sovereigns' presence. "Lads, it's not the first village +you've had to take," cried he. + +"Glad to do our best!" shouted the soldiers. + +The Emperor's horse started at the sudden cry. This horse that had +carried the sovereign at reviews in Russia bore him also here on the +field of Austerlitz, enduring the heedless blows of his left foot and +pricking its ears at the sound of shots just as it had done on the +Empress' Field, not understanding the significance of the firing, nor +of the nearness of the Emperor Francis' black cob, nor of all that was +being said, thought, and felt that day by its rider. + +The Emperor turned with a smile to one of his followers and made a +remark to him, pointing to the gallant Apsherons. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +Kutuzov accompanied by his adjutants rode at a walking pace behind the +carabineers. + +When he had gone less than half a mile in the rear of the column he +stopped at a solitary, deserted house that had probably once been an +inn, where two roads parted. Both of them led downhill and troops were +marching along both. + +The fog had begun to clear and enemy troops were already dimly visible +about a mile and a half off on the opposite heights. Down below, on +the left, the firing became more distinct. Kutuzov had stopped and was +speaking to an Austrian general. Prince Andrew, who was a little behind +looking at them, turned to an adjutant to ask him for a field glass. + +"Look, look!" said this adjutant, looking not at the troops in the +distance, but down the hill before him. "It's the French!" + +The two generals and the adjutant took hold of the field glass, trying +to snatch it from one another. The expression on all their faces +suddenly changed to one of horror. The French were supposed to be a +mile and a half away, but had suddenly and unexpectedly appeared just in +front of us. + +"It's the enemy?... No!... Yes, see it is!... for certain.... But +how is that?" said different voices. + +With the naked eye Prince Andrew saw below them to the right, not more +than five hundred paces from where Kutuzov was standing, a dense French +column coming up to meet the Apsherons. + +"Here it is! The decisive moment has arrived. My turn has come," +thought Prince Andrew, and striking his horse he rode up to Kutuzov. + +"The Apsherons must be stopped, your excellency," cried he. But at +that very instant a cloud of smoke spread all round, firing was heard +quite close at hand, and a voice of naive terror barely two steps from +Prince Andrew shouted, "Brothers! All's lost!" And at this as if +at a command, everyone began to run. + +Confused and ever-increasing crowds were running back to where five +minutes before the troops had passed the Emperors. Not only would it +have been difficult to stop that crowd, it was even impossible not to +be carried back with it oneself. Bolkonski only tried not to lose +touch with it, and looked around bewildered and unable to grasp what was +happening in front of him. Nesvitski with an angry face, red and unlike +himself, was shouting to Kutuzov that if he did not ride away at once +he would certainly be taken prisoner. Kutuzov remained in the same +place and without answering drew out a handkerchief. Blood was flowing +from his cheek. Prince Andrew forced his way to him. + +"You are wounded?" he asked, hardly able to master the trembling of +his lower jaw. + +"The wound is not here, it is there!" said Kutuzov, pressing the +handkerchief to his wounded cheek and pointing to the fleeing soldiers. +"Stop them!" he shouted, and at the same moment, probably realizing +that it was impossible to stop them, spurred his horse and rode to the +right. + +A fresh wave of the flying mob caught him and bore him back with it. + +The troops were running in such a dense mass that once surrounded by +them it was difficult to get out again. One was shouting, "Get on! +Why are you hindering us?" Another in the same place turned round and +fired in the air; a third was striking the horse Kutuzov himself rode. +Having by a great effort got away to the left from that flood of men, +Kutuzov, with his suite diminished by more than half, rode toward a +sound of artillery fire near by. Having forced his way out of the crowd +of fugitives, Prince Andrew, trying to keep near Kutuzov, saw on the +slope of the hill amid the smoke a Russian battery that was still firing +and Frenchmen running toward it. Higher up stood some Russian infantry, +neither moving forward to protect the battery nor backward with the +fleeing crowd. A mounted general separated himself from the infantry and +approached Kutuzov. Of Kutuzov's suite only four remained. They were +all pale and exchanged looks in silence. + +"Stop those wretches!" gasped Kutuzov to the regimental commander, +pointing to the flying soldiers; but at that instant, as if to punish +him for those words, bullets flew hissing across the regiment and across +Kutuzov's suite like a flock of little birds. + +The French had attacked the battery and, seeing Kutuzov, were firing +at him. After this volley the regimental commander clutched at his leg; +several soldiers fell, and a second lieutenant who was holding the +flag let it fall from his hands. It swayed and fell, but caught on the +muskets of the nearest soldiers. The soldiers started firing without +orders. + +"Oh! Oh! Oh!" groaned Kutuzov despairingly and looked around.... +"Bolkonski!" he whispered, his voice trembling from a consciousness +of the feebleness of age, "Bolkonski!" he whispered, pointing to +the disordered battalion and at the enemy, "what's that?" + +But before he had finished speaking, Prince Andrew, feeling tears of +shame and anger choking him, had already leapt from his horse and run to +the standard. + +"Forward, lads!" he shouted in a voice piercing as a child's. + +"Here it is!" thought he, seizing the staff of the standard and +hearing with pleasure the whistle of bullets evidently aimed at him. +Several soldiers fell. + +"Hurrah!" shouted Prince Andrew, and, scarcely able to hold up +the heavy standard, he ran forward with full confidence that the whole +battalion would follow him. + +And really he only ran a few steps alone. One soldier moved and then +another and soon the whole battalion ran forward shouting "Hurrah!" +and overtook him. A sergeant of the battalion ran up and took the flag +that was swaying from its weight in Prince Andrew's hands, but he +was immediately killed. Prince Andrew again seized the standard and, +dragging it by the staff, ran on with the battalion. In front he saw our +artillerymen, some of whom were fighting, while others, having abandoned +their guns, were running toward him. He also saw French infantry +soldiers who were seizing the artillery horses and turning the guns +round. Prince Andrew and the battalion were already within twenty paces +of the cannon. He heard the whistle of bullets above him unceasingly and +to right and left of him soldiers continually groaned and dropped. But +he did not look at them: he looked only at what was going on in front +of him--at the battery. He now saw clearly the figure of a red-haired +gunner with his shako knocked awry, pulling one end of a mop while +a French soldier tugged at the other. He could distinctly see the +distraught yet angry expression on the faces of these two men, who +evidently did not realize what they were doing. + +"What are they about?" thought Prince Andrew as he gazed at them. +"Why doesn't the red-haired gunner run away as he is unarmed? +Why doesn't the Frenchman stab him? He will not get away before the +Frenchman remembers his bayonet and stabs him...." + +And really another French soldier, trailing his musket, ran up to +the struggling men, and the fate of the red-haired gunner, who had +triumphantly secured the mop and still did not realize what awaited him, +was about to be decided. But Prince Andrew did not see how it ended. It +seemed to him as though one of the soldiers near him hit him on the head +with the full swing of a bludgeon. It hurt a little, but the worst of +it was that the pain distracted him and prevented his seeing what he had +been looking at. + +"What's this? Am I falling? My legs are giving way," thought he, +and fell on his back. He opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle +of the Frenchmen with the gunners ended, whether the red-haired gunner +had been killed or not and whether the cannon had been captured or +saved. But he saw nothing. Above him there was now nothing but the +sky--the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray +clouds gliding slowly across it. "How quiet, peaceful, and solemn; not +at all as I ran," thought Prince Andrew--"not as we ran, shouting +and fighting, not at all as the gunner and the Frenchman with frightened +and angry faces struggled for the mop: how differently do those clouds +glide across that lofty infinite sky! How was it I did not see that +lofty sky before? And how happy I am to have found it at last! Yes! All +is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. There is nothing, +nothing, but that. But even it does not exist, there is nothing but +quiet and peace. Thank God!..." + + + + + +CHAPTER XVII + +On our right flank commanded by Bagration, at nine o'clock the battle +had not yet begun. Not wishing to agree to Dolgorukov's demand to +commence the action, and wishing to avert responsibility from himself, +Prince Bagration proposed to Dolgorukov to send to inquire of the +commander in chief. Bagration knew that as the distance between the two +flanks was more than six miles, even if the messenger were not killed +(which he very likely would be), and found the commander in chief +(which would be very difficult), he would not be able to get back before +evening. + +Bagration cast his large, expressionless, sleepy eyes round his suite, +and the boyish face Rostov, breathless with excitement and hope, was +the first to catch his eye. He sent him. + +"And if I should meet His Majesty before I meet the commander in +chief, your excellency?" said Rostov, with his hand to his cap. + +"You can give the message to His Majesty," said Dolgorukov, +hurriedly interrupting Bagration. + +On being relieved from picket duty Rostov had managed to get a few +hours' sleep before morning and felt cheerful, bold, and resolute, +with elasticity of movement, faith in his good fortune, and generally in +that state of mind which makes everything seem possible, pleasant, and +easy. + +All his wishes were being fulfilled that morning: there was to be a +general engagement in which he was taking part, more than that, he was +orderly to the bravest general, and still more, he was going with a +message to Kutuzov, perhaps even to the sovereign himself. The morning +was bright, he had a good horse under him, and his heart was full of +joy and happiness. On receiving the order he gave his horse the rein +and galloped along the line. At first he rode along the line of +Bagration's troops, which had not yet advanced into action but were +standing motionless; then he came to the region occupied by Uvarov's +cavalry and here he noticed a stir and signs of preparation for battle; +having passed Uvarov's cavalry he clearly heard the sound of cannon +and musketry ahead of him. The firing grew louder and louder. + +In the fresh morning air were now heard, not two or three musket shots +at irregular intervals as before, followed by one or two cannon shots, +but a roll of volleys of musketry from the slopes of the hill before +Pratzen, interrupted by such frequent reports of cannon that sometimes +several of them were not separated from one another but merged into a +general roar. + +He could see puffs of musketry smoke that seemed to chase one another +down the hillsides, and clouds of cannon smoke rolling, spreading, +and mingling with one another. He could also, by the gleam of bayonets +visible through the smoke, make out moving masses of infantry and narrow +lines of artillery with green caissons. + +Rostov stopped his horse for a moment on a hillock to see what was +going on, but strain his attention as he would he could not understand +or make out anything of what was happening: there in the smoke men of +some sort were moving about, in front and behind moved lines of troops; +but why, whither, and who they were, it was impossible to make out. +These sights and sounds had no depressing or intimidating effect on him; +on the contrary, they stimulated his energy and determination. + +"Go on! Go on! Give it them!" he mentally exclaimed at these sounds, +and again proceeded to gallop along the line, penetrating farther and +farther into the region where the army was already in action. + +"How it will be there I don't know, but all will be well!" thought +Rostov. + +After passing some Austrian troops he noticed that the next part of the +line (the Guards) was already in action. + +"So much the better! I shall see it close," he thought. + +He was riding almost along the front line. A handful of men came +galloping toward him. They were our Uhlans who with disordered +ranks were returning from the attack. Rostov got out of their way, +involuntarily noticed that one of them was bleeding, and galloped on. + +"That is no business of mine," he thought. He had not ridden many +hundred yards after that before he saw to his left, across the whole +width of the field, an enormous mass of cavalry in brilliant white +uniforms, mounted on black horses, trotting straight toward him and +across his path. Rostov put his horse to full gallop to get out of the +way of these men, and he would have got clear had they continued at the +same speed, but they kept increasing their pace, so that some of the +horses were already galloping. Rostov heard the thud of their hoofs +and the jingle of their weapons and saw their horses, their figures, and +even their faces, more and more distinctly. They were our Horse Guards, +advancing to attack the French cavalry that was coming to meet them. + +The Horse Guards were galloping, but still holding in their horses. +Rostov could already see their faces and heard the command: +"Charge!" shouted by an officer who was urging his thoroughbred to +full speed. Rostov, fearing to be crushed or swept into the attack on +the French, galloped along the front as hard as his horse could go, but +still was not in time to avoid them. + +The last of the Horse Guards, a huge pockmarked fellow, frowned angrily +on seeing Rostov before him, with whom he would inevitably collide. +This Guardsman would certainly have bowled Rostov and his Bedouin over +(Rostov felt himself quite tiny and weak compared to these gigantic men +and horses) had it not occurred to Rostov to flourish his whip before +the eyes of the Guardsman's horse. The heavy black horse, sixteen +hands high, shied, throwing back its ears; but the pockmarked Guardsman +drove his huge spurs in violently, and the horse, flourishing its tail +and extending its neck, galloped on yet faster. Hardly had the Horse +Guards passed Rostov before he heard them shout, "Hurrah!" and +looking back saw that their foremost ranks were mixed up with some +foreign cavalry with red epaulets, probably French. He could see nothing +more, for immediately afterwards cannon began firing from somewhere and +smoke enveloped everything. + +At that moment, as the Horse Guards, having passed him, disappeared in +the smoke, Rostov hesitated whether to gallop after them or to go where +he was sent. This was the brilliant charge of the Horse Guards that +amazed the French themselves. Rostov was horrified to hear later that +of all that mass of huge and handsome men, of all those brilliant, +rich youths, officers and cadets, who had galloped past him on their +thousand-ruble horses, only eighteen were left after the charge. + +"Why should I envy them? My chance is not lost, and maybe I shall see +the Emperor immediately!" thought Rostov and galloped on. + +When he came level with the Foot Guards he noticed that about them and +around them cannon balls were flying, of which he was aware not so +much because he heard their sound as because he saw uneasiness on +the soldiers' faces and unnatural warlike solemnity on those of the +officers. + +Passing behind one of the lines of a regiment of Foot Guards he heard a +voice calling him by name. + +"Rostov!" + +"What?" he answered, not recognizing Boris. + +"I say, we've been in the front line! Our regiment attacked!" said +Boris with the happy smile seen on the faces of young men who have been +under fire for the first time. + +Rostov stopped. + +"Have you?" he said. "Well, how did it go?" + +"We drove them back!" said Boris with animation, growing talkative. +"Can you imagine it?" and he began describing how the Guards, having +taken up their position and seeing troops before them, thought they were +Austrians, and all at once discovered from the cannon balls discharged +by those troops that they were themselves in the front line and had +unexpectedly to go into action. Rostov without hearing Boris to the +end spurred his horse. + +"Where are you off to?" asked Boris. + +"With a message to His Majesty." + +"There he is!" said Boris, thinking Rostov had said "His +Highness," and pointing to the Grand Duke who with his high shoulders +and frowning brows stood a hundred paces away from them in his helmet +and Horse Guards' jacket, shouting something to a pale, white +uniformed Austrian officer. + +"But that's the Grand Duke, and I want the commander in chief or the +Emperor," said Rostov, and was about to spur his horse. + +"Count! Count!" shouted Berg who ran up from the other side as eager +as Boris. "Count! I am wounded in my right hand" (and he showed his +bleeding hand with a handkerchief tied round it) "and I remained at +the front. I held my sword in my left hand, Count. All our family--the +von Bergs--have been knights!" + +He said something more, but Rostov did not wait to hear it and rode +away. + +Having passed the Guards and traversed an empty space, Rostov, to avoid +again getting in front of the first line as he had done when the Horse +Guards charged, followed the line of reserves, going far round the place +where the hottest musket fire and cannonade were heard. Suddenly he +heard musket fire quite close in front of him and behind our troops, +where he could never have expected the enemy to be. + +"What can it be?" he thought. "The enemy in the rear of our army? +Impossible!" And suddenly he was seized by a panic of fear for himself +and for the issue of the whole battle. "But be that what it may," +he reflected, "there is no riding round it now. I must look for the +commander in chief here, and if all is lost it is for me to perish with +the rest." + +The foreboding of evil that had suddenly come over Rostov was more and +more confirmed the farther he rode into the region behind the village of +Pratzen, which was full of troops of all kinds. + +"What does it mean? What is it? Whom are they firing at? Who is +firing?" Rostov kept asking as he came up to Russian and Austrian +soldiers running in confused crowds across his path. + +"The devil knows! They've killed everybody! It's all up now!" +he was told in Russian, German, and Czech by the crowd of fugitives who +understood what was happening as little as he did. + +"Kill the Germans!" shouted one. + +"May the devil take them--the traitors!" + +"Zum Henker diese Russen!" * muttered a German. + + * "Hang these Russians!" + + +Several wounded men passed along the road, and words of abuse, screams, +and groans mingled in a general hubbub, then the firing died down. +Rostov learned later that Russian and Austrian soldiers had been firing +at one another. + +"My God! What does it all mean?" thought he. "And here, where at +any moment the Emperor may see them.... But no, these must be only a +handful of scoundrels. It will soon be over, it can't be that, it +can't be! Only to get past them quicker, quicker!" + +The idea of defeat and flight could not enter Rostov's head. Though +he saw French cannon and French troops on the Pratzen Heights just where +he had been ordered to look for the commander in chief, he could not, +did not wish to, believe that. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVIII + +Rostov had been ordered to look for Kutuzov and the Emperor near the +village of Pratzen. But neither they nor a single commanding officer +were there, only disorganized crowds of troops of various kinds. He +urged on his already weary horse to get quickly past these crowds, but +the farther he went the more disorganized they were. The highroad on +which he had come out was thronged with caleches, carriages of all +sorts, and Russian and Austrian soldiers of all arms, some wounded and +some not. This whole mass droned and jostled in confusion under the +dismal influence of cannon balls flying from the French batteries +stationed on the Pratzen Heights. + +"Where is the Emperor? Where is Kutuzov?" Rostov kept asking +everyone he could stop, but got no answer from anyone. + +At last seizing a soldier by his collar he forced him to answer. + +"Eh, brother! They've all bolted long ago!" said the soldier, +laughing for some reason and shaking himself free. + +Having left that soldier who was evidently drunk, Rostov stopped the +horse of a batman or groom of some important personage and began to +question him. The man announced that the Tsar had been driven in a +carriage at full speed about an hour before along that very road and +that he was dangerously wounded. + +"It can't be!" said Rostov. "It must have been someone else." + +"I saw him myself," replied the man with a self-confident smile of +derision. "I ought to know the Emperor by now, after the times I've +seen him in Petersburg. I saw him just as I see you.... There he sat in +the carriage as pale as anything. How they made the four black horses +fly! Gracious me, they did rattle past! It's time I knew the Imperial +horses and Ilya Ivanych. I don't think Ilya drives anyone except +the Tsar!" + +Rostov let go of the horse and was about to ride on, when a wounded +officer passing by addressed him: + +"Who is it you want?" he asked. "The commander in chief? He was +killed by a cannon ball--struck in the breast before our regiment." + +"Not killed--wounded!" another officer corrected him. + +"Who? Kutuzov?" asked Rostov. + +"Not Kutuzov, but what's his name--well, never mind... there are +not many left alive. Go that way, to that village, all the commanders +are there," said the officer, pointing to the village of Hosjeradek, +and he walked on. + +Rostov rode on at a footpace not knowing why or to whom he was now +going. The Emperor was wounded, the battle lost. It was impossible to +doubt it now. Rostov rode in the direction pointed out to him, in which +he saw turrets and a church. What need to hurry? What was he now to say +to the Tsar or to Kutuzov, even if they were alive and unwounded? + +"Take this road, your honor, that way you will be killed at once!" a +soldier shouted to him. "They'd kill you there!" + +"Oh, what are you talking about?" said another. "Where is he to +go? That way is nearer." + +Rostov considered, and then went in the direction where they said he +would be killed. + +"It's all the same now. If the Emperor is wounded, am I to try to +save myself?" he thought. He rode on to the region where the greatest +number of men had perished in fleeing from Pratzen. The French had not +yet occupied that region, and the Russians--the uninjured and slightly +wounded--had left it long ago. All about the field, like heaps of +manure on well-kept plowland, lay from ten to fifteen dead and wounded +to each couple of acres. The wounded crept together in twos and threes +and one could hear their distressing screams and groans, sometimes +feigned--or so it seemed to Rostov. He put his horse to a trot to +avoid seeing all these suffering men, and he felt afraid--afraid not +for his life, but for the courage he needed and which he knew would not +stand the sight of these unfortunates. + +The French, who had ceased firing at this field strewn with dead and +wounded where there was no one left to fire at, on seeing an adjutant +riding over it trained a gun on him and fired several shots. The +sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around +him merged in Rostov's mind into a single feeling of terror and pity +for himself. He remembered his mother's last letter. "What would she +feel," thought he, "if she saw me here now on this field with the +cannon aimed at me?" + +In the village of Hosjeradek there were Russian troops retiring from +the field of battle, who though still in some confusion were less +disordered. The French cannon did not reach there and the musketry fire +sounded far away. Here everyone clearly saw and said that the battle +was lost. No one whom Rostov asked could tell him where the Emperor +or Kutuzov was. Some said the report that the Emperor was wounded was +correct, others that it was not, and explained the false rumor that had +spread by the fact that the Emperor's carriage had really galloped +from the field of battle with the pale and terrified Ober-Hofmarschal +Count Tolstoy, who had ridden out to the battlefield with others in +the Emperor's suite. One officer told Rostov that he had seen someone +from headquarters behind the village to the left, and thither Rostov +rode, not hoping to find anyone but merely to ease his conscience. When +he had ridden about two miles and had passed the last of the Russian +troops, he saw, near a kitchen garden with a ditch round it, two men +on horseback facing the ditch. One with a white plume in his hat seemed +familiar to Rostov; the other on a beautiful chestnut horse (which +Rostov fancied he had seen before) rode up to the ditch, struck his +horse with his spurs, and giving it the rein leaped lightly over. Only +a little earth crumbled from the bank under the horse's hind hoofs. +Turning the horse sharply, he again jumped the ditch, and deferentially +addressed the horseman with the white plumes, evidently suggesting +that he should do the same. The rider, whose figure seemed familiar +to Rostov and involuntarily riveted his attention, made a gesture of +refusal with his head and hand and by that gesture Rostov instantly +recognized his lamented and adored monarch. + +"But it can't be he, alone in the midst of this empty field!" +thought Rostov. At that moment Alexander turned his head and Rostov +saw the beloved features that were so deeply engraved on his memory. The +Emperor was pale, his cheeks sunken and his eyes hollow, but the charm, +the mildness of his features, was all the greater. Rostov was happy +in the assurance that the rumors about the Emperor being wounded were +false. He was happy to be seeing him. He knew that he might and even +ought to go straight to him and give the message Dolgorukov had ordered +him to deliver. + +But as a youth in love trembles, is unnerved, and dares not utter the +thoughts he has dreamed of for nights, but looks around for help or a +chance of delay and flight when the longed-for moment comes and he is +alone with her, so Rostov, now that he had attained what he had longed +for more than anything else in the world, did not know how to approach +the Emperor, and a thousand reasons occurred to him why it would be +inconvenient, unseemly, and impossible to do so. + +"What! It is as if I were glad of a chance to take advantage of +his being alone and despondent! A strange face may seem unpleasant or +painful to him at this moment of sorrow; besides, what can I say to him +now, when my heart fails me and my mouth feels dry at the mere sight +of him?" Not one of the innumerable speeches addressed to the Emperor +that he had composed in his imagination could he now recall. Those +speeches were intended for quite other conditions, they were for the +most part to be spoken at a moment of victory and triumph, generally +when he was dying of wounds and the sovereign had thanked him for heroic +deeds, and while dying he expressed the love his actions had proved. + +"Besides how can I ask the Emperor for his instructions for the right +flank now that it is nearly four o'clock and the battle is lost? +No, certainly I must not approach him, I must not intrude on his +reflections. Better die a thousand times than risk receiving an unkind +look or bad opinion from him," Rostov decided; and sorrowfully and +with a heart full despair he rode away, continually looking back at the +Tsar, who still remained in the same attitude of indecision. + +While Rostov was thus arguing with himself and riding sadly away, +Captain von Toll chanced to ride to the same spot, and seeing the +Emperor at once rode up to him, offered his services, and assisted him +to cross the ditch on foot. The Emperor, wishing to rest and feeling +unwell, sat down under an apple tree and von Toll remained beside him. +Rostov from a distance saw with envy and remorse how von Toll spoke +long and warmly to the Emperor and how the Emperor, evidently weeping, +covered his eyes with his hand and pressed von Toll's hand. + +"And I might have been in his place!" thought Rostov, and hardly +restraining his tears of pity for the Emperor, he rode on in utter +despair, not knowing where to or why he was now riding. + +His despair was all the greater from feeling that his own weakness was +the cause of his grief. + +He might... not only might but should, have gone up to the sovereign. It +was a unique chance to show his devotion to the Emperor and he had not +made use of it.... "What have I done?" thought he. And he turned +round and galloped back to the place where he had seen the Emperor, but +there was no one beyond the ditch now. Only some carts and carriages +were passing by. From one of the drivers he learned that Kutuzov's +staff were not far off, in the village the vehicles were going to. +Rostov followed them. In front of him walked Kutuzov's groom leading +horses in horsecloths. Then came a cart, and behind that walked an old, +bandy-legged domestic serf in a peaked cap and sheepskin coat. + +"Tit! I say, Tit!" said the groom. + +"What?" answered the old man absent-mindedly. + +"Go, Tit! Thresh a bit!" + +"Oh, you fool!" said the old man, spitting angrily. Some time passed +in silence, and then the same joke was repeated. + + +Before five in the evening the battle had been lost at all points. More +than a hundred cannon were already in the hands of the French. + +Przebyszewski and his corps had laid down their arms. Other columns +after losing half their men were retreating in disorderly confused +masses. + +The remains of Langeron's and Dokhturov's mingled forces were +crowding around the dams and banks of the ponds near the village of +Augesd. + +After five o'clock it was only at the Augesd Dam that a hot cannonade +(delivered by the French alone) was still to be heard from numerous +batteries ranged on the slopes of the Pratzen Heights, directed at our +retreating forces. + +In the rearguard, Dokhturov and others rallying some battalions kept up +a musketry fire at the French cavalry that was pursuing our troops. It +was growing dusk. On the narrow Augesd Dam where for so many years the +old miller had been accustomed to sit in his tasseled cap peacefully +angling, while his grandson, with shirt sleeves rolled up, handled the +floundering silvery fish in the watering can, on that dam over which for +so many years Moravians in shaggy caps and blue jackets had peacefully +driven their two-horse carts loaded with wheat and had returned dusty +with flour whitening their carts--on that narrow dam amid the wagons +and the cannon, under the horses' hoofs and between the wagon wheels, +men disfigured by fear of death now crowded together, crushing one +another, dying, stepping over the dying and killing one another, only to +move on a few steps and be killed themselves in the same way. + +Every ten seconds a cannon ball flew compressing the air around, or +a shell burst in the midst of that dense throng, killing some and +splashing with blood those near them. + +Dolokhov--now an officer--wounded in the arm, and on foot, with +the regimental commander on horseback and some ten men of his company, +represented all that was left of that whole regiment. Impelled by the +crowd, they had got wedged in at the approach to the dam and, jammed in +on all sides, had stopped because a horse in front had fallen under a +cannon and the crowd were dragging it out. A cannon ball killed someone +behind them, another fell in front and splashed Dolokhov with blood. +The crowd, pushing forward desperately, squeezed together, moved a few +steps, and again stopped. + +"Move on a hundred yards and we are certainly saved, remain here +another two minutes and it is certain death," thought each one. + +Dolokhov who was in the midst of the crowd forced his way to the edge +of the dam, throwing two soldiers off their feet, and ran onto the +slippery ice that covered the millpool. + +"Turn this way!" he shouted, jumping over the ice which creaked +under him; "turn this way!" he shouted to those with the gun. "It +bears!..." + +The ice bore him but it swayed and creaked, and it was plain that it +would give way not only under a cannon or a crowd, but very soon even +under his weight alone. The men looked at him and pressed to the +bank, hesitating to step onto the ice. The general on horseback at the +entrance to the dam raised his hand and opened his mouth to address +Dolokhov. Suddenly a cannon ball hissed so low above the crowd that +everyone ducked. It flopped into something moist, and the general fell +from his horse in a pool of blood. Nobody gave him a look or thought of +raising him. + +"Get onto the ice, over the ice! Go on! Turn! Don't you hear? Go +on!" innumerable voices suddenly shouted after the ball had struck +the general, the men themselves not knowing what, or why, they were +shouting. + +One of the hindmost guns that was going onto the dam turned off onto the +ice. Crowds of soldiers from the dam began running onto the frozen pond. +The ice gave way under one of the foremost soldiers, and one leg slipped +into the water. He tried to right himself but fell in up to his waist. +The nearest soldiers shrank back, the gun driver stopped his horse, but +from behind still came the shouts: "Onto the ice, why do you stop? Go +on! Go on!" And cries of horror were heard in the crowd. The soldiers +near the gun waved their arms and beat the horses to make them turn and +move on. The horses moved off the bank. The ice, that had held under +those on foot, collapsed in a great mass, and some forty men who were on +it dashed, some forward and some back, drowning one another. + +Still the cannon balls continued regularly to whistle and flop onto the +ice and into the water and oftenest of all among the crowd that covered +the dam, the pond, and the bank. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIX + +On the Pratzen Heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his +hand, lay Prince Andrew Bolkonski bleeding profusely and unconsciously +uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan. + +Toward evening he ceased moaning and became quite still. He did not know +how long his unconsciousness lasted. Suddenly he again felt that he was +alive and suffering from a burning, lacerating pain in his head. + +"Where is it, that lofty sky that I did not know till now, but saw +today?" was his first thought. "And I did not know this suffering +either," he thought. "Yes, I did not know anything, anything at all +till now. But where am I?" + +He listened and heard the sound of approaching horses, and voices +speaking French. He opened his eyes. Above him again was the same lofty +sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and +between them gleamed blue infinity. He did not turn his head and did not +see those who, judging by the sound of hoofs and voices, had ridden up +and stopped near him. + +It was Napoleon accompanied by two aides-de-camp. Bonaparte riding +over the battlefield had given final orders to strengthen the batteries +firing at the Augesd Dam and was looking at the killed and wounded left +on the field. + +"Fine men!" remarked Napoleon, looking at a dead Russian grenadier, +who, with his face buried in the ground and a blackened nape, lay on his +stomach with an already stiffened arm flung wide. + +"The ammunition for the guns in position is exhausted, Your +Majesty," said an adjutant who had come from the batteries that were +firing at Augesd. + +"Have some brought from the reserve," said Napoleon, and having gone +on a few steps he stopped before Prince Andrew, who lay on his back with +the flagstaff that had been dropped beside him. (The flag had already +been taken by the French as a trophy.) + +"That's a fine death!" said Napoleon as he gazed at Bolkonski. + +Prince Andrew understood that this was said of him and that it was +Napoleon who said it. He heard the speaker addressed as Sire. But he +heard the words as he might have heard the buzzing of a fly. Not only +did they not interest him, but he took no notice of them and at once +forgot them. His head was burning, he felt himself bleeding to death, +and he saw above him the remote, lofty, and everlasting sky. He knew it +was Napoleon--his hero--but at that moment Napoleon seemed to him +such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was passing now +between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over +it. At that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over +him, or what was said of him; he was only glad that people were standing +near him and only wished that they would help him and bring him back to +life, which seemed to him so beautiful now that he had today learned to +understand it so differently. He collected all his strength, to stir and +utter a sound. He feebly moved his leg and uttered a weak, sickly groan +which aroused his own pity. + +"Ah! He is alive," said Napoleon. "Lift this young man up and +carry him to the dressing station." + +Having said this, Napoleon rode on to meet Marshal Lannes, who, hat in +hand, rode up smiling to the Emperor to congratulate him on the victory. + +Prince Andrew remembered nothing more: he lost consciousness from the +terrible pain of being lifted onto the stretcher, the jolting while +being moved, and the probing of his wound at the dressing station. +He did not regain consciousness till late in the day, when with other +wounded and captured Russian officers he was carried to the hospital. +During this transfer he felt a little stronger and was able to look +about him and even speak. + +The first words he heard on coming to his senses were those of a French +convoy officer, who said rapidly: "We must halt here: the Emperor +will pass here immediately; it will please him to see these gentlemen +prisoners." + +"There are so many prisoners today, nearly the whole Russian army, +that he is probably tired of them," said another officer. + +"All the same! They say this one is the commander of all the Emperor +Alexander's Guards," said the first one, indicating a Russian +officer in the white uniform of the Horse Guards. + +Bolkonski recognized Prince Repnin whom he had met in Petersburg +society. Beside him stood a lad of nineteen, also a wounded officer of +the Horse Guards. + +Bonaparte, having come up at a gallop, stopped his horse. + +"Which is the senior?" he asked, on seeing the prisoners. + +They named the colonel, Prince Repnin. + +"You are the commander of the Emperor Alexander's regiment of Horse +Guards?" asked Napoleon. + +"I commanded a squadron," replied Repnin. + +"Your regiment fulfilled its duty honorably," said Napoleon. + +"The praise of a great commander is a soldier's highest reward," +said Repnin. + +"I bestow it with pleasure," said Napoleon. "And who is that young +man beside you?" + +Prince Repnin named Lieutenant Sukhtelen. + +After looking at him Napoleon smiled. + +"He's very young to come to meddle with us." + +"Youth is no hindrance to courage," muttered Sukhtelen in a failing +voice. + +"A splendid reply!" said Napoleon. "Young man, you will go far!" + +Prince Andrew, who had also been brought forward before the Emperor's +eyes to complete the show of prisoners, could not fail to attract his +attention. Napoleon apparently remembered seeing him on the battlefield +and, addressing him, again used the epithet "young man" that was +connected in his memory with Prince Andrew. + +"Well, and you, young man," said he. "How do you feel, mon +brave?" + +Though five minutes before, Prince Andrew had been able to say a few +words to the soldiers who were carrying him, now with his eyes fixed +straight on Napoleon, he was silent.... So insignificant at that moment +seemed to him all the interests that engrossed Napoleon, so mean did his +hero himself with his paltry vanity and joy in victory appear, +compared to the lofty, equitable, and kindly sky which he had seen and +understood, that he could not answer him. + +Everything seemed so futile and insignificant in comparison with the +stern and solemn train of thought that weakness from loss of blood, +suffering, and the nearness of death aroused in him. Looking into +Napoleon's eyes Prince Andrew thought of the insignificance of +greatness, the unimportance of life which no one could understand, and +the still greater unimportance of death, the meaning of which no one +alive could understand or explain. + +The Emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of +the officers as he went: "Have these gentlemen attended to and taken +to my bivouac; let my doctor, Larrey, examine their wounds. Au revoir, +Prince Repnin!" and he spurred his horse and galloped away. + +His face shone with self-satisfaction and pleasure. + +The soldiers who had carried Prince Andrew had noticed and taken the +little gold icon Princess Mary had hung round her brother's neck, but +seeing the favor the Emperor showed the prisoners, they now hastened to +return the holy image. + +Prince Andrew did not see how and by whom it was replaced, but the +little icon with its thin gold chain suddenly appeared upon his chest +outside his uniform. + +"It would be good," thought Prince Andrew, glancing at the icon his +sister had hung round his neck with such emotion and reverence, "it +would be good if everything were as clear and simple as it seems to +Mary. How good it would be to know where to seek for help in this life, +and what to expect after it beyond the grave! How happy and calm I +should be if I could now say: 'Lord, have mercy on me!'... But to +whom should I say that? Either to a Power indefinable, incomprehensible, +which I not only cannot address but which I cannot even express in +words--the Great All or Nothing-" said he to himself, "or to +that God who has been sewn into this amulet by Mary! There is nothing +certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything I +understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but +all-important." + +The stretchers moved on. At every jolt he again felt unendurable pain; +his feverishness increased and he grew delirious. Visions of his father, +wife, sister, and future son, and the tenderness he had felt the night +before the battle, the figure of the insignificant little Napoleon, and +above all this the lofty sky, formed the chief subjects of his delirious +fancies. + +The quiet home life and peaceful happiness of Bald Hills presented +itself to him. He was already enjoying that happiness when that +little Napoleon had suddenly appeared with his unsympathizing look of +shortsighted delight at the misery of others, and doubts and torments +had followed, and only the heavens promised peace. Toward morning +all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of +unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of Napoleon's doctor, +Larrey, was much more likely to end in death than in convalescence. + +"He is a nervous, bilious subject," said Larrey, "and will not +recover." + +And Prince Andrew, with others fatally wounded, was left to the care of +the inhabitants of the district. + + + + + +BOOK FOUR: 1806 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +Early in the year 1806 Nicholas Rostov returned home on leave. Denisov +was going home to Voronezh and Rostov persuaded him to travel with him +as far as Moscow and to stay with him there. Meeting a comrade at +the last post station but one before Moscow, Denisov had drunk three +bottles of wine with him and, despite the jolting ruts across the +snow-covered road, did not once wake up on the way to Moscow, but lay +at the bottom of the sleigh beside Rostov, who grew more and more +impatient the nearer they got to Moscow. + +"How much longer? How much longer? Oh, these insufferable streets, +shops, bakers' signboards, street lamps, and sleighs!" thought +Rostov, when their leave permits had been passed at the town gate and +they had entered Moscow. + +"Denisov! We're here! He's asleep," he added, leaning forward +with his whole body as if in that position he hoped to hasten the speed +of the sleigh. + +Denisov gave no answer. + +"There's the corner at the crossroads, where the cabman, Zakhar, +has his stand, and there's Zakhar himself and still the same horse! +And here's the little shop where we used to buy gingerbread! Can't +you hurry up? Now then!" + +"Which house is it?" asked the driver. + +"Why, that one, right at the end, the big one. Don't you see? +That's our house," said Rostov. "Of course, it's our house! +Denisov, Denisov! We're almost there!" + +Denisov raised his head, coughed, and made no answer. + +"Dmitri," said Rostov to his valet on the box, "those lights are +in our house, aren't they?" + +"Yes, sir, and there's a light in your father's study." + +"Then they've not gone to bed yet? What do you think? Mind now, +don't forget to put out my new coat," added Rostov, fingering his +new mustache. "Now then, get on," he shouted to the driver. "Do +wake up, Vaska!" he went on, turning to Denisov, whose head +was again nodding. "Come, get on! You shall have three rubles for +vodka--get on!" Rostov shouted, when the sleigh was only three +houses from his door. It seemed to him the horses were not moving at +all. At last the sleigh bore to the right, drew up at an entrance, and +Rostov saw overhead the old familiar cornice with a bit of plaster +broken off, the porch, and the post by the side of the pavement. He +sprang out before the sleigh stopped, and ran into the hall. The house +stood cold and silent, as if quite regardless of who had come to it. +There was no one in the hall. "Oh God! Is everyone all right?" +he thought, stopping for a moment with a sinking heart, and then +immediately starting to run along the hall and up the warped steps of +the familiar staircase. The well-known old door handle, which always +angered the countess when it was not properly cleaned, turned as loosely +as ever. A solitary tallow candle burned in the anteroom. + +Old Michael was asleep on the chest. Prokofy, the footman, who was +so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat +plaiting slippers out of cloth selvedges. He looked up at the opening +door and his expression of sleepy indifference suddenly changed to one +of delighted amazement. + +"Gracious heavens! The young count!" he cried, recognizing his +young master. "Can it be? My treasure!" and Prokofy, trembling with +excitement, rushed toward the drawing room door, probably in order to +announce him, but, changing his mind, came back and stooped to kiss the +young man's shoulder. + +"All well?" asked Rostov, drawing away his arm. + +"Yes, God be thanked! Yes! They've just finished supper. Let me have +a look at you, your excellency." + +"Is everything quite all right?" + +"The Lord be thanked, yes!" + +Rostov, who had completely forgotten Denisov, not wishing anyone to +forestall him, threw off his fur coat and ran on tiptoe through the +large dark ballroom. All was the same: there were the same old card +tables and the same chandelier with a cover over it; but someone had +already seen the young master, and, before he had reached the drawing +room, something flew out from a side door like a tornado and began +hugging and kissing him. Another and yet another creature of the same +kind sprang from a second door and a third; more hugging, more kissing, +more outcries, and tears of joy. He could not distinguish which was +Papa, which Natasha, and which Petya. Everyone shouted, talked, and +kissed him at the same time. Only his mother was not there, he noticed +that. + +"And I did not know... Nicholas... My darling!..." + +"Here he is... our own... Kolya, * dear fellow... How he has +changed!... Where are the candles?... Tea!..." + + * Nicholas. + +"And me, kiss me!" + +"Dearest... and me!" + +Sonya, Natasha, Petya, Anna Mikhaylovna, Vera, and the old count +were all hugging him, and the serfs, men and maids, flocked into the +room, exclaiming and oh-ing and ah-ing. + +Petya, clinging to his legs, kept shouting, "And me too!" + +Natasha, after she had pulled him down toward her and covered his face +with kisses, holding him tight by the skirt of his coat, sprang away and +pranced up and down in one place like a goat and shrieked piercingly. + +All around were loving eyes glistening with tears of joy, and all around +were lips seeking a kiss. + +Sonya too, all rosy red, clung to his arm and, radiant with bliss, +looked eagerly toward his eyes, waiting for the look for which she +longed. Sonya now was sixteen and she was very pretty, especially at +this moment of happy, rapturous excitement. She gazed at him, not taking +her eyes off him, and smiling and holding her breath. He gave her a +grateful look, but was still expectant and looking for someone. The old +countess had not yet come. But now steps were heard at the door, steps +so rapid that they could hardly be his mother's. + +Yet it was she, dressed in a new gown which he did not know, made since +he had left. All the others let him go, and he ran to her. When they +met, she fell on his breast, sobbing. She could not lift her face, but +only pressed it to the cold braiding of his hussar's jacket. Denisov, +who had come into the room unnoticed by anyone, stood there and wiped +his eyes at the sight. + +"Vasili Denisov, your son's friend," he said, introducing +himself to the count, who was looking inquiringly at him. + +"You are most welcome! I know, I know," said the count, kissing and +embracing Denisov. "Nicholas wrote us... Natasha, Vera, look! Here +is Denisov!" + +The same happy, rapturous faces turned to the shaggy figure of Denisov. + +"Darling Denisov!" screamed Natasha, beside herself with rapture, +springing to him, putting her arms round him, and kissing him. This +escapade made everybody feel confused. Denisov blushed too, but smiled +and, taking Natasha's hand, kissed it. + +Denisov was shown to the room prepared for him, and the Rostovs all +gathered round Nicholas in the sitting room. + +The old countess, not letting go of his hand and kissing it every +moment, sat beside him: the rest, crowding round him, watched every +movement, word, or look of his, never taking their blissfully adoring +eyes off him. His brother and sisters struggled for the places nearest +to him and disputed with one another who should bring him his tea, +handkerchief, and pipe. + +Rostov was very happy in the love they showed him; but the first +moment of meeting had been so beatific that his present joy seemed +insufficient, and he kept expecting something more, more and yet more. + +Next morning, after the fatigues of their journey, the travelers slept +till ten o'clock. + +In the room next their bedroom there was a confusion of sabers, +satchels, sabretaches, open portmanteaus, and dirty boots. Two freshly +cleaned pairs with spurs had just been placed by the wall. The servants +were bringing in jugs and basins, hot water for shaving, and their +well-brushed clothes. There was a masculine odor and a smell of tobacco. + +"Hallo, Gwiska--my pipe!" came Vasili Denisov's husky voice. +"Wostov, get up!" + +Rostov, rubbing his eyes that seemed glued together, raised his +disheveled head from the hot pillow. + +"Why, is it late?" + +"Late! It's nearly ten o'clock," answered Natasha's voice. +A rustle of starched petticoats and the whispering and laughter of +girls' voices came from the adjoining room. The door was opened a +crack and there was a glimpse of something blue, of ribbons, black hair, +and merry faces. It was Natasha, Sonya, and Petya, who had come to +see whether they were getting up. + +"Nicholas! Get up!" Natasha's voice was again heard at the door. + +"Directly!" + +Meanwhile, Petya, having found and seized the sabers in the outer room, +with the delight boys feel at the sight of a military elder brother, and +forgetting that it was unbecoming for the girls to see men undressed, +opened the bedroom door. + +"Is this your saber?" he shouted. + +The girls sprang aside. Denisov hid his hairy legs under the blanket, +looking with a scared face at his comrade for help. The door, having let +Petya in, closed again. A sound of laughter came from behind it. + +"Nicholas! Come out in your dressing gown!" said Natasha's voice. + +"Is this your saber?" asked Petya. "Or is it yours?" he said, +addressing the black-mustached Denisov with servile deference. + +Rostov hurriedly put something on his feet, drew on his dressing gown, +and went out. Natasha had put on one spurred boot and was just getting +her foot into the other. Sonya, when he came in, was twirling round and +was about to expand her dresses into a balloon and sit down. They were +dressed alike, in new pale-blue frocks, and were both fresh, rosy, and +bright. Sonya ran away, but Natasha, taking her brother's arm, led +him into the sitting room, where they began talking. They hardly gave +one another time to ask questions and give replies concerning a thousand +little matters which could not interest anyone but themselves. Natasha +laughed at every word he said or that she said herself, not because what +they were saying was amusing, but because she felt happy and was unable +to control her joy which expressed itself by laughter. + +"Oh, how nice, how splendid!" she said to everything. + +Rostov felt that, under the influence of the warm rays of love, that +childlike smile which had not once appeared on his face since he left +home now for the first time after eighteen months again brightened his +soul and his face. + +"No, but listen," she said, "now you are quite a man, aren't +you? I'm awfully glad you're my brother." She touched his +mustache. "I want to know what you men are like. Are you the same as +we? No?" + +"Why did Sonya run away?" asked Rostov. + +"Ah, yes! That's a whole long story! How are you going to speak to +her--thou or you?" + +"As may happen," said Rostov. + +"No, call her you, please! I'll tell you all about it some other +time. No, I'll tell you now. You know Sonya's my dearest friend. +Such a friend that I burned my arm for her sake. Look here!" + +She pulled up her muslin sleeve and showed him a red scar on her long, +slender, delicate arm, high above the elbow on that part that is covered +even by a ball dress. + +"I burned this to prove my love for her. I just heated a ruler in the +fire and pressed it there!" + +Sitting on the sofa with the little cushions on its arms, in what used +to be his old schoolroom, and looking into Natasha's wildly bright +eyes, Rostov re-entered that world of home and childhood which had no +meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the best joys of his life; +and the burning of an arm with a ruler as a proof of love did not seem +to him senseless, he understood and was not surprised at it. + +"Well, and is that all?" he asked. + +"We are such friends, such friends! All that ruler business was just +nonsense, but we are friends forever. She, if she loves anyone, does it +for life, but I don't understand that, I forget quickly." + +"Well, what then?" + +"Well, she loves me and you like that." + +Natasha suddenly flushed. + +"Why, you remember before you went away?... Well, she says you are to +forget all that.... She says: 'I shall love him always, but let him be +free.' Isn't that lovely and noble! Yes, very noble? Isn't it?" +asked Natasha, so seriously and excitedly that it was evident that what +she was now saying she had talked of before, with tears. + +Rostov became thoughtful. + +"I never go back on my word," he said. "Besides, Sonya is so +charming that only a fool would renounce such happiness." + +"No, no!" cried Natasha, "she and I have already talked it over. +We knew you'd say so. But it won't do, because you see, if you say +that--if you consider yourself bound by your promise--it will seem as +if she had not meant it seriously. It makes it as if you were marrying +her because you must, and that wouldn't do at all." + +Rostov saw that it had been well considered by them. Sonya had already +struck him by her beauty on the preceding day. Today, when he had caught +a glimpse of her, she seemed still more lovely. She was a charming girl +of sixteen, evidently passionately in love with him (he did not doubt +that for an instant). Why should he not love her now, and even marry +her, Rostov thought, but just now there were so many other pleasures +and interests before him! "Yes, they have taken a wise decision," he +thought, "I must remain free." + +"Well then, that's excellent," said he. "We'll talk it over +later on. Oh, how glad I am to have you!" + +"Well, and are you still true to Boris?" he continued. + +"Oh, what nonsense!" cried Natasha, laughing. "I don't think +about him or anyone else, and I don't want anything of the kind." + +"Dear me! Then what are you up to now?" + +"Now?" repeated Natasha, and a happy smile lit up her face. "Have +you seen Duport?" + +"No." + +"Not seen Duport--the famous dancer? Well then, you won't +understand. That's what I'm up to." + +Curving her arms, Natasha held out her skirts as dancers do, ran back +a few steps, turned, cut a caper, brought her little feet sharply +together, and made some steps on the very tips of her toes. + +"See, I'm standing! See!" she said, but could not maintain herself +on her toes any longer. "So that's what I'm up to! I'll never +marry anyone, but will be a dancer. Only don't tell anyone." + +Rostov laughed so loud and merrily that Denisov, in his bedroom, felt +envious and Natasha could not help joining in. + +"No, but don't you think it's nice?" she kept repeating. + +"Nice! And so you no longer wish to marry Boris?" + +Natasha flared up. "I don't want to marry anyone. And I'll tell +him so when I see him!" + +"Dear me!" said Rostov. + +"But that's all rubbish," Natasha chattered on. "And is +Denisov nice?" she asked. + +"Yes, indeed!" + +"Oh, well then, good-by: go and dress. Is he very terrible, +Denisov?" + +"Why terrible?" asked Nicholas. "No, Vaska is a splendid +fellow." + +"You call him Vaska? That's funny! And is he very nice?" + +"Very." + +"Well then, be quick. We'll all have breakfast together." + +And Natasha rose and went out of the room on tiptoe, like a ballet +dancer, but smiling as only happy girls of fifteen can smile. When +Rostov met Sonya in the drawing room, he reddened. He did not know +how to behave with her. The evening before, in the first happy moment of +meeting, they had kissed each other, but today they felt it could not +be done; he felt that everybody, including his mother and sisters, was +looking inquiringly at him and watching to see how he would behave +with her. He kissed her hand and addressed her not as thou but as +you--Sonya. But their eyes met and said thou, and exchanged tender +kisses. Her looks asked him to forgive her for having dared, by +Natasha's intermediacy, to remind him of his promise, and then +thanked him for his love. His looks thanked her for offering him his +freedom and told her that one way or another he would never cease to +love her, for that would be impossible. + +"How strange it is," said Vera, selecting a moment when all were +silent, "that Sonya and Nicholas now say you to one another and meet +like strangers." + +Vera's remark was correct, as her remarks always were, but, like +most of her observations, it made everyone feel uncomfortable, not +only Sonya, Nicholas, and Natasha, but even the old countess, +who--dreading this love affair which might hinder Nicholas from making +a brilliant match--blushed like a girl. + +Denisov, to Rostov's surprise, appeared in the drawing room with +pomaded hair, perfumed, and in a new uniform, looking just as smart as +he made himself when going into battle, and he was more amiable to the +ladies and gentlemen than Rostov had ever expected to see him. + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +On his return to Moscow from the army, Nicholas Rostov was welcomed +by his home circle as the best of sons, a hero, and their darling +Nikolenka; by his relations as a charming, attractive, and polite young +man; by his acquaintances as a handsome lieutenant of hussars, a good +dancer, and one of the best matches in the city. + +The Rostovs knew everybody in Moscow. The old count had money enough +that year, as all his estates had been remortgaged, and so Nicholas, +acquiring a trotter of his own, very stylish riding breeches of the +latest cut, such as no one else yet had in Moscow, and boots of the +latest fashion, with extremely pointed toes and small silver spurs, +passed his time very gaily. After a short period of adapting himself +to the old conditions of life, Nicholas found it very pleasant to be +at home again. He felt that he had grown up and matured very much. His +despair at failing in a Scripture examination, his borrowing money from +Gavril to pay a sleigh driver, his kissing Sonya on the sly--he now +recalled all this as childishness he had left immeasurably behind. +Now he was a lieutenant of hussars, in a jacket laced with silver, and +wearing the Cross of St. George, awarded to soldiers for bravery in +action, and in the company of well-known, elderly, and respected racing +men was training a trotter of his own for a race. He knew a lady on one +of the boulevards whom he visited of an evening. He led the mazurka +at the Arkharovs' ball, talked about the war with Field Marshal +Kamenski, visited the English Club, and was on intimate terms with a +colonel of forty to whom Denisov had introduced him. + +His passion for the Emperor had cooled somewhat in Moscow. But still, as +he did not see him and had no opportunity of seeing him, he often spoke +about him and about his love for him, letting it be understood that he +had not told all and that there was something in his feelings for the +Emperor not everyone could understand, and with his whole soul he shared +the adoration then common in Moscow for the Emperor, who was spoken of +as the "angel incarnate." + +During Rostov's short stay in Moscow, before rejoining the army, he +did not draw closer to Sonya, but rather drifted away from her. She was +very pretty and sweet, and evidently deeply in love with him, but he was +at the period of youth when there seems so much to do that there is no +time for that sort of thing and a young man fears to bind himself and +prizes his freedom which he needs for so many other things. When he +thought of Sonya, during this stay in Moscow, he said to himself, +"Ah, there will be, and there are, many more such girls somewhere whom +I do not yet know. There will be time enough to think about love when I +want to, but now I have no time." Besides, it seemed to him that the +society of women was rather derogatory to his manhood. He went to balls +and into ladies' society with an affectation of doing so against his +will. The races, the English Club, sprees with Denisov, and visits to +a certain house--that was another matter and quite the thing for a +dashing young hussar! + +At the beginning of March, old Count Ilya Rostov was very busy +arranging a dinner in honor of Prince Bagration at the English Club. + +The count walked up and down the hall in his dressing gown, giving +orders to the club steward and to the famous Feoktist, the club's +head cook, about asparagus, fresh cucumbers, strawberries, veal, and +fish for this dinner. The count had been a member and on the committee +of the club from the day it was founded. To him the club entrusted the +arrangement of the festival in honor of Bagration, for few men knew +so well how to arrange a feast on an open-handed, hospitable scale, +and still fewer men would be so well able and willing to make up out of +their own resources what might be needed for the success of the fete. +The club cook and the steward listened to the count's orders with +pleased faces, for they knew that under no other management could they +so easily extract a good profit for themselves from a dinner costing +several thousand rubles. + +"Well then, mind and have cocks' comb in the turtle soup, you +know!" + +"Shall we have three cold dishes then?" asked the cook. + +The count considered. + +"We can't have less--yes, three... the mayonnaise, that's one," +said he, bending down a finger. + +"Then am I to order those large sterlets?" asked the steward. + +"Yes, it can't be helped if they won't take less. Ah, dear me! I +was forgetting. We must have another entree. Ah, goodness gracious!" +he clutched at his head. "Who is going to get me the flowers? Dmitri! +Eh, Dmitri! Gallop off to our Moscow estate," he said to the factotum +who appeared at his call. "Hurry off and tell Maksim, the gardener, +to set the serfs to work. Say that everything out of the hothouses must +be brought here well wrapped up in felt. I must have two hundred pots +here on Friday." + +Having given several more orders, he was about to go to his "little +countess" to have a rest, but remembering something else of +importance, he returned again, called back the cook and the club +steward, and again began giving orders. A light footstep and the +clinking of spurs were heard at the door, and the young count, handsome, +rosy, with a dark little mustache, evidently rested and made sleeker by +his easy life in Moscow, entered the room. + +"Ah, my boy, my head's in a whirl!" said the old man with a smile, +as if he felt a little confused before his son. "Now, if you would +only help a bit! I must have singers too. I shall have my own orchestra, +but shouldn't we get the gypsy singers as well? You military men like +that sort of thing." + +"Really, Papa, I believe Prince Bagration worried himself less before +the battle of Schon Grabern than you do now," said his son with a +smile. + +The old count pretended to be angry. + +"Yes, you talk, but try it yourself!" + +And the count turned to the cook, who, with a shrewd and respectful +expression, looked observantly and sympathetically at the father and +son. + +"What have the young people come to nowadays, eh, Feoktist?" said +he. "Laughing at us old fellows!" + +"That's so, your excellency, all they have to do is to eat a good +dinner, but providing it and serving it all up, that's not their +business!" + +"That's it, that's it!" exclaimed the count, and gaily seizing +his son by both hands, he cried, "Now I've got you, so take the +sleigh and pair at once, and go to Bezukhov's, and tell him 'Count +Ilya has sent you to ask for strawberries and fresh pineapples.' We +can't get them from anyone else. He's not there himself, so you'll +have to go in and ask the princesses; and from there go on to the +Rasgulyay--the coachman Ipatka knows--and look up the gypsy +Ilyushka, the one who danced at Count Orlov's, you remember, in a +white Cossack coat, and bring him along to me." + +"And am I to bring the gypsy girls along with him?" asked Nicholas, +laughing. "Dear, dear!..." + +At that moment, with noiseless footsteps and with the businesslike, +preoccupied, yet meekly Christian look which never left her face, Anna +Mikhaylovna entered the hall. Though she came upon the count in his +dressing gown every day, he invariably became confused and begged her to +excuse his costume. + +"No matter at all, my dear count," she said, meekly closing her +eyes. "But I'll go to Bezukhov's myself. Pierre has arrived, and +now we shall get anything we want from his hothouses. I have to see him +in any case. He has forwarded me a letter from Boris. Thank God, Boris +is now on the staff." + +The count was delighted at Anna Mikhaylovna's taking upon herself one +of his commissions and ordered the small closed carriage for her. + +"Tell Bezukhov to come. I'll put his name down. Is his wife with +him?" he asked. + +Anna Mikhaylovna turned up her eyes, and profound sadness was depicted +on her face. + +"Ah, my dear friend, he is very unfortunate," she said. "If what +we hear is true, it is dreadful. How little we dreamed of such a thing +when we were rejoicing at his happiness! And such a lofty angelic soul +as young Bezukhov! Yes, I pity him from my heart, and shall try to give +him what consolation I can." + +"Wh-what is the matter?" asked both the young and old Rostov. + +Anna Mikhaylovna sighed deeply. + +"Dolokhov, Mary Ivanovna's son," she said in a mysterious +whisper, "has compromised her completely, they say. Pierre took him +up, invited him to his house in Petersburg, and now... she has come here +and that daredevil after her!" said Anna Mikhaylovna, wishing to show +her sympathy for Pierre, but by involuntary intonations and a half smile +betraying her sympathy for the "daredevil," as she called Dolokhov. +"They say Pierre is quite broken by his misfortune." + +"Dear, dear! But still tell him to come to the club--it will all blow +over. It will be a tremendous banquet." + +Next day, the third of March, soon after one o'clock, two hundred and +fifty members of the English Club and fifty guests were awaiting the +guest of honor and hero of the Austrian campaign, Prince Bagration, to +dinner. + +On the first arrival of the news of the battle of Austerlitz, Moscow had +been bewildered. At that time, the Russians were so used to victories +that on receiving news of the defeat some would simply not believe it, +while others sought some extraordinary explanation of so strange an +event. In the English Club, where all who were distinguished, important, +and well informed foregathered when the news began to arrive in +December, nothing was said about the war and the last battle, as +though all were in a conspiracy of silence. The men who set the tone +in conversation--Count Rostopchin, Prince Yuri Dolgorukov, Valuev, +Count Markov, and Prince Vyazemski--did not show themselves at the +club, but met in private houses in intimate circles, and the +Moscovites who took their opinions from others--Ilya Rostov among +them--remained for a while without any definite opinion on the subject +of the war and without leaders. The Moscovites felt that something was +wrong and that to discuss the bad news was difficult, and so it was best +to be silent. But after a while, just as a jury comes out of its room, +the bigwigs who guided the club's opinion reappeared, and everybody +began speaking clearly and definitely. Reasons were found for the +incredible, unheard-of, and impossible event of a Russian defeat, +everything became clear, and in all corners of Moscow the same things +began to be said. These reasons were the treachery of the Austrians, a +defective commissariat, the treachery of the Pole Przebyszewski and of +the Frenchman Langeron, Kutuzov's incapacity, and (it was whispered) +the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless +and insignificant people. But the army, the Russian army, everyone +declared, was extraordinary and had achieved miracles of valor. The +soldiers, officers, and generals were heroes. But the hero of heroes was +Prince Bagration, distinguished by his Schon Grabern affair and by +the retreat from Austerlitz, where he alone had withdrawn his column +unbroken and had all day beaten back an enemy force twice as numerous +as his own. What also conduced to Bagration's being selected as +Moscow's hero was the fact that he had no connections in the city +and was a stranger there. In his person, honor was shown to a simple +fighting Russian soldier without connections and intrigues, and to one +who was associated by memories of the Italian campaign with the name of +Suvorov. Moreover, paying such honor to Bagration was the best way of +expressing disapproval and dislike of Kutuzov. + +"Had there been no Bagration, it would have been necessary to +invent him," said the wit Shinshin, parodying the words of Voltaire. +Kutuzov no one spoke of, except some who abused him in whispers, +calling him a court weathercock and an old satyr. + +All Moscow repeated Prince Dolgorukov's saying: "If you go on +modeling and modeling you must get smeared with clay," suggesting +consolation for our defeat by the memory of former victories; and the +words of Rostopchin, that French soldiers have to be incited to battle +by highfalutin words, and Germans by logical arguments to show them +that it is more dangerous to run away than to advance, but that Russian +soldiers only need to be restrained and held back! On all sides, new and +fresh anecdotes were heard of individual examples of heroism shown by +our officers and men at Austerlitz. One had saved a standard, another +had killed five Frenchmen, a third had loaded five cannon singlehanded. +Berg was mentioned, by those who did not know him, as having, when +wounded in the right hand, taken his sword in the left, and gone +forward. Of Bolkonski, nothing was said, and only those who knew him +intimately regretted that he had died so young, leaving a pregnant wife +with his eccentric father. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +On that third of March, all the rooms in the English Club were filled +with a hum of conversation, like the hum of bees swarming in springtime. +The members and guests of the club wandered hither and thither, sat, +stood, met, and separated, some in uniform and some in evening dress, +and a few here and there with powdered hair and in Russian kaftans. +Powdered footmen, in livery with buckled shoes and smart stockings, +stood at every door anxiously noting visitors' every movement in order +to offer their services. Most of those present were elderly, respected +men with broad, self-confident faces, fat fingers, and resolute gestures +and voices. This class of guests and members sat in certain habitual +places and met in certain habitual groups. A minority of those present +were casual guests--chiefly young men, among whom were Denisov, +Rostov, and Dolokhov--who was now again an officer in the Semenov +regiment. The faces of these young people, especially those who were +military men, bore that expression of condescending respect for their +elders which seems to say to the older generation, "We are prepared to +respect and honor you, but all the same remember that the future belongs +to us." + +Nesvitski was there as an old member of the club. Pierre, who at his +wife's command had let his hair grow and abandoned his spectacles, +went about the rooms fashionably dressed but looking sad and dull. Here, +as elsewhere, he was surrounded by an atmosphere of subservience to +his wealth, and being in the habit of lording it over these people, he +treated them with absent-minded contempt. + +By his age he should have belonged to the younger men, but by his wealth +and connections he belonged to the groups of old and honored guests, and +so he went from one group to another. Some of the most important old men +were the center of groups which even strangers approached respectfully +to hear the voices of well-known men. The largest circles formed round +Count Rostopchin, Valuev, and Naryshkin. Rostopchin was describing +how the Russians had been overwhelmed by flying Austrians and had had to +force their way through them with bayonets. + +Valuev was confidentially telling that Uvarov had been sent from +Petersburg to ascertain what Moscow was thinking about Austerlitz. + +In the third circle, Naryshkin was speaking of the meeting of the +Austrian Council of War at which Suvorov crowed like a cock in reply to +the nonsense talked by the Austrian generals. Shinshin, standing close +by, tried to make a joke, saying that Kutuzov had evidently failed to +learn from Suvorov even so simple a thing as the art of crowing like a +cock, but the elder members glanced severely at the wit, making him +feel that in that place and on that day, it was improper to speak so of +Kutuzov. + +Count Ilya Rostov, hurried and preoccupied, went about in his soft +boots between the dining and drawing rooms, hastily greeting the +important and unimportant, all of whom he knew, as if they were all +equals, while his eyes occasionally sought out his fine well-set-up +young son, resting on him and winking joyfully at him. Young Rostov +stood at a window with Dolokhov, whose acquaintance he had lately +made and highly valued. The old count came up to them and pressed +Dolokhov's hand. + +"Please come and visit us... you know my brave boy... been together +out there... both playing the hero... Ah, Vasili Ignatovich... +How d'ye do, old fellow?" he said, turning to an old man who was +passing, but before he had finished his greeting there was a general +stir, and a footman who had run in announced, with a frightened face: +"He's arrived!" + +Bells rang, the stewards rushed forward, and--like rye shaken together +in a shovel--the guests who had been scattered about in different rooms +came together and crowded in the large drawing room by the door of the +ballroom. + +Bagration appeared in the doorway of the anteroom without hat or sword, +which, in accord with the club custom, he had given up to the hall +porter. He had no lambskin cap on his head, nor had he a loaded whip +over his shoulder, as when Rostov had seen him on the eve of the battle +of Austerlitz, but wore a tight new uniform with Russian and foreign +Orders, and the Star of St. George on his left breast. Evidently just +before coming to the dinner he had had his hair and whiskers trimmed, +which changed his appearance for the worse. There was something naively +festive in his air, which, in conjunction with his firm and virile +features, gave him a rather comical expression. Bekleshev and Theodore +Uvarov, who had arrived with him, paused at the doorway to allow him, +as the guest of honor, to enter first. Bagration was embarrassed, not +wishing to avail himself of their courtesy, and this caused some delay +at the doors, but after all he did at last enter first. He walked shyly +and awkwardly over the parquet floor of the reception room, not knowing +what to do with his hands; he was more accustomed to walk over a plowed +field under fire, as he had done at the head of the Kursk regiment at +Schon Grabern--and he would have found that easier. The committeemen +met him at the first door and, expressing their delight at seeing such a +highly honored guest, took possession of him as it were, without waiting +for his reply, surrounded him, and led him to the drawing room. It was +at first impossible to enter the drawing room door for the crowd of +members and guests jostling one another and trying to get a good look +at Bagration over each other's shoulders, as if he were some rare +animal. Count Ilya Rostov, laughing and repeating the words, "Make +way, dear boy! Make way, make way!" pushed through the crowd more +energetically than anyone, led the guests into the drawing room, and +seated them on the center sofa. The bigwigs, the most respected members +of the club, beset the new arrivals. Count Ilya, again thrusting his +way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a +minute later with another committeeman, carrying a large silver salver +which he presented to Prince Bagration. On the salver lay some verses +composed and printed in the hero's honor. Bagration, on seeing the +salver, glanced around in dismay, as though seeking help. But all eyes +demanded that he should submit. Feeling himself in their power, he +resolutely took the salver with both hands and looked sternly and +reproachfully at the count who had presented it to him. Someone +obligingly took the dish from Bagration (or he would, it seemed, have +held it till evening and have gone in to dinner with it) and drew his +attention to the verses. + +"Well, I will read them, then!" Bagration seemed to say, and, +fixing his weary eyes on the paper, began to read them with a fixed and +serious expression. But the author himself took the verses and began +reading them aloud. Bagration bowed his head and listened: + + Bring glory then to Alexander's reign + And on the throne our Titus shield. + A dreaded foe be thou, kindhearted as a man, + A Rhipheus at home, a Caesar in the field! + E'en fortunate Napoleon + Knows by experience, now, Bagration, + And dare not Herculean Russians trouble... + +But before he had finished reading, a stentorian major-domo announced +that dinner was ready! The door opened, and from the dining room came +the resounding strains of the polonaise: + + Conquest's joyful thunder waken, + Triumph, valiant Russians, now!... + +and Count Rostov, glancing angrily at the author who went on reading +his verses, bowed to Bagration. Everyone rose, feeling that dinner +was more important than verses, and Bagration, again preceding all the +rest, went in to dinner. He was seated in the place of honor between +two Alexanders--Bekleshev and Naryshkin--which was a significant +allusion to the name of the sovereign. Three hundred persons took their +seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the +more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows +deepest where the land lies lowest. + +Just before dinner, Count Ilya Rostov presented his son to Bagration, +who recognized him and said a few words to him, disjointed and awkward, +as were all the words he spoke that day, and Count Ilya looked joyfully +and proudly around while Bagration spoke to his son. + +Nicholas Rostov, with Denisov and his new acquaintance, Dolokhov, sat +almost at the middle of the table. Facing them sat Pierre, beside Prince +Nesvitski. Count Ilya Rostov with the other members of the committee +sat facing Bagration and, as the very personification of Moscow +hospitality, did the honors to the prince. + +His efforts had not been in vain. The dinner, both the Lenten and the +other fare, was splendid, yet he could not feel quite at ease till the +end of the meal. He winked at the butler, whispered directions to the +footmen, and awaited each expected dish with some anxiety. Everything +was excellent. With the second course, a gigantic sterlet (at sight of +which Ilya Rostov blushed with self-conscious pleasure), the footmen +began popping corks and filling the champagne glasses. After the fish, +which made a certain sensation, the count exchanged glances with +the other committeemen. "There will be many toasts, it's time to +begin," he whispered, and taking up his glass, he rose. All were +silent, waiting for what he would say. + +"To the health of our Sovereign, the Emperor!" he cried, and at the +same moment his kindly eyes grew moist with tears of joy and enthusiasm. +The band immediately struck up "Conquest's joyful thunder +waken..." All rose and cried "Hurrah!" Bagration also rose and +shouted "Hurrah!" in exactly the same voice in which he had shouted +it on the field at Schon Grabern. Young Rostov's ecstatic voice +could be heard above the three hundred others. He nearly wept. "To the +health of our Sovereign, the Emperor!" he roared, "Hurrah!" and +emptying his glass at one gulp he dashed it to the floor. Many followed +his example, and the loud shouting continued for a long time. When the +voices subsided, the footmen cleared away the broken glass and everybody +sat down again, smiling at the noise they had made and exchanging +remarks. The old count rose once more, glanced at a note lying beside +his plate, and proposed a toast, "To the health of the hero of our +last campaign, Prince Peter Ivanovich Bagration!" and again his blue +eyes grew moist. "Hurrah!" cried the three hundred voices again, +but instead of the band a choir began singing a cantata composed by Paul +Ivanovich Kutuzov: + + Russians! O'er all barriers on! + Courage conquest guarantees; + Have we not Bagration? + He brings foemen to their knees,... etc. + +As soon as the singing was over, another and another toast was proposed +and Count Ilya Rostov became more and more moved, more glass was +smashed, and the shouting grew louder. They drank to Bekleshev, +Naryshkin, Uvarov, Dolgorukov, Apraksin, Valuev, to the committee, +to all the club members and to all the club guests, and finally to +Count Ilya Rostov separately, as the organizer of the banquet. At that +toast, the count took out his handkerchief and, covering his face, wept +outright. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +Pierre sat opposite Dolokhov and Nicholas Rostov. As usual, he ate and +drank much, and eagerly. But those who knew him intimately noticed that +some great change had come over him that day. He was silent all through +dinner and looked about, blinking and scowling, or, with fixed eyes and +a look of complete absent-mindedness, kept rubbing the bridge of his +nose. His face was depressed and gloomy. He seemed to see and hear +nothing of what was going on around him and to be absorbed by some +depressing and unsolved problem. + +The unsolved problem that tormented him was caused by hints given by the +princess, his cousin, at Moscow, concerning Dolokhov's intimacy with +his wife, and by an anonymous letter he had received that morning, which +in the mean jocular way common to anonymous letters said that he saw +badly through his spectacles, but that his wife's connection with +Dolokhov was a secret to no one but himself. Pierre absolutely +disbelieved both the princess' hints and the letter, but he feared +now to look at Dolokhov, who was sitting opposite him. Every time +he chanced to meet Dolokhov's handsome insolent eyes, Pierre felt +something terrible and monstrous rising in his soul and turned quickly +away. Involuntarily recalling his wife's past and her relations with +Dolokhov, Pierre saw clearly that what was said in the letter might be +true, or might at least seem to be true had it not referred to his wife. +He involuntarily remembered how Dolokhov, who had fully recovered his +former position after the campaign, had returned to Petersburg and come +to him. Availing himself of his friendly relations with Pierre as a boon +companion, Dolokhov had come straight to his house, and Pierre had put +him up and lent him money. Pierre recalled how Helene had smilingly +expressed disapproval of Dolokhov's living at their house, and how +cynically Dolokhov had praised his wife's beauty to him and from that +time till they came to Moscow had not left them for a day. + +"Yes, he is very handsome," thought Pierre, "and I know him. It +would be particularly pleasant to him to dishonor my name and ridicule +me, just because I have exerted myself on his behalf, befriended him, +and helped him. I know and understand what a spice that would add to the +pleasure of deceiving me, if it really were true. Yes, if it were true, +but I do not believe it. I have no right to, and can't, believe it." +He remembered the expression Dolokhov's face assumed in his moments +of cruelty, as when tying the policeman to the bear and dropping them +into the water, or when he challenged a man to a duel without any +reason, or shot a post-boy's horse with a pistol. That expression +was often on Dolokhov's face when looking at him. "Yes, he is a +bully," thought Pierre, "to kill a man means nothing to him. It must +seem to him that everyone is afraid of him, and that must please him. +He must think that I, too, am afraid of him--and in fact I am afraid of +him," he thought, and again he felt something terrible and monstrous +rising in his soul. Dolokhov, Denisov, and Rostov were now sitting +opposite Pierre and seemed very gay. Rostov was talking merrily to his +two friends, one of whom was a dashing hussar and the other a notorious +duelist and rake, and every now and then he glanced ironically at +Pierre, whose preoccupied, absent-minded, and massive figure was a very +noticeable one at the dinner. Rostov looked inimically at Pierre, +first because Pierre appeared to his hussar eyes as a rich civilian, the +husband of a beauty, and in a word--an old woman; and secondly because +Pierre in his preoccupation and absent-mindedness had not recognized +Rostov and had not responded to his greeting. When the Emperor's +health was drunk, Pierre, lost in thought, did not rise or lift his +glass. + +"What are you about?" shouted Rostov, looking at him in an ecstasy +of exasperation. "Don't you hear it's His Majesty the Emperor's +health?" + +Pierre sighed, rose submissively, emptied his glass, and, waiting till +all were seated again, turned with his kindly smile to Rostov. + +"Why, I didn't recognize you!" he said. But Rostov was otherwise +engaged; he was shouting "Hurrah!" + +"Why don't you renew the acquaintance?" said Dolokhov to Rostov. + +"Confound him, he's a fool!" said Rostov. + +"One should make up to the husbands of pretty women," said Denisov. + +Pierre did not catch what they were saying, but knew they were talking +about him. He reddened and turned away. + +"Well, now to the health of handsome women!" said Dolokhov, and +with a serious expression, but with a smile lurking at the corners of +his mouth, he turned with his glass to Pierre. + +"Here's to the health of lovely women, Peterkin--and their +lovers!" he added. + +Pierre, with downcast eyes, drank out of his glass without looking at +Dolokhov or answering him. The footman, who was distributing leaflets +with Kutuzov's cantata, laid one before Pierre as one of the +principal guests. He was just going to take it when Dolokhov, leaning +across, snatched it from his hand and began reading it. Pierre looked +at Dolokhov and his eyes dropped, the something terrible and monstrous +that had tormented him all dinnertime rose and took possession of him. +He leaned his whole massive body across the table. + +"How dare you take it?" he shouted. + +Hearing that cry and seeing to whom it was addressed, Nesvitski and the +neighbor on his right quickly turned in alarm to Bezukhov. + +"Don't! Don't! What are you about?" whispered their frightened +voices. + +Dolokhov looked at Pierre with clear, mirthful, cruel eyes, and that +smile of his which seemed to say, "Ah! This is what I like!" + +"You shan't have it!" he said distinctly. + +Pale, with quivering lips, Pierre snatched the copy. + +"You...! you... scoundrel! I challenge you!" he ejaculated, and, +pushing back his chair, he rose from the table. + +At the very instant he did this and uttered those words, Pierre felt +that the question of his wife's guilt which had been tormenting him +the whole day was finally and indubitably answered in the affirmative. +He hated her and was forever sundered from her. Despite Denisov's +request that he would take no part in the matter, Rostov agreed to be +Dolokhov's second, and after dinner he discussed the arrangements for +the duel with Nesvitski, Bezukhov's second. Pierre went home, but +Rostov with Dolokhov and Denisov stayed on at the club till late, +listening to the gypsies and other singers. + +"Well then, till tomorrow at Sokolniki," said Dolokhov, as he took +leave of Rostov in the club porch. + +"And do you feel quite calm?" Rostov asked. + +Dolokhov paused. + +"Well, you see, I'll tell you the whole secret of dueling in two +words. If you are going to fight a duel, and you make a will and write +affectionate letters to your parents, and if you think you may be +killed, you are a fool and are lost for certain. But go with the firm +intention of killing your man as quickly and surely as possible, and +then all will be right, as our bear huntsman at Kostroma used to tell +me. 'Everyone fears a bear,' he says, 'but when you see one your +fear's all gone, and your only thought is not to let him get away!' +And that's how it is with me. A demain, mon cher." * + + * Till tomorrow, my dear fellow. + +Next day, at eight in the morning, Pierre and Nesvitski drove to the +Sokolniki forest and found Dolokhov, Denisov, and Rostov already +there. Pierre had the air of a man preoccupied with considerations which +had no connection with the matter in hand. His haggard face was yellow. +He had evidently not slept that night. He looked about distractedly and +screwed up his eyes as if dazzled by the sun. He was entirely absorbed +by two considerations: his wife's guilt, of which after his sleepless +night he had not the slightest doubt, and the guiltlessness of +Dolokhov, who had no reason to preserve the honor of a man who was +nothing to him.... "I should perhaps have done the same thing in his +place," thought Pierre. "It's even certain that I should have done +the same, then why this duel, this murder? Either I shall kill him, or +he will hit me in the head, or elbow, or knee. Can't I go away from +here, run away, bury myself somewhere?" passed through his mind. But +just at moments when such thoughts occurred to him, he would ask in a +particularly calm and absent-minded way, which inspired the respect of +the onlookers, "Will it be long? Are things ready?" + +When all was ready, the sabers stuck in the snow to mark the barriers, +and the pistols loaded, Nesvitski went up to Pierre. + +"I should not be doing my duty, Count," he said in timid tones, +"and should not justify your confidence and the honor you have done +me in choosing me for your second, if at this grave, this very +grave, moment I did not tell you the whole truth. I think there is no +sufficient ground for this affair, or for blood to be shed over it.... +You were not right, not quite in the right, you were impetuous..." + +"Oh yes, it is horribly stupid," said Pierre. + +"Then allow me to express your regrets, and I am sure your opponent +will accept them," said Nesvitski (who like the others concerned in +the affair, and like everyone in similar cases, did not yet believe that +the affair had come to an actual duel). "You know, Count, it is much +more honorable to admit one's mistake than to let matters become +irreparable. There was no insult on either side. Allow me to +convey...." + +"No! What is there to talk about?" said Pierre. "It's all the +same.... Is everything ready?" he added. "Only tell me where to go +and where to shoot," he said with an unnaturally gentle smile. + +He took the pistol in his hand and began asking about the working of the +trigger, as he had not before held a pistol in his hand--a fact that he +did not wish to confess. + +"Oh yes, like that, I know, I only forgot," said he. + +"No apologies, none whatever," said Dolokhov to Denisov (who on +his side had been attempting a reconciliation), and he also went up to +the appointed place. + +The spot chosen for the duel was some eighty paces from the road, +where the sleighs had been left, in a small clearing in the pine forest +covered with melting snow, the frost having begun to break up during the +last few days. The antagonists stood forty paces apart at the farther +edge of the clearing. The seconds, measuring the paces, left tracks in +the deep wet snow between the place where they had been standing and +Nesvitski's and Dolokhov's sabers, which were stuck into the +ground ten paces apart to mark the barrier. It was thawing and misty; at +forty paces' distance nothing could be seen. For three minutes all had +been ready, but they still delayed and all were silent. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +"Well begin!" said Dolokhov. + +"All right," said Pierre, still smiling in the same way. A feeling +of dread was in the air. It was evident that the affair so lightly begun +could no longer be averted but was taking its course independently of +men's will. + +Denisov first went to the barrier and announced: "As the +adve'sawies have wefused a weconciliation, please pwoceed. Take your +pistols, and at the word thwee begin to advance. + +"O-ne! T-wo! Thwee!" he shouted angrily and stepped aside. + +The combatants advanced along the trodden tracks, nearer and nearer to +one another, beginning to see one another through the mist. They had the +right to fire when they liked as they approached the barrier. Dolokhov +walked slowly without raising his pistol, looking intently with his +bright, sparkling blue eyes into his antagonist's face. His mouth wore +its usual semblance of a smile. + +"So I can fire when I like!" said Pierre, and at the word +"three," he went quickly forward, missing the trodden path and +stepping into the deep snow. He held the pistol in his right hand at +arm's length, apparently afraid of shooting himself with it. His left +hand he held carefully back, because he wished to support his right +hand with it and knew he must not do so. Having advanced six paces and +strayed off the track into the snow, Pierre looked down at his feet, +then quickly glanced at Dolokhov and, bending his finger as he had been +shown, fired. Not at all expecting so loud a report, Pierre shuddered +at the sound and then, smiling at his own sensations, stood still. The +smoke, rendered denser by the mist, prevented him from seeing anything +for an instant, but there was no second report as he had expected. He +only heard Dolokhov's hurried steps, and his figure came in view +through the smoke. He was pressing one hand to his left side, while +the other clutched his drooping pistol. His face was pale. Rostov ran +toward him and said something. + +"No-o-o!" muttered Dolokhov through his teeth, "no, it's not +over." And after stumbling a few staggering steps right up to the +saber, he sank on the snow beside it. His left hand was bloody; he wiped +it on his coat and supported himself with it. His frowning face was +pallid and quivered. + +"Plea..." began Dolokhov, but could not at first pronounce the +word. + +"Please," he uttered with an effort. + +Pierre, hardly restraining his sobs, began running toward Dolokhov and +was about to cross the space between the barriers, when Dolokhov cried: + +"To your barrier!" and Pierre, grasping what was meant, stopped by +his saber. Only ten paces divided them. Dolokhov lowered his head to +the snow, greedily bit at it, again raised his head, adjusted himself, +drew in his legs and sat up, seeking a firm center of gravity. He sucked +and swallowed the cold snow, his lips quivered but his eyes, still +smiling, glittered with effort and exasperation as he mustered his +remaining strength. He raised his pistol and aimed. + +"Sideways! Cover yourself with your pistol!" ejaculated Nesvitski. + +"Cover yourself!" even Denisov cried to his adversary. + +Pierre, with a gentle smile of pity and remorse, his arms and legs +helplessly spread out, stood with his broad chest directly facing +Dolokhov and looked sorrowfully at him. Denisov, Rostov, and +Nesvitski closed their eyes. At the same instant they heard a report +and Dolokhov's angry cry. + +"Missed!" shouted Dolokhov, and he lay helplessly, face downwards +on the snow. + +Pierre clutched his temples, and turning round went into the forest, +trampling through the deep snow, and muttering incoherent words: + +"Folly... folly! Death... lies..." he repeated, puckering his face. + +Nesvitski stopped him and took him home. + +Rostov and Denisov drove away with the wounded Dolokhov. + +The latter lay silent in the sleigh with closed eyes and did not answer +a word to the questions addressed to him. But on entering Moscow he +suddenly came to and, lifting his head with an effort, took Rostov, who +was sitting beside him, by the hand. Rostov was struck by the +totally altered and unexpectedly rapturous and tender expression on +Dolokhov's face. + +"Well? How do you feel?" he asked. + +"Bad! But it's not that, my friend--" said Dolokhov with a +gasping voice. "Where are we? In Moscow, I know. I don't matter, +but I have killed her, killed... She won't get over it! She won't +survive...." + +"Who?" asked Rostov. + +"My mother! My mother, my angel, my adored angel mother," and +Dolokhov pressed Rostov's hand and burst into tears. + +When he had become a little quieter, he explained to Rostov that he was +living with his mother, who, if she saw him dying, would not survive it. +He implored Rostov to go on and prepare her. + +Rostov went on ahead to do what was asked, and to his great surprise +learned that Dolokhov the brawler, Dolokhov the bully, lived in Moscow +with an old mother and a hunchback sister, and was the most affectionate +of sons and brothers. + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +Pierre had of late rarely seen his wife alone. Both in Petersburg and in +Moscow their house was always full of visitors. The night after the +duel he did not go to his bedroom but, as he often did, remained in his +father's room, that huge room in which Count Bezukhov had died. + +He lay down on the sofa meaning to fall asleep and forget all that +had happened to him, but could not do so. Such a storm of feelings, +thoughts, and memories suddenly arose within him that he could not fall +asleep, nor even remain in one place, but had to jump up and pace the +room with rapid steps. Now he seemed to see her in the early days of +their marriage, with bare shoulders and a languid, passionate look on +her face, and then immediately he saw beside her Dolokhov's handsome, +insolent, hard, and mocking face as he had seen it at the banquet, and +then that same face pale, quivering, and suffering, as it had been when +he reeled and sank on the snow. + +"What has happened?" he asked himself. "I have killed her lover, +yes, killed my wife's lover. Yes, that was it! And why? How did I come +to do it?"--"Because you married her," answered an inner voice. + +"But in what was I to blame?" he asked. "In marrying her without +loving her; in deceiving yourself and her." And he vividly recalled +that moment after supper at Prince Vasili's, when he spoke those +words he had found so difficult to utter: "I love you." "It all +comes from that! Even then I felt it," he thought. "I felt then that +it was not so, that I had no right to do it. And so it turns out." + +He remembered his honeymoon and blushed at the recollection. +Particularly vivid, humiliating, and shameful was the recollection of +how one day soon after his marriage he came out of the bedroom into his +study a little before noon in his silk dressing gown and found his head +steward there, who, bowing respectfully, looked into his face and at +his dressing gown and smiled slightly, as if expressing respectful +understanding of his employer's happiness. + +"But how often I have felt proud of her, proud of her majestic beauty +and social tact," thought he; "been proud of my house, in which she +received all Petersburg, proud of her unapproachability and beauty. So +this is what I was proud of! I then thought that I did not understand +her. How often when considering her character I have told myself that +I was to blame for not understanding her, for not understanding that +constant composure and complacency and lack of all interests or desires, +and the whole secret lies in the terrible truth that she is a depraved +woman. Now I have spoken that terrible word to myself all has become +clear. + +"Anatole used to come to borrow money from her and used to kiss her +naked shoulders. She did not give him the money, but let herself be +kissed. Her father in jest tried to rouse her jealousy, and she replied +with a calm smile that she was not so stupid as to be jealous: 'Let +him do what he pleases,' she used to say of me. One day I asked her if +she felt any symptoms of pregnancy. She laughed contemptuously and said +she was not a fool to want to have children, and that she was not going +to have any children by me." + +Then he recalled the coarseness and bluntness of her thoughts and the +vulgarity of the expressions that were natural to her, though she had +been brought up in the most aristocratic circles. + +"I'm not such a fool.... Just you try it on.... Allez-vous +promener," * she used to say. Often seeing the success she had with +young and old men and women Pierre could not understand why he did not +love her. + + * "You clear out of this." + + +"Yes, I never loved her," said he to himself; "I knew she was a +depraved woman," he repeated, "but dared not admit it to myself. +And now there's Dolokhov sitting in the snow with a forced smile and +perhaps dying, while meeting my remorse with some forced bravado!" + +Pierre was one of those people who, in spite of an appearance of what +is called weak character, do not seek a confidant in their troubles. He +digested his sufferings alone. + +"It is all, all her fault," he said to himself; "but what of that? +Why did I bind myself to her? Why did I say 'Je vous aime' * to her, +which was a lie, and worse than a lie? I am guilty and must endure... +what? A slur on my name? A misfortune for life? Oh, that's +nonsense," he thought. "The slur on my name and honor--that's all +apart from myself." + + * I love you. + +"Louis XVI was executed because they said he was dishonorable and a +criminal," came into Pierre's head, "and from their point of +view they were right, as were those too who canonized him and died a +martyr's death for his sake. Then Robespierre was beheaded for being +a despot. Who is right and who is wrong? No one! But if you are +alive--live: tomorrow you'll die as I might have died an hour ago. +And is it worth tormenting oneself, when one has only a moment of life +in comparison with eternity?" + +But at the moment when he imagined himself calmed by such reflections, +she suddenly came into his mind as she was at the moments when he had +most strongly expressed his insincere love for her, and he felt the +blood rush to his heart and had again to get up and move about and break +and tear whatever came to his hand. "Why did I tell her that 'Je +vous aime'?" he kept repeating to himself. And when he had said it +for the tenth time, Moliere's words: "Mais que diable allait-il +faire dans cette galere?" * occurred to him, and he began to laugh at +himself. + + * "But what the devil was he doing in that galley?" + + +In the night he called his valet and told him to pack up to go to +Petersburg. He could not imagine how he could speak to her now. He +resolved to go away next day and leave a letter informing her of his +intention to part from her forever. + +Next morning when the valet came into the room with his coffee, Pierre +was lying asleep on the ottoman with an open book in his hand. + +He woke up and looked round for a while with a startled expression, +unable to realize where he was. + +"The countess told me to inquire whether your excellency was at +home," said the valet. + +But before Pierre could decide what answer he would send, the countess +herself in a white satin dressing gown embroidered with silver and with +simply dressed hair (two immense plaits twice round her lovely head like +a coronet) entered the room, calm and majestic, except that there was +a wrathful wrinkle on her rather prominent marble brow. With her +imperturbable calm she did not begin to speak in front of the valet. +She knew of the duel and had come to speak about it. She waited till the +valet had set down the coffee things and left the room. Pierre looked +at her timidly over his spectacles, and like a hare surrounded by hounds +who lays back her ears and continues to crouch motionless before her +enemies, he tried to continue reading. But feeling this to be senseless +and impossible, he again glanced timidly at her. She did not sit down +but looked at him with a contemptuous smile, waiting for the valet to +go. + +"Well, what's this now? What have you been up to now, I should like +to know?" she asked sternly. + +"I? What have I...?" stammered Pierre. + +"So it seems you're a hero, eh? Come now, what was this duel about? +What is it meant to prove? What? I ask you." + +Pierre turned over heavily on the ottoman and opened his mouth, but +could not reply. + +"If you won't answer, I'll tell you..." Helene went on. "You +believe everything you're told. You were told..." Helene laughed, +"that Dolokhov was my lover," she said in French with her coarse +plainness of speech, uttering the word amant as casually as any other +word, "and you believed it! Well, what have you proved? What does this +duel prove? That you're a fool, que vous etes un sot, but everybody +knew that. What will be the result? That I shall be the laughingstock of +all Moscow, that everyone will say that you, drunk and not knowing what +you were about, challenged a man you are jealous of without cause." +Helene raised her voice and became more and more excited, "A man +who's a better man than you in every way..." + +"Hm... Hm...!" growled Pierre, frowning without looking at her, and +not moving a muscle. + +"And how could you believe he was my lover? Why? Because I like +his company? If you were cleverer and more agreeable, I should prefer +yours." + +"Don't speak to me... I beg you," muttered Pierre hoarsely. + +"Why shouldn't I speak? I can speak as I like, and I tell you +plainly that there are not many wives with husbands such as you who +would not have taken lovers (des amants), but I have not done so," +said she. + +Pierre wished to say something, looked at her with eyes whose strange +expression she did not understand, and lay down again. He was suffering +physically at that moment, there was a weight on his chest and he could +not breathe. He knew that he must do something to put an end to this +suffering, but what he wanted to do was too terrible. + +"We had better separate," he muttered in a broken voice. + +"Separate? Very well, but only if you give me a fortune," said +Helene. "Separate! That's a thing to frighten me with!" + +Pierre leaped up from the sofa and rushed staggering toward her. + +"I'll kill you!" he shouted, and seizing the marble top of a table +with a strength he had never before felt, he made a step toward her +brandishing the slab. + +Helene's face became terrible, she shrieked and sprang aside. His +father's nature showed itself in Pierre. He felt the fascination and +delight of frenzy. He flung down the slab, broke it, and swooping +down on her with outstretched hands shouted, "Get out!" in such a +terrible voice that the whole house heard it with horror. God knows what +he would have done at that moment had Helene not fled from the room. + + +A week later Pierre gave his wife full power to control all his estates +in Great Russia, which formed the larger part of his property, and left +for Petersburg alone. + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +Two months had elapsed since the news of the battle of Austerlitz and +the loss of Prince Andrew had reached Bald Hills, and in spite of the +letters sent through the embassy and all the searches made, his body had +not been found nor was he on the list of prisoners. What was worst of +all for his relations was the fact that there was still a possibility of +his having been picked up on the battlefield by the people of the +place and that he might now be lying, recovering or dying, alone among +strangers and unable to send news of himself. The gazettes from which +the old prince first heard of the defeat at Austerlitz stated, as usual +very briefly and vaguely, that after brilliant engagements the Russians +had had to retreat and had made their withdrawal in perfect order. The +old prince understood from this official report that our army had been +defeated. A week after the gazette report of the battle of Austerlitz +came a letter from Kutuzov informing the prince of the fate that had +befallen his son. + +"Your son," wrote Kutuzov, "fell before my eyes, a standard in +his hand and at the head of a regiment--he fell as a hero, worthy of +his father and his fatherland. To the great regret of myself and of the +whole army it is still uncertain whether he is alive or not. I comfort +myself and you with the hope that your son is alive, for otherwise +he would have been mentioned among the officers found on the field of +battle, a list of whom has been sent me under flag of truce." + +After receiving this news late in the evening, when he was alone in his +study, the old prince went for his walk as usual next morning, but he +was silent with his steward, the gardener, and the architect, and though +he looked very grim he said nothing to anyone. + +When Princess Mary went to him at the usual hour he was working at his +lathe and, as usual, did not look round at her. + +"Ah, Princess Mary!" he said suddenly in an unnatural voice, +throwing down his chisel. (The wheel continued to revolve by its own +impetus, and Princess Mary long remembered the dying creak of that +wheel, which merged in her memory with what followed.) + +She approached him, saw his face, and something gave way within her. Her +eyes grew dim. By the expression of her father's face, not sad, not +crushed, but angry and working unnaturally, she saw that hanging over +her and about to crush her was some terrible misfortune, the worst +in life, one she had not yet experienced, irreparable and +incomprehensible--the death of one she loved. + +"Father! Andrew!"--said the ungraceful, awkward princess with such +an indescribable charm of sorrow and self-forgetfulness that her father +could not bear her look but turned away with a sob. + +"Bad news! He's not among the prisoners nor among the killed! +Kutuzov writes..." and he screamed as piercingly as if he wished to +drive the princess away by that scream... "Killed!" + +The princess did not fall down or faint. She was already pale, but on +hearing these words her face changed and something brightened in her +beautiful, radiant eyes. It was as if joy--a supreme joy apart from the +joys and sorrows of this world--overflowed the great grief within her. +She forgot all fear of her father, went up to him, took his hand, and +drawing him down put her arm round his thin, scraggy neck. + +"Father," she said, "do not turn away from me, let us weep +together." + +"Scoundrels! Blackguards!" shrieked the old man, turning his face +away from her. "Destroying the army, destroying the men! And why? Go, +go and tell Lise." + +The princess sank helplessly into an armchair beside her father and +wept. She saw her brother now as he had been at the moment when he took +leave of her and of Lise, his look tender yet proud. She saw him tender +and amused as he was when he put on the little icon. "Did he believe? +Had he repented of his unbelief? Was he now there? There in the realms +of eternal peace and blessedness?" she thought. + +"Father, tell me how it happened," she asked through her tears. + +"Go! Go! Killed in battle, where the best of Russian men and +Russia's glory were led to destruction. Go, Princess Mary. Go and tell +Lise. I will follow." + +When Princess Mary returned from her father, the little princess sat +working and looked up with that curious expression of inner, happy calm +peculiar to pregnant women. It was evident that her eyes did not see +Princess Mary but were looking within... into herself... at something +joyful and mysterious taking place within her. + +"Mary," she said, moving away from the embroidery frame and lying +back, "give me your hand." She took her sister-in-law's hand and +held it below her waist. + +Her eyes were smiling expectantly, her downy lip rose and remained +lifted in childlike happiness. + +Princess Mary knelt down before her and hid her face in the folds of her +sister-in-law's dress. + +"There, there! Do you feel it? I feel so strange. And do you know, +Mary, I am going to love him very much," said Lise, looking with +bright and happy eyes at her sister-in-law. + +Princess Mary could not lift her head, she was weeping. + +"What is the matter, Mary?" + +"Nothing... only I feel sad... sad about Andrew," she said, wiping +away her tears on her sister-in-law's knee. + +Several times in the course of the morning Princess Mary began trying to +prepare her sister-in-law, and every time began to cry. Unobservant as +was the little princess, these tears, the cause of which she did not +understand, agitated her. She said nothing but looked about uneasily as +if in search of something. Before dinner the old prince, of whom she was +always afraid, came into her room with a peculiarly restless and malign +expression and went out again without saying a word. She looked at +Princess Mary, then sat thinking for a while with that expression of +attention to something within her that is only seen in pregnant women, +and suddenly began to cry. + +"Has anything come from Andrew?" she asked. + +"No, you know it's too soon for news. But my father is anxious and I +feel afraid." + +"So there's nothing?" + +"Nothing," answered Princess Mary, looking firmly with her radiant +eyes at her sister-in-law. + +She had determined not to tell her and persuaded her father to hide the +terrible news from her till after her confinement, which was expected +within a few days. Princess Mary and the old prince each bore and hid +their grief in their own way. The old prince would not cherish any hope: +he made up his mind that Prince Andrew had been killed, and though he +sent an official to Austria to seek for traces of his son, he ordered a +monument from Moscow which he intended to erect in his own garden to his +memory, and he told everybody that his son had been killed. He tried not +to change his former way of life, but his strength failed him. He walked +less, ate less, slept less, and became weaker every day. Princess Mary +hoped. She prayed for her brother as living and was always awaiting news +of his return. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +"Dearest," said the little princess after breakfast on the morning +of the nineteenth March, and her downy little lip rose from old habit, +but as sorrow was manifest in every smile, the sound of every word, and +even every footstep in that house since the terrible news had come, so +now the smile of the little princess--influenced by the general mood +though without knowing its cause--was such as to remind one still more +of the general sorrow. + +"Dearest, I'm afraid this morning's fruschtique *--as Foka the +cook calls it--has disagreed with me." + + * Fruhstuck: breakfast. + +"What is the matter with you, my darling? You look pale. Oh, you +are very pale!" said Princess Mary in alarm, running with her soft, +ponderous steps up to her sister-in-law. + +"Your excellency, should not Mary Bogdanovna be sent for?" said one +of the maids who was present. (Mary Bogdanovna was a midwife from the +neighboring town, who had been at Bald Hills for the last fortnight.) + +"Oh yes," assented Princess Mary, "perhaps that's it. I'll go. +Courage, my angel." She kissed Lise and was about to leave the room. + +"Oh, no, no!" And besides the pallor and the physical suffering +on the little princess' face, an expression of childish fear of +inevitable pain showed itself. + +"No, it's only indigestion?... Say it's only indigestion, say so, +Mary! Say..." And the little princess began to cry capriciously like +a suffering child and to wring her little hands even with some +affectation. Princess Mary ran out of the room to fetch Mary +Bogdanovna. + +"Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu! Oh!" she heard as she left the room. + +The midwife was already on her way to meet her, rubbing her small, plump +white hands with an air of calm importance. + +"Mary Bogdanovna, I think it's beginning!" said Princess Mary +looking at the midwife with wide-open eyes of alarm. + +"Well, the Lord be thanked, Princess," said Mary Bogdanovna, not +hastening her steps. "You young ladies should not know anything about +it." + +"But how is it the doctor from Moscow is not here yet?" said the +princess. (In accordance with Lise's and Prince Andrew's wishes they +had sent in good time to Moscow for a doctor and were expecting him at +any moment.) + +"No matter, Princess, don't be alarmed," said Mary Bogdanovna. +"We'll manage very well without a doctor." + +Five minutes later Princess Mary from her room heard something heavy +being carried by. She looked out. The men servants were carrying the +large leather sofa from Prince Andrew's study into the bedroom. On +their faces was a quiet and solemn look. + +Princess Mary sat alone in her room listening to the sounds in the +house, now and then opening her door when someone passed and watching +what was going on in the passage. Some women passing with quiet steps in +and out of the bedroom glanced at the princess and turned away. She did +not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting +down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before +the icon stand. To her surprise and distress she found that her prayers +did not calm her excitement. Suddenly her door opened softly and her old +nurse, Praskovya Savishna, who hardly ever came to that room as the +old prince had forbidden it, appeared on the threshold with a shawl +round her head. + +"I've come to sit with you a bit, Masha," said the nurse, "and +here I've brought the prince's wedding candles to light before his +saint, my angel," she said with a sigh. + +"Oh, nurse, I'm so glad!" + +"God is merciful, birdie." + +The nurse lit the gilt candles before the icons and sat down by the door +with her knitting. Princess Mary took a book and began reading. Only +when footsteps or voices were heard did they look at one another, the +princess anxious and inquiring, the nurse encouraging. Everyone in the +house was dominated by the same feeling that Princess Mary experienced +as she sat in her room. But owing to the superstition that the fewer +the people who know of it the less a woman in travail suffers, everyone +tried to pretend not to know; no one spoke of it, but apart from the +ordinary staid and respectful good manners habitual in the prince's +household, a common anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a +consciousness that something great and mysterious was being accomplished +at that moment made itself felt. + +There was no laughter in the maids' large hall. In the men servants' +hall all sat waiting, silently and alert. In the outlying serfs' +quarters torches and candles were burning and no one slept. The old +prince, stepping on his heels, paced up and down his study and sent +Tikhon to ask Mary Bogdanovna what news.--"Say only that 'the +prince told me to ask,' and come and tell me her answer." + +"Inform the prince that labor has begun," said Mary Bogdanovna, +giving the messenger a significant look. + +Tikhon went and told the prince. + +"Very good!" said the prince closing the door behind him, and +Tikhon did not hear the slightest sound from the study after that. + +After a while he re-entered it as if to snuff the candles, and, seeing +the prince was lying on the sofa, looked at him, noticed his perturbed +face, shook his head, and going up to him silently kissed him on the +shoulder and left the room without snuffing the candles or saying why he +had entered. The most solemn mystery in the world continued its course. +Evening passed, night came, and the feeling of suspense and softening of +heart in the presence of the unfathomable did not lessen but increased. +No one slept. + +It was one of those March nights when winter seems to wish to resume its +sway and scatters its last snows and storms with desperate fury. A relay +of horses had been sent up the highroad to meet the German doctor from +Moscow who was expected every moment, and men on horseback with lanterns +were sent to the crossroads to guide him over the country road with its +hollows and snow-covered pools of water. + +Princess Mary had long since put aside her book: she sat silent, her +luminous eyes fixed on her nurse's wrinkled face (every line of which +she knew so well), on the lock of gray hair that escaped from under the +kerchief, and the loose skin that hung under her chin. + +Nurse Savishna, knitting in hand, was telling in low tones, scarcely +hearing or understanding her own words, what she had told hundreds of +times before: how the late princess had given birth to Princess Mary +in Kishenev with only a Moldavian peasant woman to help instead of a +midwife. + +"God is merciful, doctors are never needed," she said. + +Suddenly a gust of wind beat violently against the casement of the +window, from which the double frame had been removed (by order of the +prince, one window frame was removed in each room as soon as the larks +returned), and, forcing open a loosely closed latch, set the damask +curtain flapping and blew out the candle with its chill, snowy draft. +Princess Mary shuddered; her nurse, putting down the stocking she was +knitting, went to the window and leaning out tried to catch the open +casement. The cold wind flapped the ends of her kerchief and her loose +locks of gray hair. + +"Princess, my dear, there's someone driving up the avenue!" she +said, holding the casement and not closing it. "With lanterns. Most +likely the doctor." + +"Oh, my God! thank God!" said Princess Mary. "I must go and meet +him, he does not know Russian." + +Princess Mary threw a shawl over her head and ran to meet the newcomer. +As she was crossing the anteroom she saw through the window a carriage +with lanterns, standing at the entrance. She went out on the stairs. On +a banister post stood a tallow candle which guttered in the draft. On +the landing below, Philip, the footman, stood looking scared and holding +another candle. Still lower, beyond the turn of the staircase, one +could hear the footstep of someone in thick felt boots, and a voice that +seemed familiar to Princess Mary was saying something. + +"Thank God!" said the voice. "And Father?" + +"Gone to bed," replied the voice of Demyan the house steward, who +was downstairs. + +Then the voice said something more, Demyan replied, and the steps in +the felt boots approached the unseen bend of the staircase more rapidly. + +"It's Andrew!" thought Princess Mary. "No it can't be, that +would be too extraordinary," and at the very moment she thought this, +the face and figure of Prince Andrew, in a fur cloak the deep collar of +which covered with snow, appeared on the landing where the footman +stood with the candle. Yes, it was he, pale, thin, with a changed and +strangely softened but agitated expression on his face. He came up the +stairs and embraced his sister. + +"You did not get my letter?" he asked, and not waiting for a +reply--which he would not have received, for the princess was unable to +speak--he turned back, rapidly mounted the stairs again with the +doctor who had entered the hall after him (they had met at the last post +station), and again embraced his sister. + +"What a strange fate, Masha darling!" And having taken off his +cloak and felt boots, he went to the little princess' apartment. + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +The little princess lay supported by pillows, with a white cap on her +head (the pains had just left her). Strands of her black hair lay round +her inflamed and perspiring cheeks, her charming rosy mouth with its +downy lip was open and she was smiling joyfully. Prince Andrew entered +and paused facing her at the foot of the sofa on which she was lying. +Her glittering eyes, filled with childlike fear and excitement, rested +on him without changing their expression. "I love you all and have +done no harm to anyone; why must I suffer so? Help me!" her look +seemed to say. She saw her husband, but did not realize the significance +of his appearance before her now. Prince Andrew went round the sofa and +kissed her forehead. + +"My darling!" he said--a word he had never used to her before. +"God is merciful...." + +She looked at him inquiringly and with childlike reproach. + +"I expected help from you and I get none, none from you either!" +said her eyes. She was not surprised at his having come; she did +not realize that he had come. His coming had nothing to do with +her sufferings or with their relief. The pangs began again and Mary +Bogdanovna advised Prince Andrew to leave the room. + +The doctor entered. Prince Andrew went out and, meeting Princess Mary, +again joined her. They began talking in whispers, but their talk broke +off at every moment. They waited and listened. + +"Go, dear," said Princess Mary. + +Prince Andrew went again to his wife and sat waiting in the room next +to hers. A woman came from the bedroom with a frightened face and became +confused when she saw Prince Andrew. He covered his face with his hands +and remained so for some minutes. Piteous, helpless, animal moans came +through the door. Prince Andrew got up, went to the door, and tried to +open it. Someone was holding it shut. + +"You can't come in! You can't!" said a terrified voice from +within. + +He began pacing the room. The screaming ceased, and a few more seconds +went by. Then suddenly a terrible shriek--it could not be hers, she +could not scream like that--came from the bedroom. Prince Andrew ran to +the door; the scream ceased and he heard the wail of an infant. + +"What have they taken a baby in there for?" thought Prince Andrew in +the first second. "A baby? What baby...? Why is there a baby there? Or +is the baby born?" + +Then suddenly he realized the joyful significance of that wail; tears +choked him, and leaning his elbows on the window sill he began to cry, +sobbing like a child. The door opened. The doctor with his shirt sleeves +tucked up, without a coat, pale and with a trembling jaw, came out +of the room. Prince Andrew turned to him, but the doctor gave him a +bewildered look and passed by without a word. A woman rushed out and +seeing Prince Andrew stopped, hesitating on the threshold. He went into +his wife's room. She was lying dead, in the same position he had seen +her in five minutes before and, despite the fixed eyes and the pallor of +the cheeks, the same expression was on her charming childlike face with +its upper lip covered with tiny black hair. + +"I love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you +done to me?"--said her charming, pathetic, dead face. + +In a corner of the room something red and tiny gave a grunt and squealed +in Mary Bogdanovna's trembling white hands. + + +Two hours later Prince Andrew, stepping softly, went into his father's +room. The old man already knew everything. He was standing close to +the door and as soon as it opened his rough old arms closed like a vise +round his son's neck, and without a word he began to sob like a child. + + +Three days later the little princess was buried, and Prince Andrew went +up the steps to where the coffin stood, to give her the farewell kiss. +And there in the coffin was the same face, though with closed eyes. +"Ah, what have you done to me?" it still seemed to say, and Prince +Andrew felt that something gave way in his soul and that he was guilty +of a sin he could neither remedy nor forget. He could not weep. The +old man too came up and kissed the waxen little hands that lay quietly +crossed one on the other on her breast, and to him, too, her face seemed +to say: "Ah, what have you done to me, and why?" And at the sight +the old man turned angrily away. + + +Another five days passed, and then the young Prince Nicholas Andreevich +was baptized. The wet nurse supported the coverlet with her chin, while +the priest with a goose feather anointed the boy's little red and +wrinkled soles and palms. + +His grandfather, who was his godfather, trembling and afraid of dropping +him, carried the infant round the battered tin font and handed him over +to the godmother, Princess Mary. Prince Andrew sat in another room, +faint with fear lest the baby should be drowned in the font, and awaited +the termination of the ceremony. He looked up joyfully at the baby when +the nurse brought it to him and nodded approval when she told him that +the wax with the baby's hair had not sunk in the font but had floated. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +Rostov's share in Dolokhov's duel with Bezukhov was hushed up by +the efforts of the old count, and instead of being degraded to the ranks +as he expected he was appointed an adjutant to the governor general of +Moscow. As a result he could not go to the country with the rest of the +family, but was kept all summer in Moscow by his new duties. Dolokhov +recovered, and Rostov became very friendly with him during his +convalescence. Dolokhov lay ill at his mother's who loved him +passionately and tenderly, and old Mary Ivanovna, who had grown fond of +Rostov for his friendship to her Fedya, often talked to him about her +son. + +"Yes, Count," she would say, "he is too noble and pure-souled for +our present, depraved world. No one now loves virtue; it seems like +a reproach to everyone. Now tell me, Count, was it right, was it +honorable, of Bezukhov? And Fedya, with his noble spirit, loved him +and even now never says a word against him. Those pranks in Petersburg +when they played some tricks on a policeman, didn't they do it +together? And there! Bezukhov got off scotfree, while Fedya had to +bear the whole burden on his shoulders. Fancy what he had to go through! +It's true he has been reinstated, but how could they fail to do that? +I think there were not many such gallant sons of the fatherland out +there as he. And now--this duel! Have these people no feeling, or +honor? Knowing him to be an only son, to challenge him and shoot so +straight! It's well God had mercy on us. And what was it for? Who +doesn't have intrigues nowadays? Why, if he was so jealous, as I see +things he should have shown it sooner, but he lets it go on for months. +And then to call him out, reckoning on Fedya not fighting because he +owed him money! What baseness! What meanness! I know you understand +Fedya, my dear count; that, believe me, is why I am so fond of you. Few +people do understand him. He is such a lofty, heavenly soul!" + +Dolokhov himself during his convalescence spoke to Rostov in a way no +one would have expected of him. + +"I know people consider me a bad man!" he said. "Let them! I +don't care a straw about anyone but those I love; but those I love, +I love so that I would give my life for them, and the others I'd +throttle if they stood in my way. I have an adored, a priceless mother, +and two or three friends--you among them--and as for the rest I only +care about them in so far as they are harmful or useful. And most of +them are harmful, especially the women. Yes, dear boy," he continued, +"I have met loving, noble, high-minded men, but I have not yet met +any women--countesses or cooks--who were not venal. I have not yet met +that divine purity and devotion I look for in women. If I found such a +one I'd give my life for her! But those!..." and he made a gesture +of contempt. "And believe me, if I still value my life it is +only because I still hope to meet such a divine creature, who will +regenerate, purify, and elevate me. But you don't understand it." + +"Oh, yes, I quite understand," answered Rostov, who was under his +new friend's influence. + +In the autumn the Rostovs returned to Moscow. Early in the winter +Denisov also came back and stayed with them. The first half of the +winter of 1806, which Nicholas Rostov spent in Moscow, was one of the +happiest, merriest times for him and the whole family. Nicholas brought +many young men to his parents' house. Vera was a handsome girl +of twenty; Sonya a girl of sixteen with all the charm of an opening +flower; Natasha, half grown up and half child, was now childishly +amusing, now girlishly enchanting. + +At that time in the Rostovs' house there prevailed an amorous +atmosphere characteristic of homes where there are very young and very +charming girls. Every young man who came to the house--seeing those +impressionable, smiling young faces (smiling probably at their own +happiness), feeling the eager bustle around him, and hearing the fitful +bursts of song and music and the inconsequent but friendly prattle of +young girls ready for anything and full of hope--experienced the same +feeling; sharing with the young folk of the Rostovs' household a +readiness to fall in love and an expectation of happiness. + +Among the young men introduced by Rostov one of the first was +Dolokhov, whom everyone in the house liked except Natasha. She almost +quarreled with her brother about him. She insisted that he was a bad +man, and that in the duel with Bezukhov, Pierre was right and Dolokhov +wrong, and further that he was disagreeable and unnatural. + +"There's nothing for me to understand," she cried out with +resolute self-will, "he is wicked and heartless. There now, I like +your Denisov though he is a rake and all that, still I like him; so +you see I do understand. I don't know how to put it... with this one +everything is calculated, and I don't like that. But Denisov..." + +"Oh, Denisov is quite different," replied Nicholas, implying that +even Denisov was nothing compared to Dolokhov--"you must understand +what a soul there is in Dolokhov, you should see him with his mother. +What a heart!" + +"Well, I don't know about that, but I am uncomfortable with him. And +do you know he has fallen in love with Sonya?" + +"What nonsense..." + +"I'm certain of it; you'll see." + +Natasha's prediction proved true. Dolokhov, who did not usually care +for the society of ladies, began to come often to the house, and the +question for whose sake he came (though no one spoke of it) was soon +settled. He came because of Sonya. And Sonya, though she would never +have dared to say so, knew it and blushed scarlet every time Dolokhov +appeared. + +Dolokhov often dined at the Rostovs', never missed a performance at +which they were present, and went to Iogel's balls for young people +which the Rostovs always attended. He was pointedly attentive to Sonya +and looked at her in such a way that not only could she not bear his +glances without coloring, but even the old countess and Natasha blushed +when they saw his looks. + +It was evident that this strange, strong man was under the irresistible +influence of the dark, graceful girl who loved another. + +Rostov noticed something new in Dolokhov's relations with Sonya, +but he did not explain to himself what these new relations were. +"They're always in love with someone," he thought of Sonya and +Natasha. But he was not as much at ease with Sonya and Dolokhov as +before and was less frequently at home. + +In the autumn of 1806 everybody had again begun talking of the war with +Napoleon with even greater warmth than the year before. Orders were +given to raise recruits, ten men in every thousand for the regular army, +and besides this, nine men in every thousand for the militia. Everywhere +Bonaparte was anathematized and in Moscow nothing but the coming war +was talked of. For the Rostov family the whole interest of these +preparations for war lay in the fact that Nicholas would not hear of +remaining in Moscow, and only awaited the termination of Denisov's +furlough after Christmas to return with him to their regiment. His +approaching departure did not prevent his amusing himself, but rather +gave zest to his pleasures. He spent the greater part of his time away +from home, at dinners, parties, and balls. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +On the third day after Christmas Nicholas dined at home, a thing he had +rarely done of late. It was a grand farewell dinner, as he and Denisov +were leaving to join their regiment after Epiphany. About twenty people +were present, including Dolokhov and Denisov. + +Never had love been so much in the air, and never had the amorous +atmosphere made itself so strongly felt in the Rostovs' house as at +this holiday time. "Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! +That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one +thing we are interested in here," said the spirit of the place. + +Nicholas, having as usual exhausted two pairs of horses, without +visiting all the places he meant to go to and where he had been invited, +returned home just before dinner. As soon as he entered he noticed and +felt the tension of the amorous air in the house, and also noticed a +curious embarrassment among some of those present. Sonya, Dolokhov, +and the old countess were especially disturbed, and to a lesser degree +Natasha. Nicholas understood that something must have happened between +Sonya and Dolokhov before dinner, and with the kindly sensitiveness +natural to him was very gentle and wary with them both at dinner. On +that same evening there was to be one of the balls that Iogel (the +dancing master) gave for his pupils during the holidays. + +"Nicholas, will you come to Iogel's? Please do!" said Natasha. +"He asked you, and Vasili Dmitrich * is also going." + + * Denisov. + +"Where would I not go at the countess' command!" said Denisov, +who at the Rostovs' had jocularly assumed the role of Natasha's +knight. "I'm even weady to dance the pas de chale." + +"If I have time," answered Nicholas. "But I promised the +Arkharovs; they have a party." + +"And you?" he asked Dolokhov, but as soon as he had asked the +question he noticed that it should not have been put. + +"Perhaps," coldly and angrily replied Dolokhov, glancing at Sonya, +and, scowling, he gave Nicholas just such a look as he had given Pierre +at the club dinner. + +"There is something up," thought Nicholas, and he was further +confirmed in this conclusion by the fact that Dolokhov left immediately +after dinner. He called Natasha and asked her what was the matter. + +"And I was looking for you," said Natasha running out to him. "I +told you, but you would not believe it," she said triumphantly. "He +has proposed to Sonya!" + +Little as Nicholas had occupied himself with Sonya of late, something +seemed to give way within him at this news. Dolokhov was a suitable and +in some respects a brilliant match for the dowerless, orphan girl. From +the point of view of the old countess and of society it was out of the +question for her to refuse him. And therefore Nicholas' first feeling +on hearing the news was one of anger with Sonya.... He tried to say, +"That's capital; of course she'll forget her childish promises +and accept the offer," but before he had time to say it Natasha began +again. + +"And fancy! she refused him quite definitely!" adding, after a +pause, "she told him she loved another." + +"Yes, my Sonya could not have done otherwise!" thought Nicholas. + +"Much as Mamma pressed her, she refused, and I know she won't change +once she has said..." + +"And Mamma pressed her!" said Nicholas reproachfully. + +"Yes," said Natasha. "Do you know, Nicholas--don't be +angry--but I know you will not marry her. I know, heaven knows how, but +I know for certain that you won't marry her." + +"Now you don't know that at all!" said Nicholas. "But I must +talk to her. What a darling Sonya is!" he added with a smile. + +"Ah, she is indeed a darling! I'll send her to you." + +And Natasha kissed her brother and ran away. + +A minute later Sonya came in with a frightened, guilty, and scared +look. Nicholas went up to her and kissed her hand. This was the first +time since his return that they had talked alone and about their love. + +"Sophie," he began, timidly at first and then more and more +boldly, "if you wish to refuse one who is not only a brilliant and +advantageous match but a splendid, noble fellow... he is my friend..." + +Sonya interrupted him. + +"I have already refused," she said hurriedly. + +"If you are refusing for my sake, I am afraid that I..." + +Sonya again interrupted. She gave him an imploring, frightened look. + +"Nicholas, don't tell me that!" she said. + +"No, but I must. It may be arrogant of me, but still it is best to say +it. If you refuse him on my account, I must tell you the whole truth. I +love you, and I think I love you more than anyone else...." + +"That is enough for me," said Sonya, blushing. + +"No, but I have been in love a thousand times and shall fall in +love again, though for no one have I such a feeling of friendship, +confidence, and love as I have for you. Then I am young. Mamma does +not wish it. In a word, I make no promise. And I beg you to consider +Dolokhov's offer," he said, articulating his friend's name with +difficulty. + +"Don't say that to me! I want nothing. I love you as a brother and +always shall, and I want nothing more." + +"You are an angel: I am not worthy of you, but I am afraid of +misleading you." + +And Nicholas again kissed her hand. + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +Iogel's were the most enjoyable balls in Moscow. So said the mothers +as they watched their young people executing their newly learned steps, +and so said the youths and maidens themselves as they danced till they +were ready to drop, and so said the grown-up young men and women who +came to these balls with an air of condescension and found them most +enjoyable. That year two marriages had come of these balls. The two +pretty young Princesses Gorchakov met suitors there and were married +and so further increased the fame of these dances. What distinguished +them from others was the absence of host or hostess and the presence of +the good-natured Iogel, flying about like a feather and bowing according +to the rules of his art, as he collected the tickets from all his +visitors. There was the fact that only those came who wished to dance +and amuse themselves as girls of thirteen and fourteen do who are +wearing long dresses for the first time. With scarcely any exceptions +they all were, or seemed to be, pretty--so rapturous were their smiles +and so sparkling their eyes. Sometimes the best of the pupils, of whom +Natasha, who was exceptionally graceful, was first, even danced the pas +de chale, but at this last ball only the ecossaise, the anglaise, and +the mazurka, which was just coming into fashion, were danced. Iogel had +taken a ballroom in Bezukhov's house, and the ball, as everyone said, +was a great success. There were many pretty girls and the Rostov girls +were among the prettiest. They were both particularly happy and gay. +That evening, proud of Dolokhov's proposal, her refusal, and her +explanation with Nicholas, Sonya twirled about before she left home +so that the maid could hardly get her hair plaited, and she was +transparently radiant with impulsive joy. + +Natasha no less proud of her first long dress and of being at a real +ball was even happier. They were both dressed in white muslin with pink +ribbons. + +Natasha fell in love the very moment she entered the ballroom. She +was not in love with anyone in particular, but with everyone. Whatever +person she happened to look at she was in love with for that moment. + +"Oh, how delightful it is!" she kept saying, running up to Sonya. + +Nicholas and Denisov were walking up and down, looking with kindly +patronage at the dancers. + +"How sweet she is--she will be a weal beauty!" said Denisov. + +"Who?" + +"Countess Natasha," answered Denisov. + +"And how she dances! What gwace!" he said again after a pause. + +"Who are you talking about?" + +"About your sister," ejaculated Denisov testily. + +Rostov smiled. + +"My dear count, you were one of my best pupils--you must dance," +said little Iogel coming up to Nicholas. "Look how many charming young +ladies--" He turned with the same request to Denisov who was also a +former pupil of his. + +"No, my dear fellow, I'll be a wallflower," said Denisov. +"Don't you wecollect what bad use I made of your lessons?" + +"Oh no!" said Iogel, hastening to reassure him. "You were only +inattentive, but you had talent--oh yes, you had talent!" + +The band struck up the newly introduced mazurka. Nicholas could not +refuse Iogel and asked Sonya to dance. Denisov sat down by the old +ladies and, leaning on his saber and beating time with his foot, told +them something funny and kept them amused, while he watched the young +people dancing, Iogel with Natasha, his pride and his best pupil, were +the first couple. Noiselessly, skillfully stepping with his little +feet in low shoes, Iogel flew first across the hall with Natasha, who, +though shy, went on carefully executing her steps. Denisov did not +take his eyes off her and beat time with his saber in a way that clearly +indicated that if he was not dancing it was because he would not and not +because he could not. In the middle of a figure he beckoned to Rostov +who was passing: + +"This is not at all the thing," he said. "What sort of Polish +mazuwka is this? But she does dance splendidly." + +Knowing that Denisov had a reputation even in Poland for the masterly +way in which he danced the mazurka, Nicholas ran up to Natasha: + +"Go and choose Denisov. He is a real dancer, a wonder!" he said. + +When it came to Natasha's turn to choose a partner, she rose and, +tripping rapidly across in her little shoes trimmed with bows, ran +timidly to the corner where Denisov sat. She saw that everybody was +looking at her and waiting. Nicholas saw that Denisov was refusing +though he smiled delightedly. He ran up to them. + +"Please, Vasili Dmitrich," Natasha was saying, "do come!" + +"Oh no, let me off, Countess," Denisov replied. + +"Now then, Vaska," said Nicholas. + +"They coax me as if I were Vaska the cat!" said Denisov jokingly. + +"I'll sing for you a whole evening," said Natasha. + +"Oh, the faiwy! She can do anything with me!" said Denisov, and +he unhooked his saber. He came out from behind the chairs, clasped his +partner's hand firmly, threw back his head, and advanced his foot, +waiting for the beat. Only on horse back and in the mazurka was +Denisov's short stature not noticeable and he looked the fine fellow +he felt himself to be. At the right beat of the music he looked sideways +at his partner with a merry and triumphant air, suddenly stamped with +one foot, bounded from the floor like a ball, and flew round the room +taking his partner with him. He glided silently on one foot half across +the room, and seeming not to notice the chairs was dashing straight at +them, when suddenly, clinking his spurs and spreading out his legs, +he stopped short on his heels, stood so a second, stamped on the spot +clanking his spurs, whirled rapidly round, and, striking his left heel +against his right, flew round again in a circle. Natasha guessed what +he meant to do, and abandoning herself to him followed his lead hardly +knowing how. First he spun her round, holding her now with his left, now +with his right hand, then falling on one knee he twirled her round him, +and again jumping up, dashed so impetuously forward that it seemed as if +he would rush through the whole suite of rooms without drawing breath, +and then he suddenly stopped and performed some new and unexpected +steps. When at last, smartly whirling his partner round in front of her +chair, he drew up with a click of his spurs and bowed to her, Natasha +did not even make him a curtsy. She fixed her eyes on him in amazement, +smiling as if she did not recognize him. + +"What does this mean?" she brought out. + +Although Iogel did not acknowledge this to be the real mazurka, everyone +was delighted with Denisov's skill, he was asked again and again as +a partner, and the old men began smilingly to talk about Poland and the +good old days. Denisov, flushed after the mazurka and mopping himself +with his handkerchief, sat down by Natasha and did not leave her for +the rest of the evening. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIII + +For two days after that Rostov did not see Dolokhov at his own or at +Dolokhov's home: on the third day he received a note from him: + +As I do not intend to be at your house again for reasons you know +of, and am going to rejoin my regiment, I am giving a farewell supper +tonight to my friends--come to the English Hotel. + +About ten o'clock Rostov went to the English Hotel straight from the +theater, where he had been with his family and Denisov. He was at once +shown to the best room, which Dolokhov had taken for that evening. Some +twenty men were gathered round a table at which Dolokhov sat between +two candles. On the table was a pile of gold and paper money, and he +was keeping the bank. Rostov had not seen him since his proposal and +Sonya's refusal and felt uncomfortable at the thought of how they +would meet. + +Dolokhov's clear, cold glance met Rostov as soon as he entered the +door, as though he had long expected him. + +"It's a long time since we met," he said. "Thanks for coming. +I'll just finish dealing, and then Ilyushka will come with his +chorus." + +"I called once or twice at your house," said Rostov, reddening. + +Dolokhov made no reply. + +"You may punt," he said. + +Rostov recalled at that moment a strange conversation he had once had +with Dolokhov. "None but fools trust to luck in play," Dolokhov +had then said. + +"Or are you afraid to play with me?" Dolokhov now asked as if +guessing Rostov's thought. + +Beneath his smile Rostov saw in him the mood he had shown at the club +dinner and at other times, when as if tired of everyday life he had felt +a need to escape from it by some strange, and usually cruel, action. + +Rostov felt ill at ease. He tried, but failed, to find some joke with +which to reply to Dolokhov's words. But before he had thought of +anything, Dolokhov, looking straight in his face, said slowly and +deliberately so that everyone could hear: + +"Do you remember we had a talk about cards... 'He's a fool who +trusts to luck, one should make certain,' and I want to try." + +"To try his luck or the certainty?" Rostov asked himself. + +"Well, you'd better not play," Dolokhov added, and springing a +new pack of cards said: "Bank, gentlemen!" + +Moving the money forward he prepared to deal. Rostov sat down by his +side and at first did not play. Dolokhov kept glancing at him. + +"Why don't you play?" he asked. + +And strange to say Nicholas felt that he could not help taking up a +card, putting a small stake on it, and beginning to play. + +"I have no money with me," he said. + +"I'll trust you." + +Rostov staked five rubles on a card and lost, staked again, and again +lost. Dolokhov "killed," that is, beat, ten cards of Rostov's +running. + +"Gentlemen," said Dolokhov after he had dealt for some time. +"Please place your money on the cards or I may get muddled in the +reckoning." + +One of the players said he hoped he might be trusted. + +"Yes, you might, but I am afraid of getting the accounts mixed. So I +ask you to put the money on your cards," replied Dolokhov. "Don't +stint yourself, we'll settle afterwards," he added, turning to +Rostov. + +The game continued; a waiter kept handing round champagne. + +All Rostov's cards were beaten and he had eight hundred rubles scored +up against him. He wrote "800 rubles" on a card, but while the +waiter filled his glass he changed his mind and altered it to his usual +stake of twenty rubles. + +"Leave it," said Dolokhov, though he did not seem to be even +looking at Rostov, "you'll win it back all the sooner. I lose to +the others but win from you. Or are you afraid of me?" he asked again. + +Rostov submitted. He let the eight hundred remain and laid down a seven +of hearts with a torn corner, which he had picked up from the floor. He +well remembered that seven afterwards. He laid down the seven of hearts, +on which with a broken bit of chalk he had written "800 rubles" in +clear upright figures; he emptied the glass of warm champagne that was +handed him, smiled at Dolokhov's words, and with a sinking heart, +waiting for a seven to turn up, gazed at Dolokhov's hands which held +the pack. Much depended on Rostov's winning or losing on that seven +of hearts. On the previous Sunday the old count had given his son +two thousand rubles, and though he always disliked speaking of money +difficulties had told Nicholas that this was all he could let him have +till May, and asked him to be more economical this time. Nicholas had +replied that it would be more than enough for him and that he gave his +word of honor not to take anything more till the spring. Now only twelve +hundred rubles was left of that money, so that this seven of hearts +meant for him not only the loss of sixteen hundred rubles, but the +necessity of going back on his word. With a sinking heart he watched +Dolokhov's hands and thought, "Now then, make haste and let me have +this card and I'll take my cap and drive home to supper with Denisov, +Natasha, and Sonya, and will certainly never touch a card again." At +that moment his home life, jokes with Petya, talks with Sonya, duets +with Natasha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed +in the house on the Povarskaya rose before him with such vividness, +clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and +unappreciated bliss, long past. He could not conceive that a stupid +chance, letting the seven be dealt to the right rather than to the left, +might deprive him of all this happiness, newly appreciated and newly +illumined, and plunge him into the depths of unknown and undefined +misery. That could not be, yet he awaited with a sinking heart the +movement of Dolokhov's hands. Those broad, reddish hands, with hairy +wrists visible from under the shirt cuffs, laid down the pack and took +up a glass and a pipe that were handed him. + +"So you are not afraid to play with me?" repeated Dolokhov, and as +if about to tell a good story he put down the cards, leaned back in his +chair, and began deliberately with a smile: + +"Yes, gentlemen, I've been told there's a rumor going about Moscow +that I'm a sharper, so I advise you to be careful." + +"Come now, deal!" exclaimed Rostov. + +"Oh, those Moscow gossips!" said Dolokhov, and he took up the cards +with a smile. + +"Aah!" Rostov almost screamed lifting both hands to his head. The +seven he needed was lying uppermost, the first card in the pack. He had +lost more than he could pay. + +"Still, don't ruin yourself!" said Dolokhov with a side glance at +Rostov as he continued to deal. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +An hour and a half later most of the players were but little interested +in their own play. + +The whole interest was concentrated on Rostov. Instead of sixteen +hundred rubles he had a long column of figures scored against him, +which he had reckoned up to ten thousand, but that now, as he vaguely +supposed, must have risen to fifteen thousand. In reality it already +exceeded twenty thousand rubles. Dolokhov was no longer listening to +stories or telling them, but followed every movement of Rostov's +hands and occasionally ran his eyes over the score against him. He had +decided to play until that score reached forty-three thousand. He +had fixed on that number because forty-three was the sum of his and +Sonya's joint ages. Rostov, leaning his head on both hands, sat at +the table which was scrawled over with figures, wet with spilled wine, +and littered with cards. One tormenting impression did not leave him: +that those broad-boned reddish hands with hairy wrists visible from +under the shirt sleeves, those hands which he loved and hated, held him +in their power. + +"Six hundred rubles, ace, a corner, a nine... winning it back's +impossible... Oh, how pleasant it was at home!... The knave, double or +quits... it can't be!... And why is he doing this to me?" Rostov +pondered. Sometimes he staked a large sum, but Dolokhov refused to +accept it and fixed the stake himself. Nicholas submitted to him, and at +one moment prayed to God as he had done on the battlefield at the bridge +over the Enns, and then guessed that the card that came first to hand +from the crumpled heap under the table would save him, now counted the +cords on his coat and took a card with that number and tried staking the +total of his losses on it, then he looked round for aid from the other +players, or peered at the now cold face of Dolokhov and tried to read +what was passing in his mind. + +"He knows of course what this loss means to me. He can't want my +ruin. Wasn't he my friend? Wasn't I fond of him? But it's not his +fault. What's he to do if he has such luck?... And it's not my fault +either," he thought to himself, "I have done nothing wrong. Have I +killed anyone, or insulted or wished harm to anyone? Why such a terrible +misfortune? And when did it begin? Such a little while ago I came to +this table with the thought of winning a hundred rubles to buy that +casket for Mamma's name day and then going home. I was so happy, so +free, so lighthearted! And I did not realize how happy I was! When did +that end and when did this new, terrible state of things begin? What +marked the change? I sat all the time in this same place at this table, +chose and placed cards, and watched those broad-boned agile hands in the +same way. When did it happen and what has happened? I am well and strong +and still the same and in the same place. No, it can't be! Surely it +will all end in nothing!" + +He was flushed and bathed in perspiration, though the room was not hot. +His face was terrible and piteous to see, especially from its helpless +efforts to seem calm. + +The score against him reached the fateful sum of forty-three thousand. +Rostov had just prepared a card, by bending the corner of which he +meant to double the three thousand just put down to his score, when +Dolokhov, slamming down the pack of cards, put it aside and began +rapidly adding up the total of Rostov's debt, breaking the chalk as +he marked the figures in his clear, bold hand. + +"Supper, it's time for supper! And here are the gypsies!" + +Some swarthy men and women were really entering from the cold outside +and saying something in their gypsy accents. Nicholas understood that it +was all over; but he said in an indifferent tone: + +"Well, won't you go on? I had a splendid card all ready," as if it +were the fun of the game which interested him most. + +"It's all up! I'm lost!" thought he. "Now a bullet through my +brain--that's all that's left me!" And at the same time he said +in a cheerful voice: + +"Come now, just this one more little card!" + +"All right!" said Dolokhov, having finished the addition. "All +right! Twenty-one rubles," he said, pointing to the figure twenty-one +by which the total exceeded the round sum of forty-three thousand; and +taking up a pack he prepared to deal. Rostov submissively unbent the +corner of his card and, instead of the six thousand he had intended, +carefully wrote twenty-one. + +"It's all the same to me," he said. "I only want to see whether +you will let me win this ten, or beat it." + +Dolokhov began to deal seriously. Oh, how Rostov detested at that +moment those hands with their short reddish fingers and hairy wrists, +which held him in their power.... The ten fell to him. + +"You owe forty-three thousand, Count," said Dolokhov, and +stretching himself he rose from the table. "One does get tired sitting +so long," he added. + +"Yes, I'm tired too," said Rostov. + +Dolokhov cut him short, as if to remind him that it was not for him to +jest. + +"When am I to receive the money, Count?" + +Rostov, flushing, drew Dolokhov into the next room. + +"I cannot pay it all immediately. Will you take an I.O.U.?" he said. + +"I say, Rostov," said Dolokhov clearly, smiling and looking +Nicholas straight in the eyes, "you know the saying, 'Lucky in love, +unlucky at cards.' Your cousin is in love with you, I know." + +"Oh, it's terrible to feel oneself so in this man's power," +thought Rostov. He knew what a shock he would inflict on his father and +mother by the news of this loss, he knew what a relief it would be to +escape it all, and felt that Dolokhov knew that he could save him from +all this shame and sorrow, but wanted now to play with him as a cat does +with a mouse. + +"Your cousin..." Dolokhov started to say, but Nicholas interrupted +him. + +"My cousin has nothing to do with this and it's not necessary to +mention her!" he exclaimed fiercely. + +"Then when am I to have it?" + +"Tomorrow," replied Rostov and left the room. + + + + + +CHAPTER XV + +To say "tomorrow" and keep up a dignified tone was not difficult, +but to go home alone, see his sisters, brother, mother, and father, +confess and ask for money he had no right to after giving his word of +honor, was terrible. + +At home, they had not yet gone to bed. The young people, after returning +from the theater, had had supper and were grouped round the clavichord. +As soon as Nicholas entered, he was enfolded in that poetic atmosphere +of love which pervaded the Rostov household that winter and, now after +Dolokhov's proposal and Iogel's ball, seemed to have grown thicker +round Sonya and Natasha as the air does before a thunderstorm. Sonya +and Natasha, in the light-blue dresses they had worn at the theater, +looking pretty and conscious of it, were standing by the clavichord, +happy and smiling. Vera was playing chess with Shinshin in the drawing +room. The old countess, waiting for the return of her husband and son, +sat playing patience with the old gentlewoman who lived in their house. +Denisov, with sparkling eyes and ruffled hair, sat at the clavichord +striking chords with his short fingers, his legs thrown back and his +eyes rolling as he sang, with his small, husky, but true voice, some +verses called "Enchantress," which he had composed, and to which he +was trying to fit music: + + Enchantress, say, to my forsaken lyre + What magic power is this recalls me still? + What spark has set my inmost soul on fire, + What is this bliss that makes my fingers thrill? + +He was singing in passionate tones, gazing with his sparkling +black-agate eyes at the frightened and happy Natasha. + +"Splendid! Excellent!" exclaimed Natasha. "Another verse," she +said, without noticing Nicholas. + +"Everything's still the same with them," thought Nicholas, +glancing into the drawing room, where he saw Vera and his mother with +the old lady. + +"Ah, and here's Nicholas!" cried Natasha, running up to him. + +"Is Papa at home?" he asked. + +"I am so glad you've come!" said Natasha, without answering him. +"We are enjoying ourselves! Vasili Dmitrich is staying a day longer +for my sake! Did you know?" + +"No, Papa is not back yet," said Sonya. + +"Nicholas, have you come? Come here, dear!" called the old countess +from the drawing room. + +Nicholas went to her, kissed her hand, and sitting down silently at her +table began to watch her hands arranging the cards. From the dancing +room, they still heard the laughter and merry voices trying to persuade +Natasha to sing. + +"All wight! All wight!" shouted Denisov. "It's no good making +excuses now! It's your turn to sing the ba'cawolla--I entweat +you!" + +The countess glanced at her silent son. + +"What is the matter?" she asked. + +"Oh, nothing," said he, as if weary of being continually asked the +same question. "Will Papa be back soon?" + +"I expect so." + +"Everything's the same with them. They know nothing about it! Where +am I to go?" thought Nicholas, and went again into the dancing room +where the clavichord stood. + +Sonya was sitting at the clavichord, playing the prelude to +Denisov's favorite barcarolle. Natasha was preparing to sing. +Denisov was looking at her with enraptured eyes. + +Nicholas began pacing up and down the room. + +"Why do they want to make her sing? How can she sing? There's +nothing to be happy about!" thought he. + +Sonya struck the first chord of the prelude. + +"My God, I'm a ruined and dishonored man! A bullet through my brain +is the only thing left me--not singing!" his thoughts ran on. "Go +away? But where to? It's one--let them sing!" + +He continued to pace the room, looking gloomily at Denisov and the +girls and avoiding their eyes. + +"Nikolenka, what is the matter?" Sonya's eyes fixed on him +seemed to ask. She noticed at once that something had happened to him. + +Nicholas turned away from her. Natasha too, with her quick instinct, +had instantly noticed her brother's condition. But, though she noticed +it, she was herself in such high spirits at that moment, so far from +sorrow, sadness, or self-reproach, that she purposely deceived herself +as young people often do. "No, I am too happy now to spoil my +enjoyment by sympathy with anyone's sorrow," she felt, and she said +to herself: "No, I must be mistaken, he must be feeling happy, just as +I am." + +"Now, Sonya!" she said, going to the very middle of the room, where +she considered the resonance was best. + +Having lifted her head and let her arms droop lifelessly, as ballet +dancers do, Natasha, rising energetically from her heels to her toes, +stepped to the middle of the room and stood still. + +"Yes, that's me!" she seemed to say, answering the rapt gaze with +which Denisov followed her. + +"And what is she so pleased about?" thought Nicholas, looking at his +sister. "Why isn't she dull and ashamed?" + +Natasha took the first note, her throat swelled, her chest rose, +her eyes became serious. At that moment she was oblivious of her +surroundings, and from her smiling lips flowed sounds which anyone may +produce at the same intervals and hold for the same time, but which +leave you cold a thousand times and the thousand and first time thrill +you and make you weep. + +Natasha, that winter, had for the first time begun to sing seriously, +mainly because Denisov so delighted in her singing. She no longer sang +as a child, there was no longer in her singing that comical, childish, +painstaking effect that had been in it before; but she did not yet sing +well, as all the connoisseurs who heard her said: "It is not trained, +but it is a beautiful voice that must be trained." Only they generally +said this some time after she had finished singing. While that untrained +voice, with its incorrect breathing and labored transitions, was +sounding, even the connoisseurs said nothing, but only delighted in +it and wished to hear it again. In her voice there was a virginal +freshness, an unconsciousness of her own powers, and an as yet untrained +velvety softness, which so mingled with her lack of art in singing that +it seemed as if nothing in that voice could be altered without spoiling +it. + +"What is this?" thought Nicholas, listening to her with widely +opened eyes. "What has happened to her? How she is singing today!" +And suddenly the whole world centered for him on anticipation of the +next note, the next phrase, and everything in the world was divided into +three beats: "Oh mio crudele affetto."... One, two, three... one, +two, three... One... "Oh mio crudele affetto."... One, two, three... +One. "Oh, this senseless life of ours!" thought Nicholas. "All +this misery, and money, and Dolokhov, and anger, and honor--it's all +nonsense... but this is real.... Now then, Natasha, now then, dearest! +Now then, darling! How will she take that si? She's taken it! Thank +God!" And without noticing that he was singing, to strengthen the si +he sung a second, a third below the high note. "Ah, God! How fine! Did +I really take it? How fortunate!" he thought. + +Oh, how that chord vibrated, and how moved was something that was finest +in Rostov's soul! And this something was apart from everything else +in the world and above everything in the world. "What were losses, and +Dolokhov, and words of honor?... All nonsense! One might kill and rob +and yet be happy...." + + + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +It was long since Rostov had felt such enjoyment from music as he +did that day. But no sooner had Natasha finished her barcarolle than +reality again presented itself. He got up without saying a word and went +downstairs to his own room. A quarter of an hour later the old count +came in from his club, cheerful and contented. Nicholas, hearing him +drive up, went to meet him. + +"Well--had a good time?" said the old count, smiling gaily and +proudly at his son. + +Nicholas tried to say "Yes," but could not: and he nearly burst into +sobs. The count was lighting his pipe and did not notice his son's +condition. + +"Ah, it can't be avoided!" thought Nicholas, for the first and +last time. And suddenly, in the most casual tone, which made him feel +ashamed of himself, he said, as if merely asking his father to let him +have the carriage to drive to town: + +"Papa, I have come on a matter of business. I was nearly forgetting. I +need some money." + +"Dear me!" said his father, who was in a specially good humor. "I +told you it would not be enough. How much?" + +"Very much," said Nicholas flushing, and with a stupid careless +smile, for which he was long unable to forgive himself, "I have lost a +little, I mean a good deal, a great deal--forty three thousand." + +"What! To whom?... Nonsense!" cried the count, suddenly reddening +with an apoplectic flush over neck and nape as old people do. + +"I promised to pay tomorrow," said Nicholas. + +"Well!..." said the old count, spreading out his arms and sinking +helplessly on the sofa. + +"It can't be helped! It happens to everyone!" said the son, with +a bold, free, and easy tone, while in his soul he regarded himself as a +worthless scoundrel whose whole life could not atone for his crime. He +longed to kiss his father's hands and kneel to beg his forgiveness, +but said, in a careless and even rude voice, that it happens to +everyone! + +The old count cast down his eyes on hearing his son's words and began +bustlingly searching for something. + +"Yes, yes," he muttered, "it will be difficult, I fear, difficult +to raise... happens to everybody! Yes, who has not done it?" + +And with a furtive glance at his son's face, the count went out of the +room.... Nicholas had been prepared for resistance, but had not at all +expected this. + +"Papa! Pa-pa!" he called after him, sobbing, "forgive me!" And +seizing his father's hand, he pressed it to his lips and burst into +tears. + +While father and son were having their explanation, the mother and +daughter were having one not less important. Natasha came running to +her mother, quite excited. + +"Mamma!... Mamma!... He has made me..." + +"Made what?" + +"Made, made me an offer, Mamma! Mamma!" she exclaimed. + +The countess did not believe her ears. Denisov had proposed. To whom? +To this chit of a girl, Natasha, who not so long ago was playing with +dolls and who was still having lessons. + +"Don't, Natasha! What nonsense!" she said, hoping it was a joke. + +"Nonsense, indeed! I am telling you the fact," said Natasha +indignantly. "I come to ask you what to do, and you call it +'nonsense!'" + +The countess shrugged her shoulders. + +"If it is true that Monsieur Denisov has made you a proposal, tell +him he is a fool, that's all!" + +"No, he's not a fool!" replied Natasha indignantly and seriously. + +"Well then, what do you want? You're all in love nowadays. Well, +if you are in love, marry him!" said the countess, with a laugh of +annoyance. "Good luck to you!" + +"No, Mamma, I'm not in love with him, I suppose I'm not in love +with him." + +"Well then, tell him so." + +"Mamma, are you cross? Don't be cross, dear! Is it my fault?" + +"No, but what is it, my dear? Do you want me to go and tell him?" +said the countess smiling. + +"No, I will do it myself, only tell me what to say. It's all very +well for you," said Natasha, with a responsive smile. "You should +have seen how he said it! I know he did not mean to say it, but it came +out accidently." + +"Well, all the same, you must refuse him." + +"No, I mustn't. I am so sorry for him! He's so nice." + +"Well then, accept his offer. It's high time for you to be +married," answered the countess sharply and sarcastically. + +"No, Mamma, but I'm so sorry for him. I don't know how I'm to +say it." + +"And there's nothing for you to say. I shall speak to him myself," +said the countess, indignant that they should have dared to treat this +little Natasha as grown up. + +"No, not on any account! I will tell him myself, and you'll listen +at the door," and Natasha ran across the drawing room to the dancing +hall, where Denisov was sitting on the same chair by the clavichord +with his face in his hands. + +He jumped up at the sound of her light step. + +"Nataly," he said, moving with rapid steps toward her, "decide my +fate. It is in your hands." + +"Vasili Dmitrich, I'm so sorry for you!... No, but you are so +nice... but it won't do...not that... but as a friend, I shall always +love you." + +Denisov bent over her hand and she heard strange sounds she did not +understand. She kissed his rough curly black head. At this instant, they +heard the quick rustle of the countess' dress. She came up to them. + +"Vasili Dmitrich, I thank you for the honor," she said, with an +embarrassed voice, though it sounded severe to Denisov--"but my +daughter is so young, and I thought that, as my son's friend, you +would have addressed yourself first to me. In that case you would not +have obliged me to give this refusal." + +"Countess..." said Denisov, with downcast eyes and a guilty face. +He tried to say more, but faltered. + +Natasha could not remain calm, seeing him in such a plight. She began +to sob aloud. + +"Countess, I have done w'ong," Denisov went on in an unsteady +voice, "but believe me, I so adore your daughter and all your family +that I would give my life twice over..." He looked at the countess, +and seeing her severe face said: "Well, good-by, Countess," and +kissing her hand, he left the room with quick resolute strides, without +looking at Natasha. + + +Next day Rostov saw Denisov off. He did not wish to stay another +day in Moscow. All Denisov's Moscow friends gave him a farewell +entertainment at the gypsies', with the result that he had no +recollection of how he was put in the sleigh or of the first three +stages of his journey. + +After Denisov's departure, Rostov spent another fortnight in Moscow, +without going out of the house, waiting for the money his father could +not at once raise, and he spent most of his time in the girls' room. + +Sonya was more tender and devoted to him than ever. It was as if she +wanted to show him that his losses were an achievement that made her +love him all the more, but Nicholas now considered himself unworthy of +her. + +He filled the girls' albums with verses and music, and having at last +sent Dolokhov the whole forty-three thousand rubles and received his +receipt, he left at the end of November, without taking leave of any of +his acquaintances, to overtake his regiment which was already in Poland. + + + + + +BOOK FIVE: 1806 - 07 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +After his interview with his wife Pierre left for Petersburg. At the +Torzhok post station, either there were no horses or the postmaster +would not supply them. Pierre was obliged to wait. Without undressing, +he lay down on the leather sofa in front of a round table, put his big +feet in their overboots on the table, and began to reflect. + +"Will you have the portmanteaus brought in? And a bed got ready, and +tea?" asked his valet. + +Pierre gave no answer, for he neither heard nor saw anything. He had +begun to think of the last station and was still pondering on the same +question--one so important that he took no notice of what went +on around him. Not only was he indifferent as to whether he got to +Petersburg earlier or later, or whether he secured accommodation at this +station, but compared to the thoughts that now occupied him it was a +matter of indifference whether he remained there for a few hours or for +the rest of his life. + +The postmaster, his wife, the valet, and a peasant woman selling +Torzhok embroidery came into the room offering their services. +Without changing his careless attitude, Pierre looked at them over his +spectacles unable to understand what they wanted or how they could go on +living without having solved the problems that so absorbed him. He had +been engrossed by the same thoughts ever since the day he returned from +Sokolniki after the duel and had spent that first agonizing, sleepless +night. But now, in the solitude of the journey, they seized him with +special force. No matter what he thought about, he always returned to +these same questions which he could not solve and yet could not cease to +ask himself. It was as if the thread of the chief screw which held his +life together were stripped, so that the screw could not get in or out, +but went on turning uselessly in the same place. + +The postmaster came in and began obsequiously to beg his excellency to +wait only two hours, when, come what might, he would let his excellency +have the courier horses. It was plain that he was lying and only wanted +to get more money from the traveler. + +"Is this good or bad?" Pierre asked himself. "It is good for me, +bad for another traveler, and for himself it's unavoidable, because +he needs money for food; the man said an officer had once given him a +thrashing for letting a private traveler have the courier horses. +But the officer thrashed him because he had to get on as quickly as +possible. And I," continued Pierre, "shot Dolokhov because I +considered myself injured, and Louis XVI was executed because they +considered him a criminal, and a year later they executed those who +executed him--also for some reason. What is bad? What is good? What +should one love and what hate? What does one live for? And what am I? +What is life, and what is death? What power governs all?" + +There was no answer to any of these questions, except one, and that +not a logical answer and not at all a reply to them. The answer was: +"You'll die and all will end. You'll die and know all, or cease +asking." But dying was also dreadful. + +The Torzhok peddler woman, in a whining voice, went on offering her +wares, especially a pair of goatskin slippers. "I have hundreds of +rubles I don't know what to do with, and she stands in her tattered +cloak looking timidly at me," he thought. "And what does she +want the money for? As if that money could add a hair's breadth to +happiness or peace of mind. Can anything in the world make her or me +less a prey to evil and death?--death which ends all and must come +today or tomorrow--at any rate, in an instant as compared with +eternity." And again he twisted the screw with the stripped thread, +and again it turned uselessly in the same place. + +His servant handed him a half-cut novel, in the form of letters, by +Madame de Souza. He began reading about the sufferings and virtuous +struggles of a certain Emilie de Mansfeld. "And why did she resist +her seducer when she loved him?" he thought. "God could not have put +into her heart an impulse that was against His will. My wife--as she +once was--did not struggle, and perhaps she was right. Nothing has been +found out, nothing discovered," Pierre again said to himself. "All +we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human +wisdom." + +Everything within and around him seemed confused, senseless, and +repellent. Yet in this very repugnance to all his circumstances Pierre +found a kind of tantalizing satisfaction. + +"I make bold to ask your excellency to move a little for this +gentleman," said the postmaster, entering the room followed by another +traveler, also detained for lack of horses. + +The newcomer was a short, large-boned, yellow-faced, wrinkled old +man, with gray bushy eyebrows overhanging bright eyes of an indefinite +grayish color. + +Pierre took his feet off the table, stood up, and lay down on a bed that +had been got ready for him, glancing now and then at the newcomer, who, +with a gloomy and tired face, was wearily taking off his wraps with the +aid of his servant, and not looking at Pierre. With a pair of felt boots +on his thin bony legs, and keeping on a worn, nankeen-covered, sheepskin +coat, the traveler sat down on the sofa, leaned back his big head with +its broad temples and close-cropped hair, and looked at Bezukhov. The +stern, shrewd, and penetrating expression of that look struck Pierre. He +felt a wish to speak to the stranger, but by the time he had made up his +mind to ask him a question about the roads, the traveler had closed his +eyes. His shriveled old hands were folded and on the finger of one of +them Pierre noticed a large cast iron ring with a seal representing a +death's head. The stranger sat without stirring, either resting or, as +it seemed to Pierre, sunk in profound and calm meditation. His servant +was also a yellow, wrinkled old man, without beard or mustache, +evidently not because he was shaven but because they had never grown. +This active old servant was unpacking the traveler's canteen and +preparing tea. He brought in a boiling samovar. When everything was +ready, the stranger opened his eyes, moved to the table, filled a +tumbler with tea for himself and one for the beardless old man to whom +he passed it. Pierre began to feel a sense of uneasiness, and the +need, even the inevitability, of entering into conversation with this +stranger. + +The servant brought back his tumbler turned upside down, * with an +unfinished bit of nibbled sugar, and asked if anything more would be +wanted. + + * To indicate he did not want more tea. + +"No. Give me the book," said the stranger. + +The servant handed him a book which Pierre took to be a devotional work, +and the traveler became absorbed in it. Pierre looked at him. All at +once the stranger closed the book, putting in a marker, and again, +leaning with his arms on the back of the sofa, sat in his former +position with his eyes shut. Pierre looked at him and had not time +to turn away when the old man, opening his eyes, fixed his steady and +severe gaze straight on Pierre's face. + +Pierre felt confused and wished to avoid that look, but the bright old +eyes attracted him irresistibly. + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +"I have the pleasure of addressing Count Bezukhov, if I am not +mistaken," said the stranger in a deliberate and loud voice. + +Pierre looked silently and inquiringly at him over his spectacles. + +"I have heard of you, my dear sir," continued the stranger, "and +of your misfortune." He seemed to emphasize the last word, as if to +say--"Yes, misfortune! Call it what you please, I know that what +happened to you in Moscow was a misfortune."--"I regret it very +much, my dear sir." + +Pierre flushed and, hurriedly putting his legs down from the bed, bent +forward toward the old man with a forced and timid smile. + +"I have not referred to this out of curiosity, my dear sir, but for +greater reasons." + +He paused, his gaze still on Pierre, and moved aside on the sofa by way +of inviting the other to take a seat beside him. Pierre felt reluctant +to enter into conversation with this old man, but, submitting to him +involuntarily, came up and sat down beside him. + +"You are unhappy, my dear sir," the stranger continued. "You +are young and I am old. I should like to help you as far as lies in my +power." + +"Oh, yes!" said Pierre, with a forced smile. "I am very grateful +to you. Where are you traveling from?" + +The stranger's face was not genial, it was even cold and severe, but +in spite of this, both the face and words of his new acquaintance were +irresistibly attractive to Pierre. + +"But if for any reason you don't feel inclined to talk to me," +said the old man, "say so, my dear sir." And he suddenly smiled, in +an unexpected and tenderly paternal way. + +"Oh no, not at all! On the contrary, I am very glad to make your +acquaintance," said Pierre. And again, glancing at the stranger's +hands, he looked more closely at the ring, with its skull--a Masonic +sign. + +"Allow me to ask," he said, "are you a Mason?" + +"Yes, I belong to the Brotherhood of the Freemasons," said the +stranger, looking deeper and deeper into Pierre's eyes. "And in +their name and my own I hold out a brotherly hand to you." + +"I am afraid," said Pierre, smiling, and wavering between the +confidence the personality of the Freemason inspired in him and his own +habit of ridiculing the Masonic beliefs--"I am afraid I am very far +from understanding--how am I to put it?--I am afraid my way of looking +at the world is so opposed to yours that we shall not understand one +another." + +"I know your outlook," said the Mason, "and the view of life you +mention, and which you think is the result of your own mental efforts, +is the one held by the majority of people, and is the invariable fruit +of pride, indolence, and ignorance. Forgive me, my dear sir, but if I +had not known it I should not have addressed you. Your view of life is a +regrettable delusion." + +"Just as I may suppose you to be deluded," said Pierre, with a faint +smile. + +"I should never dare to say that I know the truth," said the Mason, +whose words struck Pierre more and more by their precision and firmness. +"No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone +with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our +forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be +a worthy dwelling place of the Great God," he added, and closed his +eyes. + +"I ought to tell you that I do not believe... do not believe in +God," said Pierre, regretfully and with an effort, feeling it +essential to speak the whole truth. + +The Mason looked intently at Pierre and smiled as a rich man with +millions in hand might smile at a poor fellow who told him that he, poor +man, had not the five rubles that would make him happy. + +"Yes, you do not know Him, my dear sir," said the Mason. "You +cannot know Him. You do not know Him and that is why you are unhappy." + +"Yes, yes, I am unhappy," assented Pierre. "But what am I to +do?" + +"You know Him not, my dear sir, and so you are very unhappy. You do +not know Him, but He is here, He is in me, He is in my words, He is in +thee, and even in those blasphemous words thou hast just uttered!" +pronounced the Mason in a stern and tremulous voice. + +He paused and sighed, evidently trying to calm himself. + +"If He were not," he said quietly, "you and I would not be +speaking of Him, my dear sir. Of what, of whom, are we speaking? Whom +hast thou denied?" he suddenly asked with exulting austerity and +authority in his voice. "Who invented Him, if He did not exist? Whence +came thy conception of the existence of such an incomprehensible Being? +didst thou, and why did the whole world, conceive the idea of the +existence of such an incomprehensible Being, a Being all-powerful, +eternal, and infinite in all His attributes?..." + +He stopped and remained silent for a long time. + +Pierre could not and did not wish to break this silence. + +"He exists, but to understand Him is hard," the Mason began again, +looking not at Pierre but straight before him, and turning the leaves +of his book with his old hands which from excitement he could not keep +still. "If it were a man whose existence thou didst doubt I could +bring him to thee, could take him by the hand and show him to thee. But +how can I, an insignificant mortal, show His omnipotence, His infinity, +and all His mercy to one who is blind, or who shuts his eyes that he may +not see or understand Him and may not see or understand his own vileness +and sinfulness?" He paused again. "Who art thou? Thou dreamest that +thou art wise because thou couldst utter those blasphemous words," he +went on, with a somber and scornful smile. "And thou art more foolish +and unreasonable than a little child, who, playing with the parts of a +skillfully made watch, dares to say that, as he does not understand +its use, he does not believe in the master who made it. To know Him is +hard.... For ages, from our forefather Adam to our own day, we labor to +attain that knowledge and are still infinitely far from our aim; but +in our lack of understanding we see only our weakness and His +greatness...." + +Pierre listened with swelling heart, gazing into the Mason's face with +shining eyes, not interrupting or questioning him, but believing with +his whole soul what the stranger said. Whether he accepted the wise +reasoning contained in the Mason's words, or believed as a child +believes, in the speaker's tone of conviction and earnestness, or +the tremor of the speaker's voice--which sometimes almost broke--or +those brilliant aged eyes grown old in this conviction, or the calm +firmness and certainty of his vocation, which radiated from his whole +being (and which struck Pierre especially by contrast with his own +dejection and hopelessness)--at any rate, Pierre longed with his whole +soul to believe and he did believe, and felt a joyful sense of comfort, +regeneration, and return to life. + +"He is not to be apprehended by reason, but by life," said the +Mason. + +"I do not understand," said Pierre, feeling with dismay doubts +reawakening. He was afraid of any want of clearness, any weakness, in +the Mason's arguments; he dreaded not to be able to believe in him. +"I don't understand," he said, "how it is that the mind of man +cannot attain the knowledge of which you speak." + +The Mason smiled with his gentle fatherly smile. + +"The highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish +to imbibe," he said. "Can I receive that pure liquid into an impure +vessel and judge of its purity? Only by the inner purification of myself +can I retain in some degree of purity the liquid I receive." + +"Yes, yes, that is so," said Pierre joyfully. + +"The highest wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those +worldly sciences of physics, history, chemistry, and the like, into +which intellectual knowledge is divided. The highest wisdom is one. +The highest wisdom has but one science--the science of the whole--the +science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it. To +receive that science it is necessary to purify and renew one's inner +self, and so before one can know, it is necessary to believe and to +perfect one's self. And to attain this end, we have the light called +conscience that God has implanted in our souls." + +"Yes, yes," assented Pierre. + +"Look then at thy inner self with the eyes of the spirit, and ask +thyself whether thou art content with thyself. What hast thou attained +relying on reason only? What art thou? You are young, you are rich, you +are clever, you are well educated. And what have you done with all these +good gifts? Are you content with yourself and with your life?" + +"No, I hate my life," Pierre muttered, wincing. + +"Thou hatest it. Then change it, purify thyself; and as thou art +purified, thou wilt gain wisdom. Look at your life, my dear sir. +How have you spent it? In riotous orgies and debauchery, receiving +everything from society and giving nothing in return. You have become +the possessor of wealth. How have you used it? What have you done +for your neighbor? Have you ever thought of your tens of thousands +of slaves? Have you helped them physically and morally? No! You have +profited by their toil to lead a profligate life. That is what you have +done. Have you chosen a post in which you might be of service to your +neighbor? No! You have spent your life in idleness. Then you married, my +dear sir--took on yourself responsibility for the guidance of a young +woman; and what have you done? You have not helped her to find the way +of truth, my dear sir, but have thrust her into an abyss of deceit and +misery. A man offended you and you shot him, and you say you do not +know God and hate your life. There is nothing strange in that, my dear +sir!" + +After these words, the Mason, as if tired by his long discourse, again +leaned his arms on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes. Pierre +looked at that aged, stern, motionless, almost lifeless face and moved +his lips without uttering a sound. He wished to say, "Yes, a vile, +idle, vicious life!" but dared not break the silence. + +The Mason cleared his throat huskily, as old men do, and called his +servant. + +"How about the horses?" he asked, without looking at Pierre. + +"The exchange horses have just come," answered the servant. "Will +you not rest here?" + +"No, tell them to harness." + +"Can he really be going away leaving me alone without having told me +all, and without promising to help me?" thought Pierre, rising with +downcast head; and he began to pace the room, glancing occasionally at +the Mason. "Yes, I never thought of it, but I have led a contemptible +and profligate life, though I did not like it and did not want to," +thought Pierre. "But this man knows the truth and, if he wished to, +could disclose it to me." + +Pierre wished to say this to the Mason, but did not dare to. The +traveler, having packed his things with his practiced hands, began +fastening his coat. When he had finished, he turned to Bezukhov, and +said in a tone of indifferent politeness: + +"Where are you going to now, my dear sir?" + +"I?... I'm going to Petersburg," answered Pierre, in a childlike, +hesitating voice. "I thank you. I agree with all you have said. But +do not suppose me to be so bad. With my whole soul I wish to be what you +would have me be, but I have never had help from anyone.... But it is +I, above all, who am to blame for everything. Help me, teach me, and +perhaps I may..." + +Pierre could not go on. He gulped and turned away. + +The Mason remained silent for a long time, evidently considering. + +"Help comes from God alone," he said, "but such measure of help as +our Order can bestow it will render you, my dear sir. You are going to +Petersburg. Hand this to Count Willarski" (he took out his notebook +and wrote a few words on a large sheet of paper folded in four). +"Allow me to give you a piece of advice. When you reach the capital, +first of all devote some time to solitude and self-examination and do +not resume your former way of life. And now I wish you a good journey, +my dear sir," he added, seeing that his servant had entered... "and +success." + +The traveler was Joseph Alexeevich Bazdeev, as Pierre saw from the +postmaster's book. Bazdeev had been one of the best-known Freemasons +and Martinists, even in Novikov's time. For a long while after he had +gone, Pierre did not go to bed or order horses but paced up and down +the room, pondering over his vicious past, and with a rapturous sense +of beginning anew pictured to himself the blissful, irreproachable, +virtuous future that seemed to him so easy. It seemed to him that he had +been vicious only because he had somehow forgotten how good it is to +be virtuous. Not a trace of his former doubts remained in his soul. He +firmly believed in the possibility of the brotherhood of men united in +the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that is how +Freemasonry presented itself to him. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +On reaching Petersburg Pierre did not let anyone know of his arrival, +he went nowhere and spent whole days in reading Thomas a Kempis, whose +book had been sent him by someone unknown. One thing he continually +realized as he read that book: the joy, hitherto unknown to him, +of believing in the possibility of attaining perfection, and in the +possibility of active brotherly love among men, which Joseph Alexeevich +had revealed to him. A week after his arrival, the young Polish count, +Willarski, whom Pierre had known slightly in Petersburg society, came +into his room one evening in the official and ceremonious manner in +which Dolokhov's second had called on him, and, having closed the +door behind him and satisfied himself that there was nobody else in the +room, addressed Pierre. + +"I have come to you with a message and an offer, Count," he +said without sitting down. "A person of very high standing in our +Brotherhood has made application for you to be received into our Order +before the usual term and has proposed to me to be your sponsor. I +consider it a sacred duty to fulfill that person's wishes. Do you wish +to enter the Brotherhood of Freemasons under my sponsorship?" + +The cold, austere tone of this man, whom he had almost always before met +at balls, amiably smiling in the society of the most brilliant women, +surprised Pierre. + +"Yes, I do wish it," said he. + +Willarski bowed his head. + +"One more question, Count," he said, "which I beg you to answer +in all sincerity--not as a future Mason but as an honest man: have you +renounced your former convictions--do you believe in God?" + +Pierre considered. + +"Yes... yes, I believe in God," he said. + +"In that case..." began Willarski, but Pierre interrupted him. + +"Yes, I do believe in God," he repeated. + +"In that case we can go," said Willarski. "My carriage is at your +service." + +Willarski was silent throughout the drive. To Pierre's inquiries as +to what he must do and how he should answer, Willarski only replied that +brothers more worthy than he would test him and that Pierre had only to +tell the truth. + +Having entered the courtyard of a large house where the Lodge had its +headquarters, and having ascended a dark staircase, they entered a small +well-lit anteroom where they took off their cloaks without the aid of +a servant. From there they passed into another room. A man in strange +attire appeared at the door. Willarski, stepping toward him, said +something to him in French in an undertone and then went up to a small +wardrobe in which Pierre noticed garments such as he had never seen +before. Having taken a kerchief from the cupboard, Willarski bound +Pierre's eyes with it and tied it in a knot behind, catching some +hairs painfully in the knot. Then he drew his face down, kissed him, and +taking him by the hand led him forward. The hairs tied in the knot hurt +Pierre and there were lines of pain on his face and a shamefaced smile. +His huge figure, with arms hanging down and with a puckered, though +smiling face, moved after Willarski with uncertain, timid steps. + +Having led him about ten paces, Willarski stopped. + +"Whatever happens to you," he said, "you must bear it all manfully +if you have firmly resolved to join our Brotherhood." (Pierre nodded +affirmatively.) "When you hear a knock at the door, you will uncover +your eyes," added Willarski. "I wish you courage and success," +and, pressing Pierre's hand, he went out. + +Left alone, Pierre went on smiling in the same way. Once or twice +he shrugged his shoulders and raised his hand to the kerchief, as if +wishing to take it off, but let it drop again. The five minutes spent +with his eyes bandaged seemed to him an hour. His arms felt numb, +his legs almost gave way, it seemed to him that he was tired out. He +experienced a variety of most complex sensations. He felt afraid of what +would happen to him and still more afraid of showing his fear. He felt +curious to know what was going to happen and what would be revealed to +him; but most of all, he felt joyful that the moment had come when he +would at last start on that path of regeneration and on the actively +virtuous life of which he had been dreaming since he met Joseph +Alexeevich. Loud knocks were heard at the door. Pierre took the bandage +off his eyes and glanced around him. The room was in black darkness, +only a small lamp was burning inside something white. Pierre went nearer +and saw that the lamp stood on a black table on which lay an open book. +The book was the Gospel, and the white thing with the lamp inside was a +human skull with its cavities and teeth. After reading the first words +of the Gospel: "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with +God," Pierre went round the table and saw a large open box filled +with something. It was a coffin with bones inside. He was not at all +surprised by what he saw. Hoping to enter on an entirely new life quite +unlike the old one, he expected everything to be unusual, even more +unusual than what he was seeing. A skull, a coffin, the Gospel--it +seemed to him that he had expected all this and even more. Trying +to stimulate his emotions he looked around. "God, death, love, the +brotherhood of man," he kept saying to himself, associating these +words with vague yet joyful ideas. The door opened and someone came in. + +By the dim light, to which Pierre had already become accustomed, he +saw a rather short man. Having evidently come from the light into the +darkness, the man paused, then moved with cautious steps toward the +table and placed on it his small leather-gloved hands. + +This short man had on a white leather apron which covered his chest and +part of his legs; he had on a kind of necklace above which rose a high +white ruffle, outlining his rather long face which was lit up from +below. + +"For what have you come hither?" asked the newcomer, turning in +Pierre's direction at a slight rustle made by the latter. "Why have +you, who do not believe in the truth of the light and who have not +seen the light, come here? What do you seek from us? Wisdom, virtue, +enlightenment?" + +At the moment the door opened and the stranger came in, Pierre felt a +sense of awe and veneration such as he had experienced in his boyhood at +confession; he felt himself in the presence of one socially a complete +stranger, yet nearer to him through the brotherhood of man. With bated +breath and beating heart he moved toward the Rhetor (by which name the +brother who prepared a seeker for entrance into the Brotherhood was +known). Drawing nearer, he recognized in the Rhetor a man he knew, +Smolyaninov, and it mortified him to think that the newcomer was an +acquaintance--he wished him simply a brother and a virtuous instructor. +For a long time he could not utter a word, so that the Rhetor had to +repeat his question. + +"Yes... I... I... desire regeneration," Pierre uttered with +difficulty. + +"Very well," said Smolyaninov, and went on at once: "Have you any +idea of the means by which our holy Order will help you to reach your +aim?" said he quietly and quickly. + +"I... hope... for guidance... help... in regeneration," said Pierre, +with a trembling voice and some difficulty in utterance due to his +excitement and to being unaccustomed to speak of abstract matters in +Russian. + +"What is your conception of Freemasonry?" + +"I imagine that Freemasonry is the fraternity and equality of men who +have virtuous aims," said Pierre, feeling ashamed of the inadequacy +of his words for the solemnity of the moment, as he spoke. "I +imagine..." + +"Good!" said the Rhetor quickly, apparently satisfied with +this answer. "Have you sought for means of attaining your aim in +religion?" + +"No, I considered it erroneous and did not follow it," said Pierre, +so softly that the Rhetor did not hear him and asked him what he was +saying. "I have been an atheist," answered Pierre. + +"You are seeking for truth in order to follow its laws in your life, +therefore you seek wisdom and virtue. Is that not so?" said the +Rhetor, after a moment's pause. + +"Yes, yes," assented Pierre. + +The Rhetor cleared his throat, crossed his gloved hands on his breast, +and began to speak. + +"Now I must disclose to you the chief aim of our Order," he said, +"and if this aim coincides with yours, you may enter our Brotherhood +with profit. The first and chief object of our Order, the foundation on +which it rests and which no human power can destroy, is the preservation +and handing on to posterity of a certain important mystery... which +has come down to us from the remotest ages, even from the first man--a +mystery on which perhaps the fate of mankind depends. But since this +mystery is of such a nature that nobody can know or use it unless he be +prepared by long and diligent self-purification, not everyone can hope +to attain it quickly. Hence we have a secondary aim, that of preparing +our members as much as possible to reform their hearts, to purify and +enlighten their minds, by means handed on to us by tradition from those +who have striven to attain this mystery, and thereby to render them +capable of receiving it. + +"By purifying and regenerating our members we try, thirdly, to improve +the whole human race, offering it in our members an example of piety +and virtue, and thereby try with all our might to combat the evil which +sways the world. Think this over and I will come to you again." + +"To combat the evil which sways the world..." Pierre repeated, and a +mental image of his future activity in this direction rose in his mind. +He imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he +addressed an edifying exhortation to them. He imagined to himself +vicious and unfortunate people whom he would assist by word and deed, +imagined oppressors whose victims he would rescue. Of the three +objects mentioned by the Rhetor, this last, that of improving mankind, +especially appealed to Pierre. The important mystery mentioned by the +Rhetor, though it aroused his curiosity, did not seem to him essential, +and the second aim, that of purifying and regenerating himself, did not +much interest him because at that moment he felt with delight that he +was already perfectly cured of his former faults and was ready for all +that was good. + +Half an hour later, the Rhetor returned to inform the seeker of the +seven virtues, corresponding to the seven steps of Solomon's temple, +which every Freemason should cultivate in himself. These virtues were: +1. Discretion, the keeping of the secrets of the Order. 2. Obedience to +those of higher ranks in the Order. 3. Morality. 4. Love of mankind. 5. +Courage. 6. Generosity. 7. The love of death. + +"In the seventh place, try, by the frequent thought of death," the +Rhetor said, "to bring yourself to regard it not as a dreaded foe, but +as a friend that frees the soul grown weary in the labors of virtue +from this distressful life, and leads it to its place of recompense and +peace." + +"Yes, that must be so," thought Pierre, when after these words the +Rhetor went away, leaving him to solitary meditation. "It must be so, +but I am still so weak that I love my life, the meaning of which is only +now gradually opening before me." But five of the other virtues which +Pierre recalled, counting them on his fingers, he felt already in his +soul: courage, generosity, morality, love of mankind, and especially +obedience--which did not even seem to him a virtue, but a joy. (He now +felt so glad to be free from his own lawlessness and to submit his will +to those who knew the indubitable truth.) He forgot what the seventh +virtue was and could not recall it. + +The third time the Rhetor came back more quickly and asked Pierre +whether he was still firm in his intention and determined to submit to +all that would be required of him. + +"I am ready for everything," said Pierre. + +"I must also inform you," said the Rhetor, "that our Order +delivers its teaching not in words only but also by other means, which +may perhaps have a stronger effect on the sincere seeker after wisdom +and virtue than mere words. This chamber with what you see therein +should already have suggested to your heart, if it is sincere, more than +words could do. You will perhaps also see in your further initiation a +like method of enlightenment. Our Order imitates the ancient societies +that explained their teaching by hieroglyphics. A hieroglyph," said +the Rhetor, "is an emblem of something not cognizable by the senses +but which possesses qualities resembling those of the symbol." + +Pierre knew very well what a hieroglyph was, but dared not speak. He +listened to the Rhetor in silence, feeling from all he said that his +ordeal was about to begin. + +"If you are resolved, I must begin your initiation," said the Rhetor +coming closer to Pierre. "In token of generosity I ask you to give me +all your valuables." + +"But I have nothing here," replied Pierre, supposing that he was +asked to give up all he possessed. + +"What you have with you: watch, money, rings...." + +Pierre quickly took out his purse and watch, but could not manage for +some time to get the wedding ring off his fat finger. When that had been +done, the Rhetor said: + +"In token of obedience, I ask you to undress." + +Pierre took off his coat, waistcoat, and left boot according to the +Rhetor's instructions. The Mason drew the shirt back from Pierre's +left breast, and stooping down pulled up the left leg of his trousers +to above the knee. Pierre hurriedly began taking off his right boot also +and was going to tuck up the other trouser leg to save this stranger the +trouble, but the Mason told him that was not necessary and gave him +a slipper for his left foot. With a childlike smile of embarrassment, +doubt, and self-derision, which appeared on his face against his will, +Pierre stood with his arms hanging down and legs apart, before his +brother Rhetor, and awaited his further commands. + +"And now, in token of candor, I ask you to reveal to me your chief +passion," said the latter. + +"My passion! I have had so many," replied Pierre. + +"That passion which more than all others caused you to waver on the +path of virtue," said the Mason. + +Pierre paused, seeking a reply. + +"Wine? Gluttony? Idleness? Laziness? Irritability? Anger? Women?" +He went over his vices in his mind, not knowing to which of them to give +the pre-eminence. + +"Women," he said in a low, scarcely audible voice. + +The Mason did not move and for a long time said nothing after this +answer. At last he moved up to Pierre and, taking the kerchief that lay +on the table, again bound his eyes. + +"For the last time I say to you--turn all your attention upon +yourself, put a bridle on your senses, and seek blessedness, not in +passion but in your own heart. The source of blessedness is not without +us but within...." + +Pierre had already long been feeling in himself that refreshing source +of blessedness which now flooded his heart with glad emotion. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +Soon after this there came into the dark chamber to fetch Pierre, not +the Rhetor but Pierre's sponsor, Willarski, whom he recognized by his +voice. To fresh questions as to the firmness of his resolution Pierre +replied: "Yes, yes, I agree," and with a beaming, childlike smile, +his fat chest uncovered, stepping unevenly and timidly in one slippered +and one booted foot, he advanced, while Willarski held a sword to his +bare chest. He was conducted from that room along passages that turned +backwards and forwards and was at last brought to the doors of the +Lodge. Willarski coughed, he was answered by the Masonic knock with +mallets, the doors opened before them. A bass voice (Pierre was still +blindfolded) questioned him as to who he was, when and where he was +born, and so on. Then he was again led somewhere still blindfolded, +and as they went along he was told allegories of the toils of his +pilgrimage, of holy friendship, of the Eternal Architect of the +universe, and of the courage with which he should endure toils and +dangers. During these wanderings, Pierre noticed that he was spoken +of now as the "Seeker," now as the "Sufferer," and now as the +"Postulant," to the accompaniment of various knockings with +mallets and swords. As he was being led up to some object he noticed a +hesitation and uncertainty among his conductors. He heard those around +him disputing in whispers and one of them insisting that he should be +led along a certain carpet. After that they took his right hand, placed +it on something, and told him to hold a pair of compasses to his left +breast with the other hand and to repeat after someone who read aloud +an oath of fidelity to the laws of the Order. The candles were then +extinguished and some spirit lighted, as Pierre knew by the smell, and +he was told that he would now see the lesser light. The bandage was +taken off his eyes and, by the faint light of the burning spirit, +Pierre, as in a dream, saw several men standing before him, wearing +aprons like the Rhetor's and holding swords in their hands pointed at +his breast. Among them stood a man whose white shirt was stained with +blood. On seeing this, Pierre moved forward with his breast toward the +swords, meaning them to pierce it. But the swords were drawn back from +him and he was at once blindfolded again. + +"Now thou hast seen the lesser light," uttered a voice. Then the +candles were relit and he was told that he would see the full light; the +bandage was again removed and more than ten voices said together: "Sic +transit gloria mundi." + +Pierre gradually began to recover himself and looked about at the room +and at the people in it. Round a long table covered with black sat some +twelve men in garments like those he had already seen. Some of them +Pierre had met in Petersburg society. In the President's chair sat a +young man he did not know, with a peculiar cross hanging from his +neck. On his right sat the Italian abbe whom Pierre had met at +Anna Pavlovna's two years before. There were also present a very +distinguished dignitary and a Swiss who had formerly been tutor at the +Kuragins'. All maintained a solemn silence, listening to the words +of the President, who held a mallet in his hand. Let into the wall was +a star-shaped light. At one side of the table was a small carpet with +various figures worked upon it, at the other was something resembling an +altar on which lay a Testament and a skull. Round it stood seven large +candlesticks like those used in churches. Two of the brothers led Pierre +up to the altar, placed his feet at right angles, and bade him lie down, +saying that he must prostrate himself at the Gates of the Temple. + +"He must first receive the trowel," whispered one of the brothers. + +"Oh, hush, please!" said another. + +Pierre, perplexed, looked round with his shortsighted eyes without +obeying, and suddenly doubts arose in his mind. "Where am I? What am +I doing? Aren't they laughing at me? Shan't I be ashamed to remember +this?" But these doubts only lasted a moment. Pierre glanced at +the serious faces of those around, remembered all he had already gone +through, and realized that he could not stop halfway. He was aghast +at his hesitation and, trying to arouse his former devotional feeling, +prostrated himself before the Gates of the Temple. And really, the +feeling of devotion returned to him even more strongly than before. When +he had lain there some time, he was told to get up, and a white leather +apron, such as the others wore, was put on him: he was given a trowel +and three pairs of gloves, and then the Grand Master addressed him. He +told him that he should try to do nothing to stain the whiteness of that +apron, which symbolized strength and purity; then of the unexplained +trowel, he told him to toil with it to cleanse his own heart from vice, +and indulgently to smooth with it the heart of his neighbor. As to the +first pair of gloves, a man's, he said that Pierre could not know +their meaning but must keep them. The second pair of man's gloves +he was to wear at the meetings, and finally of the third, a pair of +women's gloves, he said: "Dear brother, these woman's gloves are +intended for you too. Give them to the woman whom you shall honor most +of all. This gift will be a pledge of your purity of heart to her whom +you select to be your worthy helpmeet in Masonry." And after a pause, +he added: "But beware, dear brother, that these gloves do not deck +hands that are unclean." While the Grand Master said these last words +it seemed to Pierre that he grew embarrassed. Pierre himself grew still +more confused, blushed like a child till tears came to his eyes, began +looking about him uneasily, and an awkward pause followed. + +This silence was broken by one of the brethren, who led Pierre up to the +rug and began reading to him from a manuscript book an explanation of +all the figures on it: the sun, the moon, a hammer, a plumb line, a +trowel, a rough stone and a squared stone, a pillar, three windows, and +so on. Then a place was assigned to Pierre, he was shown the signs of +the Lodge, told the password, and at last was permitted to sit down. +The Grand Master began reading the statutes. They were very long, and +Pierre, from joy, agitation, and embarrassment, was not in a state to +understand what was being read. He managed to follow only the last words +of the statutes and these remained in his mind. + +"In our temples we recognize no other distinctions," read the Grand +Master, "but those between virtue and vice. Beware of making any +distinctions which may infringe equality. Fly to a brother's aid +whoever he may be, exhort him who goeth astray, raise him that falleth, +never bear malice or enmity toward thy brother. Be kindly and courteous. +Kindle in all hearts the flame of virtue. Share thy happiness with thy +neighbor, and may envy never dim the purity of that bliss. Forgive thy +enemy, do not avenge thyself except by doing him good. Thus fulfilling +the highest law thou shalt regain traces of the ancient dignity which +thou hast lost." + +He finished and, getting up, embraced and kissed Pierre, who, with tears +of joy in his eyes, looked round him, not knowing how to answer the +congratulations and greetings from acquaintances that met him on all +sides. He acknowledged no acquaintances but saw in all these men only +brothers, and burned with impatience to set to work with them. + +The Grand Master rapped with his mallet. All the Masons sat down in +their places, and one of them read an exhortation on the necessity of +humility. + +The Grand Master proposed that the last duty should be performed, +and the distinguished dignitary who bore the title of "Collector +of Alms" went round to all the brothers. Pierre would have liked +to subscribe all he had, but fearing that it might look like pride +subscribed the same amount as the others. + +The meeting was at an end, and on reaching home Pierre felt as if he had +returned from a long journey on which he had spent dozens of years, had +become completely changed, and had quite left behind his former habits +and way of life. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +The day after he had been received into the Lodge, Pierre was sitting at +home reading a book and trying to fathom the significance of the Square, +one side of which symbolized God, another moral things, a third +physical things, and the fourth a combination of these. Now and then +his attention wandered from the book and the Square and he formed in +imagination a new plan of life. On the previous evening at the Lodge, he +had heard that a rumor of his duel had reached the Emperor and that it +would be wiser for him to leave Petersburg. Pierre proposed going to his +estates in the south and there attending to the welfare of his serfs. +He was joyfully planning this new life, when Prince Vasili suddenly +entered the room. + +"My dear fellow, what have you been up to in Moscow? Why have you +quarreled with Helene, mon cher? You are under a delusion," said +Prince Vasili, as he entered. "I know all about it, and I can tell +you positively that Helene is as innocent before you as Christ was +before the Jews." + +Pierre was about to reply, but Prince Vasili interrupted him. + +"And why didn't you simply come straight to me as to a friend? I +know all about it and understand it all," he said. "You behaved as +becomes a man who values his honor, perhaps too hastily, but we won't +go into that. But consider the position in which you are placing her and +me in the eyes of society, and even of the court," he added, lowering +his voice. "She is living in Moscow and you are here. Remember, +dear boy," and he drew Pierre's arm downwards, "it is simply a +misunderstanding. I expect you feel it so yourself. Let us write her +a letter at once, and she'll come here and all will be explained, or +else, my dear boy, let me tell you it's quite likely you'll have to +suffer for it." + +Prince Vasili gave Pierre a significant look. + +"I know from reliable sources that the Dowager Empress is taking a +keen interest in the whole affair. You know she is very gracious to +Helene." + +Pierre tried several times to speak, but, on one hand, Prince Vasili +did not let him and, on the other, Pierre himself feared to begin to +speak in the tone of decided refusal and disagreement in which he had +firmly resolved to answer his father-in-law. Moreover, the words of the +Masonic statutes, "be kindly and courteous," recurred to him. He +blinked, went red, got up and sat down again, struggling with himself +to do what was for him the most difficult thing in life--to say an +unpleasant thing to a man's face, to say what the other, whoever +he might be, did not expect. He was so used to submitting to Prince +Vasili's tone of careless self-assurance that he felt he would be +unable to withstand it now, but he also felt that on what he said now +his future depended--whether he would follow the same old road, or that +new path so attractively shown him by the Masons, on which he firmly +believed he would be reborn to a new life. + +"Now, dear boy," said Prince Vasili playfully, "say 'yes,' +and I'll write to her myself, and we will kill the fatted calf." + +But before Prince Vasili had finished his playful speech, Pierre, +without looking at him, and with a kind of fury that made him like his +father, muttered in a whisper: + +"Prince, I did not ask you here. Go, please go!" And he jumped up +and opened the door for him. + +"Go!" he repeated, amazed at himself and glad to see the look of +confusion and fear that showed itself on Prince Vasili's face. + +"What's the matter with you? Are you ill?" + +"Go!" the quivering voice repeated. And Prince Vasili had to go +without receiving any explanation. + +A week later, Pierre, having taken leave of his new friends, the Masons, +and leaving large sums of money with them for alms, went away to his +estates. His new brethren gave him letters to the Kiev and Odessa Masons +and promised to write to him and guide him in his new activity. + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +The duel between Pierre and Dolokhov was hushed up and, in spite of +the Emperor's severity regarding duels at that time, neither the +principals nor their seconds suffered for it. But the story of the duel, +confirmed by Pierre's rupture with his wife, was the talk of society. +Pierre who had been regarded with patronizing condescension when he was +an illegitimate son, and petted and extolled when he was the best +match in Russia, had sunk greatly in the esteem of society after his +marriage--when the marriageable daughters and their mothers had nothing +to hope from him--especially as he did not know how, and did not +wish, to court society's favor. Now he alone was blamed for what had +happened, he was said to be insanely jealous and subject like his +father to fits of bloodthirsty rage. And when after Pierre's +departure Helene returned to Petersburg, she was received by all her +acquaintances not only cordially, but even with a shade of deference +due to her misfortune. When conversation turned on her husband Helene +assumed a dignified expression, which with characteristic tact she had +acquired though she did not understand its significance. This expression +suggested that she had resolved to endure her troubles uncomplainingly +and that her husband was a cross laid upon her by God. Prince Vasili +expressed his opinion more openly. He shrugged his shoulders when Pierre +was mentioned and, pointing to his forehead, remarked: + +"A bit touched--I always said so." + +"I said from the first," declared Anna Pavlovna referring to +Pierre, "I said at the time and before anyone else" (she insisted +on her priority) "that that senseless young man was spoiled by the +depraved ideas of these days. I said so even at the time when everybody +was in raptures about him, when he had just returned from abroad, and +when, if you remember, he posed as a sort of Marat at one of my soirees. +And how has it ended? I was against this marriage even then and foretold +all that has happened." + +Anna Pavlovna continued to give on free evenings the same kind of +soirees as before--such as she alone had the gift of arranging--at +which was to be found "the cream of really good society, the bloom +of the intellectual essence of Petersburg," as she herself put it. +Besides this refined selection of society Anna Pavlovna's receptions +were also distinguished by the fact that she always presented some new +and interesting person to the visitors and that nowhere else was the +state of the political thermometer of legitimate Petersburg court +society so dearly and distinctly indicated. + +Toward the end of 1806, when all the sad details of Napoleon's +destruction of the Prussian army at Jena and Auerstadt and the +surrender of most of the Prussian fortresses had been received, when our +troops had already entered Prussia and our second war with Napoleon +was beginning, Anna Pavlovna gave one of her soirees. The "cream of +really good society" consisted of the fascinating Helene, forsaken +by her husband, Mortemart, the delightful Prince Hippolyte who had +just returned from Vienna, two diplomatists, the old aunt, a young man +referred to in that drawing room as "a man of great merit" (un homme +de beaucoup de merite), a newly appointed maid of honor and her mother, +and several other less noteworthy persons. + +The novelty Anna Pavlovna was setting before her guests that evening +was Boris Drubetskoy, who had just arrived as a special messenger from +the Prussian army and was aide-de-camp to a very important personage. + +The temperature shown by the political thermometer to the company that +evening was this: + +"Whatever the European sovereigns and commanders may do to +countenance Bonaparte, and to cause me, and us in general, annoyance and +mortification, our opinion of Bonaparte cannot alter. We shall not cease +to express our sincere views on that subject, and can only say to the +King of Prussia and others: 'So much the worse for you. Tu l'as +voulu, George Dandin,' that's all we have to say about it!" + +When Boris, who was to be served up to the guests, entered the drawing +room, almost all the company had assembled, and the conversation, guided +by Anna Pavlovna, was about our diplomatic relations with Austria and +the hope of an alliance with her. + +Boris, grown more manly and looking fresh, rosy and self-possessed, +entered the drawing room elegantly dressed in the uniform of an +aide-de-camp and was duly conducted to pay his respects to the aunt and +then brought back to the general circle. + +Anna Pavlovna gave him her shriveled hand to kiss and introduced him to +several persons whom he did not know, giving him a whispered description +of each. + +"Prince Hippolyte Kuragin--charming young fellow; M. +Kronq,--charge d'affaires from Copenhagen--a profound intellect," +and simply, "Mr. Shitov--a man of great merit"--this of the man +usually so described. + +Thanks to Anna Mikhaylovna's efforts, his own tastes, and the +peculiarities of his reserved nature, Boris had managed during his +service to place himself very advantageously. He was aide-de-camp to a +very important personage, had been sent on a very important mission to +Prussia, and had just returned from there as a special messenger. He had +become thoroughly conversant with that unwritten code with which he had +been so pleased at Olmutz and according to which an ensign might rank +incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was +needed for success in the service was not effort or work, or courage, or +perseverance, but only the knowledge of how to get on with those who can +grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his +success and at the inability of others to understand these things. +In consequence of this discovery his whole manner of life, all +his relations with old friends, all his plans for his future, were +completely altered. He was not rich, but would spend his last groat to +be better dressed than others, and would rather deprive himself of many +pleasures than allow himself to be seen in a shabby equipage or appear +in the streets of Petersburg in an old uniform. He made friends with +and sought the acquaintance of only those above him in position and +who could therefore be of use to him. He liked Petersburg and despised +Moscow. The remembrance of the Rostovs' house and of his childish +love for Natasha was unpleasant to him and he had not once been to see +the Rostovs since the day of his departure for the army. To be in Anna +Pavlovna's drawing room he considered an important step up in the +service, and he at once understood his role, letting his hostess make +use of whatever interest he had to offer. He himself carefully scanned +each face, appraising the possibilities of establishing intimacy with +each of those present, and the advantages that might accrue. He took +the seat indicated to him beside the fair Helene and listened to the +general conversation. + +"Vienna considers the bases of the proposed treaty so unattainable +that not even a continuity of most brilliant successes would secure +them, and she doubts the means we have of gaining them. That is the +actual phrase used by the Vienna cabinet," said the Danish charge +d'affaires. + +"The doubt is flattering," said "the man of profound intellect," +with a subtle smile. + +"We must distinguish between the Vienna cabinet and the Emperor of +Austria," said Mortemart. "The Emperor of Austria can never have +thought of such a thing, it is only the cabinet that says it." + +"Ah, my dear vicomte," put in Anna Pavlovna, "L'Urope" (for +some reason she called it Urope as if that were a specially refined +French pronunciation which she could allow herself when conversing with +a Frenchman), "L'Urope ne sera jamais notre alliee sincere." * + + * "Europe will never be our sincere ally." + + +After that Anna Pavlovna led up to the courage and firmness of the King +of Prussia, in order to draw Boris into the conversation. + +Boris listened attentively to each of the speakers, awaiting his turn, +but managed meanwhile to look round repeatedly at his neighbor, the +beautiful Helene, whose eyes several times met those of the handsome +young aide-de-camp with a smile. + +Speaking of the position of Prussia, Anna Pavlovna very naturally asked +Boris to tell them about his journey to Glogau and in what state he +found the Prussian army. Boris, speaking with deliberation, told them +in pure, correct French many interesting details about the armies and +the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his +own about the facts he was recounting. For some time he engrossed the +general attention, and Anna Pavlovna felt that the novelty she had +served up was received with pleasure by all her visitors. The greatest +attention of all to Boris' narrative was shown by Helene. She asked +him several questions about his journey and seemed greatly interested in +the state of the Prussian army. As soon as he had finished she turned to +him with her usual smile. + +"You absolutely must come and see me," she said in a tone that +implied that, for certain considerations he could not know of, this was +absolutely necessary. + +"On Tuesday between eight and nine. It will give me great pleasure." + +Boris promised to fulfill her wish and was about to begin a +conversation with her, when Anna Pavlovna called him away on the +pretext that her aunt wished to hear him. + +"You know her husband, of course?" said Anna Pavlovna, closing her +eyes and indicating Helene with a sorrowful gesture. "Ah, she is +such an unfortunate and charming woman! Don't mention him before +her--please don't! It is too painful for her!" + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +When Boris and Anna Pavlovna returned to the others Prince Hippolyte +had the ear of the company. + +Bending forward in his armchair he said: "Le Roi de Prusse!" and +having said this laughed. Everyone turned toward him. + +"Le Roi de Prusse?" Hippolyte said interrogatively, again laughing, +and then calmly and seriously sat back in his chair. Anna Pavlovna +waited for him to go on, but as he seemed quite decided to say no more +she began to tell of how at Potsdam the impious Bonaparte had stolen the +sword of Frederick the Great. + +"It is the sword of Frederick the Great which I..." she began, but +Hippolyte interrupted her with the words: "Le Roi de Prusse..." and +again, as soon as all turned toward him, excused himself and said no +more. + +Anna Pavlovna frowned. Mortemart, Hippolyte's friend, addressed him +firmly. + +"Come now, what about your Roi de Prusse?" + +Hippolyte laughed as if ashamed of laughing. + +"Oh, it's nothing. I only wished to say..." (he wanted to repeat +a joke he had heard in Vienna and which he had been trying all that +evening to get in) "I only wished to say that we are wrong to fight +pour le Roi de Prusse!" + +Boris smiled circumspectly, so that it might be taken as ironical +or appreciative according to the way the joke was received. Everybody +laughed. + +"Your joke is too bad, it's witty but unjust," said Anna +Pavlovna, shaking her little shriveled finger at him. + +"We are not fighting pour le Roi de Prusse, but for right principles. +Oh, that wicked Prince Hippolyte!" she said. + +The conversation did not flag all evening and turned chiefly on the +political news. It became particularly animated toward the end of the +evening when the rewards bestowed by the Emperor were mentioned. + +"You know N-- N-- received a snuffbox with the portrait last +year?" said "the man of profound intellect." "Why shouldn't +S-- S-- get the same distinction?" + +"Pardon me! A snuffbox with the Emperor's portrait is a reward but +not a distinction," said the diplomatist--"a gift, rather." + +"There are precedents, I may mention Schwarzenberg." + +"It's impossible," replied another. + +"Will you bet? The ribbon of the order is a different matter...." + +When everybody rose to go, Helene who had spoken very little all +the evening again turned to Boris, asking him in a tone of caressing +significant command to come to her on Tuesday. + +"It is of great importance to me," she said, turning with a smile +toward Anna Pavlovna, and Anna Pavlovna, with the same sad smile with +which she spoke of her exalted patroness, supported Helene's wish. + +It seemed as if from some words Boris had spoken that evening about the +Prussian army, Helene had suddenly found it necessary to see him. +She seemed to promise to explain that necessity to him when he came on +Tuesday. + +But on Tuesday evening, having come to Helene's splendid salon, +Boris received no clear explanation of why it had been necessary for +him to come. There were other guests and the countess talked little to +him, and only as he kissed her hand on taking leave said unexpectedly +and in a whisper, with a strangely unsmiling face: "Come to dinner +tomorrow... in the evening. You must come.... Come!" + +During that stay in Petersburg, Boris became an intimate in the +countess' house. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +The war was flaming up and nearing the Russian frontier. Everywhere one +heard curses on Bonaparte, "the enemy of mankind." Militiamen and +recruits were being enrolled in the villages, and from the seat of +war came contradictory news, false as usual and therefore variously +interpreted. The life of old Prince Bolkonski, Prince Andrew, and +Princess Mary had greatly changed since 1805. + +In 1806 the old prince was made one of the eight commanders in chief +then appointed to supervise the enrollment decreed throughout Russia. +Despite the weakness of age, which had become particularly noticeable +since the time when he thought his son had been killed, he did not think +it right to refuse a duty to which he had been appointed by the Emperor +himself, and this fresh opportunity for action gave him new energy +and strength. He was continually traveling through the three provinces +entrusted to him, was pedantic in the fulfillment of his duties, severe +to cruel with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the +minutest details himself. Princess Mary had ceased taking lessons in +mathematics from her father, and when the old prince was at home went +to his study with the wet nurse and little Prince Nicholas (as his +grandfather called him). The baby Prince Nicholas lived with his wet +nurse and nurse Savishna in the late princess' rooms and Princess +Mary spent most of the day in the nursery, taking a mother's place to +her little nephew as best she could. Mademoiselle Bourienne, too, seemed +passionately fond of the boy, and Princess Mary often deprived herself +to give her friend the pleasure of dandling the little angel--as she +called her nephew--and playing with him. + +Near the altar of the church at Bald Hills there was a chapel over the +tomb of the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument +brought from Italy, representing an angel with outspread wings ready to +fly upwards. The angel's upper lip was slightly raised as though +about to smile, and once on coming out of the chapel Prince Andrew and +Princess Mary admitted to one another that the angel's face reminded +them strangely of the little princess. But what was still stranger, +though of this Prince Andrew said nothing to his sister, was that in the +expression the sculptor had happened to give the angel's face, Prince +Andrew read the same mild reproach he had read on the face of his dead +wife: "Ah, why have you done this to me?" + +Soon after Prince Andrew's return the old prince made over to him a +large estate, Bogucharovo, about twenty-five miles from Bald Hills. +Partly because of the depressing memories associated with Bald Hills, +partly because Prince Andrew did not always feel equal to bearing with +his father's peculiarities, and partly because he needed solitude, +Prince Andrew made use of Bogucharovo, began building and spent most of +his time there. + +After the Austerlitz campaign Prince Andrew had firmly resolved not +to continue his military service, and when the war recommenced +and everybody had to serve, he took a post under his father in the +recruitment so as to avoid active service. The old prince and his son +seemed to have changed roles since the campaign of 1805. The old man, +roused by activity, expected the best results from the new campaign, +while Prince Andrew on the contrary, taking no part in the war and +secretly regretting this, saw only the dark side. + +On February 26, 1807, the old prince set off on one of his circuits. +Prince Andrew remained at Bald Hills as usual during his father's +absence. Little Nicholas had been unwell for four days. The coachman who +had driven the old prince to town returned bringing papers and letters +for Prince Andrew. + +Not finding the young prince in his study the valet went with the +letters to Princess Mary's apartments, but did not find him there. He +was told that the prince had gone to the nursery. + +"If you please, your excellency, Petrusha has brought some papers," +said one of the nursemaids to Prince Andrew who was sitting on a +child's little chair while, frowning and with trembling hands, he +poured drops from a medicine bottle into a wineglass half full of water. + +"What is it?" he said crossly, and, his hand shaking +unintentionally, he poured too many drops into the glass. He threw the +mixture onto the floor and asked for some more water. The maid brought +it. + +There were in the room a child's cot, two boxes, two armchairs, a +table, a child's table, and the little chair on which Prince Andrew +was sitting. The curtains were drawn, and a single candle was burning on +the table, screened by a bound music book so that the light did not fall +on the cot. + +"My dear," said Princess Mary, addressing her brother from beside +the cot where she was standing, "better wait a bit... later..." + +"Oh, leave off, you always talk nonsense and keep putting things +off--and this is what comes of it!" said Prince Andrew in an +exasperated whisper, evidently meaning to wound his sister. + +"My dear, really... it's better not to wake him... he's asleep," +said the princess in a tone of entreaty. + +Prince Andrew got up and went on tiptoe up to the little bed, wineglass +in hand. + +"Perhaps we'd really better not wake him," he said hesitating. + +"As you please... really... I think so... but as you please," said +Princess Mary, evidently intimidated and confused that her opinion +had prevailed. She drew her brother's attention to the maid who was +calling him in a whisper. + +It was the second night that neither of them had slept, watching the boy +who was in a high fever. These last days, mistrusting their household +doctor and expecting another for whom they had sent to town, they had +been trying first one remedy and then another. Worn out by sleeplessness +and anxiety they threw their burden of sorrow on one another and +reproached and disputed with each other. + +"Petrusha has come with papers from your father," whispered the +maid. + +Prince Andrew went out. + +"Devil take them!" he muttered, and after listening to the verbal +instructions his father had sent and taking the correspondence and his +father's letter, he returned to the nursery. + +"Well?" he asked. + +"Still the same. Wait, for heaven's sake. Karl Ivanich always says +that sleep is more important than anything," whispered Princess Mary +with a sigh. + +Prince Andrew went up to the child and felt him. He was burning hot. + +"Confound you and your Karl Ivanich!" He took the glass with the +drops and again went up to the cot. + +"Andrew, don't!" said Princess Mary. + +But he scowled at her angrily though also with suffering in his eyes, +and stooped glass in hand over the infant. + +"But I wish it," he said. "I beg you--give it him!" + +Princess Mary shrugged her shoulders but took the glass submissively +and calling the nurse began giving the medicine. The child screamed +hoarsely. Prince Andrew winced and, clutching his head, went out and sat +down on a sofa in the next room. + +He still had all the letters in his hand. Opening them mechanically he +began reading. The old prince, now and then using abbreviations, wrote +in his large elongated hand on blue paper as follows: + +Have just this moment received by special messenger very joyful +news--if it's not false. Bennigsen seems to have obtained a complete +victory over Buonaparte at Eylau. In Petersburg everyone is rejoicing, +and the rewards sent to the army are innumerable. Though he is a +German--I congratulate him! I can't make out what the commander at +Korchevo--a certain Khandrikov--is up to; till now the additional +men and provisions have not arrived. Gallop off to him at once and +say I'll have his head off if everything is not here in a week. +Have received another letter about the Preussisch-Eylau battle +from Petenka--he took part in it--and it's all true. When +mischief-makers don't meddle even a German beats Buonaparte. He is +said to be fleeing in great disorder. Mind you gallop off to Korchevo +without delay and carry out instructions! + +Prince Andrew sighed and broke the seal of another envelope. It was +a closely written letter of two sheets from Bilibin. He folded it up +without reading it and reread his father's letter, ending with the +words: "Gallop off to Korchevo and carry out instructions!" + +"No, pardon me, I won't go now till the child is better," thought +he, going to the door and looking into the nursery. + +Princess Mary was still standing by the cot, gently rocking the baby. + +"Ah yes, and what else did he say that's unpleasant?" thought +Prince Andrew, recalling his father's letter. "Yes, we have gained +a victory over Bonaparte, just when I'm not serving. Yes, yes, he's +always poking fun at me.... Ah, well! Let him!" And he began reading +Bilibin's letter which was written in French. He read without +understanding half of it, read only to forget, if but for a moment, what +he had too long been thinking of so painfully to the exclusion of all +else. + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +Bilibin was now at army headquarters in a diplomatic capacity, and +though he wrote in French and used French jests and French idioms, +he described the whole campaign with a fearless self-censure and +self-derision genuinely Russian. Bilibin wrote that the obligation of +diplomatic discretion tormented him, and he was happy to have in Prince +Andrew a reliable correspondent to whom he could pour out the bile he +had accumulated at the sight of all that was being done in the army. +The letter was old, having been written before the battle at +Preussisch-Eylau. + +"Since the day of our brilliant success at Austerlitz," wrote +Bilibin, "as you know, my dear prince, I never leave headquarters. I +have certainly acquired a taste for war, and it is just as well for me; +what I have seen during these last three months is incredible. + +"I begin ab ovo. 'The enemy of the human race,' as you know, +attacks the Prussians. The Prussians are our faithful allies who have +only betrayed us three times in three years. We take up their cause, but +it turns out that 'the enemy of the human race' pays no heed to +our fine speeches and in his rude and savage way throws himself on the +Prussians without giving them time to finish the parade they had begun, +and in two twists of the hand he breaks them to smithereens and installs +himself in the palace at Potsdam. + +"'I most ardently desire,' writes the King of Prussia to +Bonaparte, 'that Your Majesty should be received and treated in my +palace in a manner agreeable to yourself, and in so far as circumstances +allowed, I have hastened to take all steps to that end. May I have +succeeded!' The Prussian generals pride themselves on being polite to +the French and lay down their arms at the first demand. + +"The head of the garrison at Glogau, with ten thousand men, asks the +King of Prussia what he is to do if he is summoned to surrender.... All +this is absolutely true. + +"In short, hoping to settle matters by taking up a warlike attitude, +it turns out that we have landed ourselves in war, and what is more, +in war on our own frontiers, with and for the King of Prussia. We have +everything in perfect order, only one little thing is lacking, namely, +a commander in chief. As it was considered that the Austerlitz success +might have been more decisive had the commander in chief not been so +young, all our octogenarians were reviewed, and of Prozorovski +and Kamenski the latter was preferred. The general comes to us, +Suvorov-like, in a kibitka, and is received with acclamations of joy +and triumph. + +"On the 4th, the first courier arrives from Petersburg. The mails +are taken to the field marshal's room, for he likes to do everything +himself. I am called in to help sort the letters and take those meant +for us. The field marshal looks on and waits for letters addressed +to him. We search, but none are to be found. The field marshal grows +impatient and sets to work himself and finds letters from the Emperor +to Count T., Prince V., and others. Then he bursts into one of his wild +furies and rages at everyone and everything, seizes the letters, opens +them, and reads those from the Emperor addressed to others. 'Ah! So +that's the way they treat me! No confidence in me! Ah, ordered to keep +an eye on me! Very well then! Get along with you!' So he writes the +famous order of the day to General Bennigsen: + +"'I am wounded and cannot ride and consequently cannot command the +army. You have brought your army corps to Pultusk, routed: here it is +exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as +you yourself reported to Count Buxhowden yesterday, you must think of +retreating to our frontier--which do today.' + +"'From all my riding,' he writes to the Emperor, 'I have got a +saddle sore which, coming after all my previous journeys, quite prevents +my riding and commanding so vast an army, so I have passed on the +command to the general next in seniority, Count Buxhowden, having sent +him my whole staff and all that belongs to it, advising him if there is +a lack of bread, to move farther into the interior of Prussia, for only +one day's ration of bread remains, and in some regiments none at all, +as reported by the division commanders, Ostermann and Sedmoretzki, and +all that the peasants had has been eaten up. I myself will remain in +hospital at Ostrolenka till I recover. In regard to which I humbly +submit my report, with the information that if the army remains in its +present bivouac another fortnight there will not be a healthy man left +in it by spring. + +"'Grant leave to retire to his country seat to an old man who is +already in any case dishonored by being unable to fulfill the great and +glorious task for which he was chosen. I shall await your most gracious +permission here in hospital, that I may not have to play the part of a +secretary rather than commander in the army. My removal from the army +does not produce the slightest stir--a blind man has left it. There are +thousands such as I in Russia.' + +"The field marshal is angry with the Emperor and he punishes us all, +isn't it logical? + +"This is the first act. Those that follow are naturally increasingly +interesting and entertaining. After the field marshal's departure +it appears that we are within sight of the enemy and must give battle. +Buxhowden is commander in chief by seniority, but General Bennigsen +does not quite see it; more particularly as it is he and his corps who +are within sight of the enemy and he wishes to profit by the opportunity +to fight a battle 'on his own hand' as the Germans say. He does so. +This is the battle of Pultusk, which is considered a great victory but +in my opinion was nothing of the kind. We civilians, as you know, have +a very bad way of deciding whether a battle was won or lost. Those who +retreat after a battle have lost it is what we say; and according to +that it is we who lost the battle of Pultusk. In short, we retreat +after the battle but send a courier to Petersburg with news of a +victory, and General Bennigsen, hoping to receive from Petersburg the +post of commander in chief as a reward for his victory, does not give up +the command of the army to General Buxhowden. During this interregnum +we begin a very original and interesting series of maneuvers. Our aim is +no longer, as it should be, to avoid or attack the enemy, but solely to +avoid General Buxhowden who by right of seniority should be our chief. +So energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable +river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at +the moment is not Bonaparte but Buxhowden. General Buxhowden was all +but attacked and captured by a superior enemy force as a result of one +of these maneuvers that enabled us to escape him. Buxhowden pursues +us--we scuttle. He hardly crosses the river to our side before we +recross to the other. At last our enemy, Buxhowden, catches us and +attacks. Both generals are angry, and the result is a challenge on +Buxhowden's part and an epileptic fit on Bennigsen's. But at the +critical moment the courier who carried the news of our victory at +Pultusk to Petersburg returns bringing our appointment as commander in +chief, and our first foe, Buxhowden, is vanquished; we can now turn +our thoughts to the second, Bonaparte. But as it turns out, just at +that moment a third enemy rises before us--namely the Orthodox Russian +soldiers, loudly demanding bread, meat, biscuits, fodder, and whatnot! +The stores are empty, the roads impassable. The Orthodox begin looting, +and in a way of which our last campaign can give you no idea. Half the +regiments form bands and scour the countryside and put everything +to fire and sword. The inhabitants are totally ruined, the hospitals +overflow with sick, and famine is everywhere. Twice the marauders even +attack our headquarters, and the commander in chief has to ask for a +battalion to disperse them. During one of these attacks they carried off +my empty portmanteau and my dressing gown. The Emperor proposes to give +all commanders of divisions the right to shoot marauders, but I much +fear this will oblige one half the army to shoot the other." + +At first Prince Andrew read with his eyes only, but after a while, +in spite of himself (although he knew how far it was safe to trust +Bilibin), what he had read began to interest him more and more. When he +had read thus far, he crumpled the letter up and threw it away. It was +not what he had read that vexed him, but the fact that the life out +there in which he had now no part could perturb him. He shut his eyes, +rubbed his forehead as if to rid himself of all interest in what he +had read, and listened to what was passing in the nursery. Suddenly he +thought he heard a strange noise through the door. He was seized with +alarm lest something should have happened to the child while he was +reading the letter. He went on tiptoe to the nursery door and opened it. + +Just as he went in he saw that the nurse was hiding something from him +with a scared look and that Princess Mary was no longer by the cot. + +"My dear," he heard what seemed to him her despairing whisper behind +him. + +As often happens after long sleeplessness and long anxiety, he was +seized by an unreasoning panic--it occurred to him that the child was +dead. All that he saw and heard seemed to confirm this terror. + +"All is over," he thought, and a cold sweat broke out on his +forehead. He went to the cot in confusion, sure that he would find it +empty and that the nurse had been hiding the dead baby. He drew the +curtain aside and for some time his frightened, restless eyes could not +find the baby. At last he saw him: the rosy boy had tossed about till he +lay across the bed with his head lower than the pillow, and was smacking +his lips in his sleep and breathing evenly. + +Prince Andrew was as glad to find the boy like that, as if he had +already lost him. He bent over him and, as his sister had taught him, +tried with his lips whether the child was still feverish. The soft +forehead was moist. Prince Andrew touched the head with his hand; even +the hair was wet, so profusely had the child perspired. He was not dead, +but evidently the crisis was over and he was convalescent. Prince Andrew +longed to snatch up, to squeeze, to hold to his heart, this helpless +little creature, but dared not do so. He stood over him, gazing at his +head and at the little arms and legs which showed under the blanket. He +heard a rustle behind him and a shadow appeared under the curtain of +the cot. He did not look round, but still gazing at the infant's face +listened to his regular breathing. The dark shadow was Princess Mary, +who had come up to the cot with noiseless steps, lifted the curtain, +and dropped it again behind her. Prince Andrew recognized her without +looking and held out his hand to her. She pressed it. + +"He has perspired," said Prince Andrew. + +"I was coming to tell you so." + +The child moved slightly in his sleep, smiled, and rubbed his forehead +against the pillow. + +Prince Andrew looked at his sister. In the dim shadow of the curtain her +luminous eyes shone more brightly than usual from the tears of joy that +were in them. She leaned over to her brother and kissed him, slightly +catching the curtain of the cot. Each made the other a warning gesture +and stood still in the dim light beneath the curtain as if not wishing +to leave that seclusion where they three were shut off from all the +world. Prince Andrew was the first to move away, ruffling his hair +against the muslin of the curtain. + +"Yes, this is the one thing left me now," he said with a sigh. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +Soon after his admission to the Masonic Brotherhood, Pierre went to the +Kiev province, where he had the greatest number of serfs, taking with +him full directions which he had written down for his own guidance as to +what he should do on his estates. + +When he reached Kiev he sent for all his stewards to the head office +and explained to them his intentions and wishes. He told them that steps +would be taken immediately to free his serfs--and that till then they +were not to be overburdened with labor, women while nursing their babies +were not to be sent to work, assistance was to be given to the serfs, +punishments were to be admonitory and not corporal, and hospitals, +asylums, and schools were to be established on all the estates. Some of +the stewards (there were semiliterate foremen among them) listened with +alarm, supposing these words to mean that the young count was displeased +with their management and embezzlement of money, some after their first +fright were amused by Pierre's lisp and the new words they had not +heard before, others simply enjoyed hearing how the master talked, while +the cleverest among them, including the chief steward, understood from +this speech how they could best handle the master for their own ends. + +The chief steward expressed great sympathy with Pierre's intentions, +but remarked that besides these changes it would be necessary to go into +the general state of affairs which was far from satisfactory. + +Despite Count Bezukhov's enormous wealth, since he had come into an +income which was said to amount to five hundred thousand rubles a year, +Pierre felt himself far poorer than when his father had made him +an allowance of ten thousand rubles. He had a dim perception of the +following budget: + +About 80,000 went in payments on all the estates to the Land Bank, about +30,000 went for the upkeep of the estate near Moscow, the town house, +and the allowance to the three princesses; about 15,000 was given in +pensions and the same amount for asylums; 150,000 alimony was sent to +the countess; about 70,000 went for interest on debts. The building of a +new church, previously begun, had cost about 10,000 in each of the last +two years, and he did not know how the rest, about 100,000 rubles, was +spent, and almost every year he was obliged to borrow. Besides this the +chief steward wrote every year telling him of fires and bad harvests, +or of the necessity of rebuilding factories and workshops. So the first +task Pierre had to face was one for which he had very little aptitude or +inclination--practical business. + +He discussed estate affairs every day with his chief steward. But +he felt that this did not forward matters at all. He felt that these +consultations were detached from real affairs and did not link up with +them or make them move. On the one hand, the chief steward put the state +of things to him in the very worst light, pointing out the necessity of +paying off the debts and undertaking new activities with serf labor, +to which Pierre did not agree. On the other hand, Pierre demanded that +steps should be taken to liberate the serfs, which the steward met by +showing the necessity of first paying off the loans from the Land Bank, +and the consequent impossibility of a speedy emancipation. + +The steward did not say it was quite impossible, but suggested selling +the forests in the province of Kostroma, the land lower down the river, +and the Crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which +operations according to him were connected with such complicated +measures--the removal of injunctions, petitions, permits, and so +on--that Pierre became quite bewildered and only replied: + +"Yes, yes, do so." + +Pierre had none of the practical persistence that would have enabled him +to attend to the business himself and so he disliked it and only tried +to pretend to the steward that he was attending to it. The steward +for his part tried to pretend to the count that he considered these +consultations very valuable for the proprietor and troublesome to +himself. + +In Kiev Pierre found some people he knew, and strangers hastened to make +his acquaintance and joyfully welcomed the rich newcomer, the +largest landowner of the province. Temptations to Pierre's greatest +weakness--the one to which he had confessed when admitted to the +Lodge--were so strong that he could not resist them. Again whole days, +weeks, and months of his life passed in as great a rush and were as much +occupied with evening parties, dinners, lunches, and balls, giving him +no time for reflection, as in Petersburg. Instead of the new life he had +hoped to lead he still lived the old life, only in new surroundings. + +Of the three precepts of Freemasonry Pierre realized that he did not +fulfill the one which enjoined every Mason to set an example of moral +life, and that of the seven virtues he lacked two--morality and the +love of death. He consoled himself with the thought that he fulfilled +another of the precepts--that of reforming the human race--and had +other virtues--love of his neighbor, and especially generosity. + +In the spring of 1807 he decided to return to Petersburg. On the way he +intended to visit all his estates and see for himself how far his orders +had been carried out and in what state were the serfs whom God had +entrusted to his care and whom he intended to benefit. + +The chief steward, who considered the young count's attempts almost +insane--unprofitable to himself, to the count, and to the serfs--made +some concessions. Continuing to represent the liberation of the serfs +as impracticable, he arranged for the erection of large +buildings--schools, hospitals, and asylums--on all the estates +before the master arrived. Everywhere preparations were made not for +ceremonious welcomes (which he knew Pierre would not like), but for just +such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread +and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his +master, would touch and delude him. + +The southern spring, the comfortable rapid traveling in a Vienna +carriage, and the solitude of the road, all had a gladdening effect on +Pierre. The estates he had not before visited were each more picturesque +than the other; the serfs everywhere seemed thriving and touchingly +grateful for the benefits conferred on them. Everywhere were receptions, +which though they embarrassed Pierre awakened a joyful feeling in the +depth of his heart. In one place the peasants presented him with bread +and salt and an icon of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, asking permission, +as a mark of their gratitude for the benefits he had conferred on them, +to build a new chantry to the church at their own expense in honor +of Peter and Paul, his patron saints. In another place the women with +infants in arms met him to thank him for releasing them from hard +work. On a third estate the priest, bearing a cross, came to meet +him surrounded by children whom, by the count's generosity, he was +instructing in reading, writing, and religion. On all his estates Pierre +saw with his own eyes brick buildings erected or in course of erection, +all on one plan, for hospitals, schools, and almshouses, which were soon +to be opened. Everywhere he saw the stewards' accounts, according to +which the serfs' manorial labor had been diminished, and heard the +touching thanks of deputations of serfs in their full-skirted blue +coats. + +What Pierre did not know was that the place where they presented him +with bread and salt and wished to build a chantry in honor of Peter and +Paul was a market village where a fair was held on St. Peter's day, +and that the richest peasants (who formed the deputation) had begun +the chantry long before, but that nine tenths of the peasants in that +villages were in a state of the greatest poverty. He did not know that +since the nursing mothers were no longer sent to work on his land, they +did still harder work on their own land. He did not know that the priest +who met him with the cross oppressed the peasants by his exactions, and +that the pupils' parents wept at having to let him take their children +and secured their release by heavy payments. He did not know that the +brick buildings, built to plan, were being built by serfs whose manorial +labor was thus increased, though lessened on paper. He did not know +that where the steward had shown him in the accounts that the serfs' +payments had been diminished by a third, their obligatory manorial work +had been increased by a half. And so Pierre was delighted with his visit +to his estates and quite recovered the philanthropic mood in which +he had left Petersburg, and wrote enthusiastic letters to his +"brother-instructor" as he called the Grand Master. + +"How easy it is, how little effort it needs, to do so much good," +thought Pierre, "and how little attention we pay to it!" + +He was pleased at the gratitude he received, but felt abashed at +receiving it. This gratitude reminded him of how much more he might do +for these simple, kindly people. + +The chief steward, a very stupid but cunning man who saw perfectly +through the naive and intelligent count and played with him as with +a toy, seeing the effect these prearranged receptions had on Pierre, +pressed him still harder with proofs of the impossibility and above all +the uselessness of freeing the serfs, who were quite happy as it was. + +Pierre in his secret soul agreed with the steward that it would be +difficult to imagine happier people, and that God only knew what would +happen to them when they were free, but he insisted, though reluctantly, +on what he thought right. The steward promised to do all in his power to +carry out the count's wishes, seeing clearly that not only would the +count never be able to find out whether all measures had been taken for +the sale of the land and forests and to release them from the Land Bank, +but would probably never even inquire and would never know that the +newly erected buildings were standing empty and that the serfs continued +to give in money and work all that other people's serfs gave--that is +to say, all that could be got out of them. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +Returning from his journey through South Russia in the happiest state +of mind, Pierre carried out an intention he had long had of visiting his +friend Bolkonski, whom he had not seen for two years. + +Bogucharovo lay in a flat uninteresting part of the country among +fields and forests of fir and birch, which were partly cut down. The +house lay behind a newly dug pond filled with water to the brink and +with banks still bare of grass. It was at the end of a village that +stretched along the highroad in the midst of a young copse in which were +a few fir trees. + +The homestead consisted of a threshing floor, outhouses, stables, a +bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular facade +still in course of construction. Round the house was a garden newly laid +out. The fences and gates were new and solid; two fire pumps and a +water cart, painted green, stood in a shed; the paths were straight, +the bridges were strong and had handrails. Everything bore an impress of +tidiness and good management. Some domestic serfs Pierre met, in reply +to inquiries as to where the prince lived, pointed out a small newly +built lodge close to the pond. Anton, a man who had looked after Prince +Andrew in his boyhood, helped Pierre out of his carriage, said that the +prince was at home, and showed him into a clean little anteroom. + +Pierre was struck by the modesty of the small though clean house after +the brilliant surroundings in which he had last met his friend in +Petersburg. + +He quickly entered the small reception room with its still-unplastered +wooden walls redolent of pine, and would have gone farther, but Anton +ran ahead on tiptoe and knocked at a door. + +"Well, what is it?" came a sharp, unpleasant voice. + +"A visitor," answered Anton. + +"Ask him to wait," and the sound was heard of a chair being pushed +back. + +Pierre went with rapid steps to the door and suddenly came face to +face with Prince Andrew, who came out frowning and looking old. Pierre +embraced him and lifting his spectacles kissed his friend on the cheek +and looked at him closely. + +"Well, I did not expect you, I am very glad," said Prince Andrew. + +Pierre said nothing; he looked fixedly at his friend with surprise. He +was struck by the change in him. His words were kindly and there was a +smile on his lips and face, but his eyes were dull and lifeless and in +spite of his evident wish to do so he could not give them a joyous +and glad sparkle. Prince Andrew had grown thinner, paler, and more +manly-looking, but what amazed and estranged Pierre till he got used +to it were his inertia and a wrinkle on his brow indicating prolonged +concentration on some one thought. + +As is usually the case with people meeting after a prolonged separation, +it was long before their conversation could settle on anything. They +put questions and gave brief replies about things they knew ought to +be talked over at length. At last the conversation gradually settled on +some of the topics at first lightly touched on: their past life, plans +for the future, Pierre's journeys and occupations, the war, and so +on. The preoccupation and despondency which Pierre had noticed in his +friend's look was now still more clearly expressed in the smile +with which he listened to Pierre, especially when he spoke with joyful +animation of the past or the future. It was as if Prince Andrew would +have liked to sympathize with what Pierre was saying, but could not. +The latter began to feel that it was in bad taste to speak of his +enthusiasms, dreams, and hopes of happiness or goodness, in Prince +Andrew's presence. He was ashamed to express his new Masonic views, +which had been particularly revived and strengthened by his late tour. +He checked himself, fearing to seem naive, yet he felt an irresistible +desire to show his friend as soon as possible that he was now a quite +different, and better, Pierre than he had been in Petersburg. + +"I can't tell you how much I have lived through since then. I hardly +know myself again." + +"Yes, we have altered much, very much, since then," said Prince +Andrew. + +"Well, and you? What are your plans?" + +"Plans!" repeated Prince Andrew ironically. "My plans?" he said, +as if astonished at the word. "Well, you see, I'm building. I mean +to settle here altogether next year...." + +Pierre looked silently and searchingly into Prince Andrew's face, +which had grown much older. + +"No, I meant to ask..." Pierre began, but Prince Andrew interrupted +him. + +"But why talk of me?... Talk to me, yes, tell me about your travels +and all you have been doing on your estates." + +Pierre began describing what he had done on his estates, trying as far +as possible to conceal his own part in the improvements that had been +made. Prince Andrew several times prompted Pierre's story of what he +had been doing, as though it were all an old-time story, and he listened +not only without interest but even as if ashamed of what Pierre was +telling him. + +Pierre felt uncomfortable and even depressed in his friend's company +and at last became silent. + +"I'll tell you what, my dear fellow," said Prince Andrew, who +evidently also felt depressed and constrained with his visitor, "I am +only bivouacking here and have just come to look round. I am going back +to my sister today. I will introduce you to her. But of course you know +her already," he said, evidently trying to entertain a visitor with +whom he now found nothing in common. "We will go after dinner. And +would you now like to look round my place?" + +They went out and walked about till dinnertime, talking of the political +news and common acquaintances like people who do not know each other +intimately. Prince Andrew spoke with some animation and interest only of +the new homestead he was constructing and its buildings, but even here, +while on the scaffolding, in the midst of a talk explaining the future +arrangements of the house, he interrupted himself: + +"However, this is not at all interesting. Let us have dinner, and then +we'll set off." + +At dinner, conversation turned on Pierre's marriage. + +"I was very much surprised when I heard of it," said Prince Andrew. + +Pierre blushed, as he always did when it was mentioned, and said +hurriedly: "I will tell you some time how it all happened. But you +know it is all over, and forever." + +"Forever?" said Prince Andrew. "Nothing's forever." + +"But you know how it all ended, don't you? You heard of the duel?" + +"And so you had to go through that too!" + +"One thing I thank God for is that I did not kill that man," said +Pierre. + +"Why so?" asked Prince Andrew. "To kill a vicious dog is a very +good thing really." + +"No, to kill a man is bad--wrong." + +"Why is it wrong?" urged Prince Andrew. "It is not given to man +to know what is right and what is wrong. Men always did and always will +err, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong." + +"What does harm to another is wrong," said Pierre, feeling with +pleasure that for the first time since his arrival Prince Andrew was +roused, had begun to talk, and wanted to express what had brought him to +his present state. + +"And who has told you what is bad for another man?" he asked. + +"Bad! Bad!" exclaimed Pierre. "We all know what is bad for +ourselves." + +"Yes, we know that, but the harm I am conscious of in myself is +something I cannot inflict on others," said Prince Andrew, growing +more and more animated and evidently wishing to express his new outlook +to Pierre. He spoke in French. "I only know two very real evils in +life: remorse and illness. The only good is the absence of those evils. +To live for myself avoiding those two evils is my whole philosophy +now." + +"And love of one's neighbor, and self-sacrifice?" began Pierre. +"No, I can't agree with you! To live only so as not to do evil and +not to have to repent is not enough. I lived like that, I lived for +myself and ruined my life. And only now when I am living, or at least +trying" (Pierre's modesty made him correct himself) "to live for +others, only now have I understood all the happiness of life. No, I +shall not agree with you, and you do not really believe what you are +saying." Prince Andrew looked silently at Pierre with an ironic smile. + +"When you see my sister, Princess Mary, you'll get on with her," +he said. "Perhaps you are right for yourself," he added after +a short pause, "but everyone lives in his own way. You lived for +yourself and say you nearly ruined your life and only found happiness +when you began living for others. I experienced just the reverse. I +lived for glory.--And after all what is glory? The same love of others, +a desire to do something for them, a desire for their approval.--So I +lived for others, and not almost, but quite, ruined my life. And I have +become calmer since I began to live only for myself." + +"But what do you mean by living only for yourself?" asked Pierre, +growing excited. "What about your son, your sister, and your +father?" + +"But that's just the same as myself--they are not others," +explained Prince Andrew. "The others, one's neighbors, le prochain, +as you and Princess Mary call it, are the chief source of all error and +evil. Le prochain--your Kiev peasants to whom you want to do good." + +And he looked at Pierre with a mocking, challenging expression. He +evidently wished to draw him on. + +"You are joking," replied Pierre, growing more and more excited. +"What error or evil can there be in my wishing to do good, and even +doing a little--though I did very little and did it very badly? What +evil can there be in it if unfortunate people, our serfs, people like +ourselves, were growing up and dying with no idea of God and truth +beyond ceremonies and meaningless prayers and are now instructed in +a comforting belief in future life, retribution, recompense, and +consolation? What evil and error are there in it, if people were dying +of disease without help while material assistance could so easily be +rendered, and I supplied them with a doctor, a hospital, and an asylum +for the aged? And is it not a palpable, unquestionable good if a +peasant, or a woman with a baby, has no rest day or night and I give +them rest and leisure?" said Pierre, hurrying and lisping. "And +I have done that though badly and to a small extent; but I have done +something toward it and you cannot persuade me that it was not a good +action, and more than that, you can't make me believe that you do not +think so yourself. And the main thing is," he continued, "that I +know, and know for certain, that the enjoyment of doing this good is the +only sure happiness in life." + +"Yes, if you put it like that it's quite a different matter," said +Prince Andrew. "I build a house and lay out a garden, and you build +hospitals. The one and the other may serve as a pastime. But what's +right and what's good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by +us. Well, you want an argument," he added, "come on then." + +They rose from the table and sat down in the entrance porch which served +as a veranda. + +"Come, let's argue then," said Prince Andrew, "You talk of +schools," he went on, crooking a finger, "education and so forth; +that is, you want to raise him" (pointing to a peasant who passed by +them taking off his cap) "from his animal condition and awaken in him +spiritual needs, while it seems to me that animal happiness is the only +happiness possible, and that is just what you want to deprive him of. +I envy him, but you want to make him what I am, without giving him my +means. Then you say, 'lighten his toil.' But as I see it, physical +labor is as essential to him, as much a condition of his existence, as +mental activity is to you or me. You can't help thinking. I go to bed +after two in the morning, thoughts come and I can't sleep but toss +about till dawn, because I think and can't help thinking, just as +he can't help plowing and mowing; if he didn't, he would go to the +drink shop or fall ill. Just as I could not stand his terrible physical +labor but should die of it in a week, so he could not stand my physical +idleness, but would grow fat and die. The third thing--what else was +it you talked about?" and Prince Andrew crooked a third finger. "Ah, +yes, hospitals, medicine. He has a fit, he is dying, and you come and +bleed him and patch him up. He will drag about as a cripple, a burden to +everybody, for another ten years. It would be far easier and simpler for +him to die. Others are being born and there are plenty of them as it is. +It would be different if you grudged losing a laborer--that's how I +regard him--but you want to cure him from love of him. And he does not +want that. And besides, what a notion that medicine ever cured anyone! +Killed them, yes!" said he, frowning angrily and turning away from +Pierre. + +Prince Andrew expressed his ideas so clearly and distinctly that it was +evident he had reflected on this subject more than once, and he spoke +readily and rapidly like a man who has not talked for a long time. His +glance became more animated as his conclusions became more hopeless. + +"Oh, that is dreadful, dreadful!" said Pierre. "I don't +understand how one can live with such ideas. I had such moments +myself not long ago, in Moscow and when traveling, but at such times I +collapsed so that I don't live at all--everything seems hateful to +me... myself most of all. Then I don't eat, don't wash... and how is +it with you?..." + +"Why not wash? That is not cleanly," said Prince Andrew; "on the +contrary one must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. +I'm alive, that is not my fault, so I must live out my life as best I +can without hurting others." + +"But with such ideas what motive have you for living? One would sit +without moving, undertaking nothing...." + +"Life as it is leaves one no peace. I should be thankful to do +nothing, but here on the one hand the local nobility have done me the +honor to choose me to be their marshal; it was all I could do to get +out of it. They could not understand that I have not the necessary +qualifications for it--the kind of good-natured, fussy shallowness +necessary for the position. Then there's this house, which must be +built in order to have a nook of one's own in which to be quiet. And +now there's this recruiting." + +"Why aren't you serving in the army?" + +"After Austerlitz!" said Prince Andrew gloomily. "No, thank you +very much! I have promised myself not to serve again in the active +Russian army. And I won't--not even if Bonaparte were here at +Smolensk threatening Bald Hills--even then I wouldn't serve in the +Russian army! Well, as I was saying," he continued, recovering his +composure, "now there's this recruiting. My father is chief in +command of the Third District, and my only way of avoiding active +service is to serve under him." + +"Then you are serving?" + +"I am." + +He paused a little while. + +"And why do you serve?" + +"Why, for this reason! My father is one of the most remarkable men of +his time. But he is growing old, and though not exactly cruel he has too +energetic a character. He is so accustomed to unlimited power that he is +terrible, and now he has this authority of a commander in chief of +the recruiting, granted by the Emperor. If I had been two hours late +a fortnight ago he would have had a paymaster's clerk at Yukhnovna +hanged," said Prince Andrew with a smile. "So I am serving because +I alone have any influence with my father, and now and then can save him +from actions which would torment him afterwards." + +"Well, there you see!" + +"Yes, but it is not as you imagine," Prince Andrew continued. "I +did not, and do not, in the least care about that scoundrel of a clerk +who had stolen some boots from the recruits; I should even have been +very glad to see him hanged, but I was sorry for my father--that again +is for myself." + +Prince Andrew grew more and more animated. His eyes glittered feverishly +while he tried to prove to Pierre that in his actions there was no +desire to do good to his neighbor. + +"There now, you wish to liberate your serfs," he continued; "that +is a very good thing, but not for you--I don't suppose you ever had +anyone flogged or sent to Siberia--and still less for your serfs. If +they are beaten, flogged, or sent to Siberia, I don't suppose they are +any the worse off. In Siberia they lead the same animal life, and the +stripes on their bodies heal, and they are happy as before. But it is +a good thing for proprietors who perish morally, bring remorse upon +themselves, stifle this remorse and grow callous, as a result of being +able to inflict punishments justly and unjustly. It is those people I +pity, and for their sake I should like to liberate the serfs. You +may not have seen, but I have seen, how good men brought up in those +traditions of unlimited power, in time when they grow more irritable, +become cruel and harsh, are conscious of it, but cannot restrain +themselves and grow more and more miserable." + +Prince Andrew spoke so earnestly that Pierre could not help thinking +that these thoughts had been suggested to Prince Andrew by his +father's case. + +He did not reply. + +"So that's what I'm sorry for--human dignity, peace of mind, +purity, and not the serfs' backs and foreheads, which, beat and shave +as you may, always remain the same backs and foreheads." + +"No, no! A thousand times no! I shall never agree with you," said +Pierre. + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +In the evening Andrew and Pierre got into the open carriage and drove to +Bald Hills. Prince Andrew, glancing at Pierre, broke the silence now and +then with remarks which showed that he was in a good temper. + +Pointing to the fields, he spoke of the improvements he was making in +his husbandry. + +Pierre remained gloomily silent, answering in monosyllables and +apparently immersed in his own thoughts. + +He was thinking that Prince Andrew was unhappy, had gone astray, did not +see the true light, and that he, Pierre, ought to aid, enlighten, and +raise him. But as soon as he thought of what he should say, he felt that +Prince Andrew with one word, one argument, \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/outputs-temp/agg/1M-iconv-seq-col-seq b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/outputs-temp/agg/1M-iconv-seq-col-seq new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2a59fba --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/outputs-temp/agg/1M-iconv-seq-col-seq @@ -0,0 +1,21572 @@ + +The Project Gutenberg EBook of War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost +no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use +it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this +eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: War and Peace + +Author: Leo Tolstoy + +Translators: Louise and Aylmer Maude + +Posting Date: January 10, 2009 [EBook #2600] + +Last Updated: January 21, 2019 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WAR AND PEACE *** + + + + +An Anonymous Volunteer, and David Widger + + + + + + +WAR AND PEACE + + +By Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi + + + + + + CONTENTS + + + BOOK ONE: 1805 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + CHAPTER XXIII + + CHAPTER XXIV + + CHAPTER XXV + + CHAPTER XXVI + + CHAPTER XXVII + + CHAPTER XXVIII + + + BOOK TWO: 1805 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + + BOOK THREE: 1805 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + + BOOK FOUR: 1806 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + + BOOK FIVE: 1806 - 07 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + + BOOK SIX: 1808 - 10 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + CHAPTER XXIII + + CHAPTER XXIV + + CHAPTER XXV + + CHAPTER XXVI + + + BOOK SEVEN: 1810 - 11 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + + BOOK EIGHT: 1811 - 12 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + + BOOK NINE: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + CHAPTER XXIII + + + BOOK TEN: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + CHAPTER XXIII + + CHAPTER XXIV + + CHAPTER XXV + + CHAPTER XXVI + + CHAPTER XXVII + + CHAPTER XXVIII + + CHAPTER XXIX + + CHAPTER XXX + + CHAPTER XXXI + + CHAPTER XXXII + + CHAPTER XXXIII + + CHAPTER XXXIV + + CHAPTER XXXV + + CHAPTER XXXVI + + CHAPTER XXXVII + + CHAPTER XXXVIII + + CHAPTER XXXIX + + + BOOK ELEVEN: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + CHAPTER XXI + + CHAPTER XXII + + CHAPTER XXIII + + CHAPTER XXIV + + CHAPTER XXV + + CHAPTER XXVI + + CHAPTER XXVII + + CHAPTER XXVIII + + CHAPTER XXIX + + CHAPTER XXX + + CHAPTER XXXI + + CHAPTER XXXII + + CHAPTER XXXIII + + CHAPTER XXXIV + + + BOOK TWELVE: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + + BOOK THIRTEEN: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + + BOOK FOURTEEN: 1812 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + + BOOK FIFTEEN: 1812 - 13 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + CHAPTER XVII + + CHAPTER XVIII + + CHAPTER XIX + + CHAPTER XX + + + FIRST EPILOGUE: 1813 - 20 + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + CHAPTER XIII + + CHAPTER XIV + + CHAPTER XV + + CHAPTER XVI + + + SECOND EPILOGUE + + CHAPTER I + + CHAPTER II + + CHAPTER III + + CHAPTER IV + + CHAPTER V + + CHAPTER VI + + CHAPTER VII + + CHAPTER VIII + + CHAPTER IX + + CHAPTER X + + CHAPTER XI + + CHAPTER XII + + + + + + + + + + +BOOK ONE: 1805 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the +Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, +if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that +Antichrist--I really believe he is Antichrist--I will have nothing +more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my +'faithful slave,' as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I +have frightened you--sit down and tell me all the news." + +It was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna Pavlovna +Scherer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Marya Fedorovna. +With these words she greeted Prince Vasili Kuragin, a man of high +rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna +Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering +from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used +only by the elite. + +All her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered +by a scarlet-liveried footman that morning, ran as follows: + +"If you have nothing better to do, Count (or Prince), and if the +prospect of spending an evening with a poor invalid is not too terrible, +I shall be very charmed to see you tonight between 7 and 10--Annette +Scherer." + +"Heavens! what a virulent attack!" replied the prince, not in the +least disconcerted by this reception. He had just entered, wearing an +embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on +his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that +refined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and +with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance +who had grown old in society and at court. He went up to Anna Pavlovna, +kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, +and complacently seated himself on the sofa. + +"First of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. Set your friend's +mind at rest," said he without altering his tone, beneath the +politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony +could be discerned. + +"Can one be well while suffering morally? Can one be calm in times +like these if one has any feeling?" said Anna Pavlovna. "You are +staying the whole evening, I hope?" + +"And the fete at the English ambassador's? Today is Wednesday. I +must put in an appearance there," said the prince. "My daughter is +coming for me to take me there." + +"I thought today's fete had been canceled. I confess all these +festivities and fireworks are becoming wearisome." + +"If they had known that you wished it, the entertainment would have +been put off," said the prince, who, like a wound-up clock, by force +of habit said things he did not even wish to be believed. + +"Don't tease! Well, and what has been decided about Novosiltsev's +dispatch? You know everything." + +"What can one say about it?" replied the prince in a cold, listless +tone. "What has been decided? They have decided that Buonaparte has +burnt his boats, and I believe that we are ready to burn ours." + +Prince Vasili always spoke languidly, like an actor repeating a stale +part. Anna Pavlovna Scherer on the contrary, despite her forty years, +overflowed with animation and impulsiveness. To be an enthusiast had +become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not +feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the +expectations of those who knew her. The subdued smile which, though it +did not suit her faded features, always played round her lips expressed, +as in a spoiled child, a continual consciousness of her charming defect, +which she neither wished, nor could, nor considered it necessary, to +correct. + +In the midst of a conversation on political matters Anna Pavlovna burst +out: + +"Oh, don't speak to me of Austria. Perhaps I don't understand +things, but Austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war. She +is betraying us! Russia alone must save Europe. Our gracious sovereign +recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it. That is the one +thing I have faith in! Our good and wonderful sovereign has to perform +the noblest role on earth, and he is so virtuous and noble that God will +not forsake him. He will fulfill his vocation and crush the hydra of +revolution, which has become more terrible than ever in the person of +this murderer and villain! We alone must avenge the blood of the just +one.... Whom, I ask you, can we rely on?... England with her commercial +spirit will not and cannot understand the Emperor Alexander's +loftiness of soul. She has refused to evacuate Malta. She wanted to +find, and still seeks, some secret motive in our actions. What answer +did Novosiltsev get? None. The English have not understood and cannot +understand the self-abnegation of our Emperor who wants nothing for +himself, but only desires the good of mankind. And what have they +promised? Nothing! And what little they have promised they will not +perform! Prussia has always declared that Buonaparte is invincible, and +that all Europe is powerless before him.... And I don't believe a +word that Hardenburg says, or Haugwitz either. This famous Prussian +neutrality is just a trap. I have faith only in God and the lofty +destiny of our adored monarch. He will save Europe!" + +She suddenly paused, smiling at her own impetuosity. + +"I think," said the prince with a smile, "that if you had been +sent instead of our dear Wintzingerode you would have captured the King +of Prussia's consent by assault. You are so eloquent. Will you give me +a cup of tea?" + +"In a moment. A propos," she added, becoming calm again, "I am +expecting two very interesting men tonight, le Vicomte de Mortemart, who +is connected with the Montmorencys through the Rohans, one of the best +French families. He is one of the genuine emigres, the good ones. And +also the Abbe Morio. Do you know that profound thinker? He has been +received by the Emperor. Had you heard?" + +"I shall be delighted to meet them," said the prince. "But +tell me," he added with studied carelessness as if it had only just +occurred to him, though the question he was about to ask was the chief +motive of his visit, "is it true that the Dowager Empress wants +Baron Funke to be appointed first secretary at Vienna? The baron by all +accounts is a poor creature." + +Prince Vasili wished to obtain this post for his son, but others were +trying through the Dowager Empress Marya Fedorovna to secure it for +the baron. + +Anna Pavlovna almost closed her eyes to indicate that neither she nor +anyone else had a right to criticize what the Empress desired or was +pleased with. + +"Baron Funke has been recommended to the Dowager Empress by her +sister," was all she said, in a dry and mournful tone. + +As she named the Empress, Anna Pavlovna's face suddenly assumed an +expression of profound and sincere devotion and respect mingled with +sadness, and this occurred every time she mentioned her illustrious +patroness. She added that Her Majesty had deigned to show Baron Funke +beaucoup d'estime, and again her face clouded over with sadness. + +The prince was silent and looked indifferent. But, with the womanly and +courtierlike quickness and tact habitual to her, Anna Pavlovna +wished both to rebuke him (for daring to speak as he had done of a man +recommended to the Empress) and at the same time to console him, so she +said: + +"Now about your family. Do you know that since your daughter came +out everyone has been enraptured by her? They say she is amazingly +beautiful." + +The prince bowed to signify his respect and gratitude. + +"I often think," she continued after a short pause, drawing nearer +to the prince and smiling amiably at him as if to show that political +and social topics were ended and the time had come for intimate +conversation--"I often think how unfairly sometimes the joys of life +are distributed. Why has fate given you two such splendid children? +I don't speak of Anatole, your youngest. I don't like him," she +added in a tone admitting of no rejoinder and raising her eyebrows. +"Two such charming children. And really you appreciate them less than +anyone, and so you don't deserve to have them." + +And she smiled her ecstatic smile. + +"I can't help it," said the prince. "Lavater would have said I +lack the bump of paternity." + +"Don't joke; I mean to have a serious talk with you. Do you know +I am dissatisfied with your younger son? Between ourselves" (and her +face assumed its melancholy expression), "he was mentioned at Her +Majesty's and you were pitied...." + +The prince answered nothing, but she looked at him significantly, +awaiting a reply. He frowned. + +"What would you have me do?" he said at last. "You know I did all +a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools. +Hippolyte is at least a quiet fool, but Anatole is an active one. That +is the only difference between them." He said this smiling in a way +more natural and animated than usual, so that the wrinkles round +his mouth very clearly revealed something unexpectedly coarse and +unpleasant. + +"And why are children born to such men as you? If you were not a +father there would be nothing I could reproach you with," said Anna +Pavlovna, looking up pensively. + +"I am your faithful slave and to you alone I can confess that my +children are the bane of my life. It is the cross I have to bear. That +is how I explain it to myself. It can't be helped!" + +He said no more, but expressed his resignation to cruel fate by a +gesture. Anna Pavlovna meditated. + +"Have you never thought of marrying your prodigal son Anatole?" she +asked. "They say old maids have a mania for matchmaking, and though I +don't feel that weakness in myself as yet, I know a little person who +is very unhappy with her father. She is a relation of yours, Princess +Mary Bolkonskaya." + +Prince Vasili did not reply, though, with the quickness of memory and +perception befitting a man of the world, he indicated by a movement of +the head that he was considering this information. + +"Do you know," he said at last, evidently unable to check the sad +current of his thoughts, "that Anatole is costing me forty thousand +rubles a year? And," he went on after a pause, "what will it be in +five years, if he goes on like this?" Presently he added: "That's +what we fathers have to put up with.... Is this princess of yours +rich?" + +"Her father is very rich and stingy. He lives in the country. He is +the well-known Prince Bolkonski who had to retire from the army under +the late Emperor, and was nicknamed 'the King of Prussia.' He is +very clever but eccentric, and a bore. The poor girl is very unhappy. +She has a brother; I think you know him, he married Lise Meinen lately. +He is an aide-de-camp of Kutuzov's and will be here tonight." + +"Listen, dear Annette," said the prince, suddenly taking Anna +Pavlovna's hand and for some reason drawing it downwards. "Arrange +that affair for me and I shall always be your most devoted slave-slafe +with an f, as a village elder of mine writes in his reports. She is rich +and of good family and that's all I want." + +And with the familiarity and easy grace peculiar to him, he raised the +maid of honor's hand to his lips, kissed it, and swung it to and fro +as he lay back in his armchair, looking in another direction. + +"Attendez," said Anna Pavlovna, reflecting, "I'll speak to +Lise, young Bolkonski's wife, this very evening, and perhaps the +thing can be arranged. It shall be on your family's behalf that I'll +start my apprenticeship as old maid." + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +Anna Pavlovna's drawing room was gradually filling. The highest +Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age +and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. +Prince Vasili's daughter, the beautiful Helene, came to take her +father to the ambassador's entertainment; she wore a ball dress and +her badge as maid of honor. The youthful little Princess Bolkonskaya, +known as la femme la plus seduisante de Petersbourg, * was also there. +She had been married during the previous winter, and being pregnant did +not go to any large gatherings, but only to small receptions. Prince +Vasili's son, Hippolyte, had come with Mortemart, whom he introduced. +The Abbe Morio and many others had also come. + + * The most fascinating woman in Petersburg. + +To each new arrival Anna Pavlovna said, "You have not yet seen my +aunt," or "You do not know my aunt?" and very gravely conducted +him or her to a little old lady, wearing large bows of ribbon in her +cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests +began to arrive; and slowly turning her eyes from the visitor to her +aunt, Anna Pavlovna mentioned each one's name and then left them. + +Each visitor performed the ceremony of greeting this old aunt whom not +one of them knew, not one of them wanted to know, and not one of them +cared about; Anna Pavlovna observed these greetings with mournful and +solemn interest and silent approval. The aunt spoke to each of them in +the same words, about their health and her own, and the health of Her +Majesty, "who, thank God, was better today." And each visitor, +though politeness prevented his showing impatience, left the old woman +with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not +return to her the whole evening. + +The young Princess Bolkonskaya had brought some work in a +gold-embroidered velvet bag. Her pretty little upper lip, on which a +delicate dark down was just perceptible, was too short for her teeth, +but it lifted all the more sweetly, and was especially charming when she +occasionally drew it down to meet the lower lip. As is always the case +with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect--the shortness of her +upper lip and her half-open mouth--seemed to be her own special and +peculiar form of beauty. Everyone brightened at the sight of this pretty +young woman, so soon to become a mother, so full of life and health, and +carrying her burden so lightly. Old men and dull dispirited young ones +who looked at her, after being in her company and talking to her a +little while, felt as if they too were becoming, like her, full of life +and health. All who talked to her, and at each word saw her bright smile +and the constant gleam of her white teeth, thought that they were in a +specially amiable mood that day. + +The little princess went round the table with quick, short, swaying +steps, her workbag on her arm, and gaily spreading out her dress sat +down on a sofa near the silver samovar, as if all she was doing was a +pleasure to herself and to all around her. "I have brought my work," +said she in French, displaying her bag and addressing all present. +"Mind, Annette, I hope you have not played a wicked trick on me," +she added, turning to her hostess. "You wrote that it was to be quite +a small reception, and just see how badly I am dressed." And she +spread out her arms to show her short-waisted, lace-trimmed, dainty gray +dress, girdled with a broad ribbon just below the breast. + +"Soyez tranquille, Lise, you will always be prettier than anyone +else," replied Anna Pavlovna. + +"You know," said the princess in the same tone of voice and still in +French, turning to a general, "my husband is deserting me? He is going +to get himself killed. Tell me what this wretched war is for?" she +added, addressing Prince Vasili, and without waiting for an answer she +turned to speak to his daughter, the beautiful Helene. + +"What a delightful woman this little princess is!" said Prince +Vasili to Anna Pavlovna. + +One of the next arrivals was a stout, heavily built young man with +close-cropped hair, spectacles, the light-colored breeches fashionable +at that time, a very high ruffle, and a brown dress coat. This stout +young man was an illegitimate son of Count Bezukhov, a well-known +grandee of Catherine's time who now lay dying in Moscow. The young man +had not yet entered either the military or civil service, as he had only +just returned from abroad where he had been educated, and this was his +first appearance in society. Anna Pavlovna greeted him with the nod she +accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room. But in spite of +this lowest-grade greeting, a look of anxiety and fear, as at the sight +of something too large and unsuited to the place, came over her face +when she saw Pierre enter. Though he was certainly rather bigger than +the other men in the room, her anxiety could only have reference to +the clever though shy, but observant and natural, expression which +distinguished him from everyone else in that drawing room. + +"It is very good of you, Monsieur Pierre, to come and visit a poor +invalid," said Anna Pavlovna, exchanging an alarmed glance with her +aunt as she conducted him to her. + +Pierre murmured something unintelligible, and continued to look round as +if in search of something. On his way to the aunt he bowed to the little +princess with a pleased smile, as to an intimate acquaintance. + +Anna Pavlovna's alarm was justified, for Pierre turned away from the +aunt without waiting to hear her speech about Her Majesty's health. +Anna Pavlovna in dismay detained him with the words: "Do you know the +Abbe Morio? He is a most interesting man." + +"Yes, I have heard of his scheme for perpetual peace, and it is very +interesting but hardly feasible." + +"You think so?" rejoined Anna Pavlovna in order to say something +and get away to attend to her duties as hostess. But Pierre now +committed a reverse act of impoliteness. First he had left a lady before +she had finished speaking to him, and now he continued to speak to +another who wished to get away. With his head bent, and his big feet +spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbe's +plan chimerical. + +"We will talk of it later," said Anna Pavlovna with a smile. + +And having got rid of this young man who did not know how to behave, she +resumed her duties as hostess and continued to listen and watch, ready +to help at any point where the conversation might happen to flag. As +the foreman of a spinning mill, when he has set the hands to work, goes +round and notices here a spindle that has stopped or there one that +creaks or makes more noise than it should, and hastens to check the +machine or set it in proper motion, so Anna Pavlovna moved about her +drawing room, approaching now a silent, now a too-noisy group, and by a +word or slight rearrangement kept the conversational machine in steady, +proper, and regular motion. But amid these cares her anxiety about +Pierre was evident. She kept an anxious watch on him when he approached +the group round Mortemart to listen to what was being said there, and +again when he passed to another group whose center was the abbe. + +Pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception at Anna +Pavlovna's was the first he had attended in Russia. He knew that all +the intellectual lights of Petersburg were gathered there and, like a +child in a toyshop, did not know which way to look, afraid of missing +any clever conversation that was to be heard. Seeing the self-confident +and refined expression on the faces of those present he was always +expecting to hear something very profound. At last he came up to Morio. +Here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an +opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +Anna Pavlovna's reception was in full swing. The spindles hummed +steadily and ceaselessly on all sides. With the exception of the aunt, +beside whom sat only one elderly lady, who with her thin careworn face +was rather out of place in this brilliant society, the whole company had +settled into three groups. One, chiefly masculine, had formed round +the abbe. Another, of young people, was grouped round the beautiful +Princess Helene, Prince Vasili's daughter, and the little Princess +Bolkonskaya, very pretty and rosy, though rather too plump for her age. +The third group was gathered round Mortemart and Anna Pavlovna. + +The vicomte was a nice-looking young man with soft features and polished +manners, who evidently considered himself a celebrity but out of +politeness modestly placed himself at the disposal of the circle in +which he found himself. Anna Pavlovna was obviously serving him up as +a treat to her guests. As a clever maitre d'hotel serves up as a +specially choice delicacy a piece of meat that no one who had seen it in +the kitchen would have cared to eat, so Anna Pavlovna served up to +her guests, first the vicomte and then the abbe, as peculiarly choice +morsels. The group about Mortemart immediately began discussing the +murder of the Duc d'Enghien. The vicomte said that the Duc d'Enghien +had perished by his own magnanimity, and that there were particular +reasons for Buonaparte's hatred of him. + +"Ah, yes! Do tell us all about it, Vicomte," said Anna Pavlovna, +with a pleasant feeling that there was something a la Louis XV in the +sound of that sentence: "Contez nous cela, Vicomte." + +The vicomte bowed and smiled courteously in token of his willingness to +comply. Anna Pavlovna arranged a group round him, inviting everyone to +listen to his tale. + +"The vicomte knew the duc personally," whispered Anna Pavlovna to +one of the guests. "The vicomte is a wonderful raconteur," said she +to another. "How evidently he belongs to the best society," said she +to a third; and the vicomte was served up to the company in the choicest +and most advantageous style, like a well-garnished joint of roast beef +on a hot dish. + +The vicomte wished to begin his story and gave a subtle smile. + +"Come over here, Helene, dear," said Anna Pavlovna to the +beautiful young princess who was sitting some way off, the center of +another group. + +The princess smiled. She rose with the same unchanging smile with which +she had first entered the room--the smile of a perfectly beautiful +woman. With a slight rustle of her white dress trimmed with moss +and ivy, with a gleam of white shoulders, glossy hair, and sparkling +diamonds, she passed between the men who made way for her, not looking +at any of them but smiling on all, as if graciously allowing each the +privilege of admiring her beautiful figure and shapely shoulders, +back, and bosom--which in the fashion of those days were very much +exposed--and she seemed to bring the glamour of a ballroom with her as +she moved toward Anna Pavlovna. Helene was so lovely that not only +did she not show any trace of coquetry, but on the contrary she even +appeared shy of her unquestionable and all too victorious beauty. She +seemed to wish, but to be unable, to diminish its effect. + +"How lovely!" said everyone who saw her; and the vicomte lifted his +shoulders and dropped his eyes as if startled by something extraordinary +when she took her seat opposite and beamed upon him also with her +unchanging smile. + +"Madame, I doubt my ability before such an audience," said he, +smilingly inclining his head. + +The princess rested her bare round arm on a little table and considered +a reply unnecessary. She smilingly waited. All the time the story was +being told she sat upright, glancing now at her beautiful round arm, +altered in shape by its pressure on the table, now at her still more +beautiful bosom, on which she readjusted a diamond necklace. From time +to time she smoothed the folds of her dress, and whenever the story +produced an effect she glanced at Anna Pavlovna, at once adopted just +the expression she saw on the maid of honor's face, and again relapsed +into her radiant smile. + +The little princess had also left the tea table and followed Helene. + +"Wait a moment, I'll get my work.... Now then, what are you +thinking of?" she went on, turning to Prince Hippolyte. "Fetch me my +workbag." + +There was a general movement as the princess, smiling and talking +merrily to everyone at once, sat down and gaily arranged herself in her +seat. + +"Now I am all right," she said, and asking the vicomte to begin, she +took up her work. + +Prince Hippolyte, having brought the workbag, joined the circle and +moving a chair close to hers seated himself beside her. + +Le charmant Hippolyte was surprising by his extraordinary resemblance +to his beautiful sister, but yet more by the fact that in spite of +this resemblance he was exceedingly ugly. His features were like his +sister's, but while in her case everything was lit up by a joyous, +self-satisfied, youthful, and constant smile of animation, and by the +wonderful classic beauty of her figure, his face on the contrary +was dulled by imbecility and a constant expression of sullen +self-confidence, while his body was thin and weak. His eyes, nose, and +mouth all seemed puckered into a vacant, wearied grimace, and his arms +and legs always fell into unnatural positions. + +"It's not going to be a ghost story?" said he, sitting down beside +the princess and hastily adjusting his lorgnette, as if without this +instrument he could not begin to speak. + +"Why no, my dear fellow," said the astonished narrator, shrugging +his shoulders. + +"Because I hate ghost stories," said Prince Hippolyte in a tone +which showed that he only understood the meaning of his words after he +had uttered them. + +He spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure +whether what he said was very witty or very stupid. He was dressed in +a dark-green dress coat, knee breeches of the color of cuisse de nymphe +effrayee, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings. + +The vicomte told his tale very neatly. It was an anecdote, then current, +to the effect that the Duc d'Enghien had gone secretly to Paris to +visit Mademoiselle George; that at her house he came upon Bonaparte, +who also enjoyed the famous actress' favors, and that in his presence +Napoleon happened to fall into one of the fainting fits to which he was +subject, and was thus at the duc's mercy. The latter spared him, and +this magnanimity Bonaparte subsequently repaid by death. + +The story was very pretty and interesting, especially at the point +where the rivals suddenly recognized one another; and the ladies looked +agitated. + +"Charming!" said Anna Pavlovna with an inquiring glance at the +little princess. + +"Charming!" whispered the little princess, sticking the needle into +her work as if to testify that the interest and fascination of the story +prevented her from going on with it. + +The vicomte appreciated this silent praise and smiling gratefully +prepared to continue, but just then Anna Pavlovna, who had kept a +watchful eye on the young man who so alarmed her, noticed that he was +talking too loudly and vehemently with the abbe, so she hurried to the +rescue. Pierre had managed to start a conversation with the abbe about +the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young +man's simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory. Both +were talking and listening too eagerly and too naturally, which was why +Anna Pavlovna disapproved. + +"The means are ... the balance of power in Europe and the rights of +the people," the abbe was saying. "It is only necessary for one +powerful nation like Russia--barbaric as she is said to be--to place +herself disinterestedly at the head of an alliance having for its object +the maintenance of the balance of power of Europe, and it would save the +world!" + +"But how are you to get that balance?" Pierre was beginning. + +At that moment Anna Pavlovna came up and, looking severely at Pierre, +asked the Italian how he stood Russian climate. The Italian's +face instantly changed and assumed an offensively affected, sugary +expression, evidently habitual to him when conversing with women. + +"I am so enchanted by the brilliancy of the wit and culture of the +society, more especially of the feminine society, in which I have had +the honor of being received, that I have not yet had time to think of +the climate," said he. + +Not letting the abbe and Pierre escape, Anna Pavlovna, the more +conveniently to keep them under observation, brought them into the +larger circle. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +Just then another visitor entered the drawing room: Prince Andrew +Bolkonski, the little princess' husband. He was a very handsome young +man, of medium height, with firm, clearcut features. Everything about +him, from his weary, bored expression to his quiet, measured step, +offered a most striking contrast to his quiet, little wife. It was +evident that he not only knew everyone in the drawing room, but had +found them to be so tiresome that it wearied him to look at or listen to +them. And among all these faces that he found so tedious, none seemed +to bore him so much as that of his pretty wife. He turned away from +her with a grimace that distorted his handsome face, kissed Anna +Pavlovna's hand, and screwing up his eyes scanned the whole company. + +"You are off to the war, Prince?" said Anna Pavlovna. + +"General Kutuzov," said Bolkonski, speaking French and stressing +the last syllable of the general's name like a Frenchman, "has been +pleased to take me as an aide-de-camp...." + +"And Lise, your wife?" + +"She will go to the country." + +"Are you not ashamed to deprive us of your charming wife?" + +"Andre," said his wife, addressing her husband in the same +coquettish manner in which she spoke to other men, "the vicomte has +been telling us such a tale about Mademoiselle George and Buonaparte!" + +Prince Andrew screwed up his eyes and turned away. Pierre, who from +the moment Prince Andrew entered the room had watched him with glad, +affectionate eyes, now came up and took his arm. Before he looked round +Prince Andrew frowned again, expressing his annoyance with whoever was +touching his arm, but when he saw Pierre's beaming face he gave him an +unexpectedly kind and pleasant smile. + +"There now!... So you, too, are in the great world?" said he to +Pierre. + +"I knew you would be here," replied Pierre. "I will come to supper +with you. May I?" he added in a low voice so as not to disturb the +vicomte who was continuing his story. + +"No, impossible!" said Prince Andrew, laughing and pressing +Pierre's hand to show that there was no need to ask the question. He +wished to say something more, but at that moment Prince Vasili and his +daughter got up to go and the two young men rose to let them pass. + +"You must excuse me, dear Vicomte," said Prince Vasili to the +Frenchman, holding him down by the sleeve in a friendly way to prevent +his rising. "This unfortunate fete at the ambassador's deprives me +of a pleasure, and obliges me to interrupt you. I am very sorry to leave +your enchanting party," said he, turning to Anna Pavlovna. + +His daughter, Princess Helene, passed between the chairs, lightly +holding up the folds of her dress, and the smile shone still more +radiantly on her beautiful face. Pierre gazed at her with rapturous, +almost frightened, eyes as she passed him. + +"Very lovely," said Prince Andrew. + +"Very," said Pierre. + +In passing Prince Vasili seized Pierre's hand and said to Anna +Pavlovna: "Educate this bear for me! He has been staying with me +a whole month and this is the first time I have seen him in society. +Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever +women." + + +Anna Pavlovna smiled and promised to take Pierre in hand. She knew his +father to be a connection of Prince Vasili's. The elderly lady who +had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook Prince +Vasili in the anteroom. All the affectation of interest she had assumed +had left her kindly and tear-worn face and it now expressed only anxiety +and fear. + +"How about my son Boris, Prince?" said she, hurrying after him into +the anteroom. "I can't remain any longer in Petersburg. Tell me what +news I may take back to my poor boy." + +Although Prince Vasili listened reluctantly and not very politely +to the elderly lady, even betraying some impatience, she gave him an +ingratiating and appealing smile, and took his hand that he might not go +away. + +"What would it cost you to say a word to the Emperor, and then he +would be transferred to the Guards at once?" said she. + +"Believe me, Princess, I am ready to do all I can," answered Prince +Vasili, "but it is difficult for me to ask the Emperor. I should +advise you to appeal to Rumyantsev through Prince Golitsyn. That would +be the best way." + +The elderly lady was a Princess Drubetskaya, belonging to one of the +best families in Russia, but she was poor, and having long been out of +society had lost her former influential connections. She had now come to +Petersburg to procure an appointment in the Guards for her only son. +It was, in fact, solely to meet Prince Vasili that she had obtained an +invitation to Anna Pavlovna's reception and had sat listening to +the vicomte's story. Prince Vasili's words frightened her, an +embittered look clouded her once handsome face, but only for a moment; +then she smiled again and clutched Prince Vasili's arm more tightly. + +"Listen to me, Prince," said she. "I have never yet asked you +for anything and I never will again, nor have I ever reminded you of my +father's friendship for you; but now I entreat you for God's sake to +do this for my son--and I shall always regard you as a benefactor," +she added hurriedly. "No, don't be angry, but promise! I have asked +Golitsyn and he has refused. Be the kindhearted man you always were," +she said, trying to smile though tears were in her eyes. + +"Papa, we shall be late," said Princess Helene, turning her +beautiful head and looking over her classically molded shoulder as she +stood waiting by the door. + +Influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized +if it is to last. Prince Vasili knew this, and having once realized +that if he asked on behalf of all who begged of him, he would soon be +unable to ask for himself, he became chary of using his influence. But +in Princess Drubetskaya's case he felt, after her second appeal, +something like qualms of conscience. She had reminded him of what was +quite true; he had been indebted to her father for the first steps in +his career. Moreover, he could see by her manners that she was one of +those women--mostly mothers--who, having once made up their minds, +will not rest until they have gained their end, and are prepared if +necessary to go on insisting day after day and hour after hour, and even +to make scenes. This last consideration moved him. + +"My dear Anna Mikhaylovna," said he with his usual familiarity and +weariness of tone, "it is almost impossible for me to do what you +ask; but to prove my devotion to you and how I respect your father's +memory, I will do the impossible--your son shall be transferred to the +Guards. Here is my hand on it. Are you satisfied?" + +"My dear benefactor! This is what I expected from you--I knew your +kindness!" He turned to go. + +"Wait--just a word! When he has been transferred to the Guards..." +she faltered. "You are on good terms with Michael Ilarionovich +Kutuzov ... recommend Boris to him as adjutant! Then I shall be at +rest, and then..." + +Prince Vasili smiled. + +"No, I won't promise that. You don't know how Kutuzov is pestered +since his appointment as Commander in Chief. He told me himself that +all the Moscow ladies have conspired to give him all their sons as +adjutants." + +"No, but do promise! I won't let you go! My dear benefactor..." + +"Papa," said his beautiful daughter in the same tone as before, +"we shall be late." + +"Well, au revoir! Good-by! You hear her?" + +"Then tomorrow you will speak to the Emperor?" + +"Certainly; but about Kutuzov, I don't promise." + +"Do promise, do promise, Vasili!" cried Anna Mikhaylovna as he +went, with the smile of a coquettish girl, which at one time probably +came naturally to her, but was now very ill-suited to her careworn face. + +Apparently she had forgotten her age and by force of habit employed +all the old feminine arts. But as soon as the prince had gone her face +resumed its former cold, artificial expression. She returned to the +group where the vicomte was still talking, and again pretended to +listen, while waiting till it would be time to leave. Her task was +accomplished. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +"And what do you think of this latest comedy, the coronation at +Milan?" asked Anna Pavlovna, "and of the comedy of the people of +Genoa and Lucca laying their petitions before Monsieur Buonaparte, and +Monsieur Buonaparte sitting on a throne and granting the petitions of +the nations? Adorable! It is enough to make one's head whirl! It is as +if the whole world had gone crazy." + +Prince Andrew looked Anna Pavlovna straight in the face with a +sarcastic smile. + +"'Dieu me la donne, gare a qui la touche!'' * They say he was +very fine when he said that," he remarked, repeating the words in +Italian: "'Dio mi l'ha dato. Guai a chi la tocchi!'' + + * God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware! + +"I hope this will prove the last drop that will make the glass run +over," Anna Pavlovna continued. "The sovereigns will not be able to +endure this man who is a menace to everything." + +"The sovereigns? I do not speak of Russia," said the vicomte, polite +but hopeless: "The sovereigns, madame... What have they done for Louis +XVII, for the Queen, or for Madame Elizabeth? Nothing!" and he became +more animated. "And believe me, they are reaping the reward of their +betrayal of the Bourbon cause. The sovereigns! Why, they are sending +ambassadors to compliment the usurper." + +And sighing disdainfully, he again changed his position. + +Prince Hippolyte, who had been gazing at the vicomte for some time +through his lorgnette, suddenly turned completely round toward the +little princess, and having asked for a needle began tracing the Conde +coat of arms on the table. He explained this to her with as much gravity +as if she had asked him to do it. + +"Baton de gueules, engrele de gueules d'azur--maison Conde," +said he. + +The princess listened, smiling. + +"If Buonaparte remains on the throne of France a year longer," the +vicomte continued, with the air of a man who, in a matter with which +he is better acquainted than anyone else, does not listen to others but +follows the current of his own thoughts, "things will have gone too +far. By intrigues, violence, exile, and executions, French society--I +mean good French society--will have been forever destroyed, and +then...." + +He shrugged his shoulders and spread out his hands. Pierre wished to +make a remark, for the conversation interested him, but Anna Pavlovna, +who had him under observation, interrupted: + +"The Emperor Alexander," said she, with the melancholy which +always accompanied any reference of hers to the Imperial family, "has +declared that he will leave it to the French people themselves to choose +their own form of government; and I believe that once free from the +usurper, the whole nation will certainly throw itself into the arms +of its rightful king," she concluded, trying to be amiable to the +royalist emigrant. + +"That is doubtful," said Prince Andrew. "Monsieur le Vicomte quite +rightly supposes that matters have already gone too far. I think it will +be difficult to return to the old regime." + +"From what I have heard," said Pierre, blushing and breaking into +the conversation, "almost all the aristocracy has already gone over to +Bonaparte's side." + +"It is the Buonapartists who say that," replied the vicomte without +looking at Pierre. "At the present time it is difficult to know the +real state of French public opinion." + +"Bonaparte has said so," remarked Prince Andrew with a sarcastic +smile. + +It was evident that he did not like the vicomte and was aiming his +remarks at him, though without looking at him. + +"'I showed them the path to glory, but they did not follow +it,'" Prince Andrew continued after a short silence, again quoting +Napoleon's words. "'I opened my antechambers and they crowded +in.' I do not know how far he was justified in saying so." + +"Not in the least," replied the vicomte. "After the murder of the +duc even the most partial ceased to regard him as a hero. If to some +people," he went on, turning to Anna Pavlovna, "he ever was a hero, +after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one +hero less on earth." + +Before Anna Pavlovna and the others had time to smile their +appreciation of the vicomte's epigram, Pierre again broke into the +conversation, and though Anna Pavlovna felt sure he would say something +inappropriate, she was unable to stop him. + +"The execution of the Duc d'Enghien," declared Monsieur Pierre, +"was a political necessity, and it seems to me that Napoleon +showed greatness of soul by not fearing to take on himself the whole +responsibility of that deed." + +"Dieu! Mon Dieu!" muttered Anna Pavlovna in a terrified whisper. + +"What, Monsieur Pierre... Do you consider that assassination shows +greatness of soul?" said the little princess, smiling and drawing her +work nearer to her. + +"Oh! Oh!" exclaimed several voices. + +"Capital!" said Prince Hippolyte in English, and began slapping his +knee with the palm of his hand. + +The vicomte merely shrugged his shoulders. Pierre looked solemnly at his +audience over his spectacles and continued. + +"I say so," he continued desperately, "because the Bourbons fled +from the Revolution leaving the people to anarchy, and Napoleon alone +understood the Revolution and quelled it, and so for the general good, +he could not stop short for the sake of one man's life." + +"Won't you come over to the other table?" suggested Anna +Pavlovna. + +But Pierre continued his speech without heeding her. + +"No," cried he, becoming more and more eager, "Napoleon is great +because he rose superior to the Revolution, suppressed its abuses, +preserved all that was good in it--equality of citizenship and freedom +of speech and of the press--and only for that reason did he obtain +power." + +"Yes, if having obtained power, without availing himself of it to +commit murder he had restored it to the rightful king, I should have +called him a great man," remarked the vicomte. + +"He could not do that. The people only gave him power that he might +rid them of the Bourbons and because they saw that he was a great +man. The Revolution was a grand thing!" continued Monsieur Pierre, +betraying by this desperate and provocative proposition his extreme +youth and his wish to express all that was in his mind. + +"What? Revolution and regicide a grand thing?... Well, after that... +But won't you come to this other table?" repeated Anna Pavlovna. + +"Rousseau's Contrat Social," said the vicomte with a tolerant +smile. + +"I am not speaking of regicide, I am speaking about ideas." + +"Yes: ideas of robbery, murder, and regicide," again interjected an +ironical voice. + +"Those were extremes, no doubt, but they are not what is most +important. What is important are the rights of man, emancipation from +prejudices, and equality of citizenship, and all these ideas Napoleon +has retained in full force." + +"Liberty and equality," said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at +last deciding seriously to prove to this youth how foolish his words +were, "high-sounding words which have long been discredited. Who does +not love liberty and equality? Even our Saviour preached liberty and +equality. Have people since the Revolution become happier? On the +contrary. We wanted liberty, but Buonaparte has destroyed it." + +Prince Andrew kept looking with an amused smile from Pierre to the +vicomte and from the vicomte to their hostess. In the first moment of +Pierre's outburst Anna Pavlovna, despite her social experience, was +horror-struck. But when she saw that Pierre's sacrilegious words +had not exasperated the vicomte, and had convinced herself that it was +impossible to stop him, she rallied her forces and joined the vicomte in +a vigorous attack on the orator. + +"But, my dear Monsieur Pierre," said she, "how do you explain the +fact of a great man executing a duc--or even an ordinary man who--is +innocent and untried?" + +"I should like," said the vicomte, "to ask how monsieur explains +the 18th Brumaire; was not that an imposture? It was a swindle, and not +at all like the conduct of a great man!" + +"And the prisoners he killed in Africa? That was horrible!" said the +little princess, shrugging her shoulders. + +"He's a low fellow, say what you will," remarked Prince Hippolyte. + +Pierre, not knowing whom to answer, looked at them all and smiled. His +smile was unlike the half-smile of other people. When he smiled, +his grave, even rather gloomy, look was instantaneously replaced by +another--a childlike, kindly, even rather silly look, which seemed to +ask forgiveness. + +The vicomte who was meeting him for the first time saw clearly that +this young Jacobin was not so terrible as his words suggested. All were +silent. + +"How do you expect him to answer you all at once?" said Prince +Andrew. "Besides, in the actions of a statesman one has to distinguish +between his acts as a private person, as a general, and as an emperor. +So it seems to me." + +"Yes, yes, of course!" Pierre chimed in, pleased at the arrival of +this reinforcement. + +"One must admit," continued Prince Andrew, "that Napoleon as a man +was great on the bridge of Arcola, and in the hospital at Jaffa where he +gave his hand to the plague-stricken; but ... but there are other acts +which it is difficult to justify." + +Prince Andrew, who had evidently wished to tone down the awkwardness of +Pierre's remarks, rose and made a sign to his wife that it was time to +go. + +Suddenly Prince Hippolyte started up making signs to everyone to attend, +and asking them all to be seated began: + +"I was told a charming Moscow story today and must treat you to it. +Excuse me, Vicomte--I must tell it in Russian or the point will be +lost...." And Prince Hippolyte began to tell his story in such Russian +as a Frenchman would speak after spending about a year in Russia. +Everyone waited, so emphatically and eagerly did he demand their +attention to his story. + +"There is in Moscow a lady, une dame, and she is very stingy. She must +have two footmen behind her carriage, and very big ones. That was her +taste. And she had a lady's maid, also big. She said...." + +Here Prince Hippolyte paused, evidently collecting his ideas with +difficulty. + +"She said.... Oh yes! She said, 'Girl,' to the maid, 'put on a +livery, get up behind the carriage, and come with me while I make some +calls.'" + +Here Prince Hippolyte spluttered and burst out laughing long before his +audience, which produced an effect unfavorable to the narrator. Several +persons, among them the elderly lady and Anna Pavlovna, did however +smile. + +"She went. Suddenly there was a great wind. The girl lost her hat and +her long hair came down...." Here he could contain himself no +longer and went on, between gasps of laughter: "And the whole world +knew...." + +And so the anecdote ended. Though it was unintelligible why he had told +it, or why it had to be told in Russian, still Anna Pavlovna and the +others appreciated Prince Hippolyte's social tact in so agreeably +ending Pierre's unpleasant and unamiable outburst. After the anecdote +the conversation broke up into insignificant small talk about the last +and next balls, about theatricals, and who would meet whom, and when and +where. + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +Having thanked Anna Pavlovna for her charming soiree, the guests began +to take their leave. + +Pierre was ungainly. Stout, about the average height, broad, with huge +red hands; he did not know, as the saying is, how to enter a drawing +room and still less how to leave one; that is, how to say something +particularly agreeable before going away. Besides this he was +absent-minded. When he rose to go, he took up instead of his own, the +general's three-cornered hat, and held it, pulling at the plume, +till the general asked him to restore it. All his absent-mindedness and +inability to enter a room and converse in it was, however, redeemed by +his kindly, simple, and modest expression. Anna Pavlovna turned toward +him and, with a Christian mildness that expressed forgiveness of his +indiscretion, nodded and said: "I hope to see you again, but I also +hope you will change your opinions, my dear Monsieur Pierre." + +When she said this, he did not reply and only bowed, but again everybody +saw his smile, which said nothing, unless perhaps, "Opinions are +opinions, but you see what a capital, good-natured fellow I am." And +everyone, including Anna Pavlovna, felt this. + +Prince Andrew had gone out into the hall, and, turning his shoulders +to the footman who was helping him on with his cloak, listened +indifferently to his wife's chatter with Prince Hippolyte who had also +come into the hall. Prince Hippolyte stood close to the pretty, pregnant +princess, and stared fixedly at her through his eyeglass. + +"Go in, Annette, or you will catch cold," said the little princess, +taking leave of Anna Pavlovna. "It is settled," she added in a low +voice. + +Anna Pavlovna had already managed to speak to Lise about the match she +contemplated between Anatole and the little princess' sister-in-law. + +"I rely on you, my dear," said Anna Pavlovna, also in a low tone. +"Write to her and let me know how her father looks at the matter. Au +revoir! "--and she left the hall. + +Prince Hippolyte approached the little princess and, bending his face +close to her, began to whisper something. + +Two footmen, the princess' and his own, stood holding a shawl and +a cloak, waiting for the conversation to finish. They listened to +the French sentences which to them were meaningless, with an air of +understanding but not wishing to appear to do so. The princess as usual +spoke smilingly and listened with a laugh. + +"I am very glad I did not go to the ambassador's," said Prince +Hippolyte "--so dull--. It has been a delightful evening, has it +not? Delightful!" + +"They say the ball will be very good," replied the princess, drawing +up her downy little lip. "All the pretty women in society will be +there." + +"Not all, for you will not be there; not all," said Prince Hippolyte +smiling joyfully; and snatching the shawl from the footman, whom he +even pushed aside, he began wrapping it round the princess. Either from +awkwardness or intentionally (no one could have said which) after the +shawl had been adjusted he kept his arm around her for a long time, as +though embracing her. + +Still smiling, she gracefully moved away, turning and glancing at her +husband. Prince Andrew's eyes were closed, so weary and sleepy did he +seem. + +"Are you ready?" he asked his wife, looking past her. + +Prince Hippolyte hurriedly put on his cloak, which in the latest fashion +reached to his very heels, and, stumbling in it, ran out into the porch +following the princess, whom a footman was helping into the carriage. + +"Princesse, au revoir," cried he, stumbling with his tongue as well +as with his feet. + +The princess, picking up her dress, was taking her seat in the dark +carriage, her husband was adjusting his saber; Prince Hippolyte, under +pretense of helping, was in everyone's way. + +"Allow me, sir," said Prince Andrew in Russian in a cold, +disagreeable tone to Prince Hippolyte who was blocking his path. + +"I am expecting you, Pierre," said the same voice, but gently and +affectionately. + +The postilion started, the carriage wheels rattled. Prince Hippolyte +laughed spasmodically as he stood in the porch waiting for the vicomte +whom he had promised to take home. + +"Well, mon cher," said the vicomte, having seated himself beside +Hippolyte in the carriage, "your little princess is very nice, very +nice indeed, quite French," and he kissed the tips of his fingers. +Hippolyte burst out laughing. + +"Do you know, you are a terrible chap for all your innocent airs," +continued the vicomte. "I pity the poor husband, that little officer +who gives himself the airs of a monarch." + +Hippolyte spluttered again, and amid his laughter said, "And you were +saying that the Russian ladies are not equal to the French? One has to +know how to deal with them." + +Pierre reaching the house first went into Prince Andrew's study like +one quite at home, and from habit immediately lay down on the sofa, took +from the shelf the first book that came to his hand (it was Caesar's +Commentaries), and resting on his elbow, began reading it in the middle. + +"What have you done to Mlle Scherer? She will be quite ill now," +said Prince Andrew, as he entered the study, rubbing his small white +hands. + +Pierre turned his whole body, making the sofa creak. He lifted his eager +face to Prince Andrew, smiled, and waved his hand. + +"That abbe is very interesting but he does not see the thing in the +right light.... In my opinion perpetual peace is possible but--I do not +know how to express it ... not by a balance of political power...." + +It was evident that Prince Andrew was not interested in such abstract +conversation. + +"One can't everywhere say all one thinks, mon cher. Well, have +you at last decided on anything? Are you going to be a guardsman or a +diplomatist?" asked Prince Andrew after a momentary silence. + +Pierre sat up on the sofa, with his legs tucked under him. + +"Really, I don't yet know. I don't like either the one or the +other." + +"But you must decide on something! Your father expects it." + +Pierre at the age of ten had been sent abroad with an abbe as tutor, +and had remained away till he was twenty. When he returned to Moscow +his father dismissed the abbe and said to the young man, "Now go +to Petersburg, look round, and choose your profession. I will agree to +anything. Here is a letter to Prince Vasili, and here is money. Write +to me all about it, and I will help you in everything." Pierre had +already been choosing a career for three months, and had not decided +on anything. It was about this choice that Prince Andrew was speaking. +Pierre rubbed his forehead. + +"But he must be a Freemason," said he, referring to the abbe whom +he had met that evening. + +"That is all nonsense." Prince Andrew again interrupted him, "let +us talk business. Have you been to the Horse Guards?" + +"No, I have not; but this is what I have been thinking and wanted +to tell you. There is a war now against Napoleon. If it were a war for +freedom I could understand it and should be the first to enter the army; +but to help England and Austria against the greatest man in the world is +not right." + +Prince Andrew only shrugged his shoulders at Pierre's childish words. +He put on the air of one who finds it impossible to reply to such +nonsense, but it would in fact have been difficult to give any other +answer than the one Prince Andrew gave to this naive question. + +"If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no +wars," he said. + +"And that would be splendid," said Pierre. + +Prince Andrew smiled ironically. + +"Very likely it would be splendid, but it will never come about...." + +"Well, why are you going to the war?" asked Pierre. + +"What for? I don't know. I must. Besides that I am going...." He +paused. "I am going because the life I am leading here does not suit +me!" + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +The rustle of a woman's dress was heard in the next room. Prince +Andrew shook himself as if waking up, and his face assumed the look it +had had in Anna Pavlovna's drawing room. Pierre removed his feet from +the sofa. The princess came in. She had changed her gown for a house +dress as fresh and elegant as the other. Prince Andrew rose and politely +placed a chair for her. + +"How is it," she began, as usual in French, settling down briskly +and fussily in the easy chair, "how is it Annette never got married? +How stupid you men all are not to have married her! Excuse me for saying +so, but you have no sense about women. What an argumentative fellow you +are, Monsieur Pierre!" + +"And I am still arguing with your husband. I can't understand why he +wants to go to the war," replied Pierre, addressing the princess +with none of the embarrassment so commonly shown by young men in their +intercourse with young women. + +The princess started. Evidently Pierre's words touched her to the +quick. + +"Ah, that is just what I tell him!" said she. "I don't +understand it; I don't in the least understand why men can't live +without wars. How is it that we women don't want anything of the kind, +don't need it? Now you shall judge between us. I always tell him: Here +he is Uncle's aide-de-camp, a most brilliant position. He is so +well known, so much appreciated by everyone. The other day at the +Apraksins' I heard a lady asking, 'Is that the famous Prince +Andrew?' I did indeed." She laughed. "He is so well received +everywhere. He might easily become aide-de-camp to the Emperor. You know +the Emperor spoke to him most graciously. Annette and I were speaking of +how to arrange it. What do you think?" + +Pierre looked at his friend and, noticing that he did not like the +conversation, gave no reply. + +"When are you starting?" he asked. + +"Oh, don't speak of his going, don't! I won't hear it spoken +of," said the princess in the same petulantly playful tone in which +she had spoken to Hippolyte in the drawing room and which was so plainly +ill-suited to the family circle of which Pierre was almost a member. +"Today when I remembered that all these delightful associations +must be broken off ... and then you know, Andre..." (she looked +significantly at her husband) "I'm afraid, I'm afraid!" she +whispered, and a shudder ran down her back. + +Her husband looked at her as if surprised to notice that someone besides +Pierre and himself was in the room, and addressed her in a tone of +frigid politeness. + +"What is it you are afraid of, Lise? I don't understand," said he. + +"There, what egotists men all are: all, all egotists! Just for a whim +of his own, goodness only knows why, he leaves me and locks me up alone +in the country." + +"With my father and sister, remember," said Prince Andrew gently. + +"Alone all the same, without my friends.... And he expects me not to +be afraid." + +Her tone was now querulous and her lip drawn up, giving her not a +joyful, but an animal, squirrel-like expression. She paused as if she +felt it indecorous to speak of her pregnancy before Pierre, though the +gist of the matter lay in that. + +"I still can't understand what you are afraid of," said Prince +Andrew slowly, not taking his eyes off his wife. + +The princess blushed, and raised her arms with a gesture of despair. + +"No, Andrew, I must say you have changed. Oh, how you have...." + +"Your doctor tells you to go to bed earlier," said Prince Andrew. +"You had better go." + +The princess said nothing, but suddenly her short downy lip quivered. +Prince Andrew rose, shrugged his shoulders, and walked about the room. + +Pierre looked over his spectacles with naive surprise, now at him and +now at her, moved as if about to rise too, but changed his mind. + +"Why should I mind Monsieur Pierre being here?" exclaimed the little +princess suddenly, her pretty face all at once distorted by a tearful +grimace. "I have long wanted to ask you, Andrew, why you have changed +so to me? What have I done to you? You are going to the war and have no +pity for me. Why is it?" + +"Lise!" was all Prince Andrew said. But that one word expressed +an entreaty, a threat, and above all conviction that she would herself +regret her words. But she went on hurriedly: + +"You treat me like an invalid or a child. I see it all! Did you behave +like that six months ago?" + +"Lise, I beg you to desist," said Prince Andrew still more +emphatically. + +Pierre, who had been growing more and more agitated as he listened to +all this, rose and approached the princess. He seemed unable to bear the +sight of tears and was ready to cry himself. + +"Calm yourself, Princess! It seems so to you because.... I assure you +I myself have experienced ... and so ... because ... No, excuse me! +An outsider is out of place here.... No, don't distress yourself.... +Good-by!" + +Prince Andrew caught him by the hand. + +"No, wait, Pierre! The princess is too kind to wish to deprive me of +the pleasure of spending the evening with you." + +"No, he thinks only of himself," muttered the princess without +restraining her angry tears. + +"Lise!" said Prince Andrew dryly, raising his voice to the pitch +which indicates that patience is exhausted. + +Suddenly the angry, squirrel-like expression of the princess' pretty +face changed into a winning and piteous look of fear. Her beautiful eyes +glanced askance at her husband's face, and her own assumed the timid, +deprecating expression of a dog when it rapidly but feebly wags its +drooping tail. + +"Mon Dieu, mon Dieu!" she muttered, and lifting her dress with one +hand she went up to her husband and kissed him on the forehead. + +"Good night, Lise," said he, rising and courteously kissing her hand +as he would have done to a stranger. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +The friends were silent. Neither cared to begin talking. Pierre +continually glanced at Prince Andrew; Prince Andrew rubbed his forehead +with his small hand. + +"Let us go and have supper," he said with a sigh, going to the door. + +They entered the elegant, newly decorated, and luxurious dining room. +Everything from the table napkins to the silver, china, and glass bore +that imprint of newness found in the households of the newly married. +Halfway through supper Prince Andrew leaned his elbows on the table and, +with a look of nervous agitation such as Pierre had never before seen on +his face, began to talk--as one who has long had something on his mind +and suddenly determines to speak out. + +"Never, never marry, my dear fellow! That's my advice: never marry +till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are capable of, +and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen +her plainly as she is, or else you will make a cruel and irrevocable +mistake. Marry when you are old and good for nothing--or all that is +good and noble in you will be lost. It will all be wasted on trifles. +Yes! Yes! Yes! Don't look at me with such surprise. If you marry +expecting anything from yourself in the future, you will feel at every +step that for you all is ended, all is closed except the drawing +room, where you will be ranged side by side with a court lackey and an +idiot!... But what's the good?..." and he waved his arm. + +Pierre took off his spectacles, which made his face seem different and +the good-natured expression still more apparent, and gazed at his friend +in amazement. + +"My wife," continued Prince Andrew, "is an excellent woman, one +of those rare women with whom a man's honor is safe; but, O God, what +would I not give now to be unmarried! You are the first and only one to +whom I mention this, because I like you." + +As he said this Prince Andrew was less than ever like that Bolkonski +who had lolled in Anna Pavlovna's easy chairs and with half-closed +eyes had uttered French phrases between his teeth. Every muscle of his +thin face was now quivering with nervous excitement; his eyes, in which +the fire of life had seemed extinguished, now flashed with brilliant +light. It was evident that the more lifeless he seemed at ordinary +times, the more impassioned he became in these moments of almost morbid +irritation. + +"You don't understand why I say this," he continued, "but it is +the whole story of life. You talk of Bonaparte and his career," said +he (though Pierre had not mentioned Bonaparte), "but Bonaparte when +he worked went step by step toward his goal. He was free, he had nothing +but his aim to consider, and he reached it. But tie yourself up with +a woman and, like a chained convict, you lose all freedom! And all you +have of hope and strength merely weighs you down and torments you with +regret. Drawing rooms, gossip, balls, vanity, and triviality--these are +the enchanted circle I cannot escape from. I am now going to the war, +the greatest war there ever was, and I know nothing and am fit for +nothing. I am very amiable and have a caustic wit," continued Prince +Andrew, "and at Anna Pavlovna's they listen to me. And that stupid +set without whom my wife cannot exist, and those women.... If you only +knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is +right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything--that's what +women are when you see them in their true colors! When you meet them +in society it seems as if there were something in them, but there's +nothing, nothing, nothing! No, don't marry, my dear fellow; don't +marry!" concluded Prince Andrew. + +"It seems funny to me," said Pierre, "that you, you should +consider yourself incapable and your life a spoiled life. You have +everything before you, everything. And you...." + +He did not finish his sentence, but his tone showed how highly he +thought of his friend and how much he expected of him in the future. + +"How can he talk like that?" thought Pierre. He considered his +friend a model of perfection because Prince Andrew possessed in the +highest degree just the very qualities Pierre lacked, and which might +be best described as strength of will. Pierre was always astonished at +Prince Andrew's calm manner of treating everybody, his extraordinary +memory, his extensive reading (he had read everything, knew everything, +and had an opinion about everything), but above all at his capacity for +work and study. And if Pierre was often struck by Andrew's lack +of capacity for philosophical meditation (to which he himself was +particularly addicted), he regarded even this not as a defect but as a +sign of strength. + +Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise +and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels +that they may run smoothly. + +"My part is played out," said Prince Andrew. "What's the use of +talking about me? Let us talk about you," he added after a silence, +smiling at his reassuring thoughts. + +That smile was immediately reflected on Pierre's face. + +"But what is there to say about me?" said Pierre, his face relaxing +into a careless, merry smile. "What am I? An illegitimate son!" +He suddenly blushed crimson, and it was plain that he had made a great +effort to say this. "Without a name and without means... And it +really..." But he did not say what "it really" was. "For the +present I am free and am all right. Only I haven't the least idea what +I am to do; I wanted to consult you seriously." + +Prince Andrew looked kindly at him, yet his glance--friendly and +affectionate as it was--expressed a sense of his own superiority. + +"I am fond of you, especially as you are the one live man among our +whole set. Yes, you're all right! Choose what you will; it's all the +same. You'll be all right anywhere. But look here: give up visiting +those Kuragins and leading that sort of life. It suits you so +badly--all this debauchery, dissipation, and the rest of it!" + +"What would you have, my dear fellow?" answered Pierre, shrugging +his shoulders. "Women, my dear fellow; women!" + +"I don't understand it," replied Prince Andrew. "Women who are +comme il faut, that's a different matter; but the Kuragins' set of +women, 'women and wine' I don't understand!" + +Pierre was staying at Prince Vasili Kuragin's and sharing the +dissipated life of his son Anatole, the son whom they were planning to +reform by marrying him to Prince Andrew's sister. + +"Do you know?" said Pierre, as if suddenly struck by a happy +thought, "seriously, I have long been thinking of it.... Leading such +a life I can't decide or think properly about anything. One's head +aches, and one spends all one's money. He asked me for tonight, but I +won't go." + +"You give me your word of honor not to go?" + +"On my honor!" + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +It was past one o'clock when Pierre left his friend. It was a +cloudless, northern, summer night. Pierre took an open cab intending +to drive straight home. But the nearer he drew to the house the more he +felt the impossibility of going to sleep on such a night. It was light +enough to see a long way in the deserted street and it seemed more like +morning or evening than night. On the way Pierre remembered that Anatole +Kuragin was expecting the usual set for cards that evening, after which +there was generally a drinking bout, finishing with visits of a kind +Pierre was very fond of. + +"I should like to go to Kuragin's," thought he. + +But he immediately recalled his promise to Prince Andrew not to go +there. Then, as happens to people of weak character, he desired so +passionately once more to enjoy that dissipation he was so accustomed to +that he decided to go. The thought immediately occurred to him that his +promise to Prince Andrew was of no account, because before he gave it +he had already promised Prince Anatole to come to his gathering; +"besides," thought he, "all such 'words of honor' are +conventional things with no definite meaning, especially if +one considers that by tomorrow one may be dead, or something so +extraordinary may happen to one that honor and dishonor will be all the +same!" Pierre often indulged in reflections of this sort, nullifying +all his decisions and intentions. He went to Kuragin's. + +Reaching the large house near the Horse Guards' barracks, in which +Anatole lived, Pierre entered the lighted porch, ascended the stairs, +and went in at the open door. There was no one in the anteroom; empty +bottles, cloaks, and overshoes were lying about; there was a smell of +alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance. + +Cards and supper were over, but the visitors had not yet dispersed. +Pierre threw off his cloak and entered the first room, in which were the +remains of supper. A footman, thinking no one saw him, was drinking on +the sly what was left in the glasses. From the third room came sounds of +laughter, the shouting of familiar voices, the growling of a bear, and +general commotion. Some eight or nine young men were crowding anxiously +round an open window. Three others were romping with a young bear, one +pulling him by the chain and trying to set him at the others. + +"I bet a hundred on Stevens!" shouted one. + +"Mind, no holding on!" cried another. + +"I bet on Dolokhov!" cried a third. "Kuragin, you part our +hands." + +"There, leave Bruin alone; here's a bet on." + +"At one draught, or he loses!" shouted a fourth. + +"Jacob, bring a bottle!" shouted the host, a tall, handsome fellow +who stood in the midst of the group, without a coat, and with his fine +linen shirt unfastened in front. "Wait a bit, you fellows.... Here is +Petya! Good man!" cried he, addressing Pierre. + +Another voice, from a man of medium height with clear blue eyes, +particularly striking among all these drunken voices by its sober +ring, cried from the window: "Come here; part the bets!" This was +Dolokhov, an officer of the Semenov regiment, a notorious gambler and +duelist, who was living with Anatole. Pierre smiled, looking about him +merrily. + +"I don't understand. What's it all about?" + +"Wait a bit, he is not drunk yet! A bottle here," said Anatole, and +taking a glass from the table he went up to Pierre. + +"First of all you must drink!" + +Pierre drank one glass after another, looking from under his brows at +the tipsy guests who were again crowding round the window, and listening +to their chatter. Anatole kept on refilling Pierre's glass while +explaining that Dolokhov was betting with Stevens, an English naval +officer, that he would drink a bottle of rum sitting on the outer ledge +of the third floor window with his legs hanging out. + +"Go on, you must drink it all," said Anatole, giving Pierre the last +glass, "or I won't let you go!" + +"No, I won't," said Pierre, pushing Anatole aside, and he went up +to the window. + +Dolokhov was holding the Englishman's hand and clearly and distinctly +repeating the terms of the bet, addressing himself particularly to +Anatole and Pierre. + +Dolokhov was of medium height, with curly hair and light-blue eyes. He +was about twenty-five. Like all infantry officers he wore no mustache, +so that his mouth, the most striking feature of his face, was clearly +seen. The lines of that mouth were remarkably finely curved. The middle +of the upper lip formed a sharp wedge and closed firmly on the firm +lower one, and something like two distinct smiles played continually +round the two corners of the mouth; this, together with the resolute, +insolent intelligence of his eyes, produced an effect which made it +impossible not to notice his face. Dolokhov was a man of small means +and no connections. Yet, though Anatole spent tens of thousands of +rubles, Dolokhov lived with him and had placed himself on such a +footing that all who knew them, including Anatole himself, respected him +more than they did Anatole. Dolokhov could play all games and nearly +always won. However much he drank, he never lost his clearheadedness. +Both Kuragin and Dolokhov were at that time notorious among the rakes +and scapegraces of Petersburg. + +The bottle of rum was brought. The window frame which prevented anyone +from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who +were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of +the gentlemen around. + +Anatole with his swaggering air strode up to the window. He wanted to +smash something. Pushing away the footmen he tugged at the frame, but +could not move it. He smashed a pane. + +"You have a try, Hercules," said he, turning to Pierre. + +Pierre seized the crossbeam, tugged, and wrenched the oak frame out with +a crash. + +"Take it right out, or they'll think I'm holding on," said +Dolokhov. + +"Is the Englishman bragging?... Eh? Is it all right?" said Anatole. + +"First-rate," said Pierre, looking at Dolokhov, who with a bottle +of rum in his hand was approaching the window, from which the light of +the sky, the dawn merging with the afterglow of sunset, was visible. + +Dolokhov, the bottle of rum still in his hand, jumped onto the window +sill. "Listen!" cried he, standing there and addressing those in the +room. All were silent. + +"I bet fifty imperials"--he spoke French that the Englishman might +understand him, but he did not speak it very well--"I bet fifty +imperials ... or do you wish to make it a hundred?" added he, +addressing the Englishman. + +"No, fifty," replied the latter. + +"All right. Fifty imperials ... that I will drink a whole bottle of +rum without taking it from my mouth, sitting outside the window on this +spot" (he stooped and pointed to the sloping ledge outside the window) +"and without holding on to anything. Is that right?" + +"Quite right," said the Englishman. + +Anatole turned to the Englishman and taking him by one of the buttons +of his coat and looking down at him--the Englishman was short--began +repeating the terms of the wager to him in English. + +"Wait!" cried Dolokhov, hammering with the bottle on the window +sill to attract attention. "Wait a bit, Kuragin. Listen! If +anyone else does the same, I will pay him a hundred imperials. Do you +understand?" + +The Englishman nodded, but gave no indication whether he intended to +accept this challenge or not. Anatole did not release him, and though +he kept nodding to show that he understood, Anatole went on translating +Dolokhov's words into English. A thin young lad, an hussar of the +Life Guards, who had been losing that evening, climbed on the window +sill, leaned over, and looked down. + +"Oh! Oh! Oh!" he muttered, looking down from the window at the +stones of the pavement. + +"Shut up!" cried Dolokhov, pushing him away from the window. The +lad jumped awkwardly back into the room, tripping over his spurs. + +Placing the bottle on the window sill where he could reach it easily, +Dolokhov climbed carefully and slowly through the window and lowered +his legs. Pressing against both sides of the window, he adjusted himself +on his seat, lowered his hands, moved a little to the right and then to +the left, and took up the bottle. Anatole brought two candles and +placed them on the window sill, though it was already quite light. +Dolokhov's back in his white shirt, and his curly head, were lit +up from both sides. Everyone crowded to the window, the Englishman in +front. Pierre stood smiling but silent. One man, older than the others +present, suddenly pushed forward with a scared and angry look and wanted +to seize hold of Dolokhov's shirt. + +"I say, this is folly! He'll be killed," said this more sensible +man. + +Anatole stopped him. + +"Don't touch him! You'll startle him and then he'll be killed. +Eh?... What then?... Eh?" + +Dolokhov turned round and, again holding on with both hands, arranged +himself on his seat. + +"If anyone comes meddling again," said he, emitting the words +separately through his thin compressed lips, "I will throw him down +there. Now then!" + +Saying this he again turned round, dropped his hands, took the bottle +and lifted it to his lips, threw back his head, and raised his free hand +to balance himself. One of the footmen who had stooped to pick up some +broken glass remained in that position without taking his eyes from the +window and from Dolokhov's back. Anatole stood erect with staring +eyes. The Englishman looked on sideways, pursing up his lips. The man +who had wished to stop the affair ran to a corner of the room and threw +himself on a sofa with his face to the wall. Pierre hid his face, from +which a faint smile forgot to fade though his features now expressed +horror and fear. All were still. Pierre took his hands from his eyes. +Dolokhov still sat in the same position, only his head was thrown +further back till his curly hair touched his shirt collar, and the hand +holding the bottle was lifted higher and higher and trembled with the +effort. The bottle was emptying perceptibly and rising still higher +and his head tilting yet further back. "Why is it so long?" thought +Pierre. It seemed to him that more than half an hour had elapsed. +Suddenly Dolokhov made a backward movement with his spine, and his arm +trembled nervously; this was sufficient to cause his whole body to slip +as he sat on the sloping ledge. As he began slipping down, his head and +arm wavered still more with the strain. One hand moved as if to clutch +the window sill, but refrained from touching it. Pierre again covered +his eyes and thought he would never open them again. Suddenly he was +aware of a stir all around. He looked up: Dolokhov was standing on the +window sill, with a pale but radiant face. + +"It's empty." + +He threw the bottle to the Englishman, who caught it neatly. Dolokhov +jumped down. He smelt strongly of rum. + +"Well done!... Fine fellow!... There's a bet for you!... Devil take +you!" came from different sides. + +The Englishman took out his purse and began counting out the money. +Dolokhov stood frowning and did not speak. Pierre jumped upon the +window sill. + +"Gentlemen, who wishes to bet with me? I'll do the same thing!" +he suddenly cried. "Even without a bet, there! Tell them to bring me a +bottle. I'll do it.... Bring a bottle!" + +"Let him do it, let him do it," said Dolokhov, smiling. + +"What next? Have you gone mad?... No one would let you!... Why, you go +giddy even on a staircase," exclaimed several voices. + +"I'll drink it! Let's have a bottle of rum!" shouted Pierre, +banging the table with a determined and drunken gesture and preparing to +climb out of the window. + +They seized him by his arms; but he was so strong that everyone who +touched him was sent flying. + +"No, you'll never manage him that way," said Anatole. "Wait a +bit and I'll get round him.... Listen! I'll take your bet tomorrow, +but now we are all going to ----'s." + +"Come on then," cried Pierre. "Come on!... And we'll take Bruin +with us." + +And he caught the bear, took it in his arms, lifted it from the ground, +and began dancing round the room with it. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +Prince Vasili kept the promise he had given to Princess Drubetskaya +who had spoken to him on behalf of her only son Boris on the evening of +Anna Pavlovna's soiree. The matter was mentioned to the Emperor, an +exception made, and Boris transferred into the regiment of Semenov +Guards with the rank of cornet. He received, however, no appointment +to Kutuzov's staff despite all Anna Mikhaylovna's endeavors and +entreaties. Soon after Anna Pavlovna's reception Anna Mikhaylovna +returned to Moscow and went straight to her rich relations, the +Rostovs, with whom she stayed when in the town and where her darling +Bory, who had only just entered a regiment of the line and was being +at once transferred to the Guards as a cornet, had been educated from +childhood and lived for years at a time. The Guards had already left +Petersburg on the tenth of August, and her son, who had remained in +Moscow for his equipment, was to join them on the march to Radzivilov. + +It was St. Natalia's day and the name day of two of the Rostovs--the +mother and the youngest daughter--both named Nataly. Ever since +the morning, carriages with six horses had been coming and going +continually, bringing visitors to the Countess Rostova's big house on +the Povarskaya, so well known to all Moscow. The countess herself and +her handsome eldest daughter were in the drawing room with the visitors +who came to congratulate, and who constantly succeeded one another in +relays. + +The countess was a woman of about forty-five, with a thin Oriental type +of face, evidently worn out with childbearing--she had had twelve. +A languor of motion and speech, resulting from weakness, gave her a +distinguished air which inspired respect. Princess Anna Mikhaylovna +Drubetskaya, who as a member of the household was also seated in the +drawing room, helped to receive and entertain the visitors. The young +people were in one of the inner rooms, not considering it necessary to +take part in receiving the visitors. The count met the guests and saw +them off, inviting them all to dinner. + +"I am very, very grateful to you, mon cher," or "ma chere"--he +called everyone without exception and without the slightest variation +in his tone, "my dear," whether they were above or below him in +rank--"I thank you for myself and for our two dear ones whose name +day we are keeping. But mind you come to dinner or I shall be offended, +ma chere! On behalf of the whole family I beg you to come, mon cher!" +These words he repeated to everyone without exception or variation, and +with the same expression on his full, cheerful, clean-shaven face, the +same firm pressure of the hand and the same quick, repeated bows. As +soon as he had seen a visitor off he returned to one of those who were +still in the drawing room, drew a chair toward him or her, and jauntily +spreading out his legs and putting his hands on his knees with the air +of a man who enjoys life and knows how to live, he swayed to and +fro with dignity, offered surmises about the weather, or touched on +questions of health, sometimes in Russian and sometimes in very bad but +self-confident French; then again, like a man weary but unflinching in +the fulfillment of duty, he rose to see some visitors off and, stroking +his scanty gray hairs over his bald patch, also asked them to dinner. +Sometimes on his way back from the anteroom he would pass through the +conservatory and pantry into the large marble dining hall, where tables +were being set out for eighty people; and looking at the footmen, who +were bringing in silver and china, moving tables, and unfolding damask +table linen, he would call Dmitri Vasilevich, a man of good family and +the manager of all his affairs, and while looking with pleasure at the +enormous table would say: "Well, Dmitri, you'll see that things are +all as they should be? That's right! The great thing is the serving, +that's it." And with a complacent sigh he would return to the +drawing room. + +"Marya Lvovna Karagina and her daughter!" announced the +countess' gigantic footman in his bass voice, entering the drawing +room. The countess reflected a moment and took a pinch from a gold +snuffbox with her husband's portrait on it. + +"I'm quite worn out by these callers. However, I'll see her and +no more. She is so affected. Ask her in," she said to the footman in a +sad voice, as if saying: "Very well, finish me off." + +A tall, stout, and proud-looking woman, with a round-faced smiling +daughter, entered the drawing room, their dresses rustling. + +"Dear Countess, what an age... She has been laid up, poor child ... +at the Razumovski's ball ... and Countess Apraksina ... I was +so delighted..." came the sounds of animated feminine voices, +interrupting one another and mingling with the rustling of dresses and +the scraping of chairs. Then one of those conversations began which last +out until, at the first pause, the guests rise with a rustle of dresses +and say, "I am so delighted... Mamma's health... and Countess +Apraksina..." and then, again rustling, pass into the anteroom, put +on cloaks or mantles, and drive away. The conversation was on the chief +topic of the day: the illness of the wealthy and celebrated beau of +Catherine's day, Count Bezukhov, and about his illegitimate son +Pierre, the one who had behaved so improperly at Anna Pavlovna's +reception. + +"I am so sorry for the poor count," said the visitor. "He is in +such bad health, and now this vexation about his son is enough to kill +him!" + +"What is that?" asked the countess as if she did not know what the +visitor alluded to, though she had already heard about the cause of +Count Bezukhov's distress some fifteen times. + +"That's what comes of a modern education," exclaimed the visitor. +"It seems that while he was abroad this young man was allowed to do +as he liked, now in Petersburg I hear he has been doing such terrible +things that he has been expelled by the police." + +"You don't say so!" replied the countess. + +"He chose his friends badly," interposed Anna Mikhaylovna. +"Prince Vasili's son, he, and a certain Dolokhov have, it is said, +been up to heaven only knows what! And they have had to suffer for it. +Dolokhov has been degraded to the ranks and Bezukhov's son sent +back to Moscow. Anatole Kuragin's father managed somehow to get his +son's affair hushed up, but even he was ordered out of Petersburg." + +"But what have they been up to?" asked the countess. + +"They are regular brigands, especially Dolokhov," replied the +visitor. "He is a son of Marya Ivanovna Dolokhova, such a worthy +woman, but there, just fancy! Those three got hold of a bear somewhere, +put it in a carriage, and set off with it to visit some actresses! The +police tried to interfere, and what did the young men do? They tied +a policeman and the bear back to back and put the bear into the Moyka +Canal. And there was the bear swimming about with the policeman on his +back!" + +"What a nice figure the policeman must have cut, my dear!" shouted +the count, dying with laughter. + +"Oh, how dreadful! How can you laugh at it, Count?" + +Yet the ladies themselves could not help laughing. + +"It was all they could do to rescue the poor man," continued the +visitor. "And to think it is Cyril Vladimirovich Bezukhov's son +who amuses himself in this sensible manner! And he was said to be so +well educated and clever. This is all that his foreign education has +done for him! I hope that here in Moscow no one will receive him, in +spite of his money. They wanted to introduce him to me, but I quite +declined: I have my daughters to consider." + +"Why do you say this young man is so rich?" asked the countess, +turning away from the girls, who at once assumed an air of inattention. +"His children are all illegitimate. I think Pierre also is +illegitimate." + +The visitor made a gesture with her hand. + +"I should think he has a score of them." + +Princess Anna Mikhaylovna intervened in the conversation, evidently +wishing to show her connections and knowledge of what went on in +society. + +"The fact of the matter is," said she significantly, and also in a +half whisper, "everyone knows Count Cyril's reputation.... He has +lost count of his children, but this Pierre was his favorite." + +"How handsome the old man still was only a year ago!" remarked the +countess. "I have never seen a handsomer man." + +"He is very much altered now," said Anna Mikhaylovna. "Well, as +I was saying, Prince Vasili is the next heir through his wife, but the +count is very fond of Pierre, looked after his education, and wrote to +the Emperor about him; so that in the case of his death--and he is +so ill that he may die at any moment, and Dr. Lorrain has come from +Petersburg--no one knows who will inherit his immense fortune, Pierre +or Prince Vasili. Forty thousand serfs and millions of rubles! I know +it all very well for Prince Vasili told me himself. Besides, Cyril +Vladimirovich is my mother's second cousin. He's also my Bory's +godfather," she added, as if she attached no importance at all to the +fact. + +"Prince Vasili arrived in Moscow yesterday. I hear he has come on +some inspection business," remarked the visitor. + +"Yes, but between ourselves," said the princess, "that is a +pretext. The fact is he has come to see Count Cyril Vladimirovich, +hearing how ill he is." + +"But do you know, my dear, that was a capital joke," said the count; +and seeing that the elder visitor was not listening, he turned to the +young ladies. "I can just imagine what a funny figure that policeman +cut!" + +And as he waved his arms to impersonate the policeman, his portly form +again shook with a deep ringing laugh, the laugh of one who always eats +well and, in particular, drinks well. "So do come and dine with us!" +he said. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +Silence ensued. The countess looked at her callers, smiling affably, +but not concealing the fact that she would not be distressed if they +now rose and took their leave. The visitor's daughter was already +smoothing down her dress with an inquiring look at her mother, when +suddenly from the next room were heard the footsteps of boys and girls +running to the door and the noise of a chair falling over, and a girl +of thirteen, hiding something in the folds of her short muslin frock, +darted in and stopped short in the middle of the room. It was evident +that she had not intended her flight to bring her so far. Behind her in +the doorway appeared a student with a crimson coat collar, an officer +of the Guards, a girl of fifteen, and a plump rosy-faced boy in a short +jacket. + +The count jumped up and, swaying from side to side, spread his arms wide +and threw them round the little girl who had run in. + +"Ah, here she is!" he exclaimed laughing. "My pet, whose name day +it is. My dear pet!" + +"Ma chere, there is a time for everything," said the countess with +feigned severity. "You spoil her, Ilya," she added, turning to her +husband. + +"How do you do, my dear? I wish you many happy returns of your name +day," said the visitor. "What a charming child," she added, +addressing the mother. + +This black-eyed, wide-mouthed girl, not pretty but full of life--with +childish bare shoulders which after her run heaved and shook her +bodice, with black curls tossed backward, thin bare arms, little legs +in lace-frilled drawers, and feet in low slippers--was just at that +charming age when a girl is no longer a child, though the child is not +yet a young woman. Escaping from her father she ran to hide her flushed +face in the lace of her mother's mantilla--not paying the least +attention to her severe remark--and began to laugh. She laughed, and in +fragmentary sentences tried to explain about a doll which she produced +from the folds of her frock. + +"Do you see?... My doll... Mimi... You see..." was all Natasha +managed to utter (to her everything seemed funny). She leaned against +her mother and burst into such a loud, ringing fit of laughter that even +the prim visitor could not help joining in. + +"Now then, go away and take your monstrosity with you," said the +mother, pushing away her daughter with pretended sternness, and turning +to the visitor she added: "She is my youngest girl." + +Natasha, raising her face for a moment from her mother's mantilla, +glanced up at her through tears of laughter, and again hid her face. + +The visitor, compelled to look on at this family scene, thought it +necessary to take some part in it. + +"Tell me, my dear," said she to Natasha, "is Mimi a relation of +yours? A daughter, I suppose?" + +Natasha did not like the visitor's tone of condescension to childish +things. She did not reply, but looked at her seriously. + +Meanwhile the younger generation: Boris, the officer, Anna +Mikhaylovna's son; Nicholas, the undergraduate, the count's eldest +son; Sonya, the count's fifteen-year-old niece, and little Petya, +his youngest boy, had all settled down in the drawing room and were +obviously trying to restrain within the bounds of decorum the excitement +and mirth that shone in all their faces. Evidently in the back rooms, +from which they had dashed out so impetuously, the conversation had +been more amusing than the drawing room talk of society scandals, the +weather, and Countess Apraksina. Now and then they glanced at one +another, hardly able to suppress their laughter. + +The two young men, the student and the officer, friends from childhood, +were of the same age and both handsome fellows, though not alike. Boris +was tall and fair, and his calm and handsome face had regular, delicate +features. Nicholas was short with curly hair and an open expression. +Dark hairs were already showing on his upper lip, and his whole face +expressed impetuosity and enthusiasm. Nicholas blushed when he entered +the drawing room. He evidently tried to find something to say, but +failed. Boris on the contrary at once found his footing, and related +quietly and humorously how he had known that doll Mimi when she was +still quite a young lady, before her nose was broken; how she had aged +during the five years he had known her, and how her head had cracked +right across the skull. Having said this he glanced at Natasha. +She turned away from him and glanced at her younger brother, who was +screwing up his eyes and shaking with suppressed laughter, and unable +to control herself any longer, she jumped up and rushed from the room as +fast as her nimble little feet would carry her. Boris did not laugh. + +"You were meaning to go out, weren't you, Mamma? Do you want the +carriage?" he asked his mother with a smile. + +"Yes, yes, go and tell them to get it ready," she answered, +returning his smile. + +Boris quietly left the room and went in search of Natasha. The plump +boy ran after them angrily, as if vexed that their program had been +disturbed. + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +The only young people remaining in the drawing room, not counting the +young lady visitor and the countess' eldest daughter (who was four +years older than her sister and behaved already like a grown-up person), +were Nicholas and Sonya, the niece. Sonya was a slender little +brunette with a tender look in her eyes which were veiled by long +lashes, thick black plaits coiling twice round her head, and a tawny +tint in her complexion and especially in the color of her slender but +graceful and muscular arms and neck. By the grace of her movements, +by the softness and flexibility of her small limbs, and by a certain +coyness and reserve of manner, she reminded one of a pretty, half-grown +kitten which promises to become a beautiful little cat. She evidently +considered it proper to show an interest in the general conversation by +smiling, but in spite of herself her eyes under their thick long lashes +watched her cousin who was going to join the army, with such passionate +girlish adoration that her smile could not for a single instant impose +upon anyone, and it was clear that the kitten had settled down only to +spring up with more energy and again play with her cousin as soon as +they too could, like Natasha and Boris, escape from the drawing room. + +"Ah yes, my dear," said the count, addressing the visitor and +pointing to Nicholas, "his friend Boris has become an officer, and +so for friendship's sake he is leaving the university and me, his +old father, and entering the military service, my dear. And there was a +place and everything waiting for him in the Archives Department! Isn't +that friendship?" remarked the count in an inquiring tone. + +"But they say that war has been declared," replied the visitor. + +"They've been saying so a long while," said the count, "and +they'll say so again and again, and that will be the end of it. My +dear, there's friendship for you," he repeated. "He's joining +the hussars." + +The visitor, not knowing what to say, shook her head. + +"It's not at all from friendship," declared Nicholas, flaring +up and turning away as if from a shameful aspersion. "It is not from +friendship at all; I simply feel that the army is my vocation." + +He glanced at his cousin and the young lady visitor; and they were both +regarding him with a smile of approbation. + +"Schubert, the colonel of the Pavlograd Hussars, is dining with us +today. He has been here on leave and is taking Nicholas back with him. +It can't be helped!" said the count, shrugging his shoulders and +speaking playfully of a matter that evidently distressed him. + +"I have already told you, Papa," said his son, "that if you +don't wish to let me go, I'll stay. But I know I am no use anywhere +except in the army; I am not a diplomat or a government clerk.--I +don't know how to hide what I feel." As he spoke he kept glancing +with the flirtatiousness of a handsome youth at Sonya and the young +lady visitor. + +The little kitten, feasting her eyes on him, seemed ready at any moment +to start her gambols again and display her kittenish nature. + +"All right, all right!" said the old count. "He always flares up! +This Buonaparte has turned all their heads; they all think of how he +rose from an ensign and became Emperor. Well, well, God grant it," he +added, not noticing his visitor's sarcastic smile. + +The elders began talking about Bonaparte. Julie Karagina turned to +young Rostov. + +"What a pity you weren't at the Arkharovs' on Thursday. It was so +dull without you," said she, giving him a tender smile. + +The young man, flattered, sat down nearer to her with a coquettish +smile, and engaged the smiling Julie in a confidential conversation +without at all noticing that his involuntary smile had stabbed the heart +of Sonya, who blushed and smiled unnaturally. In the midst of his talk +he glanced round at her. She gave him a passionately angry glance, and +hardly able to restrain her tears and maintain the artificial smile +on her lips, she got up and left the room. All Nicholas' animation +vanished. He waited for the first pause in the conversation, and then +with a distressed face left the room to find Sonya. + +"How plainly all these young people wear their hearts on their +sleeves!" said Anna Mikhaylovna, pointing to Nicholas as he went out. +"Cousinage--dangereux voisinage," * she added. + + * Cousinhood is a dangerous neighborhood. + +"Yes," said the countess when the brightness these young people had +brought into the room had vanished; and as if answering a question no +one had put but which was always in her mind, "and how much suffering, +how much anxiety one has had to go through that we might rejoice in +them now! And yet really the anxiety is greater now than the joy. One is +always, always anxious! Especially just at this age, so dangerous both +for girls and boys." + +"It all depends on the bringing up," remarked the visitor. + +"Yes, you're quite right," continued the countess. "Till now I +have always, thank God, been my children's friend and had their full +confidence," said she, repeating the mistake of so many parents who +imagine that their children have no secrets from them. "I know I shall +always be my daughters' first confidante, and that if Nicholas, with +his impulsive nature, does get into mischief (a boy can't help it), he +will all the same never be like those Petersburg young men." + +"Yes, they are splendid, splendid youngsters," chimed in the count, +who always solved questions that seemed to him perplexing by deciding +that everything was splendid. "Just fancy: wants to be an hussar. +What's one to do, my dear?" + +"What a charming creature your younger girl is," said the visitor; +"a little volcano!" + +"Yes, a regular volcano," said the count. "Takes after me! And +what a voice she has; though she's my daughter, I tell the truth +when I say she'll be a singer, a second Salomoni! We have engaged an +Italian to give her lessons." + +"Isn't she too young? I have heard that it harms the voice to train +it at that age." + +"Oh no, not at all too young!" replied the count. "Why, our +mothers used to be married at twelve or thirteen." + +"And she's in love with Boris already. Just fancy!" said the +countess with a gentle smile, looking at Boris and went on, evidently +concerned with a thought that always occupied her: "Now you see if I +were to be severe with her and to forbid it ... goodness knows what they +might be up to on the sly" (she meant that they would be kissing), +"but as it is, I know every word she utters. She will come running to +me of her own accord in the evening and tell me everything. Perhaps I +spoil her, but really that seems the best plan. With her elder sister I +was stricter." + +"Yes, I was brought up quite differently," remarked the handsome +elder daughter, Countess Vera, with a smile. + +But the smile did not enhance Vera's beauty as smiles generally do; +on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, +expression. Vera was good-looking, not at all stupid, quick at +learning, was well brought up, and had a pleasant voice; what she said +was true and appropriate, yet, strange to say, everyone--the visitors +and countess alike--turned to look at her as if wondering why she had +said it, and they all felt awkward. + +"People are always too clever with their eldest children and try to +make something exceptional of them," said the visitor. + +"What's the good of denying it, my dear? Our dear countess was too +clever with Vera," said the count. "Well, what of that? She's +turned out splendidly all the same," he added, winking at Vera. + +The guests got up and took their leave, promising to return to dinner. + +"What manners! I thought they would never go," said the countess, +when she had seen her guests out. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIII + +When Natasha ran out of the drawing room she only went as far as the +conservatory. There she paused and stood listening to the conversation +in the drawing room, waiting for Boris to come out. She was already +growing impatient, and stamped her foot, ready to cry at his not coming +at once, when she heard the young man's discreet steps approaching +neither quickly nor slowly. At this Natasha dashed swiftly among the +flower tubs and hid there. + +Boris paused in the middle of the room, looked round, brushed a little +dust from the sleeve of his uniform, and going up to a mirror examined +his handsome face. Natasha, very still, peered out from her ambush, +waiting to see what he would do. He stood a little while before the +glass, smiled, and walked toward the other door. Natasha was about to +call him but changed her mind. "Let him look for me," thought she. +Hardly had Boris gone than Sonya, flushed, in tears, and muttering +angrily, came in at the other door. Natasha checked her first impulse +to run out to her, and remained in her hiding place, watching--as +under an invisible cap--to see what went on in the world. She was +experiencing a new and peculiar pleasure. Sonya, muttering to herself, +kept looking round toward the drawing room door. It opened and Nicholas +came in. + +"Sonya, what is the matter with you? How can you?" said he, running +up to her. + +"It's nothing, nothing; leave me alone!" sobbed Sonya. + +"Ah, I know what it is." + +"Well, if you do, so much the better, and you can go back to her!" + +"So-o-onya! Look here! How can you torture me and yourself like that, +for a mere fancy?" said Nicholas taking her hand. + +Sonya did not pull it away, and left off crying. Natasha, not stirring +and scarcely breathing, watched from her ambush with sparkling eyes. +"What will happen now?" thought she. + +"Sonya! What is anyone in the world to me? You alone are +everything!" said Nicholas. "And I will prove it to you." + +"I don't like you to talk like that." + +"Well, then, I won't; only forgive me, Sonya!" He drew her to him +and kissed her. + +"Oh, how nice," thought Natasha; and when Sonya and Nicholas had +gone out of the conservatory she followed and called Boris to her. + +"Boris, come here," said she with a sly and significant look. "I +have something to tell you. Here, here!" and she led him into the +conservatory to the place among the tubs where she had been hiding. + +Boris followed her, smiling. + +"What is the something?" asked he. + +She grew confused, glanced round, and, seeing the doll she had thrown +down on one of the tubs, picked it up. + +"Kiss the doll," said she. + +Boris looked attentively and kindly at her eager face, but did not +reply. + +"Don't you want to? Well, then, come here," said she, and +went further in among the plants and threw down the doll. "Closer, +closer!" she whispered. + +She caught the young officer by his cuffs, and a look of solemnity and +fear appeared on her flushed face. + +"And me? Would you like to kiss me?" she whispered almost inaudibly, +glancing up at him from under her brows, smiling, and almost crying from +excitement. + +Boris blushed. + +"How funny you are!" he said, bending down to her and blushing still +more, but he waited and did nothing. + +Suddenly she jumped up onto a tub to be higher than he, embraced him so +that both her slender bare arms clasped him above his neck, and, tossing +back her hair, kissed him full on the lips. + +Then she slipped down among the flowerpots on the other side of the tubs +and stood, hanging her head. + +"Natasha," he said, "you know that I love you, but...." + +"You are in love with me?" Natasha broke in. + +"Yes, I am, but please don't let us do like that.... In another four +years ... then I will ask for your hand." + +Natasha considered. + +"Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen," she counted on her slender +little fingers. "All right! Then it's settled?" + +A smile of joy and satisfaction lit up her eager face. + +"Settled!" replied Boris. + +"Forever?" said the little girl. "Till death itself?" + +She took his arm and with a happy face went with him into the adjoining +sitting room. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +After receiving her visitors, the countess was so tired that she gave +orders to admit no more, but the porter was told to be sure to invite to +dinner all who came "to congratulate." The countess wished to have +a tete-a-tete talk with the friend of her childhood, Princess Anna +Mikhaylovna, whom she had not seen properly since she returned from +Petersburg. Anna Mikhaylovna, with her tear-worn but pleasant face, +drew her chair nearer to that of the countess. + +"With you I will be quite frank," said Anna Mikhaylovna. "There +are not many left of us old friends! That's why I so value your +friendship." + +Anna Mikhaylovna looked at Vera and paused. The countess pressed her +friend's hand. + +"Vera," she said to her eldest daughter who was evidently not a +favorite, "how is it you have so little tact? Don't you see you are +not wanted here? Go to the other girls, or..." + +The handsome Vera smiled contemptuously but did not seem at all hurt. + +"If you had told me sooner, Mamma, I would have gone," she replied +as she rose to go to her own room. + +But as she passed the sitting room she noticed two couples sitting, +one pair at each window. She stopped and smiled scornfully. Sonya was +sitting close to Nicholas who was copying out some verses for her, the +first he had ever written. Boris and Natasha were at the other window +and ceased talking when Vera entered. Sonya and Natasha looked at +Vera with guilty, happy faces. + +It was pleasant and touching to see these little girls in love; but +apparently the sight of them roused no pleasant feeling in Vera. + +"How often have I asked you not to take my things?" she said. "You +have a room of your own," and she took the inkstand from Nicholas. + +"In a minute, in a minute," he said, dipping his pen. + +"You always manage to do things at the wrong time," continued Vera. +"You came rushing into the drawing room so that everyone felt ashamed +of you." + +Though what she said was quite just, perhaps for that very reason no one +replied, and the four simply looked at one another. She lingered in the +room with the inkstand in her hand. + +"And at your age what secrets can there be between Natasha and +Boris, or between you two? It's all nonsense!" + +"Now, Vera, what does it matter to you?" said Natasha in defense, +speaking very gently. + +She seemed that day to be more than ever kind and affectionate to +everyone. + +"Very silly," said Vera. "I am ashamed of you. Secrets indeed!" + +"All have secrets of their own," answered Natasha, getting warmer. +"We don't interfere with you and Berg." + +"I should think not," said Vera, "because there can never be +anything wrong in my behavior. But I'll just tell Mamma how you are +behaving with Boris." + +"Natalya Ilynichna behaves very well to me," remarked Boris. "I +have nothing to complain of." + +"Don't, Boris! You are such a diplomat that it is really +tiresome," said Natasha in a mortified voice that trembled slightly. +(She used the word "diplomat," which was just then much in vogue +among the children, in the special sense they attached to it.) "Why +does she bother me?" And she added, turning to Vera, "You'll +never understand it, because you've never loved anyone. You have no +heart! You are a Madame de Genlis and nothing more" (this nickname, +bestowed on Vera by Nicholas, was considered very stinging), "and +your greatest pleasure is to be unpleasant to people! Go and flirt with +Berg as much as you please," she finished quickly. + +"I shall at any rate not run after a young man before visitors..." + +"Well, now you've done what you wanted," put in Nicholas--"said +unpleasant things to everyone and upset them. Let's go to the +nursery." + +All four, like a flock of scared birds, got up and left the room. + +"The unpleasant things were said to me," remarked Vera, "I said +none to anyone." + +"Madame de Genlis! Madame de Genlis!" shouted laughing voices +through the door. + +The handsome Vera, who produced such an irritating and unpleasant +effect on everyone, smiled and, evidently unmoved by what had been +said to her, went to the looking glass and arranged her hair and scarf. +Looking at her own handsome face she seemed to become still colder and +calmer. + + +In the drawing room the conversation was still going on. + +"Ah, my dear," said the countess, "my life is not all roses +either. Don't I know that at the rate we are living our means won't +last long? It's all the Club and his easygoing nature. Even in the +country do we get any rest? Theatricals, hunting, and heaven knows what +besides! But don't let's talk about me; tell me how you managed +everything. I often wonder at you, Annette--how at your age you +can rush off alone in a carriage to Moscow, to Petersburg, to those +ministers and great people, and know how to deal with them all! It's +quite astonishing. How did you get things settled? I couldn't possibly +do it." + +"Ah, my love," answered Anna Mikhaylovna, "God grant you never +know what it is to be left a widow without means and with a son you love +to distraction! One learns many things then," she added with a certain +pride. "That lawsuit taught me much. When I want to see one of those +big people I write a note: 'Princess So-and-So desires an interview +with So and-So,' and then I take a cab and go myself two, three, or +four times--till I get what I want. I don't mind what they think of +me." + +"Well, and to whom did you apply about Bory?" asked the countess. +"You see yours is already an officer in the Guards, while my Nicholas +is going as a cadet. There's no one to interest himself for him. To +whom did you apply?" + +"To Prince Vasili. He was so kind. He at once agreed to everything, +and put the matter before the Emperor," said Princess Anna +Mikhaylovna enthusiastically, quite forgetting all the humiliation she +had endured to gain her end. + +"Has Prince Vasili aged much?" asked the countess. "I have not +seen him since we acted together at the Rumyantsovs' theatricals. I +expect he has forgotten me. He paid me attentions in those days," said +the countess, with a smile. + +"He is just the same as ever," replied Anna Mikhaylovna, +"overflowing with amiability. His position has not turned his head +at all. He said to me, 'I am sorry I can do so little for you, dear +Princess. I am at your command.' Yes, he is a fine fellow and a very +kind relation. But, Nataly, you know my love for my son: I would do +anything for his happiness! And my affairs are in such a bad way that my +position is now a terrible one," continued Anna Mikhaylovna, sadly, +dropping her voice. "My wretched lawsuit takes all I have and makes no +progress. Would you believe it, I have literally not a penny and don't +know how to equip Boris." She took out her handkerchief and began to +cry. "I need five hundred rubles, and have only one twenty-five-ruble +note. I am in such a state.... My only hope now is in Count Cyril +Vladimirovich Bezukhov. If he will not assist his godson--you know +he is Bory's godfather--and allow him something for his maintenance, +all my trouble will have been thrown away.... I shall not be able to +equip him." + +The countess' eyes filled with tears and she pondered in silence. + +"I often think, though, perhaps it's a sin," said the princess, +"that here lives Count Cyril Vladimirovich Bezukhov so rich, all +alone... that tremendous fortune... and what is his life worth? It's a +burden to him, and Bory's life is only just beginning...." + +"Surely he will leave something to Boris," said the countess. + +"Heaven only knows, my dear! These rich grandees are so selfish. +Still, I will take Boris and go to see him at once, and I shall speak +to him straight out. Let people think what they will of me, it's +really all the same to me when my son's fate is at stake." The +princess rose. "It's now two o'clock and you dine at four. There +will just be time." + +And like a practical Petersburg lady who knows how to make the most of +time, Anna Mikhaylovna sent someone to call her son, and went into the +anteroom with him. + +"Good-by, my dear," said she to the countess who saw her to the +door, and added in a whisper so that her son should not hear, "Wish me +good luck." + +"Are you going to Count Cyril Vladimirovich, my dear?" said the +count coming out from the dining hall into the anteroom, and he added: +"If he is better, ask Pierre to dine with us. He has been to the +house, you know, and danced with the children. Be sure to invite him, my +dear. We will see how Taras distinguishes himself today. He says Count +Orlov never gave such a dinner as ours will be!" + + + + + +CHAPTER XV + +"My dear Boris," said Princess Anna Mikhaylovna to her son as +Countess Rostova's carriage in which they were seated drove over the +straw covered street and turned into the wide courtyard of Count Cyril +Vladimirovich Bezukhov's house. "My dear Boris," said the +mother, drawing her hand from beneath her old mantle and laying +it timidly and tenderly on her son's arm, "be affectionate and +attentive to him. Count Cyril Vladimirovich is your godfather after +all, and your future depends on him. Remember that, my dear, and be nice +to him, as you so well know how to be." + +"If only I knew that anything besides humiliation would come of +it..." answered her son coldly. "But I have promised and will do it +for your sake." + +Although the hall porter saw someone's carriage standing at the +entrance, after scrutinizing the mother and son (who without asking to +be announced had passed straight through the glass porch between the +rows of statues in niches) and looking significantly at the lady's old +cloak, he asked whether they wanted the count or the princesses, and, +hearing that they wished to see the count, said his excellency was worse +today, and that his excellency was not receiving anyone. + +"We may as well go back," said the son in French. + +"My dear!" exclaimed his mother imploringly, again laying her hand +on his arm as if that touch might soothe or rouse him. + +Boris said no more, but looked inquiringly at his mother without taking +off his cloak. + +"My friend," said Anna Mikhaylovna in gentle tones, addressing +the hall porter, "I know Count Cyril Vladimirovich is very ill... +that's why I have come... I am a relation. I shall not disturb him, +my friend... I only need see Prince Vasili Sergeevich: he is staying +here, is he not? Please announce me." + +The hall porter sullenly pulled a bell that rang upstairs, and turned +away. + +"Princess Drubetskaya to see Prince Vasili Sergeevich," he called +to a footman dressed in knee breeches, shoes, and a swallow-tail coat, +who ran downstairs and looked over from the halfway landing. + +The mother smoothed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large +Venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly +ascended the carpeted stairs. + +"My dear," she said to her son, once more stimulating him by a +touch, "you promised me!" + +The son, lowering his eyes, followed her quietly. + +They entered the large hall, from which one of the doors led to the +apartments assigned to Prince Vasili. + +Just as the mother and son, having reached the middle of the hall, were +about to ask their way of an elderly footman who had sprung up as they +entered, the bronze handle of one of the doors turned and Prince Vasili +came out--wearing a velvet coat with a single star on his breast, +as was his custom when at home--taking leave of a good-looking, +dark-haired man. This was the celebrated Petersburg doctor, Lorrain. + +"Then it is certain?" said the prince. + +"Prince, humanum est errare, * but..." replied the doctor, +swallowing his r's, and pronouncing the Latin words with a French +accent. + + * To err is human. + +"Very well, very well..." + +Seeing Anna Mikhaylovna and her son, Prince Vasili dismissed the +doctor with a bow and approached them silently and with a look of +inquiry. The son noticed that an expression of profound sorrow suddenly +clouded his mother's face, and he smiled slightly. + +"Ah, Prince! In what sad circumstances we meet again! And how is our +dear invalid?" said she, as though unaware of the cold offensive look +fixed on her. + +Prince Vasili stared at her and at Boris questioningly and perplexed. +Boris bowed politely. Prince Vasili without acknowledging the bow +turned to Anna Mikhaylovna, answering her query by a movement of the +head and lips indicating very little hope for the patient. + +"Is it possible?" exclaimed Anna Mikhaylovna. "Oh, how awful! +It is terrible to think.... This is my son," she added, indicating +Boris. "He wanted to thank you himself." + +Boris bowed again politely. + +"Believe me, Prince, a mother's heart will never forget what you +have done for us." + +"I am glad I was able to do you a service, my dear Anna +Mikhaylovna," said Prince Vasili, arranging his lace frill, and in +tone and manner, here in Moscow to Anna Mikhaylovna whom he had placed +under an obligation, assuming an air of much greater importance than he +had done in Petersburg at Anna Scherer's reception. + +"Try to serve well and show yourself worthy," added he, addressing +Boris with severity. "I am glad.... Are you here on leave?" he went +on in his usual tone of indifference. + +"I am awaiting orders to join my new regiment, your excellency," +replied Boris, betraying neither annoyance at the prince's brusque +manner nor a desire to enter into conversation, but speaking so quietly +and respectfully that the prince gave him a searching glance. + +"Are you living with your mother?" + +"I am living at Countess Rostova's," replied Boris, again +adding, "your excellency." + +"That is, with Ilya Rostov who married Nataly Shinshina," said +Anna Mikhaylovna. + +"I know, I know," answered Prince Vasili in his monotonous voice. +"I never could understand how Nataly made up her mind to marry that +unlicked bear! A perfectly absurd and stupid fellow, and a gambler too, +I am told." + +"But a very kind man, Prince," said Anna Mikhaylovna with a +pathetic smile, as though she too knew that Count Rostov deserved this +censure, but asked him not to be too hard on the poor old man. "What +do the doctors say?" asked the princess after a pause, her worn face +again expressing deep sorrow. + +"They give little hope," replied the prince. + +"And I should so like to thank Uncle once for all his kindness to me +and Boris. He is his godson," she added, her tone suggesting that +this fact ought to give Prince Vasili much satisfaction. + +Prince Vasili became thoughtful and frowned. Anna Mikhaylovna saw that +he was afraid of finding in her a rival for Count Bezukhov's fortune, +and hastened to reassure him. + +"If it were not for my sincere affection and devotion to Uncle," +said she, uttering the word with peculiar assurance and unconcern, "I +know his character: noble, upright ... but you see he has no one with +him except the young princesses.... They are still young...." She bent +her head and continued in a whisper: "Has he performed his final duty, +Prince? How priceless are those last moments! It can make things no +worse, and it is absolutely necessary to prepare him if he is so ill. +We women, Prince," and she smiled tenderly, "always know how to say +these things. I absolutely must see him, however painful it may be for +me. I am used to suffering." + +Evidently the prince understood her, and also understood, as he had done +at Anna Pavlovna's, that it would be difficult to get rid of Anna +Mikhaylovna. + +"Would not such a meeting be too trying for him, dear Anna +Mikhaylovna?" said he. "Let us wait until evening. The doctors are +expecting a crisis." + +"But one cannot delay, Prince, at such a moment! Consider that the +welfare of his soul is at stake. Ah, it is awful: the duties of a +Christian..." + +A door of one of the inner rooms opened and one of the princesses, the +count's niece, entered with a cold, stern face. The length of her +body was strikingly out of proportion to her short legs. Prince Vasili +turned to her. + +"Well, how is he?" + +"Still the same; but what can you expect, this noise..." said the +princess, looking at Anna Mikhaylovna as at a stranger. + +"Ah, my dear, I hardly knew you," said Anna Mikhaylovna with a +happy smile, ambling lightly up to the count's niece. "I have come, +and am at your service to help you nurse my uncle. I imagine what you +have gone through," and she sympathetically turned up her eyes. + +The princess gave no reply and did not even smile, but left the room as +Anna Mikhaylovna took off her gloves and, occupying the position she +had conquered, settled down in an armchair, inviting Prince Vasili to +take a seat beside her. + +"Boris," she said to her son with a smile, "I shall go in to see +the count, my uncle; but you, my dear, had better go to Pierre meanwhile +and don't forget to give him the Rostovs' invitation. They ask him +to dinner. I suppose he won't go?" she continued, turning to the +prince. + +"On the contrary," replied the prince, who had plainly become +depressed, "I shall be only too glad if you relieve me of that young +man.... Here he is, and the count has not once asked for him." + +He shrugged his shoulders. A footman conducted Boris down one flight of +stairs and up another, to Pierre's rooms. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +Pierre, after all, had not managed to choose a career for himself in +Petersburg, and had been expelled from there for riotous conduct and +sent to Moscow. The story told about him at Count Rostov's was true. +Pierre had taken part in tying a policeman to a bear. He had now been +for some days in Moscow and was staying as usual at his father's +house. Though he expected that the story of his escapade would be +already known in Moscow and that the ladies about his father--who were +never favorably disposed toward him--would have used it to turn the +count against him, he nevertheless on the day of his arrival went to +his father's part of the house. Entering the drawing room, where the +princesses spent most of their time, he greeted the ladies, two of whom +were sitting at embroidery frames while a third read aloud. It was the +eldest who was reading--the one who had met Anna Mikhaylovna. The +two younger ones were embroidering: both were rosy and pretty and they +differed only in that one had a little mole on her lip which made her +much prettier. Pierre was received as if he were a corpse or a leper. +The eldest princess paused in her reading and silently stared at him +with frightened eyes; the second assumed precisely the same expression; +while the youngest, the one with the mole, who was of a cheerful and +lively disposition, bent over her frame to hide a smile probably evoked +by the amusing scene she foresaw. She drew her wool down through the +canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying +to make out the pattern. + +"How do you do, cousin?" said Pierre. "You don't recognize +me?" + +"I recognize you only too well, too well." + +"How is the count? Can I see him?" asked Pierre, awkwardly as usual, +but unabashed. + +"The count is suffering physically and mentally, and apparently you +have done your best to increase his mental sufferings." + +"Can I see the count?" Pierre again asked. + +"Hm.... If you wish to kill him, to kill him outright, you can see +him... Olga, go and see whether Uncle's beef tea is ready--it is +almost time," she added, giving Pierre to understand that they were +busy, and busy making his father comfortable, while evidently he, +Pierre, was only busy causing him annoyance. + +Olga went out. Pierre stood looking at the sisters; then he bowed and +said: "Then I will go to my rooms. You will let me know when I can see +him." + +And he left the room, followed by the low but ringing laughter of the +sister with the mole. + +Next day Prince Vasili had arrived and settled in the count's house. +He sent for Pierre and said to him: "My dear fellow, if you are going +to behave here as you did in Petersburg, you will end very badly; that +is all I have to say to you. The count is very, very ill, and you must +not see him at all." + +Since then Pierre had not been disturbed and had spent the whole time in +his rooms upstairs. + +When Boris appeared at his door Pierre was pacing up and down his room, +stopping occasionally at a corner to make menacing gestures at the wall, +as if running a sword through an invisible foe, and glaring savagely +over his spectacles, and then again resuming his walk, muttering +indistinct words, shrugging his shoulders and gesticulating. + +"England is done for," said he, scowling and pointing his finger +at someone unseen. "Mr. Pitt, as a traitor to the nation and to the +rights of man, is sentenced to..." But before Pierre--who at that +moment imagined himself to be Napoleon in person and to have just +effected the dangerous crossing of the Straits of Dover and captured +London--could pronounce Pitt's sentence, he saw a well-built and +handsome young officer entering his room. Pierre paused. He had left +Moscow when Boris was a boy of fourteen, and had quite forgotten him, +but in his usual impulsive and hearty way he took Boris by the hand +with a friendly smile. + +"Do you remember me?" asked Boris quietly with a pleasant smile. +"I have come with my mother to see the count, but it seems he is not +well." + +"Yes, it seems he is ill. People are always disturbing him," +answered Pierre, trying to remember who this young man was. + +Boris felt that Pierre did not recognize him but did not consider +it necessary to introduce himself, and without experiencing the least +embarrassment looked Pierre straight in the face. + +"Count Rostov asks you to come to dinner today," said he, after a +considerable pause which made Pierre feel uncomfortable. + +"Ah, Count Rostov!" exclaimed Pierre joyfully. "Then you are his +son, Ilya? Only fancy, I didn't know you at first. Do you remember +how we went to the Sparrow Hills with Madame Jacquot?... It's such an +age..." + +"You are mistaken," said Boris deliberately, with a bold and +slightly sarcastic smile. "I am Boris, son of Princess Anna +Mikhaylovna Drubetskaya. Rostov, the father, is Ilya, and his son is +Nicholas. I never knew any Madame Jacquot." + +Pierre shook his head and arms as if attacked by mosquitoes or bees. + +"Oh dear, what am I thinking about? I've mixed everything up. One +has so many relatives in Moscow! So you are Boris? Of course. Well, now +we know where we are. And what do you think of the Boulogne expedition? +The English will come off badly, you know, if Napoleon gets across the +Channel. I think the expedition is quite feasible. If only Villeneuve +doesn't make a mess of things!" + +Boris knew nothing about the Boulogne expedition; he did not read the +papers and it was the first time he had heard Villeneuve's name. + +"We here in Moscow are more occupied with dinner parties and scandal +than with politics," said he in his quiet ironical tone. "I know +nothing about it and have not thought about it. Moscow is chiefly busy +with gossip," he continued. "Just now they are talking about you and +your father." + +Pierre smiled in his good-natured way as if afraid for his companion's +sake that the latter might say something he would afterwards regret. +But Boris spoke distinctly, clearly, and dryly, looking straight into +Pierre's eyes. + +"Moscow has nothing else to do but gossip," Boris went on. +"Everybody is wondering to whom the count will leave his fortune, +though he may perhaps outlive us all, as I sincerely hope he will..." + +"Yes, it is all very horrid," interrupted Pierre, "very horrid." + +Pierre was still afraid that this officer might inadvertently say +something disconcerting to himself. + +"And it must seem to you," said Boris flushing slightly, but not +changing his tone or attitude, "it must seem to you that everyone is +trying to get something out of the rich man?" + +"So it does," thought Pierre. + +"But I just wish to say, to avoid misunderstandings, that you are +quite mistaken if you reckon me or my mother among such people. We are +very poor, but for my own part at any rate, for the very reason that +your father is rich, I don't regard myself as a relation of his, and +neither I nor my mother would ever ask or take anything from him." + +For a long time Pierre could not understand, but when he did, he jumped +up from the sofa, seized Boris under the elbow in his quick, clumsy +way, and, blushing far more than Boris, began to speak with a feeling +of mingled shame and vexation. + +"Well, this is strange! Do you suppose I... who could think?... I know +very well..." + +But Boris again interrupted him. + +"I am glad I have spoken out fully. Perhaps you did not like it? You +must excuse me," said he, putting Pierre at ease instead of being put +at ease by him, "but I hope I have not offended you. I always make it +a rule to speak out... Well, what answer am I to take? Will you come to +dinner at the Rostovs'?" + +And Boris, having apparently relieved himself of an onerous duty and +extricated himself from an awkward situation and placed another in it, +became quite pleasant again. + +"No, but I say," said Pierre, calming down, "you are a wonderful +fellow! What you have just said is good, very good. Of course you +don't know me. We have not met for such a long time... not since we +were children. You might think that I... I understand, quite understand. +I could not have done it myself, I should not have had the courage, but +it's splendid. I am very glad to have made your acquaintance. It's +queer," he added after a pause, "that you should have suspected +me!" He began to laugh. "Well, what of it! I hope we'll get better +acquainted," and he pressed Boris' hand. "Do you know, I have not +once been in to see the count. He has not sent for me.... I am sorry for +him as a man, but what can one do?" + +"And so you think Napoleon will manage to get an army across?" asked +Boris with a smile. + +Pierre saw that Boris wished to change the subject, and being of the +same mind he began explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the +Boulogne expedition. + +A footman came in to summon Boris--the princess was going. Pierre, in +order to make Boris' better acquaintance, promised to come to dinner, +and warmly pressing his hand looked affectionately over his spectacles +into Boris' eyes. After he had gone Pierre continued pacing up and +down the room for a long time, no longer piercing an imaginary foe with +his imaginary sword, but smiling at the remembrance of that pleasant, +intelligent, and resolute young man. + +As often happens in early youth, especially to one who leads a lonely +life, he felt an unaccountable tenderness for this young man and made up +his mind that they would be friends. + +Prince Vasili saw the princess off. She held a handkerchief to her eyes +and her face was tearful. + +"It is dreadful, dreadful!" she was saying, "but cost me what it +may I shall do my duty. I will come and spend the night. He must not be +left like this. Every moment is precious. I can't think why his nieces +put it off. Perhaps God will help me to find a way to prepare him!... +Adieu, Prince! May God support you..." + +"Adieu, ma bonne," answered Prince Vasili turning away from her. + +"Oh, he is in a dreadful state," said the mother to her son when +they were in the carriage. "He hardly recognizes anybody." + +"I don't understand, Mamma--what is his attitude to Pierre?" +asked the son. + +"The will will show that, my dear; our fate also depends on it." + +"But why do you expect that he will leave us anything?" + +"Ah, my dear! He is so rich, and we are so poor!" + +"Well, that is hardly a sufficient reason, Mamma..." + +"Oh, Heaven! How ill he is!" exclaimed the mother. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVII + +After Anna Mikhaylovna had driven off with her son to visit Count Cyril +Vladimirovich Bezukhov, Countess Rostova sat for a long time all +alone applying her handkerchief to her eyes. At last she rang. + +"What is the matter with you, my dear?" she said crossly to the maid +who kept her waiting some minutes. "Don't you wish to serve me? Then +I'll find you another place." + +The countess was upset by her friend's sorrow and humiliating poverty, +and was therefore out of sorts, a state of mind which with her always +found expression in calling her maid "my dear" and speaking to her +with exaggerated politeness. + +"I am very sorry, ma'am," answered the maid. + +"Ask the count to come to me." + +The count came waddling in to see his wife with a rather guilty look as +usual. + +"Well, little countess? What a saute of game au madere we are to +have, my dear! I tasted it. The thousand rubles I paid for Taras were +not ill-spent. He is worth it!" + +He sat down by his wife, his elbows on his knees and his hands ruffling +his gray hair. + +"What are your commands, little countess?" + +"You see, my dear... What's that mess?" she said, pointing to his +waistcoat. "It's the saute, most likely," she added with a smile. +"Well, you see, Count, I want some money." + +Her face became sad. + +"Oh, little countess!" ... and the count began bustling to get out +his pocketbook. + +"I want a great deal, Count! I want five hundred rubles," and taking +out her cambric handkerchief she began wiping her husband's waistcoat. + +"Yes, immediately, immediately! Hey, who's there?" he called out +in a tone only used by persons who are certain that those they call will +rush to obey the summons. "Send Dmitri to me!" + +Dmitri, a man of good family who had been brought up in the count's +house and now managed all his affairs, stepped softly into the room. + +"This is what I want, my dear fellow," said the count to the +deferential young man who had entered. "Bring me..." he reflected +a moment, "yes, bring me seven hundred rubles, yes! But mind, don't +bring me such tattered and dirty notes as last time, but nice clean ones +for the countess." + +"Yes, Dmitri, clean ones, please," said the countess, sighing +deeply. + +"When would you like them, your excellency?" asked Dmitri. "Allow +me to inform you... But, don't be uneasy," he added, noticing that +the count was beginning to breathe heavily and quickly which was always +a sign of approaching anger. "I was forgetting... Do you wish it +brought at once?" + +"Yes, yes; just so! Bring it. Give it to the countess." + +"What a treasure that Dmitri is," added the count with a smile when +the young man had departed. "There is never any 'impossible' with +him. That's a thing I hate! Everything is possible." + +"Ah, money, Count, money! How much sorrow it causes in the world," +said the countess. "But I am in great need of this sum." + +"You, my little countess, are a notorious spendthrift," said the +count, and having kissed his wife's hand he went back to his study. + +When Anna Mikhaylovna returned from Count Bezukhov's the money, all +in clean notes, was lying ready under a handkerchief on the countess' +little table, and Anna Mikhaylovna noticed that something was agitating +her. + +"Well, my dear?" asked the countess. + +"Oh, what a terrible state he is in! One would not know him, he is so +ill! I was only there a few moments and hardly said a word..." + +"Annette, for heaven's sake don't refuse me," the countess +began, with a blush that looked very strange on her thin, dignified, +elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief. + +Anna Mikhaylovna instantly guessed her intention and stooped to be +ready to embrace the countess at the appropriate moment. + +"This is for Boris from me, for his outfit." + +Anna Mikhaylovna was already embracing her and weeping. The countess +wept too. They wept because they were friends, and because they were +kindhearted, and because they--friends from childhood--had to think +about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over.... +But those tears were pleasant to them both. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVIII + +Countess Rostova, with her daughters and a large number of guests, was +already seated in the drawing room. The count took the gentlemen into +his study and showed them his choice collection of Turkish pipes. From +time to time he went out to ask: "Hasn't she come yet?" They +were expecting Marya Dmitrievna Akhrosimova, known in society as le +terrible dragon, a lady distinguished not for wealth or rank, but for +common sense and frank plainness of speech. Marya Dmitrievna was known +to the Imperial family as well as to all Moscow and Petersburg, and both +cities wondered at her, laughed privately at her rudenesses, and told +good stories about her, while none the less all without exception +respected and feared her. + +In the count's room, which was full of tobacco smoke, they talked +of the war that had been announced in a manifesto, and about the +recruiting. None of them had yet seen the manifesto, but they all knew +it had appeared. The count sat on the sofa between two guests who were +smoking and talking. He neither smoked nor talked, but bending his head +first to one side and then to the other watched the smokers with evident +pleasure and listened to the conversation of his two neighbors, whom he +egged on against each other. + +One of them was a sallow, clean-shaven civilian with a thin and wrinkled +face, already growing old, though he was dressed like a most fashionable +young man. He sat with his legs up on the sofa as if quite at home and, +having stuck an amber mouthpiece far into his mouth, was inhaling the +smoke spasmodically and screwing up his eyes. This was an old bachelor, +Shinshin, a cousin of the countess', a man with "a sharp tongue" +as they said in Moscow society. He seemed to be condescending to +his companion. The latter, a fresh, rosy officer of the Guards, +irreproachably washed, brushed, and buttoned, held his pipe in the +middle of his mouth and with red lips gently inhaled the smoke, letting +it escape from his handsome mouth in rings. This was Lieutenant Berg, an +officer in the Semenov regiment with whom Boris was to travel to join +the army, and about whom Natasha had teased her elder sister Vera, +speaking of Berg as her "intended." The count sat between them and +listened attentively. His favorite occupation when not playing boston, a +card game he was very fond of, was that of listener, especially when he +succeeded in setting two loquacious talkers at one another. + +"Well, then, old chap, mon tres honorable Alphonse Karlovich," +said Shinshin, laughing ironically and mixing the most ordinary Russian +expressions with the choicest French phrases--which was a peculiarity +of his speech. "Vous comptez vous faire des rentes sur l'etat; * +you want to make something out of your company?" + + * You expect to make an income out of the government. + +"No, Peter Nikolaevich; I only want to show that in the cavalry +the advantages are far less than in the infantry. Just consider my own +position now, Peter Nikolaevich..." + +Berg always spoke quietly, politely, and with great precision. His +conversation always related entirely to himself; he would remain calm +and silent when the talk related to any topic that had no direct bearing +on himself. He could remain silent for hours without being at all put +out of countenance himself or making others uncomfortable, but as +soon as the conversation concerned himself he would begin to talk +circumstantially and with evident satisfaction. + +"Consider my position, Peter Nikolaevich. Were I in the cavalry I +should get not more than two hundred rubles every four months, even +with the rank of lieutenant; but as it is I receive two hundred and +thirty," said he, looking at Shinshin and the count with a joyful, +pleasant smile, as if it were obvious to him that his success must +always be the chief desire of everyone else. + +"Besides that, Peter Nikolaevich, by exchanging into the Guards +I shall be in a more prominent position," continued Berg, "and +vacancies occur much more frequently in the Foot Guards. Then just think +what can be done with two hundred and thirty rubles! I even manage to +put a little aside and to send something to my father," he went on, +emitting a smoke ring. + +"La balance y est... * A German knows how to skin a flint, as the +proverb says," remarked Shinshin, moving his pipe to the other side +of his mouth and winking at the count. + + * So that squares matters. + +The count burst out laughing. The other guests seeing that Shinshin +was talking came up to listen. Berg, oblivious of irony or indifference, +continued to explain how by exchanging into the Guards he had already +gained a step on his old comrades of the Cadet Corps; how in wartime +the company commander might get killed and he, as senior in the company, +might easily succeed to the post; how popular he was with everyone in +the regiment, and how satisfied his father was with him. Berg evidently +enjoyed narrating all this, and did not seem to suspect that others, +too, might have their own interests. But all he said was so prettily +sedate, and the naivete of his youthful egotism was so obvious, that +he disarmed his hearers. + +"Well, my boy, you'll get along wherever you go--foot or +horse--that I'll warrant," said Shinshin, patting him on the +shoulder and taking his feet off the sofa. + +Berg smiled joyously. The count, followed by his guests, went into the +drawing room. + +It was just the moment before a big dinner when the assembled guests, +expecting the summons to zakuska, * avoid engaging in any long +conversation but think it necessary to move about and talk, in order +to show that they are not at all impatient for their food. The host and +hostess look toward the door, and now and then glance at one another, +and the visitors try to guess from these glances who, or what, they are +waiting for--some important relation who has not yet arrived, or a dish +that is not yet ready. + + * Hors d'oeuvres. + +Pierre had come just at dinnertime and was sitting awkwardly in the +middle of the drawing room on the first chair he had come across, +blocking the way for everyone. The countess tried to make him talk, +but he went on naively looking around through his spectacles as if in +search of somebody and answered all her questions in monosyllables. He +was in the way and was the only one who did not notice the fact. Most of +the guests, knowing of the affair with the bear, looked with curiosity +at this big, stout, quiet man, wondering how such a clumsy, modest +fellow could have played such a prank on a policeman. + +"You have only lately arrived?" the countess asked him. + +"Oui, madame," replied he, looking around him. + +"You have not yet seen my husband?" + +"Non, madame." He smiled quite inappropriately. + +"You have been in Paris recently, I believe? I suppose it's very +interesting." + +"Very interesting." + +The countess exchanged glances with Anna Mikhaylovna. The latter +understood that she was being asked to entertain this young man, and +sitting down beside him she began to speak about his father; but he +answered her, as he had the countess, only in monosyllables. The other +guests were all conversing with one another. "The Razumovskis... It +was charming... You are very kind... Countess Apraksina..." was heard +on all sides. The countess rose and went into the ballroom. + +"Marya Dmitrievna?" came her voice from there. + +"Herself," came the answer in a rough voice, and Marya Dmitrievna +entered the room. + +All the unmarried ladies and even the married ones except the very +oldest rose. Marya Dmitrievna paused at the door. Tall and stout, +holding high her fifty-year-old head with its gray curls, she stood +surveying the guests, and leisurely arranged her wide sleeves as if +rolling them up. Marya Dmitrievna always spoke in Russian. + +"Health and happiness to her whose name day we are keeping and to her +children," she said, in her loud, full-toned voice which drowned all +others. "Well, you old sinner," she went on, turning to the count +who was kissing her hand, "you're feeling dull in Moscow, I daresay? +Nowhere to hunt with your dogs? But what is to be done, old man? Just +see how these nestlings are growing up," and she pointed to the girls. +"You must look for husbands for them whether you like it or not...." + +"Well," said she, "how's my Cossack?" (Marya Dmitrievna +always called Natasha a Cossack) and she stroked the child's arm as +she came up fearless and gay to kiss her hand. "I know she's a scamp +of a girl, but I like her." + +She took a pair of pear-shaped ruby earrings from her huge reticule and, +having given them to the rosy Natasha, who beamed with the pleasure +of her saint's-day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to +Pierre. + +"Eh, eh, friend! Come here a bit," said she, assuming a soft high +tone of voice. "Come here, my friend..." and she ominously tucked +up her sleeves still higher. Pierre approached, looking at her in a +childlike way through his spectacles. + +"Come nearer, come nearer, friend! I used to be the only one to tell +your father the truth when he was in favor, and in your case it's my +evident duty." She paused. All were silent, expectant of what was to +follow, for this was clearly only a prelude. + +"A fine lad! My word! A fine lad!... His father lies on his deathbed +and he amuses himself setting a policeman astride a bear! For shame, +sir, for shame! It would be better if you went to the war." + +She turned away and gave her hand to the count, who could hardly keep +from laughing. + +"Well, I suppose it is time we were at table?" said Marya +Dmitrievna. + +The count went in first with Marya Dmitrievna, the countess followed +on the arm of a colonel of hussars, a man of importance to them because +Nicholas was to go with him to the regiment; then came Anna Mikhaylovna +with Shinshin. Berg gave his arm to Vera. The smiling Julie Karagina +went in with Nicholas. After them other couples followed, filling the +whole dining hall, and last of all the children, tutors, and governesses +followed singly. The footmen began moving about, chairs scraped, the +band struck up in the gallery, and the guests settled down in their +places. Then the strains of the count's household band were replaced +by the clatter of knives and forks, the voices of visitors, and the +soft steps of the footmen. At one end of the table sat the countess with +Marya Dmitrievna on her right and Anna Mikhaylovna on her left, the +other lady visitors were farther down. At the other end sat the count, +with the hussar colonel on his left and Shinshin and the other male +visitors on his right. Midway down the long table on one side sat the +grown-up young people: Vera beside Berg, and Pierre beside Boris; and +on the other side, the children, tutors, and governesses. From behind +the crystal decanters and fruit vases, the count kept glancing at his +wife and her tall cap with its light-blue ribbons, and busily filled +his neighbors' glasses, not neglecting his own. The countess in turn, +without omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from +behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed +by their redness to contrast more than usual with his gray hair. At the +ladies' end an even chatter of voices was heard all the time, at the +men's end the voices sounded louder and louder, especially that of the +colonel of hussars who, growing more and more flushed, ate and drank so +much that the count held him up as a pattern to the other guests. Berg +with tender smiles was saying to Vera that love is not an earthly but +a heavenly feeling. Boris was telling his new friend Pierre who the +guests were and exchanging glances with Natasha, who was sitting +opposite. Pierre spoke little but examined the new faces, and ate a +great deal. Of the two soups he chose turtle with savory patties and +went on to the game without omitting a single dish or one of the wines. +These latter the butler thrust mysteriously forward, wrapped in a +napkin, from behind the next man's shoulders and whispered: "Dry +Madeira"... "Hungarian"... or "Rhine wine" as the case might +be. Of the four crystal glasses engraved with the count's monogram +that stood before his plate, Pierre held out one at random and drank +with enjoyment, gazing with ever-increasing amiability at the other +guests. Natasha, who sat opposite, was looking at Boris as girls of +thirteen look at the boy they are in love with and have just kissed for +the first time. Sometimes that same look fell on Pierre, and that funny +lively little girl's look made him inclined to laugh without knowing +why. + +Nicholas sat at some distance from Sonya, beside Julie Karagina, to +whom he was again talking with the same involuntary smile. Sonya wore +a company smile but was evidently tormented by jealousy; now she turned +pale, now blushed and strained every nerve to overhear what Nicholas +and Julie were saying to one another. The governess kept looking round +uneasily as if preparing to resent any slight that might be put upon the +children. The German tutor was trying to remember all the dishes, wines, +and kinds of dessert, in order to send a full description of the dinner +to his people in Germany; and he felt greatly offended when the butler +with a bottle wrapped in a napkin passed him by. He frowned, trying to +appear as if he did not want any of that wine, but was mortified because +no one would understand that it was not to quench his thirst or from +greediness that he wanted it, but simply from a conscientious desire for +knowledge. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIX + +At the men's end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. +The colonel told them that the declaration of war had already appeared +in Petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day +been forwarded by courier to the commander in chief. + +"And why the deuce are we going to fight Bonaparte?" remarked +Shinshin. "He has stopped Austria's cackle and I fear it will be +our turn next." + +The colonel was a stout, tall, plethoric German, evidently devoted to +the service and patriotically Russian. He resented Shinshin's remark. + +"It is for the reasson, my goot sir," said he, speaking with a +German accent, "for the reasson zat ze Emperor knows zat. He +declares in ze manifessto zat he cannot fiew wiz indifference ze danger +vreatening Russia and zat ze safety and dignity of ze Empire as vell +as ze sanctity of its alliances..." he spoke this last word with +particular emphasis as if in it lay the gist of the matter. + +Then with the unerring official memory that characterized him he +repeated from the opening words of the manifesto: + +... and the wish, which constitutes the Emperor's sole and absolute +aim--to establish peace in Europe on firm foundations--has now decided +him to despatch part of the army abroad and to create a new condition +for the attainment of that purpose. + +"Zat, my dear sir, is vy..." he concluded, drinking a tumbler of +wine with dignity and looking to the count for approval. + +"Connaissez-vous le Proverbe:* 'Jerome, Jerome, do not roam, but +turn spindles at home!'?" said Shinshin, puckering his brows and +smiling. "Cela nous convient a merveille.*(2) Suvorov now--he knew +what he was about; yet they beat him a plate couture,*(3) and where +are we to find Suvorovs now? Je vous demande un peu," *(4) said he, +continually changing from French to Russian. + + *Do you know the proverb? + + *(2) That suits us down to the ground. + + *(3) Hollow. + + *(4) I just ask you that. + +"Ve must vight to the last tr-r-op of our plood!" said the colonel, +thumping the table; "and ve must tie for our Emperor, and zen all vill +pe vell. And ve must discuss it as little as po-o-ossible"... he dwelt +particularly on the word possible... "as po-o-ossible," he ended, +again turning to the count. "Zat is how ve old hussars look at it, and +zere's an end of it! And how do you, a young man and a young hussar, +how do you judge of it?" he added, addressing Nicholas, who when he +heard that the war was being discussed had turned from his partner with +eyes and ears intent on the colonel. + +"I am quite of your opinion," replied Nicholas, flaming up, turning +his plate round and moving his wineglasses about with as much decision +and desperation as though he were at that moment facing some great +danger. "I am convinced that we Russians must die or conquer," he +concluded, conscious--as were others--after the words were uttered +that his remarks were too enthusiastic and emphatic for the occasion and +were therefore awkward. + +"What you said just now was splendid!" said his partner Julie. + +Sonya trembled all over and blushed to her ears and behind them and +down to her neck and shoulders while Nicholas was speaking. + +Pierre listened to the colonel's speech and nodded approvingly. + +"That's fine," said he. + +"The young man's a real hussar!" shouted the colonel, again +thumping the table. + +"What are you making such a noise about over there?" Marya +Dmitrievna's deep voice suddenly inquired from the other end of the +table. "What are you thumping the table for?" she demanded of the +hussar, "and why are you exciting yourself? Do you think the French +are here?" + +"I am speaking ze truce," replied the hussar with a smile. + +"It's all about the war," the count shouted down the table. "You +know my son's going, Marya Dmitrievna? My son is going." + +"I have four sons in the army but still I don't fret. It is all +in God's hands. You may die in your bed or God may spare you in a +battle," replied Marya Dmitrievna's deep voice, which easily +carried the whole length of the table. + +"That's true!" + +Once more the conversations concentrated, the ladies' at the one end +and the men's at the other. + +"You won't ask," Natasha's little brother was saying; "I know +you won't ask!" + +"I will," replied Natasha. + +Her face suddenly flushed with reckless and joyous resolution. She half +rose, by a glance inviting Pierre, who sat opposite, to listen to what +was coming, and turning to her mother: + +"Mamma!" rang out the clear contralto notes of her childish voice, +audible the whole length of the table. + +"What is it?" asked the countess, startled; but seeing by her +daughter's face that it was only mischief, she shook a finger at her +sternly with a threatening and forbidding movement of her head. + +The conversation was hushed. + +"Mamma! What sweets are we going to have?" and Natasha's voice +sounded still more firm and resolute. + +The countess tried to frown, but could not. Marya Dmitrievna shook her +fat finger. + +"Cossack!" she said threateningly. + +Most of the guests, uncertain how to regard this sally, looked at the +elders. + +"You had better take care!" said the countess. + +"Mamma! What sweets are we going to have?" Natasha again cried +boldly, with saucy gaiety, confident that her prank would be taken in +good part. + +Sonya and fat little Petya doubled up with laughter. + +"You see! I have asked," whispered Natasha to her little brother +and to Pierre, glancing at him again. + +"Ice pudding, but you won't get any," said Marya Dmitrievna. + +Natasha saw there was nothing to be afraid of and so she braved even +Marya Dmitrievna. + +"Marya Dmitrievna! What kind of ice pudding? I don't like ice +cream." + +"Carrot ices." + +"No! What kind, Marya Dmitrievna? What kind?" she almost screamed; +"I want to know!" + +Marya Dmitrievna and the countess burst out laughing, and all the +guests joined in. Everyone laughed, not at Marya Dmitrievna's answer +but at the incredible boldness and smartness of this little girl who had +dared to treat Marya Dmitrievna in this fashion. + +Natasha only desisted when she had been told that there would be +pineapple ice. Before the ices, champagne was served round. The band +again struck up, the count and countess kissed, and the guests, leaving +their seats, went up to "congratulate" the countess, and reached +across the table to clink glasses with the count, with the children, and +with one another. Again the footmen rushed about, chairs scraped, and +in the same order in which they had entered but with redder faces, the +guests returned to the drawing room and to the count's study. + + + + + +CHAPTER XX + +The card tables were drawn out, sets made up for boston, and the +count's visitors settled themselves, some in the two drawing rooms, +some in the sitting room, some in the library. + +The count, holding his cards fanwise, kept himself with difficulty from +dropping into his usual after-dinner nap, and laughed at everything. +The young people, at the countess' instigation, gathered round the +clavichord and harp. Julie by general request played first. After she +had played a little air with variations on the harp, she joined the +other young ladies in begging Natasha and Nicholas, who were noted for +their musical talent, to sing something. Natasha, who was treated as +though she were grown up, was evidently very proud of this but at the +same time felt shy. + +"What shall we sing?" she said. + +"'The Brook,'" suggested Nicholas. + +"Well, then, let's be quick. Boris, come here," said Natasha. +"But where is Sonya?" + +She looked round and seeing that her friend was not in the room ran to +look for her. + +Running into Sonya's room and not finding her there, Natasha ran to +the nursery, but Sonya was not there either. Natasha concluded that +she must be on the chest in the passage. The chest in the passage was +the place of mourning for the younger female generation in the Rostov +household. And there in fact was Sonya lying face downward on Nurse's +dirty feather bed on the top of the chest, crumpling her gauzy pink +dress under her, hiding her face with her slender fingers, and sobbing +so convulsively that her bare little shoulders shook. Natasha's +face, which had been so radiantly happy all that saint's day, suddenly +changed: her eyes became fixed, and then a shiver passed down her broad +neck and the corners of her mouth drooped. + +"Sonya! What is it? What is the matter?... Oo... Oo... Oo...!" And +Natasha's large mouth widened, making her look quite ugly, and she +began to wail like a baby without knowing why, except that Sonya was +crying. Sonya tried to lift her head to answer but could not, and +hid her face still deeper in the bed. Natasha wept, sitting on the +blue-striped feather bed and hugging her friend. With an effort Sonya +sat up and began wiping her eyes and explaining. + +"Nicholas is going away in a week's time, his... papers... have +come... he told me himself... but still I should not cry," and she +showed a paper she held in her hand--with the verses Nicholas had +written, "still, I should not cry, but you can't... no one can +understand... what a soul he has!" + +And she began to cry again because he had such a noble soul. + +"It's all very well for you... I am not envious... I love you and +Boris also," she went on, gaining a little strength; "he is nice... +there are no difficulties in your way.... But Nicholas is my cousin... +one would have to... the Metropolitan himself... and even then it +can't be done. And besides, if she tells Mamma" (Sonya looked upon +the countess as her mother and called her so) "that I am spoiling +Nicholas' career and am heartless and ungrateful, while truly... God +is my witness," and she made the sign of the cross, "I love her so +much, and all of you, only Vera... And what for? What have I done +to her? I am so grateful to you that I would willingly sacrifice +everything, only I have nothing...." + +Sonya could not continue, and again hid her face in her hands and in +the feather bed. Natasha began consoling her, but her face showed that +she understood all the gravity of her friend's trouble. + +"Sonya," she suddenly exclaimed, as if she had guessed the true +reason of her friend's sorrow, "I'm sure Vera has said something +to you since dinner? Hasn't she?" + +"Yes, these verses Nicholas wrote himself and I copied some others, +and she found them on my table and said she'd show them to Mamma, and +that I was ungrateful, and that Mamma would never allow him to marry +me, but that he'll marry Julie. You see how he's been with her all +day... Natasha, what have I done to deserve it?..." + +And again she began to sob, more bitterly than before. Natasha lifted +her up, hugged her, and, smiling through her tears, began comforting +her. + +"Sonya, don't believe her, darling! Don't believe her! Do you +remember how we and Nicholas, all three of us, talked in the sitting +room after supper? Why, we settled how everything was to be. I don't +quite remember how, but don't you remember that it could all be +arranged and how nice it all was? There's Uncle Shinshin's brother +has married his first cousin. And we are only second cousins, you know. +And Boris says it is quite possible. You know I have told him all about +it. And he is so clever and so good!" said Natasha. "Don't +you cry, Sonya, dear love, darling Sonya!" and she kissed her and +laughed. "Vera's spiteful; never mind her! And all will come right +and she won't say anything to Mamma. Nicholas will tell her himself, +and he doesn't care at all for Julie." + +Natasha kissed her on the hair. + +Sonya sat up. The little kitten brightened, its eyes shone, and it +seemed ready to lift its tail, jump down on its soft paws, and begin +playing with the ball of worsted as a kitten should. + +"Do you think so?... Really? Truly?" she said, quickly smoothing her +frock and hair. + +"Really, truly!" answered Natasha, pushing in a crisp lock that had +strayed from under her friend's plaits. + +Both laughed. + +"Well, let's go and sing 'The Brook.'" + +"Come along!" + +"Do you know, that fat Pierre who sat opposite me is so funny!" said +Natasha, stopping suddenly. "I feel so happy!" + +And she set off at a run along the passage. + +Sonya, shaking off some down which clung to her and tucking away the +verses in the bosom of her dress close to her bony little chest, ran +after Natasha down the passage into the sitting room with flushed face +and light, joyous steps. At the visitors' request the young people +sang the quartette, "The Brook," with which everyone was delighted. +Then Nicholas sang a song he had just learned: + + At nighttime in the moon's fair glow + How sweet, as fancies wander free, + To feel that in this world there's one + Who still is thinking but of thee! + + That while her fingers touch the harp + Wafting sweet music o'er the lea, + It is for thee thus swells her heart, + Sighing its message out to thee... + + A day or two, then bliss unspoilt, + But oh! till then I cannot live!... + +He had not finished the last verse before the young people began to +get ready to dance in the large hall, and the sound of the feet and the +coughing of the musicians were heard from the gallery. + + +Pierre was sitting in the drawing room where Shinshin had engaged him, +as a man recently returned from abroad, in a political conversation in +which several others joined but which bored Pierre. When the music began +Natasha came in and walking straight up to Pierre said, laughing and +blushing: + +"Mamma told me to ask you to join the dancers." + +"I am afraid of mixing the figures," Pierre replied; "but if you +will be my teacher..." And lowering his big arm he offered it to the +slender little girl. + +While the couples were arranging themselves and the musicians tuning up, +Pierre sat down with his little partner. Natasha was perfectly happy; +she was dancing with a grown-up man, who had been abroad. She was +sitting in a conspicuous place and talking to him like a grown-up lady. +She had a fan in her hand that one of the ladies had given her to hold. +Assuming quite the pose of a society woman (heaven knows when and where +she had learned it) she talked with her partner, fanning herself and +smiling over the fan. + +"Dear, dear! Just look at her!" exclaimed the countess as she +crossed the ballroom, pointing to Natasha. + +Natasha blushed and laughed. + +"Well, really, Mamma! Why should you? What is there to be surprised +at?" + + +In the midst of the third ecossaise there was a clatter of chairs being +pushed back in the sitting room where the count and Marya Dmitrievna +had been playing cards with the majority of the more distinguished and +older visitors. They now, stretching themselves after sitting so long, +and replacing their purses and pocketbooks, entered the ballroom. First +came Marya Dmitrievna and the count, both with merry countenances. The +count, with playful ceremony somewhat in ballet style, offered his +bent arm to Marya Dmitrievna. He drew himself up, a smile of debonair +gallantry lit up his face and as soon as the last figure of the +ecossaise was ended, he clapped his hands to the musicians and shouted +up to their gallery, addressing the first violin: + +"Semen! Do you know the Daniel Cooper?" + +This was the count's favorite dance, which he had danced in his youth. +(Strictly speaking, Daniel Cooper was one figure of the anglaise.) + +"Look at Papa!" shouted Natasha to the whole company, and quite +forgetting that she was dancing with a grown-up partner she bent her +curly head to her knees and made the whole room ring with her laughter. + +And indeed everybody in the room looked with a smile of pleasure at the +jovial old gentleman, who standing beside his tall and stout partner, +Marya Dmitrievna, curved his arms, beat time, straightened his +shoulders, turned out his toes, tapped gently with his foot, and, by +a smile that broadened his round face more and more, prepared the +onlookers for what was to follow. As soon as the provocatively gay +strains of Daniel Cooper (somewhat resembling those of a merry peasant +dance) began to sound, all the doorways of the ballroom were suddenly +filled by the domestic serfs--the men on one side and the women on +the other--who with beaming faces had come to see their master making +merry. + +"Just look at the master! A regular eagle he is!" loudly remarked +the nurse, as she stood in one of the doorways. + +The count danced well and knew it. But his partner could not and did not +want to dance well. Her enormous figure stood erect, her powerful arms +hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her +stern but handsome face really joined in the dance. What was expressed +by the whole of the count's plump figure, in Marya Dmitrievna found +expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose. +But if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed +the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and +the agility with which he capered about on his light feet, Marya +Dmitrievna produced no less impression by slight exertions--the least +effort to move her shoulders or bend her arms when turning, or stamp +her foot--which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual +severity. The dance grew livelier and livelier. The other couples could +not attract a moment's attention to their own evolutions and did not +even try to do so. All were watching the count and Marya Dmitrievna. +Natasha kept pulling everyone by sleeve or dress, urging them to +"look at Papa!" though as it was they never took their eyes off the +couple. In the intervals of the dance the count, breathing deeply, waved +and shouted to the musicians to play faster. Faster, faster, and faster; +lightly, more lightly, and yet more lightly whirled the count, flying +round Marya Dmitrievna, now on his toes, now on his heels; until, +turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, +raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspiring head, smiling +and making a wide sweep with his arm, amid a thunder of applause and +laughter led by Natasha. Both partners stood still, breathing heavily +and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs. + +"That's how we used to dance in our time, ma chere," said the +count. + +"That was a Daniel Cooper!" exclaimed Marya Dmitrievna, tucking up +her sleeves and puffing heavily. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXI + +While in the Rostovs' ballroom the sixth anglaise was being danced, +to a tune in which the weary musicians blundered, and while tired +footmen and cooks were getting the supper, Count Bezukhov had a +sixth stroke. The doctors pronounced recovery impossible. After a mute +confession, communion was administered to the dying man, preparations +made for the sacrament of unction, and in his house there was the bustle +and thrill of suspense usual at such moments. Outside the house, beyond +the gates, a group of undertakers, who hid whenever a carriage drove up, +waited in expectation of an important order for an expensive funeral. +The Military Governor of Moscow, who had been assiduous in sending +aides-de-camp to inquire after the count's health, came himself +that evening to bid a last farewell to the celebrated grandee of +Catherine's court, Count Bezukhov. + +The magnificent reception room was crowded. Everyone stood up +respectfully when the Military Governor, having stayed about half an +hour alone with the dying man, passed out, slightly acknowledging their +bows and trying to escape as quickly as possible from the glances fixed +on him by the doctors, clergy, and relatives of the family. Prince +Vasili, who had grown thinner and paler during the last few days, +escorted him to the door, repeating something to him several times in +low tones. + +When the Military Governor had gone, Prince Vasili sat down all alone +on a chair in the ballroom, crossing one leg high over the other, +leaning his elbow on his knee and covering his face with his hand. After +sitting so for a while he rose, and, looking about him with frightened +eyes, went with unusually hurried steps down the long corridor leading +to the back of the house, to the room of the eldest princess. + +Those who were in the dimly lit reception room spoke in nervous +whispers, and, whenever anyone went into or came from the dying man's +room, grew silent and gazed with eyes full of curiosity or expectancy at +his door, which creaked slightly when opened. + +"The limits of human life ... are fixed and may not be +o'erpassed," said an old priest to a lady who had taken a seat +beside him and was listening naively to his words. + +"I wonder, is it not too late to administer unction?" asked the +lady, adding the priest's clerical title, as if she had no opinion of +her own on the subject. + +"Ah, madam, it is a great sacrament," replied the priest, passing +his hand over the thin grizzled strands of hair combed back across his +bald head. + +"Who was that? The Military Governor himself?" was being asked at +the other side of the room. "How young-looking he is!" + +"Yes, and he is over sixty. I hear the count no longer recognizes +anyone. They wished to administer the sacrament of unction." + +"I knew someone who received that sacrament seven times." + +The second princess had just come from the sickroom with her eyes red +from weeping and sat down beside Dr. Lorrain, who was sitting in a +graceful pose under a portrait of Catherine, leaning his elbow on a +table. + +"Beautiful," said the doctor in answer to a remark about the +weather. "The weather is beautiful, Princess; and besides, in Moscow +one feels as if one were in the country." + +"Yes, indeed," replied the princess with a sigh. "So he may have +something to drink?" + +Lorrain considered. + +"Has he taken his medicine?" + +"Yes." + +The doctor glanced at his watch. + +"Take a glass of boiled water and put a pinch of cream of tartar," +and he indicated with his delicate fingers what he meant by a pinch. + +"Dere has neffer been a gase," a German doctor was saying to an +aide-de-camp, "dat one liffs after de sird stroke." + +"And what a well-preserved man he was!" remarked the aide-de-camp. +"And who will inherit his wealth?" he added in a whisper. + +"It von't go begging," replied the German with a smile. + +Everyone again looked toward the door, which creaked as the second +princess went in with the drink she had prepared according to +Lorrain's instructions. The German doctor went up to Lorrain. + +"Do you think he can last till morning?" asked the German, +addressing Lorrain in French which he pronounced badly. + +Lorrain, pursing up his lips, waved a severely negative finger before +his nose. + +"Tonight, not later," said he in a low voice, and he moved away +with a decorous smile of self-satisfaction at being able clearly to +understand and state the patient's condition. + +Meanwhile Prince Vasili had opened the door into the princess' room. + +In this room it was almost dark; only two tiny lamps were burning before +the icons and there was a pleasant scent of flowers and burnt pastilles. +The room was crowded with small pieces of furniture, whatnots, +cupboards, and little tables. The quilt of a high, white feather bed was +just visible behind a screen. A small dog began to bark. + +"Ah, is it you, cousin?" + +She rose and smoothed her hair, which was as usual so extremely smooth +that it seemed to be made of one piece with her head and covered with +varnish. + +"Has anything happened?" she asked. "I am so terrified." + +"No, there is no change. I only came to have a talk about business, +Catiche," * muttered the prince, seating himself wearily on the chair +she had just vacated. "You have made the place warm, I must say," he +remarked. "Well, sit down: let's have a talk." + + *Catherine. + +"I thought perhaps something had happened," she said with her +unchanging stonily severe expression; and, sitting down opposite the +prince, she prepared to listen. + +"I wished to get a nap, mon cousin, but I can't." + +"Well, my dear?" said Prince Vasili, taking her hand and bending it +downwards as was his habit. + +It was plain that this "well?" referred to much that they both +understood without naming. + +The princess, who had a straight, rigid body, abnormally long for her +legs, looked directly at Prince Vasili with no sign of emotion in her +prominent gray eyes. Then she shook her head and glanced up at the icons +with a sigh. This might have been taken as an expression of sorrow +and devotion, or of weariness and hope of resting before long. Prince +Vasili understood it as an expression of weariness. + +"And I?" he said; "do you think it is easier for me? I am as worn +out as a post horse, but still I must have a talk with you, Catiche, a +very serious talk." + +Prince Vasili said no more and his cheeks began to twitch nervously, +now on one side, now on the other, giving his face an unpleasant +expression which was never to be seen on it in a drawing room. His eyes +too seemed strange; at one moment they looked impudently sly and at the +next glanced round in alarm. + +The princess, holding her little dog on her lap with her thin bony +hands, looked attentively into Prince Vasili's eyes evidently +resolved not to be the first to break silence, if she had to wait till +morning. + +"Well, you see, my dear princess and cousin, Catherine Semenovna," +continued Prince Vasili, returning to his theme, apparently not +without an inner struggle; "at such a moment as this one must think +of everything. One must think of the future, of all of you... I love you +all, like children of my own, as you know." + +The princess continued to look at him without moving, and with the same +dull expression. + +"And then of course my family has also to be considered," Prince +Vasili went on, testily pushing away a little table without looking at +her. "You know, Catiche, that we--you three sisters, Mamontov, and +my wife--are the count's only direct heirs. I know, I know how hard +it is for you to talk or think of such matters. It is no easier for +me; but, my dear, I am getting on for sixty and must be prepared for +anything. Do you know I have sent for Pierre? The count," pointing to +his portrait, "definitely demanded that he should be called." + +Prince Vasili looked questioningly at the princess, but could not make +out whether she was considering what he had just said or whether she was +simply looking at him. + +"There is one thing I constantly pray God to grant, mon cousin," she +replied, "and it is that He would be merciful to him and would allow +his noble soul peacefully to leave this..." + +"Yes, yes, of course," interrupted Prince Vasili impatiently, +rubbing his bald head and angrily pulling back toward him the little +table that he had pushed away. "But... in short, the fact is... you +know yourself that last winter the count made a will by which he left +all his property, not to us his direct heirs, but to Pierre." + +"He has made wills enough!" quietly remarked the princess. "But he +cannot leave the estate to Pierre. Pierre is illegitimate." + +"But, my dear," said Prince Vasili suddenly, clutching the little +table and becoming more animated and talking more rapidly: "what if +a letter has been written to the Emperor in which the count asks for +Pierre's legitimation? Do you understand that in consideration of the +count's services, his request would be granted?..." + +The princess smiled as people do who think they know more about the +subject under discussion than those they are talking with. + +"I can tell you more," continued Prince Vasili, seizing her hand, +"that letter was written, though it was not sent, and the Emperor knew +of it. The only question is, has it been destroyed or not? If not, then +as soon as all is over," and Prince Vasili sighed to intimate what he +meant by the words all is over, "and the count's papers are opened, +the will and letter will be delivered to the Emperor, and the petition +will certainly be granted. Pierre will get everything as the legitimate +son." + +"And our share?" asked the princess smiling ironically, as if +anything might happen, only not that. + +"But, my poor Catiche, it is as clear as daylight! He will then be the +legal heir to everything and you won't get anything. You must know, +my dear, whether the will and letter were written, and whether they have +been destroyed or not. And if they have somehow been overlooked, you +ought to know where they are, and must find them, because..." + +"What next?" the princess interrupted, smiling sardonically and not +changing the expression of her eyes. "I am a woman, and you think we +are all stupid; but I know this: an illegitimate son cannot inherit... +un batard!"* she added, as if supposing that this translation of the +word would effectively prove to Prince Vasili the invalidity of his +contention. + + * A bastard. + +"Well, really, Catiche! Can't you understand! You are so +intelligent, how is it you don't see that if the count has written a +letter to the Emperor begging him to recognize Pierre as legitimate, it +follows that Pierre will not be Pierre but will become Count Bezukhov, +and will then inherit everything under the will? And if the will and +letter are not destroyed, then you will have nothing but the consolation +of having been dutiful et tout ce qui s'ensuit!* That's certain." + + * And all that follows therefrom. + +"I know the will was made, but I also know that it is invalid; +and you, mon cousin, seem to consider me a perfect fool," said the +princess with the expression women assume when they suppose they are +saying something witty and stinging. + +"My dear Princess Catherine Semenovna," began Prince Vasili +impatiently, "I came here not to wrangle with you, but to talk about +your interests as with a kinswoman, a good, kind, true relation. And I +tell you for the tenth time that if the letter to the Emperor and the +will in Pierre's favor are among the count's papers, then, my dear +girl, you and your sisters are not heiresses! If you don't believe me, +then believe an expert. I have just been talking to Dmitri Onufrich" +(the family solicitor) "and he says the same." + +At this a sudden change evidently took place in the princess' ideas; +her thin lips grew white, though her eyes did not change, and her voice +when she began to speak passed through such transitions as she herself +evidently did not expect. + +"That would be a fine thing!" said she. "I never wanted anything +and I don't now." + +She pushed the little dog off her lap and smoothed her dress. + +"And this is gratitude--this is recognition for those who have +sacrificed everything for his sake!" she cried. "It's splendid! +Fine! I don't want anything, Prince." + +"Yes, but you are not the only one. There are your sisters..." +replied Prince Vasili. + +But the princess did not listen to him. + +"Yes, I knew it long ago but had forgotten. I knew that I could expect +nothing but meanness, deceit, envy, intrigue, and ingratitude--the +blackest ingratitude--in this house..." + +"Do you or do you not know where that will is?" insisted Prince +Vasili, his cheeks twitching more than ever. + +"Yes, I was a fool! I still believed in people, loved them, and +sacrificed myself. But only the base, the vile succeed! I know who has +been intriguing!" + +The princess wished to rise, but the prince held her by the hand. She +had the air of one who has suddenly lost faith in the whole human race. +She gave her companion an angry glance. + +"There is still time, my dear. You must remember, Catiche, that it was +all done casually in a moment of anger, of illness, and was afterwards +forgotten. Our duty, my dear, is to rectify his mistake, to ease his +last moments by not letting him commit this injustice, and not to let +him die feeling that he is rendering unhappy those who..." + +"Who sacrificed everything for him," chimed in the princess, who +would again have risen had not the prince still held her fast, "though +he never could appreciate it. No, mon cousin," she added with a sigh, +"I shall always remember that in this world one must expect no reward, +that in this world there is neither honor nor justice. In this world one +has to be cunning and cruel." + +"Now come, come! Be reasonable. I know your excellent heart." + +"No, I have a wicked heart." + +"I know your heart," repeated the prince. "I value your friendship +and wish you to have as good an opinion of me. Don't upset yourself, +and let us talk sensibly while there is still time, be it a day or be it +but an hour.... Tell me all you know about the will, and above all where +it is. You must know. We will take it at once and show it to the +count. He has, no doubt, forgotten it and will wish to destroy it. +You understand that my sole desire is conscientiously to carry out his +wishes; that is my only reason for being here. I came simply to help him +and you." + +"Now I see it all! I know who has been intriguing--I know!" cried +the princess. + +"That's not the point, my dear." + +"It's that protege of yours, that sweet Princess Drubetskaya, +that Anna Mikhaylovna whom I would not take for a housemaid... the +infamous, vile woman!" + +"Do not let us lose any time..." + +"Ah, don't talk to me! Last winter she wheedled herself in here and +told the count such vile, disgraceful things about us, especially about +Sophie--I can't repeat them--that it made the count quite ill and he +would not see us for a whole fortnight. I know it was then he wrote this +vile, infamous paper, but I thought the thing was invalid." + +"We've got to it at last--why did you not tell me about it +sooner?" + +"It's in the inlaid portfolio that he keeps under his pillow," +said the princess, ignoring his question. "Now I know! Yes; if I have +a sin, a great sin, it is hatred of that vile woman!" almost shrieked +the princess, now quite changed. "And what does she come worming +herself in here for? But I will give her a piece of my mind. The time +will come!" + + + + + +CHAPTER XXII + +While these conversations were going on in the reception room and the +princess' room, a carriage containing Pierre (who had been sent for) +and Anna Mikhaylovna (who found it necessary to accompany him) was +driving into the court of Count Bezukhov's house. As the wheels +rolled softly over the straw beneath the windows, Anna Mikhaylovna, +having turned with words of comfort to her companion, realized that +he was asleep in his corner and woke him up. Rousing himself, Pierre +followed Anna Mikhaylovna out of the carriage, and only then began +to think of the interview with his dying father which awaited him. He +noticed that they had not come to the front entrance but to the back +door. While he was getting down from the carriage steps two men, who +looked like tradespeople, ran hurriedly from the entrance and hid in the +shadow of the wall. Pausing for a moment, Pierre noticed several other +men of the same kind hiding in the shadow of the house on both sides. +But neither Anna Mikhaylovna nor the footman nor the coachman, who +could not help seeing these people, took any notice of them. "It seems +to be all right," Pierre concluded, and followed Anna Mikhaylovna. +She hurriedly ascended the narrow dimly lit stone staircase, calling to +Pierre, who was lagging behind, to follow. Though he did not see why it +was necessary for him to go to the count at all, still less why he had +to go by the back stairs, yet judging by Anna Mikhaylovna's air +of assurance and haste, Pierre concluded that it was all absolutely +necessary. Halfway up the stairs they were almost knocked over by +some men who, carrying pails, came running downstairs, their boots +clattering. These men pressed close to the wall to let Pierre and Anna +Mikhaylovna pass and did not evince the least surprise at seeing them +there. + +"Is this the way to the princesses' apartments?" asked Anna +Mikhaylovna of one of them. + +"Yes," replied a footman in a bold loud voice, as if anything were +now permissible; "the door to the left, ma'am." + +"Perhaps the count did not ask for me," said Pierre when he reached +the landing. "I'd better go to my own room." + +Anna Mikhaylovna paused and waited for him to come up. + +"Ah, my friend!" she said, touching his arm as she had done her +son's when speaking to him that afternoon, "believe me I suffer no +less than you do, but be a man!" + +"But really, hadn't I better go away?" he asked, looking kindly at +her over his spectacles. + +"Ah, my dear friend! Forget the wrongs that may have been done you. +Think that he is your father ... perhaps in the agony of death." She +sighed. "I have loved you like a son from the first. Trust yourself to +me, Pierre. I shall not forget your interests." + +Pierre did not understand a word, but the conviction that all this had +to be grew stronger, and he meekly followed Anna Mikhaylovna who was +already opening a door. + +This door led into a back anteroom. An old man, a servant of the +princesses, sat in a corner knitting a stocking. Pierre had never been +in this part of the house and did not even know of the existence of +these rooms. Anna Mikhaylovna, addressing a maid who was hurrying past +with a decanter on a tray as "my dear" and "my sweet," asked +about the princess' health and then led Pierre along a stone passage. +The first door on the left led into the princesses' apartments. The +maid with the decanter in her haste had not closed the door (everything +in the house was done in haste at that time), and Pierre and Anna +Mikhaylovna in passing instinctively glanced into the room, where +Prince Vasili and the eldest princess were sitting close together +talking. Seeing them pass, Prince Vasili drew back with obvious +impatience, while the princess jumped up and with a gesture of +desperation slammed the door with all her might. + +This action was so unlike her usual composure and the fear depicted on +Prince Vasili's face so out of keeping with his dignity that Pierre +stopped and glanced inquiringly over his spectacles at his guide. Anna +Mikhaylovna evinced no surprise, she only smiled faintly and sighed, as +if to say that this was no more than she had expected. + +"Be a man, my friend. I will look after your interests," said she in +reply to his look, and went still faster along the passage. + +Pierre could not make out what it was all about, and still less what +"watching over his interests" meant, but he decided that all these +things had to be. From the passage they went into a large, dimly +lit room adjoining the count's reception room. It was one of those +sumptuous but cold apartments known to Pierre only from the front +approach, but even in this room there now stood an empty bath, and water +had been spilled on the carpet. They were met by a deacon with a censer +and by a servant who passed out on tiptoe without heeding them. They +went into the reception room familiar to Pierre, with two Italian +windows opening into the conservatory, with its large bust and full +length portrait of Catherine the Great. The same people were still +sitting here in almost the same positions as before, whispering to one +another. All became silent and turned to look at the pale tear-worn Anna +Mikhaylovna as she entered, and at the big stout figure of Pierre who, +hanging his head, meekly followed her. + +Anna Mikhaylovna's face expressed a consciousness that the decisive +moment had arrived. With the air of a practical Petersburg lady she now, +keeping Pierre close beside her, entered the room even more boldly than +that afternoon. She felt that as she brought with her the person the +dying man wished to see, her own admission was assured. Casting a rapid +glance at all those in the room and noticing the count's confessor +there, she glided up to him with a sort of amble, not exactly bowing yet +seeming to grow suddenly smaller, and respectfully received the blessing +first of one and then of another priest. + +"God be thanked that you are in time," said she to one of the +priests; "all we relatives have been in such anxiety. This young +man is the count's son," she added more softly. "What a terrible +moment!" + +Having said this she went up to the doctor. + +"Dear doctor," said she, "this young man is the count's son. Is +there any hope?" + +The doctor cast a rapid glance upwards and silently shrugged his +shoulders. Anna Mikhaylovna with just the same movement raised her +shoulders and eyes, almost closing the latter, sighed, and moved away +from the doctor to Pierre. To him, in a particularly respectful and +tenderly sad voice, she said: + +"Trust in His mercy!" and pointing out a small sofa for him to sit +and wait for her, she went silently toward the door that everyone was +watching and it creaked very slightly as she disappeared behind it. + +Pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved +toward the sofa she had indicated. As soon as Anna Mikhaylovna had +disappeared he noticed that the eyes of all in the room turned to him +with something more than curiosity and sympathy. He noticed that they +whispered to one another, casting significant looks at him with a kind +of awe and even servility. A deference such as he had never before +received was shown him. A strange lady, the one who had been talking to +the priests, rose and offered him her seat; an aide-de-camp picked up +and returned a glove Pierre had dropped; the doctors became respectfully +silent as he passed by, and moved to make way for him. At first Pierre +wished to take another seat so as not to trouble the lady, and also to +pick up the glove himself and to pass round the doctors who were not +even in his way; but all at once he felt that this would not do, and +that tonight he was a person obliged to perform some sort of awful +rite which everyone expected of him, and that he was therefore bound +to accept their services. He took the glove in silence from the +aide-de-camp, and sat down in the lady's chair, placing his huge hands +symmetrically on his knees in the naive attitude of an Egyptian statue, +and decided in his own mind that all was as it should be, and that in +order not to lose his head and do foolish things he must not act on his +own ideas tonight, but must yield himself up entirely to the will of +those who were guiding him. + +Not two minutes had passed before Prince Vasili with head erect +majestically entered the room. He was wearing his long coat with three +stars on his breast. He seemed to have grown thinner since the morning; +his eyes seemed larger than usual when he glanced round and noticed +Pierre. He went up to him, took his hand (a thing he never used to do), +and drew it downwards as if wishing to ascertain whether it was firmly +fixed on. + +"Courage, courage, my friend! He has asked to see you. That is +well!" and he turned to go. + +But Pierre thought it necessary to ask: "How is..." and hesitated, +not knowing whether it would be proper to call the dying man "the +count," yet ashamed to call him "father." + +"He had another stroke about half an hour ago. Courage, my +friend..." + +Pierre's mind was in such a confused state that the word "stroke" +suggested to him a blow from something. He looked at Prince Vasili +in perplexity, and only later grasped that a stroke was an attack of +illness. Prince Vasili said something to Lorrain in passing and went +through the door on tiptoe. He could not walk well on tiptoe and his +whole body jerked at each step. The eldest princess followed him, and +the priests and deacons and some servants also went in at the door. +Through that door was heard a noise of things being moved about, and +at last Anna Mikhaylovna, still with the same expression, pale but +resolute in the discharge of duty, ran out and touching Pierre lightly +on the arm said: + +"The divine mercy is inexhaustible! Unction is about to be +administered. Come." + +Pierre went in at the door, stepping on the soft carpet, and noticed +that the strange lady, the aide-de-camp, and some of the servants, all +followed him in, as if there were now no further need for permission to +enter that room. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXIII + +Pierre well knew this large room divided by columns and an arch, its +walls hung round with Persian carpets. The part of the room behind the +columns, with a high silk-curtained mahogany bedstead on one side and +on the other an immense case containing icons, was brightly illuminated +with red light like a Russian church during evening service. Under +the gleaming icons stood a long invalid chair, and in that chair +on snowy-white smooth pillows, evidently freshly changed, Pierre +saw--covered to the waist by a bright green quilt--the familiar, +majestic figure of his father, Count Bezukhov, with that gray mane of +hair above his broad forehead which reminded one of a lion, and the deep +characteristically noble wrinkles of his handsome, ruddy face. He lay +just under the icons; his large thick hands outside the quilt. Into the +right hand, which was lying palm downwards, a wax taper had been thrust +between forefinger and thumb, and an old servant, bending over from +behind the chair, held it in position. By the chair stood the priests, +their long hair falling over their magnificent glittering vestments, +with lighted tapers in their hands, slowly and solemnly conducting the +service. A little behind them stood the two younger princesses holding +handkerchiefs to their eyes, and just in front of them their eldest +sister, Catiche, with a vicious and determined look steadily fixed on +the icons, as though declaring to all that she could not answer for +herself should she glance round. Anna Mikhaylovna, with a meek, +sorrowful, and all-forgiving expression on her face, stood by the door +near the strange lady. Prince Vasili in front of the door, near the +invalid chair, a wax taper in his left hand, was leaning his left arm on +the carved back of a velvet chair he had turned round for the purpose, +and was crossing himself with his right hand, turning his eyes upward +each time he touched his forehead. His face wore a calm look of piety +and resignation to the will of God. "If you do not understand these +sentiments," he seemed to be saying, "so much the worse for you!" + +Behind him stood the aide-de-camp, the doctors, and the menservants; +the men and women had separated as in church. All were silently crossing +themselves, and the reading of the church service, the subdued chanting +of deep bass voices, and in the intervals sighs and the shuffling of +feet were the only sounds that could be heard. Anna Mikhaylovna, with +an air of importance that showed that she felt she quite knew what she +was about, went across the room to where Pierre was standing and gave +him a taper. He lit it and, distracted by observing those around him, +began crossing himself with the hand that held the taper. + +Sophie, the rosy, laughter-loving, youngest princess with the mole, +watched him. She smiled, hid her face in her handkerchief, and remained +with it hidden for awhile; then looking up and seeing Pierre she +again began to laugh. She evidently felt unable to look at him +without laughing, but could not resist looking at him: so to be out of +temptation she slipped quietly behind one of the columns. In the midst +of the service the voices of the priests suddenly ceased, they whispered +to one another, and the old servant who was holding the count's hand +got up and said something to the ladies. Anna Mikhaylovna stepped +forward and, stooping over the dying man, beckoned to Lorrain from +behind her back. The French doctor held no taper; he was leaning +against one of the columns in a respectful attitude implying that he, +a foreigner, in spite of all differences of faith, understood the full +importance of the rite now being performed and even approved of it. He +now approached the sick man with the noiseless step of one in full vigor +of life, with his delicate white fingers raised from the green quilt the +hand that was free, and turning sideways felt the pulse and reflected +a moment. The sick man was given something to drink, there was a +stir around him, then the people resumed their places and the service +continued. During this interval Pierre noticed that Prince Vasili +left the chair on which he had been leaning, and--with an air +which intimated that he knew what he was about and if others did not +understand him it was so much the worse for them--did not go up to the +dying man, but passed by him, joined the eldest princess, and moved +with her to the side of the room where stood the high bedstead with its +silken hangings. On leaving the bed both Prince Vasili and the princess +passed out by a back door, but returned to their places one after the +other before the service was concluded. Pierre paid no more attention +to this occurrence than to the rest of what went on, having made up his +mind once for all that what he saw happening around him that evening was +in some way essential. + +The chanting of the service ceased, and the voice of the priest was +heard respectfully congratulating the dying man on having received the +sacrament. The dying man lay as lifeless and immovable as before. Around +him everyone began to stir: steps were audible and whispers, among which +Anna Mikhaylovna's was the most distinct. + +Pierre heard her say: + +"Certainly he must be moved onto the bed; here it will be +impossible..." + +The sick man was so surrounded by doctors, princesses, and servants +that Pierre could no longer see the reddish-yellow face with its gray +mane--which, though he saw other faces as well, he had not lost sight +of for a single moment during the whole service. He judged by the +cautious movements of those who crowded round the invalid chair that +they had lifted the dying man and were moving him. + +"Catch hold of my arm or you'll drop him!" he heard one of the +servants say in a frightened whisper. "Catch hold from underneath. +Here!" exclaimed different voices; and the heavy breathing of the +bearers and the shuffling of their feet grew more hurried, as if the +weight they were carrying were too much for them. + +As the bearers, among whom was Anna Mikhaylovna, passed the young man +he caught a momentary glimpse between their heads and backs of the dying +man's high, stout, uncovered chest and powerful shoulders, raised by +those who were holding him under the armpits, and of his gray, curly, +leonine head. This head, with its remarkably broad brow and cheekbones, +its handsome, sensual mouth, and its cold, majestic expression, was +not disfigured by the approach of death. It was the same as Pierre +remembered it three months before, when the count had sent him to +Petersburg. But now this head was swaying helplessly with the uneven +movements of the bearers, and the cold listless gaze fixed itself upon +nothing. + +After a few minutes' bustle beside the high bedstead, those who had +carried the sick man dispersed. Anna Mikhaylovna touched Pierre's +hand and said, "Come." Pierre went with her to the bed on which the +sick man had been laid in a stately pose in keeping with the ceremony +just completed. He lay with his head propped high on the pillows. His +hands were symmetrically placed on the green silk quilt, the palms +downward. When Pierre came up the count was gazing straight at him, but +with a look the significance of which could not be understood by mortal +man. Either this look meant nothing but that as long as one has eyes +they must look somewhere, or it meant too much. Pierre hesitated, +not knowing what to do, and glanced inquiringly at his guide. Anna +Mikhaylovna made a hurried sign with her eyes, glancing at the sick +man's hand and moving her lips as if to send it a kiss. Pierre, +carefully stretching his neck so as not to touch the quilt, followed her +suggestion and pressed his lips to the large boned, fleshy hand. Neither +the hand nor a single muscle of the count's face stirred. Once more +Pierre looked questioningly at Anna Mikhaylovna to see what he was to +do next. Anna Mikhaylovna with her eyes indicated a chair that stood +beside the bed. Pierre obediently sat down, his eyes asking if he were +doing right. Anna Mikhaylovna nodded approvingly. Again Pierre fell +into the naively symmetrical pose of an Egyptian statue, evidently +distressed that his stout and clumsy body took up so much room and doing +his utmost to look as small as possible. He looked at the count, who +still gazed at the spot where Pierre's face had been before he sat +down. Anna Mikhaylovna indicated by her attitude her consciousness of +the pathetic importance of these last moments of meeting between the +father and son. This lasted about two minutes, which to Pierre seemed an +hour. Suddenly the broad muscles and lines of the count's face began +to twitch. The twitching increased, the handsome mouth was drawn to one +side (only now did Pierre realize how near death his father was), and +from that distorted mouth issued an indistinct, hoarse sound. Anna +Mikhaylovna looked attentively at the sick man's eyes, trying to +guess what he wanted; she pointed first to Pierre, then to some drink, +then named Prince Vasili in an inquiring whisper, then pointed to the +quilt. The eyes and face of the sick man showed impatience. He made an +effort to look at the servant who stood constantly at the head of the +bed. + +"Wants to turn on the other side," whispered the servant, and got up +to turn the count's heavy body toward the wall. + +Pierre rose to help him. + +While the count was being turned over, one of his arms fell back +helplessly and he made a fruitless effort to pull it forward. Whether he +noticed the look of terror with which Pierre regarded that lifeless arm, +or whether some other thought flitted across his dying brain, at any +rate he glanced at the refractory arm, at Pierre's terror-stricken +face, and again at the arm, and on his face a feeble, piteous smile +appeared, quite out of keeping with his features, that seemed to deride +his own helplessness. At sight of this smile Pierre felt an unexpected +quivering in his breast and a tickling in his nose, and tears dimmed his +eyes. The sick man was turned on to his side with his face to the wall. +He sighed. + +"He is dozing," said Anna Mikhaylovna, observing that one of the +princesses was coming to take her turn at watching. "Let us go." + +Pierre went out. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXIV + +There was now no one in the reception room except Prince Vasili and the +eldest princess, who were sitting under the portrait of Catherine the +Great and talking eagerly. As soon as they saw Pierre and his companion +they became silent, and Pierre thought he saw the princess hide +something as she whispered: + +"I can't bear the sight of that woman." + +"Catiche has had tea served in the small drawing room," said Prince +Vasili to Anna Mikhaylovna. "Go and take something, my poor Anna +Mikhaylovna, or you will not hold out." + +To Pierre he said nothing, merely giving his arm a sympathetic squeeze +below the shoulder. Pierre went with Anna Mikhaylovna into the small +drawing room. + +"There is nothing so refreshing after a sleepless night as a cup +of this delicious Russian tea," Lorrain was saying with an air of +restrained animation as he stood sipping tea from a delicate Chinese +handleless cup before a table on which tea and a cold supper were laid +in the small circular room. Around the table all who were at Count +Bezukhov's house that night had gathered to fortify themselves. +Pierre well remembered this small circular drawing room with its mirrors +and little tables. During balls given at the house Pierre, who did not +know how to dance, had liked sitting in this room to watch the ladies +who, as they passed through in their ball dresses with diamonds and +pearls on their bare shoulders, looked at themselves in the brilliantly +lighted mirrors which repeated their reflections several times. Now +this same room was dimly lighted by two candles. On one small table tea +things and supper dishes stood in disorder, and in the middle of the +night a motley throng of people sat there, not merrymaking, but somberly +whispering, and betraying by every word and movement that they none +of them forgot what was happening and what was about to happen in the +bedroom. Pierre did not eat anything though he would very much have +liked to. He looked inquiringly at his monitress and saw that she was +again going on tiptoe to the reception room where they had left Prince +Vasili and the eldest princess. Pierre concluded that this also was +essential, and after a short interval followed her. Anna Mikhaylovna +was standing beside the princess, and they were both speaking in excited +whispers. + +"Permit me, Princess, to know what is necessary and what is not +necessary," said the younger of the two speakers, evidently in the +same state of excitement as when she had slammed the door of her room. + +"But, my dear princess," answered Anna Mikhaylovna blandly but +impressively, blocking the way to the bedroom and preventing the other +from passing, "won't this be too much for poor Uncle at a moment +when he needs repose? Worldly conversation at a moment when his soul is +already prepared..." + +Prince Vasili was seated in an easy chair in his familiar attitude, +with one leg crossed high above the other. His cheeks, which were so +flabby that they looked heavier below, were twitching violently; but +he wore the air of a man little concerned in what the two ladies were +saying. + +"Come, my dear Anna Mikhaylovna, let Catiche do as she pleases. You +know how fond the count is of her." + +"I don't even know what is in this paper," said the younger of +the two ladies, addressing Prince Vasili and pointing to an inlaid +portfolio she held in her hand. "All I know is that his real will is +in his writing table, and this is a paper he has forgotten...." + +She tried to pass Anna Mikhaylovna, but the latter sprang so as to bar +her path. + +"I know, my dear, kind princess," said Anna Mikhaylovna, seizing +the portfolio so firmly that it was plain she would not let go easily. +"Dear princess, I beg and implore you, have some pity on him! Je vous +en conjure..." + +The princess did not reply. Their efforts in the struggle for the +portfolio were the only sounds audible, but it was evident that if +the princess did speak, her words would not be flattering to Anna +Mikhaylovna. Though the latter held on tenaciously, her voice lost none +of its honeyed firmness and softness. + +"Pierre, my dear, come here. I think he will not be out of place in a +family consultation; is it not so, Prince?" + +"Why don't you speak, cousin?" suddenly shrieked the princess so +loud that those in the drawing room heard her and were startled. "Why +do you remain silent when heaven knows who permits herself to +interfere, making a scene on the very threshold of a dying man's room? +Intriguer!" she hissed viciously, and tugged with all her might at the +portfolio. + +But Anna Mikhaylovna went forward a step or two to keep her hold on the +portfolio, and changed her grip. + +Prince Vasili rose. "Oh!" said he with reproach and surprise, +"this is absurd! Come, let go I tell you." + +The princess let go. + +"And you too!" + +But Anna Mikhaylovna did not obey him. + +"Let go, I tell you! I will take the responsibility. I myself will go +and ask him, I!... does that satisfy you?" + +"But, Prince," said Anna Mikhaylovna, "after such a solemn +sacrament, allow him a moment's peace! Here, Pierre, tell them your +opinion," said she, turning to the young man who, having come quite +close, was gazing with astonishment at the angry face of the princess +which had lost all dignity, and at the twitching cheeks of Prince +Vasili. + +"Remember that you will answer for the consequences," said Prince +Vasili severely. "You don't know what you are doing." + +"Vile woman!" shouted the princess, darting unexpectedly at Anna +Mikhaylovna and snatching the portfolio from her. + +Prince Vasili bent his head and spread out his hands. + +At this moment that terrible door, which Pierre had watched so long +and which had always opened so quietly, burst noisily open and banged +against the wall, and the second of the three sisters rushed out +wringing her hands. + +"What are you doing!" she cried vehemently. "He is dying and you +leave me alone with him!" + +Her sister dropped the portfolio. Anna Mikhaylovna, stooping, quickly +caught up the object of contention and ran into the bedroom. The eldest +princess and Prince Vasili, recovering themselves, followed her. A few +minutes later the eldest sister came out with a pale hard face, again +biting her underlip. At sight of Pierre her expression showed an +irrepressible hatred. + +"Yes, now you may be glad!" said she; "this is what you have +been waiting for." And bursting into tears she hid her face in her +handkerchief and rushed from the room. + +Prince Vasili came next. He staggered to the sofa on which Pierre was +sitting and dropped onto it, covering his face with his hand. Pierre +noticed that he was pale and that his jaw quivered and shook as if in an +ague. + +"Ah, my friend!" said he, taking Pierre by the elbow; and there was +in his voice a sincerity and weakness Pierre had never observed in it +before. "How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? I am +near sixty, dear friend... I too... All will end in death, all! Death is +awful..." and he burst into tears. + +Anna Mikhaylovna came out last. She approached Pierre with slow, quiet +steps. + +"Pierre!" she said. + +Pierre gave her an inquiring look. She kissed the young man on his +forehead, wetting him with her tears. Then after a pause she said: + +"He is no more...." + +Pierre looked at her over his spectacles. + +"Come, I will go with you. Try to weep, nothing gives such relief as +tears." + +She led him into the dark drawing room and Pierre was glad no one could +see his face. Anna Mikhaylovna left him, and when she returned he was +fast asleep with his head on his arm. + +In the morning Anna Mikhaylovna said to Pierre: + +"Yes, my dear, this is a great loss for us all, not to speak of you. +But God will support you: you are young, and are now, I hope, in command +of an immense fortune. The will has not yet been opened. I know you +well enough to be sure that this will not turn your head, but it imposes +duties on you, and you must be a man." + +Pierre was silent. + +"Perhaps later on I may tell you, my dear boy, that if I had not been +there, God only knows what would have happened! You know, Uncle promised +me only the day before yesterday not to forget Boris. But he had +no time. I hope, my dear friend, you will carry out your father's +wish?" + +Pierre understood nothing of all this and coloring shyly looked in +silence at Princess Anna Mikhaylovna. After her talk with Pierre, Anna +Mikhaylovna returned to the Rostovs' and went to bed. On waking in +the morning she told the Rostovs and all her acquaintances the details +of Count Bezukhov's death. She said the count had died as she would +herself wish to die, that his end was not only touching but edifying. As +to the last meeting between father and son, it was so touching that she +could not think of it without tears, and did not know which had behaved +better during those awful moments--the father who so remembered +everything and everybody at last and had spoken such pathetic words to +the son, or Pierre, whom it had been pitiful to see, so stricken was he +with grief, though he tried hard to hide it in order not to sadden his +dying father. "It is painful, but it does one good. It uplifts the +soul to see such men as the old count and his worthy son," said she. +Of the behavior of the eldest princess and Prince Vasili she spoke +disapprovingly, but in whispers and as a great secret. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXV + +At Bald Hills, Prince Nicholas Andreevich Bolkonski's estate, the +arrival of young Prince Andrew and his wife was daily expected, but +this expectation did not upset the regular routine of life in the old +prince's household. General in Chief Prince Nicholas Andreevich +(nicknamed in society, "the King of Prussia") ever since the Emperor +Paul had exiled him to his country estate had lived there continuously +with his daughter, Princess Mary, and her companion, Mademoiselle +Bourienne. Though in the new reign he was free to return to the +capitals, he still continued to live in the country, remarking that +anyone who wanted to see him could come the hundred miles from Moscow to +Bald Hills, while he himself needed no one and nothing. He used to +say that there are only two sources of human vice--idleness and +superstition, and only two virtues--activity and intelligence. He +himself undertook his daughter's education, and to develop these two +cardinal virtues in her gave her lessons in algebra and geometry +till she was twenty, and arranged her life so that her whole time was +occupied. He was himself always occupied: writing his memoirs, solving +problems in higher mathematics, turning snuffboxes on a lathe, working +in the garden, or superintending the building that was always going on +at his estate. As regularity is a prime condition facilitating activity, +regularity in his household was carried to the highest point of +exactitude. He always came to table under precisely the same conditions, +and not only at the same hour but at the same minute. With those about +him, from his daughter to his serfs, the prince was sharp and invariably +exacting, so that without being a hardhearted man he inspired such fear +and respect as few hardhearted men would have aroused. Although he was +in retirement and had now no influence in political affairs, every high +official appointed to the province in which the prince's estate lay +considered it his duty to visit him and waited in the lofty antechamber +just as the architect, gardener, or Princess Mary did, till the prince +appeared punctually to the appointed hour. Everyone sitting in this +antechamber experienced the same feeling of respect and even fear when +the enormously high study door opened and showed the figure of a rather +small old man, with powdered wig, small withered hands, and bushy gray +eyebrows which, when he frowned, sometimes hid the gleam of his shrewd, +youthfully glittering eyes. + +On the morning of the day that the young couple were to arrive, Princess +Mary entered the antechamber as usual at the time appointed for the +morning greeting, crossing herself with trepidation and repeating a +silent prayer. Every morning she came in like that, and every morning +prayed that the daily interview might pass off well. + +An old powdered manservant who was sitting in the antechamber rose +quietly and said in a whisper: "Please walk in." + +Through the door came the regular hum of a lathe. The princess timidly +opened the door which moved noiselessly and easily. She paused at the +entrance. The prince was working at the lathe and after glancing round +continued his work. + +The enormous study was full of things evidently in constant use. +The large table covered with books and plans, the tall glass-fronted +bookcases with keys in the locks, the high desk for writing while +standing up, on which lay an open exercise book, and the lathe with +tools laid ready to hand and shavings scattered around--all indicated +continuous, varied, and orderly activity. The motion of the small foot +shod in a Tartar boot embroidered with silver, and the firm pressure +of the lean sinewy hand, showed that the prince still possessed the +tenacious endurance and vigor of hardy old age. After a few more turns +of the lathe he removed his foot from the pedal, wiped his chisel, +dropped it into a leather pouch attached to the lathe, and, approaching +the table, summoned his daughter. He never gave his children a blessing, +so he simply held out his bristly cheek (as yet unshaven) and, regarding +her tenderly and attentively, said severely: + +"Quite well? All right then, sit down." He took the exercise book +containing lessons in geometry written by himself and drew up a chair +with his foot. + +"For tomorrow!" said he, quickly finding the page and making a +scratch from one paragraph to another with his hard nail. + +The princess bent over the exercise book on the table. + +"Wait a bit, here's a letter for you," said the old man suddenly, +taking a letter addressed in a woman's hand from a bag hanging above +the table, onto which he threw it. + +At the sight of the letter red patches showed themselves on the +princess' face. She took it quickly and bent her head over it. + +"From Heloise?" asked the prince with a cold smile that showed his +still sound, yellowish teeth. + +"Yes, it's from Julie," replied the princess with a timid glance +and a timid smile. + +"I'll let two more letters pass, but the third I'll read," said +the prince sternly; "I'm afraid you write much nonsense. I'll read +the third!" + +"Read this if you like, Father," said the princess, blushing still +more and holding out the letter. + +"The third, I said the third!" cried the prince abruptly, pushing +the letter away, and leaning his elbows on the table he drew toward him +the exercise book containing geometrical figures. + +"Well, madam," he began, stooping over the book close to his +daughter and placing an arm on the back of the chair on which she sat, +so that she felt herself surrounded on all sides by the acrid scent of +old age and tobacco, which she had known so long. "Now, madam, these +triangles are equal; please note that the angle ABC..." + +The princess looked in a scared way at her father's eyes glittering +close to her; the red patches on her face came and went, and it was +plain that she understood nothing and was so frightened that her +fear would prevent her understanding any of her father's further +explanations, however clear they might be. Whether it was the +teacher's fault or the pupil's, this same thing happened every day: +the princess' eyes grew dim, she could not see and could not hear +anything, but was only conscious of her stern father's withered face +close to her, of his breath and the smell of him, and could think only +of how to get away quickly to her own room to make out the problem in +peace. The old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was +sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself +and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, +and sometimes flung the exercise book away. + +The princess gave a wrong answer. + +"Well now, isn't she a fool!" shouted the prince, pushing the book +aside and turning sharply away; but rising immediately, he paced up and +down, lightly touched his daughter's hair and sat down again. + +He drew up his chair, and continued to explain. + +"This won't do, Princess; it won't do," said he, when Princess +Mary, having taken and closed the exercise book with the next day's +lesson, was about to leave: "Mathematics are most important, madam! +I don't want to have you like our silly ladies. Get used to it and +you'll like it," and he patted her cheek. "It will drive all the +nonsense out of your head." + +She turned to go, but he stopped her with a gesture and took an uncut +book from the high desk. + +"Here is some sort of Key to the Mysteries that your Heloise has +sent you. Religious! I don't interfere with anyone's belief... I +have looked at it. Take it. Well, now go. Go." + +He patted her on the shoulder and himself closed the door after her. + +Princess Mary went back to her room with the sad, scared expression that +rarely left her and which made her plain, sickly face yet plainer. She +sat down at her writing table, on which stood miniature portraits and +which was littered with books and papers. The princess was as untidy as +her father was tidy. She put down the geometry book and eagerly broke +the seal of her letter. It was from her most intimate friend from +childhood; that same Julie Karagina who had been at the Rostovs' +name-day party. + +Julie wrote in French: + +Dear and precious Friend, How terrible and frightful a thing is +separation! Though I tell myself that half my life and half my happiness +are wrapped up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us +our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against +fate and in spite of the pleasures and distractions around me I cannot +overcome a certain secret sorrow that has been in my heart ever since +we parted. Why are we not together as we were last summer, in your big +study, on the blue sofa, the confidential sofa? Why cannot I now, as +three months ago, draw fresh moral strength from your look, so gentle, +calm, and penetrating, a look I loved so well and seem to see before me +as I write? + +Having read thus far, Princess Mary sighed and glanced into the mirror +which stood on her right. It reflected a weak, ungraceful figure and +thin face. Her eyes, always sad, now looked with particular hopelessness +at her reflection in the glass. "She flatters me," thought the +princess, turning away and continuing to read. But Julie did not flatter +her friend, the princess' eyes--large, deep and luminous (it seemed +as if at times there radiated from them shafts of warm light)--were +so beautiful that very often in spite of the plainness of her face +they gave her an attraction more powerful than that of beauty. But the +princess never saw the beautiful expression of her own eyes--the look +they had when she was not thinking of herself. As with everyone, her +face assumed a forced unnatural expression as soon as she looked in a +glass. She went on reading: + +All Moscow talks of nothing but war. One of my two brothers is already +abroad, the other is with the Guards, who are starting on their march +to the frontier. Our dear Emperor has left Petersburg and it is thought +intends to expose his precious person to the chances of war. God grant +that the Corsican monster who is destroying the peace of Europe may +be overthrown by the angel whom it has pleased the Almighty, in His +goodness, to give us as sovereign! To say nothing of my brothers, this +war has deprived me of one of the associations nearest my heart. I mean +young Nicholas Rostov, who with his enthusiasm could not bear to remain +inactive and has left the university to join the army. I will confess to +you, dear Mary, that in spite of his extreme youth his departure for +the army was a great grief to me. This young man, of whom I spoke to you +last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which +one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, +he is so frank and has so much heart. He is so pure and poetic that +my relations with him, transient as they were, have been one of the +sweetest comforts to my poor heart, which has already suffered so much. +Someday I will tell you about our parting and all that was said then. +That is still too fresh. Ah, dear friend, you are happy not to know +these poignant joys and sorrows. You are fortunate, for the latter are +generally the stronger! I know very well that Count Nicholas is too +young ever to be more to me than a friend, but this sweet friendship, +this poetic and pure intimacy, were what my heart needed. But enough of +this! The chief news, about which all Moscow gossips, is the death of +old Count Bezukhov, and his inheritance. Fancy! The three princesses +have received very little, Prince Vasili nothing, and it is Monsieur +Pierre who has inherited all the property and has besides been +recognized as legitimate; so that he is now Count Bezukhov and +possessor of the finest fortune in Russia. It is rumored that Prince +Vasili played a very despicable part in this affair and that he +returned to Petersburg quite crestfallen. + +I confess I understand very little about all these matters of wills and +inheritance; but I do know that since this young man, whom we all used +to know as plain Monsieur Pierre, has become Count Bezukhov and the +owner of one of the largest fortunes in Russia, I am much amused to +watch the change in the tone and manners of the mammas burdened by +marriageable daughters, and of the young ladies themselves, toward +him, though, between you and me, he always seemed to me a poor sort +of fellow. As for the past two years people have amused themselves +by finding husbands for me (most of whom I don't even know), the +matchmaking chronicles of Moscow now speak of me as the future Countess +Bezukhova. But you will understand that I have no desire for the post. +A propos of marriages: do you know that a while ago that universal +auntie Anna Mikhaylovna told me, under the seal of strict secrecy, of +a plan of marriage for you. It is neither more nor less than with Prince +Vasili's son Anatole, whom they wish to reform by marrying him to +someone rich and distinguee, and it is on you that his relations' +choice has fallen. I don't know what you will think of it, but +I consider it my duty to let you know of it. He is said to be very +handsome and a terrible scapegrace. That is all I have been able to find +out about him. + +But enough of gossip. I am at the end of my second sheet of paper, and +Mamma has sent for me to go and dine at the Apraksins'. Read the +mystical book I am sending you; it has an enormous success here. Though +there are things in it difficult for the feeble human mind to grasp, it +is an admirable book which calms and elevates the soul. Adieu! Give +my respects to monsieur your father and my compliments to Mademoiselle +Bourienne. I embrace you as I love you. + +JULIE + +P.S. Let me have news of your brother and his charming little wife. + +The princess pondered awhile with a thoughtful smile and her luminous +eyes lit up so that her face was entirely transformed. Then she suddenly +rose and with her heavy tread went up to the table. She took a sheet of +paper and her hand moved rapidly over it. This is the reply she wrote, +also in French: + +Dear and precious Friend, Your letter of the 13th has given me great +delight. So you still love me, my romantic Julie? Separation, of which +you say so much that is bad, does not seem to have had its usual effect +on you. You complain of our separation. What then should I say, if I +dared complain, I who am deprived of all who are dear to me? Ah, if +we had not religion to console us life would be very sad. Why do you +suppose that I should look severely on your affection for that young +man? On such matters I am only severe with myself. I understand such +feelings in others, and if never having felt them I cannot approve of +them, neither do I condemn them. Only it seems to me that Christian +love, love of one's neighbor, love of one's enemy, is worthier, +sweeter, and better than the feelings which the beautiful eyes of a +young man can inspire in a romantic and loving young girl like yourself. + +The news of Count Bezukhov's death reached us before your letter +and my father was much affected by it. He says the count was the last +representative but one of the great century, and that it is his own +turn now, but that he will do all he can to let his turn come as late as +possible. God preserve us from that terrible misfortune! + +I cannot agree with you about Pierre, whom I knew as a child. He always +seemed to me to have an excellent heart, and that is the quality I value +most in people. As to his inheritance and the part played by Prince +Vasili, it is very sad for both. Ah, my dear friend, our divine +Saviour's words, that it is easier for a camel to go through the +eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God, are +terribly true. I pity Prince Vasili but am still more sorry for Pierre. +So young, and burdened with such riches--to what temptations he will be +exposed! If I were asked what I desire most on earth, it would be to be +poorer than the poorest beggar. A thousand thanks, dear friend, for the +volume you have sent me and which has such success in Moscow. Yet since +you tell me that among some good things it contains others which our +weak human understanding cannot grasp, it seems to me rather useless to +spend time in reading what is unintelligible and can therefore bear +no fruit. I never could understand the fondness some people have for +confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken +their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for +exaggeration quite contrary to Christian simplicity. Let us rather read +the Epistles and Gospels. Let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries +they contain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, know the +terrible and holy secrets of Providence while we remain in this flesh +which forms an impenetrable veil between us and the Eternal? Let us +rather confine ourselves to studying those sublime rules which our +divine Saviour has left for our guidance here below. Let us try to +conform to them and follow them, and let us be persuaded that the less +we let our feeble human minds roam, the better we shall please God, who +rejects all knowledge that does not come from Him; and the less we seek +to fathom what He has been pleased to conceal from us, the sooner will +He vouchsafe its revelation to us through His divine Spirit. + +My father has not spoken to me of a suitor, but has only told me that he +has received a letter and is expecting a visit from Prince Vasili. In +regard to this project of marriage for me, I will tell you, dear sweet +friend, that I look on marriage as a divine institution to which we must +conform. However painful it may be to me, should the Almighty lay +the duties of wife and mother upon me I shall try to perform them as +faithfully as I can, without disquieting myself by examining my feelings +toward him whom He may give me for husband. + +I have had a letter from my brother, who announces his speedy arrival +at Bald Hills with his wife. This pleasure will be but a brief one, +however, for he will leave us again to take part in this unhappy war +into which we have been drawn, God knows how or why. Not only where you +are--at the heart of affairs and of the world--is the talk all of +war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature--which townsfolk +consider characteristic of the country--rumors of war are heard +and painfully felt. My father talks of nothing but marches and +countermarches, things of which I understand nothing; and the day +before yesterday during my daily walk through the village I witnessed a +heartrending scene.... It was a convoy of conscripts enrolled from our +people and starting to join the army. You should have seen the state of +the mothers, wives, and children of the men who were going and should +have heard the sobs. It seems as though mankind has forgotten the +laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of +injuries--and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing +one another. + +Adieu, dear and kind friend; may our divine Saviour and His most Holy +Mother keep you in their holy and all-powerful care! + +MARY + +"Ah, you are sending off a letter, Princess? I have already dispatched +mine. I have written to my poor mother," said the smiling Mademoiselle +Bourienne rapidly, in her pleasant mellow tones and with guttural r's. +She brought into Princess Mary's strenuous, mournful, and gloomy +world a quite different atmosphere, careless, lighthearted, and +self-satisfied. + +"Princess, I must warn you," she added, lowering her voice and +evidently listening to herself with pleasure, and speaking with +exaggerated grasseyement, "the prince has been scolding Michael +Ivanovich. He is in a very bad humor, very morose. Be prepared." + +"Ah, dear friend," replied Princess Mary, "I have asked you never +to warn me of the humor my father is in. I do not allow myself to judge +him and would not have others do so." + +The princess glanced at her watch and, seeing that she was five minutes +late in starting her practice on the clavichord, went into the sitting +room with a look of alarm. Between twelve and two o'clock, as the +day was mapped out, the prince rested and the princess played the +clavichord. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXVI + +The gray-haired valet was sitting drowsily listening to the snoring of +the prince, who was in his large study. From the far side of the house +through the closed doors came the sound of difficult passages--twenty +times repeated--of a sonata by Dussek. + +Just then a closed carriage and another with a hood drove up to the +porch. Prince Andrew got out of the carriage, helped his little wife to +alight, and let her pass into the house before him. Old Tikhon, wearing +a wig, put his head out of the door of the antechamber, reported in +a whisper that the prince was sleeping, and hastily closed the door. +Tikhon knew that neither the son's arrival nor any other unusual +event must be allowed to disturb the appointed order of the day. Prince +Andrew apparently knew this as well as Tikhon; he looked at his watch +as if to ascertain whether his father's habits had changed since he +was at home last, and, having assured himself that they had not, he +turned to his wife. + +"He will get up in twenty minutes. Let us go across to Mary's +room," he said. + +The little princess had grown stouter during this time, but her eyes +and her short, downy, smiling lip lifted when she began to speak just as +merrily and prettily as ever. + +"Why, this is a palace!" she said to her husband, looking around +with the expression with which people compliment their host at a ball. +"Let's come, quick, quick!" And with a glance round, she smiled at +Tikhon, at her husband, and at the footman who accompanied them. + +"Is that Mary practicing? Let's go quietly and take her by +surprise." + +Prince Andrew followed her with a courteous but sad expression. + +"You've grown older, Tikhon," he said in passing to the old man, +who kissed his hand. + +Before they reached the room from which the sounds of the clavichord +came, the pretty, fair-haired Frenchwoman, Mademoiselle Bourienne, +rushed out apparently beside herself with delight. + +"Ah! what joy for the princess!" exclaimed she: "At last! I must +let her know." + +"No, no, please not... You are Mademoiselle Bourienne," said +the little princess, kissing her. "I know you already through my +sister-in-law's friendship for you. She was not expecting us?" + +They went up to the door of the sitting room from which came the sound +of the oft-repeated passage of the sonata. Prince Andrew stopped and +made a grimace, as if expecting something unpleasant. + +The little princess entered the room. The passage broke off in the +middle, a cry was heard, then Princess Mary's heavy tread and the +sound of kissing. When Prince Andrew went in the two princesses, who +had only met once before for a short time at his wedding, were in +each other's arms warmly pressing their lips to whatever place they +happened to touch. Mademoiselle Bourienne stood near them pressing her +hand to her heart, with a beatific smile and obviously equally ready to +cry or to laugh. Prince Andrew shrugged his shoulders and frowned, as +lovers of music do when they hear a false note. The two women let go +of one another, and then, as if afraid of being too late, seized each +other's hands, kissing them and pulling them away, and again began +kissing each other on the face, and then to Prince Andrew's surprise +both began to cry and kissed again. Mademoiselle Bourienne also began to +cry. Prince Andrew evidently felt ill at ease, but to the two women +it seemed quite natural that they should cry, and apparently it never +entered their heads that it could have been otherwise at this meeting. + +"Ah! my dear!... Ah! Mary!..." they suddenly exclaimed, and then +laughed. "I dreamed last night..."--"You were not expecting +us?..." "Ah! Mary, you have got thinner?..." "And you have grown +stouter!..." + +"I knew the princess at once," put in Mademoiselle Bourienne. + +"And I had no idea!..." exclaimed Princess Mary. "Ah, Andrew, I +did not see you." + +Prince Andrew and his sister, hand in hand, kissed one another, and +he told her she was still the same crybaby as ever. Princess Mary had +turned toward her brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, +gentle look of her large luminous eyes, very beautiful at that moment, +rested on Prince Andrew's face. + +The little princess talked incessantly, her short, downy upper lip +continually and rapidly touching her rosy nether lip when necessary +and drawing up again next moment when her face broke into a smile of +glittering teeth and sparkling eyes. She told of an accident they had +had on the Spasski Hill which might have been serious for her in her +condition, and immediately after that informed them that she had left +all her clothes in Petersburg and that heaven knew what she would have +to dress in here; and that Andrew had quite changed, and that Kitty +Odyntsova had married an old man, and that there was a suitor for Mary, +a real one, but that they would talk of that later. Princess Mary was +still looking silently at her brother and her beautiful eyes were full +of love and sadness. It was plain that she was following a train of +thought independent of her sister-in-law's words. In the midst of a +description of the last Petersburg fete she addressed her brother: + +"So you are really going to the war, Andrew?" she said sighing. + +Lise sighed too. + +"Yes, and even tomorrow," replied her brother. + +"He is leaving me here, God knows why, when he might have had +promotion..." + +Princess Mary did not listen to the end, but continuing her train of +thought turned to her sister-in-law with a tender glance at her figure. + +"Is it certain?" she said. + +The face of the little princess changed. She sighed and said: "Yes, +quite certain. Ah! it is very dreadful..." + +Her lip descended. She brought her face close to her sister-in-law's +and unexpectedly again began to cry. + +"She needs rest," said Prince Andrew with a frown. "Don't you, +Lise? Take her to your room and I'll go to Father. How is he? Just the +same?" + +"Yes, just the same. Though I don't know what your opinion will +be," answered the princess joyfully. + +"And are the hours the same? And the walks in the avenues? And the +lathe?" asked Prince Andrew with a scarcely perceptible smile which +showed that, in spite of all his love and respect for his father, he was +aware of his weaknesses. + +"The hours are the same, and the lathe, and also the mathematics and +my geometry lessons," said Princess Mary gleefully, as if her lessons +in geometry were among the greatest delights of her life. + +When the twenty minutes had elapsed and the time had come for the old +prince to get up, Tikhon came to call the young prince to his father. +The old man made a departure from his usual routine in honor of his +son's arrival: he gave orders to admit him to his apartments while +he dressed for dinner. The old prince always dressed in old-fashioned +style, wearing an antique coat and powdered hair; and when Prince Andrew +entered his father's dressing room (not with the contemptuous look and +manner he wore in drawing rooms, but with the animated face with which +he talked to Pierre), the old man was sitting on a large leather-covered +chair, wrapped in a powdering mantle, entrusting his head to Tikhon. + +"Ah! here's the warrior! Wants to vanquish Buonaparte?" said the +old man, shaking his powdered head as much as the tail, which Tikhon +was holding fast to plait, would allow. + +"You at least must tackle him properly, or else if he goes on like +this he'll soon have us, too, for his subjects! How are you?" And he +held out his cheek. + +The old man was in a good temper after his nap before dinner. (He +used to say that a nap "after dinner was silver--before dinner, +golden.") He cast happy, sidelong glances at his son from under his +thick, bushy eyebrows. Prince Andrew went up and kissed his father on +the spot indicated to him. He made no reply on his father's favorite +topic--making fun of the military men of the day, and more particularly +of Bonaparte. + +"Yes, Father, I have come to you and brought my wife who is +pregnant," said Prince Andrew, following every movement of his +father's face with an eager and respectful look. "How is your +health?" + +"Only fools and rakes fall ill, my boy. You know me: I am busy from +morning till night and abstemious, so of course I am well." + +"Thank God," said his son smiling. + +"God has nothing to do with it! Well, go on," he continued, +returning to his hobby; "tell me how the Germans have taught you to +fight Bonaparte by this new science you call 'strategy.'" + +Prince Andrew smiled. + +"Give me time to collect my wits, Father," said he, with a smile +that showed that his father's foibles did not prevent his son from +loving and honoring him. "Why, I have not yet had time to settle +down!" + +"Nonsense, nonsense!" cried the old man, shaking his pigtail to +see whether it was firmly plaited, and grasping his by the hand. "The +house for your wife is ready. Princess Mary will take her there and +show her over, and they'll talk nineteen to the dozen. That's +their woman's way! I am glad to have her. Sit down and talk. About +Mikhelson's army I understand--Tolstoy 's too... a simultaneous +expedition.... But what's the southern army to do? Prussia is +neutral... I know that. What about Austria?" said he, rising from his +chair and pacing up and down the room followed by Tikhon, who ran after +him, handing him different articles of clothing. "What of Sweden? How +will they cross Pomerania?" + +Prince Andrew, seeing that his father insisted, began--at first +reluctantly, but gradually with more and more animation, and from habit +changing unconsciously from Russian to French as he went on--to explain +the plan of operation for the coming campaign. He explained how an army, +ninety thousand strong, was to threaten Prussia so as to bring her out +of her neutrality and draw her into the war; how part of that army was +to join some Swedish forces at Stralsund; how two hundred and twenty +thousand Austrians, with a hundred thousand Russians, were to operate in +Italy and on the Rhine; how fifty thousand Russians and as many English +were to land at Naples, and how a total force of five hundred thousand +men was to attack the French from different sides. The old prince did +not evince the least interest during this explanation, but as if he were +not listening to it continued to dress while walking about, and three +times unexpectedly interrupted. Once he stopped it by shouting: "The +white one, the white one!" + +This meant that Tikhon was not handing him the waistcoat he wanted. +Another time he interrupted, saying: + +"And will she soon be confined?" and shaking his head reproachfully +said: "That's bad! Go on, go on." + +The third interruption came when Prince Andrew was finishing his +description. The old man began to sing, in the cracked voice of old age: +"Malbrook s'en va-t-en guerre. Dieu sait quand reviendra." * + + * "Marlborough is going to the wars; God knows when he'll + return." + + +His son only smiled. + +"I don't say it's a plan I approve of," said the son; "I am +only telling you what it is. Napoleon has also formed his plan by now, +not worse than this one." + +"Well, you've told me nothing new," and the old man repeated, +meditatively and rapidly: + +"Dieu sait quand reviendra. Go to the dining room." + + + + + +CHAPTER XXVII + +At the appointed hour the prince, powdered and shaven, entered the +dining room where his daughter-in-law, Princess Mary, and Mademoiselle +Bourienne were already awaiting him together with his architect, who by +a strange caprice of his employer's was admitted to table though the +position of that insignificant individual was such as could certainly +not have caused him to expect that honor. The prince, who generally kept +very strictly to social distinctions and rarely admitted even important +government officials to his table, had unexpectedly selected Michael +Ivanovich (who always went into a corner to blow his nose on his +checked handkerchief) to illustrate the theory that all men are equals, +and had more than once impressed on his daughter that Michael Ivanovich +was "not a whit worse than you or I." At dinner the prince usually +spoke to the taciturn Michael Ivanovich more often than to anyone else. + +In the dining room, which like all the rooms in the house was +exceedingly lofty, the members of the household and the footmen--one +behind each chair--stood waiting for the prince to enter. The head +butler, napkin on arm, was scanning the setting of the table, making +signs to the footmen, and anxiously glancing from the clock to the door +by which the prince was to enter. Prince Andrew was looking at a large +gilt frame, new to him, containing the genealogical tree of the Princes +Bolkonski, opposite which hung another such frame with a badly painted +portrait (evidently by the hand of the artist belonging to the estate) +of a ruling prince, in a crown--an alleged descendant of Rurik and +ancestor of the Bolkonskis. Prince Andrew, looking again at that +genealogical tree, shook his head, laughing as a man laughs who looks at +a portrait so characteristic of the original as to be amusing. + +"How thoroughly like him that is!" he said to Princess Mary, who had +come up to him. + +Princess Mary looked at her brother in surprise. She did not understand +what he was laughing at. Everything her father did inspired her with +reverence and was beyond question. + +"Everyone has his Achilles' heel," continued Prince Andrew. +"Fancy, with his powerful mind, indulging in such nonsense!" + +Princess Mary could not understand the boldness of her brother's +criticism and was about to reply, when the expected footsteps were heard +coming from the study. The prince walked in quickly and jauntily as was +his wont, as if intentionally contrasting the briskness of his manners +with the strict formality of his house. At that moment the great clock +struck two and another with a shrill tone joined in from the drawing +room. The prince stood still; his lively glittering eyes from under +their thick, bushy eyebrows sternly scanned all present and rested on +the little princess. She felt, as courtiers do when the Tsar enters, the +sensation of fear and respect which the old man inspired in all around +him. He stroked her hair and then patted her awkwardly on the back of +her neck. + +"I'm glad, glad, to see you," he said, looking attentively into +her eyes, and then quickly went to his place and sat down. "Sit down, +sit down! Sit down, Michael Ivanovich!" + +He indicated a place beside him to his daughter-in-law. A footman moved +the chair for her. + +"Ho, ho!" said the old man, casting his eyes on her rounded figure. +"You've been in a hurry. That's bad!" + +He laughed in his usual dry, cold, unpleasant way, with his lips only +and not with his eyes. + +"You must walk, walk as much as possible, as much as possible," he +said. + +The little princess did not, or did not wish to, hear his words. She was +silent and seemed confused. The prince asked her about her father, and +she began to smile and talk. He asked about mutual acquaintances, and +she became still more animated and chattered away giving him greetings +from various people and retelling the town gossip. + +"Countess Apraksina, poor thing, has lost her husband and she has +cried her eyes out," she said, growing more and more lively. + +As she became animated the prince looked at her more and more sternly, +and suddenly, as if he had studied her sufficiently and had formed a +definite idea of her, he turned away and addressed Michael Ivanovich. + +"Well, Michael Ivanovich, our Bonaparte will be having a bad time +of it. Prince Andrew" (he always spoke thus of his son) "has been +telling me what forces are being collected against him! While you and I +never thought much of him." + +Michael Ivanovich did not at all know when "you and I" had said +such things about Bonaparte, but understanding that he was wanted as +a peg on which to hang the prince's favorite topic, he looked +inquiringly at the young prince, wondering what would follow. + +"He is a great tactician!" said the prince to his son, pointing to +the architect. + +And the conversation again turned on the war, on Bonaparte, and the +generals and statesmen of the day. The old prince seemed convinced not +only that all the men of the day were mere babies who did not know the +A B C of war or of politics, and that Bonaparte was an insignificant +little Frenchy, successful only because there were no longer any +Potemkins or Suvorovs left to oppose him; but he was also convinced +that there were no political difficulties in Europe and no real war, +but only a sort of puppet show at which the men of the day were playing, +pretending to do something real. Prince Andrew gaily bore with his +father's ridicule of the new men, and drew him on and listened to him +with evident pleasure. + +"The past always seems good," said he, "but did not Suvorov +himself fall into a trap Moreau set him, and from which he did not know +how to escape?" + +"Who told you that? Who?" cried the prince. "Suvorov!" And he +jerked away his plate, which Tikhon briskly caught. "Suvorov!... +Consider, Prince Andrew. Two... Frederick and Suvorov; Moreau!... +Moreau would have been a prisoner if Suvorov had had a free hand; but +he had the Hofs-kriegs-wurst-schnapps-Rath on his hands. It would have +puzzled the devil himself! When you get there you'll find out what +those Hofs-kriegs-wurst-Raths are! Suvorov couldn't manage them so +what chance has Michael Kutuzov? No, my dear boy," he continued, +"you and your generals won't get on against Buonaparte; you'll +have to call in the French, so that birds of a feather may fight +together. The German, Pahlen, has been sent to New York in America, to +fetch the Frenchman, Moreau," he said, alluding to the invitation made +that year to Moreau to enter the Russian service.... "Wonderful!... +Were the Potemkins, Suvorovs, and Orlovs Germans? No, lad, either you +fellows have all lost your wits, or I have outlived mine. May God help +you, but we'll see what will happen. Buonaparte has become a great +commander among them! Hm!..." + +"I don't at all say that all the plans are good," said Prince +Andrew, "I am only surprised at your opinion of Bonaparte. You +may laugh as much as you like, but all the same Bonaparte is a great +general!" + +"Michael Ivanovich!" cried the old prince to the architect who, +busy with his roast meat, hoped he had been forgotten: "Didn't +I tell you Buonaparte was a great tactician? Here, he says the same +thing." + +"To be sure, your excellency," replied the architect. + +The prince again laughed his frigid laugh. + +"Buonaparte was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He has got +splendid soldiers. Besides he began by attacking Germans. And only +idlers have failed to beat the Germans. Since the world began everybody +has beaten the Germans. They beat no one--except one another. He made +his reputation fighting them." + +And the prince began explaining all the blunders which, according to +him, Bonaparte had made in his campaigns and even in politics. His +son made no rejoinder, but it was evident that whatever arguments were +presented he was as little able as his father to change his opinion. He +listened, refraining from a reply, and involuntarily wondered how this +old man, living alone in the country for so many years, could know and +discuss so minutely and acutely all the recent European military and +political events. + +"You think I'm an old man and don't understand the present state +of affairs?" concluded his father. "But it troubles me. I don't +sleep at night. Come now, where has this great commander of yours shown +his skill?" he concluded. + +"That would take too long to tell," answered the son. + +"Well, then go off to your Buonaparte! Mademoiselle Bourienne, +here's another admirer of that powder-monkey emperor of yours," he +exclaimed in excellent French. + +"You know, Prince, I am not a Bonapartist!" + +"Dieu sait quand reviendra." hummed the prince out of tune and, with +a laugh still more so, he quitted the table. + +The little princess during the whole discussion and the rest of +the dinner sat silent, glancing with a frightened look now at her +father-in-law and now at Princess Mary. When they left the table she +took her sister-in-law's arm and drew her into another room. + +"What a clever man your father is," said she; "perhaps that is why +I am afraid of him." + +"Oh, he is so kind!" answered Princess Mary. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXVIII + +Prince Andrew was to leave next evening. The old prince, not altering +his routine, retired as usual after dinner. The little princess was in +her sister-in-law's room. Prince Andrew in a traveling coat without +epaulettes had been packing with his valet in the rooms assigned to him. +After inspecting the carriage himself and seeing the trunks put in, he +ordered the horses to be harnessed. Only those things he always kept +with him remained in his room; a small box, a large canteen fitted +with silver plate, two Turkish pistols and a saber--a present from +his father who had brought it from the siege of Ochakov. All these +traveling effects of Prince Andrew's were in very good order: new, +clean, and in cloth covers carefully tied with tapes. + +When starting on a journey or changing their mode of life, men capable +of reflection are generally in a serious frame of mind. At such moments +one reviews the past and plans for the future. Prince Andrew's face +looked very thoughtful and tender. With his hands behind him he paced +briskly from corner to corner of the room, looking straight before him +and thoughtfully shaking his head. Did he fear going to the war, or was +he sad at leaving his wife?--perhaps both, but evidently he did not +wish to be seen in that mood, for hearing footsteps in the passage he +hurriedly unclasped his hands, stopped at a table as if tying the +cover of the small box, and assumed his usual tranquil and impenetrable +expression. It was the heavy tread of Princess Mary that he heard. + +"I hear you have given orders to harness," she cried, panting (she +had apparently been running), "and I did so wish to have another talk +with you alone! God knows how long we may again be parted. You are not +angry with me for coming? You have changed so, Andrusha," she added, +as if to explain such a question. + +She smiled as she uttered his pet name, "Andrusha." It was +obviously strange to her to think that this stern handsome man should be +Andrusha--the slender mischievous boy who had been her playfellow in +childhood. + +"And where is Lise?" he asked, answering her question only by a +smile. + +"She was so tired that she has fallen asleep on the sofa in my room. +Oh, Andrew! What a treasure of a wife you have," said she, sitting +down on the sofa, facing her brother. "She is quite a child: such a +dear, merry child. I have grown so fond of her." + +Prince Andrew was silent, but the princess noticed the ironical and +contemptuous look that showed itself on his face. + +"One must be indulgent to little weaknesses; who is free from them, +Andrew? Don't forget that she has grown up and been educated in +society, and so her position now is not a rosy one. We should enter into +everyone's situation. Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner. * Think +what it must be for her, poor thing, after what she has been used to, +to be parted from her husband and be left alone in the country, in her +condition! It's very hard." + + * To understand all is to forgive all. + +Prince Andrew smiled as he looked at his sister, as we smile at those we +think we thoroughly understand. + +"You live in the country and don't think the life terrible," he +replied. + +"I... that's different. Why speak of me? I don't want any other +life, and can't, for I know no other. But think, Andrew: for a young +society woman to be buried in the country during the best years of her +life, all alone--for Papa is always busy, and I... well, you know what +poor resources I have for entertaining a woman used to the best society. +There is only Mademoiselle Bourienne...." + +"I don't like your Mademoiselle Bourienne at all," said Prince +Andrew. + +"No? She is very nice and kind and, above all, she's much to be +pitied. She has no one, no one. To tell the truth, I don't need her, +and she's even in my way. You know I always was a savage, and now am +even more so. I like being alone.... Father likes her very much. She and +Michael Ivanovich are the two people to whom he is always gentle and +kind, because he has been a benefactor to them both. As Sterne says: +'We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as +for the good we have done them.' Father took her when she was homeless +after losing her own father. She is very good-natured, and my father +likes her way of reading. She reads to him in the evenings and reads +splendidly." + +"To be quite frank, Mary, I expect Father's character sometimes +makes things trying for you, doesn't it?" Prince Andrew asked +suddenly. + +Princess Mary was first surprised and then aghast at this question. + +"For me? For me?... Trying for me!..." said she. + +"He always was rather harsh; and now I should think he's getting +very trying," said Prince Andrew, apparently speaking lightly of their +father in order to puzzle or test his sister. + +"You are good in every way, Andrew, but you have a kind of +intellectual pride," said the princess, following the train of her own +thoughts rather than the trend of the conversation--"and that's a +great sin. How can one judge Father? But even if one might, what feeling +except veneration could such a man as my father evoke? And I am so +contented and happy with him. I only wish you were all as happy as I +am." + +Her brother shook his head incredulously. + +"The only thing that is hard for me... I will tell you the truth, +Andrew... is Father's way of treating religious subjects. I don't +understand how a man of his immense intellect can fail to see what is +as clear as day, and can go so far astray. That is the only thing +that makes me unhappy. But even in this I can see lately a shade of +improvement. His satire has been less bitter of late, and there was a +monk he received and had a long talk with." + +"Ah! my dear, I am afraid you and your monk are wasting your +powder," said Prince Andrew banteringly yet tenderly. + +"Ah! mon ami, I only pray, and hope that God will hear me. +Andrew..." she said timidly after a moment's silence, "I have a +great favor to ask of you." + +"What is it, dear?" + +"No--promise that you will not refuse! It will give you no trouble +and is nothing unworthy of you, but it will comfort me. Promise, +Andrusha!..." said she, putting her hand in her reticule but not yet +taking out what she was holding inside it, as if what she held were +the subject of her request and must not be shown before the request was +granted. + +She looked timidly at her brother. + +"Even if it were a great deal of trouble..." answered Prince Andrew, +as if guessing what it was about. + +"Think what you please! I know you are just like Father. Think as +you please, but do this for my sake! Please do! Father's father, our +grandfather, wore it in all his wars." (She still did not take out +what she was holding in her reticule.) "So you promise?" + +"Of course. What is it?" + +"Andrew, I bless you with this icon and you must promise me you will +never take it off. Do you promise?" + +"If it does not weigh a hundredweight and won't break my neck... +To please you..." said Prince Andrew. But immediately, noticing +the pained expression his joke had brought to his sister's face, he +repented and added: "I am glad; really, dear, I am very glad." + +"Against your will He will save and have mercy on you and bring you +to Himself, for in Him alone is truth and peace," said she in a voice +trembling with emotion, solemnly holding up in both hands before her +brother a small, oval, antique, dark-faced icon of the Saviour in a gold +setting, on a finely wrought silver chain. + +She crossed herself, kissed the icon, and handed it to Andrew. + +"Please, Andrew, for my sake!..." + +Rays of gentle light shone from her large, timid eyes. Those eyes lit +up the whole of her thin, sickly face and made it beautiful. Her brother +would have taken the icon, but she stopped him. Andrew understood, +crossed himself and kissed the icon. There was a look of tenderness, for +he was touched, but also a gleam of irony on his face. + +"Thank you, my dear." She kissed him on the forehead and sat down +again on the sofa. They were silent for a while. + +"As I was saying to you, Andrew, be kind and generous as you always +used to be. Don't judge Lise harshly," she began. "She is so +sweet, so good-natured, and her position now is a very hard one." + +"I do not think I have complained of my wife to you, Masha, or blamed +her. Why do you say all this to me?" + +Red patches appeared on Princess Mary's face and she was silent as if +she felt guilty. + +"I have said nothing to you, but you have already been talked to. And +I am sorry for that," he went on. + +The patches grew deeper on her forehead, neck, and cheeks. She tried to +say something but could not. Her brother had guessed right: the little +princess had been crying after dinner and had spoken of her forebodings +about her confinement, and how she dreaded it, and had complained of her +fate, her father-in-law, and her husband. After crying she had fallen +asleep. Prince Andrew felt sorry for his sister. + +"Know this, Masha: I can't reproach, have not reproached, and never +shall reproach my wife with anything, and I cannot reproach myself +with anything in regard to her; and that always will be so in whatever +circumstances I may be placed. But if you want to know the truth... if +you want to know whether I am happy? No! Is she happy? No! But why this +is so I don't know..." + +As he said this he rose, went to his sister, and, stooping, kissed +her forehead. His fine eyes lit up with a thoughtful, kindly, and +unaccustomed brightness, but he was looking not at his sister but over +her head toward the darkness of the open doorway. + +"Let us go to her, I must say good-by. Or--go and wake and I'll +come in a moment. Petrushka!" he called to his valet: "Come here, +take these away. Put this on the seat and this to the right." + +Princess Mary rose and moved to the door, then stopped and said: +"Andrew, if you had faith you would have turned to God and asked Him +to give you the love you do not feel, and your prayer would have been +answered." + +"Well, maybe!" said Prince Andrew. "Go, Masha; I'll come +immediately." + +On the way to his sister's room, in the passage which connected one +wing with the other, Prince Andrew met Mademoiselle Bourienne smiling +sweetly. It was the third time that day that, with an ecstatic and +artless smile, she had met him in secluded passages. + +"Oh! I thought you were in your room," she said, for some reason +blushing and dropping her eyes. + +Prince Andrew looked sternly at her and an expression of anger suddenly +came over his face. He said nothing to her but looked at her forehead +and hair, without looking at her eyes, with such contempt that the +Frenchwoman blushed and went away without a word. When he reached his +sister's room his wife was already awake and her merry voice, hurrying +one word after another, came through the open door. She was speaking as +usual in French, and as if after long self-restraint she wished to make +up for lost time. + +"No, but imagine the old Countess Zubova, with false curls and her +mouth full of false teeth, as if she were trying to cheat old age.... +Ha, ha, ha! Mary!" + +This very sentence about Countess Zubova and this same laugh Prince +Andrew had already heard from his wife in the presence of others some +five times. He entered the room softly. The little princess, plump and +rosy, was sitting in an easy chair with her work in her hands, talking +incessantly, repeating Petersburg reminiscences and even phrases. Prince +Andrew came up, stroked her hair, and asked if she felt rested after +their journey. She answered him and continued her chatter. + +The coach with six horses was waiting at the porch. It was an autumn +night, so dark that the coachman could not see the carriage pole. +Servants with lanterns were bustling about in the porch. The immense +house was brilliant with lights shining through its lofty windows. The +domestic serfs were crowding in the hall, waiting to bid good-by to +the young prince. The members of the household were all gathered in the +reception hall: Michael Ivanovich, Mademoiselle Bourienne, Princess +Mary, and the little princess. Prince Andrew had been called to his +father's study as the latter wished to say good-by to him alone. All +were waiting for them to come out. + +When Prince Andrew entered the study the old man in his old-age +spectacles and white dressing gown, in which he received no one but his +son, sat at the table writing. He glanced round. + +"Going?" And he went on writing. + +"I've come to say good-by." + +"Kiss me here," and he touched his cheek: "Thanks, thanks!" + +"What do you thank me for?" + +"For not dilly-dallying and not hanging to a woman's apron strings. +The Service before everything. Thanks, thanks!" And he went on +writing, so that his quill spluttered and squeaked. "If you have +anything to say, say it. These two things can be done together," he +added. + +"About my wife... I am ashamed as it is to leave her on your +hands...." + +"Why talk nonsense? Say what you want." + +"When her confinement is due, send to Moscow for an accoucheur.... Let +him be here...." + +The old prince stopped writing and, as if not understanding, fixed his +stern eyes on his son. + +"I know that no one can help if nature does not do her work," said +Prince Andrew, evidently confused. "I know that out of a million +cases only one goes wrong, but it is her fancy and mine. They have been +telling her things. She has had a dream and is frightened." + +"Hm... Hm..." muttered the old prince to himself, finishing what he +was writing. "I'll do it." + +He signed with a flourish and suddenly turning to his son began to +laugh. + +"It's a bad business, eh?" + +"What is bad, Father?" + +"The wife!" said the old prince, briefly and significantly. + +"I don't understand!" said Prince Andrew. + +"No, it can't be helped, lad," said the prince. "They're +all like that; one can't unmarry. Don't be afraid; I won't tell +anyone, but you know it yourself." + +He seized his son by the hand with small bony fingers, shook it, looked +straight into his son's face with keen eyes which seemed to see +through him, and again laughed his frigid laugh. + +The son sighed, thus admitting that his father had understood him. The +old man continued to fold and seal his letter, snatching up and throwing +down the wax, the seal, and the paper, with his accustomed rapidity. + +"What's to be done? She's pretty! I will do everything. Make your +mind easy," said he in abrupt sentences while sealing his letter. + +Andrew did not speak; he was both pleased and displeased that his father +understood him. The old man got up and gave the letter to his son. + +"Listen!" said he; "don't worry about your wife: what can be +done shall be. Now listen! Give this letter to Michael Ilarionovich. * +I have written that he should make use of you in proper places and not +keep you long as an adjutant: a bad position! Tell him I remember +and like him. Write and tell me how he receives you. If he is all +right--serve him. Nicholas Bolkonski's son need not serve under +anyone if he is in disfavor. Now come here." + + *Kutuzov. + +He spoke so rapidly that he did not finish half his words, but his son +was accustomed to understand him. He led him to the desk, raised the +lid, drew out a drawer, and took out an exercise book filled with his +bold, tall, close handwriting. + +"I shall probably die before you. So remember, these are my memoirs; +hand them to the Emperor after my death. Now here is a Lombard bond +and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of +Suvorov's wars. Send it to the Academy. Here are some jottings for +you to read when I am gone. You will find them useful." + +Andrew did not tell his father that he would no doubt live a long time +yet. He felt that he must not say it. + +"I will do it all, Father," he said. + +"Well, now, good-by!" He gave his son his hand to kiss, and embraced +him. "Remember this, Prince Andrew, if they kill you it will hurt me, +your old father..." he paused unexpectedly, and then in a querulous +voice suddenly shrieked: "but if I hear that you have not behaved like +a son of Nicholas Bolkonski, I shall be ashamed!" + +"You need not have said that to me, Father," said the son with a +smile. + +The old man was silent. + +"I also wanted to ask you," continued Prince Andrew, "if I'm +killed and if I have a son, do not let him be taken away from you--as I +said yesterday... let him grow up with you.... Please." + +"Not let the wife have him?" said the old man, and laughed. + +They stood silent, facing one another. The old man's sharp eyes were +fixed straight on his son's. Something twitched in the lower part of +the old prince's face. + +"We've said good-by. Go!" he suddenly shouted in a loud, angry +voice, opening his door. + +"What is it? What?" asked both princesses when they saw for a moment +at the door Prince Andrew and the figure of the old man in a white +dressing gown, spectacled and wigless, shouting in an angry voice. + +Prince Andrew sighed and made no reply. + +"Well!" he said, turning to his wife. + +And this "Well!" sounded coldly ironic, as if he were saying: "Now +go through your performance." + +"Andrew, already!" said the little princess, turning pale and +looking with dismay at her husband. + +He embraced her. She screamed and fell unconscious on his shoulder. + +He cautiously released the shoulder she leaned on, looked into her face, +and carefully placed her in an easy chair. + +"Adieu, Mary," said he gently to his sister, taking her by the hand +and kissing her, and then he left the room with rapid steps. + +The little princess lay in the armchair, Mademoiselle Bourienne chafing +her temples. Princess Mary, supporting her sister-in-law, still looked +with her beautiful eyes full of tears at the door through which Prince +Andrew had gone and made the sign of the cross in his direction. From +the study, like pistol shots, came the frequent sound of the old man +angrily blowing his nose. Hardly had Prince Andrew gone when the study +door opened quickly and the stern figure of the old man in the white +dressing gown looked out. + +"Gone? That's all right!" said he; and looking angrily at the +unconscious little princess, he shook his head reprovingly and slammed +the door. + + + + + +BOOK TWO: 1805 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +In October, 1805, a Russian army was occupying the villages and towns of +the Archduchy of Austria, and yet other regiments freshly arriving from +Russia were settling near the fortress of Braunau and burdening the +inhabitants on whom they were quartered. Braunau was the headquarters of +the commander in chief, Kutuzov. + +On October 11, 1805, one of the infantry regiments that had just reached +Braunau had halted half a mile from the town, waiting to be inspected +by the commander in chief. Despite the un-Russian appearance of the +locality and surroundings--fruit gardens, stone fences, tiled roofs, +and hills in the distance--and despite the fact that the inhabitants +(who gazed with curiosity at the soldiers) were not Russians, the +regiment had just the appearance of any Russian regiment preparing for +an inspection anywhere in the heart of Russia. + +On the evening of the last day's march an order had been received that +the commander in chief would inspect the regiment on the march. Though +the words of the order were not clear to the regimental commander, and +the question arose whether the troops were to be in marching order or +not, it was decided at a consultation between the battalion commanders +to present the regiment in parade order, on the principle that it is +always better to "bow too low than not bow low enough." So the +soldiers, after a twenty-mile march, were kept mending and cleaning all +night long without closing their eyes, while the adjutants and +company commanders calculated and reckoned, and by morning the +regiment--instead of the straggling, disorderly crowd it had been on +its last march the day before--presented a well-ordered array of two +thousand men each of whom knew his place and his duty, had every button +and every strap in place, and shone with cleanliness. And not only +externally was all in order, but had it pleased the commander in chief +to look under the uniforms he would have found on every man a clean +shirt, and in every knapsack the appointed number of articles, "awl, +soap, and all," as the soldiers say. There was only one circumstance +concerning which no one could be at ease. It was the state of the +soldiers' boots. More than half the men's boots were in holes. But +this defect was not due to any fault of the regimental commander, for +in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the Austrian +commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred miles. + +The commander of the regiment was an elderly, choleric, stout, and +thick-set general with grizzled eyebrows and whiskers, and wider from +chest to back than across the shoulders. He had on a brand-new uniform +showing the creases where it had been folded and thick gold epaulettes +which seemed to stand rather than lie down on his massive shoulders. He +had the air of a man happily performing one of the most solemn duties of +his life. He walked about in front of the line and at every step pulled +himself up, slightly arching his back. It was plain that the commander +admired his regiment, rejoiced in it, and that his whole mind was +engrossed by it, yet his strut seemed to indicate that, besides military +matters, social interests and the fair sex occupied no small part of his +thoughts. + +"Well, Michael Mitrich, sir?" he said, addressing one of the +battalion commanders who smilingly pressed forward (it was plain that +they both felt happy). "We had our hands full last night. However, I +think the regiment is not a bad one, eh?" + +The battalion commander perceived the jovial irony and laughed. + +"It would not be turned off the field even on the Tsaritsin +Meadow." + +"What?" asked the commander. + +At that moment, on the road from the town on which signalers had been +posted, two men appeared on horse back. They were an aide-de-camp +followed by a Cossack. + +The aide-de-camp was sent to confirm the order which had not been +clearly worded the day before, namely, that the commander in chief +wished to see the regiment just in the state in which it had been on +the march: in their greatcoats, and packs, and without any preparation +whatever. + +A member of the Hofkriegsrath from Vienna had come to Kutuzov the day +before with proposals and demands for him to join up with the army of +the Archduke Ferdinand and Mack, and Kutuzov, not considering this +junction advisable, meant, among other arguments in support of his view, +to show the Austrian general the wretched state in which the troops +arrived from Russia. With this object he intended to meet the regiment; +so the worse the condition it was in, the better pleased the commander +in chief would be. Though the aide-de-camp did not know these +circumstances, he nevertheless delivered the definite order that the +men should be in their greatcoats and in marching order, and that the +commander in chief would otherwise be dissatisfied. On hearing this the +regimental commander hung his head, silently shrugged his shoulders, and +spread out his arms with a choleric gesture. + +"A fine mess we've made of it!" he remarked. + +"There now! Didn't I tell you, Michael Mitrich, that if it was said +'on the march' it meant in greatcoats?" said he reproachfully to +the battalion commander. "Oh, my God!" he added, stepping resolutely +forward. "Company commanders!" he shouted in a voice accustomed to +command. "Sergeants major!... How soon will he be here?" he asked +the aide-de-camp with a respectful politeness evidently relating to the +personage he was referring to. + +"In an hour's time, I should say." + +"Shall we have time to change clothes?" + +"I don't know, General...." + +The regimental commander, going up to the line himself, ordered the +soldiers to change into their greatcoats. The company commanders ran off +to their companies, the sergeants major began bustling (the greatcoats +were not in very good condition), and instantly the squares that had up +to then been in regular order and silent began to sway and stretch and +hum with voices. On all sides soldiers were running to and fro, throwing +up their knapsacks with a jerk of their shoulders and pulling the straps +over their heads, unstrapping their overcoats and drawing the sleeves on +with upraised arms. + +In half an hour all was again in order, only the squares had become gray +instead of black. The regimental commander walked with his jerky steps +to the front of the regiment and examined it from a distance. + +"Whatever is this? This!" he shouted and stood still. "Commander +of the third company!" + +"Commander of the third company wanted by the general!... commander to +the general... third company to the commander." The words passed along +the lines and an adjutant ran to look for the missing officer. + +When the eager but misrepeated words had reached their destination in +a cry of: "The general to the third company," the missing officer +appeared from behind his company and, though he was a middle-aged man +and not in the habit of running, trotted awkwardly stumbling on his +toes toward the general. The captain's face showed the uneasiness of +a schoolboy who is told to repeat a lesson he has not learned. Spots +appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to +intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously. The general looked the +captain up and down as he came up panting, slackening his pace as he +approached. + +"You will soon be dressing your men in petticoats! What is this?" +shouted the regimental commander, thrusting forward his jaw and pointing +at a soldier in the ranks of the third company in a greatcoat of bluish +cloth, which contrasted with the others. "What have you been after? +The commander in chief is expected and you leave your place? Eh? I'll +teach you to dress the men in fancy coats for a parade.... Eh...?" + +The commander of the company, with his eyes fixed on his superior, +pressed two fingers more and more rigidly to his cap, as if in this +pressure lay his only hope of salvation. + +"Well, why don't you speak? Whom have you got there dressed up as a +Hungarian?" said the commander with an austere gibe. + +"Your excellency..." + +"Well, your excellency, what? Your excellency! But what about your +excellency?... nobody knows." + +"Your excellency, it's the officer Dolokhov, who has been reduced +to the ranks," said the captain softly. + +"Well? Has he been degraded into a field marshal, or into a soldier? +If a soldier, he should be dressed in regulation uniform like the +others." + +"Your excellency, you gave him leave yourself, on the march." + +"Gave him leave? Leave? That's just like you young men," said the +regimental commander cooling down a little. "Leave indeed.... One says +a word to you and you... What?" he added with renewed irritation, "I +beg you to dress your men decently." + +And the commander, turning to look at the adjutant, directed his jerky +steps down the line. He was evidently pleased at his own display of +anger and walking up to the regiment wished to find a further excuse for +wrath. Having snapped at an officer for an unpolished badge, at another +because his line was not straight, he reached the third company. + +"H-o-o-w are you standing? Where's your leg? Your leg?" shouted +the commander with a tone of suffering in his voice, while there were +still five men between him and Dolokhov with his bluish-gray uniform. + +Dolokhov slowly straightened his bent knee, looking straight with his +clear, insolent eyes in the general's face. + +"Why a blue coat? Off with it... Sergeant major! Change his coat... +the ras..." he did not finish. + +"General, I must obey orders, but I am not bound to endure..." +Dolokhov hurriedly interrupted. + +"No talking in the ranks!... No talking, no talking!" + +"Not bound to endure insults," Dolokhov concluded in loud, ringing +tones. + +The eyes of the general and the soldier met. The general became silent, +angrily pulling down his tight scarf. + +"I request you to have the goodness to change your coat," he said as +he turned away. + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +"He's coming!" shouted the signaler at that moment. + +The regimental commander, flushing, ran to his horse, seized the stirrup +with trembling hands, threw his body across the saddle, righted himself, +drew his saber, and with a happy and resolute countenance, opening +his mouth awry, prepared to shout. The regiment fluttered like a bird +preening its plumage and became motionless. + +"Att-ention!" shouted the regimental commander in a soul-shaking +voice which expressed joy for himself, severity for the regiment, and +welcome for the approaching chief. + +Along the broad country road, edged on both sides by trees, came a high, +light blue Viennese caleche, slightly creaking on its springs and drawn +by six horses at a smart trot. Behind the caleche galloped the suite +and a convoy of Croats. Beside Kutuzov sat an Austrian general, in +a white uniform that looked strange among the Russian black ones. The +caleche stopped in front of the regiment. Kutuzov and the Austrian +general were talking in low voices and Kutuzov smiled slightly as +treading heavily he stepped down from the carriage just as if those two +thousand men breathlessly gazing at him and the regimental commander did +not exist. + +The word of command rang out, and again the regiment quivered, as with a +jingling sound it presented arms. Then amidst a dead silence the +feeble voice of the commander in chief was heard. The regiment roared, +"Health to your ex... len... len... lency!" and again all became +silent. At first Kutuzov stood still while the regiment moved; then he +and the general in white, accompanied by the suite, walked between the +ranks. + +From the way the regimental commander saluted the commander in chief and +devoured him with his eyes, drawing himself up obsequiously, and from +the way he walked through the ranks behind the generals, bending forward +and hardly able to restrain his jerky movements, and from the way he +darted forward at every word or gesture of the commander in chief, +it was evident that he performed his duty as a subordinate with even +greater zeal than his duty as a commander. Thanks to the strictness and +assiduity of its commander the regiment, in comparison with others that +had reached Braunau at the same time, was in splendid condition. There +were only 217 sick and stragglers. Everything was in good order except +the boots. + +Kutuzov walked through the ranks, sometimes stopping to say a few +friendly words to officers he had known in the Turkish war, sometimes +also to the soldiers. Looking at their boots he several times shook his +head sadly, pointing them out to the Austrian general with an expression +which seemed to say that he was not blaming anyone, but could not help +noticing what a bad state of things it was. The regimental commander +ran forward on each such occasion, fearing to miss a single word of the +commander in chief's regarding the regiment. Behind Kutuzov, at a +distance that allowed every softly spoken word to be heard, followed +some twenty men of his suite. These gentlemen talked among themselves +and sometimes laughed. Nearest of all to the commander in chief walked +a handsome adjutant. This was Prince Bolkonski. Beside him was his +comrade Nesvitski, a tall staff officer, extremely stout, with a +kindly, smiling, handsome face and moist eyes. Nesvitski could hardly +keep from laughter provoked by a swarthy hussar officer who walked +beside him. This hussar, with a grave face and without a smile or a +change in the expression of his fixed eyes, watched the regimental +commander's back and mimicked his every movement. Each time the +commander started and bent forward, the hussar started and bent forward +in exactly the same manner. Nesvitski laughed and nudged the others to +make them look at the wag. + +Kutuzov walked slowly and languidly past thousands of eyes which were +starting from their sockets to watch their chief. On reaching the +third company he suddenly stopped. His suite, not having expected this, +involuntarily came closer to him. + +"Ah, Timokhin!" said he, recognizing the red-nosed captain who had +been reprimanded on account of the blue greatcoat. + +One would have thought it impossible for a man to stretch himself +more than Timokhin had done when he was reprimanded by the regimental +commander, but now that the commander in chief addressed him he drew +himself up to such an extent that it seemed he could not have sustained +it had the commander in chief continued to look at him, and so Kutuzov, +who evidently understood his case and wished him nothing but good, +quickly turned away, a scarcely perceptible smile flitting over his +scarred and puffy face. + +"Another Ismail comrade," said he. "A brave officer! Are you +satisfied with him?" he asked the regimental commander. + +And the latter--unconscious that he was being reflected in the hussar +officer as in a looking glass--started, moved forward, and answered: +"Highly satisfied, your excellency!" + +"We all have our weaknesses," said Kutuzov smiling and walking away +from him. "He used to have a predilection for Bacchus." + +The regimental commander was afraid he might be blamed for this and did +not answer. The hussar at that moment noticed the face of the red-nosed +captain and his drawn-in stomach, and mimicked his expression and pose +with such exactitude that Nesvitski could not help laughing. Kutuzov +turned round. The officer evidently had complete control of his face, +and while Kutuzov was turning managed to make a grimace and then assume +a most serious, deferential, and innocent expression. + +The third company was the last, and Kutuzov pondered, apparently trying +to recollect something. Prince Andrew stepped forward from among the +suite and said in French: + +"You told me to remind you of the officer Dolokhov, reduced to the +ranks in this regiment." + +"Where is Dolokhov?" asked Kutuzov. + +Dolokhov, who had already changed into a soldier's gray greatcoat, +did not wait to be called. The shapely figure of the fair-haired +soldier, with his clear blue eyes, stepped forward from the ranks, went +up to the commander in chief, and presented arms. + +"Have you a complaint to make?" Kutuzov asked with a slight frown. + +"This is Dolokhov," said Prince Andrew. + +"Ah!" said Kutuzov. "I hope this will be a lesson to you. Do your +duty. The Emperor is gracious, and I shan't forget you if you deserve +well." + +The clear blue eyes looked at the commander in chief just as boldly as +they had looked at the regimental commander, seeming by their expression +to tear open the veil of convention that separates a commander in chief +so widely from a private. + +"One thing I ask of your excellency," Dolokhov said in his firm, +ringing, deliberate voice. "I ask an opportunity to atone for my fault +and prove my devotion to His Majesty the Emperor and to Russia!" + +Kutuzov turned away. The same smile of the eyes with which he had +turned from Captain Timokhin again flitted over his face. He turned +away with a grimace as if to say that everything Dolokhov had said to +him and everything he could say had long been known to him, that he was +weary of it and it was not at all what he wanted. He turned away and +went to the carriage. + +The regiment broke up into companies, which went to their appointed +quarters near Braunau, where they hoped to receive boots and clothes and +to rest after their hard marches. + +"You won't bear me a grudge, Prokhor Ignatych?" said the +regimental commander, overtaking the third company on its way to its +quarters and riding up to Captain Timokhin who was walking in front. +(The regimental commander's face now that the inspection was happily +over beamed with irrepressible delight.) "It's in the Emperor's +service... it can't be helped... one is sometimes a bit hasty on +parade... I am the first to apologize, you know me!... He was very +pleased!" And he held out his hand to the captain. + +"Don't mention it, General, as if I'd be so bold!" replied the +captain, his nose growing redder as he gave a smile which showed where +two front teeth were missing that had been knocked out by the butt end +of a gun at Ismail. + +"And tell Mr. Dolokhov that I won't forget him--he may be quite +easy. And tell me, please--I've been meaning to ask--how is he +behaving himself, and in general..." + +"As far as the service goes he is quite punctilious, your excellency; +but his character..." said Timokhin. + +"And what about his character?" asked the regimental commander. + +"It's different on different days," answered the captain. "One +day he is sensible, well educated, and good-natured, and the next he's +a wild beast.... In Poland, if you please, he nearly killed a Jew." + +"Oh, well, well!" remarked the regimental commander. "Still, one +must have pity on a young man in misfortune. You know he has important +connections... Well, then, you just..." + +"I will, your excellency," said Timokhin, showing by his smile that +he understood his commander's wish. + +"Well, of course, of course!" + +The regimental commander sought out Dolokhov in the ranks and, reining +in his horse, said to him: + +"After the next affair... epaulettes." + +Dolokhov looked round but did not say anything, nor did the mocking +smile on his lips change. + +"Well, that's all right," continued the regimental commander. "A +cup of vodka for the men from me," he added so that the soldiers +could hear. "I thank you all! God be praised!" and he rode past that +company and overtook the next one. + +"Well, he's really a good fellow, one can serve under him," said +Timokhin to the subaltern beside him. + +"In a word, a hearty one..." said the subaltern, laughing (the +regimental commander was nicknamed King of Hearts). + +The cheerful mood of their officers after the inspection infected the +soldiers. The company marched on gaily. The soldiers' voices could be +heard on every side. + +"And they said Kutuzov was blind of one eye?" + +"And so he is! Quite blind!" + +"No, friend, he is sharper-eyed than you are. Boots and leg bands... +he noticed everything..." + +"When he looked at my feet, friend... well, thinks I..." + +"And that other one with him, the Austrian, looked as if he were +smeared with chalk--as white as flour! I suppose they polish him up as +they do the guns." + +"I say, Fedeshon!... Did he say when the battles are to begin? You +were near him. Everybody said that Buonaparte himself was at Braunau." + +"Buonaparte himself!... Just listen to the fool, what he doesn't +know! The Prussians are up in arms now. The Austrians, you see, are +putting them down. When they've been put down, the war with Buonaparte +will begin. And he says Buonaparte is in Braunau! Shows you're a fool. +You'd better listen more carefully!" + +"What devils these quartermasters are! See, the fifth company is +turning into the village already... they will have their buckwheat +cooked before we reach our quarters." + +"Give me a biscuit, you devil!" + +"And did you give me tobacco yesterday? That's just it, friend! Ah, +well, never mind, here you are." + +"They might call a halt here or we'll have to do another four miles +without eating." + +"Wasn't it fine when those Germans gave us lifts! You just sit still +and are drawn along." + +"And here, friend, the people are quite beggarly. There they all +seemed to be Poles--all under the Russian crown--but here they're +all regular Germans." + +"Singers to the front" came the captain's order. + +And from the different ranks some twenty men ran to the front. A +drummer, their leader, turned round facing the singers, and flourishing +his arm, began a long-drawn-out soldiers' song, commencing with the +words: "Morning dawned, the sun was rising," and concluding: "On +then, brothers, on to glory, led by Father Kamenski." This song had +been composed in the Turkish campaign and now being sung in Austria, the +only change being that the words "Father Kamenski" were replaced by +"Father Kutuzov." + +Having jerked out these last words as soldiers do and waved his arms +as if flinging something to the ground, the drummer--a lean, handsome +soldier of forty--looked sternly at the singers and screwed up his +eyes. Then having satisfied himself that all eyes were fixed on him, +he raised both arms as if carefully lifting some invisible but precious +object above his head and, holding it there for some seconds, suddenly +flung it down and began: + +"Oh, my bower, oh, my bower...!" + +"Oh, my bower new...!" chimed in twenty voices, and the castanet +player, in spite of the burden of his equipment, rushed out to the front +and, walking backwards before the company, jerked his shoulders and +flourished his castanets as if threatening someone. The soldiers, +swinging their arms and keeping time spontaneously, marched with long +steps. Behind the company the sound of wheels, the creaking of springs, +and the tramp of horses' hoofs were heard. Kutuzov and his suite were +returning to the town. The commander in chief made a sign that the +men should continue to march at ease, and he and all his suite showed +pleasure at the sound of the singing and the sight of the dancing +soldier and the gay and smartly marching men. In the second file +from the right flank, beside which the carriage passed the company, +a blue-eyed soldier involuntarily attracted notice. It was Dolokhov +marching with particular grace and boldness in time to the song and +looking at those driving past as if he pitied all who were not at that +moment marching with the company. The hussar cornet of Kutuzov's +suite who had mimicked the regimental commander, fell back from the +carriage and rode up to Dolokhov. + +Hussar cornet Zherkov had at one time, in Petersburg, belonged to +the wild set led by Dolokhov. Zherkov had met Dolokhov abroad as a +private and had not seen fit to recognize him. But now that Kutuzov had +spoken to the gentleman ranker, he addressed him with the cordiality of +an old friend. + +"My dear fellow, how are you?" said he through the singing, making +his horse keep pace with the company. + +"How am I?" Dolokhov answered coldly. "I am as you see." + +The lively song gave a special flavor to the tone of free and easy +gaiety with which Zherkov spoke, and to the intentional coldness of +Dolokhov's reply. + +"And how do you get on with the officers?" inquired Zherkov. + +"All right. They are good fellows. And how have you wriggled onto the +staff?" + +"I was attached; I'm on duty." + +Both were silent. + +"She let the hawk fly upward from her wide right sleeve," went the +song, arousing an involuntary sensation of courage and cheerfulness. +Their conversation would probably have been different but for the effect +of that song. + +"Is it true that Austrians have been beaten?" asked Dolokhov. + +"The devil only knows! They say so." + +"I'm glad," answered Dolokhov briefly and clearly, as the song +demanded. + +"I say, come round some evening and we'll have a game of faro!" +said Zherkov. + +"Why, have you too much money?" + +"Do come." + +"I can't. I've sworn not to. I won't drink and won't play till +I get reinstated." + +"Well, that's only till the first engagement." + +"We shall see." + +They were again silent. + +"Come if you need anything. One can at least be of use on the +staff..." + +Dolokhov smiled. "Don't trouble. If I want anything, I won't +beg--I'll take it!" + +"Well, never mind; I only..." + +"And I only..." + +"Good-by." + +"Good health..." + + "It's a long, long way. + To my native land..." + + +Zherkov touched his horse with the spurs; it pranced excitedly from +foot to foot uncertain with which to start, then settled down, galloped +past the company, and overtook the carriage, still keeping time to the +song. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +On returning from the review, Kutuzov took the Austrian general into +his private room and, calling his adjutant, asked for some papers +relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the +letters that had come from the Archduke Ferdinand, who was in command of +the advanced army. Prince Andrew Bolkonski came into the room with the +required papers. Kutuzov and the Austrian member of the Hofkriegsrath +were sitting at the table on which a plan was spread out. + +"Ah!..." said Kutuzov glancing at Bolkonski as if by this +exclamation he was asking the adjutant to wait, and he went on with the +conversation in French. + +"All I can say, General," said he with a pleasant elegance +of expression and intonation that obliged one to listen to each +deliberately spoken word. It was evident that Kutuzov himself listened +with pleasure to his own voice. "All I can say, General, is that if +the matter depended on my personal wishes, the will of His Majesty the +Emperor Francis would have been fulfilled long ago. I should long +ago have joined the archduke. And believe me on my honour that to me +personally it would be a pleasure to hand over the supreme command +of the army into the hands of a better informed and more skillful +general--of whom Austria has so many--and to lay down all this heavy +responsibility. But circumstances are sometimes too strong for us, +General." + +And Kutuzov smiled in a way that seemed to say, "You are quite at +liberty not to believe me and I don't even care whether you do or +not, but you have no grounds for telling me so. And that is the whole +point." + +The Austrian general looked dissatisfied, but had no option but to reply +in the same tone. + +"On the contrary," he said, in a querulous and angry tone that +contrasted with his flattering words, "on the contrary, your +excellency's participation in the common action is highly valued by +His Majesty; but we think the present delay is depriving the splendid +Russian troops and their commander of the laurels they have been +accustomed to win in their battles," he concluded his evidently +prearranged sentence. + +Kutuzov bowed with the same smile. + +"But that is my conviction, and judging by the last letter with which +His Highness the Archduke Ferdinand has honored me, I imagine that the +Austrian troops, under the direction of so skillful a leader as General +Mack, have by now already gained a decisive victory and no longer need +our aid," said Kutuzov. + +The general frowned. Though there was no definite news of an Austrian +defeat, there were many circumstances confirming the unfavorable rumors +that were afloat, and so Kutuzov's suggestion of an Austrian victory +sounded much like irony. But Kutuzov went on blandly smiling with the +same expression, which seemed to say that he had a right to suppose +so. And, in fact, the last letter he had received from Mack's army +informed him of a victory and stated strategically the position of the +army was very favorable. + +"Give me that letter," said Kutuzov turning to Prince Andrew. +"Please have a look at it"--and Kutuzov with an ironical smile +about the corners of his mouth read to the Austrian general the +following passage, in German, from the Archduke Ferdinand's letter: + +We have fully concentrated forces of nearly seventy thousand men with +which to attack and defeat the enemy should he cross the Lech. Also, +as we are masters of Ulm, we cannot be deprived of the advantage of +commanding both sides of the Danube, so that should the enemy not +cross the Lech, we can cross the Danube, throw ourselves on his line +of communications, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his +intention should he try to direct his whole force against our faithful +ally. We shall therefore confidently await the moment when the Imperial +Russian army will be fully equipped, and shall then, in conjunction with +it, easily find a way to prepare for the enemy the fate he deserves. + +Kutuzov sighed deeply on finishing this paragraph and looked at the +member of the Hofkriegsrath mildly and attentively. + +"But you know the wise maxim your excellency, advising one to expect +the worst," said the Austrian general, evidently wishing to have done +with jests and to come to business. He involuntarily looked round at the +aide-de-camp. + +"Excuse me, General," interrupted Kutuzov, also turning to Prince +Andrew. "Look here, my dear fellow, get from Kozlovski all the +reports from our scouts. Here are two letters from Count Nostitz and +here is one from His Highness the Archduke Ferdinand and here are +these," he said, handing him several papers, "make a neat memorandum +in French out of all this, showing all the news we have had of the +movements of the Austrian army, and then give it to his excellency." + +Prince Andrew bowed his head in token of having understood from the +first not only what had been said but also what Kutuzov would have +liked to tell him. He gathered up the papers and with a bow to both, +stepped softly over the carpet and went out into the waiting room. + +Though not much time had passed since Prince Andrew had left Russia, he +had changed greatly during that period. In the expression of his face, +in his movements, in his walk, scarcely a trace was left of his former +affected languor and indolence. He now looked like a man who has time +to think of the impression he makes on others, but is occupied with +agreeable and interesting work. His face expressed more satisfaction +with himself and those around him, his smile and glance were brighter +and more attractive. + +Kutuzov, whom he had overtaken in Poland, had received him very kindly, +promised not to forget him, distinguished him above the other adjutants, +and had taken him to Vienna and given him the more serious commissions. +From Vienna Kutuzov wrote to his old comrade, Prince Andrew's father. + +Your son bids fair to become an officer distinguished by his industry, +firmness, and expedition. I consider myself fortunate to have such a +subordinate by me. + +On Kutuzov's staff, among his fellow officers and in the army +generally, Prince Andrew had, as he had had in Petersburg society, two +quite opposite reputations. Some, a minority, acknowledged him to be +different from themselves and from everyone else, expected great things +of him, listened to him, admired, and imitated him, and with them Prince +Andrew was natural and pleasant. Others, the majority, disliked him and +considered him conceited, cold, and disagreeable. But among these people +Prince Andrew knew how to take his stand so that they respected and even +feared him. + +Coming out of Kutuzov's room into the waiting room with the papers in +his hand Prince Andrew came up to his comrade, the aide-de-camp on duty, +Kozlovski, who was sitting at the window with a book. + +"Well, Prince?" asked Kozlovski. + +"I am ordered to write a memorandum explaining why we are not +advancing." + +"And why is it?" + +Prince Andrew shrugged his shoulders. + +"Any news from Mack?" + +"No." + +"If it were true that he has been beaten, news would have come." + +"Probably," said Prince Andrew moving toward the outer door. + +But at that instant a tall Austrian general in a greatcoat, with the +order of Maria Theresa on his neck and a black bandage round his head, +who had evidently just arrived, entered quickly, slamming the door. +Prince Andrew stopped short. + +"Commander in Chief Kutuzov?" said the newly arrived general +speaking quickly with a harsh German accent, looking to both sides and +advancing straight toward the inner door. + +"The commander in chief is engaged," said Kozlovski, going +hurriedly up to the unknown general and blocking his way to the door. +"Whom shall I announce?" + +The unknown general looked disdainfully down at Kozlovski, who was +rather short, as if surprised that anyone should not know him. + +"The commander in chief is engaged," repeated Kozlovski calmly. + +The general's face clouded, his lips quivered and trembled. He took +out a notebook, hurriedly scribbled something in pencil, tore out the +leaf, gave it to Kozlovski, stepped quickly to the window, and threw +himself into a chair, gazing at those in the room as if asking, "Why +do they look at me?" Then he lifted his head, stretched his neck as +if he intended to say something, but immediately, with affected +indifference, began to hum to himself, producing a queer sound which +immediately broke off. The door of the private room opened and Kutuzov +appeared in the doorway. The general with the bandaged head bent forward +as though running away from some danger, and, making long, quick strides +with his thin legs, went up to Kutuzov. + +"Vous voyez le malheureux Mack," he uttered in a broken voice. + +Kutuzov's face as he stood in the open doorway remained perfectly +immobile for a few moments. Then wrinkles ran over his face like a wave +and his forehead became smooth again, he bowed his head respectfully, +closed his eyes, silently let Mack enter his room before him, and closed +the door himself behind him. + +The report which had been circulated that the Austrians had been beaten +and that the whole army had surrendered at Ulm proved to be correct. +Within half an hour adjutants had been sent in various directions with +orders which showed that the Russian troops, who had hitherto been +inactive, would also soon have to meet the enemy. + +Prince Andrew was one of those rare staff officers whose chief interest +lay in the general progress of the war. When he saw Mack and heard the +details of his disaster he understood that half the campaign was lost, +understood all the difficulties of the Russian army's position, and +vividly imagined what awaited it and the part he would have to +play. Involuntarily he felt a joyful agitation at the thought of the +humiliation of arrogant Austria and that in a week's time he might, +perhaps, see and take part in the first Russian encounter with the +French since Suvorov met them. He feared that Bonaparte's genius +might outweigh all the courage of the Russian troops, and at the same +time could not admit the idea of his hero being disgraced. + +Excited and irritated by these thoughts Prince Andrew went toward his +room to write to his father, to whom he wrote every day. In the corridor +he met Nesvitski, with whom he shared a room, and the wag Zherkov; +they were as usual laughing. + +"Why are you so glum?" asked Nesvitski noticing Prince Andrew's +pale face and glittering eyes. + +"There's nothing to be gay about," answered Bolkonski. + +Just as Prince Andrew met Nesvitski and Zherkov, there came toward +them from the other end of the corridor, Strauch, an Austrian general +who on Kutuzov's staff in charge of the provisioning of the Russian +army, and the member of the Hofkriegsrath who had arrived the previous +evening. There was room enough in the wide corridor for the generals to +pass the three officers quite easily, but Zherkov, pushing Nesvitski +aside with his arm, said in a breathless voice, + +"They're coming!... they're coming!... Stand aside, make way, +please make way!" + +The generals were passing by, looking as if they wished to avoid +embarrassing attentions. On the face of the wag Zherkov there suddenly +appeared a stupid smile of glee which he seemed unable to suppress. + +"Your excellency," said he in German, stepping forward and +addressing the Austrian general, "I have the honor to congratulate +you." + +He bowed his head and scraped first with one foot and then with the +other, awkwardly, like a child at a dancing lesson. + +The member of the Hofkriegsrath looked at him severely but, seeing the +seriousness of his stupid smile, could not but give him a moment's +attention. He screwed up his eyes showing that he was listening. + +"I have the honor to congratulate you. General Mack has arrived, quite +well, only a little bruised just here," he added, pointing with a +beaming smile to his head. + +The general frowned, turned away, and went on. + +"Gott, wie naiv!" * said he angrily, after he had gone a few steps. + + * "Good God, what simplicity!" + + +Nesvitski with a laugh threw his arms round Prince Andrew, but +Bolkonski, turning still paler, pushed him away with an angry look and +turned to Zherkov. The nervous irritation aroused by the appearance +of Mack, the news of his defeat, and the thought of what lay before the +Russian army found vent in anger at Zherkov's untimely jest. + +"If you, sir, choose to make a buffoon of yourself," he said +sharply, with a slight trembling of the lower jaw, "I can't prevent +your doing so; but I warn you that if you dare to play the fool in my +presence, I will teach you to behave yourself." + +Nesvitski and Zherkov were so surprised by this outburst that they +gazed at Bolkonski silently with wide-open eyes. + +"What's the matter? I only congratulated them," said Zherkov. + +"I am not jesting with you; please be silent!" cried Bolkonski, +and taking Nesvitski's arm he left Zherkov, who did not know what to +say. + +"Come, what's the matter, old fellow?" said Nesvitski trying to +soothe him. + +"What's the matter?" exclaimed Prince Andrew standing still in +his excitement. "Don't you understand that either we are officers +serving our Tsar and our country, rejoicing in the successes and +grieving at the misfortunes of our common cause, or we are merely +lackeys who care nothing for their master's business. Quarante mille +hommes massacres et l'armee de nos allies detruite, et vous +trouvez la le mot pour rire," * he said, as if strengthening his +views by this French sentence. "C'est bien pour un garcon de rien +comme cet individu dont vous avez fait un ami, mais pas pour vous, pas +pour vous. *(2) Only a hobbledehoy could amuse himself in this +way," he added in Russian--but pronouncing the word with a French +accent--having noticed that Zherkov could still hear him. + + * "Forty thousand men massacred and the army of our allies + destroyed, and you find that a cause for jesting!" + + * (2) "It is all very well for that good-for-nothing fellow + of whom you have made a friend, but not for you, not for + you." + + +He waited a moment to see whether the cornet would answer, but he turned +and went out of the corridor. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +The Pavlograd Hussars were stationed two miles from Braunau. The +squadron in which Nicholas Rostov served as a cadet was quartered in +the German village of Salzeneck. The best quarters in the village were +assigned to cavalry-captain Denisov, the squadron commander, known +throughout the whole cavalry division as Vaska Denisov. Cadet Rostov, +ever since he had overtaken the regiment in Poland, had lived with the +squadron commander. + +On October 11, the day when all was astir at headquarters over the news +of Mack's defeat, the camp life of the officers of this squadron was +proceeding as usual. Denisov, who had been losing at cards all night, +had not yet come home when Rostov rode back early in the morning from +a foraging expedition. Rostov in his cadet uniform, with a jerk to his +horse, rode up to the porch, swung his leg over the saddle with a supple +youthful movement, stood for a moment in the stirrup as if loathe to +part from his horse, and at last sprang down and called to his orderly. + +"Ah, Bondarenko, dear friend!" said he to the hussar who rushed up +headlong to the horse. "Walk him up and down, my dear fellow," he +continued, with that gay brotherly cordiality which goodhearted young +people show to everyone when they are happy. + +"Yes, your excellency," answered the Ukrainian gaily, tossing his +head. + +"Mind, walk him up and down well!" + +Another hussar also rushed toward the horse, but Bondarenko had already +thrown the reins of the snaffle bridle over the horse's head. It was +evident that the cadet was liberal with his tips and that it paid to +serve him. Rostov patted the horse's neck and then his flank, and +lingered for a moment. + +"Splendid! What a horse he will be!" he thought with a smile, and +holding up his saber, his spurs jingling, he ran up the steps of the +porch. His landlord, who in a waistcoat and a pointed cap, pitchfork in +hand, was clearing manure from the cowhouse, looked out, and his face +immediately brightened on seeing Rostov. "Schon gut Morgen! Schon +gut Morgen!" * he said winking with a merry smile, evidently pleased +to greet the young man. + + * "A very good morning! A very good morning!" + + +"Schon fleissig?" * said Rostov with the same gay brotherly smile +which did not leave his eager face. "Hoch Oestreicher! Hoch Russen! +Kaiser Alexander hoch!" *(2) said he, quoting words often repeated by +the German landlord. + + * "Busy already?" + + * (2) "Hurrah for the Austrians! Hurrah for the Russians! + Hurrah for Emperor Alexander!" + + +The German laughed, came out of the cowshed, pulled off his cap, and +waving it above his head cried: + +"Und die ganze Welt hoch!" * + + * "And hurrah for the whole world!" + + +Rostov waved his cap above his head like the German and cried laughing, +"Und vivat die ganze Welt!" Though neither the German cleaning his +cowshed nor Rostov back with his platoon from foraging for hay had any +reason for rejoicing, they looked at each other with joyful delight and +brotherly love, wagged their heads in token of their mutual affection, +and parted smiling, the German returning to his cowshed and Rostov +going to the cottage he occupied with Denisov. + +"What about your master?" he asked Lavrushka, Denisov's orderly, +whom all the regiment knew for a rogue. + +"Hasn't been in since the evening. Must have been losing," +answered Lavrushka. "I know by now, if he wins he comes back early to +brag about it, but if he stays out till morning it means he's lost and +will come back in a rage. Will you have coffee?" + +"Yes, bring some." + +Ten minutes later Lavrushka brought the coffee. "He's coming!" +said he. "Now for trouble!" Rostov looked out of the window and +saw Denisov coming home. Denisov was a small man with a red face, +sparkling black eyes, and black tousled mustache and hair. He wore an +unfastened cloak, wide breeches hanging down in creases, and a crumpled +shako on the back of his head. He came up to the porch gloomily, hanging +his head. + +"Lavwuska!" he shouted loudly and angrily, "take it off, +blockhead!" + +"Well, I am taking it off," replied Lavrushka's voice. + +"Ah, you're up already," said Denisov, entering the room. + +"Long ago," answered Rostov, "I have already been for the hay, +and have seen Fraulein Mathilde." + +"Weally! And I've been losing, bwother. I lost yesterday like a +damned fool!" cried Denisov, not pronouncing his r's. "Such ill +luck! Such ill luck. As soon as you left, it began and went on. Hullo +there! Tea!" + +Puckering up his face though smiling, and showing his short strong +teeth, he began with stubby fingers of both hands to ruffle up his thick +tangled black hair. + +"And what devil made me go to that wat?" (an officer nicknamed +"the rat") he said, rubbing his forehead and whole face with both +hands. "Just fancy, he didn't let me win a single cahd, not one +cahd." + +He took the lighted pipe that was offered to him, gripped it in his +fist, and tapped it on the floor, making the sparks fly, while he +continued to shout. + +"He lets one win the singles and collahs it as soon as one doubles it; +gives the singles and snatches the doubles!" + +He scattered the burning tobacco, smashed the pipe, and threw it away. +Then he remained silent for a while, and all at once looked cheerfully +with his glittering, black eyes at Rostov. + +"If at least we had some women here; but there's nothing foh one +to do but dwink. If we could only get to fighting soon. Hullo, who's +there?" he said, turning to the door as he heard a tread of heavy +boots and the clinking of spurs that came to a stop, and a respectful +cough. + +"The squadron quartermaster!" said Lavrushka. + +Denisov's face puckered still more. + +"Wetched!" he muttered, throwing down a purse with some gold in it. +"Wostov, deah fellow, just see how much there is left and shove the +purse undah the pillow," he said, and went out to the quartermaster. + +Rostov took the money and, mechanically arranging the old and new coins +in separate piles, began counting them. + +"Ah! Telyanin! How d'ye do? They plucked me last night," came +Denisov's voice from the next room. + +"Where? At Bykov's, at the rat's... I knew it," replied a piping +voice, and Lieutenant Telyanin, a small officer of the same squadron, +entered the room. + +Rostov thrust the purse under the pillow and shook the damp little hand +which was offered him. Telyanin for some reason had been transferred +from the Guards just before this campaign. He behaved very well in the +regiment but was not liked; Rostov especially detested him and was +unable to overcome or conceal his groundless antipathy to the man. + +"Well, young cavalryman, how is my Rook behaving?" he asked. (Rook +was a young horse Telyanin had sold to Rostov.) + +The lieutenant never looked the man he was speaking to straight in the +face; his eyes continually wandered from one object to another. + +"I saw you riding this morning..." he added. + +"Oh, he's all right, a good horse," answered Rostov, though the +horse for which he had paid seven hundred rubbles was not worth half +that sum. "He's begun to go a little lame on the left foreleg," he +added. + +"The hoof's cracked! That's nothing. I'll teach you what to do +and show you what kind of rivet to use." + +"Yes, please do," said Rostov. + +"I'll show you, I'll show you! It's not a secret. And it's a +horse you'll thank me for." + +"Then I'll have it brought round," said Rostov wishing to avoid +Telyanin, and he went out to give the order. + +In the passage Denisov, with a pipe, was squatting on the threshold +facing the quartermaster who was reporting to him. On seeing Rostov, +Denisov screwed up his face and pointing over his shoulder with his +thumb to the room where Telyanin was sitting, he frowned and gave a +shudder of disgust. + +"Ugh! I don't like that fellow," he said, regardless of the +quartermaster's presence. + +Rostov shrugged his shoulders as much as to say: "Nor do I, but +what's one to do?" and, having given his order, he returned to +Telyanin. + +Telyanin was sitting in the same indolent pose in which Rostov had +left him, rubbing his small white hands. + +"Well there certainly are disgusting people," thought Rostov as he +entered. + +"Have you told them to bring the horse?" asked Telyanin, getting up +and looking carelessly about him. + +"I have." + +"Let us go ourselves. I only came round to ask Denisov about +yesterday's order. Have you got it, Denisov?" + +"Not yet. But where are you off to?" + +"I want to teach this young man how to shoe a horse," said +Telyanin. + +They went through the porch and into the stable. The lieutenant +explained how to rivet the hoof and went away to his own quarters. + +When Rostov went back there was a bottle of vodka and a sausage on the +table. Denisov was sitting there scratching with his pen on a sheet of +paper. He looked gloomily in Rostov's face and said: "I am witing +to her." + +He leaned his elbows on the table with his pen in his hand and, +evidently glad of a chance to say quicker in words what he wanted to +write, told Rostov the contents of his letter. + +"You see, my fwiend," he said, "we sleep when we don't love. We +are childwen of the dust... but one falls in love and one is a God, one +is pua' as on the fihst day of cweation... Who's that now? Send him +to the devil, I'm busy!" he shouted to Lavrushka, who went up to +him not in the least abashed. + +"Who should it be? You yourself told him to come. It's the +quartermaster for the money." + +Denisov frowned and was about to shout some reply but stopped. + +"Wetched business," he muttered to himself. "How much is left in +the puhse?" he asked, turning to Rostov. + +"Seven new and three old imperials." + +"Oh, it's wetched! Well, what are you standing there for, you +sca'cwow? Call the quahtehmasteh," he shouted to Lavrushka. + +"Please, Denisov, let me lend you some: I have some, you know," +said Rostov, blushing. + +"Don't like bowwowing from my own fellows, I don't," growled +Denisov. + +"But if you won't accept money from me like a comrade, you will +offend me. Really I have some," Rostov repeated. + +"No, I tell you." + +And Denisov went to the bed to get the purse from under the pillow. + +"Where have you put it, Wostov?" + +"Under the lower pillow." + +"It's not there." + +Denisov threw both pillows on the floor. The purse was not there. + +"That's a miwacle." + +"Wait, haven't you dropped it?" said Rostov, picking up the +pillows one at a time and shaking them. + +He pulled off the quilt and shook it. The purse was not there. + +"Dear me, can I have forgotten? No, I remember thinking that you kept +it under your head like a treasure," said Rostov. "I put it just +here. Where is it?" he asked, turning to Lavrushka. + +"I haven't been in the room. It must be where you put it." + +"But it isn't?..." + +"You're always like that; you thwow a thing down anywhere and forget +it. Feel in your pockets." + +"No, if I hadn't thought of it being a treasure," said Rostov, +"but I remember putting it there." + +Lavrushka turned all the bedding over, looked under the bed and under +the table, searched everywhere, and stood still in the middle of the +room. Denisov silently watched Lavrushka's movements, and when the +latter threw up his arms in surprise saying it was nowhere to be found +Denisov glanced at Rostov. + +"Wostov, you've not been playing schoolboy twicks..." + +Rostov felt Denisov's gaze fixed on him, raised his eyes, and +instantly dropped them again. All the blood which had seemed congested +somewhere below his throat rushed to his face and eyes. He could not +draw breath. + +"And there hasn't been anyone in the room except the lieutenant and +yourselves. It must be here somewhere," said Lavrushka. + +"Now then, you devil's puppet, look alive and hunt for it!" +shouted Denisov, suddenly, turning purple and rushing at the man with +a threatening gesture. "If the purse isn't found I'll flog you, +I'll flog you all." + +Rostov, his eyes avoiding Denisov, began buttoning his coat, buckled +on his saber, and put on his cap. + +"I must have that purse, I tell you," shouted Denisov, shaking his +orderly by the shoulders and knocking him against the wall. + +"Denisov, let him alone, I know who has taken it," said Rostov, +going toward the door without raising his eyes. Denisov paused, thought +a moment, and, evidently understanding what Rostov hinted at, seized +his arm. + +"Nonsense!" he cried, and the veins on his forehead and neck stood +out like cords. "You are mad, I tell you. I won't allow it. +The purse is here! I'll flay this scoundwel alive, and it will be +found." + +"I know who has taken it," repeated Rostov in an unsteady voice, +and went to the door. + +"And I tell you, don't you dahe to do it!" shouted Denisov, +rushing at the cadet to restrain him. + +But Rostov pulled away his arm and, with as much anger as though +Denisov were his worst enemy, firmly fixed his eyes directly on his +face. + +"Do you understand what you're saying?" he said in a trembling +voice. "There was no one else in the room except myself. So that if it +is not so, then..." + +He could not finish, and ran out of the room. + +"Ah, may the devil take you and evewybody," were the last words +Rostov heard. + +Rostov went to Telyanin's quarters. + +"The master is not in, he's gone to headquarters," said +Telyanin's orderly. "Has something happened?" he added, surprised +at the cadet's troubled face. + +"No, nothing." + +"You've only just missed him," said the orderly. + +The headquarters were situated two miles away from Salzeneck, and +Rostov, without returning home, took a horse and rode there. There was +an inn in the village which the officers frequented. Rostov rode up to +it and saw Telyanin's horse at the porch. + +In the second room of the inn the lieutenant was sitting over a dish of +sausages and a bottle of wine. + +"Ah, you've come here too, young man!" he said, smiling and +raising his eyebrows. + +"Yes," said Rostov as if it cost him a great deal to utter the +word; and he sat down at the nearest table. + +Both were silent. There were two Germans and a Russian officer in the +room. No one spoke and the only sounds heard were the clatter of knives +and the munching of the lieutenant. + +When Telyanin had finished his lunch he took out of his pocket a double +purse and, drawing its rings aside with his small, white, turned-up +fingers, drew out a gold imperial, and lifting his eyebrows gave it to +the waiter. + +"Please be quick," he said. + +The coin was a new one. Rostov rose and went up to Telyanin. + +"Allow me to look at your purse," he said in a low, almost +inaudible, voice. + +With shifting eyes but eyebrows still raised, Telyanin handed him the +purse. + +"Yes, it's a nice purse. Yes, yes," he said, growing suddenly +pale, and added, "Look at it, young man." + +Rostov took the purse in his hand, examined it and the money in it, and +looked at Telyanin. The lieutenant was looking about in his usual way +and suddenly seemed to grow very merry. + +"If we get to Vienna I'll get rid of it there but in these wretched +little towns there's nowhere to spend it," said he. "Well, let me +have it, young man, I'm going." + +Rostov did not speak. + +"And you? Are you going to have lunch too? They feed you quite +decently here," continued Telyanin. "Now then, let me have it." + +He stretched out his hand to take hold of the purse. Rostov let go of +it. Telyanin took the purse and began carelessly slipping it into the +pocket of his riding breeches, with his eyebrows lifted and his mouth +slightly open, as if to say, "Yes, yes, I am putting my purse in my +pocket and that's quite simple and is no one else's business." + +"Well, young man?" he said with a sigh, and from under his lifted +brows he glanced into Rostov's eyes. + +Some flash as of an electric spark shot from Telyanin's eyes to +Rostov's and back, and back again and again in an instant. + +"Come here," said Rostov, catching hold of Telyanin's arm and +almost dragging him to the window. "That money is Denisov's; you +took it..." he whispered just above Telyanin's ear. + +"What? What? How dare you? What?" said Telyanin. + +But these words came like a piteous, despairing cry and an entreaty for +pardon. As soon as Rostov heard them, an enormous load of doubt +fell from him. He was glad, and at the same instant began to pity the +miserable man who stood before him, but the task he had begun had to be +completed. + +"Heaven only knows what the people here may imagine," muttered +Telyanin, taking up his cap and moving toward a small empty room. "We +must have an explanation..." + +"I know it and shall prove it," said Rostov. + +"I..." + +Every muscle of Telyanin's pale, terrified face began to quiver, his +eyes still shifted from side to side but with a downward look not rising +to Rostov's face, and his sobs were audible. + +"Count!... Don't ruin a young fellow... here is this wretched money, +take it..." He threw it on the table. "I have an old father and +mother!..." + +Rostov took the money, avoiding Telyanin's eyes, and went out of the +room without a word. But at the door he stopped and then retraced his +steps. "O God," he said with tears in his eyes, "how could you do +it?" + +"Count..." said Telyanin drawing nearer to him. + +"Don't touch me," said Rostov, drawing back. "If you need it, +take the money," and he threw the purse to him and ran out of the inn. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +That same evening there was an animated discussion among the +squadron's officers in Denisov's quarters. + +"And I tell you, Rostov, that you must apologize to the colonel!" +said a tall, grizzly-haired staff captain, with enormous mustaches and +many wrinkles on his large features, to Rostov who was crimson with +excitement. + +The staff captain, Kirsten, had twice been reduced to the ranks for +affairs of honor and had twice regained his commission. + +"I will allow no one to call me a liar!" cried Rostov. "He told +me I lied, and I told him he lied. And there it rests. He may keep me +on duty every day, or may place me under arrest, but no one can make +me apologize, because if he, as commander of this regiment, thinks it +beneath his dignity to give me satisfaction, then..." + +"You just wait a moment, my dear fellow, and listen," interrupted +the staff captain in his deep bass, calmly stroking his long mustache. +"You tell the colonel in the presence of other officers that an +officer has stolen..." + +"I'm not to blame that the conversation began in the presence of +other officers. Perhaps I ought not to have spoken before them, but I am +not a diplomatist. That's why I joined the hussars, thinking that here +one would not need finesse; and he tells me that I am lying--so let him +give me satisfaction..." + +"That's all right. No one thinks you a coward, but that's not the +point. Ask Denisov whether it is not out of the question for a cadet to +demand satisfaction of his regimental commander?" + +Denisov sat gloomily biting his mustache and listening to the +conversation, evidently with no wish to take part in it. He answered the +staff captain's question by a disapproving shake of his head. + +"You speak to the colonel about this nasty business before other +officers," continued the staff captain, "and Bogdanich" (the +colonel was called Bogdanich) "shuts you up." + +"He did not shut me up, he said I was telling an untruth." + +"Well, have it so, and you talked a lot of nonsense to him and must +apologize." + +"Not on any account!" exclaimed Rostov. + +"I did not expect this of you," said the staff captain seriously and +severely. "You don't wish to apologize, but, man, it's not only to +him but to the whole regiment--all of us--you're to blame all round. +The case is this: you ought to have thought the matter over and +taken advice; but no, you go and blurt it all straight out before the +officers. Now what was the colonel to do? Have the officer tried and +disgrace the whole regiment? Disgrace the whole regiment because of one +scoundrel? Is that how you look at it? We don't see it like that. And +Bogdanich was a brick: he told you you were saying what was not true. +It's not pleasant, but what's to be done, my dear fellow? You landed +yourself in it. And now, when one wants to smooth the thing over, some +conceit prevents your apologizing, and you wish to make the whole +affair public. You are offended at being put on duty a bit, but why not +apologize to an old and honorable officer? Whatever Bogdanich may +be, anyway he is an honorable and brave old colonel! You're quick at +taking offense, but you don't mind disgracing the whole regiment!" +The staff captain's voice began to tremble. "You have been in the +regiment next to no time, my lad, you're here today and tomorrow +you'll be appointed adjutant somewhere and can snap your fingers when +it is said 'There are thieves among the Pavlograd officers!' But +it's not all the same to us! Am I not right, Denisov? It's not the +same!" + +Denisov remained silent and did not move, but occasionally looked with +his glittering black eyes at Rostov. + +"You value your own pride and don't wish to apologize," continued +the staff captain, "but we old fellows, who have grown up in and, God +willing, are going to die in the regiment, we prize the honor of the +regiment, and Bogdanich knows it. Oh, we do prize it, old fellow! And +all this is not right, it's not right! You may take offense or not but +I always stick to mother truth. It's not right!" + +And the staff captain rose and turned away from Rostov. + +"That's twue, devil take it!" shouted Denisov, jumping up. "Now +then, Wostov, now then!" + +Rostov, growing red and pale alternately, looked first at one officer +and then at the other. + +"No, gentlemen, no... you mustn't think... I quite understand. +You're wrong to think that of me... I... for me... for the honor of +the regiment I'd... Ah well, I'll show that in action, and for me +the honor of the flag... Well, never mind, it's true I'm to blame, +to blame all round. Well, what else do you want?..." + +"Come, that's right, Count!" cried the staff captain, turning +round and clapping Rostov on the shoulder with his big hand. + +"I tell you," shouted Denisov, "he's a fine fellow." + +"That's better, Count," said the staff captain, beginning to +address Rostov by his title, as if in recognition of his confession. +"Go and apologize, your excellency. Yes, go!" + +"Gentlemen, I'll do anything. No one shall hear a word from me," +said Rostov in an imploring voice, "but I can't apologize, by God I +can't, do what you will! How can I go and apologize like a little boy +asking forgiveness?" + +Denisov began to laugh. + +"It'll be worse for you. Bogdanich is vindictive and you'll pay +for your obstinacy," said Kirsten. + +"No, on my word it's not obstinacy! I can't describe the feeling. +I can't..." + +"Well, it's as you like," said the staff captain. "And what has +become of that scoundrel?" he asked Denisov. + +"He has weported himself sick, he's to be stwuck off the list +tomowwow," muttered Denisov. + +"It is an illness, there's no other way of explaining it," said +the staff captain. + +"Illness or not, he'd better not cwoss my path. I'd kill him!" +shouted Denisov in a bloodthirsty tone. + +Just then Zherkov entered the room. + +"What brings you here?" cried the officers turning to the newcomer. + +"We're to go into action, gentlemen! Mack has surrendered with his +whole army." + +"It's not true!" + +"I've seen him myself!" + +"What? Saw the real Mack? With hands and feet?" + +"Into action! Into action! Bring him a bottle for such news! But how +did you come here?" + +"I've been sent back to the regiment all on account of that devil, +Mack. An Austrian general complained of me. I congratulated him on +Mack's arrival... What's the matter, Rostov? You look as if you'd +just come out of a hot bath." + +"Oh, my dear fellow, we're in such a stew here these last two +days." + +The regimental adjutant came in and confirmed the news brought by +Zherkov. They were under orders to advance next day. + +"We're going into action, gentlemen!" + +"Well, thank God! We've been sitting here too long!" + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +Kutuzov fell back toward Vienna, destroying behind him the bridges over +the rivers Inn (at Braunau) and Traun (near Linz). On October 23 the +Russian troops were crossing the river Enns. At midday the Russian +baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling +through the town of Enns on both sides of the bridge. + +It was a warm, rainy, autumnal day. The wide expanse that opened out +before the heights on which the Russian batteries stood guarding the +bridge was at times veiled by a diaphanous curtain of slanting rain, and +then, suddenly spread out in the sunlight, far-distant objects could +be clearly seen glittering as though freshly varnished. Down below, +the little town could be seen with its white, red-roofed houses, its +cathedral, and its bridge, on both sides of which streamed jostling +masses of Russian troops. At the bend of the Danube, vessels, an island, +and a castle with a park surrounded by the waters of the confluence of +the Enns and the Danube became visible, and the rocky left bank of the +Danube covered with pine forests, with a mystic background of green +treetops and bluish gorges. The turrets of a convent stood out beyond a +wild virgin pine forest, and far away on the other side of the Enns the +enemy's horse patrols could be discerned. + +Among the field guns on the brow of the hill the general in command of +the rearguard stood with a staff officer, scanning the country through +his fieldglass. A little behind them Nesvitski, who had been sent to +the rearguard by the commander in chief, was sitting on the trail of a +gun carriage. A Cossack who accompanied him had handed him a knapsack +and a flask, and Nesvitski was treating some officers to pies and real +doppelkummel. The officers gladly gathered round him, some on their +knees, some squatting Turkish fashion on the wet grass. + +"Yes, the Austrian prince who built that castle was no fool. It's +a fine place! Why are you not eating anything, gentlemen?" Nesvitski +was saying. + +"Thank you very much, Prince," answered one of the officers, pleased +to be talking to a staff officer of such importance. "It's a lovely +place! We passed close to the park and saw two deer... and what a +splendid house!" + +"Look, Prince," said another, who would have dearly liked to take +another pie but felt shy, and therefore pretended to be examining the +countryside--"See, our infantrymen have already got there. Look there +in the meadow behind the village, three of them are dragging something. +They'll ransack that castle," he remarked with evident approval. + +"So they will," said Nesvitski. "No, but what I should like," +added he, munching a pie in his moist-lipped handsome mouth, "would be +to slip in over there." + +He pointed with a smile to a turreted nunnery, and his eyes narrowed and +gleamed. + +"That would be fine, gentlemen!" + +The officers laughed. + +"Just to flutter the nuns a bit. They say there are Italian girls +among them. On my word I'd give five years of my life for it!" + +"They must be feeling dull, too," said one of the bolder officers, +laughing. + +Meanwhile the staff officer standing in front pointed out something to +the general, who looked through his field glass. + +"Yes, so it is, so it is," said the general angrily, lowering the +field glass and shrugging his shoulders, "so it is! They'll be fired +on at the crossing. And why are they dawdling there?" + +On the opposite side the enemy could be seen by the naked eye, and from +their battery a milk-white cloud arose. Then came the distant report of +a shot, and our troops could be seen hurrying to the crossing. + +Nesvitski rose, puffing, and went up to the general, smiling. + +"Would not your excellency like a little refreshment?" he said. + +"It's a bad business," said the general without answering him, +"our men have been wasting time." + +"Hadn't I better ride over, your excellency?" asked Nesvitski. + +"Yes, please do," answered the general, and he repeated the order +that had already once been given in detail: "and tell the hussars +that they are to cross last and to fire the bridge as I ordered; and the +inflammable material on the bridge must be reinspected." + +"Very good," answered Nesvitski. + +He called the Cossack with his horse, told him to put away the knapsack +and flask, and swung his heavy person easily into the saddle. + +"I'll really call in on the nuns," he said to the officers who +watched him smilingly, and he rode off by the winding path down the +hill. + +"Now then, let's see how far it will carry, Captain. Just try!" +said the general, turning to an artillery officer. "Have a little fun +to pass the time." + +"Crew, to your guns!" commanded the officer. + +In a moment the men came running gaily from their campfires and began +loading. + +"One!" came the command. + +Number one jumped briskly aside. The gun rang out with a deafening +metallic roar, and a whistling grenade flew above the heads of our +troops below the hill and fell far short of the enemy, a little smoke +showing the spot where it burst. + +The faces of officers and men brightened up at the sound. Everyone got +up and began watching the movements of our troops below, as plainly +visible as if but a stone's throw away, and the movements of the +approaching enemy farther off. At the same instant the sun came fully +out from behind the clouds, and the clear sound of the solitary shot +and the brilliance of the bright sunshine merged in a single joyous and +spirited impression. + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +Two of the enemy's shots had already flown across the bridge, where +there was a crush. Halfway across stood Prince Nesvitski, who had +alighted from his horse and whose big body was jammed against the +railings. He looked back laughing to the Cossack who stood a few +steps behind him holding two horses by their bridles. Each time Prince +Nesvitski tried to move on, soldiers and carts pushed him back again +and pressed him against the railings, and all he could do was to smile. + +"What a fine fellow you are, friend!" said the Cossack to a convoy +soldier with a wagon, who was pressing onto the infantrymen who were +crowded together close to his wheels and his horses. "What a fellow! +You can't wait a moment! Don't you see the general wants to pass?" + +But the convoyman took no notice of the word "general" and shouted +at the soldiers who were blocking his way. "Hi there, boys! Keep to +the left! Wait a bit." But the soldiers, crowded together shoulder to +shoulder, their bayonets interlocking, moved over the bridge in a dense +mass. Looking down over the rails Prince Nesvitski saw the rapid, noisy +little waves of the Enns, which rippling and eddying round the piles of +the bridge chased each other along. Looking on the bridge he saw equally +uniform living waves of soldiers, shoulder straps, covered shakos, +knapsacks, bayonets, long muskets, and, under the shakos, faces with +broad cheekbones, sunken cheeks, and listless tired expressions, and +feet that moved through the sticky mud that covered the planks of the +bridge. Sometimes through the monotonous waves of men, like a fleck of +white foam on the waves of the Enns, an officer, in a cloak and with +a type of face different from that of the men, squeezed his way along; +sometimes like a chip of wood whirling in the river, an hussar on foot, +an orderly, or a townsman was carried through the waves of infantry; +and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers' or +company's baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered, and hemmed in on +all sides, moved across the bridge. + +"It's as if a dam had burst," said the Cossack hopelessly. "Are +there many more of you to come?" + +"A million all but one!" replied a waggish soldier in a torn coat, +with a wink, and passed on followed by another, an old man. + +"If he" (he meant the enemy) "begins popping at the bridge now," +said the old soldier dismally to a comrade, "you'll forget to +scratch yourself." + +That soldier passed on, and after him came another sitting on a cart. + +"Where the devil have the leg bands been shoved to?" said an +orderly, running behind the cart and fumbling in the back of it. + +And he also passed on with the wagon. Then came some merry soldiers who +had evidently been drinking. + +"And then, old fellow, he gives him one in the teeth with the butt +end of his gun..." a soldier whose greatcoat was well tucked up said +gaily, with a wide swing of his arm. + +"Yes, the ham was just delicious..." answered another with a loud +laugh. And they, too, passed on, so that Nesvitski did not learn who +had been struck on the teeth, or what the ham had to do with it. + +"Bah! How they scurry. He just sends a ball and they think they'll +all be killed," a sergeant was saying angrily and reproachfully. + +"As it flies past me, Daddy, the ball I mean," said a young soldier +with an enormous mouth, hardly refraining from laughing, "I felt like +dying of fright. I did, 'pon my word, I got that frightened!" said +he, as if bragging of having been frightened. + +That one also passed. Then followed a cart unlike any that had gone +before. It was a German cart with a pair of horses led by a German, and +seemed loaded with a whole houseful of effects. A fine brindled cow with +a large udder was attached to the cart behind. A woman with an unweaned +baby, an old woman, and a healthy German girl with bright red cheeks +were sitting on some feather beds. Evidently these fugitives were +allowed to pass by special permission. The eyes of all the soldiers +turned toward the women, and while the vehicle was passing at foot pace +all the soldiers' remarks related to the two young ones. Every face +bore almost the same smile, expressing unseemly thoughts about the +women. + +"Just see, the German sausage is making tracks, too!" + +"Sell me the missis," said another soldier, addressing the German, +who, angry and frightened, strode energetically along with downcast +eyes. + +"See how smart she's made herself! Oh, the devils!" + +"There, Fedotov, you should be quartered on them!" + +"I have seen as much before now, mate!" + +"Where are you going?" asked an infantry officer who was eating an +apple, also half smiling as he looked at the handsome girl. + +The German closed his eyes, signifying that he did not understand. + +"Take it if you like," said the officer, giving the girl an apple. + +The girl smiled and took it. Nesvitski like the rest of the men on the +bridge did not take his eyes off the women till they had passed. When +they had gone by, the same stream of soldiers followed, with the same +kind of talk, and at last all stopped. As often happens, the horses of +a convoy wagon became restive at the end of the bridge, and the whole +crowd had to wait. + +"And why are they stopping? There's no proper order!" said the +soldiers. "Where are you shoving to? Devil take you! Can't you wait? +It'll be worse if he fires the bridge. See, here's an officer jammed +in too"--different voices were saying in the crowd, as the men looked +at one another, and all pressed toward the exit from the bridge. + +Looking down at the waters of the Enns under the bridge, Nesvitski +suddenly heard a sound new to him, of something swiftly approaching... +something big, that splashed into the water. + +"Just see where it carries to!" a soldier near by said sternly, +looking round at the sound. + +"Encouraging us to get along quicker," said another uneasily. + +The crowd moved on again. Nesvitski realized that it was a cannon ball. + +"Hey, Cossack, my horse!" he said. "Now, then, you there! get out +of the way! Make way!" + +With great difficulty he managed to get to his horse, and shouting +continually he moved on. The soldiers squeezed themselves to make way +for him, but again pressed on him so that they jammed his leg, and those +nearest him were not to blame for they were themselves pressed still +harder from behind. + +"Nesvitski, Nesvitski! you numskull!" came a hoarse voice from +behind him. + +Nesvitski looked round and saw, some fifteen paces away but separated +by the living mass of moving infantry, Vaska Denisov, red and shaggy, +with his cap on the back of his black head and a cloak hanging jauntily +over his shoulder. + +"Tell these devils, these fiends, to let me pass!" shouted Denisov +evidently in a fit of rage, his coal-black eyes with their bloodshot +whites glittering and rolling as he waved his sheathed saber in a small +bare hand as red as his face. + +"Ah, Vaska!" joyfully replied Nesvitski. "What's up with +you?" + +"The squadwon can't pass," shouted Vaska Denisov, showing his +white teeth fiercely and spurring his black thoroughbred Arab, which +twitched its ears as the bayonets touched it, and snorted, spurting +white foam from his bit, tramping the planks of the bridge with his +hoofs, and apparently ready to jump over the railings had his rider let +him. "What is this? They're like sheep! Just like sheep! Out of the +way!... Let us pass!... Stop there, you devil with the cart! I'll hack +you with my saber!" he shouted, actually drawing his saber from its +scabbard and flourishing it. + +The soldiers crowded against one another with terrified faces, and +Denisov joined Nesvitski. + +"How's it you're not drunk today?" said Nesvitski when the +other had ridden up to him. + +"They don't even give one time to dwink!" answered Vaska +Denisov. "They keep dwagging the wegiment to and fwo all day. If they +mean to fight, let's fight. But the devil knows what this is." + +"What a dandy you are today!" said Nesvitski, looking at +Denisov's new cloak and saddlecloth. + +Denisov smiled, took out of his sabretache a handkerchief that diffused +a smell of perfume, and put it to Nesvitski's nose. + +"Of course. I'm going into action! I've shaved, bwushed my teeth, +and scented myself." + +The imposing figure of Nesvitski followed by his Cossack, and +the determination of Denisov who flourished his sword and shouted +frantically, had such an effect that they managed to squeeze through +to the farther side of the bridge and stopped the infantry. Beside the +bridge Nesvitski found the colonel to whom he had to deliver the order, +and having done this he rode back. + +Having cleared the way Denisov stopped at the end of the bridge. +Carelessly holding in his stallion that was neighing and pawing the +ground, eager to rejoin its fellows, he watched his squadron draw +nearer. Then the clang of hoofs, as of several horses galloping, +resounded on the planks of the bridge, and the squadron, officers in +front and men four abreast, spread across the bridge and began to emerge +on his side of it. + +The infantry who had been stopped crowded near the bridge in the +trampled mud and gazed with that particular feeling of ill-will, +estrangement, and ridicule with which troops of different arms usually +encounter one another at the clean, smart hussars who moved past them in +regular order. + +"Smart lads! Only fit for a fair!" said one. + +"What good are they? They're led about just for show!" remarked +another. + +"Don't kick up the dust, you infantry!" jested an hussar whose +prancing horse had splashed mud over some foot soldiers. + +"I'd like to put you on a two days' march with a knapsack! Your +fine cords would soon get a bit rubbed," said an infantryman, wiping +the mud off his face with his sleeve. "Perched up there, you're more +like a bird than a man." + +"There now, Zikin, they ought to put you on a horse. You'd look +fine," said a corporal, chaffing a thin little soldier who bent under +the weight of his knapsack. + +"Take a stick between your legs, that'll suit you for a horse!" +the hussar shouted back. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +The last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing +together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel. At last +the baggage wagons had all crossed, the crush was less, and the last +battalion came onto the bridge. Only Denisov's squadron of hussars +remained on the farther side of the bridge facing the enemy, who could +be seen from the hill on the opposite bank but was not yet visible from +the bridge, for the horizon as seen from the valley through which the +river flowed was formed by the rising ground only half a mile away. +At the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our +Cossack scouts were moving. Suddenly on the road at the top of the high +ground, artillery and troops in blue uniform were seen. These were the +French. A group of Cossack scouts retired down the hill at a trot. All +the officers and men of Denisov's squadron, though they tried to talk +of other things and to look in other directions, thought only of what +was there on the hilltop, and kept constantly looking at the patches +appearing on the skyline, which they knew to be the enemy's troops. +The weather had cleared again since noon and the sun was descending +brightly upon the Danube and the dark hills around it. It was calm, and +at intervals the bugle calls and the shouts of the enemy could be heard +from the hill. There was no one now between the squadron and the enemy +except a few scattered skirmishers. An empty space of some seven hundred +yards was all that separated them. The enemy ceased firing, and that +stern, threatening, inaccessible, and intangible line which separates +two hostile armies was all the more clearly felt. + +"One step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing +the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. And +what is there? Who is there?--there beyond that field, that tree, that +roof lit up by the sun? No one knows, but one wants to know. You fear +and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must +be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will +inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. But you are +strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and are surrounded by other such +excitedly animated and healthy men." So thinks, or at any rate +feels, anyone who comes in sight of the enemy, and that feeling gives +a particular glamour and glad keenness of impression to everything that +takes place at such moments. + +On the high ground where the enemy was, the smoke of a cannon rose, +and a ball flew whistling over the heads of the hussar squadron. The +officers who had been standing together rode off to their places. The +hussars began carefully aligning their horses. Silence fell on the whole +squadron. All were looking at the enemy in front and at the squadron +commander, awaiting the word of command. A second and a third cannon +ball flew past. Evidently they were firing at the hussars, but the balls +with rapid rhythmic whistle flew over the heads of the horsemen and fell +somewhere beyond them. The hussars did not look round, but at the sound +of each shot, as at the word of command, the whole squadron with its +rows of faces so alike yet so different, holding its breath while the +ball flew past, rose in the stirrups and sank back again. The soldiers +without turning their heads glanced at one another, curious to see their +comrades' impression. Every face, from Denisov's to that of the +bugler, showed one common expression of conflict, irritation, and +excitement, around chin and mouth. The quartermaster frowned, looking +at the soldiers as if threatening to punish them. Cadet Mironov ducked +every time a ball flew past. Rostov on the left flank, mounted on his +Rook--a handsome horse despite its game leg--had the happy air of a +schoolboy called up before a large audience for an examination in which +he feels sure he will distinguish himself. He was glancing at everyone +with a clear, bright expression, as if asking them to notice how calmly +he sat under fire. But despite himself, on his face too that same +indication of something new and stern showed round the mouth. + +"Who's that curtseying there? Cadet Miwonov! That's not wight! +Look at me," cried Denisov who, unable to keep still on one spot, +kept turning his horse in front of the squadron. + +The black, hairy, snub-nosed face of Vaska Denisov, and his whole +short sturdy figure with the sinewy hairy hand and stumpy fingers in +which he held the hilt of his naked saber, looked just as it usually +did, especially toward evening when he had emptied his second bottle; he +was only redder than usual. With his shaggy head thrown back like birds +when they drink, pressing his spurs mercilessly into the sides of his +good horse, Bedouin, and sitting as though falling backwards in the +saddle, he galloped to the other flank of the squadron and shouted in +a hoarse voice to the men to look to their pistols. He rode up to +Kirsten. The staff captain on his broad-backed, steady mare came at a +walk to meet him. His face with its long mustache was serious as always, +only his eyes were brighter than usual. + +"Well, what about it?" said he to Denisov. "It won't come to a +fight. You'll see--we shall retire." + +"The devil only knows what they're about!" muttered Denisov. +"Ah, Wostov," he cried noticing the cadet's bright face, +"you've got it at last." + +And he smiled approvingly, evidently pleased with the cadet. Rostov +felt perfectly happy. Just then the commander appeared on the bridge. +Denisov galloped up to him. + +"Your excellency! Let us attack them! I'll dwive them off." + +"Attack indeed!" said the colonel in a bored voice, puckering up his +face as if driving off a troublesome fly. "And why are you stopping +here? Don't you see the skirmishers are retreating? Lead the squadron +back." + +The squadron crossed the bridge and drew out of range of fire without +having lost a single man. The second squadron that had been in the front +line followed them across and the last Cossacks quitted the farther side +of the river. + +The two Pavlograd squadrons, having crossed the bridge, retired up the +hill one after the other. Their colonel, Karl Bogdanich Schubert, came +up to Denisov's squadron and rode at a footpace not far from Rostov, +without taking any notice of him although they were now meeting for the +first time since their encounter concerning Telyanin. Rostov, feeling +that he was at the front and in the power of a man toward whom he now +admitted that he had been to blame, did not lift his eyes from the +colonel's athletic back, his nape covered with light hair, and his red +neck. It seemed to Rostov that Bogdanich was only pretending not +to notice him, and that his whole aim now was to test the cadet's +courage, so he drew himself up and looked around him merrily; then it +seemed to him that Bogdanich rode so near in order to show him his +courage. Next he thought that his enemy would send the squadron on a +desperate attack just to punish him--Rostov. Then he imagined how, +after the attack, Bogdanich would come up to him as he lay wounded and +would magnanimously extend the hand of reconciliation. + +The high-shouldered figure of Zherkov, familiar to the Pavlograds as +he had but recently left their regiment, rode up to the colonel. +After his dismissal from headquarters Zherkov had not remained in the +regiment, saying he was not such a fool as to slave at the front when he +could get more rewards by doing nothing on the staff, and had succeeded +in attaching himself as an orderly officer to Prince Bagration. He now +came to his former chief with an order from the commander of the rear +guard. + +"Colonel," he said, addressing Rostov's enemy with an air of +gloomy gravity and glancing round at his comrades, "there is an order +to stop and fire the bridge." + +"An order to who?" asked the colonel morosely. + +"I don't myself know 'to who,'" replied the cornet in a +serious tone, "but the prince told me to 'go and tell the colonel +that the hussars must return quickly and fire the bridge.'" + +Zherkov was followed by an officer of the suite who rode up to the +colonel of hussars with the same order. After him the stout Nesvitski +came galloping up on a Cossack horse that could scarcely carry his +weight. + +"How's this, Colonel?" he shouted as he approached. "I told you +to fire the bridge, and now someone has gone and blundered; they are all +beside themselves over there and one can't make anything out." + +The colonel deliberately stopped the regiment and turned to Nesvitski. + +"You spoke to me of inflammable material," said he, "but you said +nothing about firing it." + +"But, my dear sir," said Nesvitski as he drew up, taking off his +cap and smoothing his hair wet with perspiration with his plump hand, +"wasn't I telling you to fire the bridge, when inflammable material +had been put in position?" + +"I am not your 'dear sir,' Mr. Staff Officer, and you did not tell +me to burn the bridge! I know the service, and it is my habit orders +strictly to obey. You said the bridge would be burned, but who would it +burn, I could not know by the holy spirit!" + +"Ah, that's always the way!" said Nesvitski with a wave of the +hand. "How did you get here?" said he, turning to Zherkov. + +"On the same business. But you are damp! Let me wring you out!" + +"You were saying, Mr. Staff Officer..." continued the colonel in an +offended tone. + +"Colonel," interrupted the officer of the suite, "You must be +quick or the enemy will bring up his guns to use grapeshot." + +The colonel looked silently at the officer of the suite, at the stout +staff officer, and at Zherkov, and he frowned. + +"I will the bridge fire," he said in a solemn tone as if to announce +that in spite of all the unpleasantness he had to endure he would still +do the right thing. + +Striking his horse with his long muscular legs as if it were to blame +for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second +squadron, that in which Rostov was serving under Denisov, to return to +the bridge. + +"There, it's just as I thought," said Rostov to himself. "He +wishes to test me!" His heart contracted and the blood rushed to his +face. "Let him see whether I am a coward!" he thought. + +Again on all the bright faces of the squadron the serious expression +appeared that they had worn when under fire. Rostov watched his enemy, +the colonel, closely--to find in his face confirmation of his own +conjecture, but the colonel did not once glance at Rostov, and looked +as he always did when at the front, solemn and stern. Then came the word +of command. + +"Look sharp! Look sharp!" several voices repeated around him. + +Their sabers catching in the bridles and their spurs jingling, the +hussars hastily dismounted, not knowing what they were to do. The men +were crossing themselves. Rostov no longer looked at the colonel, he +had no time. He was afraid of falling behind the hussars, so much afraid +that his heart stood still. His hand trembled as he gave his horse into +an orderly's charge, and he felt the blood rush to his heart with +a thud. Denisov rode past him, leaning back and shouting something. +Rostov saw nothing but the hussars running all around him, their spurs +catching and their sabers clattering. + +"Stretchers!" shouted someone behind him. + +Rostov did not think what this call for stretchers meant; he ran on, +trying only to be ahead of the others; but just at the bridge, not +looking at the ground, he came on some sticky, trodden mud, stumbled, +and fell on his hands. The others outstripped him. + +"At boss zides, Captain," he heard the voice of the colonel, who, +having ridden ahead, had pulled up his horse near the bridge, with a +triumphant, cheerful face. + +Rostov wiping his muddy hands on his breeches looked at his enemy and +was about to run on, thinking that the farther he went to the front +the better. But Bogdanich, without looking at or recognizing Rostov, +shouted to him: + +"Who's that running on the middle of the bridge? To the right! Come +back, Cadet!" he cried angrily; and turning to Denisov, who, showing +off his courage, had ridden on to the planks of the bridge: + +"Why run risks, Captain? You should dismount," he said. + +"Oh, every bullet has its billet," answered Vaska Denisov, turning +in his saddle. + + +Meanwhile Nesvitski, Zherkov, and the officer of the suite were +standing together out of range of the shots, watching, now the small +group of men with yellow shakos, dark-green jackets braided with cord, +and blue riding breeches, who were swarming near the bridge, and then at +what was approaching in the distance from the opposite side--the blue +uniforms and groups with horses, easily recognizable as artillery. + +"Will they burn the bridge or not? Who'll get there first? Will they +get there and fire the bridge or will the French get within grapeshot +range and wipe them out?" These were the questions each man of the +troops on the high ground above the bridge involuntarily asked himself +with a sinking heart--watching the bridge and the hussars in the bright +evening light and the blue tunics advancing from the other side with +their bayonets and guns. + +"Ugh. The hussars will get it hot!" said Nesvitski; "they are +within grapeshot range now." + +"He shouldn't have taken so many men," said the officer of the +suite. + +"True enough," answered Nesvitski; "two smart fellows could have +done the job just as well." + +"Ah, your excellency," put in Zherkov, his eyes fixed on the +hussars, but still with that naive air that made it impossible to know +whether he was speaking in jest or in earnest. "Ah, your excellency! +How you look at things! Send two men? And who then would give us the +Vladimir medal and ribbon? But now, even if they do get peppered, the +squadron may be recommended for honors and he may get a ribbon. Our +Bogdanich knows how things are done." + +"There now!" said the officer of the suite, "that's +grapeshot." + +He pointed to the French guns, the limbers of which were being detached +and hurriedly removed. + +On the French side, amid the groups with cannon, a cloud of smoke +appeared, then a second and a third almost simultaneously, and at the +moment when the first report was heard a fourth was seen. Then two +reports one after another, and a third. + +"Oh! Oh!" groaned Nesvitski as if in fierce pain, seizing the +officer of the suite by the arm. "Look! A man has fallen! Fallen, +fallen!" + +"Two, I think." + +"If I were Tsar I would never go to war," said Nesvitski, turning +away. + +The French guns were hastily reloaded. The infantry in their blue +uniforms advanced toward the bridge at a run. Smoke appeared again +but at irregular intervals, and grapeshot cracked and rattled onto the +bridge. But this time Nesvitski could not see what was happening there, +as a dense cloud of smoke arose from it. The hussars had succeeded in +setting it on fire and the French batteries were now firing at them, no +longer to hinder them but because the guns were trained and there was +someone to fire at. + +The French had time to fire three rounds of grapeshot before the hussars +got back to their horses. Two were misdirected and the shot went too +high, but the last round fell in the midst of a group of hussars and +knocked three of them over. + +Rostov, absorbed by his relations with Bogdanich, had paused on the +bridge not knowing what to do. There was no one to hew down (as he +had always imagined battles to himself), nor could he help to fire the +bridge because he had not brought any burning straw with him like the +other soldiers. He stood looking about him, when suddenly he heard a +rattle on the bridge as if nuts were being spilt, and the hussar nearest +to him fell against the rails with a groan. Rostov ran up to him with +the others. Again someone shouted, "Stretchers!" Four men seized the +hussar and began lifting him. + +"Oooh! For Christ's sake let me alone!" cried the wounded man, but +still he was lifted and laid on the stretcher. + +Nicholas Rostov turned away and, as if searching for something, gazed +into the distance, at the waters of the Danube, at the sky, and at the +sun. How beautiful the sky looked; how blue, how calm, and how deep! +How bright and glorious was the setting sun! With what soft glitter the +waters of the distant Danube shone. And fairer still were the faraway +blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and +the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits... There was peace +and happiness... "I should wish for nothing else, nothing, if only I +were there," thought Rostov. "In myself alone and in that sunshine +there is so much happiness; but here... groans, suffering, fear, and +this uncertainty and hurry... There--they are shouting again, and +again are all running back somewhere, and I shall run with them, and it, +death, is here above me and around... Another instant and I shall never +again see the sun, this water, that gorge!..." + +At that instant the sun began to hide behind the clouds, and other +stretchers came into view before Rostov. And the fear of death and of +the stretchers, and love of the sun and of life, all merged into one +feeling of sickening agitation. + +"O Lord God! Thou who art in that heaven, save, forgive, and protect +me!" Rostov whispered. + +The hussars ran back to the men who held their horses; their voices +sounded louder and calmer, the stretchers disappeared from sight. + +"Well, fwiend? So you've smelt powdah!" shouted Vaska Denisov +just above his ear. + +"It's all over; but I am a coward--yes, a coward!" thought +Rostov, and sighing deeply he took Rook, his horse, which stood resting +one foot, from the orderly and began to mount. + +"Was that grapeshot?" he asked Denisov. + +"Yes and no mistake!" cried Denisov. "You worked like wegular +bwicks and it's nasty work! An attack's pleasant work! Hacking +away at the dogs! But this sort of thing is the very devil, with them +shooting at you like a target." + +And Denisov rode up to a group that had stopped near Rostov, composed +of the colonel, Nesvitski, Zherkov, and the officer from the suite. + +"Well, it seems that no one has noticed," thought Rostov. And this +was true. No one had taken any notice, for everyone knew the sensation +which the cadet under fire for the first time had experienced. + +"Here's something for you to report," said Zherkov. "See if I +don't get promoted to a sublieutenancy." + +"Inform the prince that I the bridge fired!" said the colonel +triumphantly and gaily. + +"And if he asks about the losses?" + +"A trifle," said the colonel in his bass voice: "two hussars +wounded, and one knocked out," he added, unable to restrain a happy +smile, and pronouncing the phrase "knocked out" with ringing +distinctness. + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +Pursued by the French army of a hundred thousand men under the command +of Bonaparte, encountering a population that was unfriendly to it, +losing confidence in its allies, suffering from shortness of supplies, +and compelled to act under conditions of war unlike anything that had +been foreseen, the Russian army of thirty-five thousand men commanded +by Kutuzov was hurriedly retreating along the Danube, stopping where +overtaken by the enemy and fighting rearguard actions only as far as +necessary to enable it to retreat without losing its heavy equipment. +There had been actions at Lambach, Amstetten, and Melk; but despite the +courage and endurance--acknowledged even by the enemy--with which the +Russians fought, the only consequence of these actions was a yet more +rapid retreat. Austrian troops that had escaped capture at Ulm and had +joined Kutuzov at Braunau now separated from the Russian army, and +Kutuzov was left with only his own weak and exhausted forces. The +defense of Vienna was no longer to be thought of. Instead of an +offensive, the plan of which, carefully prepared in accord with the +modern science of strategics, had been handed to Kutuzov when he was in +Vienna by the Austrian Hofkriegsrath, the sole and almost unattainable +aim remaining for him was to effect a junction with the forces that were +advancing from Russia, without losing his army as Mack had done at Ulm. + +On the twenty-eighth of October Kutuzov with his army crossed to the +left bank of the Danube and took up a position for the first time +with the river between himself and the main body of the French. On the +thirtieth he attacked Mortier's division, which was on the left bank, +and broke it up. In this action for the first time trophies were taken: +banners, cannon, and two enemy generals. For the first time, after a +fortnight's retreat, the Russian troops had halted and after a fight +had not only held the field but had repulsed the French. Though the +troops were ill-clad, exhausted, and had lost a third of their number +in killed, wounded, sick, and stragglers; though a number of sick and +wounded had been abandoned on the other side of the Danube with a letter +in which Kutuzov entrusted them to the humanity of the enemy; and +though the big hospitals and the houses in Krems converted into military +hospitals could no longer accommodate all the sick and wounded, yet the +stand made at Krems and the victory over Mortier raised the spirits of +the army considerably. Throughout the whole army and at headquarters +most joyful though erroneous rumors were rife of the imaginary approach +of columns from Russia, of some victory gained by the Austrians, and of +the retreat of the frightened Bonaparte. + +Prince Andrew during the battle had been in attendance on the Austrian +General Schmidt, who was killed in the action. His horse had been +wounded under him and his own arm slightly grazed by a bullet. As a mark +of the commander in chief's special favor he was sent with the news of +this victory to the Austrian court, now no longer at Vienna (which was +threatened by the French) but at Brunn. Despite his apparently delicate +build Prince Andrew could endure physical fatigue far better than many +very muscular men, and on the night of the battle, having arrived +at Krems excited but not weary, with dispatches from Dokhturov to +Kutuzov, he was sent immediately with a special dispatch to Brunn. +To be so sent meant not only a reward but an important step toward +promotion. + +The night was dark but starry, the road showed black in the snow that +had fallen the previous day--the day of the battle. Reviewing his +impressions of the recent battle, picturing pleasantly to himself the +impression his news of a victory would create, or recalling the send-off +given him by the commander in chief and his fellow officers, Prince +Andrew was galloping along in a post chaise enjoying the feelings of a +man who has at length begun to attain a long-desired happiness. As soon +as he closed his eyes his ears seemed filled with the rattle of the +wheels and the sensation of victory. Then he began to imagine that +the Russians were running away and that he himself was killed, but he +quickly roused himself with a feeling of joy, as if learning afresh that +this was not so but that on the contrary the French had run away. He +again recalled all the details of the victory and his own calm courage +during the battle, and feeling reassured he dozed off.... The dark +starry night was followed by a bright cheerful morning. The snow was +thawing in the sunshine, the horses galloped quickly, and on both sides +of the road were forests of different kinds, fields, and villages. + +At one of the post stations he overtook a convoy of Russian wounded. +The Russian officer in charge of the transport lolled back in the front +cart, shouting and scolding a soldier with coarse abuse. In each of +the long German carts six or more pale, dirty, bandaged men were being +jolted over the stony road. Some of them were talking (he heard Russian +words), others were eating bread; the more severely wounded looked +silently, with the languid interest of sick children, at the envoy +hurrying past them. + +Prince Andrew told his driver to stop, and asked a soldier in what +action they had been wounded. "Day before yesterday, on the Danube," +answered the soldier. Prince Andrew took out his purse and gave the +soldier three gold pieces. + +"That's for them all," he said to the officer who came up. + +"Get well soon, lads!" he continued, turning to the soldiers. +"There's plenty to do still." + +"What news, sir?" asked the officer, evidently anxious to start a +conversation. + +"Good news!... Go on!" he shouted to the driver, and they galloped +on. + +It was already quite dark when Prince Andrew rattled over the paved +streets of Brunn and found himself surrounded by high buildings, the +lights of shops, houses, and street lamps, fine carriages, and all that +atmosphere of a large and active town which is always so attractive to a +soldier after camp life. Despite his rapid journey and sleepless night, +Prince Andrew when he drove up to the palace felt even more vigorous and +alert than he had done the day before. Only his eyes gleamed feverishly +and his thoughts followed one another with extraordinary clearness and +rapidity. He again vividly recalled the details of the battle, no longer +dim, but definite and in the concise form in which he imagined himself +stating them to the Emperor Francis. He vividly imagined the casual +questions that might be put to him and the answers he would give. He +expected to be at once presented to the Emperor. At the chief entrance +to the palace, however, an official came running out to meet him, and +learning that he was a special messenger led him to another entrance. + +"To the right from the corridor, Euer Hochgeboren! There you will find +the adjutant on duty," said the official. "He will conduct you to +the Minister of War." + +The adjutant on duty, meeting Prince Andrew, asked him to wait, and went +in to the Minister of War. Five minutes later he returned and bowing +with particular courtesy ushered Prince Andrew before him along a +corridor to the cabinet where the Minister of War was at work. The +adjutant by his elaborate courtesy appeared to wish to ward off any +attempt at familiarity on the part of the Russian messenger. + +Prince Andrew's joyous feeling was considerably weakened as he +approached the door of the minister's room. He felt offended, and +without his noticing it the feeling of offense immediately turned into +one of disdain which was quite uncalled for. His fertile mind instantly +suggested to him a point of view which gave him a right to despise +the adjutant and the minister. "Away from the smell of powder, they +probably think it easy to gain victories!" he thought. His eyes +narrowed disdainfully, he entered the room of the Minister of War with +peculiarly deliberate steps. This feeling of disdain was heightened +when he saw the minister seated at a large table reading some papers +and making pencil notes on them, and for the first two or three minutes +taking no notice of his arrival. A wax candle stood at each side of the +minister's bent bald head with its gray temples. He went on reading +to the end, without raising his eyes at the opening of the door and the +sound of footsteps. + +"Take this and deliver it," said he to his adjutant, handing him the +papers and still taking no notice of the special messenger. + +Prince Andrew felt that either the actions of Kutuzov's army +interested the Minister of War less than any of the other matters he was +concerned with, or he wanted to give the Russian special messenger that +impression. "But that is a matter of perfect indifference to me," he +thought. The minister drew the remaining papers together, arranged them +evenly, and then raised his head. He had an intellectual and distinctive +head, but the instant he turned to Prince Andrew the firm, intelligent +expression on his face changed in a way evidently deliberate and +habitual to him. His face took on the stupid artificial smile (which +does not even attempt to hide its artificiality) of a man who is +continually receiving many petitioners one after another. + +"From General Field Marshal Kutuzov?" he asked. "I hope it is +good news? There has been an encounter with Mortier? A victory? It was +high time!" + +He took the dispatch which was addressed to him and began to read it +with a mournful expression. + +"Oh, my God! My God! Schmidt!" he exclaimed in German. "What a +calamity! What a calamity!" + +Having glanced through the dispatch he laid it on the table and looked +at Prince Andrew, evidently considering something. + +"Ah what a calamity! You say the affair was decisive? But Mortier is +not captured." Again he pondered. "I am very glad you have brought +good news, though Schmidt's death is a heavy price to pay for the +victory. His Majesty will no doubt wish to see you, but not today. I +thank you! You must have a rest. Be at the levee tomorrow after the +parade. However, I will let you know." + +The stupid smile, which had left his face while he was speaking, +reappeared. + +"Au revoir! Thank you very much. His Majesty will probably desire to +see you," he added, bowing his head. + +When Prince Andrew left the palace he felt that all the interest +and happiness the victory had afforded him had been now left in the +indifferent hands of the Minister of War and the polite adjutant. The +whole tenor of his thoughts instantaneously changed; the battle seemed +the memory of a remote event long past. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +Prince Andrew stayed at Brunn with Bilibin, a Russian acquaintance of +his in the diplomatic service. + +"Ah, my dear prince! I could not have a more welcome visitor," +said Bilibin as he came out to meet Prince Andrew. "Franz, put the +prince's things in my bedroom," said he to the servant who was +ushering Bolkonski in. "So you're a messenger of victory, eh? +Splendid! And I am sitting here ill, as you see." + +After washing and dressing, Prince Andrew came into the diplomat's +luxurious study and sat down to the dinner prepared for him. Bilibin +settled down comfortably beside the fire. + +After his journey and the campaign during which he had been deprived of +all the comforts of cleanliness and all the refinements of life, Prince +Andrew felt a pleasant sense of repose among luxurious surroundings such +as he had been accustomed to from childhood. Besides it was pleasant, +after his reception by the Austrians, to speak if not in Russian +(for they were speaking French) at least with a Russian who would, he +supposed, share the general Russian antipathy to the Austrians which was +then particularly strong. + +Bilibin was a man of thirty-five, a bachelor, and of the same circle as +Prince Andrew. They had known each other previously in Petersburg, but +had become more intimate when Prince Andrew was in Vienna with Kutuzov. +Just as Prince Andrew was a young man who gave promise of rising high +in the military profession, so to an even greater extent Bilibin gave +promise of rising in his diplomatic career. He was still a young man but +no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age +of sixteen, had been in Paris and Copenhagen, and now held a rather +important post in Vienna. Both the foreign minister and our ambassador +in Vienna knew him and valued him. He was not one of those many +diplomats who are esteemed because they have certain negative qualities, +avoid doing certain things, and speak French. He was one of those, +who, liking work, knew how to do it, and despite his indolence would +sometimes spend a whole night at his writing table. He worked well +whatever the import of his work. It was not the question "What for?" +but the question "How?" that interested him. What the diplomatic +matter might be he did not care, but it gave him great pleasure to +prepare a circular, memorandum, or report, skillfully, pointedly, and +elegantly. Bilibin's services were valued not only for what he wrote, +but also for his skill in dealing and conversing with those in the +highest spheres. + +Bilibin liked conversation as he liked work, only when it could be +made elegantly witty. In society he always awaited an opportunity to say +something striking and took part in a conversation only when that was +possible. His conversation was always sprinkled with wittily original, +finished phrases of general interest. These sayings were prepared in the +inner laboratory of his mind in a portable form as if intentionally, so +that insignificant society people might carry them from drawing room to +drawing room. And, in fact, Bilibin's witticisms were hawked about +in the Viennese drawing rooms and often had an influence on matters +considered important. + +His thin, worn, sallow face was covered with deep wrinkles, which always +looked as clean and well washed as the tips of one's fingers after a +Russian bath. The movement of these wrinkles formed the principal play +of expression on his face. Now his forehead would pucker into deep folds +and his eyebrows were lifted, then his eyebrows would descend and +deep wrinkles would crease his cheeks. His small, deep-set eyes always +twinkled and looked out straight. + +"Well, now tell me about your exploits," said he. + +Bolkonski, very modestly without once mentioning himself, described the +engagement and his reception by the Minister of War. + +"They received me and my news as one receives a dog in a game of +skittles," said he in conclusion. + +Bilibin smiled and the wrinkles on his face disappeared. + +"Cependant, mon cher," he remarked, examining his nails from a +distance and puckering the skin above his left eye, "malgre la haute +estime que je professe pour the Orthodox Russian army, j'avoue que +votre victoire n'est pas des plus victorieuses." * + + * "But my dear fellow, with all my respect for the Orthodox + Russian army, I must say that your victory was not + particularly victorious." + + +He went on talking in this way in French, uttering only those words in +Russian on which he wished to put a contemptuous emphasis. + +"Come now! You with all your forces fall on the unfortunate Mortier +and his one division, and even then Mortier slips through your fingers! +Where's the victory?" + +"But seriously," said Prince Andrew, "we can at any rate say +without boasting that it was a little better than at Ulm..." + +"Why didn't you capture one, just one, marshal for us?" + +"Because not everything happens as one expects or with the smoothness +of a parade. We had expected, as I told you, to get at their rear by +seven in the morning but had not reached it by five in the afternoon." + +"And why didn't you do it at seven in the morning? You ought to have +been there at seven in the morning," returned Bilibin with a smile. +"You ought to have been there at seven in the morning." + +"Why did you not succeed in impressing on Bonaparte by diplomatic +methods that he had better leave Genoa alone?" retorted Prince Andrew +in the same tone. + +"I know," interrupted Bilibin, "you're thinking it's very +easy to take marshals, sitting on a sofa by the fire! That is true, but +still why didn't you capture him? So don't be surprised if not only +the Minister of War but also his Most August Majesty the Emperor and +King Francis is not much delighted by your victory. Even I, a poor +secretary of the Russian Embassy, do not feel any need in token of my +joy to give my Franz a thaler, or let him go with his Liebchen to the +Prater... True, we have no Prater here..." + +He looked straight at Prince Andrew and suddenly unwrinkled his +forehead. + +"It is now my turn to ask you 'why?' mon cher," said Bolkonski. +"I confess I do not understand: perhaps there are diplomatic +subtleties here beyond my feeble intelligence, but I can't make it +out. Mack loses a whole army, the Archduke Ferdinand and the Archduke +Karl give no signs of life and make blunder after blunder. Kutuzov +alone at last gains a real victory, destroying the spell of the +invincibility of the French, and the Minister of War does not even care +to hear the details." + +"That's just it, my dear fellow. You see it's hurrah for the Tsar, +for Russia, for the Orthodox Greek faith! All that is beautiful, but +what do we, I mean the Austrian court, care for your victories? Bring +us nice news of a victory by the Archduke Karl or Ferdinand (one +archduke's as good as another, as you know) and even if it is only +over a fire brigade of Bonaparte's, that will be another story and +we'll fire off some cannon! But this sort of thing seems done +on purpose to vex us. The Archduke Karl does nothing, the Archduke +Ferdinand disgraces himself. You abandon Vienna, give up its +defense--as much as to say: 'Heaven is with us, but heaven help you +and your capital!' The one general whom we all loved, Schmidt, you +expose to a bullet, and then you congratulate us on the victory! Admit +that more irritating news than yours could not have been conceived. +It's as if it had been done on purpose, on purpose. Besides, suppose +you did gain a brilliant victory, if even the Archduke Karl gained a +victory, what effect would that have on the general course of events? +It's too late now when Vienna is occupied by the French army!" + +"What? Occupied? Vienna occupied?" + +"Not only occupied, but Bonaparte is at Schonbrunn, and the count, +our dear Count Vrbna, goes to him for orders." + +After the fatigues and impressions of the journey, his reception, and +especially after having dined, Bolkonski felt that he could not take in +the full significance of the words he heard. + +"Count Lichtenfels was here this morning," Bilibin continued, +"and showed me a letter in which the parade of the French in Vienna +was fully described: Prince Murat et tout le tremblement... You see that +your victory is not a matter for great rejoicing and that you can't be +received as a savior." + +"Really I don't care about that, I don't care at all," said +Prince Andrew, beginning to understand that his news of the battle +before Krems was really of small importance in view of such events as +the fall of Austria's capital. "How is it Vienna was taken? What of +the bridge and its celebrated bridgehead and Prince Auersperg? We heard +reports that Prince Auersperg was defending Vienna?" he said. + +"Prince Auersperg is on this, on our side of the river, and is +defending us--doing it very badly, I think, but still he is defending +us. But Vienna is on the other side. No, the bridge has not yet been +taken and I hope it will not be, for it is mined and orders have been +given to blow it up. Otherwise we should long ago have been in the +mountains of Bohemia, and you and your army would have spent a bad +quarter of an hour between two fires." + +"But still this does not mean that the campaign is over," said +Prince Andrew. + +"Well, I think it is. The bigwigs here think so too, but they +daren't say so. It will be as I said at the beginning of the campaign, +it won't be your skirmishing at Durrenstein, or gunpowder at all, +that will decide the matter, but those who devised it," said Bilibin +quoting one of his own mots, releasing the wrinkles on his forehead, and +pausing. "The only question is what will come of the meeting between +the Emperor Alexander and the King of Prussia in Berlin? If Prussia +joins the Allies, Austria's hand will be forced and there will be war. +If not it is merely a question of settling where the preliminaries of +the new Campo Formio are to be drawn up." + +"What an extraordinary genius!" Prince Andrew suddenly exclaimed, +clenching his small hand and striking the table with it, "and what +luck the man has!" + +"Buonaparte?" said Bilibin inquiringly, puckering up his forehead +to indicate that he was about to say something witty. "Buonaparte?" +he repeated, accentuating the u: "I think, however, now that he lays +down laws for Austria at Schonbrunn, il faut lui faire grace de +l'u! * I shall certainly adopt an innovation and call him simply +Bonaparte!" + + * "We must let him off the u!" + + +"But joking apart," said Prince Andrew, "do you really think the +campaign is over?" + +"This is what I think. Austria has been made a fool of, and she is +not used to it. She will retaliate. And she has been fooled in the +first place because her provinces have been pillaged--they say the Holy +Russian army loots terribly--her army is destroyed, her capital +taken, and all this for the beaux yeux * of His Sardinian Majesty. And +therefore--this is between ourselves--I instinctively feel that we +are being deceived, my instinct tells me of negotiations with France and +projects for peace, a secret peace concluded separately." + + * Fine eyes. + +"Impossible!" cried Prince Andrew. "That would be too base." + +"If we live we shall see," replied Bilibin, his face again becoming +smooth as a sign that the conversation was at an end. + +When Prince Andrew reached the room prepared for him and lay down in a +clean shirt on the feather bed with its warmed and fragrant pillows, he +felt that the battle of which he had brought tidings was far, far +away from him. The alliance with Prussia, Austria's treachery, +Bonaparte's new triumph, tomorrow's levee and parade, and the +audience with the Emperor Francis occupied his thoughts. + +He closed his eyes, and immediately a sound of cannonading, of musketry +and the rattling of carriage wheels seemed to fill his ears, and now +again drawn out in a thin line the musketeers were descending the hill, +the French were firing, and he felt his heart palpitating as he rode +forward beside Schmidt with the bullets merrily whistling all around, +and he experienced tenfold the joy of living, as he had not done since +childhood. + +He woke up... + +"Yes, that all happened!" he said, and, smiling happily to himself +like a child, he fell into a deep, youthful slumber. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +Next day he woke late. Recalling his recent impressions, the first +thought that came into his mind was that today he had to be presented +to the Emperor Francis; he remembered the Minister of War, the polite +Austrian adjutant, Bilibin, and last night's conversation. Having +dressed for his attendance at court in full parade uniform, which he +had not worn for a long time, he went into Bilibin's study fresh, +animated, and handsome, with his hand bandaged. In the study were four +gentlemen of the diplomatic corps. With Prince Hippolyte Kuragin, +who was a secretary to the embassy, Bolkonski was already acquainted. +Bilibin introduced him to the others. + +The gentlemen assembled at Bilibin's were young, wealthy, gay society +men, who here, as in Vienna, formed a special set which Bilibin, their +leader, called les notres. * This set, consisting almost exclusively of +diplomats, evidently had its own interests which had nothing to do with +war or politics but related to high society, to certain women, and to +the official side of the service. These gentlemen received Prince +Andrew as one of themselves, an honor they did not extend to many. From +politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions +about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry +jests and gossip. + + * Ours. + +"But the best of it was," said one, telling of the misfortune of +a fellow diplomat, "that the Chancellor told him flatly that his +appointment to London was a promotion and that he was so to regard it. +Can you fancy the figure he cut?..." + +"But the worst of it, gentlemen--I am giving Kuragin away to +you--is that that man suffers, and this Don Juan, wicked fellow, is +taking advantage of it!" + +Prince Hippolyte was lolling in a lounge chair with his legs over its +arm. He began to laugh. + +"Tell me about that!" he said. + +"Oh, you Don Juan! You serpent!" cried several voices. + +"You, Bolkonski, don't know," said Bilibin turning to Prince +Andrew, "that all the atrocities of the French army (I nearly said of +the Russian army) are nothing compared to what this man has been doing +among the women!" + +"La femme est la compagne de l'homme," * announced Prince +Hippolyte, and began looking through a lorgnette at his elevated legs. + + * "Woman is man's companion." + + +Bilibin and the rest of "ours" burst out laughing in Hippolyte's +face, and Prince Andrew saw that Hippolyte, of whom--he had to +admit--he had almost been jealous on his wife's account, was the butt +of this set. + +"Oh, I must give you a treat," Bilibin whispered to Bolkonski. +"Kuragin is exquisite when he discusses politics--you should see his +gravity!" + +He sat down beside Hippolyte and wrinkling his forehead began talking +to him about politics. Prince Andrew and the others gathered round these +two. + +"The Berlin cabinet cannot express a feeling of alliance," began +Hippolyte gazing round with importance at the others, "without +expressing... as in its last note... you understand... Besides, unless +His Majesty the Emperor derogates from the principle of our alliance... + +"Wait, I have not finished..." he said to Prince Andrew, seizing +him by the arm, "I believe that intervention will be stronger than +nonintervention. And..." he paused. "Finally one cannot impute the +nonreceipt of our dispatch of November 18. That is how it will end." +And he released Bolkonski's arm to indicate that he had now quite +finished. + +"Demosthenes, I know thee by the pebble thou secretest in thy golden +mouth!" said Bilibin, and the mop of hair on his head moved with +satisfaction. + +Everybody laughed, and Hippolyte louder than anyone. He was evidently +distressed, and breathed painfully, but could not restrain the wild +laughter that convulsed his usually impassive features. + +"Well now, gentlemen," said Bilibin, "Bolkonski is my guest in +this house and in Brunn itself. I want to entertain him as far as I +can, with all the pleasures of life here. If we were in Vienna it would +be easy, but here, in this wretched Moravian hole, it is more difficult, +and I beg you all to help me. Brunn's attractions must be shown him. +You can undertake the theater, I society, and you, Hippolyte, of course +the women." + +"We must let him see Amelie, she's exquisite!" said one of +"ours," kissing his finger tips. + +"In general we must turn this bloodthirsty soldier to more humane +interests," said Bilibin. + +"I shall scarcely be able to avail myself of your hospitality, +gentlemen, it is already time for me to go," replied Prince Andrew +looking at his watch. + +"Where to?" + +"To the Emperor." + +"Oh! Oh! Oh!" + +"Well, au revoir, Bolkonski! Au revoir, Prince! Come back early to +dinner," cried several voices. "We'll take you in hand." + +"When speaking to the Emperor, try as far as you can to praise the way +that provisions are supplied and the routes indicated," said Bilibin, +accompanying him to the hall. + +"I should like to speak well of them, but as far as I know the facts, +I can't," replied Bolkonski, smiling. + +"Well, talk as much as you can, anyway. He has a passion for giving +audiences, but he does not like talking himself and can't do it, as +you will see." + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +At the levee Prince Andrew stood among the Austrian officers as he had +been told to, and the Emperor Francis merely looked fixedly into his +face and just nodded to him with his long head. But after it was +over, the adjutant he had seen the previous day ceremoniously informed +Bolkonski that the Emperor desired to give him an audience. The Emperor +Francis received him standing in the middle of the room. Before the +conversation began Prince Andrew was struck by the fact that the Emperor +seemed confused and blushed as if not knowing what to say. + +"Tell me, when did the battle begin?" he asked hurriedly. + +Prince Andrew replied. Then followed other questions just as simple: +"Was Kutuzov well? When had he left Krems?" and so on. The Emperor +spoke as if his sole aim were to put a given number of questions--the +answers to these questions, as was only too evident, did not interest +him. + +"At what o'clock did the battle begin?" asked the Emperor. + +"I cannot inform Your Majesty at what o'clock the battle began at +the front, but at Durrenstein, where I was, our attack began after +five in the afternoon," replied Bolkonski growing more animated and +expecting that he would have a chance to give a reliable account, which +he had ready in his mind, of all he knew and had seen. But the Emperor +smiled and interrupted him. + +"How many miles?" + +"From where to where, Your Majesty?" + +"From Durrenstein to Krems." + +"Three and a half miles, Your Majesty." + +"The French have abandoned the left bank?" + +"According to the scouts the last of them crossed on rafts during the +night." + +"Is there sufficient forage in Krems?" + +"Forage has not been supplied to the extent..." + +The Emperor interrupted him. + +"At what o'clock was General Schmidt killed?" + +"At seven o'clock, I believe." + +"At seven o'clock? It's very sad, very sad!" + +The Emperor thanked Prince Andrew and bowed. Prince Andrew withdrew and +was immediately surrounded by courtiers on all sides. Everywhere he +saw friendly looks and heard friendly words. Yesterday's adjutant +reproached him for not having stayed at the palace, and offered him +his own house. The Minister of War came up and congratulated him on the +Maria Theresa Order of the third grade, which the Emperor was conferring +on him. The Empress' chamberlain invited him to see Her Majesty. The +archduchess also wished to see him. He did not know whom to answer, and +for a few seconds collected his thoughts. Then the Russian ambassador +took him by the shoulder, led him to the window, and began to talk to +him. + +Contrary to Bilibin's forecast the news he had brought was joyfully +received. A thanksgiving service was arranged, Kutuzov was awarded +the Grand Cross of Maria Theresa, and the whole army received rewards. +Bolkonski was invited everywhere, and had to spend the whole morning +calling on the principal Austrian dignitaries. Between four and five +in the afternoon, having made all his calls, he was returning to +Bilibin's house thinking out a letter to his father about the battle +and his visit to Brunn. At the door he found a vehicle half full of +luggage. Franz, Bilibin's man, was dragging a portmanteau with some +difficulty out of the front door. + +Before returning to Bilibin's Prince Andrew had gone to a bookshop +to provide himself with some books for the campaign, and had spent some +time in the shop. + +"What is it?" he asked. + +"Oh, your excellency!" said Franz, with difficulty rolling the +portmanteau into the vehicle, "we are to move on still farther. The +scoundrel is again at our heels!" + +"Eh? What?" asked Prince Andrew. + +Bilibin came out to meet him. His usually calm face showed excitement. + +"There now! Confess that this is delightful," said he. "This +affair of the Thabor Bridge, at Vienna.... They have crossed without +striking a blow!" + +Prince Andrew could not understand. + +"But where do you come from not to know what every coachman in the +town knows?" + +"I come from the archduchess'. I heard nothing there." + +"And you didn't see that everybody is packing up?" + +"I did not... What is it all about?" inquired Prince Andrew +impatiently. + +"What's it all about? Why, the French have crossed the bridge that +Auersperg was defending, and the bridge was not blown up: so Murat +is now rushing along the road to Brunn and will be here in a day or +two." + +"What? Here? But why did they not blow up the bridge, if it was +mined?" + +"That is what I ask you. No one, not even Bonaparte, knows why." + +Bolkonski shrugged his shoulders. + +"But if the bridge is crossed it means that the army too is lost? It +will be cut off," said he. + +"That's just it," answered Bilibin. "Listen! The French entered +Vienna as I told you. Very well. Next day, which was yesterday, those +gentlemen, messieurs les marechaux, * Murat, Lannes, and Belliard, +mount and ride to the bridge. (Observe that all three are Gascons.) +'Gentlemen,' says one of them, 'you know the Thabor Bridge is +mined and doubly mined and that there are menacing fortifications at its +head and an army of fifteen thousand men has been ordered to blow up +the bridge and not let us cross? But it will please our sovereign the +Emperor Napoleon if we take this bridge, so let us three go and take +it!' 'Yes, let's!' say the others. And off they go and take the +bridge, cross it, and now with their whole army are on this side of the +Danube, marching on us, you, and your lines of communication." + + * The marshalls. + +"Stop jesting," said Prince Andrew sadly and seriously. This news +grieved him and yet he was pleased. + +As soon as he learned that the Russian army was in such a hopeless +situation it occurred to him that it was he who was destined to lead it +out of this position; that here was the Toulon that would lift him from +the ranks of obscure officers and offer him the first step to fame! +Listening to Bilibin he was already imagining how on reaching the army +he would give an opinion at the war council which would be the only one +that could save the army, and how he alone would be entrusted with the +executing of the plan. + +"Stop this jesting," he said. + +"I am not jesting," Bilibin went on. "Nothing is truer or sadder. +These gentlemen ride onto the bridge alone and wave white handkerchiefs; +they assure the officer on duty that they, the marshals, are on +their way to negotiate with Prince Auersperg. He lets them enter the +tete-de-pont. * They spin him a thousand gasconades, saying that +the war is over, that the Emperor Francis is arranging a meeting with +Bonaparte, that they desire to see Prince Auersperg, and so on. The +officer sends for Auersperg; these gentlemen embrace the officers, crack +jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a French battalion gets to +the bridge unobserved, flings the bags of incendiary material into +the water, and approaches the tete-de-pont. At length appears the +lieutenant general, our dear Prince Auersperg von Mautern himself. +'Dearest foe! Flower of the Austrian army, hero of the Turkish wars! +Hostilities are ended, we can shake one another's hand.... The +Emperor Napoleon burns with impatience to make Prince Auersperg's +acquaintance.' In a word, those gentlemen, Gascons indeed, so +bewildered him with fine words, and he is so flattered by his rapidly +established intimacy with the French marshals, and so dazzled by the +sight of Murat's mantle and ostrich plumes, qu'il n'y voit que du +feu, et oublie celui qu'il devait faire faire sur l'ennemi!" *(2) +In spite of the animation of his speech, Bilibin did not forget to +pause after this mot to give time for its due appreciation. "The +French battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the +bridge is taken! But what is best of all," he went on, his excitement +subsiding under the delightful interest of his own story, "is that the +sergeant in charge of the cannon which was to give the signal to fire +the mines and blow up the bridge, this sergeant, seeing that the French +troops were running onto the bridge, was about to fire, but Lannes +stayed his hand. The sergeant, who was evidently wiser than his general, +goes up to Auersperg and says: 'Prince, you are being deceived, here +are the French!' Murat, seeing that all is lost if the sergeant is +allowed to speak, turns to Auersperg with feigned astonishment (he is a +true Gascon) and says: 'I don't recognize the world-famous Austrian +discipline, if you allow a subordinate to address you like that!' It +was a stroke of genius. Prince Auersperg feels his dignity at stake and +orders the sergeant to be arrested. Come, you must own that this affair +of the Thabor Bridge is delightful! It is not exactly stupidity, nor +rascality...." + + * Bridgehead. + + * (2) That their fire gets into his eyes and he forgets that + he ought to be firing at the enemy. + +"It may be treachery," said Prince Andrew, vividly imagining the +gray overcoats, wounds, the smoke of gunpowder, the sounds of firing, +and the glory that awaited him. + +"Not that either. That puts the court in too bad a light," replied +Bilibin. "It's not treachery nor rascality nor stupidity: it is +just as at Ulm... it is..."--he seemed to be trying to find the right +expression. "C'est... c'est du Mack. Nous sommes mackes (It is... +it is a bit of Mack. We are Macked)," he concluded, feeling that he +had produced a good epigram, a fresh one that would be repeated. His +hitherto puckered brow became smooth as a sign of pleasure, and with a +slight smile he began to examine his nails. + +"Where are you off to?" he said suddenly to Prince Andrew who had +risen and was going toward his room. + +"I am going away." + +"Where to?" + +"To the army." + +"But you meant to stay another two days?" + +"But now I am off at once." + +And Prince Andrew after giving directions about his departure went to +his room. + +"Do you know, mon cher," said Bilibin following him, "I have been +thinking about you. Why are you going?" + +And in proof of the conclusiveness of his opinion all the wrinkles +vanished from his face. + +Prince Andrew looked inquiringly at him and gave no reply. + +"Why are you going? I know you think it your duty to gallop back to +the army now that it is in danger. I understand that. Mon cher, it is +heroism!" + +"Not at all," said Prince Andrew. + +"But as you are a philosopher, be a consistent one, look at the other +side of the question and you will see that your duty, on the contrary, +is to take care of yourself. Leave it to those who are no longer fit for +anything else.... You have not been ordered to return and have not been +dismissed from here; therefore, you can stay and go with us wherever our +ill luck takes us. They say we are going to Olmutz, and Olmutz is a +very decent town. You and I will travel comfortably in my caleche." + +"Do stop joking, Bilibin," cried Bolkonski. + +"I am speaking sincerely as a friend! Consider! Where and why are +you going, when you might remain here? You are faced by one of two +things," and the skin over his left temple puckered, "either you +will not reach your regiment before peace is concluded, or you will +share defeat and disgrace with Kutuzov's whole army." + +And Bilibin unwrinkled his temple, feeling that the dilemma was +insoluble. + +"I cannot argue about it," replied Prince Andrew coldly, but he +thought: "I am going to save the army." + +"My dear fellow, you are a hero!" said Bilibin. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIII + +That same night, having taken leave of the Minister of War, Bolkonski +set off to rejoin the army, not knowing where he would find it and +fearing to be captured by the French on the way to Krems. + +In Brunn everybody attached to the court was packing up, and the heavy +baggage was already being dispatched to Olmutz. Near Hetzelsdorf Prince +Andrew struck the high road along which the Russian army was moving with +great haste and in the greatest disorder. The road was so obstructed +with carts that it was impossible to get by in a carriage. Prince Andrew +took a horse and a Cossack from a Cossack commander, and hungry and +weary, making his way past the baggage wagons, rode in search of the +commander in chief and of his own luggage. Very sinister reports of the +position of the army reached him as he went along, and the appearance of +the troops in their disorderly flight confirmed these rumors. + +"Cette armee russe que l'or de l'Angleterre a transportee des +extremites de l'univers, nous allons lui faire eprouver le meme +sort--(le sort de l'armee d'Ulm)." * He remembered these words +in Bonaparte's address to his army at the beginning of the campaign, +and they awoke in him astonishment at the genius of his hero, a feeling +of wounded pride, and a hope of glory. "And should there be nothing +left but to die?" he thought. "Well, if need be, I shall do it no +worse than others." + + * "That Russian army which has been brought from the ends of + the earth by English gold, we shall cause to share the same + fate--(the fate of the army at Ulm)." + + +He looked with disdain at the endless confused mass of detachments, +carts, guns, artillery, and again baggage wagons and vehicles of all +kinds overtaking one another and blocking the muddy road, three and +sometimes four abreast. From all sides, behind and before, as far as ear +could reach, there were the rattle of wheels, the creaking of carts +and gun carriages, the tramp of horses, the crack of whips, shouts, the +urging of horses, and the swearing of soldiers, orderlies, and officers. +All along the sides of the road fallen horses were to be seen, some +flayed, some not, and broken-down carts beside which solitary soldiers +sat waiting for something, and again soldiers straggling from their +companies, crowds of whom set off to the neighboring villages, or +returned from them dragging sheep, fowls, hay, and bulging sacks. At +each ascent or descent of the road the crowds were yet denser and the +din of shouting more incessant. Soldiers floundering knee-deep in mud +pushed the guns and wagons themselves. Whips cracked, hoofs slipped, +traces broke, and lungs were strained with shouting. The officers +directing the march rode backward and forward between the carts. Their +voices were but feebly heard amid the uproar and one saw by their faces +that they despaired of the possibility of checking this disorder. + +"Here is our dear Orthodox Russian army," thought Bolkonski, +recalling Bilibin's words. + +Wishing to find out where the commander in chief was, he rode up to +a convoy. Directly opposite to him came a strange one-horse vehicle, +evidently rigged up by soldiers out of any available materials and +looking like something between a cart, a cabriolet, and a caleche. +A soldier was driving, and a woman enveloped in shawls sat behind the +apron under the leather hood of the vehicle. Prince Andrew rode up +and was just putting his question to a soldier when his attention +was diverted by the desperate shrieks of the woman in the vehicle. An +officer in charge of transport was beating the soldier who was driving +the woman's vehicle for trying to get ahead of others, and the strokes +of his whip fell on the apron of the equipage. The woman screamed +piercingly. Seeing Prince Andrew she leaned out from behind the apron +and, waving her thin arms from under the woolen shawl, cried: + +"Mr. Aide-de-camp! Mr. Aide-de-camp!... For heaven's sake... Protect +me! What will become of us? I am the wife of the doctor of the Seventh +Chasseurs.... They won't let us pass, we are left behind and have lost +our people..." + +"I'll flatten you into a pancake!" shouted the angry officer to +the soldier. "Turn back with your slut!" + +"Mr. Aide-de-camp! Help me!... What does it all mean?" screamed the +doctor's wife. + +"Kindly let this cart pass. Don't you see it's a woman?" said +Prince Andrew riding up to the officer. + +The officer glanced at him, and without replying turned again to the +soldier. "I'll teach you to push on!... Back!" + +"Let them pass, I tell you!" repeated Prince Andrew, compressing his +lips. + +"And who are you?" cried the officer, turning on him with tipsy +rage, "who are you? Are you in command here? Eh? I am commander here, +not you! Go back or I'll flatten you into a pancake," repeated he. +This expression evidently pleased him. + +"That was a nice snub for the little aide-de-camp," came a voice +from behind. + +Prince Andrew saw that the officer was in that state of senseless, +tipsy rage when a man does not know what he is saying. He saw that his +championship of the doctor's wife in her queer trap might expose him +to what he dreaded more than anything in the world--to ridicule; but +his instinct urged him on. Before the officer finished his sentence +Prince Andrew, his face distorted with fury, rode up to him and raised +his riding whip. + +"Kind...ly let--them--pass!" + +The officer flourished his arm and hastily rode away. + +"It's all the fault of these fellows on the staff that there's +this disorder," he muttered. "Do as you like." + +Prince Andrew without lifting his eyes rode hastily away from the +doctor's wife, who was calling him her deliverer, and recalling with +a sense of disgust the minutest details of this humiliating scene he +galloped on to the village where he was told that the commander in chief +was. + +On reaching the village he dismounted and went to the nearest house, +intending to rest if but for a moment, eat something, and try to sort +out the stinging and tormenting thoughts that confused his mind. "This +is a mob of scoundrels and not an army," he was thinking as he went +up to the window of the first house, when a familiar voice called him by +name. + +He turned round. Nesvitski's handsome face looked out of the little +window. Nesvitski, moving his moist lips as he chewed something, and +flourishing his arm, called him to enter. + +"Bolkonski! Bolkonski!... Don't you hear? Eh? Come quick..." he +shouted. + +Entering the house, Prince Andrew saw Nesvitski and another adjutant +having something to eat. They hastily turned round to him asking if he +had any news. On their familiar faces he read agitation and alarm. +This was particularly noticeable on Nesvitski's usually laughing +countenance. + +"Where is the commander in chief?" asked Bolkonski. + +"Here, in that house," answered the adjutant. + +"Well, is it true that it's peace and capitulation?" asked +Nesvitski. + +"I was going to ask you. I know nothing except that it was all I could +do to get here." + +"And we, my dear boy! It's terrible! I was wrong to laugh at Mack, +we're getting it still worse," said Nesvitski. "But sit down and +have something to eat." + +"You won't be able to find either your baggage or anything else now, +Prince. And God only knows where your man Peter is," said the other +adjutant. + +"Where are headquarters?" + +"We are to spend the night in Znaim." + +"Well, I have got all I need into packs for two horses," said +Nesvitski. "They've made up splendid packs for me--fit to cross +the Bohemian mountains with. It's a bad lookout, old fellow! But +what's the matter with you? You must be ill to shiver like that," he +added, noticing that Prince Andrew winced as at an electric shock. + +"It's nothing," replied Prince Andrew. + +He had just remembered his recent encounter with the doctor's wife and +the convoy officer. + +"What is the commander in chief doing here?" he asked. + +"I can't make out at all," said Nesvitski. + +"Well, all I can make out is that everything is abominable, +abominable, quite abominable!" said Prince Andrew, and he went off to +the house where the commander in chief was. + +Passing by Kutuzov's carriage and the exhausted saddle horses of +his suite, with their Cossacks who were talking loudly together, Prince +Andrew entered the passage. Kutuzov himself, he was told, was in the +house with Prince Bagration and Weyrother. Weyrother was the Austrian +general who had succeeded Schmidt. In the passage little Kozlovski was +squatting on his heels in front of a clerk. The clerk, with cuffs turned +up, was hastily writing at a tub turned bottom upwards. Kozlovski's +face looked worn--he too had evidently not slept all night. He glanced +at Prince Andrew and did not even nod to him. + +"Second line... have you written it?" he continued dictating to the +clerk. "The Kiev Grenadiers, Podolian..." + +"One can't write so fast, your honor," said the clerk, glancing +angrily and disrespectfully at Kozlovski. + +Through the door came the sounds of Kutuzov's voice, excited and +dissatisfied, interrupted by another, an unfamiliar voice. From the +sound of these voices, the inattentive way Kozlovski looked at him, the +disrespectful manner of the exhausted clerk, the fact that the clerk and +Kozlovski were squatting on the floor by a tub so near to the commander +in chief, and from the noisy laughter of the Cossacks holding the +horses near the window, Prince Andrew felt that something important and +disastrous was about to happen. + +He turned to Kozlovski with urgent questions. + +"Immediately, Prince," said Kozlovski. "Dispositions for +Bagration." + +"What about capitulation?" + +"Nothing of the sort. Orders are issued for a battle." + +Prince Andrew moved toward the door from whence voices were heard. +Just as he was going to open it the sounds ceased, the door opened, and +Kutuzov with his eagle nose and puffy face appeared in the doorway. +Prince Andrew stood right in front of Kutuzov but the expression of +the commander in chief's one sound eye showed him to be so preoccupied +with thoughts and anxieties as to be oblivious of his presence. He +looked straight at his adjutant's face without recognizing him. + +"Well, have you finished?" said he to Kozlovski. + +"One moment, your excellency." + +Bagration, a gaunt middle-aged man of medium height with a firm, +impassive face of Oriental type, came out after the commander in chief. + +"I have the honor to present myself," repeated Prince Andrew rather +loudly, handing Kutuzov an envelope. + +"Ah, from Vienna? Very good. Later, later!" + +Kutuzov went out into the porch with Bagration. + +"Well, good-by, Prince," said he to Bagration. "My blessing, and +may Christ be with you in your great endeavor!" + +His face suddenly softened and tears came into his eyes. With his left +hand he drew Bagration toward him, and with his right, on which he wore +a ring, he made the sign of the cross over him with a gesture evidently +habitual, offering his puffy cheek, but Bagration kissed him on the +neck instead. + +"Christ be with you!" Kutuzov repeated and went toward his +carriage. "Get in with me," said he to Bolkonski. + +"Your excellency, I should like to be of use here. Allow me to remain +with Prince Bagration's detachment." + +"Get in," said Kutuzov, and noticing that Bolkonski still delayed, +he added: "I need good officers myself, need them myself!" + +They got into the carriage and drove for a few minutes in silence. + +"There is still much, much before us," he said, as if with an old +man's penetration he understood all that was passing in Bolkonski's +mind. "If a tenth part of his detachment returns I shall thank God," +he added as if speaking to himself. + +Prince Andrew glanced at Kutuzov's face only a foot distant from him +and involuntarily noticed the carefully washed seams of the scar near +his temple, where an Ismail bullet had pierced his skull, and the empty +eye socket. "Yes, he has a right to speak so calmly of those men's +death," thought Bolkonski. + +"That is why I beg to be sent to that detachment," he said. + +Kutuzov did not reply. He seemed to have forgotten what he had been +saying, and sat plunged in thought. Five minutes later, gently swaying +on the soft springs of the carriage, he turned to Prince Andrew. +There was not a trace of agitation on his face. With delicate irony he +questioned Prince Andrew about the details of his interview with the +Emperor, about the remarks he had heard at court concerning the Krems +affair, and about some ladies they both knew. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +On November 1 Kutuzov had received, through a spy, news that the army +he commanded was in an almost hopeless position. The spy reported that +the French, after crossing the bridge at Vienna, were advancing in +immense force upon Kutuzov's line of communication with the troops +that were arriving from Russia. If Kutuzov decided to remain at Krems, +Napoleon's army of one hundred and fifty thousand men would cut him +off completely and surround his exhausted army of forty thousand, and he +would find himself in the position of Mack at Ulm. If Kutuzov decided +to abandon the road connecting him with the troops arriving from Russia, +he would have to march with no road into unknown parts of the Bohemian +mountains, defending himself against superior forces of the enemy and +abandoning all hope of a junction with Buxhowden. If Kutuzov decided +to retreat along the road from Krems to Olmutz, to unite with the +troops arriving from Russia, he risked being forestalled on that road +by the French who had crossed the Vienna bridge, and encumbered by his +baggage and transport, having to accept battle on the march against an +enemy three times as strong, who would hem him in from two sides. + +Kutuzov chose this latter course. + +The French, the spy reported, having crossed the Vienna bridge, were +advancing by forced marches toward Znaim, which lay sixty-six miles +off on the line of Kutuzov's retreat. If he reached Znaim before the +French, there would be great hope of saving the army; to let the +French forestall him at Znaim meant the exposure of his whole army to a +disgrace such as that of Ulm, or to utter destruction. But to forestall +the French with his whole army was impossible. The road for the French +from Vienna to Znaim was shorter and better than the road for the +Russians from Krems to Znaim. + +The night he received the news, Kutuzov sent Bagration's vanguard, +four thousand strong, to the right across the hills from the Krems-Znaim +to the Vienna-Znaim road. Bagration was to make this march without +resting, and to halt facing Vienna with Znaim to his rear, and if he +succeeded in forestalling the French he was to delay them as long as +possible. Kutuzov himself with all his transport took the road to +Znaim. + +Marching thirty miles that stormy night across roadless hills, with his +hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers +by the way, Bagration came out on the Vienna-Znaim road at Hollabrunn +a few hours ahead of the French who were approaching Hollabrunn from +Vienna. Kutuzov with his transport had still to march for some days +before he could reach Znaim. Hence Bagration with his four thousand +hungry, exhausted men would have to detain for days the whole enemy army +that came upon him at Hollabrunn, which was clearly impossible. But +a freak of fate made the impossible possible. The success of the trick +that had placed the Vienna bridge in the hands of the French without +a fight led Murat to try to deceive Kutuzov in a similar way. Meeting +Bagration's weak detachment on the Znaim road he supposed it to be +Kutuzov's whole army. To be able to crush it absolutely he awaited +the arrival of the rest of the troops who were on their way from Vienna, +and with this object offered a three days' truce on condition that +both armies should remain in position without moving. Murat declared +that negotiations for peace were already proceeding, and that he +therefore offered this truce to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. Count +Nostitz, the Austrian general occupying the advanced posts, believed +Murat's emissary and retired, leaving Bagration's division +exposed. Another emissary rode to the Russian line to announce the peace +negotiations and to offer the Russian army the three days' truce. +Bagration replied that he was not authorized either to accept or refuse +a truce and sent his adjutant to Kutuzov to report the offer he had +received. + +A truce was Kutuzov's sole chance of gaining time, giving +Bagration's exhausted troops some rest, and letting the transport and +heavy convoys (whose movements were concealed from the French) advance +if but one stage nearer Znaim. The offer of a truce gave the only, and +a quite unexpected, chance of saving the army. On receiving the news +he immediately dispatched Adjutant General Wintzingerode, who was in +attendance on him, to the enemy camp. Wintzingerode was not merely +to agree to the truce but also to offer terms of capitulation, and +meanwhile Kutuzov sent his adjutants back to hasten to the utmost the +movements of the baggage trains of the entire army along the Krems-Znaim +road. Bagration's exhausted and hungry detachment, which alone +covered this movement of the transport and of the whole army, had to +remain stationary in face of an enemy eight times as strong as itself. + +Kutuzov's expectations that the proposals of capitulation (which were +in no way binding) might give time for part of the transport to pass, +and also that Murat's mistake would very soon be discovered, proved +correct. As soon as Bonaparte (who was at Schonbrunn, sixteen miles +from Hollabrunn) received Murat's dispatch with the proposal of a +truce and a capitulation, he detected a ruse and wrote the following +letter to Murat: + +Schonbrunn, 25th Brumaire, 1805, + +at eight o'clock in the morning + +To PRINCE MURAT, + +I cannot find words to express to you my displeasure. You command only +my advance guard, and have no right to arrange an armistice without my +order. You are causing me to lose the fruits of a campaign. Break +the armistice immediately and march on the enemy. Inform him that the +general who signed that capitulation had no right to do so, and that no +one but the Emperor of Russia has that right. + +If, however, the Emperor of Russia ratifies that convention, I will +ratify it; but it is only a trick. March on, destroy the Russian +army.... You are in a position to seize its baggage and artillery. + +The Russian Emperor's aide-de-camp is an impostor. Officers are +nothing when they have no powers; this one had none.... The Austrians +let themselves be tricked at the crossing of the Vienna bridge, you are +letting yourself be tricked by an aide-de-camp of the Emperor. + +NAPOLEON + +Bonaparte's adjutant rode full gallop with this menacing letter to +Murat. Bonaparte himself, not trusting to his generals, moved with all +the Guards to the field of battle, afraid of letting a ready victim +escape, and Bagration's four thousand men merrily lighted campfires, +dried and warmed themselves, cooked their porridge for the first time +for three days, and not one of them knew or imagined what was in store +for him. + + + + + +CHAPTER XV + +Between three and four o'clock in the afternoon Prince Andrew, who +had persisted in his request to Kutuzov, arrived at Grunth and reported +himself to Bagration. Bonaparte's adjutant had not yet reached +Murat's detachment and the battle had not yet begun. In Bagration's +detachment no one knew anything of the general position of affairs. They +talked of peace but did not believe in its possibility; others talked +of a battle but also disbelieved in the nearness of an engagement. +Bagration, knowing Bolkonski to be a favorite and trusted adjutant, +received him with distinction and special marks of favor, explaining to +him that there would probably be an engagement that day or the next, and +giving him full liberty to remain with him during the battle or to join +the rearguard and have an eye on the order of retreat, "which is also +very important." + +"However, there will hardly be an engagement today," said Bagration +as if to reassure Prince Andrew. + +"If he is one of the ordinary little staff dandies sent to earn a +medal he can get his reward just as well in the rearguard, but if he +wishes to stay with me, let him... he'll be of use here if he's a +brave officer," thought Bagration. Prince Andrew, without replying, +asked the prince's permission to ride round the position to see the +disposition of the forces, so as to know his bearings should he be sent +to execute an order. The officer on duty, a handsome, elegantly dressed +man with a diamond ring on his forefinger, who was fond of speaking +French though he spoke it badly, offered to conduct Prince Andrew. + +On all sides they saw rain-soaked officers with dejected faces who +seemed to be seeking something, and soldiers dragging doors, benches, +and fencing from the village. + +"There now, Prince! We can't stop those fellows," said the staff +officer pointing to the soldiers. "The officers don't keep them in +hand. And there," he pointed to a sutler's tent, "they crowd in +and sit. This morning I turned them all out and now look, it's full +again. I must go there, Prince, and scare them a bit. It won't take a +moment." + +"Yes, let's go in and I will get myself a roll and some cheese," +said Prince Andrew who had not yet had time to eat anything. + +"Why didn't you mention it, Prince? I would have offered you +something." + +They dismounted and entered the tent. Several officers, with flushed and +weary faces, were sitting at the table eating and drinking. + +"Now what does this mean, gentlemen?" said the staff officer, in +the reproachful tone of a man who has repeated the same thing more +than once. "You know it won't do to leave your posts like this. +The prince gave orders that no one should leave his post. Now you, +Captain," and he turned to a thin, dirty little artillery officer who +without his boots (he had given them to the canteen keeper to dry), +in only his stockings, rose when they entered, smiling not altogether +comfortably. + +"Well, aren't you ashamed of yourself, Captain Tushin?" he +continued. "One would think that as an artillery officer you would set +a good example, yet here you are without your boots! The alarm will be +sounded and you'll be in a pretty position without your boots!" (The +staff officer smiled.) "Kindly return to your posts, gentlemen, all of +you, all!" he added in a tone of command. + +Prince Andrew smiled involuntarily as he looked at the artillery officer +Tushin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to +the other, glanced inquiringly with his large, intelligent, kindly eyes +from Prince Andrew to the staff officer. + +"The soldiers say it feels easier without boots," said Captain +Tushin smiling shyly in his uncomfortable position, evidently wishing +to adopt a jocular tone. But before he had finished he felt that his +jest was unacceptable and had not come off. He grew confused. + +"Kindly return to your posts," said the staff officer trying to +preserve his gravity. + +Prince Andrew glanced again at the artillery officer's small figure. +There was something peculiar about it, quite unsoldierly, rather comic, +but extremely attractive. + +The staff officer and Prince Andrew mounted their horses and rode on. + +Having ridden beyond the village, continually meeting and overtaking +soldiers and officers of various regiments, they saw on their left some +entrenchments being thrown up, the freshly dug clay of which showed up +red. Several battalions of soldiers, in their shirt sleeves despite +the cold wind, swarmed in these earthworks like a host of white ants; +spadefuls of red clay were continually being thrown up from behind the +bank by unseen hands. Prince Andrew and the officer rode up, looked at +the entrenchment, and went on again. Just behind it they came upon some +dozens of soldiers, continually replaced by others, who ran from the +entrenchment. They had to hold their noses and put their horses to a +trot to escape from the poisoned atmosphere of these latrines. + +"Voila l'agrement des camps, monsieur le prince," * said the +staff officer. + + * "This is a pleasure one gets in camp, Prince." + + +They rode up the opposite hill. From there the French could already be +seen. Prince Andrew stopped and began examining the position. + +"That's our battery," said the staff officer indicating the +highest point. "It's in charge of the queer fellow we saw without +his boots. You can see everything from there; let's go there, +Prince." + +"Thank you very much, I will go on alone," said Prince Andrew, +wishing to rid himself of this staff officer's company, "please +don't trouble yourself further." + +The staff officer remained behind and Prince Andrew rode on alone. + +The farther forward and nearer the enemy he went, the more orderly and +cheerful were the troops. The greatest disorder and depression had been +in the baggage train he had passed that morning on the Znaim road seven +miles away from the French. At Grunth also some apprehension and alarm +could be felt, but the nearer Prince Andrew came to the French lines the +more confident was the appearance of our troops. The soldiers in +their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company +officers were counting the men, poking the last man in each section in +the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up. Soldiers scattered over +the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building +shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, +dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending +boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers. +In one company dinner was ready, and the soldiers were gazing eagerly +at the steaming boiler, waiting till the sample, which a quartermaster +sergeant was carrying in a wooden bowl to an officer who sat on a log +before his shelter, had been tasted. + +Another company, a lucky one for not all the companies had vodka, +crowded round a pockmarked, broad-shouldered sergeant major who, tilting +a keg, filled one after another the canteen lids held out to him. The +soldiers lifted the canteen lids to their lips with reverential faces, +emptied them, rolling the vodka in their mouths, and walked away from +the sergeant major with brightened expressions, licking their lips and +wiping them on the sleeves of their greatcoats. All their faces were +as serene as if all this were happening at home awaiting peaceful +encampment, and not within sight of the enemy before an action in +which at least half of them would be left on the field. After passing a +chasseur regiment and in the lines of the Kiev grenadiers--fine fellows +busy with similar peaceful affairs--near the shelter of the regimental +commander, higher than and different from the others, Prince Andrew came +out in front of a platoon of grenadiers before whom lay a naked man. Two +soldiers held him while two others were flourishing their switches and +striking him regularly on his bare back. The man shrieked unnaturally. +A stout major was pacing up and down the line, and regardless of the +screams kept repeating: + +"It's a shame for a soldier to steal; a soldier must be honest, +honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in +him, he's a scoundrel. Go on! Go on!" + +So the swishing sound of the strokes, and the desperate but unnatural +screams, continued. + +"Go on, go on!" said the major. + +A young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face +stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant +as he rode by. + +Prince Andrew, having reached the front line, rode along it. Our front +line and that of the enemy were far apart on the right and left flanks, +but in the center where the men with a flag of truce had passed that +morning, the lines were so near together that the men could see one +another's faces and speak to one another. Besides the soldiers who +formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers +who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies. + +Since early morning--despite an injunction not to approach the picket +line--the officers had been unable to keep sight-seers away. The +soldiers forming the picket line, like showmen exhibiting a curiosity, +no longer looked at the French but paid attention to the sight-seers and +grew weary waiting to be relieved. Prince Andrew halted to have a look +at the French. + +"Look! Look there!" one soldier was saying to another, pointing to a +Russian musketeer who had gone up to the picket line with an officer and +was rapidly and excitedly talking to a French grenadier. "Hark to him +jabbering! Fine, isn't it? It's all the Frenchy can do to keep up +with him. There now, Sidorov!" + +"Wait a bit and listen. It's fine!" answered Sidorov, who was +considered an adept at French. + +The soldier to whom the laughers referred was Dolokhov. Prince Andrew +recognized him and stopped to listen to what he was saying. Dolokhov +had come from the left flank where their regiment was stationed, with +his captain. + +"Now then, go on, go on!" incited the officer, bending forward and +trying not to lose a word of the speech which was incomprehensible to +him. "More, please: more! What's he saying?" + +Dolokhov did not answer the captain; he had been drawn into a hot +dispute with the French grenadier. They were naturally talking about the +campaign. The Frenchman, confusing the Austrians with the Russians, was +trying to prove that the Russians had surrendered and had fled all +the way from Ulm, while Dolokhov maintained that the Russians had not +surrendered but had beaten the French. + +"We have orders to drive you off here, and we shall drive you off," +said Dolokhov. + +"Only take care you and your Cossacks are not all captured!" said +the French grenadier. + +The French onlookers and listeners laughed. + +"We'll make you dance as we did under Suvorov...," * said +Dolokhov. + + * "On vous fera danser." + + +"Qu' est-ce qu'il chante?" * asked a Frenchman. + + * "What's he singing about?" + + +"It's ancient history," said another, guessing that it referred to +a former war. "The Emperor will teach your Suvara as he has taught the +others..." + +"Bonaparte..." began Dolokhov, but the Frenchman interrupted him. + +"Not Bonaparte. He is the Emperor! Sacre nom...!" cried he angrily. + +"The devil skin your Emperor." + +And Dolokhov swore at him in coarse soldier's Russian and shouldering +his musket walked away. + +"Let us go, Ivan Lukich," he said to the captain. + +"Ah, that's the way to talk French," said the picket soldiers. +"Now, Sidorov, you have a try!" + +Sidorov, turning to the French, winked, and began to jabber meaningless +sounds very fast: "Kari, mala, tafa, safi, muter, Kaska," he said, +trying to give an expressive intonation to his voice. + +"Ho! ho! ho! Ha! ha! ha! ha! Ouh! ouh!" came peals of such healthy +and good-humored laughter from the soldiers that it infected the French +involuntarily, so much so that the only thing left to do seemed to be +to unload the muskets, explode the ammunition, and all return home as +quickly as possible. + +But the guns remained loaded, the loopholes in blockhouses and +entrenchments looked out just as menacingly, and the unlimbered cannon +confronted one another as before. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +Having ridden round the whole line from right flank to left, Prince +Andrew made his way up to the battery from which the staff officer had +told him the whole field could be seen. Here he dismounted, and stopped +beside the farthest of the four unlimbered cannon. Before the guns an +artillery sentry was pacing up and down; he stood at attention when the +officer arrived, but at a sign resumed his measured, monotonous pacing. +Behind the guns were their limbers and still farther back picket ropes +and artillerymen's bonfires. To the left, not far from the farthest +cannon, was a small, newly constructed wattle shed from which came the +sound of officers' voices in eager conversation. + +It was true that a view over nearly the whole Russian position and the +greater part of the enemy's opened out from this battery. Just facing +it, on the crest of the opposite hill, the village of Schon Grabern +could be seen, and in three places to left and right the French troops +amid the smoke of their campfires, the greater part of whom were +evidently in the village itself and behind the hill. To the left from +that village, amid the smoke, was something resembling a battery, but it +was impossible to see it clearly with the naked eye. Our right flank was +posted on a rather steep incline which dominated the French position. +Our infantry were stationed there, and at the farthest point the +dragoons. In the center, where Tushin's battery stood and from which +Prince Andrew was surveying the position, was the easiest and most +direct descent and ascent to the brook separating us from Schon +Grabern. On the left our troops were close to a copse, in which smoked +the bonfires of our infantry who were felling wood. The French line was +wider than ours, and it was plain that they could easily outflank us +on both sides. Behind our position was a steep and deep dip, making it +difficult for artillery and cavalry to retire. Prince Andrew took +out his notebook and, leaning on the cannon, sketched a plan of the +position. He made some notes on two points, intending to mention them to +Bagration. His idea was, first, to concentrate all the artillery in the +center, and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the +dip. Prince Andrew, being always near the commander in chief, closely +following the mass movements and general orders, and constantly studying +historical accounts of battles, involuntarily pictured to himself the +course of events in the forthcoming action in broad outline. He +imagined only important possibilities: "If the enemy attacks the right +flank," he said to himself, "the Kiev grenadiers and the Podolsk +chasseurs must hold their position till reserves from the center +come up. In that case the dragoons could successfully make a flank +counterattack. If they attack our center we, having the center battery +on this high ground, shall withdraw the left flank under its cover, and +retreat to the dip by echelons." So he reasoned.... All the time +he had been beside the gun, he had heard the voices of the officers +distinctly, but as often happens had not understood a word of what they +were saying. Suddenly, however, he was struck by a voice coming from the +shed, and its tone was so sincere that he could not but listen. + +"No, friend," said a pleasant and, as it seemed to Prince Andrew, a +familiar voice, "what I say is that if it were possible to know +what is beyond death, none of us would be afraid of it. That's so, +friend." + +Another, a younger voice, interrupted him: "Afraid or not, you can't +escape it anyhow." + +"All the same, one is afraid! Oh, you clever people," said a third +manly voice interrupting them both. "Of course you artillery men are +very wise, because you can take everything along with you--vodka and +snacks." + +And the owner of the manly voice, evidently an infantry officer, +laughed. + +"Yes, one is afraid," continued the first speaker, he of the +familiar voice. "One is afraid of the unknown, that's what it is. +Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is +no sky but only an atmosphere." + +The manly voice again interrupted the artillery officer. + +"Well, stand us some of your herb vodka, Tushin," it said. + +"Why," thought Prince Andrew, "that's the captain who stood up +in the sutler's hut without his boots." He recognized the agreeable, +philosophizing voice with pleasure. + +"Some herb vodka? Certainly!" said Tushin. "But still, to +conceive a future life..." + +He did not finish. Just then there was a whistle in the air; nearer and +nearer, faster and louder, louder and faster, a cannon ball, as if it +had not finished saying what was necessary, thudded into the ground near +the shed with super human force, throwing up a mass of earth. The ground +seemed to groan at the terrible impact. + +And immediately Tushin, with a short pipe in the corner of his mouth +and his kind, intelligent face rather pale, rushed out of the shed +followed by the owner of the manly voice, a dashing infantry officer who +hurried off to his company, buttoning up his coat as he ran. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVII + +Mounting his horse again Prince Andrew lingered with the battery, +looking at the puff from the gun that had sent the ball. His eyes +ran rapidly over the wide space, but he only saw that the hitherto +motionless masses of the French now swayed and that there really was +a battery to their left. The smoke above it had not yet dispersed. Two +mounted Frenchmen, probably adjutants, were galloping up the hill. A +small but distinctly visible enemy column was moving down the hill, +probably to strengthen the front line. The smoke of the first shot had +not yet dispersed before another puff appeared, followed by a report. +The battle had begun! Prince Andrew turned his horse and galloped back +to Grunth to find Prince Bagration. He heard the cannonade behind him +growing louder and more frequent. Evidently our guns had begun to reply. +From the bottom of the slope, where the parleys had taken place, came +the report of musketry. + +Lemarrois had just arrived at a gallop with Bonaparte's stern letter, +and Murat, humiliated and anxious to expiate his fault, had at once +moved his forces to attack the center and outflank both the Russian +wings, hoping before evening and before the arrival of the Emperor to +crush the contemptible detachment that stood before him. + +"It has begun. Here it is!" thought Prince Andrew, feeling the +blood rush to his heart. "But where and how will my Toulon present +itself?" + +Passing between the companies that had been eating porridge and drinking +vodka a quarter of an hour before, he saw everywhere the same rapid +movement of soldiers forming ranks and getting their muskets ready, +and on all their faces he recognized the same eagerness that filled his +heart. "It has begun! Here it is, dreadful but enjoyable!" was what +the face of each soldier and each officer seemed to say. + +Before he had reached the embankments that were being thrown up, he saw, +in the light of the dull autumn evening, mounted men coming toward him. +The foremost, wearing a Cossack cloak and lambskin cap and riding a +white horse, was Prince Bagration. Prince Andrew stopped, waiting for +him to come up; Prince Bagration reined in his horse and recognizing +Prince Andrew nodded to him. He still looked ahead while Prince Andrew +told him what he had seen. + +The feeling, "It has begun! Here it is!" was seen even on Prince +Bagration's hard brown face with its half-closed, dull, sleepy eyes. +Prince Andrew gazed with anxious curiosity at that impassive face +and wished he could tell what, if anything, this man was thinking +and feeling at that moment. "Is there anything at all behind that +impassive face?" Prince Andrew asked himself as he looked. Prince +Bagration bent his head in sign of agreement with what Prince Andrew +told him, and said, "Very good!" in a tone that seemed to imply that +everything that took place and was reported to him was exactly what he +had foreseen. Prince Andrew, out of breath with his rapid ride, spoke +quickly. Prince Bagration, uttering his words with an Oriental accent, +spoke particularly slowly, as if to impress the fact that there was no +need to hurry. However, he put his horse to a trot in the direction +of Tushin's battery. Prince Andrew followed with the suite. Behind +Prince Bagration rode an officer of the suite, the prince's personal +adjutant, Zherkov, an orderly officer, the staff officer on duty, +riding a fine bobtailed horse, and a civilian--an accountant who had +asked permission to be present at the battle out of curiosity. The +accountant, a stout, full-faced man, looked around him with a naive +smile of satisfaction and presented a strange appearance among the +hussars, Cossacks, and adjutants, in his camlet coat, as he jolted on +his horse with a convoy officer's saddle. + +"He wants to see a battle," said Zherkov to Bolkonski, pointing +to the accountant, "but he feels a pain in the pit of his stomach +already." + +"Oh, leave off!" said the accountant with a beaming but rather +cunning smile, as if flattered at being made the subject of Zherkov's +joke, and purposely trying to appear stupider than he really was. + +"It is very strange, mon Monsieur Prince," said the staff officer. +(He remembered that in French there is some peculiar way of addressing a +prince, but could not get it quite right.) + +By this time they were all approaching Tushin's battery, and a ball +struck the ground in front of them. + +"What's that that has fallen?" asked the accountant with a naive +smile. + +"A French pancake," answered Zherkov. + +"So that's what they hit with?" asked the accountant. "How +awful!" + +He seemed to swell with satisfaction. He had hardly finished speaking +when they again heard an unexpectedly violent whistling which suddenly +ended with a thud into something soft... f-f-flop! and a Cossack, riding +a little to their right and behind the accountant, crashed to earth with +his horse. Zherkov and the staff officer bent over their saddles and +turned their horses away. The accountant stopped, facing the Cossack, +and examined him with attentive curiosity. The Cossack was dead, but the +horse still struggled. + +Prince Bagration screwed up his eyes, looked round, and, seeing the +cause of the confusion, turned away with indifference, as if to say, +"Is it worth while noticing trifles?" He reined in his horse with +the care of a skillful rider and, slightly bending over, disengaged his +saber which had caught in his cloak. It was an old-fashioned saber of +a kind no longer in general use. Prince Andrew remembered the story of +Suvorov giving his saber to Bagration in Italy, and the recollection +was particularly pleasant at that moment. They had reached the battery +at which Prince Andrew had been when he examined the battlefield. + +"Whose company?" asked Prince Bagration of an artilleryman standing +by the ammunition wagon. + +He asked, "Whose company?" but he really meant, "Are you +frightened here?" and the artilleryman understood him. + +"Captain Tushin's, your excellency!" shouted the red-haired, +freckled gunner in a merry voice, standing to attention. + +"Yes, yes," muttered Bagration as if considering something, and he +rode past the limbers to the farthest cannon. + +As he approached, a ringing shot issued from it deafening him and his +suite, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the gun they could see +the gunners who had seized it straining to roll it quickly back to its +former position. A huge, broad-shouldered gunner, Number One, holding +a mop, his legs far apart, sprang to the wheel; while Number Two with +a trembling hand placed a charge in the cannon's mouth. The short, +round-shouldered Captain Tushin, stumbling over the tail of the gun +carriage, moved forward and, not noticing the general, looked out +shading his eyes with his small hand. + +"Lift it two lines more and it will be just right," cried he in a +feeble voice to which he tried to impart a dashing note, ill-suited to +his weak figure. "Number Two!" he squeaked. "Fire, Medvedev!" + +Bagration called to him, and Tushin, raising three fingers to his cap +with a bashful and awkward gesture not at all like a military salute +but like a priest's benediction, approached the general. Though +Tushin's guns had been intended to cannonade the valley, he was +firing incendiary balls at the village of Schon Grabern visible just +opposite, in front of which large masses of French were advancing. + +No one had given Tushin orders where and at what to fire, but after +consulting his sergeant major, Zakharchenko, for whom he had great +respect, he had decided that it would be a good thing to set fire to the +village. "Very good!" said Bagration in reply to the officer's +report, and began deliberately to examine the whole battlefield extended +before him. The French had advanced nearest on our right. Below the +height on which the Kiev regiment was stationed, in the hollow where the +rivulet flowed, the soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was +heard, and much farther to the right beyond the dragoons, the officer of +the suite pointed out to Bagration a French column that was outflanking +us. To the left the horizon bounded by the adjacent wood. Prince +Bagration ordered two battalions from the center to be sent to +reinforce the right flank. The officer of the suite ventured to remark +to the prince that if these battalions went away, the guns would remain +without support. Prince Bagration turned to the officer and with his +dull eyes looked at him in silence. It seemed to Prince Andrew that the +officer's remark was just and that really no answer could be made to +it. But at that moment an adjutant galloped up with a message from the +commander of the regiment in the hollow and news that immense masses +of the French were coming down upon them and that his regiment was in +disorder and was retreating upon the Kiev grenadiers. Prince Bagration +bowed his head in sign of assent and approval. He rode off at a walk to +the right and sent an adjutant to the dragoons with orders to attack the +French. But this adjutant returned half an hour later with the news that +the commander of the dragoons had already retreated beyond the dip in +the ground, as a heavy fire had been opened on him and he was losing +men uselessly, and so had hastened to throw some sharpshooters into the +wood. + +"Very good!" said Bagration. + +As he was leaving the battery, firing was heard on the left also, and +as it was too far to the left flank for him to have time to go there +himself, Prince Bagration sent Zherkov to tell the general in command +(the one who had paraded his regiment before Kutuzov at Braunau) that +he must retreat as quickly as possible behind the hollow in the rear, +as the right flank would probably not be able to withstand the enemy's +attack very long. About Tushin and the battalion that had been in +support of his battery all was forgotten. Prince Andrew listened +attentively to Bagration's colloquies with the commanding officers +and the orders he gave them and, to his surprise, found that no orders +were really given, but that Prince Bagration tried to make it appear +that everything done by necessity, by accident, or by the will of +subordinate commanders was done, if not by his direct command, at least +in accord with his intentions. Prince Andrew noticed, however, that +though what happened was due to chance and was independent of the +commander's will, owing to the tact Bagration showed, his presence +was very valuable. Officers who approached him with disturbed +countenances became calm; soldiers and officers greeted him gaily, grew +more cheerful in his presence, and were evidently anxious to display +their courage before him. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVIII + +Prince Bagration, having reached the highest point of our right flank, +began riding downhill to where the roll of musketry was heard but where +on account of the smoke nothing could be seen. The nearer they got to +the hollow the less they could see but the more they felt the nearness +of the actual battlefield. They began to meet wounded men. One with a +bleeding head and no cap was being dragged along by two soldiers who +supported him under the arms. There was a gurgle in his throat and he +was spitting blood. A bullet had evidently hit him in the throat or +mouth. Another was walking sturdily by himself but without his musket, +groaning aloud and swinging his arm which had just been hurt, while +blood from it was streaming over his greatcoat as from a bottle. He had +that moment been wounded and his face showed fear rather than suffering. +Crossing a road they descended a steep incline and saw several men +lying on the ground; they also met a crowd of soldiers some of whom were +unwounded. The soldiers were ascending the hill breathing heavily, and +despite the general's presence were talking loudly and gesticulating. +In front of them rows of gray cloaks were already visible through the +smoke, and an officer catching sight of Bagration rushed shouting after +the crowd of retreating soldiers, ordering them back. Bagration rode up +to the ranks along which shots crackled now here and now there, drowning +the sound of voices and the shouts of command. The whole air reeked with +smoke. The excited faces of the soldiers were blackened with it. Some +were using their ramrods, others putting powder on the touchpans or +taking charges from their pouches, while others were firing, though who +they were firing at could not be seen for the smoke which there was no +wind to carry away. A pleasant humming and whistling of bullets were +often heard. "What is this?" thought Prince Andrew approaching the +crowd of soldiers. "It can't be an attack, for they are not moving; +it can't be a square--for they are not drawn up for that." + +The commander of the regiment, a thin, feeble-looking old man with a +pleasant smile--his eyelids drooping more than half over his old eyes, +giving him a mild expression, rode up to Bagration and welcomed him as +a host welcomes an honored guest. He reported that his regiment had +been attacked by French cavalry and that, though the attack had been +repulsed, he had lost more than half his men. He said the attack +had been repulsed, employing this military term to describe what had +occurred to his regiment, but in reality he did not himself know what +had happened during that half-hour to the troops entrusted to him, and +could not say with certainty whether the attack had been repulsed or his +regiment had been broken up. All he knew was that at the commencement +of the action balls and shells began flying all over his regiment and +hitting men and that afterwards someone had shouted "Cavalry!" and +our men had begun firing. They were still firing, not at the cavalry +which had disappeared, but at French infantry who had come into the +hollow and were firing at our men. Prince Bagration bowed his head as a +sign that this was exactly what he had desired and expected. Turning +to his adjutant he ordered him to bring down the two battalions of the +Sixth Chasseurs whom they had just passed. Prince Andrew was struck by +the changed expression on Prince Bagration's face at this moment. It +expressed the concentrated and happy resolution you see on the face of +a man who on a hot day takes a final run before plunging into the water. +The dull, sleepy expression was no longer there, nor the affectation +of profound thought. The round, steady, hawk's eyes looked before him +eagerly and rather disdainfully, not resting on anything although his +movements were still slow and measured. + +The commander of the regiment turned to Prince Bagration, entreating +him to go back as it was too dangerous to remain where they were. +"Please, your excellency, for God's sake!" he kept saying, +glancing for support at an officer of the suite who turned away +from him. "There, you see!" and he drew attention to the bullets +whistling, singing, and hissing continually around them. He spoke in the +tone of entreaty and reproach that a carpenter uses to a gentleman who +has picked up an ax: "We are used to it, but you, sir, will blister +your hands." He spoke as if those bullets could not kill him, and his +half-closed eyes gave still more persuasiveness to his words. The staff +officer joined in the colonel's appeals, but Bagration did not reply; +he only gave an order to cease firing and re-form, so as to give room +for the two approaching battalions. While he was speaking, the curtain +of smoke that had concealed the hollow, driven by a rising wind, began +to move from right to left as if drawn by an invisible hand, and the +hill opposite, with the French moving about on it, opened out before +them. All eyes fastened involuntarily on this French column advancing +against them and winding down over the uneven ground. One could already +see the soldiers' shaggy caps, distinguish the officers from the men, +and see the standard flapping against its staff. + +"They march splendidly," remarked someone in Bagration's suite. + +The head of the column had already descended into the hollow. The clash +would take place on this side of it... + +The remains of our regiment which had been in action rapidly formed up +and moved to the right; from behind it, dispersing the laggards, came +two battalions of the Sixth Chasseurs in fine order. Before they had +reached Bagration, the weighty tread of the mass of men marching in +step could be heard. On their left flank, nearest to Bagration, marched +a company commander, a fine round-faced man, with a stupid and happy +expression--the same man who had rushed out of the wattle shed. At that +moment he was clearly thinking of nothing but how dashing a fellow he +would appear as he passed the commander. + +With the self-satisfaction of a man on parade, he stepped lightly with +his muscular legs as if sailing along, stretching himself to his full +height without the smallest effort, his ease contrasting with the heavy +tread of the soldiers who were keeping step with him. He carried close +to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real +weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men +without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly. It was as +if all the powers of his soul were concentrated on passing the commander +in the best possible manner, and feeling that he was doing it well he +was happy. "Left... left... left..." he seemed to repeat to himself +at each alternate step; and in time to this, with stern but varied +faces, the wall of soldiers burdened with knapsacks and muskets marched +in step, and each one of these hundreds of soldiers seemed to be +repeating to himself at each alternate step, "Left... left... +left..." A fat major skirted a bush, puffing and falling out of +step; a soldier who had fallen behind, his face showing alarm at his +defection, ran at a trot, panting to catch up with his company. A cannon +ball, cleaving the air, flew over the heads of Bagration and his suite, +and fell into the column to the measure of "Left... left!" "Close +up!" came the company commander's voice in jaunty tones. The +soldiers passed in a semicircle round something where the ball had +fallen, and an old trooper on the flank, a noncommissioned officer who +had stopped beside the dead men, ran to catch up his line and, falling +into step with a hop, looked back angrily, and through the ominous +silence and the regular tramp of feet beating the ground in unison, one +seemed to hear left... left... left. + +"Well done, lads!" said Prince Bagration. + +"Glad to do our best, your ex'len-lency!" came a confused shout +from the ranks. A morose soldier marching on the left turned his eyes on +Bagration as he shouted, with an expression that seemed to say: "We +know that ourselves!" Another, without looking round, as though +fearing to relax, shouted with his mouth wide open and passed on. + +The order was given to halt and down knapsacks. + +Bagration rode round the ranks that had marched past him and +dismounted. He gave the reins to a Cossack, took off and handed over his +felt coat, stretched his legs, and set his cap straight. The head of the +French column, with its officers leading, appeared from below the hill. + +"Forward, with God!" said Bagration, in a resolute, sonorous voice, +turning for a moment to the front line, and slightly swinging his arms, +he went forward uneasily over the rough field with the awkward gait of +a cavalryman. Prince Andrew felt that an invisible power was leading him +forward, and experienced great happiness. + +The French were already near. Prince Andrew, walking beside Bagration, +could clearly distinguish their bandoliers, red epaulets, and even their +faces. (He distinctly saw an old French officer who, with gaitered +legs and turned-out toes, climbed the hill with difficulty.) Prince +Bagration gave no further orders and silently continued to walk on in +front of the ranks. Suddenly one shot after another rang out from the +French, smoke appeared all along their uneven ranks, and musket shots +sounded. Several of our men fell, among them the round-faced officer +who had marched so gaily and complacently. But at the moment the first +report was heard, Bagration looked round and shouted, "Hurrah!" + +"Hurrah--ah!--ah!" rang a long-drawn shout from our ranks, and +passing Bagration and racing one another they rushed in an irregular +but joyous and eager crowd down the hill at their disordered foe. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIX + +The attack of the Sixth Chasseurs secured the retreat of our right +flank. In the center Tushin's forgotten battery, which had managed to +set fire to the Schon Grabern village, delayed the French advance. The +French were putting out the fire which the wind was spreading, and thus +gave us time to retreat. The retirement of the center to the other side +of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the +different companies did not get mixed. But our left--which consisted +of the Azov and Podolsk infantry and the Pavlograd hussars--was +simultaneously attacked and outflanked by superior French forces under +Lannes and was thrown into confusion. Bagration had sent Zherkov +to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat +immediately. + +Zherkov, not removing his hand from his cap, turned his horse about +and galloped off. But no sooner had he left Bagration than his courage +failed him. He was seized by panic and could not go where it was +dangerous. + +Having reached the left flank, instead of going to the front where the +firing was, he began to look for the general and his staff where they +could not possibly be, and so did not deliver the order. + +The command of the left flank belonged by seniority to the commander of +the regiment Kutuzov had reviewed at Braunau and in which Dolokhov was +serving as a private. But the command of the extreme left flank had been +assigned to the commander of the Pavlograd regiment in which Rostov +was serving, and a misunderstanding arose. The two commanders were much +exasperated with one another and, long after the action had begun on +the right flank and the French were already advancing, were engaged +in discussion with the sole object of offending one another. But the +regiments, both cavalry and infantry, were by no means ready for the +impending action. From privates to general they were not expecting a +battle and were engaged in peaceful occupations, the cavalry feeding the +horses and the infantry collecting wood. + +"He higher iss dan I in rank," said the German colonel of the +hussars, flushing and addressing an adjutant who had ridden up, "so +let him do what he vill, but I cannot sacrifice my hussars... Bugler, +sount ze retreat!" + +But haste was becoming imperative. Cannon and musketry, mingling +together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes +of Lannes' sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and +forming up within twice the range of a musket shot. The general in +command of the infantry went toward his horse with jerky steps, and +having mounted drew himself up very straight and tall and rode to the +Pavlograd commander. The commanders met with polite bows but with +secret malevolence in their hearts. + +"Once again, Colonel," said the general, "I can't leave half +my men in the wood. I beg of you, I beg of you," he repeated, "to +occupy the position and prepare for an attack." + +"I peg of you yourself not to mix in vot is not your business!" +suddenly replied the irate colonel. "If you vere in the cavalry..." + +"I am not in the cavalry, Colonel, but I am a Russian general and if +you are not aware of the fact..." + +"Quite avare, your excellency," suddenly shouted the colonel, +touching his horse and turning purple in the face. "Vill you be so +goot to come to ze front and see dat zis position iss no goot? I don't +vish to destroy my men for your pleasure!" + +"You forget yourself, Colonel. I am not considering my own pleasure +and I won't allow it to be said!" + +Taking the colonel's outburst as a challenge to his courage, the +general expanded his chest and rode, frowning, beside him to the +front line, as if their differences would be settled there amongst the +bullets. They reached the front, several bullets sped over them, and +they halted in silence. There was nothing fresh to be seen from the +line, for from where they had been before it had been evident that it +was impossible for cavalry to act among the bushes and broken ground, +as well as that the French were outflanking our left. The general +and colonel looked sternly and significantly at one another like two +fighting cocks preparing for battle, each vainly trying to detect signs +of cowardice in the other. Both passed the examination successfully. As +there was nothing to be said, and neither wished to give occasion for +it to be alleged that he had been the first to leave the range of fire, +they would have remained there for a long time testing each other's +courage had it not been that just then they heard the rattle of musketry +and a muffled shout almost behind them in the wood. The French had +attacked the men collecting wood in the copse. It was no longer possible +for the hussars to retreat with the infantry. They were cut off from +the line of retreat on the left by the French. However inconvenient the +position, it was now necessary to attack in order to cut a way through +for themselves. + +The squadron in which Rostov was serving had scarcely time to mount +before it was halted facing the enemy. Again, as at the Enns bridge, +there was nothing between the squadron and the enemy, and again that +terrible dividing line of uncertainty and fear--resembling the line +separating the living from the dead--lay between them. All were +conscious of this unseen line, and the question whether they would cross +it or not, and how they would cross it, agitated them all. + +The colonel rode to the front, angrily gave some reply to questions put +to him by the officers, and, like a man desperately insisting on having +his own way, gave an order. No one said anything definite, but the rumor +of an attack spread through the squadron. The command to form up rang +out and the sabers whizzed as they were drawn from their scabbards. +Still no one moved. The troops of the left flank, infantry and hussars +alike, felt that the commander did not himself know what to do, and this +irresolution communicated itself to the men. + +"If only they would be quick!" thought Rostov, feeling that at last +the time had come to experience the joy of an attack of which he had so +often heard from his fellow hussars. + +"Fo'ward, with God, lads!" rang out Denisov's voice. "At a +twot fo'ward!" + +The horses' croups began to sway in the front line. Rook pulled at the +reins and started of his own accord. + +Before him, on the right, Rostov saw the front lines of his hussars and +still farther ahead a dark line which he could not see distinctly but +took to be the enemy. Shots could be heard, but some way off. + +"Faster!" came the word of command, and Rostov felt Rook's flanks +drooping as he broke into a gallop. + +Rostov anticipated his horse's movements and became more and more +elated. He had noticed a solitary tree ahead of him. This tree had been +in the middle of the line that had seemed so terrible--and now he +had crossed that line and not only was there nothing terrible, but +everything was becoming more and more happy and animated. "Oh, how I +will slash at him!" thought Rostov, gripping the hilt of his saber. + +"Hur-a-a-a-ah!" came a roar of voices. "Let anyone come my way +now," thought Rostov driving his spurs into Rook and letting him go +at a full gallop so that he outstripped the others. Ahead, the enemy was +already visible. Suddenly something like a birch broom seemed to sweep +over the squadron. Rostov raised his saber, ready to strike, but at +that instant the trooper Nikitenko, who was galloping ahead, shot away +from him, and Rostov felt as in a dream that he continued to be carried +forward with unnatural speed but yet stayed on the same spot. From +behind him Bondarchuk, an hussar he knew, jolted against him and looked +angrily at him. Bondarchuk's horse swerved and galloped past. + +"How is it I am not moving? I have fallen, I am killed!" Rostov +asked and answered at the same instant. He was alone in the middle of a +field. Instead of the moving horses and hussars' backs, he saw nothing +before him but the motionless earth and the stubble around him. There +was warm blood under his arm. "No, I am wounded and the horse is +killed." Rook tried to rise on his forelegs but fell back, pinning his +rider's leg. Blood was flowing from his head; he struggled but could +not rise. Rostov also tried to rise but fell back, his sabretache +having become entangled in the saddle. Where our men were, and where the +French, he did not know. There was no one near. + +Having disentangled his leg, he rose. "Where, on which side, was now +the line that had so sharply divided the two armies?" he asked himself +and could not answer. "Can something bad have happened to me?" +he wondered as he got up: and at that moment he felt that something +superfluous was hanging on his benumbed left arm. The wrist felt as if +it were not his. He examined his hand carefully, vainly trying to find +blood on it. "Ah, here are people coming," he thought joyfully, +seeing some men running toward him. "They will help me!" In front +came a man wearing a strange shako and a blue cloak, swarthy, sunburned, +and with a hooked nose. Then came two more, and many more running +behind. One of them said something strange, not in Russian. In among the +hindmost of these men wearing similar shakos was a Russian hussar. He +was being held by the arms and his horse was being led behind him. + +"It must be one of ours, a prisoner. Yes. Can it be that they will +take me too? Who are these men?" thought Rostov, scarcely believing +his eyes. "Can they be French?" He looked at the approaching +Frenchmen, and though but a moment before he had been galloping to get +at them and hack them to pieces, their proximity now seemed so awful +that he could not believe his eyes. "Who are they? Why are they +running? Can they be coming at me? And why? To kill me? Me whom everyone +is so fond of?" He remembered his mother's love for him, and his +family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him +seemed impossible. "But perhaps they may do it!" For more than ten +seconds he stood not moving from the spot or realizing the situation. +The foremost Frenchman, the one with the hooked nose, was already so +close that the expression of his face could be seen. And the excited, +alien face of that man, his bayonet hanging down, holding his breath, +and running so lightly, frightened Rostov. He seized his pistol and, +instead of firing it, flung it at the Frenchman and ran with all his +might toward the bushes. He did not now run with the feeling of doubt +and conflict with which he had trodden the Enns bridge, but with the +feeling of a hare fleeing from the hounds. One single sentiment, that +of fear for his young and happy life, possessed his whole being. Rapidly +leaping the furrows, he fled across the field with the impetuosity he +used to show at catchplay, now and then turning his good-natured, pale, +young face to look back. A shudder of terror went through him: "No, +better not look," he thought, but having reached the bushes he glanced +round once more. The French had fallen behind, and just as he looked +round the first man changed his run to a walk and, turning, shouted +something loudly to a comrade farther back. Rostov paused. "No, +there's some mistake," thought he. "They can't have wanted to +kill me." But at the same time, his left arm felt as heavy as if +a seventy-pound weight were tied to it. He could run no more. The +Frenchman also stopped and took aim. Rostov closed his eyes and stooped +down. One bullet and then another whistled past him. He mustered his +last remaining strength, took hold of his left hand with his right, and +reached the bushes. Behind these were some Russian sharpshooters. + + + + + +CHAPTER XX + +The infantry regiments that had been caught unawares in the outskirts +of the wood ran out of it, the different companies getting mixed, and +retreated as a disorderly crowd. One soldier, in his fear, uttered the +senseless cry, "Cut off!" that is so terrible in battle, and that +word infected the whole crowd with a feeling of panic. + +"Surrounded! Cut off? We're lost!" shouted the fugitives. + +The moment he heard the firing and the cry from behind, the general +realized that something dreadful had happened to his regiment, and the +thought that he, an exemplary officer of many years' service who +had never been to blame, might be held responsible at headquarters +for negligence or inefficiency so staggered him that, forgetting the +recalcitrant cavalry colonel, his own dignity as a general, and above +all quite forgetting the danger and all regard for self-preservation, he +clutched the crupper of his saddle and, spurring his horse, galloped to +the regiment under a hail of bullets which fell around, but fortunately +missed him. His one desire was to know what was happening and at any +cost correct, or remedy, the mistake if he had made one, so that he, +an exemplary officer of twenty-two years' service, who had never been +censured, should not be held to blame. + +Having galloped safely through the French, he reached a field behind +the copse across which our men, regardless of orders, were running and +descending the valley. That moment of moral hesitation which decides +the fate of battles had arrived. Would this disorderly crowd of soldiers +attend to the voice of their commander, or would they, disregarding him, +continue their flight? Despite his desperate shouts that used to seem +so terrible to the soldiers, despite his furious purple countenance +distorted out of all likeness to his former self, and the flourishing of +his saber, the soldiers all continued to run, talking, firing into the +air, and disobeying orders. The moral hesitation which decided the fate +of battles was evidently culminating in a panic. + +The general had a fit of coughing as a result of shouting and of the +powder smoke and stopped in despair. Everything seemed lost. But at that +moment the French who were attacking, suddenly and without any apparent +reason, ran back and disappeared from the outskirts, and Russian +sharpshooters showed themselves in the copse. It was Timokhin's +company, which alone had maintained its order in the wood and, having +lain in ambush in a ditch, now attacked the French unexpectedly. +Timokhin, armed only with a sword, had rushed at the enemy with such +a desperate cry and such mad, drunken determination that, taken by +surprise, the French had thrown down their muskets and run. Dolokhov, +running beside Timokhin, killed a Frenchman at close quarters and was +the first to seize the surrendering French officer by his collar. Our +fugitives returned, the battalions re-formed, and the French who had +nearly cut our left flank in half were for the moment repulsed. Our +reserve units were able to join up, and the fight was at an end. The +regimental commander and Major Ekonomov had stopped beside a bridge, +letting the retreating companies pass by them, when a soldier came up +and took hold of the commander's stirrup, almost leaning against him. +The man was wearing a bluish coat of broadcloth, he had no knapsack +or cap, his head was bandaged, and over his shoulder a French munition +pouch was slung. He had an officer's sword in his hand. The soldier +was pale, his blue eyes looked impudently into the commander's face, +and his lips were smiling. Though the commander was occupied in giving +instructions to Major Ekonomov, he could not help taking notice of the +soldier. + +"Your excellency, here are two trophies," said Dolokhov, pointing +to the French sword and pouch. "I have taken an officer prisoner. I +stopped the company." Dolokhov breathed heavily from weariness and +spoke in abrupt sentences. "The whole company can bear witness. I beg +you will remember this, your excellency!" + +"All right, all right," replied the commander, and turned to Major +Ekonomov. + +But Dolokhov did not go away; he untied the handkerchief around his +head, pulled it off, and showed the blood congealed on his hair. + +"A bayonet wound. I remained at the front. Remember, your +excellency!" + + +Tushin's battery had been forgotten and only at the very end of the +action did Prince Bagration, still hearing the cannonade in the center, +send his orderly staff officer, and later Prince Andrew also, to order +the battery to retire as quickly as possible. When the supports attached +to Tushin's battery had been moved away in the middle of the action +by someone's order, the battery had continued firing and was only not +captured by the French because the enemy could not surmise that anyone +could have the effrontery to continue firing from four quite undefended +guns. On the contrary, the energetic action of that battery led the +French to suppose that here--in the center--the main Russian forces +were concentrated. Twice they had attempted to attack this point, but on +each occasion had been driven back by grapeshot from the four isolated +guns on the hillock. + +Soon after Prince Bagration had left him, Tushin had succeeded in +setting fire to Schon Grabern. + +"Look at them scurrying! It's burning! Just see the smoke! Fine! +Grand! Look at the smoke, the smoke!" exclaimed the artillerymen, +brightening up. + +All the guns, without waiting for orders, were being fired in the +direction of the conflagration. As if urging each other on, the soldiers +cried at each shot: "Fine! That's good! Look at it... Grand!" The +fire, fanned by the breeze, was rapidly spreading. The French columns +that had advanced beyond the village went back; but as though in revenge +for this failure, the enemy placed ten guns to the right of the village +and began firing them at Tushin's battery. + +In their childlike glee, aroused by the fire and their luck in +successfully cannonading the French, our artillerymen only noticed this +battery when two balls, and then four more, fell among our guns, one +knocking over two horses and another tearing off a munition-wagon +driver's leg. Their spirits once roused were, however, not diminished, +but only changed character. The horses were replaced by others from a +reserve gun carriage, the wounded were carried away, and the four guns +were turned against the ten-gun battery. Tushin's companion officer +had been killed at the beginning of the engagement and within an hour +seventeen of the forty men of the guns' crews had been disabled, but +the artillerymen were still as merry and lively as ever. Twice they +noticed the French appearing below them, and then they fired grapeshot +at them. + +Little Tushin, moving feebly and awkwardly, kept telling his orderly to +"refill my pipe for that one!" and then, scattering sparks from it, +ran forward shading his eyes with his small hand to look at the French. + +"Smack at 'em, lads!" he kept saying, seizing the guns by the +wheels and working the screws himself. + +Amid the smoke, deafened by the incessant reports which always made him +jump, Tushin not taking his pipe from his mouth ran from gun to gun, +now aiming, now counting the charges, now giving orders about replacing +dead or wounded horses and harnessing fresh ones, and shouting in his +feeble voice, so high pitched and irresolute. His face grew more and +more animated. Only when a man was killed or wounded did he frown and +turn away from the sight, shouting angrily at the men who, as is always +the case, hesitated about lifting the injured or dead. The soldiers, +for the most part handsome fellows and, as is always the case in an +artillery company, a head and shoulders taller and twice as broad +as their officer--all looked at their commander like children in an +embarrassing situation, and the expression on his face was invariably +reflected on theirs. + +Owing to the terrible uproar and the necessity for concentration and +activity, Tushin did not experience the slightest unpleasant sense of +fear, and the thought that he might be killed or badly wounded never +occurred to him. On the contrary, he became more and more elated. It +seemed to him that it was a very long time ago, almost a day, since he +had first seen the enemy and fired the first shot, and that the corner +of the field he stood on was well-known and familiar ground. Though he +thought of everything, considered everything, and did everything the +best of officers could do in his position, he was in a state akin to +feverish delirium or drunkenness. + +From the deafening sounds of his own guns around him, the whistle and +thud of the enemy's cannon balls, from the flushed and perspiring +faces of the crew bustling round the guns, from the sight of the blood +of men and horses, from the little puffs of smoke on the enemy's side +(always followed by a ball flying past and striking the earth, a man, a +gun, a horse), from the sight of all these things a fantastic world of +his own had taken possession of his brain and at that moment afforded +him pleasure. The enemy's guns were in his fancy not guns but pipes +from which occasional puffs were blown by an invisible smoker. + +"There... he's puffing again," muttered Tushin to himself, as a +small cloud rose from the hill and was borne in a streak to the left by +the wind. + +"Now look out for the ball... we'll throw it back." + +"What do you want, your honor?" asked an artilleryman, standing +close by, who heard him muttering. + +"Nothing... only a shell..." he answered. + +"Come along, our Matvevna!" he said to himself. "Matvevna" * +was the name his fancy gave to the farthest gun of the battery, which +was large and of an old pattern. The French swarming round their guns +seemed to him like ants. In that world, the handsome drunkard Number One +of the second gun's crew was "uncle"; Tushin looked at him more +often than at anyone else and took delight in his every movement. +The sound of musketry at the foot of the hill, now diminishing, now +increasing, seemed like someone's breathing. He listened intently to +the ebb and flow of these sounds. + + * Daughter of Matthew. + +"Ah! Breathing again, breathing!" he muttered to himself. + +He imagined himself as an enormously tall, powerful man who was throwing +cannon balls at the French with both hands. + +"Now then, Matvevna, dear old lady, don't let me down!" he was +saying as he moved from the gun, when a strange, unfamiliar voice called +above his head: "Captain Tushin! Captain!" + +Tushin turned round in dismay. It was the staff officer who had turned +him out of the booth at Grunth. He was shouting in a gasping voice: + +"Are you mad? You have twice been ordered to retreat, and you..." + +"Why are they down on me?" thought Tushin, looking in alarm at his +superior. + +"I... don't..." he muttered, holding up two fingers to his cap. +"I..." + +But the staff officer did not finish what he wanted to say. A cannon +ball, flying close to him, caused him to duck and bend over his horse. +He paused, and just as he was about to say something more, another ball +stopped him. He turned his horse and galloped off. + +"Retire! All to retire!" he shouted from a distance. + +The soldiers laughed. A moment later, an adjutant arrived with the same +order. + +It was Prince Andrew. The first thing he saw on riding up to the space +where Tushin's guns were stationed was an unharnessed horse with a +broken leg, that lay screaming piteously beside the harnessed horses. +Blood was gushing from its leg as from a spring. Among the limbers lay +several dead men. One ball after another passed over as he approached +and he felt a nervous shudder run down his spine. But the mere thought +of being afraid roused him again. "I cannot be afraid," thought he, +and dismounted slowly among the guns. He delivered the order and did +not leave the battery. He decided to have the guns removed from their +positions and withdrawn in his presence. Together with Tushin, stepping +across the bodies and under a terrible fire from the French, he attended +to the removal of the guns. + +"A staff officer was here a minute ago, but skipped off," said an +artilleryman to Prince Andrew. "Not like your honor!" + +Prince Andrew said nothing to Tushin. They were both so busy as to seem +not to notice one another. When having limbered up the only two cannon +that remained uninjured out of the four, they began moving down the hill +(one shattered gun and one unicorn were left behind), Prince Andrew rode +up to Tushin. + +"Well, till we meet again..." he said, holding out his hand to +Tushin. + +"Good-by, my dear fellow," said Tushin. "Dear soul! Good-by, my +dear fellow!" and for some unknown reason tears suddenly filled his +eyes. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXI + +The wind had fallen and black clouds, merging with the powder smoke, +hung low over the field of battle on the horizon. It was growing +dark and the glow of two conflagrations was the more conspicuous. The +cannonade was dying down, but the rattle of musketry behind and on the +right sounded oftener and nearer. As soon as Tushin with his guns, +continually driving round or coming upon wounded men, was out of range +of fire and had descended into the dip, he was met by some of the staff, +among them the staff officer and Zherkov, who had been twice sent to +Tushin's battery but had never reached it. Interrupting one +another, they all gave, and transmitted, orders as to how to proceed, +reprimanding and reproaching him. Tushin gave no orders, and, +silently--fearing to speak because at every word he felt ready to +weep without knowing why--rode behind on his artillery nag. Though +the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves +after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages. The jaunty +infantry officer who just before the battle had rushed out of +Tushin's wattle shed was laid, with a bullet in his stomach, on +"Matvevna's" carriage. At the foot of the hill, a pale hussar +cadet, supporting one hand with the other, came up to Tushin and asked +for a seat. + +"Captain, for God's sake! I've hurt my arm," he said timidly. +"For God's sake... I can't walk. For God's sake!" + +It was plain that this cadet had already repeatedly asked for a lift and +been refused. He asked in a hesitating, piteous voice. + +"Tell them to give me a seat, for God's sake!" + +"Give him a seat," said Tushin. "Lay a cloak for him to sit on, +lad," he said, addressing his favorite soldier. "And where is the +wounded officer?" + +"He has been set down. He died," replied someone. + +"Help him up. Sit down, dear fellow, sit down! Spread out the cloak, +Antonov." + +The cadet was Rostov. With one hand he supported the other; he was +pale and his jaw trembled, shivering feverishly. He was placed on +"Matvevna," the gun from which they had removed the dead officer. +The cloak they spread under him was wet with blood which stained his +breeches and arm. + +"What, are you wounded, my lad?" said Tushin, approaching the gun +on which Rostov sat. + +"No, it's a sprain." + +"Then what is this blood on the gun carriage?" inquired Tushin. + +"It was the officer, your honor, stained it," answered the +artilleryman, wiping away the blood with his coat sleeve, as if +apologizing for the state of his gun. + +It was all that they could do to get the guns up the rise aided by the +infantry, and having reached the village of Gruntersdorf they halted. It +had grown so dark that one could not distinguish the uniforms ten paces +off, and the firing had begun to subside. Suddenly, near by on the +right, shouting and firing were again heard. Flashes of shot gleamed in +the darkness. This was the last French attack and was met by soldiers +who had sheltered in the village houses. They all rushed out of +the village again, but Tushin's guns could not move, and the +artillerymen, Tushin, and the cadet exchanged silent glances as they +awaited their fate. The firing died down and soldiers, talking eagerly, +streamed out of a side street. + +"Not hurt, Petrov?" asked one. + +"We've given it 'em hot, mate! They won't make another push +now," said another. + +"You couldn't see a thing. How they shot at their own fellows! +Nothing could be seen. Pitch-dark, brother! Isn't there something to +drink?" + +The French had been repulsed for the last time. And again and again in +the complete darkness Tushin's guns moved forward, surrounded by the +humming infantry as by a frame. + +In the darkness, it seemed as though a gloomy unseen river was flowing +always in one direction, humming with whispers and talk and the sound of +hoofs and wheels. Amid the general rumble, the groans and voices of the +wounded were more distinctly heard than any other sound in the darkness +of the night. The gloom that enveloped the army was filled with their +groans, which seemed to melt into one with the darkness of the night. +After a while the moving mass became agitated, someone rode past on +a white horse followed by his suite, and said something in passing: +"What did he say? Where to, now? Halt, is it? Did he thank us?" came +eager questions from all sides. The whole moving mass began pressing +closer together and a report spread that they were ordered to halt: +evidently those in front had halted. All remained where they were in the +middle of the muddy road. + +Fires were lighted and the talk became more audible. Captain Tushin, +having given orders to his company, sent a soldier to find a dressing +station or a doctor for the cadet, and sat down by a bonfire the +soldiers had kindled on the road. Rostov, too, dragged himself to the +fire. From pain, cold, and damp, a feverish shivering shook his whole +body. Drowsiness was irresistibly mastering him, but he kept awake by +an excruciating pain in his arm, for which he could find no satisfactory +position. He kept closing his eyes and then again looking at the fire, +which seemed to him dazzlingly red, and at the feeble, round-shouldered +figure of Tushin who was sitting cross-legged like a Turk beside him. +Tushin's large, kind, intelligent eyes were fixed with sympathy and +commiseration on Rostov, who saw that Tushin with his whole heart +wished to help him but could not. + +From all sides were heard the footsteps and talk of the infantry, who +were walking, driving past, and settling down all around. The sound +of voices, the tramping feet, the horses' hoofs moving in mud, the +crackling of wood fires near and afar, merged into one tremulous rumble. + +It was no longer, as before, a dark, unseen river flowing through the +gloom, but a dark sea swelling and gradually subsiding after a storm. +Rostov looked at and listened listlessly to what passed before and +around him. An infantryman came to the fire, squatted on his heels, held +his hands to the blaze, and turned away his face. + +"You don't mind your honor?" he asked Tushin. "I've lost my +company, your honor. I don't know where... such bad luck!" + +With the soldier, an infantry officer with a bandaged cheek came up to +the bonfire, and addressing Tushin asked him to have the guns moved a +trifle to let a wagon go past. After he had gone, two soldiers rushed to +the campfire. They were quarreling and fighting desperately, each trying +to snatch from the other a boot they were both holding on to. + +"You picked it up?... I dare say! You're very smart!" one of them +shouted hoarsely. + +Then a thin, pale soldier, his neck bandaged with a bloodstained leg +band, came up and in angry tones asked the artillerymen for water. + +"Must one die like a dog?" said he. + +Tushin told them to give the man some water. Then a cheerful soldier +ran up, begging a little fire for the infantry. + +"A nice little hot torch for the infantry! Good luck to you, fellow +countrymen. Thanks for the fire--we'll return it with interest," +said he, carrying away into the darkness a glowing stick. + +Next came four soldiers, carrying something heavy on a cloak, and passed +by the fire. One of them stumbled. + +"Who the devil has put the logs on the road?" snarled he. + +"He's dead--why carry him?" said another. + +"Shut up!" + +And they disappeared into the darkness with their load. + +"Still aching?" Tushin asked Rostov in a whisper. + +"Yes." + +"Your honor, you're wanted by the general. He is in the hut here," +said a gunner, coming up to Tushin. + +"Coming, friend." + +Tushin rose and, buttoning his greatcoat and pulling it straight, +walked away from the fire. + +Not far from the artillery campfire, in a hut that had been prepared +for him, Prince Bagration sat at dinner, talking with some commanding +officers who had gathered at his quarters. The little old man with +the half-closed eyes was there greedily gnawing a mutton bone, and the +general who had served blamelessly for twenty-two years, flushed by a +glass of vodka and the dinner; and the staff officer with the signet +ring, and Zherkov, uneasily glancing at them all, and Prince Andrew, +pale, with compressed lips and feverishly glittering eyes. + +In a corner of the hut stood a standard captured from the French, and +the accountant with the naive face was feeling its texture, shaking his +head in perplexity--perhaps because the banner really interested him, +perhaps because it was hard for him, hungry as he was, to look on at +a dinner where there was no place for him. In the next hut there was a +French colonel who had been taken prisoner by our dragoons. Our officers +were flocking in to look at him. Prince Bagration was thanking the +individual commanders and inquiring into details of the action and our +losses. The general whose regiment had been inspected at Braunau was +informing the prince that as soon as the action began he had withdrawn +from the wood, mustered the men who were woodcutting, and, allowing the +French to pass him, had made a bayonet charge with two battalions and +had broken up the French troops. + +"When I saw, your excellency, that their first battalion was +disorganized, I stopped in the road and thought: 'I'll let them +come on and will meet them with the fire of the whole battalion'--and +that's what I did." + +The general had so wished to do this and was so sorry he had not managed +to do it that it seemed to him as if it had really happened. Perhaps +it might really have been so? Could one possibly make out amid all that +confusion what did or did not happen? + +"By the way, your excellency, I should inform you," he +continued--remembering Dolokhov's conversation with Kutuzov and his +last interview with the gentleman-ranker--"that Private Dolokhov, +who was reduced to the ranks, took a French officer prisoner in my +presence and particularly distinguished himself." + +"I saw the Pavlograd hussars attack there, your excellency," chimed +in Zherkov, looking uneasily around. He had not seen the hussars all +that day, but had heard about them from an infantry officer. "They +broke up two squares, your excellency." + +Several of those present smiled at Zherkov's words, expecting one of +his usual jokes, but noticing that what he was saying redounded to +the glory of our arms and of the day's work, they assumed a serious +expression, though many of them knew that what he was saying was a lie +devoid of any foundation. Prince Bagration turned to the old colonel: + +"Gentlemen, I thank you all; all arms have behaved heroically: +infantry, cavalry, and artillery. How was it that two guns were +abandoned in the center?" he inquired, searching with his eyes for +someone. (Prince Bagration did not ask about the guns on the left +flank; he knew that all the guns there had been abandoned at the very +beginning of the action.) "I think I sent you?" he added, turning to +the staff officer on duty. + +"One was damaged," answered the staff officer, "and the other I +can't understand. I was there all the time giving orders and had only +just left.... It is true that it was hot there," he added, modestly. + +Someone mentioned that Captain Tushin was bivouacking close to the +village and had already been sent for. + +"Oh, but you were there?" said Prince Bagration, addressing Prince +Andrew. + +"Of course, we only just missed one another," said the staff +officer, with a smile to Bolkonski. + +"I had not the pleasure of seeing you," said Prince Andrew, coldly +and abruptly. + +All were silent. Tushin appeared at the threshold and made his way +timidly from behind the backs of the generals. As he stepped past the +generals in the crowded hut, feeling embarrassed as he always was by the +sight of his superiors, he did not notice the staff of the banner and +stumbled over it. Several of those present laughed. + +"How was it a gun was abandoned?" asked Bagration, frowning, not so +much at the captain as at those who were laughing, among whom Zherkov +laughed loudest. + +Only now, when he was confronted by the stern authorities, did his guilt +and the disgrace of having lost two guns and yet remaining alive present +themselves to Tushin in all their horror. He had been so excited that +he had not thought about it until that moment. The officers' laughter +confused him still more. He stood before Bagration with his lower +jaw trembling and was hardly able to mutter: "I don't know... your +excellency... I had no men... your excellency." + +"You might have taken some from the covering troops." + +Tushin did not say that there were no covering troops, though that +was perfectly true. He was afraid of getting some other officer into +trouble, and silently fixed his eyes on Bagration as a schoolboy who +has blundered looks at an examiner. + +The silence lasted some time. Prince Bagration, apparently not wishing +to be severe, found nothing to say; the others did not venture to +intervene. Prince Andrew looked at Tushin from under his brows and his +fingers twitched nervously. + +"Your excellency!" Prince Andrew broke the silence with his abrupt +voice, "you were pleased to send me to Captain Tushin's battery. I +went there and found two thirds of the men and horses knocked out, two +guns smashed, and no supports at all." + +Prince Bagration and Tushin looked with equal intentness at +Bolkonski, who spoke with suppressed agitation. + +"And, if your excellency will allow me to express my opinion," he +continued, "we owe today's success chiefly to the action of that +battery and the heroic endurance of Captain Tushin and his company," +and without awaiting a reply, Prince Andrew rose and left the table. + +Prince Bagration looked at Tushin, evidently reluctant to show +distrust in Bolkonski's emphatic opinion yet not feeling able fully +to credit it, bent his head, and told Tushin that he could go. Prince +Andrew went out with him. + +"Thank you; you saved me, my dear fellow!" said Tushin. + +Prince Andrew gave him a look, but said nothing and went away. He felt +sad and depressed. It was all so strange, so unlike what he had hoped. + + +"Who are they? Why are they here? What do they want? And when will +all this end?" thought Rostov, looking at the changing shadows before +him. The pain in his arm became more and more intense. Irresistible +drowsiness overpowered him, red rings danced before his eyes, and the +impression of those voices and faces and a sense of loneliness merged +with the physical pain. It was they, these soldiers--wounded and +unwounded--it was they who were crushing, weighing down, and twisting +the sinews and scorching the flesh of his sprained arm and shoulder. To +rid himself of them he closed his eyes. + +For a moment he dozed, but in that short interval innumerable things +appeared to him in a dream: his mother and her large white hand, +Sonya's thin little shoulders, Natasha's eyes and laughter, +Denisov with his voice and mustache, and Telyanin and all that affair +with Telyanin and Bogdanich. That affair was the same thing as this +soldier with the harsh voice, and it was that affair and this soldier +that were so agonizingly, incessantly pulling and pressing his arm and +always dragging it in one direction. He tried to get away from them, but +they would not for an instant let his shoulder move a hair's breadth. +It would not ache--it would be well--if only they did not pull it, but +it was impossible to get rid of them. + +He opened his eyes and looked up. The black canopy of night hung less +than a yard above the glow of the charcoal. Flakes of falling snow were +fluttering in that light. Tushin had not returned, the doctor had not +come. He was alone now, except for a soldier who was sitting naked at +the other side of the fire, warming his thin yellow body. + +"Nobody wants me!" thought Rostov. "There is no one to help me or +pity me. Yet I was once at home, strong, happy, and loved." He sighed +and, doing so, groaned involuntarily. + +"Eh, is anything hurting you?" asked the soldier, shaking his shirt +out over the fire, and not waiting for an answer he gave a grunt and +added: "What a lot of men have been crippled today--frightful!" + +Rostov did not listen to the soldier. He looked at the snowflakes +fluttering above the fire and remembered a Russian winter at his warm, +bright home, his fluffy fur coat, his quickly gliding sleigh, his +healthy body, and all the affection and care of his family. "And why +did I come here?" he wondered. + +Next day the French army did not renew their attack, and the remnant of +Bagration's detachment was reunited to Kutuzov's army. + + + + + +BOOK THREE: 1805 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +Prince Vasili was not a man who deliberately thought out his plans. +Still less did he think of injuring anyone for his own advantage. He +was merely a man of the world who had got on and to whom getting on had +become a habit. Schemes and devices for which he never rightly accounted +to himself, but which formed the whole interest of his life, +were constantly shaping themselves in his mind, arising from the +circumstances and persons he met. Of these plans he had not merely one +or two in his head but dozens, some only beginning to form themselves, +some approaching achievement, and some in course of disintegration. He +did not, for instance, say to himself: "This man now has influence, I +must gain his confidence and friendship and through him obtain a special +grant." Nor did he say to himself: "Pierre is a rich man, I must +entice him to marry my daughter and lend me the forty thousand rubles +I need." But when he came across a man of position his instinct +immediately told him that this man could be useful, and without any +premeditation Prince Vasili took the first opportunity to gain his +confidence, flatter him, become intimate with him, and finally make his +request. + +He had Pierre at hand in Moscow and procured for him an appointment as +Gentleman of the Bedchamber, which at that time conferred the status of +Councilor of State, and insisted on the young man accompanying him to +Petersburg and staying at his house. With apparent absent-mindedness, +yet with unhesitating assurance that he was doing the right thing, +Prince Vasili did everything to get Pierre to marry his daughter. Had +he thought out his plans beforehand he could not have been so natural +and shown such unaffected familiarity in intercourse with everybody both +above and below him in social standing. Something always drew him toward +those richer and more powerful than himself and he had rare skill in +seizing the most opportune moment for making use of people. + +Pierre, on unexpectedly becoming Count Bezukhov and a rich man, felt +himself after his recent loneliness and freedom from cares so beset and +preoccupied that only in bed was he able to be by himself. He had to +sign papers, to present himself at government offices, the purpose of +which was not clear to him, to question his chief steward, to visit his +estate near Moscow, and to receive many people who formerly did not +even wish to know of his existence but would now have been offended +and grieved had he chosen not to see them. These different +people--businessmen, relations, and acquaintances alike--were all +disposed to treat the young heir in the most friendly and flattering +manner: they were all evidently firmly convinced of Pierre's noble +qualities. He was always hearing such words as: "With your remarkable +kindness," or, "With your excellent heart," "You are yourself so +honorable, Count," or, "Were he as clever as you," and so on, +till he began sincerely to believe in his own exceptional kindness and +extraordinary intelligence, the more so as in the depth of his heart it +had always seemed to him that he really was very kind and intelligent. +Even people who had formerly been spiteful toward him and evidently +unfriendly now became gentle and affectionate. The angry eldest +princess, with the long waist and hair plastered down like a doll's, +had come into Pierre's room after the funeral. With drooping eyes +and frequent blushes she told him she was very sorry about their past +misunderstandings and did not now feel she had a right to ask him for +anything, except only for permission, after the blow she had received, +to remain for a few weeks longer in the house she so loved and where +she had sacrificed so much. She could not refrain from weeping at these +words. Touched that this statuesque princess could so change, Pierre +took her hand and begged her forgiveness, without knowing what for. +From that day the eldest princess quite changed toward Pierre and began +knitting a striped scarf for him. + +"Do this for my sake, mon cher; after all, she had to put up with a +great deal from the deceased," said Prince Vasili to him, handing him +a deed to sign for the princess' benefit. + +Prince Vasili had come to the conclusion that it was necessary to throw +this bone--a bill for thirty thousand rubles--to the poor princess +that it might not occur to her to speak of his share in the affair of +the inlaid portfolio. Pierre signed the deed and after that the princess +grew still kinder. The younger sisters also became affectionate to him, +especially the youngest, the pretty one with the mole, who often made +him feel confused by her smiles and her own confusion when meeting him. + +It seemed so natural to Pierre that everyone should like him, and it +would have seemed so unnatural had anyone disliked him, that he could +not but believe in the sincerity of those around him. Besides, he had +no time to ask himself whether these people were sincere or not. He +was always busy and always felt in a state of mild and cheerful +intoxication. He felt as though he were the center of some important and +general movement; that something was constantly expected of him, that if +he did not do it he would grieve and disappoint many people, but if he +did this and that, all would be well; and he did what was demanded of +him, but still that happy result always remained in the future. + +More than anyone else, Prince Vasili took possession of Pierre's +affairs and of Pierre himself in those early days. From the death of +Count Bezukhov he did not let go his hold of the lad. He had the air of +a man oppressed by business, weary and suffering, who yet would not, for +pity's sake, leave this helpless youth who, after all, was the son of +his old friend and the possessor of such enormous wealth, to the caprice +of fate and the designs of rogues. During the few days he spent in +Moscow after the death of Count Bezukhov, he would call Pierre, or +go to him himself, and tell him what ought to be done in a tone of +weariness and assurance, as if he were adding every time: "You know +I am overwhelmed with business and it is purely out of charity that +I trouble myself about you, and you also know quite well that what I +propose is the only thing possible." + +"Well, my dear fellow, tomorrow we are off at last," said Prince +Vasili one day, closing his eyes and fingering Pierre's elbow, +speaking as if he were saying something which had long since been agreed +upon and could not now be altered. "We start tomorrow and I'm giving +you a place in my carriage. I am very glad. All our important business +here is now settled, and I ought to have been off long ago. Here is +something I have received from the chancellor. I asked him for you, and +you have been entered in the diplomatic corps and made a Gentleman of +the Bedchamber. The diplomatic career now lies open before you." + +Notwithstanding the tone of wearied assurance with which these words +were pronounced, Pierre, who had so long been considering his career, +wished to make some suggestion. But Prince Vasili interrupted him in +the special deep cooing tone, precluding the possibility of interrupting +his speech, which he used in extreme cases when special persuasion was +needed. + +"Mais, mon cher, I did this for my own sake, to satisfy my conscience, +and there is nothing to thank me for. No one has ever complained yet of +being too much loved; and besides, you are free, you could throw it +up tomorrow. But you will see everything for yourself when you get to +Petersburg. It is high time for you to get away from these terrible +recollections." Prince Vasili sighed. "Yes, yes, my boy. And my +valet can go in your carriage. Ah! I was nearly forgetting," he added. +"You know, mon cher, your father and I had some accounts to settle, so +I have received what was due from the Ryazan estate and will keep it; +you won't require it. We'll go into the accounts later." + +By "what was due from the Ryazan estate" Prince Vasili meant +several thousand rubles quitrent received from Pierre's peasants, +which the prince had retained for himself. + +In Petersburg, as in Moscow, Pierre found the same atmosphere of +gentleness and affection. He could not refuse the post, or rather the +rank (for he did nothing), that Prince Vasili had procured for him, +and acquaintances, invitations, and social occupations were so numerous +that, even more than in Moscow, he felt a sense of bewilderment, bustle, +and continual expectation of some good, always in front of him but never +attained. + +Of his former bachelor acquaintances many were no longer in Petersburg. +The Guards had gone to the front; Dolokhov had been reduced to the +ranks; Anatole was in the army somewhere in the provinces; Prince Andrew +was abroad; so Pierre had not the opportunity to spend his nights as he +used to like to spend them, or to open his mind by intimate talks with +a friend older than himself and whom he respected. His whole time +was taken up with dinners and balls and was spent chiefly at Prince +Vasili's house in the company of the stout princess, his wife, and +his beautiful daughter Helene. + +Like the others, Anna Pavlovna Scherer showed Pierre the change of +attitude toward him that had taken place in society. + +Formerly in Anna Pavlovna's presence, Pierre had always felt that +what he was saying was out of place, tactless and unsuitable, that +remarks which seemed to him clever while they formed in his mind became +foolish as soon as he uttered them, while on the contrary Hippolyte's +stupidest remarks came out clever and apt. Now everything Pierre said +was charmant. Even if Anna Pavlovna did not say so, he could see that +she wished to and only refrained out of regard for his modesty. + +In the beginning of the winter of 1805-6 Pierre received one of Anna +Pavlovna's usual pink notes with an invitation to which was added: +"You will find the beautiful Helene here, whom it is always +delightful to see." + +When he read that sentence, Pierre felt for the first time that some +link which other people recognized had grown up between himself and +Helene, and that thought both alarmed him, as if some obligation were +being imposed on him which he could not fulfill, and pleased him as an +entertaining supposition. + +Anna Pavlovna's "At Home" was like the former one, only the +novelty she offered her guests this time was not Mortemart, but a +diplomatist fresh from Berlin with the very latest details of the +Emperor Alexander's visit to Potsdam, and of how the two august +friends had pledged themselves in an indissoluble alliance to uphold +the cause of justice against the enemy of the human race. Anna Pavlovna +received Pierre with a shade of melancholy, evidently relating to the +young man's recent loss by the death of Count Bezukhov (everyone +constantly considered it a duty to assure Pierre that he was greatly +afflicted by the death of the father he had hardly known), and her +melancholy was just like the august melancholy she showed at the mention +of her most august Majesty the Empress Marya Fedorovna. Pierre felt +flattered by this. Anna Pavlovna arranged the different groups in her +drawing room with her habitual skill. The large group, in which were +Prince Vasili and the generals, had the benefit of the diplomat. +Another group was at the tea table. Pierre wished to join the former, +but Anna Pavlovna--who was in the excited condition of a commander on +a battlefield to whom thousands of new and brilliant ideas occur which +there is hardly time to put in action--seeing Pierre, touched his +sleeve with her finger, saying: + +"Wait a bit, I have something in view for you this evening." +(She glanced at Helene and smiled at her.) "My dear Helene, be +charitable to my poor aunt who adores you. Go and keep her company for +ten minutes. And that it will not be too dull, here is the dear count +who will not refuse to accompany you." + +The beauty went to the aunt, but Anna Pavlovna detained Pierre, looking +as if she had to give some final necessary instructions. + +"Isn't she exquisite?" she said to Pierre, pointing to the stately +beauty as she glided away. "And how she carries herself! For so young +a girl, such tact, such masterly perfection of manner! It comes from +her heart. Happy the man who wins her! With her the least worldly of men +would occupy a most brilliant position in society. Don't you think so? +I only wanted to know your opinion," and Anna Pavlovna let Pierre go. + +Pierre, in reply, sincerely agreed with her as to Helene's +perfection of manner. If he ever thought of Helene, it was just of +her beauty and her remarkable skill in appearing silently dignified in +society. + +The old aunt received the two young people in her corner, but seemed +desirous of hiding her adoration for Helene and inclined rather +to show her fear of Anna Pavlovna. She looked at her niece, as if +inquiring what she was to do with these people. On leaving them, Anna +Pavlovna again touched Pierre's sleeve, saying: "I hope you won't +say that it is dull in my house again," and she glanced at Helene. + +Helene smiled, with a look implying that she did not admit the +possibility of anyone seeing her without being enchanted. The aunt +coughed, swallowed, and said in French that she was very pleased to see +Helene, then she turned to Pierre with the same words of welcome +and the same look. In the middle of a dull and halting conversation, +Helene turned to Pierre with the beautiful bright smile that she gave +to everyone. Pierre was so used to that smile, and it had so little +meaning for him, that he paid no attention to it. The aunt was just +speaking of a collection of snuffboxes that had belonged to Pierre's +father, Count Bezukhov, and showed them her own box. Princess Helene +asked to see the portrait of the aunt's husband on the box lid. + +"That is probably the work of Vinesse," said Pierre, mentioning +a celebrated miniaturist, and he leaned over the table to take the +snuffbox while trying to hear what was being said at the other table. + +He half rose, meaning to go round, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox, +passing it across Helene's back. Helene stooped forward to make +room, and looked round with a smile. She was, as always at evening +parties, wearing a dress such as was then fashionable, cut very low at +front and back. Her bust, which had always seemed like marble to Pierre, +was so close to him that his shortsighted eyes could not but perceive +the living charm of her neck and shoulders, so near to his lips that +he need only have bent his head a little to have touched them. He was +conscious of the warmth of her body, the scent of perfume, and the +creaking of her corset as she moved. He did not see her marble beauty +forming a complete whole with her dress, but all the charm of her body +only covered by her garments. And having once seen this he could not +help being aware of it, just as we cannot renew an illusion we have once +seen through. + +"So you have never noticed before how beautiful I am?" Helene +seemed to say. "You had not noticed that I am a woman? Yes, I am a +woman who may belong to anyone--to you too," said her glance. And at +that moment Pierre felt that Helene not only could, but must, be his +wife, and that it could not be otherwise. + +He knew this at that moment as surely as if he had been standing at the +altar with her. How and when this would be he did not know, he did not +even know if it would be a good thing (he even felt, he knew not why, +that it would be a bad thing), but he knew it would happen. + +Pierre dropped his eyes, lifted them again, and wished once more to see +her as a distant beauty far removed from him, as he had seen her every +day until then, but he could no longer do it. He could not, any more +than a man who has been looking at a tuft of steppe grass through the +mist and taking it for a tree can again take it for a tree after he has +once recognized it to be a tuft of grass. She was terribly close to him. +She already had power over him, and between them there was no longer any +barrier except the barrier of his own will. + +"Well, I will leave you in your little corner," came Anna +Pavlovna's voice, "I see you are all right there." + +And Pierre, anxiously trying to remember whether he had done anything +reprehensible, looked round with a blush. It seemed to him that everyone +knew what had happened to him as he knew it himself. + +A little later when he went up to the large circle, Anna Pavlovna said +to him: "I hear you are refitting your Petersburg house?" + +This was true. The architect had told him that it was necessary, and +Pierre, without knowing why, was having his enormous Petersburg house +done up. + +"That's a good thing, but don't move from Prince Vasili's. It +is good to have a friend like the prince," she said, smiling at Prince +Vasili. "I know something about that. Don't I? And you are still so +young. You need advice. Don't be angry with me for exercising an old +woman's privilege." + +She paused, as women always do, expecting something after they have +mentioned their age. "If you marry it will be a different thing," +she continued, uniting them both in one glance. Pierre did not look at +Helene nor she at him. But she was just as terribly close to him. He +muttered something and colored. + +When he got home he could not sleep for a long time for thinking of what +had happened. What had happened? Nothing. He had merely understood that +the woman he had known as a child, of whom when her beauty was mentioned +he had said absent-mindedly: "Yes, she's good looking," he had +understood that this woman might belong to him. + +"But she's stupid. I have myself said she is stupid," he thought. +"There is something nasty, something wrong, in the feeling she excites +in me. I have been told that her brother Anatole was in love with her +and she with him, that there was quite a scandal and that that's why +he was sent away. Hippolyte is her brother... Prince Vasili is her +father... It's bad...." he reflected, but while he was thinking this +(the reflection was still incomplete), he caught himself smiling and was +conscious that another line of thought had sprung up, and while thinking +of her worthlessness he was also dreaming of how she would be his +wife, how she would love him become quite different, and how all he had +thought and heard of her might be false. And he again saw her not as the +daughter of Prince Vasili, but visualized her whole body only veiled +by its gray dress. "But no! Why did this thought never occur to me +before?" and again he told himself that it was impossible, that there +would be something unnatural, and as it seemed to him dishonorable, in +this marriage. He recalled her former words and looks and the words +and looks of those who had seen them together. He recalled Anna +Pavlovna's words and looks when she spoke to him about his house, +recalled thousands of such hints from Prince Vasili and others, and was +seized by terror lest he had already, in some way, bound himself to do +something that was evidently wrong and that he ought not to do. But at +the very time he was expressing this conviction to himself, in another +part of his mind her image rose in all its womanly beauty. + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +In November, 1805, Prince Vasili had to go on a tour of inspection +in four different provinces. He had arranged this for himself so as to +visit his neglected estates at the same time and pick up his son Anatole +where his regiment was stationed, and take him to visit Prince Nicholas +Bolkonski in order to arrange a match for him with the daughter of that +rich old man. But before leaving home and undertaking these new affairs, +Prince Vasili had to settle matters with Pierre, who, it is true, had +latterly spent whole days at home, that is, in Prince Vasili's house +where he was staying, and had been absurd, excited, and foolish in +Helene's presence (as a lover should be), but had not yet proposed +to her. + +"This is all very fine, but things must be settled," said Prince +Vasili to himself, with a sorrowful sigh, one morning, feeling that +Pierre who was under such obligations to him ("But never mind that") +was not behaving very well in this matter. "Youth, frivolity... well, +God be with him," thought he, relishing his own goodness of heart, +"but it must be brought to a head. The day after tomorrow will be +Lelya's name day. I will invite two or three people, and if he does +not understand what he ought to do then it will be my affair--yes, my +affair. I am her father." + +Six weeks after Anna Pavlovna's "At Home" and after the sleepless +night when he had decided that to marry Helene would be a calamity and +that he ought to avoid her and go away, Pierre, despite that decision, +had not left Prince Vasili's and felt with terror that in people's +eyes he was every day more and more connected with her, that it was +impossible for him to return to his former conception of her, that he +could not break away from her, and that though it would be a terrible +thing he would have to unite his fate with hers. He might perhaps have +been able to free himself but that Prince Vasili (who had rarely before +given receptions) now hardly let a day go by without having an evening +party at which Pierre had to be present unless he wished to spoil +the general pleasure and disappoint everyone's expectation. Prince +Vasili, in the rare moments when he was at home, would take Pierre's +hand in passing and draw it downwards, or absent-mindedly hold out his +wrinkled, clean-shaven cheek for Pierre to kiss and would say: "Till +tomorrow," or, "Be in to dinner or I shall not see you," or, "I +am staying in for your sake," and so on. And though Prince Vasili, +when he stayed in (as he said) for Pierre's sake, hardly exchanged a +couple of words with him, Pierre felt unable to disappoint him. +Every day he said to himself one and the same thing: "It is time I +understood her and made up my mind what she really is. Was I mistaken +before, or am I mistaken now? No, she is not stupid, she is an excellent +girl," he sometimes said to himself "she never makes a mistake, +never says anything stupid. She says little, but what she does say is +always clear and simple, so she is not stupid. She never was abashed and +is not abashed now, so she cannot be a bad woman!" He had often begun +to make reflections or think aloud in her company, and she had always +answered him either by a brief but appropriate remark--showing that it +did not interest her--or by a silent look and smile which more palpably +than anything else showed Pierre her superiority. She was right in +regarding all arguments as nonsense in comparison with that smile. + +She always addressed him with a radiantly confiding smile meant for him +alone, in which there was something more significant than in the general +smile that usually brightened her face. Pierre knew that everyone was +waiting for him to say a word and cross a certain line, and he knew that +sooner or later he would step across it, but an incomprehensible terror +seized him at the thought of that dreadful step. A thousand times during +that month and a half while he felt himself drawn nearer and nearer to +that dreadful abyss, Pierre said to himself: "What am I doing? I need +resolution. Can it be that I have none?" + +He wished to take a decision, but felt with dismay that in this matter +he lacked that strength of will which he had known in himself and really +possessed. Pierre was one of those who are only strong when they feel +themselves quite innocent, and since that day when he was overpowered +by a feeling of desire while stooping over the snuffbox at Anna +Pavlovna's, an unacknowledged sense of the guilt of that desire +paralyzed his will. + +On Helene's name day, a small party of just their own people--as +his wife said--met for supper at Prince Vasili's. All these friends +and relations had been given to understand that the fate of the young +girl would be decided that evening. The visitors were seated at supper. +Princess Kuragina, a portly imposing woman who had once been handsome, +was sitting at the head of the table. On either side of her sat the +more important guests--an old general and his wife, and Anna Pavlovna +Scherer. At the other end sat the younger and less important guests, +and there too sat the members of the family, and Pierre and Helene, +side by side. Prince Vasili was not having any supper: he went round +the table in a merry mood, sitting down now by one, now by another, of +the guests. To each of them he made some careless and agreeable remark +except to Pierre and Helene, whose presence he seemed not to notice. +He enlivened the whole party. The wax candles burned brightly, the +silver and crystal gleamed, so did the ladies' toilets and the gold +and silver of the men's epaulets; servants in scarlet liveries moved +round the table, the clatter of plates, knives, and glasses mingled with +the animated hum of several conversations. At one end of the table, the +old chamberlain was heard assuring an old baroness that he loved her +passionately, at which she laughed; at the other could be heard the +story of the misfortunes of some Mary Viktorovna or other. At the +center of the table, Prince Vasili attracted everybody's attention. +With a facetious smile on his face, he was telling the ladies about last +Wednesday's meeting of the Imperial Council, at which Sergey Kuzmich +Vyazmitinov, the new military governor general of Petersburg, had +received and read the then famous rescript of the Emperor Alexander +from the army to Sergey Kuzmich, in which the Emperor said that he was +receiving from all sides declarations of the people's loyalty, that +the declaration from Petersburg gave him particular pleasure, and that +he was proud to be at the head of such a nation and would endeavor to be +worthy of it. This rescript began with the words: "Sergey Kuzmich, +From all sides reports reach me," etc. + +"Well, and so he never got farther than: 'Sergey Kuzmich'?" +asked one of the ladies. + +"Exactly, not a hair's breadth farther," answered Prince Vasili, +laughing, "'Sergey Kuzmich... From all sides... From all sides... +Sergey Kuzmich...' Poor Vyazmitinov could not get any farther! +He began the rescript again and again, but as soon as he uttered +'Sergey' he sobbed, 'Kuz-mi-ch,' tears, and 'From all +sides' was smothered in sobs and he could get no farther. And again +his handkerchief, and again: 'Sergey Kuzmich, From all sides,'... +and tears, till at last somebody else was asked to read it." + +"Kuzmich... From all sides... and then tears," someone repeated +laughing. + +"Don't be unkind," cried Anna Pavlovna from her end of the table +holding up a threatening finger. "He is such a worthy and excellent +man, our dear Vyazmitinov...." + +Everybody laughed a great deal. At the head of the table, where the +honored guests sat, everyone seemed to be in high spirits and under the +influence of a variety of exciting sensations. Only Pierre and +Helene sat silently side by side almost at the bottom of the table, a +suppressed smile brightening both their faces, a smile that had nothing +to do with Sergey Kuzmich--a smile of bashfulness at their own +feelings. But much as all the rest laughed, talked, and joked, much +as they enjoyed their Rhine wine, saute, and ices, and however they +avoided looking at the young couple, and heedless and unobservant as +they seemed of them, one could feel by the occasional glances they gave +that the story about Sergey Kuzmich, the laughter, and the food +were all a pretense, and that the whole attention of that company was +directed to--Pierre and Helene. Prince Vasili mimicked the sobbing +of Sergey Kuzmich and at the same time his eyes glanced toward his +daughter, and while he laughed the expression on his face clearly said: +"Yes... it's getting on, it will all be settled today." Anna +Pavlovna threatened him on behalf of "our dear Vyazmitinov," and +in her eyes, which, for an instant, glanced at Pierre, Prince Vasili +read a congratulation on his future son-in-law and on his daughter's +happiness. The old princess sighed sadly as she offered some wine to the +old lady next to her and glanced angrily at her daughter, and her sigh +seemed to say: "Yes, there's nothing left for you and me but to sip +sweet wine, my dear, now that the time has come for these young ones to +be thus boldly, provocatively happy." "And what nonsense all this is +that I am saying!" thought a diplomatist, glancing at the happy faces +of the lovers. "That's happiness!" + +Into the insignificant, trifling, and artificial interests uniting that +society had entered the simple feeling of the attraction of a healthy +and handsome young man and woman for one another. And this human feeling +dominated everything else and soared above all their affected chatter. +Jests fell flat, news was not interesting, and the animation was +evidently forced. Not only the guests but even the footmen waiting at +table seemed to feel this, and they forgot their duties as they looked +at the beautiful Helene with her radiant face and at the red, broad, +and happy though uneasy face of Pierre. It seemed as if the very light +of the candles was focused on those two happy faces alone. + +Pierre felt that he was the center of it all, and this both pleased and +embarrassed him. He was like a man entirely absorbed in some occupation. +He did not see, hear, or understand anything clearly. Only now and +then detached ideas and impressions from the world of reality shot +unexpectedly through his mind. + +"So it is all finished!" he thought. "And how has it all happened? +How quickly! Now I know that not because of her alone, nor of myself +alone, but because of everyone, it must inevitably come about. They are +all expecting it, they are so sure that it will happen that I cannot, I +cannot, disappoint them. But how will it be? I do not know, but it +will certainly happen!" thought Pierre, glancing at those dazzling +shoulders close to his eyes. + +Or he would suddenly feel ashamed of he knew not what. He felt it +awkward to attract everyone's attention and to be considered a +lucky man and, with his plain face, to be looked on as a sort of Paris +possessed of a Helen. "But no doubt it always is and must be so!" +he consoled himself. "And besides, what have I done to bring it about? +How did it begin? I traveled from Moscow with Prince Vasili. Then there +was nothing. So why should I not stay at his house? Then I played cards +with her and picked up her reticule and drove out with her. How did it +begin, when did it all come about?" And here he was sitting by her +side as her betrothed, seeing, hearing, feeling her nearness, her +breathing, her movements, her beauty. Then it would suddenly seem to him +that it was not she but he was so unusually beautiful, and that that was +why they all looked so at him, and flattered by this general admiration +he would expand his chest, raise his head, and rejoice at his good +fortune. Suddenly he heard a familiar voice repeating something to him a +second time. But Pierre was so absorbed that he did not understand what +was said. + +"I am asking you when you last heard from Bolkonski," repeated +Prince Vasili a third time. "How absent-minded you are, my dear +fellow." + +Prince Vasili smiled, and Pierre noticed that everyone was smiling at +him and Helene. "Well, what of it, if you all know it?" thought +Pierre. "What of it? It's the truth!" and he himself smiled his +gentle childlike smile, and Helene smiled too. + +"When did you get the letter? Was it from Olmutz?" repeated +Prince Vasili, who pretended to want to know this in order to settle a +dispute. + +"How can one talk or think of such trifles?" thought Pierre. + +"Yes, from Olmutz," he answered, with a sigh. + +After supper Pierre with his partner followed the others into the +drawing room. The guests began to disperse, some without taking leave +of Helene. Some, as if unwilling to distract her from an important +occupation, came up to her for a moment and made haste to go away, +refusing to let her see them off. The diplomatist preserved a mournful +silence as he left the drawing room. He pictured the vanity of his +diplomatic career in comparison with Pierre's happiness. The old +general grumbled at his wife when she asked how his leg was. "Oh, the +old fool," he thought. "That Princess Helene will be beautiful +still when she's fifty." + +"I think I may congratulate you," whispered Anna Pavlovna to the +old princess, kissing her soundly. "If I hadn't this headache I'd +have stayed longer." + +The old princess did not reply, she was tormented by jealousy of her +daughter's happiness. + +While the guests were taking their leave Pierre remained for a long time +alone with Helene in the little drawing room where they were sitting. +He had often before, during the last six weeks, remained alone with her, +but had never spoken to her of love. Now he felt that it was inevitable, +but he could not make up his mind to take the final step. He felt +ashamed; he felt that he was occupying someone else's place here +beside Helene. "This happiness is not for you," some inner voice +whispered to him. "This happiness is for those who have not in them +what there is in you." + +But, as he had to say something, he began by asking her whether she was +satisfied with the party. She replied in her usual simple manner that +this name day of hers had been one of the pleasantest she had ever had. + +Some of the nearest relatives had not yet left. They were sitting in +the large drawing room. Prince Vasili came up to Pierre with languid +footsteps. Pierre rose and said it was getting late. Prince Vasili gave +him a look of stern inquiry, as though what Pierre had just said was +so strange that one could not take it in. But then the expression of +severity changed, and he drew Pierre's hand downwards, made him sit +down, and smiled affectionately. + +"Well, Lelya?" he asked, turning instantly to his daughter and +addressing her with the careless tone of habitual tenderness natural to +parents who have petted their children from babyhood, but which Prince +Vasili had only acquired by imitating other parents. + +And he again turned to Pierre. + +"Sergey Kuzmich--From all sides--" he said, unbuttoning the top +button of his waistcoat. + +Pierre smiled, but his smile showed that he knew it was not the story +about Sergey Kuzmich that interested Prince Vasili just then, and +Prince Vasili saw that Pierre knew this. He suddenly muttered +something and went away. It seemed to Pierre that even the prince was +disconcerted. The sight of the discomposure of that old man of the world +touched Pierre: he looked at Helene and she too seemed disconcerted, +and her look seemed to say: "Well, it is your own fault." + +"The step must be taken but I cannot, I cannot!" thought Pierre, +and he again began speaking about indifferent matters, about Sergey +Kuzmich, asking what the point of the story was as he had not heard it +properly. Helene answered with a smile that she too had missed it. + +When Prince Vasili returned to the drawing room, the princess, his +wife, was talking in low tones to the elderly lady about Pierre. + +"Of course, it is a very brilliant match, but happiness, my dear..." + +"Marriages are made in heaven," replied the elderly lady. + +Prince Vasili passed by, seeming not to hear the ladies, and sat down +on a sofa in a far corner of the room. He closed his eyes and seemed to +be dozing. His head sank forward and then he roused himself. + +"Aline," he said to his wife, "go and see what they are about." + +The princess went up to the door, passed by it with a dignified and +indifferent air, and glanced into the little drawing room. Pierre and +Helene still sat talking just as before. + +"Still the same," she said to her husband. + +Prince Vasili frowned, twisting his mouth, his cheeks quivered and his +face assumed the coarse, unpleasant expression peculiar to him. Shaking +himself, he rose, threw back his head, and with resolute steps went +past the ladies into the little drawing room. With quick steps he went +joyfully up to Pierre. His face was so unusually triumphant that Pierre +rose in alarm on seeing it. + +"Thank God!" said Prince Vasili. "My wife has told me +everything!" (He put one arm around Pierre and the other around his +daughter.)--"My dear boy... Lelya... I am very pleased." (His +voice trembled.) "I loved your father... and she will make you a good +wife... God bless you!..." + +He embraced his daughter, and then again Pierre, and kissed him with his +malodorous mouth. Tears actually moistened his cheeks. + +"Princess, come here!" he shouted. + +The old princess came in and also wept. The elderly lady was using +her handkerchief too. Pierre was kissed, and he kissed the beautiful +Helene's hand several times. After a while they were left alone +again. + +"All this had to be and could not be otherwise," thought Pierre, +"so it is useless to ask whether it is good or bad. It is good because +it's definite and one is rid of the old tormenting doubt." Pierre +held the hand of his betrothed in silence, looking at her beautiful +bosom as it rose and fell. + +"Helene!" he said aloud and paused. + +"Something special is always said in such cases," he thought, but +could not remember what it was that people say. He looked at her face. +She drew nearer to him. Her face flushed. + +"Oh, take those off... those..." she said, pointing to his +spectacles. + +Pierre took them off, and his eyes, besides the strange look eyes have +from which spectacles have just been removed, had also a frightened and +inquiring look. He was about to stoop over her hand and kiss it, but +with a rapid, almost brutal movement of her head, she intercepted his +lips and met them with her own. Her face struck Pierre, by its altered, +unpleasantly excited expression. + +"It is too late now, it's done; besides I love her," thought +Pierre. + +"Je vous aime!" * he said, remembering what has to be said at such +moments: but his words sounded so weak that he felt ashamed of himself. + + * "I love you." + + +Six weeks later he was married, and settled in Count Bezukhov's +large, newly furnished Petersburg house, the happy possessor, as people +said, of a wife who was a celebrated beauty and of millions of money. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +Old Prince Nicholas Bolkonski received a letter from Prince Vasili +in November, 1805, announcing that he and his son would be paying him +a visit. "I am starting on a journey of inspection, and of course I +shall think nothing of an extra seventy miles to come and see you at +the same time, my honored benefactor," wrote Prince Vasili. "My son +Anatole is accompanying me on his way to the army, so I hope you will +allow him personally to express the deep respect that, emulating his +father, he feels for you." + +"It seems that there will be no need to bring Mary out, suitors are +coming to us of their own accord," incautiously remarked the little +princess on hearing the news. + +Prince Nicholas frowned, but said nothing. + +A fortnight after the letter Prince Vasili's servants came one +evening in advance of him, and he and his son arrived next day. + +Old Bolkonski had always had a poor opinion of Prince Vasili's +character, but more so recently, since in the new reigns of Paul and +Alexander Prince Vasili had risen to high position and honors. And now, +from the hints contained in his letter and given by the little princess, +he saw which way the wind was blowing, and his low opinion changed into +a feeling of contemptuous ill will. He snorted whenever he mentioned +him. On the day of Prince Vasili's arrival, Prince Bolkonski was +particularly discontented and out of temper. Whether he was in a bad +temper because Prince Vasili was coming, or whether his being in a bad +temper made him specially annoyed at Prince Vasili's visit, he was +in a bad temper, and in the morning Tikhon had already advised the +architect not to go to the prince with his report. + +"Do you hear how he's walking?" said Tikhon, drawing the +architect's attention to the sound of the prince's footsteps. +"Stepping flat on his heels--we know what that means...." + +However, at nine o'clock the prince, in his velvet coat with a sable +collar and cap, went out for his usual walk. It had snowed the day +before and the path to the hothouse, along which the prince was in the +habit of walking, had been swept: the marks of the broom were still +visible in the snow and a shovel had been left sticking in one of the +soft snowbanks that bordered both sides of the path. The prince went +through the conservatories, the serfs' quarters, and the outbuildings, +frowning and silent. + +"Can a sleigh pass?" he asked his overseer, a venerable man, +resembling his master in manners and looks, who was accompanying him +back to the house. + +"The snow is deep. I am having the avenue swept, your honor." + +The prince bowed his head and went up to the porch. "God be +thanked," thought the overseer, "the storm has blown over!" + +"It would have been hard to drive up, your honor," he added. "I +heard, your honor, that a minister is coming to visit your honor." + +The prince turned round to the overseer and fixed his eyes on him, +frowning. + +"What? A minister? What minister? Who gave orders?" he said in +his shrill, harsh voice. "The road is not swept for the princess my +daughter, but for a minister! For me, there are no ministers!" + +"Your honor, I thought..." + +"You thought!" shouted the prince, his words coming more and more +rapidly and indistinctly. "You thought!... Rascals! Blackguards!... +I'll teach you to think!" and lifting his stick he swung it and +would have hit Alpatych, the overseer, had not the latter instinctively +avoided the blow. "Thought... Blackguards..." shouted the prince +rapidly. + +But although Alpatych, frightened at his own temerity in avoiding the +stroke, came up to the prince, bowing his bald head resignedly before +him, or perhaps for that very reason, the prince, though he continued +to shout: "Blackguards!... Throw the snow back on the road!" did not +lift his stick again but hurried into the house. + +Before dinner, Princess Mary and Mademoiselle Bourienne, who knew +that the prince was in a bad humor, stood awaiting him; Mademoiselle +Bourienne with a radiant face that said: "I know nothing, I am the +same as usual," and Princess Mary pale, frightened, and with downcast +eyes. What she found hardest to bear was to know that on such occasions +she ought to behave like Mademoiselle Bourienne, but could not. +She thought: "If I seem not to notice he will think that I do not +sympathize with him; if I seem sad and out of spirits myself, he will +say (as he has done before) that I'm in the dumps." + +The prince looked at his daughter's frightened face and snorted. + +"Fool... or dummy!" he muttered. + +"And the other one is not here. They've been telling tales," he +thought--referring to the little princess who was not in the dining +room. + +"Where is the princess?" he asked. "Hiding?" + +"She is not very well," answered Mademoiselle Bourienne with +a bright smile, "so she won't come down. It is natural in her +state." + +"Hm! Hm!" muttered the prince, sitting down. + +His plate seemed to him not quite clean, and pointing to a spot he +flung it away. Tikhon caught it and handed it to a footman. The little +princess was not unwell, but had such an overpowering fear of the prince +that, hearing he was in a bad humor, she had decided not to appear. + +"I am afraid for the baby," she said to Mademoiselle Bourienne: +"Heaven knows what a fright might do." + +In general at Bald Hills the little princess lived in constant fear, and +with a sense of antipathy to the old prince which she did not +realize because the fear was so much the stronger feeling. The prince +reciprocated this antipathy, but it was overpowered by his contempt +for her. When the little princess had grown accustomed to life at Bald +Hills, she took a special fancy to Mademoiselle Bourienne, spent whole +days with her, asked her to sleep in her room, and often talked with her +about the old prince and criticized him. + +"So we are to have visitors, mon prince?" remarked Mademoiselle +Bourienne, unfolding her white napkin with her rosy fingers. "His +Excellency Prince Vasili Kuragin and his son, I understand?" she +said inquiringly. + +"Hm!--his excellency is a puppy.... I got him his appointment in the +service," said the prince disdainfully. "Why his son is coming I +don't understand. Perhaps Princess Elizabeth and Princess Mary know. +I don't want him." (He looked at his blushing daughter.) "Are you +unwell today? Eh? Afraid of the 'minister' as that idiot Alpatych +called him this morning?" + +"No, mon pere." + +Though Mademoiselle Bourienne had been so unsuccessful in her choice +of a subject, she did not stop talking, but chattered about the +conservatories and the beauty of a flower that had just opened, and +after the soup the prince became more genial. + +After dinner, he went to see his daughter-in-law. The little princess +was sitting at a small table, chattering with Masha, her maid. She grew +pale on seeing her father-in-law. + +She was much altered. She was now plain rather than pretty. Her cheeks +had sunk, her lip was drawn up, and her eyes drawn down. + +"Yes, I feel a kind of oppression," she said in reply to the +prince's question as to how she felt. + +"Do you want anything?" + +"No, merci, mon pere." + +"Well, all right, all right." + +He left the room and went to the waiting room where Alpatych stood with +bowed head. + +"Has the snow been shoveled back?" + +"Yes, your excellency. Forgive me for heaven's sake... It was only +my stupidity." + +"All right, all right," interrupted the prince, and laughing his +unnatural way, he stretched out his hand for Alpatych to kiss, and then +proceeded to his study. + +Prince Vasili arrived that evening. He was met in the avenue by +coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to +one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow. + +Prince Vasili and Anatole had separate rooms assigned to them. + +Anatole, having taken off his overcoat, sat with arms akimbo before a +table on a corner of which he smilingly and absent-mindedly fixed his +large and handsome eyes. He regarded his whole life as a continual round +of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him. +And he looked on this visit to a churlish old man and a rich and ugly +heiress in the same way. All this might, he thought, turn out very well +and amusingly. "And why not marry her if she really has so much money? +That never does any harm," thought Anatole. + +He shaved and scented himself with the care and elegance which had +become habitual to him and, his handsome head held high, entered his +father's room with the good-humored and victorious air natural to +him. Prince Vasili's two valets were busy dressing him, and he looked +round with much animation and cheerfully nodded to his son as the latter +entered, as if to say: "Yes, that's how I want you to look." + +"I say, Father, joking apart, is she very hideous?" Anatole asked, +as if continuing a conversation the subject of which had often been +mentioned during the journey. + +"Enough! What nonsense! Above all, try to be respectful and cautious +with the old prince." + +"If he starts a row I'll go away," said Prince Anatole. "I +can't bear those old men! Eh?" + +"Remember, for you everything depends on this." + +In the meantime, not only was it known in the maidservants' rooms that +the minister and his son had arrived, but the appearance of both had +been minutely described. Princess Mary was sitting alone in her room, +vainly trying to master her agitation. + +"Why did they write, why did Lise tell me about it? It can never +happen!" she said, looking at herself in the glass. "How shall I +enter the drawing room? Even if I like him I can't now be myself with +him." The mere thought of her father's look filled her with terror. +The little princess and Mademoiselle Bourienne had already received +from Masha, the lady's maid, the necessary report of how handsome the +minister's son was, with his rosy cheeks and dark eyebrows, and with +what difficulty the father had dragged his legs upstairs while the son +had followed him like an eagle, three steps at a time. Having received +this information, the little princess and Mademoiselle Bourienne, whose +chattering voices had reached her from the corridor, went into Princess +Mary's room. + +"You know they've come, Marie?" said the little princess, waddling +in, and sinking heavily into an armchair. + +She was no longer in the loose gown she generally wore in the morning, +but had on one of her best dresses. Her hair was carefully done and her +face was animated, which, however, did not conceal its sunken and faded +outlines. Dressed as she used to be in Petersburg society, it was still +more noticeable how much plainer she had become. Some unobtrusive touch +had been added to Mademoiselle Bourienne's toilet which rendered her +fresh and pretty face yet more attractive. + +"What! Are you going to remain as you are, dear princess?" she +began. "They'll be announcing that the gentlemen are in the drawing +room and we shall have to go down, and you have not smartened yourself +up at all!" + +The little princess got up, rang for the maid, and hurriedly and merrily +began to devise and carry out a plan of how Princess Mary should be +dressed. Princess Mary's self-esteem was wounded by the fact that +the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both +her companions' not having the least conception that it could be +otherwise. To tell them that she felt ashamed for herself and for them +would be to betray her agitation, while to decline their offers to +dress her would prolong their banter and insistence. She flushed, her +beautiful eyes grew dim, red blotches came on her face, and it took +on the unattractive martyrlike expression it so often wore, as she +submitted herself to Mademoiselle Bourienne and Lise. Both these women +quite sincerely tried to make her look pretty. She was so plain that +neither of them could think of her as a rival, so they began dressing +her with perfect sincerity, and with the naive and firm conviction +women have that dress can make a face pretty. + +"No really, my dear, this dress is not pretty," said Lise, looking +sideways at Princess Mary from a little distance. "You have a maroon +dress, have it fetched. Really! You know the fate of your whole life may +be at stake. But this one is too light, it's not becoming!" + +It was not the dress, but the face and whole figure of Princess Mary +that was not pretty, but neither Mademoiselle Bourienne nor the little +princess felt this; they still thought that if a blue ribbon were placed +in the hair, the hair combed up, and the blue scarf arranged lower on +the best maroon dress, and so on, all would be well. They forgot that +the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that +however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it +would still remain piteous and plain. After two or three changes to +which Princess Mary meekly submitted, just as her hair had been arranged +on the top of her head (a style that quite altered and spoiled her +looks) and she had put on a maroon dress with a pale-blue scarf, the +little princess walked twice round her, now adjusting a fold of the +dress with her little hand, now arranging the scarf and looking at her +with her head bent first on one side and then on the other. + +"No, it will not do," she said decidedly, clasping her hands. "No, +Mary, really this dress does not suit you. I prefer you in your little +gray everyday dress. Now please, do it for my sake. Katie," she said +to the maid, "bring the princess her gray dress, and you'll see, +Mademoiselle Bourienne, how I shall arrange it," she added, smiling +with a foretaste of artistic pleasure. + +But when Katie brought the required dress, Princess Mary remained +sitting motionless before the glass, looking at her face, and saw in the +mirror her eyes full of tears and her mouth quivering, ready to burst +into sobs. + +"Come, dear princess," said Mademoiselle Bourienne, "just one more +little effort." + +The little princess, taking the dress from the maid, came up to Princess +Mary. + +"Well, now we'll arrange something quite simple and becoming," she +said. + +The three voices, hers, Mademoiselle Bourienne's, and Katie's, who +was laughing at something, mingled in a merry sound, like the chirping +of birds. + +"No, leave me alone," said Princess Mary. + +Her voice sounded so serious and so sad that the chirping of the birds +was silenced at once. They looked at the beautiful, large, thoughtful +eyes full of tears and of thoughts, gazing shiningly and imploringly at +them, and understood that it was useless and even cruel to insist. + +"At least, change your coiffure," said the little princess. +"Didn't I tell you," she went on, turning reproachfully to +Mademoiselle Bourienne, "Mary's is a face which such a coiffure does +not suit in the least. Not in the least! Please change it." + +"Leave me alone, please leave me alone! It is all quite the same to +me," answered a voice struggling with tears. + +Mademoiselle Bourienne and the little princess had to own to themselves +that Princess Mary in this guise looked very plain, worse than usual, +but it was too late. She was looking at them with an expression they +both knew, an expression thoughtful and sad. This expression in Princess +Mary did not frighten them (she never inspired fear in anyone), but they +knew that when it appeared on her face, she became mute and was not to +be shaken in her determination. + +"You will change it, won't you?" said Lise. And as Princess Mary +gave no answer, she left the room. + +Princess Mary was left alone. She did not comply with Lise's request, +she not only left her hair as it was, but did not even look in her +glass. Letting her arms fall helplessly, she sat with downcast eyes and +pondered. A husband, a man, a strong dominant and strangely attractive +being rose in her imagination, and carried her into a totally different +happy world of his own. She fancied a child, her own--such as she had +seen the day before in the arms of her nurse's daughter--at her +own breast, the husband standing by and gazing tenderly at her and the +child. "But no, it is impossible, I am too ugly," she thought. + +"Please come to tea. The prince will be out in a moment," came the +maid's voice at the door. + +She roused herself, and felt appalled at what she had been thinking, and +before going down she went into the room where the icons hung and, her +eyes fixed on the dark face of a large icon of the Saviour lit by a +lamp, she stood before it with folded hands for a few moments. A painful +doubt filled her soul. Could the joy of love, of earthly love for a +man, be for her? In her thoughts of marriage Princess Mary dreamed of +happiness and of children, but her strongest, most deeply hidden longing +was for earthly love. The more she tried to hide this feeling from +others and even from herself, the stronger it grew. "O God," she +said, "how am I to stifle in my heart these temptations of the devil? +How am I to renounce forever these vile fancies, so as peacefully to +fulfill Thy will?" And scarcely had she put that question than God +gave her the answer in her own heart. "Desire nothing for thyself, +seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. Man's future and thy own fate +must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for +anything. If it be God's will to prove thee in the duties of marriage, +be ready to fulfill His will." With this consoling thought (but +yet with a hope for the fulfillment of her forbidden earthly longing) +Princess Mary sighed, and having crossed herself went down, thinking +neither of her gown and coiffure nor of how she would go in nor of what +she would say. What could all that matter in comparison with the will of +God, without Whose care not a hair of man's head can fall? + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +When Princess Mary came down, Prince Vasili and his son were already +in the drawing room, talking to the little princess and Mademoiselle +Bourienne. When she entered with her heavy step, treading on her heels, +the gentlemen and Mademoiselle Bourienne rose and the little princess, +indicating her to the gentlemen, said: "Voila Marie!" Princess Mary +saw them all and saw them in detail. She saw Prince Vasili's face, +serious for an instant at the sight of her, but immediately smiling +again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression +"Marie" produced on the visitors. And she saw Mademoiselle +Bourienne, with her ribbon and pretty face, and her unusually animated +look which was fixed on him, but him she could not see, she only saw +something large, brilliant, and handsome moving toward her as she +entered the room. Prince Vasili approached first, and she kissed the +bold forehead that bent over her hand and answered his question by +saying that, on the contrary, she remembered him quite well. Then +Anatole came up to her. She still could not see him. She only felt a +soft hand taking hers firmly, and she touched with her lips a white +forehead, over which was beautiful light-brown hair smelling of pomade. +When she looked up at him she was struck by his beauty. Anatole stood +with his right thumb under a button of his uniform, his chest expanded +and his back drawn in, slightly swinging one foot, and, with his head a +little bent, looked with beaming face at the princess without +speaking and evidently not thinking about her at all. Anatole was not +quick-witted, nor ready or eloquent in conversation, but he had the +faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable +self-possession. If a man lacking in self-confidence remains dumb on +a first introduction and betrays a consciousness of the impropriety of +such silence and an anxiety to find something to say, the effect is +bad. But Anatole was dumb, swung his foot, and smilingly examined the +princess' hair. It was evident that he could be silent in this way for +a very long time. "If anyone finds this silence inconvenient, let him +talk, but I don't want to," he seemed to say. Besides this, in his +behavior to women Anatole had a manner which particularly inspires in +them curiosity, awe, and even love--a supercilious consciousness of +his own superiority. It was as if he said to them: "I know you, I know +you, but why should I bother about you? You'd be only too glad, of +course." Perhaps he did not really think this when he met women--even +probably he did not, for in general he thought very little--but his +looks and manner gave that impression. The princess felt this, and as if +wishing to show him that she did not even dare expect to interest him, +she turned to his father. The conversation was general and animated, +thanks to Princess Lise's voice and little downy lip that lifted over +her white teeth. She met Prince Vasili with that playful manner often +employed by lively chatty people, and consisting in the assumption +that between the person they so address and themselves there are some +semi-private, long-established jokes and amusing reminiscences, though +no such reminiscences really exist--just as none existed in this case. +Prince Vasili readily adopted her tone and the little princess also +drew Anatole, whom she hardly knew, into these amusing recollections of +things that had never occurred. Mademoiselle Bourienne also shared them +and even Princess Mary felt herself pleasantly made to share in these +merry reminiscences. + +"Here at least we shall have the benefit of your company all to +ourselves, dear prince," said the little princess (of course, in +French) to Prince Vasili. "It's not as at Annette's * receptions +where you always ran away; you remember cette chere Annette!" + + * Anna Pavlovna. + +"Ah, but you won't talk politics to me like Annette!" + +"And our little tea table?" + +"Oh, yes!" + +"Why is it you were never at Annette's?" the little princess asked +Anatole. "Ah, I know, I know," she said with a sly glance, "your +brother Hippolyte told me about your goings on. Oh!" and she shook her +finger at him, "I have even heard of your doings in Paris!" + +"And didn't Hippolyte tell you?" asked Prince Vasili, turning to +his son and seizing the little princess' arm as if she would have run +away and he had just managed to catch her, "didn't he tell you how +he himself was pining for the dear princess, and how she showed him the +door? Oh, she is a pearl among women, Princess," he added, turning to +Princess Mary. + +When Paris was mentioned, Mademoiselle Bourienne for her part seized the +opportunity of joining in the general current of recollections. + +She took the liberty of inquiring whether it was long since Anatole +had left Paris and how he had liked that city. Anatole answered the +Frenchwoman very readily and, looking at her with a smile, talked to her +about her native land. When he saw the pretty little Bourienne, Anatole +came to the conclusion that he would not find Bald Hills dull either. +"Not at all bad!" he thought, examining her, "not at all bad, that +little companion! I hope she will bring her along with her when we're +married, la petite est gentille." * + + * The little one is charming. + +The old prince dressed leisurely in his study, frowning and considering +what he was to do. The coming of these visitors annoyed him. "What are +Prince Vasili and that son of his to me? Prince Vasili is a shallow +braggart and his son, no doubt, is a fine specimen," he grumbled to +himself. What angered him was that the coming of these visitors revived +in his mind an unsettled question he always tried to stifle, one about +which he always deceived himself. The question was whether he could ever +bring himself to part from his daughter and give her to a husband. The +prince never directly asked himself that question, knowing beforehand +that he would have to answer it justly, and justice clashed not only +with his feelings but with the very possibility of life. Life without +Princess Mary, little as he seemed to value her, was unthinkable to +him. "And why should she marry?" he thought. "To be unhappy for +certain. There's Lise, married to Andrew--a better husband one would +think could hardly be found nowadays--but is she contented with her +lot? And who would marry Marie for love? Plain and awkward! They'll +take her for her connections and wealth. Are there no women living +unmarried, and even the happier for it?" So thought Prince Bolkonski +while dressing, and yet the question he was always putting off demanded +an immediate answer. Prince Vasili had brought his son with the evident +intention of proposing, and today or tomorrow he would probably ask +for an answer. His birth and position in society were not bad. "Well, +I've nothing against it," the prince said to himself, "but he must +be worthy of her. And that is what we shall see." + +"That is what we shall see! That is what we shall see!" he added +aloud. + +He entered the drawing room with his usual alert step, glancing rapidly +round the company. He noticed the change in the little princess' +dress, Mademoiselle Bourienne's ribbon, Princess Mary's unbecoming +coiffure, Mademoiselle Bourienne's and Anatole's smiles, and the +loneliness of his daughter amid the general conversation. "Got herself +up like a fool!" he thought, looking irritably at her. "She is +shameless, and he ignores her!" + +He went straight up to Prince Vasili. + +"Well! How d'ye do? How d'ye do? Glad to see you!" + +"Friendship laughs at distance," began Prince Vasili in his usual +rapid, self-confident, familiar tone. "Here is my second son; please +love and befriend him." + +Prince Bolkonski surveyed Anatole. + +"Fine young fellow! Fine young fellow!" he said. "Well, come and +kiss me," and he offered his cheek. + +Anatole kissed the old man, and looked at him with curiosity and perfect +composure, waiting for a display of the eccentricities his father had +told him to expect. + +Prince Bolkonski sat down in his usual place in the corner of the sofa +and, drawing up an armchair for Prince Vasili, pointed to it and began +questioning him about political affairs and news. He seemed to listen +attentively to what Prince Vasili said, but kept glancing at Princess +Mary. + +"And so they are writing from Potsdam already?" he said, repeating +Prince Vasili's last words. Then rising, he suddenly went up to his +daughter. + +"Is it for visitors you've got yourself up like that, eh?" said +he. "Fine, very fine! You have done up your hair in this new way for +the visitors, and before the visitors I tell you that in future you are +never to dare to change your way of dress without my consent." + +"It was my fault, mon pere," interceded the little princess, with a +blush. + +"You must do as you please," said Prince Bolkonski, bowing to his +daughter-in-law, "but she need not make a fool of herself, she's +plain enough as it is." + +And he sat down again, paying no more attention to his daughter, who was +reduced to tears. + +"On the contrary, that coiffure suits the princess very well," said +Prince Vasili. + +"Now you, young prince, what's your name?" said Prince Bolkonski, +turning to Anatole, "come here, let us talk and get acquainted." + +"Now the fun begins," thought Anatole, sitting down with a smile +beside the old prince. + +"Well, my dear boy, I hear you've been educated abroad, not taught +to read and write by the deacon, like your father and me. Now tell me, +my dear boy, are you serving in the Horse Guards?" asked the old man, +scrutinizing Anatole closely and intently. + +"No, I have been transferred to the line," said Anatole, hardly able +to restrain his laughter. + +"Ah! That's a good thing. So, my dear boy, you wish to serve the +Tsar and the country? It is wartime. Such a fine fellow must serve. +Well, are you off to the front?" + +"No, Prince, our regiment has gone to the front, but I am attached... +what is it I am attached to, Papa?" said Anatole, turning to his +father with a laugh. + +"A splendid soldier, splendid! 'What am I attached to!' Ha, ha, +ha!" laughed Prince Bolkonski, and Anatole laughed still louder. +Suddenly Prince Bolkonski frowned. + +"You may go," he said to Anatole. + +Anatole returned smiling to the ladies. + +"And so you've had him educated abroad, Prince Vasili, haven't +you?" said the old prince to Prince Vasili. + +"I have done my best for him, and I can assure you the education there +is much better than ours." + +"Yes, everything is different nowadays, everything is changed. The +lad's a fine fellow, a fine fellow! Well, come with me now." He took +Prince Vasili's arm and led him to his study. As soon as they were +alone together, Prince Vasili announced his hopes and wishes to the old +prince. + +"Well, do you think I shall prevent her, that I can't part from +her?" said the old prince angrily. "What an idea! I'm ready for it +tomorrow! Only let me tell you, I want to know my son-in-law better. You +know my principles--everything aboveboard! I will ask her tomorrow in +your presence; if she is willing, then he can stay on. He can stay and +I'll see." The old prince snorted. "Let her marry, it's all the +same to me!" he screamed in the same piercing tone as when parting +from his son. + +"I will tell you frankly," said Prince Vasili in the tone of +a crafty man convinced of the futility of being cunning with so +keen-sighted a companion. "You know, you see right through people. +Anatole is no genius, but he is an honest, goodhearted lad; an excellent +son or kinsman." + +"All right, all right, we'll see!" + +As always happens when women lead lonely lives for any length of time +without male society, on Anatole's appearance all the three women of +Prince Bolkonski's household felt that their life had not been real +till then. Their powers of reasoning, feeling, and observing immediately +increased tenfold, and their life, which seemed to have been passed in +darkness, was suddenly lit up by a new brightness, full of significance. + +Princess Mary grew quite unconscious of her face and coiffure. The +handsome open face of the man who might perhaps be her husband absorbed +all her attention. He seemed to her kind, brave, determined, manly, and +magnanimous. She felt convinced of that. Thousands of dreams of a future +family life continually rose in her imagination. She drove them away and +tried to conceal them. + +"But am I not too cold with him?" thought the princess. "I try +to be reserved because in the depth of my soul I feel too near to him +already, but then he cannot know what I think of him and may imagine +that I do not like him." + +And Princess Mary tried, but could not manage, to be cordial to her new +guest. "Poor girl, she's devilish ugly!" thought Anatole. + +Mademoiselle Bourienne, also roused to great excitement by Anatole's +arrival, thought in another way. Of course, she, a handsome young woman +without any definite position, without relations or even a country, did +not intend to devote her life to serving Prince Bolkonski, to reading +aloud to him and being friends with Princess Mary. Mademoiselle +Bourienne had long been waiting for a Russian prince who, able to +appreciate at a glance her superiority to the plain, badly dressed, +ungainly Russian princesses, would fall in love with her and carry her +off; and here at last was a Russian prince. Mademoiselle Bourienne knew +a story, heard from her aunt but finished in her own way, which she +liked to repeat to herself. It was the story of a girl who had been +seduced, and to whom her poor mother (sa pauvre mere) appeared, and +reproached her for yielding to a man without being married. Mademoiselle +Bourienne was often touched to tears as in imagination she told this +story to him, her seducer. And now he, a real Russian prince, had +appeared. He would carry her away and then sa pauvre mere would appear +and he would marry her. So her future shaped itself in Mademoiselle +Bourienne's head at the very time she was talking to Anatole about +Paris. It was not calculation that guided her (she did not even for a +moment consider what she should do), but all this had long been familiar +to her, and now that Anatole had appeared it just grouped itself around +him and she wished and tried to please him as much as possible. + +The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, +unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the +familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any +struggle, but with naive and lighthearted gaiety. + +Although in female society Anatole usually assumed the role of a man +tired of being run after by women, his vanity was flattered by the +spectacle of his power over these three women. Besides that, he was +beginning to feel for the pretty and provocative Mademoiselle Bourienne +that passionate animal feeling which was apt to master him with great +suddenness and prompt him to the coarsest and most reckless actions. + +After tea, the company went into the sitting room and Princess Mary was +asked to play on the clavichord. Anatole, laughing and in high spirits, +came and leaned on his elbows, facing her and beside Mademoiselle +Bourienne. Princess Mary felt his look with a painfully joyous emotion. +Her favorite sonata bore her into a most intimately poetic world and +the look she felt upon her made that world still more poetic. But +Anatole's expression, though his eyes were fixed on her, referred not +to her but to the movements of Mademoiselle Bourienne's little +foot, which he was then touching with his own under the clavichord. +Mademoiselle Bourienne was also looking at Princess Mary, and in her +lovely eyes there was a look of fearful joy and hope that was also new +to the princess. + +"How she loves me!" thought Princess Mary. "How happy I am now, +and how happy I may be with such a friend and such a husband! Husband? +Can it be possible?" she thought, not daring to look at his face, but +still feeling his eyes gazing at her. + +In the evening, after supper, when all were about to retire, Anatole +kissed Princess Mary's hand. She did not know how she found the +courage, but she looked straight into his handsome face as it came near +to her shortsighted eyes. Turning from Princess Mary he went up and +kissed Mademoiselle Bourienne's hand. (This was not etiquette, but +then he did everything so simply and with such assurance!) Mademoiselle +Bourienne flushed, and gave the princess a frightened look. + +"What delicacy!" thought the princess. "Is it possible that +Amelie" (Mademoiselle Bourienne) "thinks I could be jealous of her, +and not value her pure affection and devotion to me?" She went up +to her and kissed her warmly. Anatole went up to kiss the little +princess' hand. + +"No! No! No! When your father writes to tell me that you are behaving +well I will give you my hand to kiss. Not till then!" she said. And +smilingly raising a finger at him, she left the room. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +They all separated, but, except Anatole who fell asleep as soon as he +got into bed, all kept awake a long time that night. + +"Is he really to be my husband, this stranger who is so kind--yes, +kind, that is the chief thing," thought Princess Mary; and fear, which +she had seldom experienced, came upon her. She feared to look round, it +seemed to her that someone was there standing behind the screen in the +dark corner. And this someone was he--the devil--and he was also this +man with the white forehead, black eyebrows, and red lips. + +She rang for her maid and asked her to sleep in her room. + +Mademoiselle Bourienne walked up and down the conservatory for a long +time that evening, vainly expecting someone, now smiling at someone, now +working herself up to tears with the imaginary words of her pauvre mere +rebuking her for her fall. + +The little princess grumbled to her maid that her bed was badly made. +She could not lie either on her face or on her side. Every position was +awkward and uncomfortable, and her burden oppressed her now more than +ever because Anatole's presence had vividly recalled to her the time +when she was not like that and when everything was light and gay. She +sat in an armchair in her dressing jacket and nightcap and Katie, sleepy +and disheveled, beat and turned the heavy feather bed for the third +time, muttering to herself. + +"I told you it was all lumps and holes!" the little princess +repeated. "I should be glad enough to fall asleep, so it's not my +fault!" and her voice quivered like that of a child about to cry. + +The old prince did not sleep either. Tikhon, half asleep, heard him +pacing angrily about and snorting. The old prince felt as though he +had been insulted through his daughter. The insult was the more pointed +because it concerned not himself but another, his daughter, whom he +loved more than himself. He kept telling himself that he would consider +the whole matter and decide what was right and how he should act, but +instead of that he only excited himself more and more. + +"The first man that turns up--she forgets her father and everything +else, runs upstairs and does up her hair and wags her tail and is unlike +herself! Glad to throw her father over! And she knew I should notice +it. Fr... fr... fr! And don't I see that that idiot had eyes only for +Bourienne--I shall have to get rid of her. And how is it she has not +pride enough to see it? If she has no pride for herself she might at +least have some for my sake! She must be shown that the blockhead thinks +nothing of her and looks only at Bourienne. No, she has no pride... but +I'll let her see...." + +The old prince knew that if he told his daughter she was making a +mistake and that Anatole meant to flirt with Mademoiselle Bourienne, +Princess Mary's self-esteem would be wounded and his point (not to +be parted from her) would be gained, so pacifying himself with this +thought, he called Tikhon and began to undress. + +"What devil brought them here?" thought he, while Tikhon was +putting the nightshirt over his dried-up old body and gray-haired chest. +"I never invited them. They came to disturb my life--and there is not +much of it left." + +"Devil take 'em!" he muttered, while his head was still covered by +the shirt. + +Tikhon knew his master's habit of sometimes thinking aloud, and +therefore met with unaltered looks the angrily inquisitive expression of +the face that emerged from the shirt. + +"Gone to bed?" asked the prince. + +Tikhon, like all good valets, instinctively knew the direction of his +master's thoughts. He guessed that the question referred to Prince +Vasili and his son. + +"They have gone to bed and put out their lights, your excellency." + +"No good... no good..." said the prince rapidly, and thrusting his +feet into his slippers and his arms into the sleeves of his dressing +gown, he went to the couch on which he slept. + +Though no words had passed between Anatole and Mademoiselle Bourienne, +they quite understood one another as to the first part of their romance, +up to the appearance of the pauvre mere; they understood that they had +much to say to one another in private and so they had been seeking an +opportunity since morning to meet one another alone. When Princess Mary +went to her father's room at the usual hour, Mademoiselle Bourienne +and Anatole met in the conservatory. + +Princess Mary went to the door of the study with special trepidation. +It seemed to her that not only did everybody know that her fate would be +decided that day, but that they also knew what she thought about it. She +read this in Tikhon's face and in that of Prince Vasili's valet, +who made her a low bow when she met him in the corridor carrying hot +water. + +The old prince was very affectionate and careful in his treatment of +his daughter that morning. Princess Mary well knew this painstaking +expression of her father's. His face wore that expression when his +dry hands clenched with vexation at her not understanding a sum in +arithmetic, when rising from his chair he would walk away from her, +repeating in a low voice the same words several times over. + +He came to the point at once, treating her ceremoniously. + +"I have had a proposition made me concerning you," he said with an +unnatural smile. "I expect you have guessed that Prince Vasili has +not come and brought his pupil with him" (for some reason Prince +Bolkonski referred to Anatole as a "pupil") "for the sake of my +beautiful eyes. Last night a proposition was made me on your account +and, as you know my principles, I refer it to you." + +"How am I to understand you, mon pere?" said the princess, growing +pale and then blushing. + +"How understand me!" cried her father angrily. "Prince Vasili +finds you to his taste as a daughter-in-law and makes a proposal to you +on his pupil's behalf. That's how it's to be understood! 'How +understand it'!... And I ask you!" + +"I do not know what you think, Father," whispered the princess. + +"I? I? What of me? Leave me out of the question. I'm not going to +get married. What about you? That's what I want to know." + +The princess saw that her father regarded the matter with disapproval, +but at that moment the thought occurred to her that her fate would be +decided now or never. She lowered her eyes so as not to see the gaze +under which she felt that she could not think, but would only be able to +submit from habit, and she said: "I wish only to do your will, but if +I had to express my own desire..." She had no time to finish. The old +prince interrupted her. + +"That's admirable!" he shouted. "He will take you with your +dowry and take Mademoiselle Bourienne into the bargain. She'll be the +wife, while you..." + +The prince stopped. He saw the effect these words had produced on his +daughter. She lowered her head and was ready to burst into tears. + +"Now then, now then, I'm only joking!" he said. "Remember this, +Princess, I hold to the principle that a maiden has a full right to +choose. I give you freedom. Only remember that your life's happiness +depends on your decision. Never mind me!" + +"But I do not know, Father!" + +"There's no need to talk! He receives his orders and will marry you +or anybody; but you are free to choose.... Go to your room, think it +over, and come back in an hour and tell me in his presence: yes or no. +I know you will pray over it. Well, pray if you like, but you had better +think it over. Go! Yes or no, yes or no, yes or no!" he still shouted +when the princess, as if lost in a fog, had already staggered out of the +study. + +Her fate was decided and happily decided. But what her father had said +about Mademoiselle Bourienne was dreadful. It was untrue to be sure, but +still it was terrible, and she could not help thinking of it. She was +going straight on through the conservatory, neither seeing nor hearing +anything, when suddenly the well-known whispering of Mademoiselle +Bourienne aroused her. She raised her eyes, and two steps away saw +Anatole embracing the Frenchwoman and whispering something to her. With +a horrified expression on his handsome face, Anatole looked at Princess +Mary, but did not at once take his arm from the waist of Mademoiselle +Bourienne who had not yet seen her. + +"Who's that? Why? Wait a moment!" Anatole's face seemed to say. +Princess Mary looked at them in silence. She could not understand it. At +last Mademoiselle Bourienne gave a scream and ran away. Anatole bowed to +Princess Mary with a gay smile, as if inviting her to join in a laugh at +this strange incident, and then shrugging his shoulders went to the door +that led to his own apartments. + +An hour later, Tikhon came to call Princess Mary to the old prince; +he added that Prince Vasili was also there. When Tikhon came to her +Princess Mary was sitting on the sofa in her room, holding the weeping +Mademoiselle Bourienne in her arms and gently stroking her hair. The +princess' beautiful eyes with all their former calm radiance were +looking with tender affection and pity at Mademoiselle Bourienne's +pretty face. + +"No, Princess, I have lost your affection forever!" said +Mademoiselle Bourienne. + +"Why? I love you more than ever," said Princess Mary, "and I will +try to do all I can for your happiness." + +"But you despise me. You who are so pure can never understand being so +carried away by passion. Oh, only my poor mother..." + +"I quite understand," answered Princess Mary, with a sad smile. +"Calm yourself, my dear. I will go to my father," she said, and went +out. + +Prince Vasili, with one leg thrown high over the other and a snuffbox +in his hand, was sitting there with a smile of deep emotion on his face, +as if stirred to his heart's core and himself regretting and laughing +at his own sensibility, when Princess Mary entered. He hurriedly took a +pinch of snuff. + +"Ah, my dear, my dear!" he began, rising and taking her by both +hands. Then, sighing, he added: "My son's fate is in your hands. +Decide, my dear, good, gentle Marie, whom I have always loved as a +daughter!" + +He drew back and a real tear appeared in his eye. + +"Fr... fr..." snorted Prince Bolkonski. "The prince is making a +proposition to you in his pupil's--I mean, his son's--name. Do you +wish or not to be Prince Anatole Kuragin's wife? Reply: yes or no," +he shouted, "and then I shall reserve the right to state my opinion +also. Yes, my opinion, and only my opinion," added Prince Bolkonski, +turning to Prince Vasili and answering his imploring look. "Yes, or +no?" + +"My desire is never to leave you, Father, never to separate my +life from yours. I don't wish to marry," she answered positively, +glancing at Prince Vasili and at her father with her beautiful eyes. + +"Humbug! Nonsense! Humbug, humbug, humbug!" cried Prince Bolkonski, +frowning and taking his daughter's hand; he did not kiss her, but only +bending his forehead to hers just touched it, and pressed her hand so +that she winced and uttered a cry. + +Prince Vasili rose. + +"My dear, I must tell you that this is a moment I shall never, never +forget. But, my dear, will you not give us a little hope of touching +this heart, so kind and generous? Say 'perhaps'... The future is so +long. Say 'perhaps.'" + +"Prince, what I have said is all there is in my heart. I thank you for +the honor, but I shall never be your son's wife." + +"Well, so that's finished, my dear fellow! I am very glad to have +seen you. Very glad! Go back to your rooms, Princess. Go!" said +the old prince. "Very, very glad to have seen you," repeated he, +embracing Prince Vasili. + +"My vocation is a different one," thought Princess Mary. "My +vocation is to be happy with another kind of happiness, the happiness +of love and self-sacrifice. And cost what it may, I will arrange +poor Amelie's happiness, she loves him so passionately, and so +passionately repents. I will do all I can to arrange the match between +them. If he is not rich I will give her the means; I will ask my +father and Andrew. I shall be so happy when she is his wife. She is so +unfortunate, a stranger, alone, helpless! And, oh God, how passionately +she must love him if she could so far forget herself! Perhaps I might +have done the same!..." thought Princess Mary. + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +It was long since the Rostovs had news of Nicholas. Not till midwinter +was the count at last handed a letter addressed in his son's +handwriting. On receiving it, he ran on tiptoe to his study in alarm and +haste, trying to escape notice, closed the door, and began to read the +letter. + +Anna Mikhaylovna, who always knew everything that passed in the house, +on hearing of the arrival of the letter went softly into the room and +found the count with it in his hand, sobbing and laughing at the same +time. + +Anna Mikhaylovna, though her circumstances had improved, was still +living with the Rostovs. + +"My dear friend?" said she, in a tone of pathetic inquiry, prepared +to sympathize in any way. + +The count sobbed yet more. + +"Nikolenka... a letter... wa... a... s... wounded... my darling +boy... the countess... promoted to be an officer... thank God... How +tell the little countess!" + +Anna Mikhaylovna sat down beside him, with her own handkerchief wiped +the tears from his eyes and from the letter, then having dried her +own eyes she comforted the count, and decided that at dinner and till +teatime she would prepare the countess, and after tea, with God's +help, would inform her. + +At dinner Anna Mikhaylovna talked the whole time about the war news +and about Nikolenka, twice asked when the last letter had been received +from him, though she knew that already, and remarked that they might +very likely be getting a letter from him that day. Each time that these +hints began to make the countess anxious and she glanced uneasily at +the count and at Anna Mikhaylovna, the latter very adroitly turned +the conversation to insignificant matters. Natasha, who, of the whole +family, was the most gifted with a capacity to feel any shades of +intonation, look, and expression, pricked up her ears from the beginning +of the meal and was certain that there was some secret between her +father and Anna Mikhaylovna, that it had something to do with her +brother, and that Anna Mikhaylovna was preparing them for it. Bold as +she was, Natasha, who knew how sensitive her mother was to anything +relating to Nikolenka, did not venture to ask any questions at dinner, +but she was too excited to eat anything and kept wriggling about on her +chair regardless of her governess' remarks. After dinner, she rushed +headlong after Anna Mikhaylovna and, dashing at her, flung herself on +her neck as soon as she overtook her in the sitting room. + +"Auntie, darling, do tell me what it is!" + +"Nothing, my dear." + +"No, dearest, sweet one, honey, I won't give up--I know you know +something." + +Anna Mikhaylovna shook her head. + +"You are a little slyboots," she said. + +"A letter from Nikolenka! I'm sure of it!" exclaimed Natasha, +reading confirmation in Anna Mikhaylovna's face. + +"But for God's sake, be careful, you know how it may affect your +mamma." + +"I will, I will, only tell me! You won't? Then I will go and tell at +once." + +Anna Mikhaylovna, in a few words, told her the contents of the letter, +on condition that she should tell no one. + +"No, on my true word of honor," said Natasha, crossing herself, +"I won't tell anyone!" and she ran off at once to Sonya. + +"Nikolenka... wounded... a letter," she announced in gleeful +triumph. + +"Nicholas!" was all Sonya said, instantly turning white. + +Natasha, seeing the impression the news of her brother's wound +produced on Sonya, felt for the first time the sorrowful side of the +news. + +She rushed to Sonya, hugged her, and began to cry. + +"A little wound, but he has been made an officer; he is well now, he +wrote himself," said she through her tears. + +"There now! It's true that all you women are crybabies," remarked +Petya, pacing the room with large, resolute strides. "Now I'm very +glad, very glad indeed, that my brother has distinguished himself so. +You are all blubberers and understand nothing." + +Natasha smiled through her tears. + +"You haven't read the letter?" asked Sonya. + +"No, but she said that it was all over and that he's now an +officer." + +"Thank God!" said Sonya, crossing herself. "But perhaps she +deceived you. Let us go to Mamma." + +Petya paced the room in silence for a time. + +"If I'd been in Nikolenka's place I would have killed even more +of those Frenchmen," he said. "What nasty brutes they are! I'd +have killed so many that there'd have been a heap of them." + +"Hold your tongue, Petya, what a goose you are!" + +"I'm not a goose, but they are who cry about trifles," said +Petya. + +"Do you remember him?" Natasha suddenly asked, after a moment's +silence. + +Sonya smiled. + +"Do I remember Nicholas?" + +"No, Sonya, but do you remember so that you remember him perfectly, +remember everything?" said Natasha, with an expressive gesture, +evidently wishing to give her words a very definite meaning. "I +remember Nikolenka too, I remember him well," she said. "But I +don't remember Boris. I don't remember him a bit." + +"What! You don't remember Boris?" asked Sonya in surprise. + +"It's not that I don't remember--I know what he is like, but not +as I remember Nikolenka. Him--I just shut my eyes and remember, +but Boris... No!" (She shut her eyes.) "No! there's nothing at +all." + +"Oh, Natasha!" said Sonya, looking ecstatically and earnestly at +her friend as if she did not consider her worthy to hear what she meant +to say and as if she were saying it to someone else, with whom joking +was out of the question, "I am in love with your brother once for all +and, whatever may happen to him or to me, shall never cease to love him +as long as I live." + +Natasha looked at Sonya with wondering and inquisitive eyes, and said +nothing. She felt that Sonya was speaking the truth, that there was +such love as Sonya was speaking of. But Natasha had not yet felt +anything like it. She believed it could be, but did not understand it. + +"Shall you write to him?" she asked. + +Sonya became thoughtful. The question of how to write to Nicholas, and +whether she ought to write, tormented her. Now that he was already an +officer and a wounded hero, would it be right to remind him of herself +and, as it might seem, of the obligations to her he had taken on +himself? + +"I don't know. I think if he writes, I will write too," she said, +blushing. + +"And you won't feel ashamed to write to him?" + +Sonya smiled. + +"No." + +"And I should be ashamed to write to Boris. I'm not going to." + +"Why should you be ashamed?" + +"Well, I don't know. It's awkward and would make me ashamed." + +"And I know why she'd be ashamed," said Petya, offended by +Natasha's previous remark. "It's because she was in love with +that fat one in spectacles" (that was how Petya described his +namesake, the new Count Bezukhov) "and now she's in love with that +singer" (he meant Natasha's Italian singing master), "that's +why she's ashamed!" + +"Petya, you're a stupid!" said Natasha. + +"Not more stupid than you, madam," said the nine-year-old Petya, +with the air of an old brigadier. + +The countess had been prepared by Anna Mikhaylovna's hints at dinner. +On retiring to her own room, she sat in an armchair, her eyes fixed on a +miniature portrait of her son on the lid of a snuffbox, while the tears +kept coming into her eyes. Anna Mikhaylovna, with the letter, came on +tiptoe to the countess' door and paused. + +"Don't come in," she said to the old count who was following her. +"Come later." And she went in, closing the door behind her. + +The count put his ear to the keyhole and listened. + +At first he heard the sound of indifferent voices, then Anna +Mikhaylovna's voice alone in a long speech, then a cry, then silence, +then both voices together with glad intonations, and then footsteps. +Anna Mikhaylovna opened the door. Her face wore the proud expression +of a surgeon who has just performed a difficult operation and admits the +public to appreciate his skill. + +"It is done!" she said to the count, pointing triumphantly to the +countess, who sat holding in one hand the snuffbox with its portrait and +in the other the letter, and pressing them alternately to her lips. + +When she saw the count, she stretched out her arms to him, embraced his +bald head, over which she again looked at the letter and the portrait, +and in order to press them again to her lips, she slightly pushed away +the bald head. Vera, Natasha, Sonya, and Petya now entered the room, +and the reading of the letter began. After a brief description of +the campaign and the two battles in which he had taken part, and his +promotion, Nicholas said that he kissed his father's and mother's +hands asking for their blessing, and that he kissed Vera, Natasha, and +Petya. Besides that, he sent greetings to Monsieur Schelling, Madame +Schoss, and his old nurse, and asked them to kiss for him "dear +Sonya, whom he loved and thought of just the same as ever." When she +heard this Sonya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable +to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, +whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, +and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor. The countess was +crying. + +"Why are you crying, Mamma?" asked Vera. "From all he says one +should be glad and not cry." + +This was quite true, but the count, the countess, and Natasha looked +at her reproachfully. "And who is it she takes after?" thought the +countess. + +Nicholas' letter was read over hundreds of times, and those who were +considered worthy to hear it had to come to the countess, for she +did not let it out of her hands. The tutors came, and the nurses, and +Dmitri, and several acquaintances, and the countess reread the letter +each time with fresh pleasure and each time discovered in it fresh +proofs of Nikolenka's virtues. How strange, how extraordinary, how +joyful it seemed, that her son, the scarcely perceptible motion of whose +tiny limbs she had felt twenty years ago within her, that son about whom +she used to have quarrels with the too indulgent count, that son who +had first learned to say "pear" and then "granny," that this son +should now be away in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, a manly +warrior doing some kind of man's work of his own, without help or +guidance. The universal experience of ages, showing that children do +grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the +countess. Her son's growth toward manhood, at each of its stages, +had seemed as extraordinary to her as if there had never existed the +millions of human beings who grew up in the same way. As twenty +years before, it seemed impossible that the little creature who lived +somewhere under her heart would ever cry, suck her breast, and begin to +speak, so now she could not believe that that little creature could be +this strong, brave man, this model son and officer that, judging by this +letter, he now was. + +"What a style! How charmingly he describes!" said she, reading the +descriptive part of the letter. "And what a soul! Not a word about +himself.... Not a word! About some Denisov or other, though he himself, +I dare say, is braver than any of them. He says nothing about his +sufferings. What a heart! How like him it is! And how he has remembered +everybody! Not forgetting anyone. I always said when he was only so +high--I always said...." + +For more than a week preparations were being made, rough drafts of +letters to Nicholas from all the household were written and copied out, +while under the supervision of the countess and the solicitude of the +count, money and all things necessary for the uniform and equipment +of the newly commissioned officer were collected. Anna Mikhaylovna, +practical woman that she was, had even managed by favor with army +authorities to secure advantageous means of communication for herself +and her son. She had opportunities of sending her letters to the Grand +Duke Constantine Pavlovich, who commanded the Guards. The Rostovs +supposed that The Russian Guards, Abroad, was quite a definite address, +and that if a letter reached the Grand Duke in command of the Guards +there was no reason why it should not reach the Pavlograd regiment, +which was presumably somewhere in the same neighborhood. And so it was +decided to send the letters and money by the Grand Duke's courier to +Boris and Boris was to forward them to Nicholas. The letters were from +the old count, the countess, Petya, Vera, Natasha, and Sonya, and +finally there were six thousand rubles for his outfit and various other +things the old count sent to his son. + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +On the twelfth of November, Kutuzov's active army, in camp before +Olmutz, was preparing to be reviewed next day by the two Emperors--the +Russian and the Austrian. The Guards, just arrived from Russia, spent +the night ten miles from Olmutz and next morning were to come straight +to the review, reaching the field at Olmutz by ten o'clock. + +That day Nicholas Rostov received a letter from Boris, telling him +that the Ismaylov regiment was quartered for the night ten miles from +Olmutz and that he wanted to see him as he had a letter and money for +him. Rostov was particularly in need of money now that the troops, +after their active service, were stationed near Olmutz and the camp +swarmed with well-provisioned sutlers and Austrian Jews offering +all sorts of tempting wares. The Pavlograds held feast after feast, +celebrating awards they had received for the campaign, and made +expeditions to Olmutz to visit a certain Caroline the Hungarian, +who had recently opened a restaurant there with girls as waitresses. +Rostov, who had just celebrated his promotion to a cornetcy and bought +Denisov's horse, Bedouin, was in debt all round, to his comrades and +the sutlers. On receiving Boris' letter he rode with a fellow officer +to Olmutz, dined there, drank a bottle of wine, and then set off alone +to the Guards' camp to find his old playmate. Rostov had not yet had +time to get his uniform. He had on a shabby cadet jacket, decorated with +a soldier's cross, equally shabby cadet's riding breeches lined with +worn leather, and an officer's saber with a sword knot. The Don horse +he was riding was one he had bought from a Cossack during the campaign, +and he wore a crumpled hussar cap stuck jauntily back on one side of his +head. As he rode up to the camp he thought how he would impress Boris +and all his comrades of the Guards by his appearance--that of a +fighting hussar who had been under fire. + +The Guards had made their whole march as if on a pleasure trip, parading +their cleanliness and discipline. They had come by easy stages, their +knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the Austrian authorities had provided +excellent dinners for the officers at every halting place. The regiments +had entered and left the town with their bands playing, and by the Grand +Duke's orders the men had marched all the way in step (a practice on +which the Guards prided themselves), the officers on foot and at their +proper posts. Boris had been quartered, and had marched all the +way, with Berg who was already in command of a company. Berg, who had +obtained his captaincy during the campaign, had gained the confidence of +his superiors by his promptitude and accuracy and had arranged his money +matters very satisfactorily. Boris, during the campaign, had made the +acquaintance of many persons who might prove useful to him, and by +a letter of recommendation he had brought from Pierre had become +acquainted with Prince Andrew Bolkonski, through whom he hoped to +obtain a post on the commander in chief's staff. Berg and Boris, +having rested after yesterday's march, were sitting, clean and neatly +dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, +playing chess. Berg held a smoking pipe between his knees. Boris, in +the accurate way characteristic of him, was building a little pyramid of +chessmen with his delicate white fingers while awaiting Berg's move, +and watched his opponent's face, evidently thinking about the game as +he always thought only of whatever he was engaged on. + +"Well, how are you going to get out of that?" he remarked. + +"We'll try to," replied Berg, touching a pawn and then removing +his hand. + +At that moment the door opened. + +"Here he is at last!" shouted Rostov. "And Berg too! Oh, you +petisenfans, allay cushay dormir!" he exclaimed, imitating his Russian +nurse's French, at which he and Boris used to laugh long ago. + +"Dear me, how you have changed!" + +Boris rose to meet Rostov, but in doing so did not omit to steady and +replace some chessmen that were falling. He was about to embrace his +friend, but Nicholas avoided him. With that peculiar feeling of youth, +that dread of beaten tracks, and wish to express itself in a manner +different from that of its elders which is often insincere, Nicholas +wished to do something special on meeting his friend. He wanted to pinch +him, push him, do anything but kiss him--a thing everybody did. But +notwithstanding this, Boris embraced him in a quiet, friendly way and +kissed him three times. + +They had not met for nearly half a year and, being at the age when young +men take their first steps on life's road, each saw immense changes in +the other, quite a new reflection of the society in which they had taken +those first steps. Both had changed greatly since they last met and both +were in a hurry to show the changes that had taken place in them. + +"Oh, you damned dandies! Clean and fresh as if you'd been to a fete, +not like us sinners of the line," cried Rostov, with martial swagger +and with baritone notes in his voice, new to Boris, pointing to his own +mud-bespattered breeches. The German landlady, hearing Rostov's loud +voice, popped her head in at the door. + +"Eh, is she pretty?" he asked with a wink. + +"Why do you shout so? You'll frighten them!" said Boris. "I did +not expect you today," he added. "I only sent you the note yesterday +by Bolkonski--an adjutant of Kutuzov's, who's a friend of mine. +I did not think he would get it to you so quickly.... Well, how are you? +Been under fire already?" asked Boris. + +Without answering, Rostov shook the soldier's Cross of St. George +fastened to the cording of his uniform and, indicating a bandaged arm, +glanced at Berg with a smile. + +"As you see," he said. + +"Indeed? Yes, yes!" said Boris, with a smile. "And we too have +had a splendid march. You know, of course, that His Imperial Highness +rode with our regiment all the time, so that we had every comfort and +every advantage. What receptions we had in Poland! What dinners and +balls! I can't tell you. And the Tsarevich was very gracious to all +our officers." + +And the two friends told each other of their doings, the one of his +hussar revels and life in the fighting line, the other of the pleasures +and advantages of service under members of the Imperial family. + +"Oh, you Guards!" said Rostov. "I say, send for some wine." + +Boris made a grimace. + +"If you really want it," said he. + +He went to his bed, drew a purse from under the clean pillow, and sent +for wine. + +"Yes, and I have some money and a letter to give you," he added. + +Rostov took the letter and, throwing the money on the sofa, put both +arms on the table and began to read. After reading a few lines, he +glanced angrily at Berg, then, meeting his eyes, hid his face behind the +letter. + +"Well, they've sent you a tidy sum," said Berg, eying the heavy +purse that sank into the sofa. "As for us, Count, we get along on our +pay. I can tell you for myself..." + +"I say, Berg, my dear fellow," said Rostov, "when you get a +letter from home and meet one of your own people whom you want to talk +everything over with, and I happen to be there, I'll go at once, to +be out of your way! Do go somewhere, anywhere... to the devil!" he +exclaimed, and immediately seizing him by the shoulder and looking +amiably into his face, evidently wishing to soften the rudeness of his +words, he added, "Don't be hurt, my dear fellow; you know I speak +from my heart as to an old acquaintance." + +"Oh, don't mention it, Count! I quite understand," said Berg, +getting up and speaking in a muffled and guttural voice. + +"Go across to our hosts: they invited you," added Boris. + +Berg put on the cleanest of coats, without a spot or speck of dust, +stood before a looking glass and brushed the hair on his temples +upwards, in the way affected by the Emperor Alexander, and, having +assured himself from the way Rostov looked at it that his coat had been +noticed, left the room with a pleasant smile. + +"Oh dear, what a beast I am!" muttered Rostov, as he read the +letter. + +"Why?" + +"Oh, what a pig I am, not to have written and to have given them +such a fright! Oh, what a pig I am!" he repeated, flushing suddenly. +"Well, have you sent Gabriel for some wine? All right let's have +some!" + +In the letter from his parents was enclosed a letter of recommendation +to Bagration which the old countess at Anna Mikhaylovna's advice had +obtained through an acquaintance and sent to her son, asking him to take +it to its destination and make use of it. + +"What nonsense! Much I need it!" said Rostov, throwing the letter +under the table. + +"Why have you thrown that away?" asked Boris. + +"It is some letter of recommendation... what the devil do I want it +for!" + +"Why 'What the devil'?" said Boris, picking it up and reading +the address. "This letter would be of great use to you." + +"I want nothing, and I won't be anyone's adjutant." + +"Why not?" inquired Boris. + +"It's a lackey's job!" + +"You are still the same dreamer, I see," remarked Boris, shaking +his head. + +"And you're still the same diplomatist! But that's not the +point... Come, how are you?" asked Rostov. + +"Well, as you see. So far everything's all right, but I confess I +should much like to be an adjutant and not remain at the front." + +"Why?" + +"Because when once a man starts on military service, he should try to +make as successful a career of it as possible." + +"Oh, that's it!" said Rostov, evidently thinking of something +else. + +He looked intently and inquiringly into his friend's eyes, evidently +trying in vain to find the answer to some question. + +Old Gabriel brought in the wine. + +"Shouldn't we now send for Berg?" asked Boris. "He would drink +with you. I can't." + +"Well, send for him... and how do you get on with that German?" +asked Rostov, with a contemptuous smile. + +"He is a very, very nice, honest, and pleasant fellow," answered +Boris. + +Again Rostov looked intently into Boris' eyes and sighed. Berg +returned, and over the bottle of wine conversation between the three +officers became animated. The Guardsmen told Rostov of their march and +how they had been made much of in Russia, Poland, and abroad. They spoke +of the sayings and doings of their commander, the Grand Duke, and told +stories of his kindness and irascibility. Berg, as usual, kept silent +when the subject did not relate to himself, but in connection with the +stories of the Grand Duke's quick temper he related with gusto how in +Galicia he had managed to deal with the Grand Duke when the latter +made a tour of the regiments and was annoyed at the irregularity of +a movement. With a pleasant smile Berg related how the Grand Duke +had ridden up to him in a violent passion, shouting: "Arnauts!" +("Arnauts" was the Tsarevich's favorite expression when he was in +a rage) and called for the company commander. + +"Would you believe it, Count, I was not at all alarmed, because I knew +I was right. Without boasting, you know, I may say that I know the Army +Orders by heart and know the Regulations as well as I do the Lord's +Prayer. So, Count, there never is any negligence in my company, and +so my conscience was at ease. I came forward...." (Berg stood up and +showed how he presented himself, with his hand to his cap, and really +it would have been difficult for a face to express greater respect and +self-complacency than his did.) "Well, he stormed at me, as the saying +is, stormed and stormed and stormed! It was not a matter of life but +rather of death, as the saying is. 'Albanians!' and 'devils!' +and 'To Siberia!'" said Berg with a sagacious smile. "I knew I +was in the right so I kept silent; was not that best, Count?... 'Hey, +are you dumb?' he shouted. Still I remained silent. And what do you +think, Count? The next day it was not even mentioned in the Orders of +the Day. That's what keeping one's head means. That's the way, +Count," said Berg, lighting his pipe and emitting rings of smoke. + +"Yes, that was fine," said Rostov, smiling. + +But Boris noticed that he was preparing to make fun of Berg, and +skillfully changed the subject. He asked him to tell them how and where +he got his wound. This pleased Rostov and he began talking about it, +and as he went on became more and more animated. He told them of his +Schon Grabern affair, just as those who have taken part in a battle +generally do describe it, that is, as they would like it to have been, +as they have heard it described by others, and as sounds well, but not +at all as it really was. Rostov was a truthful young man and would on +no account have told a deliberate lie. He began his story meaning to +tell everything just as it happened, but imperceptibly, involuntarily, +and inevitably he lapsed into falsehood. If he had told the truth to his +hearers--who like himself had often heard stories of attacks and had +formed a definite idea of what an attack was and were expecting to hear +just such a story--they would either not have believed him or, still +worse, would have thought that Rostov was himself to blame since what +generally happens to the narrators of cavalry attacks had not happened +to him. He could not tell them simply that everyone went at a trot and +that he fell off his horse and sprained his arm and then ran as hard as +he could from a Frenchman into the wood. Besides, to tell everything as +it really happened, it would have been necessary to make an effort of +will to tell only what happened. It is very difficult to tell the truth, +and young people are rarely capable of it. His hearers expected a story +of how beside himself and all aflame with excitement, he had flown like +a storm at the square, cut his way in, slashed right and left, how his +saber had tasted flesh and he had fallen exhausted, and so on. And so he +told them all that. + +In the middle of his story, just as he was saying: "You cannot imagine +what a strange frenzy one experiences during an attack," Prince +Andrew, whom Boris was expecting, entered the room. Prince Andrew, who +liked to help young men, was flattered by being asked for his assistance +and being well disposed toward Boris, who had managed to please him the +day before, he wished to do what the young man wanted. Having been sent +with papers from Kutuzov to the Tsarevich, he looked in on Boris, +hoping to find him alone. When he came in and saw an hussar of the line +recounting his military exploits (Prince Andrew could not endure +that sort of man), he gave Boris a pleasant smile, frowned as with +half-closed eyes he looked at Rostov, bowed slightly and wearily, and +sat down languidly on the sofa: he felt it unpleasant to have dropped +in on bad company. Rostov flushed up on noticing this, but he did not +care, this was a mere stranger. Glancing, however, at Boris, he saw +that he too seemed ashamed of the hussar of the line. + +In spite of Prince Andrew's disagreeable, ironical tone, in spite of +the contempt with which Rostov, from his fighting army point of view, +regarded all these little adjutants on the staff of whom the newcomer +was evidently one, Rostov felt confused, blushed, and became silent. +Boris inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without +indiscretion, one might ask about our plans. + +"We shall probably advance," replied Bolkonski, evidently reluctant +to say more in the presence of a stranger. + +Berg took the opportunity to ask, with great politeness, whether, as was +rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be +doubled. To this Prince Andrew answered with a smile that he could +give no opinion on such an important government order, and Berg laughed +gaily. + +"As to your business," Prince Andrew continued, addressing Boris, +"we will talk of it later" (and he looked round at Rostov). "Come +to me after the review and we will do what is possible." + +And, having glanced round the room, Prince Andrew turned to Rostov, +whose state of unconquerable childish embarrassment now changing to +anger he did not condescend to notice, and said: "I think you were +talking of the Schon Grabern affair? Were you there?" + +"I was there," said Rostov angrily, as if intending to insult the +aide-de-camp. + +Bolkonski noticed the hussar's state of mind, and it amused him. With +a slightly contemptuous smile, he said: "Yes, there are many stories +now told about that affair!" + +"Yes, stories!" repeated Rostov loudly, looking with eyes suddenly +grown furious, now at Boris, now at Bolkonski. "Yes, many stories! +But our stories are the stories of men who have been under the enemy's +fire! Our stories have some weight, not like the stories of those +fellows on the staff who get rewards without doing anything!" + +"Of whom you imagine me to be one?" said Prince Andrew, with a quiet +and particularly amiable smile. + +A strange feeling of exasperation and yet of respect for this man's +self-possession mingled at that moment in Rostov's soul. + +"I am not talking about you," he said, "I don't know you and, +frankly, I don't want to. I am speaking of the staff in general." + +"And I will tell you this," Prince Andrew interrupted in a tone of +quiet authority, "you wish to insult me, and I am ready to agree with +you that it would be very easy to do so if you haven't sufficient +self-respect, but admit that the time and place are very badly chosen. +In a day or two we shall all have to take part in a greater and more +serious duel, and besides, Drubetskoy, who says he is an old friend +of yours, is not at all to blame that my face has the misfortune to +displease you. However," he added rising, "you know my name and +where to find me, but don't forget that I do not regard either myself +or you as having been at all insulted, and as a man older than you, my +advice is to let the matter drop. Well then, on Friday after the review +I shall expect you, Drubetskoy. Au revoir!" exclaimed Prince Andrew, +and with a bow to them both he went out. + +Only when Prince Andrew was gone did Rostov think of what he ought to +have said. And he was still more angry at having omitted to say it. He +ordered his horse at once and, coldly taking leave of Boris, rode +home. Should he go to headquarters next day and challenge that affected +adjutant, or really let the matter drop, was the question that worried +him all the way. He thought angrily of the pleasure he would have at +seeing the fright of that small and frail but proud man when covered by +his pistol, and then he felt with surprise that of all the men he knew +there was none he would so much like to have for a friend as that very +adjutant whom he so hated. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +The day after Rostov had been to see Boris, a review was held of the +Austrian and Russian troops, both those freshly arrived from Russia and +those who had been campaigning under Kutuzov. The two Emperors, +the Russian with his heir the Tsarevich, and the Austrian with the +Archduke, inspected the allied army of eighty thousand men. + +From early morning the smart clean troops were on the move, forming up +on the field before the fortress. Now thousands of feet and bayonets +moved and halted at the officers' command, turned with banners flying, +formed up at intervals, and wheeled round other similar masses of +infantry in different uniforms; now was heard the rhythmic beat of +hoofs and the jingling of showy cavalry in blue, red, and green braided +uniforms, with smartly dressed bandsmen in front mounted on black, roan, +or gray horses; then again, spreading out with the brazen clatter of the +polished shining cannon that quivered on the gun carriages and with +the smell of linstocks, came the artillery which crawled between the +infantry and cavalry and took up its appointed position. Not only the +generals in full parade uniforms, with their thin or thick waists drawn +in to the utmost, their red necks squeezed into their stiff collars, and +wearing scarves and all their decorations, not only the elegant, pomaded +officers, but every soldier with his freshly washed and shaven face and +his weapons clean and polished to the utmost, and every horse groomed +till its coat shone like satin and every hair of its wetted mane lay +smooth--felt that no small matter was happening, but an important and +solemn affair. Every general and every soldier was conscious of his own +insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and +yet at the same time was conscious of his strength as a part of that +enormous whole. + +From early morning strenuous activities and efforts had begun and by ten +o'clock all had been brought into due order. The ranks were drawn +up on the vast field. The whole army was extended in three lines: the +cavalry in front, behind it the artillery, and behind that again the +infantry. + +A space like a street was left between each two lines of troops. The +three parts of that army were sharply distinguished: Kutuzov's +fighting army (with the Pavlograds on the right flank of the front); +those recently arrived from Russia, both Guards and regiments of the +line; and the Austrian troops. But they all stood in the same lines, +under one command, and in a like order. + +Like wind over leaves ran an excited whisper: "They're coming! +They're coming!" Alarmed voices were heard, and a stir of final +preparation swept over all the troops. + +From the direction of Olmutz in front of them, a group was seen +approaching. And at that moment, though the day was still, a light gust +of wind blowing over the army slightly stirred the streamers on the +lances and the unfolded standards fluttered against their staffs. It +looked as if by that slight motion the army itself was expressing its +joy at the approach of the Emperors. One voice was heard shouting: +"Eyes front!" Then, like the crowing of cocks at sunrise, this was +repeated by others from various sides and all became silent. + +In the deathlike stillness only the tramp of horses was heard. This +was the Emperors' suites. The Emperors rode up to the flank, and the +trumpets of the first cavalry regiment played the general march. It +seemed as though not the trumpeters were playing, but as if the army +itself, rejoicing at the Emperors' approach, had naturally burst into +music. Amid these sounds, only the youthful kindly voice of the Emperor +Alexander was clearly heard. He gave the words of greeting, and the +first regiment roared "Hurrah!" so deafeningly, continuously, and +joyfully that the men themselves were awed by their multitude and the +immensity of the power they constituted. + +Rostov, standing in the front lines of Kutuzov's army which the Tsar +approached first, experienced the same feeling as every other man in +that army: a feeling of self-forgetfulness, a proud consciousness of +might, and a passionate attraction to him who was the cause of this +triumph. + +He felt that at a single word from that man all this vast mass (and he +himself an insignificant atom in it) would go through fire and water, +commit crime, die, or perform deeds of highest heroism, and so he could +not but tremble and his heart stand still at the imminence of that word. + +"Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!" thundered from all sides, one regiment +after another greeting the Tsar with the strains of the march, and then +"Hurrah!"... Then the general march, and again "Hurrah! Hurrah!" +growing ever stronger and fuller and merging into a deafening roar. + +Till the Tsar reached it, each regiment in its silence and immobility +seemed like a lifeless body, but as soon as he came up it became alive, +its thunder joining the roar of the whole line along which he had +already passed. Through the terrible and deafening roar of those voices, +amid the square masses of troops standing motionless as if turned to +stone, hundreds of riders composing the suites moved carelessly but +symmetrically and above all freely, and in front of them two men--the +Emperors. Upon them the undivided, tensely passionate attention of that +whole mass of men was concentrated. + +The handsome young Emperor Alexander, in the uniform of the Horse +Guards, wearing a cocked hat with its peaks front and back, with his +pleasant face and resonant though not loud voice, attracted everyone's +attention. + +Rostov was not far from the trumpeters, and with his keen sight had +recognized the Tsar and watched his approach. When he was within twenty +paces, and Nicholas could clearly distinguish every detail of his +handsome, happy young face, he experienced a feeling of tenderness +and ecstasy such as he had never before known. Every trait and every +movement of the Tsar's seemed to him enchanting. + +Stopping in front of the Pavlograds, the Tsar said something in French +to the Austrian Emperor and smiled. + +Seeing that smile, Rostov involuntarily smiled himself and felt a still +stronger flow of love for his sovereign. He longed to show that love in +some way and knowing that this was impossible was ready to cry. The Tsar +called the colonel of the regiment and said a few words to him. + +"Oh God, what would happen to me if the Emperor spoke to me?" +thought Rostov. "I should die of happiness!" + +The Tsar addressed the officers also: "I thank you all, gentlemen, I +thank you with my whole heart." To Rostov every word sounded like a +voice from heaven. How gladly would he have died at once for his Tsar! + +"You have earned the St. George's standards and will be worthy of +them." + +"Oh, to die, to die for him," thought Rostov. + +The Tsar said something more which Rostov did not hear, and the +soldiers, straining their lungs, shouted "Hurrah!" + +Rostov too, bending over his saddle, shouted "Hurrah!" with all his +might, feeling that he would like to injure himself by that shout, if +only to express his rapture fully. + +The Tsar stopped a few minutes in front of the hussars as if undecided. + +"How can the Emperor be undecided?" thought Rostov, but then even +this indecision appeared to him majestic and enchanting, like everything +else the Tsar did. + +That hesitation lasted only an instant. The Tsar's foot, in the narrow +pointed boot then fashionable, touched the groin of the bobtailed bay +mare he rode, his hand in a white glove gathered up the reins, and he +moved off accompanied by an irregularly swaying sea of aides-de-camp. +Farther and farther he rode away, stopping at other regiments, till at +last only his white plumes were visible to Rostov from amid the suites +that surrounded the Emperors. + +Among the gentlemen of the suite, Rostov noticed Bolkonski, sitting +his horse indolently and carelessly. Rostov recalled their quarrel of +yesterday and the question presented itself whether he ought or ought +not to challenge Bolkonski. "Of course not!" he now thought. "Is +it worth thinking or speaking of it at such a moment? At a time of such +love, such rapture, and such self-sacrifice, what do any of our quarrels +and affronts matter? I love and forgive everybody now." + +When the Emperor had passed nearly all the regiments, the troops began +a ceremonial march past him, and Rostov on Bedouin, recently purchased +from Denisov, rode past too, at the rear of his squadron--that is, +alone and in full view of the Emperor. + +Before he reached him, Rostov, who was a splendid horseman, spurred +Bedouin twice and successfully put him to the showy trot in which the +animal went when excited. Bending his foaming muzzle to his chest, his +tail extended, Bedouin, as if also conscious of the Emperor's eye +upon him, passed splendidly, lifting his feet with a high and graceful +action, as if flying through the air without touching the ground. + +Rostov himself, his legs well back and his stomach drawn in and feeling +himself one with his horse, rode past the Emperor with a frowning but +blissful face "like a vewy devil," as Denisov expressed it. + +"Fine fellows, the Pavlograds!" remarked the Emperor. + +"My God, how happy I should be if he ordered me to leap into the fire +this instant!" thought Rostov. + +When the review was over, the newly arrived officers, and also +Kutuzov's, collected in groups and began to talk about the awards, +about the Austrians and their uniforms, about their lines, about +Bonaparte, and how badly the latter would fare now, especially if the +Essen corps arrived and Prussia took our side. + +But the talk in every group was chiefly about the Emperor Alexander. His +every word and movement was described with ecstasy. + +They all had but one wish: to advance as soon as possible against the +enemy under the Emperor's command. Commanded by the Emperor himself +they could not fail to vanquish anyone, be it whom it might: so thought +Rostov and most of the officers after the review. + +All were then more confident of victory than the winning of two battles +would have made them. + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +The day after the review, Boris, in his best uniform and with his +comrade Berg's best wishes for success, rode to Olmutz to see +Bolkonski, wishing to profit by his friendliness and obtain for himself +the best post he could--preferably that of adjutant to some important +personage, a position in the army which seemed to him most attractive. +"It is all very well for Rostov, whose father sends him ten thousand +rubles at a time, to talk about not wishing to cringe to anybody and not +be anyone's lackey, but I who have nothing but my brains have to +make a career and must not miss opportunities, but must avail myself of +them!" he reflected. + +He did not find Prince Andrew in Olmutz that day, but the appearance of +the town where the headquarters and the diplomatic corps were stationed +and the two Emperors were living with their suites, households, and +courts only strengthened his desire to belong to that higher world. + +He knew no one, and despite his smart Guardsman's uniform, all these +exalted personages passing in the streets in their elegant carriages +with their plumes, ribbons, and medals, both courtiers and military +men, seemed so immeasurably above him, an insignificant officer of the +Guards, that they not only did not wish to, but simply could not, be +aware of his existence. At the quarters of the commander in chief, +Kutuzov, where he inquired for Bolkonski, all the adjutants and even +the orderlies looked at him as if they wished to impress on him that a +great many officers like him were always coming there and that everybody +was heartily sick of them. In spite of this, or rather because of +it, next day, November 15, after dinner he again went to Olmutz and, +entering the house occupied by Kutuzov, asked for Bolkonski. Prince +Andrew was in and Boris was shown into a large hall probably formerly +used for dancing, but in which five beds now stood, and furniture of +various kinds: a table, chairs, and a clavichord. One adjutant, nearest +the door, was sitting at the table in a Persian dressing gown, writing. +Another, the red, stout Nesvitski, lay on a bed with his arms under his +head, laughing with an officer who had sat down beside him. A third was +playing a Viennese waltz on the clavichord, while a fourth, lying on +the clavichord, sang the tune. Bolkonski was not there. None of these +gentlemen changed his position on seeing Boris. The one who was writing +and whom Boris addressed turned round crossly and told him Bolkonski +was on duty and that he should go through the door on the left into the +reception room if he wished to see him. Boris thanked him and went to +the reception room, where he found some ten officers and generals. + +When he entered, Prince Andrew, his eyes drooping contemptuously (with +that peculiar expression of polite weariness which plainly says, "If +it were not my duty I would not talk to you for a moment"), was +listening to an old Russian general with decorations, who stood very +erect, almost on tiptoe, with a soldier's obsequious expression on his +purple face, reporting something. + +"Very well, then, be so good as to wait," said Prince Andrew to the +general, in Russian, speaking with the French intonation he affected +when he wished to speak contemptuously, and noticing Boris, Prince +Andrew, paying no more heed to the general who ran after him imploring +him to hear something more, nodded and turned to him with a cheerful +smile. + +At that moment Boris clearly realized what he had before surmised, that +in the army, besides the subordination and discipline prescribed in the +military code, which he and the others knew in the regiment, there was +another, more important, subordination, which made this tight-laced, +purple-faced general wait respectfully while Captain Prince Andrew, for +his own pleasure, chose to chat with Lieutenant Drubetskoy. More than +ever was Boris resolved to serve in future not according to the written +code, but under this unwritten law. He felt now that merely by having +been recommended to Prince Andrew he had already risen above the general +who at the front had the power to annihilate him, a lieutenant of the +Guards. Prince Andrew came up to him and took his hand. + +"I am very sorry you did not find me in yesterday. I was fussing about +with Germans all day. We went with Weyrother to survey the dispositions. +When Germans start being accurate, there's no end to it!" + +Boris smiled, as if he understood what Prince Andrew was alluding to +as something generally known. But it was the first time he had heard +Weyrother's name, or even the term "dispositions." + +"Well, my dear fellow, so you still want to be an adjutant? I have +been thinking about you." + +"Yes, I was thinking"--for some reason Boris could not help +blushing--"of asking the commander in chief. He has had a letter from +Prince Kuragin about me. I only wanted to ask because I fear the Guards +won't be in action," he added as if in apology. + +"All right, all right. We'll talk it over," replied Prince Andrew. +"Only let me report this gentleman's business, and I shall be at +your disposal." + +While Prince Andrew went to report about the purple-faced general, that +gentleman--evidently not sharing Boris' conception of the advantages +of the unwritten code of subordination--looked so fixedly at the +presumptuous lieutenant who had prevented his finishing what he had to +say to the adjutant that Boris felt uncomfortable. He turned away and +waited impatiently for Prince Andrew's return from the commander in +chief's room. + +"You see, my dear fellow, I have been thinking about you," +said Prince Andrew when they had gone into the large room where the +clavichord was. "It's no use your going to the commander in chief. +He would say a lot of pleasant things, ask you to dinner" ("That +would not be bad as regards the unwritten code," thought Boris), +"but nothing more would come of it. There will soon be a battalion of +us aides-de-camp and adjutants! But this is what we'll do: I have +a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, Prince +Dolgorukov; and though you may not know it, the fact is that now +Kutuzov with his staff and all of us count for nothing. Everything is +now centered round the Emperor. So we will go to Dolgorukov; I have to +go there anyhow and I have already spoken to him about you. We shall +see whether he cannot attach you to himself or find a place for you +somewhere nearer the sun." + +Prince Andrew always became specially keen when he had to guide a young +man and help him to worldly success. Under cover of obtaining help +of this kind for another, which from pride he would never accept for +himself, he kept in touch with the circle which confers success and +which attracted him. He very readily took up Boris' cause and went +with him to Dolgorukov. + +It was late in the evening when they entered the palace at Olmutz +occupied by the Emperors and their retinues. + +That same day a council of war had been held in which all the members of +the Hofkriegsrath and both Emperors took part. At that council, contrary +to the views of the old generals Kutuzov and Prince Schwartzenberg, it +had been decided to advance immediately and give battle to Bonaparte. +The council of war was just over when Prince Andrew accompanied +by Boris arrived at the palace to find Dolgorukov. Everyone at +headquarters was still under the spell of the day's council, at which +the party of the young had triumphed. The voices of those who counseled +delay and advised waiting for something else before advancing had been +so completely silenced and their arguments confuted by such conclusive +evidence of the advantages of attacking that what had been discussed +at the council--the coming battle and the victory that would certainly +result from it--no longer seemed to be in the future but in the past. +All the advantages were on our side. Our enormous forces, undoubtedly +superior to Napoleon's, were concentrated in one place, the troops +inspired by the Emperors' presence were eager for action. The +strategic position where the operations would take place was familiar in +all its details to the Austrian General Weyrother: a lucky accident had +ordained that the Austrian army should maneuver the previous year on the +very fields where the French had now to be fought; the adjacent +locality was known and shown in every detail on the maps, and Bonaparte, +evidently weakened, was undertaking nothing. + +Dolgorukov, one of the warmest advocates of an attack, had just +returned from the council, tired and exhausted but eager and proud +of the victory that had been gained. Prince Andrew introduced his +protege, but Prince Dolgorukov politely and firmly pressing his hand +said nothing to Boris and, evidently unable to suppress the thoughts +which were uppermost in his mind at that moment, addressed Prince Andrew +in French. + +"Ah, my dear fellow, what a battle we have gained! God grant that +the one that will result from it will be as victorious! However, dear +fellow," he said abruptly and eagerly, "I must confess to having +been unjust to the Austrians and especially to Weyrother. What +exactitude, what minuteness, what knowledge of the locality, what +foresight for every eventuality, every possibility even to the smallest +detail! No, my dear fellow, no conditions better than our present ones +could have been devised. This combination of Austrian precision with +Russian valor--what more could be wished for?" + +"So the attack is definitely resolved on?" asked Bolkonski. + +"And do you know, my dear fellow, it seems to me that Bonaparte has +decidedly lost bearings, you know that a letter was received from him +today for the Emperor." Dolgorukov smiled significantly. + +"Is that so? And what did he say?" inquired Bolkonski. + +"What can he say? Tra-di-ri-di-ra and so on... merely to gain time. +I tell you he is in our hands, that's certain! But what was most +amusing," he continued, with a sudden, good-natured laugh, "was that +we could not think how to address the reply! If not as 'Consul' +and of course not as 'Emperor,' it seemed to me it should be to +'General Bonaparte.'" + +"But between not recognizing him as Emperor and calling him General +Bonaparte, there is a difference," remarked Bolkonski. + +"That's just it," interrupted Dolgorukov quickly, laughing. +"You know Bilibin--he's a very clever fellow. He suggested +addressing him as 'Usurper and Enemy of Mankind.'" + +Dolgorukov laughed merrily. + +"Only that?" said Bolkonski. + +"All the same, it was Bilibin who found a suitable form for the +address. He is a wise and clever fellow." + +"What was it?" + +"To the Head of the French Government... Au chef du gouvernement +francais," said Dolgorukov, with grave satisfaction. "Good, +wasn't it?" + +"Yes, but he will dislike it extremely," said Bolkonski. + +"Oh yes, very much! My brother knows him, he's dined with him--the +present Emperor--more than once in Paris, and tells me he never met a +more cunning or subtle diplomatist--you know, a combination of French +adroitness and Italian play-acting! Do you know the tale about him and +Count Markov? Count Markov was the only man who knew how to handle +him. You know the story of the handkerchief? It is delightful!" + +And the talkative Dolgorukov, turning now to Boris, now to Prince +Andrew, told how Bonaparte wishing to test Markov, our ambassador, +purposely dropped a handkerchief in front of him and stood looking +at Markov, probably expecting Markov to pick it up for him, and how +Markov immediately dropped his own beside it and picked it up without +touching Bonaparte's. + +"Delightful!" said Bolkonski. "But I have come to you, Prince, +as a petitioner on behalf of this young man. You see..." but +before Prince Andrew could finish, an aide-de-camp came in to summon +Dolgorukov to the Emperor. + +"Oh, what a nuisance," said Dolgorukov, getting up hurriedly and +pressing the hands of Prince Andrew and Boris. "You know I should +be very glad to do all in my power both for you and for this dear young +man." Again he pressed the hand of the latter with an expression of +good-natured, sincere, and animated levity. "But you see... another +time!" + +Boris was excited by the thought of being so close to the higher powers +as he felt himself to be at that moment. He was conscious that here +he was in contact with the springs that set in motion the enormous +movements of the mass of which in his regiment he felt himself a tiny, +obedient, and insignificant atom. They followed Prince Dolgorukov out +into the corridor and met--coming out of the door of the Emperor's +room by which Dolgorukov had entered--a short man in civilian clothes +with a clever face and sharply projecting jaw which, without spoiling +his face, gave him a peculiar vivacity and shiftiness of expression. +This short man nodded to Dolgorukov as to an intimate friend and stared +at Prince Andrew with cool intensity, walking straight toward him and +evidently expecting him to bow or to step out of his way. Prince Andrew +did neither: a look of animosity appeared on his face and the other +turned away and went down the side of the corridor. + +"Who was that?" asked Boris. + +"He is one of the most remarkable, but to me most unpleasant of +men--the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Adam Czartoryski.... It +is such men as he who decide the fate of nations," added Bolkonski +with a sigh he could not suppress, as they passed out of the palace. + +Next day, the army began its campaign, and up to the very battle of +Austerlitz, Boris was unable to see either Prince Andrew or Dolgorukov +again and remained for a while with the Ismaylov regiment. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +At dawn on the sixteenth of November, Denisov's squadron, in +which Nicholas Rostov served and which was in Prince Bagration's +detachment, moved from the place where it had spent the night, advancing +into action as arranged, and after going behind other columns for +about two thirds of a mile was stopped on the highroad. Rostov saw the +Cossacks and then the first and second squadrons of hussars and infantry +battalions and artillery pass by and go forward and then Generals +Bagration and Dolgorukov ride past with their adjutants. All the fear +before action which he had experienced as previously, all the inner +struggle to conquer that fear, all his dreams of distinguishing himself +as a true hussar in this battle, had been wasted. Their squadron +remained in reserve and Nicholas Rostov spent that day in a dull and +wretched mood. At nine in the morning, he heard firing in front and +shouts of hurrah, and saw wounded being brought back (there were not +many of them), and at last he saw how a whole detachment of French +cavalry was brought in, convoyed by a sotnya of Cossacks. Evidently the +affair was over and, though not big, had been a successful engagement. +The men and officers returning spoke of a brilliant victory, of the +occupation of the town of Wischau and the capture of a whole French +squadron. The day was bright and sunny after a sharp night frost, and +the cheerful glitter of that autumn day was in keeping with the news of +victory which was conveyed, not only by the tales of those who had taken +part in it, but also by the joyful expression on the faces of soldiers, +officers, generals, and adjutants, as they passed Rostov going or +coming. And Nicholas, who had vainly suffered all the dread that +precedes a battle and had spent that happy day in inactivity, was all +the more depressed. + +"Come here, Wostov. Let's dwink to dwown our gwief!" shouted +Denisov, who had settled down by the roadside with a flask and some +food. + +The officers gathered round Denisov's canteen, eating and talking. + +"There! They are bringing another!" cried one of the officers, +indicating a captive French dragoon who was being brought in on foot by +two Cossacks. + +One of them was leading by the bridle a fine large French horse he had +taken from the prisoner. + +"Sell us that horse!" Denisov called out to the Cossacks. + +"If you like, your honor!" + +The officers got up and stood round the Cossacks and their prisoner. +The French dragoon was a young Alsatian who spoke French with a German +accent. He was breathless with agitation, his face was red, and when +he heard some French spoken he at once began speaking to the officers, +addressing first one, then another. He said he would not have been +taken, it was not his fault but the corporal's who had sent him to +seize some horsecloths, though he had told him the Russians were there. +And at every word he added: "But don't hurt my little horse!" and +stroked the animal. It was plain that he did not quite grasp where he +was. Now he excused himself for having been taken prisoner and now, +imagining himself before his own officers, insisted on his soldierly +discipline and zeal in the service. He brought with him into our +rearguard all the freshness of atmosphere of the French army, which was +so alien to us. + +The Cossacks sold the horse for two gold pieces, and Rostov, being the +richest of the officers now that he had received his money, bought it. + +"But don't hurt my little horse!" said the Alsatian good-naturedly +to Rostov when the animal was handed over to the hussar. + +Rostov smilingly reassured the dragoon and gave him money. + +"Alley! Alley!" said the Cossack, touching the prisoner's arm to +make him go on. + +"The Emperor! The Emperor!" was suddenly heard among the hussars. + +All began to run and bustle, and Rostov saw coming up the road behind +him several riders with white plumes in their hats. In a moment everyone +was in his place, waiting. + +Rostov did not know or remember how he ran to his place and mounted. +Instantly his regret at not having been in action and his dejected mood +amid people of whom he was weary had gone, instantly every thought of +himself had vanished. He was filled with happiness at his nearness to +the Emperor. He felt that this nearness by itself made up to him for the +day he had lost. He was happy as a lover when the longed-for moment of +meeting arrives. Not daring to look round and without looking round, he +was ecstatically conscious of his approach. He felt it not only from the +sound of the hoofs of the approaching cavalcade, but because as he drew +near everything grew brighter, more joyful, more significant, and more +festive around him. Nearer and nearer to Rostov came that sun shedding +beams of mild and majestic light around, and already he felt himself +enveloped in those beams, he heard his voice, that kindly, calm, +and majestic voice that was yet so simple! And as if in accord with +Rostov's feeling, there was a deathly stillness amid which was heard +the Emperor's voice. + +"The Pavlograd hussars?" he inquired. + +"The reserves, sire!" replied a voice, a very human one compared to +that which had said: "The Pavlograd hussars?" + +The Emperor drew level with Rostov and halted. Alexander's face was +even more beautiful than it had been three days before at the review. It +shone with such gaiety and youth, such innocent youth, that it suggested +the liveliness of a fourteen-year-old boy, and yet it was the face +of the majestic Emperor. Casually, while surveying the squadron, the +Emperor's eyes met Rostov's and rested on them for not more than +two seconds. Whether or no the Emperor understood what was going on in +Rostov's soul (it seemed to Rostov that he understood everything), +at any rate his light-blue eyes gazed for about two seconds into +Rostov's face. A gentle, mild light poured from them. Then all at +once he raised his eyebrows, abruptly touched his horse with his left +foot, and galloped on. + +The younger Emperor could not restrain his wish to be present at the +battle and, in spite of the remonstrances of his courtiers, at twelve +o'clock left the third column with which he had been and galloped +toward the vanguard. Before he came up with the hussars, several +adjutants met him with news of the successful result of the action. + +This battle, which consisted in the capture of a French squadron, was +represented as a brilliant victory over the French, and so the +Emperor and the whole army, especially while the smoke hung over +the battlefield, believed that the French had been defeated and were +retreating against their will. A few minutes after the Emperor had +passed, the Pavlograd division was ordered to advance. In Wischau +itself, a petty German town, Rostov saw the Emperor again. In the +market place, where there had been some rather heavy firing before the +Emperor's arrival, lay several killed and wounded soldiers whom there +had not been time to move. The Emperor, surrounded by his suite +of officers and courtiers, was riding a bobtailed chestnut mare, a +different one from that which he had ridden at the review, and bending +to one side he gracefully held a gold lorgnette to his eyes and looked +at a soldier who lay prone, with blood on his uncovered head. The +wounded soldier was so dirty, coarse, and revolting that his proximity +to the Emperor shocked Rostov. Rostov saw how the Emperor's rather +round shoulders shuddered as if a cold shiver had run down them, how his +left foot began convulsively tapping the horse's side with the spur, +and how the well-trained horse looked round unconcerned and did not +stir. An adjutant, dismounting, lifted the soldier under the arms to +place him on a stretcher that had been brought. The soldier groaned. + +"Gently, gently! Can't you do it more gently?" said the Emperor +apparently suffering more than the dying soldier, and he rode away. + +Rostov saw tears filling the Emperor's eyes and heard him, as he was +riding away, say to Czartoryski: "What a terrible thing war is: what +a terrible thing! Quelle terrible chose que la guerre!" + +The troops of the vanguard were stationed before Wischau, within sight +of the enemy's lines, which all day long had yielded ground to us +at the least firing. The Emperor's gratitude was announced to the +vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of +vodka. The campfires crackled and the soldiers' songs resounded +even more merrily than on the previous night. Denisov celebrated his +promotion to the rank of major, and Rostov, who had already drunk +enough, at the end of the feast proposed the Emperor's health. "Not +'our Sovereign, the Emperor,' as they say at official dinners," +said he, "but the health of our Sovereign, that good, enchanting, and +great man! Let us drink to his health and to the certain defeat of the +French!" + +"If we fought before," he said, "not letting the French pass, as +at Schon Grabern, what shall we not do now when he is at the front? We +will all die for him gladly! Is it not so, gentlemen? Perhaps I am not +saying it right, I have drunk a good deal--but that is how I feel, and +so do you too! To the health of Alexander the First! Hurrah!" + +"Hurrah!" rang the enthusiastic voices of the officers. + +And the old cavalry captain, Kirsten, shouted enthusiastically and no +less sincerely than the twenty-year-old Rostov. + +When the officers had emptied and smashed their glasses, Kirsten filled +others and, in shirt sleeves and breeches, went glass in hand to the +soldiers' bonfires and with his long gray mustache, his white chest +showing under his open shirt, he stood in a majestic pose in the light +of the campfire, waving his uplifted arm. + +"Lads! here's to our Sovereign, the Emperor, and victory over +our enemies! Hurrah!" he exclaimed in his dashing, old, hussar's +baritone. + +The hussars crowded round and responded heartily with loud shouts. + +Late that night, when all had separated, Denisov with his short hand +patted his favorite, Rostov, on the shoulder. + +"As there's no one to fall in love with on campaign, he's fallen +in love with the Tsar," he said. + +"Denisov, don't make fun of it!" cried Rostov. "It is such a +lofty, beautiful feeling, such a..." + +"I believe it, I believe it, fwiend, and I share and appwove..." + +"No, you don't understand!" + +And Rostov got up and went wandering among the campfires, dreaming of +what happiness it would be to die--not in saving the Emperor's life +(he did not even dare to dream of that), but simply to die before his +eyes. He really was in love with the Tsar and the glory of the Russian +arms and the hope of future triumph. And he was not the only man to +experience that feeling during those memorable days preceding the battle +of Austerlitz: nine tenths of the men in the Russian army were then in +love, though less ecstatically, with their Tsar and the glory of the +Russian arms. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +The next day the Emperor stopped at Wischau, and Villier, his physician, +was repeatedly summoned to see him. At headquarters and among the troops +near by the news spread that the Emperor was unwell. He ate nothing and +had slept badly that night, those around him reported. The cause of this +indisposition was the strong impression made on his sensitive mind by +the sight of the killed and wounded. + +At daybreak on the seventeenth, a French officer who had come with +a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the Russian Emperor, was +brought into Wischau from our outposts. This officer was Savary. The +Emperor had only just fallen asleep and so Savary had to wait. At midday +he was admitted to the Emperor, and an hour later he rode off with +Prince Dolgorukov to the advanced post of the French army. + +It was rumored that Savary had been sent to propose to Alexander +a meeting with Napoleon. To the joy and pride of the whole army, a +personal interview was refused, and instead of the Sovereign, Prince +Dolgorukov, the victor at Wischau, was sent with Savary to negotiate +with Napoleon if, contrary to expectations, these negotiations were +actuated by a real desire for peace. + +Toward evening Dolgorukov came back, went straight to the Tsar, and +remained alone with him for a long time. + +On the eighteenth and nineteenth of November, the army advanced two +days' march and the enemy's outposts after a brief interchange +of shots retreated. In the highest army circles from midday on the +nineteenth, a great, excitedly bustling activity began which lasted till +the morning of the twentieth, when the memorable battle of Austerlitz +was fought. + +Till midday on the nineteenth, the activity--the eager talk, running to +and fro, and dispatching of adjutants--was confined to the Emperor's +headquarters. But on the afternoon of that day, this activity reached +Kutuzov's headquarters and the staffs of the commanders of columns. +By evening, the adjutants had spread it to all ends and parts of the +army, and in the night from the nineteenth to the twentieth, the whole +eighty thousand allied troops rose from their bivouacs to the hum of +voices, and the army swayed and started in one enormous mass six miles +long. + +The concentrated activity which had begun at the Emperor's +headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that +followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower +clock. One wheel slowly moved, another was set in motion, and a third, +and wheels began to revolve faster and faster, levers and cogwheels to +work, chimes to play, figures to pop out, and the hands to advance with +regular motion as a result of all that activity. + +Just as in the mechanism of a clock, so in the mechanism of the military +machine, an impulse once given leads to the final result; and just as +indifferently quiescent till the moment when motion is transmitted +to them are the parts of the mechanism which the impulse has not yet +reached. Wheels creak on their axles as the cogs engage one another and +the revolving pulleys whirr with the rapidity of their movement, but a +neighboring wheel is as quiet and motionless as though it were prepared +to remain so for a hundred years; but the moment comes when the lever +catches it and obeying the impulse that wheel begins to creak and joins +in the common motion the result and aim of which are beyond its ken. + +Just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable +wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular movement of the +hands which show the time, so the result of all the complicated human +activities of 160,000 Russians and French--all their passions, desires, +remorse, humiliations, sufferings, outbursts of pride, fear, and +enthusiasm--was only the loss of the battle of Austerlitz, the +so-called battle of the three Emperors--that is to say, a slow movement +of the hand on the dial of human history. + +Prince Andrew was on duty that day and in constant attendance on the +commander in chief. + +At six in the evening, Kutuzov went to the Emperor's headquarters +and after staying but a short time with the Tsar went to see the grand +marshal of the court, Count Tolstoy. + +Bolkonski took the opportunity to go in to get some details of the +coming action from Dolgorukov. He felt that Kutuzov was upset +and dissatisfied about something and that at headquarters they were +dissatisfied with him, and also that at the Emperor's headquarters +everyone adopted toward him the tone of men who know something others do +not know: he therefore wished to speak to Dolgorukov. + +"Well, how d'you do, my dear fellow?" said Dolgorukov, who was +sitting at tea with Bilibin. "The fete is for tomorrow. How is your +old fellow? Out of sorts?" + +"I won't say he is out of sorts, but I fancy he would like to be +heard." + +"But they heard him at the council of war and will hear him when he +talks sense, but to temporize and wait for something now when Bonaparte +fears nothing so much as a general battle is impossible." + +"Yes, you have seen him?" said Prince Andrew. "Well, what is +Bonaparte like? How did he impress you?" + +"Yes, I saw him, and am convinced that he fears nothing so much as +a general engagement," repeated Dolgorukov, evidently prizing this +general conclusion which he had arrived at from his interview with +Napoleon. "If he weren't afraid of a battle why did he ask for that +interview? Why negotiate, and above all why retreat, when to retreat is +so contrary to his method of conducting war? Believe me, he is afraid, +afraid of a general battle. His hour has come! Mark my words!" + +"But tell me, what is he like, eh?" said Prince Andrew again. + +"He is a man in a gray overcoat, very anxious that I should call +him 'Your Majesty,' but who, to his chagrin, got no title from +me! That's the sort of man he is, and nothing more," replied +Dolgorukov, looking round at Bilibin with a smile. + +"Despite my great respect for old Kutuzov," he continued, "we +should be a nice set of fellows if we were to wait about and so give him +a chance to escape, or to trick us, now that we certainly have him in +our hands! No, we mustn't forget Suvorov and his rule--not to put +yourself in a position to be attacked, but yourself to attack. Believe +me in war the energy of young men often shows the way better than all +the experience of old Cunctators." + +"But in what position are we going to attack him? I have been at the +outposts today and it is impossible to say where his chief forces are +situated," said Prince Andrew. + +He wished to explain to Dolgorukov a plan of attack he had himself +formed. + +"Oh, that is all the same," Dolgorukov said quickly, and getting up +he spread a map on the table. "All eventualities have been foreseen. +If he is standing before Brunn..." + +And Prince Dolgorukov rapidly but indistinctly explained Weyrother's +plan of a flanking movement. + +Prince Andrew began to reply and to state his own plan, which might +have been as good as Weyrother's, but for the disadvantage that +Weyrother's had already been approved. As soon as Prince Andrew began +to demonstrate the defects of the latter and the merits of his own plan, +Prince Dolgorukov ceased to listen to him and gazed absent-mindedly not +at the map, but at Prince Andrew's face. + +"There will be a council of war at Kutuzov's tonight, though; you +can say all this there," remarked Dolgorukov. + +"I will do so," said Prince Andrew, moving away from the map. + +"Whatever are you bothering about, gentlemen?" said Bilibin, who, +till then, had listened with an amused smile to their conversation and +now was evidently ready with a joke. "Whether tomorrow brings +victory or defeat, the glory of our Russian arms is secure. Except your +Kutuzov, there is not a single Russian in command of a column! The +commanders are: Herr General Wimpfen, le Comte de Langeron, le Prince de +Lichtenstein, le Prince, de Hohenlohe, and finally Prishprish, and so on +like all those Polish names." + +"Be quiet, backbiter!" said Dolgorukov. "It is not true; there +are now two Russians, Miloradovich, and Dokhturov, and there would be +a third, Count Arakcheev, if his nerves were not too weak." + +"However, I think General Kutuzov has come out," said Prince +Andrew. "I wish you good luck and success, gentlemen!" he added and +went out after shaking hands with Dolgorukov and Bilibin. + +On the way home, Prince Andrew could not refrain from asking Kutuzov, +who was sitting silently beside him, what he thought of tomorrow's +battle. + +Kutuzov looked sternly at his adjutant and, after a pause, replied: +"I think the battle will be lost, and so I told Count Tolstoy and +asked him to tell the Emperor. What do you think he replied? 'But, my +dear general, I am engaged with rice and cutlets, look after military +matters yourself!' Yes... That was the answer I got!" + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +Shortly after nine o'clock that evening, Weyrother drove with his +plans to Kutuzov's quarters where the council of war was to be +held. All the commanders of columns were summoned to the commander in +chief's and with the exception of Prince Bagration, who declined to +come, were all there at the appointed time. + +Weyrother, who was in full control of the proposed battle, by his +eagerness and briskness presented a marked contrast to the dissatisfied +and drowsy Kutuzov, who reluctantly played the part of chairman and +president of the council of war. Weyrother evidently felt himself to be +at the head of a movement that had already become unrestrainable. He was +like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. Whether he was +pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at +headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead +to. Weyrother had been twice that evening to the enemy's picket +line to reconnoiter personally, and twice to the Emperors, Russian and +Austrian, to report and explain, and to his headquarters where he had +dictated the dispositions in German, and now, much exhausted, he arrived +at Kutuzov's. + +He was evidently so busy that he even forgot to be polite to the +commander in chief. He interrupted him, talked rapidly and indistinctly, +without looking at the man he was addressing, and did not reply to +questions put to him. He was bespattered with mud and had a pitiful, +weary, and distracted air, though at the same time he was haughty and +self-confident. + +Kutuzov was occupying a nobleman's castle of modest dimensions near +Ostralitz. In the large drawing room which had become the commander +in chief's office were gathered Kutuzov himself, Weyrother, and the +members of the council of war. They were drinking tea, and only awaited +Prince Bagration to begin the council. At last Bagration's orderly +came with the news that the prince could not attend. Prince Andrew came +in to inform the commander in chief of this and, availing himself +of permission previously given him by Kutuzov to be present at the +council, he remained in the room. + +"Since Prince Bagration is not coming, we may begin," said +Weyrother, hurriedly rising from his seat and going up to the table on +which an enormous map of the environs of Brunn was spread out. + +Kutuzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over +his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, +with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. At the sound +of Weyrother's voice, he opened his one eye with an effort. + +"Yes, yes, if you please! It is already late," said he, and nodding +his head he let it droop and again closed his eye. + +If at first the members of the council thought that Kutuzov was +pretending to sleep, the sounds his nose emitted during the reading that +followed proved that the commander in chief at that moment was absorbed +by a far more serious matter than a desire to show his contempt for +the dispositions or anything else--he was engaged in satisfying the +irresistible human need for sleep. He really was asleep. Weyrother, with +the gesture of a man too busy to lose a moment, glanced at Kutuzov and, +having convinced himself that he was asleep, took up a paper and in +a loud, monotonous voice began to read out the dispositions for the +impending battle, under a heading which he also read out: + +"Dispositions for an attack on the enemy position behind Kobelnitz and +Sokolnitz, November 30, 1805." + +The dispositions were very complicated and difficult. They began as +follows: + +"As the enemy's left wing rests on wooded hills and his right +extends along Kobelnitz and Sokolnitz behind the ponds that are there, +while we, on the other hand, with our left wing by far outflank his +right, it is advantageous to attack the enemy's latter wing especially +if we occupy the villages of Sokolnitz and Kobelnitz, whereby we +can both fall on his flank and pursue him over the plain between +Schlappanitz and the Thuerassa forest, avoiding the defiles of +Schlappanitz and Bellowitz which cover the enemy's front. For this +object it is necessary that... The first column marches... The second +column marches... The third column marches..." and so on, read +Weyrother. + +The generals seemed to listen reluctantly to the difficult dispositions. +The tall, fair-haired General Buxhowden stood, leaning his back against +the wall, his eyes fixed on a burning candle, and seemed not to listen +or even to wish to be thought to listen. Exactly opposite Weyrother, +with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache +twisted upwards, sat the ruddy Miloradovich in a military pose, his +elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders +raised. He remained stubbornly silent, gazing at Weyrother's face, +and only turned away his eyes when the Austrian chief of staff finished +reading. Then Miloradovich looked round significantly at the other +generals. But one could not tell from that significant look whether he +agreed or disagreed and was satisfied or not with the arrangements. Next +to Weyrother sat Count Langeron who, with a subtle smile that never left +his typically southern French face during the whole time of the reading, +gazed at his delicate fingers which rapidly twirled by its corners +a gold snuffbox on which was a portrait. In the middle of one of the +longest sentences, he stopped the rotary motion of the snuffbox, raised +his head, and with inimical politeness lurking in the corners of his +thin lips interrupted Weyrother, wishing to say something. But the +Austrian general, continuing to read, frowned angrily and jerked his +elbows, as if to say: "You can tell me your views later, but now be so +good as to look at the map and listen." Langeron lifted his eyes with +an expression of perplexity, turned round to Miloradovich as if seeking +an explanation, but meeting the latter's impressive but meaningless +gaze drooped his eyes sadly and again took to twirling his snuffbox. + +"A geography lesson!" he muttered as if to himself, but loud enough +to be heard. + +Przebyszewski, with respectful but dignified politeness, held his +hand to his ear toward Weyrother, with the air of a man absorbed in +attention. Dohkturov, a little man, sat opposite Weyrother, with +an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the outspread map +conscientiously studied the dispositions and the unfamiliar locality. He +asked Weyrother several times to repeat words he had not clearly heard +and the difficult names of villages. Weyrother complied and Dohkturov +noted them down. + +When the reading which lasted more than an hour was over, Langeron again +brought his snuffbox to rest and, without looking at Weyrother or at +anyone in particular, began to say how difficult it was to carry out +such a plan in which the enemy's position was assumed to be known, +whereas it was perhaps not known, since the enemy was in movement. +Langeron's objections were valid but it was obvious that their chief +aim was to show General Weyrother--who had read his dispositions with +as much self-confidence as if he were addressing school children--that +he had to do, not with fools, but with men who could teach him something +in military matters. + +When the monotonous sound of Weyrother's voice ceased, Kutuzov opened +his eye as a miller wakes up when the soporific drone of the mill wheel +is interrupted. He listened to what Langeron said, as if remarking, +"So you are still at that silly business!" quickly closed his eye +again, and let his head sink still lower. + +Langeron, trying as virulently as possible to sting Weyrother's vanity +as author of the military plan, argued that Bonaparte might easily +attack instead of being attacked, and so render the whole of this +plan perfectly worthless. Weyrother met all objections with a firm and +contemptuous smile, evidently prepared beforehand to meet all objections +be they what they might. + +"If he could attack us, he would have done so today," said he. + +"So you think he is powerless?" said Langeron. + +"He has forty thousand men at most," replied Weyrother, with the +smile of a doctor to whom an old wife wishes to explain the treatment of +a case. + +"In that case he is inviting his doom by awaiting our attack," said +Langeron, with a subtly ironical smile, again glancing round for support +to Miloradovich who was near him. + +But Miloradovich was at that moment evidently thinking of anything +rather than of what the generals were disputing about. + +"Ma foi!" said he, "tomorrow we shall see all that on the +battlefield." + +Weyrother again gave that smile which seemed to say that to him it was +strange and ridiculous to meet objections from Russian generals and to +have to prove to them what he had not merely convinced himself of, but +had also convinced the sovereign Emperors of. + +"The enemy has quenched his fires and a continual noise is heard from +his camp," said he. "What does that mean? Either he is retreating, +which is the only thing we need fear, or he is changing his position." +(He smiled ironically.) "But even if he also took up a position in +the Thuerassa, he merely saves us a great deal of trouble and all our +arrangements to the minutest detail remain the same." + +"How is that?..." began Prince Andrew, who had for long been waiting +an opportunity to express his doubts. + +Kutuzov here woke up, coughed heavily, and looked round at the +generals. + +"Gentlemen, the dispositions for tomorrow--or rather for today, for +it is past midnight--cannot now be altered," said he. "You have +heard them, and we shall all do our duty. But before a battle, there is +nothing more important..." he paused, "than to have a good sleep." + +He moved as if to rise. The generals bowed and retired. It was past +midnight. Prince Andrew went out. + +The council of war, at which Prince Andrew had not been able to +express his opinion as he had hoped to, left on him a vague and uneasy +impression. Whether Dolgorukov and Weyrother, or Kutuzov, Langeron, +and the others who did not approve of the plan of attack, were +right--he did not know. "But was it really not possible for Kutuzov +to state his views plainly to the Emperor? Is it possible that on +account of court and personal considerations tens of thousands of lives, +and my life, my life," he thought, "must be risked?" + +"Yes, it is very likely that I shall be killed tomorrow," he +thought. And suddenly, at this thought of death, a whole series of most +distant, most intimate, memories rose in his imagination: he remembered +his last parting from his father and his wife; he remembered the days +when he first loved her. He thought of her pregnancy and felt sorry for +her and for himself, and in a nervously emotional and softened mood he +went out of the hut in which he was billeted with Nesvitski and began +to walk up and down before it. + +The night was foggy and through the fog the moonlight gleamed +mysteriously. "Yes, tomorrow, tomorrow!" he thought. "Tomorrow +everything may be over for me! All these memories will be no more, none +of them will have any meaning for me. Tomorrow perhaps, even certainly, +I have a presentiment that for the first time I shall have to show all +I can do." And his fancy pictured the battle, its loss, the +concentration of fighting at one point, and the hesitation of all the +commanders. And then that happy moment, that Toulon for which he had +so long waited, presents itself to him at last. He firmly and clearly +expresses his opinion to Kutuzov, to Weyrother, and to the Emperors. +All are struck by the justness of his views, but no one undertakes to +carry them out, so he takes a regiment, a division--stipulates that no +one is to interfere with his arrangements--leads his division to +the decisive point, and gains the victory alone. "But death and +suffering?" suggested another voice. Prince Andrew, however, did not +answer that voice and went on dreaming of his triumphs. The dispositions +for the next battle are planned by him alone. Nominally he is only an +adjutant on Kutuzov's staff, but he does everything alone. The next +battle is won by him alone. Kutuzov is removed and he is appointed... +"Well and then?" asked the other voice. "If before that you are +not ten times wounded, killed, or betrayed, well... what then?..." +"Well then," Prince Andrew answered himself, "I don't know +what will happen and don't want to know, and can't, but if I want +this--want glory, want to be known to men, want to be loved by them, it +is not my fault that I want it and want nothing but that and live only +for that. Yes, for that alone! I shall never tell anyone, but, oh God! +what am I to do if I love nothing but fame and men's esteem? Death, +wounds, the loss of family--I fear nothing. And precious and dear +as many persons are to me--father, sister, wife--those dearest to +me--yet dreadful and unnatural as it seems, I would give them all at +once for a moment of glory, of triumph over men, of love from men I +don't know and never shall know, for the love of these men here," he +thought, as he listened to voices in Kutuzov's courtyard. The voices +were those of the orderlies who were packing up; one voice, probably a +coachman's, was teasing Kutuzov's old cook whom Prince Andrew knew, +and who was called Tit. He was saying, "Tit, I say, Tit!" + +"Well?" returned the old man. + +"Go, Tit, thresh a bit!" said the wag. + +"Oh, go to the devil!" called out a voice, drowned by the laughter +of the orderlies and servants. + +"All the same, I love and value nothing but triumph over them all, I +value this mystic power and glory that is floating here above me in this +mist!" + + + + + +CHAPTER XIII + +That same night, Rostov was with a platoon on skirmishing duty in front +of Bagration's detachment. His hussars were placed along the line +in couples and he himself rode along the line trying to master the +sleepiness that kept coming over him. An enormous space, with our +army's campfires dimly glowing in the fog, could be seen behind him; +in front of him was misty darkness. Rostov could see nothing, peer as +he would into that foggy distance: now something gleamed gray, now there +was something black, now little lights seemed to glimmer where the enemy +ought to be, now he fancied it was only something in his own eyes. His +eyes kept closing, and in his fancy appeared--now the Emperor, now +Denisov, and now Moscow memories--and he again hurriedly opened his +eyes and saw close before him the head and ears of the horse he was +riding, and sometimes, when he came within six paces of them, the +black figures of hussars, but in the distance was still the same misty +darkness. "Why not?... It might easily happen," thought Rostov, +"that the Emperor will meet me and give me an order as he would to any +other officer; he'll say: 'Go and find out what's there.' There +are many stories of his getting to know an officer in just such a chance +way and attaching him to himself! What if he gave me a place near him? +Oh, how I would guard him, how I would tell him the truth, how I would +unmask his deceivers!" And in order to realize vividly his love +devotion to the sovereign, Rostov pictured to himself an enemy or a +deceitful German, whom he would not only kill with pleasure but whom +he would slap in the face before the Emperor. Suddenly a distant shout +aroused him. He started and opened his eyes. + +"Where am I? Oh yes, in the skirmishing line... pass and +watchword--shaft, Olmutz. What a nuisance that our squadron will be in +reserve tomorrow," he thought. "I'll ask leave to go to the front, +this may be my only chance of seeing the Emperor. It won't be long +now before I am off duty. I'll take another turn and when I get back +I'll go to the general and ask him." He readjusted himself in the +saddle and touched up his horse to ride once more round his hussars. It +seemed to him that it was getting lighter. To the left he saw a sloping +descent lit up, and facing it a black knoll that seemed as steep as a +wall. On this knoll there was a white patch that Rostov could not at +all make out: was it a glade in the wood lit up by the moon, or some +unmelted snow, or some white houses? He even thought something moved on +that white spot. "I expect it's snow... that spot... a spot--une +tache," he thought. "There now... it's not a tache... Natasha... +sister, black eyes... Na... tasha... (Won't she be surprised when +I tell her how I've seen the Emperor?) Natasha... take my +sabretache..."--"Keep to the right, your honor, there are bushes +here," came the voice of an hussar, past whom Rostov was riding in +the act of falling asleep. Rostov lifted his head that had sunk almost +to his horse's mane and pulled up beside the hussar. He was succumbing +to irresistible, youthful, childish drowsiness. "But what was I +thinking? I mustn't forget. How shall I speak to the Emperor? No, +that's not it--that's tomorrow. Oh yes! Natasha... sabretache... +saber them... Whom? The hussars... Ah, the hussars with mustaches. Along +the Tverskaya Street rode the hussar with mustaches... I thought about +him too, just opposite Guryev's house... Old Guryev.... Oh, but +Denisov's a fine fellow. But that's all nonsense. The chief thing +is that the Emperor is here. How he looked at me and wished to say +something, but dared not.... No, it was I who dared not. But that's +nonsense, the chief thing is not to forget the important thing I +was thinking of. Yes, Na-tasha, sabretache, oh, yes, yes! That's +right!" And his head once more sank to his horse's neck. All at once +it seemed to him that he was being fired at. "What? What? What?... Cut +them down! What?..." said Rostov, waking up. At the moment he opened +his eyes he heard in front of him, where the enemy was, the long-drawn +shouts of thousands of voices. His horse and the horse of the hussar +near him pricked their ears at these shouts. Over there, where the +shouting came from, a fire flared up and went out again, then another, +and all along the French line on the hill fires flared up and the +shouting grew louder and louder. Rostov could hear the sound of French +words but could not distinguish them. The din of many voices was too +great; all he could hear was: "ahahah!" and "rrrr!" + +"What's that? What do you make of it?" said Rostov to the hussar +beside him. "That must be the enemy's camp!" + +The hussar did not reply. + +"Why, don't you hear it?" Rostov asked again, after waiting for a +reply. + +"Who can tell, your honor?" replied the hussar reluctantly. + +"From the direction, it must be the enemy," repeated Rostov. + +"It may be he or it may be nothing," muttered the hussar. "It's +dark... Steady!" he cried to his fidgeting horse. + +Rostov's horse was also getting restive: it pawed the frozen ground, +pricking its ears at the noise and looking at the lights. The shouting +grew still louder and merged into a general roar that only an army +of several thousand men could produce. The lights spread farther and +farther, probably along the line of the French camp. Rostov no longer +wanted to sleep. The gay triumphant shouting of the enemy army had a +stimulating effect on him. "Vive l'Empereur! l'Empereur!" he now +heard distinctly. + +"They can't be far off, probably just beyond the stream," he said +to the hussar beside him. + +The hussar only sighed without replying and coughed angrily. The sound +of horse's hoofs approaching at a trot along the line of hussars was +heard, and out of the foggy darkness the figure of a sergeant of hussars +suddenly appeared, looming huge as an elephant. + +"Your honor, the generals!" said the sergeant, riding up to Rostov. + +Rostov, still looking round toward the fires and the shouts, rode with +the sergeant to meet some mounted men who were riding along the line. +One was on a white horse. Prince Bagration and Prince Dolgorukov with +their adjutants had come to witness the curious phenomenon of the +lights and shouts in the enemy's camp. Rostov rode up to Bagration, +reported to him, and then joined the adjutants listening to what the +generals were saying. + +"Believe me," said Prince Dolgorukov, addressing Bagration, "it +is nothing but a trick! He has retreated and ordered the rearguard to +kindle fires and make a noise to deceive us." + +"Hardly," said Bagration. "I saw them this evening on that +knoll; if they had retreated they would have withdrawn from that too.... +Officer!" said Bagration to Rostov, "are the enemy's skirmishers +still there?" + +"They were there this evening, but now I don't know, your +excellency. Shall I go with some of my hussars to see?" replied +Rostov. + +Bagration stopped and, before replying, tried to see Rostov's face +in the mist. + +"Well, go and see," he said, after a pause. + +"Yes, sir." + +Rostov spurred his horse, called to Sergeant Fedchenko and two other +hussars, told them to follow him, and trotted downhill in the direction +from which the shouting came. He felt both frightened and pleased to be +riding alone with three hussars into that mysterious and dangerous misty +distance where no one had been before him. Bagration called to him from +the hill not to go beyond the stream, but Rostov pretended not to hear +him and did not stop but rode on and on, continually mistaking bushes +for trees and gullies for men and continually discovering his mistakes. +Having descended the hill at a trot, he no longer saw either our own or +the enemy's fires, but heard the shouting of the French more loudly +and distinctly. In the valley he saw before him something like a river, +but when he reached it he found it was a road. Having come out onto +the road he reined in his horse, hesitating whether to ride along it or +cross it and ride over the black field up the hillside. To keep to the +road which gleamed white in the mist would have been safer because it +would be easier to see people coming along it. "Follow me!" said he, +crossed the road, and began riding up the hill at a gallop toward the +point where the French pickets had been standing that evening. + +"Your honor, there he is!" cried one of the hussars behind him. And +before Rostov had time to make out what the black thing was that had +suddenly appeared in the fog, there was a flash, followed by a report, +and a bullet whizzing high up in the mist with a plaintive sound passed +out of hearing. Another musket missed fire but flashed in the pan. +Rostov turned his horse and galloped back. Four more reports followed +at intervals, and the bullets passed somewhere in the fog singing in +different tones. Rostov reined in his horse, whose spirits had risen, +like his own, at the firing, and went back at a footpace. "Well, some +more! Some more!" a merry voice was saying in his soul. But no more +shots came. + +Only when approaching Bagration did Rostov let his horse gallop again, +and with his hand at the salute rode up to the general. + +Dolgorukov was still insisting that the French had retreated and had +only lit fires to deceive us. + +"What does that prove?" he was saying as Rostov rode up. "They +might retreat and leave the pickets." + +"It's plain that they have not all gone yet, Prince," said +Bagration. "Wait till tomorrow morning, we'll find out everything +tomorrow." + +"The picket is still on the hill, your excellency, just where it was +in the evening," reported Rostov, stooping forward with his hand at +the salute and unable to repress the smile of delight induced by his +ride and especially by the sound of the bullets. + +"Very good, very good," said Bagration. "Thank you, officer." + +"Your excellency," said Rostov, "may I ask a favor?" + +"What is it?" + +"Tomorrow our squadron is to be in reserve. May I ask to be attached +to the first squadron?" + +"What's your name?" + +"Count Rostov." + +"Oh, very well, you may stay in attendance on me." + +"Count Ilya Rostov's son?" asked Dolgorukov. + +But Rostov did not reply. + +"Then I may reckon on it, your excellency?" + +"I will give the order." + +"Tomorrow very likely I may be sent with some message to the +Emperor," thought Rostov. + +"Thank God!" + +The fires and shouting in the enemy's army were occasioned by the fact +that while Napoleon's proclamation was being read to the troops the +Emperor himself rode round his bivouacs. The soldiers, on seeing him, +lit wisps of straw and ran after him, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur!" +Napoleon's proclamation was as follows: + +Soldiers! The Russian army is advancing against you to avenge the +Austrian army of Ulm. They are the same battalions you broke at +Hollabrunn and have pursued ever since to this place. The position we +occupy is a strong one, and while they are marching to go round me on +the right they will expose a flank to me. Soldiers! I will myself direct +your battalions. I will keep out of fire if you with your habitual +valor carry disorder and confusion into the enemy's ranks, but should +victory be in doubt, even for a moment, you will see your Emperor +exposing himself to the first blows of the enemy, for there must be no +doubt of victory, especially on this day when what is at stake is the +honor of the French infantry, so necessary to the honor of our nation. + +Do not break your ranks on the plea of removing the wounded! Let every +man be fully imbued with the thought that we must defeat these hirelings +of England, inspired by such hatred of our nation! This victory will +conclude our campaign and we can return to winter quarters, where fresh +French troops who are being raised in France will join us, and the peace +I shall conclude will be worthy of my people, of you, and of myself. + +NAPOLEON + + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +At five in the morning it was still quite dark. The troops of the +center, the reserves, and Bagration's right flank had not yet moved, +but on the left flank the columns of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, +which were to be the first to descend the heights to attack the French +right flank and drive it into the Bohemian mountains according to plan, +were already up and astir. The smoke of the campfires, into which they +were throwing everything superfluous, made the eyes smart. It was cold +and dark. The officers were hurriedly drinking tea and breakfasting, the +soldiers, munching biscuit and beating a tattoo with their feet to +warm themselves, gathering round the fires throwing into the flames the +remains of sheds, chairs, tables, wheels, tubs, and everything that they +did not want or could not carry away with them. Austrian column guides +were moving in and out among the Russian troops and served as heralds +of the advance. As soon as an Austrian officer showed himself near +a commanding officer's quarters, the regiment began to move: the +soldiers ran from the fires, thrust their pipes into their boots, their +bags into the carts, got their muskets ready, and formed rank. The +officers buttoned up their coats, buckled on their swords and pouches, +and moved along the ranks shouting. The train drivers and orderlies +harnessed and packed the wagons and tied on the loads. The adjutants and +battalion and regimental commanders mounted, crossed themselves, gave +final instructions, orders, and commissions to the baggage men +who remained behind, and the monotonous tramp of thousands of feet +resounded. The column moved forward without knowing where and unable, +from the masses around them, the smoke and the increasing fog, to see +either the place they were leaving or that to which they were going. + +A soldier on the march is hemmed in and borne along by his regiment as +much as a sailor is by his ship. However far he has walked, whatever +strange, unknown, and dangerous places he reaches, just as a sailor is +always surrounded by the same decks, masts, and rigging of his ship, so +the soldier always has around him the same comrades, the same ranks, the +same sergeant major Ivan Mitrich, the same company dog Jack, and the +same commanders. The sailor rarely cares to know the latitude in which +his ship is sailing, but on the day of battle--heaven knows how and +whence--a stern note of which all are conscious sounds in the moral +atmosphere of an army, announcing the approach of something decisive +and solemn, and awakening in the men an unusual curiosity. On the day of +battle the soldiers excitedly try to get beyond the interests of their +regiment, they listen intently, look about, and eagerly ask concerning +what is going on around them. + +The fog had grown so dense that though it was growing light they could +not see ten paces ahead. Bushes looked like gigantic trees and level +ground like cliffs and slopes. Anywhere, on any side, one might +encounter an enemy invisible ten paces off. But the columns advanced +for a long time, always in the same fog, descending and ascending hills, +avoiding gardens and enclosures, going over new and unknown ground, and +nowhere encountering the enemy. On the contrary, the soldiers became +aware that in front, behind, and on all sides, other Russian columns +were moving in the same direction. Every soldier felt glad to know that +to the unknown place where he was going, many more of our men were going +too. + +"There now, the Kurskies have also gone past," was being said in +the ranks. + +"It's wonderful what a lot of our troops have gathered, lads! Last +night I looked at the campfires and there was no end of them. A regular +Moscow!" + +Though none of the column commanders rode up to the ranks or talked to +the men (the commanders, as we saw at the council of war, were out of +humor and dissatisfied with the affair, and so did not exert themselves +to cheer the men but merely carried out the orders), yet the troops +marched gaily, as they always do when going into action, especially to +an attack. But when they had marched for about an hour in the dense fog, +the greater part of the men had to halt and an unpleasant consciousness +of some dislocation and blunder spread through the ranks. How such +a consciousness is communicated is very difficult to define, but it +certainly is communicated very surely, and flows rapidly, imperceptibly, +and irrepressibly, as water does in a creek. Had the Russian army been +alone without any allies, it might perhaps have been a long time before +this consciousness of mismanagement became a general conviction, but as +it was, the disorder was readily and naturally attributed to the stupid +Germans, and everyone was convinced that a dangerous muddle had been +occasioned by the sausage eaters. + +"Why have we stopped? Is the way blocked? Or have we already come up +against the French?" + +"No, one can't hear them. They'd be firing if we had." + +"They were in a hurry enough to start us, and now here we stand in +the middle of a field without rhyme or reason. It's all those damned +Germans' muddling! What stupid devils!" + +"Yes, I'd send them on in front, but no fear, they're crowding up +behind. And now here we stand hungry." + +"I say, shall we soon be clear? They say the cavalry are blocking the +way," said an officer. + +"Ah, those damned Germans! They don't know their own country!" +said another. + +"What division are you?" shouted an adjutant, riding up. + +"The Eighteenth." + +"Then why are you here? You should have gone on long ago, now you +won't get there till evening." + +"What stupid orders! They don't themselves know what they are +doing!" said the officer and rode off. + +Then a general rode past shouting something angrily, not in Russian. + +"Tafa-lafa! But what he's jabbering no one can make out," said a +soldier, mimicking the general who had ridden away. "I'd shoot them, +the scoundrels!" + +"We were ordered to be at the place before nine, but we haven't got +halfway. Fine orders!" was being repeated on different sides. + +And the feeling of energy with which the troops had started began to +turn into vexation and anger at the stupid arrangements and at the +Germans. + +The cause of the confusion was that while the Austrian cavalry was +moving toward our left flank, the higher command found that our center +was too far separated from our right flank and the cavalry were all +ordered to turn back to the right. Several thousand cavalry crossed in +front of the infantry, who had to wait. + +At the front an altercation occurred between an Austrian guide and a +Russian general. The general shouted a demand that the cavalry should be +halted, the Austrian argued that not he, but the higher command, was to +blame. The troops meanwhile stood growing listless and dispirited. After +an hour's delay they at last moved on, descending the hill. The fog +that was dispersing on the hill lay still more densely below, where they +were descending. In front in the fog a shot was heard and then another, +at first irregularly at varying intervals--trata...tat--and then more +and more regularly and rapidly, and the action at the Goldbach Stream +began. + +Not expecting to come on the enemy down by the stream, and having +stumbled on him in the fog, hearing no encouraging word from their +commanders, and with a consciousness of being too late spreading through +the ranks, and above all being unable to see anything in front or around +them in the thick fog, the Russians exchanged shots with the enemy +lazily and advanced and again halted, receiving no timely orders from +the officers or adjutants who wandered about in the fog in those unknown +surroundings unable to find their own regiments. In this way the action +began for the first, second, and third columns, which had gone down into +the valley. The fourth column, with which Kutuzov was, stood on the +Pratzen Heights. + +Below, where the fight was beginning, there was still thick fog; on the +higher ground it was clearing, but nothing could be seen of what was +going on in front. Whether all the enemy forces were, as we supposed, +six miles away, or whether they were near by in that sea of mist, no one +knew till after eight o'clock. + +It was nine o'clock in the morning. The fog lay unbroken like a sea +down below, but higher up at the village of Schlappanitz where Napoleon +stood with his marshals around him, it was quite light. Above him was +a clear blue sky, and the sun's vast orb quivered like a huge hollow, +crimson float on the surface of that milky sea of mist. The whole French +army, and even Napoleon himself with his staff, were not on the far side +of the streams and hollows of Sokolnitz and Schlappanitz beyond which we +intended to take up our position and begin the action, but were on this +side, so close to our own forces that Napoleon with the naked eye could +distinguish a mounted man from one on foot. Napoleon, in the blue cloak +which he had worn on his Italian campaign, sat on his small gray Arab +horse a little in front of his marshals. He gazed silently at the hills +which seemed to rise out of the sea of mist and on which the Russian +troops were moving in the distance, and he listened to the sounds of +firing in the valley. Not a single muscle of his face--which in those +days was still thin--moved. His gleaming eyes were fixed intently on +one spot. His predictions were being justified. Part of the Russian +force had already descended into the valley toward the ponds and lakes +and part were leaving these Pratzen Heights which he intended to attack +and regarded as the key to the position. He saw over the mist that in +a hollow between two hills near the village of Pratzen, the Russian +columns, their bayonets glittering, were moving continuously in one +direction toward the valley and disappearing one after another into +the mist. From information he had received the evening before, from the +sound of wheels and footsteps heard by the outposts during the night, +by the disorderly movement of the Russian columns, and from all +indications, he saw clearly that the allies believed him to be far away +in front of them, and that the columns moving near Pratzen constituted +the center of the Russian army, and that that center was already +sufficiently weakened to be successfully attacked. But still he did not +begin the engagement. + +Today was a great day for him--the anniversary of his coronation. +Before dawn he had slept for a few hours, and refreshed, vigorous, and +in good spirits, he mounted his horse and rode out into the field +in that happy mood in which everything seems possible and everything +succeeds. He sat motionless, looking at the heights visible above +the mist, and his cold face wore that special look of confident, +self-complacent happiness that one sees on the face of a boy happily +in love. The marshals stood behind him not venturing to distract his +attention. He looked now at the Pratzen Heights, now at the sun floating +up out of the mist. + +When the sun had entirely emerged from the fog, and fields and mist were +aglow with dazzling light--as if he had only awaited this to begin the +action--he drew the glove from his shapely white hand, made a sign +with it to the marshals, and ordered the action to begin. The marshals, +accompanied by adjutants, galloped off in different directions, and +a few minutes later the chief forces of the French army moved rapidly +toward those Pratzen Heights which were being more and more denuded by +Russian troops moving down the valley to their left. + + + + + +CHAPTER XV + +At eight o'clock Kutuzov rode to Pratzen at the head of the fourth +column, Miloradovich's, the one that was to take the place of +Przebyszewski's and Langeron's columns which had already gone down +into the valley. He greeted the men of the foremost regiment and gave +them the order to march, thereby indicating that he intended to lead +that column himself. When he had reached the village of Pratzen he +halted. Prince Andrew was behind, among the immense number forming the +commander in chief's suite. He was in a state of suppressed excitement +and irritation, though controlledly calm as a man is at the approach of +a long-awaited moment. He was firmly convinced that this was the day of +his Toulon, or his bridge of Arcola. How it would come about he did not +know, but he felt sure it would do so. The locality and the position of +our troops were known to him as far as they could be known to anyone +in our army. His own strategic plan, which obviously could not now +be carried out, was forgotten. Now, entering into Weyrother's plan, +Prince Andrew considered possible contingencies and formed new projects +such as might call for his rapidity of perception and decision. + +To the left down below in the mist, the musketry fire of unseen forces +could be heard. It was there Prince Andrew thought the fight would +concentrate. "There we shall encounter difficulties, and there," +thought he, "I shall be sent with a brigade or division, and there, +standard in hand, I shall go forward and break whatever is in front of +me." + +He could not look calmly at the standards of the passing battalions. +Seeing them he kept thinking, "That may be the very standard with +which I shall lead the army." + +In the morning all that was left of the night mist on the heights was +a hoar frost now turning to dew, but in the valleys it still lay like a +milk-white sea. Nothing was visible in the valley to the left into which +our troops had descended and from whence came the sounds of firing. +Above the heights was the dark clear sky, and to the right the vast orb +of the sun. In front, far off on the farther shore of that sea of mist, +some wooded hills were discernible, and it was there the enemy probably +was, for something could be descried. On the right the Guards were +entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and +then a gleam of bayonets; to the left beyond the village similar masses +of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist. In front and +behind moved infantry. The commander in chief was standing at the end of +the village letting the troops pass by him. That morning Kutuzov seemed +worn and irritable. The infantry passing before him came to a halt +without any command being given, apparently obstructed by something in +front. + +"Do order them to form into battalion columns and go round the +village!" he said angrily to a general who had ridden up. "Don't +you understand, your excellency, my dear sir, that you must not +defile through narrow village streets when we are marching against the +enemy?" + +"I intended to re-form them beyond the village, your excellency," +answered the general. + +Kutuzov laughed bitterly. + +"You'll make a fine thing of it, deploying in sight of the enemy! +Very fine!" + +"The enemy is still far away, your excellency. According to the +dispositions..." + +"The dispositions!" exclaimed Kutuzov bitterly. "Who told you +that?... Kindly do as you are ordered." + +"Yes, sir." + +"My dear fellow," Nesvitski whispered to Prince Andrew, "the old +man is as surly as a dog." + +An Austrian officer in a white uniform with green plumes in his hat +galloped up to Kutuzov and asked in the Emperor's name had the fourth +column advanced into action. + +Kutuzov turned round without answering and his eye happened to fall +upon Prince Andrew, who was beside him. Seeing him, Kutuzov's +malevolent and caustic expression softened, as if admitting that what +was being done was not his adjutant's fault, and still not answering +the Austrian adjutant, he addressed Bolkonski. + +"Go, my dear fellow, and see whether the third division has passed the +village. Tell it to stop and await my orders." + +Hardly had Prince Andrew started than he stopped him. + +"And ask whether sharpshooters have been posted," he added. "What +are they doing? What are they doing?" he murmured to himself, still +not replying to the Austrian. + +Prince Andrew galloped off to execute the order. + +Overtaking the battalions that continued to advance, he stopped +the third division and convinced himself that there really were no +sharpshooters in front of our columns. The colonel at the head of the +regiment was much surprised at the commander in chief's order to throw +out skirmishers. He had felt perfectly sure that there were other troops +in front of him and that the enemy must be at least six miles away. +There was really nothing to be seen in front except a barren descent +hidden by dense mist. Having given orders in the commander in chief's +name to rectify this omission, Prince Andrew galloped back. Kutuzov +still in the same place, his stout body resting heavily in the saddle +with the lassitude of age, sat yawning wearily with closed eyes. The +troops were no longer moving, but stood with the butts of their muskets +on the ground. + +"All right, all right!" he said to Prince Andrew, and turned to a +general who, watch in hand, was saying it was time they started as all +the left-flank columns had already descended. + +"Plenty of time, your excellency," muttered Kutuzov in the midst of +a yawn. "Plenty of time," he repeated. + +Just then at a distance behind Kutuzov was heard the sound of regiments +saluting, and this sound rapidly came nearer along the whole extended +line of the advancing Russian columns. Evidently the person they were +greeting was riding quickly. When the soldiers of the regiment in front +of which Kutuzov was standing began to shout, he rode a little to one +side and looked round with a frown. Along the road from Pratzen galloped +what looked like a squadron of horsemen in various uniforms. Two of them +rode side by side in front, at full gallop. One in a black uniform with +white plumes in his hat rode a bobtailed chestnut horse, the other who +was in a white uniform rode a black one. These were the two Emperors +followed by their suites. Kutuzov, affecting the manners of an old +soldier at the front, gave the command "Attention!" and rode up +to the Emperors with a salute. His whole appearance and manner were +suddenly transformed. He put on the air of a subordinate who obeys +without reasoning. With an affectation of respect which evidently struck +Alexander unpleasantly, he rode up and saluted. + +This unpleasant impression merely flitted over the young and happy face +of the Emperor like a cloud of haze across a clear sky and vanished. +After his illness he looked rather thinner that day than on the field +of Olmutz where Bolkonski had seen him for the first time abroad, but +there was still the same bewitching combination of majesty and mildness +in his fine gray eyes, and on his delicate lips the same capacity for +varying expression and the same prevalent appearance of goodhearted +innocent youth. + +At the Olmutz review he had seemed more majestic; here he seemed +brighter and more energetic. He was slightly flushed after galloping two +miles, and reining in his horse he sighed restfully and looked round +at the faces of his suite, young and animated as his own. Czartoryski, +Novosiltsev, Prince Volkonsky, Strogonov, and the others, all richly +dressed gay young men on splendid, well-groomed, fresh, only slightly +heated horses, exchanging remarks and smiling, had stopped behind the +Emperor. The Emperor Francis, a rosy, long faced young man, sat very +erect on his handsome black horse, looking about him in a leisurely and +preoccupied manner. He beckoned to one of his white adjutants and asked +some question--"Most likely he is asking at what o'clock they +started," thought Prince Andrew, watching his old acquaintance with +a smile he could not repress as he recalled his reception at Brunn. +In the Emperors' suite were the picked young orderly officers of the +Guard and line regiments, Russian and Austrian. Among them were grooms +leading the Tsar's beautiful relay horses covered with embroidered +cloths. + +As when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters +a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of +success reached Kutuzov's cheerless staff with the galloping advent +of all these brilliant young men. + +"Why aren't you beginning, Michael Ilarionovich?" said the +Emperor Alexander hurriedly to Kutuzov, glancing courteously at the +same time at the Emperor Francis. + +"I am waiting, Your Majesty," answered Kutuzov, bending forward +respectfully. + +The Emperor, frowning slightly, bent his ear forward as if he had not +quite heard. + +"Waiting, Your Majesty," repeated Kutuzov. (Prince Andrew noted +that Kutuzov's upper lip twitched unnaturally as he said the +word "waiting.") "Not all the columns have formed up yet, Your +Majesty." + +The Tsar heard but obviously did not like the reply; he shrugged his +rather round shoulders and glanced at Novosiltsev who was near him, as +if complaining of Kutuzov. + +"You know, Michael Ilarionovich, we are not on the Empress' Field +where a parade does not begin till all the troops are assembled," said +the Tsar with another glance at the Emperor Francis, as if inviting +him if not to join in at least to listen to what he was saying. But the +Emperor Francis continued to look about him and did not listen. + +"That is just why I do not begin, sire," said Kutuzov in a +resounding voice, apparently to preclude the possibility of not being +heard, and again something in his face twitched--"That is just why +I do not begin, sire, because we are not on parade and not on the +Empress' Field," said he clearly and distinctly. + +In the Emperor's suite all exchanged rapid looks that expressed +dissatisfaction and reproach. "Old though he may be, he should not, he +certainly should not, speak like that," their glances seemed to say. + +The Tsar looked intently and observantly into Kutuzov's eye +waiting to hear whether he would say anything more. But Kutuzov, with +respectfully bowed head, seemed also to be waiting. The silence lasted +for about a minute. + +"However, if you command it, Your Majesty," said Kutuzov, lifting +his head and again assuming his former tone of a dull, unreasoning, but +submissive general. + +He touched his horse and having called Miloradovich, the commander of +the column, gave him the order to advance. + +The troops again began to move, and two battalions of the Novgorod and +one of the Apsheron regiment went forward past the Emperor. + +As this Apsheron battalion marched by, the red-faced Miloradovich, +without his greatcoat, with his Orders on his breast and an enormous +tuft of plumes in his cocked hat worn on one side with its corners front +and back, galloped strenuously forward, and with a dashing salute reined +in his horse before the Emperor. + +"God be with you, general!" said the Emperor. + +"Ma foi, sire, nous ferons ce qui sera dans notre possibilite, +sire," * he answered gaily, raising nevertheless ironic smiles among +the gentlemen of the Tsar's suite by his poor French. + + * "Indeed, Sire, we shall do everything it is possible to + do, Sire." + + +Miloradovich wheeled his horse sharply and stationed himself a little +behind the Emperor. The Apsheron men, excited by the Tsar's presence, +passed in step before the Emperors and their suites at a bold, brisk +pace. + +"Lads!" shouted Miloradovich in a loud, self-confident, and cheery +voice, obviously so elated by the sound of firing, by the prospect of +battle, and by the sight of the gallant Apsherons, his comrades in +Suvorov's time, now passing so gallantly before the Emperors, that he +forgot the sovereigns' presence. "Lads, it's not the first village +you've had to take," cried he. + +"Glad to do our best!" shouted the soldiers. + +The Emperor's horse started at the sudden cry. This horse that had +carried the sovereign at reviews in Russia bore him also here on the +field of Austerlitz, enduring the heedless blows of his left foot and +pricking its ears at the sound of shots just as it had done on the +Empress' Field, not understanding the significance of the firing, nor +of the nearness of the Emperor Francis' black cob, nor of all that was +being said, thought, and felt that day by its rider. + +The Emperor turned with a smile to one of his followers and made a +remark to him, pointing to the gallant Apsherons. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +Kutuzov accompanied by his adjutants rode at a walking pace behind the +carabineers. + +When he had gone less than half a mile in the rear of the column he +stopped at a solitary, deserted house that had probably once been an +inn, where two roads parted. Both of them led downhill and troops were +marching along both. + +The fog had begun to clear and enemy troops were already dimly visible +about a mile and a half off on the opposite heights. Down below, on +the left, the firing became more distinct. Kutuzov had stopped and was +speaking to an Austrian general. Prince Andrew, who was a little behind +looking at them, turned to an adjutant to ask him for a field glass. + +"Look, look!" said this adjutant, looking not at the troops in the +distance, but down the hill before him. "It's the French!" + +The two generals and the adjutant took hold of the field glass, trying +to snatch it from one another. The expression on all their faces +suddenly changed to one of horror. The French were supposed to be a +mile and a half away, but had suddenly and unexpectedly appeared just in +front of us. + +"It's the enemy?... No!... Yes, see it is!... for certain.... But +how is that?" said different voices. + +With the naked eye Prince Andrew saw below them to the right, not more +than five hundred paces from where Kutuzov was standing, a dense French +column coming up to meet the Apsherons. + +"Here it is! The decisive moment has arrived. My turn has come," +thought Prince Andrew, and striking his horse he rode up to Kutuzov. + +"The Apsherons must be stopped, your excellency," cried he. But at +that very instant a cloud of smoke spread all round, firing was heard +quite close at hand, and a voice of naive terror barely two steps from +Prince Andrew shouted, "Brothers! All's lost!" And at this as if +at a command, everyone began to run. + +Confused and ever-increasing crowds were running back to where five +minutes before the troops had passed the Emperors. Not only would it +have been difficult to stop that crowd, it was even impossible not to +be carried back with it oneself. Bolkonski only tried not to lose +touch with it, and looked around bewildered and unable to grasp what was +happening in front of him. Nesvitski with an angry face, red and unlike +himself, was shouting to Kutuzov that if he did not ride away at once +he would certainly be taken prisoner. Kutuzov remained in the same +place and without answering drew out a handkerchief. Blood was flowing +from his cheek. Prince Andrew forced his way to him. + +"You are wounded?" he asked, hardly able to master the trembling of +his lower jaw. + +"The wound is not here, it is there!" said Kutuzov, pressing the +handkerchief to his wounded cheek and pointing to the fleeing soldiers. +"Stop them!" he shouted, and at the same moment, probably realizing +that it was impossible to stop them, spurred his horse and rode to the +right. + +A fresh wave of the flying mob caught him and bore him back with it. + +The troops were running in such a dense mass that once surrounded by +them it was difficult to get out again. One was shouting, "Get on! +Why are you hindering us?" Another in the same place turned round and +fired in the air; a third was striking the horse Kutuzov himself rode. +Having by a great effort got away to the left from that flood of men, +Kutuzov, with his suite diminished by more than half, rode toward a +sound of artillery fire near by. Having forced his way out of the crowd +of fugitives, Prince Andrew, trying to keep near Kutuzov, saw on the +slope of the hill amid the smoke a Russian battery that was still firing +and Frenchmen running toward it. Higher up stood some Russian infantry, +neither moving forward to protect the battery nor backward with the +fleeing crowd. A mounted general separated himself from the infantry and +approached Kutuzov. Of Kutuzov's suite only four remained. They were +all pale and exchanged looks in silence. + +"Stop those wretches!" gasped Kutuzov to the regimental commander, +pointing to the flying soldiers; but at that instant, as if to punish +him for those words, bullets flew hissing across the regiment and across +Kutuzov's suite like a flock of little birds. + +The French had attacked the battery and, seeing Kutuzov, were firing +at him. After this volley the regimental commander clutched at his leg; +several soldiers fell, and a second lieutenant who was holding the +flag let it fall from his hands. It swayed and fell, but caught on the +muskets of the nearest soldiers. The soldiers started firing without +orders. + +"Oh! Oh! Oh!" groaned Kutuzov despairingly and looked around.... +"Bolkonski!" he whispered, his voice trembling from a consciousness +of the feebleness of age, "Bolkonski!" he whispered, pointing to +the disordered battalion and at the enemy, "what's that?" + +But before he had finished speaking, Prince Andrew, feeling tears of +shame and anger choking him, had already leapt from his horse and run to +the standard. + +"Forward, lads!" he shouted in a voice piercing as a child's. + +"Here it is!" thought he, seizing the staff of the standard and +hearing with pleasure the whistle of bullets evidently aimed at him. +Several soldiers fell. + +"Hurrah!" shouted Prince Andrew, and, scarcely able to hold up +the heavy standard, he ran forward with full confidence that the whole +battalion would follow him. + +And really he only ran a few steps alone. One soldier moved and then +another and soon the whole battalion ran forward shouting "Hurrah!" +and overtook him. A sergeant of the battalion ran up and took the flag +that was swaying from its weight in Prince Andrew's hands, but he +was immediately killed. Prince Andrew again seized the standard and, +dragging it by the staff, ran on with the battalion. In front he saw our +artillerymen, some of whom were fighting, while others, having abandoned +their guns, were running toward him. He also saw French infantry +soldiers who were seizing the artillery horses and turning the guns +round. Prince Andrew and the battalion were already within twenty paces +of the cannon. He heard the whistle of bullets above him unceasingly and +to right and left of him soldiers continually groaned and dropped. But +he did not look at them: he looked only at what was going on in front +of him--at the battery. He now saw clearly the figure of a red-haired +gunner with his shako knocked awry, pulling one end of a mop while +a French soldier tugged at the other. He could distinctly see the +distraught yet angry expression on the faces of these two men, who +evidently did not realize what they were doing. + +"What are they about?" thought Prince Andrew as he gazed at them. +"Why doesn't the red-haired gunner run away as he is unarmed? +Why doesn't the Frenchman stab him? He will not get away before the +Frenchman remembers his bayonet and stabs him...." + +And really another French soldier, trailing his musket, ran up to +the struggling men, and the fate of the red-haired gunner, who had +triumphantly secured the mop and still did not realize what awaited him, +was about to be decided. But Prince Andrew did not see how it ended. It +seemed to him as though one of the soldiers near him hit him on the head +with the full swing of a bludgeon. It hurt a little, but the worst of +it was that the pain distracted him and prevented his seeing what he had +been looking at. + +"What's this? Am I falling? My legs are giving way," thought he, +and fell on his back. He opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle +of the Frenchmen with the gunners ended, whether the red-haired gunner +had been killed or not and whether the cannon had been captured or +saved. But he saw nothing. Above him there was now nothing but the +sky--the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray +clouds gliding slowly across it. "How quiet, peaceful, and solemn; not +at all as I ran," thought Prince Andrew--"not as we ran, shouting +and fighting, not at all as the gunner and the Frenchman with frightened +and angry faces struggled for the mop: how differently do those clouds +glide across that lofty infinite sky! How was it I did not see that +lofty sky before? And how happy I am to have found it at last! Yes! All +is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. There is nothing, +nothing, but that. But even it does not exist, there is nothing but +quiet and peace. Thank God!..." + + + + + +CHAPTER XVII + +On our right flank commanded by Bagration, at nine o'clock the battle +had not yet begun. Not wishing to agree to Dolgorukov's demand to +commence the action, and wishing to avert responsibility from himself, +Prince Bagration proposed to Dolgorukov to send to inquire of the +commander in chief. Bagration knew that as the distance between the two +flanks was more than six miles, even if the messenger were not killed +(which he very likely would be), and found the commander in chief +(which would be very difficult), he would not be able to get back before +evening. + +Bagration cast his large, expressionless, sleepy eyes round his suite, +and the boyish face Rostov, breathless with excitement and hope, was +the first to catch his eye. He sent him. + +"And if I should meet His Majesty before I meet the commander in +chief, your excellency?" said Rostov, with his hand to his cap. + +"You can give the message to His Majesty," said Dolgorukov, +hurriedly interrupting Bagration. + +On being relieved from picket duty Rostov had managed to get a few +hours' sleep before morning and felt cheerful, bold, and resolute, +with elasticity of movement, faith in his good fortune, and generally in +that state of mind which makes everything seem possible, pleasant, and +easy. + +All his wishes were being fulfilled that morning: there was to be a +general engagement in which he was taking part, more than that, he was +orderly to the bravest general, and still more, he was going with a +message to Kutuzov, perhaps even to the sovereign himself. The morning +was bright, he had a good horse under him, and his heart was full of +joy and happiness. On receiving the order he gave his horse the rein +and galloped along the line. At first he rode along the line of +Bagration's troops, which had not yet advanced into action but were +standing motionless; then he came to the region occupied by Uvarov's +cavalry and here he noticed a stir and signs of preparation for battle; +having passed Uvarov's cavalry he clearly heard the sound of cannon +and musketry ahead of him. The firing grew louder and louder. + +In the fresh morning air were now heard, not two or three musket shots +at irregular intervals as before, followed by one or two cannon shots, +but a roll of volleys of musketry from the slopes of the hill before +Pratzen, interrupted by such frequent reports of cannon that sometimes +several of them were not separated from one another but merged into a +general roar. + +He could see puffs of musketry smoke that seemed to chase one another +down the hillsides, and clouds of cannon smoke rolling, spreading, +and mingling with one another. He could also, by the gleam of bayonets +visible through the smoke, make out moving masses of infantry and narrow +lines of artillery with green caissons. + +Rostov stopped his horse for a moment on a hillock to see what was +going on, but strain his attention as he would he could not understand +or make out anything of what was happening: there in the smoke men of +some sort were moving about, in front and behind moved lines of troops; +but why, whither, and who they were, it was impossible to make out. +These sights and sounds had no depressing or intimidating effect on him; +on the contrary, they stimulated his energy and determination. + +"Go on! Go on! Give it them!" he mentally exclaimed at these sounds, +and again proceeded to gallop along the line, penetrating farther and +farther into the region where the army was already in action. + +"How it will be there I don't know, but all will be well!" thought +Rostov. + +After passing some Austrian troops he noticed that the next part of the +line (the Guards) was already in action. + +"So much the better! I shall see it close," he thought. + +He was riding almost along the front line. A handful of men came +galloping toward him. They were our Uhlans who with disordered +ranks were returning from the attack. Rostov got out of their way, +involuntarily noticed that one of them was bleeding, and galloped on. + +"That is no business of mine," he thought. He had not ridden many +hundred yards after that before he saw to his left, across the whole +width of the field, an enormous mass of cavalry in brilliant white +uniforms, mounted on black horses, trotting straight toward him and +across his path. Rostov put his horse to full gallop to get out of the +way of these men, and he would have got clear had they continued at the +same speed, but they kept increasing their pace, so that some of the +horses were already galloping. Rostov heard the thud of their hoofs +and the jingle of their weapons and saw their horses, their figures, and +even their faces, more and more distinctly. They were our Horse Guards, +advancing to attack the French cavalry that was coming to meet them. + +The Horse Guards were galloping, but still holding in their horses. +Rostov could already see their faces and heard the command: +"Charge!" shouted by an officer who was urging his thoroughbred to +full speed. Rostov, fearing to be crushed or swept into the attack on +the French, galloped along the front as hard as his horse could go, but +still was not in time to avoid them. + +The last of the Horse Guards, a huge pockmarked fellow, frowned angrily +on seeing Rostov before him, with whom he would inevitably collide. +This Guardsman would certainly have bowled Rostov and his Bedouin over +(Rostov felt himself quite tiny and weak compared to these gigantic men +and horses) had it not occurred to Rostov to flourish his whip before +the eyes of the Guardsman's horse. The heavy black horse, sixteen +hands high, shied, throwing back its ears; but the pockmarked Guardsman +drove his huge spurs in violently, and the horse, flourishing its tail +and extending its neck, galloped on yet faster. Hardly had the Horse +Guards passed Rostov before he heard them shout, "Hurrah!" and +looking back saw that their foremost ranks were mixed up with some +foreign cavalry with red epaulets, probably French. He could see nothing +more, for immediately afterwards cannon began firing from somewhere and +smoke enveloped everything. + +At that moment, as the Horse Guards, having passed him, disappeared in +the smoke, Rostov hesitated whether to gallop after them or to go where +he was sent. This was the brilliant charge of the Horse Guards that +amazed the French themselves. Rostov was horrified to hear later that +of all that mass of huge and handsome men, of all those brilliant, +rich youths, officers and cadets, who had galloped past him on their +thousand-ruble horses, only eighteen were left after the charge. + +"Why should I envy them? My chance is not lost, and maybe I shall see +the Emperor immediately!" thought Rostov and galloped on. + +When he came level with the Foot Guards he noticed that about them and +around them cannon balls were flying, of which he was aware not so +much because he heard their sound as because he saw uneasiness on +the soldiers' faces and unnatural warlike solemnity on those of the +officers. + +Passing behind one of the lines of a regiment of Foot Guards he heard a +voice calling him by name. + +"Rostov!" + +"What?" he answered, not recognizing Boris. + +"I say, we've been in the front line! Our regiment attacked!" said +Boris with the happy smile seen on the faces of young men who have been +under fire for the first time. + +Rostov stopped. + +"Have you?" he said. "Well, how did it go?" + +"We drove them back!" said Boris with animation, growing talkative. +"Can you imagine it?" and he began describing how the Guards, having +taken up their position and seeing troops before them, thought they were +Austrians, and all at once discovered from the cannon balls discharged +by those troops that they were themselves in the front line and had +unexpectedly to go into action. Rostov without hearing Boris to the +end spurred his horse. + +"Where are you off to?" asked Boris. + +"With a message to His Majesty." + +"There he is!" said Boris, thinking Rostov had said "His +Highness," and pointing to the Grand Duke who with his high shoulders +and frowning brows stood a hundred paces away from them in his helmet +and Horse Guards' jacket, shouting something to a pale, white +uniformed Austrian officer. + +"But that's the Grand Duke, and I want the commander in chief or the +Emperor," said Rostov, and was about to spur his horse. + +"Count! Count!" shouted Berg who ran up from the other side as eager +as Boris. "Count! I am wounded in my right hand" (and he showed his +bleeding hand with a handkerchief tied round it) "and I remained at +the front. I held my sword in my left hand, Count. All our family--the +von Bergs--have been knights!" + +He said something more, but Rostov did not wait to hear it and rode +away. + +Having passed the Guards and traversed an empty space, Rostov, to avoid +again getting in front of the first line as he had done when the Horse +Guards charged, followed the line of reserves, going far round the place +where the hottest musket fire and cannonade were heard. Suddenly he +heard musket fire quite close in front of him and behind our troops, +where he could never have expected the enemy to be. + +"What can it be?" he thought. "The enemy in the rear of our army? +Impossible!" And suddenly he was seized by a panic of fear for himself +and for the issue of the whole battle. "But be that what it may," +he reflected, "there is no riding round it now. I must look for the +commander in chief here, and if all is lost it is for me to perish with +the rest." + +The foreboding of evil that had suddenly come over Rostov was more and +more confirmed the farther he rode into the region behind the village of +Pratzen, which was full of troops of all kinds. + +"What does it mean? What is it? Whom are they firing at? Who is +firing?" Rostov kept asking as he came up to Russian and Austrian +soldiers running in confused crowds across his path. + +"The devil knows! They've killed everybody! It's all up now!" +he was told in Russian, German, and Czech by the crowd of fugitives who +understood what was happening as little as he did. + +"Kill the Germans!" shouted one. + +"May the devil take them--the traitors!" + +"Zum Henker diese Russen!" * muttered a German. + + * "Hang these Russians!" + + +Several wounded men passed along the road, and words of abuse, screams, +and groans mingled in a general hubbub, then the firing died down. +Rostov learned later that Russian and Austrian soldiers had been firing +at one another. + +"My God! What does it all mean?" thought he. "And here, where at +any moment the Emperor may see them.... But no, these must be only a +handful of scoundrels. It will soon be over, it can't be that, it +can't be! Only to get past them quicker, quicker!" + +The idea of defeat and flight could not enter Rostov's head. Though +he saw French cannon and French troops on the Pratzen Heights just where +he had been ordered to look for the commander in chief, he could not, +did not wish to, believe that. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVIII + +Rostov had been ordered to look for Kutuzov and the Emperor near the +village of Pratzen. But neither they nor a single commanding officer +were there, only disorganized crowds of troops of various kinds. He +urged on his already weary horse to get quickly past these crowds, but +the farther he went the more disorganized they were. The highroad on +which he had come out was thronged with caleches, carriages of all +sorts, and Russian and Austrian soldiers of all arms, some wounded and +some not. This whole mass droned and jostled in confusion under the +dismal influence of cannon balls flying from the French batteries +stationed on the Pratzen Heights. + +"Where is the Emperor? Where is Kutuzov?" Rostov kept asking +everyone he could stop, but got no answer from anyone. + +At last seizing a soldier by his collar he forced him to answer. + +"Eh, brother! They've all bolted long ago!" said the soldier, +laughing for some reason and shaking himself free. + +Having left that soldier who was evidently drunk, Rostov stopped the +horse of a batman or groom of some important personage and began to +question him. The man announced that the Tsar had been driven in a +carriage at full speed about an hour before along that very road and +that he was dangerously wounded. + +"It can't be!" said Rostov. "It must have been someone else." + +"I saw him myself," replied the man with a self-confident smile of +derision. "I ought to know the Emperor by now, after the times I've +seen him in Petersburg. I saw him just as I see you.... There he sat in +the carriage as pale as anything. How they made the four black horses +fly! Gracious me, they did rattle past! It's time I knew the Imperial +horses and Ilya Ivanych. I don't think Ilya drives anyone except +the Tsar!" + +Rostov let go of the horse and was about to ride on, when a wounded +officer passing by addressed him: + +"Who is it you want?" he asked. "The commander in chief? He was +killed by a cannon ball--struck in the breast before our regiment." + +"Not killed--wounded!" another officer corrected him. + +"Who? Kutuzov?" asked Rostov. + +"Not Kutuzov, but what's his name--well, never mind... there are +not many left alive. Go that way, to that village, all the commanders +are there," said the officer, pointing to the village of Hosjeradek, +and he walked on. + +Rostov rode on at a footpace not knowing why or to whom he was now +going. The Emperor was wounded, the battle lost. It was impossible to +doubt it now. Rostov rode in the direction pointed out to him, in which +he saw turrets and a church. What need to hurry? What was he now to say +to the Tsar or to Kutuzov, even if they were alive and unwounded? + +"Take this road, your honor, that way you will be killed at once!" a +soldier shouted to him. "They'd kill you there!" + +"Oh, what are you talking about?" said another. "Where is he to +go? That way is nearer." + +Rostov considered, and then went in the direction where they said he +would be killed. + +"It's all the same now. If the Emperor is wounded, am I to try to +save myself?" he thought. He rode on to the region where the greatest +number of men had perished in fleeing from Pratzen. The French had not +yet occupied that region, and the Russians--the uninjured and slightly +wounded--had left it long ago. All about the field, like heaps of +manure on well-kept plowland, lay from ten to fifteen dead and wounded +to each couple of acres. The wounded crept together in twos and threes +and one could hear their distressing screams and groans, sometimes +feigned--or so it seemed to Rostov. He put his horse to a trot to +avoid seeing all these suffering men, and he felt afraid--afraid not +for his life, but for the courage he needed and which he knew would not +stand the sight of these unfortunates. + +The French, who had ceased firing at this field strewn with dead and +wounded where there was no one left to fire at, on seeing an adjutant +riding over it trained a gun on him and fired several shots. The +sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around +him merged in Rostov's mind into a single feeling of terror and pity +for himself. He remembered his mother's last letter. "What would she +feel," thought he, "if she saw me here now on this field with the +cannon aimed at me?" + +In the village of Hosjeradek there were Russian troops retiring from +the field of battle, who though still in some confusion were less +disordered. The French cannon did not reach there and the musketry fire +sounded far away. Here everyone clearly saw and said that the battle +was lost. No one whom Rostov asked could tell him where the Emperor +or Kutuzov was. Some said the report that the Emperor was wounded was +correct, others that it was not, and explained the false rumor that had +spread by the fact that the Emperor's carriage had really galloped +from the field of battle with the pale and terrified Ober-Hofmarschal +Count Tolstoy, who had ridden out to the battlefield with others in +the Emperor's suite. One officer told Rostov that he had seen someone +from headquarters behind the village to the left, and thither Rostov +rode, not hoping to find anyone but merely to ease his conscience. When +he had ridden about two miles and had passed the last of the Russian +troops, he saw, near a kitchen garden with a ditch round it, two men +on horseback facing the ditch. One with a white plume in his hat seemed +familiar to Rostov; the other on a beautiful chestnut horse (which +Rostov fancied he had seen before) rode up to the ditch, struck his +horse with his spurs, and giving it the rein leaped lightly over. Only +a little earth crumbled from the bank under the horse's hind hoofs. +Turning the horse sharply, he again jumped the ditch, and deferentially +addressed the horseman with the white plumes, evidently suggesting +that he should do the same. The rider, whose figure seemed familiar +to Rostov and involuntarily riveted his attention, made a gesture of +refusal with his head and hand and by that gesture Rostov instantly +recognized his lamented and adored monarch. + +"But it can't be he, alone in the midst of this empty field!" +thought Rostov. At that moment Alexander turned his head and Rostov +saw the beloved features that were so deeply engraved on his memory. The +Emperor was pale, his cheeks sunken and his eyes hollow, but the charm, +the mildness of his features, was all the greater. Rostov was happy +in the assurance that the rumors about the Emperor being wounded were +false. He was happy to be seeing him. He knew that he might and even +ought to go straight to him and give the message Dolgorukov had ordered +him to deliver. + +But as a youth in love trembles, is unnerved, and dares not utter the +thoughts he has dreamed of for nights, but looks around for help or a +chance of delay and flight when the longed-for moment comes and he is +alone with her, so Rostov, now that he had attained what he had longed +for more than anything else in the world, did not know how to approach +the Emperor, and a thousand reasons occurred to him why it would be +inconvenient, unseemly, and impossible to do so. + +"What! It is as if I were glad of a chance to take advantage of +his being alone and despondent! A strange face may seem unpleasant or +painful to him at this moment of sorrow; besides, what can I say to him +now, when my heart fails me and my mouth feels dry at the mere sight +of him?" Not one of the innumerable speeches addressed to the Emperor +that he had composed in his imagination could he now recall. Those +speeches were intended for quite other conditions, they were for the +most part to be spoken at a moment of victory and triumph, generally +when he was dying of wounds and the sovereign had thanked him for heroic +deeds, and while dying he expressed the love his actions had proved. + +"Besides how can I ask the Emperor for his instructions for the right +flank now that it is nearly four o'clock and the battle is lost? +No, certainly I must not approach him, I must not intrude on his +reflections. Better die a thousand times than risk receiving an unkind +look or bad opinion from him," Rostov decided; and sorrowfully and +with a heart full despair he rode away, continually looking back at the +Tsar, who still remained in the same attitude of indecision. + +While Rostov was thus arguing with himself and riding sadly away, +Captain von Toll chanced to ride to the same spot, and seeing the +Emperor at once rode up to him, offered his services, and assisted him +to cross the ditch on foot. The Emperor, wishing to rest and feeling +unwell, sat down under an apple tree and von Toll remained beside him. +Rostov from a distance saw with envy and remorse how von Toll spoke +long and warmly to the Emperor and how the Emperor, evidently weeping, +covered his eyes with his hand and pressed von Toll's hand. + +"And I might have been in his place!" thought Rostov, and hardly +restraining his tears of pity for the Emperor, he rode on in utter +despair, not knowing where to or why he was now riding. + +His despair was all the greater from feeling that his own weakness was +the cause of his grief. + +He might... not only might but should, have gone up to the sovereign. It +was a unique chance to show his devotion to the Emperor and he had not +made use of it.... "What have I done?" thought he. And he turned +round and galloped back to the place where he had seen the Emperor, but +there was no one beyond the ditch now. Only some carts and carriages +were passing by. From one of the drivers he learned that Kutuzov's +staff were not far off, in the village the vehicles were going to. +Rostov followed them. In front of him walked Kutuzov's groom leading +horses in horsecloths. Then came a cart, and behind that walked an old, +bandy-legged domestic serf in a peaked cap and sheepskin coat. + +"Tit! I say, Tit!" said the groom. + +"What?" answered the old man absent-mindedly. + +"Go, Tit! Thresh a bit!" + +"Oh, you fool!" said the old man, spitting angrily. Some time passed +in silence, and then the same joke was repeated. + + +Before five in the evening the battle had been lost at all points. More +than a hundred cannon were already in the hands of the French. + +Przebyszewski and his corps had laid down their arms. Other columns +after losing half their men were retreating in disorderly confused +masses. + +The remains of Langeron's and Dokhturov's mingled forces were +crowding around the dams and banks of the ponds near the village of +Augesd. + +After five o'clock it was only at the Augesd Dam that a hot cannonade +(delivered by the French alone) was still to be heard from numerous +batteries ranged on the slopes of the Pratzen Heights, directed at our +retreating forces. + +In the rearguard, Dokhturov and others rallying some battalions kept up +a musketry fire at the French cavalry that was pursuing our troops. It +was growing dusk. On the narrow Augesd Dam where for so many years the +old miller had been accustomed to sit in his tasseled cap peacefully +angling, while his grandson, with shirt sleeves rolled up, handled the +floundering silvery fish in the watering can, on that dam over which for +so many years Moravians in shaggy caps and blue jackets had peacefully +driven their two-horse carts loaded with wheat and had returned dusty +with flour whitening their carts--on that narrow dam amid the wagons +and the cannon, under the horses' hoofs and between the wagon wheels, +men disfigured by fear of death now crowded together, crushing one +another, dying, stepping over the dying and killing one another, only to +move on a few steps and be killed themselves in the same way. + +Every ten seconds a cannon ball flew compressing the air around, or +a shell burst in the midst of that dense throng, killing some and +splashing with blood those near them. + +Dolokhov--now an officer--wounded in the arm, and on foot, with +the regimental commander on horseback and some ten men of his company, +represented all that was left of that whole regiment. Impelled by the +crowd, they had got wedged in at the approach to the dam and, jammed in +on all sides, had stopped because a horse in front had fallen under a +cannon and the crowd were dragging it out. A cannon ball killed someone +behind them, another fell in front and splashed Dolokhov with blood. +The crowd, pushing forward desperately, squeezed together, moved a few +steps, and again stopped. + +"Move on a hundred yards and we are certainly saved, remain here +another two minutes and it is certain death," thought each one. + +Dolokhov who was in the midst of the crowd forced his way to the edge +of the dam, throwing two soldiers off their feet, and ran onto the +slippery ice that covered the millpool. + +"Turn this way!" he shouted, jumping over the ice which creaked +under him; "turn this way!" he shouted to those with the gun. "It +bears!..." + +The ice bore him but it swayed and creaked, and it was plain that it +would give way not only under a cannon or a crowd, but very soon even +under his weight alone. The men looked at him and pressed to the +bank, hesitating to step onto the ice. The general on horseback at the +entrance to the dam raised his hand and opened his mouth to address +Dolokhov. Suddenly a cannon ball hissed so low above the crowd that +everyone ducked. It flopped into something moist, and the general fell +from his horse in a pool of blood. Nobody gave him a look or thought of +raising him. + +"Get onto the ice, over the ice! Go on! Turn! Don't you hear? Go +on!" innumerable voices suddenly shouted after the ball had struck +the general, the men themselves not knowing what, or why, they were +shouting. + +One of the hindmost guns that was going onto the dam turned off onto the +ice. Crowds of soldiers from the dam began running onto the frozen pond. +The ice gave way under one of the foremost soldiers, and one leg slipped +into the water. He tried to right himself but fell in up to his waist. +The nearest soldiers shrank back, the gun driver stopped his horse, but +from behind still came the shouts: "Onto the ice, why do you stop? Go +on! Go on!" And cries of horror were heard in the crowd. The soldiers +near the gun waved their arms and beat the horses to make them turn and +move on. The horses moved off the bank. The ice, that had held under +those on foot, collapsed in a great mass, and some forty men who were on +it dashed, some forward and some back, drowning one another. + +Still the cannon balls continued regularly to whistle and flop onto the +ice and into the water and oftenest of all among the crowd that covered +the dam, the pond, and the bank. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIX + +On the Pratzen Heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his +hand, lay Prince Andrew Bolkonski bleeding profusely and unconsciously +uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan. + +Toward evening he ceased moaning and became quite still. He did not know +how long his unconsciousness lasted. Suddenly he again felt that he was +alive and suffering from a burning, lacerating pain in his head. + +"Where is it, that lofty sky that I did not know till now, but saw +today?" was his first thought. "And I did not know this suffering +either," he thought. "Yes, I did not know anything, anything at all +till now. But where am I?" + +He listened and heard the sound of approaching horses, and voices +speaking French. He opened his eyes. Above him again was the same lofty +sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and +between them gleamed blue infinity. He did not turn his head and did not +see those who, judging by the sound of hoofs and voices, had ridden up +and stopped near him. + +It was Napoleon accompanied by two aides-de-camp. Bonaparte riding +over the battlefield had given final orders to strengthen the batteries +firing at the Augesd Dam and was looking at the killed and wounded left +on the field. + +"Fine men!" remarked Napoleon, looking at a dead Russian grenadier, +who, with his face buried in the ground and a blackened nape, lay on his +stomach with an already stiffened arm flung wide. + +"The ammunition for the guns in position is exhausted, Your +Majesty," said an adjutant who had come from the batteries that were +firing at Augesd. + +"Have some brought from the reserve," said Napoleon, and having gone +on a few steps he stopped before Prince Andrew, who lay on his back with +the flagstaff that had been dropped beside him. (The flag had already +been taken by the French as a trophy.) + +"That's a fine death!" said Napoleon as he gazed at Bolkonski. + +Prince Andrew understood that this was said of him and that it was +Napoleon who said it. He heard the speaker addressed as Sire. But he +heard the words as he might have heard the buzzing of a fly. Not only +did they not interest him, but he took no notice of them and at once +forgot them. His head was burning, he felt himself bleeding to death, +and he saw above him the remote, lofty, and everlasting sky. He knew it +was Napoleon--his hero--but at that moment Napoleon seemed to him +such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was passing now +between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over +it. At that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over +him, or what was said of him; he was only glad that people were standing +near him and only wished that they would help him and bring him back to +life, which seemed to him so beautiful now that he had today learned to +understand it so differently. He collected all his strength, to stir and +utter a sound. He feebly moved his leg and uttered a weak, sickly groan +which aroused his own pity. + +"Ah! He is alive," said Napoleon. "Lift this young man up and +carry him to the dressing station." + +Having said this, Napoleon rode on to meet Marshal Lannes, who, hat in +hand, rode up smiling to the Emperor to congratulate him on the victory. + +Prince Andrew remembered nothing more: he lost consciousness from the +terrible pain of being lifted onto the stretcher, the jolting while +being moved, and the probing of his wound at the dressing station. +He did not regain consciousness till late in the day, when with other +wounded and captured Russian officers he was carried to the hospital. +During this transfer he felt a little stronger and was able to look +about him and even speak. + +The first words he heard on coming to his senses were those of a French +convoy officer, who said rapidly: "We must halt here: the Emperor +will pass here immediately; it will please him to see these gentlemen +prisoners." + +"There are so many prisoners today, nearly the whole Russian army, +that he is probably tired of them," said another officer. + +"All the same! They say this one is the commander of all the Emperor +Alexander's Guards," said the first one, indicating a Russian +officer in the white uniform of the Horse Guards. + +Bolkonski recognized Prince Repnin whom he had met in Petersburg +society. Beside him stood a lad of nineteen, also a wounded officer of +the Horse Guards. + +Bonaparte, having come up at a gallop, stopped his horse. + +"Which is the senior?" he asked, on seeing the prisoners. + +They named the colonel, Prince Repnin. + +"You are the commander of the Emperor Alexander's regiment of Horse +Guards?" asked Napoleon. + +"I commanded a squadron," replied Repnin. + +"Your regiment fulfilled its duty honorably," said Napoleon. + +"The praise of a great commander is a soldier's highest reward," +said Repnin. + +"I bestow it with pleasure," said Napoleon. "And who is that young +man beside you?" + +Prince Repnin named Lieutenant Sukhtelen. + +After looking at him Napoleon smiled. + +"He's very young to come to meddle with us." + +"Youth is no hindrance to courage," muttered Sukhtelen in a failing +voice. + +"A splendid reply!" said Napoleon. "Young man, you will go far!" + +Prince Andrew, who had also been brought forward before the Emperor's +eyes to complete the show of prisoners, could not fail to attract his +attention. Napoleon apparently remembered seeing him on the battlefield +and, addressing him, again used the epithet "young man" that was +connected in his memory with Prince Andrew. + +"Well, and you, young man," said he. "How do you feel, mon +brave?" + +Though five minutes before, Prince Andrew had been able to say a few +words to the soldiers who were carrying him, now with his eyes fixed +straight on Napoleon, he was silent.... So insignificant at that moment +seemed to him all the interests that engrossed Napoleon, so mean did his +hero himself with his paltry vanity and joy in victory appear, +compared to the lofty, equitable, and kindly sky which he had seen and +understood, that he could not answer him. + +Everything seemed so futile and insignificant in comparison with the +stern and solemn train of thought that weakness from loss of blood, +suffering, and the nearness of death aroused in him. Looking into +Napoleon's eyes Prince Andrew thought of the insignificance of +greatness, the unimportance of life which no one could understand, and +the still greater unimportance of death, the meaning of which no one +alive could understand or explain. + +The Emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of +the officers as he went: "Have these gentlemen attended to and taken +to my bivouac; let my doctor, Larrey, examine their wounds. Au revoir, +Prince Repnin!" and he spurred his horse and galloped away. + +His face shone with self-satisfaction and pleasure. + +The soldiers who had carried Prince Andrew had noticed and taken the +little gold icon Princess Mary had hung round her brother's neck, but +seeing the favor the Emperor showed the prisoners, they now hastened to +return the holy image. + +Prince Andrew did not see how and by whom it was replaced, but the +little icon with its thin gold chain suddenly appeared upon his chest +outside his uniform. + +"It would be good," thought Prince Andrew, glancing at the icon his +sister had hung round his neck with such emotion and reverence, "it +would be good if everything were as clear and simple as it seems to +Mary. How good it would be to know where to seek for help in this life, +and what to expect after it beyond the grave! How happy and calm I +should be if I could now say: 'Lord, have mercy on me!'... But to +whom should I say that? Either to a Power indefinable, incomprehensible, +which I not only cannot address but which I cannot even express in +words--the Great All or Nothing-" said he to himself, "or to +that God who has been sewn into this amulet by Mary! There is nothing +certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything I +understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but +all-important." + +The stretchers moved on. At every jolt he again felt unendurable pain; +his feverishness increased and he grew delirious. Visions of his father, +wife, sister, and future son, and the tenderness he had felt the night +before the battle, the figure of the insignificant little Napoleon, and +above all this the lofty sky, formed the chief subjects of his delirious +fancies. + +The quiet home life and peaceful happiness of Bald Hills presented +itself to him. He was already enjoying that happiness when that +little Napoleon had suddenly appeared with his unsympathizing look of +shortsighted delight at the misery of others, and doubts and torments +had followed, and only the heavens promised peace. Toward morning +all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of +unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of Napoleon's doctor, +Larrey, was much more likely to end in death than in convalescence. + +"He is a nervous, bilious subject," said Larrey, "and will not +recover." + +And Prince Andrew, with others fatally wounded, was left to the care of +the inhabitants of the district. + + + + + +BOOK FOUR: 1806 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +Early in the year 1806 Nicholas Rostov returned home on leave. Denisov +was going home to Voronezh and Rostov persuaded him to travel with him +as far as Moscow and to stay with him there. Meeting a comrade at +the last post station but one before Moscow, Denisov had drunk three +bottles of wine with him and, despite the jolting ruts across the +snow-covered road, did not once wake up on the way to Moscow, but lay +at the bottom of the sleigh beside Rostov, who grew more and more +impatient the nearer they got to Moscow. + +"How much longer? How much longer? Oh, these insufferable streets, +shops, bakers' signboards, street lamps, and sleighs!" thought +Rostov, when their leave permits had been passed at the town gate and +they had entered Moscow. + +"Denisov! We're here! He's asleep," he added, leaning forward +with his whole body as if in that position he hoped to hasten the speed +of the sleigh. + +Denisov gave no answer. + +"There's the corner at the crossroads, where the cabman, Zakhar, +has his stand, and there's Zakhar himself and still the same horse! +And here's the little shop where we used to buy gingerbread! Can't +you hurry up? Now then!" + +"Which house is it?" asked the driver. + +"Why, that one, right at the end, the big one. Don't you see? +That's our house," said Rostov. "Of course, it's our house! +Denisov, Denisov! We're almost there!" + +Denisov raised his head, coughed, and made no answer. + +"Dmitri," said Rostov to his valet on the box, "those lights are +in our house, aren't they?" + +"Yes, sir, and there's a light in your father's study." + +"Then they've not gone to bed yet? What do you think? Mind now, +don't forget to put out my new coat," added Rostov, fingering his +new mustache. "Now then, get on," he shouted to the driver. "Do +wake up, Vaska!" he went on, turning to Denisov, whose head +was again nodding. "Come, get on! You shall have three rubles for +vodka--get on!" Rostov shouted, when the sleigh was only three +houses from his door. It seemed to him the horses were not moving at +all. At last the sleigh bore to the right, drew up at an entrance, and +Rostov saw overhead the old familiar cornice with a bit of plaster +broken off, the porch, and the post by the side of the pavement. He +sprang out before the sleigh stopped, and ran into the hall. The house +stood cold and silent, as if quite regardless of who had come to it. +There was no one in the hall. "Oh God! Is everyone all right?" +he thought, stopping for a moment with a sinking heart, and then +immediately starting to run along the hall and up the warped steps of +the familiar staircase. The well-known old door handle, which always +angered the countess when it was not properly cleaned, turned as loosely +as ever. A solitary tallow candle burned in the anteroom. + +Old Michael was asleep on the chest. Prokofy, the footman, who was +so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat +plaiting slippers out of cloth selvedges. He looked up at the opening +door and his expression of sleepy indifference suddenly changed to one +of delighted amazement. + +"Gracious heavens! The young count!" he cried, recognizing his +young master. "Can it be? My treasure!" and Prokofy, trembling with +excitement, rushed toward the drawing room door, probably in order to +announce him, but, changing his mind, came back and stooped to kiss the +young man's shoulder. + +"All well?" asked Rostov, drawing away his arm. + +"Yes, God be thanked! Yes! They've just finished supper. Let me have +a look at you, your excellency." + +"Is everything quite all right?" + +"The Lord be thanked, yes!" + +Rostov, who had completely forgotten Denisov, not wishing anyone to +forestall him, threw off his fur coat and ran on tiptoe through the +large dark ballroom. All was the same: there were the same old card +tables and the same chandelier with a cover over it; but someone had +already seen the young master, and, before he had reached the drawing +room, something flew out from a side door like a tornado and began +hugging and kissing him. Another and yet another creature of the same +kind sprang from a second door and a third; more hugging, more kissing, +more outcries, and tears of joy. He could not distinguish which was +Papa, which Natasha, and which Petya. Everyone shouted, talked, and +kissed him at the same time. Only his mother was not there, he noticed +that. + +"And I did not know... Nicholas... My darling!..." + +"Here he is... our own... Kolya, * dear fellow... How he has +changed!... Where are the candles?... Tea!..." + + * Nicholas. + +"And me, kiss me!" + +"Dearest... and me!" + +Sonya, Natasha, Petya, Anna Mikhaylovna, Vera, and the old count +were all hugging him, and the serfs, men and maids, flocked into the +room, exclaiming and oh-ing and ah-ing. + +Petya, clinging to his legs, kept shouting, "And me too!" + +Natasha, after she had pulled him down toward her and covered his face +with kisses, holding him tight by the skirt of his coat, sprang away and +pranced up and down in one place like a goat and shrieked piercingly. + +All around were loving eyes glistening with tears of joy, and all around +were lips seeking a kiss. + +Sonya too, all rosy red, clung to his arm and, radiant with bliss, +looked eagerly toward his eyes, waiting for the look for which she +longed. Sonya now was sixteen and she was very pretty, especially at +this moment of happy, rapturous excitement. She gazed at him, not taking +her eyes off him, and smiling and holding her breath. He gave her a +grateful look, but was still expectant and looking for someone. The old +countess had not yet come. But now steps were heard at the door, steps +so rapid that they could hardly be his mother's. + +Yet it was she, dressed in a new gown which he did not know, made since +he had left. All the others let him go, and he ran to her. When they +met, she fell on his breast, sobbing. She could not lift her face, but +only pressed it to the cold braiding of his hussar's jacket. Denisov, +who had come into the room unnoticed by anyone, stood there and wiped +his eyes at the sight. + +"Vasili Denisov, your son's friend," he said, introducing +himself to the count, who was looking inquiringly at him. + +"You are most welcome! I know, I know," said the count, kissing and +embracing Denisov. "Nicholas wrote us... Natasha, Vera, look! Here +is Denisov!" + +The same happy, rapturous faces turned to the shaggy figure of Denisov. + +"Darling Denisov!" screamed Natasha, beside herself with rapture, +springing to him, putting her arms round him, and kissing him. This +escapade made everybody feel confused. Denisov blushed too, but smiled +and, taking Natasha's hand, kissed it. + +Denisov was shown to the room prepared for him, and the Rostovs all +gathered round Nicholas in the sitting room. + +The old countess, not letting go of his hand and kissing it every +moment, sat beside him: the rest, crowding round him, watched every +movement, word, or look of his, never taking their blissfully adoring +eyes off him. His brother and sisters struggled for the places nearest +to him and disputed with one another who should bring him his tea, +handkerchief, and pipe. + +Rostov was very happy in the love they showed him; but the first +moment of meeting had been so beatific that his present joy seemed +insufficient, and he kept expecting something more, more and yet more. + +Next morning, after the fatigues of their journey, the travelers slept +till ten o'clock. + +In the room next their bedroom there was a confusion of sabers, +satchels, sabretaches, open portmanteaus, and dirty boots. Two freshly +cleaned pairs with spurs had just been placed by the wall. The servants +were bringing in jugs and basins, hot water for shaving, and their +well-brushed clothes. There was a masculine odor and a smell of tobacco. + +"Hallo, Gwiska--my pipe!" came Vasili Denisov's husky voice. +"Wostov, get up!" + +Rostov, rubbing his eyes that seemed glued together, raised his +disheveled head from the hot pillow. + +"Why, is it late?" + +"Late! It's nearly ten o'clock," answered Natasha's voice. +A rustle of starched petticoats and the whispering and laughter of +girls' voices came from the adjoining room. The door was opened a +crack and there was a glimpse of something blue, of ribbons, black hair, +and merry faces. It was Natasha, Sonya, and Petya, who had come to +see whether they were getting up. + +"Nicholas! Get up!" Natasha's voice was again heard at the door. + +"Directly!" + +Meanwhile, Petya, having found and seized the sabers in the outer room, +with the delight boys feel at the sight of a military elder brother, and +forgetting that it was unbecoming for the girls to see men undressed, +opened the bedroom door. + +"Is this your saber?" he shouted. + +The girls sprang aside. Denisov hid his hairy legs under the blanket, +looking with a scared face at his comrade for help. The door, having let +Petya in, closed again. A sound of laughter came from behind it. + +"Nicholas! Come out in your dressing gown!" said Natasha's voice. + +"Is this your saber?" asked Petya. "Or is it yours?" he said, +addressing the black-mustached Denisov with servile deference. + +Rostov hurriedly put something on his feet, drew on his dressing gown, +and went out. Natasha had put on one spurred boot and was just getting +her foot into the other. Sonya, when he came in, was twirling round and +was about to expand her dresses into a balloon and sit down. They were +dressed alike, in new pale-blue frocks, and were both fresh, rosy, and +bright. Sonya ran away, but Natasha, taking her brother's arm, led +him into the sitting room, where they began talking. They hardly gave +one another time to ask questions and give replies concerning a thousand +little matters which could not interest anyone but themselves. Natasha +laughed at every word he said or that she said herself, not because what +they were saying was amusing, but because she felt happy and was unable +to control her joy which expressed itself by laughter. + +"Oh, how nice, how splendid!" she said to everything. + +Rostov felt that, under the influence of the warm rays of love, that +childlike smile which had not once appeared on his face since he left +home now for the first time after eighteen months again brightened his +soul and his face. + +"No, but listen," she said, "now you are quite a man, aren't +you? I'm awfully glad you're my brother." She touched his +mustache. "I want to know what you men are like. Are you the same as +we? No?" + +"Why did Sonya run away?" asked Rostov. + +"Ah, yes! That's a whole long story! How are you going to speak to +her--thou or you?" + +"As may happen," said Rostov. + +"No, call her you, please! I'll tell you all about it some other +time. No, I'll tell you now. You know Sonya's my dearest friend. +Such a friend that I burned my arm for her sake. Look here!" + +She pulled up her muslin sleeve and showed him a red scar on her long, +slender, delicate arm, high above the elbow on that part that is covered +even by a ball dress. + +"I burned this to prove my love for her. I just heated a ruler in the +fire and pressed it there!" + +Sitting on the sofa with the little cushions on its arms, in what used +to be his old schoolroom, and looking into Natasha's wildly bright +eyes, Rostov re-entered that world of home and childhood which had no +meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the best joys of his life; +and the burning of an arm with a ruler as a proof of love did not seem +to him senseless, he understood and was not surprised at it. + +"Well, and is that all?" he asked. + +"We are such friends, such friends! All that ruler business was just +nonsense, but we are friends forever. She, if she loves anyone, does it +for life, but I don't understand that, I forget quickly." + +"Well, what then?" + +"Well, she loves me and you like that." + +Natasha suddenly flushed. + +"Why, you remember before you went away?... Well, she says you are to +forget all that.... She says: 'I shall love him always, but let him be +free.' Isn't that lovely and noble! Yes, very noble? Isn't it?" +asked Natasha, so seriously and excitedly that it was evident that what +she was now saying she had talked of before, with tears. + +Rostov became thoughtful. + +"I never go back on my word," he said. "Besides, Sonya is so +charming that only a fool would renounce such happiness." + +"No, no!" cried Natasha, "she and I have already talked it over. +We knew you'd say so. But it won't do, because you see, if you say +that--if you consider yourself bound by your promise--it will seem as +if she had not meant it seriously. It makes it as if you were marrying +her because you must, and that wouldn't do at all." + +Rostov saw that it had been well considered by them. Sonya had already +struck him by her beauty on the preceding day. Today, when he had caught +a glimpse of her, she seemed still more lovely. She was a charming girl +of sixteen, evidently passionately in love with him (he did not doubt +that for an instant). Why should he not love her now, and even marry +her, Rostov thought, but just now there were so many other pleasures +and interests before him! "Yes, they have taken a wise decision," he +thought, "I must remain free." + +"Well then, that's excellent," said he. "We'll talk it over +later on. Oh, how glad I am to have you!" + +"Well, and are you still true to Boris?" he continued. + +"Oh, what nonsense!" cried Natasha, laughing. "I don't think +about him or anyone else, and I don't want anything of the kind." + +"Dear me! Then what are you up to now?" + +"Now?" repeated Natasha, and a happy smile lit up her face. "Have +you seen Duport?" + +"No." + +"Not seen Duport--the famous dancer? Well then, you won't +understand. That's what I'm up to." + +Curving her arms, Natasha held out her skirts as dancers do, ran back +a few steps, turned, cut a caper, brought her little feet sharply +together, and made some steps on the very tips of her toes. + +"See, I'm standing! See!" she said, but could not maintain herself +on her toes any longer. "So that's what I'm up to! I'll never +marry anyone, but will be a dancer. Only don't tell anyone." + +Rostov laughed so loud and merrily that Denisov, in his bedroom, felt +envious and Natasha could not help joining in. + +"No, but don't you think it's nice?" she kept repeating. + +"Nice! And so you no longer wish to marry Boris?" + +Natasha flared up. "I don't want to marry anyone. And I'll tell +him so when I see him!" + +"Dear me!" said Rostov. + +"But that's all rubbish," Natasha chattered on. "And is +Denisov nice?" she asked. + +"Yes, indeed!" + +"Oh, well then, good-by: go and dress. Is he very terrible, +Denisov?" + +"Why terrible?" asked Nicholas. "No, Vaska is a splendid +fellow." + +"You call him Vaska? That's funny! And is he very nice?" + +"Very." + +"Well then, be quick. We'll all have breakfast together." + +And Natasha rose and went out of the room on tiptoe, like a ballet +dancer, but smiling as only happy girls of fifteen can smile. When +Rostov met Sonya in the drawing room, he reddened. He did not know +how to behave with her. The evening before, in the first happy moment of +meeting, they had kissed each other, but today they felt it could not +be done; he felt that everybody, including his mother and sisters, was +looking inquiringly at him and watching to see how he would behave +with her. He kissed her hand and addressed her not as thou but as +you--Sonya. But their eyes met and said thou, and exchanged tender +kisses. Her looks asked him to forgive her for having dared, by +Natasha's intermediacy, to remind him of his promise, and then +thanked him for his love. His looks thanked her for offering him his +freedom and told her that one way or another he would never cease to +love her, for that would be impossible. + +"How strange it is," said Vera, selecting a moment when all were +silent, "that Sonya and Nicholas now say you to one another and meet +like strangers." + +Vera's remark was correct, as her remarks always were, but, like +most of her observations, it made everyone feel uncomfortable, not +only Sonya, Nicholas, and Natasha, but even the old countess, +who--dreading this love affair which might hinder Nicholas from making +a brilliant match--blushed like a girl. + +Denisov, to Rostov's surprise, appeared in the drawing room with +pomaded hair, perfumed, and in a new uniform, looking just as smart as +he made himself when going into battle, and he was more amiable to the +ladies and gentlemen than Rostov had ever expected to see him. + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +On his return to Moscow from the army, Nicholas Rostov was welcomed +by his home circle as the best of sons, a hero, and their darling +Nikolenka; by his relations as a charming, attractive, and polite young +man; by his acquaintances as a handsome lieutenant of hussars, a good +dancer, and one of the best matches in the city. + +The Rostovs knew everybody in Moscow. The old count had money enough +that year, as all his estates had been remortgaged, and so Nicholas, +acquiring a trotter of his own, very stylish riding breeches of the +latest cut, such as no one else yet had in Moscow, and boots of the +latest fashion, with extremely pointed toes and small silver spurs, +passed his time very gaily. After a short period of adapting himself +to the old conditions of life, Nicholas found it very pleasant to be +at home again. He felt that he had grown up and matured very much. His +despair at failing in a Scripture examination, his borrowing money from +Gavril to pay a sleigh driver, his kissing Sonya on the sly--he now +recalled all this as childishness he had left immeasurably behind. +Now he was a lieutenant of hussars, in a jacket laced with silver, and +wearing the Cross of St. George, awarded to soldiers for bravery in +action, and in the company of well-known, elderly, and respected racing +men was training a trotter of his own for a race. He knew a lady on one +of the boulevards whom he visited of an evening. He led the mazurka +at the Arkharovs' ball, talked about the war with Field Marshal +Kamenski, visited the English Club, and was on intimate terms with a +colonel of forty to whom Denisov had introduced him. + +His passion for the Emperor had cooled somewhat in Moscow. But still, as +he did not see him and had no opportunity of seeing him, he often spoke +about him and about his love for him, letting it be understood that he +had not told all and that there was something in his feelings for the +Emperor not everyone could understand, and with his whole soul he shared +the adoration then common in Moscow for the Emperor, who was spoken of +as the "angel incarnate." + +During Rostov's short stay in Moscow, before rejoining the army, he +did not draw closer to Sonya, but rather drifted away from her. She was +very pretty and sweet, and evidently deeply in love with him, but he was +at the period of youth when there seems so much to do that there is no +time for that sort of thing and a young man fears to bind himself and +prizes his freedom which he needs for so many other things. When he +thought of Sonya, during this stay in Moscow, he said to himself, +"Ah, there will be, and there are, many more such girls somewhere whom +I do not yet know. There will be time enough to think about love when I +want to, but now I have no time." Besides, it seemed to him that the +society of women was rather derogatory to his manhood. He went to balls +and into ladies' society with an affectation of doing so against his +will. The races, the English Club, sprees with Denisov, and visits to +a certain house--that was another matter and quite the thing for a +dashing young hussar! + +At the beginning of March, old Count Ilya Rostov was very busy +arranging a dinner in honor of Prince Bagration at the English Club. + +The count walked up and down the hall in his dressing gown, giving +orders to the club steward and to the famous Feoktist, the club's +head cook, about asparagus, fresh cucumbers, strawberries, veal, and +fish for this dinner. The count had been a member and on the committee +of the club from the day it was founded. To him the club entrusted the +arrangement of the festival in honor of Bagration, for few men knew +so well how to arrange a feast on an open-handed, hospitable scale, +and still fewer men would be so well able and willing to make up out of +their own resources what might be needed for the success of the fete. +The club cook and the steward listened to the count's orders with +pleased faces, for they knew that under no other management could they +so easily extract a good profit for themselves from a dinner costing +several thousand rubles. + +"Well then, mind and have cocks' comb in the turtle soup, you +know!" + +"Shall we have three cold dishes then?" asked the cook. + +The count considered. + +"We can't have less--yes, three... the mayonnaise, that's one," +said he, bending down a finger. + +"Then am I to order those large sterlets?" asked the steward. + +"Yes, it can't be helped if they won't take less. Ah, dear me! I +was forgetting. We must have another entree. Ah, goodness gracious!" +he clutched at his head. "Who is going to get me the flowers? Dmitri! +Eh, Dmitri! Gallop off to our Moscow estate," he said to the factotum +who appeared at his call. "Hurry off and tell Maksim, the gardener, +to set the serfs to work. Say that everything out of the hothouses must +be brought here well wrapped up in felt. I must have two hundred pots +here on Friday." + +Having given several more orders, he was about to go to his "little +countess" to have a rest, but remembering something else of +importance, he returned again, called back the cook and the club +steward, and again began giving orders. A light footstep and the +clinking of spurs were heard at the door, and the young count, handsome, +rosy, with a dark little mustache, evidently rested and made sleeker by +his easy life in Moscow, entered the room. + +"Ah, my boy, my head's in a whirl!" said the old man with a smile, +as if he felt a little confused before his son. "Now, if you would +only help a bit! I must have singers too. I shall have my own orchestra, +but shouldn't we get the gypsy singers as well? You military men like +that sort of thing." + +"Really, Papa, I believe Prince Bagration worried himself less before +the battle of Schon Grabern than you do now," said his son with a +smile. + +The old count pretended to be angry. + +"Yes, you talk, but try it yourself!" + +And the count turned to the cook, who, with a shrewd and respectful +expression, looked observantly and sympathetically at the father and +son. + +"What have the young people come to nowadays, eh, Feoktist?" said +he. "Laughing at us old fellows!" + +"That's so, your excellency, all they have to do is to eat a good +dinner, but providing it and serving it all up, that's not their +business!" + +"That's it, that's it!" exclaimed the count, and gaily seizing +his son by both hands, he cried, "Now I've got you, so take the +sleigh and pair at once, and go to Bezukhov's, and tell him 'Count +Ilya has sent you to ask for strawberries and fresh pineapples.' We +can't get them from anyone else. He's not there himself, so you'll +have to go in and ask the princesses; and from there go on to the +Rasgulyay--the coachman Ipatka knows--and look up the gypsy +Ilyushka, the one who danced at Count Orlov's, you remember, in a +white Cossack coat, and bring him along to me." + +"And am I to bring the gypsy girls along with him?" asked Nicholas, +laughing. "Dear, dear!..." + +At that moment, with noiseless footsteps and with the businesslike, +preoccupied, yet meekly Christian look which never left her face, Anna +Mikhaylovna entered the hall. Though she came upon the count in his +dressing gown every day, he invariably became confused and begged her to +excuse his costume. + +"No matter at all, my dear count," she said, meekly closing her +eyes. "But I'll go to Bezukhov's myself. Pierre has arrived, and +now we shall get anything we want from his hothouses. I have to see him +in any case. He has forwarded me a letter from Boris. Thank God, Boris +is now on the staff." + +The count was delighted at Anna Mikhaylovna's taking upon herself one +of his commissions and ordered the small closed carriage for her. + +"Tell Bezukhov to come. I'll put his name down. Is his wife with +him?" he asked. + +Anna Mikhaylovna turned up her eyes, and profound sadness was depicted +on her face. + +"Ah, my dear friend, he is very unfortunate," she said. "If what +we hear is true, it is dreadful. How little we dreamed of such a thing +when we were rejoicing at his happiness! And such a lofty angelic soul +as young Bezukhov! Yes, I pity him from my heart, and shall try to give +him what consolation I can." + +"Wh-what is the matter?" asked both the young and old Rostov. + +Anna Mikhaylovna sighed deeply. + +"Dolokhov, Mary Ivanovna's son," she said in a mysterious +whisper, "has compromised her completely, they say. Pierre took him +up, invited him to his house in Petersburg, and now... she has come here +and that daredevil after her!" said Anna Mikhaylovna, wishing to show +her sympathy for Pierre, but by involuntary intonations and a half smile +betraying her sympathy for the "daredevil," as she called Dolokhov. +"They say Pierre is quite broken by his misfortune." + +"Dear, dear! But still tell him to come to the club--it will all blow +over. It will be a tremendous banquet." + +Next day, the third of March, soon after one o'clock, two hundred and +fifty members of the English Club and fifty guests were awaiting the +guest of honor and hero of the Austrian campaign, Prince Bagration, to +dinner. + +On the first arrival of the news of the battle of Austerlitz, Moscow had +been bewildered. At that time, the Russians were so used to victories +that on receiving news of the defeat some would simply not believe it, +while others sought some extraordinary explanation of so strange an +event. In the English Club, where all who were distinguished, important, +and well informed foregathered when the news began to arrive in +December, nothing was said about the war and the last battle, as +though all were in a conspiracy of silence. The men who set the tone +in conversation--Count Rostopchin, Prince Yuri Dolgorukov, Valuev, +Count Markov, and Prince Vyazemski--did not show themselves at the +club, but met in private houses in intimate circles, and the +Moscovites who took their opinions from others--Ilya Rostov among +them--remained for a while without any definite opinion on the subject +of the war and without leaders. The Moscovites felt that something was +wrong and that to discuss the bad news was difficult, and so it was best +to be silent. But after a while, just as a jury comes out of its room, +the bigwigs who guided the club's opinion reappeared, and everybody +began speaking clearly and definitely. Reasons were found for the +incredible, unheard-of, and impossible event of a Russian defeat, +everything became clear, and in all corners of Moscow the same things +began to be said. These reasons were the treachery of the Austrians, a +defective commissariat, the treachery of the Pole Przebyszewski and of +the Frenchman Langeron, Kutuzov's incapacity, and (it was whispered) +the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless +and insignificant people. But the army, the Russian army, everyone +declared, was extraordinary and had achieved miracles of valor. The +soldiers, officers, and generals were heroes. But the hero of heroes was +Prince Bagration, distinguished by his Schon Grabern affair and by +the retreat from Austerlitz, where he alone had withdrawn his column +unbroken and had all day beaten back an enemy force twice as numerous +as his own. What also conduced to Bagration's being selected as +Moscow's hero was the fact that he had no connections in the city +and was a stranger there. In his person, honor was shown to a simple +fighting Russian soldier without connections and intrigues, and to one +who was associated by memories of the Italian campaign with the name of +Suvorov. Moreover, paying such honor to Bagration was the best way of +expressing disapproval and dislike of Kutuzov. + +"Had there been no Bagration, it would have been necessary to +invent him," said the wit Shinshin, parodying the words of Voltaire. +Kutuzov no one spoke of, except some who abused him in whispers, +calling him a court weathercock and an old satyr. + +All Moscow repeated Prince Dolgorukov's saying: "If you go on +modeling and modeling you must get smeared with clay," suggesting +consolation for our defeat by the memory of former victories; and the +words of Rostopchin, that French soldiers have to be incited to battle +by highfalutin words, and Germans by logical arguments to show them +that it is more dangerous to run away than to advance, but that Russian +soldiers only need to be restrained and held back! On all sides, new and +fresh anecdotes were heard of individual examples of heroism shown by +our officers and men at Austerlitz. One had saved a standard, another +had killed five Frenchmen, a third had loaded five cannon singlehanded. +Berg was mentioned, by those who did not know him, as having, when +wounded in the right hand, taken his sword in the left, and gone +forward. Of Bolkonski, nothing was said, and only those who knew him +intimately regretted that he had died so young, leaving a pregnant wife +with his eccentric father. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +On that third of March, all the rooms in the English Club were filled +with a hum of conversation, like the hum of bees swarming in springtime. +The members and guests of the club wandered hither and thither, sat, +stood, met, and separated, some in uniform and some in evening dress, +and a few here and there with powdered hair and in Russian kaftans. +Powdered footmen, in livery with buckled shoes and smart stockings, +stood at every door anxiously noting visitors' every movement in order +to offer their services. Most of those present were elderly, respected +men with broad, self-confident faces, fat fingers, and resolute gestures +and voices. This class of guests and members sat in certain habitual +places and met in certain habitual groups. A minority of those present +were casual guests--chiefly young men, among whom were Denisov, +Rostov, and Dolokhov--who was now again an officer in the Semenov +regiment. The faces of these young people, especially those who were +military men, bore that expression of condescending respect for their +elders which seems to say to the older generation, "We are prepared to +respect and honor you, but all the same remember that the future belongs +to us." + +Nesvitski was there as an old member of the club. Pierre, who at his +wife's command had let his hair grow and abandoned his spectacles, +went about the rooms fashionably dressed but looking sad and dull. Here, +as elsewhere, he was surrounded by an atmosphere of subservience to +his wealth, and being in the habit of lording it over these people, he +treated them with absent-minded contempt. + +By his age he should have belonged to the younger men, but by his wealth +and connections he belonged to the groups of old and honored guests, and +so he went from one group to another. Some of the most important old men +were the center of groups which even strangers approached respectfully +to hear the voices of well-known men. The largest circles formed round +Count Rostopchin, Valuev, and Naryshkin. Rostopchin was describing +how the Russians had been overwhelmed by flying Austrians and had had to +force their way through them with bayonets. + +Valuev was confidentially telling that Uvarov had been sent from +Petersburg to ascertain what Moscow was thinking about Austerlitz. + +In the third circle, Naryshkin was speaking of the meeting of the +Austrian Council of War at which Suvorov crowed like a cock in reply to +the nonsense talked by the Austrian generals. Shinshin, standing close +by, tried to make a joke, saying that Kutuzov had evidently failed to +learn from Suvorov even so simple a thing as the art of crowing like a +cock, but the elder members glanced severely at the wit, making him +feel that in that place and on that day, it was improper to speak so of +Kutuzov. + +Count Ilya Rostov, hurried and preoccupied, went about in his soft +boots between the dining and drawing rooms, hastily greeting the +important and unimportant, all of whom he knew, as if they were all +equals, while his eyes occasionally sought out his fine well-set-up +young son, resting on him and winking joyfully at him. Young Rostov +stood at a window with Dolokhov, whose acquaintance he had lately +made and highly valued. The old count came up to them and pressed +Dolokhov's hand. + +"Please come and visit us... you know my brave boy... been together +out there... both playing the hero... Ah, Vasili Ignatovich... +How d'ye do, old fellow?" he said, turning to an old man who was +passing, but before he had finished his greeting there was a general +stir, and a footman who had run in announced, with a frightened face: +"He's arrived!" + +Bells rang, the stewards rushed forward, and--like rye shaken together +in a shovel--the guests who had been scattered about in different rooms +came together and crowded in the large drawing room by the door of the +ballroom. + +Bagration appeared in the doorway of the anteroom without hat or sword, +which, in accord with the club custom, he had given up to the hall +porter. He had no lambskin cap on his head, nor had he a loaded whip +over his shoulder, as when Rostov had seen him on the eve of the battle +of Austerlitz, but wore a tight new uniform with Russian and foreign +Orders, and the Star of St. George on his left breast. Evidently just +before coming to the dinner he had had his hair and whiskers trimmed, +which changed his appearance for the worse. There was something naively +festive in his air, which, in conjunction with his firm and virile +features, gave him a rather comical expression. Bekleshev and Theodore +Uvarov, who had arrived with him, paused at the doorway to allow him, +as the guest of honor, to enter first. Bagration was embarrassed, not +wishing to avail himself of their courtesy, and this caused some delay +at the doors, but after all he did at last enter first. He walked shyly +and awkwardly over the parquet floor of the reception room, not knowing +what to do with his hands; he was more accustomed to walk over a plowed +field under fire, as he had done at the head of the Kursk regiment at +Schon Grabern--and he would have found that easier. The committeemen +met him at the first door and, expressing their delight at seeing such a +highly honored guest, took possession of him as it were, without waiting +for his reply, surrounded him, and led him to the drawing room. It was +at first impossible to enter the drawing room door for the crowd of +members and guests jostling one another and trying to get a good look +at Bagration over each other's shoulders, as if he were some rare +animal. Count Ilya Rostov, laughing and repeating the words, "Make +way, dear boy! Make way, make way!" pushed through the crowd more +energetically than anyone, led the guests into the drawing room, and +seated them on the center sofa. The bigwigs, the most respected members +of the club, beset the new arrivals. Count Ilya, again thrusting his +way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a +minute later with another committeeman, carrying a large silver salver +which he presented to Prince Bagration. On the salver lay some verses +composed and printed in the hero's honor. Bagration, on seeing the +salver, glanced around in dismay, as though seeking help. But all eyes +demanded that he should submit. Feeling himself in their power, he +resolutely took the salver with both hands and looked sternly and +reproachfully at the count who had presented it to him. Someone +obligingly took the dish from Bagration (or he would, it seemed, have +held it till evening and have gone in to dinner with it) and drew his +attention to the verses. + +"Well, I will read them, then!" Bagration seemed to say, and, +fixing his weary eyes on the paper, began to read them with a fixed and +serious expression. But the author himself took the verses and began +reading them aloud. Bagration bowed his head and listened: + + Bring glory then to Alexander's reign + And on the throne our Titus shield. + A dreaded foe be thou, kindhearted as a man, + A Rhipheus at home, a Caesar in the field! + E'en fortunate Napoleon + Knows by experience, now, Bagration, + And dare not Herculean Russians trouble... + +But before he had finished reading, a stentorian major-domo announced +that dinner was ready! The door opened, and from the dining room came +the resounding strains of the polonaise: + + Conquest's joyful thunder waken, + Triumph, valiant Russians, now!... + +and Count Rostov, glancing angrily at the author who went on reading +his verses, bowed to Bagration. Everyone rose, feeling that dinner +was more important than verses, and Bagration, again preceding all the +rest, went in to dinner. He was seated in the place of honor between +two Alexanders--Bekleshev and Naryshkin--which was a significant +allusion to the name of the sovereign. Three hundred persons took their +seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the +more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows +deepest where the land lies lowest. + +Just before dinner, Count Ilya Rostov presented his son to Bagration, +who recognized him and said a few words to him, disjointed and awkward, +as were all the words he spoke that day, and Count Ilya looked joyfully +and proudly around while Bagration spoke to his son. + +Nicholas Rostov, with Denisov and his new acquaintance, Dolokhov, sat +almost at the middle of the table. Facing them sat Pierre, beside Prince +Nesvitski. Count Ilya Rostov with the other members of the committee +sat facing Bagration and, as the very personification of Moscow +hospitality, did the honors to the prince. + +His efforts had not been in vain. The dinner, both the Lenten and the +other fare, was splendid, yet he could not feel quite at ease till the +end of the meal. He winked at the butler, whispered directions to the +footmen, and awaited each expected dish with some anxiety. Everything +was excellent. With the second course, a gigantic sterlet (at sight of +which Ilya Rostov blushed with self-conscious pleasure), the footmen +began popping corks and filling the champagne glasses. After the fish, +which made a certain sensation, the count exchanged glances with +the other committeemen. "There will be many toasts, it's time to +begin," he whispered, and taking up his glass, he rose. All were +silent, waiting for what he would say. + +"To the health of our Sovereign, the Emperor!" he cried, and at the +same moment his kindly eyes grew moist with tears of joy and enthusiasm. +The band immediately struck up "Conquest's joyful thunder +waken..." All rose and cried "Hurrah!" Bagration also rose and +shouted "Hurrah!" in exactly the same voice in which he had shouted +it on the field at Schon Grabern. Young Rostov's ecstatic voice +could be heard above the three hundred others. He nearly wept. "To the +health of our Sovereign, the Emperor!" he roared, "Hurrah!" and +emptying his glass at one gulp he dashed it to the floor. Many followed +his example, and the loud shouting continued for a long time. When the +voices subsided, the footmen cleared away the broken glass and everybody +sat down again, smiling at the noise they had made and exchanging +remarks. The old count rose once more, glanced at a note lying beside +his plate, and proposed a toast, "To the health of the hero of our +last campaign, Prince Peter Ivanovich Bagration!" and again his blue +eyes grew moist. "Hurrah!" cried the three hundred voices again, +but instead of the band a choir began singing a cantata composed by Paul +Ivanovich Kutuzov: + + Russians! O'er all barriers on! + Courage conquest guarantees; + Have we not Bagration? + He brings foemen to their knees,... etc. + +As soon as the singing was over, another and another toast was proposed +and Count Ilya Rostov became more and more moved, more glass was +smashed, and the shouting grew louder. They drank to Bekleshev, +Naryshkin, Uvarov, Dolgorukov, Apraksin, Valuev, to the committee, +to all the club members and to all the club guests, and finally to +Count Ilya Rostov separately, as the organizer of the banquet. At that +toast, the count took out his handkerchief and, covering his face, wept +outright. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +Pierre sat opposite Dolokhov and Nicholas Rostov. As usual, he ate and +drank much, and eagerly. But those who knew him intimately noticed that +some great change had come over him that day. He was silent all through +dinner and looked about, blinking and scowling, or, with fixed eyes and +a look of complete absent-mindedness, kept rubbing the bridge of his +nose. His face was depressed and gloomy. He seemed to see and hear +nothing of what was going on around him and to be absorbed by some +depressing and unsolved problem. + +The unsolved problem that tormented him was caused by hints given by the +princess, his cousin, at Moscow, concerning Dolokhov's intimacy with +his wife, and by an anonymous letter he had received that morning, which +in the mean jocular way common to anonymous letters said that he saw +badly through his spectacles, but that his wife's connection with +Dolokhov was a secret to no one but himself. Pierre absolutely +disbelieved both the princess' hints and the letter, but he feared +now to look at Dolokhov, who was sitting opposite him. Every time +he chanced to meet Dolokhov's handsome insolent eyes, Pierre felt +something terrible and monstrous rising in his soul and turned quickly +away. Involuntarily recalling his wife's past and her relations with +Dolokhov, Pierre saw clearly that what was said in the letter might be +true, or might at least seem to be true had it not referred to his wife. +He involuntarily remembered how Dolokhov, who had fully recovered his +former position after the campaign, had returned to Petersburg and come +to him. Availing himself of his friendly relations with Pierre as a boon +companion, Dolokhov had come straight to his house, and Pierre had put +him up and lent him money. Pierre recalled how Helene had smilingly +expressed disapproval of Dolokhov's living at their house, and how +cynically Dolokhov had praised his wife's beauty to him and from that +time till they came to Moscow had not left them for a day. + +"Yes, he is very handsome," thought Pierre, "and I know him. It +would be particularly pleasant to him to dishonor my name and ridicule +me, just because I have exerted myself on his behalf, befriended him, +and helped him. I know and understand what a spice that would add to the +pleasure of deceiving me, if it really were true. Yes, if it were true, +but I do not believe it. I have no right to, and can't, believe it." +He remembered the expression Dolokhov's face assumed in his moments +of cruelty, as when tying the policeman to the bear and dropping them +into the water, or when he challenged a man to a duel without any +reason, or shot a post-boy's horse with a pistol. That expression +was often on Dolokhov's face when looking at him. "Yes, he is a +bully," thought Pierre, "to kill a man means nothing to him. It must +seem to him that everyone is afraid of him, and that must please him. +He must think that I, too, am afraid of him--and in fact I am afraid of +him," he thought, and again he felt something terrible and monstrous +rising in his soul. Dolokhov, Denisov, and Rostov were now sitting +opposite Pierre and seemed very gay. Rostov was talking merrily to his +two friends, one of whom was a dashing hussar and the other a notorious +duelist and rake, and every now and then he glanced ironically at +Pierre, whose preoccupied, absent-minded, and massive figure was a very +noticeable one at the dinner. Rostov looked inimically at Pierre, +first because Pierre appeared to his hussar eyes as a rich civilian, the +husband of a beauty, and in a word--an old woman; and secondly because +Pierre in his preoccupation and absent-mindedness had not recognized +Rostov and had not responded to his greeting. When the Emperor's +health was drunk, Pierre, lost in thought, did not rise or lift his +glass. + +"What are you about?" shouted Rostov, looking at him in an ecstasy +of exasperation. "Don't you hear it's His Majesty the Emperor's +health?" + +Pierre sighed, rose submissively, emptied his glass, and, waiting till +all were seated again, turned with his kindly smile to Rostov. + +"Why, I didn't recognize you!" he said. But Rostov was otherwise +engaged; he was shouting "Hurrah!" + +"Why don't you renew the acquaintance?" said Dolokhov to Rostov. + +"Confound him, he's a fool!" said Rostov. + +"One should make up to the husbands of pretty women," said Denisov. + +Pierre did not catch what they were saying, but knew they were talking +about him. He reddened and turned away. + +"Well, now to the health of handsome women!" said Dolokhov, and +with a serious expression, but with a smile lurking at the corners of +his mouth, he turned with his glass to Pierre. + +"Here's to the health of lovely women, Peterkin--and their +lovers!" he added. + +Pierre, with downcast eyes, drank out of his glass without looking at +Dolokhov or answering him. The footman, who was distributing leaflets +with Kutuzov's cantata, laid one before Pierre as one of the +principal guests. He was just going to take it when Dolokhov, leaning +across, snatched it from his hand and began reading it. Pierre looked +at Dolokhov and his eyes dropped, the something terrible and monstrous +that had tormented him all dinnertime rose and took possession of him. +He leaned his whole massive body across the table. + +"How dare you take it?" he shouted. + +Hearing that cry and seeing to whom it was addressed, Nesvitski and the +neighbor on his right quickly turned in alarm to Bezukhov. + +"Don't! Don't! What are you about?" whispered their frightened +voices. + +Dolokhov looked at Pierre with clear, mirthful, cruel eyes, and that +smile of his which seemed to say, "Ah! This is what I like!" + +"You shan't have it!" he said distinctly. + +Pale, with quivering lips, Pierre snatched the copy. + +"You...! you... scoundrel! I challenge you!" he ejaculated, and, +pushing back his chair, he rose from the table. + +At the very instant he did this and uttered those words, Pierre felt +that the question of his wife's guilt which had been tormenting him +the whole day was finally and indubitably answered in the affirmative. +He hated her and was forever sundered from her. Despite Denisov's +request that he would take no part in the matter, Rostov agreed to be +Dolokhov's second, and after dinner he discussed the arrangements for +the duel with Nesvitski, Bezukhov's second. Pierre went home, but +Rostov with Dolokhov and Denisov stayed on at the club till late, +listening to the gypsies and other singers. + +"Well then, till tomorrow at Sokolniki," said Dolokhov, as he took +leave of Rostov in the club porch. + +"And do you feel quite calm?" Rostov asked. + +Dolokhov paused. + +"Well, you see, I'll tell you the whole secret of dueling in two +words. If you are going to fight a duel, and you make a will and write +affectionate letters to your parents, and if you think you may be +killed, you are a fool and are lost for certain. But go with the firm +intention of killing your man as quickly and surely as possible, and +then all will be right, as our bear huntsman at Kostroma used to tell +me. 'Everyone fears a bear,' he says, 'but when you see one your +fear's all gone, and your only thought is not to let him get away!' +And that's how it is with me. A demain, mon cher." * + + * Till tomorrow, my dear fellow. + +Next day, at eight in the morning, Pierre and Nesvitski drove to the +Sokolniki forest and found Dolokhov, Denisov, and Rostov already +there. Pierre had the air of a man preoccupied with considerations which +had no connection with the matter in hand. His haggard face was yellow. +He had evidently not slept that night. He looked about distractedly and +screwed up his eyes as if dazzled by the sun. He was entirely absorbed +by two considerations: his wife's guilt, of which after his sleepless +night he had not the slightest doubt, and the guiltlessness of +Dolokhov, who had no reason to preserve the honor of a man who was +nothing to him.... "I should perhaps have done the same thing in his +place," thought Pierre. "It's even certain that I should have done +the same, then why this duel, this murder? Either I shall kill him, or +he will hit me in the head, or elbow, or knee. Can't I go away from +here, run away, bury myself somewhere?" passed through his mind. But +just at moments when such thoughts occurred to him, he would ask in a +particularly calm and absent-minded way, which inspired the respect of +the onlookers, "Will it be long? Are things ready?" + +When all was ready, the sabers stuck in the snow to mark the barriers, +and the pistols loaded, Nesvitski went up to Pierre. + +"I should not be doing my duty, Count," he said in timid tones, +"and should not justify your confidence and the honor you have done +me in choosing me for your second, if at this grave, this very +grave, moment I did not tell you the whole truth. I think there is no +sufficient ground for this affair, or for blood to be shed over it.... +You were not right, not quite in the right, you were impetuous..." + +"Oh yes, it is horribly stupid," said Pierre. + +"Then allow me to express your regrets, and I am sure your opponent +will accept them," said Nesvitski (who like the others concerned in +the affair, and like everyone in similar cases, did not yet believe that +the affair had come to an actual duel). "You know, Count, it is much +more honorable to admit one's mistake than to let matters become +irreparable. There was no insult on either side. Allow me to +convey...." + +"No! What is there to talk about?" said Pierre. "It's all the +same.... Is everything ready?" he added. "Only tell me where to go +and where to shoot," he said with an unnaturally gentle smile. + +He took the pistol in his hand and began asking about the working of the +trigger, as he had not before held a pistol in his hand--a fact that he +did not wish to confess. + +"Oh yes, like that, I know, I only forgot," said he. + +"No apologies, none whatever," said Dolokhov to Denisov (who on +his side had been attempting a reconciliation), and he also went up to +the appointed place. + +The spot chosen for the duel was some eighty paces from the road, +where the sleighs had been left, in a small clearing in the pine forest +covered with melting snow, the frost having begun to break up during the +last few days. The antagonists stood forty paces apart at the farther +edge of the clearing. The seconds, measuring the paces, left tracks in +the deep wet snow between the place where they had been standing and +Nesvitski's and Dolokhov's sabers, which were stuck into the +ground ten paces apart to mark the barrier. It was thawing and misty; at +forty paces' distance nothing could be seen. For three minutes all had +been ready, but they still delayed and all were silent. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +"Well begin!" said Dolokhov. + +"All right," said Pierre, still smiling in the same way. A feeling +of dread was in the air. It was evident that the affair so lightly begun +could no longer be averted but was taking its course independently of +men's will. + +Denisov first went to the barrier and announced: "As the +adve'sawies have wefused a weconciliation, please pwoceed. Take your +pistols, and at the word thwee begin to advance. + +"O-ne! T-wo! Thwee!" he shouted angrily and stepped aside. + +The combatants advanced along the trodden tracks, nearer and nearer to +one another, beginning to see one another through the mist. They had the +right to fire when they liked as they approached the barrier. Dolokhov +walked slowly without raising his pistol, looking intently with his +bright, sparkling blue eyes into his antagonist's face. His mouth wore +its usual semblance of a smile. + +"So I can fire when I like!" said Pierre, and at the word +"three," he went quickly forward, missing the trodden path and +stepping into the deep snow. He held the pistol in his right hand at +arm's length, apparently afraid of shooting himself with it. His left +hand he held carefully back, because he wished to support his right +hand with it and knew he must not do so. Having advanced six paces and +strayed off the track into the snow, Pierre looked down at his feet, +then quickly glanced at Dolokhov and, bending his finger as he had been +shown, fired. Not at all expecting so loud a report, Pierre shuddered +at the sound and then, smiling at his own sensations, stood still. The +smoke, rendered denser by the mist, prevented him from seeing anything +for an instant, but there was no second report as he had expected. He +only heard Dolokhov's hurried steps, and his figure came in view +through the smoke. He was pressing one hand to his left side, while +the other clutched his drooping pistol. His face was pale. Rostov ran +toward him and said something. + +"No-o-o!" muttered Dolokhov through his teeth, "no, it's not +over." And after stumbling a few staggering steps right up to the +saber, he sank on the snow beside it. His left hand was bloody; he wiped +it on his coat and supported himself with it. His frowning face was +pallid and quivered. + +"Plea..." began Dolokhov, but could not at first pronounce the +word. + +"Please," he uttered with an effort. + +Pierre, hardly restraining his sobs, began running toward Dolokhov and +was about to cross the space between the barriers, when Dolokhov cried: + +"To your barrier!" and Pierre, grasping what was meant, stopped by +his saber. Only ten paces divided them. Dolokhov lowered his head to +the snow, greedily bit at it, again raised his head, adjusted himself, +drew in his legs and sat up, seeking a firm center of gravity. He sucked +and swallowed the cold snow, his lips quivered but his eyes, still +smiling, glittered with effort and exasperation as he mustered his +remaining strength. He raised his pistol and aimed. + +"Sideways! Cover yourself with your pistol!" ejaculated Nesvitski. + +"Cover yourself!" even Denisov cried to his adversary. + +Pierre, with a gentle smile of pity and remorse, his arms and legs +helplessly spread out, stood with his broad chest directly facing +Dolokhov and looked sorrowfully at him. Denisov, Rostov, and +Nesvitski closed their eyes. At the same instant they heard a report +and Dolokhov's angry cry. + +"Missed!" shouted Dolokhov, and he lay helplessly, face downwards +on the snow. + +Pierre clutched his temples, and turning round went into the forest, +trampling through the deep snow, and muttering incoherent words: + +"Folly... folly! Death... lies..." he repeated, puckering his face. + +Nesvitski stopped him and took him home. + +Rostov and Denisov drove away with the wounded Dolokhov. + +The latter lay silent in the sleigh with closed eyes and did not answer +a word to the questions addressed to him. But on entering Moscow he +suddenly came to and, lifting his head with an effort, took Rostov, who +was sitting beside him, by the hand. Rostov was struck by the +totally altered and unexpectedly rapturous and tender expression on +Dolokhov's face. + +"Well? How do you feel?" he asked. + +"Bad! But it's not that, my friend--" said Dolokhov with a +gasping voice. "Where are we? In Moscow, I know. I don't matter, +but I have killed her, killed... She won't get over it! She won't +survive...." + +"Who?" asked Rostov. + +"My mother! My mother, my angel, my adored angel mother," and +Dolokhov pressed Rostov's hand and burst into tears. + +When he had become a little quieter, he explained to Rostov that he was +living with his mother, who, if she saw him dying, would not survive it. +He implored Rostov to go on and prepare her. + +Rostov went on ahead to do what was asked, and to his great surprise +learned that Dolokhov the brawler, Dolokhov the bully, lived in Moscow +with an old mother and a hunchback sister, and was the most affectionate +of sons and brothers. + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +Pierre had of late rarely seen his wife alone. Both in Petersburg and in +Moscow their house was always full of visitors. The night after the +duel he did not go to his bedroom but, as he often did, remained in his +father's room, that huge room in which Count Bezukhov had died. + +He lay down on the sofa meaning to fall asleep and forget all that +had happened to him, but could not do so. Such a storm of feelings, +thoughts, and memories suddenly arose within him that he could not fall +asleep, nor even remain in one place, but had to jump up and pace the +room with rapid steps. Now he seemed to see her in the early days of +their marriage, with bare shoulders and a languid, passionate look on +her face, and then immediately he saw beside her Dolokhov's handsome, +insolent, hard, and mocking face as he had seen it at the banquet, and +then that same face pale, quivering, and suffering, as it had been when +he reeled and sank on the snow. + +"What has happened?" he asked himself. "I have killed her lover, +yes, killed my wife's lover. Yes, that was it! And why? How did I come +to do it?"--"Because you married her," answered an inner voice. + +"But in what was I to blame?" he asked. "In marrying her without +loving her; in deceiving yourself and her." And he vividly recalled +that moment after supper at Prince Vasili's, when he spoke those +words he had found so difficult to utter: "I love you." "It all +comes from that! Even then I felt it," he thought. "I felt then that +it was not so, that I had no right to do it. And so it turns out." + +He remembered his honeymoon and blushed at the recollection. +Particularly vivid, humiliating, and shameful was the recollection of +how one day soon after his marriage he came out of the bedroom into his +study a little before noon in his silk dressing gown and found his head +steward there, who, bowing respectfully, looked into his face and at +his dressing gown and smiled slightly, as if expressing respectful +understanding of his employer's happiness. + +"But how often I have felt proud of her, proud of her majestic beauty +and social tact," thought he; "been proud of my house, in which she +received all Petersburg, proud of her unapproachability and beauty. So +this is what I was proud of! I then thought that I did not understand +her. How often when considering her character I have told myself that +I was to blame for not understanding her, for not understanding that +constant composure and complacency and lack of all interests or desires, +and the whole secret lies in the terrible truth that she is a depraved +woman. Now I have spoken that terrible word to myself all has become +clear. + +"Anatole used to come to borrow money from her and used to kiss her +naked shoulders. She did not give him the money, but let herself be +kissed. Her father in jest tried to rouse her jealousy, and she replied +with a calm smile that she was not so stupid as to be jealous: 'Let +him do what he pleases,' she used to say of me. One day I asked her if +she felt any symptoms of pregnancy. She laughed contemptuously and said +she was not a fool to want to have children, and that she was not going +to have any children by me." + +Then he recalled the coarseness and bluntness of her thoughts and the +vulgarity of the expressions that were natural to her, though she had +been brought up in the most aristocratic circles. + +"I'm not such a fool.... Just you try it on.... Allez-vous +promener," * she used to say. Often seeing the success she had with +young and old men and women Pierre could not understand why he did not +love her. + + * "You clear out of this." + + +"Yes, I never loved her," said he to himself; "I knew she was a +depraved woman," he repeated, "but dared not admit it to myself. +And now there's Dolokhov sitting in the snow with a forced smile and +perhaps dying, while meeting my remorse with some forced bravado!" + +Pierre was one of those people who, in spite of an appearance of what +is called weak character, do not seek a confidant in their troubles. He +digested his sufferings alone. + +"It is all, all her fault," he said to himself; "but what of that? +Why did I bind myself to her? Why did I say 'Je vous aime' * to her, +which was a lie, and worse than a lie? I am guilty and must endure... +what? A slur on my name? A misfortune for life? Oh, that's +nonsense," he thought. "The slur on my name and honor--that's all +apart from myself." + + * I love you. + +"Louis XVI was executed because they said he was dishonorable and a +criminal," came into Pierre's head, "and from their point of +view they were right, as were those too who canonized him and died a +martyr's death for his sake. Then Robespierre was beheaded for being +a despot. Who is right and who is wrong? No one! But if you are +alive--live: tomorrow you'll die as I might have died an hour ago. +And is it worth tormenting oneself, when one has only a moment of life +in comparison with eternity?" + +But at the moment when he imagined himself calmed by such reflections, +she suddenly came into his mind as she was at the moments when he had +most strongly expressed his insincere love for her, and he felt the +blood rush to his heart and had again to get up and move about and break +and tear whatever came to his hand. "Why did I tell her that 'Je +vous aime'?" he kept repeating to himself. And when he had said it +for the tenth time, Moliere's words: "Mais que diable allait-il +faire dans cette galere?" * occurred to him, and he began to laugh at +himself. + + * "But what the devil was he doing in that galley?" + + +In the night he called his valet and told him to pack up to go to +Petersburg. He could not imagine how he could speak to her now. He +resolved to go away next day and leave a letter informing her of his +intention to part from her forever. + +Next morning when the valet came into the room with his coffee, Pierre +was lying asleep on the ottoman with an open book in his hand. + +He woke up and looked round for a while with a startled expression, +unable to realize where he was. + +"The countess told me to inquire whether your excellency was at +home," said the valet. + +But before Pierre could decide what answer he would send, the countess +herself in a white satin dressing gown embroidered with silver and with +simply dressed hair (two immense plaits twice round her lovely head like +a coronet) entered the room, calm and majestic, except that there was +a wrathful wrinkle on her rather prominent marble brow. With her +imperturbable calm she did not begin to speak in front of the valet. +She knew of the duel and had come to speak about it. She waited till the +valet had set down the coffee things and left the room. Pierre looked +at her timidly over his spectacles, and like a hare surrounded by hounds +who lays back her ears and continues to crouch motionless before her +enemies, he tried to continue reading. But feeling this to be senseless +and impossible, he again glanced timidly at her. She did not sit down +but looked at him with a contemptuous smile, waiting for the valet to +go. + +"Well, what's this now? What have you been up to now, I should like +to know?" she asked sternly. + +"I? What have I...?" stammered Pierre. + +"So it seems you're a hero, eh? Come now, what was this duel about? +What is it meant to prove? What? I ask you." + +Pierre turned over heavily on the ottoman and opened his mouth, but +could not reply. + +"If you won't answer, I'll tell you..." Helene went on. "You +believe everything you're told. You were told..." Helene laughed, +"that Dolokhov was my lover," she said in French with her coarse +plainness of speech, uttering the word amant as casually as any other +word, "and you believed it! Well, what have you proved? What does this +duel prove? That you're a fool, que vous etes un sot, but everybody +knew that. What will be the result? That I shall be the laughingstock of +all Moscow, that everyone will say that you, drunk and not knowing what +you were about, challenged a man you are jealous of without cause." +Helene raised her voice and became more and more excited, "A man +who's a better man than you in every way..." + +"Hm... Hm...!" growled Pierre, frowning without looking at her, and +not moving a muscle. + +"And how could you believe he was my lover? Why? Because I like +his company? If you were cleverer and more agreeable, I should prefer +yours." + +"Don't speak to me... I beg you," muttered Pierre hoarsely. + +"Why shouldn't I speak? I can speak as I like, and I tell you +plainly that there are not many wives with husbands such as you who +would not have taken lovers (des amants), but I have not done so," +said she. + +Pierre wished to say something, looked at her with eyes whose strange +expression she did not understand, and lay down again. He was suffering +physically at that moment, there was a weight on his chest and he could +not breathe. He knew that he must do something to put an end to this +suffering, but what he wanted to do was too terrible. + +"We had better separate," he muttered in a broken voice. + +"Separate? Very well, but only if you give me a fortune," said +Helene. "Separate! That's a thing to frighten me with!" + +Pierre leaped up from the sofa and rushed staggering toward her. + +"I'll kill you!" he shouted, and seizing the marble top of a table +with a strength he had never before felt, he made a step toward her +brandishing the slab. + +Helene's face became terrible, she shrieked and sprang aside. His +father's nature showed itself in Pierre. He felt the fascination and +delight of frenzy. He flung down the slab, broke it, and swooping +down on her with outstretched hands shouted, "Get out!" in such a +terrible voice that the whole house heard it with horror. God knows what +he would have done at that moment had Helene not fled from the room. + + +A week later Pierre gave his wife full power to control all his estates +in Great Russia, which formed the larger part of his property, and left +for Petersburg alone. + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +Two months had elapsed since the news of the battle of Austerlitz and +the loss of Prince Andrew had reached Bald Hills, and in spite of the +letters sent through the embassy and all the searches made, his body had +not been found nor was he on the list of prisoners. What was worst of +all for his relations was the fact that there was still a possibility of +his having been picked up on the battlefield by the people of the +place and that he might now be lying, recovering or dying, alone among +strangers and unable to send news of himself. The gazettes from which +the old prince first heard of the defeat at Austerlitz stated, as usual +very briefly and vaguely, that after brilliant engagements the Russians +had had to retreat and had made their withdrawal in perfect order. The +old prince understood from this official report that our army had been +defeated. A week after the gazette report of the battle of Austerlitz +came a letter from Kutuzov informing the prince of the fate that had +befallen his son. + +"Your son," wrote Kutuzov, "fell before my eyes, a standard in +his hand and at the head of a regiment--he fell as a hero, worthy of +his father and his fatherland. To the great regret of myself and of the +whole army it is still uncertain whether he is alive or not. I comfort +myself and you with the hope that your son is alive, for otherwise +he would have been mentioned among the officers found on the field of +battle, a list of whom has been sent me under flag of truce." + +After receiving this news late in the evening, when he was alone in his +study, the old prince went for his walk as usual next morning, but he +was silent with his steward, the gardener, and the architect, and though +he looked very grim he said nothing to anyone. + +When Princess Mary went to him at the usual hour he was working at his +lathe and, as usual, did not look round at her. + +"Ah, Princess Mary!" he said suddenly in an unnatural voice, +throwing down his chisel. (The wheel continued to revolve by its own +impetus, and Princess Mary long remembered the dying creak of that +wheel, which merged in her memory with what followed.) + +She approached him, saw his face, and something gave way within her. Her +eyes grew dim. By the expression of her father's face, not sad, not +crushed, but angry and working unnaturally, she saw that hanging over +her and about to crush her was some terrible misfortune, the worst +in life, one she had not yet experienced, irreparable and +incomprehensible--the death of one she loved. + +"Father! Andrew!"--said the ungraceful, awkward princess with such +an indescribable charm of sorrow and self-forgetfulness that her father +could not bear her look but turned away with a sob. + +"Bad news! He's not among the prisoners nor among the killed! +Kutuzov writes..." and he screamed as piercingly as if he wished to +drive the princess away by that scream... "Killed!" + +The princess did not fall down or faint. She was already pale, but on +hearing these words her face changed and something brightened in her +beautiful, radiant eyes. It was as if joy--a supreme joy apart from the +joys and sorrows of this world--overflowed the great grief within her. +She forgot all fear of her father, went up to him, took his hand, and +drawing him down put her arm round his thin, scraggy neck. + +"Father," she said, "do not turn away from me, let us weep +together." + +"Scoundrels! Blackguards!" shrieked the old man, turning his face +away from her. "Destroying the army, destroying the men! And why? Go, +go and tell Lise." + +The princess sank helplessly into an armchair beside her father and +wept. She saw her brother now as he had been at the moment when he took +leave of her and of Lise, his look tender yet proud. She saw him tender +and amused as he was when he put on the little icon. "Did he believe? +Had he repented of his unbelief? Was he now there? There in the realms +of eternal peace and blessedness?" she thought. + +"Father, tell me how it happened," she asked through her tears. + +"Go! Go! Killed in battle, where the best of Russian men and +Russia's glory were led to destruction. Go, Princess Mary. Go and tell +Lise. I will follow." + +When Princess Mary returned from her father, the little princess sat +working and looked up with that curious expression of inner, happy calm +peculiar to pregnant women. It was evident that her eyes did not see +Princess Mary but were looking within... into herself... at something +joyful and mysterious taking place within her. + +"Mary," she said, moving away from the embroidery frame and lying +back, "give me your hand." She took her sister-in-law's hand and +held it below her waist. + +Her eyes were smiling expectantly, her downy lip rose and remained +lifted in childlike happiness. + +Princess Mary knelt down before her and hid her face in the folds of her +sister-in-law's dress. + +"There, there! Do you feel it? I feel so strange. And do you know, +Mary, I am going to love him very much," said Lise, looking with +bright and happy eyes at her sister-in-law. + +Princess Mary could not lift her head, she was weeping. + +"What is the matter, Mary?" + +"Nothing... only I feel sad... sad about Andrew," she said, wiping +away her tears on her sister-in-law's knee. + +Several times in the course of the morning Princess Mary began trying to +prepare her sister-in-law, and every time began to cry. Unobservant as +was the little princess, these tears, the cause of which she did not +understand, agitated her. She said nothing but looked about uneasily as +if in search of something. Before dinner the old prince, of whom she was +always afraid, came into her room with a peculiarly restless and malign +expression and went out again without saying a word. She looked at +Princess Mary, then sat thinking for a while with that expression of +attention to something within her that is only seen in pregnant women, +and suddenly began to cry. + +"Has anything come from Andrew?" she asked. + +"No, you know it's too soon for news. But my father is anxious and I +feel afraid." + +"So there's nothing?" + +"Nothing," answered Princess Mary, looking firmly with her radiant +eyes at her sister-in-law. + +She had determined not to tell her and persuaded her father to hide the +terrible news from her till after her confinement, which was expected +within a few days. Princess Mary and the old prince each bore and hid +their grief in their own way. The old prince would not cherish any hope: +he made up his mind that Prince Andrew had been killed, and though he +sent an official to Austria to seek for traces of his son, he ordered a +monument from Moscow which he intended to erect in his own garden to his +memory, and he told everybody that his son had been killed. He tried not +to change his former way of life, but his strength failed him. He walked +less, ate less, slept less, and became weaker every day. Princess Mary +hoped. She prayed for her brother as living and was always awaiting news +of his return. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +"Dearest," said the little princess after breakfast on the morning +of the nineteenth March, and her downy little lip rose from old habit, +but as sorrow was manifest in every smile, the sound of every word, and +even every footstep in that house since the terrible news had come, so +now the smile of the little princess--influenced by the general mood +though without knowing its cause--was such as to remind one still more +of the general sorrow. + +"Dearest, I'm afraid this morning's fruschtique *--as Foka the +cook calls it--has disagreed with me." + + * Fruhstuck: breakfast. + +"What is the matter with you, my darling? You look pale. Oh, you +are very pale!" said Princess Mary in alarm, running with her soft, +ponderous steps up to her sister-in-law. + +"Your excellency, should not Mary Bogdanovna be sent for?" said one +of the maids who was present. (Mary Bogdanovna was a midwife from the +neighboring town, who had been at Bald Hills for the last fortnight.) + +"Oh yes," assented Princess Mary, "perhaps that's it. I'll go. +Courage, my angel." She kissed Lise and was about to leave the room. + +"Oh, no, no!" And besides the pallor and the physical suffering +on the little princess' face, an expression of childish fear of +inevitable pain showed itself. + +"No, it's only indigestion?... Say it's only indigestion, say so, +Mary! Say..." And the little princess began to cry capriciously like +a suffering child and to wring her little hands even with some +affectation. Princess Mary ran out of the room to fetch Mary +Bogdanovna. + +"Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu! Oh!" she heard as she left the room. + +The midwife was already on her way to meet her, rubbing her small, plump +white hands with an air of calm importance. + +"Mary Bogdanovna, I think it's beginning!" said Princess Mary +looking at the midwife with wide-open eyes of alarm. + +"Well, the Lord be thanked, Princess," said Mary Bogdanovna, not +hastening her steps. "You young ladies should not know anything about +it." + +"But how is it the doctor from Moscow is not here yet?" said the +princess. (In accordance with Lise's and Prince Andrew's wishes they +had sent in good time to Moscow for a doctor and were expecting him at +any moment.) + +"No matter, Princess, don't be alarmed," said Mary Bogdanovna. +"We'll manage very well without a doctor." + +Five minutes later Princess Mary from her room heard something heavy +being carried by. She looked out. The men servants were carrying the +large leather sofa from Prince Andrew's study into the bedroom. On +their faces was a quiet and solemn look. + +Princess Mary sat alone in her room listening to the sounds in the +house, now and then opening her door when someone passed and watching +what was going on in the passage. Some women passing with quiet steps in +and out of the bedroom glanced at the princess and turned away. She did +not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting +down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before +the icon stand. To her surprise and distress she found that her prayers +did not calm her excitement. Suddenly her door opened softly and her old +nurse, Praskovya Savishna, who hardly ever came to that room as the +old prince had forbidden it, appeared on the threshold with a shawl +round her head. + +"I've come to sit with you a bit, Masha," said the nurse, "and +here I've brought the prince's wedding candles to light before his +saint, my angel," she said with a sigh. + +"Oh, nurse, I'm so glad!" + +"God is merciful, birdie." + +The nurse lit the gilt candles before the icons and sat down by the door +with her knitting. Princess Mary took a book and began reading. Only +when footsteps or voices were heard did they look at one another, the +princess anxious and inquiring, the nurse encouraging. Everyone in the +house was dominated by the same feeling that Princess Mary experienced +as she sat in her room. But owing to the superstition that the fewer +the people who know of it the less a woman in travail suffers, everyone +tried to pretend not to know; no one spoke of it, but apart from the +ordinary staid and respectful good manners habitual in the prince's +household, a common anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a +consciousness that something great and mysterious was being accomplished +at that moment made itself felt. + +There was no laughter in the maids' large hall. In the men servants' +hall all sat waiting, silently and alert. In the outlying serfs' +quarters torches and candles were burning and no one slept. The old +prince, stepping on his heels, paced up and down his study and sent +Tikhon to ask Mary Bogdanovna what news.--"Say only that 'the +prince told me to ask,' and come and tell me her answer." + +"Inform the prince that labor has begun," said Mary Bogdanovna, +giving the messenger a significant look. + +Tikhon went and told the prince. + +"Very good!" said the prince closing the door behind him, and +Tikhon did not hear the slightest sound from the study after that. + +After a while he re-entered it as if to snuff the candles, and, seeing +the prince was lying on the sofa, looked at him, noticed his perturbed +face, shook his head, and going up to him silently kissed him on the +shoulder and left the room without snuffing the candles or saying why he +had entered. The most solemn mystery in the world continued its course. +Evening passed, night came, and the feeling of suspense and softening of +heart in the presence of the unfathomable did not lessen but increased. +No one slept. + +It was one of those March nights when winter seems to wish to resume its +sway and scatters its last snows and storms with desperate fury. A relay +of horses had been sent up the highroad to meet the German doctor from +Moscow who was expected every moment, and men on horseback with lanterns +were sent to the crossroads to guide him over the country road with its +hollows and snow-covered pools of water. + +Princess Mary had long since put aside her book: she sat silent, her +luminous eyes fixed on her nurse's wrinkled face (every line of which +she knew so well), on the lock of gray hair that escaped from under the +kerchief, and the loose skin that hung under her chin. + +Nurse Savishna, knitting in hand, was telling in low tones, scarcely +hearing or understanding her own words, what she had told hundreds of +times before: how the late princess had given birth to Princess Mary +in Kishenev with only a Moldavian peasant woman to help instead of a +midwife. + +"God is merciful, doctors are never needed," she said. + +Suddenly a gust of wind beat violently against the casement of the +window, from which the double frame had been removed (by order of the +prince, one window frame was removed in each room as soon as the larks +returned), and, forcing open a loosely closed latch, set the damask +curtain flapping and blew out the candle with its chill, snowy draft. +Princess Mary shuddered; her nurse, putting down the stocking she was +knitting, went to the window and leaning out tried to catch the open +casement. The cold wind flapped the ends of her kerchief and her loose +locks of gray hair. + +"Princess, my dear, there's someone driving up the avenue!" she +said, holding the casement and not closing it. "With lanterns. Most +likely the doctor." + +"Oh, my God! thank God!" said Princess Mary. "I must go and meet +him, he does not know Russian." + +Princess Mary threw a shawl over her head and ran to meet the newcomer. +As she was crossing the anteroom she saw through the window a carriage +with lanterns, standing at the entrance. She went out on the stairs. On +a banister post stood a tallow candle which guttered in the draft. On +the landing below, Philip, the footman, stood looking scared and holding +another candle. Still lower, beyond the turn of the staircase, one +could hear the footstep of someone in thick felt boots, and a voice that +seemed familiar to Princess Mary was saying something. + +"Thank God!" said the voice. "And Father?" + +"Gone to bed," replied the voice of Demyan the house steward, who +was downstairs. + +Then the voice said something more, Demyan replied, and the steps in +the felt boots approached the unseen bend of the staircase more rapidly. + +"It's Andrew!" thought Princess Mary. "No it can't be, that +would be too extraordinary," and at the very moment she thought this, +the face and figure of Prince Andrew, in a fur cloak the deep collar of +which covered with snow, appeared on the landing where the footman +stood with the candle. Yes, it was he, pale, thin, with a changed and +strangely softened but agitated expression on his face. He came up the +stairs and embraced his sister. + +"You did not get my letter?" he asked, and not waiting for a +reply--which he would not have received, for the princess was unable to +speak--he turned back, rapidly mounted the stairs again with the +doctor who had entered the hall after him (they had met at the last post +station), and again embraced his sister. + +"What a strange fate, Masha darling!" And having taken off his +cloak and felt boots, he went to the little princess' apartment. + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +The little princess lay supported by pillows, with a white cap on her +head (the pains had just left her). Strands of her black hair lay round +her inflamed and perspiring cheeks, her charming rosy mouth with its +downy lip was open and she was smiling joyfully. Prince Andrew entered +and paused facing her at the foot of the sofa on which she was lying. +Her glittering eyes, filled with childlike fear and excitement, rested +on him without changing their expression. "I love you all and have +done no harm to anyone; why must I suffer so? Help me!" her look +seemed to say. She saw her husband, but did not realize the significance +of his appearance before her now. Prince Andrew went round the sofa and +kissed her forehead. + +"My darling!" he said--a word he had never used to her before. +"God is merciful...." + +She looked at him inquiringly and with childlike reproach. + +"I expected help from you and I get none, none from you either!" +said her eyes. She was not surprised at his having come; she did +not realize that he had come. His coming had nothing to do with +her sufferings or with their relief. The pangs began again and Mary +Bogdanovna advised Prince Andrew to leave the room. + +The doctor entered. Prince Andrew went out and, meeting Princess Mary, +again joined her. They began talking in whispers, but their talk broke +off at every moment. They waited and listened. + +"Go, dear," said Princess Mary. + +Prince Andrew went again to his wife and sat waiting in the room next +to hers. A woman came from the bedroom with a frightened face and became +confused when she saw Prince Andrew. He covered his face with his hands +and remained so for some minutes. Piteous, helpless, animal moans came +through the door. Prince Andrew got up, went to the door, and tried to +open it. Someone was holding it shut. + +"You can't come in! You can't!" said a terrified voice from +within. + +He began pacing the room. The screaming ceased, and a few more seconds +went by. Then suddenly a terrible shriek--it could not be hers, she +could not scream like that--came from the bedroom. Prince Andrew ran to +the door; the scream ceased and he heard the wail of an infant. + +"What have they taken a baby in there for?" thought Prince Andrew in +the first second. "A baby? What baby...? Why is there a baby there? Or +is the baby born?" + +Then suddenly he realized the joyful significance of that wail; tears +choked him, and leaning his elbows on the window sill he began to cry, +sobbing like a child. The door opened. The doctor with his shirt sleeves +tucked up, without a coat, pale and with a trembling jaw, came out +of the room. Prince Andrew turned to him, but the doctor gave him a +bewildered look and passed by without a word. A woman rushed out and +seeing Prince Andrew stopped, hesitating on the threshold. He went into +his wife's room. She was lying dead, in the same position he had seen +her in five minutes before and, despite the fixed eyes and the pallor of +the cheeks, the same expression was on her charming childlike face with +its upper lip covered with tiny black hair. + +"I love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you +done to me?"--said her charming, pathetic, dead face. + +In a corner of the room something red and tiny gave a grunt and squealed +in Mary Bogdanovna's trembling white hands. + + +Two hours later Prince Andrew, stepping softly, went into his father's +room. The old man already knew everything. He was standing close to +the door and as soon as it opened his rough old arms closed like a vise +round his son's neck, and without a word he began to sob like a child. + + +Three days later the little princess was buried, and Prince Andrew went +up the steps to where the coffin stood, to give her the farewell kiss. +And there in the coffin was the same face, though with closed eyes. +"Ah, what have you done to me?" it still seemed to say, and Prince +Andrew felt that something gave way in his soul and that he was guilty +of a sin he could neither remedy nor forget. He could not weep. The +old man too came up and kissed the waxen little hands that lay quietly +crossed one on the other on her breast, and to him, too, her face seemed +to say: "Ah, what have you done to me, and why?" And at the sight +the old man turned angrily away. + + +Another five days passed, and then the young Prince Nicholas Andreevich +was baptized. The wet nurse supported the coverlet with her chin, while +the priest with a goose feather anointed the boy's little red and +wrinkled soles and palms. + +His grandfather, who was his godfather, trembling and afraid of dropping +him, carried the infant round the battered tin font and handed him over +to the godmother, Princess Mary. Prince Andrew sat in another room, +faint with fear lest the baby should be drowned in the font, and awaited +the termination of the ceremony. He looked up joyfully at the baby when +the nurse brought it to him and nodded approval when she told him that +the wax with the baby's hair had not sunk in the font but had floated. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +Rostov's share in Dolokhov's duel with Bezukhov was hushed up by +the efforts of the old count, and instead of being degraded to the ranks +as he expected he was appointed an adjutant to the governor general of +Moscow. As a result he could not go to the country with the rest of the +family, but was kept all summer in Moscow by his new duties. Dolokhov +recovered, and Rostov became very friendly with him during his +convalescence. Dolokhov lay ill at his mother's who loved him +passionately and tenderly, and old Mary Ivanovna, who had grown fond of +Rostov for his friendship to her Fedya, often talked to him about her +son. + +"Yes, Count," she would say, "he is too noble and pure-souled for +our present, depraved world. No one now loves virtue; it seems like +a reproach to everyone. Now tell me, Count, was it right, was it +honorable, of Bezukhov? And Fedya, with his noble spirit, loved him +and even now never says a word against him. Those pranks in Petersburg +when they played some tricks on a policeman, didn't they do it +together? And there! Bezukhov got off scotfree, while Fedya had to +bear the whole burden on his shoulders. Fancy what he had to go through! +It's true he has been reinstated, but how could they fail to do that? +I think there were not many such gallant sons of the fatherland out +there as he. And now--this duel! Have these people no feeling, or +honor? Knowing him to be an only son, to challenge him and shoot so +straight! It's well God had mercy on us. And what was it for? Who +doesn't have intrigues nowadays? Why, if he was so jealous, as I see +things he should have shown it sooner, but he lets it go on for months. +And then to call him out, reckoning on Fedya not fighting because he +owed him money! What baseness! What meanness! I know you understand +Fedya, my dear count; that, believe me, is why I am so fond of you. Few +people do understand him. He is such a lofty, heavenly soul!" + +Dolokhov himself during his convalescence spoke to Rostov in a way no +one would have expected of him. + +"I know people consider me a bad man!" he said. "Let them! I +don't care a straw about anyone but those I love; but those I love, +I love so that I would give my life for them, and the others I'd +throttle if they stood in my way. I have an adored, a priceless mother, +and two or three friends--you among them--and as for the rest I only +care about them in so far as they are harmful or useful. And most of +them are harmful, especially the women. Yes, dear boy," he continued, +"I have met loving, noble, high-minded men, but I have not yet met +any women--countesses or cooks--who were not venal. I have not yet met +that divine purity and devotion I look for in women. If I found such a +one I'd give my life for her! But those!..." and he made a gesture +of contempt. "And believe me, if I still value my life it is +only because I still hope to meet such a divine creature, who will +regenerate, purify, and elevate me. But you don't understand it." + +"Oh, yes, I quite understand," answered Rostov, who was under his +new friend's influence. + +In the autumn the Rostovs returned to Moscow. Early in the winter +Denisov also came back and stayed with them. The first half of the +winter of 1806, which Nicholas Rostov spent in Moscow, was one of the +happiest, merriest times for him and the whole family. Nicholas brought +many young men to his parents' house. Vera was a handsome girl +of twenty; Sonya a girl of sixteen with all the charm of an opening +flower; Natasha, half grown up and half child, was now childishly +amusing, now girlishly enchanting. + +At that time in the Rostovs' house there prevailed an amorous +atmosphere characteristic of homes where there are very young and very +charming girls. Every young man who came to the house--seeing those +impressionable, smiling young faces (smiling probably at their own +happiness), feeling the eager bustle around him, and hearing the fitful +bursts of song and music and the inconsequent but friendly prattle of +young girls ready for anything and full of hope--experienced the same +feeling; sharing with the young folk of the Rostovs' household a +readiness to fall in love and an expectation of happiness. + +Among the young men introduced by Rostov one of the first was +Dolokhov, whom everyone in the house liked except Natasha. She almost +quarreled with her brother about him. She insisted that he was a bad +man, and that in the duel with Bezukhov, Pierre was right and Dolokhov +wrong, and further that he was disagreeable and unnatural. + +"There's nothing for me to understand," she cried out with +resolute self-will, "he is wicked and heartless. There now, I like +your Denisov though he is a rake and all that, still I like him; so +you see I do understand. I don't know how to put it... with this one +everything is calculated, and I don't like that. But Denisov..." + +"Oh, Denisov is quite different," replied Nicholas, implying that +even Denisov was nothing compared to Dolokhov--"you must understand +what a soul there is in Dolokhov, you should see him with his mother. +What a heart!" + +"Well, I don't know about that, but I am uncomfortable with him. And +do you know he has fallen in love with Sonya?" + +"What nonsense..." + +"I'm certain of it; you'll see." + +Natasha's prediction proved true. Dolokhov, who did not usually care +for the society of ladies, began to come often to the house, and the +question for whose sake he came (though no one spoke of it) was soon +settled. He came because of Sonya. And Sonya, though she would never +have dared to say so, knew it and blushed scarlet every time Dolokhov +appeared. + +Dolokhov often dined at the Rostovs', never missed a performance at +which they were present, and went to Iogel's balls for young people +which the Rostovs always attended. He was pointedly attentive to Sonya +and looked at her in such a way that not only could she not bear his +glances without coloring, but even the old countess and Natasha blushed +when they saw his looks. + +It was evident that this strange, strong man was under the irresistible +influence of the dark, graceful girl who loved another. + +Rostov noticed something new in Dolokhov's relations with Sonya, +but he did not explain to himself what these new relations were. +"They're always in love with someone," he thought of Sonya and +Natasha. But he was not as much at ease with Sonya and Dolokhov as +before and was less frequently at home. + +In the autumn of 1806 everybody had again begun talking of the war with +Napoleon with even greater warmth than the year before. Orders were +given to raise recruits, ten men in every thousand for the regular army, +and besides this, nine men in every thousand for the militia. Everywhere +Bonaparte was anathematized and in Moscow nothing but the coming war +was talked of. For the Rostov family the whole interest of these +preparations for war lay in the fact that Nicholas would not hear of +remaining in Moscow, and only awaited the termination of Denisov's +furlough after Christmas to return with him to their regiment. His +approaching departure did not prevent his amusing himself, but rather +gave zest to his pleasures. He spent the greater part of his time away +from home, at dinners, parties, and balls. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +On the third day after Christmas Nicholas dined at home, a thing he had +rarely done of late. It was a grand farewell dinner, as he and Denisov +were leaving to join their regiment after Epiphany. About twenty people +were present, including Dolokhov and Denisov. + +Never had love been so much in the air, and never had the amorous +atmosphere made itself so strongly felt in the Rostovs' house as at +this holiday time. "Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! +That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one +thing we are interested in here," said the spirit of the place. + +Nicholas, having as usual exhausted two pairs of horses, without +visiting all the places he meant to go to and where he had been invited, +returned home just before dinner. As soon as he entered he noticed and +felt the tension of the amorous air in the house, and also noticed a +curious embarrassment among some of those present. Sonya, Dolokhov, +and the old countess were especially disturbed, and to a lesser degree +Natasha. Nicholas understood that something must have happened between +Sonya and Dolokhov before dinner, and with the kindly sensitiveness +natural to him was very gentle and wary with them both at dinner. On +that same evening there was to be one of the balls that Iogel (the +dancing master) gave for his pupils during the holidays. + +"Nicholas, will you come to Iogel's? Please do!" said Natasha. +"He asked you, and Vasili Dmitrich * is also going." + + * Denisov. + +"Where would I not go at the countess' command!" said Denisov, +who at the Rostovs' had jocularly assumed the role of Natasha's +knight. "I'm even weady to dance the pas de chale." + +"If I have time," answered Nicholas. "But I promised the +Arkharovs; they have a party." + +"And you?" he asked Dolokhov, but as soon as he had asked the +question he noticed that it should not have been put. + +"Perhaps," coldly and angrily replied Dolokhov, glancing at Sonya, +and, scowling, he gave Nicholas just such a look as he had given Pierre +at the club dinner. + +"There is something up," thought Nicholas, and he was further +confirmed in this conclusion by the fact that Dolokhov left immediately +after dinner. He called Natasha and asked her what was the matter. + +"And I was looking for you," said Natasha running out to him. "I +told you, but you would not believe it," she said triumphantly. "He +has proposed to Sonya!" + +Little as Nicholas had occupied himself with Sonya of late, something +seemed to give way within him at this news. Dolokhov was a suitable and +in some respects a brilliant match for the dowerless, orphan girl. From +the point of view of the old countess and of society it was out of the +question for her to refuse him. And therefore Nicholas' first feeling +on hearing the news was one of anger with Sonya.... He tried to say, +"That's capital; of course she'll forget her childish promises +and accept the offer," but before he had time to say it Natasha began +again. + +"And fancy! she refused him quite definitely!" adding, after a +pause, "she told him she loved another." + +"Yes, my Sonya could not have done otherwise!" thought Nicholas. + +"Much as Mamma pressed her, she refused, and I know she won't change +once she has said..." + +"And Mamma pressed her!" said Nicholas reproachfully. + +"Yes," said Natasha. "Do you know, Nicholas--don't be +angry--but I know you will not marry her. I know, heaven knows how, but +I know for certain that you won't marry her." + +"Now you don't know that at all!" said Nicholas. "But I must +talk to her. What a darling Sonya is!" he added with a smile. + +"Ah, she is indeed a darling! I'll send her to you." + +And Natasha kissed her brother and ran away. + +A minute later Sonya came in with a frightened, guilty, and scared +look. Nicholas went up to her and kissed her hand. This was the first +time since his return that they had talked alone and about their love. + +"Sophie," he began, timidly at first and then more and more +boldly, "if you wish to refuse one who is not only a brilliant and +advantageous match but a splendid, noble fellow... he is my friend..." + +Sonya interrupted him. + +"I have already refused," she said hurriedly. + +"If you are refusing for my sake, I am afraid that I..." + +Sonya again interrupted. She gave him an imploring, frightened look. + +"Nicholas, don't tell me that!" she said. + +"No, but I must. It may be arrogant of me, but still it is best to say +it. If you refuse him on my account, I must tell you the whole truth. I +love you, and I think I love you more than anyone else...." + +"That is enough for me," said Sonya, blushing. + +"No, but I have been in love a thousand times and shall fall in +love again, though for no one have I such a feeling of friendship, +confidence, and love as I have for you. Then I am young. Mamma does +not wish it. In a word, I make no promise. And I beg you to consider +Dolokhov's offer," he said, articulating his friend's name with +difficulty. + +"Don't say that to me! I want nothing. I love you as a brother and +always shall, and I want nothing more." + +"You are an angel: I am not worthy of you, but I am afraid of +misleading you." + +And Nicholas again kissed her hand. + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +Iogel's were the most enjoyable balls in Moscow. So said the mothers +as they watched their young people executing their newly learned steps, +and so said the youths and maidens themselves as they danced till they +were ready to drop, and so said the grown-up young men and women who +came to these balls with an air of condescension and found them most +enjoyable. That year two marriages had come of these balls. The two +pretty young Princesses Gorchakov met suitors there and were married +and so further increased the fame of these dances. What distinguished +them from others was the absence of host or hostess and the presence of +the good-natured Iogel, flying about like a feather and bowing according +to the rules of his art, as he collected the tickets from all his +visitors. There was the fact that only those came who wished to dance +and amuse themselves as girls of thirteen and fourteen do who are +wearing long dresses for the first time. With scarcely any exceptions +they all were, or seemed to be, pretty--so rapturous were their smiles +and so sparkling their eyes. Sometimes the best of the pupils, of whom +Natasha, who was exceptionally graceful, was first, even danced the pas +de chale, but at this last ball only the ecossaise, the anglaise, and +the mazurka, which was just coming into fashion, were danced. Iogel had +taken a ballroom in Bezukhov's house, and the ball, as everyone said, +was a great success. There were many pretty girls and the Rostov girls +were among the prettiest. They were both particularly happy and gay. +That evening, proud of Dolokhov's proposal, her refusal, and her +explanation with Nicholas, Sonya twirled about before she left home +so that the maid could hardly get her hair plaited, and she was +transparently radiant with impulsive joy. + +Natasha no less proud of her first long dress and of being at a real +ball was even happier. They were both dressed in white muslin with pink +ribbons. + +Natasha fell in love the very moment she entered the ballroom. She +was not in love with anyone in particular, but with everyone. Whatever +person she happened to look at she was in love with for that moment. + +"Oh, how delightful it is!" she kept saying, running up to Sonya. + +Nicholas and Denisov were walking up and down, looking with kindly +patronage at the dancers. + +"How sweet she is--she will be a weal beauty!" said Denisov. + +"Who?" + +"Countess Natasha," answered Denisov. + +"And how she dances! What gwace!" he said again after a pause. + +"Who are you talking about?" + +"About your sister," ejaculated Denisov testily. + +Rostov smiled. + +"My dear count, you were one of my best pupils--you must dance," +said little Iogel coming up to Nicholas. "Look how many charming young +ladies--" He turned with the same request to Denisov who was also a +former pupil of his. + +"No, my dear fellow, I'll be a wallflower," said Denisov. +"Don't you wecollect what bad use I made of your lessons?" + +"Oh no!" said Iogel, hastening to reassure him. "You were only +inattentive, but you had talent--oh yes, you had talent!" + +The band struck up the newly introduced mazurka. Nicholas could not +refuse Iogel and asked Sonya to dance. Denisov sat down by the old +ladies and, leaning on his saber and beating time with his foot, told +them something funny and kept them amused, while he watched the young +people dancing, Iogel with Natasha, his pride and his best pupil, were +the first couple. Noiselessly, skillfully stepping with his little +feet in low shoes, Iogel flew first across the hall with Natasha, who, +though shy, went on carefully executing her steps. Denisov did not +take his eyes off her and beat time with his saber in a way that clearly +indicated that if he was not dancing it was because he would not and not +because he could not. In the middle of a figure he beckoned to Rostov +who was passing: + +"This is not at all the thing," he said. "What sort of Polish +mazuwka is this? But she does dance splendidly." + +Knowing that Denisov had a reputation even in Poland for the masterly +way in which he danced the mazurka, Nicholas ran up to Natasha: + +"Go and choose Denisov. He is a real dancer, a wonder!" he said. + +When it came to Natasha's turn to choose a partner, she rose and, +tripping rapidly across in her little shoes trimmed with bows, ran +timidly to the corner where Denisov sat. She saw that everybody was +looking at her and waiting. Nicholas saw that Denisov was refusing +though he smiled delightedly. He ran up to them. + +"Please, Vasili Dmitrich," Natasha was saying, "do come!" + +"Oh no, let me off, Countess," Denisov replied. + +"Now then, Vaska," said Nicholas. + +"They coax me as if I were Vaska the cat!" said Denisov jokingly. + +"I'll sing for you a whole evening," said Natasha. + +"Oh, the faiwy! She can do anything with me!" said Denisov, and +he unhooked his saber. He came out from behind the chairs, clasped his +partner's hand firmly, threw back his head, and advanced his foot, +waiting for the beat. Only on horse back and in the mazurka was +Denisov's short stature not noticeable and he looked the fine fellow +he felt himself to be. At the right beat of the music he looked sideways +at his partner with a merry and triumphant air, suddenly stamped with +one foot, bounded from the floor like a ball, and flew round the room +taking his partner with him. He glided silently on one foot half across +the room, and seeming not to notice the chairs was dashing straight at +them, when suddenly, clinking his spurs and spreading out his legs, +he stopped short on his heels, stood so a second, stamped on the spot +clanking his spurs, whirled rapidly round, and, striking his left heel +against his right, flew round again in a circle. Natasha guessed what +he meant to do, and abandoning herself to him followed his lead hardly +knowing how. First he spun her round, holding her now with his left, now +with his right hand, then falling on one knee he twirled her round him, +and again jumping up, dashed so impetuously forward that it seemed as if +he would rush through the whole suite of rooms without drawing breath, +and then he suddenly stopped and performed some new and unexpected +steps. When at last, smartly whirling his partner round in front of her +chair, he drew up with a click of his spurs and bowed to her, Natasha +did not even make him a curtsy. She fixed her eyes on him in amazement, +smiling as if she did not recognize him. + +"What does this mean?" she brought out. + +Although Iogel did not acknowledge this to be the real mazurka, everyone +was delighted with Denisov's skill, he was asked again and again as +a partner, and the old men began smilingly to talk about Poland and the +good old days. Denisov, flushed after the mazurka and mopping himself +with his handkerchief, sat down by Natasha and did not leave her for +the rest of the evening. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIII + +For two days after that Rostov did not see Dolokhov at his own or at +Dolokhov's home: on the third day he received a note from him: + +As I do not intend to be at your house again for reasons you know +of, and am going to rejoin my regiment, I am giving a farewell supper +tonight to my friends--come to the English Hotel. + +About ten o'clock Rostov went to the English Hotel straight from the +theater, where he had been with his family and Denisov. He was at once +shown to the best room, which Dolokhov had taken for that evening. Some +twenty men were gathered round a table at which Dolokhov sat between +two candles. On the table was a pile of gold and paper money, and he +was keeping the bank. Rostov had not seen him since his proposal and +Sonya's refusal and felt uncomfortable at the thought of how they +would meet. + +Dolokhov's clear, cold glance met Rostov as soon as he entered the +door, as though he had long expected him. + +"It's a long time since we met," he said. "Thanks for coming. +I'll just finish dealing, and then Ilyushka will come with his +chorus." + +"I called once or twice at your house," said Rostov, reddening. + +Dolokhov made no reply. + +"You may punt," he said. + +Rostov recalled at that moment a strange conversation he had once had +with Dolokhov. "None but fools trust to luck in play," Dolokhov +had then said. + +"Or are you afraid to play with me?" Dolokhov now asked as if +guessing Rostov's thought. + +Beneath his smile Rostov saw in him the mood he had shown at the club +dinner and at other times, when as if tired of everyday life he had felt +a need to escape from it by some strange, and usually cruel, action. + +Rostov felt ill at ease. He tried, but failed, to find some joke with +which to reply to Dolokhov's words. But before he had thought of +anything, Dolokhov, looking straight in his face, said slowly and +deliberately so that everyone could hear: + +"Do you remember we had a talk about cards... 'He's a fool who +trusts to luck, one should make certain,' and I want to try." + +"To try his luck or the certainty?" Rostov asked himself. + +"Well, you'd better not play," Dolokhov added, and springing a +new pack of cards said: "Bank, gentlemen!" + +Moving the money forward he prepared to deal. Rostov sat down by his +side and at first did not play. Dolokhov kept glancing at him. + +"Why don't you play?" he asked. + +And strange to say Nicholas felt that he could not help taking up a +card, putting a small stake on it, and beginning to play. + +"I have no money with me," he said. + +"I'll trust you." + +Rostov staked five rubles on a card and lost, staked again, and again +lost. Dolokhov "killed," that is, beat, ten cards of Rostov's +running. + +"Gentlemen," said Dolokhov after he had dealt for some time. +"Please place your money on the cards or I may get muddled in the +reckoning." + +One of the players said he hoped he might be trusted. + +"Yes, you might, but I am afraid of getting the accounts mixed. So I +ask you to put the money on your cards," replied Dolokhov. "Don't +stint yourself, we'll settle afterwards," he added, turning to +Rostov. + +The game continued; a waiter kept handing round champagne. + +All Rostov's cards were beaten and he had eight hundred rubles scored +up against him. He wrote "800 rubles" on a card, but while the +waiter filled his glass he changed his mind and altered it to his usual +stake of twenty rubles. + +"Leave it," said Dolokhov, though he did not seem to be even +looking at Rostov, "you'll win it back all the sooner. I lose to +the others but win from you. Or are you afraid of me?" he asked again. + +Rostov submitted. He let the eight hundred remain and laid down a seven +of hearts with a torn corner, which he had picked up from the floor. He +well remembered that seven afterwards. He laid down the seven of hearts, +on which with a broken bit of chalk he had written "800 rubles" in +clear upright figures; he emptied the glass of warm champagne that was +handed him, smiled at Dolokhov's words, and with a sinking heart, +waiting for a seven to turn up, gazed at Dolokhov's hands which held +the pack. Much depended on Rostov's winning or losing on that seven +of hearts. On the previous Sunday the old count had given his son +two thousand rubles, and though he always disliked speaking of money +difficulties had told Nicholas that this was all he could let him have +till May, and asked him to be more economical this time. Nicholas had +replied that it would be more than enough for him and that he gave his +word of honor not to take anything more till the spring. Now only twelve +hundred rubles was left of that money, so that this seven of hearts +meant for him not only the loss of sixteen hundred rubles, but the +necessity of going back on his word. With a sinking heart he watched +Dolokhov's hands and thought, "Now then, make haste and let me have +this card and I'll take my cap and drive home to supper with Denisov, +Natasha, and Sonya, and will certainly never touch a card again." At +that moment his home life, jokes with Petya, talks with Sonya, duets +with Natasha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed +in the house on the Povarskaya rose before him with such vividness, +clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and +unappreciated bliss, long past. He could not conceive that a stupid +chance, letting the seven be dealt to the right rather than to the left, +might deprive him of all this happiness, newly appreciated and newly +illumined, and plunge him into the depths of unknown and undefined +misery. That could not be, yet he awaited with a sinking heart the +movement of Dolokhov's hands. Those broad, reddish hands, with hairy +wrists visible from under the shirt cuffs, laid down the pack and took +up a glass and a pipe that were handed him. + +"So you are not afraid to play with me?" repeated Dolokhov, and as +if about to tell a good story he put down the cards, leaned back in his +chair, and began deliberately with a smile: + +"Yes, gentlemen, I've been told there's a rumor going about Moscow +that I'm a sharper, so I advise you to be careful." + +"Come now, deal!" exclaimed Rostov. + +"Oh, those Moscow gossips!" said Dolokhov, and he took up the cards +with a smile. + +"Aah!" Rostov almost screamed lifting both hands to his head. The +seven he needed was lying uppermost, the first card in the pack. He had +lost more than he could pay. + +"Still, don't ruin yourself!" said Dolokhov with a side glance at +Rostov as he continued to deal. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +An hour and a half later most of the players were but little interested +in their own play. + +The whole interest was concentrated on Rostov. Instead of sixteen +hundred rubles he had a long column of figures scored against him, +which he had reckoned up to ten thousand, but that now, as he vaguely +supposed, must have risen to fifteen thousand. In reality it already +exceeded twenty thousand rubles. Dolokhov was no longer listening to +stories or telling them, but followed every movement of Rostov's +hands and occasionally ran his eyes over the score against him. He had +decided to play until that score reached forty-three thousand. He +had fixed on that number because forty-three was the sum of his and +Sonya's joint ages. Rostov, leaning his head on both hands, sat at +the table which was scrawled over with figures, wet with spilled wine, +and littered with cards. One tormenting impression did not leave him: +that those broad-boned reddish hands with hairy wrists visible from +under the shirt sleeves, those hands which he loved and hated, held him +in their power. + +"Six hundred rubles, ace, a corner, a nine... winning it back's +impossible... Oh, how pleasant it was at home!... The knave, double or +quits... it can't be!... And why is he doing this to me?" Rostov +pondered. Sometimes he staked a large sum, but Dolokhov refused to +accept it and fixed the stake himself. Nicholas submitted to him, and at +one moment prayed to God as he had done on the battlefield at the bridge +over the Enns, and then guessed that the card that came first to hand +from the crumpled heap under the table would save him, now counted the +cords on his coat and took a card with that number and tried staking the +total of his losses on it, then he looked round for aid from the other +players, or peered at the now cold face of Dolokhov and tried to read +what was passing in his mind. + +"He knows of course what this loss means to me. He can't want my +ruin. Wasn't he my friend? Wasn't I fond of him? But it's not his +fault. What's he to do if he has such luck?... And it's not my fault +either," he thought to himself, "I have done nothing wrong. Have I +killed anyone, or insulted or wished harm to anyone? Why such a terrible +misfortune? And when did it begin? Such a little while ago I came to +this table with the thought of winning a hundred rubles to buy that +casket for Mamma's name day and then going home. I was so happy, so +free, so lighthearted! And I did not realize how happy I was! When did +that end and when did this new, terrible state of things begin? What +marked the change? I sat all the time in this same place at this table, +chose and placed cards, and watched those broad-boned agile hands in the +same way. When did it happen and what has happened? I am well and strong +and still the same and in the same place. No, it can't be! Surely it +will all end in nothing!" + +He was flushed and bathed in perspiration, though the room was not hot. +His face was terrible and piteous to see, especially from its helpless +efforts to seem calm. + +The score against him reached the fateful sum of forty-three thousand. +Rostov had just prepared a card, by bending the corner of which he +meant to double the three thousand just put down to his score, when +Dolokhov, slamming down the pack of cards, put it aside and began +rapidly adding up the total of Rostov's debt, breaking the chalk as +he marked the figures in his clear, bold hand. + +"Supper, it's time for supper! And here are the gypsies!" + +Some swarthy men and women were really entering from the cold outside +and saying something in their gypsy accents. Nicholas understood that it +was all over; but he said in an indifferent tone: + +"Well, won't you go on? I had a splendid card all ready," as if it +were the fun of the game which interested him most. + +"It's all up! I'm lost!" thought he. "Now a bullet through my +brain--that's all that's left me!" And at the same time he said +in a cheerful voice: + +"Come now, just this one more little card!" + +"All right!" said Dolokhov, having finished the addition. "All +right! Twenty-one rubles," he said, pointing to the figure twenty-one +by which the total exceeded the round sum of forty-three thousand; and +taking up a pack he prepared to deal. Rostov submissively unbent the +corner of his card and, instead of the six thousand he had intended, +carefully wrote twenty-one. + +"It's all the same to me," he said. "I only want to see whether +you will let me win this ten, or beat it." + +Dolokhov began to deal seriously. Oh, how Rostov detested at that +moment those hands with their short reddish fingers and hairy wrists, +which held him in their power.... The ten fell to him. + +"You owe forty-three thousand, Count," said Dolokhov, and +stretching himself he rose from the table. "One does get tired sitting +so long," he added. + +"Yes, I'm tired too," said Rostov. + +Dolokhov cut him short, as if to remind him that it was not for him to +jest. + +"When am I to receive the money, Count?" + +Rostov, flushing, drew Dolokhov into the next room. + +"I cannot pay it all immediately. Will you take an I.O.U.?" he said. + +"I say, Rostov," said Dolokhov clearly, smiling and looking +Nicholas straight in the eyes, "you know the saying, 'Lucky in love, +unlucky at cards.' Your cousin is in love with you, I know." + +"Oh, it's terrible to feel oneself so in this man's power," +thought Rostov. He knew what a shock he would inflict on his father and +mother by the news of this loss, he knew what a relief it would be to +escape it all, and felt that Dolokhov knew that he could save him from +all this shame and sorrow, but wanted now to play with him as a cat does +with a mouse. + +"Your cousin..." Dolokhov started to say, but Nicholas interrupted +him. + +"My cousin has nothing to do with this and it's not necessary to +mention her!" he exclaimed fiercely. + +"Then when am I to have it?" + +"Tomorrow," replied Rostov and left the room. + + + + + +CHAPTER XV + +To say "tomorrow" and keep up a dignified tone was not difficult, +but to go home alone, see his sisters, brother, mother, and father, +confess and ask for money he had no right to after giving his word of +honor, was terrible. + +At home, they had not yet gone to bed. The young people, after returning +from the theater, had had supper and were grouped round the clavichord. +As soon as Nicholas entered, he was enfolded in that poetic atmosphere +of love which pervaded the Rostov household that winter and, now after +Dolokhov's proposal and Iogel's ball, seemed to have grown thicker +round Sonya and Natasha as the air does before a thunderstorm. Sonya +and Natasha, in the light-blue dresses they had worn at the theater, +looking pretty and conscious of it, were standing by the clavichord, +happy and smiling. Vera was playing chess with Shinshin in the drawing +room. The old countess, waiting for the return of her husband and son, +sat playing patience with the old gentlewoman who lived in their house. +Denisov, with sparkling eyes and ruffled hair, sat at the clavichord +striking chords with his short fingers, his legs thrown back and his +eyes rolling as he sang, with his small, husky, but true voice, some +verses called "Enchantress," which he had composed, and to which he +was trying to fit music: + + Enchantress, say, to my forsaken lyre + What magic power is this recalls me still? + What spark has set my inmost soul on fire, + What is this bliss that makes my fingers thrill? + +He was singing in passionate tones, gazing with his sparkling +black-agate eyes at the frightened and happy Natasha. + +"Splendid! Excellent!" exclaimed Natasha. "Another verse," she +said, without noticing Nicholas. + +"Everything's still the same with them," thought Nicholas, +glancing into the drawing room, where he saw Vera and his mother with +the old lady. + +"Ah, and here's Nicholas!" cried Natasha, running up to him. + +"Is Papa at home?" he asked. + +"I am so glad you've come!" said Natasha, without answering him. +"We are enjoying ourselves! Vasili Dmitrich is staying a day longer +for my sake! Did you know?" + +"No, Papa is not back yet," said Sonya. + +"Nicholas, have you come? Come here, dear!" called the old countess +from the drawing room. + +Nicholas went to her, kissed her hand, and sitting down silently at her +table began to watch her hands arranging the cards. From the dancing +room, they still heard the laughter and merry voices trying to persuade +Natasha to sing. + +"All wight! All wight!" shouted Denisov. "It's no good making +excuses now! It's your turn to sing the ba'cawolla--I entweat +you!" + +The countess glanced at her silent son. + +"What is the matter?" she asked. + +"Oh, nothing," said he, as if weary of being continually asked the +same question. "Will Papa be back soon?" + +"I expect so." + +"Everything's the same with them. They know nothing about it! Where +am I to go?" thought Nicholas, and went again into the dancing room +where the clavichord stood. + +Sonya was sitting at the clavichord, playing the prelude to +Denisov's favorite barcarolle. Natasha was preparing to sing. +Denisov was looking at her with enraptured eyes. + +Nicholas began pacing up and down the room. + +"Why do they want to make her sing? How can she sing? There's +nothing to be happy about!" thought he. + +Sonya struck the first chord of the prelude. + +"My God, I'm a ruined and dishonored man! A bullet through my brain +is the only thing left me--not singing!" his thoughts ran on. "Go +away? But where to? It's one--let them sing!" + +He continued to pace the room, looking gloomily at Denisov and the +girls and avoiding their eyes. + +"Nikolenka, what is the matter?" Sonya's eyes fixed on him +seemed to ask. She noticed at once that something had happened to him. + +Nicholas turned away from her. Natasha too, with her quick instinct, +had instantly noticed her brother's condition. But, though she noticed +it, she was herself in such high spirits at that moment, so far from +sorrow, sadness, or self-reproach, that she purposely deceived herself +as young people often do. "No, I am too happy now to spoil my +enjoyment by sympathy with anyone's sorrow," she felt, and she said +to herself: "No, I must be mistaken, he must be feeling happy, just as +I am." + +"Now, Sonya!" she said, going to the very middle of the room, where +she considered the resonance was best. + +Having lifted her head and let her arms droop lifelessly, as ballet +dancers do, Natasha, rising energetically from her heels to her toes, +stepped to the middle of the room and stood still. + +"Yes, that's me!" she seemed to say, answering the rapt gaze with +which Denisov followed her. + +"And what is she so pleased about?" thought Nicholas, looking at his +sister. "Why isn't she dull and ashamed?" + +Natasha took the first note, her throat swelled, her chest rose, +her eyes became serious. At that moment she was oblivious of her +surroundings, and from her smiling lips flowed sounds which anyone may +produce at the same intervals and hold for the same time, but which +leave you cold a thousand times and the thousand and first time thrill +you and make you weep. + +Natasha, that winter, had for the first time begun to sing seriously, +mainly because Denisov so delighted in her singing. She no longer sang +as a child, there was no longer in her singing that comical, childish, +painstaking effect that had been in it before; but she did not yet sing +well, as all the connoisseurs who heard her said: "It is not trained, +but it is a beautiful voice that must be trained." Only they generally +said this some time after she had finished singing. While that untrained +voice, with its incorrect breathing and labored transitions, was +sounding, even the connoisseurs said nothing, but only delighted in +it and wished to hear it again. In her voice there was a virginal +freshness, an unconsciousness of her own powers, and an as yet untrained +velvety softness, which so mingled with her lack of art in singing that +it seemed as if nothing in that voice could be altered without spoiling +it. + +"What is this?" thought Nicholas, listening to her with widely +opened eyes. "What has happened to her? How she is singing today!" +And suddenly the whole world centered for him on anticipation of the +next note, the next phrase, and everything in the world was divided into +three beats: "Oh mio crudele affetto."... One, two, three... one, +two, three... One... "Oh mio crudele affetto."... One, two, three... +One. "Oh, this senseless life of ours!" thought Nicholas. "All +this misery, and money, and Dolokhov, and anger, and honor--it's all +nonsense... but this is real.... Now then, Natasha, now then, dearest! +Now then, darling! How will she take that si? She's taken it! Thank +God!" And without noticing that he was singing, to strengthen the si +he sung a second, a third below the high note. "Ah, God! How fine! Did +I really take it? How fortunate!" he thought. + +Oh, how that chord vibrated, and how moved was something that was finest +in Rostov's soul! And this something was apart from everything else +in the world and above everything in the world. "What were losses, and +Dolokhov, and words of honor?... All nonsense! One might kill and rob +and yet be happy...." + + + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +It was long since Rostov had felt such enjoyment from music as he +did that day. But no sooner had Natasha finished her barcarolle than +reality again presented itself. He got up without saying a word and went +downstairs to his own room. A quarter of an hour later the old count +came in from his club, cheerful and contented. Nicholas, hearing him +drive up, went to meet him. + +"Well--had a good time?" said the old count, smiling gaily and +proudly at his son. + +Nicholas tried to say "Yes," but could not: and he nearly burst into +sobs. The count was lighting his pipe and did not notice his son's +condition. + +"Ah, it can't be avoided!" thought Nicholas, for the first and +last time. And suddenly, in the most casual tone, which made him feel +ashamed of himself, he said, as if merely asking his father to let him +have the carriage to drive to town: + +"Papa, I have come on a matter of business. I was nearly forgetting. I +need some money." + +"Dear me!" said his father, who was in a specially good humor. "I +told you it would not be enough. How much?" + +"Very much," said Nicholas flushing, and with a stupid careless +smile, for which he was long unable to forgive himself, "I have lost a +little, I mean a good deal, a great deal--forty three thousand." + +"What! To whom?... Nonsense!" cried the count, suddenly reddening +with an apoplectic flush over neck and nape as old people do. + +"I promised to pay tomorrow," said Nicholas. + +"Well!..." said the old count, spreading out his arms and sinking +helplessly on the sofa. + +"It can't be helped! It happens to everyone!" said the son, with +a bold, free, and easy tone, while in his soul he regarded himself as a +worthless scoundrel whose whole life could not atone for his crime. He +longed to kiss his father's hands and kneel to beg his forgiveness, +but said, in a careless and even rude voice, that it happens to +everyone! + +The old count cast down his eyes on hearing his son's words and began +bustlingly searching for something. + +"Yes, yes," he muttered, "it will be difficult, I fear, difficult +to raise... happens to everybody! Yes, who has not done it?" + +And with a furtive glance at his son's face, the count went out of the +room.... Nicholas had been prepared for resistance, but had not at all +expected this. + +"Papa! Pa-pa!" he called after him, sobbing, "forgive me!" And +seizing his father's hand, he pressed it to his lips and burst into +tears. + +While father and son were having their explanation, the mother and +daughter were having one not less important. Natasha came running to +her mother, quite excited. + +"Mamma!... Mamma!... He has made me..." + +"Made what?" + +"Made, made me an offer, Mamma! Mamma!" she exclaimed. + +The countess did not believe her ears. Denisov had proposed. To whom? +To this chit of a girl, Natasha, who not so long ago was playing with +dolls and who was still having lessons. + +"Don't, Natasha! What nonsense!" she said, hoping it was a joke. + +"Nonsense, indeed! I am telling you the fact," said Natasha +indignantly. "I come to ask you what to do, and you call it +'nonsense!'" + +The countess shrugged her shoulders. + +"If it is true that Monsieur Denisov has made you a proposal, tell +him he is a fool, that's all!" + +"No, he's not a fool!" replied Natasha indignantly and seriously. + +"Well then, what do you want? You're all in love nowadays. Well, +if you are in love, marry him!" said the countess, with a laugh of +annoyance. "Good luck to you!" + +"No, Mamma, I'm not in love with him, I suppose I'm not in love +with him." + +"Well then, tell him so." + +"Mamma, are you cross? Don't be cross, dear! Is it my fault?" + +"No, but what is it, my dear? Do you want me to go and tell him?" +said the countess smiling. + +"No, I will do it myself, only tell me what to say. It's all very +well for you," said Natasha, with a responsive smile. "You should +have seen how he said it! I know he did not mean to say it, but it came +out accidently." + +"Well, all the same, you must refuse him." + +"No, I mustn't. I am so sorry for him! He's so nice." + +"Well then, accept his offer. It's high time for you to be +married," answered the countess sharply and sarcastically. + +"No, Mamma, but I'm so sorry for him. I don't know how I'm to +say it." + +"And there's nothing for you to say. I shall speak to him myself," +said the countess, indignant that they should have dared to treat this +little Natasha as grown up. + +"No, not on any account! I will tell him myself, and you'll listen +at the door," and Natasha ran across the drawing room to the dancing +hall, where Denisov was sitting on the same chair by the clavichord +with his face in his hands. + +He jumped up at the sound of her light step. + +"Nataly," he said, moving with rapid steps toward her, "decide my +fate. It is in your hands." + +"Vasili Dmitrich, I'm so sorry for you!... No, but you are so +nice... but it won't do...not that... but as a friend, I shall always +love you." + +Denisov bent over her hand and she heard strange sounds she did not +understand. She kissed his rough curly black head. At this instant, they +heard the quick rustle of the countess' dress. She came up to them. + +"Vasili Dmitrich, I thank you for the honor," she said, with an +embarrassed voice, though it sounded severe to Denisov--"but my +daughter is so young, and I thought that, as my son's friend, you +would have addressed yourself first to me. In that case you would not +have obliged me to give this refusal." + +"Countess..." said Denisov, with downcast eyes and a guilty face. +He tried to say more, but faltered. + +Natasha could not remain calm, seeing him in such a plight. She began +to sob aloud. + +"Countess, I have done w'ong," Denisov went on in an unsteady +voice, "but believe me, I so adore your daughter and all your family +that I would give my life twice over..." He looked at the countess, +and seeing her severe face said: "Well, good-by, Countess," and +kissing her hand, he left the room with quick resolute strides, without +looking at Natasha. + + +Next day Rostov saw Denisov off. He did not wish to stay another +day in Moscow. All Denisov's Moscow friends gave him a farewell +entertainment at the gypsies', with the result that he had no +recollection of how he was put in the sleigh or of the first three +stages of his journey. + +After Denisov's departure, Rostov spent another fortnight in Moscow, +without going out of the house, waiting for the money his father could +not at once raise, and he spent most of his time in the girls' room. + +Sonya was more tender and devoted to him than ever. It was as if she +wanted to show him that his losses were an achievement that made her +love him all the more, but Nicholas now considered himself unworthy of +her. + +He filled the girls' albums with verses and music, and having at last +sent Dolokhov the whole forty-three thousand rubles and received his +receipt, he left at the end of November, without taking leave of any of +his acquaintances, to overtake his regiment which was already in Poland. + + + + + +BOOK FIVE: 1806 - 07 + + + + + +CHAPTER I + +After his interview with his wife Pierre left for Petersburg. At the +Torzhok post station, either there were no horses or the postmaster +would not supply them. Pierre was obliged to wait. Without undressing, +he lay down on the leather sofa in front of a round table, put his big +feet in their overboots on the table, and began to reflect. + +"Will you have the portmanteaus brought in? And a bed got ready, and +tea?" asked his valet. + +Pierre gave no answer, for he neither heard nor saw anything. He had +begun to think of the last station and was still pondering on the same +question--one so important that he took no notice of what went +on around him. Not only was he indifferent as to whether he got to +Petersburg earlier or later, or whether he secured accommodation at this +station, but compared to the thoughts that now occupied him it was a +matter of indifference whether he remained there for a few hours or for +the rest of his life. + +The postmaster, his wife, the valet, and a peasant woman selling +Torzhok embroidery came into the room offering their services. +Without changing his careless attitude, Pierre looked at them over his +spectacles unable to understand what they wanted or how they could go on +living without having solved the problems that so absorbed him. He had +been engrossed by the same thoughts ever since the day he returned from +Sokolniki after the duel and had spent that first agonizing, sleepless +night. But now, in the solitude of the journey, they seized him with +special force. No matter what he thought about, he always returned to +these same questions which he could not solve and yet could not cease to +ask himself. It was as if the thread of the chief screw which held his +life together were stripped, so that the screw could not get in or out, +but went on turning uselessly in the same place. + +The postmaster came in and began obsequiously to beg his excellency to +wait only two hours, when, come what might, he would let his excellency +have the courier horses. It was plain that he was lying and only wanted +to get more money from the traveler. + +"Is this good or bad?" Pierre asked himself. "It is good for me, +bad for another traveler, and for himself it's unavoidable, because +he needs money for food; the man said an officer had once given him a +thrashing for letting a private traveler have the courier horses. +But the officer thrashed him because he had to get on as quickly as +possible. And I," continued Pierre, "shot Dolokhov because I +considered myself injured, and Louis XVI was executed because they +considered him a criminal, and a year later they executed those who +executed him--also for some reason. What is bad? What is good? What +should one love and what hate? What does one live for? And what am I? +What is life, and what is death? What power governs all?" + +There was no answer to any of these questions, except one, and that +not a logical answer and not at all a reply to them. The answer was: +"You'll die and all will end. You'll die and know all, or cease +asking." But dying was also dreadful. + +The Torzhok peddler woman, in a whining voice, went on offering her +wares, especially a pair of goatskin slippers. "I have hundreds of +rubles I don't know what to do with, and she stands in her tattered +cloak looking timidly at me," he thought. "And what does she +want the money for? As if that money could add a hair's breadth to +happiness or peace of mind. Can anything in the world make her or me +less a prey to evil and death?--death which ends all and must come +today or tomorrow--at any rate, in an instant as compared with +eternity." And again he twisted the screw with the stripped thread, +and again it turned uselessly in the same place. + +His servant handed him a half-cut novel, in the form of letters, by +Madame de Souza. He began reading about the sufferings and virtuous +struggles of a certain Emilie de Mansfeld. "And why did she resist +her seducer when she loved him?" he thought. "God could not have put +into her heart an impulse that was against His will. My wife--as she +once was--did not struggle, and perhaps she was right. Nothing has been +found out, nothing discovered," Pierre again said to himself. "All +we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human +wisdom." + +Everything within and around him seemed confused, senseless, and +repellent. Yet in this very repugnance to all his circumstances Pierre +found a kind of tantalizing satisfaction. + +"I make bold to ask your excellency to move a little for this +gentleman," said the postmaster, entering the room followed by another +traveler, also detained for lack of horses. + +The newcomer was a short, large-boned, yellow-faced, wrinkled old +man, with gray bushy eyebrows overhanging bright eyes of an indefinite +grayish color. + +Pierre took his feet off the table, stood up, and lay down on a bed that +had been got ready for him, glancing now and then at the newcomer, who, +with a gloomy and tired face, was wearily taking off his wraps with the +aid of his servant, and not looking at Pierre. With a pair of felt boots +on his thin bony legs, and keeping on a worn, nankeen-covered, sheepskin +coat, the traveler sat down on the sofa, leaned back his big head with +its broad temples and close-cropped hair, and looked at Bezukhov. The +stern, shrewd, and penetrating expression of that look struck Pierre. He +felt a wish to speak to the stranger, but by the time he had made up his +mind to ask him a question about the roads, the traveler had closed his +eyes. His shriveled old hands were folded and on the finger of one of +them Pierre noticed a large cast iron ring with a seal representing a +death's head. The stranger sat without stirring, either resting or, as +it seemed to Pierre, sunk in profound and calm meditation. His servant +was also a yellow, wrinkled old man, without beard or mustache, +evidently not because he was shaven but because they had never grown. +This active old servant was unpacking the traveler's canteen and +preparing tea. He brought in a boiling samovar. When everything was +ready, the stranger opened his eyes, moved to the table, filled a +tumbler with tea for himself and one for the beardless old man to whom +he passed it. Pierre began to feel a sense of uneasiness, and the +need, even the inevitability, of entering into conversation with this +stranger. + +The servant brought back his tumbler turned upside down, * with an +unfinished bit of nibbled sugar, and asked if anything more would be +wanted. + + * To indicate he did not want more tea. + +"No. Give me the book," said the stranger. + +The servant handed him a book which Pierre took to be a devotional work, +and the traveler became absorbed in it. Pierre looked at him. All at +once the stranger closed the book, putting in a marker, and again, +leaning with his arms on the back of the sofa, sat in his former +position with his eyes shut. Pierre looked at him and had not time +to turn away when the old man, opening his eyes, fixed his steady and +severe gaze straight on Pierre's face. + +Pierre felt confused and wished to avoid that look, but the bright old +eyes attracted him irresistibly. + + + + + +CHAPTER II + +"I have the pleasure of addressing Count Bezukhov, if I am not +mistaken," said the stranger in a deliberate and loud voice. + +Pierre looked silently and inquiringly at him over his spectacles. + +"I have heard of you, my dear sir," continued the stranger, "and +of your misfortune." He seemed to emphasize the last word, as if to +say--"Yes, misfortune! Call it what you please, I know that what +happened to you in Moscow was a misfortune."--"I regret it very +much, my dear sir." + +Pierre flushed and, hurriedly putting his legs down from the bed, bent +forward toward the old man with a forced and timid smile. + +"I have not referred to this out of curiosity, my dear sir, but for +greater reasons." + +He paused, his gaze still on Pierre, and moved aside on the sofa by way +of inviting the other to take a seat beside him. Pierre felt reluctant +to enter into conversation with this old man, but, submitting to him +involuntarily, came up and sat down beside him. + +"You are unhappy, my dear sir," the stranger continued. "You +are young and I am old. I should like to help you as far as lies in my +power." + +"Oh, yes!" said Pierre, with a forced smile. "I am very grateful +to you. Where are you traveling from?" + +The stranger's face was not genial, it was even cold and severe, but +in spite of this, both the face and words of his new acquaintance were +irresistibly attractive to Pierre. + +"But if for any reason you don't feel inclined to talk to me," +said the old man, "say so, my dear sir." And he suddenly smiled, in +an unexpected and tenderly paternal way. + +"Oh no, not at all! On the contrary, I am very glad to make your +acquaintance," said Pierre. And again, glancing at the stranger's +hands, he looked more closely at the ring, with its skull--a Masonic +sign. + +"Allow me to ask," he said, "are you a Mason?" + +"Yes, I belong to the Brotherhood of the Freemasons," said the +stranger, looking deeper and deeper into Pierre's eyes. "And in +their name and my own I hold out a brotherly hand to you." + +"I am afraid," said Pierre, smiling, and wavering between the +confidence the personality of the Freemason inspired in him and his own +habit of ridiculing the Masonic beliefs--"I am afraid I am very far +from understanding--how am I to put it?--I am afraid my way of looking +at the world is so opposed to yours that we shall not understand one +another." + +"I know your outlook," said the Mason, "and the view of life you +mention, and which you think is the result of your own mental efforts, +is the one held by the majority of people, and is the invariable fruit +of pride, indolence, and ignorance. Forgive me, my dear sir, but if I +had not known it I should not have addressed you. Your view of life is a +regrettable delusion." + +"Just as I may suppose you to be deluded," said Pierre, with a faint +smile. + +"I should never dare to say that I know the truth," said the Mason, +whose words struck Pierre more and more by their precision and firmness. +"No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone +with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our +forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be +a worthy dwelling place of the Great God," he added, and closed his +eyes. + +"I ought to tell you that I do not believe... do not believe in +God," said Pierre, regretfully and with an effort, feeling it +essential to speak the whole truth. + +The Mason looked intently at Pierre and smiled as a rich man with +millions in hand might smile at a poor fellow who told him that he, poor +man, had not the five rubles that would make him happy. + +"Yes, you do not know Him, my dear sir," said the Mason. "You +cannot know Him. You do not know Him and that is why you are unhappy." + +"Yes, yes, I am unhappy," assented Pierre. "But what am I to +do?" + +"You know Him not, my dear sir, and so you are very unhappy. You do +not know Him, but He is here, He is in me, He is in my words, He is in +thee, and even in those blasphemous words thou hast just uttered!" +pronounced the Mason in a stern and tremulous voice. + +He paused and sighed, evidently trying to calm himself. + +"If He were not," he said quietly, "you and I would not be +speaking of Him, my dear sir. Of what, of whom, are we speaking? Whom +hast thou denied?" he suddenly asked with exulting austerity and +authority in his voice. "Who invented Him, if He did not exist? Whence +came thy conception of the existence of such an incomprehensible Being? +didst thou, and why did the whole world, conceive the idea of the +existence of such an incomprehensible Being, a Being all-powerful, +eternal, and infinite in all His attributes?..." + +He stopped and remained silent for a long time. + +Pierre could not and did not wish to break this silence. + +"He exists, but to understand Him is hard," the Mason began again, +looking not at Pierre but straight before him, and turning the leaves +of his book with his old hands which from excitement he could not keep +still. "If it were a man whose existence thou didst doubt I could +bring him to thee, could take him by the hand and show him to thee. But +how can I, an insignificant mortal, show His omnipotence, His infinity, +and all His mercy to one who is blind, or who shuts his eyes that he may +not see or understand Him and may not see or understand his own vileness +and sinfulness?" He paused again. "Who art thou? Thou dreamest that +thou art wise because thou couldst utter those blasphemous words," he +went on, with a somber and scornful smile. "And thou art more foolish +and unreasonable than a little child, who, playing with the parts of a +skillfully made watch, dares to say that, as he does not understand +its use, he does not believe in the master who made it. To know Him is +hard.... For ages, from our forefather Adam to our own day, we labor to +attain that knowledge and are still infinitely far from our aim; but +in our lack of understanding we see only our weakness and His +greatness...." + +Pierre listened with swelling heart, gazing into the Mason's face with +shining eyes, not interrupting or questioning him, but believing with +his whole soul what the stranger said. Whether he accepted the wise +reasoning contained in the Mason's words, or believed as a child +believes, in the speaker's tone of conviction and earnestness, or +the tremor of the speaker's voice--which sometimes almost broke--or +those brilliant aged eyes grown old in this conviction, or the calm +firmness and certainty of his vocation, which radiated from his whole +being (and which struck Pierre especially by contrast with his own +dejection and hopelessness)--at any rate, Pierre longed with his whole +soul to believe and he did believe, and felt a joyful sense of comfort, +regeneration, and return to life. + +"He is not to be apprehended by reason, but by life," said the +Mason. + +"I do not understand," said Pierre, feeling with dismay doubts +reawakening. He was afraid of any want of clearness, any weakness, in +the Mason's arguments; he dreaded not to be able to believe in him. +"I don't understand," he said, "how it is that the mind of man +cannot attain the knowledge of which you speak." + +The Mason smiled with his gentle fatherly smile. + +"The highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish +to imbibe," he said. "Can I receive that pure liquid into an impure +vessel and judge of its purity? Only by the inner purification of myself +can I retain in some degree of purity the liquid I receive." + +"Yes, yes, that is so," said Pierre joyfully. + +"The highest wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those +worldly sciences of physics, history, chemistry, and the like, into +which intellectual knowledge is divided. The highest wisdom is one. +The highest wisdom has but one science--the science of the whole--the +science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it. To +receive that science it is necessary to purify and renew one's inner +self, and so before one can know, it is necessary to believe and to +perfect one's self. And to attain this end, we have the light called +conscience that God has implanted in our souls." + +"Yes, yes," assented Pierre. + +"Look then at thy inner self with the eyes of the spirit, and ask +thyself whether thou art content with thyself. What hast thou attained +relying on reason only? What art thou? You are young, you are rich, you +are clever, you are well educated. And what have you done with all these +good gifts? Are you content with yourself and with your life?" + +"No, I hate my life," Pierre muttered, wincing. + +"Thou hatest it. Then change it, purify thyself; and as thou art +purified, thou wilt gain wisdom. Look at your life, my dear sir. +How have you spent it? In riotous orgies and debauchery, receiving +everything from society and giving nothing in return. You have become +the possessor of wealth. How have you used it? What have you done +for your neighbor? Have you ever thought of your tens of thousands +of slaves? Have you helped them physically and morally? No! You have +profited by their toil to lead a profligate life. That is what you have +done. Have you chosen a post in which you might be of service to your +neighbor? No! You have spent your life in idleness. Then you married, my +dear sir--took on yourself responsibility for the guidance of a young +woman; and what have you done? You have not helped her to find the way +of truth, my dear sir, but have thrust her into an abyss of deceit and +misery. A man offended you and you shot him, and you say you do not +know God and hate your life. There is nothing strange in that, my dear +sir!" + +After these words, the Mason, as if tired by his long discourse, again +leaned his arms on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes. Pierre +looked at that aged, stern, motionless, almost lifeless face and moved +his lips without uttering a sound. He wished to say, "Yes, a vile, +idle, vicious life!" but dared not break the silence. + +The Mason cleared his throat huskily, as old men do, and called his +servant. + +"How about the horses?" he asked, without looking at Pierre. + +"The exchange horses have just come," answered the servant. "Will +you not rest here?" + +"No, tell them to harness." + +"Can he really be going away leaving me alone without having told me +all, and without promising to help me?" thought Pierre, rising with +downcast head; and he began to pace the room, glancing occasionally at +the Mason. "Yes, I never thought of it, but I have led a contemptible +and profligate life, though I did not like it and did not want to," +thought Pierre. "But this man knows the truth and, if he wished to, +could disclose it to me." + +Pierre wished to say this to the Mason, but did not dare to. The +traveler, having packed his things with his practiced hands, began +fastening his coat. When he had finished, he turned to Bezukhov, and +said in a tone of indifferent politeness: + +"Where are you going to now, my dear sir?" + +"I?... I'm going to Petersburg," answered Pierre, in a childlike, +hesitating voice. "I thank you. I agree with all you have said. But +do not suppose me to be so bad. With my whole soul I wish to be what you +would have me be, but I have never had help from anyone.... But it is +I, above all, who am to blame for everything. Help me, teach me, and +perhaps I may..." + +Pierre could not go on. He gulped and turned away. + +The Mason remained silent for a long time, evidently considering. + +"Help comes from God alone," he said, "but such measure of help as +our Order can bestow it will render you, my dear sir. You are going to +Petersburg. Hand this to Count Willarski" (he took out his notebook +and wrote a few words on a large sheet of paper folded in four). +"Allow me to give you a piece of advice. When you reach the capital, +first of all devote some time to solitude and self-examination and do +not resume your former way of life. And now I wish you a good journey, +my dear sir," he added, seeing that his servant had entered... "and +success." + +The traveler was Joseph Alexeevich Bazdeev, as Pierre saw from the +postmaster's book. Bazdeev had been one of the best-known Freemasons +and Martinists, even in Novikov's time. For a long while after he had +gone, Pierre did not go to bed or order horses but paced up and down +the room, pondering over his vicious past, and with a rapturous sense +of beginning anew pictured to himself the blissful, irreproachable, +virtuous future that seemed to him so easy. It seemed to him that he had +been vicious only because he had somehow forgotten how good it is to +be virtuous. Not a trace of his former doubts remained in his soul. He +firmly believed in the possibility of the brotherhood of men united in +the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that is how +Freemasonry presented itself to him. + + + + + +CHAPTER III + +On reaching Petersburg Pierre did not let anyone know of his arrival, +he went nowhere and spent whole days in reading Thomas a Kempis, whose +book had been sent him by someone unknown. One thing he continually +realized as he read that book: the joy, hitherto unknown to him, +of believing in the possibility of attaining perfection, and in the +possibility of active brotherly love among men, which Joseph Alexeevich +had revealed to him. A week after his arrival, the young Polish count, +Willarski, whom Pierre had known slightly in Petersburg society, came +into his room one evening in the official and ceremonious manner in +which Dolokhov's second had called on him, and, having closed the +door behind him and satisfied himself that there was nobody else in the +room, addressed Pierre. + +"I have come to you with a message and an offer, Count," he +said without sitting down. "A person of very high standing in our +Brotherhood has made application for you to be received into our Order +before the usual term and has proposed to me to be your sponsor. I +consider it a sacred duty to fulfill that person's wishes. Do you wish +to enter the Brotherhood of Freemasons under my sponsorship?" + +The cold, austere tone of this man, whom he had almost always before met +at balls, amiably smiling in the society of the most brilliant women, +surprised Pierre. + +"Yes, I do wish it," said he. + +Willarski bowed his head. + +"One more question, Count," he said, "which I beg you to answer +in all sincerity--not as a future Mason but as an honest man: have you +renounced your former convictions--do you believe in God?" + +Pierre considered. + +"Yes... yes, I believe in God," he said. + +"In that case..." began Willarski, but Pierre interrupted him. + +"Yes, I do believe in God," he repeated. + +"In that case we can go," said Willarski. "My carriage is at your +service." + +Willarski was silent throughout the drive. To Pierre's inquiries as +to what he must do and how he should answer, Willarski only replied that +brothers more worthy than he would test him and that Pierre had only to +tell the truth. + +Having entered the courtyard of a large house where the Lodge had its +headquarters, and having ascended a dark staircase, they entered a small +well-lit anteroom where they took off their cloaks without the aid of +a servant. From there they passed into another room. A man in strange +attire appeared at the door. Willarski, stepping toward him, said +something to him in French in an undertone and then went up to a small +wardrobe in which Pierre noticed garments such as he had never seen +before. Having taken a kerchief from the cupboard, Willarski bound +Pierre's eyes with it and tied it in a knot behind, catching some +hairs painfully in the knot. Then he drew his face down, kissed him, and +taking him by the hand led him forward. The hairs tied in the knot hurt +Pierre and there were lines of pain on his face and a shamefaced smile. +His huge figure, with arms hanging down and with a puckered, though +smiling face, moved after Willarski with uncertain, timid steps. + +Having led him about ten paces, Willarski stopped. + +"Whatever happens to you," he said, "you must bear it all manfully +if you have firmly resolved to join our Brotherhood." (Pierre nodded +affirmatively.) "When you hear a knock at the door, you will uncover +your eyes," added Willarski. "I wish you courage and success," +and, pressing Pierre's hand, he went out. + +Left alone, Pierre went on smiling in the same way. Once or twice +he shrugged his shoulders and raised his hand to the kerchief, as if +wishing to take it off, but let it drop again. The five minutes spent +with his eyes bandaged seemed to him an hour. His arms felt numb, +his legs almost gave way, it seemed to him that he was tired out. He +experienced a variety of most complex sensations. He felt afraid of what +would happen to him and still more afraid of showing his fear. He felt +curious to know what was going to happen and what would be revealed to +him; but most of all, he felt joyful that the moment had come when he +would at last start on that path of regeneration and on the actively +virtuous life of which he had been dreaming since he met Joseph +Alexeevich. Loud knocks were heard at the door. Pierre took the bandage +off his eyes and glanced around him. The room was in black darkness, +only a small lamp was burning inside something white. Pierre went nearer +and saw that the lamp stood on a black table on which lay an open book. +The book was the Gospel, and the white thing with the lamp inside was a +human skull with its cavities and teeth. After reading the first words +of the Gospel: "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with +God," Pierre went round the table and saw a large open box filled +with something. It was a coffin with bones inside. He was not at all +surprised by what he saw. Hoping to enter on an entirely new life quite +unlike the old one, he expected everything to be unusual, even more +unusual than what he was seeing. A skull, a coffin, the Gospel--it +seemed to him that he had expected all this and even more. Trying +to stimulate his emotions he looked around. "God, death, love, the +brotherhood of man," he kept saying to himself, associating these +words with vague yet joyful ideas. The door opened and someone came in. + +By the dim light, to which Pierre had already become accustomed, he +saw a rather short man. Having evidently come from the light into the +darkness, the man paused, then moved with cautious steps toward the +table and placed on it his small leather-gloved hands. + +This short man had on a white leather apron which covered his chest and +part of his legs; he had on a kind of necklace above which rose a high +white ruffle, outlining his rather long face which was lit up from +below. + +"For what have you come hither?" asked the newcomer, turning in +Pierre's direction at a slight rustle made by the latter. "Why have +you, who do not believe in the truth of the light and who have not +seen the light, come here? What do you seek from us? Wisdom, virtue, +enlightenment?" + +At the moment the door opened and the stranger came in, Pierre felt a +sense of awe and veneration such as he had experienced in his boyhood at +confession; he felt himself in the presence of one socially a complete +stranger, yet nearer to him through the brotherhood of man. With bated +breath and beating heart he moved toward the Rhetor (by which name the +brother who prepared a seeker for entrance into the Brotherhood was +known). Drawing nearer, he recognized in the Rhetor a man he knew, +Smolyaninov, and it mortified him to think that the newcomer was an +acquaintance--he wished him simply a brother and a virtuous instructor. +For a long time he could not utter a word, so that the Rhetor had to +repeat his question. + +"Yes... I... I... desire regeneration," Pierre uttered with +difficulty. + +"Very well," said Smolyaninov, and went on at once: "Have you any +idea of the means by which our holy Order will help you to reach your +aim?" said he quietly and quickly. + +"I... hope... for guidance... help... in regeneration," said Pierre, +with a trembling voice and some difficulty in utterance due to his +excitement and to being unaccustomed to speak of abstract matters in +Russian. + +"What is your conception of Freemasonry?" + +"I imagine that Freemasonry is the fraternity and equality of men who +have virtuous aims," said Pierre, feeling ashamed of the inadequacy +of his words for the solemnity of the moment, as he spoke. "I +imagine..." + +"Good!" said the Rhetor quickly, apparently satisfied with +this answer. "Have you sought for means of attaining your aim in +religion?" + +"No, I considered it erroneous and did not follow it," said Pierre, +so softly that the Rhetor did not hear him and asked him what he was +saying. "I have been an atheist," answered Pierre. + +"You are seeking for truth in order to follow its laws in your life, +therefore you seek wisdom and virtue. Is that not so?" said the +Rhetor, after a moment's pause. + +"Yes, yes," assented Pierre. + +The Rhetor cleared his throat, crossed his gloved hands on his breast, +and began to speak. + +"Now I must disclose to you the chief aim of our Order," he said, +"and if this aim coincides with yours, you may enter our Brotherhood +with profit. The first and chief object of our Order, the foundation on +which it rests and which no human power can destroy, is the preservation +and handing on to posterity of a certain important mystery... which +has come down to us from the remotest ages, even from the first man--a +mystery on which perhaps the fate of mankind depends. But since this +mystery is of such a nature that nobody can know or use it unless he be +prepared by long and diligent self-purification, not everyone can hope +to attain it quickly. Hence we have a secondary aim, that of preparing +our members as much as possible to reform their hearts, to purify and +enlighten their minds, by means handed on to us by tradition from those +who have striven to attain this mystery, and thereby to render them +capable of receiving it. + +"By purifying and regenerating our members we try, thirdly, to improve +the whole human race, offering it in our members an example of piety +and virtue, and thereby try with all our might to combat the evil which +sways the world. Think this over and I will come to you again." + +"To combat the evil which sways the world..." Pierre repeated, and a +mental image of his future activity in this direction rose in his mind. +He imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he +addressed an edifying exhortation to them. He imagined to himself +vicious and unfortunate people whom he would assist by word and deed, +imagined oppressors whose victims he would rescue. Of the three +objects mentioned by the Rhetor, this last, that of improving mankind, +especially appealed to Pierre. The important mystery mentioned by the +Rhetor, though it aroused his curiosity, did not seem to him essential, +and the second aim, that of purifying and regenerating himself, did not +much interest him because at that moment he felt with delight that he +was already perfectly cured of his former faults and was ready for all +that was good. + +Half an hour later, the Rhetor returned to inform the seeker of the +seven virtues, corresponding to the seven steps of Solomon's temple, +which every Freemason should cultivate in himself. These virtues were: +1. Discretion, the keeping of the secrets of the Order. 2. Obedience to +those of higher ranks in the Order. 3. Morality. 4. Love of mankind. 5. +Courage. 6. Generosity. 7. The love of death. + +"In the seventh place, try, by the frequent thought of death," the +Rhetor said, "to bring yourself to regard it not as a dreaded foe, but +as a friend that frees the soul grown weary in the labors of virtue +from this distressful life, and leads it to its place of recompense and +peace." + +"Yes, that must be so," thought Pierre, when after these words the +Rhetor went away, leaving him to solitary meditation. "It must be so, +but I am still so weak that I love my life, the meaning of which is only +now gradually opening before me." But five of the other virtues which +Pierre recalled, counting them on his fingers, he felt already in his +soul: courage, generosity, morality, love of mankind, and especially +obedience--which did not even seem to him a virtue, but a joy. (He now +felt so glad to be free from his own lawlessness and to submit his will +to those who knew the indubitable truth.) He forgot what the seventh +virtue was and could not recall it. + +The third time the Rhetor came back more quickly and asked Pierre +whether he was still firm in his intention and determined to submit to +all that would be required of him. + +"I am ready for everything," said Pierre. + +"I must also inform you," said the Rhetor, "that our Order +delivers its teaching not in words only but also by other means, which +may perhaps have a stronger effect on the sincere seeker after wisdom +and virtue than mere words. This chamber with what you see therein +should already have suggested to your heart, if it is sincere, more than +words could do. You will perhaps also see in your further initiation a +like method of enlightenment. Our Order imitates the ancient societies +that explained their teaching by hieroglyphics. A hieroglyph," said +the Rhetor, "is an emblem of something not cognizable by the senses +but which possesses qualities resembling those of the symbol." + +Pierre knew very well what a hieroglyph was, but dared not speak. He +listened to the Rhetor in silence, feeling from all he said that his +ordeal was about to begin. + +"If you are resolved, I must begin your initiation," said the Rhetor +coming closer to Pierre. "In token of generosity I ask you to give me +all your valuables." + +"But I have nothing here," replied Pierre, supposing that he was +asked to give up all he possessed. + +"What you have with you: watch, money, rings...." + +Pierre quickly took out his purse and watch, but could not manage for +some time to get the wedding ring off his fat finger. When that had been +done, the Rhetor said: + +"In token of obedience, I ask you to undress." + +Pierre took off his coat, waistcoat, and left boot according to the +Rhetor's instructions. The Mason drew the shirt back from Pierre's +left breast, and stooping down pulled up the left leg of his trousers +to above the knee. Pierre hurriedly began taking off his right boot also +and was going to tuck up the other trouser leg to save this stranger the +trouble, but the Mason told him that was not necessary and gave him +a slipper for his left foot. With a childlike smile of embarrassment, +doubt, and self-derision, which appeared on his face against his will, +Pierre stood with his arms hanging down and legs apart, before his +brother Rhetor, and awaited his further commands. + +"And now, in token of candor, I ask you to reveal to me your chief +passion," said the latter. + +"My passion! I have had so many," replied Pierre. + +"That passion which more than all others caused you to waver on the +path of virtue," said the Mason. + +Pierre paused, seeking a reply. + +"Wine? Gluttony? Idleness? Laziness? Irritability? Anger? Women?" +He went over his vices in his mind, not knowing to which of them to give +the pre-eminence. + +"Women," he said in a low, scarcely audible voice. + +The Mason did not move and for a long time said nothing after this +answer. At last he moved up to Pierre and, taking the kerchief that lay +on the table, again bound his eyes. + +"For the last time I say to you--turn all your attention upon +yourself, put a bridle on your senses, and seek blessedness, not in +passion but in your own heart. The source of blessedness is not without +us but within...." + +Pierre had already long been feeling in himself that refreshing source +of blessedness which now flooded his heart with glad emotion. + + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +Soon after this there came into the dark chamber to fetch Pierre, not +the Rhetor but Pierre's sponsor, Willarski, whom he recognized by his +voice. To fresh questions as to the firmness of his resolution Pierre +replied: "Yes, yes, I agree," and with a beaming, childlike smile, +his fat chest uncovered, stepping unevenly and timidly in one slippered +and one booted foot, he advanced, while Willarski held a sword to his +bare chest. He was conducted from that room along passages that turned +backwards and forwards and was at last brought to the doors of the +Lodge. Willarski coughed, he was answered by the Masonic knock with +mallets, the doors opened before them. A bass voice (Pierre was still +blindfolded) questioned him as to who he was, when and where he was +born, and so on. Then he was again led somewhere still blindfolded, +and as they went along he was told allegories of the toils of his +pilgrimage, of holy friendship, of the Eternal Architect of the +universe, and of the courage with which he should endure toils and +dangers. During these wanderings, Pierre noticed that he was spoken +of now as the "Seeker," now as the "Sufferer," and now as the +"Postulant," to the accompaniment of various knockings with +mallets and swords. As he was being led up to some object he noticed a +hesitation and uncertainty among his conductors. He heard those around +him disputing in whispers and one of them insisting that he should be +led along a certain carpet. After that they took his right hand, placed +it on something, and told him to hold a pair of compasses to his left +breast with the other hand and to repeat after someone who read aloud +an oath of fidelity to the laws of the Order. The candles were then +extinguished and some spirit lighted, as Pierre knew by the smell, and +he was told that he would now see the lesser light. The bandage was +taken off his eyes and, by the faint light of the burning spirit, +Pierre, as in a dream, saw several men standing before him, wearing +aprons like the Rhetor's and holding swords in their hands pointed at +his breast. Among them stood a man whose white shirt was stained with +blood. On seeing this, Pierre moved forward with his breast toward the +swords, meaning them to pierce it. But the swords were drawn back from +him and he was at once blindfolded again. + +"Now thou hast seen the lesser light," uttered a voice. Then the +candles were relit and he was told that he would see the full light; the +bandage was again removed and more than ten voices said together: "Sic +transit gloria mundi." + +Pierre gradually began to recover himself and looked about at the room +and at the people in it. Round a long table covered with black sat some +twelve men in garments like those he had already seen. Some of them +Pierre had met in Petersburg society. In the President's chair sat a +young man he did not know, with a peculiar cross hanging from his +neck. On his right sat the Italian abbe whom Pierre had met at +Anna Pavlovna's two years before. There were also present a very +distinguished dignitary and a Swiss who had formerly been tutor at the +Kuragins'. All maintained a solemn silence, listening to the words +of the President, who held a mallet in his hand. Let into the wall was +a star-shaped light. At one side of the table was a small carpet with +various figures worked upon it, at the other was something resembling an +altar on which lay a Testament and a skull. Round it stood seven large +candlesticks like those used in churches. Two of the brothers led Pierre +up to the altar, placed his feet at right angles, and bade him lie down, +saying that he must prostrate himself at the Gates of the Temple. + +"He must first receive the trowel," whispered one of the brothers. + +"Oh, hush, please!" said another. + +Pierre, perplexed, looked round with his shortsighted eyes without +obeying, and suddenly doubts arose in his mind. "Where am I? What am +I doing? Aren't they laughing at me? Shan't I be ashamed to remember +this?" But these doubts only lasted a moment. Pierre glanced at +the serious faces of those around, remembered all he had already gone +through, and realized that he could not stop halfway. He was aghast +at his hesitation and, trying to arouse his former devotional feeling, +prostrated himself before the Gates of the Temple. And really, the +feeling of devotion returned to him even more strongly than before. When +he had lain there some time, he was told to get up, and a white leather +apron, such as the others wore, was put on him: he was given a trowel +and three pairs of gloves, and then the Grand Master addressed him. He +told him that he should try to do nothing to stain the whiteness of that +apron, which symbolized strength and purity; then of the unexplained +trowel, he told him to toil with it to cleanse his own heart from vice, +and indulgently to smooth with it the heart of his neighbor. As to the +first pair of gloves, a man's, he said that Pierre could not know +their meaning but must keep them. The second pair of man's gloves +he was to wear at the meetings, and finally of the third, a pair of +women's gloves, he said: "Dear brother, these woman's gloves are +intended for you too. Give them to the woman whom you shall honor most +of all. This gift will be a pledge of your purity of heart to her whom +you select to be your worthy helpmeet in Masonry." And after a pause, +he added: "But beware, dear brother, that these gloves do not deck +hands that are unclean." While the Grand Master said these last words +it seemed to Pierre that he grew embarrassed. Pierre himself grew still +more confused, blushed like a child till tears came to his eyes, began +looking about him uneasily, and an awkward pause followed. + +This silence was broken by one of the brethren, who led Pierre up to the +rug and began reading to him from a manuscript book an explanation of +all the figures on it: the sun, the moon, a hammer, a plumb line, a +trowel, a rough stone and a squared stone, a pillar, three windows, and +so on. Then a place was assigned to Pierre, he was shown the signs of +the Lodge, told the password, and at last was permitted to sit down. +The Grand Master began reading the statutes. They were very long, and +Pierre, from joy, agitation, and embarrassment, was not in a state to +understand what was being read. He managed to follow only the last words +of the statutes and these remained in his mind. + +"In our temples we recognize no other distinctions," read the Grand +Master, "but those between virtue and vice. Beware of making any +distinctions which may infringe equality. Fly to a brother's aid +whoever he may be, exhort him who goeth astray, raise him that falleth, +never bear malice or enmity toward thy brother. Be kindly and courteous. +Kindle in all hearts the flame of virtue. Share thy happiness with thy +neighbor, and may envy never dim the purity of that bliss. Forgive thy +enemy, do not avenge thyself except by doing him good. Thus fulfilling +the highest law thou shalt regain traces of the ancient dignity which +thou hast lost." + +He finished and, getting up, embraced and kissed Pierre, who, with tears +of joy in his eyes, looked round him, not knowing how to answer the +congratulations and greetings from acquaintances that met him on all +sides. He acknowledged no acquaintances but saw in all these men only +brothers, and burned with impatience to set to work with them. + +The Grand Master rapped with his mallet. All the Masons sat down in +their places, and one of them read an exhortation on the necessity of +humility. + +The Grand Master proposed that the last duty should be performed, +and the distinguished dignitary who bore the title of "Collector +of Alms" went round to all the brothers. Pierre would have liked +to subscribe all he had, but fearing that it might look like pride +subscribed the same amount as the others. + +The meeting was at an end, and on reaching home Pierre felt as if he had +returned from a long journey on which he had spent dozens of years, had +become completely changed, and had quite left behind his former habits +and way of life. + + + + + +CHAPTER V + +The day after he had been received into the Lodge, Pierre was sitting at +home reading a book and trying to fathom the significance of the Square, +one side of which symbolized God, another moral things, a third +physical things, and the fourth a combination of these. Now and then +his attention wandered from the book and the Square and he formed in +imagination a new plan of life. On the previous evening at the Lodge, he +had heard that a rumor of his duel had reached the Emperor and that it +would be wiser for him to leave Petersburg. Pierre proposed going to his +estates in the south and there attending to the welfare of his serfs. +He was joyfully planning this new life, when Prince Vasili suddenly +entered the room. + +"My dear fellow, what have you been up to in Moscow? Why have you +quarreled with Helene, mon cher? You are under a delusion," said +Prince Vasili, as he entered. "I know all about it, and I can tell +you positively that Helene is as innocent before you as Christ was +before the Jews." + +Pierre was about to reply, but Prince Vasili interrupted him. + +"And why didn't you simply come straight to me as to a friend? I +know all about it and understand it all," he said. "You behaved as +becomes a man who values his honor, perhaps too hastily, but we won't +go into that. But consider the position in which you are placing her and +me in the eyes of society, and even of the court," he added, lowering +his voice. "She is living in Moscow and you are here. Remember, +dear boy," and he drew Pierre's arm downwards, "it is simply a +misunderstanding. I expect you feel it so yourself. Let us write her +a letter at once, and she'll come here and all will be explained, or +else, my dear boy, let me tell you it's quite likely you'll have to +suffer for it." + +Prince Vasili gave Pierre a significant look. + +"I know from reliable sources that the Dowager Empress is taking a +keen interest in the whole affair. You know she is very gracious to +Helene." + +Pierre tried several times to speak, but, on one hand, Prince Vasili +did not let him and, on the other, Pierre himself feared to begin to +speak in the tone of decided refusal and disagreement in which he had +firmly resolved to answer his father-in-law. Moreover, the words of the +Masonic statutes, "be kindly and courteous," recurred to him. He +blinked, went red, got up and sat down again, struggling with himself +to do what was for him the most difficult thing in life--to say an +unpleasant thing to a man's face, to say what the other, whoever +he might be, did not expect. He was so used to submitting to Prince +Vasili's tone of careless self-assurance that he felt he would be +unable to withstand it now, but he also felt that on what he said now +his future depended--whether he would follow the same old road, or that +new path so attractively shown him by the Masons, on which he firmly +believed he would be reborn to a new life. + +"Now, dear boy," said Prince Vasili playfully, "say 'yes,' +and I'll write to her myself, and we will kill the fatted calf." + +But before Prince Vasili had finished his playful speech, Pierre, +without looking at him, and with a kind of fury that made him like his +father, muttered in a whisper: + +"Prince, I did not ask you here. Go, please go!" And he jumped up +and opened the door for him. + +"Go!" he repeated, amazed at himself and glad to see the look of +confusion and fear that showed itself on Prince Vasili's face. + +"What's the matter with you? Are you ill?" + +"Go!" the quivering voice repeated. And Prince Vasili had to go +without receiving any explanation. + +A week later, Pierre, having taken leave of his new friends, the Masons, +and leaving large sums of money with them for alms, went away to his +estates. His new brethren gave him letters to the Kiev and Odessa Masons +and promised to write to him and guide him in his new activity. + + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +The duel between Pierre and Dolokhov was hushed up and, in spite of +the Emperor's severity regarding duels at that time, neither the +principals nor their seconds suffered for it. But the story of the duel, +confirmed by Pierre's rupture with his wife, was the talk of society. +Pierre who had been regarded with patronizing condescension when he was +an illegitimate son, and petted and extolled when he was the best +match in Russia, had sunk greatly in the esteem of society after his +marriage--when the marriageable daughters and their mothers had nothing +to hope from him--especially as he did not know how, and did not +wish, to court society's favor. Now he alone was blamed for what had +happened, he was said to be insanely jealous and subject like his +father to fits of bloodthirsty rage. And when after Pierre's +departure Helene returned to Petersburg, she was received by all her +acquaintances not only cordially, but even with a shade of deference +due to her misfortune. When conversation turned on her husband Helene +assumed a dignified expression, which with characteristic tact she had +acquired though she did not understand its significance. This expression +suggested that she had resolved to endure her troubles uncomplainingly +and that her husband was a cross laid upon her by God. Prince Vasili +expressed his opinion more openly. He shrugged his shoulders when Pierre +was mentioned and, pointing to his forehead, remarked: + +"A bit touched--I always said so." + +"I said from the first," declared Anna Pavlovna referring to +Pierre, "I said at the time and before anyone else" (she insisted +on her priority) "that that senseless young man was spoiled by the +depraved ideas of these days. I said so even at the time when everybody +was in raptures about him, when he had just returned from abroad, and +when, if you remember, he posed as a sort of Marat at one of my soirees. +And how has it ended? I was against this marriage even then and foretold +all that has happened." + +Anna Pavlovna continued to give on free evenings the same kind of +soirees as before--such as she alone had the gift of arranging--at +which was to be found "the cream of really good society, the bloom +of the intellectual essence of Petersburg," as she herself put it. +Besides this refined selection of society Anna Pavlovna's receptions +were also distinguished by the fact that she always presented some new +and interesting person to the visitors and that nowhere else was the +state of the political thermometer of legitimate Petersburg court +society so dearly and distinctly indicated. + +Toward the end of 1806, when all the sad details of Napoleon's +destruction of the Prussian army at Jena and Auerstadt and the +surrender of most of the Prussian fortresses had been received, when our +troops had already entered Prussia and our second war with Napoleon +was beginning, Anna Pavlovna gave one of her soirees. The "cream of +really good society" consisted of the fascinating Helene, forsaken +by her husband, Mortemart, the delightful Prince Hippolyte who had +just returned from Vienna, two diplomatists, the old aunt, a young man +referred to in that drawing room as "a man of great merit" (un homme +de beaucoup de merite), a newly appointed maid of honor and her mother, +and several other less noteworthy persons. + +The novelty Anna Pavlovna was setting before her guests that evening +was Boris Drubetskoy, who had just arrived as a special messenger from +the Prussian army and was aide-de-camp to a very important personage. + +The temperature shown by the political thermometer to the company that +evening was this: + +"Whatever the European sovereigns and commanders may do to +countenance Bonaparte, and to cause me, and us in general, annoyance and +mortification, our opinion of Bonaparte cannot alter. We shall not cease +to express our sincere views on that subject, and can only say to the +King of Prussia and others: 'So much the worse for you. Tu l'as +voulu, George Dandin,' that's all we have to say about it!" + +When Boris, who was to be served up to the guests, entered the drawing +room, almost all the company had assembled, and the conversation, guided +by Anna Pavlovna, was about our diplomatic relations with Austria and +the hope of an alliance with her. + +Boris, grown more manly and looking fresh, rosy and self-possessed, +entered the drawing room elegantly dressed in the uniform of an +aide-de-camp and was duly conducted to pay his respects to the aunt and +then brought back to the general circle. + +Anna Pavlovna gave him her shriveled hand to kiss and introduced him to +several persons whom he did not know, giving him a whispered description +of each. + +"Prince Hippolyte Kuragin--charming young fellow; M. +Kronq,--charge d'affaires from Copenhagen--a profound intellect," +and simply, "Mr. Shitov--a man of great merit"--this of the man +usually so described. + +Thanks to Anna Mikhaylovna's efforts, his own tastes, and the +peculiarities of his reserved nature, Boris had managed during his +service to place himself very advantageously. He was aide-de-camp to a +very important personage, had been sent on a very important mission to +Prussia, and had just returned from there as a special messenger. He had +become thoroughly conversant with that unwritten code with which he had +been so pleased at Olmutz and according to which an ensign might rank +incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was +needed for success in the service was not effort or work, or courage, or +perseverance, but only the knowledge of how to get on with those who can +grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his +success and at the inability of others to understand these things. +In consequence of this discovery his whole manner of life, all +his relations with old friends, all his plans for his future, were +completely altered. He was not rich, but would spend his last groat to +be better dressed than others, and would rather deprive himself of many +pleasures than allow himself to be seen in a shabby equipage or appear +in the streets of Petersburg in an old uniform. He made friends with +and sought the acquaintance of only those above him in position and +who could therefore be of use to him. He liked Petersburg and despised +Moscow. The remembrance of the Rostovs' house and of his childish +love for Natasha was unpleasant to him and he had not once been to see +the Rostovs since the day of his departure for the army. To be in Anna +Pavlovna's drawing room he considered an important step up in the +service, and he at once understood his role, letting his hostess make +use of whatever interest he had to offer. He himself carefully scanned +each face, appraising the possibilities of establishing intimacy with +each of those present, and the advantages that might accrue. He took +the seat indicated to him beside the fair Helene and listened to the +general conversation. + +"Vienna considers the bases of the proposed treaty so unattainable +that not even a continuity of most brilliant successes would secure +them, and she doubts the means we have of gaining them. That is the +actual phrase used by the Vienna cabinet," said the Danish charge +d'affaires. + +"The doubt is flattering," said "the man of profound intellect," +with a subtle smile. + +"We must distinguish between the Vienna cabinet and the Emperor of +Austria," said Mortemart. "The Emperor of Austria can never have +thought of such a thing, it is only the cabinet that says it." + +"Ah, my dear vicomte," put in Anna Pavlovna, "L'Urope" (for +some reason she called it Urope as if that were a specially refined +French pronunciation which she could allow herself when conversing with +a Frenchman), "L'Urope ne sera jamais notre alliee sincere." * + + * "Europe will never be our sincere ally." + + +After that Anna Pavlovna led up to the courage and firmness of the King +of Prussia, in order to draw Boris into the conversation. + +Boris listened attentively to each of the speakers, awaiting his turn, +but managed meanwhile to look round repeatedly at his neighbor, the +beautiful Helene, whose eyes several times met those of the handsome +young aide-de-camp with a smile. + +Speaking of the position of Prussia, Anna Pavlovna very naturally asked +Boris to tell them about his journey to Glogau and in what state he +found the Prussian army. Boris, speaking with deliberation, told them +in pure, correct French many interesting details about the armies and +the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his +own about the facts he was recounting. For some time he engrossed the +general attention, and Anna Pavlovna felt that the novelty she had +served up was received with pleasure by all her visitors. The greatest +attention of all to Boris' narrative was shown by Helene. She asked +him several questions about his journey and seemed greatly interested in +the state of the Prussian army. As soon as he had finished she turned to +him with her usual smile. + +"You absolutely must come and see me," she said in a tone that +implied that, for certain considerations he could not know of, this was +absolutely necessary. + +"On Tuesday between eight and nine. It will give me great pleasure." + +Boris promised to fulfill her wish and was about to begin a +conversation with her, when Anna Pavlovna called him away on the +pretext that her aunt wished to hear him. + +"You know her husband, of course?" said Anna Pavlovna, closing her +eyes and indicating Helene with a sorrowful gesture. "Ah, she is +such an unfortunate and charming woman! Don't mention him before +her--please don't! It is too painful for her!" + + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +When Boris and Anna Pavlovna returned to the others Prince Hippolyte +had the ear of the company. + +Bending forward in his armchair he said: "Le Roi de Prusse!" and +having said this laughed. Everyone turned toward him. + +"Le Roi de Prusse?" Hippolyte said interrogatively, again laughing, +and then calmly and seriously sat back in his chair. Anna Pavlovna +waited for him to go on, but as he seemed quite decided to say no more +she began to tell of how at Potsdam the impious Bonaparte had stolen the +sword of Frederick the Great. + +"It is the sword of Frederick the Great which I..." she began, but +Hippolyte interrupted her with the words: "Le Roi de Prusse..." and +again, as soon as all turned toward him, excused himself and said no +more. + +Anna Pavlovna frowned. Mortemart, Hippolyte's friend, addressed him +firmly. + +"Come now, what about your Roi de Prusse?" + +Hippolyte laughed as if ashamed of laughing. + +"Oh, it's nothing. I only wished to say..." (he wanted to repeat +a joke he had heard in Vienna and which he had been trying all that +evening to get in) "I only wished to say that we are wrong to fight +pour le Roi de Prusse!" + +Boris smiled circumspectly, so that it might be taken as ironical +or appreciative according to the way the joke was received. Everybody +laughed. + +"Your joke is too bad, it's witty but unjust," said Anna +Pavlovna, shaking her little shriveled finger at him. + +"We are not fighting pour le Roi de Prusse, but for right principles. +Oh, that wicked Prince Hippolyte!" she said. + +The conversation did not flag all evening and turned chiefly on the +political news. It became particularly animated toward the end of the +evening when the rewards bestowed by the Emperor were mentioned. + +"You know N-- N-- received a snuffbox with the portrait last +year?" said "the man of profound intellect." "Why shouldn't +S-- S-- get the same distinction?" + +"Pardon me! A snuffbox with the Emperor's portrait is a reward but +not a distinction," said the diplomatist--"a gift, rather." + +"There are precedents, I may mention Schwarzenberg." + +"It's impossible," replied another. + +"Will you bet? The ribbon of the order is a different matter...." + +When everybody rose to go, Helene who had spoken very little all +the evening again turned to Boris, asking him in a tone of caressing +significant command to come to her on Tuesday. + +"It is of great importance to me," she said, turning with a smile +toward Anna Pavlovna, and Anna Pavlovna, with the same sad smile with +which she spoke of her exalted patroness, supported Helene's wish. + +It seemed as if from some words Boris had spoken that evening about the +Prussian army, Helene had suddenly found it necessary to see him. +She seemed to promise to explain that necessity to him when he came on +Tuesday. + +But on Tuesday evening, having come to Helene's splendid salon, +Boris received no clear explanation of why it had been necessary for +him to come. There were other guests and the countess talked little to +him, and only as he kissed her hand on taking leave said unexpectedly +and in a whisper, with a strangely unsmiling face: "Come to dinner +tomorrow... in the evening. You must come.... Come!" + +During that stay in Petersburg, Boris became an intimate in the +countess' house. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +The war was flaming up and nearing the Russian frontier. Everywhere one +heard curses on Bonaparte, "the enemy of mankind." Militiamen and +recruits were being enrolled in the villages, and from the seat of +war came contradictory news, false as usual and therefore variously +interpreted. The life of old Prince Bolkonski, Prince Andrew, and +Princess Mary had greatly changed since 1805. + +In 1806 the old prince was made one of the eight commanders in chief +then appointed to supervise the enrollment decreed throughout Russia. +Despite the weakness of age, which had become particularly noticeable +since the time when he thought his son had been killed, he did not think +it right to refuse a duty to which he had been appointed by the Emperor +himself, and this fresh opportunity for action gave him new energy +and strength. He was continually traveling through the three provinces +entrusted to him, was pedantic in the fulfillment of his duties, severe +to cruel with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the +minutest details himself. Princess Mary had ceased taking lessons in +mathematics from her father, and when the old prince was at home went +to his study with the wet nurse and little Prince Nicholas (as his +grandfather called him). The baby Prince Nicholas lived with his wet +nurse and nurse Savishna in the late princess' rooms and Princess +Mary spent most of the day in the nursery, taking a mother's place to +her little nephew as best she could. Mademoiselle Bourienne, too, seemed +passionately fond of the boy, and Princess Mary often deprived herself +to give her friend the pleasure of dandling the little angel--as she +called her nephew--and playing with him. + +Near the altar of the church at Bald Hills there was a chapel over the +tomb of the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument +brought from Italy, representing an angel with outspread wings ready to +fly upwards. The angel's upper lip was slightly raised as though +about to smile, and once on coming out of the chapel Prince Andrew and +Princess Mary admitted to one another that the angel's face reminded +them strangely of the little princess. But what was still stranger, +though of this Prince Andrew said nothing to his sister, was that in the +expression the sculptor had happened to give the angel's face, Prince +Andrew read the same mild reproach he had read on the face of his dead +wife: "Ah, why have you done this to me?" + +Soon after Prince Andrew's return the old prince made over to him a +large estate, Bogucharovo, about twenty-five miles from Bald Hills. +Partly because of the depressing memories associated with Bald Hills, +partly because Prince Andrew did not always feel equal to bearing with +his father's peculiarities, and partly because he needed solitude, +Prince Andrew made use of Bogucharovo, began building and spent most of +his time there. + +After the Austerlitz campaign Prince Andrew had firmly resolved not +to continue his military service, and when the war recommenced +and everybody had to serve, he took a post under his father in the +recruitment so as to avoid active service. The old prince and his son +seemed to have changed roles since the campaign of 1805. The old man, +roused by activity, expected the best results from the new campaign, +while Prince Andrew on the contrary, taking no part in the war and +secretly regretting this, saw only the dark side. + +On February 26, 1807, the old prince set off on one of his circuits. +Prince Andrew remained at Bald Hills as usual during his father's +absence. Little Nicholas had been unwell for four days. The coachman who +had driven the old prince to town returned bringing papers and letters +for Prince Andrew. + +Not finding the young prince in his study the valet went with the +letters to Princess Mary's apartments, but did not find him there. He +was told that the prince had gone to the nursery. + +"If you please, your excellency, Petrusha has brought some papers," +said one of the nursemaids to Prince Andrew who was sitting on a +child's little chair while, frowning and with trembling hands, he +poured drops from a medicine bottle into a wineglass half full of water. + +"What is it?" he said crossly, and, his hand shaking +unintentionally, he poured too many drops into the glass. He threw the +mixture onto the floor and asked for some more water. The maid brought +it. + +There were in the room a child's cot, two boxes, two armchairs, a +table, a child's table, and the little chair on which Prince Andrew +was sitting. The curtains were drawn, and a single candle was burning on +the table, screened by a bound music book so that the light did not fall +on the cot. + +"My dear," said Princess Mary, addressing her brother from beside +the cot where she was standing, "better wait a bit... later..." + +"Oh, leave off, you always talk nonsense and keep putting things +off--and this is what comes of it!" said Prince Andrew in an +exasperated whisper, evidently meaning to wound his sister. + +"My dear, really... it's better not to wake him... he's asleep," +said the princess in a tone of entreaty. + +Prince Andrew got up and went on tiptoe up to the little bed, wineglass +in hand. + +"Perhaps we'd really better not wake him," he said hesitating. + +"As you please... really... I think so... but as you please," said +Princess Mary, evidently intimidated and confused that her opinion +had prevailed. She drew her brother's attention to the maid who was +calling him in a whisper. + +It was the second night that neither of them had slept, watching the boy +who was in a high fever. These last days, mistrusting their household +doctor and expecting another for whom they had sent to town, they had +been trying first one remedy and then another. Worn out by sleeplessness +and anxiety they threw their burden of sorrow on one another and +reproached and disputed with each other. + +"Petrusha has come with papers from your father," whispered the +maid. + +Prince Andrew went out. + +"Devil take them!" he muttered, and after listening to the verbal +instructions his father had sent and taking the correspondence and his +father's letter, he returned to the nursery. + +"Well?" he asked. + +"Still the same. Wait, for heaven's sake. Karl Ivanich always says +that sleep is more important than anything," whispered Princess Mary +with a sigh. + +Prince Andrew went up to the child and felt him. He was burning hot. + +"Confound you and your Karl Ivanich!" He took the glass with the +drops and again went up to the cot. + +"Andrew, don't!" said Princess Mary. + +But he scowled at her angrily though also with suffering in his eyes, +and stooped glass in hand over the infant. + +"But I wish it," he said. "I beg you--give it him!" + +Princess Mary shrugged her shoulders but took the glass submissively +and calling the nurse began giving the medicine. The child screamed +hoarsely. Prince Andrew winced and, clutching his head, went out and sat +down on a sofa in the next room. + +He still had all the letters in his hand. Opening them mechanically he +began reading. The old prince, now and then using abbreviations, wrote +in his large elongated hand on blue paper as follows: + +Have just this moment received by special messenger very joyful +news--if it's not false. Bennigsen seems to have obtained a complete +victory over Buonaparte at Eylau. In Petersburg everyone is rejoicing, +and the rewards sent to the army are innumerable. Though he is a +German--I congratulate him! I can't make out what the commander at +Korchevo--a certain Khandrikov--is up to; till now the additional +men and provisions have not arrived. Gallop off to him at once and +say I'll have his head off if everything is not here in a week. +Have received another letter about the Preussisch-Eylau battle +from Petenka--he took part in it--and it's all true. When +mischief-makers don't meddle even a German beats Buonaparte. He is +said to be fleeing in great disorder. Mind you gallop off to Korchevo +without delay and carry out instructions! + +Prince Andrew sighed and broke the seal of another envelope. It was +a closely written letter of two sheets from Bilibin. He folded it up +without reading it and reread his father's letter, ending with the +words: "Gallop off to Korchevo and carry out instructions!" + +"No, pardon me, I won't go now till the child is better," thought +he, going to the door and looking into the nursery. + +Princess Mary was still standing by the cot, gently rocking the baby. + +"Ah yes, and what else did he say that's unpleasant?" thought +Prince Andrew, recalling his father's letter. "Yes, we have gained +a victory over Bonaparte, just when I'm not serving. Yes, yes, he's +always poking fun at me.... Ah, well! Let him!" And he began reading +Bilibin's letter which was written in French. He read without +understanding half of it, read only to forget, if but for a moment, what +he had too long been thinking of so painfully to the exclusion of all +else. + + + + + +CHAPTER IX + +Bilibin was now at army headquarters in a diplomatic capacity, and +though he wrote in French and used French jests and French idioms, +he described the whole campaign with a fearless self-censure and +self-derision genuinely Russian. Bilibin wrote that the obligation of +diplomatic discretion tormented him, and he was happy to have in Prince +Andrew a reliable correspondent to whom he could pour out the bile he +had accumulated at the sight of all that was being done in the army. +The letter was old, having been written before the battle at +Preussisch-Eylau. + +"Since the day of our brilliant success at Austerlitz," wrote +Bilibin, "as you know, my dear prince, I never leave headquarters. I +have certainly acquired a taste for war, and it is just as well for me; +what I have seen during these last three months is incredible. + +"I begin ab ovo. 'The enemy of the human race,' as you know, +attacks the Prussians. The Prussians are our faithful allies who have +only betrayed us three times in three years. We take up their cause, but +it turns out that 'the enemy of the human race' pays no heed to +our fine speeches and in his rude and savage way throws himself on the +Prussians without giving them time to finish the parade they had begun, +and in two twists of the hand he breaks them to smithereens and installs +himself in the palace at Potsdam. + +"'I most ardently desire,' writes the King of Prussia to +Bonaparte, 'that Your Majesty should be received and treated in my +palace in a manner agreeable to yourself, and in so far as circumstances +allowed, I have hastened to take all steps to that end. May I have +succeeded!' The Prussian generals pride themselves on being polite to +the French and lay down their arms at the first demand. + +"The head of the garrison at Glogau, with ten thousand men, asks the +King of Prussia what he is to do if he is summoned to surrender.... All +this is absolutely true. + +"In short, hoping to settle matters by taking up a warlike attitude, +it turns out that we have landed ourselves in war, and what is more, +in war on our own frontiers, with and for the King of Prussia. We have +everything in perfect order, only one little thing is lacking, namely, +a commander in chief. As it was considered that the Austerlitz success +might have been more decisive had the commander in chief not been so +young, all our octogenarians were reviewed, and of Prozorovski +and Kamenski the latter was preferred. The general comes to us, +Suvorov-like, in a kibitka, and is received with acclamations of joy +and triumph. + +"On the 4th, the first courier arrives from Petersburg. The mails +are taken to the field marshal's room, for he likes to do everything +himself. I am called in to help sort the letters and take those meant +for us. The field marshal looks on and waits for letters addressed +to him. We search, but none are to be found. The field marshal grows +impatient and sets to work himself and finds letters from the Emperor +to Count T., Prince V., and others. Then he bursts into one of his wild +furies and rages at everyone and everything, seizes the letters, opens +them, and reads those from the Emperor addressed to others. 'Ah! So +that's the way they treat me! No confidence in me! Ah, ordered to keep +an eye on me! Very well then! Get along with you!' So he writes the +famous order of the day to General Bennigsen: + +"'I am wounded and cannot ride and consequently cannot command the +army. You have brought your army corps to Pultusk, routed: here it is +exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as +you yourself reported to Count Buxhowden yesterday, you must think of +retreating to our frontier--which do today.' + +"'From all my riding,' he writes to the Emperor, 'I have got a +saddle sore which, coming after all my previous journeys, quite prevents +my riding and commanding so vast an army, so I have passed on the +command to the general next in seniority, Count Buxhowden, having sent +him my whole staff and all that belongs to it, advising him if there is +a lack of bread, to move farther into the interior of Prussia, for only +one day's ration of bread remains, and in some regiments none at all, +as reported by the division commanders, Ostermann and Sedmoretzki, and +all that the peasants had has been eaten up. I myself will remain in +hospital at Ostrolenka till I recover. In regard to which I humbly +submit my report, with the information that if the army remains in its +present bivouac another fortnight there will not be a healthy man left +in it by spring. + +"'Grant leave to retire to his country seat to an old man who is +already in any case dishonored by being unable to fulfill the great and +glorious task for which he was chosen. I shall await your most gracious +permission here in hospital, that I may not have to play the part of a +secretary rather than commander in the army. My removal from the army +does not produce the slightest stir--a blind man has left it. There are +thousands such as I in Russia.' + +"The field marshal is angry with the Emperor and he punishes us all, +isn't it logical? + +"This is the first act. Those that follow are naturally increasingly +interesting and entertaining. After the field marshal's departure +it appears that we are within sight of the enemy and must give battle. +Buxhowden is commander in chief by seniority, but General Bennigsen +does not quite see it; more particularly as it is he and his corps who +are within sight of the enemy and he wishes to profit by the opportunity +to fight a battle 'on his own hand' as the Germans say. He does so. +This is the battle of Pultusk, which is considered a great victory but +in my opinion was nothing of the kind. We civilians, as you know, have +a very bad way of deciding whether a battle was won or lost. Those who +retreat after a battle have lost it is what we say; and according to +that it is we who lost the battle of Pultusk. In short, we retreat +after the battle but send a courier to Petersburg with news of a +victory, and General Bennigsen, hoping to receive from Petersburg the +post of commander in chief as a reward for his victory, does not give up +the command of the army to General Buxhowden. During this interregnum +we begin a very original and interesting series of maneuvers. Our aim is +no longer, as it should be, to avoid or attack the enemy, but solely to +avoid General Buxhowden who by right of seniority should be our chief. +So energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable +river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at +the moment is not Bonaparte but Buxhowden. General Buxhowden was all +but attacked and captured by a superior enemy force as a result of one +of these maneuvers that enabled us to escape him. Buxhowden pursues +us--we scuttle. He hardly crosses the river to our side before we +recross to the other. At last our enemy, Buxhowden, catches us and +attacks. Both generals are angry, and the result is a challenge on +Buxhowden's part and an epileptic fit on Bennigsen's. But at the +critical moment the courier who carried the news of our victory at +Pultusk to Petersburg returns bringing our appointment as commander in +chief, and our first foe, Buxhowden, is vanquished; we can now turn +our thoughts to the second, Bonaparte. But as it turns out, just at +that moment a third enemy rises before us--namely the Orthodox Russian +soldiers, loudly demanding bread, meat, biscuits, fodder, and whatnot! +The stores are empty, the roads impassable. The Orthodox begin looting, +and in a way of which our last campaign can give you no idea. Half the +regiments form bands and scour the countryside and put everything +to fire and sword. The inhabitants are totally ruined, the hospitals +overflow with sick, and famine is everywhere. Twice the marauders even +attack our headquarters, and the commander in chief has to ask for a +battalion to disperse them. During one of these attacks they carried off +my empty portmanteau and my dressing gown. The Emperor proposes to give +all commanders of divisions the right to shoot marauders, but I much +fear this will oblige one half the army to shoot the other." + +At first Prince Andrew read with his eyes only, but after a while, +in spite of himself (although he knew how far it was safe to trust +Bilibin), what he had read began to interest him more and more. When he +had read thus far, he crumpled the letter up and threw it away. It was +not what he had read that vexed him, but the fact that the life out +there in which he had now no part could perturb him. He shut his eyes, +rubbed his forehead as if to rid himself of all interest in what he +had read, and listened to what was passing in the nursery. Suddenly he +thought he heard a strange noise through the door. He was seized with +alarm lest something should have happened to the child while he was +reading the letter. He went on tiptoe to the nursery door and opened it. + +Just as he went in he saw that the nurse was hiding something from him +with a scared look and that Princess Mary was no longer by the cot. + +"My dear," he heard what seemed to him her despairing whisper behind +him. + +As often happens after long sleeplessness and long anxiety, he was +seized by an unreasoning panic--it occurred to him that the child was +dead. All that he saw and heard seemed to confirm this terror. + +"All is over," he thought, and a cold sweat broke out on his +forehead. He went to the cot in confusion, sure that he would find it +empty and that the nurse had been hiding the dead baby. He drew the +curtain aside and for some time his frightened, restless eyes could not +find the baby. At last he saw him: the rosy boy had tossed about till he +lay across the bed with his head lower than the pillow, and was smacking +his lips in his sleep and breathing evenly. + +Prince Andrew was as glad to find the boy like that, as if he had +already lost him. He bent over him and, as his sister had taught him, +tried with his lips whether the child was still feverish. The soft +forehead was moist. Prince Andrew touched the head with his hand; even +the hair was wet, so profusely had the child perspired. He was not dead, +but evidently the crisis was over and he was convalescent. Prince Andrew +longed to snatch up, to squeeze, to hold to his heart, this helpless +little creature, but dared not do so. He stood over him, gazing at his +head and at the little arms and legs which showed under the blanket. He +heard a rustle behind him and a shadow appeared under the curtain of +the cot. He did not look round, but still gazing at the infant's face +listened to his regular breathing. The dark shadow was Princess Mary, +who had come up to the cot with noiseless steps, lifted the curtain, +and dropped it again behind her. Prince Andrew recognized her without +looking and held out his hand to her. She pressed it. + +"He has perspired," said Prince Andrew. + +"I was coming to tell you so." + +The child moved slightly in his sleep, smiled, and rubbed his forehead +against the pillow. + +Prince Andrew looked at his sister. In the dim shadow of the curtain her +luminous eyes shone more brightly than usual from the tears of joy that +were in them. She leaned over to her brother and kissed him, slightly +catching the curtain of the cot. Each made the other a warning gesture +and stood still in the dim light beneath the curtain as if not wishing +to leave that seclusion where they three were shut off from all the +world. Prince Andrew was the first to move away, ruffling his hair +against the muslin of the curtain. + +"Yes, this is the one thing left me now," he said with a sigh. + + + + + +CHAPTER X + +Soon after his admission to the Masonic Brotherhood, Pierre went to the +Kiev province, where he had the greatest number of serfs, taking with +him full directions which he had written down for his own guidance as to +what he should do on his estates. + +When he reached Kiev he sent for all his stewards to the head office +and explained to them his intentions and wishes. He told them that steps +would be taken immediately to free his serfs--and that till then they +were not to be overburdened with labor, women while nursing their babies +were not to be sent to work, assistance was to be given to the serfs, +punishments were to be admonitory and not corporal, and hospitals, +asylums, and schools were to be established on all the estates. Some of +the stewards (there were semiliterate foremen among them) listened with +alarm, supposing these words to mean that the young count was displeased +with their management and embezzlement of money, some after their first +fright were amused by Pierre's lisp and the new words they had not +heard before, others simply enjoyed hearing how the master talked, while +the cleverest among them, including the chief steward, understood from +this speech how they could best handle the master for their own ends. + +The chief steward expressed great sympathy with Pierre's intentions, +but remarked that besides these changes it would be necessary to go into +the general state of affairs which was far from satisfactory. + +Despite Count Bezukhov's enormous wealth, since he had come into an +income which was said to amount to five hundred thousand rubles a year, +Pierre felt himself far poorer than when his father had made him +an allowance of ten thousand rubles. He had a dim perception of the +following budget: + +About 80,000 went in payments on all the estates to the Land Bank, about +30,000 went for the upkeep of the estate near Moscow, the town house, +and the allowance to the three princesses; about 15,000 was given in +pensions and the same amount for asylums; 150,000 alimony was sent to +the countess; about 70,000 went for interest on debts. The building of a +new church, previously begun, had cost about 10,000 in each of the last +two years, and he did not know how the rest, about 100,000 rubles, was +spent, and almost every year he was obliged to borrow. Besides this the +chief steward wrote every year telling him of fires and bad harvests, +or of the necessity of rebuilding factories and workshops. So the first +task Pierre had to face was one for which he had very little aptitude or +inclination--practical business. + +He discussed estate affairs every day with his chief steward. But +he felt that this did not forward matters at all. He felt that these +consultations were detached from real affairs and did not link up with +them or make them move. On the one hand, the chief steward put the state +of things to him in the very worst light, pointing out the necessity of +paying off the debts and undertaking new activities with serf labor, +to which Pierre did not agree. On the other hand, Pierre demanded that +steps should be taken to liberate the serfs, which the steward met by +showing the necessity of first paying off the loans from the Land Bank, +and the consequent impossibility of a speedy emancipation. + +The steward did not say it was quite impossible, but suggested selling +the forests in the province of Kostroma, the land lower down the river, +and the Crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which +operations according to him were connected with such complicated +measures--the removal of injunctions, petitions, permits, and so +on--that Pierre became quite bewildered and only replied: + +"Yes, yes, do so." + +Pierre had none of the practical persistence that would have enabled him +to attend to the business himself and so he disliked it and only tried +to pretend to the steward that he was attending to it. The steward +for his part tried to pretend to the count that he considered these +consultations very valuable for the proprietor and troublesome to +himself. + +In Kiev Pierre found some people he knew, and strangers hastened to make +his acquaintance and joyfully welcomed the rich newcomer, the +largest landowner of the province. Temptations to Pierre's greatest +weakness--the one to which he had confessed when admitted to the +Lodge--were so strong that he could not resist them. Again whole days, +weeks, and months of his life passed in as great a rush and were as much +occupied with evening parties, dinners, lunches, and balls, giving him +no time for reflection, as in Petersburg. Instead of the new life he had +hoped to lead he still lived the old life, only in new surroundings. + +Of the three precepts of Freemasonry Pierre realized that he did not +fulfill the one which enjoined every Mason to set an example of moral +life, and that of the seven virtues he lacked two--morality and the +love of death. He consoled himself with the thought that he fulfilled +another of the precepts--that of reforming the human race--and had +other virtues--love of his neighbor, and especially generosity. + +In the spring of 1807 he decided to return to Petersburg. On the way he +intended to visit all his estates and see for himself how far his orders +had been carried out and in what state were the serfs whom God had +entrusted to his care and whom he intended to benefit. + +The chief steward, who considered the young count's attempts almost +insane--unprofitable to himself, to the count, and to the serfs--made +some concessions. Continuing to represent the liberation of the serfs +as impracticable, he arranged for the erection of large +buildings--schools, hospitals, and asylums--on all the estates +before the master arrived. Everywhere preparations were made not for +ceremonious welcomes (which he knew Pierre would not like), but for just +such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread +and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his +master, would touch and delude him. + +The southern spring, the comfortable rapid traveling in a Vienna +carriage, and the solitude of the road, all had a gladdening effect on +Pierre. The estates he had not before visited were each more picturesque +than the other; the serfs everywhere seemed thriving and touchingly +grateful for the benefits conferred on them. Everywhere were receptions, +which though they embarrassed Pierre awakened a joyful feeling in the +depth of his heart. In one place the peasants presented him with bread +and salt and an icon of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, asking permission, +as a mark of their gratitude for the benefits he had conferred on them, +to build a new chantry to the church at their own expense in honor +of Peter and Paul, his patron saints. In another place the women with +infants in arms met him to thank him for releasing them from hard +work. On a third estate the priest, bearing a cross, came to meet +him surrounded by children whom, by the count's generosity, he was +instructing in reading, writing, and religion. On all his estates Pierre +saw with his own eyes brick buildings erected or in course of erection, +all on one plan, for hospitals, schools, and almshouses, which were soon +to be opened. Everywhere he saw the stewards' accounts, according to +which the serfs' manorial labor had been diminished, and heard the +touching thanks of deputations of serfs in their full-skirted blue +coats. + +What Pierre did not know was that the place where they presented him +with bread and salt and wished to build a chantry in honor of Peter and +Paul was a market village where a fair was held on St. Peter's day, +and that the richest peasants (who formed the deputation) had begun +the chantry long before, but that nine tenths of the peasants in that +villages were in a state of the greatest poverty. He did not know that +since the nursing mothers were no longer sent to work on his land, they +did still harder work on their own land. He did not know that the priest +who met him with the cross oppressed the peasants by his exactions, and +that the pupils' parents wept at having to let him take their children +and secured their release by heavy payments. He did not know that the +brick buildings, built to plan, were being built by serfs whose manorial +labor was thus increased, though lessened on paper. He did not know +that where the steward had shown him in the accounts that the serfs' +payments had been diminished by a third, their obligatory manorial work +had been increased by a half. And so Pierre was delighted with his visit +to his estates and quite recovered the philanthropic mood in which +he had left Petersburg, and wrote enthusiastic letters to his +"brother-instructor" as he called the Grand Master. + +"How easy it is, how little effort it needs, to do so much good," +thought Pierre, "and how little attention we pay to it!" + +He was pleased at the gratitude he received, but felt abashed at +receiving it. This gratitude reminded him of how much more he might do +for these simple, kindly people. + +The chief steward, a very stupid but cunning man who saw perfectly +through the naive and intelligent count and played with him as with +a toy, seeing the effect these prearranged receptions had on Pierre, +pressed him still harder with proofs of the impossibility and above all +the uselessness of freeing the serfs, who were quite happy as it was. + +Pierre in his secret soul agreed with the steward that it would be +difficult to imagine happier people, and that God only knew what would +happen to them when they were free, but he insisted, though reluctantly, +on what he thought right. The steward promised to do all in his power to +carry out the count's wishes, seeing clearly that not only would the +count never be able to find out whether all measures had been taken for +the sale of the land and forests and to release them from the Land Bank, +but would probably never even inquire and would never know that the +newly erected buildings were standing empty and that the serfs continued +to give in money and work all that other people's serfs gave--that is +to say, all that could be got out of them. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI + +Returning from his journey through South Russia in the happiest state +of mind, Pierre carried out an intention he had long had of visiting his +friend Bolkonski, whom he had not seen for two years. + +Bogucharovo lay in a flat uninteresting part of the country among +fields and forests of fir and birch, which were partly cut down. The +house lay behind a newly dug pond filled with water to the brink and +with banks still bare of grass. It was at the end of a village that +stretched along the highroad in the midst of a young copse in which were +a few fir trees. + +The homestead consisted of a threshing floor, outhouses, stables, a +bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular facade +still in course of construction. Round the house was a garden newly laid +out. The fences and gates were new and solid; two fire pumps and a +water cart, painted green, stood in a shed; the paths were straight, +the bridges were strong and had handrails. Everything bore an impress of +tidiness and good management. Some domestic serfs Pierre met, in reply +to inquiries as to where the prince lived, pointed out a small newly +built lodge close to the pond. Anton, a man who had looked after Prince +Andrew in his boyhood, helped Pierre out of his carriage, said that the +prince was at home, and showed him into a clean little anteroom. + +Pierre was struck by the modesty of the small though clean house after +the brilliant surroundings in which he had last met his friend in +Petersburg. + +He quickly entered the small reception room with its still-unplastered +wooden walls redolent of pine, and would have gone farther, but Anton +ran ahead on tiptoe and knocked at a door. + +"Well, what is it?" came a sharp, unpleasant voice. + +"A visitor," answered Anton. + +"Ask him to wait," and the sound was heard of a chair being pushed +back. + +Pierre went with rapid steps to the door and suddenly came face to +face with Prince Andrew, who came out frowning and looking old. Pierre +embraced him and lifting his spectacles kissed his friend on the cheek +and looked at him closely. + +"Well, I did not expect you, I am very glad," said Prince Andrew. + +Pierre said nothing; he looked fixedly at his friend with surprise. He +was struck by the change in him. His words were kindly and there was a +smile on his lips and face, but his eyes were dull and lifeless and in +spite of his evident wish to do so he could not give them a joyous +and glad sparkle. Prince Andrew had grown thinner, paler, and more +manly-looking, but what amazed and estranged Pierre till he got used +to it were his inertia and a wrinkle on his brow indicating prolonged +concentration on some one thought. + +As is usually the case with people meeting after a prolonged separation, +it was long before their conversation could settle on anything. They +put questions and gave brief replies about things they knew ought to +be talked over at length. At last the conversation gradually settled on +some of the topics at first lightly touched on: their past life, plans +for the future, Pierre's journeys and occupations, the war, and so +on. The preoccupation and despondency which Pierre had noticed in his +friend's look was now still more clearly expressed in the smile +with which he listened to Pierre, especially when he spoke with joyful +animation of the past or the future. It was as if Prince Andrew would +have liked to sympathize with what Pierre was saying, but could not. +The latter began to feel that it was in bad taste to speak of his +enthusiasms, dreams, and hopes of happiness or goodness, in Prince +Andrew's presence. He was ashamed to express his new Masonic views, +which had been particularly revived and strengthened by his late tour. +He checked himself, fearing to seem naive, yet he felt an irresistible +desire to show his friend as soon as possible that he was now a quite +different, and better, Pierre than he had been in Petersburg. + +"I can't tell you how much I have lived through since then. I hardly +know myself again." + +"Yes, we have altered much, very much, since then," said Prince +Andrew. + +"Well, and you? What are your plans?" + +"Plans!" repeated Prince Andrew ironically. "My plans?" he said, +as if astonished at the word. "Well, you see, I'm building. I mean +to settle here altogether next year...." + +Pierre looked silently and searchingly into Prince Andrew's face, +which had grown much older. + +"No, I meant to ask..." Pierre began, but Prince Andrew interrupted +him. + +"But why talk of me?... Talk to me, yes, tell me about your travels +and all you have been doing on your estates." + +Pierre began describing what he had done on his estates, trying as far +as possible to conceal his own part in the improvements that had been +made. Prince Andrew several times prompted Pierre's story of what he +had been doing, as though it were all an old-time story, and he listened +not only without interest but even as if ashamed of what Pierre was +telling him. + +Pierre felt uncomfortable and even depressed in his friend's company +and at last became silent. + +"I'll tell you what, my dear fellow," said Prince Andrew, who +evidently also felt depressed and constrained with his visitor, "I am +only bivouacking here and have just come to look round. I am going back +to my sister today. I will introduce you to her. But of course you know +her already," he said, evidently trying to entertain a visitor with +whom he now found nothing in common. "We will go after dinner. And +would you now like to look round my place?" + +They went out and walked about till dinnertime, talking of the political +news and common acquaintances like people who do not know each other +intimately. Prince Andrew spoke with some animation and interest only of +the new homestead he was constructing and its buildings, but even here, +while on the scaffolding, in the midst of a talk explaining the future +arrangements of the house, he interrupted himself: + +"However, this is not at all interesting. Let us have dinner, and then +we'll set off." + +At dinner, conversation turned on Pierre's marriage. + +"I was very much surprised when I heard of it," said Prince Andrew. + +Pierre blushed, as he always did when it was mentioned, and said +hurriedly: "I will tell you some time how it all happened. But you +know it is all over, and forever." + +"Forever?" said Prince Andrew. "Nothing's forever." + +"But you know how it all ended, don't you? You heard of the duel?" + +"And so you had to go through that too!" + +"One thing I thank God for is that I did not kill that man," said +Pierre. + +"Why so?" asked Prince Andrew. "To kill a vicious dog is a very +good thing really." + +"No, to kill a man is bad--wrong." + +"Why is it wrong?" urged Prince Andrew. "It is not given to man +to know what is right and what is wrong. Men always did and always will +err, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong." + +"What does harm to another is wrong," said Pierre, feeling with +pleasure that for the first time since his arrival Prince Andrew was +roused, had begun to talk, and wanted to express what had brought him to +his present state. + +"And who has told you what is bad for another man?" he asked. + +"Bad! Bad!" exclaimed Pierre. "We all know what is bad for +ourselves." + +"Yes, we know that, but the harm I am conscious of in myself is +something I cannot inflict on others," said Prince Andrew, growing +more and more animated and evidently wishing to express his new outlook +to Pierre. He spoke in French. "I only know two very real evils in +life: remorse and illness. The only good is the absence of those evils. +To live for myself avoiding those two evils is my whole philosophy +now." + +"And love of one's neighbor, and self-sacrifice?" began Pierre. +"No, I can't agree with you! To live only so as not to do evil and +not to have to repent is not enough. I lived like that, I lived for +myself and ruined my life. And only now when I am living, or at least +trying" (Pierre's modesty made him correct himself) "to live for +others, only now have I understood all the happiness of life. No, I +shall not agree with you, and you do not really believe what you are +saying." Prince Andrew looked silently at Pierre with an ironic smile. + +"When you see my sister, Princess Mary, you'll get on with her," +he said. "Perhaps you are right for yourself," he added after +a short pause, "but everyone lives in his own way. You lived for +yourself and say you nearly ruined your life and only found happiness +when you began living for others. I experienced just the reverse. I +lived for glory.--And after all what is glory? The same love of others, +a desire to do something for them, a desire for their approval.--So I +lived for others, and not almost, but quite, ruined my life. And I have +become calmer since I began to live only for myself." + +"But what do you mean by living only for yourself?" asked Pierre, +growing excited. "What about your son, your sister, and your +father?" + +"But that's just the same as myself--they are not others," +explained Prince Andrew. "The others, one's neighbors, le prochain, +as you and Princess Mary call it, are the chief source of all error and +evil. Le prochain--your Kiev peasants to whom you want to do good." + +And he looked at Pierre with a mocking, challenging expression. He +evidently wished to draw him on. + +"You are joking," replied Pierre, growing more and more excited. +"What error or evil can there be in my wishing to do good, and even +doing a little--though I did very little and did it very badly? What +evil can there be in it if unfortunate people, our serfs, people like +ourselves, were growing up and dying with no idea of God and truth +beyond ceremonies and meaningless prayers and are now instructed in +a comforting belief in future life, retribution, recompense, and +consolation? What evil and error are there in it, if people were dying +of disease without help while material assistance could so easily be +rendered, and I supplied them with a doctor, a hospital, and an asylum +for the aged? And is it not a palpable, unquestionable good if a +peasant, or a woman with a baby, has no rest day or night and I give +them rest and leisure?" said Pierre, hurrying and lisping. "And +I have done that though badly and to a small extent; but I have done +something toward it and you cannot persuade me that it was not a good +action, and more than that, you can't make me believe that you do not +think so yourself. And the main thing is," he continued, "that I +know, and know for certain, that the enjoyment of doing this good is the +only sure happiness in life." + +"Yes, if you put it like that it's quite a different matter," said +Prince Andrew. "I build a house and lay out a garden, and you build +hospitals. The one and the other may serve as a pastime. But what's +right and what's good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by +us. Well, you want an argument," he added, "come on then." + +They rose from the table and sat down in the entrance porch which served +as a veranda. + +"Come, let's argue then," said Prince Andrew, "You talk of +schools," he went on, crooking a finger, "education and so forth; +that is, you want to raise him" (pointing to a peasant who passed by +them taking off his cap) "from his animal condition and awaken in him +spiritual needs, while it seems to me that animal happiness is the only +happiness possible, and that is just what you want to deprive him of. +I envy him, but you want to make him what I am, without giving him my +means. Then you say, 'lighten his toil.' But as I see it, physical +labor is as essential to him, as much a condition of his existence, as +mental activity is to you or me. You can't help thinking. I go to bed +after two in the morning, thoughts come and I can't sleep but toss +about till dawn, because I think and can't help thinking, just as +he can't help plowing and mowing; if he didn't, he would go to the +drink shop or fall ill. Just as I could not stand his terrible physical +labor but should die of it in a week, so he could not stand my physical +idleness, but would grow fat and die. The third thing--what else was +it you talked about?" and Prince Andrew crooked a third finger. "Ah, +yes, hospitals, medicine. He has a fit, he is dying, and you come and +bleed him and patch him up. He will drag about as a cripple, a burden to +everybody, for another ten years. It would be far easier and simpler for +him to die. Others are being born and there are plenty of them as it is. +It would be different if you grudged losing a laborer--that's how I +regard him--but you want to cure him from love of him. And he does not +want that. And besides, what a notion that medicine ever cured anyone! +Killed them, yes!" said he, frowning angrily and turning away from +Pierre. + +Prince Andrew expressed his ideas so clearly and distinctly that it was +evident he had reflected on this subject more than once, and he spoke +readily and rapidly like a man who has not talked for a long time. His +glance became more animated as his conclusions became more hopeless. + +"Oh, that is dreadful, dreadful!" said Pierre. "I don't +understand how one can live with such ideas. I had such moments +myself not long ago, in Moscow and when traveling, but at such times I +collapsed so that I don't live at all--everything seems hateful to +me... myself most of all. Then I don't eat, don't wash... and how is +it with you?..." + +"Why not wash? That is not cleanly," said Prince Andrew; "on the +contrary one must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. +I'm alive, that is not my fault, so I must live out my life as best I +can without hurting others." + +"But with such ideas what motive have you for living? One would sit +without moving, undertaking nothing...." + +"Life as it is leaves one no peace. I should be thankful to do +nothing, but here on the one hand the local nobility have done me the +honor to choose me to be their marshal; it was all I could do to get +out of it. They could not understand that I have not the necessary +qualifications for it--the kind of good-natured, fussy shallowness +necessary for the position. Then there's this house, which must be +built in order to have a nook of one's own in which to be quiet. And +now there's this recruiting." + +"Why aren't you serving in the army?" + +"After Austerlitz!" said Prince Andrew gloomily. "No, thank you +very much! I have promised myself not to serve again in the active +Russian army. And I won't--not even if Bonaparte were here at +Smolensk threatening Bald Hills--even then I wouldn't serve in the +Russian army! Well, as I was saying," he continued, recovering his +composure, "now there's this recruiting. My father is chief in +command of the Third District, and my only way of avoiding active +service is to serve under him." + +"Then you are serving?" + +"I am." + +He paused a little while. + +"And why do you serve?" + +"Why, for this reason! My father is one of the most remarkable men of +his time. But he is growing old, and though not exactly cruel he has too +energetic a character. He is so accustomed to unlimited power that he is +terrible, and now he has this authority of a commander in chief of +the recruiting, granted by the Emperor. If I had been two hours late +a fortnight ago he would have had a paymaster's clerk at Yukhnovna +hanged," said Prince Andrew with a smile. "So I am serving because +I alone have any influence with my father, and now and then can save him +from actions which would torment him afterwards." + +"Well, there you see!" + +"Yes, but it is not as you imagine," Prince Andrew continued. "I +did not, and do not, in the least care about that scoundrel of a clerk +who had stolen some boots from the recruits; I should even have been +very glad to see him hanged, but I was sorry for my father--that again +is for myself." + +Prince Andrew grew more and more animated. His eyes glittered feverishly +while he tried to prove to Pierre that in his actions there was no +desire to do good to his neighbor. + +"There now, you wish to liberate your serfs," he continued; "that +is a very good thing, but not for you--I don't suppose you ever had +anyone flogged or sent to Siberia--and still less for your serfs. If +they are beaten, flogged, or sent to Siberia, I don't suppose they are +any the worse off. In Siberia they lead the same animal life, and the +stripes on their bodies heal, and they are happy as before. But it is +a good thing for proprietors who perish morally, bring remorse upon +themselves, stifle this remorse and grow callous, as a result of being +able to inflict punishments justly and unjustly. It is those people I +pity, and for their sake I should like to liberate the serfs. You +may not have seen, but I have seen, how good men brought up in those +traditions of unlimited power, in time when they grow more irritable, +become cruel and harsh, are conscious of it, but cannot restrain +themselves and grow more and more miserable." + +Prince Andrew spoke so earnestly that Pierre could not help thinking +that these thoughts had been suggested to Prince Andrew by his +father's case. + +He did not reply. + +"So that's what I'm sorry for--human dignity, peace of mind, +purity, and not the serfs' backs and foreheads, which, beat and shave +as you may, always remain the same backs and foreheads." + +"No, no! A thousand times no! I shall never agree with you," said +Pierre. + + + + + +CHAPTER XII + +In the evening Andrew and Pierre got into the open carriage and drove to +Bald Hills. Prince Andrew, glancing at Pierre, broke the silence now and +then with remarks which showed that he was in a good temper. + +Pointing to the fields, he spoke of the improvements he was making in +his husbandry. + +Pierre remained gloomily silent, answering in monosyllables and +apparently immersed in his own thoughts. + +He was thinking that Prince Andrew was unhappy, had gone astray, did not +see the true light, and that he, Pierre, ought to aid, enlighten, and +raise him. 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DISCRETION, THE KEEPING OF THE SECRETS OF THE ORDER. 2. OBEDIENCE TO + * (2) “HURRAH FOR THE AUSTRIANS! HURRAH FOR THE RUSSIANS! + * (2) “IT IS ALL VERY WELL FOR THAT GOOD-FOR-NOTHING FELLOW + *(2) THAT SUITS US DOWN TO THE GROUND. + * (2) THAT THEIR FIRE GETS INTO HIS EYES AND HE FORGETS THAT +30,000 WENT FOR THE UPKEEP OF THE ESTATE NEAR MOSCOW, THE TOWN HOUSE, + *(3) HOLLOW. + *(4) I JUST ASK YOU THAT. +“AAH!” ROSTóV ALMOST SCREAMED LIFTING BOTH HANDS TO HIS HEAD. THE +ABANDONED IN THE CENTER?” HE INQUIRED, SEARCHING WITH HIS EYES FOR +ABANDONING ALL HOPE OF A JUNCTION WITH BUXHöWDEN. IF KUTúZOV DECIDED +A BANISTER POST STOOD A TALLOW CANDLE WHICH GUTTERED IN THE DRAFT. ON + * A BASTARD. +A BATTERY TO THEIR LEFT. THE SMOKE ABOVE IT HAD NOT YET DISPERSED. TWO +A BATTLEFIELD TO WHOM THOUSANDS OF NEW AND BRILLIANT IDEAS OCCUR WHICH +“A BAYONET WOUND. I REMAINED AT THE FRONT. REMEMBER, YOUR +ABBé MORIO? HE IS A MOST INTERESTING MAN.” +A B C OF WAR OR OF POLITICS, AND THAT BONAPARTE WAS AN INSIGNIFICANT +“A BIT TOUCHED—I ALWAYS SAID SO.” +ABLE TO INFLICT PUNISHMENTS JUSTLY AND UNJUSTLY. IT IS THOSE PEOPLE I +A BLUE-EYED SOLDIER INVOLUNTARILY ATTRACTED NOTICE. IT WAS DóLOKHOV +A BOLD, FREE, AND EASY TONE, WHILE IN HIS SOUL HE REGARDED HIMSELF AS A +ABOMINABLE, QUITE ABOMINABLE!” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, AND HE WENT OFF TO +ABOUT 80,000 WENT IN PAYMENTS ON ALL THE ESTATES TO THE LAND BANK, ABOUT +ABOUT A MILE AND A HALF OFF ON THE OPPOSITE HEIGHTS. DOWN BELOW, ON +ABOUT HER CONFINEMENT, AND HOW SHE DREADED IT, AND HAD COMPLAINED OF HER +ABOUT HER NATIVE LAND. WHEN HE SAW THE PRETTY LITTLE BOURIENNE, ANATOLE +ABOUT HIM AND ABOUT HIS LOVE FOR HIM, LETTING IT BE UNDERSTOOD THAT HE +ABOUT HIM AND EVEN SPEAK. +ABOUT HIM. HE REDDENED AND TURNED AWAY. +ABOUT HIM OR ANYONE ELSE, AND I DON’T WANT ANYTHING OF THE KIND.” +ABOUT MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE WAS DREADFUL. IT WAS UNTRUE TO BE SURE, BUT +“ABOUT MY WIFE... I AM ASHAMED AS IT IS TO LEAVE HER ON YOUR +ABOUT SERGéY KUZMíCH THAT INTERESTED PRINCE VASíLI JUST THEN, AND +ABOUT SUCH A BASE THING AS MONEY, AND BECAUSE THEIR YOUTH WAS OVER.... +ABOUT TEN O’CLOCK ROSTóV WENT TO THE ENGLISH HOTEL STRAIGHT FROM THE +ABOUT THE ARMY AND THE BATTLE, AND THEN THE TALK WENT OFF INTO MERRY +ABOUT THE AUSTRIANS AND THEIR UNIFORMS, ABOUT THEIR LINES, ABOUT +ABOUT THE CORNERS OF HIS MOUTH READ TO THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL THE +ABOUT THE OLD PRINCE AND CRITICIZED HIM. +ABOUT THE PRINCESS’ HEALTH AND THEN LED PIERRE ALONG A STONE PASSAGE. +ABOUT TILL DAWN, BECAUSE I THINK AND CAN’T HELP THINKING, JUST AS +ABOUT TO ASK THEIR WAY OF AN ELDERLY FOOTMAN WHO HAD SPRUNG UP AS THEY +ABOUT TO SMILE, AND ONCE ON COMING OUT OF THE CHAPEL PRINCE ANDREW AND +ABOUT TWO THIRDS OF A MILE WAS STOPPED ON THE HIGHROAD. ROSTóV SAW THE +“ABOUT YOUR SISTER,” EJACULATED DENíSOV TESTILY. +ABOVE ALL THIS THE LOFTY SKY, FORMED THE CHIEF SUBJECTS OF HIS DELIRIOUS +ABOVE AND BELOW HIM IN SOCIAL STANDING. SOMETHING ALWAYS DREW HIM TOWARD +ABOVE HIS HEAD: “CAPTAIN TúSHIN! CAPTAIN!” +ABOVE THE HEIGHTS WAS THE DARK CLEAR SKY, AND TO THE RIGHT THE VAST ORB +A BRIGHT SMILE, “SO SHE WON’T COME DOWN. IT IS NATURAL IN HER +A BRILLIANT MATCH—BLUSHED LIKE A GIRL. +ABROAD, THE OTHER IS WITH THE GUARDS, WHO ARE STARTING ON THEIR MARCH +ABSENCE. LITTLE NICHOLAS HAD BEEN UNWELL FOR FOUR DAYS. THE COACHMAN WHO +ABSENT-MINDED. WHEN HE ROSE TO GO, HE TOOK UP INSTEAD OF HIS OWN, THE +ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. +A CASE. +A CAVALRYMAN. PRINCE ANDREW FELT THAT AN INVISIBLE POWER WAS LEADING HIM +ACCENT. +ACCENT—HAVING NOTICED THAT ZHERKóV COULD STILL HEAR HIM. +ACCENT. HE WAS BREATHLESS WITH AGITATION, HIS FACE WAS RED, AND WHEN +ACCEPT IT AND FIXED THE STAKE HIMSELF. NICHOLAS SUBMITTED TO HIM, AND AT +ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE OR NOT. ANATOLE DID NOT RELEASE HIM, AND THOUGH +ACCOMPANIED BY ADJUTANTS, GALLOPED OFF IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, AND +ACCOMPANYING HIM TO THE HALL. +ACCOMPLISHED. +ACCORDED TO THE LOWEST HIERARCHY IN HER DRAWING ROOM. BUT IN SPITE OF +“ACCORDING TO THE SCOUTS THE LAST OF THEM CROSSED ON RAFTS DURING THE +ACCOUNTANT, A STOUT, FULL-FACED MAN, LOOKED AROUND HIM WITH A NAïVE +ACCOUNT OF COURT AND PERSONAL CONSIDERATIONS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF LIVES, +ACCOUNTS IS A POOR CREATURE.” +ACCUSTOMED TO WIN IN THEIR BATTLES,” HE CONCLUDED HIS EVIDENTLY +A CELEBRATED MINIATURIST, AND HE LEANED OVER THE TABLE TO TAKE THE +A CEREMONIAL MARCH PAST HIM, AND ROSTóV ON BEDOUIN, RECENTLY PURCHASED +A CERTAIN HOUSE—THAT WAS ANOTHER MATTER AND QUITE THE THING FOR A +A CHANCE TO ESCAPE, OR TO TRICK US, NOW THAT WE CERTAINLY HAVE HIM IN +ACHES, AND ONE SPENDS ALL ONE’S MONEY. HE ASKED ME FOR TONIGHT, BUT I +A CLEAR BLUE SKY, AND THE SUN’S VAST ORB QUIVERED LIKE A HUGE HOLLOW, +A CLOAK, WAITING FOR THE CONVERSATION TO FINISH. THEY LISTENED TO +A CLOSELY WRITTEN LETTER OF TWO SHEETS FROM BILíBIN. HE FOLDED IT UP +A COMFORTING BELIEF IN FUTURE LIFE, RETRIBUTION, RECOMPENSE, AND +A COMMANDER IN CHIEF. AS IT WAS CONSIDERED THAT THE AUSTERLITZ SUCCESS +A COMMANDING OFFICER’S QUARTERS, THE REGIMENT BEGAN TO MOVE: THE +A COMPANY COMMANDER, A FINE ROUND-FACED MAN, WITH A STUPID AND HAPPY +A COMPANY SMILE BUT WAS EVIDENTLY TORMENTED BY JEALOUSY; NOW SHE TURNED +A CONSCIOUSNESS IS COMMUNICATED IS VERY DIFFICULT TO DEFINE, BUT IT +A CONVOY. DIRECTLY OPPOSITE TO HIM CAME A STRANGE ONE-HORSE VEHICLE, +A CONVOY WAGON BECAME RESTIVE AT THE END OF THE BRIDGE, AND THE WHOLE +A CORONET) ENTERED THE ROOM, CALM AND MAJESTIC, EXCEPT THAT THERE WAS +ACQUAINTANCE—HE WISHED HIM SIMPLY A BROTHER AND A VIRTUOUS INSTRUCTOR. +ACQUAINTANCE.’ IN A WORD, THOSE GENTLEMEN, GASCONS INDEED, SO +ACQUAINTANCE OF MANY PERSONS WHO MIGHT PROVE USEFUL TO HIM, AND BY +ACQUAINTANCE,” SAID PIERRE. AND AGAIN, GLANCING AT THE STRANGER’S +ACQUAINTANCES NOT ONLY CORDIALLY, BUT EVEN WITH A SHADE OF DEFERENCE +ACQUAINTED,” AND HE PRESSED BORíS’ HAND. “DO YOU KNOW, I HAVE NOT +ACQUAINTED WITH PRINCE ANDREW BOLKóNSKI, THROUGH WHOM HE HOPED TO +ACQUIRED THOUGH SHE DID NOT UNDERSTAND ITS SIGNIFICANCE. THIS EXPRESSION +ACQUIRING A TROTTER OF HIS OWN, VERY STYLISH RIDING BREECHES OF THE +A CRAFTY MAN CONVINCED OF THE FUTILITY OF BEING CUNNING WITH SO +A CRASH. +ACROSS HIS PATH. ROSTóV PUT HIS HORSE TO FULL GALLOP TO GET OUT OF THE +ACROSS, SNATCHED IT FROM HIS HAND AND BEGAN READING IT. PIERRE LOOKED +ACROSS THE BODIES AND UNDER A TERRIBLE FIRE FROM THE FRENCH, HE ATTENDED +ACROSS THE TABLE TO CLINK GLASSES WITH THE COUNT, WITH THE CHILDREN, AND +A CRY OF: “THE GENERAL TO THE THIRD COMPANY,” THE MISSING OFFICER +ACTION, AND IN THE COMPANY OF WELL-KNOWN, ELDERLY, AND RESPECTED RACING +ACTION, AND MORE THAN THAT, YOU CAN’T MAKE ME BELIEVE THAT YOU DO NOT +ACTION, AS IF FLYING THROUGH THE AIR WITHOUT TOUCHING THE GROUND. +ACTION DID PRINCE BAGRATIóN, STILL HEARING THE CANNONADE IN THE CENTER, +ACTION—HE DREW THE GLOVE FROM HIS SHAPELY WHITE HAND, MADE A SIGN +ACTION THEY HAD BEEN WOUNDED. “DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY, ON THE DANUBE,” +ACTIVITIES OF 160,000 RUSSIANS AND FRENCH—ALL THEIR PASSIONS, DESIRES, +ACTIVITY, TúSHIN DID NOT EXPERIENCE THE SLIGHTEST UNPLEASANT SENSE OF +ACTUAL PHRASE USED BY THE VIENNA CABINET,” SAID THE DANISH CHARGé +ACTUATED BY A REAL DESIRE FOR PEACE. +A CUP OF TEA?” +A DARK-GREEN DRESS COAT, KNEE BREECHES OF THE COLOR OF CUISSE DE NYMPHE + A DAY OR TWO, THEN BLISS UNSPOILT, +ADDED. +ADDED. +ADDED, ADDRESSING PRINCE VASíLI, AND WITHOUT WAITING FOR AN ANSWER SHE +ADDED HE, MUNCHING A PIE IN HIS MOIST-LIPPED HANDSOME MOUTH, “WOULD BE +ADDED IN A TONE ADMITTING OF NO REJOINDER AND RAISING HER EYEBROWS. +ADDED, NOTICING THAT PRINCE ANDREW WINCED AS AT AN ELECTRIC SHOCK. +ADDED, NOT NOTICING HIS VISITOR’S SARCASTIC SMILE. +ADDED: “WHAT A LOT OF MEN HAVE BEEN CRIPPLED TODAY—FRIGHTFUL!” +ADDING, “YOUR EXCELLENCY.” +ADDRESSED AN EDIFYING EXHORTATION TO THEM. HE IMAGINED TO HIMSELF +ADDRESSED THE HORSEMAN WITH THE WHITE PLUMES, EVIDENTLY SUGGESTING +ADDRESS. HE IS A WISE AND CLEVER FELLOW.” +ADDRESSING FIRST ONE, THEN ANOTHER. HE SAID HE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN +ADDRESSING HER WITH THE CARELESS TONE OF HABITUAL TENDERNESS NATURAL TO +ADDRESSING HIM AS ‘USURPER AND ENEMY OF MANKIND.’” +ADDRESSING LORRAIN IN FRENCH WHICH HE PRONOUNCED BADLY. +ADDRESSING THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL, “I HAVE THE HONOR TO CONGRATULATE +ADDRESSING THE BLACK-MUSTACHED DENíSOV WITH SERVILE DEFERENCE. +ADDRESSING THE ENGLISHMAN. +ADDRESSING THE MOTHER. +ADDRESS ROSTóV BY HIS TITLE, AS IF IN RECOGNITION OF HIS CONFESSION. +A DEED TO SIGN FOR THE PRINCESS’ BENEFIT. +A DESIRE TO DO SOMETHING FOR THEM, A DESIRE FOR THEIR APPROVAL.—SO I +A DESPERATE CRY AND SUCH MAD, DRUNKEN DETERMINATION THAT, TAKEN BY +A DESPOT. WHO IS RIGHT AND WHO IS WRONG? NO ONE! BUT IF YOU ARE +ADIEU, DEAR AND KIND FRIEND; MAY OUR DIVINE SAVIOUR AND HIS MOST HOLY +“ADIEU, MA BONNE,” ANSWERED PRINCE VASíLI TURNING AWAY FROM HER. +“ADIEU, MARY,” SAID HE GENTLY TO HIS SISTER, TAKING HER BY THE HAND +ADIEU, PRINCE! MAY GOD SUPPORT YOU...” +A DINNER WHERE THERE WAS NO PLACE FOR HIM. IN THE NEXT HUT THERE WAS A +ADJUTANT. +ADJUTANT BY HIS ELABORATE COURTESY APPEARED TO WISH TO WARD OFF ANY +ADJUTANT ON KUTúZOV’S STAFF, BUT HE DOES EVERYTHING ALONE. THE NEXT +ADJUTANT, OR REALLY LET THE MATTER DROP, WAS THE QUESTION THAT WORRIED +ADJUTANTS.” +ADJUTANTS MET HIM WITH NEWS OF THE SUCCESSFUL RESULT OF THE ACTION. +ADJUTANT WHOM HE SO HATED. +ADJUTANT, ZHERKóV, AN ORDERLY OFFICER, THE STAFF OFFICER ON DUTY, +ADMINISTERED. COME.” +ADMIRED HIS REGIMENT, REJOICED IN IT, AND THAT HIS WHOLE MIND WAS +ADMIT—HE HAD ALMOST BEEN JEALOUS ON HIS WIFE’S ACCOUNT, WAS THE BUTT +ADMITTED THAT HE HAD BEEN TO BLAME, DID NOT LIFT HIS EYES FROM THE +A DOOR OF ONE OF THE INNER ROOMS OPENED AND ONE OF THE PRINCESSES, THE + A DREADED FOE BE THOU, KINDHEARTED AS A MAN, +ADROITNESS AND ITALIAN PLAY-ACTING! DO YOU KNOW THE TALE ABOUT HIM AND +ADVANCING.” +ADVANCING BY FORCED MARCHES TOWARD ZNAIM, WHICH LAY SIXTY-SIX MILES +ADVANCING FROM RUSSIA, WITHOUT LOSING HIS ARMY AS MACK HAD DONE AT ULM. +ADVANCING STRAIGHT TOWARD THE INNER DOOR. +ADVANCING TO ATTACK THE FRENCH CAVALRY THAT WAS COMING TO MEET THEM. +ADVANTAGEOUS MATCH BUT A SPLENDID, NOBLE FELLOW... HE IS MY FRIEND...” +ADVE’SAWIES HAVE WEFUSED A WECONCILIATION, PLEASE PWOCEED. TAKE YOUR +ADVICE IS TO LET THE MATTER DROP. WELL THEN, ON FRIDAY AFTER THE REVIEW +ADVISE YOU TO APPEAL TO RUMYáNTSEV THROUGH PRINCE GOLíTSYN. THAT WOULD +A FATHER COULD FOR THEIR EDUCATION, AND THEY HAVE BOTH TURNED OUT FOOLS. +A FEELING OF CONTEMPTUOUS ILL WILL. HE SNORTED WHENEVER HE MENTIONED +A FELLOW DIPLOMAT, “THAT THE CHANCELLOR TOLD HIM FLATLY THAT HIS +A FEW FIR TREES. +A FEW HOURS AHEAD OF THE FRENCH WHO WERE APPROACHING HOLLABRüNN FROM +A FEW MINUTES LATER THE CHIEF FORCES OF THE FRENCH ARMY MOVED RAPIDLY +A FEW STEPS, TURNED, CUT A CAPER, BROUGHT HER LITTLE FEET SHARPLY +AFFAIR, AND ABOUT SOME LADIES THEY BOTH KNEW. +AFFAIR. I AM HER FATHER.” +AFFAIR OF THE THABOR BRIDGE, AT VIENNA.... THEY HAVE CROSSED WITHOUT +AFFAIR PUBLIC. YOU ARE OFFENDED AT BEING PUT ON DUTY A BIT, BUT WHY NOT +AFFAIRS AND OF PIERRE HIMSELF IN THOSE EARLY DAYS. FROM THE DEATH OF +AFFAIRS OF HONOR AND HAD TWICE REGAINED HIS COMMISSION. +AFFAIR WAS OVER AND, THOUGH NOT BIG, HAD BEEN A SUCCESSFUL ENGAGEMENT. +AFFECTATION. PRINCESS MARY RAN OUT OF THE ROOM TO FETCH MARY +AFFECTED LANGUOR AND INDOLENCE. HE NOW LOOKED LIKE A MAN WHO HAS TIME +AFFECTIONATE AS IT WAS—EXPRESSED A SENSE OF HIS OWN SUPERIORITY. +AFFECTIONATE EYES, NOW CAME UP AND TOOK HIS ARM. BEFORE HE LOOKED ROUND +AFFECTIONATE LETTERS TO YOUR PARENTS, AND IF YOU THINK YOU MAY BE +AFFECTIONATELY. +AFFIRMATIVELY.) “WHEN YOU HEAR A KNOCK AT THE DOOR, YOU WILL UNCOVER +AFFLICTED BY THE DEATH OF THE FATHER HE HAD HARDLY KNOWN), AND HER +A FIGHT LED MURAT TO TRY TO DECEIVE KUTúZOV IN A SIMILAR WAY. MEETING +“A FINE LAD! MY WORD! A FINE LAD!... HIS FATHER LIES ON HIS DEATHBED +“A FINE MESS WE’VE MADE OF IT!” HE REMARKED. +A FINE PLACE! WHY ARE YOU NOT EATING ANYTHING, GENTLEMEN?” NESVíTSKI +A FIRST INTRODUCTION AND BETRAYS A CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE IMPROPRIETY OF +A FLAG OF TRUCE, DEMANDING AN AUDIENCE WITH THE RUSSIAN EMPEROR, WAS +A FOOTMAN CAME IN TO SUMMON BORíS—THE PRINCESS WAS GOING. PIERRE, IN +A FORAGING EXPEDITION. ROSTóV IN HIS CADET UNIFORM, WITH A JERK TO HIS +A FOREIGNER, IN SPITE OF ALL DIFFERENCES OF FAITH, UNDERSTOOD THE FULL +A FORMER WAR. “THE EMPEROR WILL TEACH YOUR SUVARA AS HE HAS TAUGHT THE +A FORTNIGHT AFTER THE LETTER PRINCE VASíLI’S SERVANTS CAME ONE +A FORTNIGHT AGO HE WOULD HAVE HAD A PAYMASTER’S CLERK AT YúKHNOVNA +AFRAID OF A GENERAL BATTLE. HIS HOUR HAS COME! MARK MY WORDS!” +A FREAK OF FATE MADE THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE. THE SUCCESS OF THE TRICK +A FRENCHMAN), “L’UROPE NE SERA JAMAIS NOTRE ALLIéE SINCèRE.” * +“A FRENCH PANCAKE,” ANSWERED ZHERKóV. +A FRENCH SOLDIER TUGGED AT THE OTHER. HE COULD DISTINCTLY SEE THE +A FRESH WAVE OF THE FLYING MOB CAUGHT HIM AND BORE HIM BACK WITH IT. +A FRIEND OLDER THAN HIMSELF AND WHOM HE RESPECTED. HIS WHOLE TIME +AFTER A FEW MINUTES’ BUSTLE BESIDE THE HIGH BEDSTEAD, THOSE WHO HAD +AFTER ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA HAD DRIVEN OFF WITH HER SON TO VISIT COUNT CYRIL +AFTER ANOTHER GREETING THE TSAR WITH THE STRAINS OF THE MARCH, AND THEN +“AFTER AUSTERLITZ!” SAID PRINCE ANDREW GLOOMILY. “NO, THANK YOU +AFTER A WHILE HE RE-ENTERED IT AS IF TO SNUFF THE CANDLES, AND, SEEING +AFTER A WHILE THE MOVING MASS BECAME AGITATED, SOMEONE RODE PAST ON +AFTER DENíSOV’S DEPARTURE, ROSTóV SPENT ANOTHER FORTNIGHT IN MOSCOW, +AFTER DINNER. HE CALLED NATáSHA AND ASKED HER WHAT WAS THE MATTER. +AFTER DINNER, HE WENT TO SEE HIS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW. THE LITTLE PRINCESS +AFTER FIVE O’CLOCK IT WAS ONLY AT THE AUGESD DAM THAT A HOT CANNONADE +AFTER HIS DISMISSAL FROM HEADQUARTERS ZHERKóV HAD NOT REMAINED IN THE +AFTER HIS ILLNESS HE LOOKED RATHER THINNER THAT DAY THAN ON THE FIELD +AFTER HIS INTERVIEW WITH HIS WIFE PIERRE LEFT FOR PETERSBURG. AT THE +AFTER HIS JOURNEY AND THE CAMPAIGN DURING WHICH HE HAD BEEN DEPRIVED OF +AFTER HIS RECEPTION BY THE AUSTRIANS, TO SPEAK IF NOT IN RUSSIAN +AFTER INSPECTING THE CARRIAGE HIMSELF AND SEEING THE TRUNKS PUT IN, HE +AFTER LOOKING AT HIM NAPOLEON SMILED. +AFTER LOSING HALF THEIR MEN WERE RETREATING IN DISORDERLY CONFUSED +AFTER LOSING HER OWN FATHER. SHE IS VERY GOOD-NATURED, AND MY FATHER +AFTER NATáSHA DOWN THE PASSAGE INTO THE SITTING ROOM WITH FLUSHED FACE +AFTER PASSING SOME AUSTRIAN TROOPS HE NOTICED THAT THE NEXT PART OF THE +AFTER RECEIVING HER VISITORS, THE COUNTESS WAS SO TIRED THAT SHE GAVE +AFTER RECEIVING THIS NEWS LATE IN THE EVENING, WHEN HE WAS ALONE IN HIS +AFTER SUPPER PIERRE WITH HIS PARTNER FOLLOWED THE OTHERS INTO THE +AFTER TEA, THE COMPANY WENT INTO THE SITTING ROOM AND PRINCESS MARY WAS +AFTER THAT ANNA PáVLOVNA LED UP TO THE COURAGE AND FIRMNESS OF THE KING +AFTER THE ATTACK, BOGDáNICH WOULD COME UP TO HIM AS HE LAY WOUNDED AND +AFTER THE AUSTERLITZ CAMPAIGN PRINCE ANDREW HAD FIRMLY RESOLVED NOT +AFTER THE BATTLE BUT SEND A COURIER TO PETERSBURG WITH NEWS OF A +AFTER THE FATIGUES AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNEY, HIS RECEPTION, AND +AFTER THEIR ACTIVE SERVICE, WERE STATIONED NEAR OLMüTZ AND THE CAMP +AFTER THE MURDER OF THE DUC THERE WAS ONE MARTYR MORE IN HEAVEN AND ONE +“AFTER THE NEXT AFFAIR... EPAULETTES.” +AFTER THESE WORDS, THE MASON, AS IF TIRED BY HIS LONG DISCOURSE, AGAIN +AFTER THE SOUP THE PRINCE BECAME MORE GENIAL. +AFTER TROOPS AND BEGGED FOR SEATS ON THE GUN CARRIAGES. THE JAUNTY +AFTER TWO IN THE MORNING, THOUGHTS COME AND I CAN’T SLEEP BUT TOSS +AFTER WASHING AND DRESSING, PRINCE ANDREW CAME INTO THE DIPLOMAT’S +AGAIN. +AGAIN. +AGAIN, AND LET HIS HEAD SINK STILL LOWER. +AGAIN AND REMAINED FOR A WHILE WITH THE ISMáYLOV REGIMENT. +AGAIN, AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS CURIOUSLY NOTING THE IMPRESSION +AGAIN ARE ALL RUNNING BACK SOMEWHERE, AND I SHALL RUN WITH THEM, AND IT, +AGAIN, AS SOON AS ALL TURNED TOWARD HIM, EXCUSED HIMSELF AND SAID NO +AGAIN BEGAN TO LAUGH. SHE EVIDENTLY FELT UNABLE TO LOOK AT HIM +AGAIN DRAWN OUT IN A THIN LINE THE MUSKETEERS WERE DESCENDING THE HILL, +AGAIN EXPRESSING DEEP SORROW. +AGAIN GETTING IN FRONT OF THE FIRST LINE AS HE HAD DONE WHEN THE HORSE +AGAIN GOING ON TIPTOE TO THE RECEPTION ROOM WHERE THEY HAD LEFT PRINCE +AGAIN. I MUST GO THERE, PRINCE, AND SCARE THEM A BIT. IT WON’T TAKE A +AGAIN JOINED HER. THEY BEGAN TALKING IN WHISPERS, BUT THEIR TALK BROKE +AGAIN ON ALL THE BRIGHT FACES OF THE SQUADRON THE SERIOUS EXPRESSION +AGAIN ON THE SOFA. THEY WERE SILENT FOR A WHILE. +AGAIN RECALLED ALL THE DETAILS OF THE VICTORY AND HIS OWN CALM COURAGE +AGAIN ROSTóV LOOKED INTENTLY INTO BORíS’ EYES AND SIGHED. BERG +AGAIN SEE THE SUN, THIS WATER, THAT GORGE!...” +AGAIN SHOOK WITH A DEEP RINGING LAUGH, THE LAUGH OF ONE WHO ALWAYS EATS +AGAINST HIS RIGHT, FLEW ROUND AGAIN IN A CIRCLE. NATáSHA GUESSED WHAT +AGAINST ONE OF THE COLUMNS IN A RESPECTFUL ATTITUDE IMPLYING THAT HE, +AGAIN STRUCK UP, THE COUNT AND COUNTESS KISSED, AND THE GUESTS, LEAVING +AGAINST THE FRENCH?” +AGAINST THEM AND WINDING DOWN OVER THE UNEVEN GROUND. ONE COULD ALREADY +AGAINST THE MUSLIN OF THE CURTAIN. +AGAINST THE PILLOW. +AGAINST THE WALL, AND THE SECOND OF THE THREE SISTERS RUSHED OUT +“AGAINST YOUR WILL HE WILL SAVE AND HAVE MERCY ON YOU AND BRING YOU +AGAIN TURNING TO THE COUNT. “ZAT IS HOW VE OLD HUSSARS LOOK AT IT, AND +AGAIN WHEN HE PASSED TO ANOTHER GROUP WHOSE CENTER WAS THE ABBé. +AGE...” +A GENERAL ENGAGEMENT,” REPEATED DOLGORúKOV, EVIDENTLY PRIZING THIS +“A GEOGRAPHY LESSON!” HE MUTTERED AS IF TO HIMSELF, BUT LOUD ENOUGH +A GIRL, SUCH TACT, SUCH MASTERLY PERFECTION OF MANNER! IT COMES FROM +AGITATED. +A GLIMPSE OF HER, SHE SEEMED STILL MORE LOVELY. SHE WAS A CHARMING GIRL +AGLOW WITH DAZZLING LIGHT—AS IF HE HAD ONLY AWAITED THIS TO BEGIN THE +AGO HAVE JOINED THE ARCHDUKE. AND BELIEVE ME ON MY HONOUR THAT TO ME +A GOLD SNUFFBOX ON WHICH WAS A PORTRAIT. IN THE MIDDLE OF ONE OF THE +A GOOD EXAMPLE, YET HERE YOU ARE WITHOUT YOUR BOOTS! THE ALARM WILL BE +A GOOD FRIEND, AN ADJUTANT GENERAL AND AN EXCELLENT FELLOW, PRINCE +A GOOD THING FOR PROPRIETORS WHO PERISH MORALLY, BRING REMORSE UPON +AGREEABLE AND INTERESTING WORK. HIS FACE EXPRESSED MORE SATISFACTION +AGREED OR DISAGREED AND WAS SATISFIED OR NOT WITH THE ARRANGEMENTS. NEXT +AGUE. +“AH, AND HERE’S NICHOLAS!” CRIED NATáSHA, RUNNING UP TO HIM. +A HANDSOME ADJUTANT. THIS WAS PRINCE BOLKóNSKI. BESIDE HIM WAS HIS +“AH, BONDARéNKO, DEAR FRIEND!” SAID HE TO THE HUSSAR WHO RUSHED UP +“AH! BREATHING AGAIN, BREATHING!” HE MUTTERED TO HIMSELF. +“AH, BUT YOU WON’T TALK POLITICS TO ME LIKE ANNETTE!” +“AH, COUNT ROSTóV!” EXCLAIMED PIERRE JOYFULLY. “THEN YOU ARE HIS +“AH, DEAR FRIEND,” REPLIED PRINCESS MARY, “I HAVE ASKED YOU NEVER +“AH, DON’T TALK TO ME! LAST WINTER SHE WHEEDLED HERSELF IN HERE AND +A HEAVENLY FEELING. BORíS WAS TELLING HIS NEW FRIEND PIERRE WHO THE +“AH, FROM VIENNA? VERY GOOD. LATER, LATER!” +“AH! HE IS ALIVE,” SAID NAPOLEON. “LIFT THIS YOUNG MAN UP AND +“AH, HERE SHE IS!” HE EXCLAIMED LAUGHING. “MY PET, WHOSE NAME DAY +“AH! HERE’S THE WARRIOR! WANTS TO VANQUISH BUONAPARTE?” SAID THE +“AH, I KNOW WHAT IT IS.” +“AH, IS IT YOU, COUSIN?” +“AH, IT CAN’T BE AVOIDED!” THOUGHT NICHOLAS, FOR THE FIRST AND +“AH, MADAM, IT IS A GREAT SACRAMENT,” REPLIED THE PRIEST, PASSING +“AH, MAY THE DEVIL TAKE YOU AND EVEWYBODY,” WERE THE LAST WORDS +“AH! MON AMI, I ONLY PRAY, AND HOPE THAT GOD WILL HEAR ME. +“AH, MONEY, COUNT, MONEY! HOW MUCH SORROW IT CAUSES IN THE WORLD,” +“AH, MY BOY, MY HEAD’S IN A WHIRL!” SAID THE OLD MAN WITH A SMILE, +“AH! MY DEAR!... AH! MARY!...” THEY SUDDENLY EXCLAIMED, AND THEN +“AH, MY DEAR FELLOW, WHAT A BATTLE WE HAVE GAINED! GOD GRANT THAT +“AH, MY DEAR FRIEND! FORGET THE WRONGS THAT MAY HAVE BEEN DONE YOU. +“AH, MY DEAR FRIEND, HE IS VERY UNFORTUNATE,” SHE SAID. “IF WHAT +“AH, MY DEAR! HE IS SO RICH, AND WE ARE SO POOR!” +“AH! MY DEAR, I AM AFRAID YOU AND YOUR MONK ARE WASTING YOUR +“AH, MY DEAR, I HARDLY KNEW YOU,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WITH A +“AH, MY DEAR, MY DEAR!” HE BEGAN, RISING AND TAKING HER BY BOTH +“AH, MY DEAR PRINCE! I COULD NOT HAVE A MORE WELCOME VISITOR,” +“AH, MY DEAR,” SAID THE COUNTESS, “MY LIFE IS NOT ALL ROSES +“AH, MY DEAR VICOMTE,” PUT IN ANNA PáVLOVNA, “L’UROPE” (FOR +“AH, MY FRIEND!” SAID HE, TAKING PIERRE BY THE ELBOW; AND THERE WAS +“AH, MY FRIEND!” SHE SAID, TOUCHING HIS ARM AS SHE HAD DONE HER +“AH, MY LOVE,” ANSWERED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, “GOD GRANT YOU NEVER +A HOAR FROST NOW TURNING TO DEW, BUT IN THE VALLEYS IT STILL LAY LIKE A +A HOARSE VOICE TO THE MEN TO LOOK TO THEIR PISTOLS. HE RODE UP TO +A HOLLOW BETWEEN TWO HILLS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF PRATZEN, THE RUSSIAN +A HORRIFIED EXPRESSION ON HIS HANDSOME FACE, ANATOLE LOOKED AT PRINCESS +A HOST WELCOMES AN HONORED GUEST. HE REPORTED THAT HIS REGIMENT HAD +“AH, PRINCE! IN WHAT SAD CIRCUMSTANCES WE MEET AGAIN! AND HOW IS OUR +“AH, PRINCESS MARY!” HE SAID SUDDENLY IN AN UNNATURAL VOICE, +“AH!...” SAID KUTúZOV GLANCING AT BOLKóNSKI AS IF BY THIS +“AH!” SAID KUTúZOV. “I HOPE THIS WILL BE A LESSON TO YOU. DO YOUR +“AH, SHE IS INDEED A DARLING! I’LL SEND HER TO YOU.” +“AH! TELYáNIN! HOW D’YE DO? THEY PLUCKED ME LAST NIGHT,” CAME +“AH, THAT IS JUST WHAT I TELL HIM!” SAID SHE. “I DON’T +“AH! THAT’S A GOOD THING. SO, MY DEAR BOY, YOU WISH TO SERVE THE +“AH, THAT’S ALWAYS THE WAY!” SAID NESVíTSKI WITH A WAVE OF THE +“AH, THAT’S THE WAY TO TALK FRENCH,” SAID THE PICKET SOLDIERS. +“AH, THERE WILL BE, AND THERE ARE, MANY MORE SUCH GIRLS SOMEWHERE WHOM +“AH, THOSE DAMNED GERMANS! THEY DON’T KNOW THEIR OWN COUNTRY!” +“AH, TIMóKHIN!” SAID HE, RECOGNIZING THE RED-NOSED CAPTAIN WHO HAD +“AH, VáSKA!” JOYFULLY REPLIED NESVíTSKI. “WHAT’S UP WITH +“AH WHAT A CALAMITY! YOU SAY THE AFFAIR WAS DECISIVE? BUT MORTIER IS +“AH, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?” IT STILL SEEMED TO SAY, AND PRINCE +“AH! WHAT JOY FOR THE PRINCESS!” EXCLAIMED SHE: “AT LAST! I MUST +“AH, WOSTóV,” HE CRIED NOTICING THE CADET’S BRIGHT FACE, +“AH YES, AND WHAT ELSE DID HE SAY THAT’S UNPLEASANT?” THOUGHT +“AH, YES! DO TELL US ALL ABOUT IT, VICOMTE,” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA, +“AH YES, MY DEAR,” SAID THE COUNT, ADDRESSING THE VISITOR AND +“AH, YES! THAT’S A WHOLE LONG STORY! HOW ARE YOU GOING TO SPEAK TO +“AH, YOU ARE SENDING OFF A LETTER, PRINCESS? I HAVE ALREADY DISPATCHED +“AH, YOU’RE UP ALREADY,” SAID DENíSOV, ENTERING THE ROOM. +“AH, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” PUT IN ZHERKóV, HIS EYES FIXED ON THE +“AH, YOU’VE COME HERE TOO, YOUNG MAN!” HE SAID, SMILING AND +AIDE-DE-CAMP. +AIDE-DE-CAMP. +AIDE-DE-CAMP, AND SAT DOWN IN THE LADY’S CHAIR, PLACING HIS HUGE HANDS +AIDE-DE-CAMP AND WAS DULY CONDUCTED TO PAY HIS RESPECTS TO THE AUNT AND +AIDE-DE-CAMP, “DAT ONE LIFFS AFTER DE SIRD STROKE.” +AIDES-DE-CAMP TO INQUIRE AFTER THE COUNT’S HEALTH, CAME HIMSELF +AID OF HIS SERVANT, AND NOT LOOKING AT PIERRE. WITH A PAIR OF FELT BOOTS +AIM REMAINING FOR HIM WAS TO EFFECT A JUNCTION WITH THE FORCES THAT WERE +AIM?” SAID HE QUIETLY AND QUICKLY. +AIM—TO ESTABLISH PEACE IN EUROPE ON FIRM FOUNDATIONS—HAS NOW DECIDED +AIM WAS TO SHOW GENERAL WEYROTHER—WHO HAD READ HIS DISPOSITIONS WITH +AIR, AND DISOBEYING ORDERS. THE MORAL HESITATION WHICH DECIDED THE FATE +A JOKE HE HAD HEARD IN VIENNA AND WHICH HE HAD BEEN TRYING ALL THAT +A KEG, FILLED ONE AFTER ANOTHER THE CANTEEN LIDS HELD OUT TO HIM. THE +A KIND NO LONGER IN GENERAL USE. PRINCE ANDREW REMEMBERED THE STORY OF +A LACK OF BREAD, TO MOVE FARTHER INTO THE INTERIOR OF PRUSSIA, FOR ONLY +A LANGUOR OF MOTION AND SPEECH, RESULTING FROM WEAKNESS, GAVE HER A +A LARGE UDDER WAS ATTACHED TO THE CART BEHIND. A WOMAN WITH AN UNWEANED +ALARM LEST SOMETHING SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED TO THE CHILD WHILE HE WAS +ALARM, SUPPOSING THESE WORDS TO MEAN THAT THE YOUNG COUNT WAS DISPLEASED +A LAUGH STILL MORE SO, HE QUITTED THE TABLE. +ALCOHOL, AND SOUNDS OF VOICES AND SHOUTING IN THE DISTANCE. +ALERT THAN HE HAD DONE THE DAY BEFORE. ONLY HIS EYES GLEAMED FEVERISHLY +A LETTER AT ONCE, AND SHE’LL COME HERE AND ALL WILL BE EXPLAINED, OR +“A LETTER FROM NIKóLENKA! I’M SURE OF IT!” EXCLAIMED NATáSHA, +A LETTER HAS BEEN WRITTEN TO THE EMPEROR IN WHICH THE COUNT ASKS FOR +A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION HE HAD BROUGHT FROM PIERRE HAD BECOME +ALEXANDER PRINCE VASíLI HAD RISEN TO HIGH POSITION AND HONORS. AND NOW, +ALEXANDER’S GUARDS,” SAID THE FIRST ONE, INDICATING A RUSSIAN +ALEXANDER UNPLEASANTLY, HE RODE UP AND SALUTED. +ALEXANDER WAS CLEARLY HEARD. HE GAVE THE WORDS OF GREETING, AND THE +ALEXéEVICH. LOUD KNOCKS WERE HEARD AT THE DOOR. PIERRE TOOK THE BANDAGE +ALIEN FACE OF THAT MAN, HIS BAYONET HANGING DOWN, HOLDING HIS BREATH, +A LIFE I CAN’T DECIDE OR THINK PROPERLY ABOUT ANYTHING. ONE’S HEAD +ALIGHT, AND LET HER PASS INTO THE HOUSE BEFORE HIM. OLD TíKHON, WEARING +ALIGHTED FROM HIS HORSE AND WHOSE BIG BODY WAS JAMMED AGAINST THE +ALIKE, FELT THAT THE COMMANDER DID NOT HIMSELF KNOW WHAT TO DO, AND THIS +“ALINE,” HE SAID TO HIS WIFE, “GO AND SEE WHAT THEY ARE ABOUT.” +A LITTLE EARTH CRUMBLED FROM THE BANK UNDER THE HORSE’S HIND HOOFS. +A LITTLE LATER WHEN HE WENT UP TO THE LARGE CIRCLE, ANNA PáVLOVNA SAID +A LITTLE TO THEIR RIGHT AND BEHIND THE ACCOUNTANT, CRASHED TO EARTH WITH +“A LITTLE VOLCANO!” +“A LITTLE WOUND, BUT HE HAS BEEN MADE AN OFFICER; HE IS WELL NOW, HE +ALIVE AND SUFFERING FROM A BURNING, LACERATING PAIN IN HIS HEAD. +ALIVE COULD UNDERSTAND OR EXPLAIN. +ALIVE—LIVE: TOMORROW YOU’LL DIE AS I MIGHT HAVE DIED AN HOUR AGO. +ALL.” +ALL ALONG THE SIDES OF THE ROAD FALLEN HORSES WERE TO BE SEEN, SOME +ALL, AND WITHOUT PROMISING TO HELP ME?” THOUGHT PIERRE, RISING WITH +ALL, AND YOUR FUTURE DEPENDS ON HIM. REMEMBER THAT, MY DEAR, AND BE NICE +ALL ARE STRUCK BY THE JUSTNESS OF HIS VIEWS, BUT NO ONE UNDERTAKES TO +ALL AROUND WERE LOVING EYES GLISTENING WITH TEARS OF JOY, AND ALL AROUND +ALL AS THEY SHOULD BE? THAT’S RIGHT! THE GREAT THING IS THE SERVING, +ALL. AT LAST THE SLEIGH BORE TO THE RIGHT, DREW UP AT AN ENTRANCE, AND +ALL BEGAN TO RUN AND BUSTLE, AND ROSTóV SAW COMING UP THE ROAD BEHIND +ALL BE KILLED,” A SERGEANT WAS SAYING ANGRILY AND REPROACHFULLY. +ALL COMMANDERS OF DIVISIONS THE RIGHT TO SHOOT MARAUDERS, BUT I MUCH +ALL DONE CASUALLY IN A MOMENT OF ANGER, OF ILLNESS, AND WAS AFTERWARDS +ALL EXPECTING IT, THEY ARE SO SURE THAT IT WILL HAPPEN THAT I CANNOT, I +“ALLEY! ALLEY!” SAID THE COSSACK, TOUCHING THE PRISONER’S ARM TO +ALL FOR HIS RELATIONS WAS THE FACT THAT THERE WAS STILL A POSSIBILITY OF +ALL FOUR, LIKE A FLOCK OF SCARED BIRDS, GOT UP AND LEFT THE ROOM. +“ALL HAVE SECRETS OF THEIR OWN,” ANSWERED NATáSHA, GETTING WARMER. +ALL HER ATTENTION. HE SEEMED TO HER KIND, BRAVE, DETERMINED, MANLY, AND +ALL HER CLOTHES IN PETERSBURG AND THAT HEAVEN KNEW WHAT SHE WOULD HAVE +ALL HER INVITATIONS WITHOUT EXCEPTION, WRITTEN IN FRENCH, AND DELIVERED +ALL HIS DECISIONS AND INTENTIONS. HE WENT TO KURáGIN’S. +ALL HIS PROPERTY, NOT TO US HIS DIRECT HEIRS, BUT TO PIERRE.” +ALL HIS WISHES WERE BEING FULFILLED THAT MORNING: THERE WAS TO BE A +“ALL I CAN SAY, GENERAL,” SAID HE WITH A PLEASANT ELEGANCE +ALL-IMPORTANT.” +“ALL IS OVER,” HE THOUGHT, AND A COLD SWEAT BROKE OUT ON HIS +ALL ITS DETAILS TO THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL WEYROTHER: A LUCKY ACCIDENT HAD +ALL, LIKE CHILDREN OF MY OWN, AS YOU KNOW.” +ALL LIKE THAT; ONE CAN’T UNMARRY. DON’T BE AFRAID; I WON’T TELL +ALL MAKE OUT: WAS IT A GLADE IN THE WOOD LIT UP BY THE MOON, OR SOME +ALL MOSCOW REPEATED PRINCE DOLGORúKOV’S SAYING: “IF YOU GO ON +ALL MOSCOW TALKS OF NOTHING BUT WAR. ONE OF MY TWO BROTHERS IS ALREADY +ALL MOSCOW, THAT EVERYONE WILL SAY THAT YOU, DRUNK AND NOT KNOWING WHAT +ALL MY TROUBLE WILL HAVE BEEN THROWN AWAY.... I SHALL NOT BE ABLE TO +ALL ON ONE PLAN, FOR HOSPITALS, SCHOOLS, AND ALMSHOUSES, WHICH WERE SOON +ALLOWED, I HAVE HASTENED TO TAKE ALL STEPS TO THAT END. MAY I HAVE +ALLOWED TO PASS BY SPECIAL PERMISSION. THE EYES OF ALL THE SOLDIERS +ALLOWED TO SPEAK, TURNS TO AUERSPERG WITH FEIGNED ASTONISHMENT (HE IS A +ALLOW HIM PERSONALLY TO EXPRESS THE DEEP RESPECT THAT, EMULATING HIS +“ALLOW ME, SIR,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW IN RUSSIAN IN A COLD, +“ALLOW ME TO ASK,” HE SAID, “ARE YOU A MASON?” +“ALLOW ME TO GIVE YOU A PIECE OF ADVICE. WHEN YOU REACH THE CAPITAL, +“ALLOW ME TO LOOK AT YOUR PURSE,” HE SAID IN A LOW, ALMOST +ALL PALE AND EXCHANGED LOOKS IN SILENCE. +ALL QUITE FORGETTING THE DANGER AND ALL REGARD FOR SELF-PRESERVATION, HE +ALL REGULAR GERMANS.” +“ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT!” HE SAID TO PRINCE ANDREW, AND TURNED TO A +“ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT,” INTERRUPTED THE PRINCE, AND LAUGHING HIS +“ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT,” REPLIED THE COMMANDER, AND TURNED TO MAJOR +“ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT!” SAID THE OLD COUNT. “HE ALWAYS FLARES UP! +“ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT, WE’LL SEE!” +“ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT. WE’LL TALK IT OVER,” REPLIED PRINCE ANDREW. +“ALL RIGHT. FIFTY IMPERIALS ... THAT I WILL DRINK A WHOLE BOTTLE OF +“ALL RIGHT!” SAID DóLOKHOV, HAVING FINISHED THE ADDITION. “ALL +“ALL RIGHT,” SAID PIERRE, STILL SMILING IN THE SAME WAY. A FEELING +“ALL RIGHT. THEY ARE GOOD FELLOWS. AND HOW HAVE YOU WRIGGLED ONTO THE +ALL ROSTóV’S CARDS WERE BEATEN AND HE HAD EIGHT HUNDRED RUBLES SCORED +ALL SIDES, MOVED ACROSS THE BRIDGE. +ALL SORTS OF TEMPTING WARES. THE PáVLOGRADS HELD FEAST AFTER FEAST, +ALL THAT HAS HAPPENED.” +ALL THAT THE PEASANTS HAD HAS BEEN EATEN UP. I MYSELF WILL REMAIN IN +ALL THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED OF HIM. +ALL THE ADVANTAGES WERE ON OUR SIDE. OUR ENORMOUS FORCES, UNDOUBTEDLY +ALL THE COMFORTS OF CLEANLINESS AND ALL THE REFINEMENTS OF LIFE, PRINCE +ALL THE FIGURES ON IT: THE SUN, THE MOON, A HAMMER, A PLUMB LINE, A +ALL THE GUNS, WITHOUT WAITING FOR ORDERS, WERE BEING FIRED IN THE +ALL THE MOSCOW LADIES HAVE CONSPIRED TO GIVE HIM ALL THEIR SONS AS +ALL THE OLD FEMININE ARTS. BUT AS SOON AS THE PRINCE HAD GONE HER FACE +“ALL THE SAME, I LOVE AND VALUE NOTHING BUT TRIUMPH OVER THEM ALL, I +“ALL THE SAME, IT WAS BILíBIN WHO FOUND A SUITABLE FORM FOR THE +“ALL THE SAME, ONE IS AFRAID! OH, YOU CLEVER PEOPLE,” SAID A THIRD +“ALL THE SAME! THEY SAY THIS ONE IS THE COMMANDER OF ALL THE EMPEROR +ALL THESE DREAMS MELTED AND MERGED INTO THE CHAOS AND DARKNESS OF +ALL THE SOLDIERS’ REMARKS RELATED TO THE TWO YOUNG ONES. EVERY FACE +ALL THE UNMARRIED LADIES AND EVEN THE MARRIED ONES EXCEPT THE VERY +ALL THIS END?” THOUGHT ROSTóV, LOOKING AT THE CHANGING SHADOWS BEFORE +“ALL THIS HAD TO BE AND COULD NOT BE OTHERWISE,” THOUGHT PIERRE, +ALL THIS IS NOT RIGHT, IT’S NOT RIGHT! YOU MAY TAKE OFFENSE OR NOT BUT +ALL THIS, ROSE AND APPROACHED THE PRINCESS. HE SEEMED UNABLE TO BEAR THE +ALL THIS SHAME AND SORROW, BUT WANTED NOW TO PLAY WITH HIM AS A CAT DOES +ALLUSION TO THE NAME OF THE SOVEREIGN. THREE HUNDRED PERSONS TOOK THEIR +“ALL WELL?” ASKED ROSTóV, DRAWING AWAY HIS ARM. +ALL WERE SEATED AGAIN, TURNED WITH HIS KINDLY SMILE TO ROSTóV. +ALL WERE SILENT. TúSHIN APPEARED AT THE THRESHOLD AND MADE HIS WAY +ALL WERE THEN MORE CONFIDENT OF VICTORY THAN THE WINNING OF TWO BATTLES +“ALL WIGHT! ALL WIGHT!” SHOUTED DENíSOV. “IT’S NO GOOD MAKING +ALL YOUR VALUABLES.” +ALLY. WE SHALL THEREFORE CONFIDENTLY AWAIT THE MOMENT WHEN THE IMPERIAL +ALMOST AT THE MIDDLE OF THE TABLE. FACING THEM SAT PIERRE, BESIDE PRINCE +ALMOST DRAGGING HIM TO THE WINDOW. “THAT MONEY IS DENíSOV’S; YOU +ALMOST FRIGHTENED, EYES AS SHE PASSED HIM. +ALMOST TIME,” SHE ADDED, GIVING PIERRE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THEY WERE +“ALONE ALL THE SAME, WITHOUT MY FRIENDS.... AND HE EXPECTS ME NOT TO +ALONE AND IN FULL VIEW OF THE EMPEROR. +ALONE APPLYING HER HANDKERCHIEF TO HER EYES. AT LAST SHE RANG. +ALONE AT LAST GAINS A REAL VICTORY, DESTROYING THE SPELL OF THE +ALONE, BUT BECAUSE OF EVERYONE, IT MUST INEVITABLY COME ABOUT. THEY ARE +ALONE, IN WHICH THERE WAS SOMETHING MORE SIGNIFICANT THAN IN THE GENERAL +ALONE... THAT TREMENDOUS FORTUNE... AND WHAT IS HIS LIFE WORTH? IT’S A +ALONE TOGETHER, PRINCE VASíLI ANNOUNCED HIS HOPES AND WISHES TO THE OLD +ALONE WITH HéLèNE IN THE LITTLE DRAWING ROOM WHERE THEY WERE SITTING. +ALONE WITH HER, SO ROSTóV, NOW THAT HE HAD ATTAINED WHAT HE HAD LONGED +ALONE WITHOUT ANY ALLIES, IT MIGHT PERHAPS HAVE BEEN A LONG TIME BEFORE +A LONG-AWAITED MOMENT. HE WAS FIRMLY CONVINCED THAT THIS WAS THE DAY OF +ALONG THE BROAD COUNTRY ROAD, EDGED ON BOTH SIDES BY TREES, CAME A HIGH, +A LOOK AT YOU, YOUR EXCELLENCY.” +A LOOK OF COMPLETE ABSENT-MINDEDNESS, KEPT RUBBING THE BRIDGE OF HIS +ALOUD. +A LOUD, MONOTONOUS VOICE BEGAN TO READ OUT THE DISPOSITIONS FOR THE +ALOUD TO HIM AND BEING FRIENDS WITH PRINCESS MARY. MADEMOISELLE +ALREADY.” +ALREADY BEEN CHOOSING A CAREER FOR THREE MONTHS, AND HAD NOT DECIDED +ALREADY, BUT THEN HE CANNOT KNOW WHAT I THINK OF HIM AND MAY IMAGINE +ALREADY IN ANY CASE DISHONORED BY BEING UNABLE TO FULFILL THE GREAT AND +ALREADY KNOWN IN MOSCOW AND THAT THE LADIES ABOUT HIS FATHER—WHO WERE +ALREADY LOST HIM. HE BENT OVER HIM AND, AS HIS SISTER HAD TAUGHT HIM, +ALREADY OPENING A DOOR. +ALREADY PASSED. THROUGH THE TERRIBLE AND DEAFENING ROAR OF THOSE VOICES, +ALREADY PREPARED...” +ALREADY SEATED IN THE DRAWING ROOM. THE COUNT TOOK THE GENTLEMEN INTO +ALREADY SEEN THE YOUNG MASTER, AND, BEFORE HE HAD REACHED THE DRAWING +ALREADY VISIBLE. SUDDENLY SOMETHING LIKE A BIRCH BROOM SEEMED TO SWEEP +ALSO IN FRENCH: +ALSO THE ABBé MORIO. DO YOU KNOW THAT PROFOUND THINKER? HE HAS BEEN +ALSO TO THE SOLDIERS. LOOKING AT THEIR BOOTS HE SEVERAL TIMES SHOOK HIS +ALSO. YES, MY OPINION, AND ONLY MY OPINION,” ADDED PRINCE BOLKóNSKI, +ALTAR ON WHICH LAY A TESTAMENT AND A SKULL. ROUND IT STOOD SEVEN LARGE +ALTAR WITH HER. HOW AND WHEN THIS WOULD BE HE DID NOT KNOW, HE DID NOT +ALTERED IN SHAPE BY ITS PRESSURE ON THE TABLE, NOW AT HER STILL MORE +ALTHOUGH IN FEMALE SOCIETY ANATOLE USUALLY ASSUMED THE ROLE OF A MAN +ALTHOUGH IOGEL DID NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THIS TO BE THE REAL MAZURKA, EVERYONE +ALTHOUGH PRINCE VASíLI LISTENED RELUCTANTLY AND NOT VERY POLITELY +ALTHOUGH THE HALL PORTER SAW SOMEONE’S CARRIAGE STANDING AT THE +ALWAYS ACCOMPANIED ANY REFERENCE OF HERS TO THE IMPERIAL FAMILY, “HAS +ALWAYS AFRAID, CAME INTO HER ROOM WITH A PECULIARLY RESTLESS AND MALIGN +ALWAYS, ALWAYS ANXIOUS! ESPECIALLY JUST AT THIS AGE, SO DANGEROUS BOTH +ALWAYS BE MY DAUGHTERS’ FIRST CONFIDANTE, AND THAT IF NICHOLAS, WITH +ALWAYS BE THE CHIEF DESIRE OF EVERYONE ELSE. +ALWAYS BETTER TO “BOW TOO LOW THAN NOT BOW LOW ENOUGH.” SO THE +ALWAYS CALLED NATáSHA A COSSACK) AND SHE STROKED THE CHILD’S ARM AS +ALWAYS CLEAR AND SIMPLE, SO SHE IS NOT STUPID. SHE NEVER WAS ABASHED AND +ALWAYS DRAGGING IT IN ONE DIRECTION. HE TRIED TO GET AWAY FROM THEM, BUT +(ALWAYS FOLLOWED BY A BALL FLYING PAST AND STRIKING THE EARTH, A MAN, A +ALWAYS IN ONE DIRECTION, HUMMING WITH WHISPERS AND TALK AND THE SOUND OF +ALWAYS POKING FUN AT ME.... AH, WELL! LET HIM!” AND HE BEGAN READING +ALWAYS SHALL, AND I WANT NOTHING MORE.” +ALWAYS SURROUNDED BY THE SAME DECKS, MASTS, AND RIGGING OF HIS SHIP, SO +ALWAYS WON. HOWEVER MUCH HE DRANK, HE NEVER LOST HIS CLEARHEADEDNESS. +AM.” +A MAN OPPRESSED BY BUSINESS, WEARY AND SUFFERING, WHO YET WOULD NOT, FOR +A MAN WHO ON A HOT DAY TAKES A FINAL RUN BEFORE PLUNGING INTO THE WATER. +AMAZED THE FRENCH THEMSELVES. ROSTóV WAS HORRIFIED TO HEAR LATER THAT +AMBASSADORS TO COMPLIMENT THE USURPER.” +A MEETING WITH NAPOLEON. TO THE JOY AND PRIDE OF THE WHOLE ARMY, A +AMéLIE” (MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE) “THINKS I COULD BE JEALOUS OF HER, +A MEMBER OF THE HOFKRIEGSRATH FROM VIENNA HAD COME TO KUTúZOV THE DAY +AMIABLY INTO HIS FACE, EVIDENTLY WISHING TO SOFTEN THE RUDENESS OF HIS +AMID PEOPLE OF WHOM HE WAS WEARY HAD GONE, INSTANTLY EVERY THOUGHT OF +AMID THE SMOKE, DEAFENED BY THE INCESSANT REPORTS WHICH ALWAYS MADE HIM +AMID THE SMOKE OF THEIR CAMPFIRES, THE GREATER PART OF WHOM WERE +AMID THE SQUARE MASSES OF TROOPS STANDING MOTIONLESS AS IF TURNED TO +“A MILLION ALL BUT ONE!” REPLIED A WAGGISH SOLDIER IN A TORN COAT, +A MINUTE LATER SóNYA CAME IN WITH A FRIGHTENED, GUILTY, AND SCARED +AM I TO GO?” THOUGHT NICHOLAS, AND WENT AGAIN INTO THE DANCING ROOM +A MOMENT, AND, EVIDENTLY UNDERSTANDING WHAT ROSTóV HINTED AT, SEIZED +A MOMENT. THE SICK MAN WAS GIVEN SOMETHING TO DRINK, THERE WAS A +A MOMENT, “YES, BRING ME SEVEN HUNDRED RUBLES, YES! BUT MIND, DON’T +AMONG THE CHILDREN, IN THE SPECIAL SENSE THEY ATTACHED TO IT.) “WHY +AMONG THE FIELD GUNS ON THE BROW OF THE HILL THE GENERAL IN COMMAND OF +AMONG THE GENTLEMEN OF THE SUITE, ROSTóV NOTICED BOLKóNSKI, SITTING +AMONG THEM. ON MY WORD I’D GIVE FIVE YEARS OF MY LIFE FOR IT!” +AMONG THEM THE STAFF OFFICER AND ZHERKóV, WHO HAD BEEN TWICE SENT TO +AMONG THE WOMEN!” +AMONG THE YOUNG MEN INTRODUCED BY ROSTóV ONE OF THE FIRST WAS +A MOP, HIS LEGS FAR APART, SPRANG TO THE WHEEL; WHILE NUMBER TWO WITH +A MOST SERIOUS, DEFERENTIAL, AND INNOCENT EXPRESSION. +A MOVEMENT. WITH A PLEASANT SMILE BERG RELATED HOW THE GRAND DUKE +AM STAYING IN FOR YOUR SAKE,” AND SO ON. AND THOUGH PRINCE VASíLI, +AMUSING,” HE CONTINUED, WITH A SUDDEN, GOOD-NATURED LAUGH, “WAS THAT +AMUSING, NOW GIRLISHLY ENCHANTING. +A MUSKETRY FIRE AT THE FRENCH CAVALRY THAT WAS PURSUING OUR TROOPS. IT +AN AIR OF IMPORTANCE THAT SHOWED THAT SHE FELT SHE QUITE KNEW WHAT SHE +AN ALLOWANCE OF TEN THOUSAND RUBLES. HE HAD A DIM PERCEPTION OF THE +AN ANONYMOUS VOLUNTEER, AND DAVID WIDGER +AN ASSIDUOUS AND MODEST MIEN, AND STOOPING OVER THE OUTSPREAD MAP +ANATOLE. “AH, I KNOW, I KNOW,” SHE SAID WITH A SLY GLANCE, “YOUR +ANATOLE AND PIERRE. +ANATOLE CAME UP TO HER. SHE STILL COULD NOT SEE HIM. SHE ONLY FELT A +ANATOLE EMBRACING THE FRENCHWOMAN AND WHISPERING SOMETHING TO HER. WITH +ANATOLE, HAVING TAKEN OFF HIS OVERCOAT, SAT WITH ARMS AKIMBO BEFORE A +ANATOLE IS ACCOMPANYING ME ON HIS WAY TO THE ARMY, SO I HOPE YOU WILL +ANATOLE IS NO GENIUS, BUT HE IS AN HONEST, GOODHEARTED LAD; AN EXCELLENT +ANATOLE KISSED THE OLD MAN, AND LOOKED AT HIM WITH CURIOSITY AND PERFECT +ANATOLE LIVED, PIERRE ENTERED THE LIGHTED PORCH, ASCENDED THE STAIRS, +ANATOLE RETURNED SMILING TO THE LADIES. +ANATOLE’S EXPRESSION, THOUGH HIS EYES WERE FIXED ON HER, REFERRED NOT +ANATOLE STOPPED HIM. +ANATOLE TURNED TO THE ENGLISHMAN AND TAKING HIM BY ONE OF THE BUTTONS +“ANATOLE USED TO COME TO BORROW MONEY FROM HER AND USED TO KISS HER +ANATOLE WITH HIS SWAGGERING AIR STRODE UP TO THE WINDOW. HE WANTED TO +AN ATTACK. BUT WHEN THEY HAD MARCHED FOR ABOUT AN HOUR IN THE DENSE FOG, +AN AUSTRIAN OFFICER IN A WHITE UNIFORM WITH GREEN PLUMES IN HIS HAT +ANCESTOR OF THE BOLKóNSKIS. PRINCE ANDREW, LOOKING AGAIN AT THAT +AND A BALL FLEW WHISTLING OVER THE HEADS OF THE HUSSAR SQUADRON. THE +AND ABOUT NIKóLENKA, TWICE ASKED WHEN THE LAST LETTER HAD BEEN RECEIVED +AND ABRUPTLY. +AND A BULLET WHIZZING HIGH UP IN THE MIST WITH A PLAINTIVE SOUND PASSED +AND A CASTLE WITH A PARK SURROUNDED BY THE WATERS OF THE CONFLUENCE OF +AND ACCEPT THE OFFER,” BUT BEFORE HE HAD TIME TO SAY IT NATáSHA BEGAN +AND A CONVOY OF CROATS. BESIDE KUTúZOV SAT AN AUSTRIAN GENERAL, IN +AND ACQUAINTANCES, INVITATIONS, AND SOCIAL OCCUPATIONS WERE SO NUMEROUS +AND, ADDRESSING HIM, AGAIN USED THE EPITHET “YOUNG MAN” THAT WAS +AND ADVANTAGES OF SERVICE UNDER MEMBERS OF THE IMPERIAL FAMILY. +AND A FEW HERE AND THERE WITH POWDERED HAIR AND IN RUSSIAN KAFTáNS. +AND AFFRONTS MATTER? I LOVE AND FORGIVE EVERYBODY NOW.” +AND A FLASK, AND NESVíTSKI WAS TREATING SOME OFFICERS TO PIES AND REAL +AND AFTER STAYING BUT A SHORT TIME WITH THE TSAR WENT TO SEE THE GRAND +AND AGAIN IT TURNED USELESSLY IN THE SAME PLACE. +AND AGAIN JUMPING UP, DASHED SO IMPETUOUSLY FORWARD THAT IT SEEMED AS IF +AND AGAIN PROCEEDED TO GALLOP ALONG THE LINE, PENETRATING FARTHER AND +AND AGAIN SHE BEGAN TO SOB, MORE BITTERLY THAN BEFORE. NATáSHA LIFTED +AND A LETTER; IT IS A PREMIUM FOR THE MAN WHO WRITES A HISTORY OF +AND ALL ALONG THE FRENCH LINE ON THE HILL FIRES FLARED UP AND THE +AND ALL HIS COMRADES OF THE GUARDS BY HIS APPEARANCE—THAT OF A +AND ALL HIS MERCY TO ONE WHO IS BLIND, OR WHO SHUTS HIS EYES THAT HE MAY + * AND ALL THAT FOLLOWS THEREFROM. +AND ALL YOU HAVE BEEN DOING ON YOUR ESTATES.” +AND ALSO THAT MURAT’S MISTAKE WOULD VERY SOON BE DISCOVERED, PROVED +AND AM AT YOUR SERVICE TO HELP YOU NURSE MY UNCLE. I IMAGINE WHAT YOU +“AND AM I TO BRING THE GYPSY GIRLS ALONG WITH HIM?” ASKED NICHOLAS, +AND A MUFFLED SHOUT ALMOST BEHIND THEM IN THE WOOD. THE FRENCH HAD +AND AMUSED AS HE WAS WHEN HE PUT ON THE LITTLE ICON. “DID HE BELIEVE? +AND AMUSE THEMSELVES AS GIRLS OF THIRTEEN AND FOURTEEN DO WHO ARE +AND AMUSINGLY. “AND WHY NOT MARRY HER IF SHE REALLY HAS SO MUCH MONEY? +AND ANATOLE MET IN THE CONSERVATORY. +AND ANGRY FACES STRUGGLED FOR THE MOP: HOW DIFFERENTLY DO THOSE CLOUDS +AND ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA (WHO FOUND IT NECESSARY TO ACCOMPANY HIM) WAS +AND ANXIETY THEY THREW THEIR BURDEN OF SORROW ON ONE ANOTHER AND +AND ARE DRAWN ALONG.” +“AND ARE THE HOURS THE SAME? AND THE WALKS IN THE AVENUES? AND THE +AND ARTILLERYMEN’S BONFIRES. TO THE LEFT, NOT FAR FROM THE FARTHEST +AND AS HE WAVED HIS ARMS TO IMPERSONATE THE POLICEMAN, HIS PORTLY FORM +AND AS HE WENT ON BECAME MORE AND MORE ANIMATED. HE TOLD THEM OF HIS +AND, AS IT MIGHT SEEM, OF THE OBLIGATIONS TO HER HE HAD TAKEN ON +AND ASK HIM, I!... DOES THAT SATISFY YOU?” +AND ASKING THEM ALL TO BE SEATED BEGAN: +“AND ASK WHETHER SHARPSHOOTERS HAVE BEEN POSTED,” HE ADDED. “WHAT +AND AS THEY WENT ALONG HE WAS TOLD ALLEGORIES OF THE TOILS OF HIS +AND, AS YOU KNOW MY PRINCIPLES, I REFER IT TO YOU.” +AND AT EVERY WORD HE ADDED: “BUT DON’T HURT MY LITTLE HORSE!” AND +AND A TIMID SMILE. +AND AT LAST BECAME SILENT. +AND AT THE PEOPLE IN IT. ROUND A LONG TABLE COVERED WITH BLACK SAT SOME +“AND AT YOUR AGE WHAT SECRETS CAN THERE BE BETWEEN NATáSHA AND +AND AWKWARDLY OVER THE PARQUET FLOOR OF THE RECEPTION ROOM, NOT KNOWING +AND BACK, GALLOPED STRENUOUSLY FORWARD, AND WITH A DASHING SALUTE REINED +AND BEGAN DANCING ROUND THE ROOM WITH IT. +AND BEGAN FIRING THEM AT TúSHIN’S BATTERY. +AND BEGAN TO SPEAK. +AND BEING WELL DISPOSED TOWARD BORíS, WHO HAD MANAGED TO PLEASE HIM THE +AND BESIDES THIS, NINE MEN IN EVERY THOUSAND FOR THE MILITIA. EVERYWHERE +AND BILíBIN UNWRINKLED HIS TEMPLE, FEELING THAT THE DILEMMA WAS +AND BLUE RIDING BREECHES, WHO WERE SWARMING NEAR THE BRIDGE, AND THEN AT +AND BORíS, HAVING APPARENTLY RELIEVED HIMSELF OF AN ONEROUS DUTY AND +AND BORíS. HE IS HIS GODSON,” SHE ADDED, HER TONE SUGGESTING THAT +AND BORíS SAYS IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE. YOU KNOW I HAVE TOLD HIM ALL ABOUT +AND BROKE IT UP. IN THIS ACTION FOR THE FIRST TIME TROPHIES WERE TAKEN: +AND BY A SERVANT WHO PASSED OUT ON TIPTOE WITHOUT HEEDING THEM. THEY +AND CALLING THE NURSE BEGAN GIVING THE MEDICINE. THE CHILD SCREAMED +AND CAREFULLY PLACED HER IN AN EASY CHAIR. +AND CEASED TALKING WHEN VéRA ENTERED. SóNYA AND NATáSHA LOOKED AT +AND CHARACTER BUT ALIKE IN THE SOCIAL CIRCLE TO WHICH THEY BELONGED. +AND COLONEL LOOKED STERNLY AND SIGNIFICANTLY AT ONE ANOTHER LIKE TWO +AND COMMENDATION ARE ESSENTIAL, JUST AS GREASE IS NECESSARY TO WHEELS +AND COMPELLED TO ACT UNDER CONDITIONS OF WAR UNLIKE ANYTHING THAT HAD +AND COMPLACENTLY SEATED HIMSELF ON THE SOFA. +AND CONFLICT WITH WHICH HE HAD TRODDEN THE ENNS BRIDGE, BUT WITH THE +AND CONNECTIONS HE BELONGED TO THE GROUPS OF OLD AND HONORED GUESTS, AND +AND CONTINUAL EXPECTATION OF SOME GOOD, ALWAYS IN FRONT OF HIM BUT NEVER +AND COULD NOT ANSWER. “CAN SOMETHING BAD HAVE HAPPENED TO ME?” +AND COUNTESS ALIKE—TURNED TO LOOK AT HER AS IF WONDERING WHY SHE HAD +AND COUNT ILYá ROSTóV BECAME MORE AND MORE MOVED, MORE GLASS WAS +AND COUNT ROSTóV, GLANCING ANGRILY AT THE AUTHOR WHO WENT ON READING + AND DARE NOT HERCULEAN RUSSIANS TROUBLE... +AND DARK. THE OFFICERS WERE HURRIEDLY DRINKING TEA AND BREAKFASTING, THE +AND DECIDED IN HIS OWN MIND THAT ALL WAS AS IT SHOULD BE, AND THAT IN +AND DENíSOV RODE UP TO A GROUP THAT HAD STOPPED NEAR ROSTóV, COMPOSED +AND DENíSOV WENT TO THE BED TO GET THE PURSE FROM UNDER THE PILLOW. +AND DESPERATION AS THOUGH HE WERE AT THAT MOMENT FACING SOME GREAT +AND DEVOTION, OR OF WEARINESS AND HOPE OF RESTING BEFORE LONG. PRINCE +“AND DIDN’T HIPPOLYTE TELL YOU?” ASKED PRINCE VASíLI, TURNING TO +“AND DID YOU GIVE ME TOBACCO YESTERDAY? THAT’S JUST IT, FRIEND! AH, +AND DISHEVELED, BEAT AND TURNED THE HEAVY FEATHER BED FOR THE THIRD +AND DISMOUNTED SLOWLY AMONG THE GUNS. HE DELIVERED THE ORDER AND DID +AND DISSATISFIED ABOUT SOMETHING AND THAT AT HEADQUARTERS THEY WERE +AND DISTINCTLY. IN THE VALLEY HE SAW BEFORE HIM SOMETHING LIKE A RIVER, +AND, DOING SO, GROANED INVOLUNTARILY. +AND DóLOKHOV’S ANGRY CRY. +AND DóLOKHOV SWORE AT HIM IN COARSE SOLDIER’S RUSSIAN AND SHOULDERING +AND DON’T FORGET TO GIVE HIM THE ROSTóVS’ INVITATION. THEY ASK HIM +“AND DO YOU FEEL QUITE CALM?” ROSTóV ASKED. +“AND DO YOU KNOW, MY DEAR FELLOW, IT SEEMS TO ME THAT BONAPARTE HAS +AND DRAWING UP AGAIN NEXT MOMENT WHEN HER FACE BROKE INTO A SMILE OF +AND, DRAWING UP AN ARMCHAIR FOR PRINCE VASíLI, POINTED TO IT AND BEGAN +AND DREW IT DOWNWARDS AS IF WISHING TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER IT WAS FIRMLY +AND DROPPED IT AGAIN BEHIND HER. PRINCE ANDREW RECOGNIZED HER WITHOUT +AND DROWSY KUTúZOV, WHO RELUCTANTLY PLAYED THE PART OF CHAIRMAN AND +AND ECSTASY SUCH AS HE HAD NEVER BEFORE KNOWN. EVERY TRAIT AND EVERY +AND EVEN NOW NEVER SAYS A WORD AGAINST HIM. THOSE PRANKS IN PETERSBURG +AND EVEN PRINCESS MARY FELT HERSELF PLEASANTLY MADE TO SHARE IN THESE +AND EVERYBODY HAD TO SERVE, HE TOOK A POST UNDER HIS FATHER IN THE +AND EVERY STRAP IN PLACE, AND SHONE WITH CLEANLINESS. AND NOT ONLY +AND EXAMINED HIM WITH ATTENTIVE CURIOSITY. THE COSSACK WAS DEAD, BUT THE +AND EXPLAINED TO THEM HIS INTENTIONS AND WISHES. HE TOLD THEM THAT STEPS +AND EXTENDING ITS NECK, GALLOPED ON YET FASTER. HARDLY HAD THE HORSE +“AND FANCY! SHE REFUSED HIM QUITE DEFINITELY!” ADDING, AFTER A +AND FEAR. +AND FEELING AT THAT MOMENT. “IS THERE ANYTHING AT ALL BEHIND THAT +AND FELL INTO THE COLUMN TO THE MEASURE OF “LEFT... LEFT!” “CLOSE +AND FELL ON HIS BACK. HE OPENED HIS EYES, HOPING TO SEE HOW THE STRUGGLE +AND FELL ON HIS HANDS. THE OTHERS OUTSTRIPPED HIM. +AND FENCING FROM THE VILLAGE. +AND FIGHTING, NOT AT ALL AS THE GUNNER AND THE FRENCHMAN WITH FRIGHTENED +AND FLASK, AND SWUNG HIS HEAVY PERSON EASILY INTO THE SADDLE. +AND, FLUSHED AND SMILING, PLUMPED DOWN ON THE FLOOR. THE COUNTESS WAS +AND FOR THE ISSUE OF THE WHOLE BATTLE. “BUT BE THAT WHAT IT MAY,” +AND FRENCHMEN RUNNING TOWARD IT. HIGHER UP STOOD SOME RUSSIAN INFANTRY, +AND FREQUENT BLUSHES SHE TOLD HIM SHE WAS VERY SORRY ABOUT THEIR PAST +AND FRO, AND DISPATCHING OF ADJUTANTS—WAS CONFINED TO THE EMPEROR’S +AND FROM THE DIFFERENT RANKS SOME TWENTY MEN RAN TO THE FRONT. A +AND FROWNING BROWS STOOD A HUNDRED PACES AWAY FROM THEM IN HIS HELMET +AND FUSSILY IN THE EASY CHAIR, “HOW IS IT ANNETTE NEVER GOT MARRIED? +AND GALLOPED ALONG THE LINE. AT FIRST HE RODE ALONG THE LINE OF +AND GALLOPED OFF. BUT NO SOONER HAD HE LEFT BAGRATIóN THAN HIS COURAGE +AND GET AWAY TO ATTEND TO HER DUTIES AS HOSTESS. BUT PIERRE NOW +AND GLAD SPARKLE. PRINCE ANDREW HAD GROWN THINNER, PALER, AND MORE +AND GOOD-HUMORED LAUGHTER FROM THE SOLDIERS THAT IT INFECTED THE FRENCH +AND GRIEVED HAD HE CHOSEN NOT TO SEE THEM. THESE DIFFERENT +AND GROANS MINGLED IN A GENERAL HUBBUB, THEN THE FIRING DIED DOWN. +AND GUN CARRIAGES, THE TRAMP OF HORSES, THE CRACK OF WHIPS, SHOUTS, THE +AND HAD AN OPINION ABOUT EVERYTHING), BUT ABOVE ALL AT HIS CAPACITY FOR +AND HAD MORE THAN ONCE IMPRESSED ON HIS DAUGHTER THAT MICHAEL IVáNOVICH +AND HAD REMAINED AWAY TILL HE WAS TWENTY. WHEN HE RETURNED TO MOSCOW +AND HAD TAKEN HIM TO VIENNA AND GIVEN HIM THE MORE SERIOUS COMMISSIONS. +AND HAIR, WITHOUT LOOKING AT HER EYES, WITH SUCH CONTEMPT THAT THE +AND HANDING ON TO POSTERITY OF A CERTAIN IMPORTANT MYSTERY... WHICH +AND HANDSOME YOUNG MAN AND WOMAN FOR ONE ANOTHER. AND THIS HUMAN FEELING +AND HAPPINESS... “I SHOULD WISH FOR NOTHING ELSE, NOTHING, IF ONLY I +AND HAPPINESS THE VICTORY HAD AFFORDED HIM HAD BEEN NOW LEFT IN THE +AND HAPPY THOUGH UNEASY FACE OF PIERRE. IT SEEMED AS IF THE VERY LIGHT +AND HARDLY ABLE TO RESTRAIN HIS JERKY MOVEMENTS, AND FROM THE WAY HE +AND HASTENED TO REASSURE HIM. +AND HAVE SEEN FRäULEIN MATHILDE.” +AND HAVING DONE THIS HE RODE BACK. +AND, HAVING GLANCED ROUND THE ROOM, PRINCE ANDREW TURNED TO ROSTóV, +AND HAVING GOT RID OF THIS YOUNG MAN WHO DID NOT KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE, SHE +AND HE AGAIN BEGAN SPEAKING ABOUT INDIFFERENT MATTERS, ABOUT SERGéY +AND HE AGAIN TURNED TO PIERRE. +AND HE ALSO PASSED ON WITH THE WAGON. THEN CAME SOME MERRY SOLDIERS WHO +AND HEALTH. ALL WHO TALKED TO HER, AND AT EACH WORD SAW HER BRIGHT SMILE +AND HE AMUSES HIMSELF SETTING A POLICEMAN ASTRIDE A BEAR! FOR SHAME, +AND HE CAUGHT THE BEAR, TOOK IT IN HIS ARMS, LIFTED IT FROM THE GROUND, +AND HE DOESN’T CARE AT ALL FOR JULIE.” +AND HE EXPERIENCED TENFOLD THE JOY OF LIVING, AS HE HAD NOT DONE SINCE +AND HE FELT A NERVOUS SHUDDER RUN DOWN HIS SPINE. BUT THE MERE THOUGHT +AND HE INDICATED WITH HIS DELICATE FINGERS WHAT HE MEANT BY A PINCH. +AND HE LEFT THE ROOM, FOLLOWED BY THE LOW BUT RINGING LAUGHTER OF THE +AND HE LOOKED AT PIERRE WITH A MOCKING, CHALLENGING EXPRESSION. HE +AND HE LOOKED ON THIS VISIT TO A CHURLISH OLD MAN AND A RICH AND UGLY +AND HELPED HIM. I KNOW AND UNDERSTAND WHAT A SPICE THAT WOULD ADD TO THE +“AND HERE, FRIEND, THE PEOPLE ARE QUITE BEGGARLY. THERE THEY ALL +AND HE RELEASED BOLKóNSKI’S ARM TO INDICATE THAT HE HAD NOW QUITE +AND HERE’S THE LITTLE SHOP WHERE WE USED TO BUY GINGERBREAD! CAN’T +AND HER FACE WAS TEARFUL. +AND HER LOOK SEEMED TO SAY: “WELL, IT IS YOUR OWN FAULT.” +AND HER SHORT, DOWNY, SMILING LIP LIFTED WHEN SHE BEGAN TO SPEAK JUST AS +AND HER SON. SHE HAD OPPORTUNITIES OF SENDING HER LETTERS TO THE GRAND +AND HE SAT DOWN AGAIN, PAYING NO MORE ATTENTION TO HIS DAUGHTER, WHO WAS +AND HE SAW ABOVE HIM THE REMOTE, LOFTY, AND EVERLASTING SKY. HE KNEW IT +AND HE SMILED APPROVINGLY, EVIDENTLY PLEASED WITH THE CADET. ROSTóV +AND HE WALKED ON. +AND HE WORE A CRUMPLED HUSSAR CAP STUCK JAUNTILY BACK ON ONE SIDE OF HIS +AND HE WOULD MARRY HER. SO HER FUTURE SHAPED ITSELF IN MADEMOISELLE +AND HILLS IN THE DISTANCE—AND DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE INHABITANTS +AND HIS BACK DRAWN IN, SLIGHTLY SWINGING ONE FOOT, AND, WITH HIS HEAD A +AND HIS EYEBROWS WERE LIFTED, THEN HIS EYEBROWS WOULD DESCEND AND +AND HIS FOREHEAD BECAME SMOOTH AGAIN, HE BOWED HIS HEAD RESPECTFULLY, +AND HIS HEAD TILTING YET FURTHER BACK. “WHY IS IT SO LONG?” THOUGHT +AND HIS KIND, INTELLIGENT FACE RATHER PALE, RUSHED OUT OF THE SHED +AND HIS LIPS WERE SMILING. THOUGH THE COMMANDER WAS OCCUPIED IN GIVING +AND HIS ONE DIVISION, AND EVEN THEN MORTIER SLIPS THROUGH YOUR FINGERS! +AND HIS THOUGHTS FOLLOWED ONE ANOTHER WITH EXTRAORDINARY CLEARNESS AND +AND HIS VISIT TO BRüNN. AT THE DOOR HE FOUND A VEHICLE HALF FULL OF +AND HORSE GUARDS’ JACKET, SHOUTING SOMETHING TO A PALE, WHITE +AND HORSES) HAD IT NOT OCCURRED TO ROSTóV TO FLOURISH HIS WHIP BEFORE +“AND HOW COULD YOU BELIEVE HE WAS MY LOVER? WHY? BECAUSE I LIKE +“AND HOW DO YOU GET ON WITH THE OFFICERS?” INQUIRED ZHERKóV. +AND HOW HAPPY I MAY BE WITH SUCH A FRIEND AND SUCH A HUSBAND! HUSBAND? +AND HOW HAS IT ENDED? I WAS AGAINST THIS MARRIAGE EVEN THEN AND FORETOLD +“AND HOW SHE DANCES! WHAT GWACE!” HE SAID AGAIN AFTER A PAUSE. +AND HOW THE WELL-TRAINED HORSE LOOKED ROUND UNCONCERNED AND DID NOT + * “AND HURRAH FOR THE WHOLE WORLD!” +AND HURRIEDLY REMOVED. +“AND I AM STILL ARGUING WITH YOUR HUSBAND. I CAN’T UNDERSTAND WHY HE +AND I BEG YOU ALL TO HELP ME. BRüNN’S ATTRACTIONS MUST BE SHOWN HIM. +“AND I DID NOT KNOW... NICHOLAS... MY DARLING!...” +AND I DON’T NOW.” +“AND IF HE ASKS ABOUT THE LOSSES?” +“AND IF I SHOULD MEET HIS MAJESTY BEFORE I MEET THE COMMANDER IN +“AND IF THIS AIM COINCIDES WITH YOURS, YOU MAY ENTER OUR BROTHERHOOD +“AND, IF YOUR EXCELLENCY WILL ALLOW ME TO EXPRESS MY OPINION,” HE +“AND I HAD NO IDEA!...” EXCLAIMED PRINCESS MARY. “AH, ANDREW, I +“AND I?” HE SAID; “DO YOU THINK IT IS EASIER FOR ME? I AM AS WORN +“AND I KNOW WHY SHE’D BE ASHAMED,” SAID PéTYA, OFFENDED BY +AND I’LL WRITE TO HER MYSELF, AND WE WILL KILL THE FATTED CALF.” +“AND I MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN HIS PLACE!” THOUGHT ROSTóV, AND HARDLY +AND IMMEDIATELY TúSHIN, WITH A SHORT PIPE IN THE CORNER OF HIS MOUTH +AND IMPOSSIBLE, HE AGAIN GLANCED TIMIDLY AT HER. SHE DID NOT SIT DOWN +AND IN A WAY OF WHICH OUR LAST CAMPAIGN CAN GIVE YOU NO IDEA. HALF THE +AND IN A WHISPER, WITH A STRANGELY UNSMILING FACE: “COME TO DINNER +AND INDEED EVERYBODY IN THE ROOM LOOKED WITH A SMILE OF PLEASURE AT THE +AND INDULGENTLY TO SMOOTH WITH IT THE HEART OF HIS NEIGHBOR. AS TO THE +AND INEVITABLY HE LAPSED INTO FALSEHOOD. IF HE HAD TOLD THE TRUTH TO HIS +AND IN ORDER TO PRESS THEM AGAIN TO HER LIPS, SHE SLIGHTLY PUSHED AWAY +AND IN PROOF OF THE CONCLUSIVENESS OF HIS OPINION ALL THE WRINKLES +AND INSIGNIFICANT PEOPLE. BUT THE ARMY, THE RUSSIAN ARMY, EVERYONE +AND INTERESTING PERSON TO THE VISITORS AND THAT NOWHERE ELSE WAS THE +AND INTERESTS BEFORE HIM! “YES, THEY HAVE TAKEN A WISE DECISION,” HE +AND INTO LADIES’ SOCIETY WITH AN AFFECTATION OF DOING SO AGAINST HIS +AND IN TWO TWISTS OF THE HAND HE BREAKS THEM TO SMITHEREENS AND INSTALLS +AND INVOLUNTARILY NOTICED THE CAREFULLY WASHED SEAMS OF THE SCAR NEAR +“AND I ONLY...” +AND IRREPRESSIBLY, AS WATER DOES IN A CREEK. HAD THE RUSSIAN ARMY BEEN +AND IRRITATION, THOUGH CONTROLLEDLY CALM AS A MAN IS AT THE APPROACH OF +“AND I SHOULD BE ASHAMED TO WRITE TO BORíS. I’M NOT GOING TO.” +“AND I SHOULD SO LIKE TO THANK UNCLE ONCE FOR ALL HIS KINDNESS TO ME +AND IS IT WORTH TORMENTING ONESELF, WHEN ONE HAS ONLY A MOMENT OF LIFE +AND IS NOTHING UNWORTHY OF YOU, BUT IT WILL COMFORT ME. PROMISE, +“AND I TELL YOU, DON’T YOU DAHE TO DO IT!” SHOUTED DENíSOV, +“AND I TELL YOU, ROSTóV, THAT YOU MUST APOLOGIZE TO THE COLONEL!” +“AND IT MUST SEEM TO YOU,” SAID BORíS FLUSHING SLIGHTLY, BUT NOT +AND IVY, WITH A GLEAM OF WHITE SHOULDERS, GLOSSY HAIR, AND SPARKLING +“AND I WAS LOOKING FOR YOU,” SAID NATáSHA RUNNING OUT TO HIM. “I +“AND I WILL TELL YOU THIS,” PRINCE ANDREW INTERRUPTED IN A TONE OF +AND I WON’T ALLOW IT TO BE SAID!” +AND JULIE WERE SAYING TO ONE ANOTHER. THE GOVERNESS KEPT LOOKING ROUND +AND KáMENSKI THE LATTER WAS PREFERRED. THE GENERAL COMES TO US, +AND KINDS OF DESSERT, IN ORDER TO SEND A FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE DINNER +AND KISSED HER. +AND KISSING HER, AND THEN HE LEFT THE ROOM WITH RAPID STEPS. +AND KUTúZOV SMILED IN A WAY THAT SEEMED TO SAY, “YOU ARE QUITE AT +AND LEAVING LARGE SUMS OF MONEY WITH THEM FOR ALMS, WENT AWAY TO HIS +AND LEGS ALWAYS FELL INTO UNNATURAL POSITIONS. +AND LET US TALK SENSIBLY WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME, BE IT A DAY OR BE IT +AND LIFTED IT TO HIS LIPS, THREW BACK HIS HEAD, AND RAISED HIS FREE HAND +AND LIGHT, JOYOUS STEPS. AT THE VISITORS’ REQUEST THE YOUNG PEOPLE +AND LIKE A PRACTICAL PETERSBURG LADY WHO KNOWS HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF +AND LIKE HIM. WRITE AND TELL ME HOW HE RECEIVES YOU. IF HE IS ALL +“AND LISE, YOUR WIFE?” +AND LITTERED WITH CARDS. ONE TORMENTING IMPRESSION DID NOT LEAVE HIM: +AND LITTLE TABLES. DURING BALLS GIVEN AT THE HOUSE PIERRE, WHO DID NOT +AND LOOKED AT HER IN SUCH A WAY THAT NOT ONLY COULD SHE NOT BEAR HIS +AND LOOKED AT HIM CLOSELY. +AND LOOKING CARELESSLY ABOUT HIM. +AND LOOKS OF THOSE WHO HAD SEEN THEM TOGETHER. HE RECALLED ANNA +“AND LOVE OF ONE’S NEIGHBOR, AND SELF-SACRIFICE?” BEGAN PIERRE. +AND MAJESTIC VOICE THAT WAS YET SO SIMPLE! AND AS IF IN ACCORD WITH +AND MAKING A WIDE SWEEP WITH HIS ARM, AMID A THUNDER OF APPLAUSE AND +AND MAKING PENCIL NOTES ON THEM, AND FOR THE FIRST TWO OR THREE MINUTES +“AND MAMMA PRESSED HER!” SAID NICHOLAS REPROACHFULLY. +AND MARTINISTS, EVEN IN NOVíKOV’S TIME. FOR A LONG WHILE AFTER HE HAD +“AND ME, KISS ME!” +AND MERRY FACES. IT WAS NATáSHA, SóNYA, AND PéTYA, WHO HAD COME TO +“AND ME? WOULD YOU LIKE TO KISS ME?” SHE WHISPERED ALMOST INAUDIBLY, +AND MINGLING WITH ONE ANOTHER. HE COULD ALSO, BY THE GLEAM OF BAYONETS +AND MIRTH THAT SHONE IN ALL THEIR FACES. EVIDENTLY IN THE BACK ROOMS, +AND MORE ATTRACTIVE. +AND MORE REGULARLY AND RAPIDLY, AND THE ACTION AT THE GOLDBACH STREAM +AND MOST ADVANTAGEOUS STYLE, LIKE A WELL-GARNISHED JOINT OF ROAST BEEF +AND MOVED ALONG THE RANKS SHOUTING. THE TRAIN DRIVERS AND ORDERLIES +AND MOVED TO THE RIGHT; FROM BEHIND IT, DISPERSING THE LAGGARDS, CAME +AND MURAT, HUMILIATED AND ANXIOUS TO EXPIATE HIS FAULT, HAD AT ONCE +AND MUSKETRY AHEAD OF HIM. THE FIRING GREW LOUDER AND LOUDER. +AND MY FATHER WAS MUCH AFFECTED BY IT. HE SAYS THE COUNT WAS THE LAST +AND MY LIFE, MY LIFE,” HE THOUGHT, “MUST BE RISKED?” +AND NATáSHA, IN THE LIGHT-BLUE DRESSES THEY HAD WORN AT THE THEATER, +AND NATáSHA KISSED HER BROTHER AND RAN AWAY. +AND NATáSHA ROSE AND WENT OUT OF THE ROOM ON TIPTOE, LIKE A BALLET +AND NEXT BALLS, ABOUT THEATRICALS, AND WHO WOULD MEET WHOM, AND WHEN AND +AND NICHOLAS AGAIN KISSED HER HAND. +AND NO CONNECTIONS. YET, THOUGH ANATOLE SPENT TENS OF THOUSANDS OF +AND NOT BECOME VEHEMENT, BUT ALMOST ALWAYS DID BECOME VEHEMENT, SCOLDED, +AND NOT IN THE HABIT OF RUNNING, TROTTED AWKWARDLY STUMBLING ON HIS +AND NOT ONLY AT THE SAME HOUR BUT AT THE SAME MINUTE. WITH THOSE ABOUT +AND NOT VALUE HER PURE AFFECTION AND DEVOTION TO ME?” SHE WENT UP +AND NOT WITH HIS EYES. +“AND NOW, IN TOKEN OF CANDOR, I ASK YOU TO REVEAL TO ME YOUR CHIEF +AND NOW THERE’S DóLOKHOV SITTING IN THE SNOW WITH A FORCED SMILE AND +AND OF COURSE NOT AS ‘EMPEROR,’ IT SEEMED TO ME IT SHOULD BE TO +AND OF GOOD FAMILY AND THAT’S ALL I WANT.” +AND ON ALL THEIR FACES HE RECOGNIZED THE SAME EAGERNESS THAT FILLED HIS +AND ONE BOOTED FOOT, HE ADVANCED, WHILE WILLARSKI HELD A SWORD TO HIS +AND ONE COULD HEAR THEIR DISTRESSING SCREAMS AND GROANS, SOMETIMES +AND ONLY TURNED AWAY HIS EYES WHEN THE AUSTRIAN CHIEF OF STAFF FINISHED + AND ON THE THRONE OUR TITUS SHIELD. +AND OPENED THE DOOR FOR HIM. +“AND OUR LITTLE TEA TABLE?” +“AND OUR SHARE?” ASKED THE PRINCESS SMILING IRONICALLY, AS IF +AND OUT OF THE BEDROOM GLANCED AT THE PRINCESS AND TURNED AWAY. SHE DID +AND OVERTOOK HIM. A SERGEANT OF THE BATTALION RAN UP AND TOOK THE FLAG +AND PAINFULLY FELT. MY FATHER TALKS OF NOTHING BUT MARCHES AND +AND PARTED SMILING, THE GERMAN RETURNING TO HIS COWSHED AND ROSTóV +AND PARTICULARLY AMIABLE SMILE. +AND PART WERE LEAVING THESE PRATZEN HEIGHTS WHICH HE INTENDED TO ATTACK +AND PAUSED FACING HER AT THE FOOT OF THE SOFA ON WHICH SHE WAS LYING. +AND PIERRE, ANXIOUSLY TRYING TO REMEMBER WHETHER HE HAD DONE ANYTHING +AND PRESSED HIM AGAINST THE RAILINGS, AND ALL HE COULD DO WAS TO SMILE. +AND, PRESSING PIERRE’S HAND, HE WENT OUT. +AND PRINCE ANDREW AFTER GIVING DIRECTIONS ABOUT HIS DEPARTURE WENT TO +AND PRINCE ANDREW, WITH OTHERS FATALLY WOUNDED, WAS LEFT TO THE CARE OF +AND PRINCE DOLGORúKOV RAPIDLY BUT INDISTINCTLY EXPLAINED WEYROTHER’S +AND PRINCESS MARY TRIED, BUT COULD NOT MANAGE, TO BE CORDIAL TO HER NEW +AND PROFLIGATE LIFE, THOUGH I DID NOT LIKE IT AND DID NOT WANT TO,” +AND PROMISED TO WRITE TO HIM AND GUIDE HIM IN HIS NEW ACTIVITY. +AND PROUDLY AROUND WHILE BAGRATIóN SPOKE TO HIS SON. +AND PROVE MY DEVOTION TO HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR AND TO RUSSIA!” +AND PUT THE MATTER BEFORE THE EMPEROR,” SAID PRINCESS ANNA +AND REALLY ANOTHER FRENCH SOLDIER, TRAILING HIS MUSKET, RAN UP TO +AND REALLY HE ONLY RAN A FEW STEPS ALONE. ONE SOLDIER MOVED AND THEN +AND REFINED EXPRESSION ON THE FACES OF THOSE PRESENT HE WAS ALWAYS +AND REGARDED AS THE KEY TO THE POSITION. HE SAW OVER THE MIST THAT IN +AND RELATIONS HAD BEEN GIVEN TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE FATE OF THE YOUNG +AND REMAINED SO FOR SOME MINUTES. PITEOUS, HELPLESS, ANIMAL MOANS CAME +AND REPLACING THEIR PURSES AND POCKETBOOKS, ENTERED THE BALLROOM. FIRST +“ANDRé,” SAID HIS WIFE, ADDRESSING HER HUSBAND IN THE SAME +AND RESIGNATION TO THE WILL OF GOD. “IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THESE +AND RESPECT AS FEW HARDHEARTED MEN WOULD HAVE AROUSED. ALTHOUGH HE WAS +AND RESPECTFULLY THAT THE PRINCE GAVE HIM A SEARCHING GLANCE. +AND RETURNED A GLOVE PIERRE HAD DROPPED; THE DOCTORS BECAME RESPECTFULLY +ANDREW. +ANDREW. +ANDREW. +“ANDREW, ALREADY!” SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS, TURNING PALE AND +ANDREW, “AND AT ANNA PáVLOVNA’S THEY LISTEN TO ME. AND THAT STUPID +ANDREW APPARENTLY KNEW THIS AS WELL AS TíKHON; HE LOOKED AT HIS WATCH +ANDREW A RELIABLE CORRESPONDENT TO WHOM HE COULD POUR OUT THE BILE HE +ANDREW AS ONE OF THEMSELVES, AN HONOR THEY DID NOT EXTEND TO MANY. FROM +ANDREW. “BESIDES, IN THE ACTIONS OF A STATESMAN ONE HAS TO DISTINGUISH +ANDREW CAME UP, STROKED HER HAIR, AND ASKED IF SHE FELT RESTED AFTER +ANDREW DID NOT SPEAK; HE WAS BOTH PLEASED AND DISPLEASED THAT HIS FATHER +ANDREW DID NOT TELL HIS FATHER THAT HE WOULD NO DOUBT LIVE A LONG TIME +ANDREW? DON’T FORGET THAT SHE HAS GROWN UP AND BEEN EDUCATED IN +“ANDREW, DON’T!” SAID PRINCESS MARY. +ANDREW ENTERED THE PASSAGE. KUTúZOV HIMSELF, HE WAS TOLD, WAS IN THE +ANDREW FELT A PLEASANT SENSE OF REPOSE AMONG LUXURIOUS SURROUNDINGS SUCH +ANDREW FELT THAT SOMETHING GAVE WAY IN HIS SOUL AND THAT HE WAS GUILTY +ANDREW HAD ALREADY HEARD FROM HIS WIFE IN THE PRESENCE OF OTHERS SOME +ANDREW HAD GONE AND MADE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS IN HIS DIRECTION. FROM +ANDREW, “I AM ONLY SURPRISED AT YOUR OPINION OF BONAPARTE. YOU +“ANDREW, I BLESS YOU WITH THIS ICON AND YOU MUST PROMISE ME YOU WILL +ANDREW?’ I DID INDEED.” SHE LAUGHED. “HE IS SO WELL RECEIVED +“ANDREW, IF YOU HAD FAITH YOU WOULD HAVE TURNED TO GOD AND ASKED HIM +ANDREW IN HIS BOYHOOD, HELPED PIERRE OUT OF HIS CARRIAGE, SAID THAT THE +ANDREW... IS FATHER’S WAY OF TREATING RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS. I DON’T +ANDREW. “I WISH YOU GOOD LUCK AND SUCCESS, GENTLEMEN!” HE ADDED AND +ANDREW. “LOOK HERE, MY DEAR FELLOW, GET FROM KOZLóVSKI ALL THE +ANDREW MADE HIS WAY UP TO THE BATTERY FROM WHICH THE STAFF OFFICER HAD +ANDREW, PAYING NO MORE HEED TO THE GENERAL WHO RAN AFTER HIM IMPLORING +ANDREW READ THE SAME MILD REPROACH HE HAD READ ON THE FACE OF HIS DEAD +ANDREW...” SHE SAID TIMIDLY AFTER A MOMENT’S SILENCE, “I HAVE A +ANDREW SHOOK HIMSELF AS IF WAKING UP, AND HIS FACE ASSUMED THE LOOK IT +ANDREW SLOWLY, NOT TAKING HIS EYES OFF HIS WIFE. +ANDREW’S PRESENCE. HE WAS ASHAMED TO EXPRESS HIS NEW MASONIC VIEWS, +ANDREW STRUCK THE HIGH ROAD ALONG WHICH THE RUSSIAN ARMY WAS MOVING WITH +ANDREW, “THAT ALL THE ATROCITIES OF THE FRENCH ARMY (I NEARLY SAID OF +ANDREW, TOLD HOW BONAPARTE WISHING TO TEST MARKóV, OUR AMBASSADOR, +ANDREW WAS GALLOPING ALONG IN A POST CHAISE ENJOYING THE FEELINGS OF A +ANDREW WAS IN AND BORíS WAS SHOWN INTO A LARGE HALL PROBABLY FORMERLY +ANDREW WAS NATURAL AND PLEASANT. OTHERS, THE MAJORITY, DISLIKED HIM AND +ANDREW WENT OUT WITH HIM. +ANDREW, WHOM BORíS WAS EXPECTING, ENTERED THE ROOM. PRINCE ANDREW, WHO +AND ROSTóV GOT UP AND WENT WANDERING AMONG THE CAMPFIRES, DREAMING OF +AND RUNNING SO LIGHTLY, FRIGHTENED ROSTóV. HE SEIZED HIS PISTOL AND, +ANDRúSHA!...” SAID SHE, PUTTING HER HAND IN HER RETICULE BUT NOT YET +ANDRúSHA—THE SLENDER MISCHIEVOUS BOY WHO HAD BEEN HER PLAYFELLOW IN +AND SALT AND AN ICON OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL, ASKING PERMISSION, +AND SALT OF HOSPITALITY, AS, ACCORDING TO HIS UNDERSTANDING OF HIS +AND SAW THAT THE LAMP STOOD ON A BLACK TABLE ON WHICH LAY AN OPEN BOOK. +AND SAY, “I AM SO DELIGHTED... MAMMA’S HEALTH... AND COUNTESS +AND SAYING SOMETHING IN THEIR GYPSY ACCENTS. NICHOLAS UNDERSTOOD THAT IT +AND SCAPEGRACES OF PETERSBURG. +AND SCARCELY BREATHING, WATCHED FROM HER AMBUSH WITH SPARKLING EYES. +AND SCENTED MYSELF.” +AND, SCOWLING, HE GAVE NICHOLAS JUST SUCH A LOOK AS HE HAD GIVEN PIERRE +AND SECURED THEIR RELEASE BY HEAVY PAYMENTS. HE DID NOT KNOW THAT THE +AND SEEING HER SEVERE FACE SAID: “WELL, GOOD-BY, COUNTESS,” AND +AND SEEING THAT THE ELDER VISITOR WAS NOT LISTENING, HE TURNED TO THE +AND SEE THE STANDARD FLAPPING AGAINST ITS STAFF. +AND SEVERAL OTHER LESS NOTEWORTHY PERSONS. +AND SHE BEGAN TO CRY AGAIN BECAUSE HE HAD SUCH A NOBLE SOUL. +AND SHE FOUND THEM ON MY TABLE AND SAID SHE’D SHOW THEM TO MAMMA, AND +AND SHE SET OFF AT A RUN ALONG THE PASSAGE. +AND SHE’S EVEN IN MY WAY. YOU KNOW I ALWAYS WAS A SAVAGE, AND NOW AM +“AND SHE’S IN LOVE WITH BORíS ALREADY. JUST FANCY!” SAID THE +AND SHE SMILED HER ECSTATIC SMILE. +AND SHE WITH HIM, THAT THERE WAS QUITE A SCANDAL AND THAT THAT’S WHY +AND SHE WON’T SAY ANYTHING TO MAMMA. NICHOLAS WILL TELL HER HIMSELF, +“AND SHOULD NOT JUSTIFY YOUR CONFIDENCE AND THE HONOR YOU HAVE DONE +AND SHOUTED TO THE MUSICIANS TO PLAY FASTER. FASTER, FASTER, AND FASTER; +“AND SHOWED ME A LETTER IN WHICH THE PARADE OF THE FRENCH IN VIENNA +AND SHOWN SUCH UNAFFECTED FAMILIARITY IN INTERCOURSE WITH EVERYBODY BOTH +AND SHOW YOU WHAT KIND OF RIVET TO USE.” +AND SIGHING DISDAINFULLY, HE AGAIN CHANGED HIS POSITION. +AND SILENT WHEN THE TALK RELATED TO ANY TOPIC THAT HAD NO DIRECT BEARING +AND SILVER OF THE MEN’S EPAULETS; SERVANTS IN SCARLET LIVERIES MOVED +AND SIMPLY, “MR. SHíTOV—A MAN OF GREAT MERIT”—THIS OF THE MAN +AND SINFULNESS?” HE PAUSED AGAIN. “WHO ART THOU? THOU DREAMEST THAT +AND SIT. THIS MORNING I TURNED THEM ALL OUT AND NOW LOOK, IT’S FULL +AND SOCIAL TACT,” THOUGHT HE; “BEEN PROUD OF MY HOUSE, IN WHICH SHE +AND SOCIAL TOPICS WERE ENDED AND THE TIME HAD COME FOR INTIMATE +AND SO FURTHER INCREASED THE FAME OF THESE DANCES. WHAT DISTINGUISHED +“AND SO HE IS! QUITE BLIND!” +AND SOLEMN, AND AWAKENING IN THE MEN AN UNUSUAL CURIOSITY. ON THE DAY OF +AND SOMETIMES FLUNG THE EXERCISE BOOK AWAY. +AND SOMETIMES LAUGHED. NEAREST OF ALL TO THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF WALKED +AND SOMETIMES LIKE A LOG FLOATING DOWN THE RIVER, AN OFFICERS’ OR +AND SO SAID THE YOUTHS AND MAIDENS THEMSELVES AS THEY DANCED TILL THEY +AND SO SPARKLING THEIR EYES. SOMETIMES THE BEST OF THE PUPILS, OF WHOM +AND SO THE ANECDOTE ENDED. THOUGH IT WAS UNINTELLIGIBLE WHY HE HAD TOLD +“AND SO THEY ARE WRITING FROM POTSDAM ALREADY?” HE SAID, REPEATING +AND SOUGHT THE ACQUAINTANCE OF ONLY THOSE ABOVE HIM IN POSITION AND +“AND SO YOU HAD TO GO THROUGH THAT TOO!” +“AND SO YOU THINK NAPOLEON WILL MANAGE TO GET AN ARMY ACROSS?” ASKED +“AND SO YOU’VE HAD HIM EDUCATED ABROAD, PRINCE VASíLI, HAVEN’T +AND STILL FEWER MEN WOULD BE SO WELL ABLE AND WILLING TO MAKE UP OUT OF +AND STILL THE SAME AND IN THE SAME PLACE. NO, IT CAN’T BE! SURELY IT +AND STOOD, HANGING HER HEAD. +AND STOOD STILL IN THE DIM LIGHT BENEATH THE CURTAIN AS IF NOT WISHING +AND STOOPED GLASS IN HAND OVER THE INFANT. +AND STOPPED NEAR HIM. +AND STRANGE TO SAY NICHOLAS FELT THAT HE COULD NOT HELP TAKING UP A +AND STRENGTH. HE WAS CONTINUALLY TRAVELING THROUGH THE THREE PROVINCES +AND SUDDENLY, AS IF HE HAD STUDIED HER SUFFICIENTLY AND HAD FORMED A +AND SUDDENLY BEGAN TO CRY. +AND SUDDENLY DETERMINES TO SPEAK OUT. +AND SUDDENLY SEEMED TO GROW VERY MERRY. +AND SUDDENLY THE WHOLE WORLD CENTERED FOR HIM ON ANTICIPATION OF THE +AND SWALLOWED THE COLD SNOW, HIS LIPS QUIVERED BUT HIS EYES, STILL +AND, TAKING NATáSHA’S HAND, KISSED IT. +AND TAKING NESVíTSKI’S ARM HE LEFT ZHERKóV, WHO DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO +AND TEARS, TILL AT LAST SOMEBODY ELSE WAS ASKED TO READ IT.” +AND TEAR WHATEVER CAME TO HIS HAND. “WHY DID I TELL HER THAT ‘JE +“AND TELL MR. DóLOKHOV THAT I WON’T FORGET HIM—HE MAY BE QUITE +AND THAT DAREDEVIL AFTER HER!” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, WISHING TO SHOW +AND THAT HER HUSBAND WAS A CROSS LAID UPON HER BY GOD. PRINCE VASíLI +AND THAT IF A LETTER REACHED THE GRAND DUKE IN COMMAND OF THE GUARDS +“AND THAT OTHER ONE WITH HIM, THE AUSTRIAN, LOOKED AS IF HE WERE +AND THAT’S HOW IT IS WITH ME. À DEMAIN, MON CHER.” * +AND THAT THE RICHEST PEASANTS (WHO FORMED THE DEPUTATION) HAD BEGUN +AND THAT THE WHOLE ARMY HAD SURRENDERED AT ULM PROVED TO BE CORRECT. +“AND THAT WOULD BE SPLENDID,” SAID PIERRE. +AND THE ALLOWANCE TO THE THREE PRINCESSES; ABOUT 15,000 WAS GIVEN IN +AND THE BOYISH FACE ROSTóV, BREATHLESS WITH EXCITEMENT AND HOPE, WAS +AND THE BRILLIANCE OF THE BRIGHT SUNSHINE MERGED IN A SINGLE JOYOUS AND +AND THE BURNING OF AN ARM WITH A RULER AS A PROOF OF LOVE DID NOT SEEM +AND THE CANNON, UNDER THE HORSES’ HOOFS AND BETWEEN THE WAGON WHEELS, +AND THE COMMANDER, TURNING TO LOOK AT THE ADJUTANT, DIRECTED HIS JERKY +AND THE CONSEQUENT IMPOSSIBILITY OF A SPEEDY EMANCIPATION. +AND THE CONSTANT GLEAM OF HER WHITE TEETH, THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE IN A +AND THE CONVERSATION AGAIN TURNED ON THE WAR, ON BONAPARTE, AND THE +AND THE COUNT TURNED TO THE COOK, WHO, WITH A SHREWD AND RESPECTFUL +AND THE CRIMEAN ESTATE, IN ORDER TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE: ALL OF WHICH +AND THE DIFFICULT NAMES OF VILLAGES. WEYROTHER COMPLIED AND DOHKTúROV +AND THE DISGRACE OF HAVING LOST TWO GUNS AND YET REMAINING ALIVE PRESENT +AND THE DISTINGUISHED DIGNITARY WHO BORE THE TITLE OF “COLLECTOR +AND THE FEELING OF ENERGY WITH WHICH THE TROOPS HAD STARTED BEGAN TO +“AND THE FETE AT THE ENGLISH AMBASSADOR’S? TODAY IS WEDNESDAY. I +AND THE GENERAL IN WHITE, ACCOMPANIED BY THE SUITE, WALKED BETWEEN THE +AND THE GLORY THAT AWAITED HIM. +AND THE JINGLE OF THEIR WEAPONS AND SAW THEIR HORSES, THEIR FIGURES, AND +AND THE LATTER—UNCONSCIOUS THAT HE WAS BEING REFLECTED IN THE HUSSAR +AND THE MEN’S AT THE OTHER. +AND THE MUNCHING OF THE LIEUTENANT. +AND THEN AT THE OTHER. +AND THEN CALMLY AND SERIOUSLY SAT BACK IN HIS CHAIR. ANNA PáVLOVNA +AND THEN HE SUDDENLY STOPPED AND PERFORMED SOME NEW AND UNEXPECTED +“AND THEN OF COURSE MY FAMILY HAS ALSO TO BE CONSIDERED,” PRINCE +“AND THEN, OLD FELLOW, HE GIVES HIM ONE IN THE TEETH WITH THE BUTT +AND THEN TO CALL HIM OUT, RECKONING ON FéDYA NOT FIGHTING BECAUSE HE +AND THE OLD CAVALRY CAPTAIN, KíRSTEN, SHOUTED ENTHUSIASTICALLY AND NO +AND THE OLD COUNTESS WERE ESPECIALLY DISTURBED, AND TO A LESSER DEGREE +AND THE ORDERS HE GAVE THEM AND, TO HIS SURPRISE, FOUND THAT NO ORDERS +“AND THE OTHER ONE IS NOT HERE. THEY’VE BEEN TELLING TALES,” HE +AND THE OTHERS WHO DID NOT APPROVE OF THE PLAN OF ATTACK, WERE +AND THE OWNER OF THE MANLY VOICE, EVIDENTLY AN INFANTRY OFFICER, +AND THE PISTOLS LOADED, NESVíTSKI WENT UP TO PIERRE. +AND THE PRINCE BEGAN EXPLAINING ALL THE BLUNDERS WHICH, ACCORDING TO +“AND THE PRISONERS HE KILLED IN AFRICA? THAT WAS HORRIBLE!” SAID THE +AND THE RATTLING OF CARRIAGE WHEELS SEEMED TO FILL HIS EARS, AND NOW +AND THE READING OF THE LETTER BEGAN. AFTER A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF +“AND THERE HASN’T BEEN ANYONE IN THE ROOM EXCEPT THE LIEUTENANT AND +AND THERE IN THE COFFIN WAS THE SAME FACE, THOUGH WITH CLOSED EYES. +AND THERE IS NOTHING TO THANK ME FOR. NO ONE HAS EVER COMPLAINED YET OF +“AND THERE’S NOTHING FOR YOU TO SAY. I SHALL SPEAK TO HIM MYSELF,” +AND THERE TOO SAT THE MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY, AND PIERRE AND HéLèNE, +AND THE REWARDS SENT TO THE ARMY ARE INNUMERABLE. THOUGH HE IS A +AND THE SAME LOOK. IN THE MIDDLE OF A DULL AND HALTING CONVERSATION, +AND THE SECOND AIM, THAT OF PURIFYING AND REGENERATING HIMSELF, DID NOT +AND THE STAFF CAPTAIN ROSE AND TURNED AWAY FROM ROSTóV. +AND THE TALKATIVE DOLGORúKOV, TURNING NOW TO BORíS, NOW TO PRINCE +AND THE TRAMP OF HORSES’ HOOFS WERE HEARD. KUTúZOV AND HIS SUITE WERE +AND THE TRAVELER BECAME ABSORBED IN IT. PIERRE LOOKED AT HIM. ALL AT +AND THE TWO EMPERORS WERE LIVING WITH THEIR SUITES, HOUSEHOLDS, AND +AND THE TWO FRIENDS TOLD EACH OTHER OF THEIR DOINGS, THE ONE OF HIS +AND THE VISITORS TRY TO GUESS FROM THESE GLANCES WHO, OR WHAT, THEY ARE +AND THE WHOLE SECRET LIES IN THE TERRIBLE TRUTH THAT SHE IS A DEPRAVED +... AND THE WISH, WHICH CONSTITUTES THE EMPEROR’S SOLE AND ABSOLUTE +AND THEY AWOKE IN HIM ASTONISHMENT AT THE GENIUS OF HIS HERO, A FEELING +AND THEY DISAPPEARED INTO THE DARKNESS WITH THEIR LOAD. +“AND THEY SAID KUTúZOV WAS BLIND OF ONE EYE?” +“AND THIS IS GRATITUDE—THIS IS RECOGNITION FOR THOSE WHO HAVE +AND THIS “WELL!” SOUNDED COLDLY IRONIC, AS IF HE WERE SAYING: “NOW +AND THOUGHTFULLY SHAKING HIS HEAD. DID HE FEAR GOING TO THE WAR, OR WAS +AND THREE PAIRS OF GLOVES, AND THEN THE GRAND MASTER ADDRESSED HIM. HE +AND THREW THEM ROUND THE LITTLE GIRL WHO HAD RUN IN. +AND THRILL OF SUSPENSE USUAL AT SUCH MOMENTS. OUTSIDE THE HOUSE, BEYOND +AND TOOK HOLD OF THE COMMANDER’S STIRRUP, ALMOST LEANING AGAINST HIM. +AND TO PIERRE, GLANCING AT HIM AGAIN. +AND ‘TO SIBERIA!’” SAID BERG WITH A SAGACIOUS SMILE. “I KNEW I +AND TRIUMPH. +AND TWO OR THREE FRIENDS—YOU AMONG THEM—AND AS FOR THE REST I ONLY +AND UNEXPECTEDLY AGAIN BEGAN TO CRY. +AND UNREASONABLE THAN A LITTLE CHILD, WHO, PLAYING WITH THE PARTS OF A +AND UNTIL YOU HAVE CEASED TO LOVE THE WOMAN OF YOUR CHOICE AND HAVE SEEN +AND VIRTUE, AND THEREBY TRY WITH ALL OUR MIGHT TO COMBAT THE EVIL WHICH +AND VIRTUE THAN MERE WORDS. THIS CHAMBER WITH WHAT YOU SEE THEREIN +AND VOICES. THIS CLASS OF GUESTS AND MEMBERS SAT IN CERTAIN HABITUAL +AND WAIT FOR HER, SHE WENT SILENTLY TOWARD THE DOOR THAT EVERYONE WAS +AND, WALKING BACKWARDS BEFORE THE COMPANY, JERKED HIS SHOULDERS AND +AND WARMLY PRESSING HIS HAND LOOKED AFFECTIONATELY OVER HIS SPECTACLES +AND WAS A STRANGER THERE. IN HIS PERSON, HONOR WAS SHOWN TO A SIMPLE +AND WAS CROSSING HIMSELF WITH HIS RIGHT HAND, TURNING HIS EYES UPWARD +AND WAS GOING TO TUCK UP THE OTHER TROUSER LEG TO SAVE THIS STRANGER THE +AND WAS JUST PUTTING HIS QUESTION TO A SOLDIER WHEN HIS ATTENTION +AND WAS THEREFORE OUT OF SORTS, A STATE OF MIND WHICH WITH HER ALWAYS +AND WATCHED HIS OPPONENT’S FACE, EVIDENTLY THINKING ABOUT THE GAME AS +AND, WAVING HER THIN ARMS FROM UNDER THE WOOLEN SHAWL, CRIED: +AND WAY OF LIFE. +AND WELL INFORMED FOREGATHERED WHEN THE NEWS BEGAN TO ARRIVE IN +“AND WE, MY DEAR BOY! IT’S TERRIBLE! I WAS WRONG TO LAUGH AT MACK, +AND WENT IN AT THE OPEN DOOR. THERE WAS NO ONE IN THE ANTEROOM; EMPTY +AND WENT OUT. NATáSHA HAD PUT ON ONE SPURRED BOOT AND WAS JUST GETTING +AND WENT OUT OF THE CORRIDOR. +AND WENT TO THE DOOR. +“AND WHAT ABOUT HIS CHARACTER?” ASKED THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER. +“AND WHAT A WELL-PRESERVED MAN HE WAS!” REMARKED THE AIDE-DE-CAMP. +“AND WHAT DEVIL MADE ME GO TO THAT WAT?” (AN OFFICER NICKNAMED +“AND WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS LATEST COMEDY, THE CORONATION AT +AND, WHATEVER MAY HAPPEN TO HIM OR TO ME, SHALL NEVER CEASE TO LOVE HIM +“AND WHAT IS SHE SO PLEASED ABOUT?” THOUGHT NICHOLAS, LOOKING AT HIS +AND WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER IT BEYOND THE GRAVE! HOW HAPPY AND CALM I +AND WHEELS BEGAN TO REVOLVE FASTER AND FASTER, LEVERS AND COGWHEELS TO +“AND WHERE IS LISE?” HE ASKED, ANSWERING HER QUESTION ONLY BY A +AND WHERE TO SHOOT,” HE SAID WITH AN UNNATURALLY GENTLE SMILE. +AND WHICH HAD ALWAYS OPENED SO QUIETLY, BURST NOISILY OPEN AND BANGED +AND WHILE KUTúZOV WAS TURNING MANAGED TO MAKE A GRIMACE AND THEN ASSUME +“AND WHO ARE YOU?” CRIED THE OFFICER, TURNING ON HIM WITH TIPSY +“AND WHO HAS TOLD YOU WHAT IS BAD FOR ANOTHER MAN?” HE ASKED. +AND WHOM BORíS ADDRESSED TURNED ROUND CROSSLY AND TOLD HIM BOLKóNSKI +AND WHO WAS CALLED TIT. HE WAS SAYING, “TIT, I SAY, TIT!” +“AND WHO WILL INHERIT HIS WEALTH?” HE ADDED IN A WHISPER. +“AND WHY ARE CHILDREN BORN TO SUCH MEN AS YOU? IF YOU WERE NOT A +“AND WHY ARE THEY STOPPING? THERE’S NO PROPER ORDER!” SAID THE +“AND WHY DIDN’T YOU DO IT AT SEVEN IN THE MORNING? YOU OUGHT TO HAVE +“AND WHY DIDN’T YOU SIMPLY COME STRAIGHT TO ME AS TO A FRIEND? I +“AND WHY DO YOU SERVE?” +“AND WHY IS IT?” +“AND WHY THE DEUCE ARE WE GOING TO FIGHT BONAPARTE?” REMARKED +“AND WILL SHE SOON BE CONFINED?” AND SHAKING HIS HEAD REPROACHFULLY +AND WILL THEN INHERIT EVERYTHING UNDER THE WILL? AND IF THE WILL AND +AND WIPING THEIR FACES WITH THEIR CAMBRIC HANDKERCHIEFS. +AND WISHED HE COULD TELL WHAT, IF ANYTHING, THIS MAN WAS THINKING +AND WISH YOU TO HAVE AS GOOD AN OPINION OF ME. DON’T UPSET YOURSELF, +AND WITH A BOW TO THEM BOTH HE WENT OUT. +AND WITH A FURTIVE GLANCE AT HIS SON’S FACE, THE COUNT WENT OUT OF THE +AND WITH A HOOKED NOSE. THEN CAME TWO MORE, AND MANY MORE RUNNING +AND WITH BARITONE NOTES IN HIS VOICE, NEW TO BORíS, POINTING TO HIS OWN +AND WITH HIS HAND AT THE SALUTE RODE UP TO THE GENERAL. +AND WITHOUT AWAITING A REPLY, PRINCE ANDREW ROSE AND LEFT THE TABLE. +“AND WITHOUT HOLDING ON TO ANYTHING. IS THAT RIGHT?” +AND WITH THE FAMILIARITY AND EASY GRACE PECULIAR TO HIM, HE RAISED THE +AND WITH THIS OBJECT OFFERED A THREE DAYS’ TRUCE ON CONDITION THAT +AND WROTE A FEW WORDS ON A LARGE SHEET OF PAPER FOLDED IN FOUR). +AND YET BE HAPPY....” +AND YET LONG TO CROSS THAT LINE, AND KNOW THAT SOONER OR LATER IT MUST +AND YOU.” +“AND YOU? ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE LUNCH TOO? THEY FEED YOU QUITE +“AND YOU DIDN’T SEE THAT EVERYBODY IS PACKING UP?” +“AND YOU?” HE ASKED DóLOKHOV, BUT AS SOON AS HE HAD ASKED THE +AND YOU, MON COUSIN, SEEM TO CONSIDER ME A PERFECT FOOL,” SAID THE +AND YOUNG PEOPLE ARE RARELY CAPABLE OF IT. HIS HEARERS EXPECTED A STORY +AND YOUR CAPITAL!’ THE ONE GENERAL WHOM WE ALL LOVED, SCHMIDT, YOU +“AND YOU’RE STILL THE SAME DIPLOMATIST! BUT THAT’S NOT THE +“AND YOU TOO!” +“AND YOU WON’T FEEL ASHAMED TO WRITE TO HIM?” +A NEED TO ESCAPE FROM IT BY SOME STRANGE, AND USUALLY CRUEL, ACTION. +AN ENTREATY, A THREAT, AND ABOVE ALL CONVICTION THAT SHE WOULD HERSELF +AN EXCRUCIATING PAIN IN HIS ARM, FOR WHICH HE COULD FIND NO SATISFACTORY +AN EXEMPLARY OFFICER OF TWENTY-TWO YEARS’ SERVICE, WHO HAD NEVER BEEN +AN EXPLANATION, BUT MEETING THE LATTER’S IMPRESSIVE BUT MEANINGLESS +AN EXPRESSION OF PERPLEXITY, TURNED ROUND TO MILORáDOVICH AS IF SEEKING +AN EYE ON ME! VERY WELL THEN! GET ALONG WITH YOU!’ SO HE WRITES THE +ANGER AND WALKING UP TO THE REGIMENT WISHED TO FIND A FURTHER EXCUSE FOR +ANGERED THE COUNTESS WHEN IT WAS NOT PROPERLY CLEANED, TURNED AS LOOSELY +ANGER HE DID NOT CONDESCEND TO NOTICE, AND SAID: “I THINK YOU WERE +ANGLING, WHILE HIS GRANDSON, WITH SHIRT SLEEVES ROLLED UP, HANDLED THE +ANGRILY AND DISRESPECTFULLY AT KOZLóVSKI. +ANGRILY AT HIM. BONDARCHúK’S HORSE SWERVED AND GALLOPED PAST. +ANGRILY BLOWING HIS NOSE. HARDLY HAD PRINCE ANDREW GONE WHEN THE STUDY +ANGRILY, CAME IN AT THE OTHER DOOR. NATáSHA CHECKED HER FIRST IMPULSE +ANGRILY PULLING DOWN HIS TIGHT SCARF. +ANGRY—BUT I KNOW YOU WILL NOT MARRY HER. I KNOW, HEAVEN KNOWS HOW, BUT +ANGRY WITH ME FOR COMING? YOU HAVE CHANGED SO, ANDRúSHA,” SHE ADDED, +AN HOUR AND A HALF LATER MOST OF THE PLAYERS WERE BUT LITTLE INTERESTED +AN HOUR LATER, TíKHON CAME TO CALL PRINCESS MARY TO THE OLD PRINCE; +AN HOUR’S DELAY THEY AT LAST MOVED ON, DESCENDING THE HILL. THE FOG +“A NICE LITTLE HOT TORCH FOR THE INFANTRY! GOOD LUCK TO YOU, FELLOW +AN ILLEGITIMATE SON, AND PETTED AND EXTOLLED WHEN HE WAS THE BEST +ANIMAL. COUNT ILYá ROSTóV, LAUGHING AND REPEATING THE WORDS, “MAKE +ANIMAL WENT WHEN EXCITED. BENDING HIS FOAMING MUZZLE TO HIS CHEST, HIS +ANIMATED, AND HANDSOME, WITH HIS HAND BANDAGED. IN THE STUDY WERE FOUR +ANIMATION OF THE PAST OR THE FUTURE. IT WAS AS IF PRINCE ANDREW WOULD +AN IMMEDIATE ANSWER. PRINCE VASíLI HAD BROUGHT HIS SON WITH THE EVIDENT +AN INDESCRIBABLE CHARM OF SORROW AND SELF-FORGETFULNESS THAT HER FATHER +AN INN IN THE VILLAGE WHICH THE OFFICERS FREQUENTED. ROSTóV RODE UP TO +AN INSPECTION ANYWHERE IN THE HEART OF RUSSIA. +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA CAME OUT LAST. SHE APPROACHED PIERRE WITH SLOW, QUIET +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, IN A FEW WORDS, TOLD HER THE CONTENTS OF THE LETTER, +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA INSTANTLY GUESSED HER INTENTION AND STOOPED TO BE +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA LOOKED AT VéRA AND PAUSED. THE COUNTESS PRESSED HER +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA OPENED THE DOOR. HER FACE WORE THE PROUD EXPRESSION +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA PAUSED AND WAITED FOR HIM TO COME UP. +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA SAT DOWN BESIDE HIM, WITH HER OWN HANDKERCHIEF WIPED +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S FACE EXPRESSED A CONSCIOUSNESS THAT THE DECISIVE +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA SHOOK HER HEAD. +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA SIGHED DEEPLY. +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S WAS THE MOST DISTINCT. +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, THOUGH HER CIRCUMSTANCES HAD IMPROVED, WAS STILL +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA TOOK OFF HER GLOVES AND, OCCUPYING THE POSITION SHE +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA TURNED UP HER EYES, AND PROFOUND SADNESS WAS DEPICTED +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WAS ALREADY EMBRACING HER AND WEEPING. THE COUNTESS +ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, WHO ALWAYS KNEW EVERYTHING THAT PASSED IN THE HOUSE, + * ANNA PáVLOVNA. +ANNA PáVLOVNA ALMOST CLOSED HER EYES TO INDICATE THAT NEITHER SHE NOR +ANNA PáVLOVNA CONTINUED TO GIVE ON FREE EVENINGS THE SAME KIND OF +ANNA PáVLOVNA DISAPPROVED. +ANNA PáVLOVNA FROWNED. MORTEMART, HIPPOLYTE’S FRIEND, ADDRESSED HIM +ANNA PáVLOVNA GAVE HIM HER SHRIVELED HAND TO KISS AND INTRODUCED HIM TO +ANNA PáVLOVNA HAD ALREADY MANAGED TO SPEAK TO LISE ABOUT THE MATCH SHE +ANNA PáVLOVNA IN DISMAY DETAINED HIM WITH THE WORDS: “DO YOU KNOW THE +ANNA PáVLOVNA’S ALARM WAS JUSTIFIED, FOR PIERRE TURNED AWAY FROM THE +ANNA PáVLOVNA’S “AT HOME” WAS LIKE THE FORMER ONE, ONLY THE +ANNA PáVLOVNA’S DRAWING ROOM WAS GRADUALLY FILLING. THE HIGHEST +ANNA PáVLOVNA SMILED AND PROMISED TO TAKE PIERRE IN HAND. SHE KNEW HIS +ANNA PáVLOVNA’S RECEPTION WAS IN FULL SWING. THE SPINDLES HUMMED +ANNA PáVLOVNA’S SOIREE. THE MATTER WAS MENTIONED TO THE EMPEROR, AN +ANNA PáVLOVNA’S TWO YEARS BEFORE. THERE WERE ALSO PRESENT A VERY +“ANNETTE, FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE DON’T REFUSE ME,” THE COUNTESS +ANNOUNCE HIM, BUT, CHANGING HIS MIND, CAME BACK AND STOOPED TO KISS THE +ANNOYANCE. “GOOD LUCK TO YOU!” +AN OATH OF FIDELITY TO THE LAWS OF THE ORDER. THE CANDLES WERE THEN +AN OLD FRIEND. +AN OLD POWDERED MANSERVANT WHO WAS SITTING IN THE ANTECHAMBER ROSE +AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS HIS DOUBTS. +AN ORDERLY, OR A TOWNSMAN WAS CARRIED THROUGH THE WAVES OF INFANTRY; +AN ORDERLY’S CHARGE, AND HE FELT THE BLOOD RUSH TO HIS HEART WITH +“AN ORDER TO WHO?” ASKED THE COLONEL MOROSELY. +ANOTHER. +ANOTHER.” +ANOTHER—A CHILDLIKE, KINDLY, EVEN RATHER SILLY LOOK, WHICH SEEMED TO +ANOTHER. ALL BECAME SILENT AND TURNED TO LOOK AT THE PALE TEAR-WORN ANNA +ANOTHER AND SOON THE WHOLE BATTALION RAN FORWARD SHOUTING “HURRAH!” +ANOTHER, A YOUNGER VOICE, INTERRUPTED HIM: “AFRAID OR NOT, YOU CAN’T +ANOTHER CANDLE. STILL LOWER, BEYOND THE TURN OF THE STAIRCASE, ONE +ANOTHER COMPANY, A LUCKY ONE FOR NOT ALL THE COMPANIES HAD VODKA, +ANOTHER, DYING, STEPPING OVER THE DYING AND KILLING ONE ANOTHER, ONLY TO +ANOTHER FIVE DAYS PASSED, AND THEN THE YOUNG PRINCE NICHOLAS ANDRéEVICH +ANOTHER GROUP. +ANOTHER GROUP WAS AT THE TEA TABLE. PIERRE WISHED TO JOIN THE FORMER, +ANOTHER, HARDLY ABLE TO SUPPRESS THEIR LAUGHTER. +ANOTHER HUSSAR ALSO RUSHED TOWARD THE HORSE, BUT BONDARéNKO HAD ALREADY +“ANOTHER ISMAIL COMRADE,” SAID HE. “A BRAVE OFFICER! ARE YOU +ANOTHER, MORE IMPORTANT, SUBORDINATION, WHICH MADE THIS TIGHT-LACED, +ANOTHER OF THE PRECEPTS—THAT OF REFORMING THE HUMAN RACE—AND HAD +ANOTHER PIE BUT FELT SHY, AND THEREFORE PRETENDED TO BE EXAMINING THE +ANOTHER’S FACES AND SPEAK TO ONE ANOTHER. BESIDES THE SOLDIERS WHO +ANOTHER, THE RED, STOUT NESVíTSKI, LAY ON A BED WITH HIS ARMS UNDER HIS +ANOTHER, THEY ALL GAVE, AND TRANSMITTED, ORDERS AS TO HOW TO PROCEED, +ANOTHER TIME HE INTERRUPTED, SAYING: +ANOTHER TWO MINUTES AND IT IS CERTAIN DEATH,” THOUGHT EACH ONE. +ANOTHER VOICE, FROM A MAN OF MEDIUM HEIGHT WITH CLEAR BLUE EYES, +ANOTHER WHO WISHED TO GET AWAY. WITH HIS HEAD BENT, AND HIS BIG FEET +AN OUTSIDER IS OUT OF PLACE HERE.... NO, DON’T DISTRESS YOURSELF.... +ANSWER. AT LAST HE MOVED UP TO PIERRE AND, TAKING THE KERCHIEF THAT LAY +ANSWERED.” +ANSWERED HER, AS HE HAD THE COUNTESS, ONLY IN MONOSYLLABLES. THE OTHER +ANSWERED HIM EITHER BY A BRIEF BUT APPROPRIATE REMARK—SHOWING THAT IT +ANSWERED LAVRúSHKA. “I KNOW BY NOW, IF HE WINS HE COMES BACK EARLY TO +ANSWERED PIERRE, TRYING TO REMEMBER WHO THIS YOUNG MAN WAS. +ANSWERED THE GENERAL. +ANSWERED THE SOLDIER. PRINCE ANDREW TOOK OUT HIS PURSE AND GAVE THE +ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS, AS WAS ONLY TOO EVIDENT, DID NOT INTEREST +ANSWER THAN THE ONE PRINCE ANDREW GAVE TO THIS NAïVE QUESTION. +ANSWER THAT VOICE AND WENT ON DREAMING OF HIS TRIUMPHS. THE DISPOSITIONS +ANTECHAMBER EXPERIENCED THE SAME FEELING OF RESPECT AND EVEN FEAR WHEN +ANTEROOM WITH HIM. +ANTICHRIST—I REALLY BELIEVE HE IS ANTICHRIST—I WILL HAVE NOTHING +ANTóNOV.” +AN UNEXPECTED AND TENDERLY PATERNAL WAY. +ANY CLEVER CONVERSATION THAT WAS TO BE HEARD. SEEING THE SELF-CONFIDENT +ANY MOMENT.) +ANY MOMENT THE EMPEROR MAY SEE THEM.... BUT NO, THESE MUST BE ONLY A +“ANY NEWS FROM MACK?” +ANYONE, AND SO YOU DON’T DESERVE TO HAVE THEM.” +ANYONE, BUT YOU KNOW IT YOURSELF.” +ANYONE ELSE DOES THE SAME, I WILL PAY HIM A HUNDRED IMPERIALS. DO YOU +ANYONE ELSE HAD A RIGHT TO CRITICIZE WHAT THE EMPRESS DESIRED OR WAS +ANYONE FLOGGED OR SENT TO SIBERIA—AND STILL LESS FOR YOUR SERFS. IF +ANYONE IF HE IS IN DISFAVOR. NOW COME HERE.” +ANYONE IN PARTICULAR, BEGAN TO SAY HOW DIFFICULT IT WAS TO CARRY OUT +ANYONE. THEY WISHED TO ADMINISTER THE SACRAMENT OF UNCTION.” +ANYONE WHO WANTED TO SEE HIM COULD COME THE HUNDRED MILES FROM MOSCOW TO +ANY THE WORSE OFF. IN SIBERIA THEY LEAD THE SAME ANIMAL LIFE, AND THE +ANYTHING, BUT WAS ONLY CONSCIOUS OF HER STERN FATHER’S WITHERED FACE +ANYTHING, DóLOKHOV, LOOKING STRAIGHT IN HIS FACE, SAID SLOWLY AND +ANYTHING. DO YOU KNOW I HAVE SENT FOR PIERRE? THE COUNT,” POINTING TO +ANYTHING ELSE.... YOU HAVE NOT BEEN ORDERED TO RETURN AND HAVE NOT BEEN +ANYTHING, EXCEPT ONLY FOR PERMISSION, AFTER THE BLOW SHE HAD RECEIVED, +ANYTHING FOR HIS HAPPINESS! AND MY AFFAIRS ARE IN SUCH A BAD WAY THAT MY +ANYTHING. HERE IS A LETTER TO PRINCE VASíLI, AND HERE IS MONEY. WRITE +ANYTHING. IF IT BE GOD’S WILL TO PROVE THEE IN THE DUTIES OF MARRIAGE, +ANYTHING LIKE IT. SHE BELIEVED IT COULD BE, BUT DID NOT UNDERSTAND IT. +ANYTHING MIGHT HAPPEN, ONLY NOT THAT. +ANYTHING TO SAY, SAY IT. THESE TWO THINGS CAN BE DONE TOGETHER,” HE +ANYTHING, WHEN SUDDENLY THE WELL-KNOWN WHISPERING OF MADEMOISELLE +ANYTHING WRONG IN MY BEHAVIOR. BUT I’LL JUST TELL MAMMA HOW YOU ARE +ANY WOMEN—COUNTESSES OR COOKS—WHO WERE NOT VENAL. I HAVE NOT YET MET +APART FROM MYSELF.” +A PARTICULAR GLAMOUR AND GLAD KEENNESS OF IMPRESSION TO EVERYTHING THAT +APARTMENTS ASSIGNED TO PRINCE VASíLI. +A PARTNER, AND THE OLD MEN BEGAN SMILINGLY TO TALK ABOUT POLAND AND THE +A PEG ON WHICH TO HANG THE PRINCE’S FAVORITE TOPIC, HE LOOKED +A PLAN OF MARRIAGE FOR YOU. IT IS NEITHER MORE NOR LESS THAN WITH PRINCE +A POLICEMAN AND THE BEAR BACK TO BACK AND PUT THE BEAR INTO THE MOYKA +APOLOGIZE.” +APOLOGIZE TO AN OLD AND HONORABLE OFFICER? WHATEVER BOGDáNICH MAY +APOLOGIZING FOR THE STATE OF HIS GUN. +A PORTRAIT SO CHARACTERISTIC OF THE ORIGINAL AS TO BE AMUSING. +APPARENTLY IMMERSED IN HIS OWN THOUGHTS. +APPARENTLY SHE HAD FORGOTTEN HER AGE AND BY FORCE OF HABIT EMPLOYED +APPARENTLY SUFFERING MORE THAN THE DYING SOLDIER, AND HE RODE AWAY. +APPARENTLY THE SIGHT OF THEM ROUSED NO PLEASANT FEELING IN VéRA. +APPEAR AS IF HE DID NOT WANT ANY OF THAT WINE, BUT WAS MORTIFIED BECAUSE +APPEARED. +APPEARED A STUPID SMILE OF GLEE WHICH HE SEEMED UNABLE TO SUPPRESS. +APPEARED FROM BEHIND HIS COMPANY AND, THOUGH HE WAS A MIDDLE-AGED MAN +APPEARED. HE WOULD CARRY HER AWAY AND THEN SA PAUVRE MèRE WOULD APPEAR +APPEARED IN THE DOORWAY. THE GENERAL WITH THE BANDAGED HEAD BENT FORWARD +APPEARED ON HIS NOSE, THE REDNESS OF WHICH WAS EVIDENTLY DUE TO +APPEARED PUNCTUALLY TO THE APPOINTED HOUR. EVERYONE SITTING IN THIS +APPEARED, QUITE OUT OF KEEPING WITH HIS FEATURES, THAT SEEMED TO DERIDE +APPEARED SHY OF HER UNQUESTIONABLE AND ALL TOO VICTORIOUS BEAUTY. SHE +APPEARED THAT THEY HAD WORN WHEN UNDER FIRE. ROSTóV WATCHED HIS ENEMY, +APPEARED, THEN A SECOND AND A THIRD ALMOST SIMULTANEOUSLY, AND AT THE +APPEARED TO HIM IN A DREAM: HIS MOTHER AND HER LARGE WHITE HAND, +APPEARING ON THE SKYLINE, WHICH THEY KNEW TO BE THE ENEMY’S TROOPS. +APPLE, ALSO HALF SMILING AS HE LOOKED AT THE HANDSOME GIRL. +APPOINTMENT TO LONDON WAS A PROMOTION AND THAT HE WAS SO TO REGARD IT. +APPRECIATE AT A GLANCE HER SUPERIORITY TO THE PLAIN, BADLY DRESSED, +APPRECIATION OF THE VICOMTE’S EPIGRAM, PIERRE AGAIN BROKE INTO THE +APPROACH, BUT EVEN IN THIS ROOM THERE NOW STOOD AN EMPTY BATH, AND WATER +APPROACHED. +APPROACHED FIRST, EXPERIENCED THE SAME FEELING AS EVERY OTHER MAN IN +APPROACHED KUTúZOV. OF KUTúZOV’S SUITE ONLY FOUR REMAINED. THEY WERE +APPROACHED THE DOOR OF THE MINISTER’S ROOM. HE FELT OFFENDED, AND +APPROACHING. AND AT THAT MOMENT, THOUGH THE DAY WAS STILL, A LIGHT GUST +APPROACHING DEPARTURE DID NOT PREVENT HIS AMUSING HIMSELF, BUT RATHER +APPROACHING ENEMY FARTHER OFF. AT THE SAME INSTANT THE SUN CAME FULLY +APRáKSINA...” AND THEN, AGAIN RUSTLING, PASS INTO THE ANTEROOM, PUT +APRáKSINS’ I HEARD A LADY ASKING, ‘IS THAT THE FAMOUS PRINCE +APRONS LIKE THE RHETOR’S AND HOLDING SWORDS IN THEIR HANDS POINTED AT +APRON, SUCH AS THE OTHERS WORE, WAS PUT ON HIM: HE WAS GIVEN A TROWEL +APRON UNDER THE LEATHER HOOD OF THE VEHICLE. PRINCE ANDREW RODE UP +APRON, WHICH SYMBOLIZED STRENGTH AND PURITY; THEN OF THE UNEXPLAINED +À PROPOS OF MARRIAGES: DO YOU KNOW THAT A WHILE AGO THAT UNIVERSAL +A QUITE UNEXPECTED, CHANCE OF SAVING THE ARMY. ON RECEIVING THE NEWS +A RAGE) AND CALLED FOR THE COMPANY COMMANDER. +ARCHDUCHESS ALSO WISHED TO SEE HIM. HE DID NOT KNOW WHOM TO ANSWER, AND +ARCHDUKE, INSPECTED THE ALLIED ARMY OF EIGHTY THOUSAND MEN. +ARCHDUKE’S AS GOOD AS ANOTHER, AS YOU KNOW) AND EVEN IF IT IS ONLY +ARCHITECT NOT TO GO TO THE PRINCE WITH HIS REPORT. +ARCHITECT’S ATTENTION TO THE SOUND OF THE PRINCE’S FOOTSTEPS. +ARE ALL STUPID; BUT I KNOW THIS: AN ILLEGITIMATE SON CANNOT INHERIT... +A REAL ONE, BUT THAT THEY WOULD TALK OF THAT LATER. PRINCESS MARY WAS +ARE—AT THE HEART OF AFFAIRS AND OF THE WORLD—IS THE TALK ALL OF +ARE BEING DECEIVED, MY INSTINCT TELLS ME OF NEGOTIATIONS WITH FRANCE AND +ARE CHILDWEN OF THE DUST... BUT ONE FALLS IN LOVE AND ONE IS A GOD, ONE +ARE CLEVER, YOU ARE WELL EDUCATED. AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH ALL THESE +ARE DISTRIBUTED. WHY HAS FATE GIVEN YOU TWO SUCH SPLENDID CHILDREN? +ARE HERE?” +ARE MANY STORIES OF HIS GETTING TO KNOW AN OFFICER IN JUST SUCH A CHANCE +ARE, MONSIEUR PIERRE!” +ARE NOT MANY LEFT OF US OLD FRIENDS! THAT’S WHY I SO VALUE YOUR +ARE NOW TWO RUSSIANS, MILORáDOVICH, AND DOKHTúROV, AND THERE WOULD BE +A REPLY UNNECESSARY. SHE SMILINGLY WAITED. ALL THE TIME THE STORY WAS +A REPROACH TO EVERYONE. NOW TELL ME, COUNT, WAS IT RIGHT, WAS IT +ARE TAKEN TO THE FIELD MARSHAL’S ROOM, FOR HE LIKES TO DO EVERYTHING +ARE THE FRENCH!’ MURAT, SEEING THAT ALL IS LOST IF THE SERGEANT IS +ARE THERE,” SAID THE OFFICER, POINTING TO THE VILLAGE OF HOSJERADEK, +ARE THEY DOING? WHAT ARE THEY DOING?” HE MURMURED TO HIMSELF, STILL +ARE VERY PALE!” SAID PRINCESS MARY IN ALARM, RUNNING WITH HER SOFT, +ARE WE TO FIND SUVóROVS NOW? JE VOUS DEMANDE UN PEU,” *(4) SAID HE, +ARE WITHIN SIGHT OF THE ENEMY AND HE WISHES TO PROFIT BY THE OPPORTUNITY +ARE WRAPPED UP IN YOU, AND THAT IN SPITE OF THE DISTANCE SEPARATING US +ARE YOU DUMB?’ HE SHOUTED. STILL I REMAINED SILENT. AND WHAT DO YOU +“ARE YOU GOING TO COUNT CYRIL VLADíMIROVICH, MY DEAR?” SAID THE +“ARE YOU LIVING WITH YOUR MOTHER?” +“ARE YOU MAD? YOU HAVE TWICE BEEN ORDERED TO RETREAT, AND YOU...” +ARE YOUNG AND I AM OLD. I SHOULD LIKE TO HELP YOU AS FAR AS LIES IN MY +“ARE YOU NOT ASHAMED TO DEPRIVE US OF YOUR CHARMING WIFE?” +“ARE YOU READY?” HE ASKED HIS WIFE, LOOKING PAST HER. + A RHIPHEUS AT HOME, A CAESAR IN THE FIELD! +A RING, HE MADE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS OVER HIM WITH A GESTURE EVIDENTLY +ARITHMETIC, WHEN RISING FROM HIS CHAIR HE WOULD WALK AWAY FROM HER, +ARKHáROVS; THEY HAVE A PARTY.” +ARM. HE BEGAN TO LAUGH. +ARMS AND THE HOPE OF FUTURE TRIUMPH. AND HE WAS NOT THE ONLY MAN TO +ARM’S LENGTH, APPARENTLY AFRAID OF SHOOTING HIMSELF WITH IT. HIS LEFT +ARMS ON THE TABLE AND BEGAN TO READ. AFTER READING A FEW LINES, HE +ARM WAVERED STILL MORE WITH THE STRAIN. ONE HAND MOVED AS IF TO CLUTCH +ARMY, AND EVEN NAPOLEON HIMSELF WITH HIS STAFF, WERE NOT ON THE FAR SIDE +ARMY, AND IN THE NIGHT FROM THE NINETEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH, THE WHOLE +ARMY, AND THE MEMBER OF THE HOFKRIEGSRATH WHO HAD ARRIVED THE PREVIOUS +ARMY’S CAMPFIRES DIMLY GLOWING IN THE FOG, COULD BE SEEN BEHIND HIM; +ARMY WAS VERY FAVORABLE. +ARMY.... YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO SEIZE ITS BAGGAGE AND ARTILLERY. +ARMY. YOU HAVE BROUGHT YOUR ARMY CORPS TO PULTúSK, ROUTED: HERE IT IS +(“ARNAUTS” WAS THE TSARéVICH’S FAVORITE EXPRESSION WHEN HE WAS IN +AROUND HIM. AN INFANTRYMAN CAME TO THE FIRE, SQUATTED ON HIS HEELS, HELD +AROUND THEM CANNON BALLS WERE FLYING, OF WHICH HE WAS AWARE NOT SO +AROUSED HIM. HE STARTED AND OPENED HIS EYES. +ARRANGED AND HOW NICE IT ALL WAS? THERE’S UNCLE SHINSHíN’S BROTHER +ARRANGEMENT OF THE FESTIVAL IN HONOR OF BAGRATIóN, FOR FEW MEN KNEW +ARRANGEMENTS OF THE HOUSE, HE INTERRUPTED HIMSELF: +ARRANGEMENTS TO THE MINUTEST DETAIL REMAIN THE SAME.” +ARRANGING A DINNER IN HONOR OF PRINCE BAGRATIóN AT THE ENGLISH CLUB. +ARRIVAL OF YOUNG PRINCE ANDREW AND HIS WIFE WAS DAILY EXPECTED, BUT +ARRIVAL, THOUGHT IN ANOTHER WAY. OF COURSE, SHE, A HANDSOME YOUNG WOMAN +ARRIVED FROM RUSSIA. WITH THIS OBJECT HE INTENDED TO MEET THE REGIMENT; +ARTILLERY COMPANY, A HEAD AND SHOULDERS TALLER AND TWICE AS BROAD +ARTILLERYMAN TO PRINCE ANDREW. “NOT LIKE YOUR HONOR!” +ARTILLERYMAN, WIPING AWAY THE BLOOD WITH HIS COAT SLEEVE, AS IF +ARTILLERYMEN, SOME OF WHOM WERE FIGHTING, WHILE OTHERS, HAVING ABANDONED +ARTILLERYMEN, TúSHIN, AND THE CADET EXCHANGED SILENT GLANCES AS THEY +ARTILLERY SENTRY WAS PACING UP AND DOWN; HE STOOD AT ATTENTION WHEN THE +ARTLESS SMILE, SHE HAD MET HIM IN SECLUDED PASSAGES. +A RULE TO SPEAK OUT... WELL, WHAT ANSWER AM I TO TAKE? WILL YOU COME TO +A RUSTLE OF STARCHED PETTICOATS AND THE WHISPERING AND LAUGHTER OF +AS A CHILD, THERE WAS NO LONGER IN HER SINGING THAT COMICAL, CHILDISH, +AS A DENSE CLOUD OF SMOKE AROSE FROM IT. THE HUSSARS HAD SUCCEEDED IN +AS A FRENCHMAN WOULD SPEAK AFTER SPENDING ABOUT A YEAR IN RUSSIA. +AS A FRIEND THAT FREES THE SOUL GROWN WEARY IN THE LABORS OF VIRTUE +AS ALWAYS HAPPENS WHEN WOMEN LEAD LONELY LIVES FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME +AS A MAN RECENTLY RETURNED FROM ABROAD, IN A POLITICAL CONVERSATION IN +AS A MARK OF THEIR GRATITUDE FOR THE BENEFITS HE HAD CONFERRED ON THEM, +AS A PETITIONER ON BEHALF OF THIS YOUNG MAN. YOU SEE...” BUT +AS A TRUE HUSSAR IN THIS BATTLE, HAD BEEN WASTED. THEIR SQUADRON +AS AUTHOR OF THE MILITARY PLAN, ARGUED THAT BONAPARTE MIGHT EASILY +AS A VERANDA. +AS BORíS. “COUNT! I AM WOUNDED IN MY RIGHT HAND” (AND HE SHOWED HIS +ASCENDED THE CARPETED STAIRS. +A SCHOOLBOY WHO IS TOLD TO REPEAT A LESSON HE HAS NOT LEARNED. SPOTS +AS CLEAR AS DAY, AND CAN GO SO FAR ASTRAY. THAT IS THE ONLY THING +AS ELSEWHERE, HE WAS SURROUNDED BY AN ATMOSPHERE OF SUBSERVIENCE TO +A SENSE OF DISGUST THE MINUTEST DETAILS OF THIS HUMILIATING SCENE HE +A SERVANT. FROM THERE THEY PASSED INTO ANOTHER ROOM. A MAN IN STRANGE +A SEVENTY-POUND WEIGHT WERE TIED TO IT. HE COULD RUN NO MORE. THE +AS EVER. A SOLITARY TALLOW CANDLE BURNED IN THE ANTEROOM. +AS FAR AS MOSCOW AND TO STAY WITH HIM THERE. MEETING A COMRADE AT +“AS FAR AS THE SERVICE GOES HE IS QUITE PUNCTILIOUS, YOUR EXCELLENCY; +ASHAMED; HE FELT THAT HE WAS OCCUPYING SOMEONE ELSE’S PLACE HERE +ASHAMED OF HIMSELF, HE SAID, AS IF MERELY ASKING HIS FATHER TO LET HIM +AS HE ALWAYS DID WHEN AT THE FRONT, SOLEMN AND STERN. THEN CAME THE WORD +AS HE APPROACHED, A RINGING SHOT ISSUED FROM IT DEAFENING HIM AND HIS +AS HE CLOSED HIS EYES HIS EARS SEEMED FILLED WITH THE RATTLE OF THE +AS HE EXPECTED HE WAS APPOINTED AN ADJUTANT TO THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF +AS HE FELT HIMSELF TO BE AT THAT MOMENT. HE WAS CONSCIOUS THAT HERE +AS HE HAD BEEN ACCUSTOMED TO FROM CHILDHOOD. BESIDES IT WAS PLEASANT, +AS HE LAY BACK IN HIS ARMCHAIR, LOOKING IN ANOTHER DIRECTION. +AS HE LIKED, NOW IN PETERSBURG I HEAR HE HAS BEEN DOING SUCH TERRIBLE +A SHELL BURST IN THE MIDST OF THAT DENSE THRONG, KILLING SOME AND +AS HE RODE BY. +AS HE SAID THIS HE ROSE, WENT TO HIS SISTER, AND, STOOPING, KISSED +AS HE SAID THIS PRINCE ANDREW WAS LESS THAN EVER LIKE THAT BOLKóNSKI +AS HE SAT ON THE SLOPING LEDGE. AS HE BEGAN SLIPPING DOWN, HIS HEAD AND +AS HE WAS LEAVING THE BATTERY, FIRING WAS HEARD ON THE LEFT ALSO, AND +AS HE WOULD HAVE DONE TO A STRANGER. +AS HIS OWN. WHAT ALSO CONDUCED TO BAGRATIóN’S BEING SELECTED AS +A SHORT PAUSE, “BUT EVERYONE LIVES IN HIS OWN WAY. YOU LIVED FOR +A SHOT, AND OUR TROOPS COULD BE SEEN HURRYING TO THE CROSSING. +ASIDE AND TURNING SHARPLY AWAY; BUT RISING IMMEDIATELY, HE PACED UP AND +ASIDE WITH HIS ARM, SAID IN A BREATHLESS VOICE, +AS I DO NOT INTEND TO BE AT YOUR HOUSE AGAIN FOR REASONS YOU KNOW +AS IF ASTONISHED AT THE WORD. “WELL, YOU SEE, I’M BUILDING. I MEAN +AS IF AT TIMES THERE RADIATED FROM THEM SHAFTS OF WARM LIGHT)—WERE +AS IF CONTINUING A CONVERSATION THE SUBJECT OF WHICH HAD OFTEN BEEN +AS IF FLINGING SOMETHING TO THE GROUND, THE DRUMMER—A LEAN, HANDSOME +AS IF GUESSING WHAT IT WAS ABOUT. +AS IF HE FELT A LITTLE CONFUSED BEFORE HIS SON. “NOW, IF YOU WOULD +AS IF RUNNING A SWORD THROUGH AN INVISIBLE FOE, AND GLARING SAVAGELY +AS IF SHE HAD ASKED HIM TO DO IT. +AS IF SHE HAD TO GIVE SOME FINAL NECESSARY INSTRUCTIONS. +AS IF STIRRED TO HIS HEART’S CORE AND HIMSELF REGRETTING AND LAUGHING +AS IF TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER HIS FATHER’S HABITS HAD CHANGED SINCE HE +AS IF TO EXPLAIN SUCH A QUESTION. +AS IF TO REASSURE PRINCE ANDREW. +A SIGN OF APPROACHING ANGER. “I WAS FORGETTING... DO YOU WISH IT +AS IMPRACTICABLE, HE ARRANGED FOR THE ERECTION OF LARGE +A SIN, A GREAT SIN, IT IS HATRED OF THAT VILE WOMAN!” ALMOST SHRIEKED +AS IN A SPOILED CHILD, A CONTINUAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF HER CHARMING DEFECT, +AS I REMEMBER NIKóLENKA. HIM—I JUST SHUT MY EYES AND REMEMBER, +AS IS USUALLY THE CASE WITH PEOPLE MEETING AFTER A PROLONGED SEPARATION, +“AS IT FLIES PAST ME, DADDY, THE BALL I MEAN,” SAID A YOUNG SOLDIER +AS IT WAS TOO FAR TO THE LEFT FLANK FOR HIM TO HAVE TIME TO GO THERE +“AS I WAS SAYING TO YOU, ANDREW, BE KIND AND GENEROUS AS YOU ALWAYS +AS I WRITE? +ASK; BUT TO PROVE MY DEVOTION TO YOU AND HOW I RESPECT YOUR FATHER’S +ASKED AND ANSWERED AT THE SAME INSTANT. HE WAS ALONE IN THE MIDDLE OF A +ASKED HIM TO TELL THE EMPEROR. WHAT DO YOU THINK HE REPLIED? ‘BUT, MY +ASKED NATáSHA, SO SERIOUSLY AND EXCITEDLY THAT IT WAS EVIDENT THAT WHAT +ASKED ONE OF THE LADIES. +ASKED PERMISSION TO BE PRESENT AT THE BATTLE OUT OF CURIOSITY. THE +ASKED ROSTóV, WITH A CONTEMPTUOUS SMILE. +ASKED THE ITALIAN HOW HE STOOD RUSSIAN CLIMATE. THE ITALIAN’S +ASKED THE PRINCE’S PERMISSION TO RIDE ROUND THE POSITION TO SEE THE +ASKED THE SON. +ASKED. “THEY SAY OLD MAIDS HAVE A MANIA FOR MATCHMAKING, AND THOUGH I +ASKED TO GIVE UP ALL HE POSSESSED. +ASKED TO PLAY ON THE CLAVICHORD. ANATOLE, LAUGHING AND IN HIGH SPIRITS, +ASKED TO SEE THE PORTRAIT OF THE AUNT’S HUSBAND ON THE BOX LID. +ASKED WEYROTHER SEVERAL TIMES TO REPEAT WORDS HE HAD NOT CLEARLY HEARD +ASK FORGIVENESS. +ASK HIMSELF. IT WAS AS IF THE THREAD OF THE CHIEF SCREW WHICH HELD HIS +“ASK HIM TO WAIT,” AND THE SOUND WAS HEARD OF A CHAIR BEING PUSHED +ASKING.” BUT DYING WAS ALSO DREADFUL. +ASKING FORGIVENESS?” +“ASK THE COUNT TO COME TO ME.” +ASK YOU TO PUT THE MONEY ON YOUR CARDS,” REPLIED DóLOKHOV. “DON’T +ASLEEP, NOR EVEN REMAIN IN ONE PLACE, BUT HAD TO JUMP UP AND PACE THE +ASLEEP. PRINCE ANDREW FELT SORRY FOR HIS SISTER. +A SLIGHTLY CONTEMPTUOUS SMILE, HE SAID: “YES, THERE ARE MANY STORIES +A SLIPPER FOR HIS LEFT FOOT. WITH A CHILDLIKE SMILE OF EMBARRASSMENT, +AS LONG AS I LIVE.” +A SMALL RECEPTION, AND JUST SEE HOW BADLY I AM DRESSED.” AND SHE +AS MANY PERSONS ARE TO ME—FATHER, SISTER, WIFE—THOSE DEAREST TO +“AS MAY HAPPEN,” SAID ROSTóV. +A SMELL OF PERFUME, AND PUT IT TO NESVíTSKI’S NOSE. +A SMILE HE COULD NOT REPRESS AS HE RECALLED HIS RECEPTION AT BRüNN. +A SMILE OF JOY AND SATISFACTION LIT UP HER EAGER FACE. +A SMILE THAT BROADENED HIS ROUND FACE MORE AND MORE, PREPARED THE +AS MUCH SELF-CONFIDENCE AS IF HE WERE ADDRESSING SCHOOL CHILDREN—THAT +AS OFTEN HAPPENS AFTER LONG SLEEPLESSNESS AND LONG ANXIETY, HE WAS +AS OFTEN HAPPENS IN EARLY YOUTH, ESPECIALLY TO ONE WHO LEADS A LONELY +A SOLDIER ON THE MARCH IS HEMMED IN AND BORNE ALONG BY HIS REGIMENT AS +A SOLDIER’S CROSS, EQUALLY SHABBY CADET’S RIDING BREECHES LINED WITH +A SOLDIER WAS DRIVING, AND A WOMAN ENVELOPED IN SHAWLS SAT BEHIND THE +A SON OF NICHOLAS BOLKóNSKI, I SHALL BE ASHAMED!” +A SPACE LIKE A STREET WAS LEFT BETWEEN EACH TWO LINES OF TROOPS. THE +“A SPLENDID REPLY!” SAID NAPOLEON. “YOUNG MAN, YOU WILL GO FAR!” +“A SPLENDID SOLDIER, SPLENDID! ‘WHAT AM I ATTACHED TO!’ HA, HA, +AS POSSIBLE TO CONCEAL HIS OWN PART IN THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT HAD BEEN +AS REPORTED BY THE DIVISION COMMANDERS, OSTERMANN AND SEDMORéTZKI, AND +AS SERENE AS IF ALL THIS WERE HAPPENING AT HOME AWAITING PEACEFUL +AS SHE BECAME ANIMATED THE PRINCE LOOKED AT HER MORE AND MORE STERNLY, +AS SHE NAMED THE EMPRESS, ANNA PáVLOVNA’S FACE SUDDENLY ASSUMED AN +AS SHE ROSE TO GO TO HER OWN ROOM. +AS SHE SAT IN HER ROOM. BUT OWING TO THE SUPERSTITION THAT THE FEWER +AS SHE WAS CROSSING THE ANTEROOM SHE SAW THROUGH THE WINDOW A CARRIAGE +ASSIDUITY OF ITS COMMANDER THE REGIMENT, IN COMPARISON WITH OTHERS THAT +ASSIGNED TO CAVALRY-CAPTAIN DENíSOV, THE SQUADRON COMMANDER, KNOWN +ASSIGNED TO THE COMMANDER OF THE PáVLOGRAD REGIMENT IN WHICH ROSTóV +AS SOMETHING GENERALLY KNOWN. BUT IT WAS THE FIRST TIME HE HAD HEARD +AS SOON AS ALL IS OVER,” AND PRINCE VASíLI SIGHED TO INTIMATE WHAT HE +AS SOON AS HE LEARNED THAT THE RUSSIAN ARMY WAS IN SUCH A HOPELESS +AS SOON AS NICHOLAS ENTERED, HE WAS ENFOLDED IN THAT POETIC ATMOSPHERE +AS SOON AS THE SINGING WAS OVER, ANOTHER AND ANOTHER TOAST WAS PROPOSED +ASSUMED A DIGNIFIED EXPRESSION, WHICH WITH CHARACTERISTIC TACT SHE HAD +ASSUMING QUITE THE POSE OF A SOCIETY WOMAN (HEAVEN KNOWS WHEN AND WHERE +ASSURED HIMSELF FROM THE WAY ROSTóV LOOKED AT IT THAT HIS COAT HAD BEEN +“A STAFF OFFICER WAS HERE A MINUTE AGO, BUT SKIPPED OFF,” SAID AN +A STAR-SHAPED LIGHT. AT ONE SIDE OF THE TABLE WAS A SMALL CARPET WITH +AS THE “ANGEL INCARNATE.” +AS THE BEARERS, AMONG WHOM WAS ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, PASSED THE YOUNG MAN +“AS THE ENEMY’S LEFT WING RESTS ON WOODED HILLS AND HIS RIGHT +AS THE GUEST OF HONOR, TO ENTER FIRST. BAGRATIóN WAS EMBARRASSED, NOT +AS THEIR OFFICER—ALL LOOKED AT THEIR COMMANDER LIKE CHILDREN IN AN +“AS THERE’S NO ONE TO FALL IN LOVE WITH ON CAMPAIGN, HE’S FALLEN +AS THE RIGHT FLANK WOULD PROBABLY NOT BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND THE ENEMY’S +AS THEY ENJOYED THEIR RHINE WINE, SAUTé, AND ICES, AND HOWEVER THEY +AS THEY HAVE HEARD IT DESCRIBED BY OTHERS, AND AS SOUNDS WELL, BUT NOT +AS THEY SAID IN MOSCOW SOCIETY. HE SEEMED TO BE CONDESCENDING TO +AS THEY WATCHED THEIR YOUNG PEOPLE EXECUTING THEIR NEWLY LEARNED STEPS, +AS THIS ÁPSHERON BATTALION MARCHED BY, THE RED-FACED MILORáDOVICH, +AS THOUGH RUNNING AWAY FROM SOME DANGER, AND, MAKING LONG, QUICK STRIDES +A STORM AT THE SQUARE, CUT HIS WAY IN, SLASHED RIGHT AND LEFT, HOW HIS +A STORY, HEARD FROM HER AUNT BUT FINISHED IN HER OWN WAY, WHICH SHE +A STOUT MAJOR WAS PACING UP AND DOWN THE LINE, AND REGARDLESS OF THE +“AS TO YOUR BUSINESS,” PRINCE ANDREW CONTINUED, ADDRESSING BORíS, +A STRANGE CAPRICE OF HIS EMPLOYER’S WAS ADMITTED TO TABLE THOUGH THE +A STRANGE FEELING OF EXASPERATION AND YET OF RESPECT FOR THIS MAN’S +A STUFFY ROOM, SO A WHIFF OF YOUTHFULNESS, ENERGY, AND CONFIDENCE OF +A SUFFERING CHILD AND TO WRING HER LITTLE HANDS EVEN WITH SOME +AS WAS HIS CUSTOM WHEN AT HOME—TAKING LEAVE OF A GOOD-LOOKING, +AS WE ARE MASTERS OF ULM, WE CANNOT BE DEPRIVED OF THE ADVANTAGE OF +AS WELL AS THAT THE FRENCH WERE OUTFLANKING OUR LEFT. THE GENERAL +AS WERE ALL THE WORDS HE SPOKE THAT DAY, AND COUNT ILYá LOOKED JOYFULLY +AS WHEN A WINDOW IS OPENED A WHIFF OF FRESH AIR FROM THE FIELDS ENTERS +AS WITH HIS FEET. +ASYLUMS, AND SCHOOLS WERE TO BE ESTABLISHED ON ALL THE ESTATES. SOME OF +AS YOU AND PRINCESS MARY CALL IT, ARE THE CHIEF SOURCE OF ALL ERROR AND +AS YOU MAY, ALWAYS REMAIN THE SAME BACKS AND FOREHEADS.” +AS YOUNG BEZúKHOV! YES, I PITY HIM FROM MY HEART, AND SHALL TRY TO GIVE +AS YOUNG PEOPLE OFTEN DO. “NO, I AM TOO HAPPY NOW TO SPOIL MY +“AS YOU PLEASE... REALLY... I THINK SO... BUT AS YOU PLEASE,” SAID +“AS YOU SEE,” HE SAID. +AS ZE SANCTITY OF ITS ALLIANCES...” HE SPOKE THIS LAST WORD WITH +AT?” +AT A COMMAND, EVERYONE BEGAN TO RUN. +AT A FULL GALLOP SO THAT HE OUTSTRIPPED THE OTHERS. AHEAD, THE ENEMY WAS +AT ALL AS I RAN,” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW—“NOT AS WE RAN, SHOUTING +AT ALL AS IT REALLY WAS. ROSTóV WAS A TRUTHFUL YOUNG MAN AND WOULD ON +AT ALL. HE SAID TO ME, ‘I AM SORRY I CAN DO SO LITTLE FOR YOU, DEAR +AT ALL LIKE THE CONDUCT OF A GREAT MAN!” +A TALL, STOUT, AND PROUD-LOOKING WOMAN, WITH A ROUND-FACED SMILING +AT ANNA PáVLOVNA’S, THAT IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO GET RID OF ANNA +AT ANY OF THEM BUT SMILING ON ALL, AS IF GRACIOUSLY ALLOWING EACH THE +AT ANY RATE HIS LIGHT-BLUE EYES GAZED FOR ABOUT TWO SECONDS INTO +AT A SOLDIER IN THE RANKS OF THE THIRD COMPANY IN A GREATCOAT OF BLUISH +AT A SOLDIER WHO LAY PRONE, WITH BLOOD ON HIS UNCOVERED HEAD. THE +AT BAGRATIóN OVER EACH OTHER’S SHOULDERS, AS IF HE WERE SOME RARE +AT BALD HILLS, PRINCE NICHOLAS ANDRéEVICH BOLKóNSKI’S ESTATE, THE +AT BALD HILLS WITH HIS WIFE. THIS PLEASURE WILL BE BUT A BRIEF ONE, +AT BALLS, AMIABLY SMILING IN THE SOCIETY OF THE MOST BRILLIANT WOMEN, +“AT BOSS ZIDES, CAPTAIN,” HE HEARD THE VOICE OF THE COLONEL, WHO, +AT DAWN ON THE SIXTEENTH OF NOVEMBER, DENíSOV’S SQUADRON, IN +AT DAYBREAK ON THE SEVENTEENTH, A FRENCH OFFICER WHO HAD COME WITH +AT DINNER ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA TALKED THE WHOLE TIME ABOUT THE WAR NEWS +AT DINNER, CONVERSATION TURNED ON PIERRE’S MARRIAGE. +AT DóLOKHOV AND HIS EYES DROPPED, THE SOMETHING TERRIBLE AND MONSTROUS +AT EACH ALTERNATE STEP; AND IN TIME TO THIS, WITH STERN BUT VARIED +AT EASE BY HIM, “BUT I HOPE I HAVE NOT OFFENDED YOU. I ALWAYS MAKE IT +AT EIGHT O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING +AT EIGHT O’CLOCK KUTúZOV RODE TO PRATZEN AT THE HEAD OF THE FOURTH +A TERRIBLE THING! QUELLE TERRIBLE CHOSE QUE LA GUERRE!” +A TêTE-à-TêTE TALK WITH THE FRIEND OF HER CHILDHOOD, PRINCESS ANNA +AT FIRST HE HEARD THE SOUND OF INDIFFERENT VOICES, THEN ANNA +AT FIRST IMPOSSIBLE TO ENTER THE DRAWING ROOM DOOR FOR THE CROWD OF +AT FIRST IRREGULARLY AT VARYING INTERVALS—TRATA...TAT—AND THEN MORE +AT FIRST PRINCE ANDREW READ WITH HIS EYES ONLY, BUT AFTER A WHILE, +AT FIVE IN THE MORNING IT WAS STILL QUITE DARK. THE TROOPS OF THE +AT HER REFLECTION IN THE GLASS. “SHE FLATTERS ME,” THOUGHT THE +AT HER REPROACHFULLY. “AND WHO IS IT SHE TAKES AFTER?” THOUGHT THE +AT HER TIMIDLY OVER HIS SPECTACLES, AND LIKE A HARE SURROUNDED BY HOUNDS +AT HIM. AFTER THIS VOLLEY THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER CLUTCHED AT HIS LEG; +A THIRD, COUNT ARAKCHéEV, IF HIS NERVES WERE NOT TOO WEAK.” +AT HIS ESTATE. AS REGULARITY IS A PRIME CONDITION FACILITATING ACTIVITY, +AT HIS HESITATION AND, TRYING TO AROUSE HIS FORMER DEVOTIONAL FEELING, +AT HIS OWN SENSIBILITY, WHEN PRINCESS MARY ENTERED. HE HURRIEDLY TOOK A +AT HIS PARTNER WITH A MERRY AND TRIUMPHANT AIR, SUDDENLY STAMPED WITH +AT HOME AGAIN. HE FELT THAT HE HAD GROWN UP AND MATURED VERY MUCH. HIS +AT HOME, THEY HAD NOT YET GONE TO BED. THE YOUNG PEOPLE, AFTER RETURNING +A THREATENING GESTURE. “IF THE PURSE ISN’T FOUND I’LL FLOG YOU, +A THUD. DENíSOV RODE PAST HIM, LEANING BACK AND SHOUTING SOMETHING. +AT INTERVALS, AND THE BULLETS PASSED SOMEWHERE IN THE FOG SINGING IN +AT INTERVALS THE BUGLE CALLS AND THE SHOUTS OF THE ENEMY COULD BE HEARD +AT IRREGULAR INTERVALS AS BEFORE, FOLLOWED BY ONE OR TWO CANNON SHOTS, +AT KREMS EXCITED BUT NOT WEARY, WITH DISPATCHES FROM DOKHTúROV TO +AT KUTúZOV’S. +AT LAST ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, STILL WITH THE SAME EXPRESSION, PALE BUT +AT LAST SEIZING A SOLDIER BY HIS COLLAR HE FORCED HIM TO ANSWER. +“AT LEAST, CHANGE YOUR COIFFURE,” SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS. +AT MARKóV, PROBABLY EXPECTING MARKóV TO PICK IT UP FOR HIM, AND HOW +ATMOSPHERE CHARACTERISTIC OF HOMES WHERE THERE ARE VERY YOUNG AND VERY +ATMOSPHERE MADE ITSELF SO STRONGLY FELT IN THE ROSTóVS’ HOUSE AS AT +ATMOSPHERE OF A LARGE AND ACTIVE TOWN WHICH IS ALWAYS SO ATTRACTIVE TO A +ATMOSPHERE OF AN ARMY, ANNOUNCING THE APPROACH OF SOMETHING DECISIVE + AT NIGHTTIME IN THE MOON’S FAIR GLOW +AT ONCE TRANSFERRED TO THE GUARDS AS A CORNET, HAD BEEN EDUCATED FROM +AT ONCE, WHEN SHE HEARD THE YOUNG MAN’S DISCREET STEPS APPROACHING +AT ONE ANOTHER. +AT ONE ANOTHER, AND ALL PRESSED TOWARD THE EXIT FROM THE BRIDGE. +“AT ONE DRAUGHT, OR HE LOSES!” SHOUTED A FOURTH. +AT ONE OF THE POST STATIONS HE OVERTOOK A CONVOY OF RUSSIAN WOUNDED. +A TOY, SEEING THE EFFECT THESE PREARRANGED RECEPTIONS HAD ON PIERRE, +AT PRINCE ANDREW AND DID NOT EVEN NOD TO HIM. +AT PRINCE ANDREW, EVIDENTLY CONSIDERING SOMETHING. +AT PRINCE ANDREW WITH COOL INTENSITY, WALKING STRAIGHT TOWARD HIM AND +A TREAT TO HER GUESTS. AS A CLEVER MAîTRE D’HôTEL SERVES UP AS A +A TREMBLING HAND PLACED A CHARGE IN THE CANNON’S MOUTH. THE SHORT, +“A TRIFLE,” SAID THE COLONEL IN HIS BASS VOICE: “TWO HUSSARS +A TRUCE AND SENT HIS ADJUTANT TO KUTúZOV TO REPORT THE OFFER HE HAD +A TRUCE WAS KUTúZOV’S SOLE CHANCE OF GAINING TIME, GIVING +AT SCHöN GRABERN, WHAT SHALL WE NOT DO NOW WHEN HE IS AT THE FRONT? WE +“AT SEVEN O’CLOCK, I BELIEVE.” +“AT SEVEN O’CLOCK? IT’S VERY SAD, VERY SAD!” +AT SIX IN THE EVENING, KUTúZOV WENT TO THE EMPEROR’S HEADQUARTERS +AT SOMEONE UNSEEN. “MR. PITT, AS A TRAITOR TO THE NATION AND TO THE +ATTACKED THE MEN COLLECTING WOOD IN THE COPSE. IT WAS NO LONGER POSSIBLE +“ATTACK INDEED!” SAID THE COLONEL IN A BORED VOICE, PUCKERING UP HIS +ATTACK INSTEAD OF BEING ATTACKED, AND SO RENDER THE WHOLE OF THIS +ATTACK OUR HEADQUARTERS, AND THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF HAS TO ASK FOR A +ATTACKS. BOTH GENERALS ARE ANGRY, AND THE RESULT IS A CHALLENGE ON +ATTACKS THE PRUSSIANS. THE PRUSSIANS ARE OUR FAITHFUL ALLIES WHO HAVE +ATTACK VERY LONG. ABOUT TúSHIN AND THE BATTALION THAT HAD BEEN IN +ATTAINED. +ATTAIN THAT KNOWLEDGE AND ARE STILL INFINITELY FAR FROM OUR AIM; BUT +ATTEMPT AT FAMILIARITY ON THE PART OF THE RUSSIAN MESSENGER. +ATTENDANCE ON HIM, TO THE ENEMY CAMP. WINTZINGERODE WAS NOT MERELY +“ATTENDEZ,” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA, REFLECTING, “I’LL SPEAK TO +ATTEND TO THE VOICE OF THEIR COMMANDER, OR WOULD THEY, DISREGARDING HIM, +ATTENTION. +ATTENTION. DOHKTúROV, A LITTLE MAN, SAT OPPOSITE WEYROTHER, WITH +ATTENTION. HE LOOKED NOW AT THE PRATZEN HEIGHTS, NOW AT THE SUN FLOATING +ATTENTION. HE SCREWED UP HIS EYES SHOWING THAT HE WAS LISTENING. +ATTENTION. NAPOLEON APPARENTLY REMEMBERED SEEING HIM ON THE BATTLEFIELD +ATTENTION OF ALL TO BORíS’ NARRATIVE WAS SHOWN BY HéLèNE. SHE ASKED +“ATT-ENTION!” SHOUTED THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER IN A SOUL-SHAKING +ATTENTION TO HER SEVERE REMARK—AND BEGAN TO LAUGH. SHE LAUGHED, AND IN +ATTENTION TO HIS STORY. +ATTENTION TO SOMETHING WITHIN HER THAT IS ONLY SEEN IN PREGNANT WOMEN, +ATTENTION TO THE VERSES. +ATTENTIVELY TO BAGRATIóN’S COLLOQUIES WITH THE COMMANDING OFFICERS +ATTENTIVELY TO WHAT PRINCE VASíLI SAID, BUT KEPT GLANCING AT PRINCESS +ATTENTIVE TO HIM. COUNT CYRIL VLADíMIROVICH IS YOUR GODFATHER AFTER +AT THAT INSTANT THE SUN BEGAN TO HIDE BEHIND THE CLOUDS, AND OTHER +AT THAT MOMENT ANNA PáVLOVNA CAME UP AND, LOOKING SEVERELY AT PIERRE, +AT THAT MOMENT, AS THE HORSE GUARDS, HAVING PASSED HIM, DISAPPEARED IN +AT THAT MOMENT BORíS CLEARLY REALIZED WHAT HE HAD BEFORE SURMISED, THAT +AT THAT MOMENT MADE ITSELF FELT. +AT THAT MOMENT, ON THE ROAD FROM THE TOWN ON WHICH SIGNALERS HAD BEEN +AT THAT MOMENT THE DOOR OPENED. +AT THAT MOMENT, WITH NOISELESS FOOTSTEPS AND WITH THE BUSINESSLIKE, +AT THAT TIME, A VERY HIGH RUFFLE, AND A BROWN DRESS COAT. THIS STOUT +AT THAT TIME IN THE ROSTóVS’ HOUSE THERE PREVAILED AN AMOROUS +AT THE APPOINTED HOUR THE PRINCE, POWDERED AND SHAVEN, ENTERED THE +AT THE ARKHáROVS’ BALL, TALKED ABOUT THE WAR WITH FIELD MARSHAL +AT THE BEAUTIFUL HéLèNE WITH HER RADIANT FACE AND AT THE RED, BROAD, +AT THE BEGINNING OF MARCH, OLD COUNT ILYá ROSTóV WAS VERY BUSY +AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SLEIGH BESIDE ROSTóV, WHO GREW MORE AND MORE +AT THE CADET’S TROUBLED FACE. +AT THE CLUB DINNER. +AT THE COUNCIL—THE COMING BATTLE AND THE VICTORY THAT WOULD CERTAINLY +AT THE DOOR,” AND NATáSHA RAN ACROSS THE DRAWING ROOM TO THE DANCING +AT THE DOOR PRINCE ANDREW AND THE FIGURE OF THE OLD MAN IN A WHITE +AT THE DOORS, BUT AFTER ALL HE DID AT LAST ENTER FIRST. HE WALKED SHYLY +AT THE FACES OF HIS SUITE, YOUNG AND ANIMATED AS HIS OWN. CZARTORýSKI, +AT THE FOOT OF THE HILL LAY WASTELAND OVER WHICH A FEW GROUPS OF OUR +AT THE FRENCH. +AT THE FRONT AN ALTERCATION OCCURRED BETWEEN AN AUSTRIAN GUIDE AND A +AT THE HEAD OF A MOVEMENT THAT HAD ALREADY BECOME UNRESTRAINABLE. HE WAS +AT THE LEAST FIRING. THE EMPEROR’S GRATITUDE WAS ANNOUNCED TO THE +AT THE LEVEE PRINCE ANDREW STOOD AMONG THE AUSTRIAN OFFICERS AS HE HAD +AT THEM. +AT THEM AND HACK THEM TO PIECES, THEIR PROXIMITY NOW SEEMED SO AWFUL +AT THE MAP, BUT AT PRINCE ANDREW’S FACE. +AT THE MEN’S END OF THE TABLE THE TALK GREW MORE AND MORE ANIMATED. +AT THE MOMENT THE DOOR OPENED AND THE STRANGER CAME IN, PIERRE FELT A +AT THE OLMüTZ REVIEW HE HAD SEEMED MORE MAJESTIC; HERE HE SEEMED +AT THE PERIOD OF YOUTH WHEN THERE SEEMS SO MUCH TO DO THAT THERE IS NO +AT THE RAZUMóVSKI’S BALL ... AND COUNTESS APRáKSINA ... I WAS +AT THE SIGHT OF THE LETTER RED PATCHES SHOWED THEMSELVES ON THE +AT THE SOLDIERS AS IF THREATENING TO PUNISH THEM. CADET MIRóNOV DUCKED +AT THE SOLDIERS WHO WERE BLOCKING HIS WAY. “HI THERE, BOYS! KEEP TO +AT THE SOUND AND THEN, SMILING AT HIS OWN SENSATIONS, STOOD STILL. THE +AT THE STEAMING BOILER, WAITING TILL THE SAMPLE, WHICH A QUARTERMASTER +AT THE VERY INSTANT HE DID THIS AND UTTERED THOSE WORDS, PIERRE FELT +AT THE WORLD IS SO OPPOSED TO YOURS THAT WE SHALL NOT UNDERSTAND ONE +AT THIS A SUDDEN CHANGE EVIDENTLY TOOK PLACE IN THE PRINCESS’ IDEAS; +AT THIS BIG, STOUT, QUIET MAN, WONDERING HOW SUCH A CLUMSY, MODEST +AT THIS MOMENT THAT TERRIBLE DOOR, WHICH PIERRE HAD WATCHED SO LONG +ATTIRE APPEARED AT THE DOOR. WILLARSKI, STEPPING TOWARD HIM, SAID +ATTITUDE TOWARD HIM THAT HAD TAKEN PLACE IN SOCIETY. +“AT WHAT O’CLOCK DID THE BATTLE BEGIN?” ASKED THE EMPEROR. +“AT WHAT O’CLOCK WAS GENERAL SCHMIDT KILLED?” +AT WHICH PRINCE ANDREW HAD BEEN WHEN HE EXAMINED THE BATTLEFIELD. +A TYPE OF FACE DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF THE MEN, SQUEEZED HIS WAY ALONG; +AUDIBLE THE WHOLE LENGTH OF THE TABLE. +AUDIENCE OVER HIS SPECTACLES AND CONTINUED. +AUDIENCES, BUT HE DOES NOT LIKE TALKING HIMSELF AND CAN’T DO IT, AS +AUDIENCE, WHICH PRODUCED AN EFFECT UNFAVORABLE TO THE NARRATOR. SEVERAL +AUDIENCE WITH THE EMPEROR FRANCIS OCCUPIED HIS THOUGHTS. +AUERSPERG WAS DEFENDING, AND THE BRIDGE WAS NOT BLOWN UP: SO MURAT +AUGESD. +AUNT, ANNA PáVLOVNA MENTIONED EACH ONE’S NAME AND THEN LEFT THEM. +AUNT AS SHE CONDUCTED HIM TO HER. +AUNTIE ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA TOLD ME, UNDER THE SEAL OF STRICT SECRECY, OF +“AUNTIE, DARLING, DO TELL ME WHAT IT IS!” +AUNT,” OR “YOU DO NOT KNOW MY AUNT?” AND VERY GRAVELY CONDUCTED +AUNT WITHOUT WAITING TO HEAR HER SPEECH ABOUT HER MAJESTY’S HEALTH. +“AU REVOIR! THANK YOU VERY MUCH. HIS MAJESTY WILL PROBABLY DESIRE TO +AUSTERLITZ, BORíS WAS UNABLE TO SEE EITHER PRINCE ANDREW OR DOLGORúKOV +AUSTRIAN ADJUTANT, BILíBIN, AND LAST NIGHT’S CONVERSATION. HAVING +AUSTRIAN AND RUSSIAN TROOPS, BOTH THOSE FRESHLY ARRIVED FROM RUSSIA AND +AUSTRIAN ARMY OF ULM. THEY ARE THE SAME BATTALIONS YOU BROKE AT +AUSTRIAN COUNCIL OF WAR AT WHICH SUVóROV CROWED LIKE A COCK IN REPLY TO +AUSTRIAN GENERAL, CONTINUING TO READ, FROWNED ANGRILY AND JERKED HIS +AUSTRIANS, AND ALL AT ONCE DISCOVERED FROM THE CANNON BALLS DISCHARGED +AUSTRIAN, TO REPORT AND EXPLAIN, AND TO HIS HEADQUARTERS WHERE HE HAD +AUSTRIAN TROOPS, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF SO SKILLFUL A LEADER AS GENERAL +AUSTRIA,” SAID MORTEMART. “THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA CAN NEVER HAVE +AUTHORITIES TO SECURE ADVANTAGEOUS MEANS OF COMMUNICATION FOR HERSELF +AUTHORITY IN HIS VOICE. “WHO INVENTED HIM, IF HE DID NOT EXIST? WHENCE +AUTHOR: LEO TOLSTOY +A VERY BAD WAY OF DECIDING WHETHER A BATTLE WAS WON OR LOST. THOSE WHO + * “A VERY GOOD MORNING! A VERY GOOD MORNING!” +A VERY LONG TIME. “IF ANYONE FINDS THIS SILENCE INCONVENIENT, LET HIM +A VICTORY OVER BONAPARTE, JUST WHEN I’M NOT SERVING. YES, YES, HE’S +A VIGOROUS ATTACK ON THE ORATOR. +A VISIT. “I AM STARTING ON A JOURNEY OF INSPECTION, AND OF COURSE I +“A VISITOR,” ANSWERED ANTóN. +AVOID DOING CERTAIN THINGS, AND SPEAK FRENCH. HE WAS ONE OF THOSE, +AVOIDED LOOKING AT THE YOUNG COUPLE, AND HEEDLESS AND UNOBSERVANT AS +AVOIDED THE BLOW. “THOUGHT... BLACKGUARDS...” SHOUTED THE PRINCE +AVOID GENERAL BUXHöWDEN WHO BY RIGHT OF SENIORITY SHOULD BE OUR CHIEF. +AVOIDING GARDENS AND ENCLOSURES, GOING OVER NEW AND UNKNOWN GROUND, AND +AVOID SEEING ALL THESE SUFFERING MEN, AND HE FELT AFRAID—AFRAID NOT +AWAITED THEIR FATE. THE FIRING DIED DOWN AND SOLDIERS, TALKING EAGERLY, +AWAITING A REPLY. HE FROWNED. +AWARE OF A STIR ALL AROUND. HE LOOKED UP: DóLOKHOV WAS STANDING ON THE +AWARE OF HIS EXISTENCE. AT THE QUARTERS OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, +AWARE OF HIS WEAKNESSES. +AWARE THAT IN FRONT, BEHIND, AND ON ALL SIDES, OTHER RUSSIAN COLUMNS +AWAY. +AWAY. +AWAY. +AWAY. +AWAY AND HE HAD JUST MANAGED TO CATCH HER, “DIDN’T HE TELL YOU HOW +AWAY AT THE DOGS! BUT THIS SORT OF THING IS THE VERY DEVIL, WITH THEM +AWAY? BUT WHERE TO? IT’S ONE—LET THEM SING!” +AWAY FROM HER. “DESTROYING THE ARMY, DESTROYING THE MEN! AND WHY? GO, +AWAY FROM HIM. THE ALLIANCE WITH PRUSSIA, AUSTRIA’S TREACHERY, +AWAY HER TEARS ON HER SISTER-IN-LAW’S KNEE. +AWAY. INVOLUNTARILY RECALLING HIS WIFE’S PAST AND HER RELATIONS WITH +AWAY WITH A GRIMACE AS IF TO SAY THAT EVERYTHING DóLOKHOV HAD SAID TO +A WEEK LATER PIERRE GAVE HIS WIFE FULL POWER TO CONTROL ALL HIS ESTATES +A WEEK LATER, PIERRE, HAVING TAKEN LEAVE OF HIS NEW FRIENDS, THE MASONS, +AWFUL!” +AWFUL...” AND HE BURST INTO TEARS. +A WHISPER THAT THE PRINCE WAS SLEEPING, AND HASTILY CLOSED THE DOOR. +A WHITE HORSE FOLLOWED BY HIS SUITE, AND SAID SOMETHING IN PASSING: +A WHITE UNIFORM THAT LOOKED STRANGE AMONG THE RUSSIAN BLACK ONES. THE +A WHOLE MONTH AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE SEEN HIM IN SOCIETY. +A WIG, PUT HIS HEAD OUT OF THE DOOR OF THE ANTECHAMBER, REPORTED IN +A WILD BEAST.... IN POLAND, IF YOU PLEASE, HE NEARLY KILLED A JEW.” +AWKWARD AND UNCOMFORTABLE, AND HER BURDEN OPPRESSED HER NOW MORE THAN +AWKWARDNESS OR INTENTIONALLY (NO ONE COULD HAVE SAID WHICH) AFTER THE +AWKWARD TO ATTRACT EVERYONE’S ATTENTION AND TO BE CONSIDERED A +A WOMAN AND, LIKE A CHAINED CONVICT, YOU LOSE ALL FREEDOM! AND ALL YOU +A WORD TO THE QUESTIONS ADDRESSED TO HIM. BUT ON ENTERING MOSCOW HE +A WORD TO YOU AND YOU... WHAT?” HE ADDED WITH RENEWED IRRITATION, “I +A WORTHY DWELLING PLACE OF THE GREAT GOD,” HE ADDED, AND CLOSED HIS +A WRATHFUL WRINKLE ON HER RATHER PROMINENT MARBLE BROW. WITH HER +A YAWN. “PLENTY OF TIME,” HE REPEATED. +A YOUNG OFFICER WITH A BEWILDERED AND PAINED EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE +BABY, AN OLD WOMAN, AND A HEALTHY GERMAN GIRL WITH BRIGHT RED CHEEKS +BACK!” +BACK. +BACK.” +BACK, AND BOSOM—WHICH IN THE FASHION OF THOSE DAYS WERE VERY MUCH +BACK, CADET!” HE CRIED ANGRILY; AND TURNING TO DENíSOV, WHO, SHOWING +BACK, “GIVE ME YOUR HAND.” SHE TOOK HER SISTER-IN-LAW’S HAND AND +BACK HER HAIR, KISSED HIM FULL ON THE LIPS. +BACK TO MOSCOW. ANATOLE KURáGIN’S FATHER MANAGED SOMEHOW TO GET HIS +BACK TO THE HOUSE. +BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS AND WAS AT LAST BROUGHT TO THE DOORS OF THE +“BAD! BAD!” EXCLAIMED PIERRE. “WE ALL KNOW WHAT IS BAD FOR +BAD. BUT ANATOLE WAS DUMB, SWUNG HIS FOOT, AND SMILINGLY EXAMINED THE +“BAD! BUT IT’S NOT THAT, MY FRIEND—” SAID DóLOKHOV WITH A +BAD FOR ANOTHER TRAVELER, AND FOR HIMSELF IT’S UNAVOIDABLE, BECAUSE +BADLY—ALL THIS DEBAUCHERY, DISSIPATION, AND THE REST OF IT!” +BADLY THROUGH HIS SPECTACLES, BUT THAT HIS WIFE’S CONNECTION WITH +“BAD NEWS! HE’S NOT AMONG THE PRISONERS NOR AMONG THE KILLED! +BAGGAGE AND TRANSPORT, HAVING TO ACCEPT BATTLE ON THE MARCH AGAINST AN +BAGGAGE TRAIN, THE ARTILLERY, AND COLUMNS OF TROOPS WERE DEFILING +BAGGAGE WAS ALREADY BEING DISPATCHED TO OLMüTZ. NEAR HETZELSDORF PRINCE +BAGRATIóN.” +BAGRATIóN, A GAUNT MIDDLE-AGED MAN OF MEDIUM HEIGHT WITH A FIRM, +BAGRATIóN AND DOLGORúKOV RIDE PAST WITH THEIR ADJUTANTS. ALL THE FEAR +BAGRATIóN APPEARED IN THE DOORWAY OF THE ANTEROOM WITHOUT HAT OR SWORD, +BAGRATIóN AS HE SHOUTED, WITH AN EXPRESSION THAT SEEMED TO SAY: “WE +BAGRATIóN BENT HIS HEAD IN SIGN OF AGREEMENT WITH WHAT PRINCE ANDREW +BAGRATIóN CALLED TO HIM, AND TúSHIN, RAISING THREE FINGERS TO HIS CAP +BAGRATIóN CAST HIS LARGE, EXPRESSIONLESS, SLEEPY EYES ROUND HIS SUITE, +BAGRATIóN GAVE NO FURTHER ORDERS AND SILENTLY CONTINUED TO WALK ON IN +BAGRATIóN. HIS IDEA WAS, FIRST, TO CONCENTRATE ALL THE ARTILLERY IN THE +BAGRATIóN, KNOWING BOLKóNSKI TO BE A FAVORITE AND TRUSTED ADJUTANT, +BAGRATIóN ORDERED TWO BATTALIONS FROM THE CENTER TO BE SENT TO +BAGRATIóN REPLIED THAT HE WAS NOT AUTHORIZED EITHER TO ACCEPT OR REFUSE +BAGRATIóN RODE ROUND THE RANKS THAT HAD MARCHED PAST HIM AND +BAGRATIóN’S DETACHMENT WAS REUNITED TO KUTúZOV’S ARMY. +BAGRATIóN’S EXHAUSTED TROOPS SOME REST, AND LETTING THE TRANSPORT AND +BAGRATIóN’S HARD BROWN FACE WITH ITS HALF-CLOSED, DULL, SLEEPY EYES. +BAGRATIóN STOPPED AND, BEFORE REPLYING, TRIED TO SEE ROSTóV’S FACE +BAGRATIóN’S TROOPS, WHICH HAD NOT YET ADVANCED INTO ACTION BUT WERE +BAGRATIóN’S WEAK DETACHMENT ON THE ZNAIM ROAD HE SUPPOSED IT TO BE +BAGRATIóN. “WAIT TILL TOMORROW MORNING, WE’LL FIND OUT EVERYTHING +BAGS INTO THE CARTS, GOT THEIR MUSKETS READY, AND FORMED RANK. THE +“BAH! HOW THEY SCURRY. HE JUST SENDS A BALL AND THEY THINK THEY’LL +BALD HEAD. +BALD HEAD, OVER WHICH SHE AGAIN LOOKED AT THE LETTER AND THE PORTRAIT, +BALD HILLS. PRINCE ANDREW, GLANCING AT PIERRE, BROKE THE SILENCE NOW AND +BALD HILLS, WHILE HE HIMSELF NEEDED NO ONE AND NOTHING. HE USED TO +BALL, CLEAVING THE AIR, FLEW OVER THE HEADS OF BAGRATIóN AND HIS SUITE, +BALL FLEW PAST. EVIDENTLY THEY WERE FIRING AT THE HUSSARS, BUT THE BALLS +BALL FLEW PAST, ROSE IN THE STIRRUPS AND SANK BACK AGAIN. THE SOLDIERS +BALL, FLYING CLOSE TO HIM, CAUSED HIM TO DUCK AND BEND OVER HIS HORSE. +BALLROOM. +BALLS! I CAN’T TELL YOU. AND THE TSARéVICH WAS VERY GRACIOUS TO ALL +BALL WAS EVEN HAPPIER. THEY WERE BOTH DRESSED IN WHITE MUSLIN WITH PINK +BANDAGE WAS AGAIN REMOVED AND MORE THAN TEN VOICES SAID TOGETHER: “SIC +BAND, CAME UP AND IN ANGRY TONES ASKED THE ARTILLERYMEN FOR WATER. +BAND STRUCK UP IN THE GALLERY, AND THE GUESTS SETTLED DOWN IN THEIR +BANDY-LEGGED DOMESTIC SERF IN A PEAKED CAP AND SHEEPSKIN COAT. +BANGING THE TABLE WITH A DETERMINED AND DRUNKEN GESTURE AND PREPARING TO +BANK BY UNSEEN HANDS. PRINCE ANDREW AND THE OFFICER RODE UP, LOOKED AT +BANK, HESITATING TO STEP ONTO THE ICE. THE GENERAL ON HORSEBACK AT THE +BANNERS, CANNON, AND TWO ENEMY GENERALS. FOR THE FIRST TIME, AFTER A +BARE CHEST. HE WAS CONDUCTED FROM THAT ROOM ALONG PASSAGES THAT TURNED +BARE HAND AS RED AS HIS FACE. +BARITONE. +“BARON FUNKE HAS BEEN RECOMMENDED TO THE DOWAGER EMPRESS BY HER +BARON FUNKE TO BE APPOINTED FIRST SECRETARY AT VIENNA? THE BARON BY ALL +BARRIER EXCEPT THE BARRIER OF HIS OWN WILL. +BATHHOUSE, A LODGE, AND A LARGE BRICK HOUSE WITH SEMICIRCULAR FAçADE +“BâTON DE GUEULES, ENGRêLé DE GUEULES D’AZUR—MAISON CONDé,” +BATTALION AND REGIMENTAL COMMANDERS MOUNTED, CROSSED THEMSELVES, GAVE +BATTALION CAME ONTO THE BRIDGE. ONLY DENíSOV’S SQUADRON OF HUSSARS +BATTALION COMMANDERS WHO SMILINGLY PRESSED FORWARD (IT WAS PLAIN THAT +BATTALIONS AND ARTILLERY PASS BY AND GO FORWARD AND THEN GENERALS +BATTALION TO DISPERSE THEM. DURING ONE OF THESE ATTACKS THEY CARRIED OFF +BATTALION WOULD FOLLOW HIM. +BATTERIES RANGED ON THE SLOPES OF THE PRATZEN HEIGHTS, DIRECTED AT OUR +BATTERY AND THE HEROIC ENDURANCE OF CAPTAIN TúSHIN AND HIS COMPANY,” +BATTERY WHEN TWO BALLS, AND THEN FOUR MORE, FELL AMONG OUR GUNS, ONE +BATTLE. +BATTLE, A LIST OF WHOM HAS BEEN SENT ME UNDER FLAG OF TRUCE.” +BATTLE, AND BY THE SIGHT OF THE GALLANT ÁPSHERONS, HIS COMRADES IN +BATTLE AND, IN SPITE OF THE REMONSTRANCES OF HIS COURTIERS, AT TWELVE +BATTLE AND WERE ENGAGED IN PEACEFUL OCCUPATIONS, THE CAVALRY FEEDING THE +BATTLEFIELD.” +BATTLE IS WON BY HIM ALONE. KUTúZOV IS REMOVED AND HE IS APPOINTED... +BATTLE,” REPLIED MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA’S DEEP VOICE, WHICH EASILY +BATTLE THE SOLDIERS EXCITEDLY TRY TO GET BEYOND THE INTERESTS OF THEIR +BE AFRAID.” +“BE A MAN, MY FRIEND. I WILL LOOK AFTER YOUR INTERESTS,” SAID SHE IN +BEAMING SMILE TO HIS HEAD. +BEAMS OF MILD AND MAJESTIC LIGHT AROUND, AND ALREADY HE FELT HIMSELF +BE ANNOUNCED HAD PASSED STRAIGHT THROUGH THE GLASS PORCH BETWEEN THE +BE,” ANSWERED THE PRINCESS JOYFULLY. +BE ANYONE’S LACKEY, BUT I WHO HAVE NOTHING BUT MY BRAINS HAVE TO +BE, ANYWAY HE IS AN HONORABLE AND BRAVE OLD COLONEL! YOU’RE QUICK AT +BEARERS AND THE SHUFFLING OF THEIR FEET GREW MORE HURRIED, AS IF THE +BEARS!...” +BEAR THE WHOLE BURDEN ON HIS SHOULDERS. FANCY WHAT HE HAD TO GO THROUGH! +BE AT STAKE. BUT THIS ONE IS TOO LIGHT, IT’S NOT BECOMING!” +BEAUCOUP D’ESTIME, AND AGAIN HER FACE CLOUDED OVER WITH SADNESS. +BEAUTIFUL.” +BEAUTIFUL BOSOM, ON WHICH SHE READJUSTED A DIAMOND NECKLACE. FROM TIME +BEAUTIFUL EYES GREW DIM, RED BLOTCHES CAME ON HER FACE, AND IT TOOK +BEAUTIFUL EYES. LAST NIGHT A PROPOSITION WAS MADE ME ON YOUR ACCOUNT +BEAUTIFUL HEAD AND LOOKING OVER HER CLASSICALLY MOLDED SHOULDER AS SHE +BEAUTIFUL HéLèNE, WHOSE EYES SEVERAL TIMES MET THOSE OF THE HANDSOME +BEAUTIFUL, RADIANT EYES. IT WAS AS IF JOY—A SUPREME JOY APART FROM THE +“BEAUTIFUL,” SAID THE DOCTOR IN ANSWER TO A REMARK ABOUT THE +BEAUTIFUL YOUNG PRINCESS WHO WAS SITTING SOME WAY OFF, THE CENTER OF +BEAUTY AS SHE GLIDED AWAY. “AND HOW SHE CARRIES HERSELF! FOR SO YOUNG +BE BEST DESCRIBED AS STRENGTH OF WILL. PIERRE WAS ALWAYS ASTONISHED AT +BE BETTER DRESSED THAN OTHERS, AND WOULD RATHER DEPRIVE HIMSELF OF MANY +BE BROUGHT HERE WELL WRAPPED UP IN FELT. I MUST HAVE TWO HUNDRED POTS +BECAME QUITE PLEASANT AGAIN. +BE CARRIED BACK WITH IT ONESELF. BOLKóNSKI ONLY TRIED NOT TO LOSE +BE CARRIED OUT, WAS FORGOTTEN. NOW, ENTERING INTO WEYROTHER’S PLAN, +BECAUSE HE COULD NOT. IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIGURE HE BECKONED TO ROSTóV +BECAUSE HE ROSE SUPERIOR TO THE REVOLUTION, SUPPRESSED ITS ABUSES, +BECAUSE HIS LINE WAS NOT STRAIGHT, HE REACHED THE THIRD COMPANY. +“BECAUSE I HATE GHOST STORIES,” SAID PRINCE HIPPOLYTE IN A TONE +BECAUSE IT CONCERNED NOT HIMSELF BUT ANOTHER, HIS DAUGHTER, WHOM HE +“BECAUSE NOT EVERYTHING HAPPENS AS ONE EXPECTS OR WITH THE SMOOTHNESS +“BECAUSE WHEN ONCE A MAN STARTS ON MILITARY SERVICE, HE SHOULD TRY TO +BE CLEARLY SEEN GLITTERING AS THOUGH FRESHLY VARNISHED. DOWN BELOW, +BECOME A HABIT. SCHEMES AND DEVICES FOR WHICH HE NEVER RIGHTLY ACCOUNTED +BECOME CALMER SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE ONLY FOR MYSELF.” +BECOME COMPLETELY CHANGED, AND HAD QUITE LEFT BEHIND HIS FORMER HABITS +BECOME CRUEL AND HARSH, ARE CONSCIOUS OF IT, BUT CANNOT RESTRAIN +BECOME HABITUAL TO HIM AND, HIS HANDSOME HEAD HELD HIGH, ENTERED HIS +BECOME HER SOCIAL VOCATION AND, SOMETIMES EVEN WHEN SHE DID NOT +BECOME OF THAT SCOUNDREL?” HE ASKED DENíSOV. +BECOMES A MAN WHO VALUES HIS HONOR, PERHAPS TOO HASTILY, BUT WE WON’T +BECOME THOROUGHLY CONVERSANT WITH THAT UNWRITTEN CODE WITH WHICH HE HAD +BE CROSSED AND YOU WILL HAVE TO FIND OUT WHAT IS THERE, JUST AS YOU WILL +BED. +BE DIFFICULT TO RETURN TO THE OLD REGIME.” +BE DONE; HE FELT THAT EVERYBODY, INCLUDING HIS MOTHER AND SISTERS, WAS +BEDOUIN TWICE AND SUCCESSFULLY PUT HIM TO THE SHOWY TROT IN WHICH THE +BE DOZING. HIS HEAD SANK FORWARD AND THEN HE ROUSED HIMSELF. +BEDROOM. PIERRE DID NOT EAT ANYTHING THOUGH HE WOULD VERY MUCH HAVE +BE EASY, BUT HERE, IN THIS WRETCHED MORAVIAN HOLE, IT IS MORE DIFFICULT, +BEEN ABLE TO FREE HIMSELF BUT THAT PRINCE VASíLI (WHO HAD RARELY BEFORE +BEEN ATTACKED BY FRENCH CAVALRY AND THAT, THOUGH THE ATTACK HAD BEEN +BEEN BEWILDERED. AT THAT TIME, THE RUSSIANS WERE SO USED TO VICTORIES +BEEN BROUGHT UP IN THE MOST ARISTOCRATIC CIRCLES. +BEEN COMPOSED IN THE TURKISH CAMPAIGN AND NOW BEING SUNG IN AUSTRIA, THE +BEEN DESTROYED OR NOT. AND IF THEY HAVE SOMEHOW BEEN OVERLOOKED, YOU +BEEN ENGROSSED BY THE SAME THOUGHTS EVER SINCE THE DAY HE RETURNED FROM +BEEN FORESEEN, THE RUSSIAN ARMY OF THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND MEN COMMANDED +BEEN FORWARDED BY COURIER TO THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. +BEEN INTRIGUING!” +BEEN LOOKING AT. +BEEN MINUTELY DESCRIBED. PRINCESS MARY WAS SITTING ALONE IN HER ROOM, +BEEN MORE AMUSING THAN THE DRAWING ROOM TALK OF SOCIETY SCANDALS, THE +BEEN PUT OFF,” SAID THE PRINCE, WHO, LIKE A WOUND-UP CLOCK, BY FORCE +BEEN READY, BUT THEY STILL DELAYED AND ALL WERE SILENT. +BEEN RECOMMENDED TO PRINCE ANDREW HE HAD ALREADY RISEN ABOVE THE GENERAL +BEEN REFUSED. HE ASKED IN A HESITATING, PITEOUS VOICE. +BEEN REPRIMANDED ON ACCOUNT OF THE BLUE GREATCOAT. +BEEN SO PLEASED AT OLMüTZ AND ACCORDING TO WHICH AN ENSIGN MIGHT RANK +BEEN TAKEN BY THE FRENCH AS A TROPHY.) +BEEN TELLING US SUCH A TALE ABOUT MADEMOISELLE GEORGE AND BUONAPARTE!” +BEEN THERE AT SEVEN IN THE MORNING,” RETURNED BILíBIN WITH A SMILE. +BEEN THINKING ABOUT YOU.” +BEEN TOLD TO, AND THE EMPEROR FRANCIS MERELY LOOKED FIXEDLY INTO HIS +BEEN TRYING FIRST ONE REMEDY AND THEN ANOTHER. WORN OUT BY SLEEPLESSNESS +BEEN UNDER FIRE ALREADY?” ASKED BORíS. +BEEN UNJUST TO THE AUSTRIANS AND ESPECIALLY TO WEYROTHER. WHAT +BEEN UP TO HEAVEN ONLY KNOWS WHAT! AND THEY HAVE HAD TO SUFFER FOR IT. +BEEN VICIOUS ONLY BECAUSE HE HAD SOMEHOW FORGOTTEN HOW GOOD IT IS TO +BEEN WAITING FOR.” AND BURSTING INTO TEARS SHE HID HER FACE IN HER +BEFALLEN HIS SON. +BEFORE ACTION WHICH HE HAD EXPERIENCED AS PREVIOUSLY, ALL THE INNER +BEFORE?” AND AGAIN HE TOLD HIMSELF THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE, THAT THERE +BEFORE AND THE PATH TO THE HOTHOUSE, ALONG WHICH THE PRINCE WAS IN THE +BEFORE AND WAS LESS FREQUENTLY AT HOME. +BEFORE ANNA PáVLOVNA AND THE OTHERS HAD TIME TO SMILE THEIR +BEFORE COMING TO THE DINNER HE HAD HAD HIS HAIR AND WHISKERS TRIMMED, +BEFORE DAWN HE HAD SLEPT FOR A FEW HOURS, AND REFRESHED, VIGOROUS, AND +BEFORE DINNER, PRINCESS MARY AND MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, WHO KNEW +BEFORE FIVE IN THE EVENING THE BATTLE HAD BEEN LOST AT ALL POINTS. MORE +BEFORE GOING DOWN SHE WENT INTO THE ROOM WHERE THE ICONS HUNG AND, HER +BEFORE. HAVING TAKEN A KERCHIEF FROM THE CUPBOARD, WILLARSKI BOUND +BEFORE HE COULD REACH ZNAIM. HENCE BAGRATIóN WITH HIS FOUR THOUSAND +BEFORE HE HAD REACHED THE EMBANKMENTS THAT WERE BEING THROWN UP, HE SAW, +BEFORE HE REACHED HIM, ROSTóV, WHO WAS A SPLENDID HORSEMAN, SPURRED +BEFORE HIM BUT THE MOTIONLESS EARTH AND THE STUBBLE AROUND HIM. THERE +BEFORE HIM, ON THE RIGHT, ROSTóV SAW THE FRONT LINES OF HIS HUSSARS AND +BEFORE HIM. THE FRENCH HAD ADVANCED NEAREST ON OUR RIGHT. BELOW THE +BEFORE HIS SHELTER, HAD BEEN TASTED. +BEFORE. “HOW OFTEN WE SIN, HOW MUCH WE DECEIVE, AND ALL FOR WHAT? I AM +BEFORE. IT WAS A GERMAN CART WITH A PAIR OF HORSES LED BY A GERMAN, AND +BEFORE IT WAS HALTED FACING THE ENEMY. AGAIN, AS AT THE ENNS BRIDGE, +BEFORE KREMS WAS REALLY OF SMALL IMPORTANCE IN VIEW OF SUCH EVENTS AS +BEFORE, OR AM I MISTAKEN NOW? NO, SHE IS NOT STUPID, SHE IS AN EXCELLENT +BEFORE PRINCE ANDREW COULD FINISH, AN AIDE-DE-CAMP CAME IN TO SUMMON +BEFORE RETURNING TO BILíBIN’S PRINCE ANDREW HAD GONE TO A BOOKSHOP +BEFORE ROSTóV HAD TIME TO MAKE OUT WHAT THE BLACK THING WAS THAT HAD +BEFORE THE BATTLE, THE FIGURE OF THE INSIGNIFICANT LITTLE NAPOLEON, AND +BEFORE THE HEIGHTS ON WHICH THE RUSSIAN BATTERIES STOOD GUARDING THE +BEFORE THE JEWS.” +BEFORE THE MASTER ARRIVED. EVERYWHERE PREPARATIONS WERE MADE NOT FOR +BEFORE THE USUAL TERM AND HAS PROPOSED TO ME TO BE YOUR SPONSOR. I +BEFORE THEY REACHED THE ROOM FROM WHICH THE SOUNDS OF THE CLAVICHORD +BEFORE WITH PROPOSALS AND DEMANDS FOR HIM TO JOIN UP WITH THE ARMY OF +BEFORE YESTERDAY DURING MY DAILY WALK THROUGH THE VILLAGE I WITNESSED A +BEGAN. +BEGAN CROSSING HIMSELF WITH THE HAND THAT HELD THE TAPER. +BEGAN FOR THE FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD COLUMNS, WHICH HAD GONE DOWN INTO +BEGAN POPPING CORKS AND FILLING THE CHAMPAGNE GLASSES. AFTER THE FISH, +BEGAN READING. THE OLD PRINCE, NOW AND THEN USING ABBREVIATIONS, WROTE +BEGAN RIDING DOWNHILL TO WHERE THE ROLL OF MUSKETRY WAS HEARD BUT WHERE +BEGAN SPEAKING CLEARLY AND DEFINITELY. REASONS WERE FOUND FOR THE +BEGAN. “THEY’LL BE ANNOUNCING THAT THE GENTLEMEN ARE IN THE DRAWING +BEGAN TO ARRIVE; AND SLOWLY TURNING HER EYES FROM THE VISITOR TO HER +BEGAN TO BE SAID. THESE REASONS WERE THE TREACHERY OF THE AUSTRIANS, A +BEGAN TO DEVISE AND CARRY OUT A PLAN OF HOW PRINCESS MARY SHOULD BE +BEGAN TO WAIL LIKE A BABY WITHOUT KNOWING WHY, EXCEPT THAT SóNYA WAS +BEGAN, WITH A BLUSH THAT LOOKED VERY STRANGE ON HER THIN, DIGNIFIED, +BEG—I’LL TAKE IT!” +BEGIN,” HE WHISPERED, AND TAKING UP HIS GLASS, HE ROSE. ALL WERE +BEGINNING OF THE ACTION.) “I THINK I SENT YOU?” HE ADDED, TURNING TO +BEGINNING TO FEEL FOR THE PRETTY AND PROVOCATIVE MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE +BEGIN THE ENGAGEMENT. +BEGIN, WHEN DID IT ALL COME ABOUT?” AND HERE HE WAS SITTING BY HER +BEGUN TO THINK OF THE LAST STATION AND WAS STILL PONDERING ON THE SAME +BEG YOU TO DRESS YOUR MEN DECENTLY.” +BEHAVING HIMSELF, AND IN GENERAL...” +BEHAVING WITH BORíS.” +BEHAVIOR TO WOMEN ANATOLE HAD A MANNER WHICH PARTICULARLY INSPIRES IN +BEHIND. AND NOW HERE WE STAND HUNGRY.” +BEHIND EACH CHAIR—STOOD WAITING FOR THE PRINCE TO ENTER. THE HEAD +BEHIND HER BACK. THE FRENCH DOCTOR HELD NO TAPER; HE WAS LEANING +BEHIND HIM. +BEHIND HIM BONDARCHúK, AN HUSSAR HE KNEW, JOLTED AGAINST HIM AND LOOKED +BEHIND HIM STOOD THE AIDE-DE-CAMP, THE DOCTORS, AND THE MENSERVANTS; +BEHIND MOVED INFANTRY. THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF WAS STANDING AT THE END OF +BEHIND. ONE OF THEM SAID SOMETHING STRANGE, NOT IN RUSSIAN. IN AMONG THE +BEHIND THE CHAIR, HELD IT IN POSITION. BY THE CHAIR STOOD THE PRIESTS, +BEHIND THE EMPEROR. THE ÁPSHERON MEN, EXCITED BY THE TSAR’S PRESENCE, +BEHIND THE GUNS WERE THEIR LIMBERS AND STILL FARTHER BACK PICKET ROPES +BEHIND THEM, ANOTHER FELL IN FRONT AND SPLASHED DóLOKHOV WITH BLOOD. +BEHIND THE PINEAPPLES AT HER HUSBAND WHOSE FACE AND BALD HEAD SEEMED +BEING (AND WHICH STRUCK PIERRE ESPECIALLY BY CONTRAST WITH HIS OWN +BEING CARRIED BY. SHE LOOKED OUT. THE MEN SERVANTS WERE CARRYING THE +BEING IMPOSED ON HIM WHICH HE COULD NOT FULFILL, AND PLEASED HIM AS AN +BEING MOVED, AND THE PROBING OF HIS WOUND AT THE DRESSING STATION. +BEING ROSE IN HER IMAGINATION, AND CARRIED HER INTO A TOTALLY DIFFERENT +BEING SAID, THOUGHT, AND FELT THAT DAY BY ITS RIDER. +BEING TOLD SHE SAT UPRIGHT, GLANCING NOW AT HER BEAUTIFUL ROUND ARM, +BEING TOO MUCH LOVED; AND BESIDES, YOU ARE FREE, YOU COULD THROW IT +BELIEVED HE WOULD BE REBORN TO A NEW LIFE. +BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU’RE TOLD. YOU WERE TOLD...” HéLèNE LAUGHED, +“BELIEVE ME, PRINCE, A MOTHER’S HEART WILL NEVER FORGET WHAT YOU +“BELIEVE ME, PRINCESS, I AM READY TO DO ALL I CAN,” ANSWERED PRINCE +“BELIEVE ME,” SAID PRINCE DOLGORúKOV, ADDRESSING BAGRATIóN, “IT +BELIEVES, IN THE SPEAKER’S TONE OF CONVICTION AND EARNESTNESS, OR +BELLS RANG, THE STEWARDS RUSHED FORWARD, AND—LIKE RYE SHAKEN TOGETHER +BELOW. +BELOW THE SHOULDER. PIERRE WENT WITH ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA INTO THE SMALL +BELOW, WHERE THE FIGHT WAS BEGINNING, THERE WAS STILL THICK FOG; ON THE +BENDING FORWARD IN HIS ARMCHAIR HE SAID: “LE ROI DE PRUSSE!” AND +BENDING HIS FOREHEAD TO HERS JUST TOUCHED IT, AND PRESSED HER HAND SO +BENEATH HIS DIGNITY TO GIVE ME SATISFACTION, THEN...” +BENEATH HIS SMILE ROSTóV SAW IN HIM THE MOOD HE HAD SHOWN AT THE CLUB +BENT ARM TO MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA. HE DREW HIMSELF UP, A SMILE OF DEBONAIR +BE. OF THE FOUR CRYSTAL GLASSES ENGRAVED WITH THE COUNT’S MONOGRAM +BE OUT OF YOUR WAY! DO GO SOMEWHERE, ANYWHERE... TO THE DEVIL!” HE +BE OVERTHROWN BY THE ANGEL WHOM IT HAS PLEASED THE ALMIGHTY, IN HIS +BE PARTED FROM HER) WOULD BE GAINED, SO PACIFYING HIMSELF WITH THIS +“BE QUIET, BACKBITER!” SAID DOLGORúKOV. “IT IS NOT TRUE; THERE +BE READY TO FULFILL HIS WILL.” WITH THIS CONSOLING THOUGHT (BUT +BERG ALWAYS SPOKE QUIETLY, POLITELY, AND WITH GREAT PRECISION. HIS +BERG AS MUCH AS YOU PLEASE,” SHE FINISHED QUICKLY. +BERG PUT ON THE CLEANEST OF COATS, WITHOUT A SPOT OR SPECK OF DUST, +BERG SMILED JOYOUSLY. THE COUNT, FOLLOWED BY HIS GUESTS, WENT INTO THE +BERG TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO ASK, WITH GREAT POLITENESS, WHETHER, AS WAS +BERG WAS MENTIONED, BY THOSE WHO DID NOT KNOW HIM, AS HAVING, WHEN +BE SEEN FROM THE HILL ON THE OPPOSITE BANK BUT WAS NOT YET VISIBLE FROM +BE SHAKEN IN HER DETERMINATION. +BESIDE HéLèNE. “THIS HAPPINESS IS NOT FOR YOU,” SOME INNER VOICE +BESIDE HIM AND WAS LISTENING NAïVELY TO HIS WORDS. +BESIDE HIM. “THAT MUST BE THE ENEMY’S CAMP!” +BESIDE HIM. THIS HUSSAR, WITH A GRAVE FACE AND WITHOUT A SMILE OR A +BESIDES! BUT DON’T LET’S TALK ABOUT ME; TELL ME HOW YOU MANAGED +“BESIDES HOW CAN I ASK THE EMPEROR FOR HIS INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE RIGHT +“BESIDES THAT, PETER NIKOLáEVICH, BY EXCHANGING INTO THE GUARDS +BESIDES THIS REFINED SELECTION OF SOCIETY ANNA PáVLOVNA’S RECEPTIONS +“BESIDES,” THOUGHT HE, “ALL SUCH ‘WORDS OF HONOR’ ARE +BESIDE THE BED. PIERRE OBEDIENTLY SAT DOWN, HIS EYES ASKING IF HE WERE +BESIDE THE FARTHEST OF THE FOUR UNLIMBERED CANNON. BEFORE THE GUNS AN +BESIDE THEMSELVES OVER THERE AND ONE CAN’T MAKE ANYTHING OUT.” +BESIDE THE OLD PRINCE. +BESIDE WHOM SAT ONLY ONE ELDERLY LADY, WHO WITH HER THIN CAREWORN FACE +BEST FAMILIES IN RUSSIA, BUT SHE WAS POOR, AND HAVING LONG BEEN OUT OF +BEST OF OFFICERS COULD DO IN HIS POSITION, HE WAS IN A STATE AKIN TO +BESTOWED ON VéRA BY NICHOLAS, WAS CONSIDERED VERY STINGING), “AND +BE TALKED OVER AT LENGTH. AT LAST THE CONVERSATION GRADUALLY SETTLED ON +BE THE BEST WAY.” +BE THEY WHAT THEY MIGHT. +BE THUS BOLDLY, PROVOCATIVELY HAPPY.” “AND WHAT NONSENSE ALL THIS IS +BETRAYAL OF THE BOURBON CAUSE. THE SOVEREIGNS! WHY, THEY ARE SENDING +BETRAYING BY THIS DESPERATE AND PROVOCATIVE PROPOSITION HIS EXTREME +BETRAYING HER SYMPATHY FOR THE “DAREDEVIL,” AS SHE CALLED DóLOKHOV. +BETTER DURING THOSE AWFUL MOMENTS—THE FATHER WHO SO REMEMBERED +BETTER NOT LOOK,” HE THOUGHT, BUT HAVING REACHED THE BUSHES HE GLANCED +BETWEEN FOREFINGER AND THUMB, AND AN OLD SERVANT, BENDING OVER FROM +BETWEEN HIMSELF AND THAT LOFTY INFINITE SKY WITH THE CLOUDS FLYING OVER +BETWEEN HIS ACTS AS A PRIVATE PERSON, AS A GENERAL, AND AS AN EMPEROR. +BETWEEN THEM GLEAMED BLUE INFINITY. HE DID NOT TURN HIS HEAD AND DID NOT +BETWEEN THREE AND FOUR O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON PRINCE ANDREW, WHO +BE VERY GLAD TO DO ALL IN MY POWER BOTH FOR YOU AND FOR THIS DEAR YOUNG +BE VIRTUOUS. NOT A TRACE OF HIS FORMER DOUBTS REMAINED IN HIS SOUL. HE +BEWILDERED HIM WITH FINE WORDS, AND HE IS SO FLATTERED BY HIS RAPIDLY +BEWILDERED LOOK AND PASSED BY WITHOUT A WORD. A WOMAN RUSHED OUT AND +BE WORTHY OF HER. AND THAT IS WHAT WE SHALL SEE.” +BEYOND CEREMONIES AND MEANINGLESS PRAYERS AND ARE NOW INSTRUCTED IN +BEZúKHOVA. BUT YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THAT I HAVE NO DESIRE FOR THE POST. +BEZúKHOV’S HOUSE THAT NIGHT HAD GATHERED TO FORTIFY THEMSELVES. +BIG PEOPLE I WRITE A NOTE: ‘PRINCESS SO-AND-SO DESIRES AN INTERVIEW +BILíBIN AND THE REST OF “OURS” BURST OUT LAUGHING IN HIPPOLYTE’S +BILíBIN, “AS YOU KNOW, MY DEAR PRINCE, I NEVER LEAVE HEADQUARTERS. I +BILíBIN CAME OUT TO MEET HIM. HIS USUALLY CALM FACE SHOWED EXCITEMENT. +BILíBIN INTRODUCED HIM TO THE OTHERS. +BILíBIN. “IT’S NOT TREACHERY NOR RASCALITY NOR STUPIDITY: IT IS +BILíBIN LIKED CONVERSATION AS HE LIKED WORK, ONLY WHEN IT COULD BE +BILíBIN’S HOUSE THINKING OUT A LETTER TO HIS FATHER ABOUT THE BATTLE +BILíBIN’S LETTER WHICH WAS WRITTEN IN FRENCH. HE READ WITHOUT +BILíBIN SMILED AND THE WRINKLES ON HIS FACE DISAPPEARED. +BILíBIN WAS A MAN OF THIRTY-FIVE, A BACHELOR, AND OF THE SAME CIRCLE AS +BILíBIN WAS NOW AT ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN A DIPLOMATIC CAPACITY, AND +BILíBIN), WHAT HE HAD READ BEGAN TO INTEREST HIM MORE AND MORE. WHEN HE +BIT AND I’LL GET ROUND HIM.... LISTEN! I’LL TAKE YOUR BET TOMORROW, +BITING HER UNDERLIP. AT SIGHT OF PIERRE HER EXPRESSION SHOWED AN +BLACK-AGATE EYES AT THE FRIGHTENED AND HAPPY NATáSHA. +BLACKEST INGRATITUDE—IN THIS HOUSE...” +BLACK FIGURES OF HUSSARS, BUT IN THE DISTANCE WAS STILL THE SAME MISTY +BLAME. THE TROOPS MEANWHILE STOOD GROWING LISTLESS AND DISPIRITED. AFTER +BLEED HIM AND PATCH HIM UP. HE WILL DRAG ABOUT AS A CRIPPLE, A BURDEN TO +BLEEDING HAND WITH A HANDKERCHIEF TIED ROUND IT) “AND I REMAINED AT +BLEEDING HEAD AND NO CAP WAS BEING DRAGGED ALONG BY TWO SOLDIERS WHO +BLINDFOLDED) QUESTIONED HIM AS TO WHO HE WAS, WHEN AND WHERE HE WAS +BLINKED, WENT RED, GOT UP AND SAT DOWN AGAIN, STRUGGLING WITH HIMSELF +BLISSFUL FACE “LIKE A VEWY DEVIL,” AS DENíSOV EXPRESSED IT. +BLOCKHEAD!” +BLOCKING THE WAY FOR EVERYONE. THE COUNTESS TRIED TO MAKE HIM TALK, +BLOOD FROM IT WAS STREAMING OVER HIS GREATCOAT AS FROM A BOTTLE. HE HAD +BLOOD ON IT. “AH, HERE ARE PEOPLE COMING,” HE THOUGHT JOYFULLY, +BLOOD. ON SEEING THIS, PIERRE MOVED FORWARD WITH HIS BREAST TOWARD THE +BLOOD RUSH TO HIS HEART AND HAD AGAIN TO GET UP AND MOVE ABOUT AND BREAK +BLOOD RUSH TO HIS HEART. “BUT WHERE AND HOW WILL MY TOULON PRESENT +BLOOD WAS GUSHING FROM ITS LEG AS FROM A SPRING. AMONG THE LIMBERS LAY +BLUE MOUNTAINS BEYOND THE RIVER, THE NUNNERY, THE MYSTERIOUS GORGES, AND +BLUE-STRIPED FEATHER BED AND HUGGING HER FRIEND. WITH AN EFFORT SóNYA +BLUSH. +BLUSHING. +BLUSHING: +BLUSHING AND DROPPING HER EYES. +BLUSHING—“OF ASKING THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. HE HAS HAD A LETTER FROM +BODICE, WITH BLACK CURLS TOSSED BACKWARD, THIN BARE ARMS, LITTLE LEGS +BODY. DROWSINESS WAS IRRESISTIBLY MASTERING HIM, BUT HE KEPT AWAKE BY +BODY WAS STRIKINGLY OUT OF PROPORTION TO HER SHORT LEGS. PRINCE VASíLI +BOGDáNICH KNOWS HOW THINGS ARE DONE.” +BOGDáNICH WAS A BRICK: HE TOLD YOU YOU WERE SAYING WHAT WAS NOT TRUE. +BOGDáNOVNA. +BOGDáNOVNA ADVISED PRINCE ANDREW TO LEAVE THE ROOM. +BOGUCHáROVO LAY IN A FLAT UNINTERESTING PART OF THE COUNTRY AMONG +BOLD FOREHEAD THAT BENT OVER HER HAND AND ANSWERED HIS QUESTION BY +BOLDLY, “IF YOU WISH TO REFUSE ONE WHO IS NOT ONLY A BRILLIANT AND +BOLDLY, WITH SAUCY GAIETY, CONFIDENT THAT HER PRANK WOULD BE TAKEN IN +BOLD, TALL, CLOSE HANDWRITING. +BOLKóNSKAYA, VERY PRETTY AND ROSY, THOUGH RATHER TOO PLUMP FOR HER AGE. +“BOLKóNSKI! BOLKóNSKI!... DON’T YOU HEAR? EH? COME QUICK...” HE +“BOLKóNSKI!” HE WHISPERED, HIS VOICE TREMBLING FROM A CONSCIOUSNESS +BOLKóNSKI IN ORDER TO ARRANGE A MATCH FOR HIM WITH THE DAUGHTER OF THAT +BOLKóNSKI NOTICED THE HUSSAR’S STATE OF MIND, AND IT AMUSED HIM. WITH +BOLKóNSKI, OPPOSITE WHICH HUNG ANOTHER SUCH FRAME WITH A BADLY PAINTED +BOLKóNSKI RECOGNIZED PRINCE REPNíN WHOM HE HAD MET IN PETERSBURG +BOLKóNSKI REFERRED TO ANATOLE AS A “PUPIL”) “FOR THE SAKE OF MY +BOLKóNSKI SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS. +BOLKóNSKI THAT THE EMPEROR DESIRED TO GIVE HIM AN AUDIENCE. THE EMPEROR +BOLKóNSKI, THE LITTLE PRINCESS’ HUSBAND. HE WAS A VERY HANDSOME YOUNG +BOLKóNSKI TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO IN TO GET SOME DETAILS OF THE +BOLKóNSKI, TURNING STILL PALER, PUSHED HIM AWAY WITH AN ANGRY LOOK AND +BOLKóNSKI, VERY MODESTLY WITHOUT ONCE MENTIONING HIMSELF, DESCRIBED THE +BOLKóNSKI WAS INVITED EVERYWHERE, AND HAD TO SPEND THE WHOLE MORNING +BOLKóNSKI, WHO SPOKE WITH SUPPRESSED AGITATION. +BOLKóNSKI, WISHING TO PROFIT BY HIS FRIENDLINESS AND OBTAIN FOR HIMSELF +BONAPARTE!” +BONAPARTE, AND HOW BADLY THE LATTER WOULD FARE NOW, ESPECIALLY IF THE +“BONAPARTE...” BEGAN DóLOKHOV, BUT THE FRENCHMAN INTERRUPTED HIM. +“BONAPARTE HAS SAID SO,” REMARKED PRINCE ANDREW WITH A SARCASTIC +BONAPARTE, HAVING COME UP AT A GALLOP, STOPPED HIS HORSE. +BONAPARTE LIKE? HOW DID HE IMPRESS YOU?” +BONAPARTE’S ADJUTANT RODE FULL GALLOP WITH THIS MENACING LETTER TO +BONAPARTE’S NEW TRIUMPH, TOMORROW’S LEVEE AND PARADE, AND THE +BONAPARTE’S SIDE.” +BONAPARTE, THAT THEY DESIRE TO SEE PRINCE AUERSPERG, AND SO ON. THE +BONAPARTE, ‘THAT YOUR MAJESTY SHOULD BE RECEIVED AND TREATED IN MY +BONAPARTE, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE,” REMARKED BOLKóNSKI. +BONAPARTE WAS ANATHEMATIZED AND IN MOSCOW NOTHING BUT THE COMING WAR +BOOKCASES WITH KEYS IN THE LOCKS, THE HIGH DESK FOR WRITING WHILE + BOOK EIGHT: 1811 - 12 + BOOK ELEVEN: 1812 + BOOK FIFTEEN: 1812 - 13 + BOOK FIVE: 1806 - 07 +BOOK FIVE: 1806 - 07 + BOOK FOUR: 1806 +BOOK FOUR: 1806 + BOOK FOURTEEN: 1812 +BOOK FROM THE HIGH DESK. +BOOK HAD BEEN SENT HIM BY SOMEONE UNKNOWN. ONE THING HE CONTINUALLY + BOOK NINE: 1812 + BOOK ONE: 1805 +BOOK ONE: 1805 + BOOK SEVEN: 1810 - 11 + BOOK SIX: 1808 - 10 + BOOK TEN: 1812 + BOOK THIRTEEN: 1812 + BOOK THREE: 1805 +BOOK THREE: 1805 + BOOK TWELVE: 1812 + BOOK TWO: 1805 +BOOK TWO: 1805 +BOOTS AND THE CLINKING OF SPURS THAT CAME TO A STOP, AND A RESPECTFUL +BOOTS BETWEEN THE DINING AND DRAWING ROOMS, HASTILY GREETING THE +BOOTS OR OVERCOATS AND CROWDING ROUND THE BOILERS AND PORRIDGE COOKERS. +BORE ALMOST THE SAME SMILE, EXPRESSING UNSEEMLY THOUGHTS ABOUT THE +BORíS. +BORíS ALSO,” SHE WENT ON, GAINING A LITTLE STRENGTH; “HE IS NICE... +BORíS AND BORíS WAS TO FORWARD THEM TO NICHOLAS. THE LETTERS WERE FROM +BORíS BLUSHED. +BORíS BOWED AGAIN POLITELY. +BORíS BOWED POLITELY. PRINCE VASíLI WITHOUT ACKNOWLEDGING THE BOW +“BORíS, COME HERE,” SAID SHE WITH A SLY AND SIGNIFICANT LOOK. “I +BORíS FELT THAT PIERRE DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM BUT DID NOT CONSIDER +BORíS FOLLOWED HER, SMILING. +BORíS, GROWN MORE MANLY AND LOOKING FRESH, ROSY AND SELF-POSSESSED, +BORíS. “HE WANTED TO THANK YOU HIMSELF.” +BORíS INQUIRED WHAT NEWS THERE MIGHT BE ON THE STAFF, AND WHAT, WITHOUT +BORíS KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THE BOULOGNE EXPEDITION; HE DID NOT READ THE +BORíS LISTENED ATTENTIVELY TO EACH OF THE SPEAKERS, AWAITING HIS TURN, +BORíS LOOKED ATTENTIVELY AND KINDLY AT HER EAGER FACE, BUT DID NOT +BORíS MADE A GRIMACE. +BORíS, OR BETWEEN YOU TWO? IT’S ALL NONSENSE!” +BORíS PAUSED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM, LOOKED ROUND, BRUSHED A LITTLE +BORíS PROMISED TO FULFILL HER WISH AND WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN A +BORíS QUIETLY LEFT THE ROOM AND WENT IN SEARCH OF NATáSHA. THE PLUMP +BORíS RECEIVED NO CLEAR EXPLANATION OF WHY IT HAD BEEN NECESSARY FOR +BORíS ROSE TO MEET ROSTóV, BUT IN DOING SO DID NOT OMIT TO STEADY AND +BORíS SAID NO MORE, BUT LOOKED INQUIRINGLY AT HIS MOTHER WITHOUT TAKING +“BORíS,” SHE SAID TO HER SON WITH A SMILE, “I SHALL GO IN TO SEE +BORíS SMILED, AS IF HE UNDERSTOOD WHAT PRINCE ANDREW WAS ALLUDING TO +BORíS SMILED CIRCUMSPECTLY, SO THAT IT MIGHT BE TAKEN AS IRONICAL +BORíS TO TELL THEM ABOUT HIS JOURNEY TO GLOGAU AND IN WHAT STATE HE +BORíS WAS EXCITED BY THE THOUGHT OF BEING SO CLOSE TO THE HIGHER POWERS +BORíS WITH A SMILE. +BORíS WITH SEVERITY. “I AM GLAD.... ARE YOU HERE ON LEAVE?” HE WENT +BORíS WITH THE HAPPY SMILE SEEN ON THE FACES OF YOUNG MEN WHO HAVE BEEN +BORN, AND SO ON. THEN HE WAS AGAIN LED SOMEWHERE STILL BLINDFOLDED, +BóRY, WHO HAD ONLY JUST ENTERED A REGIMENT OF THE LINE AND WAS BEING +BOSOM AS IT ROSE AND FELL. +BOTH ARMIES SHOULD REMAIN IN POSITION WITHOUT MOVING. MURAT DECLARED +BOTH BEGAN TO CRY AND KISSED AGAIN. MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE ALSO BEGAN TO +BOTH KNEW, AN EXPRESSION THOUGHTFUL AND SAD. THIS EXPRESSION IN PRINCESS +BOTH KURáGIN AND DóLOKHOV WERE AT THAT TIME NOTORIOUS AMONG THE RAKES +BOTH LAUGHED. +BOTH WERE SILENT. +BOTH WERE SILENT. THERE WERE TWO GERMANS AND A RUSSIAN OFFICER IN THE +BOTTLE. I’LL DO IT.... BRING A BOTTLE!” +BOTTLES, CLOAKS, AND OVERSHOES WERE LYING ABOUT; THERE WAS A SMELL OF +BOTTLES OF WINE WITH HIM AND, DESPITE THE JOLTING RUTS ACROSS THE +BOULOGNE EXPEDITION. +BOURIENNE AROUSED HER. SHE RAISED HER EYES, AND TWO STEPS AWAY SAW +BOURIENNE FLUSHED, AND GAVE THE PRINCESS A FRIGHTENED LOOK. +BOURIENNE HAD LONG BEEN WAITING FOR A RUSSIAN PRINCE WHO, ABLE TO +BOURIENNE. I EMBRACE YOU AS I LOVE YOU. +BOURIENNE—I SHALL HAVE TO GET RID OF HER. AND HOW IS IT SHE HAS NOT +BOURIENNE. PRINCESS MARY FELT HIS LOOK WITH A PAINFULLY JOYOUS EMOTION. +BOURIENNE RAPIDLY, IN HER PLEASANT MELLOW TONES AND WITH GUTTURAL R’S. +BOURIENNE’S HEAD AT THE VERY TIME SHE WAS TALKING TO ANATOLE ABOUT +BOURIENNE. THOUGH IN THE NEW REIGN HE WAS FREE TO RETURN TO THE +BOURIENNE, UNFOLDING HER WHITE NAPKIN WITH HER ROSY FINGERS. “HIS +BOURIENNE WAS OFTEN TOUCHED TO TEARS AS IN IMAGINATION SHE TOLD THIS +BOURIENNE WERE ALREADY AWAITING HIM TOGETHER WITH HIS ARCHITECT, WHO BY +BOURIENNE. WHEN SHE ENTERED WITH HER HEAVY STEP, TREADING ON HER HEELS, +BOURIENNE WHO HAD NOT YET SEEN HER. +BOURIENNE WITH A RADIANT FACE THAT SAID: “I KNOW NOTHING, I AM THE +BOURIENNE, WITH HER RIBBON AND PRETTY FACE, AND HER UNUSUALLY ANIMATED +BOWED HEAD. +BOWED HIS HEAD IN SIGN OF ASSENT AND APPROVAL. HE RODE OFF AT A WALK TO +BOWS AND TRYING TO ESCAPE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE FROM THE GLANCES FIXED +BOY RAN AFTER THEM ANGRILY, AS IF VEXED THAT THEIR PROGRAM HAD BEEN +BOY... THE COUNTESS... PROMOTED TO BE AN OFFICER... THANK GOD... HOW +BRAG ABOUT IT, BUT IF HE STAYS OUT TILL MORNING IT MEANS HE’S LOST AND +BRAGGART AND HIS SON, NO DOUBT, IS A FINE SPECIMEN,” HE GRUMBLED TO +BRAIN—THAT’S ALL THAT’S LEFT ME!” AND AT THE SAME TIME HE SAID +BRANDISHING THE SLAB. +BRAUNAU HAD HALTED HALF A MILE FROM THE TOWN, WAITING TO BE INSPECTED +BRAVE?” +BRAVE OFFICER,” THOUGHT BAGRATIóN. PRINCE ANDREW, WITHOUT REPLYING, +BREAST WITH THE OTHER HAND AND TO REPEAT AFTER SOMEONE WHO READ ALOUD +BREATH AND BEATING HEART HE MOVED TOWARD THE RHETOR (BY WHICH NAME THE +BREATHING, HER MOVEMENTS, HER BEAUTY. THEN IT WOULD SUDDENLY SEEM TO HIM +BREECHES AND ARM. +BRICK BUILDINGS, BUILT TO PLAN, WERE BEING BUILT BY SERFS WHOSE MANORIAL +BRIDGE BECAUSE HE HAD NOT BROUGHT ANY BURNING STRAW WITH HIM LIKE THE +BRIDGE. BUT THIS TIME NESVíTSKI COULD NOT SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING THERE, +BRIDGE, CROSS IT, AND NOW WITH THEIR WHOLE ARMY ARE ON THIS SIDE OF THE +BRIDGE DID NOT TAKE HIS EYES OFF THE WOMEN TILL THEY HAD PASSED. WHEN + * BRIDGEHEAD. +BRIDGE IS TAKEN! BUT WHAT IS BEST OF ALL,” HE WENT ON, HIS EXCITEMENT +BRIDGE NESVíTSKI FOUND THE COLONEL TO WHOM HE HAD TO DELIVER THE ORDER, +BRIDGE NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO. THERE WAS NO ONE TO HEW DOWN (AS HE +BRIDGE. SOMETIMES THROUGH THE MONOTONOUS WAVES OF MEN, LIKE A FLECK OF +BRIDGE WAS AT TIMES VEILED BY A DIAPHANOUS CURTAIN OF SLANTING RAIN, AND +BRIGHT AND HAPPY EYES AT HER SISTER-IN-LAW. +BRIGHTENING UP. +BRIGHTER AND MORE ENERGETIC. HE WAS SLIGHTLY FLUSHED AFTER GALLOPING TWO +BRIGHT HOME, HIS FLUFFY FUR COAT, HIS QUICKLY GLIDING SLEIGH, HIS +BRIGHTLY UPON THE DANUBE AND THE DARK HILLS AROUND IT. IT WAS CALM, AND +BRIGHT. SóNYA RAN AWAY, BUT NATáSHA, TAKING HER BROTHER’S ARM, LED +BRIGHT, SPARKLING BLUE EYES INTO HIS ANTAGONIST’S FACE. HIS MOUTH WORE + BRING GLORY THEN TO ALEXANDER’S REIGN +BRING HIMSELF TO PART FROM HIS DAUGHTER AND GIVE HER TO A HUSBAND. THE +BRING HIM TO THEE, COULD TAKE HIM BY THE HAND AND SHOW HIM TO THEE. BUT +BRING ME SUCH TATTERED AND DIRTY NOTES AS LAST TIME, BUT NICE CLEAN ONES +BRISKLY FROM CORNER TO CORNER OF THE ROOM, LOOKING STRAIGHT BEFORE HIM +BROAD CHEEKBONES, SUNKEN CHEEKS, AND LISTLESS TIRED EXPRESSIONS, AND +BROKEN GLASS REMAINED IN THAT POSITION WITHOUT TAKING HIS EYES FROM THE +BROKEN LEG, THAT LAY SCREAMING PITEOUSLY BESIDE THE HARNESSED HORSES. +BROKEN OFF, THE PORCH, AND THE POST BY THE SIDE OF THE PAVEMENT. HE +BROKE UP TWO SQUARES, YOUR EXCELLENCY.” +BROTHER, AND THAT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WAS PREPARING THEM FOR IT. BOLD AS +BROTHER A SMALL, OVAL, ANTIQUE, DARK-FACED ICON OF THE SAVIOUR IN A GOLD +BROTHER HIPPOLYTE TOLD ME ABOUT YOUR GOINGS ON. OH!” AND SHE SHOOK HER +BROTHERHOOD HAS MADE APPLICATION FOR YOU TO BE RECEIVED INTO OUR ORDER +BROTHERHOOD OF MAN,” HE KEPT SAYING TO HIMSELF, ASSOCIATING THESE +“BROTHER-INSTRUCTOR” AS HE CALLED THE GRAND MASTER. +BROTHERLY LOVE, WAGGED THEIR HEADS IN TOKEN OF THEIR MUTUAL AFFECTION, +BROTHER RHETOR, AND AWAITED HIS FURTHER COMMANDS. +BROTHERS, AND BURNED WITH IMPATIENCE TO SET TO WORK WITH THEM. +BROTHERS MORE WORTHY THAN HE WOULD TEST HIM AND THAT PIERRE HAD ONLY TO +BROTHER WHO PREPARED A SEEKER FOR ENTRANCE INTO THE BROTHERHOOD WAS +BROUGHT AT ONCE?” +BROUGHT FROM ITALY, REPRESENTING AN ANGEL WITH OUTSPREAD WINGS READY TO +BROUGHT HIS SNUFFBOX TO REST AND, WITHOUT LOOKING AT WEYROTHER OR AT +BROUGHT INTO THE ROOM HAD VANISHED; AND AS IF ANSWERING A QUESTION NO +BROUGHT INTO WISCHAU FROM OUR OUTPOSTS. THIS OFFICER WAS SAVARY. THE +BROWS HE GLANCED INTO ROSTóV’S EYES. +BRUNETTE WITH A TENDER LOOK IN HER EYES WHICH WERE VEILED BY LONG +BUGLER, SHOWED ONE COMMON EXPRESSION OF CONFLICT, IRRITATION, AND +BUILDINGS—SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, AND ASYLUMS—ON ALL THE ESTATES +BUILD PRINCE ANDREW COULD ENDURE PHYSICAL FATIGUE FAR BETTER THAN MANY +BUILT IN ORDER TO HAVE A NOOK OF ONE’S OWN IN WHICH TO BE QUIET. AND +BUILT LODGE CLOSE TO THE POND. ANTóN, A MAN WHO HAD LOOKED AFTER PRINCE +BULLETS. THEY REACHED THE FRONT, SEVERAL BULLETS SPED OVER THEM, AND +BULLY,” THOUGHT PIERRE, “TO KILL A MAN MEANS NOTHING TO HIM. IT MUST +“BUONAPARTE HIMSELF!... JUST LISTEN TO THE FOOL, WHAT HE DOESN’T +“BUONAPARTE?” SAID BILíBIN INQUIRINGLY, PUCKERING UP HIS FOREHEAD +BUONAPARTES. BUT I WARN YOU, IF YOU DON’T TELL ME THAT THIS MEANS WAR, +“BUONAPARTE WAS BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON IN HIS MOUTH. HE HAS GOT +BURDEN TO HIM, AND BóRY’S LIFE IS ONLY JUST BEGINNING....” +BURN, I COULD NOT KNOW BY THE HOLY SPIRIT!” +BURNT HIS BOATS, AND I BELIEVE THAT WE ARE READY TO BURN OURS.” +BURSTS OF SONG AND MUSIC AND THE INCONSEQUENT BUT FRIENDLY PRATTLE OF +BUSINESS!” +BUSTLINGLY SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING. + * “BUSY ALREADY?” +BUSY, AND BUSY MAKING HIS FATHER COMFORTABLE, WHILE EVIDENTLY HE, +BUSY WITH HIS ROAST MEAT, HOPED HE HAD BEEN FORGOTTEN: “DIDN’T +BUSY WITH SIMILAR PEACEFUL AFFAIRS—NEAR THE SHELTER OF THE REGIMENTAL +BUT ALSO FOR HIS SKILL IN DEALING AND CONVERSING WITH THOSE IN THE +BUT ALTHOUGH ALPáTYCH, FRIGHTENED AT HIS OWN TEMERITY IN AVOIDING THE +“BUT AM I NOT TOO COLD WITH HIM?” THOUGHT THE PRINCESS. “I TRY +BUT AN HOUR.... TELL ME ALL YOU KNOW ABOUT THE WILL, AND ABOVE ALL WHERE +BUT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA DID NOT OBEY HIM. +BUT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WENT FORWARD A STEP OR TWO TO KEEP HER HOLD ON THE +BUT ANNA PáVLOVNA—WHO WAS IN THE EXCITED CONDITION OF A COMMANDER ON +BUT A ROLL OF VOLLEYS OF MUSKETRY FROM THE SLOPES OF THE HILL BEFORE +BUT AS A YOUTH IN LOVE TREMBLES, IS UNNERVED, AND DARES NOT UTTER THE +BUT, AS HE HAD TO SAY SOMETHING, HE BEGAN BY ASKING HER WHETHER SHE WAS +“BUT AS IT IS, I KNOW EVERY WORD SHE UTTERS. SHE WILL COME RUNNING TO +BUT AS SHE PASSED THE SITTING ROOM SHE NOTICED TWO COUPLES SITTING, +BUT AS SORROW WAS MANIFEST IN EVERY SMILE, THE SOUND OF EVERY WORD, AND +“BUT AS YOU ARE A PHILOSOPHER, BE A CONSISTENT ONE, LOOK AT THE OTHER +BUT AT IRREGULAR INTERVALS, AND GRAPESHOT CRACKED AND RATTLED ONTO THE +BUT ATTACKED AND CAPTURED BY A SUPERIOR ENEMY FORCE AS A RESULT OF ONE +BUT AT THAT INSTANT A TALL AUSTRIAN GENERAL IN A GREATCOAT, WITH THE +BUT AT THAT MOMENT THE THOUGHT OCCURRED TO HER THAT HER FATE WOULD BE +BUT AT THE INCREDIBLE BOLDNESS AND SMARTNESS OF THIS LITTLE GIRL WHO HAD +BUT AT THE MOMENT WHEN HE IMAGINED HIMSELF CALMED BY SUCH REFLECTIONS, +“BUT A VERY KIND MAN, PRINCE,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WITH A +BUT BEFORE HE HAD FINISHED READING, A STENTORIAN MAJOR-DOMO ANNOUNCED +BUT BEFORE HE HAD FINISHED SPEAKING, PRINCE ANDREW, FEELING TEARS OF +BUT BEFORE PIERRE COULD DECIDE WHAT ANSWER HE WOULD SEND, THE COUNTESS +BUT BEFORE PRINCE VASíLI HAD FINISHED HIS PLAYFUL SPEECH, PIERRE, +“BUT BETWEEN NOT RECOGNIZING HIM AS EMPEROR AND CALLING HIM GENERAL +BUT BORíS AGAIN INTERRUPTED HIM. +BUT BORíS... NO!” (SHE SHUT HER EYES.) “NO! THERE’S NOTHING AT +BUT BORíS NOTICED THAT HE WAS PREPARING TO MAKE FUN OF BERG, AND +BUT BORíS SPOKE DISTINCTLY, CLEARLY, AND DRYLY, LOOKING STRAIGHT INTO +BUT DóLOKHOV DID NOT GO AWAY; HE UNTIED THE HANDKERCHIEF AROUND HIS +“BUT DON’T HURT MY LITTLE HORSE!” SAID THE ALSATIAN GOOD-NATUREDLY +“BUT DO YOU KNOW, MY DEAR, THAT WAS A CAPITAL JOKE,” SAID THE COUNT; +BUT ENOUGH OF GOSSIP. I AM AT THE END OF MY SECOND SHEET OF PAPER, AND +BUT EVIDENTLY THE CRISIS WAS OVER AND HE WAS CONVALESCENT. PRINCE ANDREW +BUT EXTREMELY ATTRACTIVE. +“BUT FOR GOD’S SAKE, BE CAREFUL, YOU KNOW HOW IT MAY AFFECT YOUR +BUT GOD WILL SUPPORT YOU: YOU ARE YOUNG, AND ARE NOW, I HOPE, IN COMMAND +BUT HAD NEVER SPOKEN TO HER OF LOVE. NOW HE FELT THAT IT WAS INEVITABLE, +BUT HAD ON ONE OF HER BEST DRESSES. HER HAIR WAS CAREFULLY DONE AND HER +BUT HASTE WAS BECOMING IMPERATIVE. CANNON AND MUSKETRY, MINGLING +BUT HE COULD NOT MAKE UP HIS MIND TO TAKE THE FINAL STEP. HE FELT +BUT HE DID NOT EXPLAIN TO HIMSELF WHAT THESE NEW RELATIONS WERE. +BUT HE IMMEDIATELY RECALLED HIS PROMISE TO PRINCE ANDREW NOT TO GO +“BUT HE MUST BE A FREEMASON,” SAID HE, REFERRING TO THE ABBé WHOM +BUT HE SCOWLED AT HER ANGRILY THOUGH ALSO WITH SUFFERING IN HIS EYES, +BUT HE WENT ON NAïVELY LOOKING AROUND THROUGH HIS SPECTACLES AS IF IN +BUT HIS AIM TO CONSIDER, AND HE REACHED IT. BUT TIE YOURSELF UP WITH +BUT HIS CHARACTER...” SAID TIMóKHIN. +BUT HOPELESS: “THE SOVEREIGNS, MADAME... WHAT HAVE THEY DONE FOR LOUIS +“BUT HOW ARE YOU TO GET THAT BALANCE?” PIERRE WAS BEGINNING. +“BUT HOW IS IT THE DOCTOR FROM MOSCOW IS NOT HERE YET?” SAID THE +“BUT HOW OFTEN I HAVE FELT PROUD OF HER, PROUD OF HER MAJESTIC BEAUTY +BUT I AM STILL SO WEAK THAT I LOVE MY LIFE, THE MEANING OF WHICH IS ONLY +BUT I DO NOT BELIEVE IT. I HAVE NO RIGHT TO, AND CAN’T, BELIEVE IT.” +“BUT I DO NOT KNOW, FATHER!” +“BUT IF FOR ANY REASON YOU DON’T FEEL INCLINED TO TALK TO ME,” +“BUT IF THE BRIDGE IS CROSSED IT MEANS THAT THE ARMY TOO IS LOST? IT +BUT IF THE COUNT, GETTING MORE AND MORE INTO THE SWING OF IT, CHARMED +“BUT IF YOU WON’T ACCEPT MONEY FROM ME LIKE A COMRADE, YOU WILL +BUT I HAVE KILLED HER, KILLED... SHE WON’T GET OVER IT! SHE WON’T +“BUT I HAVE NOTHING HERE,” REPLIED PIERRE, SUPPOSING THAT HE WAS +“BUT I JUST WISH TO SAY, TO AVOID MISUNDERSTANDINGS, THAT YOU ARE +BUT IN HIS USUAL IMPULSIVE AND HEARTY WAY HE TOOK BORíS BY THE HAND +BUT INSTEAD OF THE BAND A CHOIR BEGAN SINGING A CANTATA COMPOSED BY PAUL +BUT IN THE CENTER WHERE THE MEN WITH A FLAG OF TRUCE HAD PASSED THAT +“BUT IN WHAT POSITION ARE WE GOING TO ATTACK HIM? I HAVE BEEN AT THE +“BUT IN WHAT WAS I TO BLAME?” HE ASKED. “IN MARRYING HER WITHOUT +“BUT I REMEMBER PUTTING IT THERE.” +“BUT IT CAN’T BE HE, ALONE IN THE MIDST OF THIS EMPTY FIELD!” +BUT IT IS A BEAUTIFUL VOICE THAT MUST BE TRAINED.” ONLY THEY GENERALLY +“BUT IT ISN’T?...” +BUT IT LIFTED ALL THE MORE SWEETLY, AND WAS ESPECIALLY CHARMING WHEN SHE +“BUT IT MUST BE BROUGHT TO A HEAD. THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW WILL BE +BUT IT WAS TOO LATE. SHE WAS LOOKING AT THEM WITH AN EXPRESSION THEY +“BUT I WISH IT,” HE SAID. “I BEG YOU—GIVE IT HIM!” +“BUT JOKING APART,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, “DO YOU REALLY THINK THE +BUT JOYOUS AND EAGER CROWD DOWN THE HILL AT THEIR DISORDERED FOE. +BUTLER, NAPKIN ON ARM, WAS SCANNING THE SETTING OF THE TABLE, MAKING +BUT LIKE A PRIEST’S BENEDICTION, APPROACHED THE GENERAL. THOUGH +BUT LOOKED AT HIM WITH A CONTEMPTUOUS SMILE, WAITING FOR THE VALET TO +BUT MANAGED MEANWHILE TO LOOK ROUND REPEATEDLY AT HIS NEIGHBOR, THE +BUT MILORáDOVICH WAS AT THAT MOMENT EVIDENTLY THINKING OF ANYTHING + * “BUT MY DEAR FELLOW, WITH ALL MY RESPECT FOR THE ORTHODOX +“BUT, MY DEAR MONSIEUR PIERRE,” SAID SHE, “HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THE +“BUT, MY DEAR PRINCESS,” ANSWERED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA BLANDLY BUT +“BUT, MY DEAR,” SAID PRINCE VASíLI SUDDENLY, CLUTCHING THE LITTLE +“BUT, MY DEAR SIR,” SAID NESVíTSKI AS HE DREW UP, TAKING OFF HIS +“BUT, MY POOR CATICHE, IT IS AS CLEAR AS DAYLIGHT! HE WILL THEN BE THE +BUT NEITHER ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA NOR THE FOOTMAN NOR THE COACHMAN, WHO +BUT NOT CONCEALING THE FACT THAT SHE WOULD NOT BE DISTRESSED IF THEY +“BUT NOTHING MORE WOULD COME OF IT. THERE WILL SOON BE A BATTALION OF +“BUT NOW I AM OFF AT ONCE.” +BUT NOW WE ARE ALL GOING TO ——’S.” + BUT OH! TILL THEN I CANNOT LIVE!... +“BUT ONE CANNOT DELAY, PRINCE, AT SUCH A MOMENT! CONSIDER THAT THE +BUT ONLY A SORT OF PUPPET SHOW AT WHICH THE MEN OF THE DAY WERE PLAYING, +BUT ONLY CHANGED CHARACTER. THE HORSES WERE REPLACED BY OTHERS FROM A +BUT ON THE LEFT FLANK THE COLUMNS OF INFANTRY, CAVALRY, AND ARTILLERY, +BUT ON TUESDAY EVENING, HAVING COME TO HéLèNE’S SPLENDID SALON, +BUT OUR STORIES ARE THE STORIES OF MEN WHO HAVE BEEN UNDER THE ENEMY’S +BUT PIERRE CONTINUED HIS SPEECH WITHOUT HEEDING HER. +BUT PIERRE THOUGHT IT NECESSARY TO ASK: “HOW IS...” AND HESITATED, +“BUT, PRINCE,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, “AFTER SUCH A SOLEMN +“BUT REALLY, HADN’T I BETTER GO AWAY?” HE ASKED, LOOKING KINDLY AT +BUT REMARKED THAT BESIDES THESE CHANGES IT WOULD BE NECESSARY TO GO INTO +BUT ROSTóV DID NOT REPLY. +BUT ROSTóV PULLED AWAY HIS ARM AND, WITH AS MUCH ANGER AS THOUGH +BUT SAID, IN A CARELESS AND EVEN RUDE VOICE, THAT IT HAPPENS TO +“BUT SERIOUSLY,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, “WE CAN AT ANY RATE SAY +“BUT SHE’S STUPID. I HAVE MYSELF SAID SHE IS STUPID,” HE THOUGHT. +BUT SHE WAS TOO EXCITED TO EAT ANYTHING AND KEPT WRIGGLING ABOUT ON HER +BUT SHOULDN’T WE GET THE GYPSY SINGERS AS WELL? YOU MILITARY MEN LIKE +“BUT STILL THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE CAMPAIGN IS OVER,” SAID +“BUT TELL ME, WHAT IS HE LIKE, EH?” SAID PRINCE ANDREW AGAIN. +“BUT THAT IS MY CONVICTION, AND JUDGING BY THE LAST LETTER WITH WHICH +“BUT THAT’S ALL RUBBISH,” NATáSHA CHATTERED ON. “AND IS +“BUT THAT’S JUST THE SAME AS MYSELF—THEY ARE NOT OTHERS,” +“BUT THAT’S THE GRAND DUKE, AND I WANT THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OR THE +“BUT THE BEST OF IT WAS,” SAID ONE, TELLING OF THE MISFORTUNE OF +BUT THE CONVOYMAN TOOK NO NOTICE OF THE WORD “GENERAL” AND SHOUTED +BUT THE GUNS REMAINED LOADED, THE LOOPHOLES IN BLOCKHOUSES AND +BUT THE OFFICER THRASHED HIM BECAUSE HE HAD TO GET ON AS QUICKLY AS +BUT THE PRINCESS DID NOT LISTEN TO HIM. +BUT THE QUESTION “HOW?” THAT INTERESTED HIM. WHAT THE DIPLOMATIC +BUT THESE WORDS CAME LIKE A PITEOUS, DESPAIRING CRY AND AN ENTREATY FOR +BUT THE SMILE DID NOT ENHANCE VéRA’S BEAUTY AS SMILES GENERALLY DO; +BUT THE STAFF OFFICER DID NOT FINISH WHAT HE WANTED TO SAY. A CANNON +BUT THE TALK IN EVERY GROUP WAS CHIEFLY ABOUT THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER. HIS +“BUT THE WORST OF IT, GENTLEMEN—I AM GIVING KURáGIN AWAY TO +“BUT THEY HEARD HIM AT THE COUNCIL OF WAR AND WILL HEAR HIM WHEN HE +“BUT THEY SAY THAT WAR HAS BEEN DECLARED,” REPLIED THE VISITOR. +BUT THOSE TEARS WERE PLEASANT TO THEM BOTH. +BUT TO GO HOME ALONE, SEE HIS SISTERS, BROTHER, MOTHER, AND FATHER, +BUT TO HELP ENGLAND AND AUSTRIA AGAINST THE GREATEST MAN IN THE WORLD IS +BUTTON OF HIS WAISTCOAT. +BUT UNABASHED. +BUT WENT ON TURNING USELESSLY IN THE SAME PLACE. +“BUT WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY LIVING ONLY FOR YOURSELF?” ASKED PIERRE, +“BUT WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN UP TO?” ASKED THE COUNTESS. +“BUT WHAT IS THERE TO SAY ABOUT ME?” SAID PIERRE, HIS FACE RELAXING + * “BUT WHAT THE DEVIL WAS HE DOING IN THAT GALLEY?” +BUT WHEN HE REACHED IT HE FOUND IT WAS A ROAD. HAVING COME OUT ONTO +BUT WHEN KATIE BROUGHT THE REQUIRED DRESS, PRINCESS MARY REMAINED +“BUT WHERE DO YOU COME FROM NOT TO KNOW WHAT EVERY COACHMAN IN THE +“BUT WHERE IS SóNYA?” +BUT WHICH POSSESSES QUALITIES RESEMBLING THOSE OF THE SYMBOL.” +“BUT WHY DO YOU EXPECT THAT HE WILL LEAVE US ANYTHING?” +“BUT WHY TALK OF ME?... TALK TO ME, YES, TELL ME ABOUT YOUR TRAVELS +BUT WHY, WHITHER, AND WHO THEY WERE, IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE OUT. +“BUT WITH SUCH IDEAS WHAT MOTIVE HAVE YOU FOR LIVING? ONE WOULD SIT +BUT WON’T YOU COME TO THIS OTHER TABLE?” REPEATED ANNA PáVLOVNA. +BUT WOULD PROBABLY NEVER EVEN INQUIRE AND WOULD NEVER KNOW THAT THE +“BUT YOU DESPISE ME. YOU WHO ARE SO PURE CAN NEVER UNDERSTAND BEING SO +“BUT YOU KNOW HOW IT ALL ENDED, DON’T YOU? YOU HEARD OF THE DUEL?” +“BUT YOU KNOW THE WISE MAXIM YOUR EXCELLENCY, ADVISING ONE TO EXPECT +“BUT YOU MEANT TO STAY ANOTHER TWO DAYS?” +“BUT YOU MUST DECIDE ON SOMETHING! YOUR FATHER EXPECTS IT.” +BUXHöWDEN IS COMMANDER IN CHIEF BY SENIORITY, BUT GENERAL BENNIGSEN +BUXHöWDEN’S PART AND AN EPILEPTIC FIT ON BENNIGSEN’S. BUT AT THE +BWICKS AND IT’S NASTY WORK! AN ATTACK’S PLEASANT WORK! HACKING +BY A FAR MORE SERIOUS MATTER THAN A DESIRE TO SHOW HIS CONTEMPT FOR +BY A FEELING OF DESIRE WHILE STOOPING OVER THE SNUFFBOX AT ANNA +BY ANNA PáVLOVNA, WAS ABOUT OUR DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH AUSTRIA AND +BY A SCARLET-LIVERIED FOOTMAN THAT MORNING, RAN AS FOLLOWS: +BY BOLKóNSKI—AN ADJUTANT OF KUTúZOV’S, WHO’S A FRIEND OF MINE. +BY BORíS ARRIVED AT THE PALACE TO FIND DOLGORúKOV. EVERYONE AT +BY EVENING, THE ADJUTANTS HAD SPREAD IT TO ALL ENDS AND PARTS OF THE +BY FINDING HUSBANDS FOR ME (MOST OF WHOM I DON’T EVEN KNOW), THE +BY HER HUSBAND, MORTEMART, THE DELIGHTFUL PRINCE HIPPOLYTE WHO HAD +BY HIGHFALUTIN WORDS, AND GERMANS BY LOGICAL ARGUMENTS TO SHOW THEM +BY HIS AGE HE SHOULD HAVE BELONGED TO THE YOUNGER MEN, BUT BY HIS WEALTH +BY HIS HOME CIRCLE AS THE BEST OF SONS, A HERO, AND THEIR DARLING +BY ITS GRAY DRESS. “BUT NO! WHY DID THIS THOUGHT NEVER OCCUR TO ME +BY KUTúZOV WAS HURRIEDLY RETREATING ALONG THE DANUBE, STOPPING WHERE +BY LEO TOLSTOY/TOLSTOI +“BY PURIFYING AND REGENERATING OUR MEMBERS WE TRY, THIRDLY, TO IMPROVE +BY SIX HORSES AT A SMART TROT. BEHIND THE CALèCHE GALLOPED THE SUITE +BY SOMEONE’S ORDER, THE BATTERY HAD CONTINUED FIRING AND WAS ONLY NOT +BY THE AMMUNITION WAGON. +BY THE AMUSING SCENE SHE FORESAW. SHE DREW HER WOOL DOWN THROUGH THE +BY THE CLATTER OF KNIVES AND FORKS, THE VOICES OF VISITORS, AND THE +BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. DESPITE THE UN-RUSSIAN APPEARANCE OF THE +BY THE DIM LIGHT, TO WHICH PIERRE HAD ALREADY BECOME ACCUSTOMED, HE +BY THE DISORDERLY MOVEMENT OF THE RUSSIAN COLUMNS, AND FROM ALL +BY THE FIRE. ONE OF THEM STUMBLED. +BY THE FRENCH WHO HAD CROSSED THE VIENNA BRIDGE, AND ENCUMBERED BY HIS +BY THEIR REDNESS TO CONTRAST MORE THAN USUAL WITH HIS GRAY HAIR. AT THE +BY THE LIVING MASS OF MOVING INFANTRY, VáSKA DENíSOV, RED AND SHAGGY, +BY THE SOFTNESS AND FLEXIBILITY OF HER SMALL LIMBS, AND BY A CERTAIN +BY THE WAY, BAGRATIóN CAME OUT ON THE VIENNA-ZNAIM ROAD AT HOLLABRüNN +“BY THE WAY, YOUR EXCELLENCY, I SHOULD INFORM YOU,” HE +BY THE WHOLE OF THE COUNT’S PLUMP FIGURE, IN MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA FOUND +BY THIS TIME THEY WERE ALL APPROACHING TúSHIN’S BATTERY, AND A BALL +BY THOSE TROOPS THAT THEY WERE THEMSELVES IN THE FRONT LINE AND HAD +BY, TRIED TO MAKE A JOKE, SAYING THAT KUTúZOV HAD EVIDENTLY FAILED TO +BY TWO CONSIDERATIONS: HIS WIFE’S GUILT, OF WHICH AFTER HIS SLEEPLESS +BY “WHAT WAS DUE FROM THE RYAZáN ESTATE” PRINCE VASíLI MEANT +BY WHICH THE PRINCE WAS TO ENTER. PRINCE ANDREW WAS LOOKING AT A LARGE +BY WHICH THE TOTAL EXCEEDED THE ROUND SUM OF FORTY-THREE THOUSAND; AND +CADET, SUPPORTING ONE HAND WITH THE OTHER, CAME UP TO TúSHIN AND ASKED +CAHD.” +CALAMITY! WHAT A CALAMITY!” +CALèCHE STOPPED IN FRONT OF THE REGIMENT. KUTúZOV AND THE AUSTRIAN +CALLED EVERYONE WITHOUT EXCEPTION AND WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST VARIATION +CALLED HER NEPHEW—AND PLAYING WITH HIM. +CALLED HIM A GREAT MAN,” REMARKED THE VICOMTE. +CALLED HIM THIS MORNING?” +CALLED THE COLONEL OF THE REGIMENT AND SAID A FEW WORDS TO HIM. +CALL HIM BUT CHANGED HER MIND. “LET HIM LOOK FOR ME,” THOUGHT SHE. +CALLING HIM A COURT WEATHERCOCK AND AN OLD SATYR. +CALLING HIM IN A WHISPER. +CALLING ON THE PRINCIPAL AUSTRIAN DIGNITARIES. BETWEEN FOUR AND FIVE +CALLS.’” +CALM, AND PENETRATING, A LOOK I LOVED SO WELL AND SEEM TO SEE BEFORE ME +CALMER. +“CALM YOURSELF, MY DEAR. I WILL GO TO MY FATHER,” SHE SAID, AND WENT +“CALM YOURSELF, PRINCESS! IT SEEMS SO TO YOU BECAUSE.... I ASSURE YOU +CAME A LETTER FROM KUTúZOV INFORMING THE PRINCE OF THE FATE THAT HAD +CAME A MAN WEARING A STRANGE SHAKO AND A BLUE CLOAK, SWARTHY, SUNBURNED, +CAME AND LEANED ON HIS ELBOWS, FACING HER AND BESIDE MADEMOISELLE +CAME GALLOPING UP ON A COSSACK HORSE THAT COULD SCARCELY CARRY HIS +CAME IN. +CAME IN FROM HIS CLUB, CHEERFUL AND CONTENTED. NICHOLAS, HEARING HIM +CAME MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA AND THE COUNT, BOTH WITH MERRY COUNTENANCES. THE +CAME NATURALLY TO HER, BUT WAS NOW VERY ILL-SUITED TO HER CAREWORN FACE. +CAME OUT—WEARING A VELVET COAT WITH A SINGLE STAR ON HIS BREAST, +CAME OVER HIS FACE. HE SAID NOTHING TO HER BUT LOOKED AT HER FOREHEAD +CAME, THE PRETTY, FAIR-HAIRED FRENCHWOMAN, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, +CAME THY CONCEPTION OF THE EXISTENCE OF SUCH AN INCOMPREHENSIBLE BEING? +CAME TOGETHER AND CROWDED IN THE LARGE DRAWING ROOM BY THE DOOR OF THE +CAME TO HIS FORMER CHIEF WITH AN ORDER FROM THE COMMANDER OF THE REAR +CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT HE WOULD NOT FIND BALD HILLS DULL EITHER. +CAME TO THESE BALLS WITH AN AIR OF CONDESCENSION AND FOUND THEM MOST +CAME WITH THE NEWS THAT THE PRINCE COULD NOT ATTEND. PRINCE ANDREW CAME +CAMPAIGN IS OVER?” +CAMPAIGN. THE FRENCHMAN, CONFUSING THE AUSTRIANS WITH THE RUSSIANS, WAS +CANAL. AND THERE WAS THE BEAR SWIMMING ABOUT WITH THE POLICEMAN ON HIS +“CAN A SLEIGH PASS?” HE ASKED HIS OVERSEER, A VENERABLE MAN, +CAN BOTH FALL ON HIS FLANK AND PURSUE HIM OVER THE PLAIN BETWEEN +CANDLESTICKS LIKE THOSE USED IN CHURCHES. TWO OF THE BROTHERS LED PIERRE +CANDLES WERE RELIT AND HE WAS TOLD THAT HE WOULD SEE THE FULL LIGHT; THE +“CAN HE REALLY BE GOING AWAY LEAVING ME ALONE WITHOUT HAVING TOLD ME +CAN I RETAIN IN SOME DEGREE OF PURITY THE LIQUID I RECEIVE.” +“CAN I SEE THE COUNT?” PIERRE AGAIN ASKED. +CAN IT BE POSSIBLE?” SHE THOUGHT, NOT DARING TO LOOK AT HIS FACE, BUT +CANNONADE WAS DYING DOWN, BUT THE RATTLE OF MUSKETRY BEHIND AND ON THE +CANNON AIMED AT ME?” +CANNON AND THE CROWD WERE DRAGGING IT OUT. A CANNON BALL KILLED SOMEONE +CANNON BALLS AT THE FRENCH WITH BOTH HANDS. +CANNON, WAS A SMALL, NEWLY CONSTRUCTED WATTLE SHED FROM WHICH CAME THE +CANNOT ATTAIN THE KNOWLEDGE OF WHICH YOU SPEAK.” +CANNOT, DISAPPOINT THEM. BUT HOW WILL IT BE? I DO NOT KNOW, BUT IT +CANNOT KNOW HIM. YOU DO NOT KNOW HIM AND THAT IS WHY YOU ARE UNHAPPY.” +CANNOT LEAVE THE ESTATE TO PIERRE. PIERRE IS ILLEGITIMATE.” +“CAN ONE BE WELL WHILE SUFFERING MORALLY? CAN ONE BE CALM IN TIMES +CAN RUSH OFF ALONE IN A CARRIAGE TO MOSCOW, TO PETERSBURG, TO THOSE +CAN SAY ALL THIS THERE,” REMARKED DOLGORúKOV. +CAN’T BEAR THOSE OLD MEN! EH?” +CAN’T BE DONE. AND BESIDES, IF SHE TELLS MAMMA” (SóNYA LOOKED UPON +CAN’T BE! ONLY TO GET PAST THEM QUICKER, QUICKER!” +CAN’T, DO WHAT YOU WILL! HOW CAN I GO AND APOLOGIZE LIKE A LITTLE BOY +CAN’T GET THEM FROM ANYONE ELSE. HE’S NOT THERE HIMSELF, SO YOU’LL +CAN’T UNDERSTAND. I WAS THERE ALL THE TIME GIVING ORDERS AND HAD ONLY +CANVAS AND, SCARCELY ABLE TO REFRAIN FROM LAUGHING, STOOPED AS IF TRYING +CAN, WITH ALL THE PLEASURES OF LIFE HERE. IF WE WERE IN VIENNA IT WOULD +CAN WITHOUT HURTING OTHERS.” +CAN YOU FANCY THE FIGURE HE CUT?...” +“CAN YOU IMAGINE IT?” AND HE BEGAN DESCRIBING HOW THE GUARDS, HAVING +CAPABLE OF RECEIVING IT. +CAP AND SMOOTHING HIS HAIR WET WITH PERSPIRATION WITH HIS PLUMP HAND, +“CAPITAL!” SAID PRINCE HIPPOLYTE IN ENGLISH, AND BEGAN SLAPPING HIS +CAPITALS, HE STILL CONTINUED TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY, REMARKING THAT +CAPTAIN,” AND HE TURNED TO A THIN, DIRTY LITTLE ARTILLERY OFFICER WHO +CAPTAIN AND HIS DRAWN-IN STOMACH, AND MIMICKED HIS EXPRESSION AND POSE +“CAPTAIN, FOR GOD’S SAKE! I’VE HURT MY ARM,” HE SAID TIMIDLY. +CAPTAIN, HIS NOSE GROWING REDDER AS HE GAVE A SMILE WHICH SHOWED WHERE +“CAPTAIN TúSHIN’S, YOUR EXCELLENCY!” SHOUTED THE RED-HAIRED, +CAPTAIN UP AND DOWN AS HE CAME UP PANTING, SLACKENING HIS PACE AS HE +CAPTAIN VON TOLL CHANCED TO RIDE TO THE SAME SPOT, AND SEEING THE +CAPTURED BY THE FRENCH BECAUSE THE ENEMY COULD NOT SURMISE THAT ANYONE +CAP, WHO HAD COME SAILING IN FROM ANOTHER ROOM AS SOON AS THE GUESTS +CARABINEERS. +CARD GAME HE WAS VERY FOND OF, WAS THAT OF LISTENER, ESPECIALLY WHEN HE +CARDINAL VIRTUES IN HER GAVE HER LESSONS IN ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY +CARD, PUTTING A SMALL STAKE ON IT, AND BEGINNING TO PLAY. +CARDS AND SUPPER WERE OVER, BUT THE VISITORS HAD NOT YET DISPERSED. +CARE ABOUT THEM IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE HARMFUL OR USEFUL. AND MOST OF +CARED ABOUT; ANNA PáVLOVNA OBSERVED THESE GREETINGS WITH MOURNFUL AND +CAREFULLY STRETCHING HIS NECK SO AS NOT TO TOUCH THE QUILT, FOLLOWED HER +CAREFULLY WROTE TWENTY-ONE. +CARELESSLY HOLDING IN HIS STALLION THAT WAS NEIGHING AND PAWING THE +CARE, THIS WAS A MERE STRANGER. GLANCING, HOWEVER, AT BORíS, HE SAW +CARRIAGE AND RODE UP TO DóLOKHOV. +CARRIAGE, AND THE SOLITUDE OF THE ROAD, ALL HAD A GLADDENING EFFECT ON +CARRIAGE AT FULL SPEED ABOUT AN HOUR BEFORE ALONG THAT VERY ROAD AND +CARRIAGE. “GET IN WITH ME,” SAID HE TO BOLKóNSKI. +CARRIAGE?” HE ASKED HIS MOTHER WITH A SMILE. +CARRIAGE, HER HUSBAND WAS ADJUSTING HIS SABER; PRINCE HIPPOLYTE, UNDER +CARRIAGE, MOVED FORWARD AND, NOT NOTICING THE GENERAL, LOOKED OUT +CARRIED AWAY BY PASSION. OH, ONLY MY POOR MOTHER...” +CARRIED THE SICK MAN DISPERSED. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA TOUCHED PIERRE’S +CARRIED THE SOVEREIGN AT REVIEWS IN RUSSIA BORE HIM ALSO HERE ON THE +CARRIED THE WHOLE LENGTH OF THE TABLE. +“CARROT ICES.” +CARRY HIM TO THE DRESSING STATION.” +CARRYING HER BURDEN SO LIGHTLY. OLD MEN AND DULL DISPIRITED YOUNG ONES +CARRY OUT THE COUNT’S WISHES, SEEING CLEARLY THAT NOT ONLY WOULD THE +CARRY THEM OUT, SO HE TAKES A REGIMENT, A DIVISION—STIPULATES THAT NO +CARTS, GUNS, ARTILLERY, AND AGAIN BAGGAGE WAGONS AND VEHICLES OF ALL +CART, SHOUTING AND SCOLDING A SOLDIER WITH COARSE ABUSE. IN EACH OF +CASEMENT. THE COLD WIND FLAPPED THE ENDS OF HER KERCHIEF AND HER LOOSE +CASES ONLY ONE GOES WRONG, BUT IT IS HER FANCY AND MINE. THEY HAVE BEEN +CASKET FOR MAMMA’S NAME DAY AND THEN GOING HOME. I WAS SO HAPPY, SO +CATCHES IT AND OBEYING THE IMPULSE THAT WHEEL BEGINS TO CREAK AND JOINS +“CATCH HOLD OF MY ARM OR YOU’LL DROP HIM!” HE HEARD ONE OF THE +CATCHING AND THEIR SABERS CLATTERING. +CATCHING THE CURTAIN OF THE COT. EACH MADE THE OTHER A WARNING GESTURE +CATHEDRAL, AND ITS BRIDGE, ON BOTH SIDES OF WHICH STREAMED JOSTLING + *CATHERINE. +CATHERINE’S COURT, COUNT BEZúKHOV. +CATHERINE’S DAY, COUNT BEZúKHOV, AND ABOUT HIS ILLEGITIMATE SON +“CATICHE HAS HAD TEA SERVED IN THE SMALL DRAWING ROOM,” SAID PRINCE +CATICHE,” * MUTTERED THE PRINCE, SEATING HIMSELF WEARILY ON THE CHAIR +CAUGHT UP THE OBJECT OF CONTENTION AND RAN INTO THE BEDROOM. THE ELDEST +CAUSE OF THE CONFUSION, TURNED AWAY WITH INDIFFERENCE, AS IF TO SAY, +CAUTIOUS MOVEMENTS OF THOSE WHO CROWDED ROUND THE INVALID CHAIR THAT +CAVALRY AND HERE HE NOTICED A STIR AND SIGNS OF PREPARATION FOR BATTLE; +CAVALRY IN FRONT, BEHIND IT THE ARTILLERY, AND BEHIND THAT AGAIN THE +CAVALRY WAS BROUGHT IN, CONVOYED BY A SóTNYA OF COSSACKS. EVIDENTLY THE +CELEBRATING AWARDS THEY HAD RECEIVED FOR THE CAMPAIGN, AND MADE +CENSURE, BUT ASKED HIM NOT TO BE TOO HARD ON THE POOR OLD MAN. “WHAT +CENSURED, SHOULD NOT BE HELD TO BLAME. +CENTER, AND SECONDLY, TO WITHDRAW THE CAVALRY TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE +CENTER OF THE TABLE, PRINCE VASíLI ATTRACTED EVERYBODY’S ATTENTION. +CENTER, THE RESERVES, AND BAGRATIóN’S RIGHT FLANK HAD NOT YET MOVED, +“CEPENDANT, MON CHER,” HE REMARKED, EXAMINING HIS NAILS FROM A +CEREMONIOUS WELCOMES (WHICH HE KNEW PIERRE WOULD NOT LIKE), BUT FOR JUST +“CERTAINLY; BUT ABOUT KUTúZOV, I DON’T PROMISE.” +“CERTAINLY HE MUST BE MOVED ONTO THE BED; HERE IT WILL BE +CERTAINLY IS COMMUNICATED VERY SURELY, AND FLOWS RAPIDLY, IMPERCEPTIBLY, +CERTAINLY SHOULD NOT, SPEAK LIKE THAT,” THEIR GLANCES SEEMED TO SAY. +CERTAIN, NOTHING AT ALL EXCEPT THE UNIMPORTANCE OF EVERYTHING I +CERTAIN. THERE’S LISE, MARRIED TO ANDREW—A BETTER HUSBAND ONE WOULD +“CETTE ARMéE RUSSE QUE L’OR DE L’ANGLETERRE A TRANSPORTéE DES +CHAIR, AND BEGAN DELIBERATELY WITH A SMILE: +CHAIR AND PACING UP AND DOWN THE ROOM FOLLOWED BY TíKHON, WHO RAN AFTER +CHAIR, HE DREW UP WITH A CLICK OF HIS SPURS AND BOWED TO HER, NATáSHA +CHAIR REGARDLESS OF HER GOVERNESS’ REMARKS. AFTER DINNER, SHE RUSHED +CHAIR, WRAPPED IN A POWDERING MANTLE, ENTRUSTING HIS HEAD TO TíKHON. +CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE DOCTOR’S WIFE IN HER QUEER TRAP MIGHT EXPOSE HIM +CHANCE, LETTING THE SEVEN BE DEALT TO THE RIGHT RATHER THAN TO THE LEFT, +CHANCE OF DELAY AND FLIGHT WHEN THE LONGED-FOR MOMENT COMES AND HE IS +CHANGED: HER EYES BECAME FIXED, AND THEN A SHIVER PASSED DOWN HER BROAD +CHANGED!... WHERE ARE THE CANDLES?... TEA!...” +CHANGE IN THE EXPRESSION OF HIS FIXED EYES, WATCHED THE REGIMENTAL +CHANGING HIS TONE OR ATTITUDE, “IT MUST SEEM TO YOU THAT EVERYONE IS +CHANGING THE EXPRESSION OF HER EYES. “I AM A WOMAN, AND YOU THINK WE +CHANGING UNCONSCIOUSLY FROM RUSSIAN TO FRENCH AS HE WENT ON—TO EXPLAIN +CHANNEL. I THINK THE EXPEDITION IS QUITE FEASIBLE. IF ONLY VILLENEUVE + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I + CHAPTER I +CHAPTER I +CHAPTER I +CHAPTER I +CHAPTER I +CHAPTER I + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II + CHAPTER II +CHAPTER II +CHAPTER II +CHAPTER II +CHAPTER II +CHAPTER II + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III + CHAPTER III +CHAPTER III +CHAPTER III +CHAPTER III +CHAPTER III +CHAPTER III + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IV +CHAPTER IV +CHAPTER IV +CHAPTER IV +CHAPTER IV +CHAPTER IV + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER IX +CHAPTER IX +CHAPTER IX +CHAPTER IX +CHAPTER IX +CHAPTER IX + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V + CHAPTER V +CHAPTER V +CHAPTER V +CHAPTER V +CHAPTER V +CHAPTER V + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VI +CHAPTER VI +CHAPTER VI +CHAPTER VI +CHAPTER VI +CHAPTER VI + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VII +CHAPTER VII +CHAPTER VII +CHAPTER VII +CHAPTER VII +CHAPTER VII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER VIII +CHAPTER VIII +CHAPTER VIII +CHAPTER VIII +CHAPTER VIII +CHAPTER VIII + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X + CHAPTER X +CHAPTER X +CHAPTER X +CHAPTER X +CHAPTER X +CHAPTER X + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XI +CHAPTER XI +CHAPTER XI +CHAPTER XI +CHAPTER XI +CHAPTER XI + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XII +CHAPTER XII +CHAPTER XII +CHAPTER XII +CHAPTER XII +CHAPTER XII + CHAPTER XIII + CHAPTER XIII + CHAPTER XIII + CHAPTER XIII + CHAPTER XIII + CHAPTER XIII + CHAPTER XIII + CHAPTER XIII + CHAPTER XIII + CHAPTER XIII + CHAPTER XIII + CHAPTER XIII + CHAPTER XIII + CHAPTER XIII + CHAPTER XIII + CHAPTER XIII +CHAPTER XIII +CHAPTER XIII +CHAPTER XIII +CHAPTER XIII + CHAPTER XIV + CHAPTER XIV + CHAPTER XIV + CHAPTER XIV + CHAPTER XIV + CHAPTER XIV + CHAPTER XIV + CHAPTER XIV + CHAPTER XIV + CHAPTER XIV + CHAPTER XIV + CHAPTER XIV + CHAPTER XIV + CHAPTER XIV + CHAPTER XIV +CHAPTER XIV +CHAPTER XIV +CHAPTER XIV +CHAPTER XIV + CHAPTER XIX + CHAPTER XIX + CHAPTER XIX + CHAPTER XIX + CHAPTER XIX + CHAPTER XIX + CHAPTER XIX + CHAPTER XIX + CHAPTER XIX + CHAPTER XIX + CHAPTER XIX + CHAPTER XIX +CHAPTER XIX +CHAPTER XIX +CHAPTER XIX + CHAPTER XV + CHAPTER XV + CHAPTER XV + CHAPTER XV + CHAPTER XV + CHAPTER XV + CHAPTER XV + CHAPTER XV + CHAPTER XV + CHAPTER XV + CHAPTER XV + CHAPTER XV + CHAPTER XV + CHAPTER XV + CHAPTER XV +CHAPTER XV +CHAPTER XV +CHAPTER XV +CHAPTER XV + CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVI +CHAPTER XVI +CHAPTER XVI +CHAPTER XVI +CHAPTER XVI + CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVII +CHAPTER XVII +CHAPTER XVII +CHAPTER XVII + CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XVIII +CHAPTER XVIII +CHAPTER XVIII +CHAPTER XVIII + CHAPTER XX + CHAPTER XX + CHAPTER XX + CHAPTER XX + CHAPTER XX + CHAPTER XX + CHAPTER XX + CHAPTER XX + CHAPTER XX +CHAPTER XX +CHAPTER XX + CHAPTER XXI + CHAPTER XXI + CHAPTER XXI + CHAPTER XXI + CHAPTER XXI + CHAPTER XXI + CHAPTER XXI + CHAPTER XXI +CHAPTER XXI +CHAPTER XXI + CHAPTER XXII + CHAPTER XXII + CHAPTER XXII + CHAPTER XXII + CHAPTER XXII + CHAPTER XXII + CHAPTER XXII +CHAPTER XXII + CHAPTER XXIII + CHAPTER XXIII + CHAPTER XXIII + CHAPTER XXIII + CHAPTER XXIII +CHAPTER XXIII + CHAPTER XXIV + CHAPTER XXIV + CHAPTER XXIV + CHAPTER XXIV +CHAPTER XXIV + CHAPTER XXIX + CHAPTER XXIX + CHAPTER XXV + CHAPTER XXV + CHAPTER XXV + CHAPTER XXV +CHAPTER XXV + CHAPTER XXVI + CHAPTER XXVI + CHAPTER XXVI + CHAPTER XXVI +CHAPTER XXVI + CHAPTER XXVII + CHAPTER XXVII + CHAPTER XXVII +CHAPTER XXVII + CHAPTER XXVIII + CHAPTER XXVIII + CHAPTER XXVIII +CHAPTER XXVIII + CHAPTER XXX + CHAPTER XXX + CHAPTER XXXI + CHAPTER XXXI + CHAPTER XXXII + CHAPTER XXXII + CHAPTER XXXIII + CHAPTER XXXIII + CHAPTER XXXIV + CHAPTER XXXIV + CHAPTER XXXIX + CHAPTER XXXV + CHAPTER XXXVI + CHAPTER XXXVII + CHAPTER XXXVIII +CHARACTER, BUT MORE SO RECENTLY, SINCE IN THE NEW REIGNS OF PAUL AND +CHARACTERISTICALLY NOBLE WRINKLES OF HIS HANDSOME, RUDDY FACE. HE LAY +CHARACTER SET ENCODING: UTF-8 +“CHARGE!” SHOUTED BY AN OFFICER WHO WAS URGING HIS THOROUGHBRED TO +CHARITABLE TO MY POOR AUNT WHO ADORES YOU. GO AND KEEP HER COMPANY FOR +CHARMING AGE WHEN A GIRL IS NO LONGER A CHILD, THOUGH THE CHILD IS NOT +CHARMING GIRLS. EVERY YOUNG MAN WHO CAME TO THE HOUSE—SEEING THOSE +“CHARMING!” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA WITH AN INQUIRING GLANCE AT THE +CHARMING THAT ONLY A FOOL WOULD RENOUNCE SUCH HAPPINESS.” +“CHARMING!” WHISPERED THE LITTLE PRINCESS, STICKING THE NEEDLE INTO +CHASSEUR REGIMENT AND IN THE LINES OF THE KIEV GRENADIERS—FINE FELLOWS +CHASSEURS MUST HOLD THEIR POSITION TILL RESERVES FROM THE CENTER +CHASSEURS.... THEY WON’T LET US PASS, WE ARE LEFT BEHIND AND HAVE LOST +CHATTERING VOICES HAD REACHED HER FROM THE CORRIDOR, WENT INTO PRINCESS +CHECKED HANDKERCHIEF) TO ILLUSTRATE THE THEORY THAT ALL MEN ARE EQUALS, +CHEERFUL WERE THE TROOPS. THE GREATEST DISORDER AND DEPRESSION HAD BEEN +CHESSMEN WITH HIS DELICATE WHITE FINGERS WHILE AWAITING BERG’S MOVE, +CHEST TO BACK THAN ACROSS THE SHOULDERS. HE HAD ON A BRAND-NEW UNIFORM +CHIEF, AND OUR FIRST FOE, BUXHöWDEN, IS VANQUISHED; WE CAN NOW TURN +CHIEF’S AND WITH THE EXCEPTION OF PRINCE BAGRATIóN, WHO DECLINED TO +CHIEF’S ROOM. +CHIEF STEWARD WROTE EVERY YEAR TELLING HIM OF FIRES AND BAD HARVESTS, +CHIEF, YOUR EXCELLENCY?” SAID ROSTóV, WITH HIS HAND TO HIS CAP. +CHILD. “BUT NO, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, I AM TOO UGLY,” SHE THOUGHT. +CHILDHOOD. +CHILDHOOD. +CHILDHOOD AND LIVED FOR YEARS AT A TIME. THE GUARDS HAD ALREADY LEFT +CHILDHOOD; THAT SAME JULIE KARáGINA WHO HAD BEEN AT THE ROSTóVS’ +CHILD IN A TOYSHOP, DID NOT KNOW WHICH WAY TO LOOK, AFRAID OF MISSING +CHILDISH BARE SHOULDERS WHICH AFTER HER RUN HEAVED AND SHOOK HER +CHILDLIKE SMILE WHICH HAD NOT ONCE APPEARED ON HIS FACE SINCE HE LEFT +CHILDLIKE WAY THROUGH HIS SPECTACLES. +CHILDREN ARE THE BANE OF MY LIFE. IT IS THE CROSS I HAVE TO BEAR. THAT +CHILDREN,” SHE SAID, IN HER LOUD, FULL-TONED VOICE WHICH DROWNED ALL +CHILDREN. THE GERMAN TUTOR WAS TRYING TO REMEMBER ALL THE DISHES, WINES, +CHILD’S LITTLE CHAIR WHILE, FROWNING AND WITH TREMBLING HANDS, HE +CHOICE HAS FALLEN. I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU WILL THINK OF IT, BUT +CHOKED HIM, AND LEANING HIS ELBOWS ON THE WINDOW SILL HE BEGAN TO CRY, +CHOOSE. I GIVE YOU FREEDOM. ONLY REMEMBER THAT YOUR LIFE’S HAPPINESS +CHORUS.” +CHOSE AND PLACED CARDS, AND WATCHED THOSE BROAD-BONED AGILE HANDS IN THE +“CHRIST BE WITH YOU!” KUTúZOV REPEATED AND WENT TOWARD HIS +CHRISTIAN...” +CIRCUMSTANCES AND PERSONS HE MET. OF THESE PLANS HE HAD NOT MERELY ONE +CIRCUMSTANCES, HE NEVERTHELESS DELIVERED THE DEFINITE ORDER THAT THE +CIRCUMSTANCES I MAY BE PLACED. BUT IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH... IF +CIRCUMSTANTIALLY AND WITH EVIDENT SATISFACTION. +CITIES WONDERED AT HER, LAUGHED PRIVATELY AT HER RUDENESSES, AND TOLD +CLANKING HIS SPURS, WHIRLED RAPIDLY ROUND, AND, STRIKING HIS LEFT HEEL +CLATTERING. THESE MEN PRESSED CLOSE TO THE WALL TO LET PIERRE AND ANNA +CLAVICHORD. +CLAVICHORD AND HARP. JULIE BY GENERAL REQUEST PLAYED FIRST. AFTER SHE +CLAVICHORD WAS. “IT’S NO USE YOUR GOING TO THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. +CLEAN, AND IN CLOTH COVERS CAREFULLY TIED WITH TAPES. +CLEANED PAIRS WITH SPURS HAD JUST BEEN PLACED BY THE WALL. THE SERVANTS +CLEAN SHIRT ON THE FEATHER BED WITH ITS WARMED AND FRAGRANT PILLOWS, HE +CLEAR. +CLEAR, INSOLENT EYES IN THE GENERAL’S FACE. +CLEARLY WORDED THE DAY BEFORE, NAMELY, THAT THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF +CLEARNESS, AND CHARM THAT IT SEEMED AS IF IT WERE ALL A LOST AND +CLEAR UPRIGHT FIGURES; HE EMPTIED THE GLASS OF WARM CHAMPAGNE THAT WAS +CLENCHING HIS SMALL HAND AND STRIKING THE TABLE WITH IT, “AND WHAT +CLERK. “THE KIEV GRENADIERS, PODOLIAN...” +CLEVER WITH VéRA,” SAID THE COUNT. “WELL, WHAT OF THAT? SHE’S +CLIMB OUT OF THE WINDOW. +CLINKING OF SPURS WERE HEARD AT THE DOOR, AND THE YOUNG COUNT, HANDSOME, +CLOAK AND FELT BOOTS, HE WENT TO THE LITTLE PRINCESS’ APARTMENT. +CLOAK, HE ASKED WHETHER THEY WANTED THE COUNT OR THE PRINCESSES, AND, +CLOAK LOOKING TIMIDLY AT ME,” HE THOUGHT. “AND WHAT DOES SHE +CLOCK. ONE WHEEL SLOWLY MOVED, ANOTHER WAS SET IN MOTION, AND A THIRD, +CLOSE BY, WHO HEARD HIM MUTTERING. +CLOSE-CROPPED HAIR, SPECTACLES, THE LIGHT-COLORED BREECHES FASHIONABLE +CLOSED HIS EYES, SILENTLY LET MACK ENTER HIS ROOM BEFORE HIM, AND CLOSED +CLOSER!” SHE WHISPERED. +CLOSER TOGETHER AND A REPORT SPREAD THAT THEY WERE ORDERED TO HALT: +CLOSE THAT THE EXPRESSION OF HIS FACE COULD BE SEEN. AND THE EXCITED, +CLOSE TO HER, BEGAN TO WHISPER SOMETHING. +CLOSE TO HER, OF HIS BREATH AND THE SMELL OF HIM, AND COULD THINK ONLY +CLOSE TO HER; THE RED PATCHES ON HER FACE CAME AND WENT, AND IT WAS +CLOSE, WAS GAZING WITH ASTONISHMENT AT THE ANGRY FACE OF THE PRINCESS +CLOTHS. +CLOTH, WHICH CONTRASTED WITH THE OTHERS. “WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN AFTER? +CLOUDED HIS MOTHER’S FACE, AND HE SMILED SLIGHTLY. +CLOUDLESS, NORTHERN, SUMMER NIGHT. PIERRE TOOK AN OPEN CAB INTENDING +CLOUDS GLIDING SLOWLY ACROSS IT. “HOW QUIET, PEACEFUL, AND SOLEMN; NOT +CLUB, BUT MET IN PRIVATE HOUSES IN INTIMATE CIRCLES, AND THE +CLUTCHED THE CRUPPER OF HIS SADDLE AND, SPURRING HIS HORSE, GALLOPED TO +COACHMAN’S, WAS TEASING KUTúZOV’S OLD COOK WHOM PRINCE ANDREW KNEW, +COACHMEN AND FOOTMEN, WHO, WITH LOUD SHOUTS, DRAGGED HIS SLEIGHS UP TO +COAT OF ARMS ON THE TABLE. HE EXPLAINED THIS TO HER WITH AS MUCH GRAVITY +COATS. +COAT, THE TRAVELER SAT DOWN ON THE SOFA, LEANED BACK HIS BIG HEAD WITH +COCK, BUT THE ELDER MEMBERS GLANCED SEVERELY AT THE WIT, MAKING HIM +CODE, BUT UNDER THIS UNWRITTEN LAW. HE FELT NOW THAT MERELY BY HAVING +COIFFURE, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE’S AND ANATOLE’S SMILES, AND THE +COLLAPSED SO THAT I DON’T LIVE AT ALL—EVERYTHING SEEMS HATEFUL TO +COLLAR AND CAP, WENT OUT FOR HIS USUAL WALK. IT HAD SNOWED THE DAY +“COLONEL,” HE SAID, ADDRESSING ROSTóV’S ENEMY WITH AN AIR OF +“COLONEL,” INTERRUPTED THE OFFICER OF THE SUITE, “YOU MUST BE +COLONEL OF FORTY TO WHOM DENíSOV HAD INTRODUCED HIM. +COLONEL OF HUSSARS WHO, GROWING MORE AND MORE FLUSHED, ATE AND DRANK SO +COLONEL OF HUSSARS WITH THE SAME ORDER. AFTER HIM THE STOUT NESVíTSKI +COLONEL’S ATHLETIC BACK, HIS NAPE COVERED WITH LIGHT HAIR, AND HIS RED +COLONEL WAS CALLED BOGDáNICH) “SHUTS YOU UP.” +COLUMN ADVANCED INTO ACTION. +COLUMN COMING UP TO MEET THE ÁPSHERONS. +COLUMN MARCHES... THE THIRD COLUMN MARCHES...” AND SO ON, READ +COLUMN, MILORáDOVICH’S, THE ONE THAT WAS TO TAKE THE PLACE OF +COLUMNS, THEIR BAYONETS GLITTERING, WERE MOVING CONTINUOUSLY IN ONE +COLUMNS, WITH A HIGH SILK-CURTAINED MAHOGANY BEDSTEAD ON ONE SIDE AND +“COME ALONG!” +“COME ALONG, OUR MATVéVNA!” HE SAID TO HIMSELF. “MATVéVNA” * +“COME, DEAR PRINCESS,” SAID MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, “JUST ONE MORE +“COME HERE,” SAID ROSTóV, CATCHING HOLD OF TELYáNIN’S ARM AND +“COME HERE, WOSTóV. LET’S DWINK TO DWOWN OUR GWIEF!” SHOUTED +COME... HE TOLD ME HIMSELF... BUT STILL I SHOULD NOT CRY,” AND SHE +COME. HE WAS ALONE NOW, EXCEPT FOR A SOLDIER WHO WAS SITTING NAKED AT +“COME IF YOU NEED ANYTHING. ONE CAN AT LEAST BE OF USE ON THE +COME IN A MOMENT. PETRúSHKA!” HE CALLED TO HIS VALET: “COME HERE, +COME INTO THE HALL. PRINCE HIPPOLYTE STOOD CLOSE TO THE PRETTY, PREGNANT +“COME, I WILL GO WITH YOU. TRY TO WEEP, NOTHING GIVES SUCH RELIEF AS +“COME LATER.” AND SHE WENT IN, CLOSING THE DOOR BEHIND HER. +“COME, LET’S ARGUE THEN,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, “YOU TALK OF +“COME, MY DEAR ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, LET CATICHE DO AS SHE PLEASES. YOU +“COME NEARER, COME NEARER, FRIEND! I USED TO BE THE ONLY ONE TO TELL +“COME NOW, DEAL!” EXCLAIMED ROSTóV. +“COME NOW, JUST THIS ONE MORE LITTLE CARD!” +“COME NOW, WHAT ABOUT YOUR ROI DE PRUSSE?” +“COME NOW! YOU WITH ALL YOUR FORCES FALL ON THE UNFORTUNATE MORTIER +COME ON AND WILL MEET THEM WITH THE FIRE OF THE WHOLE BATTALION’—AND +“COME ON THEN,” CRIED PIERRE. “COME ON!... AND WE’LL TAKE BRUIN +“COME OVER HERE, HéLèNE, DEAR,” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA TO THE +COMES FROM THAT! EVEN THEN I FELT IT,” HE THOUGHT. “I FELT THEN THAT +“COME, THAT’S RIGHT, COUNT!” CRIED THE STAFF CAPTAIN, TURNING +COME UP. IN THAT CASE THE DRAGOONS COULD SUCCESSFULLY MAKE A FLANK +COME UP TO HIM. +COME, WERE ALL THERE AT THE APPOINTED TIME. +“COME, WHAT’S THE MATTER, OLD FELLOW?” SAID NESVíTSKI TRYING TO +COMFORTABLY. +COMING ACTION FROM DOLGORúKOV. HE FELT THAT KUTúZOV WAS UPSET +COMING. AND NICHOLAS, WHO HAD VAINLY SUFFERED ALL THE DREAD THAT +COMING CLOSER TO PIERRE. “IN TOKEN OF GENEROSITY I ASK YOU TO GIVE ME +COMING FOR ME TO TAKE ME THERE.” +“COMING, FRIEND.” +COMING FROM THE STUDY. THE PRINCE WALKED IN QUICKLY AND JAUNTILY AS WAS +COMING OUT OF KUTúZOV’S ROOM INTO THE WAITING ROOM WITH THE PAPERS IN +COMING TO US OF THEIR OWN ACCORD,” INCAUTIOUSLY REMARKED THE LITTLE +COMMANDER AMONG THEM! HM!...” +COMMANDER, AWAITING THE WORD OF COMMAND. A SECOND AND A THIRD CANNON +COMMANDER, BUT NOW THAT THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF ADDRESSED HIM HE DREW +COMMANDER, HIGHER THAN AND DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS, PRINCE ANDREW CAME +COMMANDER IN CHIEF. +COMMANDER IN CHIEF AND OF HIS OWN LUGGAGE. VERY SINISTER REPORTS OF THE +COMMANDER IN CHIEF. BAGRATIóN KNEW THAT AS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE TWO +COMMANDER IN CHIEF. HE INTERRUPTED HIM, TALKED RAPIDLY AND INDISTINCTLY, +COMMANDER IN CHIEF HERE, AND IF ALL IS LOST IT IS FOR ME TO PERISH WITH +“COMMANDER IN CHIEF KUTúZOV?” SAID THE NEWLY ARRIVED GENERAL +COMMANDER IN CHIEF’S REGARDING THE REGIMENT. BEHIND KUTúZOV, AT A +COMMANDER IN CHIEF’S SUITE. HE WAS IN A STATE OF SUPPRESSED EXCITEMENT +COMMANDER IN CHIEF WOULD OTHERWISE BE DISSATISFIED. ON HEARING THIS THE +COMMANDER OF THE REGIMENT IN THE HOLLOW AND NEWS THAT IMMENSE MASSES +“COMMANDER OF THE THIRD COMPANY WANTED BY THE GENERAL!... COMMANDER TO +COMMANDERS. AND THEN THAT HAPPY MOMENT, THAT TOULON FOR WHICH HE HAD +COMMANDERS, AND WITH A CONSCIOUSNESS OF BEING TOO LATE SPREADING THROUGH +COMMANDERS ARE: HERR GENERAL WIMPFEN, LE COMTE DE LANGERON, LE PRINCE DE +COMMANDER’S BACK AND MIMICKED HIS EVERY MOVEMENT. EACH TIME THE +COMMANDER STARTED AND BENT FORWARD, THE HUSSAR STARTED AND BENT FORWARD +COMMANDER’S WILL, OWING TO THE TACT BAGRATIóN SHOWED, HIS PRESENCE +COMMANDING BOTH SIDES OF THE DANUBE, SO THAT SHOULD THE ENEMY NOT +COMMAND OF THE INFANTRY WENT TOWARD HIS HORSE WITH JERKY STEPS, AND +COMMAND OF THE THIRD DISTRICT, AND MY ONLY WAY OF AVOIDING ACTIVE +COMMAND. “SERGEANTS MAJOR!... HOW SOON WILL HE BE HERE?” HE ASKED +COMMAND TO THE GENERAL NEXT IN SENIORITY, COUNT BUXHöWDEN, HAVING SENT +COMME CET INDIVIDU DONT VOUS AVEZ FAIT UN AMI, MAIS PAS POUR VOUS, PAS +COMME IL FAUT, THAT’S A DIFFERENT MATTER; BUT THE KURáGINS’ SET OF +COMMENCE THE ACTION, AND WISHING TO AVERT RESPONSIBILITY FROM HIMSELF, +COMMENTARIES), AND RESTING ON HIS ELBOW, BEGAN READING IT IN THE MIDDLE. +COMMISERATION ON ROSTóV, WHO SAW THAT TúSHIN WITH HIS WHOLE HEART +COMMISSARIAT, AND THE REGIMENT HAD MARCHED SOME SEVEN HUNDRED MILES. +COMMIT CRIME, DIE, OR PERFORM DEEDS OF HIGHEST HEROISM, AND SO HE COULD +COMMIT MURDER HE HAD RESTORED IT TO THE RIGHTFUL KING, I SHOULD HAVE +COMMITTED A REVERSE ACT OF IMPOLITENESS. FIRST HE HAD LEFT A LADY BEFORE +COMMON SENSE AND FRANK PLAINNESS OF SPEECH. MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA WAS KNOWN +COMPANIES, CROWDS OF WHOM SET OFF TO THE NEIGHBORING VILLAGES, OR +COMPANION, DóLOKHOV HAD COME STRAIGHT TO HIS HOUSE, AND PIERRE HAD PUT +COMPANY AND OVERTOOK THE NEXT ONE. +COMPANY COMMANDERS CALCULATED AND RECKONED, AND BY MORNING THE +COMPANY’S BAGGAGE WAGON, PILED HIGH, LEATHER COVERED, AND HEMMED IN ON +COMPANY, WHICH ALONE HAD MAINTAINED ITS ORDER IN THE WOOD AND, HAVING +COMPANY, YOUR HONOR. I DON’T KNOW WHERE... SUCH BAD LUCK!” +COMPARED TO THE LOFTY, EQUITABLE, AND KINDLY SKY WHICH HE HAD SEEN AND +COMPLETED. +COMPLETELY ALTERED. HE WAS NOT RICH, BUT WOULD SPEND HIS LAST GROAT TO +COMPLY. ANNA PáVLOVNA ARRANGED A GROUP ROUND HIM, INVITING EVERYONE TO +COMPOSED AND PRINTED IN THE HERO’S HONOR. BAGRATIóN, ON SEEING THE +COMPOSURE, “NOW THERE’S THIS RECRUITING. MY FATHER IS CHIEF IN +COMPOSURE, WAITING FOR A DISPLAY OF THE ECCENTRICITIES HIS FATHER HAD +COMRADE BERG’S BEST WISHES FOR SUCCESS, RODE TO OLMüTZ TO SEE +COMRADE NESVíTSKI, A TALL STAFF OFFICER, EXTREMELY STOUT, WITH A +COMRADES’ IMPRESSION. EVERY FACE, FROM DENíSOV’S TO THAT OF THE +CONCEIT PREVENTS YOUR APOLOGIZING, AND YOU WISH TO MAKE THE WHOLE +CONCEIVE A FUTURE LIFE...” +CONCENTRATE. “THERE WE SHALL ENCOUNTER DIFFICULTIES, AND THERE,” +CONCENTRATION OF FIGHTING AT ONE POINT, AND THE HESITATION OF ALL THE +CONCENTRATION ON SOME ONE THOUGHT. +CONCERNED WITH A THOUGHT THAT ALWAYS OCCUPIED HER: “NOW YOU SEE IF I +CONCERNED WITH, OR HE WANTED TO GIVE THE RUSSIAN SPECIAL MESSENGER THAT +CONCERNING WHICH NO ONE COULD BE AT EASE. IT WAS THE STATE OF THE +CONCLUDED, CONSCIOUS—AS WERE OTHERS—AFTER THE WORDS WERE UTTERED +CONCLUDE OUR CAMPAIGN AND WE CAN RETURN TO WINTER QUARTERS, WHERE FRESH +CONDITION. +CONDITION, AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER THAT INFORMED THEM THAT SHE HAD LEFT +CONDITION! IT’S VERY HARD.” +CONFESS AND ASK FOR MONEY HE HAD NO RIGHT TO AFTER GIVING HIS WORD OF +CONFESSION, COMMUNION WAS ADMINISTERED TO THE DYING MAN, PREPARATIONS +CONFESSION; HE FELT HIMSELF IN THE PRESENCE OF ONE SOCIALLY A COMPLETE +CONFIDENCE, AND LOVE AS I HAVE FOR YOU. THEN I AM YOUNG. MAMMA DOES +CONFIDENCE, FLATTER HIM, BECOME INTIMATE WITH HIM, AND FINALLY MAKE HIS +CONFIDENCE,” SAID SHE, REPEATING THE MISTAKE OF SO MANY PARENTS WHO +CONFIDENCE THE PERSONALITY OF THE FREEMASON INSPIRED IN HIM AND HIS OWN +CONFIRMED BY PIERRE’S RUPTURE WITH HIS WIFE, WAS THE TALK OF SOCIETY. +CONFIRMED IN THIS CONCLUSION BY THE FACT THAT DóLOKHOV LEFT IMMEDIATELY +CONFORM. HOWEVER PAINFUL IT MAY BE TO ME, SHOULD THE ALMIGHTY LAY +CONFORM TO THEM AND FOLLOW THEM, AND LET US BE PERSUADED THAT THE LESS +“CONFOUND HIM, HE’S A FOOL!” SAID ROSTóV. +“CONFOUND YOU AND YOUR KARL IVáNICH!” HE TOOK THE GLASS WITH THE +CONFRONTED ONE ANOTHER AS BEFORE. +CONFUSED AND EVER-INCREASING CROWDS WERE RUNNING BACK TO WHERE FIVE +CONFUSED HIM STILL MORE. HE STOOD BEFORE BAGRATIóN WITH HIS LOWER +CONFUSED WHEN SHE SAW PRINCE ANDREW. HE COVERED HIS FACE WITH HIS HANDS +CONFUSING THEIR MINDS BY DWELLING ON MYSTICAL BOOKS THAT MERELY AWAKEN +CONFUSION AND FEAR THAT SHOWED ITSELF ON PRINCE VASíLI’S FACE. +CONFUSION WHAT DID OR DID NOT HAPPEN? +CONGRATULATIONS AND GREETINGS FROM ACQUAINTANCES THAT MET HIM ON ALL +CONJECTURE, BUT THE COLONEL DID NOT ONCE GLANCE AT ROSTóV, AND LOOKED +“CONNAISSEZ-VOUS LE PROVERBE:* ‘JEROME, JEROME, DO NOT ROAM, BUT +CONNECTED IN HIS MEMORY WITH PRINCE ANDREW. +CONNECTIONS... WELL, THEN, YOU JUST...” + CONQUEST’S JOYFUL THUNDER WAKEN, +CONSCIENCE THAT GOD HAS IMPLANTED IN OUR SOULS.” +CONSCIENTIOUSLY STUDIED THE DISPOSITIONS AND THE UNFAMILIAR LOCALITY. HE +CONSCIOUSNESS THAT SOMETHING GREAT AND MYSTERIOUS WAS BEING ACCOMPLISHED +CONSCIOUS OF THE WARMTH OF HER BODY, THE SCENT OF PERFUME, AND THE +CONSCIOUS OF THIS UNSEEN LINE, AND THE QUESTION WHETHER THEY WOULD CROSS +CONSCIOUS THAT ANOTHER LINE OF THOUGHT HAD SPRUNG UP, AND WHILE THINKING +CONSERVATORIES AND THE BEAUTY OF A FLOWER THAT HAD JUST OPENED, AND +CONSERVATORY AND PANTRY INTO THE LARGE MARBLE DINING HALL, WHERE TABLES +CONSERVATORY. THERE SHE PAUSED AND STOOD LISTENING TO THE CONVERSATION +CONSERVATORY TO THE PLACE AMONG THE TUBS WHERE SHE HAD BEEN HIDING. +CONSIDERABLE PAUSE WHICH MADE PIERRE FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE. +CONSIDER CHARACTERISTIC OF THE COUNTRY—RUMORS OF WAR ARE HEARD +CONSIDERED AN ADEPT AT FRENCH. +CONSIDERED HIM A CRIMINAL, AND A YEAR LATER THEY EXECUTED THOSE WHO +CONSIDERED HIM CONCEITED, COLD, AND DISAGREEABLE. BUT AMONG THESE PEOPLE +CONSIDERED IMPORTANT. +CONSIDERED IT HIS DUTY TO VISIT HIM AND WAITED IN THE LOFTY ANTECHAMBER +CONSIDERED IT PROPER TO SHOW AN INTEREST IN THE GENERAL CONVERSATION BY +CONSIDERED MYSELF INJURED, AND LOUIS XVI WAS EXECUTED BECAUSE THEY +CONSIDERED WORTHY TO HEAR IT HAD TO COME TO THE COUNTESS, FOR SHE +CONSIDER IT A SACRED DUTY TO FULFILL THAT PERSON’S WISHES. DO YOU WISH +“CONSIDER MY POSITION, PETER NIKOLáEVICH. WERE I IN THE CAVALRY I +CONSIDER, PRINCE ANDREW. TWO... FREDERICK AND SUVóROV; MOREAU!... +CONSIDER YOURSELF INCAPABLE AND YOUR LIFE A SPOILED LIFE. YOU HAVE +CONSOLATION FOR OUR DEFEAT BY THE MEMORY OF FORMER VICTORIES; AND THE +CONSOLATION? WHAT EVIL AND ERROR ARE THERE IN IT, IF PEOPLE WERE DYING +CONSTANT COMPOSURE AND COMPLACENCY AND LACK OF ALL INTERESTS OR DESIRES, +CONSTANTLY CONSIDERED IT A DUTY TO ASSURE PIERRE THAT HE WAS GREATLY +CONSULTATIONS VERY VALUABLE FOR THE PROPRIETOR AND TROUBLESOME TO +CONSULTATIONS WERE DETACHED FROM REAL AFFAIRS AND DID NOT LINK UP WITH +CONSULTING HIS SERGEANT MAJOR, ZAKHARCHéNKO, FOR WHOM HE HAD GREAT +CONTAINING LESSONS IN GEOMETRY WRITTEN BY HIMSELF AND DREW UP A CHAIR +CONTEMPLATED BETWEEN ANATOLE AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS’ SISTER-IN-LAW. +CONTEMPTUOUS LOOK THAT SHOWED ITSELF ON HIS FACE. +CONTEMPTUOUS SMILE, EVIDENTLY PREPARED BEFOREHAND TO MEET ALL OBJECTIONS +CONTENTED AND HAPPY WITH HIM. I ONLY WISH YOU WERE ALL AS HAPPY AS I +CONTENTION. + CONTENTS +CONTINUALLY AND RAPIDLY TOUCHING HER ROSY NETHER LIP WHEN NECESSARY +CONTINUALLY, BRINGING VISITORS TO THE COUNTESS ROSTóVA’S BIG HOUSE ON +CONTINUALLY CHANGING FROM FRENCH TO RUSSIAN. +CONTINUALLY DRIVING ROUND OR COMING UPON WOUNDED MEN, WAS OUT OF RANGE +CONTINUALLY GLANCED AT PRINCE ANDREW; PRINCE ANDREW RUBBED HIS FOREHEAD +CONTINUALLY HE MOVED ON. THE SOLDIERS SQUEEZED THEMSELVES TO MAKE WAY +CONTINUALLY RECEIVING MANY PETITIONERS ONE AFTER ANOTHER. +CONTINUED. DURING THIS INTERVAL PIERRE NOTICED THAT PRINCE VASíLI +CONTINUED HIS WORK. +CONTINUED. “ONE WOULD THINK THAT AS AN ARTILLERY OFFICER YOU WOULD SET +CONTINUED PRINCE VASíLI, RETURNING TO HIS THEME, APPARENTLY NOT +CONTINUED—REMEMBERING DóLOKHOV’S CONVERSATION WITH KUTúZOV AND HIS +CONTINUED THE VICOMTE. “I PITY THE POOR HUSBAND, THAT LITTLE OFFICER +CONTINUED TO EXPLAIN HOW BY EXCHANGING INTO THE GUARDS HE HAD ALREADY +CONTINUED TO SHOUT. +CONTINUED, “WE OWE TODAY’S SUCCESS CHIEFLY TO THE ACTION OF THAT +CONTINUED, WITH THAT GAY BROTHERLY CORDIALITY WHICH GOODHEARTED YOUNG +CONTINUE THEIR FLIGHT? DESPITE HIS DESPERATE SHOUTS THAT USED TO SEEM +CONTINUOUS, VARIED, AND ORDERLY ACTIVITY. THE MOTION OF THE SMALL FOOT +CONTRARY ONE MUST TRY TO MAKE ONE’S LIFE AS PLEASANT AS POSSIBLE. +CONTRARY TO BILíBIN’S FORECAST THE NEWS HE HAD BROUGHT WAS JOYFULLY +CONTRARY. WE WANTED LIBERTY, BUT BUONAPARTE HAS DESTROYED IT.” +CONTRASTED WITH HIS FLATTERING WORDS, “ON THE CONTRARY, YOUR +CONVALESCENCE. DóLOKHOV LAY ILL AT HIS MOTHER’S WHO LOVED HIM +CONVENIENTLY TO KEEP THEM UNDER OBSERVATION, BROUGHT THEM INTO THE +CONVENTIONAL THINGS WITH NO DEFINITE MEANING, ESPECIALLY IF +CONVERSATION. +CONVERSATION. +CONVERSATION ALWAYS RELATED ENTIRELY TO HIMSELF; HE WOULD REMAIN CALM +CONVERSATION, AND THOUGH ANNA PáVLOVNA FELT SURE HE WOULD SAY SOMETHING +CONVERSATION BEGAN PRINCE ANDREW WAS STRUCK BY THE FACT THAT THE EMPEROR +CONVERSATION BUT THINK IT NECESSARY TO MOVE ABOUT AND TALK, IN ORDER +CONVERSATION, EVIDENTLY WITH NO WISH TO TAKE PART IN IT. HE ANSWERED THE +CONVERSATION, GAVE NO REPLY. +CONVERSATION IN FRENCH. +CONVERSATION—“I OFTEN THINK HOW UNFAIRLY SOMETIMES THE JOYS OF LIFE +CONVERSATION WITH HER, WHEN ANNA PáVLOVNA CALLED HIM AWAY ON THE +CONVEY....” +CONVOY OFFICER, WHO SAID RAPIDLY: “WE MUST HALT HERE: THE EMPEROR +COOK CALLS IT—HAS DISAGREED WITH ME.” +COOKED BEFORE WE REACH OUR QUARTERS.” +COQUETTISH MANNER IN WHICH SHE SPOKE TO OTHER MEN, “THE VICOMTE HAS +CORDS ON HIS COAT AND TOOK A CARD WITH THAT NUMBER AND TRIED STAKING THE +CORNER OF HIS CARD AND, INSTEAD OF THE SIX THOUSAND HE HAD INTENDED, +CORRECT. +CORRECT. AS SOON AS BONAPARTE (WHO WAS AT SCHöNBRUNN, SIXTEEN MILES +CORRECT, OTHERS THAT IT WAS NOT, AND EXPLAINED THE FALSE RUMOR THAT HAD +CORRIDOR TO THE CABINET WHERE THE MINISTER OF WAR WAS AT WORK. THE +COSSACKS AND THEN THE FIRST AND SECOND SQUADRONS OF HUSSARS AND INFANTRY +COSSACK SCOUTS WERE MOVING. SUDDENLY ON THE ROAD AT THE TOP OF THE HIGH +“COSSACK!” SHE SAID THREATENINGLY. +COST CORRECT, OR REMEDY, THE MISTAKE IF HE HAD MADE ONE, SO THAT HE, +COUGH. +COUGHED, SWALLOWED, AND SAID IN FRENCH THAT SHE WAS VERY PLEASED TO SEE +COUGHING OF THE MUSICIANS WERE HEARD FROM THE GALLERY. +COULD BE DISCERNED. +COULD BE FELT, BUT THE NEARER PRINCE ANDREW CAME TO THE FRENCH LINES THE +COULD BE HEARD ABOVE THE THREE HUNDRED OTHERS. HE NEARLY WEPT. “TO THE +COULD BE HEARD. IT WAS THERE PRINCE ANDREW THOUGHT THE FIGHT WOULD +COULD BE SEEN, AND IN THREE PLACES TO LEFT AND RIGHT THE FRENCH TROOPS +COULD CLEARLY DISTINGUISH THEIR BANDOLIERS, RED EPAULETS, AND EVEN THEIR +COULD DISCLOSE IT TO ME.” +COULD GET MORE REWARDS BY DOING NOTHING ON THE STAFF, AND HAD SUCCEEDED +COULD HAVE BEEN DEVISED. THIS COMBINATION OF AUSTRIAN PRECISION WITH +COULD HAVE THE EFFRONTERY TO CONTINUE FIRING FROM FOUR QUITE UNDEFENDED +COULD HEAR. “I THANK YOU ALL! GOD BE PRAISED!” AND HE RODE PAST THAT +COULD HEAR THE FOOTSTEP OF SOMEONE IN THICK FELT BOOTS, AND A VOICE THAT +COULD NO LONGER BE AVERTED BUT WAS TAKING ITS COURSE INDEPENDENTLY OF +COULD NOT BEAR HER LOOK BUT TURNED AWAY WITH A SOB. +COULD NOT BREAK AWAY FROM HER, AND THAT THOUGH IT WOULD BE A TERRIBLE +COULD NOT HELP SEEING THESE PEOPLE, TOOK ANY NOTICE OF THEM. “IT SEEMS +COULD NOT MOVE IT. HE SMASHED A PANE. +COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE, AND SO DID NOT DELIVER THE ORDER. +COULD NOT REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS THAT PEOPLE SAY. HE LOOKED AT HER FACE. +COULD NOT REPLY. +COULD NOT SAY WITH CERTAINTY WHETHER THE ATTACK HAD BEEN REPULSED OR HIS +COULD NOT SCREAM LIKE THAT—CAME FROM THE BEDROOM. PRINCE ANDREW RAN TO +COULD NOT THINK OF IT WITHOUT TEARS, AND DID NOT KNOW WHICH HAD BEHAVED +COULD REACH, THERE WERE THE RATTLE OF WHEELS, THE CREAKING OF CARTS +COUNCIL, HE REMAINED IN THE ROOM. +COUNCILOR OF STATE, AND INSISTED ON THE YOUNG MAN ACCOMPANYING HIM TO +COUNT. +COUNT AGAINST HIM, HE NEVERTHELESS ON THE DAY OF HIS ARRIVAL WENT TO +COUNT, AND HAVING KISSED HIS WIFE’S HAND HE WENT BACK TO HIS STUDY. +COUNT BEZúKHOV HE DID NOT LET GO HIS HOLD OF THE LAD. HE HAD THE AIR OF +COUNT BEZúKHOV’S DISTRESS SOME FIFTEEN TIMES. +COUNT COMING OUT FROM THE DINING HALL INTO THE ANTEROOM, AND HE ADDED: +“COUNT! COUNT!” SHOUTED BERG WHO RAN UP FROM THE OTHER SIDE AS EAGER +“COUNT!... DON’T RUIN A YOUNG FELLOW... HERE IS THIS WRETCHED MONEY, +COUNTENANCE. +COUNTENANCE BONAPARTE, AND TO CAUSE ME, AND US IN GENERAL, ANNOYANCE AND +COUNTENANCES BECAME CALM; SOLDIERS AND OFFICERS GREETED HIM GAILY, GREW +COUNTERATTACK. IF THEY ATTACK OUR CENTER WE, HAVING THE CENTER BATTERY +COUNTERMARCHES, THINGS OF WHICH I UNDERSTAND NOTHING; AND THE DAY +COUNTESS. +“COUNTESS APRáKSINA, POOR THING, HAS LOST HER HUSBAND AND SHE HAS +COUNTESS’ GIGANTIC FOOTMAN IN HIS BASS VOICE, ENTERING THE DRAWING +COUNTESS HAD NOT YET COME. BUT NOW STEPS WERE HEARD AT THE DOOR, STEPS +COUNTESS. HER SON’S GROWTH TOWARD MANHOOD, AT EACH OF ITS STAGES, +COUNTESS’ HOUSE. +“COUNTESS, I HAVE DONE W’ONG,” DENíSOV WENT ON IN AN UNSTEADY +COUNTESS. “I HAVE NEVER SEEN A HANDSOMER MAN.” +“COUNTESS NATáSHA,” ANSWERED DENíSOV. +COUNTESS ROSTóVA’S CARRIAGE IN WHICH THEY WERE SEATED DROVE OVER THE +COUNTESS ROSTóVA, WITH HER DAUGHTERS AND A LARGE NUMBER OF GUESTS, WAS +“COUNTESS...” SAID DENíSOV, WITH DOWNCAST EYES AND A GUILTY FACE. +COUNTESS” TO HAVE A REST, BUT REMEMBERING SOMETHING ELSE OF +COUNTESS, WHO SAT HOLDING IN ONE HAND THE SNUFFBOX WITH ITS PORTRAIT AND +COUNTESS WITH A GENTLE SMILE, LOOKING AT BORíS AND WENT ON, EVIDENTLY +COUNT. HE HAS, NO DOUBT, FORGOTTEN IT AND WILL WISH TO DESTROY IT. +COUNT ILYá ROSTóV, HURRIED AND PREOCCUPIED, WENT ABOUT IN HIS SOFT +COUNT ILYá ROSTóV SEPARATELY, AS THE ORGANIZER OF THE BANQUET. AT THAT +“COUNT ILYá ROSTóV’S SON?” ASKED DOLGORúKOV. +COUNT IS VERY FOND OF PIERRE, LOOKED AFTER HIS EDUCATION, AND WROTE TO +“COUNT LICHTENFELS WAS HERE THIS MORNING,” BILíBIN CONTINUED, +COUNT MARKóV, AND PRINCE VYáZEMSKI—DID NOT SHOW THEMSELVES AT THE +COUNT MARKóV? COUNT MARKóV WAS THE ONLY MAN WHO KNEW HOW TO HANDLE +COUNT, MONEY AND ALL THINGS NECESSARY FOR THE UNIFORM AND EQUIPMENT +COUNT NEVER BE ABLE TO FIND OUT WHETHER ALL MEASURES HAD BEEN TAKEN FOR +COUNT ROSTOPCHíN, VALúEV, AND NARýSHKIN. ROSTOPCHíN WAS DESCRIBING +“COUNT ROSTóV.” +“COUNT ROSTóV ASKS YOU TO COME TO DINNER TODAY,” SAID HE, AFTER A +COUNTRY DO WE GET ANY REST? THEATRICALS, HUNTING, AND HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT +COUNTRYMEN. THANKS FOR THE FIRE—WE’LL RETURN IT WITH INTEREST,” +COUNTRYSIDE—“SEE, OUR INFANTRYMEN HAVE ALREADY GOT THERE. LOOK THERE +COUNT,” SAID BERG, LIGHTING HIS PIPE AND EMITTING RINGS OF SMOKE. +“COUNT...” SAID TELYáNIN DRAWING NEARER TO HIM. +COUNT’S NIECE, ENTERED WITH A COLD, STERN FACE. THE LENGTH OF HER +COUNT’S SERVICES, HIS REQUEST WOULD BE GRANTED?...” +COUNT’S VISITORS SETTLED THEMSELVES, SOME IN THE TWO DRAWING ROOMS, +COUNT TOLSTóY, WHO HAD RIDDEN OUT TO THE BATTLEFIELD WITH OTHERS IN +COUNT, WITH PLAYFUL CEREMONY SOMEWHAT IN BALLET STYLE, OFFERED HIS +COUNT,” YET ASHAMED TO CALL HIM “FATHER.” +COUPLE. IN THE INTERVALS OF THE DANCE THE COUNT, BREATHING DEEPLY, WAVED +COUPLE OF WORDS WITH HIM, PIERRE FELT UNABLE TO DISAPPOINT HIM. +COURAGE. 6. GENEROSITY. 7. THE LOVE OF DEATH. +COURAGE AND ENDURANCE—ACKNOWLEDGED EVEN BY THE ENEMY—WITH WHICH THE +COURAGE, BUT SHE LOOKED STRAIGHT INTO HIS HANDSOME FACE AS IT CAME NEAR + COURAGE CONQUEST GUARANTEES; +“COURAGE, COURAGE, MY FRIEND! HE HAS ASKED TO SEE YOU. THAT IS +COURAGE HAD IT NOT BEEN THAT JUST THEN THEY HEARD THE RATTLE OF MUSKETRY +COURAGE, MY ANGEL.” SHE KISSED LISE AND WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE THE ROOM. +COURAGE. NEXT HE THOUGHT THAT HIS ENEMY WOULD SEND THE SQUADRON ON A +COURAGE, SO HE DREW HIMSELF UP AND LOOKED AROUND HIM MERRILY; THEN IT +COURSE OF EVENTS IN THE FORTHCOMING ACTION IN BROAD OUTLINE. HE +COURSE.” PERHAPS HE DID NOT REALLY THINK THIS WHEN HE MET WOMEN—EVEN +COURTIERLIKE QUICKNESS AND TACT HABITUAL TO HER, ANNA PáVLOVNA +COURTS ONLY STRENGTHENED HIS DESIRE TO BELONG TO THAT HIGHER WORLD. +“COUSINAGE—DANGEREUX VOISINAGE,” * SHE ADDED. + * COUSINHOOD IS A DANGEROUS NEIGHBORHOOD. +COVERED HIS EYES WITH HIS HAND AND PRESSED VON TOLL’S HAND. +COVERED THIS MOVEMENT OF THE TRANSPORT AND OF THE WHOLE ARMY, HAD TO +COVERED WITH MELTING SNOW, THE FROST HAVING BEGUN TO BREAK UP DURING THE +COVER OF THE SMALL BOX, AND ASSUMED HIS USUAL TRANQUIL AND IMPENETRABLE +“COVER YOURSELF!” EVEN DENíSOV CRIED TO HIS ADVERSARY. +COWSHED NOR ROSTóV BACK WITH HIS PLATOON FROM FORAGING FOR HAY HAD ANY +COYNESS AND RESERVE OF MANNER, SHE REMINDED ONE OF A PRETTY, HALF-GROWN +CRACK AND THERE WAS A GLIMPSE OF SOMETHING BLUE, OF RIBBONS, BLACK HAIR, +CRACKLING OF WOOD FIRES NEAR AND AFAR, MERGED INTO ONE TREMULOUS RUMBLE. +CREAKING OF HER CORSET AS SHE MOVED. HE DID NOT SEE HER MARBLE BEAUTY +CREAKS OR MAKES MORE NOISE THAN IT SHOULD, AND HASTENS TO CHECK THE +CREAM.” +“CREW, TO YOUR GUNS!” COMMANDED THE OFFICER. +CRIED AT EACH SHOT: “FINE! THAT’S GOOD! LOOK AT IT... GRAND!” THE +CRIED HER EYES OUT,” SHE SAID, GROWING MORE AND MORE LIVELY. +CRIMINAL,” CAME INTO PIERRE’S HEAD, “AND FROM THEIR POINT OF +CRIMSON FLOAT ON THE SURFACE OF THAT MILKY SEA OF MIST. THE WHOLE FRENCH +CRITICAL MOMENT THE COURIER WHO CARRIED THE NEWS OF OUR VICTORY AT +CRITICISM AND WAS ABOUT TO REPLY, WHEN THE EXPECTED FOOTSTEPS WERE HEARD +CROSSED HIMSELF AND KISSED THE ICON. THERE WAS A LOOK OF TENDERNESS, FOR +CROSSED ONE ON THE OTHER ON HER BREAST, AND TO HIM, TOO, HER FACE SEEMED +CROSSED THE BALLROOM, POINTING TO NATáSHA. +CROSSED THE ROAD, AND BEGAN RIDING UP THE HILL AT A GALLOP TOWARD THE +CROSSING A ROAD THEY DESCENDED A STEEP INCLINE AND SAW SEVERAL MEN +CROSS IT AND RIDE OVER THE BLACK FIELD UP THE HILLSIDE. TO KEEP TO THE +CROSS THE LECH, WE CAN CROSS THE DANUBE, THROW OURSELVES ON HIS LINE +CROWDED ROUND A POCKMARKED, BROAD-SHOULDERED SERGEANT MAJOR WHO, TILTING +CROWDED TOGETHER CLOSE TO HIS WHEELS AND HIS HORSES. “WHAT A FELLOW! +CROWD HAD TO WAIT. +CROWDING AROUND THE DAMS AND BANKS OF THE PONDS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF +CROWD OF SOLDIERS. “IT CAN’T BE AN ATTACK, FOR THEY ARE NOT MOVING; +CROWD, THEY HAD GOT WEDGED IN AT THE APPROACH TO THE DAM AND, JAMMED IN +CRUSHED, BUT ANGRY AND WORKING UNNATURALLY, SHE SAW THAT HANGING OVER +CRUSH THE CONTEMPTIBLE DETACHMENT THAT STOOD BEFORE HIM. +CRY. “I NEED FIVE HUNDRED RUBLES, AND HAVE ONLY ONE TWENTY-FIVE-RUBLE +CRYING. +CRYING. SóNYA TRIED TO LIFT HER HEAD TO ANSWER BUT COULD NOT, AND +CRY OR TO LAUGH. PRINCE ANDREW SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS AND FROWNED, AS +CRY. PRINCE ANDREW EVIDENTLY FELT ILL AT EASE, BUT TO THE TWO WOMEN +CUNNING SMILE, AS IF FLATTERED AT BEING MADE THE SUBJECT OF ZHERKóV’S +CUPBOARDS, AND LITTLE TABLES. THE QUILT OF A HIGH, WHITE FEATHER BED WAS +CUP OF VODKA FOR THE MEN FROM ME,” HE ADDED SO THAT THE SOLDIERS +CURIOUS EMBARRASSMENT AMONG SOME OF THOSE PRESENT. SóNYA, DóLOKHOV, +CURIOUS TO KNOW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN AND WHAT WOULD BE REVEALED TO +CURLY HEAD TO HER KNEES AND MADE THE WHOLE ROOM RING WITH HER LAUGHTER. +CURRENT OF HIS THOUGHTS, “THAT ANATOLE IS COSTING ME FORTY THOUSAND +CURTAIN ASIDE AND FOR SOME TIME HIS FRIGHTENED, RESTLESS EYES COULD NOT +CURTAIN FLAPPING AND BLEW OUT THE CANDLE WITH ITS CHILL, SNOWY DRAFT. +CURVING HER ARMS, NATáSHA HELD OUT HER SKIRTS AS DANCERS DO, RAN BACK +CUT!” +CYNICALLY DóLOKHOV HAD PRAISED HIS WIFE’S BEAUTY TO HIM AND FROM THAT +D’AFFAIRES. +DAMNED FOOL!” CRIED DENíSOV, NOT PRONOUNCING HIS R’S. “SUCH ILL +DANCE) BEGAN TO SOUND, ALL THE DOORWAYS OF THE BALLROOM WERE SUDDENLY +DANCER, AND ONE OF THE BEST MATCHES IN THE CITY. +DANCER, BUT SMILING AS ONLY HAPPY GIRLS OF FIFTEEN CAN SMILE. WHEN +DANCERS DO, NATáSHA, RISING ENERGETICALLY FROM HER HEELS TO HER TOES, +DANCING MASTER) GAVE FOR HIS PUPILS DURING THE HOLIDAYS. +DANGER. “I AM CONVINCED THAT WE RUSSIANS MUST DIE OR CONQUER,” HE +DANGEROUS. +DANGERS. DURING THESE WANDERINGS, PIERRE NOTICED THAT HE WAS SPOKEN +DANUBE COVERED WITH PINE FORESTS, WITH A MYSTIC BACKGROUND OF GREEN +DANUBE, MARCHING ON US, YOU, AND YOUR LINES OF COMMUNICATION.” +DARED COMPLAIN, I WHO AM DEPRIVED OF ALL WHO ARE DEAR TO ME? AH, IF +DARED TO TREAT MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA IN THIS FASHION. +DAREN’T SAY SO. IT WILL BE AS I SAID AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CAMPAIGN, +DARK AND THE GLOW OF TWO CONFLAGRATIONS WAS THE MORE CONSPICUOUS. THE +DARK CORNER. AND THIS SOMEONE WAS HE—THE DEVIL—AND HE WAS ALSO THIS +DARK-HAIRED MAN. THIS WAS THE CELEBRATED PETERSBURG DOCTOR, LORRAIN. +DARK HAIRS WERE ALREADY SHOWING ON HIS UPPER LIP, AND HIS WHOLE FACE +DARKNESS, THE MAN PAUSED, THEN MOVED WITH CAUTIOUS STEPS TOWARD THE +DARKNESS, WAS SUDDENLY LIT UP BY A NEW BRIGHTNESS, FULL OF SIGNIFICANCE. +DARKNESS. “WHY NOT?... IT MIGHT EASILY HAPPEN,” THOUGHT ROSTóV, +DARK... STEADY!” HE CRIED TO HIS FIDGETING HORSE. +“DARLING DENíSOV!” SCREAMED NATáSHA, BESIDE HERSELF WITH RAPTURE, +DARTED FORWARD AT EVERY WORD OR GESTURE OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, +DARTED IN AND STOPPED SHORT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM. IT WAS EVIDENT +DASHING YOUNG HUSSAR! +DAUGHTER!” +DAUGHTER. +DAUGHTER AND PLACING AN ARM ON THE BACK OF THE CHAIR ON WHICH SHE SAT, +DAUGHTER, AND WHILE HE LAUGHED THE EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE CLEARLY SAID: +DAUGHTER, BUT FOR A MINISTER! FOR ME, THERE ARE NO MINISTERS!” +DAUGHTER, ENTERED THE DRAWING ROOM, THEIR DRESSES RUSTLING. +DAUGHTER GOT UP TO GO AND THE TWO YOUNG MEN ROSE TO LET THEM PASS. +DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, “BUT SHE NEED NOT MAKE A FOOL OF HERSELF, SHE’S +DAUGHTER IS SO YOUNG, AND I THOUGHT THAT, AS MY SON’S FRIEND, YOU +DAUGHTER.)—“MY DEAR BOY... LëLYA... I AM VERY PLEASED.” (HIS + * DAUGHTER OF MATTHEW. +DAUGHTER OF PRINCE VASíLI, BUT VISUALIZED HER WHOLE BODY ONLY VEILED +DAUGHTER’S FACE THAT IT WAS ONLY MISCHIEF, SHE SHOOK A FINGER AT HER +DAUGHTER’S HAPPINESS. +DAUGHTER. SHE LOWERED HER HEAD AND WAS READY TO BURST INTO TEARS. +DAUGHTER WERE HAVING ONE NOT LESS IMPORTANT. NATáSHA CAME RUNNING TO +DAY BEFORE, HE WISHED TO DO WHAT THE YOUNG MAN WANTED. HAVING BEEN SENT +DAY HE HAD LOST. HE WAS HAPPY AS A LOVER WHEN THE LONGED-FOR MOMENT OF +DAY HE IS SENSIBLE, WELL EDUCATED, AND GOOD-NATURED, AND THE NEXT HE’S +DAY IN MOSCOW. ALL DENíSOV’S MOSCOW FRIENDS GAVE HIM A FAREWELL +DAY... NATáSHA, WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE IT?...” +DAYS.” +DAY,” SAID THE VISITOR. “WHAT A CHARMING CHILD,” SHE ADDED, +DAYS’ MARCH AND THE ENEMY’S OUTPOSTS AFTER A BRIEF INTERCHANGE +DAYS WAS STILL THIN—MOVED. HIS GLEAMING EYES WERE FIXED INTENTLY ON +DAYS WITH HER, ASKED HER TO SLEEP IN HER ROOM, AND OFTEN TALKED WITH HER +DAY UNTIL THEN, BUT HE COULD NO LONGER DO IT. HE COULD NOT, ANY MORE +DAY WAS MAPPED OUT, THE PRINCE RESTED AND THE PRINCESS PLAYED THE +DAY WE ARE KEEPING. BUT MIND YOU COME TO DINNER OR I SHALL BE OFFENDED, +DEAD. ALL THAT HE SAW AND HEARD SEEMED TO CONFIRM THIS TERROR. +DEAD OR WOUNDED HORSES AND HARNESSING FRESH ONES, AND SHOUTING IN HIS +DEAR AND PRECIOUS FRIEND, HOW TERRIBLE AND FRIGHTFUL A THING IS +DEAR AND PRECIOUS FRIEND, YOUR LETTER OF THE 13TH HAS GIVEN ME GREAT +DEAR BOY,” AND HE DREW PIERRE’S ARM DOWNWARDS, “IT IS SIMPLY A +“DEAR COUNTESS, WHAT AN AGE... SHE HAS BEEN LAID UP, POOR CHILD ... +“DEAR, DEAR! BUT STILL TELL HIM TO COME TO THE CLUB—IT WILL ALL BLOW +“DEAR, DEAR! JUST LOOK AT HER!” EXCLAIMED THE COUNTESS AS SHE +“DEAR DOCTOR,” SAID SHE, “THIS YOUNG MAN IS THE COUNT’S SON. IS +“DEAREST... AND ME!” +‘DEAREST FOE! FLOWER OF THE AUSTRIAN ARMY, HERO OF THE TURKISH WARS! +“DEAREST, I’M AFRAID THIS MORNING’S FRUSCHTIQUE *—AS FóKA THE +“DEAREST,” SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS AFTER BREAKFAST ON THE MORNING +DEAR FELLOW!” AND FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON TEARS SUDDENLY FILLED HIS +DEAR GENERAL, I AM ENGAGED WITH RICE AND CUTLETS, LOOK AFTER MILITARY +DEAR INVALID?” SAID SHE, AS THOUGH UNAWARE OF THE COLD OFFENSIVE LOOK +“DEAR ME, CAN I HAVE FORGOTTEN? NO, I REMEMBER THINKING THAT YOU KEPT +“DEAR ME, HOW YOU HAVE CHANGED!” +DEAR, MERRY CHILD. I HAVE GROWN SO FOND OF HER.” +“DEAR ME!” SAID HIS FATHER, WHO WAS IN A SPECIALLY GOOD HUMOR. “I +“DEAR ME!” SAID ROSTóV. +“DEAR ME! THEN WHAT ARE YOU UP TO NOW?” +“DEAR PRINCESS, I BEG AND IMPLORE YOU, HAVE SOME PITY ON HIM! JE VOUS +DEAR SIR—TOOK ON YOURSELF RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE GUIDANCE OF A YOUNG +DEAR, THERE’S FRIENDSHIP FOR YOU,” HE REPEATED. “HE’S JOINING +DEAR. WE WILL SEE HOW TARáS DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF TODAY. HE SAYS COUNT +DEATH, IS HERE ABOVE ME AND AROUND... ANOTHER INSTANT AND I SHALL NEVER +DEATH’S HEAD. THE STRANGER SAT WITHOUT STIRRING, EITHER RESTING OR, AS +DEATH,” THOUGHT BOLKóNSKI. +DE BEAUCOUP DE MéRITE), A NEWLY APPOINTED MAID OF HONOR AND HER MOTHER, +DECEITFUL GERMAN, WHOM HE WOULD NOT ONLY KILL WITH PLEASURE BUT WHOM +DECEIVED YOU. LET US GO TO MAMMA.” +DECEMBER, NOTHING WAS SAID ABOUT THE WAR AND THE LAST BATTLE, AS +DECENTLY HERE,” CONTINUED TELYáNIN. “NOW THEN, LET ME HAVE IT.” +DE CHâLE, BUT AT THIS LAST BALL ONLY THE éCOSSAISE, THE ANGLAISE, AND +DECIDEDLY LOST BEARINGS, YOU KNOW THAT A LETTER WAS RECEIVED FROM HIM +DECIDED NOW OR NEVER. SHE LOWERED HER EYES SO AS NOT TO SEE THE GAZE +DECIDED THAT DAY, BUT THAT THEY ALSO KNEW WHAT SHE THOUGHT ABOUT IT. SHE +DECIDED TO PLAY UNTIL THAT SCORE REACHED FORTY-THREE THOUSAND. HE +DECIDED TO SEND THE LETTERS AND MONEY BY THE GRAND DUKE’S COURIER TO +DECIDE, MY DEAR, GOOD, GENTLE MARIE, WHOM I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED AS A +DECLARED THAT HE WILL LEAVE IT TO THE FRENCH PEOPLE THEMSELVES TO CHOOSE +DECLARED, WAS EXTRAORDINARY AND HAD ACHIEVED MIRACLES OF VALOR. THE +DECLARES IN ZE MANIFESSTO ZAT HE CANNOT FIEW WIZ INDIFFERENCE ZE DANGER +DECLINED: I HAVE MY DAUGHTERS TO CONSIDER.” +DEEDS, AND WHILE DYING HE EXPRESSED THE LOVE HIS ACTIONS HAD PROVED. +DEEPEST WHERE THE LAND LIES LOWEST. +DEEPLY. +DEEP WRINKLES WOULD CREASE HIS CHEEKS. HIS SMALL, DEEP-SET EYES ALWAYS +DEFEATED. A WEEK AFTER THE GAZETTE REPORT OF THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ +DEFEAT, THERE WERE MANY CIRCUMSTANCES CONFIRMING THE UNFAVORABLE RUMORS +DEFECTION, RAN AT A TROT, PANTING TO CATCH UP WITH HIS COMPANY. A CANNON +DEFECTIVE COMMISSARIAT, THE TREACHERY OF THE POLE PRZEBYSZéWSKI AND OF +DEFENDING US—DOING IT VERY BADLY, I THINK, BUT STILL HE IS DEFENDING +DEFENSE—AS MUCH AS TO SAY: ‘HEAVEN IS WITH US, BUT HEAVEN HELP YOU +DEFENSE OF VIENNA WAS NO LONGER TO BE THOUGHT OF. INSTEAD OF AN +DEFERENTIAL YOUNG MAN WHO HAD ENTERED. “BRING ME...” HE REFLECTED +DEFILE THROUGH NARROW VILLAGE STREETS WHEN WE ARE MARCHING AGAINST THE +DEFINITE IDEA OF HER, HE TURNED AWAY AND ADDRESSED MICHAEL IVáNOVICH. +DEJECTION AND HOPELESSNESS)—AT ANY RATE, PIERRE LONGED WITH HIS WHOLE +DELAY AND ADVISED WAITING FOR SOMETHING ELSE BEFORE ADVANCING HAD BEEN +DELIBERATELY SO THAT EVERYONE COULD HEAR: +DELIBERATELY SPOKEN WORD. IT WAS EVIDENT THAT KUTúZOV HIMSELF LISTENED +DELICATE DARK DOWN WAS JUST PERCEPTIBLE, WAS TOO SHORT FOR HER TEETH, +“DELIGHTFUL!” SAID BOLKóNSKI. “BUT I HAVE COME TO YOU, PRINCE, +DELIGHTFUL TO SEE.” +DELIGHT OF FRENZY. HE FLUNG DOWN THE SLAB, BROKE IT, AND SWOOPING +DELIGHT. SO YOU STILL LOVE ME, MY ROMANTIC JULIE? SEPARATION, OF WHICH +(DELIVERED BY THE FRENCH ALONE) WAS STILL TO BE HEARD FROM NUMEROUS +DELIVERS ITS TEACHING NOT IN WORDS ONLY BUT ALSO BY OTHER MEANS, WHICH +DEMANDED. +DEMANDED THAT HE SHOULD SUBMIT. FEELING HIMSELF IN THEIR POWER, HE +DEMAND SATISFACTION OF HIS REGIMENTAL COMMANDER?” +“DEMOSTHENES, I KNOW THEE BY THE PEBBLE THOU SECRETEST IN THY GOLDEN + * DENíSOV. +DENíSOV. +DENíSOV?” +DENíSOV ALSO CAME BACK AND STAYED WITH THEM. THE FIRST HALF OF THE +DENíSOV, AND NOW MOSCOW MEMORIES—AND HE AGAIN HURRIEDLY OPENED HIS +DENíSOV BEGAN TO LAUGH. +DENíSOV BENT OVER HER HAND AND SHE HEARD STRANGE SOUNDS SHE DID NOT +DENíSOV, DENíSOV! WE’RE ALMOST THERE!” +“DENíSOV, DON’T MAKE FUN OF IT!” CRIED ROSTóV. “IT IS SUCH A +DENíSOV FIRST WENT TO THE BARRIER AND ANNOUNCED: “AS THE +DENíSOV FROWNED AND WAS ABOUT TO SHOUT SOME REPLY BUT STOPPED. +DENíSOV GALLOPED UP TO HIM. +DENíSOV GAVE NO ANSWER. +DENíSOV GLANCED AT ROSTóV. +DENíSOV JOINED NESVíTSKI. +“DENíSOV, LET HIM ALONE, I KNOW WHO HAS TAKEN IT,” SAID ROSTóV, +DENíSOV NICE?” SHE ASKED. +DENíSOV RAISED HIS HEAD, COUGHED, AND MADE NO ANSWER. +DENíSOV REMAINED SILENT AND DID NOT MOVE, BUT OCCASIONALLY LOOKED WITH +DENíSOV’S A FINE FELLOW. BUT THAT’S ALL NONSENSE. THE CHIEF THING +DENíSOV SAT GLOOMILY BITING HIS MUSTACHE AND LISTENING TO THE +DENíSOV SCREWED UP HIS FACE AND POINTING OVER HIS SHOULDER WITH HIS +DENíSOV’S FACE PUCKERED STILL MORE. +DENíSOV’S FAVORITE BARCAROLLE. NATáSHA WAS PREPARING TO SING. +DENíSOV’S HORSE, BEDOUIN, WAS IN DEBT ALL ROUND, TO HIS COMRADES AND +DENíSOV SMILED, TOOK OUT OF HIS SABRETACHE A HANDKERCHIEF THAT DIFFUSED +DENíSOV’S NEW CLOAK AND SADDLECLOTH. +DENíSOV’S SHORT STATURE NOT NOTICEABLE AND HE LOOKED THE FINE FELLOW +DENíSOV’S VOICE FROM THE NEXT ROOM. +DENíSOV. “THEY KEEP DWAGGING THE WEGIMENT TO AND FWO ALL DAY. IF THEY +DENíSOV THREW BOTH PILLOWS ON THE FLOOR. THE PURSE WAS NOT THERE. +DENíSOV, TO ROSTóV’S SURPRISE, APPEARED IN THE DRAWING ROOM WITH +DENíSOV WAS LOOKING AT HER WITH ENRAPTURED EYES. +DENíSOV WAS SHOWN TO THE ROOM PREPARED FOR HIM, AND THE ROSTóVS ALL +“DENíSOV! WE’RE HERE! HE’S ASLEEP,” HE ADDED, LEANING FORWARD +DENíSOV WERE HIS WORST ENEMY, FIRMLY FIXED HIS EYES DIRECTLY ON HIS +DENíSOV, WHO HAD SETTLED DOWN BY THE ROADSIDE WITH A FLASK AND SOME +DENíSOV WITH HIS VOICE AND MUSTACHE, AND TELYáNIN AND ALL THAT AFFAIR +DENíSOV, WITH SPARKLING EYES AND RUFFLED HAIR, SAT AT THE CLAVICHORD +DEPARTURE HéLèNE RETURNED TO PETERSBURG, SHE WAS RECEIVED BY ALL HER +DEPENDS ON YOUR DECISION. NEVER MIND ME!” +DEPRAVED IDEAS OF THESE DAYS. I SAID SO EVEN AT THE TIME WHEN EVERYBODY +DEPRAVED WOMAN,” HE REPEATED, “BUT DARED NOT ADMIT IT TO MYSELF. +DEPRECATING EXPRESSION OF A DOG WHEN IT RAPIDLY BUT FEEBLY WAGS ITS +DEPRESSED, “I SHALL BE ONLY TOO GLAD IF YOU RELIEVE ME OF THAT YOUNG +DEPRESSING AND UNSOLVED PROBLEM. +DEPTH OF HIS HEART. IN ONE PLACE THE PEASANTS PRESENTED HIM WITH BREAD +“DERE HAS NEFFER BEEN A GASE,” A GERMAN DOCTOR WAS SAYING TO AN +DERISION. “I OUGHT TO KNOW THE EMPEROR BY NOW, AFTER THE TIMES I’VE +DESCENDING THE VALLEY. THAT MOMENT OF MORAL HESITATION WHICH DECIDES +DESCENT LIT UP, AND FACING IT A BLACK KNOLL THAT SEEMED AS STEEP AS A +DESCRIPTION OF THE LAST PETERSBURG FETE SHE ADDRESSED HER BROTHER: +DESCRIPTION. THE OLD MAN BEGAN TO SING, IN THE CRACKED VOICE OF OLD AGE: +DESCRIPTIVE PART OF THE LETTER. “AND WHAT A SOUL! NOT A WORD ABOUT +DESIRE TO DO GOOD TO HIS NEIGHBOR. +DESIRE TO SHOW HIS FRIEND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE THAT HE WAS NOW A QUITE +DESIROUS OF HIDING HER ADORATION FOR HéLèNE AND INCLINED RATHER +DESPAIR AT FAILING IN A SCRIPTURE EXAMINATION, HIS BORROWING MONEY FROM +DESPAIR, NOT KNOWING WHERE TO OR WHY HE WAS NOW RIDING. +DESPERATE ATTACK JUST TO PUNISH HIM—ROSTóV. THEN HE IMAGINED HOW, +DESPERATION SLAMMED THE DOOR WITH ALL HER MIGHT. +DESPITE COUNT BEZúKHOV’S ENORMOUS WEALTH, SINCE HE HAD COME INTO AN +“DESPITE MY GREAT RESPECT FOR OLD KUTúZOV,” HE CONTINUED, “WE +DESPITE THE GENERAL’S PRESENCE WERE TALKING LOUDLY AND GESTICULATING. +DESPITE THE WEAKNESS OF AGE, WHICH HAD BECOME PARTICULARLY NOTICEABLE +DESTINY OF OUR ADORED MONARCH. HE WILL SAVE EUROPE!” + DESTROYED, AND YOU FIND THAT A CAUSE FOR JESTING!” +DESTRUCTION OF THE PRUSSIAN ARMY AT JENA AND AUERSTäDT AND THE +DETACHMENT, MOVED FROM THE PLACE WHERE IT HAD SPENT THE NIGHT, ADVANCING +DETACHMENT NO ONE KNEW ANYTHING OF THE GENERAL POSITION OF AFFAIRS. THEY +DETAIL! NO, MY DEAR FELLOW, NO CONDITIONS BETTER THAN OUR PRESENT ONES +DETAILS OF HIS DISASTER HE UNDERSTOOD THAT HALF THE CAMPAIGN WAS LOST, +“DEVIL TAKE ‘EM!” HE MUTTERED, WHILE HIS HEAD WAS STILL COVERED BY +“DEVIL TAKE THEM!” HE MUTTERED, AND AFTER LISTENING TO THE VERBAL +DEVOID OF ANY FOUNDATION. PRINCE BAGRATIóN TURNED TO THE OLD COLONEL: +DEVOTION TO THE SOVEREIGN, ROSTóV PICTURED TO HIMSELF AN ENEMY OR A +DEVOURED HIM WITH HIS EYES, DRAWING HIMSELF UP OBSEQUIOUSLY, AND FROM +DIAMONDS, SHE PASSED BETWEEN THE MEN WHO MADE WAY FOR HER, NOT LOOKING +DICTATED THE DISPOSITIONS IN GERMAN, AND NOW, MUCH EXHAUSTED, HE ARRIVED +DID, ESPECIALLY TOWARD EVENING WHEN HE HAD EMPTIED HIS SECOND BOTTLE; HE +DID I COME HERE?” HE WONDERED. +DID NEITHER: A LOOK OF ANIMOSITY APPEARED ON HIS FACE AND THE OTHER +DID NOT, AND DO NOT, IN THE LEAST CARE ABOUT THAT SCOUNDREL OF A CLERK +DID NOT CALM HER EXCITEMENT. SUDDENLY HER DOOR OPENED SOFTLY AND HER OLD +DID NOT DRAW CLOSER TO SóNYA, BUT RATHER DRIFTED AWAY FROM HER. SHE WAS +DID NOT EVEN MAKE HIM A CURTSY. SHE FIXED HER EYES ON HIM IN AMAZEMENT, +DID NOT, FOR INSTANCE, SAY TO HIMSELF: “THIS MAN NOW HAS INFLUENCE, I +DID NOT INTEREST HER—OR BY A SILENT LOOK AND SMILE WHICH MORE PALPABLY +DID NOT LET HIM AND, ON THE OTHER, PIERRE HIMSELF FEARED TO BEGIN TO +DID NOT LET IT OUT OF HER HANDS. THE TUTORS CAME, AND THE NURSES, AND +DID NOT SEE YOU.” +DID NOT SUIT HER FADED FEATURES, ALWAYS PLAYED ROUND HER LIPS EXPRESSED, +DID NOT WAIT TO BE CALLED. THE SHAPELY FIGURE OF THE FAIR-HAIRED +DID NOT WANT OR COULD NOT CARRY AWAY WITH THEM. AUSTRIAN COLUMN GUIDES +DID NOT WISH TO, BELIEVE THAT. +DID NOT WISH TO CONFESS. +DID NOVOSíLTSEV GET? NONE. THE ENGLISH HAVE NOT UNDERSTOOD AND CANNOT +“DIDN’T I TELL YOU,” SHE WENT ON, TURNING REPROACHFULLY TO +DID SHE NOT SHOW ANY TRACE OF COQUETRY, BUT ON THE CONTRARY SHE EVEN +DID STILL HARDER WORK ON THEIR OWN LAND. HE DID NOT KNOW THAT THE PRIEST +DIDST THOU, AND WHY DID THE WHOLE WORLD, CONCEIVE THE IDEA OF THE +DID THAT DAY. BUT NO SOONER HAD NATáSHA FINISHED HER BARCAROLLE THAN +DID THEY NOT INTEREST HIM, BUT HE TOOK NO NOTICE OF THEM AND AT ONCE +DID THIS AND THAT, ALL WOULD BE WELL; AND HE DID WHAT WAS DEMANDED OF +DID YOU COME HERE?” +“‘DIEU ME LA DONNE, GARE à QUI LA TOUCHE!’’ * THEY SAY HE WAS +“DIEU! MON DIEU!” MUTTERED ANNA PáVLOVNA IN A TERRIFIED WHISPER. +“DIEU SAIT QUAND REVIENDRA. GO TO THE DINING ROOM.” +“DIEU SAIT QUAND REVIENDRA.” HUMMED THE PRINCE OUT OF TUNE AND, WITH +DIFFERED ONLY IN THAT ONE HAD A LITTLE MOLE ON HER LIP WHICH MADE HER +DIFFERENT, AND BETTER, PIERRE THAN HE HAD BEEN IN PETERSBURG. +DIFFERENT COMPANIES DID NOT GET MIXED. BUT OUR LEFT—WHICH CONSISTED +DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF ITS ELDERS WHICH IS OFTEN INSINCERE, NICHOLAS +DIFFERENT FROM THEMSELVES AND FROM EVERYONE ELSE, EXPECTED GREAT THINGS +DIFFERENT ONE FROM THAT WHICH HE HAD RIDDEN AT THE REVIEW, AND BENDING +DIFFERENT TONES. ROSTóV REINED IN HIS HORSE, WHOSE SPIRITS HAD RISEN, +DIFFICULT FOR ARTILLERY AND CAVALRY TO RETIRE. PRINCE ANDREW TOOK +DIFFICULTIES HAD TOLD NICHOLAS THAT THIS WAS ALL HE COULD LET HIM HAVE +DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE HAPPIER PEOPLE, AND THAT GOD ONLY KNEW WHAT WOULD +DIFFICULTY. +DIFFICULTY. +DIFFICULTY. +DIFFICULTY OUT OF THE FRONT DOOR. +DIGESTED HIS SUFFERINGS ALONE. +DIM, BUT DEFINITE AND IN THE CONCISE FORM IN WHICH HE IMAGINED HIMSELF +DINING ROOM WHERE HIS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, PRINCESS MARY, AND MADEMOISELLE +DINNER. +DINNER ALL WHO CAME “TO CONGRATULATE.” THE COUNTESS WISHED TO HAVE +DINNER AND AT OTHER TIMES, WHEN AS IF TIRED OF EVERYDAY LIFE HE HAD FELT +DINNER AND LOOKED ABOUT, BLINKING AND SCOWLING, OR, WITH FIXED EYES AND +DINNER AT THE ROSTóVS’?” +DINNER, BUT PROVIDING IT AND SERVING IT ALL UP, THAT’S NOT THEIR +DINNER,” CRIED SEVERAL VOICES. “WE’LL TAKE YOU IN HAND.” +DIN OF SHOUTING MORE INCESSANT. SOLDIERS FLOUNDERING KNEE-DEEP IN MUD +DIPLOMATIC CAREER IN COMPARISON WITH PIERRE’S HAPPINESS. THE OLD +DIPLOMATIC DISCRETION TORMENTED HIM, AND HE WAS HAPPY TO HAVE IN PRINCE +DIPLOMATIST?” ASKED PRINCE ANDREW AFTER A MOMENTARY SILENCE. +DIPLOMATIST FRESH FROM BERLIN WITH THE VERY LATEST DETAILS OF THE +DIPLOMATS, EVIDENTLY HAD ITS OWN INTERESTS WHICH HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH +DIPLOMATS WHO ARE ESTEEMED BECAUSE THEY HAVE CERTAIN NEGATIVE QUALITIES, +DIP. PRINCE ANDREW, BEING ALWAYS NEAR THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, CLOSELY +DIRECT DESCENT AND ASCENT TO THE BROOK SEPARATING US FROM SCHöN +DIRECTED TO—PIERRE AND HéLèNE. PRINCE VASíLI MIMICKED THE SOBBING +DIRECTING THE MARCH RODE BACKWARD AND FORWARD BETWEEN THE CARTS. THEIR +DIRECTION OF THE CONFLAGRATION. AS IF URGING EACH OTHER ON, THE SOLDIERS +DIRECTION TOWARD THE VALLEY AND DISAPPEARING ONE AFTER ANOTHER INTO +“DIRECTLY!” +DIRTY FEATHER BED ON THE TOP OF THE CHEST, CRUMPLING HER GAUZY PINK +DISAGREEABLE TONE TO PRINCE HIPPOLYTE WHO WAS BLOCKING HIS PATH. +DISAPPEARED HE NOTICED THAT THE EYES OF ALL IN THE ROOM TURNED TO HIM +DISAPPROVINGLY, BUT IN WHISPERS AND AS A GREAT SECRET. +DISASTROUS WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. +DISBELIEVED BOTH THE PRINCESS’ HINTS AND THE LETTER, BUT HE FEARED +DISCIPLINE AND ZEAL IN THE SERVICE. HE BROUGHT WITH HIM INTO OUR +DISCIPLINE, IF YOU ALLOW A SUBORDINATE TO ADDRESS YOU LIKE THAT!’ IT +DISCONCERTED. THE SIGHT OF THE DISCOMPOSURE OF THAT OLD MAN OF THE WORLD +DISCUSS SO MINUTELY AND ACUTELY ALL THE RECENT EUROPEAN MILITARY AND +DISGRACE SUCH AS THAT OF ULM, OR TO UTTER DESTRUCTION. BUT TO FORESTALL +DISGRACE THE WHOLE REGIMENT? DISGRACE THE WHOLE REGIMENT BECAUSE OF ONE +DISHEVELED HEAD FROM THE HOT PILLOW. +DISMAL INFLUENCE OF CANNON BALLS FLYING FROM THE FRENCH BATTERIES +DISMISSED FROM HERE; THEREFORE, YOU CAN STAY AND GO WITH US WHEREVER OUR +DISMOUNTED. HE GAVE THE REINS TO A COSSACK, TOOK OFF AND HANDED OVER HIS +DISORDER AND WAS RETREATING UPON THE KIEV GRENADIERS. PRINCE BAGRATIóN +DISORDERED. THE FRENCH CANNON DID NOT REACH THERE AND THE MUSKETRY FIRE +DISORGANIZED, I STOPPED IN THE ROAD AND THOUGHT: ‘I’LL LET THEM +DISPATCH? YOU KNOW EVERYTHING.” +DISPLEASE YOU. HOWEVER,” HE ADDED RISING, “YOU KNOW MY NAME AND +DISPOSED TO TREAT THE YOUNG HEIR IN THE MOST FRIENDLY AND FLATTERING +DISPOSITION OF THE FORCES, SO AS TO KNOW HIS BEARINGS SHOULD HE BE SENT +DISPOSITIONS...” +“DISPOSITIONS FOR AN ATTACK ON THE ENEMY POSITION BEHIND KOBELNITZ AND +DISPUTE. +DISPUTE WITH THE FRENCH GRENADIER. THEY WERE NATURALLY TALKING ABOUT THE +DISRESPECTFUL MANNER OF THE EXHAUSTED CLERK, THE FACT THAT THE CLERK AND +DISSATISFACTION AND REPROACH. “OLD THOUGH HE MAY BE, HE SHOULD NOT, HE +DISSATISFIED, INTERRUPTED BY ANOTHER, AN UNFAMILIAR VOICE. FROM THE +DISSATISFIED WITH HIM, AND ALSO THAT AT THE EMPEROR’S HEADQUARTERS +DISSIPATED LIFE OF HIS SON ANATOLE, THE SON WHOM THEY WERE PLANNING TO +DISTANCE AND PUCKERING THE SKIN ABOVE HIS LEFT EYE, “MALGRé LA HAUTE +DISTANCE, BUT DOWN THE HILL BEFORE HIM. “IT’S THE FRENCH!” +DISTANCE THAT ALLOWED EVERY SOFTLY SPOKEN WORD TO BE HEARD, FOLLOWED +DISTANCE WHERE NO ONE HAD BEEN BEFORE HIM. BAGRATIóN CALLED TO HIM FROM +DISTANT, MOST INTIMATE, MEMORIES ROSE IN HIS IMAGINATION: HE REMEMBERED +DISTINCTIONS WHICH MAY INFRINGE EQUALITY. FLY TO A BROTHER’S AID +DISTINCTLY, BUT AS OFTEN HAPPENS HAD NOT UNDERSTOOD A WORD OF WHAT THEY +DISTINCTNESS. +DISTINGUISH A MOUNTED MAN FROM ONE ON FOOT. NAPOLEON, IN THE BLUE CLOAK +DISTINGUISHED AIR WHICH INSPIRED RESPECT. PRINCESS ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA +DISTINGUISHED DIGNITARY AND A SWISS WHO HAD FORMERLY BEEN TUTOR AT THE +DISTINGUISHED HIM FROM EVERYONE ELSE IN THAT DRAWING ROOM. +DISTORTED OUT OF ALL LIKENESS TO HIS FORMER SELF, AND THE FLOURISHING OF +DISTRAUGHT YET ANGRY EXPRESSION ON THE FACES OF THESE TWO MEN, WHO +DISTRESSED, AND BREATHED PAINFULLY, BUT COULD NOT RESTRAIN THE WILD +DISTRESSED THAT HIS STOUT AND CLUMSY BODY TOOK UP SO MUCH ROOM AND DOING +DISTRUST IN BOLKóNSKI’S EMPHATIC OPINION YET NOT FEELING ABLE FULLY +DISTURBED. +DIVINE SAVIOUR HAS LEFT FOR OUR GUIDANCE HERE BELOW. LET US TRY TO +DMíTRI, A MAN OF GOOD FAMILY WHO HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP IN THE COUNT’S +DMíTRI, AND SEVERAL ACQUAINTANCES, AND THE COUNTESS REREAD THE LETTER +DMíTRIEVNA. +DMíTRIEVNA PRODUCED NO LESS IMPRESSION BY SLIGHT EXERTIONS—THE LEAST +DMíTRIEVNA’S DEEP VOICE SUDDENLY INQUIRED FROM THE OTHER END OF THE +“DMíTRI,” SAID ROSTóV TO HIS VALET ON THE BOX, “THOSE LIGHTS ARE +DO?” +“DO COME.” +DOCTOR AND EXPECTING ANOTHER FOR WHOM THEY HAD SENT TO TOWN, THEY HAD +DOCTOR’S WIFE. +DOCTOR’S WIFE, WHO WAS CALLING HIM HER DELIVERER, AND RECALLING WITH +DOCTOR WHO HAD ENTERED THE HALL AFTER HIM (THEY HAD MET AT THE LAST POST +DOCTOR WITH A BOW AND APPROACHED THEM SILENTLY AND WITH A LOOK OF +DOES NOT EVEN ATTEMPT TO HIDE ITS ARTIFICIALITY) OF A MAN WHO IS +DOES NOT PRODUCE THE SLIGHTEST STIR—A BLIND MAN HAS LEFT IT. THERE ARE +DOES NOT QUITE SEE IT; MORE PARTICULARLY AS IT IS HE AND HIS CORPS WHO +DOESN’T HAVE INTRIGUES NOWADAYS? WHY, IF HE WAS SO JEALOUS, AS I SEE +DOESN’T MAKE A MESS OF THINGS!” +DOES SHE BOTHER ME?” AND SHE ADDED, TURNING TO VéRA, “YOU’LL +DOING A LITTLE—THOUGH I DID VERY LITTLE AND DID IT VERY BADLY? WHAT +DOING RIGHT. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA NODDED APPROVINGLY. AGAIN PIERRE FELL +DOING!” SAID THE OFFICER AND RODE OFF. +“DO I REMEMBER NICHOLAS?” +DO IT.” +DOLGORúKOV; AND THOUGH YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT, THE FACT IS THAT NOW +DOLGORúKOV LAUGHED MERRILY. +DOLGORúKOV, LOOKING ROUND AT BILíBIN WITH A SMILE. +DOLGORúKOV, ONE OF THE WARMEST ADVOCATES OF AN ATTACK, HAD JUST +DOLGORúKOV, THE VICTOR AT WISCHAU, WAS SENT WITH SAVARY TO NEGOTIATE +DOLGORúKOV TO THE EMPEROR. +DOLGORúKOV WAS STILL INSISTING THAT THE FRENCH HAD RETREATED AND HAD +DOLLS AND WHO WAS STILL HAVING LESSONS. +DóLOKHOV. +DóLOKHOV. +DóLOKHOV AND LOOKED SORROWFULLY AT HIM. DENíSOV, ROSTóV, AND +DóLOKHOV, AND WORDS OF HONOR?... ALL NONSENSE! ONE MIGHT KILL AND ROB +DóLOKHOV, AN OFFICER OF THE SEMëNOV REGIMENT, A NOTORIOUS GAMBLER AND +DóLOKHOV BEGAN TO DEAL SERIOUSLY. OH, HOW ROSTóV DETESTED AT THAT +DóLOKHOV CLIMBED CAREFULLY AND SLOWLY THROUGH THE WINDOW AND LOWERED +DóLOKHOV CUT HIM SHORT, AS IF TO REMIND HIM THAT IT WAS NOT FOR HIM TO +DóLOKHOV DID NOT ANSWER THE CAPTAIN; HE HAD BEEN DRAWN INTO A HOT +DóLOKHOV HAS BEEN DEGRADED TO THE RANKS AND BEZúKHOV’S SON SENT +DóLOKHOV HIMSELF DURING HIS CONVALESCENCE SPOKE TO ROSTóV IN A WAY NO +DóLOKHOV HURRIEDLY INTERRUPTED. +DóLOKHOV LOOKED AT PIERRE WITH CLEAR, MIRTHFUL, CRUEL EYES, AND THAT +DóLOKHOV LOOKED ROUND BUT DID NOT SAY ANYTHING, NOR DID THE MOCKING +DóLOKHOV MADE NO REPLY. +“DóLOKHOV, MARY IVáNOVNA’S SON,” SHE SAID IN A MYSTERIOUS +DóLOKHOV—NOW AN OFFICER—WOUNDED IN THE ARM, AND ON FOOT, WITH +DóLOKHOV OFTEN DINED AT THE ROSTóVS’, NEVER MISSED A PERFORMANCE AT +DóLOKHOV OR ANSWERING HIM. THE FOOTMAN, WHO WAS DISTRIBUTING LEAFLETS +DóLOKHOV PAUSED. +DóLOKHOV, PIERRE SAW CLEARLY THAT WHAT WAS SAID IN THE LETTER MIGHT BE +DóLOKHOV PRESSED ROSTóV’S HAND AND BURST INTO TEARS. +DóLOKHOV’S BACK IN HIS WHITE SHIRT, AND HIS CURLY HEAD, WERE LIT +DóLOKHOV’S CLEAR, COLD GLANCE MET ROSTóV AS SOON AS HE ENTERED THE +DóLOKHOV’S FACE. +DóLOKHOV’S HAND. +DóLOKHOV’S HANDS AND THOUGHT, “NOW THEN, MAKE HASTE AND LET ME HAVE +DóLOKHOV’S HOME: ON THE THIRD DAY HE RECEIVED A NOTE FROM HIM: +DóLOKHOV, SLAMMING DOWN THE PACK OF CARDS, PUT IT ASIDE AND BEGAN +DóLOKHOV SLOWLY STRAIGHTENED HIS BENT KNEE, LOOKING STRAIGHT WITH HIS +DóLOKHOV SMILED. “DON’T TROUBLE. IF I WANT ANYTHING, I WON’T +DóLOKHOV’S OFFER,” HE SAID, ARTICULATING HIS FRIEND’S NAME WITH +DóLOKHOV’S PROPOSAL AND IOGEL’S BALL, SEEMED TO HAVE GROWN THICKER +DóLOKHOV’S REPLY. +DóLOKHOV’S SECOND, AND AFTER DINNER HE DISCUSSED THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR +DóLOKHOV STILL SAT IN THE SAME POSITION, ONLY HIS HEAD WAS THROWN +DóLOKHOV STOOD FROWNING AND DID NOT SPEAK. PIERRE JUMPED UPON THE +DóLOKHOV. SUDDENLY A CANNON BALL HISSED SO LOW ABOVE THE CROWD THAT +DóLOKHOV’S WORDS INTO ENGLISH. A THIN YOUNG LAD, AN HUSSAR OF THE +DóLOKHOV, THE BOTTLE OF RUM STILL IN HIS HAND, JUMPED ONTO THE WINDOW +DóLOKHOV TURNED ROUND AND, AGAIN HOLDING ON WITH BOTH HANDS, ARRANGED +DóLOKHOV WAS A SECRET TO NO ONE BUT HIMSELF. PIERRE ABSOLUTELY +DóLOKHOV WAS HOLDING THE ENGLISHMAN’S HAND AND CLEARLY AND DISTINCTLY +DóLOKHOV WAS OF MEDIUM HEIGHT, WITH CURLY HAIR AND LIGHT-BLUE EYES. HE +DóLOKHOV, WHO HAD ALREADY CHANGED INTO A SOLDIER’S GRAY GREATCOAT, +DóLOKHOV, WHO HAD NO REASON TO PRESERVE THE HONOR OF A MAN WHO WAS +DóLOKHOV, WHOM EVERYONE IN THE HOUSE LIKED EXCEPT NATáSHA. SHE ALMOST +DóLOKHOV WHO WAS IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD FORCED HIS WAY TO THE EDGE +DOMESTIC SERFS WERE CROWDING IN THE HALL, WAITING TO BID GOOD-BY TO +DOMINATED EVERYTHING ELSE AND SOARED ABOVE ALL THEIR AFFECTED CHATTER. +DONE FOR HIM! I HOPE THAT HERE IN MOSCOW NO ONE WILL RECEIVE HIM, IN +DONE. HAVE YOU CHOSEN A POST IN WHICH YOU MIGHT BE OF SERVICE TO YOUR +DONE NO HARM TO ANYONE; WHY MUST I SUFFER SO? HELP ME!” HER LOOK +DONE SHALL BE. NOW LISTEN! GIVE THIS LETTER TO MICHAEL ILARIóNOVICH. * +DONE THE JOB JUST AS WELL.” +DONE, THE RHETOR SAID: +DONE TO ME?”—SAID HER CHARMING, PATHETIC, DEAD FACE. +DONE UP. +DO NEXT. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WITH HER EYES INDICATED A CHAIR THAT STOOD +DO NOT BREAK YOUR RANKS ON THE PLEA OF REMOVING THE WOUNDED! LET EVERY +“DO NOT LET US LOSE ANY TIME...” +DO NOT SUPPOSE ME TO BE SO BAD. WITH MY WHOLE SOUL I WISH TO BE WHAT YOU +“DON’T BE UNKIND,” CRIED ANNA PáVLOVNA FROM HER END OF THE TABLE +“DON’T, BORíS! YOU ARE SUCH A DIPLOMAT THAT IT IS REALLY +DON’T CARE A STRAW ABOUT ANYONE BUT THOSE I LOVE; BUT THOSE I LOVE, +“DON’T COME IN,” SHE SAID TO THE OLD COUNT WHO WAS FOLLOWING HER. +“DON’T! DON’T! WHAT ARE YOU ABOUT?” WHISPERED THEIR FRIGHTENED +DON’T FEEL THAT WEAKNESS IN MYSELF AS YET, I KNOW A LITTLE PERSON WHO +DON’T FORGET TO PUT OUT MY NEW COAT,” ADDED ROSTóV, FINGERING HIS +DON’T GET PROMOTED TO A SUBLIEUTENANCY.” +“DON’T JOKE; I MEAN TO HAVE A SERIOUS TALK WITH YOU. DO YOU KNOW +“DON’T KICK UP THE DUST, YOU INFANTRY!” JESTED AN HUSSAR WHOSE +DON’T KNOW AND NEVER SHALL KNOW, FOR THE LOVE OF THESE MEN HERE,” HE +DON’T KNOW HOW TO HIDE WHAT I FEEL.” AS HE SPOKE HE KEPT GLANCING +DON’T KNOW ME. WE HAVE NOT MET FOR SUCH A LONG TIME... NOT SINCE WE +“DON’T LIKE BOWWOWING FROM MY OWN FELLOWS, I DON’T,” GROWLED +“DON’T MENTION IT, GENERAL, AS IF I’D BE SO BOLD!” REPLIED THE +“DON’T, NATáSHA! WHAT NONSENSE!” SHE SAID, HOPING IT WAS A JOKE. +DON’T NEED IT? NOW YOU SHALL JUDGE BETWEEN US. I ALWAYS TELL HIM: HERE +DON’T REMEMBER BORíS. I DON’T REMEMBER HIM A BIT.” +“DON’T SAY THAT TO ME! I WANT NOTHING. I LOVE YOU AS A BROTHER AND +“DON’T SPEAK TO ME... I BEG YOU,” MUTTERED PIERRE HOARSELY. +“DON’T TEASE! WELL, AND WHAT HAS BEEN DECIDED ABOUT NOVOSíLTSEV’S +“DON’T TOUCH HIM! YOU’LL STARTLE HIM AND THEN HE’LL BE KILLED. +“DON’T TOUCH ME,” SAID ROSTóV, DRAWING BACK. “IF YOU NEED IT, +DON’T TROUBLE YOURSELF FURTHER.” +DON’T UNDERSTAND. PERHAPS PRINCESS ELIZABETH AND PRINCESS MARY KNOW. +DON’T WISH TO LET ME GO, I’LL STAY. BUT I KNOW I AM NO USE ANYWHERE +“DON’T YOU WANT TO? WELL, THEN, COME HERE,” SAID SHE, AND +“DON’T YOU WECOLLECT WHAT BAD USE I MADE OF YOUR LESSONS?” +DOOR, AND ADDED IN A WHISPER SO THAT HER SON SHOULD NOT HEAR, “WISH ME +DOOR AND HIS EXPRESSION OF SLEEPY INDIFFERENCE SUDDENLY CHANGED TO ONE +DOOR, AS THOUGH HE HAD LONG EXPECTED HIM. +DOOR BEHIND HIM AND SATISFIED HIMSELF THAT THERE WAS NOBODY ELSE IN THE +“DO ORDER THEM TO FORM INTO BATTALION COLUMNS AND GO ROUND THE +DOOR? OH, SHE IS A PEARL AMONG WOMEN, PRINCESS,” HE ADDED, TURNING TO +DOOR OPENED QUICKLY AND THE STERN FIGURE OF THE OLD MAN IN THE WHITE +DOOR. WHILE HE WAS GETTING DOWN FROM THE CARRIAGE STEPS TWO MEN, WHO +DOPPELKüMMEL. THE OFFICERS GLADLY GATHERED ROUND HIM, SOME ON THEIR +“DO PROMISE, DO PROMISE, VASíLI!” CRIED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA AS HE + DO, SIRE.” +“DO STOP JOKING, BILíBIN,” CRIED BOLKóNSKI. +DO THE DOCTORS SAY?” ASKED THE PRINCESS AFTER A PAUSE, HER WORN FACE +DO THE RIGHT THING. +DO THEY LOOK AT ME?” THEN HE LIFTED HIS HEAD, STRETCHED HIS NECK AS +“DO THIS FOR MY SAKE, MON CHER; AFTER ALL, SHE HAD TO PUT UP WITH A +DO THIS FOR MY SON—AND I SHALL ALWAYS REGARD YOU AS A BENEFACTOR,” +DO TO GET HERE.” +DOUBLED. TO THIS PRINCE ANDREW ANSWERED WITH A SMILE THAT HE COULD +DOUBT, AND SELF-DERISION, WHICH APPEARED ON HIS FACE AGAINST HIS WILL, +DOUBT FILLED HER SOUL. COULD THE JOY OF LOVE, OF EARTHLY LOVE FOR A +DOUBT IT NOW. ROSTóV RODE IN THE DIRECTION POINTED OUT TO HIM, IN WHICH +DOUBT OF VICTORY, ESPECIALLY ON THIS DAY WHEN WHAT IS AT STAKE IS THE +DOWN!” +DOWN, AND SMILED AFFECTIONATELY. +DOWN. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA INDICATED BY HER ATTITUDE HER CONSCIOUSNESS OF +DOWN BELOW, BUT HIGHER UP AT THE VILLAGE OF SCHLAPPANITZ WHERE NAPOLEON +DOWNCAST HEAD; AND HE BEGAN TO PACE THE ROOM, GLANCING OCCASIONALLY AT +DOWN IN HER EASY CHAIR, NOW TAKING HER PRAYER BOOK, NOW KNEELING BEFORE +DOWN LAWS FOR AUSTRIA AT SCHöNBRUNN, IL FAUT LUI FAIRE GRâCE DE +DOWN, LIGHTLY TOUCHED HIS DAUGHTER’S HAIR AND SAT DOWN AGAIN. +DOWN ON A SOFA IN THE NEXT ROOM. +DOWN ON A SOFA NEAR THE SILVER SAMOVAR, AS IF ALL SHE WAS DOING WAS A +DOWN. ONE BULLET AND THEN ANOTHER WHISTLED PAST HIM. HE MUSTERED HIS +DOWN ON HER WITH OUTSTRETCHED HANDS SHOUTED, “GET OUT!” IN SUCH A +DOWN ON ONE OF THE TUBS, PICKED IT UP. +DOWN ON THE SOFA, FACING HER BROTHER. “SHE IS QUITE A CHILD: SUCH A +DOWNSTAIRS TO HIS OWN ROOM. A QUARTER OF AN HOUR LATER THE OLD COUNT +DOWN THE HILLSIDES, AND CLOUDS OF CANNON SMOKE ROLLING, SPREADING, +DOWN THE ROOM FOR A LONG TIME, NO LONGER PIERCING AN IMAGINARY FOE WITH +DOWN THE WAX, THE SEAL, AND THE PAPER, WITH HIS ACCUSTOMED RAPIDITY. +DOWN TO HER NECK AND SHOULDERS WHILE NICHOLAS WAS SPEAKING. +DOWNWARDS AS WAS HIS HABIT. +DOWNWARD. WHEN PIERRE CAME UP THE COUNT WAS GAZING STRAIGHT AT HIM, BUT +DOWNY LIP WAS OPEN AND SHE WAS SMILING JOYFULLY. PRINCE ANDREW ENTERED +DOWRY AND TAKE MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE INTO THE BARGAIN. SHE’LL BE THE +“DO YOU HEAR HOW HE’S WALKING?” SAID TíKHON, DRAWING THE +DO YOU KNOW HE HAS FALLEN IN LOVE WITH SóNYA?” +“DO YOU KNOW,” HE SAID AT LAST, EVIDENTLY UNABLE TO CHECK THE SAD +“DO YOU KNOW, MON CHER,” SAID BILíBIN FOLLOWING HIM, “I HAVE BEEN +“DO YOU KNOW?” SAID PIERRE, AS IF SUDDENLY STRUCK BY A HAPPY +“DO YOU KNOW, THAT FAT PIERRE WHO SAT OPPOSITE ME IS SO FUNNY!” SAID + *DO YOU KNOW THE PROVERB? +“DO YOU KNOW, YOU ARE A TERRIBLE CHAP FOR ALL YOUR INNOCENT AIRS,” +“DO YOU OR DO YOU NOT KNOW WHERE THAT WILL IS?” INSISTED PRINCE +DO YOU REMAIN SILENT WHEN HEAVEN KNOWS WHO PERMITS HERSELF TO +“DO YOU REMEMBER HIM?” NATáSHA SUDDENLY ASKED, AFTER A MOMENT’S +“DO YOU REMEMBER ME?” ASKED BORíS QUIETLY WITH A PLEASANT SMILE. +“DO YOU REMEMBER WE HAD A TALK ABOUT CARDS... ‘HE’S A FOOL WHO +“DO YOU SEE?... MY DOLL... MIMI... YOU SEE...” WAS ALL NATáSHA +“DO YOU THINK HE CAN LAST TILL MORNING?” ASKED THE GERMAN, +“DO YOU THINK SO?... REALLY? TRULY?” SHE SAID, QUICKLY SMOOTHING HER +“DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU’RE SAYING?” HE SAID IN A TREMBLING +“DO YOU WANT ANYTHING?” +DOZENS OF SOLDIERS, CONTINUALLY REPLACED BY OTHERS, WHO RAN FROM THE +DRAGGING IT BY THE STAFF, RAN ON WITH THE BATTALION. IN FRONT HE SAW OUR +DRAGOONS. IN THE CENTER, WHERE TúSHIN’S BATTERY STOOD AND FROM WHICH +DRANK MUCH, AND EAGERLY. BUT THOSE WHO KNEW HIM INTIMATELY NOTICED THAT +DRAW BREATH. +DRAWING HIM DOWN PUT HER ARM ROUND HIS THIN, SCRAGGY NECK. +DRAWING ROOM. +DRAWING ROOM. +DRAWING ROOM. +DRAWING ROOM. AND, IN FACT, BILíBIN’S WITTICISMS WERE HAWKED ABOUT +DRAWING ROOM, APPROACHING NOW A SILENT, NOW A TOO-NOISY GROUP, AND BY A +DRAWING ROOM, HELPED TO RECEIVE AND ENTERTAIN THE VISITORS. THE YOUNG +DRAWING ROOM. THE GUESTS BEGAN TO DISPERSE, SOME WITHOUT TAKING LEAVE +DRAWING ROOM WITH HER HABITUAL SKILL. THE LARGE GROUP, IN WHICH WERE +DRESS AS FRESH AND ELEGANT AS THE OTHER. PRINCE ANDREW ROSE AND POLITELY +DRESSED ALIKE, IN NEW PALE-BLUE FROCKS, AND WERE BOTH FRESH, ROSY, AND +DRESSED AND UNDRESSED, DRYING THEIR SHIRTS AND LEG BANDS OR MENDING +DRESSED, AT A ROUND TABLE IN THE CLEAN QUARTERS ALLOTTED TO THEM, +DRESSED FOR HIS ATTENDANCE AT COURT IN FULL PARADE UNIFORM, WHICH HE +DRESSED GAY YOUNG MEN ON SPLENDID, WELL-GROOMED, FRESH, ONLY SLIGHTLY +DRESSED. PRINCESS MARY’S SELF-ESTEEM WAS WOUNDED BY THE FACT THAT +DRESS, GIRDLED WITH A BROAD RIBBON JUST BELOW THE BREAST. +DRESS, HAVE IT FETCHED. REALLY! YOU KNOW THE FATE OF YOUR WHOLE LIFE MAY +DRESS HER WOULD PROLONG THEIR BANTER AND INSISTENCE. SHE FLUSHED, HER +DRESSING GOWN EVERY DAY, HE INVARIABLY BECAME CONFUSED AND BEGGED HER TO +DRESSING GOWN LOOKED OUT. +DRESSING GOWN, SPECTACLED AND WIGLESS, SHOUTING IN AN ANGRY VOICE. +DRESS, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE’S RIBBON, PRINCESS MARY’S UNBECOMING +DRESS UNDER HER, HIDING HER FACE WITH HER SLENDER FINGERS, AND SOBBING +DRESS WITH HER LITTLE HAND, NOW ARRANGING THE SCARF AND LOOKING AT HER +DREW ANATOLE, WHOM SHE HARDLY KNEW, INTO THESE AMUSING RECOLLECTIONS OF +DREW HER CHAIR NEARER TO THAT OF THE COUNTESS. +DREW HIS SABER, AND WITH A HAPPY AND RESOLUTE COUNTENANCE, OPENING +DREW IN HIS LEGS AND SAT UP, SEEKING A FIRM CENTER OF GRAVITY. HE SUCKED +DRIED AND WARMED THEMSELVES, COOKED THEIR PORRIDGE FOR THE FIRST TIME +DRINK?” +DRINK SHOP OR FALL ILL. JUST AS I COULD NOT STAND HIS TERRIBLE PHYSICAL +DRIVEN THEIR TWO-HORSE CARTS LOADED WITH WHEAT AND HAD RETURNED DUSTY +DRIVER’S LEG. THEIR SPIRITS ONCE ROUSED WERE, HOWEVER, NOT DIMINISHED, +DRIVE THE PRINCESS AWAY BY THAT SCREAM... “KILLED!” +DRIVE UP, WENT TO MEET HIM. +DRIVING INTO THE COURT OF COUNT BEZúKHOV’S HOUSE. AS THE WHEELS +DROOPING AS HE BROKE INTO A GALLOP. +DROOPING TAIL. +DROPPED IT INTO A LEATHER POUCH ATTACHED TO THE LATHE, AND, APPROACHING +DROPPING HER VOICE. “MY WRETCHED LAWSUIT TAKES ALL I HAVE AND MAKES NO +DROPPING INTO HIS USUAL AFTER-DINNER NAP, AND LAUGHED AT EVERYTHING. +DROPS AND AGAIN WENT UP TO THE COT. +DROVE HIS HUGE SPURS IN VIOLENTLY, AND THE HORSE, FLOURISHING ITS TAIL +DROWSINESS OVERPOWERED HIM, RED RINGS DANCED BEFORE HIS EYES, AND THE +DRUBETSKáYA, WHO AS A MEMBER OF THE HOUSEHOLD WAS ALSO SEATED IN THE +DRUMMER, THEIR LEADER, TURNED ROUND FACING THE SINGERS, AND FLOURISHING +DRY HANDS CLENCHED WITH VEXATION AT HER NOT UNDERSTANDING A SUM IN +DUC EVEN THE MOST PARTIAL CEASED TO REGARD HIM AS A HERO. IF TO SOME +DUEL HE DID NOT GO TO HIS BEDROOM BUT, AS HE OFTEN DID, REMAINED IN HIS +DUELIST AND RAKE, AND EVERY NOW AND THEN HE GLANCED IRONICALLY AT +DUELIST, WHO WAS LIVING WITH ANATOLE. PIERRE SMILED, LOOKING ABOUT HIM +DUEL PROVE? THAT YOU’RE A FOOL, QUE VOUS êTES UN SOT, BUT EVERYBODY +DUE TO HER MISFORTUNE. WHEN CONVERSATION TURNED ON HER HUSBAND HéLèNE +DUKE CONSTANTINE PáVLOVICH, WHO COMMANDED THE GUARDS. THE ROSTóVS +DUKE’S ORDERS THE MEN HAD MARCHED ALL THE WAY IN STEP (A PRACTICE ON +DULL EXPRESSION. +DULL EYES LOOKED AT HIM IN SILENCE. IT SEEMED TO PRINCE ANDREW THAT THE +DULL WITHOUT YOU,” SAID SHE, GIVING HIM A TENDER SMILE. +DURING ROSTóV’S SHORT STAY IN MOSCOW, BEFORE REJOINING THE ARMY, HE +DURING THAT STAY IN PETERSBURG, BORíS BECAME AN INTIMATE IN THE +DURING THE BATTLE, AND FEELING REASSURED HE DOZED OFF.... THE DARK +DURING THE FIVE YEARS HE HAD KNOWN HER, AND HOW HER HEAD HAD CRACKED +DURING THIS TRANSFER HE FELT A LITTLE STRONGER AND WAS ABLE TO LOOK +DUST FROM THE SLEEVE OF HIS UNIFORM, AND GOING UP TO A MIRROR EXAMINED +DUTIES ON YOU, AND YOU MUST BE A MAN.” +DUTY. THE EMPEROR IS GRACIOUS, AND I SHAN’T FORGET YOU IF YOU DESERVE +DYING FATHER. “IT IS PAINFUL, BUT IT DOES ONE GOOD. IT UPLIFTS THE +DYING MAN, BUT PASSED BY HIM, JOINED THE ELDEST PRINCESS, AND MOVED +DYING MAN WISHED TO SEE, HER OWN ADMISSION WAS ASSURED. CASTING A RAPID +DYING OF FRIGHT. I DID, ‘PON MY WORD, I GOT THAT FRIGHTENED!” SAID +EACH ASCENT OR DESCENT OF THE ROAD THE CROWDS WERE YET DENSER AND THE +EACH FACE, APPRAISING THE POSSIBILITIES OF ESTABLISHING INTIMACY WITH +EACH OCCASION HAD BEEN DRIVEN BACK BY GRAPESHOT FROM THE FOUR ISOLATED +EACH OF THOSE PRESENT, AND THE ADVANTAGES THAT MIGHT ACCRUE. HE TOOK +EACH OTHER’S ARMS WARMLY PRESSING THEIR LIPS TO WHATEVER PLACE THEY +EACH TIME HE TOUCHED HIS FOREHEAD. HIS FACE WORE A CALM LOOK OF PIETY +EACH TIME WITH FRESH PLEASURE AND EACH TIME DISCOVERED IN IT FRESH +EACH VISITOR PERFORMED THE CEREMONY OF GREETING THIS OLD AUNT WHOM NOT +EAGERLY AND RATHER DISDAINFULLY, NOT RESTING ON ANYTHING ALTHOUGH HIS +EAGERNESS AND BRISKNESS PRESENTED A MARKED CONTRAST TO THE DISSATISFIED +EAGER QUESTIONS FROM ALL SIDES. THE WHOLE MOVING MASS BEGAN PRESSING +EARLY IN THE YEAR 1806 NICHOLAS ROSTóV RETURNED HOME ON LEAVE. DENíSOV +EASY. +EASY. AND TELL ME, PLEASE—I’VE BEEN MEANING TO ASK—HOW IS HE +EASY TO TAKE MARSHALS, SITTING ON A SOFA BY THE FIRE! THAT IS TRUE, BUT +EBOOK OR ONLINE AT WWW.GUTENBERG.ORG +éCOSSAISE WAS ENDED, HE CLAPPED HIS HANDS TO THE MUSICIANS AND SHOUTED +EDGE OF THE CLEARING. THE SECONDS, MEASURING THE PACES, LEFT TRACKS IN + E’EN FORTUNATE NAPOLEON +EFFECTED THE DANGEROUS CROSSING OF THE STRAITS OF DOVER AND CAPTURED +EFFECT ON EVERYONE, SMILED AND, EVIDENTLY UNMOVED BY WHAT HAD BEEN +EFFORTS TO SEEM CALM. +EFFORT. THE BOTTLE WAS EMPTYING PERCEPTIBLY AND RISING STILL HIGHER +EFFORT TO LOOK AT THE SERVANT WHO STOOD CONSTANTLY AT THE HEAD OF THE +EFFORT TO MOVE HER SHOULDERS OR BEND HER ARMS WHEN TURNING, OR STAMP +EFFORT TO SAY THIS. “WITHOUT A NAME AND WITHOUT MEANS... AND IT +EFFRAYéE, AS HE CALLED IT, SHOES, AND SILK STOCKINGS. +EGGED ON AGAINST EACH OTHER. +“EH, BROTHER! THEY’VE ALL BOLTED LONG AGO!” SAID THE SOLDIER, +EH, DMíTRI! GALLOP OFF TO OUR MOSCOW ESTATE,” HE SAID TO THE FACTOTUM +“EH, EH, FRIEND! COME HERE A BIT,” SAID SHE, ASSUMING A SOFT HIGH +“EH, IS ANYTHING HURTING YOU?” ASKED THE SOLDIER, SHAKING HIS SHIRT +“EH, IS SHE PRETTY?” HE ASKED WITH A WINK. +“EH? WHAT?” ASKED PRINCE ANDREW. +EH?... WHAT THEN?... EH?” +EIGHTY THOUSAND ALLIED TROOPS ROSE FROM THEIR BIVOUACS TO THE HUM OF +EITHER. DON’T I KNOW THAT AT THE RATE WE ARE LIVING OUR MEANS WON’T +EITHER,” HE THOUGHT TO HIMSELF, “I HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG. HAVE I +EITHER,” HE THOUGHT. “YES, I DID NOT KNOW ANYTHING, ANYTHING AT ALL +EITHER THE PLACE THEY WERE LEAVING OR THAT TO WHICH THEY WERE GOING. +EKONóMOV. +ELATED. HE HAD NOTICED A SOLITARY TREE AHEAD OF HIM. THIS TREE HAD BEEN +ELBOWS, AS IF TO SAY: “YOU CAN TELL ME YOUR VIEWS LATER, BUT NOW BE SO +ELBOWS TURNED OUTWARDS, HIS HANDS ON HIS KNEES, AND HIS SHOULDERS +ELDER DAUGHTER, COUNTESS VéRA, WITH A SMILE. +ELDERLY FACE, AND SHE TOOK THE MONEY FROM UNDER THE HANDKERCHIEF. +ELDERS. +ELDERS WHICH SEEMS TO SAY TO THE OLDER GENERATION, “WE ARE PREPARED TO +ELDEST PRINCESS, WHO WERE SITTING UNDER THE PORTRAIT OF CATHERINE THE +ELDEST WHO WAS READING—THE ONE WHO HAD MET ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. THE +ELEGANTLY. BILíBIN’S SERVICES WERE VALUED NOT ONLY FOR WHAT HE WROTE, +ELSE. +ELSE. +ELSE, MY DEAR BOY, LET ME TELL YOU IT’S QUITE LIKELY YOU’LL HAVE TO +ELSE,” REPLIED ANNA PáVLOVNA. +ELSE, RUNS UPSTAIRS AND DOES UP HER HAIR AND WAGS HER TAIL AND IS UNLIKE +ELSE THE TSAR DID. +EMBARRASSED HIM. HE WAS LIKE A MAN ENTIRELY ABSORBED IN SOME OCCUPATION. +EMBARRASSED VOICE, THOUGH IT SOUNDED SEVERE TO DENíSOV—“BUT MY +EMBARRASSING ATTENTIONS. ON THE FACE OF THE WAG ZHERKóV THERE SUDDENLY +EMBARRASSING SITUATION, AND THE EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE WAS INVARIABLY +EMBARRASSMENT LOOKED PIERRE STRAIGHT IN THE FACE. +EMBITTERED LOOK CLOUDED HER ONCE HANDSOME FACE, BUT ONLY FOR A MOMENT; +EMBRACED HIM AND LIFTING HIS SPECTACLES KISSED HIS FRIEND ON THE CHEEK +EMBRACING DENíSOV. “NICHOLAS WROTE US... NATáSHA, VéRA, LOOK! HERE +EMBRACING PRINCE VASíLI. +EMBROIDERED COURT UNIFORM, KNEE BREECHES, AND SHOES, AND HAD STARS ON +EMITTING A SMOKE RING. +EMPEROR, ABOUT THE REMARKS HE HAD HEARD AT COURT CONCERNING THE KREMS +EMPEROR ALEXANDER HURRIEDLY TO KUTúZOV, GLANCING COURTEOUSLY AT THE +EMPEROR ALEXANDER’S VISIT TO POTSDAM, AND OF HOW THE TWO AUGUST +EMPEROR AND THE WHOLE ARMY, ESPECIALLY WHILE THE SMOKE HUNG OVER +EMPEROR AT ONCE RODE UP TO HIM, OFFERED HIS SERVICES, AND ASSISTED HIM +EMPEROR FRANCIS CONTINUED TO LOOK ABOUT HIM AND DID NOT LISTEN. +EMPEROR FRANCIS WOULD HAVE BEEN FULFILLED LONG AGO. I SHOULD LONG +EMPEROR HAD ONLY JUST FALLEN ASLEEP AND SO SAVARY HAD TO WAIT. AT MIDDAY +EMPEROR HIMSELF RODE ROUND HIS BIVOUACS. THE SOLDIERS, ON SEEING HIM, +EMPEROR NAPOLEON BURNS WITH IMPATIENCE TO MAKE PRINCE AUERSPERG’S +EMPEROR NAPOLEON IF WE TAKE THIS BRIDGE, SO LET US THREE GO AND TAKE +EMPEROR NOT EVERYONE COULD UNDERSTAND, AND WITH HIS WHOLE SOUL HE SHARED +EMPEROR,” SAID ROSTóV, AND WAS ABOUT TO SPUR HIS HORSE. +EMPEROR’S ARRIVAL, LAY SEVERAL KILLED AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS WHOM THERE +EMPEROR’S EYES MET ROSTóV’S AND RESTED ON THEM FOR NOT MORE THAN +EMPERORS. UPON THEM THE UNDIVIDED, TENSELY PASSIONATE ATTENTION OF THAT +EMPEROR. THE EMPEROR FRANCIS, A ROSY, LONG FACED YOUNG MAN, SAT VERY +EMPEROR,” THOUGHT ROSTóV. +EMPEROR WAS PALE, HIS CHEEKS SUNKEN AND HIS EYES HOLLOW, BUT THE CHARM, +EMPHATICALLY. +EMPLOYED BY LIVELY CHATTY PEOPLE, AND CONSISTING IN THE ASSUMPTION +EMPRESS’ FIELD, NOT UNDERSTANDING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FIRING, NOR +EMPRESS’ FIELD,” SAID HE CLEARLY AND DISTINCTLY. +EMPTIED THEM, ROLLING THE VODKA IN THEIR MOUTHS, AND WALKED AWAY FROM +EMPTY AND THAT THE NURSE HAD BEEN HIDING THE DEAD BABY. HE DREW THE +EMPTYING HIS GLASS AT ONE GULP HE DASHED IT TO THE FLOOR. MANY FOLLOWED +ENCAMPMENT, AND NOT WITHIN SIGHT OF THE ENEMY BEFORE AN ACTION IN + ENCHANTRESS, SAY, TO MY FORSAKEN LYRE +EN CONJURE...” +ENCOUNTER AN ENEMY INVISIBLE TEN PACES OFF. BUT THE COLUMNS ADVANCED +ENCOUNTER ONE ANOTHER AT THE CLEAN, SMART HUSSARS WHO MOVED PAST THEM IN +“ENCOURAGING US TO GET ALONG QUICKER,” SAID ANOTHER UNEASILY. +ENDED WITH A THUD INTO SOMETHING SOFT... F-F-FLOP! AND A COSSACK, RIDING +ENDING PIERRE’S UNPLEASANT AND UNAMIABLE OUTBURST. AFTER THE ANECDOTE +END OF HIS GUN...” A SOLDIER WHOSE GREATCOAT WAS WELL TUCKED UP SAID +END OF THE MEAL. HE WINKED AT THE BUTLER, WHISPERED DIRECTIONS TO THE +END SPURRED HIS HORSE. +ENDURE THIS MAN WHO IS A MENACE TO EVERYTHING.” +ENEMIES, HE TRIED TO CONTINUE READING. BUT FEELING THIS TO BE SENSELESS +ENEMY?” +ENEMY, DO NOT AVENGE THYSELF EXCEPT BY DOING HIM GOOD. THUS FULFILLING +ENEMY’S HORSE PATROLS COULD BE DISCERNED. +ENEMY THREE TIMES AS STRONG, WHO WOULD HEM HIM IN FROM TWO SIDES. +ENEMY UNDER THE EMPEROR’S COMMAND. COMMANDED BY THE EMPEROR HIMSELF +ENERGETIC A CHARACTER. HE IS SO ACCUSTOMED TO UNLIMITED POWER THAT HE IS +ENERGETICALLY THAN ANYONE, LED THE GUESTS INTO THE DRAWING ROOM, AND +ENGAGED; HE WAS SHOUTING “HURRAH!” +ENGAGEMENT AND HIS RECEPTION BY THE MINISTER OF WAR. +“ENGLAND IS DONE FOR,” SAID HE, SCOWLING AND POINTING HIS FINGER +ENGROSSED BY IT, YET HIS STRUT SEEMED TO INDICATE THAT, BESIDES MILITARY +ENJOYABLE. THAT YEAR TWO MARRIAGES HAD COME OF THESE BALLS. THE TWO +ENJOYED NARRATING ALL THIS, AND DID NOT SEEM TO SUSPECT THAT OTHERS, +ENJOYMENT BY SYMPATHY WITH ANYONE’S SORROW,” SHE FELT, AND SHE SAID +ENLIGHTENMENT?” +ENLIGHTEN THEIR MINDS, BY MEANS HANDED ON TO US BY TRADITION FROM THOSE +ENORMOUS TABLE WOULD SAY: “WELL, DMíTRI, YOU’LL SEE THAT THINGS ARE +ENORMOUS WHOLE. +ENOUGH, AT THE END OF THE FEAST PROPOSED THE EMPEROR’S HEALTH. “NOT +ENOUGH TO SEE A LONG WAY IN THE DESERTED STREET AND IT SEEMED MORE LIKE +“ENOUGH! WHAT NONSENSE! ABOVE ALL, TRY TO BE RESPECTFUL AND CAUTIOUS +ENTERED. +ENTERED, AS IF TO SAY: “YES, THAT’S HOW I WANT YOU TO LOOK.” +ENTERED HIS FATHER’S DRESSING ROOM (NOT WITH THE CONTEMPTUOUS LOOK AND +ENTERED, THE BRONZE HANDLE OF ONE OF THE DOORS TURNED AND PRINCE VASíLI +ENTERED THE DRAWING ROOM ELEGANTLY DRESSED IN THE UNIFORM OF AN +ENTERED THEIR HEADS THAT IT COULD HAVE BEEN OTHERWISE AT THIS MEETING. +ENTERED THE ROOM. +ENTERED THE ROOM. +ENTERED THE ROOM. +ENTERED THE ROOM. PRINCE VASíLI APPROACHED FIRST, AND SHE KISSED THE +ENTERING THE HOUSE OCCUPIED BY KUTúZOV, ASKED FOR BOLKóNSKI. PRINCE +ENTERING THE HOUSE, PRINCE ANDREW SAW NESVíTSKI AND ANOTHER ADJUTANT +ENTERING THE MISTY REGION WITH A SOUND OF HOOFS AND WHEELS AND NOW AND +ENTERTAINING SUPPOSITION. +ENTERTAINMENT AT THE GYPSIES’, WITH THE RESULT THAT HE HAD NO +ENTER THAT ROOM. +ENTER THE DRAWING ROOM? EVEN IF I LIKE HIM I CAN’T NOW BE MYSELF WITH +ENTHUSIASMS, DREAMS, AND HOPES OF HAPPINESS OR GOODNESS, IN PRINCE +ENTHUSIASM—WAS ONLY THE LOSS OF THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ, THE +ENTICE HIM TO MARRY MY DAUGHTER AND LEND ME THE FORTY THOUSAND RUBLES +ENTRANCE, AFTER SCRUTINIZING THE MOTHER AND SON (WHO WITHOUT ASKING TO +ENTRANCE. THE PRINCE WAS WORKING AT THE LATHE AND AFTER GLANCING ROUND +ENTRANCE TO THE DAM RAISED HIS HAND AND OPENED HIS MOUTH TO ADDRESS +ENTREATIES. SOON AFTER ANNA PáVLOVNA’S RECEPTION ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA +ENTRENCHMENTS BEING THROWN UP, THE FRESHLY DUG CLAY OF WHICH SHOWED UP +ENTRENCHMENTS LOOKED OUT JUST AS MENACINGLY, AND THE UNLIMBERED CANNON +ENTRENCHMENT. THEY HAD TO HOLD THEIR NOSES AND PUT THEIR HORSES TO A +ENTRUSTED TO HIM, WAS PEDANTIC IN THE FULFILLMENT OF HIS DUTIES, SEVERE +ENTRUSTED TO HIS CARE AND WHOM HE INTENDED TO BENEFIT. +ENVELOPED IN THOSE BEAMS, HE HEARD HIS VOICE, THAT KINDLY, CALM, +ENVIOUS AND NATáSHA COULD NOT HELP JOINING IN. +EPAULETTES HAD BEEN PACKING WITH HIS VALET IN THE ROOMS ASSIGNED TO HIM. +EQUALITY. HAVE PEOPLE SINCE THE REVOLUTION BECOME HAPPIER? ON THE +EQUALS, WHILE HIS EYES OCCASIONALLY SOUGHT OUT HIS FINE WELL-SET-UP +EQUIP HIM.” +ERECT, ALMOST ON TIPTOE, WITH A SOLDIER’S OBSEQUIOUS EXPRESSION ON HIS +ERECT ON HIS HANDSOME BLACK HORSE, LOOKING ABOUT HIM IN A LEISURELY AND +ERR, AND IN NOTHING MORE THAN IN WHAT THEY CONSIDER RIGHT AND WRONG.” +ESCAPADE MADE EVERYBODY FEEL CONFUSED. DENíSOV BLUSHED TOO, BUT SMILED +ESCAPE, AND BAGRATIóN’S FOUR THOUSAND MEN MERRILY LIGHTED CAMPFIRES, +ESCAPE IT ALL, AND FELT THAT DóLOKHOV KNEW THAT HE COULD SAVE HIM FROM +ESCAPE IT ANYHOW.” +ESCORTED HIM TO THE DOOR, REPEATING SOMETHING TO HIM SEVERAL TIMES IN +ESPECIALLY AFTER HAVING DINED, BOLKóNSKI FELT THAT HE COULD NOT TAKE IN +ESPECIALLY APPEALED TO PIERRE. THE IMPORTANT MYSTERY MENTIONED BY THE +ESPECIALLY THE YOUNGEST, THE PRETTY ONE WITH THE MOLE, WHO OFTEN MADE +ESSEN CORPS ARRIVED AND PRUSSIA TOOK OUR SIDE. +ESSENTIAL, AND AFTER A SHORT INTERVAL FOLLOWED HER. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA +ESSENTIAL TO SPEAK THE WHOLE TRUTH. +ESTABLISHED INTIMACY WITH THE FRENCH MARSHALS, AND SO DAZZLED BY THE +ESTATE NEAR MOSCOW, AND TO RECEIVE MANY PEOPLE WHO FORMERLY DID NOT +ESTATES. HIS NEW BRETHREN GAVE HIM LETTERS TO THE KIEV AND ODESSA MASONS +ESTATES IN THE SOUTH AND THERE ATTENDING TO THE WELFARE OF HIS SERFS. +ESTIME QUE JE PROFESSE POUR THE ORTHODOX RUSSIAN ARMY, J’AVOUE QUE +ESTRANGEMENT, AND RIDICULE WITH WHICH TROOPS OF DIFFERENT ARMS USUALLY +ETERNAL, AND INFINITE IN ALL HIS ATTRIBUTES?...” +ETERNITY.” AND AGAIN HE TWISTED THE SCREW WITH THE STRIPPED THREAD, + * “EUROPE WILL NEVER BE OUR SINCERE ALLY.” +EVEN BY A BALL DRESS. +EVEN DENíSOV WAS NOTHING COMPARED TO DóLOKHOV—“YOU MUST UNDERSTAND +EVEN EVERY FOOTSTEP IN THAT HOUSE SINCE THE TERRIBLE NEWS HAD COME, SO +“EVEN IF IT WERE A GREAT DEAL OF TROUBLE...” ANSWERED PRINCE ANDREW, +EVENING. +EVENING IN ADVANCE OF HIM, AND HE AND HIS SON ARRIVED NEXT DAY. +EVENING LIGHT AND THE BLUE TUNICS ADVANCING FROM THE OTHER SIDE WITH +EVENING PASSED, NIGHT CAME, AND THE FEELING OF SUSPENSE AND SOFTENING OF +EVENING. THERE WAS ROOM ENOUGH IN THE WIDE CORRIDOR FOR THE GENERALS TO +EVENING TO GET IN) “I ONLY WISHED TO SAY THAT WE ARE WRONG TO FIGHT +EVENING WAS THIS: +EVENING WHEN THE REWARDS BESTOWED BY THE EMPEROR WERE MENTIONED. +EVEN IN HIS WAY; BUT ALL AT ONCE HE FELT THAT THIS WOULD NOT DO, AND +EVEN IN THE BEST, MOST FRIENDLY AND SIMPLEST RELATIONS OF LIFE, PRAISE +EVEN KNOW IF IT WOULD BE A GOOD THING (HE EVEN FELT, HE KNEW NOT WHY, +EVENLY, AND THEN RAISED HIS HEAD. HE HAD AN INTELLECTUAL AND DISTINCTIVE +EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN IT HAD BEEN THREE DAYS BEFORE AT THE REVIEW. IT +EVEN MORE MERRILY THAN ON THE PREVIOUS NIGHT. DENíSOV CELEBRATED HIS +EVEN MORE SO. I LIKE BEING ALONE.... FATHER LIKES HER VERY MUCH. SHE AND +EVEN PEOPLE WHO HAD FORMERLY BEEN SPITEFUL TOWARD HIM AND EVIDENTLY +EVEN PUSHED ASIDE, HE BEGAN WRAPPING IT ROUND THE PRINCESS. EITHER FROM +EVEN THEIR FACES, MORE AND MORE DISTINCTLY. THEY WERE OUR HORSE GUARDS, +EVENT. IN THE ENGLISH CLUB, WHERE ALL WHO WERE DISTINGUISHED, IMPORTANT, +EVENT MUST BE ALLOWED TO DISTURB THE APPOINTED ORDER OF THE DAY. PRINCE +EVEN TRY TO DO SO. ALL WERE WATCHING THE COUNT AND MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA. +EVEN WISH TO KNOW OF HIS EXISTENCE BUT WOULD NOW HAVE BEEN OFFENDED +EVER BECAUSE ANATOLE’S PRESENCE HAD VIVIDLY RECALLED TO HER THE TIME +EVER SINCE HE HAD OVERTAKEN THE REGIMENT IN POLAND, HAD LIVED WITH THE +EVER WAS BORíS RESOLVED TO SERVE IN FUTURE NOT ACCORDING TO THE WRITTEN +EVERY ADVANTAGE. WHAT RECEPTIONS WE HAD IN POLAND! WHAT DINNERS AND +EVERYBODY, FOR ANOTHER TEN YEARS. IT WOULD BE FAR EASIER AND SIMPLER FOR +“EVERYBODY IS WONDERING TO WHOM THE COUNT WILL LEAVE HIS FORTUNE, +EVERYBODY LAUGHED A GREAT DEAL. AT THE HEAD OF THE TABLE, WHERE THE +EVERYBODY LAUGHED, AND HIPPOLYTE LOUDER THAN ANYONE. HE WAS EVIDENTLY +EVERYBODY! NOT FORGETTING ANYONE. I ALWAYS SAID WHEN HE WAS ONLY SO +EVERY DAY HE SAID TO HIMSELF ONE AND THE SAME THING: “IT IS TIME I +EVERY MUSCLE OF TELYáNIN’S PALE, TERRIFIED FACE BEGAN TO QUIVER, HIS +EVERYONE! +EVERYONE. +EVERYONE ADOPTED TOWARD HIM THE TONE OF MEN WHO KNOW SOMETHING OTHERS DO +EVERYONE AGAIN LOOKED TOWARD THE DOOR, WHICH CREAKED AS THE SECOND +EVERYONE DUCKED. IT FLOPPED INTO SOMETHING MOIST, AND THE GENERAL FELL +“EVERYONE HAS HIS ACHILLES’ HEEL,” CONTINUED PRINCE ANDREW. +EVERYONE HE COULD STOP, BUT GOT NO ANSWER FROM ANYONE. +EVERYONE, INCLUDING ANNA PáVLOVNA, FELT THIS. +EVERYONE’S SITUATION. TOUT COMPRENDRE, C’EST TOUT PARDONNER. * THINK +EVERYONE WAITED, SO EMPHATICALLY AND EAGERLY DID HE DEMAND THEIR +EVERY TEN SECONDS A CANNON BALL FLEW COMPRESSING THE AIR AROUND, OR +EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY AT LAST AND HAD SPOKEN SUCH PATHETIC WORDS TO +EVERYTHING BECAME CLEAR, AND IN ALL CORNERS OF MOSCOW THE SAME THINGS +EVERYTHING BEFORE YOU, EVERYTHING. AND YOU....” +EVERYTHING FROM SOCIETY AND GIVING NOTHING IN RETURN. YOU HAVE BECOME +EVERYTHING FROM THE TABLE NAPKINS TO THE SILVER, CHINA, AND GLASS BORE +EVERYTHING!” (HE PUT ONE ARM AROUND PIERRE AND THE OTHER AROUND HIS +EVERYTHING IN PERFECT ORDER, ONLY ONE LITTLE THING IS LACKING, NAMELY, +EVERYTHING. I OFTEN WONDER AT YOU, ANNETTE—HOW AT YOUR AGE YOU +EVERYTHING IS CALCULATED, AND I DON’T LIKE THAT. BUT DENíSOV...” +EVERYTHING MAY BE OVER FOR ME! ALL THESE MEMORIES WILL BE NO MORE, NONE +EVERYTHING, ONLY I HAVE NOTHING....” +EVERYTHING OVER WITH, AND I HAPPEN TO BE THERE, I’LL GO AT ONCE, TO +EVERYTHING!” SAID NICHOLAS. “AND I WILL PROVE IT TO YOU.” +EVERYTHING SEEMED SO FUTILE AND INSIGNIFICANT IN COMPARISON WITH THE +“EVERYTHING’S STILL THE SAME WITH THEM,” THOUGHT NICHOLAS, +“EVERYTHING’S THE SAME WITH THEM. THEY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT! WHERE +EVERYTHING THAT TOOK PLACE AND WAS REPORTED TO HIM WAS EXACTLY WHAT HE +EVERYTHING WAS BECOMING MORE AND MORE HAPPY AND ANIMATED. “OH, HOW I +EVERYTHING WITHIN AND AROUND HIM SEEMED CONFUSED, SENSELESS, AND +EVERY TIME A BALL FLEW PAST. ROSTóV ON THE LEFT FLANK, MOUNTED ON HIS +EVERYWHERE. HE MIGHT EASILY BECOME AIDE-DE-CAMP TO THE EMPEROR. YOU KNOW +EVERY WORD AND MOVEMENT WAS DESCRIBED WITH ECSTASY. +EVIDENCE OF THE ADVANTAGES OF ATTACKING THAT WHAT HAD BEEN DISCUSSED +EVIDENT DUTY.” SHE PAUSED. ALL WERE SILENT, EXPECTANT OF WHAT WAS TO +EVIDENT HE HAD REFLECTED ON THIS SUBJECT MORE THAN ONCE, AND HE SPOKE +EVIDENTLY ALSO FELT DEPRESSED AND CONSTRAINED WITH HIS VISITOR, “I AM +EVIDENTLY DID NOT EXPECT. +EVIDENTLY DID NOT REALIZE WHAT THEY WERE DOING. +EVIDENTLY EXPECTING HIM TO BOW OR TO STEP OUT OF HIS WAY. PRINCE ANDREW +EVIDENTLY FORCED. NOT ONLY THE GUESTS BUT EVEN THE FOOTMEN WAITING AT +EVIDENTLY GLAD OF A CHANCE TO SAY QUICKER IN WORDS WHAT HE WANTED TO +EVIDENTLY IN A FIT OF RAGE, HIS COAL-BLACK EYES WITH THEIR BLOODSHOT +EVIDENTLY IN THE VILLAGE ITSELF AND BEHIND THE HILL. TO THE LEFT FROM +EVIDENTLY LISTENING TO HERSELF WITH PLEASURE, AND SPEAKING WITH +EVIDENTLY NOT BECAUSE HE WAS SHAVEN BUT BECAUSE THEY HAD NEVER GROWN. +EVIDENTLY RIGGED UP BY SOLDIERS OUT OF ANY AVAILABLE MATERIALS AND +EVIDENTLY THE PRINCE UNDERSTOOD HER, AND ALSO UNDERSTOOD, AS HE HAD DONE +EVIDENTLY THOSE IN FRONT HAD HALTED. ALL REMAINED WHERE THEY WERE IN THE +EVIDENTLY WEAKENED, WAS UNDERTAKING NOTHING. +EVIDENTLY WISHED TO DRAW HIM ON. +EVIDENTLY WISHING TO GIVE HER WORDS A VERY DEFINITE MEANING. “I +EVIDENT THAT HE NOT ONLY KNEW EVERYONE IN THE DRAWING ROOM, BUT HAD +EVIDENT THAT THE CADET WAS LIBERAL WITH HIS TIPS AND THAT IT PAID TO +EVIL CAN THERE BE IN IT IF UNFORTUNATE PEOPLE, OUR SERFS, PEOPLE LIKE +EVIL. LE PROCHAIN—YOUR KIEV PEASANTS TO WHOM YOU WANT TO DO GOOD.” +EXACTING, SO THAT WITHOUT BEING A HARDHEARTED MAN HE INSPIRED SUCH FEAR +EXACTITUDE. HE ALWAYS CAME TO TABLE UNDER PRECISELY THE SAME CONDITIONS, +EXACTITUDE, WHAT MINUTENESS, WHAT KNOWLEDGE OF THE LOCALITY, WHAT +“EXACTLY, NOT A HAIR’S BREADTH FARTHER,” ANSWERED PRINCE VASíLI, +EXAGGERATED GRASSEYEMENT, “THE PRINCE HAS BEEN SCOLDING MICHAEL +EXAGGERATION QUITE CONTRARY TO CHRISTIAN SIMPLICITY. LET US RATHER READ +EXALTED PERSONAGES PASSING IN THE STREETS IN THEIR ELEGANT CARRIAGES +EXASPERATED WHISPER, EVIDENTLY MEANING TO WOUND HIS SISTER. +EXASPERATED WITH ONE ANOTHER AND, LONG AFTER THE ACTION HAD BEGUN ON +EXCEEDED TWENTY THOUSAND RUBLES. DóLOKHOV WAS NO LONGER LISTENING TO +EXCEEDINGLY LOFTY, THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD AND THE FOOTMEN—ONE +EXCELLENCY!” +EXCELLENCY... I HAD NO MEN... YOUR EXCELLENCY.” +EXCELLENCY?... NOBODY KNOWS.” +EXCELLENCY PRINCE VASíLI KURáGIN AND HIS SON, I UNDERSTAND?” SHE +EXCELLENCY. SHALL I GO WITH SOME OF MY HUSSARS TO SEE?” REPLIED +EXCELLENCY’S PARTICIPATION IN THE COMMON ACTION IS HIGHLY VALUED BY +EXCELLENT DINNERS FOR THE OFFICERS AT EVERY HALTING PLACE. THE REGIMENTS +EXCEPT A FEW SCATTERED SKIRMISHERS. AN EMPTY SPACE OF SOME SEVEN HUNDRED +EXCEPT IN THE ARMY; I AM NOT A DIPLOMAT OR A GOVERNMENT CLERK.—I +EXCEPTION MADE, AND BORíS TRANSFERRED INTO THE REGIMENT OF SEMëNOV +EXCEPT TO PIERRE AND HéLèNE, WHOSE PRESENCE HE SEEMED NOT TO NOTICE. +EXCEPT VENERATION COULD SUCH A MAN AS MY FATHER EVOKE? AND I AM SO +EXCITED AND IRRITATED BY THESE THOUGHTS PRINCE ANDREW WENT TOWARD HIS +EXCITEDLY ANIMATED AND HEALTHY MEN.” SO THINKS, OR AT ANY RATE +EXCITEMENT. +EXCITEMENT. +EXCITEMENT AND TO BEING UNACCUSTOMED TO SPEAK OF ABSTRACT MATTERS IN +EXCITEMENT, AROUND CHIN AND MOUTH. THE QUARTERMASTER FROWNED, LOOKING +EXCITEMENT, RUSHED TOWARD THE DRAWING ROOM DOOR, PROBABLY IN ORDER TO +EXCLAIMED, AND IMMEDIATELY SEIZING HIM BY THE SHOULDER AND LOOKING +EXCLAIMED IN EXCELLENT FRENCH. +EXCLAMATION HE WAS ASKING THE ADJUTANT TO WAIT, AND HE WENT ON WITH THE +EXCUSE HIS COSTUME. +“EXCUSE ME, GENERAL,” INTERRUPTED KUTúZOV, ALSO TURNING TO PRINCE +EXCUSE ME, VICOMTE—I MUST TELL IT IN RUSSIAN OR THE POINT WILL BE +EXCUSES NOW! IT’S YOUR TURN TO SING THE BA’CAWOLLA—I ENTWEAT +EXECUTED HIM—ALSO FOR SOME REASON. WHAT IS BAD? WHAT IS GOOD? WHAT +EXECUTING OF THE PLAN. +EXISTENCE OF SUCH AN INCOMPREHENSIBLE BEING, A BEING ALL-POWERFUL, +EXPECTATIONS OF THOSE WHO KNEW HER. THE SUBDUED SMILE WHICH, THOUGH IT +EXPECTED THIS. +EXPECTED TO BE AT ONCE PRESENTED TO THE EMPEROR. AT THE CHIEF ENTRANCE +EXPECT HE HAS FORGOTTEN ME. HE PAID ME ATTENTIONS IN THOSE DAYS,” SAID +EXPECTING A CRISIS.” +EXPECTING ANYTHING FROM YOURSELF IN THE FUTURE, YOU WILL FEEL AT EVERY +EXPECTING THAT HE WOULD HAVE A CHANCE TO GIVE A RELIABLE ACCOUNT, WHICH +EXPECTING THE SUMMONS TO ZAKúSKA, * AVOID ENGAGING IN ANY LONG +EXPECTING TO HEAR SOMETHING VERY PROFOUND. AT LAST HE CAME UP TO MORIO. +EXPECTING TWO VERY INTERESTING MEN TONIGHT, LE VICOMTE DE MORTEMART, WHO +EXPEDITION.... BUT WHAT’S THE SOUTHERN ARMY TO DO? PRUSSIA IS +EXPEDITIONS TO OLMüTZ TO VISIT A CERTAIN CAROLINE THE HUNGARIAN, +EXPERIENCED A VARIETY OF MOST COMPLEX SENSATIONS. HE FELT AFRAID OF WHAT +EXPERIENCE THAT FEELING DURING THOSE MEMORABLE DAYS PRECEDING THE BATTLE +EXPERIENCING A NEW AND PECULIAR PLEASURE. SóNYA, MUTTERING TO HERSELF, +EXPLAINED HOW TO RIVET THE HOOF AND WENT AWAY TO HIS OWN QUARTERS. +EXPLAINED PRINCE ANDREW. “THE OTHERS, ONE’S NEIGHBORS, LE PROCHAIN, +EXPLAINING THAT DóLOKHOV WAS BETTING WITH STEVENS, AN ENGLISH NAVAL +EXPLANATIONS, HOWEVER CLEAR THEY MIGHT BE. WHETHER IT WAS THE +EXPLANATION WITH NICHOLAS, SóNYA TWIRLED ABOUT BEFORE SHE LEFT HOME +EXPOSED—AND SHE SEEMED TO BRING THE GLAMOUR OF A BALLROOM WITH HER AS +EXPOSED, AND WITHOUT FUEL OR FORAGE, SO SOMETHING MUST BE DONE, AND, AS +EXPOSED. ANOTHER EMISSARY RODE TO THE RUSSIAN LINE TO ANNOUNCE THE PEACE +EXPOSED! IF I WERE ASKED WHAT I DESIRE MOST ON EARTH, IT WOULD BE TO BE +EXPOSE TO A BULLET, AND THEN YOU CONGRATULATE US ON THE VICTORY! ADMIT +EXPOSING HIMSELF TO THE FIRST BLOWS OF THE ENEMY, FOR THERE MUST BE NO +EXPRESSED DISAPPROVAL OF DóLOKHOV’S LIVING AT THEIR HOUSE, AND HOW +EXPRESSED HIS OPINION MORE OPENLY. HE SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS WHEN PIERRE +EXPRESSED IMPETUOSITY AND ENTHUSIASM. NICHOLAS BLUSHED WHEN HE ENTERED +EXPRESSED THE CONCENTRATED AND HAPPY RESOLUTION YOU SEE ON THE FACE OF +EXPRESSES HIS OPINION TO KUTúZOV, TO WEYROTHER, AND TO THE EMPERORS. +EXPRESS HIS OPINION AS HE HAD HOPED TO, LEFT ON HIM A VAGUE AND UNEASY +EXPRESSING... AS IN ITS LAST NOTE... YOU UNDERSTAND... BESIDES, UNLESS +EXPRESSING DISAPPROVAL AND DISLIKE OF KUTúZOV. +EXPRESSION AND WENT OUT AGAIN WITHOUT SAYING A WORD. SHE LOOKED AT +EXPRESSION. “C’EST... C’EST DU MACK. NOUS SOMMES MACKéS (IT IS... +EXPRESSION, EVIDENTLY HABITUAL TO HIM WHEN CONVERSING WITH WOMEN. +EXPRESSION. IT WAS THE HEAVY TREAD OF PRINCESS MARY THAT HE HEARD. +EXPRESSION, LOOKED OBSERVANTLY AND SYMPATHETICALLY AT THE FATHER AND +EXPRESSION OF HER FATHER’S. HIS FACE WORE THAT EXPRESSION WHEN HIS +EXPRESSION OF PROFOUND AND SINCERE DEVOTION AND RESPECT MINGLED WITH +EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE CHANGED IN A WAY EVIDENTLY DELIBERATE AND +EXPRESSION ONLY IN HER MORE AND MORE BEAMING FACE AND QUIVERING NOSE. +EXPRESSION SHE DID NOT UNDERSTAND, AND LAY DOWN AGAIN. HE WAS SUFFERING +EXPRESSIONS WITH THE CHOICEST FRENCH PHRASES—WHICH WAS A PECULIARITY +EXPRESSION—THE SAME MAN WHO HAD RUSHED OUT OF THE WATTLE SHED. AT THAT +EXPRESSION THE SCULPTOR HAD HAPPENED TO GIVE THE ANGEL’S FACE, PRINCE +EXPRESSION, THOUGH MANY OF THEM KNEW THAT WHAT HE WAS SAYING WAS A LIE +EXPRESSION. VéRA WAS GOOD-LOOKING, NOT AT ALL STUPID, QUICK AT +EXPRESSION WHICH WAS NEVER TO BE SEEN ON IT IN A DRAWING ROOM. HIS EYES +EXTENDS ALONG KOBELNITZ AND SOKOLNITZ BEHIND THE PONDS THAT ARE THERE, +EXTERNALLY WAS ALL IN ORDER, BUT HAD IT PLEASED THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF +EXTINGUISHED AND SOME SPIRIT LIGHTED, AS PIERRE KNEW BY THE SMELL, AND +EXTRAORDINARY INTELLIGENCE, THE MORE SO AS IN THE DEPTH OF HIS HEART IT +EXTRAORDINARY MAY HAPPEN TO ONE THAT HONOR AND DISHONOR WILL BE ALL THE +EXTRéMITéS DE L’UNIVERS, NOUS ALLONS LUI FAIRE éPROUVER LE MêME +EXTRICATED HIMSELF FROM AN AWKWARD SITUATION AND PLACED ANOTHER IN IT, +EYEBROWS WHICH, WHEN HE FROWNED, SOMETIMES HID THE GLEAM OF HIS SHREWD, +EYE OF A NEEDLE THAN FOR A RICH MAN TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD, ARE +EYES. +EYES. +EYES. +EYES AND EARS INTENT ON THE COLONEL. +EYES AND INDICATING HéLèNE WITH A SORROWFUL GESTURE. “AH, SHE IS +EYES AND SAW CLOSE BEFORE HIM THE HEAD AND EARS OF THE HORSE HE WAS +EYES AT HER SISTER-IN-LAW. +EYES ATTRACTED HIM IRRESISTIBLY. +EYES. “BUT I’LL GO TO BEZúKHOV’S MYSELF. PIERRE HAS ARRIVED, AND +EYES FIXED ON THE DARK FACE OF A LARGE ICON OF THE SAVIOUR LIT BY A +“EYES FRONT!” THEN, LIKE THE CROWING OF COCKS AT SUNRISE, THIS WAS +EYES FULL OF TEARS AND OF THOUGHTS, GAZING SHININGLY AND IMPLORINGLY AT +EYES GREW DIM. BY THE EXPRESSION OF HER FATHER’S FACE, NOT SAD, NOT +EYES GREW MOIST. “HURRAH!” CRIED THE THREE HUNDRED VOICES AGAIN, +EYES HAD UTTERED FRENCH PHRASES BETWEEN HIS TEETH. EVERY MUSCLE OF HIS +EYES. HE REALLY WAS IN LOVE WITH THE TSAR AND THE GLORY OF THE RUSSIAN +EYES HE WAS EVERY DAY MORE AND MORE CONNECTED WITH HER, THAT IT WAS +EYES. HIS SHRIVELED OLD HANDS WERE FOLDED AND ON THE FINGER OF ONE OF +EYES KEPT CLOSING, AND IN HIS FANCY APPEARED—NOW THE EMPEROR, NOW +EYES LIT UP SO THAT HER FACE WAS ENTIRELY TRANSFORMED. THEN SHE SUDDENLY +EYE SOCKET. “YES, HE HAS A RIGHT TO SPEAK SO CALMLY OF THOSE MEN’S +EYES OFF HIM. HIS BROTHER AND SISTERS STRUGGLED FOR THE PLACES NEAREST +EYES ROLLING AS HE SANG, WITH HIS SMALL, HUSKY, BUT TRUE VOICE, SOME +EYES, ROSTóV RE-ENTERED THAT WORLD OF HOME AND CHILDHOOD WHICH HAD NO +EYES STILL SHIFTED FROM SIDE TO SIDE BUT WITH A DOWNWARD LOOK NOT RISING +EYES. THE ENGLISHMAN LOOKED ON SIDEWAYS, PURSING UP HIS LIPS. THE MAN +EYES. THEN HAVING SATISFIED HIMSELF THAT ALL EYES WERE FIXED ON HIM, +EYES. THE SICK MAN WAS TURNED ON TO HIS SIDE WITH HIS FACE TO THE WALL. +EYES TO COMPLETE THE SHOW OF PRISONERS, COULD NOT FAIL TO ATTRACT HIS +EYES, WENT WITH UNUSUALLY HURRIED STEPS DOWN THE LONG CORRIDOR LEADING +EYES. WHAT SHE FOUND HARDEST TO BEAR WAS TO KNOW THAT ON SUCH OCCASIONS +FACE. +FACE, ALREADY GROWING OLD, THOUGH HE WAS DRESSED LIKE A MOST FASHIONABLE +FACE, AND AGAIN AT THE ARM, AND ON HIS FACE A FEEBLE, PITEOUS SMILE +FACE AND JUST NODDED TO HIM WITH HIS LONG HEAD. BUT AFTER IT WAS +FACE, AND PRINCE ANDREW SAW THAT HIPPOLYTE, OF WHOM—HE HAD TO +FACE AS IF DRIVING OFF A TROUBLESOME FLY. “AND WHY ARE YOU STOPPING +FACE ASSUMED A FORCED UNNATURAL EXPRESSION AS SOON AS SHE LOOKED IN A +FACE ASSUMED ITS MELANCHOLY EXPRESSION), “HE WAS MENTIONED AT HER +FACE ASSUMED THE COARSE, UNPLEASANT EXPRESSION PECULIAR TO HIM. SHAKING +FACE CHANGED INTO A WINNING AND PITEOUS LOOK OF FEAR. HER BEAUTIFUL EYES +FACE; HIS EYES CONTINUALLY WANDERED FROM ONE OBJECT TO ANOTHER. +FACE INSTANTLY CHANGED AND ASSUMED AN OFFENSIVELY AFFECTED, SUGARY +FACE IN THE LACE OF HER MOTHER’S MANTILLA—NOT PAYING THE LEAST +FACE. “LET HIM SEE WHETHER I AM A COWARD!” HE THOUGHT. +FACE LOOKED WORN—HE TOO HAD EVIDENTLY NOT SLEPT ALL NIGHT. HE GLANCED +FACES. (HE DISTINCTLY SAW AN OLD FRENCH OFFICER WHO, WITH GAITERED +FACE, SHOOK HIS HEAD, AND GOING UP TO HIM SILENTLY KISSED HIM ON THE +FACES OF THE CREW BUSTLING ROUND THE GUNS, FROM THE SIGHT OF THE BLOOD +FACES, THE WALL OF SOLDIERS BURDENED WITH KNAPSACKS AND MUSKETS MARCHED +FACE TO PRINCE ANDREW, SMILED, AND WAVED HIS HAND. +FACE WAS ANIMATED, WHICH, HOWEVER, DID NOT CONCEAL ITS SUNKEN AND FADED +FACE, WHICH HAD BEEN SO RADIANTLY HAPPY ALL THAT SAINT’S DAY, SUDDENLY +FACE WITH PRINCE ANDREW, WHO CAME OUT FROWNING AND LOOKING OLD. PIERRE +FACING THE QUARTERMASTER WHO WAS REPORTING TO HIM. ON SEEING ROSTóV, +FACT. +FACT OF A GREAT MAN EXECUTING A DUC—OR EVEN AN ORDINARY MAN WHO—IS +FACULTY, SO INVALUABLE IN SOCIETY, OF COMPOSURE AND IMPERTURBABLE +FAILED. BORíS ON THE CONTRARY AT ONCE FOUND HIS FOOTING, AND RELATED +FAILED HIM. HE WAS SEIZED BY PANIC AND COULD NOT GO WHERE IT WAS +FAINT WITH FEAR LEST THE BABY SHOULD BE DROWNED IN THE FONT, AND AWAITED +FAIRE DANS CETTE GALèRE?” * OCCURRED TO HIM, AND HE BEGAN TO LAUGH AT +FAITHFULLY AS I CAN, WITHOUT DISQUIETING MYSELF BY EXAMINING MY FEELINGS +‘FAITHFUL SLAVE,’ AS YOU CALL YOURSELF! BUT HOW DO YOU DO? I SEE I +FALLEN!” +FALLEN, AND AN OLD TROOPER ON THE FLANK, A NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICER WHO +FALSE. HE WAS HAPPY TO BE SEEING HIM. HE KNEW THAT HE MIGHT AND EVEN +FAMILIAR GALLOP OF COQUETRY, WITHOUT ANY ULTERIOR MOTIVE OR ANY +FAMILIAR TO ROSTóV; THE OTHER ON A BEAUTIFUL CHESTNUT HORSE (WHICH +FAMILIAR VOICE. “ONE IS AFRAID OF THE UNKNOWN, THAT’S WHAT IT IS. +FAMILIAR VOICE, “WHAT I SAY IS THAT IF IT WERE POSSIBLE TO KNOW +FAMILY, BUT WAS KEPT ALL SUMMER IN MOSCOW BY HIS NEW DUTIES. DóLOKHOV +FAMILY CONSULTATION; IS IT NOT SO, PRINCE?” +FAMILY LIFE CONTINUALLY ROSE IN HER IMAGINATION. SHE DROVE THEM AWAY AND +FAMILY’S, AND HIS FRIENDS’, AND THE ENEMY’S INTENTION TO KILL HIM +FAMILY, WAS THE MOST GIFTED WITH A CAPACITY TO FEEL ANY SHADES OF +FAMOUS ORDER OF THE DAY TO GENERAL BENNIGSEN: +FANCIES. +“FANCY, WITH HIS POWERFUL MIND, INDULGING IN SUCH NONSENSE!” +FAR. BY INTRIGUES, VIOLENCE, EXILE, AND EXECUTIONS, FRENCH SOCIETY—I +FARTHER AND FARTHER HE RODE AWAY, STOPPING AT OTHER REGIMENTS, TILL AT +FARTHER INTO THE REGION WHERE THE ARMY WAS ALREADY IN ACTION. +FARTHER, PROBABLY ALONG THE LINE OF THE FRENCH CAMP. ROSTóV NO LONGER +FAST AS HER NIMBLE LITTLE FEET WOULD CARRY HER. BORíS DID NOT LAUGH. +FAST ASLEEP WITH HIS HEAD ON HIS ARM. +FASTENED TO THE CORDING OF HIS UNIFORM AND, INDICATING A BANDAGED ARM, +FASTENING HIS COAT. WHEN HE HAD FINISHED, HE TURNED TO BEZúKHOV, AND +“FASTER!” CAME THE WORD OF COMMAND, AND ROSTóV FELT ROOK’S FLANKS +FATE AND IN SPITE OF THE PLEASURES AND DISTRACTIONS AROUND ME I CANNOT +FATE, HER FATHER-IN-LAW, AND HER HUSBAND. AFTER CRYING SHE HAD FALLEN +FATE. IT IS IN YOUR HANDS.” + FATE—(THE FATE OF THE ARMY AT ULM).” +FAT FINGER. +FATHER?” +FATHER AND ANDREW. I SHALL BE SO HAPPY WHEN SHE IS HIS WIFE. SHE IS SO +FATHER AND ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, THAT IT HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH HER +“FATHER! ANDREW!”—SAID THE UNGRACEFUL, AWKWARD PRINCESS WITH SUCH +FATHER AND SON. THIS LASTED ABOUT TWO MINUTES, WHICH TO PIERRE SEEMED AN +FATHER, COUNT BEZúKHOV, AND SHOWED THEM HER OWN BOX. PRINCESS HéLèNE +FATHER, HE FEELS FOR YOU.” +FATHER-IN-LAW AND NOW AT PRINCESS MARY. WHEN THEY LEFT THE TABLE SHE +FATHER IN ORDER TO PUZZLE OR TEST HIS SISTER. +FATHER... IT’S BAD....” HE REFLECTED, BUT WHILE HE WAS THINKING THIS +“FATHER KUTúZOV.” +FATHER, MUTTERED IN A WHISPER: +FATHER’S CASE. +FATHER’S FACE WITH AN EAGER AND RESPECTFUL LOOK. “HOW IS YOUR +FATHER’S FRIENDSHIP FOR YOU; BUT NOW I ENTREAT YOU FOR GOD’S SAKE TO +“FATHER,” SHE SAID, “DO NOT TURN AWAY FROM ME, LET US WEEP +FATHER’S LETTER, HE RETURNED TO THE NURSERY. +FATHER’S NATURE SHOWED ITSELF IN PIERRE. HE FELT THE FASCINATION AND +FATHER’S RIDICULE OF THE NEW MEN, AND DREW HIM ON AND LISTENED TO HIM +FATHER’S ROOM, THAT HUGE ROOM IN WHICH COUNT BEZúKHOV HAD DIED. +FATHER’S ROOM WITH THE GOOD-HUMORED AND VICTORIOUS AIR NATURAL TO +FATHER’S STUDY AS THE LATTER WISHED TO SAY GOOD-BY TO HIM ALONE. ALL +“FATHER, TELL ME HOW IT HAPPENED,” SHE ASKED THROUGH HER TEARS. +FATHER THERE WOULD BE NOTHING I COULD REPROACH YOU WITH,” SAID ANNA +FATHER TO BE A CONNECTION OF PRINCE VASíLI’S. THE ELDERLY LADY WHO +FATHER TO FITS OF BLOODTHIRSTY RAGE. AND WHEN AFTER PIERRE’S +FATHER TO THE AMBASSADOR’S ENTERTAINMENT; SHE WORE A BALL DRESS AND +FATHER WITH A LAUGH. +FAULT!” AND HER VOICE QUIVERED LIKE THAT OF A CHILD ABOUT TO CRY. +FAULT. WHAT’S HE TO DO IF HE HAS SUCH LUCK?... AND IT’S NOT MY FAULT +FAVORITE, “HOW IS IT YOU HAVE SO LITTLE TACT? DON’T YOU SEE YOU ARE +FEAR, AND THE THOUGHT THAT HE MIGHT BE KILLED OR BADLY WOUNDED NEVER +FEAR APPEARED ON HER FLUSHED FACE. +FEARED HIM. +FEARING TO BE CAPTURED BY THE FRENCH ON THE WAY TO KREMS. +FEARING TO RELAX, SHOUTED WITH HIS MOUTH WIDE OPEN AND PASSED ON. +FEAR’S ALL GONE, AND YOUR ONLY THOUGHT IS NOT TO LET HIM GET AWAY!’ +FEARS NOTHING SO MUCH AS A GENERAL BATTLE IS IMPOSSIBLE.” +FEAR THIS WILL OBLIGE ONE HALF THE ARMY TO SHOOT THE OTHER.” +FEAR WOULD PREVENT HER UNDERSTANDING ANY OF HER FATHER’S FURTHER +FEATURES, GAVE HIM A RATHER COMICAL EXPRESSION. BEKLESHëV AND THEODORE +FEATURES. NICHOLAS WAS SHORT WITH CURLY HAIR AND AN OPEN EXPRESSION. +FéDYA, MY DEAR COUNT; THAT, BELIEVE ME, IS WHY I AM SO FOND OF YOU. FEW +FEEBLE VOICE OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF WAS HEARD. THE REGIMENT ROARED, +FEEBLE VOICE, SO HIGH PITCHED AND IRRESOLUTE. HIS FACE GREW MORE AND +FEEBLE VOICE TO WHICH HE TRIED TO IMPART A DASHING NOTE, ILL-SUITED TO +FEEL AFRAID.” +FEELING OF A HARE FLEEING FROM THE HOUNDS. ONE SINGLE SENTIMENT, THAT +FEELING OF DEVOTION RETURNED TO HIM EVEN MORE STRONGLY THAN BEFORE. WHEN +FEELING OF SICKENING AGITATION. +FEELINGS. BUT MUCH AS ALL THE REST LAUGHED, TALKED, AND JOKED, MUCH +FEELING; SHARING WITH THE YOUNG FOLK OF THE ROSTóVS’ HOUSEHOLD A +FEELINGS IN OTHERS, AND IF NEVER HAVING FELT THEM I CANNOT APPROVE OF +FEEL LIKE IT, SHE BECAME ENTHUSIASTIC IN ORDER NOT TO DISAPPOINT THE +FEELS, ANYONE WHO COMES IN SIGHT OF THE ENEMY, AND THAT FEELING GIVES +FEEL THAT IN THAT PLACE AND ON THAT DAY, IT WAS IMPROPER TO SPEAK SO OF +FEEL,” THOUGHT HE, “IF SHE SAW ME HERE NOW ON THIS FIELD WITH THE +FEET IN LOW SHOES, IOGEL FLEW FIRST ACROSS THE HALL WITH NATáSHA, WHO, +FEET IN THEIR OVERBOOTS ON THE TABLE, AND BEGAN TO REFLECT. +FEET INTO HIS SLIPPERS AND HIS ARMS INTO THE SLEEVES OF HIS DRESSING +FEET THAT MOVED THROUGH THE STICKY MUD THAT COVERED THE PLANKS OF THE +FEET WERE THE ONLY SOUNDS THAT COULD BE HEARD. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, WITH +FEIGNED—OR SO IT SEEMED TO ROSTóV. HE PUT HIS HORSE TO A TROT TO +FEIGNED SEVERITY. “YOU SPOIL HER, ILYá,” SHE ADDED, TURNING TO HER +FELL FROM HIM. HE WAS GLAD, AND AT THE SAME INSTANT BEGAN TO PITY THE +FELLOW.” +FELLOW.” +FELLOW COULD HAVE PLAYED SUCH A PRANK ON A POLICEMAN. +FELLOW,” HE SAID ABRUPTLY AND EAGERLY, “I MUST CONFESS TO HAVING +FELLOWS HAVE ALL LOST YOUR WITS, OR I HAVE OUTLIVED MINE. MAY GOD HELP +FELLOWS ON THE STAFF WHO GET REWARDS WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING!” +FELLOW! WHAT YOU HAVE JUST SAID IS GOOD, VERY GOOD. OF COURSE YOU +FELT A WISH TO SPEAK TO THE STRANGER, BUT BY THE TIME HE HAD MADE UP HIS +FELT COAT, STRETCHED HIS LEGS, AND SET HIS CAP STRAIGHT. THE HEAD OF THE +FELT IT INDECOROUS TO SPEAK OF HER PREGNANCY BEFORE PIERRE, THOUGH THE +FELT PERFECTLY HAPPY. JUST THEN THE COMMANDER APPEARED ON THE BRIDGE. +FELT SO GLAD TO BE FREE FROM HIS OWN LAWLESSNESS AND TO SUBMIT HIS WILL +FELT THAT THE BATTLE OF WHICH HE HAD BROUGHT TIDINGS WAS FAR, FAR +FELT THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF GOING TO SLEEP ON SUCH A NIGHT. IT WAS LIGHT +FELT THE TENSION OF THE AMOROUS AIR IN THE HOUSE, AND ALSO NOTICED A +FERDINAND DISGRACES HIMSELF. YOU ABANDON VIENNA, GIVE UP ITS +FESTIVE AROUND HIM. NEARER AND NEARER TO ROSTóV CAME THAT SUN SHEDDING +FESTIVE IN HIS AIR, WHICH, IN CONJUNCTION WITH HIS FIRM AND VIRILE +FESTIVITIES AND FIREWORKS ARE BECOMING WEARISOME.” +FETCH THE FRENCHMAN, MOREAU,” HE SAID, ALLUDING TO THE INVITATION MADE +FEU, ET OUBLIE CELUI QU’IL DEVAIT FAIRE FAIRE SUR L’ENNEMI!” *(2) +FEVERISH DELIRIUM OR DRUNKENNESS. +FIELD GLASS AND SHRUGGING HIS SHOULDERS, “SO IT IS! THEY’LL BE FIRED +FIELD. INSTEAD OF THE MOVING HORSES AND HUSSARS’ BACKS, HE SAW NOTHING +FIELD OF AUSTERLITZ, ENDURING THE HEEDLESS BLOWS OF HIS LEFT FOOT AND +FIELDS AND FORESTS OF FIR AND BIRCH, WHICH WERE PARTLY CUT DOWN. THE +FIELD UNDER FIRE, AS HE HAD DONE AT THE HEAD OF THE KURSK REGIMENT AT +FIFTY MEMBERS OF THE ENGLISH CLUB AND FIFTY GUESTS WERE AWAITING THE +FIGHT BONAPARTE BY THIS NEW SCIENCE YOU CALL ‘STRATEGY.’” +FIGHTING ARMY (WITH THE PáVLOGRADS ON THE RIGHT FLANK OF THE FRONT); +FIGHTING COCKS PREPARING FOR BATTLE, EACH VAINLY TRYING TO DETECT SIGNS +FIGHTING HUSSAR WHO HAD BEEN UNDER FIRE. +FIGHTING RUSSIAN SOLDIER WITHOUT CONNECTIONS AND INTRIGUES, AND TO ONE +FIGHT. YOU’LL SEE—WE SHALL RETIRE.” +FIGURE OF TúSHIN WHO WAS SITTING CROSS-LEGGED LIKE A TURK BESIDE HIM. +FILLED BY THE DOMESTIC SERFS—THE MEN ON ONE SIDE AND THE WOMEN ON +FINAL INSTRUCTIONS, ORDERS, AND COMMISSIONS TO THE BAGGAGE MEN +FINALLY THERE WERE SIX THOUSAND RUBLES FOR HIS OUTFIT AND VARIOUS OTHER +FIND, AND STILL SEEKS, SOME SECRET MOTIVE IN OUR ACTIONS. WHAT ANSWER +FINDS YOU TO HIS TASTE AS A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AND MAKES A PROPOSAL TO YOU +FIND THE BABY. AT LAST HE SAW HIM: THE ROSY BOY HAD TOSSED ABOUT TILL HE +FINE CORDS WOULD SOON GET A BIT RUBBED,” SAID AN INFANTRYMAN, WIPING + * FINE EYES. +“FINE FELLOWS, THE PáVLOGRADS!” REMARKED THE EMPEROR. +FINE! I DON’T WANT ANYTHING, PRINCE.” +“FINE MEN!” REMARKED NAPOLEON, LOOKING AT A DEAD RUSSIAN GRENADIER, +FINE,” SAID A CORPORAL, CHAFFING A THIN LITTLE SOLDIER WHO BENT UNDER +“FINE YOUNG FELLOW! FINE YOUNG FELLOW!” HE SAID. “WELL, COME AND +FINGER AT HIM, “I HAVE EVEN HEARD OF YOUR DOINGS IN PARIS!” +FINGERS, DREW OUT A GOLD IMPERIAL, AND LIFTING HIS EYEBROWS GAVE IT TO +FINGERS TWITCHED NERVOUSLY. +FINISHED. +FINISHED PHRASES OF GENERAL INTEREST. THESE SAYINGS WERE PREPARED IN THE +FIRE AND PRESSED IT THERE!” +FIRED IN THE AIR; A THIRD WAS STRIKING THE HORSE KUTúZOV HIMSELF RODE. +FIRE, FANNED BY THE BREEZE, WAS RAPIDLY SPREADING. THE FRENCH COLUMNS +FIRE. FROM PAIN, COLD, AND DAMP, A FEVERISH SHIVERING SHOOK HIS WHOLE +FIRE! OUR STORIES HAVE SOME WEIGHT, NOT LIKE THE STORIES OF THOSE +FIRES WERE LIGHTED AND THE TALK BECAME MORE AUDIBLE. CAPTAIN TúSHIN, +FIRING AT AUGESD. +FIRING AT THE AUGESD DAM AND WAS LOOKING AT THE KILLED AND WOUNDED LEFT +FIRING INCENDIARY BALLS AT THE VILLAGE OF SCHöN GRABERN VISIBLE JUST +FIRING IN THE VALLEY. NOT A SINGLE MUSCLE OF HIS FACE—WHICH IN THOSE +FIRING?” ROSTóV KEPT ASKING AS HE CAME UP TO RUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN +FIRING WAS, HE BEGAN TO LOOK FOR THE GENERAL AND HIS STAFF WHERE THEY +FIRMLY. +FIRMLY BELIEVED IN THE POSSIBILITY OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF MEN UNITED IN +FIRMLY RESOLVED TO ANSWER HIS FATHER-IN-LAW. MOREOVER, THE WORDS OF THE +FIRMNESS AND CERTAINTY OF HIS VOCATION, WHICH RADIATED FROM HIS WHOLE +FIRMNESS, AND EXPEDITION. I CONSIDER MYSELF FORTUNATE TO HAVE SUCH A +FIRST APPEARANCE IN SOCIETY. ANNA PáVLOVNA GREETED HIM WITH THE NOD SHE +FIRST BECAUSE PIERRE APPEARED TO HIS HUSSAR EYES AS A RICH CIVILIAN, THE + FIRST EPILOGUE: 1813 - 20 +FIRST HE HAD EVER WRITTEN. BORíS AND NATáSHA WERE AT THE OTHER WINDOW +FIRST NOT ONLY WHAT HAD BEEN SAID BUT ALSO WHAT KUTúZOV WOULD HAVE +“FIRST OF ALL, DEAR FRIEND, TELL ME HOW YOU ARE. SET YOUR FRIEND’S +FIRST OF ALL DEVOTE SOME TIME TO SOLITUDE AND SELF-EXAMINATION AND DO +“FIRST OF ALL YOU MUST DRINK!” +FIRST OF ONE AND THEN OF ANOTHER PRIEST. +FIRST PAIR OF GLOVES, A MAN’S, HE SAID THAT PIERRE COULD NOT KNOW +FIRST PLACE BECAUSE HER PROVINCES HAVE BEEN PILLAGED—THEY SAY THE HOLY +“FIRST-RATE,” SAID PIERRE, LOOKING AT DóLOKHOV, WHO WITH A BOTTLE +FIRST REGIMENT ROARED “HURRAH!” SO DEAFENINGLY, CONTINUOUSLY, AND +FIRST TIME SINCE THEIR ENCOUNTER CONCERNING TELYáNIN. ROSTóV, FEELING +FIRST TO ONE SIDE AND THEN TO THE OTHER WATCHED THE SMOKERS WITH EVIDENT +FISH FOR THIS DINNER. THE COUNT HAD BEEN A MEMBER AND ON THE COMMITTEE +FIST, AND TAPPED IT ON THE FLOOR, MAKING THE SPARKS FLY, WHILE HE +FIVE IN THE AFTERNOON,” REPLIED BOLKóNSKI GROWING MORE ANIMATED AND +FIVE MINUTES LATER PRINCESS MARY FROM HER ROOM HEARD SOMETHING HEAVY +FIVE TIMES. HE ENTERED THE ROOM SOFTLY. THE LITTLE PRINCESS, PLUMP AND +FIVE YEARS, IF HE GOES ON LIKE THIS?” PRESENTLY HE ADDED: “THAT’S +FIXED ON. +FIXED ON HER. +FIXED STRAIGHT ON HIS SON’S. SOMETHING TWITCHED IN THE LOWER PART OF +FIXING HIS WEARY EYES ON THE PAPER, BEGAN TO READ THEM WITH A FIXED AND +FLABBY THAT THEY LOOKED HEAVIER BELOW, WERE TWITCHING VIOLENTLY; BUT +FLAG LET IT FALL FROM HIS HANDS. IT SWAYED AND FELL, BUT CAUGHT ON THE +FLANK; HE KNEW THAT ALL THE GUNS THERE HAD BEEN ABANDONED AT THE VERY +FLANK,” HE SAID TO HIMSELF, “THE KIEV GRENADIERS AND THE PODóLSK +FLANK. IN THE CENTER TúSHIN’S FORGOTTEN BATTERY, WHICH HAD MANAGED TO +FLANK NOW THAT IT IS NEARLY FOUR O’CLOCK AND THE BATTLE IS LOST? +FLANKS WAS MORE THAN SIX MILES, EVEN IF THE MESSENGER WERE NOT KILLED +FLATTERED BY THIS. ANNA PáVLOVNA ARRANGED THE DIFFERENT GROUPS IN HER +FLAYED, SOME NOT, AND BROKEN-DOWN CARTS BESIDE WHICH SOLITARY SOLDIERS +FLEEING CROWD. A MOUNTED GENERAL SEPARATED HIMSELF FROM THE INFANTRY AND +FLOUNDERING SILVERY FISH IN THE WATERING CAN, ON THAT DAM OVER WHICH FOR +FLOURISHED HIS CASTANETS AS IF THREATENING SOMEONE. THE SOLDIERS, +FLOURISHING HIS ARM, CALLED HIM TO ENTER. +FLOWER; NATáSHA, HALF GROWN UP AND HALF CHILD, WAS NOW CHILDISHLY +FLOWER TUBS AND HID THERE. +FLUNG IT AWAY. TíKHON CAUGHT IT AND HANDED IT TO A FOOTMAN. THE LITTLE +FLUNG IT DOWN AND BEGAN: +FLUTTERING ABOVE THE FIRE AND REMEMBERED A RUSSIAN WINTER AT HIS WARM, +FLUTTERING IN THAT LIGHT. TúSHIN HAD NOT RETURNED, THE DOCTOR HAD NOT +FLY! GRACIOUS ME, THEY DID RATTLE PAST! IT’S TIME I KNEW THE IMPERIAL +FLY UPWARDS. THE ANGEL’S UPPER LIP WAS SLIGHTLY RAISED AS THOUGH +FOLLOWED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA OUT OF THE CARRIAGE, AND ONLY THEN BEGAN +FOLLOWED BY A COSSACK. +FOLLOWED BY THEIR SUITES. KUTúZOV, AFFECTING THE MANNERS OF AN OLD +FOLLOWED BY THE OWNER OF THE MANLY VOICE, A DASHING INFANTRY OFFICER WHO +FOLLOWED HIM IN, AS IF THERE WERE NOW NO FURTHER NEED FOR PERMISSION TO +FOLLOWED PROVED THAT THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF AT THAT MOMENT WAS ABSORBED +FOLLOWED SINGLY. THE FOOTMEN BEGAN MOVING ABOUT, CHAIRS SCRAPED, THE +FOLLOWED WAS LIKE THE FIRST MOVEMENT OF THE MAIN WHEEL OF A LARGE TOWER +FOLLOW, FOR THIS WAS CLEARLY ONLY A PRELUDE. +FOLLOWING BUDGET: +FOLLOWING PASSAGE, IN GERMAN, FROM THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND’S LETTER: +FOLLOWING THE MASS MOVEMENTS AND GENERAL ORDERS, AND CONSTANTLY STUDYING +FOLLOWING THE PRINCESS, WHOM A FOOTMAN WAS HELPING INTO THE CARRIAGE. +FOLLOWS: +FOLLOWS THAT PIERRE WILL NOT BE PIERRE BUT WILL BECOME COUNT BEZúKHOV, +FOLLOWS THE CURRENT OF HIS OWN THOUGHTS, “THINGS WILL HAVE GONE TOO +“FOLLY... FOLLY! DEATH... LIES...” HE REPEATED, PUCKERING HIS FACE. +FOOD. +FOOLISH AS SOON AS HE UTTERED THEM, WHILE ON THE CONTRARY HIPPOLYTE’S +“FOOL... OR DUMMY!” HE MUTTERED. +FOOT, AND GALLOPED ON. +FOOTING THAT ALL WHO KNEW THEM, INCLUDING ANATOLE HIMSELF, RESPECTED HIM +FOOTMEN, AND AWAITED EACH EXPECTED DISH WITH SOME ANXIETY. EVERYTHING +FOOTMEN AND COOKS WERE GETTING THE SUPPER, COUNT BEZúKHOV HAD A +FOOTSTEPS. PIERRE ROSE AND SAID IT WAS GETTING LATE. PRINCE VASíLI GAVE +FOOT TO FOOT UNCERTAIN WITH WHICH TO START, THEN SETTLED DOWN, GALLOPED +FOOT, WHICH HE WAS THEN TOUCHING WITH HIS OWN UNDER THE CLAVICHORD. +FOR!” +FOR ABOUT A MINUTE. +FOR A FEW SECONDS COLLECTED HIS THOUGHTS. THEN THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR +“FORAGE HAS NOT BEEN SUPPLIED TO THE EXTENT...” +FOR A LONG TIME, ALWAYS IN THE SAME FOG, DESCENDING AND ASCENDING HILLS, +FOR A LONG TIME HE COULD NOT UTTER A WORD, SO THAT THE RHETOR HAD TO +FOR A LONG TIME PIERRE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND, BUT WHEN HE DID, HE JUMPED +FOR A MERE FANCY?” SAID NICHOLAS TAKING HER HAND. +FOR A MOMENT HE DOZED, BUT IN THAT SHORT INTERVAL INNUMERABLE THINGS +FOR AN ANSWER. HIS BIRTH AND POSITION IN SOCIETY WERE NOT BAD. “WELL, +FOR AN INSTANT, BUT THERE WAS NO SECOND REPORT AS HE HAD EXPECTED. HE +FOR ANYTHING AND I NEVER WILL AGAIN, NOR HAVE I EVER REMINDED YOU OF MY +FOR A SEAT. +FORCE HAD ALREADY DESCENDED INTO THE VALLEY TOWARD THE PONDS AND LAKES +FORCE THEIR WAY THROUGH THEM WITH BAYONETS. +FOREFATHER ADAM TO OUR OWN TIMES, IS THAT TEMPLE REARED WHICH IS TO BE +FOREHEAD. +FOREHEAD. HE WENT TO THE COT IN CONFUSION, SURE THAT HE WOULD FIND IT +FOREHEAD, OVER WHICH WAS BEAUTIFUL LIGHT-BROWN HAIR SMELLING OF POMADE. +FOREHEAD WAS MOIST. PRINCE ANDREW TOUCHED THE HEAD WITH HIS HAND; EVEN +FOREHEAD, WETTING HIM WITH HER TEARS. THEN AFTER A PAUSE SHE SAID: +FOREIGN CAVALRY WITH RED EPAULETS, PROBABLY FRENCH. HE COULD SEE NOTHING +FORESIGHT FOR EVERY EVENTUALITY, EVERY POSSIBILITY EVEN TO THE SMALLEST +FORESTALL HIM, THREW OFF HIS FUR COAT AND RAN ON TIPTOE THROUGH THE +“FOREVER?” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. “NOTHING’S FOREVER.” +“FOREVER?” SAID THE LITTLE GIRL. “TILL DEATH ITSELF?” +FOR EVERYTHING, THE COLONEL MOVED FORWARD AND ORDERED THE SECOND +FORGET ALL THAT.... SHE SAYS: ‘I SHALL LOVE HIM ALWAYS, BUT LET HIM BE +FORGET. BUT, MY DEAR, WILL YOU NOT GIVE US A LITTLE HOPE OF TOUCHING +FORGETTING THAT IT WAS UNBECOMING FOR THE GIRLS TO SEE MEN UNDRESSED, +FORGETTING THAT SHE WAS DANCING WITH A GROWN-UP PARTNER SHE BENT HER +FOR GIRLS AND BOYS.” +“FOR GOD’S SAKE... I CAN’T WALK. FOR GOD’S SAKE!” +FORGOTTEN. OUR DUTY, MY DEAR, IS TO RECTIFY HIS MISTAKE, TO EASE HIS +FORGOT THEM. HIS HEAD WAS BURNING, HE FELT HIMSELF BLEEDING TO DEATH, +FORGOT THE SOVEREIGNS’ PRESENCE. “LADS, IT’S NOT THE FIRST VILLAGE +FOR HER. WHEN THE LITTLE PRINCESS HAD GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO LIFE AT BALD +FOR HIM. +FOR HIM, BUT AGAIN PRESSED ON HIM SO THAT THEY JAMMED HIS LEG, AND THOSE +FOR HIM, PRINCE BAGRATIóN SAT AT DINNER, TALKING WITH SOME COMMANDING +FOR HIMSELF. HE REMEMBERED HIS MOTHER’S LAST LETTER. “WHAT WOULD SHE +FOR HIS LIFE, BUT FOR THE COURAGE HE NEEDED AND WHICH HE KNEW WOULD NOT +FOR HIS PART TRIED TO PRETEND TO THE COUNT THAT HE CONSIDERED THESE +FOR HIS REPLY, SURROUNDED HIM, AND LED HIM TO THE DRAWING ROOM. IT WAS +FOR LIFE, BUT I DON’T UNDERSTAND THAT, I FORGET QUICKLY.” +FORMED. +FORMED A DEFINITE IDEA OF WHAT AN ATTACK WAS AND WERE EXPECTING TO HEAR +FORMED THE PICKET LINE ON EITHER SIDE, THERE WERE MANY CURIOUS ONLOOKERS +FORMED UP AT INTERVALS, AND WHEELED ROUND OTHER SIMILAR MASSES OF +“FOR ME? FOR ME?... TRYING FOR ME!...” SAID SHE. +FORMERLY IN ANNA PáVLOVNA’S PRESENCE, PIERRE HAD ALWAYS FELT THAT +FORMER POSITION AFTER THE CAMPAIGN, HAD RETURNED TO PETERSBURG AND COME +FORMER POSITION. A HUGE, BROAD-SHOULDERED GUNNER, NUMBER ONE, HOLDING +FORMER PUPIL OF HIS. +FORMING A COMPLETE WHOLE WITH HER DRESS, BUT ALL THE CHARM OF HER BODY +FORMING UP WITHIN TWICE THE RANGE OF A MUSKET SHOT. THE GENERAL IN +FOR MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD, DID NOT KNOW HOW TO APPROACH +FOR MORE THAN A WEEK PREPARATIONS WERE BEING MADE, ROUGH DRAFTS OF +FOR MY SAKE! DID YOU KNOW?” +FOR NEGLIGENCE OR INEFFICIENCY SO STAGGERED HIM THAT, FORGETTING THE +“FOR NOT DILLY-DALLYING AND NOT HANGING TO A WOMAN’S APRON STRINGS. +FOR PETERSBURG ALONE. +FOR PRINCE ANDREW. +FOR RUSSIA, FOR THE ORTHODOX GREEK FAITH! ALL THAT IS BEAUTIFUL, BUT +FOR SOME DAYS IN MOSCOW AND WAS STAYING AS USUAL AT HIS FATHER’S +FOR THAT. YES, FOR THAT ALONE! I SHALL NEVER TELL ANYONE, BUT, OH GOD! +FOR THE AGED? AND IS IT NOT A PALPABLE, UNQUESTIONABLE GOOD IF A +FOR THE ATTAINMENT OF THAT PURPOSE. +FOR THE COUNTESS.” +FOR THE FUTURE, PIERRE’S JOURNEYS AND OCCUPATIONS, THE WAR, AND SO +FOR THE GOOD WE HAVE DONE THEM.’ FATHER TOOK HER WHEN SHE WAS HOMELESS +FOR THE HUSSARS TO RETREAT WITH THE INFANTRY. THEY WERE CUT OFF FROM +“FOR THE LAST TIME I SAY TO YOU—TURN ALL YOUR ATTENTION UPON +FOR THE MOST PART HANDSOME FELLOWS AND, AS IS ALWAYS THE CASE IN AN +FOR THEMSELVES. +FOR THE NEXT BATTLE ARE PLANNED BY HIM ALONE. NOMINALLY HE IS ONLY AN +FOR THESE SIMPLE, KINDLY PEOPLE. +FOR THE SOCIETY OF LADIES, BEGAN TO COME OFTEN TO THE HOUSE, AND THE +FOR THE TENTH TIME, MOLIèRE’S WORDS: “MAIS QUE DIABLE ALLAIT-IL +FOR THE TWO APPROACHING BATTALIONS. WHILE HE WAS SPEAKING, THE CURTAIN +(FOR THEY WERE SPEAKING FRENCH) AT LEAST WITH A RUSSIAN WHO WOULD, HE +FOR THIS FAILURE, THE ENEMY PLACED TEN GUNS TO THE RIGHT OF THE VILLAGE +FOR THREE DAYS, AND NOT ONE OF THEM KNEW OR IMAGINED WHAT WAS IN STORE +FORTNIGHT’S RETREAT, THE RUSSIAN TROOPS HAD HALTED AND AFTER A FIGHT +“FOR TOMORROW!” SAID HE, QUICKLY FINDING THE PAGE AND MAKING A +FOR TREES AND GULLIES FOR MEN AND CONTINUALLY DISCOVERING HIS MISTAKES. +FORTUNE. SUDDENLY HE HEARD A FAMILIAR VOICE REPEATING SOMETHING TO HIM A +FOR TWO DAYS AFTER THAT ROSTóV DID NOT SEE DóLOKHOV AT HIS OWN OR AT +FORTY PACES’ DISTANCE NOTHING COULD BE SEEN. FOR THREE MINUTES ALL HAD + * “FORTY THOUSAND MEN MASSACRED AND THE ARMY OF OUR ALLIES +FOR US. THE FIELD MARSHAL LOOKS ON AND WAITS FOR LETTERS ADDRESSED +FORWARD, AND EXPERIENCED GREAT HAPPINESS. +FORWARD AND, STOOPING OVER THE DYING MAN, BECKONED TO LORRAIN FROM +FORWARD BESIDE SCHMIDT WITH THE BULLETS MERRILY WHISTLING ALL AROUND, +FORWARD. “COMPANY COMMANDERS!” HE SHOUTED IN A VOICE ACCUSTOMED TO +“FORWARD, LADS!” HE SHOUTED IN A VOICE PIERCING AS A CHILD’S. +FORWARD. OF BOLKóNSKI, NOTHING WAS SAID, AND ONLY THOSE WHO KNEW HIM +FORWARD TOWARD THE OLD MAN WITH A FORCED AND TIMID SMILE. +“FORWARD, WITH GOD!” SAID BAGRATIóN, IN A RESOLUTE, SONOROUS VOICE, +FORWARD WITH UNNATURAL SPEED BUT YET STAYED ON THE SAME SPOT. FROM +“FOR WHAT HAVE YOU COME HITHER?” ASKED THE NEWCOMER, TURNING IN +FOR WINE. +FOR YOUR NEIGHBOR? HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT OF YOUR TENS OF THOUSANDS +FOR YOUR OBSTINACY,” SAID KíRSTEN. +FOR YOUR SAKE.” +FOUND.” +FOUND A KIND OF TANTALIZING SATISFACTION. +FOUND EXPRESSION IN CALLING HER MAID “MY DEAR” AND SPEAKING TO HER +FOUND OUT, NOTHING DISCOVERED,” PIERRE AGAIN SAID TO HIMSELF. “ALL +FOUND THE COUNT WITH IT IN HIS HAND, SOBBING AND LAUGHING AT THE SAME +FOUND THEM TO BE SO TIRESOME THAT IT WEARIED HIM TO LOOK AT OR LISTEN TO +FOUND THE PRUSSIAN ARMY. BORíS, SPEAKING WITH DELIBERATION, TOLD THEM +FOUR THOUSAND STRONG, TO THE RIGHT ACROSS THE HILLS FROM THE KREMS-ZNAIM +FOUR TIMES—TILL I GET WHAT I WANT. I DON’T MIND WHAT THEY THINK OF +“FO’WARD, WITH GOD, LADS!” RANG OUT DENíSOV’S VOICE. “AT A +FRAGMENTARY SENTENCES TRIED TO EXPLAIN ABOUT A DOLL WHICH SHE PRODUCED +FRANçAIS,” SAID DOLGORúKOV, WITH GRAVE SATISFACTION. “GOOD, +FRANCIS RECEIVED HIM STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM. BEFORE THE +FRANKLY, I DON’T WANT TO. I AM SPEAKING OF THE STAFF IN GENERAL.” +FRANTICALLY, HAD SUCH AN EFFECT THAT THEY MANAGED TO SQUEEZE THROUGH +FRECKLED GUNNER IN A MERRY VOICE, STANDING TO ATTENTION. +FREEDOM AND TOLD HER THAT ONE WAY OR ANOTHER HE WOULD NEVER CEASE TO +FREEDOM I COULD UNDERSTAND IT AND SHOULD BE THE FIRST TO ENTER THE ARMY; +FREE.’ ISN’T THAT LOVELY AND NOBLE! YES, VERY NOBLE? ISN’T IT?” +FREEMASONRY PRESENTED ITSELF TO HIM. +FREE, SO LIGHTHEARTED! AND I DID NOT REALIZE HOW HAPPY I WAS! WHEN DID +FRENCH!” +FRENCH. A GROUP OF COSSACK SCOUTS RETIRED DOWN THE HILL AT A TROT. ALL +FRENCH BATTALION RUSHES TO THE BRIDGEHEAD, SPIKES THE GUNS, AND THE +FRENCH. BUT THIS ADJUTANT RETURNED HALF AN HOUR LATER WITH THE NEWS THAT +FRENCH COLONEL WHO HAD BEEN TAKEN PRISONER BY OUR DRAGOONS. OUR OFFICERS +FRENCH COLUMN, WITH ITS OFFICERS LEADING, APPEARED FROM BELOW THE HILL. +FRENCH FAMILIES. HE IS ONE OF THE GENUINE éMIGRéS, THE GOOD ONES. AND +FRENCH FORESTALL HIM AT ZNAIM MEANT THE EXPOSURE OF HIS WHOLE ARMY TO A +FRENCH, HE DID NOT KNOW. THERE WAS NO ONE NEAR. +FRENCHMAN ALSO STOPPED AND TOOK AIM. ROSTóV CLOSED HIS EYES AND STOOPED +FRENCHMAN, HOLDING HIM DOWN BY THE SLEEVE IN A FRIENDLY WAY TO PREVENT +FRENCHMAN REMEMBERS HIS BAYONET AND STABS HIM....” +FRENCHMEN, AND THOUGH BUT A MOMENT BEFORE HE HAD BEEN GALLOPING TO GET +FRENCH PRONUNCIATION WHICH SHE COULD ALLOW HERSELF WHEN CONVERSING WITH +FRENCH SINCE SUVóROV MET THEM. HE FEARED THAT BONAPARTE’S GENIUS +FRENCH, SMOKE APPEARED ALL ALONG THEIR UNEVEN RANKS, AND MUSKET SHOTS +FRENCH, THERE WOULD BE GREAT HOPE OF SAVING THE ARMY; TO LET THE +FRENCH THOUGH HE SPOKE IT BADLY, OFFERED TO CONDUCT PRINCE ANDREW. +FRENCH TO PASS HIM, HAD MADE A BAYONET CHARGE WITH TWO BATTALIONS AND +FRENCH) TO PRINCE VASíLI. “IT’S NOT AS AT ANNETTE’S * RECEPTIONS +FRENCH TO SUPPOSE THAT HERE—IN THE CENTER—THE MAIN RUSSIAN FORCES +FRENCH TROOPS WHO ARE BEING RAISED IN FRANCE WILL JOIN US, AND THE PEACE +FRENCH, TURNING TO A GENERAL, “MY HUSBAND IS DESERTING ME? HE IS GOING +FRENCH WERE PUTTING OUT THE FIRE WHICH THE WIND WAS SPREADING, AND THUS +FRENCHWOMAN BLUSHED AND WENT AWAY WITHOUT A WORD. WHEN HE REACHED HIS +FRENCHWOMAN VERY READILY AND, LOOKING AT HER WITH A SMILE, TALKED TO HER +FRESH AND PRETTY FACE YET MORE ATTRACTIVE. +FRESH ANECDOTES WERE HEARD OF INDIVIDUAL EXAMPLES OF HEROISM SHOWN BY +FRESHNESS, AN UNCONSCIOUSNESS OF HER OWN POWERS, AND AN AS YET UNTRAINED +“FR... FR...” SNORTED PRINCE BOLKóNSKI. “THE PRINCE IS MAKING A +FRIEND...” +FRIEND.” +FRIEND A MODEL OF PERFECTION BECAUSE PRINCE ANDREW POSSESSED IN THE +FRIEND BOLKóNSKI, WHOM HE HAD NOT SEEN FOR TWO YEARS. +FRIEND, BUT NICHOLAS AVOIDED HIM. WITH THAT PECULIAR FEELING OF YOUTH, +FRIENDLY WORDS TO OFFICERS HE HAD KNOWN IN THE TURKISH WAR, SOMETIMES +FRIENDS HAD PLEDGED THEMSELVES IN AN INDISSOLUBLE ALLIANCE TO UPHOLD +FRIEND’S HAND. +FRIENDSHIP.” +FRIENDSHIP AT ALL; I SIMPLY FEEL THAT THE ARMY IS MY VOCATION.” +“FRIENDSHIP LAUGHS AT DISTANCE,” BEGAN PRINCE VASíLI IN HIS USUAL +FRIEND’S LOOK WAS NOW STILL MORE CLEARLY EXPRESSED IN THE SMILE +FRIEND, THAT I LOOK ON MARRIAGE AS A DIVINE INSTITUTION TO WHICH WE MUST +FRIGHTENED HERE?” AND THE ARTILLERYMAN UNDERSTOOD HIM. +FRIGHT WERE AMUSED BY PIERRE’S LISP AND THE NEW WORDS THEY HAD NOT +FRIGID POLITENESS. +FROCK AND HAIR. +FROM ACTIONS WHICH WOULD TORMENT HIM AFTERWARDS.” +“‘FROM ALL MY RIDING,’ HE WRITES TO THE EMPEROR, ‘I HAVE GOT A +FROM ALL SIDES REPORTS REACH ME,” ETC. +FROM ALL SIDES WERE HEARD THE FOOTSTEPS AND TALK OF THE INFANTRY, WHO +FROM BEHIND. +FROM BEHIND STILL CAME THE SHOUTS: “ONTO THE ICE, WHY DO YOU STOP? GO +FROM DENíSOV, RODE PAST TOO, AT THE REAR OF HIS SQUADRON—THAT IS, +“FROM DüRRENSTEIN TO KREMS.” +FROM EARLY MORNING STRENUOUS ACTIVITIES AND EFFORTS HAD BEGUN AND BY TEN +FROM EARLY MORNING THE SMART CLEAN TROOPS WERE ON THE MOVE, FORMING UP +“FROM GENERAL FIELD MARSHAL KUTúZOV?” HE ASKED. “I HOPE IT IS +FROM HEADQUARTERS BEHIND THE VILLAGE TO THE LEFT, AND THITHER ROSTóV +“FROM HéLOïSE?” ASKED THE PRINCE WITH A COLD SMILE THAT SHOWED HIS +FROM HIM, AND ROSTóV FELT AS IN A DREAM THAT HE CONTINUED TO BE CARRIED +FROM HIM. “HE USED TO HAVE A PREDILECTION FOR BACCHUS.” +FROM HIM. “THERE, YOU SEE!” AND HE DREW ATTENTION TO THE BULLETS +FROM HIM, THOUGH SHE KNEW THAT ALREADY, AND REMARKED THAT THEY MIGHT +FROM HIS CHEEK. PRINCE ANDREW FORCED HIS WAY TO HIM. +FROM HIS HORSE IN A POOL OF BLOOD. NOBODY GAVE HIM A LOOK OR THOUGHT OF +FROM HIS SON. +FROM HOLLABRüNN) RECEIVED MURAT’S DISPATCH WITH THE PROPOSAL OF A +FROM HOME, AT DINNERS, PARTIES, AND BALLS. +FROM LA GRIPPE; GRIPPE BEING THEN A NEW WORD IN ST. PETERSBURG, USED +FROM LAUGHING. +FROM MáSHA, THE LADY’S MAID, THE NECESSARY REPORT OF HOW HANDSOME THE +FROM MY HEART AS TO AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE.” +FROM PASSING, “WON’T THIS BE TOO MUCH FOR POOR UNCLE AT A MOMENT +FROM PéTENKA—HE TOOK PART IN IT—AND IT’S ALL TRUE. WHEN +FROM PRINCE ANDREW TO THE STAFF OFFICER. +FROM SITTING ON THE OUTER SILL WAS BEING FORCED OUT BY TWO FOOTMEN, WHO +FROM THAT DAY THE ELDEST PRINCESS QUITE CHANGED TOWARD PIERRE AND BEGAN +FROM THAT DISTORTED MOUTH ISSUED AN INDISTINCT, HOARSE SOUND. ANNA +FROM THE ARMY TO SERGéY KUZMíCH, IN WHICH THE EMPEROR SAID THAT HE WAS +FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SLOPE, WHERE THE PARLEYS HAD TAKEN PLACE, CAME +FROM THE CRUMPLED HEAP UNDER THE TABLE WOULD SAVE HIM, NOW COUNTED THE +FROM THE DEAFENING SOUNDS OF HIS OWN GUNS AROUND HIM, THE WHISTLE AND +“FROM THE DIRECTION, IT MUST BE THE ENEMY,” REPEATED ROSTóV. +FROM THE DIRECTION OF OLMüTZ IN FRONT OF THEM, A GROUP WAS SEEN +FROM THE DOCTOR TO PIERRE. TO HIM, IN A PARTICULARLY RESPECTFUL AND +FROM THE DRAWING ROOM. +FROM THE FIELD OF BATTLE WITH THE PALE AND TERRIFIED OBER-HOFMARSCHAL +FROM THE FOLDS OF HER FROCK. +FROM THE GUARDS JUST BEFORE THIS CAMPAIGN. HE BEHAVED VERY WELL IN THE +FROM THE HILL. THERE WAS NO ONE NOW BETWEEN THE SQUADRON AND THE ENEMY +FROM THE HINTS CONTAINED IN HIS LETTER AND GIVEN BY THE LITTLE PRINCESS, +FROM THE MASSES AROUND THEM, THE SMOKE AND THE INCREASING FOG, TO SEE +FROM THE RANKS. A MOROSE SOLDIER MARCHING ON THE LEFT TURNED HIS EYES ON +FROM THE REVOLUTION LEAVING THE PEOPLE TO ANARCHY, AND NAPOLEON ALONE +FROM THE RIGHT FLANK, BESIDE WHICH THE CARRIAGE PASSED THE COMPANY, +FROM THE SHELF THE FIRST BOOK THAT CAME TO HIS HAND (IT WAS CAESAR’S +FROM THE THEATER, HAD HAD SUPPER AND WERE GROUPED ROUND THE CLAVICHORD. +FROM THE WAY THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER SALUTED THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF AND +FROM THE WOOD, MUSTERED THE MEN WHO WERE WOODCUTTING, AND, ALLOWING THE +FROM THIS DISTRESSFUL LIFE, AND LEADS IT TO ITS PLACE OF RECOMPENSE AND +FROM UNDERSTANDING—HOW AM I TO PUT IT?—I AM AFRAID MY WAY OF LOOKING +FROM VARIOUS PEOPLE AND RETELLING THE TOWN GOSSIP. +FROM VIENNA KUTúZOV WROTE TO HIS OLD COMRADE, PRINCE ANDREW’S FATHER. +FROM VIENNA TO ZNAIM WAS SHORTER AND BETTER THAN THE ROAD FOR THE +FROM WEEPING AND SAT DOWN BESIDE DR. LORRAIN, WHO WAS SITTING IN A +“FROM WHAT I HAVE HEARD,” SAID PIERRE, BLUSHING AND BREAKING INTO +“FROM WHERE TO WHERE, YOUR MAJESTY?” +FROM WHICH OCCASIONAL PUFFS WERE BLOWN BY AN INVISIBLE SMOKER. +FROM WHICH SPECTACLES HAVE JUST BEEN REMOVED, HAD ALSO A FRIGHTENED AND +FROM WHICH THE SHOUTING CAME. HE FELT BOTH FRIGHTENED AND PLEASED TO BE +FROM WHICH THEY HAD DASHED OUT SO IMPETUOUSLY, THE CONVERSATION HAD +FRONT. +FRONT AND BACK. HER BUST, WHICH HAD ALWAYS SEEMED LIKE MARBLE TO PIERRE, +FRONT AND MEN FOUR ABREAST, SPREAD ACROSS THE BRIDGE AND BEGAN TO EMERGE +FRONT LINE, AS IF THEIR DIFFERENCES WOULD BE SETTLED THERE AMONGST THE +FRONT OF THE INFANTRY, WHO HAD TO WAIT. +FRONT OF THE RANKS. SUDDENLY ONE SHOT AFTER ANOTHER RANG OUT FROM THE +FRONT OF US. +FRONT. PIERRE STOOD SMILING BUT SILENT. ONE MAN, OLDER THAN THE OTHERS +FRO WITH DIGNITY, OFFERED SURMISES ABOUT THE WEATHER, OR TOUCHED ON +FROWNING. +FROWNING AND SILENT. +FROWNING AND TAKING HIS DAUGHTER’S HAND; HE DID NOT KISS HER, BUT ONLY + * FRüHSTüCK: BREAKFAST. +FUGITIVES RETURNED, THE BATTALIONS RE-FORMED, AND THE FRENCH WHO HAD +FULFILL THE ONE WHICH ENJOINED EVERY MASON TO SET AN EXAMPLE OF MORAL +FULFILL THY WILL?” AND SCARCELY HAD SHE PUT THAT QUESTION THAN GOD +FULL SPEED. ROSTóV, FEARING TO BE CRUSHED OR SWEPT INTO THE ATTACK ON +FURIES AND RAGES AT EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING, SEIZES THE LETTERS, OPENS +FURLOUGH AFTER CHRISTMAS TO RETURN WITH HIM TO THEIR REGIMENT. HIS +FURTHER BACK TILL HIS CURLY HAIR TOUCHED HIS SHIRT COLLAR, AND THE HAND +GAIETY WITH WHICH ZHERKóV SPOKE, AND TO THE INTENTIONAL COLDNESS OF +GAILY. +GAILY, WITH A WIDE SWING OF HIS ARM. +GAINED A STEP ON HIS OLD COMRADES OF THE CADET CORPS; HOW IN WARTIME +GALICIA HE HAD MANAGED TO DEAL WITH THE GRAND DUKE WHEN THE LATTER +GALLANTRY LIT UP HIS FACE AND AS SOON AS THE LAST FIGURE OF THE +GALLOPED ON TO THE VILLAGE WHERE HE WAS TOLD THAT THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF +GALLOPED UP TO KUTúZOV AND ASKED IN THE EMPEROR’S NAME HAD THE FOURTH +GALLOPING TOWARD HIM. THEY WERE OUR UHLANS WHO WITH DISORDERED +GASPING VOICE. “WHERE ARE WE? IN MOSCOW, I KNOW. I DON’T MATTER, +GATHERED ROUND NICHOLAS IN THE SITTING ROOM. +GAVE HER THE ANSWER IN HER OWN HEART. “DESIRE NOTHING FOR THYSELF, +“GAVE HIM LEAVE? LEAVE? THAT’S JUST LIKE YOU YOUNG MEN,” SAID THE +GAVE HIS HAND TO THE PLAGUE-STRICKEN; BUT ... BUT THERE ARE OTHER ACTS +GAVE NO ANSWER, SHE LEFT THE ROOM. +GAVE US TIME TO RETREAT. THE RETIREMENT OF THE CENTER TO THE OTHER SIDE +GAVE ZEST TO HIS PLEASURES. HE SPENT THE GREATER PART OF HIS TIME AWAY +GAVRíL TO PAY A SLEIGH DRIVER, HIS KISSING SóNYA ON THE SLY—HE NOW +GAZED AT BOLKóNSKI SILENTLY WITH WIDE-OPEN EYES. +GAZED AT HIS DELICATE FINGERS WHICH RAPIDLY TWIRLED BY ITS CORNERS +GAZE DROOPED HIS EYES SADLY AND AGAIN TOOK TO TWIRLING HIS SNUFFBOX. +GENEALOGICAL TREE, SHOOK HIS HEAD, LAUGHING AS A MAN LAUGHS WHO LOOKS AT +GENERAL!” +GENERAL.” +GENERAL ATTENTION, AND ANNA PáVLOVNA FELT THAT THE NOVELTY SHE HAD +‘GENERAL BONAPARTE.’” +GENERAL COMMOTION. SOME EIGHT OR NINE YOUNG MEN WERE CROWDING ANXIOUSLY +GENERAL CONCLUSION WHICH HE HAD ARRIVED AT FROM HIS INTERVIEW WITH +GENERAL CONVERSATION. +GENERAL ENGAGEMENT IN WHICH HE WAS TAKING PART, MORE THAN THAT, HE WAS +GENERAL EXPANDED HIS CHEST AND RODE, FROWNING, BESIDE HIM TO THE +GENERAL GRUMBLED AT HIS WIFE WHEN SHE ASKED HOW HIS LEG WAS. “OH, THE +“GENERAL, I MUST OBEY ORDERS, BUT I AM NOT BOUND TO ENDURE...” +GENERAL, IN RUSSIAN, SPEAKING WITH THE FRENCH INTONATION HE AFFECTED +“GENERAL KUTúZOV,” SAID BOLKóNSKI, SPEAKING FRENCH AND STRESSING +GENERALLY DO DESCRIBE IT, THAT IS, AS THEY WOULD LIKE IT TO HAVE BEEN, +GENERALLY HAPPENS TO THE NARRATORS OF CAVALRY ATTACKS HAD NOT HAPPENED +GENERALLY, PRINCE ANDREW HAD, AS HE HAD HAD IN PETERSBURG SOCIETY, TWO +GENERALLY THE STRONGER! I KNOW VERY WELL THAT COUNT NICHOLAS IS TOO +GENERAL MOVEMENT; THAT SOMETHING WAS CONSTANTLY EXPECTED OF HIM, THAT IF +GENERAL—OF WHOM AUSTRIA HAS SO MANY—AND TO LAY DOWN ALL THIS HEAVY +GENERAL ROAR. +GENERALS. +GENERALS AND STATESMEN OF THE DAY. THE OLD PRINCE SEEMED CONVINCED NOT +GENERALS. BUT ONE COULD NOT TELL FROM THAT SIGNIFICANT LOOK WHETHER HE +GENERAL SCHMIDT, WHO WAS KILLED IN THE ACTION. HIS HORSE HAD BEEN +GENERALS IN FULL PARADE UNIFORMS, WITH THEIR THIN OR THICK WAISTS DRAWN +GENERALS IN THE CROWDED HUT, FEELING EMBARRASSED AS HE ALWAYS WAS BY THE +GENERAL’S THREE-CORNERED HAT, AND HELD IT, PULLING AT THE PLUME, +GENERALS WERE SAYING. +GENERAL WERE TALKING IN LOW VOICES AND KUTúZOV SMILED SLIGHTLY AS +GENERAL WHO HAD SERVED BLAMELESSLY FOR TWENTY-TWO YEARS, FLUSHED BY A +GENERAL WHO HAD SUCCEEDED SCHMIDT. IN THE PASSAGE LITTLE KOZLóVSKI WAS +GENERAL WHO SIGNED THAT CAPITULATION HAD NO RIGHT TO DO SO, AND THAT NO +GENERAL WHO, WATCH IN HAND, WAS SAYING IT WAS TIME THEY STARTED AS ALL +GENOA AND LUCCA LAYING THEIR PETITIONS BEFORE MONSIEUR BUONAPARTE, AND +GENTLE CHILDLIKE SMILE, AND HéLèNE SMILED TOO. +GENTLE LOOK OF HER LARGE LUMINOUS EYES, VERY BEAUTIFUL AT THAT MOMENT, +GENTLEMAN—EVIDENTLY NOT SHARING BORíS’ CONCEPTION OF THE ADVANTAGES +GENTLEMAN OF THE BEDCHAMBER, WHICH AT THAT TIME CONFERRED THE STATUS OF +GENTLEMAN,” SAID THE POSTMASTER, ENTERING THE ROOM FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER +GENTLEMEN CHANGED HIS POSITION ON SEEING BORíS. THE ONE WHO WAS WRITING +“GENTLEMEN, I’LL DO ANYTHING. NO ONE SHALL HEAR A WORD FROM ME,” +“GENTLEMEN, I THANK YOU ALL; ALL ARMS HAVE BEHAVED HEROICALLY: +GENTLEMEN, IT IS ALREADY TIME FOR ME TO GO,” REPLIED PRINCE ANDREW +GENTLEMEN, MESSIEURS LES MARéCHAUX, * MURAT, LANNES, AND BELLIARD, +GENTLEMEN OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS. WITH PRINCE HIPPOLYTE KURáGIN, +“GENTLEMEN,” SAID DóLOKHOV AFTER HE HAD DEALT FOR SOME TIME. +‘GENTLEMEN,’ SAYS ONE OF THEM, ‘YOU KNOW THE THABOR BRIDGE IS +“GENTLEMEN, THE DISPOSITIONS FOR TOMORROW—OR RATHER FOR TODAY, FOR +“GENTLEMEN, WHO WISHES TO BET WITH ME? I’LL DO THE SAME THING!” +GENTLENESS AND AFFECTION. HE COULD NOT REFUSE THE POST, OR RATHER THE +“GENTLY, GENTLY! CAN’T YOU DO IT MORE GENTLY?” SAID THE EMPEROR +GERMAN ACCENT, “FOR THE REASSON ZAT ZE EMPEROR KNOWS ZAT. HE +GERMAN—I CONGRATULATE HIM! I CAN’T MAKE OUT WHAT THE COMMANDER AT +GERMANS. +GERMANS, AND EVERYONE WAS CONVINCED THAT A DANGEROUS MUDDLE HAD BEEN +GERMANS’ MUDDLING! WHAT STUPID DEVILS!” +GESTURE. ANNA PáVLOVNA MEDITATED. +“GET IN,” SAID KUTúZOV, AND NOTICING THAT BOLKóNSKI STILL DELAYED, +GET MARRIED. WHAT ABOUT YOU? THAT’S WHAT I WANT TO KNOW.” +“GET ONTO THE ICE, OVER THE ICE! GO ON! TURN! DON’T YOU HEAR? GO +GET READY TO DANCE IN THE LARGE HALL, AND THE SOUND OF THE FEET AND THE +GET THERE AND FIRE THE BRIDGE OR WILL THE FRENCH GET WITHIN GRAPESHOT +GETTING UP AND SPEAKING IN A MUFFLED AND GUTTURAL VOICE. +“GET WELL SOON, LADS!” HE CONTINUED, TURNING TO THE SOLDIERS. +GIDDY EVEN ON A STAIRCASE,” EXCLAIMED SEVERAL VOICES. +GILT FRAME, NEW TO HIM, CONTAINING THE GENEALOGICAL TREE OF THE PRINCES +GIRL,” HE SOMETIMES SAID TO HIMSELF “SHE NEVER MAKES A MISTAKE, +GIRLISH ADORATION THAT HER SMILE COULD NOT FOR A SINGLE INSTANT IMPOSE +GIRLS AND AVOIDING THEIR EYES. +GIRLS’ VOICES CAME FROM THE ADJOINING ROOM. THE DOOR WAS OPENED A +GIRL WOULD BE DECIDED THAT EVENING. THE VISITORS WERE SEATED AT SUPPER. +GIRL, YOU AND YOUR SISTERS ARE NOT HEIRESSES! IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE ME, +GIST OF THE MATTER LAY IN THAT. +“GIVE HIM A SEAT,” SAID TúSHIN. “LAY A CLOAK FOR HIM TO SIT ON, +“GIVE ME A BISCUIT, YOU DEVIL!” +GIVE ME SATISFACTION...” +“GIVE ME THAT LETTER,” SAID KUTúZOV TURNING TO PRINCE ANDREW. +“GIVE ME TIME TO COLLECT MY WITS, FATHER,” SAID HE, WITH A SMILE +GIVEN HIM BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF AND HIS FELLOW OFFICERS, PRINCE +GIVE NO OPINION ON SUCH AN IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT ORDER, AND BERG LAUGHED +GIVEN RECEPTIONS) NOW HARDLY LET A DAY GO BY WITHOUT HAVING AN EVENING +GIVEN TO BLOW IT UP. OTHERWISE WE SHOULD LONG AGO HAVE BEEN IN THE +GIVEN TO RAISE RECRUITS, TEN MEN IN EVERY THOUSAND FOR THE REGULAR ARMY, +GIVES THE SINGLES AND SNATCHES THE DOUBLES!” +GIVING HIM A MILD EXPRESSION, RODE UP TO BAGRATIóN AND WELCOMED HIM AS +GIVING HIM FULL LIBERTY TO REMAIN WITH HIM DURING THE BATTLE OR TO JOIN +GIVING THE MESSENGER A SIGNIFICANT LOOK. +“GLAD TO DO OUR BEST!” SHOUTED THE SOLDIERS. +“GLAD TO DO OUR BEST, YOUR EX’LEN-LENCY!” CAME A CONFUSED SHOUT +GLAD, VERY GLAD INDEED, THAT MY BROTHER HAS DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF SO. +GLANCE AT ALL THOSE IN THE ROOM AND NOTICING THE COUNT’S CONFESSOR +GLANCE BECAME MORE ANIMATED AS HIS CONCLUSIONS BECAME MORE HOPELESS. +GLANCED ANGRILY AT BERG, THEN, MEETING HIS EYES, HID HIS FACE BEHIND THE +GLANCED ASKANCE AT HER HUSBAND’S FACE, AND HER OWN ASSUMED THE TIMID, +GLANCED AT BERG WITH A SMILE. +GLANCED UP AT HER THROUGH TEARS OF LAUGHTER, AND AGAIN HID HER FACE. +GLANCES WITHOUT COLORING, BUT EVEN THE OLD COUNTESS AND NATáSHA BLUSHED +GLANCING AT PRINCE VASíLI AND AT HER FATHER WITH HER BEAUTIFUL EYES. +GLANCING FOR SUPPORT AT AN OFFICER OF THE SUITE WHO TURNED AWAY +GLANCING INTO THE DRAWING ROOM, WHERE HE SAW VéRA AND HIS MOTHER WITH +GLANCING UP AT HIM FROM UNDER HER BROWS, SMILING, AND ALMOST CRYING FROM +GLASS. +GLASS. LETTING HER ARMS FALL HELPLESSLY, SHE SAT WITH DOWNCAST EYES AND +GLASS OF VODKA AND THE DINNER; AND THE STAFF OFFICER WITH THE SIGNET +GLASS, “OR I WON’T LET YOU GO!” +GLASS. SHE WENT ON READING: +GLASS, SMILED, AND WALKED TOWARD THE OTHER DOOR. NATáSHA WAS ABOUT TO +GLEAMED. +GLIDE ACROSS THAT LOFTY INFINITE SKY! HOW WAS IT I DID NOT SEE THAT +GLITTERING TEETH AND SPARKLING EYES. SHE TOLD OF AN ACCIDENT THEY HAD +GLOOM, BUT A DARK SEA SWELLING AND GRADUALLY SUBSIDING AFTER A STORM. +GLOOMY GRAVITY AND GLANCING ROUND AT HIS COMRADES, “THERE IS AN ORDER +GLORIOUS TASK FOR WHICH HE WAS CHOSEN. I SHALL AWAIT YOUR MOST GRACIOUS +GO. +GO. +“GO ACROSS TO OUR HOSTS: THEY INVITED YOU,” ADDED BORíS. +“GO AND APOLOGIZE, YOUR EXCELLENCY. YES, GO!” +“GO AND CHOOSE DENíSOV. HE IS A REAL DANCER, A WONDER!” HE SAID. +GO AND TELL LISE.” +GOD!” AND WITHOUT NOTICING THAT HE WAS SINGING, TO STRENGTHEN THE SI +“GOD BE THANKED THAT YOU ARE IN TIME,” SAID SHE TO ONE OF THE +GOD BE WITH HIM,” THOUGHT HE, RELISHING HIS OWN GOODNESS OF HEART, +“GOD BE WITH YOU, GENERAL!” SAID THE EMPEROR. +“GO, DEAR,” SAID PRINCESS MARY. +GODFATHER,” SHE ADDED, AS IF SHE ATTACHED NO IMPORTANCE AT ALL TO THE + * GOD HAS GIVEN IT TO ME, LET HIM WHO TOUCHES IT BEWARE! +“GOD HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT! WELL, GO ON,” HE CONTINUED, +“GOD IS MERCIFUL....” +“GOD IS MERCIFUL, BIRDIE.” +“GOD IS MERCIFUL, DOCTORS ARE NEVER NEEDED,” SHE SAID. +GOD,” PIERRE WENT ROUND THE TABLE AND SAW A LARGE OPEN BOX FILLED +GOD,” SAID PIERRE, REGRETFULLY AND WITH AN EFFORT, FEELING IT +GOD, WITHOUT WHOSE CARE NOT A HAIR OF MAN’S HEAD CAN FALL? +GOES UP TO AUERSPERG AND SAYS: ‘PRINCE, YOU ARE BEING DECEIVED, HERE +“GO! GO! KILLED IN BATTLE, WHERE THE BEST OF RUSSIAN MEN AND +“GO!” HE REPEATED, AMAZED AT HIMSELF AND GLAD TO SEE THE LOOK OF +“GO IN, ANNETTE, OR YOU WILL CATCH COLD,” SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS, +“GOING?” AND HE WENT ON WRITING. +GOING ON, BUT STRAIN HIS ATTENTION AS HE WOULD HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND +GOING ON IN FRONT. WHETHER ALL THE ENEMY FORCES WERE, AS WE SUPPOSED, +GOING STRAIGHT ON THROUGH THE CONSERVATORY, NEITHER SEEING NOR HEARING +GOING. THE EMPEROR WAS WOUNDED, THE BATTLE LOST. IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO +GOING TO THE COTTAGE HE OCCUPIED WITH DENíSOV. +GOING TOWARD THE DOOR WITHOUT RAISING HIS EYES. DENíSOV PAUSED, THOUGHT +GO INTO THAT. BUT CONSIDER THE POSITION IN WHICH YOU ARE PLACING HER AND +GOLD-EMBROIDERED VELVET BAG. HER PRETTY LITTLE UPPER LIP, ON WHICH A +GOLDEN.”) HE CAST HAPPY, SIDELONG GLANCES AT HIS SON FROM UNDER HIS +GOLíTSYN AND HE HAS REFUSED. BE THE KINDHEARTED MAN YOU ALWAYS WERE,” +“GO, MY DEAR FELLOW, AND SEE WHETHER THE THIRD DIVISION HAS PASSED THE +GONE OUT OF THE CONSERVATORY SHE FOLLOWED AND CALLED BORíS TO HER. +GONE, PIERRE DID NOT GO TO BED OR ORDER HORSES BUT PACED UP AND DOWN +“GONE? THAT’S ALL RIGHT!” SAID HE; AND LOOKING ANGRILY AT THE +“GONE TO BED?” ASKED THE PRINCE. +“GONE TO BED,” REPLIED THE VOICE OF DEMYáN THE HOUSE STEWARD, WHO +GOOD AND NOBLE IN YOU WILL BE LOST. IT WILL ALL BE WASTED ON TRIFLES. +GOOD AS TO LOOK AT THE MAP AND LISTEN.” LANGERON LIFTED HIS EYES WITH +“GOOD-BY.” +GOOD-BY!” +“GOOD-BY, MY DEAR FELLOW,” SAID TúSHIN. “DEAR SOUL! GOOD-BY, MY +“GOOD-BY, MY DEAR,” SAID SHE TO THE COUNTESS WHO SAW HER TO THE +GOOD GIFTS? ARE YOU CONTENT WITH YOURSELF AND WITH YOUR LIFE?” + * “GOOD GOD, WHAT SIMPLICITY!” +“GOOD HEALTH...” +GOOD HORSE, BEDOUIN, AND SITTING AS THOUGH FALLING BACKWARDS IN THE +GOOD LUCK.” +GOOD-NATURED, SINCERE, AND ANIMATED LEVITY. “BUT YOU SEE... ANOTHER +GOODNESS, TO GIVE US AS SOVEREIGN! TO SAY NOTHING OF MY BROTHERS, THIS +“GOOD NEWS!... GO ON!” HE SHOUTED TO THE DRIVER, AND THEY GALLOPED +GOOD NEWS? THERE HAS BEEN AN ENCOUNTER WITH MORTIER? A VICTORY? IT WAS +GOOD NEWS, THOUGH SCHMIDT’S DEATH IS A HEAVY PRICE TO PAY FOR THE +“GOOD NIGHT, LISE,” SAID HE, RISING AND COURTEOUSLY KISSING HER HAND +GOOD OLD DAYS. DENíSOV, FLUSHED AFTER THE MAZURKA AND MOPPING HIMSELF +GOOD PART. +“GOOD!” SAID THE RHETOR QUICKLY, APPARENTLY SATISFIED WITH +GOOD STORIES ABOUT HER, WHILE NONE THE LESS ALL WITHOUT EXCEPTION +GOOD THING REALLY.” +“GO ON! GO ON! GIVE IT THEM!” HE MENTALLY EXCLAIMED AT THESE SOUNDS, +“GO ON, GO ON!” SAID THE MAJOR. +“GO ON, YOU MUST DRINK IT ALL,” SAID ANATOLE, GIVING PIERRE THE LAST +GOOT TO COME TO ZE FRONT AND SEE DAT ZIS POSITION ISS NO GOOT? I DON’T +GOT BACK TO THEIR HORSES. TWO WERE MISDIRECTED AND THE SHOT WENT TOO +GO? THAT WAY IS NEARER.” +“GO!” THE QUIVERING VOICE REPEATED. AND PRINCE VASíLI HAD TO GO +GO THERE ANYHOW AND I HAVE ALREADY SPOKEN TO HIM ABOUT YOU. WE SHALL +GO THROUGH YOUR PERFORMANCE.” +GOT INTO BED, ALL KEPT AWAKE A LONG TIME THAT NIGHT. +“GO, TIT! THRESH A BIT!” +“GO, TIT, THRESH A BIT!” SAID THE WAG. +GO TO HIM HIMSELF, AND TELL HIM WHAT OUGHT TO BE DONE IN A TONE OF +“GOTT, WIE NAIV!” * SAID HE ANGRILY, AFTER HE HAD GONE A FEW STEPS. +GOT UP AND SAID SOMETHING TO THE LADIES. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA STEPPED +GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO HIS TABLE, HAD UNEXPECTEDLY SELECTED MICHAEL +GOWN, HE WENT TO THE COUCH ON WHICH HE SLEPT. +GRABERN. ON THE LEFT OUR TROOPS WERE CLOSE TO A COPSE, IN WHICH SMOKED +GRACEFUL AND MUSCULAR ARMS AND NECK. BY THE GRACE OF HER MOVEMENTS, +GRACEFUL POSE UNDER A PORTRAIT OF CATHERINE, LEANING HIS ELBOW ON A +“GRACIOUS HEAVENS! THE YOUNG COUNT!” HE CRIED, RECOGNIZING HIS +GRANDEE OF CATHERINE’S TIME WHO NOW LAY DYING IN MOSCOW. THE YOUNG MAN +GRANDFATHER CALLED HIM). THE BABY PRINCE NICHOLAS LIVED WITH HIS WET +GRANDFATHER, WORE IT IN ALL HIS WARS.” (SHE STILL DID NOT TAKE OUT +GRAND! LOOK AT THE SMOKE, THE SMOKE!” EXCLAIMED THE ARTILLERYMEN, +GRANTED. +“‘GRANT LEAVE TO RETIRE TO HIS COUNTRY SEAT TO AN OLD MAN WHO IS +GRANT.” NOR DID HE SAY TO HIMSELF: “PIERRE IS A RICH MAN, I MUST +GRANT REWARDS, AND HE WAS HIMSELF OFTEN SURPRISED AT THE RAPIDITY OF HIS +GRAPESHOT.” +GRATEFUL FOR THE BENEFITS CONFERRED ON THEM. EVERYWHERE WERE RECEPTIONS, +GRATEFUL LOOK, BUT WAS STILL EXPECTANT AND LOOKING FOR SOMEONE. THE OLD +GRAVE, MOMENT I DID NOT TELL YOU THE WHOLE TRUTH. I THINK THERE IS NO +GRAVITY!” +GRAY EVERYDAY DRESS. NOW PLEASE, DO IT FOR MY SAKE. KATIE,” SHE SAID +GRAYISH COLOR. +GRAY OVERCOATS, WOUNDS, THE SMOKE OF GUNPOWDER, THE SOUNDS OF FIRING, +GREAT; ALL HE COULD HEAR WAS: “AHAHAH!” AND “RRRR!” +GREAT AND TALKING EAGERLY. AS SOON AS THEY SAW PIERRE AND HIS COMPANION +GREAT DEAL FROM THE DECEASED,” SAID PRINCE VASíLI TO HIM, HANDING HIM +GREAT DEAL. OF THE TWO SOUPS HE CHOSE TURTLE WITH SAVORY PATTIES AND +GREATER PART OF THE ENEMY’S OPENED OUT FROM THIS BATTERY. JUST FACING +GREATER REASONS.” +GREATER ZEAL THAN HIS DUTY AS A COMMANDER. THANKS TO THE STRICTNESS AND +GREAT FAVOR TO ASK OF YOU.” +GREAT HASTE AND IN THE GREATEST DISORDER. THE ROAD WAS SO OBSTRUCTED +GREAT MAN! LET US DRINK TO HIS HEALTH AND TO THE CERTAIN DEFEAT OF THE +GREAT MANY OFFICERS LIKE HIM WERE ALWAYS COMING THERE AND THAT EVERYBODY +GREATNESS....” +GREATNESS OF SOUL?” SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS, SMILING AND DRAWING HER +GREATNESS, THE UNIMPORTANCE OF LIFE WHICH NO ONE COULD UNDERSTAND, AND +GREAT SIN. HOW CAN ONE JUDGE FATHER? BUT EVEN IF ONE MIGHT, WHAT FEELING +GREEDINESS THAT HE WANTED IT, BUT SIMPLY FROM A CONSCIENTIOUS DESIRE FOR +GREETING WAS RIDING QUICKLY. WHEN THE SOLDIERS OF THE REGIMENT IN FRONT +GREW STILL KINDER. THE YOUNGER SISTERS ALSO BECAME AFFECTIONATE TO HIM, +GREW STILL LOUDER AND MERGED INTO A GENERAL ROAR THAT ONLY AN ARMY +GREW WEARY WAITING TO BE RELIEVED. PRINCE ANDREW HALTED TO HAVE A LOOK +GRIEVED HIM AND YET HE WAS PLEASED. +GRIEVING AT THE MISFORTUNES OF OUR COMMON CAUSE, OR WE ARE MERELY +GRIMACE. “I HAVE LONG WANTED TO ASK YOU, ANDREW, WHY YOU HAVE CHANGED +GROANING ALOUD AND SWINGING HIS ARM WHICH HAD JUST BEEN HURT, WHILE +GROANS, WHICH SEEMED TO MELT INTO ONE WITH THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT. +GROUND, ARTILLERY AND TROOPS IN BLUE UNIFORM WERE SEEN. THESE WERE THE +GROUND, EAGER TO REJOIN ITS FELLOWS, HE WATCHED HIS SQUADRON DRAW +GROUND LIKE CLIFFS AND SLOPES. ANYWHERE, ON ANY SIDE, ONE MIGHT +GROUND TEN PACES APART TO MARK THE BARRIER. IT WAS THAWING AND MISTY; AT +GROUP OF MEN WITH YELLOW SHAKOS, DARK-GREEN JACKETS BRAIDED WITH CORD, +GROUP WHERE THE VICOMTE WAS STILL TALKING, AND AGAIN PRETENDED TO +GROW IMPERCEPTIBLY FROM THE CRADLE TO MANHOOD, DID NOT EXIST FOR THE +GROWING EVER STRONGER AND FULLER AND MERGING INTO A DEAFENING ROAR. +GROWING EXCITED. “WHAT ABOUT YOUR SON, YOUR SISTER, AND YOUR +GROWING IMPATIENT, AND STAMPED HER FOOT, READY TO CRY AT HIS NOT COMING +GROWING LOUDER AND MORE FREQUENT. EVIDENTLY OUR GUNS HAD BEGUN TO REPLY. +GROWN FURIOUS, NOW AT BORíS, NOW AT BOLKóNSKI. “YES, MANY STORIES! +GROWN-UP YOUNG PEOPLE: VéRA BESIDE BERG, AND PIERRE BESIDE BORíS; AND +GUARD. +GUARD AND LINE REGIMENTS, RUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN. AMONG THEM WERE GROOMS +GUARDS?” ASKED NAPOLEON. +GUARDS CHARGED, FOLLOWED THE LINE OF RESERVES, GOING FAR ROUND THE PLACE +GUARDS. HERE IS MY HAND ON IT. ARE YOU SATISFIED?” +GUARDS PASSED ROSTóV BEFORE HE HEARD THEM SHOUT, “HURRAH!” AND +GUARDS. PRINCE ANDREW CAME UP TO HIM AND TOOK HIS HAND. +GUARDS, THAT THEY NOT ONLY DID NOT WISH TO, BUT SIMPLY COULD NOT, BE +GUARDS, WEARING A COCKED HAT WITH ITS PEAKS FRONT AND BACK, WITH HIS +GUARDS WITH THE RANK OF CORNET. HE RECEIVED, HOWEVER, NO APPOINTMENT +GUESSING ROSTóV’S THOUGHT. +GUESS WHAT HE WANTED; SHE POINTED FIRST TO PIERRE, THEN TO SOME DRINK, +GUEST OF HONOR AND HERO OF THE AUSTRIAN CAMPAIGN, PRINCE BAGRATIóN, TO +GUEST. “POOR GIRL, SHE’S DEVILISH UGLY!” THOUGHT ANATOLE. +GUESTS JOINED IN. EVERYONE LAUGHED, NOT AT MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA’S ANSWER +GUESTS. NATáSHA, WHO SAT OPPOSITE, WAS LOOKING AT BORíS AS GIRLS OF +GUESTS RETURNED TO THE DRAWING ROOM AND TO THE COUNT’S STUDY. +GUESTS WERE ALL CONVERSING WITH ONE ANOTHER. “THE RAZUMóVSKIS... IT +GUESTS WERE AND EXCHANGING GLANCES WITH NATáSHA, WHO WAS SITTING +GUIDANCE. THE UNIVERSAL EXPERIENCE OF AGES, SHOWING THAT CHILDREN DO +GUN, A HORSE), FROM THE SIGHT OF ALL THESE THINGS A FANTASTIC WORLD OF +GUN CARRIAGE. A COSSACK WHO ACCOMPANIED HIM HAD HANDED HIM A KNAPSACK +GUNNER WITH HIS SHAKO KNOCKED AWRY, PULLING ONE END OF A MOP WHILE +GUNS. ON THE CONTRARY, THE ENERGETIC ACTION OF THAT BATTERY LED THE +GUNS ON THE HILLOCK. +GUNS SMASHED, AND NO SUPPORTS AT ALL.” +GUT MORGEN!” * HE SAID WINKING WITH A MERRY SMILE, EVIDENTLY PLEASED +HABIT OF RIDICULING THE MASONIC BELIEFS—“I AM AFRAID I AM VERY FAR +HABIT OF WALKING, HAD BEEN SWEPT: THE MARKS OF THE BROOM WERE STILL +HABITUAL, OFFERING HIS PUFFY CHEEK, BUT BAGRATIóN KISSED HIM ON THE +HABITUAL TO HIM. HIS FACE TOOK ON THE STUPID ARTIFICIAL SMILE (WHICH +HAD ACCUMULATED AT THE SIGHT OF ALL THAT WAS BEING DONE IN THE ARMY. +HAD ALSO CONVINCED THE SOVEREIGN EMPERORS OF. +HAD ALWAYS IMAGINED BATTLES TO HIMSELF), NOR COULD HE HELP TO FIRE THE +HAD ALWAYS SEEMED TO HIM THAT HE REALLY WAS VERY KIND AND INTELLIGENT. +HAD ANY NEWS. ON THEIR FAMILIAR FACES HE READ AGITATION AND ALARM. +HAD APPARENTLY BEEN RUNNING), “AND I DID SO WISH TO HAVE ANOTHER TALK +HAD A SPLENDID MARCH. YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, THAT HIS IMPERIAL HIGHNESS +HAD BECOME MORE INTIMATE WHEN PRINCE ANDREW WAS IN VIENNA WITH KUTúZOV. +HAD BEEN ADDED TO MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE’S TOILET WHICH RENDERED HER +HAD BEEN CARRIED OUT AND IN WHAT STATE WERE THE SERFS WHOM GOD HAD +HAD BEEN DECIDED TO ADVANCE IMMEDIATELY AND GIVE BATTLE TO BONAPARTE. +HAD BEEN DOING, AS THOUGH IT WERE ALL AN OLD-TIME STORY, AND HE LISTENED +HAD BEEN GOT READY FOR HIM, GLANCING NOW AND THEN AT THE NEWCOMER, WHO, +HAD BEEN INCREASED BY A HALF. AND SO PIERRE WAS DELIGHTED WITH HIS VISIT +HAD BEEN INSULTED THROUGH HIS DAUGHTER. THE INSULT WAS THE MORE POINTED +HAD BEEN KILLED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE ENGAGEMENT AND WITHIN AN HOUR +HAD BEEN KILLED OR NOT AND WHETHER THE CANNON HAD BEEN CAPTURED OR +HAD BEEN PLAYING CARDS WITH THE MAJORITY OF THE MORE DISTINGUISHED AND +HAD BEEN PUT IN POSITION?” +HAD BEEN REPULSED, EMPLOYING THIS MILITARY TERM TO DESCRIBE WHAT HAD +HAD BEEN SITTING WITH THE OLD AUNT ROSE HURRIEDLY AND OVERTOOK PRINCE +HAD BEEN SPILLED ON THE CARPET. THEY WERE MET BY A DEACON WITH A CENSER +HAD BEEN STRUCK ON THE TEETH, OR WHAT THE HAM HAD TO DO WITH IT. +HAD BROKEN UP THE FRENCH TROOPS. +HAD CHANGED GREATLY DURING THAT PERIOD. IN THE EXPRESSION OF HIS FACE, +HAD COME FROM THE LEFT FLANK WHERE THEIR REGIMENT WAS STATIONED, WITH +HAD COME INTO PIERRE’S ROOM AFTER THE FUNERAL. WITH DROOPING EYES +HAD CONQUERED, SETTLED DOWN IN AN ARMCHAIR, INVITING PRINCE VASíLI TO +HAD CROSSED THAT LINE AND NOT ONLY WAS THERE NOTHING TERRIBLE, BUT +HAD DONE IN PETERSBURG AT ANNA SCHéRER’S RECEPTION. +HAD DRIVEN THE OLD PRINCE TO TOWN RETURNED BRINGING PAPERS AND LETTERS +HAD ENDURED TO GAIN HER END. +HAD ENTERED AND LEFT THE TOWN WITH THEIR BANDS PLAYING, AND BY THE GRAND +HAD ENTERED. THE MOST SOLEMN MYSTERY IN THE WORLD CONTINUED ITS COURSE. +HAD EVIDENTLY BEEN DRINKING. +HAD FALLEN THE PREVIOUS DAY—THE DAY OF THE BATTLE. REVIEWING HIS +HAD FIRST LEARNED TO SAY “PEAR” AND THEN “GRANNY,” THAT THIS SON +HAD FIRST SEEN THE ENEMY AND FIRED THE FIRST SHOT, AND THAT THE CORNER +HAD FIXED ON THAT NUMBER BECAUSE FORTY-THREE WAS THE SUM OF HIS AND +HAD FOLLOWED, AND ONLY THE HEAVENS PROMISED PEACE. TOWARD MORNING +HAD FOLLOWED HIM LIKE AN EAGLE, THREE STEPS AT A TIME. HAVING RECEIVED +HAD FORESEEN. PRINCE ANDREW, OUT OF BREATH WITH HIS RAPID RIDE, SPOKE +HAD GROWN SO DARK THAT ONE COULD NOT DISTINGUISH THE UNIFORMS TEN PACES +HAD HAD IN ANNA PáVLOVNA’S DRAWING ROOM. PIERRE REMOVED HIS FEET FROM +HAD HAD TO RETREAT AND HAD MADE THEIR WITHDRAWAL IN PERFECT ORDER. THE +HAD HAPPENED DURING THAT HALF-HOUR TO THE TROOPS ENTRUSTED TO HIM, AND +HAD HAPPENED TO HIM, BUT COULD NOT DO SO. SUCH A STORM OF FEELINGS, +HAD HAPPENED. WHAT HAD HAPPENED? NOTHING. HE HAD MERELY UNDERSTOOD THAT +HAD HEARD THAT A RUMOR OF HIS DUEL HAD REACHED THE EMPEROR AND THAT IT +HAD HE REPENTED OF HIS UNBELIEF? WAS HE NOW THERE? THERE IN THE REALMS +HAD INSTANTLY NOTICED HER BROTHER’S CONDITION. BUT, THOUGH SHE NOTICED +HAD KILLED FIVE FRENCHMEN, A THIRD HAD LOADED FIVE CANNON SINGLEHANDED. +HAD LEFT HER KINDLY AND TEAR-WORN FACE AND IT NOW EXPRESSED ONLY ANXIETY +HAD LEFT PARIS AND HOW HE HAD LIKED THAT CITY. ANATOLE ANSWERED THE +HAD NEVER BEEN TO BLAME, MIGHT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE AT HEADQUARTERS +HAD NO CONNECTION WITH THE MATTER IN HAND. HIS HAGGARD FACE WAS YELLOW. +HAD NOT BEEN TIME TO MOVE. THE EMPEROR, SURROUNDED BY HIS SUITE +HAD NOT EXASPERATED THE VICOMTE, AND HAD CONVINCED HERSELF THAT IT WAS +HAD NOT FINISHED SAYING WHAT WAS NECESSARY, THUDDED INTO THE GROUND NEAR +HAD NO TIME. HE WAS AFRAID OF FALLING BEHIND THE HUSSARS, SO MUCH AFRAID +HAD NOT KNOWN IT I SHOULD NOT HAVE ADDRESSED YOU. YOUR VIEW OF LIFE IS A +HAD NOT LEFT PRINCE VASíLI’S AND FELT WITH TERROR THAT IN PEOPLE’S +HAD NOT ONLY HELD THE FIELD BUT HAD REPULSED THE FRENCH. THOUGH THE +HAD NOT TOLD ALL AND THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING IN HIS FEELINGS FOR THE +HAD NOT WORN FOR A LONG TIME, HE WENT INTO BILíBIN’S STUDY FRESH, +HAD NOT YET BEGUN. NOT WISHING TO AGREE TO DOLGORúKOV’S DEMAND TO +HAD NOT YET COME HOME WHEN ROSTóV RODE BACK EARLY IN THE MORNING FROM +HAD NOT YET ENTERED EITHER THE MILITARY OR CIVIL SERVICE, AS HE HAD ONLY +“HADN’T I BETTER RIDE OVER, YOUR EXCELLENCY?” ASKED NESVíTSKI. +HAD ONLY MET ONCE BEFORE FOR A SHORT TIME AT HIS WEDDING, WERE IN +HAD ON THE SPáSSKI HILL WHICH MIGHT HAVE BEEN SERIOUS FOR HER IN HER +HAD PERISHED BY HIS OWN MAGNANIMITY, AND THAT THERE WERE PARTICULAR +HAD PERSISTED IN HIS REQUEST TO KUTúZOV, ARRIVED AT GRUNTH AND REPORTED +HAD PLAYED A LITTLE AIR WITH VARIATIONS ON THE HARP, SHE JOINED THE +HAD PREVAILED. SHE DREW HER BROTHER’S ATTENTION TO THE MAID WHO WAS +HAD PRODUCED A GOOD EPIGRAM, A FRESH ONE THAT WOULD BE REPEATED. HIS +HAD REACHED BRAUNAU AT THE SAME TIME, WAS IN SPLENDID CONDITION. THERE +HAD READ, AND LISTENED TO WHAT WAS PASSING IN THE NURSERY. SUDDENLY HE +HAD READ THUS FAR, HE CRUMPLED THE LETTER UP AND THREW IT AWAY. IT WAS +HAD REVEALED TO HIM. A WEEK AFTER HIS ARRIVAL, THE YOUNG POLISH COUNT, +HAD RIDDEN UP TO HIM IN A VIOLENT PASSION, SHOUTING: “ARNAUTS!” +HAD SEEMED AS EXTRAORDINARY TO HER AS IF THERE HAD NEVER EXISTED THE +HAD SENT IN GOOD TIME TO MOSCOW FOR A DOCTOR AND WERE EXPECTING HIM AT +HAD SLEPT BADLY THAT NIGHT, THOSE AROUND HIM REPORTED. THE CAUSE OF THIS +HAD STOPPED BESIDE THE DEAD MEN, RAN TO CATCH UP HIS LINE AND, FALLING +HAD SUNK, HER LIP WAS DRAWN UP, AND HER EYES DRAWN DOWN. +HAD THE AIR OF A MAN HAPPILY PERFORMING ONE OF THE MOST SOLEMN DUTIES OF +HAD THE AIR OF ONE WHO HAS SUDDENLY LOST FAITH IN THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE. +HAD THE EAR OF THE COMPANY. +HAD THEN SAID. +“HAD THERE BEEN NO BAGRATIóN, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NECESSARY TO +HAD UTTERED THEM. +HA, HA, HA! MARY!” +HAIR ABOVE HIS BROAD FOREHEAD WHICH REMINDED ONE OF A LION, AND THE DEEP +HAIRS PAINFULLY IN THE KNOT. THEN HE DREW HIS FACE DOWN, KISSED HIM, AND +HA!” LAUGHED PRINCE BOLKóNSKI, AND ANATOLE LAUGHED STILL LOUDER. +HALF AN HOUR LATER, THE RHETOR RETURNED TO INFORM THE SEEKER OF THE +HALF-CLOSED EYES GAVE STILL MORE PERSUASIVENESS TO HIS WORDS. THE STAFF +HALF-CLOSED EYES HE LOOKED AT ROSTóV, BOWED SLIGHTLY AND WEARILY, AND +HALFWAY. FINE ORDERS!” WAS BEING REPEATED ON DIFFERENT SIDES. +HALFWAY THROUGH SUPPER PRINCE ANDREW LEANED HIS ELBOWS ON THE TABLE AND, +HALF WHISPER, “EVERYONE KNOWS COUNT CYRIL’S REPUTATION.... HE HAS +HALL ALL SAT WAITING, SILENTLY AND ALERT. IN THE OUTLYING SERFS’ +“HALLO, GWíSKA—MY PIPE!” CAME VASíLI DENíSOV’S HUSKY VOICE. +HALL, WHERE DENíSOV WAS SITTING ON THE SAME CHAIR BY THE CLAVICHORD +HALTED. PRINCE ANDREW WAS BEHIND, AMONG THE IMMENSE NUMBER FORMING THE +HALTED, THE AUSTRIAN ARGUED THAT NOT HE, BUT THE HIGHER COMMAND, WAS TO +HAND AND SAID, “COME.” PIERRE WENT WITH HER TO THE BED ON WHICH THE +HAND. AND THERE,” HE POINTED TO A SUTLER’S TENT, “THEY CROWD IN +HANDED HIM, SMILED AT DóLOKHOV’S WORDS, AND WITH A SINKING HEART, +HANDFUL OF SCOUNDRELS. IT WILL SOON BE OVER, IT CAN’T BE THAT, IT +HAND HE DREW BAGRATIóN TOWARD HIM, AND WITH HIS RIGHT, ON WHICH HE WORE +HAND HE HELD CAREFULLY BACK, BECAUSE HE WISHED TO SUPPORT HIS RIGHT +HAND. “HOW DID YOU GET HERE?” SAID HE, TURNING TO ZHERKóV. +HAND IN PASSING AND DRAW IT DOWNWARDS, OR ABSENT-MINDEDLY HOLD OUT HIS +HANDKERCHIEF, AND PIPE. +HANDKERCHIEF AND RUSHED FROM THE ROOM. +HANDKERCHIEFS TO THEIR EYES, AND JUST IN FRONT OF THEM THEIR ELDEST +HANDKERCHIEF TO HIS WOUNDED CHEEK AND POINTING TO THE FLEEING SOLDIERS. +HAND, LAY PRINCE ANDREW BOLKóNSKI BLEEDING PROFUSELY AND UNCONSCIOUSLY +HANDLELESS CUP BEFORE A TABLE ON WHICH TEA AND A COLD SUPPER WERE LAID +HAND, RODE UP SMILING TO THE EMPEROR TO CONGRATULATE HIM ON THE VICTORY. +HANDS. +HANDS....” +HANDS.” +HANDS AND OCCASIONALLY RAN HIS EYES OVER THE SCORE AGAINST HIM. HE HAD +HANDS ASKING FOR THEIR BLESSING, AND THAT HE KISSED VéRA, NATáSHA, AND +HANDS, HE LOOKED MORE CLOSELY AT THE RING, WITH ITS SKULL—A MASONIC +HAND SHE WENT UP TO HER HUSBAND AND KISSED HIM ON THE FOREHEAD. +HANDS HIGH, SHIED, THROWING BACK ITS EARS; BUT THE POCKMARKED GUARDSMAN +HANDS. “JUST FANCY, HE DIDN’T LET ME WIN A SINGLE CAHD, NOT ONE +HANDS, LOOKED ATTENTIVELY INTO PRINCE VASíLI’S EYES EVIDENTLY +HANDSOME AND A TERRIBLE SCAPEGRACE. THAT IS ALL I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FIND +HANDSOME, HAPPY YOUNG FACE, HE EXPERIENCED A FEELING OF TENDERNESS +HANDSOME OPEN FACE OF THE MAN WHO MIGHT PERHAPS BE HER HUSBAND ABSORBED +HANDSOME YOUNG OFFICER ENTERING HIS ROOM. PIERRE PAUSED. HE HAD LEFT +HANDS THAT ARE UNCLEAN.” WHILE THE GRAND MASTER SAID THESE LAST WORDS +HANDS. THEN, SIGHING, HE ADDED: “MY SON’S FATE IS IN YOUR HANDS. +HANDS WERE SYMMETRICALLY PLACED ON THE GREEN SILK QUILT, THE PALMS +HANDS WHICH SHOW THE TIME, SO THE RESULT OF ALL THE COMPLICATED HUMAN +HAND THAT WAS FREE, AND TURNING SIDEWAYS FELT THE PULSE AND REFLECTED +HAND THEM TO THE EMPEROR AFTER MY DEATH. NOW HERE IS A LOMBARD BOND +HAND TO HER HEART, WITH A BEATIFIC SMILE AND OBVIOUSLY EQUALLY READY TO +HAND TO HIS EAR TOWARD WEYROTHER, WITH THE AIR OF A MAN ABSORBED IN +HAND, WAS CLEARING MANURE FROM THE COWHOUSE, LOOKED OUT, AND HIS FACE +HAND WITH IT AND KNEW HE MUST NOT DO SO. HAVING ADVANCED SIX PACES AND +HANDWRITING. ON RECEIVING IT, HE RAN ON TIPTOE TO HIS STUDY IN ALARM AND +HANGED,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW WITH A SMILE. “SO I AM SERVING BECAUSE +HANGING DOWN (SHE HAD HANDED HER RETICULE TO THE COUNTESS), AND ONLY HER +HANGING HIS HEAD, MEEKLY FOLLOWED HER. + * “HANG THESE RUSSIANS!” +HAPPENED, HE WAS SAID TO BE INSANELY JEALOUS AND SUBJECT LIKE HIS +HAPPENED TO TOUCH. MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE STOOD NEAR THEM PRESSING HER +HAPPENED TO YOU IN MOSCOW WAS A MISFORTUNE.”—“I REGRET IT VERY +HAPPENING IN FRONT OF HIM. NESVíTSKI WITH AN ANGRY FACE, RED AND UNLIKE +HAPPEN!” SHE SAID, LOOKING AT HERSELF IN THE GLASS. “HOW SHALL I +HAPPEN TO THEM WHEN THEY WERE FREE, BUT HE INSISTED, THOUGH RELUCTANTLY, +HAPPIEST, MERRIEST TIMES FOR HIM AND THE WHOLE FAMILY. NICHOLAS BROUGHT +HAPPINESS AND OF CHILDREN, BUT HER STRONGEST, MOST DEEPLY HIDDEN LONGING +HAPPINESS), FEELING THE EAGER BUSTLE AROUND HIM, AND HEARING THE FITFUL +HAPPINESS OR PEACE OF MIND. CAN ANYTHING IN THE WORLD MAKE HER OR ME +HAPPINESS POSSIBLE, AND THAT IS JUST WHAT YOU WANT TO DEPRIVE HIM OF. +HAPPINESS. THE OLD PRINCESS SIGHED SADLY AS SHE OFFERED SOME WINE TO THE +HAPPY AND SMILING. VéRA WAS PLAYING CHESS WITH SHINSHíN IN THE DRAWING +HAPPY SMILE, AMBLING LIGHTLY UP TO THE COUNT’S NIECE. “I HAVE COME, +HAPPY WORLD OF HIS OWN. SHE FANCIED A CHILD, HER OWN—SUCH AS SHE HAD +HARDER FROM BEHIND. +HARD.... FOR AGES, FROM OUR FOREFATHER ADAM TO OUR OWN DAY, WE LABOR TO +HARDLY ABLE TO RESTRAIN HER TEARS AND MAINTAIN THE ARTIFICIAL SMILE +HARDLY HAD BORíS GONE THAN SóNYA, FLUSHED, IN TEARS, AND MUTTERING +HARDLY HAD PRINCE ANDREW STARTED THAN HE STOPPED HIM. +“HARDLY,” SAID BAGRATIóN. “I SAW THEM THIS EVENING ON THAT +HARNESSED AND PACKED THE WAGONS AND TIED ON THE LOADS. THE ADJUTANTS AND +“HAS ANYTHING COME FROM ANDREW?” SHE ASKED. +“HAS ANYTHING HAPPENED?” SHE ASKED. “I AM SO TERRIFIED.” +HAS BEATEN THE GERMANS. THEY BEAT NO ONE—EXCEPT ONE ANOTHER. HE MADE +HAS BLUNDERED LOOKS AT AN EXAMINER. +HAS COME DOWN TO US FROM THE REMOTEST AGES, EVEN FROM THE FIRST MAN—A +“HAS HE TAKEN HIS MEDICINE?” +HAS HIS STAND, AND THERE’S ZAKHáR HIMSELF AND STILL THE SAME HORSE! +HAS MARRIED HIS FIRST COUSIN. AND WE ARE ONLY SECOND COUSINS, YOU KNOW. +“HASN’T BEEN IN SINCE THE EVENING. MUST HAVE BEEN LOSING,” +HAS PICKED UP AN AX: “WE ARE USED TO IT, BUT YOU, SIR, WILL BLISTER +“HAS PRINCE VASíLI AGED MUCH?” ASKED THE COUNTESS. “I HAVE NOT +HAS PROPOSED TO SóNYA!” +HAS RECEIVED A LETTER AND IS EXPECTING A VISIT FROM PRINCE VASíLI. IN +HAS RETAINED IN FULL FORCE.” +HAS SO MANY RELATIVES IN MOSCOW! SO YOU ARE BORíS? OF COURSE. WELL, NOW +HASTENING HER STEPS. “YOU YOUNG LADIES SHOULD NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT +HASTE, TRYING TO ESCAPE NOTICE, CLOSED THE DOOR, AND BEGAN TO READ THE +“HAS THE SNOW BEEN SHOVELED BACK?” +HAS TO BE CUNNING AND CRUEL.” +HAST THOU DENIED?” HE SUDDENLY ASKED WITH EXULTING AUSTERITY AND +HAVE ALWAYS, THANK GOD, BEEN MY CHILDREN’S FRIEND AND HAD THEIR FULL +HAVE A ROOM OF YOUR OWN,” AND SHE TOOK THE INKSTAND FROM NICHOLAS. +HAVE BEEN AS GOOD AS WEYROTHER’S, BUT FOR THE DISADVANTAGE THAT +HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT TO STOP THAT CROWD, IT WAS EVEN IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO +HAVE CERTAINLY ACQUIRED A TASTE FOR WAR, AND IT IS JUST AS WELL FOR ME; +HAVE DARED TO SAY SO, KNEW IT AND BLUSHED SCARLET EVERY TIME DóLOKHOV +HAVE DONE FOR US.” +HAVE DONE THE SAME!...” THOUGHT PRINCESS MARY. +HAVE DONE YOUR BEST TO INCREASE HIS MENTAL SUFFERINGS.” +HAVE FRIGHTENED YOU—SIT DOWN AND TELL ME ALL THE NEWS.” +HAVE GONE THROUGH,” AND SHE SYMPATHETICALLY TURNED UP HER EYES. +HAVE HEARD THE SOBS. IT SEEMS AS THOUGH MANKIND HAS FORGOTTEN THE +HAVE IT, YOUNG MAN, I’M GOING.” +HAVE JUST THIS MOMENT RECEIVED BY SPECIAL MESSENGER VERY JOYFUL +HAVE KILLED SO MANY THAT THERE’D HAVE BEEN A HEAP OF THEM.” +HAVE LIKED TO SYMPATHIZE WITH WHAT PIERRE WAS SAYING, BUT COULD NOT. +HAVE LOOKED AT IT. TAKE IT. WELL, NOW GO. GO.” +HAVE, MY DEAR! I TASTED IT. THE THOUSAND RUBLES I PAID FOR TARáS WERE +HAVE NOTHING TO COMPLAIN OF.” +HAVE OBLIGED ME TO GIVE THIS REFUSAL.” +HAVE OF HOPE AND STRENGTH MERELY WEIGHS YOU DOWN AND TORMENTS YOU WITH +HAVE RECEIVED ANOTHER LETTER ABOUT THE PREUSSISCH-EYLAU BATTLE +HAVE RECEIVED VERY LITTLE, PRINCE VASíLI NOTHING, AND IT IS MONSIEUR +HAVE SAID. AND HE WAS STILL MORE ANGRY AT HAVING OMITTED TO SAY IT. HE +HAVE SEEN HOW HE SAID IT! I KNOW HE DID NOT MEAN TO SAY IT, BUT IT CAME +“HAVE SOME BROUGHT FROM THE RESERVE,” SAID NAPOLEON, AND HAVING GONE +HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.” +HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL YOU. HERE, HERE!” AND SHE LED HIM INTO THE +HAVE STAYED LONGER.” +HAVE THE CARRIAGE TO DRIVE TO TOWN: +HAVE THE COURIER HORSES. IT WAS PLAIN THAT HE WAS LYING AND ONLY WANTED +HAVE TO CALL IN THE FRENCH, SO THAT BIRDS OF A FEATHER MAY FIGHT +HAVE TO GO IN AND ASK THE PRINCESSES; AND FROM THERE GO ON TO THE +HAVE TO PROVE TO THEM WHAT HE HAD NOT MERELY CONVINCED HIMSELF OF, BUT +HAVE TWO FOOTMEN BEHIND HER CARRIAGE, AND VERY BIG ONES. THAT WAS HER +HAVE VIRTUOUS AIMS,” SAID PIERRE, FEELING ASHAMED OF THE INADEQUACY + HAVE WE NOT BAGRATIóN? +“HAVE YOU A COMPLAINT TO MAKE?” KUTúZOV ASKED WITH A SLIGHT FROWN. +“HAVE YOU?” HE SAID. “WELL, HOW DID IT GO?” +“HAVE YOU NEVER THOUGHT OF MARRYING YOUR PRODIGAL SON ANATOLE?” SHE +“HAVE YOU TOLD THEM TO BRING THE HORSE?” ASKED TELYáNIN, GETTING UP +HAVING BECOME ENTANGLED IN THE SADDLE. WHERE OUR MEN WERE, AND WHERE THE +HAVING BY A GREAT EFFORT GOT AWAY TO THE LEFT FROM THAT FLOOD OF MEN, +HAVING CLEARED THE WAY DENíSOV STOPPED AT THE END OF THE BRIDGE. +HAVING CONVINCED HIMSELF THAT HE WAS ASLEEP, TOOK UP A PAPER AND IN +HAVING DESCENDED THE HILL AT A TROT, HE NO LONGER SAW EITHER OUR OWN OR +HAVING DISENTANGLED HIS LEG, HE ROSE. “WHERE, ON WHICH SIDE, WAS NOW +HAVING ENTERED THE COURTYARD OF A LARGE HOUSE WHERE THE LODGE HAD ITS +HAVING GALLOPED SAFELY THROUGH THE FRENCH, HE REACHED A FIELD BEHIND +HAVING GIVEN ORDERS TO HIS COMPANY, SENT A SOLDIER TO FIND A DRESSING +HAVING GIVEN SEVERAL MORE ORDERS, HE WAS ABOUT TO GO TO HIS “LITTLE +HAVING GIVEN THEM TO THE ROSY NATáSHA, WHO BEAMED WITH THE PLEASURE +HAVING GLANCED THROUGH THE DISPATCH HE LAID IT ON THE TABLE AND LOOKED +HAVING JERKED OUT THESE LAST WORDS AS SOLDIERS DO AND WAVED HIS ARMS +HAVING LED HIM ABOUT TEN PACES, WILLARSKI STOPPED. +HAVING LEFT THAT SOLDIER WHO WAS EVIDENTLY DRUNK, ROSTóV STOPPED THE +HAVING LIFTED HER HEAD AND LET HER ARMS DROOP LIFELESSLY, AS BALLET +HAVING LOST A SINGLE MAN. THE SECOND SQUADRON THAT HAD BEEN IN THE FRONT +HAVING MOUNTED DREW HIMSELF UP VERY STRAIGHT AND TALL AND RODE TO THE +HAVING PASSED THE GUARDS AND TRAVERSED AN EMPTY SPACE, ROSTóV, TO AVOID +HAVING PASSED UVáROV’S CAVALRY HE CLEARLY HEARD THE SOUND OF CANNON +HAVING REACHED THE LEFT FLANK, INSTEAD OF GOING TO THE FRONT WHERE THE +HAVING READ THUS FAR, PRINCESS MARY SIGHED AND GLANCED INTO THE MIRROR +HAVING RESTED AFTER YESTERDAY’S MARCH, WERE SITTING, CLEAN AND NEATLY +HAVING RIDDEN AHEAD, HAD PULLED UP HIS HORSE NEAR THE BRIDGE, WITH A +HAVING RIDDEN BEYOND THE VILLAGE, CONTINUALLY MEETING AND OVERTAKING +HAVING RIDDEN ROUND THE WHOLE LINE FROM RIGHT FLANK TO LEFT, PRINCE +HAVING SAID THIS LAUGHED. EVERYONE TURNED TOWARD HIM. +HAVING SAID THIS, NAPOLEON RODE ON TO MEET MARSHAL LANNES, WHO, HAT IN +HAVING SAID THIS SHE WENT UP TO THE DOCTOR. +HAVING SOMETHING TO EAT. THEY HASTILY TURNED ROUND TO HIM ASKING IF HE +HAVING STUCK AN AMBER MOUTHPIECE FAR INTO HIS MOUTH, WAS INHALING THE +HAVING THANKED ANNA PáVLOVNA FOR HER CHARMING SOIREE, THE GUESTS BEGAN +HAVING TURNED WITH WORDS OF COMFORT TO HER COMPANION, REALIZED THAT +HEAD. +HEAD AND AN ARMY OF FIFTEEN THOUSAND MEN HAS BEEN ORDERED TO BLOW UP +HEAD AND AT THE LITTLE ARMS AND LEGS WHICH SHOWED UNDER THE BLANKET. HE +HEAD AND LIPS INDICATING VERY LITTLE HOPE FOR THE PATIENT. +HEAD. AS HE RODE UP TO THE CAMP HE THOUGHT HOW HE WOULD IMPRESS BORíS +HEAD, BUT THE INSTANT HE TURNED TO PRINCE ANDREW THE FIRM, INTELLIGENT +HEAD COOK, ABOUT ASPARAGUS, FRESH CUCUMBERS, STRAWBERRIES, VEAL, AND +HE ADDED AS IF SPEAKING TO HIMSELF. +HE ADDED: “BUT BEWARE, DEAR BROTHER, THAT THESE GLOVES DO NOT DECK +HE ADDED: “I NEED GOOD OFFICERS MYSELF, NEED THEM MYSELF!” +HE ADDED THAT PRINCE VASíLI WAS ALSO THERE. WHEN TíKHON CAME TO HER +HEAD IN PERPLEXITY—PERHAPS BECAUSE THE BANNER REALLY INTERESTED HIM, +HEAD, LAUGHING WITH AN OFFICER WHO HAD SAT DOWN BESIDE HIM. A THIRD WAS +HEADLONG AFTER ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA AND, DASHING AT HER, FLUNG HERSELF ON +HEADLONG SPEED WITH NO TIME TO CONSIDER WHAT THIS MOVEMENT MIGHT LEAD +HEADLONG TO THE HORSE. “WALK HIM UP AND DOWN, MY DEAR FELLOW,” HE +HEAD, PULLED IT OFF, AND SHOWED THE BLOOD CONGEALED ON HIS HAIR. +HEADQUARTERS, AND HAVING ASCENDED A DARK STAIRCASE, THEY ENTERED A SMALL +HEADQUARTERS. BUT ON THE AFTERNOON OF THAT DAY, THIS ACTIVITY REACHED +HEADQUARTERS IN THE MORNING AND HAD STARTED THE WHOLE MOVEMENT THAT +HEADQUARTERS WAS STILL UNDER THE SPELL OF THE DAY’S COUNCIL, AT WHICH +HEAD SADLY, POINTING THEM OUT TO THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL WITH AN EXPRESSION +HEAD (THE PAINS HAD JUST LEFT HER). STRANDS OF HER BLACK HAIR LAY ROUND +HEALTH?” +HEALTH?” +“HEALTH AND HAPPINESS TO HER WHOSE NAME DAY WE ARE KEEPING AND TO HER +HEALTH OF OUR SOVEREIGN, THE EMPEROR!” HE ROARED, “HURRAH!” AND +“HEALTH TO YOUR EX... LEN... LEN... LENCY!” AND AGAIN ALL BECAME +HEALTH WAS DRUNK, PIERRE, LOST IN THOUGHT, DID NOT RISE OR LIFT HIS +HEALTHY BODY, AND ALL THE AFFECTION AND CARE OF HIS FAMILY. “AND WHY +HE ALWAYS THOUGHT ONLY OF WHATEVER HE WAS ENGAGED ON. +“HE ALWAYS WAS RATHER HARSH; AND NOW I SHOULD THINK HE’S GETTING +HEARD.” +HEARD, AND AGAIN SOMETHING IN HIS FACE TWITCHED—“THAT IS JUST WHY +HEARD, AND MUCH FARTHER TO THE RIGHT BEYOND THE DRAGOONS, THE OFFICER OF +HEARD, AND OUT OF THE FOGGY DARKNESS THE FIGURE OF A SERGEANT OF HUSSARS +HEARD A RUSTLE BEHIND HIM AND A SHADOW APPEARED UNDER THE CURTAIN OF +HEARD BEFORE, OTHERS SIMPLY ENJOYED HEARING HOW THE MASTER TALKED, WHILE +HEARD CURSES ON BONAPARTE, “THE ENEMY OF MANKIND.” MILITIAMEN AND +HEARD DISTINCTLY. +HEARD MUSKET FIRE QUITE CLOSE IN FRONT OF HIM AND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, +HEARD ON EVERY SIDE. +HEARD RESPECTFULLY CONGRATULATING THE DYING MAN ON HAVING RECEIVED THE +HEARD THAT THE WAR WAS BEING DISCUSSED HAD TURNED FROM HIS PARTNER WITH +HEARD THEM, AND WE SHALL ALL DO OUR DUTY. BUT BEFORE A BATTLE, THERE IS +HEARD THE QUICK RUSTLE OF THE COUNTESS’ DRESS. SHE CAME UP TO THEM. +HEARD THE WORDS AS HE MIGHT HAVE HEARD THE BUZZING OF A FLY. NOT ONLY +HEARD THIS SóNYA BLUSHED SO THAT TEARS CAME INTO HER EYES AND, UNABLE +HEARD, YOUR HONOR, THAT A MINISTER IS COMING TO VISIT YOUR HONOR.” +HEARERS—WHO LIKE HIMSELF HAD OFTEN HEARD STORIES OF ATTACKS AND HAD +HEARING HOW ILL HE IS.” +HEARING OR UNDERSTANDING HER OWN WORDS, WHAT SHE HAD TOLD HUNDREDS OF +HEARING THAT CRY AND SEEING TO WHOM IT WAS ADDRESSED, NESVíTSKI AND THE +HEARING THAT THEY WISHED TO SEE THE COUNT, SAID HIS EXCELLENCY WAS WORSE +HEARING THESE WORDS HER FACE CHANGED AND SOMETHING BRIGHTENED IN HER +HEARING WITH PLEASURE THE WHISTLE OF BULLETS EVIDENTLY AIMED AT HIM. +HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF THE UNFATHOMABLE DID NOT LESSEN BUT INCREASED. +HEART. “IT HAS BEGUN! HERE IT IS, DREADFUL BUT ENJOYABLE!” WAS WHAT +HEARTRENDING SCENE.... IT WAS A CONVOY OF CONSCRIPTS ENROLLED FROM OUR +HEART! YOU ARE A MADAME DE GENLIS AND NOTHING MORE” (THIS NICKNAME, +HE, AS IF BRAGGING OF HAVING BEEN FRIGHTENED. +HE ASKED, “WHOSE COMPANY?” BUT HE REALLY MEANT, “ARE YOU +“HE ASKED YOU, AND VASíLI DMíTRICH * IS ALSO GOING.” +HEATED HORSES, EXCHANGING REMARKS AND SMILING, HAD STOPPED BEHIND THE +“HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT A FRIGHT MIGHT DO.” +“HEAVEN ONLY KNOWS, MY DEAR! THESE RICH GRANDEES ARE SO SELFISH. +“HEAVEN ONLY KNOWS WHAT THE PEOPLE HERE MAY IMAGINE,” MUTTERED +“HEAVENS! WHAT A VIRULENT ATTACK!” REPLIED THE PRINCE, NOT IN THE +HEAVY CONVOYS (WHOSE MOVEMENTS WERE CONCEALED FROM THE FRENCH) ADVANCE +HE BEGAN PACING THE ROOM. THE SCREAMING CEASED, AND A FEW MORE SECONDS +HE BEGAN THE RESCRIPT AGAIN AND AGAIN, BUT AS SOON AS HE UTTERED +HE BOWED HIS HEAD AND SCRAPED FIRST WITH ONE FOOT AND THEN WITH THE + HE BRINGS FOEMEN TO THEIR KNEES,... ETC. +HE CALLED THE COSSACK WITH HIS HORSE, TOLD HIM TO PUT AWAY THE KNAPSACK +HE CAME TO THE POINT AT ONCE, TREATING HER CEREMONIOUSLY. +HE CAN’T HELP PLOWING AND MOWING; IF HE DIDN’T, HE WOULD GO TO THE +HE CAUGHT A MOMENTARY GLIMPSE BETWEEN THEIR HEADS AND BACKS OF THE DYING +HE CAUTIOUSLY RELEASED THE SHOULDER SHE LEANED ON, LOOKED INTO HER FACE, +HE CHANCED TO MEET DóLOKHOV’S HANDSOME INSOLENT EYES, PIERRE FELT +HE CHECKED HIMSELF, FEARING TO SEEM NAïVE, YET HE FELT AN IRRESISTIBLE +“HE CHOSE HIS FRIENDS BADLY,” INTERPOSED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. +HE CLOSED HIS EYES, AND IMMEDIATELY A SOUND OF CANNONADING, OF MUSKETRY +HE CLUTCHED AT HIS HEAD. “WHO IS GOING TO GET ME THE FLOWERS? DMíTRI! +HE COMMANDED WAS IN AN ALMOST HOPELESS POSITION. THE SPY REPORTED THAT +HE CONSOLED HIMSELF. “AND BESIDES, WHAT HAVE I DONE TO BRING IT ABOUT? +HE CONTINUED TO PACE THE ROOM, LOOKING GLOOMILY AT DENíSOV AND THE +HE COULD FROM A FRENCHMAN INTO THE WOOD. BESIDES, TO TELL EVERYTHING AS +“HE COULD NOT DO THAT. THE PEOPLE ONLY GAVE HIM POWER THAT HE MIGHT +HE COULD NOT FINISH, AND RAN OUT OF THE ROOM. +HE COULD NOT LOOK CALMLY AT THE STANDARDS OF THE PASSING BATTALIONS. +HE COULD NOT STOP SHORT FOR THE SAKE OF ONE MAN’S LIFE.” +HE COULD SEE PUFFS OF MUSKETRY SMOKE THAT SEEMED TO CHASE ONE ANOTHER +HE DESCRIBED THE WHOLE CAMPAIGN WITH A FEARLESS SELF-CENSURE AND +HE DID NOT DO IT HE WOULD GRIEVE AND DISAPPOINT MANY PEOPLE, BUT IF HE +(HE DID NOT EVEN DARE TO DREAM OF THAT), BUT SIMPLY TO DIE BEFORE HIS +HE DID NOT FIND PRINCE ANDREW IN OLMüTZ THAT DAY, BUT THE APPEARANCE OF +HE DID NOT FINISH HIS SENTENCE, BUT HIS TONE SHOWED HOW HIGHLY HE +HE DID NOT FINISH. JUST THEN THERE WAS A WHISTLE IN THE AIR; NEARER AND +HE DID NOT LOOK AT THEM: HE LOOKED ONLY AT WHAT WAS GOING ON IN FRONT +HE DID NOT REGAIN CONSCIOUSNESS TILL LATE IN THE DAY, WHEN WITH OTHER +HE DID NOT REPLY. +HE DID NOT SEE, HEAR, OR UNDERSTAND ANYTHING CLEARLY. ONLY NOW AND +HE DID NOT SEE HIM AND HAD NO OPPORTUNITY OF SEEING HIM, HE OFTEN SPOKE +“HE DID NOT SHUT ME UP, HE SAID I WAS TELLING AN UNTRUTH.” +HE DISARMED HIS HEARERS. +HE DISCUSSED ESTATE AFFAIRS EVERY DAY WITH HIS CHIEF STEWARD. BUT +HE DRESSED FOR DINNER. THE OLD PRINCE ALWAYS DRESSED IN OLD-FASHIONED +HE DREW BACK AND A REAL TEAR APPEARED IN HIS EYE. +HE DREW UP HIS CHAIR, AND CONTINUED TO EXPLAIN. +HE EMBRACED HER. SHE SCREAMED AND FELL UNCONSCIOUS ON HIS SHOULDER. +HE EMBRACED HIS DAUGHTER, AND THEN AGAIN PIERRE, AND KISSED HIM WITH HIS +HE ENLIVENED THE WHOLE PARTY. THE WAX CANDLES BURNED BRIGHTLY, THE +HE ENTERED THE DRAWING ROOM WITH HIS USUAL ALERT STEP, GLANCING RAPIDLY +“HE EXISTS, BUT TO UNDERSTAND HIM IS HARD,” THE MASON BEGAN AGAIN, +HE FEELS SURE HE WILL DISTINGUISH HIMSELF. HE WAS GLANCING AT EVERYONE +HE FELT HIMSELF TO BE. AT THE RIGHT BEAT OF THE MUSIC HE LOOKED SIDEWAYS +HE FELT THAT AT A SINGLE WORD FROM THAT MAN ALL THIS VAST MASS (AND HE +HE FELT THAT THIS DID NOT FORWARD MATTERS AT ALL. HE FELT THAT THESE +HE FILLED THE GIRLS’ ALBUMS WITH VERSES AND MUSIC, AND HAVING AT LAST +HE. “FINE, VERY FINE! YOU HAVE DONE UP YOUR HAIR IN THIS NEW WAY FOR +HE FINISHED AND, GETTING UP, EMBRACED AND KISSED PIERRE, WHO, WITH TEARS +HE GLANCED AT HIS COUSIN AND THE YOUNG LADY VISITOR; AND THEY WERE BOTH +HE GLANCED ROUND AT HER. SHE GAVE HIM A PASSIONATELY ANGRY GLANCE, AND +HE, GOING TO THE DOOR AND LOOKING INTO THE NURSERY. +HE GOT HIS WOUND. THIS PLEASED ROSTóV AND HE BEGAN TALKING ABOUT IT, +HE HAD ALREADY PROMISED PRINCE ANATOLE TO COME TO HIS GATHERING; +“HE HAD ANOTHER STROKE ABOUT HALF AN HOUR AGO. COURAGE, MY +HE HAD BEEN BESIDE THE GUN, HE HAD HEARD THE VOICES OF THE OFFICERS +HE HAD BEEN ORDERED TO LOOK FOR THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, HE COULD NOT, +HE HAD BUT RECENTLY LEFT THEIR REGIMENT, RODE UP TO THE COLONEL. +HE HAD EVIDENTLY NOT SLEPT THAT NIGHT. HE LOOKED ABOUT DISTRACTEDLY AND +HE HAD JUST REMEMBERED HIS RECENT ENCOUNTER WITH THE DOCTOR’S WIFE AND +HE HAD LAIN THERE SOME TIME, HE WAS TOLD TO GET UP, AND A WHITE LEATHER +HE HAD LEFT. ALL THE OTHERS LET HIM GO, AND HE RAN TO HER. WHEN THEY +HE HAD LEFT PETERSBURG, AND WROTE ENTHUSIASTIC LETTERS TO HIS +HE HAD MET THAT EVENING. +HE HAD NOT FINISHED THE LAST VERSE BEFORE THE YOUNG PEOPLE BEGAN TO +HE HAD NOT THOUGHT ABOUT IT UNTIL THAT MOMENT. THE OFFICERS’ LAUGHTER +HE HAD OFTEN BEFORE, DURING THE LAST SIX WEEKS, REMAINED ALONE WITH HER, +HE HAD PIERRE AT HAND IN MOSCOW AND PROCURED FOR HIM AN APPOINTMENT AS +HE HAD READY IN HIS MIND, OF ALL HE KNEW AND HAD SEEN. BUT THE EMPEROR +HE HAD RIDDEN ABOUT TWO MILES AND HAD PASSED THE LAST OF THE RUSSIAN +HE HAD SAID ABSENT-MINDEDLY: “YES, SHE’S GOOD LOOKING,” HE HAD +HE HAD THE HOFS-KRIEGS-WURST-SCHNAPPS-RATH ON HIS HANDS. IT WOULD HAVE +HE HAD TO DO, NOT WITH FOOLS, BUT WITH MEN WHO COULD TEACH HIM SOMETHING +HE HAD TOO LONG BEEN THINKING OF SO PAINFULLY TO THE EXCLUSION OF ALL +HE HALF ROSE, MEANING TO GO ROUND, BUT THE AUNT HANDED HIM THE SNUFFBOX, +“HE HAS BEEN SET DOWN. HE DIED,” REPLIED SOMEONE. +“HE HAS FORTY THOUSAND MEN AT MOST,” REPLIED WEYROTHER, WITH THE +“HE HAS MADE WILLS ENOUGH!” QUIETLY REMARKED THE PRINCESS. “BUT HE +“HE HAS PERSPIRED,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. +“HE HAS WEPORTED HIMSELF SICK, HE’S TO BE STWUCK OFF THE LIST +HE HATED HER AND WAS FOREVER SUNDERED FROM HER. DESPITE DENíSOV’S +HE HEARD SOME FRENCH SPOKEN HE AT ONCE BEGAN SPEAKING TO THE OFFICERS, +“HE HIGHER ISS DAN I IN RANK,” SAID THE GERMAN COLONEL OF THE +HE HIMSELF WAS PINING FOR THE DEAR PRINCESS, AND HOW SHE SHOWED HIM THE +HEIGHT ON WHICH THE KIEV REGIMENT WAS STATIONED, IN THE HOLLOW WHERE THE +HEIGHT WITHOUT THE SMALLEST EFFORT, HIS EASE CONTRASTING WITH THE HEAVY +HE IMAGINED HIMSELF AS AN ENORMOUSLY TALL, POWERFUL MAN WHO WAS THROWING +HE IMAGINED MEN SUCH AS HE HAD HIMSELF BEEN A FORTNIGHT AGO, AND HE +HE IMMEDIATELY DISPATCHED ADJUTANT GENERAL WINTZINGERODE, WHO WAS IN +HE IMPLORED ROSTóV TO GO ON AND PREPARE HER. +HE INDICATED A PLACE BESIDE HIM TO HIS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW. A FOOTMAN MOVED +HE INVOLUNTARILY REMEMBERED HOW DóLOKHOV, WHO HAD FULLY RECOVERED HIS +HEIRESS IN THE SAME WAY. ALL THIS MIGHT, HE THOUGHT, TURN OUT VERY WELL +“HE IS A GREAT TACTICIAN!” SAID THE PRINCE TO HIS SON, POINTING TO +“HE IS A MAN IN A GRAY OVERCOAT, VERY ANXIOUS THAT I SHOULD CALL +HE IS AN AIDE-DE-CAMP OF KUTúZOV’S AND WILL BE HERE TONIGHT.” +“HE IS A NERVOUS, BILIOUS SUBJECT,” SAID LARREY, “AND WILL NOT +“HE IS A VERY, VERY NICE, HONEST, AND PLEASANT FELLOW,” ANSWERED +HE IS BETTER ACQUAINTED THAN ANYONE ELSE, DOES NOT LISTEN TO OTHERS BUT +HE IS BóRY’S GODFATHER—AND ALLOW HIM SOMETHING FOR HIS MAINTENANCE, +“HE IS DOZING,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, OBSERVING THAT ONE OF THE +“HE IS JUST THE SAME AS EVER,” REPLIED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, +“HE IS LEAVING ME HERE, GOD KNOWS WHY, WHEN HE MIGHT HAVE HAD +“HE IS NO MORE....” +“HE IS NOT TO BE APPREHENDED BY REASON, BUT BY LIFE,” SAID THE +“HE IS ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE, BUT TO ME MOST UNPLEASANT OF +HE IS SO FRANK AND HAS SO MUCH HEART. HE IS SO PURE AND POETIC THAT +HE IS UNCLE’S AIDE-DE-CAMP, A MOST BRILLIANT POSITION. HE IS SO +“HE IS VERY MUCH ALTERED NOW,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. “WELL, AS +HE JUMPED UP AT THE SOUND OF HER LIGHT STEP. +HE KEPT NODDING TO SHOW THAT HE UNDERSTOOD, ANATOLE WENT ON TRANSLATING +HE KNEW NO ONE, AND DESPITE HIS SMART GUARDSMAN’S UNIFORM, ALL THESE +HE KNEW THIS AT THAT MOMENT AS SURELY AS IF HE HAD BEEN STANDING AT THE +“HE KNOWS OF COURSE WHAT THIS LOSS MEANS TO ME. HE CAN’T WANT MY +HE LACKED THAT STRENGTH OF WILL WHICH HE HAD KNOWN IN HIMSELF AND REALLY +HE LAUGHED IN HIS USUAL DRY, COLD, UNPLEASANT WAY, WITH HIS LIPS ONLY +HE. “LAUGHING AT US OLD FELLOWS!” +HE LAY DOWN ON THE LEATHER SOFA IN FRONT OF A ROUND TABLE, PUT HIS BIG +HE LAY DOWN ON THE SOFA MEANING TO FALL ASLEEP AND FORGET ALL THAT +HELD. ALL THE COMMANDERS OF COLUMNS WERE SUMMONED TO THE COMMANDER IN +HELD IT BELOW HER WAIST. +HELD IT TILL EVENING AND HAVE GONE IN TO DINNER WITH IT) AND DREW HIS +HELD OUT HIS CHEEK. +HELD THE HAND OF HIS BETROTHED IN SILENCE, LOOKING AT HER BEAUTIFUL +HE LEANED HIS ELBOWS ON THE TABLE WITH HIS PEN IN HIS HAND AND, +HE LEANED HIS WHOLE MASSIVE BODY ACROSS THE TABLE. +HE LEFT THE ROOM AND WENT TO THE WAITING ROOM WHERE ALPáTYCH STOOD WITH +HéLèNE.” +HéLèNE, AND THAT THOUGHT BOTH ALARMED HIM, AS IF SOME OBLIGATION WERE +“HéLèNE!” HE SAID ALOUD AND PAUSED. +HéLèNE NOR SHE AT HIM. BUT SHE WAS JUST AS TERRIBLY CLOSE TO HIM. HE +HéLèNE RAISED HER VOICE AND BECAME MORE AND MORE EXCITED, “A MAN +HéLèNE SAT SILENTLY SIDE BY SIDE ALMOST AT THE BOTTOM OF THE TABLE, A +HéLèNE. “SEPARATE! THAT’S A THING TO FRIGHTEN ME WITH!” +HéLèNE’S FACE BECAME TERRIBLE, SHE SHRIEKED AND SPRANG ASIDE. HIS +HéLèNE’S HAND SEVERAL TIMES. AFTER A WHILE THEY WERE LEFT ALONE +HéLèNE SMILED, WITH A LOOK IMPLYING THAT SHE DID NOT ADMIT THE +HéLèNE’S PRESENCE (AS A LOVER SHOULD BE), BUT HAD NOT YET PROPOSED +HéLèNE STILL SAT TALKING JUST AS BEFORE. +HéLèNE, THEN SHE TURNED TO PIERRE WITH THE SAME WORDS OF WELCOME +HéLèNE TURNED TO PIERRE WITH THE BEAUTIFUL BRIGHT SMILE THAT SHE GAVE +“HE LETS ONE WIN THE SINGLES AND COLLAHS IT AS SOON AS ONE DOUBLES IT; +HE LISTENED AND HEARD THE SOUND OF APPROACHING HORSES, AND VOICES +HE LOOKED INTENTLY AND INQUIRINGLY INTO HIS FRIEND’S EYES, EVIDENTLY +HE LOOKED STRAIGHT AT PRINCE ANDREW AND SUDDENLY UNWRINKLED HIS +HE LOOKED VERY GRIM HE SAID NOTHING TO ANYONE. +HE LOOKED WITH DISDAIN AT THE ENDLESS CONFUSED MASS OF DETACHMENTS, +HELP BEING AWARE OF IT, JUST AS WE CANNOT RENEW AN ILLUSION WE HAVE ONCE +“HELP COMES FROM GOD ALONE,” HE SAID, “BUT SUCH MEASURE OF HELP AS +“HELP HIM UP. SIT DOWN, DEAR FELLOW, SIT DOWN! SPREAD OUT THE CLOAK, +HELPLESSLY AND HE MADE A FRUITLESS EFFORT TO PULL IT FORWARD. WHETHER HE +HELPLESSLY ON THE SOFA. +HELPLESSLY SPREAD OUT, STOOD WITH HIS BROAD CHEST DIRECTLY FACING +HELP, WOULD INFORM HER. +HE MADE HIMSELF WHEN GOING INTO BATTLE, AND HE WAS MORE AMIABLE TO THE +HE MADE UP HIS MIND THAT PRINCE ANDREW HAD BEEN KILLED, AND THOUGH HE +HE MARKED THE FIGURES IN HIS CLEAR, BOLD HAND. +HE MEANT TO DO, AND ABANDONING HERSELF TO HIM FOLLOWED HIS LEAD HARDLY +HE MET NESVíTSKI, WITH WHOM HE SHARED A ROOM, AND THE WAG ZHERKóV; +HE MIGHT BE, DID NOT EXPECT. HE WAS SO USED TO SUBMITTING TO PRINCE +HE MIGHT... NOT ONLY MIGHT BUT SHOULD, HAVE GONE UP TO THE SOVEREIGN. IT +HE MOVED AS IF TO RISE. THE GENERALS BOWED AND RETIRED. IT WAS PAST +“HE MUST FIRST RECEIVE THE TROWEL,” WHISPERED ONE OF THE BROTHERS. +HE MUST RETREAT AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE BEHIND THE HOLLOW IN THE REAR, +HE MUST THINK THAT I, TOO, AM AFRAID OF HIM—AND IN FACT I AM AFRAID OF +HE NEED ONLY HAVE BENT HIS HEAD A LITTLE TO HAVE TOUCHED THEM. HE WAS +HE NEEDS MONEY FOR FOOD; THE MAN SAID AN OFFICER HAD ONCE GIVEN HIM A +HE NEVER COULD APPRECIATE IT. NO, MON COUSIN,” SHE ADDED WITH A SIGH, +HE NOTICED EVERYTHING...” +HE ONLY GAVE AN ORDER TO CEASE FIRING AND RE-FORM, SO AS TO GIVE ROOM +HE OPENED HIS EYES AND LOOKED UP. THE BLACK CANOPY OF NIGHT HUNG LESS + HE OUGHT TO BE FIRING AT THE ENEMY. +HE PASSED IT. PIERRE BEGAN TO FEEL A SENSE OF UNEASINESS, AND THE +HE PATTED HER ON THE SHOULDER AND HIMSELF CLOSED THE DOOR AFTER HER. +HE PAUSED A LITTLE WHILE. +HE PAUSED, AND JUST AS HE WAS ABOUT TO SAY SOMETHING MORE, ANOTHER BALL +HE PAUSED AND SIGHED, EVIDENTLY TRYING TO CALM HIMSELF. +HE PAUSED, HIS GAZE STILL ON PIERRE, AND MOVED ASIDE ON THE SOFA BY WAY +HE POINTED TO THE FRENCH GUNS, THE LIMBERS OF WHICH WERE BEING DETACHED +HE POINTED WITH A SMILE TO A TURRETED NUNNERY, AND HIS EYES NARROWED AND +HE PULLED OFF THE QUILT AND SHOOK IT. THE PURSE WAS NOT THERE. +HE PUT ON THE AIR OF ONE WHO FINDS IT IMPOSSIBLE TO REPLY TO SUCH +HE QUICKLY ENTERED THE SMALL RECEPTION ROOM WITH ITS STILL-UNPLASTERED +HER. +HER. +HER. +HE RAISED BOTH ARMS AS IF CAREFULLY LIFTING SOME INVISIBLE BUT PRECIOUS +HER ALREADY,” HE SAID, EVIDENTLY TRYING TO ENTERTAIN A VISITOR WITH +HER AND ABOUT TO CRUSH HER WAS SOME TERRIBLE MISFORTUNE, THE WORST +HER AND FOR HIMSELF, AND IN A NERVOUSLY EMOTIONAL AND SOFTENED MOOD HE +HER AS A DISTANT BEAUTY FAR REMOVED FROM HIM, AS HE HAD SEEN HER EVERY +HER BADGE AS MAID OF HONOR. THE YOUTHFUL LITTLE PRINCESS BOLKóNSKAYA, +HER BEAUTY AND HER REMARKABLE SKILL IN APPEARING SILENTLY DIGNIFIED IN +HER BECAUSE YOU MUST, AND THAT WOULDN’T DO AT ALL.” +HER BROTHER SHOOK HIS HEAD INCREDULOUSLY. +HER COMPANIONS’ NOT HAVING THE LEAST CONCEPTION THAT IT COULD BE +“HERE AT LEAST WE SHALL HAVE THE BENEFIT OF YOUR COMPANY ALL TO +HERE,” CAME THE VOICE OF AN HUSSAR, PAST WHOM ROSTóV WAS RIDING IN +HERE? DON’T YOU SEE THE SKIRMISHERS ARE RETREATING? LEAD THE SQUADRON +HE REELED AND SANK ON THE SNOW. +HERE!” EXCLAIMED DIFFERENT VOICES; AND THE HEAVY BREATHING OF THE +HE REFLECTED, “THERE IS NO RIDING ROUND IT NOW. I MUST LOOK FOR THE +“HERE HE IS AT LAST!” SHOUTED ROSTóV. “AND BERG TOO! OH, YOU +“HERE HE IS... OUR OWN... KóLYA, * DEAR FELLOW... HOW HE HAS +“HERE, IN THAT HOUSE,” ANSWERED THE ADJUTANT. +HERE, IS HE NOT? PLEASE ANNOUNCE ME.” +HERE IS NOW SETTLED, AND I OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN OFF LONG AGO. HERE IS +HERE IS ONE FROM HIS HIGHNESS THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND AND HERE ARE +“HERE IS OUR DEAR ORTHODOX RUSSIAN ARMY,” THOUGHT BOLKóNSKI, +“HERE IS SOME SORT OF KEY TO THE MYSTERIES THAT YOUR HéLOïSE HAS +“HERE IT IS! THE DECISIVE MOMENT HAS ARRIVED. MY TURN HAS COME,” +“HERE IT IS!” THOUGHT HE, SEIZING THE STAFF OF THE STANDARD AND +HERE I’VE BROUGHT THE PRINCE’S WEDDING CANDLES TO LIGHT BEFORE HIS +HE REMEMBERED HIS HONEYMOON AND BLUSHED AT THE RECOLLECTION. +(HE REMEMBERED THAT IN FRENCH THERE IS SOME PECULIAR WAY OF ADDRESSING A +HE REMEMBERED THE EXPRESSION DóLOKHOV’S FACE ASSUMED IN HIS MOMENTS +HERE ON FRIDAY.” +HE REPEATED, ACCENTUATING THE U: “I THINK, HOWEVER, NOW THAT HE LAYS +HERE PRINCE HIPPOLYTE PAUSED, EVIDENTLY COLLECTING HIS IDEAS WITH +HERE PRINCE HIPPOLYTE SPLUTTERED AND BURST OUT LAUGHING LONG BEFORE HIS +HERE, RUN AWAY, BURY MYSELF SOMEWHERE?” PASSED THROUGH HIS MIND. BUT +HERE’S ANOTHER ADMIRER OF THAT POWDER-MONKEY EMPEROR OF YOURS,” HE +“HERE’S SOMETHING FOR YOU TO REPORT,” SAID ZHERKóV. “SEE IF I +“HERE’S TO THE HEALTH OF LOVELY WOMEN, PETERKIN—AND THEIR +HERE THE CONVERSATION SEEMED INTERESTING AND HE STOOD WAITING FOR AN +HERE. WHERE IS IT?” HE ASKED, TURNING TO LAVRúSHKA. +HER EYES, AND THEN QUICKLY WENT TO HIS PLACE AND SAT DOWN. “SIT DOWN, +HER EYES BECAME SERIOUS. AT THAT MOMENT SHE WAS OBLIVIOUS OF HER +HER EYES OFF HIM, AND SMILING AND HOLDING HER BREATH. HE GAVE HER A +HER EYES WERE SMILING EXPECTANTLY, HER DOWNY LIP ROSE AND REMAINED +HER FACE, AND THEN IMMEDIATELY HE SAW BESIDE HER DóLOKHOV’S HANDSOME, +HER FACE BECAME SAD. +HER FACE SUDDENLY FLUSHED WITH RECKLESS AND JOYOUS RESOLUTION. SHE HALF +HER FATE WAS DECIDED AND HAPPILY DECIDED. BUT WHAT HER FATHER HAD SAID +“HER FATHER IS VERY RICH AND STINGY. HE LIVES IN THE COUNTRY. HE IS +HER FATHER WAS TIDY. SHE PUT DOWN THE GEOMETRY BOOK AND EAGERLY BROKE +HER FAVORITE SONATA BORE HER INTO A MOST INTIMATELY POETIC WORLD AND +HER FOOT INTO THE OTHER. SóNYA, WHEN HE CAME IN, WAS TWIRLING ROUND AND +HER FOOT—WHICH EVERYONE APPRECIATED IN VIEW OF HER SIZE AND HABITUAL +HER FOREHEAD. HIS FINE EYES LIT UP WITH A THOUGHTFUL, KINDLY, AND +HER FRIEND AS IF SHE DID NOT CONSIDER HER WORTHY TO HEAR WHAT SHE MEANT +HER FRIEND, THE PRINCESS’ EYES—LARGE, DEEP AND LUMINOUS (IT SEEMED +HER GLITTERING EYES, FILLED WITH CHILDLIKE FEAR AND EXCITEMENT, RESTED +HER GUESTS, FIRST THE VICOMTE AND THEN THE ABBé, AS PECULIARLY CHOICE +HER HANDKERCHIEF TOO. PIERRE WAS KISSED, AND HE KISSED THE BEAUTIFUL +HER HANDSOME ELDEST DAUGHTER WERE IN THE DRAWING ROOM WITH THE VISITORS +HER HEAD AND CONTINUED IN A WHISPER: “HAS HE PERFORMED HIS FINAL DUTY, +HER HEAD TOWARD THE DARKNESS OF THE OPEN DOORWAY. +HER HEART. HAPPY THE MAN WHO WINS HER! WITH HER THE LEAST WORLDLY OF MEN +HER. HOW OFTEN WHEN CONSIDERING HER CHARACTER I HAVE TOLD MYSELF THAT +HER HUSBAND LOOKED AT HER AS IF SURPRISED TO NOTICE THAT SOMEONE BESIDES +HER IN FIVE MINUTES BEFORE AND, DESPITE THE FIXED EYES AND THE PALLOR OF +HER INFLAMED AND PERSPIRING CHEEKS, HER CHARMING ROSY MOUTH WITH ITS +HER LIP DESCENDED. SHE BROUGHT HER FACE CLOSE TO HER SISTER-IN-LAW’S +HER LITTLE NEPHEW AS BEST SHE COULD. MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, TOO, SEEMED +HER LONG HAIR CAME DOWN....” HERE HE COULD CONTAIN HIMSELF NO +HER MOTHER AND BURST INTO SUCH A LOUD, RINGING FIT OF LAUGHTER THAT EVEN +HER MOTHER, QUITE EXCITED. +HER NECK. +HER NECK AS SOON AS SHE OVERTOOK HER IN THE SITTING ROOM. +HERO HIMSELF WITH HIS PALTRY VANITY AND JOY IN VICTORY APPEAR, +HEROISM!” +HERO LESS ON EARTH.” +HER OVER HIS SPECTACLES. +HER OWN ON THE SUBJECT. +HER PATH. +HER PLAINLY AS SHE IS, OR ELSE YOU WILL MAKE A CRUEL AND IRREVOCABLE +HER—PLEASE DON’T! IT IS TOO PAINFUL FOR HER!” +HER, ROSTóV THOUGHT, BUT JUST NOW THERE WERE SO MANY OTHER PLEASURES +HER?” SAID THE OLD PRINCE ANGRILY. “WHAT AN IDEA! I’M READY FOR IT +HER SEDUCER WHEN SHE LOVED HIM?” HE THOUGHT. “GOD COULD NOT HAVE PUT +“HERSELF,” CAME THE ANSWER IN A ROUGH VOICE, AND MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA +HERSELF DISINTERESTEDLY AT THE HEAD OF AN ALLIANCE HAVING FOR ITS OBJECT +HERSELF! GLAD TO THROW HER FATHER OVER! AND SHE KNEW I SHOULD NOTICE +HERSELF IN A WHITE SATIN DRESSING GOWN EMBROIDERED WITH SILVER AND WITH +HERSELF IN HERE FOR? BUT I WILL GIVE HER A PIECE OF MY MIND. THE TIME +HERSELF SHOULD SHE GLANCE ROUND. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, WITH A MEEK, +HERSELF WISH TO DIE, THAT HIS END WAS NOT ONLY TOUCHING BUT EDIFYING. AS +HER SISTER DROPPED THE PORTFOLIO. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, STOOPING, QUICKLY +HER SISTER-IN-LAW’S ROOM. PRINCE ANDREW IN A TRAVELING COAT WITHOUT +HER SLEEVES AND PUFFING HEAVILY. +HER SUFFERINGS OR WITH THEIR RELIEF. THE PANGS BEGAN AGAIN AND MARY +HER SYMPATHY FOR PIERRE, BUT BY INVOLUNTARY INTONATIONS AND A HALF SMILE +HER TEMPLES. PRINCESS MARY, SUPPORTING HER SISTER-IN-LAW, STILL LOOKED +HER TENDERLY AND ATTENTIVELY, SAID SEVERELY: +HER THIN LIPS GREW WHITE, THOUGH HER EYES DID NOT CHANGE, AND HER VOICE +HER—THOU OR YOU?” +HER TONE WAS NOW QUERULOUS AND HER LIP DRAWN UP, GIVING HER NOT A +HER UP, HUGGED HER, AND, SMILING THROUGH HER TEARS, BEGAN COMFORTING +HER VOICE SOUNDED SO SERIOUS AND SO SAD THAT THE CHIRPING OF THE BIRDS +HER WHITE TEETH. SHE MET PRINCE VASíLI WITH THAT PLAYFUL MANNER OFTEN +HER. WHY DO YOU SAY ALL THIS TO ME?” +HER WITH A GRIMACE THAT DISTORTED HIS HANDSOME FACE, KISSED ANNA +HER WITH PERFECT SINCERITY, AND WITH THE NAïVE AND FIRM CONVICTION +HER WORK AS IF TO TESTIFY THAT THE INTEREST AND FASCINATION OF THE STORY +HER. “YOU KNOW, CATICHE, THAT WE—YOU THREE SISTERS, MáMONTOV, AND +HE SAD AT LEAVING HIS WIFE?—PERHAPS BOTH, BUT EVIDENTLY HE DID NOT +HE SAID. +HE SAID NO MORE, BUT EXPRESSED HIS RESIGNATION TO CRUEL FATE BY A +HE SAID. “PERHAPS YOU ARE RIGHT FOR YOURSELF,” HE ADDED AFTER +HE SAID SOMETHING MORE, BUT ROSTóV DID NOT WAIT TO HEAR IT AND RODE +“HE’S A LOW FELLOW, SAY WHAT YOU WILL,” REMARKED PRINCE HIPPOLYTE. +“HE’S ARRIVED!” +HE SAT DOWN BESIDE HIPPOLYTE AND WRINKLING HIS FOREHEAD BEGAN TALKING +HE SAT DOWN BY HIS WIFE, HIS ELBOWS ON HIS KNEES AND HIS HANDS RUFFLING +HE SAT UNDER FIRE. BUT DESPITE HIMSELF, ON HIS FACE TOO THAT SAME +HE SAW FRENCH CANNON AND FRENCH TROOPS ON THE PRATZEN HEIGHTS JUST WHERE +HE SAW TURRETS AND A CHURCH. WHAT NEED TO HURRY? WHAT WAS HE NOW TO SAY +HE SAW WHICH WAY THE WIND WAS BLOWING, AND HIS LOW OPINION CHANGED INTO +HE SCATTERED THE BURNING TOBACCO, SMASHED THE PIPE, AND THREW IT AWAY. +“HE’S COMING!” SHOUTED THE SIGNALER AT THAT MOMENT. +“HE’S DEAD—WHY CARRY HIM?” SAID ANOTHER. +HE SEEMED TO SWELL WITH SATISFACTION. HE HAD HARDLY FINISHED SPEAKING +HE SEIZED HIS SON BY THE HAND WITH SMALL BONY FINGERS, SHOOK IT, LOOKED +HE SENT FOR PIERRE AND SAID TO HIM: “MY DEAR FELLOW, IF YOU ARE GOING +HE SHAVED AND SCENTED HIMSELF WITH THE CARE AND ELEGANCE WHICH HAD +“HE SHOULDN’T HAVE TAKEN SO MANY MEN,” SAID THE OFFICER OF THE +HE SHOUTED, “AND THEN I SHALL RESERVE THE RIGHT TO STATE MY OPINION +HE SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS. A FOOTMAN CONDUCTED BORíS DOWN ONE FLIGHT OF +HE SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS AND RAISED HIS HAND TO THE KERCHIEF, AS IF +HE SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS AND SPREAD OUT HIS HANDS. PIERRE WISHED TO +HE SIGHED. +HE SIGNED WITH A FLOURISH AND SUDDENLY TURNING TO HIS SON BEGAN TO +HESITATING VOICE. “I THANK YOU. I AGREE WITH ALL YOU HAVE SAID. BUT +HESITATION AND UNCERTAINTY AMONG HIS CONDUCTORS. HE HEARD THOSE AROUND +(HE SMILED IRONICALLY.) “BUT EVEN IF HE ALSO TOOK UP A POSITION IN +HE SPOKE SO RAPIDLY THAT HE DID NOT FINISH HALF HIS WORDS, BUT HIS SON +HE SPOKE WITH SUCH SELF-CONFIDENCE THAT HIS HEARERS COULD NOT BE SURE +HE SPREAD A MAP ON THE TABLE. “ALL EVENTUALITIES HAVE BEEN FORESEEN. +HE STILL HAD ALL THE LETTERS IN HIS HAND. OPENING THEM MECHANICALLY HE +HE STOPPED AND REMAINED SILENT FOR A LONG TIME. +HE STOPPED SHORT ON HIS HEELS, STOOD SO A SECOND, STAMPED ON THE SPOT +HE STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND TO TAKE HOLD OF THE PURSE. ROSTóV LET GO OF +HE SUDDENLY BLUSHED CRIMSON, AND IT WAS PLAIN THAT HE HAD MADE A GREAT +HE SUDDENLY CRIED. “EVEN WITHOUT A BET, THERE! TELL THEM TO BRING ME A +HE SUNG A SECOND, A THIRD BELOW THE HIGH NOTE. “AH, GOD! HOW FINE! DID +“HE’S VERY YOUNG TO COME TO MEDDLE WITH US.” +HE TALKED TO PIERRE), THE OLD MAN WAS SITTING ON A LARGE LEATHER-COVERED +HE (THOUGH PIERRE HAD NOT MENTIONED BONAPARTE), “BUT BONAPARTE WHEN +HE THOUGHT OUT HIS PLANS BEFOREHAND HE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN SO NATURAL +HE THOUGHT, STOPPING FOR A MOMENT WITH A SINKING HEART, AND THEN +HE THREW THE BOTTLE TO THE ENGLISHMAN, WHO CAUGHT IT NEATLY. DóLOKHOV +HE TOLD HER SHE WAS STILL THE SAME CRYBABY AS EVER. PRINCESS MARY HAD +HE TOOK THE DISPATCH WHICH WAS ADDRESSED TO HIM AND BEGAN TO READ IT +HE TOOK THE LIGHTED PIPE THAT WAS OFFERED TO HIM, GRIPPED IT IN HIS +HE TOOK THE PISTOL IN HIS HAND AND BEGAN ASKING ABOUT THE WORKING OF THE +HE TOUCHED HIS HORSE AND HAVING CALLED MILORáDOVICH, THE COMMANDER OF +HE TRIED TO SAY MORE, BUT FALTERED. +HE TURNED AWAY. +HE TURNED ROUND. NESVíTSKI’S HANDSOME FACE LOOKED OUT OF THE LITTLE +HE TURNED TO KOZLóVSKI WITH URGENT QUESTIONS. +HE UNDERSTOOD HIS COMMANDER’S WISH. +HE UNHOOKED HIS SABER. HE CAME OUT FROM BEHIND THE CHAIRS, CLASPED HIS +HE VOUCHSAFE ITS REVELATION TO US THROUGH HIS DIVINE SPIRIT. +HE WAITED A MOMENT TO SEE WHETHER THE CORNET WOULD ANSWER, BUT HE TURNED +“HE WANTS TO SEE A BATTLE,” SAID ZHERKóV TO BOLKóNSKI, POINTING +HE WAS ADMITTED TO THE EMPEROR, AND AN HOUR LATER HE RODE OFF WITH +HE WAS AFRAID OF FINDING IN HER A RIVAL FOR COUNT BEZúKHOV’S FORTUNE, +HE WAS ASLEEP IN HIS CORNER AND WOKE HIM UP. ROUSING HIMSELF, PIERRE +HE WAS EVIDENTLY SO BUSY THAT HE EVEN FORGOT TO BE POLITE TO THE +HE WAS FLUSHED AND BATHED IN PERSPIRATION, THOUGH THE ROOM WAS NOT HOT. +HE WAS IN CONTACT WITH THE SPRINGS THAT SET IN MOTION THE ENORMOUS +HE WAS JOYFULLY PLANNING THIS NEW LIFE, WHEN PRINCE VASíLI SUDDENLY +HE WAS PLEASED AT THE GRATITUDE HE RECEIVED, BUT FELT ABASHED AT +HE WAS PROUD TO BE AT THE HEAD OF SUCH A NATION AND WOULD ENDEAVOR TO BE +HE WAS RIDING ALMOST ALONG THE FRONT LINE. A HANDFUL OF MEN CAME +HE WAS RIDING WAS ONE HE HAD BOUGHT FROM A COSSACK DURING THE CAMPAIGN, +HE WAS SENT AWAY. HIPPOLYTE IS HER BROTHER... PRINCE VASíLI IS HER +HE WAS SENT. THIS WAS THE BRILLIANT CHARGE OF THE HORSE GUARDS THAT +HE WAS SINGING IN PASSIONATE TONES, GAZING WITH HIS SPARKLING +HE WAS THINKING THAT PRINCE ANDREW WAS UNHAPPY, HAD GONE ASTRAY, DID NOT +HE WAS TOLD IN RUSSIAN, GERMAN, AND CZECH BY THE CROWD OF FUGITIVES WHO +HE WAS TOLD THAT HE WOULD NOW SEE THE LESSER LIGHT. THE BANDAGE WAS +HE WAS TOUCHED, BUT ALSO A GLEAM OF IRONY ON HIS FACE. +HE WAS TO WEAR AT THE MEETINGS, AND FINALLY OF THE THIRD, A PAIR OF +HE WENT FORWARD UNEASILY OVER THE ROUGH FIELD WITH THE AWKWARD GAIT OF +HE WENT NOWHERE AND SPENT WHOLE DAYS IN READING THOMAS à KEMPIS, WHOSE +HE WENT ON TALKING IN THIS WAY IN FRENCH, UTTERING ONLY THOSE WORDS IN +HE WENT OVER HIS VICES IN HIS MIND, NOT KNOWING TO WHICH OF THEM TO GIVE +HE WENT STRAIGHT UP TO PRINCE VASíLI. +HE WENT TO HIS BED, DREW A PURSE FROM UNDER THE CLEAN PILLOW, AND SENT +“HE WILL GET UP IN TWENTY MINUTES. LET US GO ACROSS TO MARY’S +HE WILL HIT ME IN THE HEAD, OR ELBOW, OR KNEE. CAN’T I GO AWAY FROM +HE WISHED TO EXPLAIN TO DOLGORúKOV A PLAN OF ATTACK HE HAD HIMSELF +HE WISHED TO TAKE A DECISION, BUT FELT WITH DISMAY THAT IN THIS MATTER +HE WOKE UP... +HE WOKE UP AND LOOKED ROUND FOR A WHILE WITH A STARTLED EXPRESSION, +HE WONDERED AS HE GOT UP: AND AT THAT MOMENT HE FELT THAT SOMETHING +HE WORE THE AIR OF A MAN LITTLE CONCERNED IN WHAT THE TWO LADIES WERE +HE WORKED WENT STEP BY STEP TOWARD HIS GOAL. HE WAS FREE, HE HAD NOTHING +HE WOULD CERTAINLY BE TAKEN PRISONER. KUTúZOV REMAINED IN THE SAME +HE WOULD EXPAND HIS CHEST, RAISE HIS HEAD, AND REJOICE AT HIS GOOD +HE WOULD GIVE AN OPINION AT THE WAR COUNCIL WHICH WOULD BE THE ONLY ONE +HE WOULD HAVE BEEN MENTIONED AMONG THE OFFICERS FOUND ON THE FIELD OF +HE WOULD HAVE DONE AT THAT MOMENT HAD HéLèNE NOT FLED FROM THE ROOM. +HE WOULD HAVE TO MARCH WITH NO ROAD INTO UNKNOWN PARTS OF THE BOHEMIAN +HE WOULD INTO THAT FOGGY DISTANCE: NOW SOMETHING GLEAMED GRAY, NOW THERE +HE WOULD RUSH THROUGH THE WHOLE SUITE OF ROOMS WITHOUT DRAWING BREATH, +HE WOULD SAY A LOT OF PLEASANT THINGS, ASK YOU TO DINNER” (“THAT +HE WOULD SLAP IN THE FACE BEFORE THE EMPEROR. SUDDENLY A DISTANT SHOUT +“HEY, COSSACK, MY HORSE!” HE SAID. “NOW, THEN, YOU THERE! GET OUT +HIDDEN BY DENSE MIST. HAVING GIVEN ORDERS IN THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF’S +HID HER FACE STILL DEEPER IN THE BED. NATáSHA WEPT, SITTING ON THE +HIGH, BUT THE LAST ROUND FELL IN THE MIDST OF A GROUP OF HUSSARS AND +HIGHER GROUND IT WAS CLEARING, BUT NOTHING COULD BE SEEN OF WHAT WAS +HIGHEST DEGREE JUST THE VERY QUALITIES PIERRE LACKED, AND WHICH MIGHT +HIGHEST POINT. “IT’S IN CHARGE OF THE QUEER FELLOW WE SAW WITHOUT +HIGHEST SPHERES. +HIGH—I ALWAYS SAID....” +HIGHLY HONORED GUEST, TOOK POSSESSION OF HIM AS IT WERE, WITHOUT WAITING +“HIGHLY SATISFIED, YOUR EXCELLENCY!” +HIGHNESS,” AND POINTING TO THE GRAND DUKE WHO WITH HIS HIGH SHOULDERS +HIGH TIME!” +HILL. +HILL ONE AFTER THE OTHER. THEIR COLONEL, KARL BOGDáNICH SCHUBERT, CAME +HILL OPPOSITE, WITH THE FRENCH MOVING ABOUT ON IT, OPENED OUT BEFORE +HILLS, SHE TOOK A SPECIAL FANCY TO MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, SPENT WHOLE +HIM!” +HIM. +HIM. +HIM. +HIM. +HIM. +HIM.” +HIM ALL THE WAY. HE THOUGHT ANGRILY OF THE PLEASURE HE WOULD HAVE AT +HIM A LOOK OF STERN INQUIRY, AS THOUGH WHAT PIERRE HAD JUST SAID WAS +HIM AND DID NOT STOP BUT RODE ON AND ON, CONTINUALLY MISTAKING BUSHES +HIM AND EVERYTHING HE COULD SAY HAD LONG BEEN KNOWN TO HIM, THAT HE WAS +HIM AND HéLèNE. “WELL, WHAT OF IT, IF YOU ALL KNOW IT?” THOUGHT +HIM AND HE WAS AT ONCE BLINDFOLDED AGAIN. +HIM, AND ONLY AS HE KISSED HER HAND ON TAKING LEAVE SAID UNEXPECTEDLY +HIM AND SHE WISHED AND TRIED TO PLEASE HIM AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. +HIM. “AND WHY SHOULD SHE MARRY?” HE THOUGHT. “TO BE UNHAPPY FOR +HIM AND, WITH A CHRISTIAN MILDNESS THAT EXPRESSED FORGIVENESS OF HIS +HIM AND WOULD NOT HAVE OTHERS DO SO.” +HIM AS A MAN, BUT WHAT CAN ONE DO?” +HIM A TAPER. HE LIT IT AND, DISTRACTED BY OBSERVING THOSE AROUND HIM, +HIM BE HERE....” +HIM, BONAPARTE HAD MADE IN HIS CAMPAIGNS AND EVEN IN POLITICS. HIS +HIM; BUT MOST OF ALL, HE FELT JOYFUL THAT THE MOMENT HAD COME WHEN HE +HIM, BUT STILL THAT HAPPY RESULT ALWAYS REMAINED IN THE FUTURE. +HIM BUT TO THE WHOLE REGIMENT—ALL OF US—YOU’RE TO BLAME ALL ROUND. +HIM BY THE ARM, “I BELIEVE THAT INTERVENTION WILL BE STRONGER THAN +HIM, CARRIED THE INFANT ROUND THE BATTERED TIN FONT AND HANDED HIM OVER +HIM DIE FEELING THAT HE IS RENDERING UNHAPPY THOSE WHO...” +HIM DISPUTING IN WHISPERS AND ONE OF THEM INSISTING THAT HE SHOULD BE +HIM DO WHAT HE PLEASES,’ SHE USED TO SAY OF ME. ONE DAY I ASKED HER IF +HIM EVERYONE BEGAN TO STIR: STEPS WERE AUDIBLE AND WHISPERS, AMONG WHICH +HIM EXCEPT THE YOUNG PRINCESSES.... THEY ARE STILL YOUNG....” SHE BENT +HIM FEEL CONFUSED BY HER SMILES AND HER OWN CONFUSION WHEN MEETING HIM. +HIM FOR THOSE WORDS, BULLETS FLEW HISSING ACROSS THE REGIMENT AND ACROSS +HIM, FROM HIS DAUGHTER TO HIS SERFS, THE PRINCE WAS SHARP AND INVARIABLY +HIM, FROM HIS WEARY, BORED EXPRESSION TO HIS QUIET, MEASURED STEP, +HIM FULL DIRECTIONS WHICH HE HAD WRITTEN DOWN FOR HIS OWN GUIDANCE AS TO +HIM, HANDING HIM DIFFERENT ARTICLES OF CLOTHING. “WHAT OF SWEDEN? HOW +HIM?” HE ASKED. +HIM, HE DOES NOT KNOW RUSSIAN.” +HIM HE IS A FOOL, THAT’S ALL!” +HIM, HE’S A SCOUNDREL. GO ON! GO ON!” +HIM. HE STROKED HER HAIR AND THEN PATTED HER AWKWARDLY ON THE BACK OF +HIM,” HE THOUGHT, AND AGAIN HE FELT SOMETHING TERRIBLE AND MONSTROUS +HIM IF NOT TO JOIN IN AT LEAST TO LISTEN TO WHAT HE WAS SAYING. BUT THE +HIM INTO THE SITTING ROOM, WHERE THEY BEGAN TALKING. THEY HARDLY GAVE +HIM MERGED IN ROSTóV’S MIND INTO A SINGLE FEELING OF TERROR AND PITY +HIM. “MORE, PLEASE: MORE! WHAT’S HE SAYING?” +HIM MY WHOLE STAFF AND ALL THAT BELONGS TO IT, ADVISING HIM IF THERE IS +HIM NOT IN THE LEAST ABASHED. +HIM... OLGA, GO AND SEE WHETHER UNCLE’S BEEF TEA IS READY—IT IS +HIM. ON THE DAY OF PRINCE VASíLI’S ARRIVAL, PRINCE BOLKóNSKI WAS +HIM OR HER TO A LITTLE OLD LADY, WEARING LARGE BOWS OF RIBBON IN HER +HIM, OR PERHAPS FOR THAT VERY REASON, THE PRINCE, THOUGH HE CONTINUED +HIM, OR WHAT WAS SAID OF HIM; HE WAS ONLY GLAD THAT PEOPLE WERE STANDING +HIM OUT OF THE BOOTH AT GRUNTH. HE WAS SHOUTING IN A GASPING VOICE: +HIM PLEASURE. THE ENEMY’S GUNS WERE IN HIS FANCY NOT GUNS BUT PIPES +HIM. PRINCE VASíLI’S TWO VALETS WERE BUSY DRESSING HIM, AND HE LOOKED +HIM, PUSH HIM, DO ANYTHING BUT KISS HIM—A THING EVERYBODY DID. BUT +HIM. “REMEMBER THIS, PRINCE ANDREW, IF THEY KILL YOU IT WILL HURT ME, +HIM. ROSTóV WAS PARTICULARLY IN NEED OF MONEY NOW THAT THE TROOPS, +HIMSELF. +HIMSELF. +HIMSELF? +HIMSELF AFTER HIS RECENT LONELINESS AND FREEDOM FROM CARES SO BESET AND +HIMSELF, AND THIS FRESH OPPORTUNITY FOR ACTION GAVE HIM NEW ENERGY +HIMSELF AN INSIGNIFICANT ATOM IN IT) WOULD GO THROUGH FIRE AND WATER, +HIMSELF, BUT ONLY DESIRES THE GOOD OF MANKIND. AND WHAT HAVE THEY +HIMSELF FALL INTO A TRAP MOREAU SET HIM, AND FROM WHICH HE DID NOT KNOW +HIMSELF HAD VANISHED. HE WAS FILLED WITH HAPPINESS AT HIS NEARNESS TO +HIMSELF, HE KEPT IN TOUCH WITH THE CIRCLE WHICH CONFERS SUCCESS AND +HIMSELF, HE ROSE, THREW BACK HIS HEAD, AND WITH RESOLUTE STEPS WENT +HIMSELF. I AM CALLED IN TO HELP SORT THE LETTERS AND TAKE THOSE MEANT +HIMSELF IN THE PALACE AT POTSDAM. +HIMSELF INTO A CHAIR, GAZING AT THOSE IN THE ROOM AS IF ASKING, “WHY +HIMSELF.... NOT A WORD! ABOUT SOME DENíSOV OR OTHER, THOUGH HE HIMSELF, +HIMSELF ON A SOFA WITH HIS FACE TO THE WALL. PIERRE HID HIS FACE, FROM +HIMSELF ONE WITH HIS HORSE, RODE PAST THE EMPEROR WITH A FROWNING BUT +HIMSELF ON HIS SEAT. +HIMSELF, PRINCE BAGRATIóN SENT ZHERKóV TO TELL THE GENERAL IN COMMAND +HIMSELF TO BAGRATIóN. BONAPARTE’S ADJUTANT HAD NOT YET REACHED +HIMSELF TO THE COUNT, WHO WAS LOOKING INQUIRINGLY AT HIM. +HIMSELF UNDERTOOK HIS DAUGHTER’S EDUCATION, AND TO DEVELOP THESE TWO +HIMSELF UP, SLIGHTLY ARCHING HIS BACK. IT WAS PLAIN THAT THE COMMANDER +HIMSELF UP TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT IT SEEMED HE COULD NOT HAVE SUSTAINED +HIMSELF, WAS SHOUTING TO KUTúZOV THAT IF HE DID NOT RIDE AWAY AT ONCE +HIMSELF. WHAT ANGERED HIM WAS THAT THE COMING OF THESE VISITORS REVIVED +HIM SEVERAL QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS JOURNEY AND SEEMED GREATLY INTERESTED IN +HIM SEVERAL RIDERS WITH WHITE PLUMES IN THEIR HATS. IN A MOMENT EVERYONE +HIM SO WHEN I SEE HIM!” +HIM SURROUNDED BY CHILDREN WHOM, BY THE COUNT’S GENEROSITY, HE WAS +HIM. THAT’S A THING I HATE! EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE.” +HIM THAT THERE WOULD PROBABLY BE AN ENGAGEMENT THAT DAY OR THE NEXT, AND +HIM.” THE MERE THOUGHT OF HER FATHER’S LOOK FILLED HER WITH TERROR. +HIM. THE PAIN IN HIS ARM BECAME MORE AND MORE INTENSE. IRRESISTIBLE +HIM, THOUGH, BETWEEN YOU AND ME, HE ALWAYS SEEMED TO ME A POOR SORT +HIM TO COME. THERE WERE OTHER GUESTS AND THE COUNTESS TALKED LITTLE TO +HIM TO COME UP; PRINCE BAGRATIóN REINED IN HIS HORSE AND RECOGNIZING +HIM TO DELIVER. +HIM TO DESPATCH PART OF THE ARMY ABROAD AND TO CREATE A NEW CONDITION +HIM TO DIE. OTHERS ARE BEING BORN AND THERE ARE PLENTY OF THEM AS IT IS. +HIM TO GO BACK AS IT WAS TOO DANGEROUS TO REMAIN WHERE THEY WERE. +HIM TO HEAR SOMETHING MORE, NODDED AND TURNED TO HIM WITH A CHEERFUL +HIM TOO, JUST OPPOSITE GúRYEV’S HOUSE... OLD GúRYEV.... OH, BUT +HIM UP AND LENT HIM MONEY. PIERRE RECALLED HOW HéLèNE HAD SMILINGLY +HIM WHAT CONSOLATION I CAN.” +HIM. “WHAT IS THIS? THEY’RE LIKE SHEEP! JUST LIKE SHEEP! OUT OF THE +HIM WITH HER USUAL SMILE. +HIM. YOU KNOW THE STORY OF THE HANDKERCHIEF? IT IS DELIGHTFUL!” +HIM ‘YOUR MAJESTY,’ BUT WHO, TO HIS CHAGRIN, GOT NO TITLE FROM +HINDMOST OF THESE MEN WEARING SIMILAR SHAKOS WAS A RUSSIAN HUSSAR. HE +HINTS BEGAN TO MAKE THE COUNTESS ANXIOUS AND SHE GLANCED UNEASILY AT +HIPPOLYTE, AND BEGAN LOOKING THROUGH A LORGNETTE AT HIS ELEVATED LEGS. +HIPPOLYTE BURST OUT LAUGHING. +HIPPOLYTE GAZING ROUND WITH IMPORTANCE AT THE OTHERS, “WITHOUT +HIPPOLYTE INTERRUPTED HER WITH THE WORDS: “LE ROI DE PRUSSE...” AND +HIPPOLYTE IN THE CARRIAGE, “YOUR LITTLE PRINCESS IS VERY NICE, VERY +HIPPOLYTE IS AT LEAST A QUIET FOOL, BUT ANATOLE IS AN ACTIVE ONE. THAT +HIPPOLYTE LAUGHED AS IF ASHAMED OF LAUGHING. +HIPPOLYTE “—SO DULL—. IT HAS BEEN A DELIGHTFUL EVENING, HAS IT +HIPPOLYTE SPLUTTERED AGAIN, AND AMID HIS LAUGHTER SAID, “AND YOU WERE +HIS ACQUAINTANCE AND JOYFULLY WELCOMED THE RICH NEWCOMER, THE +HIS ACQUAINTANCES, TO OVERTAKE HIS REGIMENT WHICH WAS ALREADY IN POLAND. +HIS ARM. +HIS ARM, BEGAN A LONG-DRAWN-OUT SOLDIERS’ SONG, COMMENCING WITH THE +HIS ATTENTION WANDERED FROM THE BOOK AND THE SQUARE AND HE FORMED IN +HIS BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER HéLèNE. +HIS BEING ALONE AND DESPONDENT! A STRANGE FACE MAY SEEM UNPLEASANT OR +HIS BOOTS. YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING FROM THERE; LET’S GO THERE, +HIS BREAST. AMONG THEM STOOD A MAN WHOSE WHITE SHIRT WAS STAINED WITH +HIS BREAST AND A SERENE EXPRESSION ON HIS FLAT FACE. HE SPOKE IN THAT +HIS CAMP,” SAID HE. “WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? EITHER HE IS RETREATING, +HIS CAPTAIN. +HIS CAREER. MOREOVER, HE COULD SEE BY HER MANNERS THAT SHE WAS ONE OF +“HIS CHILDREN ARE ALL ILLEGITIMATE. I THINK PIERRE ALSO IS +HIS COLLAR AS IF ESCAPING, WAS SITTING ALMOST ASLEEP IN A LOW CHAIR, +HIS COMPANION. THE LATTER, A FRESH, ROSY OFFICER OF THE GUARDS, +HIS COMPANY? IF YOU WERE CLEVERER AND MORE AGREEABLE, I SHOULD PREFER +HIS DAUGHTER, PRINCESS HéLèNE, PASSED BETWEEN THE CHAIRS, LIGHTLY +HIS DAUGHTER THAT MORNING. PRINCESS MARY WELL KNEW THIS PAINSTAKING +HIS DESPAIR WAS ALL THE GREATER FROM FEELING THAT HIS OWN WEAKNESS WAS +HIS DOOR, WHICH CREAKED SLIGHTLY WHEN OPENED. +HIS DRESSING GOWN AND SMILED SLIGHTLY, AS IF EXPRESSING RESPECTFUL +HIS EASY LIFE IN MOSCOW, ENTERED THE ROOM. +HIS EFFORTS HAD NOT BEEN IN VAIN. THE DINNER, BOTH THE LENTEN AND THE +HIS EXAMPLE, AND THE LOUD SHOUTING CONTINUED FOR A LONG TIME. WHEN THE +HIS EXCITEMENT. “DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT EITHER WE ARE OFFICERS +HIS EYE AS A MILLER WAKES UP WHEN THE SOPORIFIC DRONE OF THE MILL WHEEL +HIS EYES AND THOUGHT HE WOULD NEVER OPEN THEM AGAIN. SUDDENLY HE WAS +HIS EYES AT THE SIGHT. +HIS EYES. “CAN THEY BE FRENCH?” HE LOOKED AT THE APPROACHING +HIS EYES HE HEARD IN FRONT OF HIM, WHERE THE ENEMY WAS, THE LONG-DRAWN +HIS EYES SEEMED LARGER THAN USUAL WHEN HE GLANCED ROUND AND NOTICED +HIS FACE, BEGAN TO TALK—AS ONE WHO HAS LONG HAD SOMETHING ON HIS MIND +HIS FACE, GAVE HIM A PECULIAR VIVACITY AND SHIFTINESS OF EXPRESSION. +HIS FACE SHONE WITH SELF-SATISFACTION AND PLEASURE. +HIS FACE SUDDENLY SOFTENED AND TEARS CAME INTO HIS EYES. WITH HIS LEFT +HIS FACE WAS TERRIBLE AND PITEOUS TO SEE, ESPECIALLY FROM ITS HELPLESS +HIS FAT CHEST UNCOVERED, STEPPING UNEVENLY AND TIMIDLY IN ONE SLIPPERED +HIS FATHER AND HIS FATHERLAND. TO THE GREAT REGRET OF MYSELF AND OF THE +HIS FATHER DISMISSED THE ABBé AND SAID TO THE YOUNG MAN, “NOW GO +HIS FATHER’S PART OF THE HOUSE. ENTERING THE DRAWING ROOM, WHERE THE +HIS FATHER’S PECULIARITIES, AND PARTLY BECAUSE HE NEEDED SOLITUDE, +HIS FATHER WHO HAD BROUGHT IT FROM THE SIEGE OF OCHáKOV. ALL THESE +HIS FEVERISHNESS INCREASED AND HE GREW DELIRIOUS. VISIONS OF HIS FATHER, +HIS FIELDGLASS. A LITTLE BEHIND THEM NESVíTSKI, WHO HAD BEEN SENT TO +HIS FUTURE DEPENDED—WHETHER HE WOULD FOLLOW THE SAME OLD ROAD, OR THAT +HIS GLITTERING BLACK EYES AT ROSTóV. +HIS GRANDFATHER, WHO WAS HIS GODFATHER, TREMBLING AND AFRAID OF DROPPING +HIS GRAVE, EVEN RATHER GLOOMY, LOOK WAS INSTANTANEOUSLY REPLACED BY +HIS GRAY HAIR. +HIS HAND. +HIS HAND AND AT THE HEAD OF A REGIMENT—HE FELL AS A HERO, WORTHY OF +HIS HANDKERCHIEF, AND AGAIN: ‘SERGéY KUZMíCH, FROM ALL SIDES,’... +HIS HAND OVER THE THIN GRIZZLED STRANDS OF HAIR COMBED BACK ACROSS HIS +HIS HAND PRINCE ANDREW CAME UP TO HIS COMRADE, THE AIDE-DE-CAMP ON DUTY, +HIS HANDSOME FACE. NATáSHA, VERY STILL, PEERED OUT FROM HER AMBUSH, +HIS HANDS TO THE BLAZE, AND TURNED AWAY HIS FACE. +HIS HAVING BEEN PICKED UP ON THE BATTLEFIELD BY THE PEOPLE OF THE +HIS HEAD. +HIS HEAD. +HIS HEAD AND AGAIN ASSUMING HIS FORMER TONE OF A DULL, UNREASONING, BUT +HIS HEAD, AND WITH INIMICAL POLITENESS LURKING IN THE CORNERS OF HIS +HIS HEAD HE LET IT DROOP AND AGAIN CLOSED HIS EYE. +HIS HIGHNESS THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND HAS HONORED ME, I IMAGINE THAT THE +HIS HORSE INDOLENTLY AND CARELESSLY. ROSTóV RECALLED THEIR QUARREL OF +HIS HORSE KEEP PACE WITH THE COMPANY. +HIS HORSE WITH A CONVOY OFFICER’S SADDLE. +HIS HORSE. ZHERKóV AND THE STAFF OFFICER BENT OVER THEIR SADDLES AND +HIS HUGE FIGURE, WITH ARMS HANGING DOWN AND WITH A PUCKERED, THOUGH +HIS HUSBANDRY. +HIS IMAGINARY SWORD, BUT SMILING AT THE REMEMBRANCE OF THAT PLEASANT, +HIS IMPULSIVE NATURE, DOES GET INTO MISCHIEF (A BOY CAN’T HELP IT), HE +HIS INSTINCT URGED HIM ON. BEFORE THE OFFICER FINISHED HIS SENTENCE +HIS IN THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE. +HIS KINDLY, SIMPLE, AND MODEST EXPRESSION. ANNA PáVLOVNA TURNED TOWARD +HIS LAST PARTING FROM HIS FATHER AND HIS WIFE; HE REMEMBERED THE DAYS +HIS LEGS ALMOST GAVE WAY, IT SEEMED TO HIM THAT HE WAS TIRED OUT. HE +HIS LEGS. PRESSING AGAINST BOTH SIDES OF THE WINDOW, HE ADJUSTED HIMSELF +HIS LIFE. HE WALKED ABOUT IN FRONT OF THE LINE AND AT EVERY STEP PULLED +HIS LIPS IN HIS SLEEP AND BREATHING EVENLY. +HIS LIPS WITHOUT UTTERING A SOUND. HE WISHED TO SAY, “YES, A VILE, +HIS LOWER JAW. +HIS MAJESTY; BUT WE THINK THE PRESENT DELAY IS DEPRIVING THE SPLENDID +HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR DEROGATES FROM THE PRINCIPLE OF OUR ALLIANCE... +HIS MIND THAT THEY WOULD BE FRIENDS. +HIS MOUTH AWRY, PREPARED TO SHOUT. THE REGIMENT FLUTTERED LIKE A BIRD +HIS MOUTH, HE TURNED WITH HIS GLASS TO PIERRE. +HIS MOUTH VERY CLEARLY REVEALED SOMETHING UNEXPECTEDLY COARSE AND +HIS MUSCULAR LEGS AS IF SAILING ALONG, STRETCHING HIMSELF TO HIS FULL +HIS MUSKET WALKED AWAY. +HIS NEIGHBORS’ GLASSES, NOT NEGLECTING HIS OWN. THE COUNTESS IN TURN, +HIS NOBLE SOUL PEACEFULLY TO LEAVE THIS...” +HIS NOSE. +HIS OLD FRIEND AND THE POSSESSOR OF SUCH ENORMOUS WEALTH, TO THE CAPRICE +HIS OWN HAD TAKEN POSSESSION OF HIS BRAIN AND AT THAT MOMENT AFFORDED +HIS OWN HELPLESSNESS. AT SIGHT OF THIS SMILE PIERRE FELT AN UNEXPECTED +HIS OWN HOUSE. THE MINISTER OF WAR CAME UP AND CONGRATULATED HIM ON THE +HIS OWN PLEASURE, CHOSE TO CHAT WITH LIEUTENANT DRUBETSKóY. MORE THAN +HIS OWN SUPERIORITY. IT WAS AS IF HE SAID TO THEM: “I KNOW YOU, I KNOW +HIS OWN WAY, GAVE AN ORDER. NO ONE SAID ANYTHING DEFINITE, BUT THE RUMOR +HIS PASSION FOR THE EMPEROR HAD COOLED SOMEWHAT IN MOSCOW. BUT STILL, AS +HIS PISTOL, AND THEN HE FELT WITH SURPRISE THAT OF ALL THE MEN HE KNEW +HIS PLATE, AND PROPOSED A TOAST, “TO THE HEALTH OF THE HERO OF OUR +HIS PLATE ROUND AND MOVING HIS WINEGLASSES ABOUT WITH AS MUCH DECISION +HIS PLATE SEEMED TO HIM NOT QUITE CLEAN, AND POINTING TO A SPOT HE +HIS POCKETBOOK. +HIS PORTRAIT, “DEFINITELY DEMANDED THAT HE SHOULD BE CALLED.” +HIS PRESENT STATE. +HIS PRIVATE ROOM AND, CALLING HIS ADJUTANT, ASKED FOR SOME PAPERS +HIS RELATIONS WITH OLD FRIENDS, ALL HIS PLANS FOR HIS FUTURE, WERE +HIS REPUTATION FIGHTING THEM.” +HIS RIDING WHIP. +HIS RISING. “THIS UNFORTUNATE FETE AT THE AMBASSADOR’S DEPRIVES ME +HIS ROOM. +HIS ROOMS UPSTAIRS. +HIS ROUTINE, RETIRED AS USUAL AFTER DINNER. THE LITTLE PRINCESS WAS IN +HIS SABER. ONLY TEN PACES DIVIDED THEM. DóLOKHOV LOWERED HIS HEAD TO +HIS SABER, THE SOLDIERS ALL CONTINUED TO RUN, TALKING, FIRING INTO THE +HIS SCANTY GRAY HAIRS OVER HIS BALD PATCH, ALSO ASKED THEM TO DINNER. +HIS SERVANT HANDED HIM A HALF-CUT NOVEL, IN THE FORM OF LETTERS, BY +HIS SHIP IS SAILING, BUT ON THE DAY OF BATTLE—HEAVEN KNOWS HOW AND +HIS SHOULDERS. +HIS SHOULDERS. “WOMEN, MY DEAR FELLOW; WOMEN!” +HIS SHRILL, HARSH VOICE. “THE ROAD IS NOT SWEPT FOR THE PRINCESS MY +HIS SIDE HAD BEEN ATTEMPTING A RECONCILIATION), AND HE ALSO WENT UP TO +HIS SKILL?” HE CONCLUDED. +HIS SON AND SEIZING THE LITTLE PRINCESS’ ARM AS IF SHE WOULD HAVE RUN +HIS SON BY BOTH HANDS, HE CRIED, “NOW I’VE GOT YOU, SO TAKE THE +HIS SON ONLY SMILED. +HIS SPEECH, WHICH HE USED IN EXTREME CASES WHEN SPECIAL PERSUASION WAS +HIS STUDY AND SHOWED THEM HIS CHOICE COLLECTION OF TURKISH PIPES. FROM +HIS SUITE, WITH THEIR COSSACKS WHO WERE TALKING LOUDLY TOGETHER, PRINCE +HIS SUPERIORS BY HIS PROMPTITUDE AND ACCURACY AND HAD ARRANGED HIS MONEY +HIS TEMPLE, WHERE AN ISMAIL BULLET HAD PIERCED HIS SKULL, AND THE EMPTY +HIS THIN, WORN, SALLOW FACE WAS COVERED WITH DEEP WRINKLES, WHICH ALWAYS +HIS TIME. BUT HE IS GROWING OLD, AND THOUGH NOT EXACTLY CRUEL HE HAS TOO +HIS TIME THERE. +HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS OF BATTLES, INVOLUNTARILY PICTURED TO HIMSELF THE +HIS TOULON, OR HIS BRIDGE OF ARCOLA. HOW IT WOULD COME ABOUT HE DID NOT +HIS TYPICALLY SOUTHERN FRENCH FACE DURING THE WHOLE TIME OF THE READING, +HIS USUAL JOKES, BUT NOTICING THAT WHAT HE WAS SAYING REDOUNDED TO +HIS UTMOST TO LOOK AS SMALL AS POSSIBLE. HE LOOKED AT THE COUNT, WHO +HIS VERSES, BOWED TO BAGRATIóN. EVERYONE ROSE, FEELING THAT DINNER +HIS VOICE. “SHE IS LIVING IN MOSCOW AND YOU ARE HERE. REMEMBER, +HIS WEAK FIGURE. “NUMBER TWO!” HE SQUEAKED. “FIRE, MEDVéDEV!” +HIS WEALTH, AND BEING IN THE HABIT OF LORDING IT OVER THESE PEOPLE, HE +HIS WEAPONS CLEAN AND POLISHED TO THE UTMOST, AND EVERY HORSE GROOMED +HIS WHOLE SOUL WHAT THE STRANGER SAID. WHETHER HE ACCEPTED THE WISE +HIS WIFE, AND BY AN ANONYMOUS LETTER HE HAD RECEIVED THAT MORNING, WHICH +HIS WIFE SAID—MET FOR SUPPER AT PRINCE VASíLI’S. ALL THESE FRIENDS +HIS WIFE’S ROOM. SHE WAS LYING DEAD, IN THE SAME POSITION HE HAD SEEN +HIS WONT, AS IF INTENTIONALLY CONTRASTING THE BRISKNESS OF HIS MANNERS +HIS YOUNGEST BOY, HAD ALL SETTLED DOWN IN THE DRAWING ROOM AND WERE +HITHERTO PUCKERED BROW BECAME SMOOTH AS A SIGN OF PLEASURE, AND WITH A +HITTING MEN AND THAT AFTERWARDS SOMEONE HAD SHOUTED “CAVALRY!” AND +“HM!—HIS EXCELLENCY IS A PUPPY.... I GOT HIM HIS APPOINTMENT IN THE +“HM... HM...!” GROWLED PIERRE, FROWNING WITHOUT LOOKING AT HER, AND +“HM... HM...” MUTTERED THE OLD PRINCE TO HIMSELF, FINISHING WHAT HE +“HM! HM!” MUTTERED THE PRINCE, SITTING DOWN. +“HM.... IF YOU WISH TO KILL HIM, TO KILL HIM OUTRIGHT, YOU CAN SEE +HOARSELY. PRINCE ANDREW WINCED AND, CLUTCHING HIS HEAD, WENT OUT AND SAT +“HO! HO! HO! HA! HA! HA! HA! OUH! OUH!” CAME PEALS OF SUCH HEALTHY +“HO, HO!” SAID THE OLD MAN, CASTING HIS EYES ON HER ROUNDED FIGURE. +HOLDING HIGH HER FIFTY-YEAR-OLD HEAD WITH ITS GRAY CURLS, SHE STOOD +HOLDING THE BOTTLE WAS LIFTED HIGHER AND HIGHER AND TREMBLED WITH THE +HOLDING UP A THREATENING FINGER. “HE IS SUCH A WORTHY AND EXCELLENT +HOLDING UP HIS SABER, HIS SPURS JINGLING, HE RAN UP THE STEPS OF THE +HOLDING UP THE FOLDS OF HER DRESS, AND THE SMILE SHONE STILL MORE +“HOLD YOUR TONGUE, PéTYA, WHAT A GOOSE YOU ARE!” +HOLLABRüNN AND HAVE PURSUED EVER SINCE TO THIS PLACE. THE POSITION WE +HOLLOW AND WERE FIRING AT OUR MEN. PRINCE BAGRATIóN BOWED HIS HEAD AS A +HOLLOWS AND SNOW-COVERED POOLS OF WATER. +HOME NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER EIGHTEEN MONTHS AGAIN BRIGHTENED HIS +HOME READING A BOOK AND TRYING TO FATHOM THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SQUARE, +HOME,” SAID THE VALET. +HOME. SHOULD HE GO TO HEADQUARTERS NEXT DAY AND CHALLENGE THAT AFFECTED +HOMMES MASSACRéS ET L’ARMéE DE NOS ALLIéS DéTRUITE, ET VOUS +HONORABLE, AND BRAVE, BUT IF HE ROBS HIS FELLOWS THERE IS NO HONOR IN +HONORABLE, COUNT,” OR, “WERE HE AS CLEVER AS YOU,” AND SO ON, +HONORABLE, OF BEZúKHOV? AND FéDYA, WITH HIS NOBLE SPIRIT, LOVED HIM +HONORED GUESTS SAT, EVERYONE SEEMED TO BE IN HIGH SPIRITS AND UNDER THE +HONOR? KNOWING HIM TO BE AN ONLY SON, TO CHALLENGE HIM AND SHOOT SO +HONOR OF THE FRENCH INFANTRY, SO NECESSARY TO THE HONOR OF OUR NATION. +HONOR TO CHOOSE ME TO BE THEIR MARSHAL; IT WAS ALL I COULD DO TO GET +HONOR, WAS TERRIBLE. +HOOFS, AND APPARENTLY READY TO JUMP OVER THE RAILINGS HAD HIS RIDER LET +HOOFS AND THE JINGLING OF SHOWY CAVALRY IN BLUE, RED, AND GREEN BRAIDED +HOOFS AND WHEELS. AMID THE GENERAL RUMBLE, THE GROANS AND VOICES OF THE +“H-O-O-W ARE YOU STANDING? WHERE’S YOUR LEG? YOUR LEG?” SHOUTED +HOPED. SHE PRAYED FOR HER BROTHER AS LIVING AND WAS ALWAYS AWAITING NEWS +HOPED TO LEAD HE STILL LIVED THE OLD LIFE, ONLY IN NEW SURROUNDINGS. +HOPE YOU WILL CHANGE YOUR OPINIONS, MY DEAR MONSIEUR PIERRE.” +HOPING TO FIND HIM ALONE. WHEN HE CAME IN AND SAW AN HUSSAR OF THE LINE +HORROR AND FEAR. ALL WERE STILL. PIERRE TOOK HIS HANDS FROM HIS EYES. +HORROR-STRUCK. BUT WHEN SHE SAW THAT PIERRE’S SACRILEGIOUS WORDS + * HORS D’OEUVRES. +HORSE A LITTLE IN FRONT OF HIS MARSHALS. HE GAZED SILENTLY AT THE HILLS +HORSE FOR WHICH HE HAD PAID SEVEN HUNDRED RUBBLES WAS NOT WORTH HALF +HORSE OF A BATMAN OR GROOM OF SOME IMPORTANT PERSONAGE AND BEGAN TO +HORSE, RODE UP TO THE PORCH, SWUNG HIS LEG OVER THE SADDLE WITH A SUPPLE +HORSES AND ILYá IVáNYCH. I DON’T THINK ILYá DRIVES ANYONE EXCEPT +HORSES AND THE INFANTRY COLLECTING WOOD. +HORSES IN HORSECLOTHS. THEN CAME A CART, AND BEHIND THAT WALKED AN OLD, +HORSES NEAR THE WINDOW, PRINCE ANDREW FELT THAT SOMETHING IMPORTANT AND +HORSE STILL STRUGGLED. +HORSES WERE ALREADY GALLOPING. ROSTóV HEARD THE THUD OF THEIR HOOFS +HORSE—THAT I’LL WARRANT,” SAID SHINSHíN, PATTING HIM ON THE +HORSE WITH HIS SPURS, AND GIVING IT THE REIN LEAPED LIGHTLY OVER. ONLY +HORSE YOU’LL THANK ME FOR.” +HOSPITAL AT OSTROLENKA TILL I RECOVER. IN REGARD TO WHICH I HUMBLY +HOSPITALITY, DID THE HONORS TO THE PRINCE. +HOSPITALS COULD NO LONGER ACCOMMODATE ALL THE SICK AND WOUNDED, YET THE +HOSPITALS. THE ONE AND THE OTHER MAY SERVE AS A PASTIME. BUT WHAT’S +HOSTESS LOOK TOWARD THE DOOR, AND NOW AND THEN GLANCE AT ONE ANOTHER, +HOSTILITIES ARE ENDED, WE CAN SHAKE ONE ANOTHER’S HAND.... THE +HOUR ALONE WITH THE DYING MAN, PASSED OUT, SLIGHTLY ACKNOWLEDGING THEIR +HOURS’ SLEEP BEFORE MORNING AND FELT CHEERFUL, BOLD, AND RESOLUTE, +HOUR. SUDDENLY THE BROAD MUSCLES AND LINES OF THE COUNT’S FACE BEGAN +HOUSE AND NOW MANAGED ALL HIS AFFAIRS, STEPPED SOFTLY INTO THE ROOM. +HOUSE FOR YOUR WIFE IS READY. PRINCESS MARY WILL TAKE HER THERE AND +HOUSEHOLD, A COMMON ANXIETY, A SOFTENING OF THE HEART, AND A +HOUSEHOLD. AND THERE IN FACT WAS SóNYA LYING FACE DOWNWARD ON NURSE’S +HOUSE LAY BEHIND A NEWLY DUG POND FILLED WITH WATER TO THE BRINK AND +HOUSE, NOW AND THEN OPENING HER DOOR WHEN SOMEONE PASSED AND WATCHING +HOUSES FROM HIS DOOR. IT SEEMED TO HIM THE HORSES WERE NOT MOVING AT +HOUSE. THOUGH HE EXPECTED THAT THE STORY OF HIS ESCAPADE WOULD BE +HOUSE WAS BRILLIANT WITH LIGHTS SHINING THROUGH ITS LOFTY WINDOWS. THE +HOUSE WAS DOMINATED BY THE SAME FEELING THAT PRINCESS MARY EXPERIENCED +HOUSE WITH PRINCE BAGRATIóN AND WEYROTHER. WEYROTHER WAS THE AUSTRIAN +HOUSE, YOU KNOW, AND DANCED WITH THE CHILDREN. BE SURE TO INVITE HIM, MY +“HOW ABOUT MY SON BORíS, PRINCE?” SAID SHE, HURRYING AFTER HIM INTO +“HOW ABOUT THE HORSES?” HE ASKED, WITHOUT LOOKING AT PIERRE. +“HOW AM I?” DóLOKHOV ANSWERED COLDLY. “I AM AS YOU SEE.” +HOW AM I TO RENOUNCE FOREVER THESE VILE FANCIES, SO AS PEACEFULLY TO +“HOW AM I TO UNDERSTAND YOU, MON PèRE?” SAID THE PRINCESS, GROWING +HOW BRIGHT AND GLORIOUS WAS THE SETTING SUN! WITH WHAT SOFT GLITTER THE +“HOW CAN HE TALK LIKE THAT?” THOUGHT PIERRE. HE CONSIDERED HIS +HOW CAN I, AN INSIGNIFICANT MORTAL, SHOW HIS OMNIPOTENCE, HIS INFINITY, +“HOW CAN ONE TALK OR THINK OF SUCH TRIFLES?” THOUGHT PIERRE. +“HOW CAN THE EMPEROR BE UNDECIDED?” THOUGHT ROSTóV, BUT THEN EVEN +“HOW DARE YOU TAKE IT?” HE SHOUTED. +HOW DID IT BEGIN? I TRAVELED FROM MOSCOW WITH PRINCE VASíLI. THEN THERE +“HOW DO YOU DO, COUSIN?” SAID PIERRE. “YOU DON’T RECOGNIZE +“HOW DO YOU DO, MY DEAR? I WISH YOU MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF YOUR NAME +“HOW DO YOU EXPECT HIM TO ANSWER YOU ALL AT ONCE?” SAID PRINCE +HOW DO YOU JUDGE OF IT?” HE ADDED, ADDRESSING NICHOLAS, WHO WHEN HE +HOW D’YE DO, OLD FELLOW?” HE SAID, TURNING TO AN OLD MAN WHO WAS +“HOW EASY IT IS, HOW LITTLE EFFORT IT NEEDS, TO DO SO MUCH GOOD,” +HOWEVER, AT NINE O’CLOCK THE PRINCE, IN HIS VELVET COAT WITH A SABLE +HOWEVER, FOR HE WILL LEAVE US AGAIN TO TAKE PART IN THIS UNHAPPY WAR +“HOWEVER, IF YOU COMMAND IT, YOUR MAJESTY,” SAID KUTúZOV, LIFTING +“HOWEVER, I THINK GENERAL KUTúZOV HAS COME OUT,” SAID PRINCE +“HOWEVER, THERE WILL HARDLY BE AN ENGAGEMENT TODAY,” SAID BAGRATIóN +HOWEVER THEY MIGHT CHANGE THE SETTING AND ADORNMENT OF THAT FACE, IT +“HOWEVER, THIS IS NOT AT ALL INTERESTING. LET US HAVE DINNER, AND THEN +“HOW FUNNY YOU ARE!” HE SAID, BENDING DOWN TO HER AND BLUSHING STILL +“HOW HANDSOME THE OLD MAN STILL WAS ONLY A YEAR AGO!” REMARKED THE +HOW HAVE YOU SPENT IT? IN RIOTOUS ORGIES AND DEBAUCHERY, RECEIVING +“HOW IS IT I AM NOT MOVING? I HAVE FALLEN, I AM KILLED!” ROSTóV +“HOW IS IT,” SHE BEGAN, AS USUAL IN FRENCH, SETTLING DOWN BRISKLY +“HOW IS THAT?...” BEGAN PRINCE ANDREW, WHO HAD FOR LONG BEEN WAITING +HOW IS THAT?” SAID DIFFERENT VOICES. +“HOW IS THE COUNT? CAN I SEE HIM?” ASKED PIERRE, AWKWARDLY AS USUAL, +“HOW IT WILL BE THERE I DON’T KNOW, BUT ALL WILL BE WELL!” THOUGHT +HOW LONG HIS UNCONSCIOUSNESS LASTED. SUDDENLY HE AGAIN FELT THAT HE WAS +“HOW LOVELY!” SAID EVERYONE WHO SAW HER; AND THE VICOMTE LIFTED HIS +“HOW MANY MILES?” +HOW MUCH ANXIETY ONE HAS HAD TO GO THROUGH THAT WE MIGHT REJOICE IN +“HOW MUCH LONGER? HOW MUCH LONGER? OH, THESE INSUFFERABLE STREETS, +“HOW OFTEN HAVE I ASKED YOU NOT TO TAKE MY THINGS?” SHE SAID. “YOU +HOW ONE DAY SOON AFTER HIS MARRIAGE HE CAME OUT OF THE BEDROOM INTO HIS +“HOW PLAINLY ALL THESE YOUNG PEOPLE WEAR THEIR HEARTS ON THEIR +HOW QUICKLY! NOW I KNOW THAT NOT BECAUSE OF HER ALONE, NOR OF MYSELF +“HOW SHE LOVES ME!” THOUGHT PRINCESS MARY. “HOW HAPPY I AM NOW, +“HOW’S IT YOU’RE NOT DRUNK TODAY?” SAID NESVíTSKI WHEN THE +“HOW’S THIS, COLONEL?” HE SHOUTED AS HE APPROACHED. “I TOLD YOU +“HOW STRANGE IT IS,” SAID VéRA, SELECTING A MOMENT WHEN ALL WERE +HOW STUPID YOU MEN ALL ARE NOT TO HAVE MARRIED HER! EXCUSE ME FOR SAYING + HOW SWEET, AS FANCIES WANDER FREE, +“HOW SWEET SHE IS—SHE WILL BE A WEAL BEAUTY!” SAID DENíSOV. +HOW THE RUSSIANS HAD BEEN OVERWHELMED BY FLYING AUSTRIANS AND HAD HAD TO +HOW THEY HAD BEEN MADE MUCH OF IN RUSSIA, POLAND, AND ABROAD. THEY SPOKE +“HOW THOROUGHLY LIKE HIM THAT IS!” HE SAID TO PRINCESS MARY, WHO HAD +HOW TO ARRANGE IT. WHAT DO YOU THINK?” +HOW TO BEHAVE WITH HER. THE EVENING BEFORE, IN THE FIRST HAPPY MOMENT OF +HOW TO ESCAPE?” +“HOW UNDERSTAND ME!” CRIED HER FATHER ANGRILY. “PRINCE VASíLI +“HOW WAS IT A GUN WAS ABANDONED?” ASKED BAGRATIóN, FROWNING, NOT SO +HOW WE WENT TO THE SPARROW HILLS WITH MADAME JACQUOT?... IT’S SUCH AN +HOW YOU LOOK AT THINGS! SEND TWO MEN? AND WHO THEN WOULD GIVE US THE +HUGGING AND KISSING HIM. ANOTHER AND YET ANOTHER CREATURE OF THE SAME +HUMAN SKULL WITH ITS CAVITIES AND TEETH. AFTER READING THE FIRST WORDS +“HUMBUG! NONSENSE! HUMBUG, HUMBUG, HUMBUG!” CRIED PRINCE BOLKóNSKI, +HUMILIATION OF ARROGANT AUSTRIA AND THAT IN A WEEK’S TIME HE MIGHT, +HUMILITY. +HUMMING INFANTRY AS BY A FRAME. +HUMOR AND DISSATISFIED WITH THE AFFAIR, AND SO DID NOT EXERT THEMSELVES +HUM WITH VOICES. ON ALL SIDES SOLDIERS WERE RUNNING TO AND FRO, THROWING +HUNDRED RUBLES HE HAD A LONG COLUMN OF FIGURES SCORED AGAINST HIM, +HUNDRED RUBLES WAS LEFT OF THAT MONEY, SO THAT THIS SEVEN OF HEARTS +HUNDRED YARDS AFTER THAT BEFORE HE SAW TO HIS LEFT, ACROSS THE WHOLE +HUNGARIAN?” SAID THE COMMANDER WITH AN AUSTERE GIBE. +HUNG LOW OVER THE FIELD OF BATTLE ON THE HORIZON. IT WAS GROWING +HUNGRY, EXHAUSTED MEN WOULD HAVE TO DETAIN FOR DAYS THE WHOLE ENEMY ARMY +HUNGRY, ILL-SHOD SOLDIERS, AND LOSING A THIRD OF HIS MEN AS STRAGGLERS +“HUR-A-A-A-AH!” CAME A ROAR OF VOICES. “LET ANYONE COME MY WAY +“HURRAH—AH!—AH!” RANG A LONG-DRAWN SHOUT FROM OUR RANKS, AND + HURRAH FOR EMPEROR ALEXANDER!” +“HURRAH! HURRAH! HURRAH!” THUNDERED FROM ALL SIDES, ONE REGIMENT +“HURRAH!” RANG THE ENTHUSIASTIC VOICES OF THE OFFICERS. +“HURRAH!” SHOUTED PRINCE ANDREW, AND, SCARCELY ABLE TO HOLD UP +“HURRAH!”... THEN THE GENERAL MARCH, AND AGAIN “HURRAH! HURRAH!” +HURRIEDLY INTERRUPTING BAGRATIóN. +HURRIEDLY: “I WILL TELL YOU SOME TIME HOW IT ALL HAPPENED. BUT YOU +HURRIEDLY UNCLASPED HIS HANDS, STOPPED AT A TABLE AS IF TYING THE +HURRIEDLY UP TO THE UNKNOWN GENERAL AND BLOCKING HIS WAY TO THE DOOR. +HURRIED OFF TO HIS COMPANY, BUTTONING UP HIS COAT AS HE RAN. +HURRYING PAST THEM. +HUSBAND. +HUSBAND OF A BEAUTY, AND IN A WORD—AN OLD WOMAN; AND SECONDLY BECAUSE +HUSBAND. PRINCE ANDREW’S EYES WERE CLOSED, SO WEARY AND SLEEPY DID HE +HUSSAR AND BEGAN LIFTING HIM. +HUSSAR, “AND WHY ARE YOU EXCITING YOURSELF? DO YOU THINK THE FRENCH +HUSSAR CORNET ZHERKóV HAD AT ONE TIME, IN PETERSBURG, BELONGED TO +HUSSAR REVELS AND LIFE IN THE FIGHTING LINE, THE OTHER OF THE PLEASURES +HUSSARS BEGAN CAREFULLY ALIGNING THEIR HORSES. SILENCE FELL ON THE WHOLE +HUSSARS, BUT STILL WITH THAT NAïVE AIR THAT MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW +HUSSARS, COSSACKS, AND ADJUTANTS, IN HIS CAMLET COAT, AS HE JOLTED ON +HUSSARS, FLUSHING AND ADDRESSING AN ADJUTANT WHO HAD RIDDEN UP, “SO +HUSSARS HASTILY DISMOUNTED, NOT KNOWING WHAT THEY WERE TO DO. THE MEN +HUSSARS, TOLD THEM TO FOLLOW HIM, AND TROTTED DOWNHILL IN THE DIRECTION +“I...” +“I...” +I, ABOVE ALL, WHO AM TO BLAME FOR EVERYTHING. HELP ME, TEACH ME, AND +I ALONE HAVE ANY INFLUENCE WITH MY FATHER, AND NOW AND THEN CAN SAVE HIM +“I ALSO WANTED TO ASK YOU,” CONTINUED PRINCE ANDREW, “IF I’M +I ALWAYS STICK TO MOTHER TRUTH. IT’S NOT RIGHT!” +“I AM.” +I AM.” +“I AM AFRAID FOR THE BABY,” SHE SAID TO MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE: +I AM AFRAID OF HIM.” +“I AM AFRAID OF MIXING THE FIGURES,” PIERRE REPLIED; “BUT IF YOU +“I AM AFRAID,” SAID PIERRE, SMILING, AND WAVERING BETWEEN THE +“I AM ASKING YOU WHEN YOU LAST HEARD FROM BOLKóNSKI,” REPEATED +“I AM AWAITING ORDERS TO JOIN MY NEW REGIMENT, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” +I AM DISSATISFIED WITH YOUR YOUNGER SON? BETWEEN OURSELVES” (AND HER +“I AM EXPECTING YOU, PIERRE,” SAID THE SAME VOICE, BUT GENTLY AND +“I AM FOND OF YOU, ESPECIALLY AS YOU ARE THE ONE LIVE MAN AMONG OUR +“I AM GLAD I HAVE SPOKEN OUT FULLY. PERHAPS YOU DID NOT LIKE IT? YOU +“I AM GLAD I WAS ABLE TO DO YOU A SERVICE, MY DEAR ANNA +“I AM GOING AWAY.” +“I AM LIVING AT COUNTESS ROSTóVA’S,” REPLIED BORíS, AGAIN +“I AM NOT IN THE CAVALRY, COLONEL, BUT I AM A RUSSIAN GENERAL AND IF +“I AM NOT JESTING,” BILíBIN WENT ON. “NOTHING IS TRUER OR SADDER. +“I AM NOT JESTING WITH YOU; PLEASE BE SILENT!” CRIED BOLKóNSKI, +“I AM NOT SPEAKING OF REGICIDE, I AM SPEAKING ABOUT IDEAS.” +“I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT YOU,” HE SAID, “I DON’T KNOW YOU AND, +“I AM NOT YOUR ‘DEAR SIR,’ MR. STAFF OFFICER, AND YOU DID NOT TELL +“I AM ORDERED TO WRITE A MEMORANDUM EXPLAINING WHY WE ARE NOT +I AM OVERWHELMED WITH BUSINESS AND IT IS PURELY OUT OF CHARITY THAT +“I AM QUITE OF YOUR OPINION,” REPLIED NICHOLAS, FLAMING UP, TURNING +“I AM READY FOR EVERYTHING,” SAID PIERRE. +“I AM SO ENCHANTED BY THE BRILLIANCY OF THE WIT AND CULTURE OF THE +“I AM SO GLAD YOU’VE COME!” SAID NATáSHA, WITHOUT ANSWERING HIM. +I AM SORRY FOR THAT,” HE WENT ON. +“I AM SO SORRY FOR THE POOR COUNT,” SAID THE VISITOR. “HE IS IN +“I AM SPEAKING SINCERELY AS A FRIEND! CONSIDER! WHERE AND WHY ARE +“I AM SPEAKING ZE TRUCE,” REPLIED THE HUSSAR WITH A SMILE. +I AM TO DO; I WANTED TO CONSULT YOU SERIOUSLY.” +I AM TOLD.” +“I AM VERY GLAD I DID NOT GO TO THE AMBASSADOR’S,” SAID PRINCE +“I AM VERY SORRY, MA’AM,” ANSWERED THE MAID. +“I AM VERY SORRY YOU DID NOT FIND ME IN YESTERDAY. I WAS FUSSING ABOUT +“I AM VERY, VERY GRATEFUL TO YOU, MON CHER,” OR “MA CHèRE”—HE +“I AM WAITING, YOUR MAJESTY,” ANSWERED KUTúZOV, BENDING FORWARD +“‘I AM WOUNDED AND CANNOT RIDE AND CONSEQUENTLY CANNOT COMMAND THE +“I AM YOUR FAITHFUL SLAVE AND TO YOU ALONE I CAN CONFESS THAT MY +“I BEGIN AB OVO. ‘THE ENEMY OF THE HUMAN RACE,’ AS YOU KNOW, +“I BELIEVE IT, I BELIEVE IT, FWIEND, AND I SHARE AND APPWOVE...” +“I BESTOW IT WITH PLEASURE,” SAID NAPOLEON. “AND WHO IS THAT YOUNG +“I BET A HUNDRED ON STEVENS!” SHOUTED ONE. +“I BET FIFTY IMPERIALS”—HE SPOKE FRENCH THAT THE ENGLISHMAN MIGHT +“I BET ON DóLOKHOV!” CRIED A THIRD. “KURáGIN, YOU PART OUR +“I BURNED THIS TO PROVE MY LOVE FOR HER. I JUST HEATED A RULER IN THE +“I CALLED ONCE OR TWICE AT YOUR HOUSE,” SAID ROSTóV, REDDENING. +I CAN DO.” AND HIS FANCY PICTURED THE BATTLE, ITS LOSS, THE +I CANNOT AGREE WITH YOU ABOUT PIERRE, WHOM I KNEW AS A CHILD. HE ALWAYS +“I CANNOT ARGUE ABOUT IT,” REPLIED PRINCE ANDREW COLDLY, BUT HE +I CANNOT FIND WORDS TO EXPRESS TO YOU MY DISPLEASURE. YOU COMMAND ONLY +“I CANNOT INFORM YOUR MAJESTY AT WHAT O’CLOCK THE BATTLE BEGAN AT +“I CANNOT PAY IT ALL IMMEDIATELY. WILL YOU TAKE AN I.O.U.?” HE SAID. +I CAN’T...” +“I CAN’T BEAR THE SIGHT OF THAT WOMAN.” +“I CAN TELL YOU MORE,” CONTINUED PRINCE VASíLI, SEIZING HER HAND, +“I CAN’T HELP IT,” SAID THE PRINCE. “LAVATER WOULD HAVE SAID I +“I CAN’T. I’VE SWORN NOT TO. I WON’T DRINK AND WON’T PLAY TILL +“I CAN’T MAKE OUT AT ALL,” SAID NESVíTSKI. +I CAN’T,” REPLIED BOLKóNSKI, SMILING. +“I CAN’T TELL YOU HOW MUCH I HAVE LIVED THROUGH SINCE THEN. I HARDLY +ICE AND INTO THE WATER AND OFTENEST OF ALL AMONG THE CROWD THAT COVERED +ICE. CROWDS OF SOLDIERS FROM THE DAM BEGAN RUNNING ONTO THE FROZEN POND. +“ICE PUDDING, BUT YOU WON’T GET ANY,” SAID MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA. +“I COME FROM THE ARCHDUCHESS’. I HEARD NOTHING THERE.” +“I COMMANDED A SQUADRON,” REPLIED REPNíN. +“I CONFESS I DO NOT UNDERSTAND: PERHAPS THERE ARE DIPLOMATIC +I CONFESS I UNDERSTAND VERY LITTLE ABOUT ALL THESE MATTERS OF WILLS AND +I CONSIDER IT MY DUTY TO LET YOU KNOW OF IT. HE IS SAID TO BE VERY +I COULD NOT HAVE DONE IT MYSELF, I SHOULD NOT HAVE HAD THE COURAGE, BUT +I DARE SAY, IS BRAVER THAN ANY OF THEM. HE SAYS NOTHING ABOUT HIS +IDEA OF THE MEANS BY WHICH OUR HOLY ORDER WILL HELP YOU TO REACH YOUR +“I DID NOT EXPECT THIS OF YOU,” SAID THE STAFF CAPTAIN SERIOUSLY AND +I DID NOT THINK HE WOULD GET IT TO YOU SO QUICKLY.... WELL, HOW ARE YOU? +“I DID NOT... WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT?” INQUIRED PRINCE ANDREW +IDIOT!... BUT WHAT’S THE GOOD?...” AND HE WAVED HIS ARM. +IDLENESS, BUT WOULD GROW FAT AND DIE. THE THIRD THING—WHAT ELSE WAS +IDLERS HAVE FAILED TO BEAT THE GERMANS. SINCE THE WORLD BEGAN EVERYBODY +IDLE, VICIOUS LIFE!” BUT DARED NOT BREAK THE SILENCE. +“I’D LIKE TO PUT YOU ON A TWO DAYS’ MARCH WITH A KNAPSACK! YOUR +I DOING? AREN’T THEY LAUGHING AT ME? SHAN’T I BE ASHAMED TO REMEMBER +I DO NOT BEGIN, SIRE, BECAUSE WE ARE NOT ON PARADE AND NOT ON THE +“I DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU THINK, FATHER,” WHISPERED THE PRINCESS. +“I DO NOT THINK I HAVE COMPLAINED OF MY WIFE TO YOU, MáSHA, OR BLAMED +“I DO NOT UNDERSTAND,” SAID PIERRE, FEELING WITH DISMAY DOUBTS +I DO NOT YET KNOW. THERE WILL BE TIME ENOUGH TO THINK ABOUT LOVE WHEN I +“I DON’T AT ALL SAY THAT ALL THE PLANS ARE GOOD,” SAID PRINCE +“I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT IS IN THIS PAPER,” SAID THE YOUNGER OF +“I... DON’T...” HE MUTTERED, HOLDING UP TWO FINGERS TO HIS CAP. +“I DON’T KNOW, GENERAL....” +“I DON’T KNOW. I THINK IF HE WRITES, I WILL WRITE TOO,” SHE SAID, +“I DON’T LIKE YOUR MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE AT ALL,” SAID PRINCE +“I DON’T LIKE YOU TO TALK LIKE THAT.” +“I DON’T MYSELF KNOW ‘TO WHO,’” REPLIED THE CORNET IN A +“I DON’T SAY IT’S A PLAN I APPROVE OF,” SAID THE SON; “I AM +I DON’T SPEAK OF ANATOLE, YOUR YOUNGEST. I DON’T LIKE HIM,” SHE +“I DON’T UNDERSTAND,” HE SAID, “HOW IT IS THAT THE MIND OF MAN +“I DON’T UNDERSTAND IT,” REPLIED PRINCE ANDREW. “WOMEN WHO ARE +“I DON’T UNDERSTAND, MAMMA—WHAT IS HIS ATTITUDE TO PIERRE?” +“I DON’T UNDERSTAND!” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. +“I DON’T UNDERSTAND. WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?” +I DON’T WANT HIM.” (HE LOOKED AT HIS BLUSHING DAUGHTER.) “ARE YOU +I DON’T WANT TO HAVE YOU LIKE OUR SILLY LADIES. GET USED TO IT AND +I ENVY HIM, BUT YOU WANT TO MAKE HIM WHAT I AM, WITHOUT GIVING HIM MY +“I EXPECTED HELP FROM YOU AND I GET NONE, NONE FROM YOU EITHER!” +“I EXPECT SO.” +IF ABOUT TO TELL A GOOD STORY HE PUT DOWN THE CARDS, LEANED BACK IN HIS +IF ALL THE POWERS OF HIS SOUL WERE CONCENTRATED ON PASSING THE COMMANDER +“IF ANYONE COMES MEDDLING AGAIN,” SAID HE, EMITTING THE WORDS +IF A SOLDIER, HE SHOULD BE DRESSED IN REGULATION UNIFORM LIKE THE +IF AT FIRST THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL THOUGHT THAT KUTúZOV WAS +“IF AT LEAST WE HAD SOME WOMEN HERE; BUT THERE’S NOTHING FOH ONE +“IF BUONAPARTE REMAINS ON THE THRONE OF FRANCE A YEAR LONGER,” THE +IF BUT ONE STAGE NEARER ZNAIM. THE OFFER OF A TRUCE GAVE THE ONLY, AND +IF COMPLAINING OF KUTúZOV. +“IF HE COULD ATTACK US, HE WOULD HAVE DONE SO TODAY,” SAID HE. +“IF HE” (HE MEANT THE ENEMY) “BEGINS POPPING AT THE BRIDGE NOW,” +IF HE INTENDED TO SAY SOMETHING, BUT IMMEDIATELY, WITH AFFECTED +“IF HE IS BETTER, ASK PIERRE TO DINE WITH US. HE HAS BEEN TO THE +“IF HE IS ONE OF THE ORDINARY LITTLE STAFF DANDIES SENT TO EARN A +IF HE IS STANDING BEFORE BRüNN...” +“IF HE STARTS A ROW I’LL GO AWAY,” SAID PRINCE ANATOLE. “I +“IF HE WERE NOT,” HE SAID QUIETLY, “YOU AND I WOULD NOT BE +IF, HOWEVER, THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA RATIFIES THAT CONVENTION, I WILL +“IF I’D BEEN IN NIKóLENKA’S PLACE I WOULD HAVE KILLED EVEN MORE +“IF I HAVE TIME,” ANSWERED NICHOLAS. “BUT I PROMISED THE +IF IN SEARCH OF SOMETHING. BEFORE DINNER THE OLD PRINCE, OF WHOM SHE WAS +IF IN SEARCH OF SOMETHING. ON HIS WAY TO THE AUNT HE BOWED TO THE LITTLE +“IF IT DOES NOT WEIGH A HUNDREDWEIGHT AND WON’T BREAK MY NECK... +IF IT IS TO LAST. PRINCE VASíLI KNEW THIS, AND HAVING ONCE REALIZED +“IF IT IS TRUE THAT MONSIEUR DENíSOV HAS MADE YOU A PROPOSAL, TELL +“IF IT WERE NOT FOR MY SINCERE AFFECTION AND DEVOTION TO UNCLE,” +“IF IT WERE TRUE THAT HE HAS BEEN BEATEN, NEWS WOULD HAVE COME.” +“IF I WERE TSAR I WOULD NEVER GO TO WAR,” SAID NESVíTSKI, TURNING +“IF NO ONE FOUGHT EXCEPT ON HIS OWN CONVICTION, THERE WOULD BE NO +IF NOT IT IS MERELY A QUESTION OF SETTLING WHERE THE PRELIMINARIES OF +“IF ONLY I KNEW THAT ANYTHING BESIDES HUMILIATION WOULD COME OF +“IF ONLY THEY WOULD BE QUICK!” THOUGHT ROSTóV, FEELING THAT AT LAST +IF SHE HAD NOT MEANT IT SERIOUSLY. IT MAKES IT AS IF YOU WERE MARRYING +IF THE WHOLE WORLD HAD GONE CRAZY.” +“IF THEY HAD KNOWN THAT YOU WISHED IT, THE ENTERTAINMENT WOULD HAVE +IF TO SAY THAT THIS WAS NO MORE THAN SHE HAD EXPECTED. +“IF WE FOUGHT BEFORE,” HE SAID, “NOT LETTING THE FRENCH PASS, AS +“IF WE GET TO VIENNA I’LL GET RID OF IT THERE BUT IN THESE WRETCHED +“IF WE LIVE WE SHALL SEE,” REPLIED BILíBIN, HIS FACE AGAIN BECOMING +IF WE OCCUPY THE VILLAGES OF SOKOLNITZ AND KOBELNITZ, WHEREBY WE +IF YOU ARE IN LOVE, MARRY HIM!” SAID THE COUNTESS, WITH A LAUGH OF +“IF YOU ARE REFUSING FOR MY SAKE, I AM AFRAID THAT I...” +“IF YOU ARE RESOLVED, I MUST BEGIN YOUR INITIATION,” SAID THE RHETOR +“IF YOU HAD TOLD ME SOONER, MAMMA, I WOULD HAVE GONE,” SHE REPLIED +IF YOU HAVE FIRMLY RESOLVED TO JOIN OUR BROTHERHOOD.” (PIERRE NODDED +“IF YOU HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO, COUNT (OR PRINCE), AND IF THE +“IF YOU LIKE, YOUR HONOR!” +“IF YOU PLEASE, YOUR EXCELLENCY, PéTRUSHA HAS BROUGHT SOME PAPERS,” +“IF YOU REALLY WANT IT,” SAID HE. +“IF YOU, SIR, CHOOSE TO MAKE A BUFFOON OF YOURSELF,” HE SAID +IF YOU STILL TRY TO DEFEND THE INFAMIES AND HORRORS PERPETRATED BY THAT +“IF YOU WON’T ANSWER, I’LL TELL YOU...” HéLèNE WENT ON. “YOU +I GET REINSTATED.” +“I HAD NOT THE PLEASURE OF SEEING YOU,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, COLDLY +I HAD TO EXPRESS MY OWN DESIRE...” SHE HAD NO TIME TO FINISH. THE OLD +“I HAVE.” +“I HAVE ALREADY REFUSED,” SHE SAID HURRIEDLY. +“I HAVE ALREADY TOLD YOU, PAPA,” SAID HIS SON, “THAT IF YOU +I HAVE A PRESENTIMENT THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME I SHALL HAVE TO SHOW ALL +“I HAVE COME TO YOU WITH A MESSAGE AND AN OFFER, COUNT,” HE +“I HAVE COME WITH MY MOTHER TO SEE THE COUNT, BUT IT SEEMS HE IS NOT +“I HAVE DONE MY BEST FOR HIM, AND I CAN ASSURE YOU THE EDUCATION THERE +I HAVE DONE THAT THOUGH BADLY AND TO A SMALL EXTENT; BUT I HAVE DONE +“I HAVE FOUR SONS IN THE ARMY BUT STILL I DON’T FRET. IT IS ALL +I HAVE HAD A LETTER FROM MY BROTHER, WHO ANNOUNCES HIS SPEEDY ARRIVAL +“I HAVE HAD A PROPOSITION MADE ME CONCERNING YOU,” HE SAID WITH AN +“I HAVE HEARD OF YOU, MY DEAR SIR,” CONTINUED THE STRANGER, “AND +“I HAVE MET LOVING, NOBLE, HIGH-MINDED MEN, BUT I HAVE NOT YET MET +“I HAVE NO MONEY WITH ME,” HE SAID. +“I HAVE NOT REFERRED TO THIS OUT OF CURIOSITY, MY DEAR SIR, BUT FOR +“I HAVEN’T BEEN IN THE ROOM. IT MUST BE WHERE YOU PUT IT.” +I HAVE RECEIVED WHAT WAS DUE FROM THE RYAZáN ESTATE AND WILL KEEP IT; +“I HAVE SAID NOTHING TO YOU, BUT YOU HAVE ALREADY BEEN TALKED TO. AND +“I HAVE SEEN AS MUCH BEFORE NOW, MATE!” +“I HAVE THE HONOR TO CONGRATULATE YOU. GENERAL MACK HAS ARRIVED, QUITE +“I HAVE THE HONOR TO PRESENT MYSELF,” REPEATED PRINCE ANDREW RATHER +“I HAVE THE PLEASURE OF ADDRESSING COUNT BEZúKHOV, IF I AM NOT +I HAVE WRITTEN THAT HE SHOULD MAKE USE OF YOU IN PROPER PLACES AND NOT +“I HEAR YOU HAVE GIVEN ORDERS TO HARNESS,” SHE CRIED, PANTING (SHE +“I... HOPE... FOR GUIDANCE... HELP... IN REGENERATION,” SAID PIERRE, +“I HOPE THIS WILL PROVE THE LAST DROP THAT WILL MAKE THE GLASS RUN +“I IMAGINE THAT FREEMASONRY IS THE FRATERNITY AND EQUALITY OF MEN WHO +“I?... I’M GOING TO PETERSBURG,” ANSWERED PIERRE, IN A CHILDLIKE, +“I INTENDED TO RE-FORM THEM BEYOND THE VILLAGE, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” +“I? I? WHAT OF ME? LEAVE ME OUT OF THE QUESTION. I’M NOT GOING TO +“I KNEW SOMEONE WHO RECEIVED THAT SACRAMENT SEVEN TIMES.” +“I KNEW THE PRINCESS AT ONCE,” PUT IN MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE. +“I KNEW YOU WOULD BE HERE,” REPLIED PIERRE. “I WILL COME TO SUPPER +I KNOW FOR CERTAIN THAT YOU WON’T MARRY HER.” +“I KNOW FROM RELIABLE SOURCES THAT THE DOWAGER EMPRESS IS TAKING A +“I KNOW, I KNOW,” ANSWERED PRINCE VASíLI IN HIS MONOTONOUS VOICE. +“I KNOW,” INTERRUPTED BILíBIN, “YOU’RE THINKING IT’S VERY +“I KNOW IT AND SHALL PROVE IT,” SAID ROSTóV. +“I KNOW, MY DEAR, KIND PRINCESS,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, SEIZING +“I KNOW PEOPLE CONSIDER ME A BAD MAN!” HE SAID. “LET THEM! I +“I KNOW THAT NO ONE CAN HELP IF NATURE DOES NOT DO HER WORK,” SAID +“I KNOW THE WILL WAS MADE, BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT IT IS INVALID; +“I KNOW WHO HAS TAKEN IT,” REPEATED ROSTóV IN AN UNSTEADY VOICE, +“I KNOW YOUR HEART,” REPEATED THE PRINCE. “I VALUE YOUR FRIENDSHIP +“I KNOW YOUR OUTLOOK,” SAID THE MASON, “AND THE VIEW OF LIFE YOU +I KNOW YOU WILL PRAY OVER IT. WELL, PRAY IF YOU LIKE, BUT YOU HAD BETTER +“I’LL DRINK IT! LET’S HAVE A BOTTLE OF RUM!” SHOUTED PIERRE, +ILLEGITIMATE.” +I’LL FIND YOU ANOTHER PLACE.” +“I’LL FLATTEN YOU INTO A PANCAKE!” SHOUTED THE ANGRY OFFICER TO +I’LL FLOG YOU ALL.” +I’LL GO TO THE GENERAL AND ASK HIM.” HE READJUSTED HIMSELF IN THE +ILL! I WAS ONLY THERE A FEW MOMENTS AND HARDLY SAID A WORD...” +I’LL JUST FINISH DEALING, AND THEN ILYúSHKA WILL COME WITH HIS +“I’LL KILL YOU!” HE SHOUTED, AND SEIZING THE MARBLE TOP OF A TABLE +I’LL LET HER SEE....” +“I’LL LET TWO MORE LETTERS PASS, BUT THE THIRD I’LL READ,” SAID +ILL LUCK TAKES US. THEY SAY WE ARE GOING TO OLMüTZ, AND OLMüTZ IS A +“ILLNESS OR NOT, HE’D BETTER NOT CWOSS MY PATH. I’D KILL HIM!” +ILLNESS. PRINCE VASíLI SAID SOMETHING TO LORRAIN IN PASSING AND WENT +“I’LL REALLY CALL IN ON THE NUNS,” HE SAID TO THE OFFICERS WHO +I’LL SEE.” THE OLD PRINCE SNORTED. “LET HER MARRY, IT’S ALL THE +“I’LL SHOW YOU, I’LL SHOW YOU! IT’S NOT A SECRET. AND IT’S A +“I’LL SING FOR YOU A WHOLE EVENING,” SAID NATáSHA. +ILL-SUITED TO THE FAMILY CIRCLE OF WHICH PIERRE WAS ALMOST A MEMBER. +I’LL TEACH YOU TO THINK!” AND LIFTING HIS STICK HE SWUNG IT AND +“I’LL TELL YOU WHAT, MY DEAR FELLOW,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, WHO +“I’LL TRUST YOU.” +ILLUMINED, AND PLUNGE HIM INTO THE DEPTHS OF UNKNOWN AND UNDEFINED +I LOVE SO THAT I WOULD GIVE MY LIFE FOR THEM, AND THE OTHERS I’D + * “I LOVE YOU.” + * I LOVE YOU. +“I LOVE YOU ALL, AND HAVE DONE NO HARM TO ANYONE; AND WHAT HAVE YOU +ILYá HAS SENT YOU TO ASK FOR STRAWBERRIES AND FRESH PINEAPPLES.’ WE +ILYúSHKA, THE ONE WHO DANCED AT COUNT ORLóV’S, YOU REMEMBER, IN A +IMAGINATION A NEW PLAN OF LIFE. ON THE PREVIOUS EVENING AT THE LODGE, HE +IMAGINE...” +IMAGINED ONLY IMPORTANT POSSIBILITIES: “IF THE ENEMY ATTACKS THE RIGHT +IMAGINED OPPRESSORS WHOSE VICTIMS HE WOULD RESCUE. OF THE THREE +IMAGINE THAT THEIR CHILDREN HAVE NO SECRETS FROM THEM. “I KNOW I SHALL +IMAGINING HIMSELF BEFORE HIS OWN OFFICERS, INSISTED ON HIS SOLDIERLY +“I MAKE BOLD TO ASK YOUR EXCELLENCY TO MOVE A LITTLE FOR THIS +I’M ALIVE, THAT IS NOT MY FAULT, SO I MUST LIVE OUT MY LIFE AS BEST I +“I’M CERTAIN OF IT; YOU’LL SEE.” +“I’M GLAD,” ANSWERED DóLOKHOV BRIEFLY AND CLEARLY, AS THE SONG +“I’M GLAD, GLAD, TO SEE YOU,” HE SAID, LOOKING ATTENTIVELY INTO +IMMEDIATELY. +IMMEDIATELY.” +IMMEDIATELY BRIGHTENED ON SEEING ROSTóV. “SCHöN GUT MORGEN! SCHöN +IMMEDIATELY BROKE OFF. THE DOOR OF THE PRIVATE ROOM OPENED AND KUTúZOV +“IMMEDIATELY, PRINCE,” SAID KOZLóVSKI. “DISPOSITIONS FOR +IMMEDIATELY STARTING TO RUN ALONG THE HALL AND UP THE WARPED STEPS OF +IMMEDIATELY TOLD HIM THAT THIS MAN COULD BE USEFUL, AND WITHOUT ANY +IMMENSE FORCE UPON KUTúZOV’S LINE OF COMMUNICATION WITH THE TROOPS +IMMENSITY OF THE POWER THEY CONSTITUTED. +IMMOBILE FOR A FEW MOMENTS. THEN WRINKLES RAN OVER HIS FACE LIKE A WAVE +“I’M NOT A GOOSE, BUT THEY ARE WHO CRY ABOUT TRIFLES,” SAID +“I’M NOT SUCH A FOOL.... JUST YOU TRY IT ON.... ALLEZ-VOUS +“I’M NOT TO BLAME THAT THE CONVERSATION BEGAN IN THE PRESENCE OF +“‘I MOST ARDENTLY DESIRE,’ WRITES THE KING OF PRUSSIA TO +IMPASSIVE FACE OF ORIENTAL TYPE, CAME OUT AFTER THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. +IMPASSIVE FACE?” PRINCE ANDREW ASKED HIMSELF AS HE LOOKED. PRINCE +IMPATIENCE, WHILE THE PRINCESS JUMPED UP AND WITH A GESTURE OF +IMPATIENT AND SETS TO WORK HIMSELF AND FINDS LETTERS FROM THE EMPEROR +IMPATIENTLY. +IMPATIENTLY, “I CAME HERE NOT TO WRANGLE WITH YOU, BUT TO TALK ABOUT +IMPATIENT THE NEARER THEY GOT TO MOSCOW. +IMPENDING ACTION. FROM PRIVATES TO GENERAL THEY WERE NOT EXPECTING A +IMPENDING BATTLE, UNDER A HEADING WHICH HE ALSO READ OUT: +IMPERIALS ... OR DO YOU WISH TO MAKE IT A HUNDRED?” ADDED HE, +IMPERTURBABLE CALM SHE DID NOT BEGIN TO SPEAK IN FRONT OF THE VALET. +IMPETUS, AND PRINCESS MARY LONG REMEMBERED THE DYING CREAK OF THAT +IMPLIED THAT, FOR CERTAIN CONSIDERATIONS HE COULD NOT KNOW OF, THIS WAS +IMPORTANCE, HE RETURNED AGAIN, CALLED BACK THE COOK AND THE CLUB +IMPORTANCE OF THE RITE NOW BEING PERFORMED AND EVEN APPROVED OF IT. HE +IMPORTANT AND UNIMPORTANT, ALL OF WHOM HE KNEW, AS IF THEY WERE ALL +IMPORTANT POST IN VIENNA. BOTH THE FOREIGN MINISTER AND OUR AMBASSADOR +IMPORTANT. WHAT IS IMPORTANT ARE THE RIGHTS OF MAN, EMANCIPATION FROM +IMPOSSIBLE...” +IMPOSSIBLE!” AND SUDDENLY HE WAS SEIZED BY A PANIC OF FEAR FOR HIMSELF +“IMPOSSIBLE!” CRIED PRINCE ANDREW. “THAT WOULD BE TOO BASE.” +IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO RETURN TO HIS FORMER CONCEPTION OF HER, THAT HE +IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO NOTICE HIS FACE. DóLOKHOV WAS A MAN OF SMALL MEANS +IMPOSSIBLE... OH, HOW PLEASANT IT WAS AT HOME!... THE KNAVE, DOUBLE OR +IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP HIM, SHE RALLIED HER FORCES AND JOINED THE VICOMTE IN +IMPRESSIONABLE, SMILING YOUNG FACES (SMILING PROBABLY AT THEIR OWN +IMPRESSION. “BUT THAT IS A MATTER OF PERFECT INDIFFERENCE TO ME,” HE +IMPRESSION HIS NEWS OF A VICTORY WOULD CREATE, OR RECALLING THE SEND-OFF +IMPRESSION OF THOSE VOICES AND FACES AND A SENSE OF LONELINESS MERGED +IMPRESSIONS OF THE RECENT BATTLE, PICTURING PLEASANTLY TO HIMSELF THE +IMPRESSION. WHETHER DOLGORúKOV AND WEYROTHER, OR KUTúZOV, LANGERON, +IMPRESSIVELY, BLOCKING THE WAY TO THE BEDROOM AND PREVENTING THE OTHER +IMPROVEMENT. HIS SATIRE HAS BEEN LESS BITTER OF LATE, AND THERE WAS A +“I’M QUITE WORN OUT BY THESE CALLERS. HOWEVER, I’LL SEE HER AND +“I MUST ALSO INFORM YOU,” SAID THE RHETOR, “THAT OUR ORDER +“I MUST HAVE THAT PURSE, I TELL YOU,” SHOUTED DENíSOV, SHAKING HIS +I MYSELF HAVE EXPERIENCED ... AND SO ... BECAUSE ... NO, EXCUSE ME! +IN 1806 THE OLD PRINCE WAS MADE ONE OF THE EIGHT COMMANDERS IN CHIEF +IN A BAD TEMPER, AND IN THE MORNING TíKHON HAD ALREADY ADVISED THE +INABILITY TO ENTER A ROOM AND CONVERSE IN IT WAS, HOWEVER, REDEEMED BY +IN ACCORD WITH HIS INTENTIONS. PRINCE ANDREW NOTICED, HOWEVER, THAT +IN A CHEERFUL VOICE: +IN A CORNER OF THE HUT STOOD A STANDARD CAPTURED FROM THE FRENCH, AND +IN A CORNER OF THE ROOM SOMETHING RED AND TINY GAVE A GRUNT AND SQUEALED +INACTIVE AND HAS LEFT THE UNIVERSITY TO JOIN THE ARMY. I WILL CONFESS TO +INACTIVE, WOULD ALSO SOON HAVE TO MEET THE ENEMY. +IN A DAY OR TWO WE SHALL ALL HAVE TO TAKE PART IN A GREATER AND MORE +IN ALL SINCERITY—NOT AS A FUTURE MASON BUT AS AN HONEST MAN: HAVE YOU +IN AMAZEMENT. +“IN A MINUTE, IN A MINUTE,” HE SAID, DIPPING HIS PEN. +“IN A MOMENT. À PROPOS,” SHE ADDED, BECOMING CALM AGAIN, “I AM +IN A MOMENT THE MEN CAME RUNNING GAILY FROM THEIR CAMPFIRES AND BEGAN +IN, AND SINKING HEAVILY INTO AN ARMCHAIR. +“IN AN HOUR’S TIME, I SHOULD SAY.” +IN ANY CASE. HE HAS FORWARDED ME A LETTER FROM BORíS. THANK GOD, BORíS +INAPPROPRIATE, SHE WAS UNABLE TO STOP HIM. +IN A SHOVEL—THE GUESTS WHO HAD BEEN SCATTERED ABOUT IN DIFFERENT ROOMS +IN A TONE ONLY USED BY PERSONS WHO ARE CERTAIN THAT THOSE THEY CALL WILL +IN ATTACHING HIMSELF AS AN ORDERLY OFFICER TO PRINCE BAGRATIóN. HE NOW +INATTENTIVE, BUT YOU HAD TALENT—OH YES, YOU HAD TALENT!” +INAUDIBLE, VOICE. +“IN A WORD, A HEARTY ONE...” SAID THE SUBALTERN, LAUGHING (THE +IN BONAPARTE’S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CAMPAIGN, +IN BRüNN EVERYBODY ATTACHED TO THE COURT WAS PACKING UP, AND THE HEAVY +INCESSANTLY, REPEATING PETERSBURG REMINISCENCES AND EVEN PHRASES. PRINCE +IN CHIEF, AND FROM THE NOISY LAUGHTER OF THE COSSACKS HOLDING THE +IN CHIEF’S OFFICE WERE GATHERED KUTúZOV HIMSELF, WEYROTHER, AND THE +IN CHIEF WOULD BE. THOUGH THE AIDE-DE-CAMP DID NOT KNOW THESE +IN CLEAN NOTES, WAS LYING READY UNDER A HANDKERCHIEF ON THE COUNTESS’ +INCLINATION—PRACTICAL BUSINESS. +INCOME WHICH WAS SAID TO AMOUNT TO FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND RUBLES A YEAR, +INCOMPARABLY HIGHER THAN A GENERAL, AND ACCORDING TO WHICH WHAT WAS +IN COMPARISON WITH ETERNITY?” +INCOMPREHENSIBLE—THE DEATH OF ONE SHE LOVED. +IN CONSEQUENCE OF THIS DISCOVERY HIS WHOLE MANNER OF LIFE, ALL +INCONVENIENT, UNSEEMLY, AND IMPOSSIBLE TO DO SO. +IN CONVERSATION—COUNT ROSTOPCHíN, PRINCE YúRI DOLGORúKOV, VALúEV, +IN COUPLES AND HE HIMSELF RODE ALONG THE LINE TRYING TO MASTER THE +INCREASED TENFOLD, AND THEIR LIFE, WHICH SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN PASSED IN +INCREASING, SEEMED LIKE SOMEONE’S BREATHING. HE LISTENED INTENTLY TO +INCREDIBLE, UNHEARD-OF, AND IMPOSSIBLE EVENT OF A RUSSIAN DEFEAT, + * “INDEED, SIRE, WE SHALL DO EVERYTHING IT IS POSSIBLE TO +“INDEED? YES, YES!” SAID BORíS, WITH A SMILE. “AND WE TOO HAVE +INDICATED THAT IF HE WAS NOT DANCING IT WAS BECAUSE HE WOULD NOT AND NOT +INDICATING A CAPTIVE FRENCH DRAGOON WHO WAS BEING BROUGHT IN ON FOOT BY +INDICATING HER TO THE GENTLEMEN, SAID: “VOILà MARIE!” PRINCESS MARY +INDICATION OF SOMETHING NEW AND STERN SHOWED ROUND THE MOUTH. +INDICATIONS, HE SAW CLEARLY THAT THE ALLIES BELIEVED HIM TO BE FAR AWAY +INDIFFERENCE, BEGAN TO HUM TO HIMSELF, PRODUCING A QUEER SOUND WHICH +INDIFFERENT AIR, AND GLANCED INTO THE LITTLE DRAWING ROOM. PIERRE AND +INDIFFERENT HANDS OF THE MINISTER OF WAR AND THE POLITE ADJUTANT. THE +INDIFFERENTLY QUIESCENT TILL THE MOMENT WHEN MOTION IS TRANSMITTED +INDIFFERENTLY TO HIS WIFE’S CHATTER WITH PRINCE HIPPOLYTE WHO HAD ALSO +INDIGNANTLY. “I COME TO ASK YOU WHAT TO DO, AND YOU CALL IT +INDISCRETION, NODDED AND SAID: “I HOPE TO SEE YOU AGAIN, BUT I ALSO +INDISCRETION, ONE MIGHT ASK ABOUT OUR PLANS. +IN DISCUSSION WITH THE SOLE OBJECT OF OFFENDING ONE ANOTHER. BUT THE +INDISPOSITION WAS THE STRONG IMPRESSION MADE ON HIS SENSITIVE MIND BY +INDISTINCT WORDS, SHRUGGING HIS SHOULDERS AND GESTICULATING. +INDIVIDUAL COMMANDERS AND INQUIRING INTO DETAILS OF THE ACTION AND OUR +I NEED.” BUT WHEN HE CAME ACROSS A MAN OF POSITION HIS INSTINCT +“I NEVER COULD UNDERSTAND HOW NATALY MADE UP HER MIND TO MARRY THAT +“I NEVER GO BACK ON MY WORD,” HE SAID. “BESIDES, SóNYA IS SO +“I NEVER INVITED THEM. THEY CAME TO DISTURB MY LIFE—AND THERE IS NOT +INEVITABLE PAIN SHOWED ITSELF. +INEVITABLY HAVE TO LEARN WHAT LIES THE OTHER SIDE OF DEATH. BUT YOU ARE +IN EXACTLY THE SAME MANNER. NESVíTSKI LAUGHED AND NUDGED THE OTHERS TO +INFAMOUS, VILE WOMAN!” +INFANTRY. +INFANTRY AND CAVALRY AND TOOK UP ITS APPOINTED POSITION. NOT ONLY THE +INFANTRY, AND HAVING REACHED THE VILLAGE OF GRUNTERSDORF THEY HALTED. IT +INFANTRY, CAVALRY, AND ARTILLERY. HOW WAS IT THAT TWO GUNS WERE +INFANTRY IN DIFFERENT UNIFORMS; NOW WAS HEARD THE RHYTHMIC BEAT OF +INFANTRY OFFICER WHO JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE HAD RUSHED OUT OF +INFANTS IN ARMS MET HIM TO THANK HIM FOR RELEASING THEM FROM HARD +INFLAMMABLE MATERIAL ON THE BRIDGE MUST BE REINSPECTED.” +INFLUENCE IN SOCIETY, HOWEVER, IS A CAPITAL WHICH HAS TO BE ECONOMIZED +INFLUENCE OF A VARIETY OF EXCITING SENSATIONS. ONLY PIERRE AND +INFLUENCE OF THE DARK, GRACEFUL GIRL WHO LOVED ANOTHER. +INFORMED HIM OF A VICTORY AND STATED STRATEGICALLY THE POSITION OF THE +INFORMING THE PRINCE THAT AS SOON AS THE ACTION BEGAN HE HAD WITHDRAWN +“INFORM THE PRINCE THAT I THE BRIDGE FIRED!” SAID THE COLONEL +“INFORM THE PRINCE THAT LABOR HAS BEGUN,” SAID MARY BOGDáNOVNA, +IN FOUR DIFFERENT PROVINCES. HE HAD ARRANGED THIS FOR HIMSELF SO AS TO +IN FRENCH. +IN FRENCH OUT OF ALL THIS, SHOWING ALL THE NEWS WE HAVE HAD OF THE +IN FRONT OF HIM AND THAT THE ENEMY MUST BE AT LEAST SIX MILES AWAY. +IN FRONT OF HIM WAS MISTY DARKNESS. ROSTóV COULD SEE NOTHING, PEER AS +IN FRONT OF THEM, AND THAT THE COLUMNS MOVING NEAR PRATZEN CONSTITUTED +IN FRONT OF THEM ROWS OF GRAY CLOAKS WERE ALREADY VISIBLE THROUGH THE +IN GENERAL AT BALD HILLS THE LITTLE PRINCESS LIVED IN CONSTANT FEAR, AND +“IN GENERAL WE MUST TURN THIS BLOODTHIRSTY SOLDIER TO MORE HUMANE +IN GEOMETRY WERE AMONG THE GREATEST DELIGHTS OF HER LIFE. +IN GOD’S HANDS. YOU MAY DIE IN YOUR BED OR GOD MAY SPARE YOU IN A +IN GOOD SPIRITS, HE MOUNTED HIS HORSE AND RODE OUT INTO THE FIELD +INGRATIATING AND APPEALING SMILE, AND TOOK HIS HAND THAT HE MIGHT NOT GO +IN GREAT RUSSIA, WHICH FORMED THE LARGER PART OF HIS PROPERTY, AND LEFT +INHABITANTS ON WHOM THEY WERE QUARTERED. BRAUNAU WAS THE HEADQUARTERS OF +IN HALF AN HOUR ALL WAS AGAIN IN ORDER, ONLY THE SQUARES HAD BECOME GRAY +IN HAND. +IN HER EYES, WHICH, FOR AN INSTANT, GLANCED AT PIERRE, PRINCE VASíLI +INHERITANCE; BUT I DO KNOW THAT SINCE THIS YOUNG MAN, WHOM WE ALL USED +IN HIS FINE GRAY EYES, AND ON HIS DELICATE LIPS THE SAME CAPACITY FOR +IN HIS HAND, WAS SITTING THERE WITH A SMILE OF DEEP EMOTION ON HIS FACE, +IN HIS HORSE BEFORE THE EMPEROR. +IN HIS HORSE, SAID TO HIM: +IN HIS LARGE ELONGATED HAND ON BLUE PAPER AS FOLLOWS: +IN HIS MIND AN UNSETTLED QUESTION HE ALWAYS TRIED TO STIFLE, ONE ABOUT +IN HIS MOVEMENTS, IN HIS WALK, SCARCELY A TRACE WAS LEFT OF HIS FORMER +IN HIS SADDLE. +IN HIS TONE, “MY DEAR,” WHETHER THEY WERE ABOVE OR BELOW HIM IN +IN HIS VOICE A SINCERITY AND WEAKNESS PIERRE HAD NEVER OBSERVED IN IT +IN HIS WRITING TABLE, AND THIS IS A PAPER HE HAS FORGOTTEN....” +IN.’ I DO NOT KNOW HOW FAR HE WAS JUSTIFIED IN SAYING SO.” +IN IT BY SPRING. +INJURIES—AND THAT MEN ATTRIBUTE THE GREATEST MERIT TO SKILL IN KILLING +IN KIEV PIERRE FOUND SOME PEOPLE HE KNEW, AND STRANGERS HASTENED TO MAKE +IN KILLED, WOUNDED, SICK, AND STRAGGLERS; THOUGH A NUMBER OF SICK AND +IN KISHENëV WITH ONLY A MOLDAVIAN PEASANT WOMAN TO HELP INSTEAD OF A +IN LACE-FRILLED DRAWERS, AND FEET IN LOW SLIPPERS—WAS JUST AT THAT +IN LIFE, ONE SHE HAD NOT YET EXPERIENCED, IRREPARABLE AND +IN LOVE. THE MARSHALS STOOD BEHIND HIM NOT VENTURING TO DISTRACT HIS +IN LOVE WITH THE TSAR,” HE SAID. +IN MARY BOGDáNOVNA’S TREMBLING WHITE HANDS. +IN ME. I HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT HER BROTHER ANATOLE WAS IN LOVE WITH HER +IN MILITARY MATTERS. +IN MY OPINION WAS NOTHING OF THE KIND. WE CIVILIANS, AS YOU KNOW, HAVE +INNER LABORATORY OF HIS MIND IN A PORTABLE FORM AS IF INTENTIONALLY, SO +INNOCENT AND UNTRIED?” +INNOCENT YOUTH. +IN NOVEMBER, 1805, ANNOUNCING THAT HE AND HIS SON WOULD BE PAYING HIM +IN NOVEMBER, 1805, PRINCE VASíLI HAD TO GO ON A TOUR OF INSPECTION +IN NO WAY BINDING) MIGHT GIVE TIME FOR PART OF THE TRANSPORT TO PASS, +INN, WHERE TWO ROADS PARTED. BOTH OF THEM LED DOWNHILL AND TROOPS WERE +IN OCTOBER, 1805, A RUSSIAN ARMY WAS OCCUPYING THE VILLAGES AND TOWNS OF +IN ON BAD COMPANY. ROSTóV FLUSHED UP ON NOTICING THIS, BUT HE DID NOT +IN ONE COMPANY DINNER WAS READY, AND THE SOLDIERS WERE GAZING EAGERLY +IN ONLY HIS STOCKINGS, ROSE WHEN THEY ENTERED, SMILING NOT ALTOGETHER +IN OUR ARMY. HIS OWN STRATEGIC PLAN, WHICH OBVIOUSLY COULD NOT NOW +IN OUR HOUSE, AREN’T THEY?” +IN OUR LACK OF UNDERSTANDING WE SEE ONLY OUR WEAKNESS AND HIS +“IN OUR TEMPLES WE RECOGNIZE NO OTHER DISTINCTIONS,” READ THE GRAND +IN PASSING PRINCE VASíLI SEIZED PIERRE’S HAND AND SAID TO ANNA +IN PERPLEXITY, AND ONLY LATER GRASPED THAT A STROKE WAS AN ATTACK OF +IN PETERSBURG AND THAT A COPY, WHICH HE HAD HIMSELF SEEN, HAD THAT DAY +IN PETERSBURG, AS IN MOSCOW, PIERRE FOUND THE SAME ATMOSPHERE OF +IN PRINCESS DRUBETSKáYA’S CASE HE FELT, AFTER HER SECOND APPEAL, +IN PURE, CORRECT FRENCH MANY INTERESTING DETAILS ABOUT THE ARMIES AND +INQUIRING LOOK. HE WAS ABOUT TO STOOP OVER HER HAND AND KISS IT, BUT +INQUIRINGLY AT THE YOUNG PRINCE, WONDERING WHAT WOULD FOLLOW. +INQUIRING WHAT SHE WAS TO DO WITH THESE PEOPLE. ON LEAVING THEM, ANNA +INQUIRY. THE SON NOTICED THAT AN EXPRESSION OF PROFOUND SORROW SUDDENLY +IN RETIREMENT AND HAD NOW NO INFLUENCE IN POLITICAL AFFAIRS, EVERY HIGH +IN ROSTóV’S SOUL! AND THIS SOMETHING WAS APART FROM EVERYTHING ELSE +INSANE—UNPROFITABLE TO HIMSELF, TO THE COUNT, AND TO THE SERFS—MADE +IN SEPARATE PILES, BEGAN COUNTING THEM. +“IN SHORT, HOPING TO SETTLE MATTERS BY TAKING UP A WARLIKE ATTITUDE, +INSIGNIFICANCE, AWARE OF BEING BUT A DROP IN THAT OCEAN OF MEN, AND +IN SILENCE, AND THEN THE SAME JOKE WAS REPEATED. +IN SOCIETY IT SEEMS AS IF THERE WERE SOMETHING IN THEM, BUT THERE’S +INSOLENT, HARD, AND MOCKING FACE AS HE HAD SEEN IT AT THE BANQUET, AND +INSOLENT INTELLIGENCE OF HIS EYES, PRODUCED AN EFFECT WHICH MADE IT +INSOLUBLE. +IN SOME RESPECTS A BRILLIANT MATCH FOR THE DOWERLESS, ORPHAN GIRL. FROM +IN SOME WAY ESSENTIAL. +INSPIRED BY THE EMPERORS’ PRESENCE WERE EAGER FOR ACTION. THE +IN SPITE OF HIMSELF (ALTHOUGH HE KNEW HOW FAR IT WAS SAFE TO TRUST +IN SPITE OF PRINCE ANDREW’S DISAGREEABLE, IRONICAL TONE, IN SPITE OF +IN SPITE OF REPEATED DEMANDS BOOTS HAD NOT BEEN ISSUED BY THE AUSTRIAN +IN SPITE OF THE ANIMATION OF HIS SPEECH, BILíBIN DID NOT FORGET TO +IN SPITE OF THIS, BOTH THE FACE AND WORDS OF HIS NEW ACQUAINTANCE WERE +INSTANTLY DROPPED THEM AGAIN. ALL THE BLOOD WHICH HAD SEEMED CONGESTED +INSTANTLY HIS REGRET AT NOT HAVING BEEN IN ACTION AND HIS DEJECTED MOOD +INSTEAD OF BLACK. THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER WALKED WITH HIS JERKY STEPS +INSTEAD OF FIRING IT, FLUNG IT AT THE FRENCHMAN AND RAN WITH ALL HIS +INSTEAD OF THAT HE ONLY EXCITED HIMSELF MORE AND MORE. +IN STEP, AND EACH ONE OF THESE HUNDREDS OF SOLDIERS SEEMED TO BE +INSTRUCTING IN READING, WRITING, AND RELIGION. ON ALL HIS ESTATES PIERRE +INSTRUCTIONS HIS FATHER HAD SENT AND TAKING THE CORRESPONDENCE AND HIS +INSTRUCTIONS TO MAJOR EKONóMOV, HE COULD NOT HELP TAKING NOTICE OF THE +INSTRUMENT HE COULD NOT BEGIN TO SPEAK. +INSUFFICIENT, AND HE KEPT EXPECTING SOMETHING MORE, MORE AND YET MORE. +INTELLECTUAL PRIDE,” SAID THE PRINCESS, FOLLOWING THE TRAIN OF HER OWN +INTELLIGENT, AND RESOLUTE YOUNG MAN. +INTELLIGENT, HOW IS IT YOU DON’T SEE THAT IF THE COUNT HAS WRITTEN A +INTEMPERANCE, AND HIS MOUTH TWITCHED NERVOUSLY. THE GENERAL LOOKED THE +INTENDED FOR YOU TOO. GIVE THEM TO THE WOMAN WHOM YOU SHALL HONOR MOST +INTENDED TO TAKE UP OUR POSITION AND BEGIN THE ACTION, BUT WERE ON THIS +INTENDED TO VISIT ALL HIS ESTATES AND SEE FOR HIMSELF HOW FAR HIS ORDERS +INTENDING TO REST IF BUT FOR A MOMENT, EAT SOMETHING, AND TRY TO SORT +INTENDS TO EXPOSE HIS PRECIOUS PERSON TO THE CHANCES OF WAR. GOD GRANT +INTENTION OF KILLING YOUR MAN AS QUICKLY AND SURELY AS POSSIBLE, AND +INTENTION OF PROPOSING, AND TODAY OR TOMORROW HE WOULD PROBABLY ASK +INTENTION SHOULD HE TRY TO DIRECT HIS WHOLE FORCE AGAINST OUR FAITHFUL +INTENTION TO PART FROM HER FOREVER. +INTERCOURSE WITH YOUNG WOMEN. +INTERESTED THE MINISTER OF WAR LESS THAN ANY OF THE OTHER MATTERS HE WAS +INTERESTING.” +INTERESTING AND ENTERTAINING. AFTER THE FIELD MARSHAL’S DEPARTURE +INTERESTING BUT HARDLY FEASIBLE.” +INTERESTS,” SAID BILíBIN. +INTERFERE, MAKING A SCENE ON THE VERY THRESHOLD OF A DYING MAN’S ROOM? +INTERPRETED. THE LIFE OF OLD PRINCE BOLKóNSKI, PRINCE ANDREW, AND +INTERRUPTING ONE ANOTHER AND MINGLING WITH THE RUSTLING OF DRESSES AND +INTERVENE. PRINCE ANDREW LOOKED AT TúSHIN FROM UNDER HIS BROWS AND HIS +INTERVIEW? WHY NEGOTIATE, AND ABOVE ALL WHY RETREAT, WHEN TO RETREAT IS +“IN THAT CASE...” BEGAN WILLARSKI, BUT PIERRE INTERRUPTED HIM. +“IN THAT CASE HE IS INVITING HIS DOOM BY AWAITING OUR ATTACK,” SAID +“IN THAT CASE WE CAN GO,” SAID WILLARSKI. “MY CARRIAGE IS AT YOUR +IN THAT HAPPY MOOD IN WHICH EVERYTHING SEEMS POSSIBLE AND EVERYTHING +IN THE AFTERNOON, HAVING MADE ALL HIS CALLS, HE WAS RETURNING TO +IN THE ARMY, BESIDES THE SUBORDINATION AND DISCIPLINE PRESCRIBED IN THE +IN THE ASSURANCE THAT THE RUMORS ABOUT THE EMPEROR BEING WOUNDED WERE +IN THE AUTUMN OF 1806 EVERYBODY HAD AGAIN BEGUN TALKING OF THE WAR WITH +IN THE AUTUMN THE ROSTóVS RETURNED TO MOSCOW. EARLY IN THE WINTER +IN THE BAGGAGE TRAIN HE HAD PASSED THAT MORNING ON THE ZNAIM ROAD SEVEN +IN THE BEGINNING OF THE WINTER OF 1805-6 PIERRE RECEIVED ONE OF ANNA +IN THE BEST POSSIBLE MANNER, AND FEELING THAT HE WAS DOING IT WELL HE +IN THE COMMON MOTION THE RESULT AND AIM OF WHICH ARE BEYOND ITS KEN. +IN THE COUNTRY.” +IN THE COUNT’S ROOM, WHICH WAS FULL OF TOBACCO SMOKE, THEY TALKED +IN THE DARKNESS, IT SEEMED AS THOUGH A GLOOMY UNSEEN RIVER WAS FLOWING +IN THE DEATHLIKE STILLNESS ONLY THE TRAMP OF HORSES WAS HEARD. THIS +IN THE DINING ROOM, WHICH LIKE ALL THE ROOMS IN THE HOUSE WAS +IN THE DRAWING ROOM, TALKING TO THE LITTLE PRINCESS AND MADEMOISELLE +IN THE DRAWING ROOM THE CONVERSATION WAS STILL GOING ON. +IN THE DRAWING ROOM, WAITING FOR BORíS TO COME OUT. SHE WAS ALREADY +IN THE EMPEROR’S SUITE ALL EXCHANGED RAPID LOOKS THAT EXPRESSED +IN THE EMPERORS’ SUITE WERE THE PICKED YOUNG ORDERLY OFFICERS OF THE +IN THE EVENING, AFTER SUPPER, WHEN ALL WERE ABOUT TO RETIRE, ANATOLE +IN THE EVENING ANDREW AND PIERRE GOT INTO THE OPEN CARRIAGE AND DROVE TO +IN THE EVENING,” REPORTED ROSTóV, STOOPING FORWARD WITH HIS HAND AT +IN THE FRESH MORNING AIR WERE NOW HEARD, NOT TWO OR THREE MUSKET SHOTS +IN THE GARDEN, OR SUPERINTENDING THE BUILDING THAT WAS ALWAYS GOING ON +IN THE HAIR, THE HAIR COMBED UP, AND THE BLUE SCARF ARRANGED LOWER ON +IN THE HOUSE ON THE POVARSKáYA ROSE BEFORE HIM WITH SUCH VIVIDNESS, +IN THE HOUSE WAS DONE IN HASTE AT THAT TIME), AND PIERRE AND ANNA +IN THEIR CHILDLIKE GLEE, AROUSED BY THE FIRE AND THEIR LUCK IN +IN THEIR OWN PLAY. +IN THEIR POWER. +IN THE LETTER FROM HIS PARENTS WAS ENCLOSED A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION +IN THE LIGHT OF THE DULL AUTUMN EVENING, MOUNTED MEN COMING TOWARD HIM. +IN THE MEADOW BEHIND THE VILLAGE, THREE OF THEM ARE DRAGGING SOMETHING. +IN THE MEAN JOCULAR WAY COMMON TO ANONYMOUS LETTERS SAID THAT HE SAW +IN THE MEANTIME, NOT ONLY WAS IT KNOWN IN THE MAIDSERVANTS’ ROOMS THAT +IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS STORY, JUST AS HE WAS SAYING: “YOU CANNOT IMAGINE +IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LINE THAT HAD SEEMED SO TERRIBLE—AND NOW HE +IN THE MIDST OF A CONVERSATION ON POLITICAL MATTERS ANNA PáVLOVNA BURST +IN THE MIDST OF THE THIRD éCOSSAISE THERE WAS A CLATTER OF CHAIRS BEING +IN THE MILITARY PROFESSION, SO TO AN EVEN GREATER EXTENT BILíBIN GAVE +IN THE MIST. +IN THE MORNING ALL THAT WAS LEFT OF THE NIGHT MIST ON THE HEIGHTS WAS +IN THE MORNING ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA SAID TO PIERRE: +IN THE NIGHT HE CALLED HIS VALET AND TOLD HIM TO PACK UP TO GO TO +IN THE OTHER THE LETTER, AND PRESSING THEM ALTERNATELY TO HER LIPS. +IN THE PASSAGE DENíSOV, WITH A PIPE, WAS SQUATTING ON THE THRESHOLD +IN THE REARGUARD, DOKHTúROV AND OTHERS RALLYING SOME BATTALIONS KEPT UP +IN THE ROOM NEXT THEIR BEDROOM THERE WAS A CONFUSION OF SABERS, +IN THE SAME ORDER IN WHICH THEY HAD ENTERED BUT WITH REDDER FACES, THE +IN THE SAME TONE. +IN THE SAME TONE. +IN THE SECOND ROOM OF THE INN THE LIEUTENANT WAS SITTING OVER A DISH OF +“IN THE SEVENTH PLACE, TRY, BY THE FREQUENT THOUGHT OF DEATH,” THE +IN THE SMALL CIRCULAR ROOM. AROUND THE TABLE ALL WHO WERE AT COUNT +IN THE SPRING OF 1807 HE DECIDED TO RETURN TO PETERSBURG. ON THE WAY HE +IN THE STREETS OF PETERSBURG IN AN OLD UNIFORM. HE MADE FRIENDS WITH +IN THE SUTLER’S HUT WITHOUT HIS BOOTS.” HE RECOGNIZED THE AGREEABLE, +IN THE THIRD CIRCLE, NARýSHKIN WAS SPEAKING OF THE MEETING OF THE +IN THE VIENNESE DRAWING ROOMS AND OFTEN HAD AN INFLUENCE ON MATTERS +IN THE VILLAGE OF HOSJERADEK THERE WERE RUSSIAN TROOPS RETIRING FROM +IN THE WORLD AND ABOVE EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD. “WHAT WERE LOSSES, AND +IN THIS PART OF THE HOUSE AND DID NOT EVEN KNOW OF THE EXISTENCE OF +IN THIS ROOM IT WAS ALMOST DARK; ONLY TWO TINY LAMPS WERE BURNING BEFORE +INTIMATELY. PRINCE ANDREW SPOKE WITH SOME ANIMATION AND INTEREST ONLY OF +INTIMATELY REGRETTED THAT HE HAD DIED SO YOUNG, LEAVING A PREGNANT WIFE +INTO A CARELESS, MERRY SMILE. “WHAT AM I? AN ILLEGITIMATE SON!” +INTO ACTION AS ARRANGED, AND AFTER GOING BEHIND OTHER COLUMNS FOR +“INTO ACTION! INTO ACTION! BRING HIM A BOTTLE FOR SUCH NEWS! BUT HOW +INTO BORíS’ EYES. AFTER HE HAD GONE PIERRE CONTINUED PACING UP AND +INTO HER HEART AN IMPULSE THAT WAS AGAINST HIS WILL. MY WIFE—AS SHE +INTO HER RADIANT SMILE. +INTO HIS ROOM ONE EVENING IN THE OFFICIAL AND CEREMONIOUS MANNER IN +IN TO INFORM THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THIS AND, AVAILING HIMSELF +“IN TOKEN OF OBEDIENCE, I ASK YOU TO UNDRESS.” +INTONATION, LOOK, AND EXPRESSION, PRICKED UP HER EARS FROM THE BEGINNING +IN TOO”—DIFFERENT VOICES WERE SAYING IN THE CROWD, AS THE MEN LOOKED +INTO SOBS. +INTO STEP WITH A HOP, LOOKED BACK ANGRILY, AND THROUGH THE OMINOUS +INTO THE CORRIDOR AND MET—COMING OUT OF THE DOOR OF THE EMPEROR’S +INTO THE DISTANCE, AT THE WATERS OF THE DANUBE, AT THE SKY, AND AT THE +INTO THE INSIGNIFICANT, TRIFLING, AND ARTIFICIAL INTERESTS UNITING THAT +IN TO THE MINISTER OF WAR. FIVE MINUTES LATER HE RETURNED AND BOWING +INTO THE NAïVELY SYMMETRICAL POSE OF AN EGYPTIAN STATUE, EVIDENTLY +IN TO THE UTMOST, THEIR RED NECKS SQUEEZED INTO THEIR STIFF COLLARS, AND +INTO THE VALLEY. HE GREETED THE MEN OF THE FOREMOST REGIMENT AND GAVE +INTO THE WATER. HE TRIED TO RIGHT HIMSELF BUT FELL IN UP TO HIS WAIST. +INTO THE WATER, OR WHEN HE CHALLENGED A MAN TO A DUEL WITHOUT ANY +INTO WHICH WE HAVE BEEN DRAWN, GOD KNOWS HOW OR WHY. NOT ONLY WHERE YOU +INTOXICATION. HE FELT AS THOUGH HE WERE THE CENTER OF SOME IMPORTANT AND +INTRIGUER!” SHE HISSED VICIOUSLY, AND TUGGED WITH ALL HER MIGHT AT THE +INVALID CHAIR, A WAX TAPER IN HIS LEFT HAND, WAS LEANING HIS LEFT ARM ON +INVALID,” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA, EXCHANGING AN ALARMED GLANCE WITH HER +INVENT HIM,” SAID THE WIT SHINSHíN, PARODYING THE WORDS OF VOLTAIRE. +IN VIENNA KNEW HIM AND VALUED HIM. HE WAS NOT ONE OF THOSE MANY +INVINCIBILITY OF THE FRENCH, AND THE MINISTER OF WAR DOES NOT EVEN CARE +INVITATION TO ANNA PáVLOVNA’S RECEPTION AND HAD SAT LISTENING TO +INVOLUNTARILY CAME CLOSER TO HIM. +INVOLUNTARILY, CAME UP AND SAT DOWN BESIDE HIM. +INVOLUNTARILY NOTICED THAT ONE OF THEM WAS BLEEDING, AND GALLOPED ON. +INVOLUNTARILY, SO MUCH SO THAT THE ONLY THING LEFT TO DO SEEMED TO BE +IN WAR ON OUR OWN FRONTIERS, WITH AND FOR THE KING OF PRUSSIA. WE HAVE +IN WHICH KUTúZOV ENTRUSTED THEM TO THE HUMANITY OF THE ENEMY; AND +IN ZHERKóV, LOOKING UNEASILY AROUND. HE HAD NOT SEEN THE HUSSARS ALL +“I OFTEN THINK,” SHE CONTINUED AFTER A SHORT PAUSE, DRAWING NEARER +“I OFTEN THINK, THOUGH, PERHAPS IT’S A SIN,” SAID THE PRINCESS, +IOGEL’S WERE THE MOST ENJOYABLE BALLS IN MOSCOW. SO SAID THE MOTHERS +I ONLY WANTED TO KNOW YOUR OPINION,” AND ANNA PáVLOVNA LET PIERRE GO. +“I OUGHT TO TELL YOU THAT I DO NOT BELIEVE... DO NOT BELIEVE IN +“I PEG OF YOU YOURSELF NOT TO MIX IN VOT IS NOT YOUR BUSINESS!” +“I PROMISED TO PAY TOMORROW,” SAID NICHOLAS. +“I QUITE UNDERSTAND,” ANSWERED PRINCESS MARY, WITH A SAD SMILE. +I REALLY TAKE IT? HOW FORTUNATE!” HE THOUGHT. +“I RECOGNIZE YOU ONLY TOO WELL, TOO WELL.” +“I RELY ON YOU, MY DEAR,” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA, ALSO IN A LOW TONE. +“I REQUEST YOU TO HAVE THE GOODNESS TO CHANGE YOUR COAT,” HE SAID AS +IRONICAL VOICE. +IRREPARABLE. THERE WAS NO INSULT ON EITHER SIDE. ALLOW ME TO +IRREPRESSIBLE HATRED. +IRREPROACHABLY WASHED, BRUSHED, AND BUTTONED, HELD HIS PIPE IN THE +IRRESISTIBLE HUMAN NEED FOR SLEEP. HE REALLY WAS ASLEEP. WEYROTHER, WITH +IRRESISTIBLY ATTRACTIVE TO PIERRE. +IRRESOLUTION COMMUNICATED ITSELF TO THE MEN. +IRRITATION. +“I SAID FROM THE FIRST,” DECLARED ANNA PáVLOVNA REFERRING TO +IS ALL I HAVE TO SAY TO YOU. THE COUNT IS VERY, VERY ILL, AND YOU MUST +IS A MOB OF SCOUNDRELS AND NOT AN ARMY,” HE WAS THINKING AS HE WENT +IS AN ADMIRABLE BOOK WHICH CALMS AND ELEVATES THE SOUL. ADIEU! GIVE +IS A VERY GOOD THING, BUT NOT FOR YOU—I DON’T SUPPOSE YOU EVER HAD +“I SAW HIM MYSELF,” REPLIED THE MAN WITH A SELF-CONFIDENT SMILE OF +“I SAW THE PáVLOGRAD HUSSARS ATTACK THERE, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” CHIMED +“I SAW YOU RIDING THIS MORNING...” HE ADDED. +“I SAY, BERG, MY DEAR FELLOW,” SAID ROSTóV, “WHEN YOU GET A +“I SAY, COME ROUND SOME EVENING AND WE’LL HAVE A GAME OF FARO!” +“I SAY, FATHER, JOKING APART, IS SHE VERY HIDEOUS?” ANATOLE ASKED, +“I SAY, FéDESHON!... DID HE SAY WHEN THE BATTLES ARE TO BEGIN? YOU +“I SAY, ROSTóV,” SAID DóLOKHOV CLEARLY, SMILING AND LOOKING +“I SAY, SHALL WE SOON BE CLEAR? THEY SAY THE CAVALRY ARE BLOCKING THE +“I SAY SO,” HE CONTINUED DESPERATELY, “BECAUSE THE BOURBONS FLED +“I SAY, THIS IS FOLLY! HE’LL BE KILLED,” SAID THIS MORE SENSIBLE +“I SAY, WE’VE BEEN IN THE FRONT LINE! OUR REGIMENT ATTACKED!” SAID +IS BETRAYING US! RUSSIA ALONE MUST SAVE EUROPE. OUR GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN +IS CALLED WEAK CHARACTER, DO NOT SEEK A CONFIDANT IN THEIR TROUBLES. HE +IS CONNECTED WITH THE MONTMORENCYS THROUGH THE ROHANS, ONE OF THE BEST +IS DENíSOV!” +“IS EVERYTHING QUITE ALL RIGHT?” +IS FOR MYSELF.” +IS GOING AS A CADET. THERE’S NO ONE TO INTEREST HIMSELF FOR HIM. TO +IS GOOD TO HAVE A FRIEND LIKE THE PRINCE,” SHE SAID, SMILING AT PRINCE +“I SHALL ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT IN THIS WORLD ONE MUST EXPECT NO REWARD, +“I SHALL AT ANY RATE NOT RUN AFTER A YOUNG MAN BEFORE VISITORS...” +“I SHALL BE DELIGHTED TO MEET THEM,” SAID THE PRINCE. “BUT +I SHALL BE IN A MORE PROMINENT POSITION,” CONTINUED BERG, “AND +I SHALL BE VERY CHARMED TO SEE YOU TONIGHT BETWEEN 7 AND 10—ANNETTE +I SHALL CONCLUDE WILL BE WORTHY OF MY PEOPLE, OF YOU, AND OF MYSELF. +I SHALL EXPECT YOU, DRUBETSKóY. AU REVOIR!” EXCLAIMED PRINCE ANDREW, +“I SHALL PROBABLY DIE BEFORE YOU. SO REMEMBER, THESE ARE MY MEMOIRS; +“I SHALL SCARCELY BE ABLE TO AVAIL MYSELF OF YOUR HOSPITALITY, +“IS HE REALLY TO BE MY HUSBAND, THIS STRANGER WHO IS SO KIND—YES, +“I SHOULD LIKE,” SAID THE VICOMTE, “TO ASK HOW MONSIEUR EXPLAINS +“I SHOULD LIKE TO GO TO KURáGIN’S,” THOUGHT HE. +“I SHOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WELL OF THEM, BUT AS FAR AS I KNOW THE FACTS, +“I SHOULD NEVER DARE TO SAY THAT I KNOW THE TRUTH,” SAID THE MASON, +“I SHOULD NOT BE DOING MY DUTY, COUNT,” HE SAID IN TIMID TONES, +“I SHOULD THINK HE HAS A SCORE OF THEM.” +“I SHOULD THINK NOT,” SAID VéRA, “BECAUSE THERE CAN NEVER BE +“‘I SHOWED THEM THE PATH TO GLORY, BUT THEY DID NOT FOLLOW +IS HOW I EXPLAIN IT TO MYSELF. IT CAN’T BE HELPED!” +IS INTERRUPTED. HE LISTENED TO WHAT LANGERON SAID, AS IF REMARKING, +“IS IT CERTAIN?” SHE SAID. +“IS IT FOR VISITORS YOU’VE GOT YOURSELF UP LIKE THAT, EH?” SAID +“IS IT POSSIBLE?” EXCLAIMED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. “OH, HOW AWFUL! +“IS IT TRUE THAT AUSTRIANS HAVE BEEN BEATEN?” ASKED DóLOKHOV. +“IS IT WORTH WHILE NOTICING TRIFLES?” HE REINED IN HIS HORSE WITH +IS MUCH BETTER THAN OURS.” +IS MY WITNESS,” AND SHE MADE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS, “I LOVE HER SO +IS NOT ABASHED NOW, SO SHE CANNOT BE A BAD WOMAN!” HE HAD OFTEN BEGUN +IS NOTHING BUT A TRICK! HE HAS RETREATED AND ORDERED THE REARGUARD TO +IS NOT MY FAULT THAT I WANT IT AND WANT NOTHING BUT THAT AND LIVE ONLY +IS NOT SO, THEN...” +IS NOW ON THE STAFF.” +IS NOW RUSHING ALONG THE ROAD TO BRüNN AND WILL BE HERE IN A DAY OR +ISN’T IT LOGICAL? +“ISN’T SHE EXQUISITE?” SHE SAID TO PIERRE, POINTING TO THE STATELY +“ISN’T SHE TOO YOUNG? I HAVE HEARD THAT IT HARMS THE VOICE TO TRAIN +“IS PAPA AT HOME?” HE ASKED. +IS PUA’ AS ON THE FIHST DAY OF CWEATION... WHO’S THAT NOW? SEND HIM +IS SO FOND OF?” HE REMEMBERED HIS MOTHER’S LOVE FOR HIM, AND HIS +IS SO I DON’T KNOW...” +IS, STORMED AND STORMED AND STORMED! IT WAS NOT A MATTER OF LIFE BUT +IS SUCH MEN AS HE WHO DECIDE THE FATE OF NATIONS,” ADDED BOLKóNSKI +“IS THAT MARY PRACTICING? LET’S GO QUIETLY AND TAKE HER BY +“IS THAT SO? AND WHAT DID HE SAY?” INQUIRED BOLKóNSKI. +IS THAT THE EMPEROR IS HERE. HOW HE LOOKED AT ME AND WISHED TO SAY +IS THE BABY BORN?” +“IS THE ENGLISHMAN BRAGGING?... EH? IS IT ALL RIGHT?” SAID ANATOLE. +IS THE ONE HELD BY THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE, AND IS THE INVARIABLE FRUIT +IS THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM.” HE SAID THIS SMILING IN A WAY +IS THE ONLY THING LEFT ME—NOT SINGING!” HIS THOUGHTS RAN ON. “GO +“IS THERE SUFFICIENT FORAGE IN KREMS?” +“IS THIS GOOD OR BAD?” PIERRE ASKED HIMSELF. “IT IS GOOD FOR ME, +“IS THIS THE WAY TO THE PRINCESSES’ APARTMENTS?” ASKED ANNA +“IS THIS YOUR SABER?” ASKED PéTYA. “OR IS IT YOURS?” HE SAID, +“IS THIS YOUR SABER?” HE SHOUTED. +“I STILL CAN’T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE AFRAID OF,” SAID PRINCE +IS TO TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. LEAVE IT TO THOSE WHO ARE NO LONGER FIT FOR +IS VANITY, ALL FALSEHOOD, EXCEPT THAT INFINITE SKY. THERE IS NOTHING, +IS VERY UNHAPPY WITH HER FATHER. SHE IS A RELATION OF YOURS, PRINCESS +IT. +IT. +IT.” +IT?” +ITALIAN: “‘DIO MI L’HA DATO. GUAI A CHI LA TOCCHI!’’ +ITALIAN TO GIVE HER LESSONS.” +“IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE BRINGING UP,” REMARKED THE VISITOR. +IT ALL VERY WELL FOR PRINCE VASíLI TOLD ME HIMSELF. BESIDES, CYRIL +ITALY AND ON THE RHINE; HOW FIFTY THOUSAND RUSSIANS AND AS MANY ENGLISH +IT. AND HE IS SO CLEVER AND SO GOOD!” SAID NATáSHA. “DON’T +IT AND SAW TELYáNIN’S HORSE AT THE PORCH. +IT AND WISHED TO HEAR IT AGAIN. IN HER VOICE THERE WAS A VIRGINAL +IT...” ANSWERED HER SON COLDLY. “BUT I HAVE PROMISED AND WILL DO IT +IT APPEARS THAT WE ARE WITHIN SIGHT OF THE ENEMY AND MUST GIVE BATTLE. +IT AT THAT AGE.” +IT. AT THAT MOMENT IT MEANT NOTHING TO HIM WHO MIGHT BE STANDING OVER +IT. BUT AT THAT MOMENT AN ADJUTANT GALLOPED UP WITH A MESSAGE FROM THE +IT CAN’T BE A SQUARE—FOR THEY ARE NOT DRAWN UP FOR THAT.” +“IT CAN’T BE HELPED! IT HAPPENS TO EVERYONE!” SAID THE SON, WITH +IT CAN’T BE HELPED!” SAID THE COUNT, SHRUGGING HIS SHOULDERS AND +“IT CAN’T BE!” SAID ROSTóV. “IT MUST HAVE BEEN SOMEONE ELSE.” +IT DASHED, SOME FORWARD AND SOME BACK, DROWNING ONE ANOTHER. +IT, EASILY FIND A WAY TO PREPARE FOR THE ENEMY THE FATE HE DESERVES. +I TELL HER HOW I’VE SEEN THE EMPEROR?) NATáSHA... TAKE MY +I TELL YOU BUONAPARTE WAS A GREAT TACTICIAN? HERE, HE SAYS THE SAME +I TELL YOU HE IS IN OUR HANDS, THAT’S CERTAIN! BUT WHAT WAS MOST +“I TELL YOU,” SHOUTED DENíSOV, “HE’S A FINE FELLOW.” +IT ESCAPE FROM HIS HANDSOME MOUTH IN RINGS. THIS WAS LIEUTENANT BERG, AN +IT. FEEL IN YOUR POCKETS.” +IT. FR... FR... FR! AND DON’T I SEE THAT THAT IDIOT HAD EYES ONLY FOR +IT HAD APPEARED. THE COUNT SAT ON THE SOFA BETWEEN TWO GUESTS WHO WERE +IT HAD THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF CONTINUED TO LOOK AT HIM, AND SO KUTúZOV, +“IT HAS BEGUN. HERE IT IS!” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW, FEELING THE +“I... THAT’S DIFFERENT. WHY SPEAK OF ME? I DON’T WANT ANY OTHER +“I THINK I MAY CONGRATULATE YOU,” WHISPERED ANNA PáVLOVNA TO THE +“I THINK,” SAID THE PRINCE WITH A SMILE, “THAT IF YOU HAD BEEN +“I THINK THE BATTLE WILL BE LOST, AND SO I TOLD COUNT TOLSTóY AND +I THINK THERE WERE NOT MANY SUCH GALLANT SONS OF THE FATHERLAND OUT +“I THOUGHT PERHAPS SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED,” SHE SAID WITH HER +“I THOUGHT TODAY’S FETE HAD BEEN CANCELED. I CONFESS ALL THESE +IT. IF YOU REFUSE HIM ON MY ACCOUNT, I MUST TELL YOU THE WHOLE TRUTH. I +IT IS A BIT OF MACK. WE ARE MACKED),” HE CONCLUDED, FEELING THAT HE +“IT IS ALL, ALL HER FAULT,” HE SAID TO HIMSELF; “BUT WHAT OF THAT? +“IT IS ALL VERY WELL FOR ROSTóV, WHOSE FATHER SENDS HIM TEN THOUSAND +“IT IS AN ILLNESS, THERE’S NO OTHER WAY OF EXPLAINING IT,” SAID +“IT IS DONE!” SHE SAID TO THE COUNT, POINTING TRIUMPHANTLY TO THE +“IT IS DREADFUL, DREADFUL!” SHE WAS SAYING, “BUT COST ME WHAT IT + IT IS FOR THEE THUS SWELLS HER HEART, +“IT IS FOR THE REASSON, MY GOOT SIR,” SAID HE, SPEAKING WITH A +IT IS FOR YOU TO TALK OR THINK OF SUCH MATTERS. IT IS NO EASIER FOR +IT IS. MY DEAR PET!” +“IT IS NOW MY TURN TO ASK YOU ‘WHY?’ MON CHER,” SAID BOLKóNSKI. +“IT IS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO ME,” SHE SAID, TURNING WITH A SMILE +IT IS PAST MIDNIGHT—CANNOT NOW BE ALTERED,” SAID HE. “YOU HAVE +IT IS SAID ‘THERE ARE THIEVES AMONG THE PáVLOGRAD OFFICERS!’ BUT +“IT IS SOME LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION... WHAT THE DEVIL DO I WANT IT +IT IS TERRIBLE TO THINK.... THIS IS MY SON,” SHE ADDED, INDICATING +“IT IS THE BUONAPARTISTS WHO SAY THAT,” REPLIED THE VICOMTE WITHOUT +“IT IS THE SWORD OF FREDERICK THE GREAT WHICH I...” SHE BEGAN, BUT +“IT IS TOO LATE NOW, IT’S DONE; BESIDES I LOVE HER,” THOUGHT +“IT IS VERY GOOD OF YOU, MONSIEUR PIERRE, TO COME AND VISIT A POOR +“IT IS VERY STRANGE, MON MONSIEUR PRINCE,” SAID THE STAFF OFFICER. +IT IS. YOU MUST KNOW. WE WILL TAKE IT AT ONCE AND SHOW IT TO THE +“IT’LL BE WORSE FOR YOU. BOGDáNICH IS VINDICTIVE AND YOU’LL PAY +IT’LL BE WORSE IF HE FIRES THE BRIDGE. SEE, HERE’S AN OFFICER JAMMED +“IT MAY BE HE OR IT MAY BE NOTHING,” MUTTERED THE HUSSAR. “IT’S +“IT MAY BE TREACHERY,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, VIVIDLY IMAGINING THE +IT MIGHT REALLY HAVE BEEN SO? COULD ONE POSSIBLY MAKE OUT AMID ALL THAT +“IT MUST BE ONE OF OURS, A PRISONER. YES. CAN IT BE THAT THEY WILL +IT NECESSARY TO INTRODUCE HIMSELF, AND WITHOUT EXPERIENCING THE LEAST +IT, NEXT DAY, NOVEMBER 15, AFTER DINNER HE AGAIN WENT TO OLMüTZ AND, +“I TOLD YOU IT WAS ALL LUMPS AND HOLES!” THE LITTLE PRINCESS +IT ON HIS COAT AND SUPPORTED HIMSELF WITH IT. HIS FROWNING FACE WAS +IT ON SOMETHING, AND TOLD HIM TO HOLD A PAIR OF COMPASSES TO HIS LEFT +IT, ON THE CREST OF THE OPPOSITE HILL, THE VILLAGE OF SCHöN GRABERN +IT ON THE FIELD AT SCHöN GRABERN. YOUNG ROSTóV’S ECSTATIC VOICE +IT OR NOT, AND HOW THEY WOULD CROSS IT, AGITATED THEM ALL. +IT, OR WHY IT HAD TO BE TOLD IN RUSSIAN, STILL ANNA PáVLOVNA AND THE +IT,’” PRINCE ANDREW CONTINUED AFTER A SHORT SILENCE, AGAIN QUOTING +IT REALLY HAPPENED, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NECESSARY TO MAKE AN EFFORT OF +IT RIGHT TO REFUSE A DUTY TO WHICH HE HAD BEEN APPOINTED BY THE EMPEROR +I TROUBLE MYSELF ABOUT YOU, AND YOU ALSO KNOW QUITE WELL THAT WHAT I +“IT’S A BAD BUSINESS, EH?” +“IT’S A BAD BUSINESS,” SAID THE GENERAL WITHOUT ANSWERING HIM, +“IT’S A LACKEY’S JOB!” +“IT’S ALL ABOUT THE WAR,” THE COUNT SHOUTED DOWN THE TABLE. “YOU +“IT’S ALL OVER; BUT I AM A COWARD—YES, A COWARD!” THOUGHT +“IT’S ALL THE FAULT OF THESE FELLOWS ON THE STAFF THAT THERE’S +“IT’S ALL THE SAME NOW. IF THE EMPEROR IS WOUNDED, AM I TO TRY TO +“IT’S ALL THE SAME TO ME,” HE SAID. “I ONLY WANT TO SEE WHETHER +“IT’S ALL UP! I’M LOST!” THOUGHT HE. “NOW A BULLET THROUGH MY +“IT’S ALL VERY WELL FOR YOU... I AM NOT ENVIOUS... I LOVE YOU AND + “IT’S A LONG, LONG WAY. +“IT’S A LONG TIME SINCE WE MET,” HE SAID. “THANKS FOR COMING. +“IT’S ANCIENT HISTORY,” SAID ANOTHER, GUESSING THAT IT REFERRED TO +“IT’S ANDREW!” THOUGHT PRINCESS MARY. “NO IT CAN’T BE, THAT +“IT’S A SHAME FOR A SOLDIER TO STEAL; A SOLDIER MUST BE HONEST, +“IT’S AS IF A DAM HAD BURST,” SAID THE COSSACK HOPELESSLY. “ARE +IT’S AS IF IT HAD BEEN DONE ON PURPOSE, ON PURPOSE. BESIDES, SUPPOSE +ITS BROAD TEMPLES AND CLOSE-CROPPED HAIR, AND LOOKED AT BEZúKHOV. THE +IT’S DEFINITE AND ONE IS RID OF THE OLD TORMENTING DOUBT.” PIERRE +“IT’S DIFFERENT ON DIFFERENT DAYS,” ANSWERED THE CAPTAIN. “ONE +IT SEEMED AS IF FROM SOME WORDS BORíS HAD SPOKEN THAT EVENING ABOUT THE +IT SEEMED AS IF NOTHING IN THAT VOICE COULD BE ALTERED WITHOUT SPOILING +IT SEEMED QUITE NATURAL THAT THEY SHOULD CRY, AND APPARENTLY IT NEVER +IT SEEMED SO NATURAL TO PIERRE THAT EVERYONE SHOULD LIKE HIM, AND IT +IT SEEMED TO HER THAT NOT ONLY DID EVERYBODY KNOW THAT HER FATE WOULD BE +IT SEEMED TO HIM THAT HE WAS BEING FIRED AT. “WHAT? WHAT? WHAT?... CUT +IT SEEMED TO PIERRE, SUNK IN PROFOUND AND CALM MEDITATION. HIS SERVANT +IT SEEMED TO PIERRE THAT HE GREW EMBARRASSED. PIERRE HIMSELF GREW STILL +“IT SEEMS FUNNY TO ME,” SAID PIERRE, “THAT YOU, YOU SHOULD +“IT SEEMS THAT THERE WILL BE NO NEED TO BRING MARY OUT, SUITORS ARE +“IT SEEMS THAT WHILE HE WAS ABROAD THIS YOUNG MAN WAS ALLOWED TO DO +ITSELF?” +ITSELF, A PETTY GERMAN TOWN, ROSTóV SAW THE EMPEROR AGAIN. IN THE +ITSELF, REJOICING AT THE EMPERORS’ APPROACH, HAD NATURALLY BURST INTO +ITSELF TO HIM. HE WAS ALREADY ENJOYING THAT HAPPINESS WHEN THAT +“IT’S EMPTY.” +ITS HANDSOME, SENSUAL MOUTH, AND ITS COLD, MAJESTIC EXPRESSION, WAS +IT, SHE WAS HERSELF IN SUCH HIGH SPIRITS AT THAT MOMENT, SO FAR FROM +“IT’S IMPOSSIBLE,” REPLIED ANOTHER. +“IT’S IN THE INLAID PORTFOLIO THAT HE KEEPS UNDER HIS PILLOW,” +ITS LAST MARCH THE DAY BEFORE—PRESENTED A WELL-ORDERED ARRAY OF TWO +IT’S NOT ALL THE SAME TO US! AM I NOT RIGHT, DENíSOV? IT’S NOT THE +“IT’S NOT AT ALL FROM FRIENDSHIP,” DECLARED NICHOLAS, FLARING +“IT’S NOT GOING TO BE A GHOST STORY?” SAID HE, SITTING DOWN BESIDE +“IT’S NOTHING, NOTHING; LEAVE ME ALONE!” SOBBED SóNYA. +“IT’S NOTHING,” REPLIED PRINCE ANDREW. +IT’S NOT PLEASANT, BUT WHAT’S TO BE DONE, MY DEAR FELLOW? YOU LANDED +“IT’S NOT THAT I DON’T REMEMBER—I KNOW WHAT HE IS LIKE, BUT NOT +“IT’S NOT THERE.” +“IT’S NOT TRUE!” +“IT’S PLAIN THAT THEY HAVE NOT ALL GONE YET, PRINCE,” SAID +IT’S SPLENDID. I AM VERY GLAD TO HAVE MADE YOUR ACQUAINTANCE. IT’S +“IT’S THAT PROTéGé OF YOURS, THAT SWEET PRINCESS DRUBETSKáYA, +“IT’S THE ENEMY?... NO!... YES, SEE IT IS!... FOR CERTAIN.... BUT +ITS THUNDER JOINING THE ROAR OF THE WHOLE LINE ALONG WHICH HE HAD +IT’S TOO LATE NOW WHEN VIENNA IS OCCUPIED BY THE FRENCH ARMY!” +IT’S TRUE HE HAS BEEN REINSTATED, BUT HOW COULD THEY FAIL TO DO THAT? +ITS UPPER LIP COVERED WITH TINY BLACK HAIR. +ITS USE, HE DOES NOT BELIEVE IN THE MASTER WHO MADE IT. TO KNOW HIM IS +ITS USUAL SEMBLANCE OF A SMILE. +“IT’S WONDERFUL WHAT A LOT OF OUR TROOPS HAVE GATHERED, LADS! LAST +IT. TELYáNIN TOOK THE PURSE AND BEGAN CARELESSLY SLIPPING IT INTO THE +IT TIMIDLY AND TENDERLY ON HER SON’S ARM, “BE AFFECTIONATE AND +IT TO BE ALLEGED THAT HE HAD BEEN THE FIRST TO LEAVE THE RANGE OF FIRE, +IT TO ITS DESTINATION AND MAKE USE OF IT. +IT TURNS OUT THAT ‘THE ENEMY OF THE HUMAN RACE’ PAYS NO HEED TO +IT TURNS OUT THAT WE HAVE LANDED OURSELVES IN WAR, AND WHAT IS MORE, +IT UNDER THE TERMS OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE INCLUDED WITH THIS +IT UNDER YOUR HEAD LIKE A TREASURE,” SAID ROSTóV. “I PUT IT JUST +“IT VON’T GO BEGGING,” REPLIED THE GERMAN WITH A SMILE. +IT WAS ALL THAT THEY COULD DO TO GET THE GUNS UP THE RISE AIDED BY THE +“IT WAS ALL THEY COULD DO TO RESCUE THE POOR MAN,” CONTINUED THE +IT WAS ALREADY QUITE DARK WHEN PRINCE ANDREW RATTLED OVER THE PAVED +IT WAS A WARM, RAINY, AUTUMNAL DAY. THE WIDE EXPANSE THAT OPENED OUT +IT WAS EVIDENT THAT HE DID NOT LIKE THE VICOMTE AND WAS AIMING HIS +IT WAS EVIDENT THAT HE PERFORMED HIS DUTY AS A SUBORDINATE WITH EVEN +IT WAS EVIDENT THAT PRINCE ANDREW WAS NOT INTERESTED IN SUCH ABSTRACT +IT WAS EVIDENT THAT THIS STRANGE, STRONG MAN WAS UNDER THE IRRESISTIBLE +IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO GET RID OF THEM. +IT WAS, IN FACT, SOLELY TO MEET PRINCE VASíLI THAT SHE HAD OBTAINED AN +IT WAS IN JULY, 1805, AND THE SPEAKER WAS THE WELL-KNOWN ANNA PáVLOVNA +IT WAS JUST THE MOMENT BEFORE A BIG DINNER WHEN THE ASSEMBLED GUESTS, +IT WAS LATE IN THE EVENING WHEN THEY ENTERED THE PALACE AT OLMüTZ +IT WAS LONG BEFORE THEIR CONVERSATION COULD SETTLE ON ANYTHING. THEY +IT WAS LONG SINCE ROSTóV HAD FELT SUCH ENJOYMENT FROM MUSIC AS HE +IT WAS LONG SINCE THE ROSTóVS HAD NEWS OF NICHOLAS. NOT TILL MIDWINTER +“IT WAS MY FAULT, MON PèRE,” INTERCEDED THE LITTLE PRINCESS, WITH A +IT WAS NAPOLEON ACCOMPANIED BY TWO AIDES-DE-CAMP. BONAPARTE RIDING +IT WAS NINE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING. THE FOG LAY UNBROKEN LIKE A SEA +IT WAS NO LONGER, AS BEFORE, A DARK, UNSEEN RIVER FLOWING THROUGH THE +IT WAS NOT SO, THAT I HAD NO RIGHT TO DO IT. AND SO IT TURNS OUT.” +IT WAS NOT THE DRESS, BUT THE FACE AND WHOLE FIGURE OF PRINCESS MARY +IT WAS ONE OF THOSE MARCH NIGHTS WHEN WINTER SEEMS TO WISH TO RESUME ITS +IT WAS PAST ONE O’CLOCK WHEN PIERRE LEFT HIS FRIEND. IT WAS A +IT WAS PLAIN THAT THIS CADET HAD ALREADY REPEATEDLY ASKED FOR A LIFT AND +IT WAS PLAIN THAT THIS “WELL?” REFERRED TO MUCH THAT THEY BOTH +IT WAS PLEASANT AND TOUCHING TO SEE THESE LITTLE GIRLS IN LOVE; BUT +IT WAS PRINCE ANDREW. THE FIRST THING HE SAW ON RIDING UP TO THE SPACE +IT WAS RUMORED THAT SAVARY HAD BEEN SENT TO PROPOSE TO ALEXANDER +IT WAS ST. NATALIA’S DAY AND THE NAME DAY OF TWO OF THE ROSTóVS—THE +IT WAS THAT THE PAIN DISTRACTED HIM AND PREVENTED HIS SEEING WHAT HE HAD +IT WAS, THE DISORDER WAS READILY AND NATURALLY ATTRIBUTED TO THE STUPID +“IT WAS THE OFFICER, YOUR HONOR, STAINED IT,” ANSWERED THE +IT WAS THE SECOND NIGHT THAT NEITHER OF THEM HAD SLEPT, WATCHING THE BOY +IT WAS TRUE THAT A VIEW OVER NEARLY THE WHOLE RUSSIAN POSITION AND THE +IT WERE NOT HIS. HE EXAMINED HIS HAND CAREFULLY, VAINLY TRYING TO FIND +IT WERE NOT MY DUTY I WOULD NOT TALK TO YOU FOR A MOMENT”), WAS +IT WITH YOU?...” +IT WON’T BE YOUR SKIRMISHING AT DüRRENSTEIN, OR GUNPOWDER AT ALL, +IT WORTH THINKING OR SPEAKING OF IT AT SUCH A MOMENT? AT A TIME OF SUCH +IT WOULD BE DIFFERENT IF YOU GRUDGED LOSING A LABORER—THAT’S HOW I +“IT WOULD BE GOOD,” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW, GLANCING AT THE ICON HIS +IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT FOR A FACE TO EXPRESS GREATER RESPECT AND +“IT WOULD HAVE BEEN HARD TO DRIVE UP, YOUR HONOR,” HE ADDED. “I +IT WOULD NOT ACHE—IT WOULD BE WELL—IF ONLY THEY DID NOT PULL IT, BUT +“IT WOULD NOT BE TURNED OFF THE FIELD EVEN ON THE TSARíTSIN +IT!’ ‘YES, LET’S!’ SAY THE OTHERS. AND OFF THEY GO AND TAKE THE +IT YOU TALKED ABOUT?” AND PRINCE ANDREW CROOKED A THIRD FINGER. “AH, +IVáNOVICH. HE IS IN A VERY BAD HUMOR, VERY MOROSE. BE PREPARED.” +IVáNOVICH KUTúZOV: +IVáNOVICH (WHO ALWAYS WENT INTO A CORNER TO BLOW HIS NOSE ON HIS +“I’VE BEEN SENT BACK TO THE REGIMENT ALL ON ACCOUNT OF THAT DEVIL, +“I’VE COME TO SAY GOOD-BY.” +“I’VE COME TO SIT WITH YOU A BIT, MáSHA,” SAID THE NURSE, “AND +I’VE NOTHING AGAINST IT,” THE PRINCE SAID TO HIMSELF, “BUT HE MUST +“I’VE SEEN HIM MYSELF!” +“I WANT A GREAT DEAL, COUNT! I WANT FIVE HUNDRED RUBLES,” AND TAKING +“I WANT NOTHING, AND I WON’T BE ANYONE’S ADJUTANT.” +“I WANT TO KNOW!” +“I WANT TO TEACH THIS YOUNG MAN HOW TO SHOE A HORSE,” SAID +“I WAS ATTACHED; I’M ON DUTY.” +“I WAS COMING TO TELL YOU SO.” +“I WAS GOING TO ASK YOU. I KNOW NOTHING EXCEPT THAT IT WAS ALL I COULD +I WAS RIGHT. WITHOUT BOASTING, YOU KNOW, I MAY SAY THAT I KNOW THE ARMY +I WAS SAYING, PRINCE VASíLI IS THE NEXT HEIR THROUGH HIS WIFE, BUT THE +“I WAS THERE,” SAID ROSTóV ANGRILY, AS IF INTENDING TO INSULT THE +I WAS TO BLAME FOR NOT UNDERSTANDING HER, FOR NOT UNDERSTANDING THAT +“I WAS TOLD A CHARMING MOSCOW STORY TODAY AND MUST TREAT YOU TO IT. +“I WAS VERY MUCH SURPRISED WHEN I HEARD OF IT,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. +“I? WHAT HAVE I...?” STAMMERED PIERRE. +“I WILL ALLOW NO ONE TO CALL ME A LIAR!” CRIED ROSTóV. “HE TOLD +“I WILL DO IT ALL, FATHER,” HE SAID. +“I WILL DO SO,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, MOVING AWAY FROM THE MAP. +“I WILL GIVE THE ORDER.” +“I WILL, I WILL, ONLY TELL ME! YOU WON’T? THEN I WILL GO AND TELL AT +“I WILL,” REPLIED NATáSHA. +“I WILL TELL YOU FRANKLY,” SAID PRINCE VASíLI IN THE TONE OF +“I WILL THE BRIDGE FIRE,” HE SAID IN A SOLEMN TONE AS IF TO ANNOUNCE +“I WILL, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” SAID TIMóKHIN, SHOWING BY HIS SMILE THAT +“I WISHED TO GET A NAP, MON COUSIN, BUT I CAN’T.” +“I WONDER, IS IT NOT TOO LATE TO ADMINISTER UNCTION?” ASKED THE +“I WON’T SAY HE IS OUT OF SORTS, BUT I FANCY HE WOULD LIKE TO BE +“I WON’T TELL ANYONE!” AND SHE RAN OFF AT ONCE TO SóNYA. +JABBERING! FINE, ISN’T IT? IT’S ALL THE FRENCHY CAN DO TO KEEP UP +JACKET. +“JACOB, BRING A BOTTLE!” SHOUTED THE HOST, A TALL, HANDSOME FELLOW +JAW TREMBLING AND WAS HARDLY ABLE TO MUTTER: “I DON’T KNOW... YOUR +JERKED AWAY HIS PLATE, WHICH TíKHON BRISKLY CAUGHT. “SUVóROV!... +JEST. +JESTS AND GOSSIP. +JESTS FELL FLAT, NEWS WAS NOT INTERESTING, AND THE ANIMATION WAS +JEST WAS UNACCEPTABLE AND HAD NOT COME OFF. HE GREW CONFUSED. +“JE VOUS AIME!” * HE SAID, REMEMBERING WHAT HAS TO BE SAID AT SUCH +JINGLING SOUND IT PRESENTED ARMS. THEN AMIDST A DEAD SILENCE THE +JOINED KUTúZOV AT BRAUNAU NOW SEPARATED FROM THE RUSSIAN ARMY, AND +JOINS THE ALLIES, AUSTRIA’S HAND WILL BE FORCED AND THERE WILL BE WAR. +JOKE, AND PURPOSELY TRYING TO APPEAR STUPIDER THAN HE REALLY WAS. +JOKES, SIT ON THE CANNON, AND MEANWHILE A FRENCH BATTALION GETS TO +JOLTED OVER THE STONY ROAD. SOME OF THEM WERE TALKING (HE HEARD RUSSIAN +JOVIAL OLD GENTLEMAN, WHO STANDING BESIDE HIS TALL AND STOUT PARTNER, +JOY AND HAPPINESS. ON RECEIVING THE ORDER HE GAVE HIS HORSE THE REIN +JOY AT THE APPROACH OF THE EMPERORS. ONE VOICE WAS HEARD SHOUTING: +JOYFUL AND MYSTERIOUS TAKING PLACE WITHIN HER. +JOYFUL, BUT AN ANIMAL, SQUIRREL-LIKE EXPRESSION. SHE PAUSED AS IF SHE +JOYFUL IT SEEMED, THAT HER SON, THE SCARCELY PERCEPTIBLE MOTION OF WHOSE +JOYFULLY THAT THE MEN THEMSELVES WERE AWED BY THEIR MULTITUDE AND THE +JOYFULLY UP TO PIERRE. HIS FACE WAS SO UNUSUALLY TRIUMPHANT THAT PIERRE +JOYS AND SORROWS OF THIS WORLD—OVERFLOWED THE GREAT GRIEF WITHIN HER. +JOY TO GIVE MY FRANZ A THALER, OR LET HIM GO WITH HIS LIEBCHEN TO THE +JULIE +JULIE WROTE IN FRENCH: +JUMPED DOWN. HE SMELT STRONGLY OF RUM. +JUMP, TúSHIN NOT TAKING HIS PIPE FROM HIS MOUTH RAN FROM GUN TO GUN, +JUNCTION ADVISABLE, MEANT, AMONG OTHER ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT OF HIS VIEW, +JUST ABOVE HIS EAR. +JUST AS AT ULM... IT IS...”—HE SEEMED TO BE TRYING TO FIND THE RIGHT +JUST AS HE WAS GOING TO OPEN IT THE SOUNDS CEASED, THE DOOR OPENED, AND +JUST AS HE WENT IN HE SAW THAT THE NURSE WAS HIDING SOMETHING FROM HIM +“JUST AS I MAY SUPPOSE YOU TO BE DELUDED,” SAID PIERRE, WITH A FAINT +JUST AS IN A CLOCK, THE RESULT OF THE COMPLICATED MOTION OF INNUMERABLE +JUST AS IN THE MECHANISM OF A CLOCK, SO IN THE MECHANISM OF THE MILITARY +JUST AS PRINCE ANDREW MET NESVíTSKI AND ZHERKóV, THERE CAME TOWARD +JUST AS PRINCE ANDREW WAS A YOUNG MAN WHO GAVE PROMISE OF RISING HIGH +JUST AS THE ARCHITECT, GARDENER, OR PRINCESS MARY DID, TILL THE PRINCE +JUST AS THE MOTHER AND SON, HAVING REACHED THE MIDDLE OF THE HALL, WERE +JUST AT MOMENTS WHEN SUCH THOUGHTS OCCURRED TO HIM, HE WOULD ASK IN A +JUST BEFORE DINNER, COUNT ILYá ROSTóV PRESENTED HIS SON TO BAGRATIóN, +JUST COME OUT OF A HOT BATH.” +JUST COMPLETED. HE LAY WITH HIS HEAD PROPPED HIGH ON THE PILLOWS. HIS +JUST LEFT.... IT IS TRUE THAT IT WAS HOT THERE,” HE ADDED, MODESTLY. +“JUST LOOK AT THE MASTER! A REGULAR EAGLE HE IS!” LOUDLY REMARKED +JUST RETURNED FROM ABROAD WHERE HE HAD BEEN EDUCATED, AND THIS WAS HIS +JUST RETURNED FROM VIENNA, TWO DIPLOMATISTS, THE OLD AUNT, A YOUNG MAN +“JUST SEE, THE GERMAN SAUSAGE IS MAKING TRACKS, TOO!” +“JUST SEE WHERE IT CARRIES TO!” A SOLDIER NEAR BY SAID STERNLY, +JUST SUCH A STORY—THEY WOULD EITHER NOT HAVE BELIEVED HIM OR, STILL +JUST THEN A CLOSED CARRIAGE AND ANOTHER WITH A HOOD DROVE UP TO THE +JUST THEN ANOTHER VISITOR ENTERED THE DRAWING ROOM: PRINCE ANDREW +JUST THEN AT A DISTANCE BEHIND KUTúZOV WAS HEARD THE SOUND OF REGIMENTS +JUST THEN ZHERKóV ENTERED THE ROOM. +“JUST TO FLUTTER THE NUNS A BIT. THEY SAY THERE ARE ITALIAN GIRLS +JUST UNDER THE ICONS; HIS LARGE THICK HANDS OUTSIDE THE QUILT. INTO THE +JUST VISIBLE BEHIND A SCREEN. A SMALL DOG BEGAN TO BARK. +KAISER ALEXANDER HOCH!” *(2) SAID HE, QUOTING WORDS OFTEN REPEATED BY +KáMENSKI, VISITED THE ENGLISH CLUB, AND WAS ON INTIMATE TERMS WITH A +KARL GIVE NO SIGNS OF LIFE AND MAKE BLUNDER AFTER BLUNDER. KUTúZOV +KEEN INTEREST IN THE WHOLE AFFAIR. YOU KNOW SHE IS VERY GRACIOUS TO +KEEN-SIGHTED A COMPANION. “YOU KNOW, YOU SEE RIGHT THROUGH PEOPLE. +KEEP FROM LAUGHTER PROVOKED BY A SWARTHY HUSSAR OFFICER WHO WALKED +KEEPING PIERRE CLOSE BESIDE HER, ENTERED THE ROOM EVEN MORE BOLDLY THAN +KEEP YOU LONG AS AN ADJUTANT: A BAD POSITION! TELL HIM I REMEMBER +KEPT COMING INTO HER EYES. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, WITH THE LETTER, CAME ON +KEPT LOOKING ROUND TOWARD THE DRAWING ROOM DOOR. IT OPENED AND NICHOLAS +KEPT TURNING HIS HORSE IN FRONT OF THE SQUADRON. +KERCHIEF, AND THE LOOSE SKIN THAT HUNG UNDER HER CHIN. +KIEV PROVINCE, WHERE HE HAD THE GREATEST NUMBER OF SERFS, TAKING WITH +KILLED AND IF I HAVE A SON, DO NOT LET HIM BE TAKEN AWAY FROM YOU—AS I +KILLED ANYONE, OR INSULTED OR WISHED HARM TO ANYONE? WHY SUCH A TERRIBLE +KILLED BY A CANNON BALL—STRUCK IN THE BREAST BEFORE OUR REGIMENT.” +KILLED.” ROOK TRIED TO RISE ON HIS FORELEGS BUT FELL BACK, PINNING HIS +KILLED THEM, YES!” SAID HE, FROWNING ANGRILY AND TURNING AWAY FROM +KILLED, YOU ARE A FOOL AND ARE LOST FOR CERTAIN. BUT GO WITH THE FIRM +KILL ME.” BUT AT THE SAME TIME, HIS LEFT ARM FELT AS HEAVY AS IF +“KILL THE GERMANS!” SHOUTED ONE. +KIND, BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN A BENEFACTOR TO THEM BOTH. AS STERNE SAYS: +KINDHEARTED, AND BECAUSE THEY—FRIENDS FROM CHILDHOOD—HAD TO THINK +KINDLE FIRES AND MAKE A NOISE TO DECEIVE US.” +KINDLE IN ALL HEARTS THE FLAME OF VIRTUE. SHARE THY HAPPINESS WITH THY +“KIND...LY LET—THEM—PASS!” +“KINDLY LET THIS CART PASS. DON’T YOU SEE IT’S A WOMAN?” SAID +“KINDLY RETURN TO YOUR POSTS,” SAID THE STAFF OFFICER TRYING TO +KINDLY, SMILING, HANDSOME FACE AND MOIST EYES. NESVíTSKI COULD HARDLY +KINDNESS!” HE TURNED TO GO. +KINDNESS,” OR, “WITH YOUR EXCELLENT HEART,” “YOU ARE YOURSELF SO +KIND OF TALK, AND AT LAST ALL STOPPED. AS OFTEN HAPPENS, THE HORSES OF +KIND RELATION. BUT, NATALY, YOU KNOW MY LOVE FOR MY SON: I WOULD DO +KINDS OVERTAKING ONE ANOTHER AND BLOCKING THE MUDDY ROAD, THREE AND +KIND SPRANG FROM A SECOND DOOR AND A THIRD; MORE HUGGING, MORE KISSING, +KIND, THAT IS THE CHIEF THING,” THOUGHT PRINCESS MARY; AND FEAR, WHICH +KING FRANCIS IS NOT MUCH DELIGHTED BY YOUR VICTORY. EVEN I, A POOR +KING OF PRUSSIA AND OTHERS: ‘SO MUCH THE WORSE FOR YOU. TU L’AS +KING OF PRUSSIA WHAT HE IS TO DO IF HE IS SUMMONED TO SURRENDER.... ALL +KíRSTEN. THE STAFF CAPTAIN ON HIS BROAD-BACKED, STEADY MARE CAME AT A +KISSED. HER FATHER IN JEST TRIED TO ROUSE HER JEALOUSY, AND SHE REPLIED +KISSED HER FOREHEAD. +KISSED HER HAND, PRESENTING TO HER HIS BALD, SCENTED, AND SHINING HEAD, +KISSED HIM AT THE SAME TIME. ONLY HIS MOTHER WAS NOT THERE, HE NOTICED +KISSED HIM THREE TIMES. +KISSED MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE’S HAND. (THIS WAS NOT ETIQUETTE, BUT +KISSED PRINCESS MARY’S HAND. SHE DID NOT KNOW HOW SHE FOUND THE +KISSES. HER LOOKS ASKED HIM TO FORGIVE HER FOR HAVING DARED, BY +KISSING EACH OTHER ON THE FACE, AND THEN TO PRINCE ANDREW’S SURPRISE +KISSING HER HAND, HE LEFT THE ROOM WITH QUICK RESOLUTE STRIDES, WITHOUT +KISS ME,” AND HE OFFERED HIS CHEEK. +“KISS ME HERE,” AND HE TOUCHED HIS CHEEK: “THANKS, THANKS!” +“KISS THE DOLL,” SAID SHE. +KITTEN WHICH PROMISES TO BECOME A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE CAT. SHE EVIDENTLY +KNAPSACKS, BAYONETS, LONG MUSKETS, AND, UNDER THE SHAKOS, FACES WITH +KNAPSACKS CONVEYED ON CARTS, AND THE AUSTRIAN AUTHORITIES HAD PROVIDED +KNEES, SOME SQUATTING TURKISH FASHION ON THE WET GRASS. +KNEE WITH THE PALM OF HIS HAND. +KNEW....” +KNEW THAT. WHAT WILL BE THE RESULT? THAT I SHALL BE THE LAUGHINGSTOCK OF +KNEW THAT WHEN IT APPEARED ON HER FACE, SHE BECAME MUTE AND WAS NOT TO +KNEW TILL AFTER EIGHT O’CLOCK. +KNEW WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO HIM AS HE KNEW IT HIMSELF. +KNEW WHAT THOSE SOCIETY WOMEN ARE, AND WOMEN IN GENERAL! MY FATHER IS +KNIGHT. “I’M EVEN WEADY TO DANCE THE PAS DE CHâLE.” +KNITTING A STRIPED SCARF FOR HIM. +KNITTING, WENT TO THE WINDOW AND LEANING OUT TRIED TO CATCH THE OPEN +KNOCKED THREE OF THEM OVER. +KNOCKING OVER TWO HORSES AND ANOTHER TEARING OFF A MUNITION-WAGON +KNOLL; IF THEY HAD RETREATED THEY WOULD HAVE WITHDRAWN FROM THAT TOO.... +KNOW!” +KNOW ALL ABOUT IT AND UNDERSTAND IT ALL,” HE SAID. “YOU BEHAVED AS +KNOW, AND KNOW FOR CERTAIN, THAT THE ENJOYMENT OF DOING THIS GOOD IS THE +KNOW, BUT HE FELT SURE IT WOULD DO SO. THE LOCALITY AND THE POSITION OF +KNOW GOD AND HATE YOUR LIFE. THERE IS NOTHING STRANGE IN THAT, MY DEAR +KNOW HIS CHARACTER: NOBLE, UPRIGHT ... BUT YOU SEE HE HAS NO ONE WITH +KNOW HOW FOND THE COUNT IS OF HER.” +KNOW HOW TO DANCE, HAD LIKED SITTING IN THIS ROOM TO WATCH THE LADIES +KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM.” +KNOW HOW TO EQUIP BORíS.” SHE TOOK OUT HER HANDKERCHIEF AND BEGAN TO +KNOW HOW TO EXPRESS IT ... NOT BY A BALANCE OF POLITICAL POWER....” +KNOWING HOW. FIRST HE SPUN HER ROUND, HOLDING HER NOW WITH HIS LEFT, NOW +KNOWING THAT DENíSOV HAD A REPUTATION EVEN IN POLAND FOR THE MASTERLY +KNOW IT IS ALL OVER, AND FOREVER.” +KNOWLEDGE. +KNOW MY PRINCIPLES—EVERYTHING ABOVEBOARD! I WILL ASK HER TOMORROW IN +KNOW MYSELF AGAIN.” +KNOW MY SON’S GOING, MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA? MY SON IS GOING.” +KNOWN AS LA FEMME LA PLUS SéDUISANTE DE PéTERSBOURG, * WAS ALSO THERE. +KNOWN). DRAWING NEARER, HE RECOGNIZED IN THE RHETOR A MAN HE KNEW, + KNOWS BY EXPERIENCE, NOW, BAGRATIóN, +KNOW THAT OURSELVES!” ANOTHER, WITHOUT LOOKING ROUND, AS THOUGH +KNOW! THE PRUSSIANS ARE UP IN ARMS NOW. THE AUSTRIANS, YOU SEE, ARE +“KNOW THIS, MáSHA: I CAN’T REPROACH, HAVE NOT REPROACHED, AND NEVER +KNOW WHAT IT IS TO BE LEFT A WIDOW WITHOUT MEANS AND WITH A SON YOU LOVE +KNOW YOURSELF THAT LAST WINTER THE COUNT MADE A WILL BY WHICH HE LEFT +KóRCHEVO—A CERTAIN KHANDRIKóV—IS UP TO; TILL NOW THE ADDITIONAL +KOZLóVSKI WERE SQUATTING ON THE FLOOR BY A TUB SO NEAR TO THE COMMANDER +KOZLóVSKI, WHO WAS SITTING AT THE WINDOW WITH A BOOK. +KRONQ,—CHARGé D’AFFAIRES FROM COPENHAGEN—A PROFOUND INTELLECT,” +“KURáGIN IS EXQUISITE WHEN HE DISCUSSES POLITICS—YOU SHOULD SEE HIS +KURáGINS’. ALL MAINTAINED A SOLEMN SILENCE, LISTENING TO THE WORDS +KURáGIN WAS EXPECTING THE USUAL SET FOR CARDS THAT EVENING, AFTER WHICH + *KUTúZOV. +KUTúZOV. +KUTúZOV ACCOMPANIED BY HIS ADJUTANTS RODE AT A WALKING PACE BEHIND THE +KUTúZOV BOWED WITH THE SAME SMILE. +KUTúZOV CHOSE THIS LATTER COURSE. +KUTúZOV DID NOT REPLY. HE SEEMED TO HAVE FORGOTTEN WHAT HE HAD BEEN +KUTúZOV FELL BACK TOWARD VIENNA, DESTROYING BEHIND HIM THE BRIDGES OVER +KUTúZOV HERE WOKE UP, COUGHED HEAVILY, AND LOOKED ROUND AT THE +KUTúZOV, HE WAS SENT IMMEDIATELY WITH A SPECIAL DISPATCH TO BRüNN. +KUTúZOV LAUGHED BITTERLY. +KUTúZOV LOOKED STERNLY AT HIS ADJUTANT AND, AFTER A PAUSE, REPLIED: +KUTúZOV NO ONE SPOKE OF, EXCEPT SOME WHO ABUSED HIM IN WHISPERS, +KUTúZOV ... RECOMMEND BORíS TO HIM AS ADJUTANT! THEN I SHALL BE AT +KUTúZOV’S, COLLECTED IN GROUPS AND BEGAN TO TALK ABOUT THE AWARDS, +KUTúZOV’S EXPECTATIONS THAT THE PROPOSALS OF CAPITULATION (WHICH WERE +KUTúZOV’S FACE AS HE STOOD IN THE OPEN DOORWAY REMAINED PERFECTLY +KUTúZOV’S HEADQUARTERS AND THE STAFFS OF THE COMMANDERS OF COLUMNS. +KUTúZOV SIGHED DEEPLY ON FINISHING THIS PARAGRAPH AND LOOKED AT THE +KUTúZOV’S SUITE LIKE A FLOCK OF LITTLE BIRDS. +KUTúZOV’S WHOLE ARMY. TO BE ABLE TO CRUSH IT ABSOLUTELY HE AWAITED +KUTúZOV, THERE IS NOT A SINGLE RUSSIAN IN COMMAND OF A COLUMN! THE +KUTúZOV TURNED AWAY. THE SAME SMILE OF THE EYES WITH WHICH HE HAD +KUTúZOV TURNED ROUND WITHOUT ANSWERING AND HIS EYE HAPPENED TO FALL +KUTúZOV WALKED SLOWLY AND LANGUIDLY PAST THOUSANDS OF EYES WHICH WERE +KUTúZOV WALKED THROUGH THE RANKS, SOMETIMES STOPPING TO SAY A FEW +KUTúZOV WAS LEFT WITH ONLY HIS OWN WEAK AND EXHAUSTED FORCES. THE +KUTúZOV WAS OCCUPYING A NOBLEMAN’S CASTLE OF MODEST DIMENSIONS NEAR +KUTúZOV WENT OUT INTO THE PORCH WITH BAGRATIóN. +KUTúZOV, WHERE HE INQUIRED FOR BOLKóNSKI, ALL THE ADJUTANTS AND EVEN +KUTúZOV, WHOM HE HAD OVERTAKEN IN POLAND, HAD RECEIVED HIM VERY KINDLY, +KUTúZOV WITH HIS EAGLE NOSE AND PUFFY FACE APPEARED IN THE DOORWAY. +KUTúZOV WITH HIS STAFF AND ALL OF US COUNT FOR NOTHING. EVERYTHING IS +KUTúZOV, WITH HIS SUITE DIMINISHED BY MORE THAN HALF, RODE TOWARD A +KUTúZOV, WITH HIS UNIFORM UNBUTTONED SO THAT HIS FAT NECK BULGED OVER +KUTúZOV WRITES...” AND HE SCREAMED AS PIERCINGLY AS IF HE WISHED TO +KUZMíCH, ASKING WHAT THE POINT OF THE STORY WAS AS HE HAD NOT HEARD IT +“KUZMíCH... FROM ALL SIDES... AND THEN TEARS,” SOMEONE REPEATED +“LA BALANCE Y EST... * A GERMAN KNOWS HOW TO SKIN A FLINT, AS THE +LABOR BUT SHOULD DIE OF IT IN A WEEK, SO HE COULD NOT STAND MY PHYSICAL +LABOR IS AS ESSENTIAL TO HIM, AS MUCH A CONDITION OF HIS EXISTENCE, AS +LABOR WAS THUS INCREASED, THOUGH LESSENED ON PAPER. HE DID NOT KNOW +LACKEYS WHO CARE NOTHING FOR THEIR MASTER’S BUSINESS. QUARANTE MILLE +LACK THE BUMP OF PATERNITY.” +LAD,” HE SAID, ADDRESSING HIS FAVORITE SOLDIER. “AND WHERE IS THE +LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THAN ROSTóV HAD EVER EXPECTED TO SEE HIM. +LADIES AND, LEANING ON HIS SABER AND BEATING TIME WITH HIS FOOT, TOLD +LADIES’ END AN EVEN CHATTER OF VOICES WAS HEARD ALL THE TIME, AT THE +LADIES—” HE TURNED WITH THE SAME REQUEST TO DENíSOV WHO WAS ALSO A +LAD JUMPED AWKWARDLY BACK INTO THE ROOM, TRIPPING OVER HIS SPURS. +LAD’S A FINE FELLOW, A FINE FELLOW! WELL, COME WITH ME NOW.” HE TOOK +“LADS! HERE’S TO OUR SOVEREIGN, THE EMPEROR, AND VICTORY OVER +“LADS!” SHOUTED MILORáDOVICH IN A LOUD, SELF-CONFIDENT, AND CHEERY +LADY, ADDING THE PRIEST’S CLERICAL TITLE, AS IF SHE HAD NO OPINION OF +LADY VISITOR. +“LA FEMME EST LA COMPAGNE DE L’HOMME,” * ANNOUNCED PRINCE +LAIN IN AMBUSH IN A DITCH, NOW ATTACKED THE FRENCH UNEXPECTEDLY. +LAMP, SHE STOOD BEFORE IT WITH FOLDED HANDS FOR A FEW MOMENTS. A PAINFUL +LANCES AND THE UNFOLDED STANDARDS FLUTTERED AGAINST THEIR STAFFS. IT +LANGERON’S OBJECTIONS WERE VALID BUT IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT THEIR CHIEF +LANGERON, TRYING AS VIRULENTLY AS POSSIBLE TO STING WEYROTHER’S VANITY +LANGERON, WITH A SUBTLY IRONICAL SMILE, AGAIN GLANCING ROUND FOR SUPPORT +LANGUAGE: ENGLISH +LANNES AND WAS THROWN INTO CONFUSION. BAGRATIóN HAD SENT ZHERKóV +LARGE AND HANDSOME EYES. HE REGARDED HIS WHOLE LIFE AS A CONTINUAL ROUND +LARGE DARK BALLROOM. ALL WAS THE SAME: THERE WERE THE SAME OLD CARD +LARGE ESTATE, BOGUCHáROVO, ABOUT TWENTY-FIVE MILES FROM BALD HILLS. +LARGE LEATHER SOFA FROM PRINCE ANDREW’S STUDY INTO THE BEDROOM. ON +LARGE, NEWLY FURNISHED PETERSBURG HOUSE, THE HAPPY POSSESSOR, AS PEOPLE +LARGER CIRCLE. +LARGEST LANDOWNER OF THE PROVINCE. TEMPTATIONS TO PIERRE’S GREATEST +LARREY, WAS MUCH MORE LIKELY TO END IN DEATH THAN IN CONVALESCENCE. +LASHES, THICK BLACK PLAITS COILING TWICE ROUND HER HEAD, AND A TAWNY +LAST CAMPAIGN, PRINCE PETER IVáNOVICH BAGRATIóN!” AND AGAIN HIS BLUE +LAST DECIDING SERIOUSLY TO PROVE TO THIS YOUTH HOW FOOLISH HIS WORDS +LAST FEW DAYS. THE ANTAGONISTS STOOD FORTY PACES APART AT THE FARTHER +LAST INTERVIEW WITH THE GENTLEMAN-RANKER—“THAT PRIVATE DóLOKHOV, +LAST LONG? IT’S ALL THE CLUB AND HIS EASYGOING NATURE. EVEN IN THE +LAST MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE GAVE A SCREAM AND RAN AWAY. ANATOLE BOWED TO +LAST MOMENTS BY NOT LETTING HIM COMMIT THIS INJUSTICE, AND NOT TO LET +LAST ONLY HIS WHITE PLUMES WERE VISIBLE TO ROSTóV FROM AMID THE SUITES +LAST REMAINING STRENGTH, TOOK HOLD OF HIS LEFT HAND WITH HIS RIGHT, AND +LAST SUMMER, IS SO NOBLE-MINDED AND FULL OF THAT REAL YOUTHFULNESS WHICH +LAST TIME. AND SUDDENLY, IN THE MOST CASUAL TONE, WHICH MADE HIM FEEL +LAST UPDATED: JANUARY 21, 2019 +LATE IN STARTING HER PRACTICE ON THE CLAVICHORD, WENT INTO THE SITTING +“LATE! IT’S NEARLY TEN O’CLOCK,” ANSWERED NATáSHA’S VOICE. +LATER ON. OH, HOW GLAD I AM TO HAVE YOU!” +LATEST CUT, SUCH AS NO ONE ELSE YET HAD IN MOSCOW, AND BOOTS OF THE +LATEST FASHION, WITH EXTREMELY POINTED TOES AND SMALL SILVER SPURS, +LATE THAT NIGHT, WHEN ALL HAD SEPARATED, DENíSOV WITH HIS SHORT HAND +LATHE AND, AS USUAL, DID NOT LOOK ROUND AT HER. +LATHE?” ASKED PRINCE ANDREW WITH A SCARCELY PERCEPTIBLE SMILE WHICH +LATTERLY SPENT WHOLE DAYS AT HOME, THAT IS, IN PRINCE VASíLI’S HOUSE +LATTER THREW UP HIS ARMS IN SURPRISE SAYING IT WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND +LAUGH. +LAUGH. AND THEY, TOO, PASSED ON, SO THAT NESVíTSKI DID NOT LEARN WHO +LAUGHED. +LAUGHED. +LAUGHED AT EVERY WORD HE SAID OR THAT SHE SAID HERSELF, NOT BECAUSE WHAT +LAUGHED. “I DREAMED LAST NIGHT...”—“YOU WERE NOT EXPECTING +LAUGHED LOUDEST. +LAUGHED SPASMODICALLY AS HE STOOD IN THE PORCH WAITING FOR THE VICOMTE +LAUGHED. “VéRA’S SPITEFUL; NEVER MIND HER! AND ALL WILL COME RIGHT +LAUGHING. +LAUGHING. +LAUGHING. “DEAR, DEAR!...” +LAUGHING FOR SOME REASON AND SHAKING HIMSELF FREE. +LAUGHING, “‘SERGéY KUZMíCH... FROM ALL SIDES... FROM ALL SIDES... +LAUGHTER LED BY NATáSHA. BOTH PARTNERS STOOD STILL, BREATHING HEAVILY +LAUGHTER THAT CONVULSED HIS USUALLY IMPASSIVE FEATURES. +LAUGHTER, THE SHOUTING OF FAMILIAR VOICES, THE GROWLING OF A BEAR, AND +LAVRúSHKA TURNED ALL THE BEDDING OVER, LOOKED UNDER THE BED AND UNDER +“LAVWúSKA!” HE SHOUTED LOUDLY AND ANGRILY, “TAKE IT OFF, +LAWS OF ITS DIVINE SAVIOUR, WHO PREACHED LOVE AND FORGIVENESS OF +LAY ACROSS THE BED WITH HIS HEAD LOWER THAN THE PILLOW, AND WAS SMACKING +LAY IN THE GENERAL PROGRESS OF THE WAR. WHEN HE SAW MACK AND HEARD THE +LAZILY AND ADVANCED AND AGAIN HALTED, RECEIVING NO TIMELY ORDERS FROM +LEADER, CALLED LES NôTRES. * THIS SET, CONSISTING ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY OF +LEADING THE TSAR’S BEAUTIFUL RELAY HORSES COVERED WITH EMBROIDERED +LEAF, GAVE IT TO KOZLóVSKI, STEPPED QUICKLY TO THE WINDOW, AND THREW +LEANED HIS ARMS ON THE BACK OF THE SOFA AND CLOSED HIS EYES. PIERRE +LEANING HIS ELBOW ON HIS KNEE AND COVERING HIS FACE WITH HIS HAND. AFTER +LEANING WITH HIS ARMS ON THE BACK OF THE SOFA, SAT IN HIS FORMER +LEAPING THE FURROWS, HE FLED ACROSS THE FIELD WITH THE IMPETUOSITY HE +LEARNED THAT DóLOKHOV THE BRAWLER, DóLOKHOV THE BULLY, LIVED IN MOSCOW +LEARN FROM SUVóROV EVEN SO SIMPLE A THING AS THE ART OF CROWING LIKE A +LEARNING THAT HE WAS A SPECIAL MESSENGER LED HIM TO ANOTHER ENTRANCE. +LEARNING, WAS WELL BROUGHT UP, AND HAD A PLEASANT VOICE; WHAT SHE SAID +LEAST DISCONCERTED BY THIS RECEPTION. HE HAD JUST ENTERED, WEARING AN +LEAST HAVE SOME FOR MY SAKE! SHE MUST BE SHOWN THAT THE BLOCKHEAD THINKS +“LEAVE IT,” SAID DóLOKHOV, THOUGH HE DID NOT SEEM TO BE EVEN +“LEAVE ME ALONE, PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE! IT IS ALL QUITE THE SAME TO +LEAVE ME ALONE WITH HIM!” +LEAVE OF HER AND OF LISE, HIS LOOK TENDER YET PROUD. SHE SAW HIM TENDER +LEAVE OF ROSTóV IN THE CLUB PORCH. +LEAVE YOU COLD A THOUSAND TIMES AND THE THOUSAND AND FIRST TIME THRILL +LE CHARMANT HIPPOLYTE WAS SURPRISING BY HIS EXTRAORDINARY RESEMBLANCE +LED ALONG A CERTAIN CARPET. AFTER THAT THEY TOOK HIS RIGHT HAND, PLACED +LEFT...” A FAT MAJOR SKIRTED A BUSH, PUFFING AND FALLING OUT OF +LEFT ALONE, PIERRE WENT ON SMILING IN THE SAME WAY. ONCE OR TWICE +LEFT BANK OF THE DANUBE AND TOOK UP A POSITION FOR THE FIRST TIME +LEFT BREAST, AND STOOPING DOWN PULLED UP THE LEFT LEG OF HIS TROUSERS +LEFT BUT TO DIE?” HE THOUGHT. “WELL, IF NEED BE, I SHALL DO IT NO +LEFT FOOT BEGAN CONVULSIVELY TAPPING THE HORSE’S SIDE WITH THE SPUR, +LEFT HIM, RUBBING HIS SMALL WHITE HANDS. +LEFT LIKE THIS. EVERY MOMENT IS PRECIOUS. I CAN’T THINK WHY HIS NIECES +LEFT THE CHAIR ON WHICH HE HAD BEEN LEANING, AND—WITH AN AIR +LEGAL HEIR TO EVERYTHING AND YOU WON’T GET ANYTHING. YOU MUST KNOW, +LEGS AND TURNED-OUT TOES, CLIMBED THE HILL WITH DIFFICULTY.) PRINCE +LEGS, LOOKED DIRECTLY AT PRINCE VASíLI WITH NO SIGN OF EMOTION IN HER +LëLYA’S NAME DAY. I WILL INVITE TWO OR THREE PEOPLE, AND IF HE DOES +LEMARROIS HAD JUST ARRIVED AT A GALLOP WITH BONAPARTE’S STERN LETTER, +LENGTH PORTRAIT OF CATHERINE THE GREAT. THE SAME PEOPLE WERE STILL +LEONINE HEAD. THIS HEAD, WITH ITS REMARKABLY BROAD BROW AND CHEEKBONES, +“LE ROI DE PRUSSE?” HIPPOLYTE SAID INTERROGATIVELY, AGAIN LAUGHING, +LESS A PREY TO EVIL AND DEATH?—DEATH WHICH ENDS ALL AND MUST COME +LESS, ATE LESS, SLEPT LESS, AND BECAME WEAKER EVERY DAY. PRINCESS MARY +LESSON, WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE: “MATHEMATICS ARE MOST IMPORTANT, MADAM! +LESS SINCERELY THAN THE TWENTY-YEAR-OLD ROSTóV. +LESS THAN YOU DO, BUT BE A MAN!” +“LET GO, I TELL YOU! I WILL TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY. I MYSELF WILL GO +LET HER KNOW.” +“LET HIM DO IT, LET HIM DO IT,” SAID DóLOKHOV, SMILING. +LET HIM DO WHAT HE VILL, BUT I CANNOT SACRIFICE MY HUSSARS... BUGLER, +“LET’S COME, QUICK, QUICK!” AND WITH A GLANCE ROUND, SHE SMILED AT +LETTER. +LETTER. +LETTER. +LETTER ARE NOT DESTROYED, THEN YOU WILL HAVE NOTHING BUT THE CONSOLATION +LETTER FROM HOME AND MEET ONE OF YOUR OWN PEOPLE WHOM YOU WANT TO TALK +LETTER, HE NOW WAS. +LETTERS SENT THROUGH THE EMBASSY AND ALL THE SEARCHES MADE, HIS BODY HAD +LETTERS THAT HAD COME FROM THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND, WHO WAS IN COMMAND OF +LETTERS TO NICHOLAS FROM ALL THE HOUSEHOLD WERE WRITTEN AND COPIED OUT, +LETTERS TO PRINCESS MARY’S APARTMENTS, BUT DID NOT FIND HIM THERE. HE +LETTER TO MURAT: +LETTER TO THE EMPEROR BEGGING HIM TO RECOGNIZE PIERRE AS LEGITIMATE, IT +“LET THEM PASS, I TELL YOU!” REPEATED PRINCE ANDREW, COMPRESSING HIS +LET THEMSELVES BE TRICKED AT THE CROSSING OF THE VIENNA BRIDGE, YOU ARE +LETTING THE RETREATING COMPANIES PASS BY THEM, WHEN A SOLDIER CAME UP +LETTING YOURSELF BE TRICKED BY AN AIDE-DE-CAMP OF THE EMPEROR. +“LET US GO AND HAVE SUPPER,” HE SAID WITH A SIGH, GOING TO THE DOOR. +“LET US GO, IVáN LUKíCH,” HE SAID TO THE CAPTAIN. +“LET US GO OURSELVES. I ONLY CAME ROUND TO ASK DENíSOV ABOUT +“LET US GO TO HER, I MUST SAY GOOD-BY. OR—GO AND WAKE AND I’LL +“LIBERTY AND EQUALITY,” SAID THE VICOMTE CONTEMPTUOUSLY, AS IF AT +LIBERTY NOT TO BELIEVE ME AND I DON’T EVEN CARE WHETHER YOU DO OR +LICHTENSTEIN, LE PRINCE, DE HOHENLOHE, AND FINALLY PRISHPRISH, AND SO ON +LID, DREW OUT A DRAWER, AND TOOK OUT AN EXERCISE BOOK FILLED WITH HIS +LIEUTENANT GENERAL, OUR DEAR PRINCE AUERSPERG VON MAUTERN HIMSELF. +LIFE, ALL ALONE—FOR PAPA IS ALWAYS BUSY, AND I... WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT +LIFE, AND CAN’T, FOR I KNOW NO OTHER. BUT THINK, ANDREW: FOR A YOUNG +LIFE, AND THAT OF THE SEVEN VIRTUES HE LACKED TWO—MORALITY AND THE +“LIFE AS IT IS LEAVES ONE NO PEACE. I SHOULD BE THANKFUL TO DO +LIFE FROM YOURS. I DON’T WISH TO MARRY,” SHE ANSWERED POSITIVELY, +LIFE GUARDS, WHO HAD BEEN LOSING THAT EVENING, CLIMBED ON THE WINDOW +LIFE, HE FELT AN UNACCOUNTABLE TENDERNESS FOR THIS YOUNG MAN AND MADE UP +LIFE: REMORSE AND ILLNESS. THE ONLY GOOD IS THE ABSENCE OF THOSE EVILS. +LIFE TOGETHER WERE STRIPPED, SO THAT THE SCREW COULD NOT GET IN OR OUT, +LIFE, WHICH SEEMED TO HIM SO BEAUTIFUL NOW THAT HE HAD TODAY LEARNED TO +LIFTED IN CHILDLIKE HAPPINESS. +LIFT HIS STICK AGAIN BUT HURRIED INTO THE HOUSE. +“LIFT IT TWO LINES MORE AND IT WILL BE JUST RIGHT,” CRIED HE IN A +LIGHT BLUE VIENNESE CALèCHE, SLIGHTLY CREAKING ON ITS SPRINGS AND DRAWN +LIGHTED MIRRORS WHICH REPEATED THEIR REFLECTIONS SEVERAL TIMES. NOW +LIGHT. IT WAS EVIDENT THAT THE MORE LIFELESS HE SEEMED AT ORDINARY +LIGHTLY, MORE LIGHTLY, AND YET MORE LIGHTLY WHIRLED THE COUNT, FLYING +LIGHTS AND SHOUTS IN THE ENEMY’S CAMP. ROSTóV RODE UP TO BAGRATIóN, +LIGHTS OF SHOPS, HOUSES, AND STREET LAMPS, FINE CARRIAGES, AND ALL THAT +LIKE A BIRD THAN A MAN.” +LIKE A CHILD, HE FELL INTO A DEEP, YOUTHFUL SLUMBER. +LIKE A HORSE RUNNING DOWNHILL HARNESSED TO A HEAVY CART. WHETHER HE WAS +LIKE ALL THOSE POLISH NAMES.” +LIKED TO. HE LOOKED INQUIRINGLY AT HIS MONITRESS AND SAW THAT SHE WAS +LIKED TO HELP YOUNG MEN, WAS FLATTERED BY BEING ASKED FOR HIS ASSISTANCE +LIKED TO REPEAT TO HERSELF. IT WAS THE STORY OF A GIRL WHO HAD BEEN +LIKED TO TELL HIM. HE GATHERED UP THE PAPERS AND WITH A BOW TO BOTH, +LIKE HIS OWN, AT THE FIRING, AND WENT BACK AT A FOOTPACE. “WELL, SOME +LIKELY THE DOCTOR.” +LIKE METHOD OF ENLIGHTENMENT. OUR ORDER IMITATES THE ANCIENT SOCIETIES +LIKES HER WAY OF READING. SHE READS TO HIM IN THE EVENINGS AND READS +LIKE STRANGERS.” +LIKE THAT SIX MONTHS AGO?” +LIKE THE OTHERS, ANNA PáVLOVNA SCHéRER SHOWED PIERRE THE CHANGE OF +LIKE THESE IF ONE HAS ANY FEELING?” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA. “YOU ARE +LIKE WIND OVER LEAVES RAN AN EXCITED WHISPER: “THEY’RE COMING! +LINE AND THAT OF THE ENEMY WERE FAR APART ON THE RIGHT AND LEFT FLANKS, +LINE; AND THE AUSTRIAN TROOPS. BUT THEY ALL STOOD IN THE SAME LINES, +LINE FOLLOWED THEM ACROSS AND THE LAST COSSACKS QUITTED THE FARTHER SIDE +LINE, FOR FROM WHERE THEY HAD BEEN BEFORE IT HAD BEEN EVIDENT THAT IT +LINEN SHIRT UNFASTENED IN FRONT. “WAIT A BIT, YOU FELLOWS.... HERE IS +LINE OF THE ADVANCING RUSSIAN COLUMNS. EVIDENTLY THE PERSON THEY WERE +LINES OF ARTILLERY WITH GREEN CAISSONS. +LINE (THE GUARDS) WAS ALREADY IN ACTION. +LINE—THE OFFICERS HAD BEEN UNABLE TO KEEP SIGHT-SEERS AWAY. THE +LINE TO RECONNOITER PERSONALLY, AND TWICE TO THE EMPERORS, RUSSIAN AND +LINGERED FOR A MOMENT. +LINK WHICH OTHER PEOPLE RECOGNIZED HAD GROWN UP BETWEEN HIMSELF AND +LIPS. +LIPS AND MET THEM WITH HER OWN. HER FACE STRUCK PIERRE, BY ITS ALTERED, +“LISE, I BEG YOU TO DESIST,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW STILL MORE +LISE. I WILL FOLLOW.” +“LISE!” SAID PRINCE ANDREW DRYLY, RAISING HIS VOICE TO THE PITCH +LISE SIGHED TOO. +LISE? TAKE HER TO YOUR ROOM AND I’LL GO TO FATHER. HOW IS HE? JUST THE +“LISE!” WAS ALL PRINCE ANDREW SAID. BUT THAT ONE WORD EXPRESSED +LISE, YOUNG BOLKóNSKI’S WIFE, THIS VERY EVENING, AND PERHAPS THE +“LISTEN, DEAR ANNETTE,” SAID THE PRINCE, SUDDENLY TAKING ANNA +LISTENED ATTENTIVELY. HIS FAVORITE OCCUPATION WHEN NOT PLAYING BOSTON, A +LISTENED, REFRAINING FROM A REPLY, AND INVOLUNTARILY WONDERED HOW THIS +LISTENED TO HIS REGULAR BREATHING. THE DARK SHADOW WAS PRINCESS MARY, +LISTENED TO THE RHETOR IN SILENCE, FEELING FROM ALL HE SAID THAT HIS +LISTENING TO AN OLD RUSSIAN GENERAL WITH DECORATIONS, WHO STOOD VERY +LISTENING TO BILíBIN HE WAS ALREADY IMAGINING HOW ON REACHING THE ARMY +LISTENING TO THE GYPSIES AND OTHER SINGERS. +“LISTEN!” SAID HE; “DON’T WORRY ABOUT YOUR WIFE: WHAT CAN BE +LISTEN TO HIS TALE. +“LISTEN TO ME, PRINCE,” SAID SHE. “I HAVE NEVER YET ASKED YOU +LISTEN, WHILE WAITING TILL IT WOULD BE TIME TO LEAVE. HER TASK WAS +LIT ROOM ADJOINING THE COUNT’S RECEPTION ROOM. IT WAS ONE OF THOSE +LITTLE AS NICHOLAS HAD OCCUPIED HIMSELF WITH SóNYA OF LATE, SOMETHING +LITTLE BENT, LOOKED WITH BEAMING FACE AT THE PRINCESS WITHOUT +LITTLE COMPANION! I HOPE SHE WILL BRING HER ALONG WITH HER WHEN WE’RE +LITTLE CREATURE, BUT DARED NOT DO SO. HE STOOD OVER HIM, GAZING AT HIS +LITTLE EFFORT.” +LITTLE FINGERS. “ALL RIGHT! THEN IT’S SETTLED?” +LITTLE FRENCHY, SUCCESSFUL ONLY BECAUSE THERE WERE NO LONGER ANY +LITTLE GOLD ICON PRINCESS MARY HAD HUNG ROUND HER BROTHER’S NECK, BUT +LITTLE ICON WITH ITS THIN GOLD CHAIN SUDDENLY APPEARED UPON HIS CHEST +LITTLE, I MEAN A GOOD DEAL, A GREAT DEAL—FORTY THREE THOUSAND.” +LITTLE MATTERS WHICH COULD NOT INTEREST ANYONE BUT THEMSELVES. NATáSHA +LITTLE NAPOLEON HAD SUDDENLY APPEARED WITH HIS UNSYMPATHIZING LOOK OF +LITTLE NATáSHA AS GROWN UP. +LITTLE PRINCESS. +LITTLE PRINCESS, AND HAVING ASKED FOR A NEEDLE BEGAN TRACING THE CONDé +LITTLE PRINCESS, SHRUGGING HER SHOULDERS. +LITTLE PRINCESS WALKED TWICE ROUND HER, NOW ADJUSTING A FOLD OF THE +LITTLE TABLE, AND ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA NOTICED THAT SOMETHING WAS AGITATING +LITTLE TOWNS THERE’S NOWHERE TO SPEND IT,” SAID HE. “WELL, LET ME +LITTLE TúSHIN, MOVING FEEBLY AND AWKWARDLY, KEPT TELLING HIS ORDERLY TO +LITTLE WAVES OF THE ENNS, WHICH RIPPLING AND EDDYING ROUND THE PILES OF +LITTLE WHILE, FELT AS IF THEY TOO WERE BECOMING, LIKE HER, FULL OF LIFE +LIT WISPS OF STRAW AND RAN AFTER HIM, SHOUTING, “VIVE L’EMPEREUR!” +LIVED FOR GLORY.—AND AFTER ALL WHAT IS GLORY? THE SAME LOVE OF OTHERS, +LIVED FOR OTHERS, AND NOT ALMOST, BUT QUITE, RUINED MY LIFE. AND I HAVE +LIVELY DISPOSITION, BENT OVER HER FRAME TO HIDE A SMILE PROBABLY EVOKED +LIVELY LITTLE GIRL’S LOOK MADE HIM INCLINED TO LAUGH WITHOUT KNOWING +LIVERY, GET UP BEHIND THE CARRIAGE, AND COME WITH ME WHILE I MAKE SOME +LIVING WITH HIS MOTHER, WHO, IF SHE SAW HIM DYING, WOULD NOT SURVIVE IT. +LIVING WITHOUT HAVING SOLVED THE PROBLEMS THAT SO ABSORBED HIM. HE HAD +LIVING WITH THE ROSTóVS. +LOADING. +LOCALITY AND SURROUNDINGS—FRUIT GARDENS, STONE FENCES, TILED ROOFS, +LOCALITY WAS KNOWN AND SHOWN IN EVERY DETAIL ON THE MAPS, AND BONAPARTE, +LOCKS OF GRAY HAIR. +LODGE—WERE SO STRONG THAT HE COULD NOT RESIST THEM. AGAIN WHOLE DAYS, +LODGE. WILLARSKI COUGHED, HE WAS ANSWERED BY THE MASONIC KNOCK WITH +LOFTINESS OF SOUL. SHE HAS REFUSED TO EVACUATE MALTA. SHE WANTED TO +LOFTY, BEAUTIFUL FEELING, SUCH A...” +LOFTY SKY BEFORE? AND HOW HAPPY I AM TO HAVE FOUND IT AT LAST! YES! ALL +LONDON—COULD PRONOUNCE PITT’S SENTENCE, HE SAW A WELL-BUILT AND +LONELINESS OF HIS DAUGHTER AMID THE GENERAL CONVERSATION. “GOT HERSELF +LONG. +“LONG AGO,” ANSWERED ROSTóV, “I HAVE ALREADY BEEN FOR THE HAY, +LONG AND WARMLY TO THE EMPEROR AND HOW THE EMPEROR, EVIDENTLY WEEPING, +LONGED. SóNYA NOW WAS SIXTEEN AND SHE WAS VERY PRETTY, ESPECIALLY AT +LONGED TO KISS HIS FATHER’S HANDS AND KNEEL TO BEG HIS FORGIVENESS, +LONGED TO SNATCH UP, TO SQUEEZE, TO HOLD TO HIS HEART, THIS HELPLESS +LONGER AND WENT ON, BETWEEN GASPS OF LAUGHTER: “AND THE WHOLE WORLD +LONGER TO HINDER THEM BUT BECAUSE THE GUNS WERE TRAINED AND THERE WAS +LONGEST SENTENCES, HE STOPPED THE ROTARY MOTION OF THE SNUFFBOX, RAISED +LONG. SAY ‘PERHAPS.’” +LOOK AT ME,” CRIED DENíSOV WHO, UNABLE TO KEEP STILL ON ONE SPOT, +“LOOK AT PAPA!” SHOUTED NATáSHA TO THE WHOLE COMPANY, AND QUITE +“LOOK AT PAPA!” THOUGH AS IT WAS THEY NEVER TOOK THEIR EYES OFF THE +“LOOK AT THEM SCURRYING! IT’S BURNING! JUST SEE THE SMOKE! FINE! +LOOKED AS CLEAN AND WELL WASHED AS THE TIPS OF ONE’S FINGERS AFTER A +LOOKED AS IF BY THAT SLIGHT MOTION THE ARMY ITSELF WAS EXPRESSING ITS +LOOKED AT TELYáNIN. THE LIEUTENANT WAS LOOKING ABOUT IN HIS USUAL WAY +LOOKED AT THAT AGED, STERN, MOTIONLESS, ALMOST LIFELESS FACE AND MOVED +LOOKED EAGERLY TOWARD HIS EYES, WAITING FOR THE LOOK FOR WHICH SHE +LOOKED LIKE TRADESPEOPLE, RAN HURRIEDLY FROM THE ENTRANCE AND HID IN THE +LOOKED STRAIGHT AT HIS ADJUTANT’S FACE WITHOUT RECOGNIZING HIM. +LOOKED VERY THOUGHTFUL AND TENDER. WITH HIS HANDS BEHIND HIM HE PACED +LOOK FOR HER. +LOOKING ABOUT HIM UNEASILY, AND AN AWKWARD PAUSE FOLLOWED. +LOOKING AND HELD OUT HIS HAND TO HER. SHE PRESSED IT. +LOOKING AT HER AND WAITING. NICHOLAS SAW THAT DENíSOV WAS REFUSING +LOOKING AT HER OWN HANDSOME FACE SHE SEEMED TO BECOME STILL COLDER AND +LOOKING AT HIS WATCH. +LOOKING AT NATáSHA. +LOOKING AT PIERRE. “AT THE PRESENT TIME IT IS DIFFICULT TO KNOW THE +LOOKING AT ROSTóV, “YOU’LL WIN IT BACK ALL THE SOONER. I LOSE TO +LOOKING AT THE GROUND, HE CAME ON SOME STICKY, TRODDEN MUD, STUMBLED, +LOOKING AT THE MIDWIFE WITH WIDE-OPEN EYES OF ALARM. +LOOKING AT THEM, TURNED TO AN ADJUTANT TO ASK HIM FOR A FIELD GLASS. +LOOKING AT THE PUFF FROM THE GUN THAT HAD SENT THE BALL. HIS EYES +LOOKING AT THOSE DRIVING PAST AS IF HE PITIED ALL WHO WERE NOT AT THAT +LOOKING BACK SAW THAT THEIR FOREMOST RANKS WERE MIXED UP WITH SOME +LOOKING DOWN AT THE WATERS OF THE ENNS UNDER THE BRIDGE, NESVíTSKI +LOOKING INQUIRINGLY AT HIM AND WATCHING TO SEE HOW HE WOULD BEHAVE +LOOKING LIKE SOMETHING BETWEEN A CART, A CABRIOLET, AND A CALèCHE. +LOOKING NOT AT PIERRE BUT STRAIGHT BEFORE HIM, AND TURNING THE LEAVES +LOOKING PRETTY AND CONSCIOUS OF IT, WERE STANDING BY THE CLAVICHORD, +LOOKING ROUND AT THE SOUND. +LOOKING WITH A SCARED FACE AT HIS COMRADE FOR HELP. THE DOOR, HAVING LET +LOOKING WITH DISMAY AT HER HUSBAND. +LOOKING WITH TENDER AFFECTION AND PITY AT MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE’S +“LOOK, LOOK!” SAID THIS ADJUTANT, LOOKING NOT AT THE TROOPS IN THE +“LOOK! LOOK THERE!” ONE SOLDIER WAS SAYING TO ANOTHER, POINTING TO A +LOOK. NICHOLAS WENT UP TO HER AND KISSED HER HAND. THIS WAS THE FIRST +LOOK OR BAD OPINION FROM HIM,” ROSTóV DECIDED; AND SORROWFULLY AND +“LOOK, PRINCE,” SAID ANOTHER, WHO WOULD HAVE DEARLY LIKED TO TAKE +LOOKS AND MANNER GAVE THAT IMPRESSION. THE PRINCESS FELT THIS, AND AS IF +LOOKS) AND SHE HAD PUT ON A MAROON DRESS WITH A PALE-BLUE SCARF, THE +“LOOK SHARP! LOOK SHARP!” SEVERAL VOICES REPEATED AROUND HIM. +“LOOK THEN AT THY INNER SELF WITH THE EYES OF THE SPIRIT, AND ASK +LOOK WHICH WAS FIXED ON HIM, BUT HIM SHE COULD NOT SEE, SHE ONLY SAW +LORRAIN CONSIDERED. +LORRAIN, PURSING UP HIS LIPS, WAVED A SEVERELY NEGATIVE FINGER BEFORE +LORRAIN’S INSTRUCTIONS. THE GERMAN DOCTOR WENT UP TO LORRAIN. +LOSING CONFIDENCE IN ITS ALLIES, SUFFERING FROM SHORTNESS OF SUPPLIES, +LOSSES. THE GENERAL WHOSE REGIMENT HAD BEEN INSPECTED AT BRAUNAU WAS +LOST....” AND PRINCE HIPPOLYTE BEGAN TO TELL HIS STORY IN SUCH RUSSIAN +LOST COUNT OF HIS CHILDREN, BUT THIS PIERRE WAS HIS FAVORITE.” +LOST. DóLOKHOV “KILLED,” THAT IS, BEAT, TEN CARDS OF ROSTóV’S +LOST MORE THAN HE COULD PAY. +LOT? AND WHO WOULD MARRY MARIE FOR LOVE? PLAIN AND AWKWARD! THEY’LL +LOUDLY, HANDING KUTúZOV AN ENVELOPE. +LOUD THAT THOSE IN THE DRAWING ROOM HEARD HER AND WERE STARTLED. “WHY +“LOUIS XVI WAS EXECUTED BECAUSE THEY SAID HE WAS DISHONORABLE AND A +LOVE AGAIN, THOUGH FOR NO ONE HAVE I SUCH A FEELING OF FRIENDSHIP, +LOVE AND BEFRIEND HIM.” +LOVED MORE THAN HIMSELF. HE KEPT TELLING HIMSELF THAT HE WOULD CONSIDER +LOVE FOR NATáSHA WAS UNPLEASANT TO HIM AND HE HAD NOT ONCE BEEN TO SEE +LOVE HER. +LOVE HER, FOR THAT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE. +LOVE HIM ALL THE MORE, BUT NICHOLAS NOW CONSIDERED HIMSELF UNWORTHY OF +LOVE, LOVE OF ONE’S NEIGHBOR, LOVE OF ONE’S ENEMY, IS WORTHIER, +LOVELY EYES THERE WAS A LOOK OF FEARFUL JOY AND HOPE THAT WAS ALSO NEW +LOVE OF DEATH. HE CONSOLED HIMSELF WITH THE THOUGHT THAT HE FULFILLED +LOVERS!” HE ADDED. +LOVERS OF MUSIC DO WHEN THEY HEAR A FALSE NOTE. THE TWO WOMEN LET GO +LOVE, SUCH RAPTURE, AND SUCH SELF-SACRIFICE, WHAT DO ANY OF OUR QUARRELS +LOVE, THOUGH LESS ECSTATICALLY, WITH THEIR TSAR AND THE GLORY OF THE +LOVE YOU.” +LOVE YOU, AND I THINK I LOVE YOU MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE....” +LOVING AND HONORING HIM. “WHY, I HAVE NOT YET HAD TIME TO SETTLE +LOVING HER; IN DECEIVING YOURSELF AND HER.” AND HE VIVIDLY RECALLED +LOWER ONE, AND SOMETHING LIKE TWO DISTINCT SMILES PLAYED CONTINUALLY +LOW TONES. +LUCK! SUCH ILL LUCK. AS SOON AS YOU LEFT, IT BEGAN AND WENT ON. HULLO +LUCK THE MAN HAS!” +LUCKY MAN AND, WITH HIS PLAIN FACE, TO BE LOOKED ON AS A SORT OF PARIS +LUGGAGE. FRANZ, BILíBIN’S MAN, WAS DRAGGING A PORTMANTEAU WITH SOME +L’U! * I SHALL CERTAINLY ADOPT AN INNOVATION AND CALL HIM SIMPLY +LUMINOUS EYES FIXED ON HER NURSE’S WRINKLED FACE (EVERY LINE OF WHICH +LUMINOUS EYES SHONE MORE BRIGHTLY THAN USUAL FROM THE TEARS OF JOY THAT +LUXURIOUS STUDY AND SAT DOWN TO THE DINNER PREPARED FOR HIM. BILíBIN +LYING ON THE GROUND; THEY ALSO MET A CROWD OF SOLDIERS SOME OF WHOM WERE +MA CHèRE! ON BEHALF OF THE WHOLE FAMILY I BEG YOU TO COME, MON CHER!” +“MA CHèRE, THERE IS A TIME FOR EVERYTHING,” SAID THE COUNTESS WITH +MACHINE, AN IMPULSE ONCE GIVEN LEADS TO THE FINAL RESULT; AND JUST AS +MACHINE OR SET IT IN PROPER MOTION, SO ANNA PáVLOVNA MOVED ABOUT HER +MACK. AN AUSTRIAN GENERAL COMPLAINED OF ME. I CONGRATULATED HIM ON +MACK, HAVE BY NOW ALREADY GAINED A DECISIVE VICTORY AND NO LONGER NEED +MACK’S ARRIVAL... WHAT’S THE MATTER, ROSTóV? YOU LOOK AS IF YOU’D +“MADAME DE GENLIS! MADAME DE GENLIS!” SHOUTED LAUGHING VOICES +MADAME DE SOUZA. HE BEGAN READING ABOUT THE SUFFERINGS AND VIRTUOUS +“MADAME, I DOUBT MY ABILITY BEFORE SUCH AN AUDIENCE,” SAID HE, +MADE A GRIMACE, AS IF EXPECTING SOMETHING UNPLEASANT. +MADE AND HIGHLY VALUED. THE OLD COUNT CAME UP TO THEM AND PRESSED +MADE A TOUR OF THE REGIMENTS AND WAS ANNOYED AT THE IRREGULARITY OF +MADE ELEGANTLY WITTY. IN SOCIETY HE ALWAYS AWAITED AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAY +MADE FOR THE SACRAMENT OF UNCTION, AND IN HIS HOUSE THERE WAS THE BUSTLE +MADEIRA”... “HUNGARIAN”... OR “RHINE WINE” AS THE CASE MIGHT +“MADE, MADE ME AN OFFER, MAMMA! MAMMA!” SHE EXCLAIMED. +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE. +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, ALSO ROUSED TO GREAT EXCITEMENT BY ANATOLE’S +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS HAD TO OWN TO THEMSELVES +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, HOW I SHALL ARRANGE IT,” SHE ADDED, SMILING +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE IN HER ARMS AND GENTLY STROKING HER HAIR. THE +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, “MARY’S IS A FACE WHICH SUCH A COIFFURE DOES +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE WALKED UP AND DOWN THE CONSERVATORY FOR A LONG +MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE WAS ALSO LOOKING AT PRINCESS MARY, AND IN HER +MADE. PRINCE ANDREW SEVERAL TIMES PROMPTED PIERRE’S STORY OF WHAT HE +MADE USE OF IT.... “WHAT HAVE I DONE?” THOUGHT HE. AND HE TURNED +“MADE WHAT?” +“MA FOI!” SAID HE, “TOMORROW WE SHALL SEE ALL THAT ON THE +“MA FOI, SIRE, NOUS FERONS CE QUI SERA DANS NOTRE POSSIBILITé, +MAGNANIMOUS. SHE FELT CONVINCED OF THAT. THOUSANDS OF DREAMS OF A FUTURE +MAID. +MAID OF HONOR’S HAND TO HIS LIPS, KISSED IT, AND SWUNG IT TO AND FRO +MAID’S VOICE AT THE DOOR. +MAID WITH THE DECANTER IN HER HASTE HAD NOT CLOSED THE DOOR (EVERYTHING +MAINLY BECAUSE DENíSOV SO DELIGHTED IN HER SINGING. SHE NO LONGER SANG +“MAIS, MON CHER, I DID THIS FOR MY OWN SAKE, TO SATISFY MY CONSCIENCE, +MAJESTICALLY ENTERED THE ROOM. HE WAS WEARING HIS LONG COAT WITH THREE +MAJESTIC FIGURE OF HIS FATHER, COUNT BEZúKHOV, WITH THAT GRAY MANE OF +MAJESTY.” +MAJESTY,” SAID AN ADJUTANT WHO HAD COME FROM THE BATTERIES THAT WERE +MAJESTY’S AND YOU WERE PITIED....” +MAJESTY, “WHO, THANK GOD, WAS BETTER TODAY.” AND EACH VISITOR, +MAKE A CAREER AND MUST NOT MISS OPPORTUNITIES, BUT MUST AVAIL MYSELF OF +MAKE A REMARK, FOR THE CONVERSATION INTERESTED HIM, BUT ANNA PáVLOVNA, +MAKE AS SUCCESSFUL A CAREER OF IT AS POSSIBLE.” +MAKE HIM GO ON. +MAKE SOMETHING EXCEPTIONAL OF THEM,” SAID THE VISITOR. +MAKES THINGS TRYING FOR YOU, DOESN’T IT?” PRINCE ANDREW ASKED +MAKE THEM LOOK AT THE WAG. +“MALBROOK S’EN VA-T-EN GUERRE. DIEU SAIT QUAND REVIENDRA.” * +MALEVOLENT AND CAUSTIC EXPRESSION SOFTENED, AS IF ADMITTING THAT WHAT +MALLETS AND SWORDS. AS HE WAS BEING LED UP TO SOME OBJECT HE NOTICED A +MALLETS, THE DOORS OPENED BEFORE THEM. A BASS VOICE (PIERRE WAS STILL +MALODOROUS MOUTH. TEARS ACTUALLY MOISTENED HIS CHEEKS. +MAMMA.” +“MAMMA, ARE YOU CROSS? DON’T BE CROSS, DEAR! IS IT MY FAULT?” +MAMMA HAS SENT FOR ME TO GO AND DINE AT THE APRáKSINS’. READ THE +“MAMMA!... MAMMA!... HE HAS MADE ME...” +“MAMMA!” RANG OUT THE CLEAR CONTRALTO NOTES OF HER CHILDISH VOICE, +“MAMMA TOLD ME TO ASK YOU TO JOIN THE DANCERS.” +“MAMMA! WHAT SWEETS ARE WE GOING TO HAVE?” AND NATáSHA’S VOICE +“MAMMA! WHAT SWEETS ARE WE GOING TO HAVE?” NATáSHA AGAIN CRIED +MAN. +MAN.” AGAIN HE PRESSED THE HAND OF THE LATTER WITH AN EXPRESSION OF +MANAGED TO UTTER (TO HER EVERYTHING SEEMED FUNNY). SHE LEANED AGAINST +MAN AND HELP HIM TO WORLDLY SUCCESS. UNDER COVER OF OBTAINING HELP +MAN, AND THAT IN THE DUEL WITH BEZúKHOV, PIERRE WAS RIGHT AND DóLOKHOV +MAN, BE FOR HER? IN HER THOUGHTS OF MARRIAGE PRINCESS MARY DREAMED OF +MAN BE FULLY IMBUED WITH THE THOUGHT THAT WE MUST DEFEAT THESE HIRELINGS +MAN BESIDE YOU?” +MAN; BY HIS ACQUAINTANCES AS A HANDSOME LIEUTENANT OF HUSSARS, A GOOD +MAN. EITHER THIS LOOK MEANT NOTHING BUT THAT AS LONG AS ONE HAS EYES +MANE—WHICH, THOUGH HE SAW OTHER FACES AS WELL, HE HAD NOT LOST SIGHT +MAN, HAD NOT THE FIVE RUBLES THAT WOULD MAKE HIM HAPPY. +MAN.... HERE HE IS, AND THE COUNT HAS NOT ONCE ASKED FOR HIM.” +MAN IS AS SURLY AS A DOG.” +MAN IS THE COUNT’S SON,” SHE ADDED MORE SOFTLY. “WHAT A TERRIBLE +MANLY-LOOKING, BUT WHAT AMAZED AND ESTRANGED PIERRE TILL HE GOT USED +MANLY VOICE INTERRUPTING THEM BOTH. “OF COURSE YOU ARTILLERY MEN ARE +MANNER HE WORE IN DRAWING ROOMS, BUT WITH THE ANIMATED FACE WITH WHICH +MANNER NOR A DESIRE TO ENTER INTO CONVERSATION, BUT SPEAKING SO QUIETLY +MANNERS, WHO EVIDENTLY CONSIDERED HIMSELF A CELEBRITY BUT OUT OF +MANNER: THEY WERE ALL EVIDENTLY FIRMLY CONVINCED OF PIERRE’S NOBLE +MAN, OF MEDIUM HEIGHT, WITH FIRM, CLEARCUT FEATURES. EVERYTHING ABOUT +MAN? ON SUCH MATTERS I AM ONLY SEVERE WITH MYSELF. I UNDERSTAND SUCH +MAN, OUR DEAR VYAZMíTINOV....” +MAN’S HAND AND MOVING HER LIPS AS IF TO SEND IT A KISS. PIERRE, +MAN’S HIGH, STOUT, UNCOVERED CHEST AND POWERFUL SHOULDERS, RAISED BY +MAN’S PENETRATION HE UNDERSTOOD ALL THAT WAS PASSING IN BOLKóNSKI’S +MAN’S SIMPLE-MINDED EAGERNESS, WAS EXPLAINING HIS PET THEORY. BOTH +MAN. THE REVOLUTION WAS A GRAND THING!” CONTINUED MONSIEUR PIERRE, +MANURE ON WELL-KEPT PLOWLAND, LAY FROM TEN TO FIFTEEN DEAD AND WOUNDED +MAN WHO HAS AT LENGTH BEGUN TO ATTAIN A LONG-DESIRED HAPPINESS. AS SOON +MAN WITH A DIAMOND RING ON HIS FOREFINGER, WHO WAS FOND OF SPEAKING +MAN, WITH GRAY BUSHY EYEBROWS OVERHANGING BRIGHT EYES OF AN INDEFINITE +MAN WITH THE WHITE FOREHEAD, BLACK EYEBROWS, AND RED LIPS. +MANY OF THEM), AND AT LAST HE SAW HOW A WHOLE DETACHMENT OF FRENCH +MANY WRINKLES ON HIS LARGE FEATURES, TO ROSTóV WHO WAS CRIMSON WITH +MANY YOUNG MEN TO HIS PARENTS’ HOUSE. VéRA WAS A HANDSOME GIRL +MARCHED GAILY, AS THEY ALWAYS DO WHEN GOING INTO ACTION, ESPECIALLY TO +MARCHING ALONG BOTH. +MARCHING THIRTY MILES THAT STORMY NIGHT ACROSS ROADLESS HILLS, WITH HIS +MARCHING WITH PARTICULAR GRACE AND BOLDNESS IN TIME TO THE SONG AND +MARE HE RODE, HIS HAND IN A WHITE GLOVE GATHERED UP THE REINS, AND HE +MARIA THERESA ORDER OF THE THIRD GRADE, WHICH THE EMPEROR WAS CONFERRING +“MARIE” PRODUCED ON THE VISITORS. AND SHE SAW MADEMOISELLE +MARKED THE CHANGE? I SAT ALL THE TIME IN THIS SAME PLACE AT THIS TABLE, +MARKET PLACE, WHERE THERE HAD BEEN SOME RATHER HEAVY FIRING BEFORE THE +MARKóV IMMEDIATELY DROPPED HIS OWN BESIDE IT AND PICKED IT UP WITHOUT + * “MARLBOROUGH IS GOING TO THE WARS; GOD KNOWS WHEN HE’LL +MARRIAGEABLE DAUGHTERS, AND OF THE YOUNG LADIES THEMSELVES, TOWARD +“MARRIAGES ARE MADE IN HEAVEN,” REPLIED THE ELDERLY LADY. +MARRIAGE—WHEN THE MARRIAGEABLE DAUGHTERS AND THEIR MOTHERS HAD NOTHING +MARRIED,” ANSWERED THE COUNTESS SHARPLY AND SARCASTICALLY. +MARRIED, LA PETITE EST GENTILLE.” * +MARRY ANYONE, BUT WILL BE A DANCER. ONLY DON’T TELL ANYONE.” +MARRY!” CONCLUDED PRINCE ANDREW. +MARSHAL OF THE COURT, COUNT TOLSTóY. +MARTYR’S DEATH FOR HIS SAKE. THEN ROBESPIERRE WAS BEHEADED FOR BEING +MARY +MARY. +MARY. +MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA. +MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA AND THE COUNTESS BURST OUT LAUGHING, AND ALL THE +“MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA?” CAME HER VOICE FROM THERE. +MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA, CURVED HIS ARMS, BEAT TIME, STRAIGHTENED HIS +MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA ON HER RIGHT AND ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA ON HER LEFT, THE +“MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA! WHAT KIND OF ICE PUDDING? I DON’T LIKE ICE +“MáRYA LVóVNA KARáGINA AND HER DAUGHTER!” ANNOUNCED THE +MARY, AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS. PRINCE ANDREW HAD BEEN CALLED TO HIS +“MARY BOGDáNOVNA, I THINK IT’S BEGINNING!” SAID PRINCESS MARY +MARY BOLKóNSKAYA.” +MARY, BUT DID NOT AT ONCE TAKE HIS ARM FROM THE WAIST OF MADEMOISELLE +MARY DID NOT FRIGHTEN THEM (SHE NEVER INSPIRED FEAR IN ANYONE), BUT THEY +MARY ENTERED THE ANTECHAMBER AS USUAL AT THE TIME APPOINTED FOR THE +MARY, HAVING TAKEN AND CLOSED THE EXERCISE BOOK WITH THE NEXT DAY’S +MARY. HOW GOOD IT WOULD BE TO KNOW WHERE TO SEEK FOR HELP IN THIS LIFE, +MARY, I AM GOING TO LOVE HIM VERY MUCH,” SAID LISE, LOOKING WITH +MARY, REALLY THIS DRESS DOES NOT SUIT YOU. I PREFER YOU IN YOUR LITTLE +MARY! SAY...” AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS BEGAN TO CRY CAPRICIOUSLY LIKE +“MARY,” SHE SAID, MOVING AWAY FROM THE EMBROIDERY FRAME AND LYING +MARY SPENT MOST OF THE DAY IN THE NURSERY, TAKING A MOTHER’S PLACE TO +MARY’S ROOM. +MASON. +MASONIC STATUTES, “BE KINDLY AND COURTEOUS,” RECURRED TO HIM. HE +MASSES. +MASSES OF RUSSIAN TROOPS. AT THE BEND OF THE DANUBE, VESSELS, AN ISLAND, +MASS. LOOKING DOWN OVER THE RAILS PRINCE NESVíTSKI SAW THE RAPID, NOISY +MASTER, “BUT THOSE BETWEEN VIRTUE AND VICE. BEWARE OF MAKING ANY +MASTER’S THOUGHTS. HE GUESSED THAT THE QUESTION REFERRED TO PRINCE +MASTER, WOULD TOUCH AND DELUDE HIM. +MATCH IN RUSSIA, HAD SUNK GREATLY IN THE ESTEEM OF SOCIETY AFTER HIS +MATCHMAKING CHRONICLES OF MOSCOW NOW SPEAK OF ME AS THE FUTURE COUNTESS +MATHEMATICS FROM HER FATHER, AND WHEN THE OLD PRINCE WAS AT HOME WENT +MATTER MIGHT BE HE DID NOT CARE, BUT IT GAVE HIM GREAT PLEASURE TO +MATTER OF INDIFFERENCE WHETHER HE REMAINED THERE FOR A FEW HOURS OR FOR +MATTERS, SOCIAL INTERESTS AND THE FAIR SEX OCCUPIED NO SMALL PART OF HIS +MATTERS VERY SATISFACTORILY. BORíS, DURING THE CAMPAIGN, HAD MADE THE +MATTERS YOURSELF!’ YES... THAT WAS THE ANSWER I GOT!” +“MATVéVNA’S” CARRIAGE. AT THE FOOT OF THE HILL, A PALE HUSSAR +“MATVéVNA,” THE GUN FROM WHICH THEY HAD REMOVED THE DEAD OFFICER. +MAY CHRIST BE WITH YOU IN YOUR GREAT ENDEAVOR!” +MAY I SHALL DO MY DUTY. I WILL COME AND SPEND THE NIGHT. HE MUST NOT BE +MAY LAUGH AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE, BUT ALL THE SAME BONAPARTE IS A GREAT +MAY NOT HAVE SEEN, BUT I HAVE SEEN, HOW GOOD MEN BROUGHT UP IN THOSE +MAY PERHAPS HAVE A STRONGER EFFECT ON THE SINCERE SEEKER AFTER WISDOM +“MAY THE DEVIL TAKE THEM—THE TRAITORS!” +MAZUWKA IS THIS? BUT SHE DOES DANCE SPLENDIDLY.” +ME!” +ME.” +ME.” +ME?” +MEADOW.” +MEAN GOOD FRENCH SOCIETY—WILL HAVE BEEN FOREVER DESTROYED, AND +MEANING FOR ANYONE ELSE, BUT GAVE HIM SOME OF THE BEST JOYS OF HIS LIFE; +MEANING FOR HIM, THAT HE PAID NO ATTENTION TO IT. THE AUNT WAS JUST +MEANS. THEN YOU SAY, ‘LIGHTEN HIS TOIL.’ BUT AS I SEE IT, PHYSICAL +ME,” ANSWERED A VOICE STRUGGLING WITH TEARS. +MEANT BY THE WORDS ALL IS OVER, “AND THE COUNT’S PAPERS ARE OPENED, +MEANT FOR HIM NOT ONLY THE LOSS OF SIXTEEN HUNDRED RUBLES, BUT THE +MEAN TO FIGHT, LET’S FIGHT. BUT THE DEVIL KNOWS WHAT THIS IS.” +MEANT TO DOUBLE THE THREE THOUSAND JUST PUT DOWN TO HIS SCORE, WHEN +MEANWHILE KUTúZOV SENT HIS ADJUTANTS BACK TO HASTEN TO THE UTMOST THE +MEANWHILE NESVíTSKI, ZHERKóV, AND THE OFFICER OF THE SUITE WERE +MEANWHILE, PéTYA, HAVING FOUND AND SEIZED THE SABERS IN THE OUTER ROOM, +MEANWHILE PRINCE VASíLI HAD OPENED THE DOOR INTO THE PRINCESS’ ROOM. +MEANWHILE THE STAFF OFFICER STANDING IN FRONT POINTED OUT SOMETHING TO +MEANWHILE THE YOUNGER GENERATION: BORíS, THE OFFICER, ANNA +ME APOLOGIZE, BECAUSE IF HE, AS COMMANDER OF THIS REGIMENT, THINKS IT +MEASURES—THE REMOVAL OF INJUNCTIONS, PETITIONS, PERMITS, AND SO +ME; BUT, MY DEAR, I AM GETTING ON FOR SIXTY AND MUST BE PREPARED FOR +ME, BUT THAT HE’LL MARRY JULIE. YOU SEE HOW HE’S BEEN WITH HER ALL +MEDAL HE CAN GET HIS REWARD JUST AS WELL IN THE REARGUARD, BUT IF HE +MEDITATIVELY AND RAPIDLY: +MEETING ARRIVES. NOT DARING TO LOOK ROUND AND WITHOUT LOOKING ROUND, HE +MEETING, THEY HAD KISSED EACH OTHER, BUT TODAY THEY FELT IT COULD NOT +ME. ‘EVERYONE FEARS A BEAR,’ HE SAYS, ‘BUT WHEN YOU SEE ONE YOUR +ME!” HE BEGAN TO LAUGH. “WELL, WHAT OF IT! I HOPE WE’LL GET BETTER +ME. I AM USED TO SUFFERING.” +ME I LIED, AND I TOLD HIM HE LIED. AND THERE IT RESTS. HE MAY KEEP ME +ME IN CHOOSING ME FOR YOUR SECOND, IF AT THIS GRAVE, THIS VERY +ME IN THE EYES OF SOCIETY, AND EVEN OF THE COURT,” HE ADDED, LOWERING +ME IN WAR THE ENERGY OF YOUNG MEN OFTEN SHOWS THE WAY BETTER THAN ALL +ME, JUST BECAUSE I HAVE EXERTED MYSELF ON HIS BEHALF, BEFRIENDED HIM, +MELANCHOLY WAS JUST LIKE THE AUGUST MELANCHOLY SHE SHOWED AT THE MENTION +MEMBER OF THE HOFKRIEGSRATH MILDLY AND ATTENTIVELY. +MEMBERS AND GUESTS JOSTLING ONE ANOTHER AND TRYING TO GET A GOOD LOOK +MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL OF WAR. THEY WERE DRINKING TEA, AND ONLY AWAITED +MEMORY, AND HE TOLD EVERYBODY THAT HIS SON HAD BEEN KILLED. HE TRIED NOT +MEMORY, HIS EXTENSIVE READING (HE HAD READ EVERYTHING, KNEW EVERYTHING, +MEMORY, I WILL DO THE IMPOSSIBLE—YOUR SON SHALL BE TRANSFERRED TO THE +ME... MYSELF MOST OF ALL. THEN I DON’T EAT, DON’T WASH... AND HOW IS +MEN AND PROVISIONS HAVE NOT ARRIVED. GALLOP OFF TO HIM AT ONCE AND +MEN DISFIGURED BY FEAR OF DEATH NOW CROWDED TOGETHER, CRUSHING ONE +MEN OF THE SAME KIND HIDING IN THE SHADOW OF THE HOUSE ON BOTH SIDES. +MEN, SEEMED SO IMMEASURABLY ABOVE HIM, AN INSIGNIFICANT OFFICER OF THE +MEN’S END THE VOICES SOUNDED LOUDER AND LOUDER, ESPECIALLY THAT OF THE +MEN SHOULD BE IN THEIR GREATCOATS AND IN MARCHING ORDER, AND THAT THE +MEN SHOULD CONTINUE TO MARCH AT EASE, AND HE AND ALL HIS SUITE SHOWED +MEN’S WILL. +MEN TAKE THEIR FIRST STEPS ON LIFE’S ROAD, EACH SAW IMMENSE CHANGES IN +MENTAL ACTIVITY IS TO YOU OR ME. YOU CAN’T HELP THINKING. I GO TO BED +MENTAL IMAGE OF HIS FUTURE ACTIVITY IN THIS DIRECTION ROSE IN HIS MIND. +MEN—THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, PRINCE ADAM CZARTORýSKI.... IT +MENTION, AND WHICH YOU THINK IS THE RESULT OF YOUR OWN MENTAL EFFORTS, +MENTIONED DURING THE JOURNEY. +MENTIONED THEIR AGE. “IF YOU MARRY IT WILL BE A DIFFERENT THING,” +MENTION HER!” HE EXCLAIMED FIERCELY. +MEN USELESSLY, AND SO HAD HASTENED TO THROW SOME SHARPSHOOTERS INTO THE +MEN WAS TO ATTACK THE FRENCH FROM DIFFERENT SIDES. THE OLD PRINCE DID +MEN WAS TRAINING A TROTTER OF HIS OWN FOR A RACE. HE KNEW A LADY ON ONE +MEN, WHO HERE, AS IN VIENNA, FORMED A SPECIAL SET WHICH BILíBIN, THEIR +MEN WITH BROAD, SELF-CONFIDENT FACES, FAT FINGERS, AND RESOLUTE GESTURES +ME OF HER OWN ACCORD IN THE EVENING AND TELL ME EVERYTHING. PERHAPS I +ME ONLY THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY NOT TO FORGET BORíS. BUT HE HAD +ME, PIERRE. I SHALL NOT FORGET YOUR INTERESTS.” +ME!” ROSTóV WHISPERED. +MERRILY. +MERRILY AND PRETTILY AS EVER. +MERRILY TO EVERYONE AT ONCE, SAT DOWN AND GAILY ARRANGED HERSELF IN HER +MERRY. +MERRY REMINISCENCES. +MESSAGE TO KUTúZOV, PERHAPS EVEN TO THE SOVEREIGN HIMSELF. THE MORNING +METALLIC ROAR, AND A WHISTLING GRENADE FLEW ABOVE THE HEADS OF OUR +ME! THAT’S THE SORT OF MAN HE IS, AND NOTHING MORE,” REPLIED +MET HIM AT THE FIRST DOOR AND, EXPRESSING THEIR DELIGHT AT SEEING SUCH A +METHODS THAT HE HAD BETTER LEAVE GENOA ALONE?” RETORTED PRINCE ANDREW +ME TO BURN THE BRIDGE! I KNOW THE SERVICE, AND IT IS MY HABIT ORDERS +ME TO INFORM YOU... BUT, DON’T BE UNEASY,” HE ADDED, NOTICING THAT +MET, SHE FELL ON HIS BREAST, SOBBING. SHE COULD NOT LIFT HER FACE, BUT +ME! WHAT WILL BECOME OF US? I AM THE WIFE OF THE DOCTOR OF THE SEVENTH +ME—YET DREADFUL AND UNNATURAL AS IT SEEMS, I WOULD GIVE THEM ALL AT +MICHAEL IVáNOVICH ARE THE TWO PEOPLE TO WHOM HE IS ALWAYS GENTLE AND +“MICHAEL IVáNOVICH!” CRIED THE OLD PRINCE TO THE ARCHITECT WHO, +MICHAEL IVáNOVICH DID NOT AT ALL KNOW WHEN “YOU AND I” HAD SAID +MIDDLE, A CRY WAS HEARD, THEN PRINCESS MARY’S HEAVY TREAD AND THE +MIDDLE OF HIS MOUTH AND WITH RED LIPS GENTLY INHALED THE SMOKE, LETTING +MIDDLE OF THE DRAWING ROOM ON THE FIRST CHAIR HE HAD COME ACROSS, +MIDDLE OF THE MUDDY ROAD. +MIDNIGHT. PRINCE ANDREW WENT OUT. +MIDWIFE. +MIGHT, AND A PASSIONATE ATTRACTION TO HIM WHO WAS THE CAUSE OF THIS +MIGHT BE UP TO ON THE SLY” (SHE MEANT THAT THEY WOULD BE KISSING), +MIGHT DEPRIVE HIM OF ALL THIS HAPPINESS, NEWLY APPRECIATED AND NEWLY +MIGHT EASILY SUCCEED TO THE POST; HOW POPULAR HE WAS WITH EVERYONE IN +MIGHT, FEELING THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO INJURE HIMSELF BY THAT SHOUT, IF +MIGHT HAVE BEEN MORE DECISIVE HAD THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF NOT BEEN SO +MIGHT OUTWEIGH ALL THE COURAGE OF THE RUSSIAN TROOPS, AND AT THE SAME +MIGHT RETREAT AND LEAVE THE PICKETS.” +MIGHT TOWARD THE BUSHES. HE DID NOT NOW RUN WITH THE FEELING OF DOUBT +MIKHáYLOVNA. +MIKHáYLOVNA AND SNATCHING THE PORTFOLIO FROM HER. +MIKHáYLOVNA AS SHE ENTERED, AND AT THE BIG STOUT FIGURE OF PIERRE WHO, +MIKHáYLOVNA DRUBETSKáYA. ROSTóV, THE FATHER, IS ILYá, AND HIS SON IS +MIKHáYLOVNA ENTERED THE HALL. THOUGH SHE CAME UPON THE COUNT IN HIS +MIKHáYLOVNA ENTHUSIASTICALLY, QUITE FORGETTING ALL THE HUMILIATION SHE +MIKHáYLOVNA EVINCED NO SURPRISE, SHE ONLY SMILED FAINTLY AND SIGHED, AS +MIKHáYLOVNA IN PASSING INSTINCTIVELY GLANCED INTO THE ROOM, WHERE +MIKHáYLOVNA LOOKED ATTENTIVELY AT THE SICK MAN’S EYES, TRYING TO +MIKHáYLOVNA MADE A HURRIED SIGN WITH HER EYES, GLANCING AT THE SICK +MIKHáYLOVNA OF ONE OF THEM. +MIKHáYLOVNA, OR YOU WILL NOT HOLD OUT.” +MIKHáYLOVNA PASS AND DID NOT EVINCE THE LEAST SURPRISE AT SEEING THEM +MIKHáYLOVNA RETURNED TO THE ROSTóVS’ AND WENT TO BED. ON WAKING IN +MIKHáYLOVNA?” SAID HE. “LET US WAIT UNTIL EVENING. THE DOCTORS ARE +MIKHáYLOVNA,” SAID PRINCE VASíLI, ARRANGING HIS LACE FRILL, AND IN +MIKHáYLOVNA’S SON; NICHOLAS, THE UNDERGRADUATE, THE COUNT’S ELDEST +MIKHáYLOVNA’S VOICE ALONE IN A LONG SPEECH, THEN A CRY, THEN SILENCE, +MIKHáYLOVNA. THOUGH THE LATTER HELD ON TENACIOUSLY, HER VOICE LOST NONE +MIKHáYLOVNA, WHOM SHE HAD NOT SEEN PROPERLY SINCE SHE RETURNED FROM +MIKHELSON’S ARMY I UNDERSTAND—TOLSTóY ‘S TOO... A SIMULTANEOUS +MILAN?” ASKED ANNA PáVLOVNA, “AND OF THE COMEDY OF THE PEOPLE OF +MILE AND A HALF AWAY, BUT HAD SUDDENLY AND UNEXPECTEDLY APPEARED JUST IN +MILES, AND REINING IN HIS HORSE HE SIGHED RESTFULLY AND LOOKED ROUND +MILES AWAY FROM THE FRENCH. AT GRUNTH ALSO SOME APPREHENSION AND ALARM +MILITARY CODE, WHICH HE AND THE OTHERS KNEW IN THE REGIMENT, THERE WAS +MILITARY MEN, BORE THAT EXPRESSION OF CONDESCENDING RESPECT FOR THEIR +MILK-WHITE SEA. NOTHING WAS VISIBLE IN THE VALLEY TO THE LEFT INTO WHICH +MILLIONS IN HAND MIGHT SMILE AT A POOR FELLOW WHO TOLD HIM THAT HE, POOR +MILLIONS OF HUMAN BEINGS WHO GREW UP IN THE SAME WAY. AS TWENTY +MILORáDOVICH WHEELED HIS HORSE SHARPLY AND STATIONED HIMSELF A LITTLE +“MIND, ANNETTE, I HOPE YOU HAVE NOT PLAYED A WICKED TRICK ON ME,” +MIND AT REST,” SAID HE WITHOUT ALTERING HIS TONE, BENEATH THE +MIND EASY,” SAID HE IN ABRUPT SENTENCES WHILE SEALING HIS LETTER. +MIND. “IF A TENTH PART OF HIS DETACHMENT RETURNS I SHALL THANK GOD,” +“MIND, NO HOLDING ON!” CRIED ANOTHER. +MIND ONCE FOR ALL THAT WHAT HE SAW HAPPENING AROUND HIM THAT EVENING WAS +MIND TO ASK HIM A QUESTION ABOUT THE ROADS, THE TRAVELER HAD CLOSED HIS +“MIND, WALK HIM UP AND DOWN WELL!” +MINED?” +MINED AND DOUBLY MINED AND THAT THERE ARE MENACING FORTIFICATIONS AT ITS +MINE. I HAVE WRITTEN TO MY POOR MOTHER,” SAID THE SMILING MADEMOISELLE +MINIATURE PORTRAIT OF HER SON ON THE LID OF A SNUFFBOX, WHILE THE TEARS +MINISTERS AND GREAT PEOPLE, AND KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM ALL! IT’S +MINISTER’S BENT BALD HEAD WITH ITS GRAY TEMPLES. HE WENT ON READING +MINISTER’S SON WAS, WITH HIS ROSY CHEEKS AND DARK EYEBROWS, AND WITH +MINUTE LATER WITH ANOTHER COMMITTEEMAN, CARRYING A LARGE SILVER SALVER +MINUTES BEFORE THE TROOPS HAD PASSED THE EMPERORS. NOT ONLY WOULD IT +MINUTES LATER THE ELDEST SISTER CAME OUT WITH A PALE HARD FACE, AGAIN +MINUTEST DETAILS HIMSELF. PRINCESS MARY HAD CEASED TAKING LESSONS IN +MIRROR HER EYES FULL OF TEARS AND HER MOUTH QUIVERING, READY TO BURST +MISCHIEF-MAKERS DON’T MEDDLE EVEN A GERMAN BEATS BUONAPARTE. HE IS +MISERABLE MAN WHO STOOD BEFORE HIM, BUT THE TASK HE HAD BEGUN HAD TO BE +MISERY. A MAN OFFENDED YOU AND YOU SHOT HIM, AND YOU SAY YOU DO NOT +MISERY. THAT COULD NOT BE, YET HE AWAITED WITH A SINKING HEART THE +MISFORTUNE? AND WHEN DID IT BEGIN? SUCH A LITTLE WHILE AGO I CAME TO +MISLEADING YOU.” +MISSED HIM. HIS ONE DESIRE WAS TO KNOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND AT ANY +“MISSED!” SHOUTED DóLOKHOV, AND HE LAY HELPLESSLY, FACE DOWNWARDS +MIST!” +MISTAKE AND THAT ANATOLE MEANT TO FLIRT WITH MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, +MISTAKE. MARRY WHEN YOU ARE OLD AND GOOD FOR NOTHING—OR ALL THAT IS +MISTAKEN,” SAID THE STRANGER IN A DELIBERATE AND LOUD VOICE. +MIST AND TAKING IT FOR A TREE CAN AGAIN TAKE IT FOR A TREE AFTER HE HAS +MISUNDERSTANDING. I EXPECT YOU FEEL IT SO YOURSELF. LET US WRITE HER +MISUNDERSTANDINGS AND DID NOT NOW FEEL SHE HAD A RIGHT TO ASK HIM FOR +MIXTURE ONTO THE FLOOR AND ASKED FOR SOME MORE WATER. THE MAID BROUGHT +MODELING AND MODELING YOU MUST GET SMEARED WITH CLAY,” SUGGESTING +MODERN SCIENCE OF STRATEGICS, HAD BEEN HANDED TO KUTúZOV WHEN HE WAS IN +MOMENT!” +MOMENT.” +MOMENT CONSIDER WHAT SHE SHOULD DO), BUT ALL THIS HAD LONG BEEN FAMILIAR +MOMENT HAD ARRIVED. WITH THE AIR OF A PRACTICAL PETERSBURG LADY SHE NOW, +MOMENT HE WAS CLEARLY THINKING OF NOTHING BUT HOW DASHING A FELLOW HE +MOMENT IMAGINED HIMSELF TO BE NAPOLEON IN PERSON AND TO HAVE JUST +MOMENT MARCHING WITH THE COMPANY. THE HUSSAR CORNET OF KUTúZOV’S +MOMENT OF MEETING HAD BEEN SO BEATIFIC THAT HIS PRESENT JOY SEEMED +MOMENT, SAT BESIDE HIM: THE REST, CROWDING ROUND HIM, WATCHED EVERY +MOMENTS: BUT HIS WORDS SOUNDED SO WEAK THAT HE FELT ASHAMED OF HIMSELF. +MOMENT THE FRENCH WHO WERE ATTACKING, SUDDENLY AND WITHOUT ANY APPARENT +MOMENT THOSE HANDS WITH THEIR SHORT REDDISH FINGERS AND HAIRY WRISTS, +MOMENT WHEN THE FIRST REPORT WAS HEARD A FOURTH WAS SEEN. THEN TWO +“MON DIEU! MON DIEU! OH!” SHE HEARD AS SHE LEFT THE ROOM. +“MON DIEU, MON DIEU!” SHE MUTTERED, AND LIFTING HER DRESS WITH ONE +MONK HE RECEIVED AND HAD A LONG TALK WITH.” +MONSIEUR BUONAPARTE SITTING ON A THRONE AND GRANTING THE PETITIONS OF +MONUMENT FROM MOSCOW WHICH HE INTENDED TO ERECT IN HIS OWN GARDEN TO HIS +MORE. +MORE AND HOLDING OUT THE LETTER. +MORE AND MORE ANIMATED AND EVIDENTLY WISHING TO EXPRESS HIS NEW OUTLOOK +MORE ANIMATED. “AND BELIEVE ME, THEY ARE REAPING THE REWARD OF THEIR +MORE ANIMATED. ONLY WHEN A MAN WAS KILLED OR WOUNDED DID HE FROWN AND +MOREAU WOULD HAVE BEEN A PRISONER IF SUVóROV HAD HAD A FREE HAND; BUT +MORE, BUT HE WAITED AND DID NOTHING. +MORE CHEERFUL IN HIS PRESENCE, AND WERE EVIDENTLY ANXIOUS TO DISPLAY +MORE CONFIDENT WAS THE APPEARANCE OF OUR TROOPS. THE SOLDIERS IN +MORE CONFIRMED THE FARTHER HE RODE INTO THE REGION BEHIND THE VILLAGE OF +MORE CONFUSED, BLUSHED LIKE A CHILD TILL TEARS CAME TO HIS EYES, BEGAN +MORE CUNNING OR SUBTLE DIPLOMATIST—YOU KNOW, A COMBINATION OF FRENCH +MORE, FOR IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARDS CANNON BEGAN FIRING FROM SOMEWHERE AND +MORE HONORABLE TO ADMIT ONE’S MISTAKE THAN TO LET MATTERS BECOME +MORE IMPORTANT GUESTS—AN OLD GENERAL AND HIS WIFE, AND ANNA PáVLOVNA +MORE IMPORTANT NEARER TO THE HONORED GUEST, AS NATURALLY AS WATER FLOWS +MORE NATURAL AND ANIMATED THAN USUAL, SO THAT THE WRINKLES ROUND +MORE NOTICEABLE HOW MUCH PLAINER SHE HAD BECOME. SOME UNOBTRUSIVE TOUCH +MORE OUTCRIES, AND TEARS OF JOY. HE COULD NOT DISTINGUISH WHICH WAS +MORE! SOME MORE!” A MERRY VOICE WAS SAYING IN HIS SOUL. BUT NO MORE +MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE, PRINCE VASíLI TOOK POSSESSION OF PIERRE’S +MORE THAN THEY DID ANATOLE. DóLOKHOV COULD PLAY ALL GAMES AND NEARLY +MORE THAN TIMóKHIN HAD DONE WHEN HE WAS REPRIMANDED BY THE REGIMENTAL +MORE TO DO WITH YOU AND YOU ARE NO LONGER MY FRIEND, NO LONGER MY +MORNING. +MORNING GREETING, CROSSING HERSELF WITH TREPIDATION AND REPEATING A +MORNING OR EVENING THAN NIGHT. ON THE WAY PIERRE REMEMBERED THAT ANATOLE +MORNING, THE LINES WERE SO NEAR TOGETHER THAT THE MEN COULD SEE ONE +MORNING TILL NIGHT AND ABSTEMIOUS, SO OF COURSE I AM WELL.” +MORSELS. THE GROUP ABOUT MORTEMART IMMEDIATELY BEGAN DISCUSSING THE +MORTIFICATION, OUR OPINION OF BONAPARTE CANNOT ALTER. WE SHALL NOT CEASE +MOSCOVITES WHO TOOK THEIR OPINIONS FROM OTHERS—ILYá ROSTóV AMONG +MOSCOW!” +MOSCOW AFTER THE DEATH OF COUNT BEZúKHOV, HE WOULD CALL PIERRE, OR +MOSCOW. AS A RESULT HE COULD NOT GO TO THE COUNTRY WITH THE REST OF THE +MOSCOW FOR HIS EQUIPMENT, WAS TO JOIN THEM ON THE MARCH TO RADZIVíLOV. +“MOSCOW HAS NOTHING ELSE TO DO BUT GOSSIP,” BORíS WENT ON. +MOSCOW’S HERO WAS THE FACT THAT HE HAD NO CONNECTIONS IN THE CITY +MOSCOW THEIR HOUSE WAS ALWAYS FULL OF VISITORS. THE NIGHT AFTER THE +MOSCOW. THE REMEMBRANCE OF THE ROSTóVS’ HOUSE AND OF HIS CHILDISH +MOSCOW WHEN BORíS WAS A BOY OF FOURTEEN, AND HAD QUITE FORGOTTEN HIM, +MOSCOW WHO WAS EXPECTED EVERY MOMENT, AND MEN ON HORSEBACK WITH LANTERNS +MOST IN PEOPLE. AS TO HIS INHERITANCE AND THE PART PLAYED BY PRINCE +MOST JOYFUL THOUGH ERRONEOUS RUMORS WERE RIFE OF THE IMAGINARY APPROACH +MOST OF HER OBSERVATIONS, IT MADE EVERYONE FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE, NOT +MOST OF THE GUESTS, UNCERTAIN HOW TO REGARD THIS SALLY, LOOKED AT THE +MOST PART TO BE SPOKEN AT A MOMENT OF VICTORY AND TRIUMPH, GENERALLY +MOST STRONGLY EXPRESSED HIS INSINCERE LOVE FOR HER, AND HE FELT THE +MOTHER!...” +MOTHER AND THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER—BOTH NAMED NATALY. EVER SINCE +MOTHER BY THE NEWS OF THIS LOSS, HE KNEW WHAT A RELIEF IT WOULD BE TO +MOTHER, DRAWING HER HAND FROM BENEATH HER OLD MANTLE AND LAYING +MOTHER KEEP YOU IN THEIR HOLY AND ALL-POWERFUL CARE! +MOTHER, PUSHING AWAY HER DAUGHTER WITH PRETENDED STERNNESS, AND TURNING +MOTHERS USED TO BE MARRIED AT TWELVE OR THIRTEEN.” +MOTIONLESS MASSES OF THE FRENCH NOW SWAYED AND THAT THERE REALLY WAS +MOTIVE OF HIS VISIT, “IS IT TRUE THAT THE DOWAGER EMPRESS WANTS +MOUNTAINS, DEFENDING HIMSELF AGAINST SUPERIOR FORCES OF THE ENEMY AND +MOUNTAINS OF BOHEMIA, AND YOU AND YOUR ARMY WOULD HAVE SPENT A BAD +MOUNT AND RIDE TO THE BRIDGE. (OBSERVE THAT ALL THREE ARE GASCONS.) +MOUNTED FRENCHMEN, PROBABLY ADJUTANTS, WERE GALLOPING UP THE HILL. A +MOUNTING HIS HORSE AGAIN PRINCE ANDREW LINGERED WITH THE BATTERY, +MOUTH ALL SEEMED PUCKERED INTO A VACANT, WEARIED GRIMACE, AND HIS ARMS +MOUTH. ANOTHER WAS WALKING STURDILY BY HIMSELF BUT WITHOUT HIS MUSKET, +MOUTH FULL OF FALSE TEETH, AS IF SHE WERE TRYING TO CHEAT OLD AGE.... +MOUTH!” SAID BILíBIN, AND THE MOP OF HAIR ON HIS HEAD MOVED WITH +MOVED AND HALTED AT THE OFFICERS’ COMMAND, TURNED WITH BANNERS FLYING, +MOVED HIS FORCES TO ATTACK THE CENTER AND OUTFLANK BOTH THE RUSSIAN +MOVED OFF ACCOMPANIED BY AN IRREGULARLY SWAYING SEA OF AIDES-DE-CAMP. +MOVEMENT OF DóLOKHOV’S HANDS. THOSE BROAD, REDDISH HANDS, WITH HAIRY +MOVEMENT OF SOLDIERS FORMING RANKS AND GETTING THEIR MUSKETS READY, +MOVEMENT OF THE TSAR’S SEEMED TO HIM ENCHANTING. +MOVEMENTS OF THE AUSTRIAN ARMY, AND THEN GIVE IT TO HIS EXCELLENCY.” +MOVEMENTS OF THE BAGGAGE TRAINS OF THE ENTIRE ARMY ALONG THE KREMS-ZNAIM +MOVEMENTS OF THE BEARERS, AND THE COLD LISTLESS GAZE FIXED ITSELF UPON +MOVEMENTS OF THE MASS OF WHICH IN HIS REGIMENT HE FELT HIMSELF A TINY, +MOVEMENTS WERE STILL SLOW AND MEASURED. +MOVEMENT, WORD, OR LOOK OF HIS, NEVER TAKING THEIR BLISSFULLY ADORING +MOVE ON A FEW STEPS AND BE KILLED THEMSELVES IN THE SAME WAY. +“MOVE ON A HUNDRED YARDS AND WE ARE CERTAINLY SAVED, REMAIN HERE +MOVE ON. THE HORSES MOVED OFF THE BANK. THE ICE, THAT HAD HELD UNDER +MOVING A CHAIR CLOSE TO HERS SEATED HIMSELF BESIDE HER. +MOVING THE MONEY FORWARD HE PREPARED TO DEAL. ROSTóV SAT DOWN BY HIS +MOVING TOWARD OUR LEFT FLANK, THE HIGHER COMMAND FOUND THAT OUR CENTER +“MR. AIDE-DE-CAMP! HELP ME!... WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?” SCREAMED THE +“MR. AIDE-DE-CAMP! MR. AIDE-DE-CAMP!... FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE... PROTECT +MUCH, AND ALL OF YOU, ONLY VéRA... AND WHAT FOR? WHAT HAVE I DONE +MUCH AS A SAILOR IS BY HIS SHIP. HOWEVER FAR HE HAS WALKED, WHATEVER +“MUCH AS MAMMA PRESSED HER, SHE REFUSED, AND I KNOW SHE WON’T CHANGE +MUCH AT THE CAPTAIN AS AT THOSE WHO WERE LAUGHING, AMONG WHOM ZHERKóV +MUCH BECAUSE HE HEARD THEIR SOUND AS BECAUSE HE SAW UNEASINESS ON +MUCH INTEREST HIM BECAUSE AT THAT MOMENT HE FELT WITH DELIGHT THAT HE +MUCH, MY DEAR SIR.” +MUCH OF IT LEFT.” +MUCH PRETTIER. PIERRE WAS RECEIVED AS IF HE WERE A CORPSE OR A LEPER. +MUCH THAT THE COUNT HELD HIM UP AS A PATTERN TO THE OTHER GUESTS. BERG +MUCH TO SAY TO ONE ANOTHER IN PRIVATE AND SO THEY HAD BEEN SEEKING AN +MUD-BESPATTERED BREECHES. THE GERMAN LANDLADY, HEARING ROSTóV’S LOUD +MURAT. BONAPARTE HIMSELF, NOT TRUSTING TO HIS GENERALS, MOVED WITH ALL +MURAT’S DETACHMENT AND THE BATTLE HAD NOT YET BEGUN. IN BAGRATIóN’S +MURAT’S EMISSARY AND RETIRED, LEAVING BAGRATIóN’S DIVISION +MURDER OF THE DUC D’ENGHIEN. THE VICOMTE SAID THAT THE DUC D’ENGHIEN +MUSIC. AMID THESE SOUNDS, ONLY THE YOUTHFUL KINDLY VOICE OF THE EMPEROR +MUSKETS OF THE NEAREST SOLDIERS. THE SOLDIERS STARTED FIRING WITHOUT +MUSTACHE. “I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU MEN ARE LIKE. ARE YOU THE SAME AS +MUST BE BROKEN OFF ... AND THEN YOU KNOW, ANDRé...” (SHE LOOKED +MUST EXCUSE ME,” SAID HE, PUTTING PIERRE AT EASE INSTEAD OF BEING PUT +MUST GAIN HIS CONFIDENCE AND FRIENDSHIP AND THROUGH HIM OBTAIN A SPECIAL +MUST HAVE AN EXPLANATION...” +MUST HAVE PITY ON A YOUNG MAN IN MISFORTUNE. YOU KNOW HE HAS IMPORTANT +“MUST ONE DIE LIKE A DOG?” SAID HE. +MUST PUT IN AN APPEARANCE THERE,” SAID THE PRINCE. “MY DAUGHTER IS +MUST REMAIN HIDDEN FROM THEE, BUT LIVE SO THAT THOU MAYEST BE READY FOR +MUTTERED SOMETHING AND COLORED. +MY ADVANCE GUARD, AND HAVE NO RIGHT TO ARRANGE AN ARMISTICE WITHOUT MY +“MY COUSIN HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS AND IT’S NOT NECESSARY TO +“MY DARLING!” HE SAID—A WORD HE HAD NEVER USED TO HER BEFORE. +“MY DEAR ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA,” SAID HE WITH HIS USUAL FAMILIARITY AND +“MY DEAR BENEFACTOR! THIS IS WHAT I EXPECTED FROM YOU—I KNEW YOUR +“MY DEAR BORíS,” SAID PRINCESS ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA TO HER SON AS +MY DEAR BOY, ARE YOU SERVING IN THE HORSE GUARDS?” ASKED THE OLD MAN, +“MY DEAR COUNT, YOU WERE ONE OF MY BEST PUPILS—YOU MUST DANCE,” +“MY DEAR!” EXCLAIMED HIS MOTHER IMPLORINGLY, AGAIN LAYING HER HAND +“MY DEAR FELLOW, HOW ARE YOU?” SAID HE THROUGH THE SINGING, MAKING +“MY DEAR FELLOW,” NESVíTSKI WHISPERED TO PRINCE ANDREW, “THE OLD +“MY DEAR FELLOW, WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO IN MOSCOW? WHY HAVE YOU +“MY DEAR FELLOW, YOU ARE A HERO!” SAID BILíBIN. +“MY DEAR FRIEND?” SAID SHE, IN A TONE OF PATHETIC INQUIRY, PREPARED +“MY DEAR,” HE HEARD WHAT SEEMED TO HIM HER DESPAIRING WHISPER BEHIND +“MY DEAR, I MUST TELL YOU THAT THIS IS A MOMENT I SHALL NEVER, NEVER +“MY DEAR PRINCESS CATHERINE SEMëNOVNA,” BEGAN PRINCE VASíLI +“MY DEAR, REALLY... IT’S BETTER NOT TO WAKE HIM... HE’S ASLEEP,” +“MY DEAR,” SAID PRINCESS MARY, ADDRESSING HER BROTHER FROM BESIDE +“MY DEAR,” SHE SAID TO HER SON, ONCE MORE STIMULATING HIM BY A +MY DEAR SIR,” HE ADDED, SEEING THAT HIS SERVANT HAD ENTERED... “AND +MY DEAR, WHETHER THE WILL AND LETTER WERE WRITTEN, AND WHETHER THEY HAVE +“MY DESIRE IS NEVER TO LEAVE YOU, FATHER, NEVER TO SEPARATE MY +MY EMPTY PORTMANTEAU AND MY DRESSING GOWN. THE EMPEROR PROPOSES TO GIVE +MY FATHER HAS NOT SPOKEN TO ME OF A SUITOR, BUT HAS ONLY TOLD ME THAT HE +MY FRIEND... I ONLY NEED SEE PRINCE VASíLI SERGéEVICH: HE IS STAYING +“MY FRIEND,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA IN GENTLE TONES, ADDRESSING +MY GEOMETRY LESSONS,” SAID PRINCESS MARY GLEEFULLY, AS IF HER LESSONS +“MY GOD, HOW HAPPY I SHOULD BE IF HE ORDERED ME TO LEAP INTO THE FIRE +“MY GOD, I’M A RUINED AND DISHONORED MAN! A BULLET THROUGH MY BRAIN +“MY GOD! WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?” THOUGHT HE. “AND HERE, WHERE AT +MY MEN IN THE WOOD. I BEG OF YOU, I BEG OF YOU,” HE REPEATED, “TO +“MY MOTHER! MY MOTHER, MY ANGEL, MY ADORED ANGEL MOTHER,” AND +“MY PART IS PLAYED OUT,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. “WHAT’S THE USE OF +“MY PASSION! I HAVE HAD SO MANY,” REPLIED PIERRE. +MY RELATIONS WITH HIM, TRANSIENT AS THEY WERE, HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE +MY RESPECTS TO MONSIEUR YOUR FATHER AND MY COMPLIMENTS TO MADEMOISELLE +MY RIDING AND COMMANDING SO VAST AN ARMY, SO I HAVE PASSED ON THE +MYSELF AND RUINED MY LIFE. AND ONLY NOW WHEN I AM LIVING, OR AT LEAST +MYSELF AND YOU WITH THE HOPE THAT YOUR SON IS ALIVE, FOR OTHERWISE +MYSELF NOT LONG AGO, IN MOSCOW AND WHEN TRAVELING, BUT AT SUCH TIMES I +MYSTERIOUSLY. “YES, TOMORROW, TOMORROW!” HE THOUGHT. “TOMORROW +MYSTERY IS OF SUCH A NATURE THAT NOBODY CAN KNOW OR USE IT UNLESS HE BE +MYSTERY ON WHICH PERHAPS THE FATE OF MANKIND DEPENDS. BUT SINCE THIS +MYSTICAL BOOK I AM SENDING YOU; IT HAS AN ENORMOUS SUCCESS HERE. THOUGH +MY STUPIDITY.” +“MY VOCATION IS A DIFFERENT ONE,” THOUGHT PRINCESS MARY. “MY +MY WIFE—ARE THE COUNT’S ONLY DIRECT HEIRS. I KNOW, I KNOW HOW HARD +“MY WIFE,” CONTINUED PRINCE ANDREW, “IS AN EXCELLENT WOMAN, ONE +NAKED SHOULDERS. SHE DID NOT GIVE HIM THE MONEY, BUT LET HERSELF BE +NAME. +NAME-DAY PARTY. +NAMESAKE, THE NEW COUNT BEZúKHOV) “AND NOW SHE’S IN LOVE WITH THAT +NAME TO RECTIFY THIS OMISSION, PRINCE ANDREW GALLOPED BACK. KUTúZOV +NAPKIN, FROM BEHIND THE NEXT MAN’S SHOULDERS AND WHISPERED: “DRY +NAPOLEON +NAPOLEON +NAPOLEON HAPPENED TO FALL INTO ONE OF THE FAINTING FITS TO WHICH HE WAS +NAPOLEON. “IF HE WEREN’T AFRAID OF A BATTLE WHY DID HE ASK FOR THAT +NAPOLEON’S ARMY OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND MEN WOULD CUT HIM +NAPOLEON’S EYES PRINCE ANDREW THOUGHT OF THE INSIGNIFICANCE OF +NAPOLEON’S PROCLAMATION WAS AS FOLLOWS: +NAPOLEON’S WORDS. “‘I OPENED MY ANTECHAMBERS AND THEY CROWDED +NAPOLEON WHO SAID IT. HE HEARD THE SPEAKER ADDRESSED AS SIRE. BUT HE +NAPOLEON WITH EVEN GREATER WARMTH THAN THE YEAR BEFORE. ORDERS WERE +NARROWED DISDAINFULLY, HE ENTERED THE ROOM OF THE MINISTER OF WAR WITH +NARýSHKIN, UVáROV, DOLGORúKOV, APRáKSIN, VALúEV, TO THE COMMITTEE, +“NATáLYA ILYNíCHNA BEHAVES VERY WELL TO ME,” REMARKED BORíS. “I +“NATALY,” HE SAID, MOVING WITH RAPID STEPS TOWARD HER, “DECIDE MY +NATáSHA, AFTER SHE HAD PULLED HIM DOWN TOWARD HER AND COVERED HIS FACE +NATáSHA, AND SóNYA, AND WILL CERTAINLY NEVER TOUCH A CARD AGAIN.” AT +NATáSHA BLUSHED AND LAUGHED. +NATáSHA. BUT HE WAS NOT AS MUCH AT EASE WITH SóNYA AND DóLOKHOV AS +NATáSHA CAME IN AND WALKING STRAIGHT UP TO PIERRE SAID, LAUGHING AND +NATáSHA CONSIDERED. +NATáSHA COULD NOT REMAIN CALM, SEEING HIM IN SUCH A PLIGHT. SHE BEGAN +NATáSHA DID NOT LIKE THE VISITOR’S TONE OF CONDESCENSION TO CHILDISH +NATáSHA FELL IN LOVE THE VERY MOMENT SHE ENTERED THE BALLROOM. SHE +NATáSHA FLARED UP. “I DON’T WANT TO MARRY ANYONE. AND I’LL TELL +“NATáSHA,” HE SAID, “YOU KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU, BUT....” +NATáSHA KEPT PULLING EVERYONE BY SLEEVE OR DRESS, URGING THEM TO +NATáSHA KISSED HER ON THE HAIR. +NATáSHA LOOKED AT SóNYA WITH WONDERING AND INQUISITIVE EYES, AND SAID +NATáSHA. NICHOLAS UNDERSTOOD THAT SOMETHING MUST HAVE HAPPENED BETWEEN +NATáSHA NO LESS PROUD OF HER FIRST LONG DRESS AND OF BEING AT A REAL +NATáSHA ONLY DESISTED WHEN SHE HAD BEEN TOLD THAT THERE WOULD BE +NATáSHA, RAISING HER FACE FOR A MOMENT FROM HER MOTHER’S MANTILLA, +NATáSHA SAW THERE WAS NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF AND SO SHE BRAVED EVEN +NATáSHA, SEEING THE IMPRESSION THE NEWS OF HER BROTHER’S WOUND +NATáSHA’S INTERMEDIACY, TO REMIND HIM OF HIS PROMISE, AND THEN +NATáSHA’S LARGE MOUTH WIDENED, MAKING HER LOOK QUITE UGLY, AND SHE +NATáSHA SMILED THROUGH HER TEARS. +NATáSHA’S PREDICTION PROVED TRUE. DóLOKHOV, WHO DID NOT USUALLY CARE +NATáSHA’S PREVIOUS REMARK. “IT’S BECAUSE SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH +NATáSHA, STOPPING SUDDENLY. “I FEEL SO HAPPY!” +NATáSHA SUDDENLY FLUSHED. +NATáSHA, THAT WINTER, HAD FOR THE FIRST TIME BEGUN TO SING SERIOUSLY, +NATáSHA TOOK THE FIRST NOTE, HER THROAT SWELLED, HER CHEST ROSE, +NATáSHA TO SING. +NATáSHA, WHO WAS EXCEPTIONALLY GRACEFUL, WAS FIRST, EVEN DANCED THE PAS +NATURAL TO HIM WAS VERY GENTLE AND WARY WITH THEM BOTH AT DINNER. ON +NEAR BY THE NEWS SPREAD THAT THE EMPEROR WAS UNWELL. HE ATE NOTHING AND +NEARER, FASTER AND LOUDER, LOUDER AND FASTER, A CANNON BALL, AS IF IT +NEARER. THEN THE CLANG OF HOOFS, AS OF SEVERAL HORSES GALLOPING, +NEAREST HIM WERE NOT TO BLAME FOR THEY WERE THEMSELVES PRESSED STILL +NEAR EVERYTHING GREW BRIGHTER, MORE JOYFUL, MORE SIGNIFICANT, AND MORE +NEAR HIM AND ONLY WISHED THAT THEY WOULD HELP HIM AND BRING HIM BACK TO +NEAR HIM PRICKED THEIR EARS AT THESE SHOUTS. OVER THERE, WHERE THE +NEARLY CUT OUR LEFT FLANK IN HALF WERE FOR THE MOMENT REPULSED. OUR +NEAR SIXTY, DEAR FRIEND... I TOO... ALL WILL END IN DEATH, ALL! DEATH IS +NEAR THE ALTAR OF THE CHURCH AT BALD HILLS THERE WAS A CHAPEL OVER THE +NEAR THE GUN WAVED THEIR ARMS AND BEAT THE HORSES TO MAKE THEM TURN AND +NEAR THE STRANGE LADY. PRINCE VASíLI IN FRONT OF THE DOOR, NEAR THE +NECESSARY FOR THE POSITION. THEN THERE’S THIS HOUSE, WHICH MUST BE +NECESSARY. HALFWAY UP THE STAIRS THEY WERE ALMOST KNOCKED OVER BY +NECESSARY,” SAID THE YOUNGER OF THE TWO SPEAKERS, EVIDENTLY IN THE +NECESSARY TO ENABLE IT TO RETREAT WITHOUT LOSING ITS HEAVY EQUIPMENT. +NECESSARY TO GO ON INSISTING DAY AFTER DAY AND HOUR AFTER HOUR, AND EVEN +NECESSARY TO TAKE SOME PART IN IT. +NECESSITY OF GOING BACK ON HIS WORD. WITH A SINKING HEART HE WATCHED +NECK AND THE CORNERS OF HER MOUTH DROOPED. +NECK INSTEAD. +NECK. IT SEEMED TO ROSTóV THAT BOGDáNICH WAS ONLY PRETENDING NOT +NECK. ON HIS RIGHT SAT THE ITALIAN ABBé WHOM PIERRE HAD MET AT +NEEDED. +NEEDED FOR SUCCESS IN THE SERVICE WAS NOT EFFORT OR WORK, OR COURAGE, OR +NEED, EVEN THE INEVITABILITY, OF ENTERING INTO CONVERSATION WITH THIS +NEED SOME MONEY.” +NEED TO HURRY. HOWEVER, HE PUT HIS HORSE TO A TROT IN THE DIRECTION +NEGOTIATIONS AND TO OFFER THE RUSSIAN ARMY THE THREE DAYS’ TRUCE. +NEIGHBOR, AND MAY ENVY NEVER DIM THE PURITY OF THAT BLISS. FORGIVE THY +NEIGHBORING TOWN, WHO HAD BEEN AT BALD HILLS FOR THE LAST FORTNIGHT.) +NEIGHBORING WHEEL IS AS QUIET AND MOTIONLESS AS THOUGH IT WERE PREPARED +NEIGHBOR? NO! YOU HAVE SPENT YOUR LIFE IN IDLENESS. THEN YOU MARRIED, MY +NEIGHBOR ON HIS RIGHT QUICKLY TURNED IN ALARM TO BEZúKHOV. +NEITHER I NOR MY MOTHER WOULD EVER ASK OR TAKE ANYTHING FROM HIM.” +NEITHER MOVING FORWARD TO PROTECT THE BATTERY NOR BACKWARD WITH THE +NEITHER OF HER GOWN AND COIFFURE NOR OF HOW SHE WOULD GO IN NOR OF WHAT +NEITHER OF THEM COULD THINK OF HER AS A RIVAL, SO THEY BEGAN DRESSING +NEITHER QUICKLY NOR SLOWLY. AT THIS NATáSHA DASHED SWIFTLY AMONG THE +NESVíTSKI. +NESVíTSKI AND ZHERKóV WERE SO SURPRISED BY THIS OUTBURST THAT THEY +NESVíTSKI CLOSED THEIR EYES. AT THE SAME INSTANT THEY HEARD A REPORT +NESVíTSKI. COUNT ILYá ROSTóV WITH THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE +NESVíTSKI LOOKED ROUND AND SAW, SOME FIFTEEN PACES AWAY BUT SEPARATED +“NESVíTSKI, NESVíTSKI! YOU NUMSKULL!” CAME A HOARSE VOICE FROM +NESVíTSKI ROSE, PUFFING, AND WENT UP TO THE GENERAL, SMILING. +NESVíTSKI’S AND DóLOKHOV’S SABERS, WHICH WERE STUCK INTO THE +NESVíTSKI STOPPED HIM AND TOOK HIM HOME. +NESVíTSKI. “THEY’VE MADE UP SPLENDID PACKS FOR ME—FIT TO CROSS +NESVíTSKI TRIED TO MOVE ON, SOLDIERS AND CARTS PUSHED HIM BACK AGAIN +NESVíTSKI WAS THERE AS AN OLD MEMBER OF THE CLUB. PIERRE, WHO AT HIS +NESVíTSKI WITH A LAUGH THREW HIS ARMS ROUND PRINCE ANDREW, BUT +NEUTRAL... I KNOW THAT. WHAT ABOUT AUSTRIA?” SAID HE, RISING FROM HIS +NEUTRALITY IS JUST A TRAP. I HAVE FAITH ONLY IN GOD AND THE LOFTY +NEVER BEAR MALICE OR ENMITY TOWARD THY BROTHER. BE KINDLY AND COURTEOUS. +NEVER FAVORABLY DISPOSED TOWARD HIM—WOULD HAVE USED IT TO TURN THE +NEVER HAD LOVE BEEN SO MUCH IN THE AIR, AND NEVER HAD THE AMOROUS +“NEVER, NEVER MARRY, MY DEAR FELLOW! THAT’S MY ADVICE: NEVER MARRY +NEVER SAYS ANYTHING STUPID. SHE SAYS LITTLE, BUT WHAT SHE DOES SAY IS +NEVER TAKE IT OFF. DO YOU PROMISE?” +NEVER THOUGHT MUCH OF HIM.” +NEVER TO DARE TO CHANGE YOUR WAY OF DRESS WITHOUT MY CONSENT.” +NEVER UNDERSTAND IT, BECAUSE YOU’VE NEVER LOVED ANYONE. YOU HAVE NO +NEW CHURCH, PREVIOUSLY BEGUN, HAD COST ABOUT 10,000 IN EACH OF THE LAST +NEW FRIEND’S INFLUENCE. +NEWLY ERECTED BUILDINGS WERE STANDING EMPTY AND THAT THE SERFS CONTINUED +NEW MUSTACHE. “NOW THEN, GET ON,” HE SHOUTED TO THE DRIVER. “DO +NEW PACK OF CARDS SAID: “BANK, GENTLEMEN!” +NEW PATH SO ATTRACTIVELY SHOWN HIM BY THE MASONS, ON WHICH HE FIRMLY +NEWS. +NEWS AND COMMON ACQUAINTANCES LIKE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW EACH OTHER +NEWS—IF IT’S NOT FALSE. BENNIGSEN SEEMS TO HAVE OBTAINED A COMPLETE +NEWS I MAY TAKE BACK TO MY POOR BOY.” +NEXT CAME FOUR SOLDIERS, CARRYING SOMETHING HEAVY ON A CLOAK, AND PASSED +NEXT DAY, AT EIGHT IN THE MORNING, PIERRE AND NESVíTSKI DROVE TO THE +NEXT DAY HE WOKE LATE. RECALLING HIS RECENT IMPRESSIONS, THE FIRST +NEXT DAY PRINCE VASíLI HAD ARRIVED AND SETTLED IN THE COUNT’S HOUSE. +NEXT DAY ROSTóV SAW DENíSOV OFF. HE DID NOT WISH TO STAY ANOTHER +NEXT DAY, THE ARMY BEGAN ITS CAMPAIGN, AND UP TO THE VERY BATTLE OF +NEXT DAY THE FRENCH ARMY DID NOT RENEW THEIR ATTACK, AND THE REMNANT OF +NEXT DAY, THE THIRD OF MARCH, SOON AFTER ONE O’CLOCK, TWO HUNDRED AND +NEXT GLANCED ROUND IN ALARM. +NEXT MORNING, AFTER THE FATIGUES OF THEIR JOURNEY, THE TRAVELERS SLEPT +NEXT MORNING WHEN THE VALET CAME INTO THE ROOM WITH HIS COFFEE, PIERRE +NEXT NOTE, THE NEXT PHRASE, AND EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD WAS DIVIDED INTO +“NICE! AND SO YOU NO LONGER WISH TO MARRY BORíS?” +NICE... BUT IT WON’T DO...NOT THAT... BUT AS A FRIEND, I SHALL ALWAYS +NICE INDEED, QUITE FRENCH,” AND HE KISSED THE TIPS OF HIS FINGERS. + * NICHOLAS. +NICHOLAS AND DENíSOV WERE WALKING UP AND DOWN, LOOKING WITH KINDLY +NICHOLAS BEGAN PACING UP AND DOWN THE ROOM. +NICHOLAS’ CAREER AND AM HEARTLESS AND UNGRATEFUL, WHILE TRULY... GOD +“NICHOLAS! COME OUT IN YOUR DRESSING GOWN!” SAID NATáSHA’S VOICE. +“NICHOLAS, DON’T TELL ME THAT!” SHE SAID. +“NICHOLAS! GET UP!” NATáSHA’S VOICE WAS AGAIN HEARD AT THE DOOR. +“NICHOLAS, HAVE YOU COME? COME HERE, DEAR!” CALLED THE OLD COUNTESS +NICHOLAS, HAVING AS USUAL EXHAUSTED TWO PAIRS OF HORSES, WITHOUT +NICHOLAS. I NEVER KNEW ANY MADAME JACQUOT.” +“NICHOLAS IS GOING AWAY IN A WEEK’S TIME, HIS... PAPERS... HAVE +NICHOLAS’ LETTER WAS READ OVER HUNDREDS OF TIMES, AND THOSE WHO WERE +NICHOLAS ROSTóV TURNED AWAY AND, AS IF SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING, GAZED +NICHOLAS ROSTóV, WITH DENíSOV AND HIS NEW ACQUAINTANCE, DóLOKHOV, SAT +NICHOLAS SAT AT SOME DISTANCE FROM SóNYA, BESIDE JULIE KARáGINA, TO +NICHOLAS STRAIGHT IN THE EYES, “YOU KNOW THE SAYING, ‘LUCKY IN LOVE, +NICHOLAS TRIED TO SAY “YES,” BUT COULD NOT: AND HE NEARLY BURST INTO +NICHOLAS TURNED AWAY FROM HER. NATáSHA TOO, WITH HER QUICK INSTINCT, +“NICHOLAS!” WAS ALL SóNYA SAID, INSTANTLY TURNING WHITE. +NICHOLAS WAS TO GO WITH HIM TO THE REGIMENT; THEN CAME ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA +NICHOLAS WENT TO HER, KISSED HER HAND, AND SITTING DOWN SILENTLY AT HER +“NICHOLAS, WILL YOU COME TO IOGEL’S? PLEASE DO!” SAID NATáSHA. +(NICKNAMED IN SOCIETY, “THE KING OF PRUSSIA”) EVER SINCE THE EMPEROR +NIGHT.” +NIGHT A MOTLEY THRONG OF PEOPLE SAT THERE, NOT MERRYMAKING, BUT SOMBERLY +NIGHT. BUT NOW, IN THE SOLITUDE OF THE JOURNEY, THEY SEIZED HIM WITH +NIGHT HE HAD NOT THE SLIGHTEST DOUBT, AND THE GUILTLESSNESS OF +NIGHT I LOOKED AT THE CAMPFIRES AND THERE WAS NO END OF THEM. A REGULAR +NIGHT LONG WITHOUT CLOSING THEIR EYES, WHILE THE ADJUTANTS AND +NIGHT, SO DARK THAT THE COACHMAN COULD NOT SEE THE CARRIAGE POLE. +NIGHT WHEN HE HAD DECIDED THAT TO MARRY HéLèNE WOULD BE A CALAMITY AND +“NIKóLENKA... A LETTER... WA... A... S... WOUNDED... MY DARLING +NIKóLENKA; BY HIS RELATIONS AS A CHARMING, ATTRACTIVE, AND POLITE YOUNG +“NIKóLENKA, WHAT IS THE MATTER?” SóNYA’S EYES FIXED ON HIM +“NIKóLENKA... WOUNDED... A LETTER,” SHE ANNOUNCED IN GLEEFUL +NINETEENTH, A GREAT, EXCITEDLY BUSTLING ACTIVITY BEGAN WHICH LASTED TILL +NINETY THOUSAND STRONG, WAS TO THREATEN PRUSSIA SO AS TO BRING HER OUT +“NO.” +“NO.” +“NO.” +NO?” +NO ACCOUNT HAVE TOLD A DELIBERATE LIE. HE BEGAN HIS STORY MEANING TO +“NO, ANDREW, I MUST SAY YOU HAVE CHANGED. OH, HOW YOU HAVE....” +“NO APOLOGIES, NONE WHATEVER,” SAID DóLOKHOV TO DENíSOV (WHO ON +“NOBODY WANTS ME!” THOUGHT ROSTóV. “THERE IS NO ONE TO HELP ME OR +“NO, BUT DON’T YOU THINK IT’S NICE?” SHE KEPT REPEATING. +“NO, BUT DO PROMISE! I WON’T LET YOU GO! MY DEAR BENEFACTOR...” +“NO, BUT I HAVE BEEN IN LOVE A THOUSAND TIMES AND SHALL FALL IN +“NO, BUT IMAGINE THE OLD COUNTESS ZúBOVA, WITH FALSE CURLS AND HER +“NO, BUT I MUST. IT MAY BE ARROGANT OF ME, BUT STILL IT IS BEST TO SAY +“NO, BUT I SAY,” SAID PIERRE, CALMING DOWN, “YOU ARE A WONDERFUL +“NO, BUT LISTEN,” SHE SAID, “NOW YOU ARE QUITE A MAN, AREN’T +“NO, BUT SHE SAID THAT IT WAS ALL OVER AND THAT HE’S NOW AN +“NO, BUT WHAT IS IT, MY DEAR? DO YOU WANT ME TO GO AND TELL HIM?” +“NO, CALL HER YOU, PLEASE! I’LL TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT SOME OTHER +NO, CERTAINLY I MUST NOT APPROACH HIM, I MUST NOT INTRUDE ON HIS +“NO,” CRIED HE, BECOMING MORE AND MORE EAGER, “NAPOLEON IS GREAT +“NO, DEAREST, SWEET ONE, HONEY, I WON’T GIVE UP—I KNOW YOU KNOW +“NO, FIFTY,” REPLIED THE LATTER. +“NO, FRIEND, HE IS SHARPER-EYED THAN YOU ARE. BOOTS AND LEG BANDS... +“NO, FRIEND,” SAID A PLEASANT AND, AS IT SEEMED TO PRINCE ANDREW, A +NO FRUIT. I NEVER COULD UNDERSTAND THE FONDNESS SOME PEOPLE HAVE FOR +“NO, GENTLEMEN, NO... YOU MUSTN’T THINK... I QUITE UNDERSTAND. +“NO. GIVE ME THE BOOK,” SAID THE STRANGER. +“NO GOOD... NO GOOD...” SAID THE PRINCE RAPIDLY, AND THRUSTING HIS +“NO, HE’S NOT A FOOL!” REPLIED NATáSHA INDIGNANTLY AND SERIOUSLY. +“NO, HE THINKS ONLY OF HIMSELF,” MUTTERED THE PRINCESS WITHOUT +“NO, I CAN’T AGREE WITH YOU! TO LIVE ONLY SO AS NOT TO DO EVIL AND +“NO, I CONSIDERED IT ERRONEOUS AND DID NOT FOLLOW IT,” SAID PIERRE, +“NO, IF I HADN’T THOUGHT OF IT BEING A TREASURE,” SAID ROSTóV, +“NO, I HATE MY LIFE,” PIERRE MUTTERED, WINCING. +“NO, I HAVE A WICKED HEART.” +“NO, I HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED TO THE LINE,” SAID ANATOLE, HARDLY ABLE +“NO, I HAVE NOT; BUT THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN THINKING AND WANTED +“NO, I MEANT TO ASK...” PIERRE BEGAN, BUT PRINCE ANDREW INTERRUPTED +“NO, IMPOSSIBLE!” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, LAUGHING AND PRESSING +“NO, I MUSTN’T. I AM SO SORRY FOR HIM! HE’S SO NICE.” +“NO, IT CAN’T BE HELPED, LAD,” SAID THE PRINCE. “THEY’RE +“NO, I TELL YOU.” +“NO, IT’S A SPRAIN.” +“NO, IT’S ONLY INDIGESTION?... SAY IT’S ONLY INDIGESTION, SAY SO, +“NO, IT WILL NOT DO,” SHE SAID DECIDEDLY, CLASPING HER HANDS. “NO, +“NO, I WILL DO IT MYSELF, ONLY TELL ME WHAT TO SAY. IT’S ALL VERY +“NO, I WON’T PROMISE THAT. YOU DON’T KNOW HOW KUTúZOV IS PESTERED +“NO, I WON’T,” SAID PIERRE, PUSHING ANATOLE ASIDE, AND HE WENT UP +“NO, LEAVE ME ALONE,” SAID PRINCESS MARY. +NO LONGER, AS IT SHOULD BE, TO AVOID OR ATTACK THE ENEMY, BUT SOLELY TO +NO LONGER A YOUNG DIPLOMAT, AS HE HAD ENTERED THE SERVICE AT THE AGE +NO LONGER LOOKED AT THE FRENCH BUT PAID ATTENTION TO THE SIGHT-SEERS AND +“NO, MAMMA, BUT I’M SO SORRY FOR HIM. I DON’T KNOW HOW I’M TO +“NO, MAMMA, I’M NOT IN LOVE WITH HIM, I SUPPOSE I’M NOT IN LOVE +“NO MATTER AT ALL, MY DEAR COUNT,” SHE SAID, MEEKLY CLOSING HER +“NO MATTER, PRINCESS, DON’T BE ALARMED,” SAID MARY BOGDáNOVNA. +“NO, MERCI, MON PèRE.” +“NO, MON PèRE.” +NO MORE. SHE IS SO AFFECTED. ASK HER IN,” SHE SAID TO THE FOOTMAN IN A +“NO, MY DEAR FELLOW, I’LL BE A WALLFLOWER,” SAID DENíSOV. +NONE TO ANYONE.” +NONINTERVENTION. AND...” HE PAUSED. “FINALLY ONE CANNOT IMPUTE THE +“NON, MADAME.” HE SMILED QUITE INAPPROPRIATELY. +“NO, NO! A THOUSAND TIMES NO! I SHALL NEVER AGREE WITH YOU,” SAID +“NO, NO!” CRIED NATáSHA, “SHE AND I HAVE ALREADY TALKED IT OVER. +“NO! NO! NO! WHEN YOUR FATHER WRITES TO TELL ME THAT YOU ARE BEHAVING +“NO, NO, PLEASE NOT... YOU ARE MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE,” SAID +“NO, NOTHING.” +“NO, NOT ON ANY ACCOUNT! I WILL TELL HIM MYSELF, AND YOU’LL LISTEN +NONRECEIPT OF OUR DISPATCH OF NOVEMBER 18. THAT IS HOW IT WILL END.” +‘NONSENSE!’” +NONSENSE, BUT IT WOULD IN FACT HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT TO GIVE ANY OTHER +NONSENSE... BUT THIS IS REAL.... NOW THEN, NATáSHA, NOW THEN, DEAREST! +NONSENSE, BUT WE ARE FRIENDS FOREVER. SHE, IF SHE LOVES ANYONE, DOES IT +“NONSENSE!” HE CRIED, AND THE VEINS ON HIS FOREHEAD AND NECK STOOD +NONSENSE,” HE THOUGHT. “THE SLUR ON MY NAME AND HONOR—THAT’S ALL +“NONSENSE, INDEED! I AM TELLING YOU THE FACT,” SAID NATáSHA +“NONSENSE, NONSENSE!” CRIED THE OLD MAN, SHAKING HIS PIGTAIL TO +NONSENSE OUT OF YOUR HEAD.” +NONSENSE, THE CHIEF THING IS NOT TO FORGET THE IMPORTANT THING I +“NO ONE CAN ATTAIN TO TRUTH BY HIMSELF. ONLY BY LAYING STONE ON STONE +“NO, ONE CAN’T HEAR THEM. THEY’D BE FIRING IF WE HAD.” +NO ONE HAD GIVEN TúSHIN ORDERS WHERE AND AT WHAT TO FIRE, BUT AFTER +NO ONE SLEPT. +NO ONE WOULD UNDERSTAND THAT IT WAS NOT TO QUENCH HIS THIRST OR FROM +“NO, ON MY TRUE WORD OF HONOR,” SAID NATáSHA, CROSSING HERSELF, +“NO, ON MY WORD IT’S NOT OBSTINACY! I CAN’T DESCRIBE THE FEELING. +“NO-O-O!” MUTTERED DóLOKHOV THROUGH HIS TEETH, “NO, IT’S NOT +“NO, PAPA IS NOT BACK YET,” SAID SóNYA. +“NO, PARDON ME, I WON’T GO NOW TILL THE CHILD IS BETTER,” THOUGHT +“NO, PETER NIKOLáEVICH; I ONLY WANT TO SHOW THAT IN THE CAVALRY +“NO, PRINCE, OUR REGIMENT HAS GONE TO THE FRONT, BUT I AM ATTACHED... +“NO, PRINCESS, I HAVE LOST YOUR AFFECTION FOREVER!” SAID +“NO—PROMISE THAT YOU WILL NOT REFUSE! IT WILL GIVE YOU NO TROUBLE +“NO REALLY, MY DEAR, THIS DRESS IS NOT PRETTY,” SAID LISE, LOOKING +NO RESTRICTIONS WHATSOEVER. YOU MAY COPY IT, GIVE IT AWAY OR RE-USE +NOSE. HIS FACE WAS DEPRESSED AND GLOOMY. HE SEEMED TO SEE AND HEAR +“NO? SHE IS VERY NICE AND KIND AND, ABOVE ALL, SHE’S MUCH TO BE +NO SKY BUT ONLY AN ATMOSPHERE.” +“NO, SóNYA, BUT DO YOU REMEMBER SO THAT YOU REMEMBER HIM PERFECTLY, +NOSTITZ, THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL OCCUPYING THE ADVANCED POSTS, BELIEVED +NO SUCH REMINISCENCES REALLY EXIST—JUST AS NONE EXISTED IN THIS CASE. +NOT A DIPLOMATIST. THAT’S WHY I JOINED THE HUSSARS, THINKING THAT HERE +NOT A DISTINCTION,” SAID THE DIPLOMATIST—“A GIFT, RATHER.” +“NO TALKING IN THE RANKS!... NO TALKING, NO TALKING!” +“NOT ALL, FOR YOU WILL NOT BE THERE; NOT ALL,” SAID PRINCE HIPPOLYTE +NOT A LOGICAL ANSWER AND NOT AT ALL A REPLY TO THEM. THE ANSWER WAS: +NOT ANSWER. THE HUSSAR AT THAT MOMENT NOTICED THE FACE OF THE RED-NOSED +“NOT AT ALL BAD!” HE THOUGHT, EXAMINING HER, “NOT AT ALL BAD, THAT +“NOT AT ALL,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. +NOT AT ONCE RAISE, AND HE SPENT MOST OF HIS TIME IN THE GIRLS’ ROOM. +NOT ATTRACT A MOMENT’S ATTENTION TO THEIR OWN EVOLUTIONS AND DID NOT +NOT BEEN FOUND NOR WAS HE ON THE LIST OF PRISONERS. WHAT WAS WORST OF +“NOT BONAPARTE. HE IS THE EMPEROR! SACRé NOM...!” CRIED HE ANGRILY. +“NOT BOUND TO ENDURE INSULTS,” DóLOKHOV CONCLUDED IN LOUD, RINGING +NOT BREATHE. HE KNEW THAT HE MUST DO SOMETHING TO PUT AN END TO THIS +NOT BUT BELIEVE IN THE SINCERITY OF THOSE AROUND HIM. BESIDES, HE HAD +NOT BUT TREMBLE AND HIS HEART STAND STILL AT THE IMMINENCE OF THAT WORD. +NOT, BUT YOU HAVE NO GROUNDS FOR TELLING ME SO. AND THAT IS THE WHOLE +NOT CAPTURED.” AGAIN HE PONDERED. “I AM VERY GLAD YOU HAVE BROUGHT +NOT COME AND BROUGHT HIS PUPIL WITH HIM” (FOR SOME REASON PRINCE +NOT? DELIGHTFUL!” +NOT DISFIGURED BY THE APPROACH OF DEATH. IT WAS THE SAME AS PIERRE +NOTED THEM DOWN. +NOTE. I AM IN SUCH A STATE.... MY ONLY HOPE NOW IS IN COUNT CYRIL +“NO, TELL THEM TO HARNESS.” +NOT EVINCE THE LEAST INTEREST DURING THIS EXPLANATION, BUT AS IF HE WERE +NOT EXIST. +NOT EXPECTING TO COME ON THE ENEMY DOWN BY THE STREAM, AND HAVING +NOT EXPECT YOU TODAY,” HE ADDED. “I ONLY SENT YOU THE NOTE YESTERDAY +NOT FAR FROM THE ARTILLERY CAMPFIRE, IN A HUT THAT HAD BEEN PREPARED +NOT FINDING THE YOUNG PRINCE IN HIS STUDY THE VALET WENT WITH THE +NOT FORSAKE HIM. HE WILL FULFILL HIS VOCATION AND CRUSH THE HYDRA OF +NOT GO TO ANY LARGE GATHERINGS, BUT ONLY TO SMALL RECEPTIONS. PRINCE +NOT HAVE CAUSED HIM TO EXPECT THAT HONOR. THE PRINCE, WHO GENERALLY KEPT +“NO, THERE IS NO CHANGE. I ONLY CAME TO HAVE A TALK ABOUT BUSINESS, +NOTHING. +NOTHING ABOUT FIRING IT.” +NOTHING ABOUT IT AND HAVE NOT THOUGHT ABOUT IT. MOSCOW IS CHIEFLY BUSY +“NOTHING,” ANSWERED PRINCESS MARY, LOOKING FIRMLY WITH HER RADIANT +NOTHING, BUT HERE ON THE ONE HAND THE LOCAL NOBILITY HAVE DONE ME THE +NOTHING BUT MEANNESS, DECEIT, ENVY, INTRIGUE, AND INGRATITUDE—THE +NOTHING, BUT THAT. BUT EVEN IT DOES NOT EXIST, THERE IS NOTHING BUT +NOTHING COULD BE SEEN. PITCH-DARK, BROTHER! ISN’T THERE SOMETHING TO +NOTHING. I AM VERY AMIABLE AND HAVE A CAUSTIC WIT,” CONTINUED PRINCE +NOTHING IS SO NECESSARY FOR A YOUNG MAN AS THE SOCIETY OF CLEVER +NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT...” HE PAUSED, “THAN TO HAVE A GOOD SLEEP.” +“NOTHING, MY DEAR.” +NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING! NO, DON’T MARRY, MY DEAR FELLOW; DON’T +NOTHING OF HER AND LOOKS ONLY AT BOURIENNE. NO, SHE HAS NO PRIDE... BUT +“NOTHING OF THE SORT. ORDERS ARE ISSUED FOR A BATTLE.” +NOTHING OF WHAT WAS GOING ON AROUND HIM AND TO BE ABSORBED BY SOME +“NOTHING... ONLY A SHELL...” HE ANSWERED. +“NOTHING... ONLY I FEEL SAD... SAD ABOUT ANDREW,” SHE SAID, WIPING +NOTHING. SHE FELT THAT SóNYA WAS SPEAKING THE TRUTH, THAT THERE WAS +NOTHING TO BE HAPPY ABOUT!” THOUGHT HE. +NOTHING TO HIM.... “I SHOULD PERHAPS HAVE DONE THE SAME THING IN HIS +NOTHING WHEN THEY HAVE NO POWERS; THIS ONE HAD NONE.... THE AUSTRIANS +“NOT HURT, PETRóV?” ASKED ONE. +NOTICEABLE ONE AT THE DINNER. ROSTóV LOOKED INIMICALLY AT PIERRE, +NOTICED, LEFT THE ROOM WITH A PLEASANT SMILE. +NOTICED THAT HE WAS PALE AND THAT HIS JAW QUIVERED AND SHOOK AS IF IN AN +NOTICED THAT THEY HAD NOT COME TO THE FRONT ENTRANCE BUT TO THE BACK +NOTICED THE FRENCH APPEARING BELOW THEM, AND THEN THEY FIRED GRAPESHOT +NOTICED THE LOOK OF TERROR WITH WHICH PIERRE REGARDED THAT LIFELESS ARM, +NOTICING WHAT A BAD STATE OF THINGS IT WAS. THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER +NOT ILL-SPENT. HE IS WORTH IT!” +NO TIME FOR REFLECTION, AS IN PETERSBURG. INSTEAD OF THE NEW LIFE HE HAD +NO TIME. I HOPE, MY DEAR FRIEND, YOU WILL CARRY OUT YOUR FATHER’S +NO TIME TO ASK HIMSELF WHETHER THESE PEOPLE WERE SINCERE OR NOT. HE +NOT INTEND TO DEVOTE HER LIFE TO SERVING PRINCE BOLKóNSKI, TO READING +“NOT IN THE LEAST,” REPLIED THE VICOMTE. “AFTER THE MURDER OF THE +NOT, IT WAS DECIDED AT A CONSULTATION BETWEEN THE BATTALION COMMANDERS +“NOT KILLED—WOUNDED!” ANOTHER OFFICER CORRECTED HIM. +NOT KNOW: HE THEREFORE WISHED TO SPEAK TO DOLGORúKOV. +NOT KNOW HIM, BUT HE IS HERE, HE IS IN ME, HE IS IN MY WORDS, HE IS IN +NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO, AND GLANCED INQUIRINGLY AT HIS GUIDE. ANNA +NOT KNOWING WHETHER IT WOULD BE PROPER TO CALL THE DYING MAN “THE +“NOT KUTúZOV, BUT WHAT’S HIS NAME—WELL, NEVER MIND... THERE ARE +NOT LEAVE THE BATTERY. HE DECIDED TO HAVE THE GUNS REMOVED FROM THEIR +“NOT LET THE WIFE HAVE HIM?” SAID THE OLD MAN, AND LAUGHED. +NOT LETTING THE ABBé AND PIERRE ESCAPE, ANNA PáVLOVNA, THE MORE +NOT LIKE US SINNERS OF THE LINE,” CRIED ROSTóV, WITH MARTIAL SWAGGER +NOT LISTENING TO IT CONTINUED TO DRESS WHILE WALKING ABOUT, AND THREE +NOT LOVE LIBERTY AND EQUALITY? EVEN OUR SAVIOUR PREACHED LIBERTY AND +NOT MANY LEFT ALIVE. GO THAT WAY, TO THAT VILLAGE, ALL THE COMMANDERS +“NOT MORE STUPID THAN YOU, MADAM,” SAID THE NINE-YEAR-OLD PéTYA, +NOT MOVING A MUSCLE. +“NO, TO KILL A MAN IS BAD—WRONG.” +“NOT ON ANY ACCOUNT!” EXCLAIMED ROSTóV. +“NOT ONLY OCCUPIED, BUT BONAPARTE IS AT SCHöNBRUNN, AND THE COUNT, +NOT ONLY WITHOUT INTEREST BUT EVEN AS IF ASHAMED OF WHAT PIERRE WAS +NOT REALIZE THAT HE HAD COME. HIS COMING HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH +NOT REPLYING TO THE AUSTRIAN. +NOT RESUME YOUR FORMER WAY OF LIFE. AND NOW I WISH YOU A GOOD JOURNEY, +NOT RIGHT.” +NOT RISE. ROSTóV ALSO TRIED TO RISE BUT FELL BACK, HIS SABRETACHE +NOT SEE HIM AT ALL.” +“NOT SEEN DUPORT—THE FAMOUS DANCER? WELL THEN, YOU WON’T +NOT SEE OR UNDERSTAND HIM AND MAY NOT SEE OR UNDERSTAND HIS OWN VILENESS +NOT SEE TEN PACES AHEAD. BUSHES LOOKED LIKE GIGANTIC TREES AND LEVEL +NOT SUIT IN THE LEAST. NOT IN THE LEAST! PLEASE CHANGE IT.” +NOT TEN TIMES WOUNDED, KILLED, OR BETRAYED, WELL... WHAT THEN?...” +“NOT THAT EITHER. THAT PUTS THE COURT IN TOO BAD A LIGHT,” REPLIED +NOT TO CHALLENGE BOLKóNSKI. “OF COURSE NOT!” HE NOW THOUGHT. “IS +NOT TO HAVE TO REPENT IS NOT ENOUGH. I LIVED LIKE THAT, I LIVED FOR +NOT TO NOTICE ONE ANOTHER. WHEN HAVING LIMBERED UP THE ONLY TWO CANNON +NOT TWO MINUTES HAD PASSED BEFORE PRINCE VASíLI WITH HEAD ERECT +NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT HE OUGHT TO DO THEN IT WILL BE MY AFFAIR—YES, MY +NOT USED TO IT. SHE WILL RETALIATE. AND SHE HAS BEEN FOOLED IN THE +NOT VENTURE TO ASK ANY QUESTIONS, AND SHUT THE DOOR AGAIN, NOW SITTING +NOT WANTED HERE? GO TO THE OTHER GIRLS, OR...” +NOT WHAT HE HAD READ THAT VEXED HIM, BUT THE FACT THAT THE LIFE OUT +NOT WISH IT. IN A WORD, I MAKE NO PROMISE. AND I BEG YOU TO CONSIDER +NOTWITHSTANDING THE TONE OF WEARIED ASSURANCE WITH WHICH THESE WORDS +NOTWITHSTANDING THIS, BORíS EMBRACED HIM IN A QUIET, FRIENDLY WAY AND +NOT WORSE THAN THIS ONE.” +“NOT YET. BUT WHERE ARE YOU OFF TO?” +NOT YET DISPERSED BEFORE ANOTHER PUFF APPEARED, FOLLOWED BY A REPORT. +NOT YOU! GO BACK OR I’LL FLATTEN YOU INTO A PANCAKE,” REPEATED HE. +NOVELTY SHE OFFERED HER GUESTS THIS TIME WAS NOT MORTEMART, BUT A +NOVOSíLTSEV, PRINCE VOLKóNSKY, STRóGONOV, AND THE OTHERS, ALL RICHLY +NOW.” +“NOW ABOUT YOUR FAMILY. DO YOU KNOW THAT SINCE YOUR DAUGHTER CAME +NOW AIMING, NOW COUNTING THE CHARGES, NOW GIVING ORDERS ABOUT REPLACING +“NO, WAIT, PIERRE! THE PRINCESS IS TOO KIND TO WISH TO DEPRIVE ME OF +NOW APPROACHED THE SICK MAN WITH THE NOISELESS STEP OF ONE IN FULL VIGOR +NOW AT HER, MOVED AS IF ABOUT TO RISE TOO, BUT CHANGED HIS MIND. +NOW BEFORE I AM OFF DUTY. I’LL TAKE ANOTHER TURN AND WHEN I GET BACK +NOW CENTERED ROUND THE EMPEROR. SO WE WILL GO TO DOLGORúKOV; I HAVE TO +“NOW COME, COME! BE REASONABLE. I KNOW YOUR EXCELLENT HEART.” +“NOW, DEAR BOY,” SAID PRINCE VASíLI PLAYFULLY, “SAY ‘YES,’ +NOW GRADUALLY OPENING BEFORE ME.” BUT FIVE OF THE OTHER VIRTUES WHICH +“NO! WHAT IS THERE TO TALK ABOUT?” SAID PIERRE. “IT’S ALL THE +“NO! WHAT KIND, MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA? WHAT KIND?” SHE ALMOST SCREAMED; +NOWHERE ENCOUNTERING THE ENEMY. ON THE CONTRARY, THE SOLDIERS BECAME +NOWHERE TO HUNT WITH YOUR DOGS? BUT WHAT IS TO BE DONE, OLD MAN? JUST +NOW HE WAS A LIEUTENANT OF HUSSARS, IN A JACKET LACED WITH SILVER, AND +“NOW I AM ALL RIGHT,” SHE SAID, AND ASKING THE VICOMTE TO BEGIN, SHE +“NOW I MUST DISCLOSE TO YOU THE CHIEF AIM OF OUR ORDER,” HE SAID, +“NOW I SEE IT ALL! I KNOW WHO HAS BEEN INTRIGUING—I KNOW!” CRIED +“NOW LOOK OUT FOR THE BALL... WE’LL THROW IT BACK.” +NOW ON ONE SIDE, NOW ON THE OTHER, GIVING HIS FACE AN UNPLEASANT +NOW PERMISSIBLE; “THE DOOR TO THE LEFT, MA’AM.” +“NOW?” REPEATED NATáSHA, AND A HAPPY SMILE LIT UP HER FACE. “HAVE +NOW ROSE AND TOOK THEIR LEAVE. THE VISITOR’S DAUGHTER WAS ALREADY +NOW,” SAID ANOTHER. +“NOW, SíDOROV, YOU HAVE A TRY!” +“NOW, SóNYA!” SHE SAID, GOING TO THE VERY MIDDLE OF THE ROOM, WHERE +“NOW THE FUN BEGINS,” THOUGHT ANATOLE, SITTING DOWN WITH A SMILE +NOW THEN, DARLING! HOW WILL SHE TAKE THAT SI? SHE’S TAKEN IT! THANK +“NOW THEN, GO AWAY AND TAKE YOUR MONSTROSITY WITH YOU,” SAID THE +“NOW THEN, GO ON, GO ON!” INCITED THE OFFICER, BENDING FORWARD AND +“NOW THEN, LET’S SEE HOW FAR IT WILL CARRY, CAPTAIN. JUST TRY!” +“NOW THEN, MATVéVNA, DEAR OLD LADY, DON’T LET ME DOWN!” HE WAS +“NOW THEN, NOW THEN, I’M ONLY JOKING!” HE SAID. “REMEMBER THIS, +“NOW THEN, VáSKA,” SAID NICHOLAS. +“NOW THEN, YOU DEVIL’S PUPPET, LOOK ALIVE AND HUNT FOR IT!” +NOW THERE’S THIS RECRUITING.” +NOW THE SMILE OF THE LITTLE PRINCESS—INFLUENCED BY THE GENERAL MOOD +NOW,” THOUGHT ROSTóV DRIVING HIS SPURS INTO ROOK AND LETTING HIM GO +“NOW THOU HAST SEEN THE LESSER LIGHT,” UTTERED A VOICE. THEN THE +NOW TOLD ABOUT THAT AFFAIR!” +NOW TO LOOK AT DóLOKHOV, WHO WAS SITTING OPPOSITE HIM. EVERY TIME +“NOW, VéRA, WHAT DOES IT MATTER TO YOU?” SAID NATáSHA IN DEFENSE, +NOW WAS EVIDENTLY READY WITH A JOKE. “WHETHER TOMORROW BRINGS +NOW WE SHALL GET ANYTHING WE WANT FROM HIS HOTHOUSES. I HAVE TO SEE HIM +“NOW WHAT DOES THIS MEAN, GENTLEMEN?” SAID THE STAFF OFFICER, IN +NOW, WHEN MY HEART FAILS ME AND MY MOUTH FEELS DRY AT THE MERE SIGHT +“NOW YOU DON’T KNOW THAT AT ALL!” SAID NICHOLAS. “BUT I MUST +“NOW YOU, YOUNG PRINCE, WHAT’S YOUR NAME?” SAID PRINCE BOLKóNSKI, +“NO, YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND!” +“NO, YOU KNOW IT’S TOO SOON FOR NEWS. BUT MY FATHER IS ANXIOUS AND I +“NO, YOU’LL NEVER MANAGE HIM THAT WAY,” SAID ANATOLE. “WAIT A +NUMBER OF MEN HAD PERISHED IN FLEEING FROM PRATZEN. THE FRENCH HAD NOT +NUMBER ONE JUMPED BRISKLY ASIDE. THE GUN RANG OUT WITH A DEAFENING +NURSE AND NURSE SáVISHNA IN THE LATE PRINCESS’ ROOMS AND PRINCESS +NURSE, PRASKóVYA SáVISHNA, WHO HARDLY EVER CAME TO THAT ROOM AS THE +NURSERY.” +NURSE SáVISHNA, KNITTING IN HAND, WAS TELLING IN LOW TONES, SCARCELY +NURSE’S FRENCH, AT WHICH HE AND BORíS USED TO LAUGH LONG AGO. +OBEDIENCE—WHICH DID NOT EVEN SEEM TO HIM A VIRTUE, BUT A JOY. (HE NOW +OBEDIENT, AND INSIGNIFICANT ATOM. THEY FOLLOWED PRINCE DOLGORúKOV OUT +OBEYING, AND SUDDENLY DOUBTS AROSE IN HIS MIND. “WHERE AM I? WHAT AM +OBJECT ABOVE HIS HEAD AND, HOLDING IT THERE FOR SOME SECONDS, SUDDENLY +OBJECT IT IS NECESSARY THAT... THE FIRST COLUMN MARCHES... THE SECOND +OBJECTS MENTIONED BY THE RHETOR, THIS LAST, THAT OF IMPROVING MANKIND, +OBLIGINGLY TOOK THE DISH FROM BAGRATIóN (OR HE WOULD, IT SEEMED, HAVE +OBTAIN A POST ON THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF’S STAFF. BERG AND BORíS, +OBTAINED HIS CAPTAINCY DURING THE CAMPAIGN, HAD GAINED THE CONFIDENCE OF +OBTAINED THROUGH AN ACQUAINTANCE AND SENT TO HER SON, ASKING HIM TO TAKE +OBVIOUSLY STRANGE TO HER TO THINK THAT THIS STERN HANDSOME MAN SHOULD BE +OBVIOUSLY TRYING TO RESTRAIN WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF DECORUM THE EXCITEMENT +OCCASIONALLY DREW IT DOWN TO MEET THE LOWER LIP. AS IS ALWAYS THE CASE +OCCASIONED BY THE SAUSAGE EATERS. +OCCUPATION, CAME UP TO HER FOR A MOMENT AND MADE HASTE TO GO AWAY, +OCCUPATION OF THE TOWN OF WISCHAU AND THE CAPTURE OF A WHOLE FRENCH +OCCUPIED BY THE EMPERORS AND THEIR RETINUES. +OCCUPIED. HE WAS HIMSELF ALWAYS OCCUPIED: WRITING HIS MEMOIRS, SOLVING +OCCUPIED WITH EVENING PARTIES, DINNERS, LUNCHES, AND BALLS, GIVING HIM +OCCUPY IS A STRONG ONE, AND WHILE THEY ARE MARCHING TO GO ROUND ME ON +OCCUPY THE POSITION AND PREPARE FOR AN ATTACK.” +OCCURRED TO HIM. ON THE CONTRARY, HE BECAME MORE AND MORE ELATED. IT +OCCURRED TO HIM, THOUGH THE QUESTION HE WAS ABOUT TO ASK WAS THE CHIEF +OCCURRED TO HIS REGIMENT, BUT IN REALITY HE DID NOT HIMSELF KNOW WHAT +O’CLOCK ALL HAD BEEN BROUGHT INTO DUE ORDER. THE RANKS WERE DRAWN +O’CLOCK LEFT THE THIRD COLUMN WITH WHICH HE HAD BEEN AND GALLOPED +ODýNTSOVA HAD MARRIED AN OLD MAN, AND THAT THERE WAS A SUITOR FOR MARY, +O’ERPASSED,” SAID AN OLD PRIEST TO A LADY WHO HAD TAKEN A SEAT +OF A BATTLE BUT ALSO DISBELIEVED IN THE NEARNESS OF AN ENGAGEMENT. +OF AFFAIRS?” CONCLUDED HIS FATHER. “BUT IT TROUBLES ME. I DON’T +OF A GIRL, BUT I LIKE HER.” +OF A GUN AT ISMAIL. +OF ALL THAT MASS OF HUGE AND HANDSOME MEN, OF ALL THOSE BRILLIANT, +OF ALL THESE BRILLIANT YOUNG MEN. +OF ALL. THIS GIFT WILL BE A PLEDGE OF YOUR PURITY OF HEART TO HER WHOM +OF ALMS” WENT ROUND TO ALL THE BROTHERS. PIERRE WOULD HAVE LIKED +OF A MAN WHO ENJOYS LIFE AND KNOWS HOW TO LIVE, HE SWAYED TO AND +OF AMUSEMENT WHICH SOMEONE FOR SOME REASON HAD TO PROVIDE FOR HIM. +OF AN ATTACK SPREAD THROUGH THE SQUADRON. THE COMMAND TO FORM UP RANG +OF, AND AM GOING TO REJOIN MY REGIMENT, I AM GIVING A FAREWELL SUPPER +OF AN IMMENSE FORTUNE. THE WILL HAS NOT YET BEEN OPENED. I KNOW YOU +OF A PARADE. WE HAD EXPECTED, AS I TOLD YOU, TO GET AT THEIR REAR BY +OF A PLEASURE, AND OBLIGES ME TO INTERRUPT YOU. I AM VERY SORRY TO LEAVE +OF A RULING PRINCE, IN A CROWN—AN ALLEGED DESCENDANT OF RúRIK AND +OF A SIN HE COULD NEITHER REMEDY NOR FORGET. HE COULD NOT WEEP. THE +OF ASSURANCE AND HASTE, PIERRE CONCLUDED THAT IT WAS ALL ABSOLUTELY +OF A SUBJECT, SHE DID NOT STOP TALKING, BUT CHATTERED ABOUT THE +OF A SURGEON WHO HAS JUST PERFORMED A DIFFICULT OPERATION AND ADMITS THE +OF AUSTERLITZ, BUT WORE A TIGHT NEW UNIFORM WITH RUSSIAN AND FOREIGN +OF AUSTERLITZ: NINE TENTHS OF THE MEN IN THE RUSSIAN ARMY WERE THEN IN +OF AWE AND EVEN SERVILITY. A DEFERENCE SUCH AS HE HAD NEVER BEFORE +OF BAGRATIóN’S DETACHMENT. HIS HUSSARS WERE PLACED ALONG THE LINE +OF BATTLES WAS EVIDENTLY CULMINATING IN A PANIC. +OF BEGINNING ANEW PICTURED TO HIMSELF THE BLISSFUL, IRREPROACHABLE, +OF BEING AFRAID ROUSED HIM AGAIN. “I CANNOT BE AFRAID,” THOUGHT HE, +OF BELIEVING IN THE POSSIBILITY OF ATTAINING PERFECTION, AND IN THE +OF BIRDS. +OF BLESSEDNESS WHICH NOW FLOODED HIS HEART WITH GLAD EMOTION. +OF BONAPARTE. +OF BONAPARTE, ENCOUNTERING A POPULATION THAT WAS UNFRIENDLY TO IT, +OF CAPACITY FOR PHILOSOPHICAL MEDITATION (TO WHICH HE HIMSELF WAS +OF CAVALRY CAME UP AND DISAPPEARED IN THE SEA OF MIST. IN FRONT AND +OF COLUMNS FROM RUSSIA, OF SOME VICTORY GAINED BY THE AUSTRIANS, AND OF +OF COMMAND. +OF COMMUNICATIONS, RECROSS THE RIVER LOWER DOWN, AND FRUSTRATE HIS +OF CONTEMPT. “AND BELIEVE ME, IF I STILL VALUE MY LIFE IT IS +OF COUNT BEZúKHOV’S DEATH. SHE SAID THE COUNT HAD DIED AS SHE WOULD +“OF COURSE. I’M GOING INTO ACTION! I’VE SHAVED, BWUSHED MY TEETH, +“OF COURSE, IT IS A VERY BRILLIANT MATCH, BUT HAPPINESS, MY DEAR...” +“OF COURSE, WE ONLY JUST MISSED ONE ANOTHER,” SAID THE STAFF +“OF COURSE. WHAT IS IT?” +OF COWARDICE IN THE OTHER. BOTH PASSED THE EXAMINATION SUCCESSFULLY. AS +OF CRUELTY, AS WHEN TYING THE POLICEMAN TO THE BEAR AND DROPPING THEM +OF DEEP BASS VOICES, AND IN THE INTERVALS SIGHS AND THE SHUFFLING OF +OF DELIGHTED AMAZEMENT. +OF DISEASE WITHOUT HELP WHILE MATERIAL ASSISTANCE COULD SO EASILY BE +OF DREAD WAS IN THE AIR. IT WAS EVIDENT THAT THE AFFAIR SO LIGHTLY BEGUN +OF EACH. +OF EACH SHOT, AS AT THE WORD OF COMMAND, THE WHOLE SQUADRON WITH ITS +OF ENGLAND, INSPIRED BY SUCH HATRED OF OUR NATION! THIS VICTORY WILL +OF ETERNAL PEACE AND BLESSEDNESS?” SHE THOUGHT. +OF EVERYTHING. ONE MUST THINK OF THE FUTURE, OF ALL OF YOU... I LOVE YOU +OF EXASPERATION. “DON’T YOU HEAR IT’S HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR’S +OF EXPRESSION AND INTONATION THAT OBLIGED ONE TO LISTEN TO EACH +OF EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE. NOW HIS FOREHEAD WOULD PUCKER INTO DEEP FOLDS +OF FACE, EVIDENTLY WORN OUT WITH CHILDBEARING—SHE HAD HAD TWELVE. +OFF; AND HERE AT LAST WAS A RUSSIAN PRINCE. MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE KNEW +OFF, AND THE FIRING HAD BEGUN TO SUBSIDE. SUDDENLY, NEAR BY ON THE +OFF—AND THIS IS WHAT COMES OF IT!” SAID PRINCE ANDREW IN AN +OF FATE AND THE DESIGNS OF ROGUES. DURING THE FEW DAYS HE SPENT IN +OFF AT EVERY MOMENT. THEY WAITED AND LISTENED. +OFF COMPLETELY AND SURROUND HIS EXHAUSTED ARMY OF FORTY THOUSAND, AND HE +OF FEAR FOR HIS YOUNG AND HAPPY LIFE, POSSESSED HIS WHOLE BEING. RAPIDLY +OF FELLOW. AS FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS PEOPLE HAVE AMUSED THEMSELVES +OFFENDED TONE. +OFFEND ME. REALLY I HAVE SOME,” ROSTóV REPEATED. +OFFENSIVE, THE PLAN OF WHICH, CAREFULLY PREPARED IN ACCORD WITH THE +OFFERED A MOST STRIKING CONTRAST TO HIS QUIET, LITTLE WIFE. IT WAS +OFF HIS CLOAK. +OFF HIS COURAGE, HAD RIDDEN ON TO THE PLANKS OF THE BRIDGE: +OFF HIS EYES AND GLANCED AROUND HIM. THE ROOM WAS IN BLACK DARKNESS, +OFFICER.” +OFFICER AND A WOUNDED HERO, WOULD IT BE RIGHT TO REMIND HIM OF HERSELF +OFFICER ARRIVED, BUT AT A SIGN RESUMED HIS MEASURED, MONOTONOUS PACING. +OFFICER AS IN A LOOKING GLASS—STARTED, MOVED FORWARD, AND ANSWERED: +OFFICER HAS STOLEN...” +OFFICER IN CHARGE OF TRANSPORT WAS BEATING THE SOLDIER WHO WAS DRIVING +OFFICER IN THE SEMëNOV REGIMENT WITH WHOM BORíS WAS TO TRAVEL TO JOIN +OFFICER IN THE WHITE UNIFORM OF THE HORSE GUARDS. +OFFICER JOINED IN THE COLONEL’S APPEALS, BUT BAGRATIóN DID NOT REPLY; +OFFICER OF THE SUITE BY THE ARM. “LOOK! A MAN HAS FALLEN! FALLEN, +OFFICER PASSING BY ADDRESSED HIM: +OFFICER POINTING TO THE SOLDIERS. “THE OFFICERS DON’T KEEP THEM IN +OFFICERS. +OFFICER!” SAID BAGRATIóN TO ROSTóV, “ARE THE ENEMY’S SKIRMISHERS +OFFICERS BECAME ANIMATED. THE GUARDSMEN TOLD ROSTóV OF THEIR MARCH AND +OFFICERS, BUT EVERY SOLDIER WITH HIS FRESHLY WASHED AND SHAVEN FACE AND +OFFICERS BUTTONED UP THEIR COATS, BUCKLED ON THEIR SWORDS AND POUCHES, +OFFICERS,” CONTINUED THE STAFF CAPTAIN, “AND BOGDáNICH” (THE +OFFICER SENDS FOR AUERSPERG; THESE GENTLEMEN EMBRACE THE OFFICERS, CRACK +OFFICERS, GENERALS, AND ADJUTANTS, AS THEY PASSED ROSTóV GOING OR +OFFICERS. NOW WHAT WAS THE COLONEL TO DO? HAVE THE OFFICER TRIED AND +OFFICER’S REMARK WAS JUST AND THAT REALLY NO ANSWER COULD BE MADE TO +OFFICERS WERE COUNTING THE MEN, POKING THE LAST MAN IN EACH SECTION IN +OFFICERS WHO HAD BEEN STANDING TOGETHER RODE OFF TO THEIR PLACES. THE +OFFICERS WHO HAD GATHERED AT HIS QUARTERS. THE LITTLE OLD MAN WITH +OFFICER, THAT HE WOULD DRINK A BOTTLE OF RUM SITTING ON THE OUTER LEDGE +OFFICER, WITH A SMILE TO BOLKóNSKI. +OFFICIAL APPOINTED TO THE PROVINCE IN WHICH THE PRINCE’S ESTATE LAY +OF FIRE AND HAD DESCENDED INTO THE DIP, HE WAS MET BY SOME OF THE STAFF, +OFF ON THE LINE OF KUTúZOV’S RETREAT. IF HE REACHED ZNAIM BEFORE THE +OF FOR A SINGLE MOMENT DURING THE WHOLE SERVICE. HE JUDGED BY THE +OF FUGITIVES, PRINCE ANDREW, TRYING TO KEEP NEAR KUTúZOV, SAW ON THE +OF HABIT SAID THINGS HE DID NOT EVEN WISH TO BE BELIEVED. +OF HAVING BEEN DUTIFUL ET TOUT CE QUI S’ENSUIT!* THAT’S CERTAIN.” +OF HEARTS. ON THE PREVIOUS SUNDAY THE OLD COUNT HAD GIVEN HIS SON +OF HEARTS WITH A TORN CORNER, WHICH HE HAD PICKED UP FROM THE FLOOR. HE +OF HéLèNE. SOME, AS IF UNWILLING TO DISTRACT HER FROM AN IMPORTANT +OF HER MOST AUGUST MAJESTY THE EMPRESS MáRYA FëDOROVNA. PIERRE FELT +OF HER NEUTRALITY AND DRAW HER INTO THE WAR; HOW PART OF THAT ARMY WAS +OF HER SAINT’S-DAY FETE, TURNED AWAY AT ONCE AND ADDRESSED HERSELF TO +OF HER WORTHLESSNESS HE WAS ALSO DREAMING OF HOW SHE WOULD BE HIS +OF HIM—AT THE BATTERY. HE NOW SAW CLEARLY THE FIGURE OF A RED-HAIRED +OF HIM, LISTENED TO HIM, ADMIRED, AND IMITATED HIM, AND WITH THEM PRINCE +OF HIM?” NOT ONE OF THE INNUMERABLE SPEECHES ADDRESSED TO THE EMPEROR +OF HIS APPEARANCE BEFORE HER NOW. PRINCE ANDREW WENT ROUND THE SOFA AND +OF HIS BOOK WITH HIS OLD HANDS WHICH FROM EXCITEMENT HE COULD NOT KEEP +OF HIS COAT AND LOOKING DOWN AT HIM—THE ENGLISHMAN WAS SHORT—BEGAN +OF HIS COMMISSIONS AND ORDERED THE SMALL CLOSED CARRIAGE FOR HER. +OF HIS FORMER BACHELOR ACQUAINTANCES MANY WERE NO LONGER IN PETERSBURG. +OF HIS MOUTH AND WINKING AT THE COUNT. +OF HIS OWN, GOODNESS ONLY KNOWS WHY, HE LEAVES ME AND LOCKS ME UP ALONE +OF HIS RETURN. +OF HIS SPEECH. “VOUS COMPTEZ VOUS FAIRE DES RENTES SUR L’éTAT; * +OF HIS WHIP FELL ON THE APRON OF THE EQUIPAGE. THE WOMAN SCREAMED +OF HIS WORDS FOR THE SOLEMNITY OF THE MOMENT, AS HE SPOKE. “I +OF HORSES HAD BEEN SENT UP THE HIGHROAD TO MEET THE GERMAN DOCTOR FROM +OF HORSE’S HOOFS APPROACHING AT A TROT ALONG THE LINE OF HUSSARS WAS +OF HOW BESIDE HIMSELF AND ALL AFLAME WITH EXCITEMENT, HE HAD FLOWN LIKE +OF HOW TO GET AWAY QUICKLY TO HER OWN ROOM TO MAKE OUT THE PROBLEM IN +OF INVITING THE OTHER TO TAKE A SEAT BESIDE HIM. PIERRE FELT RELUCTANT +OF IT. PRINCE ANDREW” (HE ALWAYS SPOKE THUS OF HIS SON) “HAS BEEN +OF ITS HONEYED FIRMNESS AND SOFTNESS. +OF ITS RIGHTFUL KING,” SHE CONCLUDED, TRYING TO BE AMIABLE TO THE +OF IT. THE ONLY QUESTION IS, HAS IT BEEN DESTROYED OR NOT? IF NOT, THEN +OF JOY IN HIS EYES, LOOKED ROUND HIM, NOT KNOWING HOW TO ANSWER THE +OF LANNES’ SHARPSHOOTERS WERE ALREADY SEEN CROSSING THE MILLDAM AND +OF LIFE, WITH HIS DELICATE WHITE FINGERS RAISED FROM THE GREEN QUILT THE +OF LOVE AND SADNESS. IT WAS PLAIN THAT SHE WAS FOLLOWING A TRAIN OF +OF LOVE AND SELF-SACRIFICE. AND COST WHAT IT MAY, I WILL ARRANGE +OF LOVE WHICH PERVADED THE ROSTóV HOUSEHOLD THAT WINTER AND, NOW AFTER +OF MACK’S DEFEAT, THE CAMP LIFE OF THE OFFICERS OF THIS SQUADRON WAS +OF MACK, THE NEWS OF HIS DEFEAT, AND THE THOUGHT OF WHAT LAY BEFORE THE +OF MEN AND HORSES, FROM THE LITTLE PUFFS OF SMOKE ON THE ENEMY’S SIDE +OF MIND, PIERRE CARRIED OUT AN INTENTION HE HAD LONG HAD OF VISITING HIS +OF MINGLED SHAME AND VEXATION. +OF NOW AS THE “SEEKER,” NOW AS THE “SUFFERER,” AND NOW AS THE +OF OFFICERS AND COURTIERS, WAS RIDING A BOBTAILED CHESTNUT MARE, A +OF OLMüTZ WHERE BOLKóNSKI HAD SEEN HIM FOR THE FIRST TIME ABROAD, BUT +OF ONE ANOTHER, AND THEN, AS IF AFRAID OF BEING TOO LATE, SEIZED EACH +OF OTHER THINGS AND TO LOOK IN OTHER DIRECTIONS, THOUGHT ONLY OF WHAT +OF PERMISSION PREVIOUSLY GIVEN HIM BY KUTúZOV TO BE PRESENT AT THE +OF PETER AND PAUL, HIS PATRON SAINTS. IN ANOTHER PLACE THE WOMEN WITH +OF PRIDE, INDOLENCE, AND IGNORANCE. FORGIVE ME, MY DEAR SIR, BUT IF I +OF PROFOUND THOUGHT. THE ROUND, STEADY, HAWK’S EYES LOOKED BEFORE HIM +OF PRUSSIA, IN ORDER TO DRAW BORíS INTO THE CONVERSATION. +OF PRUSSIA’S CONSENT BY ASSAULT. YOU ARE SO ELOQUENT. WILL YOU GIVE ME +OF REFLECTION ARE GENERALLY IN A SERIOUS FRAME OF MIND. AT SUCH MOMENTS +OF RUM IN HIS HAND WAS APPROACHING THE WINDOW, FROM WHICH THE LIGHT OF +OF,” SAID THE PRINCESS IN THE SAME PETULANTLY PLAYFUL TONE IN WHICH +OF SERGéY KUZMíCH AND AT THE SAME TIME HIS EYES GLANCED TOWARD HIS +OF SEVERAL THOUSAND MEN COULD PRODUCE. THE LIGHTS SPREAD FARTHER AND +OF SHOTS RETREATED. IN THE HIGHEST ARMY CIRCLES FROM MIDDAY ON THE +OF SIXTEEN, EVIDENTLY PASSIONATELY IN LOVE WITH HIM (HE DID NOT DOUBT +OF SIXTEEN, HAD BEEN IN PARIS AND COPENHAGEN, AND NOW HELD A RATHER +OF SLAVES? HAVE YOU HELPED THEM PHYSICALLY AND MORALLY? NO! YOU HAVE +OF SMOKE THAT HAD CONCEALED THE HOLLOW, DRIVEN BY A RISING WIND, BEGAN +OF SOME DISLOCATION AND BLUNDER SPREAD THROUGH THE RANKS. HOW SUCH +OF SOMETHING TOO LARGE AND UNSUITED TO THE PLACE, CAME OVER HER FACE +OF SONS AND BROTHERS. +OF SóNYA, WHO BLUSHED AND SMILED UNNATURALLY. IN THE MIDST OF HIS TALK +OF SPEECH AND OF THE PRESS—AND ONLY FOR THAT REASON DID HE OBTAIN +OFTEN HEARD FROM HIS FELLOW HUSSARS. +OFTEN HEARD. “WHAT IS THIS?” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW APPROACHING THE +OFTEN THAN AT ANYONE ELSE AND TOOK DELIGHT IN HIS EVERY MOVEMENT. +OF THAT SONG. +OF THE ACTION BALLS AND SHELLS BEGAN FLYING ALL OVER HIS REGIMENT AND +OF THE ACTUAL BATTLEFIELD. THEY BEGAN TO MEET WOUNDED MEN. ONE WITH A +OF THE ADVANCE. AS SOON AS AN AUSTRIAN OFFICER SHOWED HIMSELF NEAR +OF THE ARMY INTO THE HANDS OF A BETTER INFORMED AND MORE SKILLFUL +OF THE AZóV AND PODóLSK INFANTRY AND THE PáVLOGRAD HUSSARS—WAS +OF THE BEHAVIOR OF THE ELDEST PRINCESS AND PRINCE VASíLI SHE SPOKE +OF THE BOULEVARDS WHOM HE VISITED OF AN EVENING. HE LED THE MAZURKA +OF THE CAMPFIRE, WAVING HIS UPLIFTED ARM. +OF THE CANDLES WAS FOCUSED ON THOSE TWO HAPPY FACES ALONE. +OF THE CANNON. HE HEARD THE WHISTLE OF BULLETS ABOVE HIM UNCEASINGLY AND +OF THE CLUB, BESET THE NEW ARRIVALS. COUNT ILYá, AGAIN THRUSTING HIS +OF THE CLUB FROM THE DAY IT WAS FOUNDED. TO HIM THE CLUB ENTRUSTED THE +OF THE COLONEL, NESVíTSKI, ZHERKóV, AND THE OFFICER FROM THE SUITE. +OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF’S SPECIAL FAVOR HE WAS SENT WITH THE NEWS OF +OF THE DAM, THROWING TWO SOLDIERS OFF THEIR FEET, AND RAN ONTO THE +OF THE DIP IN THE GROUND AT THE REAR WAS HURRIED AND NOISY, BUT THE +OF THE EMPEROR LIKE A CLOUD OF HAZE ACROSS A CLEAR SKY AND VANISHED. +OF THE ENEMY’S LINES, WHICH ALL DAY LONG HAD YIELDED GROUND TO US +OF THE FEEBLENESS OF AGE, “BOLKóNSKI!” HE WHISPERED, POINTING TO +OF THE FIELD HE STOOD ON WAS WELL-KNOWN AND FAMILIAR GROUND. THOUGH HE +OF THE FRENCHMEN WITH THE GUNNERS ENDED, WHETHER THE RED-HAIRED GUNNER +OF THE FRENCH WERE COMING DOWN UPON THEM AND THAT HIS REGIMENT WAS IN +OF THE GENERAL SORROW. +OF THE GOSPEL: “IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD AND THE WORD WAS WITH +OF THE GUARDS, A GIRL OF FIFTEEN, AND A PLUMP ROSY-FACED BOY IN A SHORT +OF THE HAND ON THE DIAL OF HUMAN HISTORY. +OF THE INTELLECTUAL ESSENCE OF PETERSBURG,” AS SHE HERSELF PUT IT. +OF THE LATHE HE REMOVED HIS FOOT FROM THE PEDAL, WIPED HIS CHISEL, +OF THE LEAN SINEWY HAND, SHOWED THAT THE PRINCE STILL POSSESSED THE +OF THE LOVERS. “THAT’S HAPPINESS!” +OF THE MAIDS WHO WAS PRESENT. (MARY BOGDáNOVNA WAS A MIDWIFE FROM THE +OF THE MAJESTIC EMPEROR. CASUALLY, WHILE SURVEYING THE SQUADRON, THE +OF THE MEAL AND WAS CERTAIN THAT THERE WAS SOME SECRET BETWEEN HER +OF THEM FORGOT WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND WHAT WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN IN THE +OF THEM WILL HAVE ANY MEANING FOR ME. TOMORROW PERHAPS, EVEN CERTAINLY, +OF THE NEARNESS OF THE EMPEROR FRANCIS’ BLACK COB, NOR OF ALL THAT WAS +OF THE NEWLY COMMISSIONED OFFICER WERE COLLECTED. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, +OF THE NIGHT. THE GLOOM THAT ENVELOPED THE ARMY WAS FILLED WITH THEIR +OF THE NINETEENTH MARCH, AND HER DOWNY LITTLE LIP ROSE FROM OLD HABIT, +OF THE OFT-REPEATED PASSAGE OF THE SONATA. PRINCE ANDREW STOPPED AND +OF THE ORDERLIES AND SERVANTS. +OF THE PRESIDENT, WHO HELD A MALLET IN HIS HAND. LET INTO THE WALL WAS +OF THE RIVER. +OF THE ROAD WERE FORESTS OF DIFFERENT KINDS, FIELDS, AND VILLAGES. +OF THE ROOM. PRINCE ANDREW TURNED TO HIM, BUT THE DOCTOR GAVE HIM A +OF THE SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF THEIR COMMANDER, THE GRAND DUKE, AND TOLD +OF THE SECOND GUN’S CREW WAS “UNCLE”; TúSHIN LOOKED AT HIM MORE +OF THESE MANEUVERS THAT ENABLED US TO ESCAPE HIM. BUXHöWDEN PURSUES +OF THE SERVICE THE VOICES OF THE PRIESTS SUDDENLY CEASED, THEY WHISPERED +OF THE SLEIGH. +OF THE STATUTES AND THESE REMAINED IN HIS MIND. +OF THE STREAMS AND HOLLOWS OF SOKOLNITZ AND SCHLAPPANITZ BEYOND WHICH WE +OF THE SUN. IN FRONT, FAR OFF ON THE FARTHER SHORE OF THAT SEA OF MIST, +OF THE THABOR BRIDGE IS DELIGHTFUL! IT IS NOT EXACTLY STUPIDITY, NOR +OF THE THIRD COMPANY!” +OF THE THIRD FLOOR WINDOW WITH HIS LEGS HANGING OUT. +OF THE THREE PRECEPTS OF FREEMASONRY PIERRE REALIZED THAT HE DID NOT +OF THE UNWRITTEN CODE OF SUBORDINATION—LOOKED SO FIXEDLY AT THE +OF THE UPPER LIP FORMED A SHARP WEDGE AND CLOSED FIRMLY ON THE FIRM +OF THE VICTORY THAT HAD BEEN GAINED. PRINCE ANDREW INTRODUCED HIS +OF THE WAR AND WITHOUT LEADERS. THE MOSCOVITES FELT THAT SOMETHING WAS +OF THE WAR THAT HAD BEEN ANNOUNCED IN A MANIFESTO, AND ABOUT THE +OF THE WAY! MAKE WAY!” +OF THE WOOD RAN OUT OF IT, THE DIFFERENT COMPANIES GETTING MIXED, AND +OF THINGS TO HIM IN THE VERY WORST LIGHT, POINTING OUT THE NECESSITY OF +OF THIRTEEN, HIDING SOMETHING IN THE FOLDS OF HER SHORT MUSLIN FROCK, +OF THIS DELICIOUS RUSSIAN TEA,” LORRAIN WAS SAYING WITH AN AIR OF +OF THIS KIND FOR ANOTHER, WHICH FROM PRIDE HE WOULD NEVER ACCEPT FOR +OF THIS SET. +OF THOSE FRENCHMEN,” HE SAID. “WHAT NASTY BRUTES THEY ARE! I’D +OF THOSE RARE WOMEN WITH WHOM A MAN’S HONOR IS SAFE; BUT, O GOD, WHAT +OF TRUTH, MY DEAR SIR, BUT HAVE THRUST HER INTO AN ABYSS OF DECEIT AND +OF TúSHIN’S BATTERY. PRINCE ANDREW FOLLOWED WITH THE SUITE. BEHIND +OF TWENTY; SóNYA A GIRL OF SIXTEEN WITH ALL THE CHARM OF AN OPENING +OF VOICES, THE TRAMPING FEET, THE HORSES’ HOOFS MOVING IN MUD, THE +OF WEYROTHER’S VOICE, HE OPENED HIS ONE EYE WITH AN EFFORT. +OF WHICH KUTúZOV WAS STANDING BEGAN TO SHOUT, HE RODE A LITTLE TO ONE + OF WHOM YOU HAVE MADE A FRIEND, BUT NOT FOR YOU, NOT FOR +“OF WHOM YOU IMAGINE ME TO BE ONE?” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, WITH A QUIET +OF WIND BLOWING OVER THE ARMY SLIGHTLY STIRRED THE STREAMERS ON THE +OF WOUNDED PRIDE, AND A HOPE OF GLORY. “AND SHOULD THERE BE NOTHING +OF YOU.” +OF YOUR MISFORTUNE.” HE SEEMED TO EMPHASIZE THE LAST WORD, AS IF TO +OF YOURS, IS NOT AT ALL TO BLAME THAT MY FACE HAS THE MISFORTUNE TO +OH, ANDREW! WHAT A TREASURE OF A WIFE YOU HAVE,” SAID SHE, SITTING +“OH, BUT YOU WERE THERE?” SAID PRINCE BAGRATIóN, ADDRESSING PRINCE +“OH DEAR, WHAT A BEAST I AM!” MUTTERED ROSTóV, AS HE READ THE +“OH DEAR, WHAT AM I THINKING ABOUT? I’VE MIXED EVERYTHING UP. ONE +“OH, DENíSOV IS QUITE DIFFERENT,” REPLIED NICHOLAS, IMPLYING THAT +“OH, DON’T MENTION IT, COUNT! I QUITE UNDERSTAND,” SAID BERG, +“OH, DON’T SPEAK OF HIS GOING, DON’T! I WON’T HEAR IT SPOKEN +“OH, DON’T SPEAK TO ME OF AUSTRIA. PERHAPS I DON’T UNDERSTAND +“OH, EVERY BULLET HAS ITS BILLET,” ANSWERED VáSKA DENíSOV, TURNING +“OH GOD, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO ME IF THE EMPEROR SPOKE TO ME?” +“OH, GO TO THE DEVIL!” CALLED OUT A VOICE, DROWNED BY THE LAUGHTER +“OH, HEAVEN! HOW ILL HE IS!” EXCLAIMED THE MOTHER. +“OH, HE IS IN A DREADFUL STATE,” SAID THE MOTHER TO HER SON WHEN +“OH, HE IS SO KIND!” ANSWERED PRINCESS MARY. +“OH, HE’S ALL RIGHT, A GOOD HORSE,” ANSWERED ROSTóV, THOUGH THE +“OH, HOW DELIGHTFUL IT IS!” SHE KEPT SAYING, RUNNING UP TO SóNYA. +“OH, HOW DREADFUL! HOW CAN YOU LAUGH AT IT, COUNT?” +OH, HOW I WOULD GUARD HIM, HOW I WOULD TELL HIM THE TRUTH, HOW I WOULD +“OH, HOW NICE, HOW SPLENDID!” SHE SAID TO EVERYTHING. +“OH, HOW NICE,” THOUGHT NATáSHA; AND WHEN SóNYA AND NICHOLAS HAD +OH, HOW THAT CHORD VIBRATED, AND HOW MOVED WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS FINEST +“OH, HUSH, PLEASE!” SAID ANOTHER. +“OH, I MUST GIVE YOU A TREAT,” BILíBIN WHISPERED TO BOLKóNSKI. +“OH! I THOUGHT YOU WERE IN YOUR ROOM,” SHE SAID, FOR SOME REASON +“OH, IT’S NOTHING. I ONLY WISHED TO SAY...” (HE WANTED TO REPEAT +“OH, IT’S TERRIBLE TO FEEL ONESELF SO IN THIS MAN’S POWER,” +“OH, IT’S WETCHED! WELL, WHAT ARE YOU STANDING THERE FOR, YOU +“OH, LEAVE OFF!” SAID THE ACCOUNTANT WITH A BEAMING BUT RATHER +“OH, LEAVE OFF, YOU ALWAYS TALK NONSENSE AND KEEP PUTTING THINGS +“OH, LITTLE COUNTESS!” ... AND THE COUNT BEGAN BUSTLING TO GET OUT +“OH, MY BOWER NEW...!” CHIMED IN TWENTY VOICES, AND THE CASTANET +“OH, MY BOWER, OH, MY BOWER...!” +“OH, MY DEAR FELLOW, WE’RE IN SUCH A STEW HERE THESE LAST TWO +“OH, MY GOD! MY GOD! SCHMIDT!” HE EXCLAIMED IN GERMAN. “WHAT A +“OH, MY GOD! THANK GOD!” SAID PRINCESS MARY. “I MUST GO AND MEET +“OH, NATáSHA!” SAID SóNYA, LOOKING ECSTATICALLY AND EARNESTLY AT +“OH NO, LET ME OFF, COUNTESS,” DENíSOV REPLIED. +“OH, NO, NO!” AND BESIDES THE PALLOR AND THE PHYSICAL SUFFERING +“OH NO, NOT AT ALL! ON THE CONTRARY, I AM VERY GLAD TO MAKE YOUR +“OH NO, NOT AT ALL TOO YOUNG!” REPLIED THE COUNT. “WHY, OUR +“OH NO!” SAID IOGEL, HASTENING TO REASSURE HIM. “YOU WERE ONLY +“OH, NOTHING,” SAID HE, AS IF WEARY OF BEING CONTINUALLY ASKED THE +“OH, NURSE, I’M SO GLAD!” +“OH! OH!” EXCLAIMED SEVERAL VOICES. +“OH! OH!” GROANED NESVíTSKI AS IF IN FIERCE PAIN, SEIZING THE +“OH! OH! OH!” +“OH! OH! OH!” GROANED KUTúZOV DESPAIRINGLY AND LOOKED AROUND.... +“OH! OH! OH!” HE MUTTERED, LOOKING DOWN FROM THE WINDOW AT THE +“OH, TAKE THOSE OFF... THOSE...” SHE SAID, POINTING TO HIS +“OH, THAT IS ALL THE SAME,” DOLGORúKOV SAID QUICKLY, AND GETTING UP +“OH, THAT IS DREADFUL, DREADFUL!” SAID PIERRE. “I DON’T +“OH, THAT’S IT!” SAID ROSTóV, EVIDENTLY THINKING OF SOMETHING +OH, THAT WICKED PRINCE HIPPOLYTE!” SHE SAID. +“OH, THE FAIWY! SHE CAN DO ANYTHING WITH ME!” SAID DENíSOV, AND +“OH, THOSE MOSCOW GOSSIPS!” SAID DóLOKHOV, AND HE TOOK UP THE CARDS +“OH, TO DIE, TO DIE FOR HIM,” THOUGHT ROSTóV. +“OH, VERY WELL, YOU MAY STAY IN ATTENDANCE ON ME.” +“OH, WELL THEN, GOOD-BY: GO AND DRESS. IS HE VERY TERRIBLE, +“OH, WELL, WELL!” REMARKED THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER. “STILL, ONE +“OH, WHAT A NUISANCE,” SAID DOLGORúKOV, GETTING UP HURRIEDLY AND +“OH, WHAT A PIG I AM, NOT TO HAVE WRITTEN AND TO HAVE GIVEN THEM +“OH, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?” SAID ANOTHER. “WHERE IS HE TO +“OH, WHAT A TERRIBLE STATE HE IS IN! ONE WOULD NOT KNOW HIM, HE IS SO +“OH, WHAT NONSENSE!” CRIED NATáSHA, LAUGHING. “I DON’T THINK +“OH, YES!” +“OH YES,” ASSENTED PRINCESS MARY, “PERHAPS THAT’S IT. I’LL GO. +“OH, YES, I QUITE UNDERSTAND,” ANSWERED ROSTóV, WHO WAS UNDER HIS +“OH YES, IT IS HORRIBLY STUPID,” SAID PIERRE. +“OH YES, LIKE THAT, I KNOW, I ONLY FORGOT,” SAID HE. +“OH, YES!” SAID PIERRE, WITH A FORCED SMILE. “I AM VERY GRATEFUL +“OH YES, VERY MUCH! MY BROTHER KNOWS HIM, HE’S DINED WITH HIM—THE +“OH, YOU DAMNED DANDIES! CLEAN AND FRESH AS IF YOU’D BEEN TO A FETE, +“OH, YOU DON JUAN! YOU SERPENT!” CRIED SEVERAL VOICES. +“OH, YOU FOOL!” SAID THE OLD MAN, SPITTING ANGRILY. SOME TIME PASSED +“OH, YOU GUARDS!” SAID ROSTóV. “I SAY, SEND FOR SOME WINE.” +“OH, YOUR EXCELLENCY!” SAID FRANZ, WITH DIFFICULTY ROLLING THE +OLD AGE AND TOBACCO, WHICH SHE HAD KNOWN SO LONG. “NOW, MADAM, THESE +OLD BOLKóNSKI HAD ALWAYS HAD A POOR OPINION OF PRINCE VASíLI’S +OLD CHAMBERLAIN WAS HEARD ASSURING AN OLD BARONESS THAT HE LOVED HER +OLD COUNT BEZúKHOV, AND HIS INHERITANCE. FANCY! THE THREE PRINCESSES +OLDER VISITORS. THEY NOW, STRETCHING THEMSELVES AFTER SITTING SO LONG, +OLDEST ROSE. MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA PAUSED AT THE DOOR. TALL AND STOUT, +OLD FATHER, AND ENTERING THE MILITARY SERVICE, MY DEAR. AND THERE WAS A +OLD FELLOW? OUT OF SORTS?” +OLD FOOL,” HE THOUGHT. “THAT PRINCESS HéLèNE WILL BE BEAUTIFUL +OLD GABRIEL BROUGHT IN THE WINE. +OLD LADY NEXT TO HER AND GLANCED ANGRILY AT HER DAUGHTER, AND HER SIGH +OLD MAN CONTINUED TO FOLD AND SEAL HIS LETTER, SNATCHING UP AND THROWING +OLD MAN, LIVING ALONE IN THE COUNTRY FOR SO MANY YEARS, COULD KNOW AND +OLD MAN, SHAKING HIS POWDERED HEAD AS MUCH AS THE TAIL, WHICH TíKHON +OLD MAN TOO CAME UP AND KISSED THE WAXEN LITTLE HANDS THAT LAY QUIETLY +OLD MICHAEL WAS ASLEEP ON THE CHEST. PROKóFY, THE FOOTMAN, WHO WAS +OLD MILLER HAD BEEN ACCUSTOMED TO SIT IN HIS TASSELED CAP PEACEFULLY +OLD PRINCE HAD FORBIDDEN IT, APPEARED ON THE THRESHOLD WITH A SHAWL +OLD PRINCE NICHOLAS BOLKóNSKI RECEIVED A LETTER FROM PRINCE VASíLI +OLD PRINCESS, KISSING HER SOUNDLY. “IF I HADN’T THIS HEADACHE I’D +OLD PRINCE UNDERSTOOD FROM THIS OFFICIAL REPORT THAT OUR ARMY HAD BEEN +OLGA WENT OUT. PIERRE STOOD LOOKING AT THE SISTERS; THEN HE BOWED AND +OLMüTZ AND THAT HE WANTED TO SEE HIM AS HE HAD A LETTER AND MONEY FOR +OLMüTZ, WAS PREPARING TO BE REVIEWED NEXT DAY BY THE TWO EMPERORS—THE +“O LORD GOD! THOU WHO ART IN THAT HEAVEN, SAVE, FORGIVE, AND PROTECT +ON. +ON ACCOUNT OF THE SMOKE NOTHING COULD BE SEEN. THE NEARER THEY GOT TO +ON A CHAIR IN THE BALLROOM, CROSSING ONE LEG HIGH OVER THE OTHER, +ON A FEW STEPS HE STOPPED BEFORE PRINCE ANDREW, WHO LAY ON HIS BACK WITH +ON A HOT DISH. +ON ALL SIDES, HAD STOPPED BECAUSE A HORSE IN FRONT HAD FALLEN UNDER A +ON ALL SIDES. THE COUNTESS ROSE AND WENT INTO THE BALLROOM. +ON ALL SIDES THEY SAW RAIN-SOAKED OFFICERS WITH DEJECTED FACES WHO +ON ANYTHING. IT WAS ABOUT THIS CHOICE THAT PRINCE ANDREW WAS SPEAKING. +ON AROUND HIM. NOT ONLY WAS HE INDIFFERENT AS TO WHETHER HE GOT TO +ON A SOFA IN A FAR CORNER OF THE ROOM. HE CLOSED HIS EYES AND SEEMED TO +ON AT THE CROSSING. AND WHY ARE THEY DAWDLING THERE?” +ON BEING RELIEVED FROM PICKET DUTY ROSTóV HAD MANAGED TO GET A FEW +ON BOTH SIDES. BEHIND OUR POSITION WAS A STEEP AND DEEP DIP, MAKING IT +ONCE.” +“ONCE AGAIN, COLONEL,” SAID THE GENERAL, “I CAN’T LEAVE HALF +ONCE BEEN IN TO SEE THE COUNT. HE HAS NOT SENT FOR ME.... I AM SORRY FOR +ONCE FOR A MOMENT OF GLORY, OF TRIUMPH OVER MEN, OF LOVE FROM MEN I +ONCE HE RAISED HIS EYEBROWS, ABRUPTLY TOUCHED HIS HORSE WITH HIS LEFT +ONCE MORE THE CONVERSATIONS CONCENTRATED, THE LADIES’ AT THE ONE END +ONCE RECOGNIZED IT TO BE A TUFT OF GRASS. SHE WAS TERRIBLY CLOSE TO HIM. +ONCE SHE HAS SAID...” +ONCE THE STRANGER CLOSED THE BOOK, PUTTING IN A MARKER, AND AGAIN, +ONCE WAS—DID NOT STRUGGLE, AND PERHAPS SHE WAS RIGHT. NOTHING HAS BEEN +ON CLOAKS OR MANTLES, AND DRIVE AWAY. THE CONVERSATION WAS ON THE CHIEF +ON CONDITION THAT SHE SHOULD TELL NO ONE. +ON DUTY EVERY DAY, OR MAY PLACE ME UNDER ARREST, BUT NO ONE CAN MAKE +ONE ANOTHER. +ONE ANOTHER, BEGINNING TO SEE ONE ANOTHER THROUGH THE MIST. THEY HAD THE +ONE ANOTHER TIME TO ASK QUESTIONS AND GIVE REPLIES CONCERNING A THOUSAND +ONE BUT THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA HAS THAT RIGHT. +“ONE!” CAME THE COMMAND. +“ONE CAN’T EVERYWHERE SAY ALL ONE THINKS, MON CHER. WELL, HAVE +“ONE CAN’T WRITE SO FAST, YOUR HONOR,” SAID THE CLERK, GLANCING +ONE CONSIDERS THAT BY TOMORROW ONE MAY BE DEAD, OR SOMETHING SO +ONE DAY’S RATION OF BREAD REMAINS, AND IN SOME REGIMENTS NONE AT ALL, +ONE FEELS AS IF ONE WERE IN THE COUNTRY.” +ONE FOOT, BOUNDED FROM THE FLOOR LIKE A BALL, AND FLEW ROUND THE ROOM +ONE FOOT, FROM THE ORDERLY AND BEGAN TO MOUNT. +ONE HAD PUT BUT WHICH WAS ALWAYS IN HER MIND, “AND HOW MUCH SUFFERING, +ONE I’D GIVE MY LIFE FOR HER! BUT THOSE!...” AND HE MADE A GESTURE +ONE IS TO INTERFERE WITH HIS ARRANGEMENTS—LEADS HIS DIVISION TO +ONE MOMENT PRAYED TO GOD AS HE HAD DONE ON THE BATTLEFIELD AT THE BRIDGE +“ONE MOMENT, YOUR EXCELLENCY.” +“ONE MORE QUESTION, COUNT,” HE SAID, “WHICH I BEG YOU TO ANSWER +“ONE MUST ADMIT,” CONTINUED PRINCE ANDREW, “THAT NAPOLEON AS A MAN +“ONE MUST BE INDULGENT TO LITTLE WEAKNESSES; WHO IS FREE FROM THEM, +ONE OF DISDAIN WHICH WAS QUITE UNCALLED FOR. HIS FERTILE MIND INSTANTLY +ONE OF THE ÁPSHERON REGIMENT WENT FORWARD PAST THE EMPEROR. +ONE OF THE GUESTS. “THE VICOMTE IS A WONDERFUL RACONTEUR,” SAID SHE +ONE OF THE HINDMOST GUNS THAT WAS GOING ONTO THE DAM TURNED OFF ONTO THE +ONE OF THE LODGES OVER THE ROAD PURPOSELY LADEN WITH SNOW. +ONE OF THEM KNEW, NOT ONE OF THEM WANTED TO KNOW, AND NOT ONE OF THEM +ONE OF THEM WAS A SALLOW, CLEAN-SHAVEN CIVILIAN WITH A THIN AND WRINKLED +ONE OF THEM WAS LEADING BY THE BRIDLE A FINE LARGE FRENCH HORSE HE HAD +ONE OF THE NEXT ARRIVALS WAS A STOUT, HEAVILY BUILT YOUNG MAN WITH +ONE OF THE PLAYERS SAID HE HOPED HE MIGHT BE TRUSTED. +ONE. “OH, THIS SENSELESS LIFE OF OURS!” THOUGHT NICHOLAS. “ALL +ONE PAIR AT EACH WINDOW. SHE STOPPED AND SMILED SCORNFULLY. SóNYA WAS +ONE QUITE AT HOME, AND FROM HABIT IMMEDIATELY LAY DOWN ON THE SOFA, TOOK +ONE REVIEWS THE PAST AND PLANS FOR THE FUTURE. PRINCE ANDREW’S FACE +ONE SELDOM FINDS NOWADAYS AMONG OUR OLD MEN OF TWENTY AND, PARTICULARLY, +(ONE SHATTERED GUN AND ONE UNICORN WERE LEFT BEHIND), PRINCE ANDREW RODE +“ONE SHOULD MAKE UP TO THE HUSBANDS OF PRETTY WOMEN,” SAID DENíSOV. +ONE SIDE OF WHICH SYMBOLIZED GOD, ANOTHER MORAL THINGS, A THIRD +ONE SPOT. HIS PREDICTIONS WERE BEING JUSTIFIED. PART OF THE RUSSIAN +“ONE STEP BEYOND THAT BOUNDARY LINE WHICH RESEMBLES THE LINE DIVIDING +“ONE THING I ASK OF YOUR EXCELLENCY,” DóLOKHOV SAID IN HIS FIRM, +“ONE THING I THANK GOD FOR IS THAT I DID NOT KILL THAT MAN,” SAID +“O-NE! T-WO! THWEE!” HE SHOUTED ANGRILY AND STEPPED ASIDE. +“ONE WAS DAMAGED,” ANSWERED THE STAFF OFFICER, “AND THE OTHER I +ONE WAS ON A WHITE HORSE. PRINCE BAGRATIóN AND PRINCE DOLGORúKOV WITH +ONE.... WHOM, I ASK YOU, CAN WE RELY ON?... ENGLAND WITH HER COMMERCIAL +ONE WORD AFTER ANOTHER, CAME THROUGH THE OPEN DOOR. SHE WAS SPEAKING AS +ONE WOULD HAVE EXPECTED OF HIM. +ONE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR A MAN TO STRETCH HIMSELF +ONE WOULD HAVE TO... THE METROPOLITAN HIMSELF... AND EVEN THEN IT +ONE WOULD NOT NEED FINESSE; AND HE TELLS ME THAT I AM LYING—SO LET HIM +ON FEBRUARY 26, 1807, THE OLD PRINCE SET OFF ON ONE OF HIS CIRCUITS. +ON! GO ON!” AND CRIES OF HORROR WERE HEARD IN THE CROWD. THE SOLDIERS +ON HEARING OF THE ARRIVAL OF THE LETTER WENT SOFTLY INTO THE ROOM AND +ON HEARING THE NEWS WAS ONE OF ANGER WITH SóNYA.... HE TRIED TO SAY, +ON HéLèNE’S NAME DAY, A SMALL PARTY OF JUST THEIR OWN PEOPLE—AS +ON HER FACE. +ON HER LIPS, SHE GOT UP AND LEFT THE ROOM. ALL NICHOLAS’ ANIMATION +ON HER PRIORITY) “THAT THAT SENSELESS YOUNG MAN WAS SPOILED BY THE +ON HER TOES ANY LONGER. “SO THAT’S WHAT I’M UP TO! I’LL NEVER +ON HIM BY THE DOCTORS, CLERGY, AND RELATIVES OF THE FAMILY. PRINCE +ON HIMSELF. HE COULD REMAIN SILENT FOR HOURS WITHOUT BEING AT ALL PUT +ON HIM. THE EMPRESS’ CHAMBERLAIN INVITED HIM TO SEE HER MAJESTY. THE +ON HIM WITHOUT CHANGING THEIR EXPRESSION. “I LOVE YOU ALL AND HAVE +ON HIS ARM AS IF THAT TOUCH MIGHT SOOTHE OR ROUSE HIM. +ON HIS PUPIL’S BEHALF. THAT’S HOW IT’S TO BE UNDERSTOOD! ‘HOW +ON HIS RETURN TO MOSCOW FROM THE ARMY, NICHOLAS ROSTóV WAS WELCOMED +ON HIS SABER, AND PUT ON HIS CAP. +ON HIS SEAT, LOWERED HIS HANDS, MOVED A LITTLE TO THE RIGHT AND THEN TO +ON HIS SIDE OF IT. +ON HIS THIN BONY LEGS, AND KEEPING ON A WORN, NANKEEN-COVERED, SHEEPSKIN +ON HORSEBACK FACING THE DITCH. ONE WITH A WHITE PLUME IN HIS HAT SEEMED +ON IN HIS USUAL TONE OF INDIFFERENCE. +ON!” INNUMERABLE VOICES SUDDENLY SHOUTED AFTER THE BALL HAD STRUCK +ON KUTúZOV’S STAFF, AMONG HIS FELLOW OFFICERS AND IN THE ARMY +ONLOOKERS FOR WHAT WAS TO FOLLOW. AS SOON AS THE PROVOCATIVELY GAY +ONLY A SMALL LAMP WAS BURNING INSIDE SOMETHING WHITE. PIERRE WENT NEARER +ONLY BECAUSE I STILL HOPE TO MEET SUCH A DIVINE CREATURE, WHO WILL +ONLY BETRAYED US THREE TIMES IN THREE YEARS. WE TAKE UP THEIR CAUSE, BUT +ONLY BIVOUACKING HERE AND HAVE JUST COME TO LOOK ROUND. I AM GOING BACK +ONLY BY THE ELITE. +ONLY CHANGE BEING THAT THE WORDS “FATHER KáMENSKI” WERE REPLACED BY +ONLY COVERED BY HER GARMENTS. AND HAVING ONCE SEEN THIS HE COULD NOT +“ONLY FOOLS AND RAKES FALL ILL, MY BOY. YOU KNOW ME: I AM BUSY FROM +ONLY HEARD DóLOKHOV’S HURRIED STEPS, AND HIS FIGURE CAME IN VIEW +ONLY HELP A BIT! I MUST HAVE SINGERS TOO. I SHALL HAVE MY OWN ORCHESTRA, +ONLY HIS EYES WERE BRIGHTER THAN USUAL. +“ONLY LET ME REPORT THIS GENTLEMAN’S BUSINESS, AND I SHALL BE AT +ONLY LIT FIRES TO DECEIVE US. +ONLY NOW, WHEN HE WAS CONFRONTED BY THE STERN AUTHORITIES, DID HIS GUILT +ONLY PRESSED IT TO THE COLD BRAIDING OF HIS HUSSAR’S JACKET. DENíSOV, +ONLY SóNYA, NICHOLAS, AND NATáSHA, BUT EVEN THE OLD COUNTESS, +ONLY SURE HAPPINESS IN LIFE.” +“ONLY TAKE CARE YOU AND YOUR COSSACKS ARE NOT ALL CAPTURED!” SAID +ONLY TELLING YOU WHAT IT IS. NAPOLEON HAS ALSO FORMED HIS PLAN BY NOW, +ONLY THAT ALL THE MEN OF THE DAY WERE MERE BABIES WHO DID NOT KNOW THE +“ONLY THAT?” SAID BOLKóNSKI. +ONLY TO EXPRESS HIS RAPTURE FULLY. +ONLY WHEN APPROACHING BAGRATIóN DID ROSTóV LET HIS HORSE GALLOP AGAIN, +ONLY WHEN PRINCE ANDREW WAS GONE DID ROSTóV THINK OF WHAT HE OUGHT TO +“ON MY HONOR!” +ON NOVEMBER 1 KUTúZOV HAD RECEIVED, THROUGH A SPY, NEWS THAT THE ARMY +ON OCTOBER 11, 1805, ONE OF THE INFANTRY REGIMENTS THAT HAD JUST REACHED +ON OCTOBER 11, THE DAY WHEN ALL WAS ASTIR AT HEADQUARTERS OVER THE NEWS +ON OUR RIGHT FLANK COMMANDED BY BAGRATIóN, AT NINE O’CLOCK THE BATTLE +ON PURPOSE TO VEX US. THE ARCHDUKE KARL DOES NOTHING, THE ARCHDUKE +ON REACHING PETERSBURG PIERRE DID NOT LET ANYONE KNOW OF HIS ARRIVAL, +ON REACHING THE VILLAGE HE DISMOUNTED AND WENT TO THE NEAREST HOUSE, +ON RETIRING TO HER OWN ROOM, SHE SAT IN AN ARMCHAIR, HER EYES FIXED ON A +ON RETURNING FROM THE REVIEW, KUTúZOV TOOK THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL INTO +ON SEEING ROSTóV BEFORE HIM, WITH WHOM HE WOULD INEVITABLY COLLIDE. +ON SNOWY-WHITE SMOOTH PILLOWS, EVIDENTLY FRESHLY CHANGED, PIERRE +ON—THAT PIERRE BECAME QUITE BEWILDERED AND ONLY REPLIED: +ON THAT THIRD OF MARCH, ALL THE ROOMS IN THE ENGLISH CLUB WERE FILLED +“ON THE 4TH, THE FIRST COURIER ARRIVES FROM PETERSBURG. THE MAILS +ON THE ARM OF A COLONEL OF HUSSARS, A MAN OF IMPORTANCE TO THEM BECAUSE +ON THE ARM SAID: +“ON THE CONTRARY,” HE SAID, IN A QUERULOUS AND ANGRY TONE THAT +ON THE CONTRARY IT GAVE HER AN UNNATURAL, AND THEREFORE UNPLEASANT, +“ON THE CONTRARY,” REPLIED THE PRINCE, WHO HAD PLAINLY BECOME +“ON THE CONTRARY, THAT COIFFURE SUITS THE PRINCESS VERY WELL,” SAID +ON THE CONTRARY, THEY STIMULATED HIS ENERGY AND DETERMINATION. +ON THE COT. +ON THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH OF NOVEMBER, THE ARMY ADVANCED TWO +ON THE EVENING OF THE LAST DAY’S MARCH AN ORDER HAD BEEN RECEIVED THAT +ON THE FIELD. +ON THE FIELD BEFORE THE FORTRESS. NOW THOUSANDS OF FEET AND BAYONETS +ON THE FIRST ARRIVAL OF THE NEWS OF THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ, MOSCOW HAD +ON THE FRENCH SIDE, AMID THE GROUPS WITH CANNON, A CLOUD OF SMOKE +ON THE GROUND. +ON THE HIGH GROUND WHERE THE ENEMY WAS, THE SMOKE OF A CANNON ROSE, +ON THE LITTLE PRINCESS’ FACE, AN EXPRESSION OF CHILDISH FEAR OF +‘ON THE MARCH’ IT MEANT IN GREATCOATS?” SAID HE REPROACHFULLY TO +ON THE MORNING OF THE DAY THAT THE YOUNG COUPLE WERE TO ARRIVE, PRINCESS +ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE THE ENEMY COULD BE SEEN BY THE NAKED EYE, AND FROM +ON THE OTHER AN IMMENSE CASE CONTAINING ICONS, WAS BRIGHTLY ILLUMINATED +ON THE OTHER SIDE, THE CHILDREN, TUTORS, AND GOVERNESSES. FROM BEHIND +ON THE PRATZEN HEIGHTS, WHERE HE HAD FALLEN WITH THE FLAGSTAFF IN HIS +ON. THE PREOCCUPATION AND DESPONDENCY WHICH PIERRE HAD NOTICED IN HIS +“ON THE SAME BUSINESS. BUT YOU ARE DAMP! LET ME WRING YOU OUT!” +ON THE SNOW. +ON THE SOFT SPRINGS OF THE CARRIAGE, HE TURNED TO PRINCE ANDREW. +ON THE TABLE, AGAIN BOUND HIS EYES. +ON THE THIRD DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS NICHOLAS DINED AT HOME, A THING HE HAD +ON THE TOP OF HER HEAD (A STYLE THAT QUITE ALTERED AND SPOILED HER +ON THE TWELFTH OF NOVEMBER, KUTúZOV’S ACTIVE ARMY, IN CAMP BEFORE +ON THE TWENTY-EIGHTH OF OCTOBER KUTúZOV WITH HIS ARMY CROSSED TO THE +ON THE UNATTRACTIVE MARTYRLIKE EXPRESSION IT SO OFTEN WORE, AS SHE +ON THE WAY HOME, PRINCE ANDREW COULD NOT REFRAIN FROM ASKING KUTúZOV, +ON THE WAY TO HIS SISTER’S ROOM, IN THE PASSAGE WHICH CONNECTED ONE +ON THIS HIGH GROUND, SHALL WITHDRAW THE LEFT FLANK UNDER ITS COVER, AND +“ON TUESDAY BETWEEN EIGHT AND NINE. IT WILL GIVE ME GREAT PLEASURE.” + * “ON VOUS FERA DANSER.” +ON WHAT HE THOUGHT RIGHT. THE STEWARD PROMISED TO DO ALL IN HIS POWER TO +ON WHICH ROSTóV SAT. +ON WHICH WITH A BROKEN BIT OF CHALK HE HAD WRITTEN “800 RUBLES” IN +ON YOU. YOU COMPLAIN OF OUR SEPARATION. WHAT THEN SHOULD I SAY, IF I +“OOOH! FOR CHRIST’S SAKE LET ME ALONE!” CRIED THE WOUNDED MAN, BUT +OPENED EYES. “WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO HER? HOW SHE IS SINGING TODAY!” +OPENED THE BEDROOM DOOR. +OPENED THE DOOR WHICH MOVED NOISELESSLY AND EASILY. SHE PAUSED AT THE +OPEN IT. SOMEONE WAS HOLDING IT SHUT. +OPERATIONS ACCORDING TO HIM WERE CONNECTED WITH SUCH COMPLICATED +OPINION,” SAID SHE, TURNING TO THE YOUNG MAN WHO, HAVING COME QUITE +OPINIONS, BUT YOU SEE WHAT A CAPITAL, GOOD-NATURED FELLOW I AM.” AND +OPPORTUNITY OF JOINING IN THE GENERAL CURRENT OF RECOLLECTIONS. +OPPORTUNITY SINCE MORNING TO MEET ONE ANOTHER ALONE. WHEN PRINCESS MARY +OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS HIS OWN VIEWS, AS YOUNG PEOPLE ARE FOND OF DOING. +OPPOSITE, IN FRONT OF WHICH LARGE MASSES OF FRENCH WERE ADVANCING. +OPPOSITE PIERRE AND SEEMED VERY GAY. ROSTóV WAS TALKING MERRILY TO HIS +OPPOSITE. PIERRE SPOKE LITTLE BUT EXAMINED THE NEW FACES, AND ATE A +OR ANYBODY; BUT YOU ARE FREE TO CHOOSE.... GO TO YOUR ROOM, THINK IT +OR APPRECIATIVE ACCORDING TO THE WAY THE JOKE WAS RECEIVED. EVERYBODY +“OR ARE YOU AFRAID TO PLAY WITH ME?” DóLOKHOV NOW ASKED AS IF +OR CAP, HIS HEAD WAS BANDAGED, AND OVER HIS SHOULDER A FRENCH MUNITION +ORDAINED THAT THE AUSTRIAN ARMY SHOULD MANEUVER THE PREVIOUS YEAR ON THE +ORDEAL WAS ABOUT TO BEGIN. +ORDER. +ORDERED HIS HORSE AT ONCE AND, COLDLY TAKING LEAVE OF BORíS, RODE +ORDERED THE HORSES TO BE HARNESSED. ONLY THOSE THINGS HE ALWAYS KEPT +ORDERED TO TURN BACK TO THE RIGHT. SEVERAL THOUSAND CAVALRY CROSSED IN +ORDERLY BY THE SHOULDERS AND KNOCKING HIM AGAINST THE WALL. +ORDERLY, RUNNING BEHIND THE CART AND FUMBLING IN THE BACK OF IT. +ORDERLY TO THE BRAVEST GENERAL, AND STILL MORE, HE WAS GOING WITH A +ORDER NOT TO LOSE HIS HEAD AND DO FOOLISH THINGS HE MUST NOT ACT ON HIS +ORDER OF MARIA THERESA ON HIS NECK AND A BLACK BANDAGE ROUND HIS HEAD, +ORDERS. +ORDERS, AND THE STAR OF ST. GEORGE ON HIS LEFT BREAST. EVIDENTLY JUST +ORDERS BY HEART AND KNOW THE REGULATIONS AS WELL AS I DO THE LORD’S +ORDERS THE SERGEANT TO BE ARRESTED. COME, YOU MUST OWN THAT THIS AFFAIR +ORDERS TO ADMIT NO MORE, BUT THE PORTER WAS TOLD TO BE SURE TO INVITE TO +ORDERS TO THE CLUB STEWARD AND TO THE FAMOUS FEOKTíST, THE CLUB’S +ORDERS WHICH SHOWED THAT THE RUSSIAN TROOPS, WHO HAD HITHERTO BEEN +ORDER TO MAKE BORíS’ BETTER ACQUAINTANCE, PROMISED TO COME TO DINNER, +ORDER. YOU ARE CAUSING ME TO LOSE THE FRUITS OF A CAMPAIGN. BREAK +ORDINARY STAID AND RESPECTFUL GOOD MANNERS HABITUAL IN THE PRINCE’S +OR EVEN TO WISH TO BE THOUGHT TO LISTEN. EXACTLY OPPOSITE WEYROTHER, +OR GRAY HORSES; THEN AGAIN, SPREADING OUT WITH THE BRAZEN CLATTER OF THE +OR HE WOULD SUDDENLY FEEL ASHAMED OF HE KNEW NOT WHAT. HE FELT IT +OR KUTúZOV WAS. SOME SAID THE REPORT THAT THE EMPEROR WAS WOUNDED WAS +ORLóV NEVER GAVE SUCH A DINNER AS OURS WILL BE!” +OR MAKE OUT ANYTHING OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING: THERE IN THE SMOKE MEN OF +OR OF THE NECESSITY OF REBUILDING FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS. SO THE FIRST +OR PRINCE VASíLI. FORTY THOUSAND SERFS AND MILLIONS OF RUBLES! I KNOW +OR TWO IN HIS HEAD BUT DOZENS, SOME ONLY BEGINNING TO FORM THEMSELVES, +OR WHETHER SOME OTHER THOUGHT FLITTED ACROSS HIS DYING BRAIN, AT ANY +OR YOU AS HAVING BEEN AT ALL INSULTED, AND AS A MAN OLDER THAN YOU, MY +OSTRALITZ. IN THE LARGE DRAWING ROOM WHICH HAD BECOME THE COMMANDER +OTHER.” +OTHER, AWKWARDLY, LIKE A CHILD AT A DANCING LESSON. +OTHER BEFORE THE SERVICE WAS CONCLUDED. PIERRE PAID NO MORE ATTENTION +OTHER FARE, WAS SPLENDID, YET HE COULD NOT FEEL QUITE AT EASE TILL THE +OTHER HAD RIDDEN UP TO HIM. +OTHER LADY VISITORS WERE FARTHER DOWN. AT THE OTHER END SAT THE COUNT, +OTHER OFFICER; HE’LL SAY: ‘GO AND FIND OUT WHAT’S THERE.’ THERE +OTHER OFFICERS. PERHAPS I OUGHT NOT TO HAVE SPOKEN BEFORE THEM, BUT I AM +OTHERS...” +OTHERS.” +OTHERS AND EVEN FROM HERSELF, THE STRONGER IT GREW. “O GOD,” SHE +OTHERS AND, IN SHIRT SLEEVES AND BREECHES, WENT GLASS IN HAND TO THE +OTHERS APPRECIATED PRINCE HIPPOLYTE’S SOCIAL TACT IN SO AGREEABLY +OTHER’S HANDS, KISSING THEM AND PULLING THEM AWAY, AND AGAIN BEGAN +OTHER SOLDIERS. HE STOOD LOOKING ABOUT HIM, WHEN SUDDENLY HE HEARD A +OTHERS, ONLY NOW HAVE I UNDERSTOOD ALL THE HAPPINESS OF LIFE. NO, I +OTHERS. “WELL, YOU OLD SINNER,” SHE WENT ON, TURNING TO THE COUNT +OTHER VIRTUES—LOVE OF HIS NEIGHBOR, AND ESPECIALLY GENEROSITY. +OTHERWISE. TO TELL THEM THAT SHE FELT ASHAMED FOR HERSELF AND FOR THEM +OTHER YOUNG LADIES IN BEGGING NATáSHA AND NICHOLAS, WHO WERE NOTED FOR +OUGHT TO BE, NOW HE FANCIED IT WAS ONLY SOMETHING IN HIS OWN EYES. HIS +OUGHT TO GO STRAIGHT TO HIM AND GIVE THE MESSAGE DOLGORúKOV HAD ORDERED +OUGHT TO KNOW WHERE THEY ARE, AND MUST FIND THEM, BECAUSE...” +“OUI, MADAME,” REPLIED HE, LOOKING AROUND HIM. +OUR AID,” SAID KUTúZOV. +OUR DEAR COUNT VRBNA, GOES TO HIM FOR ORDERS.” +OUR ENEMIES! HURRAH!” HE EXCLAIMED IN HIS DASHING, OLD, HUSSAR’S +OUR FINE SPEECHES AND IN HIS RUDE AND SAVAGE WAY THROWS HIMSELF ON THE +OUR HANDS! NO, WE MUSTN’T FORGET SUVóROV AND HIS RULE—NOT TO PUT +OUR HEARTS ARE UNITED BY INDISSOLUBLE BONDS, MY HEART REBELS AGAINST +OUR INFANTRY WERE STATIONED THERE, AND AT THE FARTHEST POINT THE +OUR MEMBERS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO REFORM THEIR HEARTS, TO PURIFY AND +OUR MEN HAD BEGUN FIRING. THEY WERE STILL FIRING, NOT AT THE CAVALRY +“OUR MEN HAVE BEEN WASTING TIME.” +OUR OFFICERS.” +OUR OFFICERS AND MEN AT AUSTERLITZ. ONE HAD SAVED A STANDARD, ANOTHER +OUR ORDER CAN BESTOW IT WILL RENDER YOU, MY DEAR SIR. YOU ARE GOING TO +OUR PEOPLE...” +OUR PRESENT, DEPRAVED WORLD. NO ONE NOW LOVES VIRTUE; IT SEEMS LIKE + * OURS. +OURSELVES.” +OURSELVES, DEAR PRINCE,” SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS (OF COURSE, IN +OURSELVES, WERE GROWING UP AND DYING WITH NO IDEA OF GOD AND TRUTH +“OURS,” KISSING HIS FINGER TIPS. +‘OUR SOVEREIGN, THE EMPEROR,’ AS THEY SAY AT OFFICIAL DINNERS,” +OUR THOUGHTS TO THE SECOND, BONAPARTE. BUT AS IT TURNS OUT, JUST AT +OUR TROOPS HAD DESCENDED AND FROM WHENCE CAME THE SOUNDS OF FIRING. +OUR TROOPS WERE KNOWN TO HIM AS FAR AS THEY COULD BE KNOWN TO ANYONE +OUR TURN NEXT.” +OUT. +OUT: +OUT ABOUT HIM. +OUT ACCIDENTLY.” +OUT AND THE SABERS WHIZZED AS THEY WERE DRAWN FROM THEIR SCABBARDS. +OUT A NOTEBOOK, HURRIEDLY SCRIBBLED SOMETHING IN PENCIL, TORE OUT THE +OUT AS A POST HORSE, BUT STILL I MUST HAVE A TALK WITH YOU, CATICHE, A +OUT EVERYONE HAS BEEN ENRAPTURED BY HER? THEY SAY SHE IS AMAZINGLY +OUT FROM BEHIND THE CLOUDS, AND THE CLEAR SOUND OF THE SOLITARY SHOT +OUT HER CAMBRIC HANDKERCHIEF SHE BEGAN WIPING HER HUSBAND’S WAISTCOAT. +OUT HIS NOTEBOOK AND, LEANING ON THE CANNON, SKETCHED A PLAN OF THE +OUT IN FRONT OF A PLATOON OF GRENADIERS BEFORE WHOM LAY A NAKED MAN. TWO +OUT LIKE CORDS. “YOU ARE MAD, I TELL YOU. I WON’T ALLOW IT. +OUTLINES. DRESSED AS SHE USED TO BE IN PETERSBURG SOCIETY, IT WAS STILL +OUT. MACK LOSES A WHOLE ARMY, THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND AND THE ARCHDUKE +OUT OF COUNTENANCE HIMSELF OR MAKING OTHERS UNCOMFORTABLE, BUT AS +OUT OF HEARING. ANOTHER MUSKET MISSED FIRE BUT FLASHED IN THE PAN. +OUT OF IT. THEY COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THAT I HAVE NOT THE NECESSARY +OUT OF THIS POSITION; THAT HERE WAS THE TOULON THAT WOULD LIFT HIM FROM +OUT OVER THE FIRE, AND NOT WAITING FOR AN ANSWER HE GAVE A GRUNT AND +OUTPOSTS TODAY AND IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY WHERE HIS CHIEF FORCES ARE +OUTRIGHT. +OUTSIDE HIS UNIFORM. +OUT SKIRMISHERS. HE HAD FELT PERFECTLY SURE THAT THERE WERE OTHER TROOPS +OUT. THE FENCES AND GATES WERE NEW AND SOLID; TWO FIRE PUMPS AND A +OUT THERE... BOTH PLAYING THE HERO... AH, VASíLI IGNáTOVICH... +OUT THE STINGING AND TORMENTING THOUGHTS THAT CONFUSED HIS MIND. “THIS +OUT UNTIL, AT THE FIRST PAUSE, THE GUESTS RISE WITH A RUSTLE OF DRESSES +OUT WHETHER SHE WAS CONSIDERING WHAT HE HAD JUST SAID OR WHETHER SHE WAS +OVER A FIRE BRIGADE OF BONAPARTE’S, THAT WILL BE ANOTHER STORY AND +OVER.” AND AFTER STUMBLING A FEW STAGGERING STEPS RIGHT UP TO THE +OVER, AND COME BACK IN AN HOUR AND TELL ME IN HIS PRESENCE: YES OR NO. +OVER,” ANNA PáVLOVNA CONTINUED. “THE SOVEREIGNS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO +OVER BEAMED WITH IRREPRESSIBLE DELIGHT.) “IT’S IN THE EMPEROR’S +OVERCOME A CERTAIN SECRET SORROW THAT HAS BEEN IN MY HEART EVER SINCE +OVERFLOWED WITH ANIMATION AND IMPULSIVENESS. TO BE AN ENTHUSIAST HAD +“OVERFLOWING WITH AMIABILITY. HIS POSITION HAS NOT TURNED HIS HEAD +OVERFLOW WITH SICK, AND FAMINE IS EVERYWHERE. TWICE THE MARAUDERS EVEN +OVER HIS SHOULDER. +OVER HIS SHOULDER, AS WHEN ROSTóV HAD SEEN HIM ON THE EVE OF THE BATTLE +OVER HIS SPECTACLES, AND THEN AGAIN RESUMING HIS WALK, MUTTERING +OVER. IT WILL BE A TREMENDOUS BANQUET.” +OVERTAKEN BY THE ENEMY AND FIGHTING REARGUARD ACTIONS ONLY AS FAR AS +OVERTAKING THE BATTALIONS THAT CONTINUED TO ADVANCE, HE STOPPED +OVER, THE ADJUTANT HE HAD SEEN THE PREVIOUS DAY CEREMONIOUSLY INFORMED +OVER THE BATTLEFIELD HAD GIVEN FINAL ORDERS TO STRENGTHEN THE BATTERIES +OVER THE ENNS, AND THEN GUESSED THAT THE CARD THAT CAME FIRST TO HAND +OVER THEIR HEADS, UNSTRAPPING THEIR OVERCOATS AND DRAWING THE SLEEVES ON +OVER THE SQUADRON. ROSTóV RAISED HIS SABER, READY TO STRIKE, BUT AT +OWED HIM MONEY! WHAT BASENESS! WHAT MEANNESS! I KNOW YOU UNDERSTAND +OWING TO THE TERRIBLE UPROAR AND THE NECESSITY FOR CONCENTRATION AND +OWN ABOUT THE FACTS HE WAS RECOUNTING. FOR SOME TIME HE ENGROSSED THE +OWN BREAST, THE HUSBAND STANDING BY AND GAZING TENDERLY AT HER AND THE +OWNER OF ONE OF THE LARGEST FORTUNES IN RUSSIA, I AM MUCH AMUSED TO +OWN EYES SHE COMFORTED THE COUNT, AND DECIDED THAT AT DINNER AND TILL +OWN IDEAS TONIGHT, BUT MUST YIELD HIMSELF UP ENTIRELY TO THE WILL OF +PACE. +PACES, AND NICHOLAS COULD CLEARLY DISTINGUISH EVERY DETAIL OF HIS +PACING ANGRILY ABOUT AND SNORTING. THE OLD PRINCE FELT AS THOUGH HE +PAINFUL TO HIM AT THIS MOMENT OF SORROW; BESIDES, WHAT CAN I SAY TO HIM +PAINSTAKING EFFECT THAT HAD BEEN IN IT BEFORE; BUT SHE DID NOT YET SING +PALACE IN A MANNER AGREEABLE TO YOURSELF, AND IN SO FAR AS CIRCUMSTANCES +PALE, AND ADDED, “LOOK AT IT, YOUNG MAN.” +PALE AND HIS JAW TREMBLED, SHIVERING FEVERISHLY. HE WAS PLACED ON +PALE AND THEN BLUSHING. +PALE FACE AND GLITTERING EYES. +PALE, NOW BLUSHED AND STRAINED EVERY NERVE TO OVERHEAR WHAT NICHOLAS +PALE ON SEEING HER FATHER-IN-LAW. +PALE, WITH COMPRESSED LIPS AND FEVERISHLY GLITTERING EYES. +PALE, WITH QUIVERING LIPS, PIERRE SNATCHED THE COPY. +PALLID AND QUIVERED. +“PAPA, I HAVE COME ON A MATTER OF BUSINESS. I WAS NEARLY FORGETTING. I +“PAPA! PA-PA!” HE CALLED AFTER HIM, SOBBING, “FORGIVE ME!” AND +“PAPA,” SAID HIS BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER IN THE SAME TONE AS BEFORE, +“PAPA, WE SHALL BE LATE,” SAID PRINCESS HéLèNE, TURNING HER +PAPA, WHICH NATáSHA, AND WHICH PéTYA. EVERYONE SHOUTED, TALKED, AND +PAPER AND HER HAND MOVED RAPIDLY OVER IT. THIS IS THE REPLY SHE WROTE, +PAPER. HE LOOKED GLOOMILY IN ROSTóV’S FACE AND SAID: “I AM WITING +PAPERS AND IT WAS THE FIRST TIME HE HAD HEARD VILLENEUVE’S NAME. +PAPERS AND STILL TAKING NO NOTICE OF THE SPECIAL MESSENGER. +PARADE. HOWEVER, I WILL LET YOU KNOW.” +PARADE... I AM THE FIRST TO APOLOGIZE, YOU KNOW ME!... HE WAS VERY +PARALYZED HIS WILL. +PARDON. AS SOON AS ROSTóV HEARD THEM, AN ENORMOUS LOAD OF DOUBT +“PARDON ME! A SNUFFBOX WITH THE EMPEROR’S PORTRAIT IS A REWARD BUT +PARENTS WHO HAVE PETTED THEIR CHILDREN FROM BABYHOOD, BUT WHICH PRINCE +PARIS. IT WAS NOT CALCULATION THAT GUIDED HER (SHE DID NOT EVEN FOR A +PART. ANNA PáVLOVNA SCHéRER ON THE CONTRARY, DESPITE HER FORTY YEARS, +PART FROM HIS HORSE, AND AT LAST SPRANG DOWN AND CALLED TO HIS ORDERLY. +PARTICULAR EMPHASIS AS IF IN IT LAY THE GIST OF THE MATTER. +PARTICULARLY ADDICTED), HE REGARDED EVEN THIS NOT AS A DEFECT BUT AS A +PARTICULARLY AGREEABLE BEFORE GOING AWAY. BESIDES THIS HE WAS +PARTICULARLY CALM AND ABSENT-MINDED WAY, WHICH INSPIRED THE RESPECT OF +PARTICULARLY DISCONTENTED AND OUT OF TEMPER. WHETHER HE WAS IN A BAD +PARTICULARLY ON THE WORD POSSIBLE... “AS PO-O-OSSIBLE,” HE ENDED, +PARTICULARLY STRIKING AMONG ALL THESE DRUNKEN VOICES BY ITS SOBER + PARTICULARLY VICTORIOUS.” +PARTICULARLY VIVID, HUMILIATING, AND SHAMEFUL WAS THE RECOLLECTION OF +PARTIES, WEARING A DRESS SUCH AS WAS THEN FASHIONABLE, CUT VERY LOW AT +PART IN IT, BUT ALSO BY THE JOYFUL EXPRESSION ON THE FACES OF SOLDIERS, +PARTLY BECAUSE OF THE DEPRESSING MEMORIES ASSOCIATED WITH BALD HILLS, +PARTLY BECAUSE PRINCE ANDREW DID NOT ALWAYS FEEL EQUAL TO BEARING WITH +PARTNER’S HAND FIRMLY, THREW BACK HIS HEAD, AND ADVANCED HIS FOOT, +PART OF HIS LEGS; HE HAD ON A KIND OF NECKLACE ABOVE WHICH ROSE A HIGH +PART OF HIS MIND HER IMAGE ROSE IN ALL ITS WOMANLY BEAUTY. +PARTY AT WHICH PIERRE HAD TO BE PRESENT UNLESS HE WISHED TO SPOIL +PASSED HIS TIME VERY GAILY. AFTER A SHORT PERIOD OF ADAPTING HIMSELF +PASSED IN STEP BEFORE THE EMPERORS AND THEIR SUITES AT A BOLD, BRISK +PASSED OUT BY A BACK DOOR, BUT RETURNED TO THEIR PLACES ONE AFTER THE +PASSED, THE PáVLOGRAD DIVISION WAS ORDERED TO ADVANCE. IN WISCHAU +PASSING BAGRATIóN AND RACING ONE ANOTHER THEY RUSHED IN AN IRREGULAR +PASSING BEHIND ONE OF THE LINES OF A REGIMENT OF FOOT GUARDS HE HEARD A +PASSING BETWEEN THE COMPANIES THAT HAD BEEN EATING PORRIDGE AND DRINKING +PASSING, BUT BEFORE HE HAD FINISHED HIS GREETING THERE WAS A GENERAL +PASSING BY KUTúZOV’S CARRIAGE AND THE EXHAUSTED SADDLE HORSES OF +PASSING IT ACROSS HéLèNE’S BACK. HéLèNE STOOPED FORWARD TO MAKE +PASSIONATELY AND TENDERLY, AND OLD MARY IVáNOVNA, WHO HAD GROWN FOND OF +PASSIONATELY, AT WHICH SHE LAUGHED; AT THE OTHER COULD BE HEARD THE +PASSIONATELY FOND OF THE BOY, AND PRINCESS MARY OFTEN DEPRIVED HERSELF +PASSIONATELY ONCE MORE TO ENJOY THAT DISSIPATION HE WAS SO ACCUSTOMED TO +PASSIONATELY REPENTS. I WILL DO ALL I CAN TO ARRANGE THE MATCH BETWEEN +PASSION BUT IN YOUR OWN HEART. THE SOURCE OF BLESSEDNESS IS NOT WITHOUT +PASSION,” SAID THE LATTER. +PASS THE THREE OFFICERS QUITE EASILY, BUT ZHERKóV, PUSHING NESVíTSKI +PAST THE COMPANY, AND OVERTOOK THE CARRIAGE, STILL KEEPING TIME TO THE +PAST THE LADIES INTO THE LITTLE DRAWING ROOM. WITH QUICK STEPS HE WENT +PATHETIC SMILE, AS THOUGH SHE TOO KNEW THAT COUNT ROSTóV DESERVED THIS +PATH OF VIRTUE,” SAID THE MASON. +PATRONAGE AT THE DANCERS. +PATRONESS. SHE ADDED THAT HER MAJESTY HAD DEIGNED TO SHOW BARON FUNKE +PATTED HIS FAVORITE, ROSTóV, ON THE SHOULDER. +PAUL HAD EXILED HIM TO HIS COUNTRY ESTATE HAD LIVED THERE CONTINUOUSLY +PAUL WAS A MARKET VILLAGE WHERE A FAIR WAS HELD ON ST. PETER’S DAY, +PAUSE AFTER THIS MOT TO GIVE TIME FOR ITS DUE APPRECIATION. “THE +PAUSED. “I AM GOING BECAUSE THE LIFE I AM LEADING HERE DOES NOT SUIT +PAUSE, “SHE TOLD HIM SHE LOVED ANOTHER.” +PAUSING. “THE ONLY QUESTION IS WHAT WILL COME OF THE MEETING BETWEEN +PáVLOGRAD COMMANDER. THE COMMANDERS MET WITH POLITE BOWS BUT WITH +PáVLOVNA. +PáVLOVNA AGAIN TOUCHED PIERRE’S SLEEVE, SAYING: “I HOPE YOU WON’T +PáVLOVNA: “EDUCATE THIS BEAR FOR ME! HE HAS BEEN STAYING WITH ME +PáVLOVNA HAD HAD A COUGH FOR SOME DAYS. SHE WAS, AS SHE SAID, SUFFERING +PáVLOVNA, LOOKING UP PENSIVELY. +PáVLOVNA’S, AN UNACKNOWLEDGED SENSE OF THE GUILT OF THAT DESIRE +PáVLOVNA’S DRAWING ROOM HE CONSIDERED AN IMPORTANT STEP UP IN THE +PáVLOVNA, SHAKING HER LITTLE SHRIVELED FINGER AT HIM. +PáVLOVNA’S HAND AND FOR SOME REASON DRAWING IT DOWNWARDS. “ARRANGE +PáVLOVNA’S HAND, AND SCREWING UP HIS EYES SCANNED THE WHOLE COMPANY. +PáVLOVNA’S USUAL PINK NOTES WITH AN INVITATION TO WHICH WAS ADDED: +PáVLOVNA’S VOICE, “I SEE YOU ARE ALL RIGHT THERE.” +PáVLOVNA’S WAS THE FIRST HE HAD ATTENDED IN RUSSIA. HE KNEW THAT ALL +PáVLOVNA’S WORDS AND LOOKS WHEN SHE SPOKE TO HIM ABOUT HIS HOUSE, +PáVLOVNA THREATENED HIM ON BEHALF OF “OUR DEAR VYAZMíTINOV,” AND +PAY. I CAN TELL YOU FOR MYSELF...” +PAYING OFF THE DEBTS AND UNDERTAKING NEW ACTIVITIES WITH SERF LABOR, +PAYMENTS HAD BEEN DIMINISHED BY A THIRD, THEIR OBLIGATORY MANORIAL WORK +PEACE.” +PEACE. THE OLD MAN WAS BESIDE HIMSELF: MOVED THE CHAIR ON WHICH HE WAS +PEARLS ON THEIR BARE SHOULDERS, LOOKED AT THEMSELVES IN THE BRILLIANTLY +PEASANT, OR A WOMAN WITH A BABY, HAS NO REST DAY OR NIGHT AND I GIVE +PECULIAR FORM OF BEAUTY. EVERYONE BRIGHTENED AT THE SIGHT OF THIS PRETTY +PECULIARITIES OF HIS RESERVED NATURE, BORíS HAD MANAGED DURING HIS +PECULIARLY DELIBERATE STEPS. THIS FEELING OF DISDAIN WAS HEIGHTENED +PECULIAR TO PREGNANT WOMEN. IT WAS EVIDENT THAT HER EYES DID NOT SEE +PENSIONS AND THE SAME AMOUNT FOR ASYLUMS; 150,000 ALIMONY WAS SENT TO +PEOPLE AND STARTING TO JOIN THE ARMY. YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE STATE OF +“PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS TOO CLEVER WITH THEIR ELDEST CHILDREN AND TRY TO +PEOPLE—BUSINESSMEN, RELATIONS, AND ACQUAINTANCES ALIKE—WERE ALL +PEOPLE DANCING, IOGEL WITH NATáSHA, HIS PRIDE AND HIS BEST PUPIL, WERE +PEOPLE DO UNDERSTAND HIM. HE IS SUCH A LOFTY, HEAVENLY SOUL!” +PEOPLE,” HE WENT ON, TURNING TO ANNA PáVLOVNA, “HE EVER WAS A HERO, +PEOPLE SHOW TO EVERYONE WHEN THEY ARE HAPPY. +PEOPLE WERE IN ONE OF THE INNER ROOMS, NOT CONSIDERING IT NECESSARY TO +PERCEPTION BEFITTING A MAN OF THE WORLD, HE INDICATED BY A MOVEMENT OF +PERFECTION OF MANNER. IF HE EVER THOUGHT OF HéLèNE, IT WAS JUST OF +PERFECT ONE’S SELF. AND TO ATTAIN THIS END, WE HAVE THE LIGHT CALLED +PERFORM! PRUSSIA HAS ALWAYS DECLARED THAT BUONAPARTE IS INVINCIBLE, AND +PERHAPS BECAUSE IT WAS HARD FOR HIM, HUNGRY AS HE WAS, TO LOOK ON AT +“PERHAPS,” COLDLY AND ANGRILY REPLIED DóLOKHOV, GLANCING AT SóNYA, +PERHAPS DYING, WHILE MEETING MY REMORSE WITH SOME FORCED BRAVADO!” +PERHAPS I MAY...” +“PERHAPS LATER ON I MAY TELL YOU, MY DEAR BOY, THAT IF I HAD NOT BEEN +PERHAPS, SEE AND TAKE PART IN THE FIRST RUSSIAN ENCOUNTER WITH THE +“PERHAPS THE COUNT DID NOT ASK FOR ME,” SAID PIERRE WHEN HE REACHED +“PERHAPS WE’D REALLY BETTER NOT WAKE HIM,” HE SAID HESITATING. +PERMISSION HERE IN HOSPITAL, THAT I MAY NOT HAVE TO PLAY THE PART OF A +“PERMIT ME, PRINCESS, TO KNOW WHAT IS NECESSARY AND WHAT IS NOT +PERSEVERANCE, BUT ONLY THE KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO GET ON WITH THOSE WHO CAN +PERSONAGE, A POSITION IN THE ARMY WHICH SEEMED TO HIM MOST ATTRACTIVE. +PERSONAGE HE WAS REFERRING TO. +PERSONAL INTERVIEW WAS REFUSED, AND INSTEAD OF THE SOVEREIGN, PRINCE +PERSONALLY IT WOULD BE A PLEASURE TO HAND OVER THE SUPREME COMMAND +PERSONS, AMONG THEM THE ELDERLY LADY AND ANNA PáVLOVNA, DID HOWEVER +PERSON SHE HAPPENED TO LOOK AT SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH FOR THAT MOMENT. +PETERSBURG. +PETERSBURG, AND HAD BEEN EXPELLED FROM THERE FOR RIOTOUS CONDUCT AND +PETERSBURG AND STAYING AT HIS HOUSE. WITH APPARENT ABSENT-MINDEDNESS, +PETERSBURG. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, WITH HER TEAR-WORN BUT PLEASANT FACE, +PETERSBURG. BUT NOW THIS HEAD WAS SWAYING HELPLESSLY WITH THE UNEVEN +PETERSBURG EARLIER OR LATER, OR WHETHER HE SECURED ACCOMMODATION AT THIS +PETERSBURG. HAND THIS TO COUNT WILLARSKI” (HE TOOK OUT HIS NOTEBOOK +PETERSBURG. HE COULD NOT IMAGINE HOW HE COULD SPEAK TO HER NOW. HE +PETERSBURG. IT IS HIGH TIME FOR YOU TO GET AWAY FROM THESE TERRIBLE +PETERSBURG—NO ONE KNOWS WHO WILL INHERIT HIS IMMENSE FORTUNE, PIERRE +PETERSBURG ON THE TENTH OF AUGUST, AND HER SON, WHO HAD REMAINED IN +PETERSBURG SOCIETY WAS ASSEMBLED THERE: PEOPLE DIFFERING WIDELY IN AGE +PETERSBURG TO ASCERTAIN WHAT MOSCOW WAS THINKING ABOUT AUSTERLITZ. +PETERSBURG TO PROCURE AN APPOINTMENT IN THE GUARDS FOR HER ONLY SON. +PETISENFANS, ALLAY CUSHAY DORMIR!” HE EXCLAIMED, IMITATING HIS RUSSIAN +“PéTRUSHA HAS COME WITH PAPERS FROM YOUR FATHER,” WHISPERED THE +PéTYA. +PéTYA. BESIDES THAT, HE SENT GREETINGS TO MONSIEUR SCHELLING, MADAME +PéTYA, CLINGING TO HIS LEGS, KEPT SHOUTING, “AND ME TOO!” +PéTYA! GOOD MAN!” CRIED HE, ADDRESSING PIERRE. +PéTYA IN, CLOSED AGAIN. A SOUND OF LAUGHTER CAME FROM BEHIND IT. +PéTYA PACED THE ROOM IN SILENCE FOR A TIME. +PéTYA, PACING THE ROOM WITH LARGE, RESOLUTE STRIDES. “NOW I’M VERY +“PéTYA, YOU’RE A STUPID!” SAID NATáSHA. +PE VELL. AND VE MUST DISCUSS IT AS LITTLE AS PO-O-OSSIBLE”... HE DWELT +PHILOSOPHIZING VOICE WITH PLEASURE. +PHYSICALLY AT THAT MOMENT, THERE WAS A WEIGHT ON HIS CHEST AND HE COULD +PHYSICAL THINGS, AND THE FOURTH A COMBINATION OF THESE. NOW AND THEN +PICK UP THE GLOVE HIMSELF AND TO PASS ROUND THE DOCTORS WHO WERE NOT +PIERCINGLY. SEEING PRINCE ANDREW SHE LEANED OUT FROM BEHIND THE APRON +PIERRE. +PIERRE. +PIERRE. +PIERRE. +PIERRE. +PIERRE. +PIERRE, AFTER ALL, HAD NOT MANAGED TO CHOOSE A CAREER FOR HIMSELF IN +PIERRE AND HIMSELF WAS IN THE ROOM, AND ADDRESSED HER IN A TONE OF +PIERRE AND THERE WERE LINES OF PAIN ON HIS FACE AND A SHAMEFACED SMILE. +PIERRE, AS IN A DREAM, SAW SEVERAL MEN STANDING BEFORE HIM, WEARING +PIERRE AT THE AGE OF TEN HAD BEEN SENT ABROAD WITH AN ABBé AS TUTOR, +PIERRE BEGAN DESCRIBING WHAT HE HAD DONE ON HIS ESTATES, TRYING AS FAR +PIERRE BLUSHED, AS HE ALWAYS DID WHEN IT WAS MENTIONED, AND SAID +PIERRE CLUTCHED HIS TEMPLES, AND TURNING ROUND WENT INTO THE FOREST, +PIERRE CONSIDERED. +PIERRE COULD NOT AND DID NOT WISH TO BREAK THIS SILENCE. +PIERRE COULD NOT GO ON. HE GULPED AND TURNED AWAY. +PIERRE COULD NOT MAKE OUT WHAT IT WAS ALL ABOUT, AND STILL LESS WHAT +PIERRE DID NOT CATCH WHAT THEY WERE SAYING, BUT KNEW THEY WERE TALKING +PIERRE DID NOT UNDERSTAND A WORD, BUT THE CONVICTION THAT ALL THIS HAD +PIERRE DRANK ONE GLASS AFTER ANOTHER, LOOKING FROM UNDER HIS BROWS AT +PIERRE DROPPED HIS EYES, LIFTED THEM AGAIN, AND WISHED ONCE MORE TO SEE +PIERRE FELT CONFUSED AND WISHED TO AVOID THAT LOOK, BUT THE BRIGHT OLD +PIERRE FELT HIMSELF FAR POORER THAN WHEN HIS FATHER HAD MADE HIM +PIERRE FELT THAT HE WAS THE CENTER OF IT ALL, AND THIS BOTH PLEASED AND +PIERRE FELT UNCOMFORTABLE AND EVEN DEPRESSED IN HIS FRIEND’S COMPANY +PIERRE FLUSHED AND, HURRIEDLY PUTTING HIS LEGS DOWN FROM THE BED, BENT +PIERRE, FROM JOY, AGITATION, AND EMBARRASSMENT, WAS NOT IN A STATE TO +PIERRE GAVE HER AN INQUIRING LOOK. SHE KISSED THE YOUNG MAN ON HIS +PIERRE GAVE NO ANSWER, FOR HE NEITHER HEARD NOR SAW ANYTHING. HE HAD +PIERRE GRADUALLY BEGAN TO RECOVER HIMSELF AND LOOKED ABOUT AT THE ROOM +PIERRE HAD ALREADY LONG BEEN FEELING IN HIMSELF THAT REFRESHING SOURCE +PIERRE HAD BEEN EDUCATED ABROAD, AND THIS RECEPTION AT ANNA +PIERRE HAD COME JUST AT DINNERTIME AND WAS SITTING AWKWARDLY IN THE +PIERRE HAD MET IN PETERSBURG SOCIETY. IN THE PRESIDENT’S CHAIR SAT A +PIERRE HAD NONE OF THE PRACTICAL PERSISTENCE THAT WOULD HAVE ENABLED HIM +PIERRE HAD OF LATE RARELY SEEN HIS WIFE ALONE. BOTH IN PETERSBURG AND IN +PIERRE HAD TAKEN PART IN TYING A POLICEMAN TO A BEAR. HE HAD NOW BEEN +PIERRE, HARDLY RESTRAINING HIS SOBS, BEGAN RUNNING TOWARD DóLOKHOV AND +PIERRE, HAVING MADE UP HIS MIND TO OBEY HIS MONITRESS IMPLICITLY, MOVED +PIERRE HEARD HER SAY: +PIERRE. HE WENT UP TO HIM, TOOK HIS HAND (A THING HE NEVER USED TO DO), +PIERRE IN HIS PREOCCUPATION AND ABSENT-MINDEDNESS HAD NOT RECOGNIZED +PIERRE IN HIS SECRET SOUL AGREED WITH THE STEWARD THAT IT WOULD BE +PIERRE, IN REPLY, SINCERELY AGREED WITH HER AS TO HéLèNE’S +PIERRE, “I SAID AT THE TIME AND BEFORE ANYONE ELSE” (SHE INSISTED +PIERRE. IT SEEMED TO HIM THAT MORE THAN HALF AN HOUR HAD ELAPSED. +PIERRE KNEW VERY WELL WHAT A HIEROGLYPH WAS, BUT DARED NOT SPEAK. HE +PIERRE LEAPED UP FROM THE SOFA AND RUSHED STAGGERING TOWARD HER. +PIERRE LISTENED TO THE COLONEL’S SPEECH AND NODDED APPROVINGLY. +PIERRE LISTENED WITH SWELLING HEART, GAZING INTO THE MASON’S FACE WITH +PIERRE LOOKED AT HER OVER HIS SPECTACLES. +PIERRE LOOKED AT HIS FRIEND AND, NOTICING THAT HE DID NOT LIKE THE +PIERRE LOOKED OVER HIS SPECTACLES WITH NAïVE SURPRISE, NOW AT HIM AND +PIERRE LOOKED QUESTIONINGLY AT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA TO SEE WHAT HE WAS TO +PIERRE LOOKED SILENTLY AND INQUIRINGLY AT HIM OVER HIS SPECTACLES. +PIERRE LOOKED SILENTLY AND SEARCHINGLY INTO PRINCE ANDREW’S FACE, +PIERRE MURMURED SOMETHING UNINTELLIGIBLE, AND CONTINUED TO LOOK ROUND AS +“PIERRE, MY DEAR, COME HERE. I THINK HE WILL NOT BE OUT OF PLACE IN A +PIERRE, NOT KNOWING WHOM TO ANSWER, LOOKED AT THEM ALL AND SMILED. HIS +PIERRE, ON UNEXPECTEDLY BECOMING COUNT BEZúKHOV AND A RICH MAN, FELT +PIERRE PAUSED, SEEKING A REPLY. +PIERRE, PERPLEXED, LOOKED ROUND WITH HIS SHORTSIGHTED EYES WITHOUT +PIERRE QUICKLY TOOK OUT HIS PURSE AND WATCH, BUT COULD NOT MANAGE FOR +PIERRE REACHING THE HOUSE FIRST WENT INTO PRINCE ANDREW’S STUDY LIKE +PIERRE RECALLED, COUNTING THEM ON HIS FINGERS, HE FELT ALREADY IN HIS +PIERRE REMAINED GLOOMILY SILENT, ANSWERING IN MONOSYLLABLES AND +PIERRE ROSE TO HELP HIM. +PIERRE RUBBED HIS FOREHEAD. +PIERRE SAID NOTHING; HE LOOKED FIXEDLY AT HIS FRIEND WITH SURPRISE. HE +PIERRE SAT DOWN WITH HIS LITTLE PARTNER. NATáSHA WAS PERFECTLY HAPPY; +PIERRE SAT OPPOSITE DóLOKHOV AND NICHOLAS ROSTóV. AS USUAL, HE ATE AND +PIERRE SAT UP ON THE SOFA, WITH HIS LEGS TUCKED UNDER HIM. +PIERRE SAW THAT BORíS WISHED TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT, AND BEING OF THE +PIERRE’S DIRECTION AT A SLIGHT RUSTLE MADE BY THE LATTER. “WHY HAVE +PIERRE SEIZED THE CROSSBEAM, TUGGED, AND WRENCHED THE OAK FRAME OUT WITH +PIERRE’S EYES. +PIERRE’S EYES WITH IT AND TIED IT IN A KNOT BEHIND, CATCHING SOME +PIERRE’S HAND TO SHOW THAT THERE WAS NO NEED TO ASK THE QUESTION. HE +“PIERRE!” SHE SAID. +PIERRE SHOOK HIS HEAD AND ARMS AS IF ATTACKED BY MOSQUITOES OR BEES. +PIERRE SIGHED, ROSE SUBMISSIVELY, EMPTIED HIS GLASS, AND, WAITING TILL +PIERRE’S LEGITIMATION? DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT IN CONSIDERATION OF THE +PIERRE SMILED, BUT HIS SMILE SHOWED THAT HE KNEW IT WAS NOT THE STORY +PIERRE SMILED IN HIS GOOD-NATURED WAY AS IF AFRAID FOR HIS COMPANION’S +PIERRE’S MIND WAS IN SUCH A CONFUSED STATE THAT THE WORD “STROKE” +PIERRE’S OUTBURST ANNA PáVLOVNA, DESPITE HER SOCIAL EXPERIENCE, WAS +PIERRE’S REMARKS, ROSE AND MADE A SIGN TO HIS WIFE THAT IT WAS TIME TO +PIERRE STOOD WITH HIS ARMS HANGING DOWN AND LEGS APART, BEFORE HIS +PIERRE. THE ESTATES HE HAD NOT BEFORE VISITED WERE EACH MORE PICTURESQUE +PIERRE, THE ONE WHO HAD BEHAVED SO IMPROPERLY AT ANNA PáVLOVNA’S +PIERRE THREW OFF HIS CLOAK AND ENTERED THE FIRST ROOM, IN WHICH WERE THE +PIERRE TOOK HIS FEET OFF THE TABLE, STOOD UP, AND LAY DOWN ON A BED THAT +PIERRE TOOK OFF HIS COAT, WAISTCOAT, AND LEFT BOOT ACCORDING TO THE +PIERRE TOOK OFF HIS SPECTACLES, WHICH MADE HIS FACE SEEM DIFFERENT AND +PIERRE TOOK THEM OFF, AND HIS EYES, BESIDES THE STRANGE LOOK EYES HAVE +PIERRE TRIED SEVERAL TIMES TO SPEAK, BUT, ON ONE HAND, PRINCE VASíLI +PIERRE TURNED HIS WHOLE BODY, MAKING THE SOFA CREAK. HE LIFTED HIS EAGER +PIERRE TURNED OVER HEAVILY ON THE OTTOMAN AND OPENED HIS MOUTH, BUT +PIERRE UNDERSTOOD NOTHING OF ALL THIS AND COLORING SHYLY LOOKED IN +PIERRE WAS ABOUT TO REPLY, BUT PRINCE VASíLI INTERRUPTED HIM. +PIERRE WAS EVIDENT. SHE KEPT AN ANXIOUS WATCH ON HIM WHEN HE APPROACHED +PIERRE WAS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO, IN SPITE OF AN APPEARANCE OF WHAT +PIERRE, WAS ONLY BUSY CAUSING HIM ANNOYANCE. +PIERRE WAS SILENT. +PIERRE WAS SITTING IN THE DRAWING ROOM WHERE SHINSHíN HAD ENGAGED HIM, +PIERRE WAS STAYING AT PRINCE VASíLI KURáGIN’S AND SHARING THE +PIERRE WAS STILL AFRAID THAT THIS OFFICER MIGHT INADVERTENTLY SAY +PIERRE WAS STRUCK BY THE MODESTY OF THE SMALL THOUGH CLEAN HOUSE AFTER +PIERRE WAS UNGAINLY. STOUT, ABOUT THE AVERAGE HEIGHT, BROAD, WITH HUGE +PIERRE WAS VERY FOND OF. +PIERRE WELL KNEW THIS LARGE ROOM DIVIDED BY COLUMNS AND AN ARCH, ITS +PIERRE WELL REMEMBERED THIS SMALL CIRCULAR DRAWING ROOM WITH ITS MIRRORS +PIERRE WENT IN AT THE DOOR, STEPPING ON THE SOFT CARPET, AND NOTICED +PIERRE WENT OUT. +PIERRE WENT WITH RAPID STEPS TO THE DOOR AND SUDDENLY CAME FACE TO +PIERRE. “WHAT OF IT? IT’S THE TRUTH!” AND HE HIMSELF SMILED HIS +PIERRE, WHO HAD BEEN GROWING MORE AND MORE AGITATED AS HE LISTENED TO +PIERRE WHO HAD BEEN REGARDED WITH PATRONIZING CONDESCENSION WHEN HE WAS +PIERRE WHO HAS INHERITED ALL THE PROPERTY AND HAS BESIDES BEEN +PIERRE, WHOSE PREOCCUPIED, ABSENT-MINDED, AND MASSIVE FIGURE WAS A VERY +PIERRE, WHO WAS LAGGING BEHIND, TO FOLLOW. THOUGH HE DID NOT SEE WHY IT +PIERRE WHO WAS UNDER SUCH OBLIGATIONS TO HIM (“BUT NEVER MIND THAT”) +PIERRE WISHED TO SAY SOMETHING, LOOKED AT HER WITH EYES WHOSE STRANGE +PIERRE WISHED TO SAY THIS TO THE MASON, BUT DID NOT DARE TO. THE +PIERRE, WITH A GENTLE SMILE OF PITY AND REMORSE, HIS ARMS AND LEGS +PIERRE, WITH DOWNCAST EYES, DRANK OUT OF HIS GLASS WITHOUT LOOKING AT +PIERRE, WITHOUT KNOWING WHY, WAS HAVING HIS ENORMOUS PETERSBURG HOUSE +PILGRIMAGE, OF HOLY FRIENDSHIP, OF THE ETERNAL ARCHITECT OF THE +PILLOWS ONE AT A TIME AND SHAKING THEM. +PINCH OF SNUFF. +PINEAPPLE ICE. BEFORE THE ICES, CHAMPAGNE WAS SERVED ROUND. THE BAND +PISTOLS, AND AT THE WORD THWEE BEGIN TO ADVANCE. +PITIED. SHE HAS NO ONE, NO ONE. TO TELL THE TRUTH, I DON’T NEED HER, +PITY, AND FOR THEIR SAKE I SHOULD LIKE TO LIBERATE THE SERFS. YOU +PITY FOR ME. WHY IS IT?” +PITY ME. YET I WAS ONCE AT HOME, STRONG, HAPPY, AND LOVED.” HE SIGHED +PITY’S SAKE, LEAVE THIS HELPLESS YOUTH WHO, AFTER ALL, WAS THE SON OF +PLACE AND EVERYTHING WAITING FOR HIM IN THE ARCHIVES DEPARTMENT! ISN’T +PLACE AND THAT HE MIGHT NOW BE LYING, RECOVERING OR DYING, ALONE AMONG +PLACE AND WITHOUT ANSWERING DREW OUT A HANDKERCHIEF. BLOOD WAS FLOWING +PLACED A CHAIR FOR HER. +PLACED THEM ON THE WINDOW SILL, THOUGH IT WAS ALREADY QUITE LIGHT. +PLACE HIM ON A STRETCHER THAT HAD BEEN BROUGHT. THE SOLDIER GROANED. +PLACES AND MET IN CERTAIN HABITUAL GROUPS. A MINORITY OF THOSE PRESENT +PLACES. THEN THE STRAINS OF THE COUNT’S HOUSEHOLD BAND WERE REPLACED +PLACE,” THOUGHT PIERRE. “IT’S EVEN CERTAIN THAT I SHOULD HAVE DONE +PLACE! WE PASSED CLOSE TO THE PARK AND SAW TWO DEER... AND WHAT A +PLACING THE BOTTLE ON THE WINDOW SILL WHERE HE COULD REACH IT EASILY, +PLAIN ENOUGH AS IT IS.” +PLAINLY THAT THERE ARE NOT MANY WIVES WITH HUSBANDS SUCH AS YOU WHO +PLAINNESS OF SPEECH, UTTERING THE WORD AMANT AS CASUALLY AS ANY OTHER +PLAIN THAT SHE UNDERSTOOD NOTHING AND WAS SO FRIGHTENED THAT HER +PLAITING SLIPPERS OUT OF CLOTH SELVEDGES. HE LOOKED UP AT THE OPENING +PLAN CHIMERICAL. +PLAN OF A FLANKING MOVEMENT. +PLAN PERFECTLY WORTHLESS. WEYROTHER MET ALL OBJECTIONS WITH A FIRM AND +“PLANS!” REPEATED PRINCE ANDREW IRONICALLY. “MY PLANS?” HE SAID, +PLANS TO KUTúZOV’S QUARTERS WHERE THE COUNCIL OF WAR WAS TO BE +PLAYER, IN SPITE OF THE BURDEN OF HIS EQUIPMENT, RUSHED OUT TO THE FRONT +PLAYERS, OR PEERED AT THE NOW COLD FACE OF DóLOKHOV AND TRIED TO READ +PLAYING A VIENNESE WALTZ ON THE CLAVICHORD, WHILE A FOURTH, LYING ON +PLAYING CHESS. BERG HELD A SMOKING PIPE BETWEEN HIS KNEES. BORíS, IN +PLAYING WITH THE BALL OF WORSTED AS A KITTEN SHOULD. +PLAY. INVOLUNTARILY HE FELT A JOYFUL AGITATION AT THE THOUGHT OF THE +“PLEA...” BEGAN DóLOKHOV, BUT COULD NOT AT FIRST PRONOUNCE THE +PLEASANT FACE AND RESONANT THOUGH NOT LOUD VOICE, ATTRACTED EVERYONE’S +PLEASANT SMILE, AS IF IT WERE OBVIOUS TO HIM THAT HIS SUCCESS MUST +PLEASANT SMILE—HIS EYELIDS DROOPING MORE THAN HALF OVER HIS OLD EYES, +“PLEASE, ANDREW, FOR MY SAKE!...” +“PLEASE BE QUICK,” HE SAID. +“PLEASE COME AND VISIT US... YOU KNOW MY BRAVE BOY... BEEN TOGETHER +“PLEASE COME TO TEA. THE PRINCE WILL BE OUT IN A MOMENT,” CAME THE +PLEASED!” AND HE HELD OUT HIS HAND TO THE CAPTAIN. +“PLEASE, DENíSOV, LET ME LEND YOU SOME: I HAVE SOME, YOU KNOW,” +PLEASED FACES, FOR THEY KNEW THAT UNDER NO OTHER MANAGEMENT COULD THEY +PLEASED TO TAKE ME AS AN AIDE-DE-CAMP....” +PLEASED WITH. +“PLEASE HAVE A LOOK AT IT”—AND KUTúZOV WITH AN IRONICAL SMILE +“PLEASE,” HE UTTERED WITH AN EFFORT. +PLEASE MAKE WAY!” +“PLEASE PLACE YOUR MONEY ON THE CARDS OR I MAY GET MUDDLED IN THE +“PLEASE, VASíLI DMíTRICH,” NATáSHA WAS SAYING, “DO COME!” +“PLEASE, YOUR EXCELLENCY, FOR GOD’S SAKE!” HE KEPT SAYING, +PLEASURE AND LISTENED TO THE CONVERSATION OF HIS TWO NEIGHBORS, WHOM HE +PLEASURE AT THE SOUND OF THE SINGING AND THE SIGHT OF THE DANCING +PLEASURE OF DECEIVING ME, IF IT REALLY WERE TRUE. YES, IF IT WERE TRUE, +PLEASURES THAN ALLOW HIMSELF TO BE SEEN IN A SHABBY EQUIPAGE OR APPEAR +PLEASURE THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HIS ARRIVAL PRINCE ANDREW WAS +PLEASURE TO HERSELF AND TO ALL AROUND HER. “I HAVE BROUGHT MY WORK,” +“PLENTY OF TIME, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” MUTTERED KUTúZOV IN THE MIDST OF +POCKET AND THAT’S QUITE SIMPLE AND IS NO ONE ELSE’S BUSINESS.” +POCKET OF HIS RIDING BREECHES, WITH HIS EYEBROWS LIFTED AND HIS MOUTH +POINT.” +POINT. ASK DENíSOV WHETHER IT IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION FOR A CADET TO +POINT... COME, HOW ARE YOU?” ASKED ROSTóV. +POINTED BOOT THEN FASHIONABLE, TOUCHED THE GROIN OF THE BOBTAILED BAY +POINTING TO NICHOLAS, “HIS FRIEND BORíS HAS BECOME AN OFFICER, AND +POINTING TO THE FIELDS, HE SPOKE OF THE IMPROVEMENTS HE WAS MAKING IN +POINTING TO THE FLYING SOLDIERS; BUT AT THAT INSTANT, AS IF TO PUNISH +POINT WHERE THE FRENCH PICKETS HAD BEEN STANDING THAT EVENING. +POLICE TRIED TO INTERFERE, AND WHAT DID THE YOUNG MEN DO? THEY TIED +POLISHED SHINING CANNON THAT QUIVERED ON THE GUN CARRIAGES AND WITH +POLITENESS AND AFFECTED SYMPATHY OF WHICH INDIFFERENCE AND EVEN IRONY +POLITENESS AND TO START CONVERSATION, THEY ASKED HIM A FEW QUESTIONS +POLITENESS MODESTLY PLACED HIMSELF AT THE DISPOSAL OF THE CIRCLE IN +POLITICAL EVENTS. +POLITICAL NEWS. IT BECAME PARTICULARLY ANIMATED TOWARD THE END OF THE +POMADED HAIR, PERFUMED, AND IN A NEW UNIFORM, LOOKING JUST AS SMART AS +PONDERED. A HUSBAND, A MAN, A STRONG DOMINANT AND STRANGELY ATTRACTIVE +PONDERED. SOMETIMES HE STAKED A LARGE SUM, BUT DóLOKHOV REFUSED TO +PONDEROUS STEPS UP TO HER SISTER-IN-LAW. +POOR AMéLIE’S HAPPINESS, SHE LOVES HIM SO PASSIONATELY, AND SO +POORER THAN THE POOREST BEGGAR. A THOUSAND THANKS, DEAR FRIEND, FOR THE +POOR RESOURCES I HAVE FOR ENTERTAINING A WOMAN USED TO THE BEST SOCIETY. +PORCH. HIS LANDLORD, WHO IN A WAISTCOAT AND A POINTED CAP, PITCHFORK IN +PORCH. PRINCE ANDREW GOT OUT OF THE CARRIAGE, HELPED HIS LITTLE WIFE TO +PORTER. HE HAD NO LAMBSKIN CAP ON HIS HEAD, NOR HAD HE A LOADED WHIP +PORTFOLIO. +PORTFOLIO, AND CHANGED HER GRIP. +PORTFOLIO SHE HELD IN HER HAND. “ALL I KNOW IS THAT HIS REAL WILL IS +PORTFOLIO WERE THE ONLY SOUNDS AUDIBLE, BUT IT WAS EVIDENT THAT IF +PORTMANTEAU INTO THE VEHICLE, “WE ARE TO MOVE ON STILL FARTHER. THE +PORTRAIT (EVIDENTLY BY THE HAND OF THE ARTIST BELONGING TO THE ESTATE) +POSITION. HE KEPT CLOSING HIS EYES AND THEN AGAIN LOOKING AT THE FIRE, +POSITION. HE MADE SOME NOTES ON TWO POINTS, INTENDING TO MENTION THEM TO +POSITION IS NOW A TERRIBLE ONE,” CONTINUED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, SADLY, +POSITION, IT WAS NOW NECESSARY TO ATTACK IN ORDER TO CUT A WAY THROUGH +POSITION NOW, PETER NIKOLáEVICH...” +POSITION OF THAT INSIGNIFICANT INDIVIDUAL WAS SUCH AS COULD CERTAINLY +POSITION OF THE ARMY REACHED HIM AS HE WENT ALONG, AND THE APPEARANCE OF +POSITIONS AND WITHDRAWN IN HIS PRESENCE. TOGETHER WITH TúSHIN, STEPPING +POSITION WITH HIS EYES SHUT. PIERRE LOOKED AT HIM AND HAD NOT TIME +POSSESSED OF A HELEN. “BUT NO DOUBT IT ALWAYS IS AND MUST BE SO!” +POSSESSED. PIERRE WAS ONE OF THOSE WHO ARE ONLY STRONG WHEN THEY FEEL +POSSESSOR OF THE FINEST FORTUNE IN RUSSIA. IT IS RUMORED THAT PRINCE +POSSIBILITY OF ACTIVE BROTHERLY LOVE AMONG MEN, WHICH JOSEPH ALEXéEVICH +POSSIBILITY OF ANYONE SEEING HER WITHOUT BEING ENCHANTED. THE AUNT +POSSIBLE. AND I,” CONTINUED PIERRE, “SHOT DóLOKHOV BECAUSE I +POSSIBLE. GOD PRESERVE US FROM THAT TERRIBLE MISFORTUNE! +POSSIBLE. HIS CONVERSATION WAS ALWAYS SPRINKLED WITH WITTILY ORIGINAL, +POSSIBLE. KUTúZOV HIMSELF WITH ALL HIS TRANSPORT TOOK THE ROAD TO +POSTED ON A RATHER STEEP INCLINE WHICH DOMINATED THE FRENCH POSITION. +POSTED, TWO MEN APPEARED ON HORSE BACK. THEY WERE AN AIDE-DE-CAMP +POSTING DATE: JANUARY 10, 2009 [EBOOK #2600] +POSTMASTER’S BOOK. BAZDéEV HAD BEEN ONE OF THE BEST-KNOWN FREEMASONS +POST OF COMMANDER IN CHIEF AS A REWARD FOR HIS VICTORY, DOES NOT GIVE UP +“POSTULANT,” TO THE ACCOMPANIMENT OF VARIOUS KNOCKINGS WITH +POTëMKINS OR SUVóROVS LEFT TO OPPOSE HIM; BUT HE WAS ALSO CONVINCED +POUCH WAS SLUNG. HE HAD AN OFFICER’S SWORD IN HIS HAND. THE SOLDIER +POURED DROPS FROM A MEDICINE BOTTLE INTO A WINEGLASS HALF FULL OF WATER. +POUR LE ROI DE PRUSSE!” +POUR VOUS. *(2) ONLY A HOBBLEDEHOY COULD AMUSE HIMSELF IN THIS +POWDERED FOOTMEN, IN LIVERY WITH BUCKLED SHOES AND SMART STOCKINGS, +POWDER,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW BANTERINGLY YET TENDERLY. +POWDER SMOKE AND STOPPED IN DESPAIR. EVERYTHING SEEMED LOST. BUT AT THAT +POWER.” +POWER.” +POWERFUL NATION LIKE RUSSIA—BARBARIC AS SHE IS SAID TO BE—TO PLACE +PRACTICAL WOMAN THAT SHE WAS, HAD EVEN MANAGED BY FAVOR WITH ARMY +PRANCED UP AND DOWN IN ONE PLACE LIKE A GOAT AND SHRIEKED PIERCINGLY. +PRANCING HORSE HAD SPLASHED MUD OVER SOME FOOT SOLDIERS. +PRATER... TRUE, WE HAVE NO PRATER HERE...” +PRATZEN HEIGHTS. +PRATZEN, INTERRUPTED BY SUCH FREQUENT REPORTS OF CANNON THAT SOMETIMES +PRATZEN, WHICH WAS FULL OF TROOPS OF ALL KINDS. +PRAYED THAT THE DAILY INTERVIEW MIGHT PASS OFF WELL. +PRAYER. SO, COUNT, THERE NEVER IS ANY NEGLIGENCE IN MY COMPANY, AND +PREARRANGED SENTENCE. +PRECEDES A BATTLE AND HAD SPENT THAT HAPPY DAY IN INACTIVITY, WAS ALL +PREENING ITS PLUMAGE AND BECAME MOTIONLESS. +PREGNANT,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, FOLLOWING EVERY MOVEMENT OF HIS +PREJUDICES, AND EQUALITY OF CITIZENSHIP, AND ALL THESE IDEAS NAPOLEON +PREMEDITATION PRINCE VASíLI TOOK THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY TO GAIN HIS +PREOCCUPIED MANNER. HE BECKONED TO ONE OF HIS WHITE ADJUTANTS AND ASKED +PREOCCUPIED THAT ONLY IN BED WAS HE ABLE TO BE BY HIMSELF. HE HAD TO +PREOCCUPIED, YET MEEKLY CHRISTIAN LOOK WHICH NEVER LEFT HER FACE, ANNA +PREPARATIONS FOR WAR LAY IN THE FACT THAT NICHOLAS WOULD NOT HEAR OF +PREPARATION SWEPT OVER ALL THE TROOPS. +PREPARE A CIRCULAR, MEMORANDUM, OR REPORT, SKILLFULLY, POINTEDLY, AND +PREPARED BY LONG AND DILIGENT SELF-PURIFICATION, NOT EVERYONE CAN HOPE +PREPARED TO CONTINUE, BUT JUST THEN ANNA PáVLOVNA, WHO HAD KEPT A +PREPARE HER SISTER-IN-LAW, AND EVERY TIME BEGAN TO CRY. UNOBSERVANT AS +PREPARING TEA. HE BROUGHT IN A BOILING SAMOVAR. WHEN EVERYTHING WAS +PRESENCE AND PARTICULARLY DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF.” +PRESENCE, I WILL TEACH YOU TO BEHAVE YOURSELF.” +PRESENT BIVOUAC ANOTHER FORTNIGHT THERE WILL NOT BE A HEALTHY MAN LEFT +PRESENTED HE WAS AS LITTLE ABLE AS HIS FATHER TO CHANGE HIS OPINION. HE +PRESENT EMPEROR—MORE THAN ONCE IN PARIS, AND TELLS ME HE NEVER MET A +PRESENT I AM FREE AND AM ALL RIGHT. ONLY I HAVEN’T THE LEAST IDEA WHAT +PRESENT, SUDDENLY PUSHED FORWARD WITH A SCARED AND ANGRY LOOK AND WANTED +PRESERVED ALL THAT WAS GOOD IN IT—EQUALITY OF CITIZENSHIP AND FREEDOM +PRESERVE HIS GRAVITY. +PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL OF WAR. WEYROTHER EVIDENTLY FELT HIMSELF TO BE +PRESSED HIM STILL HARDER WITH PROOFS OF THE IMPOSSIBILITY AND ABOVE ALL +PRESSED TWO FINGERS MORE AND MORE RIGIDLY TO HIS CAP, AS IF IN THIS +PRESSING THE HANDS OF PRINCE ANDREW AND BORíS. “YOU KNOW I SHOULD +PRESSURE LAY HIS ONLY HOPE OF SALVATION. +PRESUMPTUOUS LIEUTENANT WHO HAD PREVENTED HIS FINISHING WHAT HE HAD TO +PRETENDING TO DO SOMETHING REAL. PRINCE ANDREW GAILY BORE WITH HIS +PRETENDING TO SLEEP, THE SOUNDS HIS NOSE EMITTED DURING THE READING THAT +PRETENSE OF HELPING, WAS IN EVERYONE’S WAY. +PRETEXT THAT HER AUNT WISHED TO HEAR HIM. +PRETEXT. THE FACT IS HE HAS COME TO SEE COUNT CYRIL VLADíMIROVICH, +PRETTY FACE. +PRETTY YOUNG PRINCESSES GORCHAKóV MET SUITORS THERE AND WERE MARRIED +PREUSSISCH-EYLAU. +PREVENTED HER FROM GOING ON WITH IT. +PRICKING ITS EARS AT THE NOISE AND LOOKING AT THE LIGHTS. THE SHOUTING +PRICKING ITS EARS AT THE SOUND OF SHOTS JUST AS IT HAD DONE ON THE +PRIDE ENOUGH TO SEE IT? IF SHE HAS NO PRIDE FOR HERSELF SHE MIGHT AT +PRIDE. “THAT LAWSUIT TAUGHT ME MUCH. WHEN I WANT TO SEE ONE OF THOSE +PRIESTS; “ALL WE RELATIVES HAVE BEEN IN SUCH ANXIETY. THIS YOUNG +PRINCE. +PRINCE. +PRINCE.” +PRINCE. AND GOD ONLY KNOWS WHERE YOUR MAN PETER IS,” SAID THE OTHER +PRINCE ANDREW. +PRINCE ANDREW ALWAYS BECAME SPECIALLY KEEN WHEN HE HAD TO GUIDE A YOUNG +PRINCE ANDREW AND HIS SISTER, HAND IN HAND, KISSED ONE ANOTHER, AND +PRINCE ANDREW BEGAN TO REPLY AND TO STATE HIS OWN PLAN, WHICH MIGHT +PRINCE ANDREW, BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND THAT HIS NEWS OF THE BATTLE +PRINCE ANDREW BOWED HIS HEAD IN TOKEN OF HAVING UNDERSTOOD FROM THE +PRINCE ANDREW CAUGHT HIM BY THE HAND. +PRINCE ANDREW CONSIDERED POSSIBLE CONTINGENCIES AND FORMED NEW PROJECTS +PRINCE ANDREW COULD NOT UNDERSTAND. +PRINCE ANDREW DID NOT SEE HOW AND BY WHOM IT WAS REPLACED, BUT THE +PRINCE ANDREW DURING THE BATTLE HAD BEEN IN ATTENDANCE ON THE AUSTRIAN +PRINCE ANDREW, EVIDENTLY CONFUSED. “I KNOW THAT OUT OF A MILLION +PRINCE ANDREW EXPRESSED HIS IDEAS SO CLEARLY AND DISTINCTLY THAT IT WAS +PRINCE ANDREW FELT THAT EITHER THE ACTIONS OF KUTúZOV’S ARMY +PRINCE ANDREW FOLLOWED HER WITH A COURTEOUS BUT SAD EXPRESSION. +PRINCE ANDREW FROWNED AGAIN, EXPRESSING HIS ANNOYANCE WITH WHOEVER WAS +PRINCE ANDREW GALLOPED OFF TO EXECUTE THE ORDER. +PRINCE ANDREW GAVE HIM A LOOK, BUT SAID NOTHING AND WENT AWAY. HE FELT +PRINCE ANDREW GAZED WITH ANXIOUS CURIOSITY AT THAT IMPASSIVE FACE +PRINCE ANDREW GLANCED AGAIN AT THE ARTILLERY OFFICER’S SMALL FIGURE. +PRINCE ANDREW GLANCED AT KUTúZOV’S FACE ONLY A FOOT DISTANT FROM HIM +PRINCE ANDREW GOT UP AND WENT ON TIPTOE UP TO THE LITTLE BED, WINEGLASS +PRINCE ANDREW GREW MORE AND MORE ANIMATED. HIS EYES GLITTERED FEVERISHLY +PRINCE ANDREW HAD GONE OUT INTO THE HALL, AND, TURNING HIS SHOULDERS +PRINCE ANDREW, HAVING REACHED THE FRONT LINE, RODE ALONG IT. OUR FRONT +PRINCE ANDREW, HIS FACE DISTORTED WITH FURY, RODE UP TO HIM AND RAISED +PRINCE ANDREW. “I BUILD A HOUSE AND LAY OUT A GARDEN, AND YOU BUILD +PRINCE ANDREW KEPT LOOKING WITH AN AMUSED SMILE FROM PIERRE TO THE +PRINCE ANDREW KNEW HOW TO TAKE HIS STAND SO THAT THEY RESPECTED AND EVEN +PRINCE ANDREW LOOKED ANNA PáVLOVNA STRAIGHT IN THE FACE WITH A +PRINCE ANDREW LOOKED AT HIS SISTER. IN THE DIM SHADOW OF THE CURTAIN HER +PRINCE ANDREW LOOKED INQUIRINGLY AT HIM AND GAVE NO REPLY. +PRINCE ANDREW LOOKED KINDLY AT HIM, YET HIS GLANCE—FRIENDLY AND +PRINCE ANDREW LOOKED STERNLY AT HER AND AN EXPRESSION OF ANGER SUDDENLY +PRINCE ANDREW MADE USE OF BOGUCHáROVO, BEGAN BUILDING AND SPENT MOST OF +PRINCE ANDREW MOVED TOWARD THE DOOR FROM WHENCE VOICES WERE HEARD. +PRINCE ANDREW NODDED TO HIM. HE STILL LOOKED AHEAD WHILE PRINCE ANDREW +PRINCE ANDREW ONLY SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS AT PIERRE’S CHILDISH WORDS. +PRINCE ANDREW, RECALLING HIS FATHER’S LETTER. “YES, WE HAVE GAINED +PRINCE ANDREW REMAINED AT BALD HILLS AS USUAL DURING HIS FATHER’S +PRINCE ANDREW REMEMBERED NOTHING MORE: HE LOST CONSCIOUSNESS FROM THE +PRINCE ANDREW REPLIED. THEN FOLLOWED OTHER QUESTIONS JUST AS SIMPLE: +PRINCE ANDREW RIDING UP TO THE OFFICER. +PRINCE ANDREW ROSE, SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS, AND WALKED ABOUT THE ROOM. +PRINCE ANDREW SAID NOTHING TO TúSHIN. THEY WERE BOTH SO BUSY AS TO SEEM +PRINCE ANDREW SAW THAT THE OFFICER WAS IN THAT STATE OF SENSELESS, +PRINCE ANDREW’S CALM MANNER OF TREATING EVERYBODY, HIS EXTRAORDINARY +PRINCE ANDREW SCREWED UP HIS EYES AND TURNED AWAY. PIERRE, WHO FROM +PRINCE ANDREW, SEEING THAT HIS FATHER INSISTED, BEGAN—AT FIRST +PRINCE ANDREW SHOUTED, “BROTHERS! ALL’S LOST!” AND AT THIS AS IF +PRINCE ANDREW SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS. +PRINCE ANDREW SIGHED AND BROKE THE SEAL OF ANOTHER ENVELOPE. IT WAS +PRINCE ANDREW SIGHED AND MADE NO REPLY. +PRINCE ANDREW’S JOYOUS FEELING WAS CONSIDERABLY WEAKENED AS HE +PRINCE ANDREW SMILED. +PRINCE ANDREW SMILED AS HE LOOKED AT HIS SISTER, AS WE SMILE AT THOSE WE +PRINCE ANDREW SMILED INVOLUNTARILY AS HE LOOKED AT THE ARTILLERY OFFICER +PRINCE ANDREW SMILED IRONICALLY. +PRINCE ANDREW SPOKE SO EARNESTLY THAT PIERRE COULD NOT HELP THINKING +PRINCE ANDREW STAYED AT BRüNN WITH BILíBIN, A RUSSIAN ACQUAINTANCE OF +PRINCE ANDREW STOOD RIGHT IN FRONT OF KUTúZOV BUT THE EXPRESSION OF +PRINCE ANDREW STOPPED SHORT. +PRINCE ANDREW. THEY HAD KNOWN EACH OTHER PREVIOUSLY IN PETERSBURG, BUT +PRINCE ANDREW TOLD HIS DRIVER TO STOP, AND ASKED A SOLDIER IN WHAT +PRINCE ANDREW UNDERSTOOD THAT THIS WAS SAID OF HIM AND THAT IT WAS +PRINCE ANDREW WAS AS GLAD TO FIND THE BOY LIKE THAT, AS IF HE HAD +PRINCE ANDREW WAS ON DUTY THAT DAY AND IN CONSTANT ATTENDANCE ON THE +PRINCE ANDREW WAS ONE OF THOSE RARE STAFF OFFICERS WHOSE CHIEF INTEREST +PRINCE ANDREW WAS SILENT, BUT THE PRINCESS NOTICED THE IRONICAL AND +PRINCE ANDREW WAS SURVEYING THE POSITION, WAS THE EASIEST AND MOST +PRINCE ANDREW WAS TO LEAVE NEXT EVENING. THE OLD PRINCE, NOT ALTERING +PRINCE ANDREW WENT AGAIN TO HIS WIFE AND SAT WAITING IN THE ROOM NEXT +PRINCE ANDREW WENT OUT. +PRINCE ANDREW WENT UP TO THE CHILD AND FELT HIM. HE WAS BURNING HOT. +PRINCE ANDREW WHEN HE DROVE UP TO THE PALACE FELT EVEN MORE VIGOROUS AND +PRINCE ANDREW, WHO HAD ALSO BEEN BROUGHT FORWARD BEFORE THE EMPEROR’S +PRINCE ANDREW, WHO HAD EVIDENTLY WISHED TO TONE DOWN THE AWKWARDNESS OF +PRINCE ANDREW WITH ONE WORD, ONE ARGUMENT, +PRINCE ANDREW WITHOUT LIFTING HIS EYES RODE HASTILY AWAY FROM THE +“PRINCE AUERSPERG IS ON THIS, ON OUR SIDE OF THE RIVER, AND IS +PRINCE BAGRATIóN AND TúSHIN LOOKED WITH EQUAL INTENTNESS AT +PRINCE BAGRATIóN, DISTINGUISHED BY HIS SCHöN GRABERN AFFAIR AND BY +PRINCE BAGRATIóN, HAVING REACHED THE HIGHEST POINT OF OUR RIGHT FLANK, +PRINCE BAGRATIóN LOOKED AT TúSHIN, EVIDENTLY RELUCTANT TO SHOW +PRINCE BAGRATIóN PROPOSED TO DOLGORúKOV TO SEND TO INQUIRE OF THE +PRINCE BAGRATIóN RODE AN OFFICER OF THE SUITE, THE PRINCE’S PERSONAL +PRINCE BAGRATIóN SCREWED UP HIS EYES, LOOKED ROUND, AND, SEEING THE +PRINCE BAGRATIóN TO BEGIN THE COUNCIL. AT LAST BAGRATIóN’S ORDERLY +PRINCE BOLKóNSKI SAT DOWN IN HIS USUAL PLACE IN THE CORNER OF THE SOFA +PRINCE BOLKóNSKI’S HOUSEHOLD FELT THAT THEIR LIFE HAD NOT BEEN REAL +PRINCE BOLKóNSKI SURVEYED ANATOLE. +PRINCE, BUT COULD NOT GET IT QUITE RIGHT.) +PRINCE DOLGORúKOV CEASED TO LISTEN TO HIM AND GAZED ABSENT-MINDEDLY NOT +PRINCE DOLGORúKOV TO THE ADVANCED POST OF THE FRENCH ARMY. +PRINCE HIPPOLYTE APPROACHED THE LITTLE PRINCESS AND, BENDING HIS FACE +PRINCE HIPPOLYTE, HAVING BROUGHT THE WORKBAG, JOINED THE CIRCLE AND +PRINCE HIPPOLYTE HURRIEDLY PUT ON HIS CLOAK, WHICH IN THE LATEST FASHION +“PRINCE HIPPOLYTE KURáGIN—CHARMING YOUNG FELLOW; M. +PRINCE HIPPOLYTE WAS LOLLING IN A LOUNGE CHAIR WITH HIS LEGS OVER ITS +PRINCE HIPPOLYTE, WHO HAD BEEN GAZING AT THE VICOMTE FOR SOME TIME +PRINCE? HOW PRICELESS ARE THOSE LAST MOMENTS! IT CAN MAKE THINGS NO +“PRINCE, HUMANUM EST ERRARE, * BUT...” REPLIED THE DOCTOR, +“PRINCE, I DID NOT ASK YOU HERE. GO, PLEASE GO!” AND HE JUMPED UP +PRINCE INTERRUPTED HER. +PRINCE KURáGIN ABOUT ME. I ONLY WANTED TO ASK BECAUSE I FEAR THE GUARDS +PRINCE NEVER DIRECTLY ASKED HIMSELF THAT QUESTION, KNOWING BEFOREHAND +PRINCE NICHOLAS FROWNED, BUT SAID NOTHING. +PRINCE, ONE WINDOW FRAME WAS REMOVED IN EACH ROOM AS SOON AS THE LARKS +PRINCE REPNíN!” AND HE SPURRED HIS HORSE AND GALLOPED AWAY. +PRINCE REPNíN NAMED LIEUTENANT SUKHTéLEN. +PRINCE, SHE PREPARED TO LISTEN. +PRINCE’S HOUSEHOLD. GENERAL IN CHIEF PRINCE NICHOLAS ANDRéEVICH +PRINCE’S QUESTION AS TO HOW SHE FELT. +PRINCESS AND PRINCE VASíLI, RECOVERING THEMSELVES, FOLLOWED HER. A FEW +PRINCESS, AND STARED FIXEDLY AT HER THROUGH HIS EYEGLASS. +PRINCESS ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA INTERVENED IN THE CONVERSATION, EVIDENTLY +PRINCESS ANXIOUS AND INQUIRING, THE NURSE ENCOURAGING. EVERYONE IN THE +PRINCESS’ BEAUTIFUL EYES WITH ALL THEIR FORMER CALM RADIANCE WERE +“PRINCESS, COME HERE!” HE SHOUTED. +“PRINCESS DRUBETSKáYA TO SEE PRINCE VASíLI SERGéEVICH,” HE CALLED +“PRINCESSE, AU REVOIR,” CRIED HE, STUMBLING WITH HIS TONGUE AS WELL +PRINCESSES, SAT IN A CORNER KNITTING A STOCKING. PIERRE HAD NEVER BEEN +PRINCESSES SPENT MOST OF THEIR TIME, HE GREETED THE LADIES, TWO OF WHOM +PRINCESSES WAS COMING TO TAKE HER TURN AT WATCHING. “LET US GO.” +PRINCESS’ FACE. SHE TOOK IT QUICKLY AND BENT HER HEAD OVER IT. +PRINCESS FELT THIS; THEY STILL THOUGHT THAT IF A BLUE RIBBON WERE PLACED +PRINCESS HAD BEEN CRYING AFTER DINNER AND HAD SPOKEN OF HER FOREBODINGS +PRINCESS’ HAIR. IT WAS EVIDENT THAT HE COULD BE SILENT IN THIS WAY FOR +PRINCESS’ HAND. +PRINCESS HéLèNE, PRINCE VASíLI’S DAUGHTER, AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS +PRINCESS, HIS COUSIN, AT MOSCOW, CONCERNING DóLOKHOV’S INTIMACY WITH +PRINCESS. I AM AT YOUR COMMAND.’ YES, HE IS A FINE FELLOW AND A VERY +PRINCESS, I HOLD TO THE PRINCIPLE THAT A MAIDEN HAS A FULL RIGHT TO +“PRINCESS, I MUST WARN YOU,” SHE ADDED, LOWERING HER VOICE AND +PRINCESS. (IN ACCORDANCE WITH LISE’S AND PRINCE ANDREW’S WISHES THEY +PRINCESS KURáGINA, A PORTLY IMPOSING WOMAN WHO HAD ONCE BEEN HANDSOME, +PRINCESS, LOOKING AT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA AS AT A STRANGER. +PRINCESS MARY. +PRINCESS MARY ADMITTED TO ONE ANOTHER THAT THE ANGEL’S FACE REMINDED +PRINCESS MARY BUT WERE LOOKING WITHIN... INTO HERSELF... AT SOMETHING +PRINCESS MARY COULD NOT LIFT HER HEAD, SHE WAS WEEPING. +PRINCESS MARY COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THE BOLDNESS OF HER BROTHER’S +PRINCESS MARY DID NOT LISTEN TO THE END, BUT CONTINUING HER TRAIN OF +PRINCESS MARY, EVIDENTLY INTIMIDATED AND CONFUSED THAT HER OPINION +PRINCESS MARY GREW QUITE UNCONSCIOUS OF HER FACE AND COIFFURE. THE +PRINCESS MARY HAD GREATLY CHANGED SINCE 1805. +PRINCESS MARY HAD LONG SINCE PUT ASIDE HER BOOK: SHE SAT SILENT, HER +PRINCESS MARY KNELT DOWN BEFORE HER AND HID HER FACE IN THE FOLDS OF HER +PRINCESS MARY, LITTLE AS HE SEEMED TO VALUE HER, WAS UNTHINKABLE TO +PRINCESS MARY LOOKED AT HER BROTHER IN SURPRISE. SHE DID NOT UNDERSTAND +PRINCESS MARY LOOKED AT THEM IN SILENCE. SHE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND IT. AT +PRINCESS MARY ROSE AND MOVED TO THE DOOR, THEN STOPPED AND SAID: +PRINCESS MARY SAT ALONE IN HER ROOM LISTENING TO THE SOUNDS IN THE +PRINCESS MARY SHRUGGED HER SHOULDERS BUT TOOK THE GLASS SUBMISSIVELY +PRINCESS MARY SHUDDERED; HER NURSE, PUTTING DOWN THE STOCKING SHE WAS +PRINCESS MARY SIGHED, AND HAVING CROSSED HERSELF WENT DOWN, THINKING +PRINCESS MARY’S SELF-ESTEEM WOULD BE WOUNDED AND HIS POINT (NOT TO +PRINCESS MARY, THEN SAT THINKING FOR A WHILE WITH THAT EXPRESSION OF +PRINCESS MARY THREW A SHAWL OVER HER HEAD AND RAN TO MEET THE NEWCOMER. +PRINCESS MARY WAS FIRST SURPRISED AND THEN AGHAST AT THIS QUESTION. +PRINCESS MARY WAS LEFT ALONE. SHE DID NOT COMPLY WITH LISE’S REQUEST, +PRINCESS MARY WAS SITTING ON THE SOFA IN HER ROOM, HOLDING THE WEEPING +PRINCESS MARY WAS STILL STANDING BY THE COT, GENTLY ROCKING THE BABY. +PRINCESS MARY WENT BACK TO HER ROOM WITH THE SAD, SCARED EXPRESSION THAT +PRINCESS MARY WENT TO THE DOOR OF THE STUDY WITH SPECIAL TREPIDATION. +PRINCESS MARY WITH A GAY SMILE, AS IF INVITING HER TO JOIN IN A LAUGH AT +“PRINCESS, MY DEAR, THERE’S SOMEONE DRIVING UP THE AVENUE!” SHE +PRINCESS NEVER SAW THE BEAUTIFUL EXPRESSION OF HER OWN EYES—THE LOOK +PRINCESS ON HEARING THE NEWS. +PRINCESS’ ROOM, A CARRIAGE CONTAINING PIERRE (WHO HAD BEEN SENT FOR) +PRINCESS ROSE. “IT’S NOW TWO O’CLOCK AND YOU DINE AT FOUR. THERE +PRINCESS SUDDENLY, HER PRETTY FACE ALL AT ONCE DISTORTED BY A TEARFUL +PRINCESS, TURNING AWAY AND CONTINUING TO READ. BUT JULIE DID NOT FLATTER +PRINCESS WAS NOT UNWELL, BUT HAD SUCH AN OVERPOWERING FEAR OF THE PRINCE +PRINCESS WENT IN WITH THE DRINK SHE HAD PREPARED ACCORDING TO +PRINCESS WITH A PLEASED SMILE, AS TO AN INTIMATE ACQUAINTANCE. +PRINCESS WITH THE EXPRESSION WOMEN ASSUME WHEN THEY SUPPOSE THEY ARE +PRINCESS, WITH THE LONG WAIST AND HAIR PLASTERED DOWN LIKE A DOLL’S, +PRINCE, STEPPING ON HIS HEELS, PACED UP AND DOWN HIS STUDY AND SENT +PRINCE’S THINGS IN MY BEDROOM,” SAID HE TO THE SERVANT WHO WAS +PRINCE TO GET UP, TíKHON CAME TO CALL THE YOUNG PRINCE TO HIS FATHER. +PRINCE TOLD ME TO ASK,’ AND COME AND TELL ME HER ANSWER.” +PRINCE VASíLI. +PRINCE VASíLI ALWAYS SPOKE LANGUIDLY, LIKE AN ACTOR REPEATING A STALE +PRINCE VASíLI AND ANATOLE HAD SEPARATE ROOMS ASSIGNED TO THEM. +PRINCE VASíLI AND THAT SON OF HIS TO ME? PRINCE VASíLI IS A SHALLOW +PRINCE VASíLI AND THE ELDEST PRINCESS WERE SITTING CLOSE TOGETHER +PRINCE VASíLI AND THE GENERALS, HAD THE BENEFIT OF THE DIPLOMAT. +“PRINCE VASíLI ARRIVED IN MOSCOW YESTERDAY. I HEAR HE HAS COME ON +PRINCE VASíLI ARRIVED THAT EVENING. HE WAS MET IN THE AVENUE BY +PRINCE VASíLI, AS HE ENTERED. “I KNOW ALL ABOUT IT, AND I CAN TELL +PRINCE VASíLI A THIRD TIME. “HOW ABSENT-MINDED YOU ARE, MY DEAR +PRINCE VASíLI BECAME THOUGHTFUL AND FROWNED. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA SAW THAT +PRINCE VASíLI BENT HIS HEAD AND SPREAD OUT HIS HANDS. +PRINCE VASíLI CAME NEXT. HE STAGGERED TO THE SOFA ON WHICH PIERRE WAS +PRINCE VASíLI DID EVERYTHING TO GET PIERRE TO MARRY HIS DAUGHTER. HAD +PRINCE VASíLI DID NOT REPLY, THOUGH, WITH THE QUICKNESS OF MEMORY AND +PRINCE VASíLI FROWNED, TWISTING HIS MOUTH, HIS CHEEKS QUIVERED AND HIS +PRINCE VASíLI GAVE PIERRE A SIGNIFICANT LOOK. +PRINCE VASíLI HAD COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT IT WAS NECESSARY TO THROW +PRINCE VASíLI HAD TO SETTLE MATTERS WITH PIERRE, WHO, IT IS TRUE, HAD +PRINCE VASíLI KEPT THE PROMISE HE HAD GIVEN TO PRINCESS DRUBETSKáYA +PRINCE VASíLI LOOKED QUESTIONINGLY AT THE PRINCESS, BUT COULD NOT MAKE +PRINCE VASíLI PASSED BY, SEEMING NOT TO HEAR THE LADIES, AND SAT DOWN +PRINCE VASíLI READILY ADOPTED HER TONE AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS ALSO +PRINCE VASíLI ROSE. +PRINCE VASíLI ROSE. “OH!” SAID HE WITH REPROACH AND SURPRISE, +PRINCE VASíLI SAID NO MORE AND HIS CHEEKS BEGAN TO TWITCH NERVOUSLY, +PRINCE VASíLI’S ARM AND LED HIM TO HIS STUDY. AS SOON AS THEY WERE +PRINCE VASíLI SAW THAT PIERRE KNEW THIS. HE SUDDENLY MUTTERED +PRINCE VASíLI SAW THE PRINCESS OFF. SHE HELD A HANDKERCHIEF TO HER EYES +PRINCE VASíLI’S DAUGHTER, THE BEAUTIFUL HéLèNE, CAME TO TAKE HER +PRINCE VASíLI’S FACE SO OUT OF KEEPING WITH HIS DIGNITY THAT PIERRE +PRINCE VASíLI’S LAST WORDS. THEN RISING, HE SUDDENLY WENT UP TO HIS +PRINCE VASíLI SMILED. +PRINCE VASíLI SMILED, AND PIERRE NOTICED THAT EVERYONE WAS SMILING AT +“PRINCE VASíLI’S SON, HE, AND A CERTAIN DóLOKHOV HAVE, IT IS SAID, +PRINCE VASíLI STARED AT HER AND AT BORíS QUESTIONINGLY AND PERPLEXED. +PRINCE VASíLI WAS NOT A MAN WHO DELIBERATELY THOUGHT OUT HIS PLANS. +PRINCE VASíLI WAS SEATED IN AN EASY CHAIR IN HIS FAMILIAR ATTITUDE, +PRINCE VASíLI, WHO PRETENDED TO WANT TO KNOW THIS IN ORDER TO SETTLE A +PRINCE VASíLI WISHED TO OBTAIN THIS POST FOR HIS SON, BUT OTHERS WERE +PRINCE VASíLI, WITH ONE LEG THROWN HIGH OVER THE OTHER AND A SNUFFBOX +PRINCE WAS AT HOME, AND SHOWED HIM INTO A CLEAN LITTLE ANTEROOM. +“PRINCE, WHAT I HAVE SAID IS ALL THERE IS IN MY HEART. I THANK YOU FOR +PRINCIPAL GUESTS. HE WAS JUST GOING TO TAKE IT WHEN DóLOKHOV, LEANING +PRINCIPALS NOR THEIR SECONDS SUFFERED FOR IT. BUT THE STORY OF THE DUEL, +PRISONERS.” +PRIVATE AND HAD NOT SEEN FIT TO RECOGNIZE HIM. BUT NOW THAT KUTúZOV HAD +PRIVILEGE OF ADMIRING HER BEAUTIFUL FIGURE AND SHAPELY SHOULDERS, +PRIZES HIS FREEDOM WHICH HE NEEDS FOR SO MANY OTHER THINGS. WHEN HE +PROBABLY HE DID NOT, FOR IN GENERAL HE THOUGHT VERY LITTLE—BUT HIS +“PROBABLY,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW MOVING TOWARD THE OUTER DOOR. +PROBABLY THINK IT EASY TO GAIN VICTORIES!” HE THOUGHT. HIS EYES +PROBABLY TO STRENGTHEN THE FRONT LINE. THE SMOKE OF THE FIRST SHOT HAD +PROBLEMS IN HIGHER MATHEMATICS, TURNING SNUFFBOXES ON A LATHE, WORKING +PROCEEDED TO HIS STUDY. +PROCEEDING AS USUAL. DENíSOV, WHO HAD BEEN LOSING AT CARDS ALL NIGHT, +PRODUCE AT THE SAME INTERVALS AND HOLD FOR THE SAME TIME, BUT WHICH +PRODUCED AN EFFECT SHE GLANCED AT ANNA PáVLOVNA, AT ONCE ADOPTED JUST +PRODUCED ON SóNYA, FELT FOR THE FIRST TIME THE SORROWFUL SIDE OF THE +PROFITED BY THEIR TOIL TO LEAD A PROFLIGATE LIFE. THAT IS WHAT YOU HAVE +PROGRESS. WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT, I HAVE LITERALLY NOT A PENNY AND DON’T +PROJECTS FOR PEACE, A SECRET PEACE CONCLUDED SEPARATELY.” +PROMENER,” * SHE USED TO SAY. OFTEN SEEING THE SUCCESS SHE HAD WITH +PROMINENT GRAY EYES. THEN SHE SHOOK HER HEAD AND GLANCED UP AT THE ICONS +PROMISED? NOTHING! AND WHAT LITTLE THEY HAVE PROMISED THEY WILL NOT +PROMISED NOT TO FORGET HIM, DISTINGUISHED HIM ABOVE THE OTHER ADJUTANTS, +PROMISE OF RISING IN HIS DIPLOMATIC CAREER. HE WAS STILL A YOUNG MAN BUT +PROMISE TO PRINCE ANDREW WAS OF NO ACCOUNT, BECAUSE BEFORE HE GAVE IT +PROMOTION. +PROMOTION...” +PROMOTION, NICHOLAS SAID THAT HE KISSED HIS FATHER’S AND MOTHER’S +PROMOTION TO THE RANK OF MAJOR, AND ROSTóV, WHO HAD ALREADY DRUNK +PRONOUNCED THE MASON IN A STERN AND TREMULOUS VOICE. +PROOFS OF NIKóLENKA’S VIRTUES. HOW STRANGE, HOW EXTRAORDINARY, HOW +PROPER, AND REGULAR MOTION. BUT AMID THESE CARES HER ANXIETY ABOUT +PROPERLY. HéLèNE ANSWERED WITH A SMILE THAT SHE TOO HAD MISSED IT. +PROPER POSTS. BORíS HAD BEEN QUARTERED, AND HAD MARCHED ALL THE +PROPOSE IS THE ONLY THING POSSIBLE.” +PROPOSITION TO YOU IN HIS PUPIL’S—I MEAN, HIS SON’S—NAME. DO YOU +PROSPECT OF SPENDING AN EVENING WITH A POOR INVALID IS NOT TOO TERRIBLE, +PROSTRATED HIMSELF BEFORE THE GATES OF THE TEMPLE. AND REALLY, THE +PROTéGé, BUT PRINCE DOLGORúKOV POLITELY AND FIRMLY PRESSING HIS HAND +PROUDLY AT HIS SON. +PROVERB SAYS,” REMARKED SHINSHíN, MOVING HIS PIPE TO THE OTHER SIDE +PRUSSIA, AND HAD JUST RETURNED FROM THERE AS A SPECIAL MESSENGER. HE HAD +PRUSSIAN ARMY, HéLèNE HAD SUDDENLY FOUND IT NECESSARY TO SEE HIM. +PRUSSIANS WITHOUT GIVING THEM TIME TO FINISH THE PARADE THEY HAD BEGUN, +PRZEBYSZéWSKI AND HIS CORPS HAD LAID DOWN THEIR ARMS. OTHER COLUMNS +PRZEBYSZéWSKI’S AND LANGERON’S COLUMNS WHICH HAD ALREADY GONE DOWN +PRZEBYSZéWSKI, WITH RESPECTFUL BUT DIGNIFIED POLITENESS, HELD HIS +P.S. LET ME HAVE NEWS OF YOUR BROTHER AND HIS CHARMING LITTLE WIFE. +PUBLIC TO APPRECIATE HIS SKILL. +PUCKERING UP HIS FACE THOUGH SMILING, AND SHOWING HIS SHORT STRONG +PULLING HIM BY THE CHAIN AND TRYING TO SET HIM AT THE OTHERS. +PULLING IT OR BEING PUSHED BY IT HE DID NOT KNOW, BUT RUSHED ALONG AT +PULTúSK TO PETERSBURG RETURNS BRINGING OUR APPOINTMENT AS COMMANDER IN +PUNISHMENTS WERE TO BE ADMONITORY AND NOT CORPORAL, AND HOSPITALS, +PURIFIED, THOU WILT GAIN WISDOM. LOOK AT YOUR LIFE, MY DEAR SIR. +PURITY, AND NOT THE SERFS’ BACKS AND FOREHEADS, WHICH, BEAT AND SHAVE +PURPLE-FACED GENERAL WAIT RESPECTFULLY WHILE CAPTAIN PRINCE ANDREW, FOR +PURPLE FACE, REPORTING SOMETHING. +PURPOSELY DROPPED A HANDKERCHIEF IN FRONT OF HIM AND STOOD LOOKING +PURSE. +PURSE AND, DRAWING ITS RINGS ASIDE WITH HIS SMALL, WHITE, TURNED-UP +PURSE THAT SANK INTO THE SOFA. “AS FOR US, COUNT, WE GET ALONG ON OUR +PURSE UNDAH THE PILLOW,” HE SAID, AND WENT OUT TO THE QUARTERMASTER. +PURSUED BY THE FRENCH ARMY OF A HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN UNDER THE COMMAND +PUSHED BACK IN THE SITTING ROOM WHERE THE COUNT AND MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA +PUSHED THE GUNS AND WAGONS THEMSELVES. WHIPS CRACKED, HOOFS SLIPPED, +PUSHING BACK HIS CHAIR, HE ROSE FROM THE TABLE. +PUT A LITTLE ASIDE AND TO SEND SOMETHING TO MY FATHER,” HE WENT ON, +PUT IT IN A CARRIAGE, AND SET OFF WITH IT TO VISIT SOME ACTRESSES! THE +PUT IT OFF. PERHAPS GOD WILL HELP ME TO FIND A WAY TO PREPARE HIM!... +PUT QUESTIONS AND GAVE BRIEF REPLIES ABOUT THINGS THEY KNEW OUGHT TO +PUTTING THEM DOWN. WHEN THEY’VE BEEN PUT DOWN, THE WAR WITH BUONAPARTE +PUTTING THE NIGHTSHIRT OVER HIS DRIED-UP OLD BODY AND GRAY-HAIRED CHEST. +PUZZLED THE DEVIL HIMSELF! WHEN YOU GET THERE YOU’LL FIND OUT WHAT +QUALIFICATIONS FOR IT—THE KIND OF GOOD-NATURED, FUSSY SHALLOWNESS +QUALITIES. HE WAS ALWAYS HEARING SUCH WORDS AS: “WITH YOUR REMARKABLE +QUARRELED WITH HéLèNE, MON CHER? YOU ARE UNDER A DELUSION,” SAID +QUARRELED WITH HER BROTHER ABOUT HIM. SHE INSISTED THAT HE WAS A BAD +QUARTERMASTER FOR THE MONEY.” +QUARTERMASTER’S PRESENCE. +QUARTER OF AN HOUR BETWEEN TWO FIRES.” +QUARTERS AND RIDING UP TO CAPTAIN TIMóKHIN WHO WAS WALKING IN FRONT. +QUARTERS NEAR BRAUNAU, WHERE THEY HOPED TO RECEIVE BOOTS AND CLOTHES AND +QUARTERS TORCHES AND CANDLES WERE BURNING AND NO ONE SLEPT. THE OLD +QUEER,” HE ADDED AFTER A PAUSE, “THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE SUSPECTED +“QU’ EST-CE QU’IL CHANTE?” * ASKED A FRENCHMAN. +QUESTIONED PRINCE ANDREW ABOUT THE DETAILS OF HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE +QUESTION FOR HER TO REFUSE HIM. AND THEREFORE NICHOLAS’ FIRST FEELING +QUESTION FOR WHOSE SAKE HE CAME (THOUGH NO ONE SPOKE OF IT) WAS SOON +QUESTION HE NOTICED THAT IT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PUT. +QUESTION HIM. THE MAN ANNOUNCED THAT THE TSAR HAD BEEN DRIVEN IN A +QUESTIONING HIM ABOUT POLITICAL AFFAIRS AND NEWS. HE SEEMED TO LISTEN +QUESTION—ONE SO IMPORTANT THAT HE TOOK NO NOTICE OF WHAT WENT +QUESTIONS OF HEALTH, SOMETIMES IN RUSSIAN AND SOMETIMES IN VERY BAD BUT +QUESTIONS PUT TO HIM. HE WAS BESPATTERED WITH MUD AND HAD A PITIFUL, +QUESTIONS THAT MIGHT BE PUT TO HIM AND THE ANSWERS HE WOULD GIVE. HE +QUICK. +QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. +QUICKLY. PRINCE BAGRATIóN, UTTERING HIS WORDS WITH AN ORIENTAL ACCENT, +QUICKLY ROUSED HIMSELF WITH A FEELING OF JOY, AS IF LEARNING AFRESH THAT +QUICKLY TURNED AWAY, A SCARCELY PERCEPTIBLE SMILE FLITTING OVER HIS +QUICK OR THE ENEMY WILL BRING UP HIS GUNS TO USE GRAPESHOT.” +QUICK-WITTED, NOR READY OR ELOQUENT IN CONVERSATION, BUT HE HAD THE +QUIET AND PEACE. THANK GOD!...” +QUIET AUTHORITY, “YOU WISH TO INSULT ME, AND I AM READY TO AGREE WITH +QUIETLY AND HUMOROUSLY HOW HE HAD KNOWN THAT DOLL MIMI WHEN SHE WAS +QUIETLY AND SAID IN A WHISPER: “PLEASE WALK IN.” +QUILT. THE EYES AND FACE OF THE SICK MAN SHOWED IMPATIENCE. HE MADE AN +QUITE ASTONISHING. HOW DID YOU GET THINGS SETTLED? I COULDN’T POSSIBLY +“QUITE AVARE, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” SUDDENLY SHOUTED THE COLONEL, +QUITE CERTAIN. AH! IT IS VERY DREADFUL...” +QUITE CLOSE AT HAND, AND A VOICE OF NAïVE TERROR BARELY TWO STEPS FROM +QUITE HEARD. +QUITE MISTAKEN IF YOU RECKON ME OR MY MOTHER AMONG SUCH PEOPLE. WE ARE +QUITE OPPOSITE REPUTATIONS. SOME, A MINORITY, ACKNOWLEDGED HIM TO BE +QUITE REMEMBER HOW, BUT DON’T YOU REMEMBER THAT IT COULD ALL BE +“QUITE RIGHT,” SAID THE ENGLISHMAN. +QUITE SINCERELY TRIED TO MAKE HER LOOK PRETTY. SHE WAS SO PLAIN THAT +QUITE TRUE; HE HAD BEEN INDEBTED TO HER FATHER FOR THE FIRST STEPS IN +“QUITE WELL? ALL RIGHT THEN, SIT DOWN.” HE TOOK THE EXERCISE BOOK +QUITS... IT CAN’T BE!... AND WHY IS HE DOING THIS TO ME?” ROSTóV +QUIVERING IN HIS BREAST AND A TICKLING IN HIS NOSE, AND TEARS DIMMED HIS +QUOTING ONE OF HIS OWN MOTS, RELEASING THE WRINKLES ON HIS FOREHEAD, AND +RADIANTLY ON HER BEAUTIFUL FACE. PIERRE GAZED AT HER WITH RAPTUROUS, +RAGE, “WHO ARE YOU? ARE YOU IN COMMAND HERE? EH? I AM COMMANDER HERE, +RAILINGS. HE LOOKED BACK LAUGHING TO THE COSSACK WHO STOOD A FEW +RAISED. HE REMAINED STUBBORNLY SILENT, GAZING AT WEYROTHER’S FACE, +RAISE HIM. BUT AS SOON AS HE THOUGHT OF WHAT HE SHOULD SAY, HE FELT THAT +RAISING HIM. +RAISING HIS EYEBROWS. +RAISING HIS SOFT FOOT BACKWARDS, BOWING HIS PERSPIRING HEAD, SMILING +RAN AHEAD ON TIPTOE AND KNOCKED AT A DOOR. +RAN FORWARD ON EACH SUCH OCCASION, FEARING TO MISS A SINGLE WORD OF THE +RAN FORWARD SHADING HIS EYES WITH HIS SMALL HAND TO LOOK AT THE FRENCH. +RANGE AND WIPE THEM OUT?” THESE WERE THE QUESTIONS EACH MAN OF THE +RANK AND IMPORTANCE, WHO WAS THE FIRST TO ARRIVE AT HER RECEPTION. ANNA +RANK (FOR HE DID NOTHING), THAT PRINCE VASíLI HAD PROCURED FOR HIM, +RANK—“I THANK YOU FOR MYSELF AND FOR OUR TWO DEAR ONES WHOSE NAME +RANKS. +RANKS; ANATOLE WAS IN THE ARMY SOMEWHERE IN THE PROVINCES; PRINCE ANDREW +RANKS IN THIS REGIMENT.” +RANKS WERE RETURNING FROM THE ATTACK. ROSTóV GOT OUT OF THEIR WAY, +RAN RAPIDLY OVER THE WIDE SPACE, BUT HE ONLY SAW THAT THE HITHERTO +RAN UP, BEGGING A LITTLE FIRE FOR THE INFANTRY. +RAPIDITY. HE AGAIN VIVIDLY RECALLED THE DETAILS OF THE BATTLE, NO LONGER +RAPIDLY. +RAPIDLY ADDING UP THE TOTAL OF ROSTóV’S DEBT, BREAKING THE CHALK AS +RAPIDLY AND INDISTINCTLY. “YOU THOUGHT!... RASCALS! BLACKGUARDS!... +RAPID RETREAT. AUSTRIAN TROOPS THAT HAD ESCAPED CAPTURE AT ULM AND HAD +RAPID, SELF-CONFIDENT, FAMILIAR TONE. “HERE IS MY SECOND SON; PLEASE +RARELY DONE OF LATE. IT WAS A GRAND FAREWELL DINNER, AS HE AND DENíSOV +RARELY LEFT HER AND WHICH MADE HER PLAIN, SICKLY FACE YET PLAINER. SHE +RASCALITY....” +RASGULYáY—THE COACHMAN IPáTKA KNOWS—AND LOOK UP THE GYPSY +RATE HE GLANCED AT THE REFRACTORY ARM, AT PIERRE’S TERROR-STRICKEN +RATHER CONFINE OURSELVES TO STUDYING THOSE SUBLIME RULES WHICH OUR +RATHER OF DEATH, AS THE SAYING IS. ‘ALBANIANS!’ AND ‘DEVILS!’ +RATHER ROUND SHOULDERS AND GLANCED AT NOVOSíLTSEV WHO WAS NEAR HIM, AS +RATHER SHORT, AS IF SURPRISED THAT ANYONE SHOULD NOT KNOW HIM. +RATHER THAN OF WHAT THE GENERALS WERE DISPUTING ABOUT. +RATIFY IT; BUT IT IS ONLY A TRICK. MARCH ON, DESTROY THE RUSSIAN +RATTLE ON THE BRIDGE AS IF NUTS WERE BEING SPILT, AND THE HUSSAR NEAREST +RAYS OF GENTLE LIGHT SHONE FROM HER LARGE, TIMID EYES. THOSE EYES LIT +REACHED BAGRATIóN, THE WEIGHTY TREAD OF THE MASS OF MEN MARCHING IN +REACHED THE BUSHES. BEHIND THESE WERE SOME RUSSIAN SHARPSHOOTERS. +REACHED TO HIS VERY HEELS, AND, STUMBLING IN IT, RAN OUT INTO THE PORCH +REACHED. WHEELS CREAK ON THEIR AXLES AS THE COGS ENGAGE ONE ANOTHER AND +REACHING THE LARGE HOUSE NEAR THE HORSE GUARDS’ BARRACKS, IN WHICH +READ A CONGRATULATION ON HIS FUTURE SON-IN-LAW AND ON HIS DAUGHTER’S +READILY AND RAPIDLY LIKE A MAN WHO HAS NOT TALKED FOR A LONG TIME. HIS +READINESS TO FALL IN LOVE AND AN EXPECTATION OF HAPPINESS. +READING CONFIRMATION IN ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S FACE. +READING THE LETTER. HE WENT ON TIPTOE TO THE NURSERY DOOR AND OPENED IT. +READING THEM ALOUD. BAGRATIóN BOWED HIS HEAD AND LISTENED: +READING. THEN MILORáDOVICH LOOKED ROUND SIGNIFICANTLY AT THE OTHER +“READ THIS IF YOU LIKE, FATHER,” SAID THE PRINCESS, BLUSHING STILL +READ THIS IN TíKHON’S FACE AND IN THAT OF PRINCE VASíLI’S VALET, +READY, THE STRANGER OPENED HIS EYES, MOVED TO THE TABLE, FILLED A +READY TO EMBRACE THE COUNTESS AT THE APPROPRIATE MOMENT. +REALITY AGAIN PRESENTED ITSELF. HE GOT UP WITHOUT SAYING A WORD AND WENT +REALIZE BECAUSE THE FEAR WAS SO MUCH THE STRONGER FEELING. THE PRINCE +REALIZED AS HE READ THAT BOOK: THE JOY, HITHERTO UNKNOWN TO HIM, +REALIZED THAT SOMETHING DREADFUL HAD HAPPENED TO HIS REGIMENT, AND THE +REALLY ALL THE SAME TO ME WHEN MY SON’S FATE IS AT STAKE.” THE +REALLY...” BUT HE DID NOT SAY WHAT “IT REALLY” WAS. “FOR THE +REALLY GOOD SOCIETY” CONSISTED OF THE FASCINATING HéLèNE, FORSAKEN +“REALLY I DON’T CARE ABOUT THAT, I DON’T CARE AT ALL,” SAID +“REALLY, I DON’T YET KNOW. I DON’T LIKE EITHER THE ONE OR THE +“REALLY, PAPA, I BELIEVE PRINCE BAGRATIóN WORRIED HIMSELF LESS BEFORE +“REALLY, TRULY!” ANSWERED NATáSHA, PUSHING IN A CRISP LOCK THAT HAD +REAL STATE OF FRENCH PUBLIC OPINION.” +REAPPEARED. +REARGUARD ALL THE FRESHNESS OF ATMOSPHERE OF THE FRENCH ARMY, WHICH WAS +REASON FOR REJOICING, THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER WITH JOYFUL DELIGHT AND +REASONING CONTAINED IN THE MASON’S WORDS, OR BELIEVED AS A CHILD +REASON OF HER FRIEND’S SORROW, “I’M SURE VéRA HAS SAID SOMETHING +REASON, OR SHOT A POST-BOY’S HORSE WITH A PISTOL. THAT EXPRESSION +REASON, RAN BACK AND DISAPPEARED FROM THE OUTSKIRTS, AND RUSSIAN +REASONS FOR BUONAPARTE’S HATRED OF HIM. +REAWAKENING. HE WAS AFRAID OF ANY WANT OF CLEARNESS, ANY WEAKNESS, IN +REBUKING HER FOR HER FALL. +RECALCITRANT CAVALRY COLONEL, HIS OWN DIGNITY AS A GENERAL, AND ABOVE +RECALLED ALL THIS AS CHILDISHNESS HE HAD LEFT IMMEASURABLY BEHIND. +RECALLED THOUSANDS OF SUCH HINTS FROM PRINCE VASíLI AND OTHERS, AND WAS +RECALLING BILíBIN’S WORDS. +RECEIPT, HE LEFT AT THE END OF NOVEMBER, WITHOUT TAKING LEAVE OF ANY OF +RECEIVED. +RECEIVED ALL PETERSBURG, PROUD OF HER UNAPPROACHABILITY AND BEAUTY. SO +RECEIVED AND READ THE THEN FAMOUS RESCRIPT OF THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER +RECEIVED AS A SAVIOR.” +RECEIVED. A THANKSGIVING SERVICE WAS ARRANGED, KUTúZOV WAS AWARDED +RECEIVED BY THE EMPEROR. HAD YOU HEARD?” +RECEIVED HIM WITH DISTINCTION AND SPECIAL MARKS OF FAVOR, EXPLAINING TO +RECEIVED PIERRE WITH A SHADE OF MELANCHOLY, EVIDENTLY RELATING TO THE +RECEIVED WAS SHOWN HIM. A STRANGE LADY, THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN TALKING TO +RECEIVE THAT SCIENCE IT IS NECESSARY TO PURIFY AND RENEW ONE’S INNER +RECEIVING FROM ALL SIDES DECLARATIONS OF THE PEOPLE’S LOYALTY, THAT +RECEIVING IT. THIS GRATITUDE REMINDED HIM OF HOW MUCH MORE HE MIGHT DO +RECEPTION. +RECEPTION HALL: MICHAEL IVáNOVICH, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, PRINCESS +RECEPTION ROOM IF HE WISHED TO SEE HIM. BORíS THANKED HIM AND WENT TO +RECIPROCATED THIS ANTIPATHY, BUT IT WAS OVERPOWERED BY HIS CONTEMPT +RECKONING.” +RECOGNIZED AS LEGITIMATE; SO THAT HE IS NOW COUNT BEZúKHOV AND +RECOGNIZED HIM AND STOPPED TO LISTEN TO WHAT HE WAS SAYING. DóLOKHOV +RECOGNIZED HIS LAMENTED AND ADORED MONARCH. +RECOGNIZED THE TSAR AND WATCHED HIS APPROACH. WHEN HE WAS WITHIN TWENTY +RECOGNIZES HIS HIGH VOCATION AND WILL BE TRUE TO IT. THAT IS THE ONE +RECOLLECTION OF HOW HE WAS PUT IN THE SLEIGH OR OF THE FIRST THREE +RECOLLECTIONS.” PRINCE VASíLI SIGHED. “YES, YES, MY BOY. AND MY +RECOMMENDED TO THE EMPRESS) AND AT THE SAME TIME TO CONSOLE HIM, SO SHE +RECOUNTING HIS MILITARY EXPLOITS (PRINCE ANDREW COULD NOT ENDURE +RECOVER.” +RECOVERED, AND ROSTóV BECAME VERY FRIENDLY WITH HIM DURING HIS +RECROSS TO THE OTHER. AT LAST OUR ENEMY, BUXHöWDEN, CATCHES US AND +RECRUITING. NONE OF THEM HAD YET SEEN THE MANIFESTO, BUT THEY ALL KNEW +RECRUITMENT SO AS TO AVOID ACTIVE SERVICE. THE OLD PRINCE AND HIS SON +RECRUITS WERE BEING ENROLLED IN THE VILLAGES, AND FROM THE SEAT OF +RED HANDS; HE DID NOT KNOW, AS THE SAYING IS, HOW TO ENTER A DRAWING +RED PATCHES APPEARED ON PRINCESS MARY’S FACE AND SHE WAS SILENT AS IF +RED. SEVERAL BATTALIONS OF SOLDIERS, IN THEIR SHIRT SLEEVES DESPITE +REDUCED TO TEARS. +REFERRED TO IN THAT DRAWING ROOM AS “A MAN OF GREAT MERIT” (UN HOMME +“REFILL MY PIPE FOR THAT ONE!” AND THEN, SCATTERING SPARKS FROM IT, +REFINED FRENCH IN WHICH OUR GRANDFATHERS NOT ONLY SPOKE BUT THOUGHT, AND +REFLECTED ON THEIRS. +REFLECTIONS. BETTER DIE A THOUSAND TIMES THAN RISK RECEIVING AN UNKIND +REFORM BY MARRYING HIM TO PRINCE ANDREW’S SISTER. +REFUSAL WITH HIS HEAD AND HAND AND BY THAT GESTURE ROSTóV INSTANTLY +REFUSE IOGEL AND ASKED SóNYA TO DANCE. DENíSOV SAT DOWN BY THE OLD +REFUSING TO LET HER SEE THEM OFF. THE DIPLOMATIST PRESERVED A MOURNFUL +REGARDED ALL THESE LITTLE ADJUTANTS ON THE STAFF OF WHOM THE NEWCOMER +REGARD HIM—BUT YOU WANT TO CURE HIM FROM LOVE OF HIM. AND HE DOES NOT +REGARDING ALL ARGUMENTS AS NONSENSE IN COMPARISON WITH THAT SMILE. +REGARDING HIM WITH A SMILE OF APPROBATION. +REGARD TO THIS PROJECT OF MARRIAGE FOR ME, I WILL TELL YOU, DEAR SWEET +REGENERATE, PURIFY, AND ELEVATE ME. BUT YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND IT.” +REGENERATION, AND RETURN TO LIFE. +REGIMENTAL COMMANDER AND MAJOR EKONóMOV HAD STOPPED BESIDE A BRIDGE, +REGIMENTAL COMMANDER COOLING DOWN A LITTLE. “LEAVE INDEED.... ONE SAYS +REGIMENTAL COMMANDER HUNG HIS HEAD, SILENTLY SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS, AND +REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, OVERTAKING THE THIRD COMPANY ON ITS WAY TO ITS +REGIMENTAL COMMANDER WAS NICKNAMED KING OF HEARTS). +REGIMENT, AND BOGDáNICH KNOWS IT. OH, WE DO PRIZE IT, OLD FELLOW! AND +REGIMENT BUT WAS NOT LIKED; ROSTóV ESPECIALLY DETESTED HIM AND WAS +REGIMENT HAD BEEN BROKEN UP. ALL HE KNEW WAS THAT AT THE COMMENCEMENT +REGIMENT HAD JUST THE APPEARANCE OF ANY RUSSIAN REGIMENT PREPARING FOR +REGIMENT—INSTEAD OF THE STRAGGLING, DISORDERLY CROWD IT HAD BEEN ON +REGIMENT NEXT TO NO TIME, MY LAD, YOU’RE HERE TODAY AND TOMORROW +REGIMENT, SAYING HE WAS NOT SUCH A FOOL AS TO SLAVE AT THE FRONT WHEN HE +REGIMENTS, BOTH CAVALRY AND INFANTRY, WERE BY NO MEANS READY FOR THE +REGIMENTS FORM BANDS AND SCOUR THE COUNTRYSIDE AND PUT EVERYTHING +REGIMENT. THE FACES OF THESE YOUNG PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO WERE +REGIMENT, THEY LISTEN INTENTLY, LOOK ABOUT, AND EAGERLY ASK CONCERNING +REGIMENT WAS MUCH SURPRISED AT THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF’S ORDER TO THROW +REGRET. DRAWING ROOMS, GOSSIP, BALLS, VANITY, AND TRIVIALITY—THESE ARE +REGRET HER WORDS. BUT SHE WENT ON HURRIEDLY: +REGRETTABLE DELUSION.” +REGULARITY IN HIS HOUSEHOLD WAS CARRIED TO THE HIGHEST POINT OF +REGULAR MOTION AS A RESULT OF ALL THAT ACTIVITY. +REGULAR ORDER. +REINFORCE THE RIGHT FLANK. THE OFFICER OF THE SUITE VENTURED TO REMARK +REINS AND STARTED OF HIS OWN ACCORD. +REJECTS ALL KNOWLEDGE THAT DOES NOT COME FROM HIM; AND THE LESS WE SEEK +RELATING TO NIKóLENKA, DID NOT VENTURE TO ASK ANY QUESTIONS AT DINNER, +RELATING TO THE CONDITION OF THE TROOPS ON THEIR ARRIVAL, AND THE +RELAYS. +RELIGION?” +RELUCTANTLY, BUT GRADUALLY WITH MORE AND MORE ANIMATION, AND FROM HABIT +RELYING ON REASON ONLY? WHAT ART THOU? YOU ARE YOUNG, YOU ARE RICH, YOU +REMAINED ALONE WITH HIM FOR A LONG TIME. +REMAINED IN RESERVE AND NICHOLAS ROSTóV SPENT THAT DAY IN A DULL AND +REMAINED ON THE FARTHER SIDE OF THE BRIDGE FACING THE ENEMY, WHO COULD +REMAINING IN MOSCOW, AND ONLY AWAITED THE TERMINATION OF DENíSOV’S +REMAINING STRENGTH. HE RAISED HIS PISTOL AND AIMED. +REMAINS OF SHEDS, CHAIRS, TABLES, WHEELS, TUBS, AND EVERYTHING THAT THEY +REMAINS OF SUPPER. A FOOTMAN, THINKING NO ONE SAW HIM, WAS DRINKING ON +REMAIN STATIONARY IN FACE OF AN ENEMY EIGHT TIMES AS STRONG AS ITSELF. +REMARKED. “WELL, SIT DOWN: LET’S HAVE A TALK.” +REMARKS AT HIM, THOUGH WITHOUT LOOKING AT HIM. +REMARKS. THE OLD COUNT ROSE ONCE MORE, GLANCED AT A NOTE LYING BESIDE +REMARKS WHICH SEEMED TO HIM CLEVER WHILE THEY FORMED IN HIS MIND BECAME +REMARK TO HIM, POINTING TO THE GALLANT ÁPSHERONS. +REMEMBERED IT THREE MONTHS BEFORE, WHEN THE COUNT HAD SENT HIM TO +REMEMBER EVERYTHING?” SAID NATáSHA, WITH AN EXPRESSIVE GESTURE, +“REMEMBER, FOR YOU EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON THIS.” +REMEMBER HOW WE AND NICHOLAS, ALL THREE OF US, TALKED IN THE SITTING +REMEMBER NIKóLENKA TOO, I REMEMBER HIM WELL,” SHE SAID. “BUT I +“REMEMBER THAT YOU WILL ANSWER FOR THE CONSEQUENCES,” SAID PRINCE +REMORSE, HUMILIATIONS, SUFFERINGS, OUTBURSTS OF PRIDE, FEAR, AND +RENDERED, AND I SUPPLIED THEM WITH A DOCTOR, A HOSPITAL, AND AN ASYLUM +RENOUNCED YOUR FORMER CONVICTIONS—DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD?” +REPEATED BY OTHERS FROM VARIOUS SIDES AND ALL BECAME SILENT. +REPEATED FROM THE OPENING WORDS OF THE MANIFESTO: +REPEATED. “I SHOULD BE GLAD ENOUGH TO FALL ASLEEP, SO IT’S NOT MY +REPEAT HIS QUESTION. +REPEATING IN A LOW VOICE THE SAME WORDS SEVERAL TIMES OVER. +REPEATING THE TERMS OF THE BET, ADDRESSING HIMSELF PARTICULARLY TO +REPEATING THE TERMS OF THE WAGER TO HIM IN ENGLISH. +REPEATING TO HIMSELF AT EACH ALTERNATE STEP, “LEFT... LEFT... +REPELLENT. YET IN THIS VERY REPUGNANCE TO ALL HIS CIRCUMSTANCES PIERRE +REPENTED AND ADDED: “I AM GLAD; REALLY, DEAR, I AM VERY GLAD.” +REPLACE SOME CHESSMEN THAT WERE FALLING. HE WAS ABOUT TO EMBRACE HIS +REPLIED. +REPLIED, “AND IT IS THAT HE WOULD BE MERCIFUL TO HIM AND WOULD ALLOW +REPLIED, AND THE FOUR SIMPLY LOOKED AT ONE ANOTHER. SHE LINGERED IN THE +REPLIED BORíS, BETRAYING NEITHER ANNOYANCE AT THE PRINCE’S BRUSQUE +REPLIED PRINCE VASíLI. +REPLIED THAT IT WOULD BE MORE THAN ENOUGH FOR HIM AND THAT HE GAVE HIS +REPLIED: “YES, YES, I AGREE,” AND WITH A BEAMING, CHILDLIKE SMILE, +REPLY. +REPLY. +REPLY TO HIS LOOK, AND WENT STILL FASTER ALONG THE PASSAGE. +REPLY—WHICH HE WOULD NOT HAVE RECEIVED, FOR THE PRINCESS WAS UNABLE TO +REPORT, AND BEGAN DELIBERATELY TO EXAMINE THE WHOLE BATTLEFIELD EXTENDED +REPORTED TO HIM, AND THEN JOINED THE ADJUTANTS LISTENING TO WHAT THE +REPORTS FROM OUR SCOUTS. HERE ARE TWO LETTERS FROM COUNT NOSTITZ AND +REPORTS ONE AFTER ANOTHER, AND A THIRD. +REPORTS THAT PRINCE AUERSPERG WAS DEFENDING VIENNA?” HE SAID. +REPORT WAS HEARD, BAGRATIóN LOOKED ROUND AND SHOUTED, “HURRAH!” +REPREHENSIBLE, LOOKED ROUND WITH A BLUSH. IT SEEMED TO HIM THAT EVERYONE +REPRESENTATIVE BUT ONE OF THE GREAT CENTURY, AND THAT IT IS HIS OWN +REPRESENTED ALL THAT WAS LEFT OF THAT WHOLE REGIMENT. IMPELLED BY THE +REPRESENTED AS A BRILLIANT VICTORY OVER THE FRENCH, AND SO THE +REPRIMANDING AND REPROACHING HIM. TúSHIN GAVE NO ORDERS, AND, +REPROACHED AND DISPUTED WITH EACH OTHER. +REPROACHED HER FOR YIELDING TO A MAN WITHOUT BEING MARRIED. MADEMOISELLE +REPROACHED HIM FOR NOT HAVING STAYED AT THE PALACE, AND OFFERED HIM +REPROACHFULLY AT THE COUNT WHO HAD PRESENTED IT TO HIM. SOMEONE +REPULSED, HE HAD LOST MORE THAN HALF HIS MEN. HE SAID THE ATTACK +REQUEST. +REQUEST THAT HE WOULD TAKE NO PART IN THE MATTER, ROSTóV AGREED TO BE +REQUIRED PAPERS. KUTúZOV AND THE AUSTRIAN MEMBER OF THE HOFKRIEGSRATH +RESCUE. PIERRE HAD MANAGED TO START A CONVERSATION WITH THE ABBé ABOUT +RESEMBLING HIS MASTER IN MANNERS AND LOOKS, WHO WAS ACCOMPANYING HIM +RESERVE GUN CARRIAGE, THE WOUNDED WERE CARRIED AWAY, AND THE FOUR GUNS +RESERVE TOMORROW,” HE THOUGHT. “I’LL ASK LEAVE TO GO TO THE FRONT, +RESERVE UNITS WERE ABLE TO JOIN UP, AND THE FIGHT WAS AT AN END. THE +RESOLUTE IN THE DISCHARGE OF DUTY, RAN OUT AND TOUCHING PIERRE LIGHTLY +RESOLUTELY TOOK THE SALVER WITH BOTH HANDS AND LOOKED STERNLY AND +RESOLUTE SELF-WILL, “HE IS WICKED AND HEARTLESS. THERE NOW, I LIKE +RESOLUTION. CAN IT BE THAT I HAVE NONE?” +RESOLVED NOT TO BE THE FIRST TO BREAK SILENCE, IF SHE HAD TO WAIT TILL +RESOLVED TO GO AWAY NEXT DAY AND LEAVE A LETTER INFORMING HER OF HIS +RESOUNDED ON THE PLANKS OF THE BRIDGE, AND THE SQUADRON, OFFICERS IN +RESOUNDED. THE COLUMN MOVED FORWARD WITHOUT KNOWING WHERE AND UNABLE, +RESOUNDING VOICE, APPARENTLY TO PRECLUDE THE POSSIBILITY OF NOT BEING +RESPECT AND HONOR YOU, BUT ALL THE SAME REMEMBER THAT THE FUTURE BELONGS +RESPECTED AND FEARED HER. +RESPECTFULLY. +RESPECTFULLY BOWED HEAD, SEEMED ALSO TO BE WAITING. THE SILENCE LASTED +RESPECTFULLY WHEN THE MILITARY GOVERNOR, HAVING STAYED ABOUT HALF AN +RESPECT, HE HAD DECIDED THAT IT WOULD BE A GOOD THING TO SET FIRE TO THE +RESPONSIBILITY. BUT CIRCUMSTANCES ARE SOMETIMES TOO STRONG FOR US, +RESPONSIBILITY OF THAT DEED.” +REST, AND THEN...” +RESTED ON PRINCE ANDREW’S FACE. +RESTING, AND TO HALT FACING VIENNA WITH ZNAIM TO HIS REAR, AND IF HE +RESTRAINED ANIMATION AS HE STOOD SIPPING TEA FROM A DELICATE CHINESE +RESTRAINING HER ANGRY TEARS. +RESTRAINING HIS TEARS OF PITY FOR THE EMPEROR, HE RODE ON IN UTTER +REST, WENT IN TO DINNER. HE WAS SEATED IN THE PLACE OF HONOR BETWEEN +RESULT FROM IT—NO LONGER SEEMED TO BE IN THE FUTURE BUT IN THE PAST. +RESUMED HER DUTIES AS HOSTESS AND CONTINUED TO LISTEN AND WATCH, READY +RESUMED ITS FORMER COLD, ARTIFICIAL EXPRESSION. SHE RETURNED TO THE +“RETIRE! ALL TO RETIRE!” HE SHOUTED FROM A DISTANCE. +RETREAT AFTER A BATTLE HAVE LOST IT IS WHAT WE SAY; AND ACCORDING TO +RETREATED AS A DISORDERLY CROWD. ONE SOLDIER, IN HIS FEAR, UTTERED THE +RETREATING AGAINST THEIR WILL. A FEW MINUTES AFTER THE EMPEROR HAD +RETREATING FORCES. +RETREATING TO OUR FRONTIER—WHICH DO TODAY.’ +RETREAT TO THE DIP BY ECHELONS.” SO HE REASONED.... ALL THE TIME + RETURN.” +RETURNED), AND, FORCING OPEN A LOOSELY CLOSED LATCH, SET THE DAMASK +RETURNED, AND OVER THE BOTTLE OF WINE CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE THREE +RETURNED FROM A LONG JOURNEY ON WHICH HE HAD SPENT DOZENS OF YEARS, HAD +RETURNED FROM THE COUNCIL, TIRED AND EXHAUSTED BUT EAGER AND PROUD +RETURNED FROM THEM DRAGGING SHEEP, FOWLS, HAY, AND BULGING SACKS. AT +RETURNED HOME JUST BEFORE DINNER. AS SOON AS HE ENTERED HE NOTICED AND +RETURNED TO MOSCOW AND WENT STRAIGHT TO HER RICH RELATIONS, THE +RETURNED TO PETERSBURG QUITE CRESTFALLEN. +RETURNING FROM HIS JOURNEY THROUGH SOUTH RUSSIA IN THE HAPPIEST STATE +RETURNING HIS SMILE. +RETURNING TO HIS HOBBY; “TELL ME HOW THE GERMANS HAVE TAUGHT YOU TO +RETURNING TO THE TOWN. THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF MADE A SIGN THAT THE +RETURN THE HOLY IMAGE. +RETURN TO HER THE WHOLE EVENING. +REVERENCE AND WAS BEYOND QUESTION. +REVOIR! ”—AND SHE LEFT THE HALL. +REVOLUTION, WHICH HAS BECOME MORE TERRIBLE THAN EVER IN THE PERSON OF +RHETOR, AFTER A MOMENT’S PAUSE. +RHETOR SAID, “TO BRING YOURSELF TO REGARD IT NOT AS A DREADED FOE, BUT +RHETOR’S INSTRUCTIONS. THE MASON DREW THE SHIRT BACK FROM PIERRE’S +RHETOR, THOUGH IT AROUSED HIS CURIOSITY, DID NOT SEEM TO HIM ESSENTIAL, +RHETOR WENT AWAY, LEAVING HIM TO SOLITARY MEDITATION. “IT MUST BE SO, +RIBBONS. +RICH?” +RICHEST OF THE OFFICERS NOW THAT HE HAD RECEIVED HIS MONEY, BOUGHT IT. +RICH OLD MAN. BUT BEFORE LEAVING HOME AND UNDERTAKING THESE NEW AFFAIRS, +RICH YOUTHS, OFFICERS AND CADETS, WHO HAD GALLOPED PAST HIM ON THEIR +RIDE AND ESPECIALLY BY THE SOUND OF THE BULLETS. +RIDER’S LEG. BLOOD WAS FLOWING FROM HIS HEAD; HE STRUGGLED BUT COULD +RID HIMSELF OF THEM HE CLOSED HIS EYES. +RIDING A FINE BOBTAILED HORSE, AND A CIVILIAN—AN ACCOUNTANT WHO HAD +RIDING ALONE WITH THREE HUSSARS INTO THAT MYSTERIOUS AND DANGEROUS MISTY +RIDING, AND SOMETIMES, WHEN HE CAME WITHIN SIX PACES OF THEM, THE +RIDING AWAY, SAY TO CZARTORýSKI: “WHAT A TERRIBLE THING WAR IS: WHAT +RIDING OVER IT TRAINED A GUN ON HIM AND FIRED SEVERAL SHOTS. THE +RID THEM OF THE BOURBONS AND BECAUSE THEY SAW THAT HE WAS A GREAT +RIGHT. +RIGHT ACROSS THE SKULL. HAVING SAID THIS HE GLANCED AT NATáSHA. +RIGHT!” AND HIS HEAD ONCE MORE SANK TO HIS HORSE’S NECK. ALL AT ONCE +RIGHT AND WHAT’S GOOD MUST BE JUDGED BY ONE WHO KNOWS ALL, BUT NOT BY +RIGHT FLANK AND DRIVE IT INTO THE BOHEMIAN MOUNTAINS ACCORDING TO PLAN, +RIGHT HAND, WHICH WAS LYING PALM DOWNWARDS, A WAX TAPER HAD BEEN THRUST +RIGHT—HE DID NOT KNOW. “BUT WAS IT REALLY NOT POSSIBLE FOR KUTúZOV +RIGHT, IT IS ADVANTAGEOUS TO ATTACK THE ENEMY’S LATTER WING ESPECIALLY +RIGHT LIGHT.... IN MY OPINION PERPETUAL PEACE IS POSSIBLE BUT—I DO NOT +RIGHTLY SUPPOSES THAT MATTERS HAVE ALREADY GONE TOO FAR. I THINK IT WILL +RIGHT. SELFISH, VAIN, STUPID, TRIVIAL IN EVERYTHING—THAT’S WHAT +RIGHT—SERVE HIM. NICHOLAS BOLKóNSKI’S SON NEED NOT SERVE UNDER +RIGHT, SHOUTING AND FIRING WERE AGAIN HEARD. FLASHES OF SHOT GLEAMED IN +RIGHTS OF MAN, IS SENTENCED TO...” BUT BEFORE PIERRE—WHO AT THAT +RIGHT SOUNDED OFTENER AND NEARER. AS SOON AS TúSHIN WITH HIS GUNS, +RIGHT TO FIRE WHEN THEY LIKED AS THEY APPROACHED THE BARRIER. DóLOKHOV +RIGHT! TWENTY-ONE RUBLES,” HE SAID, POINTING TO THE FIGURE TWENTY-ONE +RING, AND ZHERKóV, UNEASILY GLANCING AT THEM ALL, AND PRINCE ANDREW, +RING, CRIED FROM THE WINDOW: “COME HERE; PART THE BETS!” THIS WAS +RINGING, DELIBERATE VOICE. “I ASK AN OPPORTUNITY TO ATONE FOR MY FAULT +RISEN AND WAS GOING TOWARD HIS ROOM. +RISING IN HIS SOUL. DóLOKHOV, DENíSOV, AND ROSTóV WERE NOW SITTING +RITE WHICH EVERYONE EXPECTED OF HIM, AND THAT HE WAS THEREFORE BOUND +RIVER FLOWED WAS FORMED BY THE RISING GROUND ONLY HALF A MILE AWAY. +RIVER WE BURN THE BRIDGES TO SEPARATE OURSELVES FROM OUR ENEMY, WHO AT +RIVULET FLOWED, THE SOUL-STIRRING ROLLING AND CRACKLING OF MUSKETRY WAS +ROAD. BAGRATIóN’S EXHAUSTED AND HUNGRY DETACHMENT, WHICH ALONE +ROAD WHICH GLEAMED WHITE IN THE MIST WOULD HAVE BEEN SAFER BECAUSE IT +RODE, NOT HOPING TO FIND ANYONE BUT MERELY TO EASE HIS CONSCIENCE. WHEN +RODE PAST THE LIMBERS TO THE FARTHEST CANNON. +RODE SIDE BY SIDE IN FRONT, AT FULL GALLOP. ONE IN A BLACK UNIFORM WITH +RODE WITH OUR REGIMENT ALL THE TIME, SO THAT WE HAD EVERY COMFORT AND +ROLLED SOFTLY OVER THE STRAW BENEATH THE WINDOWS, ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, +ROLLING THEM UP. MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA ALWAYS SPOKE IN RUSSIAN. +ROOF LIT UP BY THE SUN? NO ONE KNOWS, BUT ONE WANTS TO KNOW. YOU FEAR +ROOK—A HANDSOME HORSE DESPITE ITS GAME LEG—HAD THE HAPPY AIR OF A +ROOM. +ROOM, ADDRESSED PIERRE. +ROOM AFTER SUPPER? WHY, WE SETTLED HOW EVERYTHING WAS TO BE. I DON’T +ROOM. ALL WERE SILENT. +ROOM, ALMOST ALL THE COMPANY HAD ASSEMBLED, AND THE CONVERSATION, GUIDED +ROOM, AND LOOKED ROUND WITH A SMILE. SHE WAS, AS ALWAYS AT EVENING +ROOM AND STILL LESS HOW TO LEAVE ONE; THAT IS, HOW TO SAY SOMETHING +ROOM AND WE SHALL HAVE TO GO DOWN, AND YOU HAVE NOT SMARTENED YOURSELF +ROOM BY WHICH DOLGORúKOV HAD ENTERED—A SHORT MAN IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES +ROOM. DENíSOV SILENTLY WATCHED LAVRúSHKA’S MOVEMENTS, AND WHEN THE +ROOM, EXCLAIMING AND OH-ING AND AH-ING. +ROOM, GREW SILENT AND GAZED WITH EYES FULL OF CURIOSITY OR EXPECTANCY AT +ROOM,” HE SAID. +ROOM.... NICHOLAS HAD BEEN PREPARED FOR RESISTANCE, BUT HAD NOT AT ALL +ROOM. NO ONE SPOKE AND THE ONLY SOUNDS HEARD WERE THE CLATTER OF KNIVES +ROOM, SOMETHING FLEW OUT FROM A SIDE DOOR LIKE A TORNADO AND BEGAN +ROOM. THE COUNTESS REFLECTED A MOMENT AND TOOK A PINCH FROM A GOLD +ROOM. THE OLD COUNTESS, WAITING FOR THE RETURN OF HER HUSBAND AND SON, +ROOM. THE OLD MAN ALREADY KNEW EVERYTHING. HE WAS STANDING CLOSE TO +ROOM. THE PRINCE STOOD STILL; HIS LIVELY GLITTERING EYES FROM UNDER +ROOM, THEY STILL HEARD THE LAUGHTER AND MERRY VOICES TRYING TO PERSUADE +ROOM TO WRITE TO HIS FATHER, TO WHOM HE WROTE EVERY DAY. IN THE CORRIDOR +ROOM, WHERE YOU WILL BE RANGED SIDE BY SIDE WITH A COURT LACKEY AND AN +ROOM WITH A LOOK OF ALARM. BETWEEN TWELVE AND TWO O’CLOCK, AS THE +ROOM WITHOUT A WORD. BUT AT THE DOOR HE STOPPED AND THEN RETRACED HIS +ROOM WITH RAPID STEPS. NOW HE SEEMED TO SEE HER IN THE EARLY DAYS OF +ROOM WITH THE INKSTAND IN HER HAND. +ROSE AND WITH HER HEAVY TREAD WENT UP TO THE TABLE. SHE TOOK A SHEET OF +ROSE, BY A GLANCE INVITING PIERRE, WHO SAT OPPOSITE, TO LISTEN TO WHAT +ROSE FROM AN ENSIGN AND BECAME EMPEROR. WELL, WELL, GOD GRANT IT,” HE +ROSE IN ALARM ON SEEING IT. +“ROSTóV!” +ROSTóV. +ROSTóV. +ROSTóV. +ROSTóV, ABSORBED BY HIS RELATIONS WITH BOGDáNICH, HAD PAUSED ON THE +ROSTóV AND DENíSOV DROVE AWAY WITH THE WOUNDED DóLOKHOV. +ROSTóV, AND DóLOKHOV—WHO WAS NOW AGAIN AN OFFICER IN THE SEMëNOV +ROSTóV AND HAD NOT RESPONDED TO HIS GREETING. WHEN THE EMPEROR’S +ROSTóV AND MOST OF THE OFFICERS AFTER THE REVIEW. +ROSTóV, AND SIGHING DEEPLY HE TOOK ROOK, HIS HORSE, WHICH STOOD RESTING +ROSTóV ANTICIPATED HIS HORSE’S MOVEMENTS AND BECAME MORE AND MORE +ROSTóV AS HE CONTINUED TO DEAL. +ROSTóV BECAME THOUGHTFUL. +ROSTóV CONSIDERED, AND THEN WENT IN THE DIRECTION WHERE THEY SAID HE +ROSTóV COULD ALREADY SEE THEIR FACES AND HEARD THE COMMAND: +ROSTóV DID NOT KNOW OR REMEMBER HOW HE RAN TO HIS PLACE AND MOUNTED. +ROSTóV DID NOT LISTEN TO THE SOLDIER. HE LOOKED AT THE SNOWFLAKES +ROSTóV DID NOT SPEAK. +ROSTóV DID NOT THINK WHAT THIS CALL FOR STRETCHERS MEANT; HE RAN ON, +ROSTóV FANCIED HE HAD SEEN BEFORE) RODE UP TO THE DITCH, STRUCK HIS +ROSTóV FELT DENíSOV’S GAZE FIXED ON HIM, RAISED HIS EYES, AND +(ROSTóV FELT HIMSELF QUITE TINY AND WEAK COMPARED TO THESE GIGANTIC MEN +ROSTóV FELT ILL AT EASE. HE TRIED, BUT FAILED, TO FIND SOME JOKE WITH +ROSTóV FELT THAT, UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE WARM RAYS OF LOVE, THAT +ROSTóV, FLUSHING, DREW DóLOKHOV INTO THE NEXT ROOM. +ROSTóV FOLLOWED THEM. IN FRONT OF HIM WALKED KUTúZOV’S GROOM LEADING +ROSTóV FOR HIS FRIENDSHIP TO HER FéDYA, OFTEN TALKED TO HIM ABOUT HER +ROSTóV FROM A DISTANCE SAW WITH ENVY AND REMORSE HOW VON TOLL SPOKE +ROSTóV, GROWING RED AND PALE ALTERNATELY, LOOKED FIRST AT ONE OFFICER +ROSTóV HAD BEEN ORDERED TO LOOK FOR KUTúZOV AND THE EMPEROR NEAR THE +ROSTóV HAD JUST PREPARED A CARD, BY BENDING THE CORNER OF WHICH HE +ROSTóV HEARD. +ROSTóV HIMSELF, HIS LEGS WELL BACK AND HIS STOMACH DRAWN IN AND FEELING +ROSTóV, HIS EYES AVOIDING DENíSOV, BEGAN BUTTONING HIS COAT, BUCKLED +ROSTóV HURRIEDLY PUT SOMETHING ON HIS FEET, DREW ON HIS DRESSING GOWN, +ROSTóV LAUGHED SO LOUD AND MERRILY THAT DENíSOV, IN HIS BEDROOM, FELT +ROSTóV LEARNED LATER THAT RUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN SOLDIERS HAD BEEN FIRING +ROSTóV LET GO OF THE HORSE AND WAS ABOUT TO RIDE ON, WHEN A WOUNDED +ROSTóV LOOKED AT AND LISTENED LISTLESSLY TO WHAT PASSED BEFORE AND +ROSTóV MET SóNYA IN THE DRAWING ROOM, HE REDDENED. HE DID NOT KNOW +ROSTóV NOTICED SOMETHING NEW IN DóLOKHOV’S RELATIONS WITH SóNYA, +ROSTóV RECALLED AT THAT MOMENT A STRANGE CONVERSATION HE HAD ONCE HAD +ROSTóV RODE ON AT A FOOTPACE NOT KNOWING WHY OR TO WHOM HE WAS NOW +ROSTóV, RUBBING HIS EYES THAT SEEMED GLUED TOGETHER, RAISED HIS +ROSTóV’S AND BACK, AND BACK AGAIN AND AGAIN IN AN INSTANT. +ROSTóV SAW NOTHING BUT THE HUSSARS RUNNING ALL AROUND HIM, THEIR SPURS +ROSTóV SAW OVERHEAD THE OLD FAMILIAR CORNICE WITH A BIT OF PLASTER +ROSTóV SAW TEARS FILLING THE EMPEROR’S EYES AND HEARD HIM, AS HE WAS +ROSTóV SAW THAT IT HAD BEEN WELL CONSIDERED BY THEM. SóNYA HAD ALREADY +ROSTóV’S FACE. A GENTLE, MILD LIGHT POURED FROM THEM. THEN ALL AT +ROSTóV’S FEELING, THERE WAS A DEATHLY STILLNESS AMID WHICH WAS HEARD +ROSTóV’S HORSE WAS ALSO GETTING RESTIVE: IT PAWED THE FROZEN GROUND, +ROSTóV SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS AS MUCH AS TO SAY: “NOR DO I, BUT +ROSTóV SMILED. +ROSTóV SMILINGLY REASSURED THE DRAGOON AND GAVE HIM MONEY. +ROSTóV SPURRED HIS HORSE, CALLED TO SERGEANT FéDCHENKO AND TWO OTHER +ROSTóV’S SHARE IN DóLOKHOV’S DUEL WITH BEZúKHOV WAS HUSHED UP BY +ROSTóV’S SOUL (IT SEEMED TO ROSTóV THAT HE UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING), +ROSTóV STAKED FIVE RUBLES ON A CARD AND LOST, STAKED AGAIN, AND AGAIN +ROSTóV, STANDING IN THE FRONT LINES OF KUTúZOV’S ARMY WHICH THE TSAR +ROSTóV, STILL LOOKING ROUND TOWARD THE FIRES AND THE SHOUTS, RODE WITH +ROSTóV STOPPED. +ROSTóV STOPPED HIS HORSE FOR A MOMENT ON A HILLOCK TO SEE WHAT WAS +ROSTóV SUBMITTED. HE LET THE EIGHT HUNDRED REMAIN AND LAID DOWN A SEVEN +ROSTóVS, WITH WHOM SHE STAYED WHEN IN THE TOWN AND WHERE HER DARLING +ROSTóV THRUST THE PURSE UNDER THE PILLOW AND SHOOK THE DAMP LITTLE HAND +ROSTóV TOO, BENDING OVER HIS SADDLE, SHOUTED “HURRAH!” WITH ALL HIS +ROSTóV TOOK THE LETTER AND, THROWING THE MONEY ON THE SOFA, PUT BOTH +ROSTóV TOOK THE MONEY AND, MECHANICALLY ARRANGING THE OLD AND NEW COINS +ROSTóV TOOK THE MONEY, AVOIDING TELYáNIN’S EYES, AND WENT OUT OF THE +ROSTóV TOOK THE PURSE IN HIS HAND, EXAMINED IT AND THE MONEY IN IT, AND +ROSTóV TURNED HIS HORSE AND GALLOPED BACK. FOUR MORE REPORTS FOLLOWED +ROSTóV WAS NOT FAR FROM THE TRUMPETERS, AND WITH HIS KEEN SIGHT HAD +ROSTóV WAS VERY HAPPY IN THE LOVE THEY SHOWED HIM; BUT THE FIRST +ROSTóV WAVED HIS CAP ABOVE HIS HEAD LIKE THE GERMAN AND CRIED LAUGHING, +ROSTóV WENT ON AHEAD TO DO WHAT WAS ASKED, AND TO HIS GREAT SURPRISE +ROSTóV WENT TO TELYáNIN’S QUARTERS. +ROSTóV, WHEN THEIR LEAVE PERMITS HAD BEEN PASSED AT THE TOWN GATE AND +ROSTóV, WHO HAD COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN DENíSOV, NOT WISHING ANYONE TO +ROSTóV, WHO HAD JUST CELEBRATED HIS PROMOTION TO A CORNETCY AND BOUGHT +ROSTóV WIPING HIS MUDDY HANDS ON HIS BREECHES LOOKED AT HIS ENEMY AND +ROSTóV WITH DóLOKHOV AND DENíSOV STAYED ON AT THE CLUB TILL LATE, +ROSTóV, WITHOUT RETURNING HOME, TOOK A HORSE AND RODE THERE. THERE WAS +ROSY, WAS SITTING IN AN EASY CHAIR WITH HER WORK IN HER HANDS, TALKING +ROSY, WITH A DARK LITTLE MUSTACHE, EVIDENTLY RESTED AND MADE SLEEKER BY +ROUND AND CLAPPING ROSTóV ON THE SHOULDER WITH HIS BIG HAND. +ROUND AND GALLOPED BACK TO THE PLACE WHERE HE HAD SEEN THE EMPEROR, BUT +ROUND AND NOTICES HERE A SPINDLE THAT HAS STOPPED OR THERE ONE THAT +ROUND AN OPEN WINDOW. THREE OTHERS WERE ROMPING WITH A YOUNG BEAR, ONE +ROUND HER HEAD. +ROUND HIS SON’S NECK, AND WITHOUT A WORD HE BEGAN TO SOB LIKE A CHILD. +ROUND MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA, NOW ON HIS TOES, NOW ON HIS HEELS; UNTIL, +ROUND ONCE MORE. THE FRENCH HAD FALLEN BEHIND, AND JUST AS HE LOOKED +ROUND. PRINCE ANDREW AND THE BATTALION WERE ALREADY WITHIN TWENTY PACES +ROUND-SHOULDERED CAPTAIN TúSHIN, STUMBLING OVER THE TAIL OF THE GUN +ROUND SHOULDERS SHUDDERED AS IF A COLD SHIVER HAD RUN DOWN THEM, HOW HIS +ROUND SóNYA AND NATáSHA AS THE AIR DOES BEFORE A THUNDERSTORM. SóNYA +ROUND THE COMPANY. HE NOTICED THE CHANGE IN THE LITTLE PRINCESS’ +ROUND THE FIRST MAN CHANGED HIS RUN TO A WALK AND, TURNING, SHOUTED +ROUND THE TABLE, THE CLATTER OF PLATES, KNIVES, AND GLASSES MINGLED WITH +ROUND THE TWO CORNERS OF THE MOUTH; THIS, TOGETHER WITH THE RESOLUTE, +ROUND WITH MUCH ANIMATION AND CHEERFULLY NODDED TO HIS SON AS THE LATTER +ROUSED BY ACTIVITY, EXPECTED THE BEST RESULTS FROM THE NEW CAMPAIGN, +ROUSED, HAD BEGUN TO TALK, AND WANTED TO EXPRESS WHAT HAD BROUGHT HIM TO +“ROUSSEAU’S CONTRAT SOCIAL,” SAID THE VICOMTE WITH A TOLERANT +ROWS OF FACES SO ALIKE YET SO DIFFERENT, HOLDING ITS BREATH WHILE THE +ROWS OF STATUES IN NICHES) AND LOOKING SIGNIFICANTLY AT THE LADY’S OLD +ROYALIST EMIGRANT. +RUBBED HIS FOREHEAD AS IF TO RID HIMSELF OF ALL INTEREST IN WHAT HE +RUBBING HIS BALD HEAD AND ANGRILY PULLING BACK TOWARD HIM THE LITTLE +RUBLES AT A TIME, TO TALK ABOUT NOT WISHING TO CRINGE TO ANYBODY AND NOT +RUBLES A YEAR? AND,” HE WENT ON AFTER A PAUSE, “WHAT WILL IT BE IN +RUBLES, DóLOKHOV LIVED WITH HIM AND HAD PLACED HIMSELF ON SUCH A +RUBLES I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH, AND SHE STANDS IN HER TATTERED +RUG AND BEGAN READING TO HIM FROM A MANUSCRIPT BOOK AN EXPLANATION OF +RUIN. WASN’T HE MY FRIEND? WASN’T I FOND OF HIM? BUT IT’S NOT HIS +RUMORED, THE ALLOWANCE OF FORAGE MONEY TO CAPTAINS OF COMPANIES WOULD BE +RUM WITHOUT TAKING IT FROM MY MOUTH, SITTING OUTSIDE THE WINDOW ON THIS +RUNNING. +RUNNING BESIDE TIMóKHIN, KILLED A FRENCHMAN AT CLOSE QUARTERS AND WAS +RUNNING? CAN THEY BE COMING AT ME? AND WHY? TO KILL ME? ME WHOM EVERYONE +RUNNING INTO SóNYA’S ROOM AND NOT FINDING HER THERE, NATáSHA RAN TO +RUNNING TO THE DOOR AND THE NOISE OF A CHAIR FALLING OVER, AND A GIRL +RUSHED OUT APPARENTLY BESIDE HERSELF WITH DELIGHT. +RUSHING AT THE CADET TO RESTRAIN HIM. +RUSH TO OBEY THE SUMMONS. “SEND DMíTRI TO ME!” +RUSSIAN. +RUSSIAN AND THE AUSTRIAN. THE GUARDS, JUST ARRIVED FROM RUSSIA, SPENT +RUSSIAN ARMS. +RUSSIAN ARMY. AND I WON’T—NOT EVEN IF BONAPARTE WERE HERE AT +RUSSIAN ARMY FOUND VENT IN ANGER AT ZHERKóV’S UNTIMELY JEST. + RUSSIAN ARMY, I MUST SAY THAT YOUR VICTORY WAS NOT +RUSSIAN ARMY LOOTS TERRIBLY—HER ARMY IS DESTROYED, HER CAPITAL +RUSSIAN ARMY! WELL, AS I WAS SAYING,” HE CONTINUED, RECOVERING HIS +RUSSIAN ARMY WILL BE FULLY EQUIPPED, AND SHALL THEN, IN CONJUNCTION WITH +RUSSIAN BATH. THE MOVEMENT OF THESE WRINKLES FORMED THE PRINCIPAL PLAY +RUSSIAN GENERAL. THE GENERAL SHOUTED A DEMAND THAT THE CAVALRY SHOULD BE +RUSSIAN MUSKETEER WHO HAD GONE UP TO THE PICKET LINE WITH AN OFFICER AND +RUSSIAN ON WHICH HE WISHED TO PUT A CONTEMPTUOUS EMPHASIS. +RUSSIANS FOUGHT, THE ONLY CONSEQUENCE OF THESE ACTIONS WAS A YET MORE +RUSSIANS FROM KREMS TO ZNAIM. + RUSSIANS! O’ER ALL BARRIERS ON! +RUSSIAN TROOPS AND THEIR COMMANDER OF THE LAURELS THEY HAVE BEEN +RUSSIAN TROOPS MOVING DOWN THE VALLEY TO THEIR LEFT. +RUSSIAN TROOPS WERE CROSSING THE RIVER ENNS. AT MIDDAY THE RUSSIAN +RUSSIAN VALOR—WHAT MORE COULD BE WISHED FOR?” +RUSSIA’S GLORY WERE LED TO DESTRUCTION. GO, PRINCESS MARY. GO AND TELL +RUSSIA WERE SETTLING NEAR THE FORTRESS OF BRAUNAU AND BURDENING THE +SABER HAD TASTED FLESH AND HE HAD FALLEN EXHAUSTED, AND SO ON. AND SO HE +SABER, HE SANK ON THE SNOW BESIDE IT. HIS LEFT HAND WAS BLOODY; HE WIPED +SABER THEM... WHOM? THE HUSSARS... AH, THE HUSSARS WITH MUSTACHES. ALONG +SABER WHICH HAD CAUGHT IN HIS CLOAK. IT WAS AN OLD-FASHIONED SABER OF +SABRETACHE...”—“KEEP TO THE RIGHT, YOUR HONOR, THERE ARE BUSHES +SACRAMENT, ALLOW HIM A MOMENT’S PEACE! HERE, PIERRE, TELL THEM YOUR +SACRAMENT. THE DYING MAN LAY AS LIFELESS AND IMMOVABLE AS BEFORE. AROUND +SACRIFICED EVERYTHING FOR HIS SAKE!” SHE CRIED. “IT’S SPLENDID! +SACRIFICED MYSELF. BUT ONLY THE BASE, THE VILE SUCCEED! I KNOW WHO HAS +SAD AND DEPRESSED. IT WAS ALL SO STRANGE, SO UNLIKE WHAT HE HAD HOPED. +SADDLE AND TOUCHED UP HIS HORSE TO RIDE ONCE MORE ROUND HIS HUSSARS. IT +SADDLE, HE GALLOPED TO THE OTHER FLANK OF THE SQUADRON AND SHOUTED IN +SADDLE SORE WHICH, COMING AFTER ALL MY PREVIOUS JOURNEYS, QUITE PREVENTS +SADNESS, AND THIS OCCURRED EVERY TIME SHE MENTIONED HER ILLUSTRIOUS +SAD VOICE, AS IF SAYING: “VERY WELL, FINISH ME OFF.” +SAID. +SAID. +SAID: +SAID A GUNNER, COMING UP TO TúSHIN. +SAID ANOTHER. +SAID A TALL, GRIZZLY-HAIRED STAFF CAPTAIN, WITH ENORMOUS MUSTACHES AND +SAID BILíBIN AS HE CAME OUT TO MEET PRINCE ANDREW. “FRANZ, PUT THE +SAID DóLOKHOV. +SAID HE. +SAID HE, BENDING DOWN A FINGER. +SAID HE, “BUT THE HEALTH OF OUR SOVEREIGN, THAT GOOD, ENCHANTING, AND +SAID HE, CARRYING AWAY INTO THE DARKNESS A GLOWING STICK. +SAID HE. “NOW FOR TROUBLE!” ROSTóV LOOKED OUT OF THE WINDOW AND +SAID HER EYES. SHE WAS NOT SURPRISED AT HIS HAVING COME; SHE DID +SAID, HOLDING THE CASEMENT AND NOT CLOSING IT. “WITH LANTERNS. MOST +SAID, “HOW AM I TO STIFLE IN MY HEART THESE TEMPTATIONS OF THE DEVIL? +SAID IN A TONE OF INDIFFERENT POLITENESS: +SAID INQUIRINGLY. +SAID IT, AND THEY ALL FELT AWKWARD. +SAID LITTLE IOGEL COMING UP TO NICHOLAS. “LOOK HOW MANY CHARMING YOUNG +SAID NOTHING TO BORíS AND, EVIDENTLY UNABLE TO SUPPRESS THE THOUGHTS +SAID, OF A WIFE WHO WAS A CELEBRATED BEAUTY AND OF MILLIONS OF MONEY. +SAID ONE OF THE NURSEMAIDS TO PRINCE ANDREW WHO WAS SITTING ON A +SAID PRINCE ANDREW, AS HE ENTERED THE STUDY, RUBBING HIS SMALL WHITE +SAID PRINCE ANDREW WHEN THEY HAD GONE INTO THE LARGE ROOM WHERE THE +SAID PRINCE ANDREW WHO HAD NOT YET HAD TIME TO EAT ANYTHING. +SAID REPNíN. +SAID ROSTóV, BLUSHING. +SAID ROSTóV IN AN IMPLORING VOICE, “BUT I CAN’T APOLOGIZE, BY GOD I +SAID SHE. +SAID SHE IN FRENCH, DISPLAYING HER BAG AND ADDRESSING ALL PRESENT. +SAID SHE, UTTERING THE WORD WITH PECULIAR ASSURANCE AND UNCONCERN, “I +SAID SHINSHíN, LAUGHING IRONICALLY AND MIXING THE MOST ORDINARY RUSSIAN +SAID: “THAT’S BAD! GO ON, GO ON.” +SAID THE COUNTESS. “BUT I AM IN GREAT NEED OF THIS SUM.” +SAID THE COUNTESS, INDIGNANT THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE DARED TO TREAT THIS +SAID THE COUNTESS SMILING. +SAID THE GENERAL, TURNING TO AN ARTILLERY OFFICER. “HAVE A LITTLE FUN +SAID: “THEN I WILL GO TO MY ROOMS. YOU WILL LET ME KNOW WHEN I CAN SEE +SAID THE OLD MAN, “SAY SO, MY DEAR SIR.” AND HE SUDDENLY SMILED, IN +SAID THE OLD SOLDIER DISMALLY TO A COMRADE, “YOU’LL FORGET TO +SAID THE PRINCESS, IGNORING HIS QUESTION. “NOW I KNOW! YES; IF I HAVE +SAID THE PRINCESS IN A TONE OF ENTREATY. +SAID THIS SOME TIME AFTER SHE HAD FINISHED SINGING. WHILE THAT UNTRAINED +SAID TO BE FLEEING IN GREAT DISORDER. MIND YOU GALLOP OFF TO KóRCHEVO +SAID TO HER, WENT TO THE LOOKING GLASS AND ARRANGED HER HAIR AND SCARF. +SAID, WITHOUT NOTICING NICHOLAS. +SAID WITHOUT SITTING DOWN. “A PERSON OF VERY HIGH STANDING IN OUR +SAID YESTERDAY... LET HIM GROW UP WITH YOU.... PLEASE.” +SAID ZHERKóV. +SAINT, MY ANGEL,” SHE SAID WITH A SIGH. +SAKE THAT THE LATTER MIGHT SAY SOMETHING HE WOULD AFTERWARDS REGRET. +SALUTING, AND THIS SOUND RAPIDLY CAME NEARER ALONG THE WHOLE EXTENDED +SALVER, GLANCED AROUND IN DISMAY, AS THOUGH SEEKING HELP. BUT ALL EYES +SAME!” +SAME?” +SAME AS USUAL,” AND PRINCESS MARY PALE, FRIGHTENED, AND WITH DOWNCAST +SAME COMMANDERS. THE SAILOR RARELY CARES TO KNOW THE LATITUDE IN WHICH +SAME EXPRESSION, WHICH SEEMED TO SAY THAT HE HAD A RIGHT TO SUPPOSE +SAME FIRM PRESSURE OF THE HAND AND THE SAME QUICK, REPEATED BOWS. AS +SAME.... IS EVERYTHING READY?” HE ADDED. “ONLY TELL ME WHERE TO GO +SAME MIND HE BEGAN EXPLAINING THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE +SAME MOMENT HIS KINDLY EYES GREW MOIST WITH TEARS OF JOY AND ENTHUSIASM. +SAME!” PIERRE OFTEN INDULGED IN REFLECTIONS OF THIS SORT, NULLIFYING +SAME QUESTION. “WILL PAPA BE BACK SOON?” +SAME SERGEANT MAJOR IVáN MíTRICH, THE SAME COMPANY DOG JACK, AND THE +SAME SPEED, BUT THEY KEPT INCREASING THEIR PACE, SO THAT SOME OF THE +SAME STATE OF EXCITEMENT AS WHEN SHE HAD SLAMMED THE DOOR OF HER ROOM. +SAME TIME AT THE EMPEROR FRANCIS. +SAME TIME FELT SHY. +SAME TO ME!” HE SCREAMED IN THE SAME PIERCING TONE AS WHEN PARTING +SAME WAY. WHEN DID IT HAPPEN AND WHAT HAS HAPPENED? I AM WELL AND STRONG +SAME. YOU’LL BE ALL RIGHT ANYWHERE. BUT LOOK HERE: GIVE UP VISITING +SANG THE QUARTETTE, “THE BROOK,” WITH WHICH EVERYONE WAS DELIGHTED. +SARCASTIC SMILE. +SATCHELS, SABRETACHES, OPEN PORTMANTEAUS, AND DIRTY BOOTS. TWO FRESHLY +SAT DOWN AGAIN, SMILING AT THE NOISE THEY HAD MADE AND EXCHANGING +SAT DOWN AT HER WRITING TABLE, ON WHICH STOOD MINIATURE PORTRAITS AND +SAT DOWN LANGUIDLY ON THE SOFA: HE FELT IT UNPLEASANT TO HAVE DROPPED +SAT FACING BAGRATIóN AND, AS THE VERY PERSONIFICATION OF MOSCOW +SAT IN AN ARMCHAIR IN HER DRESSING JACKET AND NIGHTCAP AND KATIE, SLEEPY +SATISFACTION. +SATISFIED WITH HIM?” HE ASKED THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER. +SATISFIED WITH THE PARTY. SHE REPLIED IN HER USUAL SIMPLE MANNER THAT +SAT PLAYING PATIENCE WITH THE OLD GENTLEWOMAN WHO LIVED IN THEIR HOUSE. +SAT UP AND BEGAN WIPING HER EYES AND EXPLAINING. +SAT WAITING FOR SOMETHING, AND AGAIN SOLDIERS STRAGGLING FROM THEIR +SAUSAGES AND A BOTTLE OF WINE. +SAVED. BUT HE SAW NOTHING. ABOVE HIM THERE WAS NOW NOTHING BUT THE +SAVE MYSELF?” HE THOUGHT. HE RODE ON TO THE REGION WHERE THE GREATEST +SAVIOUR’S WORDS, THAT IT IS EASIER FOR A CAMEL TO GO THROUGH THE +SAW A RATHER SHORT MAN. HAVING EVIDENTLY COME FROM THE LIGHT INTO THE +SAW—COVERED TO THE WAIST BY A BRIGHT GREEN QUILT—THE FAMILIAR, +SAW DENíSOV COMING HOME. DENíSOV WAS A SMALL MAN WITH A RED FACE, +SAW FRIENDLY LOOKS AND HEARD FRIENDLY WORDS. YESTERDAY’S ADJUTANT +SAW HIS SMILE, WHICH SAID NOTHING, UNLESS PERHAPS, “OPINIONS ARE +SAW THE BELOVED FEATURES THAT WERE SO DEEPLY ENGRAVED ON HIS MEMORY. THE +SAW THEM ALL AND SAW THEM IN DETAIL. SHE SAW PRINCE VASíLI’S FACE, +SAW WITH HIS OWN EYES BRICK BUILDINGS ERECTED OR IN COURSE OF ERECTION, +SAY. +SAY (AS HE HAS DONE BEFORE) THAT I’M IN THE DUMPS.” +SAY I’LL HAVE HIS HEAD OFF IF EVERYTHING IS NOT HERE IN A WEEK. +SAYING. +SAYING, AND SAT PLUNGED IN THOUGHT. FIVE MINUTES LATER, GENTLY SWAYING +SAYING AS HE MOVED FROM THE GUN, WHEN A STRANGE, UNFAMILIAR VOICE CALLED +SAYING. “I HAVE BEEN AN ATHEIST,” ANSWERED PIERRE. +SAYING IT RIGHT, I HAVE DRUNK A GOOD DEAL—BUT THAT IS HOW I FEEL, AND +SAYING.” PRINCE ANDREW LOOKED SILENTLY AT PIERRE WITH AN IRONIC SMILE. +SAYING SOMETHING WITTY AND STINGING. +SAYING THAT HE MUST PROSTRATE HIMSELF AT THE GATES OF THE TEMPLE. +SAYING THAT, ON THE CONTRARY, SHE REMEMBERED HIM QUITE WELL. THEN +SAYING THAT THE RUSSIAN LADIES ARE NOT EQUAL TO THE FRENCH? ONE HAS TO +SAYING THIS HE AGAIN TURNED ROUND, DROPPED HIS HANDS, TOOK THE BOTTLE +SAY IT.” +SAY SOMETHING BUT COULD NOT. HER BROTHER HAD GUESSED RIGHT: THE LITTLE +SAY THAT IT IS DULL IN MY HOUSE AGAIN,” AND SHE GLANCED AT HéLèNE. +SAY THAT THERE ARE ONLY TWO SOURCES OF HUMAN VICE—IDLENESS AND +SAY TO THE ADJUTANT THAT BORíS FELT UNCOMFORTABLE. HE TURNED AWAY AND +SAY—“YES, MISFORTUNE! CALL IT WHAT YOU PLEASE, I KNOW THAT WHAT +SCABBARD AND FLOURISHING IT. +SCA’CWOW? CALL THE QUAHTEHMASTEH,” HE SHOUTED TO LAVRúSHKA. +SCARRED AND PUFFY FACE. +SCHéRER.” +SCHéRER. AT THE OTHER END SAT THE YOUNGER AND LESS IMPORTANT GUESTS, +SCHéRER, MAID OF HONOR AND FAVORITE OF THE EMPRESS MáRYA FëDOROVNA. +SCHLAPPANITZ AND BELLOWITZ WHICH COVER THE ENEMY’S FRONT. FOR THIS +SCHLAPPANITZ AND THE THUERASSA FOREST, AVOIDING THE DEFILES OF +SCHöNBRUNN, 25TH BRUMAIRE, 1805, +“SCHON FLEISSIG?” * SAID ROSTóV WITH THE SAME GAY BROTHERLY SMILE +SCHöN GRABERN AFFAIR, JUST AS THOSE WHO HAVE TAKEN PART IN A BATTLE +SCHöN GRABERN—AND HE WOULD HAVE FOUND THAT EASIER. THE COMMITTEEMEN +SCHOOLBOY CALLED UP BEFORE A LARGE AUDIENCE FOR AN EXAMINATION IN WHICH +SCHOOLS,” HE WENT ON, CROOKING A FINGER, “EDUCATION AND SO FORTH; +SCHOSS, AND HIS OLD NURSE, AND ASKED THEM TO KISS FOR HIM “DEAR +“SCHUBERT, THE COLONEL OF THE PáVLOGRAD HUSSARS, IS DINING WITH US +SCIENCE EXPLAINING THE WHOLE CREATION AND MAN’S PLACE IN IT. TO +SCOUNDREL IS AGAIN AT OUR HEELS!” +SCOUNDREL? IS THAT HOW YOU LOOK AT IT? WE DON’T SEE IT LIKE THAT. AND +“SCOUNDRELS! BLACKGUARDS!” SHRIEKED THE OLD MAN, TURNING HIS FACE +SCRATCH FROM ONE PARAGRAPH TO ANOTHER WITH HIS HARD NAIL. +SCRATCH YOURSELF.” +SCREAMS, CONTINUED. +SCREAMS KEPT REPEATING: +SCREWED UP HIS EYES AS IF DAZZLED BY THE SUN. HE WAS ENTIRELY ABSORBED +SCREWING UP HIS EYES AND SHAKING WITH SUPPRESSED LAUGHTER, AND UNABLE +SCRUTINIZING ANATOLE CLOSELY AND INTENTLY. +SEARCH OF SOMEBODY AND ANSWERED ALL HER QUESTIONS IN MONOSYLLABLES. HE +SEAT. +SEATED THEM ON THE CENTER SOFA. THE BIGWIGS, THE MOST RESPECTED MEMBERS +SEATS IN THE DINING ROOM, ACCORDING TO THEIR RANK AND IMPORTANCE: THE + SECOND EPILOGUE +“SECOND LINE... HAVE YOU WRITTEN IT?” HE CONTINUED DICTATING TO THE +SECONDS HE STOOD NOT MOVING FROM THE SPOT OR REALIZING THE SITUATION. +SECOND TIME. BUT PIERRE WAS SO ABSORBED THAT HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT +SECRETARY OF THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY, DO NOT FEEL ANY NEED IN TOKEN OF MY +SECRETARY RATHER THAN COMMANDER IN THE ARMY. MY REMOVAL FROM THE ARMY +SECRETLY REGRETTING THIS, SAW ONLY THE DARK SIDE. +SECRET MALEVOLENCE IN THEIR HEARTS. +SEDATE, AND THE NAïVETé OF HIS YOUTHFUL EGOTISM WAS SO OBVIOUS, THAT +SEDUCED, AND TO WHOM HER POOR MOTHER (SA PAUVRE MèRE) APPEARED, AND +SEE HIS FACE. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA LEFT HIM, AND WHEN SHE RETURNED HE WAS +“SEE HOW SMART SHE’S MADE HERSELF! OH, THE DEVILS!” +SEE HOW THESE NESTLINGS ARE GROWING UP,” AND SHE POINTED TO THE GIRLS. +“SEE, I’M STANDING! SEE!” SHE SAID, BUT COULD NOT MAINTAIN HERSELF +SEEING ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA AND HER SON, PRINCE VASíLI DISMISSED THE +SEEING PRINCE ANDREW STOPPED, HESITATING ON THE THRESHOLD. HE WENT INTO +SEEING SOME MEN RUNNING TOWARD HIM. “THEY WILL HELP ME!” IN FRONT +SEEING THAT SMILE, ROSTóV INVOLUNTARILY SMILED HIMSELF AND FELT A STILL +SEEING THE FAVOR THE EMPEROR SHOWED THE PRISONERS, THEY NOW HASTENED TO +SEEING THE FRIGHT OF THAT SMALL AND FRAIL BUT PROUD MAN WHEN COVERED BY +SEEING THEM HE KEPT THINKING, “THAT MAY BE THE VERY STANDARD WITH +SEEK NOTHING, BE NOT ANXIOUS OR ENVIOUS. MAN’S FUTURE AND THY OWN FATE +SEEM. +SEEMED AS THOUGH NOT THE TRUMPETERS WERE PLAYING, BUT AS IF THE ARMY +SEEMED CONFUSED AND BLUSHED AS IF NOT KNOWING WHAT TO SAY. +SEEMED FAMILIAR TO PRINCESS MARY WAS SAYING SOMETHING. +SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE. “BUT PERHAPS THEY MAY DO IT!” FOR MORE THAN TEN +SEEMED LIKE A LIFELESS BODY, BUT AS SOON AS HE CAME UP IT BECAME ALIVE, +SEEMED LOADED WITH A WHOLE HOUSEFUL OF EFFECTS. A FINE BRINDLED COW WITH +SEEMED READY TO LIFT ITS TAIL, JUMP DOWN ON ITS SOFT PAWS, AND BEGIN +SEEMED TO ASK. SHE NOTICED AT ONCE THAT SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED TO HIM. +SEEMED TO BE POLES—ALL UNDER THE RUSSIAN CROWN—BUT HERE THEY’RE +SEEMED TO BE SEEKING SOMETHING, AND SOLDIERS DRAGGING DOORS, BENCHES, +SEEMED TO GIVE WAY WITHIN HIM AT THIS NEWS. DóLOKHOV WAS A SUITABLE AND +SEEMED TO GROAN AT THE TERRIBLE IMPACT. +SEEMED TO HAVE CHANGED ROLES SINCE THE CAMPAIGN OF 1805. THE OLD MAN, +SEEMED TO HEAR LEFT... LEFT... LEFT. +SEEMED TO HER THAT SOMEONE WAS THERE STANDING BEHIND THE SCREEN IN THE +SEEMED TO HIM ALL THE INTERESTS THAT ENGROSSED NAPOLEON, SO MEAN DID HIS +SEEMED TO HIM AS THOUGH ONE OF THE SOLDIERS NEAR HIM HIT HIM ON THE HEAD +SEEMED TO HIM LIKE ANTS. IN THAT WORLD, THE HANDSOME DRUNKARD NUMBER ONE +SEEMED TO HIM THAT BOGDáNICH RODE SO NEAR IN ORDER TO SHOW HIM HIS +SEEMED TO HIM THAT HE HAD EXPECTED ALL THIS AND EVEN MORE. TRYING +SEEMED TO HIM THAT IT WAS A VERY LONG TIME AGO, ALMOST A DAY, SINCE HE +SEEMED TO HIM THAT IT WAS GETTING LIGHTER. TO THE LEFT HE SAW A SLOPING +SEEMED TO ME TO HAVE AN EXCELLENT HEART, AND THAT IS THE QUALITY I VALUE +SEEMED TO SAY. SHE SAW HER HUSBAND, BUT DID NOT REALIZE THE SIGNIFICANCE +SEEMED TO SAY: “YES, THERE’S NOTHING LEFT FOR YOU AND ME BUT TO SIP +SEEMED TO SAY. “YOU HAD NOT NOTICED THAT I AM A WOMAN? YES, I AM A +SEEMED TO WISH, BUT TO BE UNABLE, TO DIMINISH ITS EFFECT. +SEEMING TO GROW SUDDENLY SMALLER, AND RESPECTFULLY RECEIVED THE BLESSING +SEEM TO HIM THAT EVERYONE IS AFRAID OF HIM, AND THAT MUST PLEASE HIM. +SEEN HIM IN PETERSBURG. I SAW HIM JUST AS I SEE YOU.... THERE HE SAT IN +SEEN HIM SINCE WE ACTED TOGETHER AT THE RUMYáNTSOVS’ THEATRICALS. I +SEEN. PRINCE ANDREW STOPPED AND BEGAN EXAMINING THE POSITION. +SEEN THE DAY BEFORE IN THE ARMS OF HER NURSE’S DAUGHTER—AT HER +SEEN THE LIGHT, COME HERE? WHAT DO YOU SEEK FROM US? WISDOM, VIRTUE, +SEEN. THE LINES OF THAT MOUTH WERE REMARKABLY FINELY CURVED. THE MIDDLE +SEEN THROUGH. +SEEN YOU. VERY GLAD! GO BACK TO YOUR ROOMS, PRINCESS. GO!” SAID +SEE THE SOLDIERS’ SHAGGY CAPS, DISTINGUISH THE OFFICERS FROM THE MEN, +SEE THE TRUE LIGHT, AND THAT HE, PIERRE, OUGHT TO AID, ENLIGHTEN, AND +SEE THOSE WHO, JUDGING BY THE SOUND OF HOOFS AND VOICES, HAD RIDDEN UP +SEE WHETHER HE CANNOT ATTACH YOU TO HIMSELF OR FIND A PLACE FOR YOU +SEE WHETHER IT WAS FIRMLY PLAITED, AND GRASPING HIS BY THE HAND. “THE +SEE WHETHER THEY WERE GETTING UP. +SEE YOU,” HE ADDED, BOWING HIS HEAD. +SEIZED BY AN UNREASONING PANIC—IT OCCURRED TO HIM THAT THE CHILD WAS +SEIZED BY TERROR LEST HE HAD ALREADY, IN SOME WAY, BOUND HIMSELF TO DO +SEIZED HIM AT THE THOUGHT OF THAT DREADFUL STEP. A THOUSAND TIMES DURING +SEIZE SOME HORSECLOTHS, THOUGH HE HAD TOLD HIM THE RUSSIANS WERE THERE. +SEIZING HIS FATHER’S HAND, HE PRESSED IT TO HIS LIPS AND BURST INTO +SEIZING THE MOST OPPORTUNE MOMENT FOR MAKING USE OF PEOPLE. +SELF, AND SO BEFORE ONE CAN KNOW, IT IS NECESSARY TO BELIEVE AND TO +SELF-COMPLACENCY THAN HIS DID.) “WELL, HE STORMED AT ME, AS THE SAYING +SELF-COMPLACENT HAPPINESS THAT ONE SEES ON THE FACE OF A BOY HAPPILY +SELF-CONFIDENCE, WHILE HIS BODY WAS THIN AND WEAK. HIS EYES, NOSE, AND +SELF-CONFIDENT. +SELF-CONFIDENT FRENCH; THEN AGAIN, LIKE A MAN WEARY BUT UNFLINCHING IN +SELF-DERISION GENUINELY RUSSIAN. BILíBIN WROTE THAT THE OBLIGATION OF +SELF-POSSESSION. IF A MAN LACKING IN SELF-CONFIDENCE REMAINS DUMB ON +SELF-POSSESSION MINGLED AT THAT MOMENT IN ROSTóV’S SOUL. +SELF-RESPECT, BUT ADMIT THAT THE TIME AND PLACE ARE VERY BADLY CHOSEN. +SELF-SATISFIED. +SELF-SATISFIED, YOUTHFUL, AND CONSTANT SMILE OF ANIMATION, AND BY THE +“SELL ME THE MISSIS,” SAID ANOTHER SOLDIER, ADDRESSING THE GERMAN, +“SELL US THAT HORSE!” DENíSOV CALLED OUT TO THE COSSACKS. +“SEMëN! DO YOU KNOW THE DANIEL COOPER?” +SEMI-PRIVATE, LONG-ESTABLISHED JOKES AND AMUSING REMINISCENCES, THOUGH +SEND HIS ORDERLY STAFF OFFICER, AND LATER PRINCE ANDREW ALSO, TO ORDER +SENSATION OF FEAR AND RESPECT WHICH THE OLD MAN INSPIRED IN ALL AROUND +SENSATION OF THOSE TERRIBLE WHISTLING SOUNDS AND OF THE CORPSES AROUND +SENSELESS CRY, “CUT OFF!” THAT IS SO TERRIBLE IN BATTLE, AND THAT +SENSE OF AWE AND VENERATION SUCH AS HE HAD EXPERIENCED IN HIS BOYHOOD AT +SENT AN OFFICIAL TO AUSTRIA TO SEEK FOR TRACES OF HIS SON, HE ORDERED A +SENT DóLOKHOV THE WHOLE FORTY-THREE THOUSAND RUBLES AND RECEIVED HIS +SENTIMENTS,” HE SEEMED TO BE SAYING, “SO MUCH THE WORSE FOR YOU!” +SENT INSTEAD OF OUR DEAR WINTZINGERODE YOU WOULD HAVE CAPTURED THE KING +SENT TO MOSCOW. THE STORY TOLD ABOUT HIM AT COUNT ROSTóV’S WAS TRUE. +SENT YOU. RELIGIOUS! I DON’T INTERFERE WITH ANYONE’S BELIEF... I +SEPARATELY THROUGH HIS THIN COMPRESSED LIPS, “I WILL THROW HIM DOWN +“SEPARATE? VERY WELL, BUT ONLY IF YOU GIVE ME A FORTUNE,” SAID +SEPARATING THE LIVING FROM THE DEAD—LAY BETWEEN THEM. ALL WERE +SEPARATION! THOUGH I TELL MYSELF THAT HALF MY LIFE AND HALF MY HAPPINESS +SERGEANT IN CHARGE OF THE CANNON WHICH WAS TO GIVE THE SIGNAL TO FIRE +SERGEANT WAS CARRYING IN A WOODEN BOWL TO AN OFFICER WHO SAT ON A LOG +‘SERGéY’ HE SOBBED, ‘KUZ-Mí-CH,’ TEARS, AND ‘FROM ALL +“SERGéY KUZMíCH—FROM ALL SIDES—” HE SAID, UNBUTTONING THE TOP +SERGéY KUZMíCH...’ POOR VYAZMíTINOV COULD NOT GET ANY FARTHER! +SERIOUS DUEL, AND BESIDES, DRUBETSKóY, WHO SAYS HE IS AN OLD FRIEND +SERIOUS EXPRESSION. BUT THE AUTHOR HIMSELF TOOK THE VERSES AND BEGAN +SERIOUS FOR AN INSTANT AT THE SIGHT OF HER, BUT IMMEDIATELY SMILING +SERIOUSNESS OF HIS STUPID SMILE, COULD NOT BUT GIVE HIM A MOMENT’S +SERIOUS TONE, “BUT THE PRINCE TOLD ME TO ‘GO AND TELL THE COLONEL +SERVANT. +SERVANTS SAY IN A FRIGHTENED WHISPER. “CATCH HOLD FROM UNDERNEATH. +SERVANTS WITH LANTERNS WERE BUSTLING ABOUT IN THE PORCH. THE IMMENSE +SERVED UP WAS RECEIVED WITH PLEASURE BY ALL HER VISITORS. THE GREATEST +SERVE HIM. ROSTóV PATTED THE HORSE’S NECK AND THEN HIS FLANK, AND +SERVICE.” +SERVICE. A LITTLE BEHIND THEM STOOD THE TWO YOUNGER PRINCESSES HOLDING +SERVICE, AND HE AT ONCE UNDERSTOOD HIS ROLE, LETTING HIS HOSTESS MAKE +SERVICE IS TO SERVE UNDER HIM.” +SERVICE... IT CAN’T BE HELPED... ONE IS SOMETIMES A BIT HASTY ON +SERVICE,” SAID THE PRINCE DISDAINFULLY. “WHY HIS SON IS COMING I +SERVICE TO PLACE HIMSELF VERY ADVANTAGEOUSLY. HE WAS AIDE-DE-CAMP TO A +SERVING AS A PRIVATE. BUT THE COMMAND OF THE EXTREME LEFT FLANK HAD BEEN +SERVING OUR TSAR AND OUR COUNTRY, REJOICING IN THE SUCCESSES AND +SET FIRE TO THE SCHöN GRABERN VILLAGE, DELAYED THE FRENCH ADVANCE. THE +SET OFF TO REJOIN THE ARMY, NOT KNOWING WHERE HE WOULD FIND IT AND +SETTING FIRE TO SCHöN GRABERN. +SETTING IT ON FIRE AND THE FRENCH BATTERIES WERE NOW FIRING AT THEM, NO +SETTING, ON A FINELY WROUGHT SILVER CHAIN. +SETTLED DOWN COMFORTABLY BESIDE THE FIRE. +SETTLED. HE CAME BECAUSE OF SóNYA. AND SóNYA, THOUGH SHE WOULD NEVER +SETTLED INTO THREE GROUPS. ONE, CHIEFLY MASCULINE, HAD FORMED ROUND +“SETTLED!” REPLIED BORíS. +SET WITHOUT WHOM MY WIFE CANNOT EXIST, AND THOSE WOMEN.... IF YOU ONLY +SEVEN HE NEEDED WAS LYING UPPERMOST, THE FIRST CARD IN THE PACK. HE HAD +SEVEN IN THE MORNING BUT HAD NOT REACHED IT BY FIVE IN THE AFTERNOON.” +“SEVEN NEW AND THREE OLD IMPERIALS.” +SEVENTEEN OF THE FORTY MEN OF THE GUNS’ CREWS HAD BEEN DISABLED, BUT +SEVEN VIRTUES, CORRESPONDING TO THE SEVEN STEPS OF SOLOMON’S TEMPLE, +SEVERAL DEAD MEN. ONE BALL AFTER ANOTHER PASSED OVER AS HE APPROACHED +SEVERAL OF THEM WERE NOT SEPARATED FROM ONE ANOTHER BUT MERGED INTO A +SEVERAL OF THOSE PRESENT SMILED AT ZHERKóV’S WORDS, EXPECTING ONE OF +SEVERAL PERSONS WHOM HE DID NOT KNOW, GIVING HIM A WHISPERED DESCRIPTION +SEVERAL SOLDIERS FELL. +SEVERAL SOLDIERS FELL, AND A SECOND LIEUTENANT WHO WAS HOLDING THE +SEVERAL THOUSAND RUBLES. +SEVERAL THOUSAND RUBLES QUITRENT RECEIVED FROM PIERRE’S PEASANTS, +SEVERAL TIMES IN THE COURSE OF THE MORNING PRINCESS MARY BEGAN TRYING TO +SEVERAL WOUNDED MEN PASSED ALONG THE ROAD, AND WORDS OF ABUSE, SCREAMS, +SEVERE GAZE STRAIGHT ON PIERRE’S FACE. +SEVERELY. “YOU DON’T WISH TO APOLOGIZE, BUT, MAN, IT’S NOT ONLY TO +SEVERITY CHANGED, AND HE DREW PIERRE’S HAND DOWNWARDS, MADE HIM SIT +SEVERITY. THE DANCE GREW LIVELIER AND LIVELIER. THE OTHER COUPLES COULD +SHADING HIS EYES WITH HIS SMALL HAND. +SHADOW OF THE WALL. PAUSING FOR A MOMENT, PIERRE NOTICED SEVERAL OTHER +SHAKO ON THE BACK OF HIS HEAD. HE CAME UP TO THE PORCH GLOOMILY, HANGING +SHALL NOT AGREE WITH YOU, AND YOU DO NOT REALLY BELIEVE WHAT YOU ARE +SHALL REPROACH MY WIFE WITH ANYTHING, AND I CANNOT REPROACH MYSELF +SHALL THINK NOTHING OF AN EXTRA SEVENTY MILES TO COME AND SEE YOU AT +“SHALL WE HAVE THREE COLD DISHES THEN?” ASKED THE COOK. +“SHALL WE HAVE TIME TO CHANGE CLOTHES?” +“SHALL YOU WRITE TO HIM?” SHE ASKED. +SHAME AND ANGER CHOKING HIM, HAD ALREADY LEAPT FROM HIS HORSE AND RUN TO +SHAMELESS, AND HE IGNORES HER!” +SHARE DEFEAT AND DISGRACE WITH KUTúZOV’S WHOLE ARMY.” +SHARPLY, WITH A SLIGHT TREMBLING OF THE LOWER JAW, “I CAN’T PREVENT +SHARPSHOOTERS IN FRONT OF OUR COLUMNS. THE COLONEL AT THE HEAD OF THE +SHARPSHOOTERS SHOWED THEMSELVES IN THE COPSE. IT WAS TIMóKHIN’S +SHAWL HAD BEEN ADJUSTED HE KEPT HIS ARM AROUND HER FOR A LONG TIME, AS +SHE ADDED HURRIEDLY. “NO, DON’T BE ANGRY, BUT PROMISE! I HAVE ASKED +SHE ADDED, TURNING TO HER HOSTESS. “YOU WROTE THAT IT WAS TO BE QUITE +SHE ALREADY HAD POWER OVER HIM, AND BETWEEN THEM THERE WAS NO LONGER ANY +SHE ALWAYS ADDRESSED HIM WITH A RADIANTLY CONFIDING SMILE MEANT FOR HIM +SHE APPROACHED HIM, SAW HIS FACE, AND SOMETHING GAVE WAY WITHIN HER. HER +SHE BECAME STILL MORE ANIMATED AND CHATTERED AWAY GIVING HIM GREETINGS +SHE BEGAN TO SMILE AND TALK. HE ASKED ABOUT MUTUAL ACQUAINTANCES, AND +SHE BEGAN TO TELL OF HOW AT POTSDAM THE IMPIOUS BONAPARTE HAD STOLEN THE +SHE BROUGHT INTO PRINCESS MARY’S STRENUOUS, MOURNFUL, AND GLOOMY +SHE CAME UP FEARLESS AND GAY TO KISS HER HAND. “I KNOW SHE’S A SCAMP +SHE CAUGHT THE YOUNG OFFICER BY HIS CUFFS, AND A LOOK OF SOLEMNITY AND +SHE CONSIDERED THE RESONANCE WAS BEST. +SHE CONTINUED, UNITING THEM BOTH IN ONE GLANCE. PIERRE DID NOT LOOK AT +SHE COULD NOT LIE EITHER ON HER FACE OR ON HER SIDE. EVERY POSITION WAS +SHE CROSSED HERSELF, KISSED THE ICON, AND HANDED IT TO ANDREW. +SHED, AND ITS TONE WAS SO SINCERE THAT HE COULD NOT BUT LISTEN. +SHE DREW NEARER TO HIM. HER FACE FLUSHED. +SHE FALTERED. “YOU ARE ON GOOD TERMS WITH MICHAEL ILARIóNOVICH +SHE FELT ANY SYMPTOMS OF PREGNANCY. SHE LAUGHED CONTEMPTUOUSLY AND SAID +SHE FELT GUILTY. +SHE FORGOT ALL FEAR OF HER FATHER, WENT UP TO HIM, TOOK HIS HAND, AND +SHE GAVE HER COMPANION AN ANGRY GLANCE. +(SHE GLANCED AT HéLèNE AND SMILED AT HER.) “MY DEAR HéLèNE, BE +SHE GREW CONFUSED, GLANCED ROUND, AND, SEEING THE DOLL SHE HAD THROWN +SHE HAD A FAN IN HER HAND THAT ONE OF THE LADIES HAD GIVEN HER TO HOLD. +SHE HAD BEEN MARRIED DURING THE PREVIOUS WINTER, AND BEING PREGNANT DID +SHE HAD DETERMINED NOT TO TELL HER AND PERSUADED HER FATHER TO HIDE THE +SHE HAD FINISHED SPEAKING TO HIM, AND NOW HE CONTINUED TO SPEAK TO +SHE HAD FIRST ENTERED THE ROOM—THE SMILE OF A PERFECTLY BEAUTIFUL +SHE HAD JUST VACATED. “YOU HAVE MADE THE PLACE WARM, I MUST SAY,” HE +SHE HAD LEARNED IT) SHE TALKED WITH HER PARTNER, FANNING HERSELF AND +SHE HAD SACRIFICED SO MUCH. SHE COULD NOT REFRAIN FROM WEEPING AT THESE +SHE HAD SELDOM EXPERIENCED, CAME UPON HER. SHE FEARED TO LOOK ROUND, IT +SHE HAD SPOKEN TO HIPPOLYTE IN THE DRAWING ROOM AND WHICH WAS SO PLAINLY +SHE HAS A BROTHER; I THINK YOU KNOW HIM, HE MARRIED LISE MEINEN LATELY. +SHE HURRIEDLY ASCENDED THE NARROW DIMLY LIT STONE STAIRCASE, CALLING TO +“SHE IS NOT VERY WELL,” ANSWERED MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE WITH +SHE KNEW OF THE DUEL AND HAD COME TO SPEAK ABOUT IT. SHE WAITED TILL THE +SHE KNEW SO WELL), ON THE LOCK OF GRAY HAIR THAT ESCAPED FROM UNDER THE +SHE LED HIM INTO THE DARK DRAWING ROOM AND PIERRE WAS GLAD NO ONE COULD +“SHE LET THE HAWK FLY UPWARD FROM HER WIDE RIGHT SLEEVE,” WENT THE +SHE LOOKED AT HIM INQUIRINGLY AND WITH CHILDLIKE REPROACH. +SHE LOOKED ROUND AND SEEING THAT HER FRIEND WAS NOT IN THE ROOM RAN TO +SHE LOOKED TIMIDLY AT HER BROTHER. +SHELTERS WITH MERRY CHATTER AND LAUGHTER; AROUND THE FIRES SAT OTHERS, +SHE MOVED TOWARD ANNA PáVLOVNA. HéLèNE WAS SO LOVELY THAT NOT ONLY +SHE MUST BE ON THE CHEST IN THE PASSAGE. THE CHEST IN THE PASSAGE WAS +SHE MUST LOVE HIM IF SHE COULD SO FAR FORGET HERSELF! PERHAPS I MIGHT +“SHE NEEDS REST,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW WITH A FROWN. “DON’T YOU, +SHE NOT ONLY LEFT HER HAIR AS IT WAS, BUT DID NOT EVEN LOOK IN HER +SHE OUGHT TO BEHAVE LIKE MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, BUT COULD NOT. +SHE PAUSED, AS WOMEN ALWAYS DO, EXPECTING SOMETHING AFTER THEY HAVE +SHE PULLED UP HER MUSLIN SLEEVE AND SHOWED HIM A RED SCAR ON HER LONG, +SHE PUSHED THE LITTLE DOG OFF HER LAP AND SMOOTHED HER DRESS. +SHE RANG FOR HER MAID AND ASKED HER TO SLEEP IN HER ROOM. +SHE ROSE AND SMOOTHED HER HAIR, WHICH WAS AS USUAL SO EXTREMELY SMOOTH +SHE ROUSED HERSELF, AND FELT APPALLED AT WHAT SHE HAD BEEN THINKING, AND +SHE RUSHED TO SóNYA, HUGGED HER, AND BEGAN TO CRY. +“SHE SAID.... OH YES! SHE SAID, ‘GIRL,’ TO THE MAID, ‘PUT ON A +SHE SAID, TRYING TO SMILE THOUGH TEARS WERE IN HER EYES. +SHE SEEMED THAT DAY TO BE MORE THAN EVER KIND AND AFFECTIONATE TO +SHE SEEMED TO PROMISE TO EXPLAIN THAT NECESSITY TO HIM WHEN HE CAME ON +SHE SMILED AS SHE UTTERED HIS PET NAME, “ANDRúSHA.” IT WAS +SHE SUDDENLY CAME INTO HIS MIND AS SHE WAS AT THE MOMENTS WHEN HE HAD +SHE SUDDENLY PAUSED, SMILING AT HER OWN IMPETUOSITY. +SHE THOUGHT: “IF I SEEM NOT TO NOTICE HE WILL THINK THAT I DO NOT +SHE TOOK A PAIR OF PEAR-SHAPED RUBY EARRINGS FROM HER HUGE RETICULE AND, +SHE TOOK HIS ARM AND WITH A HAPPY FACE WENT WITH HIM INTO THE ADJOINING +SHE TOOK THE LIBERTY OF INQUIRING WHETHER IT WAS LONG SINCE ANATOLE +SHE TRIED TO PASS ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, BUT THE LATTER SPRANG SO AS TO BAR +SHE TURNED AWAY AND GAVE HER HAND TO THE COUNT, WHO COULD HARDLY KEEP +SHE TURNED AWAY FROM HIM AND GLANCED AT HER YOUNGER BROTHER, WHO WAS +SHE TURNED TO GO, BUT HE STOPPED HER WITH A GESTURE AND TOOK AN UNCUT +SHE TURNED TO HIS FATHER. THE CONVERSATION WAS GENERAL AND ANIMATED, +SHE UNDERSTOOD ALL THE GRAVITY OF HER FRIEND’S TROUBLE. +(SHE USED THE WORD “DIPLOMAT,” WHICH WAS JUST THEN MUCH IN VOGUE +SHE USED TO HAVE QUARRELS WITH THE TOO INDULGENT COUNT, THAT SON WHO +SHE WAS DANCING WITH A GROWN-UP MAN, WHO HAD BEEN ABROAD. SHE WAS +SHE WAS MUCH ALTERED. SHE WAS NOW PLAIN RATHER THAN PRETTY. HER CHEEKS +SHE WAS, NATáSHA, WHO KNEW HOW SENSITIVE HER MOTHER WAS TO ANYTHING +SHE WAS NO LONGER IN THE LOOSE GOWN SHE GENERALLY WORE IN THE MORNING, +SHE WAS NOT A FOOL TO WANT TO HAVE CHILDREN, AND THAT SHE WAS NOT GOING +SHE WAS NOW SAYING SHE HAD TALKED OF BEFORE, WITH TEARS. +“SHE WAS SO TIRED THAT SHE HAS FALLEN ASLEEP ON THE SOFA IN MY ROOM. +“SHE WENT. SUDDENLY THERE WAS A GREAT WIND. THE GIRL LOST HER HAT AND +“SHE WILL GO TO THE COUNTRY.” +SHE WISHED TO AND ONLY REFRAINED OUT OF REGARD FOR HIS MODESTY. +SHE WOULD SAY. WHAT COULD ALL THAT MATTER IN COMPARISON WITH THE WILL OF +SHINING EYES, NOT INTERRUPTING OR QUESTIONING HIM, BUT BELIEVING WITH +SHINSHíN, A COUSIN OF THE COUNTESS’, A MAN WITH “A SHARP TONGUE” +SHINSHíN. “HE HAS STOPPED AUSTRIA’S CACKLE AND I FEAR IT WILL BE +SHIRT, AND IN EVERY KNAPSACK THE APPOINTED NUMBER OF ARTICLES, “AWL, +SHOD IN A TARTAR BOOT EMBROIDERED WITH SILVER, AND THE FIRM PRESSURE +SHONE WITH SUCH GAIETY AND YOUTH, SUCH INNOCENT YOUTH, THAT IT SUGGESTED +SHOOTING AT YOU LIKE A TARGET.” +SHOPS, BAKERS’ SIGNBOARDS, STREET LAMPS, AND SLEIGHS!” THOUGHT +SHORTLY AFTER NINE O’CLOCK THAT EVENING, WEYROTHER DROVE WITH HIS +SHORTSIGHTED DELIGHT AT THE MISERY OF OTHERS, AND DOUBTS AND TORMENTS +SHORT STURDY FIGURE WITH THE SINEWY HAIRY HAND AND STUMPY FINGERS IN +SHOTS CAME. +SHOULD ALREADY HAVE SUGGESTED TO YOUR HEART, IF IT IS SINCERE, MORE THAN +SHOULD BE A NICE SET OF FELLOWS IF WE WERE TO WAIT ABOUT AND SO GIVE HIM +SHOULD BE GLAD AND NOT CRY.” +SHOULD BE IF I COULD NOW SAY: ‘LORD, HAVE MERCY ON ME!’... BUT TO +SHOULDER AND LEFT THE ROOM WITHOUT SNUFFING THE CANDLES OR SAYING WHY HE +SHOULDER AND TAKING HIS FEET OFF THE SOFA. +SHOULDERS AND DROPPED HIS EYES AS IF STARTLED BY SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY +SHOULDERS AND EYES, ALMOST CLOSING THE LATTER, SIGHED, AND MOVED AWAY +SHOULDERS. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WITH JUST THE SAME MOVEMENT RAISED HER +SHOULDERS CLOSE TO HIS EYES. +SHOULDERS, TURNED OUT HIS TOES, TAPPED GENTLY WITH HIS FOOT, AND, BY +SHOULDER, THEIR BAYONETS INTERLOCKING, MOVED OVER THE BRIDGE IN A DENSE +SHOULD GET NOT MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED RUBLES EVERY FOUR MONTHS, EVEN +SHOULD MUCH LIKE TO BE AN ADJUTANT AND NOT REMAIN AT THE FRONT.” +SHOULD NOW BE AWAY IN A FOREIGN LAND AMID STRANGE SURROUNDINGS, A MANLY +“SHOULDN’T WE NOW SEND FOR BERG?” ASKED BORíS. “HE WOULD DRINK +SHOULD ONE LOVE AND WHAT HATE? WHAT DOES ONE LIVE FOR? AND WHAT AM I? +SHOUTED. +SHOUTED DENíSOV IN A BLOODTHIRSTY TONE. +SHOUTED DENíSOV, SUDDENLY, TURNING PURPLE AND RUSHING AT THE MAN WITH +SHOUTED HOARSELY. +SHOUTED “HURRAH!” IN EXACTLY THE SAME VOICE IN WHICH HE HAD SHOUTED +SHOUTED THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, THRUSTING FORWARD HIS JAW AND POINTING +SHOUTED TO HIM: +SHOUTING. +SHOUTING CAME FROM, A FIRE FLARED UP AND WENT OUT AGAIN, THEN ANOTHER, +SHOUTING GREW LOUDER AND LOUDER. ROSTóV COULD HEAR THE SOUND OF FRENCH +SHOUTS OF HURRAH, AND SAW WOUNDED BEING BROUGHT BACK (THERE WERE NOT +SHOUTS OF THOUSANDS OF VOICES. HIS HORSE AND THE HORSE OF THE HUSSAR +SHOWED A PAPER SHE HELD IN HER HAND—WITH THE VERSES NICHOLAS HAD +SHOWED GREATNESS OF SOUL BY NOT FEARING TO TAKE ON HIMSELF THE WHOLE +SHOWED HOW HE PRESENTED HIMSELF, WITH HIS HAND TO HIS CAP, AND REALLY +SHOWED THAT, IN SPITE OF ALL HIS LOVE AND RESPECT FOR HIS FATHER, HE WAS +SHOW HER OVER, AND THEY’LL TALK NINETEEN TO THE DOZEN. THAT’S +SHOWING THE CREASES WHERE IT HAD BEEN FOLDED AND THICK GOLD EPAULETTES +SHOWING THE NECESSITY OF FIRST PAYING OFF THE LOANS FROM THE LAND BANK, +SHOWING THE SPOT WHERE IT BURST. +SHOWING UNDER HIS OPEN SHIRT, HE STOOD IN A MAJESTIC POSE IN THE LIGHT +SHOWN, FIRED. NOT AT ALL EXPECTING SO LOUD A REPORT, PIERRE SHUDDERED +SHOWN TO THE BEST ROOM, WHICH DóLOKHOV HAD TAKEN FOR THAT EVENING. SOME +SHUDDER OF DISGUST. +“SHUT UP!” +“SHUT UP!” CRIED DóLOKHOV, PUSHING HIM AWAY FROM THE WINDOW. THE +SICK MAN HAD BEEN LAID IN A STATELY POSE IN KEEPING WITH THE CEREMONY +SIDE AND AT FIRST DID NOT PLAY. DóLOKHOV KEPT GLANCING AT HIM. +SIDE AND LOOKED ROUND WITH A FROWN. ALONG THE ROAD FROM PRATZEN GALLOPED +SIDE AS HER BETROTHED, SEEING, HEARING, FEELING HER NEARNESS, HER +SIDE BY SIDE. PRINCE VASíLI WAS NOT HAVING ANY SUPPER: HE WENT ROUND +SIDE OF THE QUESTION AND YOU WILL SEE THAT YOUR DUTY, ON THE CONTRARY, +SIDE (ONLY NOW DID PIERRE REALIZE HOW NEAR DEATH HIS FATHER WAS), AND +SIDES. HE ACKNOWLEDGED NO ACQUAINTANCES BUT SAW IN ALL THESE MEN ONLY +SIDE, SO CLOSE TO OUR OWN FORCES THAT NAPOLEON WITH THE NAKED EYE COULD +SIDES’ WAS SMOTHERED IN SOBS AND HE COULD GET NO FARTHER. AND AGAIN +SIDEWAYS AT PRINCESS MARY FROM A LITTLE DISTANCE. “YOU HAVE A MAROON +“SIDEWAYS! COVER YOURSELF WITH YOUR PISTOL!” EJACULATED NESVíTSKI. +SíDOROV, TURNING TO THE FRENCH, WINKED, AND BEGAN TO JABBER MEANINGLESS +SIGHED. “I HAVE LOVED YOU LIKE A SON FROM THE FIRST. TRUST YOURSELF TO + SIGHING ITS MESSAGE OUT TO THEE... +SIGHT OF HIS SUPERIORS, HE DID NOT NOTICE THE STAFF OF THE BANNER AND +SIGHT OF MURAT’S MANTLE AND OSTRICH PLUMES, QU’IL N’Y VOIT QUE DU +SIGHT OF TEARS AND WAS READY TO CRY HIMSELF. +SIGN. +SIGNIFICANT COMMAND TO COME TO HER ON TUESDAY. +SIGNIFICANTLY AT HER HUSBAND) “I’M AFRAID, I’M AFRAID!” SHE +SIGN OF STRENGTH. +SIGN PAPERS, TO PRESENT HIMSELF AT GOVERNMENT OFFICES, THE PURPOSE OF +SIGNS TO THE FOOTMEN, AND ANXIOUSLY GLANCING FROM THE CLOCK TO THE DOOR +SIGN THAT THIS WAS EXACTLY WHAT HE HAD DESIRED AND EXPECTED. TURNING +SILENCE. +SILENCE AND THE REGULAR TRAMP OF FEET BEATING THE GROUND IN UNISON, ONE +SILENCE AS HE LEFT THE DRAWING ROOM. HE PICTURED THE VANITY OF HIS +SILENCE AT PRINCESS ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. AFTER HER TALK WITH PIERRE, ANNA +SILENCE ENSUED. THE COUNTESS LOOKED AT HER CALLERS, SMILING AFFABLY, +SILENT. +SILENT AND SEEMED CONFUSED. THE PRINCE ASKED HER ABOUT HER FATHER, AND +SILENT AS HE PASSED BY, AND MOVED TO MAKE WAY FOR HIM. AT FIRST PIERRE +SILENT. AT FIRST KUTúZOV STOOD STILL WHILE THE REGIMENT MOVED; THEN HE +SILENTLY—FEARING TO SPEAK BECAUSE AT EVERY WORD HE FELT READY TO +SILENTLY, WITH THE LANGUID INTEREST OF SICK CHILDREN, AT THE ENVOY +SILENT PRAYER. EVERY MORNING SHE CAME IN LIKE THAT, AND EVERY MORNING +SILENT, “THAT SóNYA AND NICHOLAS NOW SAY YOU TO ONE ANOTHER AND MEET +SILENT, WAITING FOR WHAT HE WOULD SAY. +SILKEN HANGINGS. ON LEAVING THE BED BOTH PRINCE VASíLI AND THE PRINCESS +SILL, LEANED OVER, AND LOOKED DOWN. +SILL. “LISTEN!” CRIED HE, STANDING THERE AND ADDRESSING THOSE IN THE +SILL TO ATTRACT ATTENTION. “WAIT A BIT, KURáGIN. LISTEN! IF +SILVER AND CRYSTAL GLEAMED, SO DID THE LADIES’ TOILETS AND THE GOLD +SIMPLY DRESSED HAIR (TWO IMMENSE PLAITS TWICE ROUND HER LOVELY HEAD LIKE +SIMPLY LOOKING AT HIM. +SIMULTANEOUSLY ATTACKED AND OUTFLANKED BY SUPERIOR FRENCH FORCES UNDER +SINCE EARLY MORNING—DESPITE AN INJUNCTION NOT TO APPROACH THE PICKET +SINCE HIS APPOINTMENT AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF. HE TOLD ME HIMSELF THAT +“SINCE PRINCE BAGRATIóN IS NOT COMING, WE MAY BEGIN,” SAID +“SINCE THE DAY OF OUR BRILLIANT SUCCESS AT AUSTERLITZ,” WROTE +SINCE THEN PIERRE HAD NOT BEEN DISTURBED AND HAD SPENT THE WHOLE TIME IN +SINCE THE NURSING MOTHERS WERE NO LONGER SENT TO WORK ON HIS LAND, THEY +SINCE THE TIME WHEN HE THOUGHT HIS SON HAD BEEN KILLED, HE DID NOT THINK +SINGER” (HE MEANT NATáSHA’S ITALIAN SINGING MASTER), “THAT’S +“SINGERS TO THE FRONT” CAME THE CAPTAIN’S ORDER. +SIR!” +SIRE,” * HE ANSWERED GAILY, RAISING NEVERTHELESS IRONIC SMILES AMONG +SIR, FOR SHAME! IT WOULD BE BETTER IF YOU WENT TO THE WAR.” +SISTER, BLACK EYES... NA... TASHA... (WON’T SHE BE SURPRISED WHEN +SISTER, CATICHE, WITH A VICIOUS AND DETERMINED LOOK STEADILY FIXED ON +SISTER HAD HUNG ROUND HIS NECK WITH SUCH EMOTION AND REVERENCE, “IT +SISTER-IN-LAW’S DRESS. +SISTER-IN-LAW’S FRIENDSHIP FOR YOU. SHE WAS NOT EXPECTING US?” +SISTER’S, BUT WHILE IN HER CASE EVERYTHING WAS LIT UP BY A JOYOUS, +SISTER’S ROOM HIS WIFE WAS ALREADY AWAKE AND HER MERRY VOICE, HURRYING +SISTER,” WAS ALL SHE SAID, IN A DRY AND MOURNFUL TONE. +SISTER. “WHY ISN’T SHE DULL AND ASHAMED?” +SISTER WITH THE MOLE. +SIT DOWN! SIT DOWN, MICHAEL IVáNOVICH!” +SITTING AND DROPPED ONTO IT, COVERING HIS FACE WITH HIS HAND. PIERRE +SITTING AT TEA WITH BILíBIN. “THE FETE IS FOR TOMORROW. HOW IS YOUR +SITTING CLOSE TO NICHOLAS WHO WAS COPYING OUT SOME VERSES FOR HER, THE +SITTING DOWN BESIDE HIM SHE BEGAN TO SPEAK ABOUT HIS FATHER; BUT HE +SITTING HERE IN ALMOST THE SAME POSITIONS AS BEFORE, WHISPERING TO ONE +SITTING IN A CONSPICUOUS PLACE AND TALKING TO HIM LIKE A GROWN-UP LADY. +SITTING MOTIONLESS BEFORE THE GLASS, LOOKING AT HER FACE, AND SAW IN THE +SITTING NOISILY BACKWARD AND FORWARD, MADE EFFORTS TO CONTROL HIMSELF +SITTING ON THE SOFA WITH THE LITTLE CUSHIONS ON ITS ARMS, IN WHAT USED +SITTING ROOM. +SITTING SO FOR A WHILE HE ROSE, AND, LOOKING ABOUT HIM WITH FRIGHTENED +SITUATED,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. +SITUATION IT OCCURRED TO HIM THAT IT WAS HE WHO WAS DESTINED TO LEAD IT +“SIX HUNDRED RUBLES, ACE, A CORNER, A NINE... WINNING IT BACK’S +SIX MILES AWAY, OR WHETHER THEY WERE NEAR BY IN THAT SEA OF MIST, NO ONE +SIXTH CHASSEURS WHOM THEY HAD JUST PASSED. PRINCE ANDREW WAS STRUCK BY +SIXTH STROKE. THE DOCTORS PRONOUNCED RECOVERY IMPOSSIBLE. AFTER A MUTE +SIX WEEKS AFTER ANNA PáVLOVNA’S “AT HOME” AND AFTER THE SLEEPLESS +SIX WEEKS LATER HE WAS MARRIED, AND SETTLED IN COUNT BEZúKHOV’S +SKILLFULLY CHANGED THE SUBJECT. HE ASKED HIM TO TELL THEM HOW AND WHERE +SKILLFULLY MADE WATCH, DARES TO SAY THAT, AS HE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND +SKITTLES,” SAID HE IN CONCLUSION. +SKY—THE LOFTY SKY, NOT CLEAR YET STILL IMMEASURABLY LOFTY, WITH GRAY +SKY WITH CLOUDS THAT HAD RISEN AND WERE FLOATING STILL HIGHER, AND +SLEEP AT NIGHT. COME NOW, WHERE HAS THIS GREAT COMMANDER OF YOURS SHOWN +SLEEPINESS THAT KEPT COMING OVER HIM. AN ENORMOUS SPACE, WITH OUR +SLEEVES!” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, POINTING TO NICHOLAS AS HE WENT OUT. +SLEEVE WITH HER FINGER, SAYING: +SLEIGH AND PAIR AT ONCE, AND GO TO BEZúKHOV’S, AND TELL HIM ‘COUNT +SLENDER, DELICATE ARM, HIGH ABOVE THE ELBOW ON THAT PART THAT IS COVERED +SLENDER LITTLE GIRL. +SLIGHTLY OPEN, AS IF TO SAY, “YES, YES, I AM PUTTING MY PURSE IN MY +SLIGHTLY SARCASTIC SMILE. “I AM BORíS, SON OF PRINCESS ANNA +SLIGHT SMILE HE BEGAN TO EXAMINE HIS NAILS. +SLIPPERY ICE THAT COVERED THE MILLPOOL. +SLOPE OF THE HILL AMID THE SMOKE A RUSSIAN BATTERY THAT WAS STILL FIRING +“SMACK AT ‘EM, LADS!” HE KEPT SAYING, SEIZING THE GUNS BY THE +SMALL BUT DISTINCTLY VISIBLE ENEMY COLUMN WAS MOVING DOWN THE HILL, +SMALL CLOUD ROSE FROM THE HILL AND WAS BORNE IN A STREAK TO THE LEFT BY +SMALL OLD MAN, WITH POWDERED WIG, SMALL WITHERED HANDS, AND BUSHY GRAY +“SMART LADS! ONLY FIT FOR A FAIR!” SAID ONE. +SMASHED, AND THE SHOUTING GREW LOUDER. THEY DRANK TO BEKLESHëV, +SMASH SOMETHING. PUSHING AWAY THE FOOTMEN HE TUGGED AT THE FRAME, BUT +SMEARED WITH CHALK—AS WHITE AS FLOUR! I SUPPOSE THEY POLISH HIM UP AS +SMILE. +SMILE. +SMILE. +SMILE. +SMILE. +SMILE. +SMILE. +SMILE. +SMILE. +SMILE, AND ENGAGED THE SMILING JULIE IN A CONFIDENTIAL CONVERSATION +SMILE, AND PRONOUNCING THE PHRASE “KNOCKED OUT” WITH RINGING +SMILED AND INTERRUPTED HIM. +SMILE, FOR WHICH HE WAS LONG UNABLE TO FORGIVE HIMSELF, “I HAVE LOST A +SMILE OF A DOCTOR TO WHOM AN OLD WIFE WISHES TO EXPLAIN THE TREATMENT OF +SMILE OF HIS WHICH SEEMED TO SAY, “AH! THIS IS WHAT I LIKE!” +SMILE OF SATISFACTION AND PRESENTED A STRANGE APPEARANCE AMONG THE +SMILE ON HIS LIPS AND FACE, BUT HIS EYES WERE DULL AND LIFELESS AND IN +SMILE ON HIS LIPS CHANGE. +SMILE THAT USUALLY BRIGHTENED HER FACE. PIERRE KNEW THAT EVERYONE WAS +SMILE WAS UNLIKE THE HALF-SMILE OF OTHER PEOPLE. WHEN HE SMILED, +SMILING AS IF SHE DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM. +SMILING AT HIS REASSURING THOUGHTS. +SMILING, BUT IN SPITE OF HERSELF HER EYES UNDER THEIR THICK LONG LASHES +SMILING. “CELA NOUS CONVIENT à MERVEILLE.*(2) SUVóROV NOW—HE KNEW +SMILING FACE, MOVED AFTER WILLARSKI WITH UNCERTAIN, TIMID STEPS. +SMILING, GLITTERED WITH EFFORT AND EXASPERATION AS HE MUSTERED HIS +SMILING JOYFULLY; AND SNATCHING THE SHAWL FROM THE FOOTMAN, WHOM HE +SMILINGLY INCLINING HIS HEAD. +SMILINGLY RAISING A FINGER AT HIM, SHE LEFT THE ROOM. +SMILING OVER THE FAN. +SMOKE, AND AN OFFICER CATCHING SIGHT OF BAGRATIóN RUSHED SHOUTING AFTER +SMOKE ENVELOPED EVERYTHING. +SMOKE, RENDERED DENSER BY THE MIST, PREVENTED HIM FROM SEEING ANYTHING +SMOKE SPASMODICALLY AND SCREWING UP HIS EYES. THIS WAS AN OLD BACHELOR, +SMOKE. THE EXCITED FACES OF THE SOLDIERS WERE BLACKENED WITH IT. SOME +SMOKING AND TALKING. HE NEITHER SMOKED NOR TALKED, BUT BENDING HIS HEAD +SMOLéNSK THREATENING BALD HILLS—EVEN THEN I WOULDN’T SERVE IN THE +SMOLYANíNOV, AND IT MORTIFIED HIM TO THINK THAT THE NEWCOMER WAS AN +SMOOTH AS A SIGN THAT THE CONVERSATION WAS AT AN END. +SMOOTH—FELT THAT NO SMALL MATTER WAS HAPPENING, BUT AN IMPORTANT AND +SMOOTHING DOWN HER DRESS WITH AN INQUIRING LOOK AT HER MOTHER, WHEN +SNACKS.” +SNOW-COVERED ROAD, DID NOT ONCE WAKE UP ON THE WAY TO MOSCOW, BUT LAY +SNUFFBOX WHILE TRYING TO HEAR WHAT WAS BEING SAID AT THE OTHER TABLE. +SNUFFBOX WITH HER HUSBAND’S PORTRAIT ON IT. +SO ALIEN TO US. +SO. AND, IN FACT, THE LAST LETTER HE HAD RECEIVED FROM MACK’S ARMY +SOAP, AND ALL,” AS THE SOLDIERS SAY. THERE WAS ONLY ONE CIRCUMSTANCE +SOBBING LIKE A CHILD. THE DOOR OPENED. THE DOCTOR WITH HIS SHIRT SLEEVES +SO BEAUTIFUL THAT VERY OFTEN IN SPITE OF THE PLAINNESS OF HER FACE +SOBS. THE COUNT WAS LIGHTING HIS PIPE AND DID NOT NOTICE HIS SON’S +SO, BUT YOU HAVE NO SENSE ABOUT WOMEN. WHAT AN ARGUMENTATIVE FELLOW YOU +SO-CALLED BATTLE OF THE THREE EMPERORS—THAT IS TO SAY, A SLOW MOVEMENT +SOCIETY. +SOCIETY. +SOCIETY, AND SO HER POSITION NOW IS NOT A ROSY ONE. WE SHOULD ENTER INTO +SOCIETY. BESIDE HIM STOOD A LAD OF NINETEEN, ALSO A WOUNDED OFFICER OF +SOCIETY HAD ENTERED THE SIMPLE FEELING OF THE ATTRACTION OF A HEALTHY +SOCIETY HAD LOST HER FORMER INFLUENTIAL CONNECTIONS. SHE HAD NOW COME TO +SOCIETY, MORE ESPECIALLY OF THE FEMININE SOCIETY, IN WHICH I HAVE HAD +SOCIETY OF WOMEN WAS RATHER DEROGATORY TO HIS MANHOOD. HE WENT TO BALLS +SOCIETY SO DEARLY AND DISTINCTLY INDICATED. +SOCIETY WOMAN TO BE BURIED IN THE COUNTRY DURING THE BEST YEARS OF HER +SO COMPLETELY SILENCED AND THEIR ARGUMENTS CONFUTED BY SUCH CONCLUSIVE +SO CONTRARY TO HIS METHOD OF CONDUCTING WAR? BELIEVE ME, HE IS AFRAID, +SO CONVULSIVELY THAT HER BARE LITTLE SHOULDERS SHOOK. NATáSHA’S +SO DELIGHTED...” CAME THE SOUNDS OF ANIMATED FEMININE VOICES, +SO DO YOU TOO! TO THE HEALTH OF ALEXANDER THE FIRST! HURRAH!” +SO EASILY EXTRACT A GOOD PROFIT FOR THEMSELVES FROM A DINNER COSTING +SO ENERGETICALLY DO WE PURSUE THIS AIM THAT AFTER CROSSING AN UNFORDABLE +SO FOR FRIENDSHIP’S SAKE HE IS LEAVING THE UNIVERSITY AND ME, HIS +SOFT HAND TAKING HERS FIRMLY, AND SHE TOUCHED WITH HER LIPS A WHITE +SOFT SNOWBANKS THAT BORDERED BOTH SIDES OF THE PATH. THE PRINCE WENT +SOFT STEPS OF THE FOOTMEN. AT ONE END OF THE TABLE SAT THE COUNTESS WITH +SO HE SIMPLY HELD OUT HIS BRISTLY CHEEK (AS YET UNSHAVEN) AND, REGARDING +SO HE WENT FROM ONE GROUP TO ANOTHER. SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT OLD MEN +“SO I CAN FIRE WHEN I LIKE!” SAID PIERRE, AND AT THE WORD +SO ILL THAT HE MAY DIE AT ANY MOMENT, AND DR. LORRAIN HAS COME FROM +SOIREES AS BEFORE—SUCH AS SHE ALONE HAD THE GIFT OF ARRANGING—AT +“SO IT DOES,” THOUGHT PIERRE. +“SO IT IS ALL FINISHED!” HE THOUGHT. “AND HOW HAS IT ALL HAPPENED? +“SO IT IS USELESS TO ASK WHETHER IT IS GOOD OR BAD. IT IS GOOD BECAUSE +SO IT SEEMS TO ME.” +“SO IT SEEMS YOU’RE A HERO, EH? COME NOW, WHAT WAS THIS DUEL ABOUT? +SOKóLNIKI AFTER THE DUEL AND HAD SPENT THAT FIRST AGONIZING, SLEEPLESS +SOKóLNIKI FOREST AND FOUND DóLOKHOV, DENíSOV, AND ROSTóV ALREADY +SOKOLNITZ, NOVEMBER 30, 1805.” +SOLDIER. +SOLDIER AFTER CAMP LIFE. DESPITE HIS RAPID JOURNEY AND SLEEPLESS NIGHT, +SOLDIER AND THE GAY AND SMARTLY MARCHING MEN. IN THE SECOND FILE +SOLDIER AT THE FRONT, GAVE THE COMMAND “ATTENTION!” AND RODE UP +SOLDIER. “I’LL TEACH YOU TO PUSH ON!... BACK!” +SOLDIER, MIMICKING THE GENERAL WHO HAD RIDDEN AWAY. “I’D SHOOT THEM, +SOLDIER OF FORTY—LOOKED STERNLY AT THE SINGERS AND SCREWED UP HIS +SOLDIERS, AFTER A TWENTY-MILE MARCH, WERE KEPT MENDING AND CLEANING ALL +SOLDIERS AND OFFICERS OF VARIOUS REGIMENTS, THEY SAW ON THEIR LEFT SOME +SOLDIERS’ BONFIRES AND WITH HIS LONG GRAY MUSTACHE, HIS WHITE CHEST +SOLDIERS’ BOOTS. MORE THAN HALF THE MEN’S BOOTS WERE IN HOLES. BUT +SOLDIERS FORMING THE PICKET LINE, LIKE SHOWMEN EXHIBITING A CURIOSITY, +SOLDIERS HAD KINDLED ON THE ROAD. ROSTóV, TOO, DRAGGED HIMSELF TO THE +SOLDIERS HELD HIM WHILE TWO OTHERS WERE FLOURISHING THEIR SWITCHES AND +SOLDIER SHOUTED TO HIM. “THEY’D KILL YOU THERE!” +SOLDIERS LIFTED THE CANTEEN LIDS TO THEIR LIPS WITH REVERENTIAL FACES, +SOLDIERS, LOUDLY DEMANDING BREAD, MEAT, BISCUITS, FODDER, AND WHATNOT! +SOLDIERS, MUNCHING BISCUIT AND BEATING A TATTOO WITH THEIR FEET TO +SOLDIERS, OFFICERS, AND GENERALS WERE HEROES. BUT THE HERO OF HEROES WAS +SOLDIERS ONLY NEED TO BE RESTRAINED AND HELD BACK! ON ALL SIDES, NEW AND +SOLDIERS PASSED IN A SEMICIRCLE ROUND SOMETHING WHERE THE BALL HAD +SOLDIERS RAN FROM THE FIRES, THRUST THEIR PIPES INTO THEIR BOOTS, THEIR +SOLDIERS RUNNING IN CONFUSED CROWDS ACROSS HIS PATH. +SOLDIERS, STRAINING THEIR LUNGS, SHOUTED “HURRAH!” +SOLDIERS. THE COMPANY MARCHED ON GAILY. THE SOLDIERS’ VOICES COULD BE +SOLDIERS! THE RUSSIAN ARMY IS ADVANCING AGAINST YOU TO AVENGE THE +SOLDIERS TO CHANGE INTO THEIR GREATCOATS. THE COMPANY COMMANDERS RAN OFF +SOLDIERS. “WHERE ARE YOU SHOVING TO? DEVIL TAKE YOU! CAN’T YOU WAIT? +SOLDIERS WHO WERE SEIZING THE ARTILLERY HORSES AND TURNING THE GUNS +SOLDIER THREE GOLD PIECES. +SOLDIER WITH A WAGON, WHO WAS PRESSING ONTO THE INFANTRYMEN WHO WERE +SOLDIER, WITH HIS CLEAR BLUE EYES, STEPPED FORWARD FROM THE RANKS, WENT +SOLDIER WITH THE HARSH VOICE, AND IT WAS THAT AFFAIR AND THIS SOLDIER +SOLEMN AFFAIR. EVERY GENERAL AND EVERY SOLDIER WAS CONSCIOUS OF HIS OWN +SOLEMN INTEREST AND SILENT APPROVAL. THE AUNT SPOKE TO EACH OF THEM IN +SO LONG,” HE ADDED. +SO LONG WAITED, PRESENTS ITSELF TO HIM AT LAST. HE FIRMLY AND CLEARLY +SO MANY YEARS MORAVIANS IN SHAGGY CAPS AND BLUE JACKETS HAD PEACEFULLY +SOME!” +SOME APPROACHING ACHIEVEMENT, AND SOME IN COURSE OF DISINTEGRATION. HE +SOME CONCESSIONS. CONTINUING TO REPRESENT THE LIBERATION OF THE SERFS +SOMEDAY I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT OUR PARTING AND ALL THAT WAS SAID THEN. +SOME FLASH AS OF AN ELECTRIC SPARK SHOT FROM TELYáNIN’S EYES TO +SOME GREAT CHANGE HAD COME OVER HIM THAT DAY. HE WAS SILENT ALL THROUGH +“SOME HERB VODKA? CERTAINLY!” SAID TúSHIN. “BUT STILL, TO +SOME INSPECTION BUSINESS,” REMARKED THE VISITOR. +SOME IN THE SITTING ROOM, SOME IN THE LIBRARY. +SOME MEN WHO, CARRYING PAILS, CAME RUNNING DOWNSTAIRS, THEIR BOOTS +SOME NOT. THIS WHOLE MASS DRONED AND JOSTLED IN CONFUSION UNDER THE +SOME OF THE NEAREST RELATIVES HAD NOT YET LEFT. THEY WERE SITTING IN +SOME OF THE TOPICS AT FIRST LIGHTLY TOUCHED ON: THEIR PAST LIFE, PLANS +SOMEONE MENTIONED THAT CAPTAIN TúSHIN WAS BIVOUACKING CLOSE TO THE +SOMEONE. (PRINCE BAGRATIóN DID NOT ASK ABOUT THE GUNS ON THE LEFT +SOMEONE RICH AND DISTINGUéE, AND IT IS ON YOU THAT HIS RELATIONS’ +SOMEONE TO FIRE AT. +SOME QUESTION—“MOST LIKELY HE IS ASKING AT WHAT O’CLOCK THEY +SOME REASON SHE CALLED IT UROPE AS IF THAT WERE A SPECIALLY REFINED +SOME SORT WERE MOVING ABOUT, IN FRONT AND BEHIND MOVED LINES OF TROOPS; +SOME SWARTHY MEN AND WOMEN WERE REALLY ENTERING FROM THE COLD OUTSIDE +SOMETHING.” +SOMETHING.” +SOMETHING AND WENT AWAY. IT SEEMED TO PIERRE THAT EVEN THE PRINCE WAS +SOMETHING AS SHE WHISPERED: +SOMETHING BIG, THAT SPLASHED INTO THE WATER. +SOMETHING, BUT DARED NOT.... NO, IT WAS I WHO DARED NOT. BUT THAT’S +SOMETHING DISCONCERTING TO HIMSELF. +SOMETHING I CANNOT INFLICT ON OTHERS,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, GROWING +SOMETHING I HAVE RECEIVED FROM THE CHANCELLOR. I ASKED HIM FOR YOU, AND +SOMETHING LARGE, BRILLIANT, AND HANDSOME MOVING TOWARD HER AS SHE +SOMETHING LIKE QUALMS OF CONSCIENCE. SHE HAD REMINDED HIM OF WHAT WAS +SOMETHING LOUDLY TO A COMRADE FARTHER BACK. ROSTóV PAUSED. “NO, +“SOMETHING SPECIAL IS ALWAYS SAID IN SUCH CASES,” HE THOUGHT, BUT +SOMETHING STRIKING AND TOOK PART IN A CONVERSATION ONLY WHEN THAT WAS +SOMETHING TERRIBLE AND MONSTROUS RISING IN HIS SOUL AND TURNED QUICKLY +SOMETHING THAT WAS EVIDENTLY WRONG AND THAT HE OUGHT NOT TO DO. BUT AT +SOMETHING TO DRINK?” +SOMETHING TO HIM IN FRENCH IN AN UNDERTONE AND THEN WENT UP TO A SMALL +SOMETHING TOWARD IT AND YOU CANNOT PERSUADE ME THAT IT WAS NOT A GOOD +SOMETIMES FOUR ABREAST. FROM ALL SIDES, BEHIND AND BEFORE, AS FAR AS EAR +SOMETIMES LIKE A CHIP OF WOOD WHIRLING IN THE RIVER, AN HUSSAR ON FOOT, +SOMETIMES ON HIS WAY BACK FROM THE ANTEROOM HE WOULD PASS THROUGH THE +SOMETIMES SPEND A WHOLE NIGHT AT HIS WRITING TABLE. HE WORKED WELL +SOME TIME TO GET THE WEDDING RING OFF HIS FAT FINGER. WHEN THAT HAD BEEN +SOME TWENTY MEN OF HIS SUITE. THESE GENTLEMEN TALKED AMONG THEMSELVES +SOME WAY AND KNOWING THAT THIS WAS IMPOSSIBLE WAS READY TO CRY. THE TSAR +SOMEWHERE BELOW HIS THROAT RUSHED TO HIS FACE AND EYES. HE COULD NOT +SOMEWHERE BEYOND THEM. THE HUSSARS DID NOT LOOK ROUND, BUT AT THE SOUND +SOMEWHERE NEARER THE SUN.” +SOMEWHERE UNDER HER HEART WOULD EVER CRY, SUCK HER BREAST, AND BEGIN TO +SOME WOODED HILLS WERE DISCERNIBLE, AND IT WAS THERE THE ENEMY PROBABLY +“SO MUCH THE BETTER! I SHALL SEE IT CLOSE,” HE THOUGHT. +SO MY CONSCIENCE WAS AT EASE. I CAME FORWARD....” (BERG STOOD UP AND +SON. +SON. +SON.” +SONG. +SONG, AROUSING AN INVOLUNTARY SENSATION OF COURAGE AND CHEERFULNESS. +SON, ILYá? ONLY FANCY, I DIDN’T KNOW YOU AT FIRST. DO YOU REMEMBER +SON MADE NO REJOINDER, BUT IT WAS EVIDENT THAT WHATEVER ARGUMENTS WERE +SON OR KINSMAN.” +SON’S AFFAIR HUSHED UP, BUT EVEN HE WAS ORDERED OUT OF PETERSBURG.” +SON’S ARRIVAL: HE GAVE ORDERS TO ADMIT HIM TO HIS APARTMENTS WHILE +SON, SAT AT THE TABLE WRITING. HE GLANCED ROUND. +SON; SóNYA, THE COUNT’S FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD NIECE, AND LITTLE PéTYA, +SON’S WHEN SPEAKING TO HIM THAT AFTERNOON, “BELIEVE ME I SUFFER NO +SóNYA AGAIN INTERRUPTED. SHE GAVE HIM AN IMPLORING, FRIGHTENED LOOK. +SóNYA AND DóLOKHOV BEFORE DINNER, AND WITH THE KINDLY SENSITIVENESS +SóNYA AND FAT LITTLE PéTYA DOUBLED UP WITH LAUGHTER. +SóNYA BECAME THOUGHTFUL. THE QUESTION OF HOW TO WRITE TO NICHOLAS, AND +SóNYA COULD NOT CONTINUE, AND AGAIN HID HER FACE IN HER HANDS AND IN +SóNYA DID NOT PULL IT AWAY, AND LEFT OFF CRYING. NATáSHA, NOT STIRRING +“SóNYA, DON’T BELIEVE HER, DARLING! DON’T BELIEVE HER! DO YOU +SóNYA INTERRUPTED HIM. +SóNYA, NATáSHA, PéTYA, ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, VéRA, AND THE OLD COUNT +SóNYA SAT UP. THE LITTLE KITTEN BRIGHTENED, ITS EYES SHONE, AND IT +SóNYA, SHAKING OFF SOME DOWN WHICH CLUNG TO HER AND TUCKING AWAY THE +“SóNYA,” SHE SUDDENLY EXCLAIMED, AS IF SHE HAD GUESSED THE TRUE +SóNYA’S JOINT AGES. ROSTóV, LEANING HIS HEAD ON BOTH HANDS, SAT AT +SóNYA SMILED. +SóNYA SMILED. +SóNYA’S REFUSAL AND FELT UNCOMFORTABLE AT THE THOUGHT OF HOW THEY +SóNYA’S THIN LITTLE SHOULDERS, NATáSHA’S EYES AND LAUGHTER, +SóNYA STRUCK THE FIRST CHORD OF THE PRELUDE. +SóNYA TOO, ALL ROSY RED, CLUNG TO HIS ARM AND, RADIANT WITH BLISS, +SóNYA TREMBLED ALL OVER AND BLUSHED TO HER EARS AND BEHIND THEM AND +SóNYA WAS MORE TENDER AND DEVOTED TO HIM THAN EVER. IT WAS AS IF SHE +SóNYA WAS SITTING AT THE CLAVICHORD, PLAYING THE PRELUDE TO +“SóNYA! WHAT IS ANYONE IN THE WORLD TO ME? YOU ALONE ARE +“SóNYA! WHAT IS IT? WHAT IS THE MATTER?... OO... OO... OO...!” AND +“SóNYA, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? HOW CAN YOU?” SAID HE, RUNNING +SóNYA, WHOM HE LOVED AND THOUGHT OF JUST THE SAME AS EVER.” WHEN SHE +SOON AFTER HIS ADMISSION TO THE MASONIC BROTHERHOOD, PIERRE WENT TO THE +SOON AFTER PRINCE ANDREW’S RETURN THE OLD PRINCE MADE OVER TO HIM A +SOON AFTER PRINCE BAGRATIóN HAD LEFT HIM, TúSHIN HAD SUCCEEDED IN +SOON AFTER THIS THERE CAME INTO THE DARK CHAMBER TO FETCH PIERRE, NOT +SOON AS HE HAD SEEN A VISITOR OFF HE RETURNED TO ONE OF THOSE WHO WERE +SOON AS THE CONVERSATION CONCERNED HIMSELF HE WOULD BEGIN TO TALK +SOONER?” +SOONER OR LATER HE WOULD STEP ACROSS IT, BUT AN INCOMPREHENSIBLE TERROR +SO ON. THEN A PLACE WAS ASSIGNED TO PIERRE, HE WAS SHOWN THE SIGNS OF +“Só-O-ONYA! LOOK HERE! HOW CAN YOU TORTURE ME AND YOURSELF LIKE THAT, +SOOTHE HIM. +“SOPHIE,” HE BEGAN, TIMIDLY AT FIRST AND THEN MORE AND MORE +SOPHIE—I CAN’T REPEAT THEM—THAT IT MADE THE COUNT QUITE ILL AND HE +SOPHIE, THE ROSY, LAUGHTER-LOVING, YOUNGEST PRINCESS WITH THE MOLE, +SO RAPID THAT THEY COULD HARDLY BE HIS MOTHER’S. +SORROWFUL, AND ALL-FORGIVING EXPRESSION ON HER FACE, STOOD BY THE DOOR +SORROW, SADNESS, OR SELF-REPROACH, THAT SHE PURPOSELY DECEIVED HERSELF +SORT—(LE SORT DE L’ARMéE D’ULM).” * HE REMEMBERED THESE WORDS +SORTS, AND RUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN SOLDIERS OF ALL ARMS, SOME WOUNDED AND +SO SOFTLY THAT THE RHETOR DID NOT HEAR HIM AND ASKED HIM WHAT HE WAS +SO STRANGE THAT ONE COULD NOT TAKE IT IN. BUT THEN THE EXPRESSION OF +SO STRONG THAT HE COULD LIFT THE BACK OF THE CARRIAGE FROM BEHIND, SAT +SO TERRIBLE TO THE SOLDIERS, DESPITE HIS FURIOUS PURPLE COUNTENANCE +SO THAT HIS MOUTH, THE MOST STRIKING FEATURE OF HIS FACE, WAS CLEARLY +SO THAT SHE FELT HERSELF SURROUNDED ON ALL SIDES BY THE ACRID SCENT OF + * SO THAT SQUARES MATTERS. +“SO THAT’S WHAT I’M SORRY FOR—HUMAN DIGNITY, PEACE OF MIND, +“SO THAT’S WHAT THEY HIT WITH?” ASKED THE ACCOUNTANT. “HOW +SO THAT THE MAID COULD HARDLY GET HER HAIR PLAITED, AND SHE WAS +“SO THE ATTACK IS DEFINITELY RESOLVED ON?” ASKED BOLKóNSKI. +“SO THERE’S NOTHING?” +SO THE SWISHING SOUND OF THE STROKES, AND THE DESPERATE BUT UNNATURAL +SO THE WORSE THE CONDITION IT WAS IN, THE BETTER PLEASED THE COMMANDER +“SO THEY WILL,” SAID NESVíTSKI. “NO, BUT WHAT I SHOULD LIKE,” +SO TO ME? WHAT HAVE I DONE TO YOU? YOU ARE GOING TO THE WAR AND HAVE NO +SOUL AND HIS FACE. +SOUL: COURAGE, GENEROSITY, MORALITY, LOVE OF MANKIND, AND ESPECIALLY +SOUL TO BELIEVE AND HE DID BELIEVE, AND FELT A JOYFUL SENSE OF COMFORT, +SOUL TO SEE SUCH MEN AS THE OLD COUNT AND HIS WORTHY SON,” SAID SHE. +SOUNDED AND YOU’LL BE IN A PRETTY POSITION WITHOUT YOUR BOOTS!” (THE +SOUNDED FAR AWAY. HERE EVERYONE CLEARLY SAW AND SAID THAT THE BATTLE +SOUNDED LOUDER AND CALMER, THE STRETCHERS DISAPPEARED FROM SIGHT. +SOUNDED MUCH LIKE IRONY. BUT KUTúZOV WENT ON BLANDLY SMILING WITH THE +SOUNDED. SEVERAL OF OUR MEN FELL, AMONG THEM THE ROUND-FACED OFFICER +SOUNDED STILL MORE FIRM AND RESOLUTE. +SOUNDING, EVEN THE CONNOISSEURS SAID NOTHING, BUT ONLY DELIGHTED IN +SOUND OF ARTILLERY FIRE NEAR BY. HAVING FORCED HIS WAY OUT OF THE CROWD +SOUND OF FOOTSTEPS. +SOUND OF KISSING. WHEN PRINCE ANDREW WENT IN THE TWO PRINCESSES, WHO +SOUND OF OFFICERS’ VOICES IN EAGER CONVERSATION. +SOUND OF THAT SENTENCE: “CONTEZ NOUS çELA, VICOMTE.” +SOUND OF THE HOOFS OF THE APPROACHING CAVALCADE, BUT BECAUSE AS HE DREW +SOUND OF THESE VOICES, THE INATTENTIVE WAY KOZLóVSKI LOOKED AT HIM, THE +SOUND OF WHEELS AND FOOTSTEPS HEARD BY THE OUTPOSTS DURING THE NIGHT, +SOUNDS VERY FAST: “KARI, MALA, TAFA, SAFI, MUTER, KASKá,” HE SAID, +SOUNT ZE RETREAT!” +“SO WE ARE TO HAVE VISITORS, MON PRINCE?” REMARKED MADEMOISELLE +SO WELL HOW TO ARRANGE A FEAST ON AN OPEN-HANDED, HOSPITABLE SCALE, +SO WIDELY FROM A PRIVATE. +“SOYEZ TRANQUILLE, LISE, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE PRETTIER THAN ANYONE +“SO YOU ARE NOT AFRAID TO PLAY WITH ME?” REPEATED DóLOKHOV, AND AS +“SO YOU ARE REALLY GOING TO THE WAR, ANDREW?” SHE SAID SIGHING. +“SO YOU ARE STILL AT THAT SILLY BUSINESS!” QUICKLY CLOSED HIS EYE +“SO YOU HAVE NEVER NOTICED BEFORE HOW BEAUTIFUL I AM?” HéLèNE +SO YOUNG, AND BURDENED WITH SUCH RICHES—TO WHAT TEMPTATIONS HE WILL BE +“SO YOU THINK HE IS POWERLESS?” SAID LANGERON. +SPADEFULS OF RED CLAY WERE CONTINUALLY BEING THROWN UP FROM BEHIND THE +SPARKLING BLACK EYES, AND BLACK TOUSLED MUSTACHE AND HAIR. HE WORE AN +SPEAK—HE TURNED BACK, RAPIDLY MOUNTED THE STAIRS AGAIN WITH THE +SPEAKING AND EVIDENTLY NOT THINKING ABOUT HER AT ALL. ANATOLE WAS NOT +SPEAKING AS IF HE WERE SAYING SOMETHING WHICH HAD LONG SINCE BEEN AGREED +SPEAKING FRENCH. HE OPENED HIS EYES. ABOVE HIM AGAIN WAS THE SAME LOFTY +SPEAKING OF A COLLECTION OF SNUFFBOXES THAT HAD BELONGED TO PIERRE’S +SPEAKING OF BERG AS HER “INTENDED.” THE COUNT SAT BETWEEN THEM AND +SPEAKING OF HIM, MY DEAR SIR. OF WHAT, OF WHOM, ARE WE SPEAKING? WHOM +SPEAKING OF THE POSITION OF PRUSSIA, ANNA PáVLOVNA VERY NATURALLY ASKED +SPEAKING PLAYFULLY OF A MATTER THAT EVIDENTLY DISTRESSED HIM. +SPEAKING QUICKLY WITH A HARSH GERMAN ACCENT, LOOKING TO BOTH SIDES AND +SPEAKING TO AN AUSTRIAN GENERAL. PRINCE ANDREW, WHO WAS A LITTLE BEHIND +SPEAKING VERY GENTLY. +SPEAK IN THE TONE OF DECIDED REFUSAL AND DISAGREEMENT IN WHICH HE HAD +SPEAK, SO NOW SHE COULD NOT BELIEVE THAT THAT LITTLE CREATURE COULD BE +SPECIAL FORCE. NO MATTER WHAT HE THOUGHT ABOUT, HE ALWAYS RETURNED TO +SPECIALLY AMIABLE MOOD THAT DAY. +SPECIALLY CHOICE DELICACY A PIECE OF MEAT THAT NO ONE WHO HAD SEEN IT IN +SPECTACLE OF HIS POWER OVER THESE THREE WOMEN. BESIDES THAT, HE WAS +SPECTACLES. +SPECTACLES AND WHITE DRESSING GOWN, IN WHICH HE RECEIVED NO ONE BUT HIS +SPECTACLES UNABLE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY WANTED OR HOW THEY COULD GO ON +SPEECHES WERE INTENDED FOR QUITE OTHER CONDITIONS, THEY WERE FOR THE +SPEND TIME IN READING WHAT IS UNINTELLIGIBLE AND CAN THEREFORE BEAR +SPENT, AND ALMOST EVERY YEAR HE WAS OBLIGED TO BORROW. BESIDES THIS THE +SPIRITED IMPRESSION. +SPIRITUAL NEEDS, WHILE IT SEEMS TO ME THAT ANIMAL HAPPINESS IS THE ONLY +SPIRIT WILL NOT AND CANNOT UNDERSTAND THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER’S +SPITE OF HIS EVIDENT WISH TO DO SO HE COULD NOT GIVE THEM A JOYOUS +SPITE OF HIS MONEY. THEY WANTED TO INTRODUCE HIM TO ME, BUT I QUITE +SPLASHING WITH BLOOD THOSE NEAR THEM. +SPLENDID! AND I AM SITTING HERE ILL, AS YOU SEE.” +“SPLENDID! EXCELLENT!” EXCLAIMED NATáSHA. “ANOTHER VERSE,” SHE +SPLENDID HOUSE!” +SPLENDIDLY.” +SPLENDID SOLDIERS. BESIDES HE BEGAN BY ATTACKING GERMANS. AND ONLY +“SPLENDID! WHAT A HORSE HE WILL BE!” HE THOUGHT WITH A SMILE, AND +SPOIL HER, BUT REALLY THAT SEEMS THE BEST PLAN. WITH HER ELDER SISTER I +SPOKE AS IF HIS SOLE AIM WERE TO PUT A GIVEN NUMBER OF QUESTIONS—THE +SPOKE IN ABRUPT SENTENCES. “THE WHOLE COMPANY CAN BEAR WITNESS. I BEG +SPOKEN TO THE GENTLEMAN RANKER, HE ADDRESSED HIM WITH THE CORDIALITY OF +SPOKE PARTICULARLY SLOWLY, AS IF TO IMPRESS THE FACT THAT THERE WAS NO +SPOKE SMILINGLY AND LISTENED WITH A LAUGH. +SPOKE TO THE TACITURN MICHAEL IVáNOVICH MORE OFTEN THAN TO ANYONE ELSE. +SPOT” (HE STOOPED AND POINTED TO THE SLOPING LEDGE OUTSIDE THE WINDOW) +SPRANG OUT BEFORE THE SLEIGH STOPPED, AND RAN INTO THE HALL. THE HOUSE +SPREAD APART, HE BEGAN EXPLAINING HIS REASONS FOR THINKING THE ABBé’S +SPREAD BY THE FACT THAT THE EMPEROR’S CARRIAGE HAD REALLY GALLOPED +SPREADING OUT HIS LEGS AND PUTTING HIS HANDS ON HIS KNEES WITH THE AIR +SPREAD OUT HER ARMS TO SHOW HER SHORT-WAISTED, LACE-TRIMMED, DAINTY GRAY +SPREAD OUT HIS ARMS WITH A CHOLERIC GESTURE. +SPRINGING TO HIM, PUTTING HER ARMS ROUND HIM, AND KISSING HIM. THIS +SPRING UP WITH MORE ENERGY AND AGAIN PLAY WITH HER COUSIN AS SOON AS +SQUADRON. ALL WERE LOOKING AT THE ENEMY IN FRONT AND AT THE SQUADRON +SQUADRON COMMANDER. +SQUADRON IN WHICH NICHOLAS ROSTóV SERVED AS A CADET WAS QUARTERED IN +SQUADRON MAY BE RECOMMENDED FOR HONORS AND HE MAY GET A RIBBON. OUR +SQUADRON’S OFFICERS IN DENíSOV’S QUARTERS. +SQUADRON, THAT IN WHICH ROSTóV WAS SERVING UNDER DENíSOV, TO RETURN TO +SQUADRON. THE DAY WAS BRIGHT AND SUNNY AFTER A SHARP NIGHT FROST, AND +SQUATTING ON HIS HEELS IN FRONT OF A CLERK. THE CLERK, WITH CUFFS TURNED +S— S— GET THE SAME DISTINCTION?” +STAFF...” +STAFF?” +STAFF CAPTAIN’S QUESTION BY A DISAPPROVING SHAKE OF HIS HEAD. +STAFF OFFICER. +STAFF OFFICER, AND AT ZHERKóV, AND HE FROWNED. +STAFF OFFICER SMILED.) “KINDLY RETURN TO YOUR POSTS, GENTLEMEN, ALL OF +STAFF WERE NOT FAR OFF, IN THE VILLAGE THE VEHICLES WERE GOING TO. +STAGES OF HIS JOURNEY. +STAIRS AND EMBRACED HIS SISTER. +STAIRS AND UP ANOTHER, TO PIERRE’S ROOMS. +STAKE OF TWENTY RUBLES. +STANDARD IN HAND, I SHALL GO FORWARD AND BREAK WHATEVER IS IN FRONT OF +STANDING MOTIONLESS; THEN HE CAME TO THE REGION OCCUPIED BY UVáROV’S +STANDING TOGETHER OUT OF RANGE OF THE SHOTS, WATCHING, NOW THE SMALL +STANDING UP, ON WHICH LAY AN OPEN EXERCISE BOOK, AND THE LATHE WITH +STAND MADE AT KREMS AND THE VICTORY OVER MORTIER RAISED THE SPIRITS OF +STAND THE SIGHT OF THESE UNFORTUNATES. +STARRY NIGHT WAS FOLLOWED BY A BRIGHT CHEERFUL MORNING. THE SNOW WAS +STARS ON HIS BREAST. HE SEEMED TO HAVE GROWN THINNER SINCE THE MORNING; +STARTED,” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW, WATCHING HIS OLD ACQUAINTANCE WITH +STARTING FROM THEIR SOCKETS TO WATCH THEIR CHIEF. ON REACHING THE +START MY APPRENTICESHIP AS OLD MAID.” +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WAR AND PEACE *** +STATE.” +STATE OF THE POLITICAL THERMOMETER OF LEGITIMATE PETERSBURG COURT +STATING THEM TO THE EMPEROR FRANCIS. HE VIVIDLY IMAGINED THE CASUAL +STATION), AND AGAIN EMBRACED HIS SISTER. +STATION, BUT COMPARED TO THE THOUGHTS THAT NOW OCCUPIED HIM IT WAS A +STATIONED ON THE PRATZEN HEIGHTS. +STATION OR A DOCTOR FOR THE CADET, AND SAT DOWN BY A BONFIRE THE +STAYED HIS HAND. THE SERGEANT, WHO WAS EVIDENTLY WISER THAN HIS GENERAL, +STAYING THE WHOLE EVENING, I HOPE?” +STEADILY AND CEASELESSLY ON ALL SIDES. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE AUNT, +STEP; A SOLDIER WHO HAD FALLEN BEHIND, HIS FACE SHOWING ALARM AT HIS +STEP COULD BE HEARD. ON THEIR LEFT FLANK, NEAREST TO BAGRATIóN, MARCHED +STEPPED AWAY FROM THE MAN AND LOOKED ROUND INQUIRINGLY AT THE ADJUTANT +STEPPED SOFTLY OVER THE CARPET AND WENT OUT INTO THE WAITING ROOM. +STEPPED TO THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM AND STOOD STILL. +“STEPPING FLAT ON HIS HEELS—WE KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS....” +STEPPING INTO THE DEEP SNOW. HE HELD THE PISTOL IN HIS RIGHT HAND AT +STEPS. +STEPS, AND AGAIN STOPPED. +STEPS BEHIND HIM HOLDING TWO HORSES BY THEIR BRIDLES. EACH TIME PRINCE +STEPS. BEHIND THE COMPANY THE SOUND OF WHEELS, THE CREAKING OF SPRINGS, +STEPS DOWN THE LINE. HE WAS EVIDENTLY PLEASED AT HIS OWN DISPLAY OF +STEPS, HER WORKBAG ON HER ARM, AND GAILY SPREADING OUT HER DRESS SAT +STEPS. “O GOD,” HE SAID WITH TEARS IN HIS EYES, “HOW COULD YOU DO +STEPS SHOULD BE TAKEN TO LIBERATE THE SERFS, WHICH THE STEWARD MET BY +STEPS. WHEN AT LAST, SMARTLY WHIRLING HIS PARTNER ROUND IN FRONT OF HER +STEP THAT FOR YOU ALL IS ENDED, ALL IS CLOSED EXCEPT THE DRAWING +STERN AND SOLEMN TRAIN OF THOUGHT THAT WEAKNESS FROM LOSS OF BLOOD, +STERN BUT HANDSOME FACE REALLY JOINED IN THE DANCE. WHAT WAS EXPRESSED +STERN EYES ON HIS SON. +STERNLY WITH A THREATENING AND FORBIDDING MOVEMENT OF HER HEAD. +STERN, SHREWD, AND PENETRATING EXPRESSION OF THAT LOOK STRUCK PIERRE. HE +STERN, THREATENING, INACCESSIBLE, AND INTANGIBLE LINE WHICH SEPARATES +STEWARD, AND AGAIN BEGAN GIVING ORDERS. A LIGHT FOOTSTEP AND THE +STEWARD THERE, WHO, BOWING RESPECTFULLY, LOOKED INTO HIS FACE AND AT +“STILL ACHING?” TúSHIN ASKED ROSTóV IN A WHISPER. +“STILL, DON’T RUIN YOURSELF!” SAID DóLOKHOV WITH A SIDE GLANCE AT +STILL FARTHER AHEAD A DARK LINE WHICH HE COULD NOT SEE DISTINCTLY BUT +STILL FEELING HIS EYES GAZING AT HER. +STILL FIVE MEN BETWEEN HIM AND DóLOKHOV WITH HIS BLUISH-GRAY UNIFORM. +STILL GAZED AT THE SPOT WHERE PIERRE’S FACE HAD BEEN BEFORE HE SAT +STILL HE WAS LIFTED AND LAID ON THE STRETCHER. +STILL. “IF IT WERE A MAN WHOSE EXISTENCE THOU DIDST DOUBT I COULD +STILL IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION. ROUND THE HOUSE WAS A GARDEN NEWLY LAID +STILL IN THE DRAWING ROOM, DREW A CHAIR TOWARD HIM OR HER, AND JAUNTILY +STILL IN THE SAME PLACE, HIS STOUT BODY RESTING HEAVILY IN THE SADDLE +STILL IT WAS TERRIBLE, AND SHE COULD NOT HELP THINKING OF IT. SHE WAS +STILL, I WILL TAKE BORíS AND GO TO SEE HIM AT ONCE, AND I SHALL SPEAK +STILL LESS DID HE THINK OF INJURING ANYONE FOR HIS OWN ADVANTAGE. HE +STILL LOOKING SILENTLY AT HER BROTHER AND HER BEAUTIFUL EYES WERE FULL +STILL NO ONE MOVED. THE TROOPS OF THE LEFT FLANK, INFANTRY AND HUSSARS +STILL QUITE A YOUNG LADY, BEFORE HER NOSE WAS BROKEN; HOW SHE HAD AGED +STILL SMILING, SHE GRACEFULLY MOVED AWAY, TURNING AND GLANCING AT HER +STILL SOUND, YELLOWISH TEETH. +STILL THE CANNON BALLS CONTINUED REGULARLY TO WHISTLE AND FLOP ONTO THE +STILL THERE?” +“STILL THE SAME; BUT WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT, THIS NOISE...” SAID THE +“STILL THE SAME,” SHE SAID TO HER HUSBAND. +“STILL THE SAME. WAIT, FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE. KARL IVáNICH ALWAYS SAYS +STILL WAS NOT IN TIME TO AVOID THEM. +STILL WHEN SHE’S FIFTY.” +STILL WHY DIDN’T YOU CAPTURE HIM? SO DON’T BE SURPRISED IF NOT ONLY +STIMULATING EFFECT ON HIM. “VIVE L’EMPEREUR! L’EMPEREUR!” HE NOW +STINT YOURSELF, WE’LL SETTLE AFTERWARDS,” HE ADDED, TURNING TO +STIR. AN ADJUTANT, DISMOUNTING, LIFTED THE SOLDIER UNDER THE ARMS TO +STIR, AND A FOOTMAN WHO HAD RUN IN ANNOUNCED, WITH A FRIGHTENED FACE: +STIR AROUND HIM, THEN THE PEOPLE RESUMED THEIR PLACES AND THE SERVICE +STOMACH WITH AN ALREADY STIFFENED ARM FLUNG WIDE. +STONE, HUNDREDS OF RIDERS COMPOSING THE SUITES MOVED CARELESSLY BUT +STONES OF THE PAVEMENT. +STOOD AT A WINDOW WITH DóLOKHOV, WHOSE ACQUAINTANCE HE HAD LATELY +STOOD AT EVERY DOOR ANXIOUSLY NOTING VISITORS’ EVERY MOVEMENT IN ORDER +STOOD BEFORE A LOOKING GLASS AND BRUSHED THE HAIR ON HIS TEMPLES +STOOD COLD AND SILENT, AS IF QUITE REGARDLESS OF WHO HAD COME TO IT. +STOOD, MET, AND SEPARATED, SOME IN UNIFORM AND SOME IN EVENING DRESS, +STOOD WAITING BY THE DOOR. +STOOD WITH HIS MARSHALS AROUND HIM, IT WAS QUITE LIGHT. ABOVE HIM WAS +STOOD WITH THE CANDLE. YES, IT WAS HE, PALE, THIN, WITH A CHANGED AND +“STOP JESTING,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW SADLY AND SERIOUSLY. THIS NEWS +STOPPED AND GLANCED INQUIRINGLY OVER HIS SPECTACLES AT HIS GUIDE. ANNA +STOPPED AT A SOLITARY, DESERTED HOUSE THAT HAD PROBABLY ONCE BEEN AN +STOPPED HIM. HE TURNED HIS HORSE AND GALLOPED OFF. +STOPPED THE COMPANY.” DóLOKHOV BREATHED HEAVILY FROM WEARINESS AND +STOPPING IN FRONT OF THE PáVLOGRADS, THE TSAR SAID SOMETHING IN FRENCH +STOPPING OCCASIONALLY AT A CORNER TO MAKE MENACING GESTURES AT THE WALL, +“STOP THEM!” HE SHOUTED, AND AT THE SAME MOMENT, PROBABLY REALIZING +“STOP THIS JESTING,” HE SAID. +“STOP THOSE WRETCHES!” GASPED KUTúZOV TO THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, +STORIES OF HIS KINDNESS AND IRASCIBILITY. BERG, AS USUAL, KEPT SILENT +STORIES OF THE GRAND DUKE’S QUICK TEMPER HE RELATED WITH GUSTO HOW IN +STORIES OR TELLING THEM, BUT FOLLOWED EVERY MOVEMENT OF ROSTóV’S +STORY OF THE MISFORTUNES OF SOME MARY VíKTOROVNA OR OTHER. AT THE +STORY TO HIM, HER SEDUCER. AND NOW HE, A REAL RUSSIAN PRINCE, HAD +STOUTER!...” +STRAIGHT INTO HIS SON’S FACE WITH KEEN EYES WHICH SEEMED TO SEE +STRAIGHT! IT’S WELL GOD HAD MERCY ON US. AND WHAT WAS IT FOR? WHO +STRAIGHT ON NAPOLEON, HE WAS SILENT.... SO INSIGNIFICANT AT THAT MOMENT +STRAINS OF DANIEL COOPER (SOMEWHAT RESEMBLING THOSE OF A MERRY PEASANT +STRANGE AND RIDICULOUS TO MEET OBJECTIONS FROM RUSSIAN GENERALS AND TO +STRANGELY SOFTENED BUT AGITATED EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE. HE CAME UP THE +STRANGER. +STRANGER, LOOKING DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO PIERRE’S EYES. “AND IN +STRANGERS AND UNABLE TO SEND NEWS OF HIMSELF. THE GAZETTES FROM WHICH +STRANGER, YET NEARER TO HIM THROUGH THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN. WITH BATED +STRANGE, UNKNOWN, AND DANGEROUS PLACES HE REACHES, JUST AS A SAILOR IS +STRATEGIC POSITION WHERE THE OPERATIONS WOULD TAKE PLACE WAS FAMILIAR IN +STRAW COVERED STREET AND TURNED INTO THE WIDE COURTYARD OF COUNT CYRIL +STRAYED FROM UNDER HER FRIEND’S PLAITS. +STRAYED OFF THE TRACK INTO THE SNOW, PIERRE LOOKED DOWN AT HIS FEET, +STREAMED OUT OF A SIDE STREET. +STREETS OF BRüNN AND FOUND HIMSELF SURROUNDED BY HIGH BUILDINGS, THE +STRETCHED ALONG THE HIGHROAD IN THE MIDST OF A YOUNG COPSE IN WHICH WERE +STRETCHERS CAME INTO VIEW BEFORE ROSTóV. AND THE FEAR OF DEATH AND OF +“STRETCHERS!” SHOUTED SOMEONE BEHIND HIM. +STRETCHING HIMSELF HE ROSE FROM THE TABLE. “ONE DOES GET TIRED SITTING +(STRICTLY SPEAKING, DANIEL COOPER WAS ONE FIGURE OF THE ANGLAISE.) +STRICTLY TO OBEY. YOU SAID THE BRIDGE WOULD BE BURNED, BUT WHO WOULD IT +STRIKING A BLOW!” +STRIKING CHORDS WITH HIS SHORT FINGERS, HIS LEGS THROWN BACK AND HIS +STRIKING HIM REGULARLY ON HIS BARE BACK. THE MAN SHRIEKED UNNATURALLY. +STRIKING HIS HORSE WITH HIS LONG MUSCULAR LEGS AS IF IT WERE TO BLAME +STRIPES ON THEIR BODIES HEAL, AND THEY ARE HAPPY AS BEFORE. BUT IT IS +STROKE, CAME UP TO THE PRINCE, BOWING HIS BALD HEAD RESIGNEDLY BEFORE +STROKED THE ANIMAL. IT WAS PLAIN THAT HE DID NOT QUITE GRASP WHERE HE +STRONGER FLOW OF LOVE FOR HIS SOVEREIGN. HE LONGED TO SHOW THAT LOVE IN +STRONG, HEALTHY, CHEERFUL, AND EXCITED, AND ARE SURROUNDED BY OTHER SUCH +STRUCK HIM BY HER BEAUTY ON THE PRECEDING DAY. TODAY, WHEN HE HAD CAUGHT +STRUCK THE GROUND IN FRONT OF THEM. +STRUCK TWO AND ANOTHER WITH A SHRILL TONE JOINED IN FROM THE DRAWING +STRUGGLE, BUT WITH NAïVE AND LIGHTHEARTED GAIETY. +STRUGGLES OF A CERTAIN EMILIE DE MANSFELD. “AND WHY DID SHE RESIST +STRUGGLE TO CONQUER THAT FEAR, ALL HIS DREAMS OF DISTINGUISHING HIMSELF +STUDY. +STUDY A LITTLE BEFORE NOON IN HIS SILK DRESSING GOWN AND FOUND HIS HEAD +STUDY, ON THE BLUE SOFA, THE CONFIDENTIAL SOFA? WHY CANNOT I NOW, AS +STUDY, THE OLD PRINCE WENT FOR HIS WALK AS USUAL NEXT MORNING, BUT HE +STUMBLED ON HIM IN THE FOG, HEARING NO ENCOURAGING WORD FROM THEIR +STUMBLED OVER IT. SEVERAL OF THOSE PRESENT LAUGHED. +STUPIDEST REMARKS CAME OUT CLEVER AND APT. NOW EVERYTHING PIERRE SAID +STYLE, WEARING AN ANTIQUE COAT AND POWDERED HAIR; AND WHEN PRINCE ANDREW +SUBJECT, AND WAS THUS AT THE DUC’S MERCY. THE LATTER SPARED HIM, AND +SUBJECT UNDER DISCUSSION THAN THOSE THEY ARE TALKING WITH. +SUBMISSIVE GENERAL. +SUBMIT FROM HABIT, AND SHE SAID: “I WISH ONLY TO DO YOUR WILL, BUT IF +SUBMIT MY REPORT, WITH THE INFORMATION THAT IF THE ARMY REMAINS IN ITS +SUBMITTED HERSELF TO MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE AND LISE. BOTH THESE WOMEN +SUBORDINATE BY ME. +SUBORDINATE COMMANDERS WAS DONE, IF NOT BY HIS DIRECT COMMAND, AT LEAST +SUBSCRIBED THE SAME AMOUNT AS THE OTHERS. +SUBSIDING UNDER THE DELIGHTFUL INTEREST OF HIS OWN STORY, “IS THAT THE +SUBTLETIES HERE BEYOND MY FEEBLE INTELLIGENCE, BUT I CAN’T MAKE IT +SUCCEEDED IN FORESTALLING THE FRENCH HE WAS TO DELAY THEM AS LONG AS +SUCCEEDED IN SETTING TWO LOQUACIOUS TALKERS AT ONE ANOTHER. +SUCCEEDED!’ THE PRUSSIAN GENERALS PRIDE THEMSELVES ON BEING POLITE TO +SUCCEEDS. HE SAT MOTIONLESS, LOOKING AT THE HEIGHTS VISIBLE ABOVE +SUCCESS.” +SUCCESS AND AT THE INABILITY OF OTHERS TO UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS. +SUCCESSFULLY CANNONADING THE FRENCH, OUR ARTILLERYMEN ONLY NOTICED THIS +SUCCESS REACHED KUTúZOV’S CHEERLESS STAFF WITH THE GALLOPING ADVENT +SUCH A FRIEND THAT I BURNED MY ARM FOR HER SAKE. LOOK HERE!” +SUCH A FRIGHT! OH, WHAT A PIG I AM!” HE REPEATED, FLUSHING SUDDENLY. +SUCH AN UNFORTUNATE AND CHARMING WOMAN! DON’T MENTION HIM BEFORE +SUCH A PLAN IN WHICH THE ENEMY’S POSITION WAS ASSUMED TO BE KNOWN, +SUCH A SMALL, INSIGNIFICANT CREATURE COMPARED WITH WHAT WAS PASSING NOW +SUCH AS MIGHT CALL FOR HIS RAPIDITY OF PERCEPTION AND DECISION. +SUCH BAD HEALTH, AND NOW THIS VEXATION ABOUT HIS SON IS ENOUGH TO KILL +SUCH GRATEFULLY RELIGIOUS ONES, WITH OFFERINGS OF ICONS AND THE BREAD +SUCH LOVE AS SóNYA WAS SPEAKING OF. BUT NATáSHA HAD NOT YET FELT +SUCH SILENCE AND AN ANXIETY TO FIND SOMETHING TO SAY, THE EFFECT IS +SUCH THINGS ABOUT BONAPARTE, BUT UNDERSTANDING THAT HE WAS WANTED AS +SUDDENLY. +SUDDENLY A GUST OF WIND BEAT VIOLENTLY AGAINST THE CASEMENT OF THE +SUDDENLY APPEARED IN THE FOG, THERE WAS A FLASH, FOLLOWED BY A REPORT, +SUDDENLY APPEARED, LOOMING HUGE AS AN ELEPHANT. +SUDDENLY CAME TO AND, LIFTING HIS HEAD WITH AN EFFORT, TOOK ROSTóV, WHO +SUDDENLY CHANGED TO ONE OF HORROR. THE FRENCH WERE SUPPOSED TO BE A +SUDDENLY DóLOKHOV MADE A BACKWARD MOVEMENT WITH HIS SPINE, AND HIS ARM +SUDDENLY FROM THE NEXT ROOM WERE HEARD THE FOOTSTEPS OF BOYS AND GIRLS +SUDDENLY HEARD A SOUND NEW TO HIM, OF SOMETHING SWIFTLY APPROACHING... +SUDDENLY PRINCE BOLKóNSKI FROWNED. +SUDDENLY PRINCE HIPPOLYTE STARTED UP MAKING SIGNS TO EVERYONE TO ATTEND, +SUDDENLY REPLIED THE IRATE COLONEL. “IF YOU VERE IN THE CAVALRY...” +SUDDENLY SHE JUMPED UP ONTO A TUB TO BE HIGHER THAN HE, EMBRACED HIM SO +SUDDENLY THE ANGRY, SQUIRREL-LIKE EXPRESSION OF THE PRINCESS’ PRETTY +SUDDENLY TRANSFORMED. HE PUT ON THE AIR OF A SUBORDINATE WHO OBEYS +SUDDENNESS AND PROMPT HIM TO THE COARSEST AND MOST RECKLESS ACTIONS. +SUFFER FOR IT.” +SUFFERING, AND THE NEARNESS OF DEATH AROUSED IN HIM. LOOKING INTO +SUFFERING, BUT WHAT HE WANTED TO DO WAS TOO TERRIBLE. +SUFFERING?” SUGGESTED ANOTHER VOICE. PRINCE ANDREW, HOWEVER, DID NOT +SUFFERINGS. WHAT A HEART! HOW LIKE HIM IT IS! AND HOW HE HAS REMEMBERED +SUFFICIENT GROUND FOR THIS AFFAIR, OR FOR BLOOD TO BE SHED OVER IT.... +SUFFICIENTLY WEAKENED TO BE SUCCESSFULLY ATTACKED. BUT STILL HE DID NOT +SUGGESTED THAT SHE HAD RESOLVED TO ENDURE HER TROUBLES UNCOMPLAININGLY +SUGGESTED TO HIM A BLOW FROM SOMETHING. HE LOOKED AT PRINCE VASíLI +SUGGESTED TO HIM A POINT OF VIEW WHICH GAVE HIM A RIGHT TO DESPISE +SUGGESTION AND PRESSED HIS LIPS TO THE LARGE BONED, FLESHY HAND. NEITHER +SUITE. +SUITE, AND IN THE SMOKE THAT SUDDENLY SURROUNDED THE GUN THEY COULD SEE +SUITE AND SAID IN FRENCH: +SUITE WHO HAD MIMICKED THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, FELL BACK FROM THE +SUMPTUOUS BUT COLD APARTMENTS KNOWN TO PIERRE ONLY FROM THE FRONT +SUN. HOW BEAUTIFUL THE SKY LOOKED; HOW BLUE, HOW CALM, AND HOW DEEP! +SUPERFLUOUS WAS HANGING ON HIS BENUMBED LEFT ARM. THE WRIST FELT AS IF +SUPERIOR. +SUPERIOR TO NAPOLEON’S, WERE CONCENTRATED IN ONE PLACE, THE TROOPS +SUPERSTITION, AND ONLY TWO VIRTUES—ACTIVITY AND INTELLIGENCE. HE +“SUPPER, IT’S TIME FOR SUPPER! AND HERE ARE THE GYPSIES!” +SUPPORTED HIM UNDER THE ARMS. THERE WAS A GURGLE IN HIS THROAT AND HE +SUPPORT OF HIS BATTERY ALL WAS FORGOTTEN. PRINCE ANDREW LISTENED +SUPPOSED, MUST HAVE RISEN TO FIFTEEN THOUSAND. IN REALITY IT ALREADY +SUPPOSED, SHARE THE GENERAL RUSSIAN ANTIPATHY TO THE AUSTRIANS WHICH WAS +SUPPOSED THAT THE RUSSIAN GUARDS, ABROAD, WAS QUITE A DEFINITE ADDRESS, +SUPPOSE THAT I SHOULD LOOK SEVERELY ON YOUR AFFECTION FOR THAT YOUNG +SUPPRESSED SMILE BRIGHTENING BOTH THEIR FACES, A SMILE THAT HAD NOTHING +“SURELY HE WILL LEAVE SOMETHING TO BORíS,” SAID THE COUNTESS. +SURPRISE.” +SURPRISED BY WHAT HE SAW. HOPING TO ENTER ON AN ENTIRELY NEW LIFE QUITE +SURPRISED PIERRE. +SURPRISE, THE FRENCH HAD THROWN DOWN THEIR MUSKETS AND RUN. DóLOKHOV, +SURRENDERED BUT HAD BEATEN THE FRENCH. +SURRENDER OF MOST OF THE PRUSSIAN FORTRESSES HAD BEEN RECEIVED, WHEN OUR +“SURROUNDED! CUT OFF? WE’RE LOST!” SHOUTED THE FUGITIVES. +SURROUNDINGS, AND FROM HER SMILING LIPS FLOWED SOUNDS WHICH ANYONE MAY +SURROUNDINGS UNABLE TO FIND THEIR OWN REGIMENTS. IN THIS WAY THE ACTION +SURVEYING THE GUESTS, AND LEISURELY ARRANGED HER WIDE SLEEVES AS IF +SURVIVE....” +SUVóROV GIVING HIS SABER TO BAGRATIóN IN ITALY, AND THE RECOLLECTION +SUVóROV-LIKE, IN A KIBíTKA, AND IS RECEIVED WITH ACCLAMATIONS OF JOY +SUVóROV. MOREOVER, PAYING SUCH HONOR TO BAGRATIóN WAS THE BEST WAY OF +SUVóROV’S TIME, NOW PASSING SO GALLANTLY BEFORE THE EMPERORS, THAT HE +SUVóROV’S WARS. SEND IT TO THE ACADEMY. HERE ARE SOME JOTTINGS FOR +SWALLOWING HIS R’S, AND PRONOUNCING THE LATIN WORDS WITH A FRENCH +SWARMED WITH WELL-PROVISIONED SUTLERS AND AUSTRIAN JEWS OFFERING +SWAY AND SCATTERS ITS LAST SNOWS AND STORMS WITH DESPERATE FURY. A RELAY +SWAYS THE WORLD. THINK THIS OVER AND I WILL COME TO YOU AGAIN.” +SWEETER, AND BETTER THAN THE FEELINGS WHICH THE BEAUTIFUL EYES OF A +SWEETEST COMFORTS TO MY POOR HEART, WHICH HAS ALREADY SUFFERED SO MUCH. +SWEETLY. IT WAS THE THIRD TIME THAT DAY THAT, WITH AN ECSTATIC AND +SWEET, SO GOOD-NATURED, AND HER POSITION NOW IS A VERY HARD ONE.” +SWEET WINE, MY DEAR, NOW THAT THE TIME HAS COME FOR THESE YOUNG ONES TO +SWINGING THEIR ARMS AND KEEPING TIME SPONTANEOUSLY, MARCHED WITH LONG +SWORD OF FREDERICK THE GREAT. +SWORDS, MEANING THEM TO PIERCE IT. BUT THE SWORDS WERE DRAWN BACK FROM +SYMMETRICALLY AND ABOVE ALL FREELY, AND IN FRONT OF THEM TWO MEN—THE +SYMMETRICALLY ON HIS KNEES IN THE NAïVE ATTITUDE OF AN EGYPTIAN STATUE, +SYMPATHIZE WITH HIM; IF I SEEM SAD AND OUT OF SPIRITS MYSELF, HE WILL +TABLE. +TABLE, A CHILD’S TABLE, AND THE LITTLE CHAIR ON WHICH PRINCE ANDREW +TABLE AND BECOMING MORE ANIMATED AND TALKING MORE RAPIDLY: “WHAT IF +TABLE AND PLACED ON IT HIS SMALL LEATHER-GLOVED HANDS. +TABLE BEGAN TO WATCH HER HANDS ARRANGING THE CARDS. FROM THE DANCING +TABLE. DENíSOV WAS SITTING THERE SCRATCHING WITH HIS PEN ON A SHEET OF +TABLE LINEN, HE WOULD CALL DMíTRI VASíLEVICH, A MAN OF GOOD FAMILY AND +TABLE ON A CORNER OF WHICH HE SMILINGLY AND ABSENT-MINDEDLY FIXED HIS +TABLES AND THE SAME CHANDELIER WITH A COVER OVER IT; BUT SOMEONE HAD +TABLE SEEMED TO FEEL THIS, AND THEY FORGOT THEIR DUTIES AS THEY LOOKED +TABLE THAT HE HAD PUSHED AWAY. “BUT... IN SHORT, THE FACT IS... YOU +TABLE. “WHAT ARE YOU THUMPING THE TABLE FOR?” SHE DEMANDED OF THE +TACHE,” HE THOUGHT. “THERE NOW... IT’S NOT A TACHE... NATáSHA... +“TAFA-LAFA! BUT WHAT HE’S JABBERING NO ONE CAN MAKE OUT,” SAID A +TAIL EXTENDED, BEDOUIN, AS IF ALSO CONSCIOUS OF THE EMPEROR’S EYE +“TAKE A GLASS OF BOILED WATER AND PUT A PINCH OF CREAM OF TARTAR,” +TAKE A SEAT BESIDE HER. +“TAKE A STICK BETWEEN YOUR LEGS, THAT’LL SUIT YOU FOR A HORSE!” +TAKE HER FOR HER CONNECTIONS AND WEALTH. ARE THERE NO WOMEN LIVING +TAKE HIS EYES OFF HER AND BEAT TIME WITH HIS SABER IN A WAY THAT CLEARLY +TAKE IT...” HE THREW IT ON THE TABLE. “I HAVE AN OLD FATHER AND +“TAKE IT IF YOU LIKE,” SAID THE OFFICER, GIVING THE GIRL AN APPLE. +“TAKE IT RIGHT OUT, OR THEY’LL THINK I’M HOLDING ON,” SAID +TAKE ME TOO? WHO ARE THESE MEN?” THOUGHT ROSTóV, SCARCELY BELIEVING +TAKEN A BALLROOM IN BEZúKHOV’S HOUSE, AND THE BALL, AS EVERYONE SAID, +TAKEN ADVICE; BUT NO, YOU GO AND BLURT IT ALL STRAIGHT OUT BEFORE THE +TAKEN, AND ALL THIS FOR THE BEAUX YEUX * OF HIS SARDINIAN MAJESTY. AND +TAKEN AND I HOPE IT WILL NOT BE, FOR IT IS MINED AND ORDERS HAVE BEEN +TAKEN FROM THE PRISONER. +TAKEN, IT WAS NOT HIS FAULT BUT THE CORPORAL’S WHO HAD SENT HIM TO +TAKEN OFF HIS EYES AND, BY THE FAINT LIGHT OF THE BURNING SPIRIT, +TAKEN UP THEIR POSITION AND SEEING TROOPS BEFORE THEM, THOUGHT THEY WERE +TAKE PART IN RECEIVING THE VISITORS. THE COUNT MET THE GUESTS AND SAW +TAKES PLACE AT SUCH MOMENTS. +TAKE THE MONEY,” AND HE THREW THE PURSE TO HIM AND RAN OUT OF THE INN. +TAKE THESE AWAY. PUT THIS ON THE SEAT AND THIS TO THE RIGHT.” +“TAKE THIS AND DELIVER IT,” SAID HE TO HIS ADJUTANT, HANDING HIM THE +“TAKE THIS ROAD, YOUR HONOR, THAT WAY YOU WILL BE KILLED AT ONCE!” A +TAKING ADVANTAGE OF IT!” +TAKING A GLASS FROM THE TABLE HE WENT UP TO PIERRE. +TAKING A LETTER ADDRESSED IN A WOMAN’S HAND FROM A BAG HANGING ABOVE +TAKING CHARGES FROM THEIR POUCHES, WHILE OTHERS WERE FIRING, THOUGH WHO +TAKING HIM BY THE HAND LED HIM FORWARD. THE HAIRS TIED IN THE KNOT HURT +TAKING HIS PARTNER WITH HIM. HE GLIDED SILENTLY ON ONE FOOT HALF ACROSS +TAKING LEAVE OF ANNA PáVLOVNA. “IT IS SETTLED,” SHE ADDED IN A LOW +TAKING NO NOTICE OF HIS ARRIVAL. A WAX CANDLE STOOD AT EACH SIDE OF THE +TAKING OFFENSE, BUT YOU DON’T MIND DISGRACING THE WHOLE REGIMENT!” +TAKING OUT WHAT SHE WAS HOLDING INSIDE IT, AS IF WHAT SHE HELD WERE +TAKING THE COLONEL’S OUTBURST AS A CHALLENGE TO HIS COURAGE, THE +TAKING UP A PACK HE PREPARED TO DEAL. ROSTóV SUBMISSIVELY UNBENT THE +TALK, BUT I DON’T WANT TO,” HE SEEMED TO SAY. BESIDES THIS, IN HIS +TALKED OF PEACE BUT DID NOT BELIEVE IN ITS POSSIBILITY; OTHERS TALKED +TALKING ABOUT ME? LET US TALK ABOUT YOU,” HE ADDED AFTER A SILENCE, +TALKING OF THE SCHöN GRABERN AFFAIR? WERE YOU THERE?” +TALKING. SEEING THEM PASS, PRINCE VASíLI DREW BACK WITH OBVIOUS +TALKING TOO LOUDLY AND VEHEMENTLY WITH THE ABBé, SO SHE HURRIED TO THE +TALKS SENSE, BUT TO TEMPORIZE AND WAIT FOR SOMETHING NOW WHEN BONAPARTE +TALK TO HER. WHAT A DARLING SóNYA IS!” HE ADDED WITH A SMILE. +TANGLED BLACK HAIR. +TASK PIERRE HAD TO FACE WAS ONE FOR WHICH HE HAD VERY LITTLE APTITUDE OR +TASTE. AND SHE HAD A LADY’S MAID, ALSO BIG. SHE SAID....” +TEA?” ASKED HIS VALET. +TEACHER’S FAULT OR THE PUPIL’S, THIS SAME THING HAPPENED EVERY DAY: +TEACH YOU TO DRESS THE MEN IN FANCY COATS FOR A PARADE.... EH...?” +TEARS. +TEARS.” +TEATIME SHE WOULD PREPARE THE COUNTESS, AND AFTER TEA, WITH GOD’S +TEETH, HE BEGAN WITH STUBBY FINGERS OF BOTH HANDS TO RUFFLE UP HIS THICK +“TELL BEZúKHOV TO COME. I’LL PUT HIS NAME DOWN. IS HIS WIFE WITH +TELL EVERYTHING JUST AS IT HAPPENED, BUT IMPERCEPTIBLY, INVOLUNTARILY, +TELLING HER THINGS. SHE HAS HAD A DREAM AND IS FRIGHTENED.” +TELLING HIM. +TELLING ME WHAT FORCES ARE BEING COLLECTED AGAINST HIM! WHILE YOU AND I +“TELL ME ABOUT THAT!” HE SAID. +TELL ME,” HE ADDED WITH STUDIED CARELESSNESS AS IF IT HAD ONLY JUST +“TELL ME, MY DEAR,” SAID SHE TO NATáSHA, “IS MIMI A RELATION OF +“TELL ME, WHEN DID THE BATTLE BEGIN?” HE ASKED HURRIEDLY. +TELL THE LITTLE COUNTESS!” +“TELL THEM TO GIVE ME A SEAT, FOR GOD’S SAKE!” +“TELL THESE DEVILS, THESE FIENDS, TO LET ME PASS!” SHOUTED DENíSOV +TELL THE TRUTH. +TELL YOU FOR THE TENTH TIME THAT IF THE LETTER TO THE EMPEROR AND THE +TELYáNIN. +TELYáNIN. +TELYáNIN, AND HE WENT OUT TO GIVE THE ORDER. +TELYáNIN’S ORDERLY. “HAS SOMETHING HAPPENED?” HE ADDED, SURPRISED +TELYáNIN, TAKING UP HIS CAP AND MOVING TOWARD A SMALL EMPTY ROOM. “WE +TELYáNIN WAS SITTING IN THE SAME INDOLENT POSE IN WHICH ROSTóV HAD +TEMPER BECAUSE PRINCE VASíLI WAS COMING, OR WHETHER HIS BEING IN A BAD +TEMPER MADE HIM SPECIALLY ANNOYED AT PRINCE VASíLI’S VISIT, HE WAS +TEMPTATION SHE SLIPPED QUIETLY BEHIND ONE OF THE COLUMNS. IN THE MIDST +TENACIOUS ENDURANCE AND VIGOR OF HARDY OLD AGE. AFTER A FEW MORE TURNS +TENDERLY SAD VOICE, SHE SAID: +TEN MINUTES. AND THAT IT WILL NOT BE TOO DULL, HERE IS THE DEAR COUNT +TEN MINUTES LATER LAVRúSHKA BROUGHT THE COFFEE. “HE’S COMING!” +TERRIBLE AND HOLY SECRETS OF PROVIDENCE WHILE WE REMAIN IN THIS FLESH +TERRIBLE, AND NOW HE HAS THIS AUTHORITY OF A COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF +TERRIBLE DIVIDING LINE OF UNCERTAINTY AND FEAR—RESEMBLING THE LINE +TERRIBLE DRAGON, A LADY DISTINGUISHED NOT FOR WEALTH OR RANK, BUT FOR +TERRIBLE NEWS FROM HER TILL AFTER HER CONFINEMENT, WHICH WAS EXPECTED +TERRIBLE PAIN OF BEING LIFTED ONTO THE STRETCHER, THE JOLTING WHILE +TERRIBLE VOICE THAT THE WHOLE HOUSE HEARD IT WITH HORROR. GOD KNOWS WHAT +TERRIBLY TRUE. I PITY PRINCE VASíLI BUT AM STILL MORE SORRY FOR PIERRE. +TêTE-DE-PONT. * THEY SPIN HIM A THOUSAND GASCONADES, SAYING THAT +THAN A HUNDRED CANNON WERE ALREADY IN THE HANDS OF THE FRENCH. +THAN A MAN WHO HAS BEEN LOOKING AT A TUFT OF STEPPE GRASS THROUGH THE +THAN ANYTHING ELSE SHOWED PIERRE HER SUPERIORITY. SHE WAS RIGHT IN +THAN A YARD ABOVE THE GLOW OF THE CHARCOAL. FLAKES OF FALLING SNOW WERE +THAN FIVE HUNDRED PACES FROM WHERE KUTúZOV WAS STANDING, A DENSE FRENCH +THANKED HIM FOR HIS LOVE. HIS LOOKS THANKED HER FOR OFFERING HIM HIS +THANKED,” THOUGHT THE OVERSEER, “THE STORM HAS BLOWN OVER!” +“THANK GOD!” +“THANK GOD,” SAID HIS SON SMILING. +“THANK GOD!” SAID PRINCE VASíLI. “MY WIFE HAS TOLD ME +“THANK GOD!” SAID SóNYA, CROSSING HERSELF. “BUT PERHAPS SHE +“THANK GOD!” SAID THE VOICE. “AND FATHER?” +THANKS TO ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S EFFORTS, HIS OWN TASTES, AND THE +THANKS TO PRINCESS LISE’S VOICE AND LITTLE DOWNY LIP THAT LIFTED OVER +“THANK YOU, MY DEAR.” SHE KISSED HIM ON THE FOREHEAD AND SAT DOWN +“THANK YOU VERY MUCH, I WILL GO ON ALONE,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, +“THANK YOU VERY MUCH, PRINCE,” ANSWERED ONE OF THE OFFICERS, PLEASED +THANK YOU WITH MY WHOLE HEART.” TO ROSTóV EVERY WORD SOUNDED LIKE A +THANK YOU! YOU MUST HAVE A REST. BE AT THE LEVEE TOMORROW AFTER THE +“THANK YOU; YOU SAVED ME, MY DEAR FELLOW!” SAID TúSHIN. +THAN ONCE. “YOU KNOW IT WON’T DO TO LEAVE YOUR POSTS LIKE THIS. +THAN THE OTHER; THE SERFS EVERYWHERE SEEMED THRIVING AND TOUCHINGLY +THAN WITH POLITICS,” SAID HE IN HIS QUIET IRONICAL TONE. “I KNOW +THAT. +“THAT ABBé IS VERY INTERESTING BUT HE DOES NOT SEE THE THING IN THE +THAT AFFAIR FOR ME AND I SHALL ALWAYS BE YOUR MOST DEVOTED SLAVE-SLAFE +THAT AFTERNOON. SHE FELT THAT AS SHE BROUGHT WITH HER THE PERSON THE +THAT ALL EUROPE IS POWERLESS BEFORE HIM.... AND I DON’T BELIEVE A +THAT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WHOM I WOULD NOT TAKE FOR A HOUSEMAID... THE +THAT ARMY: A FEELING OF SELF-FORGETFULNESS, A PROUD CONSCIOUSNESS OF +THAT BETWEEN THE PERSON THEY SO ADDRESS AND THEMSELVES THERE ARE SOME +THAT BOTH HER SLENDER BARE ARMS CLASPED HIM ABOVE HIS NECK, AND, TOSSING +THAT CAME UPON HIM AT HOLLABRüNN, WHICH WAS CLEARLY IMPOSSIBLE. BUT +THAT COLUMN HIMSELF. WHEN HE HAD REACHED THE VILLAGE OF PRATZEN HE +THAT COULD SAVE THE ARMY, AND HOW HE ALONE WOULD BE ENTRUSTED WITH THE +THAT DAY, BUT HAD HEARD ABOUT THEM FROM AN INFANTRY OFFICER. “THEY +THAT DAY NICHOLAS ROSTóV RECEIVED A LETTER FROM BORíS, TELLING HIM +THAT DINNER WAS READY! THE DOOR OPENED, AND FROM THE DINING ROOM CAME +THAT DIVINE PURITY AND DEVOTION I LOOK FOR IN WOMEN. IF I FOUND SUCH A +“THAT DóLOKHOV WAS MY LOVER,” SHE SAID IN FRENCH WITH HER COARSE +THAT DREADFUL ABYSS, PIERRE SAID TO HIMSELF: “WHAT AM I DOING? I NEED +THAT DREAD OF BEATEN TRACKS, AND WISH TO EXPRESS ITSELF IN A MANNER +THAT END AND WHEN DID THIS NEW, TERRIBLE STATE OF THINGS BEGIN? WHAT +THAT EVENING, PROUD OF DóLOKHOV’S PROPOSAL, HER REFUSAL, AND HER +THAT EVENING TO BID A LAST FAREWELL TO THE CELEBRATED GRANDEE OF +THAT, EVEN MORE THAN IN MOSCOW, HE FELT A SENSE OF BEWILDERMENT, BUSTLE, +THAT EVERYTHING DONE BY NECESSITY, BY ACCIDENT, OR BY THE WILL OF +THAT EVERYTHING WAS SPLENDID. “JUST FANCY: WANTS TO BE AN HUSSAR. +THAT EXPLAINED THEIR TEACHING BY HIEROGLYPHICS. A HIEROGLYPH,” SAID +THAT FAT ONE IN SPECTACLES” (THAT WAS HOW PéTYA DESCRIBED HIS +THAT FOR AN INSTANT). WHY SHOULD HE NOT LOVE HER NOW, AND EVEN MARRY +THAT FRIENDSHIP?” REMARKED THE COUNT IN AN INQUIRING TONE. +THAT GOD WHO HAS BEEN SEWN INTO THIS AMULET BY MARY! THERE IS NOTHING +THAT HAD ADVANCED BEYOND THE VILLAGE WENT BACK; BUT AS THOUGH IN REVENGE +THAT HAD ALREADY ONCE BEEN GIVEN IN DETAIL: “AND TELL THE HUSSARS +THAT HAD PLACED THE VIENNA BRIDGE IN THE HANDS OF THE FRENCH WITHOUT +THAT HAD TORMENTED HIM ALL DINNERTIME ROSE AND TOOK POSSESSION OF HIM. +THAT, HEARING HE WAS IN A BAD HUMOR, SHE HAD DECIDED NOT TO APPEAR. +THAT HE COULD NOT BELIEVE HIS EYES. “WHO ARE THEY? WHY ARE THEY +THAT HE DECIDED TO GO. THE THOUGHT IMMEDIATELY OCCURRED TO HIM THAT HIS +THAT HE FELL OFF HIS HORSE AND SPRAINED HIS ARM AND THEN RAN AS HARD AS +THAT HE HAD COMPOSED IN HIS IMAGINATION COULD HE NOW RECALL. THOSE +THAT HE IS PROBABLY TIRED OF THEM,” SAID ANOTHER OFFICER. +THAT HE OUGHT TO AVOID HER AND GO AWAY, PIERRE, DESPITE THAT DECISION, +“THAT HERE LIVES COUNT CYRIL VLADíMIROVICH BEZúKHOV SO RICH, ALL +THAT HE SHOULD DO THE SAME. THE RIDER, WHOSE FIGURE SEEMED FAMILIAR +THAT HESITATION LASTED ONLY AN INSTANT. THE TSAR’S FOOT, IN THE NARROW +THAT HE TOO SEEMED ASHAMED OF THE HUSSAR OF THE LINE. +THAT HE WAS AT THE FRONT AND IN THE POWER OF A MAN TOWARD WHOM HE NOW +THAT HE WAS DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED. +THAT HE WOULD HAVE TO ANSWER IT JUSTLY, AND JUSTICE CLASHED NOT ONLY +THAT HIS HEART STOOD STILL. HIS HAND TREMBLED AS HE GAVE HIS HORSE INTO +THAT HIS REMARKS WERE TOO ENTHUSIASTIC AND EMPHATIC FOR THE OCCASION AND +THAT I AM SAYING!” THOUGHT A DIPLOMATIST, GLANCING AT THE HAPPY FACES +THAT I DO NOT LIKE HIM.” +THAT IF HE ASKED ON BEHALF OF ALL WHO BEGGED OF HIM, HE WOULD SOON BE +THAT—IF YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF BOUND BY YOUR PROMISE—IT WILL SEEM AS +THAT I’M A SHARPER, SO I ADVISE YOU TO BE CAREFUL.” +THAT IMPRINT OF NEWNESS FOUND IN THE HOUSEHOLDS OF THE NEWLY MARRIED. +THAT INSIGNIFICANT SOCIETY PEOPLE MIGHT CARRY THEM FROM DRAWING ROOM TO +THAT IN SPITE OF ALL THE UNPLEASANTNESS HE HAD TO ENDURE HE WOULD STILL +THAT INSTANT THE TROOPER NIKíTENKO, WHO WAS GALLOPING AHEAD, SHOT AWAY +THAT IN THIS WORLD THERE IS NEITHER HONOR NOR JUSTICE. IN THIS WORLD ONE +“THAT IS ALL NONSENSE.” PRINCE ANDREW AGAIN INTERRUPTED HIM, “LET +“THAT IS DOUBTFUL,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. “MONSIEUR LE VICOMTE QUITE +“THAT IS ENOUGH FOR ME,” SAID SóNYA, BLUSHING. +“THAT IS JUST WHY I DO NOT BEGIN, SIRE,” SAID KUTúZOV IN A +“THAT IS NO BUSINESS OF MINE,” HE THOUGHT. HE HAD NOT RIDDEN MANY +THAT IS NOT YET READY. +“THAT IS PROBABLY THE WORK OF VINESSE,” SAID PIERRE, MENTIONING +THAT IS STILL TOO FRESH. AH, DEAR FRIEND, YOU ARE HAPPY NOT TO KNOW +THAT IS THE ONLY REALITY IN THE WORLD, ALL ELSE IS FOLLY. IT IS THE ONE +“THAT IS WHAT I ASK YOU. NO ONE, NOT EVEN BONAPARTE, KNOWS WHY.” +“THAT IS WHAT WE SHALL SEE! THAT IS WHAT WE SHALL SEE!” HE ADDED +“THAT IS WHY I BEG TO BE SENT TO THAT DETACHMENT,” HE SAID. +“THAT IS, WITH ILYá ROSTóV WHO MARRIED NATALY SHINSHINá,” SAID +THAT IS, YOU WANT TO RAISE HIM” (POINTING TO A PEASANT WHO PASSED BY +THAT IT IS MORE DANGEROUS TO RUN AWAY THAN TO ADVANCE, BUT THAT RUSSIAN +THAT IT IS WE WHO LOST THE BATTLE OF PULTúSK. IN SHORT, WE RETREAT +THAT IT MIGHT NOT OCCUR TO HER TO SPEAK OF HIS SHARE IN THE AFFAIR OF +THAT IT SEEMED TO BE MADE OF ONE PIECE WITH HER HEAD AND COVERED WITH +THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP THEM, SPURRED HIS HORSE AND RODE TO THE +THAT IT WAS NOT SHE BUT HE WAS SO UNUSUALLY BEAUTIFUL, AND THAT THAT WAS +THAT IT WOULD BE A BAD THING), BUT HE KNEW IT WOULD HAPPEN. +THAT I WAS UNGRATEFUL, AND THAT MAMMA WOULD NEVER ALLOW HIM TO MARRY +THAT I WOULD GIVE MY LIFE TWICE OVER...” HE LOOKED AT THE COUNTESS, +THAT?... KINDLY DO AS YOU ARE ORDERED.” +THAT KUTúZOV’S UPPER LIP TWITCHED UNNATURALLY AS HE SAID THE +THAT LED TO HIS OWN APARTMENTS. +“THAT LETTER WAS WRITTEN, THOUGH IT WAS NOT SENT, AND THE EMPEROR KNEW +THAT MAKES ME UNHAPPY. BUT EVEN IN THIS I CAN SEE LATELY A SHADE OF +THAT MOMENT AFTER SUPPER AT PRINCE VASíLI’S, WHEN HE SPOKE THOSE +THAT MOMENT A THIRD ENEMY RISES BEFORE US—NAMELY THE ORTHODOX RUSSIAN +THAT MOMENT BEEN WOUNDED AND HIS FACE SHOWED FEAR RATHER THAN SUFFERING. +THAT MOMENT HIS HOME LIFE, JOKES WITH PéTYA, TALKS WITH SóNYA, DUETS +THAT MOMENT PIERRE FELT THAT HéLèNE NOT ONLY COULD, BUT MUST, BE HIS +THAT MONTH AND A HALF WHILE HE FELT HIMSELF DRAWN NEARER AND NEARER TO +THAT MORE IRRITATING NEWS THAN YOURS COULD NOT HAVE BEEN CONCEIVED. +THAT NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE WERE ALREADY PROCEEDING, AND THAT HE +THAT NEVER DOES ANY HARM,” THOUGHT ANATOLE. +THAT NOT EVEN A CONTINUITY OF MOST BRILLIANT SUCCESSES WOULD SECURE +THAT ONE ALSO PASSED. THEN FOLLOWED A CART UNLIKE ANY THAT HAD GONE +THAT ON RECEIVING NEWS OF THE DEFEAT SOME WOULD SIMPLY NOT BELIEVE IT, +THAT PASSIONATE ANIMAL FEELING WHICH WAS APT TO MASTER HIM WITH GREAT +“THAT PASSION WHICH MORE THAN ALL OTHERS CAUSED YOU TO WAVER ON THE +THAT PECULIAR EXPRESSION OF POLITE WEARINESS WHICH PLAINLY SAYS, “IF +THAT PIERRE COULD NO LONGER SEE THE REDDISH-YELLOW FACE WITH ITS GRAY +THAT PRINCESS MARY IN THIS GUISE LOOKED VERY PLAIN, WORSE THAN USUAL, +THAT PROVISIONS ARE SUPPLIED AND THE ROUTES INDICATED,” SAID BILíBIN, +THAT REMAINED UNINJURED OUT OF THE FOUR, THEY BEGAN MOVING DOWN THE HILL + * “THAT RUSSIAN ARMY WHICH HAS BEEN BROUGHT FROM THE ENDS OF +“THAT’S ADMIRABLE!” HE SHOUTED. “HE WILL TAKE YOU WITH YOUR +“THAT’S A FINE DEATH!” SAID NAPOLEON AS HE GAZED AT BOLKóNSKI. +“THAT’S A GOOD THING, BUT DON’T MOVE FROM PRINCE VASíLI’S. IT +“THAT’S ALL RIGHT. NO ONE THINKS YOU A COWARD, BUT THAT’S NOT THE +THAT SAME DAY A COUNCIL OF WAR HAD BEEN HELD IN WHICH ALL THE MEMBERS OF +THAT SAME EVENING THERE WAS AN ANIMATED DISCUSSION AMONG THE +THAT SAME EVENING THERE WAS TO BE ONE OF THE BALLS THAT IOGEL (THE +THAT SAME NIGHT, HAVING TAKEN LEAVE OF THE MINISTER OF WAR, BOLKóNSKI +THAT SAME NIGHT, ROSTóV WAS WITH A PLATOON ON SKIRMISHING DUTY IN FRONT +“THAT’S A MIWACLE.” +“THAT’S BETTER, COUNT,” SAID THE STAFF CAPTAIN, BEGINNING TO +“THAT’S CAPITAL; OF COURSE SHE’LL FORGET HER CHILDISH PROMISES +“THAT’S FINE,” SAID HE. +“THAT’S FOR THEM ALL,” HE SAID TO THE OFFICER WHO CAME UP. +THAT SHE HAD NOT INTENDED HER FLIGHT TO BRING HER SO FAR. BEHIND HER IN +THAT SHE WINCED AND UTTERED A CRY. +THAT SHOWED THAT HIS FATHER’S FOIBLES DID NOT PREVENT HIS SON FROM +“THAT’S HOW WE USED TO DANCE IN OUR TIME, MA CHèRE,” SAID THE +THAT’S IT.” AND WITH A COMPLACENT SIGH HE WOULD RETURN TO THE +“THAT’S IT, THAT’S IT!” EXCLAIMED THE COUNT, AND GAILY SEIZING +“THAT’S JUST IT,” ANSWERED BILíBIN. “LISTEN! THE FRENCH ENTERED +“THAT’S JUST IT,” INTERRUPTED DOLGORúKOV QUICKLY, LAUGHING. +“THAT’S JUST IT, MY DEAR FELLOW. YOU SEE IT’S HURRAH FOR THE TSAR, +THAT SLEEP IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING,” WHISPERED PRINCESS MARY +THAT SMILE WAS IMMEDIATELY REFLECTED ON PIERRE’S FACE. +THAT’S NOT IT—THAT’S TOMORROW. OH YES! NATáSHA... SABRETACHE... +“THAT’S NOT THE POINT, MY DEAR.” +THAT SOLDIER PASSED ON, AND AFTER HIM CAME ANOTHER SITTING ON A CART. +THAT SORT OF MAN), HE GAVE BORíS A PLEASANT SMILE, FROWNED AS WITH +THAT SORT OF THING.” +“THAT’S OUR BATTERY,” SAID THE STAFF OFFICER INDICATING THE +THAT’S OUR HOUSE,” SAID ROSTóV. “OF COURSE, IT’S OUR HOUSE! +“THAT’S SO, YOUR EXCELLENCY, ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS TO EAT A GOOD +THAT STATE OF MIND WHICH MAKES EVERYTHING SEEM POSSIBLE, PLEASANT, AND +THAT’S THE WAY THEY TREAT ME! NO CONFIDENCE IN ME! AH, ORDERED TO KEEP +THAT STOOD BEFORE HIS PLATE, PIERRE HELD OUT ONE AT RANDOM AND DRANK +“THAT’S TRUE!” +“THAT’S TWUE, DEVIL TAKE IT!” SHOUTED DENíSOV, JUMPING UP. “NOW +THAT SUM. “HE’S BEGUN TO GO A LITTLE LAME ON THE LEFT FORELEG,” HE +THAT SURROUNDED THE EMPERORS. +“THAT’S WHAT COMES OF A MODERN EDUCATION,” EXCLAIMED THE VISITOR. +THAT’S WHAT I DID.” +THAT’S WHY I HAVE COME... I AM A RELATION. I SHALL NOT DISTURB HIM, +THAT THE CORSICAN MONSTER WHO IS DESTROYING THE PEACE OF EUROPE MAY +“THAT THE EMPEROR WILL MEET ME AND GIVE ME AN ORDER AS HE WOULD TO ANY +THAT THE HUSSARS MUST RETURN QUICKLY AND FIRE THE BRIDGE.’” +THAT THE ISMáYLOV REGIMENT WAS QUARTERED FOR THE NIGHT TEN MILES FROM +THAT THE PRINCE WAS IN A BAD HUMOR, STOOD AWAITING HIM; MADEMOISELLE +THAT THE PUPILS’ PARENTS WEPT AT HAVING TO LET HIM TAKE THEIR CHILDREN +THAT THE QUESTION OF HIS WIFE’S GUILT WHICH HAD BEEN TORMENTING HIM +THAT THERE WERE NO POLITICAL DIFFICULTIES IN EUROPE AND NO REAL WAR, +THAT THESE THOUGHTS HAD BEEN SUGGESTED TO PRINCE ANDREW BY HIS +THAT THE STORY ABOUT SERGéY KUZMíCH, THE LAUGHTER, AND THE FOOD +THAT THE STRANGE LADY, THE AIDE-DE-CAMP, AND SOME OF THE SERVANTS, ALL +THAT THEY ARE TO CROSS LAST AND TO FIRE THE BRIDGE AS I ORDERED; AND THE +THAT THEY DESPAIRED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF CHECKING THIS DISORDER. +THAT THEY MAY RUN SMOOTHLY. +THAT THOSE BROAD-BONED REDDISH HANDS WITH HAIRY WRISTS VISIBLE FROM +THAT TONIGHT HE WAS A PERSON OBLIGED TO PERFORM SOME SORT OF AWFUL +THAT VERY INSTANT A CLOUD OF SMOKE SPREAD ALL ROUND, FIRING WAS HEARD +THAT VILLAGE, AMID THE SMOKE, WAS SOMETHING RESEMBLING A BATTERY, BUT IT +“THAT WAS A DANIEL COOPER!” EXCLAIMED MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA, TUCKING UP +“THAT WAS A NICE SNUB FOR THE LITTLE AIDE-DE-CAMP,” CAME A VOICE +THAT WAS DISPERSING ON THE HILL LAY STILL MORE DENSELY BELOW, WHERE THEY +THAT WAS GOOD. +THAT WAS NOT PRETTY, BUT NEITHER MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE NOR THE LITTLE +THAT WAS SWAYING FROM ITS WEIGHT IN PRINCE ANDREW’S HANDS, BUT HE +THAT WERE AFLOAT, AND SO KUTúZOV’S SUGGESTION OF AN AUSTRIAN VICTORY +THAT WERE ARRIVING FROM RUSSIA. IF KUTúZOV DECIDED TO REMAIN AT KREMS, +THAT WERE SO AGONIZINGLY, INCESSANTLY PULLING AND PRESSING HIS ARM AND +THAT WHERE THE STEWARD HAD SHOWN HIM IN THE ACCOUNTS THAT THE SERFS’ +THAT WHICH HAD SAID: “THE PáVLOGRAD HUSSARS?” + THAT WHILE HER FINGERS TOUCH THE HARP +THAT WHILE NAPOLEON’S PROCLAMATION WAS BEING READ TO THE TROOPS THE +THAT WHITE SPOT. “I EXPECT IT’S SNOW... THAT SPOT... A SPOT—UNE +THAT WILL DECIDE THE MATTER, BUT THOSE WHO DEVISED IT,” SAID BILíBIN +“THAT WOULD BE A FINE THING!” SAID SHE. “I NEVER WANTED ANYTHING +“THAT WOULD BE FINE, GENTLEMEN!” +“THAT WOULD TAKE TOO LONG TO TELL,” ANSWERED THE SON. +THAT YEAR, AS ALL HIS ESTATES HAD BEEN REMORTGAGED, AND SO NICHOLAS, +THAT YEAR TO MOREAU TO ENTER THE RUSSIAN SERVICE.... “WONDERFUL!... +THAWING IN THE SUNSHINE, THE HORSES GALLOPED QUICKLY, AND ON BOTH SIDES +THE 18TH BRUMAIRE; WAS NOT THAT AN IMPOSTURE? IT WAS A SWINDLE, AND NOT +THE ABBé. ANOTHER, OF YOUNG PEOPLE, WAS GROUPED ROUND THE BEAUTIFUL +THE ABBé MORIO AND MANY OTHERS HAD ALSO COME. +THE ACCOUNTANT WITH THE NAïVE FACE WAS FEELING ITS TEXTURE, SHAKING HIS +THE ACCURATE WAY CHARACTERISTIC OF HIM, WAS BUILDING A LITTLE PYRAMID OF +THE ACT OF FALLING ASLEEP. ROSTóV LIFTED HIS HEAD THAT HAD SUNK ALMOST +THE ADDRESS. “THIS LETTER WOULD BE OF GREAT USE TO YOU.” +THE ADJUTANT AND THE MINISTER. “AWAY FROM THE SMELL OF POWDER, THEY +THE ADJUTANT ON DUTY, MEETING PRINCE ANDREW, ASKED HIM TO WAIT, AND WENT +THE ADJUTANT ON DUTY,” SAID THE OFFICIAL. “HE WILL CONDUCT YOU TO +THE ADORATION THEN COMMON IN MOSCOW FOR THE EMPEROR, WHO WAS SPOKEN OF +THE ADVANCED ARMY. PRINCE ANDREW BOLKóNSKI CAME INTO THE ROOM WITH THE +THE ADVANTAGES ARE FAR LESS THAN IN THE INFANTRY. JUST CONSIDER MY OWN +THE AFFAIR, AND LIKE EVERYONE IN SIMILAR CASES, DID NOT YET BELIEVE THAT +THE AFFAIR HAD COME TO AN ACTUAL DUEL). “YOU KNOW, COUNT, IT IS MUCH +THE AGILITY WITH WHICH HE CAPERED ABOUT ON HIS LIGHT FEET, MáRYA +THE AIDE-DE-CAMP WAS SENT TO CONFIRM THE ORDER WHICH HAD NOT BEEN +THE AIDE-DE-CAMP WITH A RESPECTFUL POLITENESS EVIDENTLY RELATING TO THE +THE AIM OF SUPPORTING ONE ANOTHER IN THE PATH OF VIRTUE, AND THAT IS HOW +“THE AMMUNITION FOR THE GUNS IN POSITION IS EXHAUSTED, YOUR +THE ANIMATED HUM OF SEVERAL CONVERSATIONS. AT ONE END OF THE TABLE, THE +THE ANTEROOM. “I CAN’T REMAIN ANY LONGER IN PETERSBURG. TELL ME WHAT +THE APPOINTED PLACE. +“THE ÁPSHERONS MUST BE STOPPED, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” CRIED HE. BUT AT +THE ARCHDUCHY OF AUSTRIA, AND YET OTHER REGIMENTS FRESHLY ARRIVING FROM +THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND AND MACK, AND KUTúZOV, NOT CONSIDERING THIS +THE ARCHITECT. +THE ARMISTICE IMMEDIATELY AND MARCH ON THE ENEMY. INFORM HIM THAT THE +THE ARMY, AND ABOUT WHOM NATáSHA HAD TEASED HER ELDER SISTER VéRA, +THE ARMY CONSIDERABLY. THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE ARMY AND AT HEADQUARTERS +THE ARMY NOW THAT IT IS IN DANGER. I UNDERSTAND THAT. MON CHER, IT IS +THE ARMY WAS A GREAT GRIEF TO ME. THIS YOUNG MAN, OF WHOM I SPOKE TO YOU +THE ARRIVAL OF A SUITOR AGITATED HER, AND STILL MORE SO BY BOTH +THE ARRIVAL OF THE REST OF THE TROOPS WHO WERE ON THEIR WAY FROM VIENNA, +THE ARTILLERYMEN WERE STILL AS MERRY AND LIVELY AS EVER. TWICE THEY +THEATER, WHERE HE HAD BEEN WITH HIS FAMILY AND DENíSOV. HE WAS AT ONCE +THE ATTACK OF THE SIXTH CHASSEURS SECURED THE RETREAT OF OUR RIGHT +THE AUSTRIAN ADJUTANT, HE ADDRESSED BOLKóNSKI. +THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL LOOKED DISSATISFIED, BUT HAD NO OPTION BUT TO REPLY +THE BAGGAGE WAGONS HAD ALL CROSSED, THE CRUSH WAS LESS, AND THE LAST +THE BALANCE OF POWER, AND THE LATTER, EVIDENTLY INTERESTED BY THE YOUNG +THE BALD HEAD. VéRA, NATáSHA, SóNYA, AND PéTYA NOW ENTERED THE ROOM, +THE BAND IMMEDIATELY STRUCK UP “CONQUEST’S JOYFUL THUNDER +THE BAND STRUCK UP THE NEWLY INTRODUCED MAZURKA. NICHOLAS COULD NOT +THE BARON. +THE BATTALION COMMANDER. “OH, MY GOD!” HE ADDED, STEPPING RESOLUTELY +THE BATTALION COMMANDER PERCEIVED THE JOVIAL IRONY AND LAUGHED. +THE BATTERY TO RETIRE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. WHEN THE SUPPORTS ATTACHED +THE BATTLEFIELD, BELIEVED THAT THE FRENCH HAD BEEN DEFEATED AND WERE +THE BATTLE HAD BEGUN! PRINCE ANDREW TURNED HIS HORSE AND GALLOPED BACK +THE BATTLE OF SCHöN GRABERN THAN YOU DO NOW,” SAID HIS SON WITH A +THE BEAUTY WENT TO THE AUNT, BUT ANNA PáVLOVNA DETAINED PIERRE, LOOKING +THE BEDCHAMBER. THE DIPLOMATIC CAREER NOW LIES OPEN BEFORE YOU.” +“THE BERLIN CABINET CANNOT EXPRESS A FEELING OF ALLIANCE,” BEGAN +THE BEST MAROON DRESS, AND SO ON, ALL WOULD BE WELL. THEY FORGOT THAT +THE BEST POST HE COULD—PREFERABLY THAT OF ADJUTANT TO SOME IMPORTANT +THE BETTER. BUT BOGDáNICH, WITHOUT LOOKING AT OR RECOGNIZING ROSTóV, +THE BIGWIGS WHO GUIDED THE CLUB’S OPINION REAPPEARED, AND EVERYBODY +THE BLACK, HAIRY, SNUB-NOSED FACE OF VáSKA DENíSOV, AND HIS WHOLE +THE BOHEMIAN MOUNTAINS WITH. IT’S A BAD LOOKOUT, OLD FELLOW! BUT +THE BONFIRE, AND ADDRESSING TúSHIN ASKED HIM TO HAVE THE GUNS MOVED A +THE BONFIRES OF OUR INFANTRY WHO WERE FELLING WOOD. THE FRENCH LINE WAS +THE BOOK WAS THE GOSPEL, AND THE WHITE THING WITH THE LAMP INSIDE WAS A +THE BOOTS. +THE BOTTLE OF RUM WAS BROUGHT. THE WINDOW FRAME WHICH PREVENTED ANYONE +THE BRIDGE. +THE BRIDGE AND ITS CELEBRATED BRIDGEHEAD AND PRINCE AUERSPERG? WE HEARD +THE BRIDGE AND NOT LET US CROSS? BUT IT WILL PLEASE OUR SOVEREIGN THE +THE BRIDGE CHASED EACH OTHER ALONG. LOOKING ON THE BRIDGE HE SAW EQUALLY +THE BRIDGE, FOR THE HORIZON AS SEEN FROM THE VALLEY THROUGH WHICH THE +THE BRIDGES WERE STRONG AND HAD HANDRAILS. EVERYTHING BORE AN IMPRESS OF +THE BRIDGE UNOBSERVED, FLINGS THE BAGS OF INCENDIARY MATERIAL INTO +THE BRILLIANT SURROUNDINGS IN WHICH HE HAD LAST MET HIS FRIEND IN +“‘THE BROOK,’” SUGGESTED NICHOLAS. +THE CADET WAS ROSTóV. WITH ONE HAND HE SUPPORTED THE OTHER; HE WAS +THE CAMPAIGN AND THE TWO BATTLES IN WHICH HE HAD TAKEN PART, AND HIS +THE CAMPFIRE. THEY WERE QUARRELING AND FIGHTING DESPERATELY, EACH TRYING +THE CARD TABLES WERE DRAWN OUT, SETS MADE UP FOR BOSTON, AND THE +THE CARE OF A SKILLFUL RIDER AND, SLIGHTLY BENDING OVER, DISENGAGED HIS +THE CARRIAGE AS PALE AS ANYTHING. HOW THEY MADE THE FOUR BLACK HORSES +THE CARVED BACK OF A VELVET CHAIR HE HAD TURNED ROUND FOR THE PURPOSE, +THE CASE, HESITATED ABOUT LIFTING THE INJURED OR DEAD. THE SOLDIERS, +THE CASE IS THIS: YOU OUGHT TO HAVE THOUGHT THE MATTER OVER AND +THE CAUSE OF HIS GRIEF. +THE CAUSE OF JUSTICE AGAINST THE ENEMY OF THE HUMAN RACE. ANNA PáVLOVNA +THE CAUSE OF THE CONFUSION WAS THAT WHILE THE AUSTRIAN CAVALRY WAS +THE CENTER OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY, AND THAT THAT CENTER WAS ALREADY +THE CHAIR FOR HER. +THE CHANGED EXPRESSION ON PRINCE BAGRATIóN’S FACE AT THIS MOMENT. IT +THE CHANTING OF THE SERVICE CEASED, AND THE VOICE OF THE PRIEST WAS +THE CHANTRY LONG BEFORE, BUT THAT NINE TENTHS OF THE PEASANTS IN THAT +THE CHEEKS, THE SAME EXPRESSION WAS ON HER CHARMING CHILDLIKE FACE WITH +THE CHEERFUL GLITTER OF THAT AUTUMN DAY WAS IN KEEPING WITH THE NEWS OF +THE CHEERFUL MOOD OF THEIR OFFICERS AFTER THE INSPECTION INFECTED THE +THE CHIEF STEWARD, A VERY STUPID BUT CUNNING MAN WHO SAW PERFECTLY +THE CHIEF STEWARD EXPRESSED GREAT SYMPATHY WITH PIERRE’S INTENTIONS, +THE CHIEF STEWARD, WHO CONSIDERED THE YOUNG COUNT’S ATTEMPTS ALMOST +THE CHILD MOVED SLIGHTLY IN HIS SLEEP, SMILED, AND RUBBED HIS FOREHEAD +THE CLAVICHORD, SANG THE TUNE. BOLKóNSKI WAS NOT THERE. NONE OF THESE +THE CLEAR BLUE EYES LOOKED AT THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF JUST AS BOLDLY AS +THE CLEVEREST AMONG THEM, INCLUDING THE CHIEF STEWARD, UNDERSTOOD FROM +THE CLEVER THOUGH SHY, BUT OBSERVANT AND NATURAL, EXPRESSION WHICH +THE CLIMATE,” SAID HE. +THE CLOAK THEY SPREAD UNDER HIM WAS WET WITH BLOOD WHICH STAINED HIS +THE CLUB COOK AND THE STEWARD LISTENED TO THE COUNT’S ORDERS WITH +THE COACH WITH SIX HORSES WAS WAITING AT THE PORCH. IT WAS AN AUTUMN +THE COIN WAS A NEW ONE. ROSTóV ROSE AND WENT UP TO TELYáNIN. +THE COLD, AUSTERE TONE OF THIS MAN, WHOM HE HAD ALMOST ALWAYS BEFORE MET +THE COLD WIND, SWARMED IN THESE EARTHWORKS LIKE A HOST OF WHITE ANTS; +THE COLONEL, CLOSELY—TO FIND IN HIS FACE CONFIRMATION OF HIS OWN +THE COLONEL DELIBERATELY STOPPED THE REGIMENT AND TURNED TO NESVíTSKI. +THE COLONEL LOOKED SILENTLY AT THE OFFICER OF THE SUITE, AT THE STOUT +THE COLONEL RODE TO THE FRONT, ANGRILY GAVE SOME REPLY TO QUESTIONS PUT +THE COLONEL TOLD THEM THAT THE DECLARATION OF WAR HAD ALREADY APPEARED +THE COLONEL WAS A STOUT, TALL, PLETHORIC GERMAN, EVIDENTLY DEVOTED TO +THE COLUMN, GAVE HIM THE ORDER TO ADVANCE. +THE COMBATANTS ADVANCED ALONG THE TRODDEN TRACKS, NEARER AND NEARER TO +“THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF IS ENGAGED,” REPEATED KOZLóVSKI CALMLY. +“THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF IS ENGAGED,” SAID KOZLóVSKI, GOING +THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF IS EXPECTED AND YOU LEAVE YOUR PLACE? EH? I’LL +THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, KUTúZOV. +THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF’S ONE SOUND EYE SHOWED HIM TO BE SO PREOCCUPIED +THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF WOULD INSPECT THE REGIMENT ON THE MARCH. THOUGH +THE COMMANDER OF THE COMPANY, WITH HIS EYES FIXED ON HIS SUPERIOR, +THE COMMANDER OF THE DRAGOONS HAD ALREADY RETREATED BEYOND THE DIP IN +THE COMMANDER OF THE REGIMENT, A THIN, FEEBLE-LOOKING OLD MAN WITH A +THE COMMANDER OF THE REGIMENT TURNED TO PRINCE BAGRATIóN, ENTREATING +THE COMMANDER OF THE REGIMENT WAS AN ELDERLY, CHOLERIC, STOUT, AND +THE COMMANDER WITH A TONE OF SUFFERING IN HIS VOICE, WHILE THERE WERE +THE COMMAND OF THE ARMY TO GENERAL BUXHöWDEN. DURING THIS INTERREGNUM +THE COMMAND OF THE LEFT FLANK BELONGED BY SENIORITY TO THE COMMANDER OF +THE COMPANY COMMANDER MIGHT GET KILLED AND HE, AS SENIOR IN THE COMPANY, +THE COMPLETE DARKNESS TúSHIN’S GUNS MOVED FORWARD, SURROUNDED BY THE +THE CONCENTRATED ACTIVITY WHICH HAD BEGUN AT THE EMPEROR’S +THE CONTEMPT WITH WHICH ROSTóV, FROM HIS FIGHTING ARMY POINT OF VIEW, +THE CONVERSATION, “ALMOST ALL THE ARISTOCRACY HAS ALREADY GONE OVER TO +THE CONVERSATION BROKE UP INTO INSIGNIFICANT SMALL TALK ABOUT THE LAST +THE CONVERSATION DID NOT FLAG ALL EVENING AND TURNED CHIEFLY ON THE +THE CONVERSATION TO INSIGNIFICANT MATTERS. NATáSHA, WHO, OF THE WHOLE +THE CONVERSATION WAS HUSHED. +THE CONVOY OFFICER. +THE COPSE ACROSS WHICH OUR MEN, REGARDLESS OF ORDERS, WERE RUNNING AND +THE COSSACKS SOLD THE HORSE FOR TWO GOLD PIECES, AND ROSTóV, BEING THE +THE COT. HE DID NOT LOOK ROUND, BUT STILL GAZING AT THE INFANT’S FACE +THE COT WHERE SHE WAS STANDING, “BETTER WAIT A BIT... LATER...” +THE COUNCIL OF WAR, AT WHICH PRINCE ANDREW HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO +THE COUNCIL OF WAR WAS JUST OVER WHEN PRINCE ANDREW ACCOMPANIED +THE COUNT AND AT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, THE LATTER VERY ADROITLY TURNED +THE COUNT BURST OUT LAUGHING. THE OTHER GUESTS SEEING THAT SHINSHíN +THE COUNT CAME WADDLING IN TO SEE HIS WIFE WITH A RATHER GUILTY LOOK AS +THE COUNT CONSIDERED. +THE COUNT DANCED WELL AND KNEW IT. BUT HIS PARTNER COULD NOT AND DID NOT +THE COUNT, DYING WITH LAUGHTER. +THE COUNTESS; ABOUT 70,000 WENT FOR INTEREST ON DEBTS. THE BUILDING OF A +THE COUNTESS AS HER MOTHER AND CALLED HER SO) “THAT I AM SPOILING +THE COUNTESS DID NOT BELIEVE HER EARS. DENíSOV HAD PROPOSED. TO WHOM? +THE COUNTESS EXCHANGED GLANCES WITH ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. THE LATTER +THE COUNTESS’ EYES FILLED WITH TEARS AND SHE PONDERED IN SILENCE. +THE COUNTESS GLANCED AT HER SILENT SON. +THE COUNTESS HAD BEEN PREPARED BY ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S HINTS AT DINNER. +THE COUNTESS SHRUGGED HER SHOULDERS. +“THE COUNTESS TOLD ME TO INQUIRE WHETHER YOUR EXCELLENCY WAS AT +THE COUNTESS TRIED TO FROWN, BUT COULD NOT. MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA SHOOK HER +THE COUNTESS WAS A WOMAN OF ABOUT FORTY-FIVE, WITH A THIN ORIENTAL TYPE +THE COUNTESS WAS UPSET BY HER FRIEND’S SORROW AND HUMILIATING POVERTY, +THE COUNTESS, WITH A SMILE. +THE COUNT, HOLDING HIS CARDS FANWISE, KEPT HIMSELF WITH DIFFICULTY FROM +“THE COUNT IS SUFFERING PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY, AND APPARENTLY YOU +THE COUNT JUMPED UP AND, SWAYING FROM SIDE TO SIDE, SPREAD HIS ARMS WIDE +THE COUNT, MY UNCLE; BUT YOU, MY DEAR, HAD BETTER GO TO PIERRE MEANWHILE +THE COUNT PUT HIS EAR TO THE KEYHOLE AND LISTENED. +THE COUNT SOBBED YET MORE. +THE COUNT WALKED UP AND DOWN THE HALL IN HIS DRESSING GOWN, GIVING +THE COUNT WAS BEGINNING TO BREATHE HEAVILY AND QUICKLY WHICH WAS ALWAYS +THE COUNT WAS DELIGHTED AT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S TAKING UPON HERSELF ONE +THE COUNT WENT IN FIRST WITH MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA, THE COUNTESS FOLLOWED +THE COURT, CAREFULLY ABSTAINING FROM EXPRESSING AN OPINION OF HIS +THE CROWD MOVED ON AGAIN. NESVíTSKI REALIZED THAT IT WAS A CANNON BALL. +THE CROWD OF RETREATING SOLDIERS, ORDERING THEM BACK. BAGRATIóN RODE UP +THE CROWD, PUSHING FORWARD DESPERATELY, SQUEEZED TOGETHER, MOVED A FEW +THE CRYSTAL DECANTERS AND FRUIT VASES, THE COUNT KEPT GLANCING AT HIS +THE DAM, THE POND, AND THE BANK. +THE DARKNESS. THIS WAS THE LAST FRENCH ATTACK AND WAS MET BY SOLDIERS +THE DAY AFTER HE HAD BEEN RECEIVED INTO THE LODGE, PIERRE WAS SITTING AT +THE DAY AFTER ROSTóV HAD BEEN TO SEE BORíS, A REVIEW WAS HELD OF THE +THE DAY AFTER THE REVIEW, BORíS, IN HIS BEST UNIFORM AND WITH HIS +THE DAY. THAT’S WHAT KEEPING ONE’S HEAD MEANS. THAT’S THE WAY, +THE DECISIVE POINT, AND GAINS THE VICTORY ALONE. “BUT DEATH AND +THE DECLARATION FROM PETERSBURG GAVE HIM PARTICULAR PLEASURE, AND THAT +THE DEEP WET SNOW BETWEEN THE PLACE WHERE THEY HAD BEEN STANDING AND +THE DETERMINATION OF DENíSOV WHO FLOURISHED HIS SWORD AND SHOUTED +“THE DEVIL KNOWS! THEY’VE KILLED EVERYBODY! IT’S ALL UP NOW!” +“THE DEVIL ONLY KNOWS! THEY SAY SO.” +“THE DEVIL ONLY KNOWS WHAT THEY’RE ABOUT!” MUTTERED DENíSOV. +“THE DEVIL SKIN YOUR EMPEROR.” +THE DINNER SAT SILENT, GLANCING WITH A FRIGHTENED LOOK NOW AT HER +THE DISORDERED BATTALION AND AT THE ENEMY, “WHAT’S THAT?” +“THE DISPOSITIONS!” EXCLAIMED KUTúZOV BITTERLY. “WHO TOLD YOU +THE DISPOSITIONS OR ANYTHING ELSE—HE WAS ENGAGED IN SATISFYING THE +THE DISPOSITIONS WERE VERY COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT. THEY BEGAN AS +“THE DIVINE MERCY IS INEXHAUSTIBLE! UNCTION IS ABOUT TO BE +THE DOCTOR CAST A RAPID GLANCE UPWARDS AND SILENTLY SHRUGGED HIS +THE DOCTOR ENTERED. PRINCE ANDREW WENT OUT AND, MEETING PRINCESS MARY, +THE DOCTOR GLANCED AT HIS WATCH. +THE DOOR. +THE DOOR AND AS SOON AS IT OPENED HIS ROUGH OLD ARMS CLOSED LIKE A VISE +THE DOOR HIMSELF BEHIND HIM. +THE DOOR; THE SCREAM CEASED AND HE HEARD THE WAIL OF AN INFANT. +THE DOOR, WAS SITTING AT THE TABLE IN A PERSIAN DRESSING GOWN, WRITING. +THE DOORWAY APPEARED A STUDENT WITH A CRIMSON COAT COLLAR, AN OFFICER +“THE DOUBT IS FLATTERING,” SAID “THE MAN OF PROFOUND INTELLECT,” +THE DRAWING ROOM. HE EVIDENTLY TRIED TO FIND SOMETHING TO SAY, BUT +THE DUEL BETWEEN PIERRE AND DóLOKHOV WAS HUSHED UP AND, IN SPITE OF +THE DUEL WITH NESVíTSKI, BEZúKHOV’S SECOND. PIERRE WENT HOME, BUT +THE DULL, SLEEPY EXPRESSION WAS NO LONGER THERE, NOR THE AFFECTATION +THE DUTIES OF WIFE AND MOTHER UPON ME I SHALL TRY TO PERFORM THEM AS +THEE, AND EVEN IN THOSE BLASPHEMOUS WORDS THOU HAST JUST UTTERED!” + THE EARTH BY ENGLISH GOLD, WE SHALL CAUSE TO SHARE THE SAME +THE EBB AND FLOW OF THESE SOUNDS. +THE EFFORTS OF THE OLD COUNT, AND INSTEAD OF BEING DEGRADED TO THE RANKS +“THE EIGHTEENTH.” +THE ELDERLY LADY WAS A PRINCESS DRUBETSKáYA, BELONGING TO ONE OF THE +THE ELDERS BEGAN TALKING ABOUT BONAPARTE. JULIE KARáGINA TURNED TO +THE ELDEST PRINCESS PAUSED IN HER READING AND SILENTLY STARED AT HIM +THE EMPEROR ABOUT HIM; SO THAT IN THE CASE OF HIS DEATH—AND HE IS +THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER AND THE KING OF PRUSSIA IN BERLIN? IF PRUSSIA +“THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER,” SAID SHE, WITH THE MELANCHOLY WHICH +THE EMPEROR, AND A THOUSAND REASONS OCCURRED TO HIM WHY IT WOULD BE +THE EMPEROR DREW LEVEL WITH ROSTóV AND HALTED. ALEXANDER’S FACE WAS +THE EMPEROR, FROWNING SLIGHTLY, BENT HIS EAR FORWARD AS IF HE HAD NOT +THE EMPEROR. HE FELT THAT THIS NEARNESS BY ITSELF MADE UP TO HIM FOR THE +THE EMPEROR IMMEDIATELY!” THOUGHT ROSTóV AND GALLOPED ON. +THE EMPEROR INTERRUPTED HIM. +THE EMPEROR’S HORSE STARTED AT THE SUDDEN CRY. THIS HORSE THAT HAD +THE EMPEROR SPOKE TO HIM MOST GRACIOUSLY. ANNETTE AND I WERE SPEAKING OF +THE EMPEROR’S SEVERITY REGARDING DUELS AT THAT TIME, NEITHER THE +THE EMPEROR’S SUITE. ONE OFFICER TOLD ROSTóV THAT HE HAD SEEN SOMEONE +THE EMPEROR’S VOICE. +THE EMPEROR THANKED PRINCE ANDREW AND BOWED. PRINCE ANDREW WITHDREW AND +“THE EMPEROR! THE EMPEROR!” WAS SUDDENLY HEARD AMONG THE HUSSARS. +THE EMPEROR TURNED WITH A SMILE TO ONE OF HIS FOLLOWERS AND MADE A +THE EMPEROR WITHOUT WAITING FOR AN ANSWER TURNED AWAY AND SAID TO ONE OF +THE ENCHANTED CIRCLE I CANNOT ESCAPE FROM. I AM NOW GOING TO THE WAR, +“THE ENEMY HAS QUENCHED HIS FIRES AND A CONTINUAL NOISE IS HEARD FROM +“THE ENEMY IS STILL FAR AWAY, YOUR EXCELLENCY. ACCORDING TO THE +THE ENEMY’S FIRES, BUT HEARD THE SHOUTING OF THE FRENCH MORE LOUDLY +THE ENGLISHMAN NODDED, BUT GAVE NO INDICATION WHETHER HE INTENDED TO +THE ENGLISHMAN TOOK OUT HIS PURSE AND BEGAN COUNTING OUT THE MONEY. +THE ENGLISH WILL COME OFF BADLY, YOU KNOW, IF NAPOLEON GETS ACROSS THE +THE ENNS AND THE DANUBE BECAME VISIBLE, AND THE ROCKY LEFT BANK OF THE +THE ENORMOUSLY HIGH STUDY DOOR OPENED AND SHOWED THE FIGURE OF A RATHER +THE ENORMOUS STUDY WAS FULL OF THINGS EVIDENTLY IN CONSTANT USE. +THE ENTRENCHMENT, AND WENT ON AGAIN. JUST BEHIND IT THEY CAME UPON SOME +THE EPISTLES AND GOSPELS. LET US NOT SEEK TO PENETRATE WHAT MYSTERIES +THE EVENING AGAIN TURNED TO BORíS, ASKING HIM IN A TONE OF CARESSING +“THE EXCHANGE HORSES HAVE JUST COME,” ANSWERED THE SERVANT. “WILL +“THE EXECUTION OF THE DUC D’ENGHIEN,” DECLARED MONSIEUR PIERRE, +THE EXERCISE BOOK CONTAINING GEOMETRICAL FIGURES. +THE EXPERIENCE OF OLD CUNCTATORS.” +THE EXPRESSION SHE SAW ON THE MAID OF HONOR’S FACE, AND AGAIN RELAPSED +THE EYES OF THE GENERAL AND THE SOLDIER MET. THE GENERAL BECAME SILENT, +THE EYES OF THE GUARDSMAN’S HORSE. THE HEAVY BLACK HORSE, SIXTEEN +THE FACE AND FIGURE OF PRINCE ANDREW, IN A FUR CLOAK THE DEEP COLLAR OF +THE FACE OF EACH SOLDIER AND EACH OFFICER SEEMED TO SAY. +THE FACE OF THE LITTLE PRINCESS CHANGED. SHE SIGHED AND SAID: “YES, +THE FACES OF OFFICERS AND MEN BRIGHTENED UP AT THE SOUND. EVERYONE GOT +THE FACE THAT EMERGED FROM THE SHIRT. +“THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS,” SAID SHE SIGNIFICANTLY, AND ALSO IN A +THE FALL OF AUSTRIA’S CAPITAL. “HOW IS IT VIENNA WAS TAKEN? WHAT OF +THE FAMILIAR STAIRCASE. THE WELL-KNOWN OLD DOOR HANDLE, WHICH ALWAYS +(THE FAMILY SOLICITOR) “AND HE SAYS THE SAME.” +THE FARTHER FORWARD AND NEARER THE ENEMY HE WENT, THE MORE ORDERLY AND +THE FARTHER HE WENT THE MORE DISORGANIZED THEY WERE. THE HIGHROAD ON +THE FATE OF BATTLES HAD ARRIVED. WOULD THIS DISORDERLY CROWD OF SOLDIERS +THE FEATHER BED. NATáSHA BEGAN CONSOLING HER, BUT HER FACE SHOWED THAT +THE FEELING, “IT HAS BEGUN! HERE IT IS!” WAS SEEN EVEN ON PRINCE +THE FELT BOOTS APPROACHED THE UNSEEN BEND OF THE STAIRCASE MORE RAPIDLY. +“THE FIELD MARSHAL IS ANGRY WITH THE EMPEROR AND HE PUNISHES US ALL, +THE FIELD OF BATTLE, WHO THOUGH STILL IN SOME CONFUSION WERE LESS +THE FIRE OF LIFE HAD SEEMED EXTINGUISHED, NOW FLASHED WITH BRILLIANT +THE FIRES AND SHOUTING IN THE ENEMY’S ARMY WERE OCCASIONED BY THE FACT +THE FIRST COUPLE. NOISELESSLY, SKILLFULLY STEPPING WITH HIS LITTLE +THE FIRST DOOR ON THE LEFT LED INTO THE PRINCESSES’ APARTMENTS. THE +“THE FIRST MAN THAT TURNS UP—SHE FORGETS HER FATHER AND EVERYTHING +THE FIRST SECOND. “A BABY? WHAT BABY...? WHY IS THERE A BABY THERE? OR +THE FIRST TIME. SOMETIMES THAT SAME LOOK FELL ON PIERRE, AND THAT FUNNY +THE FIRST TO CATCH HIS EYE. HE SENT HIM. +THE FIRST TO SEIZE THE SURRENDERING FRENCH OFFICER BY HIS COLLAR. OUR +THE FIRST WORDS HE HEARD ON COMING TO HIS SENSES WERE THOSE OF A FRENCH +THE FLAGSTAFF THAT HAD BEEN DROPPED BESIDE HIM. (THE FLAG HAD ALREADY +THE FOG HAD BEGUN TO CLEAR AND ENEMY TROOPS WERE ALREADY DIMLY VISIBLE +THE FOG HAD GROWN SO DENSE THAT THOUGH IT WAS GROWING LIGHT THEY COULD +THE FOREBODING OF EVIL THAT HAD SUDDENLY COME OVER ROSTóV WAS MORE AND +THE FOREMAN OF A SPINNING MILL, WHEN HE HAS SET THE HANDS TO WORK, GOES +THE FOREMOST FRENCHMAN, THE ONE WITH THE HOOKED NOSE, WAS ALREADY SO +THE FOREMOST, WEARING A COSSACK CLOAK AND LAMBSKIN CAP AND RIDING A +THE FORESTS IN THE PROVINCE OF KOSTROMá, THE LAND LOWER DOWN THE RIVER, +THE FRENCH, AFTER CROSSING THE BRIDGE AT VIENNA, WERE ADVANCING IN +THE FRENCH AND LAY DOWN THEIR ARMS AT THE FIRST DEMAND. +THE FRENCH DRAGOON WAS A YOUNG ALSATIAN WHO SPOKE FRENCH WITH A GERMAN +THE FRENCH, GALLOPED ALONG THE FRONT AS HARD AS HIS HORSE COULD GO, BUT +THE FRENCH GRENADIER. +THE FRENCH GUNS WERE HASTILY RELOADED. THE INFANTRY IN THEIR BLUE +THE FRENCH HAD ATTACKED THE BATTERY AND, SEEING KUTúZOV, WERE FIRING +THE FRENCH HAD BEEN REPULSED FOR THE LAST TIME. AND AGAIN AND AGAIN IN +THE FRENCH HAD TIME TO FIRE THREE ROUNDS OF GRAPESHOT BEFORE THE HUSSARS +“THE FRENCH HAVE ABANDONED THE LEFT BANK?” +THE FRENCHMAN LANGERON, KUTúZOV’S INCAPACITY, AND (IT WAS WHISPERED) +THE FRENCH ONLOOKERS AND LISTENERS LAUGHED. +THE FRENCH SENTENCES WHICH TO THEM WERE MEANINGLESS, WITH AN AIR OF +THE FRENCH, THE SPY REPORTED, HAVING CROSSED THE VIENNA BRIDGE, WERE +THE FRENCH WERE ALREADY NEAR. PRINCE ANDREW, WALKING BESIDE BAGRATIóN, +THE FRENCH WERE FIRING, AND HE FELT HIS HEART PALPITATING AS HE RODE +THE FRENCH, WHO HAD CEASED FIRING AT THIS FIELD STREWN WITH DEAD AND +THE FRENCH WITH HIS WHOLE ARMY WAS IMPOSSIBLE. THE ROAD FOR THE FRENCH +THE FRIENDS WERE SILENT. NEITHER CARED TO BEGIN TALKING. PIERRE +THE FRIGHTENED FACE AND THE FIGURE COULD NOT BE ALTERED, AND THAT +THE FRONT, BUT AT DüRRENSTEIN, WHERE I WAS, OUR ATTACK BEGAN AFTER +THE FRONT. I HELD MY SWORD IN MY LEFT HAND, COUNT. ALL OUR FAMILY—THE +THE FULFILLMENT OF DUTY, HE ROSE TO SEE SOME VISITORS OFF AND, STROKING +THE FULL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WORDS HE HEARD. +THE GAME CONTINUED; A WAITER KEPT HANDING ROUND CHAMPAGNE. +THE GATES, A GROUP OF UNDERTAKERS, WHO HID WHENEVER A CARRIAGE DROVE UP, +THE GENERAL FROWNED. THOUGH THERE WAS NO DEFINITE NEWS OF AN AUSTRIAN +THE GENERAL FROWNED, TURNED AWAY, AND WENT ON. +THE GENERAL HAD A FIT OF COUGHING AS A RESULT OF SHOUTING AND OF THE +THE GENERAL HAD SO WISHED TO DO THIS AND WAS SO SORRY HE HAD NOT MANAGED +THE GENERAL PLEASURE AND DISAPPOINT EVERYONE’S EXPECTATION. PRINCE +THE GENERAL’S FACE CLOUDED, HIS LIPS QUIVERED AND TREMBLED. HE TOOK +THE GENERALS SEEMED TO LISTEN RELUCTANTLY TO THE DIFFICULT DISPOSITIONS. +THE GENERAL STATE OF AFFAIRS WHICH WAS FAR FROM SATISFACTORY. +THE GENERALS WERE PASSING BY, LOOKING AS IF THEY WISHED TO AVOID +THE GENERAL, THE MEN THEMSELVES NOT KNOWING WHAT, OR WHY, THEY WERE +THE GENERAL... THIRD COMPANY TO THE COMMANDER.” THE WORDS PASSED ALONG +THE GENERAL, WHO LOOKED THROUGH HIS FIELD GLASS. +THE GENTLEMEN AND MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE ROSE AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS, +THE GENTLEMEN AROUND. +THE GENTLEMEN ASSEMBLED AT BILíBIN’S WERE YOUNG, WEALTHY, GAY SOCIETY +THE GENTLEMEN OF THE TSAR’S SUITE BY HIS POOR FRENCH. +THE GERMAN CLOSED HIS EYES, SIGNIFYING THAT HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND. +THE GERMAN LANDLORD. +THE GERMAN LAUGHED, CAME OUT OF THE COWSHED, PULLED OFF HIS CAP, AND +THE GERMAN VILLAGE OF SALZENECK. THE BEST QUARTERS IN THE VILLAGE WERE +THE GESTURE OF A MAN TOO BUSY TO LOSE A MOMENT, GLANCED AT KUTúZOV AND, +THE GIRL SMILED AND TOOK IT. NESVíTSKI LIKE THE REST OF THE MEN ON THE +THE GIRLS SPRANG ASIDE. DENíSOV HID HIS HAIRY LEGS UNDER THE BLANKET, +THE GLEAMING ICONS STOOD A LONG INVALID CHAIR, AND IN THAT CHAIR +THE GLORY OF OUR ARMS AND OF THE DAY’S WORK, THEY ASSUMED A SERIOUS +THE GOOD-NATURED EXPRESSION STILL MORE APPARENT, AND GAZED AT HIS FRIEND +THE GOOD-NATURED IOGEL, FLYING ABOUT LIKE A FEATHER AND BOWING ACCORDING +THE GRAND CROSS OF MARIA THERESA, AND THE WHOLE ARMY RECEIVED REWARDS. +THE GRAND MASTER BEGAN READING THE STATUTES. THEY WERE VERY LONG, AND +THE GRAND MASTER PROPOSED THAT THE LAST DUTY SHOULD BE PERFORMED, +THE GRAND MASTER RAPPED WITH HIS MALLET. ALL THE MASONS SAT DOWN IN +THE GRAY-HAIRED VALET WAS SITTING DROWSILY LISTENING TO THE SNORING OF +THE GREATER PART OF THE MEN HAD TO HALT AND AN UNPLEASANT CONSCIOUSNESS +THE GREATEST WAR THERE EVER WAS, AND I KNOW NOTHING AND AM FIT FOR +THE GROUND, AS A HEAVY FIRE HAD BEEN OPENED ON HIM AND HE WAS LOSING +THE GROUP ROUND MORTEMART TO LISTEN TO WHAT WAS BEING SAID THERE, AND +THE GUARDS HAD GONE TO THE FRONT; DóLOKHOV HAD BEEN REDUCED TO THE +THE GUARDS HAD MADE THEIR WHOLE MARCH AS IF ON A PLEASURE TRIP, PARADING +THE GUARDS TO THE FIELD OF BATTLE, AFRAID OF LETTING A READY VICTIM +THE GUESTS GOT UP AND TOOK THEIR LEAVE, PROMISING TO RETURN TO DINNER. +THE GUESTS, KNOWING OF THE AFFAIR WITH THE BEAR, LOOKED WITH CURIOSITY +THE GUESTS. TO EACH OF THEM HE MADE SOME CARELESS AND AGREEABLE REMARK +THE GUNNERS WHO HAD SEIZED IT STRAINING TO ROLL IT QUICKLY BACK TO ITS +THE HAIR WAS WET, SO PROFUSELY HAD THE CHILD PERSPIRED. HE WAS NOT DEAD, +THE HALF-CLOSED EYES WAS THERE GREEDILY GNAWING A MUTTON BONE, AND THE +THE HALL PORTER, “I KNOW COUNT CYRIL VLADíMIROVICH IS VERY ILL... +THE HALL PORTER SULLENLY PULLED A BELL THAT RANG UPSTAIRS, AND TURNED +THE HAND NOR A SINGLE MUSCLE OF THE COUNT’S FACE STIRRED. ONCE MORE +THE HANDSOME VéRA SMILED CONTEMPTUOUSLY BUT DID NOT SEEM AT ALL HURT. +THE HANDSOME VéRA, WHO PRODUCED SUCH AN IRRITATING AND UNPLEASANT +THE HANDSOME YOUNG EMPEROR ALEXANDER, IN THE UNIFORM OF THE HORSE +THE HEAD OF THE COLUMN HAD ALREADY DESCENDED INTO THE HOLLOW. THE CLASH +“THE HEAD OF THE GARRISON AT GLOGAU, WITH TEN THOUSAND MEN, ASKS THE +THE HEADQUARTERS WERE SITUATED TWO MILES AWAY FROM SALZENECK, AND +THE HEAD THAT HE WAS CONSIDERING THIS INFORMATION. +THE HEAVY STANDARD, HE RAN FORWARD WITH FULL CONFIDENCE THAT THE WHOLE +THE HIGHEST LAW THOU SHALT REGAIN TRACES OF THE ANCIENT DIGNITY WHICH +“THE HIGHEST WISDOM AND TRUTH ARE LIKE THE PUREST LIQUID WE MAY WISH +THE HIGHEST WISDOM HAS BUT ONE SCIENCE—THE SCIENCE OF THE WHOLE—THE +“THE HIGHEST WISDOM IS NOT FOUNDED ON REASON ALONE, NOT ON THOSE +THE HIGH-SHOULDERED FIGURE OF ZHERKóV, FAMILIAR TO THE PáVLOGRADS AS +THE HILL NOT TO GO BEYOND THE STREAM, BUT ROSTóV PRETENDED NOT TO HEAR +THE HOFKRIEGSRATH AND BOTH EMPERORS TOOK PART. AT THAT COUNCIL, CONTRARY +THE HOLLOW THE LESS THEY COULD SEE BUT THE MORE THEY FELT THE NEARNESS +THE HOMESTEAD CONSISTED OF A THRESHING FLOOR, OUTHOUSES, STABLES, A +THE HONOR, BUT I SHALL NEVER BE YOUR SON’S WIFE.” +THE HONOR OF BEING RECEIVED, THAT I HAVE NOT YET HAD TIME TO THINK OF +THE HONOR OF THE FLAG... WELL, NEVER MIND, IT’S TRUE I’M TO BLAME, +“THE HOOF’S CRACKED! THAT’S NOTHING. I’LL TEACH YOU WHAT TO DO +THE HOPE OF AN ALLIANCE WITH HER. +THE HORSE GUARDS. +THE HORSE GUARDS WERE GALLOPING, BUT STILL HOLDING IN THEIR HORSES. +THE HORSES’ CROUPS BEGAN TO SWAY IN THE FRONT LINE. ROOK PULLED AT THE +“THE HOURS ARE THE SAME, AND THE LATHE, AND ALSO THE MATHEMATICS AND +THE HOUSE WHERE THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF WAS. +THE HUSSAR DID NOT REPLY. +THE HUSSAR ONLY SIGHED WITHOUT REPLYING AND COUGHED ANGRILY. THE SOUND +THE HUSSARS.” +THE HUSSARS CROWDED ROUND AND RESPONDED HEARTILY WITH LOUD SHOUTS. +THE HUSSAR SHOUTED BACK. +THE HUSSARS RAN BACK TO THE MEN WHO HELD THEIR HORSES; THEIR VOICES +THE ICE BORE HIM BUT IT SWAYED AND CREAKED, AND IT WAS PLAIN THAT IT +THE ICE GAVE WAY UNDER ONE OF THE FOREMOST SOLDIERS, AND ONE LEG SLIPPED +THE ICONS AND THERE WAS A PLEASANT SCENT OF FLOWERS AND BURNT PASTILLES. +THE ICONS, AS THOUGH DECLARING TO ALL THAT SHE COULD NOT ANSWER FOR +THE ICON STAND. TO HER SURPRISE AND DISTRESS SHE FOUND THAT HER PRAYERS +THE IDEA OF DEFEAT AND FLIGHT COULD NOT ENTER ROSTóV’S HEAD. THOUGH +THE IMPOSING FIGURE OF NESVíTSKI FOLLOWED BY HIS COSSACK, AND +THE INFANTRY REGIMENTS THAT HAD BEEN CAUGHT UNAWARES IN THE OUTSKIRTS +THE INFANTRY WHO HAD BEEN STOPPED CROWDED NEAR THE BRIDGE IN THE +THE INHABITANTS OF THE DISTRICT. +THE INLAID PORTFOLIO. PIERRE SIGNED THE DEED AND AFTER THAT THE PRINCESS +THE INTELLECTUAL LIGHTS OF PETERSBURG WERE GATHERED THERE AND, LIKE A +THEIR ADJUTANTS HAD COME TO WITNESS THE CURIOUS PHENOMENON OF THE +THEIR BATTERY A MILK-WHITE CLOUD AROSE. THEN CAME THE DISTANT REPORT OF +THEIR BAYONETS AND GUNS. +THEIR CLEANLINESS AND DISCIPLINE. THEY HAD COME BY EASY STAGES, THEIR +THEIR CONVERSATION WOULD PROBABLY HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT BUT FOR THE EFFECT +THEIR COURAGE BEFORE HIM. +THEIR DOUBTS AND EXCITE THEIR IMAGINATION, GIVING THEM A BENT FOR +THEIR FACES WAS A QUIET AND SOLEMN LOOK. +THEIR GREATCOATS WERE RANGED IN LINES, THE SERGEANTS MAJOR AND COMPANY +THEIR GRIEF IN THEIR OWN WAY. THE OLD PRINCE WOULD NOT CHERISH ANY HOPE: +THEIR GUNS, WERE RUNNING TOWARD HIM. HE ALSO SAW FRENCH INFANTRY +THEIR JOURNEY. SHE ANSWERED HIM AND CONTINUED HER CHATTER. +THEIR LONG HAIR FALLING OVER THEIR MAGNIFICENT GLITTERING VESTMENTS, +THEIR MARRIAGE, WITH BARE SHOULDERS AND A LANGUID, PASSIONATE LOOK ON +THEIR MEANING BUT MUST KEEP THEM. THE SECOND PAIR OF MAN’S GLOVES +THEIR MUSICAL TALENT, TO SING SOMETHING. NATáSHA, WHO WAS TREATED AS +THEIR NAME AND MY OWN I HOLD OUT A BROTHERLY HAND TO YOU.” +THEIR OWN FORM OF GOVERNMENT; AND I BELIEVE THAT ONCE FREE FROM THE +THEIR OWN RESOURCES WHAT MIGHT BE NEEDED FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE FETE. +THEIR PLACES, AND ONE OF THEM READ AN EXHORTATION ON THE NECESSITY OF +THEIR SABERS CATCHING IN THE BRIDLES AND THEIR SPURS JINGLING, THE +THEIR SEATS, WENT UP TO “CONGRATULATE” THE COUNTESS, AND REACHED +THEIR THICK, BUSHY EYEBROWS STERNLY SCANNED ALL PRESENT AND RESTED ON +THEIR WAY TO NEGOTIATE WITH PRINCE AUERSPERG. HE LETS THEM ENTER THE +THEIR WOMAN’S WAY! I AM GLAD TO HAVE HER. SIT DOWN AND TALK. ABOUT +THE KITCHEN WOULD HAVE CARED TO EAT, SO ANNA PáVLOVNA SERVED UP TO +THE LANDING BELOW, PHILIP, THE FOOTMAN, STOOD LOOKING SCARED AND HOLDING +THE LANDING. “I’D BETTER GO TO MY OWN ROOM.” +THE LARGE DRAWING ROOM. PRINCE VASíLI CAME UP TO PIERRE WITH LANGUID +THE LARGE TABLE COVERED WITH BOOKS AND PLANS, THE TALL GLASS-FRONTED +THE LAST OF THE HORSE GUARDS, A HUGE POCKMARKED FELLOW, FROWNED ANGRILY +THE LAST OF THE INFANTRY HURRIEDLY CROSSED THE BRIDGE, SQUEEZING +THE LAST POST STATION BUT ONE BEFORE MOSCOW, DENíSOV HAD DRUNK THREE +THE LAST SYLLABLE OF THE GENERAL’S NAME LIKE A FRENCHMAN, “HAS BEEN +THE LATE EMPEROR, AND WAS NICKNAMED ‘THE KING OF PRUSSIA.’ HE IS +THE LATTER BEGAN TO FEEL THAT IT WAS IN BAD TASTE TO SPEAK OF HIS +THE LATTER LAY SILENT IN THE SLEIGH WITH CLOSED EYES AND DID NOT ANSWER +THE LEFT, AND TOOK UP THE BOTTLE. ANATOLE BROUGHT TWO CANDLES AND +THE LEFT-FLANK COLUMNS HAD ALREADY DESCENDED. +THE LEFT, THE FIRING BECAME MORE DISTINCT. KUTúZOV HAD STOPPED AND WAS +THE LEFT! WAIT A BIT.” BUT THE SOLDIERS, CROWDED TOGETHER SHOULDER TO +THE LETTER AWAY, AND LEANING HIS ELBOWS ON THE TABLE HE DREW TOWARD HIM +THE LETTER WAS OLD, HAVING BEEN WRITTEN BEFORE THE BATTLE AT +THE LIEUTENANT NEVER LOOKED THE MAN HE WAS SPEAKING TO STRAIGHT IN THE +“THE LIMITS OF HUMAN LIFE ... ARE FIXED AND MAY NOT BE +THE LINE OF RETREAT ON THE LEFT BY THE FRENCH. HOWEVER INCONVENIENT THE +THE LINES AND AN ADJUTANT RAN TO LOOK FOR THE MISSING OFFICER. +THE LINE THAT HAD SO SHARPLY DIVIDED THE TWO ARMIES?” HE ASKED HIMSELF +THE LITTLE KITTEN, FEASTING HER EYES ON HIM, SEEMED READY AT ANY MOMENT + * THE LITTLE ONE IS CHARMING. +THE LITTLE PRINCESS AND MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE HAD ALREADY RECEIVED +THE LITTLE PRINCESS DID NOT, OR DID NOT WISH TO, HEAR HIS WORDS. SHE WAS +THE LITTLE PRINCESS DURING THE WHOLE DISCUSSION AND THE REST OF +THE LITTLE PRINCESS ENTERED THE ROOM. THE PASSAGE BROKE OFF IN THE +THE LITTLE PRINCESS GOT UP, RANG FOR THE MAID, AND HURRIEDLY AND MERRILY +THE LITTLE PRINCESS GRUMBLED TO HER MAID THAT HER BED WAS BADLY MADE. +THE LITTLE PRINCESS HAD ALSO LEFT THE TEA TABLE AND FOLLOWED HéLèNE. +THE LITTLE PRINCESS HAD GROWN STOUTER DURING THIS TIME, BUT HER EYES +THE LITTLE PRINCESS, KISSING HER. “I KNOW YOU ALREADY THROUGH MY +THE LITTLE PRINCESS LAY IN THE ARMCHAIR, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE CHAFING +THE LITTLE PRINCESS LAY SUPPORTED BY PILLOWS, WITH A WHITE CAP ON HER +THE LITTLE PRINCESS, LIKE AN OLD WAR HORSE THAT HEARS THE TRUMPET, +THE LITTLE PRINCESS. SHE FELT, AS COURTIERS DO WHEN THE TSAR ENTERS, THE +THE LITTLE PRINCESS, TAKING THE DRESS FROM THE MAID, CAME UP TO PRINCESS +THE LITTLE PRINCESS TALKED INCESSANTLY, HER SHORT, DOWNY UPPER LIP +THE LITTLE PRINCESS WENT ROUND THE TABLE WITH QUICK, SHORT, SWAYING +THE LITTLE TOWN COULD BE SEEN WITH ITS WHITE, RED-ROOFED HOUSES, ITS +THE LIVELINESS OF A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY, AND YET IT WAS THE FACE +THE LIVELY SONG GAVE A SPECIAL FLAVOR TO THE TONE OF FREE AND EASY +THE LIVING CHARM OF HER NECK AND SHOULDERS, SO NEAR TO HIS LIPS THAT +THE LIVING FROM THE DEAD LIES UNCERTAINTY, SUFFERING, AND DEATH. AND +THE LODGE, TOLD THE PASSWORD, AND AT LAST WAS PERMITTED TO SIT DOWN. +THE LONG GERMAN CARTS SIX OR MORE PALE, DIRTY, BANDAGED MEN WERE BEING +THE LOOK SHE FELT UPON HER MADE THAT WORLD STILL MORE POETIC. BUT +“THE LORD BE THANKED, YES!” +THE LOSS OF PRINCE ANDREW HAD REACHED BALD HILLS, AND IN SPITE OF THE +THEM.” +THE MAGNIFICENT RECEPTION ROOM WAS CROWDED. EVERYONE STOOD UP +THE MAINTENANCE OF THE BALANCE OF POWER OF EUROPE, AND IT WOULD SAVE THE +THEM. ALL EYES FASTENED INVOLUNTARILY ON THIS FRENCH COLUMN ADVANCING +THE MANAGER OF ALL HIS AFFAIRS, AND WHILE LOOKING WITH PLEASURE AT THE +THEM. AND AMONG ALL THESE FACES THAT HE FOUND SO TEDIOUS, NONE SEEMED +THEM, AND READS THOSE FROM THE EMPEROR ADDRESSED TO OTHERS. ‘AH! SO +THEM, AND SHE DOUBTS THE MEANS WE HAVE OF GAINING THEM. THAT IS THE +THEM, AND UNDERSTOOD THAT IT WAS USELESS AND EVEN CRUEL TO INSIST. +THE MANLY VOICE AGAIN INTERRUPTED THE ARTILLERY OFFICER. +THE MAN WAS WEARING A BLUISH COAT OF BROADCLOTH, HE HAD NO KNAPSACK +THE MARCH: IN THEIR GREATCOATS, AND PACKS, AND WITHOUT ANY PREPARATION +THEM ARE HARMFUL, ESPECIALLY THE WOMEN. YES, DEAR BOY,” HE CONTINUED, + * THE MARSHALLS. +THE MASON CLEARED HIS THROAT HUSKILY, AS OLD MEN DO, AND CALLED HIS +THE MASON DID NOT MOVE AND FOR A LONG TIME SAID NOTHING AFTER THIS +THE MASON LOOKED INTENTLY AT PIERRE AND SMILED AS A RICH MAN WITH +THE MASON REMAINED SILENT FOR A LONG TIME, EVIDENTLY CONSIDERING. +THE MASON’S ARGUMENTS; HE DREADED NOT TO BE ABLE TO BELIEVE IN HIM. +THE MASON SMILED WITH HIS GENTLE FATHERLY SMILE. +THE MASON. “YES, I NEVER THOUGHT OF IT, BUT I HAVE LED A CONTEMPTIBLE +“THE MASTER IS NOT IN, HE’S GONE TO HEADQUARTERS,” SAID +THE MATTER DEPENDED ON MY PERSONAL WISHES, THE WILL OF HIS MAJESTY THE +THE MAZURKA, WHICH WAS JUST COMING INTO FASHION, WERE DANCED. IOGEL HAD +THEM CURIOSITY, AWE, AND EVEN LOVE—A SUPERCILIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS OF +THEM DOWN! WHAT?...” SAID ROSTóV, WAKING UP. AT THE MOMENT HE OPENED +“THE MEANS ARE ... THE BALANCE OF POWER IN EUROPE AND THE RIGHTS OF +THE MEETING WAS AT AN END, AND ON REACHING HOME PIERRE FELT AS IF HE HAD +THE MEMBER OF THE HOFKRIEGSRATH LOOKED AT HIM SEVERELY BUT, SEEING THE +THE MEMBERS AND GUESTS OF THE CLUB WANDERED HITHER AND THITHER, SAT, +THE MEMORY OF A REMOTE EVENT LONG PAST. +THE MEN AND OFFICERS RETURNING SPOKE OF A BRILLIANT VICTORY, OF THE +THE MEN AND WOMEN HAD SEPARATED AS IN CHURCH. ALL WERE SILENTLY CROSSING +THE MEN (THE COMMANDERS, AS WE SAW AT THE COUNCIL OF WAR, WERE OUT OF +THEM FROM OTHERS WAS THE ABSENCE OF HOST OR HOSTESS AND THE PRESENCE OF +THEM FROM THE OTHER END OF THE CORRIDOR, STRAUCH, AN AUSTRIAN GENERAL +THEM!” HE REFLECTED. +THE MIDDLE OF A FIELD WITHOUT RHYME OR REASON. IT’S ALL THOSE DAMNED +THE MIDWIFE WAS ALREADY ON HER WAY TO MEET HER, RUBBING HER SMALL, PLUMP +THEM. IF HE IS NOT RICH I WILL GIVE HER THE MEANS; I WILL ASK MY +THE MILDNESS OF HIS FEATURES, WAS ALL THE GREATER. ROSTóV WAS HAPPY +THE MILITARY GOVERNOR OF MOSCOW, WHO HAD BEEN ASSIDUOUS IN SENDING +THE MINES AND BLOW UP THE BRIDGE, THIS SERGEANT, SEEING THAT THE FRENCH +THE MINISTER AND HIS SON HAD ARRIVED, BUT THE APPEARANCE OF BOTH HAD +THE MINISTER OF WAR.” +THE MINISTER OF WAR BUT ALSO HIS MOST AUGUST MAJESTY THE EMPEROR AND +THEM IN THE THICK FOG, THE RUSSIANS EXCHANGED SHOTS WITH THE ENEMY +THE MIST, AND HIS COLD FACE WORE THAT SPECIAL LOOK OF CONFIDENT, +THE MIST. FROM INFORMATION HE HAD RECEIVED THE EVENING BEFORE, FROM THE +THEM IT WAS DIFFICULT TO GET OUT AGAIN. ONE WAS SHOUTING, “GET ON! +THEM, NEITHER DO I CONDEMN THEM. ONLY IT SEEMS TO ME THAT CHRISTIAN +THEM NOW! AND YET REALLY THE ANXIETY IS GREATER NOW THAN THE JOY. ONE IS +THEM OFF, INVITING THEM ALL TO DINNER. +THE MOMENT HE HEARD THE FIRING AND THE CRY FROM BEHIND, THE GENERAL +THE MOMENT IS NOT BONAPARTE BUT BUXHöWDEN. GENERAL BUXHöWDEN WAS ALL +THE MOMENT PRINCE ANDREW ENTERED THE ROOM HAD WATCHED HIM WITH GLAD, +THE MORE DEPRESSED. +THEM OR MAKE THEM MOVE. ON THE ONE HAND, THE CHIEF STEWARD PUT THE STATE +THE MORNING, CARRIAGES WITH SIX HORSES HAD BEEN COMING AND GOING +THE MORNING OF THE TWENTIETH, WHEN THE MEMORABLE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ +THE MORNING SHE TOLD THE ROSTóVS AND ALL HER ACQUAINTANCES THE DETAILS + * THE MOST FASCINATING WOMAN IN PETERSBURG. +THE MOTHER SMOOTHED THE FOLDS OF HER DYED SILK DRESS BEFORE A LARGE +THE MOTHERS, WIVES, AND CHILDREN OF THE MEN WHO WERE GOING AND SHOULD +THEM PIERRE NOTICED A LARGE CAST IRON RING WITH A SEAL REPRESENTING A +THEM—REMAINED FOR A WHILE WITHOUT ANY DEFINITE OPINION ON THE SUBJECT +THEM REST AND LEISURE?” SAID PIERRE, HURRYING AND LISPING. “AND +THEMSELVES AND GROW MORE AND MORE MISERABLE.” +THEMSELVES, AND THE READING OF THE CHURCH SERVICE, THE SUBDUED CHANTING +THEMSELVES QUITE INNOCENT, AND SINCE THAT DAY WHEN HE WAS OVERPOWERED +THEMSELVES, STIFLE THIS REMORSE AND GROW CALLOUS, AS A RESULT OF BEING +THEMSELVES TO TúSHIN IN ALL THEIR HORROR. HE HAD BEEN SO EXCITED THAT +THEM SOMETHING FUNNY AND KEPT THEM AMUSED, WHILE HE WATCHED THE YOUNG +THEM STRANGELY OF THE LITTLE PRINCESS. BUT WHAT WAS STILL STRANGER, +THEM TAKING OFF HIS CAP) “FROM HIS ANIMAL CONDITION AND AWAKEN IN HIM +THEM THE ORDER TO MARCH, THEREBY INDICATING THAT HE INTENDED TO LEAD +THE MUD OFF HIS FACE WITH HIS SLEEVE. “PERCHED UP THERE, YOU’RE MORE +THEM, WHEN SUDDENLY, CLINKING HIS SPURS AND SPREADING OUT HIS LEGS, +THEN....” +THEN A GENERAL RODE PAST SHOUTING SOMETHING ANGRILY, NOT IN RUSSIAN. +THEN A GLEAM OF BAYONETS; TO THE LEFT BEYOND THE VILLAGE SIMILAR MASSES +“THEN ALLOW ME TO EXPRESS YOUR REGRETS, AND I AM SURE YOUR OPPONENT +THEN ALL WILL BE RIGHT, AS OUR BEAR HUNTSMAN AT KOSTROMá USED TO TELL +“THEN AM I TO ORDER THOSE LARGE STERLETS?” ASKED THE STEWARD. +THEN APPOINTED TO SUPERVISE THE ENROLLMENT DECREED THROUGHOUT RUSSIA. +THEN A THIN, PALE SOLDIER, HIS NECK BANDAGED WITH A BLOODSTAINED LEG +THE NATIONS? ADORABLE! IT IS ENOUGH TO MAKE ONE’S HEAD WHIRL! IT IS AS +THEN BELIEVE AN EXPERT. I HAVE JUST BEEN TALKING TO DMíTRI ONúFRICH” +THEN BOTH VOICES TOGETHER WITH GLAD INTONATIONS, AND THEN FOOTSTEPS. +THEN, BROTHERS, ON TO GLORY, LED BY FATHER KáMENSKI.” THIS SONG HAD +THEN BROUGHT BACK TO THE GENERAL CIRCLE. +THEN DETACHED IDEAS AND IMPRESSIONS FROM THE WORLD OF REALITY SHOT +THE NEAREST SOLDIERS SHRANK BACK, THE GUN DRIVER STOPPED HIS HORSE, BUT +THE NEW CAMPO FORMIO ARE TO BE DRAWN UP.” +THE NEWCOMER WAS A SHORT, LARGE-BONED, YELLOW-FACED, WRINKLED OLD +THE NEW HOMESTEAD HE WAS CONSTRUCTING AND ITS BUILDINGS, BUT EVEN HERE, +THE NEWS OF COUNT BEZúKHOV’S DEATH REACHED US BEFORE YOUR LETTER +THE NEXT DAY THE EMPEROR STOPPED AT WISCHAU, AND VILLIER, HIS PHYSICIAN, +THEN HE DID EVERYTHING SO SIMPLY AND WITH SUCH ASSURANCE!) MADEMOISELLE +THEN HE RECALLED THE COARSENESS AND BLUNTNESS OF HER THOUGHTS AND THE +THEN HE REMAINED SILENT FOR A WHILE, AND ALL AT ONCE LOOKED CHEERFULLY +THE NIGHT HE RECEIVED THE NEWS, KUTúZOV SENT BAGRATIóN’S VANGUARD, +THE NIGHT TEN MILES FROM OLMüTZ AND NEXT MORNING WERE TO COME STRAIGHT +THE NIGHT WAS DARK BUT STARRY, THE ROAD SHOWED BLACK IN THE SNOW THAT +THE NIGHT WAS FOGGY AND THROUGH THE FOG THE MOONLIGHT GLEAMED +“THEN I’LL HAVE IT BROUGHT ROUND,” SAID ROSTóV WISHING TO AVOID +“THEN I MAY RECKON ON IT, YOUR EXCELLENCY?” +“THEN IT IS CERTAIN?” SAID THE PRINCE. +THEN NAMED PRINCE VASíLI IN AN INQUIRING WHISPER, THEN POINTED TO THE +THEN NICHOLAS SANG A SONG HE HAD JUST LEARNED: +THE NOBLEST ROLE ON EARTH, AND HE IS SO VIRTUOUS AND NOBLE THAT GOD WILL +THE NONSENSE TALKED BY THE AUSTRIAN GENERALS. SHINSHíN, STANDING CLOSE +THE NOVELTY ANNA PáVLOVNA WAS SETTING BEFORE HER GUESTS THAT EVENING +THEN PARTICULARLY STRONG. +THEN QUICKLY GLANCED AT DóLOKHOV AND, BENDING HIS FINGER AS HE HAD BEEN +THEN SHE SLIPPED DOWN AMONG THE FLOWERPOTS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TUBS +THEN SHE SMILED AGAIN AND CLUTCHED PRINCE VASíLI’S ARM MORE TIGHTLY. +THEN SUDDENLY HE REALIZED THE JOYFUL SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT WAIL; TEARS +THEN, SUDDENLY SPREAD OUT IN THE SUNLIGHT, FAR-DISTANT OBJECTS COULD +THEN THAT SAME FACE PALE, QUIVERING, AND SUFFERING, AS IT HAD BEEN WHEN +THEN THE VOICE SAID SOMETHING MORE, DEMYáN REPLIED, AND THE STEPS IN +“THEN THEY’VE NOT GONE TO BED YET? WHAT DO YOU THINK? MIND NOW, +“THEN TOMORROW YOU WILL SPEAK TO THE EMPEROR?” +THE NURSE, AS SHE STOOD IN ONE OF THE DOORWAYS. +THE NURSE BROUGHT IT TO HIM AND NODDED APPROVAL WHEN SHE TOLD HIM THAT +THE NURSE LIT THE GILT CANDLES BEFORE THE ICONS AND SAT DOWN BY THE DOOR +THE NURSERY, BUT SóNYA WAS NOT THERE EITHER. NATáSHA CONCLUDED THAT +“THEN WHAT IS THIS BLOOD ON THE GUN CARRIAGE?” INQUIRED TúSHIN. +“THEN WHEN AM I TO HAVE IT?” +“THEN WHY ARE YOU HERE? YOU SHOULD HAVE GONE ON LONG AGO, NOW YOU +THEN WITH REMARKS WHICH SHOWED THAT HE WAS IN A GOOD TEMPER. +THEN WITH THE UNERRING OFFICIAL MEMORY THAT CHARACTERIZED HIM HE +THEN, WOSTóV, NOW THEN!” +“THEN YOU ARE SERVING?” +THE OFFICER FLOURISHED HIS ARM AND HASTILY RODE AWAY. +THE OFFICER GLANCED AT HIM, AND WITHOUT REPLYING TURNED AGAIN TO THE +THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF DENíSOV’S SQUADRON, THOUGH THEY TRIED TO TALK +THE OFFICERS AS HE WENT: “HAVE THESE GENTLEMEN ATTENDED TO AND TAKEN +THE OFFICERS GATHERED ROUND DENíSOV’S CANTEEN, EATING AND TALKING. +THE OFFICERS GOT UP AND STOOD ROUND THE COSSACKS AND THEIR PRISONER. +THE OFFICERS LAUGHED. +THE OFFICERS OR ADJUTANTS WHO WANDERED ABOUT IN THE FOG IN THOSE UNKNOWN +THE OFFICIAL SIDE OF THE SERVICE. THESE GENTLEMEN RECEIVED PRINCE +THE OLD AUNT RECEIVED THE TWO YOUNG PEOPLE IN HER CORNER, BUT SEEMED +THE OLD COUNT CAST DOWN HIS EYES ON HEARING HIS SON’S WORDS AND BEGAN +THE OLD COUNTESS, NOT LETTING GO OF HIS HAND AND KISSING IT EVERY +THE OLD COUNT PRETENDED TO BE ANGRY. +THE OLD COUNT, THE COUNTESS, PéTYA, VéRA, NATáSHA, AND SóNYA, AND +THE OLD LADY. +THE OLD MAN MADE A DEPARTURE FROM HIS USUAL ROUTINE IN HONOR OF HIS +THE OLD MAN TURNED ANGRILY AWAY. +THE OLD MAN WAS IN A GOOD TEMPER AFTER HIS NAP BEFORE DINNER. (HE +THE OLD MAN WAS SILENT. +THE OLD PRINCE DID NOT SLEEP EITHER. TíKHON, HALF ASLEEP, HEARD HIM +THE OLD PRINCE DRESSED LEISURELY IN HIS STUDY, FROWNING AND CONSIDERING +THE OLD PRINCE FIRST HEARD OF THE DEFEAT AT AUSTERLITZ STATED, AS USUAL +THE OLD PRINCE KNEW THAT IF HE TOLD HIS DAUGHTER SHE WAS MAKING A +THE OLD PRINCE’S FACE. +THE OLD PRINCESS CAME IN AND ALSO WEPT. THE ELDERLY LADY WAS USING +THE OLD PRINCESS DID NOT REPLY, SHE WAS TORMENTED BY JEALOUSY OF HER +THE OLD PRINCE STOPPED WRITING AND, AS IF NOT UNDERSTANDING, FIXED HIS +THE OLD PRINCE. “VERY, VERY GLAD TO HAVE SEEN YOU,” REPEATED HE, +THE OLD PRINCE WAS VERY AFFECTIONATE AND CAREFUL IN HIS TREATMENT OF +THE ONE THAT WILL RESULT FROM IT WILL BE AS VICTORIOUS! HOWEVER, DEAR +(THE ONE WHO HAD PARADED HIS REGIMENT BEFORE KUTúZOV AT BRAUNAU) THAT +THE ONLOOKERS, “WILL IT BE LONG? ARE THINGS READY?” +“THE ONLY THING THAT IS HARD FOR ME... I WILL TELL YOU THE TRUTH, +THE ONLY YOUNG PEOPLE REMAINING IN THE DRAWING ROOM, NOT COUNTING THE +THE ORDERLIES LOOKED AT HIM AS IF THEY WISHED TO IMPRESS ON HIM THAT A +THE ORDERS WERE TO ABANDON THE WOUNDED, MANY OF THEM DRAGGED THEMSELVES +THE ORDER WAS GIVEN TO HALT AND DOWN KNAPSACKS. +THE OTHER CLUTCHED HIS DROOPING PISTOL. HIS FACE WAS PALE. ROSTóV RAN +THE OTHER COMMITTEEMEN. “THERE WILL BE MANY TOASTS, IT’S TIME TO +THE OTHER, GLANCED INQUIRINGLY WITH HIS LARGE, INTELLIGENT, KINDLY EYES +THE OTHER MEN IN THE ROOM, HER ANXIETY COULD ONLY HAVE REFERENCE TO +THE OTHER, QUITE A NEW REFLECTION OF THE SOCIETY IN WHICH THEY HAD TAKEN +THE OTHERS. AGAIN SOMEONE SHOUTED, “STRETCHERS!” FOUR MEN SEIZED THE +THE OTHERS BUT WIN FROM YOU. OR ARE YOU AFRAID OF ME?” HE ASKED AGAIN. +THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FIRE, WARMING HIS THIN YELLOW BODY. +THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOM. “HOW YOUNG-LOOKING HE IS!” +THE OTHER—WHO WITH BEAMING FACES HAD COME TO SEE THEIR MASTER MAKING +THE PACK. MUCH DEPENDED ON ROSTóV’S WINNING OR LOSING ON THAT SEVEN +THE PAINED EXPRESSION HIS JOKE HAD BROUGHT TO HIS SISTER’S FACE, HE +THE PARTY OF THE YOUNG HAD TRIUMPHED. THE VOICES OF THOSE WHO COUNSELED +“THE PAST ALWAYS SEEMS GOOD,” SAID HE, “BUT DID NOT SUVóROV +THE PATCHES GREW DEEPER ON HER FOREHEAD, NECK, AND CHEEKS. SHE TRIED TO +THE PATHETIC IMPORTANCE OF THESE LAST MOMENTS OF MEETING BETWEEN THE +“THE PáVLOGRAD HUSSARS?” HE INQUIRED. +THE PáVLOGRAD HUSSARS WERE STATIONED TWO MILES FROM BRAUNAU. THE +THE PEOPLE,” THE ABBé WAS SAYING. “IT IS ONLY NECESSARY FOR ONE +THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW OF IT THE LESS A WOMAN IN TRAVAIL SUFFERS, EVERYONE +“THE PICKET IS STILL ON THE HILL, YOUR EXCELLENCY, JUST WHERE IT WAS +THE PINE FORESTS VEILED IN THE MIST OF THEIR SUMMITS... THERE WAS PEACE +THE PLACE OF MOURNING FOR THE YOUNGER FEMALE GENERATION IN THE ROSTóV +THE PLAN OF OPERATION FOR THE COMING CAMPAIGN. HE EXPLAINED HOW AN ARMY, +THE PLEASURE OF SPENDING THE EVENING WITH YOU.” +THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE OLD COUNTESS AND OF SOCIETY IT WAS OUT OF THE +THE PORTFOLIO SO FIRMLY THAT IT WAS PLAIN SHE WOULD NOT LET GO EASILY. +THE POSSESSOR OF WEALTH. HOW HAVE YOU USED IT? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE +THE POSTILION STARTED, THE CARRIAGE WHEELS RATTLED. PRINCE HIPPOLYTE +THE POSTMASTER CAME IN AND BEGAN OBSEQUIOUSLY TO BEG HIS EXCELLENCY TO +THE POSTMASTER, HIS WIFE, THE VALET, AND A PEASANT WOMAN SELLING +THE POVARSKáYA, SO WELL KNOWN TO ALL MOSCOW. THE COUNTESS HERSELF AND +“THE PRAISE OF A GREAT COMMANDER IS A SOLDIER’S HIGHEST REWARD,” +THE PRE-EMINENCE. +THE PRIESTS AND DEACONS AND SOME SERVANTS ALSO WENT IN AT THE DOOR. +THE PRIESTS, ROSE AND OFFERED HIM HER SEAT; AN AIDE-DE-CAMP PICKED UP +THE PRIEST WITH A GOOSE FEATHER ANOINTED THE BOY’S LITTLE RED AND +THE PRIM VISITOR COULD NOT HELP JOINING IN. +THE PRINCE AGAIN LAUGHED HIS FRIGID LAUGH. +THE PRINCE ANSWERED NOTHING, BUT SHE LOOKED AT HIM SIGNIFICANTLY, +THE PRINCE BOWED HIS HEAD AND WENT UP TO THE PORCH. “GOD BE +THE PRINCE BOWED TO SIGNIFY HIS RESPECT AND GRATITUDE. +THE PRINCE GAVE ORDERS THAT NO ONE SHOULD LEAVE HIS POST. NOW YOU, +THE PRINCE LOOKED AT HIS DAUGHTER’S FRIGHTENED FACE AND SNORTED. +THE PRINCESS. +THE PRINCESS AND HASTILY ADJUSTING HIS LORGNETTE, AS IF WITHOUT THIS +THE PRINCESS BENT OVER THE EXERCISE BOOK ON THE TABLE. +THE PRINCESS BLUSHED, AND RAISED HER ARMS WITH A GESTURE OF DESPAIR. +THE PRINCESS CONTINUED TO LOOK AT HIM WITHOUT MOVING, AND WITH THE SAME +THE PRINCESS DID NOT FALL DOWN OR FAINT. SHE WAS ALREADY PALE, BUT ON +THE PRINCESS DID NOT REPLY. THEIR EFFORTS IN THE STRUGGLE FOR THE +THE PRINCESS DID SPEAK, HER WORDS WOULD NOT BE FLATTERING TO ANNA +THE PRINCESS’ EYES GREW DIM, SHE COULD NOT SEE AND COULD NOT HEAR +THE PRINCESS GAVE A WRONG ANSWER. +THE PRINCESS GAVE NO REPLY AND DID NOT EVEN SMILE, BUT LEFT THE ROOM AS +THE PRINCESS GLANCED AT HER WATCH AND, SEEING THAT SHE WAS FIVE MINUTES +THE PRINCESS, HOLDING HER LITTLE DOG ON HER LAP WITH HER THIN BONY +THE PRINCESS LET GO. +THE PRINCESS LISTENED, SMILING. +THE PRINCESS LOOKED IN A SCARED WAY AT HER FATHER’S EYES GLITTERING +THE PRINCESS, NOW QUITE CHANGED. “AND WHAT DOES SHE COME WORMING +THE PRINCESS, PICKING UP HER DRESS, WAS TAKING HER SEAT IN THE DARK +THE PRINCESS PONDERED AWHILE WITH A THOUGHTFUL SMILE AND HER LUMINOUS +THE PRINCESS RESTED HER BARE ROUND ARM ON A LITTLE TABLE AND CONSIDERED +THE PRINCESS SAID NOTHING, BUT SUDDENLY HER SHORT DOWNY LIP QUIVERED. +THE PRINCESS SANK HELPLESSLY INTO AN ARMCHAIR BESIDE HER FATHER AND +THE PRINCESS SAW THAT HER FATHER REGARDED THE MATTER WITH DISAPPROVAL, +THE PRINCESS SMILED AS PEOPLE DO WHO THINK THEY KNOW MORE ABOUT THE +THE PRINCESS SMILED. SHE ROSE WITH THE SAME UNCHANGING SMILE WITH WHICH +THE PRINCESS STARTED. EVIDENTLY PIERRE’S WORDS TOUCHED HER TO THE +THE PRINCESS WENT UP TO THE DOOR, PASSED BY IT WITH A DIGNIFIED AND +THE PRINCESS, WHO HAD A STRAIGHT, RIGID BODY, ABNORMALLY LONG FOR HER +THE PRINCESS WISHED TO RISE, BUT THE PRINCE HELD HER BY THE HAND. SHE +THE PRINCE STERNLY; “I’M AFRAID YOU WRITE MUCH NONSENSE. I’LL READ +THE PRINCE STOPPED. HE SAW THE EFFECT THESE WORDS HAD PRODUCED ON HIS +THE PRINCE TURNED ROUND TO THE OVERSEER AND FIXED HIS EYES ON HIM, +THE PRINCE WAS LYING ON THE SOFA, LOOKED AT HIM, NOTICED HIS PERTURBED +THE PRINCE WAS SILENT AND LOOKED INDIFFERENT. BUT, WITH THE WOMANLY AND +THE PRINCE, WHO WAS IN HIS LARGE STUDY. FROM THE FAR SIDE OF THE HOUSE +THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OF WAR AND PEACE, BY LEO TOLSTOY +THE PRUSSIAN ARMY AND WAS AIDE-DE-CAMP TO A VERY IMPORTANT PERSONAGE. +THE PUHSE?” HE ASKED, TURNING TO ROSTóV. +THE PURSE IS HERE! I’LL FLAY THIS SCOUNDWEL ALIVE, AND IT WILL BE +THE QUESTION AROSE WHETHER THE TROOPS WERE TO BE IN MARCHING ORDER OR +THE QUIET HOME LIFE AND PEACEFUL HAPPINESS OF BALD HILLS PRESENTED +THE RANKS. +THE RANKS, AND ABOVE ALL BEING UNABLE TO SEE ANYTHING IN FRONT OR AROUND +THE RANKS OF OBSCURE OFFICERS AND OFFER HIM THE FIRST STEP TO FAME! +THE RAS...” HE DID NOT FINISH. +“THE RAT”) HE SAID, RUBBING HIS FOREHEAD AND WHOLE FACE WITH BOTH +THERE. +THERE.” +THERE ANY HOPE?” +THERE ARE NO DIFFICULTIES IN YOUR WAY.... BUT NICHOLAS IS MY COUSIN... +“THERE ARE PRECEDENTS, I MAY MENTION SCHWARZENBERG.” +“THERE ARE SO MANY PRISONERS TODAY, NEARLY THE WHOLE RUSSIAN ARMY, +THERE ARE THINGS IN IT DIFFICULT FOR THE FEEBLE HUMAN MIND TO GRASP, IT +THE REARGUARD AND HAVE AN EYE ON THE ORDER OF RETREAT, “WHICH IS ALSO +THE REARGUARD BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, WAS SITTING ON THE TRAIL OF A +THE REARGUARD STOOD WITH A STAFF OFFICER, SCANNING THE COUNTRY THROUGH +THERE AS HE. AND NOW—THIS DUEL! HAVE THESE PEOPLE NO FEELING, OR +THE RECEPTION ROOM, WHERE HE FOUND SOME TEN OFFICERS AND GENERALS. +THE RECRUITING, GRANTED BY THE EMPEROR. IF I HAD BEEN TWO HOURS LATE +“THERE, FEDóTOV, YOU SHOULD BE QUARTERED ON THEM!” +(THE REFLECTION WAS STILL INCOMPLETE), HE CAUGHT HIMSELF SMILING AND WAS +THEREFORE MET WITH UNALTERED LOOKS THE ANGRILY INQUISITIVE EXPRESSION OF +THEREFORE OFFERED THIS TRUCE TO AVOID UNNECESSARY BLOODSHED. COUNT +THEREFORE—THIS IS BETWEEN OURSELVES—I INSTINCTIVELY FEEL THAT WE +THEREFORE YOU SEEK WISDOM AND VIRTUE. IS THAT NOT SO?” SAID THE +THE REGIMENTAL ADJUTANT CAME IN AND CONFIRMED THE NEWS BROUGHT BY +THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, FLUSHING, RAN TO HIS HORSE, SEIZED THE STIRRUP +THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, GOING UP TO THE LINE HIMSELF, ORDERED THE +THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER ON HORSEBACK AND SOME TEN MEN OF HIS COMPANY, +(THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER’S FACE NOW THAT THE INSPECTION WAS HAPPILY +THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER SOUGHT OUT DóLOKHOV IN THE RANKS AND, REINING +THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER WAS AFRAID HE MIGHT BE BLAMED FOR THIS AND DID +THE REGIMENT, AND HOW SATISFIED HIS FATHER WAS WITH HIM. BERG EVIDENTLY +THE REGIMENT BROKE UP INTO COMPANIES, WHICH WENT TO THEIR APPOINTED +THE REGIMENT I’D... AH WELL, I’LL SHOW THAT IN ACTION, AND FOR ME +THE REGIMENT KUTúZOV HAD REVIEWED AT BRAUNAU AND IN WHICH DóLOKHOV WAS +THE REGIMENT UNDER A HAIL OF BULLETS WHICH FELL AROUND, BUT FORTUNATELY +THERE, GOD ONLY KNOWS WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED! YOU KNOW, UNCLE PROMISED +THERE HAD BEEN ACTIONS AT LAMBACH, AMSTETTEN, AND MELK; BUT DESPITE THE +“THERE HE IS!” SAID BORíS, THINKING ROSTóV HAD SAID “HIS +THERE?” HE SAID, TURNING TO THE DOOR AS HE HEARD A TREAD OF HEAVY +“THERE... HE’S PUFFING AGAIN,” MUTTERED TúSHIN TO HIMSELF, AS A +THERE IN WHICH HE HAD NOW NO PART COULD PERTURB HIM. HE SHUT HIS EYES, +THERE IS HARDLY TIME TO PUT IN ACTION—SEEING PIERRE, TOUCHED HIS +“THERE IS IN MOSCOW A LADY, UNE DAME, AND SHE IS VERY STINGY. SHE MUST +“THERE IS NOTHING SO REFRESHING AFTER A SLEEPLESS NIGHT AS A CUP +“THERE IS ONE THING I CONSTANTLY PRAY GOD TO GRANT, MON COUSIN,” SHE +THERE IS ONLY MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE....” +“THERE IS SOMETHING NASTY, SOMETHING WRONG, IN THE FEELING SHE EXCITES +“THERE IS SOMETHING UP,” THOUGHT NICHOLAS, AND HE WAS FURTHER +THERE IS SO MUCH HAPPINESS; BUT HERE... GROANS, SUFFERING, FEAR, AND +“THERE IS STILL MUCH, MUCH BEFORE US,” HE SAID, AS IF WITH AN OLD +“THERE IS STILL TIME, MY DEAR. YOU MUST REMEMBER, CATICHE, THAT IT WAS +“THERE, IT’S JUST AS I THOUGHT,” SAID ROSTóV TO HIMSELF. “HE +“THERE, LEAVE BRUIN ALONE; HERE’S A BET ON.” +THE REMAINS OF LANGERON’S AND DOKHTúROV’S MINGLED FORCES WERE +THE REMAINS OF OUR REGIMENT WHICH HAD BEEN IN ACTION RAPIDLY FORMED UP +THERE MANY MORE OF YOU TO COME?” +“THERE NOW! CONFESS THAT THIS IS DELIGHTFUL,” SAID HE. “THIS +“THERE NOW! DIDN’T I TELL YOU, MICHAEL MíTRICH, THAT IF IT WAS SAID +“THERE NOW! IT’S TRUE THAT ALL YOU WOMEN ARE CRYBABIES,” REMARKED +“THERE NOW, PRINCE! WE CAN’T STOP THOSE FELLOWS,” SAID THE STAFF +“THERE NOW!” SAID THE OFFICER OF THE SUITE, “THAT’S +“THERE NOW!... SO YOU, TOO, ARE IN THE GREAT WORLD?” SAID HE TO +“THERE NOW, THE KúRSKIES HAVE ALSO GONE PAST,” WAS BEING SAID IN +THERE. NOW THEN!” +“THERE NOW, YOU WISH TO LIBERATE YOUR SERFS,” HE CONTINUED; “THAT +“THERE NOW, ZíKIN, THEY OUGHT TO PUT YOU ON A HORSE. YOU’D LOOK +THERE. PIERRE HAD THE AIR OF A MAN PREOCCUPIED WITH CONSIDERATIONS WHICH +THE REPORT OF MUSKETRY. +THE REPORT WHICH HAD BEEN CIRCULATED THAT THE AUSTRIANS HAD BEEN BEATEN +THE REPROACHFUL TONE OF A MAN WHO HAS REPEATED THE SAME THING MORE +“THE RESERVES, SIRE!” REPLIED A VOICE, A VERY HUMAN ONE COMPARED TO +THERE, SHE GLIDED UP TO HIM WITH A SORT OF AMBLE, NOT EXACTLY BOWING YET +“THERE’S NO NEED TO TALK! HE RECEIVES HIS ORDERS AND WILL MARRY YOU +“THERE’S NOTHING FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND,” SHE CRIED OUT WITH +“THERE’S NOTHING TO BE GAY ABOUT,” ANSWERED BOLKóNSKI. +THE RESOUNDING STRAINS OF THE POLONAISE: +“THERE’S PLENTY TO DO STILL.” +THERE’S SOME MISTAKE,” THOUGHT HE. “THEY CAN’T HAVE WANTED TO +THE REST.” +“THERE’S THE CORNER AT THE CROSSROADS, WHERE THE CABMAN, ZAKHáR, +THE REST OF HIS LIFE. +THE REST OF THE EVENING. +THERE! TEA!” +THERE. THEN, AS HAPPENS TO PEOPLE OF WEAK CHARACTER, HE DESIRED SO +“THERE, THERE! DO YOU FEEL IT? I FEEL SO STRANGE. AND DO YOU KNOW, +“THERE! THEY ARE BRINGING ANOTHER!” CRIED ONE OF THE OFFICERS, +THE RETREAT FROM AUSTERLITZ, WHERE HE ALONE HAD WITHDRAWN HIS COLUMN +THE RETREAT OF THE FRIGHTENED BONAPARTE. +THE REVOLVING PULLEYS WHIRR WITH THE RAPIDITY OF THEIR MOVEMENT, BUT A +THERE WAS A CRUSH. HALFWAY ACROSS STOOD PRINCE NESVíTSKI, WHO HAD +THERE WAS A GENERAL MOVEMENT AS THE PRINCESS, SMILING AND TALKING +THERE WAS GENERALLY A DRINKING BOUT, FINISHING WITH VISITS OF A KIND +THERE WAS NO ANSWER TO ANY OF THESE QUESTIONS, EXCEPT ONE, AND THAT +THERE WAS NO LAUGHTER IN THE MAIDS’ LARGE HALL. IN THE MEN SERVANTS’ +THERE WAS NONE HE WOULD SO MUCH LIKE TO HAVE FOR A FRIEND AS THAT VERY +THERE WAS NO ONE BEYOND THE DITCH NOW. ONLY SOME CARTS AND CARRIAGES +THERE WAS NO ONE IN THE HALL. “OH GOD! IS EVERYONE ALL RIGHT?” +THERE WAS NO REASON WHY IT SHOULD NOT REACH THE PáVLOGRAD REGIMENT, +THERE WAS NOT A TRACE OF AGITATION ON HIS FACE. WITH DELICATE IRONY HE +THERE WAS NOTHING BETWEEN THE SQUADRON AND THE ENEMY, AND AGAIN THAT +THERE WAS NOTHING TO BE SAID, AND NEITHER WISHED TO GIVE OCCASION FOR +THERE WAS NOW NO ONE IN THE RECEPTION ROOM EXCEPT PRINCE VASíLI AND THE +THERE WAS REALLY NOTHING TO BE SEEN IN FRONT EXCEPT A BARREN DESCENT +THERE WAS SOMETHING PECULIAR ABOUT IT, QUITE UNSOLDIERLY, RATHER COMIC, +THERE WAS STILL THE SAME BEWITCHING COMBINATION OF MAJESTY AND MILDNESS +THERE WERE IN THE ROOM A CHILD’S COT, TWO BOXES, TWO ARMCHAIRS, A +“THERE, WHAT EGOTISTS MEN ALL ARE: ALL, ALL EGOTISTS! JUST FOR A WHIM +“THERE WILL BE A COUNCIL OF WAR AT KUTúZOV’S TONIGHT, THOUGH; YOU +THE RHETOR BUT PIERRE’S SPONSOR, WILLARSKI, WHOM HE RECOGNIZED BY HIS +THE RHETOR CLEARED HIS THROAT, CROSSED HIS GLOVED HANDS ON HIS BREAST, +THE RHETOR, “IS AN EMBLEM OF SOMETHING NOT COGNIZABLE BY THE SENSES +THE RIBS AND TELLING HIM TO HOLD HIS HAND UP. SOLDIERS SCATTERED OVER +THE RIGHT AND SENT AN ADJUTANT TO THE DRAGOONS WITH ORDERS TO ATTACK THE +THE RIGHT FLANK AND THE FRENCH WERE ALREADY ADVANCING, WERE ENGAGED +THE RIGHT THEY WILL EXPOSE A FLANK TO ME. SOLDIERS! I WILL MYSELF DIRECT +THE RIVERS INN (AT BRAUNAU) AND TRAUN (NEAR LINZ). ON OCTOBER 23 THE +THE ROAD HE REINED IN HIS HORSE, HESITATING WHETHER TO RIDE ALONG IT OR +THE ROOM, AND SEEMING NOT TO NOTICE THE CHAIRS WAS DASHING STRAIGHT AT +THE ROOM, PONDERING OVER HIS VICIOUS PAST, AND WITH A RAPTUROUS SENSE +THE ROOM WAS CROWDED WITH SMALL PIECES OF FURNITURE, WHATNOTS, +THE ROSTóVS KNEW EVERYBODY IN MOSCOW. THE OLD COUNT HAD MONEY ENOUGH +THE ROSTóVS SINCE THE DAY OF HIS DEPARTURE FOR THE ARMY. TO BE IN ANNA +THE RUSSIAN ARMY) ARE NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT THIS MAN HAS BEEN DOING +THE RUSSIAN EMPEROR’S AIDE-DE-CAMP IS AN IMPOSTOR. OFFICERS ARE +THE RUSSIAN OFFICER IN CHARGE OF THE TRANSPORT LOLLED BACK IN THE FRONT +THE RUSSIANS WERE RUNNING AWAY AND THAT HE HIMSELF WAS KILLED, BUT HE +THE RUSSIAN WITH HIS HEIR THE TSARéVICH, AND THE AUSTRIAN WITH THE +THE RUSTLE OF A WOMAN’S DRESS WAS HEARD IN THE NEXT ROOM. PRINCE +THE SALE OF THE LAND AND FORESTS AND TO RELEASE THEM FROM THE LAND BANK, +THE SALUTE AND UNABLE TO REPRESS THE SMILE OF DELIGHT INDUCED BY HIS +THE SAME HAPPY, RAPTUROUS FACES TURNED TO THE SHAGGY FIGURE OF DENíSOV. +THE SAME, THEN WHY THIS DUEL, THIS MURDER? EITHER I SHALL KILL HIM, OR +THE SAME TIME, MY HONORED BENEFACTOR,” WROTE PRINCE VASíLI. “MY SON +THE SAME WORDS, ABOUT THEIR HEALTH AND HER OWN, AND THE HEALTH OF HER +THE SCORE AGAINST HIM REACHED THE FATEFUL SUM OF FORTY-THREE THOUSAND. +THE SCOUNDRELS!” +THE SCRAPING OF CHAIRS. THEN ONE OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS BEGAN WHICH LAST +THE SEAL OF HER LETTER. IT WAS FROM HER MOST INTIMATE FRIEND FROM +THE SEAT INDICATED TO HIM BESIDE THE FAIR HéLèNE AND LISTENED TO THE +THE SECOND PRINCESS HAD JUST COME FROM THE SICKROOM WITH HER EYES RED +THESE GENTLEMEN RIDE ONTO THE BRIDGE ALONE AND WAVE WHITE HANDKERCHIEFS; +THESE,” HE SAID, HANDING HIM SEVERAL PAPERS, “MAKE A NEAT MEMORANDUM +THESE LATTER THE BUTLER THRUST MYSTERIOUSLY FORWARD, WRAPPED IN A +THESE POIGNANT JOYS AND SORROWS. YOU ARE FORTUNATE, FOR THE LATTER ARE +THE SERGEANT MAJOR WITH BRIGHTENED EXPRESSIONS, LICKING THEIR LIPS AND +THE SERGEANT TO MEET SOME MOUNTED MEN WHO WERE RIDING ALONG THE LINE. +THE SERIOUS FACES OF THOSE AROUND, REMEMBERED ALL HE HAD ALREADY GONE +THESE ROOMS. ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, ADDRESSING A MAID WHO WAS HURRYING PAST +THE SERVANT BROUGHT BACK HIS TUMBLER TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, * WITH AN +THE SERVANT HANDED HIM A BOOK WHICH PIERRE TOOK TO BE A DEVOTIONAL WORK, +THE SERVICE AND PATRIOTICALLY RUSSIAN. HE RESENTED SHINSHíN’S REMARK. +THE SERVICE BEFORE EVERYTHING. THANKS, THANKS!” AND HE WENT ON +THESE SAME QUESTIONS WHICH HE COULD NOT SOLVE AND YET COULD NOT CEASE TO +THESE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS HAD NO DEPRESSING OR INTIMIDATING EFFECT ON HIM; +THESE THINGS. I ABSOLUTELY MUST SEE HIM, HOWEVER PAINFUL IT MAY BE FOR +THESE WORDS HE REPEATED TO EVERYONE WITHOUT EXCEPTION OR VARIATION, AND +THE SHED WITH SUPER HUMAN FORCE, THROWING UP A MASS OF EARTH. THE GROUND +THE SHIRT. +THE SICK MAN WAS SO SURROUNDED BY DOCTORS, PRINCESSES, AND SERVANTS +THE SIGHT OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. +THE SILENCE LASTED SOME TIME. PRINCE BAGRATIóN, APPARENTLY NOT WISHING +THE SINEWS AND SCORCHING THE FLESH OF HIS SPRAINED ARM AND SHOULDER. TO +THE SKY, THE DAWN MERGING WITH THE AFTERGLOW OF SUNSET, WAS VISIBLE. +THE SLY WHAT WAS LEFT IN THE GLASSES. FROM THE THIRD ROOM CAME SOUNDS OF +THE SMELL OF LINSTOCKS, CAME THE ARTILLERY WHICH CRAWLED BETWEEN THE +THE SMOKE, ROSTóV HESITATED WHETHER TO GALLOP AFTER THEM OR TO GO WHERE +THE SNOW, GREEDILY BIT AT IT, AGAIN RAISED HIS HEAD, ADJUSTED HIMSELF, +“THE SNOW IS DEEP. I AM HAVING THE AVENUE SWEPT, YOUR HONOR.” +THE SOFA. THE PRINCESS CAME IN. SHE HAD CHANGED HER GOWN FOR A HOUSE +THE SOLDIER ALWAYS HAS AROUND HIM THE SAME COMRADES, THE SAME RANKS, THE +THE SOLDIERS CROWDED AGAINST ONE ANOTHER WITH TERRIFIED FACES, AND +THE SOLDIERS’ FACES AND UNNATURAL WARLIKE SOLEMNITY ON THOSE OF THE +THE SOLDIERS LAUGHED. A MOMENT LATER, AN ADJUTANT ARRIVED WITH THE SAME +“THE SOLDIERS SAY IT FEELS EASIER WITHOUT BOOTS,” SAID CAPTAIN +THE SOLDIERS WHO HAD CARRIED PRINCE ANDREW HAD NOTICED AND TAKEN THE +THE SOLDIER TO WHOM THE LAUGHERS REFERRED WAS DóLOKHOV. PRINCE ANDREW +THE SOLDIER. “TURN BACK WITH YOUR SLUT!” +THE SON, LOWERING HIS EYES, FOLLOWED HER QUIETLY. +THE SON, OR PIERRE, WHOM IT HAD BEEN PITIFUL TO SEE, SO STRICKEN WAS HE +THE SON SIGHED, THUS ADMITTING THAT HIS FATHER HAD UNDERSTOOD HIM. THE +THE SOUND OF MUSKETRY AT THE FOOT OF THE HILL, NOW DIMINISHING, NOW +THE SOUND OF VOICES AND THE SHOUTS OF COMMAND. THE WHOLE AIR REEKED WITH +THE SOUTHERN SPRING, THE COMFORTABLE RAPID TRAVELING IN A VIENNA +“THE SOVEREIGNS? I DO NOT SPEAK OF RUSSIA,” SAID THE VICOMTE, POLITE +THE SPECIAL DEEP COOING TONE, PRECLUDING THE POSSIBILITY OF INTERRUPTING +THE SPECTATORS BY THE UNEXPECTEDNESS OF HIS ADROIT MANEUVERS AND +THE SPOT CHOSEN FOR THE DUEL WAS SOME EIGHTY PACES FROM THE ROAD, +THE SPOT INDICATED TO HIM. HE MADE NO REPLY ON HIS FATHER’S FAVORITE +THE SQUADRON CROSSED THE BRIDGE AND DREW OUT OF RANGE OF FIRE WITHOUT +THE SQUADRON IN WHICH ROSTóV WAS SERVING HAD SCARCELY TIME TO MOUNT +“THE SQUADRON QUARTERMASTER!” SAID LAVRúSHKA. +“THE SQUADWON CAN’T PASS,” SHOUTED VáSKA DENíSOV, SHOWING HIS +THE STAFF CAPTAIN. +THE STAFF CAPTAIN, “BUT WE OLD FELLOWS, WHO HAVE GROWN UP IN AND, GOD +THE STAFF CAPTAIN IN HIS DEEP BASS, CALMLY STROKING HIS LONG MUSTACHE. +THE STAFF CAPTAIN, KíRSTEN, HAD TWICE BEEN REDUCED TO THE RANKS FOR +THE STAFF CAPTAIN’S VOICE BEGAN TO TREMBLE. “YOU HAVE BEEN IN THE +THE STAFF OFFICER AND PRINCE ANDREW MOUNTED THEIR HORSES AND RODE ON. +THE STAFF OFFICER ON DUTY. +THE STAFF OFFICER REMAINED BEHIND AND PRINCE ANDREW RODE ON ALONE. +THE STANDARD. +THE STATE OF THE PRUSSIAN ARMY. AS SOON AS HE HAD FINISHED SHE TURNED TO +“THE STEP MUST BE TAKEN BUT I CANNOT, I CANNOT!” THOUGHT PIERRE, +THE STEWARD DID NOT SAY IT WAS QUITE IMPOSSIBLE, BUT SUGGESTED SELLING +THE STEWARDS (THERE WERE SEMILITERATE FOREMEN AMONG THEM) LISTENED WITH +THE STILL GREATER UNIMPORTANCE OF DEATH, THE MEANING OF WHICH NO ONE +THE STORES ARE EMPTY, THE ROADS IMPASSABLE. THE ORTHODOX BEGIN LOOTING, +THE STORY WAS VERY PRETTY AND INTERESTING, ESPECIALLY AT THE POINT +THE STRANGER’S FACE WAS NOT GENIAL, IT WAS EVEN COLD AND SEVERE, BUT +THE STRETCHERS, AND LOVE OF THE SUN AND OF LIFE, ALL MERGED INTO ONE +THE STRETCHERS MOVED ON. AT EVERY JOLT HE AGAIN FELT UNENDURABLE PAIN; +THE STRUGGLING MEN, AND THE FATE OF THE RED-HAIRED GUNNER, WHO HAD +THE STUDY, LIKE PISTOL SHOTS, CAME THE FREQUENT SOUND OF THE OLD MAN +THE STUPID SMILE, WHICH HAD LEFT HIS FACE WHILE HE WAS SPEAKING, +THE SUBJECT OF HER REQUEST AND MUST NOT BE SHOWN BEFORE THE REQUEST WAS +THE SUITE POINTED OUT TO BAGRATIóN A FRENCH COLUMN THAT WAS OUTFLANKING +THE SUTLERS. ON RECEIVING BORíS’ LETTER HE RODE WITH A FELLOW OFFICER +THE TABLE IN A MERRY MOOD, SITTING DOWN NOW BY ONE, NOW BY ANOTHER, OF +THE TABLE, ONTO WHICH HE THREW IT. +THE TABLE, SCREENED BY A BOUND MUSIC BOOK SO THAT THE LIGHT DID NOT FALL +THE TABLE, SEARCHED EVERYWHERE, AND STOOD STILL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE +THE TABLE, SUMMONED HIS DAUGHTER. HE NEVER GAVE HIS CHILDREN A BLESSING, +THE TABLE WHICH WAS SCRAWLED OVER WITH FIGURES, WET WITH SPILLED WINE, +THE TALL, FAIR-HAIRED GENERAL BUXHöWDEN STOOD, LEANING HIS BACK AGAINST +THE TEARS FROM HIS EYES AND FROM THE LETTER, THEN HAVING DRIED HER +THE TEMPERATURE SHOWN BY THE POLITICAL THERMOMETER TO THE COMPANY THAT +THE TERMINATION OF THE CEREMONY. HE LOOKED UP JOYFULLY AT THE BABY WHEN +THE THIRD!” +THE THIRD COMPANY WAS THE LAST, AND KUTúZOV PONDERED, APPARENTLY TRYING +THE THIRD DIVISION AND CONVINCED HIMSELF THAT THERE REALLY WERE NO +THE THIRD GROUP WAS GATHERED ROUND MORTEMART AND ANNA PáVLOVNA. +THE THIRD INTERRUPTION CAME WHEN PRINCE ANDREW WAS FINISHING HIS +“THE THIRD, I SAID THE THIRD!” CRIED THE PRINCE ABRUPTLY, PUSHING +THE THIRD TIME THE RHETOR CAME BACK MORE QUICKLY AND ASKED PIERRE +THE THREE VOICES, HERS, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE’S, AND KATIE’S, WHO +THE THUERASSA, HE MERELY SAVES US A GREAT DEAL OF TROUBLE AND ALL OUR +THE TIME HAD COME TO EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF AN ATTACK OF WHICH HE HAD SO +THE TIPSY GUESTS WHO WERE AGAIN CROWDING ROUND THE WINDOW, AND LISTENING +THE TORZHóK PEDDLER WOMAN, IN A WHINING VOICE, WENT ON OFFERING HER +THE TOWN WHERE THE HEADQUARTERS AND THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS WERE STATIONED +THE TRAVELER WAS JOSEPH ALEXéEVICH BAZDéEV, AS PIERRE SAW FROM THE +THE TREMOR OF THE SPEAKER’S VOICE—WHICH SOMETIMES ALMOST BROKE—OR +THE TROOPS AGAIN BEGAN TO MOVE, AND TWO BATTALIONS OF THE NóVGOROD AND +THE TROOPS IN THEIR DISORDERLY FLIGHT CONFIRMED THESE RUMORS. +THE TROOPS OF THE VANGUARD WERE STATIONED BEFORE WISCHAU, WITHIN SIGHT +THE TROOPS WERE RUNNING IN SUCH A DENSE MASS THAT ONCE SURROUNDED BY +THE TSAR!” +THE TSAR ADDRESSED THE OFFICERS ALSO: “I THANK YOU ALL, GENTLEMEN, I +THE TSAR HEARD BUT OBVIOUSLY DID NOT LIKE THE REPLY; HE SHRUGGED HIS +THE TSAR LOOKED INTENTLY AND OBSERVANTLY INTO KUTúZOV’S EYE +THE TSAR SAID SOMETHING MORE WHICH ROSTóV DID NOT HEAR, AND THE +THE TSAR STOPPED A FEW MINUTES IN FRONT OF THE HUSSARS AS IF UNDECIDED. +THE TSAR WITH ANOTHER GLANCE AT THE EMPEROR FRANCIS, AS IF INVITING +THE TVERSKáYA STREET RODE THE HUSSAR WITH MUSTACHES... I THOUGHT ABOUT +THE TWO GENERALS AND THE ADJUTANT TOOK HOLD OF THE FIELD GLASS, TRYING +THE TWO LADIES, ADDRESSING PRINCE VASíLI AND POINTING TO AN INLAID +THE TWO PáVLOGRAD SQUADRONS, HAVING CROSSED THE BRIDGE, RETIRED UP THE +THE TWO YOUNG MEN, THE STUDENT AND THE OFFICER, FRIENDS FROM CHILDHOOD, +THE UNKNOWN GENERAL LOOKED DISDAINFULLY DOWN AT KOZLóVSKI, WHO WAS +“THE UNPLEASANT THINGS WERE SAID TO ME,” REMARKED VéRA, “I SAID +THE UNSOLVED PROBLEM THAT TORMENTED HIM WAS CAUSED BY HINTS GIVEN BY THE +THE USELESSNESS OF FREEING THE SERFS, WHO WERE QUITE HAPPY AS IT WAS. +THE VALLEY. THE FOURTH COLUMN, WITH WHICH KUTúZOV WAS, STOOD ON THE +THE VERY TIME HE WAS EXPRESSING THIS CONVICTION TO HIMSELF, IN ANOTHER +THE VICOMTE APPRECIATED THIS SILENT PRAISE AND SMILING GRATEFULLY +THE VICOMTE BOWED AND SMILED COURTEOUSLY IN TOKEN OF HIS WILLINGNESS TO +“THE VICOMTE KNEW THE DUC PERSONALLY,” WHISPERED ANNA PáVLOVNA TO +THE VICOMTE MERELY SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS. PIERRE LOOKED SOLEMNLY AT HIS +THE VICOMTE’S STORY. PRINCE VASíLI’S WORDS FRIGHTENED HER, AN +THE VICOMTE TOLD HIS TALE VERY NEATLY. IT WAS AN ANECDOTE, THEN CURRENT, +THE VICOMTE WAS A NICE-LOOKING YOUNG MAN WITH SOFT FEATURES AND POLISHED +THE VICOMTE WHO WAS MEETING HIM FOR THE FIRST TIME SAW CLEARLY THAT +THE VICOMTE WISHED TO BEGIN HIS STORY AND GAVE A SUBTLE SMILE. +THE VILLAGE AGAIN, BUT TúSHIN’S GUNS COULD NOT MOVE, AND THE +THE VILLAGE LETTING THE TROOPS PASS BY HIM. THAT MORNING KUTúZOV SEEMED +THE VISITOR, COMPELLED TO LOOK ON AT THIS FAMILY SCENE, THOUGHT IT +THE VISITOR MADE A GESTURE WITH HER HAND. +THE VISITOR, NOT KNOWING WHAT TO SAY, SHOOK HER HEAD. +THE VISITORS, AND BEFORE THE VISITORS I TELL YOU THAT IN FUTURE YOU ARE +THE WAITER. +THE WALL, HIS EYES FIXED ON A BURNING CANDLE, AND SEEMED NOT TO LISTEN +THE WAR IS OVER, THAT THE EMPEROR FRANCIS IS ARRANGING A MEETING WITH +THE WAR WAS FLAMING UP AND NEARING THE RUSSIAN FRONTIER. EVERYWHERE ONE +THE WATER, AND APPROACHES THE TêTE-DE-PONT. AT LENGTH APPEARS THE +THE WAX WITH THE BABY’S HAIR HAD NOT SUNK IN THE FONT BUT HAD FLOATED. +THE WAY FROM ULM, WHILE DóLOKHOV MAINTAINED THAT THE RUSSIANS HAD NOT +THE WAY HE WALKED THROUGH THE RANKS BEHIND THE GENERALS, BENDING FORWARD +THE WEATHER HAD CLEARED AGAIN SINCE NOON AND THE SUN WAS DESCENDING +THE WEIGHT OF HIS KNAPSACK. +THE WELL-KNOWN PRINCE BOLKóNSKI WHO HAD TO RETIRE FROM THE ARMY UNDER +THE WHOLE DAY WAS FINALLY AND INDUBITABLY ANSWERED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. +THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE, OFFERING IT IN OUR MEMBERS AN EXAMPLE OF PIETY +THE WHOLE INTEREST WAS CONCENTRATED ON ROSTóV. INSTEAD OF SIXTEEN +THE WHOLE MATTER AND DECIDE WHAT WAS RIGHT AND HOW HE SHOULD ACT, BUT +THE WHOLE PLACE WERE DRAGGING LOGS AND BRUSHWOOD AND WERE BUILDING +THE WHOLE STORY OF LIFE. YOU TALK OF BONAPARTE AND HIS CAREER,” SAID +“THE WIFE!” SAID THE OLD PRINCE, BRIEFLY AND SIGNIFICANTLY. +THE WILD SET LED BY DóLOKHOV. ZHERKóV HAD MET DóLOKHOV ABROAD AS A +THE WILL AND LETTER WILL BE DELIVERED TO THE EMPEROR, AND THE PETITION +“THE WILL WILL SHOW THAT, MY DEAR; OUR FATE ALSO DEPENDS ON IT.” +THE WIND. +THE WIND HAD FALLEN AND BLACK CLOUDS, MERGING WITH THE POWDER SMOKE, +THE WINDOW SILL, BUT REFRAINED FROM TOUCHING IT. PIERRE AGAIN COVERED +THE WOMAN HE HAD KNOWN AS A CHILD, OF WHOM WHEN HER BEAUTY WAS MENTIONED +THE WOMAN’S VEHICLE FOR TRYING TO GET AHEAD OF OTHERS, AND THE STROKES +THE WOMEN.” +THE WORD OF COMMAND RANG OUT, AND AGAIN THE REGIMENT QUIVERED, AS WITH A +THE WORDS OF THE ORDER WERE NOT CLEAR TO THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, AND +THE WORST,” SAID THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL, EVIDENTLY WISHING TO HAVE DONE +“THE WOUND IS NOT HERE, IT IS THERE!” SAID KUTúZOV, PRESSING THE +THEY ALL HAD BUT ONE WISH: TO ADVANCE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AGAINST THE +THEY ALL SEPARATED, BUT, EXCEPT ANATOLE WHO FELL ASLEEP AS SOON AS HE +THEY ALL WERE, OR SEEMED TO BE, PRETTY—SO RAPTUROUS WERE THEIR SMILES +THEY ARE BEATEN, FLOGGED, OR SENT TO SIBERIA, I DON’T SUPPOSE THEY ARE +“THEY ARE REGULAR BRIGANDS, ESPECIALLY DóLOKHOV,” REPLIED THE +THEY ASSURE THE OFFICER ON DUTY THAT THEY, THE MARSHALS, ARE ON +THEY BECAME SILENT, AND PIERRE THOUGHT HE SAW THE PRINCESS HIDE +THEY BOTH FELT HAPPY). “WE HAD OUR HANDS FULL LAST NIGHT. HOWEVER, I +“THEY CAN’T BE FAR OFF, PROBABLY JUST BEYOND THE STREAM,” HE SAID +“THEY COAX ME AS IF I WERE VáSKA THE CAT!” SAID DENíSOV JOKINGLY. +THEY CONTAIN; FOR HOW CAN WE, MISERABLE SINNERS THAT WE ARE, KNOW THE +THEY COULD NOT FAIL TO VANQUISH ANYONE, BE IT WHOM IT MIGHT: SO THOUGHT +THEY DISMOUNTED AND ENTERED THE TENT. SEVERAL OFFICERS, WITH FLUSHED AND +“THEY DON’T EVEN GIVE ONE TIME TO DWINK!” ANSWERED VáSKA +THEY DO THE GUNS.” +THEY ENTERED THE ELEGANT, NEWLY DECORATED, AND LUXURIOUS DINING ROOM. +THEY ENTERED THE LARGE HALL, FROM WHICH ONE OF THE DOORS LED TO THE +THEY GAVE HER AN ATTRACTION MORE POWERFUL THAN THAT OF BEAUTY. BUT THE +“THEY GIVE LITTLE HOPE,” REPLIED THE PRINCE. +THEY GOT INTO THE CARRIAGE AND DROVE FOR A FEW MINUTES IN SILENCE. +THEY HAD ENTERED MOSCOW. +THEY HAD GONE BY, THE SAME STREAM OF SOLDIERS FOLLOWED, WITH THE SAME +THEY HAD LIFTED THE DYING MAN AND WERE MOVING HIM. +THEY HAD LOOKED AT THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, SEEMING BY THEIR EXPRESSION +THEY HAD NOT MET FOR NEARLY HALF A YEAR AND, BEING AT THE AGE WHEN YOUNG +THEY HAD WHEN SHE WAS NOT THINKING OF HERSELF. AS WITH EVERYONE, HER +THEY HALTED IN SILENCE. THERE WAS NOTHING FRESH TO BE SEEN FROM THE +“THEY HAVE GONE TO BED AND PUT OUT THEIR LIGHTS, YOUR EXCELLENCY.” +THEY’LL RANSACK THAT CASTLE,” HE REMARKED WITH EVIDENT APPROVAL. +THEY’LL SAY SO AGAIN AND AGAIN, AND THAT WILL BE THE END OF IT. MY +“THEY MARCH SPLENDIDLY,” REMARKED SOMEONE IN BAGRATIóN’S SUITE. +“THEY MIGHT CALL A HALT HERE OR WE’LL HAVE TO DO ANOTHER FOUR MILES +“THEY MUST BE FEELING DULL, TOO,” SAID ONE OF THE BOLDER OFFICERS, +THEY MUST LOOK SOMEWHERE, OR IT MEANT TOO MUCH. PIERRE HESITATED, +THEY NAMED THE COLONEL, PRINCE REPNíN. +THE YOUNGER EMPEROR COULD NOT RESTRAIN HIS WISH TO BE PRESENT AT THE +THE YOUNG MAN, FLATTERED, SAT DOWN NEARER TO HER WITH A COQUETTISH +THE YOUNG MAN HAD DEPARTED. “THERE IS NEVER ANY ‘IMPOSSIBLE’ WITH +“THE YOUNG MAN’S A REAL HUSSAR!” SHOUTED THE COLONEL, AGAIN +THE YOUNG PEOPLE, AT THE COUNTESS’ INSTIGATION, GATHERED ROUND THE +THE YOUNG PRINCESS BOLKóNSKAYA HAD BROUGHT SOME WORK IN A +THE YOUNG PRINCE. THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD WERE ALL GATHERED IN THE +THE YOUTH AND INEXPERIENCE OF THE SOVEREIGN, WHO HAD TRUSTED WORTHLESS +THEY QUITE UNDERSTOOD ONE ANOTHER AS TO THE FIRST PART OF THEIR ROMANCE, +“THEY’RE ALWAYS IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE,” HE THOUGHT OF SóNYA AND +“THEY RECEIVED ME AND MY NEWS AS ONE RECEIVES A DOG IN A GAME OF +THEY’RE COMING!” ALARMED VOICES WERE HEARD, AND A STIR OF FINAL +“THEY’RE COMING!... THEY’RE COMING!... STAND ASIDE, MAKE WAY, +THEY RODE UP THE OPPOSITE HILL. FROM THERE THE FRENCH COULD ALREADY BE +THEY ROSE FROM THE TABLE AND SAT DOWN IN THE ENTRANCE PORCH WHICH SERVED +“THEY SAY PIERRE IS QUITE BROKEN BY HIS MISFORTUNE.” +“THEY SAY THE BALL WILL BE VERY GOOD,” REPLIED THE PRINCESS, DRAWING +THEY SEEMED OF THEM, ONE COULD FEEL BY THE OCCASIONAL GLANCES THEY GAVE +THEY SEIZED HIM BY HIS ARMS; BUT HE WAS SO STRONG THAT EVERYONE WHO +THEY STOOD SILENT, FACING ONE ANOTHER. THE OLD MAN’S SHARP EYES WERE +THEY TOO COULD, LIKE NATáSHA AND BORíS, ESCAPE FROM THE DRAWING ROOM. +“THEY’VE BEEN SAYING SO A LONG WHILE,” SAID THE COUNT, “AND +THEY WENT OUT AND WALKED ABOUT TILL DINNERTIME, TALKING OF THE POLITICAL +THEY WENT THROUGH THE PORCH AND INTO THE STABLE. THE LIEUTENANT +THEY WENT UP TO THE DOOR OF THE SITTING ROOM FROM WHICH CAME THE SOUND +THEY WERE AGAIN SILENT. +THEY WERE AS USUAL LAUGHING. +THEY WERE FIRING AT COULD NOT BE SEEN FOR THE SMOKE WHICH THERE WAS NO +“THEY WERE IN A HURRY ENOUGH TO START US, AND NOW HERE WE STAND IN +THEY WERE IN THE CARRIAGE. “HE HARDLY RECOGNIZES ANYBODY.” +THEY WERE SAYING WAS AMUSING, BUT BECAUSE SHE FELT HAPPY AND WAS UNABLE +“THEY WERE THERE THIS EVENING, BUT NOW I DON’T KNOW, YOUR +THEY WOULD HAVE REMAINED THERE FOR A LONG TIME TESTING EACH OTHER’S +THEY WOULD NOT FOR AN INSTANT LET HIS SHOULDER MOVE A HAIR’S BREADTH. +THICK, BUSHY EYEBROWS. PRINCE ANDREW WENT UP AND KISSED HIS FATHER ON +THICK-SET GENERAL WITH GRIZZLED EYEBROWS AND WHISKERS, AND WIDER FROM +THIN FACE. HER EYES, ALWAYS SAD, NOW LOOKED WITH PARTICULAR HOPELESSNESS +THIN FACE WAS NOW QUIVERING WITH NERVOUS EXCITEMENT; HIS EYES, IN WHICH +THING.” +THING CAN BE ARRANGED. IT SHALL BE ON YOUR FAMILY’S BEHALF THAT I’LL +THING HE WOULD HAVE TO UNITE HIS FATE WITH HERS. HE MIGHT PERHAPS HAVE +THING I HAVE FAITH IN! OUR GOOD AND WONDERFUL SOVEREIGN HAS TO PERFORM +THINGS AND SUPPER DISHES STOOD IN DISORDER, AND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE +THINGS,” AND THE SKIN OVER HIS LEFT TEMPLE PUCKERED, “EITHER YOU +THINGS, BUT AUSTRIA NEVER HAS WISHED, AND DOES NOT WISH, FOR WAR. SHE +THINGS HAD TO BE. FROM THE PASSAGE THEY WENT INTO A LARGE, DIMLY +THINGS HE SHOULD HAVE SHOWN IT SOONER, BUT HE LETS IT GO ON FOR MONTHS. +THINGS. SHE DID NOT REPLY, BUT LOOKED AT HER SERIOUSLY. +THINGS THAT HAD NEVER OCCURRED. MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE ALSO SHARED THEM +THINGS THAT HE HAS BEEN EXPELLED BY THE POLICE.” +THINGS THE OLD COUNT SENT TO HIS SON. +THING WE ARE INTERESTED IN HERE,” SAID THE SPIRIT OF THE PLACE. +THINK COULD HARDLY BE FOUND NOWADAYS—BUT IS SHE CONTENTED WITH HER +THINK, COUNT? THE NEXT DAY IT WAS NOT EVEN MENTIONED IN THE ORDERS OF +THINKING ABOUT YOU. WHY ARE YOU GOING?” +THINKING? I MUSTN’T FORGET. HOW SHALL I SPEAK TO THE EMPEROR? NO, +THINKING OF?” SHE WENT ON, TURNING TO PRINCE HIPPOLYTE. “FETCH ME MY +THINK IT OVER. GO! YES OR NO, YES OR NO, YES OR NO!” HE STILL SHOUTED +THINK SO YOURSELF. AND THE MAIN THING IS,” HE CONTINUED, “THAT I +THINK THAT HE IS YOUR FATHER ... PERHAPS IN THE AGONY OF DEATH.” SHE +THINK THE REGIMENT IS NOT A BAD ONE, EH?” +THINK WE THOROUGHLY UNDERSTAND. +“THINK WHAT YOU PLEASE! I KNOW YOU ARE JUST LIKE FATHER. THINK AS +THIN LIPS INTERRUPTED WEYROTHER, WISHING TO SAY SOMETHING. BUT THE +THIRD COMPANY HE SUDDENLY STOPPED. HIS SUITE, NOT HAVING EXPECTED THIS, +“THIRTEEN, FOURTEEN, FIFTEEN, SIXTEEN,” SHE COUNTED ON HER SLENDER +THIRTEEN LOOK AT THE BOY THEY ARE IN LOVE WITH AND HAVE JUST KISSED FOR +THIRTIETH HE ATTACKED MORTIER’S DIVISION, WHICH WAS ON THE LEFT BANK, +THIRTY,” SAID HE, LOOKING AT SHINSHíN AND THE COUNT WITH A JOYFUL, +THIS ACTION WAS SO UNLIKE HER USUAL COMPOSURE AND THE FEAR DEPICTED ON +THIS ACTIVE OLD SERVANT WAS UNPACKING THE TRAVELER’S CANTEEN AND +THIS ANSWER. “HAVE YOU SOUGHT FOR MEANS OF ATTAINING YOUR AIM IN +THIS BATTLE, WHICH CONSISTED IN THE CAPTURE OF A FRENCH SQUADRON, WAS +THIS BLACK-EYED, WIDE-MOUTHED GIRL, NOT PRETTY BUT FULL OF LIFE—WITH +THIS BONE—A BILL FOR THIRTY THOUSAND RUBLES—TO THE POOR PRINCESS +THIS BUONAPARTE HAS TURNED ALL THEIR HEADS; THEY ALL THINK OF HOW HE +THIS?” BUT THESE DOUBTS ONLY LASTED A MOMENT. PIERRE GLANCED AT +THIS CARD AND I’LL TAKE MY CAP AND DRIVE HOME TO SUPPER WITH DENíSOV, +THIS CONSCIOUSNESS OF MISMANAGEMENT BECAME A GENERAL CONVICTION, BUT AS +THIS DEFECT WAS NOT DUE TO ANY FAULT OF THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, FOR +THIS DISORDER,” HE MUTTERED. “DO AS YOU LIKE.” +THIS DOOR LED INTO A BACK ANTEROOM. AN OLD MAN, A SERVANT OF THE +THIS EBOOK IS FOR THE USE OF ANYONE ANYWHERE AT NO COST AND WITH ALMOST +THIS EXPECTATION DID NOT UPSET THE REGULAR ROUTINE OF LIFE IN THE OLD +THIS EXPRESSION EVIDENTLY PLEASED HIM. +THIS FACT OUGHT TO GIVE PRINCE VASíLI MUCH SATISFACTION. +THIS GUARDSMAN WOULD CERTAINLY HAVE BOWLED ROSTóV AND HIS BEDOUIN OVER +THIS HEART, SO KIND AND GENEROUS? SAY ‘PERHAPS’... THE FUTURE IS SO +THIS HE’LL SOON HAVE US, TOO, FOR HIS SUBJECTS! HOW ARE YOU?” AND HE +THIS HOLIDAY TIME. “SEIZE THE MOMENTS OF HAPPINESS, LOVE AND BE LOVED! +THIS HOUSE AND IN BRüNN ITSELF. I WANT TO ENTERTAIN HIM AS FAR AS I +THIS INDECISION APPEARED TO HIM MAJESTIC AND ENCHANTING, LIKE EVERYTHING +THIS INFORMATION, THE LITTLE PRINCESS AND MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, WHOSE +THIS INSTANT!” THOUGHT ROSTóV. +THIS IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE. +“THIS IS ABSURD! COME, LET GO I TELL YOU.” +“THIS IS ALL VERY FINE, BUT THINGS MUST BE SETTLED,” SAID PRINCE + * “THIS IS A PLEASURE ONE GETS IN CAMP, PRINCE.” +“THIS IS DóLOKHOV,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. +“THIS IS FOR BORíS FROM ME, FOR HIS OUTFIT.” +“THIS IS NOT AT ALL THE THING,” HE SAID. “WHAT SORT OF POLISH +THIS IS THE BATTLE OF PULTúSK, WHICH IS CONSIDERED A GREAT VICTORY BUT +“THIS IS THE FIRST ACT. THOSE THAT FOLLOW ARE NATURALLY INCREASINGLY +“THIS IS WHAT I THINK. AUSTRIA HAS BEEN MADE A FOOL OF, AND SHE IS +“THIS IS WHAT I WANT, MY DEAR FELLOW,” SAID THE COUNT TO THE +THIS IS WHAT I WAS PROUD OF! I THEN THOUGHT THAT I DID NOT UNDERSTAND +THIS LOWEST-GRADE GREETING, A LOOK OF ANXIETY AND FEAR, AS AT THE SIGHT +THIS MAGNANIMITY BONAPARTE SUBSEQUENTLY REPAID BY DEATH. +THIS MARRIAGE. HE RECALLED HER FORMER WORDS AND LOOKS AND THE WORDS +THIS MAY BE MY ONLY CHANCE OF SEEING THE EMPEROR. IT WON’T BE LONG +THIS MEANT THAT TíKHON WAS NOT HANDING HIM THE WAISTCOAT HE WANTED. +THIS MISERY, AND MONEY, AND DóLOKHOV, AND ANGER, AND HONOR—IT’S ALL +THIS MOMENT OF HAPPY, RAPTUROUS EXCITEMENT. SHE GAZED AT HIM, NOT TAKING +THIS MURDERER AND VILLAIN! WE ALONE MUST AVENGE THE BLOOD OF THE JUST +THIS NAME DAY OF HERS HAD BEEN ONE OF THE PLEASANTEST SHE HAD EVER HAD. +THIS POETIC AND PURE INTIMACY, WERE WHAT MY HEART NEEDED. BUT ENOUGH OF +THIS REINFORCEMENT. +THIS RESEMBLANCE HE WAS EXCEEDINGLY UGLY. HIS FEATURES WERE LIKE HIS +THIS SAME ROOM WAS DIMLY LIGHTED BY TWO CANDLES. ON ONE SMALL TABLE TEA +THIS SHORT MAN HAD ON A WHITE LEATHER APRON WHICH COVERED HIS CHEST AND +THIS SHORT MAN NODDED TO DOLGORúKOV AS TO AN INTIMATE FRIEND AND STARED +THIS SILENCE WAS BROKEN BY ONE OF THE BRETHREN, WHO LED PIERRE UP TO THE +THIS SPEECH HOW THEY COULD BEST HANDLE THE MASTER FOR THEIR OWN ENDS. +THIS STRANGE INCIDENT, AND THEN SHRUGGING HIS SHOULDERS WENT TO THE DOOR +THIS STRONG, BRAVE MAN, THIS MODEL SON AND OFFICER THAT, JUDGING BY THIS +THIS TABLE WITH THE THOUGHT OF WINNING A HUNDRED RUBLES TO BUY THAT +THIS! THE CHIEF NEWS, ABOUT WHICH ALL MOSCOW GOSSIPS, IS THE DEATH OF +THIS UNCERTAINTY AND HURRY... THERE—THEY ARE SHOUTING AGAIN, AND +THIS UNPLEASANT IMPRESSION MERELY FLITTED OVER THE YOUNG AND HAPPY FACE +THIS VERY SENTENCE ABOUT COUNTESS ZúBOVA AND THIS SAME LAUGH PRINCE +THIS VICTORY TO THE AUSTRIAN COURT, NOW NO LONGER AT VIENNA (WHICH WAS +THIS—WANT GLORY, WANT TO BE KNOWN TO MEN, WANT TO BE LOVED BY THEM, IT +THIS WAS NOT SO BUT THAT ON THE CONTRARY THE FRENCH HAD RUN AWAY. HE +THIS WAS PARTICULARLY NOTICEABLE ON NESVíTSKI’S USUALLY LAUGHING +THIS WAS QUITE TRUE, BUT THE COUNT, THE COUNTESS, AND NATáSHA LOOKED +THIS WAS THE COUNT’S FAVORITE DANCE, WHICH HE HAD DANCED IN HIS YOUTH. +THIS WAS TRUE. THE ARCHITECT HAD TOLD HIM THAT IT WAS NECESSARY, AND +“THIS WON’T DO, PRINCESS; IT WON’T DO,” SAID HE, WHEN PRINCESS +THIS YOUNG JACOBIN WAS NOT SO TERRIBLE AS HIS WORDS SUGGESTED. ALL WERE +THOSE BRILLIANT AGED EYES GROWN OLD IN THIS CONVICTION, OR THE CALM +THOSE FIRST STEPS. BOTH HAD CHANGED GREATLY SINCE THEY LAST MET AND BOTH +THOSE HOFS-KRIEGS-WURST-RATHS ARE! SUVóROV COULDN’T MANAGE THEM SO +THOSE KURáGINS AND LEADING THAT SORT OF LIFE. IT SUITS YOU SO +THOSE OF HIGHER RANKS IN THE ORDER. 3. MORALITY. 4. LOVE OF MANKIND. 5. +THOSE ON FOOT, COLLAPSED IN A GREAT MASS, AND SOME FORTY MEN WHO WERE ON +THOSE RECENTLY ARRIVED FROM RUSSIA, BOTH GUARDS AND REGIMENTS OF THE +THOSE RICHER AND MORE POWERFUL THAN HIMSELF AND HE HAD RARE SKILL IN +“THOSE WERE EXTREMES, NO DOUBT, BUT THEY ARE NOT WHAT IS MOST +THOSE WHO HAD BEEN CAMPAIGNING UNDER KUTúZOV. THE TWO EMPERORS, +THOSE WHO WERE GUIDING HIM. +THOSE WHO WERE HOLDING HIM UNDER THE ARMPITS, AND OF HIS GRAY, CURLY, +THOSE WHO WERE IN THE DIMLY LIT RECEPTION ROOM SPOKE IN NERVOUS +THOSE WOMEN—MOSTLY MOTHERS—WHO, HAVING ONCE MADE UP THEIR MINDS, +THOU ART WISE BECAUSE THOU COULDST UTTER THOSE BLASPHEMOUS WORDS,” HE +THOUGH ALL WERE IN A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE. THE MEN WHO SET THE TONE +THOUGH EMBRACING HER. +THOUGH FIVE MINUTES BEFORE, PRINCE ANDREW HAD BEEN ABLE TO SAY A FEW +THOUGH HE MAY PERHAPS OUTLIVE US ALL, AS I SINCERELY HOPE HE WILL...” +THOUGH HE SMILED DELIGHTEDLY. HE RAN UP TO THEM. +THOUGH HE WROTE IN FRENCH AND USED FRENCH JESTS AND FRENCH IDIOMS, +THOUGH MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE HAD BEEN SO UNSUCCESSFUL IN HER CHOICE +THOUGH NONE OF THE COLUMN COMMANDERS RODE UP TO THE RANKS OR TALKED TO +THOUGH NOT MUCH TIME HAD PASSED SINCE PRINCE ANDREW HAD LEFT RUSSIA, HE +THOUGH NO WORDS HAD PASSED BETWEEN ANATOLE AND MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, +THOUGH OF THIS PRINCE ANDREW SAID NOTHING TO HIS SISTER, WAS THAT IN THE +THOUGH POLITENESS PREVENTED HIS SHOWING IMPATIENCE, LEFT THE OLD WOMAN +THOUGH SHE WERE GROWN UP, WAS EVIDENTLY VERY PROUD OF THIS BUT AT THE +THOUGH SHY, WENT ON CAREFULLY EXECUTING HER STEPS. DENíSOV DID NOT +THOUGHT AND HEARD OF HER MIGHT BE FALSE. AND HE AGAIN SAW HER NOT AS THE +THOUGHT. AND SUDDENLY, AT THIS THOUGHT OF DEATH, A WHOLE SERIES OF MOST +THOUGHT, AS HE LISTENED TO VOICES IN KUTúZOV’S COURTYARD. THE VOICES +THOUGH THE BIG HOSPITALS AND THE HOUSES IN KREMS CONVERTED INTO MILITARY +THOUGHT, HE CALLED TíKHON AND BEGAN TO UNDRESS. +THOUGHT HE HEARD A STRANGE NOISE THROUGH THE DOOR. HE WAS SEIZED WITH +THOUGHT HE, “I SHALL BE SENT WITH A BRIGADE OR DIVISION, AND THERE, +THOUGHT: “I AM GOING TO SAVE THE ARMY.” +THOUGHT, “I MUST REMAIN FREE.” +THOUGHT INDEPENDENT OF HER SISTER-IN-LAW’S WORDS. IN THE MIDST OF A +THOUGHT OF EVERYTHING, CONSIDERED EVERYTHING, AND DID EVERYTHING THE +THOUGHT OF HIS FRIEND AND HOW MUCH HE EXPECTED OF HIM IN THE FUTURE. +THOUGHT OF SóNYA, DURING THIS STAY IN MOSCOW, HE SAID TO HIMSELF, +THOUGHT OF SUCH A THING, IT IS ONLY THE CABINET THAT SAYS IT.” +THOUGHT PIERRE, “AND HOW LITTLE ATTENTION WE PAY TO IT!” +THOUGHT PIERRE. “BUT THIS MAN KNOWS THE TRUTH AND, IF HE WISHED TO, +THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW, AND STRIKING HIS HORSE HE RODE UP TO KUTúZOV. +THOUGHT—REFERRING TO THE LITTLE PRINCESS WHO WAS NOT IN THE DINING +THOUGHT ROSTóV. AT THAT MOMENT ALEXANDER TURNED HIS HEAD AND ROSTóV +THOUGHT ROSTóV. HE KNEW WHAT A SHOCK HE WOULD INFLICT ON HIS FATHER AND +THOUGHT ROSTóV. “I SHOULD DIE OF HAPPINESS!” +THOUGHTS. +THOUGHTS, AND MEMORIES SUDDENLY AROSE WITHIN HIM THAT HE COULD NOT FALL +THOUGHT, “SERIOUSLY, I HAVE LONG BEEN THINKING OF IT.... LEADING SUCH +THOUGHTS HE HAS DREAMED OF FOR NIGHTS, BUT LOOKS AROUND FOR HELP OR A +THOUGHTS RATHER THAN THE TREND OF THE CONVERSATION—“AND THAT’S A +THOUGHT THAT CAME INTO HIS MIND WAS THAT TODAY HE HAD TO BE PRESENTED +THOUGHT THAT HE, AN EXEMPLARY OFFICER OF MANY YEARS’ SERVICE WHO +THOUGHT. THE MINISTER DREW THE REMAINING PAPERS TOGETHER, ARRANGED THEM +THOUGHT TURNED TO HER SISTER-IN-LAW WITH A TENDER GLANCE AT HER FIGURE. +THOUGH WHAT HAPPENED WAS DUE TO CHANCE AND WAS INDEPENDENT OF THE +THOUGH WHAT SHE SAID WAS QUITE JUST, PERHAPS FOR THAT VERY REASON NO ONE +THOUGH WITHOUT KNOWING ITS CAUSE—WAS SUCH AS TO REMIND ONE STILL MORE +THOU HAST LOST.” +“THOU HATEST IT. THEN CHANGE IT, PURIFY THYSELF; AND AS THOU ART +THOUSAND AUSTRIANS, WITH A HUNDRED THOUSAND RUSSIANS, WERE TO OPERATE IN +THOUSAND MEN BREATHLESSLY GAZING AT HIM AND THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER DID +THOUSAND MEN EACH OF WHOM KNEW HIS PLACE AND HIS DUTY, HAD EVERY BUTTON +THOUSAND-RUBLE HORSES, ONLY EIGHTEEN WERE LEFT AFTER THE CHARGE. +THOUSANDS SUCH AS I IN RUSSIA.’ +THRASHING FOR LETTING A PRIVATE TRAVELER HAVE THE COURIER HORSES. +THREATENED BY THE FRENCH) BUT AT BRüNN. DESPITE HIS APPARENTLY DELICATE +“THREE AND A HALF MILES, YOUR MAJESTY.” +THREE BEATS: “OH MIO CRUDELE AFFETTO.”... ONE, TWO, THREE... ONE, +THREE DAYS LATER THE LITTLE PRINCESS WAS BURIED, AND PRINCE ANDREW WENT +“THREE,” HE WENT QUICKLY FORWARD, MISSING THE TRODDEN PATH AND +THREE MONTHS AGO, DRAW FRESH MORAL STRENGTH FROM YOUR LOOK, SO GENTLE, +THREE PARTS OF THAT ARMY WERE SHARPLY DISTINGUISHED: KUTúZOV’S +THROTTLE IF THEY STOOD IN MY WAY. I HAVE AN ADORED, A PRICELESS MOTHER, +THROUGH, AND REALIZED THAT HE COULD NOT STOP HALFWAY. HE WAS AGHAST +THROUGH HIM, AND AGAIN LAUGHED HIS FRIGID LAUGH. +THROUGH HIS LORGNETTE, SUDDENLY TURNED COMPLETELY ROUND TOWARD THE +THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE CAVALRY DIVISION AS VáSKA DENíSOV. CADET ROSTóV, +THROUGH THAT DOOR WAS HEARD A NOISE OF THINGS BEING MOVED ABOUT, AND +THROUGH THE CLOSED DOORS CAME THE SOUND OF DIFFICULT PASSAGES—TWENTY +THROUGH THE CONSERVATORIES, THE SERFS’ QUARTERS, AND THE OUTBUILDINGS, +THROUGH THE DOOR. +THROUGH THE DOOR CAME THE REGULAR HUM OF A LATHE. THE PRINCESS TIMIDLY +THROUGH THE DOOR CAME THE SOUNDS OF KUTúZOV’S VOICE, EXCITED AND +THROUGH THE DOOR ON TIPTOE. HE COULD NOT WALK WELL ON TIPTOE AND HIS +THROUGH THE DOOR. PRINCE ANDREW GOT UP, WENT TO THE DOOR, AND TRIED TO +THROUGH THE NAïVE AND INTELLIGENT COUNT AND PLAYED WITH HIM AS WITH +THROUGH THE SMOKE. HE WAS PRESSING ONE HAND TO HIS LEFT SIDE, WHILE +THROUGH THE TOWN OF ENNS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BRIDGE. +THROWING DOWN HIS CHISEL. (THE WHEEL CONTINUED TO REVOLVE BY ITS OWN +THROWN THE REINS OF THE SNAFFLE BRIDLE OVER THE HORSE’S HEAD. IT WAS +THUD OF THE ENEMY’S CANNON BALLS, FROM THE FLUSHED AND PERSPIRING +THUMB TO THE ROOM WHERE TELYáNIN WAS SITTING, HE FROWNED AND GAVE A +THUMPING THE TABLE. +THUMPING THE TABLE; “AND VE MUST TIE FOR OUR EMPEROR, AND ZEN ALL VILL +THYSELF WHETHER THOU ART CONTENT WITH THYSELF. WHAT HAST THOU ATTAINED +TIDINESS AND GOOD MANAGEMENT. SOME DOMESTIC SERFS PIERRE MET, IN REPLY +TíKHON, AT HER HUSBAND, AND AT THE FOOTMAN WHO ACCOMPANIED THEM. +TíKHON DID NOT HEAR THE SLIGHTEST SOUND FROM THE STUDY AFTER THAT. +TíKHON KNEW HIS MASTER’S HABIT OF SOMETIMES THINKING ALOUD, AND +TíKHON KNEW THAT NEITHER THE SON’S ARRIVAL NOR ANY OTHER UNUSUAL +TíKHON, LIKE ALL GOOD VALETS, INSTINCTIVELY KNEW THE DIRECTION OF HIS +TíKHON TO ASK MARY BOGDáNOVNA WHAT NEWS.—“SAY ONLY THAT ‘THE +TíKHON WENT AND TOLD THE PRINCE. +TILL HE BEGAN SINCERELY TO BELIEVE IN HIS OWN EXCEPTIONAL KINDNESS AND +TILL ITS COAT SHONE LIKE SATIN AND EVERY HAIR OF ITS WETTED MANE LAY +TILL MAY, AND ASKED HIM TO BE MORE ECONOMICAL THIS TIME. NICHOLAS HAD +TILL MIDDAY ON THE NINETEENTH, THE ACTIVITY—THE EAGER TALK, RUNNING TO +TILL NOW. BUT WHERE AM I?” +TILL SHE WAS TWENTY, AND ARRANGED HER LIFE SO THAT HER WHOLE TIME WAS +TILL TEN O’CLOCK. +TILL THE GENERAL ASKED HIM TO RESTORE IT. ALL HIS ABSENT-MINDEDNESS AND +TILL THEN, HAD LISTENED WITH AN AMUSED SMILE TO THEIR CONVERSATION AND +TILL THEN. THEIR POWERS OF REASONING, FEELING, AND OBSERVING IMMEDIATELY +TILL THE TSAR REACHED IT, EACH REGIMENT IN ITS SILENCE AND IMMOBILITY + * TILL TOMORROW, MY DEAR FELLOW. +TILL YOU CAN SAY TO YOURSELF THAT YOU HAVE DONE ALL YOU ARE CAPABLE OF, +TIME!” +TIME. +TIME, ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA SENT SOMEONE TO CALL HER SON, AND WENT INTO THE +TIME COULD NOT ADMIT THE IDEA OF HIS HERO BEING DISGRACED. +TIME FOR THAT SORT OF THING AND A YOUNG MAN FEARS TO BIND HIMSELF AND +TIME IN THE SHOP. +TIME, MUTTERING TO HERSELF. +TIME. NO, I’LL TELL YOU NOW. YOU KNOW SóNYA’S MY DEAREST FRIEND. +TIMES BEFORE: HOW THE LATE PRINCESS HAD GIVEN BIRTH TO PRINCESS MARY +TIME SINCE HIS RETURN THAT THEY HAD TALKED ALONE AND ABOUT THEIR LOVE. +TIMES REPEATED—OF A SONATA BY DUSSEK. +TIMES, THE MORE IMPASSIONED HE BECAME IN THESE MOMENTS OF ALMOST MORBID +TIMES UNEXPECTEDLY INTERRUPTED. ONCE HE STOPPED IT BY SHOUTING: “THE +TIME THAT EVENING, VAINLY EXPECTING SOMEONE, NOW SMILING AT SOMEONE, NOW +TIME TILL THEY CAME TO MOSCOW HAD NOT LEFT THEM FOR A DAY. +TIME TO GET HIS UNIFORM. HE HAD ON A SHABBY CADET JACKET, DECORATED WITH +TIME TO TIME HE WENT OUT TO ASK: “HASN’T SHE COME YET?” THEY +TIMIDLY FROM BEHIND THE BACKS OF THE GENERALS. AS HE STEPPED PAST THE +TIMIDLY TO THE CORNER WHERE DENíSOV SAT. SHE SAW THAT EVERYBODY WAS +TIMóKHIN, ARMED ONLY WITH A SWORD, HAD RUSHED AT THE ENEMY WITH SUCH +TIMóKHIN TO THE SUBALTERN BESIDE HIM. +TINT IN HER COMPLEXION AND ESPECIALLY IN THE COLOR OF HER SLENDER BUT +TINY LIMBS SHE HAD FELT TWENTY YEARS AGO WITHIN HER, THAT SON ABOUT WHOM +TIPSY RAGE WHEN A MAN DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE IS SAYING. HE SAW THAT HIS +TIPTOE TO THE COUNTESS’ DOOR AND PAUSED. +TIRED OF BEING RUN AFTER BY WOMEN, HIS VANITY WAS FLATTERED BY THE +TIRESOME,” SAID NATáSHA IN A MORTIFIED VOICE THAT TREMBLED SLIGHTLY. +“TIT! I SAY, TIT!” SAID THE GROOM. +TITLE: WAR AND PEACE +TO ABANDON THE ROAD CONNECTING HIM WITH THE TROOPS ARRIVING FROM RUSSIA, +TO ABOVE THE KNEE. PIERRE HURRIEDLY BEGAN TAKING OFF HIS RIGHT BOOT ALSO +TO ACCEPT THEIR SERVICES. HE TOOK THE GLOVE IN SILENCE FROM THE +TO ADOPT A JOCULAR TONE. BUT BEFORE HE HAD FINISHED HE FELT THAT HIS +TO A FOOTMAN DRESSED IN KNEE BREECHES, SHOES, AND A SWALLOW-TAIL COAT, +TO AGREE TO THE TRUCE BUT ALSO TO OFFER TERMS OF CAPITULATION, AND +TO ALL THE CLUB MEMBERS AND TO ALL THE CLUB GUESTS, AND FINALLY TO +TO ANOTHER. “HOW EVIDENTLY HE BELONGS TO THE BEST SOCIETY,” SAID SHE +TOAST, THE COUNT TOOK OUT HIS HANDKERCHIEF AND, COVERING HIS FACE, WEPT +TO A THIRD; AND THE VICOMTE WAS SERVED UP TO THE COMPANY IN THE CHOICEST +TO ATTAIN IT QUICKLY. HENCE WE HAVE A SECONDARY AIM, THAT OF PREPARING +TO ATTEND TO THE BUSINESS HIMSELF AND SO HE DISLIKED IT AND ONLY TRIED +TO A TUNE IN WHICH THE WEARY MUSICIANS BLUNDERED, AND WHILE TIRED +TO BAGRATIóN WHICH THE OLD COUNTESS AT ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S ADVICE HAD +TO BALANCE HIMSELF. ONE OF THE FOOTMEN WHO HAD STOOPED TO PICK UP SOME +TO BE ALL RIGHT,” PIERRE CONCLUDED, AND FOLLOWED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. +TO BEAR THE LOOKS TURNED UPON HER, RAN AWAY INTO THE DANCING HALL, +TO BE GREW STRONGER, AND HE MEEKLY FOLLOWED ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WHO WAS +TO BEHAVE HERE AS YOU DID IN PETERSBURG, YOU WILL END VERY BADLY; THAT +TO BE HEARD. +TO BE HIS OLD SCHOOLROOM, AND LOOKING INTO NATáSHA’S WILDLY BRIGHT +TO BE OPENED. EVERYWHERE HE SAW THE STEWARDS’ ACCOUNTS, ACCORDING TO +TO BE PARTED FROM HER HUSBAND AND BE LEFT ALONE IN THE COUNTRY, IN HER +“TO BE QUITE FRANK, MARY, I EXPECT FATHER’S CHARACTER SOMETIMES +TO BE RESERVED BECAUSE IN THE DEPTH OF MY SOUL I FEEL TOO NEAR TO HIM +TO BE SEVERE, FOUND NOTHING TO SAY; THE OTHERS DID NOT VENTURE TO +TO BE SILENT. BUT AFTER A WHILE, JUST AS A JURY COMES OUT OF ITS ROOM, +TO BE SO SENT MEANT NOT ONLY A REWARD BUT AN IMPORTANT STEP TOWARD +“TO BE SURE, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” REPLIED THE ARCHITECT. +TO BE TALKING TO A STAFF OFFICER OF SUCH IMPORTANCE. “IT’S A LOVELY +TO BLAME ALL ROUND. WELL, WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT?...” +TO BORE HIM SO MUCH AS THAT OF HIS PRETTY WIFE. HE TURNED AWAY FROM +TO BUILD A NEW CHANTRY TO THE CHURCH AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE IN HONOR +TO CHANGE HIS FORMER WAY OF LIFE, BUT HIS STRENGTH FAILED HIM. HE WALKED +TO CHEER THE MEN BUT MERELY CARRIED OUT THE ORDERS), YET THE TROOPS +“TO COMBAT THE EVIL WHICH SWAYS THE WORLD...” PIERRE REPEATED, AND A +TO CONTINUE HIS MILITARY SERVICE, AND WHEN THE WAR RECOMMENCED +TO CONTROL HER JOY WHICH EXPRESSED ITSELF BY LAUGHTER. +TO CONTROL HERSELF ANY LONGER, SHE JUMPED UP AND RUSHED FROM THE ROOM AS +TO COUNT T., PRINCE V., AND OTHERS. THEN HE BURSTS INTO ONE OF HIS WILD +TO CREDIT IT, BENT HIS HEAD, AND TOLD TúSHIN THAT HE COULD GO. PRINCE +TO CROSS THE DITCH ON FOOT. THE EMPEROR, WISHING TO REST AND FEELING +TO CRUEL WITH HIS SUBORDINATES, AND WENT INTO EVERYTHING DOWN TO THE +TODAY, AND THAT HIS EXCELLENCY WAS NOT RECEIVING ANYONE. +TODAY FOR THE EMPEROR.” DOLGORúKOV SMILED SIGNIFICANTLY. +TODAY. HE HAS BEEN HERE ON LEAVE AND IS TAKING NICHOLAS BACK WITH HIM. +TODAY OR TOMORROW—AT ANY RATE, IN AN INSTANT AS COMPARED WITH +TODAY WAS A GREAT DAY FOR HIM—THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS CORONATION. +TODAY?” WAS HIS FIRST THOUGHT. “AND I DID NOT KNOW THIS SUFFERING +“TODAY WHEN I REMEMBERED THAT ALL THESE DELIGHTFUL ASSOCIATIONS +TO DEMONSTRATE THE DEFECTS OF THE LATTER AND THE MERITS OF HIS OWN PLAN, +TO DINNER. I SUPPOSE HE WON’T GO?” SHE CONTINUED, TURNING TO THE +TO DISTRACTION! ONE LEARNS MANY THINGS THEN,” SHE ADDED WITH A CERTAIN +TO DO BUT DWINK. IF WE COULD ONLY GET TO FIGHTING SOON. HULLO, WHO’S +TO DO IT?”—“BECAUSE YOU MARRIED HER,” ANSWERED AN INNER VOICE. +TO DO IT THAT IT SEEMED TO HIM AS IF IT HAD REALLY HAPPENED. PERHAPS +TO DO WHAT WAS FOR HIM THE MOST DIFFICULT THING IN LIFE—TO SAY AN +TO DO WITH SERGéY KUZMíCH—A SMILE OF BASHFULNESS AT THEIR OWN +TO DRESS IN HERE; AND THAT ANDREW HAD QUITE CHANGED, AND THAT KITTY +TO DRIVE STRAIGHT HOME. BUT THE NEARER HE DREW TO THE HOUSE THE MORE HE +TO EACH COUPLE OF ACRES. THE WOUNDED CREPT TOGETHER IN TWOS AND THREES +TO EACH NEW ARRIVAL ANNA PáVLOVNA SAID, “YOU HAVE NOT YET SEEN MY +TO ENTER INTO CONVERSATION WITH THIS OLD MAN, BUT, SUBMITTING TO HIM +TO ENTER THE BROTHERHOOD OF FREEMASONS UNDER MY SPONSORSHIP?” + * TO ERR IS HUMAN. +TOES TOWARD THE GENERAL. THE CAPTAIN’S FACE SHOWED THE UNEASINESS OF +TO EVERYONE. PIERRE WAS SO USED TO THAT SMILE, AND IT HAD SO LITTLE +TO EXECUTE AN ORDER. THE OFFICER ON DUTY, A HANDSOME, ELEGANTLY DRESSED +TO EXPRESS OUR SINCERE VIEWS ON THAT SUBJECT, AND CAN ONLY SAY TO THE +TO FATHOM WHAT HE HAS BEEN PLEASED TO CONCEAL FROM US, THE SOONER WILL + TO FEEL THAT IN THIS WORLD THERE’S ONE +TO FIGHT A BATTLE ‘ON HIS OWN HAND’ AS THE GERMANS SAY. HE DOES SO. +TO FIRE AND SWORD. THE INHABITANTS ARE TOTALLY RUINED, THE HOSPITALS +TO FIRE THE BRIDGE, AND NOW SOMEONE HAS GONE AND BLUNDERED; THEY ARE ALL +TOGETHER.” +TOGETHER, AND MADE SOME STEPS ON THE VERY TIPS OF HER TOES. +TOGETHER? AND THERE! BEZúKHOV GOT OFF SCOTFREE, WHILE FéDYA HAD TO +TOGETHER AS THEY APPROACHED IT AS IF PASSING THROUGH A FUNNEL. AT LAST +TOGETHER. THE GERMAN, PAHLEN, HAS BEEN SENT TO NEW YORK IN AMERICA, TO +TOGETHER, THUNDERED ON THE RIGHT AND IN THE CENTER, WHILE THE CAPOTES +TO GET HIMSELF KILLED. TELL ME WHAT THIS WRETCHED WAR IS FOR?” SHE +TO GET MORE MONEY FROM THE TRAVELER. +TO GIVE HER FRIEND THE PLEASURE OF DANDLING THE LITTLE ANGEL—AS SHE +TO GIVE IN MONEY AND WORK ALL THAT OTHER PEOPLE’S SERFS GAVE—THAT IS +TO GIVE YOU THE LOVE YOU DO NOT FEEL, AND YOUR PRAYER WOULD HAVE BEEN +TO GO BY THE BACK STAIRS, YET JUDGING BY ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S AIR +TO GREET THE YOUNG MAN. +TO GRUNTH TO FIND PRINCE BAGRATIóN. HE HEARD THE CANNONADE BEHIND HIM +TO HAVE ANY CHILDREN BY ME.” +TO HEAR THE DETAILS.” +TO HEAR THE VOICES OF WELL-KNOWN MEN. THE LARGEST CIRCLES FORMED ROUND +TO HELP AT ANY POINT WHERE THE CONVERSATION MIGHT HAPPEN TO FLAG. AS +TO HER. +TO HER.” +TO HER AND KISSED HER WARMLY. ANATOLE WENT UP TO KISS THE LITTLE +TO HER, AND NOW THAT ANATOLE HAD APPEARED IT JUST GROUPED ITSELF AROUND +TO HER BUT TO THE MOVEMENTS OF MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE’S LITTLE +TO HER? I AM SO GRATEFUL TO YOU THAT I WOULD WILLINGLY SACRIFICE +TO HERS. A WOMAN CAME FROM THE BEDROOM WITH A FRIGHTENED FACE AND BECAME +TO HERSELF: “NO, I MUST BE MISTAKEN, HE MUST BE FEELING HAPPY, JUST AS +TO HER SHORTSIGHTED EYES. TURNING FROM PRINCESS MARY HE WENT UP AND +TO HIM ABOUT POLITICS. PRINCE ANDREW AND THE OTHERS GATHERED ROUND THESE +TO HIM AND DISPUTED WITH ONE ANOTHER WHO SHOULD BRING HIM HIS TEA, +TO HIM, AS YOU SO WELL KNOW HOW TO BE.” +TO HIM. AVAILING HIMSELF OF HIS FRIENDLY RELATIONS WITH PIERRE AS A BOON +TO HIM BY THE OFFICERS, AND, LIKE A MAN DESPERATELY INSISTING ON HAVING +TO HIM FELL AGAINST THE RAILS WITH A GROAN. ROSTóV RAN UP TO HIM WITH +TO HIM. HE COULD NOT TELL THEM SIMPLY THAT EVERYONE WENT AT A TROT AND +TO HIM: “I HEAR YOU ARE REFITTING YOUR PETERSBURG HOUSE?” +TO HIMSELF, BUT WHICH FORMED THE WHOLE INTEREST OF HIS LIFE, +TO HIMSELF, FOR IN HIM ALONE IS TRUTH AND PEACE,” SAID SHE IN A VOICE +TO HIM SENSELESS, HE UNDERSTOOD AND WAS NOT SURPRISED AT IT. +TO HIM STRAIGHT OUT. LET PEOPLE THINK WHAT THEY WILL OF ME, IT’S +TO HIM. WE SEARCH, BUT NONE ARE TO BE FOUND. THE FIELD MARSHAL GROWS +TO HIS ADJUTANT HE ORDERED HIM TO BRING DOWN THE TWO BATTALIONS OF THE +TO HIS BEAUTIFUL SISTER, BUT YET MORE BY THE FACT THAT IN SPITE OF +TO HIS ESTATES AND QUITE RECOVERED THE PHILANTHROPIC MOOD IN WHICH +TO HIS HORSE’S MANE AND PULLED UP BESIDE THE HUSSAR. HE WAS SUCCUMBING +TO HIS LEG A NARROW UNSHEATHED SWORD (SMALL, CURVED, AND NOT LIKE A REAL +TO HIS PEOPLE IN GERMANY; AND HE FELT GREATLY OFFENDED WHEN THE BUTLER +TO HIS STUDY WITH THE WET NURSE AND LITTLE PRINCE NICHOLAS (AS HIS +TO HOPE FROM HIM—ESPECIALLY AS HE DID NOT KNOW HOW, AND DID NOT +TO IMBIBE,” HE SAID. “CAN I RECEIVE THAT PURE LIQUID INTO AN IMPURE + * TO INDICATE HE DID NOT WANT MORE TEA. +TO INDICATE THAT HE WAS ABOUT TO SAY SOMETHING WITTY. “BUONAPARTE?” +TO INQUIRIES AS TO WHERE THE PRINCE LIVED, POINTED OUT A SMALL NEWLY +TO IRRESISTIBLE, YOUTHFUL, CHILDISH DROWSINESS. “BUT WHAT WAS I +TO IT WERE HIS INERTIA AND A WRINKLE ON HIS BROW INDICATING PROLONGED +TO JOIN SOME SWEDISH FORCES AT STRALSUND; HOW TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY +TO KNOW AS PLAIN MONSIEUR PIERRE, HAS BECOME COUNT BEZúKHOV AND THE +TO KNOW?” SHE ASKED STERNLY. +TO KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS WRONG. MEN ALWAYS DID AND ALWAYS WILL +TO KUTúZOV’S STAFF DESPITE ALL ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA’S ENDEAVORS AND +TOLD HIM, AND SAID, “VERY GOOD!” IN A TONE THAT SEEMED TO IMPLY THAT +TOLD HIM THAT HE SHOULD TRY TO DO NOTHING TO STAIN THE WHITENESS OF THAT +TOLD HIM THE WHOLE FIELD COULD BE SEEN. HERE HE DISMOUNTED, AND STOPPED +TOLD HIM TO EXPECT. +TOLD HIM WHAT HE HAD SEEN. +TOLD THE COUNT SUCH VILE, DISGRACEFUL THINGS ABOUT US, ESPECIALLY ABOUT +TOLD THEM ALL THAT. +TOLD YOU, BUT YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE IT,” SHE SAID TRIUMPHANTLY. “HE +TOLD YOU IT WOULD NOT BE ENOUGH. HOW MUCH?” +TO LEAVE THAT SECLUSION WHERE THEY THREE WERE SHUT OFF FROM ALL THE +TO LIVE FOR MYSELF AVOIDING THOSE TWO EVILS IS MY WHOLE PHILOSOPHY +TO LOOK UNDER THE UNIFORMS HE WOULD HAVE FOUND ON EVERY MAN A CLEAN +TO MAKE OUT THE PATTERN. +TO MAKE REFLECTIONS OR THINK ALOUD IN HER COMPANY, AND SHE HAD ALWAYS +TO MAKE SCENES. THIS LAST CONSIDERATION MOVED HIM. +TOMB OF THE LITTLE PRINCESS, AND IN THIS CHAPEL WAS A MARBLE MONUMENT +TO ME AFTER THE REVIEW AND WE WILL DO WHAT IS POSSIBLE.” +TO ME ALL ABOUT IT, AND I WILL HELP YOU IN EVERYTHING.” PIERRE HAD +TO MILORáDOVICH WHO WAS NEAR HIM. +TOMORROW.” +TOMORROW... IN THE EVENING. YOU MUST COME.... COME!” +TOMORROW! ONLY LET ME TELL YOU, I WANT TO KNOW MY SON-IN-LAW BETTER. YOU +TOMORROW,” OR, “BE IN TO DINNER OR I SHALL NOT SEE YOU,” OR, “I +“TOMORROW OUR SQUADRON IS TO BE IN RESERVE. MAY I ASK TO BE ATTACHED +“TOMORROW,” REPLIED ROSTóV AND LEFT THE ROOM. +“TOMORROW VERY LIKELY I MAY BE SENT WITH SOME MESSAGE TO THE +TO MOVE FROM RIGHT TO LEFT AS IF DRAWN BY AN INVISIBLE HAND, AND THE +TOMOWWOW,” MUTTERED DENíSOV. +TO MY BIVOUAC; LET MY DOCTOR, LARREY, EXAMINE THEIR WOUNDS. AU REVOIR, + TO MY NATIVE LAND...” +TO MY SISTER TODAY. I WILL INTRODUCE YOU TO HER. BUT OF COURSE YOU KNOW +TONE AND MANNER, HERE IN MOSCOW TO ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA WHOM HE HAD PLACED +TONE OF ENTREATY AND REPROACH THAT A CARPENTER USES TO A GENTLEMAN WHO +TONE OF VOICE. “COME HERE, MY FRIEND...” AND SHE OMINOUSLY TUCKED +TONES. +TONE. “WHAT HAS BEEN DECIDED? THEY HAVE DECIDED THAT BUONAPARTE HAS +“TONIGHT, NOT LATER,” SAID HE IN A LOW VOICE, AND HE MOVED AWAY +TONIGHT TO MY FRIENDS—COME TO THE ENGLISH HOTEL. +TO NOTICE HIM, AND THAT HIS WHOLE AIM NOW WAS TO TEST THE CADET’S +TOO. +TO OFFER THEIR SERVICES. MOST OF THOSE PRESENT WERE ELDERLY, RESPECTED +TOOK A HORSE AND A COSSACK FROM A COSSACK COMMANDER, AND HUNGRY AND +TOOK HER HAND AND BEGGED HER FORGIVENESS, WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT FOR. +TOOK HER SISTER-IN-LAW’S ARM AND DREW HER INTO ANOTHER ROOM. +TOOK HIM BY THE SHOULDER, LED HIM TO THE WINDOW, AND BEGAN TO TALK TO +TOOK IT...” HE WHISPERED JUST ABOVE TELYáNIN’S EAR. +TOOK TO BE THE ENEMY. SHOTS COULD BE HEARD, BUT SOME WAY OFF. +TOOK UP HER WORK. +TO OLMüTZ, DINED THERE, DRANK A BOTTLE OF WINE, AND THEN SET OFF ALONE +TOOLS LAID READY TO HAND AND SHAVINGS SCATTERED AROUND—ALL INDICATED +TOO, MIGHT HAVE THEIR OWN INTERESTS. BUT ALL HE SAID WAS SO PRETTILY +TO ONE ANOTHER, AND THE OLD SERVANT WHO WAS HOLDING THE COUNT’S HAND +TO ONE SIDE HE GRACEFULLY HELD A GOLD LORGNETTE TO HIS EYES AND LOOKED +TOO SEEMED STRANGE; AT ONE MOMENT THEY LOOKED IMPUDENTLY SLY AND AT THE +TO PASS THE TIME.” +TO PETERSBURG, LOOK ROUND, AND CHOOSE YOUR PROFESSION. I WILL AGREE TO +TOPIC—MAKING FUN OF THE MILITARY MEN OF THE DAY, AND MORE PARTICULARLY +TOPIC OF THE DAY: THE ILLNESS OF THE WEALTHY AND CELEBRATED BEAU OF +TO PIERRE HE SAID NOTHING, MERELY GIVING HIS ARM A SYMPATHETIC SQUEEZE +TO PIERRE. HE SPOKE IN FRENCH. “I ONLY KNOW TWO VERY REAL EVILS IN +TO PLEASE YOU...” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. BUT IMMEDIATELY, NOTICING +TO PRESENT THE REGIMENT IN PARADE ORDER, ON THE PRINCIPLE THAT IT IS +TO PRETEND TO THE STEWARD THAT HE WAS ATTENDING TO IT. THE STEWARD +TO PRINCE MURAT, +“TO PRINCE VASíLI. HE WAS SO KIND. HE AT ONCE AGREED TO EVERYTHING, +TO PROVIDE HIMSELF WITH SOME BOOKS FOR THE CAMPAIGN, AND HAD SPENT SOME +TO RAISE... HAPPENS TO EVERYBODY! YES, WHO HAS NOT DONE IT?” +TO READ AND WRITE BY THE DEACON, LIKE YOUR FATHER AND ME. NOW TELL ME, +TO RECOLLECT SOMETHING. PRINCE ANDREW STEPPED FORWARD FROM AMONG THE +TO REMAIN FOR A FEW WEEKS LONGER IN THE HOUSE SHE SO LOVED AND WHERE +TO REMAIN SO FOR A HUNDRED YEARS; BUT THE MOMENT COMES WHEN THE LEVER +TO REST AFTER THEIR HARD MARCHES. +TO RESTRAIN HIS LAUGHTER. +TO RETREAT ALONG THE ROAD FROM KREMS TO OLMüTZ, TO UNITE WITH THE +TO RIGHT AND LEFT OF HIM SOLDIERS CONTINUALLY GROANED AND DROPPED. BUT +TO ROSTóV AND INVOLUNTARILY RIVETED HIS ATTENTION, MADE A GESTURE OF +TO ROSTóV’S FACE, AND HIS SOBS WERE AUDIBLE. +TO ROSTóV WHEN THE ANIMAL WAS HANDED OVER TO THE HUSSAR. +TO RUN OUT TO HER, AND REMAINED IN HER HIDING PLACE, WATCHING—AS +TORZHóK EMBROIDERY CAME INTO THE ROOM OFFERING THEIR SERVICES. +TORZHóK POST STATION, EITHER THERE WERE NO HORSES OR THE POSTMASTER +TO SAY: “AH, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME, AND WHY?” AND AT THE SIGHT +TO SAY, ALL THAT COULD BE GOT OUT OF THEM. +TO SAY AND AS IF SHE WERE SAYING IT TO SOMEONE ELSE, WITH WHOM JOKING +TO SAY MORE IN THE PRESENCE OF A STRANGER. +TO SAY “TOMORROW” AND KEEP UP A DIGNIFIED TONE WAS NOT DIFFICULT, +TO SEIZE HOLD OF DóLOKHOV’S SHIRT. +TO SET THE SERFS TO WORK. SAY THAT EVERYTHING OUT OF THE HOTHOUSES MUST +TO SETTLE HERE ALTOGETHER NEXT YEAR....” +TO SHOUT: “BLACKGUARDS!... THROW THE SNOW BACK ON THE ROAD!” DID NOT +TO SHOW HER FEAR OF ANNA PáVLOVNA. SHE LOOKED AT HER NIECE, AS IF +TO SHOW THAT THEY ARE NOT AT ALL IMPATIENT FOR THEIR FOOD. THE HOST AND +TO SHOW THE AUSTRIAN GENERAL THE WRETCHED STATE IN WHICH THE TROOPS +TO SLIP IN OVER THERE.” +TO SNATCH FROM THE OTHER A BOOT THEY WERE BOTH HOLDING ON TO. +TO SNATCH IT FROM ONE ANOTHER. THE EXPRESSION ON ALL THEIR FACES +TO SOB ALOUD. +TO START HER GAMBOLS AGAIN AND DISPLAY HER KITTENISH NATURE. +TO STATE HIS VIEWS PLAINLY TO THE EMPEROR? IS IT POSSIBLE THAT ON +TO STIMULATE HIS EMOTIONS HE LOOKED AROUND. “GOD, DEATH, LOVE, THE +TO STOP AND FIRE THE BRIDGE.” +TO SUBSCRIBE ALL HE HAD, BUT FEARING THAT IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE PRIDE +TO SYMPATHIZE IN ANY WAY. +TO TAKE THEIR LEAVE. +TOTALLY ALTERED AND UNEXPECTEDLY RAPTUROUS AND TENDER EXPRESSION ON +TOTAL OF HIS LOSSES ON IT, THEN HE LOOKED ROUND FOR AID FROM THE OTHER +TO TEAR OPEN THE VEIL OF CONVENTION THAT SEPARATES A COMMANDER IN CHIEF +TO TELL YOU. THERE IS A WAR NOW AGAINST NAPOLEON. IF IT WERE A WAR FOR +TO THE ACCOUNTANT, “BUT HE FEELS A PAIN IN THE PIT OF HIS STOMACH +“TO THE ARMY.” +TO THE AUSTRIAN EMPEROR AND SMILED. +TO THE BACK OF THE HOUSE, TO THE ROOM OF THE ELDEST PRINCESS. +TO THE DEVIL, I’M BUSY!” HE SHOUTED TO LAVRúSHKA, WHO WENT UP TO +TO THE EFFECT THAT THE DUC D’ENGHIEN HAD GONE SECRETLY TO PARIS TO +TO THE ELDERLY LADY, EVEN BETRAYING SOME IMPATIENCE, SHE GAVE HIM AN +“TO THE EMPEROR.” +TO THE EMPEROR FRANCIS; HE REMEMBERED THE MINISTER OF WAR, THE POLITE +TO THE EMPEROR SHOCKED ROSTóV. ROSTóV SAW HOW THE EMPEROR’S RATHER +TO THE EMPERORS WITH A SALUTE. HIS WHOLE APPEARANCE AND MANNER WERE +TO THE END, WITHOUT RAISING HIS EYES AT THE OPENING OF THE DOOR AND THE +TO THE FARTHER SIDE OF THE BRIDGE AND STOPPED THE INFANTRY. BESIDE THE +TO THE FIRST SQUADRON?” +TO THE FOOTMAN WHO WAS HELPING HIM ON WITH HIS CLOAK, LISTENED +TO THE FRENCH SWORD AND POUCH. “I HAVE TAKEN AN OFFICER PRISONER. I +TO THE FRONTIER. OUR DEAR EMPEROR HAS LEFT PETERSBURG AND IT IS THOUGHT +TO THE FRONT OF THE REGIMENT AND EXAMINED IT FROM A DISTANCE. +TO THE GENERAL COMMANDING THAT LEFT FLANK WITH ORDERS TO RETREAT +TO THE GODMOTHER, PRINCESS MARY. PRINCE ANDREW SAT IN ANOTHER ROOM, +TO THE GUARDS’ CAMP TO FIND HIS OLD PLAYMATE. ROSTóV HAD NOT YET HAD +“TO THE HEAD OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT... AU CHEF DU GOUVERNEMENT +“TO THE HEALTH OF OUR SOVEREIGN, THE EMPEROR!” HE CRIED, AND AT THE +TO THE HUSSAR BESIDE HIM. +TO THE IMPERIAL FAMILY AS WELL AS TO ALL MOSCOW AND PETERSBURG, AND BOTH +TO THEIR CHATTER. ANATOLE KEPT ON REFILLING PIERRE’S GLASS WHILE +TO THEIR COMPANIES, THE SERGEANTS MAJOR BEGAN BUSTLING (THE GREATCOATS +TO THE LAST MEETING BETWEEN FATHER AND SON, IT WAS SO TOUCHING THAT SHE +TO THE LEFT DOWN BELOW IN THE MIST, THE MUSKETRY FIRE OF UNSEEN FORCES +TO THE MAID, “BRING THE PRINCESS HER GRAY DRESS, AND YOU’LL SEE, +TO THEM ARE THE PARTS OF THE MECHANISM WHICH THE IMPULSE HAS NOT YET +TO THEN BEEN IN REGULAR ORDER AND SILENT BEGAN TO SWAY AND STRETCH AND +TO THE OLD CONDITIONS OF LIFE, NICHOLAS FOUND IT VERY PLEASANT TO BE +TO THE PALACE, HOWEVER, AN OFFICIAL CAME RUNNING OUT TO MEET HIM, AND +TO THE PRINCE AND SMILING AMIABLY AT HIM AS IF TO SHOW THAT POLITICAL +TO THE PRINCESS. +TO THE PRINCE THAT IF THESE BATTALIONS WENT AWAY, THE GUNS WOULD REMAIN +TO THE RANKS ALONG WHICH SHOTS CRACKLED NOW HERE AND NOW THERE, DROWNING +TO THE RANKS,” SAID THE CAPTAIN SOFTLY. +TO THE REMOVAL OF THE GUNS. +TO THE REVIEW, REACHING THE FIELD AT OLMüTZ BY TEN O’CLOCK. +“TO THE RIGHT FROM THE CORRIDOR, EUER HOCHGEBOREN! THERE YOU WILL FIND +TO THE RULES OF HIS ART, AS HE COLLECTED THE TICKETS FROM ALL HIS +TO THE TSAR OR TO KUTúZOV, EVEN IF THEY WERE ALIVE AND UNWOUNDED? +TO THE UNKNOWN PLACE WHERE HE WAS GOING, MANY MORE OF OUR MEN WERE GOING +TO THE VIENNA-ZNAIM ROAD. BAGRATIóN WAS TO MAKE THIS MARCH WITHOUT +TO THE VIEWS OF THE OLD GENERALS KUTúZOV AND PRINCE SCHWARTZENBERG, IT +TO THE VISITOR SHE ADDED: “SHE IS MY YOUNGEST GIRL.” +TO THE WINDOW. +TO THINK OF THE IMPRESSION HE MAKES ON OTHERS, BUT IS OCCUPIED WITH +TO THINK OF THE INTERVIEW WITH HIS DYING FATHER WHICH AWAITED HIM. HE +TO THIS CHIT OF A GIRL, NATáSHA, WHO NOT SO LONG AGO WAS PLAYING WITH +TO THIS OCCURRENCE THAN TO THE REST OF WHAT WENT ON, HAVING MADE UP HIS +TO THOSE WHO KNEW THE INDUBITABLE TRUTH.) HE FORGOT WHAT THE SEVENTH +TO TIME SHE SMOOTHED THE FOLDS OF HER DRESS, AND WHENEVER THE STORY +“TO TRY HIS LUCK OR THE CERTAINTY?” ROSTóV ASKED HIMSELF. +TO TURN AWAY WHEN THE OLD MAN, OPENING HIS EYES, FIXED HIS STEADY AND +TO TURN THE COUNT’S HEAVY BODY TOWARD THE WALL. +TO TúSHIN’S BATTERY HAD BEEN MOVED AWAY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ACTION +TO TWITCH. THE TWITCHING INCREASED, THE HANDSOME MOUTH WAS DRAWN TO ONE +TOUCHED HIM WAS SENT FLYING. +TOUCHED PIERRE: HE LOOKED AT HéLèNE AND SHE TOO SEEMED DISCONCERTED, +TOUCHING BONAPARTE’S. +TOUCHING HIS ARM, BUT WHEN HE SAW PIERRE’S BEAMING FACE HE GAVE HIM AN +TOUCHING HIS HORSE AND TURNING PURPLE IN THE FACE. “VILL YOU BE SO +TOUCHING THANKS OF DEPUTATIONS OF SERFS IN THEIR FULL-SKIRTED BLUE +TOUCH WITH IT, AND LOOKED AROUND BEWILDERED AND UNABLE TO GRASP WHAT WAS +TOUCH, “YOU PROMISED ME!” + * TO UNDERSTAND ALL IS TO FORGIVE ALL. +TO UNLOAD THE MUSKETS, EXPLODE THE AMMUNITION, AND ALL RETURN HOME AS +TO US.” +TO WALK UP AND DOWN BEFORE IT. +TOWARD ANNA PáVLOVNA, AND ANNA PáVLOVNA, WITH THE SAME SAD SMILE WITH +TOWARD EVENING DOLGORúKOV CAME BACK, WENT STRAIGHT TO THE TSAR, AND +TOWARD EVENING HE CEASED MOANING AND BECAME QUITE STILL. HE DID NOT KNOW +TOWARD HIM AND SAID SOMETHING. +TOWARD HIM WHOM HE MAY GIVE ME FOR HUSBAND. +TOWARD THE END OF 1806, WHEN ALL THE SAD DETAILS OF NAPOLEON’S +TOWARD THE SOFA SHE HAD INDICATED. AS SOON AS ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA HAD +TOWARD THE VANGUARD. BEFORE HE CAME UP WITH THE HUSSARS, SEVERAL +TOWARD THOSE PRATZEN HEIGHTS WHICH WERE BEING MORE AND MORE DENUDED BY +TO WARN ME OF THE HUMOR MY FATHER IS IN. I DO NOT ALLOW MYSELF TO JUDGE +TO. WEYROTHER HAD BEEN TWICE THAT EVENING TO THE ENEMY’S PICKET +TO WEYROTHER SAT COUNT LANGERON WHO, WITH A SUBTLE SMILE THAT NEVER LEFT +TO WHAT HE DREADED MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THE WORLD—TO RIDICULE; BUT +TO WHAT HE MUST DO AND HOW HE SHOULD ANSWER, WILLARSKI ONLY REPLIED THAT +TO WHICH PIERRE DID NOT AGREE. ON THE OTHER HAND, PIERRE DEMANDED THAT +TOWN KNOWS?” +“TO YOUR BARRIER!” AND PIERRE, GRASPING WHAT WAS MEANT, STOPPED BY +TO YOU SINCE DINNER? HASN’T SHE?” +TO YOU. WHERE ARE YOU TRAVELING FROM?” +TRACES BROKE, AND LUNGS WERE STRAINED WITH SHOUTING. THE OFFICERS +TRADITIONS OF UNLIMITED POWER, IN TIME WHEN THEY GROW MORE IRRITABLE, +TRAMPLED MUD AND GAZED WITH THAT PARTICULAR FEELING OF ILL-WILL, +TRAMPLING THROUGH THE DEEP SNOW, AND MUTTERING INCOHERENT WORDS: +TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI.” +TRANSLATORS: LOUISE AND AYLMER MAUDE +TRANSPARENTLY RADIANT WITH IMPULSIVE JOY. +TRAVELER, ALSO DETAINED FOR LACK OF HORSES. +TRAVELER, HAVING PACKED HIS THINGS WITH HIS PRACTICED HANDS, BEGAN +TRAVELING EFFECTS OF PRINCE ANDREW’S WERE IN VERY GOOD ORDER: NEW, +TREADING HEAVILY HE STEPPED DOWN FROM THE CARRIAGE JUST AS IF THOSE TWO +TREAD OF THE SOLDIERS WHO WERE KEEPING STEP WITH HIM. HE CARRIED CLOSE +TREATED THEM WITH ABSENT-MINDED CONTEMPT. +TREETOPS AND BLUISH GORGES. THE TURRETS OF A CONVENT STOOD OUT BEYOND A +TREMBLED NERVOUSLY; THIS WAS SUFFICIENT TO CAUSE HIS WHOLE BODY TO SLIP +TREMBLING WITH EMOTION, SOLEMNLY HOLDING UP IN BOTH HANDS BEFORE HER +TRIANGLES ARE EQUAL; PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ANGLE ABC...” +TRIED TO CONCEAL THEM. +TRIED TO PRETEND NOT TO KNOW; NO ONE SPOKE OF IT, BUT APART FROM THE +TRIED WITH HIS LIPS WHETHER THE CHILD WAS STILL FEVERISH. THE SOFT +TRIFLE TO LET A WAGON GO PAST. AFTER HE HAD GONE, TWO SOLDIERS RUSHED TO +TRIGGER, AS HE HAD NOT BEFORE HELD A PISTOL IN HIS HAND—A FACT THAT HE +TRIPPING RAPIDLY ACROSS IN HER LITTLE SHOES TRIMMED WITH BOWS, RAN +TRIUMPH. +TRIUMPH. +TRIUMPHANT, CHEERFUL FACE. +TRIUMPHANTLY AND GAILY. +TRIUMPHANTLY SECURED THE MOP AND STILL DID NOT REALIZE WHAT AWAITED HIM, + TRIUMPH, VALIANT RUSSIANS, NOW!... +TROOPS ARRIVING FROM RUSSIA, HE RISKED BEING FORESTALLED ON THAT ROAD +TROOPS BELOW THE HILL AND FELL FAR SHORT OF THE ENEMY, A LITTLE SMOKE +TROOPS HAD ALREADY ENTERED PRUSSIA AND OUR SECOND WAR WITH NAPOLEON +TROOPS, HE SAW, NEAR A KITCHEN GARDEN WITH A DITCH ROUND IT, TWO MEN +TROOPS ON THE HIGH GROUND ABOVE THE BRIDGE INVOLUNTARILY ASKED HIMSELF +TROOPS WERE ILL-CLAD, EXHAUSTED, AND HAD LOST A THIRD OF THEIR NUMBER +TROOPS WERE MOVING IN THE DISTANCE, AND HE LISTENED TO THE SOUNDS OF +TROOPS WERE NO LONGER MOVING, BUT STOOD WITH THE BUTTS OF THEIR MUSKETS +TROOPS WERE RUNNING ONTO THE BRIDGE, WAS ABOUT TO FIRE, BUT LANNES +TROT TO ESCAPE FROM THE POISONED ATMOSPHERE OF THESE LATRINES. +TROUBLE, AND SILENTLY FIXED HIS EYES ON BAGRATIóN AS A SCHOOLBOY WHO +TROUBLE, BUT THE MASON TOLD HIM THAT WAS NOT NECESSARY AND GAVE HIM +TROUVEZ Là LE MOT POUR RIRE,” * HE SAID, AS IF STRENGTHENING HIS +TROWEL, A ROUGH STONE AND A SQUARED STONE, A PILLAR, THREE WINDOWS, AND +TROWEL, HE TOLD HIM TO TOIL WITH IT TO CLEANSE HIS OWN HEART FROM VICE, +TRUCE AND A CAPITULATION, HE DETECTED A RUSE AND WROTE THE FOLLOWING +“TRUE ENOUGH,” ANSWERED NESVíTSKI; “TWO SMART FELLOWS COULD HAVE +TRUE GASCON) AND SAYS: ‘I DON’T RECOGNIZE THE WORLD-FAMOUS AUSTRIAN +TRUE, OR MIGHT AT LEAST SEEM TO BE TRUE HAD IT NOT REFERRED TO HIS WIFE. +TRUMPETS OF THE FIRST CAVALRY REGIMENT PLAYED THE GENERAL MARCH. IT +“TRUST IN HIS MERCY!” AND POINTING OUT A SMALL SOFA FOR HIM TO SIT +TRUSTS TO LUCK, ONE SHOULD MAKE CERTAIN,’ AND I WANT TO TRY.” +TRYING IN VAIN TO FIND THE ANSWER TO SOME QUESTION. +TRYING NOT TO LOSE A WORD OF THE SPEECH WHICH WAS INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO +TRYING ONLY TO BE AHEAD OF THE OTHERS; BUT JUST AT THE BRIDGE, NOT +TRYING” (PIERRE’S MODESTY MADE HIM CORRECT HIMSELF) “TO LIVE FOR +TRYING THROUGH THE DOWAGER EMPRESS MáRYA FëDOROVNA TO SECURE IT FOR +TRYING TO GET SOMETHING OUT OF THE RICH MAN?” +TRYING TO GIVE AN EXPRESSIVE INTONATION TO HIS VOICE. +TRYING TO PROVE THAT THE RUSSIANS HAD SURRENDERED AND HAD FLED ALL +TRY TO DO ALL I CAN FOR YOUR HAPPINESS.” +“TRY TO SERVE WELL AND SHOW YOURSELF WORTHY,” ADDED HE, ADDRESSING +TSAR AND THE COUNTRY? IT IS WARTIME. SUCH A FINE FELLOW MUST SERVE. +TSAR, WHO STILL REMAINED IN THE SAME ATTITUDE OF INDECISION. +TUCKED UP, WITHOUT A COAT, PALE AND WITH A TREMBLING JAW, CAME OUT +TUESDAY. +TUFT OF PLUMES IN HIS COCKED HAT WORN ON ONE SIDE WITH ITS CORNERS FRONT +TUMBLER WITH TEA FOR HIMSELF AND ONE FOR THE BEARDLESS OLD MAN TO WHOM +TURN AWAY FROM THE SIGHT, SHOUTING ANGRILY AT THE MEN WHO, AS IS ALWAYS +TURNED AWAY AND WENT DOWN THE SIDE OF THE CORRIDOR. +TURNED FROM CAPTAIN TIMóKHIN AGAIN FLITTED OVER HIS FACE. HE TURNED +TURNED OUT SPLENDIDLY ALL THE SAME,” HE ADDED, WINKING AT VéRA. +TURNED ROUND. THE OFFICER EVIDENTLY HAD COMPLETE CONTROL OF HIS FACE, +TURNED THEIR HORSES AWAY. THE ACCOUNTANT STOPPED, FACING THE COSSACK, +TURNED TO ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA, ANSWERING HER QUERY BY A MOVEMENT OF THE +TURNED TO HER. +TURNED TO HIS WIFE. +TURNED TO SPEAK TO HIS DAUGHTER, THE BEAUTIFUL HéLèNE. +TURNED TOWARD HER BROTHER, AND THROUGH HER TEARS THE LOVING, WARM, +TURNED TOWARD THE WOMEN, AND WHILE THE VEHICLE WAS PASSING AT FOOT PACE +TURNED TO ZHERKóV. THE NERVOUS IRRITATION AROUSED BY THE APPEARANCE +TURNING AWAY FROM THE GIRLS, WHO AT ONCE ASSUMED AN AIR OF INATTENTION. +TURNING FOR A MOMENT TO THE FRONT LINE, AND SLIGHTLY SWINGING HIS ARMS, +TURNING HIS PARTNER ROUND TO HER SEAT, HE EXECUTED THE FINAL PAS, +TURNING INTO THE VILLAGE ALREADY... THEY WILL HAVE THEIR BUCKWHEAT +TURNING THE HORSE SHARPLY, HE AGAIN JUMPED THE DITCH, AND DEFERENTIALLY +TURNING TO ANATOLE, “COME HERE, LET US TALK AND GET ACQUAINTED.” +TURNING TO PRINCE VASíLI AND ANSWERING HIS IMPLORING LOOK. “YES, OR +TURN INTO VEXATION AND ANGER AT THE STUPID ARRANGEMENTS AND AT THE +TURN NOW, BUT THAT HE WILL DO ALL HE CAN TO LET HIS TURN COME AS LATE AS +TURN SPINDLES AT HOME!’?” SAID SHINSHíN, PUCKERING HIS BROWS AND +“TURN THIS WAY!” HE SHOUTED, JUMPING OVER THE ICE WHICH CREAKED +TúSHIN. +TúSHIN DID NOT SAY THAT THERE WERE NO COVERING TROOPS, THOUGH THAT +TúSHIN ROSE AND, BUTTONING HIS GREATCOAT AND PULLING IT STRAIGHT, +TúSHIN’S BATTERY BUT HAD NEVER REACHED IT. INTERRUPTING ONE +TúSHIN’S BATTERY HAD BEEN FORGOTTEN AND ONLY AT THE VERY END OF THE +TúSHIN’S GUNS HAD BEEN INTENDED TO CANNONADE THE VALLEY, HE WAS +TúSHIN’S LARGE, KIND, INTELLIGENT EYES WERE FIXED WITH SYMPATHY AND +TúSHIN SMILING SHYLY IN HIS UNCOMFORTABLE POSITION, EVIDENTLY WISHING +TúSHIN’S WATTLE SHED WAS LAID, WITH A BULLET IN HIS STOMACH, ON +TúSHIN TOLD THEM TO GIVE THE MAN SOME WATER. THEN A CHEERFUL SOLDIER +TúSHIN TURNED ROUND IN DISMAY. IT WAS THE STAFF OFFICER WHO HAD TURNED +TúSHIN, WHO SILENT AND SMILING, SHIFTING FROM ONE STOCKINGED FOOT TO +TWELVE MEN IN GARMENTS LIKE THOSE HE HAD ALREADY SEEN. SOME OF THEM +TWENTY MEN WERE GATHERED ROUND A TABLE AT WHICH DóLOKHOV SAT BETWEEN +TWINKLED AND LOOKED OUT STRAIGHT. +TWISTED UPWARDS, SAT THE RUDDY MILORáDOVICH IN A MILITARY POSE, HIS +TWITCHED ITS EARS AS THE BAYONETS TOUCHED IT, AND SNORTED, SPURTING +TWO. +TWO.” +TWO ALEXANDERS—BEKLESHëV AND NARýSHKIN—WHICH WAS A SIGNIFICANT +TWO BATTALIONS OF THE SIXTH CHASSEURS IN FINE ORDER. BEFORE THEY HAD +TWO CANDLES. ON THE TABLE WAS A PILE OF GOLD AND PAPER MONEY, AND HE +TWO COSSACKS. +TWO FOOTMEN, THE PRINCESS’ AND HIS OWN, STOOD HOLDING A SHAWL AND +TWO FRIENDS, ONE OF WHOM WAS A DASHING HUSSAR AND THE OTHER A NOTORIOUS +TWO FRONT TEETH WERE MISSING THAT HAD BEEN KNOCKED OUT BY THE BUTT END +TWO HOSTILE ARMIES WAS ALL THE MORE CLEARLY FELT. +TWO HOURS LATER PRINCE ANDREW, STEPPING SOFTLY, WENT INTO HIS FATHER’S +“TWO, I THINK.” +TWO MONTHS HAD ELAPSED SINCE THE NEWS OF THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ AND +TWO OF THE ENEMY’S SHOTS HAD ALREADY FLOWN ACROSS THE BRIDGE, WHERE +TWO SECONDS. WHETHER OR NO THE EMPEROR UNDERSTOOD WHAT WAS GOING ON IN +“TWO SUCH CHARMING CHILDREN. AND REALLY YOU APPRECIATE THEM LESS THAN +TWOT FO’WARD!” +TWO THOUSAND RUBLES, AND THOUGH HE ALWAYS DISLIKED SPEAKING OF MONEY +TWO, THREE... ONE... “OH MIO CRUDELE AFFETTO.”... ONE, TWO, THREE... +TWO YEARS, AND HE DID NOT KNOW HOW THE REST, ABOUT 100,000 RUBLES, WAS +TWO YOUNGER ONES WERE EMBROIDERING: BOTH WERE ROSY AND PRETTY AND THEY +“UGH! I DON’T LIKE THAT FELLOW,” HE SAID, REGARDLESS OF THE +“UGH. THE HUSSARS WILL GET IT HOT!” SAID NESVíTSKI; “THEY ARE +UNABLE TO ASK FOR HIMSELF, HE BECAME CHARY OF USING HIS INFLUENCE. BUT +UNABLE TO OVERCOME OR CONCEAL HIS GROUNDLESS ANTIPATHY TO THE MAN. +UNABLE TO REALIZE WHERE HE WAS. +UNABLE TO WITHSTAND IT NOW, BUT HE ALSO FELT THAT ON WHAT HE SAID NOW +UNACCUSTOMED BRIGHTNESS, BUT HE WAS LOOKING NOT AT HIS SISTER BUT OVER +UNAPPRECIATED BLISS, LONG PAST. HE COULD NOT CONCEIVE THAT A STUPID +UN BâTARD!”* SHE ADDED, AS IF SUPPOSING THAT THIS TRANSLATION OF THE +UNBROKEN AND HAD ALL DAY BEATEN BACK AN ENEMY FORCE TWICE AS NUMEROUS +UNCHANGING SMILE. +UNCHANGING STONILY SEVERE EXPRESSION; AND, SITTING DOWN OPPOSITE THE +UNCONCIOUSNESS AND OBLIVION WHICH IN THE OPINION OF NAPOLEON’S DOCTOR, +UNCONSCIOUS LITTLE PRINCESS, HE SHOOK HIS HEAD REPROVINGLY AND SLAMMED +UNCONSCIOUSLY AND QUITE FORGETTING HER CONDITION, PREPARED FOR THE +“UND DIE GANZE WELT HOCH!” * +UNDER AN INVISIBLE CAP—TO SEE WHAT WENT ON IN THE WORLD. SHE WAS +UNDER AN OBLIGATION, ASSUMING AN AIR OF MUCH GREATER IMPORTANCE THAN HE +UNDER FIRE FOR THE FIRST TIME. +UNDER HIM; “TURN THIS WAY!” HE SHOUTED TO THOSE WITH THE GUN. “IT +UNDER HIS WEIGHT ALONE. THE MEN LOOKED AT HIM AND PRESSED TO THE +UNDER ONE COMMAND, AND IN A LIKE ORDER. +UNDERSTAND?” +UNDERSTAND, AGITATED HER. SHE SAID NOTHING BUT LOOKED ABOUT UNEASILY AS +UNDERSTAND AND STATE THE PATIENT’S CONDITION. +UNDERSTAND, AND THE GREATNESS OF SOMETHING INCOMPREHENSIBLE BUT +UNDERSTAND HIM, BUT HE DID NOT SPEAK IT VERY WELL—“I BET FIFTY +UNDERSTAND HIM IT WAS SO MUCH THE WORSE FOR THEM—DID NOT GO UP TO THE +UNDERSTAND HOW A MAN OF HIS IMMENSE INTELLECT CAN FAIL TO SEE WHAT IS +UNDERSTAND HOW ONE CAN LIVE WITH SUCH IDEAS. I HAD SUCH MOMENTS +UNDERSTANDING BUT NOT WISHING TO APPEAR TO DO SO. THE PRINCESS AS USUAL +UNDERSTANDING HALF OF IT, READ ONLY TO FORGET, IF BUT FOR A MOMENT, WHAT +UNDERSTANDING OF HIS EMPLOYER’S HAPPINESS. +UNDERSTAND IT’!... AND I ASK YOU!” +UNDERSTAND IT; I DON’T IN THE LEAST UNDERSTAND WHY MEN CAN’T LIVE +UNDERSTAND IT SO DIFFERENTLY. HE COLLECTED ALL HIS STRENGTH, TO STIR AND +UNDERSTAND. SHE KISSED HIS ROUGH CURLY BLACK HEAD. AT THIS INSTANT, THEY +UNDERSTAND. THAT’S WHAT I’M UP TO.” +UNDERSTAND THE SELF-ABNEGATION OF OUR EMPEROR WHO WANTS NOTHING FOR +UNDERSTAND... WHAT A SOUL HE HAS!” +UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS BEING READ. HE MANAGED TO FOLLOW ONLY THE LAST WORDS +UNDERSTOOD ALL THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY’S POSITION, AND +UNDERSTOOD HER AND MADE UP MY MIND WHAT SHE REALLY IS. WAS I MISTAKEN +UNDERSTOOD HIM. THE OLD MAN GOT UP AND GAVE THE LETTER TO HIS SON. +UNDERSTOOD, THAT HE COULD NOT ANSWER HIM. +UNDERSTOOD THAT SHE WAS BEING ASKED TO ENTERTAIN THIS YOUNG MAN, AND +UNDERSTOOD THAT THIS WOMAN MIGHT BELONG TO HIM. +UNDERSTOOD THE REVOLUTION AND QUELLED IT, AND SO FOR THE GENERAL GOOD, +UNDERSTOOD WHAT WAS HAPPENING AS LITTLE AS HE DID. +UNDERSTOOD WITHOUT NAMING. +“UNDER THE LOWER PILLOW.” +UNDER THE SHIRT SLEEVES, THOSE HANDS WHICH HE LOVED AND HATED, HELD HIM +UNDER THE TABLE. +UNDER WHICH SHE FELT THAT SHE COULD NOT THINK, BUT WOULD ONLY BE ABLE TO +“UND VIVAT DIE GANZE WELT!” THOUGH NEITHER THE GERMAN CLEANING HIS +UNEASILY AS IF PREPARING TO RESENT ANY SLIGHT THAT MIGHT BE PUT UPON THE +UNEXPECTEDLY KIND AND PLEASANT SMILE. +UNEXPECTEDLY THROUGH HIS MIND. +UNEXPECTEDLY TO GO INTO ACTION. ROSTóV WITHOUT HEARING BORíS TO THE +UNFASTENED CLOAK, WIDE BREECHES HANGING DOWN IN CREASES, AND A CRUMPLED +UNFINISHED BIT OF NIBBLED SUGAR, AND ASKED IF ANYTHING MORE WOULD BE +UNFORTUNATE, A STRANGER, ALONE, HELPLESS! AND, OH GOD, HOW PASSIONATELY +UNFRIENDLY NOW BECAME GENTLE AND AFFECTIONATE. THE ANGRY ELDEST +UNGAINLY RUSSIAN PRINCESSES, WOULD FALL IN LOVE WITH HER AND CARRY HER +UNIFORMED AUSTRIAN OFFICER. +UNIFORM LIVING WAVES OF SOLDIERS, SHOULDER STRAPS, COVERED SHAKOS, +UNIFORMS ADVANCED TOWARD THE BRIDGE AT A RUN. SMOKE APPEARED AGAIN +UNIFORMS AND GROUPS WITH HORSES, EASILY RECOGNIZABLE AS ARTILLERY. +UNIFORMS, MOUNTED ON BLACK HORSES, TROTTING STRAIGHT TOWARD HIM AND +UNIFORMS, WITH SMARTLY DRESSED BANDSMEN IN FRONT MOUNTED ON BLACK, ROAN, +UNINTENTIONALLY, HE POURED TOO MANY DROPS INTO THE GLASS. HE THREW THE +UNIVERSE, AND OF THE COURAGE WITH WHICH HE SHOULD ENDURE TOILS AND +UNLICKED BEAR! A PERFECTLY ABSURD AND STUPID FELLOW, AND A GAMBLER TOO, +UNLIKE THE OLD ONE, HE EXPECTED EVERYTHING TO BE UNUSUAL, EVEN MORE +UNLUCKY AT CARDS.’ YOUR COUSIN IS IN LOVE WITH YOU, I KNOW.” +UNMARRIED, AND EVEN THE HAPPIER FOR IT?” SO THOUGHT PRINCE BOLKóNSKI +UNMASK HIS DECEIVERS!” AND IN ORDER TO REALIZE VIVIDLY HIS LOVE +UNMELTED SNOW, OR SOME WHITE HOUSES? HE EVEN THOUGHT SOMETHING MOVED ON +UNNATURAL SMILE. “I EXPECT YOU HAVE GUESSED THAT PRINCE VASíLI HAS +UNNATURAL WAY, HE STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND FOR ALPáTYCH TO KISS, AND THEN +UNPLEASANT. +UNPLEASANTLY EXCITED EXPRESSION. +UNPLEASANT THINGS TO EVERYONE AND UPSET THEM. LET’S GO TO THE +UNPLEASANT THING TO A MAN’S FACE, TO SAY WHAT THE OTHER, WHOEVER +UNUSUAL THAN WHAT HE WAS SEEING. A SKULL, A COFFIN, THE GOSPEL—IT +UNWELL, SAT DOWN UNDER AN APPLE TREE AND VON TOLL REMAINED BESIDE HIM. +UNWELL TODAY? EH? AFRAID OF THE ‘MINISTER’ AS THAT IDIOT ALPáTYCH +UNWOUNDED—IT WAS THEY WHO WERE CRUSHING, WEIGHING DOWN, AND TWISTING +UNWOUNDED. THE SOLDIERS WERE ASCENDING THE HILL BREATHING HEAVILY, AND +UP AGAINST HIM. HE WROTE “800 RUBLES” ON A CARD, BUT WHILE THE +UP A GLASS AND A PIPE THAT WERE HANDED HIM. +UP AND BEGAN WATCHING THE MOVEMENTS OF OUR TROOPS BELOW, AS PLAINLY +UP AND TURNING AWAY AS IF FROM A SHAMEFUL ASPERSION. “IT IS NOT FROM +UP AT ALL!” +UP!” CAME THE COMPANY COMMANDER’S VOICE IN JAUNTY TONES. THE +UP FOR LOST TIME. +UP FROM BOTH SIDES. EVERYONE CROWDED TO THE WINDOW, THE ENGLISHMAN IN +UP FROM THE SOFA, SEIZED BORíS UNDER THE ELBOW IN HIS QUICK, CLUMSY +UP HER DOWNY LITTLE LIP. “ALL THE PRETTY WOMEN IN SOCIETY WILL BE +UP HER SLEEVES STILL HIGHER. PIERRE APPROACHED, LOOKING AT HER IN A +UP, INVITED HIM TO HIS HOUSE IN PETERSBURG, AND NOW... SHE HAS COME HERE +UP LIKE A FOOL!” HE THOUGHT, LOOKING IRRITABLY AT HER. “SHE IS +UPON AND COULD NOT NOW BE ALTERED. “WE START TOMORROW AND I’M GIVING +UPON ANYONE, AND IT WAS CLEAR THAT THE KITTEN HAD SETTLED DOWN ONLY TO +UPON HIM, PASSED SPLENDIDLY, LIFTING HIS FEET WITH A HIGH AND GRACEFUL +UPON PRINCE ANDREW, WHO WAS BESIDE HIM. SEEING HIM, KUTúZOV’S +UP ON THE VAST FIELD. THE WHOLE ARMY WAS EXTENDED IN THREE LINES: THE +UP OUT OF THE MIST. +UPPER LIP AND HER HALF-OPEN MOUTH—SEEMED TO BE HER OWN SPECIAL AND +UP THEIR KNAPSACKS WITH A JERK OF THEIR SHOULDERS AND PULLING THE STRAPS +UP THE STEPS TO WHERE THE COFFIN STOOD, TO GIVE HER THE FAREWELL KISS. +UP THE WHOLE OF HER THIN, SICKLY FACE AND MADE IT BEAUTIFUL. HER BROTHER +UP TO DENíSOV’S SQUADRON AND RODE AT A FOOTPACE NOT FAR FROM ROSTóV, +UP TO HER. +UP TOMORROW. BUT YOU WILL SEE EVERYTHING FOR YOURSELF WHEN YOU GET TO +UP TO THE ALTAR, PLACED HIS FEET AT RIGHT ANGLES, AND BADE HIM LIE DOWN, +UP TO THE APPEARANCE OF THE PAUVRE MèRE; THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT THEY HAD +UP TO THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, AND PRESENTED ARMS. +UP TO THEIR GALLERY, ADDRESSING THE FIRST VIOLIN: +UP TO THE WINDOW OF THE FIRST HOUSE, WHEN A FAMILIAR VOICE CALLED HIM BY +UP TO TúSHIN. +UPWARDS, IN THE WAY AFFECTED BY THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER, AND, HAVING +UP, WAS HASTILY WRITING AT A TUB TURNED BOTTOM UPWARDS. KOZLóVSKI’S +URGED ON HIS ALREADY WEARY HORSE TO GET QUICKLY PAST THESE CROWDS, BUT +URGING OF HORSES, AND THE SWEARING OF SOLDIERS, ORDERLIES, AND OFFICERS. +US?...” “AH! MARY, YOU HAVE GOT THINNER?...” “AND YOU HAVE GROWN +US AIDES-DE-CAMP AND ADJUTANTS! BUT THIS IS WHAT WE’LL DO: I HAVE +US. BUT VIENNA IS ON THE OTHER SIDE. NO, THE BRIDGE HAS NOT YET BEEN +US BUT WITHIN....” +USED FOR DANCING, BUT IN WHICH FIVE BEDS NOW STOOD, AND FURNITURE OF +USED TO BE. DON’T JUDGE LISE HARSHLY,” SHE BEGAN. “SHE IS SO +USED TO LIKE TO SPEND THEM, OR TO OPEN HIS MIND BY INTIMATE TALKS WITH +USED TO SAY THAT A NAP “AFTER DINNER WAS SILVER—BEFORE DINNER, +USED TO SHOW AT CATCHPLAY, NOW AND THEN TURNING HIS GOOD-NATURED, PALE, +USE OF WHATEVER INTEREST HE HAD TO OFFER. HE HIMSELF CAREFULLY SCANNED +USHERING BOLKóNSKI IN. “SO YOU’RE A MESSENGER OF VICTORY, EH? +US NICE NEWS OF A VICTORY BY THE ARCHDUKE KARL OR FERDINAND (ONE +US TALK BUSINESS. HAVE YOU BEEN TO THE HORSE GUARDS?” +US. TO THE LEFT THE HORIZON BOUNDED BY THE ADJACENT WOOD. PRINCE +USUAL. +USUAL IN FRENCH, AND AS IF AFTER LONG SELF-RESTRAINT SHE WISHED TO MAKE +USUALLY SO DESCRIBED. +USURPER, THE WHOLE NATION WILL CERTAINLY THROW ITSELF INTO THE ARMS +US. WELL, YOU WANT AN ARGUMENT,” HE ADDED, “COME ON THEN.” +US—WE SCUTTLE. HE HARDLY CROSSES THE RIVER TO OUR SIDE BEFORE WE +UTTER A SOUND. HE FEEBLY MOVED HIS LEG AND UTTERED A WEAK, SICKLY GROAN +UTTERING A GENTLE, PITEOUS, AND CHILDLIKE MOAN. +UVáROV, WHO HAD ARRIVED WITH HIM, PAUSED AT THE DOORWAY TO ALLOW HIM, +VACANCIES OCCUR MUCH MORE FREQUENTLY IN THE FOOT GUARDS. THEN JUST THINK +VAINLY TRYING TO MASTER HER AGITATION. +VALET CAN GO IN YOUR CARRIAGE. AH! I WAS NEARLY FORGETTING,” HE ADDED. +VALET HAD SET DOWN THE COFFEE THINGS AND LEFT THE ROOM. PIERRE LOOKED +VALOR CARRY DISORDER AND CONFUSION INTO THE ENEMY’S RANKS, BUT SHOULD +VALUE THIS MYSTIC POWER AND GLORY THAT IS FLOATING HERE ABOVE ME IN THIS +VALúEV WAS CONFIDENTIALLY TELLING THAT UVáROV HAD BEEN SENT FROM +VANGUARD, REWARDS WERE PROMISED, AND THE MEN RECEIVED A DOUBLE RATION OF +VANISHED FROM HIS FACE. +VANISHED. HE WAITED FOR THE FIRST PAUSE IN THE CONVERSATION, AND THEN +VARIOUS FIGURES WORKED UPON IT, AT THE OTHER WAS SOMETHING RESEMBLING AN +VARIOUS KINDS: A TABLE, CHAIRS, AND A CLAVICHORD. ONE ADJUTANT, NEAREST +VARNISH. +VARYING EXPRESSION AND THE SAME PREVALENT APPEARANCE OF GOODHEARTED +VASíLI. +VASíLI AND HIS SON. +VASíLI AND THE ELDEST PRINCESS. PIERRE CONCLUDED THAT THIS ALSO WAS +VASíLI, “BUT IT IS DIFFICULT FOR ME TO ASK THE EMPEROR. I SHOULD +“VASíLI DENíSOV, YOUR SON’S FRIEND,” HE SAID, INTRODUCING +“VASíLI DMíTRICH, I’M SO SORRY FOR YOU!... NO, BUT YOU ARE SO +“VASíLI DMíTRICH, I THANK YOU FOR THE HONOR,” SHE SAID, WITH AN +VASíLI HAD ONLY ACQUIRED BY IMITATING OTHER PARENTS. +VASíLI, HIS CHEEKS TWITCHING MORE THAN EVER. +VASíLI. “I KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THAT. DON’T I? AND YOU ARE STILL SO +VASíLI IN THE ANTEROOM. ALL THE AFFECTATION OF INTEREST SHE HAD ASSUMED +VASíLI, IN THE RARE MOMENTS WHEN HE WAS AT HOME, WOULD TAKE PIERRE’S +VASíLI, IT IS VERY SAD FOR BOTH. AH, MY DEAR FRIEND, OUR DIVINE +VASíLI ONE DAY, CLOSING HIS EYES AND FINGERING PIERRE’S ELBOW, +VASíLI PLAYED A VERY DESPICABLE PART IN THIS AFFAIR AND THAT HE +VASíLI SEVERELY. “YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.” +VASíLI’S HOUSE IN THE COMPANY OF THE STOUT PRINCESS, HIS WIFE, AND +VASíLI’S SON ANATOLE, WHOM THEY WISH TO REFORM BY MARRYING HIM TO +VASíLI’S SON, HIPPOLYTE, HAD COME WITH MORTEMART, WHOM HE INTRODUCED. +VASíLI’S TONE OF CARELESS SELF-ASSURANCE THAT HE FELT HE WOULD BE +VASíLI TO ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. “GO AND TAKE SOMETHING, MY POOR ANNA +VASíLI TO ANNA PáVLOVNA. +VASíLI TO HIMSELF, WITH A SORROWFUL SIGH, ONE MORNING, FEELING THAT +VASíLI UNDERSTOOD IT AS AN EXPRESSION OF WEARINESS. +VASíLI WENT ON, TESTILY PUSHING AWAY A LITTLE TABLE WITHOUT LOOKING AT +VASíLI, WHO HAD GROWN THINNER AND PALER DURING THE LAST FEW DAYS, +VELVETY SOFTNESS, WHICH SO MINGLED WITH HER LACK OF ART IN SINGING THAT +“VE MUST VIGHT TO THE LAST TR-R-OP OF OUR PLOOD!” SAID THE COLONEL, +VENETIAN MIRROR IN THE WALL, AND IN HER TRODDEN-DOWN SHOES BRISKLY +“VéRA,” SHE SAID TO HER ELDEST DAUGHTER WHO WAS EVIDENTLY NOT A +VéRA’S REMARK WAS CORRECT, AS HER REMARKS ALWAYS WERE, BUT, LIKE +VéRA WITH GUILTY, HAPPY FACES. +VERSES CALLED “ENCHANTRESS,” WHICH HE HAD COMPOSED, AND TO WHICH HE +VERSES IN THE BOSOM OF HER DRESS CLOSE TO HER BONY LITTLE CHEST, RAN +“VERY.” +VERY BRIEFLY AND VAGUELY, THAT AFTER BRILLIANT ENGAGEMENTS THE RUSSIANS +VERY CLEVER BUT ECCENTRIC, AND A BORE. THE POOR GIRL IS VERY UNHAPPY. +VERY DECENT TOWN. YOU AND I WILL TRAVEL COMFORTABLY IN MY CALèCHE.” +VERY FIELDS WHERE THE FRENCH HAD NOW TO BE FOUGHT; THE ADJACENT +VERY FINE!” +VERY FINE WHEN HE SAID THAT,” HE REMARKED, REPEATING THE WORDS IN +VERY GLAD TO SEE HIM HANGED, BUT I WAS SORRY FOR MY FATHER—THAT AGAIN +“VERY GOOD,” ANSWERED NESVíTSKI. +“VERY GOOD!” SAID BAGRATIóN. +“VERY GOOD!” SAID THE PRINCE CLOSING THE DOOR BEHIND HIM, AND +“VERY GOOD, VERY GOOD,” SAID BAGRATIóN. “THANK YOU, OFFICER.” +VERY IMPORTANT.” +VERY IMPORTANT PERSONAGE, HAD BEEN SENT ON A VERY IMPORTANT MISSION TO +“VERY INTERESTING.” +VERY LIKELY BE GETTING A LETTER FROM HIM THAT DAY. EACH TIME THAT THESE +“VERY LIKELY IT WOULD BE SPLENDID, BUT IT WILL NEVER COME ABOUT....” +“VERY LOVELY,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. +VERY MUCH! I HAVE PROMISED MYSELF NOT TO SERVE AGAIN IN THE ACTIVE +“VERY MUCH,” SAID NICHOLAS FLUSHING, AND WITH A STUPID CARELESS +VERY MUSCULAR MEN, AND ON THE NIGHT OF THE BATTLE, HAVING ARRIVED +VERY POOR, BUT FOR MY OWN PART AT ANY RATE, FOR THE VERY REASON THAT +VERY PRETTY AND SWEET, AND EVIDENTLY DEEPLY IN LOVE WITH HIM, BUT HE WAS +“VERY,” SAID PIERRE. +VERY SERIOUS TALK.” +“VERY SILLY,” SAID VéRA. “I AM ASHAMED OF YOU. SECRETS INDEED!” +VERY STRICTLY TO SOCIAL DISTINCTIONS AND RARELY ADMITTED EVEN IMPORTANT +VERY TRYING,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW, APPARENTLY SPEAKING LIGHTLY OF THEIR +VERY WELL...” +“VERY WELL,” SAID SMOLYANíNOV, AND WENT ON AT ONCE: “HAVE YOU ANY +“VERY WELL, THEN, BE SO GOOD AS TO WAIT,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW TO THE +“VERY WELL, VERY WELL...” +VERY WISE, BECAUSE YOU CAN TAKE EVERYTHING ALONG WITH YOU—VODKA AND +VESSEL AND JUDGE OF ITS PURITY? ONLY BY THE INNER PURIFICATION OF MYSELF +VICIOUS AND UNFORTUNATE PEOPLE WHOM HE WOULD ASSIST BY WORD AND DEED, +VICOMTE AND FROM THE VICOMTE TO THEIR HOSTESS. IN THE FIRST MOMENT OF +VICOMTE CONTINUED, WITH THE AIR OF A MAN WHO, IN A MATTER WITH WHICH +VICOMTE WHO WAS CONTINUING HIS STORY. +VICTORY, AND GENERAL BENNIGSEN, HOPING TO RECEIVE FROM PETERSBURG THE +VICTORY BE IN DOUBT, EVEN FOR A MOMENT, YOU WILL SEE YOUR EMPEROR +VICTORY. HIS MAJESTY WILL NO DOUBT WISH TO SEE YOU, BUT NOT TODAY. I +VICTORY OR DEFEAT, THE GLORY OF OUR RUSSIAN ARMS IS SECURE. EXCEPT YOUR +VICTORY OVER BUONAPARTE AT EYLAU. IN PETERSBURG EVERYONE IS REJOICING, +VICTORY, WHAT EFFECT WOULD THAT HAVE ON THE GENERAL COURSE OF EVENTS? +VICTORY WHICH WAS CONVEYED, NOT ONLY BY THE TALES OF THOSE WHO HAD TAKEN +VIENNA AS I TOLD YOU. VERY WELL. NEXT DAY, WHICH WAS YESTERDAY, THOSE +VIENNA BY THE AUSTRIAN HOFKRIEGSRATH, THE SOLE AND ALMOST UNATTAINABLE +“VIENNA CONSIDERS THE BASES OF THE PROPOSED TREATY SO UNATTAINABLE +VIENNA. KUTúZOV WITH HIS TRANSPORT HAD STILL TO MARCH FOR SOME DAYS +VIEWS BY THIS FRENCH SENTENCE. “C’EST BIEN POUR UN GARçON DE RIEN +VIEW THEY WERE RIGHT, AS WERE THOSE TOO WHO CANONIZED HIM AND DIED A +VILE, INFAMOUS PAPER, BUT I THOUGHT THE THING WAS INVALID.” +“VILE WOMAN!” SHOUTED THE PRINCESS, DARTING UNEXPECTEDLY AT ANNA +VILLAGE AND HAD ALREADY BEEN SENT FOR. +VILLAGE!” HE SAID ANGRILY TO A GENERAL WHO HAD RIDDEN UP. “DON’T +VILLAGE OF PRATZEN. BUT NEITHER THEY NOR A SINGLE COMMANDING OFFICER +VILLAGES WERE IN A STATE OF THE GREATEST POVERTY. HE DID NOT KNOW THAT +VILLAGE. TELL IT TO STOP AND AWAIT MY ORDERS.” +VILLAGE. “VERY GOOD!” SAID BAGRATIóN IN REPLY TO THE OFFICER’S +VIRTUE WAS AND COULD NOT RECALL IT. +VIRTUOUS FUTURE THAT SEEMED TO HIM SO EASY. IT SEEMED TO HIM THAT HE HAD +VIRTUOUS LIFE OF WHICH HE HAD BEEN DREAMING SINCE HE MET JOSEPH +VISH TO DESTROY MY MEN FOR YOUR PLEASURE!” +VISIBLE AS IF BUT A STONE’S THROW AWAY, AND THE MOVEMENTS OF THE +VISIBLE IN THE SNOW AND A SHOVEL HAD BEEN LEFT STICKING IN ONE OF THE +VISIBLE THROUGH THE SMOKE, MAKE OUT MOVING MASSES OF INFANTRY AND NARROW +VISIT HIS NEGLECTED ESTATES AT THE SAME TIME AND PICK UP HIS SON ANATOLE +VISITING ALL THE PLACES HE MEANT TO GO TO AND WHERE HE HAD BEEN INVITED, +VISIT MADEMOISELLE GEORGE; THAT AT HER HOUSE HE CAME UPON BONAPARTE, +VISITOR ALLUDED TO, THOUGH SHE HAD ALREADY HEARD ABOUT THE CAUSE OF +VISITOR. “AND TO THINK IT IS CYRIL VLADíMIROVICH BEZúKHOV’S SON +VISITOR. “HE IS A SON OF MáRYA IVáNOVNA DóLOKHOVA, SUCH A WORTHY +VISITORS ON HIS RIGHT. MIDWAY DOWN THE LONG TABLE ON ONE SIDE SAT THE +VISITORS. THERE WAS THE FACT THAT ONLY THOSE CAME WHO WISHED TO DANCE +VIVIDLY IMAGINED WHAT AWAITED IT AND THE PART HE WOULD HAVE TO +VLADíMIR MEDAL AND RIBBON? BUT NOW, EVEN IF THEY DO GET PEPPERED, THE +VLADíMIROVICH BEZúKHOV, COUNTESS ROSTóVA SAT FOR A LONG TIME ALL +VLADíMIROVICH BEZúKHOV. IF HE WILL NOT ASSIST HIS GODSON—YOU KNOW +VLADíMIROVICH BEZúKHOV’S HOUSE. “MY DEAR BORíS,” SAID THE +VLADíMIROVICH IS MY MOTHER’S SECOND COUSIN. HE’S ALSO MY BóRY’S +VOCATION IS TO BE HAPPY WITH ANOTHER KIND OF HAPPINESS, THE HAPPINESS +VODKA A QUARTER OF AN HOUR BEFORE, HE SAW EVERYWHERE THE SAME RAPID +VODKA—GET ON!” ROSTóV SHOUTED, WHEN THE SLEIGH WAS ONLY THREE +VODKA. THE CAMPFIRES CRACKLED AND THE SOLDIERS’ SONGS RESOUNDED +VOICE. +VOICE. +VOICE, AND LIEUTENANT TELYáNIN, A SMALL OFFICER OF THE SAME SQUADRON, +VOICE, “BUT BELIEVE ME, I SO ADORE YOUR DAUGHTER AND ALL YOUR FAMILY +VOICE CALLING HIM BY NAME. +VOICE FROM HEAVEN. HOW GLADLY WOULD HE HAVE DIED AT ONCE FOR HIS TSAR! +VOICE, OBVIOUSLY SO ELATED BY THE SOUND OF FIRING, BY THE PROSPECT OF +VOICE, OPENING HIS DOOR. +VOICE, POPPED HER HEAD IN AT THE DOOR. +VOICES. +VOICES, AND THE ARMY SWAYED AND STARTED IN ONE ENORMOUS MASS SIX MILES +VOICES SUBSIDED, THE FOOTMEN CLEARED AWAY THE BROKEN GLASS AND EVERYBODY +VOICE SUDDENLY SHRIEKED: “BUT IF I HEAR THAT YOU HAVE NOT BEHAVED LIKE +VOICES WERE BUT FEEBLY HEARD AMID THE UPROAR AND ONE SAW BY THEIR FACES +VOICE. “THERE WAS NO ONE ELSE IN THE ROOM EXCEPT MYSELF. SO THAT IF IT +VOICE. TO FRESH QUESTIONS AS TO THE FIRMNESS OF HIS RESOLUTION PIERRE +VOICE TREMBLED.) “I LOVED YOUR FATHER... AND SHE WILL MAKE YOU A GOOD +VOICE WHICH EXPRESSED JOY FOR HIMSELF, SEVERITY FOR THE REGIMENT, AND +VOICE, WITH ITS INCORRECT BREATHING AND LABORED TRANSITIONS, WAS +VOICE, “YOU WERE PLEASED TO SEND ME TO CAPTAIN TúSHIN’S BATTERY. I +“VOILà L’AGRéMENT DES CAMPS, MONSIEUR LE PRINCE,” * SAID THE +VOLUME YOU HAVE SENT ME AND WHICH HAS SUCH SUCCESS IN MOSCOW. YET SINCE +VON BERGS—HAVE BEEN KNIGHTS!” +VOTRE VICTOIRE N’EST PAS DES PLUS VICTORIEUSES.” * +VOULU, GEORGE DANDIN,’ THAT’S ALL WE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT IT!” +VOUS AIME’?” HE KEPT REPEATING TO HIMSELF. AND WHEN HE HAD SAID IT +“VOUS VOYEZ LE MALHEUREUX MACK,” HE UTTERED IN A BROKEN VOICE. +VREATENING RUSSIA AND ZAT ZE SAFETY AND DIGNITY OF ZE EMPIRE AS VELL +VULGARITY OF THE EXPRESSIONS THAT WERE NATURAL TO HER, THOUGH SHE HAD +VYAZMíTINOV, THE NEW MILITARY GOVERNOR GENERAL OF PETERSBURG, HAD + WAFTING SWEET MUSIC O’ER THE LEA, +WAISTCOAT. “IT’S THE SAUTé, MOST LIKELY,” SHE ADDED WITH A SMILE. +“WAIT A BIT AND LISTEN. IT’S FINE!” ANSWERED SíDOROV, WHO WAS +“WAIT A BIT, HE IS NOT DRUNK YET! A BOTTLE HERE,” SAID ANATOLE, AND +“WAIT A BIT, HERE’S A LETTER FOR YOU,” SAID THE OLD MAN SUDDENLY, +“WAIT A BIT, I HAVE SOMETHING IN VIEW FOR YOU THIS EVENING.” +“WAIT A MOMENT, I’LL GET MY WORK.... NOW THEN, WHAT ARE YOU +“WAIT!” CRIED DóLOKHOV, HAMMERING WITH THE BOTTLE ON THE WINDOW +WAITED FOR HIM TO GO ON, BUT AS HE SEEMED QUITE DECIDED TO SAY NO MORE +WAITED IMPATIENTLY FOR PRINCE ANDREW’S RETURN FROM THE COMMANDER IN +WAITED IN EXPECTATION OF AN IMPORTANT ORDER FOR AN EXPENSIVE FUNERAL. +WAITER FILLED HIS GLASS HE CHANGED HIS MIND AND ALTERED IT TO HIS USUAL +“WAIT, HAVEN’T YOU DROPPED IT?” SAID ROSTóV, PICKING UP THE +“WAIT, I HAVE NOT FINISHED...” HE SAID TO PRINCE ANDREW, SEIZING +WAITING FOR A SEVEN TO TURN UP, GAZED AT DóLOKHOV’S HANDS WHICH HELD +WAITING FOR HIM TO SAY A WORD AND CROSS A CERTAIN LINE, AND HE KNEW THAT +WAITING FOR—SOME IMPORTANT RELATION WHO HAS NOT YET ARRIVED, OR A DISH +WAITING FOR THE BEAT. ONLY ON HORSE BACK AND IN THE MAZURKA WAS +WAITING TO HEAR WHETHER HE WOULD SAY ANYTHING MORE. BUT KUTúZOV, WITH +WAITING TO SEE WHAT HE WOULD DO. HE STOOD A LITTLE WHILE BEFORE THE +“WAITING, YOUR MAJESTY,” REPEATED KUTúZOV. (PRINCE ANDREW NOTED +“WAIT—JUST A WORD! WHEN HE HAS BEEN TRANSFERRED TO THE GUARDS...” +WAIT ONLY TWO HOURS, WHEN, COME WHAT MIGHT, HE WOULD LET HIS EXCELLENCY +WAKEN...” ALL ROSE AND CRIED “HURRAH!” BAGRATIóN ALSO ROSE AND +WAKE UP, VáSKA!” HE WENT ON, TURNING TO DENíSOV, WHOSE HEAD +WALKED AWAY FROM THE FIRE. +WALKED SLOWLY WITHOUT RAISING HIS PISTOL, LOOKING INTENTLY WITH HIS +WALK TO MEET HIM. HIS FACE WITH ITS LONG MUSTACHE WAS SERIOUS AS ALWAYS, +WALL. ON THIS KNOLL THERE WAS A WHITE PATCH THAT ROSTóV COULD NOT AT +WALLS HUNG ROUND WITH PERSIAN CARPETS. THE PART OF THE ROOM BEHIND THE +WANTED. +WANTED TO SHOW HIM THAT HIS LOSSES WERE AN ACHIEVEMENT THAT MADE HER +WANTED TO SLEEP. THE GAY TRIUMPHANT SHOUTING OF THE ENEMY ARMY HAD A +WANTS TO GO TO THE WAR,” REPLIED PIERRE, ADDRESSING THE PRINCESS +“WANTS TO TURN ON THE OTHER SIDE,” WHISPERED THE SERVANT, AND GOT UP +WANT THAT. AND BESIDES, WHAT A NOTION THAT MEDICINE EVER CURED ANYONE! +WANT THE MONEY FOR? AS IF THAT MONEY COULD ADD A HAIR’S BREADTH TO +WANT TO, BUT NOW I HAVE NO TIME.” BESIDES, IT SEEMED TO HIM THAT THE +WANT TO DANCE WELL. HER ENORMOUS FIGURE STOOD ERECT, HER POWERFUL ARMS +WAR AND PEACE +WAR CAME CONTRADICTORY NEWS, FALSE AS USUAL AND THEREFORE VARIOUSLY +WARDROBE IN WHICH PIERRE NOTICED GARMENTS SUCH AS HE HAD NEVER SEEN +WARES, ESPECIALLY A PAIR OF GOATSKIN SLIPPERS. “I HAVE HUNDREDS OF +WAR, EVEN HERE AMID FIELDWORK AND THE CALM OF NATURE—WHICH TOWNSFOLK +WAR HAS DEPRIVED ME OF ONE OF THE ASSOCIATIONS NEAREST MY HEART. I MEAN +WARM THEMSELVES, GATHERING ROUND THE FIRES THROWING INTO THE FLAMES THE +WAR OR POLITICS BUT RELATED TO HIGH SOCIETY, TO CERTAIN WOMEN, AND TO +WARRIOR DOING SOME KIND OF MAN’S WORK OF HIS OWN, WITHOUT HELP OR +WARS,” HE SAID. +WAS. +WAS ABOUT TO BE DECIDED. BUT PRINCE ANDREW DID NOT SEE HOW IT ENDED. IT +WAS ABOUT TO CROSS THE SPACE BETWEEN THE BARRIERS, WHEN DóLOKHOV CRIED: +WAS ABOUT TO EXPAND HER DRESSES INTO A BALLOON AND SIT DOWN. THEY WERE +WAS ABOUT TO RUN ON, THINKING THAT THE FARTHER HE WENT TO THE FRONT +WAS ABOUT TWENTY-FIVE. LIKE ALL INFANTRY OFFICERS HE WORE NO MUSTACHE, +WAS ABOUT, WENT ACROSS THE ROOM TO WHERE PIERRE WAS STANDING AND GAVE +WAS ABROAD; SO PIERRE HAD NOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEND HIS NIGHTS AS HE +WAS ACCUSTOMED TO UNDERSTAND HIM. HE LED HIM TO THE DESK, RAISED THE +WAS AGAIN NODDING. “COME, GET ON! YOU SHALL HAVE THREE RUBLES FOR +WAS A GREAT SUCCESS. THERE WERE MANY PRETTY GIRLS AND THE ROSTóV GIRLS +WAS ALL OVER; BUT HE SAID IN AN INDIFFERENT TONE: +WAS ALREADY PERFECTLY CURED OF HIS FORMER FAULTS AND WAS READY FOR ALL +WAS ALSO A YELLOW, WRINKLED OLD MAN, WITHOUT BEARD OR MUSTACHE, +WAS ALWAYS BUSY AND ALWAYS FELT IN A STATE OF MILD AND CHEERFUL +“WAS A POLITICAL NECESSITY, AND IT SEEMS TO ME THAT NAPOLEON +WAS A STROKE OF GENIUS. PRINCE AUERSPERG FEELS HIS DIGNITY AT STAKE AND +WAS AT HOME LAST, AND, HAVING ASSURED HIMSELF THAT THEY HAD NOT, HE +WAS A UNIQUE CHANCE TO SHOW HIS DEVOTION TO THE EMPEROR AND HE HAD NOT +WAS A YOUNG HORSE TELYáNIN HAD SOLD TO ROSTóV.) +WAS BAPTIZED. THE WET NURSE SUPPORTED THE COVERLET WITH HER CHIN, WHILE +WAS BEGINNING, ANNA PáVLOVNA GAVE ONE OF HER SOIREES. THE “CREAM OF +WAS BEING DONE WAS NOT HIS ADJUTANT’S FAULT, AND STILL NOT ANSWERING +WAS BEING HELD BY THE ARMS AND HIS HORSE WAS BEING LED BEHIND HIM. +WAS BORíS DRUBETSKóY, WHO HAD JUST ARRIVED AS A SPECIAL MESSENGER FROM +WAS BRIGHT, HE HAD A GOOD HORSE UNDER HIM, AND HIS HEART WAS FULL OF +WAS CHARMANT. EVEN IF ANNA PáVLOVNA DID NOT SAY SO, HE COULD SEE THAT +WAS CHARMING... YOU ARE VERY KIND... COUNTESS APRáKSINA...” WAS HEARD +WAS COMING, AND TURNING TO HER MOTHER: +WAS DELIGHTED WITH DENíSOV’S SKILL, HE WAS ASKED AGAIN AND AGAIN AS +WAS DIVERTED BY THE DESPERATE SHRIEKS OF THE WOMAN IN THE VEHICLE. AN +WAS DOWNSTAIRS. +WAS DULLED BY IMBECILITY AND A CONSTANT EXPRESSION OF SULLEN +WAS ECSTATICALLY CONSCIOUS OF HIS APPROACH. HE FELT IT NOT ONLY FROM THE +WAS EVIDENTLY ONE, ROSTóV FELT CONFUSED, BLUSHED, AND BECAME SILENT. +WAS EXCELLENT. WITH THE SECOND COURSE, A GIGANTIC STERLET (AT SIGHT OF +WAS FOR EARTHLY LOVE. THE MORE SHE TRIED TO HIDE THIS FEELING FROM +WAS FORGETTING. WE MUST HAVE ANOTHER ENTRéE. AH, GOODNESS GRACIOUS!” +WAS, FOR SOMETHING COULD BE DESCRIED. ON THE RIGHT THE GUARDS WERE +WAS FOUGHT. +WAS FULLY DESCRIBED: PRINCE MURAT ET TOUT LE TREMBLEMENT... YOU SEE THAT +WAS GOING HOME TO VORóNEZH AND ROSTóV PERSUADED HIM TO TRAVEL WITH HIM +WAS GREAT ON THE BRIDGE OF ARCOLA, AND IN THE HOSPITAL AT JAFFA WHERE HE +WAS GROWING DUSK. ON THE NARROW AUGESD DAM WHERE FOR SO MANY YEARS THE +WAS HAPPY. “LEFT... LEFT... LEFT...” HE SEEMED TO REPEAT TO HIMSELF +WAS HEARTILY SICK OF THEM. IN SPITE OF THIS, OR RATHER BECAUSE OF +WAS HOLDING FAST TO PLAIT, WOULD ALLOW. +WAS IMMEDIATELY KILLED. PRINCE ANDREW AGAIN SEIZED THE STANDARD AND, +WAS IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDED BY COURTIERS ON ALL SIDES. EVERYWHERE HE +WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR CAVALRY TO ACT AMONG THE BUSHES AND BROKEN GROUND, +WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE IT CLEARLY WITH THE NAKED EYE. OUR RIGHT FLANK WAS +WAS IN A WHITE UNIFORM RODE A BLACK ONE. THESE WERE THE TWO EMPERORS +WAS IN HIS PLACE, WAITING. +WAS IN RAPTURES ABOUT HIM, WHEN HE HAD JUST RETURNED FROM ABROAD, AND +WAS IN THE RIGHT SO I KEPT SILENT; WAS NOT THAT BEST, COUNT?... ‘HEY, +WAS IN THE WAY AND WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO DID NOT NOTICE THE FACT. MOST OF +WAS KEEPING THE BANK. ROSTóV HAD NOT SEEN HIM SINCE HIS PROPOSAL AND +“WAS KUTúZOV WELL? WHEN HAD HE LEFT KREMS?” AND SO ON. THE EMPEROR +WAS LARGE AND OF AN OLD PATTERN. THE FRENCH SWARMING ROUND THEIR GUNS +WAS LAUGHING AT SOMETHING, MINGLED IN A MERRY SOUND, LIKE THE CHIRPING +WAS LOST. NO ONE WHOM ROSTóV ASKED COULD TELL HIM WHERE THE EMPEROR +WAS LYING ASLEEP ON THE OTTOMAN WITH AN OPEN BOOK IN HIS HAND. +WAS MENTIONED AND, POINTING TO HIS FOREHEAD, REMARKED: +WAS MERELY A MAN OF THE WORLD WHO HAD GOT ON AND TO WHOM GETTING ON HAD +WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN VERSES, AND BAGRATIóN, AGAIN PRECEDING ALL THE +WAS NAPOLEON—HIS HERO—BUT AT THAT MOMENT NAPOLEON SEEMED TO HIM +WAS NECESSARY FOR HIM TO GO TO THE COUNT AT ALL, STILL LESS WHY HE HAD +WAS “NOT A WHIT WORSE THAN YOU OR I.” AT DINNER THE PRINCE USUALLY +WAS NOT BEHAVING VERY WELL IN THIS MATTER. “YOUTH, FRIVOLITY... WELL, +WAS NOTHING. SO WHY SHOULD I NOT STAY AT HIS HOUSE? THEN I PLAYED CARDS +WAS NOT IN LOVE WITH ANYONE IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITH EVERYONE. WHATEVER +WAS. NOW HE EXCUSED HIMSELF FOR HAVING BEEN TAKEN PRISONER AND NOW, +WASN’T IT?” +“WASN’T I TELLING YOU TO FIRE THE BRIDGE, WHEN INFLAMMABLE MATERIAL +“WASN’T IT FINE WHEN THOSE GERMANS GAVE US LIFTS! YOU JUST SIT STILL +WAS OFTEN ON DóLOKHOV’S FACE WHEN LOOKING AT HIM. “YES, HE IS A +WAS ON DUTY AND THAT HE SHOULD GO THROUGH THE DOOR ON THE LEFT INTO THE +WAS ONLY REDDER THAN USUAL. WITH HIS SHAGGY HEAD THROWN BACK LIKE BIRDS +WAS OUT OF THE QUESTION, “I AM IN LOVE WITH YOUR BROTHER ONCE FOR ALL +WAS PALE, HIS BLUE EYES LOOKED IMPUDENTLY INTO THE COMMANDER’S FACE, +WAS PARTICULARLY PLEASANT AT THAT MOMENT. THEY HAD REACHED THE BATTERY +WAS PERFECTLY TRUE. HE WAS AFRAID OF GETTING SOME OTHER OFFICER INTO +WAS RAPIDLY AND EXCITEDLY TALKING TO A FRENCH GRENADIER. “HARK TO HIM +WAS RATHER OUT OF PLACE IN THIS BRILLIANT SOCIETY, THE WHOLE COMPANY HAD +WAS REPEATEDLY SUMMONED TO SEE HIM. AT HEADQUARTERS AND AMONG THE TROOPS +WAS SAID. +WAS SAYING. +WAS SERVING, AND A MISUNDERSTANDING AROSE. THE TWO COMMANDERS WERE MUCH +WAS SILENCED AT ONCE. THEY LOOKED AT THE BEAUTIFUL, LARGE, THOUGHTFUL +WAS SILENT WITH HIS STEWARD, THE GARDENER, AND THE ARCHITECT, AND THOUGH +WAS SITTING AT A SMALL TABLE, CHATTERING WITH MáSHA, HER MAID. SHE GREW +WAS SITTING AT THE HEAD OF THE TABLE. ON EITHER SIDE OF HER SAT THE +WAS SITTING BESIDE HIM, BY THE HAND. ROSTóV WAS STRUCK BY THE +WAS SITTING. THE CURTAINS WERE DRAWN, AND A SINGLE CANDLE WAS BURNING ON +WAS SO CLOSE TO HIM THAT HIS SHORTSIGHTED EYES COULD NOT BUT PERCEIVE +WAS SOMETHING BLACK, NOW LITTLE LIGHTS SEEMED TO GLIMMER WHERE THE ENEMY +WAS SPITTING BLOOD. A BULLET HAD EVIDENTLY HIT HIM IN THE THROAT OR +WAS STANDING BESIDE THE PRINCESS, AND THEY WERE BOTH SPEAKING IN EXCITED +WAS STRICTER.” +WAS STRUCK BY THE CHANGE IN HIM. HIS WORDS WERE KINDLY AND THERE WAS A +WAS TAKEN UP WITH DINNERS AND BALLS AND WAS SPENT CHIEFLY AT PRINCE +WAS TALKED OF. FOR THE ROSTóV FAMILY THE WHOLE INTEREST OF THESE +WAS TALKING CAME UP TO LISTEN. BERG, OBLIVIOUS OF IRONY OR INDIFFERENCE, +WAS TALL AND FAIR, AND HIS CALM AND HANDSOME FACE HAD REGULAR, DELICATE +“WAS THAT GRAPESHOT?” HE ASKED DENíSOV. +WAS THE COUNT AT LAST HANDED A LETTER ADDRESSED IN HIS SON’S +WAS THE EMPERORS’ SUITES. THE EMPERORS RODE UP TO THE FLANK, AND THE +WAS THE LITTLE PRINCESS, THESE TEARS, THE CAUSE OF WHICH SHE DID NOT +WAS THE NAME HIS FANCY GAVE TO THE FARTHEST GUN OF THE BATTERY, WHICH +WAS THERE ON THE HILLTOP, AND KEPT CONSTANTLY LOOKING AT THE PATCHES +WAS THINKING OF. YES, NA-TáSHA, SABRETACHE, OH, YES, YES! THAT’S +WAS TOLD THAT THE PRINCE HAD GONE TO THE NURSERY. +WAS TOO FAR SEPARATED FROM OUR RIGHT FLANK AND THE CAVALRY WERE ALL +WAS TRUE AND APPROPRIATE, YET, STRANGE TO SAY, EVERYONE—THE VISITORS +WAS TRUE. NO ONE HAD TAKEN ANY NOTICE, FOR EVERYONE KNEW THE SENSATION +WAS TRYING TO FIT MUSIC: +WAS VERY VALUABLE. OFFICERS WHO APPROACHED HIM WITH DISTURBED +WAS WARM BLOOD UNDER HIS ARM. “NO, I AM WOUNDED AND THE HORSE IS +WAS WRITING. “I’LL DO IT.” +WATCHED HER COUSIN WHO WAS GOING TO JOIN THE ARMY, WITH SUCH PASSIONATE +WATCHED HIM. SHE SMILED, HID HER FACE IN HER HANDKERCHIEF, AND REMAINED +WATCHED HIM SMILINGLY, AND HE RODE OFF BY THE WINDING PATH DOWN THE +WATCHFUL EYE ON THE YOUNG MAN WHO SO ALARMED HER, NOTICED THAT HE WAS +WATCHING AND IT CREAKED VERY SLIGHTLY AS SHE DISAPPEARED BEHIND IT. +“WATCHING OVER HIS INTERESTS” MEANT, BUT HE DECIDED THAT ALL THESE +WATCH THE CHANGE IN THE TONE AND MANNERS OF THE MAMMAS BURDENED BY +WATCHWORD—SHAFT, OLMüTZ. WHAT A NUISANCE THAT OUR SQUADRON WILL BE IN +WATER. +WATER CART, PAINTED GREEN, STOOD IN A SHED; THE PATHS WERE STRAIGHT, +WATERS OF THE DISTANT DANUBE SHONE. AND FAIRER STILL WERE THE FARAWAY +WAVING IT ABOVE HIS HEAD CRIED: +WAY AND ATTACHING HIM TO HIMSELF! WHAT IF HE GAVE ME A PLACE NEAR HIM? +WAY, AND, BLUSHING FAR MORE THAN BORíS, BEGAN TO SPEAK WITH A FEELING +WAY, DEAR BOY! MAKE WAY, MAKE WAY!” PUSHED THROUGH THE CROWD MORE +WAY,” HE ADDED IN RUSSIAN—BUT PRONOUNCING THE WORD WITH A FRENCH +WAY IN WHICH HE DANCED THE MAZURKA, NICHOLAS RAN UP TO NATáSHA: +WAY!... LET US PASS!... STOP THERE, YOU DEVIL WITH THE CART! I’LL HACK +WAY OF THESE MEN, AND HE WOULD HAVE GOT CLEAR HAD THEY CONTINUED AT THE +WAY,” SAID AN OFFICER. +WAY THROUGH THE CROWD, WENT OUT OF THE DRAWING ROOM AND REAPPEARED A +WAY, WITH BERG WHO WAS ALREADY IN COMMAND OF A COMPANY. BERG, WHO HAD +WEAK HUMAN UNDERSTANDING CANNOT GRASP, IT SEEMS TO ME RATHER USELESS TO +WEAKNESS—THE ONE TO WHICH HE HAD CONFESSED WHEN ADMITTED TO THE +“WE ALL HAVE OUR WEAKNESSES,” SAID KUTúZOV SMILING AND WALKING AWAY +“WEALLY! AND I’VE BEEN LOSING, BWOTHER. I LOST YESTERDAY LIKE A +WEAPON) AND LOOKED NOW AT THE SUPERIOR OFFICERS AND NOW BACK AT THE MEN +“WE ARE ENJOYING OURSELVES! VASíLI DMíTRICH IS STAYING A DAY LONGER +“WE ARE NOT FIGHTING POUR LE ROI DE PRUSSE, BUT FOR RIGHT PRINCIPLES. +“WE ARE SUCH FRIENDS, SUCH FRIENDS! ALL THAT RULER BUSINESS WAS JUST +“WE ARE TO SPEND THE NIGHT IN ZNAIM.” +WEARINESS AND ASSURANCE, AS IF HE WERE ADDING EVERY TIME: “YOU KNOW +WEARINESS OF TONE, “IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO DO WHAT YOU +WEARING LONG DRESSES FOR THE FIRST TIME. WITH SCARCELY ANY EXCEPTIONS +WEARING SCARVES AND ALL THEIR DECORATIONS, NOT ONLY THE ELEGANT, POMADED +WEARING THE CROSS OF ST. GEORGE, AWARDED TO SOLDIERS FOR BRAVERY IN +WEARY, AND DISTRACTED AIR, THOUGH AT THE SAME TIME HE WAS HAUGHTY AND +WEARY FACES, WERE SITTING AT THE TABLE EATING AND DRINKING. +WEARY, MAKING HIS WAY PAST THE BAGGAGE WAGONS, RODE IN SEARCH OF THE +WEARY OF IT AND IT WAS NOT AT ALL WHAT HE WANTED. HE TURNED AWAY AND +WEATHER, AND COUNTESS APRáKSINA. NOW AND THEN THEY GLANCED AT ONE +WEATHER. “THE WEATHER IS BEAUTIFUL, PRINCESS; AND BESIDES, IN MOSCOW +WE BEGIN A VERY ORIGINAL AND INTERESTING SERIES OF MANEUVERS. OUR AIM IS +WE CAN KNOW IS THAT WE KNOW NOTHING. AND THAT’S THE HEIGHT OF HUMAN +“WE CAN’T HAVE LESS—YES, THREE... THE MAYONNAISE, THAT’S ONE,” +WE COULD NOT THINK HOW TO ADDRESS THE REPLY! IF NOT AS ‘CONSUL’ +WEDNESDAY’S MEETING OF THE IMPERIAL COUNCIL, AT WHICH SERGéY KUZMíCH +“WE DON’T INTERFERE WITH YOU AND BERG.” +‘WE DON’T LOVE PEOPLE SO MUCH FOR THE GOOD THEY HAVE DONE US, AS +“WE DROVE THEM BACK!” SAID BORíS WITH ANIMATION, GROWING TALKATIVE. +WEEKS, AND MONTHS OF HIS LIFE PASSED IN AS GREAT A RUSH AND WERE AS MUCH +WEEP WITHOUT KNOWING WHY—RODE BEHIND ON HIS ARTILLERY NAG. THOUGH +“WE HAD BETTER SEPARATE,” HE MUTTERED IN A BROKEN VOICE. +WE HAD NOT RELIGION TO CONSOLE US LIFE WOULD BE VERY SAD. WHY DO YOU +WE HAVE FULLY CONCENTRATED FORCES OF NEARLY SEVENTY THOUSAND MEN WITH +“WE HAVE ORDERS TO DRIVE YOU OFF HERE, AND WE SHALL DRIVE YOU OFF,” +WE HEAR IS TRUE, IT IS DREADFUL. HOW LITTLE WE DREAMED OF SUCH A THING +“WE HERE IN MOSCOW ARE MORE OCCUPIED WITH DINNER PARTIES AND SCANDAL +WEIGHT. +WEIGHT THEY WERE CARRYING WERE TOO MUCH FOR THEM. +WE KNEW YOU’D SAY SO. BUT IT WON’T DO, BECAUSE YOU SEE, IF YOU SAY +WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE. AND WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE BOULOGNE EXPEDITION? +WELCOME FOR THE APPROACHING CHIEF. +WE LET OUR FEEBLE HUMAN MINDS ROAM, THE BETTER WE SHALL PLEASE GOD, WHO +WELFARE OF HIS SOUL IS AT STAKE. AH, IT IS AWFUL: THE DUTIES OF A +WELL.” +WELL.” +“WELL, ALL I CAN MAKE OUT IS THAT EVERYTHING IS ABOMINABLE, +“WELL, ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT.” +“WELL, ALL THE SAME, YOU MUST REFUSE HIM.” +“WELL, AND ARE YOU STILL TRUE TO BORíS?” HE CONTINUED. +WELL!” AND HE TURNED TO GO. +WELL AND, IN PARTICULAR, DRINKS WELL. “SO DO COME AND DINE WITH US!” +“WELL, AND IS THAT ALL?” HE ASKED. +“WELL, AND SO HE NEVER GOT FARTHER THAN: ‘SERGéY KUZMíCH’?” +“WELL AND THEN?” ASKED THE OTHER VOICE. “IF BEFORE THAT YOU ARE +“WELL, AND TO WHOM DID YOU APPLY ABOUT BóRY?” ASKED THE COUNTESS. +“WELL, AND YOU? WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS?” +“WELL, AND YOU, YOUNG MAN,” SAID HE. “HOW DO YOU FEEL, MON +“WELL, AREN’T YOU ASHAMED OF YOURSELF, CAPTAIN TúSHIN?” HE +WELL, ARE YOU OFF TO THE FRONT?” +WELL, AS ALL THE CONNOISSEURS WHO HEARD HER SAID: “IT IS NOT TRAINED, +“WELL, AS YOU SEE. SO FAR EVERYTHING’S ALL RIGHT, BUT I CONFESS I +“WELL, AU REVOIR, BOLKóNSKI! AU REVOIR, PRINCE! COME BACK EARLY TO +“WELL, AU REVOIR! GOOD-BY! YOU HEAR HER?” +“WELL BEGIN!” SAID DóLOKHOV. +WELL-BRUSHED CLOTHES. THERE WAS A MASCULINE ODOR AND A SMELL OF TOBACCO. +“WELL DONE!... FINE FELLOW!... THERE’S A BET FOR YOU!... DEVIL TAKE +“WELL DONE, LADS!” SAID PRINCE BAGRATIóN. +“WELL, DO YOU THINK I SHALL PREVENT HER, THAT I CAN’T PART FROM +WELL EDUCATED AND CLEVER. THIS IS ALL THAT HIS FOREIGN EDUCATION HAS +WELL ENOUGH TO BE SURE THAT THIS WILL NOT TURN YOUR HEAD, BUT IT IMPOSES +WE’LL FIRE OFF SOME CANNON! BUT THIS SORT OF THING SEEMS DONE +WELL FOR YOU,” SAID NATáSHA, WITH A RESPONSIVE SMILE. “YOU SHOULD +“WELL, FWIEND? SO YOU’VE SMELT POWDAH!” SHOUTED VáSKA DENíSOV +“WELL, GO AND SEE,” HE SAID, AFTER A PAUSE. +“WELL, GOOD-BY, PRINCE,” SAID HE TO BAGRATIóN. “MY BLESSING, AND +“WELL—HAD A GOOD TIME?” SAID THE OLD COUNT, SMILING GAILY AND +“WELL? HAS HE BEEN DEGRADED INTO A FIELD MARSHAL, OR INTO A SOLDIER? +“WELL, HAVE IT SO, AND YOU TALKED A LOT OF NONSENSE TO HIM AND MUST +“WELL, HAVE YOU FINISHED?” SAID HE TO KOZLóVSKI. +“WELL, HAVE YOU SENT GABRIEL FOR SOME WINE? ALL RIGHT LET’S HAVE +“WELL?” HE ASKED. +“WELL!” HE SAID, TURNING TO HIS WIFE. +“WELL, HE’S REALLY A GOOD FELLOW, ONE CAN SERVE UNDER HIM,” SAID +“WELL, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET OUT OF THAT?” HE REMARKED. +“WELL? HOW DO YOU FEEL?” HE ASKED. +“WELL! HOW D’YE DO? HOW D’YE DO? GLAD TO SEE YOU!” +“WELL, HOW D’YOU DO, MY DEAR FELLOW?” SAID DOLGORúKOV, WHO WAS +“WELL, HOW IS HE?” +“WELL, I AM TAKING IT OFF,” REPLIED LAVRúSHKA’S VOICE. +“WELL, I DID NOT EXPECT YOU, I AM VERY GLAD,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. +“WELL, I DON’T KNOW ABOUT THAT, BUT I AM UNCOMFORTABLE WITH HIM. AND +“WELL, I DON’T KNOW. IT’S AWKWARD AND WOULD MAKE ME ASHAMED.” +“WELL, IF YOU DO, SO MUCH THE BETTER, AND YOU CAN GO BACK TO HER!” +“WELL, I HAVE GOT ALL I NEED INTO PACKS FOR TWO HORSES,” SAID +“WELL, IS IT TRUE THAT IT’S PEACE AND CAPITULATION?” ASKED +“WELL, I SUPPOSE IT IS TIME WE WERE AT TABLE?” SAID MáRYA +“WELL, I THINK IT IS. THE BIGWIGS HERE THINK SO TOO, BUT THEY +“WELL, IT’S AS YOU LIKE,” SAID THE STAFF CAPTAIN. “AND WHAT HAS +“WELL, IT SEEMS THAT NO ONE HAS NOTICED,” THOUGHT ROSTóV. AND THIS +WELL I WILL GIVE YOU MY HAND TO KISS. NOT TILL THEN!” SHE SAID. AND +“WELL, I WILL LEAVE YOU IN YOUR LITTLE CORNER,” CAME ANNA +“WELL, I WILL READ THEM, THEN!” BAGRATIóN SEEMED TO SAY, AND, +WELL KNOWN, SO MUCH APPRECIATED BY EVERYONE. THE OTHER DAY AT THE +“WELL, LëLYA?” HE ASKED, TURNING INSTANTLY TO HIS DAUGHTER AND +“WELL, LET’S GO AND SING ‘THE BROOK.’” +WELL-LIT ANTEROOM WHERE THEY TOOK OFF THEIR CLOAKS WITHOUT THE AID OF +“WELL, LITTLE COUNTESS? WHAT A SAUTé OF GAME AU MADèRE WE ARE TO +“WELL, MADAM,” HE BEGAN, STOOPING OVER THE BOOK CLOSE TO HIS +“WE’LL MAKE YOU DANCE AS WE DID UNDER SUVóROV...,” * SAID +“WE’LL MANAGE VERY WELL WITHOUT A DOCTOR.” +“WELL, MAYBE!” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. “GO, MáSHA; I’LL COME +“WELL, MICHAEL IVáNOVICH, OUR BONAPARTE WILL BE HAVING A BAD TIME +“WELL, MICHAEL MíTRICH, SIR?” HE SAID, ADDRESSING ONE OF THE +“WELL, MON CHER,” SAID THE VICOMTE, HAVING SEATED HIMSELF BESIDE +“WELL, MY BOY, YOU’LL GET ALONG WHEREVER YOU GO—FOOT OR +“WELL, MY DEAR?” ASKED THE COUNTESS. +“WELL, MY DEAR BOY, I HEAR YOU’VE BEEN EDUCATED ABROAD, NOT TAUGHT +“WELL, MY DEAR FELLOW, SO YOU STILL WANT TO BE AN ADJUTANT? I HAVE +“WELL, MY DEAR FELLOW, TOMORROW WE ARE OFF AT LAST,” SAID PRINCE +“WELL, MY DEAR?” SAID PRINCE VASíLI, TAKING HER HAND AND BENDING IT +WELL, NEVER MIND, HERE YOU ARE.” +“WELL, NEVER MIND; I ONLY...” +“WELL NOW, GENTLEMEN,” SAID BILíBIN, “BOLKóNSKI IS MY GUEST IN +“WELL, NOW, GOOD-BY!” HE GAVE HIS SON HIS HAND TO KISS, AND EMBRACED +“WELL NOW, ISN’T SHE A FOOL!” SHOUTED THE PRINCE, PUSHING THE BOOK +“WELL, NOW TELL ME ABOUT YOUR EXPLOITS,” SAID HE. +“WELL, NOW TO THE HEALTH OF HANDSOME WOMEN!” SAID DóLOKHOV, AND +“WELL, NOW WE’LL ARRANGE SOMETHING QUITE SIMPLE AND BECOMING,” SHE +“WELL, NOW YOU’VE DONE WHAT YOU WANTED,” PUT IN NICHOLAS—“SAID +“WELL, OF COURSE, OF COURSE!” +WELL, ONLY A LITTLE BRUISED JUST HERE,” HE ADDED, POINTING WITH A +“WELL, PRINCE?” ASKED KOZLóVSKI. +“WELL, PRINCE, SO GENOA AND LUCCA ARE NOW JUST FAMILY ESTATES OF THE +“WELL, REALLY, CATICHE! CAN’T YOU UNDERSTAND! YOU ARE SO +“WELL, REALLY, MAMMA! WHY SHOULD YOU? WHAT IS THERE TO BE SURPRISED +WELL REMEMBERED THAT SEVEN AFTERWARDS. HE LAID DOWN THE SEVEN OF HEARTS, +“WELL?” RETURNED THE OLD MAN. +“WELL,” SAID SHE, “HOW’S MY COSSACK?” (MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA +“WELL!...” SAID THE OLD COUNT, SPREADING OUT HIS ARMS AND SINKING +“WELL, SEND FOR HIM... AND HOW DO YOU GET ON WITH THAT GERMAN?” +WE’LL SET OFF.” +“WELL, SHE LOVES ME AND YOU LIKE THAT.” +“WELL, SO THAT’S FINISHED, MY DEAR FELLOW! I AM VERY GLAD TO HAVE +“WELL, STAND US SOME OF YOUR HERB VODKA, TúSHIN,” IT SAID. +“WELL, TALK AS MUCH AS YOU CAN, ANYWAY. HE HAS A PASSION FOR GIVING +“WELL, THANK GOD! WE’VE BEEN SITTING HERE TOO LONG!” +“WELL, THAT IS HARDLY A SUFFICIENT REASON, MAMMA...” +“WELL, THAT’S ALL RIGHT,” CONTINUED THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER. “A +“WELL, THAT’S ONLY TILL THE FIRST ENGAGEMENT.” +“WELL, THE LORD BE THANKED, PRINCESS,” SAID MARY BOGDáNOVNA, NOT +“WELL THEN, ACCEPT HIS OFFER. IT’S HIGH TIME FOR YOU TO BE +“WELL THEN, BE QUICK. WE’LL ALL HAVE BREAKFAST TOGETHER.” +“WELL, THEN GO OFF TO YOUR BUONAPARTE! MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE, +“WELL, THEN, I WON’T; ONLY FORGIVE ME, SóNYA!” HE DREW HER TO HIM +“WELL, THEN, LET’S BE QUICK. BORíS, COME HERE,” SAID NATáSHA. +“WELL THEN, MIND AND HAVE COCKS’ COMB IN THE TURTLE SOUP, YOU +“WELL, THEN, OLD CHAP, MON TRèS HONORABLE ALPHONSE KáRLOVICH,” +“WELL THEN,” PRINCE ANDREW ANSWERED HIMSELF, “I DON’T KNOW +“WELL THEN, TELL HIM SO.” +“WELL THEN, THAT’S EXCELLENT,” SAID HE. “WE’LL TALK IT OVER +“WELL THEN, TILL TOMORROW AT SOKóLNIKI,” SAID DóLOKHOV, AS HE TOOK +“WELL THEN, WHAT DO YOU WANT? YOU’RE ALL IN LOVE NOWADAYS. WELL, +“WELL THERE CERTAINLY ARE DISGUSTING PEOPLE,” THOUGHT ROSTóV AS HE +“WELL, THERE YOU SEE!” +“WELL, THEY’VE SENT YOU A TIDY SUM,” SAID BERG, EYING THE HEAVY +“WELL, THIS IS STRANGE! DO YOU SUPPOSE I... WHO COULD THINK?... I KNOW +“WELL, TILL WE MEET AGAIN...” HE SAID, HOLDING OUT HIS HAND TO +“WE’LL TRY TO,” REPLIED BERG, TOUCHING A PAWN AND THEN REMOVING +“WELL, WHAT ABOUT IT?” SAID HE TO DENíSOV. “IT WON’T COME TO A +“WELL, WHAT IS IT?” CAME A SHARP, UNPLEASANT VOICE. +“WELL, WHAT’S THIS NOW? WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO NOW, I SHOULD LIKE +“WELL, WHAT THEN?” +“WELL, WHY ARE YOU GOING TO THE WAR?” ASKED PIERRE. +“WELL, WHY DON’T YOU SPEAK? WHOM HAVE YOU GOT THERE DRESSED UP AS A +“WELL, WON’T YOU GO ON? I HAD A SPLENDID CARD ALL READY,” AS IF IT +“WELL, YOU’D BETTER NOT PLAY,” DóLOKHOV ADDED, AND SPRINGING A +“WELL, YOUNG CAVALRYMAN, HOW IS MY ROOK BEHAVING?” HE ASKED. (ROOK +“WELL, YOUNG MAN?” HE SAID WITH A SIGH, AND FROM UNDER HIS LIFTED +“WELL, YOUR EXCELLENCY, WHAT? YOUR EXCELLENCY! BUT WHAT ABOUT YOUR +“WELL, YOU SEE, COUNT, I WANT SOME MONEY.” +“WELL, YOU SEE, I’LL TELL YOU THE WHOLE SECRET OF DUELING IN TWO +“WELL, YOU SEE, MY DEAR PRINCESS AND COUSIN, CATHERINE SEMëNOVNA,” +“WELL, YOU’VE TOLD ME NOTHING NEW,” AND THE OLD MAN REPEATED, +“WE MAY AS WELL GO BACK,” SAID THE SON IN FRENCH. +“WE MUST DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE VIENNA CABINET AND THE EMPEROR OF + * “WE MUST LET HIM OFF THE U!” +“WE MUST LET HIM SEE AMELIE, SHE’S EXQUISITE!” SAID ONE OF +WE? NO?” +WENT ABOUT THE ROOMS FASHIONABLY DRESSED BUT LOOKING SAD AND DULL. HERE, +WENT BY. THEN SUDDENLY A TERRIBLE SHRIEK—IT COULD NOT BE HERS, SHE +WENT FURTHER IN AMONG THE PLANTS AND THREW DOWN THE DOLL. “CLOSER, +WENT INTO THE RECEPTION ROOM FAMILIAR TO PIERRE, WITH TWO ITALIAN +WENT IN WITH NICHOLAS. AFTER THEM OTHER COUPLES FOLLOWED, FILLING THE +WENT ON TO THE GAME WITHOUT OMITTING A SINGLE DISH OR ONE OF THE WINES. +WENT ON, WITH A SOMBER AND SCORNFUL SMILE. “AND THOU ART MORE FOOLISH +WENT OUT AFTER SHAKING HANDS WITH DOLGORúKOV AND BILíBIN. +WENT OUT OF THE HUT IN WHICH HE WAS BILLETED WITH NESVíTSKI AND BEGAN +WENT THERE AND FOUND TWO THIRDS OF THE MEN AND HORSES KNOCKED OUT, TWO +WENT TO HER FATHER’S ROOM AT THE USUAL HOUR, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE +WENT TO THE CARRIAGE. +WENT, WITH THE SMILE OF A COQUETTISH GIRL, WHICH AT ONE TIME PROBABLY +WE PARTED. WHY ARE WE NOT TOGETHER AS WE WERE LAST SUMMER, IN YOUR BIG +WEPT. SHE SAW HER BROTHER NOW AS HE HAD BEEN AT THE MOMENT WHEN HE TOOK +WEPT TOO. THEY WEPT BECAUSE THEY WERE FRIENDS, AND BECAUSE THEY WERE +WERE ALL A PRETENSE, AND THAT THE WHOLE ATTENTION OF THAT COMPANY WAS +WERE ALL HUGGING HIM, AND THE SERFS, MEN AND MAIDS, FLOCKED INTO THE +WERE ALREADY UP AND ASTIR. THE SMOKE OF THE CAMPFIRES, INTO WHICH THEY +WERE ALSO DISTINGUISHED BY THE FACT THAT SHE ALWAYS PRESENTED SOME NEW +WERE AMONG THE PRETTIEST. THEY WERE BOTH PARTICULARLY HAPPY AND GAY. +WERE BEING SET OUT FOR EIGHTY PEOPLE; AND LOOKING AT THE FOOTMEN, WHO +WERE BRINGING IN JUGS AND BASINS, HOT WATER FOR SHAVING, AND THEIR +WERE BRINGING IN SILVER AND CHINA, MOVING TABLES, AND UNFOLDING DAMASK +WERE CASUAL GUESTS—CHIEFLY YOUNG MEN, AMONG WHOM WERE DENíSOV, +WERE CHILDREN. YOU MIGHT THINK THAT I... I UNDERSTAND, QUITE UNDERSTAND. +WERE CONCENTRATED. TWICE THEY HAD ATTEMPTED TO ATTACK THIS POINT, BUT ON +WERE CONSTANTLY SHAPING THEMSELVES IN HIS MIND, ARISING FROM THE +WERE CROSSING THEMSELVES. ROSTóV NO LONGER LOOKED AT THE COLONEL, HE +WERE DESCENDING. IN FRONT IN THE FOG A SHOT WAS HEARD AND THEN ANOTHER, +WERE EVIDENTLY FLURRIED AND INTIMIDATED BY THE DIRECTIONS AND SHOUTS OF +WERE EXPECTING MáRYA DMíTRIEVNA AKHROSíMOVA, KNOWN IN SOCIETY AS LE +WERE FLOCKING IN TO LOOK AT HIM. PRINCE BAGRATIóN WAS THANKING THE +WE’RE GETTING IT STILL WORSE,” SAID NESVíTSKI. “BUT SIT DOWN AND +“WE’RE GOING INTO ACTION, GENTLEMEN!” +WERE, “HIGH-SOUNDING WORDS WHICH HAVE LONG BEEN DISCREDITED. WHO DOES +WERE IN A HURRY TO SHOW THE CHANGES THAT HAD TAKEN PLACE IN THEM. +WERE IN THEM. SHE LEANED OVER TO HER BROTHER AND KISSED HIM, SLIGHTLY +WERE LEAVING TO JOIN THEIR REGIMENT AFTER EPIPHANY. ABOUT TWENTY PEOPLE +WERE LIPS SEEKING A KISS. +WERE MOVING IN AND OUT AMONG THE RUSSIAN TROOPS AND SERVED AS HERALDS +WERE MOVING IN THE SAME DIRECTION. EVERY SOLDIER FELT GLAD TO KNOW THAT +WERE NEAR HIM. EVERYBODY SAID THAT BUONAPARTE HIMSELF WAS AT BRAUNAU.” +WERE NICHOLAS AND SóNYA, THE NIECE. SóNYA WAS A SLENDER LITTLE +WERE NOT IN VERY GOOD CONDITION), AND INSTANTLY THE SQUARES THAT HAD UP +WERE NOT TO BE OVERBURDENED WITH LABOR, WOMEN WHILE NURSING THEIR BABIES +WERE NOT TO BE SENT TO WORK, ASSISTANCE WAS TO BE GIVEN TO THE SERFS, +WERE OF THE SAME AGE AND BOTH HANDSOME FELLOWS, THOUGH NOT ALIKE. BORíS +WERE ONLY 217 SICK AND STRAGGLERS. EVERYTHING WAS IN GOOD ORDER EXCEPT +WERE PASSING BY. FROM ONE OF THE DRIVERS HE LEARNED THAT KUTúZOV’S +WERE PRESENT, INCLUDING DóLOKHOV AND DENíSOV. +WERE PRONOUNCED, PIERRE, WHO HAD SO LONG BEEN CONSIDERING HIS CAREER, +WERE READY TO DROP, AND SO SAID THE GROWN-UP YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WHO +WERE REALLY GIVEN, BUT THAT PRINCE BAGRATIóN TRIED TO MAKE IT APPEAR +WERE SAYING. SUDDENLY, HOWEVER, HE WAS STRUCK BY A VOICE COMING FROM THE +WERE SENT TO THE CROSSROADS TO GUIDE HIM OVER THE COUNTRY ROAD WITH ITS +WERE SITTING AT EMBROIDERY FRAMES WHILE A THIRD READ ALOUD. IT WAS THE +WERE SITTING AT THE TABLE ON WHICH A PLAN WAS SPREAD OUT. +WERE SITTING ON SOME FEATHER BEDS. EVIDENTLY THESE FUGITIVES WERE +WERE TALKING AND LISTENING TOO EAGERLY AND TOO NATURALLY, WHICH WAS WHY +WERE THE CENTER OF GROUPS WHICH EVEN STRANGERS APPROACHED RESPECTFULLY +WERE THE FUN OF THE GAME WHICH INTERESTED HIM MOST. +WERE THE POTëMKINS, SUVóROVS, AND ORLóVS GERMANS? NO, LAD, EITHER YOU +WERE THEREFORE AWKWARD. +WERE THERE, ONLY DISORGANIZED CROWDS OF TROOPS OF VARIOUS KINDS. HE +WERE THERE,” THOUGHT ROSTóV. “IN MYSELF ALONE AND IN THAT SUNSHINE +WERE THOSE OF THE ORDERLIES WHO WERE PACKING UP; ONE VOICE, PROBABLY A +WERE THROWING EVERYTHING SUPERFLUOUS, MADE THE EYES SMART. IT WAS COLD +WERE TO BE SEVERE WITH HER AND TO FORBID IT ... GOODNESS KNOWS WHAT THEY +“WE’RE TO GO INTO ACTION, GENTLEMEN! MACK HAS SURRENDERED WITH HIS +WERE TO LAND AT NAPLES, AND HOW A TOTAL FORCE OF FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND +WERE TURNED AGAINST THE TEN-GUN BATTERY. TúSHIN’S COMPANION OFFICER +WERE USING THEIR RAMRODS, OTHERS PUTTING POWDER ON THE TOUCHPANS OR +WERE WAITING FOR THEM TO COME OUT. +WERE WALKING, DRIVING PAST, AND SETTLING DOWN ALL AROUND. THE SOUND +“WE SHALL BE LATE.” +“WE SHALL PROBABLY ADVANCE,” REPLIED BOLKóNSKI, EVIDENTLY RELUCTANT +“WE SHALL SEE.” +“WETCHED BUSINESS,” HE MUTTERED TO HIMSELF. “HOW MUCH IS LEFT IN +“WETCHED!” HE MUTTERED, THROWING DOWN A PURSE WITH SOME GOLD IN IT. +“WE’VE GIVEN IT ‘EM HOT, MATE! THEY WON’T MAKE ANOTHER PUSH +“WE’VE GOT TO IT AT LAST—WHY DID YOU NOT TELL ME ABOUT IT +“WE’VE SAID GOOD-BY. GO!” HE SUDDENLY SHOUTED IN A LOUD, ANGRY +“WE WERE ORDERED TO BE AT THE PLACE BEFORE NINE, BUT WE HAVEN’T GOT +“WE WILL TALK OF IT LATER” (AND HE LOOKED ROUND AT ROSTóV). “COME +“WE WILL TALK OF IT LATER,” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA WITH A SMILE. +WE WOMEN, PRINCE,” AND SHE SMILED TENDERLY, “ALWAYS KNOW HOW TO SAY +WEYROTHER. +WEYROTHER AGAIN GAVE THAT SMILE WHICH SEEMED TO SAY THAT TO HIM IT WAS +WEYROTHER, HURRIEDLY RISING FROM HIS SEAT AND GOING UP TO THE TABLE ON +WEYROTHER’S HAD ALREADY BEEN APPROVED. AS SOON AS PRINCE ANDREW BEGAN +WEYROTHER’S NAME, OR EVEN THE TERM “DISPOSITIONS.” +WEYROTHER, WHO WAS IN FULL CONTROL OF THE PROPOSED BATTLE, BY HIS +“WHAT ABOUT CAPITULATION?” +“WHAT ABOUT YOUR MASTER?” HE ASKED LAVRúSHKA, DENíSOV’S ORDERLY, +“WHAT A CHARMING CREATURE YOUR YOUNGER GIRL IS,” SAID THE VISITOR; +“WHAT A CLEVER MAN YOUR FATHER IS,” SAID SHE; “PERHAPS THAT IS WHY +“WHAT A DANDY YOU ARE TODAY!” SAID NESVíTSKI, LOOKING AT +“WHAT A DELIGHTFUL WOMAN THIS LITTLE PRINCESS IS!” SAID PRINCE +“WHAT A FINE FELLOW YOU ARE, FRIEND!” SAID THE COSSACK TO A CONVOY +WHAT A HEART!” +“WHAT? A MINISTER? WHAT MINISTER? WHO GAVE ORDERS?” HE SAID IN +WHAT AM I TO DO IF I LOVE NOTHING BUT FAME AND MEN’S ESTEEM? DEATH, +“WHAT AN EXTRAORDINARY GENIUS!” PRINCE ANDREW SUDDENLY EXCLAIMED, +“WHAT A NICE FIGURE THE POLICEMAN MUST HAVE CUT, MY DEAR!” SHOUTED +“WHAT?” ANSWERED THE OLD MAN ABSENT-MINDEDLY. +“WHAT A PITY YOU WEREN’T AT THE ARKHáROVS’ ON THURSDAY. IT WAS SO +“WHAT ARE THEY ABOUT?” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW AS HE GAZED AT THEM. +“WHAT ARE YOU ABOUT?” SHOUTED ROSTóV, LOOKING AT HIM IN AN ECSTASY +“WHAT ARE YOU DOING!” SHE CRIED VEHEMENTLY. “HE IS DYING AND YOU +“WHAT! ARE YOU GOING TO REMAIN AS YOU ARE, DEAR PRINCESS?” SHE +“WHAT ARE YOU MAKING SUCH A NOISE ABOUT OVER THERE?” MáRYA +“WHAT ARE YOUR COMMANDS, LITTLE COUNTESS?” +“WHAT, ARE YOU WOUNDED, MY LAD?” SAID TúSHIN, APPROACHING THE GUN +“WHAT?” ASKED THE COMMANDER. +WHAT? A SLUR ON MY NAME? A MISFORTUNE FOR LIFE? OH, THAT’S +WHAT A SOUL THERE IS IN DóLOKHOV, YOU SHOULD SEE HIM WITH HIS MOTHER. +“WHAT A STRANGE FATE, MáSHA DARLING!” AND HAVING TAKEN OFF HIS +WHAT A STRANGE FRENZY ONE EXPERIENCES DURING AN ATTACK,” PRINCE +“WHAT A STYLE! HOW CHARMINGLY HE DESCRIBES!” SAID SHE, READING THE +“WHAT A TREASURE THAT DMíTRI IS,” ADDED THE COUNT WITH A SMILE WHEN +WHAT A VOICE SHE HAS; THOUGH SHE’S MY DAUGHTER, I TELL THE TRUTH +“WHAT BRINGS YOU HERE?” CRIED THE OFFICERS TURNING TO THE NEWCOMER. +WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY RUBLES! I EVEN MANAGE TO +“WHAT CAN HE SAY? TRA-DI-RI-DI-RA AND SO ON... MERELY TO GAIN TIME. +“WHAT CAN IT BE?” HE THOUGHT. “THE ENEMY IN THE REAR OF OUR ARMY? +“WHAT CAN ONE SAY ABOUT IT?” REPLIED THE PRINCE IN A COLD, LISTLESS +WHAT CHANCE HAS MICHAEL KUTúZOV? NO, MY DEAR BOY,” HE CONTINUED, +“WHAT DELICACY!” THOUGHT THE PRINCESS. “IS IT POSSIBLE THAT +“WHAT DEVIL BROUGHT THEM HERE?” THOUGHT HE, WHILE TíKHON WAS +“WHAT DEVILS THESE QUARTERMASTERS ARE! SEE, THE FIFTH COMPANY IS +“WHAT DID HE SAY? WHERE TO, NOW? HALT, IS IT? DID HE THANK US?” CAME +WHAT DIFFICULTY THE FATHER HAD DRAGGED HIS LEGS UPSTAIRS WHILE THE SON +“WHAT DIVISION ARE YOU?” SHOUTED AN ADJUTANT, RIDING UP. +“WHAT DOES HARM TO ANOTHER IS WRONG,” SAID PIERRE, FEELING WITH +“WHAT DOES IT MEAN? WHAT IS IT? WHOM ARE THEY FIRING AT? WHO IS +“WHAT DOES THAT PROVE?” HE WAS SAYING AS ROSTóV RODE UP. “THEY +“WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?” SHE BROUGHT OUT. +WHAT DO WE, I MEAN THE AUSTRIAN COURT, CARE FOR YOUR VICTORIES? BRING +“WHAT DO YOU THANK ME FOR?” +“WHAT DO YOU WANT, YOUR HONOR?” ASKED AN ARTILLERYMAN, STANDING +“WHAT ERROR OR EVIL CAN THERE BE IN MY WISHING TO DO GOOD, AND EVEN +WHATEVER. +“WHATEVER ARE YOU BOTHERING ABOUT, GENTLEMEN?” SAID BILíBIN, WHO, +“WHATEVER HAPPENS TO YOU,” HE SAID, “YOU MUST BEAR IT ALL MANFULLY +“WHATEVER IS THIS? THIS!” HE SHOUTED AND STOOD STILL. “COMMANDER +“WHATEVER THE EUROPEAN SOVEREIGNS AND COMMANDERS MAY DO TO +WHATEVER THE IMPORT OF HIS WORK. IT WAS NOT THE QUESTION “WHAT FOR?” +WHATEVER WE MAY SAY ABOUT THE SOUL GOING TO THE SKY... WE KNOW THERE IS +“WHAT FOR? I DON’T KNOW. I MUST. BESIDES THAT I AM GOING....” HE +“WHAT GOOD ARE THEY? THEY’RE LED ABOUT JUST FOR SHOW!” REMARKED +WHAT HAPPINESS IT WOULD BE TO DIE—NOT IN SAVING THE EMPEROR’S LIFE +“WHAT HAS HAPPENED?” HE ASKED HIMSELF. “I HAVE KILLED HER LOVER, +“WHAT HAVE THE YOUNG PEOPLE COME TO NOWADAYS, EH, FEOKTíST?” SAID +“WHAT HAVE THEY TAKEN A BABY IN THERE FOR?” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW IN +“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MLLE SCHéRER? SHE WILL BE QUITE ILL NOW,” +“WHAT?” HE ANSWERED, NOT RECOGNIZING BORíS. +“WHAT? HERE? BUT WHY DID THEY NOT BLOW UP THE BRIDGE, IF IT WAS +WHAT HE SHOULD DO ON HIS ESTATES. +WHAT HE WAS ABOUT; YET THEY BEAT HIM à PLATE COUTURE,*(3) AND WHERE +WHAT HE WAS LAUGHING AT. EVERYTHING HER FATHER DID INSPIRED HER WITH +WHAT HE WAS SAYING WAS OUT OF PLACE, TACTLESS AND UNSUITABLE, THAT +WHAT HE WAS TO DO. THE COMING OF THESE VISITORS ANNOYED HIM. “WHAT ARE +WHAT I HAVE SEEN DURING THESE LAST THREE MONTHS IS INCREDIBLE. +“WHAT IS BAD, FATHER?” +WHAT IS BEYOND DEATH, NONE OF US WOULD BE AFRAID OF IT. THAT’S SO, +WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND THEM. +“WHAT IS IT?” +“WHAT IS IT?” ASKED THE COUNTESS, STARTLED; BUT SEEING BY HER +“WHAT IS IT, DEAR?” +“WHAT IS IT?” HE ASKED. +“WHAT IS IT?” HE SAID CROSSLY, AND, HIS HAND SHAKING +WHAT IS IT I AM ATTACHED TO, PAPA?” SAID ANATOLE, TURNING TO HIS +WHAT IS IT MEANT TO PROVE? WHAT? I ASK YOU.” +“WHAT IS IT? WHAT?” ASKED BOTH PRINCESSES WHEN THEY SAW FOR A MOMENT +“WHAT IS IT YOU ARE AFRAID OF, LISE? I DON’T UNDERSTAND,” SAID HE. +WHAT IS LIFE, AND WHAT IS DEATH? WHAT POWER GOVERNS ALL?” +“WHAT IS THAT?” ASKED THE COUNTESS AS IF SHE DID NOT KNOW WHAT THE +“WHAT IS THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF DOING HERE?” HE ASKED. +“WHAT IS THE MATTER, MARY?” +“WHAT IS THE MATTER?” SHE ASKED. +“WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU, MY DARLING? YOU LOOK PALE. OH, YOU +“WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU, MY DEAR?” SHE SAID CROSSLY TO THE MAID +WHAT IS THERE? WHO IS THERE?—THERE BEYOND THAT FIELD, THAT TREE, THAT +“WHAT IS THE SOMETHING?” ASKED HE. + WHAT IS THIS BLISS THAT MAKES MY FINGERS THRILL? +“WHAT IS THIS?” THOUGHT NICHOLAS, LISTENING TO HER WITH WIDELY +“WHAT IS YOUR CONCEPTION OF FREEMASONRY?” +“WHAT! IT IS AS IF I WERE GLAD OF A CHANCE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF +WHAT IT MUST BE FOR HER, POOR THING, AFTER WHAT SHE HAS BEEN USED TO, +WHAT LOOKED LIKE A SQUADRON OF HORSEMEN IN VARIOUS UNIFORMS. TWO OF THEM + WHAT MAGIC POWER IS THIS RECALLS ME STILL? +“WHAT MANNERS! I THOUGHT THEY WOULD NEVER GO,” SAID THE COUNTESS, +“WHAT, MONSIEUR PIERRE... DO YOU CONSIDER THAT ASSASSINATION SHOWS +“WHAT NEWS, SIR?” ASKED THE OFFICER, EVIDENTLY ANXIOUS TO START A +“WHAT NEXT? HAVE YOU GONE MAD?... NO ONE WOULD LET YOU!... WHY, YOU GO +“WHAT NEXT?” THE PRINCESS INTERRUPTED, SMILING SARDONICALLY AND NOT +“WHAT NONSENSE...” +“WHAT NONSENSE! MUCH I NEED IT!” SAID ROSTóV, THROWING THE LETTER +“WHAT? OCCUPIED? VIENNA OCCUPIED?” +WHAT PIERRE DID NOT KNOW WAS THAT THE PLACE WHERE THEY PRESENTED HIM +“WHAT? REVOLUTION AND REGICIDE A GRAND THING?... WELL, AFTER THAT... +“WHAT? SAW THE REAL MACK? WITH HANDS AND FEET?” +“WHAT SHALL WE SING?” SHE SAID. + * “WHAT’S HE SINGING ABOUT?” +WHAT SHE WAS HOLDING IN HER RETICULE.) “SO YOU PROMISE?” +“WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT? WHY, THE FRENCH HAVE CROSSED THE BRIDGE THAT +WHAT’S ONE TO DO?” AND, HAVING GIVEN HIS ORDER, HE RETURNED TO +WHAT’S ONE TO DO, MY DEAR?” + WHAT SPARK HAS SET MY INMOST SOUL ON FIRE, +“WHAT’S THAT THAT HAS FALLEN?” ASKED THE ACCOUNTANT WITH A NAïVE +“WHAT’S THAT? WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF IT?” SAID ROSTóV TO THE HUSSAR +“WHAT’S THE GOOD OF DENYING IT, MY DEAR? OUR DEAR COUNTESS WAS TOO +“WHAT’S THE MATTER?” EXCLAIMED PRINCE ANDREW STANDING STILL IN +“WHAT’S THE MATTER? I ONLY CONGRATULATED THEM,” SAID ZHERKóV. +“WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH YOU? ARE YOU ILL?” +WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH YOU? YOU MUST BE ILL TO SHIVER LIKE THAT,” HE +“WHAT’S THIS? AM I FALLING? MY LEGS ARE GIVING WAY,” THOUGHT HE, +“WHAT’S TO BE DONE? SHE’S PRETTY! I WILL DO EVERYTHING. MAKE YOUR +“WHAT STUPID ORDERS! THEY DON’T THEMSELVES KNOW WHAT THEY ARE +“WHAT’S YOUR NAME?” +WHAT THERE IS IN YOU.” +WHAT TO DO WITH HIS HANDS; HE WAS MORE ACCUSTOMED TO WALK OVER A PLOWED +“WHAT! TO WHOM?... NONSENSE!” CRIED THE COUNT, SUDDENLY REDDENING +WHAT WAS APPROACHING IN THE DISTANCE FROM THE OPPOSITE SIDE—THE BLUE +WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE PASSAGE. SOME WOMEN PASSING WITH QUIET STEPS IN +“WHAT WAS IT?” +WHAT WAS PASSING IN HIS MIND. +WHAT WE FATHERS HAVE TO PUT UP WITH.... IS THIS PRINCESS OF YOURS +“WHAT? WHAT? HOW DARE YOU? WHAT?” SAID TELYáNIN. +WHAT WILL HAPPEN AND DON’T WANT TO KNOW, AND CAN’T, BUT IF I WANT +“WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOW?” THOUGHT SHE. +“WHAT WOULD IT COST YOU TO SAY A WORD TO THE EMPEROR, AND THEN HE +“WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE ME DO?” HE SAID AT LAST. “YOU KNOW I DID ALL +“WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE, MY DEAR FELLOW?” ANSWERED PIERRE, SHRUGGING +“WHAT! YOU DON’T REMEMBER BORíS?” ASKED SóNYA IN SURPRISE. +“WHAT YOU HAVE WITH YOU: WATCH, MONEY, RINGS....” +“WHAT YOU SAID JUST NOW WAS SPLENDID!” SAID HIS PARTNER JULIE. +WHEELS AND PULLEYS IS MERELY A SLOW AND REGULAR MOVEMENT OF THE +WHEELS AND THE SENSATION OF VICTORY. THEN HE BEGAN TO IMAGINE THAT +WHEELS AND WORKING THE SCREWS HIMSELF. +WHEEL, WHICH MERGED IN HER MEMORY WITH WHAT FOLLOWED.) +WHEN ALL WAS READY, THE SABERS STUCK IN THE SNOW TO MARK THE BARRIERS, +“WHEN AM I TO RECEIVE THE MONEY, COUNT?” +WHEN ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA RETURNED FROM COUNT BEZúKHOV’S THE MONEY, ALL +“WHEN ARE YOU STARTING?” HE ASKED. +WHEN BORíS AND ANNA PáVLOVNA RETURNED TO THE OTHERS PRINCE HIPPOLYTE +WHEN BORíS APPEARED AT HIS DOOR PIERRE WAS PACING UP AND DOWN HIS ROOM, +WHEN BORíS, WHO WAS TO BE SERVED UP TO THE GUESTS, ENTERED THE DRAWING +WHENCE—A STERN NOTE OF WHICH ALL ARE CONSCIOUS SOUNDS IN THE MORAL +“WHEN DID YOU GET THE LETTER? WAS IT FROM OLMüTZ?” REPEATED +WHEN EVERYBODY ROSE TO GO, HéLèNE WHO HAD SPOKEN VERY LITTLE ALL +WHEN FOOTSTEPS OR VOICES WERE HEARD DID THEY LOOK AT ONE ANOTHER, THE +WHEN GERMANS START BEING ACCURATE, THERE’S NO END TO IT!” +WHEN HE CAME LEVEL WITH THE FOOT GUARDS HE NOTICED THAT ABOUT THEM AND +WHEN HE ENTERED, PRINCE ANDREW, HIS EYES DROOPING CONTEMPTUOUSLY (WITH +WHEN HE FIRST LOVED HER. HE THOUGHT OF HER PREGNANCY AND FELT SORRY FOR +WHEN HE GOT HOME HE COULD NOT SLEEP FOR A LONG TIME FOR THINKING OF WHAT +WHEN HE HAD BECOME A LITTLE QUIETER, HE EXPLAINED TO ROSTóV THAT HE WAS +WHEN HE HAD GONE LESS THAN HALF A MILE IN THE REAR OF THE COLUMN HE +“WHEN HE LOOKED AT MY FEET, FRIEND... WELL, THINKS I...” +WHEN HE NEEDS REPOSE? WORLDLY CONVERSATION AT A MOMENT WHEN HIS SOUL IS +“WHEN HER CONFINEMENT IS DUE, SEND TO MOSCOW FOR AN ACCOUCHEUR.... LET +WHEN HE REACHED KIEV HE SENT FOR ALL HIS STEWARDS TO THE HEAD OFFICE +WHEN HE READ THAT SENTENCE, PIERRE FELT FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT SOME +WHEN HE SAW THE MINISTER SEATED AT A LARGE TABLE READING SOME PAPERS +WHEN HE STAYED IN (AS HE SAID) FOR PIERRE’S SAKE, HARDLY EXCHANGED A +WHEN HE WAS DYING OF WOUNDS AND THE SOVEREIGN HAD THANKED HIM FOR HEROIC +WHEN HE WISHED TO SPEAK CONTEMPTUOUSLY, AND NOTICING BORíS, PRINCE +WHEN, IF YOU REMEMBER, HE POSED AS A SORT OF MARAT AT ONE OF MY SOIREES. +“WHEN I SAW, YOUR EXCELLENCY, THAT THEIR FIRST BATTALION WAS +WHEN I SAY SHE’LL BE A SINGER, A SECOND SALOMONI! WE HAVE ENGAGED AN +WHEN IT CAME TO NATáSHA’S TURN TO CHOOSE A PARTNER, SHE ROSE AND, +WHEN NATáSHA RAN OUT OF THE DRAWING ROOM SHE ONLY WENT AS FAR AS THE +WHEN PARIS WAS MENTIONED, MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE FOR HER PART SEIZED THE +WHEN PRINCE ANDREW ENTERED THE STUDY THE OLD MAN IN HIS OLD-AGE +WHEN PRINCE ANDREW LEFT THE PALACE HE FELT THAT ALL THE INTEREST +WHEN PRINCE ANDREW REACHED THE ROOM PREPARED FOR HIM AND LAY DOWN IN A +WHEN PRINCESS MARY CAME DOWN, PRINCE VASíLI AND HIS SON WERE ALREADY +WHEN PRINCESS MARY RETURNED FROM HER FATHER, THE LITTLE PRINCESS SAT +WHEN PRINCESS MARY WENT TO HIM AT THE USUAL HOUR HE WAS WORKING AT HIS +WHEN PRINCE VASíLI RETURNED TO THE DRAWING ROOM, THE PRINCESS, HIS +WHEN ROSTóV WENT BACK THERE WAS A BOTTLE OF VODKA AND A SAUSAGE ON THE +WHEN SHE BEGAN TO SPEAK PASSED THROUGH SUCH TRANSITIONS AS SHE HERSELF +WHEN SHE HAD SEEN HER GUESTS OUT. +WHEN SHE LOOKED UP AT HIM SHE WAS STRUCK BY HIS BEAUTY. ANATOLE STOOD +WHEN SHE SAID THIS, HE DID NOT REPLY AND ONLY BOWED, BUT AGAIN EVERYBODY +WHEN SHE SAW PIERRE ENTER. THOUGH HE WAS CERTAINLY RATHER BIGGER THAN +WHEN SHE SAW THE COUNT, SHE STRETCHED OUT HER ARMS TO HIM, EMBRACED HIS +WHEN SHE TOOK HER SEAT OPPOSITE AND BEAMED UPON HIM ALSO WITH HER +WHEN SHE WAS NOT LIKE THAT AND WHEN EVERYTHING WAS LIGHT AND GAY. SHE +“WHEN SPEAKING TO THE EMPEROR, TRY AS FAR AS YOU CAN TO PRAISE THE WAY +WHEN STARTING ON A JOURNEY OR CHANGING THEIR MODE OF LIFE, MEN CAPABLE +WHEN TELYáNIN HAD FINISHED HIS LUNCH HE TOOK OUT OF HIS POCKET A DOUBLE +WHEN THE EAGER BUT MISREPEATED WORDS HAD REACHED THEIR DESTINATION IN +WHEN THE EMPEROR HAD PASSED NEARLY ALL THE REGIMENTS, THE TROOPS BEGAN +WHEN THE MILITARY GOVERNOR HAD GONE, PRINCE VASíLI SAT DOWN ALL ALONE +WHEN THE MONOTONOUS SOUND OF WEYROTHER’S VOICE CEASED, KUTúZOV OPENED +WHEN THE OFFICERS HAD EMPTIED AND SMASHED THEIR GLASSES, KíRSTEN FILLED +WHEN THE PRINCESS, AS IF LOST IN A FOG, HAD ALREADY STAGGERED OUT OF THE +WHEN THE READING WHICH LASTED MORE THAN AN HOUR WAS OVER, LANGERON AGAIN +WHEN THE REVIEW WAS OVER, THE NEWLY ARRIVED OFFICERS, AND ALSO +WHEN THE SUBJECT DID NOT RELATE TO HIMSELF, BUT IN CONNECTION WITH THE +WHEN THE SUN HAD ENTIRELY EMERGED FROM THE FOG, AND FIELDS AND MIST WERE +WHEN THE TWENTY MINUTES HAD ELAPSED AND THE TIME HAD COME FOR THE OLD +WHEN THEY AGAIN HEARD AN UNEXPECTEDLY VIOLENT WHISTLING WHICH SUDDENLY +WHEN THEY DRINK, PRESSING HIS SPURS MERCILESSLY INTO THE SIDES OF HIS +WHEN THEY PLAYED SOME TRICKS ON A POLICEMAN, DIDN’T THEY DO IT +WHEN THEY SAW HIS LOOKS. +WHEN WE WERE REJOICING AT HIS HAPPINESS! AND SUCH A LOFTY ANGELIC SOUL +“WHEN WOULD YOU LIKE THEM, YOUR EXCELLENCY?” ASKED DMíTRI. “ALLOW +WHEN YOU BEGAN LIVING FOR OTHERS. I EXPERIENCED JUST THE REVERSE. I +“WHEN YOU SEE MY SISTER, PRINCESS MARY, YOU’LL GET ON WITH HER,” +WHERE. +“WHERE AM I? OH YES, IN THE SKIRMISHING LINE... PASS AND +WHERE A PARADE DOES NOT BEGIN TILL ALL THE TROOPS ARE ASSEMBLED,” SAID +“WHERE ARE HEADQUARTERS?” +“WHERE ARE YOU GOING?” ASKED AN INFANTRY OFFICER WHO WAS EATING AN +“WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO NOW, MY DEAR SIR?” +“WHERE ARE YOU OFF TO?” ASKED BORíS. +“WHERE ARE YOU OFF TO?” HE SAID SUDDENLY TO PRINCE ANDREW WHO HAD +WHEREAS IT WAS PERHAPS NOT KNOWN, SINCE THE ENEMY WAS IN MOVEMENT. +“WHERE? AT BYKOV’S, AT THE RAT’S... I KNEW IT,” REPLIED A PIPING +“WHERE HAVE YOU PUT IT, WOSTóV?” +WHERE HE COULD NEVER HAVE EXPECTED THE ENEMY TO BE. +WHERE HE WAS STAYING, AND HAD BEEN ABSURD, EXCITED, AND FOOLISH IN +WHERE HIS REGIMENT WAS STATIONED, AND TAKE HIM TO VISIT PRINCE NICHOLAS +“WHERE IS DóLOKHOV?” ASKED KUTúZOV. +“WHERE IS IT, THAT LOFTY SKY THAT I DID NOT KNOW TILL NOW, BUT SAW +“WHERE IS THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF?” ASKED BOLKóNSKI. +“WHERE IS THE EMPEROR? WHERE IS KUTúZOV?” ROSTóV KEPT ASKING +“WHERE IS THE PRINCESS?” HE ASKED. “HIDING?” +WHERE’S THE VICTORY?” +WHERE THE CLAVICHORD STOOD. +“WHERE THE DEVIL HAVE THE LEG BANDS BEEN SHOVED TO?” SAID AN +WHERE THE HOTTEST MUSKET FIRE AND CANNONADE WERE HEARD. SUDDENLY HE +WHERE THE RIVALS SUDDENLY RECOGNIZED ONE ANOTHER; AND THE LADIES LOOKED +WHERE THE SLEIGHS HAD BEEN LEFT, IN A SMALL CLEARING IN THE PINE FOREST +“WHERE TO?” +“WHERE TO?” +WHERE TO FIND ME, BUT DON’T FORGET THAT I DO NOT REGARD EITHER MYSELF +WHERE TúSHIN’S GUNS WERE STATIONED WAS AN UNHARNESSED HORSE WITH A +“WHERE WOULD I NOT GO AT THE COUNTESS’ COMMAND!” SAID DENíSOV, +WHERE YOU ALWAYS RAN AWAY; YOU REMEMBER CETTE CHèRE ANNETTE!” +WHETHER HE WAS SPEAKING IN JEST OR IN EARNEST. “AH, YOUR EXCELLENCY! +WHETHER HE WAS STILL FIRM IN HIS INTENTION AND DETERMINED TO SUBMIT TO +WHETHER SHE OUGHT TO WRITE, TORMENTED HER. NOW THAT HE WAS ALREADY AN +WHETHER WHAT HE SAID WAS VERY WITTY OR VERY STUPID. HE WAS DRESSED IN +WHICH A FAINT SMILE FORGOT TO FADE THOUGH HIS FEATURES NOW EXPRESSED +WHICH AN ENORMOUS MAP OF THE ENVIRONS OF BRüNN WAS SPREAD OUT. +WHICH AROUSED HIS OWN PITY. +WHICH AT LEAST HALF OF THEM WOULD BE LEFT ON THE FIELD. AFTER PASSING A +WHICH ATTRACTED HIM. HE VERY READILY TOOK UP BORíS’ CAUSE AND WENT +WHICH CHANGED HIS APPEARANCE FOR THE WORSE. THERE WAS SOMETHING NAïVELY +WHICH COVERED WITH SNOW, APPEARED ON THE LANDING WHERE THE FOOTMAN +WHICH DENíSOV FOLLOWED HER. +WHICH DID NOT LEAVE HIS EAGER FACE. “HOCH OESTREICHER! HOCH RUSSEN! +WHICH DóLOKHOV’S SECOND HAD CALLED ON HIM, AND, HAVING CLOSED THE +WHICH EVERY FREEMASON SHOULD CULTIVATE IN HIMSELF. THESE VIRTUES WERE: +WHICH FORMS AN IMPENETRABLE VEIL BETWEEN US AND THE ETERNAL? LET US +WHICH HAD BEEN PARTICULARLY REVIVED AND STRENGTHENED BY HIS LATE TOUR. +WHICH HAD DISAPPEARED, BUT AT FRENCH INFANTRY WHO HAD COME INTO THE +WHICH HAD GROWN MUCH OLDER. +WHICH HAD LOST ALL DIGNITY, AND AT THE TWITCHING CHEEKS OF PRINCE +WHICH HE ALWAYS DECEIVED HIMSELF. THE QUESTION WAS WHETHER HE COULD EVER +WHICH HE FOUND HIMSELF. ANNA PáVLOVNA WAS OBVIOUSLY SERVING HIM UP AS +WHICH HE HAD COME OUT WAS THRONGED WITH CALèCHES, CARRIAGES OF ALL +WHICH HE HAD RECKONED UP TO TEN THOUSAND, BUT THAT NOW, AS HE VAGUELY +WHICH HE HAD WORN ON HIS ITALIAN CAMPAIGN, SAT ON HIS SMALL GRAY ARAB +WHICH HE HELD THE HILT OF HIS NAKED SABER, LOOKED JUST AS IT USUALLY +WHICH HELD HIM IN THEIR POWER.... THE TEN FELL TO HIM. +WHICH HE PRESENTED TO PRINCE BAGRATIóN. ON THE SALVER LAY SOME VERSES +(WHICH HE VERY LIKELY WOULD BE), AND FOUND THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF +“WHICH HOUSE IS IT?” ASKED THE DRIVER. +WHICH ILYá ROSTóV BLUSHED WITH SELF-CONSCIOUS PLEASURE), THE FOOTMEN +WHICH, IN ACCORD WITH THE CLUB CUSTOM, HE HAD GIVEN UP TO THE HALL +WHICH INDICATES THAT PATIENCE IS EXHAUSTED. +WHICH I NOT ONLY CANNOT ADDRESS BUT WHICH I CANNOT EVEN EXPRESS IN +WHICH INTELLECTUAL KNOWLEDGE IS DIVIDED. THE HIGHEST WISDOM IS ONE. +WHICH INTIMATED THAT HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS ABOUT AND IF OTHERS DID NOT +WHICH I SHALL LEAD THE ARMY.” +WHICH IS THE ONLY THING WE NEED FEAR, OR HE IS CHANGING HIS POSITION.” +“WHICH IS THE SENIOR?” HE ASKED, ON SEEING THE PRISONERS. +WHICH IT IS DIFFICULT TO JUSTIFY.” +WHICH IT RESTS AND WHICH NO HUMAN POWER CAN DESTROY, IS THE PRESERVATION +WHICH MADE A CERTAIN SENSATION, THE COUNT EXCHANGED GLANCES WITH +WHICH NICHOLAS ROSTóV SERVED AND WHICH WAS IN PRINCE BAGRATIóN’S +WHICH PRINCESS MARY MEEKLY SUBMITTED, JUST AS HER HAIR HAD BEEN ARRANGED +WHICH SEEMED TO HIM DAZZLINGLY RED, AND AT THE FEEBLE, ROUND-SHOULDERED +WHICH SEEMED TO RISE OUT OF THE SEA OF MIST AND ON WHICH THE RUSSIAN +WHICH SEEMED TO SAY THAT HE WAS NOT BLAMING ANYONE, BUT COULD NOT HELP +WHICH SEEMED TO STAND RATHER THAN LIE DOWN ON HIS MASSIVE SHOULDERS. HE +WHICH SEVERAL OTHERS JOINED BUT WHICH BORED PIERRE. WHEN THE MUSIC BEGAN +WHICH SHE NEITHER WISHED, NOR COULD, NOR CONSIDERED IT NECESSARY, TO +WHICH SHE SPOKE OF HER EXALTED PATRONESS, SUPPORTED HéLèNE’S WISH. +WHICH SHOWED THAT HE ONLY UNDERSTOOD THE MEANING OF HIS WORDS AFTER HE +WHICH STOOD ON HER RIGHT. IT REFLECTED A WEAK, UNGRACEFUL FIGURE AND +WHICH THE CADET UNDER FIRE FOR THE FIRST TIME HAD EXPERIENCED. +WHICH THE GUARDS PRIDED THEMSELVES), THE OFFICERS ON FOOT AND AT THEIR +WHICH THE PRINCE HAD RETAINED FOR HIMSELF. +WHICH THE ROSTóVS ALWAYS ATTENDED. HE WAS POINTEDLY ATTENTIVE TO SóNYA +WHICH THE SERFS’ MANORIAL LABOR HAD BEEN DIMINISHED, AND HEARD THE +WHICH THEY WERE PRESENT, AND WENT TO IOGEL’S BALLS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE +WHICH THOUGH THEY EMBARRASSED PIERRE AWAKENED A JOYFUL FEELING IN THE +WHICH TO ATTACK AND DEFEAT THE ENEMY SHOULD HE CROSS THE LECH. ALSO, +WHICH TO REPLY TO DóLOKHOV’S WORDS. BUT BEFORE HE HAD THOUGHT OF +WHICH WAS A LIE, AND WORSE THAN A LIE? I AM GUILTY AND MUST ENDURE... +WHICH WAS LITTERED WITH BOOKS AND PAPERS. THE PRINCESS WAS AS UNTIDY AS +WHICH WAS NOT CLEAR TO HIM, TO QUESTION HIS CHIEF STEWARD, TO VISIT HIS +WHICH WAS OFFERED HIM. TELYáNIN FOR SOME REASON HAD BEEN TRANSFERRED +WHICH WAS PRESUMABLY SOMEWHERE IN THE SAME NEIGHBORHOOD. AND SO IT WAS +WHICH WAS TO BE FOUND “THE CREAM OF REALLY GOOD SOCIETY, THE BLOOM +WHICH WERE TO BE THE FIRST TO DESCEND THE HEIGHTS TO ATTACK THE FRENCH +WHICH WERE UPPERMOST IN HIS MIND AT THAT MOMENT, ADDRESSED PRINCE ANDREW +(WHICH WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT), HE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO GET BACK BEFORE +WHILE DRESSING, AND YET THE QUESTION HE WAS ALWAYS PUTTING OFF DEMANDED +WHILE FATHER AND SON WERE HAVING THEIR EXPLANATION, THE MOTHER AND +WHILE HE TRIED TO PROVE TO PIERRE THAT IN HIS ACTIONS THERE WAS NO +WHILE IN THE ROSTóVS’ BALLROOM THE SIXTH ANGLAISE WAS BEING DANCED, +WHILE ON THE SCAFFOLDING, IN THE MIDST OF A TALK EXPLAINING THE FUTURE +WHILE OTHERS SOUGHT SOME EXTRAORDINARY EXPLANATION OF SO STRANGE AN +WHILE PRINCE ANDREW ON THE CONTRARY, TAKING NO PART IN THE WAR AND +WHILE PRINCE ANDREW WENT TO REPORT ABOUT THE PURPLE-FACED GENERAL, THAT +WHILE ROSTóV WAS THUS ARGUING WITH HIMSELF AND RIDING SADLY AWAY, +WHILE THE COUNT WAS BEING TURNED OVER, ONE OF HIS ARMS FELL BACK +WHILE THE COUPLES WERE ARRANGING THEMSELVES AND THE MUSICIANS TUNING UP, +WHILE THE GUESTS WERE TAKING THEIR LEAVE PIERRE REMAINED FOR A LONG TIME +WHILE THESE CONVERSATIONS WERE GOING ON IN THE RECEPTION ROOM AND THE +WHILE THE YOUNGEST, THE ONE WITH THE MOLE, WHO WAS OF A CHEERFUL AND +WHILE UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE COUNTESS AND THE SOLICITUDE OF THE +WHILE WE, ON THE OTHER HAND, WITH OUR LEFT WING BY FAR OUTFLANK HIS +WHIRLED ROUND IT AT FULL SPEED WITH HER DRESS PUFFED OUT LIKE A BALLOON, +WHISPERED, AND A SHUDDER RAN DOWN HER BACK. +WHISPERED TO HIM. “THIS HAPPINESS IS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT IN THEM +WHISPERED TO ONE ANOTHER, CASTING SIGNIFICANT LOOKS AT HIM WITH A KIND +WHISPER, “HAS COMPROMISED HER COMPLETELY, THEY SAY. PIERRE TOOK HIM +WHISPERING, AND BETRAYING BY EVERY WORD AND MOVEMENT THAT THEY NONE +WHISPERS. +WHISPERS, AND, WHENEVER ANYONE WENT INTO OR CAME FROM THE DYING MAN’S +WHISTLING, SINGING, AND HISSING CONTINUALLY AROUND THEM. HE SPOKE IN THE +WHITE COSSACK COAT, AND BRING HIM ALONG TO ME.” +WHITE FOAM FROM HIS BIT, TRAMPING THE PLANKS OF THE BRIDGE WITH HIS +WHITE FOAM ON THE WAVES OF THE ENNS, AN OFFICER, IN A CLOAK AND WITH +WHITE HANDS WITH AN AIR OF CALM IMPORTANCE. +WHITE HORSE, WAS PRINCE BAGRATIóN. PRINCE ANDREW STOPPED, WAITING FOR +WHITE ONE, THE WHITE ONE!” +WHITE PLUMES IN HIS HAT RODE A BOBTAILED CHESTNUT HORSE, THE OTHER WHO +WHITE RUFFLE, OUTLINING HIS RATHER LONG FACE WHICH WAS LIT UP FROM +WHITES GLITTERING AND ROLLING AS HE WAVED HIS SHEATHED SABER IN A SMALL +WHITE TEETH FIERCELY AND SPURRING HIS BLACK THOROUGHBRED ARAB, WHICH +“WHO?” +WHO ALSO ENJOYED THE FAMOUS ACTRESS’ FAVORS, AND THAT IN HIS PRESENCE +WHO ALWAYS SOLVED QUESTIONS THAT SEEMED TO HIM PERPLEXING BY DECIDING +WHO AMUSES HIMSELF IN THIS SENSIBLE MANNER! AND HE WAS SAID TO BE SO +WHO, ANGRY AND FRIGHTENED, STRODE ENERGETICALLY ALONG WITH DOWNCAST +WHO APPEARED AT HIS CALL. “HURRY OFF AND TELL MAKSíM, THE GARDENER, +“WHO ARE THEY? WHY ARE THEY HERE? WHAT DO THEY WANT? AND WHEN WILL +“WHO ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?” +“WHO?” ASKED ROSTóV. +WHO, AS THEY PASSED THROUGH IN THEIR BALL DRESSES WITH DIAMONDS AND +WHO AT THE FRONT HAD THE POWER TO ANNIHILATE HIM, A LIEUTENANT OF THE +WHO AT THE ROSTóVS’ HAD JOCULARLY ASSUMED THE ROLE OF NATáSHA’S +WHO CAME TO CONGRATULATE, AND WHO CONSTANTLY SUCCEEDED ONE ANOTHER IN +“WHO CAN TELL, YOUR HONOR?” REPLIED THE HUSSAR RELUCTANTLY. +WHO COULD THEREFORE BE OF USE TO HIM. HE LIKED PETERSBURG AND DESPISED +WHO—DREADING THIS LOVE AFFAIR WHICH MIGHT HINDER NICHOLAS FROM MAKING +WHOEVER HE MAY BE, EXHORT HIM WHO GOETH ASTRAY, RAISE HIM THAT FALLETH, +WHO EVIDENTLY UNDERSTOOD HIS CASE AND WISHED HIM NOTHING BUT GOOD, +(WHO GAZED WITH CURIOSITY AT THE SOLDIERS) WERE NOT RUSSIANS, THE +WHO GIVES HIMSELF THE AIRS OF A MONARCH.” +WHO HAD COME INTO THE ROOM UNNOTICED BY ANYONE, STOOD THERE AND WIPED +WHO HAD COME UP TO THE COT WITH NOISELESS STEPS, LIFTED THE CURTAIN, +WHO HAD EVIDENTLY JUST ARRIVED, ENTERED QUICKLY, SLAMMING THE DOOR. +WHO HAD GROWN OLD IN SOCIETY AND AT COURT. HE WENT UP TO ANNA PáVLOVNA, +WHO HAD HIM UNDER OBSERVATION, INTERRUPTED: +WHO HAD LOLLED IN ANNA PáVLOVNA’S EASY CHAIRS AND WITH HALF-CLOSED +WHO HAD MARCHED SO GAILY AND COMPLACENTLY. BUT AT THE MOMENT THE FIRST +WHO HAD RECENTLY OPENED A RESTAURANT THERE WITH GIRLS AS WAITRESSES. +WHO HAD SHELTERED IN THE VILLAGE HOUSES. THEY ALL RUSHED OUT OF +WHO HAD SPOKEN TO HIM ON BEHALF OF HER ONLY SON BORíS ON THE EVENING OF +WHO HAD STOLEN SOME BOOTS FROM THE RECRUITS; I SHOULD EVEN HAVE BEEN +WHO HAD WISHED TO STOP THE AFFAIR RAN TO A CORNER OF THE ROOM AND THREW +WHO HAVE STRIVEN TO ATTAIN THIS MYSTERY, AND THEREBY TO RENDER THEM +“WHO IS IT YOU WANT?” HE ASKED. “THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF? HE WAS +WHO, JESTING AND LAUGHING, STARED AT THEIR STRANGE FOREIGN ENEMIES. +WHO KEPT HER WAITING SOME MINUTES. “DON’T YOU WISH TO SERVE ME? THEN +WHO KISSED HIS HAND. +“WHO? KUTúZOV?” ASKED ROSTóV. +WHO LAYS BACK HER EARS AND CONTINUES TO CROUCH MOTIONLESS BEFORE HER +WHOLE ARMY.” +WHOLE ARMY IT IS STILL UNCERTAIN WHETHER HE IS ALIVE OR NOT. I COMFORT +WHOLE BODY JERKED AT EACH STEP. THE ELDEST PRINCESS FOLLOWED HIM, AND +WHOLE DINING HALL, AND LAST OF ALL THE CHILDREN, TUTORS, AND GOVERNESSES +WHOLE MASS OF MEN WAS CONCENTRATED. +WHOLE SET. YES, YOU’RE ALL RIGHT! CHOOSE WHAT YOU WILL; IT’S ALL THE +WHOLE TENOR OF HIS THOUGHTS INSTANTANEOUSLY CHANGED; THE BATTLE SEEMED +WHO, LIKING WORK, KNEW HOW TO DO IT, AND DESPITE HIS INDOLENCE WOULD +WHO LOOKED AT HER, AFTER BEING IN HER COMPANY AND TALKING TO HER A +WHO MADE HER A LOW BOW WHEN SHE MET HIM IN THE CORRIDOR CARRYING HOT +WHOM ALL THE REGIMENT KNEW FOR A ROGUE. +WHOM DID YOU APPLY?” +WHO MET HIM WITH THE CROSS OPPRESSED THE PEASANTS BY HIS EXACTIONS, AND +WHOM HE HAD PROMISED TO TAKE HOME. +WHOM HE NOW FOUND NOTHING IN COMMON. “WE WILL GO AFTER DINNER. AND +WHOM HE WAS AGAIN TALKING WITH THE SAME INVOLUNTARY SMILE. SóNYA WORE +WHOM I MENTION THIS, BECAUSE I LIKE YOU.” +“WHOM SHALL I ANNOUNCE?” +WHOM SHOULD I SAY THAT? EITHER TO A POWER INDEFINABLE, INCOMPREHENSIBLE, +WHO ON KUTúZOV’S STAFF IN CHARGE OF THE PROVISIONING OF THE RUSSIAN +WHO RAN DOWNSTAIRS AND LOOKED OVER FROM THE HALFWAY LANDING. +WHO RECOGNIZED HIM AND SAID A FEW WORDS TO HIM, DISJOINTED AND AWKWARD, +WHO REMAINED BEHIND, AND THE MONOTONOUS TRAMP OF THOUSANDS OF FEET +WHO’S A BETTER MAN THAN YOU IN EVERY WAY...” +“WHO SACRIFICED EVERYTHING FOR HIM,” CHIMED IN THE PRINCESS, WHO +“WHOSE COMPANY?” ASKED PRINCE BAGRATIóN OF AN ARTILLERYMAN STANDING +WHOSE STATE OF UNCONQUERABLE CHILDISH EMBARRASSMENT NOW CHANGING TO +WHOSE WORDS STRUCK PIERRE MORE AND MORE BY THEIR PRECISION AND FIRMNESS. +“WHO SHOULD IT BE? YOU YOURSELF TOLD HIM TO COME. IT’S THE +“WHO’S THAT CURTSEYING THERE? CADET MIWóNOV! THAT’S NOT WIGHT! +“WHO’S THAT RUNNING ON THE MIDDLE OF THE BRIDGE? TO THE RIGHT! COME +“WHO’S THAT? WHY? WAIT A MOMENT!” ANATOLE’S FACE SEEMED TO SAY. + WHO STILL IS THINKING BUT OF THEE! +WHO STOOD IN THE MIDST OF THE GROUP, WITHOUT A COAT, AND WITH HIS FINE +“WHO THE DEVIL HAS PUT THE LOGS ON THE ROAD?” SNARLED HE. +“WHO TOLD YOU THAT? WHO?” CRIED THE PRINCE. “SUVóROV!” AND HE +WHO WAS A SECRETARY TO THE EMBASSY, BOLKóNSKI WAS ALREADY ACQUAINTED. +WHO WAS ASSOCIATED BY MEMORIES OF THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN WITH THE NAME OF +WHO WAS IN A HIGH FEVER. THESE LAST DAYS, MISTRUSTING THEIR HOUSEHOLD +WHO WAS KISSING HER HAND, “YOU’RE FEELING DULL IN MOSCOW, I DARESAY? +WHO WAS PASSING: +WHO WAS REDUCED TO THE RANKS, TOOK A FRENCH OFFICER PRISONER IN MY +WHO WAS SITTING SILENTLY BESIDE HIM, WHAT HE THOUGHT OF TOMORROW’S +“WHO WAS THAT?” ASKED BORíS. +“WHO WAS THAT? THE MILITARY GOVERNOR HIMSELF?” WAS BEING ASKED AT +WHO WILL NOT REFUSE TO ACCOMPANY YOU.” +WHO, WITH HIS FACE BURIED IN THE GROUND AND A BLACKENED NAPE, LAY ON HIS +“WH-WHAT IS THE MATTER?” ASKED BOTH THE YOUNG AND OLD ROSTóV. +“WHY?” +“WHY?” +WHY. +“WHY A BLUE COAT? OFF WITH IT... SERGEANT MAJOR! CHANGE HIS COAT... +“WHY AREN’T YOU BEGINNING, MICHAEL ILARIóNOVICH?” SAID THE +“WHY AREN’T YOU SERVING IN THE ARMY?” +“WHY ARE THEY DOWN ON ME?” THOUGHT TúSHIN, LOOKING IN ALARM AT HIS +“WHY ARE YOU CRYING, MAMMA?” ASKED VéRA. “FROM ALL HE SAYS ONE +“WHY ARE YOU GOING? I KNOW YOU THINK IT YOUR DUTY TO GALLOP BACK TO +WHY ARE YOU HINDERING US?” ANOTHER IN THE SAME PLACE TURNED ROUND AND +“WHY ARE YOU SO GLUM?” ASKED NESVíTSKI NOTICING PRINCE ANDREW’S +WHY DID I BIND MYSELF TO HER? WHY DID I SAY ‘JE VOUS AIME’ * TO HER, +“WHY DIDN’T YOU CAPTURE ONE, JUST ONE, MARSHAL FOR US?” +“WHY DIDN’T YOU MENTION IT, PRINCE? I WOULD HAVE OFFERED YOU +“WHY DID SóNYA RUN AWAY?” ASKED ROSTóV. +“WHY DID THEY WRITE, WHY DID LISE TELL ME ABOUT IT? IT CAN NEVER +“WHY DID YOU NOT SUCCEED IN IMPRESSING ON BONAPARTE BY DIPLOMATIC +WHY DOESN’T THE FRENCHMAN STAB HIM? HE WILL NOT GET AWAY BEFORE THE +“WHY DOESN’T THE RED-HAIRED GUNNER RUN AWAY AS HE IS UNARMED? +“WHY, DON’T YOU HEAR IT?” ROSTóV ASKED AGAIN, AFTER WAITING FOR A +“WHY DON’T YOU PLAY?” HE ASKED. +“WHY DON’T YOU RENEW THE ACQUAINTANCE?” SAID DóLOKHOV TO ROSTóV. +“WHY DON’T YOU SPEAK, COUSIN?” SUDDENLY SHRIEKED THE PRINCESS SO +“WHY DO THEY WANT TO MAKE HER SING? HOW CAN SHE SING? THERE’S +“WHY DO YOU SAY THIS YOUNG MAN IS SO RICH?” ASKED THE COUNTESS, +“WHY DO YOU SHOUT SO? YOU’LL FRIGHTEN THEM!” SAID BORíS. “I DID +“WHY, FOR THIS REASON! MY FATHER IS ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE MEN OF +“WHY HAVE WE STOPPED? IS THE WAY BLOCKED? OR HAVE WE ALREADY COME UP +“WHY HAVE YOU THROWN THAT AWAY?” ASKED BORíS. +“WHY, HAVE YOU TOO MUCH MONEY?” +“WHY, I DIDN’T RECOGNIZE YOU!” HE SAID. BUT ROSTóV WAS OTHERWISE +“WHY? I LOVE YOU MORE THAN EVER,” SAID PRINCESS MARY, “AND I WILL +“WHY, IS IT LATE?” +“WHY IS IT WRONG?” URGED PRINCE ANDREW. “IT IS NOT GIVEN TO MAN +“WHY IS IT YOU WERE NEVER AT ANNETTE’S?” THE LITTLE PRINCESS ASKED +“WHY NO, MY DEAR FELLOW,” SAID THE ASTONISHED NARRATOR, SHRUGGING +“WHY NOT?” INQUIRED BORíS. +“WHY NOT WASH? THAT IS NOT CLEANLY,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW; “ON THE +“WHY RUN RISKS, CAPTAIN? YOU SHOULD DISMOUNT,” HE SAID. +WHY SHE’S ASHAMED!” +“WHY SHOULD I ENVY THEM? MY CHANCE IS NOT LOST, AND MAYBE I SHALL SEE +“WHY SHOULD I MIND MONSIEUR PIERRE BEING HERE?” EXCLAIMED THE LITTLE +“WHY SHOULDN’T I SPEAK? I CAN SPEAK AS I LIKE, AND I TELL YOU +“WHY SHOULD YOU BE ASHAMED?” +“WHY SO?” ASKED PRINCE ANDREW. “TO KILL A VICIOUS DOG IS A VERY +“WHY TALK NONSENSE? SAY WHAT YOU WANT.” +“WHY TERRIBLE?” ASKED NICHOLAS. “NO, VáSKA IS A SPLENDID +“WHY, THAT ONE, RIGHT AT THE END, THE BIG ONE. DON’T YOU SEE? +WHY THEY ALL LOOKED SO AT HIM, AND FLATTERED BY THIS GENERAL ADMIRATION +“WHY, THIS IS A PALACE!” SHE SAID TO HER HUSBAND, LOOKING AROUND +“WHY,” THOUGHT PRINCE ANDREW, “THAT’S THE CAPTAIN WHO STOOD UP +“WHY ‘WHAT THE DEVIL’?” SAID BORíS, PICKING IT UP AND READING +“WHY, YOU REMEMBER BEFORE YOU WENT AWAY?... WELL, SHE SAYS YOU ARE TO +WIDER THAN OURS, AND IT WAS PLAIN THAT THEY COULD EASILY OUTFLANK US +WIDTH OF THE FIELD, AN ENORMOUS MASS OF CAVALRY IN BRILLIANT WHITE +WIFE: “AH, WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS TO ME?” +WIFE AND HER TALL CAP WITH ITS LIGHT-BLUE RIBBONS, AND BUSILY FILLED +WIFE, AND THAT IT COULD NOT BE OTHERWISE. +WIFE... GOD BLESS YOU!...” +WIFE, HOW SHE WOULD LOVE HIM BECOME QUITE DIFFERENT, AND HOW ALL HE HAD +WIFE’S COMMAND HAD LET HIS HAIR GROW AND ABANDONED HIS SPECTACLES, +WIFE, SISTER, AND FUTURE SON, AND THE TENDERNESS HE HAD FELT THE NIGHT +WIFE, WAS TALKING IN LOW TONES TO THE ELDERLY LADY ABOUT PIERRE. +WIFE, WHILE YOU...” +WILD VIRGIN PINE FOREST, AND FAR AWAY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ENNS THE +WILL ACCEPT THEM,” SAID NESVíTSKI (WHO LIKE THE OTHERS CONCERNED IN +WILL ALL DIE FOR HIM GLADLY! IS IT NOT SO, GENTLEMEN? PERHAPS I AM NOT +WILL ALL END IN NOTHING!” +WILL ALL THE SAME NEVER BE LIKE THOSE PETERSBURG YOUNG MEN.” +WILLARSKI BOWED HIS HEAD. +WILLARSKI WAS SILENT THROUGHOUT THE DRIVE. TO PIERRE’S INQUIRIES AS +WILLARSKI, WHOM PIERRE HAD KNOWN SLIGHTLY IN PETERSBURG SOCIETY, CAME +WILL BE CUT OFF,” SAID HE. +WILL BEGIN. AND HE SAYS BUONAPARTE IS IN BRAUNAU! SHOWS YOU’RE A FOOL. +WILL BE MY TEACHER...” AND LOWERING HIS BIG ARM HE OFFERED IT TO THE +WILL CERTAINLY BE GRANTED. PIERRE WILL GET EVERYTHING AS THE LEGITIMATE +WILL CERTAINLY HAPPEN!” THOUGHT PIERRE, GLANCING AT THOSE DAZZLING +WILL COME!” +WILL COME BACK IN A RAGE. WILL YOU HAVE COFFEE?” +WILLING, ARE GOING TO DIE IN THE REGIMENT, WE PRIZE THE HONOR OF THE +WILL IN PIERRE’S FAVOR ARE AMONG THE COUNT’S PAPERS, THEN, MY DEAR +WILL JUST BE TIME.” +WILL NOT REACH YOUR REGIMENT BEFORE PEACE IS CONCLUDED, OR YOU WILL +WILL NOT REST UNTIL THEY HAVE GAINED THEIR END, AND ARE PREPARED IF +WILL PASS HERE IMMEDIATELY; IT WILL PLEASE HIM TO SEE THESE GENTLEMEN +WILL SLASH AT HIM!” THOUGHT ROSTóV, GRIPPING THE HILT OF HIS SABER. +WILL. THE RACES, THE ENGLISH CLUB, SPREES WITH DENíSOV, AND VISITS TO +“WILL THEY BURN THE BRIDGE OR NOT? WHO’LL GET THERE FIRST? WILL THEY +WILL THEY CROSS POMERANIA?” +WILL TO TELL ONLY WHAT HAPPENED. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO TELL THE TRUTH, +“WILL YOU BET? THE RIBBON OF THE ORDER IS A DIFFERENT MATTER....” +“WILL YOU HAVE THE PORTMANTEAUS BROUGHT IN? AND A BED GOT READY, AND +WINDOW AND FROM DóLOKHOV’S BACK. ANATOLE STOOD ERECT WITH STARING +WINDOW, FROM WHICH THE DOUBLE FRAME HAD BEEN REMOVED (BY ORDER OF THE +WINDOW. NESVíTSKI, MOVING HIS MOIST LIPS AS HE CHEWED SOMETHING, AND +WINDOW SILL. +WINDOW SILL, WITH A PALE BUT RADIANT FACE. +WINDOWS OPENING INTO THE CONSERVATORY, WITH ITS LARGE BUST AND FULL +WIND TO CARRY AWAY. A PLEASANT HUMMING AND WHISTLING OF BULLETS WERE +“WINE? GLUTTONY? IDLENESS? LAZINESS? IRRITABILITY? ANGER? WOMEN?” +WINE WITH DIGNITY AND LOOKING TO THE COUNT FOR APPROVAL. +WINGS, HOPING BEFORE EVENING AND BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF THE EMPEROR TO +WING WITH THE OTHER, PRINCE ANDREW MET MADEMOISELLE BOURIENNE SMILING +WINTER OF 1806, WHICH NICHOLAS ROSTóV SPENT IN MOSCOW, WAS ONE OF THE +WIPING THEM ON THE SLEEVES OF THEIR GREATCOATS. ALL THEIR FACES WERE +WISDOM.” +WISH?” +WISHED BOTH TO REBUKE HIM (FOR DARING TO SPEAK AS HE HAD DONE OF A MAN +WISHED TO DO SOMETHING SPECIAL ON MEETING HIS FRIEND. HE WANTED TO PINCH +WISHED TO HELP HIM BUT COULD NOT. +WISHED TO MAKE SOME SUGGESTION. BUT PRINCE VASíLI INTERRUPTED HIM IN +WISHED TO SAY SOMETHING MORE, BUT AT THAT MOMENT PRINCE VASíLI AND HIS +WISHED TO SEE THE REGIMENT JUST IN THE STATE IN WHICH IT HAD BEEN ON +WISHED TO TAKE ANOTHER SEAT SO AS NOT TO TROUBLE THE LADY, AND ALSO TO +WISHES; THAT IS MY ONLY REASON FOR BEING HERE. I CAME SIMPLY TO HELP HIM +WISHES TO STAY WITH ME, LET HIM... HE’LL BE OF USE HERE IF HE’S A +WISHES TO TEST ME!” HIS HEART CONTRACTED AND THE BLOOD RUSHED TO HIS +WISHING TO AVAIL HIMSELF OF THEIR COURTESY, AND THIS CAUSED SOME DELAY +WISHING TO FIND OUT WHERE THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF WAS, HE RODE UP TO +WISHING TO RID HIMSELF OF THIS STAFF OFFICER’S COMPANY, “PLEASE +WISHING TO SHOW HER CONNECTIONS AND KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT WENT ON IN +WISHING TO SHOW HIM THAT SHE DID NOT EVEN DARE EXPECT TO INTEREST HIM, +WISHING TO TAKE IT OFF, BUT LET IT DROP AGAIN. THE FIVE MINUTES SPENT +WISH OR NOT TO BE PRINCE ANATOLE KURáGIN’S WIFE? REPLY: YES OR NO,” +WISH TO BE SEEN IN THAT MOOD, FOR HEARING FOOTSTEPS IN THE PASSAGE HE +WISH, TO COURT SOCIETY’S FAVOR. NOW HE ALONE WAS BLAMED FOR WHAT HAD +WITH A BASHFUL AND AWKWARD GESTURE NOT AT ALL LIKE A MILITARY SALUTE +WITH A BOTTLE WRAPPED IN A NAPKIN PASSED HIM BY. HE FROWNED, TRYING TO +WITH A CALM SMILE THAT SHE WAS NOT SO STUPID AS TO BE JEALOUS: ‘LET +WITH A CLEAR, BRIGHT EXPRESSION, AS IF ASKING THEM TO NOTICE HOW CALMLY +WITH A CLEVER FACE AND SHARPLY PROJECTING JAW WHICH, WITHOUT SPOILING +WITH A DECANTER ON A TRAY AS “MY DEAR” AND “MY SWEET,” ASKED +WITH A DECOROUS SMILE OF SELF-SATISFACTION AT BEING ABLE CLEARLY TO +WITH A DISTRESSED FACE LEFT THE ROOM TO FIND SóNYA. +WITH A FACETIOUS SMILE ON HIS FACE, HE WAS TELLING THE LADIES ABOUT LAST +WITH A FORETASTE OF ARTISTIC PLEASURE. +WITH A FRIENDLY SMILE. +WITH A GLOOMY AND TIRED FACE, WAS WEARILY TAKING OFF HIS WRAPS WITH THE +WITH A HEART FULL DESPAIR HE RODE AWAY, CONTINUALLY LOOKING BACK AT THE +WITH A HUM OF CONVERSATION, LIKE THE HUM OF BEES SWARMING IN SPRINGTIME. +WITH A LOOK OF NERVOUS AGITATION SUCH AS PIERRE HAD NEVER BEFORE SEEN ON +WITH A LOOK THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WHICH COULD NOT BE UNDERSTOOD BY MORTAL +“WITH A MESSAGE TO HIS MAJESTY.” +WITH A MOURNFUL EXPRESSION. +WITH A MOUSE. +WITH AN APOPLECTIC FLUSH OVER NECK AND NAPE AS OLD PEOPLE DO. +WITH AN ENORMOUS MOUTH, HARDLY REFRAINING FROM LAUGHING, “I FELT LIKE +WITH AN F, AS A VILLAGE ELDER OF MINE WRITES IN HIS REPORTS. SHE IS RICH +WITH AN OLD MOTHER AND A HUNCHBACK SISTER, AND WAS THE MOST AFFECTIONATE +WITH ANYTHING IN REGARD TO HER; AND THAT ALWAYS WILL BE SO IN WHATEVER +WITH A PLEASANT FEELING THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING à LA LOUIS XV IN THE +WITH A RAPID, ALMOST BRUTAL MOVEMENT OF HER HEAD, SHE INTERCEPTED HIS +WITH A SCARED LOOK AND THAT PRINCESS MARY WAS NO LONGER BY THE COT. +WITH A SENSE OF ANTIPATHY TO THE OLD PRINCE WHICH SHE DID NOT +WITH A SENSE OF RELIEF AT HAVING PERFORMED A VEXATIOUS DUTY AND DID NOT +WITH A SERIOUS EXPRESSION, BUT WITH A SMILE LURKING AT THE CORNERS OF +WITH A SIGH. +WITH A SIGH HE COULD NOT SUPPRESS, AS THEY PASSED OUT OF THE PALACE. +WITH A SIGH. THIS MIGHT HAVE BEEN TAKEN AS AN EXPRESSION OF SORROW +WITH A SINKING HEART—WATCHING THE BRIDGE AND THE HUSSARS IN THE BRIGHT +WITH A SMILE. +WITH A STRENGTH HE HAD NEVER BEFORE FELT, HE MADE A STEP TOWARD HER +WITH A SUBTLE SMILE. +WITH A THOROUGHLY ATTRACTIVE WOMAN, HER DEFECT—THE SHORTNESS OF HER +WITH A TREMBLING VOICE AND SOME DIFFICULTY IN UTTERANCE DUE TO HIS +WITH A WINK, AND PASSED ON FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER, AN OLD MAN. +WITH BANKS STILL BARE OF GRASS. IT WAS AT THE END OF A VILLAGE THAT +WITH BREAD AND SALT AND WISHED TO BUILD A CHANTRY IN HONOR OF PETER AND +WITH CARTS THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO GET BY IN A CARRIAGE. PRINCE ANDREW +WITH DóLOKHOV. “NONE BUT FOOLS TRUST TO LUCK IN PLAY,” DóLOKHOV +WITH ELASTICITY OF MOVEMENT, FAITH IN HIS GOOD FORTUNE, AND GENERALLY IN +WITH ENJOYMENT, GAZING WITH EVER-INCREASING AMIABILITY AT THE OTHER +WITH EVIDENT PLEASURE. +WITH EXAGGERATED POLITENESS. +WITH FLOUR WHITENING THEIR CARTS—ON THAT NARROW DAM AMID THE WAGONS +WITH FRIGHTENED EYES; THE SECOND ASSUMED PRECISELY THE SAME EXPRESSION; +WITH GERMANS ALL DAY. WE WENT WITH WEYROTHER TO SURVEY THE DISPOSITIONS. +WITH GOSSIP,” HE CONTINUED. “JUST NOW THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT YOU AND +WITH GREAT DIFFICULTY HE MANAGED TO GET TO HIS HORSE, AND SHOUTING +WITH GRIEF, THOUGH HE TRIED HARD TO HIDE IT IN ORDER NOT TO SADDEN HIS +WITH HER AND PICKED UP HER RETICULE AND DROVE OUT WITH HER. HOW DID IT +WITH HER BEAUTIFUL EYES FULL OF TEARS AT THE DOOR THROUGH WHICH PRINCE +WITH HER HEAD BENT FIRST ON ONE SIDE AND THEN ON THE OTHER. +WITH HER. HE KISSED HER HAND AND ADDRESSED HER NOT AS THOU BUT AS +WITH HER KNITTING. PRINCESS MARY TOOK A BOOK AND BEGAN READING. ONLY +WITH HER TO THE SIDE OF THE ROOM WHERE STOOD THE HIGH BEDSTEAD WITH ITS +WITH HIM.” +WITH HIM REMAINED IN HIS ROOM; A SMALL BOX, A LARGE CANTEEN FITTED +WITH HIMSELF AND THOSE AROUND HIM, HIS SMILE AND GLANCE WERE BRIGHTER +WITH HIM. THERE NOW, SíDOROV!” +WITH HIM TO DOLGORúKOV. +WITH HIS CAP ON THE BACK OF HIS BLACK HEAD AND A CLOAK HANGING JAUNTILY +WITH HIS DAUGHTER, PRINCESS MARY, AND HER COMPANION, MADEMOISELLE +WITH HIS ECCENTRIC FATHER. +WITH HIS EYES BANDAGED SEEMED TO HIM AN HOUR. HIS ARMS FELT NUMB, +WITH HIS FACE IN HIS HANDS. +WITH HIS FEELINGS BUT WITH THE VERY POSSIBILITY OF LIFE. LIFE WITHOUT +WITH HIS FOOT. +WITH HIS GLISTENING WIDE-OPEN EYES FIXED UPON HIM AND HIS MUSTACHE +WITH HIS GLITTERING, BLACK EYES AT ROSTóV. +WITH HIS HANDKERCHIEF, SAT DOWN BY NATáSHA AND DID NOT LEAVE HER FOR +WITH HIS PODGY OLD HANDS RESTING SYMMETRICALLY ON ITS ARMS. AT THE SOUND +WITH HIS RIGHT HAND, THEN FALLING ON ONE KNEE HE TWIRLED HER ROUND HIM, +WITH HIS RIGHT THUMB UNDER A BUTTON OF HIS UNIFORM, HIS CHEST EXPANDED +WITH HIS SMALL HAND. +WITH HIS THIN LEGS, WENT UP TO KUTúZOV. +WITH HIS WHOLE BODY AS IF IN THAT POSITION HE HOPED TO HASTEN THE SPEED +WITHIN. +WITHIN A FEW DAYS. PRINCESS MARY AND THE OLD PRINCE EACH BORE AND HID +WITHIN GRAPESHOT RANGE NOW.” +WITHIN HALF AN HOUR ADJUTANTS HAD BEEN SENT IN VARIOUS DIRECTIONS WITH +WITH IT HIDDEN FOR AWHILE; THEN LOOKING UP AND SEEING PIERRE SHE +WITH IT TO THE MARSHALS, AND ORDERED THE ACTION TO BEGIN. THE MARSHALS, +WITH JESTS AND TO COME TO BUSINESS. HE INVOLUNTARILY LOOKED ROUND AT THE +WITH KISSES, HOLDING HIM TIGHT BY THE SKIRT OF HIS COAT, SPRANG AWAY AND +WITH KUTúZOV’S CANTATA, LAID ONE BEFORE PIERRE AS ONE OF THE +WITH LANTERNS, STANDING AT THE ENTRANCE. SHE WENT OUT ON THE STAIRS. ON +WITH LIGHTED TAPERS IN THEIR HANDS, SLOWLY AND SOLEMNLY CONDUCTING THE +“WITH MY FATHER AND SISTER, REMEMBER,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW GENTLY. +WITH NAPOLEON IF, CONTRARY TO EXPECTATIONS, THESE NEGOTIATIONS WERE +WITH NATáSHA, PIQUET WITH HIS FATHER, AND EVEN HIS COMFORTABLE BED +WITH NONE OF THE EMBARRASSMENT SO COMMONLY SHOWN BY YOUNG MEN IN THEIR +WITH ONE ANOTHER. AGAIN THE FOOTMEN RUSHED ABOUT, CHAIRS SCRAPED, AND +WITH ONE LEG CROSSED HIGH ABOVE THE OTHER. HIS CHEEKS, WHICH WERE SO +WITHOUT AN INNER STRUGGLE; “AT SUCH A MOMENT AS THIS ONE MUST THINK +WITHOUT ANSWERING, ROSTóV SHOOK THE SOLDIER’S CROSS OF ST. GEORGE +WITHOUT ANY COMMAND BEING GIVEN, APPARENTLY OBSTRUCTED BY SOMETHING IN +WITHOUT ANY DEFINITE POSITION, WITHOUT RELATIONS OR EVEN A COUNTRY, DID +WITHOUT AT ALL NOTICING THAT HIS INVOLUNTARY SMILE HAD STABBED THE HEART +WITHOUT BOASTING THAT IT WAS A LITTLE BETTER THAN AT ULM...” +WITHOUT CHANGING HIS CARELESS ATTITUDE, PIERRE LOOKED AT THEM OVER HIS +WITHOUT DELAY AND CARRY OUT INSTRUCTIONS! +WITHOUT EATING.” +WITHOUT GOING OUT OF THE HOUSE, WAITING FOR THE MONEY HIS FATHER COULD +WITHOUT HIS BOOTS (HE HAD GIVEN THEM TO THE CANTEEN KEEPER TO DRY), +WITHOUT HIS GREATCOAT, WITH HIS ORDERS ON HIS BREAST AND AN ENORMOUS +WITHOUT HIS NOTICING IT THE FEELING OF OFFENSE IMMEDIATELY TURNED INTO +WITHOUT LAUGHING, BUT COULD NOT RESIST LOOKING AT HIM: SO TO BE OUT OF +WITHOUT LOOKING AT HIM, AND WITH A KIND OF FURY THAT MADE HIM LIKE HIS +WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE MAN HE WAS ADDRESSING, AND DID NOT REPLY TO +WITHOUT LOSING STEP, HIS WHOLE POWERFUL BODY TURNING FLEXIBLY. IT WAS AS +WITHOUT MALE SOCIETY, ON ANATOLE’S APPEARANCE ALL THE THREE WOMEN OF +WITHOUT MOVING, UNDERTAKING NOTHING....” +WITHOUT OMITTING HER DUTIES AS HOSTESS, THREW SIGNIFICANT GLANCES FROM +WITHOUT READING IT AND REREAD HIS FATHER’S LETTER, ENDING WITH THE +WITHOUT REASONING. WITH AN AFFECTATION OF RESPECT WHICH EVIDENTLY STRUCK +WITHOUT RECEIVING ANY EXPLANATION. +WITHOUT SUPPORT. PRINCE BAGRATIóN TURNED TO THE OFFICER AND WITH HIS +WITHOUT TAKING ANY NOTICE OF HIM ALTHOUGH THEY WERE NOW MEETING FOR THE +WITHOUT TURNING THEIR HEADS GLANCED AT ONE ANOTHER, CURIOUS TO SEE THEIR +WITHOUT WARS. HOW IS IT THAT WE WOMEN DON’T WANT ANYTHING OF THE KIND, +WITH PAPERS FROM KUTúZOV TO THE TSARéVICH, HE LOOKED IN ON BORíS, +WITH PARTICULAR COURTESY USHERED PRINCE ANDREW BEFORE HIM ALONG A +WITH PLEASURE TO HIS OWN VOICE. “ALL I CAN SAY, GENERAL, IS THAT IF +WITH PRINCE BAGRATIóN’S DETACHMENT.” +WITH PROFIT. THE FIRST AND CHIEF OBJECT OF OUR ORDER, THE FOUNDATION ON +WITH RAPID RHYTHMIC WHISTLE FLEW OVER THE HEADS OF THE HORSEMEN AND FELL +WITH RED LIGHT LIKE A RUSSIAN CHURCH DURING EVENING SERVICE. UNDER +WITH SHIFTING EYES BUT EYEBROWS STILL RAISED, TELYáNIN HANDED HIM THE +WITH SHINSHíN. BERG GAVE HIS ARM TO VéRA. THE SMILING JULIE KARáGINA +WITH SILVER PLATE, TWO TURKISH PISTOLS AND A SABER—A PRESENT FROM +WITH SO AND-SO,’ AND THEN I TAKE A CAB AND GO MYSELF TWO, THREE, OR +WITH SOMETHING. IT WAS A COFFIN WITH BONES INSIDE. HE WAS NOT AT ALL +WITH SOMETHING MORE THAN CURIOSITY AND SYMPATHY. HE NOTICED THAT THEY +WITH SUCH EXACTITUDE THAT NESVíTSKI COULD NOT HELP LAUGHING. KUTúZOV +WITH TELYáNIN AND BOGDáNICH. THAT AFFAIR WAS THE SAME THING AS THIS +WITH TENDER SMILES WAS SAYING TO VéRA THAT LOVE IS NOT AN EARTHLY BUT +WITH THE AIR OF AN OLD BRIGADIER. +WITH THE COOPERATION OF ALL, BY THE MILLIONS OF GENERATIONS FROM OUR +WITH THE DELIGHT BOYS FEEL AT THE SIGHT OF A MILITARY ELDER BROTHER, AND +WITH THE EXPRESSION WITH WHICH PEOPLE COMPLIMENT THEIR HOST AT A BALL. +WITH THE FLIRTATIOUSNESS OF A HANDSOME YOUTH AT SóNYA AND THE YOUNG +WITH THE FULL SWING OF A BLUDGEON. IT HURT A LITTLE, BUT THE WORST OF +WITH THE GENTLE, PATRONIZING INTONATION NATURAL TO A MAN OF IMPORTANCE +WITH THE HUSSAR COLONEL ON HIS LEFT AND SHINSHíN AND THE OTHER MALE +WITH THEIR MANAGEMENT AND EMBEZZLEMENT OF MONEY, SOME AFTER THEIR FIRST +WITH THEIR PLUMES, RIBBONS, AND MEDALS, BOTH COURTIERS AND MILITARY +WITH THE LASSITUDE OF AGE, SAT YAWNING WEARILY WITH CLOSED EYES. THE +WITH THE NAKED EYE PRINCE ANDREW SAW BELOW THEM TO THE RIGHT, NOT MORE +WITH THE OLD PRINCE.” +WITH THE PHYSICAL PAIN. IT WAS THEY, THESE SOLDIERS—WOUNDED AND +WITH THE RANK OF LIEUTENANT; BUT AS IT IS I RECEIVE TWO HUNDRED AND +WITH THE RIVER BETWEEN HIMSELF AND THE MAIN BODY OF THE FRENCH. ON THE +WITH THE SAME EXPRESSION ON HIS FULL, CHEERFUL, CLEAN-SHAVEN FACE, THE +WITH THE SELF-SATISFACTION OF A MAN ON PARADE, HE STEPPED LIGHTLY WITH +WITH THESE WORDS SHE GREETED PRINCE VASíLI KURáGIN, A MAN OF HIGH +WITH THE SOLDIER, AN INFANTRY OFFICER WITH A BANDAGED CHEEK CAME UP TO +WITH THE STRICT FORMALITY OF HIS HOUSE. AT THAT MOMENT THE GREAT CLOCK +WITH THOUGHTS AND ANXIETIES AS TO BE OBLIVIOUS OF HIS PRESENCE. HE +WITH TREMBLING HANDS, THREW HIS BODY ACROSS THE SADDLE, RIGHTED HIMSELF, +WITH UPRAISED ARMS. +WITH US.” +WITH WHICH HE LISTENED TO PIERRE, ESPECIALLY WHEN HE SPOKE WITH JOYFUL +WITH YOU ALONE! GOD KNOWS HOW LONG WE MAY AGAIN BE PARTED. YOU ARE NOT +WITH YOU. I CAN’T.” +“WITH YOU I WILL BE QUITE FRANK,” SAID ANNA MIKHáYLOVNA. “THERE +WITH YOU. MAY I?” HE ADDED IN A LOW VOICE SO AS NOT TO DISTURB THE +WOMAN; AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? YOU HAVE NOT HELPED HER TO FIND THE WAY +WOMAN, BUT THERE, JUST FANCY! THOSE THREE GOT HOLD OF A BEAR SOMEWHERE, + * “WOMAN IS MAN’S COMPANION.” +WOMAN. NOW I HAVE SPOKEN THAT TERRIBLE WORD TO MYSELF ALL HAS BECOME +WOMAN’S PRIVILEGE.” +WOMAN WHO MAY BELONG TO ANYONE—TO YOU TOO,” SAID HER GLANCE. AND AT +WOMAN. WITH A SLIGHT RUSTLE OF HER WHITE DRESS TRIMMED WITH MOSS +WOMEN. +WOMEN.” +WOMEN ARE WHEN YOU SEE THEM IN THEIR TRUE COLORS! WHEN YOU MEET THEM +WOMEN HAVE THAT DRESS CAN MAKE A FACE PRETTY. +“WOMEN,” HE SAID IN A LOW, SCARCELY AUDIBLE VOICE. +WOMEN’S GLOVES, HE SAID: “DEAR BROTHER, THESE WOMAN’S GLOVES ARE +WOMEN, ‘WOMEN AND WINE’ I DON’T UNDERSTAND!” +WONDERFUL CLASSIC BEAUTY OF HER FIGURE, HIS FACE ON THE CONTRARY +WON’T BE IN ACTION,” HE ADDED AS IF IN APOLOGY. +WON’T GET THERE TILL EVENING.” +WON’T GO.” +“WON’T YOU COME OVER TO THE OTHER TABLE?” SUGGESTED ANNA +WOOD. +WOODEN WALLS REDOLENT OF PINE, AND WOULD HAVE GONE FARTHER, BUT ANTóN +WORD. +WORD; AND HE SAT DOWN AT THE NEAREST TABLE. +WORD, “AND YOU BELIEVED IT! WELL, WHAT HAVE YOU PROVED? WHAT DOES THIS +WORD INFECTED THE WHOLE CROWD WITH A FEELING OF PANIC. +WORD OF HONOR NOT TO TAKE ANYTHING MORE TILL THE SPRING. NOW ONLY TWELVE +WORD OR SLIGHT REARRANGEMENT KEPT THE CONVERSATIONAL MACHINE IN STEADY, +WORDS BUT COULD NOT DISTINGUISH THEM. THE DIN OF MANY VOICES WAS TOO +WORDS COULD DO. YOU WILL PERHAPS ALSO SEE IN YOUR FURTHER INITIATION A +WORDS: “GALLOP OFF TO KóRCHEVO AND CARRY OUT INSTRUCTIONS!” +WORDS, HE ADDED, “DON’T BE HURT, MY DEAR FELLOW; YOU KNOW I SPEAK +WORDS HE HAD FOUND SO DIFFICULT TO UTTER: “I LOVE YOU.” “IT ALL +WORDS. IF YOU ARE GOING TO FIGHT A DUEL, AND YOU MAKE A WILL AND WRITE +WORDS: “MORNING DAWNED, THE SUN WAS RISING,” AND CONCLUDING: “ON +WORDS OF ROSTOPCHíN, THAT FRENCH SOLDIERS HAVE TO BE INCITED TO BATTLE +WORDS), OTHERS WERE EATING BREAD; THE MORE SEVERELY WOUNDED LOOKED +WORDS—THE GREAT ALL OR NOTHING-” SAID HE TO HIMSELF, “OR TO +WORDS TO THE SOLDIERS WHO WERE CARRYING HIM, NOW WITH HIS EYES FIXED +WORDS. TOUCHED THAT THIS STATUESQUE PRINCESS COULD SO CHANGE, PIERRE +WORDS WITH VAGUE YET JOYFUL IDEAS. THE DOOR OPENED AND SOMEONE CAME IN. +WORD THAT HARDENBURG SAYS, OR HAUGWITZ EITHER. THIS FAMOUS PRUSSIAN +WORD “WAITING.”) “NOT ALL THE COLUMNS HAVE FORMED UP YET, YOUR +WORD WOULD EFFECTIVELY PROVE TO PRINCE VASíLI THE INVALIDITY OF HIS +WORK AND STUDY. AND IF PIERRE WAS OFTEN STRUCK BY ANDREW’S LACK +WORKBAG.” +WORK, CHIMES TO PLAY, FIGURES TO POP OUT, AND THE HANDS TO ADVANCE WITH +WORKING AND LOOKED UP WITH THAT CURIOUS EXPRESSION OF INNER, HAPPY CALM +WORKING HERSELF UP TO TEARS WITH THE IMAGINARY WORDS OF HER PAUVRE MèRE +WORK NEARER TO HER. +WORK. ON A THIRD ESTATE THE PRIEST, BEARING A CROSS, CAME TO MEET +WORLD!” +WORLD A QUITE DIFFERENT ATMOSPHERE, CARELESS, LIGHTHEARTED, AND +WORLDLY SCIENCES OF PHYSICS, HISTORY, CHEMISTRY, AND THE LIKE, INTO +WORLD. PRINCE ANDREW WAS THE FIRST TO MOVE AWAY, RUFFLING HIS HAIR +WORN AND IRRITABLE. THE INFANTRY PASSING BEFORE HIM CAME TO A HALT +WORN LEATHER, AND AN OFFICER’S SABER WITH A SWORD KNOT. THE DON HORSE +WORSE, AND IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO PREPARE HIM IF HE IS SO ILL. +WORSE THAN OTHERS.” +WORSE, WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT ROSTóV WAS HIMSELF TO BLAME SINCE WHAT +WORTHLESS SCOUNDREL WHOSE WHOLE LIFE COULD NOT ATONE FOR HIS CRIME. HE +WORTHY OF IT. THIS RESCRIPT BEGAN WITH THE WORDS: “SERGéY KUZMíCH, +“WOSTóV, DEAH FELLOW, JUST SEE HOW MUCH THERE IS LEFT AND SHOVE THE +“WOSTóV, GET UP!” +“WOSTóV, YOU’VE NOT BEEN PLAYING SCHOOLBOY TWICKS...” +WOULD AGAIN HAVE RISEN HAD NOT THE PRINCE STILL HELD HER FAST, “THOUGH +WOULD APPEAR AS HE PASSED THE COMMANDER. +WOULD AT LAST START ON THAT PATH OF REGENERATION AND ON THE ACTIVELY +WOULD BE EASIER TO SEE PEOPLE COMING ALONG IT. “FOLLOW ME!” SAID HE, +WOULD BE GOOD IF EVERYTHING WERE AS CLEAR AND SIMPLE AS IT SEEMS TO +WOULD BE KILLED. +WOULD BE PARTICULARLY PLEASANT TO HIM TO DISHONOR MY NAME AND RIDICULE +WOULD BE SOMETHING UNNATURAL, AND AS IT SEEMED TO HIM DISHONORABLE, IN +WOULD BE TAKEN IMMEDIATELY TO FREE HIS SERFS—AND THAT TILL THEN THEY +WOULD BE TO BETRAY HER AGITATION, WHILE TO DECLINE THEIR OFFERS TO +WOULD BE TOO EXTRAORDINARY,” AND AT THE VERY MOMENT SHE THOUGHT THIS, +WOULD BE TRANSFERRED TO THE GUARDS AT ONCE?” SAID SHE. +WOULD BE WISER FOR HIM TO LEAVE PETERSBURG. PIERRE PROPOSED GOING TO HIS +WOULD FIND HIMSELF IN THE POSITION OF MACK AT ULM. IF KUTúZOV DECIDED +WOULD GIVE WAY NOT ONLY UNDER A CANNON OR A CROWD, BUT VERY SOON EVEN +WOULD HAPPEN TO HIM AND STILL MORE AFRAID OF SHOWING HIS FEAR. HE FELT +WOULD HAVE ADDRESSED YOURSELF FIRST TO ME. IN THAT CASE YOU WOULD NOT +WOULD HAVE HIT ALPáTYCH, THE OVERSEER, HAD NOT THE LATTER INSTINCTIVELY +WOULD HAVE MADE THEM. +WOULD HAVE ME BE, BUT I HAVE NEVER HAD HELP FROM ANYONE.... BUT IT IS +WOULD HAVE SEEMED SO UNNATURAL HAD ANYONE DISLIKED HIM, THAT HE COULD +WOULD HAVE TAKEN THE ICON, BUT SHE STOPPED HIM. ANDREW UNDERSTOOD, +WOULD I NOT GIVE NOW TO BE UNMARRIED! YOU ARE THE FIRST AND ONLY ONE TO +WOULD MAGNANIMOUSLY EXTEND THE HAND OF RECONCILIATION. +WOULD MEET. +WOULD NOT BE BAD AS REGARDS THE UNWRITTEN CODE,” THOUGHT BORíS), +WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN LOVERS (DES AMANTS), BUT I HAVE NOT DONE SO,” +WOULD NOT SEE US FOR A WHOLE FORTNIGHT. I KNOW IT WAS THEN HE WROTE THIS +“WOULD NOT SUCH A MEETING BE TOO TRYING FOR HIM, DEAR ANNA +WOULD NOT SUPPLY THEM. PIERRE WAS OBLIGED TO WAIT. WITHOUT UNDRESSING, +“WOULD NOT YOUR EXCELLENCY LIKE A LITTLE REFRESHMENT?” HE SAID. +WOULD OCCUPY A MOST BRILLIANT POSITION IN SOCIETY. DON’T YOU THINK SO? +WOULD STILL REMAIN PITEOUS AND PLAIN. AFTER TWO OR THREE CHANGES TO +WOULD TAKE PLACE ON THIS SIDE OF IT... +“WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT, COUNT, I WAS NOT AT ALL ALARMED, BECAUSE I KNEW +WOULD YOU NOW LIKE TO LOOK ROUND MY PLACE?” +WOUNDED AND CAPTURED RUSSIAN OFFICERS HE WAS CARRIED TO THE HOSPITAL. +WOUNDED, AND ONE KNOCKED OUT,” HE ADDED, UNABLE TO RESTRAIN A HAPPY +WOUNDED HAD BEEN ABANDONED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DANUBE WITH A LETTER +WOUNDED—HAD LEFT IT LONG AGO. ALL ABOUT THE FIELD, LIKE HEAPS OF +WOUNDED IN THE RIGHT HAND, TAKEN HIS SWORD IN THE LEFT, AND GONE +WOUNDED OFFICER?” +WOUNDED SOLDIER WAS SO DIRTY, COARSE, AND REVOLTING THAT HIS PROXIMITY +WOUNDED UNDER HIM AND HIS OWN ARM SLIGHTLY GRAZED BY A BULLET. AS A MARK +WOUNDED WERE MORE DISTINCTLY HEARD THAN ANY OTHER SOUND IN THE DARKNESS +WOUNDED WHERE THERE WAS NO ONE LEFT TO FIRE AT, ON SEEING AN ADJUTANT +WOUNDS, THE LOSS OF FAMILY—I FEAR NOTHING. AND PRECIOUS AND DEAR +WRATH. HAVING SNAPPED AT AN OFFICER FOR AN UNPOLISHED BADGE, AT ANOTHER +WRETCHED MOOD. AT NINE IN THE MORNING, HE HEARD FIRING IN FRONT AND +WRINGING HER HANDS. +WRINKLED, CLEAN-SHAVEN CHEEK FOR PIERRE TO KISS AND WOULD SAY: “TILL +WRINKLED SOLES AND PALMS. +WRISTS VISIBLE FROM UNDER THE SHIRT CUFFS, LAID DOWN THE PACK AND TOOK +“WRITE TO HER AND LET ME KNOW HOW HER FATHER LOOKS AT THE MATTER. AU +WRITE, TOLD ROSTóV THE CONTENTS OF HIS LETTER. +WRITING, SO THAT HIS QUILL SPLUTTERED AND SQUEAKED. “IF YOU HAVE +WRITTEN, “STILL, I SHOULD NOT CRY, BUT YOU CAN’T... NO ONE CAN +WRONG, AND FURTHER THAT HE WAS DISAGREEABLE AND UNNATURAL. +WRONG AND THAT TO DISCUSS THE BAD NEWS WAS DIFFICULT, AND SO IT WAS BEST +WROTE HIMSELF,” SAID SHE THROUGH HER TEARS. +XVII, FOR THE QUEEN, OR FOR MADAME ELIZABETH? NOTHING!” AND HE BECAME +YARDS WAS ALL THAT SEPARATED THEM. THE ENEMY CEASED FIRING, AND THAT +YEAR?” SAID “THE MAN OF PROFOUND INTELLECT.” “WHY SHOULDN’T +YEARS BEFORE, IT SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE THAT THE LITTLE CREATURE WHO LIVED +YEARS OLDER THAN HER SISTER AND BEHAVED ALREADY LIKE A GROWN-UP PERSON), +YEARS ... THEN I WILL ASK FOR YOUR HAND.” +“YES.” +“YES.” +“YES, AND EVEN TOMORROW,” REPLIED HER BROTHER. +“YES, AND HE IS OVER SIXTY. I HEAR THE COUNT NO LONGER RECOGNIZES +“YES, AND I HAVE SOME MONEY AND A LETTER TO GIVE YOU,” HE ADDED. +“YES AND NO MISTAKE!” CRIED DENíSOV. “YOU WORKED LIKE WEGULAR +“YES, A REGULAR VOLCANO,” SAID THE COUNT. “TAKES AFTER ME! AND +“YES, BRING SOME.” +“YES, BUT BETWEEN OURSELVES,” SAID THE PRINCESS, “THAT IS A +“YES, BUT HE WILL DISLIKE IT EXTREMELY,” SAID BOLKóNSKI. +“YES, BUT IT IS NOT AS YOU IMAGINE,” PRINCE ANDREW CONTINUED. “I +“YES, BUT YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE. THERE ARE YOUR SISTERS...” +“YES, COUNT,” SHE WOULD SAY, “HE IS TOO NOBLE AND PURE-SOULED FOR +“YES, DMíTRI, CLEAN ONES, PLEASE,” SAID THE COUNTESS, SIGHING +“YES, EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT NOWADAYS, EVERYTHING IS CHANGED. THE +“YES, FATHER, I HAVE COME TO YOU AND BROUGHT MY WIFE WHO IS +“YES, FROM OLMüTZ,” HE ANSWERED, WITH A SIGH. +“YES, GENTLEMEN, I’VE BEEN TOLD THERE’S A RUMOR GOING ABOUT MOSCOW +“YES, GOD BE THANKED! YES! THEY’VE JUST FINISHED SUPPER. LET ME HAVE +“YES, HE IS VERY HANDSOME,” THOUGHT PIERRE, “AND I KNOW HIM. IT +YES, HOSPITALS, MEDICINE. HE HAS A FIT, HE IS DYING, AND YOU COME AND +“YES, I AM, BUT PLEASE DON’T LET US DO LIKE THAT.... IN ANOTHER FOUR +“YES, I BELONG TO THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE FREEMASONS,” SAID THE +“YES: IDEAS OF ROBBERY, MURDER, AND REGICIDE,” AGAIN INTERJECTED AN +“YES, I DO BELIEVE IN GOD,” HE REPEATED. +“YES, I DO WISH IT,” SAID HE. +“YES, I’D SEND THEM ON IN FRONT, BUT NO FEAR, THEY’RE CROWDING UP +“YES, I FEEL A KIND OF OPPRESSION,” SHE SAID IN REPLY TO THE +“YES, IF HAVING OBTAINED POWER, WITHOUT AVAILING HIMSELF OF IT TO +“YES, IF YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT IT’S QUITE A DIFFERENT MATTER,” SAID +“YES, I HAVE HEARD OF HIS SCHEME FOR PERPETUAL PEACE, AND IT IS VERY +“YES... I... I... DESIRE REGENERATION,” PIERRE UTTERED WITH +“YES, I KNEW IT LONG AGO BUT HAD FORGOTTEN. I KNEW THAT I COULD EXPECT +“YES, IMMEDIATELY, IMMEDIATELY! HEY, WHO’S THERE?” HE CALLED OUT +“YES, I’M TIRED TOO,” SAID ROSTóV. +“YES, INDEED!” +“YES, INDEED,” REPLIED THE PRINCESS WITH A SIGH. “SO HE MAY HAVE +“YES, I NEVER LOVED HER,” SAID HE TO HIMSELF; “I KNEW SHE WAS A +“YES, I SAW HIM, AND AM CONVINCED THAT HE FEARS NOTHING SO MUCH AS +“YES, IT CAN’T BE HELPED IF THEY WON’T TAKE LESS. AH, DEAR ME! I +“YES, IT IS ALL VERY HORRID,” INTERRUPTED PIERRE, “VERY HORRID.” +“YES, IT IS VERY LIKELY THAT I SHALL BE KILLED TOMORROW,” HE +“YES, IT’S A NICE PURSE. YES, YES,” HE SAID, GROWING SUDDENLY +“YES, IT SEEMS HE IS ILL. PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS DISTURBING HIM,” +“YES, IT’S FROM JULIE,” REPLIED THE PRINCESS WITH A TIMID GLANCE +“YES... IT’S GETTING ON, IT WILL ALL BE SETTLED TODAY.” ANNA +“YES, I WAS A FOOL! I STILL BELIEVED IN PEOPLE, LOVED THEM, AND +“YES, I WAS BROUGHT UP QUITE DIFFERENTLY,” REMARKED THE HANDSOME +“YES, I WAS THINKING”—FOR SOME REASON BORíS COULD NOT HELP +“YES, JUST THE SAME. THOUGH I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOUR OPINION WILL +YES, KILLED MY WIFE’S LOVER. YES, THAT WAS IT! AND WHY? HOW DID I COME +“YES, LET’S GO IN AND I WILL GET MYSELF A ROLL AND SOME CHEESE,” +“YES, MY DEAR, THIS IS A GREAT LOSS FOR US ALL, NOT TO SPEAK OF YOU. +“YES, MY SóNYA COULD NOT HAVE DONE OTHERWISE!” THOUGHT NICHOLAS. +“YES, NOW YOU MAY BE GLAD!” SAID SHE; “THIS IS WHAT YOU HAVE +“YES, ONE IS AFRAID,” CONTINUED THE FIRST SPEAKER, HE OF THE +“YES, PLEASE DO,” ANSWERED THE GENERAL, AND HE REPEATED THE ORDER +“YES, PLEASE DO,” SAID ROSTóV. +“YES,” REPLIED A FOOTMAN IN A BOLD LOUD VOICE, AS IF ANYTHING WERE +“YES,” SAID NATáSHA. “DO YOU KNOW, NICHOLAS—DON’T BE +“YES,” SAID ROSTóV AS IF IT COST HIM A GREAT DEAL TO UTTER THE +“YES,” SAID THE COUNTESS WHEN THE BRIGHTNESS THESE YOUNG PEOPLE HAD +“YES, SIR.” +“YES, SIR.” +“YES, SIR, AND THERE’S A LIGHT IN YOUR FATHER’S STUDY.” +“YES, SO IT IS, SO IT IS,” SAID THE GENERAL ANGRILY, LOWERING THE +“YES, STORIES!” REPEATED ROSTóV LOUDLY, LOOKING WITH EYES SUDDENLY +YESTERDAY AND THE QUESTION PRESENTED ITSELF WHETHER HE OUGHT OR OUGHT +YESTERDAY’S ORDER. HAVE YOU GOT IT, DENíSOV?” +“YES, THAT ALL HAPPENED!” HE SAID, AND, SMILING HAPPILY TO HIMSELF +“YES, THAT MUST BE SO,” THOUGHT PIERRE, WHEN AFTER THESE WORDS THE +“YES, THAT’S ME!” SHE SEEMED TO SAY, ANSWERING THE RAPT GAZE WITH +“YES, THAT WAS FINE,” SAID ROSTóV, SMILING. +“YES, THE AUSTRIAN PRINCE WHO BUILT THAT CASTLE WAS NO FOOL. IT’S +“YES, THE HAM WAS JUST DELICIOUS...” ANSWERED ANOTHER WITH A LOUD +“YES, THESE VERSES NICHOLAS WROTE HIMSELF AND I COPIED SOME OTHERS, +“YES, THEY ARE SPLENDID, SPLENDID YOUNGSTERS,” CHIMED IN THE COUNT, +“YES, THIS IS THE ONE THING LEFT ME NOW,” HE SAID WITH A SIGH. +“YES, WE HAVE ALTERED MUCH, VERY MUCH, SINCE THEN,” SAID PRINCE +“YES, WE KNOW THAT, BUT THE HARM I AM CONSCIOUS OF IN MYSELF IS +“YES, YES,” ASSENTED PIERRE. +“YES, YES,” ASSENTED PIERRE. +“YES, YES, DO SO.” +“YES, YES, GO AND TELL THEM TO GET IT READY,” SHE ANSWERED, +“YES, YES,” HE MUTTERED, “IT WILL BE DIFFICULT, I FEAR, DIFFICULT +“YES, YES, I AM UNHAPPY,” ASSENTED PIERRE. “BUT WHAT AM I TO +“YES... YES, I BELIEVE IN GOD,” HE SAID. +“YES, YES, IF YOU PLEASE! IT IS ALREADY LATE,” SAID HE, AND NODDING +“YES, YES; JUST SO! BRING IT. GIVE IT TO THE COUNTESS.” +“YES, YES,” MUTTERED BAGRATIóN AS IF CONSIDERING SOMETHING, AND HE +“YES, YES, OF COURSE,” INTERRUPTED PRINCE VASíLI IMPATIENTLY, +“YES, YES, OF COURSE!” PIERRE CHIMED IN, PLEASED AT THE ARRIVAL OF +“YES, YES, THAT IS SO,” SAID PIERRE JOYFULLY. +YES! YES! YES! DON’T LOOK AT ME WITH SUCH SURPRISE. IF YOU MARRY +“YES, YOU DO NOT KNOW HIM, MY DEAR SIR,” SAID THE MASON. “YOU +“YES, YOU HAVE SEEN HIM?” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. “WELL, WHAT IS +“YES, YOU MIGHT, BUT I AM AFRAID OF GETTING THE ACCOUNTS MIXED. SO I +“YES, YOU’RE QUITE RIGHT,” CONTINUED THE COUNTESS. “TILL NOW I +“YES, YOUR EXCELLENCY,” ANSWERED THE UKRAINIAN GAILY, TOSSING HIS +“YES, YOUR EXCELLENCY. FORGIVE ME FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE... IT WAS ONLY +“YES, YOU TALK, BUT TRY IT YOURSELF!” +YET AT THE SAME TIME WAS CONSCIOUS OF HIS STRENGTH AS A PART OF THAT +YET A YOUNG WOMAN. ESCAPING FROM HER FATHER SHE RAN TO HIDE HER FLUSHED +YET. HE FELT THAT HE MUST NOT SAY IT. +YET IT WAS SHE, DRESSED IN A NEW GOWN WHICH HE DID NOT KNOW, MADE SINCE +YET OCCUPIED THAT REGION, AND THE RUSSIANS—THE UNINJURED AND SLIGHTLY +YET THE LADIES THEMSELVES COULD NOT HELP LAUGHING. +YET WITH A HOPE FOR THE FULFILLMENT OF HER FORBIDDEN EARTHLY LONGING) +YET WITH UNHESITATING ASSURANCE THAT HE WAS DOING THE RIGHT THING, + YOU.” +YOU!” +YOU.” +YOU?” +“YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST COME AND SEE ME,” SHE SAID IN A TONE THAT +YOU, ALL!” HE ADDED IN A TONE OF COMMAND. +“YOU ALWAYS MANAGE TO DO THINGS AT THE WRONG TIME,” CONTINUED VéRA. +YOU AND MAKE YOU WEEP. +“YOU AND YOUR GENERALS WON’T GET ON AGAINST BUONAPARTE; YOU’LL +YOU A PLACE IN MY CARRIAGE. I AM VERY GLAD. ALL OUR IMPORTANT BUSINESS +“YOU ARE A LITTLE SLYBOOTS,” SHE SAID. +YOU ARE ALL BLUBBERERS AND UNDERSTAND NOTHING.” +“YOU ARE AN ANGEL: I AM NOT WORTHY OF YOU, BUT I AM AFRAID OF +“YOU ARE GOOD IN EVERY WAY, ANDREW, BUT YOU HAVE A KIND OF +“YOU ARE IN LOVE WITH ME?” NATáSHA BROKE IN. +“YOU ARE JOKING,” REPLIED PIERRE, GROWING MORE AND MORE EXCITED. +“YOU ARE MISTAKEN,” SAID BORíS DELIBERATELY, WITH A BOLD AND +“YOU ARE MOST WELCOME! I KNOW, I KNOW,” SAID THE COUNT, KISSING AND +YOU ARE NOT AWARE OF THE FACT...” +“YOU ARE OFF TO THE WAR, PRINCE?” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA. +“YOU ARE SEEKING FOR TRUTH IN ORDER TO FOLLOW ITS LAWS IN YOUR LIFE, +“YOU ARE STILL THE SAME DREAMER, I SEE,” REMARKED BORíS, SHAKING +“YOU ARE THE COMMANDER OF THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER’S REGIMENT OF HORSE +“YOU ARE UNHAPPY, MY DEAR SIR,” THE STRANGER CONTINUED. “YOU +“YOU ARE WOUNDED?” HE ASKED, HARDLY ABLE TO MASTER THE TREMBLING OF +YOU AT LAST DECIDED ON ANYTHING? ARE YOU GOING TO BE A GUARDSMAN OR A +“YOU AT LEAST MUST TACKLE HIM PROPERLY, OR ELSE IF HE GOES ON LIKE +“YOU, BOLKóNSKI, DON’T KNOW,” SAID BILíBIN TURNING TO PRINCE +YOU, BUT WE’LL SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN. BUONAPARTE HAS BECOME A GREAT +YOU, BUT WHY SHOULD I BOTHER ABOUT YOU? YOU’D BE ONLY TOO GLAD, OF +“YOU CALL HIM VáSKA? THAT’S FUNNY! AND IS HE VERY NICE?” +YOU!” CAME FROM DIFFERENT SIDES. +“YOU CAME RUSHING INTO THE DRAWING ROOM SO THAT EVERYONE FELT ASHAMED +“YOU CAN GIVE THE MESSAGE TO HIS MAJESTY,” SAID DOLGORúKOV, +“YOU CAN’T COME IN! YOU CAN’T!” SAID A TERRIFIED VOICE FROM +YOU CAN’T WAIT A MOMENT! DON’T YOU SEE THE GENERAL WANTS TO PASS?” +YOU CAN UNDERTAKE THE THEATER, I SOCIETY, AND YOU, HIPPOLYTE, OF COURSE + * “YOU CLEAR OUT OF THIS.” +“YOU COULDN’T SEE A THING. HOW THEY SHOT AT THEIR OWN FELLOWS! +YOU CRY, SóNYA, DEAR LOVE, DARLING SóNYA!” AND SHE KISSED HER AND +YOU’D BETTER LISTEN MORE CAREFULLY!” +YOU, DEAR MARY, THAT IN SPITE OF HIS EXTREME YOUTH HIS DEPARTURE FOR +YOU DID GAIN A BRILLIANT VICTORY, IF EVEN THE ARCHDUKE KARL GAINED A +“YOU DID NOT GET MY LETTER?” HE ASKED, AND NOT WAITING FOR A +“YOU DON’T MIND YOUR HONOR?” HE ASKED TúSHIN. “I’VE LOST MY +“YOU DON’T SAY SO!” REPLIED THE COUNTESS. +“YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY I SAY THIS,” HE CONTINUED, “BUT IT IS + * YOU EXPECT TO MAKE AN INCOME OUT OF THE GOVERNMENT. +“YOU FORGET YOURSELF, COLONEL. I AM NOT CONSIDERING MY OWN PLEASURE +“YOU GIVE ME YOUR WORD OF HONOR NOT TO GO?” +YOU GOING, WHEN YOU MIGHT REMAIN HERE? YOU ARE FACED BY ONE OF TWO +“YOU HAD BETTER GO.” +“YOU HAD BETTER TAKE CARE!” SAID THE COUNTESS. +“YOU HAVE A TRY, HERCULES,” SAID HE, TURNING TO PIERRE. +YOU HAVE BEEN ENTERED IN THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS AND MADE A GENTLEMAN OF +“YOU HAVE BEEN IN PARIS RECENTLY, I BELIEVE? I SUPPOSE IT’S VERY +“YOU HAVE EARNED THE ST. GEORGE’S STANDARDS AND WILL BE WORTHY OF +“YOU HAVE NOT YET SEEN MY HUSBAND?” +“YOU HAVEN’T READ THE LETTER?” ASKED SóNYA. +“YOU HAVE ONLY LATELY ARRIVED?” THE COUNTESS ASKED HIM. +YOU HURRY UP? NOW THEN!” +YOU? I’M AWFULLY GLAD YOU’RE MY BROTHER.” SHE TOUCHED HIS +YOU—IS THAT THAT MAN SUFFERS, AND THIS DON JUAN, WICKED FELLOW, IS +“YOU JUST WAIT A MOMENT, MY DEAR FELLOW, AND LISTEN,” INTERRUPTED +“YOU KNOW BILíBIN—HE’S A VERY CLEVER FELLOW. HE SUGGESTED +“YOU KNOW HER HUSBAND, OF COURSE?” SAID ANNA PáVLOVNA, CLOSING HER +“YOU KNOW HIM NOT, MY DEAR SIR, AND SO YOU ARE VERY UNHAPPY. YOU DO +“YOU KNOW, MICHAEL ILARIóNOVICH, WE ARE NOT ON THE EMPRESS’ FIELD +“YOU KNOW, MON CHER, YOUR FATHER AND I HAD SOME ACCOUNTS TO SETTLE, SO +“YOU KNOW N— N— RECEIVED A SNUFFBOX WITH THE PORTRAIT LAST +“YOU KNOW, PRINCE, I AM NOT A BONAPARTIST!” +“YOU KNOW,” SAID THE PRINCESS IN THE SAME TONE OF VOICE AND STILL IN +“YOU KNOW THEY’VE COME, MARIE?” SAID THE LITTLE PRINCESS, WADDLING +“YOU LIVE IN THE COUNTRY AND DON’T THINK THE LIFE TERRIBLE,” HE +YOU’LL BE APPOINTED ADJUTANT SOMEWHERE AND CAN SNAP YOUR FINGERS WHEN +“YOU’LL DIE AND ALL WILL END. YOU’LL DIE AND KNOW ALL, OR CEASE +YOU’LL LIKE IT,” AND HE PATTED HER CHEEK. “IT WILL DRIVE ALL THE +“YOU’LL MAKE A FINE THING OF IT, DEPLOYING IN SIGHT OF THE ENEMY! +“YOU MAY GO,” HE SAID TO ANATOLE. +“YOU MAY PUNT,” HE SAID. +“YOU MIGHT HAVE TAKEN SOME FROM THE COVERING TROOPS.” +“YOU MUST DO AS YOU PLEASE,” SAID PRINCE BOLKóNSKI, BOWING TO HIS +“YOU MUST EXCUSE ME, DEAR VICOMTE,” SAID PRINCE VASíLI TO THE +“YOU MUST LOOK FOR HUSBANDS FOR THEM WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT....” +“YOU MUST WALK, WALK AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE,” HE +“YOU, MY LITTLE COUNTESS, ARE A NOTORIOUS SPENDTHRIFT,” SAID THE +“YOU NEED NOT HAVE SAID THAT TO ME, FATHER,” SAID THE SON WITH A +YOUNG AIDE-DE-CAMP WITH A SMILE. +YOUNG, ALL OUR OCTOGENARIANS WERE REVIEWED, AND OF PROZORóVSKI +YOUNG AND OLD MEN AND WOMEN PIERRE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND WHY HE DID NOT +YOUNG EVER TO BE MORE TO ME THAN A FRIEND, BUT THIS SWEET FRIENDSHIP, +YOUNG FACE TO LOOK BACK. A SHUDDER OF TERROR WENT THROUGH HIM: “NO, +YOUNG GIRLS READY FOR ANYTHING AND FULL OF HOPE—EXPERIENCED THE SAME +YOUNG LADIES. “I CAN JUST IMAGINE WHAT A FUNNY FIGURE THAT POLICEMAN +YOUNG LADY VISITOR AND THE COUNTESS’ ELDEST DAUGHTER (WHO WAS FOUR +YOUNG MAN CAN INSPIRE IN A ROMANTIC AND LOVING YOUNG GIRL LIKE YOURSELF. +YOUNG MAN HE DID NOT KNOW, WITH A PECULIAR CROSS HANGING FROM HIS +YOUNG MAN. HE SAT WITH HIS LEGS UP ON THE SOFA AS IF QUITE AT HOME AND, +YOUNG MAN’S RECENT LOSS BY THE DEATH OF COUNT BEZúKHOV (EVERYONE +YOUNG MAN’S SHOULDER. +YOUNG MAN WAS AN ILLEGITIMATE SON OF COUNT BEZúKHOV, A WELL-KNOWN +YOUNG MASTER. “CAN IT BE? MY TREASURE!” AND PROKóFY, TREMBLING WITH +YOUNG NICHOLAS ROSTóV, WHO WITH HIS ENTHUSIASM COULD NOT BEAR TO REMAIN +YOUNG ROSTóV. +YOUNG SON, RESTING ON HIM AND WINKING JOYFULLY AT HIM. YOUNG ROSTóV +YOUNG WOMAN, SO SOON TO BECOME A MOTHER, SO FULL OF LIFE AND HEALTH, AND +YOUNG. YOU NEED ADVICE. DON’T BE ANGRY WITH ME FOR EXERCISING AN OLD +YOU NOT REST HERE?” +“YOU OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN THERE AT SEVEN IN THE MORNING.” +“YOU OWE FORTY-THREE THOUSAND, COUNT,” SAID DóLOKHOV, AND +“YOU PICKED IT UP?... I DARE SAY! YOU’RE VERY SMART!” ONE OF THEM +YOU PLEASE, BUT DO THIS FOR MY SAKE! PLEASE DO! FATHER’S FATHER, OUR +YOU POSITIVELY THAT HéLèNE IS AS INNOCENT BEFORE YOU AS CHRIST WAS +YOUR BATTALIONS. I WILL KEEP OUT OF FIRE IF YOU WITH YOUR HABITUAL +“YOUR COUSIN...” DóLOKHOV STARTED TO SAY, BUT NICHOLAS INTERRUPTED +YOUR DENíSOV THOUGH HE IS A RAKE AND ALL THAT, STILL I LIKE HIM; SO +YOUR DISPOSAL.” +“YOUR DOCTOR TELLS YOU TO GO TO BED EARLIER,” SAID PRINCE ANDREW. +YOUR DOING SO; BUT I WARN YOU THAT IF YOU DARE TO PLAY THE FOOL IN MY +“YOU’RE ALWAYS LIKE THAT; YOU THWOW A THING DOWN ANYWHERE AND FORGET +YOUR ENCHANTING PARTY,” SAID HE, TURNING TO ANNA PáVLOVNA. +YOU’RE WRONG TO THINK THAT OF ME... I... FOR ME... FOR THE HONOR OF +“YOUR EXCELLENCY...” +“YOUR EXCELLENCY, HERE ARE TWO TROPHIES,” SAID DóLOKHOV, POINTING +“YOUR EXCELLENCY, I SHOULD LIKE TO BE OF USE HERE. ALLOW ME TO REMAIN +“YOUR EXCELLENCY, IT’S THE OFFICER DóLOKHOV, WHO HAS BEEN REDUCED +“YOUR EXCELLENCY! LET US ATTACK THEM! I’LL DWIVE THEM OFF.” +“YOUR EXCELLENCY!” PRINCE ANDREW BROKE THE SILENCE WITH HIS ABRUPT +“YOUR EXCELLENCY,” SAID HE IN GERMAN, STEPPING FORWARD AND +“YOUR EXCELLENCY,” SAID ROSTóV, “MAY I ASK A FAVOR?” +“YOUR EXCELLENCY, SHOULD NOT MARY BOGDáNOVNA BE SENT FOR?” SAID ONE +“YOUR EXCELLENCY, YOU GAVE HIM LEAVE YOURSELF, ON THE MARCH.” +YOUR EYES,” ADDED WILLARSKI. “I WISH YOU COURAGE AND SUCCESS,” +YOUR FATHER.” +YOUR FATHER IS RICH, I DON’T REGARD MYSELF AS A RELATION OF HIS, AND +YOUR FATHER THE TRUTH WHEN HE WAS IN FAVOR, AND IN YOUR CASE IT’S MY +YOUR GREATEST PLEASURE IS TO BE UNPLEASANT TO PEOPLE! GO AND FLIRT WITH +YOUR HANDS.” HE SPOKE AS IF THOSE BULLETS COULD NOT KILL HIM, AND HIS +“YOUR HONOR, I THOUGHT...” +“YOUR HONOR, THE GENERALS!” SAID THE SERGEANT, RIDING UP TO ROSTóV. +“YOUR HONOR, THERE HE IS!” CRIED ONE OF THE HUSSARS BEHIND HIM. AND +“YOUR HONOR, YOU’RE WANTED BY THE GENERAL. HE IS IN THE HUT HERE,” +YOUR INTERESTS AS WITH A KINSWOMAN, A GOOD, KIND, TRUE RELATION. AND I +“YOUR JOKE IS TOO BAD, IT’S WITTY BUT UNJUST,” SAID ANNA +YOUR OLD FATHER...” HE PAUSED UNEXPECTEDLY, AND THEN IN A QUERULOUS +YOUR PRESENCE; IF SHE IS WILLING, THEN HE CAN STAY ON. HE CAN STAY AND +“YOUR REGIMENT FULFILLED ITS DUTY HONORABLY,” SAID NAPOLEON. +YOURS.” +YOURS? A DAUGHTER, I SUPPOSE?” +YOURSELF AND SAY YOU NEARLY RUINED YOUR LIFE AND ONLY FOUND HAPPINESS +YOURSELF IN A POSITION TO BE ATTACKED, BUT YOURSELF TO ATTACK. BELIEVE +YOURSELF IN IT. AND NOW, WHEN ONE WANTS TO SMOOTH THE THING OVER, SOME +YOURSELF, PUT A BRIDLE ON YOUR SENSES, AND SEEK BLESSEDNESS, NOT IN +YOURSELVES. IT MUST BE HERE SOMEWHERE,” SAID LAVRúSHKA. +YOUR SON BIDS FAIR TO BECOME AN OFFICER DISTINGUISHED BY HIS INDUSTRY, +“YOUR SON,” WROTE KUTúZOV, “FELL BEFORE MY EYES, A STANDARD IN +YOUR VICTORY IS NOT A MATTER FOR GREAT REJOICING AND THAT YOU CAN’T BE +YOU?” SAID THE OLD PRINCE TO PRINCE VASíLI. +YOU SAY SO MUCH THAT IS BAD, DOES NOT SEEM TO HAVE HAD ITS USUAL EFFECT +YOU SEE I DO UNDERSTAND. I DON’T KNOW HOW TO PUT IT... WITH THIS ONE +“YOU SEE! I HAVE ASKED,” WHISPERED NATáSHA TO HER LITTLE BROTHER +“YOU SEE, MY DEAR FELLOW, I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT YOU,” +“YOU SEE, MY DEAR... WHAT’S THAT MESS?” SHE SAID, POINTING TO HIS +“YOU SEE, MY FWIEND,” HE SAID, “WE SLEEP WHEN WE DON’T LOVE. WE +YOU SEEN DUPORT?” +“YOU SEE YOURS IS ALREADY AN OFFICER IN THE GUARDS, WHILE MY NICHOLAS +YOU SELECT TO BE YOUR WORTHY HELPMEET IN MASONRY.” AND AFTER A PAUSE, +“YOU SHAN’T HAVE IT!” HE SAID DISTINCTLY. +YOU—SóNYA. BUT THEIR EYES MET AND SAID THOU, AND EXCHANGED TENDER +“YOU SPEAK TO THE COLONEL ABOUT THIS NASTY BUSINESS BEFORE OTHER +“YOU SPOKE TO ME OF INFLAMMABLE MATERIAL,” SAID HE, “BUT YOU SAID +YOU TELL ME THAT AMONG SOME GOOD THINGS IT CONTAINS OTHERS WHICH OUR +“YOU TELL THE COLONEL IN THE PRESENCE OF OTHER OFFICERS THAT AN +YOUTH AND HIS WISH TO EXPRESS ALL THAT WAS IN HIS MIND. +YOU THAT IT WOULD BE VERY EASY TO DO SO IF YOU HAVEN’T SUFFICIENT +YOUTHFULLY GLITTERING EYES. +YOUTHFUL MOVEMENT, STOOD FOR A MOMENT IN THE STIRRUP AS IF LOATHE TO +“YOU THINK I’M AN OLD MAN AND DON’T UNDERSTAND THE PRESENT STATE +“YOU THINK SO?” REJOINED ANNA PáVLOVNA IN ORDER TO SAY SOMETHING +“YOUTH IS NO HINDRANCE TO COURAGE,” MUTTERED SUKHTéLEN IN A FAILING +“YOU THOUGHT!” SHOUTED THE PRINCE, HIS WORDS COMING MORE AND MORE +“YOU TOLD ME TO REMIND YOU OF THE OFFICER DóLOKHOV, REDUCED TO THE +YOU TO READ WHEN I AM GONE. YOU WILL FIND THEM USEFUL.” +“YOU TREAT ME LIKE AN INVALID OR A CHILD. I SEE IT ALL! DID YOU BEHAVE +YOU UNDERSTAND THAT MY SOLE DESIRE IS CONSCIENTIOUSLY TO CARRY OUT HIS +YOU UNDERSTAND, YOUR EXCELLENCY, MY DEAR SIR, THAT YOU MUST NOT +“YOU VALUE YOUR OWN PRIDE AND DON’T WISH TO APOLOGIZE,” CONTINUED +“YOU’VE BEEN IN A HURRY. THAT’S BAD!” +“YOU’VE GOT IT AT LAST.” +“YOU’VE GROWN OLDER, TíKHON,” HE SAID IN PASSING TO THE OLD MAN, +YOU’VE HAD TO TAKE,” CRIED HE. +“YOU’VE ONLY JUST MISSED HIM,” SAID THE ORDERLY. +YOU WANT TO KNOW WHETHER I AM HAPPY? NO! IS SHE HAPPY? NO! BUT WHY THIS +YOU WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF YOUR COMPANY?” +YOU WERE ABOUT, CHALLENGED A MAN YOU ARE JEALOUS OF WITHOUT CAUSE.” +“YOU WERE MEANING TO GO OUT, WEREN’T YOU, MAMMA? DO YOU WANT THE +YOU WERE NOT RIGHT, NOT QUITE IN THE RIGHT, YOU WERE IMPETUOUS...” +“YOU WERE SAYING, MR. STAFF OFFICER...” CONTINUED THE COLONEL IN AN +YOU, WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE TRUTH OF THE LIGHT AND WHO HAVE NOT +“YOU WILL CHANGE IT, WON’T YOU?” SAID LISE. AND AS PRINCESS MARY +“YOU WILL FIND THE BEAUTIFUL HéLèNE HERE, WHOM IT IS ALWAYS +YOU WILL LET ME WIN THIS TEN, OR BEAT IT.” +YOU WILL REMEMBER THIS, YOUR EXCELLENCY!” +YOU WILL SEE.” +“YOU WILL SOON BE DRESSING YOUR MEN IN PETTICOATS! WHAT IS THIS?” +YOU WITH MY SABER!” HE SHOUTED, ACTUALLY DRAWING HIS SABER FROM ITS +YOU WON’T ASK!” +“YOU WON’T ASK,” NATáSHA’S LITTLE BROTHER WAS SAYING; “I KNOW +“YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO FIND EITHER YOUR BAGGAGE OR ANYTHING ELSE NOW, +“YOU WON’T BEAR ME A GRUDGE, PROKHóR IGNáTYCH?” SAID THE +YOU WON’T REQUIRE IT. WE’LL GO INTO THE ACCOUNTS LATER.” +YOU YOURSELF REPORTED TO COUNT BUXHöWDEN YESTERDAY, YOU MUST THINK OF +“YOU...! YOU... SCOUNDREL! I CHALLENGE YOU!” HE EJACULATED, AND, +“ZAT, MY DEAR SIR, IS VY...” HE CONCLUDED, DRINKING A TUMBLER OF +ZERE’S AN END OF IT! AND HOW DO YOU, A YOUNG MAN AND A YOUNG HUSSAR, +ZHERKóV, NOT REMOVING HIS HAND FROM HIS CAP, TURNED HIS HORSE ABOUT +ZHERKóV. THEY WERE UNDER ORDERS TO ADVANCE NEXT DAY. +ZHERKóV TOUCHED HIS HORSE WITH THE SPURS; IT PRANCED EXCITEDLY FROM +ZHERKóV WAS FOLLOWED BY AN OFFICER OF THE SUITE WHO RODE UP TO THE +ZNAIM. +“ZUM HENKER DIESE RUSSEN!” * MUTTERED A GERMAN. diff --git a/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/outputs-temp/agg/1M-tr-seq-sort-par-sort-par b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/outputs-temp/agg/1M-tr-seq-sort-par-sort-par new file mode 100644 index 0000000..541f8c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/benchmarks/oneliners/outputs-temp/agg/1M-tr-seq-sort-par-sort-par @@ -0,0 +1,21572 @@ +“zum henker diese russen!” * muttered a german. +znaim. +zherkóv was followed by an officer of the suite who rode up to the +zherkóv touched his horse with the spurs; it pranced excitedly from +zherkóv. they were under orders to advance next day. +zherkóv, not removing his hand from his cap, turned his horse about +zere’s an end of it! and how do you, a young man and a young hussar, +“zat, my dear sir, is vy...” he concluded, drinking a tumbler of +“you...! you... scoundrel! i challenge you!” he ejaculated, and, +you yourself reported to count buxhöwden yesterday, you must think of +you won’t require it. we’ll go into the accounts later.” +“you won’t bear me a grudge, prokhór ignátych?” said the +“you won’t be able to find either your baggage or anything else now, +“you won’t ask,” natásha’s little brother was saying; “i know +you won’t ask!” +you with my saber!” he shouted, actually drawing his saber from its +“you will soon be dressing your men in petticoats! what is this?” +you will see.” +you will remember this, your excellency!” +you will let me win this ten, or beat it.” +“you will find the beautiful hélène here, whom it is always +“you will change it, won’t you?” said lise. and as princess mary +you, who do not believe in the truth of the light and who have not +“you were saying, mr. staff officer...” continued the colonel in an +you were not right, not quite in the right, you were impetuous...” +“you were meaning to go out, weren’t you, mamma? do you want the +you were about, challenged a man you are jealous of without cause.” +you want to make something out of your company?” +you want to know whether i am happy? no! is she happy? no! but why this +“you’ve only just missed him,” said the orderly. +you’ve had to take,” cried he. +“you’ve grown older, tíkhon,” he said in passing to the old man, +“you’ve got it at last.” +“you’ve been in a hurry. that’s bad!” +“you value your own pride and don’t wish to apologize,” continued +you understand, your excellency, my dear sir, that you must not +you understand that my sole desire is conscientiously to carry out his +“you treat me like an invalid or a child. i see it all! did you behave +you to read when i am gone. you will find them useful.” +“you told me to remind you of the officer dólokhov, reduced to the +“you thought!” shouted the prince, his words coming more and more +“youth is no hindrance to courage,” muttered sukhtélen in a failing +“you think so?” rejoined anna pávlovna in order to say something +“you think i’m an old man and don’t understand the present state +youthful movement, stood for a moment in the stirrup as if loathe to +youthfully glittering eyes. +you that it would be very easy to do so if you haven’t sufficient +youth and his wish to express all that was in his mind. +“you tell the colonel in the presence of other officers that an +you tell me that among some good things it contains others which our +“you spoke to me of inflammable material,” said he, “but you said +“you speak to the colonel about this nasty business before other +you—sónya. but their eyes met and said thou, and exchanged tender +“you shan’t have it!” he said distinctly. +you select to be your worthy helpmeet in masonry.” and after a pause, +“you see yours is already an officer in the guards, while my nicholas +you seen duport?” +“you see, my fwiend,” he said, “we sleep when we don’t love. we +“you see, my dear... what’s that mess?” she said, pointing to his +“you see, my dear fellow, i have been thinking about you,” +“you see! i have asked,” whispered natásha to her little brother +you see i do understand. i don’t know how to put it... with this one +you say so much that is bad, does not seem to have had its usual effect +you?” said the old prince to prince vasíli. +your victory is not a matter for great rejoicing and that you can’t be +“your son,” wrote kutúzov, “fell before my eyes, a standard in +your son bids fair to become an officer distinguished by his industry, +yourselves. it must be here somewhere,” said lavrúshka. +yourself, put a bridle on your senses, and seek blessedness, not in +yourself in it. and now, when one wants to smooth the thing over, some +yourself in a position to be attacked, but yourself to attack. believe +yourself and say you nearly ruined your life and only found happiness +yours? a daughter, i suppose?” +yours.” +“your regiment fulfilled its duty honorably,” said napoleon. +your presence; if she is willing, then he can stay on. he can stay and +your old father...” he paused unexpectedly, and then in a querulous +“your joke is too bad, it’s witty but unjust,” said anna +your interests as with a kinswoman, a good, kind, true relation. and i +“your honor, you’re wanted by the general. he is in the hut here,” +“your honor, there he is!” cried one of the hussars behind him. and +“your honor, the generals!” said the sergeant, riding up to rostóv. +“your honor, i thought...” +your hands.” he spoke as if those bullets could not kill him, and his +your greatest pleasure is to be unpleasant to people! go and flirt with +your father the truth when he was in favor, and in your case it’s my +your father is rich, i don’t regard myself as a relation of his, and +your father.” +your eyes,” added willarski. “i wish you courage and success,” +“your excellency, you gave him leave yourself, on the march.” +“your excellency, should not mary bogdánovna be sent for?” said one +“your excellency,” said rostóv, “may i ask a favor?” +“your excellency,” said he in german, stepping forward and +“your excellency!” prince andrew broke the silence with his abrupt +“your excellency! let us attack them! i’ll dwive them off.” +“your excellency, it’s the officer dólokhov, who has been reduced +“your excellency, i should like to be of use here. allow me to remain +“your excellency, here are two trophies,” said dólokhov, pointing +“your excellency...” +you’re wrong to think that of me... i... for me... for the honor of +your enchanting party,” said he, turning to anna pávlovna. +“you’re always like that; you thwow a thing down anywhere and forget +your doing so; but i warn you that if you dare to play the fool in my +“your doctor tells you to go to bed earlier,” said prince andrew. +your disposal.” +your denísov though he is a rake and all that, still i like him; so +“your cousin...” dólokhov started to say, but nicholas interrupted +your battalions. i will keep out of fire if you with your habitual +you positively that hélène is as innocent before you as christ was +you please, but do this for my sake! please do! father’s father, our +“you picked it up?... i dare say! you’re very smart!” one of them +“you owe forty-three thousand, count,” said dólokhov, and +“you ought to have been there at seven in the morning.” +you not rest here?” +young. you need advice. don’t be angry with me for exercising an old +young woman, so soon to become a mother, so full of life and health, and +young son, resting on him and winking joyfully at him. young rostóv +young rostóv. +young nicholas rostóv, who with his enthusiasm could not bear to remain +young master. “can it be? my treasure!” and prokófy, trembling with +young man was an illegitimate son of count bezúkhov, a well-known +young man’s shoulder. +young man’s recent loss by the death of count bezúkhov (everyone +young man. he sat with his legs up on the sofa as if quite at home and, +young man he did not know, with a peculiar cross hanging from his +young man can inspire in a romantic and loving young girl like yourself. +young lady visitor and the countess’ eldest daughter (who was four +young ladies. “i can just imagine what a funny figure that policeman +young girls ready for anything and full of hope—experienced the same +young face to look back. a shudder of terror went through him: “no, +young ever to be more to me than a friend, but this sweet friendship, +young and old men and women pierre could not understand why he did not +young, all our octogenarians were reviewed, and of prozoróvski +young aide-de-camp with a smile. +“you need not have said that to me, father,” said the son with a +“you, my little countess, are a notorious spendthrift,” said the +“you must walk, walk as much as possible, as much as possible,” he +“you must look for husbands for them whether you like it or not....” +“you must excuse me, dear vicomte,” said prince vasíli to the +“you must do as you please,” said prince bolkónski, bowing to his +“you might have taken some from the covering troops.” +“you may punt,” he said. +“you may go,” he said to anatole. +“you’ll make a fine thing of it, deploying in sight of the enemy! +you’ll like it,” and he patted her cheek. “it will drive all the +“you’ll die and all will end. you’ll die and know all, or cease +you’ll be appointed adjutant somewhere and can snap your fingers when +“you live in the country and don’t think the life terrible,” he +“you know they’ve come, marie?” said the little princess, waddling +“you know,” said the princess in the same tone of voice and still in +“you know, prince, i am not a bonapartist!” +“you know n— n— received a snuffbox with the portrait last +“you know, mon cher, your father and i had some accounts to settle, so +“you know, michael ilariónovich, we are not on the empress’ field +“you know him not, my dear sir, and so you are very unhappy. you do +“you know her husband, of course?” said anna pávlovna, closing her +“you know bilíbin—he’s a very clever fellow. he suggested +“you just wait a moment, my dear fellow, and listen,” interrupted +you—is that that man suffers, and this don juan, wicked fellow, is +you? i’m awfully glad you’re my brother.” she touched his +you hurry up? now then!” +“you have only lately arrived?” the countess asked him. +“you haven’t read the letter?” asked sónya. +“you have not yet seen my husband?” +“you have earned the st. george’s standards and will be worthy of +“you have been in paris recently, i believe? i suppose it’s very +you have been entered in the diplomatic corps and made a gentleman of +“you have a try, hercules,” said he, turning to pierre. +“you had better take care!” said the countess. +“you had better go.” +you going, when you might remain here? you are faced by one of two +“you give me your word of honor not to go?” +“you forget yourself, colonel. i am not considering my own pleasure + * you expect to make an income out of the government. +“you don’t understand why i say this,” he continued, “but it is +“you don’t say so!” replied the countess. +“you don’t mind your honor?” he asked túshin. “i’ve lost my +“you did not get my letter?” he asked, and not waiting for a +you did gain a brilliant victory, if even the archduke karl gained a +you, dear mary, that in spite of his extreme youth his departure for +you’d better listen more carefully!” +you cry, sónya, dear love, darling sónya!” and she kissed her and +“you couldn’t see a thing. how they shot at their own fellows! + * “you clear out of this.” +you can undertake the theater, i society, and you, hippolyte, of course +you can’t wait a moment! don’t you see the general wants to pass?” +“you can’t come in! you can’t!” said a terrified voice from +“you can give the message to his majesty,” said dolgorúkov, +“you came rushing into the drawing room so that everyone felt ashamed +you!” came from different sides. +“you call him váska? that’s funny! and is he very nice?” +you, but why should i bother about you? you’d be only too glad, of +you, but we’ll see what will happen. buonaparte has become a great +“you, bolkónski, don’t know,” said bilíbin turning to prince +“you at least must tackle him properly, or else if he goes on like +you at last decided on anything? are you going to be a guardsman or a +“you are wounded?” he asked, hardly able to master the trembling of +“you are unhappy, my dear sir,” the stranger continued. “you +“you are the commander of the emperor alexander’s regiment of horse +“you are still the same dreamer, i see,” remarked borís, shaking +“you are seeking for truth in order to follow its laws in your life, +“you are off to the war, prince?” said anna pávlovna. +you are not aware of the fact...” +“you are most welcome! i know, i know,” said the count, kissing and +“you are mistaken,” said borís deliberately, with a bold and +“you are joking,” replied pierre, growing more and more excited. +“you are in love with me?” natásha broke in. +“you are good in every way, andrew, but you have a kind of +“you are an angel: i am not worthy of you, but i am afraid of +you are all blubberers and understand nothing.” +“you are a little slyboots,” she said. +you a place in my carriage. i am very glad. all our important business +“you and your generals won’t get on against buonaparte; you’ll +you and make you weep. +“you always manage to do things at the wrong time,” continued véra. +you, all!” he added in a tone of command. +“you absolutely must come and see me,” she said in a tone that +you?” +you.” +you!” + you.” +yet with unhesitating assurance that he was doing the right thing, +yet with a hope for the fulfillment of her forbidden earthly longing) +yet the ladies themselves could not help laughing. +yet occupied that region, and the russians—the uninjured and slightly +yet it was she, dressed in a new gown which he did not know, made since +yet. he felt that he must not say it. +yet a young woman. escaping from her father she ran to hide her flushed +yet at the same time was conscious of his strength as a part of that +“yes, you talk, but try it yourself!” +“yes, your excellency. forgive me for heaven’s sake... it was only +“yes, your excellency,” answered the ukrainian gaily, tossing his +“yes, you’re quite right,” continued the countess. “till now i +“yes, you might, but i am afraid of getting the accounts mixed. so i +“yes, you have seen him?” said prince andrew. “well, what is +“yes, you do not know him, my dear sir,” said the mason. “you +yes! yes! yes! don’t look at me with such surprise. if you marry +“yes, yes, that is so,” said pierre joyfully. +“yes, yes, of course!” pierre chimed in, pleased at the arrival of +“yes, yes, of course,” interrupted prince vasíli impatiently, +“yes, yes,” muttered bagratión as if considering something, and he +“yes, yes; just so! bring it. give it to the countess.” +“yes, yes, if you please! it is already late,” said he, and nodding +“yes... yes, i believe in god,” he said. +“yes, yes, i am unhappy,” assented pierre. “but what am i to +“yes, yes,” he muttered, “it will be difficult, i fear, difficult +“yes, yes, go and tell them to get it ready,” she answered, +“yes, yes, do so.” +“yes, yes,” assented pierre. +“yes, yes,” assented pierre. +“yes, we know that, but the harm i am conscious of in myself is +“yes, we have altered much, very much, since then,” said prince +“yes, this is the one thing left me now,” he said with a sigh. +“yes, they are splendid, splendid youngsters,” chimed in the count, +“yes, these verses nicholas wrote himself and i copied some others, +“yes, the ham was just delicious...” answered another with a loud +“yes, the austrian prince who built that castle was no fool. it’s +“yes, that was fine,” said rostóv, smiling. +“yes, that’s me!” she seemed to say, answering the rapt gaze with +“yes, that must be so,” thought pierre, when after these words the +“yes, that all happened!” he said, and, smiling happily to himself +yesterday’s order. have you got it, denísov?” +yesterday and the question presented itself whether he ought or ought +“yes, stories!” repeated rostóv loudly, looking with eyes suddenly +“yes, so it is, so it is,” said the general angrily, lowering the +“yes, sir, and there’s a light in your father’s study.” +“yes, sir.” +“yes, sir.” +“yes,” said the countess when the brightness these young people had +“yes,” said rostóv as if it cost him a great deal to utter the +“yes,” said natásha. “do you know, nicholas—don’t be +“yes,” replied a footman in a bold loud voice, as if anything were +“yes, please do,” said rostóv. +“yes, please do,” answered the general, and he repeated the order +“yes, one is afraid,” continued the first speaker, he of the +“yes, now you may be glad!” said she; “this is what you have +“yes, my sónya could not have done otherwise!” thought nicholas. +“yes, my dear, this is a great loss for us all, not to speak of you. +“yes, let’s go in and i will get myself a roll and some cheese,” +yes, killed my wife’s lover. yes, that was it! and why? how did i come +“yes, just the same. though i don’t know what your opinion will +“yes, i was thinking”—for some reason borís could not help +“yes, i was brought up quite differently,” remarked the handsome +“yes, i was a fool! i still believed in people, loved them, and +“yes... it’s getting on, it will all be settled today.” anna +“yes, it’s from julie,” replied the princess with a timid glance +“yes, it seems he is ill. people are always disturbing him,” +“yes, it’s a nice purse. yes, yes,” he said, growing suddenly +“yes, it is very likely that i shall be killed tomorrow,” he +“yes, it is all very horrid,” interrupted pierre, “very horrid.” +“yes, it can’t be helped if they won’t take less. ah, dear me! i +“yes, i saw him, and am convinced that he fears nothing so much as +“yes, i never loved her,” said he to himself; “i knew she was a +“yes, indeed,” replied the princess with a sigh. “so he may have +“yes, indeed!” +“yes, i’m tired too,” said rostóv. +“yes, immediately, immediately! hey, who’s there?” he called out +“yes, i knew it long ago but had forgotten. i knew that i could expect +“yes... i... i... desire regeneration,” pierre uttered with +“yes, i have heard of his scheme for perpetual peace, and it is very +“yes, if you put it like that it’s quite a different matter,” said +“yes, if having obtained power, without availing himself of it to +“yes, i feel a kind of oppression,” she said in reply to the +“yes, i’d send them on in front, but no fear, they’re crowding up +“yes, i do wish it,” said he. +“yes, i do believe in god,” he repeated. +“yes: ideas of robbery, murder, and regicide,” again interjected an +“yes, i belong to the brotherhood of the freemasons,” said the +“yes, i am, but please don’t let us do like that.... in another four +yes, hospitals, medicine. he has a fit, he is dying, and you come and +“yes, he is very handsome,” thought pierre, “and i know him. it +“yes, god be thanked! yes! they’ve just finished supper. let me have +“yes, gentlemen, i’ve been told there’s a rumor going about moscow +“yes, from olmütz,” he answered, with a sigh. +“yes, father, i have come to you and brought my wife who is +“yes, everything is different nowadays, everything is changed. the +“yes, dmítri, clean ones, please,” said the countess, sighing +“yes, count,” she would say, “he is too noble and pure-souled for +“yes, but you are not the only one. there are your sisters...” +“yes, but it is not as you imagine,” prince andrew continued. “i +“yes, but he will dislike it extremely,” said bolkónski. +“yes, but between ourselves,” said the princess, “that is a +“yes, bring some.” +“yes, a regular volcano,” said the count. “takes after me! and +“yes and no mistake!” cried denísov. “you worked like wegular +“yes, and i have some money and a letter to give you,” he added. +“yes, and he is over sixty. i hear the count no longer recognizes +“yes, and even tomorrow,” replied her brother. +“yes.” +“yes.” +years ... then i will ask for your hand.” +years older than her sister and behaved already like a grown-up person), +years before, it seemed impossible that the little creature who lived +year?” said “the man of profound intellect.” “why shouldn’t +yards was all that separated them. the enemy ceased firing, and that +xvii, for the queen, or for madame elizabeth? nothing!” and he became +wrote himself,” said she through her tears. +wrong and that to discuss the bad news was difficult, and so it was best +wrong, and further that he was disagreeable and unnatural. +written, “still, i should not cry, but you can’t... no one can +writing, so that his quill spluttered and squeaked. “if you have +write, told rostóv the contents of his letter. +“write to her and let me know how her father looks at the matter. au +wrists visible from under the shirt cuffs, laid down the pack and took +wrinkled soles and palms. +wrinkled, clean-shaven cheek for pierre to kiss and would say: “till +wringing her hands. +wretched mood. at nine in the morning, he heard firing in front and +wrath. having snapped at an officer for an unpolished badge, at another +wounds, the loss of family—i fear nothing. and precious and dear +wounded where there was no one left to fire at, on seeing an adjutant +wounded were more distinctly heard than any other sound in the darkness +wounded under him and his own arm slightly grazed by a bullet. as a mark +wounded soldier was so dirty, coarse, and revolting that his proximity +wounded officer?” +wounded in the right hand, taken his sword in the left, and gone +wounded—had left it long ago. all about the field, like heaps of +wounded had been abandoned on the other side of the danube with a letter +wounded, and one knocked out,” he added, unable to restrain a happy +wounded and captured russian officers he was carried to the hospital. +would you now like to look round my place?” +“would you believe it, count, i was not at all alarmed, because i knew +would take place on this side of it... +would still remain piteous and plain. after two or three changes to +would occupy a most brilliant position in society. don’t you think so? +“would not your excellency like a little refreshment?” he said. +would not supply them. pierre was obliged to wait. without undressing, +“would not such a meeting be too trying for him, dear anna +would not see us for a whole fortnight. i know it was then he wrote this +would not have taken lovers (des amants), but i have not done so,” +would not be bad as regards the unwritten code,” thought borís), +would meet. +would magnanimously extend the hand of reconciliation. +would i not give now to be unmarried! you are the first and only one to +would have taken the icon, but she stopped him. andrew understood, +would have seemed so unnatural had anyone disliked him, that he could +would have me be, but i have never had help from anyone.... but it is +would have made them. +would have hit alpátych, the overseer, had not the latter instinctively +would have addressed yourself first to me. in that case you would not +would happen to him and still more afraid of showing his fear. he felt +would give way not only under a cannon or a crowd, but very soon even +would find himself in the position of mack at ulm. if kutúzov decided +would be wiser for him to leave petersburg. pierre proposed going to his +would be transferred to the guards at once?” said she. +would be too extraordinary,” and at the very moment she thought this, +would be to betray her agitation, while to decline their offers to +would be taken immediately to free his serfs—and that till then they +would be something unnatural, and as it seemed to him dishonorable, in +would be particularly pleasant to him to dishonor my name and ridicule +would be killed. +would be good if everything were as clear and simple as it seems to +would be easier to see people coming along it. “follow me!” said he, +would at last start on that path of regeneration and on the actively +would appear as he passed the commander. +would again have risen had not the prince still held her fast, “though +“wostóv, you’ve not been playing schoolboy twicks...” +“wostóv, get up!” +“wostóv, deah fellow, just see how much there is left and shove the +worthy of it. this rescript began with the words: “sergéy kuzmích, +worthless scoundrel whose whole life could not atone for his crime. he +worse, would have thought that rostóv was himself to blame since what +worse than others.” +worse, and it is absolutely necessary to prepare him if he is so ill. +worn leather, and an officer’s saber with a sword knot. the don horse +worn and irritable. the infantry passing before him came to a halt +world. prince andrew was the first to move away, ruffling his hair +worldly sciences of physics, history, chemistry, and the like, into +world a quite different atmosphere, careless, lighthearted, and +world!” +work. on a third estate the priest, bearing a cross, came to meet +work nearer to her. +working herself up to tears with the imaginary words of her pauvre mère +working and looked up with that curious expression of inner, happy calm +work, chimes to play, figures to pop out, and the hands to advance with +workbag.” +work and study. and if pierre was often struck by andrew’s lack +word would effectively prove to prince vasíli the invalidity of his +word “waiting.”) “not all the columns have formed up yet, your +word that hardenburg says, or haugwitz either. this famous prussian +words with vague yet joyful ideas. the door opened and someone came in. +words. touched that this statuesque princess could so change, pierre +words to the soldiers who were carrying him, now with his eyes fixed +words—the great all or nothing-” said he to himself, “or to +words), others were eating bread; the more severely wounded looked +words of rostopchín, that french soldiers have to be incited to battle +words: “morning dawned, the sun was rising,” and concluding: “on +words. if you are going to fight a duel, and you make a will and write +words he had found so difficult to utter: “i love you.” “it all +words, he added, “don’t be hurt, my dear fellow; you know i speak +words: “gallop off to kórchevo and carry out instructions!” +words could do. you will perhaps also see in your further initiation a +words but could not distinguish them. the din of many voices was too +word or slight rearrangement kept the conversational machine in steady, +word of honor not to take anything more till the spring. now only twelve +word infected the whole crowd with a feeling of panic. +word, “and you believed it! well, what have you proved? what does this +word; and he sat down at the nearest table. +word. +wooden walls redolent of pine, and would have gone farther, but antón +wood. +“won’t you come over to the other table?” suggested anna +won’t go.” +won’t get there till evening.” +won’t be in action,” he added as if in apology. +wonderful classic beauty of her figure, his face on the contrary +women, ‘women and wine’ i don’t understand!” +women’s gloves, he said: “dear brother, these woman’s gloves are +“women,” he said in a low, scarcely audible voice. +women have that dress can make a face pretty. +women are when you see them in their true colors! when you meet them +women.” +women. +woman. with a slight rustle of her white dress trimmed with moss +woman who may belong to anyone—to you too,” said her glance. and at +woman’s privilege.” +woman. now i have spoken that terrible word to myself all has become + * “woman is man’s companion.” +woman, but there, just fancy! those three got hold of a bear somewhere, +woman; and what have you done? you have not helped her to find the way +with you. may i?” he added in a low voice so as not to disturb the +“with you i will be quite frank,” said anna mikháylovna. “there +with you. i can’t.” +with you alone! god knows how long we may again be parted. you are not +with which he listened to pierre, especially when he spoke with joyful +with us.” +with upraised arms. +with trembling hands, threw his body across the saddle, righted himself, +with thoughts and anxieties as to be oblivious of his presence. he +with the strict formality of his house. at that moment the great clock +with the soldier, an infantry officer with a bandaged cheek came up to +with these words she greeted prince vasíli kurágin, a man of high +with the self-satisfaction of a man on parade, he stepped lightly with +with the same expression on his full, cheerful, clean-shaven face, the +with the river between himself and the main body of the french. on the +with the rank of lieutenant; but as it is i receive two hundred and +with the physical pain. it was they, these soldiers—wounded and +with the old prince.” +with the naked eye prince andrew saw below them to the right, not more +with the lassitude of age, sat yawning wearily with closed eyes. the +with their plumes, ribbons, and medals, both courtiers and military +with their management and embezzlement of money, some after their first +with the hussar colonel on his left and shinshín and the other male +with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance +with the full swing of a bludgeon. it hurt a little, but the worst of +with the flirtatiousness of a handsome youth at sónya and the young +with the expression with which people compliment their host at a ball. +with the delight boys feel at the sight of a military elder brother, and +with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our +with the air of an old brigadier. +with tender smiles was saying to véra that love is not an earthly but +with telyánin and bogdánich. that affair was the same thing as this +with such exactitude that nesvítski could not help laughing. kutúzov +with something more than curiosity and sympathy. he noticed that they +with something. it was a coffin with bones inside. he was not at all +with so and-so,’ and then i take a cab and go myself two, three, or +with silver plate, two turkish pistols and a saber—a present from +with shinshín. berg gave his arm to véra. the smiling julie karágina +with shifting eyes but eyebrows still raised, telyánin handed him the +with red light like a russian church during evening service. under +with rapid rhythmic whistle flew over the heads of the horsemen and fell +with profit. the first and chief object of our order, the foundation on +with prince bagratión’s detachment.” +with pleasure to his own voice. “all i can say, general, is that if +with particular courtesy ushered prince andrew before him along a +with papers from kutúzov to the tsarévich, he looked in on borís, +without wars. how is it that we women don’t want anything of the kind, +without turning their heads glanced at one another, curious to see their +without taking any notice of him although they were now meeting for the +without support. prince bagratión turned to the officer and with his +without receiving any explanation. +without reasoning. with an affectation of respect which evidently struck +without reading it and reread his father’s letter, ending with the +without omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from +without moving, undertaking nothing....” +without male society, on anatole’s appearance all the three women of +without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly. it was as +without looking at the man he was addressing, and did not reply to +without looking at him, and with a kind of fury that made him like his +without laughing, but could not resist looking at him: so to be out of +without his noticing it the feeling of offense immediately turned into +without his greatcoat, with his orders on his breast and an enormous +without his boots (he had given them to the canteen keeper to dry), +without going out of the house, waiting for the money his father could +without eating.” +without delay and carry out instructions! +without changing his careless attitude, pierre looked at them over his +without boasting that it was a little better than at ulm...” +without at all noticing that his involuntary smile had stabbed the heart +without any definite position, without relations or even a country, did +without any command being given, apparently obstructed by something in +without answering, rostóv shook the soldier’s cross of st. george +without an inner struggle; “at such a moment as this one must think +with one leg crossed high above the other. his cheeks, which were so +with one another. again the footmen rushed about, chairs scraped, and +with none of the embarrassment so commonly shown by young men in their +with natásha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed +with napoleon if, contrary to expectations, these negotiations were +“with my father and sister, remember,” said prince andrew gently. +with lighted tapers in their hands, slowly and solemnly conducting the +with lanterns, standing at the entrance. she went out on the stairs. on +with kutúzov’s cantata, laid one before pierre as one of the +with kisses, holding him tight by the skirt of his coat, sprang away and +with jests and to come to business. he involuntarily looked round at the +with it to the marshals, and ordered the action to begin. the marshals, +with it hidden for awhile; then looking up and seeing pierre she +within half an hour adjutants had been sent in various directions with +within grapeshot range now.” +within a few days. princess mary and the old prince each bore and hid +within. +with his whole body as if in that position he hoped to hasten the speed +with his thin legs, went up to kutúzov. +with his small hand. +with his right thumb under a button of his uniform, his chest expanded +with his right hand, then falling on one knee he twirled her round him, +with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. at the sound +with his handkerchief, sat down by natásha and did not leave her for +with his glittering, black eyes at rostóv. +with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache +with his foot. +with his feelings but with the very possibility of life. life without +with his face in his hands. +with his eyes bandaged seemed to him an hour. his arms felt numb, +with his eccentric father. +with his daughter, princess mary, and her companion, mademoiselle +with his cap on the back of his black head and a cloak hanging jauntily +with him to dolgorúkov. +with him. there now, sídorov!” +with himself and those around him, his smile and glance were brighter +with him remained in his room; a small box, a large canteen fitted +with him.” +with her to the side of the room where stood the high bedstead with its +with her knitting. princess mary took a book and began reading. only +with her. he kissed her hand and addressed her not as thou but as +with her head bent first on one side and then on the other. +with her beautiful eyes full of tears at the door through which prince +with her and picked up her reticule and drove out with her. how did it +with grief, though he tried hard to hide it in order not to sadden his +with great difficulty he managed to get to his horse, and shouting +with gossip,” he continued. “just now they are talking about you and +with germans all day. we went with weyrother to survey the dispositions. +with frightened eyes; the second assumed precisely the same expression; +with flour whitening their carts—on that narrow dam amid the wagons +with exaggerated politeness. +with evident pleasure. +with enjoyment, gazing with ever-increasing amiability at the other +with elasticity of movement, faith in his good fortune, and generally in +with dólokhov. “none but fools trust to luck in play,” dólokhov +with carts that it was impossible to get by in a carriage. prince andrew +with bread and salt and wished to build a chantry in honor of peter and +with banks still bare of grass. it was at the end of a village that +with a wink, and passed on followed by another, an old man. +with a trembling voice and some difficulty in utterance due to his +with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her +with a subtle smile. +with a strength he had never before felt, he made a step toward her +with a smile. +with a sinking heart—watching the bridge and the hussars in the bright +with a sigh. this might have been taken as an expression of sorrow +with a sigh he could not suppress, as they passed out of the palace. +with a sigh. +with a serious expression, but with a smile lurking at the corners of +with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not +with a sense of antipathy to the old prince which she did not +with a scared look and that princess mary was no longer by the cot. +with a rapid, almost brutal movement of her head, she intercepted his +with a pleasant feeling that there was something à la louis xv in the +with anything in regard to her; and that always will be so in whatever +with an old mother and a hunchback sister, and was the most affectionate +with an f, as a village elder of mine writes in his reports. she is rich +with an enormous mouth, hardly refraining from laughing, “i felt like +with an apoplectic flush over neck and nape as old people do. +with a mouse. +with a mournful expression. +“with a message to his majesty.” +with a look the significance of which could not be understood by mortal +with a look of nervous agitation such as pierre had never before seen on +with a hum of conversation, like the hum of bees swarming in springtime. +with a heart full despair he rode away, continually looking back at the +with a gloomy and tired face, was wearily taking off his wraps with the +with a friendly smile. +with a foretaste of artistic pleasure. +with a facetious smile on his face, he was telling the ladies about last +with a distressed face left the room to find sónya. +with a decorous smile of self-satisfaction at being able clearly to +with a decanter on a tray as “my dear” and “my sweet,” asked +with a clever face and sharply projecting jaw which, without spoiling +with a clear, bright expression, as if asking them to notice how calmly +with a calm smile that she was not so stupid as to be jealous: ‘let +with a bottle wrapped in a napkin passed him by. he frowned, trying to +with a bashful and awkward gesture not at all like a military salute +wish, to court society’s favor. now he alone was blamed for what had +wish to be seen in that mood, for hearing footsteps in the passage he +wish or not to be prince anatole kurágin’s wife? reply: yes or no,” +wishing to take it off, but let it drop again. the five minutes spent +wishing to show him that she did not even dare expect to interest him, +wishing to show her connections and knowledge of what went on in +wishing to rid himself of this staff officer’s company, “please +wishing to find out where the commander in chief was, he rode up to +wishing to avail himself of their courtesy, and this caused some delay +wishes to test me!” his heart contracted and the blood rushed to his +wishes to stay with me, let him... he’ll be of use here if he’s a +wishes; that is my only reason for being here. i came simply to help him +wished to take another seat so as not to trouble the lady, and also to +wished to see the regiment just in the state in which it had been on +wished to say something more, but at that moment prince vasíli and his +wished to make some suggestion. but prince vasíli interrupted him in +wished to help him but could not. +wished to do something special on meeting his friend. he wanted to pinch +wished both to rebuke him (for daring to speak as he had done of a man +wish?” +wisdom.” +wiping them on the sleeves of their greatcoats. all their faces were +winter of 1806, which nicholas rostóv spent in moscow, was one of the +wing with the other, prince andrew met mademoiselle bourienne smiling +wings, hoping before evening and before the arrival of the emperor to +wine with dignity and looking to the count for approval. +“wine? gluttony? idleness? laziness? irritability? anger? women?” +wind to carry away. a pleasant humming and whistling of bullets were +windows opening into the conservatory, with its large bust and full +window sill, with a pale but radiant face. +window sill. +window. nesvítski, moving his moist lips as he chewed something, and +window, from which the double frame had been removed (by order of the +window and from dólokhov’s back. anatole stood erect with staring +“will you have the portmanteaus brought in? and a bed got ready, and +“will you bet? the ribbon of the order is a different matter....” +will to tell only what happened. it is very difficult to tell the truth, +will they cross pomerania?” +“will they burn the bridge or not? who’ll get there first? will they +will. the races, the english club, sprees with denísov, and visits to +will slash at him!” thought rostóv, gripping the hilt of his saber. +will pass here immediately; it will please him to see these gentlemen +will not rest until they have gained their end, and are prepared if +will not reach your regiment before peace is concluded, or you will +will just be time.” +will in pierre’s favor are among the count’s papers, then, my dear +willing, are going to die in the regiment, we prize the honor of the +will come back in a rage. will you have coffee?” +will come!” +will certainly happen!” thought pierre, glancing at those dazzling +will certainly be granted. pierre will get everything as the legitimate +will be my teacher...” and lowering his big arm he offered it to the +will begin. and he says buonaparte is in braunau! shows you’re a fool. +will be cut off,” said he. +willarski, whom pierre had known slightly in petersburg society, came +willarski was silent throughout the drive. to pierre’s inquiries as +willarski bowed his head. +will all the same never be like those petersburg young men.” +will all end in nothing!” +will all die for him gladly! is it not so, gentlemen? perhaps i am not +will accept them,” said nesvítski (who like the others concerned in +wild virgin pine forest, and far away on the other side of the enns the +wife, while you...” +wife, was talking in low tones to the elderly lady about pierre. +wife, sister, and future son, and the tenderness he had felt the night +wife’s command had let his hair grow and abandoned his spectacles, +wife, how she would love him become quite different, and how all he had +wife... god bless you!...” +wife, and that it could not be otherwise. +wife and her tall cap with its light-blue ribbons, and busily filled +wife: “ah, why have you done this to me?” +width of the field, an enormous mass of cavalry in brilliant white +wider than ours, and it was plain that they could easily outflank us +“why, you remember before you went away?... well, she says you are to +“why ‘what the devil’?” said borís, picking it up and reading +“why,” thought prince andrew, “that’s the captain who stood up +“why, this is a palace!” she said to her husband, looking around +why they all looked so at him, and flattered by this general admiration +“why, that one, right at the end, the big one. don’t you see? +“why terrible?” asked nicholas. “no, váska is a splendid +“why talk nonsense? say what you want.” +“why so?” asked prince andrew. “to kill a vicious dog is a very +“why should you be ashamed?” +“why shouldn’t i speak? i can speak as i like, and i tell you +“why should i mind monsieur pierre being here?” exclaimed the little +“why should i envy them? my chance is not lost, and maybe i shall see +why she’s ashamed!” +“why run risks, captain? you should dismount,” he said. +“why not wash? that is not cleanly,” said prince andrew; “on the +“why not?” inquired borís. +“why no, my dear fellow,” said the astonished narrator, shrugging +“why is it you were never at annette’s?” the little princess asked +“why is it wrong?” urged prince andrew. “it is not given to man +“why, is it late?” +“why? i love you more than ever,” said princess mary, “and i will +“why, i didn’t recognize you!” he said. but rostóv was otherwise +“why, have you too much money?” +“why have you thrown that away?” asked borís. +“why have we stopped? is the way blocked? or have we already come up +“why, for this reason! my father is one of the most remarkable men of +“why do you shout so? you’ll frighten them!” said borís. “i did +“why do you say this young man is so rich?” asked the countess, +“why do they want to make her sing? how can she sing? there’s +“why don’t you speak, cousin?” suddenly shrieked the princess so +“why don’t you renew the acquaintance?” said dólokhov to rostóv. +“why don’t you play?” he asked. +“why, don’t you hear it?” rostóv asked again, after waiting for a +“why doesn’t the red-haired gunner run away as he is unarmed? +why doesn’t the frenchman stab him? he will not get away before the +“why did you not succeed in impressing on bonaparte by diplomatic +“why did they write, why did lise tell me about it? it can never +“why did sónya run away?” asked rostóv. +“why didn’t you mention it, prince? i would have offered you +“why didn’t you capture one, just one, marshal for us?” +why did i bind myself to her? why did i say ‘je vous aime’ * to her, +“why are you so glum?” asked nesvítski noticing prince andrew’s +why are you hindering us?” another in the same place turned round and +“why are you going? i know you think it your duty to gallop back to +“why are you crying, mamma?” asked véra. “from all he says one +“why are they down on me?” thought túshin, looking in alarm at his +“why aren’t you serving in the army?” +“why aren’t you beginning, michael ilariónovich?” said the +“why a blue coat? off with it... sergeant major! change his coat... +why. +“why?” +“why?” +“wh-what is the matter?” asked both the young and old rostóv. +who, with his face buried in the ground and a blackened nape, lay on his +who will not refuse to accompany you.” +“who was that? the military governor himself?” was being asked at +“who was that?” asked borís. +who was sitting silently beside him, what he thought of tomorrow’s +who was reduced to the ranks, took a french officer prisoner in my +who was passing: +who was kissing her hand, “you’re feeling dull in moscow, i daresay? +who was in a high fever. these last days, mistrusting their household +who was associated by memories of the italian campaign with the name of +who was a secretary to the embassy, bolkónski was already acquainted. +“who told you that? who?” cried the prince. “suvórov!” and he +“who the devil has put the logs on the road?” snarled he. +who stood in the midst of the group, without a coat, and with his fine + who still is thinking but of thee! +“who’s that? why? wait a moment!” anatole’s face seemed to say. +“who’s that running on the middle of the bridge? to the right! come +“who’s that curtseying there? cadet miwónov! that’s not wight! +“who should it be? you yourself told him to come. it’s the +whose words struck pierre more and more by their precision and firmness. +whose state of unconquerable childish embarrassment now changing to +“whose company?” asked prince bagratión of an artilleryman standing +“who sacrificed everything for him,” chimed in the princess, who +who’s a better man than you in every way...” +who remained behind, and the monotonous tramp of thousands of feet +who recognized him and said a few words to him, disjointed and awkward, +who ran downstairs and looked over from the halfway landing. +who on kutúzov’s staff in charge of the provisioning of the russian +whom should i say that? either to a power indefinable, incomprehensible, +“whom shall i announce?” +whom i mention this, because i like you.” +whom he was again talking with the same involuntary smile. sónya wore +whom he now found nothing in common. “we will go after dinner. and +whom he had promised to take home. +who met him with the cross oppressed the peasants by his exactions, and +whom did you apply?” +whom all the regiment knew for a rogue. +who made her a low bow when she met him in the corridor carrying hot +who looked at her, after being in her company and talking to her a +who, liking work, knew how to do it, and despite his indolence would +whole tenor of his thoughts instantaneously changed; the battle seemed +whole set. yes, you’re all right! choose what you will; it’s all the +whole mass of men was concentrated. +whole dining hall, and last of all the children, tutors, and governesses +whole body jerked at each step. the eldest princess followed him, and +whole army it is still uncertain whether he is alive or not. i comfort +whole army.” +who lays back her ears and continues to crouch motionless before her +“who? kutúzov?” asked rostóv. +who kissed his hand. +who kept her waiting some minutes. “don’t you wish to serve me? then +who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies. +“who is it you want?” he asked. “the commander in chief? he was +who have striven to attain this mystery, and thereby to render them +who had wished to stop the affair ran to a corner of the room and threw +who had stolen some boots from the recruits; i should even have been +who had spoken to him on behalf of her only son borís on the evening of +who had sheltered in the village houses. they all rushed out of +who had recently opened a restaurant there with girls as waitresses. +who had marched so gaily and complacently. but at the moment the first +who had lolled in anna pávlovna’s easy chairs and with half-closed +who had him under observation, interrupted: +who had grown old in society and at court. he went up to anna pávlovna, +who had evidently just arrived, entered quickly, slamming the door. +who had come up to the cot with noiseless steps, lifted the curtain, +who had come into the room unnoticed by anyone, stood there and wiped +who gives himself the airs of a monarch.” +(who gazed with curiosity at the soldiers) were not russians, the +who evidently understood his case and wished him nothing but good, +whoever he may be, exhort him who goeth astray, raise him that falleth, +who—dreading this love affair which might hinder nicholas from making +who could therefore be of use to him. he liked petersburg and despised +“who can tell, your honor?” replied the hussar reluctantly. +who came to congratulate, and who constantly succeeded one another in +who at the rostóvs’ had jocularly assumed the role of natásha’s +who at the front had the power to annihilate him, a lieutenant of the +who, as they passed through in their ball dresses with diamonds and +“who?” asked rostóv. +“who are you talking about?” +“who are they? why are they here? what do they want? and when will +who appeared at his call. “hurry off and tell maksím, the gardener, +who, angry and frightened, strode energetically along with downcast +who amuses himself in this sensible manner! and he was said to be so +who always solved questions that seemed to him perplexing by deciding +who also enjoyed the famous actress’ favors, and that in his presence +“who?” +white teeth fiercely and spurring his black thoroughbred arab, which +whites glittering and rolling as he waved his sheathed saber in a small +white ruffle, outlining his rather long face which was lit up from +white plumes in his hat rode a bobtailed chestnut horse, the other who +white one, the white one!” +white horse, was prince bagratión. prince andrew stopped, waiting for +white hands with an air of calm importance. +white foam on the waves of the enns, an officer, in a cloak and with +white foam from his bit, tramping the planks of the bridge with his +white cossack coat, and bring him along to me.” +whistling, singing, and hissing continually around them. he spoke in the +whispers, and, whenever anyone went into or came from the dying man’s +whispers. +whispering, and betraying by every word and movement that they none +whisper, “has compromised her completely, they say. pierre took him +whispered to one another, casting significant looks at him with a kind +whispered to him. “this happiness is for those who have not in them +whispered, and a shudder ran down her back. +whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, +while we, on the other hand, with our left wing by far outflank his +while under the supervision of the countess and the solicitude of the +while the youngest, the one with the mole, who was of a cheerful and +while these conversations were going on in the reception room and the +while the guests were taking their leave pierre remained for a long time +while the couples were arranging themselves and the musicians tuning up, +while the count was being turned over, one of his arms fell back +while rostóv was thus arguing with himself and riding sadly away, +while prince andrew went to report about the purple-faced general, that +while prince andrew on the contrary, taking no part in the war and +while others sought some extraordinary explanation of so strange an +while on the scaffolding, in the midst of a talk explaining the future +while in the rostóvs’ ballroom the sixth anglaise was being danced, +while he tried to prove to pierre that in his actions there was no +while father and son were having their explanation, the mother and +while dressing, and yet the question he was always putting off demanded +(which would be very difficult), he would not be able to get back before +which were uppermost in his mind at that moment, addressed prince andrew +which were to be the first to descend the heights to attack the french +which was to be found “the cream of really good society, the bloom +which was presumably somewhere in the same neighborhood. and so it was +which was offered him. telyánin for some reason had been transferred +which was not clear to him, to question his chief steward, to visit his +which was littered with books and papers. the princess was as untidy as +which was a lie, and worse than a lie? i am guilty and must endure... +which to reply to dólokhov’s words. but before he had thought of +which to attack and defeat the enemy should he cross the lech. also, +which though they embarrassed pierre awakened a joyful feeling in the +which they were present, and went to iogel’s balls for young people +which the serfs’ manorial labor had been diminished, and heard the +which the rostóvs always attended. he was pointedly attentive to sónya +which the prince had retained for himself. +which the guards prided themselves), the officers on foot and at their +which the cadet under fire for the first time had experienced. +which stood on her right. it reflected a weak, ungraceful figure and +which showed that he only understood the meaning of his words after he +which she spoke of her exalted patroness, supported hélène’s wish. +which she neither wished, nor could, nor considered it necessary, to +which several others joined but which bored pierre. when the music began +which seemed to stand rather than lie down on his massive shoulders. he +which seemed to say that he was not blaming anyone, but could not help +which seemed to rise out of the sea of mist and on which the russian +which seemed to him dazzlingly red, and at the feeble, round-shouldered +which princess mary meekly submitted, just as her hair had been arranged +which nicholas rostóv served and which was in prince bagratión’s +which made a certain sensation, the count exchanged glances with +which it rests and which no human power can destroy, is the preservation +which it is difficult to justify.” +“which is the senior?” he asked, on seeing the prisoners. +which is the only thing we need fear, or he is changing his position.” +which i shall lead the army.” +which intimated that he knew what he was about and if others did not +which intellectual knowledge is divided. the highest wisdom is one. +which i not only cannot address but which i cannot even express in +which indicates that patience is exhausted. +which, in accord with the club custom, he had given up to the hall +which ilyá rostóv blushed with self-conscious pleasure), the footmen +“which house is it?” asked the driver. +(which he very likely would be), and found the commander in chief +which he presented to prince bagratión. on the salver lay some verses +which held him in their power.... the ten fell to him. +which he held the hilt of his naked saber, looked just as it usually +which he had worn on his italian campaign, sat on his small gray arab +which he had reckoned up to ten thousand, but that now, as he vaguely +which he had come out was thronged with calèches, carriages of all +which he found himself. anna pávlovna was obviously serving him up as +which he always deceived himself. the question was whether he could ever +which had lost all dignity, and at the twitching cheeks of prince +which had grown much older. +which had disappeared, but at french infantry who had come into the +which had been particularly revived and strengthened by his late tour. +which forms an impenetrable veil between us and the eternal? let us +which every freemason should cultivate in himself. these virtues were: +which dólokhov’s second had called on him, and, having closed the +which did not leave his eager face. “hoch oestreicher! hoch russen! +which denísov followed her. +which covered with snow, appeared on the landing where the footman +which changed his appearance for the worse. there was something naïvely +which attracted him. he very readily took up borís’ cause and went +which at least half of them would be left on the field. after passing a +which aroused his own pity. +which an enormous map of the environs of brünn was spread out. +which a faint smile forgot to fade though his features now expressed +whether what he said was very witty or very stupid. he was dressed in +whether she ought to write, tormented her. now that he was already an +whether he was still firm in his intention and determined to submit to +whether he was speaking in jest or in earnest. “ah, your excellency! +where you always ran away; you remember cette chère annette!” +“where would i not go at the countess’ command!” said denísov, +where túshin’s guns were stationed was an unharnessed horse with a +where to find me, but don’t forget that i do not regard either myself +“where to?” +“where to?” +where the sleighs had been left, in a small clearing in the pine forest +where the rivals suddenly recognized one another; and the ladies looked +where the hottest musket fire and cannonade were heard. suddenly he +“where the devil have the leg bands been shoved to?” said an +where the clavichord stood. +where’s the victory?” +“where is the princess?” he asked. “hiding?” +“where is the emperor? where is kutúzov?” rostóv kept asking +“where is the commander in chief?” asked bolkónski. +“where is it, that lofty sky that i did not know till now, but saw +“where is dólokhov?” asked kutúzov. +where his regiment was stationed, and take him to visit prince nicholas +where he was staying, and had been absurd, excited, and foolish in +where he could never have expected the enemy to be. +“where have you put it, wostóv?” +“where? at bykov’s, at the rat’s... i knew it,” replied a piping +whereas it was perhaps not known, since the enemy was in movement. +“where are you off to?” he said suddenly to prince andrew who had +“where are you off to?” asked borís. +“where are you going to now, my dear sir?” +“where are you going?” asked an infantry officer who was eating an +“where are headquarters?” +where a parade does not begin till all the troops are assembled,” said +“where am i? oh yes, in the skirmishing line... pass and +where. +“when you see my sister, princess mary, you’ll get on with her,” +when you began living for others. i experienced just the reverse. i +“when would you like them, your excellency?” asked dmítri. “allow +when we were rejoicing at his happiness! and such a lofty angelic soul +when they saw his looks. +when they played some tricks on a policeman, didn’t they do it +when they drink, pressing his spurs mercilessly into the sides of his +when they again heard an unexpectedly violent whistling which suddenly +when the twenty minutes had elapsed and the time had come for the old +when the sun had entirely emerged from the fog, and fields and mist were +when the subject did not relate to himself, but in connection with the +when the review was over, the newly arrived officers, and also +when the reading which lasted more than an hour was over, langeron again +when the princess, as if lost in a fog, had already staggered out of the +when the officers had emptied and smashed their glasses, kírsten filled +when the monotonous sound of weyrother’s voice ceased, kutúzov opened +when the military governor had gone, prince vasíli sat down all alone +when the emperor had passed nearly all the regiments, the troops began +when the eager but misrepeated words had reached their destination in +when telyánin had finished his lunch he took out of his pocket a double +when starting on a journey or changing their mode of life, men capable +“when speaking to the emperor, try as far as you can to praise the way +when she was not like that and when everything was light and gay. she +when she took her seat opposite and beamed upon him also with her +when she saw the count, she stretched out her arms to him, embraced his +when she saw pierre enter. though he was certainly rather bigger than +when she said this, he did not reply and only bowed, but again everybody +when she looked up at him she was struck by his beauty. anatole stood +when she had seen her guests out. +when she began to speak passed through such transitions as she herself +when rostóv went back there was a bottle of vodka and a sausage on the +when prince vasíli returned to the drawing room, the princess, his +when princess mary went to him at the usual hour he was working at his +when princess mary returned from her father, the little princess sat +when princess mary came down, prince vasíli and his son were already +when prince andrew reached the room prepared for him and lay down in a +when prince andrew left the palace he felt that all the interest +when prince andrew entered the study the old man in his old-age +when paris was mentioned, mademoiselle bourienne for her part seized the +when natásha ran out of the drawing room she only went as far as the +when it came to natásha’s turn to choose a partner, she rose and, +when i say she’ll be a singer, a second salomoni! we have engaged an +“when i saw, your excellency, that their first battalion was +when, if you remember, he posed as a sort of marat at one of my soirees. +when he wished to speak contemptuously, and noticing borís, prince +when he was dying of wounds and the sovereign had thanked him for heroic +when he stayed in (as he said) for pierre’s sake, hardly exchanged a +when he saw the minister seated at a large table reading some papers +when he read that sentence, pierre felt for the first time that some +when he reached kiev he sent for all his stewards to the head office +“when her confinement is due, send to moscow for an accoucheur.... let +when he needs repose? worldly conversation at a moment when his soul is +“when he looked at my feet, friend... well, thinks i...” +when he had gone less than half a mile in the rear of the column he +when he had become a little quieter, he explained to rostóv that he was +when he got home he could not sleep for a long time for thinking of what +when he first loved her. he thought of her pregnancy and felt sorry for +when he entered, prince andrew, his eyes drooping contemptuously (with +when he came level with the foot guards he noticed that about them and +when germans start being accurate, there’s no end to it!” +when footsteps or voices were heard did they look at one another, the +when everybody rose to go, hélène who had spoken very little all +“when did you get the letter? was it from olmütz?” repeated +whence—a stern note of which all are conscious sounds in the moral +when borís, who was to be served up to the guests, entered the drawing +when borís appeared at his door pierre was pacing up and down his room, +when borís and anna pávlovna returned to the others prince hippolyte +“when are you starting?” he asked. +when anna mikháylovna returned from count bezúkhov’s the money, all +“when am i to receive the money, count?” +when all was ready, the sabers stuck in the snow to mark the barriers, +wheel, which merged in her memory with what followed.) +wheels and working the screws himself. +wheels and the sensation of victory. then he began to imagine that +wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular movement of the +“what you said just now was splendid!” said his partner julie. +“what you have with you: watch, money, rings....” +“what! you don’t remember borís?” asked sónya in surprise. +“what would you have, my dear fellow?” answered pierre, shrugging +“what would you have me do?” he said at last. “you know i did all +“what would it cost you to say a word to the emperor, and then he +“what will happen now?” thought she. +what will happen and don’t want to know, and can’t, but if i want +“what? what? how dare you? what?” said telyánin. +what we fathers have to put up with.... is this princess of yours +what was passing in his mind. +“what was it?” +what was going on in the passage. some women passing with quiet steps in +what was approaching in the distance from the opposite side—the blue +“what! to whom?... nonsense!” cried the count, suddenly reddening +what to do with his hands; he was more accustomed to walk over a plowed +what there is in you.” +“what’s your name?” +“what stupid orders! they don’t themselves know what they are +“what’s to be done? she’s pretty! i will do everything. make your +“what’s this? am i falling? my legs are giving way,” thought he, +what’s the matter with you? you must be ill to shiver like that,” he +“what’s the matter with you? are you ill?” +“what’s the matter? i only congratulated them,” said zherkóv. +“what’s the matter?” exclaimed prince andrew standing still in +“what’s the good of denying it, my dear? our dear countess was too +“what’s that? what do you make of it?” said rostóv to the hussar +“what’s that that has fallen?” asked the accountant with a naïve + what spark has set my inmost soul on fire, +what’s one to do, my dear?” +what’s one to do?” and, having given his order, he returned to +“what’s it all about? why, the french have crossed the bridge that +what she was holding in her reticule.) “so you promise?” + * “what’s he singing about?” +“what shall we sing?” she said. +“what? saw the real mack? with hands and feet?” +“what? revolution and regicide a grand thing?... well, after that... +what pierre did not know was that the place where they presented him +“what? occupied? vienna occupied?” +“what nonsense! much i need it!” said rostóv, throwing the letter +“what nonsense...” +“what next?” the princess interrupted, smiling sardonically and not +“what next? have you gone mad?... no one would let you!... why, you go +“what news, sir?” asked the officer, evidently anxious to start a +“what, monsieur pierre... do you consider that assassination shows +“what manners! i thought they would never go,” said the countess, + what magic power is this recalls me still? +what looked like a squadron of horsemen in various uniforms. two of them +what it must be for her, poor thing, after what she has been used to, +“what! it is as if i were glad of a chance to take advantage of +“what is your conception of freemasonry?” +“what is this?” thought nicholas, listening to her with widely + what is this bliss that makes my fingers thrill? +“what is the something?” asked he. +what is there? who is there?—there beyond that field, that tree, that +“what is the matter with you, my dear?” she said crossly to the maid +“what is the matter with you, my darling? you look pale. oh, you +“what is the matter?” she asked. +“what is the matter, mary?” +“what is the commander in chief doing here?” he asked. +“what is that?” asked the countess as if she did not know what the +what is life, and what is death? what power governs all?” +“what is it you are afraid of, lise? i don’t understand,” said he. +“what is it? what?” asked both princesses when they saw for a moment +what is it meant to prove? what? i ask you.” +what is it i am attached to, papa?” said anatole, turning to his +“what is it?” he said crossly, and, his hand shaking +“what is it?” he asked. +“what is it, dear?” +“what is it?” asked the countess, startled; but seeing by her +“what is it?” +what is going on around them. +what is beyond death, none of us would be afraid of it. that’s so, +“what is bad, father?” +what i have seen during these last three months is incredible. +what he was to do. the coming of these visitors annoyed him. “what are +what he was saying was out of place, tactless and unsuitable, that +what he was laughing at. everything her father did inspired her with +what he was about; yet they beat him à plate couture,*(3) and where +what he should do on his estates. +“what? here? but why did they not blow up the bridge, if it was +“what?” he answered, not recognizing borís. +“what have you done to mlle schérer? she will be quite ill now,” +“what have they taken a baby in there for?” thought prince andrew in +“what have the young people come to nowadays, eh, feoktíst?” said +“what has happened?” he asked himself. “i have killed her lover, +what happiness it would be to die—not in saving the emperor’s life +“what good are they? they’re led about just for show!” remarked +“what for? i don’t know. i must. besides that i am going....” he +whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is +whatever the import of his work. it was not the question “what for?” +“whatever the european sovereigns and commanders may do to +“whatever is this? this!” he shouted and stood still. “commander +“whatever happens to you,” he said, “you must bear it all manfully +“whatever are you bothering about, gentlemen?” said bilíbin, who, +whatever. +“what error or evil can there be in my wishing to do good, and even +“what do you want, your honor?” asked an artilleryman, standing +“what do you thank me for?” +what do we, i mean the austrian court, care for your victories? bring +“what does this mean?” she brought out. +“what does that prove?” he was saying as rostóv rode up. “they +“what does it mean? what is it? whom are they firing at? who is +“what does harm to another is wrong,” said pierre, feeling with +“what division are you?” shouted an adjutant, riding up. +what difficulty the father had dragged his legs upstairs while the son +“what did he say? where to, now? halt, is it? did he thank us?” came +“what devils these quartermasters are! see, the fifth company is +“what devil brought them here?” thought he, while tíkhon was +“what delicacy!” thought the princess. “is it possible that +what chance has michael kutúzov? no, my dear boy,” he continued, +“what can one say about it?” replied the prince in a cold, listless +“what can it be?” he thought. “the enemy in the rear of our army? +“what can he say? tra-di-ri-di-ra and so on... merely to gain time. +what can be done with two hundred and thirty rubles! i even manage to +“what brings you here?” cried the officers turning to the newcomer. +what a voice she has; though she’s my daughter, i tell the truth +“what a treasure that dmítri is,” added the count with a smile when +“what a style! how charmingly he describes!” said she, reading the +what a strange frenzy one experiences during an attack,” prince +“what a strange fate, másha darling!” and having taken off his +what a soul there is in dólokhov, you should see him with his mother. +what? a slur on my name? a misfortune for life? oh, that’s +“what?” asked the commander. +“what, are you wounded, my lad?” said túshin, approaching the gun +“what are your commands, little countess?” +“what are you making such a noise about over there?” márya +“what! are you going to remain as you are, dear princess?” she +“what are you doing!” she cried vehemently. “he is dying and you +“what are you about?” shouted rostóv, looking at him in an ecstasy +“what are they about?” thought prince andrew as he gazed at them. +“what a pity you weren’t at the arkhárovs’ on thursday. it was so +“what?” answered the old man absent-mindedly. +“what a nice figure the policeman must have cut, my dear!” shouted +“what an extraordinary genius!” prince andrew suddenly exclaimed, +what am i to do if i love nothing but fame and men’s esteem? death, +“what? a minister? what minister? who gave orders?” he said in +what a heart!” +“what a fine fellow you are, friend!” said the cossack to a convoy +“what a delightful woman this little princess is!” said prince +“what a dandy you are today!” said nesvítski, looking at +“what a clever man your father is,” said she; “perhaps that is why +“what a charming creature your younger girl is,” said the visitor; +“what about your master?” he asked lavrúshka, denísov’s orderly, +“what about capitulation?” +weyrother, who was in full control of the proposed battle, by his +weyrother’s name, or even the term “dispositions.” +weyrother’s had already been approved. as soon as prince andrew began +weyrother, hurriedly rising from his seat and going up to the table on +weyrother again gave that smile which seemed to say that to him it was +weyrother. +we women, prince,” and she smiled tenderly, “always know how to say +“we will talk of it later,” said anna pávlovna with a smile. +“we will talk of it later” (and he looked round at rostóv). “come +“we were ordered to be at the place before nine, but we haven’t got +“we’ve said good-by. go!” he suddenly shouted in a loud, angry +“we’ve got to it at last—why did you not tell me about it +“we’ve given it ‘em hot, mate! they won’t make another push +“wetched!” he muttered, throwing down a purse with some gold in it. +“wetched business,” he muttered to himself. “how much is left in +“we shall see.” +“we shall probably advance,” replied bolkónski, evidently reluctant +“we shall be late.” +were walking, driving past, and settling down all around. the sound +were waiting for them to come out. +were using their ramrods, others putting powder on the touchpans or +were turned against the ten-gun battery. túshin’s companion officer +were to land at naples, and how a total force of five hundred thousand +“we’re to go into action, gentlemen! mack has surrendered with his +were to be severe with her and to forbid it ... goodness knows what they +were throwing everything superfluous, made the eyes smart. it was cold +were those of the orderlies who were packing up; one voice, probably a +were there,” thought rostóv. “in myself alone and in that sunshine +were there, only disorganized crowds of troops of various kinds. he +were therefore awkward. +were the potëmkins, suvórovs, and orlóvs germans? no, lad, either you +were the fun of the game which interested him most. +were the center of groups which even strangers approached respectfully +were talking and listening too eagerly and too naturally, which was why +were sitting on some feather beds. evidently these fugitives were +were sitting at the table on which a plan was spread out. +were sitting at embroidery frames while a third read aloud. it was the +were sent to the crossroads to guide him over the country road with its +were saying. suddenly, however, he was struck by a voice coming from the +were really given, but that prince bagratión tried to make it appear +were ready to drop, and so said the grown-up young men and women who +were pronounced, pierre, who had so long been considering his career, +were present, including dólokhov and denísov. +were passing by. from one of the drivers he learned that kutúzov’s +were only 217 sick and stragglers. everything was in good order except +were of the same age and both handsome fellows, though not alike. borís +were not to be sent to work, assistance was to be given to the serfs, +were not to be overburdened with labor, women while nursing their babies +were not in very good condition), and instantly the squares that had up +were nicholas and sónya, the niece. sónya was a slender little +were near him. everybody said that buonaparte himself was at braunau.” +were moving in the same direction. every soldier felt glad to know that +were moving in and out among the russian troops and served as heralds +were lips seeking a kiss. +were leaving to join their regiment after epiphany. about twenty people +were in them. she leaned over to her brother and kissed him, slightly +were in a hurry to show the changes that had taken place in them. +were, “high-sounding words which have long been discredited. who does +“we’re going into action, gentlemen!” +we’re getting it still worse,” said nesvítski. “but sit down and +were flocking in to look at him. prince bagratión was thanking the +were expecting márya dmítrievna akhrosímova, known in society as le +were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of +were descending. in front in the fog a shot was heard and then another, +were crossing themselves. rostóv no longer looked at the colonel, he +were constantly shaping themselves in his mind, arising from the +were concentrated. twice they had attempted to attack this point, but on +were children. you might think that i... i understand, quite understand. +were casual guests—chiefly young men, among whom were denísov, +were bringing in silver and china, moving tables, and unfolding damask +were bringing in jugs and basins, hot water for shaving, and their +were being set out for eighty people; and looking at the footmen, who +were among the prettiest. they were both particularly happy and gay. +were also distinguished by the fact that she always presented some new +were already up and astir. the smoke of the campfires, into which they +were all hugging him, and the serfs, men and maids, flocked into the +were all a pretense, and that the whole attention of that company was +wept too. they wept because they were friends, and because they were +wept. she saw her brother now as he had been at the moment when he took +we parted. why are we not together as we were last summer, in your big +went, with the smile of a coquettish girl, which at one time probably +went to the carriage. +went to her father’s room at the usual hour, mademoiselle bourienne +went there and found two thirds of the men and horses knocked out, two +went out of the hut in which he was billeted with nesvítski and began +went out after shaking hands with dolgorúkov and bilíbin. +went on, with a somber and scornful smile. “and thou art more foolish +went on to the game without omitting a single dish or one of the wines. +went in with nicholas. after them other couples followed, filling the +went into the reception room familiar to pierre, with two italian +went further in among the plants and threw down the doll. “closer, +went by. then suddenly a terrible shriek—it could not be hers, she +went about the rooms fashionably dressed but looking sad and dull. here, +we? no?” +“we must let him see amelie, she’s exquisite!” said one of + * “we must let him off the u!” +“we must distinguish between the vienna cabinet and the emperor of +“we may as well go back,” said the son in french. +“well, you’ve told me nothing new,” and the old man repeated, +“well, you see, my dear princess and cousin, catherine semënovna,” +“well, you see, i’ll tell you the whole secret of dueling in two +“well, you see, count, i want some money.” +“well, your excellency, what? your excellency! but what about your +“well, young man?” he said with a sigh, and from under his lifted +“well, young cavalryman, how is my rook behaving?” he asked. (rook +“well, you’d better not play,” dólokhov added, and springing a +“well, won’t you go on? i had a splendid card all ready,” as if it +“well, why don’t you speak? whom have you got there dressed up as a +“well, why are you going to the war?” asked pierre. +“well, what then?” +“well, what’s this now? what have you been up to now, i should like +“well, what is it?” came a sharp, unpleasant voice. +“well, what about it?” said he to denísov. “it won’t come to a +“we’ll try to,” replied berg, touching a pawn and then removing +“well, till we meet again...” he said, holding out his hand to +“well, this is strange! do you suppose i... who could think?... i know +“well, they’ve sent you a tidy sum,” said berg, eying the heavy +“well, there you see!” +“well there certainly are disgusting people,” thought rostóv as he +“well then, what do you want? you’re all in love nowadays. well, +“well then, till tomorrow at sokólniki,” said dólokhov, as he took +“well then, that’s excellent,” said he. “we’ll talk it over +“well then, tell him so.” +“well then,” prince andrew answered himself, “i don’t know +“well, then, old chap, mon très honorable alphonse kárlovich,” +“well then, mind and have cocks’ comb in the turtle soup, you +“well, then, let’s be quick. borís, come here,” said natásha. +“well, then, i won’t; only forgive me, sónya!” he drew her to him +“well, then go off to your buonaparte! mademoiselle bourienne, +“well then, be quick. we’ll all have breakfast together.” +“well then, accept his offer. it’s high time for you to be +“well, the lord be thanked, princess,” said mary bogdánovna, not +“well, that’s only till the first engagement.” +“well, that’s all right,” continued the regimental commander. “a +“well, that is hardly a sufficient reason, mamma...” +“well, thank god! we’ve been sitting here too long!” +“well, talk as much as you can, anyway. he has a passion for giving +“well, stand us some of your herb vodka, túshin,” it said. +“well, so that’s finished, my dear fellow! i am very glad to have +“well, she loves me and you like that.” +we’ll set off.” +“well, send for him... and how do you get on with that german?” +“well!...” said the old count, spreading out his arms and sinking +“well,” said she, “how’s my cossack?” (márya dmítrievna +“well?” returned the old man. +well remembered that seven afterwards. he laid down the seven of hearts, +“well, really, mamma! why should you? what is there to be surprised +“well, really, catiche! can’t you understand! you are so +“well, prince, so genoa and lucca are now just family estates of the +“well, prince?” asked kozlóvski. +well, only a little bruised just here,” he added, pointing with a +“well, of course, of course!” +“well, now you’ve done what you wanted,” put in nicholas—“said +“well, now we’ll arrange something quite simple and becoming,” she +“well, now to the health of handsome women!” said dólokhov, and +“well, now tell me about your exploits,” said he. +“well now, isn’t she a fool!” shouted the prince, pushing the book +“well, now, good-by!” he gave his son his hand to kiss, and embraced +“well now, gentlemen,” said bilíbin, “bolkónski is my guest in +“well, never mind; i only...” +well, never mind, here you are.” +“well, my dear?” said prince vasíli, taking her hand and bending it +“well, my dear fellow, tomorrow we are off at last,” said prince +“well, my dear fellow, so you still want to be an adjutant? i have +“well, my dear boy, i hear you’ve been educated abroad, not taught +“well, my dear?” asked the countess. +“well, my boy, you’ll get along wherever you go—foot or +“well, mon cher,” said the vicomte, having seated himself beside +“well, michael mítrich, sir?” he said, addressing one of the +“well, michael ivánovich, our bonaparte will be having a bad time +“well, maybe!” said prince andrew. “go, másha; i’ll come +“we’ll manage very well without a doctor.” +“we’ll make you dance as we did under suvórov...,” * said +“well, madam,” he began, stooping over the book close to his +“well, little countess? what a sauté of game au madère we are to +well-lit anteroom where they took off their cloaks without the aid of +“well, let’s go and sing ‘the brook.’” +“well, lëlya?” he asked, turning instantly to his daughter and +well known, so much appreciated by everyone. the other day at the +“well, i will read them, then!” bagratión seemed to say, and, +“well, i will leave you in your little corner,” came anna +well i will give you my hand to kiss. not till then!” she said. and +“well, it seems that no one has noticed,” thought rostóv. and this +“well, it’s as you like,” said the staff captain. “and what has +“well, i think it is. the bigwigs here think so too, but they +“well, i suppose it is time we were at table?” said márya +“well, is it true that it’s peace and capitulation?” asked +“well, i have got all i need into packs for two horses,” said +“well, if you do, so much the better, and you can go back to her!” +“well, i don’t know. it’s awkward and would make me ashamed.” +“well, i don’t know about that, but i am uncomfortable with him. and +“well, i did not expect you, i am very glad,” said prince andrew. +“well, i am taking it off,” replied lavrúshka’s voice. +“well, how is he?” +“well, how d’you do, my dear fellow?” said dolgorúkov, who was +“well! how d’ye do? how d’ye do? glad to see you!” +“well? how do you feel?” he asked. +“well, how are you going to get out of that?” he remarked. +“well, he’s really a good fellow, one can serve under him,” said +“well!” he said, turning to his wife. +“well?” he asked. +“well, have you sent gabriel for some wine? all right let’s have +“well, have you finished?” said he to kozlóvski. +“well, have it so, and you talked a lot of nonsense to him and must +“well? has he been degraded into a field marshal, or into a soldier? +“well—had a good time?” said the old count, smiling gaily and +“well, good-by, prince,” said he to bagratión. “my blessing, and +“well, go and see,” he said, after a pause. +“well, fwiend? so you’ve smelt powdah!” shouted váska denísov +well for you,” said natásha, with a responsive smile. “you should +we’ll fire off some cannon! but this sort of thing seems done +well enough to be sure that this will not turn your head, but it imposes +well educated and clever. this is all that his foreign education has +“well, do you think i shall prevent her, that i can’t part from +“well done, lads!” said prince bagratión. +“well done!... fine fellow!... there’s a bet for you!... devil take +well-brushed clothes. there was a masculine odor and a smell of tobacco. +“well begin!” said dólokhov. +“well, au revoir! good-by! you hear her?” +“well, au revoir, bolkónski! au revoir, prince! come back early to +“well, as you see. so far everything’s all right, but i confess i +well, as all the connoisseurs who heard her said: “it is not trained, +well, are you off to the front?” +“well, aren’t you ashamed of yourself, captain túshin?” he +“well, and you, young man,” said he. “how do you feel, mon +“well, and you? what are your plans?” +“well, and to whom did you apply about bóry?” asked the countess. +“well and then?” asked the other voice. “if before that you are +“well, and so he never got farther than: ‘sergéy kuzmích’?” +“well, and is that all?” he asked. +well and, in particular, drinks well. “so do come and dine with us!” +well!” and he turned to go. +“well, and are you still true to borís?” he continued. +“well, all the same, you must refuse him.” +“well, all right, all right.” +“well, all i can make out is that everything is abominable, +well.” +well.” +welfare of his soul is at stake. ah, it is awful: the duties of a +we let our feeble human minds roam, the better we shall please god, who +welcome for the approaching chief. +we know where we are. and what do you think of the boulogne expedition? +we knew you’d say so. but it won’t do, because you see, if you say +weight they were carrying were too much for them. +weight. +“we here in moscow are more occupied with dinner parties and scandal +we hear is true, it is dreadful. how little we dreamed of such a thing +“we have orders to drive you off here, and we shall drive you off,” +we have fully concentrated forces of nearly seventy thousand men with +we had not religion to console us life would be very sad. why do you +“we had better separate,” he muttered in a broken voice. +weep without knowing why—rode behind on his artillery nag. though +weeks, and months of his life passed in as great a rush and were as much +“we drove them back!” said borís with animation, growing talkative. +‘we don’t love people so much for the good they have done us, as +“we don’t interfere with you and berg.” +wednesday’s meeting of the imperial council, at which sergéy kuzmích +we could not think how to address the reply! if not as ‘consul’ +“we can’t have less—yes, three... the mayonnaise, that’s one,” +we can know is that we know nothing. and that’s the height of human +we begin a very original and interesting series of maneuvers. our aim is +weather. “the weather is beautiful, princess; and besides, in moscow +weather, and countess apráksina. now and then they glanced at one +weary of it and it was not at all what he wanted. he turned away and +weary, making his way past the baggage wagons, rode in search of the +weary faces, were sitting at the table eating and drinking. +weary, and distracted air, though at the same time he was haughty and +wearing the cross of st. george, awarded to soldiers for bravery in +wearing scarves and all their decorations, not only the elegant, pomaded +wearing long dresses for the first time. with scarcely any exceptions +weariness of tone, “it is almost impossible for me to do what you +weariness and assurance, as if he were adding every time: “you know +“we are to spend the night in znaim.” +“we are such friends, such friends! all that ruler business was just +“we are not fighting pour le roi de prusse, but for right principles. +“we are enjoying ourselves! vasíli dmítrich is staying a day longer +weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men +“weally! and i’ve been losing, bwother. i lost yesterday like a +“we all have our weaknesses,” said kutúzov smiling and walking away +weakness—the one to which he had confessed when admitted to the +weak human understanding cannot grasp, it seems to me rather useless to +way, with berg who was already in command of a company. berg, who had +way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a +way,” said an officer. +way of these men, and he would have got clear had they continued at the +way!... let us pass!... stop there, you devil with the cart! i’ll hack +way in which he danced the mazurka, nicholas ran up to natásha: +way,” he added in russian—but pronouncing the word with a french +way, dear boy! make way, make way!” pushed through the crowd more +way, and, blushing far more than borís, began to speak with a feeling +way and attaching him to himself! what if he gave me a place near him? +waving it above his head cried: +waters of the distant danube shone. and fairer still were the faraway +water cart, painted green, stood in a shed; the paths were straight, +water. +watchword—shaft, olmütz. what a nuisance that our squadron will be in +watch the change in the tone and manners of the mammas burdened by +“watching over his interests” meant, but he decided that all these +watching and it creaked very slightly as she disappeared behind it. +watchful eye on the young man who so alarmed her, noticed that he was +watched him smilingly, and he rode off by the winding path down the +watched him. she smiled, hid her face in her handkerchief, and remained +watched her cousin who was going to join the army, with such passionate +was writing. “i’ll do it.” +was warm blood under his arm. “no, i am wounded and the horse is +was very valuable. officers who approached him with disturbed +was trying to fit music: +was true. no one had taken any notice, for everyone knew the sensation +was true and appropriate, yet, strange to say, everyone—the visitors +was too far separated from our right flank and the cavalry were all +was told that the prince had gone to the nursery. +was thinking of. yes, na-tásha, sabretache, oh, yes, yes! that’s +was there on the hilltop, and kept constantly looking at the patches +was the name his fancy gave to the farthest gun of the battery, which +was the little princess, these tears, the cause of which she did not +was the emperors’ suites. the emperors rode up to the flank, and the +was the count at last handed a letter addressed in his son’s +“was that grapeshot?” he asked denísov. +was tall and fair, and his calm and handsome face had regular, delicate +was talking came up to listen. berg, oblivious of irony or indifference, +was talked of. for the rostóv family the whole interest of these +was taken up with dinners and balls and was spent chiefly at prince +was struck by the change in him. his words were kindly and there was a +was stricter.” +was standing beside the princess, and they were both speaking in excited +was spitting blood. a bullet had evidently hit him in the throat or +was something black, now little lights seemed to glimmer where the enemy +was so close to him that his shortsighted eyes could not but perceive +was sitting. the curtains were drawn, and a single candle was burning on +was sitting beside him, by the hand. rostóv was struck by the +was sitting at the head of the table. on either side of her sat the +was sitting at a small table, chattering with másha, her maid. she grew +was silent with his steward, the gardener, and the architect, and though +was silenced at once. they looked at the beautiful, large, thoughtful +was serving, and a misunderstanding arose. the two commanders were much +was saying. +was said. +was repeatedly summoned to see him. at headquarters and among the troops +was rather out of place in this brilliant society, the whole company had +was rapidly and excitedly talking to a french grenadier. “hark to him +was perfectly true. he was afraid of getting some other officer into +was particularly pleasant at that moment. they had reached the battery +was pale, his blue eyes looked impudently into the commander’s face, +was out of the question, “i am in love with your brother once for all +was only redder than usual. with his shaggy head thrown back like birds +was on duty and that he should go through the door on the left into the +was often on dólokhov’s face when looking at him. “yes, he is a +“wasn’t it fine when those germans gave us lifts! you just sit still +“wasn’t i telling you to fire the bridge, when inflammable material +wasn’t it?” +was. now he excused himself for having been taken prisoner and now, +was not in love with anyone in particular, but with everyone. whatever +was nothing. so why should i not stay at his house? then i played cards +was not behaving very well in this matter. “youth, frivolity... well, +was “not a whit worse than you or i.” at dinner the prince usually +was necessary for him to go to the count at all, still less why he had +was napoleon—his hero—but at that moment napoleon seemed to him +was more important than verses, and bagratión, again preceding all the +was merely a man of the world who had got on and to whom getting on had +was mentioned and, pointing to his forehead, remarked: +was lying asleep on the ottoman with an open book in his hand. +was lost. no one whom rostóv asked could tell him where the emperor +was laughing at something, mingled in a merry sound, like the chirping +was large and of an old pattern. the french swarming round their guns +“was kutúzov well? when had he left krems?” and so on. the emperor +was keeping the bank. rostóv had not seen him since his proposal and +was in the way and was the only one who did not notice the fact. most of +was in the right so i kept silent; was not that best, count?... ‘hey, +was in raptures about him, when he had just returned from abroad, and +was in his place, waiting. +was in a white uniform rode a black one. these were the two emperors +was impossible to see it clearly with the naked eye. our right flank was +was impossible for cavalry to act among the bushes and broken ground, +was immediately surrounded by courtiers on all sides. everywhere he +was immediately killed. prince andrew again seized the standard and, +was holding fast to plait, would allow. +was heartily sick of them. in spite of this, or rather because of +was happy. “left... left... left...” he seemed to repeat to himself +was growing dusk. on the narrow augesd dam where for so many years the +was great on the bridge of arcola, and in the hospital at jaffa where he +was going home to vorónezh and rostóv persuaded him to travel with him +was fully described: prince murat et tout le tremblement... you see that +was fought. +was, for something could be descried. on the right the guards were +was forgetting. we must have another entrée. ah, goodness gracious!” +was for earthly love. the more she tried to hide this feeling from +was excellent. with the second course, a gigantic sterlet (at sight of +was evidently one, rostóv felt confused, blushed, and became silent. +was ecstatically conscious of his approach. he felt it not only from the +was dulled by imbecility and a constant expression of sullen +was downstairs. +was diverted by the desperate shrieks of the woman in the vehicle. an +was delighted with denísov’s skill, he was asked again and again as +was coming, and turning to her mother: +was charming... you are very kind... countess apráksina...” was heard +was charmant. even if anna pávlovna did not say so, he could see that +was bright, he had a good horse under him, and his heart was full of +was borís drubetskóy, who had just arrived as a special messenger from +was being held by the arms and his horse was being led behind him. +was being done was not his adjutant’s fault, and still not answering +was beginning, anna pávlovna gave one of her soirees. the “cream of +was baptized. the wet nurse supported the coverlet with her chin, while +was a young horse telyánin had sold to rostóv.) +was a unique chance to show his devotion to the emperor and he had not +was at home last, and, having assured himself that they had not, he +was a stroke of genius. prince auersperg feels his dignity at stake and +“was a political necessity, and it seems to me that napoleon +was always busy and always felt in a state of mild and cheerful +was also a yellow, wrinkled old man, without beard or mustache, +was already perfectly cured of his former faults and was ready for all +was all over; but he said in an indifferent tone: +was a great success. there were many pretty girls and the rostóv girls +was again nodding. “come, get on! you shall have three rubles for +was accustomed to understand him. he led him to the desk, raised the +was abroad; so pierre had not the opportunity to spend his nights as he +was about, went across the room to where pierre was standing and gave +was about twenty-five. like all infantry officers he wore no mustache, +was about to run on, thinking that the farther he went to the front +was about to expand her dresses into a balloon and sit down. they were +was about to cross the space between the barriers, when dólokhov cried: +was about to be decided. but prince andrew did not see how it ended. it +was. +wars,” he said. +warrior doing some kind of man’s work of his own, without help or +war or politics but related to high society, to certain women, and to +warm themselves, gathering round the fires throwing into the flames the +war has deprived me of one of the associations nearest my heart. i mean +war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature—which townsfolk +wares, especially a pair of goatskin slippers. “i have hundreds of +wardrobe in which pierre noticed garments such as he had never seen +war came contradictory news, false as usual and therefore variously +war and peace +want to dance well. her enormous figure stood erect, her powerful arms +want to, but now i have no time.” besides, it seemed to him that the +want the money for? as if that money could add a hair’s breadth to +want that. and besides, what a notion that medicine ever cured anyone! +“wants to turn on the other side,” whispered the servant, and got up +wants to go to the war,” replied pierre, addressing the princess +wanted to sleep. the gay triumphant shouting of the enemy army had a +wanted to show him that his losses were an achievement that made her +wanted. +walls hung round with persian carpets. the part of the room behind the +wall. on this knoll there was a white patch that rostóv could not at +walk to meet him. his face with its long mustache was serious as always, +walked slowly without raising his pistol, looking intently with his +walked away from the fire. +wake up, váska!” he went on, turning to denísov, whose head +waken...” all rose and cried “hurrah!” bagratión also rose and +wait only two hours, when, come what might, he would let his excellency +“wait—just a word! when he has been transferred to the guards...” +“waiting, your majesty,” repeated kutúzov. (prince andrew noted +waiting to see what he would do. he stood a little while before the +waiting to hear whether he would say anything more. but kutúzov, with +waiting for the beat. only on horse back and in the mazurka was +waiting for—some important relation who has not yet arrived, or a dish +waiting for him to say a word and cross a certain line, and he knew that +waiting for a seven to turn up, gazed at dólokhov’s hands which held +“wait, i have not finished...” he said to prince andrew, seizing +“wait, haven’t you dropped it?” said rostóv, picking up the +waiter filled his glass he changed his mind and altered it to his usual +waited in expectation of an important order for an expensive funeral. +waited impatiently for prince andrew’s return from the commander in +waited for him to go on, but as he seemed quite decided to say no more +“wait!” cried dólokhov, hammering with the bottle on the window +“wait a moment, i’ll get my work.... now then, what are you +“wait a bit, i have something in view for you this evening.” +“wait a bit, here’s a letter for you,” said the old man suddenly, +“wait a bit, he is not drunk yet! a bottle here,” said anatole, and +“wait a bit and listen. it’s fine!” answered sídorov, who was +waistcoat. “it’s the sauté, most likely,” she added with a smile. + wafting sweet music o’er the lea, +vyazmítinov, the new military governor general of petersburg, had +vulgarity of the expressions that were natural to her, though she had +vreatening russia and zat ze safety and dignity of ze empire as vell +“vous voyez le malheureux mack,” he uttered in a broken voice. +vous aime’?” he kept repeating to himself. and when he had said it +voulu, george dandin,’ that’s all we have to say about it!” +votre victoire n’est pas des plus victorieuses.” * +von bergs—have been knights!” +volume you have sent me and which has such success in moscow. yet since +“voilà l’agrément des camps, monsieur le prince,” * said the +voice, “you were pleased to send me to captain túshin’s battery. i +voice, with its incorrect breathing and labored transitions, was +voice which expressed joy for himself, severity for the regiment, and +voice trembled.) “i loved your father... and she will make you a good +voice. to fresh questions as to the firmness of his resolution pierre +voice. “there was no one else in the room except myself. so that if it +voices were but feebly heard amid the uproar and one saw by their faces +voice suddenly shrieked: “but if i hear that you have not behaved like +voices subsided, the footmen cleared away the broken glass and everybody +voices, and the army swayed and started in one enormous mass six miles +voices. +voice, popped her head in at the door. +voice, opening his door. +voice, obviously so elated by the sound of firing, by the prospect of +voice from heaven. how gladly would he have died at once for his tsar! +voice calling him by name. +voice, “but believe me, i so adore your daughter and all your family +voice, and lieutenant telyánin, a small officer of the same squadron, +voice. +voice. +vodka. the campfires crackled and the soldiers’ songs resounded +vodka—get on!” rostóv shouted, when the sleigh was only three +vodka a quarter of an hour before, he saw everywhere the same rapid +vocation is to be happy with another kind of happiness, the happiness +vladímirovich is my mother’s second cousin. he’s also my bóry’s +vladímirovich bezúkhov’s house. “my dear borís,” said the +vladímirovich bezúkhov. if he will not assist his godson—you know +vladímirovich bezúkhov, countess rostóva sat for a long time all +vladímir medal and ribbon? but now, even if they do get peppered, the +vividly imagined what awaited it and the part he would have to +visitors. there was the fact that only those came who wished to dance +visitors on his right. midway down the long table on one side sat the +visitor. “he is a son of márya ivánovna dólokhova, such a worthy +visitor. “and to think it is cyril vladímirovich bezúkhov’s son +visitor alluded to, though she had already heard about the cause of +visit mademoiselle george; that at her house he came upon bonaparte, +visiting all the places he meant to go to and where he had been invited, +visit his neglected estates at the same time and pick up his son anatole +visible through the smoke, make out moving masses of infantry and narrow +visible in the snow and a shovel had been left sticking in one of the +visible as if but a stone’s throw away, and the movements of the +vish to destroy my men for your pleasure!” +virtuous life of which he had been dreaming since he met joseph +virtuous future that seemed to him so easy. it seemed to him that he had +virtue was and could not recall it. +village. “very good!” said bagratión in reply to the officer’s +village. tell it to stop and await my orders.” +villages were in a state of the greatest poverty. he did not know that +village of pratzen. but neither they nor a single commanding officer +village!” he said angrily to a general who had ridden up. “don’t +village and had already been sent for. +“vile woman!” shouted the princess, darting unexpectedly at anna +vile, infamous paper, but i thought the thing was invalid.” +view they were right, as were those too who canonized him and died a +views by this french sentence. “c’est bien pour un garçon de rien +vienna. kutúzov with his transport had still to march for some days +“vienna considers the bases of the proposed treaty so unattainable +vienna by the austrian hofkriegsrath, the sole and almost unattainable +vienna as i told you. very well. next day, which was yesterday, those +victory which was conveyed, not only by the tales of those who had taken +victory, what effect would that have on the general course of events? +victory over buonaparte at eylau. in petersburg everyone is rejoicing, +victory or defeat, the glory of our russian arms is secure. except your +victory. his majesty will no doubt wish to see you, but not today. i +victory be in doubt, even for a moment, you will see your emperor +victory, and general bennigsen, hoping to receive from petersburg the +vicomte who was continuing his story. +vicomte continued, with the air of a man who, in a matter with which +vicomte and from the vicomte to their hostess. in the first moment of +vicious and unfortunate people whom he would assist by word and deed, +vessel and judge of its purity? only by the inner purification of myself +very wise, because you can take everything along with you—vodka and +“very well, very well...” +“very well, then, be so good as to wait,” said prince andrew to the +“very well,” said smolyanínov, and went on at once: “have you any +very well...” +very trying,” said prince andrew, apparently speaking lightly of their +very strictly to social distinctions and rarely admitted even important +“very silly,” said véra. “i am ashamed of you. secrets indeed!” +very serious talk.” +“very,” said pierre. +very pretty and sweet, and evidently deeply in love with him, but he was +very poor, but for my own part at any rate, for the very reason that +very muscular men, and on the night of the battle, having arrived +“very much,” said nicholas flushing, and with a stupid careless +very much! i have promised myself not to serve again in the active +“very lovely,” said prince andrew. +“very likely it would be splendid, but it will never come about....” +very likely be getting a letter from him that day. each time that these +“very interesting.” +very important personage, had been sent on a very important mission to +very important.” +“very good, very good,” said bagratión. “thank you, officer.” +“very good!” said the prince closing the door behind him, and +“very good!” said bagratión. +“very good,” answered nesvítski. +very glad to see him hanged, but i was sorry for my father—that again +very fine when he said that,” he remarked, repeating the words in +very fine!” +very fields where the french had now to be fought; the adjacent +very decent town. you and i will travel comfortably in my calèche.” +very clever but eccentric, and a bore. the poor girl is very unhappy. +very briefly and vaguely, that after brilliant engagements the russians +“very.” +verses in the bosom of her dress close to her bony little chest, ran +verses called “enchantress,” which he had composed, and to which he +véra with guilty, happy faces. +véra’s remark was correct, as her remarks always were, but, like +“véra,” she said to her eldest daughter who was evidently not a +venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly +“ve must vight to the last tr-r-op of our plood!” said the colonel, +velvety softness, which so mingled with her lack of art in singing that +vasíli, who had grown thinner and paler during the last few days, +vasíli went on, testily pushing away a little table without looking at +vasíli understood it as an expression of weariness. +vasíli to himself, with a sorrowful sigh, one morning, feeling that +vasíli to anna pávlovna. +vasíli to anna mikháylovna. “go and take something, my poor anna +vasíli’s tone of careless self-assurance that he felt he would be +vasíli’s son, hippolyte, had come with mortemart, whom he introduced. +vasíli’s son anatole, whom they wish to reform by marrying him to +vasíli’s house in the company of the stout princess, his wife, and +vasíli severely. “you don’t know what you are doing.” +vasíli played a very despicable part in this affair and that he +vasíli one day, closing his eyes and fingering pierre’s elbow, +vasíli, it is very sad for both. ah, my dear friend, our divine +vasíli, in the rare moments when he was at home, would take pierre’s +vasíli in the anteroom. all the affectation of interest she had assumed +vasíli. “i know something about that. don’t i? and you are still so +vasíli, his cheeks twitching more than ever. +vasíli had only acquired by imitating other parents. +“vasíli dmítrich, i thank you for the honor,” she said, with an +“vasíli dmítrich, i’m so sorry for you!... no, but you are so +“vasíli denísov, your son’s friend,” he said, introducing +vasíli, “but it is difficult for me to ask the emperor. i should +vasíli and the eldest princess. pierre concluded that this also was +vasíli and his son. +vasíli. +varying expression and the same prevalent appearance of goodhearted +varnish. +various kinds: a table, chairs, and a clavichord. one adjutant, nearest +various figures worked upon it, at the other was something resembling an +vanished. he waited for the first pause in the conversation, and then +vanished from his face. +vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of +valúev was confidentially telling that uvárov had been sent from +value this mystic power and glory that is floating here above me in this +valor carry disorder and confusion into the enemy’s ranks, but should +valet had set down the coffee things and left the room. pierre looked +valet can go in your carriage. ah! i was nearly forgetting,” he added. +vainly trying to master her agitation. +vacancies occur much more frequently in the foot guards. then just think +uvárov, who had arrived with him, paused at the doorway to allow him, +uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan. +utter a sound. he feebly moved his leg and uttered a weak, sickly groan +us—we scuttle. he hardly crosses the river to our side before we +us. well, you want an argument,” he added, “come on then.” +usurper, the whole nation will certainly throw itself into the arms +usually so described. +usual in french, and as if after long self-restraint she wished to make +usual. +us. to the left the horizon bounded by the adjacent wood. prince +us talk business. have you been to the horse guards?” +us nice news of a victory by the archduke karl or ferdinand (one +ushering bolkónski in. “so you’re a messenger of victory, eh? +use of whatever interest he had to offer. he himself carefully scanned +used to show at catchplay, now and then turning his good-natured, pale, +used to say that a nap “after dinner was silver—before dinner, +used to like to spend them, or to open his mind by intimate talks with +used to be. don’t judge lise harshly,” she began. “she is so +used for dancing, but in which five beds now stood, and furniture of +us but within....” +us. but vienna is on the other side. no, the bridge has not yet been +us aides-de-camp and adjutants! but this is what we’ll do: i have +us?...” “ah! mary, you have got thinner?...” “and you have grown +urging of horses, and the swearing of soldiers, orderlies, and officers. +urged on his already weary horse to get quickly past these crowds, but +up, was hastily writing at a tub turned bottom upwards. kozlóvski’s +upwards, in the way affected by the emperor alexander, and, having +up to túshin. +up to the window of the first house, when a familiar voice called him by +up to their gallery, addressing the first violin: +up to the commander in chief, and presented arms. +up to the appearance of the pauvre mère; they understood that they had +up to the altar, placed his feet at right angles, and bade him lie down, +up tomorrow. but you will see everything for yourself when you get to +up to her. +up to denísov’s squadron and rode at a footpace not far from rostóv, +up the whole of her thin, sickly face and made it beautiful. her brother +up the steps to where the coffin stood, to give her the farewell kiss. +up their knapsacks with a jerk of their shoulders and pulling the straps +upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to be her own special and +up out of the mist. +up on the vast field. the whole army was extended in three lines: the +upon prince andrew, who was beside him. seeing him, kutúzov’s +upon him, passed splendidly, lifting his feet with a high and graceful +upon anyone, and it was clear that the kitten had settled down only to +upon and could not now be altered. “we start tomorrow and i’m giving +up like a fool!” he thought, looking irritably at her. “she is +up, invited him to his house in petersburg, and now... she has come here +up her sleeves still higher. pierre approached, looking at her in a +up her downy little lip. “all the pretty women in society will be +up from the sofa, seized borís under the elbow in his quick, clumsy +up from both sides. everyone crowded to the window, the englishman in +up for lost time. +up!” came the company commander’s voice in jaunty tones. the +up at all!” +up and turning away as if from a shameful aspersion. “it is not from +up and began watching the movements of our troops below, as plainly +up a glass and a pipe that were handed him. +up against him. he wrote “800 rubles” on a card, but while the +unwounded. the soldiers were ascending the hill breathing heavily, and +unwounded—it was they who were crushing, weighing down, and twisting +unwell today? eh? afraid of the ‘minister’ as that idiot alpátych +unwell, sat down under an apple tree and von toll remained beside him. +unusual than what he was seeing. a skull, a coffin, the gospel—it +unpleasant thing to a man’s face, to say what the other, whoever +unpleasant things to everyone and upset them. let’s go to the +unpleasantly excited expression. +unpleasant. +unnatural way, he stretched out his hand for alpátych to kiss, and then +unnatural smile. “i expect you have guessed that prince vasíli has +unmelted snow, or some white houses? he even thought something moved on +unmask his deceivers!” and in order to realize vividly his love +unmarried, and even the happier for it?” so thought prince bolkónski +unlucky at cards.’ your cousin is in love with you, i know.” +unlike the old one, he expected everything to be unusual, even more +unlicked bear! a perfectly absurd and stupid fellow, and a gambler too, +universe, and of the courage with which he should endure toils and +unintentionally, he poured too many drops into the glass. he threw the +uniforms, with smartly dressed bandsmen in front mounted on black, roan, +uniforms, mounted on black horses, trotting straight toward him and +uniforms and groups with horses, easily recognizable as artillery. +uniforms advanced toward the bridge at a run. smoke appeared again +uniform living waves of soldiers, shoulder straps, covered shakos, +uniformed austrian officer. +ungainly russian princesses, would fall in love with her and carry her +unfriendly now became gentle and affectionate. the angry eldest +unfortunate, a stranger, alone, helpless! and, oh god, how passionately +unfinished bit of nibbled sugar, and asked if anything more would be +unfastened cloak, wide breeches hanging down in creases, and a crumpled +unexpectedly to go into action. rostóv without hearing borís to the +unexpectedly through his mind. +unexpectedly kind and pleasant smile. +uneasily as if preparing to resent any slight that might be put upon the +“und vivat die ganze welt!” though neither the german cleaning his +under which she felt that she could not think, but would only be able to +under the table. +under the shirt sleeves, those hands which he loved and hated, held him +“under the lower pillow.” +understood without naming. +understood what was happening as little as he did. +understood the revolution and quelled it, and so for the general good, +understood that this woman might belong to him. +understood that she was being asked to entertain this young man, and +understood, that he could not answer him. +understood him. the old man got up and gave the letter to his son. +understood her and made up my mind what she really is. was i mistaken +understood all the difficulties of the russian army’s position, and +understand what was being read. he managed to follow only the last words +understand... what a soul he has!” +understand the self-abnegation of our emperor who wants nothing for +understand. that’s what i’m up to.” +understand. she kissed his rough curly black head. at this instant, they +understand it so differently. he collected all his strength, to stir and +understand it; i don’t in the least understand why men can’t live +understand it’!... and i ask you!” +understanding of his employer’s happiness. +understanding half of it, read only to forget, if but for a moment, what +understanding but not wishing to appear to do so. the princess as usual +understand how one can live with such ideas. i had such moments +understand how a man of his immense intellect can fail to see what is +understand him it was so much the worse for them—did not go up to the +understand him, but he did not speak it very well—“i bet fifty +understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but +understand and state the patient’s condition. +understand, agitated her. she said nothing but looked about uneasily as +understand?” +under one command, and in a like order. +under his weight alone. the men looked at him and pressed to the +under him; “turn this way!” he shouted to those with the gun. “it +under fire for the first time. +under an obligation, assuming an air of much greater importance than he +under an invisible cap—to see what went on in the world. she was +“und die ganze welt hoch!” * +unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the +unconscious little princess, he shook his head reprovingly and slammed +unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of napoleon’s doctor, +unchanging stonily severe expression; and, sitting down opposite the +unchanging smile. +unbroken and had all day beaten back an enemy force twice as numerous +un bâtard!”* she added, as if supposing that this translation of the +unappreciated bliss, long past. he could not conceive that a stupid +unaccustomed brightness, but he was looking not at his sister but over +unable to withstand it now, but he also felt that on what he said now +unable to realize where he was. +unable to overcome or conceal his groundless antipathy to the man. +unable to ask for himself, he became chary of using his influence. but +“ugh. the hussars will get it hot!” said nesvítski; “they are +“ugh! i don’t like that fellow,” he said, regardless of the +two younger ones were embroidering: both were rosy and pretty and they +two years, and he did not know how the rest, about 100,000 rubles, was +two, three... one... “oh mio crudele affetto.”... one, two, three... +two thousand rubles, and though he always disliked speaking of money +twot fo’ward!” +“two such charming children. and really you appreciate them less than +two seconds. whether or no the emperor understood what was going on in +two of the enemy’s shots had already flown across the bridge, where +two months had elapsed since the news of the battle of austerlitz and +“two, i think.” +two hours later prince andrew, stepping softly, went into his father’s +two hostile armies was all the more clearly felt. +two front teeth were missing that had been knocked out by the butt end +two friends, one of whom was a dashing hussar and the other a notorious +two footmen, the princess’ and his own, stood holding a shawl and +two cossacks. +two candles. on the table was a pile of gold and paper money, and he +two battalions of the sixth chasseurs in fine order. before they had +two alexanders—bekleshëv and narýshkin—which was a significant +two.” +two. +twitched its ears as the bayonets touched it, and snorted, spurting +twisted upwards, sat the ruddy milorádovich in a military pose, his +twinkled and looked out straight. +twenty men were gathered round a table at which dólokhov sat between +twelve men in garments like those he had already seen. some of them +túshin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to +túshin turned round in dismay. it was the staff officer who had turned +túshin told them to give the man some water. then a cheerful soldier +túshin’s wattle shed was laid, with a bullet in his stomach, on +túshin smiling shyly in his uncomfortable position, evidently wishing +túshin’s large, kind, intelligent eyes were fixed with sympathy and +túshin’s guns had been intended to cannonade the valley, he was +túshin’s battery had been forgotten and only at the very end of the +túshin’s battery but had never reached it. interrupting one +túshin rose and, buttoning his greatcoat and pulling it straight, +túshin did not say that there were no covering troops, though that +túshin. +“turn this way!” he shouted, jumping over the ice which creaked +turn spindles at home!’?” said shinshín, puckering his brows and +turn now, but that he will do all he can to let his turn come as late as +turn into vexation and anger at the stupid arrangements and at the +turning to prince vasíli and answering his imploring look. “yes, or +turning to anatole, “come here, let us talk and get acquainted.” +turning the horse sharply, he again jumped the ditch, and deferentially +turning into the village already... they will have their buckwheat +turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, +turning for a moment to the front line, and slightly swinging his arms, +turning away from the girls, who at once assumed an air of inattention. +turned to zherkóv. the nervous irritation aroused by the appearance +turned toward the women, and while the vehicle was passing at foot pace +turned toward her brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, +turned to speak to his daughter, the beautiful hélène. +turned to his wife. +turned to her. +turned to anna mikháylovna, answering her query by a movement of the +turned their horses away. the accountant stopped, facing the cossack, +turned round. the officer evidently had complete control of his face, +turned out splendidly all the same,” he added, winking at véra. +turned from captain timókhin again flitted over his face. he turned +turned away and went down the side of the corridor. +turn away from the sight, shouting angrily at the men who, as is always +tumbler with tea for himself and one for the beardless old man to whom +tuft of plumes in his cocked hat worn on one side with its corners front +tuesday. +tucked up, without a coat, pale and with a trembling jaw, came out +tsar, who still remained in the same attitude of indecision. +tsar and the country? it is wartime. such a fine fellow must serve. +“try to serve well and show yourself worthy,” added he, addressing +try to do all i can for your happiness.” +trying to prove that the russians had surrendered and had fled all +trying to give an expressive intonation to his voice. +trying to get something out of the rich man?” +trying through the dowager empress márya fëdorovna to secure it for +trying” (pierre’s modesty made him correct himself) “to live for +trying only to be ahead of the others; but just at the bridge, not +trying not to lose a word of the speech which was incomprehensible to +trying in vain to find the answer to some question. +trusts to luck, one should make certain,’ and i want to try.” +“trust in his mercy!” and pointing out a small sofa for him to sit +trumpets of the first cavalry regiment played the general march. it +true, or might at least seem to be true had it not referred to his wife. +true gascon) and says: ‘i don’t recognize the world-famous austrian +“true enough,” answered nesvítski; “two smart fellows could have +truce and a capitulation, he detected a ruse and wrote the following +trowel, he told him to toil with it to cleanse his own heart from vice, +trowel, a rough stone and a squared stone, a pillar, three windows, and +trouvez là le mot pour rire,” * he said, as if strengthening his +trouble, but the mason told him that was not necessary and gave him +trouble, and silently fixed his eyes on bagratión as a schoolboy who +trot to escape from the poisoned atmosphere of these latrines. +troops were running onto the bridge, was about to fire, but lannes +troops were no longer moving, but stood with the butts of their muskets +troops were moving in the distance, and he listened to the sounds of +troops were ill-clad, exhausted, and had lost a third of their number +troops on the high ground above the bridge involuntarily asked himself +troops, he saw, near a kitchen garden with a ditch round it, two men +troops had already entered prussia and our second war with napoleon +troops below the hill and fell far short of the enemy, a little smoke +troops arriving from russia, he risked being forestalled on that road + triumph, valiant russians, now!... +triumphantly secured the mop and still did not realize what awaited him, +triumphantly and gaily. +triumphant, cheerful face. +triumph. +triumph. +tripping rapidly across in her little shoes trimmed with bows, ran +trigger, as he had not before held a pistol in his hand—a fact that he +trifle to let a wagon go past. after he had gone, two soldiers rushed to +tried with his lips whether the child was still feverish. the soft +tried to pretend not to know; no one spoke of it, but apart from the +tried to conceal them. +triangles are equal; please note that the angle abc...” +trembling with emotion, solemnly holding up in both hands before her +trembled nervously; this was sufficient to cause his whole body to slip +treetops and bluish gorges. the turrets of a convent stood out beyond a +treated them with absent-minded contempt. +tread of the soldiers who were keeping step with him. he carried close +treading heavily he stepped down from the carriage just as if those two +traveling effects of prince andrew’s were in very good order: new, +traveler, having packed his things with his practiced hands, began +traveler, also detained for lack of horses. +transparently radiant with impulsive joy. +translators: louise and aylmer maude +transit gloria mundi.” +trampling through the deep snow, and muttering incoherent words: +trampled mud and gazed with that particular feeling of ill-will, +traditions of unlimited power, in time when they grow more irritable, +traces broke, and lungs were strained with shouting. the officers +to you. where are you traveling from?” +to you since dinner? hasn’t she?” +“to your barrier!” and pierre, grasping what was meant, stopped by +town knows?” +to which pierre did not agree. on the other hand, pierre demanded that +to what he must do and how he should answer, willarski only replied that +to what he dreaded more than anything in the world—to ridicule; but +to weyrother sat count langeron who, with a subtle smile that never left +to. weyrother had been twice that evening to the enemy’s picket +to warn me of the humor my father is in. i do not allow myself to judge +toward those pratzen heights which were being more and more denuded by +toward the vanguard. before he came up with the hussars, several +toward the sofa she had indicated. as soon as anna mikháylovna had +toward the end of 1806, when all the sad details of napoleon’s +toward him whom he may give me for husband. +toward him and said something. +toward evening he ceased moaning and became quite still. he did not know +toward evening dolgorúkov came back, went straight to the tsar, and +toward anna pávlovna, and anna pávlovna, with the same sad smile with +to walk up and down before it. +to us.” +to unload the muskets, explode the ammunition, and all return home as + * to understand all is to forgive all. +touch, “you promised me!” +touch with it, and looked around bewildered and unable to grasp what was +touching thanks of deputations of serfs in their full-skirted blue +touching his horse and turning purple in the face. “vill you be so +touching his arm, but when he saw pierre’s beaming face he gave him an +touching bonaparte’s. +touched pierre: he looked at hélène and she too seemed disconcerted, +touched him was sent flying. +to twitch. the twitching increased, the handsome mouth was drawn to one +to túshin’s battery had been moved away in the middle of the action +to turn the count’s heavy body toward the wall. +to turn away when the old man, opening his eyes, fixed his steady and +“to try his luck or the certainty?” rostóv asked himself. +to time she smoothed the folds of her dress, and whenever the story +to those who knew the indubitable truth.) he forgot what the seventh +to this occurrence than to the rest of what went on, having made up his +to this chit of a girl, natásha, who not so long ago was playing with +to think of the interview with his dying father which awaited him. he +to think of the impression he makes on others, but is occupied with +to the window. +to the visitor she added: “she is my youngest girl.” +to the views of the old generals kutúzov and prince schwartzenberg, it +to the vienna-znaim road. bagratión was to make this march without +to the unknown place where he was going, many more of our men were going +to the tsar or to kutúzov, even if they were alive and unwounded? +to the rules of his art, as he collected the tickets from all his +“to the right from the corridor, euer hochgeboren! there you will find +to the review, reaching the field at olmütz by ten o’clock. +to the removal of the guns. +to the ranks,” said the captain softly. +to the ranks along which shots crackled now here and now there, drowning +to the prince that if these battalions went away, the guns would remain +to the princess. +to the prince and smiling amiably at him as if to show that political +to the palace, however, an official came running out to meet him, and +to the old conditions of life, nicholas found it very pleasant to be +to then been in regular order and silent began to sway and stretch and +to them are the parts of the mechanism which the impulse has not yet +to the maid, “bring the princess her gray dress, and you’ll see, +to the left down below in the mist, the musketry fire of unseen forces +to the last meeting between father and son, it was so touching that she +to their companies, the sergeants major began bustling (the greatcoats +to their chatter. anatole kept on refilling pierre’s glass while +to the imperial family as well as to all moscow and petersburg, and both +to the hussar beside him. +“to the health of our sovereign, the emperor!” he cried, and at the +“to the head of the french government... au chef du gouvernement +to the guards’ camp to find his old playmate. rostóv had not yet had +to the godmother, princess mary. prince andrew sat in another room, +to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat +to the front of the regiment and examined it from a distance. +to the frontier. our dear emperor has left petersburg and it is thought +to the french sword and pouch. “i have taken an officer prisoner. i +to the footman who was helping him on with his cloak, listened +to the first squadron?” +to the farther side of the bridge and stopped the infantry. beside the +to the end, without raising his eyes at the opening of the door and the +to the emperors with a salute. his whole appearance and manner were +to the emperor shocked rostóv. rostóv saw how the emperor’s rather +to the emperor francis; he remembered the minister of war, the polite +“to the emperor.” +to the elderly lady, even betraying some impatience, she gave him an +to the effect that the duc d’enghien had gone secretly to paris to +to the devil, i’m busy!” he shouted to lavrúshka, who went up to +to the back of the house, to the room of the eldest princess. +to the austrian emperor and smiled. +“to the army.” +to the accountant, “but he feels a pain in the pit of his stomach +to tell you. there is a war now against napoleon. if it were a war for +to tear open the veil of convention that separates a commander in chief +total of his losses on it, then he looked round for aid from the other +totally altered and unexpectedly rapturous and tender expression on +to take their leave. +to sympathize in any way. +to subscribe all he had, but fearing that it might look like pride +to stop and fire the bridge.” +to stimulate his emotions he looked around. “god, death, love, the +to state his views plainly to the emperor? is it possible that on +to start her gambols again and display her kittenish nature. +to sob aloud. +to snatch it from one another. the expression on all their faces +to snatch from the other a boot they were both holding on to. +to slip in over there.” +to show the austrian general the wretched state in which the troops +to show that they are not at all impatient for their food. the host and +to show her fear of anna pávlovna. she looked at her niece, as if +to shout: “blackguards!... throw the snow back on the road!” did not +to settle here altogether next year....” +to set the serfs to work. say that everything out of the hothouses must +to seize hold of dólokhov’s shirt. +to say “tomorrow” and keep up a dignified tone was not difficult, +to say more in the presence of a stranger. +to say and as if she were saying it to someone else, with whom joking +to say, all that could be got out of them. +to say: “ah, what have you done to me, and why?” and at the sight +torzhók post station, either there were no horses or the postmaster +torzhók embroidery came into the room offering their services. +to run out to her, and remained in her hiding place, watching—as +to rostóv when the animal was handed over to the hussar. +to rostóv’s face, and his sobs were audible. +to rostóv and involuntarily riveted his attention, made a gesture of +to right and left of him soldiers continually groaned and dropped. but +to retreat along the road from krems to olmütz, to unite with the +to restrain his laughter. +to rest after their hard marches. +to remain so for a hundred years; but the moment comes when the lever +to remain for a few weeks longer in the house she so loved and where +to recollect something. prince andrew stepped forward from among the +to read and write by the deacon, like your father and me. now tell me, +to raise... happens to everybody! yes, who has not done it?” +to provide himself with some books for the campaign, and had spent some +“to prince vasíli. he was so kind. he at once agreed to everything, +to prince murat, +to pretend to the steward that he was attending to it. the steward +to present the regiment in parade order, on the principle that it is +to please you...” said prince andrew. but immediately, noticing +to pierre. he spoke in french. “i only know two very real evils in +to pierre he said nothing, merely giving his arm a sympathetic squeeze +topic of the day: the illness of the wealthy and celebrated beau of +topic—making fun of the military men of the day, and more particularly +to petersburg, look round, and choose your profession. i will agree to +to pass the time.” +too seemed strange; at one moment they looked impudently sly and at the +to one side he gracefully held a gold lorgnette to his eyes and looked +to one another, and the old servant who was holding the count’s hand +too, might have their own interests. but all he said was so prettily +tools laid ready to hand and shavings scattered around—all indicated +to olmütz, dined there, drank a bottle of wine, and then set off alone +took up her work. +took to be the enemy. shots could be heard, but some way off. +took it...” he whispered just above telyánin’s ear. +took him by the shoulder, led him to the window, and began to talk to +took her sister-in-law’s arm and drew her into another room. +took her hand and begged her forgiveness, without knowing what for. +took a horse and a cossack from a cossack commander, and hungry and +to offer their services. most of those present were elderly, respected +too. +to notice him, and that his whole aim now was to test the cadet’s +tonight to my friends—come to the english hotel. +“tonight, not later,” said he in a low voice, and he moved away +tone. “what has been decided? they have decided that buonaparte has +tones. +tone of voice. “come here, my friend...” and she ominously tucked +tone of entreaty and reproach that a carpenter uses to a gentleman who +tone and manner, here in moscow to anna mikháylovna whom he had placed +to my sister today. i will introduce you to her. but of course you know + to my native land...” +to my bivouac; let my doctor, larrey, examine their wounds. au revoir, +tomowwow,” muttered denísov. +to move from right to left as if drawn by an invisible hand, and the +“tomorrow very likely i may be sent with some message to the +“tomorrow,” replied rostóv and left the room. +“tomorrow our squadron is to be in reserve. may i ask to be attached +tomorrow,” or, “be in to dinner or i shall not see you,” or, “i +tomorrow! only let me tell you, i want to know my son-in-law better. you +tomorrow... in the evening. you must come.... come!” +tomorrow.” +to milorádovich who was near him. +to me all about it, and i will help you in everything.” pierre had +to me after the review and we will do what is possible.” +tomb of the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument +to make scenes. this last consideration moved him. +to make reflections or think aloud in her company, and she had always +to make out the pattern. +to look under the uniforms he would have found on every man a clean +to live for myself avoiding those two evils is my whole philosophy +to leave that seclusion where they three were shut off from all the +told you it would not be enough. how much?” +told you, but you would not believe it,” she said triumphantly. “he +told them all that. +told the count such vile, disgraceful things about us, especially about +told him what he had seen. +told him to expect. +told him the whole field could be seen. here he dismounted, and stopped +told him that he should try to do nothing to stain the whiteness of that +told him, and said, “very good!” in a tone that seemed to imply that +to kutúzov’s staff despite all anna mikháylovna’s endeavors and +to know what is right and what is wrong. men always did and always will +to know?” she asked sternly. +to know as plain monsieur pierre, has become count bezúkhov and the +to join some swedish forces at stralsund; how two hundred and twenty +to it were his inertia and a wrinkle on his brow indicating prolonged +to irresistible, youthful, childish drowsiness. “but what was i +to inquiries as to where the prince lived, pointed out a small newly +to indicate that he was about to say something witty. “buonaparte?” + * to indicate he did not want more tea. +to imbibe,” he said. “can i receive that pure liquid into an impure +to hope from him—especially as he did not know how, and did not +to his study with the wet nurse and little prince nicholas (as his +to his people in germany; and he felt greatly offended when the butler +to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real +to his horse’s mane and pulled up beside the hussar. he was succumbing +to his estates and quite recovered the philanthropic mood in which +to his beautiful sister, but yet more by the fact that in spite of +to his adjutant he ordered him to bring down the two battalions of the +to him. we search, but none are to be found. the field marshal grows +to him straight out. let people think what they will of me, it’s +to him senseless, he understood and was not surprised at it. +to himself, for in him alone is truth and peace,” said she in a voice +to himself, but which formed the whole interest of his life, +to him: “i hear you are refitting your petersburg house?” +to him. he could not tell them simply that everyone went at a trot and +to him fell against the rails with a groan. rostóv ran up to him with +to him by the officers, and, like a man desperately insisting on having +to him. availing himself of his friendly relations with pierre as a boon +to him, as you so well know how to be.” +to him and disputed with one another who should bring him his tea, +to him about politics. prince andrew and the others gathered round these +to her shortsighted eyes. turning from princess mary he went up and +to herself: “no, i must be mistaken, he must be feeling happy, just as +to hers. a woman came from the bedroom with a frightened face and became +to her? i am so grateful to you that i would willingly sacrifice +to her but to the movements of mademoiselle bourienne’s little +to her, and now that anatole had appeared it just grouped itself around +to her and kissed her warmly. anatole went up to kiss the little +to her.” +to her. +to help at any point where the conversation might happen to flag. as +to hear the voices of well-known men. the largest circles formed round +to hear the details.” +to have any children by me.” +to grunth to find prince bagratión. he heard the cannonade behind him +to greet the young man. +to go by the back stairs, yet judging by anna mikháylovna’s air +to give you the love you do not feel, and your prayer would have been +to give in money and work all that other people’s serfs gave—that is +to give her friend the pleasure of dandling the little angel—as she +to get more money from the traveler. +to get himself killed. tell me what this wretched war is for?” she +together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes +together. the german, pahlen, has been sent to new york in america, to +together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel. at last +together? and there! bezúkhov got off scotfree, while fédya had to +together, and made some steps on the very tips of her toes. +together.” +to fire the bridge, and now someone has gone and blundered; they are all +to fire and sword. the inhabitants are totally ruined, the hospitals +to fight a battle ‘on his own hand’ as the germans say. he does so. + to feel that in this world there’s one +to fathom what he has been pleased to conceal from us, the sooner will +to express our sincere views on that subject, and can only say to the +to execute an order. the officer on duty, a handsome, elegantly dressed +to everyone. pierre was so used to that smile, and it had so little +toes toward the general. the captain’s face showed the uneasiness of + * to err is human. +to enter the brotherhood of freemasons under my sponsorship?” +to enter into conversation with this old man, but, submitting to him +to each new arrival anna pávlovna said, “you have not yet seen my +to each couple of acres. the wounded crept together in twos and threes +to drive straight home. but the nearer he drew to the house the more he +to dress in here; and that andrew had quite changed, and that kitty +to do with sergéy kuzmích—a smile of bashfulness at their own +to do what was for him the most difficult thing in life—to say an +to do it that it seemed to him as if it had really happened. perhaps +to do it?”—“because you married her,” answered an inner voice. +to do but dwink. if we could only get to fighting soon. hullo, who’s +to distraction! one learns many things then,” she added with a certain +to dinner. i suppose he won’t go?” she continued, turning to the +to demonstrate the defects of the latter and the merits of his own plan, +“today when i remembered that all these delightful associations +today?” was his first thought. “and i did not know this suffering +today was a great day for him—the anniversary of his coronation. +today or tomorrow—at any rate, in an instant as compared with +today. he has been here on leave and is taking nicholas back with him. +today for the emperor.” dolgorúkov smiled significantly. +today, and that his excellency was not receiving anyone. +to cruel with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the +to cross the ditch on foot. the emperor, wishing to rest and feeling +to credit it, bent his head, and told túshin that he could go. prince +to count t., prince v., and others. then he bursts into one of his wild +to control herself any longer, she jumped up and rushed from the room as +to control her joy which expressed itself by laughter. +to continue his military service, and when the war recommenced +“to combat the evil which sways the world...” pierre repeated, and a +to cheer the men but merely carried out the orders), yet the troops +to change his former way of life, but his strength failed him. he walked +to build a new chantry to the church at their own expense in honor +to bore him so much as that of his pretty wife. he turned away from +to blame all round. well, what else do you want?...” +to be talking to a staff officer of such importance. “it’s a lovely +“to be sure, your excellency,” replied the architect. +to be so sent meant not only a reward but an important step toward +to be silent. but after a while, just as a jury comes out of its room, +to be severe, found nothing to say; the others did not venture to +to be reserved because in the depth of my soul i feel too near to him +“to be quite frank, mary, i expect father’s character sometimes +to be parted from her husband and be left alone in the country, in her +to be opened. everywhere he saw the stewards’ accounts, according to +to be his old schoolroom, and looking into natásha’s wildly bright +to be heard. +to behave here as you did in petersburg, you will end very badly; that +to be grew stronger, and he meekly followed anna mikháylovna who was +to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, +to be all right,” pierre concluded, and followed anna mikháylovna. +to balance himself. one of the footmen who had stooped to pick up some +to bagratión which the old countess at anna mikháylovna’s advice had +to a tune in which the weary musicians blundered, and while tired +to attend to the business himself and so he disliked it and only tried +to attain it quickly. hence we have a secondary aim, that of preparing +to a third; and the vicomte was served up to the company in the choicest +toast, the count took out his handkerchief and, covering his face, wept +to another. “how evidently he belongs to the best society,” said she +to all the club members and to all the club guests, and finally to +to agree to the truce but also to offer terms of capitulation, and +to a footman dressed in knee breeches, shoes, and a swallow-tail coat, +to adopt a jocular tone. but before he had finished he felt that his +to accept their services. he took the glove in silence from the +to above the knee. pierre hurriedly began taking off his right boot also +to abandon the road connecting him with the troops arriving from russia, +title: war and peace +“tit! i say, tit!” said the groom. +tiresome,” said natásha in a mortified voice that trembled slightly. +tired of being run after by women, his vanity was flattered by the +tiptoe to the countess’ door and paused. +tipsy rage when a man does not know what he is saying. he saw that his +tiny limbs she had felt twenty years ago within her, that son about whom +tint in her complexion and especially in the color of her slender but +timókhin to the subaltern beside him. +timókhin, armed only with a sword, had rushed at the enemy with such +timidly to the corner where denísov sat. she saw that everybody was +timidly from behind the backs of the generals. as he stepped past the +time to time he went out to ask: “hasn’t she come yet?” they +time to get his uniform. he had on a shabby cadet jacket, decorated with +time till they came to moscow had not left them for a day. +time that evening, vainly expecting someone, now smiling at someone, now +times unexpectedly interrupted. once he stopped it by shouting: “the +times, the more impassioned he became in these moments of almost morbid +times repeated—of a sonata by dussek. +time since his return that they had talked alone and about their love. +times before: how the late princess had given birth to princess mary +time. no, i’ll tell you now. you know sónya’s my dearest friend. +time, muttering to herself. +time in the shop. +time for that sort of thing and a young man fears to bind himself and +time could not admit the idea of his hero being disgraced. +time, anna mikháylovna sent someone to call her son, and went into the +time. +time!” +till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are capable of, + * till tomorrow, my dear fellow. +till the tsar reached it, each regiment in its silence and immobility +till then. their powers of reasoning, feeling, and observing immediately +till then, had listened with an amused smile to their conversation and +till the general asked him to restore it. all his absent-mindedness and +till ten o’clock. +till she was twenty, and arranged her life so that her whole time was +till now. but where am i?” +till midday on the nineteenth, the activity—the eager talk, running to +till may, and asked him to be more economical this time. nicholas had +till its coat shone like satin and every hair of its wetted mane lay +till he began sincerely to believe in his own exceptional kindness and +tíkhon went and told the prince. +tíkhon to ask mary bogdánovna what news.—“say only that ‘the +tíkhon, like all good valets, instinctively knew the direction of his +tíkhon knew that neither the son’s arrival nor any other unusual +tíkhon knew his master’s habit of sometimes thinking aloud, and +tíkhon did not hear the slightest sound from the study after that. +tíkhon, at her husband, and at the footman who accompanied them. +tidiness and good management. some domestic serfs pierre met, in reply +thyself whether thou art content with thyself. what hast thou attained +thumping the table; “and ve must tie for our emperor, and zen all vill +thumping the table. +thumb to the room where telyánin was sitting, he frowned and gave a +thud of the enemy’s cannon balls, from the flushed and perspiring +thrown the reins of the snaffle bridle over the horse’s head. it was +throwing down his chisel. (the wheel continued to revolve by its own +through the town of enns on both sides of the bridge. +through the smoke. he was pressing one hand to his left side, while +through the naïve and intelligent count and played with him as with +through the door. prince andrew got up, went to the door, and tried to +through the door on tiptoe. he could not walk well on tiptoe and his +through the door came the sounds of kutúzov’s voice, excited and +through the door came the regular hum of a lathe. the princess timidly +through the door. +through the conservatories, the serfs’ quarters, and the outbuildings, +through the closed doors came the sound of difficult passages—twenty +through that door was heard a noise of things being moved about, and +throughout the whole cavalry division as váska denísov. cadet rostóv, +through his lorgnette, suddenly turned completely round toward the +through him, and again laughed his frigid laugh. +through, and realized that he could not stop halfway. he was aghast +throttle if they stood in my way. i have an adored, a priceless mother, +three parts of that army were sharply distinguished: kutúzov’s +three months ago, draw fresh moral strength from your look, so gentle, +“three,” he went quickly forward, missing the trodden path and +three days later the little princess was buried, and prince andrew went +three beats: “oh mio crudele affetto.”... one, two, three... one, +“three and a half miles, your majesty.” +threatened by the french) but at brünn. despite his apparently delicate +thrashing for letting a private traveler have the courier horses. +thousands such as i in russia.’ +thousand-ruble horses, only eighteen were left after the charge. +thousand men each of whom knew his place and his duty, had every button +thousand men breathlessly gazing at him and the regimental commander did +thousand austrians, with a hundred thousand russians, were to operate in +“thou hatest it. then change it, purify thyself; and as thou art +thou hast lost.” +though without knowing its cause—was such as to remind one still more +though what she said was quite just, perhaps for that very reason no one +though what happened was due to chance and was independent of the +thought turned to her sister-in-law with a tender glance at her figure. +thought. the minister drew the remaining papers together, arranged them +thought that he, an exemplary officer of many years’ service who +thought that came into his mind was that today he had to be presented +thoughts rather than the trend of the conversation—“and that’s a +thoughts he has dreamed of for nights, but looks around for help or a +thought, “seriously, i have long been thinking of it.... leading such +thoughts, and memories suddenly arose within him that he could not fall +thoughts. +thought rostóv. “i should die of happiness!” +thought rostóv. he knew what a shock he would inflict on his father and +thought rostóv. at that moment alexander turned his head and rostóv +thought—referring to the little princess who was not in the dining +thought prince andrew, and striking his horse he rode up to kutúzov. +thought pierre. “but this man knows the truth and, if he wished to, +thought pierre, “and how little attention we pay to it!” +thought of such a thing, it is only the cabinet that says it.” +thought of sónya, during this stay in moscow, he said to himself, +thought of his friend and how much he expected of him in the future. +thought of everything, considered everything, and did everything the +thought independent of her sister-in-law’s words. in the midst of a +thought, “i must remain free.” +thought: “i am going to save the army.” +thought he, “i shall be sent with a brigade or division, and there, +thought he heard a strange noise through the door. he was seized with +thought, he called tíkhon and began to undress. +though the big hospitals and the houses in krems converted into military +thought, as he listened to voices in kutúzov’s courtyard. the voices +thought. and suddenly, at this thought of death, a whole series of most +thought and heard of her might be false. and he again saw her not as the +though shy, went on carefully executing her steps. denísov did not +though she were grown up, was evidently very proud of this but at the +though politeness prevented his showing impatience, left the old woman +though of this prince andrew said nothing to his sister, was that in the +though no words had passed between anatole and mademoiselle bourienne, +though not much time had passed since prince andrew had left russia, he +though none of the column commanders rode up to the ranks or talked to +though mademoiselle bourienne had been so unsuccessful in her choice +though he wrote in french and used french jests and french idioms, +though he smiled delightedly. he ran up to them. +though he may perhaps outlive us all, as i sincerely hope he will...” +though five minutes before, prince andrew had been able to say a few +though embracing her. +though all were in a conspiracy of silence. the men who set the tone +thou art wise because thou couldst utter those blasphemous words,” he +those women—mostly mothers—who, having once made up their minds, +those who were in the dimly lit reception room spoke in nervous +those who were holding him under the armpits, and of his gray, curly, +those who were guiding him. +those who had been campaigning under kutúzov. the two emperors, +“those were extremes, no doubt, but they are not what is most +those richer and more powerful than himself and he had rare skill in +those recently arrived from russia, both guards and regiments of the +those on foot, collapsed in a great mass, and some forty men who were on +those of higher ranks in the order. 3. morality. 4. love of mankind. 5. +those kurágins and leading that sort of life. it suits you so +those hofs-kriegs-wurst-raths are! suvórov couldn’t manage them so +those first steps. both had changed greatly since they last met and both +those brilliant aged eyes grown old in this conviction, or the calm +this young jacobin was not so terrible as his words suggested. all were +“this won’t do, princess; it won’t do,” said he, when princess +this was true. the architect had told him that it was necessary, and +this was the count’s favorite dance, which he had danced in his youth. +this was quite true, but the count, the countess, and natásha looked +this was particularly noticeable on nesvítski’s usually laughing +this was not so but that on the contrary the french had run away. he +this—want glory, want to be known to men, want to be loved by them, it +this victory to the austrian court, now no longer at vienna (which was +this very sentence about countess zúbova and this same laugh prince +this unpleasant impression merely flitted over the young and happy face +this uncertainty and hurry... there—they are shouting again, and +this! the chief news, about which all moscow gossips, is the death of +this table with the thought of winning a hundred rubles to buy that +this strong, brave man, this model son and officer that, judging by this +this strange incident, and then shrugging his shoulders went to the door +this speech how they could best handle the master for their own ends. +this silence was broken by one of the brethren, who led pierre up to the +this short man nodded to dolgorúkov as to an intimate friend and stared +this short man had on a white leather apron which covered his chest and +this same room was dimly lighted by two candles. on one small table tea +this resemblance he was exceedingly ugly. his features were like his +this reinforcement. +this poetic and pure intimacy, were what my heart needed. but enough of +this name day of hers had been one of the pleasantest she had ever had. +this murderer and villain! we alone must avenge the blood of the just +this moment of happy, rapturous excitement. she gazed at him, not taking +this misery, and money, and dólokhov, and anger, and honor—it’s all +this meant that tíkhon was not handing him the waistcoat he wanted. +this may be my only chance of seeing the emperor. it won’t be long +this marriage. he recalled her former words and looks and the words +this magnanimity bonaparte subsequently repaid by death. +this lowest-grade greeting, a look of anxiety and fear, as at the sight +this is what i was proud of! i then thought that i did not understand +“this is what i want, my dear fellow,” said the count to the +“this is what i think. austria has been made a fool of, and she is +“this is the first act. those that follow are naturally increasingly +this is the battle of pultúsk, which is considered a great victory but +“this is not at all the thing,” he said. “what sort of polish +“this is for borís from me, for his outfit.” +“this is dólokhov,” said prince andrew. + * “this is a pleasure one gets in camp, prince.” +“this is all very fine, but things must be settled,” said prince +“this is absurd! come, let go i tell you.” +this is absolutely true. +this instant!” thought rostóv. +this information, the little princess and mademoiselle bourienne, whose +this indecision appeared to him majestic and enchanting, like everything +this house and in brünn itself. i want to entertain him as far as i +this holiday time. “seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! +this he’ll soon have us, too, for his subjects! how are you?” and he +this heart, so kind and generous? say ‘perhaps’... the future is so +this guardsman would certainly have bowled rostóv and his bedouin over +this fact ought to give prince vasíli much satisfaction. +this expression evidently pleased him. +this expectation did not upset the regular routine of life in the old +this ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost +this door led into a back anteroom. an old man, a servant of the +this disorder,” he muttered. “do as you like.” +this defect was not due to any fault of the regimental commander, for +this consciousness of mismanagement became a general conviction, but as +this card and i’ll take my cap and drive home to supper with denísov, +this?” but these doubts only lasted a moment. pierre glanced at +this buonaparte has turned all their heads; they all think of how he +this bone—a bill for thirty thousand rubles—to the poor princess +this black-eyed, wide-mouthed girl, not pretty but full of life—with +this battle, which consisted in the capture of a french squadron, was +this answer. “have you sought for means of attaining your aim in +this active old servant was unpacking the traveler’s canteen and +this action was so unlike her usual composure and the fear depicted on +thirty,” said he, looking at shinshín and the count with a joyful, +thirtieth he attacked mortier’s division, which was on the left bank, +thirteen look at the boy they are in love with and have just kissed for +“thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,” she counted on her slender +third company he suddenly stopped. his suite, not having expected this, +thin lips interrupted weyrother, wishing to say something. but the +“think what you please! i know you are just like father. think as +think we thoroughly understand. +think the regiment is not a bad one, eh?” +think that he is your father ... perhaps in the agony of death.” she +think so yourself. and the main thing is,” he continued, “that i +think it over. go! yes or no, yes or no, yes or no!” he still shouted +thinking of?” she went on, turning to prince hippolyte. “fetch me my +thinking? i mustn’t forget. how shall i speak to the emperor? no, +thinking about you. why are you going?” +think, count? the next day it was not even mentioned in the orders of +think could hardly be found nowadays—but is she contented with her +thing we are interested in here,” said the spirit of the place. +things the old count sent to his son. +things that he has been expelled by the police.” +things that had never occurred. mademoiselle bourienne also shared them +things. she did not reply, but looked at her seriously. +things he should have shown it sooner, but he lets it go on for months. +things had to be. from the passage they went into a large, dimly +things, but austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war. she +things,” and the skin over his left temple puckered, “either you +things and supper dishes stood in disorder, and in the middle of the +thing i have faith in! our good and wonderful sovereign has to perform +thing he would have to unite his fate with hers. he might perhaps have +thing can be arranged. it shall be on your family’s behalf that i’ll +thing.” +thin face was now quivering with nervous excitement; his eyes, in which +thin face. her eyes, always sad, now looked with particular hopelessness +thick-set general with grizzled eyebrows and whiskers, and wider from +thick, bushy eyebrows. prince andrew went up and kissed his father on +they would not for an instant let his shoulder move a hair’s breadth. +they would have remained there for a long time testing each other’s +“they were there this evening, but now i don’t know, your +they were saying was amusing, but because she felt happy and was unable +they were in the carriage. “he hardly recognizes anybody.” +“they were in a hurry enough to start us, and now here we stand in +they were firing at could not be seen for the smoke which there was no +they were as usual laughing. +they were again silent. +they went up to the door of the sitting room from which came the sound +they went through the porch and into the stable. the lieutenant +they went out and walked about till dinnertime, talking of the political +“they’ve been saying so a long while,” said the count, “and +they too could, like natásha and borís, escape from the drawing room. +they stood silent, facing one another. the old man’s sharp eyes were +they seized him by his arms; but he was so strong that everyone who +they seemed of them, one could feel by the occasional glances they gave +“they say the ball will be very good,” replied the princess, drawing +“they say pierre is quite broken by his misfortune.” +they rose from the table and sat down in the entrance porch which served +they rode up the opposite hill. from there the french could already be +“they’re coming!... they’re coming!... stand aside, make way, +they’re coming!” alarmed voices were heard, and a stir of final +“they received me and my news as one receives a dog in a game of +“they’re always in love with someone,” he thought of sónya and +they quite understood one another as to the first part of their romance, +the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless +the young prince. the members of the household were all gathered in the +the young princess bolkónskaya had brought some work in a +the young people, at the countess’ instigation, gathered round the +“the young man’s a real hussar!” shouted the colonel, again +the young man had departed. “there is never any ‘impossible’ with +the young man, flattered, sat down nearer to her with a coquettish +the younger emperor could not restrain his wish to be present at the +they named the colonel, prince repnín. +they must look somewhere, or it meant too much. pierre hesitated, +“they must be feeling dull, too,” said one of the bolder officers, +“they might call a halt here or we’ll have to do another four miles +“they march splendidly,” remarked someone in bagratión’s suite. +they’ll say so again and again, and that will be the end of it. my +they’ll ransack that castle,” he remarked with evident approval. +“they have gone to bed and put out their lights, your excellency.” +they halted in silence. there was nothing fresh to be seen from the +they had when she was not thinking of herself. as with everyone, her +they had not met for nearly half a year and, being at the age when young +they had looked at the regimental commander, seeming by their expression +they had lifted the dying man and were moving him. +they had gone by, the same stream of soldiers followed, with the same +they had entered moscow. +they got into the carriage and drove for a few minutes in silence. +“they give little hope,” replied the prince. +they gave her an attraction more powerful than that of beauty. but the +they entered the large hall, from which one of the doors led to the +they entered the elegant, newly decorated, and luxurious dining room. +they do the guns.” +“they don’t even give one time to dwink!” answered váska +they dismounted and entered the tent. several officers, with flushed and +they could not fail to vanquish anyone, be it whom it might: so thought +they contain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, know the +“they coax me as if i were váska the cat!” said denísov jokingly. +“they can’t be far off, probably just beyond the stream,” he said +they both felt happy). “we had our hands full last night. however, i +they became silent, and pierre thought he saw the princess hide +they assure the officer on duty that they, the marshals, are on +“they are regular brigands, especially dólokhov,” replied the +they are beaten, flogged, or sent to siberia, i don’t suppose they are +they all were, or seemed to be, pretty—so rapturous were their smiles +they all separated, but, except anatole who fell asleep as soon as he +they all had but one wish: to advance as soon as possible against the +“the wound is not here, it is there!” said kutúzov, pressing the +the worst,” said the austrian general, evidently wishing to have done +the words of the order were not clear to the regimental commander, and +the word of command rang out, and again the regiment quivered, as with a +the women.” +the woman’s vehicle for trying to get ahead of others, and the strokes +the woman he had known as a child, of whom when her beauty was mentioned +the window sill, but refrained from touching it. pierre again covered +the wind had fallen and black clouds, merging with the powder smoke, +the wind. +“the will will show that, my dear; our fate also depends on it.” +the will and letter will be delivered to the emperor, and the petition +the wild set led by dólokhov. zherkóv had met dólokhov abroad as a +“the wife!” said the old prince, briefly and significantly. +the whole story of life. you talk of bonaparte and his career,” said +the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building +the whole matter and decide what was right and how he should act, but +the whole interest was concentrated on rostóv. instead of sixteen +the whole human race, offering it in our members an example of piety +the whole day was finally and indubitably answered in the affirmative. +the well-known prince bolkónski who had to retire from the army under +the weight of his knapsack. +the weather had cleared again since noon and the sun was descending +the way he walked through the ranks behind the generals, bending forward +the way from ulm, while dólokhov maintained that the russians had not +the wax with the baby’s hair had not sunk in the font but had floated. +the water, and approaches the tête-de-pont. at length appears the +the war was flaming up and nearing the russian frontier. everywhere one +the war is over, that the emperor francis is arranging a meeting with +the wall, his eyes fixed on a burning candle, and seemed not to listen +the waiter. +the visitors, and before the visitors i tell you that in future you are +the visitor, not knowing what to say, shook her head. +the visitor made a gesture with her hand. +the visitor, compelled to look on at this family scene, thought it +the village letting the troops pass by him. that morning kutúzov seemed +the village again, but túshin’s guns could not move, and the +the vicomte wished to begin his story and gave a subtle smile. +the vicomte who was meeting him for the first time saw clearly that +the vicomte was a nice-looking young man with soft features and polished +the vicomte told his tale very neatly. it was an anecdote, then current, +the vicomte’s story. prince vasíli’s words frightened her, an +the vicomte merely shrugged his shoulders. pierre looked solemnly at his +“the vicomte knew the duc personally,” whispered anna pávlovna to +the vicomte bowed and smiled courteously in token of his willingness to +the vicomte appreciated this silent praise and smiling gratefully +the very time he was expressing this conviction to himself, in another +the valley. the fourth column, with which kutúzov was, stood on the +the uselessness of freeing the serfs, who were quite happy as it was. +the unsolved problem that tormented him was caused by hints given by the +“the unpleasant things were said to me,” remarked véra, “i said +the unknown general looked disdainfully down at kozlóvski, who was +the two young men, the student and the officer, friends from childhood, +the two pávlograd squadrons, having crossed the bridge, retired up the +the two ladies, addressing prince vasíli and pointing to an inlaid +the two generals and the adjutant took hold of the field glass, trying +the tverskáya street rode the hussar with mustaches... i thought about +the tsar with another glance at the emperor francis, as if inviting +the tsar stopped a few minutes in front of the hussars as if undecided. +the tsar said something more which rostóv did not hear, and the +the tsar looked intently and observantly into kutúzov’s eye +the tsar heard but obviously did not like the reply; he shrugged his +the tsar addressed the officers also: “i thank you all, gentlemen, i +the tsar!” +the troops were running in such a dense mass that once surrounded by +the troops of the vanguard were stationed before wischau, within sight +the troops in their disorderly flight confirmed these rumors. +the troops again began to move, and two battalions of the nóvgorod and +the tremor of the speaker’s voice—which sometimes almost broke—or +the traveler was joseph alexéevich bazdéev, as pierre saw from the +the town where the headquarters and the diplomatic corps were stationed +the torzhók peddler woman, in a whining voice, went on offering her +the tipsy guests who were again crowding round the window, and listening +the time had come to experience the joy of an attack of which he had so +the thuerassa, he merely saves us a great deal of trouble and all our +the three voices, hers, mademoiselle bourienne’s, and katie’s, who +the third time the rhetor came back more quickly and asked pierre +“the third, i said the third!” cried the prince abruptly, pushing +the third interruption came when prince andrew was finishing his +the third group was gathered round mortemart and anna pávlovna. +the third division and convinced himself that there really were no +the third company was the last, and kutúzov pondered, apparently trying +the third!” +the termination of the ceremony. he looked up joyfully at the baby when +the temperature shown by the political thermometer to the company that +the tears from his eyes and from the letter, then having dried her +the tall, fair-haired general buxhöwden stood, leaning his back against +the table which was scrawled over with figures, wet with spilled wine, +the table, summoned his daughter. he never gave his children a blessing, +the table, searched everywhere, and stood still in the middle of the +the table, screened by a bound music book so that the light did not fall +the table, onto which he threw it. +the table in a merry mood, sitting down now by one, now by another, of +the sutlers. on receiving borís’ letter he rode with a fellow officer +the suite pointed out to bagratión a french column that was outflanking +the subject of her request and must not be shown before the request was +the stupid smile, which had left his face while he was speaking, +the study, like pistol shots, came the frequent sound of the old man +the struggling men, and the fate of the red-haired gunner, who had +the stretchers moved on. at every jolt he again felt unendurable pain; +the stretchers, and love of the sun and of life, all merged into one +the stranger’s face was not genial, it was even cold and severe, but +the story was very pretty and interesting, especially at the point +the stores are empty, the roads impassable. the orthodox begin looting, +the still greater unimportance of death, the meaning of which no one +the stewards (there were semiliterate foremen among them) listened with +the steward did not say it was quite impossible, but suggested selling +“the step must be taken but i cannot, i cannot!” thought pierre, +the state of the prussian army. as soon as he had finished she turned to +the standard. +the staff officer remained behind and prince andrew rode on alone. +the staff officer on duty. +the staff officer and prince andrew mounted their horses and rode on. +the staff captain’s voice began to tremble. “you have been in the +the staff captain, kírsten, had twice been reduced to the ranks for +the staff captain in his deep bass, calmly stroking his long mustache. +the staff captain, “but we old fellows, who have grown up in and, god +the staff captain. +“the squadwon can’t pass,” shouted váska denísov, showing his +“the squadron quartermaster!” said lavrúshka. +the squadron in which rostóv was serving had scarcely time to mount +the squadron crossed the bridge and drew out of range of fire without +the spot indicated to him. he made no reply on his father’s favorite +the spot chosen for the duel was some eighty paces from the road, +the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and +the special deep cooing tone, precluding the possibility of interrupting +“the sovereigns? i do not speak of russia,” said the vicomte, polite +the southern spring, the comfortable rapid traveling in a vienna +the sound of voices and the shouts of command. the whole air reeked with +the sound of musketry at the foot of the hill, now diminishing, now +the son sighed, thus admitting that his father had understood him. the +the son, or pierre, whom it had been pitiful to see, so stricken was he +the son, lowering his eyes, followed her quietly. +the soldier. “turn back with your slut!” +the soldier to whom the laughers referred was dólokhov. prince andrew +the soldiers who had carried prince andrew had noticed and taken the +“the soldiers say it feels easier without boots,” said captain +the soldiers laughed. a moment later, an adjutant arrived with the same +the soldiers’ faces and unnatural warlike solemnity on those of the +the soldiers crowded against one another with terrified faces, and +the soldier always has around him the same comrades, the same ranks, the +the sofa. the princess came in. she had changed her gown for a house +“the snow is deep. i am having the avenue swept, your honor.” +the snow, greedily bit at it, again raised his head, adjusted himself, +the smoke, rostóv hesitated whether to gallop after them or to go where +the smell of linstocks, came the artillery which crawled between the +the sly what was left in the glasses. from the third room came sounds of +the sky, the dawn merging with the afterglow of sunset, was visible. +the sinews and scorching the flesh of his sprained arm and shoulder. to +the silence lasted some time. prince bagratión, apparently not wishing +the sight of the killed and wounded. +the sick man was so surrounded by doctors, princesses, and servants +the shirt. +the shed with super human force, throwing up a mass of earth. the ground +these words he repeated to everyone without exception or variation, and +these things. i absolutely must see him, however painful it may be for +these sights and sounds had no depressing or intimidating effect on him; +these same questions which he could not solve and yet could not cease to +the service before everything. thanks, thanks!” and he went on +the service and patriotically russian. he resented shinshín’s remark. +the servant handed him a book which pierre took to be a devotional work, +the servant brought back his tumbler turned upside down, * with an +these rooms. anna mikháylovna, addressing a maid who was hurrying past +the serious faces of those around, remembered all he had already gone +the sergeant to meet some mounted men who were riding along the line. +the sergeant major with brightened expressions, licking their lips and +these poignant joys and sorrows. you are fortunate, for the latter are +these latter the butler thrust mysteriously forward, wrapped in a +these,” he said, handing him several papers, “make a neat memorandum +these gentlemen ride onto the bridge alone and wave white handkerchiefs; +the second princess had just come from the sickroom with her eyes red +the seat indicated to him beside the fair hélène and listened to the +the seal of her letter. it was from her most intimate friend from +the scraping of chairs. then one of those conversations began which last +the scoundrels!” +the score against him reached the fateful sum of forty-three thousand. +the same words, about their health and her own, and the health of her +the same time, my honored benefactor,” wrote prince vasíli. “my son +the same, then why this duel, this murder? either i shall kill him, or +the same happy, rapturous faces turned to the shaggy figure of denísov. +the salute and unable to repress the smile of delight induced by his +the sale of the land and forests and to release them from the land bank, +the rustle of a woman’s dress was heard in the next room. prince +the russian with his heir the tsarévich, and the austrian with the +the russians were running away and that he himself was killed, but he +the russian officer in charge of the transport lolled back in the front +the russian emperor’s aide-de-camp is an impostor. officers are +the russian army) are nothing compared to what this man has been doing +the rostóvs since the day of his departure for the army. to be in anna +the rostóvs knew everybody in moscow. the old count had money enough +the room was crowded with small pieces of furniture, whatnots, +the room, pondering over his vicious past, and with a rapturous sense +the room, and seeming not to notice the chairs was dashing straight at +the road he reined in his horse, hesitating whether to ride along it or +the rivers inn (at braunau) and traun (near linz). on october 23 the +the right they will expose a flank to me. soldiers! i will myself direct +the right flank and the french were already advancing, were engaged +the right and sent an adjutant to the dragoons with orders to attack the +the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up. soldiers scattered over +the rhetor, “is an emblem of something not cognizable by the senses +the rhetor cleared his throat, crossed his gloved hands on his breast, +the rhetor but pierre’s sponsor, willarski, whom he recognized by his +“there will be a council of war at kutúzov’s tonight, though; you +“there, what egotists men all are: all, all egotists! just for a whim +there were in the room a child’s cot, two boxes, two armchairs, a +there was still the same bewitching combination of majesty and mildness +there was something peculiar about it, quite unsoldierly, rather comic, +there was really nothing to be seen in front except a barren descent +there was now no one in the reception room except prince vasíli and the +there was nothing to be said, and neither wished to give occasion for +there was nothing between the squadron and the enemy, and again that +there was not a trace of agitation on his face. with delicate irony he +there was no reason why it should not reach the pávlograd regiment, +there was no one in the hall. “oh god! is everyone all right?” +there was no one beyond the ditch now. only some carts and carriages +there was none he would so much like to have for a friend as that very +there was no laughter in the maids’ large hall. in the men servants’ +there was no answer to any of these questions, except one, and that +there was generally a drinking bout, finishing with visits of a kind +there was a general movement as the princess, smiling and talking +there was a crush. halfway across stood prince nesvítski, who had +the revolving pulleys whirr with the rapidity of their movement, but a +the retreat of the frightened bonaparte. +the retreat from austerlitz, where he alone had withdrawn his column +“there! they are bringing another!” cried one of the officers, +“there, there! do you feel it? i feel so strange. and do you know, +there. then, as happens to people of weak character, he desired so +there! tea!” +the rest of the evening. +the rest of his life. +“there’s the corner at the crossroads, where the cabman, zakhár, +the rest.” +there’s some mistake,” thought he. “they can’t have wanted to +“there’s plenty to do still.” +the resounding strains of the polonaise: +“there’s nothing to be gay about,” answered bolkónski. +“there’s nothing for me to understand,” she cried out with +“there’s no need to talk! he receives his orders and will marry you +there, she glided up to him with a sort of amble, not exactly bowing yet +“the reserves, sire!” replied a voice, a very human one compared to +the reproachful tone of a man who has repeated the same thing more +the report which had been circulated that the austrians had been beaten +the report of musketry. +there. pierre had the air of a man preoccupied with considerations which +“there now, zíkin, they ought to put you on a horse. you’d look +“there now, you wish to liberate your serfs,” he continued; “that +there. now then!” +“there now, the kúrskies have also gone past,” was being said in +“there now!... so you, too, are in the great world?” said he to +“there now!” said the officer of the suite, “that’s +“there now, prince! we can’t stop those fellows,” said the staff +“there now! it’s true that all you women are crybabies,” remarked +“there now! didn’t i tell you, michael mítrich, that if it was said +“there now! confess that this is delightful,” said he. “this +there many more of you to come?” +the remains of our regiment which had been in action rapidly formed up +the remains of langeron’s and dokhtúrov’s mingled forces were +“there, leave bruin alone; here’s a bet on.” +“there, it’s just as i thought,” said rostóv to himself. “he +“there is still time, my dear. you must remember, catiche, that it was +“there is still much, much before us,” he said, as if with an old +there is so much happiness; but here... groans, suffering, fear, and +“there is something up,” thought nicholas, and he was further +“there is something nasty, something wrong, in the feeling she excites +there is only mademoiselle bourienne....” +“there is one thing i constantly pray god to grant, mon cousin,” she +“there is nothing so refreshing after a sleepless night as a cup +“there is in moscow a lady, une dame, and she is very stingy. she must +there is hardly time to put in action—seeing pierre, touched his +there in which he had now no part could perturb him. he shut his eyes, +“there... he’s puffing again,” muttered túshin to himself, as a +there?” he said, turning to the door as he heard a tread of heavy +“there he is!” said borís, thinking rostóv had said “his +there had been actions at lambach, amstetten, and melk; but despite the +there, god only knows what would have happened! you know, uncle promised +the regiment under a hail of bullets which fell around, but fortunately +the regiment kutúzov had reviewed at braunau and in which dólokhov was +the regiment i’d... ah well, i’ll show that in action, and for me +the regiment broke up into companies, which went to their appointed +the regiment, and how satisfied his father was with him. berg evidently +the regimental commander was afraid he might be blamed for this and did +the regimental commander sought out dólokhov in the ranks and, reining +(the regimental commander’s face now that the inspection was happily +the regimental commander on horseback and some ten men of his company, +the regimental commander, going up to the line himself, ordered the +the regimental commander, flushing, ran to his horse, seized the stirrup +the regimental adjutant came in and confirmed the news brought by +therefore you seek wisdom and virtue. is that not so?” said the +therefore—this is between ourselves—i instinctively feel that we +therefore offered this truce to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. count +therefore met with unaltered looks the angrily inquisitive expression of +(the reflection was still incomplete), he caught himself smiling and was +“there, fedótov, you should be quartered on them!” +the recruiting, granted by the emperor. if i had been two hours late +the reception room, where he found some ten officers and generals. +there as he. and now—this duel! have these people no feeling, or +the rearguard stood with a staff officer, scanning the country through +the rearguard by the commander in chief, was sitting on the trail of a +the rearguard and have an eye on the order of retreat, “which is also +there are things in it difficult for the feeble human mind to grasp, it +“there are so many prisoners today, nearly the whole russian army, +“there are precedents, i may mention schwarzenberg.” +there are no difficulties in your way.... but nicholas is my cousin... +there any hope?” +there.” +there. +“the rat”) he said, rubbing his forehead and whole face with both +the ras...” he did not finish. +the ranks of obscure officers and offer him the first step to fame! +the ranks, and above all being unable to see anything in front or around +the ranks. +the quiet home life and peaceful happiness of bald hills presented +the question arose whether the troops were to be in marching order or +the purse is here! i’ll flay this scoundwel alive, and it will be +the puhse?” he asked, turning to rostóv. +the prussian army and was aide-de-camp to a very important personage. +the project gutenberg ebook of war and peace, by leo tolstoy +the prince, who was in his large study. from the far side of the house +the prince was silent and looked indifferent. but, with the womanly and +the prince was lying on the sofa, looked at him, noticed his perturbed +the prince turned round to the overseer and fixed his eyes on him, +the prince stopped. he saw the effect these words had produced on his +the prince sternly; “i’m afraid you write much nonsense. i’ll read +the princess wished to rise, but the prince held her by the hand. she +the princess, who had a straight, rigid body, abnormally long for her +the princess went up to the door, passed by it with a dignified and +the princess started. evidently pierre’s words touched her to the +the princess smiled. she rose with the same unchanging smile with which +the princess smiled as people do who think they know more about the +the princess saw that her father regarded the matter with disapproval, +the princess sank helplessly into an armchair beside her father and +the princess said nothing, but suddenly her short downy lip quivered. +the princess rested her bare round arm on a little table and considered +the princess pondered awhile with a thoughtful smile and her luminous +the princess, picking up her dress, was taking her seat in the dark +the princess, now quite changed. “and what does she come worming +the princess looked in a scared way at her father’s eyes glittering +the princess listened, smiling. +the princess let go. +the princess, holding her little dog on her lap with her thin bony +the princess glanced at her watch and, seeing that she was five minutes +the princess gave no reply and did not even smile, but left the room as +the princess gave a wrong answer. +the princess’ eyes grew dim, she could not see and could not hear +the princess did speak, her words would not be flattering to anna +the princess did not reply. their efforts in the struggle for the +the princess did not fall down or faint. she was already pale, but on +the princess continued to look at him without moving, and with the same +the princess blushed, and raised her arms with a gesture of despair. +the princess bent over the exercise book on the table. +the princess and hastily adjusting his lorgnette, as if without this +the princess. +the prince looked at his daughter’s frightened face and snorted. +the prince gave orders that no one should leave his post. now you, +the prince bowed to signify his respect and gratitude. +the prince bowed his head and went up to the porch. “god be +the prince answered nothing, but she looked at him significantly, +the prince again laughed his frigid laugh. +the prim visitor could not help joining in. +the priest with a goose feather anointed the boy’s little red and +the priests, rose and offered him her seat; an aide-de-camp picked up +the priests and deacons and some servants also went in at the door. +the pre-eminence. +“the praise of a great commander is a soldier’s highest reward,” +the povarskáya, so well known to all moscow. the countess herself and +the postmaster, his wife, the valet, and a peasant woman selling +the postmaster came in and began obsequiously to beg his excellency to +the postilion started, the carriage wheels rattled. prince hippolyte +the possessor of wealth. how have you used it? what have you done +the portfolio so firmly that it was plain she would not let go easily. +the point of view of the old countess and of society it was out of the +the pleasure of spending the evening with you.” +the plan of operation for the coming campaign. he explained how an army, +the place of mourning for the younger female generation in the rostóv +the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits... there was peace +“the picket is still on the hill, your excellency, just where it was +the people who know of it the less a woman in travail suffers, everyone +the people,” the abbé was saying. “it is only necessary for one +the pávlograd hussars were stationed two miles from braunau. the +“the pávlograd hussars?” he inquired. +the pathetic importance of these last moments of meeting between the +the patches grew deeper on her forehead, neck, and cheeks. she tried to +“the past always seems good,” said he, “but did not suvórov +the party of the young had triumphed. the voices of those who counseled +the pained expression his joke had brought to his sister’s face, he +the pack. much depended on rostóv’s winning or losing on that seven +the other—who with beaming faces had come to see their master making +the other side of the room. “how young-looking he is!” +the other side of the fire, warming his thin yellow body. +the others but win from you. or are you afraid of me?” he asked again. +the others. again someone shouted, “stretchers!” four men seized the +the other, quite a new reflection of the society in which they had taken +the other men in the room, her anxiety could only have reference to +the other, glanced inquiringly with his large, intelligent, kindly eyes +the other committeemen. “there will be many toasts, it’s time to +the other clutched his drooping pistol. his face was pale. rostóv ran +the order was given to halt and down knapsacks. +the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves +the orderlies looked at him as if they wished to impress on him that a +the only young people remaining in the drawing room, not counting the +“the only thing that is hard for me... i will tell you the truth, +the onlookers, “will it be long? are things ready?” +(the one who had paraded his regiment before kutúzov at braunau) that +the one that will result from it will be as victorious! however, dear +the old prince was very affectionate and careful in his treatment of +the old prince. “very, very glad to have seen you,” repeated he, +the old prince stopped writing and, as if not understanding, fixed his +the old princess did not reply, she was tormented by jealousy of her +the old princess came in and also wept. the elderly lady was using +the old prince’s face. +the old prince knew that if he told his daughter she was making a +the old prince first heard of the defeat at austerlitz stated, as usual +the old prince dressed leisurely in his study, frowning and considering +the old prince did not sleep either. tíkhon, half asleep, heard him +the old man was silent. +the old man was in a good temper after his nap before dinner. (he +the old man turned angrily away. +the old man made a departure from his usual routine in honor of his +the old lady. +the old count, the countess, pétya, véra, natásha, and sónya, and +the old count pretended to be angry. +the old countess, not letting go of his hand and kissing it every +the old count cast down his eyes on hearing his son’s words and began +the old aunt received the two young people in her corner, but seemed +the official side of the service. these gentlemen received prince +the officers or adjutants who wandered about in the fog in those unknown +the officers laughed. +the officers got up and stood round the cossacks and their prisoner. +the officers gathered round denísov’s canteen, eating and talking. +the officers as he went: “have these gentlemen attended to and taken +the officers and men of denísov’s squadron, though they tried to talk +the officer glanced at him, and without replying turned again to the +the officer flourished his arm and hastily rode away. +“then you are serving?” +then, wostóv, now then!” +then with the unerring official memory that characterized him he +then with remarks which showed that he was in a good temper. +“then why are you here? you should have gone on long ago, now you +“then when am i to have it?” +“then what is this blood on the gun carriage?” inquired túshin. +the nursery, but sónya was not there either. natásha concluded that +the nurse lit the gilt candles before the icons and sat down by the door +the nurse brought it to him and nodded approval when she told him that +the nurse, as she stood in one of the doorways. +“then tomorrow you will speak to the emperor?” +“then they’ve not gone to bed yet? what do you think? mind now, +then the voice said something more, demyán replied, and the steps in +then that same face pale, quivering, and suffering, as it had been when +then, suddenly spread out in the sunlight, far-distant objects could +then suddenly he realized the joyful significance of that wail; tears +then she smiled again and clutched prince vasíli’s arm more tightly. +then she slipped down among the flowerpots on the other side of the tubs +then quickly glanced at dólokhov and, bending his finger as he had been +then particularly strong. +the novelty anna pávlovna was setting before her guests that evening +the nonsense talked by the austrian generals. shinshín, standing close +the noblest role on earth, and he is so virtuous and noble that god will +then nicholas sang a song he had just learned: +then named prince vasíli in an inquiring whisper, then pointed to the +“then it is certain?” said the prince. +“then i may reckon on it, your excellency?” +“then i’ll have it brought round,” said rostóv wishing to avoid +the night was foggy and through the fog the moonlight gleamed +the night was dark but starry, the road showed black in the snow that +the night ten miles from olmütz and next morning were to come straight +the night he received the news, kutúzov sent bagratión’s vanguard, +then he remained silent for a while, and all at once looked cheerfully +then he recalled the coarseness and bluntness of her thoughts and the +then he did everything so simply and with such assurance!) mademoiselle +the next day the emperor stopped at wischau, and villier, his physician, +the news of count bezúkhov’s death reached us before your letter +the new homestead he was constructing and its buildings, but even here, +the newcomer was a short, large-boned, yellow-faced, wrinkled old +the new campo formio are to be drawn up.” +the nearest soldiers shrank back, the gun driver stopped his horse, but +then detached ideas and impressions from the world of reality shot +then brought back to the general circle. +then, brothers, on to glory, led by father kámenski.” this song had +then both voices together with glad intonations, and then footsteps. +then believe an expert. i have just been talking to dmítri onúfrich” +the nations? adorable! it is enough to make one’s head whirl! it is as +then a thin, pale soldier, his neck bandaged with a bloodstained leg +then appointed to supervise the enrollment decreed throughout russia. +“then am i to order those large sterlets?” asked the steward. +then all will be right, as our bear huntsman at kostromá used to tell +“then allow me to express your regrets, and i am sure your opponent +then a gleam of bayonets; to the left beyond the village similar masses +then a general rode past shouting something angrily, not in russian. +then....” +them, when suddenly, clinking his spurs and spreading out his legs, +the mud off his face with his sleeve. “perched up there, you’re more +them the order to march, thereby indicating that he intended to lead +them taking off his cap) “from his animal condition and awaken in him +them strangely of the little princess. but what was still stranger, +them something funny and kept them amused, while he watched the young +themselves to túshin in all their horror. he had been so excited that +themselves, stifle this remorse and grow callous, as a result of being +themselves quite innocent, and since that day when he was overpowered +themselves, and the reading of the church service, the subdued chanting +themselves and grow more and more miserable.” +them rest and leisure?” said pierre, hurrying and lisping. “and +them—remained for a while without any definite opinion on the subject +them pierre noticed a large cast iron ring with a seal representing a +the mothers, wives, and children of the men who were going and should +the mother smoothed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large + * the most fascinating woman in petersburg. +the morning she told the rostóvs and all her acquaintances the details +the morning of the twentieth, when the memorable battle of austerlitz +the morning, carriages with six horses had been coming and going +them or make them move. on the one hand, the chief steward put the state +the more depressed. +the moment prince andrew entered the room had watched him with glad, +the moment is not bonaparte but buxhöwden. general buxhöwden was all +the moment he heard the firing and the cry from behind, the general +them off, inviting them all to dinner. +them now! and yet really the anxiety is greater now than the joy. one is +them, neither do i condemn them. only it seems to me that christian +them it was difficult to get out again. one was shouting, “get on! +the mist. from information he had received the evening before, from the +the mist, and his cold face wore that special look of confident, +them in the thick fog, the russians exchanged shots with the enemy +the minister of war but also his most august majesty the emperor and +the minister of war.” +the minister and his son had arrived, but the appearance of both had +the mines and blow up the bridge, this sergeant, seeing that the french +the military governor of moscow, who had been assiduous in sending +the mildness of his features, was all the greater. rostóv was happy +them. if he is not rich i will give her the means; i will ask my +the midwife was already on her way to meet her, rubbing her small, plump +the middle of a field without rhyme or reason. it’s all those damned +them!” he reflected. +them from the other end of the corridor, strauch, an austrian general +them from others was the absence of host or hostess and the presence of +the men (the commanders, as we saw at the council of war, were out of +the men and women had separated as in church. all were silently crossing +the men and officers returning spoke of a brilliant victory, of the +the memory of a remote event long past. +the members and guests of the club wandered hither and thither, sat, +the member of the hofkriegsrath looked at him severely but, seeing the +the meeting was at an end, and on reaching home pierre felt as if he had +“the means are ... the balance of power in europe and the rights of +them down! what?...” said rostóv, waking up. at the moment he opened +them curiosity, awe, and even love—a supercilious consciousness of +the mazurka, which was just coming into fashion, were danced. iogel had +the matter depended on my personal wishes, the will of his majesty the +“the master is not in, he’s gone to headquarters,” said +the mason. “yes, i never thought of it, but i have led a contemptible +the mason smiled with his gentle fatherly smile. +the mason’s arguments; he dreaded not to be able to believe in him. +the mason remained silent for a long time, evidently considering. +the mason looked intently at pierre and smiled as a rich man with +the mason did not move and for a long time said nothing after this +the mason cleared his throat huskily, as old men do, and called his + * the marshalls. +them are harmful, especially the women. yes, dear boy,” he continued, +the march: in their greatcoats, and packs, and without any preparation +the man was wearing a bluish coat of broadcloth, he had no knapsack +the manly voice again interrupted the artillery officer. +them, and understood that it was useless and even cruel to insist. +them, and she doubts the means we have of gaining them. that is the +them, and reads those from the emperor addressed to others. ‘ah! so +them. and among all these faces that he found so tedious, none seemed +the manager of all his affairs, and while looking with pleasure at the +them. all eyes fastened involuntarily on this french column advancing +the maintenance of the balance of power of europe, and it would save the +the magnificent reception room was crowded. everyone stood up +them.” +the loss of prince andrew had reached bald hills, and in spite of the +“the lord be thanked, yes!” +the look she felt upon her made that world still more poetic. but +the long german carts six or more pale, dirty, bandaged men were being +the lodge, told the password, and at last was permitted to sit down. +the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. and +the living charm of her neck and shoulders, so near to his lips that +the lively song gave a special flavor to the tone of free and easy +the liveliness of a fourteen-year-old boy, and yet it was the face +the little town could be seen with its white, red-roofed houses, its +the little princess went round the table with quick, short, swaying +the little princess talked incessantly, her short, downy upper lip +the little princess, taking the dress from the maid, came up to princess +the little princess. she felt, as courtiers do when the tsar enters, the +the little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, +the little princess lay supported by pillows, with a white cap on her +the little princess lay in the armchair, mademoiselle bourienne chafing +the little princess, kissing her. “i know you already through my +the little princess had grown stouter during this time, but her eyes +the little princess had also left the tea table and followed hélène. +the little princess grumbled to her maid that her bed was badly made. +the little princess got up, rang for the maid, and hurriedly and merrily +the little princess entered the room. the passage broke off in the +the little princess during the whole discussion and the rest of +the little princess did not, or did not wish to, hear his words. she was +the little princess and mademoiselle bourienne had already received + * the little one is charming. +the little kitten, feasting her eyes on him, seemed ready at any moment +the line that had so sharply divided the two armies?” he asked himself +the lines and an adjutant ran to look for the missing officer. +the line of retreat on the left by the french. however inconvenient the +“the limits of human life ... are fixed and may not be +the lieutenant never looked the man he was speaking to straight in the +the letter was old, having been written before the battle at +the letter away, and leaning his elbows on the table he drew toward him +the left! wait a bit.” but the soldiers, crowded together shoulder to +the left, the firing became more distinct. kutúzov had stopped and was +the left-flank columns had already descended. +the left, and took up the bottle. anatole brought two candles and +the latter lay silent in the sleigh with closed eyes and did not answer +the latter began to feel that it was in bad taste to speak of his +the late emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the king of prussia.’ he is +the last syllable of the general’s name like a frenchman, “has been +the last post station but one before moscow, denísov had drunk three +the last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing +the last of the horse guards, a huge pockmarked fellow, frowned angrily +the large table covered with books and plans, the tall glass-fronted +the large drawing room. prince vasíli came up to pierre with languid +the landing. “i’d better go to my own room.” +the landing below, philip, the footman, stood looking scared and holding +the kitchen would have cared to eat, so anna pávlovna served up to +their woman’s way! i am glad to have her. sit down and talk. about +their way to negotiate with prince auersperg. he lets them enter the +their thick, bushy eyebrows sternly scanned all present and rested on +their seats, went up to “congratulate” the countess, and reached +their sabers catching in the bridles and their spurs jingling, the +their places, and one of them read an exhortation on the necessity of +their own resources what might be needed for the success of the fete. +their own form of government; and i believe that once free from the +their name and my own i hold out a brotherly hand to you.” +their musical talent, to sing something. natásha, who was treated as +their meaning but must keep them. the second pair of man’s gloves +their marriage, with bare shoulders and a languid, passionate look on +their long hair falling over their magnificent glittering vestments, +their journey. she answered him and continued her chatter. +their guns, were running toward him. he also saw french infantry +their grief in their own way. the old prince would not cherish any hope: +their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company +their faces was a quiet and solemn look. +their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for +their courage before him. +their conversation would probably have been different but for the effect +their cleanliness and discipline. they had come by easy stages, their +their bayonets and guns. +their battery a milk-white cloud arose. then came the distant report of +their adjutants had come to witness the curious phenomenon of the +the intellectual lights of petersburg were gathered there and, like a +the inlaid portfolio. pierre signed the deed and after that the princess +the inhabitants of the district. +the infantry who had been stopped crowded near the bridge in the +the infantry regiments that had been caught unawares in the outskirts +the imposing figure of nesvítski followed by his cossack, and +the idea of defeat and flight could not enter rostóv’s head. though +the icon stand. to her surprise and distress she found that her prayers +the icons, as though declaring to all that she could not answer for +the icons and there was a pleasant scent of flowers and burnt pastilles. +the ice gave way under one of the foremost soldiers, and one leg slipped +the ice bore him but it swayed and creaked, and it was plain that it +the hussars ran back to the men who held their horses; their voices +the hussar shouted back. +the hussars crowded round and responded heartily with loud shouts. +the hussars.” +the hussar only sighed without replying and coughed angrily. the sound +the hussar did not reply. +the house where the commander in chief was. +“the hours are the same, and the lathe, and also the mathematics and +the horses’ croups began to sway in the front line. rook pulled at the +the horse guards were galloping, but still holding in their horses. +the horse guards. +the hope of an alliance with her. +“the hoof’s cracked! that’s nothing. i’ll teach you what to do +the honor of the flag... well, never mind, it’s true i’m to blame, +the honor of being received, that i have not yet had time to think of +the honor, but i shall never be your son’s wife.” +the homestead consisted of a threshing floor, outhouses, stables, a +the hollow the less they could see but the more they felt the nearness +the hofkriegsrath and both emperors took part. at that council, contrary +the hill not to go beyond the stream, but rostóv pretended not to hear +the high-shouldered figure of zherkóv, familiar to the pávlograds as +“the highest wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those +the highest wisdom has but one science—the science of the whole—the +“the highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish +the highest law thou shalt regain traces of the ancient dignity which +the heavy standard, he ran forward with full confidence that the whole +the head that he was considering this information. +the headquarters were situated two miles away from salzeneck, and +“the head of the garrison at glogau, with ten thousand men, asks the +the head of the column had already descended into the hollow. the clash +the handsome young emperor alexander, in the uniform of the horse +the handsome véra, who produced such an irritating and unpleasant +the handsome véra smiled contemptuously but did not seem at all hurt. +the hand nor a single muscle of the count’s face stirred. once more +the hall porter sullenly pulled a bell that rang upstairs, and turned +the hall porter, “i know count cyril vladímirovich is very ill... +the half-closed eyes was there greedily gnawing a mutton bone, and the +the hair was wet, so profusely had the child perspired. he was not dead, +the gunners who had seized it straining to roll it quickly back to its +the guests. to each of them he made some careless and agreeable remark +the guests, knowing of the affair with the bear, looked with curiosity +the guests got up and took their leave, promising to return to dinner. +the guards to the field of battle, afraid of letting a ready victim +the guards had made their whole march as if on a pleasure trip, parading +the guards had gone to the front; dólokhov had been reduced to the +the group round mortemart to listen to what was being said there, and +the ground, as a heavy fire had been opened on him and he was losing +the greatest war there ever was, and i know nothing and am fit for +the greater part of the men had to halt and an unpleasant consciousness +the gray-haired valet was sitting drowsily listening to the snoring of +the grand master rapped with his mallet. all the masons sat down in +the grand master proposed that the last duty should be performed, +the grand master began reading the statutes. they were very long, and +the grand cross of maria theresa, and the whole army received rewards. +the good-natured iogel, flying about like a feather and bowing according +the good-natured expression still more apparent, and gazed at his friend +the glory of our arms and of the day’s work, they assumed a serious +the gleaming icons stood a long invalid chair, and in that chair +the girls sprang aside. denísov hid his hairy legs under the blanket, +the girl smiled and took it. nesvítski like the rest of the men on the +the gesture of a man too busy to lose a moment, glanced at kutúzov and, +the german village of salzeneck. the best quarters in the village were +the german laughed, came out of the cowshed, pulled off his cap, and +the german landlord. +the german closed his eyes, signifying that he did not understand. +the gentlemen of the tsar’s suite by his poor french. +the gentlemen assembled at bilíbin’s were young, wealthy, gay society +the gentlemen around. +the gentlemen and mademoiselle bourienne rose and the little princess, +the general, who looked through his field glass. +the general... third company to the commander.” the words passed along +the general, the men themselves not knowing what, or why, they were +the generals were passing by, looking as if they wished to avoid +the general state of affairs which was far from satisfactory. +the generals seemed to listen reluctantly to the difficult dispositions. +the general’s face clouded, his lips quivered and trembled. he took +the general pleasure and disappoint everyone’s expectation. prince +the general had so wished to do this and was so sorry he had not managed +the general had a fit of coughing as a result of shouting and of the +the general frowned, turned away, and went on. +the general frowned. though there was no definite news of an austrian +the gates, a group of undertakers, who hid whenever a carriage drove up, +the game continued; a waiter kept handing round champagne. +the full significance of the words he heard. +the fulfillment of duty, he rose to see some visitors off and, stroking +the front. i held my sword in my left hand, count. all our family—the +the front, but at dürrenstein, where i was, our attack began after +the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that +the friends were silent. neither cared to begin talking. pierre +the french with his whole army was impossible. the road for the french +the french, who had ceased firing at this field strewn with dead and +the french were firing, and he felt his heart palpitating as he rode +the french were already near. prince andrew, walking beside bagratión, +the french, the spy reported, having crossed the vienna bridge, were +the french sentences which to them were meaningless, with an air of +the french onlookers and listeners laughed. +the frenchman langeron, kutúzov’s incapacity, and (it was whispered) +“the french have abandoned the left bank?” +the french had time to fire three rounds of grapeshot before the hussars +the french had been repulsed for the last time. and again and again in +the french had attacked the battery and, seeing kutúzov, were firing +the french guns were hastily reloaded. the infantry in their blue +the french grenadier. +the french, galloped along the front as hard as his horse could go, but +the french dragoon was a young alsatian who spoke french with a german +the french and lay down their arms at the first demand. +the french, after crossing the bridge at vienna, were advancing in +the forests in the province of kostromá, the land lower down the river, +the foremost, wearing a cossack cloak and lambskin cap and riding a +the foremost frenchman, the one with the hooked nose, was already so +the foreman of a spinning mill, when he has set the hands to work, goes +the foreboding of evil that had suddenly come over rostóv was more and +the fog had grown so dense that though it was growing light they could +the fog had begun to clear and enemy troops were already dimly visible +the flagstaff that had been dropped beside him. (the flag had already +the first words he heard on coming to his senses were those of a french +the first to seize the surrendering french officer by his collar. our +the first to catch his eye. he sent him. +the first time. sometimes that same look fell on pierre, and that funny +the first second. “a baby? what baby...? why is there a baby there? or +“the first man that turns up—she forgets her father and everything +the first door on the left led into the princesses’ apartments. the +the first couple. noiselessly, skillfully stepping with his little +the fires and shouting in the enemy’s army were occasioned by the fact +the fire of life had seemed extinguished, now flashed with brilliant +the field of battle, who though still in some confusion were less +“the field marshal is angry with the emperor and he punishes us all, +the felt boots approached the unseen bend of the staircase more rapidly. +the feeling, “it has begun! here it is!” was seen even on prince +the feather bed. natásha began consoling her, but her face showed that +the fate of battles had arrived. would this disorderly crowd of soldiers +the farther he went the more disorganized they were. the highroad on +the farther forward and nearer the enemy he went, the more orderly and +(the family solicitor) “and he says the same.” +the familiar staircase. the well-known old door handle, which always +the fall of austria’s capital. “how is it vienna was taken? what of +“the fact of the matter is,” said she significantly, and also in a +the face that emerged from the shirt. +the faces of officers and men brightened up at the sound. everyone got +the face of the little princess changed. she sighed and said: “yes, +the face of each soldier and each officer seemed to say. +the face and figure of prince andrew, in a fur cloak the deep collar of +the eyes of the guardsman’s horse. the heavy black horse, sixteen +the eyes of the general and the soldier met. the general became silent, +the expression she saw on the maid of honor’s face, and again relapsed +the experience of old cunctators.” +the exercise book containing geometrical figures. +“the execution of the duc d’enghien,” declared monsieur pierre, +“the exchange horses have just come,” answered the servant. “will +the evening again turned to borís, asking him in a tone of caressing +the epistles and gospels. let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries +the entrenchment, and went on again. just behind it they came upon some +the enormous study was full of things evidently in constant use. +the enormously high study door opened and showed the figure of a rather +the enns and the danube became visible, and the rocky left bank of the +the english will come off badly, you know, if napoleon gets across the +the englishman took out his purse and began counting out the money. +the englishman nodded, but gave no indication whether he intended to +the enemy’s fires, but heard the shouting of the french more loudly +“the enemy is still far away, your excellency. according to the +“the enemy has quenched his fires and a continual noise is heard from +the enchanted circle i cannot escape from. i am now going to the war, +the emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of +the emperor turned with a smile to one of his followers and made a +“the emperor! the emperor!” was suddenly heard among the hussars. +the emperor thanked prince andrew and bowed. prince andrew withdrew and +the emperor’s voice. +the emperor’s suite. one officer told rostóv that he had seen someone +the emperor’s severity regarding duels at that time, neither the +the emperor spoke to him most graciously. annette and i were speaking of +the emperor’s horse started at the sudden cry. this horse that had +the emperor interrupted him. +the emperor immediately!” thought rostóv and galloped on. +the emperor. he felt that this nearness by itself made up to him for the +the emperor, frowning slightly, bent his ear forward as if he had not +the emperor drew level with rostóv and halted. alexander’s face was +the emperor, and a thousand reasons occurred to him why it would be +“the emperor alexander,” said she, with the melancholy which +the emperor alexander and the king of prussia in berlin? if prussia +the emperor about him; so that in the case of his death—and he is +the eldest princess paused in her reading and silently stared at him +the elders began talking about bonaparte. julie karágina turned to +the elderly lady was a princess drubetskáya, belonging to one of the +“the eighteenth.” +the efforts of the old count, and instead of being degraded to the ranks +the ebb and flow of these sounds. + the earth by english gold, we shall cause to share the same +thee, and even in those blasphemous words thou hast just uttered!” +the duties of wife and mother upon me i shall try to perform them as +the dull, sleepy expression was no longer there, nor the affectation +the duel with nesvítski, bezúkhov’s second. pierre went home, but +the duel between pierre and dólokhov was hushed up and, in spite of +the drawing room. he evidently tried to find something to say, but +“the doubt is flattering,” said “the man of profound intellect,” +the doorway appeared a student with a crimson coat collar, an officer +the door, was sitting at the table in a persian dressing gown, writing. +the door; the scream ceased and he heard the wail of an infant. +the door himself behind him. +the door and as soon as it opened his rough old arms closed like a vise +the door. +the doctor glanced at his watch. +the doctor entered. prince andrew went out and, meeting princess mary, +the doctor cast a rapid glance upwards and silently shrugged his +“the divine mercy is inexhaustible! unction is about to be +the dispositions were very complicated and difficult. they began as +the dispositions or anything else—he was engaged in satisfying the +“the dispositions!” exclaimed kutúzov bitterly. “who told you +the disordered battalion and at the enemy, “what’s that?” +the dinner sat silent, glancing with a frightened look now at her +“the devil skin your emperor.” +“the devil only knows what they’re about!” muttered denísov. +“the devil only knows! they say so.” +“the devil knows! they’ve killed everybody! it’s all up now!” +the determination of denísov who flourished his sword and shouted +the deep wet snow between the place where they had been standing and +the declaration from petersburg gave him particular pleasure, and that +the decisive point, and gains the victory alone. “but death and +the day. that’s what keeping one’s head means. that’s the way, +the day after the review, borís, in his best uniform and with his +the day after rostóv had been to see borís, a review was held of the +the day after he had been received into the lodge, pierre was sitting at +the darkness. this was the last french attack and was met by soldiers +the dam, the pond, and the bank. +the crystal decanters and fruit vases, the count kept glancing at his +the crowd, pushing forward desperately, squeezed together, moved a few +the crowd of retreating soldiers, ordering them back. bagratión rode up +the crowd moved on again. nesvítski realized that it was a cannon ball. +the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his +the count went in first with márya dmítrievna, the countess followed +the count was delighted at anna mikháylovna’s taking upon herself one +the count was beginning to breathe heavily and quickly which was always +the count walked up and down the hall in his dressing gown, giving +the count sobbed yet more. +the count put his ear to the keyhole and listened. +the count, my uncle; but you, my dear, had better go to pierre meanwhile +the count jumped up and, swaying from side to side, spread his arms wide +“the count is suffering physically and mentally, and apparently you +the count, holding his cards fanwise, kept himself with difficulty from +the countess, with a smile. +the countess was upset by her friend’s sorrow and humiliating poverty, +the countess was a woman of about forty-five, with a thin oriental type +the countess tried to frown, but could not. márya dmítrievna shook her +“the countess told me to inquire whether your excellency was at +the countess shrugged her shoulders. +the countess had been prepared by anna mikháylovna’s hints at dinner. +the countess glanced at her silent son. +the countess’ eyes filled with tears and she pondered in silence. +the countess exchanged glances with anna mikháylovna. the latter +the countess did not believe her ears. denísov had proposed. to whom? +the countess as her mother and called her so) “that i am spoiling +the countess; about 70,000 went for interest on debts. the building of a +the count, dying with laughter. +the count danced well and knew it. but his partner could not and did not +the count considered. +the count came waddling in to see his wife with a rather guilty look as +the count burst out laughing. the other guests seeing that shinshín +the count and at anna mikháylovna, the latter very adroitly turned +the council of war was just over when prince andrew accompanied +the council of war, at which prince andrew had not been able to +the cot where she was standing, “better wait a bit... later...” +the cot. he did not look round, but still gazing at the infant’s face +the cossacks sold the horse for two gold pieces, and rostóv, being the +the copse across which our men, regardless of orders, were running and +the convoy officer. +the conversation was hushed. +the conversation to insignificant matters. natásha, who, of the whole +the conversation did not flag all evening and turned chiefly on the +the conversation broke up into insignificant small talk about the last +the conversation, “almost all the aristocracy has already gone over to +the contempt with which rostóv, from his fighting army point of view, +the concentrated activity which had begun at the emperor’s +the complete darkness túshin’s guns moved forward, surrounded by the +the company commander might get killed and he, as senior in the company, +the command of the left flank belonged by seniority to the commander of +the command of the army to general buxhöwden. during this interregnum +the commander with a tone of suffering in his voice, while there were +the commander of the regiment was an elderly, choleric, stout, and +the commander of the regiment turned to prince bagratión, entreating +the commander of the regiment, a thin, feeble-looking old man with a +the commander of the dragoons had already retreated beyond the dip in +the commander of the company, with his eyes fixed on his superior, +the commander in chief would inspect the regiment on the march. though +the commander in chief’s one sound eye showed him to be so preoccupied +the commander in chief, kutúzov. +the commander in chief is expected and you leave your place? eh? i’ll +“the commander in chief is engaged,” said kozlóvski, going +“the commander in chief is engaged,” repeated kozlóvski calmly. +the combatants advanced along the trodden tracks, nearer and nearer to +the column, gave him the order to advance. +the colonel was a stout, tall, plethoric german, evidently devoted to +the colonel told them that the declaration of war had already appeared +the colonel rode to the front, angrily gave some reply to questions put +the colonel looked silently at the officer of the suite, at the stout +the colonel deliberately stopped the regiment and turned to nesvítski. +the colonel, closely—to find in his face confirmation of his own +the cold wind, swarmed in these earthworks like a host of white ants; +the cold, austere tone of this man, whom he had almost always before met +the coin was a new one. rostóv rose and went up to telyánin. +the coach with six horses was waiting at the porch. it was an autumn +the club cook and the steward listened to the count’s orders with +the cloak they spread under him was wet with blood which stained his +the climate,” said he. +the clever though shy, but observant and natural, expression which +the cleverest among them, including the chief steward, understood from +the clear blue eyes looked at the commander in chief just as boldly as +the clavichord, sang the tune. bolkónski was not there. none of these +the child moved slightly in his sleep, smiled, and rubbed his forehead +the chief steward, who considered the young count’s attempts almost +the chief steward expressed great sympathy with pierre’s intentions, +the chief steward, a very stupid but cunning man who saw perfectly +the cheerful mood of their officers after the inspection infected the +the cheerful glitter of that autumn day was in keeping with the news of +the cheeks, the same expression was on her charming childlike face with +the chantry long before, but that nine tenths of the peasants in that +the chanting of the service ceased, and the voice of the priest was +the changed expression on prince bagratión’s face at this moment. it +the chair for her. +the center of the russian army, and that that center was already +the cause of the confusion was that while the austrian cavalry was +the cause of justice against the enemy of the human race. anna pávlovna +the cause of his grief. +the case is this: you ought to have thought the matter over and +the case, hesitated about lifting the injured or dead. the soldiers, +the carved back of a velvet chair he had turned round for the purpose, +the carriage as pale as anything. how they made the four black horses +the care of a skillful rider and, slightly bending over, disengaged his +the card tables were drawn out, sets made up for boston, and the +the campfire. they were quarreling and fighting desperately, each trying +the campaign and the two battles in which he had taken part, and his +the cadet was rostóv. with one hand he supported the other; he was +“‘the brook,’” suggested nicholas. +the brilliant surroundings in which he had last met his friend in +the bridge unobserved, flings the bags of incendiary material into +the bridges were strong and had handrails. everything bore an impress of +the bridge, for the horizon as seen from the valley through which the +the bridge chased each other along. looking on the bridge he saw equally +the bridge and not let us cross? but it will please our sovereign the +the bridge and its celebrated bridgehead and prince auersperg? we heard +the bridge. +the bottle of rum was brought. the window frame which prevented anyone +the boots. +the book was the gospel, and the white thing with the lamp inside was a +the bonfires of our infantry who were felling wood. the french line was +the bonfire, and addressing túshin asked him to have the guns moved a +the bohemian mountains with. it’s a bad lookout, old fellow! but +the black, hairy, snub-nosed face of váska denísov, and his whole +the bigwigs who guided the club’s opinion reappeared, and everybody +the better. but bogdánich, without looking at or recognizing rostóv, +the best post he could—preferably that of adjutant to some important +the best maroon dress, and so on, all would be well. they forgot that +“the berlin cabinet cannot express a feeling of alliance,” began +the bedchamber. the diplomatic career now lies open before you.” +the beauty went to the aunt, but anna pávlovna detained pierre, looking +the battle of schön grabern than you do now,” said his son with a +the battle had begun! prince andrew turned his horse and galloped back +the battlefield, believed that the french had been defeated and were +the battery to retire as quickly as possible. when the supports attached +the battalion commander perceived the jovial irony and laughed. +the battalion commander. “oh, my god!” he added, stepping resolutely +the baron. +the band struck up the newly introduced mazurka. nicholas could not +the band immediately struck up “conquest’s joyful thunder +the bald head. véra, natásha, sónya, and pétya now entered the room, +the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young +the baggage wagons had all crossed, the crush was less, and the last +the austrian general looked dissatisfied, but had no option but to reply +the austrian adjutant, he addressed bolkónski. +the attack of the sixth chasseurs secured the retreat of our right +theater, where he had been with his family and denísov. he was at once +the artillerymen were still as merry and lively as ever. twice they +the arrival of the rest of the troops who were on their way from vienna, +the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both +the army was a great grief to me. this young man, of whom i spoke to you +the army now that it is in danger. i understand that. mon cher, it is +the army considerably. throughout the whole army and at headquarters +the army, and about whom natásha had teased her elder sister véra, +the armistice immediately and march on the enemy. inform him that the +the architect. +the archduke ferdinand and mack, and kutúzov, not considering this +the archduchy of austria, and yet other regiments freshly arriving from +“the Ápsherons must be stopped, your excellency,” cried he. but at +the appointed place. +the anteroom. “i can’t remain any longer in petersburg. tell me what +the animated hum of several conversations. at one end of the table, the +“the ammunition for the guns in position is exhausted, your +the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that is how +the aide-de-camp with a respectful politeness evidently relating to the +the aide-de-camp was sent to confirm the order which had not been +the agility with which he capered about on his light feet, márya +the affair had come to an actual duel). “you know, count, it is much +the affair, and like everyone in similar cases, did not yet believe that +the advantages are far less than in the infantry. just consider my own +the advanced army. prince andrew bolkónski came into the room with the +the adoration then common in moscow for the emperor, who was spoken of +the adjutant on duty,” said the official. “he will conduct you to +the adjutant on duty, meeting prince andrew, asked him to wait, and went +the adjutant and the minister. “away from the smell of powder, they +the address. “this letter would be of great use to you.” +the act of falling asleep. rostóv lifted his head that had sunk almost +the accurate way characteristic of him, was building a little pyramid of +the accountant with the naïve face was feeling its texture, shaking his +the abbé morio and many others had also come. +the abbé. another, of young people, was grouped round the beautiful +the 18th brumaire; was not that an imposture? it was a swindle, and not +thawing in the sunshine, the horses galloped quickly, and on both sides +that year to moreau to enter the russian service.... “wonderful!... +that year, as all his estates had been remortgaged, and so nicholas, +“that would take too long to tell,” answered the son. +“that would be fine, gentlemen!” +“that would be a fine thing!” said she. “i never wanted anything +that will decide the matter, but those who devised it,” said bilíbin +that white spot. “i expect it’s snow... that spot... a spot—une +that while napoleon’s proclamation was being read to the troops the + that while her fingers touch the harp +that which had said: “the pávlograd hussars?” +that where the steward had shown him in the accounts that the serfs’ +that were so agonizingly, incessantly pulling and pressing his arm and +that were arriving from russia. if kutúzov decided to remain at krems, +that were afloat, and so kutúzov’s suggestion of an austrian victory +that was swaying from its weight in prince andrew’s hands, but he +that was not pretty, but neither mademoiselle bourienne nor the little +that was good. +that was dispersing on the hill lay still more densely below, where they +“that was a nice snub for the little aide-de-camp,” came a voice +“that was a daniel cooper!” exclaimed márya dmítrievna, tucking up +that village, amid the smoke, was something resembling a battery, but it +that very instant a cloud of smoke spread all round, firing was heard +that tonight he was a person obliged to perform some sort of awful +that those broad-boned reddish hands with hairy wrists visible from +that they may run smoothly. +that they despaired of the possibility of checking this disorder. +that they are to cross last and to fire the bridge as i ordered; and the +that the strange lady, the aide-de-camp, and some of the servants, all +that the story about sergéy kuzmích, the laughter, and the food +that these thoughts had been suggested to prince andrew by his +that there were no political difficulties in europe and no real war, +that the question of his wife’s guilt which had been tormenting him +that the pupils’ parents wept at having to let him take their children +that the prince was in a bad humor, stood awaiting him; mademoiselle +that the ismáylov regiment was quartered for the night ten miles from +that the hussars must return quickly and fire the bridge.’” +“that the emperor will meet me and give me an order as he would to any +that the corsican monster who is destroying the peace of europe may +that’s why i have come... i am a relation. i shall not disturb him, +that’s what i did.” +“that’s what comes of a modern education,” exclaimed the visitor. +that surrounded the emperors. +that sum. “he’s begun to go a little lame on the left foreleg,” he +“that’s twue, devil take it!” shouted denísov, jumping up. “now +“that’s true!” +that stood before his plate, pierre held out one at random and drank +that’s the way they treat me! no confidence in me! ah, ordered to keep +that state of mind which makes everything seem possible, pleasant, and +“that’s so, your excellency, all they have to do is to eat a good +that’s our house,” said rostóv. “of course, it’s our house! +“that’s our battery,” said the staff officer indicating the +that sort of thing.” +that sort of man), he gave borís a pleasant smile, frowned as with +that soldier passed on, and after him came another sitting on a cart. +“that’s not the point, my dear.” +that’s not it—that’s tomorrow. oh yes! natásha... sabretache... +that smile was immediately reflected on pierre’s face. +that sleep is more important than anything,” whispered princess mary +“that’s just it, my dear fellow. you see it’s hurrah for the tsar, +“that’s just it,” interrupted dolgorúkov quickly, laughing. +“that’s just it,” answered bilíbin. “listen! the french entered +“that’s it, that’s it!” exclaimed the count, and gaily seizing +that’s it.” and with a complacent sigh he would return to the +“that’s how we used to dance in our time, ma chère,” said the +that showed that his father’s foibles did not prevent his son from +that she winced and uttered a cry. +that she had not intended her flight to bring her so far. behind her in +“that’s for them all,” he said to the officer who came up. +“that’s fine,” said he. +“that’s capital; of course she’ll forget her childish promises +“that’s better, count,” said the staff captain, beginning to +“that’s a miwacle.” +that same night, rostóv was with a platoon on skirmishing duty in front +that same night, having taken leave of the minister of war, bolkónski +that same evening there was to be one of the balls that iogel (the +that same evening there was an animated discussion among the +that same day a council of war had been held in which all the members of +“that’s all right. no one thinks you a coward, but that’s not the +“that’s a good thing, but don’t move from prince vasíli’s. it +“that’s a fine death!” said napoleon as he gazed at bolkónski. +“that’s admirable!” he shouted. “he will take you with your + * “that russian army which has been brought from the ends of +that remained uninjured out of the four, they began moving down the hill +that provisions are supplied and the routes indicated,” said bilíbin, +that princess mary in this guise looked very plain, worse than usual, +that pierre could no longer see the reddish-yellow face with its gray +that peculiar expression of polite weariness which plainly says, “if +“that passion which more than all others caused you to waver on the +that passionate animal feeling which was apt to master him with great +that on receiving news of the defeat some would simply not believe it, +that one also passed. then followed a cart unlike any that had gone +that not even a continuity of most brilliant successes would secure +that never does any harm,” thought anatole. +that negotiations for peace were already proceeding, and that he +that more irritating news than yours could not have been conceived. +that month and a half while he felt himself drawn nearer and nearer to +that moment pierre felt that hélène not only could, but must, be his +that moment his home life, jokes with pétya, talks with sónya, duets +that moment been wounded and his face showed fear rather than suffering. +that moment a third enemy rises before us—namely the orthodox russian +that moment after supper at prince vasíli’s, when he spoke those +that makes me unhappy. but even in this i can see lately a shade of +“that letter was written, though it was not sent, and the emperor knew +that led to his own apartments. +that kutúzov’s upper lip twitched unnaturally as he said the +that?... kindly do as you are ordered.” +that i would give my life twice over...” he looked at the countess, +that i was ungrateful, and that mamma would never allow him to marry +that it would be a bad thing), but he knew it would happen. +that it was not she but he was so unusually beautiful, and that that was +that it was impossible to stop them, spurred his horse and rode to the +that it seemed to be made of one piece with her head and covered with +that it might not occur to her to speak of his share in the affair of +that it is we who lost the battle of pultúsk. in short, we retreat +that it is more dangerous to run away than to advance, but that russian +that is, you want to raise him” (pointing to a peasant who passed by +“that is, with ilyá rostóv who married nataly shinshiná,” said +“that is why i beg to be sent to that detachment,” he said. +“that is what we shall see! that is what we shall see!” he added +“that is what i ask you. no one, not even bonaparte, knows why.” +that is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. it is the one +that is still too fresh. ah, dear friend, you are happy not to know +“that is probably the work of vinesse,” said pierre, mentioning +that is not yet ready. +“that is no business of mine,” he thought. he had not ridden many +“that is just why i do not begin, sire,” said kutúzov in a +“that is enough for me,” said sónya, blushing. +“that is doubtful,” said prince andrew. “monsieur le vicomte quite +“that is all nonsense.” prince andrew again interrupted him, “let +that in this world there is neither honor nor justice. in this world one +that instant the trooper nikítenko, who was galloping ahead, shot away +that in spite of all the unpleasantness he had to endure he would still +that insignificant society people might carry them from drawing room to +that imprint of newness found in the households of the newly married. +that i’m a sharper, so i advise you to be careful.” +that—if you consider yourself bound by your promise—it will seem as +that if he asked on behalf of all who begged of him, he would soon be +that i do not like him.” +that i am saying!” thought a diplomatist, glancing at the happy faces +that his remarks were too enthusiastic and emphatic for the occasion and +that his heart stood still. his hand trembled as he gave his horse into +that he would have to answer it justly, and justice clashed not only +that he was dangerously wounded. +that he was at the front and in the power of a man toward whom he now +that he too seemed ashamed of the hussar of the line. +that hesitation lasted only an instant. the tsar’s foot, in the narrow +that he should do the same. the rider, whose figure seemed familiar +“that here lives count cyril vladímirovich bezúkhov so rich, all +that he ought to avoid her and go away, pierre, despite that decision, +that he is probably tired of them,” said another officer. +that he had composed in his imagination could he now recall. those +that he fell off his horse and sprained his arm and then ran as hard as +that he decided to go. the thought immediately occurred to him that his +that he could not believe his eyes. “who are they? why are they +that, hearing he was in a bad humor, she had decided not to appear. +that had tormented him all dinnertime rose and took possession of him. +that had placed the vienna bridge in the hands of the french without +that had already once been given in detail: “and tell the hussars +that had advanced beyond the village went back; but as though in revenge +that god who has been sewn into this amulet by mary! there is nothing +that friendship?” remarked the count in an inquiring tone. +that for an instant). why should he not love her now, and even marry +that fat one in spectacles” (that was how pétya described his +that explained their teaching by hieroglyphics. a hieroglyph,” said +that everything was splendid. “just fancy: wants to be an hussar. +that everything done by necessity, by accident, or by the will of +that, even more than in moscow, he felt a sense of bewilderment, bustle, +that evening to bid a last farewell to the celebrated grandee of +that evening, proud of dólokhov’s proposal, her refusal, and her +that end and when did this new, terrible state of things begin? what +that dread of beaten tracks, and wish to express itself in a manner +that dreadful abyss, pierre said to himself: “what am i doing? i need +“that dólokhov was my lover,” she said in french with her coarse +that divine purity and devotion i look for in women. if i found such a +that dinner was ready! the door opened, and from the dining room came +that day nicholas rostóv received a letter from borís, telling him +that day, but had heard about them from an infantry officer. “they +that could save the army, and how he alone would be entrusted with the +that column himself. when he had reached the village of pratzen he +that came upon him at hollabrünn, which was clearly impossible. but +that both her slender bare arms clasped him above his neck, and, tossing +that between the person they so address and themselves there are some +that army: a feeling of self-forgetfulness, a proud consciousness of +that anna mikháylovna whom i would not take for a housemaid... the +that all europe is powerless before him.... and i don’t believe a +that afternoon. she felt that as she brought with her the person the +that affair for me and i shall always be your most devoted slave-slafe +“that abbé is very interesting but he does not see the thing in the +that. +than with politics,” said he in his quiet ironical tone. “i know +than the other; the serfs everywhere seemed thriving and touchingly +than once. “you know it won’t do to leave your posts like this. +“thank you; you saved me, my dear fellow!” said túshin. +thank you! you must have a rest. be at the levee tomorrow after the +thank you with my whole heart.” to rostóv every word sounded like a +“thank you very much, prince,” answered one of the officers, pleased +“thank you very much, i will go on alone,” said prince andrew, +“thank you, my dear.” she kissed him on the forehead and sat down +thanks to princess lise’s voice and little downy lip that lifted over +thanks to anna mikháylovna’s efforts, his own tastes, and the +“thank god!” said the voice. “and father?” +“thank god!” said sónya, crossing herself. “but perhaps she +“thank god!” said prince vasíli. “my wife has told me +“thank god,” said his son smiling. +“thank god!” +thanked,” thought the overseer, “the storm has blown over!” +thanked him for his love. his looks thanked her for offering him his +than five hundred paces from where kutúzov was standing, a dense french +than a yard above the glow of the charcoal. flakes of falling snow were +than anything else showed pierre her superiority. she was right in +than a man who has been looking at a tuft of steppe grass through the +than a hundred cannon were already in the hands of the french. +tête-de-pont. * they spin him a thousand gasconades, saying that +terribly true. i pity prince vasíli but am still more sorry for pierre. +terrible voice that the whole house heard it with horror. god knows what +terrible pain of being lifted onto the stretcher, the jolting while +terrible news from her till after her confinement, which was expected +terrible dragon, a lady distinguished not for wealth or rank, but for +terrible dividing line of uncertainty and fear—resembling the line +terrible, and now he has this authority of a commander in chief of +terrible and holy secrets of providence while we remain in this flesh +ten minutes later lavrúshka brought the coffee. “he’s coming!” +ten minutes. and that it will not be too dull, here is the dear count +tenderly sad voice, she said: +tenacious endurance and vigor of hardy old age. after a few more turns +temptation she slipped quietly behind one of the columns. in the midst +temper made him specially annoyed at prince vasíli’s visit, he was +temper because prince vasíli was coming, or whether his being in a bad +telyánin was sitting in the same indolent pose in which rostóv had +telyánin, taking up his cap and moving toward a small empty room. “we +telyánin’s orderly. “has something happened?” he added, surprised +telyánin, and he went out to give the order. +telyánin. +telyánin. +tell you for the tenth time that if the letter to the emperor and the +tell the truth. +“tell these devils, these fiends, to let me pass!” shouted denísov +“tell them to give me a seat, for god’s sake!” +tell the little countess!” +“tell me, when did the battle begin?” he asked hurriedly. +“tell me, my dear,” said she to natásha, “is mimi a relation of +tell me,” he added with studied carelessness as if it had only just +“tell me about that!” he said. +telling me what forces are being collected against him! while you and i +telling him. +telling her things. she has had a dream and is frightened.” +tell everything just as it happened, but imperceptibly, involuntarily, +“tell bezúkhov to come. i’ll put his name down. is his wife with +teeth, he began with stubby fingers of both hands to ruffle up his thick +teatime she would prepare the countess, and after tea, with god’s +tears.” +tears. +teach you to dress the men in fancy coats for a parade.... eh...?” +teacher’s fault or the pupil’s, this same thing happened every day: +tea?” asked his valet. +taste. and she had a lady’s maid, also big. she said....” +task pierre had to face was one for which he had very little aptitude or +tangled black hair. +talk to her. what a darling sónya is!” he added with a smile. +talks sense, but to temporize and wait for something now when bonaparte +talking too loudly and vehemently with the abbé, so she hurried to the +talking. seeing them pass, prince vasíli drew back with obvious +talking of the schön grabern affair? were you there?” +talking about me? let us talk about you,” he added after a silence, +talked of peace but did not believe in its possibility; others talked +talk, but i don’t want to,” he seemed to say. besides this, in his +taking up a pack he prepared to deal. rostóv submissively unbent the +taking the colonel’s outburst as a challenge to his courage, the +taking out what she was holding inside it, as if what she held were +taking offense, but you don’t mind disgracing the whole regiment!” +taking no notice of his arrival. a wax candle stood at each side of the +taking leave of anna pávlovna. “it is settled,” she added in a low +taking his partner with him. he glided silently on one foot half across +taking him by the hand led him forward. the hairs tied in the knot hurt +taking charges from their pouches, while others were firing, though who +taking a letter addressed in a woman’s hand from a bag hanging above +taking a glass from the table he went up to pierre. +taking advantage of it!” +“take this road, your honor, that way you will be killed at once!” a +“take this and deliver it,” said he to his adjutant, handing him the +take these away. put this on the seat and this to the right.” +take the money,” and he threw the purse to him and ran out of the inn. +takes place at such moments. +take part in receiving the visitors. the count met the guests and saw +taken up their position and seeing troops before them, thought they were +taken off his eyes and, by the faint light of the burning spirit, +taken, it was not his fault but the corporal’s who had sent him to +taken from the prisoner. +taken and i hope it will not be, for it is mined and orders have been +taken, and all this for the beaux yeux * of his sardinian majesty. and +taken advice; but no, you go and blurt it all straight out before the +taken a ballroom in bezúkhov’s house, and the ball, as everyone said, +take me too? who are these men?” thought rostóv, scarcely believing +“take it right out, or they’ll think i’m holding on,” said +“take it if you like,” said the officer, giving the girl an apple. +take it...” he threw it on the table. “i have an old father and +take his eyes off her and beat time with his saber in a way that clearly +take her for her connections and wealth. are there no women living +“take a stick between your legs, that’ll suit you for a horse!” +take a seat beside her. +“take a glass of boiled water and put a pinch of cream of tartar,” +tail extended, bedouin, as if also conscious of the emperor’s eye +“tafa-lafa! but what he’s jabbering no one can make out,” said a +tache,” he thought. “there now... it’s not a tache... natásha... +table. “what are you thumping the table for?” she demanded of the +table that he had pushed away. “but... in short, the fact is... you +table seemed to feel this, and they forgot their duties as they looked +tables and the same chandelier with a cover over it; but someone had +table on a corner of which he smilingly and absent-mindedly fixed his +table linen, he would call dmítri vasílevich, a man of good family and +table. denísov was sitting there scratching with his pen on a sheet of +table began to watch her hands arranging the cards. from the dancing +table and placed on it his small leather-gloved hands. +table and becoming more animated and talking more rapidly: “what if +table, a child’s table, and the little chair on which prince andrew +table. +sympathize with him; if i seem sad and out of spirits myself, he will +symmetrically on his knees in the naïve attitude of an egyptian statue, +symmetrically and above all freely, and in front of them two men—the +swords, meaning them to pierce it. but the swords were drawn back from +sword of frederick the great. +swinging their arms and keeping time spontaneously, marched with long +sweet wine, my dear, now that the time has come for these young ones to +sweet, so good-natured, and her position now is a very hard one.” +sweetly. it was the third time that day that, with an ecstatic and +sweetest comforts to my poor heart, which has already suffered so much. +sweeter, and better than the feelings which the beautiful eyes of a +sways the world. think this over and i will come to you again.” +sway and scatters its last snows and storms with desperate fury. a relay +swarmed with well-provisioned sutlers and austrian jews offering +swallowing his r’s, and pronouncing the latin words with a french +suvórov’s wars. send it to the academy. here are some jottings for +suvórov’s time, now passing so gallantly before the emperors, that he +suvórov. moreover, paying such honor to bagratión was the best way of +suvórov-like, in a kibítka, and is received with acclamations of joy +suvórov giving his saber to bagratión in italy, and the recollection +survive....” +surveying the guests, and leisurely arranged her wide sleeves as if +surroundings unable to find their own regiments. in this way the action +surroundings, and from her smiling lips flowed sounds which anyone may +“surrounded! cut off? we’re lost!” shouted the fugitives. +surrender of most of the prussian fortresses had been received, when our +surrendered but had beaten the french. +surprise, the french had thrown down their muskets and run. dólokhov, +surprised pierre. +surprised by what he saw. hoping to enter on an entirely new life quite +surprise.” +“surely he will leave something to borís,” said the countess. +suppressed smile brightening both their faces, a smile that had nothing +suppose that i should look severely on your affection for that young +supposed that the russian guards, abroad, was quite a definite address, +supposed, share the general russian antipathy to the austrians which was +supposed, must have risen to fifteen thousand. in reality it already +support of his battery all was forgotten. prince andrew listened +supported him under the arms. there was a gurgle in his throat and he +“supper, it’s time for supper! and here are the gypsies!” +superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence. he +superior to napoleon’s, were concentrated in one place, the troops +superior. +superfluous was hanging on his benumbed left arm. the wrist felt as if +sun. how beautiful the sky looked; how blue, how calm, and how deep! +sumptuous but cold apartments known to pierre only from the front +suite who had mimicked the regimental commander, fell back from the +suite and said in french: +suite, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the gun they could see +suite. +suggestion and pressed his lips to the large boned, fleshy hand. neither +suggested to him a point of view which gave him a right to despise +suggested to him a blow from something. he looked at prince vasíli +suggested that she had resolved to endure her troubles uncomplainingly +sufficiently weakened to be successfully attacked. but still he did not +sufficient ground for this affair, or for blood to be shed over it.... +sufferings. what a heart! how like him it is! and how he has remembered +suffering?” suggested another voice. prince andrew, however, did not +suffering, but what he wanted to do was too terrible. +suffering, and the nearness of death aroused in him. looking into +suffer for it.” +suddenness and prompt him to the coarsest and most reckless actions. +suddenly transformed. he put on the air of a subordinate who obeys +suddenly the angry, squirrel-like expression of the princess’ pretty +suddenly she jumped up onto a tub to be higher than he, embraced him so +suddenly replied the irate colonel. “if you vere in the cavalry...” +suddenly prince hippolyte started up making signs to everyone to attend, +suddenly prince bolkónski frowned. +suddenly heard a sound new to him, of something swiftly approaching... +suddenly from the next room were heard the footsteps of boys and girls +suddenly dólokhov made a backward movement with his spine, and his arm +suddenly changed to one of horror. the french were supposed to be a +suddenly came to and, lifting his head with an effort, took rostóv, who +suddenly appeared, looming huge as an elephant. +suddenly appeared in the fog, there was a flash, followed by a report, +suddenly a gust of wind beat violently against the casement of the +suddenly. +such things about bonaparte, but understanding that he was wanted as +such silence and an anxiety to find something to say, the effect is +such love as sónya was speaking of. but natásha had not yet felt +such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread +such bad health, and now this vexation about his son is enough to kill +such as might call for his rapidity of perception and decision. +such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was passing now +such a plan in which the enemy’s position was assumed to be known, +such an unfortunate and charming woman! don’t mention him before +such a fright! oh, what a pig i am!” he repeated, flushing suddenly. +such a friend that i burned my arm for her sake. look here!” +success reached kutúzov’s cheerless staff with the galloping advent +successfully cannonading the french, our artillerymen only noticed this +success and at the inability of others to understand these things. +success.” +succeeds. he sat motionless, looking at the heights visible above +succeeded!’ the prussian generals pride themselves on being polite to +succeeded in setting two loquacious talkers at one another. +succeeded in forestalling the french he was to delay them as long as +subtleties here beyond my feeble intelligence, but i can’t make it +subsiding under the delightful interest of his own story, “is that the +subscribed the same amount as the others. +subordinate commanders was done, if not by his direct command, at least +subordinate by me. +submitted herself to mademoiselle bourienne and lise. both these women +submit my report, with the information that if the army remains in its +submit from habit, and she said: “i wish only to do your will, but if +submissive general. +subject under discussion than those they are talking with. +subject, and was thus at the duc’s mercy. the latter spared him, and +style, wearing an antique coat and powdered hair; and when prince andrew +stupidest remarks came out clever and apt. now everything pierre said +stumbled over it. several of those present laughed. +stumbled on him in the fog, hearing no encouraging word from their +study, the old prince went for his walk as usual next morning, but he +study, on the blue sofa, the confidential sofa? why cannot i now, as +study a little before noon in his silk dressing gown and found his head +study. +struggle to conquer that fear, all his dreams of distinguishing himself +struggles of a certain emilie de mansfeld. “and why did she resist +struggle, but with naïve and lighthearted gaiety. +struck two and another with a shrill tone joined in from the drawing +struck the ground in front of them. +struck him by her beauty on the preceding day. today, when he had caught +strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and are surrounded by other such +stronger flow of love for his sovereign. he longed to show that love in +stroked the animal. it was plain that he did not quite grasp where he +stroke, came up to the prince, bowing his bald head resignedly before +stripes on their bodies heal, and they are happy as before. but it is +striking his horse with his long muscular legs as if it were to blame +striking him regularly on his bare back. the man shrieked unnaturally. +striking chords with his short fingers, his legs thrown back and his +striking a blow!” +strictly to obey. you said the bridge would be burned, but who would it +(strictly speaking, daniel cooper was one figure of the anglaise.) +stretching himself he rose from the table. “one does get tired sitting +“stretchers!” shouted someone behind him. +stretchers came into view before rostóv. and the fear of death and of +stretched along the highroad in the midst of a young copse in which were +streets of brünn and found himself surrounded by high buildings, the +streamed out of a side street. +strayed off the track into the snow, pierre looked down at his feet, +strayed from under her friend’s plaits. +straw covered street and turned into the wide courtyard of count cyril +strategic position where the operations would take place was familiar in +strange, unknown, and dangerous places he reaches, just as a sailor is +stranger, yet nearer to him through the brotherhood of man. with bated +strangers and unable to send news of himself. the gazettes from which +stranger, looking deeper and deeper into pierre’s eyes. “and in +stranger. +strangely softened but agitated expression on his face. he came up the +strange and ridiculous to meet objections from russian generals and to +strains of daniel cooper (somewhat resembling those of a merry peasant +straight on napoleon, he was silent.... so insignificant at that moment +straight! it’s well god had mercy on us. and what was it for? who +straight into his son’s face with keen eyes which seemed to see +stouter!...” +story to him, her seducer. and now he, a real russian prince, had +story of the misfortunes of some mary víktorovna or other. at the +stories or telling them, but followed every movement of rostóv’s +stories of the grand duke’s quick temper he related with gusto how in +stories of his kindness and irascibility. berg, as usual, kept silent +“stop those wretches!” gasped kutúzov to the regimental commander, +“stop this jesting,” he said. +“stop them!” he shouted, and at the same moment, probably realizing +stopping occasionally at a corner to make menacing gestures at the wall, +stopping in front of the pávlograds, the tsar said something in french +stopped the company.” dólokhov breathed heavily from weariness and +stopped him. he turned his horse and galloped off. +stopped at a solitary, deserted house that had probably once been an +stopped and glanced inquiringly over his spectacles at his guide. anna +“stop jesting,” said prince andrew sadly and seriously. this news +stood with the candle. yes, it was he, pale, thin, with a changed and +stood with his marshals around him, it was quite light. above him was +stood waiting by the door. +stood, met, and separated, some in uniform and some in evening dress, +stood cold and silent, as if quite regardless of who had come to it. +stood before a looking glass and brushed the hair on his temples +stood at every door anxiously noting visitors’ every movement in order +stood at a window with dólokhov, whose acquaintance he had lately +stones of the pavement. +stone, hundreds of riders composing the suites moved carelessly but +stomach with an already stiffened arm flung wide. +stir around him, then the people resumed their places and the service +stir, and a footman who had run in announced, with a frightened face: +stir. an adjutant, dismounting, lifted the soldier under the arms to +stint yourself, we’ll settle afterwards,” he added, turning to +stimulating effect on him. “vive l’empereur! l’empereur!” he now +still why didn’t you capture him? so don’t be surprised if not only +still when she’s fifty.” +still was not in time to avoid them. +“still the same. wait, for heaven’s sake. karl ivánich always says +“still the same,” she said to her husband. +“still the same; but what can you expect, this noise...” said the +still there?” +still the cannon balls continued regularly to whistle and flop onto the +still sound, yellowish teeth. +still smiling, she gracefully moved away, turning and glancing at her +still quite a young lady, before her nose was broken; how she had aged +still no one moved. the troops of the left flank, infantry and hussars +still looking silently at her brother and her beautiful eyes were full +still less did he think of injuring anyone for his own advantage. he +still, i will take borís and go to see him at once, and i shall speak +still it was terrible, and she could not help thinking of it. she was +still in the same place, his stout body resting heavily in the saddle +still in the drawing room, drew a chair toward him or her, and jauntily +still in course of construction. round the house was a garden newly laid +still. “if it were a man whose existence thou didst doubt i could +still he was lifted and laid on the stretcher. +still gazed at the spot where pierre’s face had been before he sat +still five men between him and dólokhov with his bluish-gray uniform. +still feeling his eyes gazing at her. +still farther ahead a dark line which he could not see distinctly but +“still, don’t ruin yourself!” said dólokhov with a side glance at +“still aching?” túshin asked rostóv in a whisper. +steward there, who, bowing respectfully, looked into his face and at +steward, and again began giving orders. a light footstep and the +stern, threatening, inaccessible, and intangible line which separates +stern, shrewd, and penetrating expression of that look struck pierre. he +sternly with a threatening and forbidding movement of her head. +stern eyes on his son. +stern but handsome face really joined in the dance. what was expressed +stern and solemn train of thought that weakness from loss of blood, +step that for you all is ended, all is closed except the drawing +steps. when at last, smartly whirling his partner round in front of her +steps should be taken to liberate the serfs, which the steward met by +steps. “o god,” he said with tears in his eyes, “how could you do +steps, her workbag on her arm, and gaily spreading out her dress sat +steps down the line. he was evidently pleased at his own display of +steps. behind the company the sound of wheels, the creaking of springs, +steps behind him holding two horses by their bridles. each time prince +steps, and again stopped. +steps. +stepping into the deep snow. he held the pistol in his right hand at +“stepping flat on his heels—we know what that means....” +stepped to the middle of the room and stood still. +stepped softly over the carpet and went out into the waiting room. +stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant +step could be heard. on their left flank, nearest to bagratión, marched +step; a soldier who had fallen behind, his face showing alarm at his +steadily and ceaselessly on all sides. with the exception of the aunt, +staying the whole evening, i hope?” +stayed his hand. the sergeant, who was evidently wiser than his general, +station or a doctor for the cadet, and sat down by a bonfire the +stationed on the pratzen heights. +station, but compared to the thoughts that now occupied him it was a +station), and again embraced his sister. +stating them to the emperor francis. he vividly imagined the casual +state of the political thermometer of legitimate petersburg court +state.” +*** start of this project gutenberg ebook war and peace *** +start my apprenticeship as old maid.” +starting from their sockets to watch their chief. on reaching the +started,” thought prince andrew, watching his old acquaintance with +stars on his breast. he seemed to have grown thinner since the morning; +starry night was followed by a bright cheerful morning. the snow was +stand the sight of these unfortunates. +stand made at krems and the victory over mortier raised the spirits of +standing up, on which lay an open exercise book, and the lathe with +standing together out of range of the shots, watching, now the small +standing motionless; then he came to the region occupied by uvárov’s +standard in hand, i shall go forward and break whatever is in front of +stake of twenty rubles. +stairs and up another, to pierre’s rooms. +stairs and embraced his sister. +stages of his journey. +staff were not far off, in the village the vehicles were going to. +staff officer smiled.) “kindly return to your posts, gentlemen, all of +staff officer, and at zherkóv, and he frowned. +staff officer. +staff captain’s question by a disapproving shake of his head. +staff?” +staff...” +s— s— get the same distinction?” +squatting on his heels in front of a clerk. the clerk, with cuffs turned +squadron. the day was bright and sunny after a sharp night frost, and +squadron, that in which rostóv was serving under denísov, to return to +squadron’s officers in denísov’s quarters. +squadron may be recommended for honors and he may get a ribbon. our +squadron in which nicholas rostóv served as a cadet was quartered in +squadron commander. +squadron. all were looking at the enemy in front and at the squadron +spring up with more energy and again play with her cousin as soon as +springing to him, putting her arms round him, and kissing him. this +spread out his arms with a choleric gesture. +spread out her arms to show her short-waisted, lace-trimmed, dainty gray +spreading out his legs and putting his hands on his knees with the air +spread by the fact that the emperor’s carriage had really galloped +spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbé’s +sprang out before the sleigh stopped, and ran into the hall. the house +spot” (he stooped and pointed to the sloping ledge outside the window) +spoke to the taciturn michael ivánovich more often than to anyone else. +spoke smilingly and listened with a laugh. +spoke particularly slowly, as if to impress the fact that there was no +spoken to the gentleman ranker, he addressed him with the cordiality of +spoke in abrupt sentences. “the whole company can bear witness. i beg +spoke as if his sole aim were to put a given number of questions—the +spoil her, but really that seems the best plan. with her elder sister i +“splendid! what a horse he will be!” he thought with a smile, and +splendid soldiers. besides he began by attacking germans. and only +splendidly.” +splendid house!” +“splendid! excellent!” exclaimed natásha. “another verse,” she +splendid! and i am sitting here ill, as you see.” +splashing with blood those near them. +spite of his money. they wanted to introduce him to me, but i quite +spite of his evident wish to do so he could not give them a joyous +spirit will not and cannot understand the emperor alexander’s +spiritual needs, while it seems to me that animal happiness is the only +spirited impression. +spent, and almost every year he was obliged to borrow. besides this the +spend time in reading what is unintelligible and can therefore bear +speeches were intended for quite other conditions, they were for the +spectacles unable to understand what they wanted or how they could go on +spectacles and white dressing gown, in which he received no one but his +spectacles. +spectacle of his power over these three women. besides that, he was +specially choice delicacy a piece of meat that no one who had seen it in +specially amiable mood that day. +special force. no matter what he thought about, he always returned to +speak, so now she could not believe that that little creature could be +speak in the tone of decided refusal and disagreement in which he had +speaking very gently. +speaking to an austrian general. prince andrew, who was a little behind +speaking quickly with a harsh german accent, looking to both sides and +speaking playfully of a matter that evidently distressed him. +speaking of the position of prussia, anna pávlovna very naturally asked +speaking of him, my dear sir. of what, of whom, are we speaking? whom +speaking of berg as her “intended.” the count sat between them and +speaking of a collection of snuffboxes that had belonged to pierre’s +speaking french. he opened his eyes. above him again was the same lofty +speaking as if he were saying something which had long since been agreed +speaking and evidently not thinking about her at all. anatole was not +speak—he turned back, rapidly mounted the stairs again with the +sparkling black eyes, and black tousled mustache and hair. he wore an +spadefuls of red clay were continually being thrown up from behind the +“so you think he is powerless?” said langeron. +so young, and burdened with such riches—to what temptations he will be +“so you have never noticed before how beautiful i am?” hélène +“so you are still at that silly business!” quickly closed his eye +“so you are really going to the war, andrew?” she said sighing. +“so you are not afraid to play with me?” repeated dólokhov, and as +“soyez tranquille, lise, you will always be prettier than anyone +so widely from a private. +so well how to arrange a feast on an open-handed, hospitable scale, +“so we are to have visitors, mon prince?” remarked mademoiselle +sount ze retreat!” +sounds very fast: “kari, mala, tafa, safi, muter, kaská,” he said, +sound of wheels and footsteps heard by the outposts during the night, +sound of these voices, the inattentive way kozlóvski looked at him, the +sound of the hoofs of the approaching cavalcade, but because as he drew +sound of that sentence: “contez nous çela, vicomte.” +sound of officers’ voices in eager conversation. +sound of kissing. when prince andrew went in the two princesses, who +sound of footsteps. +sound of artillery fire near by. having forced his way out of the crowd +sounding, even the connoisseurs said nothing, but only delighted in +sounded still more firm and resolute. +sounded. several of our men fell, among them the round-faced officer +sounded much like irony. but kutúzov went on blandly smiling with the +sounded louder and calmer, the stretchers disappeared from sight. +sounded far away. here everyone clearly saw and said that the battle +sounded and you’ll be in a pretty position without your boots!” (the +soul to see such men as the old count and his worthy son,” said she. +soul to believe and he did believe, and felt a joyful sense of comfort, +soul: courage, generosity, morality, love of mankind, and especially +soul and his face. +so to me? what have i done to you? you are going to the war and have no +“so they will,” said nesvítski. “no, but what i should like,” +so the worse the condition it was in, the better pleased the commander +so the swishing sound of the strokes, and the desperate but unnatural +“so there’s nothing?” +“so the attack is definitely resolved on?” asked bolkónski. +so that the maid could hardly get her hair plaited, and she was +“so that’s what they hit with?” asked the accountant. “how +“so that’s what i’m sorry for—human dignity, peace of mind, + * so that squares matters. +so that she felt herself surrounded on all sides by the acrid scent of +so that his mouth, the most striking feature of his face, was clearly +so terrible to the soldiers, despite his furious purple countenance +so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat +so strange that one could not take it in. but then the expression of +so softly that the rhetor did not hear him and asked him what he was +sorts, and russian and austrian soldiers of all arms, some wounded and +sort—(le sort de l’armée d’ulm).” * he remembered these words +sorrow, sadness, or self-reproach, that she purposely deceived herself +sorrowful, and all-forgiving expression on her face, stood by the door +so rapid that they could hardly be his mother’s. +sophie, the rosy, laughter-loving, youngest princess with the mole, +sophie—i can’t repeat them—that it made the count quite ill and he +“sophie,” he began, timidly at first and then more and more +soothe him. +“só-o-onya! look here! how can you torture me and yourself like that, +so on. then a place was assigned to pierre, he was shown the signs of +sooner or later he would step across it, but an incomprehensible terror +sooner?” +soon as the conversation concerned himself he would begin to talk +soon as he had seen a visitor off he returned to one of those who were +soon after this there came into the dark chamber to fetch pierre, not +soon after prince bagratión had left him, túshin had succeeded in +soon after prince andrew’s return the old prince made over to him a +soon after his admission to the masonic brotherhood, pierre went to the +sónya, whom he loved and thought of just the same as ever.” when she +“sónya, what is the matter with you? how can you?” said he, running +“sónya! what is it? what is the matter?... oo... oo... oo...!” and +“sónya! what is anyone in the world to me? you alone are +sónya was sitting at the clavichord, playing the prelude to +sónya was more tender and devoted to him than ever. it was as if she +sónya trembled all over and blushed to her ears and behind them and +sónya too, all rosy red, clung to his arm and, radiant with bliss, +sónya struck the first chord of the prelude. +sónya’s thin little shoulders, natásha’s eyes and laughter, +sónya’s refusal and felt uncomfortable at the thought of how they +sónya smiled. +sónya smiled. +sónya’s joint ages. rostóv, leaning his head on both hands, sat at +“sónya,” she suddenly exclaimed, as if she had guessed the true +sónya, shaking off some down which clung to her and tucking away the +sónya sat up. the little kitten brightened, its eyes shone, and it +sónya, natásha, pétya, anna mikháylovna, véra, and the old count +sónya interrupted him. +“sónya, don’t believe her, darling! don’t believe her! do you +sónya did not pull it away, and left off crying. natásha, not stirring +sónya could not continue, and again hid her face in her hands and in +sónya became thoughtful. the question of how to write to nicholas, and +sónya and fat little pétya doubled up with laughter. +sónya and dólokhov before dinner, and with the kindly sensitiveness +sónya again interrupted. she gave him an imploring, frightened look. +son’s when speaking to him that afternoon, “believe me i suffer no +son; sónya, the count’s fifteen-year-old niece, and little pétya, +son, sat at the table writing. he glanced round. +son’s arrival: he gave orders to admit him to his apartments while +son’s affair hushed up, but even he was ordered out of petersburg.” +son or kinsman.” +son made no rejoinder, but it was evident that whatever arguments were +son, ilyá? only fancy, i didn’t know you at first. do you remember +song, arousing an involuntary sensation of courage and cheerfulness. +song. +son.” +son. +son. +so my conscience was at ease. i came forward....” (berg stood up and +“so much the better! i shall see it close,” he thought. +some wooded hills were discernible, and it was there the enemy probably +somewhere under her heart would ever cry, suck her breast, and begin to +somewhere nearer the sun.” +somewhere beyond them. the hussars did not look round, but at the sound +somewhere below his throat rushed to his face and eyes. he could not +some way and knowing that this was impossible was ready to cry. the tsar +some twenty men of his suite. these gentlemen talked among themselves +some time to get the wedding ring off his fat finger. when that had been +sometimes spend a whole night at his writing table. he worked well +sometimes on his way back from the anteroom he would pass through the +sometimes like a chip of wood whirling in the river, an hussar on foot, +sometimes four abreast. from all sides, behind and before, as far as ear +something toward it and you cannot persuade me that it was not a good +something to him in french in an undertone and then went up to a small +something to drink?” +something that was evidently wrong and that he ought not to do. but at +something terrible and monstrous rising in his soul and turned quickly +something striking and took part in a conversation only when that was +“something special is always said in such cases,” he thought, but +something loudly to a comrade farther back. rostóv paused. “no, +something like qualms of conscience. she had reminded him of what was +something large, brilliant, and handsome moving toward her as she +something i have received from the chancellor. i asked him for you, and +something i cannot inflict on others,” said prince andrew, growing +something disconcerting to himself. +something, but dared not.... no, it was i who dared not. but that’s +something big, that splashed into the water. +something as she whispered: +something and went away. it seemed to pierre that even the prince was +something.” +something.” +some swarthy men and women were really entering from the cold outside +some sort were moving about, in front and behind moved lines of troops; +some reason she called it urope as if that were a specially refined +some question—“most likely he is asking at what o’clock they +someone to fire at. +someone rich and distinguée, and it is on you that his relations’ +someone. (prince bagratión did not ask about the guns on the left +someone mentioned that captain túshin was bivouacking close to the +some of the topics at first lightly touched on: their past life, plans +some of the nearest relatives had not yet left. they were sitting in +some not. this whole mass droned and jostled in confusion under the +some men who, carrying pails, came running downstairs, their boots +some in the sitting room, some in the library. +some inspection business,” remarked the visitor. +“some herb vodka? certainly!” said túshin. “but still, to +some great change had come over him that day. he was silent all through +some flash as of an electric spark shot from telyánin’s eyes to +someday i will tell you about our parting and all that was said then. +some concessions. continuing to represent the liberation of the serfs +some approaching achievement, and some in course of disintegration. he +some!” +so many years moravians in shaggy caps and blue jackets had peacefully +so long waited, presents itself to him at last. he firmly and clearly +so long,” he added. +solemn interest and silent approval. the aunt spoke to each of them in +solemn affair. every general and every soldier was conscious of his own +soldier with the harsh voice, and it was that affair and this soldier +soldier, with his clear blue eyes, stepped forward from the ranks, went +soldier with a wagon, who was pressing onto the infantrymen who were +soldier three gold pieces. +soldiers who were seizing the artillery horses and turning the guns +soldiers. “where are you shoving to? devil take you! can’t you wait? +soldiers to change into their greatcoats. the company commanders ran off +soldiers! the russian army is advancing against you to avenge the +soldiers. the company marched on gaily. the soldiers’ voices could be +soldiers, straining their lungs, shouted “hurrah!” +soldiers running in confused crowds across his path. +soldiers ran from the fires, thrust their pipes into their boots, their +soldiers passed in a semicircle round something where the ball had +soldiers only need to be restrained and held back! on all sides, new and +soldiers, officers, and generals were heroes. but the hero of heroes was +soldiers, munching biscuit and beating a tattoo with their feet to +soldiers, loudly demanding bread, meat, biscuits, fodder, and whatnot! +soldiers lifted the canteen lids to their lips with reverential faces, +soldier shouted to him. “they’d kill you there!” +soldiers held him while two others were flourishing their switches and +soldiers had kindled on the road. rostóv, too, dragged himself to the +soldiers forming the picket line, like showmen exhibiting a curiosity, +soldiers’ boots. more than half the men’s boots were in holes. but +soldiers’ bonfires and with his long gray mustache, his white chest +soldiers and officers of various regiments, they saw on their left some +soldiers, after a twenty-mile march, were kept mending and cleaning all +soldier of forty—looked sternly at the singers and screwed up his +soldier, mimicking the general who had ridden away. “i’d shoot them, +soldier. “i’ll teach you to push on!... back!” +soldier at the front, gave the command “attention!” and rode up +soldier and the gay and smartly marching men. in the second file +soldier after camp life. despite his rapid journey and sleepless night, +soldier. +sokolnitz, november 30, 1805.” +sokólniki forest and found dólokhov, denísov, and rostóv already +sokólniki after the duel and had spent that first agonizing, sleepless +“so it seems you’re a hero, eh? come now, what was this duel about? +so it seems to me.” +“so it is useless to ask whether it is good or bad. it is good because +“so it is all finished!” he thought. “and how has it all happened? +“so it does,” thought pierre. +soirees as before—such as she alone had the gift of arranging—at +so ill that he may die at any moment, and dr. lorrain has come from +“so i can fire when i like!” said pierre, and at the word +so he went from one group to another. some of the most important old men +so he simply held out his bristly cheek (as yet unshaven) and, regarding +soft steps of the footmen. at one end of the table sat the countess with +soft snowbanks that bordered both sides of the path. the prince went +soft hand taking hers firmly, and she touched with her lips a white +so for friendship’s sake he is leaving the university and me, his +so energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable +so easily extract a good profit for themselves from a dinner costing +so do you too! to the health of alexander the first! hurrah!” +so delighted...” came the sounds of animated feminine voices, +so convulsively that her bare little shoulders shook. natásha’s +so contrary to his method of conducting war? believe me, he is afraid, +so completely silenced and their arguments confuted by such conclusive +society woman to be buried in the country during the best years of her +society so dearly and distinctly indicated. +society of women was rather derogatory to his manhood. he went to balls +society, more especially of the feminine society, in which i have had +society had lost her former influential connections. she had now come to +society had entered the simple feeling of the attraction of a healthy +society. beside him stood a lad of nineteen, also a wounded officer of +society, and so her position now is not a rosy one. we should enter into +society. +society. +so-called battle of the three emperors—that is to say, a slow movement +so, but you have no sense about women. what an argumentative fellow you +sobs. the count was lighting his pipe and did not notice his son’s +so beautiful that very often in spite of the plainness of her face +sobbing like a child. the door opened. the doctor with his shirt sleeves +soap, and all,” as the soldiers say. there was only one circumstance +so. and, in fact, the last letter he had received from mack’s army +so alien to us. +snuffbox with her husband’s portrait on it. +snuffbox while trying to hear what was being said at the other table. +snow-covered road, did not once wake up on the way to moscow, but lay +snacks.” +smoothing down her dress with an inquiring look at her mother, when +smooth—felt that no small matter was happening, but an important and +smooth as a sign that the conversation was at an end. +smolyanínov, and it mortified him to think that the newcomer was an +smolénsk threatening bald hills—even then i wouldn’t serve in the +smoking and talking. he neither smoked nor talked, but bending his head +smoke. the excited faces of the soldiers were blackened with it. some +smoke spasmodically and screwing up his eyes. this was an old bachelor, +smoke, rendered denser by the mist, prevented him from seeing anything +smoke enveloped everything. +smoke, and an officer catching sight of bagratión rushed shouting after +smiling over the fan. +smilingly raising a finger at him, she left the room. +smilingly inclining his head. +smiling joyfully; and snatching the shawl from the footman, whom he +smiling, glittered with effort and exasperation as he mustered his +smiling face, moved after willarski with uncertain, timid steps. +smiling. “cela nous convient à merveille.*(2) suvórov now—he knew +smiling, but in spite of herself her eyes under their thick long lashes +smiling at his reassuring thoughts. +smiling as if she did not recognize him. +smile was unlike the half-smile of other people. when he smiled, +smile that usually brightened her face. pierre knew that everyone was +smile on his lips change. +smile on his lips and face, but his eyes were dull and lifeless and in +smile of satisfaction and presented a strange appearance among the +smile of his which seemed to say, “ah! this is what i like!” +smile of a doctor to whom an old wife wishes to explain the treatment of +smile, for which he was long unable to forgive himself, “i have lost a +smiled and interrupted him. +smile, and pronouncing the phrase “knocked out” with ringing +smile, and engaged the smiling julie in a confidential conversation +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smeared with chalk—as white as flour! i suppose they polish him up as +smash something. pushing away the footmen he tugged at the frame, but +smashed, and the shouting grew louder. they drank to bekleshëv, +“smart lads! only fit for a fair!” said one. +small old man, with powdered wig, small withered hands, and bushy gray +small cloud rose from the hill and was borne in a streak to the left by +small but distinctly visible enemy column was moving down the hill, +“smack at ‘em, lads!” he kept saying, seizing the guns by the +slope of the hill amid the smoke a russian battery that was still firing +slippery ice that covered the millpool. +slight smile he began to examine his nails. +slightly sarcastic smile. “i am borís, son of princess anna +slightly open, as if to say, “yes, yes, i am putting my purse in my +slender little girl. +slender, delicate arm, high above the elbow on that part that is covered +sleigh and pair at once, and go to bezúkhov’s, and tell him ‘count +sleeve with her finger, saying: +sleeves!” said anna mikháylovna, pointing to nicholas as he went out. +sleepiness that kept coming over him. an enormous space, with our +sleep at night. come now, where has this great commander of yours shown +sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and +sky—the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray +skittles,” said he in conclusion. +skillfully made watch, dares to say that, as he does not understand +skillfully changed the subject. he asked him to tell them how and where +six weeks later he was married, and settled in count bezúkhov’s +six weeks after anna pávlovna’s “at home” and after the sleepless +sixth stroke. the doctors pronounced recovery impossible. after a mute +sixth chasseurs whom they had just passed. prince andrew was struck by +six miles away, or whether they were near by in that sea of mist, no one +“six hundred rubles, ace, a corner, a nine... winning it back’s +situation it occurred to him that it was he who was destined to lead it +situated,” said prince andrew. +sitting so for a while he rose, and, looking about him with frightened +sitting room. +sitting on the sofa with the little cushions on its arms, in what used +sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself +sitting motionless before the glass, looking at her face, and saw in the +sitting in a conspicuous place and talking to him like a grown-up lady. +sitting here in almost the same positions as before, whispering to one +sitting down beside him she began to speak about his father; but he +sitting close to nicholas who was copying out some verses for her, the +sitting at tea with bilíbin. “the fete is for tomorrow. how is your +sitting and dropped onto it, covering his face with his hand. pierre +sit down! sit down, michael ivánovich!” +sister with the mole. +sister. “why isn’t she dull and ashamed?” +sister,” was all she said, in a dry and mournful tone. +sister’s room his wife was already awake and her merry voice, hurrying +sister’s, but while in her case everything was lit up by a joyous, +sister-in-law’s friendship for you. she was not expecting us?” +sister-in-law’s dress. +sister had hung round his neck with such emotion and reverence, “it +sister, catiche, with a vicious and determined look steadily fixed on +sister, black eyes... na... tasha... (won’t she be surprised when +sir, for shame! it would be better if you went to the war.” +sire,” * he answered gaily, raising nevertheless ironic smiles among +sir!” +“singers to the front” came the captain’s order. +singer” (he meant natásha’s italian singing master), “that’s +since the time when he thought his son had been killed, he did not think +since the nursing mothers were no longer sent to work on his land, they +since then pierre had not been disturbed and had spent the whole time in +“since the day of our brilliant success at austerlitz,” wrote +“since prince bagratión is not coming, we may begin,” said +since his appointment as commander in chief. he told me himself that +since early morning—despite an injunction not to approach the picket +simultaneously attacked and outflanked by superior french forces under +simply looking at him. +simply dressed hair (two immense plaits twice round her lovely head like +silver and crystal gleamed, so did the ladies’ toilets and the gold +sill to attract attention. “wait a bit, kurágin. listen! if +sill. “listen!” cried he, standing there and addressing those in the +sill, leaned over, and looked down. +silken hangings. on leaving the bed both prince vasíli and the princess +silent, waiting for what he would say. +silent, “that sónya and nicholas now say you to one another and meet +silent prayer. every morning she came in like that, and every morning +silently, with the languid interest of sick children, at the envoy +silently—fearing to speak because at every word he felt ready to +silent. at first kutúzov stood still while the regiment moved; then he +silent as he passed by, and moved to make way for him. at first pierre +silent and seemed confused. the prince asked her about her father, and +silent. +silence ensued. the countess looked at her callers, smiling affably, +silence at princess anna mikháylovna. after her talk with pierre, anna +silence as he left the drawing room. he pictured the vanity of his +silence and the regular tramp of feet beating the ground in unison, one +silence. +sign that this was exactly what he had desired and expected. turning +signs to the footmen, and anxiously glancing from the clock to the door +sign papers, to present himself at government offices, the purpose of +sign of strength. +significantly at her husband) “i’m afraid, i’m afraid!” she +significant command to come to her on tuesday. +sign. +sight of tears and was ready to cry himself. +sight of murat’s mantle and ostrich plumes, qu’il n’y voit que du +sight of his superiors, he did not notice the staff of the banner and + sighing its message out to thee... +sighed. “i have loved you like a son from the first. trust yourself to +sídorov, turning to the french, winked, and began to jabber meaningless +“sideways! cover yourself with your pistol!” ejaculated nesvítski. +sideways at princess mary from a little distance. “you have a maroon +sides’ was smothered in sobs and he could get no farther. and again +side, so close to our own forces that napoleon with the naked eye could +sides. he acknowledged no acquaintances but saw in all these men only +side (only now did pierre realize how near death his father was), and +side of the question and you will see that your duty, on the contrary, +side by side. prince vasíli was not having any supper: he went round +side as her betrothed, seeing, hearing, feeling her nearness, her +side and looked round with a frown. along the road from pratzen galloped +side and at first did not play. dólokhov kept glancing at him. +sick man had been laid in a stately pose in keeping with the ceremony +“shut up!” cried dólokhov, pushing him away from the window. the +“shut up!” +shudder of disgust. +shown to the best room, which dólokhov had taken for that evening. some +shown, fired. not at all expecting so loud a report, pierre shuddered +showing under his open shirt, he stood in a majestic pose in the light +showing the spot where it burst. +showing the necessity of first paying off the loans from the land bank, +showing the creases where it had been folded and thick gold epaulettes +show her over, and they’ll talk nineteen to the dozen. that’s +showed that, in spite of all his love and respect for his father, he was +showed how he presented himself, with his hand to his cap, and really +showed greatness of soul by not fearing to take on himself the whole +showed a paper she held in her hand—with the verses nicholas had +shouts of thousands of voices. his horse and the horse of the hussar +shouts of hurrah, and saw wounded being brought back (there were not +shouting grew louder and louder. rostóv could hear the sound of french +shouting came from, a fire flared up and went out again, then another, +shouting. +shouted to him: +shouted the regimental commander, thrusting forward his jaw and pointing +shouted “hurrah!” in exactly the same voice in which he had shouted +shouted hoarsely. +shouted denísov, suddenly, turning purple and rushing at the man with +shouted denísov in a bloodthirsty tone. +shouted. +should one love and what hate? what does one live for? and what am i? +“shouldn’t we now send for berg?” asked borís. “he would drink +should now be away in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, a manly +should much like to be an adjutant and not remain at the front.” +should get not more than two hundred rubles every four months, even +shoulder, their bayonets interlocking, moved over the bridge in a dense +shoulders, turned out his toes, tapped gently with his foot, and, by +shoulders close to his eyes. +shoulders. anna mikháylovna with just the same movement raised her +shoulders and eyes, almost closing the latter, sighed, and moved away +shoulders and dropped his eyes as if startled by something extraordinary +shoulder and taking his feet off the sofa. +shoulder and left the room without snuffing the candles or saying why he +should be if i could now say: ‘lord, have mercy on me!’... but to +should be glad and not cry.” +should be a nice set of fellows if we were to wait about and so give him +should already have suggested to your heart, if it is sincere, more than +shots came. +short sturdy figure with the sinewy hairy hand and stumpy fingers in +shortsighted delight at the misery of others, and doubts and torments +shortly after nine o’clock that evening, weyrother drove with his +shops, bakers’ signboards, street lamps, and sleighs!” thought +shooting at you like a target.” +shone with such gaiety and youth, such innocent youth, that it suggested +shod in a tartar boot embroidered with silver, and the firm pressure +shirt, and in every knapsack the appointed number of articles, “awl, +shinshín. “he has stopped austria’s cackle and i fear it will be +shinshín, a cousin of the countess’, a man with “a sharp tongue” +shining eyes, not interrupting or questioning him, but believing with +she would say. what could all that matter in comparison with the will of +she wished to and only refrained out of regard for his modesty. +“she will go to the country.” +“she went. suddenly there was a great wind. the girl lost her hat and +“she was so tired that she has fallen asleep on the sofa in my room. +she was now saying she had talked of before, with tears. +she was not a fool to want to have children, and that she was not going +she was no longer in the loose gown she generally wore in the morning, +she was, natásha, who knew how sensitive her mother was to anything +she was much altered. she was now plain rather than pretty. her cheeks +she was dancing with a grown-up man, who had been abroad. she was +she used to have quarrels with the too indulgent count, that son who +(she used the word “diplomat,” which was just then much in vogue +she understood all the gravity of her friend’s trouble. +she turned to his father. the conversation was general and animated, +she turned to go, but he stopped her with a gesture and took an uncut +she turned away from him and glanced at her younger brother, who was +she turned away and gave her hand to the count, who could hardly keep +she tried to pass anna mikháylovna, but the latter sprang so as to bar +she took the liberty of inquiring whether it was long since anatole +she took his arm and with a happy face went with him into the adjoining +she took a pair of pear-shaped ruby earrings from her huge reticule and, +she thought: “if i seem not to notice he will think that i do not +she suddenly paused, smiling at her own impetuosity. +she suddenly came into his mind as she was at the moments when he had +she smiled as she uttered his pet name, “andrúsha.” it was +she seemed to promise to explain that necessity to him when he came on +she seemed that day to be more than ever kind and affectionate to +she said, trying to smile though tears were in her eyes. +“she said.... oh yes! she said, ‘girl,’ to the maid, ‘put on a +she rushed to sónya, hugged her, and began to cry. +she roused herself, and felt appalled at what she had been thinking, and +she rose and smoothed her hair, which was as usual so extremely smooth +she rang for her maid and asked her to sleep in her room. +she pushed the little dog off her lap and smoothed her dress. +she pulled up her muslin sleeve and showed him a red scar on her long, +she paused, as women always do, expecting something after they have +she ought to behave like mademoiselle bourienne, but could not. +she not only left her hair as it was, but did not even look in her +“she needs rest,” said prince andrew with a frown. “don’t you, +she must love him if she could so far forget herself! perhaps i might +she must be on the chest in the passage. the chest in the passage was +she moved toward anna pávlovna. hélène was so lovely that not only +shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, +she looked timidly at her brother. +she looked round and seeing that her friend was not in the room ran to +she looked at him inquiringly and with childlike reproach. +“she let the hawk fly upward from her wide right sleeve,” went the +she led him into the dark drawing room and pierre was glad no one could +she knew so well), on the lock of gray hair that escaped from under the +she knew of the duel and had come to speak about it. she waited till the +“she is not very well,” answered mademoiselle bourienne with +she hurriedly ascended the narrow dimly lit stone staircase, calling to +she has a brother; i think you know him, he married lise meinen lately. +she had spoken to hippolyte in the drawing room and which was so plainly +she had seldom experienced, came upon her. she feared to look round, it +she had sacrificed so much. she could not refrain from weeping at these +she had learned it) she talked with her partner, fanning herself and +she had just vacated. “you have made the place warm, i must say,” he +she had first entered the room—the smile of a perfectly beautiful +she had finished speaking to him, and now he continued to speak to +she had determined not to tell her and persuaded her father to hide the +she had been married during the previous winter, and being pregnant did +she had a fan in her hand that one of the ladies had given her to hold. +she grew confused, glanced round, and, seeing the doll she had thrown +(she glanced at hélène and smiled at her.) “my dear hélène, be +she gave her companion an angry glance. +she forgot all fear of her father, went up to him, took his hand, and +she felt guilty. +she felt any symptoms of pregnancy. she laughed contemptuously and said +she faltered. “you are on good terms with michael ilariónovich +she drew nearer to him. her face flushed. +shed, and its tone was so sincere that he could not but listen. +she crossed herself, kissed the icon, and handed it to andrew. +she could not lie either on her face or on her side. every position was +she continued, uniting them both in one glance. pierre did not look at +she considered the resonance was best. +she caught the young officer by his cuffs, and a look of solemnity and +she came up fearless and gay to kiss her hand. “i know she’s a scamp +she brought into princess mary’s strenuous, mournful, and gloomy +she began to tell of how at potsdam the impious bonaparte had stolen the +she began to smile and talk. he asked about mutual acquaintances, and +she became still more animated and chattered away giving him greetings +she approached him, saw his face, and something gave way within her. her +she always addressed him with a radiantly confiding smile meant for him +she already had power over him, and between them there was no longer any +she added, turning to her hostess. “you wrote that it was to be quite +she added hurriedly. “no, don’t be angry, but promise! i have asked +shawl had been adjusted he kept his arm around her for a long time, as +sharpshooters showed themselves in the copse. it was timókhin’s +sharpshooters in front of our columns. the colonel at the head of the +sharply, with a slight trembling of the lower jaw, “i can’t prevent +share defeat and disgrace with kutúzov’s whole army.” +shameless, and he ignores her!” +shame and anger choking him, had already leapt from his horse and run to +“shall you write to him?” she asked. +“shall we have time to change clothes?” +“shall we have three cold dishes then?” asked the cook. +shall think nothing of an extra seventy miles to come and see you at +shall reproach my wife with anything, and i cannot reproach myself +shall not agree with you, and you do not really believe what you are +shako on the back of his head. he came up to the porch gloomily, hanging +shadow of the wall. pausing for a moment, pierre noticed several other +shading his eyes with his small hand. +severity. the dance grew livelier and livelier. the other couples could +severity changed, and he drew pierre’s hand downwards, made him sit +severely. “you don’t wish to apologize, but, man, it’s not only to +severe gaze straight on pierre’s face. +several wounded men passed along the road, and words of abuse, screams, +several times in the course of the morning princess mary began trying to +several thousand rubles quitrent received from pierre’s peasants, +several thousand rubles. +several soldiers fell, and a second lieutenant who was holding the +several soldiers fell. +several persons whom he did not know, giving him a whispered description +several of those present smiled at zherkóv’s words, expecting one of +several of them were not separated from one another but merged into a +several dead men. one ball after another passed over as he approached +seven virtues, corresponding to the seven steps of solomon’s temple, +seventeen of the forty men of the guns’ crews had been disabled, but +“seven new and three old imperials.” +seven in the morning but had not reached it by five in the afternoon.” +seven he needed was lying uppermost, the first card in the pack. he had +set without whom my wife cannot exist, and those women.... if you only +“settled!” replied borís. +settled into three groups. one, chiefly masculine, had formed round +settled. he came because of sónya. and sónya, though she would never +settled down comfortably beside the fire. +setting, on a finely wrought silver chain. +setting it on fire and the french batteries were now firing at them, no +setting fire to schön grabern. +set off to rejoin the army, not knowing where he would find it and +set fire to the schön grabern village, delayed the french advance. the +serving our tsar and our country, rejoicing in the successes and +serving as a private. but the command of the extreme left flank had been +service to place himself very advantageously. he was aide-de-camp to a +service,” said the prince disdainfully. “why his son is coming i +service... it can’t be helped... one is sometimes a bit hasty on +service is to serve under him.” +service, and he at once understood his role, letting his hostess make +service. a little behind them stood the two younger princesses holding +service.” +serve him. rostóv patted the horse’s neck and then his flank, and +served up was received with pleasure by all her visitors. the greatest +servants with lanterns were bustling about in the porch. the immense +servants say in a frightened whisper. “catch hold from underneath. +servant. +serious tone, “but the prince told me to ‘go and tell the colonel +seriousness of his stupid smile, could not but give him a moment’s +serious for an instant at the sight of her, but immediately smiling +serious expression. but the author himself took the verses and began +serious duel, and besides, drubetskóy, who says he is an old friend +sergéy kuzmích...’ poor vyazmítinov could not get any farther! +“sergéy kuzmích—from all sides—” he said, unbuttoning the top +‘sergéy’ he sobbed, ‘kuz-mí-ch,’ tears, and ‘from all +sergeant was carrying in a wooden bowl to an officer who sat on a log +sergeant in charge of the cannon which was to give the signal to fire +separation! though i tell myself that half my life and half my happiness +separating the living from the dead—lay between them. all were +“separate? very well, but only if you give me a fortune,” said +separately through his thin compressed lips, “i will throw him down +sent you. religious! i don’t interfere with anyone’s belief... i +sent to moscow. the story told about him at count rostóv’s was true. +sent instead of our dear wintzingerode you would have captured the king +sentiments,” he seemed to be saying, “so much the worse for you!” +sent dólokhov the whole forty-three thousand rubles and received his +sent an official to austria to seek for traces of his son, he ordered a +sense of awe and veneration such as he had experienced in his boyhood at +senseless cry, “cut off!” that is so terrible in battle, and that +sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around +sensation of fear and respect which the old man inspired in all around +send his orderly staff officer, and later prince andrew also, to order +semi-private, long-established jokes and amusing reminiscences, though +“semën! do you know the daniel cooper?” +“sell us that horse!” denísov called out to the cossacks. +“sell me the missis,” said another soldier, addressing the german, +self-satisfied, youthful, and constant smile of animation, and by the +self-satisfied. +self-respect, but admit that the time and place are very badly chosen. +self-possession mingled at that moment in rostóv’s soul. +self-possession. if a man lacking in self-confidence remains dumb on +self-derision genuinely russian. bilíbin wrote that the obligation of +self-confident french; then again, like a man weary but unflinching in +self-confident. +self-confidence, while his body was thin and weak. his eyes, nose, and +self-complacent happiness that one sees on the face of a boy happily +self-complacency than his did.) “well, he stormed at me, as the saying +self, and so before one can know, it is necessary to believe and to +seizing the most opportune moment for making use of people. +seizing his father’s hand, he pressed it to his lips and burst into +seize some horsecloths, though he had told him the russians were there. +seized him at the thought of that dreadful step. a thousand times during +seized by terror lest he had already, in some way, bound himself to do +seized by an unreasoning panic—it occurred to him that the child was +see you,” he added, bowing his head. +see whether they were getting up. +see whether it was firmly plaited, and grasping his by the hand. “the +see whether he cannot attach you to himself or find a place for you +see those who, judging by the sound of hoofs and voices, had ridden up +see the true light, and that he, pierre, ought to aid, enlighten, and +see the soldiers’ shaggy caps, distinguish the officers from the men, +seen you. very glad! go back to your rooms, princess. go!” said +seen through. +seen. the lines of that mouth were remarkably finely curved. the middle +seen the light, come here? what do you seek from us? wisdom, virtue, +seen the day before in the arms of her nurse’s daughter—at her +seen. prince andrew stopped and began examining the position. +seen him since we acted together at the rumyántsovs’ theatricals. i +seen him in petersburg. i saw him just as i see you.... there he sat in +seem to him that everyone is afraid of him, and that must please him. +seeming to grow suddenly smaller, and respectfully received the blessing +seemed to wish, but to be unable, to diminish its effect. +seemed to say. “you had not noticed that i am a woman? yes, i am a +seemed to say: “yes, there’s nothing left for you and me but to sip +seemed to say. she saw her husband, but did not realize the significance +seemed to me to have an excellent heart, and that is the quality i value +seemed to him that it was getting lighter. to the left he saw a sloping +seemed to him that it was a very long time ago, almost a day, since he +seemed to him that he had expected all this and even more. trying +seemed to him that bogdánich rode so near in order to show him his +seemed to him like ants. in that world, the handsome drunkard number one +seemed to him as though one of the soldiers near him hit him on the head +seemed to him all the interests that engrossed napoleon, so mean did his +seemed to her that someone was there standing behind the screen in the +seemed to hear left... left... left. +seemed to have changed roles since the campaign of 1805. the old man, +seemed to groan at the terrible impact. +seemed to give way within him at this news. dólokhov was a suitable and +seemed to be seeking something, and soldiers dragging doors, benches, +seemed to be poles—all under the russian crown—but here they’re +seemed to ask. she noticed at once that something had happened to him. +seemed ready to lift its tail, jump down on its soft paws, and begin +seemed loaded with a whole houseful of effects. a fine brindled cow with +seemed like a lifeless body, but as soon as he came up it became alive, +seemed impossible. “but perhaps they may do it!” for more than ten +seemed familiar to princess mary was saying something. +seemed confused and blushed as if not knowing what to say. +seemed as though not the trumpeters were playing, but as if the army +seem. +seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. man’s future and thy own fate +seeing them he kept thinking, “that may be the very standard with +seeing the fright of that small and frail but proud man when covered by +seeing the favor the emperor showed the prisoners, they now hastened to +seeing that smile, rostóv involuntarily smiled himself and felt a still +seeing some men running toward him. “they will help me!” in front +seeing prince andrew stopped, hesitating on the threshold. he went into +seeing anna mikháylovna and her son, prince vasíli dismissed the +“see, i’m standing! see!” she said, but could not maintain herself +see how these nestlings are growing up,” and she pointed to the girls. +“see how smart she’s made herself! oh, the devils!” +see his face. anna mikháylovna left him, and when she returned he was +seduced, and to whom her poor mother (sa pauvre mère) appeared, and +sedate, and the naïveté of his youthful egotism was so obvious, that +secret malevolence in their hearts. +secretly regretting this, saw only the dark side. +secretary rather than commander in the army. my removal from the army +secretary of the russian embassy, do not feel any need in token of my +second time. but pierre was so absorbed that he did not understand what +seconds he stood not moving from the spot or realizing the situation. +“second line... have you written it?” he continued dictating to the + second epilogue +seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the +seated them on the center sofa. the bigwigs, the most respected members +seat. +search of somebody and answered all her questions in monosyllables. he +scrutinizing anatole closely and intently. +screwing up his eyes and shaking with suppressed laughter, and unable +screwed up his eyes as if dazzled by the sun. he was entirely absorbed +screams kept repeating: +screams, continued. +scratch yourself.” +scratch from one paragraph to another with his hard nail. +“scoundrels! blackguards!” shrieked the old man, turning his face +scoundrel? is that how you look at it? we don’t see it like that. and +scoundrel is again at our heels!” +science explaining the whole creation and man’s place in it. to +“schubert, the colonel of the pávlograd hussars, is dining with us +schoss, and his old nurse, and asked them to kiss for him “dear +schools,” he went on, crooking a finger, “education and so forth; +schoolboy called up before a large audience for an examination in which +schön grabern—and he would have found that easier. the committeemen +schön grabern affair, just as those who have taken part in a battle +“schon fleissig?” * said rostóv with the same gay brotherly smile +schönbrunn, 25th brumaire, 1805, +schlappanitz and the thuerassa forest, avoiding the defiles of +schlappanitz and bellowitz which cover the enemy’s front. for this +schérer, maid of honor and favorite of the empress márya fëdorovna. +schérer. at the other end sat the younger and less important guests, +schérer.” +scarred and puffy face. +sca’cwow? call the quahtehmasteh,” he shouted to lavrúshka. +scabbard and flourishing it. +say—“yes, misfortune! call it what you please, i know that what +say to the adjutant that borís felt uncomfortable. he turned away and +say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and +say that it is dull in my house again,” and she glanced at hélène. +say something but could not. her brother had guessed right: the little +say it.” +saying this he again turned round, dropped his hands, took the bottle +saying that the russian ladies are not equal to the french? one has to +saying that, on the contrary, she remembered him quite well. then +saying that he must prostrate himself at the gates of the temple. +saying something witty and stinging. +saying.” prince andrew looked silently at pierre with an ironic smile. +saying it right, i have drunk a good deal—but that is how i feel, and +saying. “i have been an atheist,” answered pierre. +saying as he moved from the gun, when a strange, unfamiliar voice called +saying, and sat plunged in thought. five minutes later, gently swaying +saying. +say i’ll have his head off if everything is not here in a week. +say (as he has done before) that i’m in the dumps.” +say. +saw with his own eyes brick buildings erected or in course of erection, +saw them all and saw them in detail. she saw prince vasíli’s face, +saw the beloved features that were so deeply engraved on his memory. the +saw his smile, which said nothing, unless perhaps, “opinions are +saw friendly looks and heard friendly words. yesterday’s adjutant +saw denísov coming home. denísov was a small man with a red face, +saw—covered to the waist by a bright green quilt—the familiar, +saw a rather short man. having evidently come from the light into the +saviour’s words, that it is easier for a camel to go through the +save myself?” he thought. he rode on to the region where the greatest +saved. but he saw nothing. above him there was now nothing but the +sausages and a bottle of wine. +sat waiting for something, and again soldiers straggling from their +sat up and began wiping her eyes and explaining. +sat playing patience with the old gentlewoman who lived in their house. +satisfied with the party. she replied in her usual simple manner that +satisfied with him?” he asked the regimental commander. +satisfaction. +sat in an armchair in her dressing jacket and nightcap and katie, sleepy +sat facing bagratión and, as the very personification of moscow +sat down languidly on the sofa: he felt it unpleasant to have dropped +sat down at her writing table, on which stood miniature portraits and +sat down again, smiling at the noise they had made and exchanging +satchels, sabretaches, open portmanteaus, and dirty boots. two freshly +sarcastic smile. +sang the quartette, “the brook,” with which everyone was delighted. +same. you’ll be all right anywhere. but look here: give up visiting +same way. when did it happen and what has happened? i am well and strong +same to me!” he screamed in the same piercing tone as when parting +same time felt shy. +same time at the emperor francis. +same state of excitement as when she had slammed the door of her room. +same speed, but they kept increasing their pace, so that some of the +same sergeant major iván mítrich, the same company dog jack, and the +same question. “will papa be back soon?” +same!” pierre often indulged in reflections of this sort, nullifying +same moment his kindly eyes grew moist with tears of joy and enthusiasm. +same mind he began explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the +same.... is everything ready?” he added. “only tell me where to go +same firm pressure of the hand and the same quick, repeated bows. as +same expression, which seemed to say that he had a right to suppose +same commanders. the sailor rarely cares to know the latitude in which +same as usual,” and princess mary pale, frightened, and with downcast +same?” +same!” +salver, glanced around in dismay, as though seeking help. but all eyes +saluting, and this sound rapidly came nearer along the whole extended +sake that the latter might say something he would afterwards regret. +saint, my angel,” she said with a sigh. +said zherkóv. +said yesterday... let him grow up with you.... please.” +said without sitting down. “a person of very high standing in our +said, without noticing nicholas. +said to her, went to the looking glass and arranged her hair and scarf. +said to be fleeing in great disorder. mind you gallop off to kórchevo +said this some time after she had finished singing. while that untrained +said the princess in a tone of entreaty. +said the princess, ignoring his question. “now i know! yes; if i have +said the old soldier dismally to a comrade, “you’ll forget to +said the old man, “say so, my dear sir.” and he suddenly smiled, in +said: “then i will go to my rooms. you will let me know when i can see +said the general, turning to an artillery officer. “have a little fun +said the countess smiling. +said the countess, indignant that they should have dared to treat this +said the countess. “but i am in great need of this sum.” +said: “that’s bad! go on, go on.” +said shinshín, laughing ironically and mixing the most ordinary russian +said she, uttering the word with peculiar assurance and unconcern, “i +said she in french, displaying her bag and addressing all present. +said she. +said rostóv in an imploring voice, “but i can’t apologize, by god i +said rostóv, blushing. +said repnín. +said prince andrew who had not yet had time to eat anything. +said prince andrew when they had gone into the large room where the +said prince andrew, as he entered the study, rubbing his small white +said one of the nursemaids to prince andrew who was sitting on a +said, of a wife who was a celebrated beauty and of millions of money. +said nothing to borís and, evidently unable to suppress the thoughts +said little iogel coming up to nicholas. “look how many charming young +said it, and they all felt awkward. +said inquiringly. +said in a tone of indifferent politeness: +said, “how am i to stifle in my heart these temptations of the devil? +said, holding the casement and not closing it. “with lanterns. most +said her eyes. she was not surprised at his having come; she did +said he. “now for trouble!” rostóv looked out of the window and +said he, carrying away into the darkness a glowing stick. +said he, “but the health of our sovereign, that good, enchanting, and +said he, bending down a finger. +said he. +said dólokhov. +said bilíbin as he came out to meet prince andrew. “franz, put the +said a tall, grizzly-haired staff captain, with enormous mustaches and +said another. +said a gunner, coming up to túshin. +said: +said. +said. +sad voice, as if saying: “very well, finish me off.” +sadness, and this occurred every time she mentioned her illustrious +saddle sore which, coming after all my previous journeys, quite prevents +saddle, he galloped to the other flank of the squadron and shouted in +saddle and touched up his horse to ride once more round his hussars. it +sad and depressed. it was all so strange, so unlike what he had hoped. +sacrificed myself. but only the base, the vile succeed! i know who has +sacrificed everything for his sake!” she cried. “it’s splendid! +sacrament. the dying man lay as lifeless and immovable as before. around +sacrament, allow him a moment’s peace! here, pierre, tell them your +sabretache...”—“keep to the right, your honor, there are bushes +saber which had caught in his cloak. it was an old-fashioned saber of +saber them... whom? the hussars... ah, the hussars with mustaches. along +saber, he sank on the snow beside it. his left hand was bloody; he wiped +saber had tasted flesh and he had fallen exhausted, and so on. and so he +russia were settling near the fortress of braunau and burdening the +russia’s glory were led to destruction. go, princess mary. go and tell +russian valor—what more could be wished for?” +russian troops were crossing the river enns. at midday the russian +russian troops moving down the valley to their left. +russian troops and their commander of the laurels they have been + russians! o’er all barriers on! +russians from krems to znaim. +russians fought, the only consequence of these actions was a yet more +russian on which he wished to put a contemptuous emphasis. +russian musketeer who had gone up to the picket line with an officer and +russian general. the general shouted a demand that the cavalry should be +russian bath. the movement of these wrinkles formed the principal play +russian army will be fully equipped, and shall then, in conjunction with +russian army! well, as i was saying,” he continued, recovering his +russian army loots terribly—her army is destroyed, her capital + russian army, i must say that your victory was not +russian army found vent in anger at zherkóv’s untimely jest. +russian army. and i won’t—not even if bonaparte were here at +russian arms. +russian and the austrian. the guards, just arrived from russia, spent +russian. +rush to obey the summons. “send dmítri to me!” +rushing at the cadet to restrain him. +rushed out apparently beside herself with delight. +running to the door and the noise of a chair falling over, and a girl +running into sónya’s room and not finding her there, natásha ran to +running? can they be coming at me? and why? to kill me? me whom everyone +running beside timókhin, killed a frenchman at close quarters and was +running. +rum without taking it from my mouth, sitting outside the window on this +rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be +ruin. wasn’t he my friend? wasn’t i fond of him? but it’s not his +rug and began reading to him from a manuscript book an explanation of +rubles i don’t know what to do with, and she stands in her tattered +rubles, dólokhov lived with him and had placed himself on such a +rubles a year? and,” he went on after a pause, “what will it be in +rubles at a time, to talk about not wishing to cringe to anybody and not +rubbing his bald head and angrily pulling back toward him the little +rubbed his forehead as if to rid himself of all interest in what he +royalist emigrant. +rows of statues in niches) and looking significantly at the lady’s old +rows of faces so alike yet so different, holding its breath while the +“rousseau’s contrat social,” said the vicomte with a tolerant +roused, had begun to talk, and wanted to express what had brought him to +roused by activity, expected the best results from the new campaign, +round with much animation and cheerfully nodded to his son as the latter +round the two corners of the mouth; this, together with the resolute, +round the table, the clatter of plates, knives, and glasses mingled with +round the first man changed his run to a walk and, turning, shouted +round the company. he noticed the change in the little princess’ +round sónya and natásha as the air does before a thunderstorm. sónya +round shoulders shuddered as if a cold shiver had run down them, how his +round-shouldered captain túshin, stumbling over the tail of the gun +round. prince andrew and the battalion were already within twenty paces +round once more. the french had fallen behind, and just as he looked +round márya dmítrievna, now on his toes, now on his heels; until, +round his son’s neck, and without a word he began to sob like a child. +round her head. +round an open window. three others were romping with a young bear, one +round and notices here a spindle that has stopped or there one that +round and galloped back to the place where he had seen the emperor, but +round and clapping rostóv on the shoulder with his big hand. +rosy, with a dark little mustache, evidently rested and made sleeker by +rosy, was sitting in an easy chair with her work in her hands, talking +rostóv, without returning home, took a horse and rode there. there was +rostóv with dólokhov and denísov stayed on at the club till late, +rostóv wiping his muddy hands on his breeches looked at his enemy and +rostóv, who had just celebrated his promotion to a cornetcy and bought +rostóv, who had completely forgotten denísov, not wishing anyone to +rostóv, when their leave permits had been passed at the town gate and +rostóv went to telyánin’s quarters. +rostóv went on ahead to do what was asked, and to his great surprise +rostóv waved his cap above his head like the german and cried laughing, +rostóv was very happy in the love they showed him; but the first +rostóv was not far from the trumpeters, and with his keen sight had +rostóv turned his horse and galloped back. four more reports followed +rostóv took the purse in his hand, examined it and the money in it, and +rostóv took the money, avoiding telyánin’s eyes, and went out of the +rostóv took the money and, mechanically arranging the old and new coins +rostóv took the letter and, throwing the money on the sofa, put both +rostóv too, bending over his saddle, shouted “hurrah!” with all his +rostóv thrust the purse under the pillow and shook the damp little hand +rostóvs, with whom she stayed when in the town and where her darling +rostóv submitted. he let the eight hundred remain and laid down a seven +rostóv stopped his horse for a moment on a hillock to see what was +rostóv stopped. +rostóv, still looking round toward the fires and the shouts, rode with +rostóv, standing in the front lines of kutúzov’s army which the tsar +rostóv staked five rubles on a card and lost, staked again, and again +rostóv’s soul (it seemed to rostóv that he understood everything), +rostóv’s share in dólokhov’s duel with bezúkhov was hushed up by +rostóv spurred his horse, called to sergeant fédchenko and two other +rostóv smilingly reassured the dragoon and gave him money. +rostóv smiled. +rostóv shrugged his shoulders as much as to say: “nor do i, but +rostóv’s horse was also getting restive: it pawed the frozen ground, +rostóv’s feeling, there was a deathly stillness amid which was heard +rostóv’s face. a gentle, mild light poured from them. then all at +rostóv saw that it had been well considered by them. sónya had already +rostóv saw tears filling the emperor’s eyes and heard him, as he was +rostóv saw overhead the old familiar cornice with a bit of plaster +rostóv saw nothing but the hussars running all around him, their spurs +rostóv’s and back, and back again and again in an instant. +rostóv, rubbing his eyes that seemed glued together, raised his +rostóv rode on at a footpace not knowing why or to whom he was now +rostóv recalled at that moment a strange conversation he had once had +rostóv noticed something new in dólokhov’s relations with sónya, +rostóv met sónya in the drawing room, he reddened. he did not know +rostóv looked at and listened listlessly to what passed before and +rostóv let go of the horse and was about to ride on, when a wounded +rostóv learned later that russian and austrian soldiers had been firing +rostóv laughed so loud and merrily that denísov, in his bedroom, felt +rostóv hurriedly put something on his feet, drew on his dressing gown, +rostóv, his eyes avoiding denísov, began buttoning his coat, buckled +rostóv himself, his legs well back and his stomach drawn in and feeling +rostóv heard. +rostóv had just prepared a card, by bending the corner of which he +rostóv had been ordered to look for kutúzov and the emperor near the +rostóv, growing red and pale alternately, looked first at one officer +rostóv from a distance saw with envy and remorse how von toll spoke +rostóv for his friendship to her fédya, often talked to him about her +rostóv followed them. in front of him walked kutúzov’s groom leading +rostóv, flushing, drew dólokhov into the next room. +rostóv felt that, under the influence of the warm rays of love, that +rostóv felt ill at ease. he tried, but failed, to find some joke with +(rostóv felt himself quite tiny and weak compared to these gigantic men +rostóv felt denísov’s gaze fixed on him, raised his eyes, and +rostóv fancied he had seen before) rode up to the ditch, struck his +rostóv did not think what this call for stretchers meant; he ran on, +rostóv did not speak. +rostóv did not listen to the soldier. he looked at the snowflakes +rostóv did not know or remember how he ran to his place and mounted. +rostóv could already see their faces and heard the command: +rostóv considered, and then went in the direction where they said he +rostóv became thoughtful. +rostóv as he continued to deal. +rostóv anticipated his horse’s movements and became more and more +rostóv, and sighing deeply he took rook, his horse, which stood resting +rostóv and most of the officers after the review. +rostóv and had not responded to his greeting. when the emperor’s +rostóv, and dólokhov—who was now again an officer in the semënov +rostóv and denísov drove away with the wounded dólokhov. +rostóv, absorbed by his relations with bogdánich, had paused on the +rostóv. +rostóv. +rostóv. +“rostóv!” +rose in alarm on seeing it. +rose from an ensign and became emperor. well, well, god grant it,” he +rose, by a glance inviting pierre, who sat opposite, to listen to what +rose and with her heavy tread went up to the table. she took a sheet of +room with the inkstand in her hand. +room with rapid steps. now he seemed to see her in the early days of +room without a word. but at the door he stopped and then retraced his +room with a look of alarm. between twelve and two o’clock, as the +room, where you will be ranged side by side with a court lackey and an +room to write to his father, to whom he wrote every day. in the corridor +room, they still heard the laughter and merry voices trying to persuade +room. the prince stood still; his lively glittering eyes from under +room. the old man already knew everything. he was standing close to +room. the old countess, waiting for the return of her husband and son, +room. the countess reflected a moment and took a pinch from a gold +room, something flew out from a side door like a tornado and began +room. no one spoke and the only sounds heard were the clatter of knives +room.... nicholas had been prepared for resistance, but had not at all +room,” he said. +room, grew silent and gazed with eyes full of curiosity or expectancy at +room, exclaiming and oh-ing and ah-ing. +room. denísov silently watched lavrúshka’s movements, and when the +room by which dolgorúkov had entered—a short man in civilian clothes +room and we shall have to go down, and you have not smartened yourself +room and still less how to leave one; that is, how to say something +room, and looked round with a smile. she was, as always at evening +room, almost all the company had assembled, and the conversation, guided +room. all were silent. +room after supper? why, we settled how everything was to be. i don’t +room, addressed pierre. +room. +rook—a handsome horse despite its game leg—had the happy air of a +roof lit up by the sun? no one knows, but one wants to know. you fear +rolling them up. márya dmítrievna always spoke in russian. +rolled softly over the straw beneath the windows, anna mikháylovna, +rode with our regiment all the time, so that we had every comfort and +rode side by side in front, at full gallop. one in a black uniform with +rode past the limbers to the farthest cannon. +rode, not hoping to find anyone but merely to ease his conscience. when +road which gleamed white in the mist would have been safer because it +road. bagratión’s exhausted and hungry detachment, which alone +rivulet flowed, the soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was +river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at +river flowed was formed by the rising ground only half a mile away. +rite which everyone expected of him, and that he was therefore bound +rising in his soul. dólokhov, denísov, and rostóv were now sitting +risen and was going toward his room. +ringing, deliberate voice. “i ask an opportunity to atone for my fault +ring, cried from the window: “come here; part the bets!” this was +ring, and zherkóv, uneasily glancing at them all, and prince andrew, +right! twenty-one rubles,” he said, pointing to the figure twenty-one +right to fire when they liked as they approached the barrier. dólokhov +right sounded oftener and nearer. as soon as túshin with his guns, +rights of man, is sentenced to...” but before pierre—who at that +right, shouting and firing were again heard. flashes of shot gleamed in +right—serve him. nicholas bolkónski’s son need not serve under +right. selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that’s what +rightly supposes that matters have already gone too far. i think it will +right light.... in my opinion perpetual peace is possible but—i do not +right, it is advantageous to attack the enemy’s latter wing especially +right—he did not know. “but was it really not possible for kutúzov +right hand, which was lying palm downwards, a wax taper had been thrust +right flank and drive it into the bohemian mountains according to plan, +right and what’s good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by +right!” and his head once more sank to his horse’s neck. all at once +right across the skull. having said this he glanced at natásha. +right. +rid them of the bourbons and because they saw that he was a great +riding over it trained a gun on him and fired several shots. the +riding away, say to czartorýski: “what a terrible thing war is: what +riding, and sometimes, when he came within six paces of them, the +riding alone with three hussars into that mysterious and dangerous misty +riding a fine bobtailed horse, and a civilian—an accountant who had +rid himself of them he closed his eyes. +rider’s leg. blood was flowing from his head; he struggled but could +ride and especially by the sound of the bullets. +rich youths, officers and cadets, who had galloped past him on their +rich old man. but before leaving home and undertaking these new affairs, +richest of the officers now that he had received his money, bought it. +rich?” +ribbons. +rhetor went away, leaving him to solitary meditation. “it must be so, +rhetor, though it aroused his curiosity, did not seem to him essential, +rhetor’s instructions. the mason drew the shirt back from pierre’s +rhetor said, “to bring yourself to regard it not as a dreaded foe, but +rhetor, after a moment’s pause. +revolution, which has become more terrible than ever in the person of +revoir! ”—and she left the hall. +reverence and was beyond question. +return to her the whole evening. +return the holy image. +returning to the town. the commander in chief made a sign that the +returning to his hobby; “tell me how the germans have taught you to +returning his smile. +returning from his journey through south russia in the happiest state +returned to petersburg quite crestfallen. +returned to moscow and went straight to her rich relations, the +returned home just before dinner. as soon as he entered he noticed and +returned from them dragging sheep, fowls, hay, and bulging sacks. at +returned from the council, tired and exhausted but eager and proud +returned from a long journey on which he had spent dozens of years, had +returned, and over the bottle of wine conversation between the three +returned), and, forcing open a loosely closed latch, set the damask + return.” +retreat to the dip by echelons.” so he reasoned.... all the time +retreating to our frontier—which do today.’ +retreating forces. +retreating against their will. a few minutes after the emperor had +retreated as a disorderly crowd. one soldier, in his fear, uttered the +retreat after a battle have lost it is what we say; and according to +“retire! all to retire!” he shouted from a distance. +resumed its former cold, artificial expression. she returned to the +resumed her duties as hostess and continued to listen and watch, ready +result from it—no longer seemed to be in the future but in the past. +rest, went in to dinner. he was seated in the place of honor between +restraining his tears of pity for the emperor, he rode on in utter +restraining her angry tears. +restrained animation as he stood sipping tea from a delicate chinese +resting, and to halt facing vienna with znaim to his rear, and if he +rested on prince andrew’s face. +rest, and then...” +responsibility of that deed.” +responsibility. but circumstances are sometimes too strong for us, +respect, he had decided that it would be a good thing to set fire to the +respectfully when the military governor, having stayed about half an +respectfully bowed head, seemed also to be waiting. the silence lasted +respectfully. +respected and feared her. +respect and honor you, but all the same remember that the future belongs +resounding voice, apparently to preclude the possibility of not being +resounded. the column moved forward without knowing where and unable, +resounded on the planks of the bridge, and the squadron, officers in +resolved to go away next day and leave a letter informing her of his +resolved not to be the first to break silence, if she had to wait till +resolution. can it be that i have none?” +resolute self-will, “he is wicked and heartless. there now, i like +resolutely took the salver with both hands and looked sternly and +resolute in the discharge of duty, ran out and touching pierre lightly +reserve units were able to join up, and the fight was at an end. the +reserve tomorrow,” he thought. “i’ll ask leave to go to the front, +reserve gun carriage, the wounded were carried away, and the four guns +resembling his master in manners and looks, who was accompanying him +rescue. pierre had managed to start a conversation with the abbé about +required papers. kutúzov and the austrian member of the hofkriegsrath +request that he would take no part in the matter, rostóv agreed to be +request. +repulsed, he had lost more than half his men. he said the attack +reproachfully at the count who had presented it to him. someone +reproached him for not having stayed at the palace, and offered him +reproached her for yielding to a man without being married. mademoiselle +reproached and disputed with each other. +reprimanding and reproaching him. túshin gave no orders, and, +represented as a brilliant victory over the french, and so the +represented all that was left of that whole regiment. impelled by the +representative but one of the great century, and that it is his own +reprehensible, looked round with a blush. it seemed to him that everyone +report was heard, bagratión looked round and shouted, “hurrah!” +reports that prince auersperg was defending vienna?” he said. +reports one after another, and a third. +reports from our scouts. here are two letters from count nostitz and +reported to him, and then joined the adjutants listening to what the +report, and began deliberately to examine the whole battlefield extended +reply—which he would not have received, for the princess was unable to +reply to his look, and went still faster along the passage. +reply. +reply. +replied: “yes, yes, i agree,” and with a beaming, childlike smile, +replied that it would be more than enough for him and that he gave his +replied prince vasíli. +replied borís, betraying neither annoyance at the prince’s brusque +replied, and the four simply looked at one another. she lingered in the +replied, “and it is that he would be merciful to him and would allow +replied. +replace some chessmen that were falling. he was about to embrace his +repented and added: “i am glad; really, dear, i am very glad.” +repellent. yet in this very repugnance to all his circumstances pierre +repeating to himself at each alternate step, “left... left... +repeating the terms of the wager to him in english. +repeating the terms of the bet, addressing himself particularly to +repeating in a low voice the same words several times over. +repeat his question. +repeated. “i should be glad enough to fall asleep, so it’s not my +repeated from the opening words of the manifesto: +repeated by others from various sides and all became silent. +renounced your former convictions—do you believe in god?” +rendered, and i supplied them with a doctor, a hospital, and an asylum +remorse, humiliations, sufferings, outbursts of pride, fear, and +“remember that you will answer for the consequences,” said prince +remember nikólenka too, i remember him well,” she said. “but i +remember how we and nicholas, all three of us, talked in the sitting +“remember, for you everything depends on this.” +remember everything?” said natásha, with an expressive gesture, +remembered it three months before, when the count had sent him to +remark to him, pointing to the gallant Ápsherons. +remarks which seemed to him clever while they formed in his mind became +remarks. the old count rose once more, glanced at a note lying beside +remarks at him, though without looking at him. +remarked. “well, sit down: let’s have a talk.” +remain stationary in face of an enemy eight times as strong as itself. +remains of supper. a footman, thinking no one saw him, was drinking on +remains of sheds, chairs, tables, wheels, tubs, and everything that they +remaining strength. he raised his pistol and aimed. +remaining in moscow, and only awaited the termination of denísov’s +remained on the farther side of the bridge facing the enemy, who could +remained in reserve and nicholas rostóv spent that day in a dull and +remained alone with him for a long time. +relying on reason only? what art thou? you are young, you are rich, you +reluctantly, but gradually with more and more animation, and from habit +religion?” +relays. +relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the +relating to nikólenka, did not venture to ask any questions at dinner, +rejects all knowledge that does not come from him; and the less we seek +reins and started of his own accord. +reinforce the right flank. the officer of the suite ventured to remark +regular order. +regular motion as a result of all that activity. +regularity in his household was carried to the highest point of +regrettable delusion.” +regret her words. but she went on hurriedly: +regret. drawing rooms, gossip, balls, vanity, and triviality—these are +regiment was much surprised at the commander in chief’s order to throw +regiment, they listen intently, look about, and eagerly ask concerning +regiment. the faces of these young people, especially those who were +regiments form bands and scour the countryside and put everything +regiments, both cavalry and infantry, were by no means ready for the +regiment, saying he was not such a fool as to slave at the front when he +regiment next to no time, my lad, you’re here today and tomorrow +regiment—instead of the straggling, disorderly crowd it had been on +regiment had just the appearance of any russian regiment preparing for +regiment had been broken up. all he knew was that at the commencement +regiment but was not liked; rostóv especially detested him and was +regiment, and bogdánich knows it. oh, we do prize it, old fellow! and +regimental commander was nicknamed king of hearts). +regimental commander, overtaking the third company on its way to its +regimental commander hung his head, silently shrugged his shoulders, and +regimental commander cooling down a little. “leave indeed.... one says +regimental commander and major ekonómov had stopped beside a bridge, +regeneration, and return to life. +regenerate, purify, and elevate me. but you don’t understand it.” +regard to this project of marriage for me, i will tell you, dear sweet +regarding him with a smile of approbation. +regarding all arguments as nonsense in comparison with that smile. +regard him—but you want to cure him from love of him. and he does not +regarded all these little adjutants on the staff of whom the newcomer +refusing to let her see them off. the diplomatist preserved a mournful +refuse iogel and asked sónya to dance. denísov sat down by the old +refusal with his head and hand and by that gesture rostóv instantly +reform by marrying him to prince andrew’s sister. +reflections. better die a thousand times than risk receiving an unkind +reflected on theirs. +refined french in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and +“refill my pipe for that one!” and then, scattering sparks from it, +referred to in that drawing room as “a man of great merit” (un homme +reduced to tears. +red. several battalions of soldiers, in their shirt sleeves despite +red patches appeared on princess mary’s face and she was silent as if +red hands; he did not know, as the saying is, how to enter a drawing +recruits were being enrolled in the villages, and from the seat of +recruitment so as to avoid active service. the old prince and his son +recruiting. none of them had yet seen the manifesto, but they all knew +recross to the other. at last our enemy, buxhöwden, catches us and +recovered, and rostóv became very friendly with him during his +recover.” +recounting his military exploits (prince andrew could not endure +recommended to the empress) and at the same time to console him, so she +recollections.” prince vasíli sighed. “yes, yes, my boy. and my +recollection of how he was put in the sleigh or of the first three +recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it. that is the one +recognized the tsar and watched his approach. when he was within twenty +recognized his lamented and adored monarch. +recognized him and stopped to listen to what he was saying. dólokhov +recognized as legitimate; so that he is now count bezúkhov and +reckoning.” +reciprocated this antipathy, but it was overpowered by his contempt +reception room if he wished to see him. borís thanked him and went to +reception hall: michael ivánovich, mademoiselle bourienne, princess +reception. +receiving it. this gratitude reminded him of how much more he might do +receiving from all sides declarations of the people’s loyalty, that +receive that science it is necessary to purify and renew one’s inner +received was shown him. a strange lady, the one who had been talking to +received pierre with a shade of melancholy, evidently relating to the +received him with distinction and special marks of favor, explaining to +received by the emperor. had you heard?” +received. a thanksgiving service was arranged, kutúzov was awarded +received as a savior.” +received and read the then famous rescript of the emperor alexander +received all petersburg, proud of her unapproachability and beauty. so +received. +receipt, he left at the end of november, without taking leave of any of +recalling bilíbin’s words. +recalled thousands of such hints from prince vasíli and others, and was +recalled all this as childishness he had left immeasurably behind. +recalcitrant cavalry colonel, his own dignity as a general, and above +rebuking her for her fall. +reawakening. he was afraid of any want of clearness, any weakness, in +reasons for buonaparte’s hatred of him. +reason, ran back and disappeared from the outskirts, and russian +reason, or shot a post-boy’s horse with a pistol. that expression +reason of her friend’s sorrow, “i’m sure véra has said something +reasoning contained in the mason’s words, or believed as a child +reason for rejoicing, they looked at each other with joyful delight and +rearguard all the freshness of atmosphere of the french army, which was +reappeared. +real state of french public opinion.” +“really, truly!” answered natásha, pushing in a crisp lock that had +“really, papa, i believe prince bagratión worried himself less before +“really, i don’t yet know. i don’t like either the one or the +“really i don’t care about that, i don’t care at all,” said +really good society” consisted of the fascinating hélène, forsaken +really...” but he did not say what “it really” was. “for the +really all the same to me when my son’s fate is at stake.” the +realized that something dreadful had happened to his regiment, and the +realized as he read that book: the joy, hitherto unknown to him, +realize because the fear was so much the stronger feeling. the prince +reality again presented itself. he got up without saying a word and went +ready to embrace the countess at the appropriate moment. +ready, the stranger opened his eyes, moved to the table, filled a +read this in tíkhon’s face and in that of prince vasíli’s valet, +“read this if you like, father,” said the princess, blushing still +reading. then milorádovich looked round significantly at the other +reading them aloud. bagratión bowed his head and listened: +reading the letter. he went on tiptoe to the nursery door and opened it. +reading confirmation in anna mikháylovna’s face. +readiness to fall in love and an expectation of happiness. +readily and rapidly like a man who has not talked for a long time. his +read a congratulation on his future son-in-law and on his daughter’s +reaching the large house near the horse guards’ barracks, in which +reached. wheels creak on their axles as the cogs engage one another and +reached to his very heels, and, stumbling in it, ran out into the porch +reached the bushes. behind these were some russian sharpshooters. +reached bagratión, the weighty tread of the mass of men marching in +rays of gentle light shone from her large, timid eyes. those eyes lit +rattle on the bridge as if nuts were being spilt, and the hussar nearest +ratify it; but it is only a trick. march on, destroy the russian +rather than of what the generals were disputing about. +rather short, as if surprised that anyone should not know him. +rather round shoulders and glanced at novosíltsev who was near him, as +rather of death, as the saying is. ‘albanians!’ and ‘devils!’ +rather confine ourselves to studying those sublime rules which our +rate he glanced at the refractory arm, at pierre’s terror-stricken +rasgulyáy—the coachman ipátka knows—and look up the gypsy +rascality....” +rarely left her and which made her plain, sickly face yet plainer. she +rarely done of late. it was a grand farewell dinner, as he and denísov +rapid, self-confident, familiar tone. “here is my second son; please +rapid retreat. austrian troops that had escaped capture at ulm and had +rapidly and indistinctly. “you thought!... rascals! blackguards!... +rapidly adding up the total of rostóv’s debt, breaking the chalk as +rapidly. +rapidity. he again vividly recalled the details of the battle, no longer +ran up, begging a little fire for the infantry. +ran rapidly over the wide space, but he only saw that the hitherto +ranks were returning from the attack. rostóv got out of their way, +ranks in this regiment.” +ranks; anatole was in the army somewhere in the provinces; prince andrew +ranks. +rank—“i thank you for myself and for our two dear ones whose name +rank (for he did nothing), that prince vasíli had procured for him, +rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. anna +range and wipe them out?” these were the questions each man of the +ran forward shading his eyes with his small hand to look at the french. +ran forward on each such occasion, fearing to miss a single word of the +ran ahead on tiptoe and knocked at a door. +raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspiring head, smiling +raising his eyebrows. +raising him. +raise him. but as soon as he thought of what he should say, he felt that +raised. he remained stubbornly silent, gazing at weyrother’s face, +railings. he looked back laughing to the cossack who stood a few +rage, “who are you? are you in command here? eh? i am commander here, +radiantly on her beautiful face. pierre gazed at her with rapturous, +quoting one of his own mots, releasing the wrinkles on his forehead, and +quivering in his breast and a tickling in his nose, and tears dimmed his +quits... it can’t be!... and why is he doing this to me?” rostóv +“quite well? all right then, sit down.” he took the exercise book +quite true; he had been indebted to her father for the first steps in +quite sincerely tried to make her look pretty. she was so plain that +“quite right,” said the englishman. +quite remember how, but don’t you remember that it could all be +quite opposite reputations. some, a minority, acknowledged him to be +quite mistaken if you reckon me or my mother among such people. we are +quite heard. +quite close at hand, and a voice of naïve terror barely two steps from +quite certain. ah! it is very dreadful...” +“quite avare, your excellency,” suddenly shouted the colonel, +quite astonishing. how did you get things settled? i couldn’t possibly +quilt. the eyes and face of the sick man showed impatience. he made an +quietly and said in a whisper: “please walk in.” +quietly and humorously how he had known that doll mimi when she was +quiet authority, “you wish to insult me, and i am ready to agree with +quiet and peace. thank god!...” +quick-witted, nor ready or eloquent in conversation, but he had the +quick or the enemy will bring up his guns to use grapeshot.” +quickly turned away, a scarcely perceptible smile flitting over his +quickly roused himself with a feeling of joy, as if learning afresh that +quickly. prince bagratión, uttering his words with an oriental accent, +quickly as possible. +quick. +questions that might be put to him and the answers he would give. he +questions put to him. he was bespattered with mud and had a pitiful, +questions of health, sometimes in russian and sometimes in very bad but +question—one so important that he took no notice of what went +questioning him about political affairs and news. he seemed to listen +question him. the man announced that the tsar had been driven in a +question he noticed that it should not have been put. +question for whose sake he came (though no one spoke of it) was soon +question for her to refuse him. and therefore nicholas’ first feeling +questioned prince andrew about the details of his interview with the +“qu’ est-ce qu’il chante?” * asked a frenchman. +queer,” he added after a pause, “that you should have suspected +quarters torches and candles were burning and no one slept. the old +quarters near braunau, where they hoped to receive boots and clothes and +quarters and riding up to captain timókhin who was walking in front. +quarter of an hour between two fires.” +quartermaster’s presence. +quartermaster for the money.” +quarreled with her brother about him. she insisted that he was a bad +quarreled with hélène, mon cher? you are under a delusion,” said +qualities. he was always hearing such words as: “with your remarkable +qualifications for it—the kind of good-natured, fussy shallowness +puzzled the devil himself! when you get there you’ll find out what +putting the nightshirt over his dried-up old body and gray-haired chest. +putting them down. when they’ve been put down, the war with buonaparte +put questions and gave brief replies about things they knew ought to +put it off. perhaps god will help me to find a way to prepare him!... +put it in a carriage, and set off with it to visit some actresses! the +put a little aside and to send something to my father,” he went on, +pushing back his chair, he rose from the table. +pushed the guns and wagons themselves. whips cracked, hoofs slipped, +pushed back in the sitting room where the count and márya dmítrievna +pursued by the french army of a hundred thousand men under the command +purse undah the pillow,” he said, and went out to the quartermaster. +purse that sank into the sofa. “as for us, count, we get along on our +purse and, drawing its rings aside with his small, white, turned-up +purse. +purposely dropped a handkerchief in front of him and stood looking +purple face, reporting something. +purple-faced general wait respectfully while captain prince andrew, for +purity, and not the serfs’ backs and foreheads, which, beat and shave +purified, thou wilt gain wisdom. look at your life, my dear sir. +punishments were to be admonitory and not corporal, and hospitals, +pultúsk to petersburg returns bringing our appointment as commander in +pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at +pulling him by the chain and trying to set him at the others. +puckering up his face though smiling, and showing his short strong +public to appreciate his skill. +p.s. let me have news of your brother and his charming little wife. +przebyszéwski, with respectful but dignified politeness, held his +przebyszéwski’s and langeron’s columns which had already gone down +przebyszéwski and his corps had laid down their arms. other columns +prussians without giving them time to finish the parade they had begun, +prussian army, hélène had suddenly found it necessary to see him. +prussia, and had just returned from there as a special messenger. he had +proverb says,” remarked shinshín, moving his pipe to the other side +proudly at his son. +protégé, but prince dolgorúkov politely and firmly pressing his hand +prostrated himself before the gates of the temple. and really, the +prospect of spending an evening with a poor invalid is not too terrible, +proposition to you in his pupil’s—i mean, his son’s—name. do you +propose is the only thing possible.” +proper posts. borís had been quartered, and had marched all the +properly. hélène answered with a smile that she too had missed it. +proper, and regular motion. but amid these cares her anxiety about +proofs of nikólenka’s virtues. how strange, how extraordinary, how +pronounced the mason in a stern and tremulous voice. +promotion to the rank of major, and rostóv, who had already drunk +promotion, nicholas said that he kissed his father’s and mother’s +promotion...” +promotion. +promise to prince andrew was of no account, because before he gave it +promise of rising in his diplomatic career. he was still a young man but +promised not to forget him, distinguished him above the other adjutants, +promised? nothing! and what little they have promised they will not +prominent gray eyes. then she shook her head and glanced up at the icons +promener,” * she used to say. often seeing the success she had with +projects for peace, a secret peace concluded separately.” +progress. would you believe it, i have literally not a penny and don’t +profited by their toil to lead a profligate life. that is what you have +produced on sónya, felt for the first time the sorrowful side of the +produced an effect she glanced at anna pávlovna, at once adopted just +produce at the same intervals and hold for the same time, but which +proceeding as usual. denísov, who had been losing at cards all night, +proceeded to his study. +problems in higher mathematics, turning snuffboxes on a lathe, working +probably to strengthen the front line. the smoke of the first shot had +probably think it easy to gain victories!” he thought. his eyes +“probably,” said prince andrew moving toward the outer door. +probably he did not, for in general he thought very little—but his +prizes his freedom which he needs for so many other things. when he +privilege of admiring her beautiful figure and shapely shoulders, +private and had not seen fit to recognize him. but now that kutúzov had +prisoners.” +principals nor their seconds suffered for it. but the story of the duel, +principal guests. he was just going to take it when dólokhov, leaning +“prince, what i have said is all there is in my heart. i thank you for +prince was at home, and showed him into a clean little anteroom. +prince vasíli, with one leg thrown high over the other and a snuffbox +prince vasíli wished to obtain this post for his son, but others were +prince vasíli, who pretended to want to know this in order to settle a +prince vasíli was seated in an easy chair in his familiar attitude, +prince vasíli was not a man who deliberately thought out his plans. +prince vasíli stared at her and at borís questioningly and perplexed. +“prince vasíli’s son, he, and a certain dólokhov have, it is said, +prince vasíli smiled, and pierre noticed that everyone was smiling at +prince vasíli smiled. +prince vasíli’s last words. then rising, he suddenly went up to his +prince vasíli’s face so out of keeping with his dignity that pierre +prince vasíli’s daughter, the beautiful hélène, came to take her +prince vasíli saw the princess off. she held a handkerchief to her eyes +prince vasíli saw that pierre knew this. he suddenly muttered +prince vasíli’s arm and led him to his study. as soon as they were +prince vasíli said no more and his cheeks began to twitch nervously, +prince vasíli rose. “oh!” said he with reproach and surprise, +prince vasíli rose. +prince vasíli readily adopted her tone and the little princess also +prince vasíli passed by, seeming not to hear the ladies, and sat down +prince vasíli looked questioningly at the princess, but could not make +prince vasíli kept the promise he had given to princess drubetskáya +prince vasíli had to settle matters with pierre, who, it is true, had +prince vasíli had come to the conclusion that it was necessary to throw +prince vasíli gave pierre a significant look. +prince vasíli frowned, twisting his mouth, his cheeks quivered and his +prince vasíli did not reply, though, with the quickness of memory and +prince vasíli did everything to get pierre to marry his daughter. had +prince vasíli came next. he staggered to the sofa on which pierre was +prince vasíli bent his head and spread out his hands. +prince vasíli became thoughtful and frowned. anna mikháylovna saw that +prince vasíli a third time. “how absent-minded you are, my dear +prince vasíli, as he entered. “i know all about it, and i can tell +prince vasíli arrived that evening. he was met in the avenue by +“prince vasíli arrived in moscow yesterday. i hear he has come on +prince vasíli and the generals, had the benefit of the diplomat. +prince vasíli and the eldest princess were sitting close together +prince vasíli and that son of his to me? prince vasíli is a shallow +prince vasíli and anatole had separate rooms assigned to them. +prince vasíli always spoke languidly, like an actor repeating a stale +prince vasíli. +prince told me to ask,’ and come and tell me her answer.” +prince to get up, tíkhon came to call the young prince to his father. +prince’s things in my bedroom,” said he to the servant who was +prince, stepping on his heels, paced up and down his study and sent +princess, with the long waist and hair plastered down like a doll’s, +princess with the expression women assume when they suppose they are +princess with a pleased smile, as to an intimate acquaintance. +princess went in with the drink she had prepared according to +princess was not unwell, but had such an overpowering fear of the prince +princess, turning away and continuing to read. but julie did not flatter +princess suddenly, her pretty face all at once distorted by a tearful +princess rose. “it’s now two o’clock and you dine at four. there +princess’ room, a carriage containing pierre (who had been sent for) +princess on hearing the news. +princess never saw the beautiful expression of her own eyes—the look +“princess, my dear, there’s someone driving up the avenue!” she +princess mary with a gay smile, as if inviting her to join in a laugh at +princess mary went to the door of the study with special trepidation. +princess mary went back to her room with the sad, scared expression that +princess mary was still standing by the cot, gently rocking the baby. +princess mary was sitting on the sofa in her room, holding the weeping +princess mary was left alone. she did not comply with lise’s request, +princess mary was first surprised and then aghast at this question. +princess mary threw a shawl over her head and ran to meet the newcomer. +princess mary, then sat thinking for a while with that expression of +princess mary’s self-esteem would be wounded and his point (not to +princess mary sighed, and having crossed herself went down, thinking +princess mary shuddered; her nurse, putting down the stocking she was +princess mary shrugged her shoulders but took the glass submissively +princess mary sat alone in her room listening to the sounds in the +princess mary rose and moved to the door, then stopped and said: +princess mary looked at them in silence. she could not understand it. at +princess mary looked at her brother in surprise. she did not understand +princess mary, little as he seemed to value her, was unthinkable to +princess mary knelt down before her and hid her face in the folds of her +princess mary had long since put aside her book: she sat silent, her +princess mary had greatly changed since 1805. +princess mary grew quite unconscious of her face and coiffure. the +princess mary, evidently intimidated and confused that her opinion +princess mary did not listen to the end, but continuing her train of +princess mary could not understand the boldness of her brother’s +princess mary could not lift her head, she was weeping. +princess mary but were looking within... into herself... at something +princess mary admitted to one another that the angel’s face reminded +princess mary. +princess, looking at anna mikháylovna as at a stranger. +princess kurágina, a portly imposing woman who had once been handsome, +princess. (in accordance with lise’s and prince andrew’s wishes they +“princess, i must warn you,” she added, lowering her voice and +princess, i hold to the principle that a maiden has a full right to +princess. i am at your command.’ yes, he is a fine fellow and a very +princess, his cousin, at moscow, concerning dólokhov’s intimacy with +princess hélène, prince vasíli’s daughter, and the little princess +princess’ hand. +princess’ hair. it was evident that he could be silent in this way for +princess had been crying after dinner and had spoken of her forebodings +princess felt this; they still thought that if a blue ribbon were placed +princess’ face. she took it quickly and bent her head over it. +princesses was coming to take her turn at watching. “let us go.” +princesses spent most of their time, he greeted the ladies, two of whom +princesses, sat in a corner knitting a stocking. pierre had never been +“princesse, au revoir,” cried he, stumbling with his tongue as well +“princess drubetskáya to see prince vasíli sergéevich,” he called +“princess, come here!” he shouted. +princess’ beautiful eyes with all their former calm radiance were +princess anxious and inquiring, the nurse encouraging. everyone in the +princess anna mikháylovna intervened in the conversation, evidently +princess, and stared fixedly at her through his eyeglass. +princess and prince vasíli, recovering themselves, followed her. a few +prince’s question as to how she felt. +prince’s household. general in chief prince nicholas andréevich +prince, she prepared to listen. +prince repnín named lieutenant sukhtélen. +prince repnín!” and he spurred his horse and galloped away. +prince, one window frame was removed in each room as soon as the larks +prince nicholas frowned, but said nothing. +prince never directly asked himself that question, knowing beforehand +prince kurágin about me. i only wanted to ask because i fear the guards +prince interrupted her. +“prince, i did not ask you here. go, please go!” and he jumped up +“prince, humanum est errare, * but...” replied the doctor, +prince? how priceless are those last moments! it can make things no +prince hippolyte, who had been gazing at the vicomte for some time +prince hippolyte was lolling in a lounge chair with his legs over its +“prince hippolyte kurágin—charming young fellow; m. +prince hippolyte hurriedly put on his cloak, which in the latest fashion +prince hippolyte, having brought the workbag, joined the circle and +prince hippolyte approached the little princess and, bending his face +prince dolgorúkov to the advanced post of the french army. +prince dolgorúkov ceased to listen to him and gazed absent-mindedly not +prince, but could not get it quite right.) +prince bolkónski surveyed anatole. +prince bolkónski’s household felt that their life had not been real +prince bolkónski sat down in his usual place in the corner of the sofa +prince bagratión to begin the council. at last bagratión’s orderly +prince bagratión screwed up his eyes, looked round, and, seeing the +prince bagratión rode an officer of the suite, the prince’s personal +prince bagratión proposed to dolgorúkov to send to inquire of the +prince bagratión looked at túshin, evidently reluctant to show +prince bagratión, having reached the highest point of our right flank, +prince bagratión, distinguished by his schön grabern affair and by +prince bagratión and túshin looked with equal intentness at +“prince auersperg is on this, on our side of the river, and is +prince andrew without lifting his eyes rode hastily away from the +prince andrew with one word, one argument, +prince andrew, who had evidently wished to tone down the awkwardness of +prince andrew, who had also been brought forward before the emperor’s +prince andrew when he drove up to the palace felt even more vigorous and +prince andrew went up to the child and felt him. he was burning hot. +prince andrew went out. +prince andrew went again to his wife and sat waiting in the room next +prince andrew was to leave next evening. the old prince, not altering +prince andrew was surveying the position, was the easiest and most +prince andrew was silent, but the princess noticed the ironical and +prince andrew was one of those rare staff officers whose chief interest +prince andrew was on duty that day and in constant attendance on the +prince andrew was as glad to find the boy like that, as if he had +prince andrew understood that this was said of him and that it was +prince andrew told his driver to stop, and asked a soldier in what +prince andrew. they had known each other previously in petersburg, but +prince andrew stopped short. +prince andrew stood right in front of kutúzov but the expression of +prince andrew stayed at brünn with bilíbin, a russian acquaintance of +prince andrew spoke so earnestly that pierre could not help thinking +prince andrew smiled ironically. +prince andrew smiled involuntarily as he looked at the artillery officer +prince andrew smiled as he looked at his sister, as we smile at those we +prince andrew smiled. +prince andrew’s joyous feeling was considerably weakened as he +prince andrew sighed and made no reply. +prince andrew sighed and broke the seal of another envelope. it was +prince andrew shrugged his shoulders. +prince andrew shouted, “brothers! all’s lost!” and at this as if +prince andrew, seeing that his father insisted, began—at first +prince andrew screwed up his eyes and turned away. pierre, who from +prince andrew’s calm manner of treating everybody, his extraordinary +prince andrew saw that the officer was in that state of senseless, +prince andrew said nothing to túshin. they were both so busy as to seem +prince andrew rose, shrugged his shoulders, and walked about the room. +prince andrew riding up to the officer. +prince andrew replied. then followed other questions just as simple: +prince andrew remembered nothing more: he lost consciousness from the +prince andrew remained at bald hills as usual during his father’s +prince andrew, recalling his father’s letter. “yes, we have gained +prince andrew only shrugged his shoulders at pierre’s childish words. +prince andrew nodded to him. he still looked ahead while prince andrew +prince andrew moved toward the door from whence voices were heard. +prince andrew made use of boguchárovo, began building and spent most of +prince andrew looked sternly at her and an expression of anger suddenly +prince andrew looked kindly at him, yet his glance—friendly and +prince andrew looked inquiringly at him and gave no reply. +prince andrew looked at his sister. in the dim shadow of the curtain her +prince andrew looked anna pávlovna straight in the face with a +prince andrew knew how to take his stand so that they respected and even +prince andrew kept looking with an amused smile from pierre to the +prince andrew. “i build a house and lay out a garden, and you build +prince andrew, his face distorted with fury, rode up to him and raised +prince andrew, having reached the front line, rode along it. our front +prince andrew had gone out into the hall, and, turning his shoulders +prince andrew grew more and more animated. his eyes glittered feverishly +prince andrew got up and went on tiptoe up to the little bed, wineglass +prince andrew glanced at kutúzov’s face only a foot distant from him +prince andrew glanced again at the artillery officer’s small figure. +prince andrew gazed with anxious curiosity at that impassive face +prince andrew gave him a look, but said nothing and went away. he felt +prince andrew galloped off to execute the order. +prince andrew frowned again, expressing his annoyance with whoever was +prince andrew followed her with a courteous but sad expression. +prince andrew felt that either the actions of kutúzov’s army +prince andrew expressed his ideas so clearly and distinctly that it was +prince andrew, evidently confused. “i know that out of a million +prince andrew during the battle had been in attendance on the austrian +prince andrew did not see how and by whom it was replaced, but the +prince andrew could not understand. +prince andrew considered possible contingencies and formed new projects +prince andrew caught him by the hand. +prince andrew bowed his head in token of having understood from the +prince andrew, beginning to understand that his news of the battle +prince andrew began to reply and to state his own plan, which might +prince andrew and his sister, hand in hand, kissed one another, and +prince andrew always became specially keen when he had to guide a young +prince andrew. +prince. and god only knows where your man peter is,” said the other +prince.” +prince. +prince. +priests; “all we relatives have been in such anxiety. this young +pride. “that lawsuit taught me much. when i want to see one of those +pride enough to see it? if she has no pride for herself she might at +pricking its ears at the sound of shots just as it had done on the +pricking its ears at the noise and looking at the lights. the shouting +prevented her from going on with it. +preussisch-eylau. +pretty young princesses gorchakóv met suitors there and were married +pretty face. +pretext. the fact is he has come to see count cyril vladímirovich, +pretext that her aunt wished to hear him. +pretense of helping, was in everyone’s way. +pretending to sleep, the sounds his nose emitted during the reading that +pretending to do something real. prince andrew gaily bore with his +presumptuous lieutenant who had prevented his finishing what he had to +pressure lay his only hope of salvation. +pressing the hands of prince andrew and borís. “you know i should +pressed two fingers more and more rigidly to his cap, as if in this +pressed him still harder with proofs of the impossibility and above all +president of the council of war. weyrother evidently felt himself to be +preserve his gravity. +preserved all that was good in it—equality of citizenship and freedom +present, suddenly pushed forward with a scared and angry look and wanted +present i am free and am all right. only i haven’t the least idea what +present emperor—more than once in paris, and tells me he never met a +presented he was as little able as his father to change his opinion. he +present bivouac another fortnight there will not be a healthy man left +presence, i will teach you to behave yourself.” +presence and particularly distinguished himself.” +preparing tea. he brought in a boiling samovar. when everything was +prepare her sister-in-law, and every time began to cry. unobservant as +prepared to continue, but just then anna pávlovna, who had kept a +prepared by long and diligent self-purification, not everyone can hope +prepare a circular, memorandum, or report, skillfully, pointedly, and +preparation swept over all the troops. +preparations for war lay in the fact that nicholas would not hear of +preoccupied, yet meekly christian look which never left her face, anna +preoccupied that only in bed was he able to be by himself. he had to +preoccupied manner. he beckoned to one of his white adjutants and asked +premeditation prince vasíli took the first opportunity to gain his +prejudices, and equality of citizenship, and all these ideas napoleon +pregnant,” said prince andrew, following every movement of his +preening its plumage and became motionless. +precedes a battle and had spent that happy day in inactivity, was all +prearranged sentence. +prayer. so, count, there never is any negligence in my company, and +prayed that the daily interview might pass off well. +pratzen, which was full of troops of all kinds. +pratzen, interrupted by such frequent reports of cannon that sometimes +pratzen heights. +prater... true, we have no prater here...” +prancing horse had splashed mud over some foot soldiers. +pranced up and down in one place like a goat and shrieked piercingly. +practical woman that she was, had even managed by favor with army +powerful nation like russia—barbaric as she is said to be—to place +power.” +power.” +powder smoke and stopped in despair. everything seemed lost. but at that +powder,” said prince andrew banteringly yet tenderly. +powdered footmen, in livery with buckled shoes and smart stockings, +pour vous. *(2) only a hobbledehoy could amuse himself in this +pour le roi de prusse!” +poured drops from a medicine bottle into a wineglass half full of water. +pouch was slung. he had an officer’s sword in his hand. the soldier +potëmkins or suvórovs left to oppose him; but he was also convinced +“postulant,” to the accompaniment of various knockings with +post of commander in chief as a reward for his victory, does not give up +postmaster’s book. bazdéev had been one of the best-known freemasons +posting date: january 10, 2009 [ebook #2600] +posted, two men appeared on horse back. they were an aide-de-camp +posted on a rather steep incline which dominated the french position. +possible. kutúzov himself with all his transport took the road to +possible. his conversation was always sprinkled with wittily original, +possible. god preserve us from that terrible misfortune! +possible. and i,” continued pierre, “shot dólokhov because i +possibility of anyone seeing her without being enchanted. the aunt +possibility of active brotherly love among men, which joseph alexéevich +possessor of the finest fortune in russia. it is rumored that prince +possessed. pierre was one of those who are only strong when they feel +possessed of a helen. “but no doubt it always is and must be so!” +position with his eyes shut. pierre looked at him and had not time +positions and withdrawn in his presence. together with túshin, stepping +position of the army reached him as he went along, and the appearance of +position of that insignificant individual was such as could certainly +position now, peter nikoláevich...” +position, it was now necessary to attack in order to cut a way through +position is now a terrible one,” continued anna mikháylovna, sadly, +position. he made some notes on two points, intending to mention them to +position. he kept closing his eyes and then again looking at the fire, +portrait (evidently by the hand of the artist belonging to the estate) +portmanteau into the vehicle, “we are to move on still farther. the +portfolio were the only sounds audible, but it was evident that if +portfolio she held in her hand. “all i know is that his real will is +portfolio, and changed her grip. +portfolio. +porter. he had no lambskin cap on his head, nor had he a loaded whip +porch. prince andrew got out of the carriage, helped his little wife to +porch. his landlord, who in a waistcoat and a pointed cap, pitchfork in +poor resources i have for entertaining a woman used to the best society. +poorer than the poorest beggar. a thousand thanks, dear friend, for the +poor amélie’s happiness, she loves him so passionately, and so +ponderous steps up to her sister-in-law. +pondered. sometimes he staked a large sum, but dólokhov refused to +pondered. a husband, a man, a strong dominant and strangely attractive +pomaded hair, perfumed, and in a new uniform, looking just as smart as +political news. it became particularly animated toward the end of the +political events. +politeness modestly placed himself at the disposal of the circle in +politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions +politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony +polished shining cannon that quivered on the gun carriages and with +police tried to interfere, and what did the young men do? they tied +point where the french pickets had been standing that evening. +pointing to the flying soldiers; but at that instant, as if to punish +pointing to the fields, he spoke of the improvements he was making in +pointing to nicholas, “his friend borís has become an officer, and +pointed boot then fashionable, touched the groin of the bobtailed bay +point... come, how are you?” asked rostóv. +point. ask denísov whether it is not out of the question for a cadet to +point.” +pocket of his riding breeches, with his eyebrows lifted and his mouth +pocket and that’s quite simple and is no one else’s business.” +“plenty of time, your excellency,” muttered kutúzov in the midst of +pleasure to herself and to all around her. “i have brought my work,” +pleasure that for the first time since his arrival prince andrew was +pleasures than allow himself to be seen in a shabby equipage or appear +pleasure of deceiving me, if it really were true. yes, if it were true, +pleasure at the sound of the singing and the sight of the dancing +pleasure and listened to the conversation of his two neighbors, whom he +“please, your excellency, for god’s sake!” he kept saying, +“please, vasíli dmítrich,” natásha was saying, “do come!” +“please place your money on the cards or i may get muddled in the +please make way!” +“please,” he uttered with an effort. +“please have a look at it”—and kutúzov with an ironical smile +pleased with. +pleased to take me as an aide-de-camp....” +pleased faces, for they knew that under no other management could they +“please, denísov, let me lend you some: i have some, you know,” +pleased!” and he held out his hand to the captain. +“please come to tea. the prince will be out in a moment,” came the +“please come and visit us... you know my brave boy... been together +“please be quick,” he said. +“please, andrew, for my sake!...” +pleasant smile—his eyelids drooping more than half over his old eyes, +pleasant smile, as if it were obvious to him that his success must +pleasant face and resonant though not loud voice, attracted everyone’s +“plea...” began dólokhov, but could not at first pronounce the +play. involuntarily he felt a joyful agitation at the thought of the +playing with the ball of worsted as a kitten should. +playing chess. berg held a smoking pipe between his knees. borís, in +playing a viennese waltz on the clavichord, while a fourth, lying on +players, or peered at the now cold face of dólokhov and tried to read +player, in spite of the burden of his equipment, rushed out to the front +plans to kutúzov’s quarters where the council of war was to be +“plans!” repeated prince andrew ironically. “my plans?” he said, +plan perfectly worthless. weyrother met all objections with a firm and +plan of a flanking movement. +plan chimerical. +plaiting slippers out of cloth selvedges. he looked up at the opening +plain that she understood nothing and was so frightened that her +plainness of speech, uttering the word amant as casually as any other +plainly that there are not many wives with husbands such as you who +plain enough as it is.” +placing the bottle on the window sill where he could reach it easily, +place! we passed close to the park and saw two deer... and what a +place,” thought pierre. “it’s even certain that i should have done +places. then the strains of the count’s household band were replaced +places and met in certain habitual groups. a minority of those present +place him on a stretcher that had been brought. the soldier groaned. +placed them on the window sill, though it was already quite light. +placed a chair for her. +place and without answering drew out a handkerchief. blood was flowing +place and that he might now be lying, recovering or dying, alone among +place and everything waiting for him in the archives department! isn’t +pity’s sake, leave this helpless youth who, after all, was the son of +pity me. yet i was once at home, strong, happy, and loved.” he sighed +pity for me. why is it?” +pity, and for their sake i should like to liberate the serfs. you +pitied. she has no one, no one. to tell the truth, i don’t need her, +pistols, and at the word thwee begin to advance. +pineapple ice. before the ices, champagne was served round. the band +pinch of snuff. +pillows one at a time and shaking them. +pilgrimage, of holy friendship, of the eternal architect of the +pierre, without knowing why, was having his enormous petersburg house +pierre, with downcast eyes, drank out of his glass without looking at +pierre, with a gentle smile of pity and remorse, his arms and legs +pierre wished to say this to the mason, but did not dare to. the +pierre wished to say something, looked at her with eyes whose strange +pierre who was under such obligations to him (“but never mind that”) +pierre, who was lagging behind, to follow. though he did not see why it +pierre, whose preoccupied, absent-minded, and massive figure was a very +pierre who has inherited all the property and has besides been +pierre who had been regarded with patronizing condescension when he was +pierre, who had been growing more and more agitated as he listened to +pierre. “what of it? it’s the truth!” and he himself smiled his +pierre went with rapid steps to the door and suddenly came face to +pierre went out. +pierre went in at the door, stepping on the soft carpet, and noticed +pierre well remembered this small circular drawing room with its mirrors +pierre well knew this large room divided by columns and an arch, its +pierre was very fond of. +pierre was ungainly. stout, about the average height, broad, with huge +pierre was struck by the modesty of the small though clean house after +pierre was still afraid that this officer might inadvertently say +pierre was staying at prince vasíli kurágin’s and sharing the +pierre was sitting in the drawing room where shinshín had engaged him, +pierre was silent. +pierre, was only busy causing him annoyance. +pierre was one of those people who, in spite of an appearance of what +pierre was evident. she kept an anxious watch on him when he approached +pierre was about to reply, but prince vasíli interrupted him. +pierre understood nothing of all this and coloring shyly looked in +pierre turned over heavily on the ottoman and opened his mouth, but +pierre turned his whole body, making the sofa creak. he lifted his eager +pierre tried several times to speak, but, on one hand, prince vasíli +pierre took them off, and his eyes, besides the strange look eyes have +pierre took off his spectacles, which made his face seem different and +pierre took off his coat, waistcoat, and left boot according to the +pierre took his feet off the table, stood up, and lay down on a bed that +pierre threw off his cloak and entered the first room, in which were the +pierre, the one who had behaved so improperly at anna pávlovna’s +pierre. the estates he had not before visited were each more picturesque +pierre stood with his arms hanging down and legs apart, before his +pierre’s remarks, rose and made a sign to his wife that it was time to +pierre’s outburst anna pávlovna, despite her social experience, was +pierre’s mind was in such a confused state that the word “stroke” +pierre smiled in his good-natured way as if afraid for his companion’s +pierre smiled, but his smile showed that he knew it was not the story +pierre’s legitimation? do you understand that in consideration of the +pierre sighed, rose submissively, emptied his glass, and, waiting till +pierre shook his head and arms as if attacked by mosquitoes or bees. +“pierre!” she said. +pierre’s hand to show that there was no need to ask the question. he +pierre’s eyes with it and tied it in a knot behind, catching some +pierre’s eyes. +pierre seized the crossbeam, tugged, and wrenched the oak frame out with +pierre’s direction at a slight rustle made by the latter. “why have +pierre saw that borís wished to change the subject, and being of the +pierre sat up on the sofa, with his legs tucked under him. +pierre sat opposite dólokhov and nicholas rostóv. as usual, he ate and +pierre sat down with his little partner. natásha was perfectly happy; +pierre said nothing; he looked fixedly at his friend with surprise. he +pierre rubbed his forehead. +pierre rose to help him. +pierre remained gloomily silent, answering in monosyllables and +pierre recalled, counting them on his fingers, he felt already in his +pierre reaching the house first went into prince andrew’s study like +pierre quickly took out his purse and watch, but could not manage for +pierre, perplexed, looked round with his shortsighted eyes without +pierre paused, seeking a reply. +pierre, on unexpectedly becoming count bezúkhov and a rich man, felt +pierre, not knowing whom to answer, looked at them all and smiled. his +“pierre, my dear, come here. i think he will not be out of place in a +pierre murmured something unintelligible, and continued to look round as +pierre looked silently and searchingly into prince andrew’s face, +pierre looked silently and inquiringly at him over his spectacles. +pierre looked questioningly at anna mikháylovna to see what he was to +pierre looked over his spectacles with naïve surprise, now at him and +pierre looked at his friend and, noticing that he did not like the +pierre looked at her over his spectacles. +pierre listened with swelling heart, gazing into the mason’s face with +pierre listened to the colonel’s speech and nodded approvingly. +pierre leaped up from the sofa and rushed staggering toward her. +pierre knew very well what a hieroglyph was, but dared not speak. he +pierre. it seemed to him that more than half an hour had elapsed. +pierre, “i said at the time and before anyone else” (she insisted +pierre, in reply, sincerely agreed with her as to hélène’s +pierre in his secret soul agreed with the steward that it would be +pierre in his preoccupation and absent-mindedness had not recognized +pierre. he went up to him, took his hand (a thing he never used to do), +pierre heard her say: +pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved +pierre, hardly restraining his sobs, began running toward dólokhov and +pierre had taken part in tying a policeman to a bear. he had now been +pierre had of late rarely seen his wife alone. both in petersburg and in +pierre had none of the practical persistence that would have enabled him +pierre had met in petersburg society. in the president’s chair sat a +pierre had come just at dinnertime and was sitting awkwardly in the +pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception at anna +pierre had already long been feeling in himself that refreshing source +pierre gradually began to recover himself and looked about at the room +pierre gave no answer, for he neither heard nor saw anything. he had +pierre gave her an inquiring look. she kissed the young man on his +pierre, from joy, agitation, and embarrassment, was not in a state to +pierre flushed and, hurriedly putting his legs down from the bed, bent +pierre felt uncomfortable and even depressed in his friend’s company +pierre felt that he was the center of it all, and this both pleased and +pierre felt himself far poorer than when his father had made him +pierre felt confused and wished to avoid that look, but the bright old +pierre dropped his eyes, lifted them again, and wished once more to see +pierre drank one glass after another, looking from under his brows at +pierre did not understand a word, but the conviction that all this had +pierre did not catch what they were saying, but knew they were talking +pierre could not make out what it was all about, and still less what +pierre could not go on. he gulped and turned away. +pierre could not and did not wish to break this silence. +pierre considered. +pierre clutched his temples, and turning round went into the forest, +pierre blushed, as he always did when it was mentioned, and said +pierre began describing what he had done on his estates, trying as far +pierre at the age of ten had been sent abroad with an abbé as tutor, +pierre, as in a dream, saw several men standing before him, wearing +pierre and there were lines of pain on his face and a shamefaced smile. +pierre and himself was in the room, and addressed her in a tone of +pierre, after all, had not managed to choose a career for himself in +pierre. +pierre. +pierre. +pierre. +pierre. +pierre. +piercingly. seeing prince andrew she leaned out from behind the apron +pick up the glove himself and to pass round the doctors who were not +physical things, and the fourth a combination of these. now and then +physically at that moment, there was a weight on his chest and he could +philosophizing voice with pleasure. +pe vell. and ve must discuss it as little as po-o-ossible”... he dwelt +“pétya, you’re a stupid!” said natásha. +pétya, pacing the room with large, resolute strides. “now i’m very +pétya paced the room in silence for a time. +pétya in, closed again. a sound of laughter came from behind it. +pétya! good man!” cried he, addressing pierre. +pétya, clinging to his legs, kept shouting, “and me too!” +pétya. besides that, he sent greetings to monsieur schelling, madame +pétya. +“pétrusha has come with papers from your father,” whispered the +petisenfans, allay cushay dormir!” he exclaimed, imitating his russian +petersburg to procure an appointment in the guards for her only son. +petersburg to ascertain what moscow was thinking about austerlitz. +petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age +petersburg on the tenth of august, and her son, who had remained in +petersburg—no one knows who will inherit his immense fortune, pierre +petersburg. it is high time for you to get away from these terrible +petersburg. he could not imagine how he could speak to her now. he +petersburg. hand this to count willarski” (he took out his notebook +petersburg earlier or later, or whether he secured accommodation at this +petersburg. but now this head was swaying helplessly with the uneven +petersburg. anna mikháylovna, with her tear-worn but pleasant face, +petersburg and staying at his house. with apparent absent-mindedness, +petersburg, and had been expelled from there for riotous conduct and +petersburg. +person she happened to look at she was in love with for that moment. +persons, among them the elderly lady and anna pávlovna, did however +personally it would be a pleasure to hand over the supreme command +personal interview was refused, and instead of the sovereign, prince +personage he was referring to. +personage, a position in the army which seemed to him most attractive. +perseverance, but only the knowledge of how to get on with those who can +“permit me, princess, to know what is necessary and what is not +permission here in hospital, that i may not have to play the part of a +“perhaps we’d really better not wake him,” he said hesitating. +“perhaps the count did not ask for me,” said pierre when he reached +perhaps, see and take part in the first russian encounter with the +“perhaps later on i may tell you, my dear boy, that if i had not been +perhaps i may...” +perhaps dying, while meeting my remorse with some forced bravado!” +“perhaps,” coldly and angrily replied dólokhov, glancing at sónya, +perhaps because it was hard for him, hungry as he was, to look on at +perform! prussia has always declared that buonaparte is invincible, and +perfect one’s self. and to attain this end, we have the light called +perfection of manner. if he ever thought of hélène, it was just of +perception befitting a man of the world, he indicated by a movement of +people were in one of the inner rooms, not considering it necessary to +people show to everyone when they are happy. +people,” he went on, turning to anna pávlovna, “he ever was a hero, +people do understand him. he is such a lofty, heavenly soul!” +people dancing, iogel with natásha, his pride and his best pupil, were +people—businessmen, relations, and acquaintances alike—were all +“people are always too clever with their eldest children and try to +people and starting to join the army. you should have seen the state of +pensions and the same amount for asylums; 150,000 alimony was sent to +peculiar to pregnant women. it was evident that her eyes did not see +peculiarly deliberate steps. this feeling of disdain was heightened +peculiarities of his reserved nature, borís had managed during his +peculiar form of beauty. everyone brightened at the sight of this pretty +peasant, or a woman with a baby, has no rest day or night and i give +pearls on their bare shoulders, looked at themselves in the brilliantly +peace. the old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was +peace.” +payments had been diminished by a third, their obligatory manorial work +paying off the debts and undertaking new activities with serf labor, +pay. i can tell you for myself...” +pávlovna threatened him on behalf of “our dear vyazmítinov,” and +pávlovna’s words and looks when she spoke to him about his house, +pávlovna’s was the first he had attended in russia. he knew that all +pávlovna’s voice, “i see you are all right there.” +pávlovna’s usual pink notes with an invitation to which was added: +pávlovna’s hand, and screwing up his eyes scanned the whole company. +pávlovna’s hand and for some reason drawing it downwards. “arrange +pávlovna, shaking her little shriveled finger at him. +pávlovna’s drawing room he considered an important step up in the +pávlovna’s, an unacknowledged sense of the guilt of that desire +pávlovna, looking up pensively. +pávlovna had had a cough for some days. she was, as she said, suffering +pávlovna: “educate this bear for me! he has been staying with me +pávlovna again touched pierre’s sleeve, saying: “i hope you won’t +pávlovna. +pávlograd commander. the commanders met with polite bows but with +pausing. “the only question is what will come of the meeting between +pause, “she told him she loved another.” +paused. “i am going because the life i am leading here does not suit +pause after this mot to give time for its due appreciation. “the +paul was a market village where a fair was held on st. peter’s day, +paul had exiled him to his country estate had lived there continuously +patted his favorite, rostóv, on the shoulder. +patroness. she added that her majesty had deigned to show baron funke +patronage at the dancers. +path of virtue,” said the mason. +pathetic smile, as though she too knew that count rostóv deserved this +past the ladies into the little drawing room. with quick steps he went +past the company, and overtook the carriage, still keeping time to the +pass the three officers quite easily, but zherkóv, pushing nesvítski +passion,” said the latter. +passion but in your own heart. the source of blessedness is not without +passionately repents. i will do all i can to arrange the match between +passionately once more to enjoy that dissipation he was so accustomed to +passionately fond of the boy, and princess mary often deprived herself +passionately, at which she laughed; at the other could be heard the +passionately and tenderly, and old mary ivánovna, who had grown fond of +passing it across hélène’s back. hélène stooped forward to make +passing by kutúzov’s carriage and the exhausted saddle horses of +passing, but before he had finished his greeting there was a general +passing between the companies that had been eating porridge and drinking +passing behind one of the lines of a regiment of foot guards he heard a +passing bagratión and racing one another they rushed in an irregular +passed, the pávlograd division was ordered to advance. in wischau +passed out by a back door, but returned to their places one after the +passed in step before the emperors and their suites at a bold, brisk +passed his time very gaily. after a short period of adapting himself +party at which pierre had to be present unless he wished to spoil +part of his mind her image rose in all its womanly beauty. +part of his legs; he had on a kind of necklace above which rose a high +partner’s hand firmly, threw back his head, and advanced his foot, +partly because prince andrew did not always feel equal to bearing with +partly because of the depressing memories associated with bald hills, +part in it, but also by the joyful expression on the faces of soldiers, +parties, wearing a dress such as was then fashionable, cut very low at +particularly vivid, humiliating, and shameful was the recollection of + particularly victorious.” +particularly striking among all these drunken voices by its sober +particularly on the word possible... “as po-o-ossible,” he ended, +particularly discontented and out of temper. whether he was in a bad +particularly calm and absent-minded way, which inspired the respect of +particularly agreeable before going away. besides this he was +particularly addicted), he regarded even this not as a defect but as a +particular emphasis as if in it lay the gist of the matter. +part from his horse, and at last sprang down and called to his orderly. +part. anna pávlovna schérer on the contrary, despite her forty years, +paris. it was not calculation that guided her (she did not even for a +parents who have petted their children from babyhood, but which prince +“pardon me! a snuffbox with the emperor’s portrait is a reward but +pardon. as soon as rostóv heard them, an enormous load of doubt +paralyzed his will. +parade... i am the first to apologize, you know me!... he was very +parade. however, i will let you know.” +papers and still taking no notice of the special messenger. +papers and it was the first time he had heard villeneuve’s name. +paper. he looked gloomily in rostóv’s face and said: “i am witing +paper and her hand moved rapidly over it. this is the reply she wrote, +papa, which natásha, and which pétya. everyone shouted, talked, and +“papa, we shall be late,” said princess hélène, turning her +“papa,” said his beautiful daughter in the same tone as before, +“papa! pa-pa!” he called after him, sobbing, “forgive me!” and +“papa, i have come on a matter of business. i was nearly forgetting. i +pallid and quivered. +pale, with quivering lips, pierre snatched the copy. +pale, with compressed lips and feverishly glittering eyes. +pale on seeing her father-in-law. +pale, now blushed and strained every nerve to overhear what nicholas +pale face and glittering eyes. +pale and then blushing. +pale and his jaw trembled, shivering feverishly. he was placed on +pale, and added, “look at it, young man.” +palace in a manner agreeable to yourself, and in so far as circumstances +painstaking effect that had been in it before; but she did not yet sing +painful to him at this moment of sorrow; besides, what can i say to him +pacing angrily about and snorting. the old prince felt as though he +paces, and nicholas could clearly distinguish every detail of his +pace. +own ideas tonight, but must yield himself up entirely to the will of +own eyes she comforted the count, and decided that at dinner and till +owner of one of the largest fortunes in russia, i am much amused to +own breast, the husband standing by and gazing tenderly at her and the +own about the facts he was recounting. for some time he engrossed the +owing to the terrible uproar and the necessity for concentration and +owed him money! what baseness! what meanness! i know you understand +over the squadron. rostóv raised his saber, ready to strike, but at +over their heads, unstrapping their overcoats and drawing the sleeves on +over the enns, and then guessed that the card that came first to hand +over the battlefield had given final orders to strengthen the batteries +over, the adjutant he had seen the previous day ceremoniously informed +overtaking the battalions that continued to advance, he stopped +overtaken by the enemy and fighting rearguard actions only as far as +over. it will be a tremendous banquet.” +over his spectacles, and then again resuming his walk, muttering +over his shoulder, as when rostóv had seen him on the eve of the battle +over his shoulder. +overflow with sick, and famine is everywhere. twice the marauders even +“overflowing with amiability. his position has not turned his head +overflowed with animation and impulsiveness. to be an enthusiast had +overcome a certain secret sorrow that has been in my heart ever since +over beamed with irrepressible delight.) “it’s in the emperor’s +over,” anna pávlovna continued. “the sovereigns will not be able to +over, and come back in an hour and tell me in his presence: yes or no. +over.” and after stumbling a few staggering steps right up to the +over a fire brigade of bonaparte’s, that will be another story and +out whether she was considering what he had just said or whether she was +out until, at the first pause, the guests rise with a rustle of dresses +out the stinging and tormenting thoughts that confused his mind. “this +out there... both playing the hero... ah, vasíli ignátovich... +out. the fences and gates were new and solid; two fire pumps and a +out skirmishers. he had felt perfectly sure that there were other troops +outside his uniform. +outright. +outposts today and it is impossible to say where his chief forces are +out over the fire, and not waiting for an answer he gave a grunt and +out of this position; that here was the toulon that would lift him from +out of it. they could not understand that i have not the necessary +out of hearing. another musket missed fire but flashed in the pan. +out of countenance himself or making others uncomfortable, but as +out. mack loses a whole army, the archduke ferdinand and the archduke +outlines. dressed as she used to be in petersburg society, it was still +out like cords. “you are mad, i tell you. i won’t allow it. +out in front of a platoon of grenadiers before whom lay a naked man. two +out his notebook and, leaning on the cannon, sketched a plan of the +out her cambric handkerchief she began wiping her husband’s waistcoat. +out from behind the clouds, and the clear sound of the solitary shot +out everyone has been enraptured by her? they say she is amazingly +out as a post horse, but still i must have a talk with you, catiche, a +out a notebook, hurriedly scribbled something in pencil, tore out the +out and the sabers whizzed as they were drawn from their scabbards. +out accidently.” +out about him. +out: +out. +our turn next.” +our troops were known to him as far as they could be known to anyone +our troops had descended and from whence came the sounds of firing. +our thoughts to the second, bonaparte. but as it turns out, just at +‘our sovereign, the emperor,’ as they say at official dinners,” +“ours,” kissing his finger tips. +ourselves, were growing up and dying with no idea of god and truth +ourselves, dear prince,” said the little princess (of course, in +ourselves.” + * ours. +our present, depraved world. no one now loves virtue; it seems like +our people...” +our order can bestow it will render you, my dear sir. you are going to +our officers and men at austerlitz. one had saved a standard, another +our officers.” +“our men have been wasting time.” +our men had begun firing. they were still firing, not at the cavalry +our members as much as possible to reform their hearts, to purify and +our infantry were stationed there, and at the farthest point the +our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against +our hands! no, we mustn’t forget suvórov and his rule—not to put +our fine speeches and in his rude and savage way throws himself on the +our enemies! hurrah!” he exclaimed in his dashing, old, hussar’s +our dear count vrbna, goes to him for orders.” +our aid,” said kutúzov. +“oui, madame,” replied he, looking around him. +ought to know where they are, and must find them, because...” +ought to go straight to him and give the message dolgorúkov had ordered +ought to be, now he fancied it was only something in his own eyes. his +other young ladies in begging natásha and nicholas, who were noted for +otherwise. to tell them that she felt ashamed for herself and for them +other virtues—love of his neighbor, and especially generosity. +others. “well, you old sinner,” she went on, turning to the count +others, only now have i understood all the happiness of life. no, i +other soldiers. he stood looking about him, when suddenly he heard a +other’s hands, kissing them and pulling them away, and again began +others appreciated prince hippolyte’s social tact in so agreeably +others and, in shirt sleeves and breeches, went glass in hand to the +others and even from herself, the stronger it grew. “o god,” she +others.” +others...” +other officers. perhaps i ought not to have spoken before them, but i am +other officer; he’ll say: ‘go and find out what’s there.’ there +other lady visitors were farther down. at the other end sat the count, +other had ridden up to him. +other fare, was splendid, yet he could not feel quite at ease till the +other before the service was concluded. pierre paid no more attention +other, awkwardly, like a child at a dancing lesson. +other.” +ostralitz. in the large drawing room which had become the commander +or you as having been at all insulted, and as a man older than you, my +or whether some other thought flitted across his dying brain, at any +or two in his head but dozens, some only beginning to form themselves, +or prince vasíli. forty thousand serfs and millions of rubles! i know +or of the necessity of rebuilding factories and workshops. so the first +or make out anything of what was happening: there in the smoke men of +orlóv never gave such a dinner as ours will be!” +or kutúzov was. some said the report that the emperor was wounded was +or he would suddenly feel ashamed of he knew not what. he felt it +or gray horses; then again, spreading out with the brazen clatter of the +or even to wish to be thought to listen. exactly opposite weyrother, +ordinary staid and respectful good manners habitual in the prince’s +order. you are causing me to lose the fruits of a campaign. break +order to make borís’ better acquaintance, promised to come to dinner, +orders which showed that the russian troops, who had hitherto been +orders to the club steward and to the famous feoktíst, the club’s +orders to admit no more, but the porter was told to be sure to invite to +orders the sergeant to be arrested. come, you must own that this affair +orders by heart and know the regulations as well as i do the lord’s +orders, and the star of st. george on his left breast. evidently just +orders. +order of maria theresa on his neck and a black bandage round his head, +order not to lose his head and do foolish things he must not act on his +orderly to the bravest general, and still more, he was going with a +orderly, running behind the cart and fumbling in the back of it. +orderly by the shoulders and knocking him against the wall. +ordered to turn back to the right. several thousand cavalry crossed in +ordered the horses to be harnessed. only those things he always kept +ordered his horse at once and, coldly taking leave of borís, rode +order. +ordeal was about to begin. +ordained that the austrian army should maneuver the previous year on the +or cap, his head was bandaged, and over his shoulder a french munition +“or are you afraid to play with me?” dólokhov now asked as if +or appreciative according to the way the joke was received. everybody +or anybody; but you are free to choose.... go to your room, think it +opposite. pierre spoke little but examined the new faces, and ate a +opposite pierre and seemed very gay. rostóv was talking merrily to his +opposite, in front of which large masses of french were advancing. +opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. +opportunity since morning to meet one another alone. when princess mary +opportunity of joining in the general current of recollections. +opinions, but you see what a capital, good-natured fellow i am.” and +opinion,” said she, turning to the young man who, having come quite +operations according to him were connected with such complicated +open it. someone was holding it shut. +opened the door which moved noiselessly and easily. she paused at the +opened the bedroom door. +opened eyes. “what has happened to her? how she is singing today!” +“oooh! for christ’s sake let me alone!” cried the wounded man, but +on you. you complain of our separation. what then should i say, if i +on which with a broken bit of chalk he had written “800 rubles” in +on which rostóv sat. +on what he thought right. the steward promised to do all in his power to + * “on vous fera danser.” +“on tuesday between eight and nine. it will give me great pleasure.” +on this high ground, shall withdraw the left flank under its cover, and +on the way to his sister’s room, in the passage which connected one +on the way home, prince andrew could not refrain from asking kutúzov, +on the unattractive martyrlike expression it so often wore, as she +on the twenty-eighth of october kutúzov with his army crossed to the +on the twelfth of november, kutúzov’s active army, in camp before +on the top of her head (a style that quite altered and spoiled her +on the third day after christmas nicholas dined at home, a thing he had +on the table, again bound his eyes. +on the soft springs of the carriage, he turned to prince andrew. +on the snow. +“on the same business. but you are damp! let me wring you out!” +on. the preoccupation and despondency which pierre had noticed in his +on the pratzen heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his +on the other side, the children, tutors, and governesses. from behind +on the other an immense case containing icons, was brightly illuminated +on the opposite side the enemy could be seen by the naked eye, and from +on the morning of the day that the young couple were to arrive, princess +‘on the march’ it meant in greatcoats?” said he reproachfully to +on the little princess’ face, an expression of childish fear of +on the high ground where the enemy was, the smoke of a cannon rose, +on the ground. +on the french side, amid the groups with cannon, a cloud of smoke +on the first arrival of the news of the battle of austerlitz, moscow had +on the field before the fortress. now thousands of feet and bayonets +on the field. +on the evening of the last day’s march an order had been received that +on the eighteenth and nineteenth of november, the army advanced two +on the cot. +on the contrary, they stimulated his energy and determination. +“on the contrary, that coiffure suits the princess very well,” said +“on the contrary,” replied the prince, who had plainly become +on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, +“on the contrary,” he said, in a querulous and angry tone that +on the arm said: +on the arm of a colonel of hussars, a man of importance to them because +“on the 4th, the first courier arrives from petersburg. the mails +on that third of march, all the rooms in the english club were filled +on—that pierre became quite bewildered and only replied: +on snowy-white smooth pillows, evidently freshly changed, pierre +on seeing rostóv before him, with whom he would inevitably collide. +on returning from the review, kutúzov took the austrian general into +on retiring to her own room, she sat in an armchair, her eyes fixed on a +on reaching the village he dismounted and went to the nearest house, +on reaching petersburg pierre did not let anyone know of his arrival, +on purpose to vex us. the archduke karl does nothing, the archduke +on our right flank commanded by bagratión, at nine o’clock the battle +on october 11, the day when all was astir at headquarters over the news +on october 11, 1805, one of the infantry regiments that had just reached +on november 1 kutúzov had received, through a spy, news that the army +“on my honor!” +only when prince andrew was gone did rostóv think of what he ought to +only when approaching bagratión did rostóv let his horse gallop again, +only to express his rapture fully. +“only that?” said bolkónski. +only that all the men of the day were mere babies who did not know the +only telling you what it is. napoleon has also formed his plan by now, +“only take care you and your cossacks are not all captured!” said +only sure happiness in life.” +only sónya, nicholas, and natásha, but even the old countess, +only pressed it to the cold braiding of his hussar’s jacket. denísov, +only now, when he was confronted by the stern authorities, did his guilt +only lit fires to deceive us. +“only let me report this gentleman’s business, and i shall be at +only his eyes were brighter than usual. +only help a bit! i must have singers too. i shall have my own orchestra, +only heard dólokhov’s hurried steps, and his figure came in view +“only fools and rakes fall ill, my boy. you know me: i am busy from +only covered by her garments. and having once seen this he could not +only change being that the words “father kámenski” were replaced by +only by the elite. +only bivouacking here and have just come to look round. i am going back +only betrayed us three times in three years. we take up their cause, but +only because i still hope to meet such a divine creature, who will +only a small lamp was burning inside something white. pierre went nearer +onlookers for what was to follow. as soon as the provocatively gay +on kutúzov’s staff, among his fellow officers and in the army +on!” innumerable voices suddenly shouted after the ball had struck +on in his usual tone of indifference. +on horseback facing the ditch. one with a white plume in his hat seemed +on his thin bony legs, and keeping on a worn, nankeen-covered, sheepskin +on his side of it. +on his seat, lowered his hands, moved a little to the right and then to +on his saber, and put on his cap. +on his return to moscow from the army, nicholas rostóv was welcomed +on his pupil’s behalf. that’s how it’s to be understood! ‘how +on his arm as if that touch might soothe or rouse him. +on him without changing their expression. “i love you all and have +on him. the empress’ chamberlain invited him to see her majesty. the +on himself. he could remain silent for hours without being at all put +on him by the doctors, clergy, and relatives of the family. prince +on her toes any longer. “so that’s what i’m up to! i’ll never +on her priority) “that that senseless young man was spoiled by the +on her lips, she got up and left the room. all nicholas’ animation +on her face. +on hélène’s name day, a small party of just their own people—as +on hearing the news was one of anger with sónya.... he tried to say, +on hearing of the arrival of the letter went softly into the room and +on! go on!” and cries of horror were heard in the crowd. the soldiers +on february 26, 1807, the old prince set off on one of his circuits. +one would not need finesse; and he tells me that i am lying—so let him +one would have to... the metropolitan himself... and even then it +one would have thought it impossible for a man to stretch himself +one would have expected of him. +one word after another, came through the open door. she was speaking as +one.... whom, i ask you, can we rely on?... england with her commercial +one was on a white horse. prince bagratión and prince dolgorúkov with +“one was damaged,” answered the staff officer, “and the other i +“o-ne! t-wo! thwee!” he shouted angrily and stepped aside. +“one thing i thank god for is that i did not kill that man,” said +“one thing i ask of your excellency,” dólokhov said in his firm, +“one step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing +one spot. his predictions were being justified. part of the russian +one side of which symbolized god, another moral things, a third +“one should make up to the husbands of pretty women,” said denísov. +(one shattered gun and one unicorn were left behind), prince andrew rode +one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, +one reviews the past and plans for the future. prince andrew’s face +one quite at home, and from habit immediately lay down on the sofa, took +one pair at each window. she stopped and smiled scornfully. sónya was +one. “oh, this senseless life of ours!” thought nicholas. “all +one of the players said he hoped he might be trusted. +one of the next arrivals was a stout, heavily built young man with +one of them was leading by the bridle a fine large french horse he had +one of them was a sallow, clean-shaven civilian with a thin and wrinkled +one of them knew, not one of them wanted to know, and not one of them +one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow. +one of the hindmost guns that was going onto the dam turned off onto the +one of the guests. “the vicomte is a wonderful raconteur,” said she +one of the Ápsheron regiment went forward past the emperor. +one of disdain which was quite uncalled for. his fertile mind instantly +“one must be indulgent to little weaknesses; who is free from them, +“one must admit,” continued prince andrew, “that napoleon as a man +“one more question, count,” he said, “which i beg you to answer +“one moment, your excellency.” +one moment prayed to god as he had done on the battlefield at the bridge +one is to interfere with his arrangements—leads his division to +one i’d give my life for her! but those!...” and he made a gesture +one had put but which was always in her mind, “and how much suffering, +one foot, from the orderly and began to mount. +one foot, bounded from the floor like a ball, and flew round the room +one feels as if one were in the country.” +one day’s ration of bread remains, and in some regiments none at all, +one considers that by tomorrow one may be dead, or something so +“one can’t write so fast, your honor,” said the clerk, glancing +“one can’t everywhere say all one thinks, mon cher. well, have +“one!” came the command. +one but the emperor of russia has that right. +one another time to ask questions and give replies concerning a thousand +one another, beginning to see one another through the mist. they had the +one another. +on duty every day, or may place me under arrest, but no one can make +on condition that she should tell no one. +on cloaks or mantles, and drive away. the conversation was on the chief +once was—did not struggle, and perhaps she was right. nothing has been +once the stranger closed the book, putting in a marker, and again, +once she has said...” +once recognized it to be a tuft of grass. she was terribly close to him. +once more the conversations concentrated, the ladies’ at the one end +once he raised his eyebrows, abruptly touched his horse with his left +once for a moment of glory, of triumph over men, of love from men i +once been in to see the count. he has not sent for me.... i am sorry for +“once again, colonel,” said the general, “i can’t leave half +once.” +on both sides. behind our position was a steep and deep dip, making it +on being relieved from picket duty rostóv had managed to get a few +on at the crossing. and why are they dawdling there?” +on a sofa in a far corner of the room. he closed his eyes and seemed to +on around him. not only was he indifferent as to whether he got to +on anything. it was about this choice that prince andrew was speaking. +on all sides they saw rain-soaked officers with dejected faces who +on all sides. the countess rose and went into the ballroom. +on all sides, had stopped because a horse in front had fallen under a +on a hot dish. +on a few steps he stopped before prince andrew, who lay on his back with +on a chair in the ballroom, crossing one leg high over the other, +on account of the smoke nothing could be seen. the nearer they got to +on. +“o lord god! thou who art in that heaven, save, forgive, and protect +olmütz, was preparing to be reviewed next day by the two emperors—the +olmütz and that he wanted to see him as he had a letter and money for +olga went out. pierre stood looking at the sisters; then he bowed and +old prince understood from this official report that our army had been +old princess, kissing her soundly. “if i hadn’t this headache i’d +old prince nicholas bolkónski received a letter from prince vasíli +old prince had forbidden it, appeared on the threshold with a shawl +old miller had been accustomed to sit in his tasseled cap peacefully +old michael was asleep on the chest. prokófy, the footman, who was +old man too came up and kissed the waxen little hands that lay quietly +old man, shaking his powdered head as much as the tail, which tíkhon +old man, living alone in the country for so many years, could know and +old man continued to fold and seal his letter, snatching up and throwing +old lady next to her and glanced angrily at her daughter, and her sigh +old gabriel brought in the wine. +old fool,” he thought. “that princess hélène will be beautiful +old fellow? out of sorts?” +old father, and entering the military service, my dear. and there was a +oldest rose. márya dmítrievna paused at the door. tall and stout, +older visitors. they now, stretching themselves after sitting so long, +old count bezúkhov, and his inheritance. fancy! the three princesses +old chamberlain was heard assuring an old baroness that he loved her +old bolkónski had always had a poor opinion of prince vasíli’s +old age and tobacco, which she had known so long. “now, madam, these +“oh, your excellency!” said franz, with difficulty rolling the +“oh, you guards!” said rostóv. “i say, send for some wine.” +“oh, you fool!” said the old man, spitting angrily. some time passed +“oh, you don juan! you serpent!” cried several voices. +“oh, you damned dandies! clean and fresh as if you’d been to a fete, +“oh yes, very much! my brother knows him, he’s dined with him—the +“oh, yes!” said pierre, with a forced smile. “i am very grateful +“oh yes, like that, i know, i only forgot,” said he. +“oh yes, it is horribly stupid,” said pierre. +“oh, yes, i quite understand,” answered rostóv, who was under his +“oh yes,” assented princess mary, “perhaps that’s it. i’ll go. +“oh, yes!” +“oh, what nonsense!” cried natásha, laughing. “i don’t think +“oh, what a terrible state he is in! one would not know him, he is so +“oh, what are you talking about?” said another. “where is he to +“oh, what a pig i am, not to have written and to have given them +“oh, what a nuisance,” said dolgorúkov, getting up hurriedly and +“oh, well, well!” remarked the regimental commander. “still, one +“oh, well then, good-by: go and dress. is he very terrible, +“oh, very well, you may stay in attendance on me.” +“oh, to die, to die for him,” thought rostóv. +“oh, those moscow gossips!” said dólokhov, and he took up the cards +“oh, the faiwy! she can do anything with me!” said denísov, and +oh, that wicked prince hippolyte!” she said. +“oh, that’s it!” said rostóv, evidently thinking of something +“oh, that is dreadful, dreadful!” said pierre. “i don’t +“oh, that is all the same,” dolgorúkov said quickly, and getting up +“oh, take those off... those...” she said, pointing to his +“oh! oh! oh!” he muttered, looking down from the window at the +“oh! oh! oh!” groaned kutúzov despairingly and looked around.... +“oh! oh! oh!” +“oh! oh!” groaned nesvítski as if in fierce pain, seizing the +“oh! oh!” exclaimed several voices. +“oh, nurse, i’m so glad!” +“oh, nothing,” said he, as if weary of being continually asked the +“oh no!” said iogel, hastening to reassure him. “you were only +“oh no, not at all too young!” replied the count. “why, our +“oh no, not at all! on the contrary, i am very glad to make your +“oh, no, no!” and besides the pallor and the physical suffering +“oh no, let me off, countess,” denísov replied. +“oh, natásha!” said sónya, looking ecstatically and earnestly at +“oh, my god! thank god!” said princess mary. “i must go and meet +“oh, my god! my god! schmidt!” he exclaimed in german. “what a +“oh, my dear fellow, we’re in such a stew here these last two +“oh, my bower, oh, my bower...!” +“oh, my bower new...!” chimed in twenty voices, and the castanet +“oh, little countess!” ... and the count began bustling to get out +“oh, leave off, you always talk nonsense and keep putting things +“oh, leave off!” said the accountant with a beaming but rather +“oh, it’s wetched! well, what are you standing there for, you +“oh, it’s terrible to feel oneself so in this man’s power,” +“oh, it’s nothing. i only wished to say...” (he wanted to repeat +“oh! i thought you were in your room,” she said, for some reason +“oh, i must give you a treat,” bilíbin whispered to bolkónski. +“oh, hush, please!” said another. +oh, how that chord vibrated, and how moved was something that was finest +“oh, how nice,” thought natásha; and when sónya and nicholas had +“oh, how nice, how splendid!” she said to everything. +oh, how i would guard him, how i would tell him the truth, how i would +“oh, how dreadful! how can you laugh at it, count?” +“oh, how delightful it is!” she kept saying, running up to sónya. +“oh, he’s all right, a good horse,” answered rostóv, though the +“oh, he is so kind!” answered princess mary. +“oh, he is in a dreadful state,” said the mother to her son when +“oh, heaven! how ill he is!” exclaimed the mother. +“oh, go to the devil!” called out a voice, drowned by the laughter +“oh god, what would happen to me if the emperor spoke to me?” +“oh, every bullet has its billet,” answered váska denísov, turning +“oh, don’t speak to me of austria. perhaps i don’t understand +“oh, don’t speak of his going, don’t! i won’t hear it spoken +“oh, don’t mention it, count! i quite understand,” said berg, +“oh, denísov is quite different,” replied nicholas, implying that +“oh dear, what am i thinking about? i’ve mixed everything up. one +“oh dear, what a beast i am!” muttered rostóv, as he read the +“oh, but you were there?” said prince bagratión, addressing prince +oh, andrew! what a treasure of a wife you have,” said she, sitting +of yours, is not at all to blame that my face has the misfortune to +of your misfortune.” he seemed to emphasize the last word, as if to +of you.” +of wounded pride, and a hope of glory. “and should there be nothing +of wind blowing over the army slightly stirred the streamers on the +“of whom you imagine me to be one?” said prince andrew, with a quiet + of whom you have made a friend, but not for you, not for +of which kutúzov was standing began to shout, he rode a little to one +of weyrother’s voice, he opened his one eye with an effort. +of voices, the tramping feet, the horses’ hoofs moving in mud, the +of twenty; sónya a girl of sixteen with all the charm of an opening +of túshin’s battery. prince andrew followed with the suite. behind +of truth, my dear sir, but have thrust her into an abyss of deceit and +of those rare women with whom a man’s honor is safe; but, o god, what +of those frenchmen,” he said. “what nasty brutes they are! i’d +of this set. +of this kind for another, which from pride he would never accept for +of this delicious russian tea,” lorrain was saying with an air of +of thirteen, hiding something in the folds of her short muslin frock, +of things to him in the very worst light, pointing out the necessity of +of the wood ran out of it, the different companies getting mixed, and +of the way! make way!” +of the war that had been announced in a manifesto, and about the +of the war and without leaders. the moscovites felt that something was +of the victory that had been gained. prince andrew introduced his +of the upper lip formed a sharp wedge and closed firmly on the firm +of the unwritten code of subordination—looked so fixedly at the +of the three precepts of freemasonry pierre realized that he did not +of the third floor window with his legs hanging out. +of the third company!” +of the thabor bridge is delightful! it is not exactly stupidity, nor +of the sun. in front, far off on the farther shore of that sea of mist, +of the streams and hollows of sokolnitz and schlappanitz beyond which we +of the statutes and these remained in his mind. +of the sleigh. +of the service the voices of the priests suddenly ceased, they whispered +of these maneuvers that enabled us to escape him. buxhöwden pursues +of the second gun’s crew was “uncle”; túshin looked at him more +of the sayings and doings of their commander, the grand duke, and told +of the room. prince andrew turned to him, but the doctor gave him a +of the road were forests of different kinds, fields, and villages. +of the river. +of the president, who held a mallet in his hand. let into the wall was +of the orderlies and servants. +of the oft-repeated passage of the sonata. prince andrew stopped and +of the nineteenth march, and her downy little lip rose from old habit, +of the night. the gloom that enveloped the army was filled with their +of the newly commissioned officer were collected. anna mikháylovna, +of the nearness of the emperor francis’ black cob, nor of all that was +of them will have any meaning for me. tomorrow perhaps, even certainly, +of them forgot what was happening and what was about to happen in the +of the meal and was certain that there was some secret between her +of the majestic emperor. casually, while surveying the squadron, the +of the maids who was present. (mary bogdánovna was a midwife from the +of the lovers. “that’s happiness!” +of the lean sinewy hand, showed that the prince still possessed the +of the lathe he removed his foot from the pedal, wiped his chisel, +of the intellectual essence of petersburg,” as she herself put it. +of the hand on the dial of human history. +of the guards, a girl of fifteen, and a plump rosy-faced boy in a short +of the gospel: “in the beginning was the word and the word was with +of the general sorrow. +of the french were coming down upon them and that his regiment was in +of the frenchmen with the gunners ended, whether the red-haired gunner +of the field he stood on was well-known and familiar ground. though he +of the feebleness of age, “bolkónski!” he whispered, pointing to +of the enemy’s lines, which all day long had yielded ground to us +of the emperor like a cloud of haze across a clear sky and vanished. +of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the +of the dam, throwing two soldiers off their feet, and ran onto the +of the commander in chief’s special favor he was sent with the news of +of the colonel, nesvítski, zherkóv, and the officer from the suite. +of the club from the day it was founded. to him the club entrusted the +of the club, beset the new arrivals. count ilyá, again thrusting his +of the cannon. he heard the whistle of bullets above him unceasingly and +of the candles was focused on those two happy faces alone. +of the campfire, waving his uplifted arm. +of the boulevards whom he visited of an evening. he led the mazurka +of the behavior of the eldest princess and prince vasíli she spoke +of the azóv and podólsk infantry and the pávlograd hussars—was +of the army into the hands of a better informed and more skillful +of the advance. as soon as an austrian officer showed himself near +of the actual battlefield. they began to meet wounded men. one with a +of the action balls and shells began flying all over his regiment and +of that song. +often than at anyone else and took delight in his every movement. +often heard. “what is this?” thought prince andrew approaching the +often heard from his fellow hussars. +of speech and of the press—and only for that reason did he obtain +of sónya, who blushed and smiled unnaturally. in the midst of his talk +of sons and brothers. +of something too large and unsuited to the place, came over her face +of some dislocation and blunder spread through the ranks. how such +of smoke that had concealed the hollow, driven by a rising wind, began +of slaves? have you helped them physically and morally? no! you have +of sixteen, had been in paris and copenhagen, and now held a rather +of sixteen, evidently passionately in love with him (he did not doubt +of shots retreated. in the highest army circles from midday on the +of several thousand men could produce. the lights spread farther and +of sergéy kuzmích and at the same time his eyes glanced toward his +of,” said the princess in the same petulantly playful tone in which +of rum in his hand was approaching the window, from which the light of +of reflection are generally in a serious frame of mind. at such moments +of prussia’s consent by assault. you are so eloquent. will you give me +of prussia, in order to draw borís into the conversation. +of profound thought. the round, steady, hawk’s eyes looked before him +of pride, indolence, and ignorance. forgive me, my dear sir, but if i +of peter and paul, his patron saints. in another place the women with +of permission previously given him by kutúzov to be present at the +of other things and to look in other directions, thought only of what +of one another, and then, as if afraid of being too late, seized each +of olmütz where bolkónski had seen him for the first time abroad, but +of officers and courtiers, was riding a bobtailed chestnut mare, a +of now as the “seeker,” now as the “sufferer,” and now as the +of mingled shame and vexation. +of mind, pierre carried out an intention he had long had of visiting his +of men and horses, from the little puffs of smoke on the enemy’s side +of mack, the news of his defeat, and the thought of what lay before the +of mack’s defeat, the camp life of the officers of this squadron was +of love which pervaded the rostóv household that winter and, now after +of love and self-sacrifice. and cost what it may, i will arrange +of love and sadness. it was plain that she was following a train of +of life, with his delicate white fingers raised from the green quilt the +of lannes’ sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and +of joy in his eyes, looked round him, not knowing how to answer the +of it. the only question is, has it been destroyed or not? if not, then +of its rightful king,” she concluded, trying to be amiable to the +of its honeyed firmness and softness. +of it. prince andrew” (he always spoke thus of his son) “has been +of inviting the other to take a seat beside him. pierre felt reluctant +of how to get away quickly to her own room to make out the problem in +of how beside himself and all aflame with excitement, he had flown like +of horse’s hoofs approaching at a trot along the line of hussars was +of horses had been sent up the highroad to meet the german doctor from +of his words for the solemnity of the moment, as he spoke. “i +of his whip fell on the apron of the equipage. the woman screamed +of his speech. “vous comptez vous faire des rentes sur l’état; * +of his return. +of his own, goodness only knows why, he leaves me and locks me up alone +of his mouth and winking at the count. +of his former bachelor acquaintances many were no longer in petersburg. +of his commissions and ordered the small closed carriage for her. +of his coat and looking down at him—the englishman was short—began +of his book with his old hands which from excitement he could not keep +of his appearance before her now. prince andrew went round the sofa and +of him?” not one of the innumerable speeches addressed to the emperor +of him, listened to him, admired, and imitated him, and with them prince +of him—at the battery. he now saw clearly the figure of a red-haired +of her worthlessness he was also dreaming of how she would be his +of her saint’s-day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to +of her neutrality and draw her into the war; how part of that army was +of her most august majesty the empress márya fëdorovna. pierre felt +of hélène. some, as if unwilling to distract her from an important +of hearts with a torn corner, which he had picked up from the floor. he +of hearts. on the previous sunday the old count had given his son +of having been dutiful et tout ce qui s’ensuit!* that’s certain.” +of habit said things he did not even wish to be believed. +of fugitives, prince andrew, trying to keep near kutúzov, saw on the +of for a single moment during the whole service. he judged by the +off on the line of kutúzov’s retreat. if he reached znaim before the +of fire and had descended into the dip, he was met by some of the staff, +official appointed to the province in which the prince’s estate lay +officer, with a smile to bolkónski. +officer, that he would drink a bottle of rum sitting on the outer ledge +officers who had gathered at his quarters. the little old man with +officers who had been standing together rode off to their places. the +officers were counting the men, poking the last man in each section in +officer’s remark was just and that really no answer could be made to +officers. now what was the colonel to do? have the officer tried and +officers, generals, and adjutants, as they passed rostóv going or +officer sends for auersperg; these gentlemen embrace the officers, crack +officers,” continued the staff captain, “and bogdánich” (the +officers buttoned up their coats, buckled on their swords and pouches, +officers, but every soldier with his freshly washed and shaven face and +officers became animated. the guardsmen told rostóv of their march and +officer!” said bagratión to rostóv, “are the enemy’s skirmishers +officers. +officer pointing to the soldiers. “the officers don’t keep them in +officer passing by addressed him: +officer of the suite by the arm. “look! a man has fallen! fallen, +officer joined in the colonel’s appeals, but bagratión did not reply; +officer in the white uniform of the horse guards. +officer in the semënov regiment with whom borís was to travel to join +officer in charge of transport was beating the soldier who was driving +officer has stolen...” +officer as in a looking glass—started, moved forward, and answered: +officer arrived, but at a sign resumed his measured, monotonous pacing. +officer and a wounded hero, would it be right to remind him of herself +officer.” +off his eyes and glanced around him. the room was in black darkness, +off his courage, had ridden on to the planks of the bridge: +off his cloak. +offered a most striking contrast to his quiet, little wife. it was +offensive, the plan of which, carefully prepared in accord with the +offend me. really i have some,” rostóv repeated. +offended tone. +of fellow. as for the past two years people have amused themselves +of fear for his young and happy life, possessed his whole being. rapidly +off completely and surround his exhausted army of forty thousand, and he +off at every moment. they waited and listened. +of fate and the designs of rogues. during the few days he spent in +off—and this is what comes of it!” said prince andrew in an +off, and the firing had begun to subside. suddenly, near by on the +off; and here at last was a russian prince. mademoiselle bourienne knew +of face, evidently worn out with childbearing—she had had twelve. +of expression on his face. now his forehead would pucker into deep folds +of expression and intonation that obliged one to listen to each +of exasperation. “don’t you hear it’s his majesty the emperor’s +of everything. one must think of the future, of all of you... i love you +of eternal peace and blessedness?” she thought. +of england, inspired by such hatred of our nation! this victory will +of each shot, as at the word of command, the whole squadron with its +of each. +of dread was in the air. it was evident that the affair so lightly begun +of disease without help while material assistance could so easily be +of delighted amazement. +of deep bass voices, and in the intervals sighs and the shuffling of +of cruelty, as when tying the policeman to the bear and dropping them +of cowardice in the other. both passed the examination successfully. as +“of course. what is it?” +“of course, we only just missed one another,” said the staff +“of course, it is a very brilliant match, but happiness, my dear...” +“of course. i’m going into action! i’ve shaved, bwushed my teeth, +of count bezúkhov’s death. she said the count had died as she would +of contempt. “and believe me, if i still value my life it is +of communications, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his +of command. +of columns from russia, of some victory gained by the austrians, and of +of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist. in front and +of capacity for philosophical meditation (to which he himself was +of bonaparte, encountering a population that was unfriendly to it, +of bonaparte. +of blessedness which now flooded his heart with glad emotion. +of birds. +of believing in the possibility of attaining perfection, and in the +of being afraid roused him again. “i cannot be afraid,” thought he, +of beginning anew pictured to himself the blissful, irreproachable, +of battles was evidently culminating in a panic. +of bagratión’s detachment. his hussars were placed along the line +of awe and even servility. a deference such as he had never before +of austerlitz: nine tenths of the men in the russian army were then in +of austerlitz, but wore a tight new uniform with russian and foreign +of a surgeon who has just performed a difficult operation and admits the +of a subject, she did not stop talking, but chattered about the +of assurance and haste, pierre concluded that it was all absolutely +of a sin he could neither remedy nor forget. he could not weep. the +of a ruling prince, in a crown—an alleged descendant of rúrik and +of a pleasure, and obliges me to interrupt you. i am very sorry to leave +of a parade. we had expected, as i told you, to get at their rear by +of an immense fortune. the will has not yet been opened. i know you +of, and am going to rejoin my regiment, i am giving a farewell supper +of an attack spread through the squadron. the command to form up rang +of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him. +of a man who enjoys life and knows how to live, he swayed to and +of alms” went round to all the brothers. pierre would have liked +of all. this gift will be a pledge of your purity of heart to her whom +of all these brilliant young men. +of all that mass of huge and handsome men, of all those brilliant, +of a gun at ismail. +of a girl, but i like her.” +of affairs?” concluded his father. “but it troubles me. i don’t +of a battle but also disbelieved in the nearness of an engagement. +o’erpassed,” said an old priest to a lady who had taken a seat +odýntsova had married an old man, and that there was a suitor for mary, +o’clock left the third column with which he had been and galloped +o’clock all had been brought into due order. the ranks were drawn +occurred to his regiment, but in reality he did not himself know what +occurred to him, though the question he was about to ask was the chief +occurred to him. on the contrary, he became more and more elated. it +occupy the position and prepare for an attack.” +occupy is a strong one, and while they are marching to go round me on +occupied with evening parties, dinners, lunches, and balls, giving him +occupied. he was himself always occupied: writing his memoirs, solving +occupied by the emperors and their retinues. +occupation of the town of wischau and the capture of a whole french +occupation, came up to her for a moment and made haste to go away, +occasioned by the sausage eaters. +occasionally drew it down to meet the lower lip. as is always the case +obviously trying to restrain within the bounds of decorum the excitement +obviously strange to her to think that this stern handsome man should be +obtained through an acquaintance and sent to her son, asking him to take +obtained his captaincy during the campaign, had gained the confidence of +obtain a post on the commander in chief’s staff. berg and borís, +obligingly took the dish from bagratión (or he would, it seemed, have +objects mentioned by the rhetor, this last, that of improving mankind, +object it is necessary that... the first column marches... the second +object above his head and, holding it there for some seconds, suddenly +obeying, and suddenly doubts arose in his mind. “where am i? what am +obedient, and insignificant atom. they followed prince dolgorúkov out +obedience—which did not even seem to him a virtue, but a joy. (he now +nurse’s french, at which he and borís used to laugh long ago. +nurse sávishna, knitting in hand, was telling in low tones, scarcely +nursery.” +nurse, praskóvya sávishna, who hardly ever came to that room as the +nurse and nurse sávishna in the late princess’ rooms and princess +number one jumped briskly aside. the gun rang out with a deafening +number of men had perished in fleeing from pratzen. the french had not +“no, you’ll never manage him that way,” said anatole. “wait a +“no, you know it’s too soon for news. but my father is anxious and i +“no, you don’t understand!” +“now you, young prince, what’s your name?” said prince bolkónski, +“now you don’t know that at all!” said nicholas. “but i must +now, when my heart fails me and my mouth feels dry at the mere sight +“now what does this mean, gentlemen?” said the staff officer, in +now we shall get anything we want from his hothouses. i have to see him +now was evidently ready with a joke. “whether tomorrow brings +“now, véra, what does it matter to you?” said natásha in defense, +now to look at dólokhov, who was sitting opposite him. every time +now told about that affair!” +“now thou hast seen the lesser light,” uttered a voice. then the +now,” thought rostóv driving his spurs into rook and letting him go +now the smile of the little princess—influenced by the general mood +now there’s this recruiting.” +“now then, you devil’s puppet, look alive and hunt for it!” +“now then, váska,” said nicholas. +“now then, now then, i’m only joking!” he said. “remember this, +“now then, matvévna, dear old lady, don’t let me down!” he was +“now then, let’s see how far it will carry, captain. just try!” +“now then, go on, go on!” incited the officer, bending forward and +“now then, go away and take your monstrosity with you,” said the +now then, darling! how will she take that si? she’s taken it! thank +“now the fun begins,” thought anatole, sitting down with a smile +“now, sónya!” she said, going to the very middle of the room, where +“now, sídorov, you have a try!” +now,” said another. +now rose and took their leave. the visitor’s daughter was already +“now?” repeated natásha, and a happy smile lit up her face. “have +now permissible; “the door to the left, ma’am.” +now on one side, now on the other, giving his face an unpleasant +“now look out for the ball... we’ll throw it back.” +“now i see it all! i know who has been intriguing—i know!” cried +“now i must disclose to you the chief aim of our order,” he said, +“now i am all right,” she said, and asking the vicomte to begin, she +now he was a lieutenant of hussars, in a jacket laced with silver, and +nowhere to hunt with your dogs? but what is to be done, old man? just +nowhere encountering the enemy. on the contrary, the soldiers became +“no! what kind, márya dmítrievna? what kind?” she almost screamed; +“no! what is there to talk about?” said pierre. “it’s all the +now gradually opening before me.” but five of the other virtues which +“now, dear boy,” said prince vasíli playfully, “say ‘yes,’ +“now come, come! be reasonable. i know your excellent heart.” +now centered round the emperor. so we will go to dolgorúkov; i have to +now before i am off duty. i’ll take another turn and when i get back +now at her, moved as if about to rise too, but changed his mind. +now approached the sick man with the noiseless step of one in full vigor +“no, wait, pierre! the princess is too kind to wish to deprive me of +now aiming, now counting the charges, now giving orders about replacing +“now about your family. do you know that since your daughter came +now.” +novosíltsev, prince volkónsky, strógonov, and the others, all richly +novelty she offered her guests this time was not mortemart, but a +not you! go back or i’ll flatten you into a pancake,” repeated he. +not yet dispersed before another puff appeared, followed by a report. +“not yet. but where are you off to?” +not worse than this one.” +notwithstanding this, borís embraced him in a quiet, friendly way and +notwithstanding the tone of wearied assurance with which these words +not wish it. in a word, i make no promise. and i beg you to consider +not what he had read that vexed him, but the fact that the life out +not wanted here? go to the other girls, or...” +not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting +not used to it. she will retaliate. and she has been fooled in the +not understand what he ought to do then it will be my affair—yes, my +not two minutes had passed before prince vasíli with head erect +not to notice one another. when having limbered up the only two cannon +not to have to repent is not enough. i lived like that, i lived for +not to challenge bolkónski. “of course not!” he now thought. “is +“not that either. that puts the court in too bad a light,” replied +not ten times wounded, killed, or betrayed, well... what then?...” +not suit in the least. not in the least! please change it.” +not see ten paces ahead. bushes looked like gigantic trees and level +not see or understand him and may not see or understand his own vileness +“not seen duport—the famous dancer? well then, you won’t +not see him at all.” +not rise. rostóv also tried to rise but fell back, his sabretache +not right.” +not resume your former way of life. and now i wish you a good journey, +not replying to the austrian. +not realize that he had come. his coming had nothing to do with +not only without interest but even as if ashamed of what pierre was +“not only occupied, but bonaparte is at schönbrunn, and the count, +“not on any account!” exclaimed rostóv. +“no, to kill a man is bad—wrong.” +not moving a muscle. +“not more stupid than you, madam,” said the nine-year-old pétya, +not many left alive. go that way, to that village, all the commanders +not love liberty and equality? even our saviour preached liberty and +not listening to it continued to dress while walking about, and three +not like us sinners of the line,” cried rostóv, with martial swagger +not letting the abbé and pierre escape, anna pávlovna, the more +“not let the wife have him?” said the old man, and laughed. +not leave the battery. he decided to have the guns removed from their +“not kutúzov, but what’s his name—well, never mind... there are +not knowing whether it would be proper to call the dying man “the +not knowing what to do, and glanced inquiringly at his guide. anna +not know him, but he is here, he is in me, he is in my words, he is in +not know: he therefore wished to speak to dolgorúkov. +“not killed—wounded!” another officer corrected him. +not, it was decided at a consultation between the battalion commanders +“not in the least,” replied the vicomte. “after the murder of the +not intend to devote her life to serving prince bolkónski, to reading +no time to ask himself whether these people were sincere or not. he +no time. i hope, my dear friend, you will carry out your father’s +no time for reflection, as in petersburg. instead of the new life he had +not ill-spent. he is worth it!” +noticing what a bad state of things it was. the regimental commander +noticed the look of terror with which pierre regarded that lifeless arm, +noticed the french appearing below them, and then they fired grapeshot +noticed that they had not come to the front entrance but to the back +noticed that he was pale and that his jaw quivered and shook as if in an +noticed, left the room with a pleasant smile. +noticeable one at the dinner. rostóv looked inimically at pierre, +“not hurt, petróv?” asked one. +nothing when they have no powers; this one had none.... the austrians +nothing to him.... “i should perhaps have done the same thing in his +nothing to be happy about!” thought he. +nothing. she felt that sónya was speaking the truth, that there was +“nothing... only i feel sad... sad about andrew,” she said, wiping +“nothing... only a shell...” he answered. +nothing of what was going on around him and to be absorbed by some +“nothing of the sort. orders are issued for a battle.” +nothing of her and looks only at bourienne. no, she has no pride... but +nothing, nothing, nothing! no, don’t marry, my dear fellow; don’t +“nothing, my dear.” +nothing more important...” he paused, “than to have a good sleep.” +nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever +nothing. i am very amiable and have a caustic wit,” continued prince +nothing could be seen. pitch-dark, brother! isn’t there something to +nothing, but that. but even it does not exist, there is nothing but +nothing but meanness, deceit, envy, intrigue, and ingratitude—the +nothing, but here on the one hand the local nobility have done me the +“nothing,” answered princess mary, looking firmly with her radiant +nothing about it and have not thought about it. moscow is chiefly busy +nothing about firing it.” +nothing. +“no, there is no change. i only came to have a talk about business, +not have caused him to expect that honor. the prince, who generally kept +not go to any large gatherings, but only to small receptions. prince +not forsake him. he will fulfill his vocation and crush the hydra of +not finding the young prince in his study the valet went with the +not far from the artillery campfire, in a hut that had been prepared +not expect you today,” he added. “i only sent you the note yesterday +not expecting to come on the enemy down by the stream, and having +not exist. +not evince the least interest during this explanation, but as if he were +“no, tell them to harness.” +note. i am in such a state.... my only hope now is in count cyril +noted them down. +not disfigured by the approach of death. it was the same as pierre +not? delightful!” +not come and brought his pupil with him” (for some reason prince +not captured.” again he pondered. “i am very glad you have brought +not, but you have no grounds for telling me so. and that is the whole +not but tremble and his heart stand still at the imminence of that word. +not but believe in the sincerity of those around him. besides, he had +not breathe. he knew that he must do something to put an end to this +“not bound to endure insults,” dólokhov concluded in loud, ringing +“not bonaparte. he is the emperor! sacré nom...!” cried he angrily. +not been found nor was he on the list of prisoners. what was worst of +not attract a moment’s attention to their own evolutions and did not +not at once raise, and he spent most of his time in the girls’ room. +“not at all,” said prince andrew. +“not at all bad!” he thought, examining her, “not at all bad, that +not answer. the hussar at that moment noticed the face of the red-nosed +not a logical answer and not at all a reply to them. the answer was: +“not all, for you will not be there; not all,” said prince hippolyte +“no talking in the ranks!... no talking, no talking!” +not a distinction,” said the diplomatist—“a gift, rather.” +not a diplomatist. that’s why i joined the hussars, thinking that here +no such reminiscences really exist—just as none existed in this case. +nostitz, the austrian general occupying the advanced posts, believed +“no, sónya, but do you remember so that you remember him perfectly, +no sky but only an atmosphere.” +“no? she is very nice and kind and, above all, she’s much to be +nose. his face was depressed and gloomy. he seemed to see and hear +no restrictions whatsoever. you may copy it, give it away or re-use +“no really, my dear, this dress is not pretty,” said lise, looking +“no—promise that you will not refuse! it will give you no trouble +“no, princess, i have lost your affection forever!” said +“no, prince, our regiment has gone to the front, but i am attached... +“no, peter nikoláevich; i only want to show that in the cavalry +“no, pardon me, i won’t go now till the child is better,” thought +“no, papa is not back yet,” said sónya. +“no-o-o!” muttered dólokhov through his teeth, “no, it’s not +“no, on my word it’s not obstinacy! i can’t describe the feeling. +“no, on my true word of honor,” said natásha, crossing herself, +no one would understand that it was not to quench his thirst or from +no one slept. +no one had given túshin orders where and at what to fire, but after +“no, one can’t hear them. they’d be firing if we had.” +“no one can attain to truth by himself. only by laying stone on stone +nonsense, the chief thing is not to forget the important thing i +nonsense out of your head.” +“nonsense, nonsense!” cried the old man, shaking his pigtail to +“nonsense, indeed! i am telling you the fact,” said natásha +nonsense,” he thought. “the slur on my name and honor—that’s all +“nonsense!” he cried, and the veins on his forehead and neck stood +nonsense, but we are friends forever. she, if she loves anyone, does it +nonsense... but this is real.... now then, natásha, now then, dearest! +nonsense, but it would in fact have been difficult to give any other +‘nonsense!’” +nonreceipt of our dispatch of november 18. that is how it will end.” +“no, not on any account! i will tell him myself, and you’ll listen +“no, nothing.” +“no, no, please not... you are mademoiselle bourienne,” said +“no! no! no! when your father writes to tell me that you are behaving +“no, no!” cried natásha, “she and i have already talked it over. +“no, no! a thousand times no! i shall never agree with you,” said +“non, madame.” he smiled quite inappropriately. +nonintervention. and...” he paused. “finally one cannot impute the +none to anyone.” +“no, my dear fellow, i’ll be a wallflower,” said denísov. +no more. she is so affected. ask her in,” she said to the footman in a +“no, mon père.” +“no, merci, mon père.” +“no matter, princess, don’t be alarmed,” said mary bogdánovna. +“no matter at all, my dear count,” she said, meekly closing her +“no, mamma, i’m not in love with him, i suppose i’m not in love +“no, mamma, but i’m so sorry for him. i don’t know how i’m to +no longer looked at the french but paid attention to the sight-seers and +no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age +no longer, as it should be, to avoid or attack the enemy, but solely to +“no, leave me alone,” said princess mary. +“no, i won’t,” said pierre, pushing anatole aside, and he went up +“no, i won’t promise that. you don’t know how kutúzov is pestered +“no, i will do it myself, only tell me what to say. it’s all very +“no, it will not do,” she said decidedly, clasping her hands. “no, +“no, it’s only indigestion?... say it’s only indigestion, say so, +“no, it’s a sprain.” +“no, i tell you.” +“no, it can’t be helped, lad,” said the prince. “they’re +“no, i mustn’t. i am so sorry for him! he’s so nice.” +“no, impossible!” said prince andrew, laughing and pressing +“no, i meant to ask...” pierre began, but prince andrew interrupted +“no, i have not; but this is what i have been thinking and wanted +“no, i have been transferred to the line,” said anatole, hardly able +“no, i have a wicked heart.” +“no, i hate my life,” pierre muttered, wincing. +“no, if i hadn’t thought of it being a treasure,” said rostóv, +“no, i considered it erroneous and did not follow it,” said pierre, +“no, i can’t agree with you! to live only so as not to do evil and +“no, he thinks only of himself,” muttered the princess without +“no, he’s not a fool!” replied natásha indignantly and seriously. +“no good... no good...” said the prince rapidly, and thrusting his +“no. give me the book,” said the stranger. +“no, gentlemen, no... you mustn’t think... i quite understand. +no fruit. i never could understand the fondness some people have for +“no, friend,” said a pleasant and, as it seemed to prince andrew, a +“no, friend, he is sharper-eyed than you are. boots and leg bands... +“no, fifty,” replied the latter. +“no, dearest, sweet one, honey, i won’t give up—i know you know +“no,” cried he, becoming more and more eager, “napoleon is great +no, certainly i must not approach him, i must not intrude on his +“no, call her you, please! i’ll tell you all about it some other +“no, but what is it, my dear? do you want me to go and tell him?” +“no, but she said that it was all over and that he’s now an +“no, but listen,” she said, “now you are quite a man, aren’t +“no, but i say,” said pierre, calming down, “you are a wonderful +“no, but i must. it may be arrogant of me, but still it is best to say +“no, but imagine the old countess zúbova, with false curls and her +“no, but i have been in love a thousand times and shall fall in +“no, but do promise! i won’t let you go! my dear benefactor...” +“no, but don’t you think it’s nice?” she kept repeating. +“nobody wants me!” thought rostóv. “there is no one to help me or +“no apologies, none whatever,” said dólokhov to denísov (who on +“no, andrew, i must say you have changed. oh, how you have....” +no account have told a deliberate lie. he began his story meaning to +no?” +“no.” +“no.” +“no.” +ninety thousand strong, was to threaten prussia so as to bring her out +nineteenth, a great, excitedly bustling activity began which lasted till +“nikólenka... wounded... a letter,” she announced in gleeful +“nikólenka, what is the matter?” sónya’s eyes fixed on him +nikólenka; by his relations as a charming, attractive, and polite young +“nikólenka... a letter... wa... a... s... wounded... my darling +night when he had decided that to marry hélène would be a calamity and +night, so dark that the coachman could not see the carriage pole. +night long without closing their eyes, while the adjutants and +night i looked at the campfires and there was no end of them. a regular +night he had not the slightest doubt, and the guiltlessness of +night. but now, in the solitude of the journey, they seized him with +night a motley throng of people sat there, not merrymaking, but somberly +night.” +(nicknamed in society, “the king of prussia”) ever since the emperor +“nicholas, will you come to iogel’s? please do!” said natásha. +nicholas went to her, kissed her hand, and sitting down silently at her +nicholas was to go with him to the regiment; then came anna mikháylovna +“nicholas!” was all sónya said, instantly turning white. +nicholas turned away from her. natásha too, with her quick instinct, +nicholas tried to say “yes,” but could not: and he nearly burst into +nicholas straight in the eyes, “you know the saying, ‘lucky in love, +nicholas sat at some distance from sónya, beside julie karágina, to +nicholas rostóv, with denísov and his new acquaintance, dólokhov, sat +nicholas rostóv turned away and, as if searching for something, gazed +nicholas’ letter was read over hundreds of times, and those who were +“nicholas is going away in a week’s time, his... papers... have +nicholas. i never knew any madame jacquot.” +nicholas, having as usual exhausted two pairs of horses, without +“nicholas, have you come? come here, dear!” called the old countess +“nicholas! get up!” natásha’s voice was again heard at the door. +“nicholas, don’t tell me that!” she said. +“nicholas! come out in your dressing gown!” said natásha’s voice. +nicholas’ career and am heartless and ungrateful, while truly... god +nicholas began pacing up and down the room. +nicholas and denísov were walking up and down, looking with kindly + * nicholas. +nice indeed, quite french,” and he kissed the tips of his fingers. +nice... but it won’t do...not that... but as a friend, i shall always +“nice! and so you no longer wish to marry borís?” +next note, the next phrase, and everything in the world was divided into +next morning when the valet came into the room with his coffee, pierre +next morning, after the fatigues of their journey, the travelers slept +next glanced round in alarm. +next day, the third of march, soon after one o’clock, two hundred and +next day the french army did not renew their attack, and the remnant of +next day, the army began its campaign, and up to the very battle of +next day rostóv saw denísov off. he did not wish to stay another +next day prince vasíli had arrived and settled in the count’s house. +next day he woke late. recalling his recent impressions, the first +next day, at eight in the morning, pierre and nesvítski drove to the +next came four soldiers, carrying something heavy on a cloak, and passed +news i may take back to my poor boy.” +news—if it’s not false. bennigsen seems to have obtained a complete +news and common acquaintances like people who do not know each other +news. +new path so attractively shown him by the masons, on which he firmly +new pack of cards said: “bank, gentlemen!” +new mustache. “now then, get on,” he shouted to the driver. “do +newly erected buildings were standing empty and that the serfs continued +new friend’s influence. +new church, previously begun, had cost about 10,000 in each of the last +never understand it, because you’ve never loved anyone. you have no +never to dare to change your way of dress without my consent.” +never thought much of him.” +never take it off. do you promise?” +never says anything stupid. she says little, but what she does say is +“never, never marry, my dear fellow! that’s my advice: never marry +never had love been so much in the air, and never had the amorous +never favorably disposed toward him—would have used it to turn the +never bear malice or enmity toward thy brother. be kindly and courteous. +neutrality is just a trap. i have faith only in god and the lofty +neutral... i know that. what about austria?” said he, rising from his +nesvítski with a laugh threw his arms round prince andrew, but +nesvítski was there as an old member of the club. pierre, who at his +nesvítski tried to move on, soldiers and carts pushed him back again +nesvítski. “they’ve made up splendid packs for me—fit to cross +nesvítski stopped him and took him home. +nesvítski’s and dólokhov’s sabers, which were stuck into the +nesvítski rose, puffing, and went up to the general, smiling. +“nesvítski, nesvítski! you numskull!” came a hoarse voice from +nesvítski looked round and saw, some fifteen paces away but separated +nesvítski. count ilyá rostóv with the other members of the committee +nesvítski closed their eyes. at the same instant they heard a report +nesvítski and zherkóv were so surprised by this outburst that they +nesvítski. +neither quickly nor slowly. at this natásha dashed swiftly among the +neither of them could think of her as a rival, so they began dressing +neither of her gown and coiffure nor of how she would go in nor of what +neither moving forward to protect the battery nor backward with the +neither i nor my mother would ever ask or take anything from him.” +neighbor on his right quickly turned in alarm to bezúkhov. +neighbor? no! you have spent your life in idleness. then you married, my +neighboring wheel is as quiet and motionless as though it were prepared +neighboring town, who had been at bald hills for the last fortnight.) +neighbor, and may envy never dim the purity of that bliss. forgive thy +negotiations and to offer the russian army the three days’ truce. +need to hurry. however, he put his horse to a trot in the direction +need some money.” +need, even the inevitability, of entering into conversation with this +needed for success in the service was not effort or work, or courage, or +needed. +neck. on his right sat the italian abbé whom pierre had met at +neck. it seemed to rostóv that bogdánich was only pretending not +neck instead. +neck and the corners of her mouth drooped. +necessity of going back on his word. with a sinking heart he watched +necessary to take some part in it. +necessary to go on insisting day after day and hour after hour, and even +necessary to enable it to retreat without losing its heavy equipment. +necessary,” said the younger of the two speakers, evidently in the +necessary. halfway up the stairs they were almost knocked over by +necessary for the position. then there’s this house, which must be +near the strange lady. prince vasíli in front of the door, near the +near the gun waved their arms and beat the horses to make them turn and +near the altar of the church at bald hills there was a chapel over the +near sixty, dear friend... i too... all will end in death, all! death is +nearly cut our left flank in half were for the moment repulsed. our +near him pricked their ears at these shouts. over there, where the +near him and only wished that they would help him and bring him back to +near everything grew brighter, more joyful, more significant, and more +nearest him were not to blame for they were themselves pressed still +nearer. then the clang of hoofs, as of several horses galloping, +nearer, faster and louder, louder and faster, a cannon ball, as if it +near by the news spread that the emperor was unwell. he ate nothing and +natural to him was very gentle and wary with them both at dinner. on +natásha, who was exceptionally graceful, was first, even danced the pas +natásha to sing. +natásha took the first note, her throat swelled, her chest rose, +natásha, that winter, had for the first time begun to sing seriously, +natásha suddenly flushed. +natásha, stopping suddenly. “i feel so happy!” +natásha’s previous remark. “it’s because she was in love with +natásha’s prediction proved true. dólokhov, who did not usually care +natásha smiled through her tears. +natásha’s large mouth widened, making her look quite ugly, and she +natásha’s intermediacy, to remind him of his promise, and then +natásha, seeing the impression the news of her brother’s wound +natásha saw there was nothing to be afraid of and so she braved even +natásha, raising her face for a moment from her mother’s mantilla, +natásha only desisted when she had been told that there would be +natásha no less proud of her first long dress and of being at a real +natásha. nicholas understood that something must have happened between +natásha looked at sónya with wondering and inquisitive eyes, and said +natásha kissed her on the hair. +natásha kept pulling everyone by sleeve or dress, urging them to +“natásha,” he said, “you know that i love you, but....” +natásha flared up. “i don’t want to marry anyone. and i’ll tell +natásha fell in love the very moment she entered the ballroom. she +natásha did not like the visitor’s tone of condescension to childish +natásha could not remain calm, seeing him in such a plight. she began +natásha considered. +natásha came in and walking straight up to pierre said, laughing and +natásha. but he was not as much at ease with sónya and dólokhov as +natásha blushed and laughed. +natásha, and sónya, and will certainly never touch a card again.” at +natásha, after she had pulled him down toward her and covered his face +“nataly,” he said, moving with rapid steps toward her, “decide my +“natálya ilyníchna behaves very well to me,” remarked borís. “i +narýshkin, uvárov, dolgorúkov, apráksin, valúev, to the committee, +narrowed disdainfully, he entered the room of the minister of war with +napoleon with even greater warmth than the year before. orders were +napoleon who said it. he heard the speaker addressed as sire. but he +napoleon’s words. “‘i opened my antechambers and they crowded +napoleon’s proclamation was as follows: +napoleon’s eyes prince andrew thought of the insignificance of +napoleon’s army of one hundred and fifty thousand men would cut him +napoleon. “if he weren’t afraid of a battle why did he ask for that +napoleon happened to fall into one of the fainting fits to which he was +napoleon +napoleon +napkin, from behind the next man’s shoulders and whispered: “dry +name to rectify this omission, prince andrew galloped back. kutúzov +namesake, the new count bezúkhov) “and now she’s in love with that +name-day party. +name. +naked shoulders. she did not give him the money, but let herself be +“my wife,” continued prince andrew, “is an excellent woman, one +my wife—are the count’s only direct heirs. i know, i know how hard +“my vocation is a different one,” thought princess mary. “my +my stupidity.” +mystical book i am sending you; it has an enormous success here. though +mystery on which perhaps the fate of mankind depends. but since this +mystery is of such a nature that nobody can know or use it unless he be +mysteriously. “yes, tomorrow, tomorrow!” he thought. “tomorrow +myself not long ago, in moscow and when traveling, but at such times i +myself and you with the hope that your son is alive, for otherwise +myself and ruined my life. and only now when i am living, or at least +my riding and commanding so vast an army, so i have passed on the +my respects to monsieur your father and my compliments to mademoiselle +my relations with him, transient as they were, have been one of the +“my passion! i have had so many,” replied pierre. +“my part is played out,” said prince andrew. “what’s the use of +“my mother! my mother, my angel, my adored angel mother,” and +my men in the wood. i beg of you, i beg of you,” he repeated, “to +“my god! what does it all mean?” thought he. “and here, where at +“my god, i’m a ruined and dishonored man! a bullet through my brain +“my god, how happy i should be if he ordered me to leap into the fire +my geometry lessons,” said princess mary gleefully, as if her lessons +“my friend,” said anna mikháylovna in gentle tones, addressing +my friend... i only need see prince vasíli sergéevich: he is staying +my father has not spoken to me of a suitor, but has only told me that he +my empty portmanteau and my dressing gown. the emperor proposes to give +“my desire is never to leave you, father, never to separate my +my dear, whether the will and letter were written, and whether they have +my dear sir,” he added, seeing that his servant had entered... “and +“my dear,” she said to her son, once more stimulating him by a +“my dear,” said princess mary, addressing her brother from beside +“my dear, really... it’s better not to wake him... he’s asleep,” +“my dear princess catherine semënovna,” began prince vasíli +“my dear, i must tell you that this is a moment i shall never, never +“my dear,” he heard what seemed to him her despairing whisper behind +“my dear friend?” said she, in a tone of pathetic inquiry, prepared +“my dear fellow, you are a hero!” said bilíbin. +“my dear fellow, what have you been up to in moscow? why have you +“my dear fellow,” nesvítski whispered to prince andrew, “the old +“my dear fellow, how are you?” said he through the singing, making +“my dear!” exclaimed his mother imploringly, again laying her hand +“my dear count, you were one of my best pupils—you must dance,” +my dear boy, are you serving in the horse guards?” asked the old man, +“my dear borís,” said princess anna mikháylovna to her son as +“my dear benefactor! this is what i expected from you—i knew your +“my dear anna mikháylovna,” said he with his usual familiarity and +“my darling!” he said—a word he had never used to her before. +“my cousin has nothing to do with this and it’s not necessary to +my advance guard, and have no right to arrange an armistice without my +muttered something and colored. +must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for +must put in an appearance there,” said the prince. “my daughter is +“must one die like a dog?” said he. +must have pity on a young man in misfortune. you know he has important +must have an explanation...” +must gain his confidence and friendship and through him obtain a special +must excuse me,” said he, putting pierre at ease instead of being put +must be broken off ... and then you know, andré...” (she looked +mustache. “i want to know what you men are like. are you the same as +muskets of the nearest soldiers. the soldiers started firing without +music. amid these sounds, only the youthful kindly voice of the emperor +murder of the duc d’enghien. the vicomte said that the duc d’enghien +murat’s emissary and retired, leaving bagratión’s division +murat’s detachment and the battle had not yet begun. in bagratión’s +murat. bonaparte himself, not trusting to his generals, moved with all +mud-bespattered breeches. the german landlady, hearing rostóv’s loud +much to say to one another in private and so they had been seeking an +much that the count held him up as a pattern to the other guests. berg +much prettier. pierre was received as if he were a corpse or a leper. +much of it left.” +much, my dear sir.” +much interest him because at that moment he felt with delight that he +much because he heard their sound as because he saw uneasiness on +much at the captain as at those who were laughing, among whom zherkóv +“much as mamma pressed her, she refused, and i know she won’t change +much as a sailor is by his ship. however far he has walked, whatever +much, and all of you, only véra... and what for? what have i done +“mr. aide-de-camp! mr. aide-de-camp!... for heaven’s sake... protect +“mr. aide-de-camp! help me!... what does it all mean?” screamed the +moving toward our left flank, the higher command found that our center +moving the money forward he prepared to deal. rostóv sat down by his +moving a chair close to hers seated himself beside her. +move on. the horses moved off the bank. the ice, that had held under +“move on a hundred yards and we are certainly saved, remain here +move on a few steps and be killed themselves in the same way. +movement, word, or look of his, never taking their blissfully adoring +movements were still slow and measured. +movements of the mass of which in his regiment he felt himself a tiny, +movements of the bearers, and the cold listless gaze fixed itself upon +movements of the baggage trains of the entire army along the krems-znaim +movements of the austrian army, and then give it to his excellency.” +movement of the tsar’s seemed to him enchanting. +movement of soldiers forming ranks and getting their muskets ready, +movement of dólokhov’s hands. those broad, reddish hands, with hairy +moved off accompanied by an irregularly swaying sea of aides-de-camp. +moved his forces to attack the center and outflank both the russian +moved and halted at the officers’ command, turned with banners flying, +mouth!” said bilíbin, and the mop of hair on his head moved with +mouth full of false teeth, as if she were trying to cheat old age.... +mouth. another was walking sturdily by himself but without his musket, +mouth all seemed puckered into a vacant, wearied grimace, and his arms +mounting his horse again prince andrew lingered with the battery, +mounted frenchmen, probably adjutants, were galloping up the hill. a +mount and ride to the bridge. (observe that all three are gascons.) +mountains of bohemia, and you and your army would have spent a bad +mountains, defending himself against superior forces of the enemy and +motive of his visit, “is it true that the dowager empress wants +motionless masses of the french now swayed and that there really was +mothers used to be married at twelve or thirteen.” +mother, pushing away her daughter with pretended sternness, and turning +mother keep you in their holy and all-powerful care! +mother, drawing her hand from beneath her old mantle and laying +mother by the news of this loss, he knew what a relief it would be to +mother and the youngest daughter—both named nataly. ever since +mother!...” +most strongly expressed his insincere love for her, and he felt the +most part to be spoken at a moment of victory and triumph, generally +most of the guests, uncertain how to regard this sally, looked at the +most of her observations, it made everyone feel uncomfortable, not +most joyful though erroneous rumors were rife of the imaginary approach +most in people. as to his inheritance and the part played by prince +moscow who was expected every moment, and men on horseback with lanterns +moscow when borís was a boy of fourteen, and had quite forgotten him, +moscow. the remembrance of the rostóvs’ house and of his childish +moscow their house was always full of visitors. the night after the +moscow’s hero was the fact that he had no connections in the city +“moscow has nothing else to do but gossip,” borís went on. +moscow for his equipment, was to join them on the march to radzivílov. +moscow. as a result he could not go to the country with the rest of the +moscow after the death of count bezúkhov, he would call pierre, or +moscow!” +moscovites who took their opinions from others—ilyá rostóv among +mortification, our opinion of bonaparte cannot alter. we shall not cease +morsels. the group about mortemart immediately began discussing the +morning till night and abstemious, so of course i am well.” +morning, the lines were so near together that the men could see one +morning or evening than night. on the way pierre remembered that anatole +morning greeting, crossing herself with trepidation and repeating a +morning. +more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my +more than timókhin had done when he was reprimanded by the regimental +more than they did anatole. dólokhov could play all games and nearly +more than anyone else, prince vasíli took possession of pierre’s +more! some more!” a merry voice was saying in his soul. but no more +more outcries, and tears of joy. he could not distinguish which was +more noticeable how much plainer she had become. some unobtrusive touch +more natural and animated than usual, so that the wrinkles round +more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows +more important guests—an old general and his wife, and anna pávlovna +more honorable to admit one’s mistake than to let matters become +more, for immediately afterwards cannon began firing from somewhere and +more cunning or subtle diplomatist—you know, a combination of french +more confused, blushed like a child till tears came to his eyes, began +more confirmed the farther he rode into the region behind the village of +more confident was the appearance of our troops. the soldiers in +more cheerful in his presence, and were evidently anxious to display +more, but he waited and did nothing. +moreau would have been a prisoner if suvórov had had a free hand; but +more animated. only when a man was killed or wounded did he frown and +more animated. “and believe me, they are reaping the reward of their +more and more animated and evidently wishing to express his new outlook +more and holding out the letter. +more. +monument from moscow which he intended to erect in his own garden to his +monsieur buonaparte sitting on a throne and granting the petitions of +monk he received and had a long talk with.” +“mon dieu, mon dieu!” she muttered, and lifting her dress with one +“mon dieu! mon dieu! oh!” she heard as she left the room. +moment when the first report was heard a fourth was seen. then two +moment those hands with their short reddish fingers and hairy wrists, +moment the french who were attacking, suddenly and without any apparent +moments: but his words sounded so weak that he felt ashamed of himself. +moment, sat beside him: the rest, crowding round him, watched every +moment of meeting had been so beatific that his present joy seemed +moment marching with the company. the hussar cornet of kutúzov’s +moment imagined himself to be napoleon in person and to have just +moment he was clearly thinking of nothing but how dashing a fellow he +moment had arrived. with the air of a practical petersburg lady she now, +moment consider what she should do), but all this had long been familiar +moment.” +moment!” +modern science of strategics, had been handed to kutúzov when he was in +modeling and modeling you must get smeared with clay,” suggesting +mixture onto the floor and asked for some more water. the maid brought +misunderstandings and did not now feel she had a right to ask him for +misunderstanding. i expect you feel it so yourself. let us write her +mist and taking it for a tree can again take it for a tree after he has +mistaken,” said the stranger in a deliberate and loud voice. +mistake. marry when you are old and good for nothing—or all that is +mistake and that anatole meant to flirt with mademoiselle bourienne, +mist!” +“missed!” shouted dólokhov, and he lay helplessly, face downwards +missed him. his one desire was to know what was happening and at any +misleading you.” +misfortune? and when did it begin? such a little while ago i came to +misery. that could not be, yet he awaited with a sinking heart the +misery. a man offended you and you shot him, and you say you do not +miserable man who stood before him, but the task he had begun had to be +mischief-makers don’t meddle even a german beats buonaparte. he is +mirror her eyes full of tears and her mouth quivering, ready to burst +minutest details himself. princess mary had ceased taking lessons in +minutes later the eldest sister came out with a pale hard face, again +minutes before the troops had passed the emperors. not only would it +minute later with another committeeman, carrying a large silver salver +minister’s son was, with his rosy cheeks and dark eyebrows, and with +minister’s bent bald head with its gray temples. he went on reading +ministers and great people, and know how to deal with them all! it’s +miniature portrait of her son on the lid of a snuffbox, while the tears +mine. i have written to my poor mother,” said the smiling mademoiselle +mined and doubly mined and that there are menacing fortifications at its +mined?” +“mind, walk him up and down well!” +mind to ask him a question about the roads, the traveler had closed his +mind once for all that what he saw happening around him that evening was +“mind, no holding on!” cried another. +mind. “if a tenth part of his detachment returns i shall thank god,” +mind easy,” said he in abrupt sentences while sealing his letter. +mind at rest,” said he without altering his tone, beneath the +“mind, annette, i hope you have not played a wicked trick on me,” +milorádovich wheeled his horse sharply and stationed himself a little +millions of human beings who grew up in the same way. as twenty +millions in hand might smile at a poor fellow who told him that he, poor +milk-white sea. nothing was visible in the valley to the left into which +military men, bore that expression of condescending respect for their +military code, which he and the others knew in the regiment, there was +miles away from the french. at grunth also some apprehension and alarm +miles, and reining in his horse he sighed restfully and looked round +mile and a half away, but had suddenly and unexpectedly appeared just in +milan?” asked anna pávlovna, “and of the comedy of the people of +mikhelson’s army i understand—tolstóy ‘s too... a simultaneous +mikháylovna, whom she had not seen properly since she returned from +mikháylovna. though the latter held on tenaciously, her voice lost none +mikháylovna’s voice alone in a long speech, then a cry, then silence, +mikháylovna’s son; nicholas, the undergraduate, the count’s eldest +mikháylovna,” said prince vasíli, arranging his lace frill, and in +mikháylovna?” said he. “let us wait until evening. the doctors are +mikháylovna returned to the rostóvs’ and went to bed. on waking in +mikháylovna pass and did not evince the least surprise at seeing them +mikháylovna, or you will not hold out.” +mikháylovna of one of them. +mikháylovna made a hurried sign with her eyes, glancing at the sick +mikháylovna looked attentively at the sick man’s eyes, trying to +mikháylovna in passing instinctively glanced into the room, where +mikháylovna evinced no surprise, she only smiled faintly and sighed, as +mikháylovna enthusiastically, quite forgetting all the humiliation she +mikháylovna entered the hall. though she came upon the count in his +mikháylovna drubetskáya. rostóv, the father, is ilyá, and his son is +mikháylovna as she entered, and at the big stout figure of pierre who, +mikháylovna and snatching the portfolio from her. +mikháylovna. +might toward the bushes. he did not now run with the feeling of doubt +might retreat and leave the pickets.” +might outweigh all the courage of the russian troops, and at the same +might have been more decisive had the commander in chief not been so +might, feeling that he would like to injure himself by that shout, if +might easily succeed to the post; how popular he was with everyone in +might deprive him of all this happiness, newly appreciated and newly +might be up to on the sly” (she meant that they would be kissing), +might, and a passionate attraction to him who was the cause of this +midwife. +midnight. prince andrew went out. +middle of the muddy road. +middle of the drawing room on the first chair he had come across, +middle of his mouth and with red lips gently inhaled the smoke, letting +middle, a cry was heard, then princess mary’s heavy tread and the +michael ivánovich did not at all know when “you and i” had said +“michael ivánovich!” cried the old prince to the architect who, +michael ivánovich are the two people to whom he is always gentle and +me—yet dreadful and unnatural as it seems, i would give them all at +me! what will become of us? i am the wife of the doctor of the seventh +met, she fell on his breast, sobbing. she could not lift her face, but +me to inform you... but, don’t be uneasy,” he added, noticing that +me to burn the bridge! i know the service, and it is my habit orders +methods that he had better leave genoa alone?” retorted prince andrew +met him at the first door and, expressing their delight at seeing such a +me! that’s the sort of man he is, and nothing more,” replied +metallic roar, and a whistling grenade flew above the heads of our +message to kutúzov, perhaps even to the sovereign himself. the morning +merry reminiscences. +merry. +merrily to everyone at once, sat down and gaily arranged herself in her +merrily and prettily as ever. +merrily. +me!” rostóv whispered. +me, pierre. i shall not forget your interests.” +me only the day before yesterday not to forget borís. but he had +me of her own accord in the evening and tell me everything. perhaps i +men with broad, self-confident faces, fat fingers, and resolute gestures +men, who here, as in vienna, formed a special set which bilíbin, their +men was training a trotter of his own for a race. he knew a lady on one +men was to attack the french from different sides. the old prince did +men uselessly, and so had hastened to throw some sharpshooters into the +mention her!” he exclaimed fiercely. +mentioned their age. “if you marry it will be a different thing,” +mentioned during the journey. +mention, and which you think is the result of your own mental efforts, +men—the minister of foreign affairs, prince adam czartorýski.... it +mental image of his future activity in this direction rose in his mind. +mental activity is to you or me. you can’t help thinking. i go to bed +men take their first steps on life’s road, each saw immense changes in +men’s will. +men should continue to march at ease, and he and all his suite showed +men should be in their greatcoats and in marching order, and that the +men’s end the voices sounded louder and louder, especially that of the +men, seemed so immeasurably above him, an insignificant officer of the +men of the same kind hiding in the shadow of the house on both sides. +men disfigured by fear of death now crowded together, crushing one +men and provisions have not arrived. gallop off to him at once and +me... myself most of all. then i don’t eat, don’t wash... and how is +memory, i will do the impossible—your son shall be transferred to the +memory, his extensive reading (he had read everything, knew everything, +memory, and he told everybody that his son had been killed. he tried not +members of the council of war. they were drinking tea, and only awaited +members and guests jostling one another and trying to get a good look +member of the hofkriegsrath mildly and attentively. +melancholy was just like the august melancholy she showed at the mention +me, just because i have exerted myself on his behalf, befriended him, +me in war the energy of young men often shows the way better than all +me in the eyes of society, and even of the court,” he added, lowering +me in choosing me for your second, if at this grave, this very +me i lied, and i told him he lied. and there it rests. he may keep me +me. i am used to suffering.” +me!” he began to laugh. “well, what of it! i hope we’ll get better +me. ‘everyone fears a bear,’ he says, ‘but when you see one your +meeting, they had kissed each other, but today they felt it could not +meeting arrives. not daring to look round and without looking round, he +meditatively and rapidly: +medal he can get his reward just as well in the rearguard, but if he +me, but that he’ll marry julie. you see how he’s been with her all +me; but, my dear, i am getting on for sixty and must be prepared for +measures—the removal of injunctions, petitions, permits, and so +me apologize, because if he, as commander of this regiment, thinks it +meanwhile the younger generation: borís, the officer, anna +meanwhile the staff officer standing in front pointed out something to +meanwhile prince vasíli had opened the door into the princess’ room. +meanwhile, pétya, having found and seized the sabers in the outer room, +meanwhile nesvítski, zherkóv, and the officer of the suite were +meanwhile kutúzov sent his adjutants back to hasten to the utmost the +meant to double the three thousand just put down to his score, when +mean to fight, let’s fight. but the devil knows what this is.” +meant for him not only the loss of sixteen hundred rubles, but the +meant by the words all is over, “and the count’s papers are opened, +me,” answered a voice struggling with tears. +means. then you say, ‘lighten his toil.’ but as i see it, physical +meaning for him, that he paid no attention to it. the aunt was just +meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the best joys of his life; +mean good french society—will have been forever destroyed, and +meadow.” +me?” +me.” +me.” +me!” +mazuwka is this? but she does dance splendidly.” +“may the devil take them—the traitors!” +may perhaps have a stronger effect on the sincere seeker after wisdom +may not have seen, but i have seen, how good men brought up in those +may laugh as much as you like, but all the same bonaparte is a great +may i shall do my duty. i will come and spend the night. he must not be +may christ be with you in your great endeavor!” +“matvévna,” the gun from which they had removed the dead officer. +“matvévna’s” carriage. at the foot of the hill, a pale hussar +matters yourself!’ yes... that was the answer i got!” +matters very satisfactorily. borís, during the campaign, had made the +matters, social interests and the fair sex occupied no small part of his +matter of indifference whether he remained there for a few hours or for +matter might be he did not care, but it gave him great pleasure to +mathematics from her father, and when the old prince was at home went +matchmaking chronicles of moscow now speak of me as the future countess +match in russia, had sunk greatly in the esteem of society after his +master, would touch and delude him. +master’s thoughts. he guessed that the question referred to prince +master, “but those between virtue and vice. beware of making any +mass. looking down over the rails prince nesvítski saw the rapid, noisy +masses of russian troops. at the bend of the danube, vessels, an island, +masses. +masonic statutes, “be kindly and courteous,” recurred to him. he +mason. +mary’s room. +mary spent most of the day in the nursery, taking a mother’s place to +“mary,” she said, moving away from the embroidery frame and lying +mary! say...” and the little princess began to cry capriciously like +mary, really this dress does not suit you. i prefer you in your little +mary, i am going to love him very much,” said lise, looking with +mary. how good it would be to know where to seek for help in this life, +mary, having taken and closed the exercise book with the next day’s +mary entered the antechamber as usual at the time appointed for the +mary did not frighten them (she never inspired fear in anyone), but they +mary, but did not at once take his arm from the waist of mademoiselle +mary bolkónskaya.” +“mary bogdánovna, i think it’s beginning!” said princess mary +mary, and the little princess. prince andrew had been called to his +“márya lvóvna karágina and her daughter!” announced the +“márya dmítrievna! what kind of ice pudding? i don’t like ice +márya dmítrievna on her right and anna mikháylovna on her left, the +márya dmítrievna, curved his arms, beat time, straightened his +“márya dmítrievna?” came her voice from there. +márya dmítrievna and the countess burst out laughing, and all the +márya dmítrievna. +mary. +mary. +mary +martyr’s death for his sake. then robespierre was beheaded for being +marshal of the court, count tolstóy. +marry!” concluded prince andrew. +marry anyone, but will be a dancer. only don’t tell anyone.” +married, la petite est gentille.” * +married,” answered the countess sharply and sarcastically. +marriage—when the marriageable daughters and their mothers had nothing +“marriages are made in heaven,” replied the elderly lady. +marriageable daughters, and of the young ladies themselves, toward + * “marlborough is going to the wars; god knows when he’ll +markóv immediately dropped his own beside it and picked it up without +market place, where there had been some rather heavy firing before the +marked the change? i sat all the time in this same place at this table, +“marie” produced on the visitors. and she saw mademoiselle +maria theresa order of the third grade, which the emperor was conferring +mare he rode, his hand in a white glove gathered up the reins, and he +marching with particular grace and boldness in time to the song and +marching thirty miles that stormy night across roadless hills, with his +marching along both. +marched gaily, as they always do when going into action, especially to +many young men to his parents’ house. véra was a handsome girl +many wrinkles on his large features, to rostóv who was crimson with +many of them), and at last he saw how a whole detachment of french +man with the white forehead, black eyebrows, and red lips. +man, with gray bushy eyebrows overhanging bright eyes of an indefinite +man with a diamond ring on his forefinger, who was fond of speaking +man who has at length begun to attain a long-desired happiness. as soon +manure on well-kept plowland, lay from ten to fifteen dead and wounded +man. the revolution was a grand thing!” continued monsieur pierre, +man’s simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory. both +man’s penetration he understood all that was passing in bolkónski’s +man’s high, stout, uncovered chest and powerful shoulders, raised by +man’s hand and moving her lips as if to send it a kiss. pierre, +man, our dear vyazmítinov....” +man? on such matters i am only severe with myself. i understand such +man, of medium height, with firm, clearcut features. everything about +manner: they were all evidently firmly convinced of pierre’s noble +manners, who evidently considered himself a celebrity but out of +manner nor a desire to enter into conversation, but speaking so quietly +manner he wore in drawing rooms, but with the animated face with which +manly voice interrupting them both. “of course you artillery men are +manly-looking, but what amazed and estranged pierre till he got used +man is the count’s son,” she added more softly. “what a terrible +man is as surly as a dog.” +man.... here he is, and the count has not once asked for him.” +man, had not the five rubles that would make him happy. +mane—which, though he saw other faces as well, he had not lost sight +man. either this look meant nothing but that as long as one has eyes +man; by his acquaintances as a handsome lieutenant of hussars, a good +man beside you?” +man be fully imbued with the thought that we must defeat these hirelings +man, be for her? in her thoughts of marriage princess mary dreamed of +man, and that in the duel with bezúkhov, pierre was right and dólokhov +man and help him to worldly success. under cover of obtaining help +managed to utter (to her everything seemed funny). she leaned against +man.” again he pressed the hand of the latter with an expression of +man. +“mamma! what sweets are we going to have?” natásha again cried +“mamma! what sweets are we going to have?” and natásha’s voice +“mamma told me to ask you to join the dancers.” +“mamma!” rang out the clear contralto notes of her childish voice, +“mamma!... mamma!... he has made me...” +mamma has sent for me to go and dine at the apráksins’. read the +“mamma, are you cross? don’t be cross, dear! is it my fault?” +mamma.” +malodorous mouth. tears actually moistened his cheeks. +mallets, the doors opened before them. a bass voice (pierre was still +mallets and swords. as he was being led up to some object he noticed a +malevolent and caustic expression softened, as if admitting that what +“malbrook s’en va-t-en guerre. dieu sait quand reviendra.” * +make them look at the wag. +makes things trying for you, doesn’t it?” prince andrew asked +make something exceptional of them,” said the visitor. +make him go on. +make as successful a career of it as possible.” +make a remark, for the conversation interested him, but anna pávlovna, +make a career and must not miss opportunities, but must avail myself of +majesty, “who, thank god, was better today.” and each visitor, +majesty’s and you were pitied....” +majesty,” said an adjutant who had come from the batteries that were +majesty.” +majestic figure of his father, count bezúkhov, with that gray mane of +majestically entered the room. he was wearing his long coat with three +“mais, mon cher, i did this for my own sake, to satisfy my conscience, +mainly because denísov so delighted in her singing. she no longer sang +maid with the decanter in her haste had not closed the door (everything +maid’s voice at the door. +maid of honor’s hand to his lips, kissed it, and swung it to and fro +maid. +magnanimous. she felt convinced of that. thousands of dreams of a future +“ma foi, sire, nous ferons ce qui sera dans notre possibilité, +“ma foi!” said he, “tomorrow we shall see all that on the +“made what?” +made use of it.... “what have i done?” thought he. and he turned +made. prince andrew several times prompted pierre’s story of what he +mademoiselle bourienne was also looking at princess mary, and in her +mademoiselle bourienne walked up and down the conservatory for a long +mademoiselle bourienne, “mary’s is a face which such a coiffure does +mademoiselle bourienne in her arms and gently stroking her hair. the +mademoiselle bourienne, how i shall arrange it,” she added, smiling +mademoiselle bourienne and the little princess had to own to themselves +mademoiselle bourienne, also roused to great excitement by anatole’s +mademoiselle bourienne. +“made, made me an offer, mamma! mamma!” she exclaimed. +madeira”... “hungarian”... or “rhine wine” as the case might +made for the sacrament of unction, and in his house there was the bustle +made elegantly witty. in society he always awaited an opportunity to say +made a tour of the regiments and was annoyed at the irregularity of +made and highly valued. the old count came up to them and pressed +made a grimace, as if expecting something unpleasant. +“madame, i doubt my ability before such an audience,” said he, +madame de souza. he began reading about the sufferings and virtuous +“madame de genlis! madame de genlis!” shouted laughing voices +mack’s arrival... what’s the matter, rostóv? you look as if you’d +mack, have by now already gained a decisive victory and no longer need +mack. an austrian general complained of me. i congratulated him on +machine or set it in proper motion, so anna pávlovna moved about her +machine, an impulse once given leads to the final result; and just as +“ma chère, there is a time for everything,” said the countess with +ma chère! on behalf of the whole family i beg you to come, mon cher!” +lying on the ground; they also met a crowd of soldiers some of whom were +luxurious study and sat down to the dinner prepared for him. bilíbin +luminous eyes shone more brightly than usual from the tears of joy that +luminous eyes fixed on her nurse’s wrinkled face (every line of which +l’u! * i shall certainly adopt an innovation and call him simply +luggage. franz, bilíbin’s man, was dragging a portmanteau with some +lucky man and, with his plain face, to be looked on as a sort of paris +luck the man has!” +luck! such ill luck. as soon as you left, it began and went on. hullo +low tones. +lower one, and something like two distinct smiles played continually +loving her; in deceiving yourself and her.” and he vividly recalled +loving and honoring him. “why, i have not yet had time to settle +love you, and i think i love you more than anyone else....” +love you.” +love, though less ecstatically, with their tsar and the glory of the +love, such rapture, and such self-sacrifice, what do any of our quarrels +lovers of music do when they hear a false note. the two women let go +lovers!” he added. +love of death. he consoled himself with the thought that he fulfilled +lovely eyes there was a look of fearful joy and hope that was also new +love, love of one’s neighbor, love of one’s enemy, is worthier, +love him all the more, but nicholas now considered himself unworthy of +love her, for that would be impossible. +love her. +love for natásha was unpleasant to him and he had not once been to see +loved more than himself. he kept telling himself that he would consider +love and befriend him.” +love again, though for no one have i such a feeling of friendship, +“louis xvi was executed because they said he was dishonorable and a +loud that those in the drawing room heard her and were startled. “why +loudly, handing kutúzov an envelope. +lot? and who would marry marie for love? plain and awkward! they’ll +lost more than he could pay. +lost. dólokhov “killed,” that is, beat, ten cards of rostóv’s +lost count of his children, but this pierre was his favorite.” +lost....” and prince hippolyte began to tell his story in such russian +losses. the general whose regiment had been inspected at braunau was +losing confidence in its allies, suffering from shortness of supplies, +lorrain’s instructions. the german doctor went up to lorrain. +lorrain, pursing up his lips, waved a severely negative finger before +lorrain considered. +look which was fixed on him, but him she could not see, she only saw +“look then at thy inner self with the eyes of the spirit, and ask +“look sharp! look sharp!” several voices repeated around him. +looks) and she had put on a maroon dress with a pale-blue scarf, the +looks and manner gave that impression. the princess felt this, and as if +“look, prince,” said another, who would have dearly liked to take +look or bad opinion from him,” rostóv decided; and sorrowfully and +look. nicholas went up to her and kissed her hand. this was the first +“look! look there!” one soldier was saying to another, pointing to a +“look, look!” said this adjutant, looking not at the troops in the +looking with tender affection and pity at mademoiselle bourienne’s +looking with dismay at her husband. +looking with a scared face at his comrade for help. the door, having let +looking round at the sound. +looking pretty and conscious of it, were standing by the clavichord, +looking not at pierre but straight before him, and turning the leaves +looking like something between a cart, a cabriolet, and a calèche. +looking inquiringly at him and watching to see how he would behave +looking down at the waters of the enns under the bridge, nesvítski +looking back saw that their foremost ranks were mixed up with some +looking at those driving past as if he pitied all who were not at that +looking at the puff from the gun that had sent the ball. his eyes +looking at them, turned to an adjutant to ask him for a field glass. +looking at the midwife with wide-open eyes of alarm. +looking at the ground, he came on some sticky, trodden mud, stumbled, +looking at rostóv, “you’ll win it back all the sooner. i lose to +looking at pierre. “at the present time it is difficult to know the +looking at natásha. +looking at his watch. +looking at her own handsome face she seemed to become still colder and +looking at her and waiting. nicholas saw that denísov was refusing +looking and held out his hand to her. she pressed it. +looking about him uneasily, and an awkward pause followed. +look for her. +looked very thoughtful and tender. with his hands behind him he paced +looked straight at his adjutant’s face without recognizing him. +looked like tradespeople, ran hurriedly from the entrance and hid in the +looked eagerly toward his eyes, waiting for the look for which she +looked at that aged, stern, motionless, almost lifeless face and moved +looked at telyánin. the lieutenant was looking about in his usual way +looked as if by that slight motion the army itself was expressing its +looked as clean and well washed as the tips of one’s fingers after a +“look at them scurrying! it’s burning! just see the smoke! fine! +“look at papa!” though as it was they never took their eyes off the +“look at papa!” shouted natásha to the whole company, and quite +look at me,” cried denísov who, unable to keep still on one spot, +long. say ‘perhaps.’” +longest sentences, he stopped the rotary motion of the snuffbox, raised +longer to hinder them but because the guns were trained and there was +longer and went on, between gasps of laughter: “and the whole world +longed to snatch up, to squeeze, to hold to his heart, this helpless +longed to kiss his father’s hands and kneel to beg his forgiveness, +longed. sónya now was sixteen and she was very pretty, especially at +long and warmly to the emperor and how the emperor, evidently weeping, +“long ago,” answered rostóv, “i have already been for the hay, +long. +loneliness of his daughter amid the general conversation. “got herself +london—could pronounce pitt’s sentence, he saw a well-built and +lofty sky before? and how happy i am to have found it at last! yes! all +lofty, beautiful feeling, such a...” +loftiness of soul. she has refused to evacuate malta. she wanted to +lodge. willarski coughed, he was answered by the masonic knock with +lodge—were so strong that he could not resist them. again whole days, +locks of gray hair. +locality was known and shown in every detail on the maps, and bonaparte, +locality and surroundings—fruit gardens, stone fences, tiled roofs, +loading. +living with the rostóvs. +living without having solved the problems that so absorbed him. he had +living with his mother, who, if she saw him dying, would not survive it. +livery, get up behind the carriage, and come with me while i make some +lively little girl’s look made him inclined to laugh without knowing +lively disposition, bent over her frame to hide a smile probably evoked +lived for others, and not almost, but quite, ruined my life. and i have +lived for glory.—and after all what is glory? the same love of others, +lit wisps of straw and ran after him, shouting, “vive l’empereur!” +little while, felt as if they too were becoming, like her, full of life +little waves of the enns, which rippling and eddying round the piles of +little túshin, moving feebly and awkwardly, kept telling his orderly to +little towns there’s nowhere to spend it,” said he. “well, let me +little table, and anna mikháylovna noticed that something was agitating +little princess walked twice round her, now adjusting a fold of the +little princess, shrugging her shoulders. +little princess, and having asked for a needle began tracing the condé +little princess. +little natásha as grown up. +little napoleon had suddenly appeared with his unsympathizing look of +little matters which could not interest anyone but themselves. natásha +little, i mean a good deal, a great deal—forty three thousand.” +little icon with its thin gold chain suddenly appeared upon his chest +little gold icon princess mary had hung round her brother’s neck, but +little frenchy, successful only because there were no longer any +little fingers. “all right! then it’s settled?” +little effort.” +little creature, but dared not do so. he stood over him, gazing at his +little companion! i hope she will bring her along with her when we’re +little bent, looked with beaming face at the princess without +little as nicholas had occupied himself with sónya of late, something +lit room adjoining the count’s reception room. it was one of those +listen, while waiting till it would be time to leave. her task was +“listen to me, prince,” said she. “i have never yet asked you +listen to his tale. +“listen!” said he; “don’t worry about your wife: what can be +listening to the gypsies and other singers. +listening to bilíbin he was already imagining how on reaching the army +listening to an old russian general with decorations, who stood very +listened to the rhetor in silence, feeling from all he said that his +listened to his regular breathing. the dark shadow was princess mary, +listened, refraining from a reply, and involuntarily wondered how this +listened attentively. his favorite occupation when not playing boston, a +“listen, dear annette,” said the prince, suddenly taking anna +lise, young bolkónski’s wife, this very evening, and perhaps the +“lise!” was all prince andrew said. but that one word expressed +lise? take her to your room and i’ll go to father. how is he? just the +lise sighed too. +“lise!” said prince andrew dryly, raising his voice to the pitch +lise. i will follow.” +“lise, i beg you to desist,” said prince andrew still more +lips and met them with her own. her face struck pierre, by its altered, +lips. +link which other people recognized had grown up between himself and +lingered for a moment. +line to reconnoiter personally, and twice to the emperors, russian and +line—the officers had been unable to keep sight-seers away. the +line (the guards) was already in action. +lines of artillery with green caissons. +line of the advancing russian columns. evidently the person they were +linen shirt unfastened in front. “wait a bit, you fellows.... here is +line, for from where they had been before it had been evident that it +line followed them across and the last cossacks quitted the farther side +line; and the austrian troops. but they all stood in the same lines, +line and that of the enemy were far apart on the right and left flanks, +like wind over leaves ran an excited whisper: “they’re coming! +like these if one has any feeling?” said anna pávlovna. “you are +like the others, anna pávlovna schérer showed pierre the change of +like that six months ago?” +like strangers.” +likes her way of reading. she reads to him in the evenings and reads +like method of enlightenment. our order imitates the ancient societies +likely the doctor.” +like his own, at the firing, and went back at a footpace. “well, some +liked to tell him. he gathered up the papers and with a bow to both, +liked to repeat to herself. it was the story of a girl who had been +liked to help young men, was flattered by being asked for his assistance +liked to. he looked inquiringly at his monitress and saw that she was +like all those polish names.” +like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. whether he was +like a child, he fell into a deep, youthful slumber. +like a bird than a man.” +lights of shops, houses, and street lamps, fine carriages, and all that +lights and shouts in the enemy’s camp. rostóv rode up to bagratión, +lightly, more lightly, and yet more lightly whirled the count, flying +light. it was evident that the more lifeless he seemed at ordinary +lighted mirrors which repeated their reflections several times. now +light blue viennese calèche, slightly creaking on its springs and drawn +“lift it two lines more and it will be just right,” cried he in a +lift his stick again but hurried into the house. +lifted in childlike happiness. +life, which seemed to him so beautiful now that he had today learned to +life together were stripped, so that the screw could not get in or out, +life: remorse and illness. the only good is the absence of those evils. +life, he felt an unaccountable tenderness for this young man and made up +life guards, who had been losing that evening, climbed on the window +life from yours. i don’t wish to marry,” she answered positively, +“life as it is leaves one no peace. i should be thankful to do +life, and that of the seven virtues he lacked two—morality and the +life, and can’t, for i know no other. but think, andrew: for a young +life, all alone—for papa is always busy, and i... well, you know what +lieutenant general, our dear prince auersperg von mautern himself. +lid, drew out a drawer, and took out an exercise book filled with his +lichtenstein, le prince, de hohenlohe, and finally prishprish, and so on +liberty not to believe me and i don’t even care whether you do or +“liberty and equality,” said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at +“let us go to her, i must say good-by. or—go and wake and i’ll +“let us go ourselves. i only came round to ask denísov about +“let us go, iván lukích,” he said to the captain. +“let us go and have supper,” he said with a sigh, going to the door. +letting yourself be tricked by an aide-de-camp of the emperor. +letting the retreating companies pass by them, when a soldier came up +let themselves be tricked at the crossing of the vienna bridge, you are +“let them pass, i tell you!” repeated prince andrew, compressing his +letter to the emperor begging him to recognize pierre as legitimate, it +letter to murat: +letters to princess mary’s apartments, but did not find him there. he +letters to nicholas from all the household were written and copied out, +letters that had come from the archduke ferdinand, who was in command of +letters sent through the embassy and all the searches made, his body had +letter, he now was. +letter from home and meet one of your own people whom you want to talk +letter are not destroyed, then you will have nothing but the consolation +letter. +letter. +letter. +“let’s come, quick, quick!” and with a glance round, she smiled at +let him do what he vill, but i cannot sacrifice my hussars... bugler, +“let him do it, let him do it,” said dólokhov, smiling. +let her know.” +“let go, i tell you! i will take the responsibility. i myself will go +less than you do, but be a man!” +less sincerely than the twenty-year-old rostóv. +lesson, was about to leave: “mathematics are most important, madam! +less, ate less, slept less, and became weaker every day. princess mary +less a prey to evil and death?—death which ends all and must come +“le roi de prusse?” hippolyte said interrogatively, again laughing, +leonine head. this head, with its remarkably broad brow and cheekbones, +length portrait of catherine the great. the same people were still +lemarrois had just arrived at a gallop with bonaparte’s stern letter, +lëlya’s name day. i will invite two or three people, and if he does +legs, looked directly at prince vasíli with no sign of emotion in her +legs and turned-out toes, climbed the hill with difficulty.) prince +legal heir to everything and you won’t get anything. you must know, +left the chair on which he had been leaning, and—with an air +left like this. every moment is precious. i can’t think why his nieces +left him, rubbing his small white hands. +left foot began convulsively tapping the horse’s side with the spur, +left but to die?” he thought. “well, if need be, i shall do it no +left breast, and stooping down pulled up the left leg of his trousers +left bank of the danube and took up a position for the first time +left alone, pierre went on smiling in the same way. once or twice +left...” a fat major skirted a bush, puffing and falling out of +led along a certain carpet. after that they took his right hand, placed +le charmant hippolyte was surprising by his extraordinary resemblance +leave you cold a thousand times and the thousand and first time thrill +leave of rostóv in the club porch. +leave of her and of lise, his look tender yet proud. she saw him tender +leave me alone with him!” +“leave me alone, please leave me alone! it is all quite the same to +“leave it,” said dólokhov, though he did not seem to be even +least have some for my sake! she must be shown that the blockhead thinks +least disconcerted by this reception. he had just entered, wearing an +learning, was well brought up, and had a pleasant voice; what she said +learning that he was a special messenger led him to another entrance. +learn from suvórov even so simple a thing as the art of crowing like a +learned that dólokhov the brawler, dólokhov the bully, lived in moscow +leaping the furrows, he fled across the field with the impetuosity he +leaning with his arms on the back of the sofa, sat in his former +leaning his elbow on his knee and covering his face with his hand. after +leaned his arms on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes. pierre +leaf, gave it to kozlóvski, stepped quickly to the window, and threw +leading the tsar’s beautiful relay horses covered with embroidered +leader, called les nôtres. * this set, consisting almost exclusively of +lazily and advanced and again halted, receiving no timely orders from +lay in the general progress of the war. when he saw mack and heard the +lay across the bed with his head lower than the pillow, and was smacking +laws of its divine saviour, who preached love and forgiveness of +“lavwúska!” he shouted loudly and angrily, “take it off, +lavrúshka turned all the bedding over, looked under the bed and under +laughter, the shouting of familiar voices, the growling of a bear, and +laughter that convulsed his usually impassive features. +laughter led by natásha. both partners stood still, breathing heavily +laughing, “‘sergéy kuzmích... from all sides... from all sides... +laughing for some reason and shaking himself free. +laughing. “dear, dear!...” +laughing. +laughing. +laughed. “véra’s spiteful; never mind her! and all will come right +laughed spasmodically as he stood in the porch waiting for the vicomte +laughed loudest. +laughed. “i dreamed last night...”—“you were not expecting +laughed at every word he said or that she said herself, not because what +laughed. +laughed. +laugh. and they, too, passed on, so that nesvítski did not learn who +laugh. +latter threw up his arms in surprise saying it was nowhere to be found +latterly spent whole days at home, that is, in prince vasíli’s house +lathe?” asked prince andrew with a scarcely perceptible smile which +lathe and, as usual, did not look round at her. +late that night, when all had separated, denísov with his short hand +latest fashion, with extremely pointed toes and small silver spurs, +latest cut, such as no one else yet had in moscow, and boots of the +later on. oh, how glad i am to have you!” +“late! it’s nearly ten o’clock,” answered natásha’s voice. +late in starting her practice on the clavichord, went into the sitting +last updated: january 21, 2019 +last time. and suddenly, in the most casual tone, which made him feel +last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which +last remaining strength, took hold of his left hand with his right, and +last only his white plumes were visible to rostóv from amid the suites +last moments by not letting him commit this injustice, and not to let +last mademoiselle bourienne gave a scream and ran away. anatole bowed to +last long? it’s all the club and his easygoing nature. even in the +last interview with the gentleman-ranker—“that private dólokhov, +last few days. the antagonists stood forty paces apart at the farther +last deciding seriously to prove to this youth how foolish his words +last campaign, prince peter ivánovich bagratión!” and again his blue +lashes, thick black plaits coiling twice round her head, and a tawny +larrey, was much more likely to end in death than in convalescence. +largest landowner of the province. temptations to pierre’s greatest +larger circle. +large, newly furnished petersburg house, the happy possessor, as people +large leather sofa from prince andrew’s study into the bedroom. on +large estate, boguchárovo, about twenty-five miles from bald hills. +large dark ballroom. all was the same: there were the same old card +large and handsome eyes. he regarded his whole life as a continual round +lannes and was thrown into confusion. bagratión had sent zherkóv +language: english +langeron, with a subtly ironical smile, again glancing round for support +langeron, trying as virulently as possible to sting weyrother’s vanity +langeron’s objections were valid but it was obvious that their chief +lances and the unfolded standards fluttered against their staffs. it +lamp, she stood before it with folded hands for a few moments. a painful +lain in ambush in a ditch, now attacked the french unexpectedly. +“la femme est la compagne de l’homme,” * announced prince +lady visitor. +lady, adding the priest’s clerical title, as if she had no opinion of +“lads!” shouted milorádovich in a loud, self-confident, and cheery +“lads! here’s to our sovereign, the emperor, and victory over +lad’s a fine fellow, a fine fellow! well, come with me now.” he took +lad jumped awkwardly back into the room, tripping over his spurs. +ladies—” he turned with the same request to denísov who was also a +ladies’ end an even chatter of voices was heard all the time, at the +ladies and, leaning on his saber and beating time with his foot, told +ladies and gentlemen than rostóv had ever expected to see him. +lad,” he said, addressing his favorite soldier. “and where is the +lack the bump of paternity.” +lackeys who care nothing for their master’s business. quarante mille +labor was thus increased, though lessened on paper. he did not know +labor is as essential to him, as much a condition of his existence, as +labor but should die of it in a week, so he could not stand my physical +“la balance y est... * a german knows how to skin a flint, as the +“kuzmích... from all sides... and then tears,” someone repeated +kuzmích, asking what the point of the story was as he had not heard it +kutúzov writes...” and he screamed as piercingly as if he wished to +kutúzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over +kutúzov, with his suite diminished by more than half, rode toward a +kutúzov with his staff and all of us count for nothing. everything is +kutúzov with his eagle nose and puffy face appeared in the doorway. +kutúzov, whom he had overtaken in poland, had received him very kindly, +kutúzov, where he inquired for bolkónski, all the adjutants and even +kutúzov went out into the porch with bagratión. +kutúzov was occupying a nobleman’s castle of modest dimensions near +kutúzov was left with only his own weak and exhausted forces. the +kutúzov walked through the ranks, sometimes stopping to say a few +kutúzov walked slowly and languidly past thousands of eyes which were +kutúzov turned round without answering and his eye happened to fall +kutúzov turned away. the same smile of the eyes with which he had +kutúzov, there is not a single russian in command of a column! the +kutúzov’s whole army. to be able to crush it absolutely he awaited +kutúzov’s suite like a flock of little birds. +kutúzov sighed deeply on finishing this paragraph and looked at the +kutúzov’s headquarters and the staffs of the commanders of columns. +kutúzov’s face as he stood in the open doorway remained perfectly +kutúzov’s expectations that the proposals of capitulation (which were +kutúzov’s, collected in groups and began to talk about the awards, +kutúzov ... recommend borís to him as adjutant! then i shall be at +kutúzov no one spoke of, except some who abused him in whispers, +kutúzov looked sternly at his adjutant and, after a pause, replied: +kutúzov laughed bitterly. +kutúzov, he was sent immediately with a special dispatch to brünn. +kutúzov here woke up, coughed heavily, and looked round at the +kutúzov fell back toward vienna, destroying behind him the bridges over +kutúzov did not reply. he seemed to have forgotten what he had been +kutúzov chose this latter course. +kutúzov bowed with the same smile. +kutúzov accompanied by his adjutants rode at a walking pace behind the +kutúzov. + *kutúzov. +kurágin was expecting the usual set for cards that evening, after which +kurágins’. all maintained a solemn silence, listening to the words +“kurágin is exquisite when he discusses politics—you should see his +kronq,—chargé d’affaires from copenhagen—a profound intellect,” +kozlóvski, who was sitting at the window with a book. +kozlóvski were squatting on the floor by a tub so near to the commander +kórchevo—a certain khandrikóv—is up to; till now the additional +know yourself that last winter the count made a will by which he left +know what it is to be left a widow without means and with a son you love +“know this, másha: i can’t reproach, have not reproached, and never +know! the prussians are up in arms now. the austrians, you see, are +know that ourselves!” another, without looking round, as though + knows by experience, now, bagratión, +known). drawing nearer, he recognized in the rhetor a man he knew, +known as la femme la plus séduisante de pétersbourg, * was also there. +know my son’s going, márya dmítrievna? my son is going.” +know myself again.” +know my principles—everything aboveboard! i will ask her tomorrow in +knowledge. +know it is all over, and forever.” +knowing that denísov had a reputation even in poland for the masterly +knowing how. first he spun her round, holding her now with his left, now +know how to express it ... not by a balance of political power....” +know how to equip borís.” she took out her handkerchief and began to +know how to deal with them.” +know how to dance, had liked sitting in this room to watch the ladies +know how fond the count is of her.” +know his character: noble, upright ... but you see he has no one with +know god and hate your life. there is nothing strange in that, my dear +know, but he felt sure it would do so. the locality and the position of +know, and know for certain, that the enjoyment of doing this good is the +know all about it and understand it all,” he said. “you behaved as +know!” +knoll; if they had retreated they would have withdrawn from that too.... +knocking over two horses and another tearing off a munition-wagon +knocked three of them over. +knitting, went to the window and leaning out tried to catch the open +knitting a striped scarf for him. +knight. “i’m even weady to dance the pas de châle.” +knew what those society women are, and women in general! my father is +knew what had happened to him as he knew it himself. +knew till after eight o’clock. +knew that when it appeared on her face, she became mute and was not to +knew that. what will be the result? that i shall be the laughingstock of +knew....” +knee with the palm of his hand. +knees, some squatting turkish fashion on the wet grass. +knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the austrian authorities had provided +knapsacks, bayonets, long muskets, and, under the shakos, faces with +kitten which promises to become a beautiful little cat. she evidently +“kiss the doll,” said she. +“kiss me here,” and he touched his cheek: “thanks, thanks!” +kiss me,” and he offered his cheek. +kissing her hand, he left the room with quick resolute strides, without +kissing each other on the face, and then to prince andrew’s surprise +kisses. her looks asked him to forgive her for having dared, by +kissed princess mary’s hand. she did not know how she found the +kissed mademoiselle bourienne’s hand. (this was not etiquette, but +kissed him three times. +kissed him at the same time. only his mother was not there, he noticed +kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, +kissed her forehead. +kissed. her father in jest tried to rouse her jealousy, and she replied +kírsten. the staff captain on his broad-backed, steady mare came at a +king of prussia what he is to do if he is summoned to surrender.... all +king of prussia and others: ‘so much the worse for you. tu l’as +king francis is not much delighted by your victory. even i, a poor +kind, that is the chief thing,” thought princess mary; and fear, which +kind sprang from a second door and a third; more hugging, more kissing, +kinds overtaking one another and blocking the muddy road, three and +kind relation. but, nataly, you know my love for my son: i would do +kind of talk, and at last all stopped. as often happens, the horses of +kindness,” or, “with your excellent heart,” “you are yourself so +kindness!” he turned to go. +kindly, smiling, handsome face and moist eyes. nesvítski could hardly +“kindly return to your posts,” said the staff officer trying to +“kindly let this cart pass. don’t you see it’s a woman?” said +“kind...ly let—them—pass!” +kindle in all hearts the flame of virtue. share thy happiness with thy +kindle fires and make a noise to deceive us.” +kindhearted, and because they—friends from childhood—had to think +kind, because he has been a benefactor to them both. as sterne says: +“kill the germans!” shouted one. +kill me.” but at the same time, his left arm felt as heavy as if +killed, you are a fool and are lost for certain. but go with the firm +killed them, yes!” said he, frowning angrily and turning away from +killed.” rook tried to rise on his forelegs but fell back, pinning his +killed by a cannon ball—struck in the breast before our regiment.” +killed anyone, or insulted or wished harm to anyone? why such a terrible +killed and if i have a son, do not let him be taken away from you—as i +kiev province, where he had the greatest number of serfs, taking with +kerchief, and the loose skin that hung under her chin. +kept turning his horse in front of the squadron. +kept looking round toward the drawing room door. it opened and nicholas +kept coming into her eyes. anna mikháylovna, with the letter, came on +keep you long as an adjutant: a bad position! tell him i remember +keeping pierre close beside her, entered the room even more boldly than +keep from laughter provoked by a swarthy hussar officer who walked +keen-sighted a companion. “you know, you see right through people. +keen interest in the whole affair. you know she is very gracious to +karl give no signs of life and make blunder after blunder. kutúzov +kámenski, visited the english club, and was on intimate terms with a +kaiser alexander hoch!” *(2) said he, quoting words often repeated by +just visible behind a screen. a small dog began to bark. +just under the icons; his large thick hands outside the quilt. into the +“just to flutter the nuns a bit. they say there are italian girls +just then zherkóv entered the room. +just then at a distance behind kutúzov was heard the sound of regiments +just then another visitor entered the drawing room: prince andrew +just then a closed carriage and another with a hood drove up to the +just such a story—they would either not have believed him or, still +“just see where it carries to!” a soldier near by said sternly, +“just see, the german sausage is making tracks, too!” +just returned from vienna, two diplomatists, the old aunt, a young man +just returned from abroad where he had been educated, and this was his +“just look at the master! a regular eagle he is!” loudly remarked +just left.... it is true that it was hot there,” he added, modestly. +just completed. he lay with his head propped high on the pillows. his +just come out of a hot bath.” +just before dinner, count ilyá rostóv presented his son to bagratión, +just at moments when such thoughts occurred to him, he would ask in a +just as the mother and son, having reached the middle of the hall, were +just as the architect, gardener, or princess mary did, till the prince +just as prince andrew was a young man who gave promise of rising high +just as prince andrew met nesvítski and zherkóv, there came toward +just as in the mechanism of a clock, so in the mechanism of the military +just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable +“just as i may suppose you to be deluded,” said pierre, with a faint +just as he went in he saw that the nurse was hiding something from him +just as he was going to open it the sounds ceased, the door opened, and +just as at ulm... it is...”—he seemed to be trying to find the right +just above his ear. +junction advisable, meant, among other arguments in support of his view, +jump, túshin not taking his pipe from his mouth ran from gun to gun, +jumped down. he smelt strongly of rum. +julie wrote in french: +julie +joy to give my franz a thaler, or let him go with his liebchen to the +joys and sorrows of this world—overflowed the great grief within her. +joyfully up to pierre. his face was so unusually triumphant that pierre +joyfully that the men themselves were awed by their multitude and the +joyful it seemed, that her son, the scarcely perceptible motion of whose +joyful, but an animal, squirrel-like expression. she paused as if she +joyful and mysterious taking place within her. +joy at the approach of the emperors. one voice was heard shouting: +joy and happiness. on receiving the order he gave his horse the rein +jovial old gentleman, who standing beside his tall and stout partner, +jolted over the stony road. some of them were talking (he heard russian +jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a french battalion gets to +joke, and purposely trying to appear stupider than he really was. +joins the allies, austria’s hand will be forced and there will be war. +joined kutúzov at braunau now separated from the russian army, and +jingling sound it presented arms. then amidst a dead silence the +“je vous aime!” * he said, remembering what has to be said at such +jest was unacceptable and had not come off. he grew confused. +jests fell flat, news was not interesting, and the animation was +jests and gossip. +jest. +jerked away his plate, which tíkhon briskly caught. “suvórov!... +jaw trembling and was hardly able to mutter: “i don’t know... your +“jacob, bring a bottle!” shouted the host, a tall, handsome fellow +jacket. +jabbering! fine, isn’t it? it’s all the frenchy can do to keep up +“i won’t tell anyone!” and she ran off at once to sónya. +“i won’t say he is out of sorts, but i fancy he would like to be +“i wonder, is it not too late to administer unction?” asked the +“i wished to get a nap, mon cousin, but i can’t.” +“i will, your excellency,” said timókhin, showing by his smile that +“i will the bridge fire,” he said in a solemn tone as if to announce +“i will tell you frankly,” said prince vasíli in the tone of +“i will,” replied natásha. +“i will, i will, only tell me! you won’t? then i will go and tell at +“i will give the order.” +“i will do so,” said prince andrew, moving away from the map. +“i will do it all, father,” he said. +“i will allow no one to call me a liar!” cried rostóv. “he told +“i? what have i...?” stammered pierre. +“i was very much surprised when i heard of it,” said prince andrew. +“i was told a charming moscow story today and must treat you to it. +i was to blame for not understanding her, for not understanding that +“i was there,” said rostóv angrily, as if intending to insult the +i was saying, prince vasíli is the next heir through his wife, but the +i was right. without boasting, you know, i may say that i know the army +“i was going to ask you. i know nothing except that it was all i could +“i was coming to tell you so.” +“i was attached; i’m on duty.” +“i want to teach this young man how to shoe a horse,” said +“i want to know!” +“i want nothing, and i won’t be anyone’s adjutant.” +“i want a great deal, count! i want five hundred rubles,” and taking +“i’ve seen him myself!” +i’ve nothing against it,” the prince said to himself, “but he must +“i’ve come to sit with you a bit, másha,” said the nurse, “and +“i’ve come to say good-by.” +“i’ve been sent back to the regiment all on account of that devil, +ivánovich (who always went into a corner to blow his nose on his +ivánovich kutúzov: +ivánovich. he is in a very bad humor, very morose. be prepared.” +it you talked about?” and prince andrew crooked a third finger. “ah, +it!’ ‘yes, let’s!’ say the others. and off they go and take the +“it would not be turned off the field even on the tsarítsin +it would not ache—it would be well—if only they did not pull it, but +“it would have been hard to drive up, your honor,” he added. “i +it would have been difficult for a face to express greater respect and +“it would be good,” thought prince andrew, glancing at the icon his +it would be different if you grudged losing a laborer—that’s how i +it worth thinking or speaking of it at such a moment? at a time of such +it won’t be your skirmishing at dürrenstein, or gunpowder at all, +it with you?...” +it were not my duty i would not talk to you for a moment”), was +it were not his. he examined his hand carefully, vainly trying to find +it was true that a view over nearly the whole russian position and the +it was the second night that neither of them had slept, watching the boy +“it was the officer, your honor, stained it,” answered the +it was, the disorder was readily and naturally attributed to the stupid +it was that the pain distracted him and prevented his seeing what he had +it was st. natalia’s day and the name day of two of the rostóvs—the +it was rumored that savary had been sent to propose to alexander +it was prince andrew. the first thing he saw on riding up to the space +it was pleasant and touching to see these little girls in love; but +it was plain that this “well?” referred to much that they both +it was plain that this cadet had already repeatedly asked for a lift and +it was past one o’clock when pierre left his friend. it was a +it was one of those march nights when winter seems to wish to resume its +it was not the dress, but the face and whole figure of princess mary +it was not so, that i had no right to do it. and so it turns out.” +it was no longer, as before, a dark, unseen river flowing through the +it was nine o’clock in the morning. the fog lay unbroken like a sea +it was napoleon accompanied by two aides-de-camp. bonaparte riding +“it was my fault, mon père,” interceded the little princess, with a +it was long since the rostóvs had news of nicholas. not till midwinter +it was long since rostóv had felt such enjoyment from music as he +it was long before their conversation could settle on anything. they +it was late in the evening when they entered the palace at olmütz +it was just the moment before a big dinner when the assembled guests, +it was in july, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known anna pávlovna +it was, in fact, solely to meet prince vasíli that she had obtained an +it was impossible to get rid of them. +it was evident that this strange, strong man was under the irresistible +it was evident that prince andrew was not interested in such abstract +it was evident that he performed his duty as a subordinate with even +it was evident that he did not like the vicomte and was aiming his +it was a warm, rainy, autumnal day. the wide expanse that opened out +it was already quite dark when prince andrew rattled over the paved +“it was all they could do to rescue the poor man,” continued the +it was all that they could do to get the guns up the rise aided by the +“it von’t go begging,” replied the german with a smile. +it under your head like a treasure,” said rostóv. “i put it just +it under the terms of the project gutenberg license included with this +it turns out that we have landed ourselves in war, and what is more, +it turns out that ‘the enemy of the human race’ pays no heed to +it to its destination and make use of it. +it to be alleged that he had been the first to leave the range of fire, +it timidly and tenderly on her son’s arm, “be affectionate and +it. telyánin took the purse and began carelessly slipping it into the +“it’s wonderful what a lot of our troops have gathered, lads! last +its usual semblance of a smile. +its use, he does not believe in the master who made it. to know him is +its upper lip covered with tiny black hair. +it’s true he has been reinstated, but how could they fail to do that? +it’s too late now when vienna is occupied by the french army!” +its thunder joining the roar of the whole line along which he had +“it’s the enemy?... no!... yes, see it is!... for certain.... but +“it’s that protégé of yours, that sweet princess drubetskáya, +it’s splendid. i am very glad to have made your acquaintance. it’s +“it’s plain that they have not all gone yet, prince,” said +“it’s not true!” +“it’s not there.” +“it’s not that i don’t remember—i know what he is like, but not +it’s not pleasant, but what’s to be done, my dear fellow? you landed +“it’s nothing,” replied prince andrew. +“it’s nothing, nothing; leave me alone!” sobbed sónya. +“it’s not going to be a ghost story?” said he, sitting down beside +“it’s not at all from friendship,” declared nicholas, flaring +it’s not all the same to us! am i not right, denísov? it’s not the +its last march the day before—presented a well-ordered array of two +“it’s in the inlaid portfolio that he keeps under his pillow,” +“it’s impossible,” replied another. +it, she was herself in such high spirits at that moment, so far from +its handsome, sensual mouth, and its cold, majestic expression, was +“it’s empty.” +itself to him. he was already enjoying that happiness when that +itself, rejoicing at the emperors’ approach, had naturally burst into +itself, a petty german town, rostóv saw the emperor again. in the +itself?” +“it seems that while he was abroad this young man was allowed to do +“it seems that there will be no need to bring mary out, suitors are +“it seems funny to me,” said pierre, “that you, you should +it seemed to pierre that he grew embarrassed. pierre himself grew still +it seemed to pierre, sunk in profound and calm meditation. his servant +it seemed to him that he was being fired at. “what? what? what?... cut +it seemed to her that not only did everybody know that her fate would be +it seemed so natural to pierre that everyone should like him, and it +it seemed quite natural that they should cry, and apparently it never +it seemed as if nothing in that voice could be altered without spoiling +it seemed as if from some words borís had spoken that evening about the +“it’s different on different days,” answered the captain. “one +it’s definite and one is rid of the old tormenting doubt.” pierre +its broad temples and close-cropped hair, and looked at bezúkhov. the +it’s as if it had been done on purpose, on purpose. besides, suppose +“it’s as if a dam had burst,” said the cossack hopelessly. “are +“it’s a shame for a soldier to steal; a soldier must be honest, +“it’s andrew!” thought princess mary. “no it can’t be, that +“it’s ancient history,” said another, guessing that it referred to +“it’s a long time since we met,” he said. “thanks for coming. + “it’s a long, long way. +“it’s all very well for you... i am not envious... i love you and +“it’s all up! i’m lost!” thought he. “now a bullet through my +“it’s all the same to me,” he said. “i only want to see whether +“it’s all the same now. if the emperor is wounded, am i to try to +“it’s all the fault of these fellows on the staff that there’s +“it’s all over; but i am a coward—yes, a coward!” thought +“it’s all about the war,” the count shouted down the table. “you +“it’s a lackey’s job!” +“it’s a bad business,” said the general without answering him, +“it’s a bad business, eh?” +i trouble myself about you, and you also know quite well that what i +it right to refuse a duty to which he had been appointed by the emperor +it really happened, it would have been necessary to make an effort of +it,’” prince andrew continued after a short silence, again quoting +it, or why it had to be told in russian, still anna pávlovna and the +it or not, and how they would cross it, agitated them all. +it on the field at schön grabern. young rostóv’s ecstatic voice +it, on the crest of the opposite hill, the village of schön grabern +it on something, and told him to hold a pair of compasses to his left +it on his coat and supported himself with it. his frowning face was +“i told you it was all lumps and holes!” the little princess +it, next day, november 15, after dinner he again went to olmütz and, +it necessary to introduce himself, and without experiencing the least +“it must be one of ours, a prisoner. yes. can it be that they will +it might really have been so? could one possibly make out amid all that +“it may be treachery,” said prince andrew, vividly imagining the +“it may be he or it may be nothing,” muttered the hussar. “it’s +it’ll be worse if he fires the bridge. see, here’s an officer jammed +“it’ll be worse for you. bogdánich is vindictive and you’ll pay +it is. you must know. we will take it at once and show it to the +“it is very strange, mon monsieur prince,” said the staff officer. +“it is very good of you, monsieur pierre, to come and visit a poor +“it is too late now, it’s done; besides i love her,” thought +“it is the sword of frederick the great which i...” she began, but +“it is the buonapartists who say that,” replied the vicomte without +it is terrible to think.... this is my son,” she added, indicating +“it is some letter of recommendation... what the devil do i want it +it is said ‘there are thieves among the pávlograd officers!’ but +it is past midnight—cannot now be altered,” said he. “you have +“it is of great importance to me,” she said, turning with a smile +“it is now my turn to ask you ‘why?’ mon cher,” said bolkónski. +it is. my dear pet!” +it is for you to talk or think of such matters. it is no easier for +“it is for the reasson, my goot sir,” said he, speaking with a + it is for thee thus swells her heart, +“it is dreadful, dreadful!” she was saying, “but cost me what it +“it is done!” she said to the count, pointing triumphantly to the +“it is an illness, there’s no other way of explaining it,” said +“it is all very well for rostóv, whose father sends him ten thousand +“it is all, all her fault,” he said to himself; “but what of that? +it is a bit of mack. we are macked),” he concluded, feeling that he +it. if you refuse him on my account, i must tell you the whole truth. i +“i thought today’s fete had been canceled. i confess all these +“i thought perhaps something had happened,” she said with her +i think there were not many such gallant sons of the fatherland out +“i think the battle will be lost, and so i told count tolstóy and +“i think,” said the prince with a smile, “that if you had been +“i think i may congratulate you,” whispered anna pávlovna to the +“i... that’s different. why speak of me? i don’t want any other +“it has begun. here it is!” thought prince andrew, feeling the +it had the commander in chief continued to look at him, and so kutúzov, +it had appeared. the count sat on the sofa between two guests who were +it. fr... fr... fr! and don’t i see that that idiot had eyes only for +it. feel in your pockets.” +it escape from his handsome mouth in rings. this was lieutenant berg, an +“i tell you,” shouted denísov, “he’s a fine fellow.” +i tell you he is in our hands, that’s certain! but what was most +i tell you buonaparte was a great tactician? here, he says the same +i tell her how i’ve seen the emperor?) natásha... take my +it, easily find a way to prepare for the enemy the fate he deserves. +it dashed, some forward and some back, drowning one another. +“it can’t be!” said rostóv. “it must have been someone else.” +it can’t be helped!” said the count, shrugging his shoulders and +“it can’t be helped! it happens to everyone!” said the son, with +it can’t be a square—for they are not drawn up for that.” +it. but at that moment an adjutant galloped up with a message from the +it. at that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over +it at that age.” +it appears that we are within sight of the enemy and must give battle. +it...” answered her son coldly. “but i have promised and will do it +it and wished to hear it again. in her voice there was a virginal +it and saw telyánin’s horse at the porch. +it. and he is so clever and so good!” said natásha. “don’t +italy and on the rhine; how fifty thousand russians and as many english +it all very well for prince vasíli told me himself. besides, cyril +“it all depends on the bringing up,” remarked the visitor. +italian to give her lessons.” +italian: “‘dio mi l’ha dato. guai a chi la tocchi!’’ +it?” +it.” +it. +it. +is very unhappy with her father. she is a relation of yours, princess +is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. there is nothing, +is to take care of yourself. leave it to those who are no longer fit for +“i still can’t understand what you are afraid of,” said prince +“is this your saber?” he shouted. +“is this your saber?” asked pétya. “or is it yours?” he said, +“is this the way to the princesses’ apartments?” asked anna +“is this good or bad?” pierre asked himself. “it is good for me, +“is there sufficient forage in krems?” +is the only thing left me—not singing!” his thoughts ran on. “go +is the only difference between them.” he said this smiling in a way +is the one held by the majority of people, and is the invariable fruit +“is the englishman bragging?... eh? is it all right?” said anatole. +is the baby born?” +is that the emperor is here. how he looked at me and wished to say +“is that so? and what did he say?” inquired bolkónski. +“is that mary practicing? let’s go quietly and take her by +is such men as he who decide the fate of nations,” added bolkónski +is, stormed and stormed and stormed! it was not a matter of life but +is so i don’t know...” +is so fond of?” he remembered his mother’s love for him, and his +is pua’ as on the fihst day of cweation... who’s that now? send him +“is papa at home?” he asked. +“isn’t she too young? i have heard that it harms the voice to train +“isn’t she exquisite?” she said to pierre, pointing to the stately +isn’t it logical? +is now rushing along the road to brünn and will be here in a day or +is now on the staff.” +is not so, then...” +is not my fault that i want it and want nothing but that and live only +is nothing but a trick! he has retreated and ordered the rearguard to +is not abashed now, so she cannot be a bad woman!” he had often begun +is my witness,” and she made the sign of the cross, “i love her so +is much better than ours.” +“is it worth while noticing trifles?” he reined in his horse with +“is it true that austrians have been beaten?” asked dólokhov. +“is it possible?” exclaimed anna mikháylovna. “oh, how awful! +“is it for visitors you’ve got yourself up like that, eh?” said +“is it certain?” she said. +is interrupted. he listened to what langeron said, as if remarking, +is how i explain it to myself. it can’t be helped!” +“‘i showed them the path to glory, but they did not follow +“i should think not,” said véra, “because there can never be +“i should think he has a score of them.” +“i should not be doing my duty, count,” he said in timid tones, +“i should never dare to say that i know the truth,” said the mason, +“i should like to speak well of them, but as far as i know the facts, +“i should like to go to kurágin’s,” thought he. +“i should like,” said the vicomte, “to ask how monsieur explains +“is he really to be my husband, this stranger who is so kind—yes, +“i shall scarcely be able to avail myself of your hospitality, +“i shall probably die before you. so remember, these are my memoirs; +i shall expect you, drubetskóy. au revoir!” exclaimed prince andrew, +i shall conclude will be worthy of my people, of you, and of myself. +i shall be very charmed to see you tonight between 7 and 10—annette +i shall be in a more prominent position,” continued berg, “and +“i shall be delighted to meet them,” said the prince. “but +“i shall at any rate not run after a young man before visitors...” +“i shall always remember that in this world one must expect no reward, +is good to have a friend like the prince,” she said, smiling at prince +is going as a cadet. there’s no one to interest himself for him. to +is for myself.” +“is everything quite all right?” +is denísov!” +is connected with the montmorencys through the rohans, one of the best +is called weak character, do not seek a confidant in their troubles. he +is betraying us! russia alone must save europe. our gracious sovereign +“i say, we’ve been in the front line! our regiment attacked!” said +“i say, this is folly! he’ll be killed,” said this more sensible +“i say so,” he continued desperately, “because the bourbons fled +“i say, shall we soon be clear? they say the cavalry are blocking the +“i say, rostóv,” said dólokhov clearly, smiling and looking +“i say, fédeshon!... did he say when the battles are to begin? you +“i say, father, joking apart, is she very hideous?” anatole asked, +“i say, come round some evening and we’ll have a game of faro!” +“i say, berg, my dear fellow,” said rostóv, “when you get a +“i saw you riding this morning...” he added. +“i saw the pávlograd hussars attack there, your excellency,” chimed +“i saw him myself,” replied the man with a self-confident smile of +is a very good thing, but not for you—i don’t suppose you ever had +is an admirable book which calms and elevates the soul. adieu! give +is a mob of scoundrels and not an army,” he was thinking as he went +is all i have to say to you. the count is very, very ill, and you must +“i said from the first,” declared anna pávlovna referring to +irritation. +irresolution communicated itself to the men. +irresistibly attractive to pierre. +irresistible human need for sleep. he really was asleep. weyrother, with +irreproachably washed, brushed, and buttoned, held his pipe in the +irrepressible hatred. +irreparable. there was no insult on either side. allow me to +ironical voice. +“i request you to have the goodness to change your coat,” he said as +“i rely on you, my dear,” said anna pávlovna, also in a low tone. +“i recognize you only too well, too well.” +i really take it? how fortunate!” he thought. +“i quite understand,” answered princess mary, with a sad smile. +“i promised to pay tomorrow,” said nicholas. +“i peg of you yourself not to mix in vot is not your business!” +“i ought to tell you that i do not believe... do not believe in +i only wanted to know your opinion,” and anna pávlovna let pierre go. +iogel’s were the most enjoyable balls in moscow. so said the mothers +“i often think, though, perhaps it’s a sin,” said the princess, +“i often think,” she continued after a short pause, drawing nearer +in zherkóv, looking uneasily around. he had not seen the hussars all +in which kutúzov entrusted them to the humanity of the enemy; and +in war on our own frontiers, with and for the king of prussia. we have +involuntarily, so much so that the only thing left to do seemed to be +involuntarily noticed that one of them was bleeding, and galloped on. +involuntarily, came up and sat down beside him. +involuntarily came closer to him. +invitation to anna pávlovna’s reception and had sat listening to +invincibility of the french, and the minister of war does not even care +in vienna knew him and valued him. he was not one of those many +invent him,” said the wit shinshín, parodying the words of voltaire. +invalid,” said anna pávlovna, exchanging an alarmed glance with her +invalid chair, a wax taper in his left hand, was leaning his left arm on +intriguer!” she hissed viciously, and tugged with all her might at the +intoxication. he felt as though he were the center of some important and +into which we have been drawn, god knows how or why. not only where you +into the water, or when he challenged a man to a duel without any +into the water. he tried to right himself but fell in up to his waist. +into the valley. he greeted the men of the foremost regiment and gave +in to the utmost, their red necks squeezed into their stiff collars, and +into the naïvely symmetrical pose of an egyptian statue, evidently +in to the minister of war. five minutes later he returned and bowing +into the insignificant, trifling, and artificial interests uniting that +into the distance, at the waters of the danube, at the sky, and at the +into the corridor and met—coming out of the door of the emperor’s +into step with a hop, looked back angrily, and through the ominous +into sobs. +in too”—different voices were saying in the crowd, as the men looked +intonation, look, and expression, pricked up her ears from the beginning +“in token of obedience, i ask you to undress.” +in to inform the commander in chief of this and, availing himself +into his room one evening in the official and ceremonious manner in +into her radiant smile. +into her heart an impulse that was against his will. my wife—as she +into borís’ eyes. after he had gone pierre continued pacing up and +“into action! into action! bring him a bottle for such news! but how +into action as arranged, and after going behind other columns for +into a careless, merry smile. “what am i? an illegitimate son!” +intimately regretted that he had died so young, leaving a pregnant wife +intimately. prince andrew spoke with some animation and interest only of +in this room it was almost dark; only two tiny lamps were burning before +in this part of the house and did not even know of the existence of +in the world and above everything in the world. “what were losses, and +in the village of hosjeradek there were russian troops retiring from +in the viennese drawing rooms and often had an influence on matters +in the third circle, narýshkin was speaking of the meeting of the +in the sutler’s hut without his boots.” he recognized the agreeable, +in the streets of petersburg in an old uniform. he made friends with +in the spring of 1807 he decided to return to petersburg. on the way he +in the small circular room. around the table all who were at count +“in the seventh place, try, by the frequent thought of death,” the +in the second room of the inn the lieutenant was sitting over a dish of +in the same tone. +in the same tone. +in the same order in which they had entered but with redder faces, the +in the room next their bedroom there was a confusion of sabers, +in the rearguard, dokhtúrov and others rallying some battalions kept up +in the passage denísov, with a pipe, was squatting on the threshold +in the other the letter, and pressing them alternately to her lips. +in the night he called his valet and told him to pack up to go to +in the morning anna mikháylovna said to pierre: +in the morning all that was left of the night mist on the heights was +in the mist. +in the military profession, so to an even greater extent bilíbin gave +in the midst of the third écossaise there was a clatter of chairs being +in the midst of a conversation on political matters anna pávlovna burst +in the middle of the line that had seemed so terrible—and now he +in the middle of his story, just as he was saying: “you cannot imagine +in the meantime, not only was it known in the maidservants’ rooms that +in the mean jocular way common to anonymous letters said that he saw +in the meadow behind the village, three of them are dragging something. +in the light of the dull autumn evening, mounted men coming toward him. +in the letter from his parents was enclosed a letter of recommendation +in their power. +in their own play. +in their childlike glee, aroused by the fire and their luck in +in the house was done in haste at that time), and pierre and anna +in the house on the povarskáya rose before him with such vividness, +in the hair, the hair combed up, and the blue scarf arranged lower on +in the garden, or superintending the building that was always going on +in the fresh morning air were now heard, not two or three musket shots +in the evening,” reported rostóv, stooping forward with his hand at +in the evening andrew and pierre got into the open carriage and drove to +in the evening, after supper, when all were about to retire, anatole +in the emperors’ suite were the picked young orderly officers of the +in the emperor’s suite all exchanged rapid looks that expressed +in the drawing room, waiting for borís to come out. she was already +in the drawing room the conversation was still going on. +in the drawing room, talking to the little princess and mademoiselle +in the dining room, which like all the rooms in the house was +in the deathlike stillness only the tramp of horses was heard. this +in the darkness, it seemed as though a gloomy unseen river was flowing +in the count’s room, which was full of tobacco smoke, they talked +in the country.” +in the common motion the result and aim of which are beyond its ken. +in the best possible manner, and feeling that he was doing it well he +in the beginning of the winter of 1805-6 pierre received one of anna +in the baggage train he had passed that morning on the znaim road seven +in the autumn the rostóvs returned to moscow. early in the winter +in the autumn of 1806 everybody had again begun talking of the war with +in the assurance that the rumors about the emperor being wounded were +in the army, besides the subordination and discipline prescribed in the +in the afternoon, having made all his calls, he was returning to +in that happy mood in which everything seems possible and everything +“in that case we can go,” said willarski. “my carriage is at your +“in that case he is inviting his doom by awaiting our attack,” said +“in that case...” began willarski, but pierre interrupted him. +interview? why negotiate, and above all why retreat, when to retreat is +intervene. prince andrew looked at túshin from under his brows and his +interrupting one another and mingling with the rustling of dresses and +interpreted. the life of old prince bolkónski, prince andrew, and +interfere, making a scene on the very threshold of a dying man’s room? +interests,” said bilíbin. +interesting but hardly feasible.” +interesting and entertaining. after the field marshal’s departure +interesting.” +interested the minister of war less than any of the other matters he was +intercourse with young women. +intention to part from her forever. +intention should he try to direct his whole force against our faithful +intention of proposing, and today or tomorrow he would probably ask +intention of killing your man as quickly and surely as possible, and +intends to expose his precious person to the chances of war. god grant +intending to rest if but for a moment, eat something, and try to sort +intended to visit all his estates and see for himself how far his orders +intended to take up our position and begin the action, but were on this +intended for you too. give them to the woman whom you shall honor most +intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously. the general looked the +intelligent, how is it you don’t see that if the count has written a +intelligent, and resolute young man. +intellectual pride,” said the princess, following the train of her own +insufficient, and he kept expecting something more, more and yet more. +instrument he could not begin to speak. +instructions to major ekonómov, he could not help taking notice of the +instructions his father had sent and taking the correspondence and his +instructing in reading, writing, and religion. on all his estates pierre +in step, and each one of these hundreds of soldiers seemed to be +instead of that he only excited himself more and more. +instead of firing it, flung it at the frenchman and ran with all his +instead of black. the regimental commander walked with his jerky steps +instantly his regret at not having been in action and his dejected mood +instantly dropped them again. all the blood which had seemed congested +in spite of this, both the face and words of his new acquaintance were +in spite of the animation of his speech, bilíbin did not forget to +in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the austrian +in spite of prince andrew’s disagreeable, ironical tone, in spite of +in spite of himself (although he knew how far it was safe to trust +inspired by the emperors’ presence were eager for action. the +in some way essential. +in some respects a brilliant match for the dowerless, orphan girl. from +insoluble. +insolent intelligence of his eyes, produced an effect which made it +insolent, hard, and mocking face as he had seen it at the banquet, and +in society it seems as if there were something in them, but there’s +in silence, and then the same joke was repeated. +insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and +“in short, hoping to settle matters by taking up a warlike attitude, +in separate piles, began counting them. +insane—unprofitable to himself, to the count, and to the serfs—made +in rostóv’s soul! and this something was apart from everything else +in retirement and had now no influence in political affairs, every high +inquiry. the son noticed that an expression of profound sorrow suddenly +inquiring what she was to do with these people. on leaving them, anna +inquiringly at the young prince, wondering what would follow. +inquiring look. he was about to stoop over her hand and kiss it, but +in pure, correct french many interesting details about the armies and +in princess drubetskáya’s case he felt, after her second appeal, +in petersburg, as in moscow, pierre found the same atmosphere of +in petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day +in perplexity, and only later grasped that a stroke was an attack of +in passing prince vasíli seized pierre’s hand and said to anna +“in our temples we recognize no other distinctions,” read the grand +in our lack of understanding we see only our weakness and his +in our house, aren’t they?” +in our army. his own strategic plan, which obviously could not now +in only his stockings, rose when they entered, smiling not altogether +in one company dinner was ready, and the soldiers were gazing eagerly +in on bad company. rostóv flushed up on noticing this, but he did not +in october, 1805, a russian army was occupying the villages and towns of +inn, where two roads parted. both of them led downhill and troops were +in no way binding) might give time for part of the transport to pass, +in november, 1805, prince vasíli had to go on a tour of inspection +in november, 1805, announcing that he and his son would be paying him +innocent youth. +innocent and untried?” +inner laboratory of his mind in a portable form as if intentionally, so +in my opinion was nothing of the kind. we civilians, as you know, have +in military matters. +in me. i have been told that her brother anatole was in love with her +in mary bogdánovna’s trembling white hands. +in love with the tsar,” he said. +in love. the marshals stood behind him not venturing to distract his +in life, one she had not yet experienced, irreparable and +in lace-frilled drawers, and feet in low slippers—was just at that +in kishenëv with only a moldavian peasant woman to help instead of a +in killed, wounded, sick, and stragglers; though a number of sick and +in kiev pierre found some people he knew, and strangers hastened to make +injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing +in it by spring. +in.’ i do not know how far he was justified in saying so.” +in his writing table, and this is a paper he has forgotten....” +in his voice a sincerity and weakness pierre had never observed in it +in his tone, “my dear,” whether they were above or below him in +in his saddle. +in his movements, in his walk, scarcely a trace was left of his former +in his mind an unsettled question he always tried to stifle, one about +in his large elongated hand on blue paper as follows: +in his horse, said to him: +in his horse before the emperor. +in his hand, was sitting there with a smile of deep emotion on his face, +in his fine gray eyes, and on his delicate lips the same capacity for +inheritance; but i do know that since this young man, whom we all used +in her eyes, which, for an instant, glanced at pierre, prince vasíli +in hand. +in half an hour all was again in order, only the squares had become gray +inhabitants on whom they were quartered. braunau was the headquarters of +in great russia, which formed the larger part of his property, and left +ingratiating and appealing smile, and took his hand that he might not go +in good spirits, he mounted his horse and rode out into the field +in god’s hands. you may die in your bed or god may spare you in a +in geometry were among the greatest delights of her life. +“in general we must turn this bloodthirsty soldier to more humane +in general at bald hills the little princess lived in constant fear, and +in front of them rows of gray cloaks were already visible through the +in front of them, and that the columns moving near pratzen constituted +in front of him was misty darkness. rostóv could see nothing, peer as +in front of him and that the enemy must be at least six miles away. +in french out of all this, showing all the news we have had of the +in french. +in four different provinces. he had arranged this for himself so as to +“inform the prince that labor has begun,” said mary bogdánovna, +“inform the prince that i the bridge fired!” said the colonel +informing the prince that as soon as the action began he had withdrawn +informed him of a victory and stated strategically the position of the +influence of the dark, graceful girl who loved another. +influence of a variety of exciting sensations. only pierre and +influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized +inflammable material on the bridge must be reinspected.” +infants in arms met him to thank him for releasing them from hard +infantry officer who just before the battle had rushed out of +infantry in different uniforms; now was heard the rhythmic beat of +infantry, cavalry, and artillery. how was it that two guns were +infantry, and having reached the village of gruntersdorf they halted. it +infantry and cavalry and took up its appointed position. not only the +infantry. +infamous, vile woman!” +in exactly the same manner. nesvítski laughed and nudged the others to +inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. but you are +inevitable pain showed itself. +“i never invited them. they came to disturb my life—and there is not +“i never go back on my word,” he said. “besides, sónya is so +“i never could understand how nataly made up her mind to marry that +i need.” but when he came across a man of position his instinct +individual commanders and inquiring into details of the action and our +indistinct words, shrugging his shoulders and gesticulating. +indisposition was the strong impression made on his sensitive mind by +in discussion with the sole object of offending one another. but the +indiscretion, one might ask about our plans. +indiscretion, nodded and said: “i hope to see you again, but i also +indignantly. “i come to ask you what to do, and you call it +indifferently to his wife’s chatter with prince hippolyte who had also +indifferently quiescent till the moment when motion is transmitted +indifferent hands of the minister of war and the polite adjutant. the +indifferent air, and glanced into the little drawing room. pierre and +indifference, began to hum to himself, producing a queer sound which +indications, he saw clearly that the allies believed him to be far away +indication of something new and stern showed round the mouth. +indicating her to the gentlemen, said: “voilà marie!” princess mary +indicating a captive french dragoon who was being brought in on foot by +indicated that if he was not dancing it was because he would not and not +“indeed? yes, yes!” said borís, with a smile. “and we too have + * “indeed, sire, we shall do everything it is possible to +incredible, unheard-of, and impossible event of a russian defeat, +increasing, seemed like someone’s breathing. he listened intently to +increased tenfold, and their life, which seemed to have been passed in +in couples and he himself rode along the line trying to master the +in conversation—count rostopchín, prince yúri dolgorúkov, valúev, +inconvenient, unseemly, and impossible to do so. +in consequence of this discovery his whole manner of life, all +incomprehensible—the death of one she loved. +in comparison with eternity?” +incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was +income which was said to amount to five hundred thousand rubles a year, +inclination—practical business. +in clean notes, was lying ready under a handkerchief on the countess’ +in chief would be. though the aide-de-camp did not know these +in chief’s office were gathered kutúzov himself, weyrother, and the +in chief, and from the noisy laughter of the cossacks holding the +incessantly, repeating petersburg reminiscences and even phrases. prince +in brünn everybody attached to the court was packing up, and the heavy +in bonaparte’s address to his army at the beginning of the campaign, +“in a word, a hearty one...” said the subaltern, laughing (the +inaudible, voice. +inattentive, but you had talent—oh yes, you had talent!” +in attaching himself as an orderly officer to prince bagratión. he now +in a tone only used by persons who are certain that those they call will +in a shovel—the guests who had been scattered about in different rooms +inappropriate, she was unable to stop him. +in any case. he has forwarded me a letter from borís. thank god, borís +“in an hour’s time, i should say.” +in, and sinking heavily into an armchair. +in a moment the men came running gaily from their campfires and began +“in a moment. À propos,” she added, becoming calm again, “i am +“in a minute, in a minute,” he said, dipping his pen. +in amazement. +in all sincerity—not as a future mason but as an honest man: have you +in a day or two we shall all have to take part in a greater and more +inactive, would also soon have to meet the enemy. +inactive and has left the university to join the army. i will confess to +in a corner of the room something red and tiny gave a grunt and squealed +in a corner of the hut stood a standard captured from the french, and +in a cheerful voice: +in accord with his intentions. prince andrew noticed, however, that +inability to enter a room and converse in it was, however, redeemed by +in a bad temper, and in the morning tíkhon had already advised the +in 1806 the old prince was made one of the eight commanders in chief +i myself have experienced ... and so ... because ... no, excuse me! +“i must have that purse, i tell you,” shouted denísov, shaking his +“i must also inform you,” said the rhetor, “that our order +“i’m quite worn out by these callers. however, i’ll see her and +improvement. his satire has been less bitter of late, and there was a +impressively, blocking the way to the bedroom and preventing the other +impression. whether dolgorúkov and weyrother, or kutúzov, langeron, +impressions of the recent battle, picturing pleasantly to himself the +impression of those voices and faces and a sense of loneliness merged +impression his news of a victory would create, or recalling the send-off +impression. “but that is a matter of perfect indifference to me,” he +impressionable, smiling young faces (smiling probably at their own +impossible to stop him, she rallied her forces and joined the vicomte in +impossible... oh, how pleasant it was at home!... the knave, double or +impossible not to notice his face. dólokhov was a man of small means +impossible for him to return to his former conception of her, that he +“impossible!” cried prince andrew. “that would be too base.” +impossible!” and suddenly he was seized by a panic of fear for himself +impossible...” +important. what is important are the rights of man, emancipation from +important post in vienna. both the foreign minister and our ambassador +important and unimportant, all of whom he knew, as if they were all +importance of the rite now being performed and even approved of it. he +importance, he returned again, called back the cook and the club +implied that, for certain considerations he could not know of, this was +impetus, and princess mary long remembered the dying creak of that +imperturbable calm she did not begin to speak in front of the valet. +imperials ... or do you wish to make it a hundred?” added he, +impending battle, under a heading which he also read out: +impending action. from privates to general they were not expecting a +impatient the nearer they got to moscow. +impatiently, “i came here not to wrangle with you, but to talk about +impatiently. +impatient and sets to work himself and finds letters from the emperor +impatience, while the princess jumped up and with a gesture of +impassive face?” prince andrew asked himself as he looked. prince +impassive face of oriental type, came out after the commander in chief. +“‘i most ardently desire,’ writes the king of prussia to +“i’m not to blame that the conversation began in the presence of +“i’m not such a fool.... just you try it on.... allez-vous +“i’m not a goose, but they are who cry about trifles,” said +immobile for a few moments. then wrinkles ran over his face like a wave +immensity of the power they constituted. +immense force upon kutúzov’s line of communication with the troops +immediately told him that this man could be useful, and without any +immediately starting to run along the hall and up the warped steps of +“immediately, prince,” said kozlóvski. “dispositions for +immediately broke off. the door of the private room opened and kutúzov +immediately brightened on seeing rostóv. “schön gut morgen! schön +immediately.” +immediately. +“i’m glad, glad, to see you,” he said, looking attentively into +“i’m glad,” answered dólokhov briefly and clearly, as the song +“i’m certain of it; you’ll see.” +i’m alive, that is not my fault, so i must live out my life as best i +“i make bold to ask your excellency to move a little for this +imagining himself before his own officers, insisted on his soldierly +imagine that their children have no secrets from them. “i know i shall +imagined oppressors whose victims he would rescue. of the three +imagined only important possibilities: “if the enemy attacks the right +imagine...” +imagination a new plan of life. on the previous evening at the lodge, he +ilyúshka, the one who danced at count orlóv’s, you remember, in a +ilyá has sent you to ask for strawberries and fresh pineapples.’ we +“i love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you + * i love you. + * “i love you.” +i love so that i would give my life for them, and the others i’d +illumined, and plunge him into the depths of unknown and undefined +“i’ll trust you.” +“i’ll tell you what, my dear fellow,” said prince andrew, who +i’ll teach you to think!” and lifting his stick he swung it and +ill-suited to the family circle of which pierre was almost a member. +“i’ll sing for you a whole evening,” said natásha. +“i’ll show you, i’ll show you! it’s not a secret. and it’s a +i’ll see.” the old prince snorted. “let her marry, it’s all the +“i’ll really call in on the nuns,” he said to the officers who +illness. prince vasíli said something to lorrain in passing and went +“illness or not, he’d better not cwoss my path. i’d kill him!” +ill luck takes us. they say we are going to olmütz, and olmütz is a +“i’ll let two more letters pass, but the third i’ll read,” said +i’ll let her see....” +“i’ll kill you!” he shouted, and seizing the marble top of a table +i’ll just finish dealing, and then ilyúshka will come with his +ill! i was only there a few moments and hardly said a word...” +i’ll go to the general and ask him.” he readjusted himself in the +i’ll flog you all.” +“i’ll flatten you into a pancake!” shouted the angry officer to +i’ll find you another place.” +illegitimate.” +“i’ll drink it! let’s have a bottle of rum!” shouted pierre, +i know you will pray over it. well, pray if you like, but you had better +“i know your outlook,” said the mason, “and the view of life you +“i know your heart,” repeated the prince. “i value your friendship +“i know who has taken it,” repeated rostóv in an unsteady voice, +“i know the will was made, but i also know that it is invalid; +“i know that no one can help if nature does not do her work,” said +“i know people consider me a bad man!” he said. “let them! i +“i know, my dear, kind princess,” said anna mikháylovna, seizing +“i know it and shall prove it,” said rostóv. +“i know,” interrupted bilíbin, “you’re thinking it’s very +“i know, i know,” answered prince vasíli in his monotonous voice. +“i know from reliable sources that the dowager empress is taking a +i know for certain that you won’t marry her.” +“i knew you would be here,” replied pierre. “i will come to supper +“i knew the princess at once,” put in mademoiselle bourienne. +“i knew someone who received that sacrament seven times.” +“i? i? what of me? leave me out of the question. i’m not going to +“i intended to re-form them beyond the village, your excellency,” +“i?... i’m going to petersburg,” answered pierre, in a childlike, +“i imagine that freemasonry is the fraternity and equality of men who +“i hope this will prove the last drop that will make the glass run +“i... hope... for guidance... help... in regeneration,” said pierre, +“i hear you have given orders to harness,” she cried, panting (she +i have written that he should make use of you in proper places and not +“i have the pleasure of addressing count bezúkhov, if i am not +“i have the honor to present myself,” repeated prince andrew rather +“i have the honor to congratulate you. general mack has arrived, quite +“i have seen as much before now, mate!” +“i have said nothing to you, but you have already been talked to. and +i have received what was due from the ryazán estate and will keep it; +“i haven’t been in the room. it must be where you put it.” +“i have not referred to this out of curiosity, my dear sir, but for +“i have no money with me,” he said. +“i have met loving, noble, high-minded men, but i have not yet met +“i have heard of you, my dear sir,” continued the stranger, “and +“i have had a proposition made me concerning you,” he said with an +i have had a letter from my brother, who announces his speedy arrival +“i have four sons in the army but still i don’t fret. it is all +i have done that though badly and to a small extent; but i have done +“i have done my best for him, and i can assure you the education there +“i have come with my mother to see the count, but it seems he is not +“i have come to you with a message and an offer, count,” he +i have a presentiment that for the first time i shall have to show all +“i have already told you, papa,” said his son, “that if you +“i have already refused,” she said hurriedly. +“i have.” +i had to express my own desire...” she had no time to finish. the old +“i had not the pleasure of seeing you,” said prince andrew, coldly +i get reinstated.” +“if you won’t answer, i’ll tell you...” hélène went on. “you +if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that +“if you, sir, choose to make a buffoon of yourself,” he said +“if you really want it,” said he. +“if you please, your excellency, pétrusha has brought some papers,” +“if you like, your honor!” +“if you have nothing better to do, count (or prince), and if the +if you have firmly resolved to join our brotherhood.” (pierre nodded +“if you had told me sooner, mamma, i would have gone,” she replied +“if you are resolved, i must begin your initiation,” said the rhetor +“if you are refusing for my sake, i am afraid that i...” +if you are in love, marry him!” said the countess, with a laugh of +if we occupy the villages of sokolnitz and kobelnitz, whereby we +“if we live we shall see,” replied bilíbin, his face again becoming +“if we get to vienna i’ll get rid of it there but in these wretched +“if we fought before,” he said, “not letting the french pass, as +if to say that this was no more than she had expected. +“if they had known that you wished it, the entertainment would have +if the whole world had gone crazy.” +if she had not meant it seriously. it makes it as if you were marrying +“if only they would be quick!” thought rostóv, feeling that at last +“if only i knew that anything besides humiliation would come of +if not it is merely a question of settling where the preliminaries of +“if no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no +“if i were tsar i would never go to war,” said nesvítski, turning +“if it were true that he has been beaten, news would have come.” +“if it were not for my sincere affection and devotion to uncle,” +“if it is true that monsieur denísov has made you a proposal, tell +if it is to last. prince vasíli knew this, and having once realized +“if it does not weigh a hundredweight and won’t break my neck... +if in search of something. on his way to the aunt he bowed to the little +if in search of something. before dinner the old prince, of whom she was +“if i have time,” answered nicholas. “but i promised the +“if i’d been in nikólenka’s place i would have killed even more +if, however, the emperor of russia ratifies that convention, i will +“if he were not,” he said quietly, “you and i would not be +“if he starts a row i’ll go away,” said prince anatole. “i +if he is standing before brünn...” +“if he is one of the ordinary little staff dandies sent to earn a +“if he is better, ask pierre to dine with us. he has been to the +if he intended to say something, but immediately, with affected +“if he” (he meant the enemy) “begins popping at the bridge now,” +“if he could attack us, he would have done so today,” said he. +if complaining of kutúzov. +if but one stage nearer znaim. the offer of a truce gave the only, and +“if buonaparte remains on the throne of france a year longer,” the +“if at least we had some women here; but there’s nothing foh one +if at first the members of the council thought that kutúzov was +if a soldier, he should be dressed in regulation uniform like the +“if anyone comes meddling again,” said he, emitting the words +if all the powers of his soul were concentrated on passing the commander +if about to tell a good story he put down the cards, leaned back in his +“i expect so.” +“i expected help from you and i get none, none from you either!” +i envy him, but you want to make him what i am, without giving him my +i don’t want to have you like our silly ladies. get used to it and +i don’t want him.” (he looked at his blushing daughter.) “are you +“i don’t understand. what’s it all about?” +“i don’t understand!” said prince andrew. +“i don’t understand, mamma—what is his attitude to pierre?” +“i don’t understand it,” replied prince andrew. “women who are +“i don’t understand,” he said, “how it is that the mind of man +i don’t speak of anatole, your youngest. i don’t like him,” she +“i don’t say it’s a plan i approve of,” said the son; “i am +“i don’t myself know ‘to who,’” replied the cornet in a +“i don’t like you to talk like that.” +“i don’t like your mademoiselle bourienne at all,” said prince +“i don’t know. i think if he writes, i will write too,” she said, +“i don’t know, general....” +“i... don’t...” he muttered, holding up two fingers to his cap. +“i don’t even know what is in this paper,” said the younger of +“i don’t at all say that all the plans are good,” said prince +i do not yet know. there will be time enough to think about love when i +“i do not understand,” said pierre, feeling with dismay doubts +“i do not think i have complained of my wife to you, másha, or blamed +“i do not know what you think, father,” whispered the princess. +i do not begin, sire, because we are not on parade and not on the +i doing? aren’t they laughing at me? shan’t i be ashamed to remember +“i’d like to put you on a two days’ march with a knapsack! your +idle, vicious life!” but dared not break the silence. +idlers have failed to beat the germans. since the world began everybody +idleness, but would grow fat and die. the third thing—what else was +idiot!... but what’s the good?...” and he waved his arm. +“i did not... what is it all about?” inquired prince andrew +i did not think he would get it to you so quickly.... well, how are you? +“i did not expect this of you,” said the staff captain seriously and +idea of the means by which our holy order will help you to reach your +i dare say, is braver than any of them. he says nothing about his +i could not have done it myself, i should not have had the courage, but +i consider it my duty to let you know of it. he is said to be very +i confess i understand very little about all these matters of wills and +“i confess i do not understand: perhaps there are diplomatic +“i commanded a squadron,” replied repnín. +“i come from the archduchess’. i heard nothing there.” +“ice pudding, but you won’t get any,” said márya dmítrievna. +ice. crowds of soldiers from the dam began running onto the frozen pond. +ice and into the water and oftenest of all among the crowd that covered +“i can’t tell you how much i have lived through since then. i hardly +i can’t,” replied bolkónski, smiling. +“i can’t make out at all,” said nesvítski. +“i can’t. i’ve sworn not to. i won’t drink and won’t play till +“i can’t help it,” said the prince. “lavater would have said i +“i can tell you more,” continued prince vasíli, seizing her hand, +“i can’t bear the sight of that woman.” +i can’t...” +“i cannot pay it all immediately. will you take an i.o.u.?” he said. +“i cannot inform your majesty at what o’clock the battle began at +i cannot find words to express to you my displeasure. you command only +“i cannot argue about it,” replied prince andrew coldly, but he +i cannot agree with you about pierre, whom i knew as a child. he always +i can do.” and his fancy pictured the battle, its loss, the +“i called once or twice at your house,” said rostóv, reddening. +“i burned this to prove my love for her. i just heated a ruler in the +“i bet on dólokhov!” cried a third. “kurágin, you part our +“i bet fifty imperials”—he spoke french that the englishman might +“i bet a hundred on stevens!” shouted one. +“i bestow it with pleasure,” said napoleon. “and who is that young +“i believe it, i believe it, fwiend, and i share and appwove...” +“i begin ab ovo. ‘the enemy of the human race,’ as you know, +“i am your faithful slave and to you alone i can confess that my +“‘i am wounded and cannot ride and consequently cannot command the +“i am waiting, your majesty,” answered kutúzov, bending forward +“i am very, very grateful to you, mon cher,” or “ma chère”—he +“i am very sorry you did not find me in yesterday. i was fussing about +“i am very sorry, ma’am,” answered the maid. +“i am very glad i did not go to the ambassador’s,” said prince +i am told.” +i am to do; i wanted to consult you seriously.” +“i am speaking ze truce,” replied the hussar with a smile. +“i am speaking sincerely as a friend! consider! where and why are +“i am so sorry for the poor count,” said the visitor. “he is in +i am sorry for that,” he went on. +“i am so glad you’ve come!” said natásha, without answering him. +“i am so enchanted by the brilliancy of the wit and culture of the +“i am ready for everything,” said pierre. +“i am quite of your opinion,” replied nicholas, flaming up, turning +i am overwhelmed with business and it is purely out of charity that +“i am ordered to write a memorandum explaining why we are not +“i am not your ‘dear sir,’ mr. staff officer, and you did not tell +“i am not talking about you,” he said, “i don’t know you and, +“i am not speaking of regicide, i am speaking about ideas.” +“i am not jesting with you; please be silent!” cried bolkónski, +“i am not jesting,” bilíbin went on. “nothing is truer or sadder. +“i am not in the cavalry, colonel, but i am a russian general and if +“i am living at countess rostóva’s,” replied borís, again +“i am going away.” +“i am glad i was able to do you a service, my dear anna +“i am glad i have spoken out fully. perhaps you did not like it? you +“i am fond of you, especially as you are the one live man among our +“i am expecting you, pierre,” said the same voice, but gently and +i am dissatisfied with your younger son? between ourselves” (and her +“i am awaiting orders to join my new regiment, your excellency,” +“i am asking you when you last heard from bolkónski,” repeated +“i am afraid,” said pierre, smiling, and wavering between the +“i am afraid of mixing the figures,” pierre replied; “but if you +i am afraid of him.” +“i am afraid for the baby,” she said to mademoiselle bourienne: +i am.” +“i am.” +i always stick to mother truth. it’s not right!” +“i also wanted to ask you,” continued prince andrew, “if i’m +i alone have any influence with my father, and now and then can save him +i, above all, who am to blame for everything. help me, teach me, and +“i...” +“i...” +hussars, told them to follow him, and trotted downhill in the direction +hussars hastily dismounted, not knowing what they were to do. the men +hussars, flushing and addressing an adjutant who had ridden up, “so +hussars, cossacks, and adjutants, in his camlet coat, as he jolted on +hussars, but still with that naïve air that made it impossible to know +hussars began carefully aligning their horses. silence fell on the whole +hussar revels and life in the fighting line, the other of the pleasures +hussar cornet zherkóv had at one time, in petersburg, belonged to +hussar, “and why are you exciting yourself? do you think the french +hussar and began lifting him. +husband. prince andrew’s eyes were closed, so weary and sleepy did he +husband of a beauty, and in a word—an old woman; and secondly because +husband. +hurrying past them. +hurried off to his company, buttoning up his coat as he ran. +hurriedly up to the unknown general and blocking his way to the door. +hurriedly unclasped his hands, stopped at a table as if tying the +hurriedly: “i will tell you some time how it all happened. but you +hurriedly interrupting bagratión. +“hurrah!”... then the general march, and again “hurrah! hurrah!” +“hurrah!” shouted prince andrew, and, scarcely able to hold up +“hurrah!” rang the enthusiastic voices of the officers. +“hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!” thundered from all sides, one regiment + hurrah for emperor alexander!” +“hurrah—ah!—ah!” rang a long-drawn shout from our ranks, and +“hur-a-a-a-ah!” came a roar of voices. “let anyone come my way +hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers +hungry, exhausted men would have to detain for days the whole enemy army +hung low over the field of battle on the horizon. it was growing +hungarian?” said the commander with an austere gibe. +hundred yards after that before he saw to his left, across the whole +hundred rubles was left of that money, so that this seven of hearts +hundred rubles he had a long column of figures scored against him, +hum with voices. on all sides soldiers were running to and fro, throwing +humor and dissatisfied with the affair, and so did not exert themselves +humming infantry as by a frame. +humility. +humiliation of arrogant austria and that in a week’s time he might, +“humbug! nonsense! humbug, humbug, humbug!” cried prince bolkónski, +human skull with its cavities and teeth. after reading the first words +hugging and kissing him. another and yet another creature of the same +how you look at things! send two men? and who then would give us the +how we went to the sparrow hills with madame jacquot?... it’s such an +“how was it a gun was abandoned?” asked bagratión, frowning, not so +“how understand me!” cried her father angrily. “prince vasíli +how to escape?” +how to behave with her. the evening before, in the first happy moment of +how to arrange it. what do you think?” +“how thoroughly like him that is!” he said to princess mary, who had +how they had been made much of in russia, poland, and abroad. they spoke +how the russians had been overwhelmed by flying austrians and had had to +“how sweet she is—she will be a weal beauty!” said denísov. + how sweet, as fancies wander free, +how stupid you men all are not to have married her! excuse me for saying +“how strange it is,” said véra, selecting a moment when all were +“how’s this, colonel?” he shouted as he approached. “i told you +“how’s it you’re not drunk today?” said nesvítski when the +“how she loves me!” thought princess mary. “how happy i am now, +how quickly! now i know that not because of her alone, nor of myself +“how plainly all these young people wear their hearts on their +how one day soon after his marriage he came out of the bedroom into his +“how often have i asked you not to take my things?” she said. “you +“how much longer? how much longer? oh, these insufferable streets, +how much anxiety one has had to go through that we might rejoice in +“how many miles?” +“how lovely!” said everyone who saw her; and the vicomte lifted his +how long his unconsciousness lasted. suddenly he again felt that he was +“how it will be there i don’t know, but all will be well!” thought +“how is the count? can i see him?” asked pierre, awkwardly as usual, +how is that?” said different voices. +“how is that?...” began prince andrew, who had for long been waiting +“how is it,” she began, as usual in french, settling down briskly +“how is it i am not moving? i have fallen, i am killed!” rostóv +how have you spent it? in riotous orgies and debauchery, receiving +“how handsome the old man still was only a year ago!” remarked the +“how funny you are!” he said, bending down to her and blushing still +“however, this is not at all interesting. let us have dinner, and then +however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it +“however, there will hardly be an engagement today,” said bagratión +“however, i think general kutúzov has come out,” said prince +“however, if you command it, your majesty,” said kutúzov, lifting +however, for he will leave us again to take part in this unhappy war +however, at nine o’clock the prince, in his velvet coat with a sable +“how easy it is, how little effort it needs, to do so much good,” +how d’ye do, old fellow?” he said, turning to an old man who was +how do you judge of it?” he added, addressing nicholas, who when he +“how do you expect him to answer you all at once?” said prince +“how do you do, my dear? i wish you many happy returns of your name +“how do you do, cousin?” said pierre. “you don’t recognize +how did it begin? i traveled from moscow with prince vasíli. then there +“how dare you take it?” he shouted. +“how can the emperor be undecided?” thought rostóv, but then even +“how can one talk or think of such trifles?” thought pierre. +how can i, an insignificant mortal, show his omnipotence, his infinity, +“how can he talk like that?” thought pierre. he considered his +how bright and glorious was the setting sun! with what soft glitter the +“how am i to understand you, mon père?” said the princess, growing +how am i to renounce forever these vile fancies, so as peacefully to +“how am i?” dólokhov answered coldly. “i am as you see.” +“how about the horses?” he asked, without looking at pierre. +“how about my son borís, prince?” said she, hurrying after him into +house, you know, and danced with the children. be sure to invite him, my +house with prince bagratión and weyrother. weyrother was the austrian +house was dominated by the same feeling that princess mary experienced +house was brilliant with lights shining through its lofty windows. the +house. though he expected that the story of his escapade would be +houses from his door. it seemed to him the horses were not moving at +house, now and then opening her door when someone passed and watching +house lay behind a newly dug pond filled with water to the brink and +household. and there in fact was sónya lying face downward on nurse’s +household, a common anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a +house for your wife is ready. princess mary will take her there and +house and now managed all his affairs, stepped softly into the room. +hour. suddenly the broad muscles and lines of the count’s face began +hours’ sleep before morning and felt cheerful, bold, and resolute, +hour alone with the dying man, passed out, slightly acknowledging their +hostilities are ended, we can shake one another’s hand.... the +hostess look toward the door, and now and then glance at one another, +hospitals. the one and the other may serve as a pastime. but what’s +hospitals could no longer accommodate all the sick and wounded, yet the +hospitality, did the honors to the prince. +hospital at ostrolenka till i recover. in regard to which i humbly +horse you’ll thank me for.” +horse with his spurs, and giving it the rein leaped lightly over. only +horse—that i’ll warrant,” said shinshín, patting him on the +horses were already galloping. rostóv heard the thud of their hoofs +horse still struggled. +horses near the window, prince andrew felt that something important and +horses in horsecloths. then came a cart, and behind that walked an old, +horses and the infantry collecting wood. +horses and ilyá iványch. i don’t think ilyá drives anyone except +horse, rode up to the porch, swung his leg over the saddle with a supple +horse of a batman or groom of some important personage and began to +horse for which he had paid seven hundred rubbles was not worth half +horse a little in front of his marshals. he gazed silently at the hills + * hors d’oeuvres. +horror-struck. but when she saw that pierre’s sacrilegious words +horror and fear. all were still. pierre took his hands from his eyes. +hoping to find him alone. when he came in and saw an hussar of the line +hope you will change your opinions, my dear monsieur pierre.” +hoped to lead he still lived the old life, only in new surroundings. +hoped. she prayed for her brother as living and was always awaiting news +“h-o-o-w are you standing? where’s your leg? your leg?” shouted +hoofs and wheels. amid the general rumble, the groans and voices of the +hoofs and the jingling of showy cavalry in blue, red, and green braided +hoofs, and apparently ready to jump over the railings had his rider let +honor, was terrible. +honor to choose me to be their marshal; it was all i could do to get +honor of the french infantry, so necessary to the honor of our nation. +honor? knowing him to be an only son, to challenge him and shoot so +honored guests sat, everyone seemed to be in high spirits and under the +honorable, of bezúkhov? and fédya, with his noble spirit, loved him +honorable, count,” or, “were he as clever as you,” and so on, +honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in +hommes massacrés et l’armée de nos alliés détruite, et vous +home. should he go to headquarters next day and challenge that affected +home,” said the valet. +home reading a book and trying to fathom the significance of the square, +home now for the first time after eighteen months again brightened his +hollows and snow-covered pools of water. +hollow and were firing at our men. prince bagratión bowed his head as a +hollabrünn and have pursued ever since to this place. the position we +“hold your tongue, pétya, what a goose you are!” +holding up the folds of her dress, and the smile shone still more +holding up his saber, his spurs jingling, he ran up the steps of the +holding up a threatening finger. “he is such a worthy and excellent +holding the bottle was lifted higher and higher and trembled with the +holding high her fifty-year-old head with its gray curls, she stood +“ho, ho!” said the old man, casting his eyes on her rounded figure. +“ho! ho! ho! ha! ha! ha! ha! ouh! ouh!” came peals of such healthy +hoarsely. prince andrew winced and, clutching his head, went out and sat +“hm.... if you wish to kill him, to kill him outright, you can see +“hm! hm!” muttered the prince, sitting down. +“hm... hm...” muttered the old prince to himself, finishing what he +“hm... hm...!” growled pierre, frowning without looking at her, and +“hm!—his excellency is a puppy.... i got him his appointment in the +hitting men and that afterwards someone had shouted “cavalry!” and +hitherto puckered brow became smooth as a sign of pleasure, and with a +his youngest boy, had all settled down in the drawing room and were +his wont, as if intentionally contrasting the briskness of his manners +his wife’s room. she was lying dead, in the same position he had seen +his wife said—met for supper at prince vasíli’s. all these friends +his wife, and by an anonymous letter he had received that morning, which +his whole soul what the stranger said. whether he accepted the wise +his weapons clean and polished to the utmost, and every horse groomed +his wealth, and being in the habit of lording it over these people, he +his weak figure. “number two!” he squeaked. “fire, medvédev!” +his voice. “she is living in moscow and you are here. remember, +his verses, bowed to bagratión. everyone rose, feeling that dinner +his utmost to look as small as possible. he looked at the count, who +his usual jokes, but noticing that what he was saying redounded to +his typically southern french face during the whole time of the reading, +his toulon, or his bridge of arcola. how it would come about he did not +historical accounts of battles, involuntarily pictured to himself the +his time there. +his time. but he is growing old, and though not exactly cruel he has too +his thin, worn, sallow face was covered with deep wrinkles, which always +his temple, where an ismail bullet had pierced his skull, and the empty +his superiors by his promptitude and accuracy and had arranged his money +his suite, with their cossacks who were talking loudly together, prince +his study and showed them his choice collection of turkish pipes. from +his speech, which he used in extreme cases when special persuasion was +his son only smiled. +his son by both hands, he cried, “now i’ve got you, so take the +his son and seizing the little princess’ arm as if she would have run +his skill?” he concluded. +his side had been attempting a reconciliation), and he also went up to +his shrill, harsh voice. “the road is not swept for the princess my +his shoulders. “women, my dear fellow; women!” +his shoulders. +his ship is sailing, but on the day of battle—heaven knows how and +his servant handed him a half-cut novel, in the form of letters, by +his scanty gray hairs over his bald patch, also asked them to dinner. +his saber, the soldiers all continued to run, talking, firing into the +his saber. only ten paces divided them. dólokhov lowered his head to +his routine, retired as usual after dinner. the little princess was in +his rooms upstairs. +his room. +his rising. “this unfortunate fete at the ambassador’s deprives me +his riding whip. +his reputation fighting them.” +his relations with old friends, all his plans for his future, were +his private room and, calling his adjutant, asked for some papers +his present state. +his portrait, “definitely demanded that he should be called.” +his pocketbook. +his plate seemed to him not quite clean, and pointing to a spot he +his plate round and moving his wineglasses about with as much decision +his plate, and proposed a toast, “to the health of the hero of our +his pistol, and then he felt with surprise that of all the men he knew +his passion for the emperor had cooled somewhat in moscow. but still, as +his own way, gave an order. no one said anything definite, but the rumor +his own superiority. it was as if he said to them: “i know you, i know +his own pleasure, chose to chat with lieutenant drubetskóy. more than +his own house. the minister of war came up and congratulated him on the +his own helplessness. at sight of this smile pierre felt an unexpected +his own had taken possession of his brain and at that moment afforded +his old friend and the possessor of such enormous wealth, to the caprice +his nose. +his noble soul peacefully to leave this...” +his neighbors’ glasses, not neglecting his own. the countess in turn, +his musket walked away. +his muscular legs as if sailing along, stretching himself to his full +his mouth very clearly revealed something unexpectedly coarse and +his mouth, he turned with his glass to pierre. +his mouth awry, prepared to shout. the regiment fluttered like a bird +his mind that they would be friends. +his majesty the emperor derogates from the principle of our alliance... +his majesty; but we think the present delay is depriving the splendid +his lower jaw. +his lips without uttering a sound. he wished to say, “yes, a vile, +his lips in his sleep and breathing evenly. +his life. he walked about in front of the line and at every step pulled +his legs. pressing against both sides of the window, he adjusted himself +his legs almost gave way, it seemed to him that he was tired out. he +his last parting from his father and his wife; he remembered the days +his kindly, simple, and modest expression. anna pávlovna turned toward +his in the diplomatic service. +his instinct urged him on. before the officer finished his sentence +his impulsive nature, does get into mischief (a boy can’t help it), he +his imaginary sword, but smiling at the remembrance of that pleasant, +his husbandry. +his huge figure, with arms hanging down and with a puckered, though +his horse. zherkóv and the staff officer bent over their saddles and +his horse with a convoy officer’s saddle. +his horse keep pace with the company. +his horse indolently and carelessly. rostóv recalled their quarrel of +his highness the archduke ferdinand has honored me, i imagine that the +his head he let it droop and again closed his eye. +his head, and with inimical politeness lurking in the corners of his +his head and again assuming his former tone of a dull, unreasoning, but +his head. +his head. +his having been picked up on the battlefield by the people of the +his hands to the blaze, and turned away his face. +his handsome face. natásha, very still, peered out from her ambush, +his hand prince andrew came up to his comrade, the aide-de-camp on duty, +his hand over the thin grizzled strands of hair combed back across his +his handkerchief, and again: ‘sergéy kuzmích, from all sides,’... +his hand and at the head of a regiment—he fell as a hero, worthy of +his hand. +his gray hair. +his grave, even rather gloomy, look was instantaneously replaced by +his grandfather, who was his godfather, trembling and afraid of dropping +his glittering black eyes at rostóv. +his future depended—whether he would follow the same old road, or that +his fieldglass. a little behind them nesvítski, who had been sent to +his feverishness increased and he grew delirious. visions of his father, +his father who had brought it from the siege of ochákov. all these +his father’s peculiarities, and partly because he needed solitude, +his father’s part of the house. entering the drawing room, where the +his father dismissed the abbé and said to the young man, “now go +his father and his fatherland. to the great regret of myself and of the +his fat chest uncovered, stepping unevenly and timidly in one slippered +his face was terrible and piteous to see, especially from its helpless +his face suddenly softened and tears came into his eyes. with his left +his face shone with self-satisfaction and pleasure. +his face, gave him a peculiar vivacity and shiftiness of expression. +his face, began to talk—as one who has long had something on his mind +his eyes seemed larger than usual when he glanced round and noticed +his eyes he heard in front of him, where the enemy was, the long-drawn +his eyes. “can they be french?” he looked at the approaching +his eyes at the sight. +his eyes and thought he would never open them again. suddenly he was +his eye as a miller wakes up when the soporific drone of the mill wheel +his excitement. “don’t you understand that either we are officers +his example, and the loud shouting continued for a long time. when the +his efforts had not been in vain. the dinner, both the lenten and the +his easy life in moscow, entered the room. +his dressing gown and smiled slightly, as if expressing respectful +his door, which creaked slightly when opened. +his despair was all the greater from feeling that his own weakness was +his daughter that morning. princess mary well knew this painstaking +his daughter, princess hélène, passed between the chairs, lightly +his company? if you were cleverer and more agreeable, i should prefer +his companion. the latter, a fresh, rosy officer of the guards, +his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, +“his children are all illegitimate. i think pierre also is +his career. moreover, he could see by her manners that she was one of +his captain. +his camp,” said he. “what does that mean? either he is retreating, +his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. he spoke in that +his breast. among them stood a man whose white shirt was stained with +his boots. you can see everything from there; let’s go there, +his being alone and despondent! a strange face may seem unpleasant or +his beautiful daughter hélène. +his attention wandered from the book and the square and he formed in +his arm, began a long-drawn-out soldiers’ song, commencing with the +his arm. +his acquaintances, to overtake his regiment which was already in poland. +his acquaintance and joyfully welcomed the rich newcomer, the +hippolyte spluttered again, and amid his laughter said, “and you were +hippolyte “—so dull—. it has been a delightful evening, has it +hippolyte laughed as if ashamed of laughing. +hippolyte is at least a quiet fool, but anatole is an active one. that +hippolyte in the carriage, “your little princess is very nice, very +hippolyte interrupted her with the words: “le roi de prusse...” and +hippolyte gazing round with importance at the others, “without +hippolyte burst out laughing. +hippolyte, and began looking through a lorgnette at his elevated legs. +hints began to make the countess anxious and she glanced uneasily at +hindmost of these men wearing similar shakos was a russian hussar. he +him ‘your majesty,’ but who, to his chagrin, got no title from +him. you know the story of the handkerchief? it is delightful!” +him with her usual smile. +him. “what is this? they’re like sheep! just like sheep! out of the +him what consolation i can.” +him up and lent him money. pierre recalled how hélène had smilingly +him too, just opposite gúryev’s house... old gúryev.... oh, but +him to hear something more, nodded and turned to him with a cheerful +him to go back as it was too dangerous to remain where they were. +him to die. others are being born and there are plenty of them as it is. +him to despatch part of the army abroad and to create a new condition +him to deliver. +him to come up; prince bagratión reined in his horse and recognizing +him to come. there were other guests and the countess talked little to +him, though, between you and me, he always seemed to me a poor sort +him. the pain in his arm became more and more intense. irresistible +him.” the mere thought of her father’s look filled her with terror. +him that there would probably be an engagement that day or the next, and +him. that’s a thing i hate! everything is possible.” +him surrounded by children whom, by the count’s generosity, he was +him so when i see him!” +him several riders with white plumes in their hats. in a moment everyone +him several questions about his journey and seemed greatly interested in +himself. what angered him was that the coming of these visitors revived +himself, was shouting to kutúzov that if he did not ride away at once +himself up to such an extent that it seemed he could not have sustained +himself up, slightly arching his back. it was plain that the commander +himself undertook his daughter’s education, and to develop these two +himself to the count, who was looking inquiringly at him. +himself to bagratión. bonaparte’s adjutant had not yet reached +himself, prince bagratión sent zherkóv to tell the general in command +himself on his seat. +himself one with his horse, rode past the emperor with a frowning but +himself on a sofa with his face to the wall. pierre hid his face, from +himself.... not a word! about some denísov or other, though he himself, +himself into a chair, gazing at those in the room as if asking, “why +himself in the palace at potsdam. +himself. i am called in to help sort the letters and take those meant +himself, he rose, threw back his head, and with resolute steps went +himself, he kept in touch with the circle which confers success and +himself had vanished. he was filled with happiness at his nearness to +himself fall into a trap moreau set him, and from which he did not know +himself, but only desires the good of mankind. and what have they +himself an insignificant atom in it) would go through fire and water, +himself, and this fresh opportunity for action gave him new energy +himself after his recent loneliness and freedom from cares so beset and +himself? +himself. +himself. +him. rostóv was particularly in need of money now that the troops, +him. “remember this, prince andrew, if they kill you it will hurt me, +him, push him, do anything but kiss him—a thing everybody did. but +him. prince vasíli’s two valets were busy dressing him, and he looked +him pleasure. the enemy’s guns were in his fancy not guns but pipes +him out of the booth at grunth. he was shouting in a gasping voice: +him, or what was said of him; he was only glad that people were standing +him, or perhaps for that very reason, the prince, though he continued +him or her to a little old lady, wearing large bows of ribbon in her +him. on the day of prince vasíli’s arrival, prince bolkónski was +him... olga, go and see whether uncle’s beef tea is ready—it is +him not in the least abashed. +him my whole staff and all that belongs to it, advising him if there is +him. “more, please: more! what’s he saying?” +him merged in rostóv’s mind into a single feeling of terror and pity +him into the sitting room, where they began talking. they hardly gave +him if not to join in at least to listen to what he was saying. but the +him,” he thought, and again he felt something terrible and monstrous +him. he stroked her hair and then patted her awkwardly on the back of +him, he’s a scoundrel. go on! go on!” +him he is a fool, that’s all!” +him, he does not know russian.” +him?” he asked. +him, handing him different articles of clothing. “what of sweden? how +him full directions which he had written down for his own guidance as to +him, from his weary, bored expression to his quiet, measured step, +him, from his daughter to his serfs, the prince was sharp and invariably +him for those words, bullets flew hissing across the regiment and across +him feel confused by her smiles and her own confusion when meeting him. +him except the young princesses.... they are still young....” she bent +him everyone began to stir: steps were audible and whispers, among which +him do what he pleases,’ she used to say of me. one day i asked her if +him disputing in whispers and one of them insisting that he should be +him die feeling that he is rendering unhappy those who...” +him, carried the infant round the battered tin font and handed him over +him by the arm, “i believe that intervention will be stronger than +him but to the whole regiment—all of us—you’re to blame all round. +him, but still that happy result always remained in the future. +him; but most of all, he felt joyful that the moment had come when he +him, bonaparte had made in his campaigns and even in politics. his +him be here....” +him a taper. he lit it and, distracted by observing those around him, +him as a man, but what can one do?” +him and would not have others do so.” +him and, with a christian mildness that expressed forgiveness of his +him. “and why should she marry?” he thought. “to be unhappy for +him and she wished and tried to please him as much as possible. +him, and only as he kissed her hand on taking leave said unexpectedly +him and he was at once blindfolded again. +him and hélène. “well, what of it, if you all know it?” thought +him and everything he could say had long been known to him, that he was +him and did not stop but rode on and on, continually mistaking bushes +him a look of stern inquiry, as though what pierre had just said was +him all the way. he thought angrily of the pleasure he would have at +him.” +him. +him. +him. +him. +him. +him!” +hills, she took a special fancy to mademoiselle bourienne, spent whole +hill opposite, with the french moving about on it, opened out before +hill one after the other. their colonel, karl bogdánich schubert, came +hill. +high time!” +highness,” and pointing to the grand duke who with his high shoulders +“highly satisfied, your excellency!” +highly honored guest, took possession of him as it were, without waiting +high—i always said....” +highest spheres. +highest point. “it’s in charge of the queer fellow we saw without +highest degree just the very qualities pierre lacked, and which might +higher ground it was clearing, but nothing could be seen of what was +high, but the last round fell in the midst of a group of hussars and +hid her face still deeper in the bed. natásha wept, sitting on the +hidden by dense mist. having given orders in the commander in chief’s +“hey, cossack, my horse!” he said. “now, then, you there! get out +he would slap in the face before the emperor. suddenly a distant shout +he would say a lot of pleasant things, ask you to dinner” (“that +he would rush through the whole suite of rooms without drawing breath, +he would into that foggy distance: now something gleamed gray, now there +he would have to march with no road into unknown parts of the bohemian +he would have done at that moment had hélène not fled from the room. +he would have been mentioned among the officers found on the field of +he would give an opinion at the war council which would be the only one +he would expand his chest, raise his head, and rejoice at his good +he would certainly be taken prisoner. kutúzov remained in the same +he worked went step by step toward his goal. he was free, he had nothing +he wore the air of a man little concerned in what the two ladies were +he wondered as he got up: and at that moment he felt that something +he woke up and looked round for a while with a startled expression, +he woke up... +he wished to take a decision, but felt with dismay that in this matter +he wished to explain to dolgorúkov a plan of attack he had himself +he will hit me in the head, or elbow, or knee. can’t i go away from +“he will get up in twenty minutes. let us go across to mary’s +he went to his bed, drew a purse from under the clean pillow, and sent +he went straight up to prince vasíli. +he went over his vices in his mind, not knowing to which of them to give +he went on talking in this way in french, uttering only those words in +he went nowhere and spent whole days in reading thomas à kempis, whose +he went forward uneasily over the rough field with the awkward gait of +he was to wear at the meetings, and finally of the third, a pair of +he was touched, but also a gleam of irony on his face. +he was told that he would now see the lesser light. the bandage was +he was told in russian, german, and czech by the crowd of fugitives who +he was thinking that prince andrew was unhappy, had gone astray, did not +he was singing in passionate tones, gazing with his sparkling +he was sent. this was the brilliant charge of the horse guards that +he was sent away. hippolyte is her brother... prince vasíli is her +he was riding was one he had bought from a cossack during the campaign, +he was riding almost along the front line. a handful of men came +he was proud to be at the head of such a nation and would endeavor to be +he was pleased at the gratitude he received, but felt abashed at +he was joyfully planning this new life, when prince vasíli suddenly +he was in contact with the springs that set in motion the enormous +he was flushed and bathed in perspiration, though the room was not hot. +he was evidently so busy that he even forgot to be polite to the +he was asleep in his corner and woke him up. rousing himself, pierre +he was afraid of finding in her a rival for count bezúkhov’s fortune, +he was admitted to the emperor, and an hour later he rode off with +“he wants to see a battle,” said zherkóv to bolkónski, pointing +he waited a moment to see whether the cornet would answer, but he turned +he vouchsafe its revelation to us through his divine spirit. +he unhooked his saber. he came out from behind the chairs, clasped his +he understood his commander’s wish. +he turned to kozlóvski with urgent questions. +he turned round. nesvítski’s handsome face looked out of the little +he turned away. +he tried to say more, but faltered. +he touched his horse and having called milorádovich, the commander of +he took the pistol in his hand and began asking about the working of the +he took the lighted pipe that was offered to him, gripped it in his +he took the dispatch which was addressed to him and began to read it +he told her she was still the same crybaby as ever. princess mary had +he threw the bottle to the englishman, who caught it neatly. dólokhov +he thought, stopping for a moment with a sinking heart, and then +he thought out his plans beforehand he could not have been so natural +he (though pierre had not mentioned bonaparte), “but bonaparte when +he talked to pierre), the old man was sitting on a large leather-covered +“he’s very young to come to meddle with us.” +he sung a second, a third below the high note. “ah, god! how fine! did +he suddenly cried. “even without a bet, there! tell them to bring me a +he suddenly blushed crimson, and it was plain that he had made a great +he stretched out his hand to take hold of the purse. rostóv let go of +he stopped short on his heels, stood so a second, stamped on the spot +he stopped and remained silent for a long time. +he still had all the letters in his hand. opening them mechanically he +he spread a map on the table. “all eventualities have been foreseen. +he spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure +he spoke so rapidly that he did not finish half his words, but his son +(he smiled ironically.) “but even if he also took up a position in +hesitation and uncertainty among his conductors. he heard those around +hesitating voice. “i thank you. i agree with all you have said. but +he signed with a flourish and suddenly turning to his son began to +he sighed. +he shrugged his shoulders and spread out his hands. pierre wished to +he shrugged his shoulders and raised his hand to the kerchief, as if +he shrugged his shoulders. a footman conducted borís down one flight of +he shouted, “and then i shall reserve the right to state my opinion +“he shouldn’t have taken so many men,” said the officer of the +he shaved and scented himself with the care and elegance which had +he sent for pierre and said to him: “my dear fellow, if you are going +he seized his son by the hand with small bony fingers, shook it, looked +he seemed to swell with satisfaction. he had hardly finished speaking +“he’s dead—why carry him?” said another. +“he’s coming!” shouted the signaler at that moment. +he scattered the burning tobacco, smashed the pipe, and threw it away. +he saw which way the wind was blowing, and his low opinion changed into +he saw turrets and a church. what need to hurry? what was he now to say +he saw french cannon and french troops on the pratzen heights just where +he sat under fire. but despite himself, on his face too that same +he sat down by his wife, his elbows on his knees and his hands ruffling +he sat down beside hippolyte and wrinkling his forehead began talking +“he’s arrived!” +“he’s a low fellow, say what you will,” remarked prince hippolyte. +he said something more, but rostóv did not wait to hear it and rode +he said. “perhaps you are right for yourself,” he added after +he said no more, but expressed his resignation to cruel fate by a +he said. +he sad at leaving his wife?—perhaps both, but evidently he did not +her. “you know, catiche, that we—you three sisters, mámontov, and +her work as if to testify that the interest and fascination of the story +her with perfect sincerity, and with the naïve and firm conviction +her with a grimace that distorted his handsome face, kissed anna +her. why do you say all this to me?” +her white teeth. she met prince vasíli with that playful manner often +her voice sounded so serious and so sad that the chirping of the birds +her up, hugged her, and, smiling through her tears, began comforting +her tone was now querulous and her lip drawn up, giving her not a +her—thou or you?” +her thin lips grew white, though her eyes did not change, and her voice +her tenderly and attentively, said severely: +her temples. princess mary, supporting her sister-in-law, still looked +her sympathy for pierre, but by involuntary intonations and a half smile +her sufferings or with their relief. the pangs began again and mary +her sleeves and puffing heavily. +her sister-in-law’s room. prince andrew in a traveling coat without +her sister dropped the portfolio. anna mikháylovna, stooping, quickly +herself wish to die, that his end was not only touching but edifying. as +herself should she glance round. anna mikháylovna, with a meek, +herself in here for? but i will give her a piece of my mind. the time +herself in a white satin dressing gown embroidered with silver and with +herself! glad to throw her father over! and she knew i should notice +herself disinterestedly at the head of an alliance having for its object +“herself,” came the answer in a rough voice, and márya dmítrievna +her seducer when she loved him?” he thought. “god could not have put +her?” said the old prince angrily. “what an idea! i’m ready for it +her, rostóv thought, but just now there were so many other pleasures +her—please don’t! it is too painful for her!” +her plainly as she is, or else you will make a cruel and irrevocable +her path. +her own on the subject. +her over his spectacles. +hero less on earth.” +heroism!” +hero himself with his paltry vanity and joy in victory appear, +her neck as soon as she overtook her in the sitting room. +her neck. +her mother, quite excited. +her mother and burst into such a loud, ringing fit of laughter that even +her long hair came down....” here he could contain himself no +her little nephew as best she could. mademoiselle bourienne, too, seemed +her lip descended. she brought her face close to her sister-in-law’s +her inflamed and perspiring cheeks, her charming rosy mouth with its +her in five minutes before and, despite the fixed eyes and the pallor of +her husband looked at her as if surprised to notice that someone besides +her. how often when considering her character i have told myself that +her heart. happy the man who wins her! with her the least worldly of men +her head toward the darkness of the open doorway. +her head and continued in a whisper: “has he performed his final duty, +her handsome eldest daughter were in the drawing room with the visitors +her handkerchief too. pierre was kissed, and he kissed the beautiful +her guests, first the vicomte and then the abbé, as peculiarly choice +her glittering eyes, filled with childlike fear and excitement, rested +her friend, the princess’ eyes—large, deep and luminous (it seemed +her friend as if she did not consider her worthy to hear what she meant +her forehead. his fine eyes lit up with a thoughtful, kindly, and +her foot—which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual +her foot into the other. sónya, when he came in, was twirling round and +her favorite sonata bore her into a most intimately poetic world and +her father was tidy. she put down the geometry book and eagerly broke +“her father is very rich and stingy. he lives in the country. he is +her fate was decided and happily decided. but what her father had said +her face suddenly flushed with reckless and joyous resolution. she half +her face became sad. +her face, and then immediately he saw beside her dólokhov’s handsome, +her eyes were smiling expectantly, her downy lip rose and remained +her eyes off him, and smiling and holding her breath. he gave her a +her eyes became serious. at that moment she was oblivious of her +her eyes, and then quickly went to his place and sat down. “sit down, +here. where is it?” he asked, turning to lavrúshka. +here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an +“here’s to the health of lovely women, peterkin—and their +“here’s something for you to report,” said zherkóv. “see if i +here’s another admirer of that powder-monkey emperor of yours,” he +here, run away, bury myself somewhere?” passed through his mind. but +here prince hippolyte spluttered and burst out laughing long before his +here prince hippolyte paused, evidently collecting his ideas with +he repeated, accentuating the u: “i think, however, now that he lays +here on friday.” +he remembered the expression dólokhov’s face assumed in his moments +(he remembered that in french there is some peculiar way of addressing a +he remembered his honeymoon and blushed at the recollection. +here i’ve brought the prince’s wedding candles to light before his +“here it is!” thought he, seizing the staff of the standard and +“here it is! the decisive moment has arrived. my turn has come,” +“here is some sort of key to the mysteries that your héloïse has +“here is our dear orthodox russian army,” thought bolkónski, +here is one from his highness the archduke ferdinand and here are +here is now settled, and i ought to have been off long ago. here is +here, is he not? please announce me.” +“here, in that house,” answered the adjutant. +“here he is... our own... kólya, * dear fellow... how he has +“here he is at last!” shouted rostóv. “and berg too! oh, you +he reflected, “there is no riding round it now. i must look for the +here!” exclaimed different voices; and the heavy breathing of the +he reeled and sank on the snow. +here? don’t you see the skirmishers are retreating? lead the squadron +here,” came the voice of an hussar, past whom rostóv was riding in +“here at least we shall have the benefit of your company all to +her companions’ not having the least conception that it could be +her brother shook his head incredulously. +her because you must, and that wouldn’t do at all.” +her beauty and her remarkable skill in appearing silently dignified in +her badge as maid of honor. the youthful little princess bolkónskaya, +her as a distant beauty far removed from him, as he had seen her every +her and for himself, and in a nervously emotional and softened mood he +her and about to crush her was some terrible misfortune, the worst +her already,” he said, evidently trying to entertain a visitor with +he raised both arms as if carefully lifting some invisible but precious +her. +her. +her. +he quickly entered the small reception room with its still-unplastered +he put on the air of one who finds it impossible to reply to such +he pulled off the quilt and shook it. the purse was not there. +he pointed with a smile to a turreted nunnery, and his eyes narrowed and +he pointed to the french guns, the limbers of which were being detached +he paused, his gaze still on pierre, and moved aside on the sofa by way +he paused and sighed, evidently trying to calm himself. +he paused, and just as he was about to say something more, another ball +he paused a little while. +he patted her on the shoulder and himself closed the door after her. +he passed it. pierre began to feel a sense of uneasiness, and the + he ought to be firing at the enemy. +he opened his eyes and looked up. the black canopy of night hung less +he only gave an order to cease firing and re-form, so as to give room +he noticed everything...” +he never could appreciate it. no, mon cousin,” she added with a sigh, +he needs money for food; the man said an officer had once given him a +he need only have bent his head a little to have touched them. he was +he must think that i, too, am afraid of him—and in fact i am afraid of +he must retreat as quickly as possible behind the hollow in the rear, +“he must first receive the trowel,” whispered one of the brothers. +he moved as if to rise. the generals bowed and retired. it was past +he might... not only might but should, have gone up to the sovereign. it +he might be, did not expect. he was so used to submitting to prince +he met nesvítski, with whom he shared a room, and the wag zherkóv; +he meant to do, and abandoning herself to him followed his lead hardly +he marked the figures in his clear, bold hand. +he made up his mind that prince andrew had been killed, and though he +he made himself when going into battle, and he was more amiable to the +help, would inform her. +helplessly spread out, stood with his broad chest directly facing +helplessly on the sofa. +helplessly and he made a fruitless effort to pull it forward. whether he +“help him up. sit down, dear fellow, sit down! spread out the cloak, +“help comes from god alone,” he said, “but such measure of help as +help being aware of it, just as we cannot renew an illusion we have once +he looked with disdain at the endless confused mass of detachments, +he looked very grim he said nothing to anyone. +he looked straight at prince andrew and suddenly unwrinkled his +he looked intently and inquiringly into his friend’s eyes, evidently +he listened and heard the sound of approaching horses, and voices +“he lets one win the singles and collahs it as soon as one doubles it; +hélène turned to pierre with the beautiful bright smile that she gave +hélène, then she turned to pierre with the same words of welcome +hélène still sat talking just as before. +hélène’s presence (as a lover should be), but had not yet proposed +hélène smiled, with a look implying that she did not admit the +hélène’s hand several times. after a while they were left alone +hélène’s face became terrible, she shrieked and sprang aside. his +hélène. “separate! that’s a thing to frighten me with!” +hélène sat silently side by side almost at the bottom of the table, a +hélène raised her voice and became more and more excited, “a man +hélène nor she at him. but she was just as terribly close to him. he +“hélène!” he said aloud and paused. +hélène, and that thought both alarmed him, as if some obligation were +hélène.” +he left the room and went to the waiting room where alpátych stood with +he leaned his whole massive body across the table. +he leaned his elbows on the table with his pen in his hand and, +held the hand of his betrothed in silence, looking at her beautiful +held out his cheek. +held it till evening and have gone in to dinner with it) and drew his +held it below her waist. +held. all the commanders of columns were summoned to the commander in +he lay down on the sofa meaning to fall asleep and forget all that +he lay down on the leather sofa in front of a round table, put his big +he. “laughing at us old fellows!” +he laughed in his usual dry, cold, unpleasant way, with his lips only +he lacked that strength of will which he had known in himself and really +“he knows of course what this loss means to me. he can’t want my +he knew this at that moment as surely as if he had been standing at the +he knew no one, and despite his smart guardsman’s uniform, all these +he kept nodding to show that he understood, anatole went on translating +he jumped up at the sound of her light step. +“he is very much altered now,” said anna mikháylovna. “well, as +he is uncle’s aide-de-camp, a most brilliant position. he is so +he is so frank and has so much heart. he is so pure and poetic that +“he is one of the most remarkable, but to me most unpleasant of +“he is not to be apprehended by reason, but by life,” said the +“he is no more....” +“he is leaving me here, god knows why, when he might have had +“he is just the same as ever,” replied anna mikháylovna, +“he is dozing,” said anna mikháylovna, observing that one of the +he is bóry’s godfather—and allow him something for his maintenance, +he is better acquainted than anyone else, does not listen to others but +“he is a very, very nice, honest, and pleasant fellow,” answered +“he is a nervous, bilious subject,” said larrey, “and will not +he is an aide-de-camp of kutúzov’s and will be here tonight.” +“he is a man in a gray overcoat, very anxious that i should call +“he is a great tactician!” said the prince to his son, pointing to +heiress in the same way. all this might, he thought, turn out very well +he involuntarily remembered how dólokhov, who had fully recovered his +he indicated a place beside him to his daughter-in-law. a footman moved +he implored rostóv to go on and prepare her. +he immediately dispatched adjutant general wintzingerode, who was in +he imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he +he imagined himself as an enormously tall, powerful man who was throwing +height without the smallest effort, his ease contrasting with the heavy +height on which the kiev regiment was stationed, in the hollow where the +he himself was pining for the dear princess, and how she showed him the +“he higher iss dan i in rank,” said the german colonel of the +he heard some french spoken he at once began speaking to the officers, +he hated her and was forever sundered from her. despite denísov’s +“he has weported himself sick, he’s to be stwuck off the list +“he has perspired,” said prince andrew. +“he has made wills enough!” quietly remarked the princess. “but he +“he has forty thousand men at most,” replied weyrother, with the +“he has been set down. he died,” replied someone. +he half rose, meaning to go round, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox, +he had too long been thinking of so painfully to the exclusion of all +he had to do, not with fools, but with men who could teach him something +he had the hofs-kriegs-wurst-schnapps-rath on his hands. it would have +he had said absent-mindedly: “yes, she’s good looking,” he had +he had ridden about two miles and had passed the last of the russian +he had ready in his mind, of all he knew and had seen. but the emperor +he had pierre at hand in moscow and procured for him an appointment as +he had often before, during the last six weeks, remained alone with her, +he had not thought about it until that moment. the officers’ laughter +he had not finished the last verse before the young people began to +he had met that evening. +he had left petersburg, and wrote enthusiastic letters to his +he had left. all the others let him go, and he ran to her. when they +he had lain there some time, he was told to get up, and a white leather +he had just remembered his recent encounter with the doctor’s wife and +he had evidently not slept that night. he looked about distractedly and +he had but recently left their regiment, rode up to the colonel. +he had been ordered to look for the commander in chief, he could not, +he had been beside the gun, he had heard the voices of the officers +“he had another stroke about half an hour ago. courage, my +he had already promised prince anatole to come to his gathering; +he got his wound. this pleased rostóv and he began talking about it, +he, going to the door and looking into the nursery. +he glanced round at her. she gave him a passionately angry glance, and +he glanced at his cousin and the young lady visitor; and they were both +he finished and, getting up, embraced and kissed pierre, who, with tears +he. “fine, very fine! you have done up your hair in this new way for +he filled the girls’ albums with verses and music, and having at last +he felt that this did not forward matters at all. he felt that these +he felt that at a single word from that man all this vast mass (and he +he felt himself to be. at the right beat of the music he looked sideways +he feels sure he will distinguish himself. he was glancing at everyone +“he exists, but to understand him is hard,” the mason began again, +he entered the drawing room with his usual alert step, glancing rapidly +he enlivened the whole party. the wax candles burned brightly, the +he embraced his daughter, and then again pierre, and kissed him with his +he embraced her. she screamed and fell unconscious on his shoulder. +he drew up his chair, and continued to explain. +he drew back and a real tear appeared in his eye. +he dressed for dinner. the old prince always dressed in old-fashioned +he discussed estate affairs every day with his chief steward. but +he disarmed his hearers. +“he did not shut me up, he said i was telling an untruth.” +he did not see him and had no opportunity of seeing him, he often spoke +he did not see, hear, or understand anything clearly. only now and +he did not reply. +he did not regain consciousness till late in the day, when with other +he did not look at them: he looked only at what was going on in front +he did not finish. just then there was a whistle in the air; nearer and +he did not finish his sentence, but his tone showed how highly he +he did not find prince andrew in olmütz that day, but the appearance of +(he did not even dare to dream of that), but simply to die before his +he did not do it he would grieve and disappoint many people, but if he +he described the whole campaign with a fearless self-censure and +he could see puffs of musketry smoke that seemed to chase one another +he could not stop short for the sake of one man’s life.” +he could not look calmly at the standards of the passing battalions. +he could not finish, and ran out of the room. +“he could not do that. the people only gave him power that he might +he could from a frenchman into the wood. besides, to tell everything as +he continued to pace the room, looking gloomily at denísov and the +he consoled himself. “and besides, what have i done to bring it about? +he commanded was in an almost hopeless position. the spy reported that +he clutched at his head. “who is going to get me the flowers? dmítri! +he closed his eyes, and immediately a sound of cannonading, of musketry +“he chose his friends badly,” interposed anna mikháylovna. +he checked himself, fearing to seem naïve, yet he felt an irresistible +he chanced to meet dólokhov’s handsome insolent eyes, pierre felt +he cautiously released the shoulder she leaned on, looked into her face, +he caught a momentary glimpse between their heads and backs of the dying +he can’t help plowing and mowing; if he didn’t, he would go to the +he came to the point at once, treating her ceremoniously. +he called the cossack with his horse, told him to put away the knapsack + he brings foemen to their knees,... etc. +he bowed his head and scraped first with one foot and then with the +he began the rescript again and again, but as soon as he uttered +he began pacing the room. the screaming ceased, and a few more seconds +heavy convoys (whose movements were concealed from the french) advance +“heavens! what a virulent attack!” replied the prince, not in the +“heaven only knows what the people here may imagine,” muttered +“heaven only knows, my dear! these rich grandees are so selfish. +“heaven knows what a fright might do.” +heated horses, exchanging remarks and smiling, had stopped behind the +“he asked you, and vasíli dmítrich * is also going.” +he asked, “whose company?” but he really meant, “are you +he, as if bragging of having been frightened. +heart! you are a madame de genlis and nothing more” (this nickname, +heartrending scene.... it was a convoy of conscripts enrolled from our +heart. “it has begun! here it is, dreadful but enjoyable!” was what +heart in the presence of the unfathomable did not lessen but increased. +hearing with pleasure the whistle of bullets evidently aimed at him. +hearing these words her face changed and something brightened in her +hearing that they wished to see the count, said his excellency was worse +hearing that cry and seeing to whom it was addressed, nesvítski and the +hearing or understanding her own words, what she had told hundreds of +hearing how ill he is.” +hearers—who like himself had often heard stories of attacks and had +heard, your honor, that a minister is coming to visit your honor.” +heard this sónya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable +heard the words as he might have heard the buzzing of a fly. not only +heard the quick rustle of the countess’ dress. she came up to them. +heard them, and we shall all do our duty. but before a battle, there is +heard that the war was being discussed had turned from his partner with +heard respectfully congratulating the dying man on having received the +heard on every side. +heard musket fire quite close in front of him and behind our troops, +heard distinctly. +heard curses on bonaparte, “the enemy of mankind.” militiamen and +heard before, others simply enjoyed hearing how the master talked, while +heard a rustle behind him and a shadow appeared under the curtain of +heard, and out of the foggy darkness the figure of a sergeant of hussars +heard, and much farther to the right beyond the dragoons, the officer of +heard, and again something in his face twitched—“that is just why +heard.” +“he always was rather harsh; and now i should think he’s getting +he always thought only of whatever he was engaged on. +healthy body, and all the affection and care of his family. “and why +health was drunk, pierre, lost in thought, did not rise or lift his +“health to your ex... len... len... lency!” and again all became +health of our sovereign, the emperor!” he roared, “hurrah!” and +“health and happiness to her whose name day we are keeping and to her +health?” +health?” +head (the pains had just left her). strands of her black hair lay round +head sadly, pointing them out to the austrian general with an expression +headquarters was still under the spell of the day’s council, at which +headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that +headquarters. but on the afternoon of that day, this activity reached +headquarters, and having ascended a dark staircase, they entered a small +head, pulled it off, and showed the blood congealed on his hair. +headlong to the horse. “walk him up and down, my dear fellow,” he +headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead +headlong after anna mikháylovna and, dashing at her, flung herself on +head, laughing with an officer who had sat down beside him. a third was +head in perplexity—perhaps because the banner really interested him, +he added that prince vasíli was also there. when tíkhon came to her +he added: “i need good officers myself, need them myself!” +he added: “but beware, dear brother, that these gloves do not deck +he added as if speaking to himself. +head cook, about asparagus, fresh cucumbers, strawberries, veal, and +head, but the instant he turned to prince andrew the firm, intelligent +head. as he rode up to the camp he thought how he would impress borís +head and lips indicating very little hope for the patient. +head and at the little arms and legs which showed under the blanket. he +head and an army of fifteen thousand men has been ordered to blow up +head. +having turned with words of comfort to her companion, realized that +having thanked anna pávlovna for her charming soiree, the guests began +having stuck an amber mouthpiece far into his mouth, was inhaling the +having something to eat. they hastily turned round to him asking if he +having said this she went up to the doctor. +having said this, napoleon rode on to meet marshal lannes, who, hat in +having said this laughed. everyone turned toward him. +having ridden round the whole line from right flank to left, prince +having ridden beyond the village, continually meeting and overtaking +having ridden ahead, had pulled up his horse near the bridge, with a +having rested after yesterday’s march, were sitting, clean and neatly +having read thus far, princess mary sighed and glanced into the mirror +having reached the left flank, instead of going to the front where the +having passed uvárov’s cavalry he clearly heard the sound of cannon +having passed the guards and traversed an empty space, rostóv, to avoid +having mounted drew himself up very straight and tall and rode to the +having lost a single man. the second squadron that had been in the front +having lifted her head and let her arms droop lifelessly, as ballet +having left that soldier who was evidently drunk, rostóv stopped the +having led him about ten paces, willarski stopped. +having jerked out these last words as soldiers do and waved his arms +having glanced through the dispatch he laid it on the table and looked +having given them to the rosy natásha, who beamed with the pleasure +having given several more orders, he was about to go to his “little +having given orders to his company, sent a soldier to find a dressing +having galloped safely through the french, he reached a field behind +having entered the courtyard of a large house where the lodge had its +having disentangled his leg, he rose. “where, on which side, was now +having descended the hill at a trot, he no longer saw either our own or +having convinced himself that he was asleep, took up a paper and in +having cleared the way denísov stopped at the end of the bridge. +having by a great effort got away to the left from that flood of men, +having become entangled in the saddle. where our men were, and where the +“have you told them to bring the horse?” asked telyánin, getting up +“have you never thought of marrying your prodigal son anatole?” she +“have you?” he said. “well, how did it go?” +“have you a complaint to make?” kutúzov asked with a slight frown. + have we not bagratión? +have virtuous aims,” said pierre, feeling ashamed of the inadequacy +have two footmen behind her carriage, and very big ones. that was her +have to prove to them what he had not merely convinced himself of, but +have to go in and ask the princesses; and from there go on to the +have to call in the french, so that birds of a feather may fight +have the courier horses. it was plain that he was lying and only wanted +have the carriage to drive to town: +have stayed longer.” +have something to tell you. here, here!” and she led him into the +have something to eat.” +“have some brought from the reserve,” said napoleon, and having gone +have seen how he said it! i know he did not mean to say it, but it came +have said. and he was still more angry at having omitted to say it. he +have received very little, prince vasíli nothing, and it is monsieur +have received another letter about the preussisch-eylau battle +have of hope and strength merely weighs you down and torments you with +have obliged me to give this refusal.” +have nothing to complain of.” +have, my dear! i tasted it. the thousand rubles i paid for tarás were +have looked at it. take it. well, now go. go.” +have liked to sympathize with what pierre was saying, but could not. +have killed so many that there’d have been a heap of them.” +have just this moment received by special messenger very joyful +have it, young man, i’m going.” +have heard the sobs. it seems as though mankind has forgotten the +have gone through,” and she sympathetically turned up her eyes. +have frightened you—sit down and tell me all the news.” +have done your best to increase his mental sufferings.” +have done the same!...” thought princess mary. +have done for us.” +have dared to say so, knew it and blushed scarlet every time dólokhov +have certainly acquired a taste for war, and it is just as well for me; +have been difficult to stop that crowd, it was even impossible not to +have been as good as weyrother’s, but for the disadvantage that +have a room of your own,” and she took the inkstand from nicholas. +have always, thank god, been my children’s friend and had their full +hast thou denied?” he suddenly asked with exulting austerity and +has to be cunning and cruel.” +“has the snow been shoveled back?” +haste, trying to escape notice, closed the door, and began to read the +hastening her steps. “you young ladies should not know anything about +has so many relatives in moscow! so you are borís? of course. well, now +has retained in full force.” +has received a letter and is expecting a visit from prince vasíli. in +has proposed to sónya!” +“has prince vasíli aged much?” asked the countess. “i have not +has picked up an ax: “we are used to it, but you, sir, will blister +“hasn’t been in since the evening. must have been losing,” +has married his first cousin. and we are only second cousins, you know. +has his stand, and there’s zakhár himself and still the same horse! +“has he taken his medicine?” +has come down to us from the remotest ages, even from the first man—a +has blundered looks at an examiner. +has beaten the germans. they beat no one—except one another. he made +“has anything happened?” she asked. “i am so terrified.” +“has anything come from andrew?” she asked. +harnessed and packed the wagons and tied on the loads. the adjutants and +“hardly,” said bagratión. “i saw them this evening on that +hardly had prince andrew started than he stopped him. +hardly had borís gone than sónya, flushed, in tears, and muttering +hardly able to restrain her tears and maintain the artificial smile +hard.... for ages, from our forefather adam to our own day, we labor to +harder from behind. +happy world of his own. she fancied a child, her own—such as she had +happy smile, ambling lightly up to the count’s niece. “i have come, +happy and smiling. véra was playing chess with shinshín in the drawing +happiness. the old princess sighed sadly as she offered some wine to the +happiness possible, and that is just what you want to deprive him of. +happiness or peace of mind. can anything in the world make her or me +happiness), feeling the eager bustle around him, and hearing the fitful +happiness and of children, but her strongest, most deeply hidden longing +happiest, merriest times for him and the whole family. nicholas brought +happen to them when they were free, but he insisted, though reluctantly, +happen!” she said, looking at herself in the glass. “how shall i +happening in front of him. nesvítski with an angry face, red and unlike +happened to you in moscow was a misfortune.”—“i regret it very +happened to touch. mademoiselle bourienne stood near them pressing her +happened, he was said to be insanely jealous and subject like his + * “hang these russians!” +hanging his head, meekly followed her. +hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her +hanged,” said prince andrew with a smile. “so i am serving because +handwriting. on receiving it, he ran on tiptoe to his study in alarm and +hand with it and knew he must not do so. having advanced six paces and +hand, was clearing manure from the cowhouse, looked out, and his face +hand to his ear toward weyrother, with the air of a man absorbed in +hand to her heart, with a beatific smile and obviously equally ready to +hand them to the emperor after my death. now here is a lombard bond +hand that was free, and turning sideways felt the pulse and reflected +hands which show the time, so the result of all the complicated human +hands were symmetrically placed on the green silk quilt, the palms +hands. then, sighing, he added: “my son’s fate is in your hands. +hands that are unclean.” while the grand master said these last words +handsome young officer entering his room. pierre paused. he had left +handsome open face of the man who might perhaps be her husband absorbed +handsome, happy young face, he experienced a feeling of tenderness +handsome and a terrible scapegrace. that is all i have been able to find +hands, looked attentively into prince vasíli’s eyes evidently +hands. “just fancy, he didn’t let me win a single cahd, not one +hands high, shied, throwing back its ears; but the pockmarked guardsman +hand she went up to her husband and kissed him on the forehead. +hands, he looked more closely at the ring, with its skull—a masonic +hands asking for their blessing, and that he kissed véra, natásha, and +hands and occasionally ran his eyes over the score against him. he had +hands.” +hands....” +hands. +hand, rode up smiling to the emperor to congratulate him on the victory. +handleless cup before a table on which tea and a cold supper were laid +hand, lay prince andrew bolkónski bleeding profusely and unconsciously +handkerchief to his wounded cheek and pointing to the fleeing soldiers. +handkerchiefs to their eyes, and just in front of them their eldest +handkerchief and rushed from the room. +handkerchief, and pipe. +hand in passing and draw it downwards, or absent-mindedly hold out his +hand. “how did you get here?” said he, turning to zherkóv. +hand he held carefully back, because he wished to support his right +hand he drew bagratión toward him, and with his right, on which he wore +handful of scoundrels. it will soon be over, it can’t be that, it +handed him, smiled at dólokhov’s words, and with a sinking heart, +hand. and there,” he pointed to a sutler’s tent, “they crowd in +hand and said, “come.” pierre went with her to the bed on which the +halted, the austrian argued that not he, but the higher command, was to +halted. prince andrew was behind, among the immense number forming the +hall, where denísov was sitting on the same chair by the clavichord +“hallo, gwíska—my pipe!” came vasíli denísov’s husky voice. +hall all sat waiting, silently and alert. in the outlying serfs’ +half whisper, “everyone knows count cyril’s reputation.... he has +halfway through supper prince andrew leaned his elbows on the table and, +halfway. fine orders!” was being repeated on different sides. +half-closed eyes he looked at rostóv, bowed slightly and wearily, and +half-closed eyes gave still more persuasiveness to his words. the staff +half an hour later, the rhetor returned to inform the seeker of the +ha!” laughed prince bolkónski, and anatole laughed still louder. +hairs painfully in the knot. then he drew his face down, kissed him, and +hair above his broad forehead which reminded one of a lion, and the deep +ha, ha, ha! mary!” +had uttered them. +“had there been no bagratión, it would have been necessary to +had then said. +had the ear of the company. +had the air of one who has suddenly lost faith in the whole human race. +had the air of a man happily performing one of the most solemn duties of +had sunk, her lip was drawn up, and her eyes drawn down. +had stopped beside the dead men, ran to catch up his line and, falling +had slept badly that night, those around him reported. the cause of this +had sent in good time to moscow for a doctor and were expecting him at +had seemed as extraordinary to her as if there had never existed the +had ridden up to him in a violent passion, shouting: “arnauts!” +had revealed to him. a week after his arrival, the young polish count, +had read thus far, he crumpled the letter up and threw it away. it was +had read, and listened to what was passing in the nursery. suddenly he +had reached braunau at the same time, was in splendid condition. there +had produced a good epigram, a fresh one that would be repeated. his +had prevailed. she drew her brother’s attention to the maid who was +had played a little air with variations on the harp, she joined the +had persisted in his request to kutúzov, arrived at grunth and reported +had perished by his own magnanimity, and that there were particular +had on the spásski hill which might have been serious for her in her +had only met once before for a short time at his wedding, were in +“hadn’t i better ride over, your excellency?” asked nesvítski. +had not yet entered either the military or civil service, as he had only +had not yet come home when rostóv rode back early in the morning from +had not yet begun. not wishing to agree to dolgorúkov’s demand to +had not worn for a long time, he went into bilíbin’s study fresh, +had not told all and that there was something in his feelings for the +had not only held the field but had repulsed the french. though the +had not left prince vasíli’s and felt with terror that in people’s +had not known it i should not have addressed you. your view of life is a +had no time. he was afraid of falling behind the hussars, so much afraid +had not finished saying what was necessary, thudded into the ground near +had not exasperated the vicomte, and had convinced herself that it was +had not been time to move. the emperor, surrounded by his suite +had no connection with the matter in hand. his haggard face was yellow. +had never been to blame, might be held responsible at headquarters +had left paris and how he had liked that city. anatole answered the +had left her kindly and tear-worn face and it now expressed only anxiety +had killed five frenchmen, a third had loaded five cannon singlehanded. +had instantly noticed her brother’s condition. but, though she noticed +had he repented of his unbelief? was he now there? there in the realms +had heard that a rumor of his duel had reached the emperor and that it +had happened. what had happened? nothing. he had merely understood that +had happened to him, but could not do so. such a storm of feelings, +had happened during that half-hour to the troops entrusted to him, and +had had to retreat and had made their withdrawal in perfect order. the +had had in anna pávlovna’s drawing room. pierre removed his feet from +had grown so dark that one could not distinguish the uniforms ten paces +had foreseen. prince andrew, out of breath with his rapid ride, spoke +had followed him like an eagle, three steps at a time. having received +had followed, and only the heavens promised peace. toward morning +had fixed on that number because forty-three was the sum of his and +had first seen the enemy and fired the first shot, and that the corner +had first learned to say “pear” and then “granny,” that this son +had fallen the previous day—the day of the battle. reviewing his +had evidently been drinking. +had entered. the most solemn mystery in the world continued its course. +had entered and left the town with their bands playing, and by the grand +had endured to gain her end. +had driven the old prince to town returned bringing papers and letters +had done in petersburg at anna schérer’s reception. +had crossed that line and not only was there nothing terrible, but +had conquered, settled down in an armchair, inviting prince vasíli to +had come into pierre’s room after the funeral. with drooping eyes +had come from the left flank where their regiment was stationed, with +had changed greatly during that period. in the expression of his face, +had broken up the french troops. +had been struck on the teeth, or what the ham had to do with it. +had been spilled on the carpet. they were met by a deacon with a censer +had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook prince +had been repulsed, employing this military term to describe what had +had been put in position?” +had been playing cards with the majority of the more distinguished and +had been killed or not and whether the cannon had been captured or +had been killed at the beginning of the engagement and within an hour +had been insulted through his daughter. the insult was the more pointed +had been increased by a half. and so pierre was delighted with his visit +had been got ready for him, glancing now and then at the newcomer, who, +had been doing, as though it were all an old-time story, and he listened +had been decided to advance immediately and give battle to bonaparte. +had been carried out and in what state were the serfs whom god had +had been added to mademoiselle bourienne’s toilet which rendered her +had become more intimate when prince andrew was in vienna with kutúzov. +had a splendid march. you know, of course, that his imperial highness +had apparently been running), “and i did so wish to have another talk +had any news. on their familiar faces he read agitation and alarm. +had always seemed to him that he really was very kind and intelligent. +had always imagined battles to himself), nor could he help to fire the +had also convinced the sovereign emperors of. +had accumulated at the sight of all that was being done in the army. +habitual to him. his face took on the stupid artificial smile (which +habitual, offering his puffy cheek, but bagratión kissed him on the +habit of walking, had been swept: the marks of the broom were still +habit of ridiculing the masonic beliefs—“i am afraid i am very far +gut morgen!” * he said winking with a merry smile, evidently pleased +guns smashed, and no supports at all.” +guns on the hillock. +guns. on the contrary, the energetic action of that battery led the +gunner with his shako knocked awry, pulling one end of a mop while +gun carriage. a cossack who accompanied him had handed him a knapsack +gun, a horse), from the sight of all these things a fantastic world of +guidance. the universal experience of ages, showing that children do +guests were and exchanging glances with natásha, who was sitting +guests were all conversing with one another. “the razumóvskis... it +guests returned to the drawing room and to the count’s study. +guests. natásha, who sat opposite, was looking at borís as girls of +guests joined in. everyone laughed, not at márya dmítrievna’s answer +guest. “poor girl, she’s devilish ugly!” thought anatole. +guest of honor and hero of the austrian campaign, prince bagratión, to +guess what he wanted; she pointed first to pierre, then to some drink, +guessing rostóv’s thought. +guards with the rank of cornet. he received, however, no appointment +guards, wearing a cocked hat with its peaks front and back, with his +guards, that they not only did not wish to, but simply could not, be +guards. prince andrew came up to him and took his hand. +guards passed rostóv before he heard them shout, “hurrah!” and +guards. here is my hand on it. are you satisfied?” +guards charged, followed the line of reserves, going far round the place +guards?” asked napoleon. +guard and line regiments, russian and austrian. among them were grooms +guard. +grown-up young people: véra beside berg, and pierre beside borís; and +grown furious, now at borís, now at bolkónski. “yes, many stories! +growing louder and more frequent. evidently our guns had begun to reply. +growing impatient, and stamped her foot, ready to cry at his not coming +growing excited. “what about your son, your sister, and your +growing ever stronger and fuller and merging into a deafening roar. +grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the +group where the vicomte was still talking, and again pretended to +group of men with yellow shakos, dark-green jackets braided with cord, +ground ten paces apart to mark the barrier. it was thawing and misty; at +ground like cliffs and slopes. anywhere, on any side, one might +ground, eager to rejoin its fellows, he watched his squadron draw +ground, artillery and troops in blue uniform were seen. these were the +groans, which seemed to melt into one with the darkness of the night. +groaning aloud and swinging his arm which had just been hurt, while +grimace. “i have long wanted to ask you, andrew, why you have changed +grieving at the misfortunes of our common cause, or we are merely +grieved him and yet he was pleased. +grew weary waiting to be relieved. prince andrew halted to have a look +grew still louder and merged into a general roar that only an army +grew still kinder. the younger sisters also became affectionate to him, +greeting was riding quickly. when the soldiers of the regiment in front +greediness that he wanted it, but simply from a conscientious desire for +great sin. how can one judge father? but even if one might, what feeling +greatness, the unimportance of life which no one could understand, and +greatness of soul?” said the little princess, smiling and drawing her +greatness....” +great many officers like him were always coming there and that everybody +great man! let us drink to his health and to the certain defeat of the +great haste and in the greatest disorder. the road was so obstructed +great favor to ask of you.” +greater zeal than his duty as a commander. thanks to the strictness and +greater reasons.” +greater part of the enemy’s opened out from this battery. just facing +great deal. of the two soups he chose turtle with savory patties and +great deal from the deceased,” said prince vasíli to him, handing him +great and talking eagerly. as soon as they saw pierre and his companion +great; all he could hear was: “ahahah!” and “rrrr!” +gray overcoats, wounds, the smoke of gunpowder, the sounds of firing, +grayish color. +gray everyday dress. now please, do it for my sake. katie,” she said +gravity!” +grave, moment i did not tell you the whole truth. i think there is no +grateful look, but was still expectant and looking for someone. the old +grateful for the benefits conferred on them. everywhere were receptions, +grapeshot.” +grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his +grant.” nor did he say to himself: “pierre is a rich man, i must +“‘grant leave to retire to his country seat to an old man who is +granted. +grand! look at the smoke, the smoke!” exclaimed the artillerymen, +grandfather, wore it in all his wars.” (she still did not take out +grandfather called him). the baby prince nicholas lived with his wet +grandee of catherine’s time who now lay dying in moscow. the young man +“gracious heavens! the young count!” he cried, recognizing his +graceful pose under a portrait of catherine, leaning his elbow on a +graceful and muscular arms and neck. by the grace of her movements, +grabern. on the left our troops were close to a copse, in which smoked +gown, he went to the couch on which he slept. +government officials to his table, had unexpectedly selected michael +got up and said something to the ladies. anna mikháylovna stepped +“gott, wie naiv!” * said he angrily, after he had gone a few steps. +go to him himself, and tell him what ought to be done in a tone of +“go, tit, thresh a bit!” said the wag. +“go, tit! thresh a bit!” +got into bed, all kept awake a long time that night. +go through your performance.” +go there anyhow and i have already spoken to him about you. we shall +“go!” the quivering voice repeated. and prince vasíli had to go +go? that way is nearer.” +got back to their horses. two were misdirected and the shot went too +goot to come to ze front and see dat zis position iss no goot? i don’t +“go on, you must drink it all,” said anatole, giving pierre the last +“go on, go on!” said the major. +“go on! go on! give it them!” he mentally exclaimed at these sounds, +good thing really.” +good stories about her, while none the less all without exception +“good!” said the rhetor quickly, apparently satisfied with +good part. +good old days. denísov, flushed after the mazurka and mopping himself +“good night, lise,” said he, rising and courteously kissing her hand +good news, though schmidt’s death is a heavy price to pay for the +good news? there has been an encounter with mortier? a victory? it was +“good news!... go on!” he shouted to the driver, and they galloped +goodness, to give us as sovereign! to say nothing of my brothers, this +good-natured, sincere, and animated levity. “but you see... another +good luck.” +good horse, bedouin, and sitting as though falling backwards in the +“good health...” + * “good god, what simplicity!” +good gifts? are you content with yourself and with your life?” +“good-by, my dear,” said she to the countess who saw her to the +“good-by, my dear fellow,” said túshin. “dear soul! good-by, my +good-by!” +“good-by.” +good as to look at the map and listen.” langeron lifted his eyes with +good and noble in you will be lost. it will all be wasted on trifles. +“gone to bed,” replied the voice of demyán the house steward, who +“gone to bed?” asked the prince. +“gone? that’s all right!” said he; and looking angrily at the +gone, pierre did not go to bed or order horses but paced up and down +gone out of the conservatory she followed and called borís to her. +“go, my dear fellow, and see whether the third division has passed the +golítsyn and he has refused. be the kindhearted man you always were,” +golden.”) he cast happy, sidelong glances at his son from under his +gold-embroidered velvet bag. her pretty little upper lip, on which a +go into that. but consider the position in which you are placing her and +going toward the door without raising his eyes. denísov paused, thought +going to the cottage he occupied with denísov. +going. the emperor was wounded, the battle lost. it was impossible to +going straight on through the conservatory, neither seeing nor hearing +going on in front. whether all the enemy forces were, as we supposed, +going on, but strain his attention as he would he could not understand +“going?” and he went on writing. +“go in, annette, or you will catch cold,” said the little princess, +“go!” he repeated, amazed at himself and glad to see the look of +“go! go! killed in battle, where the best of russian men and +goes up to auersperg and says: ‘prince, you are being deceived, here +god, without whose care not a hair of man’s head can fall? +god,” said pierre, regretfully and with an effort, feeling it +god,” pierre went round the table and saw a large open box filled +“god is merciful, doctors are never needed,” she said. +“god is merciful, birdie.” +“god is merciful....” +“god has nothing to do with it! well, go on,” he continued, + * god has given it to me, let him who touches it beware! +godfather,” she added, as if she attached no importance at all to the +“go, dear,” said princess mary. +“god be with you, general!” said the emperor. +god be with him,” thought he, relishing his own goodness of heart, +“god be thanked that you are in time,” said she to one of the +god!” and without noticing that he was singing, to strengthen the si +go and tell lise.” +“go and choose denísov. he is a real dancer, a wonder!” he said. +“go and apologize, your excellency. yes, go!” +“go across to our hosts: they invited you,” added borís. +go. +go. +glorious task for which he was chosen. i shall await your most gracious +gloomy gravity and glancing round at his comrades, “there is an order +gloom, but a dark sea swelling and gradually subsiding after a storm. +glittering teeth and sparkling eyes. she told of an accident they had +glide across that lofty infinite sky! how was it i did not see that +gleamed. +glass, smiled, and walked toward the other door. natásha was about to +glass. she went on reading: +glass, “or i won’t let you go!” +glass of vodka and the dinner; and the staff officer with the signet +glass. letting her arms fall helplessly, she sat with downcast eyes and +glass. +glancing up at him from under her brows, smiling, and almost crying from +glancing into the drawing room, where he saw véra and his mother with +glancing for support at an officer of the suite who turned away +glancing at prince vasíli and at her father with her beautiful eyes. +glances without coloring, but even the old countess and natásha blushed +glanced up at her through tears of laughter, and again hid her face. +glanced at berg with a smile. +glanced askance at her husband’s face, and her own assumed the timid, +glanced angrily at berg, then, meeting his eyes, hid his face behind the +glance became more animated as his conclusions became more hopeless. +glance at all those in the room and noticing the count’s confessor +glad, very glad indeed, that my brother has distinguished himself so. +“glad to do our best, your ex’len-lency!” came a confused shout +“glad to do our best!” shouted the soldiers. +giving the messenger a significant look. +giving him full liberty to remain with him during the battle or to join +giving him a mild expression, rode up to bagratión and welcomed him as +gives the singles and snatches the doubles!” +given to raise recruits, ten men in every thousand for the regular army, +given to blow it up. otherwise we should long ago have been in the +given receptions) now hardly let a day go by without having an evening +give no opinion on such an important government order, and berg laughed +given him by the commander in chief and his fellow officers, prince +“give me time to collect my wits, father,” said he, with a smile +“give me that letter,” said kutúzov turning to prince andrew. +give me satisfaction...” +“give me a biscuit, you devil!” +“give him a seat,” said túshin. “lay a cloak for him to sit on, +gist of the matter lay in that. +girl, you and your sisters are not heiresses! if you don’t believe me, +girl would be decided that evening. the visitors were seated at supper. +girls’ voices came from the adjoining room. the door was opened a +girls and avoiding their eyes. +girlish adoration that her smile could not for a single instant impose +girl,” he sometimes said to himself “she never makes a mistake, +gilt frame, new to him, containing the genealogical tree of the princes +giddy even on a staircase,” exclaimed several voices. +“get well soon, lads!” he continued, turning to the soldiers. +getting up and speaking in a muffled and guttural voice. +get there and fire the bridge or will the french get within grapeshot +get ready to dance in the large hall, and the sound of the feet and the +“get onto the ice, over the ice! go on! turn! don’t you hear? go +get married. what about you? that’s what i want to know.” +“get in,” said kutúzov, and noticing that bolkónski still delayed, +gesture. anna pávlovna meditated. +germans’ muddling! what stupid devils!” +germans, and everyone was convinced that a dangerous muddle had been +germans. +german—i congratulate him! i can’t make out what the commander at +german accent, “for the reasson zat ze emperor knows zat. he +“gently, gently! can’t you do it more gently?” said the emperor +gentleness and affection. he could not refuse the post, or rather the +“gentlemen, who wishes to bet with me? i’ll do the same thing!” +“gentlemen, the dispositions for tomorrow—or rather for today, for +‘gentlemen,’ says one of them, ‘you know the thabor bridge is +“gentlemen,” said dólokhov after he had dealt for some time. +gentlemen of the diplomatic corps. with prince hippolyte kurágin, +gentlemen, messieurs les maréchaux, * murat, lannes, and belliard, +gentlemen, it is already time for me to go,” replied prince andrew +“gentlemen, i thank you all; all arms have behaved heroically: +“gentlemen, i’ll do anything. no one shall hear a word from me,” +gentlemen changed his position on seeing borís. the one who was writing +gentleman,” said the postmaster, entering the room followed by another +gentleman of the bedchamber, which at that time conferred the status of +gentleman—evidently not sharing borís’ conception of the advantages +gentle look of her large luminous eyes, very beautiful at that moment, +gentle childlike smile, and hélène smiled too. +genoa and lucca laying their petitions before monsieur buonaparte, and +general who, watch in hand, was saying it was time they started as all +general who signed that capitulation had no right to do so, and that no +general who had succeeded schmidt. in the passage little kozlóvski was +general who had served blamelessly for twenty-two years, flushed by a +general were talking in low voices and kutúzov smiled slightly as +generals were saying. +general’s three-cornered hat, and held it, pulling at the plume, +generals in the crowded hut, feeling embarrassed as he always was by the +generals in full parade uniforms, with their thin or thick waists drawn +general schmidt, who was killed in the action. his horse had been +generals. but one could not tell from that significant look whether he +generals and statesmen of the day. the old prince seemed convinced not +generals. +general roar. +general—of whom austria has so many—and to lay down all this heavy +general movement; that something was constantly expected of him, that if +generally the stronger! i know very well that count nicholas is too +generally, prince andrew had, as he had had in petersburg society, two +generally happens to the narrators of cavalry attacks had not happened +generally do describe it, that is, as they would like it to have been, +“general kutúzov,” said bolkónski, speaking french and stressing +general, in russian, speaking with the french intonation he affected +“general, i must obey orders, but i am not bound to endure...” +general grumbled at his wife when she asked how his leg was. “oh, the +general expanded his chest and rode, frowning, beside him to the +general engagement in which he was taking part, more than that, he was +general conversation. +general conclusion which he had arrived at from his interview with +general commotion. some eight or nine young men were crowding anxiously +‘general bonaparte.’” +general attention, and anna pávlovna felt that the novelty she had +general.” +general!” +genealogical tree, shook his head, laughing as a man laughs who looks at +gaze drooped his eyes sadly and again took to twirling his snuffbox. +gazed at his delicate fingers which rapidly twirled by its corners +gazed at bolkónski silently with wide-open eyes. +gavríl to pay a sleigh driver, his kissing sónya on the sly—he now +gave zest to his pleasures. he spent the greater part of his time away +gave us time to retreat. the retirement of the center to the other side +gave no answer, she left the room. +gave his hand to the plague-stricken; but ... but there are other acts +“gave him leave? leave? that’s just like you young men,” said the +gave her the answer in her own heart. “desire nothing for thyself, +gathered round nicholas in the sitting room. +gasping voice. “where are we? in moscow, i know. i don’t matter, +galloping toward him. they were our uhlans who with disordered +galloped up to kutúzov and asked in the emperor’s name had the fourth +galloped on to the village where he was told that the commander in chief +gallantry lit up his face and as soon as the last figure of the +galicia he had managed to deal with the grand duke when the latter +gained a step on his old comrades of the cadet corps; how in wartime +gaily, with a wide swing of his arm. +gaily. +gaiety with which zherkóv spoke, and to the intentional coldness of +further back till his curly hair touched his shirt collar, and the hand +furlough after christmas to return with him to their regiment. his +furies and rages at everyone and everything, seizes the letters, opens +full speed. rostóv, fearing to be crushed or swept into the attack on +fulfill thy will?” and scarcely had she put that question than god +fulfill the one which enjoined every mason to set an example of moral +fugitives returned, the battalions re-formed, and the french who had + * frühstück: breakfast. +frowning and taking his daughter’s hand; he did not kiss her, but only +frowning and silent. +frowning. +fro with dignity, offered surmises about the weather, or touched on +front. pierre stood smiling but silent. one man, older than the others +front of us. +front of the ranks. suddenly one shot after another rang out from the +front of the infantry, who had to wait. +front line, as if their differences would be settled there amongst the +front and men four abreast, spread across the bridge and began to emerge +front and back. her bust, which had always seemed like marble to pierre, +front. +from which they had dashed out so impetuously, the conversation had +from which the shouting came. he felt both frightened and pleased to be +from which spectacles have just been removed, had also a frightened and +from which occasional puffs were blown by an invisible smoker. +“from where to where, your majesty?” +“from what i have heard,” said pierre, blushing and breaking into +from weeping and sat down beside dr. lorrain, who was sitting in a +from vienna to znaim was shorter and better than the road for the +from vienna kutúzov wrote to his old comrade, prince andrew’s father. +from various people and retelling the town gossip. +from understanding—how am i to put it?—i am afraid my way of looking +from this distressful life, and leads it to its place of recompense and +from the wood, mustered the men who were woodcutting, and, allowing the +from the way the regimental commander saluted the commander in chief and +from the theater, had had supper and were grouped round the clavichord. +from the shelf the first book that came to his hand (it was caesar’s +from the right flank, beside which the carriage passed the company, +from the revolution leaving the people to anarchy, and napoleon alone +from the ranks. a morose soldier marching on the left turned his eyes on +from the masses around them, the smoke and the increasing fog, to see +from the hints contained in his letter and given by the little princess, +from the hill. there was no one now between the squadron and the enemy +from the guards just before this campaign. he behaved very well in the +from the folds of her frock. +from the field of battle with the pale and terrified ober-hofmarschal +from the drawing room. +from the doctor to pierre. to him, in a particularly respectful and +from the direction of olmütz in front of them, a group was seen +“from the direction, it must be the enemy,” repeated rostóv. +from the deafening sounds of his own guns around him, the whistle and +from the crumpled heap under the table would save him, now counted the +from the bottom of the slope, where the parleys had taken place, came +from the army to sergéy kuzmích, in which the emperor said that he was +from that distorted mouth issued an indistinct, hoarse sound. anna +from that day the eldest princess quite changed toward pierre and began +from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who +from prince andrew to the staff officer. +from pétenka—he took part in it—and it’s all true. when +from passing, “won’t this be too much for poor uncle at a moment +from my heart as to an old acquaintance.” +from másha, the lady’s maid, the necessary report of how handsome the +from laughing. +from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in st. petersburg, used +from home, at dinners, parties, and balls. +from hollabrünn) received murat’s dispatch with the proposal of a +from his son. +from his horse in a pool of blood. nobody gave him a look or thought of +from his cheek. prince andrew forced his way to him. +from him, though she knew that already, and remarked that they might +from him. “there, you see!” and he drew attention to the bullets +from him. “he used to have a predilection for bacchus.” +from him, and rostóv felt as in a dream that he continued to be carried +“from héloïse?” asked the prince with a cold smile that showed his +from headquarters behind the village to the left, and thither rostóv +“from general field marshal kutúzov?” he asked. “i hope it is +from early morning the smart clean troops were on the move, forming up +from early morning strenuous activities and efforts had begun and by ten +“from dürrenstein to krems.” +from denísov, rode past too, at the rear of his squadron—that is, +from behind still came the shouts: “onto the ice, why do you stop? go +from behind. +from all sides were heard the footsteps and talk of the infantry, who +from all sides reports reach me,” etc. +“‘from all my riding,’ he writes to the emperor, ‘i have got a +from actions which would torment him afterwards.” +frock and hair. +frigid politeness. +fright were amused by pierre’s lisp and the new words they had not +frightened here?” and the artilleryman understood him. +friend, that i look on marriage as a divine institution to which we must +friend’s look was now still more clearly expressed in the smile +“friendship laughs at distance,” began prince vasíli in his usual +friendship at all; i simply feel that the army is my vocation.” +friendship.” +friend’s hand. +friends had pledged themselves in an indissoluble alliance to uphold +friendly words to officers he had known in the turkish war, sometimes +friend, but nicholas avoided him. with that peculiar feeling of youth, +friend bolkónski, whom he had not seen for two years. +friend a model of perfection because prince andrew possessed in the +friend.” +friend...” +“fr... fr...” snorted prince bolkónski. “the prince is making a +freshness, an unconsciousness of her own powers, and an as yet untrained +fresh anecdotes were heard of individual examples of heroism shown by +fresh and pretty face yet more attractive. +frenchwoman very readily and, looking at her with a smile, talked to her +frenchwoman blushed and went away without a word. when he reached his +french were putting out the fire which the wind was spreading, and thus +french, turning to a general, “my husband is deserting me? he is going +french troops who are being raised in france will join us, and the peace +french to suppose that here—in the center—the main russian forces +french) to prince vasíli. “it’s not as at annette’s * receptions +french to pass him, had made a bayonet charge with two battalions and +french though he spoke it badly, offered to conduct prince andrew. +french, there would be great hope of saving the army; to let the +french, smoke appeared all along their uneven ranks, and musket shots +french since suvórov met them. he feared that bonaparte’s genius +french pronunciation which she could allow herself when conversing with +frenchmen, and though but a moment before he had been galloping to get +frenchman remembers his bayonet and stabs him....” +frenchman, holding him down by the sleeve in a friendly way to prevent +frenchman also stopped and took aim. rostóv closed his eyes and stooped +french, he did not know. there was no one near. +french forestall him at znaim meant the exposure of his whole army to a +french families. he is one of the genuine émigrés, the good ones. and +french column, with its officers leading, appeared from below the hill. +french colonel who had been taken prisoner by our dragoons. our officers +french. but this adjutant returned half an hour later with the news that +french battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the +french. a group of cossack scouts retired down the hill at a trot. all +french!” +free, so lighthearted! and i did not realize how happy i was! when did +freemasonry presented itself to him. +free.’ isn’t that lovely and noble! yes, very noble? isn’t it?” +freedom i could understand it and should be the first to enter the army; +freedom and told her that one way or another he would never cease to +freckled gunner in a merry voice, standing to attention. +frantically, had such an effect that they managed to squeeze through +frankly, i don’t want to. i am speaking of the staff in general.” +francis received him standing in the middle of the room. before the +français,” said dolgorúkov, with grave satisfaction. “good, +fragmentary sentences tried to explain about a doll which she produced +“fo’ward, with god, lads!” rang out denísov’s voice. “at a +four times—till i get what i want. i don’t mind what they think of +four thousand strong, to the right across the hills from the krems-znaim +found the prussian army. borís, speaking with deliberation, told them +found them to be so tiresome that it wearied him to look at or listen to +found the count with it in his hand, sobbing and laughing at the same +found out, nothing discovered,” pierre again said to himself. “all +found expression in calling her maid “my dear” and speaking to her +found a kind of tantalizing satisfaction. +found.” +for your sake.” +for your obstinacy,” said kírsten. +for your neighbor? have you ever thought of your tens of thousands +for wine. +“for what have you come hither?” asked the newcomer, turning in +forward with unnatural speed but yet stayed on the same spot. from +“forward, with god!” said bagratión, in a resolute, sonorous voice, +forward toward the old man with a forced and timid smile. +forward. of bolkónski, nothing was said, and only those who knew him +“forward, lads!” he shouted in a voice piercing as a child’s. +forward. “company commanders!” he shouted in a voice accustomed to +forward beside schmidt with the bullets merrily whistling all around, +forward and, stooping over the dying man, beckoned to lorrain from +forward, and experienced great happiness. +for us. the field marshal looks on and waits for letters addressed + * “forty thousand men massacred and the army of our allies +forty paces’ distance nothing could be seen. for three minutes all had +for two days after that rostóv did not see dólokhov at his own or at +fortune. suddenly he heard a familiar voice repeating something to him a +for trees and gullies for men and continually discovering his mistakes. +“for tomorrow!” said he, quickly finding the page and making a +fortnight’s retreat, the russian troops had halted and after a fight +for three days, and not one of them knew or imagined what was in store +for this failure, the enemy placed ten guns to the right of the village +(for they were speaking french) at least with a russian who would, he +for the two approaching battalions. while he was speaking, the curtain +for the tenth time, molière’s words: “mais que diable allait-il +for the society of ladies, began to come often to the house, and the +for these simple, kindly people. +for the next battle are planned by him alone. nominally he is only an +for themselves. +for the most part handsome fellows and, as is always the case in an +“for the last time i say to you—turn all your attention upon +for the hussars to retreat with the infantry. they were cut off from +for the good we have done them.’ father took her when she was homeless +for the future, pierre’s journeys and occupations, the war, and so +for the countess.” +for the attainment of that purpose. +for the aged? and is it not a palpable, unquestionable good if a +for that. yes, for that alone! i shall never tell anyone, but, oh god! +for some days in moscow and was staying as usual at his father’s +for russia, for the orthodox greek faith! all that is beautiful, but +for prince andrew. +for petersburg alone. +“for not dilly-dallying and not hanging to a woman’s apron strings. +for negligence or inefficiency so staggered him that, forgetting the +for my sake! did you know?” +for more than a week preparations were being made, rough drafts of +for more than anything else in the world, did not know how to approach +forming up within twice the range of a musket shot. the general in +forming a complete whole with her dress, but all the charm of her body +former pupil of his. +former position. a huge, broad-shouldered gunner, number one, holding +former position after the campaign, had returned to petersburg and come +formerly in anna pávlovna’s presence, pierre had always felt that +“for me? for me?... trying for me!...” said she. +formed up at intervals, and wheeled round other similar masses of +formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers +formed a definite idea of what an attack was and were expecting to hear +formed. +for life, but i don’t understand that, i forget quickly.” +for his reply, surrounded him, and led him to the drawing room. it was +for his part tried to pretend to the count that he considered these +for his life, but for the courage he needed and which he knew would not +for himself. he remembered his mother’s last letter. “what would she +for him, prince bagratión sat at dinner, talking with some commanding +for him, but again pressed on him so that they jammed his leg, and those +for him. +for her. when the little princess had grown accustomed to life at bald +forgot the sovereigns’ presence. “lads, it’s not the first village +forgot them. his head was burning, he felt himself bleeding to death, +forgotten. our duty, my dear, is to rectify his mistake, to ease his +“for god’s sake... i can’t walk. for god’s sake!” +for girls and boys.” +forgetting that she was dancing with a grown-up partner she bent her +forgetting that it was unbecoming for the girls to see men undressed, +forget. but, my dear, will you not give us a little hope of touching +forget all that.... she says: ‘i shall love him always, but let him be +for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second +“forever?” said the little girl. “till death itself?” +“forever?” said prince andrew. “nothing’s forever.” +forestall him, threw off his fur coat and ran on tiptoe through the +foresight for every eventuality, every possibility even to the smallest +foreign cavalry with red epaulets, probably french. he could see nothing +forehead, wetting him with her tears. then after a pause she said: +forehead was moist. prince andrew touched the head with his hand; even +forehead, over which was beautiful light-brown hair smelling of pomade. +forehead. he went to the cot in confusion, sure that he would find it +forehead. +forefather adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be +force their way through them with bayonets. +force had already descended into the valley toward the ponds and lakes +for a seat. +for anything and i never will again, nor have i ever reminded you of my +for an instant, but there was no second report as he had expected. he +for an answer. his birth and position in society were not bad. “well, +for a moment he dozed, but in that short interval innumerable things +for a mere fancy?” said nicholas taking her hand. +for a long time pierre could not understand, but when he did, he jumped +for a long time he could not utter a word, so that the rhetor had to +for a long time, always in the same fog, descending and ascending hills, +“forage has not been supplied to the extent...” +for a few seconds collected his thoughts. then the russian ambassador +for about a minute. +for!” +foot, which he was then touching with his own under the clavichord. +foot to foot uncertain with which to start, then settled down, galloped +footsteps. pierre rose and said it was getting late. prince vasíli gave +footmen and cooks were getting the supper, count bezúkhov had a +footmen, and awaited each expected dish with some anxiety. everything +footing that all who knew them, including anatole himself, respected him +foot, and galloped on. +“fool... or dummy!” he muttered. +foolish as soon as he uttered them, while on the contrary hippolyte’s +food. +“folly... folly! death... lies...” he repeated, puckering his face. +follows the current of his own thoughts, “things will have gone too +follows that pierre will not be pierre but will become count bezúkhov, +follows: +following the princess, whom a footman was helping into the carriage. +following the mass movements and general orders, and constantly studying +following passage, in german, from the archduke ferdinand’s letter: +following budget: +follow, for this was clearly only a prelude. +followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower +followed singly. the footmen began moving about, chairs scraped, the +followed proved that the commander in chief at that moment was absorbed +followed him in, as if there were now no further need for permission to +followed by the owner of the manly voice, a dashing infantry officer who +followed by their suites. kutúzov, affecting the manners of an old +followed by a cossack. +followed anna mikháylovna out of the carriage, and only then began +fly upwards. the angel’s upper lip was slightly raised as though +fly! gracious me, they did rattle past! it’s time i knew the imperial +fluttering in that light. túshin had not returned, the doctor had not +fluttering above the fire and remembered a russian winter at his warm, +flung it down and began: +flung it away. tíkhon caught it and handed it to a footman. the little +flower tubs and hid there. +flower; natásha, half grown up and half child, was now childishly +flourishing his arm, called him to enter. +flourished his castanets as if threatening someone. the soldiers, +floundering silvery fish in the watering can, on that dam over which for +fleeing crowd. a mounted general separated himself from the infantry and +flayed, some not, and broken-down carts beside which solitary soldiers +flattered by this. anna pávlovna arranged the different groups in her +flanks was more than six miles, even if the messenger were not killed +flank now that it is nearly four o’clock and the battle is lost? +flank. in the center túshin’s forgotten battery, which had managed to +flank,” he said to himself, “the kiev grenadiers and the podólsk +flank; he knew that all the guns there had been abandoned at the very +flag let it fall from his hands. it swayed and fell, but caught on the +flabby that they looked heavier below, were twitching violently; but +fixing his weary eyes on the paper, began to read them with a fixed and +fixed straight on his son’s. something twitched in the lower part of +fixed on her. +fixed on. +five years, if he goes on like this?” presently he added: “that’s +five times. he entered the room softly. the little princess, plump and +five minutes later princess mary from her room heard something heavy +five in the afternoon,” replied bolkónski growing more animated and +fist, and tapped it on the floor, making the sparks fly, while he +fish for this dinner. the count had been a member and on the committee +first to one side and then to the other watched the smokers with evident +first time since their encounter concerning telyánin. rostóv, feeling +first regiment roared “hurrah!” so deafeningly, continuously, and +“first-rate,” said pierre, looking at dólokhov, who with a bottle +first place because her provinces have been pillaged—they say the holy +first pair of gloves, a man’s, he said that pierre could not know +first of one and then of another priest. +“first of all you must drink!” +first of all devote some time to solitude and self-examination and do +“first of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. set your friend’s +first not only what had been said but also what kutúzov would have +first he had ever written. borís and natásha were at the other window + first epilogue: 1813 - 20 +first because pierre appeared to his hussar eyes as a rich civilian, the +first appearance in society. anna pávlovna greeted him with the nod she +firmness, and expedition. i consider myself fortunate to have such a +firmness and certainty of his vocation, which radiated from his whole +firmly resolved to answer his father-in-law. moreover, the words of the +firmly believed in the possibility of the brotherhood of men united in +firmly. +firing was, he began to look for the general and his staff where they +firing?” rostóv kept asking as he came up to russian and austrian +firing in the valley. not a single muscle of his face—which in those +firing incendiary balls at the village of schön grabern visible just +firing at the augesd dam and was looking at the killed and wounded left +firing at augesd. +fires were lighted and the talk became more audible. captain túshin, +fire! our stories have some weight, not like the stories of those +fire. from pain, cold, and damp, a feverish shivering shook his whole +fire, fanned by the breeze, was rapidly spreading. the french columns +fired in the air; a third was striking the horse kutúzov himself rode. +fire and pressed it there!” +finished phrases of general interest. these sayings were prepared in the +finished. +fingers twitched nervously. +fingers, drew out a gold imperial, and lifting his eyebrows gave it to +finger at him, “i have even heard of your doings in paris!” +“fine young fellow! fine young fellow!” he said. “well, come and +fine,” said a corporal, chaffing a thin little soldier who bent under +“fine men!” remarked napoleon, looking at a dead russian grenadier, +fine! i don’t want anything, prince.” +“fine fellows, the pávlograds!” remarked the emperor. + * fine eyes. +fine cords would soon get a bit rubbed,” said an infantryman, wiping +find the baby. at last he saw him: the rosy boy had tossed about till he +finds you to his taste as a daughter-in-law and makes a proposal to you +find, and still seeks, some secret motive in our actions. what answer +finally there were six thousand rubles for his outfit and various other +final instructions, orders, and commissions to the baggage men +filled by the domestic serfs—the men on one side and the women on +figure of túshin who was sitting cross-legged like a turk beside him. +fight. you’ll see—we shall retire.” +fighting russian soldier without connections and intrigues, and to one +fighting hussar who had been under fire. +fighting cocks preparing for battle, each vainly trying to detect signs +fighting army (with the pávlograds on the right flank of the front); +fight bonaparte by this new science you call ‘strategy.’” +fifty members of the english club and fifty guests were awaiting the +field under fire, as he had done at the head of the kursk regiment at +fields and forests of fir and birch, which were partly cut down. the +field of austerlitz, enduring the heedless blows of his left foot and +field. instead of the moving horses and hussars’ backs, he saw nothing +field glass and shrugging his shoulders, “so it is! they’ll be fired +feverish delirium or drunkenness. +feu, et oublie celui qu’il devait faire faire sur l’ennemi!” *(2) +fetch the frenchman, moreau,” he said, alluding to the invitation made +festivities and fireworks are becoming wearisome.” +festive in his air, which, in conjunction with his firm and virile +festive around him. nearer and nearer to rostóv came that sun shedding +ferdinand disgraces himself. you abandon vienna, give up its +felt the tension of the amorous air in the house, and also noticed a +felt the impossibility of going to sleep on such a night. it was light +felt that the battle of which he had brought tidings was far, far +felt so glad to be free from his own lawlessness and to submit his will +felt perfectly happy. just then the commander appeared on the bridge. +felt it indecorous to speak of her pregnancy before pierre, though the +felt coat, stretched his legs, and set his cap straight. the head of the +felt a wish to speak to the stranger, but by the time he had made up his +fellow! what you have just said is good, very good. of course you +fellows on the staff who get rewards without doing anything!” +fellows have all lost your wits, or i have outlived mine. may god help +fellow,” he said abruptly and eagerly, “i must confess to having +fellow could have played such a prank on a policeman. +fellow.” +fellow.” +fell from him. he was glad, and at the same instant began to pity the +feigned severity. “you spoil her, ilyá,” she added, turning to her +feigned—or so it seemed to rostóv. he put his horse to a trot to +feet were the only sounds that could be heard. anna mikháylovna, with +feet that moved through the sticky mud that covered the planks of the +feet into his slippers and his arms into the sleeves of his dressing +feet in their overboots on the table, and began to reflect. +feet in low shoes, iogel flew first across the hall with natásha, who, +feel,” thought he, “if she saw me here now on this field with the +feel that in that place and on that day, it was improper to speak so of +feels, anyone who comes in sight of the enemy, and that feeling gives +feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the +feelings in others, and if never having felt them i cannot approve of +feeling; sharing with the young folk of the rostóvs’ household a +feelings. but much as all the rest laughed, talked, and joked, much +feeling of sickening agitation. +feeling of devotion returned to him even more strongly than before. when +feeling of a hare fleeing from the hounds. one single sentiment, that +feel afraid.” +feeble voice to which he tried to impart a dashing note, ill-suited to +feeble voice, so high pitched and irresolute. his face grew more and +feeble voice of the commander in chief was heard. the regiment roared, +fédya, my dear count; that, believe me, is why i am so fond of you. few +features. nicholas was short with curly hair and an open expression. +features, gave him a rather comical expression. bekleshëv and theodore +fear would prevent her understanding any of her father’s further +fear this will oblige one half the army to shoot the other.” +fears nothing so much as a general battle is impossible.” +fear’s all gone, and your only thought is not to let him get away!’ +fearing to relax, shouted with his mouth wide open and passed on. +fearing to be captured by the french on the way to krems. +feared him. +fear appeared on her flushed face. +fear, and the thought that he might be killed or badly wounded never +favorite, “how is it you have so little tact? don’t you see you are +fault. what’s he to do if he has such luck?... and it’s not my fault +fault!” and her voice quivered like that of a child about to cry. +father with a laugh. +father to the ambassador’s entertainment; she wore a ball dress and +father to fits of bloodthirsty rage. and when after pierre’s +father to be a connection of prince vasíli’s. the elderly lady who +father there would be nothing i could reproach you with,” said anna +“father, tell me how it happened,” she asked through her tears. +father’s study as the latter wished to say good-by to him alone. all +father’s room with the good-humored and victorious air natural to +father’s room, that huge room in which count bezúkhov had died. +father’s ridicule of the new men, and drew him on and listened to him +father’s nature showed itself in pierre. he felt the fascination and +father’s letter, he returned to the nursery. +“father,” she said, “do not turn away from me, let us weep +father’s friendship for you; but now i entreat you for god’s sake to +father’s face with an eager and respectful look. “how is your +father’s case. +father, muttered in a whisper: +“father kutúzov.” +father... it’s bad....” he reflected, but while he was thinking this +father in order to puzzle or test his sister. +father-in-law and now at princess mary. when they left the table she +father, he feels for you.” +father, count bezúkhov, and showed them her own box. princess hélène +father and son. this lasted about two minutes, which to pierre seemed an +“father! andrew!”—said the ungraceful, awkward princess with such +father and anna mikháylovna, that it had something to do with her +father and andrew. i shall be so happy when she is his wife. she is so +father?” +fat finger. + fate—(the fate of the army at ulm).” +fate. it is in your hands.” +fate, her father-in-law, and her husband. after crying she had fallen +fate and in spite of the pleasures and distractions around me i cannot +“faster!” came the word of command, and rostóv felt rook’s flanks +fastening his coat. when he had finished, he turned to bezúkhov, and +fastened to the cording of his uniform and, indicating a bandaged arm, +fast asleep with his head on his arm. +fast as her nimble little feet would carry her. borís did not laugh. +farther, probably along the line of the french camp. rostóv no longer +farther into the region where the army was already in action. +farther and farther he rode away, stopping at other regiments, till at +far. by intrigues, violence, exile, and executions, french society—i +“fancy, with his powerful mind, indulging in such nonsense!” +fancies. +famous order of the day to general bennigsen: +family, was the most gifted with a capacity to feel any shades of +family’s, and his friends’, and the enemy’s intention to kill him +family life continually rose in her imagination. she drove them away and +family consultation; is it not so, prince?” +family, but was kept all summer in moscow by his new duties. dólokhov +familiar voice, “what i say is that if it were possible to know +familiar voice. “one is afraid of the unknown, that’s what it is. +familiar to rostóv; the other on a beautiful chestnut horse (which +familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any +false. he was happy to be seeing him. he knew that he might and even +fallen, and an old trooper on the flank, a noncommissioned officer who +fallen!” +‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! but how do you do? i see i +faithfully as i can, without disquieting myself by examining my feelings +faire dans cette galère?” * occurred to him, and he began to laugh at +faint with fear lest the baby should be drowned in the font, and awaited +failed him. he was seized by panic and could not go where it was +failed. borís on the contrary at once found his footing, and related +faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable +fact of a great man executing a duc—or even an ordinary man who—is +fact. +facing the quartermaster who was reporting to him. on seeing rostóv, +face with prince andrew, who came out frowning and looking old. pierre +face, which had been so radiantly happy all that saint’s day, suddenly +face was animated, which, however, did not conceal its sunken and faded +face to prince andrew, smiled, and waved his hand. +faces, the wall of soldiers burdened with knapsacks and muskets marched +faces of the crew bustling round the guns, from the sight of the blood +face, shook his head, and going up to him silently kissed him on the +faces. (he distinctly saw an old french officer who, with gaitered +face looked worn—he too had evidently not slept all night. he glanced +face. “let him see whether i am a coward!” he thought. +face in the lace of her mother’s mantilla—not paying the least +face instantly changed and assumed an offensively affected, sugary +face; his eyes continually wandered from one object to another. +face changed into a winning and piteous look of fear. her beautiful eyes +face assumed the coarse, unpleasant expression peculiar to him. shaking +face assumed its melancholy expression), “he was mentioned at her +face assumed a forced unnatural expression as soon as she looked in a +face as if driving off a troublesome fly. “and why are you stopping +face, and prince andrew saw that hippolyte, of whom—he had to +face and just nodded to him with his long head. but after it was +face, and again at the arm, and on his face a feeble, piteous smile +face, already growing old, though he was dressed like a most fashionable +face. +eyes. what she found hardest to bear was to know that on such occasions +eyes, went with unusually hurried steps down the long corridor leading +eyes to complete the show of prisoners, could not fail to attract his +eyes. the sick man was turned on to his side with his face to the wall. +eyes. then having satisfied himself that all eyes were fixed on him, +eyes. the englishman looked on sideways, pursing up his lips. the man +eyes still shifted from side to side but with a downward look not rising +eyes, rostóv re-entered that world of home and childhood which had no +eyes rolling as he sang, with his small, husky, but true voice, some +eyes off him. his brother and sisters struggled for the places nearest +eye socket. “yes, he has a right to speak so calmly of those men’s +eyes lit up so that her face was entirely transformed. then she suddenly +eyes kept closing, and in his fancy appeared—now the emperor, now +eyes. his shriveled old hands were folded and on the finger of one of +eyes he was every day more and more connected with her, that it was +eyes. he really was in love with the tsar and the glory of the russian +eyes had uttered french phrases between his teeth. every muscle of his +eyes grew moist. “hurrah!” cried the three hundred voices again, +eyes grew dim. by the expression of her father’s face, not sad, not +eyes full of tears and of thoughts, gazing shiningly and imploringly at +“eyes front!” then, like the crowing of cocks at sunrise, this was +eyes fixed on the dark face of a large icon of the saviour lit by a +eyes. “but i’ll go to bezúkhov’s myself. pierre has arrived, and +eyes attracted him irresistibly. +eyes at her sister-in-law. +eyes and saw close before him the head and ears of the horse he was +eyes and indicating hélène with a sorrowful gesture. “ah, she is +eyes and ears intent on the colonel. +eyes. +eyes. +eyes. +eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of god, are +eyebrows which, when he frowned, sometimes hid the gleam of his shrewd, +extricated himself from an awkward situation and placed another in it, +extrémités de l’univers, nous allons lui faire éprouver le même +extraordinary may happen to one that honor and dishonor will be all the +extraordinary intelligence, the more so as in the depth of his heart it +extinguished and some spirit lighted, as pierre knew by the smell, and +externally was all in order, but had it pleased the commander in chief +extends along kobelnitz and sokolnitz behind the ponds that are there, +expression which was never to be seen on it in a drawing room. his eyes +expression. véra was good-looking, not at all stupid, quick at +expression, though many of them knew that what he was saying was a lie +expression the sculptor had happened to give the angel’s face, prince +expression—the same man who had rushed out of the wattle shed. at that +expressions with the choicest french phrases—which was a peculiarity +expression she did not understand, and lay down again. he was suffering +expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose. +expression on his face changed in a way evidently deliberate and +expression of profound and sincere devotion and respect mingled with +expression of her father’s. his face wore that expression when his +expression, looked observantly and sympathetically at the father and +expression. it was the heavy tread of princess mary that he heard. +expression, evidently habitual to him when conversing with women. +expression. “c’est... c’est du mack. nous sommes mackés (it is... +expression and went out again without saying a word. she looked at +expressing disapproval and dislike of kutúzov. +expressing... as in its last note... you understand... besides, unless +express his opinion as he had hoped to, left on him a vague and uneasy +expresses his opinion to kutúzov, to weyrother, and to the emperors. +expressed the concentrated and happy resolution you see on the face of +expressed impetuosity and enthusiasm. nicholas blushed when he entered +expressed his opinion more openly. he shrugged his shoulders when pierre +expressed disapproval of dólokhov’s living at their house, and how +exposing himself to the first blows of the enemy, for there must be no +expose to a bullet, and then you congratulate us on the victory! admit +exposed! if i were asked what i desire most on earth, it would be to be +exposed. another emissary rode to the russian line to announce the peace +exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as +exposed—and she seemed to bring the glamour of a ballroom with her as +explanation with nicholas, sónya twirled about before she left home +explanations, however clear they might be. whether it was the +explaining that dólokhov was betting with stevens, an english naval +explained prince andrew. “the others, one’s neighbors, le prochain, +explained how to rivet the hoof and went away to his own quarters. +experiencing a new and peculiar pleasure. sónya, muttering to herself, +experience that feeling during those memorable days preceding the battle +experienced a variety of most complex sensations. he felt afraid of what +expeditions to olmütz to visit a certain caroline the hungarian, +expedition.... but what’s the southern army to do? prussia is +expecting two very interesting men tonight, le vicomte de mortemart, who +expecting to hear something very profound. at last he came up to morio. +expecting the summons to zakúska, * avoid engaging in any long +expecting that he would have a chance to give a reliable account, which +expecting anything from yourself in the future, you will feel at every +expecting a crisis.” +expect he has forgotten me. he paid me attentions in those days,” said +expected to be at once presented to the emperor. at the chief entrance +expected this. +expectations of those who knew her. the subdued smile which, though it +existence of such an incomprehensible being, a being all-powerful, +executing of the plan. +executed him—also for some reason. what is bad? what is good? what +excuses now! it’s your turn to sing the ba’cawolla—i entweat +excuse me, vicomte—i must tell it in russian or the point will be +“excuse me, general,” interrupted kutúzov, also turning to prince +excuse his costume. +exclamation he was asking the adjutant to wait, and he went on with the +exclaimed in excellent french. +exclaimed, and immediately seizing him by the shoulder and looking +excitement, rushed toward the drawing room door, probably in order to +excitement, around chin and mouth. the quartermaster frowned, looking +excitement and to being unaccustomed to speak of abstract matters in +excitement. +excitement. +excitedly animated and healthy men.” so thinks, or at any rate +excited and irritated by these thoughts prince andrew went toward his +except veneration could such a man as my father evoke? and i am so +except to pierre and hélène, whose presence he seemed not to notice. +exception made, and borís transferred into the regiment of semënov +except in the army; i am not a diplomat or a government clerk.—i +except a few scattered skirmishers. an empty space of some seven hundred +excellent dinners for the officers at every halting place. the regiments +excellency’s participation in the common action is highly valued by +excellency. shall i go with some of my hussars to see?” replied +excellency prince vasíli kurágin and his son, i understand?” she +excellency?... nobody knows.” +excellency... i had no men... your excellency.” +excellency!” +exceedingly lofty, the members of the household and the footmen—one +exceeded twenty thousand rubles. dólokhov was no longer listening to +exasperated with one another and, long after the action had begun on +exasperated whisper, evidently meaning to wound his sister. +exalted personages passing in the streets in their elegant carriages +exaggeration quite contrary to christian simplicity. let us rather read +exaggerated grasseyement, “the prince has been scolding michael +“exactly, not a hair’s breadth farther,” answered prince vasíli, +exactitude, what minuteness, what knowledge of the locality, what +exactitude. he always came to table under precisely the same conditions, +exacting, so that without being a hardhearted man he inspired such fear +evil. le prochain—your kiev peasants to whom you want to do good.” +evil can there be in it if unfortunate people, our serfs, people like +evident that the cadet was liberal with his tips and that it paid to +evident that he not only knew everyone in the drawing room, but had +evidently wishing to give her words a very definite meaning. “i +evidently wished to draw him on. +evidently weakened, was undertaking nothing. +evidently those in front had halted. all remained where they were in the +evidently the prince understood her, and also understood, as he had done +evidently rigged up by soldiers out of any available materials and +evidently not because he was shaven but because they had never grown. +evidently listening to herself with pleasure, and speaking with +evidently in the village itself and behind the hill. to the left from +evidently in a fit of rage, his coal-black eyes with their bloodshot +evidently glad of a chance to say quicker in words what he wanted to +evidently forced. not only the guests but even the footmen waiting at +evidently expecting him to bow or to step out of his way. prince andrew +evidently did not realize what they were doing. +evidently did not expect. +evidently also felt depressed and constrained with his visitor, “i am +evident he had reflected on this subject more than once, and he spoke +evident duty.” she paused. all were silent, expectant of what was to +evidence of the advantages of attacking that what had been discussed +every word and movement was described with ecstasy. +everywhere. he might easily become aide-de-camp to the emperor. you know +every time a ball flew past. rostóv on the left flank, mounted on his +everything within and around him seemed confused, senseless, and +everything was becoming more and more happy and animated. “oh, how i +everything that took place and was reported to him was exactly what he +“everything’s the same with them. they know nothing about it! where +“everything’s still the same with them,” thought nicholas, +everything seemed so futile and insignificant in comparison with the +everything!” said nicholas. “and i will prove it to you.” +everything over with, and i happen to be there, i’ll go at once, to +everything, only i have nothing....” +everything may be over for me! all these memories will be no more, none +everything is calculated, and i don’t like that. but denísov...” +everything. i often wonder at you, annette—how at your age you +everything in perfect order, only one little thing is lacking, namely, +everything!” (he put one arm around pierre and the other around his +everything from the table napkins to the silver, china, and glass bore +everything from society and giving nothing in return. you have become +everything before you, everything. and you....” +everything became clear, and in all corners of moscow the same things +everything and everybody at last and had spoken such pathetic words to +every ten seconds a cannon ball flew compressing the air around, or +everyone waited, so emphatically and eagerly did he demand their +everyone’s situation. tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner. * think +everyone, including anna pávlovna, felt this. +everyone he could stop, but got no answer from anyone. +“everyone has his achilles’ heel,” continued prince andrew. +everyone ducked. it flopped into something moist, and the general fell +everyone again looked toward the door, which creaked as the second +everyone adopted toward him the tone of men who know something others do +everyone. +everyone! +every muscle of telyánin’s pale, terrified face began to quiver, his +every day he said to himself one and the same thing: “it is time i +everybody! not forgetting anyone. i always said when he was only so +everybody laughed, and hippolyte louder than anyone. he was evidently +everybody laughed a great deal. at the head of the table, where the +“everybody is wondering to whom the count will leave his fortune, +everybody, for another ten years. it would be far easier and simpler for +every advantage. what receptions we had in poland! what dinners and +ever was borís resolved to serve in future not according to the written +ever since he had overtaken the regiment in poland, had lived with the +ever because anatole’s presence had vividly recalled to her the time +even wish to know of his existence but would now have been offended +even try to do so. all were watching the count and márya dmítrievna. +event must be allowed to disturb the appointed order of the day. prince +event. in the english club, where all who were distinguished, important, +even their faces, more and more distinctly. they were our horse guards, +even pushed aside, he began wrapping it round the princess. either from +even people who had formerly been spiteful toward him and evidently +even more so. i like being alone.... father likes her very much. she and +even more merrily than on the previous night. denísov celebrated his +even more beautiful than it had been three days before at the review. it +evenly, and then raised his head. he had an intellectual and distinctive +even know if it would be a good thing (he even felt, he knew not why, +even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise +even in his way; but all at once he felt that this would not do, and +evening when the rewards bestowed by the emperor were mentioned. +evening was this: +evening to get in) “i only wished to say that we are wrong to fight +evening. there was room enough in the wide corridor for the generals to +evening passed, night came, and the feeling of suspense and softening of +evening light and the blue tunics advancing from the other side with +evening in advance of him, and he and his son arrived next day. +evening. +“even if it were a great deal of trouble...” answered prince andrew, +even every footstep in that house since the terrible news had come, so +even denísov was nothing compared to dólokhov—“you must understand +even by a ball dress. + * “europe will never be our sincere ally.” +eternity.” and again he twisted the screw with the stripped thread, +eternal, and infinite in all his attributes?...” +estrangement, and ridicule with which troops of different arms usually +estime que je professe pour the orthodox russian army, j’avoue que +estates in the south and there attending to the welfare of his serfs. +estates. his new brethren gave him letters to the kiev and odessa masons +estate near moscow, and to receive many people who formerly did not +established intimacy with the french marshals, and so dazzled by the +essential to speak the whole truth. +essential, and after a short interval followed her. anna mikháylovna +essen corps arrived and prussia took our side. +especially the youngest, the pretty one with the mole, who often made +especially appealed to pierre. the important mystery mentioned by the +especially after having dined, bolkónski felt that he could not take in +escorted him to the door, repeating something to him several times in +escape it anyhow.” +escape it all, and felt that dólokhov knew that he could save him from +escape, and bagratión’s four thousand men merrily lighted campfires, +escapade made everybody feel confused. denísov blushed too, but smiled +err, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.” +erect on his handsome black horse, looking about him in a leisurely and +erect, almost on tiptoe, with a soldier’s obsequious expression on his +equip him.” +equals, while his eyes occasionally sought out his fine well-set-up +equality. have people since the revolution become happier? on the +epaulettes had been packing with his valet in the rooms assigned to him. +envious and natásha could not help joining in. +enveloped in those beams, he heard his voice, that kindly, calm, +entrusted to his care and whom he intended to benefit. +entrusted to him, was pedantic in the fulfillment of his duties, severe +entrenchment. they had to hold their noses and put their horses to a +entrenchments looked out just as menacingly, and the unlimbered cannon +entrenchments being thrown up, the freshly dug clay of which showed up +entreaties. soon after anna pávlovna’s reception anna mikháylovna +entrance to the dam raised his hand and opened his mouth to address +entrance. the prince was working at the lathe and after glancing round +entrance, after scrutinizing the mother and son (who without asking to +entice him to marry my daughter and lend me the forty thousand rubles +enthusiasm—was only the loss of the battle of austerlitz, the +enthusiasms, dreams, and hopes of happiness or goodness, in prince +enter the drawing room? even if i like him i can’t now be myself with +enter that room. +entertainment at the gypsies’, with the result that he had no +entertaining supposition. +entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and +entering the house, prince andrew saw nesvítski and another adjutant +entering the house occupied by kutúzov, asked for bolkónski. prince +entered the room. prince vasíli approached first, and she kissed the +entered the room. +entered the room. +entered the room. +entered their heads that it could have been otherwise at this meeting. +entered the drawing room elegantly dressed in the uniform of an +entered, the bronze handle of one of the doors turned and prince vasíli +entered his father’s dressing room (not with the contemptuous look and +entered, as if to say: “yes, that’s how i want you to look.” +entered. +“enough! what nonsense! above all, try to be respectful and cautious +enough to see a long way in the deserted street and it seemed more like +enough, at the end of the feast proposed the emperor’s health. “not +enormous whole. +enormous table would say: “well, dmítri, you’ll see that things are +enlighten their minds, by means handed on to us by tradition from those +enlightenment?” +enjoyment by sympathy with anyone’s sorrow,” she felt, and she said +enjoyed narrating all this, and did not seem to suspect that others, +enjoyable. that year two marriages had come of these balls. the two +engrossed by it, yet his strut seemed to indicate that, besides military +“england is done for,” said he, scowling and pointing his finger +engagement and his reception by the minister of war. +engaged; he was shouting “hurrah!” +energetically than anyone, led the guests into the drawing room, and +energetic a character. he is so accustomed to unlimited power that he is +enemy under the emperor’s command. commanded by the emperor himself +enemy three times as strong, who would hem him in from two sides. +enemy’s horse patrols could be discerned. +enemy, do not avenge thyself except by doing him good. thus fulfilling +enemy?” +enemies, he tried to continue reading. but feeling this to be senseless +endure this man who is a menace to everything.” +end spurred his horse. +end of the meal. he winked at the butler, whispered directions to the +end of his gun...” a soldier whose greatcoat was well tucked up said +ending pierre’s unpleasant and unamiable outburst. after the anecdote +ended with a thud into something soft... f-f-flop! and a cossack, riding +“encouraging us to get along quicker,” said another uneasily. +encounter one another at the clean, smart hussars who moved past them in +encounter an enemy invisible ten paces off. but the columns advanced +en conjure...” + enchantress, say, to my forsaken lyre +encampment, and not within sight of the enemy before an action in +emptying his glass at one gulp he dashed it to the floor. many followed +empty and that the nurse had been hiding the dead baby. he drew the +emptied them, rolling the vodka in their mouths, and walked away from +empress’ field,” said he clearly and distinctly. +empress’ field, not understanding the significance of the firing, nor +employed by lively chatty people, and consisting in the assumption +emphatically. +emperor was pale, his cheeks sunken and his eyes hollow, but the charm, +emperor,” thought rostóv. +emperor. the emperor francis, a rosy, long faced young man, sat very +emperors. upon them the undivided, tensely passionate attention of that +emperor’s eyes met rostóv’s and rested on them for not more than +emperor’s arrival, lay several killed and wounded soldiers whom there +emperor,” said rostóv, and was about to spur his horse. +emperor not everyone could understand, and with his whole soul he shared +emperor napoleon if we take this bridge, so let us three go and take +emperor napoleon burns with impatience to make prince auersperg’s +emperor himself rode round his bivouacs. the soldiers, on seeing him, +emperor had only just fallen asleep and so savary had to wait. at midday +emperor francis would have been fulfilled long ago. i should long +emperor francis continued to look about him and did not listen. +emperor at once rode up to him, offered his services, and assisted him +emperor and the whole army, especially while the smoke hung over +emperor alexander’s visit to potsdam, and of how the two august +emperor alexander hurriedly to kutúzov, glancing courteously at the +emperor, about the remarks he had heard at court concerning the krems +emitting a smoke ring. +embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on +embracing prince vasíli. +embracing denísov. “nicholas wrote us... natásha, véra, look! here +embraced him and lifting his spectacles kissed his friend on the cheek +embittered look clouded her once handsome face, but only for a moment; +embarrassment looked pierre straight in the face. +embarrassing situation, and the expression on his face was invariably +embarrassing attentions. on the face of the wag zherkóv there suddenly +embarrassed voice, though it sounded severe to denísov—“but my +embarrassed him. he was like a man entirely absorbed in some occupation. +else the tsar did. +else, runs upstairs and does up her hair and wags her tail and is unlike +else,” replied anna pávlovna. +else, my dear boy, let me tell you it’s quite likely you’ll have to +else. +else. +elegantly. bilíbin’s services were valued not only for what he wrote, +eldest who was reading—the one who had met anna mikháylovna. the +eldest princess, who were sitting under the portrait of catherine the +elders which seems to say to the older generation, “we are prepared to +elders. +elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief. +elder daughter, countess véra, with a smile. +elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders +elbows, as if to say: “you can tell me your views later, but now be so +elated. he had noticed a solitary tree ahead of him. this tree had been +ekonómov. +either the place they were leaving or that to which they were going. +either,” he thought. “yes, i did not know anything, anything at all +either,” he thought to himself, “i have done nothing wrong. have i +either. don’t i know that at the rate we are living our means won’t +eighty thousand allied troops rose from their bivouacs to the hum of +eh?... what then?... eh?” +“eh? what?” asked prince andrew. +“eh, is she pretty?” he asked with a wink. +“eh, is anything hurting you?” asked the soldier, shaking his shirt +“eh, eh, friend! come here a bit,” said she, assuming a soft high +eh, dmítri! gallop off to our moscow estate,” he said to the factotum +“eh, brother! they’ve all bolted long ago!” said the soldier, +egged on against each other. +effrayée, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings. +effort to say this. “without a name and without means... and it +effort to move her shoulders or bend her arms when turning, or stamp +effort to look at the servant who stood constantly at the head of the +effort. the bottle was emptying perceptibly and rising still higher +efforts to seem calm. +effect on everyone, smiled and, evidently unmoved by what had been +effected the dangerous crossing of the straits of dover and captured + e’en fortunate napoleon +edge of the clearing. the seconds, measuring the paces, left tracks in +écossaise was ended, he clapped his hands to the musicians and shouted +ebook or online at www.gutenberg.org +easy to take marshals, sitting on a sofa by the fire! that is true, but +easy. and tell me, please—i’ve been meaning to ask—how is he +easy. +early in the year 1806 nicholas rostóv returned home on leave. denísov +eager questions from all sides. the whole moving mass began pressing +eagerness and briskness presented a marked contrast to the dissatisfied +eagerly and rather disdainfully, not resting on anything although his +each visitor performed the ceremony of greeting this old aunt whom not +each time with fresh pleasure and each time discovered in it fresh +each time he touched his forehead. his face wore a calm look of piety +each other’s arms warmly pressing their lips to whatever place they +each of those present, and the advantages that might accrue. he took +each occasion had been driven back by grapeshot from the four isolated +each face, appraising the possibilities of establishing intimacy with +each ascent or descent of the road the crowds were yet denser and the +dying of fright. i did, ‘pon my word, i got that frightened!” said +dying man wished to see, her own admission was assured. casting a rapid +dying man, but passed by him, joined the eldest princess, and moved +dying father. “it is painful, but it does one good. it uplifts the +duty. the emperor is gracious, and i shan’t forget you if you deserve +duties on you, and you must be a man.” +dust from the sleeve of his uniform, and going up to a mirror examined +during this transfer he felt a little stronger and was able to look +during the five years he had known her, and how her head had cracked +during the battle, and feeling reassured he dozed off.... the dark +during that stay in petersburg, borís became an intimate in the +during rostóv’s short stay in moscow, before rejoining the army, he +dull without you,” said she, giving him a tender smile. +dull eyes looked at him in silence. it seemed to prince andrew that the +dull expression. +duke’s orders the men had marched all the way in step (a practice on +duke constantine pávlovich, who commanded the guards. the rostóvs +due to her misfortune. when conversation turned on her husband hélène +duel prove? that you’re a fool, que vous êtes un sot, but everybody +duelist, who was living with anatole. pierre smiled, looking about him +duelist and rake, and every now and then he glanced ironically at +duel he did not go to his bedroom but, as he often did, remained in his +duc even the most partial ceased to regard him as a hero. if to some +dry hands clenched with vexation at her not understanding a sum in +drummer, their leader, turned round facing the singers, and flourishing +drubetskáya, who as a member of the household was also seated in the +drowsiness overpowered him, red rings danced before his eyes, and the +drove his huge spurs in violently, and the horse, flourishing its tail +drops and again went up to the cot. +dropping into his usual after-dinner nap, and laughed at everything. +dropping her voice. “my wretched lawsuit takes all i have and makes no +dropped it into a leather pouch attached to the lathe, and, approaching +drooping tail. +drooping as he broke into a gallop. +driving into the court of count bezúkhov’s house. as the wheels +drive up, went to meet him. +drive the princess away by that scream... “killed!” +driver’s leg. their spirits once roused were, however, not diminished, +driven their two-horse carts loaded with wheat and had returned dusty +drink shop or fall ill. just as i could not stand his terrible physical +drink?” +dried and warmed themselves, cooked their porridge for the first time +drew in his legs and sat up, seeking a firm center of gravity. he sucked +drew his saber, and with a happy and resolute countenance, opening +drew her chair nearer to that of the countess. +drew anatole, whom she hardly knew, into these amusing recollections of +dress with her little hand, now arranging the scarf and looking at her +dress under her, hiding her face with her slender fingers, and sobbing +dress, mademoiselle bourienne’s ribbon, princess mary’s unbecoming +dressing gown, spectacled and wigless, shouting in an angry voice. +dressing gown looked out. +dressing gown every day, he invariably became confused and begged her to +dress her would prolong their banter and insistence. she flushed, her +dress, have it fetched. really! you know the fate of your whole life may +dress, girdled with a broad ribbon just below the breast. +dressed. princess mary’s self-esteem was wounded by the fact that +dressed gay young men on splendid, well-groomed, fresh, only slightly +dressed for his attendance at court in full parade uniform, which he +dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, +dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending +dressed alike, in new pale-blue frocks, and were both fresh, rosy, and +dress as fresh and elegant as the other. prince andrew rose and politely +drawing room with her habitual skill. the large group, in which were +drawing room. the guests began to disperse, some without taking leave +drawing room, helped to receive and entertain the visitors. the young +drawing room, approaching now a silent, now a too-noisy group, and by a +drawing room. and, in fact, bilíbin’s witticisms were hawked about +drawing room. +drawing room. +drawing room. +drawing him down put her arm round his thin, scraggy neck. +draw breath. +drank much, and eagerly. but those who knew him intimately noticed that +dragoons. in the center, where túshin’s battery stood and from which +dragging it by the staff, ran on with the battalion. in front he saw our +dozens of soldiers, continually replaced by others, who ran from the +“do you want anything?” +“do you understand what you’re saying?” he said in a trembling +“do you think so?... really? truly?” she said, quickly smoothing her +“do you think he can last till morning?” asked the german, +“do you see?... my doll... mimi... you see...” was all natásha +“do you remember we had a talk about cards... ‘he’s a fool who +“do you remember me?” asked borís quietly with a pleasant smile. +“do you remember him?” natásha suddenly asked, after a moment’s +do you remain silent when heaven knows who permits herself to +“do you or do you not know where that will is?” insisted prince +“do you know, you are a terrible chap for all your innocent airs,” + *do you know the proverb? +“do you know, that fat pierre who sat opposite me is so funny!” said +“do you know?” said pierre, as if suddenly struck by a happy +“do you know, mon cher,” said bilíbin following him, “i have been +“do you know,” he said at last, evidently unable to check the sad +do you know he has fallen in love with sónya?” +“do you hear how he’s walking?” said tíkhon, drawing the +dowry and take mademoiselle bourienne into the bargain. she’ll be the +downy lip was open and she was smiling joyfully. prince andrew entered +downward. when pierre came up the count was gazing straight at him, but +downwards as was his habit. +down to her neck and shoulders while nicholas was speaking. +down the wax, the seal, and the paper, with his accustomed rapidity. +down the room for a long time, no longer piercing an imaginary foe with +down the hillsides, and clouds of cannon smoke rolling, spreading, +downstairs to his own room. a quarter of an hour later the old count +down on the sofa, facing her brother. “she is quite a child: such a +down on one of the tubs, picked it up. +down on her with outstretched hands shouted, “get out!” in such a +down. one bullet and then another whistled past him. he mustered his +down on a sofa near the silver samovar, as if all she was doing was a +down on a sofa in the next room. +down, lightly touched his daughter’s hair and sat down again. +down laws for austria at schönbrunn, il faut lui faire grâce de +down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before +downcast head; and he began to pace the room, glancing occasionally at +down below, but higher up at the village of schlappanitz where napoleon +down. anna mikháylovna indicated by her attitude her consciousness of +down, and smiled affectionately. +down!” +doubt of victory, especially on this day when what is at stake is the +doubt it now. rostóv rode in the direction pointed out to him, in which +doubt filled her soul. could the joy of love, of earthly love for a +doubt, and self-derision, which appeared on his face against his will, +doubled. to this prince andrew answered with a smile that he could +do to get here.” +do this for my son—and i shall always regard you as a benefactor,” +“do this for my sake, mon cher; after all, she had to put up with a +do they look at me?” then he lifted his head, stretched his neck as +do the right thing. +do the doctors say?” asked the princess after a pause, her worn face +“do stop joking, bilíbin,” cried bolkónski. + do, sire.” +“do promise, do promise, vasíli!” cried anna mikháylovna as he +doppelkümmel. the officers gladly gathered round him, some on their +door. while he was getting down from the carriage steps two men, who +door opened quickly and the stern figure of the old man in the white +door? oh, she is a pearl among women, princess,” he added, turning to +“do order them to form into battalion columns and go round the +door behind him and satisfied himself that there was nobody else in the +door, as though he had long expected him. +door and his expression of sleepy indifference suddenly changed to one +door, and added in a whisper so that her son should not hear, “wish me +“don’t you wecollect what bad use i made of your lessons?” +“don’t you want to? well, then, come here,” said she, and +don’t wish to let me go, i’ll stay. but i know i am no use anywhere +don’t understand. perhaps princess elizabeth and princess mary know. +don’t trouble yourself further.” +“don’t touch me,” said rostóv, drawing back. “if you need it, +“don’t touch him! you’ll startle him and then he’ll be killed. +“don’t tease! well, and what has been decided about novosíltsev’s +“don’t speak to me... i beg you,” muttered pierre hoarsely. +“don’t say that to me! i want nothing. i love you as a brother and +don’t remember borís. i don’t remember him a bit.” +don’t need it? now you shall judge between us. i always tell him: here +“don’t, natásha! what nonsense!” she said, hoping it was a joke. +“don’t mention it, general, as if i’d be so bold!” replied the +“don’t like bowwowing from my own fellows, i don’t,” growled +don’t know me. we have not met for such a long time... not since we +don’t know how to hide what i feel.” as he spoke he kept glancing +don’t know and never shall know, for the love of these men here,” he +“don’t kick up the dust, you infantry!” jested an hussar whose +“don’t joke; i mean to have a serious talk with you. do you know +don’t get promoted to a sublieutenancy.” +don’t forget to put out my new coat,” added rostóv, fingering his +don’t feel that weakness in myself as yet, i know a little person who +“don’t! don’t! what are you about?” whispered their frightened +“don’t come in,” she said to the old count who was following her. +don’t care a straw about anyone but those i love; but those i love, +“don’t, borís! you are such a diplomat that it is really +“don’t be unkind,” cried anna pávlovna from her end of the table +do not suppose me to be so bad. with my whole soul i wish to be what you +“do not let us lose any time...” +do not break your ranks on the plea of removing the wounded! let every +do next. anna mikháylovna with her eyes indicated a chair that stood +done up. +done to me?”—said her charming, pathetic, dead face. +done, the rhetor said: +done the job just as well.” +done shall be. now listen! give this letter to michael ilariónovich. * +done no harm to anyone; why must i suffer so? help me!” her look +done. have you chosen a post in which you might be of service to your +done for him! i hope that here in moscow no one will receive him, in +dominated everything else and soared above all their affected chatter. +domestic serfs were crowding in the hall, waiting to bid good-by to +dólokhov who was in the midst of the crowd forced his way to the edge +dólokhov, whom everyone in the house liked except natásha. she almost +dólokhov, who had no reason to preserve the honor of a man who was +dólokhov, who had already changed into a soldier’s gray greatcoat, +dólokhov was of medium height, with curly hair and light-blue eyes. he +dólokhov was holding the englishman’s hand and clearly and distinctly +dólokhov was a secret to no one but himself. pierre absolutely +dólokhov turned round and, again holding on with both hands, arranged +dólokhov, the bottle of rum still in his hand, jumped onto the window +dólokhov’s words into english. a thin young lad, an hussar of the +dólokhov. suddenly a cannon ball hissed so low above the crowd that +dólokhov stood frowning and did not speak. pierre jumped upon the +dólokhov still sat in the same position, only his head was thrown +dólokhov’s second, and after dinner he discussed the arrangements for +dólokhov’s reply. +dólokhov’s proposal and iogel’s ball, seemed to have grown thicker +dólokhov’s offer,” he said, articulating his friend’s name with +dólokhov smiled. “don’t trouble. if i want anything, i won’t +dólokhov slowly straightened his bent knee, looking straight with his +dólokhov, slamming down the pack of cards, put it aside and began +dólokhov’s home: on the third day he received a note from him: +dólokhov’s hands and thought, “now then, make haste and let me have +dólokhov’s hand. +dólokhov’s face. +dólokhov’s clear, cold glance met rostóv as soon as he entered the +dólokhov’s back in his white shirt, and his curly head, were lit +dólokhov pressed rostóv’s hand and burst into tears. +dólokhov, pierre saw clearly that what was said in the letter might be +dólokhov paused. +dólokhov or answering him. the footman, who was distributing leaflets +dólokhov often dined at the rostóvs’, never missed a performance at +dólokhov—now an officer—wounded in the arm, and on foot, with +“dólokhov, mary ivánovna’s son,” she said in a mysterious +dólokhov made no reply. +dólokhov looked round but did not say anything, nor did the mocking +dólokhov looked at pierre with clear, mirthful, cruel eyes, and that +dólokhov hurriedly interrupted. +dólokhov himself during his convalescence spoke to rostóv in a way no +dólokhov has been degraded to the ranks and bezúkhov’s son sent +dólokhov did not answer the captain; he had been drawn into a hot +dólokhov cut him short, as if to remind him that it was not for him to +dólokhov climbed carefully and slowly through the window and lowered +dólokhov began to deal seriously. oh, how rostóv detested at that +dólokhov, an officer of the semënov regiment, a notorious gambler and +dólokhov, and words of honor?... all nonsense! one might kill and rob +dólokhov and looked sorrowfully at him. denísov, rostóv, and +dólokhov. +dólokhov. +dolls and who was still having lessons. +dolgorúkov was still insisting that the french had retreated and had +dolgorúkov to the emperor. +dolgorúkov, the victor at wischau, was sent with savary to negotiate +dolgorúkov, one of the warmest advocates of an attack, had just +dolgorúkov, looking round at bilíbin with a smile. +dolgorúkov laughed merrily. +dolgorúkov; and though you may not know it, the fact is that now +do it.” +“do i remember nicholas?” +doing!” said the officer and rode off. +doing right. anna mikháylovna nodded approvingly. again pierre fell +doing a little—though i did very little and did it very badly? what +does she bother me?” and she added, turning to véra, “you’ll +doesn’t make a mess of things!” +doesn’t have intrigues nowadays? why, if he was so jealous, as i see +does not quite see it; more particularly as it is he and his corps who +does not produce the slightest stir—a blind man has left it. there are +does not even attempt to hide its artificiality) of a man who is +doctor with a bow and approached them silently and with a look of +doctor who had entered the hall after him (they had met at the last post +doctor’s wife, who was calling him her deliverer, and recalling with +doctor’s wife. +doctor and expecting another for whom they had sent to town, they had +“do come.” +do?” +“dmítri,” said rostóv to his valet on the box, “those lights are +dmítrievna’s deep voice suddenly inquired from the other end of the +dmítrievna produced no less impression by slight exertions—the least +dmítrievna. +dmítri, and several acquaintances, and the countess reread the letter +dmítri, a man of good family who had been brought up in the count’s +divine saviour has left for our guidance here below. let us try to +disturbed. +distrust in bolkónski’s emphatic opinion yet not feeling able fully +distressed that his stout and clumsy body took up so much room and doing +distressed, and breathed painfully, but could not restrain the wild +distraught yet angry expression on the faces of these two men, who +distorted out of all likeness to his former self, and the flourishing of +distinguished him from everyone else in that drawing room. +distinguished dignitary and a swiss who had formerly been tutor at the +distinguished air which inspired respect. princess anna mikháylovna +distinguish a mounted man from one on foot. napoleon, in the blue cloak +distinctness. +distinctly, but as often happens had not understood a word of what they +distinctions which may infringe equality. fly to a brother’s aid +distant, most intimate, memories rose in his imagination: he remembered +distance where no one had been before him. bagratión called to him from +distance that allowed every softly spoken word to be heard, followed +distance, but down the hill before him. “it’s the french!” +distance and puckering the skin above his left eye, “malgré la haute +dissipated life of his son anatole, the son whom they were planning to +dissatisfied with him, and also that at the emperor’s headquarters +dissatisfied, interrupted by another, an unfamiliar voice. from the +dissatisfaction and reproach. “old though he may be, he should not, he +disrespectful manner of the exhausted clerk, the fact that the clerk and +dispute with the french grenadier. they were naturally talking about the +dispute. +“dispositions for an attack on the enemy position behind kobelnitz and +dispositions...” +disposition of the forces, so as to know his bearings should he be sent +disposed to treat the young heir in the most friendly and flattering +displease you. however,” he added rising, “you know my name and +dispatch? you know everything.” +disorganized, i stopped in the road and thought: ‘i’ll let them +disordered. the french cannon did not reach there and the musketry fire +disorder and was retreating upon the kiev grenadiers. prince bagratión +dismounted. he gave the reins to a cossack, took off and handed over his +dismissed from here; therefore, you can stay and go with us wherever our +dismal influence of cannon balls flying from the french batteries +disheveled head from the hot pillow. +disgrace the whole regiment? disgrace the whole regiment because of one +disgrace such as that of ulm, or to utter destruction. but to forestall +discuss so minutely and acutely all the recent european military and +disconcerted. the sight of the discomposure of that old man of the world +discipline, if you allow a subordinate to address you like that!’ it +discipline and zeal in the service. he brought with him into our +disbelieved both the princess’ hints and the letter, but he feared +disastrous was about to happen. +disapprovingly, but in whispers and as a great secret. +disappeared he noticed that the eyes of all in the room turned to him +disagreeable tone to prince hippolyte who was blocking his path. +dirty feather bed on the top of the chest, crumpling her gauzy pink +“directly!” +direction toward the valley and disappearing one after another into +direction of the conflagration. as if urging each other on, the soldiers +directing the march rode backward and forward between the carts. their +directed to—pierre and hélène. prince vasíli mimicked the sobbing +direct descent and ascent to the brook separating us from schön +dip. prince andrew, being always near the commander in chief, closely +diplomats who are esteemed because they have certain negative qualities, +diplomats, evidently had its own interests which had nothing to do with +diplomatist fresh from berlin with the very latest details of the +diplomatist?” asked prince andrew after a momentary silence. +diplomatic discretion tormented him, and he was happy to have in prince +diplomatic career in comparison with pierre’s happiness. the old +din of shouting more incessant. soldiers floundering knee-deep in mud +dinner,” cried several voices. “we’ll take you in hand.” +dinner, but providing it and serving it all up, that’s not their +dinner at the rostóvs’?” +dinner and looked about, blinking and scowling, or, with fixed eyes and +dinner and at other times, when as if tired of everyday life he had felt +dinner all who came “to congratulate.” the countess wished to have +dinner. +dining room where his daughter-in-law, princess mary, and mademoiselle +dim, but definite and in the concise form in which he imagined himself +digested his sufferings alone. +difficulty out of the front door. +difficulty. +difficulty. +difficulty. +difficult to imagine happier people, and that god only knew what would +difficulties had told nicholas that this was all he could let him have +difficult for artillery and cavalry to retire. prince andrew took +different tones. rostóv reined in his horse, whose spirits had risen, +different one from that which he had ridden at the review, and bending +different from themselves and from everyone else, expected great things +different from that of its elders which is often insincere, nicholas +different companies did not get mixed. but our left—which consisted +different, and better, pierre than he had been in petersburg. +differed only in that one had a little mole on her lip which made her +“dieu sait quand reviendra.” hummed the prince out of tune and, with +“dieu sait quand reviendra. go to the dining room.” +“dieu! mon dieu!” muttered anna pávlovna in a terrified whisper. +“‘dieu me la donne, gare à qui la touche!’’ * they say he was +did you come here?” +did this and that, all would be well; and he did what was demanded of +did they not interest him, but he took no notice of them and at once +did that day. but no sooner had natásha finished her barcarolle than +didst thou, and why did the whole world, conceive the idea of the +did still harder work on their own land. he did not know that the priest +did she not show any trace of coquetry, but on the contrary she even +“didn’t i tell you,” she went on, turning reproachfully to +did novosíltsev get? none. the english have not understood and cannot +did not wish to confess. +did not wish to, believe that. +did not want or could not carry away with them. austrian column guides +did not wait to be called. the shapely figure of the fair-haired +did not suit her faded features, always played round her lips expressed, +did not see you.” +did not let it out of her hands. the tutors came, and the nurses, and +did not let him and, on the other, pierre himself feared to begin to +did not interest her—or by a silent look and smile which more palpably +did not, for instance, say to himself: “this man now has influence, i +did not even make him a curtsy. she fixed her eyes on him in amazement, +did not draw closer to sónya, but rather drifted away from her. she was +did not calm her excitement. suddenly her door opened softly and her old +did not, and do not, in the least care about that scoundrel of a clerk +did neither: a look of animosity appeared on his face and the other +did i come here?” he wondered. +did, especially toward evening when he had emptied his second bottle; he +dictated the dispositions in german, and now, much exhausted, he arrived +diamonds, she passed between the men who made way for her, not looking +devoured him with his eyes, drawing himself up obsequiously, and from +devotion to the sovereign, rostóv pictured to himself an enemy or a +devoid of any foundation. prince bagratión turned to the old colonel: +“devil take them!” he muttered, and after listening to the verbal +“devil take ‘em!” he muttered, while his head was still covered by +details of his disaster he understood that half the campaign was lost, +detail! no, my dear fellow, no conditions better than our present ones +detachment no one knew anything of the general position of affairs. they +detachment, moved from the place where it had spent the night, advancing +destruction of the prussian army at jena and auerstädt and the + destroyed, and you find that a cause for jesting!” +destiny of our adored monarch. he will save europe!” +despite the weakness of age, which had become particularly noticeable +despite the general’s presence were talking loudly and gesticulating. +“despite my great respect for old kutúzov,” he continued, “we +despite count bezúkhov’s enormous wealth, since he had come into an +desperation slammed the door with all her might. +desperate attack just to punish him—rostóv. then he imagined how, +despair, not knowing where to or why he was now riding. +despair at failing in a scripture examination, his borrowing money from +desirous of hiding her adoration for hélène and inclined rather +desire to show his friend as soon as possible that he was now a quite +desire to do good to his neighbor. +descriptive part of the letter. “and what a soul! not a word about +description. the old man began to sing, in the cracked voice of old age: +description of the last petersburg fete she addressed her brother: +descent lit up, and facing it a black knoll that seemed as steep as a +descending the valley. that moment of moral hesitation which decides +derision. “i ought to know the emperor by now, after the times i’ve +“dere has neffer been a gase,” a german doctor was saying to an +depth of his heart. in one place the peasants presented him with bread +depressing and unsolved problem. +depressed, “i shall be only too glad if you relieve me of that young +deprecating expression of a dog when it rapidly but feebly wags its +depraved woman,” he repeated, “but dared not admit it to myself. +depraved ideas of these days. i said so even at the time when everybody +depends on your decision. never mind me!” +departure hélène returned to petersburg, she was received by all her +denísov, with sparkling eyes and ruffled hair, sat at the clavichord +denísov with his voice and mustache, and telyánin and all that affair +denísov, who had settled down by the roadside with a flask and some +denísov were his worst enemy, firmly fixed his eyes directly on his +“denísov! we’re here! he’s asleep,” he added, leaning forward +denísov was shown to the room prepared for him, and the rostóvs all +denísov was looking at her with enraptured eyes. +denísov, to rostóv’s surprise, appeared in the drawing room with +denísov threw both pillows on the floor. the purse was not there. +denísov. “they keep dwagging the wegiment to and fwo all day. if they +denísov’s voice from the next room. +denísov’s short stature not noticeable and he looked the fine fellow +denísov’s new cloak and saddlecloth. +denísov smiled, took out of his sabretache a handkerchief that diffused +denísov’s horse, bedouin, was in debt all round, to his comrades and +denísov’s favorite barcarolle. natásha was preparing to sing. +denísov’s face puckered still more. +denísov screwed up his face and pointing over his shoulder with his +denísov sat gloomily biting his mustache and listening to the +denísov’s a fine fellow. but that’s all nonsense. the chief thing +denísov remained silent and did not move, but occasionally looked with +denísov raised his head, coughed, and made no answer. +denísov nice?” she asked. +“denísov, let him alone, i know who has taken it,” said rostóv, +denísov joined nesvítski. +denísov glanced at rostóv. +denísov gave no answer. +denísov galloped up to him. +denísov frowned and was about to shout some reply but stopped. +denísov first went to the barrier and announced: “as the +“denísov, don’t make fun of it!” cried rostóv. “it is such a +denísov, denísov! we’re almost there!” +denísov bent over her hand and she heard strange sounds she did not +denísov began to laugh. +denísov, and now moscow memories—and he again hurriedly opened his +denísov also came back and stayed with them. the first half of the +denísov?” +denísov. + * denísov. +“demosthenes, i know thee by the pebble thou secretest in thy golden +demand satisfaction of his regimental commander?” +demanded that he should submit. feeling himself in their power, he +demanded. +delivers its teaching not in words only but also by other means, which +(delivered by the french alone) was still to be heard from numerous +delight. so you still love me, my romantic julie? separation, of which +delight of frenzy. he flung down the slab, broke it, and swooping +delightful to see.” +“delightful!” said bolkónski. “but i have come to you, prince, +delicate dark down was just perceptible, was too short for her teeth, +deliberately spoken word. it was evident that kutúzov himself listened +deliberately so that everyone could hear: +delay and advised waiting for something else before advancing had been +dejection and hopelessness)—at any rate, pierre longed with his whole +definite idea of her, he turned away and addressed michael ivánovich. +defile through narrow village streets when we are marching against the +deferential young man who had entered. “bring me...” he reflected +defense of vienna was no longer to be thought of. instead of an +defense—as much as to say: ‘heaven is with us, but heaven help you +defending us—doing it very badly, i think, but still he is defending +defective commissariat, the treachery of the pole przebyszéwski and of +defection, ran at a trot, panting to catch up with his company. a cannon +defeat, there were many circumstances confirming the unfavorable rumors +defeated. a week after the gazette report of the battle of austerlitz +deep wrinkles would crease his cheeks. his small, deep-set eyes always +deeply. +deepest where the land lies lowest. +deeds, and while dying he expressed the love his actions had proved. +declined: i have my daughters to consider.” +declares in ze manifessto zat he cannot fiew wiz indifference ze danger +declared, was extraordinary and had achieved miracles of valor. the +declared that he will leave it to the french people themselves to choose +decide, my dear, good, gentle marie, whom i have always loved as a +decided to send the letters and money by the grand duke’s courier to +decided to play until that score reached forty-three thousand. he +decided that day, but that they also knew what she thought about it. she +decided now or never. she lowered her eyes so as not to see the gaze +decidedly lost bearings, you know that a letter was received from him +de châle, but at this last ball only the écossaise, the anglaise, and +decently here,” continued telyánin. “now then, let me have it.” +december, nothing was said about the war and the last battle, as +deceived you. let us go to mamma.” +deceitful german, whom he would not only kill with pleasure but whom +de beaucoup de mérite), a newly appointed maid of honor and her mother, +death,” thought bolkónski. +death’s head. the stranger sat without stirring, either resting or, as +death, is here above me and around... another instant and i shall never +dear. we will see how tarás distinguishes himself today. he says count +dear, there’s friendship for you,” he repeated. “he’s joining +dear sir—took on yourself responsibility for the guidance of a young +“dear princess, i beg and implore you, have some pity on him! je vous +“dear me! then what are you up to now?” +“dear me!” said rostóv. +“dear me!” said his father, who was in a specially good humor. “i +dear, merry child. i have grown so fond of her.” +“dear me, how you have changed!” +“dear me, can i have forgotten? no, i remember thinking that you kept +dear invalid?” said she, as though unaware of the cold offensive look +dear general, i am engaged with rice and cutlets, look after military +dear fellow!” and for some unknown reason tears suddenly filled his +“dearest,” said the little princess after breakfast on the morning +“dearest, i’m afraid this morning’s fruschtique *—as fóka the +‘dearest foe! flower of the austrian army, hero of the turkish wars! +“dearest... and me!” +“dear doctor,” said she, “this young man is the count’s son. is +“dear, dear! just look at her!” exclaimed the countess as she +“dear, dear! but still tell him to come to the club—it will all blow +“dear countess, what an age... she has been laid up, poor child ... +dear boy,” and he drew pierre’s arm downwards, “it is simply a +dear and precious friend, your letter of the 13th has given me great +dear and precious friend, how terrible and frightful a thing is +dead or wounded horses and harnessing fresh ones, and shouting in his +dead. all that he saw and heard seemed to confirm this terror. +day we are keeping. but mind you come to dinner or i shall be offended, +day was mapped out, the prince rested and the princess played the +day until then, but he could no longer do it. he could not, any more +days with her, asked her to sleep in her room, and often talked with her +days was still thin—moved. his gleaming eyes were fixed intently on +days’ march and the enemy’s outposts after a brief interchange +day,” said the visitor. “what a charming child,” she added, +days.” +day... natásha, what have i done to deserve it?...” +day in moscow. all denísov’s moscow friends gave him a farewell +day he is sensible, well educated, and good-natured, and the next he’s +day he had lost. he was happy as a lover when the longed-for moment of +day before, he wished to do what the young man wanted. having been sent +daughter were having one not less important. natásha came running to +daughter. she lowered her head and was ready to burst into tears. +daughter’s happiness. +daughter’s face that it was only mischief, she shook a finger at her +daughter of prince vasíli, but visualized her whole body only veiled + * daughter of matthew. +daughter.)—“my dear boy... lëlya... i am very pleased.” (his +daughter is so young, and i thought that, as my son’s friend, you +daughter-in-law, “but she need not make a fool of herself, she’s +daughter got up to go and the two young men rose to let them pass. +daughter, entered the drawing room, their dresses rustling. +daughter, but for a minister! for me, there are no ministers!” +daughter, and while he laughed the expression on his face clearly said: +daughter and placing an arm on the back of the chair on which she sat, +daughter. +daughter!” +dashing young hussar! +darted in and stopped short in the middle of the room. it was evident +darted forward at every word or gesture of the commander in chief, +“darling denísov!” screamed natásha, beside herself with rapture, +dark... steady!” he cried to his fidgeting horse. +darkness. “why not?... it might easily happen,” thought rostóv, +darkness, was suddenly lit up by a new brightness, full of significance. +darkness, the man paused, then moved with cautious steps toward the +dark hairs were already showing on his upper lip, and his whole face +dark-haired man. this was the celebrated petersburg doctor, lorrain. +dark corner. and this someone was he—the devil—and he was also this +dark and the glow of two conflagrations was the more conspicuous. the +daren’t say so. it will be as i said at the beginning of the campaign, +dared to treat márya dmítrievna in this fashion. +dared complain, i who am deprived of all who are dear to me? ah, if +danube, marching on us, you, and your lines of communication.” +danube covered with pine forests, with a mystic background of green +dangers. during these wanderings, pierre noticed that he was spoken +dangerous. +danger. “i am convinced that we russians must die or conquer,” he +dancing master) gave for his pupils during the holidays. +dancers do, natásha, rising energetically from her heels to her toes, +dancer, but smiling as only happy girls of fifteen can smile. when +dancer, and one of the best matches in the city. +dance) began to sound, all the doorways of the ballroom were suddenly +damned fool!” cried denísov, not pronouncing his r’s. “such ill +d’affaires. +cynically dólokhov had praised his wife’s beauty to him and from that +cut!” +curving her arms, natásha held out her skirts as dancers do, ran back +curtain flapping and blew out the candle with its chill, snowy draft. +curtain aside and for some time his frightened, restless eyes could not +current of his thoughts, “that anatole is costing me forty thousand +curly head to her knees and made the whole room ring with her laughter. +curious to know what was going to happen and what would be revealed to +curious embarrassment among some of those present. sónya, dólokhov, +cup of vodka for the men from me,” he added so that the soldiers +cupboards, and little tables. the quilt of a high, white feather bed was +cunning smile, as if flattered at being made the subject of zherkóv’s +cry. prince andrew evidently felt ill at ease, but to the two women +cry or to laugh. prince andrew shrugged his shoulders and frowned, as +crying. sónya tried to lift her head to answer but could not, and +crying. +cry. “i need five hundred rubles, and have only one twenty-five-ruble +crush the contemptible detachment that stood before him. +crushed, but angry and working unnaturally, she saw that hanging over +crowd, they had got wedged in at the approach to the dam and, jammed in +crowd of soldiers. “it can’t be an attack, for they are not moving; +crowding around the dams and banks of the ponds near the village of +crowd had to wait. +crowded together close to his wheels and his horses. “what a fellow! +crowded round a pockmarked, broad-shouldered sergeant major who, tilting +cross the lech, we can cross the danube, throw ourselves on his line +cross it and ride over the black field up the hillside. to keep to the +crossing a road they descended a steep incline and saw several men +crossed the road, and began riding up the hill at a gallop toward the +crossed the ballroom, pointing to natásha. +crossed one on the other on her breast, and to him, too, her face seemed +crossed himself and kissed the icon. there was a look of tenderness, for +criticism and was about to reply, when the expected footsteps were heard +critical moment the courier who carried the news of our victory at +crimson float on the surface of that milky sea of mist. the whole french +criminal,” came into pierre’s head, “and from their point of +cried her eyes out,” she said, growing more and more lively. +cried at each shot: “fine! that’s good! look at it... grand!” the +“crew, to your guns!” commanded the officer. +cream.” +creaks or makes more noise than it should, and hastens to check the +creaking of her corset as she moved. he did not see her marble beauty +crackling of wood fires near and afar, merged into one tremulous rumble. +crack and there was a glimpse of something blue, of ribbons, black hair, +coyness and reserve of manner, she reminded one of a pretty, half-grown +cowshed nor rostóv back with his platoon from foraging for hay had any +“cover yourself!” even denísov cried to his adversary. +cover of the small box, and assumed his usual tranquil and impenetrable +covered with melting snow, the frost having begun to break up during the +covered this movement of the transport and of the whole army, had to +covered his eyes with his hand and pressed von toll’s hand. + * cousinhood is a dangerous neighborhood. +“cousinage—dangereux voisinage,” * she added. +courts only strengthened his desire to belong to that higher world. +courtierlike quickness and tact habitual to her, anna pávlovna +course.” perhaps he did not really think this when he met women—even +course of events in the forthcoming action in broad outline. he +courage, so he drew himself up and looked around him merrily; then it +courage. next he thought that his enemy would send the squadron on a +courage, my angel.” she kissed lise and was about to leave the room. +courage had it not been that just then they heard the rattle of musketry +“courage, courage, my friend! he has asked to see you. that is + courage conquest guarantees; +courage, but she looked straight into his handsome face as it came near +courage and endurance—acknowledged even by the enemy—with which the +courage. 6. generosity. 7. the love of death. +couple of words with him, pierre felt unable to disappoint him. +couple. in the intervals of the dance the count, breathing deeply, waved +count,” yet ashamed to call him “father.” +count, with playful ceremony somewhat in ballet style, offered his +count tolstóy, who had ridden out to the battlefield with others in +count’s visitors settled themselves, some in the two drawing rooms, +count’s services, his request would be granted?...” +count’s niece, entered with a cold, stern face. the length of her +“count...” said telyánin drawing nearer to him. +count,” said berg, lighting his pipe and emitting rings of smoke. +countryside—“see, our infantrymen have already got there. look there +countrymen. thanks for the fire—we’ll return it with interest,” +country do we get any rest? theatricals, hunting, and heaven knows what +“count rostóv asks you to come to dinner today,” said he, after a +“count rostóv.” +count rostopchín, valúev, and narýshkin. rostopchín was describing +count never be able to find out whether all measures had been taken for +count, money and all things necessary for the uniform and equipment +count markóv? count markóv was the only man who knew how to handle +count markóv, and prince vyázemski—did not show themselves at the +“count lichtenfels was here this morning,” bilíbin continued, +count is very fond of pierre, looked after his education, and wrote to +“count ilyá rostóv’s son?” asked dolgorúkov. +count ilyá rostóv separately, as the organizer of the banquet. at that +count ilyá rostóv, hurried and preoccupied, went about in his soft +count. he has, no doubt, forgotten it and will wish to destroy it. +countess with a gentle smile, looking at borís and went on, evidently +countess, who sat holding in one hand the snuffbox with its portrait and +countess” to have a rest, but remembering something else of +“countess...” said denísov, with downcast eyes and a guilty face. +countess rostóva, with her daughters and a large number of guests, was +countess rostóva’s carriage in which they were seated drove over the +“countess natásha,” answered denísov. +countess. “i have never seen a handsomer man.” +“countess, i have done w’ong,” denísov went on in an unsteady +countess’ house. +countess. her son’s growth toward manhood, at each of its stages, +countess had not yet come. but now steps were heard at the door, steps +countess’ gigantic footman in his bass voice, entering the drawing +“countess apráksina, poor thing, has lost her husband and she has +countess. +countermarches, things of which i understand nothing; and the day +counterattack. if they attack our center we, having the center battery +countenances became calm; soldiers and officers greeted him gaily, grew +countenance bonaparte, and to cause me, and us in general, annoyance and +countenance. +“count!... don’t ruin a young fellow... here is this wretched money, +“count! count!” shouted berg who ran up from the other side as eager +count coming out from the dining hall into the anteroom, and he added: +count bezúkhov’s distress some fifteen times. +count bezúkhov he did not let go his hold of the lad. he had the air of +count, and having kissed his wife’s hand he went back to his study. +count against him, he nevertheless on the day of his arrival went to +count. +councilor of state, and insisted on the young man accompanying him to +council, he remained in the room. +could reach, there were the rattle of wheels, the creaking of carts +could not think of it without tears, and did not know which had behaved +could not scream like that—came from the bedroom. prince andrew ran to +could not say with certainty whether the attack had been repulsed or his +could not reply. +could not remember what it was that people say. he looked at her face. +could not possibly be, and so did not deliver the order. +could not move it. he smashed a pane. +could not help seeing these people, took any notice of them. “it seems +could not break away from her, and that though it would be a terrible +could not bear her look but turned away with a sob. +could no longer be averted but was taking its course independently of +could hear the footstep of someone in thick felt boots, and a voice that +could hear. “i thank you all! god be praised!” and he rode past that +could have the effrontery to continue firing from four quite undefended +could have been devised. this combination of austrian precision with +could get more rewards by doing nothing on the staff, and had succeeded +could disclose it to me.” +could clearly distinguish their bandoliers, red epaulets, and even their +could be seen, and in three places to left and right the french troops +could be heard. it was there prince andrew thought the fight would +could be heard above the three hundred others. he nearly wept. “to the +could be felt, but the nearer prince andrew came to the french lines the +could be discerned. +coughing of the musicians were heard from the gallery. +coughed, swallowed, and said in french that she was very pleased to see +cough. +cost correct, or remedy, the mistake if he had made one, so that he, +“cossack!” she said threateningly. +cossack scouts were moving. suddenly on the road at the top of the high +cossacks and then the first and second squadrons of hussars and infantry +corridor to the cabinet where the minister of war was at work. the +correct, others that it was not, and explained the false rumor that had +correct. as soon as bonaparte (who was at schönbrunn, sixteen miles +correct. +corner of his card and, instead of the six thousand he had intended, +cords on his coat and took a card with that number and tried staking the +coquettish manner in which she spoke to other men, “the vicomte has +cooked before we reach our quarters.” +cook calls it—has disagreed with me.” +convoy officer, who said rapidly: “we must halt here: the emperor +convey....” +conversation with her, when anna pávlovna called him away on the +conversation—“i often think how unfairly sometimes the joys of life +conversation in french. +conversation, gave no reply. +conversation, evidently with no wish to take part in it. he answered the +conversation but think it necessary to move about and talk, in order +conversation began prince andrew was struck by the fact that the emperor +conversation, and though anna pávlovna felt sure he would say something +conversation always related entirely to himself; he would remain calm +conversation. +conversation. +conventional things with no definite meaning, especially if +conveniently to keep them under observation, brought them into the +convalescence. dólokhov lay ill at his mother’s who loved him +contrasted with his flattering words, “on the contrary, your +contrary. we wanted liberty, but buonaparte has destroyed it.” +contrary to bilíbin’s forecast the news he had brought was joyfully +contrary one must try to make one’s life as pleasant as possible. +continuous, varied, and orderly activity. the motion of the small foot +continue their flight? despite his desperate shouts that used to seem +continued, with that gay brotherly cordiality which goodhearted young +continued, “we owe today’s success chiefly to the action of that +continued to shout. +continued to explain how by exchanging into the guards he had already +continued the vicomte. “i pity the poor husband, that little officer +continued—remembering dólokhov’s conversation with kutúzov and his +continued prince vasíli, returning to his theme, apparently not +continued. “one would think that as an artillery officer you would set +continued his work. +continued. during this interval pierre noticed that prince vasíli +continually receiving many petitioners one after another. +continually he moved on. the soldiers squeezed themselves to make way +continually glanced at prince andrew; prince andrew rubbed his forehead +continually driving round or coming upon wounded men, was out of range +continually changing from french to russian. +continually, bringing visitors to the countess rostóva’s big house on +continually and rapidly touching her rosy nether lip when necessary + contents +contention. +contented and happy with him. i only wish you were all as happy as i +contemptuous smile, evidently prepared beforehand to meet all objections +contemptuous look that showed itself on his face. +contemplated between anatole and the little princess’ sister-in-law. +containing lessons in geometry written by himself and drew up a chair +consulting his sergeant major, zakharchénko, for whom he had great +consultations were detached from real affairs and did not link up with +consultations very valuable for the proprietor and troublesome to +constantly considered it a duty to assure pierre that he was greatly +constant composure and complacency and lack of all interests or desires, +consolation? what evil and error are there in it, if people were dying +consolation for our defeat by the memory of former victories; and the +consider yourself incapable and your life a spoiled life. you have +consider, prince andrew. two... frederick and suvórov; moreau!... +“consider my position, peter nikoláevich. were i in the cavalry i +consider it a sacred duty to fulfill that person’s wishes. do you wish +considered worthy to hear it had to come to the countess, for she +considered myself injured, and louis xvi was executed because they +considered it proper to show an interest in the general conversation by +considered it his duty to visit him and waited in the lofty antechamber +considered important. +considered him conceited, cold, and disagreeable. but among these people +considered him a criminal, and a year later they executed those who +considered an adept at french. +consider characteristic of the country—rumors of war are heard +considerable pause which made pierre feel uncomfortable. +conservatory to the place among the tubs where she had been hiding. +conservatory. there she paused and stood listening to the conversation +conservatory and pantry into the large marble dining hall, where tables +conservatories and the beauty of a flower that had just opened, and +conscious that another line of thought had sprung up, and while thinking +conscious of this unseen line, and the question whether they would cross +conscious of the warmth of her body, the scent of perfume, and the +consciousness that something great and mysterious was being accomplished +conscientiously studied the dispositions and the unfamiliar locality. he +conscience that god has implanted in our souls.” + conquest’s joyful thunder waken, +connections... well, then, you just...” +connected in his memory with prince andrew. +“connaissez-vous le proverbe:* ‘jerome, jerome, do not roam, but +conjecture, but the colonel did not once glance at rostóv, and looked +congratulations and greetings from acquaintances that met him on all +confusion what did or did not happen? +confusion and fear that showed itself on prince vasíli’s face. +confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken +confused when she saw prince andrew. he covered his face with his hands +confused him still more. he stood before bagratión with his lower +confused and ever-increasing crowds were running back to where five +confronted one another as before. +“confound you and your karl ivánich!” he took the glass with the +“confound him, he’s a fool!” said rostóv. +conform to them and follow them, and let us be persuaded that the less +conform. however painful it may be to me, should the almighty lay +confirmed in this conclusion by the fact that dólokhov left immediately +confirmed by pierre’s rupture with his wife, was the talk of society. +confidence the personality of the freemason inspired in him and his own +confidence,” said she, repeating the mistake of so many parents who +confidence, flatter him, become intimate with him, and finally make his +confidence, and love as i have for you. then i am young. mamma does +confession; he felt himself in the presence of one socially a complete +confession, communion was administered to the dying man, preparations +confess and ask for money he had no right to after giving his word of +condition! it’s very hard.” +condition, and immediately after that informed them that she had left +condition. +conclude our campaign and we can return to winter quarters, where fresh +concluded, conscious—as were others—after the words were uttered +concerning which no one could be at ease. it was the state of the +concerned with, or he wanted to give the russian special messenger that +concerned with a thought that always occupied her: “now you see if i +concentration on some one thought. +concentration of fighting at one point, and the hesitation of all the +concentrate. “there we shall encounter difficulties, and there,” +conceive a future life...” +conceit prevents your apologizing, and you wish to make the whole +comrades’ impression. every face, from denísov’s to that of the +comrade nesvítski, a tall staff officer, extremely stout, with a +comrade berg’s best wishes for success, rode to olmütz to see +composure, waiting for a display of the eccentricities his father had +composure, “now there’s this recruiting. my father is chief in +composed and printed in the hero’s honor. bagratión, on seeing the +comply. anna pávlovna arranged a group round him, inviting everyone to +completely altered. he was not rich, but would spend his last groat to +completed. +compared to the lofty, equitable, and kindly sky which he had seen and +company, your honor. i don’t know where... such bad luck!” +company, which alone had maintained its order in the wood and, having +company’s baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered, and hemmed in on +company commanders calculated and reckoned, and by morning the +company and overtook the next one. +companion, dólokhov had come straight to his house, and pierre had put +companies, crowds of whom set off to the neighboring villages, or +common sense and frank plainness of speech. márya dmítrievna was known +committed a reverse act of impoliteness. first he had left a lady before +commit murder he had restored it to the rightful king, i should have +commit crime, die, or perform deeds of highest heroism, and so he could +commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred miles. +commiseration on rostóv, who saw that túshin with his whole heart +commentaries), and resting on his elbow, began reading it in the middle. +commence the action, and wishing to avert responsibility from himself, +comme il faut, that’s a different matter; but the kurágins’ set of +comme cet individu dont vous avez fait un ami, mais pas pour vous, pas +command to the general next in seniority, count buxhöwden, having sent +command. “sergeants major!... how soon will he be here?” he asked +command of the third district, and my only way of avoiding active +command of the infantry went toward his horse with jerky steps, and +commanding both sides of the danube, so that should the enemy not +commander’s will, owing to the tact bagratión showed, his presence +commander started and bent forward, the hussar started and bent forward +commander’s back and mimicked his every movement. each time the +commanders are: herr general wimpfen, le comte de langeron, le prince de +commanders, and with a consciousness of being too late spreading through +commanders. and then that happy moment, that toulon for which he had +“commander of the third company wanted by the general!... commander to +commander of the regiment in the hollow and news that immense masses +commander in chief would otherwise be dissatisfied. on hearing this the +commander in chief’s suite. he was in a state of suppressed excitement +commander in chief’s regarding the regiment. behind kutúzov, at a +“commander in chief kutúzov?” said the newly arrived general +commander in chief here, and if all is lost it is for me to perish with +commander in chief. he interrupted him, talked rapidly and indistinctly, +commander in chief. bagratión knew that as the distance between the two +commander in chief and of his own luggage. very sinister reports of the +commander in chief. +commander, higher than and different from the others, prince andrew came +commander, but now that the commander in chief addressed him he drew +commander, awaiting the word of command. a second and a third cannon +commander among them! hm!...” +coming to us of their own accord,” incautiously remarked the little +coming out of kutúzov’s room into the waiting room with the papers in +coming from the study. the prince walked in quickly and jauntily as was +“coming, friend.” +coming for me to take me there.” +coming closer to pierre. “in token of generosity i ask you to give me +coming. and nicholas, who had vainly suffered all the dread that +coming action from dolgorúkov. he felt that kutúzov was upset +comfortably. +“come, what’s the matter, old fellow?” said nesvítski trying to +come, were all there at the appointed time. +come up to him. +come up. in that case the dragoons could successfully make a flank +“come, that’s right, count!” cried the staff captain, turning +comes from that! even then i felt it,” he thought. “i felt then that +“come over here, hélène, dear,” said anna pávlovna to the +“come on then,” cried pierre. “come on!... and we’ll take bruin +come on and will meet them with the fire of the whole battalion’—and +“come now! you with all your forces fall on the unfortunate mortier +“come now, what about your roi de prusse?” +“come now, just this one more little card!” +“come now, deal!” exclaimed rostóv. +“come nearer, come nearer, friend! i used to be the only one to tell +“come, my dear anna mikháylovna, let catiche do as she pleases. you +“come, let’s argue then,” said prince andrew, “you talk of +“come later.” and she went in, closing the door behind her. +“come, i will go with you. try to weep, nothing gives such relief as +come into the hall. prince hippolyte stood close to the pretty, pregnant +come in a moment. petrúshka!” he called to his valet: “come here, +“come if you need anything. one can at least be of use on the +come. he was alone now, except for a soldier who was sitting naked at +come... he told me himself... but still i should not cry,” and she +“come here, wostóv. let’s dwink to dwown our gwief!” shouted +“come here,” said rostóv, catching hold of telyánin’s arm and +“come, dear princess,” said mademoiselle bourienne, “just one more +“come along, our matvévna!” he said to himself. “matvévna” * +“come along!” +columns, with a high silk-curtained mahogany bedstead on one side and +columns, their bayonets glittering, were moving continuously in one +column, milorádovich’s, the one that was to take the place of +column marches... the third column marches...” and so on, read +column coming up to meet the Ápsherons. +column advanced into action. +colonel was called bogdánich) “shuts you up.” +colonel’s athletic back, his nape covered with light hair, and his red +colonel of hussars with the same order. after him the stout nesvítski +colonel of hussars who, growing more and more flushed, ate and drank so +colonel of forty to whom denísov had introduced him. +“colonel,” interrupted the officer of the suite, “you must be +“colonel,” he said, addressing rostóv’s enemy with an air of +collar and cap, went out for his usual walk. it had snowed the day +collapsed so that i don’t live at all—everything seems hateful to +coiffure, mademoiselle bourienne’s and anatole’s smiles, and the +code, but under this unwritten law. he felt now that merely by having +cock, but the elder members glanced severely at the wit, making him +coat, the traveler sat down on the sofa, leaned back his big head with +coats. +coat of arms on the table. he explained this to her with as much gravity +coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to +coachman’s, was teasing kutúzov’s old cook whom prince andrew knew, +clutched the crupper of his saddle and, spurring his horse, galloped to +club, but met in private houses in intimate circles, and the +clouds gliding slowly across it. “how quiet, peaceful, and solemn; not +cloudless, northern, summer night. pierre took an open cab intending +clouded his mother’s face, and he smiled slightly. +cloth, which contrasted with the others. “what have you been after? +cloths. +close, was gazing with astonishment at the angry face of the princess +close to her; the red patches on her face came and went, and it was +close to her, of his breath and the smell of him, and could think only +close to her, began to whisper something. +close that the expression of his face could be seen. and the excited, +closer together and a report spread that they were ordered to halt: +closer!” she whispered. +closed his eyes, silently let mack enter his room before him, and closed +close-cropped hair, spectacles, the light-colored breeches fashionable +close by, who heard him muttering. +clock. one wheel slowly moved, another was set in motion, and a third, +cloak looking timidly at me,” he thought. “and what does she +cloak, he asked whether they wanted the count or the princesses, and, +cloak and felt boots, he went to the little princess’ apartment. +clinking of spurs were heard at the door, and the young count, handsome, +climb out of the window. +clever with véra,” said the count. “well, what of that? she’s +clerk. “the kiev grenadiers, podolian...” +clenching his small hand and striking the table with it, “and what +clear upright figures; he emptied the glass of warm champagne that was +clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and +clearly worded the day before, namely, that the commander in chief +clear, insolent eyes in the general’s face. +clear. +clean shirt on the feather bed with its warmed and fragrant pillows, he +cleaned pairs with spurs had just been placed by the wall. the servants +clean, and in cloth covers carefully tied with tapes. +clavichord was. “it’s no use your going to the commander in chief. +clavichord and harp. julie by general request played first. after she +clavichord. +clattering. these men pressed close to the wall to let pierre and anna +clanking his spurs, whirled rapidly round, and, striking his left heel +cities wondered at her, laughed privately at her rudenesses, and told +circumstantially and with evident satisfaction. +circumstances i may be placed. but if you want to know the truth... if +circumstances, he nevertheless delivered the definite order that the +circumstances and persons he met. of these plans he had not merely one +christian...” +“christ be with you!” kutúzov repeated and went toward his +chose and placed cards, and watched those broad-boned agile hands in the +chorus.” +choose. i give you freedom. only remember that your life’s happiness +choked him, and leaning his elbows on the window sill he began to cry, +choice has fallen. i don’t know what you will think of it, but +child’s little chair while, frowning and with trembling hands, he +children. the german tutor was trying to remember all the dishes, wines, +children,” she said, in her loud, full-toned voice which drowned all +children are the bane of my life. it is the cross i have to bear. that +childlike way through his spectacles. +childlike smile which had not once appeared on his face since he left +childish bare shoulders which after her run heaved and shook her +child in a toyshop, did not know which way to look, afraid of missing +childhood; that same julie karágina who had been at the rostóvs’ +childhood and lived for years at a time. the guards had already left +childhood. +childhood. +child. “but no, it is impossible, i am too ugly,” she thought. +chief, your excellency?” said rostóv, with his hand to his cap. +chief steward wrote every year telling him of fires and bad harvests, +chief’s room. +chief’s and with the exception of prince bagratión, who declined to +chief, and our first foe, buxhöwden, is vanquished; we can now turn +chest to back than across the shoulders. he had on a brand-new uniform +chessmen with his delicate white fingers while awaiting berg’s move, +cheerful were the troops. the greatest disorder and depression had been +checked handkerchief) to illustrate the theory that all men are equals, +chattering voices had reached her from the corridor, went into princess +chasseurs.... they won’t let us pass, we are left behind and have lost +chasseurs must 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chapter i + chapter i + chapter i +channel. i think the expedition is quite feasible. if only villeneuve +changing unconsciously from russian to french as he went on—to explain +changing the expression of her eyes. “i am a woman, and you think we +changing his tone or attitude, “it must seem to you that everyone is +change in the expression of his fixed eyes, watched the regimental +changed!... where are the candles?... tea!...” +changed: her eyes became fixed, and then a shiver passed down her broad +chance of delay and flight when the longed-for moment comes and he is +chance, letting the seven be dealt to the right rather than to the left, +championship of the doctor’s wife in her queer trap might expose him +chair, wrapped in a powdering mantle, entrusting his head to tíkhon. +chair regardless of her governess’ remarks. after dinner, she rushed +chair, he drew up with a click of his spurs and bowed to her, natásha +chair and pacing up and down the room followed by tíkhon, who ran after +chair, and began deliberately with a smile: +“cette armée russe que l’or de l’angleterre a transportée des +certain. there’s lise, married to andrew—a better husband one would +certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything i +certainly should not, speak like that,” their glances seemed to say. +certainly is communicated very surely, and flows rapidly, imperceptibly, +“certainly he must be moved onto the bed; here it will be +“certainly; but about kutúzov, i don’t promise.” +ceremonious welcomes (which he knew pierre would not like), but for just +“cependant, mon cher,” he remarked, examining his nails from a +center, the reserves, and bagratión’s right flank had not yet moved, +center of the table, prince vasíli attracted everybody’s attention. +center, and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the +censured, should not be held to blame. +censure, but asked him not to be too hard on the poor old man. “what +celebrating awards they had received for the campaign, and made +cavalry was brought in, convoyed by a sótnya of cossacks. evidently the +cavalry in front, behind it the artillery, and behind that again the +cavalry and here he noticed a stir and signs of preparation for battle; +cautious movements of those who crowded round the invalid chair that +cause of the confusion, turned away with indifference, as if to say, +caught up the object of contention and ran into the bedroom. the eldest +catiche,” * muttered the prince, seating himself wearily on the chair +“catiche has had tea served in the small drawing room,” said prince +catherine’s day, count bezúkhov, and about his illegitimate son +catherine’s court, count bezúkhov. + *catherine. +cathedral, and its bridge, on both sides of which streamed jostling +catching the curtain of the cot. each made the other a warning gesture +catching and their sabers clattering. +“catch hold of my arm or you’ll drop him!” he heard one of the +catches it and obeying the impulse that wheel begins to creak and joins +casket for mamma’s name day and then going home. i was so happy, so +cases only one goes wrong, but it is her fancy and mine. they have been +casement. the cold wind flapped the ends of her kerchief and her loose +cart, shouting and scolding a soldier with coarse abuse. in each of +carts, guns, artillery, and again baggage wagons and vehicles of all +carry them out, so he takes a regiment, a division—stipulates that no +carry out the count’s wishes, seeing clearly that not only would the +carrying her burden so lightly. old men and dull dispirited young ones +carry him to the dressing station.” +“carrot ices.” +carried the whole length of the table. +carried the sovereign at reviews in russia bore him also here on the +carried the sick man dispersed. anna mikháylovna touched pierre’s +carried away by passion. oh, only my poor mother...” +carriage, moved forward and, not noticing the general, looked out +carriage, her husband was adjusting his saber; prince hippolyte, under +carriage?” he asked his mother with a smile. +carriage. “get in with me,” said he to bolkónski. +carriage at full speed about an hour before along that very road and +carriage, and the solitude of the road, all had a gladdening effect on +carriage and rode up to dólokhov. +care, this was a mere stranger. glancing, however, at borís, he saw +carelessly holding in his stallion that was neighing and pawing the +carefully wrote twenty-one. +carefully stretching his neck so as not to touch the quilt, followed her +cared about; anna pávlovna observed these greetings with mournful and +care about them in so far as they are harmful or useful. and most of +cards and supper were over, but the visitors had not yet dispersed. +card, putting a small stake on it, and beginning to play. +cardinal virtues in her gave her lessons in algebra and geometry +card game he was very fond of, was that of listener, especially when he +carabineers. +cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests +captured by the french because the enemy could not surmise that anyone +captain von toll chanced to ride to the same spot, and seeing the +captain up and down as he came up panting, slackening his pace as he +“captain túshin’s, your excellency!” shouted the red-haired, +captain, his nose growing redder as he gave a smile which showed where +“captain, for god’s sake! i’ve hurt my arm,” he said timidly. +captain and his drawn-in stomach, and mimicked his expression and pose +captain,” and he turned to a thin, dirty little artillery officer who +capitals, he still continued to live in the country, remarking that +“capital!” said prince hippolyte in english, and began slapping his +cap and smoothing his hair wet with perspiration with his plump hand, +capable of receiving it. +“can you imagine it?” and he began describing how the guards, having +can you fancy the figure he cut?...” +can without hurting others.” +can, with all the pleasures of life here. if we were in vienna it would +canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying +can’t understand. i was there all the time giving orders and had only +can’t get them from anyone else. he’s not there himself, so you’ll +can’t, do what you will! how can i go and apologize like a little boy +can’t be! only to get past them quicker, quicker!” +can’t be done. and besides, if she tells mamma” (sónya looked upon +can’t bear those old men! eh?” +can say all this there,” remarked dolgorúkov. +can rush off alone in a carriage to moscow, to petersburg, to those +“can one be well while suffering morally? can one be calm in times +cannot leave the estate to pierre. pierre is illegitimate.” +cannot know him. you do not know him and that is why you are unhappy.” +cannot, disappoint them. but how will it be? i do not know, but it +cannot attain the knowledge of which you speak.” +cannon, was a small, newly constructed wattle shed from which came the +cannon balls at the french with both hands. +cannon and the crowd were dragging it out. a cannon ball killed someone +cannon aimed at me?” +cannonade was dying down, but the rattle of musketry behind and on the +can it be possible?” she thought, not daring to look at his face, but +“can i see the count?” pierre again asked. +can i retain in some degree of purity the liquid i receive.” +“can he really be going away leaving me alone without having told me +candles were relit and he was told that he would see the full light; the +candlesticks like those used in churches. two of the brothers led pierre +can both fall on his flank and pursue him over the plain between +“can a sleigh pass?” he asked his overseer, a venerable man, +canal. and there was the bear swimming about with the policeman on his +campaign. the frenchman, confusing the austrians with the russians, was +campaign is over?” +came with the news that the prince could not attend. prince andrew came +came to these balls with an air of condescension and found them most +came to the conclusion that he would not find bald hills dull either. +came to his former chief with an order from the commander of the rear +came together and crowded in the large drawing room by the door of the +came thy conception of the existence of such an incomprehensible being? +came, the pretty, fair-haired frenchwoman, mademoiselle bourienne, +came over his face. he said nothing to her but looked at her forehead +came out—wearing a velvet coat with a single star on his breast, +came naturally to her, but was now very ill-suited to her careworn face. +came márya dmítrievna and the count, both with merry countenances. the +came in from his club, cheerful and contented. nicholas, hearing him +came in. +came galloping up on a cossack horse that could scarcely carry his +came and leaned on his elbows, facing her and beside mademoiselle +came a man wearing a strange shako and a blue cloak, swarthy, sunburned, +came a letter from kutúzov informing the prince of the fate that had +“calm yourself, princess! it seems so to you because.... i assure you +“calm yourself, my dear. i will go to my father,” she said, and went +calmer. +calm, and penetrating, a look i loved so well and seem to see before me +calls.’” +calling on the principal austrian dignitaries. between four and five +calling him in a whisper. +calling him a court weathercock and an old satyr. +call him but changed her mind. “let him look for me,” thought she. +called the colonel of the regiment and said a few words to him. +called him this morning?” +called him a great man,” remarked the vicomte. +called her nephew—and playing with him. +called everyone without exception and without the slightest variation +calèche stopped in front of the regiment. kutúzov and the austrian +calamity! what a calamity!” +cahd.” +cadet, supporting one hand with the other, came up to túshin and asked +by which the total exceeded the round sum of forty-three thousand; and +by which the prince was to enter. prince andrew was looking at a large +by “what was due from the ryazán estate” prince vasíli meant +by two considerations: his wife’s guilt, of which after his sleepless +by, tried to make a joke, saying that kutúzov had evidently failed to +by those troops that they were themselves in the front line and had +by this time they were all approaching túshin’s battery, and a ball +by the whole of the count’s plump figure, in márya dmítrievna found +“by the way, your excellency, i should inform you,” he +by the way, bagratión came out on the vienna-znaim road at hollabrünn +by the softness and flexibility of her small limbs, and by a certain +by the living mass of moving infantry, váska denísov, red and shaggy, +by their redness to contrast more than usual with his gray hair. at the +by the french who had crossed the vienna bridge, and encumbered by his +by the fire. one of them stumbled. +by the disorderly movement of the russian columns, and from all +by the dim light, to which pierre had already become accustomed, he +by the commander in chief. despite the un-russian appearance of the +by the clatter of knives and forks, the voices of visitors, and the +by the amusing scene she foresaw. she drew her wool down through the +by the ammunition wagon. +by someone’s order, the battery had continued firing and was only not +by six horses at a smart trot. behind the calèche galloped the suite +“by purifying and regenerating our members we try, thirdly, to improve +by leo tolstoy/tolstoi +by kutúzov was hurriedly retreating along the danube, stopping where +by its gray dress. “but no! why did this thought never occur to me +by his home circle as the best of sons, a hero, and their darling +by his age he should have belonged to the younger men, but by his wealth +by highfalutin words, and germans by logical arguments to show them +by her husband, mortemart, the delightful prince hippolyte who had +by finding husbands for me (most of whom i don’t even know), the +by evening, the adjutants had spread it to all ends and parts of the +by borís arrived at the palace to find dolgorúkov. everyone at +by bolkónski—an adjutant of kutúzov’s, who’s a friend of mine. +by a scarlet-liveried footman that morning, ran as follows: +by anna pávlovna, was about our diplomatic relations with austria and +by a feeling of desire while stooping over the snuffbox at anna +by a far more serious matter than a desire to show his contempt for +bwicks and it’s nasty work! an attack’s pleasant work! hacking +buxhöwden’s part and an epileptic fit on bennigsen’s. but at the +buxhöwden is commander in chief by seniority, but general bennigsen +“but you must decide on something! your father expects it.” +“but you meant to stay another two days?” +“but you know the wise maxim your excellency, advising one to expect +“but you know how it all ended, don’t you? you heard of the duel?” +“but you despise me. you who are so pure can never understand being so +but would probably never even inquire and would never know that the +but won’t you come to this other table?” repeated anna pávlovna. +“but with such ideas what motive have you for living? one would sit +but why, whither, and who they were, it was impossible to make out. +“but why talk of me?... talk to me, yes, tell me about your travels +“but why do you expect that he will leave us anything?” +but which possesses qualities resembling those of the symbol.” +“but where is sónya?” +“but where do you come from not to know what every coachman in the +but when katie brought the required dress, princess mary remained +but when he reached it he found it was a road. having come out onto + * “but what the devil was he doing in that galley?” +“but what is there to say about me?” said pierre, his face relaxing +“but what have they been up to?” asked the countess. +“but what do you mean by living only for yourself?” asked pierre, +but went on turning uselessly in the same place. +but unabashed. +button of his waistcoat. +but to help england and austria against the greatest man in the world is +but to go home alone, see his sisters, brother, mother, and father, +but those tears were pleasant to them both. +“but they say that war has been declared,” replied the visitor. +“but they heard him at the council of war and will hear him when he +“but the worst of it, gentlemen—i am giving kurágin away to +but the talk in every group was chiefly about the emperor alexander. his +but the staff officer did not finish what he wanted to say. a cannon +but the smile did not enhance véra’s beauty as smiles generally do; +but these words came like a piteous, despairing cry and an entreaty for +but the question “how?” that interested him. what the diplomatic +but the princess did not listen to him. +but the officer thrashed him because he had to get on as quickly as +but the guns remained loaded, the loopholes in blockhouses and +but the convoyman took no notice of the word “general” and shouted +“but the best of it was,” said one, telling of the misfortune of +“but that’s the grand duke, and i want the commander in chief or the +“but that’s just the same as myself—they are not others,” +“but that’s all rubbish,” natásha chattered on. “and is +“but that is my conviction, and judging by the last letter with which +“but tell me, what is he like, eh?” said prince andrew again. +“but still this does not mean that the campaign is over,” said +but shouldn’t we get the gypsy singers as well? you military men like +but she was too excited to eat anything and kept wriggling about on her +“but she’s stupid. i have myself said she is stupid,” he thought. +“but seriously,” said prince andrew, “we can at any rate say +but said, in a careless and even rude voice, that it happens to +but rostóv pulled away his arm and, with as much anger as though +but rostóv did not reply. +but remarked that besides these changes it would be necessary to go into +“but really, hadn’t i better go away?” he asked, looking kindly at +“but, prince,” said anna mikháylovna, “after such a solemn +but pierre thought it necessary to ask: “how is...” and hesitated, +but pierre continued his speech without heeding her. +but our stories are the stories of men who have been under the enemy’s +but on tuesday evening, having come to hélène’s splendid salon, +but on the left flank the columns of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, +but only changed character. the horses were replaced by others from a +but only a sort of puppet show at which the men of the day were playing, +“but one cannot delay, prince, at such a moment! consider that the + but oh! till then i cannot live!... +but now we are all going to ——’s.” +“but now i am off at once.” +“but nothing more would come of it. there will soon be a battalion of +but not concealing the fact that she would not be distressed if they +but neither anna mikháylovna nor the footman nor the coachman, who +“but, my poor catiche, it is as clear as daylight! he will then be the +“but, my dear sir,” said nesvítski as he drew up, taking off his +“but, my dear,” said prince vasíli suddenly, clutching the little +“but, my dear princess,” answered anna mikháylovna blandly but +“but, my dear monsieur pierre,” said she, “how do you explain the + * “but my dear fellow, with all my respect for the orthodox +but milorádovich was at that moment evidently thinking of anything +but managed meanwhile to look round repeatedly at his neighbor, the +but looked at him with a contemptuous smile, waiting for the valet to +but like a priest’s benediction, approached the general. though +butler, napkin on arm, was scanning the setting of the table, making +but joyous and eager crowd down the hill at their disordered foe. +“but joking apart,” said prince andrew, “do you really think the +“but i wish it,” he said. “i beg you—give it him!” +but it was too late. she was looking at them with an expression they +“but it must be brought to a head. the day after tomorrow will be +but it lifted all the more sweetly, and was especially charming when she +“but it isn’t?...” +but it is a beautiful voice that must be trained.” only they generally +“but it can’t be he, alone in the midst of this empty field!” +“but i remember putting it there.” +“but in what was i to blame?” he asked. “in marrying her without +“but in what position are we going to attack him? i have been at the +but in the center where the men with a flag of truce had passed that +but instead of the band a choir began singing a cantata composed by paul +but in his usual impulsive and hearty way he took borís by the hand +“but i just wish to say, to avoid misunderstandings, that you are +“but i have nothing here,” replied pierre, supposing that he was +but i have killed her, killed... she won’t get over it! she won’t +“but if you won’t accept money from me like a comrade, you will +but if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed +“but if the bridge is crossed it means that the army too is lost? it +“but if for any reason you don’t feel inclined to talk to me,” +“but i do not know, father!” +but i do not believe it. i have no right to, and can’t, believe it.” +but i am still so weak that i love my life, the meaning of which is only +“but how often i have felt proud of her, proud of her majestic beauty +“but how is it the doctor from moscow is not here yet?” said the +“but how are you to get that balance?” pierre was beginning. +but hopeless: “the sovereigns, madame... what have they done for louis +but his character...” said timókhin. +but his aim to consider, and he reached it. but tie yourself up with +but he went on naïvely looking around through his spectacles as if in +but he scowled at her angrily though also with suffering in his eyes, +“but he must be a freemason,” said he, referring to the abbé whom +but he immediately recalled his promise to prince andrew not to go +but he did not explain to himself what these new relations were. +but he could not make up his mind to take the final step. he felt +but haste was becoming imperative. cannon and musketry, mingling +but had on one of her best dresses. her hair was carefully done and her +but had never spoken to her of love. now he felt that it was inevitable, +but god will support you: you are young, and are now, i hope, in command +“but for god’s sake, be careful, you know how it may affect your +but extremely attractive. +but evidently the crisis was over and he was convalescent. prince andrew +but enough of gossip. i am at the end of my second sheet of paper, and +“but do you know, my dear, that was a capital joke,” said the count; +“but don’t hurt my little horse!” said the alsatian good-naturedly +but dólokhov did not go away; he untied the handkerchief around his +but borís spoke distinctly, clearly, and dryly, looking straight into +but borís noticed that he was preparing to make fun of berg, and +but borís... no!” (she shut her eyes.) “no! there’s nothing at +but borís again interrupted him. +“but between not recognizing him as emperor and calling him general +but before prince vasíli had finished his playful speech, pierre, +but before pierre could decide what answer he would send, the countess +but before he had finished speaking, prince andrew, feeling tears of +but before he had finished reading, a stentorian major-domo announced +“but a very kind man, prince,” said anna mikháylovna with a +but at the moment when he imagined himself calmed by such reflections, +but at the incredible boldness and smartness of this little girl who had +but at that moment the thought occurred to her that her fate would be +but at that instant a tall austrian general in a greatcoat, with the +but attacked and captured by a superior enemy force as a result of one +but at irregular intervals, and grapeshot cracked and rattled onto the +“but as you are a philosopher, be a consistent one, look at the other +but as sorrow was manifest in every smile, the sound of every word, and +but as she passed the sitting room she noticed two couples sitting, +“but as it is, i know every word she utters. she will come running to +but, as he had to say something, he began by asking her whether she was +but as a youth in love trembles, is unnerved, and dares not utter the +but a roll of volleys of musketry from the slopes of the hill before +but anna pávlovna—who was in the excited condition of a commander on +but anna mikháylovna went forward a step or two to keep her hold on the +but anna mikháylovna did not obey him. +but an hour.... tell me all you know about the will, and above all where +“but am i not too cold with him?” thought the princess. “i try +but although alpátych, frightened at his own temerity in avoiding the +but also for his skill in dealing and conversing with those in the +busy with similar peaceful affairs—near the shelter of the regimental +busy with his roast meat, hoped he had been forgotten: “didn’t +busy, and busy making his father comfortable, while evidently he, + * “busy already?” +bustlingly searching for something. +business!” +bursts of song and music and the inconsequent but friendly prattle of +burnt his boats, and i believe that we are ready to burn ours.” +burn, i could not know by the holy spirit!” +burden to him, and bóry’s life is only just beginning....” +“buonaparte was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. he has got +buonapartes. but i warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, +“buonaparte?” said bilíbin inquiringly, puckering up his forehead +“buonaparte himself!... just listen to the fool, what he doesn’t +bully,” thought pierre, “to kill a man means nothing to him. it must +bullets. they reached the front, several bullets sped over them, and +built lodge close to the pond. antón, a man who had looked after prince +built in order to have a nook of one’s own in which to be quiet. and +build prince andrew could endure physical fatigue far better than many +buildings—schools, hospitals, and asylums—on all the estates +bugler, showed one common expression of conflict, irritation, and +brunette with a tender look in her eyes which were veiled by long +brows he glanced into rostóv’s eyes. +brought into wischau from our outposts. this officer was savary. the +brought into the room had vanished; and as if answering a question no +brought his snuffbox to rest and, without looking at weyrother or at +brought from italy, representing an angel with outspread wings ready to +brought at once?” +brother who prepared a seeker for entrance into the brotherhood was +brothers more worthy than he would test him and that pierre had only to +brothers, and burned with impatience to set to work with them. +brother rhetor, and awaited his further commands. +brotherly love, wagged their heads in token of their mutual affection, +“brother-instructor” as he called the grand master. +brotherhood of man,” he kept saying to himself, associating these +brotherhood has made application for you to be received into our order +brother hippolyte told me about your goings on. oh!” and she shook her +brother a small, oval, antique, dark-faced icon of the saviour in a gold +brother, and that anna mikháylovna was preparing them for it. bold as +broke up two squares, your excellency.” +broken off, the porch, and the post by the side of the pavement. he +broken leg, that lay screaming piteously beside the harnessed horses. +broken glass remained in that position without taking his eyes from the +broad cheekbones, sunken cheeks, and listless tired expressions, and +briskly from corner to corner of the room, looking straight before him +bring me such tattered and dirty notes as last time, but nice clean ones +bring him to thee, could take him by the hand and show him to thee. but +bring himself to part from his daughter and give her to a husband. the + bring glory then to alexander’s reign +bright, sparkling blue eyes into his antagonist’s face. his mouth wore +bright. sónya ran away, but natásha, taking her brother’s arm, led +brightly upon the danube and the dark hills around it. it was calm, and +bright home, his fluffy fur coat, his quickly gliding sleigh, his +brighter and more energetic. he was slightly flushed after galloping two +brightening up. +bright and happy eyes at her sister-in-law. +bridge was at times veiled by a diaphanous curtain of slanting rain, and +bridge. sometimes through the monotonous waves of men, like a fleck of +bridge not knowing what to do. there was no one to hew down (as he +bridge nesvítski found the colonel to whom he had to deliver the order, +bridge is taken! but what is best of all,” he went on, his excitement + * bridgehead. +bridge did not take his eyes off the women till they had passed. when +bridge, cross it, and now with their whole army are on this side of the +bridge. but this time nesvítski could not see what was happening there, +bridge because he had not brought any burning straw with him like the +brick buildings, built to plan, were being built by serfs whose manorial +breeches and arm. +breathing, her movements, her beauty. then it would suddenly seem to him +breath and beating heart he moved toward the rhetor (by which name the +breast with the other hand and to repeat after someone who read aloud +brave officer,” thought bagratión. prince andrew, without replying, +brave?” +braunau had halted half a mile from the town, waiting to be inspected +brandishing the slab. +brain—that’s all that’s left me!” and at the same time he said +braggart and his son, no doubt, is a fine specimen,” he grumbled to +brag about it, but if he stays out till morning it means he’s lost and +boy... the countess... promoted to be an officer... thank god... how +boy ran after them angrily, as if vexed that their program had been +bows and trying to escape as quickly as possible from the glances fixed +bowed his head in sign of assent and approval. he rode off at a walk to +bowed head. +bourienne, with her ribbon and pretty face, and her unusually animated +bourienne with a radiant face that said: “i know nothing, i am the +bourienne who had not yet seen her. +bourienne. when she entered with her heavy step, treading on her heels, +bourienne were already awaiting him together with his architect, who by +bourienne was often touched to tears as in imagination she told this +bourienne, unfolding her white napkin with her rosy fingers. “his +bourienne. though in the new reign he was free to return to the +bourienne’s head at the very time she was talking to anatole about +bourienne rapidly, in her pleasant mellow tones and with guttural r’s. +bourienne. princess mary felt his look with a painfully joyous emotion. +bourienne—i shall have to get rid of her. and how is it she has not +bourienne. i embrace you as i love you. +bourienne had long been waiting for a russian prince who, able to +bourienne flushed, and gave the princess a frightened look. +bourienne aroused her. she raised her eyes, and two steps away saw +boulogne expedition. +bottles of wine with him and, despite the jolting ruts across the +bottles, cloaks, and overshoes were lying about; there was a smell of +bottle. i’ll do it.... bring a bottle!” +both were silent. there were two germans and a russian officer in the +both were silent. +both laughed. +both kurágin and dólokhov were at that time notorious among the rakes +both knew, an expression thoughtful and sad. this expression in princess +both began to cry and kissed again. mademoiselle bourienne also began to +both armies should remain in position without moving. murat declared +bosom as it rose and fell. +bóry, who had only just entered a regiment of the line and was being +born, and so on. then he was again led somewhere still blindfolded, +borís with the happy smile seen on the faces of young men who have been +borís with severity. “i am glad.... are you here on leave?” he went +borís with a smile. +borís was excited by the thought of being so close to the higher powers +borís to tell them about his journey to glogau and in what state he +borís smiled circumspectly, so that it might be taken as ironical +borís smiled, as if he understood what prince andrew was alluding to +“borís,” she said to her son with a smile, “i shall go in to see +borís said no more, but looked inquiringly at his mother without taking +borís rose to meet rostóv, but in doing so did not omit to steady and +borís received no clear explanation of why it had been necessary for +borís quietly left the room and went in search of natásha. the plump +borís promised to fulfill her wish and was about to begin a +borís paused in the middle of the room, looked round, brushed a little +borís, or between you two? it’s all nonsense!” +borís made a grimace. +borís looked attentively and kindly at her eager face, but did not +borís listened attentively to each of the speakers, awaiting his turn, +borís knew nothing about the boulogne expedition; he did not read the +borís inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without +borís. “he wanted to thank you himself.” +borís, grown more manly and looking fresh, rosy and self-possessed, +borís followed her, smiling. +borís felt that pierre did not recognize him but did not consider +“borís, come here,” said she with a sly and significant look. “i +borís bowed politely. prince vasíli without acknowledging the bow +borís bowed again politely. +borís blushed. +borís and borís was to forward them to nicholas. the letters were from +borís also,” she went on, gaining a little strength; “he is nice... +borís. +bore almost the same smile, expressing unseemly thoughts about the +boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers. +boots between the dining and drawing rooms, hastily greeting the +boots and the clinking of spurs that came to a stop, and a respectful +book two: 1805 + book two: 1805 + book twelve: 1812 +book three: 1805 + book three: 1805 + book thirteen: 1812 + book ten: 1812 + book six: 1808 - 10 + book seven: 1810 - 11 +book one: 1805 + book one: 1805 + book nine: 1812 +book had been sent him by someone unknown. one thing he continually +book from the high desk. + book fourteen: 1812 +book four: 1806 + book four: 1806 +book five: 1806 - 07 + book five: 1806 - 07 + book fifteen: 1812 - 13 + book eleven: 1812 + book eight: 1811 - 12 +bookcases with keys in the locks, the high desk for writing while +bonaparte was anathematized and in moscow nothing but the coming war +bonaparte, there is a difference,” remarked bolkónski. +bonaparte, ‘that your majesty should be received and treated in my +bonaparte, that they desire to see prince auersperg, and so on. the +bonaparte’s side.” +bonaparte’s new triumph, tomorrow’s levee and parade, and the +bonaparte’s adjutant rode full gallop with this menacing letter to +bonaparte like? how did he impress you?” +bonaparte, having come up at a gallop, stopped his horse. +“bonaparte has said so,” remarked prince andrew with a sarcastic +“bonaparte...” began dólokhov, but the frenchman interrupted him. +bonaparte, and how badly the latter would fare now, especially if the +bonaparte!” +bolkónski, wishing to profit by his friendliness and obtain for himself +bolkónski, who spoke with suppressed agitation. +bolkónski was invited everywhere, and had to spend the whole morning +bolkónski, very modestly without once mentioning himself, described the +bolkónski, turning still paler, pushed him away with an angry look and +bolkónski took the opportunity to go in to get some details of the +bolkónski, the little princess’ husband. he was a very handsome young +bolkónski that the emperor desired to give him an audience. the emperor +bolkónski shrugged his shoulders. +bolkónski referred to anatole as a “pupil”) “for the sake of my +bolkónski recognized prince repnín whom he had met in petersburg +bolkónski, opposite which hung another such frame with a badly painted +bolkónski noticed the hussar’s state of mind, and it amused him. with +bolkónski in order to arrange a match for him with the daughter of that +“bolkónski!” he whispered, his voice trembling from a consciousness +“bolkónski! bolkónski!... don’t you hear? eh? come quick...” he +bolkónskaya, very pretty and rosy, though rather too plump for her age. +bold, tall, close handwriting. +boldly, with saucy gaiety, confident that her prank would be taken in +boldly, “if you wish to refuse one who is not only a brilliant and +bold forehead that bent over her hand and answered his question by +boguchárovo lay in a flat uninteresting part of the country among +bogdánovna advised prince andrew to leave the room. +bogdánovna. +bogdánich was a brick: he told you you were saying what was not true. +bogdánich knows how things are done.” +body was strikingly out of proportion to her short legs. prince vasíli +body. drowsiness was irresistibly mastering him, but he kept awake by +bodice, with black curls tossed backward, thin bare arms, little legs +blushing—“of asking the commander in chief. he has had a letter from +blushing and dropping her eyes. +blushing: +blushing. +blush. +blue-striped feather bed and hugging her friend. with an effort sónya +blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and +blood was gushing from its leg as from a spring. among the limbers lay +blood rush to his heart. “but where and how will my toulon present +blood rush to his heart and had again to get up and move about and break +blood. on seeing this, pierre moved forward with his breast toward the +blood on it. “ah, here are people coming,” he thought joyfully, +blood from it was streaming over his greatcoat as from a bottle. he had +blocking the way for everyone. the countess tried to make him talk, +blockhead!” +blissful face “like a vewy devil,” as denísov expressed it. +blinked, went red, got up and sat down again, struggling with himself +blindfolded) questioned him as to who he was, when and where he was +bleeding head and no cap was being dragged along by two soldiers who +bleeding hand with a handkerchief tied round it) “and i remained at +bleed him and patch him up. he will drag about as a cripple, a burden to +blame. the troops meanwhile stood growing listless and dispirited. after +black figures of hussars, but in the distance was still the same misty +blackest ingratitude—in this house...” +black-agate eyes at the frightened and happy natásha. +biting her underlip. at sight of pierre her expression showed an +bit and i’ll get round him.... listen! i’ll take your bet tomorrow, +bilíbin), what he had read began to interest him more and more. when he +bilíbin was now at army headquarters in a diplomatic capacity, and +bilíbin was a man of thirty-five, a bachelor, and of the same circle as +bilíbin smiled and the wrinkles on his face disappeared. +bilíbin’s letter which was written in french. he read without +bilíbin’s house thinking out a letter to his father about the battle +bilíbin liked conversation as he liked work, only when it could be +bilíbin. “it’s not treachery nor rascality nor stupidity: it is +bilíbin introduced him to the others. +bilíbin came out to meet him. his usually calm face showed excitement. +bilíbin, “as you know, my dear prince, i never leave headquarters. i +bilíbin and the rest of “ours” burst out laughing in hippolyte’s +big people i write a note: ‘princess so-and-so desires an interview +bezúkhov’s house that night had gathered to fortify themselves. +bezúkhova. but you will understand that i have no desire for the post. +beyond ceremonies and meaningless prayers and are now instructed in +be worthy of her. and that is what we shall see.” +bewildered look and passed by without a word. a woman rushed out and +bewildered him with fine words, and he is so flattered by his rapidly +be virtuous. not a trace of his former doubts remained in his soul. he +be very glad to do all in my power both for you and for this dear young +between three and four o’clock in the afternoon prince andrew, who +between them gleamed blue infinity. he did not turn his head and did not +between his acts as a private person, as a general, and as an emperor. +between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over +between forefinger and thumb, and an old servant, bending over from +better not look,” he thought, but having reached the bushes he glanced +better during those awful moments—the father who so remembered +betraying her sympathy for the “daredevil,” as she called dólokhov. +betraying by this desperate and provocative proposition his extreme +betrayal of the bourbon cause. the sovereigns! why, they are sending +be thus boldly, provocatively happy.” “and what nonsense all this is +be they what they might. +be the best way.” +be talked over at length. at last the conversation gradually settled on +bestowed on véra by nicholas, was considered very stinging), “and +best of officers could do in his position, he was in a state akin to +best families in russia, but she was poor, and having long been out of +beside whom sat only one elderly lady, who with her thin careworn face +beside the old prince. +beside themselves over there and one can’t make anything out.” +beside the farthest of the four unlimbered cannon. before the guns an +beside the bed. pierre obediently sat down, his eyes asking if he were +“besides,” thought he, “all such ‘words of honor’ are +besides this refined selection of society anna pávlovna’s receptions +“besides that, peter nikoláevich, by exchanging into the guards +“besides how can i ask the emperor for his instructions for the right +besides! but don’t let’s talk about me; tell me how you managed +beside him. this hussar, with a grave face and without a smile or a +beside him. “that must be the enemy’s camp!” +beside him and was listening naïvely to his words. +beside hélène. “this happiness is not for you,” some inner voice +be shaken in her determination. +be seen from the hill on the opposite bank but was not yet visible from +berg was mentioned, by those who did not know him, as having, when +berg took the opportunity to ask, with great politeness, whether, as was +berg smiled joyously. the count, followed by his guests, went into the +berg put on the cleanest of coats, without a spot or speck of dust, +berg as much as you please,” she finished quickly. +berg always spoke quietly, politely, and with great precision. his +be ready to fulfill his will.” with this consoling thought (but +“be quiet, backbiter!” said dolgorúkov. “it is not true; there +be parted from her) would be gained, so pacifying himself with this +be overthrown by the angel whom it has pleased the almighty, in his +be out of your way! do go somewhere, anywhere... to the devil!” he +be. of the four crystal glasses engraved with the count’s monogram +bent arm to márya dmítrievna. he drew himself up, a smile of debonair +beneath his smile rostóv saw in him the mood he had shown at the club +beneath his dignity to give me satisfaction, then...” +bending his forehead to hers just touched it, and pressed her hand so +bending forward in his armchair he said: “le roi de prusse!” and +below, where the fight was beginning, there was still thick fog; on the +below the shoulder. pierre went with anna mikháylovna into the small +below. +bells rang, the stewards rushed forward, and—like rye shaken together +believes, in the speaker’s tone of conviction and earnestness, or +“believe me,” said prince dolgorúkov, addressing bagratión, “it +“believe me, princess, i am ready to do all i can,” answered prince +“believe me, prince, a mother’s heart will never forget what you +believe everything you’re told. you were told...” hélène laughed, +believed he would be reborn to a new life. +being too much loved; and besides, you are free, you could throw it +being told she sat upright, glancing now at her beautiful round arm, +being said, thought, and felt that day by its rider. +being rose in her imagination, and carried her into a totally different +being moved, and the probing of his wound at the dressing station. +being imposed on him which he could not fulfill, and pleased him as an +being carried by. she looked out. the men servants were carrying the +being (and which struck pierre especially by contrast with his own +behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed +behind them, another fell in front and splashed dólokhov with blood. +behind the guns were their limbers and still farther back picket ropes +behind the emperor. the Ápsheron men, excited by the tsar’s presence, +behind the chair, held it in position. by the chair stood the priests, +behind. one of them said something strange, not in russian. in among the +behind moved infantry. the commander in chief was standing at the end of +behind him stood the aide-de-camp, the doctors, and the menservants; +behind him bondarchúk, an hussar he knew, jolted against him and looked +behind him. +behind her back. the french doctor held no taper; he was leaning +behind each chair—stood waiting for the prince to enter. the head +behind. and now here we stand hungry.” +behavior to women anatole had a manner which particularly inspires in +behaving with borís.” +behaving himself, and in general...” +beg you to dress your men decently.” +begun to think of the last station and was still pondering on the same +begin, when did it all come about?” and here he was sitting by her +begin the engagement. +beginning to feel for the pretty and provocative mademoiselle bourienne +beginning of the action.) “i think i sent you?” he added, turning to +begin,” he whispered, and taking up his glass, he rose. all were +beg—i’ll take it!” +began, with a blush that looked very strange on her thin, dignified, +began to wail like a baby without knowing why, except that sónya was +began to devise and carry out a plan of how princess mary should be +began to be said. these reasons were the treachery of the austrians, a +began to arrive; and slowly turning her eyes from the visitor to her +began. “they’ll be announcing that the gentlemen are in the drawing +began speaking clearly and definitely. reasons were found for the +began riding downhill to where the roll of musketry was heard but where +began reading. the old prince, now and then using abbreviations, wrote +began popping corks and filling the champagne glasses. after the fish, +began for the first, second, and third columns, which had gone down into +began crossing himself with the hand that held the taper. +began. +before yesterday during my daily walk through the village i witnessed a +before with proposals and demands for him to join up with the army of +before they reached the room from which the sounds of the clavichord +before the usual term and has proposed to me to be your sponsor. i +before the master arrived. everywhere preparations were made not for +before the jews.” +before the heights on which the russian batteries stood guarding the +before the battle, the figure of the insignificant little napoleon, and +before rostóv had time to make out what the black thing was that had +before returning to bilíbin’s prince andrew had gone to a bookshop +before prince andrew could finish, an aide-de-camp came in to summon +before, or am i mistaken now? no, she is not stupid, she is an excellent +before krems was really of small importance in view of such events as +before it was halted facing the enemy. again, as at the enns bridge, +before. it was a german cart with a pair of horses led by a german, and +before. “how often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? i am +before his shelter, had been tasted. +before him. the french had advanced nearest on our right. below the +before him, on the right, rostóv saw the front lines of his hussars and +before him but the motionless earth and the stubble around him. there +before he reached him, rostóv, who was a splendid horseman, spurred +before he had reached the embankments that were being thrown up, he saw, +before he could reach znaim. hence bagratión with his four thousand +before. having taken a kerchief from the cupboard, willarski bound +before going down she went into the room where the icons hung and, her +before five in the evening the battle had been lost at all points. more +before dinner, princess mary and mademoiselle bourienne, who knew +before dawn he had slept for a few hours, and refreshed, vigorous, and +before coming to the dinner he had had his hair and whiskers trimmed, +before anna pávlovna and the others had time to smile their +before and was less frequently at home. +before and the path to the hothouse, along which the prince was in the +before?” and again he told himself that it was impossible, that there +before action which he had experienced as previously, all the inner +befallen his son. +been waiting for.” and bursting into tears she hid her face in her +been vicious only because he had somehow forgotten how good it is to +been up to heaven only knows what! and they have had to suffer for it. +been unjust to the austrians and especially to weyrother. what +been under fire already?” asked borís. +been trying first one remedy and then another. worn out by sleeplessness +been told to, and the emperor francis merely looked fixedly into his +been thinking about you.” +been there at seven in the morning,” returned bilíbin with a smile. +been telling us such a tale about mademoiselle george and buonaparte!” +been taken by the french as a trophy.) +been so pleased at olmütz and according to which an ensign might rank +been reprimanded on account of the blue greatcoat. +been refused. he asked in a hesitating, piteous voice. +been recommended to prince andrew he had already risen above the general +been ready, but they still delayed and all were silent. +been put off,” said the prince, who, like a wound-up clock, by force +been more amusing than the drawing room talk of society scandals, the +been minutely described. princess mary was sitting alone in her room, +been looking at. +been intriguing!” +been forwarded by courier to the commander in chief. +been foreseen, the russian army of thirty-five thousand men commanded +been engrossed by the same thoughts ever since the day he returned from +been destroyed or not. and if they have somehow been overlooked, you +been composed in the turkish campaign and now being sung in austria, the +been brought up in the most aristocratic circles. +been bewildered. at that time, the russians were so used to victories +been attacked by french cavalry and that, though the attack had been +been able to free himself but that prince vasíli (who had rarely before +be easy, but here, in this wretched moravian hole, it is more difficult, +bedroom. pierre did not eat anything though he would very much have +be dozing. his head sank forward and then he roused himself. +bedouin twice and successfully put him to the showy trot in which the +be done; he felt that everybody, including his mother and sisters, was +be difficult to return to the old regime.” +bed. +be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will +become thoroughly conversant with that unwritten code with which he had +becomes a man who values his honor, perhaps too hastily, but we won’t +become of that scoundrel?” he asked denísov. +become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not +become habitual to him and, his handsome head held high, entered his +become cruel and harsh, are conscious of it, but cannot restrain +become completely changed, and had quite left behind his former habits +become calmer since i began to live only for myself.” +become a habit. schemes and devices for which he never rightly accounted +be clearly seen glittering as though freshly varnished. down below, +“because when once a man starts on military service, he should try to +“because not everything happens as one expects or with the smoothness +because it concerned not himself but another, his daughter, whom he +“because i hate ghost stories,” said prince hippolyte in a tone +because his line was not straight, he reached the third company. +because he rose superior to the revolution, suppressed its abuses, +because he could not. in the middle of a figure he beckoned to rostóv +be carried out, was forgotten. now, entering into weyrother’s plan, +be carried back with it oneself. bolkónski only tried not to lose +became quite pleasant again. +be brought here well wrapped up in felt. i must have two hundred pots +be better dressed than others, and would rather deprive himself of many +be best described as strength of will. pierre was always astonished at +beauty as she glided away. “and how she carries herself! for so young +beautiful young princess who was sitting some way off, the center of +“beautiful,” said the doctor in answer to a remark about the +beautiful, radiant eyes. it was as if joy—a supreme joy apart from the +beautiful hélène, whose eyes several times met those of the handsome +beautiful head and looking over her classically molded shoulder as she +beautiful eyes. last night a proposition was made me on your account +beautiful eyes grew dim, red blotches came on her face, and it took +beautiful bosom, on which she readjusted a diamond necklace. from time +beautiful.” +beaucoup d’estime, and again her face clouded over with sadness. +be at stake. but this one is too light, it’s not becoming!” +bear the whole burden on his shoulders. fancy what he had to go through! +bears!...” +bearers and the shuffling of their feet grew more hurried, as if the +be, anyway he is an honorable and brave old colonel! you’re quick at +be anyone’s lackey, but i who have nothing but my brains have to +be,” answered the princess joyfully. +be announced had passed straight through the glass porch between the +beams of mild and majestic light around, and already he felt himself +beaming smile to his head. +“be a man, my friend. i will look after your interests,” said she in +be afraid.” +battle the soldiers excitedly try to get beyond the interests of their +battle,” replied márya dmítrievna’s deep voice, which easily +battle is won by him alone. kutúzov is removed and he is appointed... +battlefield.” +battle and were engaged in peaceful occupations, the cavalry feeding the +battle and, in spite of the remonstrances of his courtiers, at twelve +battle, and by the sight of the gallant Ápsherons, his comrades in +battle, a list of whom has been sent me under flag of truce.” +battle. +battery when two balls, and then four more, fell among our guns, one +battery and the heroic endurance of captain túshin and his company,” +batteries ranged on the slopes of the pratzen heights, directed at our +battalion would follow him. +battalion to disperse them. during one of these attacks they carried off +battalions and artillery pass by and go forward and then generals +battalion commanders who smilingly pressed forward (it was plain that +battalion came onto the bridge. only denísov’s squadron of hussars +battalion and regimental commanders mounted, crossed themselves, gave +“bâton de gueules, engrêlé de gueules d’azur—maison condé,” +bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular façade +barrier except the barrier of his own will. +baron funke to be appointed first secretary at vienna? the baron by all +“baron funke has been recommended to the dowager empress by her +baritone. +bare hand as red as his face. +bare chest. he was conducted from that room along passages that turned +banners, cannon, and two enemy generals. for the first time, after a +bank, hesitating to step onto the ice. the general on horseback at the +bank by unseen hands. prince andrew and the officer rode up, looked at +banging the table with a determined and drunken gesture and preparing to +bandy-legged domestic serf in a peaked cap and sheepskin coat. +band struck up in the gallery, and the guests settled down in their +band, came up and in angry tones asked the artillerymen for water. +bandage was again removed and more than ten voices said together: “sic +ball was even happier. they were both dressed in white muslin with pink +balls! i can’t tell you. and the tsarévich was very gracious to all +ballroom. +ball, flying close to him, caused him to duck and bend over his horse. +ball flew past, rose in the stirrups and sank back again. the soldiers +ball flew past. evidently they were firing at the hussars, but the balls +ball, cleaving the air, flew over the heads of bagratión and his suite, +bald hills, while he himself needed no one and nothing. he used to +bald hills. prince andrew, glancing at pierre, broke the silence now and +bald head, over which she again looked at the letter and the portrait, +bald head. +“bah! how they scurry. he just sends a ball and they think they’ll +bags into the carts, got their muskets ready, and formed rank. the +bagratión. “wait till tomorrow morning, we’ll find out everything +bagratión’s weak detachment on the znaim road he supposed it to be +bagratión’s troops, which had not yet advanced into action but were +bagratión stopped and, before replying, tried to see rostóv’s face +bagratión’s hard brown face with its half-closed, dull, sleepy eyes. +bagratión’s exhausted troops some rest, and letting the transport and +bagratión’s detachment was reunited to kutúzov’s army. +bagratión rode round the ranks that had marched past him and +bagratión replied that he was not authorized either to accept or refuse +bagratión ordered two battalions from the center to be sent to +bagratión, knowing bolkónski to be a favorite and trusted adjutant, +bagratión. his idea was, first, to concentrate all the artillery in the +bagratión gave no further orders and silently continued to walk on in +bagratión cast his large, expressionless, sleepy eyes round his suite, +bagratión called to him, and túshin, raising three fingers to his cap +bagratión bent his head in sign of agreement with what prince andrew +bagratión as he shouted, with an expression that seemed to say: “we +bagratión appeared in the doorway of the anteroom without hat or sword, +bagratión and dolgorúkov ride past with their adjutants. all the fear +bagratión, a gaunt middle-aged man of medium height with a firm, +bagratión.” +baggage was already being dispatched to olmütz. near hetzelsdorf prince +baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling +baggage and transport, having to accept battle on the march against an +“bad news! he’s not among the prisoners nor among the killed! +badly through his spectacles, but that his wife’s connection with +badly—all this debauchery, dissipation, and the rest of it!” +bad for another traveler, and for himself it’s unavoidable, because +“bad! but it’s not that, my friend—” said dólokhov with a +bad. but anatole was dumb, swung his foot, and smilingly examined the +“bad! bad!” exclaimed pierre. “we all know what is bad for +backwards and forwards and was at last brought to the doors of the +back to the house. +back to moscow. anatole kurágin’s father managed somehow to get his +back her hair, kissed him full on the lips. +back, “give me your hand.” she took her sister-in-law’s hand and +back, cadet!” he cried angrily; and turning to denísov, who, showing +back, and bosom—which in the fashion of those days were very much +back.” +back. +back!” +baby, an old woman, and a healthy german girl with bright red cheeks +a young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face +a yawn. “plenty of time,” he repeated. +a wrathful wrinkle on her rather prominent marble brow. with her +a worthy dwelling place of the great god,” he added, and closed his +a word to you and you... what?” he added with renewed irritation, “i +a word to the questions addressed to him. but on entering moscow he +a woman and, like a chained convict, you lose all freedom! and all you +awkward to attract everyone’s attention and to be considered a +awkwardness or intentionally (no one could have said which) after the +awkward and uncomfortable, and her burden oppressed her now more than +a wild beast.... in poland, if you please, he nearly killed a jew.” +a wig, put his head out of the door of the antechamber, reported in +a whole month and this is the first time i have seen him in society. +a white uniform that looked strange among the russian black ones. the +a white horse followed by his suite, and said something in passing: +a whisper that the prince was sleeping, and hastily closed the door. +awful...” and he burst into tears. +awful!” +a week later, pierre, having taken leave of his new friends, the masons, +a week later pierre gave his wife full power to control all his estates +away with a grimace as if to say that everything dólokhov had said to +away. involuntarily recalling his wife’s past and her relations with +away her tears on her sister-in-law’s knee. +away from him. the alliance with prussia, austria’s treachery, +away from her. “destroying the army, destroying the men! and why? go, +away? but where to? it’s one—let them sing!” +away at the dogs! but this sort of thing is the very devil, with them +away and he had just managed to catch her, “didn’t he tell you how +away. +away. +away. +away. +aware that in front, behind, and on all sides, other russian columns +aware of his weaknesses. +aware of his existence. at the quarters of the commander in chief, +aware of a stir all around. he looked up: dólokhov was standing on the +awaiting a reply. he frowned. +awaited their fate. the firing died down and soldiers, talking eagerly, +avoid seeing all these suffering men, and he felt afraid—afraid not +avoiding gardens and enclosures, going over new and unknown ground, and +avoid general buxhöwden who by right of seniority should be our chief. +avoided the blow. “thought... blackguards...” shouted the prince +avoided looking at the young couple, and heedless and unobservant as +avoid doing certain things, and speak french. he was one of those, +“a visitor,” answered antón. +a visit. “i am starting on a journey of inspection, and of course i +a vigorous attack on the orator. +a victory over bonaparte, just when i’m not serving. yes, yes, he’s +a very long time. “if anyone finds this silence inconvenient, let him + * “a very good morning! a very good morning!” +a very bad way of deciding whether a battle was won or lost. those who +author: leo tolstoy +authority in his voice. “who invented him, if he did not exist? whence +authorities to secure advantageous means of communication for herself +austria,” said mortemart. “the emperor of austria can never have +austrian troops, under the direction of so skillful a leader as general +austrian, to report and explain, and to his headquarters where he had +austrians, and all at once discovered from the cannon balls discharged +austrian general, continuing to read, frowned angrily and jerked his +austrian council of war at which suvórov crowed like a cock in reply to +austrian army of ulm. they are the same battalions you broke at +austrian and russian troops, both those freshly arrived from russia and +austrian adjutant, bilíbin, and last night’s conversation. having +austerlitz, borís was unable to see either prince andrew or dolgorúkov +“au revoir! thank you very much. his majesty will probably desire to +aunt without waiting to hear her speech about her majesty’s health. +aunt,” or “you do not know my aunt?” and very gravely conducted +“auntie, darling, do tell me what it is!” +auntie anna mikháylovna told me, under the seal of strict secrecy, of +aunt as she conducted him to her. +aunt, anna pávlovna mentioned each one’s name and then left them. +augesd. +auersperg was defending, and the bridge was not blown up: so murat +audience with the emperor francis occupied his thoughts. +audience, which produced an effect unfavorable to the narrator. several +audiences, but he does not like talking himself and can’t do it, as +audience over his spectacles and continued. +audible the whole length of the table. +a type of face different from that of the men, squeezed his way along; +at which prince andrew had been when he examined the battlefield. +“at what o’clock was general schmidt killed?” +“at what o’clock did the battle begin?” asked the emperor. +attitude toward him that had taken place in society. +attire appeared at the door. willarski, stepping toward him, said +at this moment that terrible door, which pierre had watched so long +at this big, stout, quiet man, wondering how such a clumsy, modest +at this a sudden change evidently took place in the princess’ ideas; +at the world is so opposed to yours that we shall not understand one +at the very instant he did this and uttered those words, pierre felt +at the steaming boiler, waiting till the sample, which a quartermaster +at the sound and then, smiling at his own sensations, stood still. the +at the soldiers who were blocking his way. “hi there, boys! keep to +at the soldiers as if threatening to punish them. cadet mirónov ducked +at the sight of the letter red patches showed themselves on the +at the razumóvski’s ball ... and countess apráksina ... i was +at the period of youth when there seems so much to do that there is no +at the olmütz review he had seemed more majestic; here he seemed +at the moment the door opened and the stranger came in, pierre felt a +at the men’s end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. +at the map, but at prince andrew’s face. +at them and hack them to pieces, their proximity now seemed so awful +at them. +at the levee prince andrew stood among the austrian officers as he had +at the least firing. the emperor’s gratitude was announced to the +at the head of a movement that had already become unrestrainable. he was +at the front an altercation occurred between an austrian guide and a +at the french. +at the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our +at the faces of his suite, young and animated as his own. czartorýski, +at the doors, but after all he did at last enter first. he walked shyly +at the door prince andrew and the figure of the old man in a white +at the door,” and natásha ran across the drawing room to the dancing +at the council—the coming battle and the victory that would certainly +at the club dinner. +at the cadet’s troubled face. +at the bottom of the sleigh beside rostóv, who grew more and more +at the beginning of march, old count ilyá rostóv was very busy +at the beautiful hélène with her radiant face and at the red, broad, +at the arkhárovs’ ball, talked about the war with field marshal +at the appointed hour the prince, powdered and shaven, entered the +at that time in the rostóvs’ house there prevailed an amorous +at that time, a very high ruffle, and a brown dress coat. this stout +at that moment, with noiseless footsteps and with the businesslike, +at that moment the door opened. +at that moment, on the road from the town on which signalers had been +at that moment made itself felt. +at that moment borís clearly realized what he had before surmised, that +at that moment, as the horse guards, having passed him, disappeared in +at that moment anna pávlovna came up and, looking severely at pierre, +at that instant the sun began to hide behind the clouds, and other +attentive to him. count cyril vladímirovich is your godfather after +attentively to what prince vasíli said, but kept glancing at princess +attentively to bagratión’s colloquies with the commanding officers +attention to the verses. +attention to something within her that is only seen in pregnant women, +attention to his story. +attention to her severe remark—and began to laugh. she laughed, and in +“att-ention!” shouted the regimental commander in a soul-shaking +attention of all to borís’ narrative was shown by hélène. she asked +attention. napoleon apparently remembered seeing him on the battlefield +attention. he screwed up his eyes showing that he was listening. +attention. he looked now at the pratzen heights, now at the sun floating +attention. dohktúrov, a little man, sat opposite weyrother, with +attention. +attend to the voice of their commander, or would they, disregarding him, +“attendez,” said anna pávlovna, reflecting, “i’ll speak to +attendance on him, to the enemy camp. wintzingerode was not merely +attempt at familiarity on the part of the russian messenger. +attain that knowledge and are still infinitely far from our aim; but +attained. +attack very long. about túshin and the battalion that had been in +attacks the prussians. the prussians are our faithful allies who have +attacks. both generals are angry, and the result is a challenge on +attack our headquarters, and the commander in chief has to ask for a +attack instead of being attacked, and so render the whole of this +“attack indeed!” said the colonel in a bored voice, puckering up his +attacked the men collecting wood in the copse. it was no longer possible +at someone unseen. “mr. pitt, as a traitor to the nation and to the +at six in the evening, kutúzov went to the emperor’s headquarters +“at seven o’clock? it’s very sad, very sad!” +“at seven o’clock, i believe.” +at schön grabern, what shall we not do now when he is at the front? we +a truce was kutúzov’s sole chance of gaining time, giving +a truce and sent his adjutant to kutúzov to report the offer he had +“a trifle,” said the colonel in his bass voice: “two hussars +a trembling hand placed a charge in the cannon’s mouth. the short, +a treat to her guests. as a clever maître d’hôtel serves up as a +at prince andrew with cool intensity, walking straight toward him and +at prince andrew, evidently considering something. +at prince andrew and did not even nod to him. +a toy, seeing the effect these prearranged receptions had on pierre, +at one of the post stations he overtook a convoy of russian wounded. +“at one draught, or he loses!” shouted a fourth. +at one another, and all pressed toward the exit from the bridge. +at one another. +at once, when she heard the young man’s discreet steps approaching +at once transferred to the guards as a cornet, had been educated from + at nighttime in the moon’s fair glow +atmosphere of an army, announcing the approach of something decisive +atmosphere of a large and active town which is always so attractive to a +atmosphere made itself so strongly felt in the rostóvs’ house as at +atmosphere characteristic of homes where there are very young and very +at markóv, probably expecting markóv to pick it up for him, and how +“at least, change your coiffure,” said the little princess. +at last seizing a soldier by his collar he forced him to answer. +at last anna mikháylovna, still with the same expression, pale but +at kutúzov’s. +at krems excited but not weary, with dispatches from dokhtúrov to +at irregular intervals as before, followed by one or two cannon shots, +at intervals the bugle calls and the shouts of the enemy could be heard +at intervals, and the bullets passed somewhere in the fog singing in +a thud. denísov rode past him, leaning back and shouting something. +a threatening gesture. “if the purse isn’t found i’ll flog you, +at home, they had not yet gone to bed. the young people, after returning +at home again. he felt that he had grown up and matured very much. his +at his partner with a merry and triumphant air, suddenly stamped with +at his own sensibility, when princess mary entered. he hurriedly took a +at his hesitation and, trying to arouse his former devotional feeling, +at his estate. as regularity is a prime condition facilitating activity, +a third, count arakchéev, if his nerves were not too weak.” +at him. after this volley the regimental commander clutched at his leg; +at her timidly over his spectacles, and like a hare surrounded by hounds +at her reproachfully. “and who is it she takes after?” thought the +at her reflection in the glass. “she flatters me,” thought the +at five in the morning it was still quite dark. the troops of the +at first prince andrew read with his eyes only, but after a while, +at first irregularly at varying intervals—trata...tat—and then more +at first impossible to enter the drawing room door for the crowd of +at first he heard the sound of indifferent voices, then anna +a tête-à-tête talk with the friend of her childhood, princess anna +a terrible thing! quelle terrible chose que la guerre!” +at eight o’clock kutúzov rode to pratzen at the head of the fourth +at eight o’clock in the morning +at ease by him, “but i hope i have not offended you. i always make it +at each alternate step; and in time to this, with stern but varied +at dólokhov and his eyes dropped, the something terrible and monstrous +at dinner, conversation turned on pierre’s marriage. +at dinner anna mikháylovna talked the whole time about the war news +at daybreak on the seventeenth, a french officer who had come with +at dawn on the sixteenth of november, denísov’s squadron, in +“at boss zides, captain,” he heard the voice of the colonel, who, +at balls, amiably smiling in the society of the most brilliant women, +at bald hills with his wife. this pleasure will be but a brief one, +at bald hills, prince nicholas andréevich bolkónski’s estate, the +at bagratión over each other’s shoulders, as if he were some rare +at a soldier who lay prone, with blood on his uncovered head. the +at a soldier in the ranks of the third company in a greatcoat of bluish +at any rate his light-blue eyes gazed for about two seconds into +at any of them but smiling on all, as if graciously allowing each the +at anna pávlovna’s, that it would be difficult to get rid of anna +a tall, stout, and proud-looking woman, with a round-faced smiling +at all like the conduct of a great man!” +at all. he said to me, ‘i am sorry i can do so little for you, dear +at all as it really was. rostóv was a truthful young man and would on +at all as i ran,” thought prince andrew—“not as we ran, shouting +at a full gallop so that he outstripped the others. ahead, the enemy was +at a command, everyone began to run. +at?” +as ze sanctity of its alliances...” he spoke this last word with +“as you see,” he said. +“as you please... really... i think so... but as you please,” said +as young people often do. “no, i am too happy now to spoil my +as young bezúkhov! yes, i pity him from my heart, and shall try to give +as you may, always remain the same backs and foreheads.” +as you and princess mary call it, are the chief source of all error and +asylums, and schools were to be established on all the estates. some of +as with his feet. +as when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters +as were all the words he spoke that day, and count ilyá looked joyfully +as well as that the french were outflanking our left. the general +as we are masters of ulm, we cannot be deprived of the advantage of +as was his custom when at home—taking leave of a good-looking, +a suffering child and to wring her little hands even with some +a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of +a strange feeling of exasperation and yet of respect for this man’s +a strange caprice of his employer’s was admitted to table though the +“as to your business,” prince andrew continued, addressing borís, +a stout major was pacing up and down the line, and regardless of the +a story, heard from her aunt but finished in her own way, which she +a storm at the square, cut his way in, slashed right and left, how his +as though running away from some danger, and, making long, quick strides +as this Ápsheron battalion marched by, the red-faced milorádovich, +as they watched their young people executing their newly learned steps, +as they said in moscow society. he seemed to be condescending to +as they have heard it described by others, and as sounds well, but not +as they enjoyed their rhine wine, sauté, and ices, and however they +as the right flank would probably not be able to withstand the enemy’s +“as there’s no one to fall in love with on campaign, he’s fallen +as their officer—all looked at their commander like children in an +as the guest of honor, to enter first. bagratión was embarrassed, not +“as the enemy’s left wing rests on wooded hills and his right +as the bearers, among whom was anna mikháylovna, passed the young man +as the “angel incarnate.” +a star-shaped light. at one side of the table was a small carpet with +“a staff officer was here a minute ago, but skipped off,” said an +assured himself from the way rostóv looked at it that his coat had been +assuming quite the pose of a society woman (heaven knows when and where +assumed a dignified expression, which with characteristic tact she had +as soon as the singing was over, another and another toast was proposed +as soon as nicholas entered, he was enfolded in that poetic atmosphere +as soon as he learned that the russian army was in such a hopeless +as soon as all is over,” and prince vasíli sighed to intimate what he +as something generally known. but it was the first time he had heard +assigned to the commander of the pávlograd regiment in which rostóv +assigned to cavalry-captain denísov, the squadron commander, known +assiduity of its commander the regiment, in comparison with others that +as she was crossing the anteroom she saw through the window a carriage +as she sat in her room. but owing to the superstition that the fewer +as she rose to go to her own room. +as she named the empress, anna pávlovna’s face suddenly assumed an +as she became animated the prince looked at her more and more sternly, +as serene as if all this were happening at home awaiting peaceful +as reported by the division commanders, ostermann and sedmorétzki, and +as possible to conceal his own part in the improvements that had been +“a splendid soldier, splendid! ‘what am i attached to!’ ha, ha, +“a splendid reply!” said napoleon. “young man, you will go far!” +a space like a street was left between each two lines of troops. the +a son of nicholas bolkónski, i shall be ashamed!” +a soldier was driving, and a woman enveloped in shawls sat behind the +a soldier’s cross, equally shabby cadet’s riding breeches lined with +a soldier on the march is hemmed in and borne along by his regiment as +as often happens in early youth, especially to one who leads a lonely +as often happens after long sleeplessness and long anxiety, he was +as much self-confidence as if he were addressing school children—that +a smile that broadened his round face more and more, prepared the +a smile of joy and satisfaction lit up her eager face. +a smile he could not repress as he recalled his reception at brünn. +a smell of perfume, and put it to nesvítski’s nose. +“as may happen,” said rostóv. +as many persons are to me—father, sister, wife—those dearest to +a small reception, and just see how badly i am dressed.” and she +as long as i live.” +a slipper for his left foot. with a childlike smile of embarrassment, +a slightly contemptuous smile, he said: “yes, there are many stories +asleep. prince andrew felt sorry for his sister. +asleep, nor even remain in one place, but had to jump up and pace the +ask you to put the money on your cards,” replied dólokhov. “don’t +“ask the count to come to me.” +asking forgiveness?” +asking.” but dying was also dreadful. +“ask him to wait,” and the sound was heard of a chair being pushed +ask himself. it was as if the thread of the chief screw which held his +ask forgiveness. +asked weyrother several times to repeat words he had not clearly heard +asked to see the portrait of the aunt’s husband on the box lid. +asked to play on the clavichord. anatole, laughing and in high spirits, +asked to give up all he possessed. +asked. “they say old maids have a mania for matchmaking, and though i +asked the son. +asked the prince’s permission to ride round the position to see the +asked the italian how he stood russian climate. the italian’s +asked rostóv, with a contemptuous smile. +asked permission to be present at the battle out of curiosity. the +asked one of the ladies. +asked natásha, so seriously and excitedly that it was evident that what +asked him to tell the emperor. what do you think he replied? ‘but, my +asked and answered at the same instant. he was alone in the middle of a +ask; but to prove my devotion to you and how i respect your father’s +as i write? +“as i was saying to you, andrew, be kind and generous as you always +as it was too far to the left flank for him to have time to go there +“as it flies past me, daddy, the ball i mean,” said a young soldier +as is usually the case with people meeting after a prolonged separation, +as i remember nikólenka. him—i just shut my eyes and remember, +as in a spoiled child, a continual consciousness of her charming defect, +a sin, a great sin, it is hatred of that vile woman!” almost shrieked +as impracticable, he arranged for the erection of large +a sign of approaching anger. “i was forgetting... do you wish it +as if to reassure prince andrew. +as if to explain such a question. +as if to ascertain whether his father’s habits had changed since he +as if stirred to his heart’s core and himself regretting and laughing +as if she had to give some final necessary instructions. +as if she had asked him to do it. +as if running a sword through an invisible foe, and glaring savagely +as if he felt a little confused before his son. “now, if you would +as if guessing what it was about. +as if flinging something to the ground, the drummer—a lean, handsome +as if continuing a conversation the subject of which had often been +as if at times there radiated from them shafts of warm light)—were +as if astonished at the word. “well, you see, i’m building. i mean +as i do not intend to be at your house again for reasons you know +aside with his arm, said in a breathless voice, +aside and turning sharply away; but rising immediately, he paced up and +a shot, and our troops could be seen hurrying to the crossing. +a short pause, “but everyone lives in his own way. you lived for +as his own. what also conduced to bagratión’s being selected as +as he would have done to a stranger. +as he was leaving the battery, firing was heard on the left also, and +as he sat on the sloping ledge. as he began slipping down, his head and +as he said this prince andrew was less than ever like that bolkónski +as he said this he rose, went to his sister, and, stooping, kissed +as he rode by. +a shell burst in the midst of that dense throng, killing some and +as he liked, now in petersburg i hear he has been doing such terrible +as he lay back in his armchair, looking in another direction. +as he had been accustomed to from childhood. besides it was pleasant, +as he felt himself to be at that moment. he was conscious that here +as he expected he was appointed an adjutant to the governor general of +as he closed his eyes his ears seemed filled with the rattle of the +as he approached, a ringing shot issued from it deafening him and his +as he always did when at the front, solemn and stern. then came the word +ashamed of himself, he said, as if merely asking his father to let him +ashamed; he felt that he was occupying someone else’s place here +“as far as the service goes he is quite punctilious, your excellency; +as far as moscow and to stay with him there. meeting a comrade at +as ever. a solitary tallow candle burned in the anteroom. +a seventy-pound weight were tied to it. he could run no more. the +a servant. from there they passed into another room. a man in strange +a sense of disgust the minutest details of this humiliating scene he +as elsewhere, he was surrounded by an atmosphere of subservience to +as clear as day, and can go so far astray. that is the only thing +a schoolboy who is told to repeat a lesson he has not learned. spots +ascended the carpeted stairs. +as borís. “count! i am wounded in my right hand” (and he showed his +as a veranda. +as author of the military plan, argued that bonaparte might easily +as a true hussar in this battle, had been wasted. their squadron +as a petitioner on behalf of this young man. you see...” but +as a mark of their gratitude for the benefits he had conferred on them, +as a man recently returned from abroad, in a political conversation in +as always happens when women lead lonely lives for any length of time +as a friend that frees the soul grown weary in the labors of virtue +as a frenchman would speak after spending about a year in russia. +as a dense cloud of smoke arose from it. the hussars had succeeded in +as a child, there was no longer in her singing that comical, childish, +a rustle of starched petticoats and the whispering and laughter of +a rule to speak out... well, what answer am i to take? will you come to +artless smile, she had met him in secluded passages. +artillery sentry was pacing up and down; he stood at attention when the +artillerymen, túshin, and the cadet exchanged silent glances as they +artillerymen, some of whom were fighting, while others, having abandoned +artilleryman, wiping away the blood with his coat sleeve, as if +artilleryman to prince andrew. “not like your honor!” +artillery company, a head and shoulders taller and twice as broad +arrived from russia. with this object he intended to meet the regiment; +arrival, thought in another way. of course, she, a handsome young woman +arrival of young prince andrew and his wife was daily expected, but +arranging a dinner in honor of prince bagratión at the english club. +arrangements to the minutest detail remain the same.” +arrangements of the house, he interrupted himself: +arrangement of the festival in honor of bagratión, for few men knew +arranged and how nice it all was? there’s uncle shinshín’s brother +aroused him. he started and opened his eyes. +around them cannon balls were flying, of which he was aware not so +around him. an infantryman came to the fire, squatted on his heels, held +(“arnauts” was the tsarévich’s favorite expression when he was in +army. you have brought your army corps to pultúsk, routed: here it is +army.... you are in a position to seize its baggage and artillery. +army was very favorable. +army’s campfires dimly glowing in the fog, could be seen behind him; +army, and the member of the hofkriegsrath who had arrived the previous +army, and in the night from the nineteenth to the twentieth, the whole +army, and even napoleon himself with his staff, were not on the far side +arm wavered still more with the strain. one hand moved as if to clutch +arms on the table and began to read. after reading a few lines, he +arm’s length, apparently afraid of shooting himself with it. his left +arms and the hope of future triumph. and he was not the only man to +arm. he began to laugh. +arkhárovs; they have a party.” +arithmetic, when rising from his chair he would walk away from her, +a ring, he made the sign of the cross over him with a gesture evidently + a rhipheus at home, a caesar in the field! +“are you ready?” he asked his wife, looking past her. +“are you not ashamed to deprive us of your charming wife?” +are young and i am old. i should like to help you as far as lies in my +“are you mad? you have twice been ordered to retreat, and you...” +“are you living with your mother?” +“are you going to count cyril vladímirovich, my dear?” said the +are you dumb?’ he shouted. still i remained silent. and what do you +are wrapped up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us +are within sight of the enemy and he wishes to profit by the opportunity +are we to find suvórovs now? je vous demande un peu,” *(4) said he, +are very pale!” said princess mary in alarm, running with her soft, +are they doing? what are they doing?” he murmured to himself, still +are there,” said the officer, pointing to the village of hosjeradek, +are the french!’ murat, seeing that all is lost if the sergeant is +are taken to the field marshal’s room, for he likes to do everything +a reproach to everyone. now tell me, count, was it right, was it +a reply unnecessary. she smilingly waited. all the time the story was +are now two russians, milorádovich, and dokhtúrov, and there would be +are not many left of us old friends! that’s why i so value your +are, monsieur pierre!” +are many stories of his getting to know an officer in just such a chance +are here?” +are distributed. why has fate given you two such splendid children? +are clever, you are well educated. and what have you done with all these +are childwen of the dust... but one falls in love and one is a god, one +are being deceived, my instinct tells me of negotiations with france and +are—at the heart of affairs and of the world—is the talk all of +a real one, but that they would talk of that later. princess mary was +are all stupid; but i know this: an illegitimate son cannot inherit... +architect’s attention to the sound of the prince’s footsteps. +architect not to go to the prince with his report. +archduke’s as good as another, as you know) and even if it is only +archduke, inspected the allied army of eighty thousand men. +archduchess also wished to see him. he did not know whom to answer, and +a rage) and called for the company commander. +a quite unexpected, chance of saving the army. on receiving the news +À propos of marriages: do you know that a while ago that universal +apron, which symbolized strength and purity; then of the unexplained +apron under the leather hood of the vehicle. prince andrew rode up +apron, such as the others wore, was put on him: he was given a trowel +aprons like the rhetor’s and holding swords in their hands pointed at +apráksins’ i heard a lady asking, ‘is that the famous prince +apráksina...” and then, again rustling, pass into the anteroom, put +approaching enemy farther off. at the same instant the sun came fully +approaching departure did not prevent his amusing himself, but rather +approaching. and at that moment, though the day was still, a light gust +approached the door of the minister’s room. he felt offended, and +approached kutúzov. of kutúzov’s suite only four remained. they were +approached first, experienced the same feeling as every other man in +approached. +approach, but even in this room there now stood an empty bath, and water +appreciation of the vicomte’s epigram, pierre again broke into the +appreciate at a glance her superiority to the plain, badly dressed, +appointment to london was a promotion and that he was so to regard it. +apple, also half smiling as he looked at the handsome girl. +appearing on the skyline, which they knew to be the enemy’s troops. +appeared to him in a dream: his mother and her large white hand, +appeared, then a second and a third almost simultaneously, and at the +appeared that they had worn when under fire. rostóv watched his enemy, +appeared shy of her unquestionable and all too victorious beauty. she +appeared, quite out of keeping with his features, that seemed to deride +appeared punctually to the appointed hour. everyone sitting in this +appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to +appeared in the doorway. the general with the bandaged head bent forward +appeared. he would carry her away and then sa pauvre mère would appear +appeared from behind his company and, though he was a middle-aged man +appeared a stupid smile of glee which he seemed unable to suppress. +appeared. +appear as if he did not want any of that wine, but was mortified because +apparently the sight of them roused no pleasant feeling in véra. +apparently suffering more than the dying soldier, and he rode away. +apparently she had forgotten her age and by force of habit employed +apparently immersed in his own thoughts. +a portrait so characteristic of the original as to be amusing. +apologizing for the state of his gun. +apologize to an old and honorable officer? whatever bogdánich may +apologize.” +a policeman and the bear back to back and put the bear into the moyka +a plan of marriage for you. it is neither more nor less than with prince +a peg on which to hang the prince’s favorite topic, he looked +a partner, and the old men began smilingly to talk about poland and the +apartments assigned to prince vasíli. +a particular glamour and glad keenness of impression to everything that +apart from myself.” +any women—countesses or cooks—who were not venal. i have not yet met +anything wrong in my behavior. but i’ll just tell mamma how you are +anything, when suddenly the well-known whispering of mademoiselle +anything to say, say it. these two things can be done together,” he +anything might happen, only not that. +anything like it. she believed it could be, but did not understand it. +anything. if it be god’s will to prove thee in the duties of marriage, +anything. here is a letter to prince vasíli, and here is money. write +anything for his happiness! and my affairs are in such a bad way that my +anything, except only for permission, after the blow she had received, +anything else.... you have not been ordered to return and have not been +anything. do you know i have sent for pierre? the count,” pointing to +anything, dólokhov, looking straight in his face, said slowly and +anything, but was only conscious of her stern father’s withered face +any the worse off. in siberia they lead the same animal life, and the +anyone who wanted to see him could come the hundred miles from moscow to +anyone. they wished to administer the sacrament of unction.” +anyone in particular, began to say how difficult it was to carry out +anyone if he is in disfavor. now come here.” +anyone flogged or sent to siberia—and still less for your serfs. if +anyone else had a right to criticize what the empress desired or was +anyone else does the same, i will pay him a hundred imperials. do you +anyone, but you know it yourself.” +anyone, and so you don’t deserve to have them.” +“any news from mack?” +any moment the emperor may see them.... but no, these must be only a +any moment.) +any clever conversation that was to be heard. seeing the self-confident +an unexpected and tenderly paternal way. +antónov.” +antichrist—i really believe he is antichrist—i will have nothing +anteroom with him. +antechamber experienced the same feeling of respect and even fear when +answer that voice and went on dreaming of his triumphs. the dispositions +answer than the one prince andrew gave to this naïve question. +answers to these questions, as was only too evident, did not interest +answered the soldier. prince andrew took out his purse and gave the +answered the general. +answered pierre, trying to remember who this young man was. +answered lavrúshka. “i know by now, if he wins he comes back early to +answered him either by a brief but appropriate remark—showing that it +answered her, as he had the countess, only in monosyllables. the other +answered.” +answer. at last he moved up to pierre and, taking the kerchief that lay +an outsider is out of place here.... no, don’t distress yourself.... +another who wished to get away. with his head bent, and his big feet +another voice, from a man of medium height with clear blue eyes, +another two minutes and it is certain death,” thought each one. +another time he interrupted, saying: +another, they all gave, and transmitted, orders as to how to proceed, +another, the red, stout nesvítski, lay on a bed with his arms under his +another’s faces and speak to one another. besides the soldiers who +another pie but felt shy, and therefore pretended to be examining the +another of the precepts—that of reforming the human race—and had +another, more important, subordination, which made this tight-laced, +“another ismail comrade,” said he. “a brave officer! are you +another hussar also rushed toward the horse, but bondarénko had already +another, hardly able to suppress their laughter. +another group was at the tea table. pierre wished to join the former, +another group. +another five days passed, and then the young prince nicholas andréevich +another, dying, stepping over the dying and killing one another, only to +another company, a lucky one for not all the companies had vodka, +another candle. still lower, beyond the turn of the staircase, one +another, a younger voice, interrupted him: “afraid or not, you can’t +another and soon the whole battalion ran forward shouting “hurrah!” +another. all became silent and turned to look at the pale tear-worn anna +another—a childlike, kindly, even rather silly look, which seemed to +another.” +another. +“an order to who?” asked the colonel morosely. +an orderly’s charge, and he felt the blood rush to his heart with +an orderly, or a townsman was carried through the waves of infantry; +an opportunity to express his doubts. +an old powdered manservant who was sitting in the antechamber rose +an old friend. +an oath of fidelity to the laws of the order. the candles were then +annoyance. “good luck to you!” +announce him, but, changing his mind, came back and stooped to kiss the +“annette, for heaven’s sake don’t refuse me,” the countess +anna pávlovna’s two years before. there were also present a very +anna pávlovna’s soiree. the matter was mentioned to the emperor, an +anna pávlovna’s reception was in full swing. the spindles hummed +anna pávlovna smiled and promised to take pierre in hand. she knew his +anna pávlovna’s drawing room was gradually filling. the highest +anna pávlovna’s “at home” was like the former one, only the +anna pávlovna’s alarm was justified, for pierre turned away from the +anna pávlovna in dismay detained him with the words: “do you know the +anna pávlovna had already managed to speak to lise about the match she +anna pávlovna gave him her shriveled hand to kiss and introduced him to +anna pávlovna frowned. mortemart, hippolyte’s friend, addressed him +anna pávlovna disapproved. +anna pávlovna continued to give on free evenings the same kind of +anna pávlovna almost closed her eyes to indicate that neither she nor + * anna pávlovna. +anna mikháylovna, who always knew everything that passed in the house, +anna mikháylovna was already embracing her and weeping. the countess +anna mikháylovna turned up her eyes, and profound sadness was depicted +anna mikháylovna took off her gloves and, occupying the position she +anna mikháylovna, though her circumstances had improved, was still +anna mikháylovna’s was the most distinct. +anna mikháylovna sighed deeply. +anna mikháylovna shook her head. +anna mikháylovna’s face expressed a consciousness that the decisive +anna mikháylovna sat down beside him, with her own handkerchief wiped +anna mikháylovna paused and waited for him to come up. +anna mikháylovna opened the door. her face wore the proud expression +anna mikháylovna looked at véra and paused. the countess pressed her +anna mikháylovna instantly guessed her intention and stooped to be +anna mikháylovna, in a few words, told her the contents of the letter, +anna mikháylovna came out last. she approached pierre with slow, quiet +anna mikháylovna. +an inspection anywhere in the heart of russia. +an inn in the village which the officers frequented. rostóv rode up to +an indescribable charm of sorrow and self-forgetfulness that her father +an immediate answer. prince vasíli had brought his son with the evident +animation of the past or the future. it was as if prince andrew would +animated, and handsome, with his hand bandaged. in the study were four +animal went when excited. bending his foaming muzzle to his chest, his +animal. count ilyá rostóv, laughing and repeating the words, “make +an illegitimate son, and petted and extolled when he was the best +“a nice little hot torch for the infantry! good luck to you, fellow +an hour’s delay they at last moved on, descending the hill. the fog +an hour later, tíkhon came to call princess mary to the old prince; +an hour and a half later most of the players were but little interested +angry with me for coming? you have changed so, andrúsha,” she added, +angry—but i know you will not marry her. i know, heaven knows how, but +angrily pulling down his tight scarf. +angrily, came in at the other door. natásha checked her first impulse +angrily blowing his nose. hardly had prince andrew gone when the study +angrily at him. bondarchúk’s horse swerved and galloped past. +angrily and disrespectfully at kozlóvski. +angling, while his grandson, with shirt sleeves rolled up, handled the +anger he did not condescend to notice, and said: “i think you were +angered the countess when it was not properly cleaned, turned as loosely +anger and walking up to the regiment wished to find a further excuse for +an eye on me! very well then! get along with you!’ so he writes the +an expression of perplexity, turned round to milorádovich as if seeking +an explanation, but meeting the latter’s impressive but meaningless +an exemplary officer of twenty-two years’ service, who had never been +an excruciating pain in his arm, for which he could find no satisfactory +an entreaty, a threat, and above all conviction that she would herself +a need to escape from it by some strange, and usually cruel, action. +“and you won’t feel ashamed to write to him?” +“and you too!” +“and you’re still the same diplomatist! but that’s not the +and your capital!’ the one general whom we all loved, schmidt, you +and young people are rarely capable of it. his hearers expected a story +and you, mon cousin, seem to consider me a perfect fool,” said the +“and you?” he asked dólokhov, but as soon as he had asked the +“and you didn’t see that everybody is packing up?” +“and you? are you going to have lunch too? they feed you quite +and you.” +and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must +and yet be happy....” +and wrote a few words on a large sheet of paper folded in four). +and with this object offered a three days’ truce on condition that +and with the familiarity and easy grace peculiar to him, he raised the +“and without holding on to anything. is that right?” +and without awaiting a reply, prince andrew rose and left the table. +and with his hand at the salute rode up to the general. +and with baritone notes in his voice, new to borís, pointing to his own +and with a hooked nose. then came two more, and many more running +and with a furtive glance at his son’s face, the count went out of the +and with a bow to them both he went out. +and wish you to have as good an opinion of me. don’t upset yourself, +and wished he could tell what, if anything, this man was thinking +and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs. +and will then inherit everything under the will? and if the will and +“and will she soon be confined?” and shaking his head reproachfully +“and why the deuce are we going to fight bonaparte?” remarked +“and why is it?” +“and why do you serve?” +“and why didn’t you simply come straight to me as to a friend? i +“and why didn’t you do it at seven in the morning? you ought to have +“and why are they stopping? there’s no proper order!” said the +“and why are children born to such men as you? if you were not a +“and who will inherit his wealth?” he added in a whisper. +and who was called tit. he was saying, “tit, i say, tit!” +and whom borís addressed turned round crossly and told him bolkónski +“and who has told you what is bad for another man?” he asked. +“and who are you?” cried the officer, turning on him with tipsy +and while kutúzov was turning managed to make a grimace and then assume +and which had always opened so quietly, burst noisily open and banged +and where to shoot,” he said with an unnaturally gentle smile. +“and where is lise?” he asked, answering her question only by a +and wheels began to revolve faster and faster, levers and cogwheels to +and what to expect after it beyond the grave! how happy and calm i +“and what is she so pleased about?” thought nicholas, looking at his +and, whatever may happen to him or to me, shall never cease to love him +“and what do you think of this latest comedy, the coronation at +“and what devil made me go to that wat?” (an officer nicknamed +“and what a well-preserved man he was!” remarked the aide-de-camp. +“and what about his character?” asked the regimental commander. +and went to the door. +and went out of the corridor. +and went out. natásha had put on one spurred boot and was just getting +and went in at the open door. there was no one in the anteroom; empty +“and we, my dear boy! it’s terrible! i was wrong to laugh at mack, +and well informed foregathered when the news began to arrive in +and way of life. +and, waving her thin arms from under the woolen shawl, cried: +and watched his opponent’s face, evidently thinking about the game as +and was therefore out of sorts, a state of mind which with her always +and was just putting his question to a soldier when his attention +and was going to tuck up the other trouser leg to save this stranger the +and was crossing himself with his right hand, turning his eyes upward +and was a stranger there. in his person, honor was shown to a simple +and warmly pressing his hand looked affectionately over his spectacles +and, walking backwards before the company, jerked his shoulders and +and wait for her, she went silently toward the door that everyone was +and voices. this class of guests and members sat in certain habitual +and virtue than mere words. this chamber with what you see therein +and virtue, and thereby try with all our might to combat the evil which +and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen +and unreasonable than a little child, who, playing with the parts of a +and unexpectedly again began to cry. +and two or three friends—you among them—and as for the rest i only +and triumph. +and ‘to siberia!’” said berg with a sagacious smile. “i knew i +and to pierre, glancing at him again. +and took hold of the commander’s stirrup, almost leaning against him. +and thrill of suspense usual at such moments. outside the house, beyond +and threw them round the little girl who had run in. +and three pairs of gloves, and then the grand master addressed him. he +and thoughtfully shaking his head. did he fear going to the war, or was +and this “well!” sounded coldly ironic, as if he were saying: “now +“and this is gratitude—this is recognition for those who have +“and they said kutúzov was blind of one eye?” +and they disappeared into the darkness with their load. +and they awoke in him astonishment at the genius of his hero, a feeling +... and the wish, which constitutes the emperor’s sole and absolute +and the whole secret lies in the terrible truth that she is a depraved +and the visitors try to guess from these glances who, or what, they are +and the two friends told each other of their doings, the one of his +and the two emperors were living with their suites, households, and +and the traveler became absorbed in it. pierre looked at him. all at +and the tramp of horses’ hoofs were heard. kutúzov and his suite were +and the talkative dolgorúkov, turning now to borís, now to prince +and the staff captain rose and turned away from rostóv. +and the second aim, that of purifying and regenerating himself, did not +and the same look. in the middle of a dull and halting conversation, +and the rewards sent to the army are innumerable. though he is a +and there too sat the members of the family, and pierre and hélène, +“and there’s nothing for you to say. i shall speak to him myself,” +and there is nothing to thank me for. no one has ever complained yet of +and there in the coffin was the same face, though with closed eyes. +“and there hasn’t been anyone in the room except the lieutenant and +and the reading of the letter began. after a brief description of +and the rattling of carriage wheels seemed to fill his ears, and now +“and the prisoners he killed in africa? that was horrible!” said the +and the prince began explaining all the blunders which, according to +and the pistols loaded, nesvítski went up to pierre. +and the owner of the manly voice, evidently an infantry officer, +and the others who did not approve of the plan of attack, were +“and the other one is not here. they’ve been telling tales,” he +and the orders he gave them and, to his surprise, found that no orders +and the old countess were especially disturbed, and to a lesser degree +and the old cavalry captain, kírsten, shouted enthusiastically and no +and then to call him out, reckoning on fédya not fighting because he +“and then, old fellow, he gives him one in the teeth with the butt +“and then of course my family has also to be considered,” prince +and then he suddenly stopped and performed some new and unexpected +and then calmly and seriously sat back in his chair. anna pávlovna +and then at the other. +and the munching of the lieutenant. +and the men’s at the other. +and the latter—unconscious that he was being reflected in the hussar +and the jingle of their weapons and saw their horses, their figures, and +and the glory that awaited him. +and the general in white, accompanied by the suite, walked between the +“and the fete at the english ambassador’s? today is wednesday. i +and the feeling of energy with which the troops had started began to +and the distinguished dignitary who bore the title of “collector +and the disgrace of having lost two guns and yet remaining alive present +and the difficult names of villages. weyrother complied and dohktúrov +and the crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which +and the count turned to the cook, who, with a shrewd and respectful +and the conversation again turned on the war, on bonaparte, and the +and the constant gleam of her white teeth, thought that they were in a +and the consequent impossibility of a speedy emancipation. +and the commander, turning to look at the adjutant, directed his jerky +and the cannon, under the horses’ hoofs and between the wagon wheels, +and the burning of an arm with a ruler as a proof of love did not seem +and the brilliance of the bright sunshine merged in a single joyous and +and the boyish face rostóv, breathless with excitement and hope, was +and the allowance to the three princesses; about 15,000 was given in +“and that would be splendid,” said pierre. +and that the whole army had surrendered at ulm proved to be correct. +and that the richest peasants (who formed the deputation) had begun +and that’s how it is with me. À demain, mon cher.” * +“and that other one with him, the austrian, looked as if he were +and that if a letter reached the grand duke in command of the guards +and that her husband was a cross laid upon her by god. prince vasíli +and that daredevil after her!” said anna mikháylovna, wishing to show +“and tell mr. dólokhov that i won’t forget him—he may be quite +and tear whatever came to his hand. “why did i tell her that ‘je +and tears, till at last somebody else was asked to read it.” +and taking nesvítski’s arm he left zherkóv, who did not know what to +and, taking natásha’s hand, kissed it. +and swallowed the cold snow, his lips quivered but his eyes, still +and suddenly the whole world centered for him on anticipation of the +and suddenly seemed to grow very merry. +and suddenly determines to speak out. +and suddenly began to cry. +and suddenly, as if he had studied her sufficiently and had formed a +and strength. he was continually traveling through the three provinces +and strange to say nicholas felt that he could not help taking up a +and stopped near him. +and stooped glass in hand over the infant. +and stood still in the dim light beneath the curtain as if not wishing +and stood, hanging her head. +and still the same and in the same place. no, it can’t be! surely it +and still fewer men would be so well able and willing to make up out of +“and so you’ve had him educated abroad, prince vasíli, haven’t +“and so you think napoleon will manage to get an army across?” asked +“and so you had to go through that too!” +and sought the acquaintance of only those above him in position and +“and so they are writing from potsdam already?” he said, repeating +and so the anecdote ended. though it was unintelligible why he had told +and so sparkling their eyes. sometimes the best of the pupils, of whom +and so said the youths and maidens themselves as they danced till they +and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers’ or +and sometimes laughed. nearest of all to the commander in chief walked +and sometimes flung the exercise book away. +and solemn, and awakening in the men an unusual curiosity. on the day of +“and so he is! quite blind!” +and so further increased the fame of these dances. what distinguished +and social topics were ended and the time had come for intimate +and social tact,” thought he; “been proud of my house, in which she +and sit. this morning i turned them all out and now look, it’s full +and sinfulness?” he paused again. “who art thou? thou dreamest that +and simply, “mr. shítov—a man of great merit”—this of the man +and silver of the men’s epaulets; servants in scarlet liveries moved +and silent when the talk related to any topic that had no direct bearing +and sighing disdainfully, he again changed his position. +and show you what kind of rivet to use.” +and shown such unaffected familiarity in intercourse with everybody both +“and showed me a letter in which the parade of the french in vienna +and shouted to the musicians to play faster. faster, faster, and faster; +“and should not justify your confidence and the honor you have done +and she won’t say anything to mamma. nicholas will tell her himself, +and she with him, that there was quite a scandal and that that’s why +and she smiled her ecstatic smile. +“and she’s in love with borís already. just fancy!” said the +and she’s even in my way. you know i always was a savage, and now am +and she set off at a run along the passage. +and she found them on my table and said she’d show them to mamma, and +and she began to cry again because he had such a noble soul. +and several other less noteworthy persons. +and see the standard flapping against its staff. +and seeing that the elder visitor was not listening, he turned to the +and seeing her severe face said: “well, good-by, countess,” and +and secured their release by heavy payments. he did not know that the +and, scowling, he gave nicholas just such a look as he had given pierre +and scented myself.” +and scarcely breathing, watched from her ambush with sparkling eyes. +and scapegraces of petersburg. +and saying something in their gypsy accents. nicholas understood that it +and say, “i am so delighted... mamma’s health... and countess +and saw that the lamp stood on a black table on which lay an open book. +and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his +and salt and an icon of saint peter and saint paul, asking permission, +andrúsha—the slender mischievous boy who had been her playfellow in +andrúsha!...” said she, putting her hand in her reticule but not yet +and running so lightly, frightened rostóv. he seized his pistol and, +and rostóv got up and went wandering among the campfires, dreaming of +andrew, whom borís was expecting, entered the room. prince andrew, who +andrew went out with him. +andrew was natural and pleasant. others, the majority, disliked him and +andrew was in and borís was shown into a large hall probably formerly +andrew was galloping along in a post chaise enjoying the feelings of a +andrew, told how bonaparte wishing to test markóv, our ambassador, +andrew, “that all the atrocities of the french army (i nearly said of +andrew struck the high road along which the russian army was moving with +andrew’s presence. he was ashamed to express his new masonic views, +andrew slowly, not taking his eyes off his wife. +andrew shook himself as if waking up, and his face assumed the look it +andrew...” she said timidly after a moment’s silence, “i have a +andrew read the same mild reproach he had read on the face of his dead +andrew, paying no more heed to the general who ran after him imploring +andrew made his way up to the battery from which the staff officer had +andrew. “look here, my dear fellow, get from kozlóvski all the +andrew. “i wish you good luck and success, gentlemen!” he added and +andrew... is father’s way of treating religious subjects. i don’t +andrew in his boyhood, helped pierre out of his carriage, said that the +“andrew, if you had faith you would have turned to god and asked him +andrew?’ i did indeed.” she laughed. “he is so well received +“andrew, i bless you with this icon and you must promise me you will +andrew, “i am only surprised at your opinion of bonaparte. you +andrew had gone and made the sign of the cross in his direction. from +andrew had already heard from his wife in the presence of others some +andrew felt that something gave way in his soul and that he was guilty +andrew felt a pleasant sense of repose among luxurious surroundings such +andrew entered the passage. kutúzov himself, he was told, was in the +“andrew, don’t!” said princess mary. +andrew? don’t forget that she has grown up and been educated in +andrew did not tell his father that he would no doubt live a long time +andrew did not speak; he was both pleased and displeased that his father +andrew came up, stroked her hair, and asked if she felt rested after +andrew. “besides, in the actions of a statesman one has to distinguish +andrew as one of themselves, an honor they did not extend to many. from +andrew a reliable correspondent to whom he could pour out the bile he +andrew apparently knew this as well as tíkhon; he looked at his watch +andrew, “and at anna pávlovna’s they listen to me. and that stupid +“andrew, already!” said the little princess, turning pale and +andrew. +andrew. +andrew. +and returned a glove pierre had dropped; the doctors became respectfully +and respectfully that the prince gave him a searching glance. +and respect as few hardhearted men would have aroused. although he was +and resignation to the will of god. “if you do not understand these +“andré,” said his wife, addressing her husband in the same +and replacing their purses and pocketbooks, entered the ballroom. first +and remained so for some minutes. piteous, helpless, animal moans came +and relations had been given to understand that the fate of the young +and regarded as the key to the position. he saw over the mist that in +and refined expression on the faces of those present he was always +and really he only ran a few steps alone. one soldier moved and then +and really another french soldier, trailing his musket, ran up to +and put the matter before the emperor,” said princess anna +and prove my devotion to his majesty the emperor and to russia!” +and proudly around while bagratión spoke to his son. +and promised to write to him and guide him in his new activity. +and profligate life, though i did not like it and did not want to,” +and princess mary tried, but could not manage, to be cordial to her new +and prince dolgorúkov rapidly but indistinctly explained weyrother’s +and prince andrew, with others fatally wounded, was left to the care of +and prince andrew after giving directions about his departure went to +and, pressing pierre’s hand, he went out. +and pressed him against the railings, and all he could do was to smile. +and pierre, anxiously trying to remember whether he had done anything +and paused facing her at the foot of the sofa on which she was lying. +and part were leaving these pratzen heights which he intended to attack +and particularly amiable smile. +and parted smiling, the german returning to his cowshed and rostóv +and painfully felt. my father talks of nothing but marches and +and overtook him. a sergeant of the battalion ran up and took the flag +and out of the bedroom glanced at the princess and turned away. she did +“and our share?” asked the princess smiling ironically, as if +“and our little tea table?” +and opened the door for him. + and on the throne our titus shield. +and only turned away his eyes when the austrian chief of staff finished +and one could hear their distressing screams and groans, sometimes +and one booted foot, he advanced, while willarski held a sword to his +and on all their faces he recognized the same eagerness that filled his +and of good family and that’s all i want.” +and of course not as ‘emperor,’ it seemed to me it should be to +and now there’s dólokhov sitting in the snow with a forced smile and +“and now, in token of candor, i ask you to reveal to me your chief +and not with his eyes. +and not value her pure affection and devotion to me?” she went up +and not only at the same hour but at the same minute. with those about +and not in the habit of running, trotted awkwardly stumbling on his +and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, +and no connections. yet, though anatole spent tens of thousands of +and nicholas again kissed her hand. +and next balls, about theatricals, and who would meet whom, and when and +and natásha rose and went out of the room on tiptoe, like a ballet +and natásha kissed her brother and ran away. +and natásha, in the light-blue dresses they had worn at the theater, +and my life, my life,” he thought, “must be risked?” +and my father was much affected by it. he says the count was the last +and musketry ahead of him. the firing grew louder and louder. +and murat, humiliated and anxious to expiate his fault, had at once +and moved to the right; from behind it, dispersing the laggards, came +and moved along the ranks shouting. the train drivers and orderlies +and most advantageous style, like a well-garnished joint of roast beef +and more regularly and rapidly, and the action at the goldbach stream +and more attractive. +and mirth that shone in all their faces. evidently in the back rooms, +and mingling with one another. he could also, by the gleam of bayonets +“and me? would you like to kiss me?” she whispered almost inaudibly, +and merry faces. it was natásha, sónya, and pétya, who had come to +“and me, kiss me!” +and martinists, even in novíkov’s time. for a long while after he had +“and mamma pressed her!” said nicholas reproachfully. +and making pencil notes on them, and for the first two or three minutes +and making a wide sweep with his arm, amid a thunder of applause and +and majestic voice that was yet so simple! and as if in accord with +“and love of one’s neighbor, and self-sacrifice?” began pierre. +and looks of those who had seen them together. he recalled anna +and looking carelessly about him. +and looked at him closely. +and looked at her in such a way that not only could she not bear his +and little tables. during balls given at the house pierre, who did not +and littered with cards. one tormenting impression did not leave him: +“and lise, your wife?” +and like him. write and tell me how he receives you. if he is all +and like a practical petersburg lady who knows how to make the most of +and light, joyous steps. at the visitors’ request the young people +and lifted it to his lips, threw back his head, and raised his free hand +and let us talk sensibly while there is still time, be it a day or be it +and legs always fell into unnatural positions. +and leaving large sums of money with them for alms, went away to his +and kutúzov smiled in a way that seemed to say, “you are quite at +and kissing her, and then he left the room with rapid steps. +and kissed her. +and kinds of dessert, in order to send a full description of the dinner +and kámenski the latter was preferred. the general comes to us, +and julie were saying to one another. the governess kept looking round +and i won’t allow it to be said!” +“and i will tell you this,” prince andrew interrupted in a tone of +“and i was looking for you,” said natásha running out to him. “i +and ivy, with a gleam of white shoulders, glossy hair, and sparkling +“and it must seem to you,” said borís flushing slightly, but not +“and i tell you, rostóv, that you must apologize to the colonel!” +“and i tell you, don’t you dahe to do it!” shouted denísov, +and is nothing unworthy of you, but it will comfort me. promise, +and is it worth tormenting oneself, when one has only a moment of life +“and i should so like to thank uncle once for all his kindness to me +“and i should be ashamed to write to borís. i’m not going to.” +and irritation, though controlledly calm as a man is at the approach of +and irrepressibly, as water does in a creek. had the russian army been +“and i only...” +and involuntarily noticed the carefully washed seams of the scar near +and in two twists of the hand he breaks them to smithereens and installs +and into ladies’ society with an affectation of doing so against his +and interests before him! “yes, they have taken a wise decision,” he +and interesting person to the visitors and that nowhere else was the +and insignificant people. but the army, the russian army, everyone +and in proof of the conclusiveness of his opinion all the wrinkles +and in order to press them again to her lips, she slightly pushed away +and inevitably he lapsed into falsehood. if he had told the truth to his +and indulgently to smooth with it the heart of his neighbor. as to the +and indeed everybody in the room looked with a smile of pleasure at the +and in a whisper, with a strangely unsmiling face: “come to dinner +and in a way of which our last campaign can give you no idea. half the +and impossible, he again glanced timidly at her. she did not sit down +and immediately túshin, with a short pipe in the corner of his mouth +“and i might have been in his place!” thought rostóv, and hardly +and i’ll write to her myself, and we will kill the fatted calf.” +“and i know why she’d be ashamed,” said pétya, offended by +“and i?” he said; “do you think it is easier for me? i am as worn +“and i had no idea!...” exclaimed princess mary. “ah, andrew, i +“and, if your excellency will allow me to express my opinion,” he +“and if this aim coincides with yours, you may enter our brotherhood +“and if i should meet his majesty before i meet the commander in +“and if he asks about the losses?” +and i don’t now.” +“and i did not know... nicholas... my darling!...” +and i beg you all to help me. brünn’s attractions must be shown him. +“and i am still arguing with your husband. i can’t understand why he +and hurriedly removed. + * “and hurrah for the whole world!” +and how the well-trained horse looked round unconcerned and did not +“and how she dances! what gwace!” he said again after a pause. +and how has it ended? i was against this marriage even then and foretold +and how happy i may be with such a friend and such a husband! husband? +“and how do you get on with the officers?” inquired zherkóv. +“and how could you believe he was my lover? why? because i like +and horses) had it not occurred to rostóv to flourish his whip before +and horse guards’ jacket, shouting something to a pale, white +and his visit to brünn. at the door he found a vehicle half full of +and his thoughts followed one another with extraordinary clearness and +and his one division, and even then mortier slips through your fingers! +and his lips were smiling. though the commander was occupied in giving +and his kind, intelligent face rather pale, rushed out of the shed +and his head tilting yet further back. “why is it so long?” thought +and his forehead became smooth again, he bowed his head respectfully, +and his eyebrows were lifted, then his eyebrows would descend and +and his back drawn in, slightly swinging one foot, and, with his head a +and hills in the distance—and despite the fact that the inhabitants +and he would marry her. so her future shaped itself in mademoiselle +and he wore a crumpled hussar cap stuck jauntily back on one side of his +and he walked on. +and he smiled approvingly, evidently pleased with the cadet. rostóv +and he saw above him the remote, lofty, and everlasting sky. he knew it +and he sat down again, paying no more attention to his daughter, who was +and her son. she had opportunities of sending her letters to the grand +and her short, downy, smiling lip lifted when she began to speak just as +and her look seemed to say: “well, it is your own fault.” +and her face was tearful. +and here’s the little shop where we used to buy gingerbread! can’t +and he released bolkónski’s arm to indicate that he had now quite +“and here, friend, the people are quite beggarly. there they all +and helped him. i know and understand what a spice that would add to the +and he looked on this visit to a churlish old man and a rich and ugly +and he looked at pierre with a mocking, challenging expression. he +and he left the room, followed by the low but ringing laughter of the +and he indicated with his delicate fingers what he meant by a pinch. +and he felt a nervous shudder run down his spine. but the mere thought +and he experienced tenfold the joy of living, as he had not done since +and he doesn’t care at all for julie.” +and he caught the bear, took it in his arms, lifted it from the ground, +and he amuses himself setting a policeman astride a bear! for shame, +and health. all who talked to her, and at each word saw her bright smile +and he also passed on with the wagon. then came some merry soldiers who +and he again turned to pierre. +and he again began speaking about indifferent matters, about sergéy +and having got rid of this young man who did not know how to behave, she +and, having glanced round the room, prince andrew turned to rostóv, +and having done this he rode back. +and have seen fräulein mathilde.” +and hastened to reassure him. +and hardly able to restrain his jerky movements, and from the way he +and happy though uneasy face of pierre. it seemed as if the very light +and happiness the victory had afforded him had been now left in the +and happiness... “i should wish for nothing else, nothing, if only i +and handsome young man and woman for one another. and this human feeling +and handing on to posterity of a certain important mystery... which +and hair, without looking at her eyes, with such contempt that the +and had taken him to vienna and given him the more serious commissions. +and had remained away till he was twenty. when he returned to moscow +and had more than once impressed on his daughter that michael ivánovich +and had an opinion about everything), but above all at his capacity for +and gun carriages, the tramp of horses, the crack of whips, shouts, the +and groans mingled in a general hubbub, then the firing died down. +and grieved had he chosen not to see them. these different +and good-humored laughter from the soldiers that it infected the french +and glad sparkle. prince andrew had grown thinner, paler, and more +and get away to attend to her duties as hostess. but pierre now +and galloped off. but no sooner had he left bagratión than his courage +and galloped along the line. at first he rode along the line of +and fussily in the easy chair, “how is it annette never got married? +and frowning brows stood a hundred paces away from them in his helmet +and from the different ranks some twenty men ran to the front. a +and fro, and dispatching of adjutants—was confined to the emperor’s +and frequent blushes she told him she was very sorry about their past +and frenchmen running toward it. higher up stood some russian infantry, +and for the issue of the whole battle. “but be that what it may,” +and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor. the countess was +and flask, and swung his heavy person easily into the saddle. +and fighting, not at all as the gunner and the frenchman with frightened +and fencing from the village. +and fell on his hands. the others outstripped him. +and fell on his back. he opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle +and fell into the column to the measure of “left... left!” “close +and feeling at that moment. “is there anything at all behind that +and fear. +“and fancy! she refused him quite definitely!” adding, after a +and extending its neck, galloped on yet faster. hardly had the horse +and explained to them his intentions and wishes. he told them that steps +and examined him with attentive curiosity. the cossack was dead, but the +and every strap in place, and shone with cleanliness. and not only +and everybody had to serve, he took a post under his father in the +and even princess mary felt herself pleasantly made to share in these +and even now never says a word against him. those pranks in petersburg +and ecstasy such as he had never before known. every trait and every +and drowsy kutúzov, who reluctantly played the part of chairman and +and dropped it again behind her. prince andrew recognized her without +and drew it downwards as if wishing to ascertain whether it was firmly +and, drawing up an armchair for prince vasíli, pointed to it and began +and drawing up again next moment when her face broke into a smile of +“and do you know, my dear fellow, it seems to me that bonaparte has +“and do you feel quite calm?” rostóv asked. +and don’t forget to give him the rostóvs’ invitation. they ask him +and dólokhov swore at him in coarse soldier’s russian and shouldering +and dólokhov’s angry cry. +and, doing so, groaned involuntarily. +and distinctly. in the valley he saw before him something like a river, +and dissatisfied about something and that at headquarters they were +and dismounted slowly among the guns. he delivered the order and did +and disheveled, beat and turned the heavy feather bed for the third +“and did you give me tobacco yesterday? that’s just it, friend! ah, +“and didn’t hippolyte tell you?” asked prince vasíli, turning to +and devotion, or of weariness and hope of resting before long. prince +and desperation as though he were at that moment facing some great +and denísov went to the bed to get the purse from under the pillow. +and denísov rode up to a group that had stopped near rostóv, composed +and decided in his own mind that all was as it should be, and that in +and dark. the officers were hurriedly drinking tea and breakfasting, the + and dare not herculean russians trouble... +and count rostóv, glancing angrily at the author who went on reading +and count ilyá rostóv became more and more moved, more glass was +and countess alike—turned to look at her as if wondering why she had +and could not answer. “can something bad have happened to me?” +and continual expectation of some good, always in front of him but never +and connections he belonged to the groups of old and honored guests, and +and conflict with which he had trodden the enns bridge, but with the +and complacently seated himself on the sofa. +and compelled to act under conditions of war unlike anything that had +and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels +and colonel looked sternly and significantly at one another like two +and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. +and ceased talking when véra entered. sónya and natásha looked at +and carefully placed her in an easy chair. +and calling the nurse began giving the medicine. the child screamed +and by a servant who passed out on tiptoe without heeding them. they +and broke it up. in this action for the first time trophies were taken: +and borís says it is quite possible. you know i have told him all about +and borís. he is his godson,” she added, her tone suggesting that +and borís, having apparently relieved himself of an onerous duty and +and blue riding breeches, who were swarming near the bridge, and then at +and bilíbin unwrinkled his temple, feeling that the dilemma was +and besides this, nine men in every thousand for the militia. everywhere +and being well disposed toward borís, who had managed to please him the +and began to speak. +and began firing them at túshin’s battery. +and began dancing round the room with it. +and back, galloped strenuously forward, and with a dashing salute reined +and awkwardly over the parquet floor of the reception room, not knowing +“and at your age what secrets can there be between natásha and +and at the people in it. round a long table covered with black sat some +and at last became silent. +and a timid smile. +and at every word he added: “but don’t hurt my little horse!” and +and, as you know my principles, i refer it to you.” +and as they went along he was told allegories of the toils of his +“and ask whether sharpshooters have been posted,” he added. “what +and asking them all to be seated began: +and ask him, i!... does that satisfy you?” +and, as it might seem, of the obligations to her he had taken on +and as he went on became more and more animated. he told them of his +and as he waved his arms to impersonate the policeman, his portly form +and artillerymen’s bonfires. to the left, not far from the farthest +“and are the hours the same? and the walks in the avenues? and the +and are drawn along.” +and anxiety they threw their burden of sorrow on one another and +and anna mikháylovna (who found it necessary to accompany him) was +and angry faces struggled for the mop: how differently do those clouds +and anatole met in the conservatory. +and amusingly. “and why not marry her if she really has so much money? +and amuse themselves as girls of thirteen and fourteen do who are +and amused as he was when he put on the little icon. “did he believe? +and a muffled shout almost behind them in the wood. the french had +“and am i to bring the gypsy girls along with him?” asked nicholas, +and am at your service to help you nurse my uncle. i imagine what you +and also that murat’s mistake would very soon be discovered, proved +and all you have been doing on your estates.” + * and all that follows therefrom. +and all his mercy to one who is blind, or who shuts his eyes that he may +and all his comrades of the guards by his appearance—that of a +and all along the french line on the hill fires flared up and the +and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of +and again she began to sob, more bitterly than before. natásha lifted +and again proceeded to gallop along the line, penetrating farther and +and again jumping up, dashed so impetuously forward that it seemed as if +and again it turned uselessly in the same place. +and after staying but a short time with the tsar went to see the grand +and a flask, and nesvítski was treating some officers to pies and real +and affronts matter? i love and forgive everybody now.” +and a few here and there with powdered hair and in russian kaftáns. +and advantages of service under members of the imperial family. +and, addressing him, again used the epithet “young man” that was +and acquaintances, invitations, and social occupations were so numerous +and a convoy of croats. beside kutúzov sat an austrian general, in +and accept the offer,” but before he had time to say it natásha began +and a castle with a park surrounded by the waters of the confluence of +and a bullet whizzing high up in the mist with a plaintive sound passed +and abruptly. +and about nikólenka, twice asked when the last letter had been received +and a ball flew whistling over the heads of the hussar squadron. the +ancestor of the bolkónskis. prince andrew, looking again at that +an austrian officer in a white uniform with green plumes in his hat +an attack. but when they had marched for about an hour in the dense fog, +anatole with his swaggering air strode up to the window. he wanted to +“anatole used to come to borrow money from her and used to kiss her +anatole turned to the englishman and taking him by one of the buttons +anatole stopped him. +anatole’s expression, though his eyes were fixed on her, referred not +anatole returned smiling to the ladies. +anatole lived, pierre entered the lighted porch, ascended the stairs, +anatole kissed the old man, and looked at him with curiosity and perfect +anatole is no genius, but he is an honest, goodhearted lad; an excellent +anatole is accompanying me on his way to the army, so i hope you will +anatole, having taken off his overcoat, sat with arms akimbo before a +anatole embracing the frenchwoman and whispering something to her. with +anatole came up to her. she still could not see him. she only felt a +anatole and pierre. +anatole. “ah, i know, i know,” she said with a sly glance, “your +an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the outspread map +an anonymous volunteer, and david widger +an allowance of ten thousand rubles. he had a dim perception of the +an air of importance that showed that she felt she quite knew what she +a musketry fire at the french cavalry that was pursuing our troops. it +amusing, now girlishly enchanting. +amusing,” he continued, with a sudden, good-natured laugh, “was that +am staying in for your sake,” and so on. and though prince vasíli, +a movement. with a pleasant smile berg related how the grand duke +a most serious, deferential, and innocent expression. +a mop, his legs far apart, sprang to the wheel; while number two with +among the young men introduced by rostóv one of the first was +among the women!” +among them the staff officer and zherkóv, who had been twice sent to +among them. on my word i’d give five years of my life for it!” +among the gentlemen of the suite, rostóv noticed bolkónski, sitting +among the field guns on the brow of the hill the general in command of +among the children, in the special sense they attached to it.) “why +a moment, “yes, bring me seven hundred rubles, yes! but mind, don’t +a moment. the sick man was given something to drink, there was a +a moment, and, evidently understanding what rostóv hinted at, seized +am i to go?” thought nicholas, and went again into the dancing room +a minute later sónya came in with a frightened, guilty, and scared +“a million all but one!” replied a waggish soldier in a torn coat, +amid the square masses of troops standing motionless as if turned to +amid the smoke of their campfires, the greater part of whom were +amid the smoke, deafened by the incessant reports which always made him +amid people of whom he was weary had gone, instantly every thought of +amiably into his face, evidently wishing to soften the rudeness of his +a member of the hofkriegsrath from vienna had come to kutúzov the day +amélie” (mademoiselle bourienne) “thinks i could be jealous of her, +a meeting with napoleon. to the joy and pride of the whole army, a +ambassadors to compliment the usurper.” +amazed the french themselves. rostóv was horrified to hear later that +a man who on a hot day takes a final run before plunging into the water. +a man oppressed by business, weary and suffering, who yet would not, for +am.” +always won. however much he drank, he never lost his clearheadedness. +always surrounded by the same decks, masts, and rigging of his ship, so +always shall, and i want nothing more.” +always poking fun at me.... ah, well! let him!” and he began reading +always in one direction, humming with whispers and talk and the sound of +(always followed by a ball flying past and striking the earth, a man, a +always dragging it in one direction. he tried to get away from them, but +always clear and simple, so she is not stupid. she never was abashed and +always called natásha a cossack) and she stroked the child’s arm as +always better to “bow too low than not bow low enough.” so the +always be the chief desire of everyone else. +always be my daughters’ first confidante, and that if nicholas, with +always, always anxious! especially just at this age, so dangerous both +always afraid, came into her room with a peculiarly restless and malign +always accompanied any reference of hers to the imperial family, “has +although the hall porter saw someone’s carriage standing at the +although prince vasíli listened reluctantly and not very politely +although iogel did not acknowledge this to be the real mazurka, everyone +although in female society anatole usually assumed the role of a man +altered in shape by its pressure on the table, now at her still more +altar with her. how and when this would be he did not know, he did not +altar on which lay a testament and a skull. round it stood seven large +also. yes, my opinion, and only my opinion,” added prince bolkónski, +also to the soldiers. looking at their boots he several times shook his +also the abbé morio. do you know that profound thinker? he has been +also in french: +already visible. suddenly something like a birch broom seemed to sweep +already seen the young master, and, before he had reached the drawing +already seated in the drawing room. the count took the gentlemen into +already prepared...” +already passed. through the terrible and deafening roar of those voices, +already opening a door. +already lost him. he bent over him and, as his sister had taught him, +already known in moscow and that the ladies about his father—who were +already in any case dishonored by being unable to fulfill the great and +already, but then he cannot know what i think of him and may imagine +already been choosing a career for three months, and had not decided +already.” +aloud to him and being friends with princess mary. mademoiselle +a loud, monotonous voice began to read out the dispositions for the +aloud. +a look of complete absent-mindedness, kept rubbing the bridge of his +a look at you, your excellency.” +along the broad country road, edged on both sides by trees, came a high, +a long-awaited moment. he was firmly convinced that this was the day of +alone without any allies, it might perhaps have been a long time before +alone with her, so rostóv, now that he had attained what he had longed +alone with hélène in the little drawing room where they were sitting. +alone together, prince vasíli announced his hopes and wishes to the old +alone... that tremendous fortune... and what is his life worth? it’s a +alone, in which there was something more significant than in the general +alone, but because of everyone, it must inevitably come about. they are +alone at last gains a real victory, destroying the spell of the +alone applying her handkerchief to her eyes. at last she rang. +alone and in full view of the emperor. +“alone all the same, without my friends.... and he expects me not to +almost time,” she added, giving pierre to understand that they were +almost frightened, eyes as she passed him. +almost dragging him to the window. “that money is denísov’s; you +almost at the middle of the table. facing them sat pierre, beside prince +ally. we shall therefore confidently await the moment when the imperial +all your valuables.” +“all wight! all wight!” shouted denísov. “it’s no good making +all were then more confident of victory than the winning of two battles +all were silent. túshin appeared at the threshold and made his way +all were seated again, turned with his kindly smile to rostóv. +“all well?” asked rostóv, drawing away his arm. +allusion to the name of the sovereign. three hundred persons took their +all this shame and sorrow, but wanted now to play with him as a cat does +all this, rose and approached the princess. he seemed unable to bear the +all this is not right, it’s not right! you may take offense or not but +“all this had to be and could not be otherwise,” thought pierre, +all this end?” thought rostóv, looking at the changing shadows before +all the unmarried ladies and even the married ones except the very +all the soldiers’ remarks related to the two young ones. every face +all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of +“all the same! they say this one is the commander of all the emperor +“all the same, one is afraid! oh, you clever people,” said a third +“all the same, it was bilíbin who found a suitable form for the +“all the same, i love and value nothing but triumph over them all, i +all the old feminine arts. but as soon as the prince had gone her face +all the moscow ladies have conspired to give him all their sons as +all the guns, without waiting for orders, were being fired in the +all the figures on it: the sun, the moon, a hammer, a plumb line, a +all the comforts of cleanliness and all the refinements of life, prince +all the advantages were on our side. our enormous forces, undoubtedly +all that would be required of him. +all that the peasants had has been eaten up. i myself will remain in +all that has happened.” +all sorts of tempting wares. the pávlograds held feast after feast, +all sides, moved across the bridge. +all rostóv’s cards were beaten and he had eight hundred rubles scored +“all right. they are good fellows. and how have you wriggled onto the +“all right,” said pierre, still smiling in the same way. a feeling +“all right!” said dólokhov, having finished the addition. “all +“all right. fifty imperials ... that i will drink a whole bottle of +“all right, all right. we’ll talk it over,” replied prince andrew. +“all right, all right, we’ll see!” +“all right, all right!” said the old count. “he always flares up! +“all right, all right,” replied the commander, and turned to major +“all right, all right,” interrupted the prince, and laughing his +“all right, all right!” he said to prince andrew, and turned to a +all regular germans.” +all quite forgetting the danger and all regard for self-preservation, he +all pale and exchanged looks in silence. +“allow me to look at your purse,” he said in a low, almost +“allow me to give you a piece of advice. when you reach the capital, +“allow me to ask,” he said, “are you a mason?” +“allow me, sir,” said prince andrew in russian in a cold, +allow him personally to express the deep respect that, emulating his +allowed to speak, turns to auersperg with feigned astonishment (he is a +allowed to pass by special permission. the eyes of all the soldiers +allowed, i have hastened to take all steps to that end. may i have +all on one plan, for hospitals, schools, and almshouses, which were soon +all my trouble will have been thrown away.... i shall not be able to +all moscow, that everyone will say that you, drunk and not knowing what +all moscow talks of nothing but war. one of my two brothers is already +all moscow repeated prince dolgorúkov’s saying: “if you go on +all make out: was it a glade in the wood lit up by the moon, or some +all like that; one can’t unmarry. don’t be afraid; i won’t tell +all, like children of my own, as you know.” +all its details to the austrian general weyrother: a lucky accident had +“all is over,” he thought, and a cold sweat broke out on his +all-important.” +“all i can say, general,” said he with a pleasant elegance +all his wishes were being fulfilled that morning: there was to be a +all his property, not to us his direct heirs, but to pierre.” +all his decisions and intentions. he went to kurágin’s. +all her invitations without exception, written in french, and delivered +all her clothes in petersburg and that heaven knew what she would have +all her attention. he seemed to her kind, brave, determined, manly, and +“all have secrets of their own,” answered natásha, getting warmer. +all four, like a flock of scared birds, got up and left the room. +all for his relations was the fact that there was still a possibility of +“alley! alley!” said the cossack, touching the prisoner’s arm to +all expecting it, they are so sure that it will happen that i cannot, i +all done casually in a moment of anger, of illness, and was afterwards +all commanders of divisions the right to shoot marauders, but i much +all be killed,” a sergeant was saying angrily and reproachfully. +all began to run and bustle, and rostóv saw coming up the road behind +all. at last the sleigh bore to the right, drew up at an entrance, and +all as they should be? that’s right! the great thing is the serving, +all around were loving eyes glistening with tears of joy, and all around +all are struck by the justness of his views, but no one undertakes to +all, and your future depends on him. remember that, my dear, and be nice +all, and without promising to help me?” thought pierre, rising with +all along the sides of the road fallen horses were to be seen, some +all.” +alive—live: tomorrow you’ll die as i might have died an hour ago. +alive could understand or explain. +alive and suffering from a burning, lacerating pain in his head. +“a little wound, but he has been made an officer; he is well now, he +“a little volcano!” +a little to their right and behind the accountant, crashed to earth with +a little later when he went up to the large circle, anna pávlovna said +a little earth crumbled from the bank under the horse’s hind hoofs. +“aline,” he said to his wife, “go and see what they are about.” +alike, felt that the commander did not himself know what to do, and this +alighted from his horse and whose big body was jammed against the +alight, and let her pass into the house before him. old tíkhon, wearing +a life i can’t decide or think properly about anything. one’s head +alien face of that man, his bayonet hanging down, holding his breath, +alexéevich. loud knocks were heard at the door. pierre took the bandage +alexander was clearly heard. he gave the words of greeting, and the +alexander unpleasantly, he rode up and saluted. +alexander’s guards,” said the first one, indicating a russian +alexander prince vasíli had risen to high position and honors. and now, +a letter of recommendation he had brought from pierre had become +a letter has been written to the emperor in which the count asks for +“a letter from nikólenka! i’m sure of it!” exclaimed natásha, +a letter at once, and she’ll come here and all will be explained, or +alert than he had done the day before. only his eyes gleamed feverishly +alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance. +a laugh still more so, he quitted the table. +alarm, supposing these words to mean that the young count was displeased +alarm lest something should have happened to the child while he was +a large udder was attached to the cart behind. a woman with an unweaned +a languor of motion and speech, resulting from weakness, gave her a +a lack of bread, to move farther into the interior of prussia, for only +a kind no longer in general use. prince andrew remembered the story of +a keg, filled one after another the canteen lids held out to him. the +a joke he had heard in vienna and which he had been trying all that +air, and disobeying orders. the moral hesitation which decided the fate +aim was to show general weyrother—who had read his dispositions with +aim—to establish peace in europe on firm foundations—has now decided +aim?” said he quietly and quickly. +aim remaining for him was to effect a junction with the forces that were +aid of his servant, and not looking at pierre. with a pair of felt boots +aides-de-camp to inquire after the count’s health, came himself +aide-de-camp, “dat one liffs after de sird stroke.” +aide-de-camp and was duly conducted to pay his respects to the aunt and +aide-de-camp, and sat down in the lady’s chair, placing his huge hands +aide-de-camp. +aide-de-camp. +“ah, you’ve come here too, young man!” he said, smiling and +“ah, your excellency,” put in zherkóv, his eyes fixed on the +“ah, you’re up already,” said denísov, entering the room. +“ah, you are sending off a letter, princess? i have already dispatched +“ah, yes! that’s a whole long story! how are you going to speak to +“ah yes, my dear,” said the count, addressing the visitor and +“ah, yes! do tell us all about it, vicomte,” said anna pávlovna, +“ah yes, and what else did he say that’s unpleasant?” thought +“ah, wostóv,” he cried noticing the cadet’s bright face, +“ah! what joy for the princess!” exclaimed she: “at last! i must +“ah, what have you done to me?” it still seemed to say, and prince +“ah what a calamity! you say the affair was decisive? but mortier is +“ah, váska!” joyfully replied nesvítski. “what’s up with +“ah, timókhin!” said he, recognizing the red-nosed captain who had +“ah, those damned germans! they don’t know their own country!” +“ah, there will be, and there are, many more such girls somewhere whom +“ah, that’s the way to talk french,” said the picket soldiers. +“ah, that’s always the way!” said nesvítski with a wave of the +“ah! that’s a good thing. so, my dear boy, you wish to serve the +“ah, that is just what i tell him!” said she. “i don’t +“ah! telyánin! how d’ye do? they plucked me last night,” came +“ah, she is indeed a darling! i’ll send her to you.” +“ah!” said kutúzov. “i hope this will be a lesson to you. do your +“ah!...” said kutúzov glancing at bolkónski as if by this +“ah, princess mary!” he said suddenly in an unnatural voice, +“ah, prince! in what sad circumstances we meet again! and how is our +a host welcomes an honored guest. he reported that his regiment had +a horrified expression on his handsome face, anatole looked at princess +a hollow between two hills near the village of pratzen, the russian +a hoarse voice to the men to look to their pistols. he rode up to +a hoar frost now turning to dew, but in the valleys it still lay like a +“ah, my love,” answered anna mikháylovna, “god grant you never +“ah, my friend!” she said, touching his arm as she had done her +“ah, my friend!” said he, taking pierre by the elbow; and there was +“ah, my dear vicomte,” put in anna pávlovna, “l’urope” (for +“ah, my dear,” said the countess, “my life is not all roses +“ah, my dear prince! i could not have a more welcome visitor,” +“ah, my dear, my dear!” he began, rising and taking her by both +“ah, my dear, i hardly knew you,” said anna mikháylovna with a +“ah! my dear, i am afraid you and your monk are wasting your +“ah, my dear! he is so rich, and we are so poor!” +“ah, my dear friend, he is very unfortunate,” she said. “if what +“ah, my dear friend! forget the wrongs that may have been done you. +“ah, my dear fellow, what a battle we have gained! god grant that +“ah! my dear!... ah! mary!...” they suddenly exclaimed, and then +“ah, my boy, my head’s in a whirl!” said the old man with a smile, +“ah, money, count, money! how much sorrow it causes in the world,” +“ah! mon ami, i only pray, and hope that god will hear me. +“ah, may the devil take you and evewybody,” were the last words +“ah, madam, it is a great sacrament,” replied the priest, passing +“ah, it can’t be avoided!” thought nicholas, for the first and +“ah, is it you, cousin?” +“ah, i know what it is.” +“ah! here’s the warrior! wants to vanquish buonaparte?” said the +“ah, here she is!” he exclaimed laughing. “my pet, whose name day +“ah! he is alive,” said napoleon. “lift this young man up and +“ah, from vienna? very good. later, later!” +a heavenly feeling. borís was telling his new friend pierre who the +“ah, don’t talk to me! last winter she wheedled herself in here and +“ah, dear friend,” replied princess mary, “i have asked you never +“ah, count rostóv!” exclaimed pierre joyfully. “then you are his +“ah, but you won’t talk politics to me like annette!” +“ah! breathing again, breathing!” he muttered to himself. +“ah, bondarénko, dear friend!” said he to the hussar who rushed up +a handsome adjutant. this was prince bolkónski. beside him was his +“ah, and here’s nicholas!” cried natásha, running up to him. +ague. +agreed or disagreed and was satisfied or not with the arrangements. next +agreeable and interesting work. his face expressed more satisfaction +a good thing for proprietors who perish morally, bring remorse upon +a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, prince +a good example, yet here you are without your boots! the alarm will be +a gold snuffbox on which was a portrait. in the middle of one of the +ago have joined the archduke. and believe me on my honour that to me +aglow with dazzling light—as if he had only awaited this to begin the +a glimpse of her, she seemed still more lovely. she was a charming girl +agitated. +a girl, such tact, such masterly perfection of manner! it comes from +“a geography lesson!” he muttered as if to himself, but loud enough +a general engagement,” repeated dolgorúkov, evidently prizing this +age...” +again when he passed to another group whose center was the abbé. +again turning to the count. “zat is how ve old hussars look at it, and +“against your will he will save and have mercy on you and bring you +against the wall, and the second of the three sisters rushed out +against the pillow. +against the muslin of the curtain. +against them and winding down over the uneven ground. one could already +against the french?” +again struck up, the count and countess kissed, and the guests, leaving +against one of the columns in a respectful attitude implying that he, +against his right, flew round again in a circle. natásha guessed what +again shook with a deep ringing laugh, the laugh of one who always eats +again see the sun, this water, that gorge!...” +again rostóv looked intently into borís’ eyes and sighed. berg +again recalled all the details of the victory and his own calm courage +again on the sofa. they were silent for a while. +again on all the bright faces of the squadron the serious expression +again joined her. they began talking in whispers, but their talk broke +again. i must go there, prince, and scare them a bit. it won’t take a +again going on tiptoe to the reception room where they had left prince +again getting in front of the first line as he had done when the horse +again expressing deep sorrow. +again drawn out in a thin line the musketeers were descending the hill, +again began to laugh. she evidently felt unable to look at him +again, as soon as all turned toward him, excused himself and said no +again are all running back somewhere, and i shall run with them, and it, +again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression +again and remained for a while with the ismáylov regiment. +again, and let his head sink still lower. +again. +again. +after washing and dressing, prince andrew came into the diplomat’s +after two in the morning, thoughts come and i can’t sleep but toss +after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages. the jaunty +after the soup the prince became more genial. +after these words, the mason, as if tired by his long discourse, again +“after the next affair... epaulettes.” +after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one +after their active service, were stationed near olmütz and the camp +after the fatigues and impressions of the journey, his reception, and +after the battle but send a courier to petersburg with news of a +after the austerlitz campaign prince andrew had firmly resolved not +after the attack, bogdánich would come up to him as he lay wounded and +after that anna pávlovna led up to the courage and firmness of the king +after tea, the company went into the sitting room and princess mary was +after supper pierre with his partner followed the others into the +after receiving this news late in the evening, when he was alone in his +after receiving her visitors, the countess was so tired that she gave +after passing some austrian troops he noticed that the next part of the +after natásha down the passage into the sitting room with flushed face +after losing her own father. she is very good-natured, and my father +after losing half their men were retreating in disorderly confused +after looking at him napoleon smiled. +after inspecting the carriage himself and seeing the trunks put in, he +after his reception by the austrians, to speak if not in russian +after his journey and the campaign during which he had been deprived of +after his interview with his wife pierre left for petersburg. at the +after his illness he looked rather thinner that day than on the field +after his dismissal from headquarters zherkóv had not remained in the +after five o’clock it was only at the augesd dam that a hot cannonade +after dinner, he went to see his daughter-in-law. the little princess +after dinner. he called natásha and asked her what was the matter. +after denísov’s departure, rostóv spent another fortnight in moscow, +after a while the moving mass became agitated, someone rode past on +after a while he re-entered it as if to snuff the candles, and, seeing +“after austerlitz!” said prince andrew gloomily. “no, thank you +after another greeting the tsar with the strains of the march, and then +after anna mikháylovna had driven off with her son to visit count cyril +after a few minutes’ bustle beside the high bedstead, those who had +a friend older than himself and whom he respected. his whole time +a fresh wave of the flying mob caught him and bore him back with it. +a french soldier tugged at the other. he could distinctly see the +“a french pancake,” answered zherkóv. +a frenchman), “l’urope ne sera jamais notre alliée sincère.” * +a freak of fate made the impossible possible. the success of the trick +afraid of a general battle. his hour has come! mark my words!” +a fortnight ago he would have had a paymaster’s clerk at yúkhnovna +a fortnight after the letter prince vasíli’s servants came one +a former war. “the emperor will teach your suvara as he has taught the +a foreigner, in spite of all differences of faith, understood the full +a foraging expedition. rostóv in his cadet uniform, with a jerk to his +a footman came in to summon borís—the princess was going. pierre, in +a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the russian emperor, was +a first introduction and betrays a consciousness of the impropriety of +a fine place! why are you not eating anything, gentlemen?” nesvítski +“a fine mess we’ve made of it!” he remarked. +“a fine lad! my word! a fine lad!... his father lies on his deathbed +a fight led murat to try to deceive kutúzov in a similar way. meeting +afflicted by the death of the father he had hardly known), and her +affirmatively.) “when you hear a knock at the door, you will uncover +affectionately. +affectionate letters to your parents, and if you think you may be +affectionate eyes, now came up and took his arm. before he looked round +affectionate as it was—expressed a sense of his own superiority. +affected languor and indolence. he now looked like a man who has time +affectation. princess mary ran out of the room to fetch mary +affair was over and, though not big, had been a successful engagement. +affairs of honor and had twice regained his commission. +affairs and of pierre himself in those early days. from the death of +affair public. you are offended at being put on duty a bit, but why not +affair of the thabor bridge, at vienna.... they have crossed without +affair. i am her father.” +affair, and about some ladies they both knew. +a few steps, turned, cut a caper, brought her little feet sharply +a few minutes later the chief forces of the french army moved rapidly +a few hours ahead of the french who were approaching hollabrünn from +a few fir trees. +a fellow diplomat, “that the chancellor told him flatly that his +a feeling of contemptuous ill will. he snorted whenever he mentioned +a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools. +advise you to appeal to rumyántsev through prince golítsyn. that would +advice is to let the matter drop. well then, on friday after the review +adve’sawies have wefused a weconciliation, please pwoceed. take your +advantageous match but a splendid, noble fellow... he is my friend...” +advancing to attack the french cavalry that was coming to meet them. +advancing straight toward the inner door. +advancing from russia, without losing his army as mack had done at ulm. +advancing by forced marches toward znaim, which lay sixty-six miles +advancing.” +adroitness and italian play-acting! do you know the tale about him and + a dreaded foe be thou, kindhearted as a man, +a door of one of the inner rooms opened and one of the princesses, the +admitted that he had been to blame, did not lift his eyes from the +admit—he had almost been jealous on his wife’s account, was the butt +admired his regiment, rejoiced in it, and that his whole mind was +administered. come.” +adjutant, zherkóv, an orderly officer, the staff officer on duty, +adjutant whom he so hated. +adjutants met him with news of the successful result of the action. +adjutants.” +adjutant, or really let the matter drop, was the question that worried +adjutant on kutúzov’s staff, but he does everything alone. the next +adjutant by his elaborate courtesy appeared to wish to ward off any +adjutant. +a dinner where there was no place for him. in the next hut there was a +adieu, prince! may god support you...” +“adieu, mary,” said he gently to his sister, taking her by the hand +“adieu, ma bonne,” answered prince vasíli turning away from her. +adieu, dear and kind friend; may our divine saviour and his most holy +a despot. who is right and who is wrong? no one! but if you are +a desperate cry and such mad, drunken determination that, taken by +a desire to do something for them, a desire for their approval.—so i +a deed to sign for the princess’ benefit. +address rostóv by his title, as if in recognition of his confession. +addressing the mother. +addressing the englishman. +addressing the black-mustached denísov with servile deference. +addressing the austrian general, “i have the honor to congratulate +addressing lorrain in french which he pronounced badly. +addressing him as ‘usurper and enemy of mankind.’” +addressing her with the careless tone of habitual tenderness natural to +addressing first one, then another. he said he would not have been +address. he is a wise and clever fellow.” +addressed the horseman with the white plumes, evidently suggesting +addressed an edifying exhortation to them. he imagined to himself +adding, “your excellency.” +added: “what a lot of men have been crippled today—frightful!” +added, not noticing his visitor’s sarcastic smile. +added, noticing that prince andrew winced as at an electric shock. +added in a tone admitting of no rejoinder and raising her eyebrows. +added he, munching a pie in his moist-lipped handsome mouth, “would be +added, addressing prince vasíli, and without waiting for an answer she +added. +added. + a day or two, then bliss unspoilt, +a dark-green dress coat, knee breeches of the color of cuisse de nymphe +a cup of tea?” +actuated by a real desire for peace. +actual phrase used by the vienna cabinet,” said the danish chargé +activity, túshin did not experience the slightest unpleasant sense of +activities of 160,000 russians and french—all their passions, desires, +action they had been wounded. “day before yesterday, on the danube,” +action—he drew the glove from his shapely white hand, made a sign +action did prince bagratión, still hearing the cannonade in the center, +action, as if flying through the air without touching the ground. +action, and more than that, you can’t make me believe that you do not +action, and in the company of well-known, elderly, and respected racing +a cry of: “the general to the third company,” the missing officer +across the table to clink glasses with the count, with the children, and +across the bodies and under a terrible fire from the french, he attended +across, snatched it from his hand and began reading it. pierre looked +across his path. rostóv put his horse to full gallop to get out of the +a crash. +a crafty man convinced of the futility of being cunning with so +acquiring a trotter of his own, very stylish riding breeches of the +acquired though she did not understand its significance. this expression +acquainted with prince andrew bolkónski, through whom he hoped to +acquainted,” and he pressed borís’ hand. “do you know, i have not +acquaintances not only cordially, but even with a shade of deference +acquaintance,” said pierre. and again, glancing at the stranger’s +acquaintance of many persons who might prove useful to him, and by +acquaintance.’ in a word, those gentlemen, gascons indeed, so +acquaintance—he wished him simply a brother and a virtuous instructor. +a coronet) entered the room, calm and majestic, except that there was +a convoy wagon became restive at the end of the bridge, and the whole +a convoy. directly opposite to him came a strange one-horse vehicle, +a consciousness is communicated is very difficult to define, but it +a company smile but was evidently tormented by jealousy; now she turned +a company commander, a fine round-faced man, with a stupid and happy +a commanding officer’s quarters, the regiment began to move: the +a commander in chief. as it was considered that the austerlitz success +a comforting belief in future life, retribution, recompense, and +a closely written letter of two sheets from bilíbin. he folded it up +a cloak, waiting for the conversation to finish. they listened to +a clear blue sky, and the sun’s vast orb quivered like a huge hollow, +aches, and one spends all one’s money. he asked me for tonight, but i +a chance to escape, or to trick us, now that we certainly have him in +a certain house—that was another matter and quite the thing for a +a ceremonial march past him, and rostóv on bedouin, recently purchased +a celebrated miniaturist, and he leaned over the table to take the +accustomed to win in their battles,” he concluded his evidently +accounts is a poor creature.” +account of court and personal considerations tens of thousands of lives, +accountant, a stout, full-faced man, looked around him with a naïve +“according to the scouts the last of them crossed on rafts during the +accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room. but in spite of +accomplished. +accompanying him to the hall. +accompanied by adjutants, galloped off in different directions, and +accept this challenge or not. anatole did not release him, and though +accept it and fixed the stake himself. nicholas submitted to him, and at +accent. he was breathless with agitation, his face was red, and when +accent—having noticed that zherkóv could still hear him. +accent. +a cavalryman. prince andrew felt that an invisible power was leading him +a case. +absolutely necessary. +absent-minded. when he rose to go, he took up instead of his own, the +absence. little nicholas had been unwell for four days. the coachman who +abroad, the other is with the guards, who are starting on their march +a brilliant match—blushed like a girl. +a bright smile, “so she won’t come down. it is natural in her +above the heights was the dark clear sky, and to the right the vast orb +above his head: “captain túshin! captain!” +above and below him in social standing. something always drew him toward +above all this the lofty sky, formed the chief subjects of his delirious +“about your sister,” ejaculated denísov testily. +about two thirds of a mile was stopped on the highroad. rostóv saw the +about to smile, and once on coming out of the chapel prince andrew and +about to ask their way of an elderly footman who had sprung up as they +about till dawn, because i think and can’t help thinking, just as +about the princess’ health and then led pierre along a stone passage. +about the old prince and criticized him. +about the corners of his mouth read to the austrian general the +about the austrians and their uniforms, about their lines, about +about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry +about ten o’clock rostóv went to the english hotel straight from the +about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over.... +about sergéy kuzmích that interested prince vasíli just then, and +“about my wife... i am ashamed as it is to leave her on your +about mademoiselle bourienne was dreadful. it was untrue to be sure, but +about him or anyone else, and i don’t want anything of the kind.” +about him. he reddened and turned away. +about him and even speak. +about him and about his love for him, letting it be understood that he +about her native land. when he saw the pretty little bourienne, anatole +about her confinement, and how she dreaded it, and had complained of her +about a mile and a half off on the opposite heights. down below, on +about 80,000 went in payments on all the estates to the land bank, about +abominable, quite abominable!” said prince andrew, and he went off to +a bold, free, and easy tone, while in his soul he regarded himself as a +a blue-eyed soldier involuntarily attracted notice. it was dólokhov +able to inflict punishments justly and unjustly. it is those people i +“a bit touched—i always said so.” +a b c of war or of politics, and that bonaparte was an insignificant +abbé morio? he is a most interesting man.” +“a bayonet wound. i remained at the front. remember, your +a battlefield to whom thousands of new and brilliant ideas occur which +a battery to their left. the smoke above it had not yet dispersed. two + * a bastard. +a banister post stood a tallow candle which guttered in the draft. on +abandoning all hope of a junction with buxhöwden. if kutúzov decided +abandoned in the center?” he inquired, searching with his eyes for +“aah!” rostóv almost screamed lifting both hands to his head. the + *(4) i just ask you that. + *(3) hollow. +30,000 went for the upkeep of the estate near moscow, the town house, + * (2) that their fire gets into his eyes and he forgets that + *(2) that suits us down to the ground. + * (2) “it is all very well for that good-for-nothing fellow + * (2) “hurrah for the austrians! hurrah for the russians! +1. discretion, the keeping of the secrets of the order. 2. obedience to + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 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Anna +All her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered +“If you have nothing better to do, Count (or Prince), and if the +I shall be very charmed to see you tonight between 7 and 10—Annette +embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on +his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that +refined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and +who had grown old in society and at court. He went up to Anna Pávlovna, +kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, +and complacently seated himself on the sofa. +politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony +festivities and fireworks are becoming wearisome.” +“Don’t tease! Well, and what has been decided about Novosíltsev’s +burnt his boats, and I believe that we are ready to burn ours.” +overflowed with animation and impulsiveness. To be an enthusiast had +become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not +“Oh, don’t speak to me of Austria. Perhaps I don’t understand +things, but Austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war. She +recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it. That is the one +thing I have faith in! Our good and wonderful sovereign has to perform +the noblest role on earth, and he is so virtuous and noble that God will +not forsake him. He will fulfill his vocation and crush the hydra of +this murderer and villain! We alone must avenge the blood of the just +one.... Whom, I ask you, can we rely on?... England with her commercial +spirit will not and cannot understand the Emperor Alexander’s +find, and still seeks, some secret motive in our actions. What answer +did Novosíltsev get? None. The English have not understood and cannot +understand the self-abnegation of our Emperor who wants nothing for +perform! Prussia has always declared that Buonaparte is invincible, and +neutrality is just a trap. I have faith only in God and the lofty +sister,” was all she said, in a dry and mournful tone. +expression of profound and sincere devotion and respect mingled with +sadness, and this occurred every time she mentioned her illustrious +beaucoup d’estime, and again her face clouded over with sadness. +The prince was silent and looked indifferent. But, with the womanly and +courtierlike quickness and tact habitual to her, Anna Pávlovna +recommended to the Empress) and at the same time to console him, so she +The prince bowed to signify his respect and gratitude. +to the prince and smiling amiably at him as if to show that political +and social topics were ended and the time had come for intimate +added in a tone admitting of no rejoinder and raising her eyebrows. +anyone, and so you don’t deserve to have them.” +I am dissatisfied with your younger son? Between ourselves” (and her +Majesty’s and you were pitied....” +a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools. +more natural and animated than usual, so that the wrinkles round +his mouth very clearly revealed something unexpectedly coarse and +“I am your faithful slave and to you alone I can confess that my +asked. “They say old maids have a mania for matchmaking, and though I +Prince Vasíli did not reply, though, with the quickness of memory and +current of his thoughts, “that Anatole is costing me forty thousand +“Her father is very rich and stingy. He lives in the country. He is +the late Emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the King of Prussia.’ He is +very clever but eccentric, and a bore. The poor girl is very unhappy. +He is an aide-de-camp of Kutúzov’s and will be here tonight.” +Pávlovna’s hand and for some reason drawing it downwards. “Arrange +that affair for me and I shall always be your most devoted slave-slafe +and of good family and that’s all I want.” +And with the familiarity and easy grace peculiar to him, he raised the +maid of honor’s hand to his lips, kissed it, and swung it to and fro +Lise, young Bolkónski’s wife, this very evening, and perhaps the +and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. +father to the ambassador’s entertainment; she wore a ball dress and +She had been married during the previous winter, and being pregnant did +The Abbé Morio and many others had also come. +aunt,” or “You do not know my aunt?” and very gravely conducted +began to arrive; and slowly turning her eyes from the visitor to her +aunt, Anna Pávlovna mentioned each one’s name and then left them. +one of them knew, not one of them wanted to know, and not one of them +cared about; Anna Pávlovna observed these greetings with mournful and +solemn interest and silent approval. The aunt spoke to each of them in +the same words, about their health and her own, and the health of Her +with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not +but it lifted all the more sweetly, and was especially charming when she +upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to be her own special and +young woman, so soon to become a mother, so full of life and health, and +carrying her burden so lightly. Old men and dull dispirited young ones +who looked at her, after being in her company and talking to her a +and health. All who talked to her, and at each word saw her bright smile +and the constant gleam of her white teeth, thought that they were in a +steps, her workbag on her arm, and gaily spreading out her dress sat +pleasure to herself and to all around her. “I have brought my work,” +said she in French, displaying her bag and addressing all present. +a small reception, and just see how badly I am dressed.” And she +“You know,” said the princess in the same tone of voice and still in +French, turning to a general, “my husband is deserting me? He is going +added, addressing Prince Vasíli, and without waiting for an answer she +at that time, a very high ruffle, and a brown dress coat. This stout +grandee of Catherine’s time who now lay dying in Moscow. The young man +just returned from abroad where he had been educated, and this was his +this lowest-grade greeting, a look of anxiety and fear, as at the sight +of something too large and unsuited to the place, came over her face +the clever though shy, but observant and natural, expression which +“It is very good of you, Monsieur Pierre, to come and visit a poor +Pierre murmured something unintelligible, and continued to look round as +“Yes, I have heard of his scheme for perpetual peace, and it is very +and get away to attend to her duties as hostess. But Pierre now +she had finished speaking to him, and now he continued to speak to +another who wished to get away. With his head bent, and his big feet +resumed her duties as hostess and continued to listen and watch, ready +the foreman of a spinning mill, when he has set the hands to work, goes +round and notices here a spindle that has stopped or there one that +creaks or makes more noise than it should, and hastens to check the +drawing room, approaching now a silent, now a too-noisy group, and by a +proper, and regular motion. But amid these cares her anxiety about +the group round Mortemart to listen to what was being said there, and +Pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception at Anna +the intellectual lights of Petersburg were gathered there and, like a +and refined expression on the faces of those present he was always +Here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an +steadily and ceaselessly on all sides. With the exception of the aunt, +Princess Hélène, Prince Vasíli’s daughter, and the little Princess +Bolkónskaya, very pretty and rosy, though rather too plump for her age. +The third group was gathered round Mortemart and Anna Pávlovna. +The vicomte was a nice-looking young man with soft features and polished +her guests, first the vicomte and then the abbé, as peculiarly choice +had perished by his own magnanimity, and that there were particular +The vicomte bowed and smiled courteously in token of his willingness to +to a third; and the vicomte was served up to the company in the choicest +and most advantageous style, like a well-garnished joint of roast beef +The vicomte wished to begin his story and gave a subtle smile. +and ivy, with a gleam of white shoulders, glossy hair, and sparkling +privilege of admiring her beautiful figure and shapely shoulders, +back, and bosom—which in the fashion of those days were very much +exposed—and she seemed to bring the glamour of a ballroom with her as +appeared shy of her unquestionable and all too victorious beauty. She +“How lovely!” said everyone who saw her; and the vicomte lifted his +shoulders and dropped his eyes as if startled by something extraordinary +when she took her seat opposite and beamed upon him also with her +The princess rested her bare round arm on a little table and considered +to time she smoothed the folds of her dress, and whenever the story +the expression she saw on the maid of honor’s face, and again relapsed +The little princess had also left the tea table and followed Hélène. +There was a general movement as the princess, smiling and talking +merrily to everyone at once, sat down and gaily arranged herself in her +“Now I am all right,” she said, and asking the vicomte to begin, she +Prince Hippolyte, having brought the workbag, joined the circle and +self-satisfied, youthful, and constant smile of animation, and by the +was dulled by imbecility and a constant expression of sullen +self-confidence, while his body was thin and weak. His eyes, nose, and +mouth all seemed puckered into a vacant, wearied grimace, and his arms +and legs always fell into unnatural positions. +the princess and hastily adjusting his lorgnette, as if without this +effrayée, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings. +who also enjoyed the famous actress’ favors, and that in his presence +subject, and was thus at the duc’s mercy. The latter spared him, and +The story was very pretty and interesting, especially at the point +where the rivals suddenly recognized one another; and the ladies looked +her work as if to testify that the interest and fascination of the story +The vicomte appreciated this silent praise and smiling gratefully +talking too loudly and vehemently with the abbé, so she hurried to the +the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young +were talking and listening too eagerly and too naturally, which was why +“The means are ... the balance of power in Europe and the rights of +the maintenance of the balance of power of Europe, and it would save the +At that moment Anna Pávlovna came up and, looking severely at Pierre, +face instantly changed and assumed an offensively affected, sugary +“I am so enchanted by the brilliancy of the wit and culture of the +Not letting the abbé and Pierre escape, Anna Pávlovna, the more +Bolkónski, the little princess’ husband. He was a very handsome young +her with a grimace that distorted his handsome face, kissed Anna +Pávlovna’s hand, and screwing up his eyes scanned the whole company. +“General Kutúzov,” said Bolkónski, speaking French and stressing +“André,” said his wife, addressing her husband in the same +been telling us such a tale about Mademoiselle George and Buonaparte!” +Prince Andrew screwed up his eyes and turned away. Pierre, who from +affectionate eyes, now came up and took his arm. Before he looked round +unexpectedly kind and pleasant smile. +“No, impossible!” said Prince Andrew, laughing and pressing +Pierre’s hand to show that there was no need to ask the question. He +wished to say something more, but at that moment Prince Vasíli and his +daughter got up to go and the two young men rose to let them pass. +of a pleasure, and obliges me to interrupt you. I am very sorry to leave +holding up the folds of her dress, and the smile shone still more +In passing Prince Vasíli seized Pierre’s hand and said to Anna +a whole month and this is the first time I have seen him in society. +Anna Pávlovna smiled and promised to take Pierre in hand. She knew his +had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook Prince +had left her kindly and tear-worn face and it now expressed only anxiety +and fear. +Although Prince Vasíli listened reluctantly and not very politely +ingratiating and appealing smile, and took his hand that he might not go +“What would it cost you to say a word to the Emperor, and then he +best families in Russia, but she was poor, and having long been out of +invitation to Anna Pávlovna’s reception and had sat listening to +embittered look clouded her once handsome face, but only for a moment; +then she smiled again and clutched Prince Vasíli’s arm more tightly. +for anything and I never will again, nor have I ever reminded you of my +do this for my son—and I shall always regard you as a benefactor,” +Golítsyn and he has refused. Be the kindhearted man you always were,” +beautiful head and looking over her classically molded shoulder as she +if it is to last. Prince Vasíli knew this, and having once realized +will not rest until they have gained their end, and are prepared if +necessary to go on insisting day after day and hour after hour, and even +“My dear Anna Mikháylovna,” said he with his usual familiarity and +ask; but to prove my devotion to you and how I respect your father’s +Guards. Here is my hand on it. Are you satisfied?” +rest, and then...” +since his appointment as Commander in Chief. He told me himself that +Apparently she had forgotten her age and by force of habit employed +group where the vicomte was still talking, and again pretended to +Milan?” asked Anna Pávlovna, “and of the comedy of the people of +Genoa and Lucca laying their petitions before Monsieur Buonaparte, and +Monsieur Buonaparte sitting on a throne and granting the petitions of +XVII, for the Queen, or for Madame Elizabeth? Nothing!” and he became +little princess, and having asked for a needle began tracing the Condé +far. By intrigues, violence, exile, and executions, French society—I +mean good French society—will have been forever destroyed, and +He shrugged his shoulders and spread out his hands. Pierre wished to +“The Emperor Alexander,” said she, with the melancholy which +their own form of government; and I believe that once free from the +“From what I have heard,” said Pierre, blushing and breaking into +It was evident that he did not like the vicomte and was aiming his +Napoleon’s words. “‘I opened my antechambers and they crowded +after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one +Before Anna Pávlovna and the others had time to smile their +conversation, and though Anna Pávlovna felt sure he would say something +“was a political necessity, and it seems to me that Napoleon +greatness of soul?” said the little princess, smiling and drawing her +“Capital!” said Prince Hippolyte in English, and began slapping his +knee with the palm of his hand. +audience over his spectacles and continued. +from the Revolution leaving the people to anarchy, and Napoleon alone +understood the Revolution and quelled it, and so for the general good, +“No,” cried he, becoming more and more eager, “Napoleon is great +preserved all that was good in it—equality of citizenship and freedom +of speech and of the press—and only for that reason did he obtain +rid them of the Bourbons and because they saw that he was a great +man. The Revolution was a grand thing!” continued Monsieur Pierre, +betraying by this desperate and provocative proposition his extreme +youth and his wish to express all that was in his mind. +“What? Revolution and regicide a grand thing?... Well, after that... +“Yes: ideas of robbery, murder, and regicide,” again interjected an +prejudices, and equality of citizenship, and all these ideas Napoleon +“Liberty and equality,” said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at +not love liberty and equality? Even our Saviour preached liberty and +vicomte and from the vicomte to their hostess. In the first moment of +had not exasperated the vicomte, and had convinced herself that it was +impossible to stop him, she rallied her forces and joined the vicomte in +innocent and untried?” +the 18th Brumaire; was not that an imposture? It was a swindle, and not +Pierre, not knowing whom to answer, looked at them all and smiled. His +between his acts as a private person, as a general, and as an emperor. +was great on the bridge of Arcola, and in the hospital at Jaffa where he +gave his hand to the plague-stricken; but ... but there are other acts +Pierre’s remarks, rose and made a sign to his wife that it was time to +and asking them all to be seated began: +“I was told a charming Moscow story today and must treat you to it. +Everyone waited, so emphatically and eagerly did he demand their +“There is in Moscow a lady, une dame, and she is very stingy. She must +have two footmen behind her carriage, and very big ones. That was her +livery, get up behind the carriage, and come with me while I make some +Here Prince Hippolyte spluttered and burst out laughing long before his +persons, among them the elderly lady and Anna Pávlovna, did however +“She went. Suddenly there was a great wind. The girl lost her hat and +longer and went on, between gasps of laughter: “And the whole world +it, or why it had to be told in Russian, still Anna Pávlovna and the +ending Pierre’s unpleasant and unamiable outburst. After the anecdote +and next balls, about theatricals, and who would meet whom, and when and +red hands; he did not know, as the saying is, how to enter a drawing +room and still less how to leave one; that is, how to say something +general’s three-cornered hat, and held it, pulling at the plume, +till the general asked him to restore it. All his absent-mindedness and +inability to enter a room and converse in it was, however, redeemed by +his kindly, simple, and modest expression. Anna Pávlovna turned toward +him and, with a Christian mildness that expressed forgiveness of his +indiscretion, nodded and said: “I hope to see you again, but I also +When she said this, he did not reply and only bowed, but again everybody +Prince Andrew had gone out into the hall, and, turning his shoulders +princess, and stared fixedly at her through his eyeglass. +contemplated between Anatole and the little princess’ sister-in-law. +“Write to her and let me know how her father looks at the matter. Au +revoir! ”—and she left the hall. +Prince Hippolyte approached the little princess and, bending his face +Two footmen, the princess’ and his own, stood holding a shawl and +understanding but not wishing to appear to do so. The princess as usual +spoke smilingly and listened with a laugh. +smiling joyfully; and snatching the shawl from the footman, whom he +Still smiling, she gracefully moved away, turning and glancing at her +husband. Prince Andrew’s eyes were closed, so weary and sleepy did he +reached to his very heels, and, stumbling in it, ran out into the porch +carriage, her husband was adjusting his saber; Prince Hippolyte, under +“I am expecting you, Pierre,” said the same voice, but gently and +nice indeed, quite French,” and he kissed the tips of his fingers. +continued the vicomte. “I pity the poor husband, that little officer +Hippolyte spluttered again, and amid his laughter said, “And you were +one quite at home, and from habit immediately lay down on the sofa, took +from the shelf the first book that came to his hand (it was Caesar’s +Commentaries), and resting on his elbow, began reading it in the middle. +hands. +face to Prince Andrew, smiled, and waved his hand. +and had remained away till he was twenty. When he returned to Moscow +his father dismissed the abbé and said to the young man, “Now go +to Petersburg, look round, and choose your profession. I will agree to +anything. Here is a letter to Prince Vasíli, and here is money. Write +to me all about it, and I will help you in everything.” Pierre had +already been choosing a career for three months, and had not decided +“No, I have not; but this is what I have been thinking and wanted +freedom I could understand it and should be the first to enter the army; +but to help England and Austria against the greatest man in the world is +Andrew shook himself as if waking up, and his face assumed the look it +dress as fresh and elegant as the other. Prince Andrew rose and politely +and fussily in the easy chair, “how is it Annette never got married? +“And I am still arguing with your husband. I can’t understand why he +understand it; I don’t in the least understand why men can’t live +the Emperor spoke to him most graciously. Annette and I were speaking of +Pierre looked at his friend and, noticing that he did not like the +she had spoken to Hippolyte in the drawing room and which was so plainly +must be broken off ... and then you know, André...” (she looked +significantly at her husband) “I’m afraid, I’m afraid!” she +whispered, and a shudder ran down her back. +Her husband looked at her as if surprised to notice that someone besides +Pierre and himself was in the room, and addressed her in a tone of +“What is it you are afraid of, Lise? I don’t understand,” said he. +of his own, goodness only knows why, he leaves me and locks me up alone +“With my father and sister, remember,” said Prince Andrew gently. +Her tone was now querulous and her lip drawn up, giving her not a +“I still can’t understand what you are afraid of,” said Prince +The princess blushed, and raised her arms with a gesture of despair. +Prince Andrew rose, shrugged his shoulders, and walked about the room. +Pierre looked over his spectacles with naïve surprise, now at him and +so to me? What have I done to you? You are going to the war and have no +an entreaty, a threat, and above all conviction that she would herself +Pierre, who had been growing more and more agitated as he listened to +all this, rose and approached the princess. He seemed unable to bear the +sight of tears and was ready to cry himself. +I myself have experienced ... and so ... because ... No, excuse me! +Prince Andrew caught him by the hand. +face changed into a winning and piteous look of fear. Her beautiful eyes +glanced askance at her husband’s face, and her own assumed the timid, +“Mon Dieu, mon Dieu!” she muttered, and lifting her dress with one +hand she went up to her husband and kissed him on the forehead. +“Good night, Lise,” said he, rising and courteously kissing her hand +with his small hand. +“Let us go and have supper,” he said with a sigh, going to the door. +They entered the elegant, newly decorated, and luxurious dining room. +Everything from the table napkins to the silver, china, and glass bore +Halfway through supper Prince Andrew leaned his elbows on the table and, +and suddenly determines to speak out. +and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen +her plainly as she is, or else you will make a cruel and irrevocable +mistake. Marry when you are old and good for nothing—or all that is +good and noble in you will be lost. It will all be wasted on trifles. +room, where you will be ranged side by side with a court lackey and an +idiot!... But what’s the good?...” and he waved his arm. +Pierre took off his spectacles, which made his face seem different and +the good-natured expression still more apparent, and gazed at his friend +would I not give now to be unmarried! You are the first and only one to +who had lolled in Anna Pávlovna’s easy chairs and with half-closed +“You don’t understand why I say this,” he continued, “but it is +the whole story of life. You talk of Bonaparte and his career,” said +but his aim to consider, and he reached it. But tie yourself up with +a woman and, like a chained convict, you lose all freedom! And all you +have of hope and strength merely weighs you down and torments you with +regret. Drawing rooms, gossip, balls, vanity, and triviality—these are +the greatest war there ever was, and I know nothing and am fit for +nothing. I am very amiable and have a caustic wit,” continued Prince +Andrew, “and at Anna Pávlovna’s they listen to me. And that stupid +set without whom my wife cannot exist, and those women.... If you only +knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is +consider yourself incapable and your life a spoiled life. You have +thought of his friend and how much he expected of him in the future. +highest degree just the very qualities Pierre lacked, and which might +and had an opinion about everything), but above all at his capacity for +work and study. And if Pierre was often struck by Andrew’s lack +Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise +and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels +He suddenly blushed crimson, and it was plain that he had made a great +effort to say this. “Without a name and without means... And it +present I am free and am all right. Only I haven’t the least idea what +Prince Andrew looked kindly at him, yet his glance—friendly and +those Kurágins and leading that sort of life. It suits you so +badly—all this debauchery, dissipation, and the rest of it!” +“I don’t understand it,” replied Prince Andrew. “Women who are +women, ‘women and wine’ I don’t understand!” +Pierre was staying at Prince Vasíli Kurágin’s and sharing the +aches, and one spends all one’s money. He asked me for tonight, but I +enough to see a long way in the deserted street and it seemed more like +extraordinary may happen to one that honor and dishonor will be all the +all his decisions and intentions. He went to Kurágin’s. +and went in at the open door. There was no one in the anteroom; empty +bottles, cloaks, and overshoes were lying about; there was a smell of +alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance. +Cards and supper were over, but the visitors had not yet dispersed. +Pierre threw off his cloak and entered the first room, in which were the +laughter, the shouting of familiar voices, the growling of a bear, and +pulling him by the chain and trying to set him at the others. +hands.” +“Jacob, bring a bottle!” shouted the host, a tall, handsome fellow +who stood in the midst of the group, without a coat, and with his fine +Dólokhov, an officer of the Semënov regiment, a notorious gambler and +“I don’t understand. What’s it all about?” +“Wait a bit, he is not drunk yet! A bottle here,” said Anatole, and +the tipsy guests who were again crowding round the window, and listening +“No, I won’t,” said Pierre, pushing Anatole aside, and he went up +Dólokhov was holding the Englishman’s hand and clearly and distinctly +Anatole and Pierre. +Dólokhov was of medium height, with curly hair and light-blue eyes. He +of the upper lip formed a sharp wedge and closed firmly on the firm +lower one, and something like two distinct smiles played continually +and no connections. Yet, though Anatole spent tens of thousands of +rubles, Dólokhov lived with him and had placed himself on such a +more than they did Anatole. Dólokhov could play all games and nearly +Both Kurágin and Dólokhov were at that time notorious among the rakes +and scapegraces of Petersburg. +were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of +Pierre seized the crossbeam, tugged, and wrenched the oak frame out with +of rum in his hand was approaching the window, from which the light of +Dólokhov, the bottle of rum still in his hand, jumped onto the window +sill. “Listen!” cried he, standing there and addressing those in the +understand him, but he did not speak it very well—“I bet fifty +spot” (he stooped and pointed to the sloping ledge outside the window) +“and without holding on to anything. Is that right?” +Anatole turned to the Englishman and taking him by one of the buttons +of his coat and looking down at him—the Englishman was short—began +understand?” +accept this challenge or not. Anatole did not release him, and though +sill, leaned over, and looked down. +Dólokhov climbed carefully and slowly through the window and lowered +on his seat, lowered his hands, moved a little to the right and then to +the left, and took up the bottle. Anatole brought two candles and +Dólokhov’s back in his white shirt, and his curly head, were lit +present, suddenly pushed forward with a scared and angry look and wanted +“Don’t touch him! You’ll startle him and then he’ll be killed. +Dólokhov turned round and, again holding on with both hands, arranged +Saying this he again turned round, dropped his hands, took the bottle +and lifted it to his lips, threw back his head, and raised his free hand +window and from Dólokhov’s back. Anatole stood erect with staring +who had wished to stop the affair ran to a corner of the room and threw +horror and fear. All were still. Pierre took his hands from his eyes. +further back till his curly hair touched his shirt collar, and the hand +holding the bottle was lifted higher and higher and trembled with the +effort. The bottle was emptying perceptibly and rising still higher +and his head tilting yet further back. “Why is it so long?” thought +Suddenly Dólokhov made a backward movement with his spine, and his arm +as he sat on the sloping ledge. As he began slipping down, his head and +arm wavered still more with the strain. One hand moved as if to clutch +his eyes and thought he would never open them again. Suddenly he was +aware of a stir all around. He looked up: Dólokhov was standing on the +The Englishman took out his purse and began counting out the money. +Dólokhov stood frowning and did not speak. Pierre jumped upon the +banging the table with a determined and drunken gesture and preparing to +bit and I’ll get round him.... Listen! I’ll take your bet tomorrow, +and began dancing round the room with it. +exception made, and Borís transferred into the regiment of Semënov +to Kutúzov’s staff despite all Anna Mikháylovna’s endeavors and +returned to Moscow and went straight to her rich relations, the +Rostóvs, with whom she stayed when in the town and where her darling +Bóry, who had only just entered a regiment of the line and was being +childhood and lived for years at a time. The Guards had already left +Petersburg on the tenth of August, and her son, who had remained in +It was St. Natalia’s day and the name day of two of the Rostóvs—the +mother and the youngest daughter—both named Nataly. Ever since +the morning, carriages with six horses had been coming and going +the Povarskáya, so well known to all Moscow. The countess herself and +her handsome eldest daughter were in the drawing room with the visitors +who came to congratulate, and who constantly succeeded one another in +A languor of motion and speech, resulting from weakness, gave her a +drawing room, helped to receive and entertain the visitors. The young +take part in receiving the visitors. The count met the guests and saw +called everyone without exception and without the slightest variation +rank—“I thank you for myself and for our two dear ones whose name +These words he repeated to everyone without exception or variation, and +same firm pressure of the hand and the same quick, repeated bows. As +still in the drawing room, drew a chair toward him or her, and jauntily +spreading out his legs and putting his hands on his knees with the air +of a man who enjoys life and knows how to live, he swayed to and +questions of health, sometimes in Russian and sometimes in very bad but +the fulfillment of duty, he rose to see some visitors off and, stroking +conservatory and pantry into the large marble dining hall, where tables +were being set out for eighty people; and looking at the footmen, who +were bringing in silver and china, moving tables, and unfolding damask +table linen, he would call Dmítri Vasílevich, a man of good family and +the manager of all his affairs, and while looking with pleasure at the +“Márya Lvóvna Karágina and her daughter!” announced the +room. The countess reflected a moment and took a pinch from a gold +snuffbox with her husband’s portrait on it. +“I’m quite worn out by these callers. However, I’ll see her and +A tall, stout, and proud-looking woman, with a round-faced smiling +at the Razumóvski’s ball ... and Countess Apráksina ... I was +interrupting one another and mingling with the rustling of dresses and +and say, “I am so delighted... Mamma’s health... and Countess +Apráksina...” and then, again rustling, pass into the anteroom, put +on cloaks or mantles, and drive away. The conversation was on the chief +topic of the day: the illness of the wealthy and celebrated beau of +Catherine’s day, Count Bezúkhov, and about his illegitimate son +such bad health, and now this vexation about his son is enough to kill +“Prince Vasíli’s son, he, and a certain Dólokhov have, it is said, +Dólokhov has been degraded to the ranks and Bezúkhov’s son sent +“They are regular brigands, especially Dólokhov,” replied the +put it in a carriage, and set off with it to visit some actresses! The +police tried to interfere, and what did the young men do? They tied +a policeman and the bear back to back and put the bear into the Moyka +well educated and clever. This is all that his foreign education has +The visitor made a gesture with her hand. +wishing to show her connections and knowledge of what went on in +“The fact of the matter is,” said she significantly, and also in a +“How handsome the old man still was only a year ago!” remarked the +countess. “I have never seen a handsomer man.” +count is very fond of Pierre, looked after his education, and wrote to +the Emperor about him; so that in the case of his death—and he is +so ill that he may die at any moment, and Dr. Lorrain has come from +or Prince Vasíli. Forty thousand serfs and millions of rubles! I know +and seeing that the elder visitor was not listening, he turned to the +well and, in particular, drinks well. “So do come and dine with us!” +now rose and took their leave. The visitor’s daughter was already +suddenly from the next room were heard the footsteps of boys and girls +running to the door and the noise of a chair falling over, and a girl +darted in and stopped short in the middle of the room. It was evident +of the Guards, a girl of fifteen, and a plump rosy-faced boy in a short +The count jumped up and, swaying from side to side, spread his arms wide +and threw them round the little girl who had run in. +husband. +childish bare shoulders which after her run heaved and shook her +in lace-frilled drawers, and feet in low slippers—was just at that +attention to her severe remark—and began to laugh. She laughed, and in +her mother and burst into such a loud, ringing fit of laughter that even +“Now then, go away and take your monstrosity with you,” said the +mother, pushing away her daughter with pretended sternness, and turning +glanced up at her through tears of laughter, and again hid her face. +son; Sónya, the count’s fifteen-year-old niece, and little Pétya, +his youngest boy, had all settled down in the drawing room and were +and mirth that shone in all their faces. Evidently in the back rooms, +been more amusing than the drawing room talk of society scandals, the +weather, and Countess Apráksina. Now and then they glanced at one +The two young men, the student and the officer, friends from childhood, +were of the same age and both handsome fellows, though not alike. Borís +was tall and fair, and his calm and handsome face had regular, delicate +features. Nicholas was short with curly hair and an open expression. +Dark hairs were already showing on his upper lip, and his whole face +expressed impetuosity and enthusiasm. Nicholas blushed when he entered +failed. Borís on the contrary at once found his footing, and related +quietly and humorously how he had known that doll Mimi when she was +during the five years he had known her, and how her head had cracked +She turned away from him and glanced at her younger brother, who was +screwing up his eyes and shaking with suppressed laughter, and unable +to control herself any longer, she jumped up and rushed from the room as +“Yes, yes, go and tell them to get it ready,” she answered, +Borís quietly left the room and went in search of Natásha. The plump +young lady visitor and the countess’ eldest daughter (who was four +years older than her sister and behaved already like a grown-up person), +were Nicholas and Sónya, the niece. Sónya was a slender little +lashes, thick black plaits coiling twice round her head, and a tawny +tint in her complexion and especially in the color of her slender but +graceful and muscular arms and neck. By the grace of her movements, +by the softness and flexibility of her small limbs, and by a certain +coyness and reserve of manner, she reminded one of a pretty, half-grown +upon anyone, and it was clear that the kitten had settled down only to +spring up with more energy and again play with her cousin as soon as +they too could, like Natásha and Borís, escape from the drawing room. +“Ah yes, my dear,” said the count, addressing the visitor and +pointing to Nicholas, “his friend Borís has become an officer, and +so for friendship’s sake he is leaving the university and me, his +old father, and entering the military service, my dear. And there was a +place and everything waiting for him in the Archives Department! Isn’t +“They’ve been saying so a long while,” said the count, “and +they’ll say so again and again, and that will be the end of it. My +up and turning away as if from a shameful aspersion. “It is not from +He glanced at his cousin and the young lady visitor; and they were both +today. He has been here on leave and is taking Nicholas back with him. +It can’t be helped!” said the count, shrugging his shoulders and +with the flirtatiousness of a handsome youth at Sónya and the young +to start her gambols again and display her kittenish nature. +rose from an ensign and became Emperor. Well, well, God grant it,” he +smile, and engaged the smiling Julie in a confidential conversation +of Sónya, who blushed and smiled unnaturally. In the midst of his talk +he glanced round at her. She gave him a passionately angry glance, and +hardly able to restrain her tears and maintain the artificial smile +on her lips, she got up and left the room. All Nicholas’ animation +vanished. He waited for the first pause in the conversation, and then +brought into the room had vanished; and as if answering a question no +one had put but which was always in her mind, “and how much suffering, +for girls and boys.” +have always, thank God, been my children’s friend and had their full +always be my daughters’ first confidante, and that if Nicholas, with +countess with a gentle smile, looking at Borís and went on, evidently +were to be severe with her and to forbid it ... goodness knows what they +me of her own accord in the evening and tell me everything. Perhaps I +“Yes, I was brought up quite differently,” remarked the handsome +on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, +learning, was well brought up, and had a pleasant voice; what she said +was true and appropriate, yet, strange to say, everyone—the visitors +and countess alike—turned to look at her as if wondering why she had +said it, and they all felt awkward. +“People are always too clever with their eldest children and try to +The guests got up and took their leave, promising to return to dinner. +conservatory. There she paused and stood listening to the conversation +growing impatient, and stamped her foot, ready to cry at his not coming +flower tubs and hid there. +dust from the sleeve of his uniform, and going up to a mirror examined +his handsome face. Natásha, very still, peered out from her ambush, +glass, smiled, and walked toward the other door. Natásha was about to +Hardly had Borís gone than Sónya, flushed, in tears, and muttering +to run out to her, and remained in her hiding place, watching—as +experiencing a new and peculiar pleasure. Sónya, muttering to herself, +kept looking round toward the drawing room door. It opened and Nicholas +“Well, if you do, so much the better, and you can go back to her!” +“Só-o-onya! Look here! How can you torture me and yourself like that, +for a mere fancy?” said Nicholas taking her hand. +Sónya did not pull it away, and left off crying. Natásha, not stirring +and scarcely breathing, watched from her ambush with sparkling eyes. +and kissed her. +“Oh, how nice,” thought Natásha; and when Sónya and Nicholas had +gone out of the conservatory she followed and called Borís to her. +“Borís, come here,” said she with a sly and significant look. “I +have something to tell you. Here, here!” and she led him into the +She grew confused, glanced round, and, seeing the doll she had thrown +Borís looked attentively and kindly at her eager face, but did not +“Don’t you want to? Well, then, come here,” said she, and +went further in among the plants and threw down the doll. “Closer, +She caught the young officer by his cuffs, and a look of solemnity and +glancing up at him from under her brows, smiling, and almost crying from +“How funny you are!” he said, bending down to her and blushing still +more, but he waited and did nothing. +that both her slender bare arms clasped him above his neck, and, tossing +and stood, hanging her head. +years ... then I will ask for your hand.” +A smile of joy and satisfaction lit up her eager face. +She took his arm and with a happy face went with him into the adjoining +Anna Mikháylovna looked at Véra and paused. The countess pressed her +friend’s hand. +The handsome Véra smiled contemptuously but did not seem at all hurt. +one pair at each window. She stopped and smiled scornfully. Sónya was +first he had ever written. Borís and Natásha were at the other window +and ceased talking when Véra entered. Sónya and Natásha looked at +It was pleasant and touching to see these little girls in love; but +have a room of your own,” and she took the inkstand from Nicholas. +replied, and the four simply looked at one another. She lingered in the +room with the inkstand in her hand. +“And at your age what secrets can there be between Natásha and +She seemed that day to be more than ever kind and affectionate to +“We don’t interfere with you and Berg.” +never understand it, because you’ve never loved anyone. You have no +heart! You are a Madame de Genlis and nothing more” (this nickname, +bestowed on Véra by Nicholas, was considered very stinging), “and +your greatest pleasure is to be unpleasant to people! Go and flirt with +unpleasant things to everyone and upset them. Let’s go to the +All four, like a flock of scared birds, got up and left the room. +The handsome Véra, who produced such an irritating and unpleasant +effect on everyone, smiled and, evidently unmoved by what had been +said to her, went to the looking glass and arranged her hair and scarf. +Looking at her own handsome face she seemed to become still colder and +last long? It’s all the Club and his easygoing nature. Even in the +country do we get any rest? Theatricals, hunting, and heaven knows what +ministers and great people, and know how to deal with them all! It’s +know what it is to be left a widow without means and with a son you love +big people I write a note: ‘Princess So-and-So desires an interview +with So and-So,’ and then I take a cab and go myself two, three, or +“Well, and to whom did you apply about Bóry?” asked the countess. +and put the matter before the Emperor,” said Princess Anna +Princess. I am at your command.’ Yes, he is a fine fellow and a very +dropping her voice. “My wretched lawsuit takes all I have and makes no +progress. Would you believe it, I have literally not a penny and don’t +know how to equip Borís.” She took out her handkerchief and began to +cry. “I need five hundred rubles, and have only one twenty-five-ruble +he is Bóry’s godfather—and allow him something for his maintenance, +The countess’ eyes filled with tears and she pondered in silence. +alone... that tremendous fortune... and what is his life worth? It’s a +burden to him, and Bóry’s life is only just beginning....” +“Heaven only knows, my dear! These rich grandees are so selfish. +Still, I will take Borís and go to see him at once, and I shall speak +princess rose. “It’s now two o’clock and you dine at four. There +time, Anna Mikháylovna sent someone to call her son, and went into the +door, and added in a whisper so that her son should not hear, “Wish me +count coming out from the dining hall into the anteroom, and he added: +house, you know, and danced with the children. Be sure to invite him, my +straw covered street and turned into the wide courtyard of Count Cyril +mother, drawing her hand from beneath her old mantle and laying +it timidly and tenderly on her son’s arm, “be affectionate and +all, and your future depends on him. Remember that, my dear, and be nice +it...” answered her son coldly. “But I have promised and will do it +Although the hall porter saw someone’s carriage standing at the +entrance, after scrutinizing the mother and son (who without asking to +rows of statues in niches) and looking significantly at the lady’s old +cloak, he asked whether they wanted the count or the princesses, and, +today, and that his excellency was not receiving anyone. +“My dear!” exclaimed his mother imploringly, again laying her hand +The hall porter sullenly pulled a bell that rang upstairs, and turned +to a footman dressed in knee breeches, shoes, and a swallow-tail coat, +who ran downstairs and looked over from the halfway landing. +Venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly +Just as the mother and son, having reached the middle of the hall, were +entered, the bronze handle of one of the doors turned and Prince Vasíli +swallowing his r’s, and pronouncing the Latin words with a French +Seeing Anna Mikháylovna and her son, Prince Vasíli dismissed the +doctor with a bow and approached them silently and with a look of +clouded his mother’s face, and he smiled slightly. +Prince Vasíli stared at her and at Borís questioningly and perplexed. +head and lips indicating very little hope for the patient. +Mikháylovna,” said Prince Vasíli, arranging his lace frill, and in +tone and manner, here in Moscow to Anna Mikháylovna whom he had placed +“Try to serve well and show yourself worthy,” added he, addressing +and respectfully that the prince gave him a searching glance. +“I never could understand how Nataly made up her mind to marry that +unlicked bear! A perfectly absurd and stupid fellow, and a gambler too, +and Borís. He is his godson,” she added, her tone suggesting that +Prince Vasíli became thoughtful and frowned. Anna Mikháylovna saw that +and hastened to reassure him. +“If it were not for my sincere affection and devotion to Uncle,” +said she, uttering the word with peculiar assurance and unconcern, “I +her head and continued in a whisper: “Has he performed his final duty, +worse, and it is absolutely necessary to prepare him if he is so ill. +We women, Prince,” and she smiled tenderly, “always know how to say +Evidently the prince understood her, and also understood, as he had done +A door of one of the inner rooms opened and one of the princesses, the +and am at your service to help you nurse my uncle. I imagine what you +have gone through,” and she sympathetically turned up her eyes. +The princess gave no reply and did not even smile, but left the room as +Anna Mikháylovna took off her gloves and, occupying the position she +and don’t forget to give him the Rostóvs’ invitation. They ask him +man.... Here he is, and the count has not once asked for him.” +stairs and up another, to Pierre’s rooms. +Petersburg, and had been expelled from there for riotous conduct and +for some days in Moscow and was staying as usual at his father’s +already known in Moscow and that the ladies about his father—who were +two younger ones were embroidering: both were rosy and pretty and they +The eldest princess paused in her reading and silently stared at him +while the youngest, the one with the mole, who was of a cheerful and +canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying +“The count is suffering physically and mentally, and apparently you +him... Olga, go and see whether Uncle’s beef tea is ready—it is +almost time,” she added, giving Pierre to understand that they were +busy, and busy making his father comfortable, while evidently he, +Olga went out. Pierre stood looking at the sisters; then he bowed and +Next day Prince Vasíli had arrived and settled in the count’s house. +He sent for Pierre and said to him: “My dear fellow, if you are going +is all I have to say to you. The count is very, very ill, and you must +Since then Pierre had not been disturbed and had spent the whole time in +When Borís appeared at his door Pierre was pacing up and down his room, +as if running a sword through an invisible foe, and glaring savagely +over his spectacles, and then again resuming his walk, muttering +indistinct words, shrugging his shoulders and gesticulating. +“England is done for,” said he, scowling and pointing his finger +at someone unseen. “Mr. Pitt, as a traitor to the nation and to the +moment imagined himself to be Napoleon in person and to have just +effected the dangerous crossing of the Straits of Dover and captured +London—could pronounce Pitt’s sentence, he saw a well-built and +handsome young officer entering his room. Pierre paused. He had left +Moscow when Borís was a boy of fourteen, and had quite forgotten him, +but in his usual impulsive and hearty way he took Borís by the hand +it necessary to introduce himself, and without experiencing the least +“You are mistaken,” said Borís deliberately, with a bold and +Mikháylovna Drubetskáya. Rostóv, the father, is Ilyá, and his son is +Pierre shook his head and arms as if attacked by mosquitoes or bees. +papers and it was the first time he had heard Villeneuve’s name. +“We here in Moscow are more occupied with dinner parties and scandal +nothing about it and have not thought about it. Moscow is chiefly busy +with gossip,” he continued. “Just now they are talking about you and +But Borís spoke distinctly, clearly, and dryly, looking straight into +“But I just wish to say, to avoid misunderstandings, that you are +your father is rich, I don’t regard myself as a relation of his, and +For a long time Pierre could not understand, but when he did, he jumped +way, and, blushing far more than Borís, began to speak with a feeling +of mingled shame and vexation. +And Borís, having apparently relieved himself of an onerous duty and +extricated himself from an awkward situation and placed another in it, +were children. You might think that I... I understand, quite understand. +acquainted,” and he pressed Borís’ hand. “Do you know, I have not +Pierre saw that Borís wished to change the subject, and being of the +same mind he began explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the +and warmly pressing his hand looked affectionately over his spectacles +into Borís’ eyes. After he had gone Pierre continued pacing up and +intelligent, and resolute young man. +life, he felt an unaccountable tenderness for this young man and made up +Prince Vasíli saw the princess off. She held a handkerchief to her eyes +and her face was tearful. +may I shall do my duty. I will come and spend the night. He must not be +“I don’t understand, Mamma—what is his attitude to Pierre?” +“Ah, my dear! He is so rich, and we are so poor!” +alone applying her handkerchief to her eyes. At last she rang. +The countess was upset by her friend’s sorrow and humiliating poverty, +and was therefore out of sorts, a state of mind which with her always +found expression in calling her maid “my dear” and speaking to her +have, my dear! I tasted it. The thousand rubles I paid for Tarás were +He sat down by his wife, his elbows on his knees and his hands ruffling +“What are your commands, little countess?” +“Oh, little countess!” ... and the count began bustling to get out +“I want a great deal, Count! I want five hundred rubles,” and taking +out her cambric handkerchief she began wiping her husband’s waistcoat. +house and now managed all his affairs, stepped softly into the room. +bring me such tattered and dirty notes as last time, but nice clean ones +the count was beginning to breathe heavily and quickly which was always +count, and having kissed his wife’s hand he went back to his study. +in clean notes, was lying ready under a handkerchief on the countess’ +little table, and Anna Mikháylovna noticed that something was agitating +ill! I was only there a few moments and hardly said a word...” +elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief. +Anna Mikháylovna instantly guessed her intention and stooped to be +Anna Mikháylovna was already embracing her and weeping. The countess +wept too. They wept because they were friends, and because they were +kindhearted, and because they—friends from childhood—had to think +about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over.... +Countess Rostóva, with her daughters and a large number of guests, was +his study and showed them his choice collection of Turkish pipes. From +common sense and frank plainness of speech. Márya Dmítrievna was known +to the Imperial family as well as to all Moscow and Petersburg, and both +cities wondered at her, laughed privately at her rudenesses, and told +respected and feared her. +of the war that had been announced in a manifesto, and about the +smoking and talking. He neither smoked nor talked, but bending his head +first to one side and then to the other watched the smokers with evident +pleasure and listened to the conversation of his two neighbors, whom he +One of them was a sallow, clean-shaven civilian with a thin and wrinkled +young man. He sat with his legs up on the sofa as if quite at home and, +smoke spasmodically and screwing up his eyes. This was an old bachelor, +irreproachably washed, brushed, and buttoned, held his pipe in the +middle of his mouth and with red lips gently inhaled the smoke, letting +it escape from his handsome mouth in rings. This was Lieutenant Berg, an +the army, and about whom Natásha had teased her elder sister Véra, +speaking of Berg as her “intended.” The count sat between them and +said Shinshín, laughing ironically and mixing the most ordinary Russian +Berg always spoke quietly, politely, and with great precision. His +and silent when the talk related to any topic that had no direct bearing +circumstantially and with evident satisfaction. +with the rank of lieutenant; but as it is I receive two hundred and +thirty,” said he, looking at Shinshín and the count with a joyful, +I shall be in a more prominent position,” continued Berg, “and +what can be done with two hundred and thirty rubles! I even manage to +put a little aside and to send something to my father,” he went on, +of his mouth and winking at the count. +the company commander might get killed and he, as senior in the company, +the regiment, and how satisfied his father was with him. Berg evidently +enjoyed narrating all this, and did not seem to suspect that others, +sedate, and the naïveté of his youthful egotism was so obvious, that +shoulder and taking his feet off the sofa. +conversation but think it necessary to move about and talk, in order +to show that they are not at all impatient for their food. The host and +hostess look toward the door, and now and then glance at one another, +and the visitors try to guess from these glances who, or what, they are +Pierre had come just at dinnertime and was sitting awkwardly in the +search of somebody and answered all her questions in monosyllables. He +was in the way and was the only one who did not notice the fact. Most of +“You have not yet seen my husband?” +understood that she was being asked to entertain this young man, and +on all sides. The countess rose and went into the ballroom. +“Herself,” came the answer in a rough voice, and Márya Dmítrievna +All the unmarried ladies and even the married ones except the very +oldest rose. Márya Dmítrievna paused at the door. Tall and stout, +surveying the guests, and leisurely arranged her wide sleeves as if +“Health and happiness to her whose name day we are keeping and to her +who was kissing her hand, “you’re feeling dull in Moscow, I daresay? +see how these nestlings are growing up,” and she pointed to the girls. +“You must look for husbands for them whether you like it or not....” +always called Natásha a Cossack) and she stroked the child’s arm as +she came up fearless and gay to kiss her hand. “I know she’s a scamp +She took a pair of pear-shaped ruby earrings from her huge reticule and, +of her saint’s-day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to +tone of voice. “Come here, my friend...” and she ominously tucked +your father the truth when he was in favor, and in your case it’s my +and he amuses himself setting a policeman astride a bear! For shame, +She turned away and gave her hand to the count, who could hardly keep +whole dining hall, and last of all the children, tutors, and governesses +band struck up in the gallery, and the guests settled down in their +places. Then the strains of the count’s household band were replaced +by the clatter of knives and forks, the voices of visitors, and the +Márya Dmítrievna on her right and Anna Mikháylovna on her left, the +with the hussar colonel on his left and Shinshín and the other male +grown-up young people: Véra beside Berg, and Pierre beside Borís; and +on the other side, the children, tutors, and governesses. From behind +the crystal decanters and fruit vases, the count kept glancing at his +wife and her tall cap with its light-blue ribbons, and busily filled +behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed +men’s end the voices sounded louder and louder, especially that of the +colonel of hussars who, growing more and more flushed, ate and drank so +guests were and exchanging glances with Natásha, who was sitting +opposite. Pierre spoke little but examined the new faces, and ate a +great deal. Of the two soups he chose turtle with savory patties and +napkin, from behind the next man’s shoulders and whispered: “Dry +that stood before his plate, Pierre held out one at random and drank +thirteen look at the boy they are in love with and have just kissed for +the first time. Sometimes that same look fell on Pierre, and that funny +pale, now blushed and strained every nerve to overhear what Nicholas +and Julie were saying to one another. The governess kept looking round +and kinds of dessert, in order to send a full description of the dinner +to his people in Germany; and he felt greatly offended when the butler +no one would understand that it was not to quench his thirst or from +At the men’s end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. +in Petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day +been forwarded by courier to the commander in chief. +Shinshín. “He has stopped Austria’s cackle and I fear it will be +the service and patriotically Russian. He resented Shinshín’s remark. +vreatening Russia and zat ze safety and dignity of ze Empire as vell +... and the wish, which constitutes the Emperor’s sole and absolute +him to despatch part of the army abroad and to create a new condition +wine with dignity and looking to the count for approval. +turn spindles at home!’?” said Shinshín, puckering his brows and +what he was about; yet they beat him à plate couture,*(3) and where +are we to find Suvórovs now? Je vous demande un peu,” *(4) said he, +thumping the table; “and ve must tie for our Emperor, and zen all vill +again turning to the count. “Zat is how ve old hussars look at it, and +zere’s an end of it! And how do you, a young man and a young hussar, +eyes and ears intent on the colonel. +his plate round and moving his wineglasses about with as much decision +and desperation as though he were at that moment facing some great +that his remarks were too enthusiastic and emphatic for the occasion and +Sónya trembled all over and blushed to her ears and behind them and +down to her neck and shoulders while Nicholas was speaking. +Pierre listened to the colonel’s speech and nodded approvingly. +table. “What are you thumping the table for?” she demanded of the +hussar, “and why are you exciting yourself? Do you think the French +in God’s hands. You may die in your bed or God may spare you in a +and the men’s at the other. +Her face suddenly flushed with reckless and joyous resolution. She half +was coming, and turning to her mother: +sternly with a threatening and forbidding movement of her head. +“Mamma! What sweets are we going to have?” and Natásha’s voice +sounded still more firm and resolute. +Sónya and fat little Pétya doubled up with laughter. +and to Pierre, glancing at him again. +Natásha saw there was nothing to be afraid of and so she braved even +Márya Dmítrievna and the countess burst out laughing, and all the +but at the incredible boldness and smartness of this little girl who had +pineapple ice. Before the ices, champagne was served round. The band +again struck up, the count and countess kissed, and the guests, leaving +their seats, went up to “congratulate” the countess, and reached +across the table to clink glasses with the count, with the children, and +with one another. Again the footmen rushed about, chairs scraped, and +guests returned to the drawing room and to the count’s study. +The card tables were drawn out, sets made up for boston, and the +dropping into his usual after-dinner nap, and laughed at everything. +clavichord and harp. Julie by general request played first. After she +other young ladies in begging Natásha and Nicholas, who were noted for +She looked round and seeing that her friend was not in the room ran to +Running into Sónya’s room and not finding her there, Natásha ran to +dress under her, hiding her face with her slender fingers, and sobbing +changed: her eyes became fixed, and then a shiver passed down her broad +neck and the corners of her mouth drooped. +Natásha’s large mouth widened, making her look quite ugly, and she +crying. Sónya tried to lift her head to answer but could not, and +blue-striped feather bed and hugging her friend. With an effort Sónya +sat up and began wiping her eyes and explaining. +come... he told me himself... but still I should not cry,” and she +showed a paper she held in her hand—with the verses Nicholas had +understand... what a soul he has!” +“It’s all very well for you... I am not envious... I love you and +one would have to... the Metropolitan himself... and even then it +the countess as her mother and called her so) “that I am spoiling +Nicholas’ career and am heartless and ungrateful, while truly... God +is my witness,” and she made the sign of the cross, “I love her so +much, and all of you, only Véra... And what for? What have I done +Sónya could not continue, and again hid her face in her hands and in +“Yes, these verses Nicholas wrote himself and I copied some others, +and she found them on my table and said she’d show them to Mamma, and +that I was ungrateful, and that Mamma would never allow him to marry +her up, hugged her, and, smiling through her tears, began comforting +remember how we and Nicholas, all three of us, talked in the sitting +arranged and how nice it all was? There’s Uncle Shinshín’s brother +it. And he is so clever and so good!” said Natásha. “Don’t +you cry, Sónya, dear love, darling Sónya!” and she kissed her and +and she won’t say anything to Mamma. Nicholas will tell her himself, +and he doesn’t care at all for Julie.” +Sónya sat up. The little kitten brightened, its eyes shone, and it +seemed ready to lift its tail, jump down on its soft paws, and begin +frock and hair. +“Well, let’s go and sing ‘The Brook.’” +Sónya, shaking off some down which clung to her and tucking away the +and light, joyous steps. At the visitors’ request the young people + How sweet, as fancies wander free, +get ready to dance in the large hall, and the sound of the feet and the +Natásha came in and walking straight up to Pierre said, laughing and +While the couples were arranging themselves and the musicians tuning up, +sitting in a conspicuous place and talking to him like a grown-up lady. +She had a fan in her hand that one of the ladies had given her to hold. +Assuming quite the pose of a society woman (heaven knows when and where +she had learned it) she talked with her partner, fanning herself and +Natásha blushed and laughed. +pushed back in the sitting room where the count and Márya Dmítrievna +had been playing cards with the majority of the more distinguished and +and replacing their purses and pocketbooks, entered the ballroom. First +came Márya Dmítrievna and the count, both with merry countenances. The +gallantry lit up his face and as soon as the last figure of the +écossaise was ended, he clapped his hands to the musicians and shouted +“Look at Papa!” shouted Natásha to the whole company, and quite +curly head to her knees and made the whole room ring with her laughter. +jovial old gentleman, who standing beside his tall and stout partner, +shoulders, turned out his toes, tapped gently with his foot, and, by +a smile that broadened his round face more and more, prepared the +filled by the domestic serfs—the men on one side and the women on +The count danced well and knew it. But his partner could not and did not +hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her +stern but handsome face really joined in the dance. What was expressed +expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose. +But if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed +the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and +her foot—which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual +severity. The dance grew livelier and livelier. The other couples could +not attract a moment’s attention to their own evolutions and did not +even try to do so. All were watching the count and Márya Dmítrievna. +and shouted to the musicians to play faster. Faster, faster, and faster; +lightly, more lightly, and yet more lightly whirled the count, flying +and making a wide sweep with his arm, amid a thunder of applause and +and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs. +her sleeves and puffing heavily. +to a tune in which the weary musicians blundered, and while tired +footmen and cooks were getting the supper, Count Bezúkhov had a +made for the sacrament of unction, and in his house there was the bustle +and thrill of suspense usual at such moments. Outside the house, beyond +that evening to bid a last farewell to the celebrated grandee of +bows and trying to escape as quickly as possible from the glances fixed +on him by the doctors, clergy, and relatives of the family. Prince +Vasíli, who had grown thinner and paler during the last few days, +leaning his elbow on his knee and covering his face with his hand. After +sitting so for a while he rose, and, looking about him with frightened +whispers, and, whenever anyone went into or came from the dying man’s +room, grew silent and gazed with eyes full of curiosity or expectancy at +“The limits of human life ... are fixed and may not be +beside him and was listening naïvely to his words. +his hand over the thin grizzled strands of hair combed back across his +“Yes, and he is over sixty. I hear the count no longer recognizes +from weeping and sat down beside Dr. Lorrain, who was sitting in a +weather. “The weather is beautiful, Princess; and besides, in Moscow +“Take a glass of boiled water and put a pinch of cream of tartar,” +and he indicated with his delicate fingers what he meant by a pinch. +“Tonight, not later,” said he in a low voice, and he moved away +understand and state the patient’s condition. +the icons and there was a pleasant scent of flowers and burnt pastilles. +cupboards, and little tables. The quilt of a high, white feather bed was +She rose and smoothed her hair, which was as usual so extremely smooth +that it seemed to be made of one piece with her head and covered with +unchanging stonily severe expression; and, sitting down opposite the +“Well, my dear?” said Prince Vasíli, taking her hand and bending it +prominent gray eyes. Then she shook her head and glanced up at the icons +and devotion, or of weariness and hope of resting before long. Prince +Prince Vasíli said no more and his cheeks began to twitch nervously, +too seemed strange; at one moment they looked impudently sly and at the +hands, looked attentively into Prince Vasíli’s eyes evidently +“Well, you see, my dear princess and cousin, Catherine Semënovna,” +The princess continued to look at him without moving, and with the same +her. “You know, Catiche, that we—you three sisters, Mámontov, and +me; but, my dear, I am getting on for sixty and must be prepared for +his portrait, “definitely demanded that he should be called.” +replied, “and it is that He would be merciful to him and would allow +rubbing his bald head and angrily pulling back toward him the little +table and becoming more animated and talking more rapidly: “what if +Pierre’s legitimation? Do you understand that in consideration of the +“I can tell you more,” continued Prince Vasíli, seizing her hand, +“that letter was written, though it was not sent, and the Emperor knew +as soon as all is over,” and Prince Vasíli sighed to intimate what he +meant by the words all is over, “and the count’s papers are opened, +the will and letter will be delivered to the Emperor, and the petition +legal heir to everything and you won’t get anything. You must know, +my dear, whether the will and letter were written, and whether they have +ought to know where they are, and must find them, because...” +“What next?” the princess interrupted, smiling sardonically and not +changing the expression of her eyes. “I am a woman, and you think we +“Well, really, Catiche! Can’t you understand! You are so +and will then inherit everything under the will? And if the will and +and you, mon cousin, seem to consider me a perfect fool,” said the +saying something witty and stinging. +tell you for the tenth time that if the letter to the Emperor and the +girl, you and your sisters are not heiresses! If you don’t believe me, +(the family solicitor) “and he says the same.” +her thin lips grew white, though her eyes did not change, and her voice +and I don’t now.” +She pushed the little dog off her lap and smoothed her dress. +nothing but meanness, deceit, envy, intrigue, and ingratitude—the +“Yes, I was a fool! I still believed in people, loved them, and +The princess wished to rise, but the prince held her by the hand. She +all done casually in a moment of anger, of illness, and was afterwards +last moments by not letting him commit this injustice, and not to let +has to be cunning and cruel.” +and wish you to have as good an opinion of me. Don’t upset yourself, +and let us talk sensibly while there is still time, be it a day or be it +but an hour.... Tell me all you know about the will, and above all where +it is. You must know. We will take it at once and show it to the +count. He has, no doubt, forgotten it and will wish to destroy it. +You understand that my sole desire is conscientiously to carry out his +and you.” +“Ah, don’t talk to me! Last winter she wheedled herself in here and +Sophie—I can’t repeat them—that it made the count quite ill and he +While these conversations were going on in the reception room and the +and Anna Mikháylovna (who found it necessary to accompany him) was +he was asleep in his corner and woke him up. Rousing himself, Pierre +followed Anna Mikháylovna out of the carriage, and only then began +looked like tradespeople, ran hurriedly from the entrance and hid in the +to be all right,” Pierre concluded, and followed Anna Mikháylovna. +of assurance and haste, Pierre concluded that it was all absolutely +clattering. These men pressed close to the wall to let Pierre and Anna +Mikháylovna pass and did not evince the least surprise at seeing them +the landing. “I’d better go to my own room.” +Anna Mikháylovna paused and waited for him to come up. +Pierre did not understand a word, but the conviction that all this had +to be grew stronger, and he meekly followed Anna Mikháylovna who was +in this part of the house and did not even know of the existence of +with a decanter on a tray as “my dear” and “my sweet,” asked +about the princess’ health and then led Pierre along a stone passage. +in the house was done in haste at that time), and Pierre and Anna +Prince Vasíli and the eldest princess were sitting close together +impatience, while the princess jumped up and with a gesture of +This action was so unlike her usual composure and the fear depicted on +stopped and glanced inquiringly over his spectacles at his guide. Anna +Mikháylovna evinced no surprise, she only smiled faintly and sighed, as +reply to his look, and went still faster along the passage. +Pierre could not make out what it was all about, and still less what +approach, but even in this room there now stood an empty bath, and water +and by a servant who passed out on tiptoe without heeding them. They +windows opening into the conservatory, with its large bust and full +another. All became silent and turned to look at the pale tear-worn Anna +Mikháylovna as she entered, and at the big stout figure of Pierre who, +glance at all those in the room and noticing the count’s confessor +seeming to grow suddenly smaller, and respectfully received the blessing +first of one and then of another priest. +The doctor cast a rapid glance upwards and silently shrugged his +shoulders and eyes, almost closing the latter, sighed, and moved away +from the doctor to Pierre. To him, in a particularly respectful and +“Trust in His mercy!” and pointing out a small sofa for him to sit +and wait for her, she went silently toward the door that everyone was +watching and it creaked very slightly as she disappeared behind it. +with something more than curiosity and sympathy. He noticed that they +of awe and even servility. A deference such as he had never before +the priests, rose and offered him her seat; an aide-de-camp picked up +and returned a glove Pierre had dropped; the doctors became respectfully +silent as he passed by, and moved to make way for him. At first Pierre +wished to take another seat so as not to trouble the lady, and also to +pick up the glove himself and to pass round the doctors who were not +even in his way; but all at once he felt that this would not do, and +rite which everyone expected of him, and that he was therefore bound +aide-de-camp, and sat down in the lady’s chair, placing his huge hands +and decided in his own mind that all was as it should be, and that in +order not to lose his head and do foolish things he must not act on his +his eyes seemed larger than usual when he glanced round and noticed +Pierre. He went up to him, took his hand (a thing he never used to do), +and drew it downwards as if wishing to ascertain whether it was firmly +well!” and he turned to go. +But Pierre thought it necessary to ask: “How is...” and hesitated, +in perplexity, and only later grasped that a stroke was an attack of +illness. Prince Vasíli said something to Lorrain in passing and went +through the door on tiptoe. He could not walk well on tiptoe and his +whole body jerked at each step. The eldest princess followed him, and +the priests and deacons and some servants also went in at the door. +Through that door was heard a noise of things being moved about, and +resolute in the discharge of duty, ran out and touching Pierre lightly +Pierre went in at the door, stepping on the soft carpet, and noticed +that the strange lady, the aide-de-camp, and some of the servants, all +Pierre well knew this large room divided by columns and an arch, its +columns, with a high silk-curtained mahogany bedstead on one side and +the gleaming icons stood a long invalid chair, and in that chair +hair above his broad forehead which reminded one of a lion, and the deep +characteristically noble wrinkles of his handsome, ruddy face. He lay +just under the icons; his large thick hands outside the quilt. Into the +right hand, which was lying palm downwards, a wax taper had been thrust +between forefinger and thumb, and an old servant, bending over from +with lighted tapers in their hands, slowly and solemnly conducting the +handkerchiefs to their eyes, and just in front of them their eldest +sister, Catiche, with a vicious and determined look steadily fixed on +sorrowful, and all-forgiving expression on her face, stood by the door +invalid chair, a wax taper in his left hand, was leaning his left arm on +and was crossing himself with his right hand, turning his eyes upward +and resignation to the will of God. “If you do not understand these +Behind him stood the aide-de-camp, the doctors, and the menservants; +the men and women had separated as in church. All were silently crossing +themselves, and the reading of the church service, the subdued chanting +of deep bass voices, and in the intervals sighs and the shuffling of +was about, went across the room to where Pierre was standing and gave +him a taper. He lit it and, distracted by observing those around him, +began crossing himself with the hand that held the taper. +watched him. She smiled, hid her face in her handkerchief, and remained +with it hidden for awhile; then looking up and seeing Pierre she +to one another, and the old servant who was holding the count’s hand +got up and said something to the ladies. Anna Mikháylovna stepped +forward and, stooping over the dying man, beckoned to Lorrain from +importance of the rite now being performed and even approved of it. He +hand that was free, and turning sideways felt the pulse and reflected +stir around him, then the people resumed their places and the service +left the chair on which he had been leaning, and—with an air +which intimated that he knew what he was about and if others did not +understand him it was so much the worse for them—did not go up to the +dying man, but passed by him, joined the eldest princess, and moved +silken hangings. On leaving the bed both Prince Vasíli and the princess +The chanting of the service ceased, and the voice of the priest was +sacrament. The dying man lay as lifeless and immovable as before. Around +him everyone began to stir: steps were audible and whispers, among which +The sick man was so surrounded by doctors, princesses, and servants +they had lifted the dying man and were moving him. +Here!” exclaimed different voices; and the heavy breathing of the +bearers and the shuffling of their feet grew more hurried, as if the +he caught a momentary glimpse between their heads and backs of the dying +man’s high, stout, uncovered chest and powerful shoulders, raised by +those who were holding him under the armpits, and of his gray, curly, +leonine head. This head, with its remarkably broad brow and cheekbones, +its handsome, sensual mouth, and its cold, majestic expression, was +movements of the bearers, and the cold listless gaze fixed itself upon +hand and said, “Come.” Pierre went with her to the bed on which the +hands were symmetrically placed on the green silk quilt, the palms +not knowing what to do, and glanced inquiringly at his guide. Anna +man’s hand and moving her lips as if to send it a kiss. Pierre, +suggestion and pressed his lips to the large boned, fleshy hand. Neither +the hand nor a single muscle of the count’s face stirred. Once more +distressed that his stout and clumsy body took up so much room and doing +father and son. This lasted about two minutes, which to Pierre seemed an +hour. Suddenly the broad muscles and lines of the count’s face began +to twitch. The twitching increased, the handsome mouth was drawn to one +side (only now did Pierre realize how near death his father was), and +quilt. The eyes and face of the sick man showed impatience. He made an +“Wants to turn on the other side,” whispered the servant, and got up +helplessly and he made a fruitless effort to pull it forward. Whether he +face, and again at the arm, and on his face a feeble, piteous smile +quivering in his breast and a tickling in his nose, and tears dimmed his +There was now no one in the reception room except Prince Vasíli and the +Great and talking eagerly. As soon as they saw Pierre and his companion +they became silent, and Pierre thought he saw the princess hide +Vasíli to Anna Mikháylovna. “Go and take something, my poor Anna +handleless cup before a table on which tea and a cold supper were laid +and little tables. During balls given at the house Pierre, who did not +who, as they passed through in their ball dresses with diamonds and +this same room was dimly lighted by two candles. On one small table tea +things and supper dishes stood in disorder, and in the middle of the +whispering, and betraying by every word and movement that they none +of them forgot what was happening and what was about to happen in the +liked to. He looked inquiringly at his monitress and saw that she was +Vasíli and the eldest princess. Pierre concluded that this also was +essential, and after a short interval followed her. Anna Mikháylovna +was standing beside the princess, and they were both speaking in excited +“Permit me, Princess, to know what is necessary and what is not +“But, my dear princess,” answered Anna Mikháylovna blandly but +impressively, blocking the way to the bedroom and preventing the other +the two ladies, addressing Prince Vasíli and pointing to an inlaid +portfolio she held in her hand. “All I know is that his real will is +in his writing table, and this is a paper he has forgotten....” +“Dear princess, I beg and implore you, have some pity on him! Je vous +of its honeyed firmness and softness. +loud that those in the drawing room heard her and were startled. “Why +Intriguer!” she hissed viciously, and tugged with all her might at the +portfolio, and changed her grip. +Prince Vasíli rose. “Oh!” said he with reproach and surprise, +and ask him, I!... does that satisfy you?” +which had lost all dignity, and at the twitching cheeks of Prince +Mikháylovna and snatching the portfolio from her. +Prince Vasíli bent his head and spread out his hands. +and which had always opened so quietly, burst noisily open and banged +against the wall, and the second of the three sisters rushed out +wringing her hands. +“What are you doing!” she cried vehemently. “He is dying and you +caught up the object of contention and ran into the bedroom. The eldest +princess and Prince Vasíli, recovering themselves, followed her. A few +handkerchief and rushed from the room. +sitting and dropped onto it, covering his face with his hand. Pierre +noticed that he was pale and that his jaw quivered and shook as if in an +“Ah, my friend!” said he, taking Pierre by the elbow; and there was +in his voice a sincerity and weakness Pierre had never observed in it +before. “How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? I am +awful...” and he burst into tears. +She led him into the dark drawing room and Pierre was glad no one could +see his face. Anna Mikháylovna left him, and when she returned he was +But God will support you: you are young, and are now, I hope, in command +duties on you, and you must be a man.” +Pierre understood nothing of all this and coloring shyly looked in +Mikháylovna returned to the Rostóvs’ and went to bed. On waking in +the morning she told the Rostóvs and all her acquaintances the details +to the last meeting between father and son, it was so touching that she +could not think of it without tears, and did not know which had behaved +everything and everybody at last and had spoken such pathetic words to +soul to see such men as the old count and his worthy son,” said she. +Of the behavior of the eldest princess and Prince Vasíli she spoke +disapprovingly, but in whispers and as a great secret. +arrival of young Prince Andrew and his wife was daily expected, but +with his daughter, Princess Mary, and her companion, Mademoiselle +Bald Hills, while he himself needed no one and nothing. He used to +say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and +superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence. He +himself undertook his daughter’s education, and to develop these two +cardinal virtues in her gave her lessons in algebra and geometry +till she was twenty, and arranged her life so that her whole time was +and not only at the same hour but at the same minute. With those about +him, from his daughter to his serfs, the prince was sharp and invariably +and respect as few hardhearted men would have aroused. Although he was +in retirement and had now no influence in political affairs, every high +considered it his duty to visit him and waited in the lofty antechamber +antechamber experienced the same feeling of respect and even fear when +the enormously high study door opened and showed the figure of a rather +small old man, with powdered wig, small withered hands, and bushy gray +morning greeting, crossing herself with trepidation and repeating a +silent prayer. Every morning she came in like that, and every morning +quietly and said in a whisper: “Please walk in.” +opened the door which moved noiselessly and easily. She paused at the +entrance. The prince was working at the lathe and after glancing round +The large table covered with books and plans, the tall glass-fronted +standing up, on which lay an open exercise book, and the lathe with +tools laid ready to hand and shavings scattered around—all indicated +continuous, varied, and orderly activity. The motion of the small foot +shod in a Tartar boot embroidered with silver, and the firm pressure +of the lean sinewy hand, showed that the prince still possessed the +tenacious endurance and vigor of hardy old age. After a few more turns +dropped it into a leather pouch attached to the lathe, and, approaching +so he simply held out his bristly cheek (as yet unshaven) and, regarding +her tenderly and attentively, said severely: +containing lessons in geometry written by himself and drew up a chair +“For tomorrow!” said he, quickly finding the page and making a +taking a letter addressed in a woman’s hand from a bag hanging above +princess’ face. She took it quickly and bent her head over it. +and a timid smile. +more and holding out the letter. +the letter away, and leaning his elbows on the table he drew toward him +daughter and placing an arm on the back of the chair on which she sat, +old age and tobacco, which she had known so long. “Now, madam, these +close to her; the red patches on her face came and went, and it was +plain that she understood nothing and was so frightened that her +fear would prevent her understanding any of her father’s further +the princess’ eyes grew dim, she could not see and could not hear +close to her, of his breath and the smell of him, and could think only +sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself +and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, +and sometimes flung the exercise book away. +aside and turning sharply away; but rising immediately, he paced up and +down, lightly touched his daughter’s hair and sat down again. +He drew up his chair, and continued to explain. +Mary, having taken and closed the exercise book with the next day’s +I don’t want to have you like our silly ladies. Get used to it and +you’ll like it,” and he patted her cheek. “It will drive all the +She turned to go, but he stopped her with a gesture and took an uncut +He patted her on the shoulder and himself closed the door after her. +rarely left her and which made her plain, sickly face yet plainer. She +sat down at her writing table, on which stood miniature portraits and +which was littered with books and papers. The princess was as untidy as +her father was tidy. She put down the geometry book and eagerly broke +Dear and precious Friend, How terrible and frightful a thing is +separation! Though I tell myself that half my life and half my happiness +are wrapped up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us +fate and in spite of the pleasures and distractions around me I cannot +calm, and penetrating, a look I loved so well and seem to see before me +Having read thus far, Princess Mary sighed and glanced into the mirror +which stood on her right. It reflected a weak, ungraceful figure and +princess, turning away and continuing to read. But Julie did not flatter +her friend, the princess’ eyes—large, deep and luminous (it seemed +to the frontier. Our dear Emperor has left Petersburg and it is thought +inactive and has left the university to join the army. I will confess to +last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which +one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, +he is so frank and has so much heart. He is so pure and poetic that +Someday I will tell you about our parting and all that was said then. +these poignant joys and sorrows. You are fortunate, for the latter are +this poetic and pure intimacy, were what my heart needed. But enough of +old Count Bezúkhov, and his inheritance. Fancy! The three princesses +have received very little, Prince Vasíli nothing, and it is Monsieur +Pierre who has inherited all the property and has besides been +recognized as legitimate; so that he is now Count Bezúkhov and +Vasíli played a very despicable part in this affair and that he +I confess I understand very little about all these matters of wills and +to know as plain Monsieur Pierre, has become Count Bezúkhov and the +watch the change in the tone and manners of the mammas burdened by +marriageable daughters, and of the young ladies themselves, toward +him, though, between you and me, he always seemed to me a poor sort +by finding husbands for me (most of whom I don’t even know), the +Bezúkhova. But you will understand that I have no desire for the post. +someone rich and distinguée, and it is on you that his relations’ +handsome and a terrible scapegrace. That is all I have been able to find +But enough of gossip. I am at the end of my second sheet of paper, and +Mamma has sent for me to go and dine at the Apráksins’. Read the +is an admirable book which calms and elevates the soul. Adieu! Give +my respects to monsieur your father and my compliments to Mademoiselle +P.S. Let me have news of your brother and his charming little wife. +The princess pondered awhile with a thoughtful smile and her luminous +rose and with her heavy tread went up to the table. She took a sheet of +paper and her hand moved rapidly over it. This is the reply she wrote, +Dear and precious Friend, Your letter of the 13th has given me great +man? On such matters I am only severe with myself. I understand such +feelings in others, and if never having felt them I cannot approve of +sweeter, and better than the feelings which the beautiful eyes of a +young man can inspire in a romantic and loving young girl like yourself. +and my father was much affected by it. He says the count was the last +representative but one of the great century, and that it is his own +seemed to me to have an excellent heart, and that is the quality I value +most in people. As to his inheritance and the part played by Prince +So young, and burdened with such riches—to what temptations he will be +poorer than the poorest beggar. A thousand thanks, dear friend, for the +volume you have sent me and which has such success in Moscow. Yet since +weak human understanding cannot grasp, it seems to me rather useless to +spend time in reading what is unintelligible and can therefore bear +no fruit. I never could understand the fondness some people have for +their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for +the Epistles and Gospels. Let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries +terrible and holy secrets of Providence while we remain in this flesh +which forms an impenetrable veil between us and the Eternal? Let us +conform to them and follow them, and let us be persuaded that the less +rejects all knowledge that does not come from Him; and the less we seek +has received a letter and is expecting a visit from Prince Vasíli. In +the duties of wife and mother upon me I shall try to perform them as +toward him whom He may give me for husband. +are—at the heart of affairs and of the world—is the talk all of +war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature—which townsfolk +and painfully felt. My father talks of nothing but marches and +countermarches, things of which I understand nothing; and the day +people and starting to join the army. You should have seen the state of +the mothers, wives, and children of the men who were going and should +laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of +injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing +Adieu, dear and kind friend; may our divine Saviour and His most Holy +Mother keep you in their holy and all-powerful care! +Bourienne rapidly, in her pleasant mellow tones and with guttural r’s. +She brought into Princess Mary’s strenuous, mournful, and gloomy +world a quite different atmosphere, careless, lighthearted, and +“Princess, I must warn you,” she added, lowering her voice and +evidently listening to herself with pleasure, and speaking with +him and would not have others do so.” +The princess glanced at her watch and, seeing that she was five minutes +room with a look of alarm. Between twelve and two o’clock, as the +day was mapped out, the prince rested and the princess played the +Just then a closed carriage and another with a hood drove up to the +alight, and let her pass into the house before him. Old Tíkhon, wearing +a whisper that the prince was sleeping, and hastily closed the door. +was at home last, and, having assured himself that they had not, he +and her short, downy, smiling lip lifted when she began to speak just as +merrily and prettily as ever. +“Why, this is a palace!” she said to her husband, looking around +Tíkhon, at her husband, and at the footman who accompanied them. +“Is that Mary practicing? Let’s go quietly and take her by +who kissed his hand. +of the oft-repeated passage of the sonata. Prince Andrew stopped and +middle, a cry was heard, then Princess Mary’s heavy tread and the +hand to her heart, with a beatific smile and obviously equally ready to +cry or to laugh. Prince Andrew shrugged his shoulders and frowned, as +of one another, and then, as if afraid of being too late, seized each +other’s hands, kissing them and pulling them away, and again began +kissing each other on the face, and then to Prince Andrew’s surprise +both began to cry and kissed again. Mademoiselle Bourienne also began to +it seemed quite natural that they should cry, and apparently it never +“Ah! my dear!... Ah! Mary!...” they suddenly exclaimed, and then +Prince Andrew and his sister, hand in hand, kissed one another, and +turned toward her brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, +continually and rapidly touching her rosy nether lip when necessary +and drawing up again next moment when her face broke into a smile of +glittering teeth and sparkling eyes. She told of an accident they had +condition, and immediately after that informed them that she had left +all her clothes in Petersburg and that heaven knew what she would have +to dress in here; and that Andrew had quite changed, and that Kitty +Odýntsova had married an old man, and that there was a suitor for Mary, +still looking silently at her brother and her beautiful eyes were full +of love and sadness. It was plain that she was following a train of +“Yes, and even tomorrow,” replied her brother. +The face of the little princess changed. She sighed and said: “Yes, +and unexpectedly again began to cry. +Lise? Take her to your room and I’ll go to Father. How is he? Just the +showed that, in spite of all his love and respect for his father, he was +“The hours are the same, and the lathe, and also the mathematics and +When the twenty minutes had elapsed and the time had come for the old +style, wearing an antique coat and powdered hair; and when Prince Andrew +entered his father’s dressing room (not with the contemptuous look and +thick, bushy eyebrows. Prince Andrew went up and kissed his father on +topic—making fun of the military men of the day, and more particularly +“Yes, Father, I have come to you and brought my wife who is +father’s face with an eager and respectful look. “How is your +“Only fools and rakes fall ill, my boy. You know me: I am busy from +morning till night and abstemious, so of course I am well.” +loving and honoring him. “Why, I have not yet had time to settle +see whether it was firmly plaited, and grasping his by the hand. “The +house for your wife is ready. Princess Mary will take her there and +show her over, and they’ll talk nineteen to the dozen. That’s +their woman’s way! I am glad to have her. Sit down and talk. About +Mikhelson’s army I understand—Tolstóy ‘s too... a simultaneous +chair and pacing up and down the room followed by Tíkhon, who ran after +him, handing him different articles of clothing. “What of Sweden? How +reluctantly, but gradually with more and more animation, and from habit +ninety thousand strong, was to threaten Prussia so as to bring her out +of her neutrality and draw her into the war; how part of that army was +to join some Swedish forces at Stralsund; how two hundred and twenty +thousand Austrians, with a hundred thousand Russians, were to operate in +Italy and on the Rhine; how fifty thousand Russians and as many English +were to land at Naples, and how a total force of five hundred thousand +not listening to it continued to dress while walking about, and three +This meant that Tíkhon was not handing him the waistcoat he wanted. +“And will she soon be confined?” and shaking his head reproachfully +“Malbrook s’en va-t-en guerre. Dieu sait quand reviendra.” * +“Well, you’ve told me nothing new,” and the old man repeated, +meditatively and rapidly: +“Dieu sait quand reviendra. Go to the dining room.” +At the appointed hour the prince, powdered and shaven, entered the +dining room where his daughter-in-law, Princess Mary, and Mademoiselle +very strictly to social distinctions and rarely admitted even important +checked handkerchief) to illustrate the theory that all men are equals, +and had more than once impressed on his daughter that Michael Ivánovich +exceedingly lofty, the members of the household and the footmen—one +signs to the footmen, and anxiously glancing from the clock to the door +portrait (evidently by the hand of the artist belonging to the estate) +of a ruling prince, in a crown—an alleged descendant of Rúrik and +Princess Mary looked at her brother in surprise. She did not understand +reverence and was beyond question. +Princess Mary could not understand the boldness of her brother’s +criticism and was about to reply, when the expected footsteps were heard +coming from the study. The prince walked in quickly and jauntily as was +struck two and another with a shrill tone joined in from the drawing +their thick, bushy eyebrows sternly scanned all present and rested on +sensation of fear and respect which the old man inspired in all around +him. He stroked her hair and then patted her awkwardly on the back of +her eyes, and then quickly went to his place and sat down. “Sit down, +and not with his eyes. +silent and seemed confused. The prince asked her about her father, and +she began to smile and talk. He asked about mutual acquaintances, and +she became still more animated and chattered away giving him greetings +from various people and retelling the town gossip. +“Countess Apráksina, poor thing, has lost her husband and she has +cried her eyes out,” she said, growing more and more lively. +As she became animated the prince looked at her more and more sternly, +and suddenly, as if he had studied her sufficiently and had formed a +definite idea of her, he turned away and addressed Michael Ivánovich. +telling me what forces are being collected against him! While you and I +Michael Ivánovich did not at all know when “you and I” had said +such things about Bonaparte, but understanding that he was wanted as +And the conversation again turned on the war, on Bonaparte, and the +generals and statesmen of the day. The old prince seemed convinced not +A B C of war or of politics, and that Bonaparte was an insignificant +that there were no political difficulties in Europe and no real war, +father’s ridicule of the new men, and drew him on and listened to him +himself fall into a trap Moreau set him, and from which he did not know +Consider, Prince Andrew. Two... Frederick and Suvórov; Moreau!... +Moreau would have been a prisoner if Suvórov had had a free hand; but +he had the Hofs-kriegs-wurst-schnapps-Rath on his hands. It would have +“you and your generals won’t get on against Buonaparte; you’ll +Were the Potëmkins, Suvórovs, and Orlóvs Germans? No, lad, either you +commander among them! Hm!...” +him, Bonaparte had made in his campaigns and even in politics. His +listened, refraining from a reply, and involuntarily wondered how this +old man, living alone in the country for so many years, could know and +discuss so minutely and acutely all the recent European military and +“You think I’m an old man and don’t understand the present state +sleep at night. Come now, where has this great commander of yours shown +“Dieu sait quand reviendra.” hummed the prince out of tune and, with +The little princess during the whole discussion and the rest of +father-in-law and now at Princess Mary. When they left the table she +took her sister-in-law’s arm and drew her into another room. +After inspecting the carriage himself and seeing the trunks put in, he +with silver plate, two Turkish pistols and a saber—a present from +clean, and in cloth covers carefully tied with tapes. +one reviews the past and plans for the future. Prince Andrew’s face +looked very thoughtful and tender. With his hands behind him he paced +and thoughtfully shaking his head. Did he fear going to the war, or was +hurriedly unclasped his hands, stopped at a table as if tying the +cover of the small box, and assumed his usual tranquil and impenetrable +had apparently been running), “and I did so wish to have another talk +obviously strange to her to think that this stern handsome man should be +Prince Andrew was silent, but the princess noticed the ironical and +Andrew? Don’t forget that she has grown up and been educated in +society, and so her position now is not a rosy one. We should enter into +to be parted from her husband and be left alone in the country, in her + * To understand all is to forgive all. +think we thoroughly understand. +“You live in the country and don’t think the life terrible,” he +life, and can’t, for I know no other. But think, Andrew: for a young +life, all alone—for Papa is always busy, and I... well, you know what +“No? She is very nice and kind and, above all, she’s much to be +and she’s even in my way. You know I always was a savage, and now am +even more so. I like being alone.... Father likes her very much. She and +Michael Ivánovich are the two people to whom he is always gentle and +after losing her own father. She is very good-natured, and my father +likes her way of reading. She reads to him in the evenings and reads +Princess Mary was first surprised and then aghast at this question. +“He always was rather harsh; and now I should think he’s getting +thoughts rather than the trend of the conversation—“and that’s a +contented and happy with him. I only wish you were all as happy as I +understand how a man of his immense intellect can fail to see what is +as clear as day, and can go so far astray. That is the only thing +improvement. His satire has been less bitter of late, and there was a +monk he received and had a long talk with.” +“Ah! my dear, I am afraid you and your monk are wasting your +“Ah! mon ami, I only pray, and hope that God will hear me. +and is nothing unworthy of you, but it will comfort me. Promise, +Andrúsha!...” said she, putting her hand in her reticule but not yet +the subject of her request and must not be shown before the request was +grandfather, wore it in all his wars.” (She still did not take out +“Andrew, I bless you with this icon and you must promise me you will +“If it does not weigh a hundredweight and won’t break my neck... +repented and added: “I am glad; really, dear, I am very glad.” +“Against your will He will save and have mercy on you and bring you +to Himself, for in Him alone is truth and peace,” said she in a voice +trembling with emotion, solemnly holding up in both hands before her +She crossed herself, kissed the icon, and handed it to Andrew. +up the whole of her thin, sickly face and made it beautiful. Her brother +crossed himself and kissed the icon. There was a look of tenderness, for +“Thank you, my dear.” She kissed him on the forehead and sat down +“As I was saying to you, Andrew, be kind and generous as you always +sweet, so good-natured, and her position now is a very hard one.” +Red patches appeared on Princess Mary’s face and she was silent as if +The patches grew deeper on her forehead, neck, and cheeks. She tried to +princess had been crying after dinner and had spoken of her forebodings +about her confinement, and how she dreaded it, and had complained of her +fate, her father-in-law, and her husband. After crying she had fallen +“Know this, Másha: I can’t reproach, have not reproached, and never +shall reproach my wife with anything, and I cannot reproach myself +with anything in regard to her; and that always will be so in whatever +As he said this he rose, went to his sister, and, stooping, kissed +her forehead. His fine eyes lit up with a thoughtful, kindly, and +“Let us go to her, I must say good-by. Or—go and wake and I’ll +take these away. Put this on the seat and this to the right.” +Princess Mary rose and moved to the door, then stopped and said: +“Andrew, if you had faith you would have turned to God and asked Him +to give you the love you do not feel, and your prayer would have been +sweetly. It was the third time that day that, with an ecstatic and +blushing and dropping her eyes. +Prince Andrew looked sternly at her and an expression of anger suddenly +and hair, without looking at her eyes, with such contempt that the +Frenchwoman blushed and went away without a word. When he reached his +sister’s room his wife was already awake and her merry voice, hurrying +usual in French, and as if after long self-restraint she wished to make +“No, but imagine the old Countess Zúbova, with false curls and her +This very sentence about Countess Zúbova and this same laugh Prince +five times. He entered the room softly. The little princess, plump and +rosy, was sitting in an easy chair with her work in her hands, talking +incessantly, repeating Petersburg reminiscences and even phrases. Prince +Andrew came up, stroked her hair, and asked if she felt rested after +their journey. She answered him and continued her chatter. +Mary, and the little princess. Prince Andrew had been called to his +spectacles and white dressing gown, in which he received no one but his +“Kiss me here,” and he touched his cheek: “Thanks, thanks!” +“For not dilly-dallying and not hanging to a woman’s apron strings. +writing, so that his quill spluttered and squeaked. “If you have +hands....” +The old prince stopped writing and, as if not understanding, fixed his +cases only one goes wrong, but it is her fancy and mine. They have been +telling her things. She has had a dream and is frightened.” +He signed with a flourish and suddenly turning to his son began to +“The wife!” said the old prince, briefly and significantly. +“I don’t understand!” said Prince Andrew. +He seized his son by the hand with small bony fingers, shook it, looked +through him, and again laughed his frigid laugh. +old man continued to fold and seal his letter, snatching up and throwing +down the wax, the seal, and the paper, with his accustomed rapidity. +Andrew did not speak; he was both pleased and displeased that his father +understood him. The old man got up and gave the letter to his son. +I have written that he should make use of you in proper places and not +and like him. Write and tell me how he receives you. If he is all +was accustomed to understand him. He led him to the desk, raised the +lid, drew out a drawer, and took out an exercise book filled with his +bold, tall, close handwriting. +hand them to the Emperor after my death. Now here is a Lombard bond +and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of +“Well, now, good-by!” He gave his son his hand to kiss, and embraced +your old father...” he paused unexpectedly, and then in a querulous +killed and if I have a son, do not let him be taken away from you—as I +“Not let the wife have him?” said the old man, and laughed. +at the door Prince Andrew and the figure of the old man in a white +dressing gown, spectacled and wigless, shouting in an angry voice. +Prince Andrew sighed and made no reply. +“Andrew, already!” said the little princess, turning pale and +looking with dismay at her husband. +He embraced her. She screamed and fell unconscious on his shoulder. +and carefully placed her in an easy chair. +“Adieu, Mary,” said he gently to his sister, taking her by the hand +and kissing her, and then he left the room with rapid steps. +Andrew had gone and made the sign of the cross in his direction. From +door opened quickly and the stern figure of the old man in the white +“Gone? That’s all right!” said he; and looking angrily at the +unconscious little princess, he shook his head reprovingly and slammed +In October, 1805, a Russian army was occupying the villages and towns of +the Archduchy of Austria, and yet other regiments freshly arriving from +Russia were settling near the fortress of Braunau and burdening the +the commander in chief, Kutúzov. +by the commander in chief. Despite the un-Russian appearance of the +locality and surroundings—fruit gardens, stone fences, tiled roofs, +and hills in the distance—and despite the fact that the inhabitants +the commander in chief would inspect the regiment on the march. Though +the words of the order were not clear to the regimental commander, and +not, it was decided at a consultation between the battalion commanders +soldiers, after a twenty-mile march, were kept mending and cleaning all +night long without closing their eyes, while the adjutants and +company commanders calculated and reckoned, and by morning the +thousand men each of whom knew his place and his duty, had every button +and every strap in place, and shone with cleanliness. And not only +externally was all in order, but had it pleased the commander in chief +shirt, and in every knapsack the appointed number of articles, “awl, +soap, and all,” as the soldiers say. There was only one circumstance +this defect was not due to any fault of the regimental commander, for +in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the Austrian +commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred miles. +The commander of the regiment was an elderly, choleric, stout, and +thick-set general with grizzled eyebrows and whiskers, and wider from +chest to back than across the shoulders. He had on a brand-new uniform +showing the creases where it had been folded and thick gold epaulettes +which seemed to stand rather than lie down on his massive shoulders. He +his life. He walked about in front of the line and at every step pulled +himself up, slightly arching his back. It was plain that the commander +admired his regiment, rejoiced in it, and that his whole mind was +matters, social interests and the fair sex occupied no small part of his +battalion commanders who smilingly pressed forward (it was plain that +they both felt happy). “We had our hands full last night. However, I +The battalion commander perceived the jovial irony and laughed. +“What?” asked the commander. +clearly worded the day before, namely, that the commander in chief +the march: in their greatcoats, and packs, and without any preparation +before with proposals and demands for him to join up with the army of +the Archduke Ferdinand and Mack, and Kutúzov, not considering this +so the worse the condition it was in, the better pleased the commander +men should be in their greatcoats and in marching order, and that the +commander in chief would otherwise be dissatisfied. On hearing this the +regimental commander hung his head, silently shrugged his shoulders, and +the battalion commander. “Oh, my God!” he added, stepping resolutely +forward. “Company commanders!” he shouted in a voice accustomed to +command. “Sergeants major!... How soon will he be here?” he asked +The regimental commander, going up to the line himself, ordered the +soldiers to change into their greatcoats. The company commanders ran off +were not in very good condition), and instantly the squares that had up +to then been in regular order and silent began to sway and stretch and +hum with voices. On all sides soldiers were running to and fro, throwing +up their knapsacks with a jerk of their shoulders and pulling the straps +over their heads, unstrapping their overcoats and drawing the sleeves on +instead of black. The regimental commander walked with his jerky steps +to the front of the regiment and examined it from a distance. +“Whatever is this? This!” he shouted and stood still. “Commander +“Commander of the third company wanted by the general!... commander to +the general... third company to the commander.” The words passed along +the lines and an adjutant ran to look for the missing officer. +appeared from behind his company and, though he was a middle-aged man +and not in the habit of running, trotted awkwardly stumbling on his +intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously. The general looked the +captain up and down as he came up panting, slackening his pace as he +shouted the regimental commander, thrusting forward his jaw and pointing +The commander in chief is expected and you leave your place? Eh? I’ll +The commander of the company, with his eyes fixed on his superior, +pressed two fingers more and more rigidly to his cap, as if in this +Hungarian?” said the commander with an austere gibe. +regimental commander cooling down a little. “Leave indeed.... One says +a word to you and you... What?” he added with renewed irritation, “I +And the commander, turning to look at the adjutant, directed his jerky +anger and walking up to the regiment wished to find a further excuse for +“H-o-o-w are you standing? Where’s your leg? Your leg?” shouted +the commander with a tone of suffering in his voice, while there were +still five men between him and Dólokhov with his bluish-gray uniform. +The eyes of the general and the soldier met. The general became silent, +The regimental commander, flushing, ran to his horse, seized the stirrup +with trembling hands, threw his body across the saddle, righted himself, +drew his saber, and with a happy and resolute countenance, opening +preening its plumage and became motionless. +“Att-ention!” shouted the regimental commander in a soul-shaking +voice which expressed joy for himself, severity for the regiment, and +light blue Viennese calèche, slightly creaking on its springs and drawn +and a convoy of Croats. Beside Kutúzov sat an Austrian general, in +calèche stopped in front of the regiment. Kutúzov and the Austrian +general were talking in low voices and Kutúzov smiled slightly as +thousand men breathlessly gazing at him and the regimental commander did +The word of command rang out, and again the regiment quivered, as with a +feeble voice of the commander in chief was heard. The regiment roared, +“Health to your ex... len... len... lency!” and again all became +and the general in white, accompanied by the suite, walked between the +From the way the regimental commander saluted the commander in chief and +devoured him with his eyes, drawing himself up obsequiously, and from +and hardly able to restrain his jerky movements, and from the way he +darted forward at every word or gesture of the commander in chief, +greater zeal than his duty as a commander. Thanks to the strictness and +assiduity of its commander the regiment, in comparison with others that +were only 217 sick and stragglers. Everything was in good order except +noticing what a bad state of things it was. The regimental commander +commander in chief’s regarding the regiment. Behind Kutúzov, at a +and sometimes laughed. Nearest of all to the commander in chief walked +a handsome adjutant. This was Prince Bolkónski. Beside him was his +kindly, smiling, handsome face and moist eyes. Nesvítski could hardly +beside him. This hussar, with a grave face and without a smile or a +commander’s back and mimicked his every movement. Each time the +commander started and bent forward, the hussar started and bent forward +in exactly the same manner. Nesvítski laughed and nudged the others to +Kutúzov walked slowly and languidly past thousands of eyes which were +been reprimanded on account of the blue greatcoat. +more than Timókhin had done when he was reprimanded by the regimental +commander, but now that the commander in chief addressed him he drew +it had the commander in chief continued to look at him, and so Kutúzov, +who evidently understood his case and wished him nothing but good, +scarred and puffy face. +satisfied with him?” he asked the regimental commander. +officer as in a looking glass—started, moved forward, and answered: +“We all have our weaknesses,” said Kutúzov smiling and walking away +The regimental commander was afraid he might be blamed for this and did +captain and his drawn-in stomach, and mimicked his expression and pose +and while Kutúzov was turning managed to make a grimace and then assume +a most serious, deferential, and innocent expression. +The third company was the last, and Kutúzov pondered, apparently trying +suite and said in French: +up to the commander in chief, and presented arms. +duty. The Emperor is gracious, and I shan’t forget you if you deserve +The clear blue eyes looked at the commander in chief just as boldly as +they had looked at the regimental commander, seeming by their expression +to tear open the veil of convention that separates a commander in chief +and prove my devotion to His Majesty the Emperor and to Russia!” +him and everything he could say had long been known to him, that he was +weary of it and it was not at all what he wanted. He turned away and +quarters near Braunau, where they hoped to receive boots and clothes and +regimental commander, overtaking the third company on its way to its +quarters and riding up to Captain Timókhin who was walking in front. +(The regimental commander’s face now that the inspection was happily +pleased!” And he held out his hand to the captain. +behaving himself, and in general...” +“And what about his character?” asked the regimental commander. +day he is sensible, well educated, and good-natured, and the next he’s +a wild beast.... In Poland, if you please, he nearly killed a Jew.” +“Oh, well, well!” remarked the regimental commander. “Still, one +he understood his commander’s wish. +The regimental commander sought out Dólokhov in the ranks and, reining +“Well, that’s all right,” continued the regimental commander. “A +could hear. “I thank you all! God be praised!” and he rode past that +company and overtook the next one. +regimental commander was nicknamed King of Hearts). +“No, friend, he is sharper-eyed than you are. Boots and leg bands... +and are drawn along.” +drummer, their leader, turned round facing the singers, and flourishing +words: “Morning dawned, the sun was rising,” and concluding: “On +been composed in the Turkish campaign and now being sung in Austria, the +Having jerked out these last words as soldiers do and waved his arms +as if flinging something to the ground, the drummer—a lean, handsome +soldier of forty—looked sternly at the singers and screwed up his +object above his head and, holding it there for some seconds, suddenly +flung it down and began: +“Oh, my bower new...!” chimed in twenty voices, and the castanet +and, walking backwards before the company, jerked his shoulders and +swinging their arms and keeping time spontaneously, marched with long +and the tramp of horses’ hoofs were heard. Kutúzov and his suite were +returning to the town. The commander in chief made a sign that the +men should continue to march at ease, and he and all his suite showed +pleasure at the sound of the singing and the sight of the dancing +soldier and the gay and smartly marching men. In the second file +marching with particular grace and boldness in time to the song and +suite who had mimicked the regimental commander, fell back from the +carriage and rode up to Dólokhov. +private and had not seen fit to recognize him. But now that Kutúzov had +The lively song gave a special flavor to the tone of free and easy +gaiety with which Zherkóv spoke, and to the intentional coldness of +song, arousing an involuntary sensation of courage and cheerfulness. +“I’m glad,” answered Dólokhov briefly and clearly, as the song +demanded. +“I say, come round some evening and we’ll have a game of faro!” +“I can’t. I’ve sworn not to. I won’t drink and won’t play till + To my native land...” +past the company, and overtook the carriage, still keeping time to the +his private room and, calling his adjutant, asked for some papers +relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the +letters that had come from the Archduke Ferdinand, who was in command of +required papers. Kutúzov and the Austrian member of the Hofkriegsrath +exclamation he was asking the adjutant to wait, and he went on with the +of expression and intonation that obliged one to listen to each +personally it would be a pleasure to hand over the supreme command +of the army into the hands of a better informed and more skillful +general—of whom Austria has so many—and to lay down all this heavy +liberty not to believe me and I don’t even care whether you do or +“On the contrary,” he said, in a querulous and angry tone that +Russian troops and their commander of the laurels they have been +“But that is my conviction, and judging by the last letter with which +His Highness the Archduke Ferdinand has honored me, I imagine that the +Mack, have by now already gained a decisive victory and no longer need +that were afloat, and so Kutúzov’s suggestion of an Austrian victory +sounded much like irony. But Kutúzov went on blandly smiling with the +informed him of a victory and stated strategically the position of the +“Please have a look at it”—and Kutúzov with an ironical smile +following passage, in German, from the Archduke Ferdinand’s letter: +We have fully concentrated forces of nearly seventy thousand men with +which to attack and defeat the enemy should he cross the Lech. Also, +commanding both sides of the Danube, so that should the enemy not +of communications, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his +Russian army will be fully equipped, and shall then, in conjunction with +Kutúzov sighed deeply on finishing this paragraph and looked at the +member of the Hofkriegsrath mildly and attentively. +with jests and to come to business. He involuntarily looked round at the +reports from our scouts. Here are two letters from Count Nostitz and +here is one from His Highness the Archduke Ferdinand and here are +these,” he said, handing him several papers, “make a neat memorandum +movements of the Austrian army, and then give it to his excellency.” +liked to tell him. He gathered up the papers and with a bow to both, +stepped softly over the carpet and went out into the waiting room. +affected languor and indolence. He now looked like a man who has time +agreeable and interesting work. His face expressed more satisfaction +with himself and those around him, his smile and glance were brighter +and more attractive. +Kutúzov, whom he had overtaken in Poland, had received him very kindly, +and had taken him to Vienna and given him the more serious commissions. +firmness, and expedition. I consider myself fortunate to have such a +On Kutúzov’s staff, among his fellow officers and in the army +different from themselves and from everyone else, expected great things +of him, listened to him, admired, and imitated him, and with them Prince +Andrew was natural and pleasant. Others, the majority, disliked him and +considered him conceited, cold, and disagreeable. But among these people +Prince Andrew knew how to take his stand so that they respected and even +his hand Prince Andrew came up to his comrade, the aide-de-camp on duty, +“I am ordered to write a memorandum explaining why we are not +order of Maria Theresa on his neck and a black bandage round his head, +“Commander in Chief Kutúzov?” said the newly arrived general +speaking quickly with a harsh German accent, looking to both sides and +“The commander in chief is engaged,” said Kozlóvski, going +hurriedly up to the unknown general and blocking his way to the door. +“The commander in chief is engaged,” repeated Kozlóvski calmly. +The general’s face clouded, his lips quivered and trembled. He took +leaf, gave it to Kozlóvski, stepped quickly to the window, and threw +immediately broke off. The door of the private room opened and Kutúzov +appeared in the doorway. The general with the bandaged head bent forward +as though running away from some danger, and, making long, quick strides +and his forehead became smooth again, he bowed his head respectfully, +closed his eyes, silently let Mack enter his room before him, and closed +and that the whole army had surrendered at Ulm proved to be correct. +lay in the general progress of the war. When he saw Mack and heard the +understood all the difficulties of the Russian army’s position, and +vividly imagined what awaited it and the part he would have to +humiliation of arrogant Austria and that in a week’s time he might, +perhaps, see and take part in the first Russian encounter with the +might outweigh all the courage of the Russian troops, and at the same +Excited and irritated by these thoughts Prince Andrew went toward his +he met Nesvítski, with whom he shared a room, and the wag Zherkóv; +pale face and glittering eyes. +Just as Prince Andrew met Nesvítski and Zherkóv, there came toward +army, and the member of the Hofkriegsrath who had arrived the previous +“They’re coming!... they’re coming!... Stand aside, make way, +“Your excellency,” said he in German, stepping forward and +He bowed his head and scraped first with one foot and then with the +The general frowned, turned away, and went on. +Bolkónski, turning still paler, pushed him away with an angry look and +of Mack, the news of his defeat, and the thought of what lay before the +Nesvítski and Zherkóv were so surprised by this outburst that they +and taking Nesvítski’s arm he left Zherkóv, who did not know what to +“What’s the matter?” exclaimed Prince Andrew standing still in +his excitement. “Don’t you understand that either we are officers +serving our Tsar and our country, rejoicing in the successes and + * “Forty thousand men massacred and the army of our allies + destroyed, and you find that a cause for jesting!” +and went out of the corridor. +assigned to cavalry-captain Denísov, the squadron commander, known +ever since he had overtaken the regiment in Poland, had lived with the +squadron commander. +part from his horse, and at last sprang down and called to his orderly. +headlong to the horse. “Walk him up and down, my dear fellow,” he +“Mind, walk him up and down well!” +evident that the cadet was liberal with his tips and that it paid to +serve him. Rostóv patted the horse’s neck and then his flank, and +“Splendid! What a horse he will be!” he thought with a smile, and +porch. His landlord, who in a waistcoat and a pointed cap, pitchfork in +hand, was clearing manure from the cowhouse, looked out, and his face +Kaiser Alexander hoch!” *(2) said he, quoting words often repeated by +the German landlord. + Hurrah for Emperor Alexander!” +The German laughed, came out of the cowshed, pulled off his cap, and +Rostóv waved his cap above his head like the German and cried laughing, +reason for rejoicing, they looked at each other with joyful delight and +and parted smiling, the German returning to his cowshed and Rostóv +brag about it, but if he stays out till morning it means he’s lost and +said he. “Now for trouble!” Rostóv looked out of the window and +sparkling black eyes, and black tousled mustache and hair. He wore an +unfastened cloak, wide breeches hanging down in creases, and a crumpled +“Lavwúska!” he shouted loudly and angrily, “take it off, +and have seen Fräulein Mathilde.” +luck! Such ill luck. As soon as you left, it began and went on. Hullo +Puckering up his face though smiling, and showing his short strong +teeth, he began with stubby fingers of both hands to ruffle up his thick +“the rat”) he said, rubbing his forehead and whole face with both +hands. “Just fancy, he didn’t let me win a single cahd, not one +fist, and tapped it on the floor, making the sparks fly, while he +“He lets one win the singles and collahs it as soon as one doubles it; +gives the singles and snatches the doubles!” +He scattered the burning tobacco, smashed the pipe, and threw it away. +Then he remained silent for a while, and all at once looked cheerfully +boots and the clinking of spurs that came to a stop, and a respectful +“Wostóv, deah fellow, just see how much there is left and shove the +purse undah the pillow,” he said, and went out to the quartermaster. +Rostóv took the money and, mechanically arranging the old and new coins +voice, and Lieutenant Telyánin, a small officer of the same squadron, +Rostóv thrust the purse under the pillow and shook the damp little hand +regiment but was not liked; Rostóv especially detested him and was +face; his eyes continually wandered from one object to another. +and show you what kind of rivet to use.” +Telyánin, and he went out to give the order. +Denísov screwed up his face and pointing over his shoulder with his +thumb to the room where Telyánin was sitting, he frowned and gave a +what’s one to do?” and, having given his order, he returned to +left him, rubbing his small white hands. +and looking carelessly about him. +They went through the porch and into the stable. The lieutenant +explained how to rivet the hoof and went away to his own quarters. +When Rostóv went back there was a bottle of vodka and a sausage on the +paper. He looked gloomily in Rostóv’s face and said: “I am witing +He leaned his elbows on the table with his pen in his hand and, +are childwen of the dust... but one falls in love and one is a God, one +Denísov frowned and was about to shout some reply but stopped. +“Seven new and three old imperials.” +“Oh, it’s wetched! Well, what are you standing there for, you +pillows one at a time and shaking them. +He pulled off the quilt and shook it. The purse was not there. +“You’re always like that; you thwow a thing down anywhere and forget +Lavrúshka turned all the bedding over, looked under the bed and under +the table, searched everywhere, and stood still in the middle of the +room. Denísov silently watched Lavrúshka’s movements, and when the +Rostóv felt Denísov’s gaze fixed on him, raised his eyes, and +somewhere below his throat rushed to his face and eyes. He could not +“And there hasn’t been anyone in the room except the lieutenant and +“Now then, you devil’s puppet, look alive and hunt for it!” +shouted Denísov, suddenly, turning purple and rushing at the man with +on his saber, and put on his cap. +orderly by the shoulders and knocking him against the wall. +a moment, and, evidently understanding what Rostóv hinted at, seized +“Nonsense!” he cried, and the veins on his forehead and neck stood +The purse is here! I’ll flay this scoundwel alive, and it will be +and went to the door. +But Rostóv pulled away his arm and, with as much anger as though +“Do you understand what you’re saying?” he said in a trembling +He could not finish, and ran out of the room. +“Ah, may the devil take you and evewybody,” were the last words +The headquarters were situated two miles away from Salzeneck, and +Rostóv, without returning home, took a horse and rode there. There was +it and saw Telyánin’s horse at the porch. +sausages and a bottle of wine. +“Ah, you’ve come here too, young man!” he said, smiling and +word; and he sat down at the nearest table. +Both were silent. There were two Germans and a Russian officer in the +room. No one spoke and the only sounds heard were the clatter of knives +and the munching of the lieutenant. +purse and, drawing its rings aside with his small, white, turned-up +fingers, drew out a gold imperial, and lifting his eyebrows gave it to +The coin was a new one. Rostóv rose and went up to Telyánin. +With shifting eyes but eyebrows still raised, Telyánin handed him the +pale, and added, “Look at it, young man.” +Rostóv took the purse in his hand, examined it and the money in it, and +and suddenly seemed to grow very merry. +He stretched out his hand to take hold of the purse. Rostóv let go of +it. Telyánin took the purse and began carelessly slipping it into the +pocket of his riding breeches, with his eyebrows lifted and his mouth +pocket and that’s quite simple and is no one else’s business.” +“Well, young man?” he said with a sigh, and from under his lifted +Rostóv’s and back, and back again and again in an instant. +“Come here,” said Rostóv, catching hold of Telyánin’s arm and +But these words came like a piteous, despairing cry and an entreaty for +fell from him. He was glad, and at the same instant began to pity the +Telyánin, taking up his cap and moving toward a small empty room. “We +“I know it and shall prove it,” said Rostóv. +to Rostóv’s face, and his sobs were audible. +take it...” He threw it on the table. “I have an old father and +Rostóv took the money, avoiding Telyánin’s eyes, and went out of the +room without a word. But at the door he stopped and then retraced his +take the money,” and he threw the purse to him and ran out of the inn. +said a tall, grizzly-haired staff captain, with enormous mustaches and +affairs of honor and had twice regained his commission. +me I lied, and I told him he lied. And there it rests. He may keep me +me apologize, because if he, as commander of this regiment, thinks it +“You just wait a moment, my dear fellow, and listen,” interrupted +one would not need finesse; and he tells me that I am lying—so let him +demand satisfaction of his regimental commander?” +Denísov sat gloomily biting his mustache and listening to the +officers,” continued the staff captain, “and Bogdánich” (the +“Well, have it so, and you talked a lot of nonsense to him and must +“I did not expect this of you,” said the staff captain seriously and +The case is this: you ought to have thought the matter over and +taken advice; but no, you go and blurt it all straight out before the +officers. Now what was the colonel to do? Have the officer tried and +It’s not pleasant, but what’s to be done, my dear fellow? You landed +conceit prevents your apologizing, and you wish to make the whole +apologize to an old and honorable officer? Whatever Bogdánich may +be, anyway he is an honorable and brave old colonel! You’re quick at +regiment next to no time, my lad, you’re here today and tomorrow +you’ll be appointed adjutant somewhere and can snap your fingers when +Denísov remained silent and did not move, but occasionally looked with +“You value your own pride and don’t wish to apologize,” continued +the staff captain, “but we old fellows, who have grown up in and, God +regiment, and Bogdánich knows it. Oh, we do prize it, old fellow! And +And the staff captain rose and turned away from Rostóv. +Rostóv, growing red and pale alternately, looked first at one officer +and then at the other. +“No, gentlemen, no... you mustn’t think... I quite understand. +the regiment I’d... Ah well, I’ll show that in action, and for me +round and clapping Rostóv on the shoulder with his big hand. +“Go and apologize, your excellency. Yes, go!” +can’t, do what you will! How can I go and apologize like a little boy +“It’ll be worse for you. Bogdánich is vindictive and you’ll pay +“What? Saw the real Mack? With hands and feet?” +The regimental adjutant came in and confirmed the news brought by +the rivers Inn (at Braunau) and Traun (near Linz). On October 23 the +baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling +bridge was at times veiled by a diaphanous curtain of slanting rain, and +cathedral, and its bridge, on both sides of which streamed jostling +masses of Russian troops. At the bend of the Danube, vessels, an island, +and a castle with a park surrounded by the waters of the confluence of +the Enns and the Danube became visible, and the rocky left bank of the +treetops and bluish gorges. The turrets of a convent stood out beyond a +wild virgin pine forest, and far away on the other side of the Enns the +Among the field guns on the brow of the hill the general in command of +the rearguard by the commander in chief, was sitting on the trail of a +gun carriage. A Cossack who accompanied him had handed him a knapsack +and a flask, and Nesvítski was treating some officers to pies and real +place! We passed close to the park and saw two deer... and what a +another pie but felt shy, and therefore pretended to be examining the +added he, munching a pie in his moist-lipped handsome mouth, “would be +He pointed with a smile to a turreted nunnery, and his eyes narrowed and +Meanwhile the staff officer standing in front pointed out something to +field glass and shrugging his shoulders, “so it is! They’ll be fired +On the opposite side the enemy could be seen by the naked eye, and from +a shot, and our troops could be seen hurrying to the crossing. +Nesvítski rose, puffing, and went up to the general, smiling. +“Yes, please do,” answered the general, and he repeated the order +that had already once been given in detail: “and tell the hussars +that they are to cross last and to fire the bridge as I ordered; and the +and flask, and swung his heavy person easily into the saddle. +watched him smilingly, and he rode off by the winding path down the +“Crew, to your guns!” commanded the officer. +In a moment the men came running gaily from their campfires and began +“One!” came the command. +metallic roar, and a whistling grenade flew above the heads of our +troops below the hill and fell far short of the enemy, a little smoke +The faces of officers and men brightened up at the sound. Everyone got +up and began watching the movements of our troops below, as plainly +visible as if but a stone’s throw away, and the movements of the +out from behind the clouds, and the clear sound of the solitary shot +and the brilliance of the bright sunshine merged in a single joyous and +alighted from his horse and whose big body was jammed against the +Nesvítski tried to move on, soldiers and carts pushed him back again +and pressed him against the railings, and all he could do was to smile. +crowded together close to his wheels and his horses. “What a fellow! +But the convoyman took no notice of the word “general” and shouted +little waves of the Enns, which rippling and eddying round the piles of +knapsacks, bayonets, long muskets, and, under the shakos, faces with +broad cheekbones, sunken cheeks, and listless tired expressions, and +white foam on the waves of the Enns, an officer, in a cloak and with +and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers’ or +company’s baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered, and hemmed in on +with a wink, and passed on followed by another, an old man. +That soldier passed on, and after him came another sitting on a cart. +“Where the devil have the leg bands been shoved to?” said an +orderly, running behind the cart and fumbling in the back of it. +“Bah! How they scurry. He just sends a ball and they think they’ll +all be killed,” a sergeant was saying angrily and reproachfully. +before. It was a German cart with a pair of horses led by a German, and +baby, an old woman, and a healthy German girl with bright red cheeks +turned toward the women, and while the vehicle was passing at foot pace +who, angry and frightened, strode energetically along with downcast +apple, also half smiling as he looked at the handsome girl. +The German closed his eyes, signifying that he did not understand. +The girl smiled and took it. Nesvítski like the rest of the men on the +kind of talk, and at last all stopped. As often happens, the horses of +a convoy wagon became restive at the end of the bridge, and the whole +at one another, and all pressed toward the exit from the bridge. +With great difficulty he managed to get to his horse, and shouting +for him, but again pressed on him so that they jammed his leg, and those +Nesvítski looked round and saw, some fifteen paces away but separated +by the living mass of moving infantry, Váska Denísov, red and shaggy, +with his cap on the back of his black head and a cloak hanging jauntily +whites glittering and rolling as he waved his sheathed saber in a small +bare hand as red as his face. +white teeth fiercely and spurring his black thoroughbred Arab, which +twitched its ears as the bayonets touched it, and snorted, spurting +hoofs, and apparently ready to jump over the railings had his rider let +scabbard and flourishing it. +The soldiers crowded against one another with terrified faces, and +Denísov. “They keep dwagging the wegiment to and fwo all day. If they +“What a dandy you are today!” said Nesvítski, looking at +Denísov’s new cloak and saddlecloth. +Denísov smiled, took out of his sabretache a handkerchief that diffused +a smell of perfume, and put it to Nesvítski’s nose. +and scented myself.” +The imposing figure of Nesvítski followed by his Cossack, and +the determination of Denísov who flourished his sword and shouted +to the farther side of the bridge and stopped the infantry. Beside the +and having done this he rode back. +Carelessly holding in his stallion that was neighing and pawing the +resounded on the planks of the bridge, and the squadron, officers in +front and men four abreast, spread across the bridge and began to emerge +trampled mud and gazed with that particular feeling of ill-will, +estrangement, and ridicule with which troops of different arms usually +the baggage wagons had all crossed, the crush was less, and the last +At the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our +ground, artillery and troops in blue uniform were seen. These were the +the officers and men of Denísov’s squadron, though they tried to talk +of other things and to look in other directions, thought only of what +was there on the hilltop, and kept constantly looking at the patches +The weather had cleared again since noon and the sun was descending +brightly upon the Danube and the dark hills around it. It was calm, and +at intervals the bugle calls and the shouts of the enemy could be heard +from the hill. There was no one now between the squadron and the enemy +yards was all that separated them. The enemy ceased firing, and that +stern, threatening, inaccessible, and intangible line which separates +the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. And +and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must +be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will +strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and are surrounded by other such +excitedly animated and healthy men.” So thinks, or at any rate +feels, anyone who comes in sight of the enemy, and that feeling gives +a particular glamour and glad keenness of impression to everything that +and a ball flew whistling over the heads of the hussar squadron. The +officers who had been standing together rode off to their places. The +squadron. All were looking at the enemy in front and at the squadron +commander, awaiting the word of command. A second and a third cannon +with rapid rhythmic whistle flew over the heads of the horsemen and fell +of each shot, as at the word of command, the whole squadron with its +ball flew past, rose in the stirrups and sank back again. The soldiers +bugler, showed one common expression of conflict, irritation, and +excitement, around chin and mouth. The quartermaster frowned, looking +Rook—a handsome horse despite its game leg—had the happy air of a +indication of something new and stern showed round the mouth. +The black, hairy, snub-nosed face of Váska Denísov, and his whole +short sturdy figure with the sinewy hairy hand and stumpy fingers in +good horse, Bedouin, and sitting as though falling backwards in the +saddle, he galloped to the other flank of the squadron and shouted in +felt perfectly happy. Just then the commander appeared on the bridge. +The squadron crossed the bridge and drew out of range of fire without +line followed them across and the last Cossacks quitted the farther side +up to Denísov’s squadron and rode at a footpace not far from Rostóv, +that he was at the front and in the power of a man toward whom he now +colonel’s athletic back, his nape covered with light hair, and his red +to notice him, and that his whole aim now was to test the cadet’s +courage, so he drew himself up and looked around him merrily; then it +after the attack, Bogdánich would come up to him as he lay wounded and +would magnanimously extend the hand of reconciliation. +could get more rewards by doing nothing on the staff, and had succeeded +came to his former chief with an order from the commander of the rear +gloomy gravity and glancing round at his comrades, “there is an order +to stop and fire the bridge.” +serious tone, “but the prince told me to ‘go and tell the colonel +that the hussars must return quickly and fire the bridge.’” +to fire the bridge, and now someone has gone and blundered; they are all +beside themselves over there and one can’t make anything out.” +The colonel deliberately stopped the regiment and turned to Nesvítski. +cap and smoothing his hair wet with perspiration with his plump hand, +“I am not your ‘dear sir,’ Mr. Staff Officer, and you did not tell +me to burn the bridge! I know the service, and it is my habit orders +hand. “How did you get here?” said he, turning to Zherkóv. +staff officer, and at Zherkóv, and he frowned. +for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second +wishes to test me!” His heart contracted and the blood rushed to his +conjecture, but the colonel did not once glance at Rostóv, and looked +as he always did when at the front, solemn and stern. Then came the word +of command. +Their sabers catching in the bridles and their spurs jingling, the +that his heart stood still. His hand trembled as he gave his horse into +an orderly’s charge, and he felt the blood rush to his heart with +a thud. Denísov rode past him, leaning back and shouting something. +catching and their sabers clattering. +and fell on his hands. The others outstripped him. +Rostóv wiping his muddy hands on his breeches looked at his enemy and +back, Cadet!” he cried angrily; and turning to Denísov, who, showing +Meanwhile Nesvítski, Zherkóv, and the officer of the suite were +standing together out of range of the shots, watching, now the small +and blue riding breeches, who were swarming near the bridge, and then at +uniforms and groups with horses, easily recognizable as artillery. +get there and fire the bridge or will the French get within grapeshot +range and wipe them out?” These were the questions each man of the +with a sinking heart—watching the bridge and the hussars in the bright +evening light and the blue tunics advancing from the other side with +their bayonets and guns. +Vladímir medal and ribbon? But now, even if they do get peppered, the +squadron may be recommended for honors and he may get a ribbon. Our +and hurriedly removed. +appeared, then a second and a third almost simultaneously, and at the +reports one after another, and a third. +but at irregular intervals, and grapeshot cracked and rattled onto the +setting it on fire and the French batteries were now firing at them, no +longer to hinder them but because the guns were trained and there was +got back to their horses. Two were misdirected and the shot went too +high, but the last round fell in the midst of a group of hussars and +rattle on the bridge as if nuts were being spilt, and the hussar nearest +hussar and began lifting him. +still he was lifted and laid on the stretcher. +Nicholas Rostóv turned away and, as if searching for something, gazed +into the distance, at the waters of the Danube, at the sky, and at the +sun. How beautiful the sky looked; how blue, how calm, and how deep! +How bright and glorious was the setting sun! With what soft glitter the +blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and +and happiness... “I should wish for nothing else, nothing, if only I +were there,” thought Rostóv. “In myself alone and in that sunshine +there is so much happiness; but here... groans, suffering, fear, and +this uncertainty and hurry... There—they are shouting again, and +again are all running back somewhere, and I shall run with them, and it, +death, is here above me and around... Another instant and I shall never +At that instant the sun began to hide behind the clouds, and other +stretchers came into view before Rostóv. And the fear of death and of +the stretchers, and love of the sun and of life, all merged into one +“O Lord God! Thou who art in that heaven, save, forgive, and protect +sounded louder and calmer, the stretchers disappeared from sight. +Rostóv, and sighing deeply he took Rook, his horse, which stood resting +one foot, from the orderly and began to mount. +“Yes and no mistake!” cried Denísov. “You worked like wegular +bwicks and it’s nasty work! An attack’s pleasant work! Hacking +of the colonel, Nesvítski, Zherkóv, and the officer from the suite. +triumphantly and gaily. +wounded, and one knocked out,” he added, unable to restrain a happy +smile, and pronouncing the phrase “knocked out” with ringing +Pursued by the French army of a hundred thousand men under the command +and compelled to act under conditions of war unlike anything that had +been foreseen, the Russian army of thirty-five thousand men commanded +overtaken by the enemy and fighting rearguard actions only as far as +There had been actions at Lambach, Amstetten, and Melk; but despite the +courage and endurance—acknowledged even by the enemy—with which the +rapid retreat. Austrian troops that had escaped capture at Ulm and had +joined Kutúzov at Braunau now separated from the Russian army, and +Kutúzov was left with only his own weak and exhausted forces. The +modern science of strategics, had been handed to Kutúzov when he was in +Vienna by the Austrian Hofkriegsrath, the sole and almost unattainable +left bank of the Danube and took up a position for the first time +with the river between himself and the main body of the French. On the +and broke it up. In this action for the first time trophies were taken: +banners, cannon, and two enemy generals. For the first time, after a +fortnight’s retreat, the Russian troops had halted and after a fight +troops were ill-clad, exhausted, and had lost a third of their number +in killed, wounded, sick, and stragglers; though a number of sick and +wounded had been abandoned on the other side of the Danube with a letter +in which Kutúzov entrusted them to the humanity of the enemy; and +though the big hospitals and the houses in Krems converted into military +hospitals could no longer accommodate all the sick and wounded, yet the +stand made at Krems and the victory over Mortier raised the spirits of +the army considerably. Throughout the whole army and at headquarters +of columns from Russia, of some victory gained by the Austrians, and of +wounded under him and his own arm slightly grazed by a bullet. As a mark +of the commander in chief’s special favor he was sent with the news of +very muscular men, and on the night of the battle, having arrived +given him by the commander in chief and his fellow officers, Prince +wheels and the sensation of victory. Then he began to imagine that +the Russians were running away and that he himself was killed, but he +again recalled all the details of the victory and his own calm courage +during the battle, and feeling reassured he dozed off.... The dark +thawing in the sunshine, the horses galloped quickly, and on both sides +of the road were forests of different kinds, fields, and villages. +cart, shouting and scolding a soldier with coarse abuse. In each of +the long German carts six or more pale, dirty, bandaged men were being +Prince Andrew told his driver to stop, and asked a soldier in what +answered the soldier. Prince Andrew took out his purse and gave the +“Good news!... Go on!” he shouted to the driver, and they galloped +streets of Brünn and found himself surrounded by high buildings, the +lights of shops, houses, and street lamps, fine carriages, and all that +atmosphere of a large and active town which is always so attractive to a +soldier after camp life. Despite his rapid journey and sleepless night, +Prince Andrew when he drove up to the palace felt even more vigorous and +and his thoughts followed one another with extraordinary clearness and +dim, but definite and in the concise form in which he imagined himself +questions that might be put to him and the answers he would give. He +to the palace, however, an official came running out to meet him, and +The adjutant on duty, meeting Prince Andrew, asked him to wait, and went +in to the Minister of War. Five minutes later he returned and bowing +approached the door of the minister’s room. He felt offended, and +the adjutant and the minister. “Away from the smell of powder, they +and making pencil notes on them, and for the first two or three minutes +taking no notice of his arrival. A wax candle stood at each side of the +to the end, without raising his eyes at the opening of the door and the +“Take this and deliver it,” said he to his adjutant, handing him the +papers and still taking no notice of the special messenger. +evenly, and then raised his head. He had an intellectual and distinctive +expression on his face changed in a way evidently deliberate and +He took the dispatch which was addressed to him and began to read it +Having glanced through the dispatch he laid it on the table and looked +and happiness the victory had afforded him had been now left in the +indifferent hands of the Minister of War and the polite adjutant. The +After washing and dressing, Prince Andrew came into the diplomat’s +luxurious study and sat down to the dinner prepared for him. Bilíbin +After his journey and the campaign during which he had been deprived of +all the comforts of cleanliness and all the refinements of life, Prince +Bilíbin was a man of thirty-five, a bachelor, and of the same circle as +of sixteen, had been in Paris and Copenhagen, and now held a rather +important post in Vienna. Both the foreign minister and our ambassador +in Vienna knew him and valued him. He was not one of those many +avoid doing certain things, and speak French. He was one of those, +who, liking work, knew how to do it, and despite his indolence would +prepare a circular, memorandum, or report, skillfully, pointedly, and +but also for his skill in dealing and conversing with those in the +something striking and took part in a conversation only when that was +in the Viennese drawing rooms and often had an influence on matters +looked as clean and well washed as the tips of one’s fingers after a +and his eyebrows were lifted, then his eyebrows would descend and +twinkled and looked out straight. +engagement and his reception by the Minister of War. +“They received me and my news as one receives a dog in a game of +Bilíbin smiled and the wrinkles on his face disappeared. +distance and puckering the skin above his left eye, “malgré la haute +and his one division, and even then Mortier slips through your fingers! +the Minister of War but also his Most August Majesty the Emperor and +He looked straight at Prince Andrew and suddenly unwrinkled his +“I confess I do not understand: perhaps there are diplomatic +out. Mack loses a whole army, the Archduke Ferdinand and the Archduke +Karl give no signs of life and make blunder after blunder. Kutúzov +invincibility of the French, and the Minister of War does not even care +us nice news of a victory by the Archduke Karl or Ferdinand (one +archduke’s as good as another, as you know) and even if it is only +over a fire brigade of Bonaparte’s, that will be another story and +Ferdinand disgraces himself. You abandon Vienna, give up its +and your capital!’ The one general whom we all loved, Schmidt, you +expose to a bullet, and then you congratulate us on the victory! Admit +“Not only occupied, but Bonaparte is at Schönbrunn, and the count, +After the fatigues and impressions of the journey, his reception, and +“and showed me a letter in which the parade of the French in Vienna +your victory is not a matter for great rejoicing and that you can’t be +Prince Andrew, beginning to understand that his news of the battle +the bridge and its celebrated bridgehead and Prince Auersperg? We heard +“Prince Auersperg is on this, on our side of the river, and is +taken and I hope it will not be, for it is mined and orders have been +mountains of Bohemia, and you and your army would have spent a bad +quoting one of his own mots, releasing the wrinkles on his forehead, and +the Emperor Alexander and the King of Prussia in Berlin? If Prussia +joins the Allies, Austria’s hand will be forced and there will be war. +clenching his small hand and striking the table with it, “and what +l’u! * I shall certainly adopt an innovation and call him simply +“This is what I think. Austria has been made a fool of, and she is +taken, and all this for the beaux yeux * of His Sardinian Majesty. And +are being deceived, my instinct tells me of negotiations with France and +When Prince Andrew reached the room prepared for him and lay down in a +clean shirt on the feather bed with its warmed and fragrant pillows, he +Bonaparte’s new triumph, tomorrow’s levee and parade, and the +He closed his eyes, and immediately a sound of cannonading, of musketry +and the rattling of carriage wheels seemed to fill his ears, and now +the French were firing, and he felt his heart palpitating as he rode +and he experienced tenfold the joy of living, as he had not done since +“Yes, that all happened!” he said, and, smiling happily to himself +Austrian adjutant, Bilíbin, and last night’s conversation. Having +animated, and handsome, with his hand bandaged. In the study were four +war or politics but related to high society, to certain women, and to +politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions +about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry +jests and gossip. +appointment to London was a promotion and that he was so to regard it. +you—is that that man suffers, and this Don Juan, wicked fellow, is +Hippolyte, and began looking through a lorgnette at his elevated legs. +Bilíbin and the rest of “ours” burst out laughing in Hippolyte’s +face, and Prince Andrew saw that Hippolyte, of whom—he had to +He sat down beside Hippolyte and wrinkling his forehead began talking +to him about politics. Prince Andrew and the others gathered round these +expressing... as in its last note... you understand... Besides, unless +mouth!” said Bilíbin, and the mop of hair on his head moved with +Everybody laughed, and Hippolyte louder than anyone. He was evidently +distressed, and breathed painfully, but could not restrain the wild +this house and in Brünn itself. I want to entertain him as far as I +and I beg you all to help me. Brünn’s attractions must be shown him. +You can undertake the theater, I society, and you, Hippolyte, of course +dinner,” cried several voices. “We’ll take you in hand.” +that provisions are supplied and the routes indicated,” said Bilíbin, +audiences, but he does not like talking himself and can’t do it, as +been told to, and the Emperor Francis merely looked fixedly into his +face and just nodded to him with his long head. But after it was +Francis received him standing in the middle of the room. Before the +seemed confused and blushed as if not knowing what to say. +“Was Kutúzov well? When had he left Krems?” and so on. The Emperor +five in the afternoon,” replied Bolkónski growing more animated and +he had ready in his mind, of all he knew and had seen. But the Emperor +smiled and interrupted him. +“Three and a half miles, Your Majesty.” +“The French have abandoned the left bank?” +The Emperor thanked Prince Andrew and bowed. Prince Andrew withdrew and +saw friendly looks and heard friendly words. Yesterday’s adjutant +reproached him for not having stayed at the palace, and offered him +his own house. The Minister of War came up and congratulated him on the +archduchess also wished to see him. He did not know whom to answer, and +took him by the shoulder, led him to the window, and began to talk to +the Grand Cross of Maria Theresa, and the whole army received rewards. +Bolkónski was invited everywhere, and had to spend the whole morning +calling on the principal Austrian dignitaries. Between four and five +and his visit to Brünn. At the door he found a vehicle half full of +to provide himself with some books for the campaign, and had spent some +Prince Andrew could not understand. +Auersperg was defending, and the bridge was not blown up: so Murat +is now rushing along the road to Brünn and will be here in a day or +gentlemen, messieurs les maréchaux, * Murat, Lannes, and Belliard, +mount and ride to the bridge. (Observe that all three are Gascons.) +mined and doubly mined and that there are menacing fortifications at its +head and an army of fifteen thousand men has been ordered to blow up +the bridge and not let us cross? But it will please our sovereign the +Emperor Napoleon if we take this bridge, so let us three go and take +it!’ ‘Yes, let’s!’ say the others. And off they go and take the +bridge, cross it, and now with their whole army are on this side of the +Danube, marching on us, you, and your lines of communication.” +“Stop jesting,” said Prince Andrew sadly and seriously. This news +grieved him and yet he was pleased. +the ranks of obscure officers and offer him the first step to fame! +that could save the army, and how he alone would be entrusted with the +These gentlemen ride onto the bridge alone and wave white handkerchiefs; +tête-de-pont. * They spin him a thousand gasconades, saying that +Bonaparte, that they desire to see Prince Auersperg, and so on. The +jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a French battalion gets to +the water, and approaches the tête-de-pont. At length appears the +Hostilities are ended, we can shake one another’s hand.... The +bewildered him with fine words, and he is so flattered by his rapidly +established intimacy with the French marshals, and so dazzled by the +sight of Murat’s mantle and ostrich plumes, qu’il n’y voit que du +French battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the +the mines and blow up the bridge, this sergeant, seeing that the French +stayed his hand. The sergeant, who was evidently wiser than his general, +goes up to Auersperg and says: ‘Prince, you are being deceived, here +true Gascon) and says: ‘I don’t recognize the world-famous Austrian +was a stroke of genius. Prince Auersperg feels his dignity at stake and + * (2) That their fire gets into his eyes and he forgets that +and the glory that awaited him. +hitherto puckered brow became smooth as a sign of pleasure, and with a +risen and was going toward his room. +Prince Andrew looked inquiringly at him and gave no reply. +the army now that it is in danger. I understand that. Mon cher, it is +side of the question and you will see that your duty, on the contrary, +anything else.... You have not been ordered to return and have not been +dismissed from here; therefore, you can stay and go with us wherever our +ill luck takes us. They say we are going to Olmütz, and Olmütz is a +very decent town. You and I will travel comfortably in my calèche.” +“I am speaking sincerely as a friend! Consider! Where and why are +things,” and the skin over his left temple puckered, “either you +share defeat and disgrace with Kutúzov’s whole army.” +set off to rejoin the army, not knowing where he would find it and +In Brünn everybody attached to the court was packing up, and the heavy +great haste and in the greatest disorder. The road was so obstructed +took a horse and a Cossack from a Cossack commander, and hungry and +commander in chief and of his own luggage. Very sinister reports of the +position of the army reached him as he went along, and the appearance of +and they awoke in him astonishment at the genius of his hero, a feeling +of wounded pride, and a hope of glory. “And should there be nothing +carts, guns, artillery, and again baggage wagons and vehicles of all +kinds overtaking one another and blocking the muddy road, three and +sometimes four abreast. From all sides, behind and before, as far as ear +and gun carriages, the tramp of horses, the crack of whips, shouts, the +urging of horses, and the swearing of soldiers, orderlies, and officers. +flayed, some not, and broken-down carts beside which solitary soldiers +sat waiting for something, and again soldiers straggling from their +returned from them dragging sheep, fowls, hay, and bulging sacks. At +each ascent or descent of the road the crowds were yet denser and the +pushed the guns and wagons themselves. Whips cracked, hoofs slipped, +traces broke, and lungs were strained with shouting. The officers +directing the march rode backward and forward between the carts. Their +voices were but feebly heard amid the uproar and one saw by their faces +Wishing to find out where the commander in chief was, he rode up to +evidently rigged up by soldiers out of any available materials and +looking like something between a cart, a cabriolet, and a calèche. +A soldier was driving, and a woman enveloped in shawls sat behind the +and was just putting his question to a soldier when his attention +the woman’s vehicle for trying to get ahead of others, and the strokes +and, waving her thin arms from under the woolen shawl, cried: +Chasseurs.... They won’t let us pass, we are left behind and have lost +The officer glanced at him, and without replying turned again to the +rage, “who are you? Are you in command here? Eh? I am commander here, +Prince Andrew, his face distorted with fury, rode up to him and raised +The officer flourished his arm and hastily rode away. +doctor’s wife, who was calling him her deliverer, and recalling with +galloped on to the village where he was told that the commander in chief +On reaching the village he dismounted and went to the nearest house, +intending to rest if but for a moment, eat something, and try to sort +out the stinging and tormenting thoughts that confused his mind. “This +is a mob of scoundrels and not an army,” he was thinking as he went +He turned round. Nesvítski’s handsome face looked out of the little +window. Nesvítski, moving his moist lips as he chewed something, and +Entering the house, Prince Andrew saw Nesvítski and another adjutant +had any news. On their familiar faces he read agitation and alarm. +“Where is the commander in chief?” asked Bolkónski. +“Well, is it true that it’s peace and capitulation?” asked +we’re getting it still worse,” said Nesvítski. “But sit down and +He had just remembered his recent encounter with the doctor’s wife and +“What is the commander in chief doing here?” he asked. +abominable, quite abominable!” said Prince Andrew, and he went off to +the house where the commander in chief was. +Passing by Kutúzov’s carriage and the exhausted saddle horses of +house with Prince Bagratión and Weyrother. Weyrother was the Austrian +at Prince Andrew and did not even nod to him. +angrily and disrespectfully at Kozlóvski. +Through the door came the sounds of Kutúzov’s voice, excited and +disrespectful manner of the exhausted clerk, the fact that the clerk and +Kozlóvski were squatting on the floor by a tub so near to the commander +in chief, and from the noisy laughter of the Cossacks holding the +horses near the window, Prince Andrew felt that something important and +Just as he was going to open it the sounds ceased, the door opened, and +Kutúzov with his eagle nose and puffy face appeared in the doorway. +the commander in chief’s one sound eye showed him to be so preoccupied +with thoughts and anxieties as to be oblivious of his presence. He +impassive face of Oriental type, came out after the commander in chief. +loudly, handing Kutúzov an envelope. +“Well, good-by, Prince,” said he to Bagratión. “My blessing, and +His face suddenly softened and tears came into his eyes. With his left +hand he drew Bagratión toward him, and with his right, on which he wore +“Christ be with you!” Kutúzov repeated and went toward his +“Get in,” said Kutúzov, and noticing that Bolkónski still delayed, +They got into the carriage and drove for a few minutes in silence. +and involuntarily noticed the carefully washed seams of the scar near +his temple, where an Ismail bullet had pierced his skull, and the empty +saying, and sat plunged in thought. Five minutes later, gently swaying +affair, and about some ladies they both knew. +he commanded was in an almost hopeless position. The spy reported that +Napoleon’s army of one hundred and fifty thousand men would cut him +off completely and surround his exhausted army of forty thousand, and he +to abandon the road connecting him with the troops arriving from Russia, +mountains, defending himself against superior forces of the enemy and +abandoning all hope of a junction with Buxhöwden. If Kutúzov decided +by the French who had crossed the Vienna bridge, and encumbered by his +baggage and transport, having to accept battle on the march against an +from Vienna to Znaim was shorter and better than the road for the +four thousand strong, to the right across the hills from the Krems-Znaim +resting, and to halt facing Vienna with Znaim to his rear, and if he +hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers +before he could reach Znaim. Hence Bagratión with his four thousand +that had placed the Vienna bridge in the hands of the French without +and with this object offered a three days’ truce on condition that +that negotiations for peace were already proceeding, and that he +Murat’s emissary and retired, leaving Bagratión’s division +negotiations and to offer the Russian army the three days’ truce. +a truce and sent his adjutant to Kutúzov to report the offer he had +Bagratión’s exhausted troops some rest, and letting the transport and +if but one stage nearer Znaim. The offer of a truce gave the only, and +to agree to the truce but also to offer terms of capitulation, and +road. Bagratión’s exhausted and hungry detachment, which alone +covered this movement of the transport and of the whole army, had to +and also that Murat’s mistake would very soon be discovered, proved +truce and a capitulation, he detected a ruse and wrote the following +I cannot find words to express to you my displeasure. You command only +my advance guard, and have no right to arrange an armistice without my +the armistice immediately and march on the enemy. Inform him that the +general who signed that capitulation had no right to do so, and that no +army.... You are in a position to seize its baggage and artillery. +escape, and Bagratión’s four thousand men merrily lighted campfires, +dried and warmed themselves, cooked their porridge for the first time +for three days, and not one of them knew or imagined what was in store +Between three and four o’clock in the afternoon Prince Andrew, who +had persisted in his request to Kutúzov, arrived at Grunth and reported +Murat’s detachment and the battle had not yet begun. In Bagratión’s +Bagratión, knowing Bolkónski to be a favorite and trusted adjutant, +received him with distinction and special marks of favor, explaining to +him that there would probably be an engagement that day or the next, and +the rearguard and have an eye on the order of retreat, “which is also +“If he is one of the ordinary little staff dandies sent to earn a +to execute an order. The officer on duty, a handsome, elegantly dressed +seemed to be seeking something, and soldiers dragging doors, benches, +and fencing from the village. +hand. And there,” he pointed to a sutler’s tent, “they crowd in +and sit. This morning I turned them all out and now look, it’s full +again. I must go there, Prince, and scare them a bit. It won’t take a +“Yes, let’s go in and I will get myself a roll and some cheese,” +They dismounted and entered the tent. Several officers, with flushed and +weary faces, were sitting at the table eating and drinking. +Captain,” and he turned to a thin, dirty little artillery officer who +sounded and you’ll be in a pretty position without your boots!” (The +you, all!” he added in a tone of command. +Túshin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to +jest was unacceptable and had not come off. He grew confused. +The staff officer and Prince Andrew mounted their horses and rode on. +Having ridden beyond the village, continually meeting and overtaking +soldiers and officers of various regiments, they saw on their left some +bank by unseen hands. Prince Andrew and the officer rode up, looked at +the entrenchment, and went on again. Just behind it they came upon some +entrenchment. They had to hold their noses and put their horses to a +seen. Prince Andrew stopped and began examining the position. +The staff officer remained behind and Prince Andrew rode on alone. +The farther forward and nearer the enemy he went, the more orderly and +cheerful were the troops. The greatest disorder and depression had been +miles away from the French. At Grunth also some apprehension and alarm +their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company +the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up. Soldiers scattered over +the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building +shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, +dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending +boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers. +In one company dinner was ready, and the soldiers were gazing eagerly +emptied them, rolling the vodka in their mouths, and walked away from +the sergeant major with brightened expressions, licking their lips and +encampment, and not within sight of the enemy before an action in +chasseur regiment and in the lines of the Kiev grenadiers—fine fellows +commander, higher than and different from the others, Prince Andrew came +soldiers held him while two others were flourishing their switches and +A stout major was pacing up and down the line, and regardless of the +honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in +So the swishing sound of the strokes, and the desperate but unnatural +A young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face +stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant +line and that of the enemy were far apart on the right and left flanks, +another’s faces and speak to one another. Besides the soldiers who +who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies. +no longer looked at the French but paid attention to the sight-seers and +Russian musketeer who had gone up to the picket line with an officer and +was rapidly and excitedly talking to a French grenadier. “Hark to him +“Wait a bit and listen. It’s fine!” answered Sídorov, who was +recognized him and stopped to listen to what he was saying. Dólokhov +“Now then, go on, go on!” incited the officer, bending forward and +trying to prove that the Russians had surrendered and had fled all +“We have orders to drive you off here, and we shall drive you off,” +“Only take care you and your Cossacks are not all captured!” said +The French onlookers and listeners laughed. +And Dólokhov swore at him in coarse soldier’s Russian and shouldering +Sídorov, turning to the French, winked, and began to jabber meaningless +and good-humored laughter from the soldiers that it infected the French +to unload the muskets, explode the ammunition, and all return home as +But the guns remained loaded, the loopholes in blockhouses and +entrenchments looked out just as menacingly, and the unlimbered cannon +told him the whole field could be seen. Here he dismounted, and stopped +artillery sentry was pacing up and down; he stood at attention when the +Behind the guns were their limbers and still farther back picket ropes +and artillerymen’s bonfires. To the left, not far from the farthest +It was true that a view over nearly the whole Russian position and the +could be seen, and in three places to left and right the French troops +evidently in the village itself and behind the hill. To the left from +Our infantry were stationed there, and at the farthest point the +dragoons. In the center, where Túshin’s battery stood and from which +Prince Andrew was surveying the position, was the easiest and most +direct descent and ascent to the brook separating us from Schön +wider than ours, and it was plain that they could easily outflank us +on both sides. Behind our position was a steep and deep dip, making it +difficult for artillery and cavalry to retire. Prince Andrew took +out his notebook and, leaning on the cannon, sketched a plan of the +center, and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the +dip. Prince Andrew, being always near the commander in chief, closely +following the mass movements and general orders, and constantly studying +flank,” he said to himself, “the Kiev grenadiers and the Podólsk +on this high ground, shall withdraw the left flank under its cover, and +shed, and its tone was so sincere that he could not but listen. +“No, friend,” said a pleasant and, as it seemed to Prince Andrew, a +very wise, because you can take everything along with you—vodka and +“Well, stand us some of your herb vodka, Túshin,” it said. +He did not finish. Just then there was a whistle in the air; nearer and +nearer, faster and louder, louder and faster, a cannon ball, as if it +and his kind, intelligent face rather pale, rushed out of the shed +motionless masses of the French now swayed and that there really was +The battle had begun! Prince Andrew turned his horse and galloped back +growing louder and more frequent. Evidently our guns had begun to reply. +and Murat, humiliated and anxious to expiate his fault, had at once +moved his forces to attack the center and outflank both the Russian +wings, hoping before evening and before the arrival of the Emperor to +blood rush to his heart. “But where and how will my Toulon present +Passing between the companies that had been eating porridge and drinking +movement of soldiers forming ranks and getting their muskets ready, +and on all their faces he recognized the same eagerness that filled his +the face of each soldier and each officer seemed to say. +The foremost, wearing a Cossack cloak and lambskin cap and riding a +him to come up; Prince Bagratión reined in his horse and recognizing +and wished he could tell what, if anything, this man was thinking +and feeling at that moment. “Is there anything at all behind that +told him, and said, “Very good!” in a tone that seemed to imply that +everything that took place and was reported to him was exactly what he +riding a fine bobtailed horse, and a civilian—an accountant who had +smile of satisfaction and presented a strange appearance among the +hussars, Cossacks, and adjutants, in his camlet coat, as he jolted on +joke, and purposely trying to appear stupider than he really was. +By this time they were all approaching Túshin’s battery, and a ball +ended with a thud into something soft... f-f-flop! and a Cossack, riding +a little to their right and behind the accountant, crashed to earth with +his horse. Zherkóv and the staff officer bent over their saddles and +and examined him with attentive curiosity. The Cossack was dead, but the +Prince Bagratión screwed up his eyes, looked round, and, seeing the +the care of a skillful rider and, slightly bending over, disengaged his +Suvórov giving his saber to Bagratión in Italy, and the recollection +“Whose company?” asked Prince Bagratión of an artilleryman standing +frightened here?” and the artilleryman understood him. +freckled gunner in a merry voice, standing to attention. +“Yes, yes,” muttered Bagratión as if considering something, and he +As he approached, a ringing shot issued from it deafening him and his +suite, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the gun they could see +a trembling hand placed a charge in the cannon’s mouth. The short, +carriage, moved forward and, not noticing the general, looked out +shading his eyes with his small hand. +“Lift it two lines more and it will be just right,” cried he in a +Bagratión called to him, and Túshin, raising three fingers to his cap +with a bashful and awkward gesture not at all like a military salute +No one had given Túshin orders where and at what to fire, but after +report, and began deliberately to examine the whole battlefield extended +rivulet flowed, the soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was +heard, and much farther to the right beyond the dragoons, the officer of +without support. Prince Bagratión turned to the officer and with his +officer’s remark was just and that really no answer could be made to +commander of the regiment in the hollow and news that immense masses +of the French were coming down upon them and that his regiment was in +disorder and was retreating upon the Kiev grenadiers. Prince Bagratión +bowed his head in sign of assent and approval. He rode off at a walk to +the right and sent an adjutant to the dragoons with orders to attack the +the commander of the dragoons had already retreated beyond the dip in +the ground, as a heavy fire had been opened on him and he was losing +men uselessly, and so had hastened to throw some sharpshooters into the +As he was leaving the battery, firing was heard on the left also, and +himself, Prince Bagratión sent Zherkóv to tell the general in command +as the right flank would probably not be able to withstand the enemy’s +attack very long. About Túshin and the battalion that had been in +attentively to Bagratión’s colloquies with the commanding officers +and the orders he gave them and, to his surprise, found that no orders +subordinate commanders was done, if not by his direct command, at least +though what happened was due to chance and was independent of the +commander’s will, owing to the tact Bagratión showed, his presence +countenances became calm; soldiers and officers greeted him gaily, grew +more cheerful in his presence, and were evidently anxious to display +bleeding head and no cap was being dragged along by two soldiers who +supported him under the arms. There was a gurgle in his throat and he +groaning aloud and swinging his arm which had just been hurt, while +that moment been wounded and his face showed fear rather than suffering. +Crossing a road they descended a steep incline and saw several men +unwounded. The soldiers were ascending the hill breathing heavily, and +despite the general’s presence were talking loudly and gesticulating. +smoke, and an officer catching sight of Bagratión rushed shouting after +to the ranks along which shots crackled now here and now there, drowning +the sound of voices and the shouts of command. The whole air reeked with +wind to carry away. A pleasant humming and whistling of bullets were +The commander of the regiment, a thin, feeble-looking old man with a +giving him a mild expression, rode up to Bagratión and welcomed him as +been attacked by French cavalry and that, though the attack had been +had happened during that half-hour to the troops entrusted to him, and +of the action balls and shells began flying all over his regiment and +hitting men and that afterwards someone had shouted “Cavalry!” and +hollow and were firing at our men. Prince Bagratión bowed his head as a +sign that this was exactly what he had desired and expected. Turning +expressed the concentrated and happy resolution you see on the face of +eagerly and rather disdainfully, not resting on anything although his +movements were still slow and measured. +The commander of the regiment turned to Prince Bagratión, entreating +from him. “There, you see!” and he drew attention to the bullets +whistling, singing, and hissing continually around them. He spoke in the +tone of entreaty and reproach that a carpenter uses to a gentleman who +your hands.” He spoke as if those bullets could not kill him, and his +he only gave an order to cease firing and re-form, so as to give room +to move from right to left as if drawn by an invisible hand, and the +against them and winding down over the uneven ground. One could already +and see the standard flapping against its staff. +and moved to the right; from behind it, dispersing the laggards, came +a company commander, a fine round-faced man, with a stupid and happy +would appear as he passed the commander. +to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real +weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men +if all the powers of his soul were concentrated on passing the commander +in the best possible manner, and feeling that he was doing it well he +at each alternate step; and in time to this, with stern but varied +faces, the wall of soldiers burdened with knapsacks and muskets marched +in step, and each one of these hundreds of soldiers seemed to be +left...” A fat major skirted a bush, puffing and falling out of +ball, cleaving the air, flew over the heads of Bagratión and his suite, +and fell into the column to the measure of “Left... left!” “Close +up!” came the company commander’s voice in jaunty tones. The +fallen, and an old trooper on the flank, a noncommissioned officer who +had stopped beside the dead men, ran to catch up his line and, falling +into step with a hop, looked back angrily, and through the ominous +silence and the regular tramp of feet beating the ground in unison, one +fearing to relax, shouted with his mouth wide open and passed on. +The order was given to halt and down knapsacks. +Bagratión rode round the ranks that had marched past him and +dismounted. He gave the reins to a Cossack, took off and handed over his +felt coat, stretched his legs, and set his cap straight. The head of the +turning for a moment to the front line, and slightly swinging his arms, +forward, and experienced great happiness. +could clearly distinguish their bandoliers, red epaulets, and even their +legs and turned-out toes, climbed the hill with difficulty.) Prince +Bagratión gave no further orders and silently continued to walk on in +French, smoke appeared all along their uneven ranks, and musket shots +who had marched so gaily and complacently. But at the moment the first +report was heard, Bagratión looked round and shouted, “Hurrah!” +“Hurrah—ah!—ah!” rang a long-drawn shout from our ranks, and +passing Bagratión and racing one another they rushed in an irregular +but joyous and eager crowd down the hill at their disordered foe. +French were putting out the fire which the wind was spreading, and thus +of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the +of the Azóv and Podólsk infantry and the Pávlograd hussars—was +simultaneously attacked and outflanked by superior French forces under +Lannes and was thrown into confusion. Bagratión had sent Zherkóv +to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat +Zherkóv, not removing his hand from his cap, turned his horse about +and galloped off. But no sooner had he left Bagratión than his courage +failed him. He was seized by panic and could not go where it was +firing was, he began to look for the general and his staff where they +could not possibly be, and so did not deliver the order. +The command of the left flank belonged by seniority to the commander of +the regiment Kutúzov had reviewed at Braunau and in which Dólokhov was +serving as a private. But the command of the extreme left flank had been +assigned to the commander of the Pávlograd regiment in which Rostóv +was serving, and a misunderstanding arose. The two commanders were much +exasperated with one another and, long after the action had begun on +the right flank and the French were already advancing, were engaged +regiments, both cavalry and infantry, were by no means ready for the +battle and were engaged in peaceful occupations, the cavalry feeding the +horses and the infantry collecting wood. +hussars, flushing and addressing an adjutant who had ridden up, “so +But haste was becoming imperative. Cannon and musketry, mingling +together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes +of Lannes’ sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and +command of the infantry went toward his horse with jerky steps, and +having mounted drew himself up very straight and tall and rode to the +Pávlograd commander. The commanders met with polite bows but with +occupy the position and prepare for an attack.” +“I am not in the cavalry, Colonel, but I am a Russian general and if +touching his horse and turning purple in the face. “Vill you be so +goot to come to ze front and see dat zis position iss no goot? I don’t +and I won’t allow it to be said!” +general expanded his chest and rode, frowning, beside him to the +bullets. They reached the front, several bullets sped over them, and +was impossible for cavalry to act among the bushes and broken ground, +and colonel looked sternly and significantly at one another like two +there was nothing to be said, and neither wished to give occasion for +and a muffled shout almost behind them in the wood. The French had +there was nothing between the squadron and the enemy, and again that +terrible dividing line of uncertainty and fear—resembling the line +conscious of this unseen line, and the question whether they would cross +it or not, and how they would cross it, agitated them all. +to him by the officers, and, like a man desperately insisting on having +of an attack spread through the squadron. The command to form up rang +out and the sabers whizzed as they were drawn from their scabbards. +Still no one moved. The troops of the left flank, infantry and hussars +alike, felt that the commander did not himself know what to do, and this +reins and started of his own accord. +Before him, on the right, Rostóv saw the front lines of his hussars and +“Faster!” came the word of command, and Rostóv felt Rook’s flanks +Rostóv anticipated his horse’s movements and became more and more +in the middle of the line that had seemed so terrible—and now he +had crossed that line and not only was there nothing terrible, but +everything was becoming more and more happy and animated. “Oh, how I +now,” thought Rostóv driving his spurs into Rook and letting him go +from him, and Rostóv felt as in a dream that he continued to be carried +behind him Bondarchúk, an hussar he knew, jolted against him and looked +angrily at him. Bondarchúk’s horse swerved and galloped past. +asked and answered at the same instant. He was alone in the middle of a +field. Instead of the moving horses and hussars’ backs, he saw nothing +before him but the motionless earth and the stubble around him. There +was warm blood under his arm. “No, I am wounded and the horse is +having become entangled in the saddle. Where our men were, and where the +and could not answer. “Can something bad have happened to me?” +he wondered as he got up: and at that moment he felt that something +it were not his. He examined his hand carefully, vainly trying to find +came a man wearing a strange shako and a blue cloak, swarthy, sunburned, +and with a hooked nose. Then came two more, and many more running +was being held by the arms and his horse was being led behind him. +Frenchmen, and though but a moment before he had been galloping to get +at them and hack them to pieces, their proximity now seemed so awful +is so fond of?” He remembered his mother’s love for him, and his +family’s, and his friends’, and the enemy’s intention to kill him +and running so lightly, frightened Rostóv. He seized his pistol and, +instead of firing it, flung it at the Frenchman and ran with all his +and conflict with which he had trodden the Enns bridge, but with the +of fear for his young and happy life, possessed his whole being. Rapidly +used to show at catchplay, now and then turning his good-natured, pale, +round once more. The French had fallen behind, and just as he looked +round the first man changed his run to a walk and, turning, shouted +Frenchman also stopped and took aim. Rostóv closed his eyes and stooped +down. One bullet and then another whistled past him. He mustered his +last remaining strength, took hold of his left hand with his right, and +of the wood ran out of it, the different companies getting mixed, and +senseless cry, “Cut off!” that is so terrible in battle, and that +The moment he heard the firing and the cry from behind, the general +realized that something dreadful had happened to his regiment, and the +recalcitrant cavalry colonel, his own dignity as a general, and above +all quite forgetting the danger and all regard for self-preservation, he +clutched the crupper of his saddle and, spurring his horse, galloped to +missed him. His one desire was to know what was happening and at any +the copse across which our men, regardless of orders, were running and +attend to the voice of their commander, or would they, disregarding him, +distorted out of all likeness to his former self, and the flourishing of +air, and disobeying orders. The moral hesitation which decided the fate +The general had a fit of coughing as a result of shouting and of the +powder smoke and stopped in despair. Everything seemed lost. But at that +moment the French who were attacking, suddenly and without any apparent +reason, ran back and disappeared from the outskirts, and Russian +company, which alone had maintained its order in the wood and, having +a desperate cry and such mad, drunken determination that, taken by +surprise, the French had thrown down their muskets and run. Dólokhov, +running beside Timókhin, killed a Frenchman at close quarters and was +fugitives returned, the battalions re-formed, and the French who had +reserve units were able to join up, and the fight was at an end. The +regimental commander and Major Ekonómov had stopped beside a bridge, +and took hold of the commander’s stirrup, almost leaning against him. +or cap, his head was bandaged, and over his shoulder a French munition +pouch was slung. He had an officer’s sword in his hand. The soldier +was pale, his blue eyes looked impudently into the commander’s face, +and his lips were smiling. Though the commander was occupied in giving +to the French sword and pouch. “I have taken an officer prisoner. I +stopped the company.” Dólokhov breathed heavily from weariness and +“All right, all right,” replied the commander, and turned to Major +But Dólokhov did not go away; he untied the handkerchief around his +head, pulled it off, and showed the blood congealed on his hair. +Túshin’s battery had been forgotten and only at the very end of the +send his orderly staff officer, and later Prince Andrew also, to order +by someone’s order, the battery had continued firing and was only not +Grand! Look at the smoke, the smoke!” exclaimed the artillerymen, +cried at each shot: “Fine! That’s good! Look at it... Grand!” The +and began firing them at Túshin’s battery. +In their childlike glee, aroused by the fire and their luck in +battery when two balls, and then four more, fell among our guns, one +knocking over two horses and another tearing off a munition-wagon +reserve gun carriage, the wounded were carried away, and the four guns +had been killed at the beginning of the engagement and within an hour +the artillerymen were still as merry and lively as ever. Twice they +noticed the French appearing below them, and then they fired grapeshot +Little Túshin, moving feebly and awkwardly, kept telling his orderly to +“refill my pipe for that one!” and then, scattering sparks from it, +ran forward shading his eyes with his small hand to look at the French. +wheels and working the screws himself. +dead or wounded horses and harnessing fresh ones, and shouting in his +feeble voice, so high pitched and irresolute. His face grew more and +more animated. Only when a man was killed or wounded did he frown and +for the most part handsome fellows and, as is always the case in an +artillery company, a head and shoulders taller and twice as broad +as their officer—all looked at their commander like children in an +embarrassing situation, and the expression on his face was invariably +Owing to the terrible uproar and the necessity for concentration and +fear, and the thought that he might be killed or badly wounded never +occurred to him. On the contrary, he became more and more elated. It +had first seen the enemy and fired the first shot, and that the corner +of the field he stood on was well-known and familiar ground. Though he +thought of everything, considered everything, and did everything the +From the deafening sounds of his own guns around him, the whistle and +thud of the enemy’s cannon balls, from the flushed and perspiring +of men and horses, from the little puffs of smoke on the enemy’s side +(always followed by a ball flying past and striking the earth, a man, a +his own had taken possession of his brain and at that moment afforded +small cloud rose from the hill and was borne in a streak to the left by +“What do you want, your honor?” asked an artilleryman, standing +was large and of an old pattern. The French swarming round their guns +seemed to him like ants. In that world, the handsome drunkard Number One +often than at anyone else and took delight in his every movement. +the ebb and flow of these sounds. +cannon balls at the French with both hands. +“Are you mad? You have twice been ordered to retreat, and you...” +ball, flying close to him, caused him to duck and bend over his horse. +He paused, and just as he was about to say something more, another ball +stopped him. He turned his horse and galloped off. +and he felt a nervous shudder run down his spine. But the mere thought +and dismounted slowly among the guns. He delivered the order and did +positions and withdrawn in his presence. Together with Túshin, stepping +across the bodies and under a terrible fire from the French, he attended +(one shattered gun and one unicorn were left behind), Prince Andrew rode +“Well, till we meet again...” he said, holding out his hand to +dear fellow!” and for some unknown reason tears suddenly filled his +The wind had fallen and black clouds, merging with the powder smoke, +dark and the glow of two conflagrations was the more conspicuous. The +cannonade was dying down, but the rattle of musketry behind and on the +right sounded oftener and nearer. As soon as Túshin with his guns, +of fire and had descended into the dip, he was met by some of the staff, +among them the staff officer and Zherkóv, who had been twice sent to +another, they all gave, and transmitted, orders as to how to proceed, +reprimanding and reproaching him. Túshin gave no orders, and, +the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves +after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages. The jaunty +cadet, supporting one hand with the other, came up to Túshin and asked +It was plain that this cadet had already repeatedly asked for a lift and +The cadet was Rostóv. With one hand he supported the other; he was +pale and his jaw trembled, shivering feverishly. He was placed on +breeches and arm. +infantry, and having reached the village of Gruntersdorf they halted. It +off, and the firing had begun to subside. Suddenly, near by on the +right, shouting and firing were again heard. Flashes of shot gleamed in +the darkness. This was the last French attack and was met by soldiers +the village again, but Túshin’s guns could not move, and the +artillerymen, Túshin, and the cadet exchanged silent glances as they +awaited their fate. The firing died down and soldiers, talking eagerly, +The French had been repulsed for the last time. And again and again in +always in one direction, humming with whispers and talk and the sound of +hoofs and wheels. Amid the general rumble, the groans and voices of the +a white horse followed by his suite, and said something in passing: +closer together and a report spread that they were ordered to halt: +Fires were lighted and the talk became more audible. Captain Túshin, +station or a doctor for the cadet, and sat down by a bonfire the +fire. From pain, cold, and damp, a feverish shivering shook his whole +position. He kept closing his eyes and then again looking at the fire, +which seemed to him dazzlingly red, and at the feeble, round-shouldered +Túshin’s large, kind, intelligent eyes were fixed with sympathy and +From all sides were heard the footsteps and talk of the infantry, who +were walking, driving past, and settling down all around. The sound +crackling of wood fires near and afar, merged into one tremulous rumble. +gloom, but a dark sea swelling and gradually subsiding after a storm. +Rostóv looked at and listened listlessly to what passed before and +his hands to the blaze, and turned away his face. +With the soldier, an infantry officer with a bandaged cheek came up to +the bonfire, and addressing Túshin asked him to have the guns moved a +the campfire. They were quarreling and fighting desperately, each trying +Then a thin, pale soldier, his neck bandaged with a bloodstained leg +band, came up and in angry tones asked the artillerymen for water. +Next came four soldiers, carrying something heavy on a cloak, and passed +Túshin rose and, buttoning his greatcoat and pulling it straight, +for him, Prince Bagratión sat at dinner, talking with some commanding +the half-closed eyes was there greedily gnawing a mutton bone, and the +glass of vodka and the dinner; and the staff officer with the signet +ring, and Zherkóv, uneasily glancing at them all, and Prince Andrew, +pale, with compressed lips and feverishly glittering eyes. +In a corner of the hut stood a standard captured from the French, and +individual commanders and inquiring into details of the action and our +from the wood, mustered the men who were woodcutting, and, allowing the +French to pass him, had made a bayonet charge with two battalions and +disorganized, I stopped in the road and thought: ‘I’ll let them +come on and will meet them with the fire of the whole battalion’—and +The general had so wished to do this and was so sorry he had not managed +continued—remembering Dólokhov’s conversation with Kutúzov and his +presence and particularly distinguished himself.” +the glory of our arms and of the day’s work, they assumed a serious +infantry, cavalry, and artillery. How was it that two guns were +abandoned in the center?” he inquired, searching with his eyes for +flank; he knew that all the guns there had been abandoned at the very +“One was damaged,” answered the staff officer, “and the other I +can’t understand. I was there all the time giving orders and had only +village and had already been sent for. +and abruptly. +All were silent. Túshin appeared at the threshold and made his way +sight of his superiors, he did not notice the staff of the banner and +“How was it a gun was abandoned?” asked Bagratión, frowning, not so +and the disgrace of having lost two guns and yet remaining alive present +jaw trembling and was hardly able to mutter: “I don’t know... your +trouble, and silently fixed his eyes on Bagratión as a schoolboy who +intervene. Prince Andrew looked at Túshin from under his brows and his +went there and found two thirds of the men and horses knocked out, two +guns smashed, and no supports at all.” +Prince Bagratión and Túshin looked with equal intentness at +battery and the heroic endurance of Captain Túshin and his company,” +and without awaiting a reply, Prince Andrew rose and left the table. +to credit it, bent his head, and told Túshin that he could go. Prince +Prince Andrew gave him a look, but said nothing and went away. He felt +sad and depressed. It was all so strange, so unlike what he had hoped. +him. The pain in his arm became more and more intense. Irresistible +drowsiness overpowered him, red rings danced before his eyes, and the +impression of those voices and faces and a sense of loneliness merged +with the physical pain. It was they, these soldiers—wounded and +unwounded—it was they who were crushing, weighing down, and twisting +the sinews and scorching the flesh of his sprained arm and shoulder. To +appeared to him in a dream: his mother and her large white hand, +Sónya’s thin little shoulders, Natásha’s eyes and laughter, +Denísov with his voice and mustache, and Telyánin and all that affair +with Telyánin and Bogdánich. That affair was the same thing as this +soldier with the harsh voice, and it was that affair and this soldier +that were so agonizingly, incessantly pulling and pressing his arm and +He opened his eyes and looked up. The black canopy of night hung less +pity me. Yet I was once at home, strong, happy, and loved.” He sighed +and, doing so, groaned involuntarily. +out over the fire, and not waiting for an answer he gave a grunt and +fluttering above the fire and remembered a Russian winter at his warm, +healthy body, and all the affection and care of his family. “And why +Next day the French army did not renew their attack, and the remnant of +was merely a man of the world who had got on and to whom getting on had +become a habit. Schemes and devices for which he never rightly accounted +circumstances and persons he met. Of these plans he had not merely one +some approaching achievement, and some in course of disintegration. He +must gain his confidence and friendship and through him obtain a special +entice him to marry my daughter and lend me the forty thousand rubles +immediately told him that this man could be useful, and without any +confidence, flatter him, become intimate with him, and finally make his +He had Pierre at hand in Moscow and procured for him an appointment as +Councilor of State, and insisted on the young man accompanying him to +Petersburg and staying at his house. With apparent absent-mindedness, +he thought out his plans beforehand he could not have been so natural +and shown such unaffected familiarity in intercourse with everybody both +above and below him in social standing. Something always drew him toward +those richer and more powerful than himself and he had rare skill in +Pierre, on unexpectedly becoming Count Bezúkhov and a rich man, felt +himself after his recent loneliness and freedom from cares so beset and +estate near Moscow, and to receive many people who formerly did not +and grieved had he chosen not to see them. These different +people—businessmen, relations, and acquaintances alike—were all +disposed to treat the young heir in the most friendly and flattering +honorable, Count,” or, “Were he as clever as you,” and so on, +till he began sincerely to believe in his own exceptional kindness and +had always seemed to him that he really was very kind and intelligent. +Even people who had formerly been spiteful toward him and evidently +unfriendly now became gentle and affectionate. The angry eldest +princess, with the long waist and hair plastered down like a doll’s, +and frequent blushes she told him she was very sorry about their past +misunderstandings and did not now feel she had a right to ask him for +to remain for a few weeks longer in the house she so loved and where +took her hand and begged her forgiveness, without knowing what for. +From that day the eldest princess quite changed toward Pierre and began +great deal from the deceased,” said Prince Vasíli to him, handing him +this bone—a bill for thirty thousand rubles—to the poor princess +the inlaid portfolio. Pierre signed the deed and after that the princess +him feel confused by her smiles and her own confusion when meeting him. +It seemed so natural to Pierre that everyone should like him, and it +was always busy and always felt in a state of mild and cheerful +intoxication. He felt as though he were the center of some important and +he did not do it he would grieve and disappoint many people, but if he +did this and that, all would be well; and he did what was demanded of +affairs and of Pierre himself in those early days. From the death of +a man oppressed by business, weary and suffering, who yet would not, for +his old friend and the possessor of such enormous wealth, to the caprice +of fate and the designs of rogues. During the few days he spent in +go to him himself, and tell him what ought to be done in a tone of +weariness and assurance, as if he were adding every time: “You know +I am overwhelmed with business and it is purely out of charity that +I trouble myself about you, and you also know quite well that what I +Vasíli one day, closing his eyes and fingering Pierre’s elbow, +upon and could not now be altered. “We start tomorrow and I’m giving +here is now settled, and I ought to have been off long ago. Here is +something I have received from the chancellor. I asked him for you, and +you have been entered in the diplomatic corps and made a Gentleman of +Notwithstanding the tone of wearied assurance with which these words +and there is nothing to thank me for. No one has ever complained yet of +being too much loved; and besides, you are free, you could throw it +“You know, mon cher, your father and I had some accounts to settle, so +I have received what was due from the Ryazán estate and will keep it; +several thousand rubles quitrent received from Pierre’s peasants, +gentleness and affection. He could not refuse the post, or rather the +and acquaintances, invitations, and social occupations were so numerous +and continual expectation of some good, always in front of him but never +a friend older than himself and whom he respected. His whole time +was taken up with dinners and balls and was spent chiefly at Prince +Vasíli’s house in the company of the stout princess, his wife, and +what he was saying was out of place, tactless and unsuitable, that +stupidest remarks came out clever and apt. Now everything Pierre said +she wished to and only refrained out of regard for his modesty. +link which other people recognized had grown up between himself and +Hélène, and that thought both alarmed him, as if some obligation were +being imposed on him which he could not fulfill, and pleased him as an +Emperor Alexander’s visit to Potsdam, and of how the two august +afflicted by the death of the father he had hardly known), and her +Prince Vasíli and the generals, had the benefit of the diplomat. +but Anna Pávlovna—who was in the excited condition of a commander on +a battlefield to whom thousands of new and brilliant ideas occur which +(She glanced at Hélène and smiled at her.) “My dear Hélène, be +charitable to my poor aunt who adores you. Go and keep her company for +I only wanted to know your opinion,” and Anna Pávlovna let Pierre go. +her beauty and her remarkable skill in appearing silently dignified in +desirous of hiding her adoration for Hélène and inclined rather +say that it is dull in my house again,” and she glanced at Hélène. +coughed, swallowed, and said in French that she was very pleased to see +and the same look. In the middle of a dull and halting conversation, +to everyone. Pierre was so used to that smile, and it had so little +father, Count Bezúkhov, and showed them her own box. Princess Hélène +asked to see the portrait of the aunt’s husband on the box lid. +a celebrated miniaturist, and he leaned over the table to take the +He half rose, meaning to go round, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox, +room, and looked round with a smile. She was, as always at evening +front and back. Her bust, which had always seemed like marble to Pierre, +the living charm of her neck and shoulders, so near to his lips that +conscious of the warmth of her body, the scent of perfume, and the +wife, and that it could not be otherwise. +He knew this at that moment as surely as if he had been standing at the +altar with her. How and when this would be he did not know, he did not +Pierre dropped his eyes, lifted them again, and wished once more to see +mist and taking it for a tree can again take it for a tree after he has +She already had power over him, and between them there was no longer any +This was true. The architect had told him that it was necessary, and +muttered something and colored. +and she with him, that there was quite a scandal and that that’s why +(the reflection was still incomplete), he caught himself smiling and was +conscious that another line of thought had sprung up, and while thinking +wife, how she would love him become quite different, and how all he had +thought and heard of her might be false. And he again saw her not as the +before?” and again he told himself that it was impossible, that there +would be something unnatural, and as it seemed to him dishonorable, in +this marriage. He recalled her former words and looks and the words +and looks of those who had seen them together. He recalled Anna +Pávlovna’s words and looks when she spoke to him about his house, +recalled thousands of such hints from Prince Vasíli and others, and was +something that was evidently wrong and that he ought not to do. But at +visit his neglected estates at the same time and pick up his son Anatole +where his regiment was stationed, and take him to visit Prince Nicholas +rich old man. But before leaving home and undertaking these new affairs, +where he was staying, and had been absurd, excited, and foolish in +Lëlya’s name day. I will invite two or three people, and if he does +not understand what he ought to do then it will be my affair—yes, my +Six weeks after Anna Pávlovna’s “At Home” and after the sleepless +night when he had decided that to marry Hélène would be a calamity and +that he ought to avoid her and go away, Pierre, despite that decision, +had not left Prince Vasíli’s and felt with terror that in people’s +eyes he was every day more and more connected with her, that it was +could not break away from her, and that though it would be a terrible +the general pleasure and disappoint everyone’s expectation. Prince +hand in passing and draw it downwards, or absent-mindedly hold out his +wrinkled, clean-shaven cheek for Pierre to kiss and would say: “Till +am staying in for your sake,” and so on. And though Prince Vasíli, +Every day he said to himself one and the same thing: “It is time I +understood her and made up my mind what she really is. Was I mistaken +always clear and simple, so she is not stupid. She never was abashed and +to make reflections or think aloud in her company, and she had always +did not interest her—or by a silent look and smile which more palpably +waiting for him to say a word and cross a certain line, and he knew that +seized him at the thought of that dreadful step. A thousand times during +that month and a half while he felt himself drawn nearer and nearer to +he lacked that strength of will which he had known in himself and really +themselves quite innocent, and since that day when he was overpowered +and relations had been given to understand that the fate of the young +Princess Kurágina, a portly imposing woman who had once been handsome, +more important guests—an old general and his wife, and Anna Pávlovna +Schérer. At the other end sat the younger and less important guests, +and there too sat the members of the family, and Pierre and Hélène, +the guests. To each of them he made some careless and agreeable remark +except to Pierre and Hélène, whose presence he seemed not to notice. +He enlivened the whole party. The wax candles burned brightly, the +silver and crystal gleamed, so did the ladies’ toilets and the gold +and silver of the men’s epaulets; servants in scarlet liveries moved +round the table, the clatter of plates, knives, and glasses mingled with +received and read the then famous rescript of the Emperor Alexander +the declaration from Petersburg gave him particular pleasure, and that +he was proud to be at the head of such a nation and would endeavor to be +“Well, and so he never got farther than: ‘Sergéy Kuzmích’?” +He began the rescript again and again, but as soon as he uttered +‘Sergéy’ he sobbed, ‘Kuz-mí-ch,’ tears, and ‘From all +sides’ was smothered in sobs and he could get no farther. And again +his handkerchief, and again: ‘Sergéy Kuzmích, From all sides,’... +and tears, till at last somebody else was asked to read it.” +“Kuzmích... From all sides... and then tears,” someone repeated +holding up a threatening finger. “He is such a worthy and excellent +honored guests sat, everyone seemed to be in high spirits and under the +influence of a variety of exciting sensations. Only Pierre and +feelings. But much as all the rest laughed, talked, and joked, much +as they enjoyed their Rhine wine, sauté, and ices, and however they +avoided looking at the young couple, and heedless and unobservant as +that the story about Sergéy Kuzmích, the laughter, and the food +were all a pretense, and that the whole attention of that company was +directed to—Pierre and Hélène. Prince Vasíli mimicked the sobbing +of Sergéy Kuzmích and at the same time his eyes glanced toward his +daughter, and while he laughed the expression on his face clearly said: +Pávlovna threatened him on behalf of “our dear Vyazmítinov,” and +read a congratulation on his future son-in-law and on his daughter’s +old lady next to her and glanced angrily at her daughter, and her sigh +seemed to say: “Yes, there’s nothing left for you and me but to sip +Into the insignificant, trifling, and artificial interests uniting that +and handsome young man and woman for one another. And this human feeling +dominated everything else and soared above all their affected chatter. +Jests fell flat, news was not interesting, and the animation was +table seemed to feel this, and they forgot their duties as they looked +at the beautiful Hélène with her radiant face and at the red, broad, +and happy though uneasy face of Pierre. It seemed as if the very light +of the candles was focused on those two happy faces alone. +Pierre felt that he was the center of it all, and this both pleased and +He did not see, hear, or understand anything clearly. Only now and +then detached ideas and impressions from the world of reality shot +awkward to attract everyone’s attention and to be considered a +lucky man and, with his plain face, to be looked on as a sort of Paris +possessed of a Helen. “But no doubt it always is and must be so!” +with her and picked up her reticule and drove out with her. How did it +that it was not she but he was so unusually beautiful, and that that was +why they all looked so at him, and flattered by this general admiration +he would expand his chest, raise his head, and rejoice at his good +second time. But Pierre was so absorbed that he did not understand what +Prince Vasíli smiled, and Pierre noticed that everyone was smiling at +him and Hélène. “Well, what of it, if you all know it?” thought +Pierre. “What of it? It’s the truth!” and he himself smiled his +gentle childlike smile, and Hélène smiled too. +occupation, came up to her for a moment and made haste to go away, +footsteps. Pierre rose and said it was getting late. Prince Vasíli gave +severity changed, and he drew Pierre’s hand downwards, made him sit +down, and smiled affectionately. +“Well, Lëlya?” he asked, turning instantly to his daughter and +about Sergéy Kuzmích that interested Prince Vasíli just then, and +something and went away. It seemed to Pierre that even the prince was +touched Pierre: he looked at Hélène and she too seemed disconcerted, +and her look seemed to say: “Well, it is your own fault.” +and he again began speaking about indifferent matters, about Sergéy +Prince Vasíli passed by, seeming not to hear the ladies, and sat down +on a sofa in a far corner of the room. He closed his eyes and seemed to +be dozing. His head sank forward and then he roused himself. +“Aline,” he said to his wife, “go and see what they are about.” +The princess went up to the door, passed by it with a dignified and +indifferent air, and glanced into the little drawing room. Pierre and +“Still the same,” she said to her husband. +Prince Vasíli frowned, twisting his mouth, his cheeks quivered and his +himself, he rose, threw back his head, and with resolute steps went +everything!” (He put one arm around Pierre and the other around his +voice trembled.) “I loved your father... and she will make you a good +He embraced his daughter, and then again Pierre, and kissed him with his +The old princess came in and also wept. The elderly lady was using +her handkerchief too. Pierre was kissed, and he kissed the beautiful +Hélène’s hand several times. After a while they were left alone +“All this had to be and could not be otherwise,” thought Pierre, +it’s definite and one is rid of the old tormenting doubt.” Pierre +held the hand of his betrothed in silence, looking at her beautiful +bosom as it rose and fell. +“Hélène!” he said aloud and paused. +Pierre took them off, and his eyes, besides the strange look eyes have +from which spectacles have just been removed, had also a frightened and +inquiring look. He was about to stoop over her hand and kiss it, but +lips and met them with her own. Her face struck Pierre, by its altered, +Six weeks later he was married, and settled in Count Bezúkhov’s +said, of a wife who was a celebrated beauty and of millions of money. +in November, 1805, announcing that he and his son would be paying him +a visit. “I am starting on a journey of inspection, and of course I +shall think nothing of an extra seventy miles to come and see you at +evening in advance of him, and he and his son arrived next day. +character, but more so recently, since in the new reigns of Paul and +Alexander Prince Vasíli had risen to high position and honors. And now, +from the hints contained in his letter and given by the little princess, +he saw which way the wind was blowing, and his low opinion changed into +particularly discontented and out of temper. Whether he was in a bad +in a bad temper, and in the morning Tíkhon had already advised the +collar and cap, went out for his usual walk. It had snowed the day +before and the path to the hothouse, along which the prince was in the +visible in the snow and a shovel had been left sticking in one of the +through the conservatories, the serfs’ quarters, and the outbuildings, +frowning and silent. +resembling his master in manners and looks, who was accompanying him +The prince bowed his head and went up to the porch. “God be +The prince turned round to the overseer and fixed his eyes on him, +“You thought!” shouted the prince, his words coming more and more +rapidly and indistinctly. “You thought!... Rascals! Blackguards!... +I’ll teach you to think!” and lifting his stick he swung it and +Before dinner, Princess Mary and Mademoiselle Bourienne, who knew +same as usual,” and Princess Mary pale, frightened, and with downcast +sympathize with him; if I seem sad and out of spirits myself, he will +The prince looked at his daughter’s frightened face and snorted. +His plate seemed to him not quite clean, and pointing to a spot he +flung it away. Tíkhon caught it and handed it to a footman. The little +In general at Bald Hills the little princess lived in constant fear, and +days with her, asked her to sleep in her room, and often talked with her +about the old prince and criticized him. +Excellency Prince Vasíli Kurágin and his son, I understand?” she +don’t understand. Perhaps Princess Elizabeth and Princess Mary know. +conservatories and the beauty of a flower that had just opened, and +had sunk, her lip was drawn up, and her eyes drawn down. +He left the room and went to the waiting room where Alpátych stood with +“All right, all right,” interrupted the prince, and laughing his +unnatural way, he stretched out his hand for Alpátych to kiss, and then +coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to +Prince Vasíli and Anatole had separate rooms assigned to them. +table on a corner of which he smilingly and absent-mindedly fixed his +large and handsome eyes. He regarded his whole life as a continual round +And he looked on this visit to a churlish old man and a rich and ugly +and amusingly. “And why not marry her if she really has so much money? +He shaved and scented himself with the care and elegance which had +become habitual to him and, his handsome head held high, entered his +father’s room with the good-humored and victorious air natural to +him. Prince Vasíli’s two valets were busy dressing him, and he looked +round with much animation and cheerfully nodded to his son as the latter +“Enough! What nonsense! Above all, try to be respectful and cautious +the minister and his son had arrived, but the appearance of both had +The little princess and Mademoiselle Bourienne had already received +from Másha, the lady’s maid, the necessary report of how handsome the +minister’s son was, with his rosy cheeks and dark eyebrows, and with +this information, the little princess and Mademoiselle Bourienne, whose +in, and sinking heavily into an armchair. +but had on one of her best dresses. Her hair was carefully done and her +face was animated, which, however, did not conceal its sunken and faded +fresh and pretty face yet more attractive. +room and we shall have to go down, and you have not smartened yourself +The little princess got up, rang for the maid, and hurriedly and merrily +began to devise and carry out a plan of how Princess Mary should be +the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both +otherwise. To tell them that she felt ashamed for herself and for them +dress her would prolong their banter and insistence. She flushed, her +beautiful eyes grew dim, red blotches came on her face, and it took +submitted herself to Mademoiselle Bourienne and Lise. Both these women +her with perfect sincerity, and with the naïve and firm conviction +It was not the dress, but the face and whole figure of Princess Mary +in the hair, the hair combed up, and the blue scarf arranged lower on +the best maroon dress, and so on, all would be well. They forgot that +the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that +however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it +would still remain piteous and plain. After two or three changes to +on the top of her head (a style that quite altered and spoiled her +looks) and she had put on a maroon dress with a pale-blue scarf, the +dress with her little hand, now arranging the scarf and looking at her +with her head bent first on one side and then on the other. +“No, it will not do,” she said decidedly, clasping her hands. “No, +to the maid, “bring the princess her gray dress, and you’ll see, +sitting motionless before the glass, looking at her face, and saw in the +mirror her eyes full of tears and her mouth quivering, ready to burst +“Well, now we’ll arrange something quite simple and becoming,” she +The three voices, hers, Mademoiselle Bourienne’s, and Katie’s, who +Her voice sounded so serious and so sad that the chirping of the birds +eyes full of tears and of thoughts, gazing shiningly and imploringly at +them, and understood that it was useless and even cruel to insist. +Mademoiselle Bourienne and the little princess had to own to themselves +both knew, an expression thoughtful and sad. This expression in Princess +knew that when it appeared on her face, she became mute and was not to +glass. Letting her arms fall helplessly, she sat with downcast eyes and +pondered. A husband, a man, a strong dominant and strangely attractive +being rose in her imagination, and carried her into a totally different +own breast, the husband standing by and gazing tenderly at her and the +She roused herself, and felt appalled at what she had been thinking, and +before going down she went into the room where the icons hung and, her +lamp, she stood before it with folded hands for a few moments. A painful +happiness and of children, but her strongest, most deeply hidden longing +others and even from herself, the stronger it grew. “O God,” she +seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. Man’s future and thy own fate +Princess Mary sighed, and having crossed herself went down, thinking +neither of her gown and coiffure nor of how she would go in nor of what +When Princess Mary came down, Prince Vasíli and his son were already +in the drawing room, talking to the little princess and Mademoiselle +the gentlemen and Mademoiselle Bourienne rose and the little princess, +saw them all and saw them in detail. She saw Prince Vasíli’s face, +again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression +Bourienne, with her ribbon and pretty face, and her unusually animated +something large, brilliant, and handsome moving toward her as she +entered the room. Prince Vasíli approached first, and she kissed the +bold forehead that bent over her hand and answered his question by +soft hand taking hers firmly, and she touched with her lips a white +with his right thumb under a button of his uniform, his chest expanded +and his back drawn in, slightly swinging one foot, and, with his head a +speaking and evidently not thinking about her at all. Anatole was not +faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable +a first introduction and betrays a consciousness of the impropriety of +such silence and an anxiety to find something to say, the effect is +bad. But Anatole was dumb, swung his foot, and smilingly examined the +them curiosity, awe, and even love—a supercilious consciousness of +looks and manner gave that impression. The princess felt this, and as if +she turned to his father. The conversation was general and animated, +thanks to Princess Lise’s voice and little downy lip that lifted over +employed by lively chatty people, and consisting in the assumption +that between the person they so address and themselves there are some +semi-private, long-established jokes and amusing reminiscences, though +Prince Vasíli readily adopted her tone and the little princess also +and even Princess Mary felt herself pleasantly made to share in these +brother Hippolyte told me about your goings on. Oh!” and she shook her +his son and seizing the little princess’ arm as if she would have run +away and he had just managed to catch her, “didn’t he tell you how +he himself was pining for the dear princess, and how she showed him the +had left Paris and how he had liked that city. Anatole answered the +Frenchwoman very readily and, looking at her with a smile, talked to her +about her native land. When he saw the pretty little Bourienne, Anatole +The old prince dressed leisurely in his study, frowning and considering +Prince Vasíli and that son of his to me? Prince Vasíli is a shallow +braggart and his son, no doubt, is a fine specimen,” he grumbled to +bring himself to part from his daughter and give her to a husband. The +prince never directly asked himself that question, knowing beforehand +that he would have to answer it justly, and justice clashed not only +certain. There’s Lise, married to Andrew—a better husband one would +lot? And who would marry Marie for love? Plain and awkward! They’ll +take her for her connections and wealth. Are there no women living +unmarried, and even the happier for it?” So thought Prince Bolkónski +while dressing, and yet the question he was always putting off demanded +intention of proposing, and today or tomorrow he would probably ask +for an answer. His birth and position in society were not bad. “Well, +coiffure, Mademoiselle Bourienne’s and Anatole’s smiles, and the +shameless, and he ignores her!” +love and befriend him.” +“Fine young fellow! Fine young fellow!” he said. “Well, come and +kiss me,” and he offered his cheek. +Anatole kissed the old man, and looked at him with curiosity and perfect +and, drawing up an armchair for Prince Vasíli, pointed to it and began +questioning him about political affairs and news. He seemed to listen +the visitors, and before the visitors I tell you that in future you are +turning to Anatole, “come here, let us talk and get acquainted.” +to read and write by the deacon, like your father and me. Now tell me, +scrutinizing Anatole closely and intently. +Tsar and the country? It is wartime. Such a fine fellow must serve. +ha!” laughed Prince Bolkónski, and Anatole laughed still louder. +“I have done my best for him, and I can assure you the education there +Prince Vasíli’s arm and led him to his study. As soon as they were +alone together, Prince Vasíli announced his hopes and wishes to the old +your presence; if she is willing, then he can stay on. He can stay and +till then. Their powers of reasoning, feeling, and observing immediately +increased tenfold, and their life, which seemed to have been passed in +Princess Mary grew quite unconscious of her face and coiffure. The +handsome open face of the man who might perhaps be her husband absorbed +all her attention. He seemed to her kind, brave, determined, manly, and +magnanimous. She felt convinced of that. Thousands of dreams of a future +family life continually rose in her imagination. She drove them away and +already, but then he cannot know what I think of him and may imagine +arrival, thought in another way. Of course, she, a handsome young woman +aloud to him and being friends with Princess Mary. Mademoiselle +ungainly Russian princesses, would fall in love with her and carry her +off; and here at last was a Russian prince. Mademoiselle Bourienne knew +seduced, and to whom her poor mother (sa pauvre mère) appeared, and +appeared. He would carry her away and then sa pauvre mère would appear +and he would marry her. So her future shaped itself in Mademoiselle +to her, and now that Anatole had appeared it just grouped itself around +him and she wished and tried to please him as much as possible. +unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the +struggle, but with naïve and lighthearted gaiety. +beginning to feel for the pretty and provocative Mademoiselle Bourienne +suddenness and prompt him to the coarsest and most reckless actions. +After tea, the company went into the sitting room and Princess Mary was +asked to play on the clavichord. Anatole, laughing and in high spirits, +came and leaned on his elbows, facing her and beside Mademoiselle +Her favorite sonata bore her into a most intimately poetic world and +Mademoiselle Bourienne was also looking at Princess Mary, and in her +lovely eyes there was a look of fearful joy and hope that was also new +and how happy I may be with such a friend and such a husband! Husband? +kissed Princess Mary’s hand. She did not know how she found the +courage, but she looked straight into his handsome face as it came near +to her shortsighted eyes. Turning from Princess Mary he went up and +kissed Mademoiselle Bourienne’s hand. (This was not etiquette, but +then he did everything so simply and with such assurance!) Mademoiselle +Bourienne flushed, and gave the princess a frightened look. +and not value her pure affection and devotion to me?” She went up +to her and kissed her warmly. Anatole went up to kiss the little +princess’ hand. +well I will give you my hand to kiss. Not till then!” she said. And +“Is he really to be my husband, this stranger who is so kind—yes, +kind, that is the chief thing,” thought Princess Mary; and fear, which +seemed to her that someone was there standing behind the screen in the +dark corner. And this someone was he—the devil—and he was also this +man with the white forehead, black eyebrows, and red lips. +She rang for her maid and asked her to sleep in her room. +Mademoiselle Bourienne walked up and down the conservatory for a long +awkward and uncomfortable, and her burden oppressed her now more than +when she was not like that and when everything was light and gay. She +sat in an armchair in her dressing jacket and nightcap and Katie, sleepy +and disheveled, beat and turned the heavy feather bed for the third +“I told you it was all lumps and holes!” the little princess +fault!” and her voice quivered like that of a child about to cry. +pacing angrily about and snorting. The old prince felt as though he +the whole matter and decide what was right and how he should act, but +instead of that he only excited himself more and more. +“The first man that turns up—she forgets her father and everything +else, runs upstairs and does up her hair and wags her tail and is unlike +nothing of her and looks only at Bourienne. No, she has no pride... but +mistake and that Anatole meant to flirt with Mademoiselle Bourienne, +Princess Mary’s self-esteem would be wounded and his point (not to +thought, he called Tíkhon and began to undress. +putting the nightshirt over his dried-up old body and gray-haired chest. +“I never invited them. They came to disturb my life—and there is not +Tíkhon knew his master’s habit of sometimes thinking aloud, and +Vasíli and his son. +“They have gone to bed and put out their lights, your excellency.” +“No good... no good...” said the prince rapidly, and thrusting his +feet into his slippers and his arms into the sleeves of his dressing +Though no words had passed between Anatole and Mademoiselle Bourienne, +much to say to one another in private and so they had been seeking an +and Anatole met in the conservatory. +read this in Tíkhon’s face and in that of Prince Vasíli’s valet, +The old prince was very affectionate and careful in his treatment of +dry hands clenched with vexation at her not understanding a sum in +not come and brought his pupil with him” (for some reason Prince +and, as you know my principles, I refer it to you.” +“How am I to understand you, mon père?” said the princess, growing +pale and then blushing. +“How understand me!” cried her father angrily. “Prince Vasíli +finds you to his taste as a daughter-in-law and makes a proposal to you +understand it’!... And I ask you!” +submit from habit, and she said: “I wish only to do your will, but if +dowry and take Mademoiselle Bourienne into the bargain. She’ll be the +daughter. She lowered her head and was ready to burst into tears. +“There’s no need to talk! He receives his orders and will marry you +over, and come back in an hour and tell me in his presence: yes or no. +Her fate was decided and happily decided. But what her father had said +still it was terrible, and she could not help thinking of it. She was +Bourienne aroused her. She raised her eyes, and two steps away saw +Anatole embracing the Frenchwoman and whispering something to her. With +a horrified expression on his handsome face, Anatole looked at Princess +Princess Mary looked at them in silence. She could not understand it. At +last Mademoiselle Bourienne gave a scream and ran away. Anatole bowed to +this strange incident, and then shrugging his shoulders went to the door +Mademoiselle Bourienne in her arms and gently stroking her hair. The +looking with tender affection and pity at Mademoiselle Bourienne’s +“Why? I love you more than ever,” said Princess Mary, “and I will +“But you despise me. You who are so pure can never understand being so +“I quite understand,” answered Princess Mary, with a sad smile. +“Calm yourself, my dear. I will go to my father,” she said, and went +Prince Vasíli, with one leg thrown high over the other and a snuffbox +in his hand, was sitting there with a smile of deep emotion on his face, +as if stirred to his heart’s core and himself regretting and laughing +“Ah, my dear, my dear!” he began, rising and taking her by both +hands. Then, sighing, he added: “My son’s fate is in your hands. +He drew back and a real tear appeared in his eye. +he shouted, “and then I shall reserve the right to state my opinion +also. Yes, my opinion, and only my opinion,” added Prince Bolkónski, +turning to Prince Vasíli and answering his imploring look. “Yes, or +glancing at Prince Vasíli and at her father with her beautiful eyes. +frowning and taking his daughter’s hand; he did not kiss her, but only +bending his forehead to hers just touched it, and pressed her hand so +that she winced and uttered a cry. +this heart, so kind and generous? Say ‘perhaps’... The future is so +of love and self-sacrifice. And cost what it may, I will arrange +poor Amélie’s happiness, she loves him so passionately, and so +father and Andrew. I shall be so happy when she is his wife. She is so +was the count at last handed a letter addressed in his son’s +handwriting. On receiving it, he ran on tiptoe to his study in alarm and +haste, trying to escape notice, closed the door, and began to read the +on hearing of the arrival of the letter went softly into the room and +found the count with it in his hand, sobbing and laughing at the same +Anna Mikháylovna sat down beside him, with her own handkerchief wiped +the tears from his eyes and from the letter, then having dried her +own eyes she comforted the count, and decided that at dinner and till +teatime she would prepare the countess, and after tea, with God’s +and about Nikólenka, twice asked when the last letter had been received +from him, though she knew that already, and remarked that they might +hints began to make the countess anxious and she glanced uneasily at +the count and at Anna Mikháylovna, the latter very adroitly turned +intonation, look, and expression, pricked up her ears from the beginning +of the meal and was certain that there was some secret between her +father and Anna Mikháylovna, that it had something to do with her +brother, and that Anna Mikháylovna was preparing them for it. Bold as +but she was too excited to eat anything and kept wriggling about on her +headlong after Anna Mikháylovna and, dashing at her, flung herself on +“I will, I will, only tell me! You won’t? Then I will go and tell at +“I won’t tell anyone!” and she ran off at once to Sónya. +She rushed to Sónya, hugged her, and began to cry. +You are all blubberers and understand nothing.” +“No, but she said that it was all over and that he’s now an +as I remember Nikólenka. Him—I just shut my eyes and remember, +“Oh, Natásha!” said Sónya, looking ecstatically and earnestly at +to say and as if she were saying it to someone else, with whom joking +and, whatever may happen to him or to me, shall never cease to love him +Natásha looked at Sónya with wondering and inquisitive eyes, and said +anything like it. She believed it could be, but did not understand it. +Sónya became thoughtful. The question of how to write to Nicholas, and +officer and a wounded hero, would it be right to remind him of herself +and, as it might seem, of the obligations to her he had taken on +“Well, I don’t know. It’s awkward and would make me ashamed.” +namesake, the new Count Bezúkhov) “and now she’s in love with that +tiptoe to the countess’ door and paused. +The count put his ear to the keyhole and listened. +then both voices together with glad intonations, and then footsteps. +of a surgeon who has just performed a difficult operation and admits the +countess, who sat holding in one hand the snuffbox with its portrait and +in the other the letter, and pressing them alternately to her lips. +bald head, over which she again looked at the letter and the portrait, +and in order to press them again to her lips, she slightly pushed away +the bald head. Véra, Natásha, Sónya, and Pétya now entered the room, +and the reading of the letter began. After a brief description of +the campaign and the two battles in which he had taken part, and his +promotion, Nicholas said that he kissed his father’s and mother’s +hands asking for their blessing, and that he kissed Véra, Natásha, and +Schoss, and his old nurse, and asked them to kiss for him “dear +Sónya, whom he loved and thought of just the same as ever.” When she +heard this Sónya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable +and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor. The countess was +should be glad and not cry.” +This was quite true, but the count, the countess, and Natásha looked +Nicholas’ letter was read over hundreds of times, and those who were +did not let it out of her hands. The tutors came, and the nurses, and +Dmítri, and several acquaintances, and the countess reread the letter +each time with fresh pleasure and each time discovered in it fresh +had first learned to say “pear” and then “granny,” that this son +should now be away in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, a manly +somewhere under her heart would ever cry, suck her breast, and begin to +this strong, brave man, this model son and officer that, judging by this +letters to Nicholas from all the household were written and copied out, +while under the supervision of the countess and the solicitude of the +count, money and all things necessary for the uniform and equipment +and her son. She had opportunities of sending her letters to the Grand +Duke Constantine Pávlovich, who commanded the Guards. The Rostóvs +and that if a letter reached the Grand Duke in command of the Guards +decided to send the letters and money by the Grand Duke’s courier to +Borís and Borís was to forward them to Nicholas. The letters were from +the old count, the countess, Pétya, Véra, Natásha, and Sónya, and +finally there were six thousand rubles for his outfit and various other +Russian and the Austrian. The Guards, just arrived from Russia, spent +the night ten miles from Olmütz and next morning were to come straight +Olmütz and that he wanted to see him as he had a letter and money for +after their active service, were stationed near Olmütz and the camp +swarmed with well-provisioned sutlers and Austrian Jews offering +celebrating awards they had received for the campaign, and made +Rostóv, who had just celebrated his promotion to a cornetcy and bought +Denísov’s horse, Bedouin, was in debt all round, to his comrades and +to Olmütz, dined there, drank a bottle of wine, and then set off alone +worn leather, and an officer’s saber with a sword knot. The Don horse +and he wore a crumpled hussar cap stuck jauntily back on one side of his +and all his comrades of the Guards by his appearance—that of a +their cleanliness and discipline. They had come by easy stages, their +knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the Austrian authorities had provided +had entered and left the town with their bands playing, and by the Grand +which the Guards prided themselves), the officers on foot and at their +proper posts. Borís had been quartered, and had marched all the +way, with Berg who was already in command of a company. Berg, who had +his superiors by his promptitude and accuracy and had arranged his money +acquaintance of many persons who might prove useful to him, and by +obtain a post on the commander in chief’s staff. Berg and Borís, +having rested after yesterday’s march, were sitting, clean and neatly +and watched his opponent’s face, evidently thinking about the game as +“We’ll try to,” replied Berg, touching a pawn and then removing +his hand. +nurse’s French, at which he and Borís used to laugh long ago. +Borís rose to meet Rostóv, but in doing so did not omit to steady and +that dread of beaten tracks, and wish to express itself in a manner +notwithstanding this, Borís embraced him in a quiet, friendly way and +They had not met for nearly half a year and, being at the age when young +those first steps. Both had changed greatly since they last met and both +“Oh, you damned dandies! Clean and fresh as if you’d been to a fete, +and with baritone notes in his voice, new to Borís, pointing to his own +mud-bespattered breeches. The German landlady, hearing Rostóv’s loud +fastened to the cording of his uniform and, indicating a bandaged arm, +rode with our regiment all the time, so that we had every comfort and +every advantage. What receptions we had in Poland! What dinners and +hussar revels and life in the fighting line, the other of the pleasures +and advantages of service under members of the Imperial family. +He went to his bed, drew a purse from under the clean pillow, and sent +“Yes, and I have some money and a letter to give you,” he added. +Rostóv took the letter and, throwing the money on the sofa, put both +arms on the table and began to read. After reading a few lines, he +letter from home and meet one of your own people whom you want to talk +everything over with, and I happen to be there, I’ll go at once, to +exclaimed, and immediately seizing him by the shoulder and looking +“Oh, don’t mention it, Count! I quite understand,” said Berg, +getting up and speaking in a muffled and guttural voice. +stood before a looking glass and brushed the hair on his temples +upwards, in the way affected by the Emperor Alexander, and, having +“Oh, what a pig I am, not to have written and to have given them +obtained through an acquaintance and sent to her son, asking him to take +it to its destination and make use of it. +“Why ‘What the devil’?” said Borís, picking it up and reading +“I want nothing, and I won’t be anyone’s adjutant.” +should much like to be an adjutant and not remain at the front.” +He looked intently and inquiringly into his friend’s eyes, evidently +“Well, send for him... and how do you get on with that German?” +“He is a very, very nice, honest, and pleasant fellow,” answered +Again Rostóv looked intently into Borís’ eyes and sighed. Berg +returned, and over the bottle of wine conversation between the three +officers became animated. The Guardsmen told Rostóv of their march and +how they had been made much of in Russia, Poland, and abroad. They spoke +of the sayings and doings of their commander, the Grand Duke, and told +stories of his kindness and irascibility. Berg, as usual, kept silent +stories of the Grand Duke’s quick temper he related with gusto how in +Galicia he had managed to deal with the Grand Duke when the latter +made a tour of the regiments and was annoyed at the irregularity of +a movement. With a pleasant smile Berg related how the Grand Duke +a rage) and called for the company commander. +Orders by heart and know the Regulations as well as I do the Lord’s +Prayer. So, Count, there never is any negligence in my company, and +so my conscience was at ease. I came forward....” (Berg stood up and +showed how he presented himself, with his hand to his cap, and really +it would have been difficult for a face to express greater respect and +is, stormed and stormed and stormed! It was not a matter of life but +rather of death, as the saying is. ‘Albanians!’ and ‘devils!’ +and ‘To Siberia!’” said Berg with a sagacious smile. “I knew I +Count,” said Berg, lighting his pipe and emitting rings of smoke. +But Borís noticed that he was preparing to make fun of Berg, and +skillfully changed the subject. He asked him to tell them how and where +he got his wound. This pleased Rostóv and he began talking about it, +and as he went on became more and more animated. He told them of his +as they have heard it described by others, and as sounds well, but not +at all as it really was. Rostóv was a truthful young man and would on +and inevitably he lapsed into falsehood. If he had told the truth to his +hearers—who like himself had often heard stories of attacks and had +formed a definite idea of what an attack was and were expecting to hear +to him. He could not tell them simply that everyone went at a trot and +that he fell off his horse and sprained his arm and then ran as hard as +and young people are rarely capable of it. His hearers expected a story +of how beside himself and all aflame with excitement, he had flown like +a storm at the square, cut his way in, slashed right and left, how his +saber had tasted flesh and he had fallen exhausted, and so on. And so he +and being well disposed toward Borís, who had managed to please him the +hoping to find him alone. When he came in and saw an hussar of the line +half-closed eyes he looked at Rostóv, bowed slightly and wearily, and +was evidently one, Rostóv felt confused, blushed, and became silent. +Borís inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without +give no opinion on such an important government order, and Berg laughed +“we will talk of it later” (and he looked round at Rostóv). “Come +to me after the review and we will do what is possible.” +anger he did not condescend to notice, and said: “I think you were +Bolkónski noticed the hussar’s state of mind, and it amused him. With +and particularly amiable smile. +A strange feeling of exasperation and yet of respect for this man’s +“I am not talking about you,” he said, “I don’t know you and, +quiet authority, “you wish to insult me, and I am ready to agree with +self-respect, but admit that the time and place are very badly chosen. +In a day or two we shall all have to take part in a greater and more +serious duel, and besides, Drubetskóy, who says he is an old friend +displease you. However,” he added rising, “you know my name and +or you as having been at all insulted, and as a man older than you, my +and with a bow to them both he went out. +ordered his horse at once and, coldly taking leave of Borís, rode +home. Should he go to headquarters next day and challenge that affected +seeing the fright of that small and frail but proud man when covered by +his pistol, and then he felt with surprise that of all the men he knew +Austrian and Russian troops, both those freshly arrived from Russia and +the Russian with his heir the Tsarévich, and the Austrian with the +Archduke, inspected the allied army of eighty thousand men. +on the field before the fortress. Now thousands of feet and bayonets +moved and halted at the officers’ command, turned with banners flying, +formed up at intervals, and wheeled round other similar masses of +hoofs and the jingling of showy cavalry in blue, red, and green braided +uniforms, with smartly dressed bandsmen in front mounted on black, roan, +polished shining cannon that quivered on the gun carriages and with +infantry and cavalry and took up its appointed position. Not only the +in to the utmost, their red necks squeezed into their stiff collars, and +wearing scarves and all their decorations, not only the elegant, pomaded +officers, but every soldier with his freshly washed and shaven face and +his weapons clean and polished to the utmost, and every horse groomed +till its coat shone like satin and every hair of its wetted mane lay +smooth—felt that no small matter was happening, but an important and +solemn affair. Every general and every soldier was conscious of his own +insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and +From early morning strenuous activities and efforts had begun and by ten +cavalry in front, behind it the artillery, and behind that again the +those recently arrived from Russia, both Guards and regiments of the +line; and the Austrian troops. But they all stood in the same lines, +under one command, and in a like order. +They’re coming!” Alarmed voices were heard, and a stir of final +lances and the unfolded standards fluttered against their staffs. It +repeated by others from various sides and all became silent. +was the Emperors’ suites. The Emperors rode up to the flank, and the +Alexander was clearly heard. He gave the words of greeting, and the +first regiment roared “Hurrah!” so deafeningly, continuously, and +joyfully that the men themselves were awed by their multitude and the +Rostóv, standing in the front lines of Kutúzov’s army which the Tsar +might, and a passionate attraction to him who was the cause of this +He felt that at a single word from that man all this vast mass (and he +himself an insignificant atom in it) would go through fire and water, +commit crime, die, or perform deeds of highest heroism, and so he could +not but tremble and his heart stand still at the imminence of that word. +after another greeting the Tsar with the strains of the march, and then +“Hurrah!”... Then the general march, and again “Hurrah! Hurrah!” +growing ever stronger and fuller and merging into a deafening roar. +Till the Tsar reached it, each regiment in its silence and immobility +already passed. Through the terrible and deafening roar of those voices, +amid the square masses of troops standing motionless as if turned to +symmetrically and above all freely, and in front of them two men—the +The handsome young Emperor Alexander, in the uniform of the Horse +Guards, wearing a cocked hat with its peaks front and back, with his +pleasant face and resonant though not loud voice, attracted everyone’s +Rostóv was not far from the trumpeters, and with his keen sight had +recognized the Tsar and watched his approach. When he was within twenty +paces, and Nicholas could clearly distinguish every detail of his +handsome, happy young face, he experienced a feeling of tenderness +and ecstasy such as he had never before known. Every trait and every +to the Austrian Emperor and smiled. +Seeing that smile, Rostóv involuntarily smiled himself and felt a still +some way and knowing that this was impossible was ready to cry. The Tsar +called the colonel of the regiment and said a few words to him. +“You have earned the St. George’s standards and will be worthy of +The Tsar said something more which Rostóv did not hear, and the +this indecision appeared to him majestic and enchanting, like everything +mare he rode, his hand in a white glove gathered up the reins, and he +Farther and farther he rode away, stopping at other regiments, till at +his horse indolently and carelessly. Rostóv recalled their quarrel of +yesterday and the question presented itself whether he ought or ought +love, such rapture, and such self-sacrifice, what do any of our quarrels +and affronts matter? I love and forgive everybody now.” +a ceremonial march past him, and Rostóv on Bedouin, recently purchased +alone and in full view of the Emperor. +Bedouin twice and successfully put him to the showy trot in which the +upon him, passed splendidly, lifting his feet with a high and graceful +Rostóv himself, his legs well back and his stomach drawn in and feeling +When the review was over, the newly arrived officers, and also +Kutúzov’s, collected in groups and began to talk about the awards, +about the Austrians and their uniforms, about their lines, about +Bonaparte, and how badly the latter would fare now, especially if the +Essen corps arrived and Prussia took our side. +But the talk in every group was chiefly about the Emperor Alexander. His +every word and movement was described with ecstasy. +enemy under the Emperor’s command. Commanded by the Emperor himself +Rostóv and most of the officers after the review. +The day after the review, Borís, in his best uniform and with his +Bolkónski, wishing to profit by his friendliness and obtain for himself +“It is all very well for Rostóv, whose father sends him ten thousand +rubles at a time, to talk about not wishing to cringe to anybody and not +make a career and must not miss opportunities, but must avail myself of +the town where the headquarters and the diplomatic corps were stationed +and the two Emperors were living with their suites, households, and +He knew no one, and despite his smart Guardsman’s uniform, all these +with their plumes, ribbons, and medals, both courtiers and military +aware of his existence. At the quarters of the commander in chief, +Kutúzov, where he inquired for Bolkónski, all the adjutants and even +great many officers like him were always coming there and that everybody +it, next day, November 15, after dinner he again went to Olmütz and, +Andrew was in and Borís was shown into a large hall probably formerly +used for dancing, but in which five beds now stood, and furniture of +various kinds: a table, chairs, and a clavichord. One adjutant, nearest +and whom Borís addressed turned round crossly and told him Bolkónski +was on duty and that he should go through the door on the left into the +reception room if he wished to see him. Borís thanked him and went to +the reception room, where he found some ten officers and generals. +when he wished to speak contemptuously, and noticing Borís, Prince +him to hear something more, nodded and turned to him with a cheerful +in the army, besides the subordination and discipline prescribed in the +military code, which he and the others knew in the regiment, there was +Guards. Prince Andrew came up to him and took his hand. +blushing—“of asking the commander in chief. He has had a letter from +“Only let me report this gentleman’s business, and I shall be at +say to the adjutant that Borís felt uncomfortable. He turned away and +waited impatiently for Prince Andrew’s return from the commander in +clavichord was. “It’s no use your going to the commander in chief. +us aides-de-camp and adjutants! But this is what we’ll do: I have +a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, Prince +Dolgorúkov; and though you may not know it, the fact is that now +Kutúzov with his staff and all of us count for nothing. Everything is +go there anyhow and I have already spoken to him about you. We shall +man and help him to worldly success. Under cover of obtaining help +himself, he kept in touch with the circle which confers success and +which attracted him. He very readily took up Borís’ cause and went +occupied by the Emperors and their retinues. +the Hofkriegsrath and both Emperors took part. At that council, contrary +to the views of the old generals Kutúzov and Prince Schwartzenberg, it +had been decided to advance immediately and give battle to Bonaparte. +delay and advised waiting for something else before advancing had been +so completely silenced and their arguments confuted by such conclusive +at the council—the coming battle and the victory that would certainly +locality was known and shown in every detail on the maps, and Bonaparte, +returned from the council, tired and exhausted but eager and proud +protégé, but Prince Dolgorúkov politely and firmly pressing his hand +said nothing to Borís and, evidently unable to suppress the thoughts +fellow,” he said abruptly and eagerly, “I must confess to having +been unjust to the Austrians and especially to Weyrother. What +“What can he say? Tra-di-ri-di-ra and so on... merely to gain time. +I tell you he is in our hands, that’s certain! But what was most +and of course not as ‘Emperor,’ it seemed to me it should be to +“But between not recognizing him as Emperor and calling him General +addressing him as ‘Usurper and Enemy of Mankind.’” +address. He is a wise and clever fellow.” +present Emperor—more than once in Paris, and tells me he never met a +adroitness and Italian play-acting! Do you know the tale about him and +Count Markóv? Count Markóv was the only man who knew how to handle +him. You know the story of the handkerchief? It is delightful!” +purposely dropped a handkerchief in front of him and stood looking +at Markóv, probably expecting Markóv to pick it up for him, and how +Markóv immediately dropped his own beside it and picked it up without +“Oh, what a nuisance,” said Dolgorúkov, getting up hurriedly and +pressing the hands of Prince Andrew and Borís. “You know I should +be very glad to do all in my power both for you and for this dear young +man.” Again he pressed the hand of the latter with an expression of +good-natured, sincere, and animated levity. “But you see... another +obedient, and insignificant atom. They followed Prince Dolgorúkov out +into the corridor and met—coming out of the door of the Emperor’s +with a clever face and sharply projecting jaw which, without spoiling +his face, gave him a peculiar vivacity and shiftiness of expression. +This short man nodded to Dolgorúkov as to an intimate friend and stared +at Prince Andrew with cool intensity, walking straight toward him and +did neither: a look of animosity appeared on his face and the other +turned away and went down the side of the corridor. +Next day, the army began its campaign, and up to the very battle of +again and remained for a while with the Ismáylov regiment. +which Nicholas Rostóv served and which was in Prince Bagratión’s +into action as arranged, and after going behind other columns for +Cossacks and then the first and second squadrons of hussars and infantry +battalions and artillery pass by and go forward and then Generals +Bagratión and Dolgorúkov ride past with their adjutants. All the fear +remained in reserve and Nicholas Rostóv spent that day in a dull and +wretched mood. At nine in the morning, he heard firing in front and +shouts of hurrah, and saw wounded being brought back (there were not +many of them), and at last he saw how a whole detachment of French +affair was over and, though not big, had been a successful engagement. +The men and officers returning spoke of a brilliant victory, of the +occupation of the town of Wischau and the capture of a whole French +squadron. The day was bright and sunny after a sharp night frost, and +officers, generals, and adjutants, as they passed Rostóv going or +precedes a battle and had spent that happy day in inactivity, was all +Denísov, who had settled down by the roadside with a flask and some +The officers gathered round Denísov’s canteen, eating and talking. +The officers got up and stood round the Cossacks and their prisoner. +accent. He was breathless with agitation, his face was red, and when +And at every word he added: “But don’t hurt my little horse!” and +was. Now he excused himself for having been taken prisoner and now, +discipline and zeal in the service. He brought with him into our +The Cossacks sold the horse for two gold pieces, and Rostóv, being the +to Rostóv when the animal was handed over to the hussar. +Rostóv smilingly reassured the dragoon and gave him money. +All began to run and bustle, and Rostóv saw coming up the road behind +Rostóv did not know or remember how he ran to his place and mounted. +Instantly his regret at not having been in action and his dejected mood +meeting arrives. Not daring to look round and without looking round, he +near everything grew brighter, more joyful, more significant, and more +festive around him. Nearer and nearer to Rostóv came that sun shedding +beams of mild and majestic light around, and already he felt himself +and majestic voice that was yet so simple! And as if in accord with +The Emperor drew level with Rostóv and halted. Alexander’s face was +shone with such gaiety and youth, such innocent youth, that it suggested +the liveliness of a fourteen-year-old boy, and yet it was the face +Emperor’s eyes met Rostóv’s and rested on them for not more than +foot, and galloped on. +battle and, in spite of the remonstrances of his courtiers, at twelve +o’clock left the third column with which he had been and galloped +represented as a brilliant victory over the French, and so the +Emperor and the whole army, especially while the smoke hung over +the battlefield, believed that the French had been defeated and were +Emperor’s arrival, lay several killed and wounded soldiers whom there +of officers and courtiers, was riding a bobtailed chestnut mare, a +different one from that which he had ridden at the review, and bending +to one side he gracefully held a gold lorgnette to his eyes and looked +wounded soldier was so dirty, coarse, and revolting that his proximity +and how the well-trained horse looked round unconcerned and did not +apparently suffering more than the dying soldier, and he rode away. +Rostóv saw tears filling the Emperor’s eyes and heard him, as he was +vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of +vodka. The campfires crackled and the soldiers’ songs resounded +promotion to the rank of major, and Rostóv, who had already drunk +said he, “but the health of our Sovereign, that good, enchanting, and +great man! Let us drink to his health and to the certain defeat of the +saying it right, I have drunk a good deal—but that is how I feel, and +so do you too! To the health of Alexander the First! Hurrah!” +And the old cavalry captain, Kírsten, shouted enthusiastically and no +When the officers had emptied and smashed their glasses, Kírsten filled +others and, in shirt sleeves and breeches, went glass in hand to the +soldiers’ bonfires and with his long gray mustache, his white chest +“Lads! here’s to our Sovereign, the Emperor, and victory over +The hussars crowded round and responded heartily with loud shouts. +Late that night, when all had separated, Denísov with his short hand +“I believe it, I believe it, fwiend, and I share and appwove...” +“No, you don’t understand!” +And Rostóv got up and went wandering among the campfires, dreaming of +eyes. He really was in love with the Tsar and the glory of the Russian +arms and the hope of future triumph. And he was not the only man to +love, though less ecstatically, with their Tsar and the glory of the +The next day the Emperor stopped at Wischau, and Villier, his physician, +was repeatedly summoned to see him. At headquarters and among the troops +near by the news spread that the Emperor was unwell. He ate nothing and +the sight of the killed and wounded. +a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the Russian Emperor, was +Emperor had only just fallen asleep and so Savary had to wait. At midday +he was admitted to the Emperor, and an hour later he rode off with +It was rumored that Savary had been sent to propose to Alexander +a meeting with Napoleon. To the joy and pride of the whole army, a +personal interview was refused, and instead of the Sovereign, Prince +Toward evening Dolgorúkov came back, went straight to the Tsar, and +On the eighteenth and nineteenth of November, the army advanced two +days’ march and the enemy’s outposts after a brief interchange +and fro, and dispatching of adjutants—was confined to the Emperor’s +Kutúzov’s headquarters and the staffs of the commanders of columns. +By evening, the adjutants had spread it to all ends and parts of the +army, and in the night from the nineteenth to the twentieth, the whole +eighty thousand allied troops rose from their bivouacs to the hum of +voices, and the army swayed and started in one enormous mass six miles +headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that +clock. One wheel slowly moved, another was set in motion, and a third, +and wheels began to revolve faster and faster, levers and cogwheels to +work, chimes to play, figures to pop out, and the hands to advance with +machine, an impulse once given leads to the final result; and just as +reached. Wheels creak on their axles as the cogs engage one another and +neighboring wheel is as quiet and motionless as though it were prepared +catches it and obeying the impulse that wheel begins to creak and joins +in the common motion the result and aim of which are beyond its ken. +wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular movement of the +hands which show the time, so the result of all the complicated human +activities of 160,000 Russians and French—all their passions, desires, +remorse, humiliations, sufferings, outbursts of pride, fear, and +of the hand on the dial of human history. +Prince Andrew was on duty that day and in constant attendance on the +commander in chief. +and after staying but a short time with the Tsar went to see the grand +and dissatisfied about something and that at headquarters they were +dissatisfied with him, and also that at the Emperor’s headquarters +“But they heard him at the council of war and will hear him when he +talks sense, but to temporize and wait for something now when Bonaparte +“Yes, I saw him, and am convinced that he fears nothing so much as +interview? Why negotiate, and above all why retreat, when to retreat is +me! That’s the sort of man he is, and nothing more,” replied +should be a nice set of fellows if we were to wait about and so give him +our hands! No, we mustn’t forget Suvórov and his rule—not to put +outposts today and it is impossible to say where his chief forces are +“Oh, that is all the same,” Dolgorúkov said quickly, and getting up +If he is standing before Brünn...” +Prince Andrew began to reply and to state his own plan, which might +to demonstrate the defects of the latter and the merits of his own plan, +Prince Dolgorúkov ceased to listen to him and gazed absent-mindedly not +till then, had listened with an amused smile to their conversation and +Kutúzov, there is not a single Russian in command of a column! The +commanders are: Herr General Wimpfen, le Comte de Langeron, le Prince de +Lichtenstein, le Prince, de Hohenlohe, and finally Prishprish, and so on +are now two Russians, Milorádovich, and Dokhtúrov, and there would be +Andrew. “I wish you good luck and success, gentlemen!” he added and +went out after shaking hands with Dolgorúkov and Bilíbin. +Kutúzov looked sternly at his adjutant and, after a pause, replied: +“I think the battle will be lost, and so I told Count Tolstóy and +dear general, I am engaged with rice and cutlets, look after military +held. All the commanders of columns were summoned to the commander in +chief’s and with the exception of Prince Bagratión, who declined to +eagerness and briskness presented a marked contrast to the dissatisfied +and drowsy Kutúzov, who reluctantly played the part of chairman and +line to reconnoiter personally, and twice to the Emperors, Russian and +Austrian, to report and explain, and to his headquarters where he had +dictated the dispositions in German, and now, much exhausted, he arrived +commander in chief. He interrupted him, talked rapidly and indistinctly, +without looking at the man he was addressing, and did not reply to +questions put to him. He was bespattered with mud and had a pitiful, +weary, and distracted air, though at the same time he was haughty and +Ostralitz. In the large drawing room which had become the commander +in chief’s office were gathered Kutúzov himself, Weyrother, and the +members of the council of war. They were drinking tea, and only awaited +in to inform the commander in chief of this and, availing himself +Weyrother, hurriedly rising from his seat and going up to the table on +with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. At the sound +“Yes, yes, if you please! It is already late,” said he, and nodding +his head he let it droop and again closed his eye. +followed proved that the commander in chief at that moment was absorbed +the gesture of a man too busy to lose a moment, glanced at Kutúzov and, +having convinced himself that he was asleep, took up a paper and in +“Dispositions for an attack on the enemy position behind Kobelnitz and +The dispositions were very complicated and difficult. They began as +“As the enemy’s left wing rests on wooded hills and his right +extends along Kobelnitz and Sokolnitz behind the ponds that are there, +while we, on the other hand, with our left wing by far outflank his +if we occupy the villages of Sokolnitz and Kobelnitz, whereby we +can both fall on his flank and pursue him over the plain between +Schlappanitz and the Thuerassa forest, avoiding the defiles of +Schlappanitz and Bellowitz which cover the enemy’s front. For this +column marches... The third column marches...” and so on, read +the wall, his eyes fixed on a burning candle, and seemed not to listen +with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache +elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders +and only turned away his eyes when the Austrian chief of staff finished +agreed or disagreed and was satisfied or not with the arrangements. Next +his head, and with inimical politeness lurking in the corners of his +Austrian general, continuing to read, frowned angrily and jerked his +good as to look at the map and listen.” Langeron lifted his eyes with +gaze drooped his eyes sadly and again took to twirling his snuffbox. +hand to his ear toward Weyrother, with the air of a man absorbed in +an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the outspread map +conscientiously studied the dispositions and the unfamiliar locality. He +and the difficult names of villages. Weyrother complied and Dohktúrov +brought his snuffbox to rest and, without looking at Weyrother or at +again, and let his head sink still lower. +attack instead of being attacked, and so render the whole of this +plan perfectly worthless. Weyrother met all objections with a firm and +contemptuous smile, evidently prepared beforehand to meet all objections +“He has forty thousand men at most,” replied Weyrother, with the +strange and ridiculous to meet objections from Russian generals and to +“The enemy has quenched his fires and a continual noise is heard from +the Thuerassa, he merely saves us a great deal of trouble and all our +Kutúzov here woke up, coughed heavily, and looked round at the +heard them, and we shall all do our duty. But before a battle, there is +He moved as if to rise. The generals bowed and retired. It was past +express his opinion as he had hoped to, left on him a vague and uneasy +impression. Whether Dolgorúkov and Weyrother, or Kutúzov, Langeron, +and the others who did not approve of the plan of attack, were +account of court and personal considerations tens of thousands of lives, +and my life, my life,” he thought, “must be risked?” +his last parting from his father and his wife; he remembered the days +when he first loved her. He thought of her pregnancy and felt sorry for +her and for himself, and in a nervously emotional and softened mood he +went out of the hut in which he was billeted with Nesvítski and began +to walk up and down before it. +The night was foggy and through the fog the moonlight gleamed +concentration of fighting at one point, and the hesitation of all the +commanders. And then that happy moment, that Toulon for which he had +so long waited, presents itself to him at last. He firmly and clearly +expresses his opinion to Kutúzov, to Weyrother, and to the Emperors. +the decisive point, and gains the victory alone. “But death and +answer that voice and went on dreaming of his triumphs. The dispositions +battle is won by him alone. Kutúzov is removed and he is appointed... +“Well and then?” asked the other voice. “If before that you are +what will happen and don’t want to know, and can’t, but if I want +is not my fault that I want it and want nothing but that and live only +what am I to do if I love nothing but fame and men’s esteem? Death, +wounds, the loss of family—I fear nothing. And precious and dear +me—yet dreadful and unnatural as it seems, I would give them all at +don’t know and never shall know, for the love of these men here,” he +and who was called Tit. He was saying, “Tit, I say, Tit!” +of the orderlies and servants. +“All the same, I love and value nothing but triumph over them all, I +value this mystic power and glory that is floating here above me in this +in couples and he himself rode along the line trying to master the +eyes kept closing, and in his fancy appeared—now the Emperor, now +Denísov, and now Moscow memories—and he again hurriedly opened his +eyes and saw close before him the head and ears of the horse he was +riding, and sometimes, when he came within six paces of them, the +“that the Emperor will meet me and give me an order as he would to any +other officer; he’ll say: ‘Go and find out what’s there.’ There +way and attaching him to himself! What if he gave me a place near him? +aroused him. He started and opened his eyes. +“Where am I? Oh yes, in the skirmishing line... pass and +now before I am off duty. I’ll take another turn and when I get back +I’ll go to the general and ask him.” He readjusted himself in the +saddle and touched up his horse to ride once more round his hussars. It +descent lit up, and facing it a black knoll that seemed as steep as a +to his horse’s mane and pulled up beside the hussar. He was succumbing +is that the Emperor is here. How he looked at me and wished to say +shouts of thousands of voices. His horse and the horse of the hussar +shouting came from, a fire flared up and went out again, then another, +and all along the French line on the hill fires flared up and the +shouting grew louder and louder. Rostóv could hear the sound of French +great; all he could hear was: “ahahah!” and “rrrr!” +pricking its ears at the noise and looking at the lights. The shouting +grew still louder and merged into a general roar that only an army +of several thousand men could produce. The lights spread farther and +The hussar only sighed without replying and coughed angrily. The sound +heard, and out of the foggy darkness the figure of a sergeant of hussars +Rostóv, still looking round toward the fires and the shouts, rode with +One was on a white horse. Prince Bagratión and Prince Dolgorúkov with +lights and shouts in the enemy’s camp. Rostóv rode up to Bagratión, +reported to him, and then joined the adjutants listening to what the +is nothing but a trick! He has retreated and ordered the rearguard to +kindle fires and make a noise to deceive us.” +Bagratión stopped and, before replying, tried to see Rostóv’s face +“Well, go and see,” he said, after a pause. +Rostóv spurred his horse, called to Sergeant Fédchenko and two other +hussars, told them to follow him, and trotted downhill in the direction +from which the shouting came. He felt both frightened and pleased to be +riding alone with three hussars into that mysterious and dangerous misty +him and did not stop but rode on and on, continually mistaking bushes +for trees and gullies for men and continually discovering his mistakes. +and distinctly. In the valley he saw before him something like a river, +cross it and ride over the black field up the hillside. To keep to the +crossed the road, and began riding up the hill at a gallop toward the +point where the French pickets had been standing that evening. +and a bullet whizzing high up in the mist with a plaintive sound passed +Rostóv turned his horse and galloped back. Four more reports followed +at intervals, and the bullets passed somewhere in the fog singing in +like his own, at the firing, and went back at a footpace. “Well, some +and with his hand at the salute rode up to the general. +Dolgorúkov was still insisting that the French had retreated and had +might retreat and leave the pickets.” +in the evening,” reported Rostóv, stooping forward with his hand at +the salute and unable to repress the smile of delight induced by his +ride and especially by the sound of the bullets. +The fires and shouting in the enemy’s army were occasioned by the fact +lit wisps of straw and ran after him, shouting, “Vive l’Empereur!” +Hollabrünn and have pursued ever since to this place. The position we +occupy is a strong one, and while they are marching to go round me on +valor carry disorder and confusion into the enemy’s ranks, but should +of England, inspired by such hatred of our nation! This victory will +conclude our campaign and we can return to winter quarters, where fresh +French troops who are being raised in France will join us, and the peace +I shall conclude will be worthy of my people, of you, and of myself. +center, the reserves, and Bagratión’s right flank had not yet moved, +but on the left flank the columns of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, +right flank and drive it into the Bohemian mountains according to plan, +were already up and astir. The smoke of the campfires, into which they +and dark. The officers were hurriedly drinking tea and breakfasting, the +soldiers, munching biscuit and beating a tattoo with their feet to +remains of sheds, chairs, tables, wheels, tubs, and everything that they +were moving in and out among the Russian troops and served as heralds +a commanding officer’s quarters, the regiment began to move: the +bags into the carts, got their muskets ready, and formed rank. The +officers buttoned up their coats, buckled on their swords and pouches, +and moved along the ranks shouting. The train drivers and orderlies +harnessed and packed the wagons and tied on the loads. The adjutants and +battalion and regimental commanders mounted, crossed themselves, gave +final instructions, orders, and commissions to the baggage men +who remained behind, and the monotonous tramp of thousands of feet +resounded. The column moved forward without knowing where and unable, +from the masses around them, the smoke and the increasing fog, to see +A soldier on the march is hemmed in and borne along by his regiment as +strange, unknown, and dangerous places he reaches, just as a sailor is +always surrounded by the same decks, masts, and rigging of his ship, so +same sergeant major Iván Mítrich, the same company dog Jack, and the +same commanders. The sailor rarely cares to know the latitude in which +his ship is sailing, but on the day of battle—heaven knows how and +and solemn, and awakening in the men an unusual curiosity. On the day of +regiment, they listen intently, look about, and eagerly ask concerning +not see ten paces ahead. Bushes looked like gigantic trees and level +ground like cliffs and slopes. Anywhere, on any side, one might +for a long time, always in the same fog, descending and ascending hills, +avoiding gardens and enclosures, going over new and unknown ground, and +aware that in front, behind, and on all sides, other Russian columns +night I looked at the campfires and there was no end of them. A regular +Though none of the column commanders rode up to the ranks or talked to +the men (the commanders, as we saw at the council of war, were out of +humor and dissatisfied with the affair, and so did not exert themselves +the greater part of the men had to halt and an unpleasant consciousness +of some dislocation and blunder spread through the ranks. How such +certainly is communicated very surely, and flows rapidly, imperceptibly, +and irrepressibly, as water does in a creek. Had the Russian army been +it was, the disorder was readily and naturally attributed to the stupid +Germans, and everyone was convinced that a dangerous muddle had been +“They were in a hurry enough to start us, and now here we stand in +behind. And now here we stand hungry.” +doing!” said the officer and rode off. +turn into vexation and anger at the stupid arrangements and at the +moving toward our left flank, the higher command found that our center +was too far separated from our right flank and the cavalry were all +ordered to turn back to the right. Several thousand cavalry crossed in +At the front an altercation occurred between an Austrian guide and a +Russian general. The general shouted a demand that the cavalry should be +halted, the Austrian argued that not he, but the higher command, was to +blame. The troops meanwhile stood growing listless and dispirited. After +were descending. In front in the fog a shot was heard and then another, +at first irregularly at varying intervals—trata...tat—and then more +and more regularly and rapidly, and the action at the Goldbach Stream +Not expecting to come on the enemy down by the stream, and having +commanders, and with a consciousness of being too late spreading through +the ranks, and above all being unable to see anything in front or around +lazily and advanced and again halted, receiving no timely orders from +the officers or adjutants who wandered about in the fog in those unknown +began for the first, second, and third columns, which had gone down into +a clear blue sky, and the sun’s vast orb quivered like a huge hollow, +army, and even Napoleon himself with his staff, were not on the far side +of the streams and hollows of Sokolnitz and Schlappanitz beyond which we +intended to take up our position and begin the action, but were on this +which seemed to rise out of the sea of mist and on which the Russian +troops were moving in the distance, and he listened to the sounds of +force had already descended into the valley toward the ponds and lakes +and part were leaving these Pratzen Heights which he intended to attack +and regarded as the key to the position. He saw over the mist that in +direction toward the valley and disappearing one after another into +sound of wheels and footsteps heard by the outposts during the night, +by the disorderly movement of the Russian columns, and from all +in front of them, and that the columns moving near Pratzen constituted +the center of the Russian army, and that that center was already +Before dawn he had slept for a few hours, and refreshed, vigorous, and +in good spirits, he mounted his horse and rode out into the field +in that happy mood in which everything seems possible and everything +the mist, and his cold face wore that special look of confident, +When the sun had entirely emerged from the fog, and fields and mist were +action—he drew the glove from his shapely white hand, made a sign +with it to the marshals, and ordered the action to begin. The marshals, +accompanied by adjutants, galloped off in different directions, and +toward those Pratzen Heights which were being more and more denuded by +Przebyszéwski’s and Langeron’s columns which had already gone down +into the valley. He greeted the men of the foremost regiment and gave +commander in chief’s suite. He was in a state of suppressed excitement +and irritation, though controlledly calm as a man is at the approach of +know, but he felt sure it would do so. The locality and the position of +Prince Andrew considered possible contingencies and formed new projects +such as might call for his rapidity of perception and decision. +concentrate. “There we shall encounter difficulties, and there,” +thought he, “I shall be sent with a brigade or division, and there, +standard in hand, I shall go forward and break whatever is in front of +He could not look calmly at the standards of the passing battalions. +Seeing them he kept thinking, “That may be the very standard with +our troops had descended and from whence came the sounds of firing. +Above the heights was the dark clear sky, and to the right the vast orb +some wooded hills were discernible, and it was there the enemy probably +entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and +of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist. In front and +behind moved infantry. The commander in chief was standing at the end of +worn and irritable. The infantry passing before him came to a halt +without any command being given, apparently obstructed by something in +“Do order them to form into battalion columns and go round the +you understand, your excellency, my dear sir, that you must not +galloped up to Kutúzov and asked in the Emperor’s name had the fourth +Kutúzov turned round without answering and his eye happened to fall +malevolent and caustic expression softened, as if admitting that what +was being done was not his adjutant’s fault, and still not answering +“Go, my dear fellow, and see whether the third division has passed the +village. Tell it to stop and await my orders.” +the third division and convinced himself that there really were no +regiment was much surprised at the commander in chief’s order to throw +in front of him and that the enemy must be at least six miles away. +hidden by dense mist. Having given orders in the commander in chief’s +“All right, all right!” he said to Prince Andrew, and turned to a +general who, watch in hand, was saying it was time they started as all +saluting, and this sound rapidly came nearer along the whole extended +of which Kutúzov was standing began to shout, he rode a little to one +side and looked round with a frown. Along the road from Pratzen galloped +soldier at the front, gave the command “Attention!” and rode up +to the Emperors with a salute. His whole appearance and manner were +Alexander unpleasantly, he rode up and saluted. +This unpleasant impression merely flitted over the young and happy face +of the Emperor like a cloud of haze across a clear sky and vanished. +there was still the same bewitching combination of majesty and mildness +in his fine gray eyes, and on his delicate lips the same capacity for +varying expression and the same prevalent appearance of goodhearted +brighter and more energetic. He was slightly flushed after galloping two +miles, and reining in his horse he sighed restfully and looked round +at the faces of his suite, young and animated as his own. Czartorýski, +Novosíltsev, Prince Volkónsky, Strógonov, and the others, all richly +heated horses, exchanging remarks and smiling, had stopped behind the +erect on his handsome black horse, looking about him in a leisurely and +preoccupied manner. He beckoned to one of his white adjutants and asked +Guard and line regiments, Russian and Austrian. Among them were grooms +a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of +Emperor Alexander hurriedly to Kutúzov, glancing courteously at the +rather round shoulders and glanced at Novosíltsev who was near him, as +Emperor Francis continued to look about him and did not listen. +heard, and again something in his face twitched—“That is just why +I do not begin, sire, because we are not on parade and not on the +Empress’ Field,” said he clearly and distinctly. +dissatisfaction and reproach. “Old though he may be, he should not, he +The Tsar looked intently and observantly into Kutúzov’s eye +“However, if you command it, Your Majesty,” said Kutúzov, lifting +his head and again assuming his former tone of a dull, unreasoning, but +He touched his horse and having called Milorádovich, the commander of +The troops again began to move, and two battalions of the Nóvgorod and +without his greatcoat, with his Orders on his breast and an enormous +and back, galloped strenuously forward, and with a dashing salute reined +Milorádovich wheeled his horse sharply and stationed himself a little +passed in step before the Emperors and their suites at a bold, brisk +“Lads!” shouted Milorádovich in a loud, self-confident, and cheery +battle, and by the sight of the gallant Ápsherons, his comrades in +field of Austerlitz, enduring the heedless blows of his left foot and +Empress’ Field, not understanding the significance of the firing, nor +being said, thought, and felt that day by its rider. +The Emperor turned with a smile to one of his followers and made a +inn, where two roads parted. Both of them led downhill and troops were +The fog had begun to clear and enemy troops were already dimly visible +about a mile and a half off on the opposite heights. Down below, on +the left, the firing became more distinct. Kutúzov had stopped and was +The two generals and the adjutant took hold of the field glass, trying +mile and a half away, but had suddenly and unexpectedly appeared just in +than five hundred paces from where Kutúzov was standing, a dense French +thought Prince Andrew, and striking his horse he rode up to Kutúzov. +quite close at hand, and a voice of naïve terror barely two steps from +at a command, everyone began to run. +Confused and ever-increasing crowds were running back to where five +touch with it, and looked around bewildered and unable to grasp what was +happening in front of him. Nesvítski with an angry face, red and unlike +place and without answering drew out a handkerchief. Blood was flowing +handkerchief to his wounded cheek and pointing to the fleeing soldiers. +“Stop them!” he shouted, and at the same moment, probably realizing +that it was impossible to stop them, spurred his horse and rode to the +A fresh wave of the flying mob caught him and bore him back with it. +Why are you hindering us?” Another in the same place turned round and +and Frenchmen running toward it. Higher up stood some Russian infantry, +fleeing crowd. A mounted general separated himself from the infantry and +all pale and exchanged looks in silence. +“Stop those wretches!” gasped Kutúzov to the regimental commander, +him for those words, bullets flew hissing across the regiment and across +The French had attacked the battery and, seeing Kutúzov, were firing +at him. After this volley the regimental commander clutched at his leg; +several soldiers fell, and a second lieutenant who was holding the +flag let it fall from his hands. It swayed and fell, but caught on the +“Oh! Oh! Oh!” groaned Kutúzov despairingly and looked around.... +the disordered battalion and at the enemy, “what’s that?” +shame and anger choking him, had already leapt from his horse and run to +the standard. +“Here it is!” thought he, seizing the staff of the standard and +“Hurrah!” shouted Prince Andrew, and, scarcely able to hold up +the heavy standard, he ran forward with full confidence that the whole +And really he only ran a few steps alone. One soldier moved and then +another and soon the whole battalion ran forward shouting “Hurrah!” +and overtook him. A sergeant of the battalion ran up and took the flag +that was swaying from its weight in Prince Andrew’s hands, but he +was immediately killed. Prince Andrew again seized the standard and, +artillerymen, some of whom were fighting, while others, having abandoned +soldiers who were seizing the artillery horses and turning the guns +round. Prince Andrew and the battalion were already within twenty paces +of the cannon. He heard the whistle of bullets above him unceasingly and +to right and left of him soldiers continually groaned and dropped. But +Frenchman remembers his bayonet and stabs him....” +the struggling men, and the fate of the red-haired gunner, who had +triumphantly secured the mop and still did not realize what awaited him, +it was that the pain distracted him and prevented his seeing what he had +and fell on his back. He opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle +had been killed or not and whether the cannon had been captured or +clouds gliding slowly across it. “How quiet, peaceful, and solemn; not +and fighting, not at all as the gunner and the Frenchman with frightened +and angry faces struggled for the mop: how differently do those clouds +quiet and peace. Thank God!...” +On our right flank commanded by Bagratión, at nine o’clock the battle +had not yet begun. Not wishing to agree to Dolgorúkov’s demand to +commence the action, and wishing to avert responsibility from himself, +commander in chief. Bagratión knew that as the distance between the two +(which he very likely would be), and found the commander in chief +and the boyish face Rostóv, breathless with excitement and hope, was +“And if I should meet His Majesty before I meet the commander in +chief, your excellency?” said Rostóv, with his hand to his cap. +hours’ sleep before morning and felt cheerful, bold, and resolute, +with elasticity of movement, faith in his good fortune, and generally in +that state of mind which makes everything seem possible, pleasant, and +orderly to the bravest general, and still more, he was going with a +was bright, he had a good horse under him, and his heart was full of +joy and happiness. On receiving the order he gave his horse the rein +and galloped along the line. At first he rode along the line of +standing motionless; then he came to the region occupied by Uvárov’s +cavalry and here he noticed a stir and signs of preparation for battle; +and musketry ahead of him. The firing grew louder and louder. +down the hillsides, and clouds of cannon smoke rolling, spreading, +and mingling with one another. He could also, by the gleam of bayonets +visible through the smoke, make out moving masses of infantry and narrow +going on, but strain his attention as he would he could not understand +some sort were moving about, in front and behind moved lines of troops; +but why, whither, and who they were, it was impossible to make out. +These sights and sounds had no depressing or intimidating effect on him; +on the contrary, they stimulated his energy and determination. +and again proceeded to gallop along the line, penetrating farther and +He was riding almost along the front line. A handful of men came +involuntarily noticed that one of them was bleeding, and galloped on. +uniforms, mounted on black horses, trotting straight toward him and +way of these men, and he would have got clear had they continued at the +and the jingle of their weapons and saw their horses, their figures, and +even their faces, more and more distinctly. They were our Horse Guards, +Rostóv could already see their faces and heard the command: +This Guardsman would certainly have bowled Rostóv and his Bedouin over +(Rostóv felt himself quite tiny and weak compared to these gigantic men +and horses) had it not occurred to Rostóv to flourish his whip before +hands high, shied, throwing back its ears; but the pockmarked Guardsman +drove his huge spurs in violently, and the horse, flourishing its tail +and extending its neck, galloped on yet faster. Hardly had the Horse +Guards passed Rostóv before he heard them shout, “Hurrah!” and +more, for immediately afterwards cannon began firing from somewhere and +of all that mass of huge and handsome men, of all those brilliant, +rich youths, officers and cadets, who had galloped past him on their +thousand-ruble horses, only eighteen were left after the charge. +“Why should I envy them? My chance is not lost, and maybe I shall see +the Emperor immediately!” thought Rostóv and galloped on. +When he came level with the Foot Guards he noticed that about them and +the soldiers’ faces and unnatural warlike solemnity on those of the +“Can you imagine it?” and he began describing how the Guards, having +taken up their position and seeing troops before them, thought they were +Austrians, and all at once discovered from the cannon balls discharged +by those troops that they were themselves in the front line and had +Highness,” and pointing to the Grand Duke who with his high shoulders +and frowning brows stood a hundred paces away from them in his helmet +and Horse Guards’ jacket, shouting something to a pale, white +“But that’s the Grand Duke, and I want the commander in chief or the +Emperor,” said Rostóv, and was about to spur his horse. +as Borís. “Count! I am wounded in my right hand” (and he showed his +bleeding hand with a handkerchief tied round it) “and I remained at +the front. I held my sword in my left hand, Count. All our family—the +He said something more, but Rostóv did not wait to hear it and rode +Having passed the Guards and traversed an empty space, Rostóv, to avoid +where the hottest musket fire and cannonade were heard. Suddenly he +heard musket fire quite close in front of him and behind our troops, +and for the issue of the whole battle. “But be that what it may,” +commander in chief here, and if all is lost it is for me to perish with +The foreboding of evil that had suddenly come over Rostóv was more and +firing?” Rostóv kept asking as he came up to Russian and Austrian +he was told in Russian, German, and Czech by the crowd of fugitives who +Several wounded men passed along the road, and words of abuse, screams, +and groans mingled in a general hubbub, then the firing died down. +Rostóv learned later that Russian and Austrian soldiers had been firing +handful of scoundrels. It will soon be over, it can’t be that, it +The idea of defeat and flight could not enter Rostóv’s head. Though +he saw French cannon and French troops on the Pratzen Heights just where +he had been ordered to look for the commander in chief, he could not, +Rostóv had been ordered to look for Kutúzov and the Emperor near the +village of Pratzen. But neither they nor a single commanding officer +sorts, and Russian and Austrian soldiers of all arms, some wounded and +some not. This whole mass droned and jostled in confusion under the +laughing for some reason and shaking himself free. +horse of a batman or groom of some important personage and began to +carriage at full speed about an hour before along that very road and +horses and Ilyá Iványch. I don’t think Ilyá drives anyone except +Rostóv let go of the horse and was about to ride on, when a wounded +“Who is it you want?” he asked. “The commander in chief? He was +not many left alive. Go that way, to that village, all the commanders +and he walked on. +he saw turrets and a church. What need to hurry? What was he now to say +to the Tsar or to Kutúzov, even if they were alive and unwounded? +Rostóv considered, and then went in the direction where they said he +yet occupied that region, and the Russians—the uninjured and slightly +manure on well-kept plowland, lay from ten to fifteen dead and wounded +to each couple of acres. The wounded crept together in twos and threes +and one could hear their distressing screams and groans, sometimes +avoid seeing all these suffering men, and he felt afraid—afraid not +for his life, but for the courage he needed and which he knew would not +stand the sight of these unfortunates. +The French, who had ceased firing at this field strewn with dead and +riding over it trained a gun on him and fired several shots. The +sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around +him merged in Rostóv’s mind into a single feeling of terror and pity +disordered. The French cannon did not reach there and the musketry fire +sounded far away. Here everyone clearly saw and said that the battle +correct, others that it was not, and explained the false rumor that had +from the field of battle with the pale and terrified Ober-Hofmarschal +from headquarters behind the village to the left, and thither Rostóv +he had ridden about two miles and had passed the last of the Russian +horse with his spurs, and giving it the rein leaped lightly over. Only +Turning the horse sharply, he again jumped the ditch, and deferentially +to Rostóv and involuntarily riveted his attention, made a gesture of +refusal with his head and hand and by that gesture Rostóv instantly +recognized his lamented and adored monarch. +thought Rostóv. At that moment Alexander turned his head and Rostóv +Emperor was pale, his cheeks sunken and his eyes hollow, but the charm, +false. He was happy to be seeing him. He knew that he might and even +ought to go straight to him and give the message Dolgorúkov had ordered +But as a youth in love trembles, is unnerved, and dares not utter the +chance of delay and flight when the longed-for moment comes and he is +the Emperor, and a thousand reasons occurred to him why it would be +inconvenient, unseemly, and impossible to do so. +his being alone and despondent! A strange face may seem unpleasant or +now, when my heart fails me and my mouth feels dry at the mere sight +most part to be spoken at a moment of victory and triumph, generally +when he was dying of wounds and the sovereign had thanked him for heroic +deeds, and while dying he expressed the love his actions had proved. +flank now that it is nearly four o’clock and the battle is lost? +reflections. Better die a thousand times than risk receiving an unkind +look or bad opinion from him,” Rostóv decided; and sorrowfully and +While Rostóv was thus arguing with himself and riding sadly away, +Captain von Toll chanced to ride to the same spot, and seeing the +Emperor at once rode up to him, offered his services, and assisted him +to cross the ditch on foot. The Emperor, wishing to rest and feeling +unwell, sat down under an apple tree and von Toll remained beside him. +Rostóv from a distance saw with envy and remorse how von Toll spoke +long and warmly to the Emperor and how the Emperor, evidently weeping, +covered his eyes with his hand and pressed von Toll’s hand. +“And I might have been in his place!” thought Rostóv, and hardly +was a unique chance to show his devotion to the Emperor and he had not +round and galloped back to the place where he had seen the Emperor, but +there was no one beyond the ditch now. Only some carts and carriages +horses in horsecloths. Then came a cart, and behind that walked an old, +bandy-legged domestic serf in a peaked cap and sheepskin coat. +in silence, and then the same joke was repeated. +than a hundred cannon were already in the hands of the French. +Przebyszéwski and his corps had laid down their arms. Other columns +The remains of Langeron’s and Dokhtúrov’s mingled forces were +crowding around the dams and banks of the ponds near the village of +In the rearguard, Dokhtúrov and others rallying some battalions kept up +angling, while his grandson, with shirt sleeves rolled up, handled the +so many years Moravians in shaggy caps and blue jackets had peacefully +driven their two-horse carts loaded with wheat and had returned dusty +and the cannon, under the horses’ hoofs and between the wagon wheels, +another, dying, stepping over the dying and killing one another, only to +move on a few steps and be killed themselves in the same way. +a shell burst in the midst of that dense throng, killing some and +Dólokhov—now an officer—wounded in the arm, and on foot, with +the regimental commander on horseback and some ten men of his company, +crowd, they had got wedged in at the approach to the dam and, jammed in +cannon and the crowd were dragging it out. A cannon ball killed someone +behind them, another fell in front and splashed Dólokhov with blood. +steps, and again stopped. +“Move on a hundred yards and we are certainly saved, remain here +another two minutes and it is certain death,” thought each one. +of the dam, throwing two soldiers off their feet, and ran onto the +The ice bore him but it swayed and creaked, and it was plain that it +under his weight alone. The men looked at him and pressed to the +entrance to the dam raised his hand and opened his mouth to address +everyone ducked. It flopped into something moist, and the general fell +The ice gave way under one of the foremost soldiers, and one leg slipped +near the gun waved their arms and beat the horses to make them turn and +those on foot, collapsed in a great mass, and some forty men who were on +it dashed, some forward and some back, drowning one another. +Still the cannon balls continued regularly to whistle and flop onto the +ice and into the water and oftenest of all among the crowd that covered +the dam, the pond, and the bank. +hand, lay Prince Andrew Bolkónski bleeding profusely and unconsciously +uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan. +Toward evening he ceased moaning and became quite still. He did not know +alive and suffering from a burning, lacerating pain in his head. +He listened and heard the sound of approaching horses, and voices +sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and +between them gleamed blue infinity. He did not turn his head and did not +see those who, judging by the sound of hoofs and voices, had ridden up +and stopped near him. +firing at the Augesd Dam and was looking at the killed and wounded left +who, with his face buried in the ground and a blackened nape, lay on his +“Have some brought from the reserve,” said Napoleon, and having gone +Prince Andrew understood that this was said of him and that it was +did they not interest him, but he took no notice of them and at once +and he saw above him the remote, lofty, and everlasting sky. He knew it +between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over +it. At that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over +him, or what was said of him; he was only glad that people were standing +near him and only wished that they would help him and bring him back to +understand it so differently. He collected all his strength, to stir and +utter a sound. He feebly moved his leg and uttered a weak, sickly groan +“Ah! He is alive,” said Napoleon. “Lift this young man up and +hand, rode up smiling to the Emperor to congratulate him on the victory. +being moved, and the probing of his wound at the dressing station. +wounded and captured Russian officers he was carried to the hospital. +During this transfer he felt a little stronger and was able to look +about him and even speak. +“All the same! They say this one is the commander of all the Emperor +Alexander’s Guards,” said the first one, indicating a Russian +“You are the commander of the Emperor Alexander’s regiment of Horse +“I commanded a squadron,” replied Repnín. +“The praise of a great commander is a soldier’s highest reward,” +and, addressing him, again used the epithet “young man” that was +“Well, and you, young man,” said he. “How do you feel, mon +hero himself with his paltry vanity and joy in victory appear, +compared to the lofty, equitable, and kindly sky which he had seen and +Everything seemed so futile and insignificant in comparison with the +stern and solemn train of thought that weakness from loss of blood, +suffering, and the nearness of death aroused in him. Looking into +greatness, the unimportance of life which no one could understand, and +alive could understand or explain. +The Emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of +the officers as he went: “Have these gentlemen attended to and taken +Prince Repnín!” and he spurred his horse and galloped away. +His face shone with self-satisfaction and pleasure. +The soldiers who had carried Prince Andrew had noticed and taken the +Prince Andrew did not see how and by whom it was replaced, but the +sister had hung round his neck with such emotion and reverence, “it +would be good if everything were as clear and simple as it seems to +and what to expect after it beyond the grave! How happy and calm I +understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but +his feverishness increased and he grew delirious. Visions of his father, +wife, sister, and future son, and the tenderness he had felt the night +before the battle, the figure of the insignificant little Napoleon, and +The quiet home life and peaceful happiness of Bald Hills presented +shortsighted delight at the misery of others, and doubts and torments +had followed, and only the heavens promised peace. Toward morning +all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of +unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of Napoleon’s doctor, +“He is a nervous, bilious subject,” said Larrey, “and will not +was going home to Vorónezh and Rostóv persuaded him to travel with him +as far as Moscow and to stay with him there. Meeting a comrade at +bottles of wine with him and, despite the jolting ruts across the +at the bottom of the sleigh beside Rostóv, who grew more and more +shops, bakers’ signboards, street lamps, and sleighs!” thought +Rostóv, when their leave permits had been passed at the town gate and +has his stand, and there’s Zakhár himself and still the same horse! +Denísov raised his head, coughed, and made no answer. +“Yes, sir, and there’s a light in your father’s study.” +all. At last the sleigh bore to the right, drew up at an entrance, and +broken off, the porch, and the post by the side of the pavement. He +sprang out before the sleigh stopped, and ran into the hall. The house +stood cold and silent, as if quite regardless of who had come to it. +he thought, stopping for a moment with a sinking heart, and then +immediately starting to run along the hall and up the warped steps of +the familiar staircase. The well-known old door handle, which always +as ever. A solitary tallow candle burned in the anteroom. +door and his expression of sleepy indifference suddenly changed to one +young master. “Can it be? My treasure!” and Prokófy, trembling with +announce him, but, changing his mind, came back and stooped to kiss the +forestall him, threw off his fur coat and ran on tiptoe through the +tables and the same chandelier with a cover over it; but someone had +already seen the young master, and, before he had reached the drawing +room, something flew out from a side door like a tornado and began +hugging and kissing him. Another and yet another creature of the same +kind sprang from a second door and a third; more hugging, more kissing, +more outcries, and tears of joy. He could not distinguish which was +Papa, which Natásha, and which Pétya. Everyone shouted, talked, and +changed!... Where are the candles?... Tea!...” +“Dearest... and me!” +Sónya, Natásha, Pétya, Anna Mikháylovna, Véra, and the old count +were all hugging him, and the serfs, men and maids, flocked into the +room, exclaiming and oh-ing and ah-ing. +Natásha, after she had pulled him down toward her and covered his face +with kisses, holding him tight by the skirt of his coat, sprang away and +pranced up and down in one place like a goat and shrieked piercingly. +All around were loving eyes glistening with tears of joy, and all around +Sónya too, all rosy red, clung to his arm and, radiant with bliss, +longed. Sónya now was sixteen and she was very pretty, especially at +her eyes off him, and smiling and holding her breath. He gave her a +grateful look, but was still expectant and looking for someone. The old +he had left. All the others let him go, and he ran to her. When they +who had come into the room unnoticed by anyone, stood there and wiped +“You are most welcome! I know, I know,” said the count, kissing and +springing to him, putting her arms round him, and kissing him. This +and, taking Natásha’s hand, kissed it. +Denísov was shown to the room prepared for him, and the Rostóvs all +The old countess, not letting go of his hand and kissing it every +eyes off him. His brother and sisters struggled for the places nearest +to him and disputed with one another who should bring him his tea, +handkerchief, and pipe. +insufficient, and he kept expecting something more, more and yet more. +satchels, sabretaches, open portmanteaus, and dirty boots. Two freshly +were bringing in jugs and basins, hot water for shaving, and their +well-brushed clothes. There was a masculine odor and a smell of tobacco. +A rustle of starched petticoats and the whispering and laughter of +crack and there was a glimpse of something blue, of ribbons, black hair, +and merry faces. It was Natásha, Sónya, and Pétya, who had come to +Meanwhile, Pétya, having found and seized the sabers in the outer room, +with the delight boys feel at the sight of a military elder brother, and +and went out. Natásha had put on one spurred boot and was just getting +her foot into the other. Sónya, when he came in, was twirling round and +was about to expand her dresses into a balloon and sit down. They were +dressed alike, in new pale-blue frocks, and were both fresh, rosy, and +one another time to ask questions and give replies concerning a thousand +they were saying was amusing, but because she felt happy and was unable +soul and his face. +She pulled up her muslin sleeve and showed him a red scar on her long, +fire and pressed it there!” +to be his old schoolroom, and looking into Natásha’s wildly bright +eyes, Rostóv re-entered that world of home and childhood which had no +and the burning of an arm with a ruler as a proof of love did not seem +to him senseless, he understood and was not surprised at it. +“Well, and is that all?” he asked. +for life, but I don’t understand that, I forget quickly.” +“Well, she loves me and you like that.” +free.’ Isn’t that lovely and noble! Yes, very noble? Isn’t it?” +asked Natásha, so seriously and excitedly that it was evident that what +“No, no!” cried Natásha, “she and I have already talked it over. +her because you must, and that wouldn’t do at all.” +that for an instant). Why should he not love her now, and even marry +and interests before him! “Yes, they have taken a wise decision,” he +“Well, and are you still true to Borís?” he continued. +about him or anyone else, and I don’t want anything of the kind.” +“Now?” repeated Natásha, and a happy smile lit up her face. “Have +understand. That’s what I’m up to.” +together, and made some steps on the very tips of her toes. +“See, I’m standing! See!” she said, but could not maintain herself +Rostóv laughed so loud and merrily that Denísov, in his bedroom, felt +envious and Natásha could not help joining in. +“Oh, well then, good-by: go and dress. Is he very terrible, +And Natásha rose and went out of the room on tiptoe, like a ballet +be done; he felt that everybody, including his mother and sisters, was +looking inquiringly at him and watching to see how he would behave +with her. He kissed her hand and addressed her not as thou but as +you—Sónya. But their eyes met and said thou, and exchanged tender +Natásha’s intermediacy, to remind him of his promise, and then +freedom and told her that one way or another he would never cease to +silent, “that Sónya and Nicholas now say you to one another and meet +only Sónya, Nicholas, and Natásha, but even the old countess, +pomaded hair, perfumed, and in a new uniform, looking just as smart as +he made himself when going into battle, and he was more amiable to the +ladies and gentlemen than Rostóv had ever expected to see him. +by his home circle as the best of sons, a hero, and their darling +Nikólenka; by his relations as a charming, attractive, and polite young +man; by his acquaintances as a handsome lieutenant of hussars, a good +dancer, and one of the best matches in the city. +that year, as all his estates had been remortgaged, and so Nicholas, +latest cut, such as no one else yet had in Moscow, and boots of the +latest fashion, with extremely pointed toes and small silver spurs, +at home again. He felt that he had grown up and matured very much. His +Now he was a lieutenant of hussars, in a jacket laced with silver, and +action, and in the company of well-known, elderly, and respected racing +Kámenski, visited the English Club, and was on intimate terms with a +he did not see him and had no opportunity of seeing him, he often spoke +about him and about his love for him, letting it be understood that he +had not told all and that there was something in his feelings for the +Emperor not everyone could understand, and with his whole soul he shared +very pretty and sweet, and evidently deeply in love with him, but he was +time for that sort of thing and a young man fears to bind himself and +“Ah, there will be, and there are, many more such girls somewhere whom +and into ladies’ society with an affectation of doing so against his +will. The races, the English Club, sprees with Denísov, and visits to +a certain house—that was another matter and quite the thing for a +The count walked up and down the hall in his dressing gown, giving +orders to the club steward and to the famous Feoktíst, the club’s +head cook, about asparagus, fresh cucumbers, strawberries, veal, and +fish for this dinner. The count had been a member and on the committee +so well how to arrange a feast on an open-handed, hospitable scale, +and still fewer men would be so well able and willing to make up out of +The club cook and the steward listened to the count’s orders with +several thousand rubles. +“Well then, mind and have cocks’ comb in the turtle soup, you +who appeared at his call. “Hurry off and tell Maksím, the gardener, +importance, he returned again, called back the cook and the club +steward, and again began giving orders. A light footstep and the +clinking of spurs were heard at the door, and the young count, handsome, +rosy, with a dark little mustache, evidently rested and made sleeker by +And the count turned to the cook, who, with a shrewd and respectful +expression, looked observantly and sympathetically at the father and +dinner, but providing it and serving it all up, that’s not their +“That’s it, that’s it!” exclaimed the count, and gaily seizing +his son by both hands, he cried, “Now I’ve got you, so take the +sleigh and pair at once, and go to Bezúkhov’s, and tell him ‘Count +Ilyá has sent you to ask for strawberries and fresh pineapples.’ We +have to go in and ask the princesses; and from there go on to the +Rasgulyáy—the coachman Ipátka knows—and look up the gypsy +white Cossack coat, and bring him along to me.” +At that moment, with noiseless footsteps and with the businesslike, +dressing gown every day, he invariably became confused and begged her to +eyes. “But I’ll go to Bezúkhov’s myself. Pierre has arrived, and +of his commissions and ordered the small closed carriage for her. +Anna Mikháylovna turned up her eyes, and profound sadness was depicted +as young Bezúkhov! Yes, I pity him from my heart, and shall try to give +“Wh-what is the matter?” asked both the young and old Rostóv. +up, invited him to his house in Petersburg, and now... she has come here +and that daredevil after her!” said Anna Mikháylovna, wishing to show +her sympathy for Pierre, but by involuntary intonations and a half smile +Next day, the third of March, soon after one o’clock, two hundred and +fifty members of the English Club and fifty guests were awaiting the +guest of honor and hero of the Austrian campaign, Prince Bagratión, to +and well informed foregathered when the news began to arrive in +December, nothing was said about the war and the last battle, as +Count Markóv, and Prince Vyázemski—did not show themselves at the +club, but met in private houses in intimate circles, and the +of the war and without leaders. The Moscovites felt that something was +wrong and that to discuss the bad news was difficult, and so it was best +the bigwigs who guided the club’s opinion reappeared, and everybody +began speaking clearly and definitely. Reasons were found for the +incredible, unheard-of, and impossible event of a Russian defeat, +everything became clear, and in all corners of Moscow the same things +defective commissariat, the treachery of the Pole Przebyszéwski and of +the Frenchman Langeron, Kutúzov’s incapacity, and (it was whispered) +the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless +and insignificant people. But the army, the Russian army, everyone +declared, was extraordinary and had achieved miracles of valor. The +soldiers, officers, and generals were heroes. But the hero of heroes was +Prince Bagratión, distinguished by his Schön Grabern affair and by +unbroken and had all day beaten back an enemy force twice as numerous +and was a stranger there. In his person, honor was shown to a simple +fighting Russian soldier without connections and intrigues, and to one +expressing disapproval and dislike of Kutúzov. +calling him a court weathercock and an old satyr. +modeling and modeling you must get smeared with clay,” suggesting +consolation for our defeat by the memory of former victories; and the +by highfalutin words, and Germans by logical arguments to show them +soldiers only need to be restrained and held back! On all sides, new and +our officers and men at Austerlitz. One had saved a standard, another +had killed five Frenchmen, a third had loaded five cannon singlehanded. +wounded in the right hand, taken his sword in the left, and gone +forward. Of Bolkónski, nothing was said, and only those who knew him +The members and guests of the club wandered hither and thither, sat, +stood, met, and separated, some in uniform and some in evening dress, +and a few here and there with powdered hair and in Russian kaftáns. +Powdered footmen, in livery with buckled shoes and smart stockings, +men with broad, self-confident faces, fat fingers, and resolute gestures +and voices. This class of guests and members sat in certain habitual +places and met in certain habitual groups. A minority of those present +Rostóv, and Dólokhov—who was now again an officer in the Semënov +respect and honor you, but all the same remember that the future belongs +wife’s command had let his hair grow and abandoned his spectacles, +went about the rooms fashionably dressed but looking sad and dull. Here, +his wealth, and being in the habit of lording it over these people, he +and connections he belonged to the groups of old and honored guests, and +Count Rostopchín, Valúev, and Narýshkin. Rostopchín was describing +how the Russians had been overwhelmed by flying Austrians and had had to +the nonsense talked by the Austrian generals. Shinshín, standing close +feel that in that place and on that day, it was improper to speak so of +Count Ilyá Rostóv, hurried and preoccupied, went about in his soft +boots between the dining and drawing rooms, hastily greeting the +important and unimportant, all of whom he knew, as if they were all +young son, resting on him and winking joyfully at him. Young Rostóv +made and highly valued. The old count came up to them and pressed +Dólokhov’s hand. +“Please come and visit us... you know my brave boy... been together +stir, and a footman who had run in announced, with a frightened face: +Bells rang, the stewards rushed forward, and—like rye shaken together +came together and crowded in the large drawing room by the door of the +of Austerlitz, but wore a tight new uniform with Russian and foreign +Orders, and the Star of St. George on his left breast. Evidently just +before coming to the dinner he had had his hair and whiskers trimmed, +festive in his air, which, in conjunction with his firm and virile +features, gave him a rather comical expression. Bekleshëv and Theodore +wishing to avail himself of their courtesy, and this caused some delay +and awkwardly over the parquet floor of the reception room, not knowing +what to do with his hands; he was more accustomed to walk over a plowed +Schön Grabern—and he would have found that easier. The committeemen +met him at the first door and, expressing their delight at seeing such a +for his reply, surrounded him, and led him to the drawing room. It was +members and guests jostling one another and trying to get a good look +animal. Count Ilyá Rostóv, laughing and repeating the words, “Make +energetically than anyone, led the guests into the drawing room, and +way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a +composed and printed in the hero’s honor. Bagratión, on seeing the +demanded that he should submit. Feeling himself in their power, he +resolutely took the salver with both hands and looked sternly and +held it till evening and have gone in to dinner with it) and drew his +“Well, I will read them, then!” Bagratión seemed to say, and, +fixing his weary eyes on the paper, began to read them with a fixed and +serious expression. But the author himself took the verses and began +reading them aloud. Bagratión bowed his head and listened: + Bring glory then to Alexander’s reign +that dinner was ready! The door opened, and from the dining room came +and Count Rostóv, glancing angrily at the author who went on reading +was more important than verses, and Bagratión, again preceding all the +two Alexanders—Bekleshëv and Narýshkin—which was a significant +seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the +deepest where the land lies lowest. +who recognized him and said a few words to him, disjointed and awkward, +as were all the words he spoke that day, and Count Ilyá looked joyfully +and proudly around while Bagratión spoke to his son. +Nicholas Rostóv, with Denísov and his new acquaintance, Dólokhov, sat +sat facing Bagratión and, as the very personification of Moscow +His efforts had not been in vain. The dinner, both the Lenten and the +footmen, and awaited each expected dish with some anxiety. Everything +began popping corks and filling the champagne glasses. After the fish, +begin,” he whispered, and taking up his glass, he rose. All were +“To the health of our Sovereign, the Emperor!” he cried, and at the +same moment his kindly eyes grew moist with tears of joy and enthusiasm. +The band immediately struck up “Conquest’s joyful thunder +waken...” All rose and cried “Hurrah!” Bagratión also rose and +health of our Sovereign, the Emperor!” he roared, “Hurrah!” and +his example, and the loud shouting continued for a long time. When the +voices subsided, the footmen cleared away the broken glass and everybody +sat down again, smiling at the noise they had made and exchanging +his plate, and proposed a toast, “To the health of the hero of our +last campaign, Prince Peter Ivánovich Bagratión!” and again his blue +but instead of the band a choir began singing a cantata composed by Paul +As soon as the singing was over, another and another toast was proposed +and Count Ilyá Rostóv became more and more moved, more glass was +smashed, and the shouting grew louder. They drank to Bekleshëv, +to all the club members and to all the club guests, and finally to +toast, the count took out his handkerchief and, covering his face, wept +Pierre sat opposite Dólokhov and Nicholas Rostóv. As usual, he ate and +drank much, and eagerly. But those who knew him intimately noticed that +dinner and looked about, blinking and scowling, or, with fixed eyes and +nose. His face was depressed and gloomy. He seemed to see and hear +nothing of what was going on around him and to be absorbed by some +depressing and unsolved problem. +his wife, and by an anonymous letter he had received that morning, which +disbelieved both the princess’ hints and the letter, but he feared +he chanced to meet Dólokhov’s handsome insolent eyes, Pierre felt +something terrible and monstrous rising in his soul and turned quickly +away. Involuntarily recalling his wife’s past and her relations with +former position after the campaign, had returned to Petersburg and come +companion, Dólokhov had come straight to his house, and Pierre had put +him up and lent him money. Pierre recalled how Hélène had smilingly +expressed disapproval of Dólokhov’s living at their house, and how +cynically Dólokhov had praised his wife’s beauty to him and from that +“Yes, he is very handsome,” thought Pierre, “and I know him. It +would be particularly pleasant to him to dishonor my name and ridicule +and helped him. I know and understand what a spice that would add to the +but I do not believe it. I have no right to, and can’t, believe it.” +of cruelty, as when tying the policeman to the bear and dropping them +seem to him that everyone is afraid of him, and that must please him. +He must think that I, too, am afraid of him—and in fact I am afraid of +him,” he thought, and again he felt something terrible and monstrous +rising in his soul. Dólokhov, Denísov, and Rostóv were now sitting +opposite Pierre and seemed very gay. Rostóv was talking merrily to his +two friends, one of whom was a dashing hussar and the other a notorious +duelist and rake, and every now and then he glanced ironically at +Pierre, whose preoccupied, absent-minded, and massive figure was a very +husband of a beauty, and in a word—an old woman; and secondly because +Pierre in his preoccupation and absent-mindedness had not recognized +Rostóv and had not responded to his greeting. When the Emperor’s +Pierre sighed, rose submissively, emptied his glass, and, waiting till +“One should make up to the husbands of pretty women,” said Denísov. +about him. He reddened and turned away. +“Well, now to the health of handsome women!” said Dólokhov, and +“Here’s to the health of lovely women, Peterkin—and their +across, snatched it from his hand and began reading it. Pierre looked +at Dólokhov and his eyes dropped, the something terrible and monstrous +that had tormented him all dinnertime rose and took possession of him. +Hearing that cry and seeing to whom it was addressed, Nesvítski and the +Dólokhov looked at Pierre with clear, mirthful, cruel eyes, and that +“You...! you... scoundrel! I challenge you!” he ejaculated, and, +At the very instant he did this and uttered those words, Pierre felt +the whole day was finally and indubitably answered in the affirmative. +He hated her and was forever sundered from her. Despite Denísov’s +Dólokhov’s second, and after dinner he discussed the arrangements for +Rostóv with Dólokhov and Denísov stayed on at the club till late, +listening to the gypsies and other singers. +words. If you are going to fight a duel, and you make a will and write +affectionate letters to your parents, and if you think you may be +killed, you are a fool and are lost for certain. But go with the firm +intention of killing your man as quickly and surely as possible, and +fear’s all gone, and your only thought is not to let him get away!’ +Next day, at eight in the morning, Pierre and Nesvítski drove to the +Sokólniki forest and found Dólokhov, Denísov, and Rostóv already +had no connection with the matter in hand. His haggard face was yellow. +He had evidently not slept that night. He looked about distractedly and +night he had not the slightest doubt, and the guiltlessness of +particularly calm and absent-minded way, which inspired the respect of +and the pistols loaded, Nesvítski went up to Pierre. +“and should not justify your confidence and the honor you have done +“Then allow me to express your regrets, and I am sure your opponent +the affair, and like everyone in similar cases, did not yet believe that +and where to shoot,” he said with an unnaturally gentle smile. +He took the pistol in his hand and began asking about the working of the +trigger, as he had not before held a pistol in his hand—a fact that he +his side had been attempting a reconciliation), and he also went up to +the deep wet snow between the place where they had been standing and +Nesvítski’s and Dólokhov’s sabers, which were stuck into the +ground ten paces apart to mark the barrier. It was thawing and misty; at +been ready, but they still delayed and all were silent. +Denísov first went to the barrier and announced: “As the +pistols, and at the word thwee begin to advance. +“O-ne! T-wo! Thwee!” he shouted angrily and stepped aside. +The combatants advanced along the trodden tracks, nearer and nearer to +“So I can fire when I like!” said Pierre, and at the word +“three,” he went quickly forward, missing the trodden path and +stepping into the deep snow. He held the pistol in his right hand at +hand he held carefully back, because he wished to support his right +hand with it and knew he must not do so. Having advanced six paces and +then quickly glanced at Dólokhov and, bending his finger as he had been +at the sound and then, smiling at his own sensations, stood still. The +only heard Dólokhov’s hurried steps, and his figure came in view +through the smoke. He was pressing one hand to his left side, while +toward him and said something. +saber, he sank on the snow beside it. His left hand was bloody; he wiped +it on his coat and supported himself with it. His frowning face was +pallid and quivered. +Pierre, hardly restraining his sobs, began running toward Dólokhov and +“To your barrier!” and Pierre, grasping what was meant, stopped by +drew in his legs and sat up, seeking a firm center of gravity. He sucked +and swallowed the cold snow, his lips quivered but his eyes, still +smiling, glittered with effort and exasperation as he mustered his +remaining strength. He raised his pistol and aimed. +Pierre, with a gentle smile of pity and remorse, his arms and legs +Dólokhov and looked sorrowfully at him. Denísov, Rostóv, and +and Dólokhov’s angry cry. +“Missed!” shouted Dólokhov, and he lay helplessly, face downwards +Pierre clutched his temples, and turning round went into the forest, +trampling through the deep snow, and muttering incoherent words: +Nesvítski stopped him and took him home. +Rostóv and Denísov drove away with the wounded Dólokhov. +The latter lay silent in the sleigh with closed eyes and did not answer +suddenly came to and, lifting his head with an effort, took Rostóv, who +was sitting beside him, by the hand. Rostóv was struck by the +totally altered and unexpectedly rapturous and tender expression on +“My mother! My mother, my angel, my adored angel mother,” and +Dólokhov pressed Rostóv’s hand and burst into tears. +He implored Rostóv to go on and prepare her. +Rostóv went on ahead to do what was asked, and to his great surprise +with an old mother and a hunchback sister, and was the most affectionate +of sons and brothers. +Pierre had of late rarely seen his wife alone. Both in Petersburg and in +He lay down on the sofa meaning to fall asleep and forget all that +thoughts, and memories suddenly arose within him that he could not fall +asleep, nor even remain in one place, but had to jump up and pace the +their marriage, with bare shoulders and a languid, passionate look on +her face, and then immediately he saw beside her Dólokhov’s handsome, +insolent, hard, and mocking face as he had seen it at the banquet, and +then that same face pale, quivering, and suffering, as it had been when +he reeled and sank on the snow. +loving her; in deceiving yourself and her.” And he vividly recalled +He remembered his honeymoon and blushed at the recollection. +Particularly vivid, humiliating, and shameful was the recollection of +study a little before noon in his silk dressing gown and found his head +steward there, who, bowing respectfully, looked into his face and at +his dressing gown and smiled slightly, as if expressing respectful +understanding of his employer’s happiness. +and social tact,” thought he; “been proud of my house, in which she +received all Petersburg, proud of her unapproachability and beauty. So +this is what I was proud of! I then thought that I did not understand +I was to blame for not understanding her, for not understanding that +constant composure and complacency and lack of all interests or desires, +and the whole secret lies in the terrible truth that she is a depraved +“Anatole used to come to borrow money from her and used to kiss her +kissed. Her father in jest tried to rouse her jealousy, and she replied +she felt any symptoms of pregnancy. She laughed contemptuously and said +she was not a fool to want to have children, and that she was not going +Then he recalled the coarseness and bluntness of her thoughts and the +young and old men and women Pierre could not understand why he did not +And now there’s Dólokhov sitting in the snow with a forced smile and +which was a lie, and worse than a lie? I am guilty and must endure... +nonsense,” he thought. “The slur on my name and honor—that’s all +“Louis XVI was executed because they said he was dishonorable and a +criminal,” came into Pierre’s head, “and from their point of +view they were right, as were those too who canonized him and died a +a despot. Who is right and who is wrong? No one! But if you are +most strongly expressed his insincere love for her, and he felt the +blood rush to his heart and had again to get up and move about and break +and tear whatever came to his hand. “Why did I tell her that ‘Je +faire dans cette galère?” * occurred to him, and he began to laugh at +In the night he called his valet and told him to pack up to go to +resolved to go away next day and leave a letter informing her of his +was lying asleep on the ottoman with an open book in his hand. +He woke up and looked round for a while with a startled expression, +herself in a white satin dressing gown embroidered with silver and with +a coronet) entered the room, calm and majestic, except that there was +She knew of the duel and had come to speak about it. She waited till the +valet had set down the coffee things and left the room. Pierre looked +at her timidly over his spectacles, and like a hare surrounded by hounds +who lays back her ears and continues to crouch motionless before her +and impossible, he again glanced timidly at her. She did not sit down +Pierre turned over heavily on the ottoman and opened his mouth, but +word, “and you believed it! Well, what have you proved? What does this +all Moscow, that everyone will say that you, drunk and not knowing what +Hélène raised her voice and became more and more excited, “A man +“Hm... Hm...!” growled Pierre, frowning without looking at her, and +his company? If you were cleverer and more agreeable, I should prefer +“Why shouldn’t I speak? I can speak as I like, and I tell you +plainly that there are not many wives with husbands such as you who +expression she did not understand, and lay down again. He was suffering +physically at that moment, there was a weight on his chest and he could +Pierre leaped up from the sofa and rushed staggering toward her. +“I’ll kill you!” he shouted, and seizing the marble top of a table +brandishing the slab. +Hélène’s face became terrible, she shrieked and sprang aside. His +father’s nature showed itself in Pierre. He felt the fascination and +delight of frenzy. He flung down the slab, broke it, and swooping +down on her with outstretched hands shouted, “Get out!” in such a +in Great Russia, which formed the larger part of his property, and left +Two months had elapsed since the news of the battle of Austerlitz and +the loss of Prince Andrew had reached Bald Hills, and in spite of the +letters sent through the embassy and all the searches made, his body had +place and that he might now be lying, recovering or dying, alone among +strangers and unable to send news of himself. The gazettes from which +very briefly and vaguely, that after brilliant engagements the Russians +had had to retreat and had made their withdrawal in perfect order. The +“Your son,” wrote Kutúzov, “fell before my eyes, a standard in +his hand and at the head of a regiment—he fell as a hero, worthy of +his father and his fatherland. To the great regret of myself and of the +myself and you with the hope that your son is alive, for otherwise +was silent with his steward, the gardener, and the architect, and though +lathe and, as usual, did not look round at her. +impetus, and Princess Mary long remembered the dying creak of that +She approached him, saw his face, and something gave way within her. Her +crushed, but angry and working unnaturally, she saw that hanging over +her and about to crush her was some terrible misfortune, the worst +in life, one she had not yet experienced, irreparable and +an indescribable charm of sorrow and self-forgetfulness that her father +Kutúzov writes...” and he screamed as piercingly as if he wished to +hearing these words her face changed and something brightened in her +joys and sorrows of this world—overflowed the great grief within her. +She forgot all fear of her father, went up to him, took his hand, and +go and tell Lise.” +The princess sank helplessly into an armchair beside her father and +leave of her and of Lise, his look tender yet proud. She saw him tender +and amused as he was when he put on the little icon. “Did he believe? +of eternal peace and blessedness?” she thought. +“Go! Go! Killed in battle, where the best of Russian men and +Russia’s glory were led to destruction. Go, Princess Mary. Go and tell +working and looked up with that curious expression of inner, happy calm +joyful and mysterious taking place within her. +“Mary,” she said, moving away from the embroidery frame and lying +back, “give me your hand.” She took her sister-in-law’s hand and +Her eyes were smiling expectantly, her downy lip rose and remained +Princess Mary knelt down before her and hid her face in the folds of her +bright and happy eyes at her sister-in-law. +prepare her sister-in-law, and every time began to cry. Unobservant as +understand, agitated her. She said nothing but looked about uneasily as +always afraid, came into her room with a peculiarly restless and malign +expression and went out again without saying a word. She looked at +and suddenly began to cry. +“No, you know it’s too soon for news. But my father is anxious and I +She had determined not to tell her and persuaded her father to hide the +within a few days. Princess Mary and the old prince each bore and hid +he made up his mind that Prince Andrew had been killed, and though he +memory, and he told everybody that his son had been killed. He tried not +less, ate less, slept less, and became weaker every day. Princess Mary +hoped. She prayed for her brother as living and was always awaiting news +of the nineteenth March, and her downy little lip rose from old habit, +but as sorrow was manifest in every smile, the sound of every word, and +Courage, my angel.” She kissed Lise and was about to leave the room. +“Oh, no, no!” And besides the pallor and the physical suffering +a suffering child and to wring her little hands even with some +white hands with an air of calm importance. +princess. (In accordance with Lise’s and Prince Andrew’s wishes they +had sent in good time to Moscow for a doctor and were expecting him at +their faces was a quiet and solemn look. +house, now and then opening her door when someone passed and watching +and out of the bedroom glanced at the princess and turned away. She did +not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting +the icon stand. To her surprise and distress she found that her prayers +did not calm her excitement. Suddenly her door opened softly and her old +“I’ve come to sit with you a bit, Másha,” said the nurse, “and +here I’ve brought the prince’s wedding candles to light before his +The nurse lit the gilt candles before the icons and sat down by the door +with her knitting. Princess Mary took a book and began reading. Only +princess anxious and inquiring, the nurse encouraging. Everyone in the +ordinary staid and respectful good manners habitual in the prince’s +household, a common anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a +consciousness that something great and mysterious was being accomplished +hall all sat waiting, silently and alert. In the outlying serfs’ +quarters torches and candles were burning and no one slept. The old +prince, stepping on his heels, paced up and down his study and sent +prince told me to ask,’ and come and tell me her answer.” +Tíkhon went and told the prince. +“Very good!” said the prince closing the door behind him, and +After a while he re-entered it as if to snuff the candles, and, seeing +face, shook his head, and going up to him silently kissed him on the +shoulder and left the room without snuffing the candles or saying why he +Evening passed, night came, and the feeling of suspense and softening of +sway and scatters its last snows and storms with desperate fury. A relay +Moscow who was expected every moment, and men on horseback with lanterns +hollows and snow-covered pools of water. +kerchief, and the loose skin that hung under her chin. +Nurse Sávishna, knitting in hand, was telling in low tones, scarcely +hearing or understanding her own words, what she had told hundreds of +returned), and, forcing open a loosely closed latch, set the damask +curtain flapping and blew out the candle with its chill, snowy draft. +knitting, went to the window and leaning out tried to catch the open +casement. The cold wind flapped the ends of her kerchief and her loose +said, holding the casement and not closing it. “With lanterns. Most +“Oh, my God! thank God!” said Princess Mary. “I must go and meet +Princess Mary threw a shawl over her head and ran to meet the newcomer. +with lanterns, standing at the entrance. She went out on the stairs. On +a banister post stood a tallow candle which guttered in the draft. On +the landing below, Philip, the footman, stood looking scared and holding +another candle. Still lower, beyond the turn of the staircase, one +could hear the footstep of someone in thick felt boots, and a voice that +Then the voice said something more, Demyán replied, and the steps in +would be too extraordinary,” and at the very moment she thought this, +the face and figure of Prince Andrew, in a fur cloak the deep collar of +which covered with snow, appeared on the landing where the footman +stood with the candle. Yes, it was he, pale, thin, with a changed and +stairs and embraced his sister. +“You did not get my letter?” he asked, and not waiting for a +station), and again embraced his sister. +cloak and felt boots, he went to the little princess’ apartment. +head (the pains had just left her). Strands of her black hair lay round +her inflamed and perspiring cheeks, her charming rosy mouth with its +downy lip was open and she was smiling joyfully. Prince Andrew entered +and paused facing her at the foot of the sofa on which she was lying. +Her glittering eyes, filled with childlike fear and excitement, rested +on him without changing their expression. “I love you all and have +seemed to say. She saw her husband, but did not realize the significance +of his appearance before her now. Prince Andrew went round the sofa and +She looked at him inquiringly and with childlike reproach. +“I expected help from you and I get none, none from you either!” +her sufferings or with their relief. The pangs began again and Mary +The doctor entered. Prince Andrew went out and, meeting Princess Mary, +off at every moment. They waited and listened. +Prince Andrew went again to his wife and sat waiting in the room next +to hers. A woman came from the bedroom with a frightened face and became +confused when she saw Prince Andrew. He covered his face with his hands +and remained so for some minutes. Piteous, helpless, animal moans came +through the door. Prince Andrew got up, went to the door, and tried to +He began pacing the room. The screaming ceased, and a few more seconds +the door; the scream ceased and he heard the wail of an infant. +choked him, and leaning his elbows on the window sill he began to cry, +tucked up, without a coat, pale and with a trembling jaw, came out +bewildered look and passed by without a word. A woman rushed out and +her in five minutes before and, despite the fixed eyes and the pallor of +“I love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you +In a corner of the room something red and tiny gave a grunt and squealed +in Mary Bogdánovna’s trembling white hands. +room. The old man already knew everything. He was standing close to +the door and as soon as it opened his rough old arms closed like a vise +round his son’s neck, and without a word he began to sob like a child. +Three days later the little princess was buried, and Prince Andrew went +“Ah, what have you done to me?” it still seemed to say, and Prince +Andrew felt that something gave way in his soul and that he was guilty +old man too came up and kissed the waxen little hands that lay quietly +crossed one on the other on her breast, and to him, too, her face seemed +to say: “Ah, what have you done to me, and why?” And at the sight +Another five days passed, and then the young Prince Nicholas Andréevich +the priest with a goose feather anointed the boy’s little red and +wrinkled soles and palms. +His grandfather, who was his godfather, trembling and afraid of dropping +him, carried the infant round the battered tin font and handed him over +faint with fear lest the baby should be drowned in the font, and awaited +the nurse brought it to him and nodded approval when she told him that +the efforts of the old count, and instead of being degraded to the ranks +recovered, and Rostóv became very friendly with him during his +passionately and tenderly, and old Mary Ivánovna, who had grown fond of +“Yes, Count,” she would say, “he is too noble and pure-souled for +and even now never says a word against him. Those pranks in Petersburg +I think there were not many such gallant sons of the fatherland out +honor? Knowing him to be an only son, to challenge him and shoot so +owed him money! What baseness! What meanness! I know you understand +people do understand him. He is such a lofty, heavenly soul!” +I love so that I would give my life for them, and the others I’d +and two or three friends—you among them—and as for the rest I only +that divine purity and devotion I look for in women. If I found such a +one I’d give my life for her! But those!...” and he made a gesture +regenerate, purify, and elevate me. But you don’t understand it.” +“Oh, yes, I quite understand,” answered Rostóv, who was under his +Denísov also came back and stayed with them. The first half of the +happiest, merriest times for him and the whole family. Nicholas brought +many young men to his parents’ house. Véra was a handsome girl +flower; Natásha, half grown up and half child, was now childishly +atmosphere characteristic of homes where there are very young and very +happiness), feeling the eager bustle around him, and hearing the fitful +bursts of song and music and the inconsequent but friendly prattle of +young girls ready for anything and full of hope—experienced the same +readiness to fall in love and an expectation of happiness. +man, and that in the duel with Bezúkhov, Pierre was right and Dólokhov +wrong, and further that he was disagreeable and unnatural. +“There’s nothing for me to understand,” she cried out with +resolute self-will, “he is wicked and heartless. There now, I like +your Denísov though he is a rake and all that, still I like him; so +you see I do understand. I don’t know how to put it... with this one +everything is calculated, and I don’t like that. But Denísov...” +even Denísov was nothing compared to Dólokhov—“you must understand +for the society of ladies, began to come often to the house, and the +have dared to say so, knew it and blushed scarlet every time Dólokhov +which they were present, and went to Iogel’s balls for young people +and looked at her in such a way that not only could she not bear his +glances without coloring, but even the old countess and Natásha blushed +“They’re always in love with someone,” he thought of Sónya and +Natásha. But he was not as much at ease with Sónya and Dólokhov as +before and was less frequently at home. +given to raise recruits, ten men in every thousand for the regular army, +and besides this, nine men in every thousand for the militia. Everywhere +Bonaparte was anathematized and in Moscow nothing but the coming war +remaining in Moscow, and only awaited the termination of Denísov’s +from home, at dinners, parties, and balls. +rarely done of late. It was a grand farewell dinner, as he and Denísov +were present, including Dólokhov and Denísov. +Never had love been so much in the air, and never had the amorous +this holiday time. “Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! +visiting all the places he meant to go to and where he had been invited, +returned home just before dinner. As soon as he entered he noticed and +felt the tension of the amorous air in the house, and also noticed a +and the old countess were especially disturbed, and to a lesser degree +Sónya and Dólokhov before dinner, and with the kindly sensitiveness +natural to him was very gentle and wary with them both at dinner. On +“He asked you, and Vasíli Dmítrich * is also going.” +“Where would I not go at the countess’ command!” said Denísov, +“Perhaps,” coldly and angrily replied Dólokhov, glancing at Sónya, +and, scowling, he gave Nicholas just such a look as he had given Pierre +“There is something up,” thought Nicholas, and he was further +after dinner. He called Natásha and asked her what was the matter. +seemed to give way within him at this news. Dólokhov was a suitable and +the point of view of the old countess and of society it was out of the +and accept the offer,” but before he had time to say it Natásha began +“Much as Mamma pressed her, she refused, and I know she won’t change +And Natásha kissed her brother and ran away. +A minute later Sónya came in with a frightened, guilty, and scared +look. Nicholas went up to her and kissed her hand. This was the first +time since his return that they had talked alone and about their love. +“Sophie,” he began, timidly at first and then more and more +boldly, “if you wish to refuse one who is not only a brilliant and +love you, and I think I love you more than anyone else....” +“No, but I have been in love a thousand times and shall fall in +confidence, and love as I have for you. Then I am young. Mamma does +“Don’t say that to me! I want nothing. I love you as a brother and +always shall, and I want nothing more.” +And Nicholas again kissed her hand. +and so said the youths and maidens themselves as they danced till they +were ready to drop, and so said the grown-up young men and women who +came to these balls with an air of condescension and found them most +pretty young Princesses Gorchakóv met suitors there and were married +and so further increased the fame of these dances. What distinguished +them from others was the absence of host or hostess and the presence of +the good-natured Iogel, flying about like a feather and bowing according +and amuse themselves as girls of thirteen and fourteen do who are +and so sparkling their eyes. Sometimes the best of the pupils, of whom +de châle, but at this last ball only the écossaise, the anglaise, and +taken a ballroom in Bezúkhov’s house, and the ball, as everyone said, +was a great success. There were many pretty girls and the Rostóv girls +were among the prettiest. They were both particularly happy and gay. +That evening, proud of Dólokhov’s proposal, her refusal, and her +so that the maid could hardly get her hair plaited, and she was +Natásha no less proud of her first long dress and of being at a real +Nicholas and Denísov were walking up and down, looking with kindly +The band struck up the newly introduced mazurka. Nicholas could not +refuse Iogel and asked Sónya to dance. Denísov sat down by the old +ladies and, leaning on his saber and beating time with his foot, told +them something funny and kept them amused, while he watched the young +people dancing, Iogel with Natásha, his pride and his best pupil, were +take his eyes off her and beat time with his saber in a way that clearly +indicated that if he was not dancing it was because he would not and not +Knowing that Denísov had a reputation even in Poland for the masterly +“Go and choose Denísov. He is a real dancer, a wonder!” he said. +When it came to Natásha’s turn to choose a partner, she rose and, +looking at her and waiting. Nicholas saw that Denísov was refusing +“Oh, the faiwy! She can do anything with me!” said Denísov, and +partner’s hand firmly, threw back his head, and advanced his foot, +waiting for the beat. Only on horse back and in the mazurka was +Denísov’s short stature not noticeable and he looked the fine fellow +at his partner with a merry and triumphant air, suddenly stamped with +one foot, bounded from the floor like a ball, and flew round the room +the room, and seeming not to notice the chairs was dashing straight at +them, when suddenly, clinking his spurs and spreading out his legs, +clanking his spurs, whirled rapidly round, and, striking his left heel +he meant to do, and abandoning herself to him followed his lead hardly +with his right hand, then falling on one knee he twirled her round him, +and again jumping up, dashed so impetuously forward that it seemed as if +and then he suddenly stopped and performed some new and unexpected +chair, he drew up with a click of his spurs and bowed to her, Natásha +was delighted with Denísov’s skill, he was asked again and again as +a partner, and the old men began smilingly to talk about Poland and the +good old days. Denísov, flushed after the mazurka and mopping himself +with his handkerchief, sat down by Natásha and did not leave her for +of, and am going to rejoin my regiment, I am giving a farewell supper +theater, where he had been with his family and Denísov. He was at once +two candles. On the table was a pile of gold and paper money, and he +was keeping the bank. Rostóv had not seen him since his proposal and +Sónya’s refusal and felt uncomfortable at the thought of how they +I’ll just finish dealing, and then Ilyúshka will come with his +dinner and at other times, when as if tired of everyday life he had felt +a need to escape from it by some strange, and usually cruel, action. +anything, Dólokhov, looking straight in his face, said slowly and +trusts to luck, one should make certain,’ and I want to try.” +“Well, you’d better not play,” Dólokhov added, and springing a +side and at first did not play. Dólokhov kept glancing at him. +card, putting a small stake on it, and beginning to play. +Rostóv staked five rubles on a card and lost, staked again, and again +The game continued; a waiter kept handing round champagne. +All Rostóv’s cards were beaten and he had eight hundred rubles scored +waiter filled his glass he changed his mind and altered it to his usual +Rostóv submitted. He let the eight hundred remain and laid down a seven +handed him, smiled at Dólokhov’s words, and with a sinking heart, +waiting for a seven to turn up, gazed at Dólokhov’s hands which held +two thousand rubles, and though he always disliked speaking of money +till May, and asked him to be more economical this time. Nicholas had +replied that it would be more than enough for him and that he gave his +Dólokhov’s hands and thought, “Now then, make haste and let me have +this card and I’ll take my cap and drive home to supper with Denísov, +Natásha, and Sónya, and will certainly never touch a card again.” At +with Natásha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed +clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and +might deprive him of all this happiness, newly appreciated and newly +illumined, and plunge him into the depths of unknown and undefined +movement of Dólokhov’s hands. Those broad, reddish hands, with hairy +wrists visible from under the shirt cuffs, laid down the pack and took +up a glass and a pipe that were handed him. +“So you are not afraid to play with me?” repeated Dólokhov, and as +chair, and began deliberately with a smile: +“Oh, those Moscow gossips!” said Dólokhov, and he took up the cards +“Aah!” Rostóv almost screamed lifting both hands to his head. The +An hour and a half later most of the players were but little interested +which he had reckoned up to ten thousand, but that now, as he vaguely +supposed, must have risen to fifteen thousand. In reality it already +exceeded twenty thousand rubles. Dólokhov was no longer listening to +hands and occasionally ran his eyes over the score against him. He had +decided to play until that score reached forty-three thousand. He +had fixed on that number because forty-three was the sum of his and +Sónya’s joint ages. Rostóv, leaning his head on both hands, sat at +and littered with cards. One tormenting impression did not leave him: +that those broad-boned reddish hands with hairy wrists visible from +under the shirt sleeves, those hands which he loved and hated, held him +accept it and fixed the stake himself. Nicholas submitted to him, and at +over the Enns, and then guessed that the card that came first to hand +cords on his coat and took a card with that number and tried staking the +players, or peered at the now cold face of Dólokhov and tried to read +casket for Mamma’s name day and then going home. I was so happy, so +that end and when did this new, terrible state of things begin? What +chose and placed cards, and watched those broad-boned agile hands in the +same way. When did it happen and what has happened? I am well and strong +and still the same and in the same place. No, it can’t be! Surely it +He was flushed and bathed in perspiration, though the room was not hot. +His face was terrible and piteous to see, especially from its helpless +The score against him reached the fateful sum of forty-three thousand. +meant to double the three thousand just put down to his score, when +Dólokhov, slamming down the pack of cards, put it aside and began +he marked the figures in his clear, bold hand. +Some swarthy men and women were really entering from the cold outside +and saying something in their gypsy accents. Nicholas understood that it +by which the total exceeded the round sum of forty-three thousand; and +corner of his card and, instead of the six thousand he had intended, +moment those hands with their short reddish fingers and hairy wrists, +“You owe forty-three thousand, Count,” said Dólokhov, and +“I say, Rostóv,” said Dólokhov clearly, smiling and looking +thought Rostóv. He knew what a shock he would inflict on his father and +escape it all, and felt that Dólokhov knew that he could save him from +all this shame and sorrow, but wanted now to play with him as a cat does +“My cousin has nothing to do with this and it’s not necessary to +“Tomorrow,” replied Rostóv and left the room. +To say “tomorrow” and keep up a dignified tone was not difficult, +but to go home alone, see his sisters, brother, mother, and father, +confess and ask for money he had no right to after giving his word of +from the theater, had had supper and were grouped round the clavichord. +of love which pervaded the Rostóv household that winter and, now after +Dólokhov’s proposal and Iogel’s ball, seemed to have grown thicker +round Sónya and Natásha as the air does before a thunderstorm. Sónya +and Natásha, in the light-blue dresses they had worn at the theater, +looking pretty and conscious of it, were standing by the clavichord, +happy and smiling. Véra was playing chess with Shinshín in the drawing +room. The old countess, waiting for the return of her husband and son, +Denísov, with sparkling eyes and ruffled hair, sat at the clavichord +striking chords with his short fingers, his legs thrown back and his +verses called “Enchantress,” which he had composed, and to which he +black-agate eyes at the frightened and happy Natásha. +glancing into the drawing room, where he saw Véra and his mother with +“Ah, and here’s Nicholas!” cried Natásha, running up to him. +Nicholas went to her, kissed her hand, and sitting down silently at her +table began to watch her hands arranging the cards. From the dancing +room, they still heard the laughter and merry voices trying to persuade +am I to go?” thought Nicholas, and went again into the dancing room +Nicholas began pacing up and down the room. +“My God, I’m a ruined and dishonored man! A bullet through my brain +He continued to pace the room, looking gloomily at Denísov and the +girls and avoiding their eyes. +enjoyment by sympathy with anyone’s sorrow,” she felt, and she said +Having lifted her head and let her arms droop lifelessly, as ballet +stepped to the middle of the room and stood still. +sister. “Why isn’t she dull and ashamed?” +surroundings, and from her smiling lips flowed sounds which anyone may +produce at the same intervals and hold for the same time, but which +leave you cold a thousand times and the thousand and first time thrill +you and make you weep. +voice, with its incorrect breathing and labored transitions, was +it and wished to hear it again. In her voice there was a virginal +freshness, an unconsciousness of her own powers, and an as yet untrained +next note, the next phrase, and everything in the world was divided into +this misery, and money, and Dólokhov, and anger, and honor—it’s all +Oh, how that chord vibrated, and how moved was something that was finest +in the world and above everything in the world. “What were losses, and +Dólokhov, and words of honor?... All nonsense! One might kill and rob +and yet be happy....” +reality again presented itself. He got up without saying a word and went +came in from his club, cheerful and contented. Nicholas, hearing him +“Well—had a good time?” said the old count, smiling gaily and +Nicholas tried to say “Yes,” but could not: and he nearly burst into +sobs. The count was lighting his pipe and did not notice his son’s +“Ah, it can’t be avoided!” thought Nicholas, for the first and +“Very much,” said Nicholas flushing, and with a stupid careless +little, I mean a good deal, a great deal—forty three thousand.” +with an apoplectic flush over neck and nape as old people do. +“Well!...” said the old count, spreading out his arms and sinking +a bold, free, and easy tone, while in his soul he regarded himself as a +longed to kiss his father’s hands and kneel to beg his forgiveness, +but said, in a careless and even rude voice, that it happens to +The old count cast down his eyes on hearing his son’s words and began +seizing his father’s hand, he pressed it to his lips and burst into +While father and son were having their explanation, the mother and +dolls and who was still having lessons. +indignantly. “I come to ask you what to do, and you call it +“No, he’s not a fool!” replied Natásha indignantly and seriously. +“No, but what is it, my dear? Do you want me to go and tell him?” +married,” answered the countess sharply and sarcastically. +“No, not on any account! I will tell him myself, and you’ll listen +at the door,” and Natásha ran across the drawing room to the dancing +with his face in his hands. +fate. It is in your hands.” +Denísov bent over her hand and she heard strange sounds she did not +understand. She kissed his rough curly black head. At this instant, they +daughter is so young, and I thought that, as my son’s friend, you +“Countess...” said Denísov, with downcast eyes and a guilty face. +voice, “but believe me, I so adore your daughter and all your family +and seeing her severe face said: “Well, good-by, Countess,” and +kissing her hand, he left the room with quick resolute strides, without +not at once raise, and he spent most of his time in the girls’ room. +Sónya was more tender and devoted to him than ever. It was as if she +He filled the girls’ albums with verses and music, and having at last +sent Dólokhov the whole forty-three thousand rubles and received his +his acquaintances, to overtake his regiment which was already in Poland. +feet in their overboots on the table, and began to reflect. +“Will you have the portmanteaus brought in? And a bed got ready, and +begun to think of the last station and was still pondering on the same +The postmaster, his wife, the valet, and a peasant woman selling +spectacles unable to understand what they wanted or how they could go on +Sokólniki after the duel and had spent that first agonizing, sleepless +these same questions which he could not solve and yet could not cease to +The postmaster came in and began obsequiously to beg his excellency to +have the courier horses. It was plain that he was lying and only wanted +bad for another traveler, and for himself it’s unavoidable, because +considered myself injured, and Louis XVI was executed because they +considered him a criminal, and a year later they executed those who +should one love and what hate? What does one live for? And what am I? +What is life, and what is death? What power governs all?” +There was no answer to any of these questions, except one, and that +not a logical answer and not at all a reply to them. The answer was: +“You’ll die and all will end. You’ll die and know all, or cease +rubles I don’t know what to do with, and she stands in her tattered +less a prey to evil and death?—death which ends all and must come +and again it turned uselessly in the same place. +His servant handed him a half-cut novel, in the form of letters, by +Madame de Souza. He began reading about the sufferings and virtuous +once was—did not struggle, and perhaps she was right. Nothing has been +Everything within and around him seemed confused, senseless, and +Pierre took his feet off the table, stood up, and lay down on a bed that +had been got ready for him, glancing now and then at the newcomer, who, +with a gloomy and tired face, was wearily taking off his wraps with the +aid of his servant, and not looking at Pierre. With a pair of felt boots +on his thin bony legs, and keeping on a worn, nankeen-covered, sheepskin +its broad temples and close-cropped hair, and looked at Bezúkhov. The +stern, shrewd, and penetrating expression of that look struck Pierre. He +eyes. His shriveled old hands were folded and on the finger of one of +it seemed to Pierre, sunk in profound and calm meditation. His servant +This active old servant was unpacking the traveler’s canteen and +tumbler with tea for himself and one for the beardless old man to whom +he passed it. Pierre began to feel a sense of uneasiness, and the +unfinished bit of nibbled sugar, and asked if anything more would be +The servant handed him a book which Pierre took to be a devotional work, +and the traveler became absorbed in it. Pierre looked at him. All at +once the stranger closed the book, putting in a marker, and again, +position with his eyes shut. Pierre looked at him and had not time +to turn away when the old man, opening his eyes, fixed his steady and +Pierre felt confused and wished to avoid that look, but the bright old +mistaken,” said the stranger in a deliberate and loud voice. +Pierre looked silently and inquiringly at him over his spectacles. +“I have heard of you, my dear sir,” continued the stranger, “and +Pierre flushed and, hurriedly putting his legs down from the bed, bent +forward toward the old man with a forced and timid smile. +He paused, his gaze still on Pierre, and moved aside on the sofa by way +involuntarily, came up and sat down beside him. +are young and I am old. I should like to help you as far as lies in my +The stranger’s face was not genial, it was even cold and severe, but +in spite of this, both the face and words of his new acquaintance were +an unexpected and tenderly paternal way. +hands, he looked more closely at the ring, with its skull—a Masonic +stranger, looking deeper and deeper into Pierre’s eyes. “And in +their name and my own I hold out a brotherly hand to you.” +“I am afraid,” said Pierre, smiling, and wavering between the +confidence the personality of the Freemason inspired in him and his own +from understanding—how am I to put it?—I am afraid my way of looking +at the world is so opposed to yours that we shall not understand one +“I know your outlook,” said the Mason, “and the view of life you +mention, and which you think is the result of your own mental efforts, +is the one held by the majority of people, and is the invariable fruit +of pride, indolence, and ignorance. Forgive me, my dear sir, but if I +whose words struck Pierre more and more by their precision and firmness. +a worthy dwelling place of the Great God,” he added, and closed his +God,” said Pierre, regretfully and with an effort, feeling it +The Mason looked intently at Pierre and smiled as a rich man with +millions in hand might smile at a poor fellow who told him that he, poor +cannot know Him. You do not know Him and that is why you are unhappy.” +“You know Him not, my dear sir, and so you are very unhappy. You do +thee, and even in those blasphemous words thou hast just uttered!” +pronounced the Mason in a stern and tremulous voice. +He paused and sighed, evidently trying to calm himself. +“If He were not,” he said quietly, “you and I would not be +hast thou denied?” he suddenly asked with exulting austerity and +didst thou, and why did the whole world, conceive the idea of the +eternal, and infinite in all His attributes?...” +He stopped and remained silent for a long time. +Pierre could not and did not wish to break this silence. +“He exists, but to understand Him is hard,” the Mason began again, +looking not at Pierre but straight before him, and turning the leaves +of his book with his old hands which from excitement he could not keep +bring him to thee, could take him by the hand and show him to thee. But +and all His mercy to one who is blind, or who shuts his eyes that he may +not see or understand Him and may not see or understand his own vileness +and sinfulness?” He paused again. “Who art thou? Thou dreamest that +went on, with a somber and scornful smile. “And thou art more foolish +and unreasonable than a little child, who, playing with the parts of a +skillfully made watch, dares to say that, as he does not understand +attain that knowledge and are still infinitely far from our aim; but +in our lack of understanding we see only our weakness and His +believes, in the speaker’s tone of conviction and earnestness, or +firmness and certainty of his vocation, which radiated from his whole +being (and which struck Pierre especially by contrast with his own +dejection and hopelessness)—at any rate, Pierre longed with his whole +soul to believe and he did believe, and felt a joyful sense of comfort, +regeneration, and return to life. +“I do not understand,” said Pierre, feeling with dismay doubts +“I don’t understand,” he said, “how it is that the mind of man +“The highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish +vessel and judge of its purity? Only by the inner purification of myself +worldly sciences of physics, history, chemistry, and the like, into +science explaining the whole creation and man’s place in it. To +receive that science it is necessary to purify and renew one’s inner +self, and so before one can know, it is necessary to believe and to +“Look then at thy inner self with the eyes of the spirit, and ask +good gifts? Are you content with yourself and with your life?” +“Thou hatest it. Then change it, purify thyself; and as thou art +How have you spent it? In riotous orgies and debauchery, receiving +everything from society and giving nothing in return. You have become +for your neighbor? Have you ever thought of your tens of thousands +of slaves? Have you helped them physically and morally? No! You have +woman; and what have you done? You have not helped her to find the way +of truth, my dear sir, but have thrust her into an abyss of deceit and +misery. A man offended you and you shot him, and you say you do not +know God and hate your life. There is nothing strange in that, my dear +leaned his arms on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes. Pierre +looked at that aged, stern, motionless, almost lifeless face and moved +The Mason cleared his throat huskily, as old men do, and called his +all, and without promising to help me?” thought Pierre, rising with +downcast head; and he began to pace the room, glancing occasionally at +and profligate life, though I did not like it and did not want to,” +thought Pierre. “But this man knows the truth and, if he wished to, +traveler, having packed his things with his practiced hands, began +fastening his coat. When he had finished, he turned to Bezúkhov, and +I, above all, who am to blame for everything. Help me, teach me, and +Pierre could not go on. He gulped and turned away. +Petersburg. Hand this to Count Willarski” (he took out his notebook +and wrote a few words on a large sheet of paper folded in four). +first of all devote some time to solitude and self-examination and do +my dear sir,” he added, seeing that his servant had entered... “and +and Martinists, even in Novíkov’s time. For a long while after he had +gone, Pierre did not go to bed or order horses but paced up and down +the room, pondering over his vicious past, and with a rapturous sense +the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that is how +he went nowhere and spent whole days in reading Thomas à Kempis, whose +of believing in the possibility of attaining perfection, and in the +into his room one evening in the official and ceremonious manner in +which Dólokhov’s second had called on him, and, having closed the +door behind him and satisfied himself that there was nobody else in the +“I have come to you with a message and an offer, Count,” he +said without sitting down. “A person of very high standing in our +before the usual term and has proposed to me to be your sponsor. I +to what he must do and how he should answer, Willarski only replied that +brothers more worthy than he would test him and that Pierre had only to +headquarters, and having ascended a dark staircase, they entered a small +something to him in French in an undertone and then went up to a small +Pierre’s eyes with it and tied it in a knot behind, catching some +hairs painfully in the knot. Then he drew his face down, kissed him, and +taking him by the hand led him forward. The hairs tied in the knot hurt +Pierre and there were lines of pain on his face and a shamefaced smile. +His huge figure, with arms hanging down and with a puckered, though +your eyes,” added Willarski. “I wish you courage and success,” +and, pressing Pierre’s hand, he went out. +he shrugged his shoulders and raised his hand to the kerchief, as if +with his eyes bandaged seemed to him an hour. His arms felt numb, +would happen to him and still more afraid of showing his fear. He felt +curious to know what was going to happen and what would be revealed to +would at last start on that path of regeneration and on the actively +Alexéevich. Loud knocks were heard at the door. Pierre took the bandage +off his eyes and glanced around him. The room was in black darkness, +and saw that the lamp stood on a black table on which lay an open book. +The book was the Gospel, and the white thing with the lamp inside was a +human skull with its cavities and teeth. After reading the first words +of the Gospel: “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with +God,” Pierre went round the table and saw a large open box filled +seemed to him that he had expected all this and even more. Trying +words with vague yet joyful ideas. The door opened and someone came in. +table and placed on it his small leather-gloved hands. +This short man had on a white leather apron which covered his chest and +you, who do not believe in the truth of the light and who have not +At the moment the door opened and the stranger came in, Pierre felt a +sense of awe and veneration such as he had experienced in his boyhood at +breath and beating heart he moved toward the Rhetor (by which name the +Smolyanínov, and it mortified him to think that the newcomer was an +acquaintance—he wished him simply a brother and a virtuous instructor. +“Very well,” said Smolyanínov, and went on at once: “Have you any +aim?” said he quietly and quickly. +with a trembling voice and some difficulty in utterance due to his +excitement and to being unaccustomed to speak of abstract matters in +“I imagine that Freemasonry is the fraternity and equality of men who +“No, I considered it erroneous and did not follow it,” said Pierre, +so softly that the Rhetor did not hear him and asked him what he was +therefore you seek wisdom and virtue. Is that not so?” said the +The Rhetor cleared his throat, crossed his gloved hands on his breast, +and began to speak. +“and if this aim coincides with yours, you may enter our Brotherhood +with profit. The first and chief object of our Order, the foundation on +which it rests and which no human power can destroy, is the preservation +and handing on to posterity of a certain important mystery... which +prepared by long and diligent self-purification, not everyone can hope +our members as much as possible to reform their hearts, to purify and +enlighten their minds, by means handed on to us by tradition from those +who have striven to attain this mystery, and thereby to render them +“By purifying and regenerating our members we try, thirdly, to improve +and virtue, and thereby try with all our might to combat the evil which +sways the world. Think this over and I will come to you again.” +“To combat the evil which sways the world...” Pierre repeated, and a +He imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he +vicious and unfortunate people whom he would assist by word and deed, +and the second aim, that of purifying and regenerating himself, did not +was already perfectly cured of his former faults and was ready for all +from this distressful life, and leads it to its place of recompense and +soul: courage, generosity, morality, love of mankind, and especially +felt so glad to be free from his own lawlessness and to submit his will +virtue was and could not recall it. +The third time the Rhetor came back more quickly and asked Pierre +whether he was still firm in his intention and determined to submit to +and virtue than mere words. This chamber with what you see therein +Pierre quickly took out his purse and watch, but could not manage for +Pierre took off his coat, waistcoat, and left boot according to the +left breast, and stooping down pulled up the left leg of his trousers +and was going to tuck up the other trouser leg to save this stranger the +trouble, but the Mason told him that was not necessary and gave him +doubt, and self-derision, which appeared on his face against his will, +Pierre stood with his arms hanging down and legs apart, before his +brother Rhetor, and awaited his further commands. +“And now, in token of candor, I ask you to reveal to me your chief +The Mason did not move and for a long time said nothing after this +answer. At last he moved up to Pierre and, taking the kerchief that lay +yourself, put a bridle on your senses, and seek blessedness, not in +replied: “Yes, yes, I agree,” and with a beaming, childlike smile, +his fat chest uncovered, stepping unevenly and timidly in one slippered +and one booted foot, he advanced, while Willarski held a sword to his +backwards and forwards and was at last brought to the doors of the +blindfolded) questioned him as to who he was, when and where he was +born, and so on. Then he was again led somewhere still blindfolded, +and as they went along he was told allegories of the toils of his +universe, and of the courage with which he should endure toils and +dangers. During these wanderings, Pierre noticed that he was spoken +of now as the “Seeker,” now as the “Sufferer,” and now as the +mallets and swords. As he was being led up to some object he noticed a +hesitation and uncertainty among his conductors. He heard those around +him disputing in whispers and one of them insisting that he should be +led along a certain carpet. After that they took his right hand, placed +it on something, and told him to hold a pair of compasses to his left +breast with the other hand and to repeat after someone who read aloud +an oath of fidelity to the laws of the Order. The candles were then +extinguished and some spirit lighted, as Pierre knew by the smell, and +he was told that he would now see the lesser light. The bandage was +taken off his eyes and, by the faint light of the burning spirit, +Pierre, as in a dream, saw several men standing before him, wearing +aprons like the Rhetor’s and holding swords in their hands pointed at +him and he was at once blindfolded again. +candles were relit and he was told that he would see the full light; the +bandage was again removed and more than ten voices said together: “Sic +Pierre gradually began to recover himself and looked about at the room +and at the people in it. Round a long table covered with black sat some +distinguished dignitary and a Swiss who had formerly been tutor at the +of the President, who held a mallet in his hand. Let into the wall was +altar on which lay a Testament and a skull. Round it stood seven large +candlesticks like those used in churches. Two of the brothers led Pierre +up to the altar, placed his feet at right angles, and bade him lie down, +obeying, and suddenly doubts arose in his mind. “Where am I? What am +through, and realized that he could not stop halfway. He was aghast +at his hesitation and, trying to arouse his former devotional feeling, +he had lain there some time, he was told to get up, and a white leather +and three pairs of gloves, and then the Grand Master addressed him. He +apron, which symbolized strength and purity; then of the unexplained +and indulgently to smooth with it the heart of his neighbor. As to the +he was to wear at the meetings, and finally of the third, a pair of +hands that are unclean.” While the Grand Master said these last words +looking about him uneasily, and an awkward pause followed. +rug and began reading to him from a manuscript book an explanation of +trowel, a rough stone and a squared stone, a pillar, three windows, and +the Lodge, told the password, and at last was permitted to sit down. +The Grand Master began reading the statutes. They were very long, and +Pierre, from joy, agitation, and embarrassment, was not in a state to +understand what was being read. He managed to follow only the last words +of the statutes and these remained in his mind. +“In our temples we recognize no other distinctions,” read the Grand +Master, “but those between virtue and vice. Beware of making any +never bear malice or enmity toward thy brother. Be kindly and courteous. +neighbor, and may envy never dim the purity of that bliss. Forgive thy +He finished and, getting up, embraced and kissed Pierre, who, with tears +congratulations and greetings from acquaintances that met him on all +brothers, and burned with impatience to set to work with them. +The Grand Master rapped with his mallet. All the Masons sat down in +their places, and one of them read an exhortation on the necessity of +The Grand Master proposed that the last duty should be performed, +and the distinguished dignitary who bore the title of “Collector +The meeting was at an end, and on reaching home Pierre felt as if he had +become completely changed, and had quite left behind his former habits +and way of life. +home reading a book and trying to fathom the significance of the Square, +physical things, and the fourth a combination of these. Now and then +his attention wandered from the book and the Square and he formed in +had heard that a rumor of his duel had reached the Emperor and that it +estates in the south and there attending to the welfare of his serfs. +Prince Vasíli, as he entered. “I know all about it, and I can tell +know all about it and understand it all,” he said. “You behaved as +go into that. But consider the position in which you are placing her and +me in the eyes of society, and even of the court,” he added, lowering +his voice. “She is living in Moscow and you are here. Remember, +dear boy,” and he drew Pierre’s arm downwards, “it is simply a +misunderstanding. I expect you feel it so yourself. Let us write her +a letter at once, and she’ll come here and all will be explained, or +Pierre tried several times to speak, but, on one hand, Prince Vasíli +did not let him and, on the other, Pierre himself feared to begin to +speak in the tone of decided refusal and disagreement in which he had +Masonic statutes, “be kindly and courteous,” recurred to him. He +blinked, went red, got up and sat down again, struggling with himself +unable to withstand it now, but he also felt that on what he said now +and I’ll write to her myself, and we will kill the fatted calf.” +without looking at him, and with a kind of fury that made him like his +and opened the door for him. +“Go!” he repeated, amazed at himself and glad to see the look of +confusion and fear that showed itself on Prince Vasíli’s face. +and leaving large sums of money with them for alms, went away to his +estates. His new brethren gave him letters to the Kiev and Odessa Masons +and promised to write to him and guide him in his new activity. +The duel between Pierre and Dólokhov was hushed up and, in spite of +an illegitimate son, and petted and extolled when he was the best +marriage—when the marriageable daughters and their mothers had nothing +to hope from him—especially as he did not know how, and did not +happened, he was said to be insanely jealous and subject like his +due to her misfortune. When conversation turned on her husband Hélène +acquired though she did not understand its significance. This expression +and that her husband was a cross laid upon her by God. Prince Vasíli +was mentioned and, pointing to his forehead, remarked: +Pierre, “I said at the time and before anyone else” (she insisted +was in raptures about him, when he had just returned from abroad, and +And how has it ended? I was against this marriage even then and foretold +and interesting person to the visitors and that nowhere else was the +society so dearly and distinctly indicated. +destruction of the Prussian army at Jena and Auerstädt and the +troops had already entered Prussia and our second war with Napoleon +by her husband, Mortemart, the delightful Prince Hippolyte who had +de beaucoup de mérite), a newly appointed maid of honor and her mother, +and several other less noteworthy persons. +the Prussian army and was aide-de-camp to a very important personage. +“Whatever the European sovereigns and commanders may do to +countenance Bonaparte, and to cause me, and us in general, annoyance and +to express our sincere views on that subject, and can only say to the +King of Prussia and others: ‘So much the worse for you. Tu l’as +voulu, George Dandin,’ that’s all we have to say about it!” +room, almost all the company had assembled, and the conversation, guided +by Anna Pávlovna, was about our diplomatic relations with Austria and +Borís, grown more manly and looking fresh, rosy and self-possessed, +aide-de-camp and was duly conducted to pay his respects to the aunt and +Anna Pávlovna gave him her shriveled hand to kiss and introduced him to +and simply, “Mr. Shítov—a man of great merit”—this of the man +Thanks to Anna Mikháylovna’s efforts, his own tastes, and the +Prussia, and had just returned from there as a special messenger. He had +been so pleased at Olmütz and according to which an ensign might rank +incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was +grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his +success and at the inability of others to understand these things. +be better dressed than others, and would rather deprive himself of many +and sought the acquaintance of only those above him in position and +who could therefore be of use to him. He liked Petersburg and despised +Moscow. The remembrance of the Rostóvs’ house and of his childish +love for Natásha was unpleasant to him and he had not once been to see +service, and he at once understood his role, letting his hostess make +each of those present, and the advantages that might accrue. He took +the seat indicated to him beside the fair Hélène and listened to the +them, and she doubts the means we have of gaining them. That is the +“We must distinguish between the Vienna cabinet and the Emperor of +After that Anna Pávlovna led up to the courage and firmness of the King +beautiful Hélène, whose eyes several times met those of the handsome +Borís to tell them about his journey to Glogau and in what state he +in pure, correct French many interesting details about the armies and +general attention, and Anna Pávlovna felt that the novelty she had +him several questions about his journey and seemed greatly interested in +“You absolutely must come and see me,” she said in a tone that +“On Tuesday between eight and nine. It will give me great pleasure.” +Borís promised to fulfill her wish and was about to begin a +“You know her husband, of course?” said Anna Pávlovna, closing her +eyes and indicating Hélène with a sorrowful gesture. “Ah, she is +such an unfortunate and charming woman! Don’t mention him before +When Borís and Anna Pávlovna returned to the others Prince Hippolyte +Bending forward in his armchair he said: “Le Roi de Prusse!” and +and then calmly and seriously sat back in his chair. Anna Pávlovna +Hippolyte interrupted her with the words: “Le Roi de Prusse...” and +again, as soon as all turned toward him, excused himself and said no +a joke he had heard in Vienna and which he had been trying all that +The conversation did not flag all evening and turned chiefly on the +significant command to come to her on Tuesday. +toward Anna Pávlovna, and Anna Pávlovna, with the same sad smile with +him to come. There were other guests and the countess talked little to +him, and only as he kissed her hand on taking leave said unexpectedly +and in a whisper, with a strangely unsmiling face: “Come to dinner +The war was flaming up and nearing the Russian frontier. Everywhere one +heard curses on Bonaparte, “the enemy of mankind.” Militiamen and +recruits were being enrolled in the villages, and from the seat of +war came contradictory news, false as usual and therefore variously +interpreted. The life of old Prince Bolkónski, Prince Andrew, and +In 1806 the old prince was made one of the eight commanders in chief +himself, and this fresh opportunity for action gave him new energy +and strength. He was continually traveling through the three provinces +to cruel with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the +mathematics from her father, and when the old prince was at home went +to his study with the wet nurse and little Prince Nicholas (as his +grandfather called him). The baby Prince Nicholas lived with his wet +nurse and nurse Sávishna in the late princess’ rooms and Princess +passionately fond of the boy, and Princess Mary often deprived herself +to give her friend the pleasure of dandling the little angel—as she +called her nephew—and playing with him. +tomb of the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument +about to smile, and once on coming out of the chapel Prince Andrew and +his father’s peculiarities, and partly because he needed solitude, +Prince Andrew made use of Boguchárovo, began building and spent most of +to continue his military service, and when the war recommenced +and everybody had to serve, he took a post under his father in the +recruitment so as to avoid active service. The old prince and his son +while Prince Andrew on the contrary, taking no part in the war and +had driven the old prince to town returned bringing papers and letters +child’s little chair while, frowning and with trembling hands, he +“What is it?” he said crossly, and, his hand shaking +mixture onto the floor and asked for some more water. The maid brought +table, a child’s table, and the little chair on which Prince Andrew +was sitting. The curtains were drawn, and a single candle was burning on +the cot where she was standing, “better wait a bit... later...” +“Oh, leave off, you always talk nonsense and keep putting things +off—and this is what comes of it!” said Prince Andrew in an +Prince Andrew got up and went on tiptoe up to the little bed, wineglass +in hand. +Princess Mary, evidently intimidated and confused that her opinion +doctor and expecting another for whom they had sent to town, they had +been trying first one remedy and then another. Worn out by sleeplessness +and anxiety they threw their burden of sorrow on one another and +reproached and disputed with each other. +“Devil take them!” he muttered, and after listening to the verbal +instructions his father had sent and taking the correspondence and his +Prince Andrew went up to the child and felt him. He was burning hot. +“Confound you and your Karl Ivánich!” He took the glass with the +drops and again went up to the cot. +and stooped glass in hand over the infant. +and calling the nurse began giving the medicine. The child screamed +hoarsely. Prince Andrew winced and, clutching his head, went out and sat +He still had all the letters in his hand. Opening them mechanically he +began reading. The old prince, now and then using abbreviations, wrote +in his large elongated hand on blue paper as follows: +and the rewards sent to the army are innumerable. Though he is a +German—I congratulate him! I can’t make out what the commander at +Kórchevo—a certain Khandrikóv—is up to; till now the additional +men and provisions have not arrived. Gallop off to him at once and +from Pétenka—he took part in it—and it’s all true. When +without delay and carry out instructions! +Prince Andrew sighed and broke the seal of another envelope. It was +without reading it and reread his father’s letter, ending with the +words: “Gallop off to Kórchevo and carry out instructions!” +he, going to the door and looking into the nursery. +Princess Mary was still standing by the cot, gently rocking the baby. +“Ah yes, and what else did he say that’s unpleasant?” thought +understanding half of it, read only to forget, if but for a moment, what +Bilíbin was now at army headquarters in a diplomatic capacity, and +though he wrote in French and used French jests and French idioms, +he described the whole campaign with a fearless self-censure and +diplomatic discretion tormented him, and he was happy to have in Prince +have certainly acquired a taste for war, and it is just as well for me; +our fine speeches and in his rude and savage way throws himself on the +and in two twists of the hand he breaks them to smithereens and installs +Bonaparte, ‘that Your Majesty should be received and treated in my +palace in a manner agreeable to yourself, and in so far as circumstances +the French and lay down their arms at the first demand. +“The head of the garrison at Glogau, with ten thousand men, asks the +it turns out that we have landed ourselves in war, and what is more, +in war on our own frontiers, with and for the King of Prussia. We have +a commander in chief. As it was considered that the Austerlitz success +might have been more decisive had the commander in chief not been so +young, all our octogenarians were reviewed, and of Prozoróvski +and Kámenski the latter was preferred. The general comes to us, +Suvórov-like, in a kibítka, and is received with acclamations of joy +and triumph. +himself. I am called in to help sort the letters and take those meant +for us. The field marshal looks on and waits for letters addressed +impatient and sets to work himself and finds letters from the Emperor +to Count T., Prince V., and others. Then he bursts into one of his wild +furies and rages at everyone and everything, seizes the letters, opens +them, and reads those from the Emperor addressed to others. ‘Ah! So +“‘I am wounded and cannot ride and consequently cannot command the +exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as +my riding and commanding so vast an army, so I have passed on the +command to the general next in seniority, Count Buxhöwden, having sent +him my whole staff and all that belongs to it, advising him if there is +one day’s ration of bread remains, and in some regiments none at all, +as reported by the division commanders, Ostermann and Sedmorétzki, and +already in any case dishonored by being unable to fulfill the great and +secretary rather than commander in the army. My removal from the army +thousands such as I in Russia.’ +“The field marshal is angry with the Emperor and he punishes us all, +interesting and entertaining. After the field marshal’s departure +it appears that we are within sight of the enemy and must give battle. +Buxhöwden is commander in chief by seniority, but General Bennigsen +does not quite see it; more particularly as it is he and his corps who +are within sight of the enemy and he wishes to profit by the opportunity +to fight a battle ‘on his own hand’ as the Germans say. He does so. +retreat after a battle have lost it is what we say; and according to +victory, and General Bennigsen, hoping to receive from Petersburg the +post of commander in chief as a reward for his victory, does not give up +the command of the army to General Buxhöwden. During this interregnum +we begin a very original and interesting series of maneuvers. Our aim is +but attacked and captured by a superior enemy force as a result of one +recross to the other. At last our enemy, Buxhöwden, catches us and +attacks. Both generals are angry, and the result is a challenge on +Buxhöwden’s part and an epileptic fit on Bennigsen’s. But at the +Pultúsk to Petersburg returns bringing our appointment as commander in +chief, and our first foe, Buxhöwden, is vanquished; we can now turn +soldiers, loudly demanding bread, meat, biscuits, fodder, and whatnot! +and in a way of which our last campaign can give you no idea. Half the +regiments form bands and scour the countryside and put everything +to fire and sword. The inhabitants are totally ruined, the hospitals +overflow with sick, and famine is everywhere. Twice the marauders even +attack our headquarters, and the commander in chief has to ask for a +my empty portmanteau and my dressing gown. The Emperor proposes to give +all commanders of divisions the right to shoot marauders, but I much +Bilíbin), what he had read began to interest him more and more. When he +had read thus far, he crumpled the letter up and threw it away. It was +had read, and listened to what was passing in the nursery. Suddenly he +reading the letter. He went on tiptoe to the nursery door and opened it. +with a scared look and that Princess Mary was no longer by the cot. +As often happens after long sleeplessness and long anxiety, he was +dead. All that he saw and heard seemed to confirm this terror. +“All is over,” he thought, and a cold sweat broke out on his +empty and that the nurse had been hiding the dead baby. He drew the +curtain aside and for some time his frightened, restless eyes could not +lay across the bed with his head lower than the pillow, and was smacking +his lips in his sleep and breathing evenly. +already lost him. He bent over him and, as his sister had taught him, +forehead was moist. Prince Andrew touched the head with his hand; even +but evidently the crisis was over and he was convalescent. Prince Andrew +head and at the little arms and legs which showed under the blanket. He +heard a rustle behind him and a shadow appeared under the curtain of +and dropped it again behind her. Prince Andrew recognized her without +looking and held out his hand to her. She pressed it. +The child moved slightly in his sleep, smiled, and rubbed his forehead +were in them. She leaned over to her brother and kissed him, slightly +and stood still in the dim light beneath the curtain as if not wishing +and explained to them his intentions and wishes. He told them that steps +would be taken immediately to free his serfs—and that till then they +punishments were to be admonitory and not corporal, and hospitals, +asylums, and schools were to be established on all the estates. Some of +with their management and embezzlement of money, some after their first +fright were amused by Pierre’s lisp and the new words they had not +this speech how they could best handle the master for their own ends. +income which was said to amount to five hundred thousand rubles a year, +an allowance of ten thousand rubles. He had a dim perception of the +About 80,000 went in payments on all the estates to the Land Bank, about +and the allowance to the three princesses; about 15,000 was given in +pensions and the same amount for asylums; 150,000 alimony was sent to +two years, and he did not know how the rest, about 100,000 rubles, was +spent, and almost every year he was obliged to borrow. Besides this the +chief steward wrote every year telling him of fires and bad harvests, +or of the necessity of rebuilding factories and workshops. So the first +consultations were detached from real affairs and did not link up with +them or make them move. On the one hand, the chief steward put the state +paying off the debts and undertaking new activities with serf labor, +to which Pierre did not agree. On the other hand, Pierre demanded that +showing the necessity of first paying off the loans from the Land Bank, +and the consequent impossibility of a speedy emancipation. +the forests in the province of Kostromá, the land lower down the river, +and the Crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which +measures—the removal of injunctions, petitions, permits, and so +on—that Pierre became quite bewildered and only replied: +to attend to the business himself and so he disliked it and only tried +consultations very valuable for the proprietor and troublesome to +In Kiev Pierre found some people he knew, and strangers hastened to make +his acquaintance and joyfully welcomed the rich newcomer, the +largest landowner of the province. Temptations to Pierre’s greatest +weeks, and months of his life passed in as great a rush and were as much +occupied with evening parties, dinners, lunches, and balls, giving him +life, and that of the seven virtues he lacked two—morality and the +another of the precepts—that of reforming the human race—and had +other virtues—love of his neighbor, and especially generosity. +intended to visit all his estates and see for himself how far his orders +had been carried out and in what state were the serfs whom God had +entrusted to his care and whom he intended to benefit. +insane—unprofitable to himself, to the count, and to the serfs—made +buildings—schools, hospitals, and asylums—on all the estates +such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread +and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his +master, would touch and delude him. +carriage, and the solitude of the road, all had a gladdening effect on +than the other; the serfs everywhere seemed thriving and touchingly +and salt and an icon of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, asking permission, +of Peter and Paul, his patron saints. In another place the women with +instructing in reading, writing, and religion. On all his estates Pierre +all on one plan, for hospitals, schools, and almshouses, which were soon +which the serfs’ manorial labor had been diminished, and heard the +with bread and salt and wished to build a chantry in honor of Peter and +and that the richest peasants (who formed the deputation) had begun +since the nursing mothers were no longer sent to work on his land, they +did still harder work on their own land. He did not know that the priest +who met him with the cross oppressed the peasants by his exactions, and +and secured their release by heavy payments. He did not know that the +to his estates and quite recovered the philanthropic mood in which +he had left Petersburg, and wrote enthusiastic letters to his +“brother-instructor” as he called the Grand Master. +thought Pierre, “and how little attention we pay to it!” +through the naïve and intelligent count and played with him as with +pressed him still harder with proofs of the impossibility and above all +difficult to imagine happier people, and that God only knew what would +the sale of the land and forests and to release them from the Land Bank, +but would probably never even inquire and would never know that the +newly erected buildings were standing empty and that the serfs continued +to give in money and work all that other people’s serfs gave—that is +fields and forests of fir and birch, which were partly cut down. The +house lay behind a newly dug pond filled with water to the brink and +bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular façade +out. The fences and gates were new and solid; two fire pumps and a +the bridges were strong and had handrails. Everything bore an impress of +tidiness and good management. Some domestic serfs Pierre met, in reply +prince was at home, and showed him into a clean little anteroom. +wooden walls redolent of pine, and would have gone farther, but Antón +ran ahead on tiptoe and knocked at a door. +“Ask him to wait,” and the sound was heard of a chair being pushed +Pierre went with rapid steps to the door and suddenly came face to +face with Prince Andrew, who came out frowning and looking old. Pierre +embraced him and lifting his spectacles kissed his friend on the cheek +and looked at him closely. +was struck by the change in him. His words were kindly and there was a +smile on his lips and face, but his eyes were dull and lifeless and in +and glad sparkle. Prince Andrew had grown thinner, paler, and more +manly-looking, but what amazed and estranged Pierre till he got used +to it were his inertia and a wrinkle on his brow indicating prolonged +put questions and gave brief replies about things they knew ought to +for the future, Pierre’s journeys and occupations, the war, and so +on. The preoccupation and despondency which Pierre had noticed in his +enthusiasms, dreams, and hopes of happiness or goodness, in Prince +which had been particularly revived and strengthened by his late tour. +different, and better, Pierre than he had been in Petersburg. +“Well, and you? What are your plans?” +Pierre looked silently and searchingly into Prince Andrew’s face, +and all you have been doing on your estates.” +had been doing, as though it were all an old-time story, and he listened +Pierre felt uncomfortable and even depressed in his friend’s company +and at last became silent. +evidently also felt depressed and constrained with his visitor, “I am +only bivouacking here and have just come to look round. I am going back +They went out and walked about till dinnertime, talking of the political +news and common acquaintances like people who do not know each other +intimately. Prince Andrew spoke with some animation and interest only of +the new homestead he was constructing and its buildings, but even here, +“However, this is not at all interesting. Let us have dinner, and then +Pierre blushed, as he always did when it was mentioned, and said +know it is all over, and forever.” +to know what is right and what is wrong. Men always did and always will +err, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.” +roused, had begun to talk, and wanted to express what had brought him to +more and more animated and evidently wishing to express his new outlook +life: remorse and illness. The only good is the absence of those evils. +“And love of one’s neighbor, and self-sacrifice?” began Pierre. +“No, I can’t agree with you! To live only so as not to do evil and +myself and ruined my life. And only now when I am living, or at least +shall not agree with you, and you do not really believe what you are +yourself and say you nearly ruined your life and only found happiness +lived for others, and not almost, but quite, ruined my life. And I have +growing excited. “What about your son, your sister, and your +as you and Princess Mary call it, are the chief source of all error and +“You are joking,” replied Pierre, growing more and more excited. +“What error or evil can there be in my wishing to do good, and even +doing a little—though I did very little and did it very badly? What +ourselves, were growing up and dying with no idea of God and truth +beyond ceremonies and meaningless prayers and are now instructed in +a comforting belief in future life, retribution, recompense, and +consolation? What evil and error are there in it, if people were dying +rendered, and I supplied them with a doctor, a hospital, and an asylum +peasant, or a woman with a baby, has no rest day or night and I give +them rest and leisure?” said Pierre, hurrying and lisping. “And +I have done that though badly and to a small extent; but I have done +something toward it and you cannot persuade me that it was not a good +action, and more than that, you can’t make me believe that you do not +know, and know for certain, that the enjoyment of doing this good is the +Prince Andrew. “I build a house and lay out a garden, and you build +hospitals. The one and the other may serve as a pastime. But what’s +right and what’s good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by +They rose from the table and sat down in the entrance porch which served +as a veranda. +schools,” he went on, crooking a finger, “education and so forth; +them taking off his cap) “from his animal condition and awaken in him +happiness possible, and that is just what you want to deprive him of. +after two in the morning, thoughts come and I can’t sleep but toss +about till dawn, because I think and can’t help thinking, just as +he can’t help plowing and mowing; if he didn’t, he would go to the +drink shop or fall ill. Just as I could not stand his terrible physical +labor but should die of it in a week, so he could not stand my physical +idleness, but would grow fat and die. The third thing—what else was +it you talked about?” and Prince Andrew crooked a third finger. “Ah, +yes, hospitals, medicine. He has a fit, he is dying, and you come and +bleed him and patch him up. He will drag about as a cripple, a burden to +everybody, for another ten years. It would be far easier and simpler for +him to die. Others are being born and there are plenty of them as it is. +Killed them, yes!” said he, frowning angrily and turning away from +Prince Andrew expressed his ideas so clearly and distinctly that it was +evident he had reflected on this subject more than once, and he spoke +readily and rapidly like a man who has not talked for a long time. His +understand how one can live with such ideas. I had such moments +myself not long ago, in Moscow and when traveling, but at such times I +me... myself most of all. Then I don’t eat, don’t wash... and how is +nothing, but here on the one hand the local nobility have done me the +out of it. They could not understand that I have not the necessary +command of the Third District, and my only way of avoiding active +his time. But he is growing old, and though not exactly cruel he has too +terrible, and now he has this authority of a commander in chief of +I alone have any influence with my father, and now and then can save him +did not, and do not, in the least care about that scoundrel of a clerk +Prince Andrew grew more and more animated. His eyes glittered feverishly +anyone flogged or sent to Siberia—and still less for your serfs. If +any the worse off. In Siberia they lead the same animal life, and the +stripes on their bodies heal, and they are happy as before. But it is +themselves, stifle this remorse and grow callous, as a result of being +able to inflict punishments justly and unjustly. It is those people I +pity, and for their sake I should like to liberate the serfs. You +become cruel and harsh, are conscious of it, but cannot restrain +themselves and grow more and more miserable.” +purity, and not the serfs’ backs and foreheads, which, beat and shave +as you may, always remain the same backs and foreheads.” +“No, no! A thousand times no! I shall never agree with you,” said +In the evening Andrew and Pierre got into the open carriage and drove to +Bald Hills. 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Discretion, the keeping of the secrets of the Order. 2. Obedience to + * (2) “Hurrah for the Austrians! Hurrah for the Russians! + * (2) “It is all very well for that good-for-nothing fellow + *(2) That suits us down to the ground. + * (2) That their fire gets into his eyes and he forgets that +30,000 went for the upkeep of the estate near Moscow, the town house, + *(3) Hollow. + *(4) I just ask you that. +“Aah!” Rostóv almost screamed lifting both hands to his head. The +abandoned in the center?” he inquired, searching with his eyes for +abandoning all hope of a junction with Buxhöwden. If Kutúzov decided +a banister post stood a tallow candle which guttered in the draft. On + * A bastard. +a battery to their left. The smoke above it had not yet dispersed. Two +a battlefield to whom thousands of new and brilliant ideas occur which +“A bayonet wound. I remained at the front. Remember, your +Abbé Morio? He is a most interesting man.” +A B C of war or of politics, and that Bonaparte was an insignificant +“A bit touched—I always said so.” +able to inflict punishments justly and unjustly. It is those people I +a blue-eyed soldier involuntarily attracted notice. It was Dólokhov +a bold, free, and easy tone, while in his soul he regarded himself as a +abominable, quite abominable!” said Prince Andrew, and he went off to +About 80,000 went in payments on all the estates to the Land Bank, about +about a mile and a half off on the opposite heights. Down below, on +about her confinement, and how she dreaded it, and had complained of her +about her native land. When he saw the pretty little Bourienne, Anatole +about him and about his love for him, letting it be understood that he +about him and even speak. +about him. He reddened and turned away. +about him or anyone else, and I don’t want anything of the kind.” +about Mademoiselle Bourienne was dreadful. It was untrue to be sure, but +“About my wife... I am ashamed as it is to leave her on your +about Sergéy Kuzmích that interested Prince Vasíli just then, and +about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over.... +About ten o’clock Rostóv went to the English Hotel straight from the +about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry +about the Austrians and their uniforms, about their lines, about +about the corners of his mouth read to the Austrian general the +about the old prince and criticized him. +about the princess’ health and then led Pierre along a stone passage. +about till dawn, because I think and can’t help thinking, just as +about to ask their way of an elderly footman who had sprung up as they +about to smile, and once on coming out of the chapel Prince Andrew and +about two thirds of a mile was stopped on the highroad. Rostóv saw the +“About your sister,” ejaculated Denísov testily. +above all this the lofty sky, formed the chief subjects of his delirious +above and below him in social standing. Something always drew him toward +above his head: “Captain Túshin! Captain!” +Above the heights was the dark clear sky, and to the right the vast orb +a bright smile, “so she won’t come down. It is natural in her +a brilliant match—blushed like a girl. +abroad, the other is with the Guards, who are starting on their march +absence. Little Nicholas had been unwell for four days. The coachman who +absent-minded. When he rose to go, he took up instead of his own, the +absolutely necessary. +a case. +a cavalryman. Prince Andrew felt that an invisible power was leading him +accent. +accent—having noticed that Zherkóv could still hear him. +accent. He was breathless with agitation, his face was red, and when +accept it and fixed the stake himself. Nicholas submitted to him, and at +accept this challenge or not. Anatole did not release him, and though +accompanied by adjutants, galloped off in different directions, and +accompanying him to the hall. +accomplished. +accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room. But in spite of +“According to the scouts the last of them crossed on rafts during the +accountant, a stout, full-faced man, looked around him with a naïve +account of court and personal considerations tens of thousands of lives, +accounts is a poor creature.” +accustomed to win in their battles,” he concluded his evidently +a celebrated miniaturist, and he leaned over the table to take the +a ceremonial march past him, and Rostóv on Bedouin, recently purchased +a certain house—that was another matter and quite the thing for a +a chance to escape, or to trick us, now that we certainly have him in +aches, and one spends all one’s money. He asked me for tonight, but I +a clear blue sky, and the sun’s vast orb quivered like a huge hollow, +a cloak, waiting for the conversation to finish. They listened to +a closely written letter of two sheets from Bilíbin. He folded it up +a comforting belief in future life, retribution, recompense, and +a commander in chief. As it was considered that the Austerlitz success +a commanding officer’s quarters, the regiment began to move: the +a company commander, a fine round-faced man, with a stupid and happy +a company smile but was evidently tormented by jealousy; now she turned +a consciousness is communicated is very difficult to define, but it +a convoy. Directly opposite to him came a strange one-horse vehicle, +a convoy wagon became restive at the end of the bridge, and the whole +a coronet) entered the room, calm and majestic, except that there was +acquaintance—he wished him simply a brother and a virtuous instructor. +acquaintance.’ In a word, those gentlemen, Gascons indeed, so +acquaintance of many persons who might prove useful to him, and by +acquaintance,” said Pierre. And again, glancing at the stranger’s +acquaintances not only cordially, but even with a shade of deference +acquainted,” and he pressed Borís’ hand. “Do you know, I have not +acquainted with Prince Andrew Bolkónski, through whom he hoped to +acquired though she did not understand its significance. This expression +acquiring a trotter of his own, very stylish riding breeches of the +a crafty man convinced of the futility of being cunning with so +a crash. +across his path. Rostóv put his horse to full gallop to get out of the +across, snatched it from his hand and began reading it. Pierre looked +across the bodies and under a terrible fire from the French, he attended +across the table to clink glasses with the count, with the children, and +a cry of: “The general to the third company,” the missing officer +action, and in the company of well-known, elderly, and respected racing +action, and more than that, you can’t make me believe that you do not +action, as if flying through the air without touching the ground. +action did Prince Bagratión, still hearing the cannonade in the center, +action—he drew the glove from his shapely white hand, made a sign +action they had been wounded. “Day before yesterday, on the Danube,” +activities of 160,000 Russians and French—all their passions, desires, +activity, Túshin did not experience the slightest unpleasant sense of +actual phrase used by the Vienna cabinet,” said the Danish chargé +actuated by a real desire for peace. +a cup of tea?” +a dark-green dress coat, knee breeches of the color of cuisse de nymphe + A day or two, then bliss unspoilt, +added. +added. +added, addressing Prince Vasíli, and without waiting for an answer she +added he, munching a pie in his moist-lipped handsome mouth, “would be +added in a tone admitting of no rejoinder and raising her eyebrows. +added, noticing that Prince Andrew winced as at an electric shock. +added, not noticing his visitor’s sarcastic smile. +added: “What a lot of men have been crippled today—frightful!” +adding, “your excellency.” +addressed an edifying exhortation to them. He imagined to himself +addressed the horseman with the white plumes, evidently suggesting +address. He is a wise and clever fellow.” +addressing first one, then another. He said he would not have been +addressing her with the careless tone of habitual tenderness natural to +addressing him as ‘Usurper and Enemy of Mankind.’” +addressing Lorrain in French which he pronounced badly. +addressing the Austrian general, “I have the honor to congratulate +addressing the black-mustached Denísov with servile deference. +addressing the Englishman. +addressing the mother. +address Rostóv by his title, as if in recognition of his confession. +a deed to sign for the princess’ benefit. +a desire to do something for them, a desire for their approval.—So I +a desperate cry and such mad, drunken determination that, taken by +a despot. Who is right and who is wrong? No one! But if you are +Adieu, dear and kind friend; may our divine Saviour and His most Holy +“Adieu, ma bonne,” answered Prince Vasíli turning away from her. +“Adieu, Mary,” said he gently to his sister, taking her by the hand +Adieu, Prince! May God support you...” +a dinner where there was no place for him. In the next hut there was a +adjutant. +adjutant by his elaborate courtesy appeared to wish to ward off any +adjutant on Kutúzov’s staff, but he does everything alone. The next +adjutant, or really let the matter drop, was the question that worried +adjutants.” +adjutants met him with news of the successful result of the action. +adjutant whom he so hated. +adjutant, Zherkóv, an orderly officer, the staff officer on duty, +administered. Come.” +admired his regiment, rejoiced in it, and that his whole mind was +admit—he had almost been jealous on his wife’s account, was the butt +admitted that he had been to blame, did not lift his eyes from the +A door of one of the inner rooms opened and one of the princesses, the + A dreaded foe be thou, kindhearted as a man, +adroitness and Italian play-acting! Do you know the tale about him and +advancing.” +advancing by forced marches toward Znaim, which lay sixty-six miles +advancing from Russia, without losing his army as Mack had done at Ulm. +advancing straight toward the inner door. +advancing to attack the French cavalry that was coming to meet them. +advantageous match but a splendid, noble fellow... he is my friend...” +adve’sawies have wefused a weconciliation, please pwoceed. Take your +advice is to let the matter drop. Well then, on Friday after the review +advise you to appeal to Rumyántsev through Prince Golítsyn. That would +a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools. +a feeling of contemptuous ill will. He snorted whenever he mentioned +a fellow diplomat, “that the Chancellor told him flatly that his +a few fir trees. +a few hours ahead of the French who were approaching Hollabrünn from +a few minutes later the chief forces of the French army moved rapidly +a few steps, turned, cut a caper, brought her little feet sharply +affair, and about some ladies they both knew. +affair. I am her father.” +affair of the Thabor Bridge, at Vienna.... They have crossed without +affair public. You are offended at being put on duty a bit, but why not +affairs and of Pierre himself in those early days. From the death of +affairs of honor and had twice regained his commission. +affair was over and, though not big, had been a successful engagement. +affectation. Princess Mary ran out of the room to fetch Mary +affected languor and indolence. He now looked like a man who has time +affectionate as it was—expressed a sense of his own superiority. +affectionate eyes, now came up and took his arm. Before he looked round +affectionate letters to your parents, and if you think you may be +affectionately. +affirmatively.) “When you hear a knock at the door, you will uncover +afflicted by the death of the father he had hardly known), and her +a fight led Murat to try to deceive Kutúzov in a similar way. Meeting +“A fine lad! My word! A fine lad!... His father lies on his deathbed +“A fine mess we’ve made of it!” he remarked. +a fine place! Why are you not eating anything, gentlemen?” Nesvítski +a first introduction and betrays a consciousness of the impropriety of +a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the Russian Emperor, was +A footman came in to summon Borís—the princess was going. Pierre, in +a foraging expedition. Rostóv in his cadet uniform, with a jerk to his +a foreigner, in spite of all differences of faith, understood the full +a former war. “The Emperor will teach your Suvara as he has taught the +A fortnight after the letter Prince Vasíli’s servants came one +a fortnight ago he would have had a paymaster’s clerk at Yúkhnovna +afraid of a general battle. His hour has come! Mark my words!” +a freak of fate made the impossible possible. The success of the trick +a Frenchman), “L’Urope ne sera jamais notre alliée sincère.” * +“A French pancake,” answered Zherkóv. +a French soldier tugged at the other. He could distinctly see the +A fresh wave of the flying mob caught him and bore him back with it. +a friend older than himself and whom he respected. His whole time +After a few minutes’ bustle beside the high bedstead, those who had +After Anna Mikháylovna had driven off with her son to visit Count Cyril +after another greeting the Tsar with the strains of the march, and then +“After Austerlitz!” said Prince Andrew gloomily. “No, thank you +After a while he re-entered it as if to snuff the candles, and, seeing +After a while the moving mass became agitated, someone rode past on +After Denísov’s departure, Rostóv spent another fortnight in Moscow, +after dinner. He called Natásha and asked her what was the matter. +After dinner, he went to see his daughter-in-law. The little princess +After five o’clock it was only at the Augesd Dam that a hot cannonade +After his dismissal from headquarters Zherkóv had not remained in the +After his illness he looked rather thinner that day than on the field +After his interview with his wife Pierre left for Petersburg. At the +After his journey and the campaign during which he had been deprived of +after his reception by the Austrians, to speak if not in Russian +After inspecting the carriage himself and seeing the trunks put in, he +After looking at him Napoleon smiled. +after losing half their men were retreating in disorderly confused +after losing her own father. She is very good-natured, and my father +after Natásha down the passage into the sitting room with flushed face +After passing some Austrian troops he noticed that the next part of the +After receiving her visitors, the countess was so tired that she gave +After receiving this news late in the evening, when he was alone in his +After supper Pierre with his partner followed the others into the +After tea, the company went into the sitting room and Princess Mary was +After that Anna Pávlovna led up to the courage and firmness of the King +after the attack, Bogdánich would come up to him as he lay wounded and +After the Austerlitz campaign Prince Andrew had firmly resolved not +after the battle but send a courier to Petersburg with news of a +After the fatigues and impressions of the journey, his reception, and +after their active service, were stationed near Olmütz and the camp +after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one +“After the next affair... epaulettes.” +After these words, the Mason, as if tired by his long discourse, again +after the soup the prince became more genial. +after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages. The jaunty +after two in the morning, thoughts come and I can’t sleep but toss +After washing and dressing, Prince Andrew came into the diplomat’s +again. +again. +again, and let his head sink still lower. +again and remained for a while with the Ismáylov regiment. +again, and the little princess curiously noting the impression +again are all running back somewhere, and I shall run with them, and it, +again, as soon as all turned toward him, excused himself and said no +again began to laugh. She evidently felt unable to look at him +again drawn out in a thin line the musketeers were descending the hill, +again expressing deep sorrow. +again getting in front of the first line as he had done when the Horse +again going on tiptoe to the reception room where they had left Prince +again. I must go there, Prince, and scare them a bit. It won’t take a +again joined her. They began talking in whispers, but their talk broke +Again on all the bright faces of the squadron the serious expression +again on the sofa. They were silent for a while. +again recalled all the details of the victory and his own calm courage +Again Rostóv looked intently into Borís’ eyes and sighed. Berg +again see the sun, this water, that gorge!...” +again shook with a deep ringing laugh, the laugh of one who always eats +against his right, flew round again in a circle. Natásha guessed what +against one of the columns in a respectful attitude implying that he, +again struck up, the count and countess kissed, and the guests, leaving +against the French?” +against them and winding down over the uneven ground. One could already +against the muslin of the curtain. +against the pillow. +against the wall, and the second of the three sisters rushed out +“Against your will He will save and have mercy on you and bring you +again turning to the count. “Zat is how ve old hussars look at it, and +again when he passed to another group whose center was the abbé. +age...” +a general engagement,” repeated Dolgorúkov, evidently prizing this +“A geography lesson!” he muttered as if to himself, but loud enough +a girl, such tact, such masterly perfection of manner! It comes from +agitated. +a glimpse of her, she seemed still more lovely. She was a charming girl +aglow with dazzling light—as if he had only awaited this to begin the +ago have joined the archduke. And believe me on my honour that to me +a gold snuffbox on which was a portrait. In the middle of one of the +a good example, yet here you are without your boots! The alarm will be +a good friend, an adjutant general and an excellent fellow, Prince +a good thing for proprietors who perish morally, bring remorse upon +agreeable and interesting work. His face expressed more satisfaction +agreed or disagreed and was satisfied or not with the arrangements. Next +ague. +“Ah, and here’s Nicholas!” cried Natásha, running up to him. +a handsome adjutant. This was Prince Bolkónski. Beside him was his +“Ah, Bondarénko, dear friend!” said he to the hussar who rushed up +“Ah! Breathing again, breathing!” he muttered to himself. +“Ah, but you won’t talk politics to me like Annette!” +“Ah, Count Rostóv!” exclaimed Pierre joyfully. “Then you are his +“Ah, dear friend,” replied Princess Mary, “I have asked you never +“Ah, don’t talk to me! Last winter she wheedled herself in here and +a heavenly feeling. Borís was telling his new friend Pierre who the +“Ah, from Vienna? Very good. Later, later!” +“Ah! He is alive,” said Napoleon. “Lift this young man up and +“Ah, here she is!” he exclaimed laughing. “My pet, whose name day +“Ah! here’s the warrior! Wants to vanquish Buonaparte?” said the +“Ah, I know what it is.” +“Ah, is it you, cousin?” +“Ah, it can’t be avoided!” thought Nicholas, for the first and +“Ah, madam, it is a great sacrament,” replied the priest, passing +“Ah, may the devil take you and evewybody,” were the last words +“Ah! mon ami, I only pray, and hope that God will hear me. +“Ah, money, Count, money! How much sorrow it causes in the world,” +“Ah, my boy, my head’s in a whirl!” said the old man with a smile, +“Ah! my dear!... Ah! Mary!...” they suddenly exclaimed, and then +“Ah, my dear fellow, what a battle we have gained! God grant that +“Ah, my dear friend! Forget the wrongs that may have been done you. +“Ah, my dear friend, he is very unfortunate,” she said. “If what +“Ah, my dear! He is so rich, and we are so poor!” +“Ah! my dear, I am afraid you and your monk are wasting your +“Ah, my dear, I hardly knew you,” said Anna Mikháylovna with a +“Ah, my dear, my dear!” he began, rising and taking her by both +“Ah, my dear prince! I could not have a more welcome visitor,” +“Ah, my dear,” said the countess, “my life is not all roses +“Ah, my dear vicomte,” put in Anna Pávlovna, “L’Urope” (for +“Ah, my friend!” said he, taking Pierre by the elbow; and there was +“Ah, my friend!” she said, touching his arm as she had done her +“Ah, my love,” answered Anna Mikháylovna, “God grant you never +a hoar frost now turning to dew, but in the valleys it still lay like a +a hoarse voice to the men to look to their pistols. He rode up to +a hollow between two hills near the village of Pratzen, the Russian +a horrified expression on his handsome face, Anatole looked at Princess +a host welcomes an honored guest. He reported that his regiment had +“Ah, Prince! In what sad circumstances we meet again! And how is our +“Ah, Princess Mary!” he said suddenly in an unnatural voice, +“Ah!...” said Kutúzov glancing at Bolkónski as if by this +“Ah!” said Kutúzov. “I hope this will be a lesson to you. Do your +“Ah, she is indeed a darling! I’ll send her to you.” +“Ah! Telyánin! How d’ye do? They plucked me last night,” came +“Ah, that is just what I tell him!” said she. “I don’t +“Ah! That’s a good thing. So, my dear boy, you wish to serve the +“Ah, that’s always the way!” said Nesvítski with a wave of the +“Ah, that’s the way to talk French,” said the picket soldiers. +“Ah, there will be, and there are, many more such girls somewhere whom +“Ah, those damned Germans! They don’t know their own country!” +“Ah, Timókhin!” said he, recognizing the red-nosed captain who had +“Ah, Váska!” joyfully replied Nesvítski. “What’s up with +“Ah what a calamity! You say the affair was decisive? But Mortier is +“Ah, what have you done to me?” it still seemed to say, and Prince +“Ah! what joy for the princess!” exclaimed she: “At last! I must +“Ah, Wostóv,” he cried noticing the cadet’s bright face, +“Ah yes, and what else did he say that’s unpleasant?” thought +“Ah, yes! Do tell us all about it, Vicomte,” said Anna Pávlovna, +“Ah yes, my dear,” said the count, addressing the visitor and +“Ah, yes! That’s a whole long story! How are you going to speak to +“Ah, you are sending off a letter, Princess? I have already dispatched +“Ah, you’re up already,” said Denísov, entering the room. +“Ah, your excellency,” put in Zherkóv, his eyes fixed on the +“Ah, you’ve come here too, young man!” he said, smiling and +aide-de-camp. +aide-de-camp. +aide-de-camp, and sat down in the lady’s chair, placing his huge hands +aide-de-camp and was duly conducted to pay his respects to the aunt and +aide-de-camp, “dat one liffs after de sird stroke.” +aides-de-camp to inquire after the count’s health, came himself +aid of his servant, and not looking at Pierre. With a pair of felt boots +aim remaining for him was to effect a junction with the forces that were +aim?” said he quietly and quickly. +aim—to establish peace in Europe on firm foundations—has now decided +aim was to show General Weyrother—who had read his dispositions with +air, and disobeying orders. The moral hesitation which decided the fate +a joke he had heard in Vienna and which he had been trying all that +a keg, filled one after another the canteen lids held out to him. The +a kind no longer in general use. Prince Andrew remembered the story of +a lack of bread, to move farther into the interior of Prussia, for only +A languor of motion and speech, resulting from weakness, gave her a +a large udder was attached to the cart behind. A woman with an unweaned +alarm lest something should have happened to the child while he was +alarm, supposing these words to mean that the young count was displeased +a laugh still more so, he quitted the table. +alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance. +alert than he had done the day before. Only his eyes gleamed feverishly +a letter at once, and she’ll come here and all will be explained, or +“A letter from Nikólenka! I’m sure of it!” exclaimed Natásha, +a letter has been written to the Emperor in which the count asks for +a letter of recommendation he had brought from Pierre had become +Alexander Prince Vasíli had risen to high position and honors. And now, +Alexander’s Guards,” said the first one, indicating a Russian +Alexander unpleasantly, he rode up and saluted. +Alexander was clearly heard. He gave the words of greeting, and the +Alexéevich. Loud knocks were heard at the door. Pierre took the bandage +alien face of that man, his bayonet hanging down, holding his breath, +a life I can’t decide or think properly about anything. One’s head +alight, and let her pass into the house before him. Old Tíkhon, wearing +alighted from his horse and whose big body was jammed against the +alike, felt that the commander did not himself know what to do, and this +“Aline,” he said to his wife, “go and see what they are about.” +a little earth crumbled from the bank under the horse’s hind hoofs. +A little later when he went up to the large circle, Anna Pávlovna said +a little to their right and behind the accountant, crashed to earth with +“a little volcano!” +“A little wound, but he has been made an officer; he is well now, he +alive and suffering from a burning, lacerating pain in his head. +alive could understand or explain. +alive—live: tomorrow you’ll die as I might have died an hour ago. +all.” +All along the sides of the road fallen horses were to be seen, some +all, and without promising to help me?” thought Pierre, rising with +all, and your future depends on him. Remember that, my dear, and be nice +All are struck by the justness of his views, but no one undertakes to +All around were loving eyes glistening with tears of joy, and all around +all as they should be? That’s right! The great thing is the serving, +all. At last the sleigh bore to the right, drew up at an entrance, and +All began to run and bustle, and Rostóv saw coming up the road behind +all be killed,” a sergeant was saying angrily and reproachfully. +all commanders of divisions the right to shoot marauders, but I much +all done casually in a moment of anger, of illness, and was afterwards +all expecting it, they are so sure that it will happen that I cannot, I +“Alley! Alley!” said the Cossack, touching the prisoner’s arm to +all for his relations was the fact that there was still a possibility of +All four, like a flock of scared birds, got up and left the room. +“All have secrets of their own,” answered Natásha, getting warmer. +all her attention. He seemed to her kind, brave, determined, manly, and +all her clothes in Petersburg and that heaven knew what she would have +All her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered +all his decisions and intentions. He went to Kurágin’s. +all his property, not to us his direct heirs, but to Pierre.” +All his wishes were being fulfilled that morning: there was to be a +“All I can say, General,” said he with a pleasant elegance +all-important.” +“All is over,” he thought, and a cold sweat broke out on his +all its details to the Austrian General Weyrother: a lucky accident had +all, like children of my own, as you know.” +all like that; one can’t unmarry. Don’t be afraid; I won’t tell +all make out: was it a glade in the wood lit up by the moon, or some +All Moscow repeated Prince Dolgorúkov’s saying: “If you go on +All Moscow talks of nothing but war. One of my two brothers is already +all Moscow, that everyone will say that you, drunk and not knowing what +all my trouble will have been thrown away.... I shall not be able to +all on one plan, for hospitals, schools, and almshouses, which were soon +allowed, I have hastened to take all steps to that end. May I have +allowed to pass by special permission. The eyes of all the soldiers +allowed to speak, turns to Auersperg with feigned astonishment (he is a +allow him personally to express the deep respect that, emulating his +“Allow me, sir,” said Prince Andrew in Russian in a cold, +“Allow me to ask,” he said, “are you a Mason?” +“Allow me to give you a piece of advice. When you reach the capital, +“Allow me to look at your purse,” he said in a low, almost +all pale and exchanged looks in silence. +all quite forgetting the danger and all regard for self-preservation, he +all regular Germans.” +“All right, all right!” he said to Prince Andrew, and turned to a +“All right, all right,” interrupted the prince, and laughing his +“All right, all right,” replied the commander, and turned to Major +“All right, all right!” said the old count. “He always flares up! +“All right, all right, we’ll see!” +“All right, all right. We’ll talk it over,” replied Prince Andrew. +“All right. Fifty imperials ... that I will drink a whole bottle of +“All right!” said Dólokhov, having finished the addition. “All +“All right,” said Pierre, still smiling in the same way. A feeling +“All right. They are good fellows. And how have you wriggled onto the +All Rostóv’s cards were beaten and he had eight hundred rubles scored +all sides, moved across the bridge. +all sorts of tempting wares. The Pávlograds held feast after feast, +all that has happened.” +all that the peasants had has been eaten up. I myself will remain in +all that would be required of him. +All the advantages were on our side. Our enormous forces, undoubtedly +all the comforts of cleanliness and all the refinements of life, Prince +all the figures on it: the sun, the moon, a hammer, a plumb line, a +All the guns, without waiting for orders, were being fired in the +all the Moscow ladies have conspired to give him all their sons as +all the old feminine arts. But as soon as the prince had gone her face +“All the same, I love and value nothing but triumph over them all, I +“All the same, it was Bilíbin who found a suitable form for the +“All the same, one is afraid! Oh, you clever people,” said a third +“All the same! They say this one is the commander of all the Emperor +all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of +all the soldiers’ remarks related to the two young ones. Every face +All the unmarried ladies and even the married ones except the very +all this end?” thought Rostóv, looking at the changing shadows before +“All this had to be and could not be otherwise,” thought Pierre, +all this is not right, it’s not right! You may take offense or not but +all this, rose and approached the princess. He seemed unable to bear the +all this shame and sorrow, but wanted now to play with him as a cat does +allusion to the name of the sovereign. Three hundred persons took their +“All well?” asked Rostóv, drawing away his arm. +all were seated again, turned with his kindly smile to Rostóv. +All were silent. Túshin appeared at the threshold and made his way +All were then more confident of victory than the winning of two battles +“All wight! All wight!” shouted Denísov. “It’s no good making +all your valuables.” +ally. We shall therefore confidently await the moment when the Imperial +almost at the middle of the table. Facing them sat Pierre, beside Prince +almost dragging him to the window. “That money is Denísov’s; you +almost frightened, eyes as she passed him. +almost time,” she added, giving Pierre to understand that they were +“Alone all the same, without my friends.... And he expects me not to +alone and in full view of the Emperor. +alone applying her handkerchief to her eyes. At last she rang. +alone at last gains a real victory, destroying the spell of the +alone, but because of everyone, it must inevitably come about. They are +alone, in which there was something more significant than in the general +alone... that tremendous fortune... and what is his life worth? It’s a +alone together, Prince Vasíli announced his hopes and wishes to the old +alone with Hélène in the little drawing room where they were sitting. +alone with her, so Rostóv, now that he had attained what he had longed +alone without any allies, it might perhaps have been a long time before +a long-awaited moment. He was firmly convinced that this was the day of +Along the broad country road, edged on both sides by trees, came a high, +a look at you, your excellency.” +a look of complete absent-mindedness, kept rubbing the bridge of his +aloud. +a loud, monotonous voice began to read out the dispositions for the +aloud to him and being friends with Princess Mary. Mademoiselle +already.” +already been choosing a career for three months, and had not decided +already, but then he cannot know what I think of him and may imagine +already in any case dishonored by being unable to fulfill the great and +already known in Moscow and that the ladies about his father—who were +already lost him. He bent over him and, as his sister had taught him, +already opening a door. +already passed. Through the terrible and deafening roar of those voices, +already prepared...” +already seated in the drawing room. The count took the gentlemen into +already seen the young master, and, before he had reached the drawing +already visible. Suddenly something like a birch broom seemed to sweep +also in French: +also the Abbé Morio. Do you know that profound thinker? He has been +also to the soldiers. Looking at their boots he several times shook his +also. Yes, my opinion, and only my opinion,” added Prince Bolkónski, +altar on which lay a Testament and a skull. Round it stood seven large +altar with her. How and when this would be he did not know, he did not +altered in shape by its pressure on the table, now at her still more +Although in female society Anatole usually assumed the role of a man +Although Iogel did not acknowledge this to be the real mazurka, everyone +Although Prince Vasíli listened reluctantly and not very politely +Although the hall porter saw someone’s carriage standing at the +always accompanied any reference of hers to the Imperial family, “has +always afraid, came into her room with a peculiarly restless and malign +always, always anxious! Especially just at this age, so dangerous both +always be my daughters’ first confidante, and that if Nicholas, with +always be the chief desire of everyone else. +always better to “bow too low than not bow low enough.” So the +always called Natásha a Cossack) and she stroked the child’s arm as +always clear and simple, so she is not stupid. She never was abashed and +always dragging it in one direction. He tried to get away from them, but +(always followed by a ball flying past and striking the earth, a man, a +always in one direction, humming with whispers and talk and the sound of +always poking fun at me.... Ah, well! Let him!” And he began reading +always shall, and I want nothing more.” +always surrounded by the same decks, masts, and rigging of his ship, so +always won. However much he drank, he never lost his clearheadedness. +am.” +a man oppressed by business, weary and suffering, who yet would not, for +a man who on a hot day takes a final run before plunging into the water. +amazed the French themselves. Rostóv was horrified to hear later that +ambassadors to compliment the usurper.” +a meeting with Napoleon. To the joy and pride of the whole army, a +Amélie” (Mademoiselle Bourienne) “thinks I could be jealous of her, +A member of the Hofkriegsrath from Vienna had come to Kutúzov the day +amiably into his face, evidently wishing to soften the rudeness of his +amid people of whom he was weary had gone, instantly every thought of +Amid the smoke, deafened by the incessant reports which always made him +amid the smoke of their campfires, the greater part of whom were +amid the square masses of troops standing motionless as if turned to +“A million all but one!” replied a waggish soldier in a torn coat, +A minute later Sónya came in with a frightened, guilty, and scared +am I to go?” thought Nicholas, and went again into the dancing room +a moment, and, evidently understanding what Rostóv hinted at, seized +a moment. The sick man was given something to drink, there was a +a moment, “yes, bring me seven hundred rubles, yes! But mind, don’t +among the children, in the special sense they attached to it.) “Why +Among the field guns on the brow of the hill the general in command of +Among the gentlemen of the suite, Rostóv noticed Bolkónski, sitting +among them. On my word I’d give five years of my life for it!” +among them the staff officer and Zherkóv, who had been twice sent to +among the women!” +Among the young men introduced by Rostóv one of the first was +a mop, his legs far apart, sprang to the wheel; while Number Two with +a most serious, deferential, and innocent expression. +a movement. With a pleasant smile Berg related how the Grand Duke +am staying in for your sake,” and so on. And though Prince Vasíli, +amusing,” he continued, with a sudden, good-natured laugh, “was that +amusing, now girlishly enchanting. +a musketry fire at the French cavalry that was pursuing our troops. It +an air of importance that showed that she felt she quite knew what she +an allowance of ten thousand rubles. He had a dim perception of the +An Anonymous Volunteer, and David Widger +an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the outspread map +Anatole. “Ah, I know, I know,” she said with a sly glance, “your +Anatole and Pierre. +Anatole came up to her. She still could not see him. She only felt a +Anatole embracing the Frenchwoman and whispering something to her. With +Anatole, having taken off his overcoat, sat with arms akimbo before a +Anatole is accompanying me on his way to the army, so I hope you will +Anatole is no genius, but he is an honest, goodhearted lad; an excellent +Anatole kissed the old man, and looked at him with curiosity and perfect +Anatole lived, Pierre entered the lighted porch, ascended the stairs, +Anatole returned smiling to the ladies. +Anatole’s expression, though his eyes were fixed on her, referred not +Anatole stopped him. +Anatole turned to the Englishman and taking him by one of the buttons +“Anatole used to come to borrow money from her and used to kiss her +Anatole with his swaggering air strode up to the window. He wanted to +an attack. But when they had marched for about an hour in the dense fog, +An Austrian officer in a white uniform with green plumes in his hat +ancestor of the Bolkónskis. Prince Andrew, looking again at that +and a ball flew whistling over the heads of the hussar squadron. The +and about Nikólenka, twice asked when the last letter had been received +and abruptly. +and a bullet whizzing high up in the mist with a plaintive sound passed +and a castle with a park surrounded by the waters of the confluence of +and accept the offer,” but before he had time to say it Natásha began +and a convoy of Croats. Beside Kutúzov sat an Austrian general, in +and acquaintances, invitations, and social occupations were so numerous +and, addressing him, again used the epithet “young man” that was +and advantages of service under members of the Imperial family. +and a few here and there with powdered hair and in Russian kaftáns. +and affronts matter? I love and forgive everybody now.” +and a flask, and Nesvítski was treating some officers to pies and real +and after staying but a short time with the Tsar went to see the grand +and again it turned uselessly in the same place. +and again jumping up, dashed so impetuously forward that it seemed as if +and again proceeded to gallop along the line, penetrating farther and +And again she began to sob, more bitterly than before. Natásha lifted +and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of +and all along the French line on the hill fires flared up and the +and all his comrades of the Guards by his appearance—that of a +and all His mercy to one who is blind, or who shuts his eyes that he may + * And all that follows therefrom. +and all you have been doing on your estates.” +and also that Murat’s mistake would very soon be discovered, proved +and am at your service to help you nurse my uncle. I imagine what you +“And am I to bring the gypsy girls along with him?” asked Nicholas, +and a muffled shout almost behind them in the wood. The French had +and amused as he was when he put on the little icon. “Did he believe? +and amuse themselves as girls of thirteen and fourteen do who are +and amusingly. “And why not marry her if she really has so much money? +and Anatole met in the conservatory. +and angry faces struggled for the mop: how differently do those clouds +and Anna Mikháylovna (who found it necessary to accompany him) was +and anxiety they threw their burden of sorrow on one another and +and are drawn along.” +“And are the hours the same? And the walks in the avenues? And the +and artillerymen’s bonfires. To the left, not far from the farthest +And as he waved his arms to impersonate the policeman, his portly form +and as he went on became more and more animated. He told them of his +and, as it might seem, of the obligations to her he had taken on +and ask him, I!... does that satisfy you?” +and asking them all to be seated began: +“And ask whether sharpshooters have been posted,” he added. “What +and as they went along he was told allegories of the toils of his +and, as you know my principles, I refer it to you.” +And at every word he added: “But don’t hurt my little horse!” and +and a timid smile. +and at last became silent. +and at the people in it. Round a long table covered with black sat some +“And at your age what secrets can there be between Natásha and +and awkwardly over the parquet floor of the reception room, not knowing +and back, galloped strenuously forward, and with a dashing salute reined +and began dancing round the room with it. +and began firing them at Túshin’s battery. +and began to speak. +and being well disposed toward Borís, who had managed to please him the +and besides this, nine men in every thousand for the militia. Everywhere +And Bilíbin unwrinkled his temple, feeling that the dilemma was +and blue riding breeches, who were swarming near the bridge, and then at +And Borís, having apparently relieved himself of an onerous duty and +and Borís. He is his godson,” she added, her tone suggesting that +And Borís says it is quite possible. You know I have told him all about +and broke it up. In this action for the first time trophies were taken: +and by a servant who passed out on tiptoe without heeding them. They +and calling the nurse began giving the medicine. The child screamed +and carefully placed her in an easy chair. +and ceased talking when Véra entered. Sónya and Natásha looked at +and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. +and colonel looked sternly and significantly at one another like two +and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels +and compelled to act under conditions of war unlike anything that had +and complacently seated himself on the sofa. +and conflict with which he had trodden the Enns bridge, but with the +and connections he belonged to the groups of old and honored guests, and +and continual expectation of some good, always in front of him but never +and could not answer. “Can something bad have happened to me?” +and countess alike—turned to look at her as if wondering why she had +and Count Ilyá Rostóv became more and more moved, more glass was +and Count Rostóv, glancing angrily at the author who went on reading + And dare not Herculean Russians trouble... +and dark. The officers were hurriedly drinking tea and breakfasting, the +and decided in his own mind that all was as it should be, and that in +And Denísov rode up to a group that had stopped near Rostóv, composed +And Denísov went to the bed to get the purse from under the pillow. +and desperation as though he were at that moment facing some great +and devotion, or of weariness and hope of resting before long. Prince +“And didn’t Hippolyte tell you?” asked Prince Vasíli, turning to +“And did you give me tobacco yesterday? That’s just it, friend! Ah, +and disheveled, beat and turned the heavy feather bed for the third +and dismounted slowly among the guns. He delivered the order and did +and dissatisfied about something and that at headquarters they were +and distinctly. In the valley he saw before him something like a river, +and, doing so, groaned involuntarily. +and Dólokhov’s angry cry. +And Dólokhov swore at him in coarse soldier’s Russian and shouldering +and don’t forget to give him the Rostóvs’ invitation. They ask him +“And do you feel quite calm?” Rostóv asked. +“And do you know, my dear fellow, it seems to me that Bonaparte has +and drawing up again next moment when her face broke into a smile of +and, drawing up an armchair for Prince Vasíli, pointed to it and began +and drew it downwards as if wishing to ascertain whether it was firmly +and dropped it again behind her. Prince Andrew recognized her without +and drowsy Kutúzov, who reluctantly played the part of chairman and +and ecstasy such as he had never before known. Every trait and every +and even now never says a word against him. Those pranks in Petersburg +and even Princess Mary felt herself pleasantly made to share in these +and everybody had to serve, he took a post under his father in the +and every strap in place, and shone with cleanliness. And not only +and examined him with attentive curiosity. The Cossack was dead, but the +and explained to them his intentions and wishes. He told them that steps +and extending its neck, galloped on yet faster. Hardly had the Horse +“And fancy! she refused him quite definitely!” adding, after a +and fear. +and feeling at that moment. “Is there anything at all behind that +and fell into the column to the measure of “Left... left!” “Close +and fell on his back. He opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle +and fell on his hands. The others outstripped him. +and fencing from the village. +and fighting, not at all as the gunner and the Frenchman with frightened +and flask, and swung his heavy person easily into the saddle. +and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor. The countess was +and for the issue of the whole battle. “But be that what it may,” +and Frenchmen running toward it. Higher up stood some Russian infantry, +and frequent blushes she told him she was very sorry about their past +and fro, and dispatching of adjutants—was confined to the Emperor’s +And from the different ranks some twenty men ran to the front. A +and frowning brows stood a hundred paces away from them in his helmet +and fussily in the easy chair, “how is it Annette never got married? +and galloped along the line. At first he rode along the line of +and galloped off. But no sooner had he left Bagratión than his courage +and get away to attend to her duties as hostess. But Pierre now +and glad sparkle. Prince Andrew had grown thinner, paler, and more +and good-humored laughter from the soldiers that it infected the French +and grieved had he chosen not to see them. These different +and groans mingled in a general hubbub, then the firing died down. +and gun carriages, the tramp of horses, the crack of whips, shouts, the +and had an opinion about everything), but above all at his capacity for +and had more than once impressed on his daughter that Michael Ivánovich +and had remained away till he was twenty. When he returned to Moscow +and had taken him to Vienna and given him the more serious commissions. +and hair, without looking at her eyes, with such contempt that the +and handing on to posterity of a certain important mystery... which +and handsome young man and woman for one another. And this human feeling +and happiness... “I should wish for nothing else, nothing, if only I +and happiness the victory had afforded him had been now left in the +and happy though uneasy face of Pierre. It seemed as if the very light +and hardly able to restrain his jerky movements, and from the way he +and hastened to reassure him. +and have seen Fräulein Mathilde.” +and having done this he rode back. +And, having glanced round the room, Prince Andrew turned to Rostóv, +And having got rid of this young man who did not know how to behave, she +and he again began speaking about indifferent matters, about Sergéy +And he again turned to Pierre. +And he also passed on with the wagon. Then came some merry soldiers who +and health. All who talked to her, and at each word saw her bright smile +and he amuses himself setting a policeman astride a bear! For shame, +And he caught the bear, took it in his arms, lifted it from the ground, +and he doesn’t care at all for Julie.” +and he experienced tenfold the joy of living, as he had not done since +and he felt a nervous shudder run down his spine. But the mere thought +and he indicated with his delicate fingers what he meant by a pinch. +And he left the room, followed by the low but ringing laughter of the +And he looked at Pierre with a mocking, challenging expression. He +And he looked on this visit to a churlish old man and a rich and ugly +and helped him. I know and understand what a spice that would add to the +“And here, friend, the people are quite beggarly. There they all +And he released Bolkónski’s arm to indicate that he had now quite +And here’s the little shop where we used to buy gingerbread! Can’t +and her face was tearful. +and her look seemed to say: “Well, it is your own fault.” +and her short, downy, smiling lip lifted when she began to speak just as +and her son. She had opportunities of sending her letters to the Grand +And he sat down again, paying no more attention to his daughter, who was +and he saw above him the remote, lofty, and everlasting sky. He knew it +And he smiled approvingly, evidently pleased with the cadet. Rostóv +and he walked on. +and he wore a crumpled hussar cap stuck jauntily back on one side of his +and he would marry her. So her future shaped itself in Mademoiselle +and hills in the distance—and despite the fact that the inhabitants +and his back drawn in, slightly swinging one foot, and, with his head a +and his eyebrows were lifted, then his eyebrows would descend and +and his forehead became smooth again, he bowed his head respectfully, +and his head tilting yet further back. “Why is it so long?” thought +and his kind, intelligent face rather pale, rushed out of the shed +and his lips were smiling. Though the commander was occupied in giving +and his one division, and even then Mortier slips through your fingers! +and his thoughts followed one another with extraordinary clearness and +and his visit to Brünn. At the door he found a vehicle half full of +and Horse Guards’ jacket, shouting something to a pale, white +and horses) had it not occurred to Rostóv to flourish his whip before +“And how could you believe he was my lover? Why? Because I like +“And how do you get on with the officers?” inquired Zherkóv. +and how happy I may be with such a friend and such a husband! Husband? +And how has it ended? I was against this marriage even then and foretold +“And how she dances! What gwace!” he said again after a pause. +and how the well-trained horse looked round unconcerned and did not + * “And hurrah for the whole world!” +and hurriedly removed. +“And I am still arguing with your husband. I can’t understand why he +and I beg you all to help me. Brünn’s attractions must be shown him. +“And I did not know... Nicholas... My darling!...” +and I don’t now.” +“And if he asks about the losses?” +“And if I should meet His Majesty before I meet the commander in +“and if this aim coincides with yours, you may enter our Brotherhood +“And, if your excellency will allow me to express my opinion,” he +“And I had no idea!...” exclaimed Princess Mary. “Ah, Andrew, I +“And I?” he said; “do you think it is easier for me? I am as worn +“And I know why she’d be ashamed,” said Pétya, offended by +and I’ll write to her myself, and we will kill the fatted calf.” +“And I might have been in his place!” thought Rostóv, and hardly +And immediately Túshin, with a short pipe in the corner of his mouth +and impossible, he again glanced timidly at her. She did not sit down +and in a way of which our last campaign can give you no idea. Half the +and in a whisper, with a strangely unsmiling face: “Come to dinner +And indeed everybody in the room looked with a smile of pleasure at the +and indulgently to smooth with it the heart of his neighbor. As to the +and inevitably he lapsed into falsehood. If he had told the truth to his +and in order to press them again to her lips, she slightly pushed away +And in proof of the conclusiveness of his opinion all the wrinkles +and insignificant people. But the army, the Russian army, everyone +and interesting person to the visitors and that nowhere else was the +and interests before him! “Yes, they have taken a wise decision,” he +and into ladies’ society with an affectation of doing so against his +and in two twists of the hand he breaks them to smithereens and installs +and involuntarily noticed the carefully washed seams of the scar near +“And I only...” +and irrepressibly, as water does in a creek. Had the Russian army been +and irritation, though controlledly calm as a man is at the approach of +“And I should be ashamed to write to Borís. I’m not going to.” +“And I should so like to thank Uncle once for all his kindness to me +And is it worth tormenting oneself, when one has only a moment of life +and is nothing unworthy of you, but it will comfort me. Promise, +“And I tell you, don’t you dahe to do it!” shouted Denísov, +“And I tell you, Rostóv, that you must apologize to the colonel!” +“And it must seem to you,” said Borís flushing slightly, but not +and ivy, with a gleam of white shoulders, glossy hair, and sparkling +“And I was looking for you,” said Natásha running out to him. “I +“And I will tell you this,” Prince Andrew interrupted in a tone of +and I won’t allow it to be said!” +and Julie were saying to one another. The governess kept looking round +and Kámenski the latter was preferred. The general comes to us, +and kinds of dessert, in order to send a full description of the dinner +and kissed her. +and kissing her, and then he left the room with rapid steps. +And Kutúzov smiled in a way that seemed to say, “You are quite at +and leaving large sums of money with them for alms, went away to his +and legs always fell into unnatural positions. +and let us talk sensibly while there is still time, be it a day or be it +and lifted it to his lips, threw back his head, and raised his free hand +and light, joyous steps. At the visitors’ request the young people +And like a practical Petersburg lady who knows how to make the most of +and like him. Write and tell me how he receives you. If he is all +“And Lise, your wife?” +and littered with cards. One tormenting impression did not leave him: +and little tables. During balls given at the house Pierre, who did not +and looked at her in such a way that not only could she not bear his +and looked at him closely. +and looking carelessly about him. +and looks of those who had seen them together. He recalled Anna +“And love of one’s neighbor, and self-sacrifice?” began Pierre. +and majestic voice that was yet so simple! And as if in accord with +and making a wide sweep with his arm, amid a thunder of applause and +and making pencil notes on them, and for the first two or three minutes +“And Mamma pressed her!” said Nicholas reproachfully. +and Martinists, even in Novíkov’s time. For a long while after he had +“And me, kiss me!” +and merry faces. It was Natásha, Sónya, and Pétya, who had come to +“And me? Would you like to kiss me?” she whispered almost inaudibly, +and mingling with one another. He could also, by the gleam of bayonets +and mirth that shone in all their faces. Evidently in the back rooms, +and more attractive. +and more regularly and rapidly, and the action at the Goldbach Stream +and most advantageous style, like a well-garnished joint of roast beef +and moved along the ranks shouting. The train drivers and orderlies +and moved to the right; from behind it, dispersing the laggards, came +and Murat, humiliated and anxious to expiate his fault, had at once +and musketry ahead of him. The firing grew louder and louder. +and my father was much affected by it. He says the count was the last +and my life, my life,” he thought, “must be risked?” +and Natásha, in the light-blue dresses they had worn at the theater, +And Natásha kissed her brother and ran away. +And Natásha rose and went out of the room on tiptoe, like a ballet +and next balls, about theatricals, and who would meet whom, and when and +And Nicholas again kissed her hand. +and no connections. Yet, though Anatole spent tens of thousands of +and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, +and not in the habit of running, trotted awkwardly stumbling on his +and not only at the same hour but at the same minute. With those about +and not value her pure affection and devotion to me?” She went up +and not with his eyes. +“And now, in token of candor, I ask you to reveal to me your chief +And now there’s Dólokhov sitting in the snow with a forced smile and +and of course not as ‘Emperor,’ it seemed to me it should be to +and of good family and that’s all I want.” +and on all their faces he recognized the same eagerness that filled his +and one booted foot, he advanced, while Willarski held a sword to his +and one could hear their distressing screams and groans, sometimes +and only turned away his eyes when the Austrian chief of staff finished + And on the throne our Titus shield. +and opened the door for him. +“And our little tea table?” +“And our share?” asked the princess smiling ironically, as if +and out of the bedroom glanced at the princess and turned away. She did +and overtook him. A sergeant of the battalion ran up and took the flag +and painfully felt. My father talks of nothing but marches and +and parted smiling, the German returning to his cowshed and Rostóv +and particularly amiable smile. +and part were leaving these Pratzen Heights which he intended to attack +and paused facing her at the foot of the sofa on which she was lying. +And Pierre, anxiously trying to remember whether he had done anything +and pressed him against the railings, and all he could do was to smile. +and, pressing Pierre’s hand, he went out. +And Prince Andrew after giving directions about his departure went to +And Prince Andrew, with others fatally wounded, was left to the care of +And Prince Dolgorúkov rapidly but indistinctly explained Weyrother’s +And Princess Mary tried, but could not manage, to be cordial to her new +and profligate life, though I did not like it and did not want to,” +and promised to write to him and guide him in his new activity. +and proudly around while Bagratión spoke to his son. +and prove my devotion to His Majesty the Emperor and to Russia!” +and put the matter before the Emperor,” said Princess Anna +And really another French soldier, trailing his musket, ran up to +And really he only ran a few steps alone. One soldier moved and then +and refined expression on the faces of those present he was always +and regarded as the key to the position. He saw over the mist that in +and relations had been given to understand that the fate of the young +and remained so for some minutes. Piteous, helpless, animal moans came +and replacing their purses and pocketbooks, entered the ballroom. First +“André,” said his wife, addressing her husband in the same +and resignation to the will of God. “If you do not understand these +and respect as few hardhearted men would have aroused. Although he was +and respectfully that the prince gave him a searching glance. +and returned a glove Pierre had dropped; the doctors became respectfully +Andrew. +Andrew. +Andrew. +“Andrew, already!” said the little princess, turning pale and +Andrew, “and at Anna Pávlovna’s they listen to me. And that stupid +Andrew apparently knew this as well as Tíkhon; he looked at his watch +Andrew a reliable correspondent to whom he could pour out the bile he +Andrew as one of themselves, an honor they did not extend to many. From +Andrew. “Besides, in the actions of a statesman one has to distinguish +Andrew came up, stroked her hair, and asked if she felt rested after +Andrew did not speak; he was both pleased and displeased that his father +Andrew did not tell his father that he would no doubt live a long time +Andrew? Don’t forget that she has grown up and been educated in +“Andrew, don’t!” said Princess Mary. +Andrew entered the passage. Kutúzov himself, he was told, was in the +Andrew felt a pleasant sense of repose among luxurious surroundings such +Andrew felt that something gave way in his soul and that he was guilty +Andrew had already heard from his wife in the presence of others some +Andrew had gone and made the sign of the cross in his direction. From +Andrew, “I am only surprised at your opinion of Bonaparte. You +“Andrew, I bless you with this icon and you must promise me you will +Andrew?’ I did indeed.” She laughed. “He is so well received +“Andrew, if you had faith you would have turned to God and asked Him +Andrew in his boyhood, helped Pierre out of his carriage, said that the +Andrew... is Father’s way of treating religious subjects. I don’t +Andrew. “I wish you good luck and success, gentlemen!” he added and +Andrew. “Look here, my dear fellow, get from Kozlóvski all the +Andrew made his way up to the battery from which the staff officer had +Andrew, paying no more heed to the general who ran after him imploring +Andrew read the same mild reproach he had read on the face of his dead +Andrew...” she said timidly after a moment’s silence, “I have a +Andrew shook himself as if waking up, and his face assumed the look it +Andrew slowly, not taking his eyes off his wife. +Andrew’s presence. He was ashamed to express his new Masonic views, +Andrew struck the high road along which the Russian army was moving with +Andrew, “that all the atrocities of the French army (I nearly said of +Andrew, told how Bonaparte wishing to test Markóv, our ambassador, +Andrew was galloping along in a post chaise enjoying the feelings of a +Andrew was in and Borís was shown into a large hall probably formerly +Andrew was natural and pleasant. Others, the majority, disliked him and +Andrew went out with him. +Andrew, whom Borís was expecting, entered the room. Prince Andrew, who +And Rostóv got up and went wandering among the campfires, dreaming of +and running so lightly, frightened Rostóv. He seized his pistol and, +Andrúsha!...” said she, putting her hand in her reticule but not yet +Andrúsha—the slender mischievous boy who had been her playfellow in +and salt and an icon of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, asking permission, +and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his +and saw that the lamp stood on a black table on which lay an open book. +and say, “I am so delighted... Mamma’s health... and Countess +and saying something in their gypsy accents. Nicholas understood that it +and scapegraces of Petersburg. +and scarcely breathing, watched from her ambush with sparkling eyes. +and scented myself.” +and, scowling, he gave Nicholas just such a look as he had given Pierre +and secured their release by heavy payments. He did not know that the +and seeing her severe face said: “Well, good-by, Countess,” and +and seeing that the elder visitor was not listening, he turned to the +and see the standard flapping against its staff. +and several other less noteworthy persons. +And she began to cry again because he had such a noble soul. +and she found them on my table and said she’d show them to Mamma, and +And she set off at a run along the passage. +and she’s even in my way. You know I always was a savage, and now am +“And she’s in love with Borís already. Just fancy!” said the +And she smiled her ecstatic smile. +and she with him, that there was quite a scandal and that that’s why +and she won’t say anything to Mamma. Nicholas will tell her himself, +“and should not justify your confidence and the honor you have done +and shouted to the musicians to play faster. Faster, faster, and faster; +“and showed me a letter in which the parade of the French in Vienna +and shown such unaffected familiarity in intercourse with everybody both +and show you what kind of rivet to use.” +And sighing disdainfully, he again changed his position. +and silent when the talk related to any topic that had no direct bearing +and silver of the men’s epaulets; servants in scarlet liveries moved +and simply, “Mr. Shítov—a man of great merit”—this of the man +and sinfulness?” He paused again. “Who art thou? Thou dreamest that +and sit. This morning I turned them all out and now look, it’s full +and social tact,” thought he; “been proud of my house, in which she +and social topics were ended and the time had come for intimate +and so further increased the fame of these dances. What distinguished +“And so he is! Quite blind!” +and solemn, and awakening in the men an unusual curiosity. On the day of +and sometimes flung the exercise book away. +and sometimes laughed. Nearest of all to the commander in chief walked +and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers’ or +and so said the youths and maidens themselves as they danced till they +and so sparkling their eyes. Sometimes the best of the pupils, of whom +And so the anecdote ended. Though it was unintelligible why he had told +“And so they are writing from Potsdam already?” he said, repeating +and sought the acquaintance of only those above him in position and +“And so you had to go through that too!” +“And so you think Napoleon will manage to get an army across?” asked +“And so you’ve had him educated abroad, Prince Vasíli, haven’t +and still fewer men would be so well able and willing to make up out of +and still the same and in the same place. No, it can’t be! Surely it +and stood, hanging her head. +and stood still in the dim light beneath the curtain as if not wishing +and stooped glass in hand over the infant. +and stopped near him. +And strange to say Nicholas felt that he could not help taking up a +and strength. He was continually traveling through the three provinces +and suddenly, as if he had studied her sufficiently and had formed a +and suddenly began to cry. +and suddenly determines to speak out. +and suddenly seemed to grow very merry. +And suddenly the whole world centered for him on anticipation of the +and swallowed the cold snow, his lips quivered but his eyes, still +and, taking Natásha’s hand, kissed it. +and taking Nesvítski’s arm he left Zherkóv, who did not know what to +and tears, till at last somebody else was asked to read it.” +and tear whatever came to his hand. “Why did I tell her that ‘Je +“And tell Mr. Dólokhov that I won’t forget him—he may be quite +and that daredevil after her!” said Anna Mikháylovna, wishing to show +and that her husband was a cross laid upon her by God. Prince Vasíli +and that if a letter reached the Grand Duke in command of the Guards +“And that other one with him, the Austrian, looked as if he were +And that’s how it is with me. À demain, mon cher.” * +and that the richest peasants (who formed the deputation) had begun +and that the whole army had surrendered at Ulm proved to be correct. +“And that would be splendid,” said Pierre. +and the allowance to the three princesses; about 15,000 was given in +and the boyish face Rostóv, breathless with excitement and hope, was +and the brilliance of the bright sunshine merged in a single joyous and +and the burning of an arm with a ruler as a proof of love did not seem +and the cannon, under the horses’ hoofs and between the wagon wheels, +And the commander, turning to look at the adjutant, directed his jerky +and the consequent impossibility of a speedy emancipation. +and the constant gleam of her white teeth, thought that they were in a +And the conversation again turned on the war, on Bonaparte, and the +And the count turned to the cook, who, with a shrewd and respectful +and the Crimean estate, in order to make it possible: all of which +and the difficult names of villages. Weyrother complied and Dohktúrov +and the disgrace of having lost two guns and yet remaining alive present +and the distinguished dignitary who bore the title of “Collector +And the feeling of energy with which the troops had started began to +“And the fete at the English ambassador’s? Today is Wednesday. I +and the general in white, accompanied by the suite, walked between the +and the glory that awaited him. +and the jingle of their weapons and saw their horses, their figures, and +And the latter—unconscious that he was being reflected in the hussar +and the men’s at the other. +and the munching of the lieutenant. +and then at the other. +and then calmly and seriously sat back in his chair. Anna Pávlovna +and then he suddenly stopped and performed some new and unexpected +“And then of course my family has also to be considered,” Prince +“And then, old fellow, he gives him one in the teeth with the butt +And then to call him out, reckoning on Fédya not fighting because he +And the old cavalry captain, Kírsten, shouted enthusiastically and no +and the old countess were especially disturbed, and to a lesser degree +and the orders he gave them and, to his surprise, found that no orders +“And the other one is not here. They’ve been telling tales,” he +and the others who did not approve of the plan of attack, were +And the owner of the manly voice, evidently an infantry officer, +and the pistols loaded, Nesvítski went up to Pierre. +And the prince began explaining all the blunders which, according to +“And the prisoners he killed in Africa? That was horrible!” said the +and the rattling of carriage wheels seemed to fill his ears, and now +and the reading of the letter began. After a brief description of +“And there hasn’t been anyone in the room except the lieutenant and +And there in the coffin was the same face, though with closed eyes. +and there is nothing to thank me for. No one has ever complained yet of +“And there’s nothing for you to say. I shall speak to him myself,” +and there too sat the members of the family, and Pierre and Hélène, +and the rewards sent to the army are innumerable. Though he is a +and the same look. In the middle of a dull and halting conversation, +and the second aim, that of purifying and regenerating himself, did not +And the staff captain rose and turned away from Rostóv. +And the talkative Dolgorúkov, turning now to Borís, now to Prince +and the tramp of horses’ hoofs were heard. Kutúzov and his suite were +and the traveler became absorbed in it. Pierre looked at him. All at +and the two Emperors were living with their suites, households, and +And the two friends told each other of their doings, the one of his +and the visitors try to guess from these glances who, or what, they are +and the whole secret lies in the terrible truth that she is a depraved +... and the wish, which constitutes the Emperor’s sole and absolute +and they awoke in him astonishment at the genius of his hero, a feeling +And they disappeared into the darkness with their load. +“And they said Kutúzov was blind of one eye?” +“And this is gratitude—this is recognition for those who have +And this “Well!” sounded coldly ironic, as if he were saying: “Now +and thoughtfully shaking his head. Did he fear going to the war, or was +and three pairs of gloves, and then the Grand Master addressed him. He +and threw them round the little girl who had run in. +and thrill of suspense usual at such moments. Outside the house, beyond +and took hold of the commander’s stirrup, almost leaning against him. +and to Pierre, glancing at him again. +and ‘To Siberia!’” said Berg with a sagacious smile. “I knew I +and triumph. +and two or three friends—you among them—and as for the rest I only +and unexpectedly again began to cry. +and unreasonable than a little child, who, playing with the parts of a +and until you have ceased to love the woman of your choice and have seen +and virtue, and thereby try with all our might to combat the evil which +and virtue than mere words. This chamber with what you see therein +and voices. This class of guests and members sat in certain habitual +and wait for her, she went silently toward the door that everyone was +and, walking backwards before the company, jerked his shoulders and +and warmly pressing his hand looked affectionately over his spectacles +and was a stranger there. In his person, honor was shown to a simple +and was crossing himself with his right hand, turning his eyes upward +and was going to tuck up the other trouser leg to save this stranger the +and was just putting his question to a soldier when his attention +and was therefore out of sorts, a state of mind which with her always +and watched his opponent’s face, evidently thinking about the game as +and, waving her thin arms from under the woolen shawl, cried: +and way of life. +and well informed foregathered when the news began to arrive in +“And we, my dear boy! It’s terrible! I was wrong to laugh at Mack, +and went in at the open door. There was no one in the anteroom; empty +and went out. Natásha had put on one spurred boot and was just getting +and went out of the corridor. +and went to the door. +“And what about his character?” asked the regimental commander. +“And what a well-preserved man he was!” remarked the aide-de-camp. +“And what devil made me go to that wat?” (an officer nicknamed +“And what do you think of this latest comedy, the coronation at +and, whatever may happen to him or to me, shall never cease to love him +“And what is she so pleased about?” thought Nicholas, looking at his +and what to expect after it beyond the grave! How happy and calm I +and wheels began to revolve faster and faster, levers and cogwheels to +“And where is Lise?” he asked, answering her question only by a +and where to shoot,” he said with an unnaturally gentle smile. +and which had always opened so quietly, burst noisily open and banged +and while Kutúzov was turning managed to make a grimace and then assume +“And who are you?” cried the officer, turning on him with tipsy +“And who has told you what is bad for another man?” he asked. +and whom Borís addressed turned round crossly and told him Bolkónski +and who was called Tit. He was saying, “Tit, I say, Tit!” +“And who will inherit his wealth?” he added in a whisper. +“And why are children born to such men as you? If you were not a +“And why are they stopping? There’s no proper order!” said the +“And why didn’t you do it at seven in the morning? You ought to have +“And why didn’t you simply come straight to me as to a friend? I +“And why do you serve?” +“And why is it?” +“And why the deuce are we going to fight Bonaparte?” remarked +“And will she soon be confined?” and shaking his head reproachfully +and will then inherit everything under the will? And if the will and +and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs. +and wished he could tell what, if anything, this man was thinking +and wish you to have as good an opinion of me. Don’t upset yourself, +and with a bow to them both he went out. +And with a furtive glance at his son’s face, the count went out of the +and with a hooked nose. Then came two more, and many more running +and with baritone notes in his voice, new to Borís, pointing to his own +and with his hand at the salute rode up to the general. +and without awaiting a reply, Prince Andrew rose and left the table. +“and without holding on to anything. Is that right?” +And with the familiarity and easy grace peculiar to him, he raised the +and with this object offered a three days’ truce on condition that +and wrote a few words on a large sheet of paper folded in four). +and yet be happy....” +and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must +and you.” +“And you? Are you going to have lunch too? They feed you quite +“And you didn’t see that everybody is packing up?” +“And you?” he asked Dólokhov, but as soon as he had asked the +and you, mon cousin, seem to consider me a perfect fool,” said the +and young people are rarely capable of it. His hearers expected a story +and your capital!’ The one general whom we all loved, Schmidt, you +“And you’re still the same diplomatist! But that’s not the +“And you too!” +“And you won’t feel ashamed to write to him?” +a need to escape from it by some strange, and usually cruel, action. +an entreaty, a threat, and above all conviction that she would herself +an excruciating pain in his arm, for which he could find no satisfactory +an exemplary officer of twenty-two years’ service, who had never been +an explanation, but meeting the latter’s impressive but meaningless +an expression of perplexity, turned round to Milorádovich as if seeking +an eye on me! Very well then! Get along with you!’ So he writes the +anger and walking up to the regiment wished to find a further excuse for +angered the countess when it was not properly cleaned, turned as loosely +anger he did not condescend to notice, and said: “I think you were +angling, while his grandson, with shirt sleeves rolled up, handled the +angrily and disrespectfully at Kozlóvski. +angrily at him. Bondarchúk’s horse swerved and galloped past. +angrily blowing his nose. Hardly had Prince Andrew gone when the study +angrily, came in at the other door. Natásha checked her first impulse +angrily pulling down his tight scarf. +angry—but I know you will not marry her. I know, heaven knows how, but +angry with me for coming? You have changed so, Andrúsha,” she added, +An hour and a half later most of the players were but little interested +An hour later, Tíkhon came to call Princess Mary to the old prince; +an hour’s delay they at last moved on, descending the hill. The fog +“A nice little hot torch for the infantry! Good luck to you, fellow +an illegitimate son, and petted and extolled when he was the best +animal. Count Ilyá Rostóv, laughing and repeating the words, “Make +animal went when excited. Bending his foaming muzzle to his chest, his +animated, and handsome, with his hand bandaged. In the study were four +animation of the past or the future. It was as if Prince Andrew would +an immediate answer. Prince Vasíli had brought his son with the evident +an indescribable charm of sorrow and self-forgetfulness that her father +an inn in the village which the officers frequented. Rostóv rode up to +an inspection anywhere in the heart of Russia. +Anna Mikháylovna. +Anna Mikháylovna came out last. She approached Pierre with slow, quiet +Anna Mikháylovna, in a few words, told her the contents of the letter, +Anna Mikháylovna instantly guessed her intention and stooped to be +Anna Mikháylovna looked at Véra and paused. The countess pressed her +Anna Mikháylovna opened the door. Her face wore the proud expression +Anna Mikháylovna paused and waited for him to come up. +Anna Mikháylovna sat down beside him, with her own handkerchief wiped +Anna Mikháylovna’s face expressed a consciousness that the decisive +Anna Mikháylovna shook her head. +Anna Mikháylovna sighed deeply. +Anna Mikháylovna’s was the most distinct. +Anna Mikháylovna, though her circumstances had improved, was still +Anna Mikháylovna took off her gloves and, occupying the position she +Anna Mikháylovna turned up her eyes, and profound sadness was depicted +Anna Mikháylovna was already embracing her and weeping. The countess +Anna Mikháylovna, who always knew everything that passed in the house, + * Anna Pávlovna. +Anna Pávlovna almost closed her eyes to indicate that neither she nor +Anna Pávlovna continued to give on free evenings the same kind of +Anna Pávlovna disapproved. +Anna Pávlovna frowned. Mortemart, Hippolyte’s friend, addressed him +Anna Pávlovna gave him her shriveled hand to kiss and introduced him to +Anna Pávlovna had already managed to speak to Lise about the match she +Anna Pávlovna in dismay detained him with the words: “Do you know the +Anna Pávlovna’s alarm was justified, for Pierre turned away from the +Anna Pávlovna’s “At Home” was like the former one, only the +Anna Pávlovna’s drawing room was gradually filling. The highest +Anna Pávlovna smiled and promised to take Pierre in hand. She knew his +Anna Pávlovna’s reception was in full swing. The spindles hummed +Anna Pávlovna’s soiree. The matter was mentioned to the Emperor, an +Anna Pávlovna’s two years before. There were also present a very +“Annette, for heaven’s sake don’t refuse me,” the countess +announce him, but, changing his mind, came back and stooped to kiss the +annoyance. “Good luck to you!” +an oath of fidelity to the laws of the Order. The candles were then +an old friend. +An old powdered manservant who was sitting in the antechamber rose +an opportunity to express his doubts. +an orderly, or a townsman was carried through the waves of infantry; +an orderly’s charge, and he felt the blood rush to his heart with +“An order to who?” asked the colonel morosely. +another. +another.” +another—a childlike, kindly, even rather silly look, which seemed to +another. All became silent and turned to look at the pale tear-worn Anna +another and soon the whole battalion ran forward shouting “Hurrah!” +Another, a younger voice, interrupted him: “Afraid or not, you can’t +another candle. Still lower, beyond the turn of the staircase, one +Another company, a lucky one for not all the companies had vodka, +another, dying, stepping over the dying and killing one another, only to +Another five days passed, and then the young Prince Nicholas Andréevich +another group. +Another group was at the tea table. Pierre wished to join the former, +another, hardly able to suppress their laughter. +Another hussar also rushed toward the horse, but Bondarénko had already +“Another Ismail comrade,” said he. “A brave officer! Are you +another, more important, subordination, which made this tight-laced, +another of the precepts—that of reforming the human race—and had +another pie but felt shy, and therefore pretended to be examining the +another’s faces and speak to one another. Besides the soldiers who +Another, the red, stout Nesvítski, lay on a bed with his arms under his +another, they all gave, and transmitted, orders as to how to proceed, +Another time he interrupted, saying: +another two minutes and it is certain death,” thought each one. +Another voice, from a man of medium height with clear blue eyes, +another who wished to get away. With his head bent, and his big feet +An outsider is out of place here.... No, don’t distress yourself.... +answer. At last he moved up to Pierre and, taking the kerchief that lay +answered.” +answered her, as he had the countess, only in monosyllables. The other +answered him either by a brief but appropriate remark—showing that it +answered Lavrúshka. “I know by now, if he wins he comes back early to +answered Pierre, trying to remember who this young man was. +answered the general. +answered the soldier. Prince Andrew took out his purse and gave the +answers to these questions, as was only too evident, did not interest +answer than the one Prince Andrew gave to this naïve question. +answer that voice and went on dreaming of his triumphs. The dispositions +antechamber experienced the same feeling of respect and even fear when +anteroom with him. +Antichrist—I really believe he is Antichrist—I will have nothing +Antónov.” +an unexpected and tenderly paternal way. +any clever conversation that was to be heard. Seeing the self-confident +any moment.) +any moment the Emperor may see them.... But no, these must be only a +“Any news from Mack?” +anyone, and so you don’t deserve to have them.” +anyone, but you know it yourself.” +anyone else does the same, I will pay him a hundred imperials. Do you +anyone else had a right to criticize what the Empress desired or was +anyone flogged or sent to Siberia—and still less for your serfs. If +anyone if he is in disfavor. Now come here.” +anyone in particular, began to say how difficult it was to carry out +anyone. They wished to administer the sacrament of unction.” +anyone who wanted to see him could come the hundred miles from Moscow to +any the worse off. In Siberia they lead the same animal life, and the +anything, but was only conscious of her stern father’s withered face +anything, Dólokhov, looking straight in his face, said slowly and +anything. Do you know I have sent for Pierre? The count,” pointing to +anything else.... You have not been ordered to return and have not been +anything, except only for permission, after the blow she had received, +anything for his happiness! And my affairs are in such a bad way that my +anything. Here is a letter to Prince Vasíli, and here is money. Write +anything. If it be God’s will to prove thee in the duties of marriage, +anything like it. She believed it could be, but did not understand it. +anything might happen, only not that. +anything to say, say it. These two things can be done together,” he +anything, when suddenly the well-known whispering of Mademoiselle +anything wrong in my behavior. But I’ll just tell Mamma how you are +any women—countesses or cooks—who were not venal. I have not yet met +apart from myself.” +a particular glamour and glad keenness of impression to everything that +apartments assigned to Prince Vasíli. +a partner, and the old men began smilingly to talk about Poland and the +a peg on which to hang the prince’s favorite topic, he looked +a plan of marriage for you. It is neither more nor less than with Prince +a policeman and the bear back to back and put the bear into the Moyka +apologize.” +apologize to an old and honorable officer? Whatever Bogdánich may +apologizing for the state of his gun. +a portrait so characteristic of the original as to be amusing. +apparently immersed in his own thoughts. +Apparently she had forgotten her age and by force of habit employed +apparently suffering more than the dying soldier, and he rode away. +apparently the sight of them roused no pleasant feeling in Véra. +appear as if he did not want any of that wine, but was mortified because +appeared. +appeared a stupid smile of glee which he seemed unable to suppress. +appeared from behind his company and, though he was a middle-aged man +appeared. He would carry her away and then sa pauvre mère would appear +appeared in the doorway. The general with the bandaged head bent forward +appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to +appeared punctually to the appointed hour. Everyone sitting in this +appeared, quite out of keeping with his features, that seemed to deride +appeared shy of her unquestionable and all too victorious beauty. She +appeared that they had worn when under fire. Rostóv watched his enemy, +appeared, then a second and a third almost simultaneously, and at the +appeared to him in a dream: his mother and her large white hand, +appearing on the skyline, which they knew to be the enemy’s troops. +apple, also half smiling as he looked at the handsome girl. +appointment to London was a promotion and that he was so to regard it. +appreciate at a glance her superiority to the plain, badly dressed, +appreciation of the vicomte’s epigram, Pierre again broke into the +approach, but even in this room there now stood an empty bath, and water +approached. +approached first, experienced the same feeling as every other man in +approached Kutúzov. Of Kutúzov’s suite only four remained. They were +approached the door of the minister’s room. He felt offended, and +approaching. And at that moment, though the day was still, a light gust +approaching departure did not prevent his amusing himself, but rather +approaching enemy farther off. At the same instant the sun came fully +Apráksina...” and then, again rustling, pass into the anteroom, put +Apráksins’ I heard a lady asking, ‘Is that the famous Prince +aprons like the Rhetor’s and holding swords in their hands pointed at +apron, such as the others wore, was put on him: he was given a trowel +apron under the leather hood of the vehicle. Prince Andrew rode up +apron, which symbolized strength and purity; then of the unexplained +À propos of marriages: do you know that a while ago that universal +a quite unexpected, chance of saving the army. On receiving the news +a rage) and called for the company commander. +archduchess also wished to see him. He did not know whom to answer, and +Archduke, inspected the allied army of eighty thousand men. +archduke’s as good as another, as you know) and even if it is only +architect not to go to the prince with his report. +architect’s attention to the sound of the prince’s footsteps. +are all stupid; but I know this: an illegitimate son cannot inherit... +a real one, but that they would talk of that later. Princess Mary was +are—at the heart of affairs and of the world—is the talk all of +are being deceived, my instinct tells me of negotiations with France and +are childwen of the dust... but one falls in love and one is a God, one +are clever, you are well educated. And what have you done with all these +are distributed. Why has fate given you two such splendid children? +are here?” +are many stories of his getting to know an officer in just such a chance +are, Monsieur Pierre!” +are not many left of us old friends! That’s why I so value your +are now two Russians, Milorádovich, and Dokhtúrov, and there would be +a reply unnecessary. She smilingly waited. All the time the story was +a reproach to everyone. Now tell me, Count, was it right, was it +are taken to the field marshal’s room, for he likes to do everything +are the French!’ Murat, seeing that all is lost if the sergeant is +are there,” said the officer, pointing to the village of Hosjeradek, +are they doing? What are they doing?” he murmured to himself, still +are very pale!” said Princess Mary in alarm, running with her soft, +are we to find Suvórovs now? Je vous demande un peu,” *(4) said he, +are within sight of the enemy and he wishes to profit by the opportunity +are wrapped up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us +are you dumb?’ he shouted. Still I remained silent. And what do you +“Are you going to Count Cyril Vladímirovich, my dear?” said the +“Are you living with your mother?” +“Are you mad? You have twice been ordered to retreat, and you...” +are young and I am old. I should like to help you as far as lies in my +“Are you not ashamed to deprive us of your charming wife?” +“Are you ready?” he asked his wife, looking past her. + A Rhipheus at home, a Caesar in the field! +a ring, he made the sign of the cross over him with a gesture evidently +arithmetic, when rising from his chair he would walk away from her, +Arkhárovs; they have a party.” +arm. He began to laugh. +arms and the hope of future triumph. And he was not the only man to +arm’s length, apparently afraid of shooting himself with it. His left +arms on the table and began to read. After reading a few lines, he +arm wavered still more with the strain. One hand moved as if to clutch +army, and even Napoleon himself with his staff, were not on the far side +army, and in the night from the nineteenth to the twentieth, the whole +army, and the member of the Hofkriegsrath who had arrived the previous +army’s campfires dimly glowing in the fog, could be seen behind him; +army was very favorable. +army.... You are in a position to seize its baggage and artillery. +army. You have brought your army corps to Pultúsk, routed: here it is +(“Arnauts” was the Tsarévich’s favorite expression when he was in +around him. An infantryman came to the fire, squatted on his heels, held +around them cannon balls were flying, of which he was aware not so +aroused him. He started and opened his eyes. +arranged and how nice it all was? There’s Uncle Shinshín’s brother +arrangement of the festival in honor of Bagratión, for few men knew +arrangements of the house, he interrupted himself: +arrangements to the minutest detail remain the same.” +arranging a dinner in honor of Prince Bagratión at the English Club. +arrival of young Prince Andrew and his wife was daily expected, but +arrival, thought in another way. Of course, she, a handsome young woman +arrived from Russia. With this object he intended to meet the regiment; +artillery company, a head and shoulders taller and twice as broad +artilleryman to Prince Andrew. “Not like your honor!” +artilleryman, wiping away the blood with his coat sleeve, as if +artillerymen, some of whom were fighting, while others, having abandoned +artillerymen, Túshin, and the cadet exchanged silent glances as they +artillery sentry was pacing up and down; he stood at attention when the +artless smile, she had met him in secluded passages. +a rule to speak out... Well, what answer am I to take? Will you come to +A rustle of starched petticoats and the whispering and laughter of +as a child, there was no longer in her singing that comical, childish, +as a dense cloud of smoke arose from it. The hussars had succeeded in +as a Frenchman would speak after spending about a year in Russia. +as a friend that frees the soul grown weary in the labors of virtue +As always happens when women lead lonely lives for any length of time +as a man recently returned from abroad, in a political conversation in +as a mark of their gratitude for the benefits he had conferred on them, +as a petitioner on behalf of this young man. You see...” but +as a true hussar in this battle, had been wasted. Their squadron +as author of the military plan, argued that Bonaparte might easily +as a veranda. +as Borís. “Count! I am wounded in my right hand” (and he showed his +ascended the carpeted stairs. +a schoolboy who is told to repeat a lesson he has not learned. Spots +as clear as day, and can go so far astray. That is the only thing +as elsewhere, he was surrounded by an atmosphere of subservience to +a sense of disgust the minutest details of this humiliating scene he +a servant. From there they passed into another room. A man in strange +a seventy-pound weight were tied to it. He could run no more. The +as ever. A solitary tallow candle burned in the anteroom. +as far as Moscow and to stay with him there. Meeting a comrade at +“As far as the service goes he is quite punctilious, your excellency; +ashamed; he felt that he was occupying someone else’s place here +ashamed of himself, he said, as if merely asking his father to let him +as he always did when at the front, solemn and stern. Then came the word +As he approached, a ringing shot issued from it deafening him and his +as he closed his eyes his ears seemed filled with the rattle of the +as he expected he was appointed an adjutant to the governor general of +as he felt himself to be at that moment. He was conscious that here +as he had been accustomed to from childhood. Besides it was pleasant, +as he lay back in his armchair, looking in another direction. +as he liked, now in Petersburg I hear he has been doing such terrible +a shell burst in the midst of that dense throng, killing some and +as he rode by. +As he said this he rose, went to his sister, and, stooping, kissed +As he said this Prince Andrew was less than ever like that Bolkónski +as he sat on the sloping ledge. As he began slipping down, his head and +As he was leaving the battery, firing was heard on the left also, and +as he would have done to a stranger. +as his own. What also conduced to Bagratión’s being selected as +a short pause, “but everyone lives in his own way. You lived for +a shot, and our troops could be seen hurrying to the crossing. +aside and turning sharply away; but rising immediately, he paced up and +aside with his arm, said in a breathless voice, +As I do not intend to be at your house again for reasons you know +as if astonished at the word. “Well, you see, I’m building. I mean +as if at times there radiated from them shafts of warm light)—were +as if continuing a conversation the subject of which had often been +as if flinging something to the ground, the drummer—a lean, handsome +as if guessing what it was about. +as if he felt a little confused before his son. “Now, if you would +as if running a sword through an invisible foe, and glaring savagely +as if she had asked him to do it. +as if she had to give some final necessary instructions. +as if stirred to his heart’s core and himself regretting and laughing +as if to ascertain whether his father’s habits had changed since he +as if to explain such a question. +as if to reassure Prince Andrew. +a sign of approaching anger. “I was forgetting... Do you wish it +as impracticable, he arranged for the erection of large +a sin, a great sin, it is hatred of that vile woman!” almost shrieked +as in a spoiled child, a continual consciousness of her charming defect, +as I remember Nikólenka. Him—I just shut my eyes and remember, +As is usually the case with people meeting after a prolonged separation, +“As it flies past me, Daddy, the ball I mean,” said a young soldier +as it was too far to the left flank for him to have time to go there +“As I was saying to you, Andrew, be kind and generous as you always +as I write? +ask; but to prove my devotion to you and how I respect your father’s +asked and answered at the same instant. He was alone in the middle of a +asked him to tell the Emperor. What do you think he replied? ‘But, my +asked Natásha, so seriously and excitedly that it was evident that what +asked one of the ladies. +asked permission to be present at the battle out of curiosity. The +asked Rostóv, with a contemptuous smile. +asked the Italian how he stood Russian climate. The Italian’s +asked the prince’s permission to ride round the position to see the +asked the son. +asked. “They say old maids have a mania for matchmaking, and though I +asked to give up all he possessed. +asked to play on the clavichord. Anatole, laughing and in high spirits, +asked to see the portrait of the aunt’s husband on the box lid. +asked Weyrother several times to repeat words he had not clearly heard +ask forgiveness. +ask himself. It was as if the thread of the chief screw which held his +“Ask him to wait,” and the sound was heard of a chair being pushed +asking.” But dying was also dreadful. +asking forgiveness?” +“Ask the count to come to me.” +ask you to put the money on your cards,” replied Dólokhov. “Don’t +asleep, nor even remain in one place, but had to jump up and pace the +asleep. Prince Andrew felt sorry for his sister. +a slightly contemptuous smile, he said: “Yes, there are many stories +a slipper for his left foot. With a childlike smile of embarrassment, +as long as I live.” +a small reception, and just see how badly I am dressed.” And she +as many persons are to me—father, sister, wife—those dearest to +“As may happen,” said Rostóv. +a smell of perfume, and put it to Nesvítski’s nose. +a smile he could not repress as he recalled his reception at Brünn. +A smile of joy and satisfaction lit up her eager face. +a smile that broadened his round face more and more, prepared the +as much self-confidence as if he were addressing school children—that +As often happens after long sleeplessness and long anxiety, he was +As often happens in early youth, especially to one who leads a lonely +A soldier on the march is hemmed in and borne along by his regiment as +a soldier’s cross, equally shabby cadet’s riding breeches lined with +A soldier was driving, and a woman enveloped in shawls sat behind the +a son of Nicholas Bolkónski, I shall be ashamed!” +A space like a street was left between each two lines of troops. The +“A splendid reply!” said Napoleon. “Young man, you will go far!” +“A splendid soldier, splendid! ‘What am I attached to!’ Ha, ha, +as possible to conceal his own part in the improvements that had been +as reported by the division commanders, Ostermann and Sedmorétzki, and +as serene as if all this were happening at home awaiting peaceful +As she became animated the prince looked at her more and more sternly, +As she named the Empress, Anna Pávlovna’s face suddenly assumed an +as she rose to go to her own room. +as she sat in her room. But owing to the superstition that the fewer +As she was crossing the anteroom she saw through the window a carriage +assiduity of its commander the regiment, in comparison with others that +assigned to cavalry-captain Denísov, the squadron commander, known +assigned to the commander of the Pávlograd regiment in which Rostóv +as something generally known. But it was the first time he had heard +as soon as all is over,” and Prince Vasíli sighed to intimate what he +As soon as he learned that the Russian army was in such a hopeless +As soon as Nicholas entered, he was enfolded in that poetic atmosphere +As soon as the singing was over, another and another toast was proposed +assumed a dignified expression, which with characteristic tact she had +Assuming quite the pose of a society woman (heaven knows when and where +assured himself from the way Rostóv looked at it that his coat had been +“A staff officer was here a minute ago, but skipped off,” said an +a star-shaped light. At one side of the table was a small carpet with +as the “angel incarnate.” +As the bearers, among whom was Anna Mikháylovna, passed the young man +“As the enemy’s left wing rests on wooded hills and his right +as the guest of honor, to enter first. Bagratión was embarrassed, not +as their officer—all looked at their commander like children in an +“As there’s no one to fall in love with on campaign, he’s fallen +as the right flank would probably not be able to withstand the enemy’s +as they enjoyed their Rhine wine, sauté, and ices, and however they +as they have heard it described by others, and as sounds well, but not +as they said in Moscow society. He seemed to be condescending to +as they watched their young people executing their newly learned steps, +As this Ápsheron battalion marched by, the red-faced Milorádovich, +as though running away from some danger, and, making long, quick strides +a storm at the square, cut his way in, slashed right and left, how his +a story, heard from her aunt but finished in her own way, which she +A stout major was pacing up and down the line, and regardless of the +“As to your business,” Prince Andrew continued, addressing Borís, +a strange caprice of his employer’s was admitted to table though the +A strange feeling of exasperation and yet of respect for this man’s +a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of +a suffering child and to wring her little hands even with some +as was his custom when at home—taking leave of a good-looking, +as we are masters of Ulm, we cannot be deprived of the advantage of +as well as that the French were outflanking our left. The general +as were all the words he spoke that day, and Count Ilyá looked joyfully +As when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters +as with his feet. +asylums, and schools were to be established on all the estates. Some of +as you and Princess Mary call it, are the chief source of all error and +as you may, always remain the same backs and foreheads.” +as young Bezúkhov! Yes, I pity him from my heart, and shall try to give +as young people often do. “No, I am too happy now to spoil my +“As you please... really... I think so... but as you please,” said +“As you see,” he said. +as ze sanctity of its alliances...” he spoke this last word with +at?” +at a command, everyone began to run. +at a full gallop so that he outstripped the others. Ahead, the enemy was +at all as I ran,” thought Prince Andrew—“not as we ran, shouting +at all as it really was. Rostóv was a truthful young man and would on +at all. He said to me, ‘I am sorry I can do so little for you, dear +at all like the conduct of a great man!” +A tall, stout, and proud-looking woman, with a round-faced smiling +at Anna Pávlovna’s, that it would be difficult to get rid of Anna +at any of them but smiling on all, as if graciously allowing each the +at any rate his light-blue eyes gazed for about two seconds into +at a soldier in the ranks of the third company in a greatcoat of bluish +at a soldier who lay prone, with blood on his uncovered head. The +at Bagratión over each other’s shoulders, as if he were some rare +At Bald Hills, Prince Nicholas Andréevich Bolkónski’s estate, the +at Bald Hills with his wife. This pleasure will be but a brief one, +at balls, amiably smiling in the society of the most brilliant women, +“At boss zides, Captain,” he heard the voice of the colonel, who, +At dawn on the sixteenth of November, Denísov’s squadron, in +At daybreak on the seventeenth, a French officer who had come with +At dinner Anna Mikháylovna talked the whole time about the war news +At dinner, conversation turned on Pierre’s marriage. +at Dólokhov and his eyes dropped, the something terrible and monstrous +at each alternate step; and in time to this, with stern but varied +at ease by him, “but I hope I have not offended you. I always make it +at eight o’clock in the morning +At eight o’clock Kutúzov rode to Pratzen at the head of the fourth +a terrible thing! Quelle terrible chose que la guerre!” +a tête-à-tête talk with the friend of her childhood, Princess Anna +At first he heard the sound of indifferent voices, then Anna +at first impossible to enter the drawing room door for the crowd of +at first irregularly at varying intervals—trata...tat—and then more +At first Prince Andrew read with his eyes only, but after a while, +At five in the morning it was still quite dark. The troops of the +at her reflection in the glass. “She flatters me,” thought the +at her reproachfully. “And who is it she takes after?” thought the +at her timidly over his spectacles, and like a hare surrounded by hounds +at him. After this volley the regimental commander clutched at his leg; +a third, Count Arakchéev, if his nerves were not too weak.” +at his estate. As regularity is a prime condition facilitating activity, +at his hesitation and, trying to arouse his former devotional feeling, +at his own sensibility, when Princess Mary entered. He hurriedly took a +at his partner with a merry and triumphant air, suddenly stamped with +at home again. He felt that he had grown up and matured very much. His +At home, they had not yet gone to bed. The young people, after returning +a threatening gesture. “If the purse isn’t found I’ll flog you, +a thud. Denísov rode past him, leaning back and shouting something. +at intervals, and the bullets passed somewhere in the fog singing in +at intervals the bugle calls and the shouts of the enemy could be heard +at irregular intervals as before, followed by one or two cannon shots, +at Krems excited but not weary, with dispatches from Dokhtúrov to +at Kutúzov’s. +at last Anna Mikháylovna, still with the same expression, pale but +At last seizing a soldier by his collar he forced him to answer. +“At least, change your coiffure,” said the little princess. +at Markóv, probably expecting Markóv to pick it up for him, and how +atmosphere characteristic of homes where there are very young and very +atmosphere made itself so strongly felt in the Rostóvs’ house as at +atmosphere of a large and active town which is always so attractive to a +atmosphere of an army, announcing the approach of something decisive + At nighttime in the moon’s fair glow +at once transferred to the Guards as a cornet, had been educated from +at once, when she heard the young man’s discreet steps approaching +at one another. +at one another, and all pressed toward the exit from the bridge. +“At one draught, or he loses!” shouted a fourth. +At one of the post stations he overtook a convoy of Russian wounded. +a toy, seeing the effect these prearranged receptions had on Pierre, +at Prince Andrew and did not even nod to him. +at Prince Andrew, evidently considering something. +at Prince Andrew with cool intensity, walking straight toward him and +a treat to her guests. As a clever maître d’hôtel serves up as a +a trembling hand placed a charge in the cannon’s mouth. The short, +“A trifle,” said the colonel in his bass voice: “two hussars +a truce and sent his adjutant to Kutúzov to report the offer he had +A truce was Kutúzov’s sole chance of gaining time, giving +at Schön Grabern, what shall we not do now when he is at the front? We +“At seven o’clock, I believe.” +“At seven o’clock? It’s very sad, very sad!” +At six in the evening, Kutúzov went to the Emperor’s headquarters +at someone unseen. “Mr. Pitt, as a traitor to the nation and to the +attacked the men collecting wood in the copse. It was no longer possible +“Attack indeed!” said the colonel in a bored voice, puckering up his +attack instead of being attacked, and so render the whole of this +attack our headquarters, and the commander in chief has to ask for a +attacks. Both generals are angry, and the result is a challenge on +attacks the Prussians. The Prussians are our faithful allies who have +attack very long. About Túshin and the battalion that had been in +attained. +attain that knowledge and are still infinitely far from our aim; but +attempt at familiarity on the part of the Russian messenger. +attendance on him, to the enemy camp. Wintzingerode was not merely +“Attendez,” said Anna Pávlovna, reflecting, “I’ll speak to +attend to the voice of their commander, or would they, disregarding him, +attention. +attention. Dohktúrov, a little man, sat opposite Weyrother, with +attention. He looked now at the Pratzen Heights, now at the sun floating +attention. He screwed up his eyes showing that he was listening. +attention. Napoleon apparently remembered seeing him on the battlefield +attention of all to Borís’ narrative was shown by Hélène. She asked +“Att-ention!” shouted the regimental commander in a soul-shaking +attention to her severe remark—and began to laugh. She laughed, and in +attention to his story. +attention to something within her that is only seen in pregnant women, +attention to the verses. +attentively to Bagratión’s colloquies with the commanding officers +attentively to what Prince Vasíli said, but kept glancing at Princess +attentive to him. Count Cyril Vladímirovich is your godfather after +At that instant the sun began to hide behind the clouds, and other +At that moment Anna Pávlovna came up and, looking severely at Pierre, +At that moment, as the Horse Guards, having passed him, disappeared in +At that moment Borís clearly realized what he had before surmised, that +at that moment made itself felt. +At that moment, on the road from the town on which signalers had been +At that moment the door opened. +At that moment, with noiseless footsteps and with the businesslike, +at that time, a very high ruffle, and a brown dress coat. This stout +At that time in the Rostóvs’ house there prevailed an amorous +At the appointed hour the prince, powdered and shaven, entered the +at the Arkhárovs’ ball, talked about the war with Field Marshal +at the beautiful Hélène with her radiant face and at the red, broad, +At the beginning of March, old Count Ilyá Rostóv was very busy +at the bottom of the sleigh beside Rostóv, who grew more and more +at the cadet’s troubled face. +at the club dinner. +at the council—the coming battle and the victory that would certainly +at the door,” and Natásha ran across the drawing room to the dancing +at the door Prince Andrew and the figure of the old man in a white +at the doors, but after all he did at last enter first. He walked shyly +at the faces of his suite, young and animated as his own. Czartorýski, +At the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our +at the French. +At the front an altercation occurred between an Austrian guide and a +at the head of a movement that had already become unrestrainable. He was +at the least firing. The Emperor’s gratitude was announced to the +At the levee Prince Andrew stood among the Austrian officers as he had +at them. +at them and hack them to pieces, their proximity now seemed so awful +at the map, but at Prince Andrew’s face. +At the men’s end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. +At the moment the door opened and the stranger came in, Pierre felt a +At the Olmütz review he had seemed more majestic; here he seemed +at the period of youth when there seems so much to do that there is no +at the Razumóvski’s ball ... and Countess Apráksina ... I was +At the sight of the letter red patches showed themselves on the +at the soldiers as if threatening to punish them. Cadet Mirónov ducked +at the soldiers who were blocking his way. “Hi there, boys! Keep to +at the sound and then, smiling at his own sensations, stood still. The +at the steaming boiler, waiting till the sample, which a quartermaster +At the very instant he did this and uttered those words, Pierre felt +at the world is so opposed to yours that we shall not understand one +At this a sudden change evidently took place in the princess’ ideas; +at this big, stout, quiet man, wondering how such a clumsy, modest +At this moment that terrible door, which Pierre had watched so long +attire appeared at the door. Willarski, stepping toward him, said +attitude toward him that had taken place in society. +“At what o’clock did the battle begin?” asked the Emperor. +“At what o’clock was General Schmidt killed?” +at which Prince Andrew had been when he examined the battlefield. +a type of face different from that of the men, squeezed his way along; +audible the whole length of the table. +audience over his spectacles and continued. +audiences, but he does not like talking himself and can’t do it, as +audience, which produced an effect unfavorable to the narrator. Several +audience with the Emperor Francis occupied his thoughts. +Auersperg was defending, and the bridge was not blown up: so Murat +Augesd. +aunt, Anna Pávlovna mentioned each one’s name and then left them. +aunt as she conducted him to her. +auntie Anna Mikháylovna told me, under the seal of strict secrecy, of +“Auntie, darling, do tell me what it is!” +aunt,” or “You do not know my aunt?” and very gravely conducted +aunt without waiting to hear her speech about Her Majesty’s health. +“Au revoir! Thank you very much. His Majesty will probably desire to +Austerlitz, Borís was unable to see either Prince Andrew or Dolgorúkov +Austrian adjutant, Bilíbin, and last night’s conversation. Having +Austrian and Russian troops, both those freshly arrived from Russia and +Austrian army of Ulm. They are the same battalions you broke at +Austrian Council of War at which Suvórov crowed like a cock in reply to +Austrian general, continuing to read, frowned angrily and jerked his +Austrians, and all at once discovered from the cannon balls discharged +Austrian, to report and explain, and to his headquarters where he had +Austrian troops, under the direction of so skillful a leader as General +Austria,” said Mortemart. “The Emperor of Austria can never have +authorities to secure advantageous means of communication for herself +authority in his voice. “Who invented Him, if He did not exist? Whence +Author: Leo Tolstoy +a very bad way of deciding whether a battle was won or lost. Those who + * “A very good morning! A very good morning!” +a very long time. “If anyone finds this silence inconvenient, let him +a victory over Bonaparte, just when I’m not serving. Yes, yes, he’s +a vigorous attack on the orator. +a visit. “I am starting on a journey of inspection, and of course I +“A visitor,” answered Antón. +avoid doing certain things, and speak French. He was one of those, +avoided looking at the young couple, and heedless and unobservant as +avoided the blow. “Thought... Blackguards...” shouted the prince +avoid General Buxhöwden who by right of seniority should be our chief. +avoiding gardens and enclosures, going over new and unknown ground, and +avoid seeing all these suffering men, and he felt afraid—afraid not +awaited their fate. The firing died down and soldiers, talking eagerly, +awaiting a reply. He frowned. +aware of a stir all around. He looked up: Dólokhov was standing on the +aware of his existence. At the quarters of the commander in chief, +aware of his weaknesses. +aware that in front, behind, and on all sides, other Russian columns +away. +away. +away. +away. +away and he had just managed to catch her, “didn’t he tell you how +away at the dogs! But this sort of thing is the very devil, with them +away? But where to? It’s one—let them sing!” +away from her. “Destroying the army, destroying the men! And why? Go, +away from him. The alliance with Prussia, Austria’s treachery, +away her tears on her sister-in-law’s knee. +away. Involuntarily recalling his wife’s past and her relations with +away with a grimace as if to say that everything Dólokhov had said to +A week later Pierre gave his wife full power to control all his estates +A week later, Pierre, having taken leave of his new friends, the Masons, +awful!” +awful...” and he burst into tears. +a whisper that the prince was sleeping, and hastily closed the door. +a white horse followed by his suite, and said something in passing: +a white uniform that looked strange among the Russian black ones. The +a whole month and this is the first time I have seen him in society. +a wig, put his head out of the door of the antechamber, reported in +a wild beast.... In Poland, if you please, he nearly killed a Jew.” +awkward and uncomfortable, and her burden oppressed her now more than +awkwardness or intentionally (no one could have said which) after the +awkward to attract everyone’s attention and to be considered a +a woman and, like a chained convict, you lose all freedom! And all you +a word to the questions addressed to him. But on entering Moscow he +a word to you and you... What?” he added with renewed irritation, “I +a worthy dwelling place of the Great God,” he added, and closed his +a wrathful wrinkle on her rather prominent marble brow. With her +a yawn. “Plenty of time,” he repeated. +A young officer with a bewildered and pained expression on his face +baby, an old woman, and a healthy German girl with bright red cheeks +back!” +back. +back.” +back, and bosom—which in the fashion of those days were very much +back, Cadet!” he cried angrily; and turning to Denísov, who, showing +back, “give me your hand.” She took her sister-in-law’s hand and +back her hair, kissed him full on the lips. +back to Moscow. Anatole Kurágin’s father managed somehow to get his +back to the house. +backwards and forwards and was at last brought to the doors of the +“Bad! Bad!” exclaimed Pierre. “We all know what is bad for +bad. But Anatole was dumb, swung his foot, and smilingly examined the +“Bad! But it’s not that, my friend—” said Dólokhov with a +bad for another traveler, and for himself it’s unavoidable, because +badly—all this debauchery, dissipation, and the rest of it!” +badly through his spectacles, but that his wife’s connection with +“Bad news! He’s not among the prisoners nor among the killed! +baggage and transport, having to accept battle on the march against an +baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling +baggage was already being dispatched to Olmütz. Near Hetzelsdorf Prince +Bagratión.” +Bagratión, a gaunt middle-aged man of medium height with a firm, +Bagratión and Dolgorúkov ride past with their adjutants. All the fear +Bagratión appeared in the doorway of the anteroom without hat or sword, +Bagratión as he shouted, with an expression that seemed to say: “We +Bagratión bent his head in sign of agreement with what Prince Andrew +Bagratión called to him, and Túshin, raising three fingers to his cap +Bagratión cast his large, expressionless, sleepy eyes round his suite, +Bagratión gave no further orders and silently continued to walk on in +Bagratión. His idea was, first, to concentrate all the artillery in the +Bagratión, knowing Bolkónski to be a favorite and trusted adjutant, +Bagratión ordered two battalions from the center to be sent to +Bagratión replied that he was not authorized either to accept or refuse +Bagratión rode round the ranks that had marched past him and +Bagratión’s detachment was reunited to Kutúzov’s army. +Bagratión’s exhausted troops some rest, and letting the transport and +Bagratión’s hard brown face with its half-closed, dull, sleepy eyes. +Bagratión stopped and, before replying, tried to see Rostóv’s face +Bagratión’s troops, which had not yet advanced into action but were +Bagratión’s weak detachment on the Znaim road he supposed it to be +Bagratión. “Wait till tomorrow morning, we’ll find out everything +bags into the carts, got their muskets ready, and formed rank. The +“Bah! How they scurry. He just sends a ball and they think they’ll +bald head. +bald head, over which she again looked at the letter and the portrait, +Bald Hills. Prince Andrew, glancing at Pierre, broke the silence now and +Bald Hills, while he himself needed no one and nothing. He used to +ball, cleaving the air, flew over the heads of Bagratión and his suite, +ball flew past. Evidently they were firing at the hussars, but the balls +ball flew past, rose in the stirrups and sank back again. The soldiers +ball, flying close to him, caused him to duck and bend over his horse. +ballroom. +balls! I can’t tell you. And the Tsarévich was very gracious to all +ball was even happier. They were both dressed in white muslin with pink +bandage was again removed and more than ten voices said together: “Sic +band, came up and in angry tones asked the artillerymen for water. +band struck up in the gallery, and the guests settled down in their +bandy-legged domestic serf in a peaked cap and sheepskin coat. +banging the table with a determined and drunken gesture and preparing to +bank by unseen hands. Prince Andrew and the officer rode up, looked at +bank, hesitating to step onto the ice. The general on horseback at the +banners, cannon, and two enemy generals. For the first time, after a +bare chest. He was conducted from that room along passages that turned +bare hand as red as his face. +baritone. +“Baron Funke has been recommended to the Dowager Empress by her +Baron Funke to be appointed first secretary at Vienna? The baron by all +barrier except the barrier of his own will. +bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular façade +“Bâton de gueules, engrêlé de gueules d’azur—maison Condé,” +battalion and regimental commanders mounted, crossed themselves, gave +battalion came onto the bridge. Only Denísov’s squadron of hussars +battalion commanders who smilingly pressed forward (it was plain that +battalions and artillery pass by and go forward and then Generals +battalion to disperse them. During one of these attacks they carried off +battalion would follow him. +batteries ranged on the slopes of the Pratzen Heights, directed at our +battery and the heroic endurance of Captain Túshin and his company,” +battery when two balls, and then four more, fell among our guns, one +battle. +battle, a list of whom has been sent me under flag of truce.” +battle, and by the sight of the gallant Ápsherons, his comrades in +battle and, in spite of the remonstrances of his courtiers, at twelve +battle and were engaged in peaceful occupations, the cavalry feeding the +battlefield.” +battle is won by him alone. Kutúzov is removed and he is appointed... +battle,” replied Márya Dmítrievna’s deep voice, which easily +battle the soldiers excitedly try to get beyond the interests of their +be afraid.” +“Be a man, my friend. I will look after your interests,” said she in +beaming smile to his head. +beams of mild and majestic light around, and already he felt himself +be announced had passed straight through the glass porch between the +be,” answered the princess joyfully. +be anyone’s lackey, but I who have nothing but my brains have to +be, anyway he is an honorable and brave old colonel! You’re quick at +bearers and the shuffling of their feet grew more hurried, as if the +bears!...” +bear the whole burden on his shoulders. Fancy what he had to go through! +be at stake. But this one is too light, it’s not becoming!” +beaucoup d’estime, and again her face clouded over with sadness. +beautiful.” +beautiful bosom, on which she readjusted a diamond necklace. From time +beautiful eyes grew dim, red blotches came on her face, and it took +beautiful eyes. Last night a proposition was made me on your account +beautiful head and looking over her classically molded shoulder as she +beautiful Hélène, whose eyes several times met those of the handsome +beautiful, radiant eyes. It was as if joy—a supreme joy apart from the +“Beautiful,” said the doctor in answer to a remark about the +beautiful young princess who was sitting some way off, the center of +beauty as she glided away. “And how she carries herself! For so young +be best described as strength of will. Pierre was always astonished at +be better dressed than others, and would rather deprive himself of many +be brought here well wrapped up in felt. I must have two hundred pots +became quite pleasant again. +be carried back with it oneself. Bolkónski only tried not to lose +be carried out, was forgotten. Now, entering into Weyrother’s plan, +because he could not. In the middle of a figure he beckoned to Rostóv +because he rose superior to the Revolution, suppressed its abuses, +because his line was not straight, he reached the third company. +“Because I hate ghost stories,” said Prince Hippolyte in a tone +because it concerned not himself but another, his daughter, whom he +“Because not everything happens as one expects or with the smoothness +“Because when once a man starts on military service, he should try to +be clearly seen glittering as though freshly varnished. Down below, +become a habit. Schemes and devices for which he never rightly accounted +become calmer since I began to live only for myself.” +become completely changed, and had quite left behind his former habits +become cruel and harsh, are conscious of it, but cannot restrain +become habitual to him and, his handsome head held high, entered his +become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not +become of that scoundrel?” he asked Denísov. +becomes a man who values his honor, perhaps too hastily, but we won’t +become thoroughly conversant with that unwritten code with which he had +be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will +bed. +be difficult to return to the old regime.” +be done; he felt that everybody, including his mother and sisters, was +Bedouin twice and successfully put him to the showy trot in which the +be dozing. His head sank forward and then he roused himself. +bedroom. Pierre did not eat anything though he would very much have +be easy, but here, in this wretched Moravian hole, it is more difficult, +been able to free himself but that Prince Vasíli (who had rarely before +been attacked by French cavalry and that, though the attack had been +been bewildered. At that time, the Russians were so used to victories +been brought up in the most aristocratic circles. +been composed in the Turkish campaign and now being sung in Austria, the +been destroyed or not. And if they have somehow been overlooked, you +been engrossed by the same thoughts ever since the day he returned from +been foreseen, the Russian army of thirty-five thousand men commanded +been forwarded by courier to the commander in chief. +been intriguing!” +been looking at. +been minutely described. Princess Mary was sitting alone in her room, +been more amusing than the drawing room talk of society scandals, the +been put off,” said the prince, who, like a wound-up clock, by force +been ready, but they still delayed and all were silent. +been recommended to Prince Andrew he had already risen above the general +been refused. He asked in a hesitating, piteous voice. +been reprimanded on account of the blue greatcoat. +been so pleased at Olmütz and according to which an ensign might rank +been taken by the French as a trophy.) +been telling us such a tale about Mademoiselle George and Buonaparte!” +been there at seven in the morning,” returned Bilíbin with a smile. +been thinking about you.” +been told to, and the Emperor Francis merely looked fixedly into his +been trying first one remedy and then another. Worn out by sleeplessness +Been under fire already?” asked Borís. +been unjust to the Austrians and especially to Weyrother. What +been up to heaven only knows what! And they have had to suffer for it. +been vicious only because he had somehow forgotten how good it is to +been waiting for.” And bursting into tears she hid her face in her +befallen his son. +before action which he had experienced as previously, all the inner +before?” and again he told himself that it was impossible, that there +before and the path to the hothouse, along which the prince was in the +before and was less frequently at home. +Before Anna Pávlovna and the others had time to smile their +before coming to the dinner he had had his hair and whiskers trimmed, +Before dawn he had slept for a few hours, and refreshed, vigorous, and +Before dinner, Princess Mary and Mademoiselle Bourienne, who knew +Before five in the evening the battle had been lost at all points. More +before going down she went into the room where the icons hung and, her +before. Having taken a kerchief from the cupboard, Willarski bound +before he could reach Znaim. Hence Bagratión with his four thousand +Before he had reached the embankments that were being thrown up, he saw, +Before he reached him, Rostóv, who was a splendid horseman, spurred +before him but the motionless earth and the stubble around him. There +Before him, on the right, Rostóv saw the front lines of his hussars and +before him. The French had advanced nearest on our right. Below the +before his shelter, had been tasted. +before. “How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? I am +before. It was a German cart with a pair of horses led by a German, and +before it was halted facing the enemy. Again, as at the Enns bridge, +before Krems was really of small importance in view of such events as +before, or am I mistaken now? No, she is not stupid, she is an excellent +before Prince Andrew could finish, an aide-de-camp came in to summon +Before returning to Bilíbin’s Prince Andrew had gone to a bookshop +before Rostóv had time to make out what the black thing was that had +before the battle, the figure of the insignificant little Napoleon, and +before the heights on which the Russian batteries stood guarding the +before the Jews.” +before the master arrived. Everywhere preparations were made not for +before the usual term and has proposed to me to be your sponsor. I +Before they reached the room from which the sounds of the clavichord +before with proposals and demands for him to join up with the army of +before yesterday during my daily walk through the village I witnessed a +began. +began crossing himself with the hand that held the taper. +began for the first, second, and third columns, which had gone down into +began popping corks and filling the champagne glasses. After the fish, +began reading. The old prince, now and then using abbreviations, wrote +began riding downhill to where the roll of musketry was heard but where +began speaking clearly and definitely. Reasons were found for the +began. “They’ll be announcing that the gentlemen are in the drawing +began to arrive; and slowly turning her eyes from the visitor to her +began to be said. These reasons were the treachery of the Austrians, a +began to devise and carry out a plan of how Princess Mary should be +began to wail like a baby without knowing why, except that Sónya was +began, with a blush that looked very strange on her thin, dignified, +beg—I’ll take it!” +begin,” he whispered, and taking up his glass, he rose. All were +beginning of the action.) “I think I sent you?” he added, turning to +beginning to feel for the pretty and provocative Mademoiselle Bourienne +begin the engagement. +begin, when did it all come about?” And here he was sitting by her +begun to think of the last station and was still pondering on the same +beg you to dress your men decently.” +behaving himself, and in general...” +behaving with Borís.” +behavior to women Anatole had a manner which particularly inspires in +behind. And now here we stand hungry.” +behind each chair—stood waiting for the prince to enter. The head +behind her back. The French doctor held no taper; he was leaning +behind him. +behind him Bondarchúk, an hussar he knew, jolted against him and looked +Behind him stood the aide-de-camp, the doctors, and the menservants; +behind moved infantry. The commander in chief was standing at the end of +behind. One of them said something strange, not in Russian. In among the +behind the chair, held it in position. By the chair stood the priests, +behind the Emperor. The Ápsheron men, excited by the Tsar’s presence, +Behind the guns were their limbers and still farther back picket ropes +behind them, another fell in front and splashed Dólokhov with blood. +behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed +being (and which struck Pierre especially by contrast with his own +being carried by. She looked out. The men servants were carrying the +being imposed on him which he could not fulfill, and pleased him as an +being moved, and the probing of his wound at the dressing station. +being rose in her imagination, and carried her into a totally different +being said, thought, and felt that day by its rider. +being told she sat upright, glancing now at her beautiful round arm, +being too much loved; and besides, you are free, you could throw it +believed he would be reborn to a new life. +believe everything you’re told. You were told...” Hélène laughed, +“Believe me, Prince, a mother’s heart will never forget what you +“Believe me, Princess, I am ready to do all I can,” answered Prince +“Believe me,” said Prince Dolgorúkov, addressing Bagratión, “it +believes, in the speaker’s tone of conviction and earnestness, or +Bells rang, the stewards rushed forward, and—like rye shaken together +below. +below the shoulder. Pierre went with Anna Mikháylovna into the small +Below, where the fight was beginning, there was still thick fog; on the +Bending forward in his armchair he said: “Le Roi de Prusse!” and +bending his forehead to hers just touched it, and pressed her hand so +beneath his dignity to give me satisfaction, then...” +Beneath his smile Rostóv saw in him the mood he had shown at the club +bent arm to Márya Dmítrievna. He drew himself up, a smile of debonair +be. Of the four crystal glasses engraved with the count’s monogram +be out of your way! Do go somewhere, anywhere... to the devil!” he +be overthrown by the angel whom it has pleased the Almighty, in His +be parted from her) would be gained, so pacifying himself with this +“Be quiet, backbiter!” said Dolgorúkov. “It is not true; there +be ready to fulfill His will.” With this consoling thought (but +Berg always spoke quietly, politely, and with great precision. His +Berg as much as you please,” she finished quickly. +Berg put on the cleanest of coats, without a spot or speck of dust, +Berg smiled joyously. The count, followed by his guests, went into the +Berg took the opportunity to ask, with great politeness, whether, as was +Berg was mentioned, by those who did not know him, as having, when +be seen from the hill on the opposite bank but was not yet visible from +be shaken in her determination. +beside Hélène. “This happiness is not for you,” some inner voice +beside him and was listening naïvely to his words. +beside him. “That must be the enemy’s camp!” +beside him. This hussar, with a grave face and without a smile or a +besides! But don’t let’s talk about me; tell me how you managed +“Besides how can I ask the Emperor for his instructions for the right +“Besides that, Peter Nikoláevich, by exchanging into the Guards +Besides this refined selection of society Anna Pávlovna’s receptions +“besides,” thought he, “all such ‘words of honor’ are +beside the bed. Pierre obediently sat down, his eyes asking if he were +beside the farthest of the four unlimbered cannon. Before the guns an +beside themselves over there and one can’t make anything out.” +beside the old prince. +beside whom sat only one elderly lady, who with her thin careworn face +best families in Russia, but she was poor, and having long been out of +best of officers could do in his position, he was in a state akin to +bestowed on Véra by Nicholas, was considered very stinging), “and +be talked over at length. At last the conversation gradually settled on +be the best way.” +be they what they might. +be thus boldly, provocatively happy.” “And what nonsense all this is +betrayal of the Bourbon cause. The sovereigns! Why, they are sending +betraying by this desperate and provocative proposition his extreme +betraying her sympathy for the “daredevil,” as she called Dólokhov. +better during those awful moments—the father who so remembered +better not look,” he thought, but having reached the bushes he glanced +between forefinger and thumb, and an old servant, bending over from +between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over +between his acts as a private person, as a general, and as an emperor. +between them gleamed blue infinity. He did not turn his head and did not +Between three and four o’clock in the afternoon Prince Andrew, who +be very glad to do all in my power both for you and for this dear young +be virtuous. Not a trace of his former doubts remained in his soul. He +bewildered him with fine words, and he is so flattered by his rapidly +bewildered look and passed by without a word. A woman rushed out and +be worthy of her. And that is what we shall see.” +beyond ceremonies and meaningless prayers and are now instructed in +Bezúkhova. But you will understand that I have no desire for the post. +Bezúkhov’s house that night had gathered to fortify themselves. +big people I write a note: ‘Princess So-and-So desires an interview +Bilíbin and the rest of “ours” burst out laughing in Hippolyte’s +Bilíbin, “as you know, my dear prince, I never leave headquarters. I +Bilíbin came out to meet him. His usually calm face showed excitement. +Bilíbin introduced him to the others. +Bilíbin. “It’s not treachery nor rascality nor stupidity: it is +Bilíbin liked conversation as he liked work, only when it could be +Bilíbin’s house thinking out a letter to his father about the battle +Bilíbin’s letter which was written in French. He read without +Bilíbin smiled and the wrinkles on his face disappeared. +Bilíbin was a man of thirty-five, a bachelor, and of the same circle as +Bilíbin was now at army headquarters in a diplomatic capacity, and +Bilíbin), what he had read began to interest him more and more. When he +bit and I’ll get round him.... Listen! I’ll take your bet tomorrow, +biting her underlip. At sight of Pierre her expression showed an +black-agate eyes at the frightened and happy Natásha. +blackest ingratitude—in this house...” +black figures of hussars, but in the distance was still the same misty +blame. The troops meanwhile stood growing listless and dispirited. After +bleed him and patch him up. He will drag about as a cripple, a burden to +bleeding hand with a handkerchief tied round it) “and I remained at +bleeding head and no cap was being dragged along by two soldiers who +blindfolded) questioned him as to who he was, when and where he was +blinked, went red, got up and sat down again, struggling with himself +blissful face “like a vewy devil,” as Denísov expressed it. +blockhead!” +blocking the way for everyone. The countess tried to make him talk, +blood from it was streaming over his greatcoat as from a bottle. He had +blood on it. “Ah, here are people coming,” he thought joyfully, +blood. On seeing this, Pierre moved forward with his breast toward the +blood rush to his heart and had again to get up and move about and break +blood rush to his heart. “But where and how will my Toulon present +Blood was gushing from its leg as from a spring. Among the limbers lay +blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and +blue-striped feather bed and hugging her friend. With an effort Sónya +blush. +blushing. +blushing: +blushing and dropping her eyes. +blushing—“of asking the commander in chief. He has had a letter from +bodice, with black curls tossed backward, thin bare arms, little legs +body. Drowsiness was irresistibly mastering him, but he kept awake by +body was strikingly out of proportion to her short legs. Prince Vasíli +Bogdánich knows how things are done.” +Bogdánich was a brick: he told you you were saying what was not true. +Bogdánovna. +Bogdánovna advised Prince Andrew to leave the room. +Boguchárovo lay in a flat uninteresting part of the country among +bold forehead that bent over her hand and answered his question by +boldly, “if you wish to refuse one who is not only a brilliant and +boldly, with saucy gaiety, confident that her prank would be taken in +bold, tall, close handwriting. +Bolkónskaya, very pretty and rosy, though rather too plump for her age. +“Bolkónski! Bolkónski!... Don’t you hear? Eh? Come quick...” he +“Bolkónski!” he whispered, his voice trembling from a consciousness +Bolkónski in order to arrange a match for him with the daughter of that +Bolkónski noticed the hussar’s state of mind, and it amused him. With +Bolkónski, opposite which hung another such frame with a badly painted +Bolkónski recognized Prince Repnín whom he had met in Petersburg +Bolkónski referred to Anatole as a “pupil”) “for the sake of my +Bolkónski shrugged his shoulders. +Bolkónski that the Emperor desired to give him an audience. The Emperor +Bolkónski, the little princess’ husband. He was a very handsome young +Bolkónski took the opportunity to go in to get some details of the +Bolkónski, turning still paler, pushed him away with an angry look and +Bolkónski, very modestly without once mentioning himself, described the +Bolkónski was invited everywhere, and had to spend the whole morning +Bolkónski, who spoke with suppressed agitation. +Bolkónski, wishing to profit by his friendliness and obtain for himself +Bonaparte!” +Bonaparte, and how badly the latter would fare now, especially if the +“Bonaparte...” began Dólokhov, but the Frenchman interrupted him. +“Bonaparte has said so,” remarked Prince Andrew with a sarcastic +Bonaparte, having come up at a gallop, stopped his horse. +Bonaparte like? How did he impress you?” +Bonaparte’s adjutant rode full gallop with this menacing letter to +Bonaparte’s new triumph, tomorrow’s levee and parade, and the +Bonaparte’s side.” +Bonaparte, that they desire to see Prince Auersperg, and so on. The +Bonaparte, ‘that Your Majesty should be received and treated in my +Bonaparte, there is a difference,” remarked Bolkónski. +Bonaparte was anathematized and in Moscow nothing but the coming war +bookcases with keys in the locks, the high desk for writing while + BOOK EIGHT: 1811 - 12 + BOOK ELEVEN: 1812 + BOOK FIFTEEN: 1812 - 13 + BOOK FIVE: 1806 - 07 +BOOK FIVE: 1806 - 07 + BOOK FOUR: 1806 +BOOK FOUR: 1806 + BOOK FOURTEEN: 1812 +book from the high desk. +book had been sent him by someone unknown. One thing he continually + BOOK NINE: 1812 + BOOK ONE: 1805 +BOOK ONE: 1805 + BOOK SEVEN: 1810 - 11 + BOOK SIX: 1808 - 10 + BOOK TEN: 1812 + BOOK THIRTEEN: 1812 + BOOK THREE: 1805 +BOOK THREE: 1805 + BOOK TWELVE: 1812 + BOOK TWO: 1805 +BOOK TWO: 1805 +boots and the clinking of spurs that came to a stop, and a respectful +boots between the dining and drawing rooms, hastily greeting the +boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers. +bore almost the same smile, expressing unseemly thoughts about the +Borís. +Borís also,” she went on, gaining a little strength; “he is nice... +Borís and Borís was to forward them to Nicholas. The letters were from +Borís blushed. +Borís bowed again politely. +Borís bowed politely. Prince Vasíli without acknowledging the bow +“Borís, come here,” said she with a sly and significant look. “I +Borís felt that Pierre did not recognize him but did not consider +Borís followed her, smiling. +Borís, grown more manly and looking fresh, rosy and self-possessed, +Borís. “He wanted to thank you himself.” +Borís inquired what news there might be on the staff, and what, without +Borís knew nothing about the Boulogne expedition; he did not read the +Borís listened attentively to each of the speakers, awaiting his turn, +Borís looked attentively and kindly at her eager face, but did not +Borís made a grimace. +Borís, or between you two? It’s all nonsense!” +Borís paused in the middle of the room, looked round, brushed a little +Borís promised to fulfill her wish and was about to begin a +Borís quietly left the room and went in search of Natásha. The plump +Borís received no clear explanation of why it had been necessary for +Borís rose to meet Rostóv, but in doing so did not omit to steady and +Borís said no more, but looked inquiringly at his mother without taking +“Borís,” she said to her son with a smile, “I shall go in to see +Borís smiled, as if he understood what Prince Andrew was alluding to +Borís smiled circumspectly, so that it might be taken as ironical +Borís to tell them about his journey to Glogau and in what state he +Borís was excited by the thought of being so close to the higher powers +Borís with a smile. +Borís with severity. “I am glad.... Are you here on leave?” he went +Borís with the happy smile seen on the faces of young men who have been +born, and so on. Then he was again led somewhere still blindfolded, +Bóry, who had only just entered a regiment of the line and was being +bosom as it rose and fell. +both armies should remain in position without moving. Murat declared +both began to cry and kissed again. Mademoiselle Bourienne also began to +both knew, an expression thoughtful and sad. This expression in Princess +Both Kurágin and Dólokhov were at that time notorious among the rakes +Both laughed. +Both were silent. +Both were silent. There were two Germans and a Russian officer in the +bottle. I’ll do it.... Bring a bottle!” +bottles, cloaks, and overshoes were lying about; there was a smell of +bottles of wine with him and, despite the jolting ruts across the +Boulogne expedition. +Bourienne aroused her. She raised her eyes, and two steps away saw +Bourienne flushed, and gave the princess a frightened look. +Bourienne had long been waiting for a Russian prince who, able to +Bourienne. I embrace you as I love you. +Bourienne—I shall have to get rid of her. And how is it she has not +Bourienne. Princess Mary felt his look with a painfully joyous emotion. +Bourienne rapidly, in her pleasant mellow tones and with guttural r’s. +Bourienne’s head at the very time she was talking to Anatole about +Bourienne. Though in the new reign he was free to return to the +Bourienne, unfolding her white napkin with her rosy fingers. “His +Bourienne was often touched to tears as in imagination she told this +Bourienne were already awaiting him together with his architect, who by +Bourienne. When she entered with her heavy step, treading on her heels, +Bourienne who had not yet seen her. +Bourienne with a radiant face that said: “I know nothing, I am the +Bourienne, with her ribbon and pretty face, and her unusually animated +bowed head. +bowed his head in sign of assent and approval. He rode off at a walk to +bows and trying to escape as quickly as possible from the glances fixed +boy ran after them angrily, as if vexed that their program had been +boy... the countess... promoted to be an officer... thank God... How +brag about it, but if he stays out till morning it means he’s lost and +braggart and his son, no doubt, is a fine specimen,” he grumbled to +brain—that’s all that’s left me!” And at the same time he said +brandishing the slab. +Braunau had halted half a mile from the town, waiting to be inspected +brave?” +brave officer,” thought Bagratión. Prince Andrew, without replying, +breast with the other hand and to repeat after someone who read aloud +breath and beating heart he moved toward the Rhetor (by which name the +breathing, her movements, her beauty. Then it would suddenly seem to him +breeches and arm. +brick buildings, built to plan, were being built by serfs whose manorial +bridge because he had not brought any burning straw with him like the +bridge. But this time Nesvítski could not see what was happening there, +bridge, cross it, and now with their whole army are on this side of the +bridge did not take his eyes off the women till they had passed. When + * Bridgehead. +bridge is taken! But what is best of all,” he went on, his excitement +bridge Nesvítski found the colonel to whom he had to deliver the order, +bridge not knowing what to do. There was no one to hew down (as he +bridge. Sometimes through the monotonous waves of men, like a fleck of +bridge was at times veiled by a diaphanous curtain of slanting rain, and +bright and happy eyes at her sister-in-law. +brightening up. +brighter and more energetic. He was slightly flushed after galloping two +bright home, his fluffy fur coat, his quickly gliding sleigh, his +brightly upon the Danube and the dark hills around it. It was calm, and +bright. Sónya ran away, but Natásha, taking her brother’s arm, led +bright, sparkling blue eyes into his antagonist’s face. His mouth wore + Bring glory then to Alexander’s reign +bring himself to part from his daughter and give her to a husband. The +bring him to thee, could take him by the hand and show him to thee. But +bring me such tattered and dirty notes as last time, but nice clean ones +briskly from corner to corner of the room, looking straight before him +broad cheekbones, sunken cheeks, and listless tired expressions, and +broken glass remained in that position without taking his eyes from the +broken leg, that lay screaming piteously beside the harnessed horses. +broken off, the porch, and the post by the side of the pavement. He +broke up two squares, your excellency.” +brother, and that Anna Mikháylovna was preparing them for it. Bold as +brother a small, oval, antique, dark-faced icon of the Saviour in a gold +brother Hippolyte told me about your goings on. Oh!” and she shook her +Brotherhood has made application for you to be received into our Order +brotherhood of man,” he kept saying to himself, associating these +“brother-instructor” as he called the Grand Master. +brotherly love, wagged their heads in token of their mutual affection, +brother Rhetor, and awaited his further commands. +brothers, and burned with impatience to set to work with them. +brothers more worthy than he would test him and that Pierre had only to +brother who prepared a seeker for entrance into the Brotherhood was +brought at once?” +brought from Italy, representing an angel with outspread wings ready to +brought his snuffbox to rest and, without looking at Weyrother or at +brought into the room had vanished; and as if answering a question no +brought into Wischau from our outposts. This officer was Savary. The +brows he glanced into Rostóv’s eyes. +brunette with a tender look in her eyes which were veiled by long +bugler, showed one common expression of conflict, irritation, and +buildings—schools, hospitals, and asylums—on all the estates +build Prince Andrew could endure physical fatigue far better than many +built in order to have a nook of one’s own in which to be quiet. And +built lodge close to the pond. Antón, a man who had looked after Prince +bullets. They reached the front, several bullets sped over them, and +bully,” thought Pierre, “to kill a man means nothing to him. It must +“Buonaparte himself!... Just listen to the fool, what he doesn’t +“Buonaparte?” said Bilíbin inquiringly, puckering up his forehead +Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, +“Buonaparte was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He has got +burden to him, and Bóry’s life is only just beginning....” +burn, I could not know by the holy spirit!” +burnt his boats, and I believe that we are ready to burn ours.” +bursts of song and music and the inconsequent but friendly prattle of +business!” +bustlingly searching for something. + * “Busy already?” +busy, and busy making his father comfortable, while evidently he, +busy with his roast meat, hoped he had been forgotten: “Didn’t +busy with similar peaceful affairs—near the shelter of the regimental +but also for his skill in dealing and conversing with those in the +But although Alpátych, frightened at his own temerity in avoiding the +“But am I not too cold with him?” thought the princess. “I try +but an hour.... Tell me all you know about the will, and above all where +But Anna Mikháylovna did not obey him. +But Anna Mikháylovna went forward a step or two to keep her hold on the +but Anna Pávlovna—who was in the excited condition of a commander on +but a roll of volleys of musketry from the slopes of the hill before +But as a youth in love trembles, is unnerved, and dares not utter the +But, as he had to say something, he began by asking her whether she was +“but as it is, I know every word she utters. She will come running to +But as she passed the sitting room she noticed two couples sitting, +but as sorrow was manifest in every smile, the sound of every word, and +“But as you are a philosopher, be a consistent one, look at the other +but at irregular intervals, and grapeshot cracked and rattled onto the +but attacked and captured by a superior enemy force as a result of one +But at that instant a tall Austrian general in a greatcoat, with the +but at that moment the thought occurred to her that her fate would be +but at the incredible boldness and smartness of this little girl who had +But at the moment when he imagined himself calmed by such reflections, +“But a very kind man, Prince,” said Anna Mikháylovna with a +But before he had finished reading, a stentorian major-domo announced +But before he had finished speaking, Prince Andrew, feeling tears of +But before Pierre could decide what answer he would send, the countess +But before Prince Vasíli had finished his playful speech, Pierre, +“But between not recognizing him as Emperor and calling him General +But Borís again interrupted him. +but Borís... No!” (She shut her eyes.) “No! there’s nothing at +But Borís noticed that he was preparing to make fun of Berg, and +But Borís spoke distinctly, clearly, and dryly, looking straight into +But Dólokhov did not go away; he untied the handkerchief around his +“But don’t hurt my little horse!” said the Alsatian good-naturedly +“But do you know, my dear, that was a capital joke,” said the count; +But enough of gossip. I am at the end of my second sheet of paper, and +but evidently the crisis was over and he was convalescent. Prince Andrew +but extremely attractive. +“But for God’s sake, be careful, you know how it may affect your +But God will support you: you are young, and are now, I hope, in command +but had never spoken to her of love. Now he felt that it was inevitable, +but had on one of her best dresses. Her hair was carefully done and her +But haste was becoming imperative. Cannon and musketry, mingling +but he could not make up his mind to take the final step. He felt +but he did not explain to himself what these new relations were. +But he immediately recalled his promise to Prince Andrew not to go +“But he must be a Freemason,” said he, referring to the abbé whom +But he scowled at her angrily though also with suffering in his eyes, +but he went on naïvely looking around through his spectacles as if in +but his aim to consider, and he reached it. But tie yourself up with +but his character...” said Timókhin. +but hopeless: “The sovereigns, madame... What have they done for Louis +“But how are you to get that balance?” Pierre was beginning. +“But how is it the doctor from Moscow is not here yet?” said the +“But how often I have felt proud of her, proud of her majestic beauty +but I am still so weak that I love my life, the meaning of which is only +but I do not believe it. I have no right to, and can’t, believe it.” +“But I do not know, Father!” +“But if for any reason you don’t feel inclined to talk to me,” +“But if the bridge is crossed it means that the army too is lost? It +But if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed +“But if you won’t accept money from me like a comrade, you will +but I have killed her, killed... She won’t get over it! She won’t +“But I have nothing here,” replied Pierre, supposing that he was +“But I just wish to say, to avoid misunderstandings, that you are +but in his usual impulsive and hearty way he took Borís by the hand +but instead of the band a choir began singing a cantata composed by Paul +but in the center where the men with a flag of truce had passed that +“But in what position are we going to attack him? I have been at the +“But in what was I to blame?” he asked. “In marrying her without +“but I remember putting it there.” +“But it can’t be he, alone in the midst of this empty field!” +but it is a beautiful voice that must be trained.” Only they generally +“But it isn’t?...” +but it lifted all the more sweetly, and was especially charming when she +“but it must be brought to a head. The day after tomorrow will be +but it was too late. She was looking at them with an expression they +“But I wish it,” he said. “I beg you—give it him!” +“But joking apart,” said Prince Andrew, “do you really think the +but joyous and eager crowd down the hill at their disordered foe. +butler, napkin on arm, was scanning the setting of the table, making +but like a priest’s benediction, approached the general. Though +but looked at him with a contemptuous smile, waiting for the valet to +but managed meanwhile to look round repeatedly at his neighbor, the +But Milorádovich was at that moment evidently thinking of anything + * “But my dear fellow, with all my respect for the Orthodox +“But, my dear Monsieur Pierre,” said she, “how do you explain the +“But, my dear princess,” answered Anna Mikháylovna blandly but +“But, my dear,” said Prince Vasíli suddenly, clutching the little +“But, my dear sir,” said Nesvítski as he drew up, taking off his +“But, my poor Catiche, it is as clear as daylight! He will then be the +But neither Anna Mikháylovna nor the footman nor the coachman, who +but not concealing the fact that she would not be distressed if they +“but nothing more would come of it. There will soon be a battalion of +“But now I am off at once.” +but now we are all going to ——’s.” + But oh! till then I cannot live!... +“But one cannot delay, Prince, at such a moment! Consider that the +but only a sort of puppet show at which the men of the day were playing, +but only changed character. The horses were replaced by others from a +but on the left flank the columns of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, +But on Tuesday evening, having come to Hélène’s splendid salon, +But our stories are the stories of men who have been under the enemy’s +But Pierre continued his speech without heeding her. +But Pierre thought it necessary to ask: “How is...” and hesitated, +“But, Prince,” said Anna Mikháylovna, “after such a solemn +“But really, hadn’t I better go away?” he asked, looking kindly at +but remarked that besides these changes it would be necessary to go into +But Rostóv did not reply. +But Rostóv pulled away his arm and, with as much anger as though +but said, in a careless and even rude voice, that it happens to +“But seriously,” said Prince Andrew, “we can at any rate say +“But she’s stupid. I have myself said she is stupid,” he thought. +but she was too excited to eat anything and kept wriggling about on her +but shouldn’t we get the gypsy singers as well? You military men like +“But still this does not mean that the campaign is over,” said +“But tell me, what is he like, eh?” said Prince Andrew again. +“But that is my conviction, and judging by the last letter with which +“But that’s all rubbish,” Natásha chattered on. “And is +“But that’s just the same as myself—they are not others,” +“But that’s the Grand Duke, and I want the commander in chief or the +“But the best of it was,” said one, telling of the misfortune of +But the convoyman took no notice of the word “general” and shouted +But the guns remained loaded, the loopholes in blockhouses and +But the officer thrashed him because he had to get on as quickly as +But the princess did not listen to him. +but the question “How?” that interested him. What the diplomatic +But these words came like a piteous, despairing cry and an entreaty for +But the smile did not enhance Véra’s beauty as smiles generally do; +But the staff officer did not finish what he wanted to say. A cannon +But the talk in every group was chiefly about the Emperor Alexander. His +“But the worst of it, gentlemen—I am giving Kurágin away to +“But they heard him at the council of war and will hear him when he +“But they say that war has been declared,” replied the visitor. +But those tears were pleasant to them both. +but to go home alone, see his sisters, brother, mother, and father, +but to help England and Austria against the greatest man in the world is +button of his waistcoat. +but unabashed. +but went on turning uselessly in the same place. +“But what do you mean by living only for yourself?” asked Pierre, +“But what have they been up to?” asked the countess. +“But what is there to say about me?” said Pierre, his face relaxing + * “But what the devil was he doing in that galley?” +but when he reached it he found it was a road. Having come out onto +But when Katie brought the required dress, Princess Mary remained +“But where do you come from not to know what every coachman in the +“But where is Sónya?” +but which possesses qualities resembling those of the symbol.” +“But why do you expect that he will leave us anything?” +“But why talk of me?... Talk to me, yes, tell me about your travels +but why, whither, and who they were, it was impossible to make out. +“But with such ideas what motive have you for living? One would sit +But won’t you come to this other table?” repeated Anna Pávlovna. +but would probably never even inquire and would never know that the +“But you despise me. You who are so pure can never understand being so +“But you know how it all ended, don’t you? You heard of the duel?” +“But you know the wise maxim your excellency, advising one to expect +“But you meant to stay another two days?” +“But you must decide on something! Your father expects it.” +Buxhöwden is commander in chief by seniority, but General Bennigsen +Buxhöwden’s part and an epileptic fit on Bennigsen’s. But at the +bwicks and it’s nasty work! An attack’s pleasant work! Hacking +by a far more serious matter than a desire to show his contempt for +by a feeling of desire while stooping over the snuffbox at Anna +by Anna Pávlovna, was about our diplomatic relations with Austria and +by a scarlet-liveried footman that morning, ran as follows: +by Bolkónski—an adjutant of Kutúzov’s, who’s a friend of mine. +by Borís arrived at the palace to find Dolgorúkov. Everyone at +By evening, the adjutants had spread it to all ends and parts of the +by finding husbands for me (most of whom I don’t even know), the +by her husband, Mortemart, the delightful Prince Hippolyte who had +by highfalutin words, and Germans by logical arguments to show them +By his age he should have belonged to the younger men, but by his wealth +by his home circle as the best of sons, a hero, and their darling +by its gray dress. “But no! Why did this thought never occur to me +by Kutúzov was hurriedly retreating along the Danube, stopping where +By Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi +“By purifying and regenerating our members we try, thirdly, to improve +by six horses at a smart trot. Behind the calèche galloped the suite +by someone’s order, the battery had continued firing and was only not +by the ammunition wagon. +by the amusing scene she foresaw. She drew her wool down through the +by the clatter of knives and forks, the voices of visitors, and the +by the commander in chief. Despite the un-Russian appearance of the +By the dim light, to which Pierre had already become accustomed, he +by the disorderly movement of the Russian columns, and from all +by the fire. One of them stumbled. +by the French who had crossed the Vienna bridge, and encumbered by his +by their redness to contrast more than usual with his gray hair. At the +by the living mass of moving infantry, Váska Denísov, red and shaggy, +by the softness and flexibility of her small limbs, and by a certain +by the way, Bagratión came out on the Vienna-Znaim road at Hollabrünn +“By the way, your excellency, I should inform you,” he +by the whole of the count’s plump figure, in Márya Dmítrievna found +By this time they were all approaching Túshin’s battery, and a ball +by those troops that they were themselves in the front line and had +by, tried to make a joke, saying that Kutúzov had evidently failed to +by two considerations: his wife’s guilt, of which after his sleepless +By “what was due from the Ryazán estate” Prince Vasíli meant +by which the prince was to enter. Prince Andrew was looking at a large +by which the total exceeded the round sum of forty-three thousand; and +cadet, supporting one hand with the other, came up to Túshin and asked +cahd.” +calamity! What a calamity!” +calèche stopped in front of the regiment. Kutúzov and the Austrian +called everyone without exception and without the slightest variation +called her nephew—and playing with him. +called him a great man,” remarked the vicomte. +called him this morning?” +called the colonel of the regiment and said a few words to him. +call him but changed her mind. “Let him look for me,” thought she. +calling him a court weathercock and an old satyr. +calling him in a whisper. +calling on the principal Austrian dignitaries. Between four and five +calls.’” +calm, and penetrating, a look I loved so well and seem to see before me +calmer. +“Calm yourself, my dear. I will go to my father,” she said, and went +“Calm yourself, Princess! It seems so to you because.... I assure you +came a letter from Kutúzov informing the prince of the fate that had +came a man wearing a strange shako and a blue cloak, swarthy, sunburned, +came and leaned on his elbows, facing her and beside Mademoiselle +came galloping up on a Cossack horse that could scarcely carry his +came in. +came in from his club, cheerful and contented. Nicholas, hearing him +came Márya Dmítrievna and the count, both with merry countenances. The +came naturally to her, but was now very ill-suited to her careworn face. +came out—wearing a velvet coat with a single star on his breast, +came over his face. He said nothing to her but looked at her forehead +came, the pretty, fair-haired Frenchwoman, Mademoiselle Bourienne, +came thy conception of the existence of such an incomprehensible Being? +came together and crowded in the large drawing room by the door of the +came to his former chief with an order from the commander of the rear +came to the conclusion that he would not find Bald Hills dull either. +came to these balls with an air of condescension and found them most +came with the news that the prince could not attend. Prince Andrew came +campaign is over?” +campaign. The Frenchman, confusing the Austrians with the Russians, was +Canal. And there was the bear swimming about with the policeman on his +“Can a sleigh pass?” he asked his overseer, a venerable man, +can both fall on his flank and pursue him over the plain between +candlesticks like those used in churches. Two of the brothers led Pierre +candles were relit and he was told that he would see the full light; the +“Can he really be going away leaving me alone without having told me +can I retain in some degree of purity the liquid I receive.” +“Can I see the count?” Pierre again asked. +Can it be possible?” she thought, not daring to look at his face, but +cannonade was dying down, but the rattle of musketry behind and on the +cannon aimed at me?” +cannon and the crowd were dragging it out. A cannon ball killed someone +cannon balls at the French with both hands. +cannon, was a small, newly constructed wattle shed from which came the +cannot attain the knowledge of which you speak.” +cannot, disappoint them. But how will it be? I do not know, but it +cannot know Him. You do not know Him and that is why you are unhappy.” +cannot leave the estate to Pierre. Pierre is illegitimate.” +“Can one be well while suffering morally? Can one be calm in times +can rush off alone in a carriage to Moscow, to Petersburg, to those +can say all this there,” remarked Dolgorúkov. +can’t bear those old men! Eh?” +can’t be done. And besides, if she tells Mamma” (Sónya looked upon +can’t be! Only to get past them quicker, quicker!” +can’t, do what you will! How can I go and apologize like a little boy +can’t get them from anyone else. He’s not there himself, so you’ll +can’t understand. I was there all the time giving orders and had only +canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying +can, with all the pleasures of life here. If we were in Vienna it would +can without hurting others.” +Can you fancy the figure he cut?...” +“Can you imagine it?” and he began describing how the Guards, having +capable of receiving it. +cap and smoothing his hair wet with perspiration with his plump hand, +“Capital!” said Prince Hippolyte in English, and began slapping his +capitals, he still continued to live in the country, remarking that +Captain,” and he turned to a thin, dirty little artillery officer who +captain and his drawn-in stomach, and mimicked his expression and pose +“Captain, for God’s sake! I’ve hurt my arm,” he said timidly. +captain, his nose growing redder as he gave a smile which showed where +“Captain Túshin’s, your excellency!” shouted the red-haired, +captain up and down as he came up panting, slackening his pace as he +Captain von Toll chanced to ride to the same spot, and seeing the +captured by the French because the enemy could not surmise that anyone +cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests +carabineers. +card game he was very fond of, was that of listener, especially when he +cardinal virtues in her gave her lessons in algebra and geometry +card, putting a small stake on it, and beginning to play. +Cards and supper were over, but the visitors had not yet dispersed. +care about them in so far as they are harmful or useful. And most of +cared about; Anna Pávlovna observed these greetings with mournful and +carefully stretching his neck so as not to touch the quilt, followed her +carefully wrote twenty-one. +Carelessly holding in his stallion that was neighing and pawing the +care, this was a mere stranger. Glancing, however, at Borís, he saw +carriage and rode up to Dólokhov. +carriage, and the solitude of the road, all had a gladdening effect on +carriage at full speed about an hour before along that very road and +carriage. “Get in with me,” said he to Bolkónski. +carriage?” he asked his mother with a smile. +carriage, her husband was adjusting his saber; Prince Hippolyte, under +carriage, moved forward and, not noticing the general, looked out +carried away by passion. Oh, only my poor mother...” +carried the sick man dispersed. Anna Mikháylovna touched Pierre’s +carried the sovereign at reviews in Russia bore him also here on the +carried the whole length of the table. +“Carrot ices.” +carry him to the dressing station.” +carrying her burden so lightly. Old men and dull dispirited young ones +carry out the count’s wishes, seeing clearly that not only would the +carry them out, so he takes a regiment, a division—stipulates that no +carts, guns, artillery, and again baggage wagons and vehicles of all +cart, shouting and scolding a soldier with coarse abuse. In each of +casement. The cold wind flapped the ends of her kerchief and her loose +cases only one goes wrong, but it is her fancy and mine. They have been +casket for Mamma’s name day and then going home. I was so happy, so +catches it and obeying the impulse that wheel begins to creak and joins +“Catch hold of my arm or you’ll drop him!” he heard one of the +catching and their sabers clattering. +catching the curtain of the cot. Each made the other a warning gesture +cathedral, and its bridge, on both sides of which streamed jostling + *Catherine. +Catherine’s court, Count Bezúkhov. +Catherine’s day, Count Bezúkhov, and about his illegitimate son +“Catiche has had tea served in the small drawing room,” said Prince +Catiche,” * muttered the prince, seating himself wearily on the chair +caught up the object of contention and ran into the bedroom. The eldest +cause of the confusion, turned away with indifference, as if to say, +cautious movements of those who crowded round the invalid chair that +cavalry and here he noticed a stir and signs of preparation for battle; +cavalry in front, behind it the artillery, and behind that again the +cavalry was brought in, convoyed by a sótnya of Cossacks. Evidently the +celebrating awards they had received for the campaign, and made +censure, but asked him not to be too hard on the poor old man. “What +censured, should not be held to blame. +center, and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the +center of the table, Prince Vasíli attracted everybody’s attention. +center, the reserves, and Bagratión’s right flank had not yet moved, +“Cependant, mon cher,” he remarked, examining his nails from a +ceremonious welcomes (which he knew Pierre would not like), but for just +“Certainly; but about Kutúzov, I don’t promise.” +“Certainly he must be moved onto the bed; here it will be +certainly is communicated very surely, and flows rapidly, imperceptibly, +certainly should not, speak like that,” their glances seemed to say. +certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything I +certain. There’s Lise, married to Andrew—a better husband one would +“Cette armée russe que l’or de l’Angleterre a transportée des +chair, and began deliberately with a smile: +chair and pacing up and down the room followed by Tíkhon, who ran after +chair, he drew up with a click of his spurs and bowed to her, Natásha +chair regardless of her governess’ remarks. After dinner, she rushed +chair, wrapped in a powdering mantle, entrusting his head to Tíkhon. +championship of the doctor’s wife in her queer trap might expose him +chance, letting the seven be dealt to the right rather than to the left, +chance of delay and flight when the longed-for moment comes and he is +changed: her eyes became fixed, and then a shiver passed down her broad +changed!... Where are the candles?... Tea!...” +change in the expression of his fixed eyes, watched the regimental +changing his tone or attitude, “it must seem to you that everyone is +changing the expression of her eyes. “I am a woman, and you think we +changing unconsciously from Russian to French as he went on—to explain +Channel. I think the expedition is quite feasible. 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He lay +Character set encoding: UTF-8 +“Charge!” shouted by an officer who was urging his thoroughbred to +charitable to my poor aunt who adores you. Go and keep her company for +charming age when a girl is no longer a child, though the child is not +charming girls. Every young man who came to the house—seeing those +“Charming!” said Anna Pávlovna with an inquiring glance at the +charming that only a fool would renounce such happiness.” +“Charming!” whispered the little princess, sticking the needle into +chasseur regiment and in the lines of the Kiev grenadiers—fine fellows +chasseurs must hold their position till reserves from the center +Chasseurs.... They won’t let us pass, we are left behind and have lost +chattering voices had reached her from the corridor, went into Princess +checked handkerchief) to illustrate the theory that all men are equals, +cheerful were the troops. The greatest disorder and depression had been +chessmen with his delicate white fingers while awaiting Berg’s move, +chest to back than across the shoulders. He had on a brand-new uniform +chief, and our first foe, Buxhöwden, is vanquished; we can now turn +chief’s and with the exception of Prince Bagratión, who declined to +chief’s room. +chief steward wrote every year telling him of fires and bad harvests, +chief, your excellency?” said Rostóv, with his hand to his cap. +child. “But no, it is impossible, I am too ugly,” she thought. +childhood. +childhood. +childhood and lived for years at a time. The Guards had already left +childhood; that same Julie Karágina who had been at the Rostóvs’ +child in a toyshop, did not know which way to look, afraid of missing +childish bare shoulders which after her run heaved and shook her +childlike smile which had not once appeared on his face since he left +childlike way through his spectacles. +children are the bane of my life. It is the cross I have to bear. That +children,” she said, in her loud, full-toned voice which drowned all +children. The German tutor was trying to remember all the dishes, wines, +child’s little chair while, frowning and with trembling hands, he +choice has fallen. I don’t know what you will think of it, but +choked him, and leaning his elbows on the window sill he began to cry, +choose. I give you freedom. Only remember that your life’s happiness +chorus.” +chose and placed cards, and watched those broad-boned agile hands in the +“Christ be with you!” Kutúzov repeated and went toward his +Christian...” +circumstances and persons he met. Of these plans he had not merely one +circumstances, he nevertheless delivered the definite order that the +circumstances I may be placed. But if you want to know the truth... if +circumstantially and with evident satisfaction. +cities wondered at her, laughed privately at her rudenesses, and told +clanking his spurs, whirled rapidly round, and, striking his left heel +clattering. These men pressed close to the wall to let Pierre and Anna +clavichord. +clavichord and harp. Julie by general request played first. After she +clavichord was. “It’s no use your going to the commander in chief. +clean, and in cloth covers carefully tied with tapes. +cleaned pairs with spurs had just been placed by the wall. The servants +clean shirt on the feather bed with its warmed and fragrant pillows, he +clear. +clear, insolent eyes in the general’s face. +clearly worded the day before, namely, that the commander in chief +clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and +clear upright figures; he emptied the glass of warm champagne that was +clenching his small hand and striking the table with it, “and what +clerk. “The Kiev Grenadiers, Podolian...” +clever with Véra,” said the count. “Well, what of that? She’s +climb out of the window. +clinking of spurs were heard at the door, and the young count, handsome, +cloak and felt boots, he went to the little princess’ apartment. +cloak, he asked whether they wanted the count or the princesses, and, +cloak looking timidly at me,” he thought. “And what does she +clock. One wheel slowly moved, another was set in motion, and a third, +close by, who heard him muttering. +close-cropped hair, spectacles, the light-colored breeches fashionable +closed his eyes, silently let Mack enter his room before him, and closed +closer!” she whispered. +closer together and a report spread that they were ordered to halt: +close that the expression of his face could be seen. And the excited, +close to her, began to whisper something. +close to her, of his breath and the smell of him, and could think only +close to her; the red patches on her face came and went, and it was +close, was gazing with astonishment at the angry face of the princess +cloths. +cloth, which contrasted with the others. “What have you been after? +clouded his mother’s face, and he smiled slightly. +cloudless, northern, summer night. Pierre took an open cab intending +clouds gliding slowly across it. “How quiet, peaceful, and solemn; not +club, but met in private houses in intimate circles, and the +clutched the crupper of his saddle and, spurring his horse, galloped to +coachman’s, was teasing Kutúzov’s old cook whom Prince Andrew knew, +coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to +coat of arms on the table. He explained this to her with as much gravity +coats. +coat, the traveler sat down on the sofa, leaned back his big head with +cock, but the elder members glanced severely at the wit, making him +code, but under this unwritten law. He felt now that merely by having +coiffure, Mademoiselle Bourienne’s and Anatole’s smiles, and the +collapsed so that I don’t live at all—everything seems hateful to +collar and cap, went out for his usual walk. It had snowed the day +“Colonel,” he said, addressing Rostóv’s enemy with an air of +“Colonel,” interrupted the officer of the suite, “You must be +colonel of forty to whom Denísov had introduced him. +colonel of hussars who, growing more and more flushed, ate and drank so +colonel of hussars with the same order. After him the stout Nesvítski +colonel’s athletic back, his nape covered with light hair, and his red +colonel was called Bogdánich) “shuts you up.” +column advanced into action. +column coming up to meet the Ápsherons. +column marches... The third column marches...” and so on, read +column, Milorádovich’s, the one that was to take the place of +columns, their bayonets glittering, were moving continuously in one +columns, with a high silk-curtained mahogany bedstead on one side and +“Come along!” +“Come along, our Matvévna!” he said to himself. “Matvévna” * +“Come, dear princess,” said Mademoiselle Bourienne, “just one more +“Come here,” said Rostóv, catching hold of Telyánin’s arm and +“Come here, Wostóv. Let’s dwink to dwown our gwief!” shouted +come... he told me himself... but still I should not cry,” and she +come. He was alone now, except for a soldier who was sitting naked at +“Come if you need anything. One can at least be of use on the +come in a moment. Petrúshka!” he called to his valet: “Come here, +come into the hall. Prince Hippolyte stood close to the pretty, pregnant +“Come, I will go with you. Try to weep, nothing gives such relief as +“Come later.” And she went in, closing the door behind her. +“Come, let’s argue then,” said Prince Andrew, “You talk of +“Come, my dear Anna Mikháylovna, let Catiche do as she pleases. You +“Come nearer, come nearer, friend! I used to be the only one to tell +“Come now, deal!” exclaimed Rostóv. +“Come now, just this one more little card!” +“Come now, what about your Roi de Prusse?” +“Come now! You with all your forces fall on the unfortunate Mortier +come on and will meet them with the fire of the whole battalion’—and +“Come on then,” cried Pierre. “Come on!... And we’ll take Bruin +“Come over here, Hélène, dear,” said Anna Pávlovna to the +comes from that! Even then I felt it,” he thought. “I felt then that +“Come, that’s right, Count!” cried the staff captain, turning +come up. In that case the dragoons could successfully make a flank +come up to him. +come, were all there at the appointed time. +“Come, what’s the matter, old fellow?” said Nesvítski trying to +comfortably. +coming action from Dolgorúkov. He felt that Kutúzov was upset +coming. And Nicholas, who had vainly suffered all the dread that +coming closer to Pierre. “In token of generosity I ask you to give me +coming for me to take me there.” +“Coming, friend.” +coming from the study. The prince walked in quickly and jauntily as was +Coming out of Kutúzov’s room into the waiting room with the papers in +coming to us of their own accord,” incautiously remarked the little +commander among them! Hm!...” +commander, awaiting the word of command. A second and a third cannon +commander, but now that the commander in chief addressed him he drew +commander, higher than and different from the others, Prince Andrew came +commander in chief. +commander in chief and of his own luggage. Very sinister reports of the +commander in chief. Bagratión knew that as the distance between the two +commander in chief. He interrupted him, talked rapidly and indistinctly, +commander in chief here, and if all is lost it is for me to perish with +“Commander in Chief Kutúzov?” said the newly arrived general +commander in chief’s regarding the regiment. Behind Kutúzov, at a +commander in chief’s suite. He was in a state of suppressed excitement +commander in chief would otherwise be dissatisfied. On hearing this the +commander of the regiment in the hollow and news that immense masses +“Commander of the third company wanted by the general!... commander to +commanders. And then that happy moment, that Toulon for which he had +commanders, and with a consciousness of being too late spreading through +commanders are: Herr General Wimpfen, le Comte de Langeron, le Prince de +commander’s back and mimicked his every movement. Each time the +commander started and bent forward, the hussar started and bent forward +commander’s will, owing to the tact Bagratión showed, his presence +commanding both sides of the Danube, so that should the enemy not +command of the infantry went toward his horse with jerky steps, and +command of the Third District, and my only way of avoiding active +command. “Sergeants major!... How soon will he be here?” he asked +command to the general next in seniority, Count Buxhöwden, having sent +comme cet individu dont vous avez fait un ami, mais pas pour vous, pas +comme il faut, that’s a different matter; but the Kurágins’ set of +commence the action, and wishing to avert responsibility from himself, +Commentaries), and resting on his elbow, began reading it in the middle. +commiseration on Rostóv, who saw that Túshin with his whole heart +commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred miles. +commit crime, die, or perform deeds of highest heroism, and so he could +commit murder he had restored it to the rightful king, I should have +committed a reverse act of impoliteness. First he had left a lady before +common sense and frank plainness of speech. Márya Dmítrievna was known +companies, crowds of whom set off to the neighboring villages, or +companion, Dólokhov had come straight to his house, and Pierre had put +company and overtook the next one. +company commanders calculated and reckoned, and by morning the +company’s baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered, and hemmed in on +company, which alone had maintained its order in the wood and, having +company, your honor. I don’t know where... such bad luck!” +compared to the lofty, equitable, and kindly sky which he had seen and +completed. +completely altered. He was not rich, but would spend his last groat to +comply. Anna Pávlovna arranged a group round him, inviting everyone to +composed and printed in the hero’s honor. Bagratión, on seeing the +composure, “now there’s this recruiting. My father is chief in +composure, waiting for a display of the eccentricities his father had +comrade Berg’s best wishes for success, rode to Olmütz to see +comrade Nesvítski, a tall staff officer, extremely stout, with a +comrades’ impression. Every face, from Denísov’s to that of the +conceit prevents your apologizing, and you wish to make the whole +conceive a future life...” +concentrate. “There we shall encounter difficulties, and there,” +concentration of fighting at one point, and the hesitation of all the +concentration on some one thought. +concerned with a thought that always occupied her: “Now you see if I +concerned with, or he wanted to give the Russian special messenger that +concerning which no one could be at ease. It was the state of the +concluded, conscious—as were others—after the words were uttered +conclude our campaign and we can return to winter quarters, where fresh +condition. +condition, and immediately after that informed them that she had left +condition! It’s very hard.” +confess and ask for money he had no right to after giving his word of +confession, communion was administered to the dying man, preparations +confession; he felt himself in the presence of one socially a complete +confidence, and love as I have for you. Then I am young. Mamma does +confidence, flatter him, become intimate with him, and finally make his +confidence,” said she, repeating the mistake of so many parents who +confidence the personality of the Freemason inspired in him and his own +confirmed by Pierre’s rupture with his wife, was the talk of society. +confirmed in this conclusion by the fact that Dólokhov left immediately +conform. However painful it may be to me, should the Almighty lay +conform to them and follow them, and let us be persuaded that the less +“Confound him, he’s a fool!” said Rostóv. +“Confound you and your Karl Ivánich!” He took the glass with the +confronted one another as before. +Confused and ever-increasing crowds were running back to where five +confused him still more. He stood before Bagratión with his lower +confused when she saw Prince Andrew. He covered his face with his hands +confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken +confusion and fear that showed itself on Prince Vasíli’s face. +confusion what did or did not happen? +congratulations and greetings from acquaintances that met him on all +conjecture, but the colonel did not once glance at Rostóv, and looked +“Connaissez-vous le Proverbe:* ‘Jerome, Jerome, do not roam, but +connected in his memory with Prince Andrew. +connections... Well, then, you just...” + Conquest’s joyful thunder waken, +conscience that God has implanted in our souls.” +conscientiously studied the dispositions and the unfamiliar locality. He +consciousness that something great and mysterious was being accomplished +conscious of the warmth of her body, the scent of perfume, and the +conscious of this unseen line, and the question whether they would cross +conscious that another line of thought had sprung up, and while thinking +conservatories and the beauty of a flower that had just opened, and +conservatory and pantry into the large marble dining hall, where tables +conservatory. There she paused and stood listening to the conversation +conservatory to the place among the tubs where she had been hiding. +considerable pause which made Pierre feel uncomfortable. +consider characteristic of the country—rumors of war are heard +considered an adept at French. +considered him a criminal, and a year later they executed those who +considered him conceited, cold, and disagreeable. But among these people +considered important. +considered it his duty to visit him and waited in the lofty antechamber +considered it proper to show an interest in the general conversation by +considered myself injured, and Louis XVI was executed because they +considered worthy to hear it had to come to the countess, for she +consider it a sacred duty to fulfill that person’s wishes. Do you wish +“Consider my position, Peter Nikoláevich. Were I in the cavalry I +Consider, Prince Andrew. Two... Frederick and Suvórov; Moreau!... +consider yourself incapable and your life a spoiled life. You have +consolation for our defeat by the memory of former victories; and the +consolation? What evil and error are there in it, if people were dying +constant composure and complacency and lack of all interests or desires, +constantly considered it a duty to assure Pierre that he was greatly +consultations very valuable for the proprietor and troublesome to +consultations were detached from real affairs and did not link up with +consulting his sergeant major, Zakharchénko, for whom he had great +containing lessons in geometry written by himself and drew up a chair +contemplated between Anatole and the little princess’ sister-in-law. +contemptuous look that showed itself on his face. +contemptuous smile, evidently prepared beforehand to meet all objections +contented and happy with him. I only wish you were all as happy as I +contention. + CONTENTS +continually and rapidly touching her rosy nether lip when necessary +continually, bringing visitors to the Countess Rostóva’s big house on +continually changing from French to Russian. +continually driving round or coming upon wounded men, was out of range +continually glanced at Prince Andrew; Prince Andrew rubbed his forehead +continually he moved on. The soldiers squeezed themselves to make way +continually receiving many petitioners one after another. +continued. During this interval Pierre noticed that Prince Vasíli +continued his work. +continued. “One would think that as an artillery officer you would set +continued Prince Vasíli, returning to his theme, apparently not +continued—remembering Dólokhov’s conversation with Kutúzov and his +continued the vicomte. “I pity the poor husband, that little officer +continued to explain how by exchanging into the Guards he had already +continued to shout. +continued, “we owe today’s success chiefly to the action of that +continued, with that gay brotherly cordiality which goodhearted young +continue their flight? Despite his desperate shouts that used to seem +continuous, varied, and orderly activity. The motion of the small foot +contrary one must try to make one’s life as pleasant as possible. +Contrary to Bilíbin’s forecast the news he had brought was joyfully +contrary. We wanted liberty, but Buonaparte has destroyed it.” +contrasted with his flattering words, “on the contrary, your +convalescence. Dólokhov lay ill at his mother’s who loved him +conveniently to keep them under observation, brought them into the +conventional things with no definite meaning, especially if +conversation. +conversation. +conversation always related entirely to himself; he would remain calm +conversation, and though Anna Pávlovna felt sure he would say something +conversation began Prince Andrew was struck by the fact that the Emperor +conversation but think it necessary to move about and talk, in order +conversation, evidently with no wish to take part in it. He answered the +conversation, gave no reply. +conversation in French. +conversation—“I often think how unfairly sometimes the joys of life +conversation with her, when Anna Pávlovna called him away on the +convey....” +convoy officer, who said rapidly: “We must halt here: the Emperor +cook calls it—has disagreed with me.” +cooked before we reach our quarters.” +coquettish manner in which she spoke to other men, “the vicomte has +cords on his coat and took a card with that number and tried staking the +corner of his card and, instead of the six thousand he had intended, +correct. +correct. As soon as Bonaparte (who was at Schönbrunn, sixteen miles +correct, others that it was not, and explained the false rumor that had +corridor to the cabinet where the Minister of War was at work. The +Cossacks and then the first and second squadrons of hussars and infantry +Cossack scouts were moving. Suddenly on the road at the top of the high +“Cossack!” she said threateningly. +cost correct, or remedy, the mistake if he had made one, so that he, +cough. +coughed, swallowed, and said in French that she was very pleased to see +coughing of the musicians were heard from the gallery. +could be discerned. +could be felt, but the nearer Prince Andrew came to the French lines the +could be heard above the three hundred others. He nearly wept. “To the +could be heard. It was there Prince Andrew thought the fight would +could be seen, and in three places to left and right the French troops +could clearly distinguish their bandoliers, red epaulets, and even their +could disclose it to me.” +could get more rewards by doing nothing on the staff, and had succeeded +could have been devised. This combination of Austrian precision with +could have the effrontery to continue firing from four quite undefended +could hear. “I thank you all! God be praised!” and he rode past that +could hear the footstep of someone in thick felt boots, and a voice that +could no longer be averted but was taking its course independently of +could not bear her look but turned away with a sob. +could not break away from her, and that though it would be a terrible +could not help seeing these people, took any notice of them. “It seems +could not move it. He smashed a pane. +could not possibly be, and so did not deliver the order. +could not remember what it was that people say. He looked at her face. +could not reply. +could not say with certainty whether the attack had been repulsed or his +could not scream like that—came from the bedroom. Prince Andrew ran to +could not think of it without tears, and did not know which had behaved +could reach, there were the rattle of wheels, the creaking of carts +council, he remained in the room. +Councilor of State, and insisted on the young man accompanying him to +count. +count against him, he nevertheless on the day of his arrival went to +count, and having kissed his wife’s hand he went back to his study. +Count Bezúkhov he did not let go his hold of the lad. He had the air of +Count Bezúkhov’s distress some fifteen times. +count coming out from the dining hall into the anteroom, and he added: +“Count! Count!” shouted Berg who ran up from the other side as eager +“Count!... Don’t ruin a young fellow... here is this wretched money, +countenance. +countenance Bonaparte, and to cause me, and us in general, annoyance and +countenances became calm; soldiers and officers greeted him gaily, grew +counterattack. If they attack our center we, having the center battery +countermarches, things of which I understand nothing; and the day +countess. +“Countess Apráksina, poor thing, has lost her husband and she has +countess’ gigantic footman in his bass voice, entering the drawing +countess had not yet come. But now steps were heard at the door, steps +countess. Her son’s growth toward manhood, at each of its stages, +countess’ house. +“Countess, I have done w’ong,” Denísov went on in an unsteady +countess. “I have never seen a handsomer man.” +“Countess Natásha,” answered Denísov. +Countess Rostóva’s carriage in which they were seated drove over the +Countess Rostóva, with her daughters and a large number of guests, was +“Countess...” said Denísov, with downcast eyes and a guilty face. +countess” to have a rest, but remembering something else of +countess, who sat holding in one hand the snuffbox with its portrait and +countess with a gentle smile, looking at Borís and went on, evidently +count. He has, no doubt, forgotten it and will wish to destroy it. +Count Ilyá Rostóv, hurried and preoccupied, went about in his soft +Count Ilyá Rostóv separately, as the organizer of the banquet. At that +“Count Ilyá Rostóv’s son?” asked Dolgorúkov. +count is very fond of Pierre, looked after his education, and wrote to +“Count Lichtenfels was here this morning,” Bilíbin continued, +Count Markóv, and Prince Vyázemski—did not show themselves at the +Count Markóv? Count Markóv was the only man who knew how to handle +count, money and all things necessary for the uniform and equipment +count never be able to find out whether all measures had been taken for +Count Rostopchín, Valúev, and Narýshkin. Rostopchín was describing +“Count Rostóv.” +“Count Rostóv asks you to come to dinner today,” said he, after a +country do we get any rest? Theatricals, hunting, and heaven knows what +countrymen. Thanks for the fire—we’ll return it with interest,” +countryside—“See, our infantrymen have already got there. Look there +Count,” said Berg, lighting his pipe and emitting rings of smoke. +“Count...” said Telyánin drawing nearer to him. +count’s niece, entered with a cold, stern face. The length of her +count’s services, his request would be granted?...” +count’s visitors settled themselves, some in the two drawing rooms, +Count Tolstóy, who had ridden out to the battlefield with others in +count, with playful ceremony somewhat in ballet style, offered his +count,” yet ashamed to call him “father.” +couple. In the intervals of the dance the count, breathing deeply, waved +couple of words with him, Pierre felt unable to disappoint him. +Courage. 6. Generosity. 7. The love of death. +courage and endurance—acknowledged even by the enemy—with which the +courage, but she looked straight into his handsome face as it came near + Courage conquest guarantees; +“Courage, courage, my friend! He has asked to see you. That is +courage had it not been that just then they heard the rattle of musketry +Courage, my angel.” She kissed Lise and was about to leave the room. +courage. Next he thought that his enemy would send the squadron on a +courage, so he drew himself up and looked around him merrily; then it +course of events in the forthcoming action in broad outline. He +course.” Perhaps he did not really think this when he met women—even +courtierlike quickness and tact habitual to her, Anna Pávlovna +courts only strengthened his desire to belong to that higher world. +“Cousinage—dangereux voisinage,” * she added. + * Cousinhood is a dangerous neighborhood. +covered his eyes with his hand and pressed von Toll’s hand. +covered this movement of the transport and of the whole army, had to +covered with melting snow, the frost having begun to break up during the +cover of the small box, and assumed his usual tranquil and impenetrable +“Cover yourself!” even Denísov cried to his adversary. +cowshed nor Rostóv back with his platoon from foraging for hay had any +coyness and reserve of manner, she reminded one of a pretty, half-grown +crack and there was a glimpse of something blue, of ribbons, black hair, +crackling of wood fires near and afar, merged into one tremulous rumble. +creaking of her corset as she moved. He did not see her marble beauty +creaks or makes more noise than it should, and hastens to check the +cream.” +“Crew, to your guns!” commanded the officer. +cried at each shot: “Fine! That’s good! Look at it... Grand!” The +cried her eyes out,” she said, growing more and more lively. +criminal,” came into Pierre’s head, “and from their point of +crimson float on the surface of that milky sea of mist. The whole French +critical moment the courier who carried the news of our victory at +criticism and was about to reply, when the expected footsteps were heard +crossed himself and kissed the icon. There was a look of tenderness, for +crossed one on the other on her breast, and to him, too, her face seemed +crossed the ballroom, pointing to Natásha. +crossed the road, and began riding up the hill at a gallop toward the +Crossing a road they descended a steep incline and saw several men +cross it and ride over the black field up the hillside. To keep to the +cross the Lech, we can cross the Danube, throw ourselves on his line +crowded round a pockmarked, broad-shouldered sergeant major who, tilting +crowded together close to his wheels and his horses. “What a fellow! +crowd had to wait. +crowding around the dams and banks of the ponds near the village of +crowd of soldiers. “It can’t be an attack, for they are not moving; +crowd, they had got wedged in at the approach to the dam and, jammed in +crushed, but angry and working unnaturally, she saw that hanging over +crush the contemptible detachment that stood before him. +cry. “I need five hundred rubles, and have only one twenty-five-ruble +crying. +crying. Sónya tried to lift her head to answer but could not, and +cry or to laugh. Prince Andrew shrugged his shoulders and frowned, as +cry. Prince Andrew evidently felt ill at ease, but to the two women +cunning smile, as if flattered at being made the subject of Zherkóv’s +cupboards, and little tables. The quilt of a high, white feather bed was +cup of vodka for the men from me,” he added so that the soldiers +curious embarrassment among some of those present. Sónya, Dólokhov, +curious to know what was going to happen and what would be revealed to +curly head to her knees and made the whole room ring with her laughter. +current of his thoughts, “that Anatole is costing me forty thousand +curtain aside and for some time his frightened, restless eyes could not +curtain flapping and blew out the candle with its chill, snowy draft. +Curving her arms, Natásha held out her skirts as dancers do, ran back +cut!” +cynically Dólokhov had praised his wife’s beauty to him and from that +d’affaires. +damned fool!” cried Denísov, not pronouncing his r’s. “Such ill +dance) began to sound, all the doorways of the ballroom were suddenly +dancer, and one of the best matches in the city. +dancer, but smiling as only happy girls of fifteen can smile. When +dancers do, Natásha, rising energetically from her heels to her toes, +dancing master) gave for his pupils during the holidays. +danger. “I am convinced that we Russians must die or conquer,” he +dangerous. +dangers. During these wanderings, Pierre noticed that he was spoken +Danube covered with pine forests, with a mystic background of green +Danube, marching on us, you, and your lines of communication.” +dared complain, I who am deprived of all who are dear to me? Ah, if +dared to treat Márya Dmítrievna in this fashion. +daren’t say so. It will be as I said at the beginning of the campaign, +dark and the glow of two conflagrations was the more conspicuous. The +dark corner. And this someone was he—the devil—and he was also this +dark-haired man. This was the celebrated Petersburg doctor, Lorrain. +Dark hairs were already showing on his upper lip, and his whole face +darkness, the man paused, then moved with cautious steps toward the +darkness, was suddenly lit up by a new brightness, full of significance. +darkness. “Why not?... It might easily happen,” thought Rostóv, +dark... Steady!” he cried to his fidgeting horse. +“Darling Denísov!” screamed Natásha, beside herself with rapture, +darted forward at every word or gesture of the commander in chief, +darted in and stopped short in the middle of the room. It was evident +dashing young hussar! +daughter!” +daughter. +daughter and placing an arm on the back of the chair on which she sat, +daughter, and while he laughed the expression on his face clearly said: +daughter, but for a minister! For me, there are no ministers!” +daughter, entered the drawing room, their dresses rustling. +daughter got up to go and the two young men rose to let them pass. +daughter-in-law, “but she need not make a fool of herself, she’s +daughter is so young, and I thought that, as my son’s friend, you +daughter.)—“My dear boy... Lëlya... I am very pleased.” (His + * Daughter of Matthew. +daughter of Prince Vasíli, but visualized her whole body only veiled +daughter’s face that it was only mischief, she shook a finger at her +daughter’s happiness. +daughter. She lowered her head and was ready to burst into tears. +daughter were having one not less important. Natásha came running to +day before, he wished to do what the young man wanted. Having been sent +day he had lost. He was happy as a lover when the longed-for moment of +day he is sensible, well educated, and good-natured, and the next he’s +day in Moscow. All Denísov’s Moscow friends gave him a farewell +day... Natásha, what have I done to deserve it?...” +days.” +day,” said the visitor. “What a charming child,” she added, +days’ march and the enemy’s outposts after a brief interchange +days was still thin—moved. His gleaming eyes were fixed intently on +days with her, asked her to sleep in her room, and often talked with her +day until then, but he could no longer do it. He could not, any more +day was mapped out, the prince rested and the princess played the +day we are keeping. But mind you come to dinner or I shall be offended, +dead. All that he saw and heard seemed to confirm this terror. +dead or wounded horses and harnessing fresh ones, and shouting in his +Dear and precious Friend, How terrible and frightful a thing is +Dear and precious Friend, Your letter of the 13th has given me great +dear boy,” and he drew Pierre’s arm downwards, “it is simply a +“Dear Countess, what an age... She has been laid up, poor child ... +“Dear, dear! But still tell him to come to the club—it will all blow +“Dear, dear! Just look at her!” exclaimed the countess as she +“Dear doctor,” said she, “this young man is the count’s son. Is +“Dearest... and me!” +‘Dearest foe! Flower of the Austrian army, hero of the Turkish wars! +“Dearest, I’m afraid this morning’s fruschtique *—as Fóka the +“Dearest,” said the little princess after breakfast on the morning +dear fellow!” and for some unknown reason tears suddenly filled his +dear general, I am engaged with rice and cutlets, look after military +dear invalid?” said she, as though unaware of the cold offensive look +“Dear me, can I have forgotten? No, I remember thinking that you kept +“Dear me, how you have changed!” +dear, merry child. I have grown so fond of her.” +“Dear me!” said his father, who was in a specially good humor. “I +“Dear me!” said Rostóv. +“Dear me! Then what are you up to now?” +“Dear princess, I beg and implore you, have some pity on him! Je vous +dear sir—took on yourself responsibility for the guidance of a young +dear, there’s friendship for you,” he repeated. “He’s joining +dear. We will see how Tarás distinguishes himself today. He says Count +death, is here above me and around... Another instant and I shall never +death’s head. The stranger sat without stirring, either resting or, as +death,” thought Bolkónski. +de beaucoup de mérite), a newly appointed maid of honor and her mother, +deceitful German, whom he would not only kill with pleasure but whom +deceived you. Let us go to Mamma.” +December, nothing was said about the war and the last battle, as +decently here,” continued Telyánin. “Now then, let me have it.” +de châle, but at this last ball only the écossaise, the anglaise, and +decidedly lost bearings, you know that a letter was received from him +decided now or never. She lowered her eyes so as not to see the gaze +decided that day, but that they also knew what she thought about it. She +decided to play until that score reached forty-three thousand. He +decided to send the letters and money by the Grand Duke’s courier to +Decide, my dear, good, gentle Marie, whom I have always loved as a +declared that he will leave it to the French people themselves to choose +declared, was extraordinary and had achieved miracles of valor. The +declares in ze manifessto zat he cannot fiew wiz indifference ze danger +declined: I have my daughters to consider.” +deeds, and while dying he expressed the love his actions had proved. +deepest where the land lies lowest. +deeply. +deep wrinkles would crease his cheeks. His small, deep-set eyes always +defeated. A week after the gazette report of the battle of Austerlitz +defeat, there were many circumstances confirming the unfavorable rumors +defection, ran at a trot, panting to catch up with his company. A cannon +defective commissariat, the treachery of the Pole Przebyszéwski and of +defending us—doing it very badly, I think, but still he is defending +defense—as much as to say: ‘Heaven is with us, but heaven help you +defense of Vienna was no longer to be thought of. Instead of an +deferential young man who had entered. “Bring me...” he reflected +defile through narrow village streets when we are marching against the +definite idea of her, he turned away and addressed Michael Ivánovich. +dejection and hopelessness)—at any rate, Pierre longed with his whole +delay and advised waiting for something else before advancing had been +deliberately so that everyone could hear: +deliberately spoken word. It was evident that Kutúzov himself listened +delicate dark down was just perceptible, was too short for her teeth, +“Delightful!” said Bolkónski. “But I have come to you, Prince, +delightful to see.” +delight of frenzy. He flung down the slab, broke it, and swooping +delight. So you still love me, my romantic Julie? Separation, of which +(delivered by the French alone) was still to be heard from numerous +delivers its teaching not in words only but also by other means, which +demanded. +demanded that he should submit. Feeling himself in their power, he +demand satisfaction of his regimental commander?” +“Demosthenes, I know thee by the pebble thou secretest in thy golden + * Denísov. +Denísov. +Denísov?” +Denísov also came back and stayed with them. The first half of the +Denísov, and now Moscow memories—and he again hurriedly opened his +Denísov began to laugh. +Denísov bent over her hand and she heard strange sounds she did not +Denísov, Denísov! We’re almost there!” +“Denísov, don’t make fun of it!” cried Rostóv. “It is such a +Denísov first went to the barrier and announced: “As the +Denísov frowned and was about to shout some reply but stopped. +Denísov galloped up to him. +Denísov gave no answer. +Denísov glanced at Rostóv. +Denísov joined Nesvítski. +“Denísov, let him alone, I know who has taken it,” said Rostóv, +Denísov nice?” she asked. +Denísov raised his head, coughed, and made no answer. +Denísov remained silent and did not move, but occasionally looked with +Denísov’s a fine fellow. But that’s all nonsense. The chief thing +Denísov sat gloomily biting his mustache and listening to the +Denísov screwed up his face and pointing over his shoulder with his +Denísov’s face puckered still more. +Denísov’s favorite barcarolle. Natásha was preparing to sing. +Denísov’s horse, Bedouin, was in debt all round, to his comrades and +Denísov smiled, took out of his sabretache a handkerchief that diffused +Denísov’s new cloak and saddlecloth. +Denísov’s short stature not noticeable and he looked the fine fellow +Denísov’s voice from the next room. +Denísov. “They keep dwagging the wegiment to and fwo all day. If they +Denísov threw both pillows on the floor. The purse was not there. +Denísov, to Rostóv’s surprise, appeared in the drawing room with +Denísov was looking at her with enraptured eyes. +Denísov was shown to the room prepared for him, and the Rostóvs all +“Denísov! We’re here! He’s asleep,” he added, leaning forward +Denísov were his worst enemy, firmly fixed his eyes directly on his +Denísov, who had settled down by the roadside with a flask and some +Denísov with his voice and mustache, and Telyánin and all that affair +Denísov, with sparkling eyes and ruffled hair, sat at the clavichord +departure Hélène returned to Petersburg, she was received by all her +depends on your decision. Never mind me!” +depraved ideas of these days. I said so even at the time when everybody +depraved woman,” he repeated, “but dared not admit it to myself. +deprecating expression of a dog when it rapidly but feebly wags its +depressed, “I shall be only too glad if you relieve me of that young +depressing and unsolved problem. +depth of his heart. In one place the peasants presented him with bread +“Dere has neffer been a gase,” a German doctor was saying to an +derision. “I ought to know the Emperor by now, after the times I’ve +descending the valley. That moment of moral hesitation which decides +descent lit up, and facing it a black knoll that seemed as steep as a +description of the last Petersburg fete she addressed her brother: +description. The old man began to sing, in the cracked voice of old age: +descriptive part of the letter. “And what a soul! Not a word about +desire to do good to his neighbor. +desire to show his friend as soon as possible that he was now a quite +desirous of hiding her adoration for Hélène and inclined rather +despair at failing in a Scripture examination, his borrowing money from +despair, not knowing where to or why he was now riding. +desperate attack just to punish him—Rostóv. Then he imagined how, +desperation slammed the door with all her might. +Despite Count Bezúkhov’s enormous wealth, since he had come into an +“Despite my great respect for old Kutúzov,” he continued, “we +despite the general’s presence were talking loudly and gesticulating. +Despite the weakness of age, which had become particularly noticeable +destiny of our adored monarch. He will save Europe!” + destroyed, and you find that a cause for jesting!” +destruction of the Prussian army at Jena and Auerstädt and the +detachment, moved from the place where it had spent the night, advancing +detachment no one knew anything of the general position of affairs. They +detail! No, my dear fellow, no conditions better than our present ones +details of his disaster he understood that half the campaign was lost, +“Devil take ‘em!” he muttered, while his head was still covered by +“Devil take them!” he muttered, and after listening to the verbal +devoid of any foundation. Prince Bagratión turned to the old colonel: +devotion to the sovereign, Rostóv pictured to himself an enemy or a +devoured him with his eyes, drawing himself up obsequiously, and from +diamonds, she passed between the men who made way for her, not looking +dictated the dispositions in German, and now, much exhausted, he arrived +did, especially toward evening when he had emptied his second bottle; he +did I come here?” he wondered. +did neither: a look of animosity appeared on his face and the other +did not, and do not, in the least care about that scoundrel of a clerk +did not calm her excitement. Suddenly her door opened softly and her old +did not draw closer to Sónya, but rather drifted away from her. She was +did not even make him a curtsy. She fixed her eyes on him in amazement, +did not, for instance, say to himself: “This man now has influence, I +did not interest her—or by a silent look and smile which more palpably +did not let him and, on the other, Pierre himself feared to begin to +did not let it out of her hands. The tutors came, and the nurses, and +did not see you.” +did not suit her faded features, always played round her lips expressed, +did not wait to be called. The shapely figure of the fair-haired +did not want or could not carry away with them. Austrian column guides +did not wish to, believe that. +did not wish to confess. +did Novosíltsev get? None. The English have not understood and cannot +“Didn’t I tell you,” she went on, turning reproachfully to +did she not show any trace of coquetry, but on the contrary she even +did still harder work on their own land. He did not know that the priest +didst thou, and why did the whole world, conceive the idea of the +did that day. But no sooner had Natásha finished her barcarolle than +did they not interest him, but he took no notice of them and at once +did this and that, all would be well; and he did what was demanded of +did you come here?” +“‘Dieu me la donne, gare à qui la touche!’’ * They say he was +“Dieu! Mon Dieu!” muttered Anna Pávlovna in a terrified whisper. +“Dieu sait quand reviendra. Go to the dining room.” +“Dieu sait quand reviendra.” hummed the prince out of tune and, with +differed only in that one had a little mole on her lip which made her +different, and better, Pierre than he had been in Petersburg. +different companies did not get mixed. But our left—which consisted +different from that of its elders which is often insincere, Nicholas +different from themselves and from everyone else, expected great things +different one from that which he had ridden at the review, and bending +different tones. Rostóv reined in his horse, whose spirits had risen, +difficult for artillery and cavalry to retire. Prince Andrew took +difficulties had told Nicholas that this was all he could let him have +difficult to imagine happier people, and that God only knew what would +difficulty. +difficulty. +difficulty. +difficulty out of the front door. +digested his sufferings alone. +dim, but definite and in the concise form in which he imagined himself +dining room where his daughter-in-law, Princess Mary, and Mademoiselle +dinner. +dinner all who came “to congratulate.” The countess wished to have +dinner and at other times, when as if tired of everyday life he had felt +dinner and looked about, blinking and scowling, or, with fixed eyes and +dinner at the Rostóvs’?” +dinner, but providing it and serving it all up, that’s not their +dinner,” cried several voices. “We’ll take you in hand.” +din of shouting more incessant. Soldiers floundering knee-deep in mud +diplomatic career in comparison with Pierre’s happiness. The old +diplomatic discretion tormented him, and he was happy to have in Prince +diplomatist?” asked Prince Andrew after a momentary silence. +diplomatist fresh from Berlin with the very latest details of the +diplomats, evidently had its own interests which had nothing to do with +diplomats who are esteemed because they have certain negative qualities, +dip. Prince Andrew, being always near the commander in chief, closely +direct descent and ascent to the brook separating us from Schön +directed to—Pierre and Hélène. Prince Vasíli mimicked the sobbing +directing the march rode backward and forward between the carts. Their +direction of the conflagration. As if urging each other on, the soldiers +direction toward the valley and disappearing one after another into +“Directly!” +dirty feather bed on the top of the chest, crumpling her gauzy pink +disagreeable tone to Prince Hippolyte who was blocking his path. +disappeared he noticed that the eyes of all in the room turned to him +disapprovingly, but in whispers and as a great secret. +disastrous was about to happen. +disbelieved both the princess’ hints and the letter, but he feared +discipline and zeal in the service. He brought with him into our +discipline, if you allow a subordinate to address you like that!’ It +disconcerted. The sight of the discomposure of that old man of the world +discuss so minutely and acutely all the recent European military and +disgrace such as that of Ulm, or to utter destruction. But to forestall +disgrace the whole regiment? Disgrace the whole regiment because of one +disheveled head from the hot pillow. +dismal influence of cannon balls flying from the French batteries +dismissed from here; therefore, you can stay and go with us wherever our +dismounted. He gave the reins to a Cossack, took off and handed over his +disorder and was retreating upon the Kiev grenadiers. Prince Bagratión +disordered. The French cannon did not reach there and the musketry fire +disorganized, I stopped in the road and thought: ‘I’ll let them +dispatch? You know everything.” +displease you. However,” he added rising, “you know my name and +disposed to treat the young heir in the most friendly and flattering +disposition of the forces, so as to know his bearings should he be sent +dispositions...” +“Dispositions for an attack on the enemy position behind Kobelnitz and +dispute. +dispute with the French grenadier. They were naturally talking about the +disrespectful manner of the exhausted clerk, the fact that the clerk and +dissatisfaction and reproach. “Old though he may be, he should not, he +dissatisfied, interrupted by another, an unfamiliar voice. From the +dissatisfied with him, and also that at the Emperor’s headquarters +dissipated life of his son Anatole, the son whom they were planning to +distance and puckering the skin above his left eye, “malgré la haute +distance, but down the hill before him. “It’s the French!” +distance that allowed every softly spoken word to be heard, followed +distance where no one had been before him. Bagratión called to him from +distant, most intimate, memories rose in his imagination: he remembered +distinctions which may infringe equality. Fly to a brother’s aid +distinctly, but as often happens had not understood a word of what they +distinctness. +distinguish a mounted man from one on foot. Napoleon, in the blue cloak +distinguished air which inspired respect. Princess Anna Mikháylovna +distinguished dignitary and a Swiss who had formerly been tutor at the +distinguished him from everyone else in that drawing room. +distorted out of all likeness to his former self, and the flourishing of +distraught yet angry expression on the faces of these two men, who +distressed, and breathed painfully, but could not restrain the wild +distressed that his stout and clumsy body took up so much room and doing +distrust in Bolkónski’s emphatic opinion yet not feeling able fully +disturbed. +divine Saviour has left for our guidance here below. Let us try to +Dmítri, a man of good family who had been brought up in the count’s +Dmítri, and several acquaintances, and the countess reread the letter +Dmítrievna. +Dmítrievna produced no less impression by slight exertions—the least +Dmítrievna’s deep voice suddenly inquired from the other end of the +“Dmítri,” said Rostóv to his valet on the box, “those lights are +do?” +“Do come.” +doctor and expecting another for whom they had sent to town, they had +doctor’s wife. +doctor’s wife, who was calling him her deliverer, and recalling with +doctor who had entered the hall after him (they had met at the last post +doctor with a bow and approached them silently and with a look of +does not even attempt to hide its artificiality) of a man who is +does not produce the slightest stir—a blind man has left it. There are +does not quite see it; more particularly as it is he and his corps who +doesn’t have intrigues nowadays? Why, if he was so jealous, as I see +doesn’t make a mess of things!” +does she bother me?” And she added, turning to Véra, “You’ll +doing a little—though I did very little and did it very badly? What +doing right. Anna Mikháylovna nodded approvingly. Again Pierre fell +doing!” said the officer and rode off. +“Do I remember Nicholas?” +do it.” +Dolgorúkov; and though you may not know it, the fact is that now +Dolgorúkov laughed merrily. +Dolgorúkov, looking round at Bilíbin with a smile. +Dolgorúkov, one of the warmest advocates of an attack, had just +Dolgorúkov, the victor at Wischau, was sent with Savary to negotiate +Dolgorúkov to the Emperor. +Dolgorúkov was still insisting that the French had retreated and had +dolls and who was still having lessons. +Dólokhov. +Dólokhov. +Dólokhov and looked sorrowfully at him. Denísov, Rostóv, and +Dólokhov, and words of honor?... All nonsense! One might kill and rob +Dólokhov, an officer of the Semënov regiment, a notorious gambler and +Dólokhov began to deal seriously. Oh, how Rostóv detested at that +Dólokhov climbed carefully and slowly through the window and lowered +Dólokhov cut him short, as if to remind him that it was not for him to +Dólokhov did not answer the captain; he had been drawn into a hot +Dólokhov has been degraded to the ranks and Bezúkhov’s son sent +Dólokhov himself during his convalescence spoke to Rostóv in a way no +Dólokhov hurriedly interrupted. +Dólokhov looked at Pierre with clear, mirthful, cruel eyes, and that +Dólokhov looked round but did not say anything, nor did the mocking +Dólokhov made no reply. +“Dólokhov, Mary Ivánovna’s son,” she said in a mysterious +Dólokhov—now an officer—wounded in the arm, and on foot, with +Dólokhov often dined at the Rostóvs’, never missed a performance at +Dólokhov or answering him. The footman, who was distributing leaflets +Dólokhov paused. +Dólokhov, Pierre saw clearly that what was said in the letter might be +Dólokhov pressed Rostóv’s hand and burst into tears. +Dólokhov’s back in his white shirt, and his curly head, were lit +Dólokhov’s clear, cold glance met Rostóv as soon as he entered the +Dólokhov’s face. +Dólokhov’s hand. +Dólokhov’s hands and thought, “Now then, make haste and let me have +Dólokhov’s home: on the third day he received a note from him: +Dólokhov, slamming down the pack of cards, put it aside and began +Dólokhov slowly straightened his bent knee, looking straight with his +Dólokhov smiled. “Don’t trouble. If I want anything, I won’t +Dólokhov’s offer,” he said, articulating his friend’s name with +Dólokhov’s proposal and Iogel’s ball, seemed to have grown thicker +Dólokhov’s reply. +Dólokhov’s second, and after dinner he discussed the arrangements for +Dólokhov still sat in the same position, only his head was thrown +Dólokhov stood frowning and did not speak. Pierre jumped upon the +Dólokhov. Suddenly a cannon ball hissed so low above the crowd that +Dólokhov’s words into English. A thin young lad, an hussar of the +Dólokhov, the bottle of rum still in his hand, jumped onto the window +Dólokhov turned round and, again holding on with both hands, arranged +Dólokhov was a secret to no one but himself. Pierre absolutely +Dólokhov was holding the Englishman’s hand and clearly and distinctly +Dólokhov was of medium height, with curly hair and light-blue eyes. He +Dólokhov, who had already changed into a soldier’s gray greatcoat, +Dólokhov, who had no reason to preserve the honor of a man who was +Dólokhov, whom everyone in the house liked except Natásha. She almost +Dólokhov who was in the midst of the crowd forced his way to the edge +domestic serfs were crowding in the hall, waiting to bid good-by to +dominated everything else and soared above all their affected chatter. +done for him! I hope that here in Moscow no one will receive him, in +done. Have you chosen a post in which you might be of service to your +done no harm to anyone; why must I suffer so? Help me!” her look +done shall be. Now listen! Give this letter to Michael Ilariónovich. * +done the job just as well.” +done, the Rhetor said: +done to me?”—said her charming, pathetic, dead face. +done up. +do next. Anna Mikháylovna with her eyes indicated a chair that stood +Do not break your ranks on the plea of removing the wounded! Let every +“Do not let us lose any time...” +do not suppose me to be so bad. With my whole soul I wish to be what you +“Don’t be unkind,” cried Anna Pávlovna from her end of the table +“Don’t, Borís! You are such a diplomat that it is really +don’t care a straw about anyone but those I love; but those I love, +“Don’t come in,” she said to the old count who was following her. +“Don’t! Don’t! What are you about?” whispered their frightened +don’t feel that weakness in myself as yet, I know a little person who +don’t forget to put out my new coat,” added Rostóv, fingering his +don’t get promoted to a sublieutenancy.” +“Don’t joke; I mean to have a serious talk with you. Do you know +“Don’t kick up the dust, you infantry!” jested an hussar whose +don’t know and never shall know, for the love of these men here,” he +don’t know how to hide what I feel.” As he spoke he kept glancing +don’t know me. We have not met for such a long time... not since we +“Don’t like bowwowing from my own fellows, I don’t,” growled +“Don’t mention it, General, as if I’d be so bold!” replied the +“Don’t, Natásha! What nonsense!” she said, hoping it was a joke. +don’t need it? Now you shall judge between us. I always tell him: Here +don’t remember Borís. I don’t remember him a bit.” +“Don’t say that to me! I want nothing. I love you as a brother and +“Don’t speak to me... I beg you,” muttered Pierre hoarsely. +“Don’t tease! Well, and what has been decided about Novosíltsev’s +“Don’t touch him! You’ll startle him and then he’ll be killed. +“Don’t touch me,” said Rostóv, drawing back. “If you need it, +don’t trouble yourself further.” +don’t understand. Perhaps Princess Elizabeth and Princess Mary know. +don’t wish to let me go, I’ll stay. But I know I am no use anywhere +“Don’t you want to? Well, then, come here,” said she, and +“Don’t you wecollect what bad use I made of your lessons?” +door, and added in a whisper so that her son should not hear, “Wish me +door and his expression of sleepy indifference suddenly changed to one +door, as though he had long expected him. +door behind him and satisfied himself that there was nobody else in the +“Do order them to form into battalion columns and go round the +door? Oh, she is a pearl among women, Princess,” he added, turning to +door opened quickly and the stern figure of the old man in the white +door. While he was getting down from the carriage steps two men, who +doppelkümmel. The officers gladly gathered round him, some on their +“Do promise, do promise, Vasíli!” cried Anna Mikháylovna as he + do, Sire.” +“Do stop joking, Bilíbin,” cried Bolkónski. +do the doctors say?” asked the princess after a pause, her worn face +do the right thing. +do they look at me?” Then he lifted his head, stretched his neck as +“Do this for my sake, mon cher; after all, she had to put up with a +do this for my son—and I shall always regard you as a benefactor,” +do to get here.” +doubled. To this Prince Andrew answered with a smile that he could +doubt, and self-derision, which appeared on his face against his will, +doubt filled her soul. Could the joy of love, of earthly love for a +doubt it now. Rostóv rode in the direction pointed out to him, in which +doubt of victory, especially on this day when what is at stake is the +down!” +down, and smiled affectionately. +down. Anna Mikháylovna indicated by her attitude her consciousness of +down below, but higher up at the village of Schlappanitz where Napoleon +downcast head; and he began to pace the room, glancing occasionally at +down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before +down laws for Austria at Schönbrunn, il faut lui faire grâce de +down, lightly touched his daughter’s hair and sat down again. +down on a sofa in the next room. +down on a sofa near the silver samovar, as if all she was doing was a +down. One bullet and then another whistled past him. He mustered his +down on her with outstretched hands shouted, “Get out!” in such a +down on one of the tubs, picked it up. +down on the sofa, facing her brother. “She is quite a child: such a +downstairs to his own room. A quarter of an hour later the old count +down the hillsides, and clouds of cannon smoke rolling, spreading, +down the room for a long time, no longer piercing an imaginary foe with +down the wax, the seal, and the paper, with his accustomed rapidity. +down to her neck and shoulders while Nicholas was speaking. +downwards as was his habit. +downward. When Pierre came up the count was gazing straight at him, but +downy lip was open and she was smiling joyfully. Prince Andrew entered +dowry and take Mademoiselle Bourienne into the bargain. She’ll be the +“Do you hear how he’s walking?” said Tíkhon, drawing the +do you know he has fallen in love with Sónya?” +“Do you know,” he said at last, evidently unable to check the sad +“Do you know, mon cher,” said Bilíbin following him, “I have been +“Do you know?” said Pierre, as if suddenly struck by a happy +“Do you know, that fat Pierre who sat opposite me is so funny!” said + *Do you know the proverb? +“Do you know, you are a terrible chap for all your innocent airs,” +“Do you or do you not know where that will is?” insisted Prince +do you remain silent when heaven knows who permits herself to +“Do you remember him?” Natásha suddenly asked, after a moment’s +“Do you remember me?” asked Borís quietly with a pleasant smile. +“Do you remember we had a talk about cards... ‘He’s a fool who +“Do you see?... My doll... Mimi... You see...” was all Natásha +“Do you think he can last till morning?” asked the German, +“Do you think so?... Really? Truly?” she said, quickly smoothing her +“Do you understand what you’re saying?” he said in a trembling +“Do you want anything?” +dozens of soldiers, continually replaced by others, who ran from the +dragging it by the staff, ran on with the battalion. In front he saw our +dragoons. In the center, where Túshin’s battery stood and from which +drank much, and eagerly. But those who knew him intimately noticed that +draw breath. +drawing him down put her arm round his thin, scraggy neck. +drawing room. +drawing room. +drawing room. +drawing room. And, in fact, Bilíbin’s witticisms were hawked about +drawing room, approaching now a silent, now a too-noisy group, and by a +drawing room, helped to receive and entertain the visitors. The young +drawing room. The guests began to disperse, some without taking leave +drawing room with her habitual skill. The large group, in which were +dress as fresh and elegant as the other. Prince Andrew rose and politely +dressed alike, in new pale-blue frocks, and were both fresh, rosy, and +dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending +dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, +dressed for his attendance at court in full parade uniform, which he +dressed gay young men on splendid, well-groomed, fresh, only slightly +dressed. Princess Mary’s self-esteem was wounded by the fact that +dress, girdled with a broad ribbon just below the breast. +dress, have it fetched. Really! You know the fate of your whole life may +dress her would prolong their banter and insistence. She flushed, her +dressing gown every day, he invariably became confused and begged her to +dressing gown looked out. +dressing gown, spectacled and wigless, shouting in an angry voice. +dress, Mademoiselle Bourienne’s ribbon, Princess Mary’s unbecoming +dress under her, hiding her face with her slender fingers, and sobbing +dress with her little hand, now arranging the scarf and looking at her +drew Anatole, whom she hardly knew, into these amusing recollections of +drew her chair nearer to that of the countess. +drew his saber, and with a happy and resolute countenance, opening +drew in his legs and sat up, seeking a firm center of gravity. He sucked +dried and warmed themselves, cooked their porridge for the first time +drink?” +drink shop or fall ill. Just as I could not stand his terrible physical +driven their two-horse carts loaded with wheat and had returned dusty +driver’s leg. Their spirits once roused were, however, not diminished, +drive the princess away by that scream... “Killed!” +drive up, went to meet him. +driving into the court of Count Bezúkhov’s house. As the wheels +drooping as he broke into a gallop. +drooping tail. +dropped it into a leather pouch attached to the lathe, and, approaching +dropping her voice. “My wretched lawsuit takes all I have and makes no +dropping into his usual after-dinner nap, and laughed at everything. +drops and again went up to the cot. +drove his huge spurs in violently, and the horse, flourishing its tail +drowsiness overpowered him, red rings danced before his eyes, and the +Drubetskáya, who as a member of the household was also seated in the +drummer, their leader, turned round facing the singers, and flourishing +dry hands clenched with vexation at her not understanding a sum in +duc even the most partial ceased to regard him as a hero. If to some +duel he did not go to his bedroom but, as he often did, remained in his +duelist and rake, and every now and then he glanced ironically at +duelist, who was living with Anatole. Pierre smiled, looking about him +duel prove? That you’re a fool, que vous êtes un sot, but everybody +due to her misfortune. When conversation turned on her husband Hélène +Duke Constantine Pávlovich, who commanded the Guards. The Rostóvs +Duke’s orders the men had marched all the way in step (a practice on +dull expression. +dull eyes looked at him in silence. It seemed to Prince Andrew that the +dull without you,” said she, giving him a tender smile. +During Rostóv’s short stay in Moscow, before rejoining the army, he +During that stay in Petersburg, Borís became an intimate in the +during the battle, and feeling reassured he dozed off.... The dark +during the five years he had known her, and how her head had cracked +During this transfer he felt a little stronger and was able to look +dust from the sleeve of his uniform, and going up to a mirror examined +duties on you, and you must be a man.” +duty. The Emperor is gracious, and I shan’t forget you if you deserve +dying father. “It is painful, but it does one good. It uplifts the +dying man, but passed by him, joined the eldest princess, and moved +dying man wished to see, her own admission was assured. Casting a rapid +dying of fright. I did, ‘pon my word, I got that frightened!” said +each ascent or descent of the road the crowds were yet denser and the +each face, appraising the possibilities of establishing intimacy with +each occasion had been driven back by grapeshot from the four isolated +each of those present, and the advantages that might accrue. He took +each other’s arms warmly pressing their lips to whatever place they +each time he touched his forehead. His face wore a calm look of piety +each time with fresh pleasure and each time discovered in it fresh +Each visitor performed the ceremony of greeting this old aunt whom not +eagerly and rather disdainfully, not resting on anything although his +eagerness and briskness presented a marked contrast to the dissatisfied +eager questions from all sides. The whole moving mass began pressing +Early in the year 1806 Nicholas Rostóv returned home on leave. Denísov +easy. +easy. And tell me, please—I’ve been meaning to ask—how is he +easy to take marshals, sitting on a sofa by the fire! That is true, but +eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org +écossaise was ended, he clapped his hands to the musicians and shouted +edge of the clearing. The seconds, measuring the paces, left tracks in + E’en fortunate Napoleon +effected the dangerous crossing of the Straits of Dover and captured +effect on everyone, smiled and, evidently unmoved by what had been +efforts to seem calm. +effort. The bottle was emptying perceptibly and rising still higher +effort to look at the servant who stood constantly at the head of the +effort to move her shoulders or bend her arms when turning, or stamp +effort to say this. “Without a name and without means... And it +effrayée, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings. +egged on against each other. +“Eh, brother! They’ve all bolted long ago!” said the soldier, +Eh, Dmítri! Gallop off to our Moscow estate,” he said to the factotum +“Eh, eh, friend! Come here a bit,” said she, assuming a soft high +“Eh, is anything hurting you?” asked the soldier, shaking his shirt +“Eh, is she pretty?” he asked with a wink. +“Eh? What?” asked Prince Andrew. +Eh?... What then?... Eh?” +eighty thousand allied troops rose from their bivouacs to the hum of +either. Don’t I know that at the rate we are living our means won’t +either,” he thought to himself, “I have done nothing wrong. Have I +either,” he thought. “Yes, I did not know anything, anything at all +either the place they were leaving or that to which they were going. +Ekonómov. +elated. He had noticed a solitary tree ahead of him. This tree had been +elbows, as if to say: “You can tell me your views later, but now be so +elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders +elder daughter, Countess Véra, with a smile. +elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief. +elders. +elders which seems to say to the older generation, “We are prepared to +eldest princess, who were sitting under the portrait of Catherine the +eldest who was reading—the one who had met Anna Mikháylovna. The +elegantly. Bilíbin’s services were valued not only for what he wrote, +else. +else. +else, my dear boy, let me tell you it’s quite likely you’ll have to +else,” replied Anna Pávlovna. +else, runs upstairs and does up her hair and wags her tail and is unlike +else the Tsar did. +embarrassed him. He was like a man entirely absorbed in some occupation. +embarrassed voice, though it sounded severe to Denísov—“but my +embarrassing attentions. On the face of the wag Zherkóv there suddenly +embarrassing situation, and the expression on his face was invariably +embarrassment looked Pierre straight in the face. +embittered look clouded her once handsome face, but only for a moment; +embraced him and lifting his spectacles kissed his friend on the cheek +embracing Denísov. “Nicholas wrote us... Natásha, Véra, look! Here +embracing Prince Vasíli. +embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on +emitting a smoke ring. +Emperor, about the remarks he had heard at court concerning the Krems +Emperor Alexander hurriedly to Kutúzov, glancing courteously at the +Emperor Alexander’s visit to Potsdam, and of how the two august +Emperor and the whole army, especially while the smoke hung over +Emperor at once rode up to him, offered his services, and assisted him +Emperor Francis continued to look about him and did not listen. +Emperor Francis would have been fulfilled long ago. I should long +Emperor had only just fallen asleep and so Savary had to wait. At midday +Emperor himself rode round his bivouacs. The soldiers, on seeing him, +Emperor Napoleon burns with impatience to make Prince Auersperg’s +Emperor Napoleon if we take this bridge, so let us three go and take +Emperor not everyone could understand, and with his whole soul he shared +Emperor,” said Rostóv, and was about to spur his horse. +Emperor’s arrival, lay several killed and wounded soldiers whom there +Emperor’s eyes met Rostóv’s and rested on them for not more than +Emperors. Upon them the undivided, tensely passionate attention of that +Emperor. The Emperor Francis, a rosy, long faced young man, sat very +Emperor,” thought Rostóv. +Emperor was pale, his cheeks sunken and his eyes hollow, but the charm, +emphatically. +employed by lively chatty people, and consisting in the assumption +Empress’ Field, not understanding the significance of the firing, nor +Empress’ Field,” said he clearly and distinctly. +emptied them, rolling the vodka in their mouths, and walked away from +empty and that the nurse had been hiding the dead baby. He drew the +emptying his glass at one gulp he dashed it to the floor. Many followed +encampment, and not within sight of the enemy before an action in + Enchantress, say, to my forsaken lyre +en conjure...” +encounter an enemy invisible ten paces off. But the columns advanced +encounter one another at the clean, smart hussars who moved past them in +“Encouraging us to get along quicker,” said another uneasily. +ended with a thud into something soft... f-f-flop! and a Cossack, riding +ending Pierre’s unpleasant and unamiable outburst. After the anecdote +end of his gun...” a soldier whose greatcoat was well tucked up said +end of the meal. He winked at the butler, whispered directions to the +end spurred his horse. +endure this man who is a menace to everything.” +enemies, he tried to continue reading. But feeling this to be senseless +enemy?” +enemy, do not avenge thyself except by doing him good. Thus fulfilling +enemy’s horse patrols could be discerned. +enemy three times as strong, who would hem him in from two sides. +enemy under the Emperor’s command. Commanded by the Emperor himself +energetic a character. He is so accustomed to unlimited power that he is +energetically than anyone, led the guests into the drawing room, and +engaged; he was shouting “Hurrah!” +engagement and his reception by the Minister of War. +“England is done for,” said he, scowling and pointing his finger +engrossed by it, yet his strut seemed to indicate that, besides military +enjoyable. That year two marriages had come of these balls. The two +enjoyed narrating all this, and did not seem to suspect that others, +enjoyment by sympathy with anyone’s sorrow,” she felt, and she said +enlightenment?” +enlighten their minds, by means handed on to us by tradition from those +enormous table would say: “Well, Dmítri, you’ll see that things are +enormous whole. +enough, at the end of the feast proposed the Emperor’s health. “Not +enough to see a long way in the deserted street and it seemed more like +“Enough! What nonsense! Above all, try to be respectful and cautious +entered. +entered, as if to say: “Yes, that’s how I want you to look.” +entered his father’s dressing room (not with the contemptuous look and +entered, the bronze handle of one of the doors turned and Prince Vasíli +entered the drawing room elegantly dressed in the uniform of an +entered their heads that it could have been otherwise at this meeting. +entered the room. +entered the room. +entered the room. +entered the room. Prince Vasíli approached first, and she kissed the +entering the house occupied by Kutúzov, asked for Bolkónski. Prince +Entering the house, Prince Andrew saw Nesvítski and another adjutant +entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and +entertaining supposition. +entertainment at the gypsies’, with the result that he had no +enter that room. +enter the drawing room? Even if I like him I can’t now be myself with +enthusiasms, dreams, and hopes of happiness or goodness, in Prince +enthusiasm—was only the loss of the battle of Austerlitz, the +entice him to marry my daughter and lend me the forty thousand rubles +entrance, after scrutinizing the mother and son (who without asking to +entrance. The prince was working at the lathe and after glancing round +entrance to the dam raised his hand and opened his mouth to address +entreaties. Soon after Anna Pávlovna’s reception Anna Mikháylovna +entrenchments being thrown up, the freshly dug clay of which showed up +entrenchments looked out just as menacingly, and the unlimbered cannon +entrenchment. They had to hold their noses and put their horses to a +entrusted to him, was pedantic in the fulfillment of his duties, severe +entrusted to his care and whom he intended to benefit. +enveloped in those beams, he heard his voice, that kindly, calm, +envious and Natásha could not help joining in. +epaulettes had been packing with his valet in the rooms assigned to him. +equality. Have people since the Revolution become happier? On the +equals, while his eyes occasionally sought out his fine well-set-up +equip him.” +erect, almost on tiptoe, with a soldier’s obsequious expression on his +erect on his handsome black horse, looking about him in a leisurely and +err, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.” +escapade made everybody feel confused. Denísov blushed too, but smiled +escape, and Bagratión’s four thousand men merrily lighted campfires, +escape it all, and felt that Dólokhov knew that he could save him from +escape it anyhow.” +escorted him to the door, repeating something to him several times in +especially after having dined, Bolkónski felt that he could not take in +especially appealed to Pierre. The important mystery mentioned by the +especially the youngest, the pretty one with the mole, who often made +Essen corps arrived and Prussia took our side. +essential, and after a short interval followed her. Anna Mikháylovna +essential to speak the whole truth. +established intimacy with the French marshals, and so dazzled by the +estate near Moscow, and to receive many people who formerly did not +estates. His new brethren gave him letters to the Kiev and Odessa Masons +estates in the south and there attending to the welfare of his serfs. +estime que je professe pour the Orthodox Russian army, j’avoue que +estrangement, and ridicule with which troops of different arms usually +eternal, and infinite in all His attributes?...” +eternity.” And again he twisted the screw with the stripped thread, + * “Europe will never be our sincere ally.” +even by a ball dress. +even Denísov was nothing compared to Dólokhov—“you must understand +even every footstep in that house since the terrible news had come, so +“Even if it were a great deal of trouble...” answered Prince Andrew, +evening. +evening in advance of him, and he and his son arrived next day. +evening light and the blue tunics advancing from the other side with +Evening passed, night came, and the feeling of suspense and softening of +evening. There was room enough in the wide corridor for the generals to +evening to get in) “I only wished to say that we are wrong to fight +evening was this: +evening when the rewards bestowed by the Emperor were mentioned. +even in his way; but all at once he felt that this would not do, and +Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise +even know if it would be a good thing (he even felt, he knew not why, +evenly, and then raised his head. He had an intellectual and distinctive +even more beautiful than it had been three days before at the review. It +even more merrily than on the previous night. Denísov celebrated his +even more so. I like being alone.... Father likes her very much. She and +Even people who had formerly been spiteful toward him and evidently +even pushed aside, he began wrapping it round the princess. Either from +even their faces, more and more distinctly. They were our Horse Guards, +event. In the English Club, where all who were distinguished, important, +event must be allowed to disturb the appointed order of the day. Prince +even try to do so. All were watching the count and Márya Dmítrievna. +even wish to know of his existence but would now have been offended +ever because Anatole’s presence had vividly recalled to her the time +ever since he had overtaken the regiment in Poland, had lived with the +ever was Borís resolved to serve in future not according to the written +every advantage. What receptions we had in Poland! What dinners and +everybody, for another ten years. It would be far easier and simpler for +“Everybody is wondering to whom the count will leave his fortune, +Everybody laughed a great deal. At the head of the table, where the +Everybody laughed, and Hippolyte louder than anyone. He was evidently +everybody! Not forgetting anyone. I always said when he was only so +Every day he said to himself one and the same thing: “It is time I +Every muscle of Telyánin’s pale, terrified face began to quiver, his +everyone! +everyone. +everyone adopted toward him the tone of men who know something others do +Everyone again looked toward the door, which creaked as the second +everyone ducked. It flopped into something moist, and the general fell +“Everyone has his Achilles’ heel,” continued Prince Andrew. +everyone he could stop, but got no answer from anyone. +everyone, including Anna Pávlovna, felt this. +everyone’s situation. Tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner. * Think +Everyone waited, so emphatically and eagerly did he demand their +Every ten seconds a cannon ball flew compressing the air around, or +everything and everybody at last and had spoken such pathetic words to +everything became clear, and in all corners of Moscow the same things +everything before you, everything. And you....” +everything from society and giving nothing in return. You have become +Everything from the table napkins to the silver, china, and glass bore +everything!” (He put one arm around Pierre and the other around his +everything in perfect order, only one little thing is lacking, namely, +everything. I often wonder at you, Annette—how at your age you +everything is calculated, and I don’t like that. But Denísov...” +everything may be over for me! All these memories will be no more, none +everything, only I have nothing....” +everything over with, and I happen to be there, I’ll go at once, to +everything!” said Nicholas. “And I will prove it to you.” +Everything seemed so futile and insignificant in comparison with the +“Everything’s still the same with them,” thought Nicholas, +“Everything’s the same with them. They know nothing about it! Where +everything that took place and was reported to him was exactly what he +everything was becoming more and more happy and animated. “Oh, how I +Everything within and around him seemed confused, senseless, and +every time a ball flew past. Rostóv on the left flank, mounted on his +everywhere. He might easily become aide-de-camp to the Emperor. You know +every word and movement was described with ecstasy. +evidence of the advantages of attacking that what had been discussed +evident duty.” She paused. All were silent, expectant of what was to +evident he had reflected on this subject more than once, and he spoke +evidently also felt depressed and constrained with his visitor, “I am +evidently did not expect. +evidently did not realize what they were doing. +evidently expecting him to bow or to step out of his way. Prince Andrew +evidently forced. Not only the guests but even the footmen waiting at +evidently glad of a chance to say quicker in words what he wanted to +evidently in a fit of rage, his coal-black eyes with their bloodshot +evidently in the village itself and behind the hill. To the left from +evidently listening to herself with pleasure, and speaking with +evidently not because he was shaven but because they had never grown. +evidently rigged up by soldiers out of any available materials and +Evidently the prince understood her, and also understood, as he had done +evidently those in front had halted. All remained where they were in the +evidently weakened, was undertaking nothing. +evidently wished to draw him on. +evidently wishing to give her words a very definite meaning. “I +evident that he not only knew everyone in the drawing room, but had +evident that the cadet was liberal with his tips and that it paid to +evil can there be in it if unfortunate people, our serfs, people like +evil. Le prochain—your Kiev peasants to whom you want to do good.” +exacting, so that without being a hardhearted man he inspired such fear +exactitude. He always came to table under precisely the same conditions, +exactitude, what minuteness, what knowledge of the locality, what +“Exactly, not a hair’s breadth farther,” answered Prince Vasíli, +exaggerated grasseyement, “the prince has been scolding Michael +exaggeration quite contrary to Christian simplicity. Let us rather read +exalted personages passing in the streets in their elegant carriages +exasperated whisper, evidently meaning to wound his sister. +exasperated with one another and, long after the action had begun on +exceeded twenty thousand rubles. Dólokhov was no longer listening to +exceedingly lofty, the members of the household and the footmen—one +excellency!” +excellency... I had no men... your excellency.” +excellency?... nobody knows.” +Excellency Prince Vasíli Kurágin and his son, I understand?” she +excellency. Shall I go with some of my hussars to see?” replied +excellency’s participation in the common action is highly valued by +excellent dinners for the officers at every halting place. The regiments +except a few scattered skirmishers. An empty space of some seven hundred +except in the army; I am not a diplomat or a government clerk.—I +exception made, and Borís transferred into the regiment of Semënov +except to Pierre and Hélène, whose presence he seemed not to notice. +except veneration could such a man as my father evoke? And I am so +Excited and irritated by these thoughts Prince Andrew went toward his +excitedly animated and healthy men.” So thinks, or at any rate +excitement. +excitement. +excitement and to being unaccustomed to speak of abstract matters in +excitement, around chin and mouth. The quartermaster frowned, looking +excitement, rushed toward the drawing room door, probably in order to +exclaimed, and immediately seizing him by the shoulder and looking +exclaimed in excellent French. +exclamation he was asking the adjutant to wait, and he went on with the +excuse his costume. +“Excuse me, General,” interrupted Kutúzov, also turning to Prince +Excuse me, Vicomte—I must tell it in Russian or the point will be +excuses now! It’s your turn to sing the ba’cawolla—I entweat +executed him—also for some reason. What is bad? What is good? What +executing of the plan. +existence of such an incomprehensible Being, a Being all-powerful, +expectations of those who knew her. The subdued smile which, though it +expected this. +expected to be at once presented to the Emperor. At the chief entrance +expect he has forgotten me. He paid me attentions in those days,” said +expecting a crisis.” +expecting anything from yourself in the future, you will feel at every +expecting that he would have a chance to give a reliable account, which +expecting the summons to zakúska, * avoid engaging in any long +expecting to hear something very profound. At last he came up to Morio. +expecting two very interesting men tonight, le Vicomte de Mortemart, who +expedition.... But what’s the southern army to do? Prussia is +expeditions to Olmütz to visit a certain Caroline the Hungarian, +experienced a variety of most complex sensations. He felt afraid of what +experience that feeling during those memorable days preceding the battle +experiencing a new and peculiar pleasure. Sónya, muttering to herself, +explained how to rivet the hoof and went away to his own quarters. +explained Prince Andrew. “The others, one’s neighbors, le prochain, +explaining that Dólokhov was betting with Stevens, an English naval +explanations, however clear they might be. Whether it was the +explanation with Nicholas, Sónya twirled about before she left home +exposed—and she seemed to bring the glamour of a ballroom with her as +exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as +exposed. Another emissary rode to the Russian line to announce the peace +exposed! If I were asked what I desire most on earth, it would be to be +expose to a bullet, and then you congratulate us on the victory! Admit +exposing himself to the first blows of the enemy, for there must be no +expressed disapproval of Dólokhov’s living at their house, and how +expressed his opinion more openly. He shrugged his shoulders when Pierre +expressed impetuosity and enthusiasm. Nicholas blushed when he entered +expressed the concentrated and happy resolution you see on the face of +expresses his opinion to Kutúzov, to Weyrother, and to the Emperors. +express his opinion as he had hoped to, left on him a vague and uneasy +expressing... as in its last note... you understand... Besides, unless +expressing disapproval and dislike of Kutúzov. +expression and went out again without saying a word. She looked at +expression. “C’est... c’est du Mack. Nous sommes mackés (It is... +expression, evidently habitual to him when conversing with women. +expression. It was the heavy tread of Princess Mary that he heard. +expression, looked observantly and sympathetically at the father and +expression of her father’s. His face wore that expression when his +expression of profound and sincere devotion and respect mingled with +expression on his face changed in a way evidently deliberate and +expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose. +expression she did not understand, and lay down again. He was suffering +expressions with the choicest French phrases—which was a peculiarity +expression—the same man who had rushed out of the wattle shed. At that +expression the sculptor had happened to give the angel’s face, Prince +expression, though many of them knew that what he was saying was a lie +expression. Véra was good-looking, not at all stupid, quick at +expression which was never to be seen on it in a drawing room. His eyes +extends along Kobelnitz and Sokolnitz behind the ponds that are there, +externally was all in order, but had it pleased the commander in chief +extinguished and some spirit lighted, as Pierre knew by the smell, and +extraordinary intelligence, the more so as in the depth of his heart it +extraordinary may happen to one that honor and dishonor will be all the +extrémités de l’univers, nous allons lui faire éprouver le même +extricated himself from an awkward situation and placed another in it, +eyebrows which, when he frowned, sometimes hid the gleam of his shrewd, +eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God, are +eyes. +eyes. +eyes. +eyes and ears intent on the colonel. +eyes and indicating Hélène with a sorrowful gesture. “Ah, she is +eyes and saw close before him the head and ears of the horse he was +eyes at her sister-in-law. +eyes attracted him irresistibly. +eyes. “But I’ll go to Bezúkhov’s myself. Pierre has arrived, and +eyes fixed on the dark face of a large icon of the Saviour lit by a +“Eyes front!” Then, like the crowing of cocks at sunrise, this was +eyes full of tears and of thoughts, gazing shiningly and imploringly at +eyes grew dim. By the expression of her father’s face, not sad, not +eyes grew moist. “Hurrah!” cried the three hundred voices again, +eyes had uttered French phrases between his teeth. Every muscle of his +eyes. He really was in love with the Tsar and the glory of the Russian +eyes he was every day more and more connected with her, that it was +eyes. His shriveled old hands were folded and on the finger of one of +eyes kept closing, and in his fancy appeared—now the Emperor, now +eyes lit up so that her face was entirely transformed. Then she suddenly +eye socket. “Yes, he has a right to speak so calmly of those men’s +eyes off him. His brother and sisters struggled for the places nearest +eyes rolling as he sang, with his small, husky, but true voice, some +eyes, Rostóv re-entered that world of home and childhood which had no +eyes still shifted from side to side but with a downward look not rising +eyes. The Englishman looked on sideways, pursing up his lips. The man +eyes. Then having satisfied himself that all eyes were fixed on him, +eyes. The sick man was turned on to his side with his face to the wall. +eyes to complete the show of prisoners, could not fail to attract his +eyes, went with unusually hurried steps down the long corridor leading +eyes. What she found hardest to bear was to know that on such occasions +face. +face, already growing old, though he was dressed like a most fashionable +face, and again at the arm, and on his face a feeble, piteous smile +face and just nodded to him with his long head. But after it was +face, and Prince Andrew saw that Hippolyte, of whom—he had to +face as if driving off a troublesome fly. “And why are you stopping +face assumed a forced unnatural expression as soon as she looked in a +face assumed its melancholy expression), “he was mentioned at Her +face assumed the coarse, unpleasant expression peculiar to him. Shaking +face changed into a winning and piteous look of fear. Her beautiful eyes +face; his eyes continually wandered from one object to another. +face instantly changed and assumed an offensively affected, sugary +face in the lace of her mother’s mantilla—not paying the least +face. “Let him see whether I am a coward!” he thought. +face looked worn—he too had evidently not slept all night. He glanced +faces. (He distinctly saw an old French officer who, with gaitered +face, shook his head, and going up to him silently kissed him on the +faces of the crew bustling round the guns, from the sight of the blood +faces, the wall of soldiers burdened with knapsacks and muskets marched +face to Prince Andrew, smiled, and waved his hand. +face was animated, which, however, did not conceal its sunken and faded +face, which had been so radiantly happy all that saint’s day, suddenly +face with Prince Andrew, who came out frowning and looking old. Pierre +facing the quartermaster who was reporting to him. On seeing Rostóv, +fact. +fact of a great man executing a duc—or even an ordinary man who—is +faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable +failed. Borís on the contrary at once found his footing, and related +failed him. He was seized by panic and could not go where it was +faint with fear lest the baby should be drowned in the font, and awaited +faire dans cette galère?” * occurred to him, and he began to laugh at +faithfully as I can, without disquieting myself by examining my feelings +‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I +fallen!” +fallen, and an old trooper on the flank, a noncommissioned officer who +false. He was happy to be seeing him. He knew that he might and even +familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any +familiar to Rostóv; the other on a beautiful chestnut horse (which +familiar voice. “One is afraid of the unknown, that’s what it is. +familiar voice, “what I say is that if it were possible to know +family, but was kept all summer in Moscow by his new duties. Dólokhov +family consultation; is it not so, Prince?” +family life continually rose in her imagination. She drove them away and +family’s, and his friends’, and the enemy’s intention to kill him +family, was the most gifted with a capacity to feel any shades of +famous order of the day to General Bennigsen: +fancies. +“Fancy, with his powerful mind, indulging in such nonsense!” +far. By intrigues, violence, exile, and executions, French society—I +Farther and farther he rode away, stopping at other regiments, till at +farther into the region where the army was already in action. +farther, probably along the line of the French camp. Rostóv no longer +fast as her nimble little feet would carry her. Borís did not laugh. +fast asleep with his head on his arm. +fastened to the cording of his uniform and, indicating a bandaged arm, +fastening his coat. When he had finished, he turned to Bezúkhov, and +“Faster!” came the word of command, and Rostóv felt Rook’s flanks +fate and in spite of the pleasures and distractions around me I cannot +fate, her father-in-law, and her husband. After crying she had fallen +fate. It is in your hands.” + fate—(the fate of the army at Ulm).” +fat finger. +father?” +father and Andrew. I shall be so happy when she is his wife. She is so +father and Anna Mikháylovna, that it had something to do with her +“Father! Andrew!”—said the ungraceful, awkward princess with such +father and son. This lasted about two minutes, which to Pierre seemed an +father, Count Bezúkhov, and showed them her own box. Princess Hélène +father, he feels for you.” +father-in-law and now at Princess Mary. When they left the table she +father in order to puzzle or test his sister. +father... It’s bad....” he reflected, but while he was thinking this +“Father Kutúzov.” +father, muttered in a whisper: +father’s case. +father’s face with an eager and respectful look. “How is your +father’s friendship for you; but now I entreat you for God’s sake to +“Father,” she said, “do not turn away from me, let us weep +father’s letter, he returned to the nursery. +father’s nature showed itself in Pierre. He felt the fascination and +father’s ridicule of the new men, and drew him on and listened to him +father’s room, that huge room in which Count Bezúkhov had died. +father’s room with the good-humored and victorious air natural to +father’s study as the latter wished to say good-by to him alone. All +“Father, tell me how it happened,” she asked through her tears. +father there would be nothing I could reproach you with,” said Anna +father to be a connection of Prince Vasíli’s. The elderly lady who +father to fits of bloodthirsty rage. And when after Pierre’s +father to the ambassador’s entertainment; she wore a ball dress and +father with a laugh. +fault!” and her voice quivered like that of a child about to cry. +fault. What’s he to do if he has such luck?... And it’s not my fault +favorite, “how is it you have so little tact? Don’t you see you are +fear, and the thought that he might be killed or badly wounded never +fear appeared on her flushed face. +feared him. +fearing to be captured by the French on the way to Krems. +fearing to relax, shouted with his mouth wide open and passed on. +fear’s all gone, and your only thought is not to let him get away!’ +fears nothing so much as a general battle is impossible.” +fear this will oblige one half the army to shoot the other.” +fear would prevent her understanding any of her father’s further +features, gave him a rather comical expression. Bekleshëv and Theodore +features. Nicholas was short with curly hair and an open expression. +Fédya, my dear count; that, believe me, is why I am so fond of you. Few +feeble voice of the commander in chief was heard. The regiment roared, +feeble voice, so high pitched and irresolute. His face grew more and +feeble voice to which he tried to impart a dashing note, ill-suited to +feel afraid.” +feeling of a hare fleeing from the hounds. One single sentiment, that +feeling of devotion returned to him even more strongly than before. When +feeling of sickening agitation. +feelings. But much as all the rest laughed, talked, and joked, much +feeling; sharing with the young folk of the Rostóvs’ household a +feelings in others, and if never having felt them I cannot approve of +feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the +feels, anyone who comes in sight of the enemy, and that feeling gives +feel that in that place and on that day, it was improper to speak so of +feel,” thought he, “if she saw me here now on this field with the +feet in low shoes, Iogel flew first across the hall with Natásha, who, +feet in their overboots on the table, and began to reflect. +feet into his slippers and his arms into the sleeves of his dressing +feet that moved through the sticky mud that covered the planks of the +feet were the only sounds that could be heard. Anna Mikháylovna, with +feigned—or so it seemed to Rostóv. He put his horse to a trot to +feigned severity. “You spoil her, Ilyá,” she added, turning to her +fell from him. He was glad, and at the same instant began to pity the +fellow.” +fellow.” +fellow could have played such a prank on a policeman. +fellow,” he said abruptly and eagerly, “I must confess to having +fellows have all lost your wits, or I have outlived mine. May God help +fellows on the staff who get rewards without doing anything!” +fellow! What you have just said is good, very good. Of course you +felt a wish to speak to the stranger, but by the time he had made up his +felt coat, stretched his legs, and set his cap straight. The head of the +felt it indecorous to speak of her pregnancy before Pierre, though the +felt perfectly happy. Just then the commander appeared on the bridge. +felt so glad to be free from his own lawlessness and to submit his will +felt that the battle of which he had brought tidings was far, far +felt the impossibility of going to sleep on such a night. It was light +felt the tension of the amorous air in the house, and also noticed a +Ferdinand disgraces himself. You abandon Vienna, give up its +festive around him. Nearer and nearer to Rostóv came that sun shedding +festive in his air, which, in conjunction with his firm and virile +festivities and fireworks are becoming wearisome.” +fetch the Frenchman, Moreau,” he said, alluding to the invitation made +feu, et oublie celui qu’il devait faire faire sur l’ennemi!” *(2) +feverish delirium or drunkenness. +field glass and shrugging his shoulders, “so it is! They’ll be fired +field. Instead of the moving horses and hussars’ backs, he saw nothing +field of Austerlitz, enduring the heedless blows of his left foot and +fields and forests of fir and birch, which were partly cut down. The +field under fire, as he had done at the head of the Kursk regiment at +fifty members of the English Club and fifty guests were awaiting the +fight Bonaparte by this new science you call ‘strategy.’” +fighting army (with the Pávlograds on the right flank of the front); +fighting cocks preparing for battle, each vainly trying to detect signs +fighting hussar who had been under fire. +fighting Russian soldier without connections and intrigues, and to one +fight. You’ll see—we shall retire.” +figure of Túshin who was sitting cross-legged like a Turk beside him. +filled by the domestic serfs—the men on one side and the women on +final instructions, orders, and commissions to the baggage men +finally there were six thousand rubles for his outfit and various other +find, and still seeks, some secret motive in our actions. What answer +finds you to his taste as a daughter-in-law and makes a proposal to you +find the baby. At last he saw him: the rosy boy had tossed about till he +fine cords would soon get a bit rubbed,” said an infantryman, wiping + * Fine eyes. +“Fine fellows, the Pávlograds!” remarked the Emperor. +Fine! I don’t want anything, Prince.” +“Fine men!” remarked Napoleon, looking at a dead Russian grenadier, +fine,” said a corporal, chaffing a thin little soldier who bent under +“Fine young fellow! Fine young fellow!” he said. “Well, come and +finger at him, “I have even heard of your doings in Paris!” +fingers, drew out a gold imperial, and lifting his eyebrows gave it to +fingers twitched nervously. +finished. +finished phrases of general interest. These sayings were prepared in the +fire and pressed it there!” +fired in the air; a third was striking the horse Kutúzov himself rode. +fire, fanned by the breeze, was rapidly spreading. The French columns +fire. From pain, cold, and damp, a feverish shivering shook his whole +fire! Our stories have some weight, not like the stories of those +Fires were lighted and the talk became more audible. Captain Túshin, +firing at Augesd. +firing at the Augesd Dam and was looking at the killed and wounded left +firing incendiary balls at the village of Schön Grabern visible just +firing in the valley. Not a single muscle of his face—which in those +firing?” Rostóv kept asking as he came up to Russian and Austrian +firing was, he began to look for the general and his staff where they +firmly. +firmly believed in the possibility of the brotherhood of men united in +firmly resolved to answer his father-in-law. Moreover, the words of the +firmness and certainty of his vocation, which radiated from his whole +firmness, and expedition. I consider myself fortunate to have such a +first appearance in society. Anna Pávlovna greeted him with the nod she +first because Pierre appeared to his hussar eyes as a rich civilian, the + FIRST EPILOGUE: 1813 - 20 +first he had ever written. Borís and Natásha were at the other window +first not only what had been said but also what Kutúzov would have +“First of all, dear friend, tell me how you are. Set your friend’s +first of all devote some time to solitude and self-examination and do +“First of all you must drink!” +first of one and then of another priest. +first pair of gloves, a man’s, he said that Pierre could not know +first place because her provinces have been pillaged—they say the Holy +“First-rate,” said Pierre, looking at Dólokhov, who with a bottle +first regiment roared “Hurrah!” so deafeningly, continuously, and +first time since their encounter concerning Telyánin. Rostóv, feeling +first to one side and then to the other watched the smokers with evident +fish for this dinner. The count had been a member and on the committee +fist, and tapped it on the floor, making the sparks fly, while he +five in the afternoon,” replied Bolkónski growing more animated and +Five minutes later Princess Mary from her room heard something heavy +five times. He entered the room softly. The little princess, plump and +five years, if he goes on like this?” Presently he added: “That’s +fixed on. +fixed on her. +fixed straight on his son’s. Something twitched in the lower part of +fixing his weary eyes on the paper, began to read them with a fixed and +flabby that they looked heavier below, were twitching violently; but +flag let it fall from his hands. It swayed and fell, but caught on the +flank; he knew that all the guns there had been abandoned at the very +flank,” he said to himself, “the Kiev grenadiers and the Podólsk +flank. In the center Túshin’s forgotten battery, which had managed to +flank now that it is nearly four o’clock and the battle is lost? +flanks was more than six miles, even if the messenger were not killed +flattered by this. Anna Pávlovna arranged the different groups in her +flayed, some not, and broken-down carts beside which solitary soldiers +fleeing crowd. A mounted general separated himself from the infantry and +floundering silvery fish in the watering can, on that dam over which for +flourished his castanets as if threatening someone. The soldiers, +flourishing his arm, called him to enter. +flower; Natásha, half grown up and half child, was now childishly +flower tubs and hid there. +flung it away. Tíkhon caught it and handed it to a footman. The little +flung it down and began: +fluttering above the fire and remembered a Russian winter at his warm, +fluttering in that light. Túshin had not returned, the doctor had not +fly! Gracious me, they did rattle past! It’s time I knew the Imperial +fly upwards. The angel’s upper lip was slightly raised as though +followed Anna Mikháylovna out of the carriage, and only then began +followed by a Cossack. +followed by their suites. Kutúzov, affecting the manners of an old +followed by the owner of the manly voice, a dashing infantry officer who +followed him in, as if there were now no further need for permission to +followed proved that the commander in chief at that moment was absorbed +followed singly. The footmen began moving about, chairs scraped, the +followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower +follow, for this was clearly only a prelude. +following budget: +following passage, in German, from the Archduke Ferdinand’s letter: +following the mass movements and general orders, and constantly studying +following the princess, whom a footman was helping into the carriage. +follows: +follows that Pierre will not be Pierre but will become Count Bezúkhov, +follows the current of his own thoughts, “things will have gone too +“Folly... folly! Death... lies...” he repeated, puckering his face. +food. +foolish as soon as he uttered them, while on the contrary Hippolyte’s +“Fool... or dummy!” he muttered. +foot, and galloped on. +footing that all who knew them, including Anatole himself, respected him +footmen, and awaited each expected dish with some anxiety. Everything +footmen and cooks were getting the supper, Count Bezúkhov had a +footsteps. Pierre rose and said it was getting late. Prince Vasíli gave +foot to foot uncertain with which to start, then settled down, galloped +foot, which he was then touching with his own under the clavichord. +for!” +for about a minute. +for a few seconds collected his thoughts. Then the Russian ambassador +“Forage has not been supplied to the extent...” +for a long time, always in the same fog, descending and ascending hills, +For a long time he could not utter a word, so that the Rhetor had to +For a long time Pierre could not understand, but when he did, he jumped +for a mere fancy?” said Nicholas taking her hand. +For a moment he dozed, but in that short interval innumerable things +for an answer. His birth and position in society were not bad. “Well, +for an instant, but there was no second report as he had expected. He +for anything and I never will again, nor have I ever reminded you of my +for a seat. +force had already descended into the valley toward the ponds and lakes +force their way through them with bayonets. +forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be +forehead. +forehead. He went to the cot in confusion, sure that he would find it +forehead, over which was beautiful light-brown hair smelling of pomade. +forehead was moist. Prince Andrew touched the head with his hand; even +forehead, wetting him with her tears. Then after a pause she said: +foreign cavalry with red epaulets, probably French. He could see nothing +foresight for every eventuality, every possibility even to the smallest +forestall him, threw off his fur coat and ran on tiptoe through the +“Forever?” said Prince Andrew. “Nothing’s forever.” +“Forever?” said the little girl. “Till death itself?” +for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second +forget all that.... She says: ‘I shall love him always, but let him be +forget. But, my dear, will you not give us a little hope of touching +forgetting that it was unbecoming for the girls to see men undressed, +forgetting that she was dancing with a grown-up partner she bent her +for girls and boys.” +“For God’s sake... I can’t walk. For God’s sake!” +forgotten. Our duty, my dear, is to rectify his mistake, to ease his +forgot them. His head was burning, he felt himself bleeding to death, +forgot the sovereigns’ presence. “Lads, it’s not the first village +for her. When the little princess had grown accustomed to life at Bald +for him. +for him, but again pressed on him so that they jammed his leg, and those +for him, Prince Bagratión sat at dinner, talking with some commanding +for himself. He remembered his mother’s last letter. “What would she +for his life, but for the courage he needed and which he knew would not +for his part tried to pretend to the count that he considered these +for his reply, surrounded him, and led him to the drawing room. It was +for life, but I don’t understand that, I forget quickly.” +formed. +formed a definite idea of what an attack was and were expecting to hear +formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers +formed up at intervals, and wheeled round other similar masses of +“For me? For me?... Trying for me!...” said she. +Formerly in Anna Pávlovna’s presence, Pierre had always felt that +former position after the campaign, had returned to Petersburg and come +former position. A huge, broad-shouldered gunner, Number One, holding +former pupil of his. +forming a complete whole with her dress, but all the charm of her body +forming up within twice the range of a musket shot. The general in +for more than anything else in the world, did not know how to approach +For more than a week preparations were being made, rough drafts of +for my sake! Did you know?” +for negligence or inefficiency so staggered him that, forgetting the +“For not dilly-dallying and not hanging to a woman’s apron strings. +for Petersburg alone. +for Prince Andrew. +for Russia, for the Orthodox Greek faith! All that is beautiful, but +for some days in Moscow and was staying as usual at his father’s +for that. Yes, for that alone! I shall never tell anyone, but, oh God! +for the aged? And is it not a palpable, unquestionable good if a +for the attainment of that purpose. +for the countess.” +for the future, Pierre’s journeys and occupations, the war, and so +for the good we have done them.’ Father took her when she was homeless +for the hussars to retreat with the infantry. They were cut off from +“For the last time I say to you—turn all your attention upon +for the most part handsome fellows and, as is always the case in an +for themselves. +for the next battle are planned by him alone. Nominally he is only an +for these simple, kindly people. +for the society of ladies, began to come often to the house, and the +for the tenth time, Molière’s words: “Mais que diable allait-il +for the two approaching battalions. While he was speaking, the curtain +(for they were speaking French) at least with a Russian who would, he +for this failure, the enemy placed ten guns to the right of the village +for three days, and not one of them knew or imagined what was in store +fortnight’s retreat, the Russian troops had halted and after a fight +“For tomorrow!” said he, quickly finding the page and making a +for trees and gullies for men and continually discovering his mistakes. +fortune. Suddenly he heard a familiar voice repeating something to him a +For two days after that Rostóv did not see Dólokhov at his own or at +forty paces’ distance nothing could be seen. For three minutes all had + * “Forty thousand men massacred and the army of our allies +for us. The field marshal looks on and waits for letters addressed +forward, and experienced great happiness. +forward and, stooping over the dying man, beckoned to Lorrain from +forward beside Schmidt with the bullets merrily whistling all around, +forward. “Company commanders!” he shouted in a voice accustomed to +“Forward, lads!” he shouted in a voice piercing as a child’s. +forward. Of Bolkónski, nothing was said, and only those who knew him +forward toward the old man with a forced and timid smile. +“Forward, with God!” said Bagratión, in a resolute, sonorous voice, +forward with unnatural speed but yet stayed on the same spot. From +“For what have you come hither?” asked the newcomer, turning in +for wine. +for your neighbor? Have you ever thought of your tens of thousands +for your obstinacy,” said Kírsten. +for your sake.” +found.” +found a kind of tantalizing satisfaction. +found expression in calling her maid “my dear” and speaking to her +found out, nothing discovered,” Pierre again said to himself. “All +found the count with it in his hand, sobbing and laughing at the same +found them to be so tiresome that it wearied him to look at or listen to +found the Prussian army. Borís, speaking with deliberation, told them +four thousand strong, to the right across the hills from the Krems-Znaim +four times—till I get what I want. I don’t mind what they think of +“Fo’ward, with God, lads!” rang out Denísov’s voice. “At a +fragmentary sentences tried to explain about a doll which she produced +français,” said Dolgorúkov, with grave satisfaction. “Good, +Francis received him standing in the middle of the room. Before the +frankly, I don’t want to. I am speaking of the staff in general.” +frantically, had such an effect that they managed to squeeze through +freckled gunner in a merry voice, standing to attention. +freedom and told her that one way or another he would never cease to +freedom I could understand it and should be the first to enter the army; +free.’ Isn’t that lovely and noble! Yes, very noble? Isn’t it?” +Freemasonry presented itself to him. +free, so lighthearted! And I did not realize how happy I was! When did +French!” +French. A group of Cossack scouts retired down the hill at a trot. All +French battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the +French. But this adjutant returned half an hour later with the news that +French colonel who had been taken prisoner by our dragoons. Our officers +French column, with its officers leading, appeared from below the hill. +French families. He is one of the genuine émigrés, the good ones. And +French forestall him at Znaim meant the exposure of his whole army to a +French, he did not know. There was no one near. +Frenchman also stopped and took aim. Rostóv closed his eyes and stooped +Frenchman, holding him down by the sleeve in a friendly way to prevent +Frenchman remembers his bayonet and stabs him....” +Frenchmen, and though but a moment before he had been galloping to get +French pronunciation which she could allow herself when conversing with +French since Suvórov met them. He feared that Bonaparte’s genius +French, smoke appeared all along their uneven ranks, and musket shots +French, there would be great hope of saving the army; to let the +French though he spoke it badly, offered to conduct Prince Andrew. +French to pass him, had made a bayonet charge with two battalions and +French) to Prince Vasíli. “It’s not as at Annette’s * receptions +French to suppose that here—in the center—the main Russian forces +French troops who are being raised in France will join us, and the peace +French, turning to a general, “my husband is deserting me? He is going +French were putting out the fire which the wind was spreading, and thus +Frenchwoman blushed and went away without a word. When he reached his +Frenchwoman very readily and, looking at her with a smile, talked to her +fresh and pretty face yet more attractive. +fresh anecdotes were heard of individual examples of heroism shown by +freshness, an unconsciousness of her own powers, and an as yet untrained +“Fr... fr...” snorted Prince Bolkónski. “The prince is making a +friend...” +friend.” +friend a model of perfection because Prince Andrew possessed in the +friend Bolkónski, whom he had not seen for two years. +friend, but Nicholas avoided him. With that peculiar feeling of youth, +friendly words to officers he had known in the Turkish war, sometimes +friends had pledged themselves in an indissoluble alliance to uphold +friend’s hand. +friendship.” +friendship at all; I simply feel that the army is my vocation.” +“Friendship laughs at distance,” began Prince Vasíli in his usual +friend’s look was now still more clearly expressed in the smile +friend, that I look on marriage as a divine institution to which we must +frightened here?” and the artilleryman understood him. +fright were amused by Pierre’s lisp and the new words they had not +frigid politeness. +frock and hair. +from actions which would torment him afterwards.” +“‘From all my riding,’ he writes to the Emperor, ‘I have got a +From all sides reports reach me,” etc. +From all sides were heard the footsteps and talk of the infantry, who +from behind. +from behind still came the shouts: “Onto the ice, why do you stop? Go +from Denísov, rode past too, at the rear of his squadron—that is, +“From Dürrenstein to Krems.” +From early morning strenuous activities and efforts had begun and by ten +From early morning the smart clean troops were on the move, forming up +“From General Field Marshal Kutúzov?” he asked. “I hope it is +from headquarters behind the village to the left, and thither Rostóv +“From Héloïse?” asked the prince with a cold smile that showed his +from him, and Rostóv felt as in a dream that he continued to be carried +from him. “He used to have a predilection for Bacchus.” +from him. “There, you see!” and he drew attention to the bullets +from him, though she knew that already, and remarked that they might +from his cheek. Prince Andrew forced his way to him. +from his horse in a pool of blood. Nobody gave him a look or thought of +from his son. +from Hollabrünn) received Murat’s dispatch with the proposal of a +from home, at dinners, parties, and balls. +from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used +from laughing. +from Másha, the lady’s maid, the necessary report of how handsome the +from my heart as to an old acquaintance.” +from passing, “won’t this be too much for poor Uncle at a moment +from Pétenka—he took part in it—and it’s all true. When +from Prince Andrew to the staff officer. +from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who +From that day the eldest princess quite changed toward Pierre and began +from that distorted mouth issued an indistinct, hoarse sound. Anna +from the army to Sergéy Kuzmích, in which the Emperor said that he was +From the bottom of the slope, where the parleys had taken place, came +from the crumpled heap under the table would save him, now counted the +From the deafening sounds of his own guns around him, the whistle and +“From the direction, it must be the enemy,” repeated Rostóv. +From the direction of Olmütz in front of them, a group was seen +from the doctor to Pierre. To him, in a particularly respectful and +from the drawing room. +from the field of battle with the pale and terrified Ober-Hofmarschal +from the folds of her frock. +from the Guards just before this campaign. He behaved very well in the +from the hill. There was no one now between the squadron and the enemy +from the hints contained in his letter and given by the little princess, +from the masses around them, the smoke and the increasing fog, to see +from the ranks. A morose soldier marching on the left turned his eyes on +from the Revolution leaving the people to anarchy, and Napoleon alone +from the right flank, beside which the carriage passed the company, +from the shelf the first book that came to his hand (it was Caesar’s +from the theater, had had supper and were grouped round the clavichord. +From the way the regimental commander saluted the commander in chief and +from the wood, mustered the men who were woodcutting, and, allowing the +from this distressful life, and leads it to its place of recompense and +from understanding—how am I to put it?—I am afraid my way of looking +from various people and retelling the town gossip. +From Vienna Kutúzov wrote to his old comrade, Prince Andrew’s father. +from Vienna to Znaim was shorter and better than the road for the +from weeping and sat down beside Dr. Lorrain, who was sitting in a +“From what I have heard,” said Pierre, blushing and breaking into +“From where to where, Your Majesty?” +from which occasional puffs were blown by an invisible smoker. +from which spectacles have just been removed, had also a frightened and +from which the shouting came. He felt both frightened and pleased to be +from which they had dashed out so impetuously, the conversation had +front. +front and back. Her bust, which had always seemed like marble to Pierre, +front and men four abreast, spread across the bridge and began to emerge +front line, as if their differences would be settled there amongst the +front of the infantry, who had to wait. +front of the ranks. Suddenly one shot after another rang out from the +front of us. +front. Pierre stood smiling but silent. One man, older than the others +fro with dignity, offered surmises about the weather, or touched on +frowning. +frowning and silent. +frowning and taking his daughter’s hand; he did not kiss her, but only + * Frühstück: breakfast. +fugitives returned, the battalions re-formed, and the French who had +fulfill the one which enjoined every Mason to set an example of moral +fulfill Thy will?” And scarcely had she put that question than God +full speed. Rostóv, fearing to be crushed or swept into the attack on +furies and rages at everyone and everything, seizes the letters, opens +furlough after Christmas to return with him to their regiment. His +further back till his curly hair touched his shirt collar, and the hand +gaiety with which Zherkóv spoke, and to the intentional coldness of +gaily. +gaily, with a wide swing of his arm. +gained a step on his old comrades of the Cadet Corps; how in wartime +Galicia he had managed to deal with the Grand Duke when the latter +gallantry lit up his face and as soon as the last figure of the +galloped on to the village where he was told that the commander in chief +galloped up to Kutúzov and asked in the Emperor’s name had the fourth +galloping toward him. They were our Uhlans who with disordered +gasping voice. “Where are we? In Moscow, I know. I don’t matter, +gathered round Nicholas in the sitting room. +gave her the answer in her own heart. “Desire nothing for thyself, +“Gave him leave? Leave? That’s just like you young men,” said the +gave his hand to the plague-stricken; but ... but there are other acts +gave no answer, she left the room. +gave us time to retreat. The retirement of the center to the other side +gave zest to his pleasures. He spent the greater part of his time away +Gavríl to pay a sleigh driver, his kissing Sónya on the sly—he now +gazed at Bolkónski silently with wide-open eyes. +gazed at his delicate fingers which rapidly twirled by its corners +gaze drooped his eyes sadly and again took to twirling his snuffbox. +genealogical tree, shook his head, laughing as a man laughs who looks at +general!” +General.” +general attention, and Anna Pávlovna felt that the novelty she had +‘General Bonaparte.’” +general commotion. Some eight or nine young men were crowding anxiously +general conclusion which he had arrived at from his interview with +general conversation. +general engagement in which he was taking part, more than that, he was +general expanded his chest and rode, frowning, beside him to the +general grumbled at his wife when she asked how his leg was. “Oh, the +“General, I must obey orders, but I am not bound to endure...” +general, in Russian, speaking with the French intonation he affected +“General Kutúzov,” said Bolkónski, speaking French and stressing +generally do describe it, that is, as they would like it to have been, +generally happens to the narrators of cavalry attacks had not happened +generally, Prince Andrew had, as he had had in Petersburg society, two +generally the stronger! I know very well that Count Nicholas is too +general movement; that something was constantly expected of him, that if +general—of whom Austria has so many—and to lay down all this heavy +general roar. +generals. +generals and statesmen of the day. The old prince seemed convinced not +generals. But one could not tell from that significant look whether he +General Schmidt, who was killed in the action. His horse had been +generals in full parade uniforms, with their thin or thick waists drawn +generals in the crowded hut, feeling embarrassed as he always was by the +general’s three-cornered hat, and held it, pulling at the plume, +generals were saying. +general were talking in low voices and Kutúzov smiled slightly as +general who had served blamelessly for twenty-two years, flushed by a +general who had succeeded Schmidt. In the passage little Kozlóvski was +general who signed that capitulation had no right to do so, and that no +general who, watch in hand, was saying it was time they started as all +Genoa and Lucca laying their petitions before Monsieur Buonaparte, and +gentle childlike smile, and Hélène smiled too. +gentle look of her large luminous eyes, very beautiful at that moment, +gentleman—evidently not sharing Borís’ conception of the advantages +Gentleman of the Bedchamber, which at that time conferred the status of +gentleman,” said the postmaster, entering the room followed by another +gentlemen changed his position on seeing Borís. The one who was writing +“Gentlemen, I’ll do anything. No one shall hear a word from me,” +“Gentlemen, I thank you all; all arms have behaved heroically: +gentlemen, it is already time for me to go,” replied Prince Andrew +gentlemen, messieurs les maréchaux, * Murat, Lannes, and Belliard, +gentlemen of the diplomatic corps. With Prince Hippolyte Kurágin, +“Gentlemen,” said Dólokhov after he had dealt for some time. +‘Gentlemen,’ says one of them, ‘you know the Thabor Bridge is +“Gentlemen, the dispositions for tomorrow—or rather for today, for +“Gentlemen, who wishes to bet with me? I’ll do the same thing!” +gentleness and affection. He could not refuse the post, or rather the +“Gently, gently! Can’t you do it more gently?” said the Emperor +German accent, “for the reasson zat ze Emperor knows zat. He +German—I congratulate him! I can’t make out what the commander at +Germans. +Germans, and everyone was convinced that a dangerous muddle had been +Germans’ muddling! What stupid devils!” +gesture. Anna Pávlovna meditated. +“Get in,” said Kutúzov, and noticing that Bolkónski still delayed, +get married. What about you? That’s what I want to know.” +“Get onto the ice, over the ice! Go on! Turn! Don’t you hear? Go +get ready to dance in the large hall, and the sound of the feet and the +get there and fire the bridge or will the French get within grapeshot +getting up and speaking in a muffled and guttural voice. +“Get well soon, lads!” he continued, turning to the soldiers. +giddy even on a staircase,” exclaimed several voices. +gilt frame, new to him, containing the genealogical tree of the Princes +girl,” he sometimes said to himself “she never makes a mistake, +girlish adoration that her smile could not for a single instant impose +girls and avoiding their eyes. +girls’ voices came from the adjoining room. The door was opened a +girl would be decided that evening. The visitors were seated at supper. +girl, you and your sisters are not heiresses! If you don’t believe me, +gist of the matter lay in that. +“Give him a seat,” said Túshin. “Lay a cloak for him to sit on, +“Give me a biscuit, you devil!” +give me satisfaction...” +“Give me that letter,” said Kutúzov turning to Prince Andrew. +“Give me time to collect my wits, Father,” said he, with a smile +given him by the commander in chief and his fellow officers, Prince +give no opinion on such an important government order, and Berg laughed +given receptions) now hardly let a day go by without having an evening +given to blow it up. Otherwise we should long ago have been in the +given to raise recruits, ten men in every thousand for the regular army, +gives the singles and snatches the doubles!” +giving him a mild expression, rode up to Bagratión and welcomed him as +giving him full liberty to remain with him during the battle or to join +giving the messenger a significant look. +“Glad to do our best!” shouted the soldiers. +“Glad to do our best, your ex’len-lency!” came a confused shout +glad, very glad indeed, that my brother has distinguished himself so. +glance at all those in the room and noticing the count’s confessor +glance became more animated as his conclusions became more hopeless. +glanced angrily at Berg, then, meeting his eyes, hid his face behind the +glanced askance at her husband’s face, and her own assumed the timid, +glanced at Berg with a smile. +glanced up at her through tears of laughter, and again hid her face. +glances without coloring, but even the old countess and Natásha blushed +glancing at Prince Vasíli and at her father with her beautiful eyes. +glancing for support at an officer of the suite who turned away +glancing into the drawing room, where he saw Véra and his mother with +glancing up at him from under her brows, smiling, and almost crying from +glass. +glass. Letting her arms fall helplessly, she sat with downcast eyes and +glass of vodka and the dinner; and the staff officer with the signet +glass, “or I won’t let you go!” +glass. She went on reading: +glass, smiled, and walked toward the other door. Natásha was about to +gleamed. +glide across that lofty infinite sky! How was it I did not see that +glittering teeth and sparkling eyes. She told of an accident they had +gloom, but a dark sea swelling and gradually subsiding after a storm. +gloomy gravity and glancing round at his comrades, “there is an order +glorious task for which he was chosen. I shall await your most gracious +go. +go. +“Go across to our hosts: they invited you,” added Borís. +“Go and apologize, your excellency. Yes, go!” +“Go and choose Denísov. He is a real dancer, a wonder!” he said. +go and tell Lise.” +God!” And without noticing that he was singing, to strengthen the si +“God be thanked that you are in time,” said she to one of the +God be with him,” thought he, relishing his own goodness of heart, +“God be with you, general!” said the Emperor. +“Go, dear,” said Princess Mary. +godfather,” she added, as if she attached no importance at all to the + * God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware! +“God has nothing to do with it! Well, go on,” he continued, +“God is merciful....” +“God is merciful, birdie.” +“God is merciful, doctors are never needed,” she said. +God,” Pierre went round the table and saw a large open box filled +God,” said Pierre, regretfully and with an effort, feeling it +God, without Whose care not a hair of man’s head can fall? +goes up to Auersperg and says: ‘Prince, you are being deceived, here +“Go! Go! Killed in battle, where the best of Russian men and +“Go!” he repeated, amazed at himself and glad to see the look of +“Go in, Annette, or you will catch cold,” said the little princess, +“Going?” And he went on writing. +going on, but strain his attention as he would he could not understand +going on in front. Whether all the enemy forces were, as we supposed, +going straight on through the conservatory, neither seeing nor hearing +going. The Emperor was wounded, the battle lost. It was impossible to +going to the cottage he occupied with Denísov. +going toward the door without raising his eyes. Denísov paused, thought +go into that. But consider the position in which you are placing her and +gold-embroidered velvet bag. Her pretty little upper lip, on which a +golden.”) He cast happy, sidelong glances at his son from under his +Golítsyn and he has refused. Be the kindhearted man you always were,” +“Go, my dear fellow, and see whether the third division has passed the +gone out of the conservatory she followed and called Borís to her. +gone, Pierre did not go to bed or order horses but paced up and down +“Gone? That’s all right!” said he; and looking angrily at the +“Gone to bed?” asked the prince. +“Gone to bed,” replied the voice of Demyán the house steward, who +good and noble in you will be lost. It will all be wasted on trifles. +good as to look at the map and listen.” Langeron lifted his eyes with +“Good-by.” +Good-by!” +“Good-by, my dear fellow,” said Túshin. “Dear soul! Good-by, my +“Good-by, my dear,” said she to the countess who saw her to the +good gifts? Are you content with yourself and with your life?” + * “Good God, what simplicity!” +“Good health...” +good horse, Bedouin, and sitting as though falling backwards in the +good luck.” +good-natured, sincere, and animated levity. “But you see... another +goodness, to give us as sovereign! To say nothing of my brothers, this +“Good news!... Go on!” he shouted to the driver, and they galloped +good news? There has been an encounter with Mortier? A victory? It was +good news, though Schmidt’s death is a heavy price to pay for the +“Good night, Lise,” said he, rising and courteously kissing her hand +good old days. Denísov, flushed after the mazurka and mopping himself +good part. +“Good!” said the Rhetor quickly, apparently satisfied with +good stories about her, while none the less all without exception +good thing really.” +“Go on! Go on! Give it them!” he mentally exclaimed at these sounds, +“Go on, go on!” said the major. +“Go on, you must drink it all,” said Anatole, giving Pierre the last +goot to come to ze front and see dat zis position iss no goot? I don’t +got back to their horses. Two were misdirected and the shot went too +go? That way is nearer.” +“Go!” the quivering voice repeated. And Prince Vasíli had to go +go there anyhow and I have already spoken to him about you. We shall +go through your performance.” +got into bed, all kept awake a long time that night. +“Go, Tit! Thresh a bit!” +“Go, Tit, thresh a bit!” said the wag. +go to him himself, and tell him what ought to be done in a tone of +“Gott, wie naiv!” * said he angrily, after he had gone a few steps. +got up and said something to the ladies. Anna Mikháylovna stepped +government officials to his table, had unexpectedly selected Michael +gown, he went to the couch on which he slept. +Grabern. On the left our troops were close to a copse, in which smoked +graceful and muscular arms and neck. By the grace of her movements, +graceful pose under a portrait of Catherine, leaning his elbow on a +“Gracious heavens! The young count!” he cried, recognizing his +grandee of Catherine’s time who now lay dying in Moscow. The young man +grandfather called him). The baby Prince Nicholas lived with his wet +grandfather, wore it in all his wars.” (She still did not take out +Grand! Look at the smoke, the smoke!” exclaimed the artillerymen, +granted. +“‘Grant leave to retire to his country seat to an old man who is +grant.” Nor did he say to himself: “Pierre is a rich man, I must +grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his +grapeshot.” +grateful for the benefits conferred on them. Everywhere were receptions, +grateful look, but was still expectant and looking for someone. The old +grave, moment I did not tell you the whole truth. I think there is no +gravity!” +gray everyday dress. Now please, do it for my sake. Katie,” she said +grayish color. +gray overcoats, wounds, the smoke of gunpowder, the sounds of firing, +great; all he could hear was: “ahahah!” and “rrrr!” +Great and talking eagerly. As soon as they saw Pierre and his companion +great deal from the deceased,” said Prince Vasíli to him, handing him +great deal. Of the two soups he chose turtle with savory patties and +greater part of the enemy’s opened out from this battery. Just facing +greater reasons.” +greater zeal than his duty as a commander. Thanks to the strictness and +great favor to ask of you.” +great haste and in the greatest disorder. The road was so obstructed +great man! Let us drink to his health and to the certain defeat of the +great many officers like him were always coming there and that everybody +greatness....” +greatness of soul?” said the little princess, smiling and drawing her +greatness, the unimportance of life which no one could understand, and +great sin. How can one judge Father? But even if one might, what feeling +greediness that he wanted it, but simply from a conscientious desire for +greeting was riding quickly. When the soldiers of the regiment in front +grew still kinder. The younger sisters also became affectionate to him, +grew still louder and merged into a general roar that only an army +grew weary waiting to be relieved. Prince Andrew halted to have a look +grieved him and yet he was pleased. +grieving at the misfortunes of our common cause, or we are merely +grimace. “I have long wanted to ask you, Andrew, why you have changed +groaning aloud and swinging his arm which had just been hurt, while +groans, which seemed to melt into one with the darkness of the night. +ground, artillery and troops in blue uniform were seen. These were the +ground, eager to rejoin its fellows, he watched his squadron draw +ground like cliffs and slopes. Anywhere, on any side, one might +ground ten paces apart to mark the barrier. It was thawing and misty; at +group of men with yellow shakos, dark-green jackets braided with cord, +group where the vicomte was still talking, and again pretended to +grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the +growing ever stronger and fuller and merging into a deafening roar. +growing excited. “What about your son, your sister, and your +growing impatient, and stamped her foot, ready to cry at his not coming +growing louder and more frequent. Evidently our guns had begun to reply. +grown furious, now at Borís, now at Bolkónski. “Yes, many stories! +grown-up young people: Véra beside Berg, and Pierre beside Borís; and +guard. +Guard and line regiments, Russian and Austrian. Among them were grooms +Guards?” asked Napoleon. +Guards charged, followed the line of reserves, going far round the place +Guards. Here is my hand on it. Are you satisfied?” +Guards passed Rostóv before he heard them shout, “Hurrah!” and +Guards. Prince Andrew came up to him and took his hand. +Guards, that they not only did not wish to, but simply could not, be +Guards, wearing a cocked hat with its peaks front and back, with his +Guards with the rank of cornet. He received, however, no appointment +guessing Rostóv’s thought. +guess what he wanted; she pointed first to Pierre, then to some drink, +guest of honor and hero of the Austrian campaign, Prince Bagratión, to +guest. “Poor girl, she’s devilish ugly!” thought Anatole. +guests joined in. Everyone laughed, not at Márya Dmítrievna’s answer +guests. Natásha, who sat opposite, was looking at Borís as girls of +guests returned to the drawing room and to the count’s study. +guests were all conversing with one another. “The Razumóvskis... It +guests were and exchanging glances with Natásha, who was sitting +guidance. The universal experience of ages, showing that children do +gun, a horse), from the sight of all these things a fantastic world of +gun carriage. A Cossack who accompanied him had handed him a knapsack +gunner with his shako knocked awry, pulling one end of a mop while +guns. On the contrary, the energetic action of that battery led the +guns on the hillock. +guns smashed, and no supports at all.” +gut Morgen!” * he said winking with a merry smile, evidently pleased +habit of ridiculing the Masonic beliefs—“I am afraid I am very far +habit of walking, had been swept: the marks of the broom were still +habitual, offering his puffy cheek, but Bagratión kissed him on the +habitual to him. His face took on the stupid artificial smile (which +had accumulated at the sight of all that was being done in the army. +had also convinced the sovereign Emperors of. +had always imagined battles to himself), nor could he help to fire the +had always seemed to him that he really was very kind and intelligent. +had any news. On their familiar faces he read agitation and alarm. +had apparently been running), “and I did so wish to have another talk +had a splendid march. You know, of course, that His Imperial Highness +had become more intimate when Prince Andrew was in Vienna with Kutúzov. +had been added to Mademoiselle Bourienne’s toilet which rendered her +had been carried out and in what state were the serfs whom God had +had been decided to advance immediately and give battle to Bonaparte. +had been doing, as though it were all an old-time story, and he listened +had been got ready for him, glancing now and then at the newcomer, who, +had been increased by a half. And so Pierre was delighted with his visit +had been insulted through his daughter. The insult was the more pointed +had been killed at the beginning of the engagement and within an hour +had been killed or not and whether the cannon had been captured or +had been playing cards with the majority of the more distinguished and +had been put in position?” +had been repulsed, employing this military term to describe what had +had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook Prince +had been spilled on the carpet. They were met by a deacon with a censer +had been struck on the teeth, or what the ham had to do with it. +had broken up the French troops. +had changed greatly during that period. In the expression of his face, +had come from the left flank where their regiment was stationed, with +had come into Pierre’s room after the funeral. With drooping eyes +had conquered, settled down in an armchair, inviting Prince Vasíli to +had crossed that line and not only was there nothing terrible, but +had done in Petersburg at Anna Schérer’s reception. +had driven the old prince to town returned bringing papers and letters +had endured to gain her end. +had entered and left the town with their bands playing, and by the Grand +had entered. The most solemn mystery in the world continued its course. +had evidently been drinking. +had fallen the previous day—the day of the battle. Reviewing his +had first learned to say “pear” and then “granny,” that this son +had first seen the enemy and fired the first shot, and that the corner +had fixed on that number because forty-three was the sum of his and +had followed, and only the heavens promised peace. Toward morning +had followed him like an eagle, three steps at a time. Having received +had foreseen. Prince Andrew, out of breath with his rapid ride, spoke +had grown so dark that one could not distinguish the uniforms ten paces +had had in Anna Pávlovna’s drawing room. Pierre removed his feet from +had had to retreat and had made their withdrawal in perfect order. The +had happened during that half-hour to the troops entrusted to him, and +had happened to him, but could not do so. Such a storm of feelings, +had happened. What had happened? Nothing. He had merely understood that +had heard that a rumor of his duel had reached the Emperor and that it +Had he repented of his unbelief? Was he now there? There in the realms +had instantly noticed her brother’s condition. But, though she noticed +had killed five Frenchmen, a third had loaded five cannon singlehanded. +had left her kindly and tear-worn face and it now expressed only anxiety +had left Paris and how he had liked that city. Anatole answered the +had never been to blame, might be held responsible at headquarters +had no connection with the matter in hand. His haggard face was yellow. +had not been time to move. The Emperor, surrounded by his suite +had not exasperated the vicomte, and had convinced herself that it was +had not finished saying what was necessary, thudded into the ground near +had no time. He was afraid of falling behind the hussars, so much afraid +had not known it I should not have addressed you. Your view of life is a +had not left Prince Vasíli’s and felt with terror that in people’s +had not only held the field but had repulsed the French. Though the +had not told all and that there was something in his feelings for the +had not worn for a long time, he went into Bilíbin’s study fresh, +had not yet begun. Not wishing to agree to Dolgorúkov’s demand to +had not yet come home when Rostóv rode back early in the morning from +had not yet entered either the military or civil service, as he had only +“Hadn’t I better ride over, your excellency?” asked Nesvítski. +had only met once before for a short time at his wedding, were in +had on the Spásski Hill which might have been serious for her in her +had perished by his own magnanimity, and that there were particular +had persisted in his request to Kutúzov, arrived at Grunth and reported +had played a little air with variations on the harp, she joined the +had prevailed. She drew her brother’s attention to the maid who was +had produced a good epigram, a fresh one that would be repeated. His +had reached Braunau at the same time, was in splendid condition. There +had read, and listened to what was passing in the nursery. Suddenly he +had read thus far, he crumpled the letter up and threw it away. It was +had revealed to him. A week after his arrival, the young Polish count, +had ridden up to him in a violent passion, shouting: “Arnauts!” +had seemed as extraordinary to her as if there had never existed the +had sent in good time to Moscow for a doctor and were expecting him at +had slept badly that night, those around him reported. The cause of this +had stopped beside the dead men, ran to catch up his line and, falling +had sunk, her lip was drawn up, and her eyes drawn down. +had the air of a man happily performing one of the most solemn duties of +had the air of one who has suddenly lost faith in the whole human race. +had the ear of the company. +had then said. +“Had there been no Bagratión, it would have been necessary to +had uttered them. +Ha, ha, ha! Mary!” +hair above his broad forehead which reminded one of a lion, and the deep +hairs painfully in the knot. Then he drew his face down, kissed him, and +ha!” laughed Prince Bolkónski, and Anatole laughed still louder. +Half an hour later, the Rhetor returned to inform the seeker of the +half-closed eyes gave still more persuasiveness to his words. The staff +half-closed eyes he looked at Rostóv, bowed slightly and wearily, and +halfway. Fine orders!” was being repeated on different sides. +Halfway through supper Prince Andrew leaned his elbows on the table and, +half whisper, “everyone knows Count Cyril’s reputation.... He has +hall all sat waiting, silently and alert. In the outlying serfs’ +“Hallo, Gwíska—my pipe!” came Vasíli Denísov’s husky voice. +hall, where Denísov was sitting on the same chair by the clavichord +halted. Prince Andrew was behind, among the immense number forming the +halted, the Austrian argued that not he, but the higher command, was to +hand and said, “Come.” Pierre went with her to the bed on which the +hand. And there,” he pointed to a sutler’s tent, “they crowd in +handed him, smiled at Dólokhov’s words, and with a sinking heart, +handful of scoundrels. It will soon be over, it can’t be that, it +hand he drew Bagratión toward him, and with his right, on which he wore +hand he held carefully back, because he wished to support his right +hand. “How did you get here?” said he, turning to Zherkóv. +hand in passing and draw it downwards, or absent-mindedly hold out his +handkerchief, and pipe. +handkerchief and rushed from the room. +handkerchiefs to their eyes, and just in front of them their eldest +handkerchief to his wounded cheek and pointing to the fleeing soldiers. +hand, lay Prince Andrew Bolkónski bleeding profusely and unconsciously +handleless cup before a table on which tea and a cold supper were laid +hand, rode up smiling to the Emperor to congratulate him on the victory. +hands. +hands....” +hands.” +hands and occasionally ran his eyes over the score against him. He had +hands asking for their blessing, and that he kissed Véra, Natásha, and +hands, he looked more closely at the ring, with its skull—a Masonic +hand she went up to her husband and kissed him on the forehead. +hands high, shied, throwing back its ears; but the pockmarked Guardsman +hands. “Just fancy, he didn’t let me win a single cahd, not one +hands, looked attentively into Prince Vasíli’s eyes evidently +handsome and a terrible scapegrace. That is all I have been able to find +handsome, happy young face, he experienced a feeling of tenderness +handsome open face of the man who might perhaps be her husband absorbed +handsome young officer entering his room. Pierre paused. He had left +hands that are unclean.” While the Grand Master said these last words +hands. Then, sighing, he added: “My son’s fate is in your hands. +hands were symmetrically placed on the green silk quilt, the palms +hands which show the time, so the result of all the complicated human +hand that was free, and turning sideways felt the pulse and reflected +hand them to the Emperor after my death. Now here is a Lombard bond +hand to her heart, with a beatific smile and obviously equally ready to +hand to his ear toward Weyrother, with the air of a man absorbed in +hand, was clearing manure from the cowhouse, looked out, and his face +hand with it and knew he must not do so. Having advanced six paces and +handwriting. On receiving it, he ran on tiptoe to his study in alarm and +hanged,” said Prince Andrew with a smile. “So I am serving because +hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her +hanging his head, meekly followed her. + * “Hang these Russians!” +happened, he was said to be insanely jealous and subject like his +happened to touch. Mademoiselle Bourienne stood near them pressing her +happened to you in Moscow was a misfortune.”—“I regret it very +happening in front of him. Nesvítski with an angry face, red and unlike +happen!” she said, looking at herself in the glass. “How shall I +happen to them when they were free, but he insisted, though reluctantly, +happiest, merriest times for him and the whole family. Nicholas brought +happiness and of children, but her strongest, most deeply hidden longing +happiness), feeling the eager bustle around him, and hearing the fitful +happiness or peace of mind. Can anything in the world make her or me +happiness possible, and that is just what you want to deprive him of. +happiness. The old princess sighed sadly as she offered some wine to the +happy and smiling. Véra was playing chess with Shinshín in the drawing +happy smile, ambling lightly up to the count’s niece. “I have come, +happy world of his own. She fancied a child, her own—such as she had +harder from behind. +hard.... For ages, from our forefather Adam to our own day, we labor to +hardly able to restrain her tears and maintain the artificial smile +Hardly had Borís gone than Sónya, flushed, in tears, and muttering +Hardly had Prince Andrew started than he stopped him. +“Hardly,” said Bagratión. “I saw them this evening on that +harnessed and packed the wagons and tied on the loads. The adjutants and +“Has anything come from Andrew?” she asked. +“Has anything happened?” she asked. “I am so terrified.” +has beaten the Germans. They beat no one—except one another. He made +has blundered looks at an examiner. +has come down to us from the remotest ages, even from the first man—a +“Has he taken his medicine?” +has his stand, and there’s Zakhár himself and still the same horse! +has married his first cousin. And we are only second cousins, you know. +“Hasn’t been in since the evening. Must have been losing,” +has picked up an ax: “We are used to it, but you, sir, will blister +“Has Prince Vasíli aged much?” asked the countess. “I have not +has proposed to Sónya!” +has received a letter and is expecting a visit from Prince Vasíli. In +has retained in full force.” +has so many relatives in Moscow! So you are Borís? Of course. Well, now +hastening her steps. “You young ladies should not know anything about +haste, trying to escape notice, closed the door, and began to read the +“Has the snow been shoveled back?” +has to be cunning and cruel.” +hast thou denied?” he suddenly asked with exulting austerity and +have always, thank God, been my children’s friend and had their full +have a room of your own,” and she took the inkstand from Nicholas. +have been as good as Weyrother’s, but for the disadvantage that +have been difficult to stop that crowd, it was even impossible not to +have certainly acquired a taste for war, and it is just as well for me; +have dared to say so, knew it and blushed scarlet every time Dólokhov +have done for us.” +have done the same!...” thought Princess Mary. +have done your best to increase his mental sufferings.” +have frightened you—sit down and tell me all the news.” +have gone through,” and she sympathetically turned up her eyes. +have heard the sobs. It seems as though mankind has forgotten the +have it, young man, I’m going.” +Have just this moment received by special messenger very joyful +have killed so many that there’d have been a heap of them.” +have liked to sympathize with what Pierre was saying, but could not. +have looked at it. Take it. Well, now go. Go.” +have, my dear! I tasted it. The thousand rubles I paid for Tarás were +have nothing to complain of.” +have obliged me to give this refusal.” +have of hope and strength merely weighs you down and torments you with +Have received another letter about the Preussisch-Eylau battle +have received very little, Prince Vasíli nothing, and it is Monsieur +have said. And he was still more angry at having omitted to say it. He +have seen how he said it! I know he did not mean to say it, but it came +“Have some brought from the reserve,” said Napoleon, and having gone +have something to eat.” +have something to tell you. Here, here!” and she led him into the +have stayed longer.” +have the carriage to drive to town: +have the courier horses. It was plain that he was lying and only wanted +have to call in the French, so that birds of a feather may fight +have to go in and ask the princesses; and from there go on to the +have to prove to them what he had not merely convinced himself of, but +have two footmen behind her carriage, and very big ones. That was her +have virtuous aims,” said Pierre, feeling ashamed of the inadequacy + Have we not Bagratión? +“Have you a complaint to make?” Kutúzov asked with a slight frown. +“Have you?” he said. “Well, how did it go?” +“Have you never thought of marrying your prodigal son Anatole?” she +“Have you told them to bring the horse?” asked Telyánin, getting up +having become entangled in the saddle. Where our men were, and where the +Having by a great effort got away to the left from that flood of men, +Having cleared the way Denísov stopped at the end of the bridge. +having convinced himself that he was asleep, took up a paper and in +Having descended the hill at a trot, he no longer saw either our own or +Having disentangled his leg, he rose. “Where, on which side, was now +Having entered the courtyard of a large house where the Lodge had its +Having galloped safely through the French, he reached a field behind +having given orders to his company, sent a soldier to find a dressing +Having given several more orders, he was about to go to his “little +having given them to the rosy Natásha, who beamed with the pleasure +Having glanced through the dispatch he laid it on the table and looked +Having jerked out these last words as soldiers do and waved his arms +Having led him about ten paces, Willarski stopped. +Having left that soldier who was evidently drunk, Rostóv stopped the +Having lifted her head and let her arms droop lifelessly, as ballet +having lost a single man. The second squadron that had been in the front +having mounted drew himself up very straight and tall and rode to the +Having passed the Guards and traversed an empty space, Rostóv, to avoid +having passed Uvárov’s cavalry he clearly heard the sound of cannon +Having reached the left flank, instead of going to the front where the +Having read thus far, Princess Mary sighed and glanced into the mirror +having rested after yesterday’s march, were sitting, clean and neatly +having ridden ahead, had pulled up his horse near the bridge, with a +Having ridden beyond the village, continually meeting and overtaking +Having ridden round the whole line from right flank to left, Prince +having said this laughed. Everyone turned toward him. +Having said this, Napoleon rode on to meet Marshal Lannes, who, hat in +Having said this she went up to the doctor. +having something to eat. They hastily turned round to him asking if he +having stuck an amber mouthpiece far into his mouth, was inhaling the +Having thanked Anna Pávlovna for her charming soiree, the guests began +having turned with words of comfort to her companion, realized that +head. +head and an army of fifteen thousand men has been ordered to blow up +head and at the little arms and legs which showed under the blanket. He +head and lips indicating very little hope for the patient. +head. As he rode up to the camp he thought how he would impress Borís +head, but the instant he turned to Prince Andrew the firm, intelligent +head cook, about asparagus, fresh cucumbers, strawberries, veal, and +he added as if speaking to himself. +he added: “But beware, dear brother, that these gloves do not deck +he added: “I need good officers myself, need them myself!” +he added that Prince Vasíli was also there. When Tíkhon came to her +head in perplexity—perhaps because the banner really interested him, +head, laughing with an officer who had sat down beside him. A third was +headlong after Anna Mikháylovna and, dashing at her, flung herself on +headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead +headlong to the horse. “Walk him up and down, my dear fellow,” he +head, pulled it off, and showed the blood congealed on his hair. +headquarters, and having ascended a dark staircase, they entered a small +headquarters. But on the afternoon of that day, this activity reached +headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that +headquarters was still under the spell of the day’s council, at which +head sadly, pointing them out to the Austrian general with an expression +head (the pains had just left her). Strands of her black hair lay round +health?” +health?” +“Health and happiness to her whose name day we are keeping and to her +health of our Sovereign, the Emperor!” he roared, “Hurrah!” and +“Health to your ex... len... len... lency!” and again all became +health was drunk, Pierre, lost in thought, did not rise or lift his +healthy body, and all the affection and care of his family. “And why +he always thought only of whatever he was engaged on. +“He always was rather harsh; and now I should think he’s getting +heard.” +heard, and again something in his face twitched—“That is just why +heard, and much farther to the right beyond the dragoons, the officer of +heard, and out of the foggy darkness the figure of a sergeant of hussars +heard a rustle behind him and a shadow appeared under the curtain of +heard before, others simply enjoyed hearing how the master talked, while +heard curses on Bonaparte, “the enemy of mankind.” Militiamen and +heard distinctly. +heard musket fire quite close in front of him and behind our troops, +heard on every side. +heard respectfully congratulating the dying man on having received the +heard that the war was being discussed had turned from his partner with +heard them, and we shall all do our duty. But before a battle, there is +heard the quick rustle of the countess’ dress. She came up to them. +heard the words as he might have heard the buzzing of a fly. Not only +heard this Sónya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable +heard, your honor, that a minister is coming to visit your honor.” +hearers—who like himself had often heard stories of attacks and had +hearing how ill he is.” +hearing or understanding her own words, what she had told hundreds of +Hearing that cry and seeing to whom it was addressed, Nesvítski and the +hearing that they wished to see the count, said his excellency was worse +hearing these words her face changed and something brightened in her +hearing with pleasure the whistle of bullets evidently aimed at him. +heart in the presence of the unfathomable did not lessen but increased. +heart. “It has begun! Here it is, dreadful but enjoyable!” was what +heartrending scene.... It was a convoy of conscripts enrolled from our +heart! You are a Madame de Genlis and nothing more” (this nickname, +he, as if bragging of having been frightened. +He asked, “Whose company?” but he really meant, “Are you +“He asked you, and Vasíli Dmítrich * is also going.” +heated horses, exchanging remarks and smiling, had stopped behind the +“Heaven knows what a fright might do.” +“Heaven only knows, my dear! These rich grandees are so selfish. +“Heaven only knows what the people here may imagine,” muttered +“Heavens! what a virulent attack!” replied the prince, not in the +heavy convoys (whose movements were concealed from the French) advance +He began pacing the room. The screaming ceased, and a few more seconds +He began the rescript again and again, but as soon as he uttered +He bowed his head and scraped first with one foot and then with the + He brings foemen to their knees,... etc. +He called the Cossack with his horse, told him to put away the knapsack +He came to the point at once, treating her ceremoniously. +he can’t help plowing and mowing; if he didn’t, he would go to the +he caught a momentary glimpse between their heads and backs of the dying +He cautiously released the shoulder she leaned on, looked into her face, +he chanced to meet Dólokhov’s handsome insolent eyes, Pierre felt +He checked himself, fearing to seem naïve, yet he felt an irresistible +“He chose his friends badly,” interposed Anna Mikháylovna. +He closed his eyes, and immediately a sound of cannonading, of musketry +he clutched at his head. “Who is going to get me the flowers? Dmítri! +he commanded was in an almost hopeless position. The spy reported that +he consoled himself. “And besides, what have I done to bring it about? +He continued to pace the room, looking gloomily at Denísov and the +he could from a Frenchman into the wood. Besides, to tell everything as +“He could not do that. The people only gave him power that he might +He could not finish, and ran out of the room. +He could not look calmly at the standards of the passing battalions. +he could not stop short for the sake of one man’s life.” +He could see puffs of musketry smoke that seemed to chase one another +he described the whole campaign with a fearless self-censure and +he did not do it he would grieve and disappoint many people, but if he +(he did not even dare to dream of that), but simply to die before his +He did not find Prince Andrew in Olmütz that day, but the appearance of +He did not finish his sentence, but his tone showed how highly he +He did not finish. Just then there was a whistle in the air; nearer and +he did not look at them: he looked only at what was going on in front +He did not regain consciousness till late in the day, when with other +He did not reply. +He did not see, hear, or understand anything clearly. Only now and +he did not see him and had no opportunity of seeing him, he often spoke +“He did not shut me up, he said I was telling an untruth.” +he disarmed his hearers. +He discussed estate affairs every day with his chief steward. But +he dressed for dinner. The old prince always dressed in old-fashioned +He drew back and a real tear appeared in his eye. +He drew up his chair, and continued to explain. +He embraced her. She screamed and fell unconscious on his shoulder. +He embraced his daughter, and then again Pierre, and kissed him with his +He enlivened the whole party. The wax candles burned brightly, the +He entered the drawing room with his usual alert step, glancing rapidly +“He exists, but to understand Him is hard,” the Mason began again, +he feels sure he will distinguish himself. He was glancing at everyone +he felt himself to be. At the right beat of the music he looked sideways +He felt that at a single word from that man all this vast mass (and he +he felt that this did not forward matters at all. He felt that these +He filled the girls’ albums with verses and music, and having at last +he. “Fine, very fine! You have done up your hair in this new way for +He finished and, getting up, embraced and kissed Pierre, who, with tears +He glanced at his cousin and the young lady visitor; and they were both +he glanced round at her. She gave him a passionately angry glance, and +he, going to the door and looking into the nursery. +he got his wound. This pleased Rostóv and he began talking about it, +he had already promised Prince Anatole to come to his gathering; +“He had another stroke about half an hour ago. Courage, my +he had been beside the gun, he had heard the voices of the officers +he had been ordered to look for the commander in chief, he could not, +he had but recently left their regiment, rode up to the colonel. +He had evidently not slept that night. He looked about distractedly and +He had just remembered his recent encounter with the doctor’s wife and +he had lain there some time, he was told to get up, and a white leather +he had left. All the others let him go, and he ran to her. When they +he had left Petersburg, and wrote enthusiastic letters to his +he had met that evening. +He had not finished the last verse before the young people began to +he had not thought about it until that moment. The officers’ laughter +He had often before, during the last six weeks, remained alone with her, +He had Pierre at hand in Moscow and procured for him an appointment as +he had ready in his mind, of all he knew and had seen. But the Emperor +he had ridden about two miles and had passed the last of the Russian +he had said absent-mindedly: “Yes, she’s good looking,” he had +he had the Hofs-kriegs-wurst-schnapps-Rath on his hands. It would have +he had to do, not with fools, but with men who could teach him something +he had too long been thinking of so painfully to the exclusion of all +He half rose, meaning to go round, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox, +“He has been set down. He died,” replied someone. +“He has forty thousand men at most,” replied Weyrother, with the +“He has made wills enough!” quietly remarked the princess. “But he +“He has perspired,” said Prince Andrew. +“He has weported himself sick, he’s to be stwuck off the list +He hated her and was forever sundered from her. Despite Denísov’s +he heard some French spoken he at once began speaking to the officers, +“He higher iss dan I in rank,” said the German colonel of the +he himself was pining for the dear princess, and how she showed him the +height on which the Kiev regiment was stationed, in the hollow where the +height without the smallest effort, his ease contrasting with the heavy +He imagined himself as an enormously tall, powerful man who was throwing +He imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he +he immediately dispatched Adjutant General Wintzingerode, who was in +He implored Rostóv to go on and prepare her. +He indicated a place beside him to his daughter-in-law. A footman moved +He involuntarily remembered how Dólokhov, who had fully recovered his +heiress in the same way. All this might, he thought, turn out very well +“He is a great tactician!” said the prince to his son, pointing to +“He is a man in a gray overcoat, very anxious that I should call +He is an aide-de-camp of Kutúzov’s and will be here tonight.” +“He is a nervous, bilious subject,” said Larrey, “and will not +“He is a very, very nice, honest, and pleasant fellow,” answered +he is better acquainted than anyone else, does not listen to others but +he is Bóry’s godfather—and allow him something for his maintenance, +“He is dozing,” said Anna Mikháylovna, observing that one of the +“He is just the same as ever,” replied Anna Mikháylovna, +“He is leaving me here, God knows why, when he might have had +“He is no more....” +“He is not to be apprehended by reason, but by life,” said the +“He is one of the most remarkable, but to me most unpleasant of +he is so frank and has so much heart. He is so pure and poetic that +he is Uncle’s aide-de-camp, a most brilliant position. He is so +“He is very much altered now,” said Anna Mikháylovna. “Well, as +He jumped up at the sound of her light step. +he kept nodding to show that he understood, Anatole went on translating +He knew no one, and despite his smart Guardsman’s uniform, all these +He knew this at that moment as surely as if he had been standing at the +“He knows of course what this loss means to me. He can’t want my +he lacked that strength of will which he had known in himself and really +He laughed in his usual dry, cold, unpleasant way, with his lips only +he. “Laughing at us old fellows!” +he lay down on the leather sofa in front of a round table, put his big +He lay down on the sofa meaning to fall asleep and forget all that +held. All the commanders of columns were summoned to the commander in +held it below her waist. +held it till evening and have gone in to dinner with it) and drew his +held out his cheek. +held the hand of his betrothed in silence, looking at her beautiful +He leaned his elbows on the table with his pen in his hand and, +He leaned his whole massive body across the table. +He left the room and went to the waiting room where Alpátych stood with +Hélène.” +Hélène, and that thought both alarmed him, as if some obligation were +“Hélène!” he said aloud and paused. +Hélène nor she at him. But she was just as terribly close to him. He +Hélène raised her voice and became more and more excited, “A man +Hélène sat silently side by side almost at the bottom of the table, a +Hélène. “Separate! That’s a thing to frighten me with!” +Hélène’s face became terrible, she shrieked and sprang aside. His +Hélène’s hand several times. After a while they were left alone +Hélène smiled, with a look implying that she did not admit the +Hélène’s presence (as a lover should be), but had not yet proposed +Hélène still sat talking just as before. +Hélène, then she turned to Pierre with the same words of welcome +Hélène turned to Pierre with the beautiful bright smile that she gave +“He lets one win the singles and collahs it as soon as one doubles it; +He listened and heard the sound of approaching horses, and voices +He looked intently and inquiringly into his friend’s eyes, evidently +He looked straight at Prince Andrew and suddenly unwrinkled his +he looked very grim he said nothing to anyone. +He looked with disdain at the endless confused mass of detachments, +help being aware of it, just as we cannot renew an illusion we have once +“Help comes from God alone,” he said, “but such measure of help as +“Help him up. Sit down, dear fellow, sit down! Spread out the cloak, +helplessly and he made a fruitless effort to pull it forward. Whether he +helplessly on the sofa. +helplessly spread out, stood with his broad chest directly facing +help, would inform her. +he made himself when going into battle, and he was more amiable to the +he made up his mind that Prince Andrew had been killed, and though he +he marked the figures in his clear, bold hand. +he meant to do, and abandoning herself to him followed his lead hardly +he met Nesvítski, with whom he shared a room, and the wag Zherkóv; +he might be, did not expect. He was so used to submitting to Prince +He might... not only might but should, have gone up to the sovereign. It +He moved as if to rise. The generals bowed and retired. It was past +“He must first receive the trowel,” whispered one of the brothers. +he must retreat as quickly as possible behind the hollow in the rear, +He must think that I, too, am afraid of him—and in fact I am afraid of +he need only have bent his head a little to have touched them. He was +he needs money for food; the man said an officer had once given him a +he never could appreciate it. No, mon cousin,” she added with a sigh, +he noticed everything...” +he only gave an order to cease firing and re-form, so as to give room +He opened his eyes and looked up. The black canopy of night hung less + he ought to be firing at the enemy. +he passed it. Pierre began to feel a sense of uneasiness, and the +He patted her on the shoulder and himself closed the door after her. +He paused a little while. +He paused, and just as he was about to say something more, another ball +He paused and sighed, evidently trying to calm himself. +He paused, his gaze still on Pierre, and moved aside on the sofa by way +He pointed to the French guns, the limbers of which were being detached +He pointed with a smile to a turreted nunnery, and his eyes narrowed and +He pulled off the quilt and shook it. The purse was not there. +He put on the air of one who finds it impossible to reply to such +He quickly entered the small reception room with its still-unplastered +her. +her. +her. +he raised both arms as if carefully lifting some invisible but precious +her already,” he said, evidently trying to entertain a visitor with +her and about to crush her was some terrible misfortune, the worst +her and for himself, and in a nervously emotional and softened mood he +her as a distant beauty far removed from him, as he had seen her every +her badge as maid of honor. The youthful little Princess Bolkónskaya, +her beauty and her remarkable skill in appearing silently dignified in +her because you must, and that wouldn’t do at all.” +Her brother shook his head incredulously. +her companions’ not having the least conception that it could be +“Here at least we shall have the benefit of your company all to +here,” came the voice of an hussar, past whom Rostóv was riding in +here? Don’t you see the skirmishers are retreating? Lead the squadron +he reeled and sank on the snow. +Here!” exclaimed different voices; and the heavy breathing of the +he reflected, “there is no riding round it now. I must look for the +“Here he is at last!” shouted Rostóv. “And Berg too! Oh, you +“Here he is... our own... Kólya, * dear fellow... How he has +“Here, in that house,” answered the adjutant. +here, is he not? Please announce me.” +here is now settled, and I ought to have been off long ago. Here is +here is one from His Highness the Archduke Ferdinand and here are +“Here is our dear Orthodox Russian army,” thought Bolkónski, +“Here is some sort of Key to the Mysteries that your Héloïse has +“Here it is! The decisive moment has arrived. My turn has come,” +“Here it is!” thought he, seizing the staff of the standard and +here I’ve brought the prince’s wedding candles to light before his +He remembered his honeymoon and blushed at the recollection. +(He remembered that in French there is some peculiar way of addressing a +He remembered the expression Dólokhov’s face assumed in his moments +here on Friday.” +he repeated, accentuating the u: “I think, however, now that he lays +Here Prince Hippolyte paused, evidently collecting his ideas with +Here Prince Hippolyte spluttered and burst out laughing long before his +here, run away, bury myself somewhere?” passed through his mind. But +here’s another admirer of that powder-monkey emperor of yours,” he +“Here’s something for you to report,” said Zherkóv. “See if I +“Here’s to the health of lovely women, Peterkin—and their +Here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an +here. Where is it?” he asked, turning to Lavrúshka. +her eyes, and then quickly went to his place and sat down. “Sit down, +her eyes became serious. At that moment she was oblivious of her +her eyes off him, and smiling and holding her breath. He gave her a +Her eyes were smiling expectantly, her downy lip rose and remained +her face, and then immediately he saw beside her Dólokhov’s handsome, +Her face became sad. +Her face suddenly flushed with reckless and joyous resolution. She half +Her fate was decided and happily decided. But what her father had said +“Her father is very rich and stingy. He lives in the country. He is +her father was tidy. She put down the geometry book and eagerly broke +Her favorite sonata bore her into a most intimately poetic world and +her foot into the other. Sónya, when he came in, was twirling round and +her foot—which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual +her forehead. His fine eyes lit up with a thoughtful, kindly, and +her friend as if she did not consider her worthy to hear what she meant +her friend, the princess’ eyes—large, deep and luminous (it seemed +Her glittering eyes, filled with childlike fear and excitement, rested +her guests, first the vicomte and then the abbé, as peculiarly choice +her handkerchief too. Pierre was kissed, and he kissed the beautiful +her handsome eldest daughter were in the drawing room with the visitors +her head and continued in a whisper: “Has he performed his final duty, +her head toward the darkness of the open doorway. +her heart. Happy the man who wins her! With her the least worldly of men +her. How often when considering her character I have told myself that +Her husband looked at her as if surprised to notice that someone besides +her in five minutes before and, despite the fixed eyes and the pallor of +her inflamed and perspiring cheeks, her charming rosy mouth with its +Her lip descended. She brought her face close to her sister-in-law’s +her little nephew as best she could. Mademoiselle Bourienne, too, seemed +her long hair came down....” Here he could contain himself no +her mother and burst into such a loud, ringing fit of laughter that even +her mother, quite excited. +her neck. +her neck as soon as she overtook her in the sitting room. +hero himself with his paltry vanity and joy in victory appear, +heroism!” +hero less on earth.” +her over his spectacles. +her own on the subject. +her path. +her plainly as she is, or else you will make a cruel and irrevocable +her—please don’t! It is too painful for her!” +her, Rostóv thought, but just now there were so many other pleasures +her?” said the old prince angrily. “What an idea! I’m ready for it +her seducer when she loved him?” he thought. “God could not have put +“Herself,” came the answer in a rough voice, and Márya Dmítrievna +herself disinterestedly at the head of an alliance having for its object +herself! Glad to throw her father over! And she knew I should notice +herself in a white satin dressing gown embroidered with silver and with +herself in here for? But I will give her a piece of my mind. The time +herself should she glance round. Anna Mikháylovna, with a meek, +herself wish to die, that his end was not only touching but edifying. As +Her sister dropped the portfolio. Anna Mikháylovna, stooping, quickly +her sister-in-law’s room. Prince Andrew in a traveling coat without +her sleeves and puffing heavily. +her sufferings or with their relief. The pangs began again and Mary +her sympathy for Pierre, but by involuntary intonations and a half smile +her temples. Princess Mary, supporting her sister-in-law, still looked +her tenderly and attentively, said severely: +her thin lips grew white, though her eyes did not change, and her voice +her—thou or you?” +Her tone was now querulous and her lip drawn up, giving her not a +her up, hugged her, and, smiling through her tears, began comforting +Her voice sounded so serious and so sad that the chirping of the birds +her white teeth. She met Prince Vasíli with that playful manner often +her. Why do you say all this to me?” +her with a grimace that distorted his handsome face, kissed Anna +her with perfect sincerity, and with the naïve and firm conviction +her work as if to testify that the interest and fascination of the story +her. “You know, Catiche, that we—you three sisters, Mámontov, and +he sad at leaving his wife?—perhaps both, but evidently he did not +he said. +He said no more, but expressed his resignation to cruel fate by a +he said. “Perhaps you are right for yourself,” he added after +He said something more, but Rostóv did not wait to hear it and rode +“He’s a low fellow, say what you will,” remarked Prince Hippolyte. +“He’s arrived!” +He sat down beside Hippolyte and wrinkling his forehead began talking +He sat down by his wife, his elbows on his knees and his hands ruffling +he sat under fire. But despite himself, on his face too that same +he saw French cannon and French troops on the Pratzen Heights just where +he saw turrets and a church. What need to hurry? What was he now to say +he saw which way the wind was blowing, and his low opinion changed into +He scattered the burning tobacco, smashed the pipe, and threw it away. +“He’s coming!” shouted the signaler at that moment. +“He’s dead—why carry him?” said another. +He seemed to swell with satisfaction. He had hardly finished speaking +He seized his son by the hand with small bony fingers, shook it, looked +He sent for Pierre and said to him: “My dear fellow, if you are going +He shaved and scented himself with the care and elegance which had +“He shouldn’t have taken so many men,” said the officer of the +he shouted, “and then I shall reserve the right to state my opinion +He shrugged his shoulders. A footman conducted Borís down one flight of +he shrugged his shoulders and raised his hand to the kerchief, as if +He shrugged his shoulders and spread out his hands. Pierre wished to +He sighed. +He signed with a flourish and suddenly turning to his son began to +hesitating voice. “I thank you. I agree with all you have said. But +hesitation and uncertainty among his conductors. He heard those around +(He smiled ironically.) “But even if he also took up a position in +He spoke so rapidly that he did not finish half his words, but his son +He spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure +he spread a map on the table. “All eventualities have been foreseen. +He still had all the letters in his hand. Opening them mechanically he +He stopped and remained silent for a long time. +he stopped short on his heels, stood so a second, stamped on the spot +He stretched out his hand to take hold of the purse. Rostóv let go of +He suddenly blushed crimson, and it was plain that he had made a great +he suddenly cried. “Even without a bet, there! Tell them to bring me a +he sung a second, a third below the high note. “Ah, God! How fine! Did +“He’s very young to come to meddle with us.” +he talked to Pierre), the old man was sitting on a large leather-covered +he (though Pierre had not mentioned Bonaparte), “but Bonaparte when +he thought out his plans beforehand he could not have been so natural +he thought, stopping for a moment with a sinking heart, and then +He threw the bottle to the Englishman, who caught it neatly. Dólokhov +he told her she was still the same crybaby as ever. Princess Mary had +He took the dispatch which was addressed to him and began to read it +He took the lighted pipe that was offered to him, gripped it in his +He took the pistol in his hand and began asking about the working of the +He touched his horse and having called Milorádovich, the commander of +He tried to say more, but faltered. +he turned away. +He turned round. Nesvítski’s handsome face looked out of the little +He turned to Kozlóvski with urgent questions. +he understood his commander’s wish. +he unhooked his saber. He came out from behind the chairs, clasped his +He vouchsafe its revelation to us through His divine Spirit. +He waited a moment to see whether the cornet would answer, but he turned +“He wants to see a battle,” said Zherkóv to Bolkónski, pointing +he was admitted to the Emperor, and an hour later he rode off with +he was afraid of finding in her a rival for Count Bezúkhov’s fortune, +he was asleep in his corner and woke him up. Rousing himself, Pierre +He was evidently so busy that he even forgot to be polite to the +He was flushed and bathed in perspiration, though the room was not hot. +he was in contact with the springs that set in motion the enormous +He was joyfully planning this new life, when Prince Vasíli suddenly +He was pleased at the gratitude he received, but felt abashed at +he was proud to be at the head of such a nation and would endeavor to be +He was riding almost along the front line. A handful of men came +he was riding was one he had bought from a Cossack during the campaign, +he was sent away. Hippolyte is her brother... Prince Vasíli is her +he was sent. This was the brilliant charge of the Horse Guards that +He was singing in passionate tones, gazing with his sparkling +He was thinking that Prince Andrew was unhappy, had gone astray, did not +he was told in Russian, German, and Czech by the crowd of fugitives who +he was told that he would now see the lesser light. The bandage was +he was touched, but also a gleam of irony on his face. +he was to wear at the meetings, and finally of the third, a pair of +he went forward uneasily over the rough field with the awkward gait of +he went nowhere and spent whole days in reading Thomas à Kempis, whose +He went on talking in this way in French, uttering only those words in +He went over his vices in his mind, not knowing to which of them to give +He went straight up to Prince Vasíli. +He went to his bed, drew a purse from under the clean pillow, and sent +“He will get up in twenty minutes. Let us go across to Mary’s +he will hit me in the head, or elbow, or knee. Can’t I go away from +He wished to explain to Dolgorúkov a plan of attack he had himself +He wished to take a decision, but felt with dismay that in this matter +He woke up... +He woke up and looked round for a while with a startled expression, +he wondered as he got up: and at that moment he felt that something +he wore the air of a man little concerned in what the two ladies were +he worked went step by step toward his goal. He was free, he had nothing +he would certainly be taken prisoner. Kutúzov remained in the same +he would expand his chest, raise his head, and rejoice at his good +he would give an opinion at the war council which would be the only one +he would have been mentioned among the officers found on the field of +he would have done at that moment had Hélène not fled from the room. +he would have to march with no road into unknown parts of the Bohemian +he would into that foggy distance: now something gleamed gray, now there +he would rush through the whole suite of rooms without drawing breath, +He would say a lot of pleasant things, ask you to dinner” (“That +he would slap in the face before the Emperor. Suddenly a distant shout +“Hey, Cossack, my horse!” he said. “Now, then, you there! get out +hidden by dense mist. Having given orders in the commander in chief’s +hid her face still deeper in the bed. Natásha wept, sitting on the +high, but the last round fell in the midst of a group of hussars and +higher ground it was clearing, but nothing could be seen of what was +highest degree just the very qualities Pierre lacked, and which might +highest point. “It’s in charge of the queer fellow we saw without +highest spheres. +high—I always said....” +highly honored guest, took possession of him as it were, without waiting +“Highly satisfied, your excellency!” +Highness,” and pointing to the Grand Duke who with his high shoulders +high time!” +hill. +hill one after the other. Their colonel, Karl Bogdánich Schubert, came +hill opposite, with the French moving about on it, opened out before +Hills, she took a special fancy to Mademoiselle Bourienne, spent whole +him!” +him. +him. +him. +him. +him. +him.” +him all the way. He thought angrily of the pleasure he would have at +him a look of stern inquiry, as though what Pierre had just said was +him and did not stop but rode on and on, continually mistaking bushes +him and everything he could say had long been known to him, that he was +him and Hélène. “Well, what of it, if you all know it?” thought +him and he was at once blindfolded again. +him, and only as he kissed her hand on taking leave said unexpectedly +him and she wished and tried to please him as much as possible. +him. “And why should she marry?” he thought. “To be unhappy for +him and, with a Christian mildness that expressed forgiveness of his +him and would not have others do so.” +him as a man, but what can one do?” +him a taper. He lit it and, distracted by observing those around him, +him be here....” +him, Bonaparte had made in his campaigns and even in politics. His +him; but most of all, he felt joyful that the moment had come when he +him, but still that happy result always remained in the future. +him but to the whole regiment—all of us—you’re to blame all round. +him by the arm, “I believe that intervention will be stronger than +him, carried the infant round the battered tin font and handed him over +him die feeling that he is rendering unhappy those who...” +him disputing in whispers and one of them insisting that he should be +him do what he pleases,’ she used to say of me. One day I asked her if +him everyone began to stir: steps were audible and whispers, among which +him except the young princesses.... They are still young....” She bent +him feel confused by her smiles and her own confusion when meeting him. +him for those words, bullets flew hissing across the regiment and across +him, from his daughter to his serfs, the prince was sharp and invariably +him, from his weary, bored expression to his quiet, measured step, +him full directions which he had written down for his own guidance as to +him, handing him different articles of clothing. “What of Sweden? How +him?” he asked. +him, he does not know Russian.” +him he is a fool, that’s all!” +him, he’s a scoundrel. Go on! Go on!” +him. He stroked her hair and then patted her awkwardly on the back of +him,” he thought, and again he felt something terrible and monstrous +him if not to join in at least to listen to what he was saying. But the +him into the sitting room, where they began talking. They hardly gave +him merged in Rostóv’s mind into a single feeling of terror and pity +him. “More, please: more! What’s he saying?” +him my whole staff and all that belongs to it, advising him if there is +him not in the least abashed. +him... Olga, go and see whether Uncle’s beef tea is ready—it is +him. On the day of Prince Vasíli’s arrival, Prince Bolkónski was +him or her to a little old lady, wearing large bows of ribbon in her +him, or perhaps for that very reason, the prince, though he continued +him, or what was said of him; he was only glad that people were standing +him out of the booth at Grunth. He was shouting in a gasping voice: +him pleasure. The enemy’s guns were in his fancy not guns but pipes +him. Prince Vasíli’s two valets were busy dressing him, and he looked +him, push him, do anything but kiss him—a thing everybody did. But +him. “Remember this, Prince Andrew, if they kill you it will hurt me, +him. Rostóv was particularly in need of money now that the troops, +himself. +himself. +himself? +himself after his recent loneliness and freedom from cares so beset and +himself, and this fresh opportunity for action gave him new energy +himself an insignificant atom in it) would go through fire and water, +himself, but only desires the good of mankind. And what have they +himself fall into a trap Moreau set him, and from which he did not know +himself had vanished. He was filled with happiness at his nearness to +himself, he kept in touch with the circle which confers success and +himself, he rose, threw back his head, and with resolute steps went +himself. I am called in to help sort the letters and take those meant +himself in the palace at Potsdam. +himself into a chair, gazing at those in the room as if asking, “Why +himself.... Not a word! About some Denísov or other, though he himself, +himself on a sofa with his face to the wall. Pierre hid his face, from +himself one with his horse, rode past the Emperor with a frowning but +himself on his seat. +himself, Prince Bagratión sent Zherkóv to tell the general in command +himself to Bagratión. Bonaparte’s adjutant had not yet reached +himself to the count, who was looking inquiringly at him. +himself undertook his daughter’s education, and to develop these two +himself up, slightly arching his back. It was plain that the commander +himself up to such an extent that it seemed he could not have sustained +himself, was shouting to Kutúzov that if he did not ride away at once +himself. What angered him was that the coming of these visitors revived +him several questions about his journey and seemed greatly interested in +him several riders with white plumes in their hats. In a moment everyone +him so when I see him!” +him surrounded by children whom, by the count’s generosity, he was +him. That’s a thing I hate! Everything is possible.” +him that there would probably be an engagement that day or the next, and +him.” The mere thought of her father’s look filled her with terror. +him. The pain in his arm became more and more intense. Irresistible +him, though, between you and me, he always seemed to me a poor sort +him to come. There were other guests and the countess talked little to +him to come up; Prince Bagratión reined in his horse and recognizing +him to deliver. +him to despatch part of the army abroad and to create a new condition +him to die. Others are being born and there are plenty of them as it is. +him to go back as it was too dangerous to remain where they were. +him to hear something more, nodded and turned to him with a cheerful +him too, just opposite Gúryev’s house... Old Gúryev.... Oh, but +him up and lent him money. Pierre recalled how Hélène had smilingly +him what consolation I can.” +him. “What is this? They’re like sheep! Just like sheep! Out of the +him with her usual smile. +him. You know the story of the handkerchief? It is delightful!” +him ‘Your Majesty,’ but who, to his chagrin, got no title from +hindmost of these men wearing similar shakos was a Russian hussar. He +hints began to make the countess anxious and she glanced uneasily at +Hippolyte, and began looking through a lorgnette at his elevated legs. +Hippolyte burst out laughing. +Hippolyte gazing round with importance at the others, “without +Hippolyte interrupted her with the words: “Le Roi de Prusse...” and +Hippolyte in the carriage, “your little princess is very nice, very +Hippolyte is at least a quiet fool, but Anatole is an active one. That +Hippolyte laughed as if ashamed of laughing. +Hippolyte “—so dull—. It has been a delightful evening, has it +Hippolyte spluttered again, and amid his laughter said, “And you were +his acquaintance and joyfully welcomed the rich newcomer, the +his acquaintances, to overtake his regiment which was already in Poland. +his arm. +his arm, began a long-drawn-out soldiers’ song, commencing with the +his attention wandered from the book and the Square and he formed in +his beautiful daughter Hélène. +his being alone and despondent! A strange face may seem unpleasant or +his boots. You can see everything from there; let’s go there, +his breast. Among them stood a man whose white shirt was stained with +his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in that +his camp,” said he. “What does that mean? Either he is retreating, +his captain. +his career. Moreover, he could see by her manners that she was one of +“His children are all illegitimate. I think Pierre also is +his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, +his companion. The latter, a fresh, rosy officer of the Guards, +his company? If you were cleverer and more agreeable, I should prefer +His daughter, Princess Hélène, passed between the chairs, lightly +his daughter that morning. Princess Mary well knew this painstaking +His despair was all the greater from feeling that his own weakness was +his door, which creaked slightly when opened. +his dressing gown and smiled slightly, as if expressing respectful +his easy life in Moscow, entered the room. +His efforts had not been in vain. The dinner, both the Lenten and the +his example, and the loud shouting continued for a long time. When the +his excitement. “Don’t you understand that either we are officers +his eye as a miller wakes up when the soporific drone of the mill wheel +his eyes and thought he would never open them again. Suddenly he was +his eyes at the sight. +his eyes. “Can they be French?” He looked at the approaching +his eyes he heard in front of him, where the enemy was, the long-drawn +his eyes seemed larger than usual when he glanced round and noticed +his face, began to talk—as one who has long had something on his mind +his face, gave him a peculiar vivacity and shiftiness of expression. +His face shone with self-satisfaction and pleasure. +His face suddenly softened and tears came into his eyes. With his left +His face was terrible and piteous to see, especially from its helpless +his fat chest uncovered, stepping unevenly and timidly in one slippered +his father and his fatherland. To the great regret of myself and of the +his father dismissed the abbé and said to the young man, “Now go +his father’s part of the house. Entering the drawing room, where the +his father’s peculiarities, and partly because he needed solitude, +his father who had brought it from the siege of Ochákov. All these +his feverishness increased and he grew delirious. Visions of his father, +his fieldglass. A little behind them Nesvítski, who had been sent to +his future depended—whether he would follow the same old road, or that +his glittering black eyes at Rostóv. +His grandfather, who was his godfather, trembling and afraid of dropping +his grave, even rather gloomy, look was instantaneously replaced by +his gray hair. +his hand. +his hand and at the head of a regiment—he fell as a hero, worthy of +his handkerchief, and again: ‘Sergéy Kuzmích, From all sides,’... +his hand over the thin grizzled strands of hair combed back across his +his hand Prince Andrew came up to his comrade, the aide-de-camp on duty, +his handsome face. Natásha, very still, peered out from her ambush, +his hands to the blaze, and turned away his face. +his having been picked up on the battlefield by the people of the +his head. +his head. +his head and again assuming his former tone of a dull, unreasoning, but +his head, and with inimical politeness lurking in the corners of his +his head he let it droop and again closed his eye. +His Highness the Archduke Ferdinand has honored me, I imagine that the +his horse indolently and carelessly. Rostóv recalled their quarrel of +his horse keep pace with the company. +his horse with a convoy officer’s saddle. +his horse. Zherkóv and the staff officer bent over their saddles and +His huge figure, with arms hanging down and with a puckered, though +his husbandry. +his imaginary sword, but smiling at the remembrance of that pleasant, +his impulsive nature, does get into mischief (a boy can’t help it), he +his instinct urged him on. Before the officer finished his sentence +his in the diplomatic service. +his kindly, simple, and modest expression. Anna Pávlovna turned toward +his last parting from his father and his wife; he remembered the days +his legs almost gave way, it seemed to him that he was tired out. He +his legs. Pressing against both sides of the window, he adjusted himself +his life. He walked about in front of the line and at every step pulled +his lips in his sleep and breathing evenly. +his lips without uttering a sound. He wished to say, “Yes, a vile, +his lower jaw. +His Majesty; but we think the present delay is depriving the splendid +His Majesty the Emperor derogates from the principle of our alliance... +his mind that they would be friends. +his mouth awry, prepared to shout. The regiment fluttered like a bird +his mouth, he turned with his glass to Pierre. +his mouth very clearly revealed something unexpectedly coarse and +his muscular legs as if sailing along, stretching himself to his full +his musket walked away. +his neighbors’ glasses, not neglecting his own. The countess in turn, +his noble soul peacefully to leave this...” +his nose. +his old friend and the possessor of such enormous wealth, to the caprice +his own had taken possession of his brain and at that moment afforded +his own helplessness. At sight of this smile Pierre felt an unexpected +his own house. The Minister of War came up and congratulated him on the +his own pleasure, chose to chat with Lieutenant Drubetskóy. More than +his own superiority. It was as if he said to them: “I know you, I know +his own way, gave an order. No one said anything definite, but the rumor +His passion for the Emperor had cooled somewhat in Moscow. But still, as +his pistol, and then he felt with surprise that of all the men he knew +his plate, and proposed a toast, “To the health of the hero of our +his plate round and moving his wineglasses about with as much decision +His plate seemed to him not quite clean, and pointing to a spot he +his pocketbook. +his portrait, “definitely demanded that he should be called.” +his present state. +his private room and, calling his adjutant, asked for some papers +his relations with old friends, all his plans for his future, were +his reputation fighting them.” +his riding whip. +his rising. “This unfortunate fete at the ambassador’s deprives me +his room. +his rooms upstairs. +his routine, retired as usual after dinner. The little princess was in +his saber. Only ten paces divided them. Dólokhov lowered his head to +his saber, the soldiers all continued to run, talking, firing into the +his scanty gray hairs over his bald patch, also asked them to dinner. +His servant handed him a half-cut novel, in the form of letters, by +his ship is sailing, but on the day of battle—heaven knows how and +his shoulders. +his shoulders. “Women, my dear fellow; women!” +his shrill, harsh voice. “The road is not swept for the princess my +his side had been attempting a reconciliation), and he also went up to +his skill?” he concluded. +his son and seizing the little princess’ arm as if she would have run +his son by both hands, he cried, “Now I’ve got you, so take the +His son only smiled. +his speech, which he used in extreme cases when special persuasion was +his study and showed them his choice collection of Turkish pipes. From +his suite, with their Cossacks who were talking loudly together, Prince +his superiors by his promptitude and accuracy and had arranged his money +his temple, where an Ismail bullet had pierced his skull, and the empty +His thin, worn, sallow face was covered with deep wrinkles, which always +his time. But he is growing old, and though not exactly cruel he has too +his time there. +historical accounts of battles, involuntarily pictured to himself the +his Toulon, or his bridge of Arcola. How it would come about he did not +his typically southern French face during the whole time of the reading, +his usual jokes, but noticing that what he was saying redounded to +his utmost to look as small as possible. He looked at the count, who +his verses, bowed to Bagratión. Everyone rose, feeling that dinner +his voice. “She is living in Moscow and you are here. Remember, +his weak figure. “Number Two!” he squeaked. “Fire, Medvédev!” +his wealth, and being in the habit of lording it over these people, he +his weapons clean and polished to the utmost, and every horse groomed +his whole soul what the stranger said. Whether he accepted the wise +his wife, and by an anonymous letter he had received that morning, which +his wife said—met for supper at Prince Vasíli’s. All these friends +his wife’s room. She was lying dead, in the same position he had seen +his wont, as if intentionally contrasting the briskness of his manners +his youngest boy, had all settled down in the drawing room and were +hitherto puckered brow became smooth as a sign of pleasure, and with a +hitting men and that afterwards someone had shouted “Cavalry!” and +“Hm!—his excellency is a puppy.... I got him his appointment in the +“Hm... Hm...!” growled Pierre, frowning without looking at her, and +“Hm... Hm...” muttered the old prince to himself, finishing what he +“Hm! Hm!” muttered the prince, sitting down. +“Hm.... If you wish to kill him, to kill him outright, you can see +hoarsely. Prince Andrew winced and, clutching his head, went out and sat +“Ho! ho! ho! Ha! ha! ha! ha! Ouh! ouh!” came peals of such healthy +“Ho, ho!” said the old man, casting his eyes on her rounded figure. +holding high her fifty-year-old head with its gray curls, she stood +holding the bottle was lifted higher and higher and trembled with the +holding up a threatening finger. “He is such a worthy and excellent +holding up his saber, his spurs jingling, he ran up the steps of the +holding up the folds of her dress, and the smile shone still more +“Hold your tongue, Pétya, what a goose you are!” +Hollabrünn and have pursued ever since to this place. The position we +hollow and were firing at our men. Prince Bagratión bowed his head as a +hollows and snow-covered pools of water. +home now for the first time after eighteen months again brightened his +home reading a book and trying to fathom the significance of the Square, +home,” said the valet. +home. Should he go to headquarters next day and challenge that affected +hommes massacrés et l’armée de nos alliés détruite, et vous +honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in +honorable, Count,” or, “Were he as clever as you,” and so on, +honorable, of Bezúkhov? And Fédya, with his noble spirit, loved him +honored guests sat, everyone seemed to be in high spirits and under the +honor? Knowing him to be an only son, to challenge him and shoot so +honor of the French infantry, so necessary to the honor of our nation. +honor to choose me to be their marshal; it was all I could do to get +honor, was terrible. +hoofs, and apparently ready to jump over the railings had his rider let +hoofs and the jingling of showy cavalry in blue, red, and green braided +hoofs and wheels. Amid the general rumble, the groans and voices of the +“H-o-o-w are you standing? Where’s your leg? Your leg?” shouted +hoped. She prayed for her brother as living and was always awaiting news +hoped to lead he still lived the old life, only in new surroundings. +hope you will change your opinions, my dear Monsieur Pierre.” +hoping to find him alone. When he came in and saw an hussar of the line +horror and fear. All were still. Pierre took his hands from his eyes. +horror-struck. But when she saw that Pierre’s sacrilegious words + * Hors d’oeuvres. +horse a little in front of his marshals. He gazed silently at the hills +horse for which he had paid seven hundred rubbles was not worth half +horse of a batman or groom of some important personage and began to +horse, rode up to the porch, swung his leg over the saddle with a supple +horses and Ilyá Iványch. I don’t think Ilyá drives anyone except +horses and the infantry collecting wood. +horses in horsecloths. Then came a cart, and behind that walked an old, +horses near the window, Prince Andrew felt that something important and +horse still struggled. +horses were already galloping. Rostóv heard the thud of their hoofs +horse—that I’ll warrant,” said Shinshín, patting him on the +horse with his spurs, and giving it the rein leaped lightly over. Only +horse you’ll thank me for.” +hospital at Ostrolenka till I recover. In regard to which I humbly +hospitality, did the honors to the prince. +hospitals could no longer accommodate all the sick and wounded, yet the +hospitals. The one and the other may serve as a pastime. But what’s +hostess look toward the door, and now and then glance at one another, +Hostilities are ended, we can shake one another’s hand.... The +hour alone with the dying man, passed out, slightly acknowledging their +hours’ sleep before morning and felt cheerful, bold, and resolute, +hour. Suddenly the broad muscles and lines of the count’s face began +house and now managed all his affairs, stepped softly into the room. +house for your wife is ready. Princess Mary will take her there and +household, a common anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a +household. And there in fact was Sónya lying face downward on Nurse’s +house lay behind a newly dug pond filled with water to the brink and +house, now and then opening her door when someone passed and watching +houses from his door. It seemed to him the horses were not moving at +house. Though he expected that the story of his escapade would be +house was brilliant with lights shining through its lofty windows. The +house was dominated by the same feeling that Princess Mary experienced +house with Prince Bagratión and Weyrother. Weyrother was the Austrian +house, you know, and danced with the children. Be sure to invite him, my +“How about my son Borís, Prince?” said she, hurrying after him into +“How about the horses?” he asked, without looking at Pierre. +“How am I?” Dólokhov answered coldly. “I am as you see.” +How am I to renounce forever these vile fancies, so as peacefully to +“How am I to understand you, mon père?” said the princess, growing +How bright and glorious was the setting sun! With what soft glitter the +“How can he talk like that?” thought Pierre. He considered his +how can I, an insignificant mortal, show His omnipotence, His infinity, +“How can one talk or think of such trifles?” thought Pierre. +“How can the Emperor be undecided?” thought Rostóv, but then even +“How dare you take it?” he shouted. +How did it begin? I traveled from Moscow with Prince Vasíli. Then there +“How do you do, cousin?” said Pierre. “You don’t recognize +“How do you do, my dear? I wish you many happy returns of your name +“How do you expect him to answer you all at once?” said Prince +how do you judge of it?” he added, addressing Nicholas, who when he +How d’ye do, old fellow?” he said, turning to an old man who was +“How easy it is, how little effort it needs, to do so much good,” +However, at nine o’clock the prince, in his velvet coat with a sable +however, for he will leave us again to take part in this unhappy war +“However, if you command it, Your Majesty,” said Kutúzov, lifting +“However, I think General Kutúzov has come out,” said Prince +“However, there will hardly be an engagement today,” said Bagratión +however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it +“However, this is not at all interesting. Let us have dinner, and then +“How funny you are!” he said, bending down to her and blushing still +“How handsome the old man still was only a year ago!” remarked the +How have you spent it? In riotous orgies and debauchery, receiving +“How is it I am not moving? I have fallen, I am killed!” Rostóv +“How is it,” she began, as usual in French, settling down briskly +“How is that?...” began Prince Andrew, who had for long been waiting +how is that?” said different voices. +“How is the count? Can I see him?” asked Pierre, awkwardly as usual, +“How it will be there I don’t know, but all will be well!” thought +how long his unconsciousness lasted. Suddenly he again felt that he was +“How lovely!” said everyone who saw her; and the vicomte lifted his +“How many miles?” +how much anxiety one has had to go through that we might rejoice in +“How much longer? How much longer? Oh, these insufferable streets, +“How often have I asked you not to take my things?” she said. “You +how one day soon after his marriage he came out of the bedroom into his +“How plainly all these young people wear their hearts on their +How quickly! Now I know that not because of her alone, nor of myself +“How she loves me!” thought Princess Mary. “How happy I am now, +“How’s it you’re not drunk today?” said Nesvítski when the +“How’s this, Colonel?” he shouted as he approached. “I told you +“How strange it is,” said Véra, selecting a moment when all were +How stupid you men all are not to have married her! Excuse me for saying + How sweet, as fancies wander free, +“How sweet she is—she will be a weal beauty!” said Denísov. +how the Russians had been overwhelmed by flying Austrians and had had to +how they had been made much of in Russia, Poland, and abroad. They spoke +“How thoroughly like him that is!” he said to Princess Mary, who had +how to arrange it. What do you think?” +how to behave with her. The evening before, in the first happy moment of +how to escape?” +“How understand me!” cried her father angrily. “Prince Vasíli +“How was it a gun was abandoned?” asked Bagratión, frowning, not so +how we went to the Sparrow Hills with Madame Jacquot?... It’s such an +How you look at things! Send two men? And who then would give us the +hugging and kissing him. Another and yet another creature of the same +human skull with its cavities and teeth. After reading the first words +“Humbug! Nonsense! Humbug, humbug, humbug!” cried Prince Bolkónski, +humiliation of arrogant Austria and that in a week’s time he might, +humility. +humming infantry as by a frame. +humor and dissatisfied with the affair, and so did not exert themselves +hum with voices. On all sides soldiers were running to and fro, throwing +hundred rubles he had a long column of figures scored against him, +hundred rubles was left of that money, so that this seven of hearts +hundred yards after that before he saw to his left, across the whole +Hungarian?” said the commander with an austere gibe. +hung low over the field of battle on the horizon. It was growing +hungry, exhausted men would have to detain for days the whole enemy army +hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers +“Hur-a-a-a-ah!” came a roar of voices. “Let anyone come my way +“Hurrah—ah!—ah!” rang a long-drawn shout from our ranks, and + Hurrah for Emperor Alexander!” +“Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!” thundered from all sides, one regiment +“Hurrah!” rang the enthusiastic voices of the officers. +“Hurrah!” shouted Prince Andrew, and, scarcely able to hold up +“Hurrah!”... Then the general march, and again “Hurrah! Hurrah!” +hurriedly interrupting Bagratión. +hurriedly: “I will tell you some time how it all happened. But you +hurriedly unclasped his hands, stopped at a table as if tying the +hurriedly up to the unknown general and blocking his way to the door. +hurried off to his company, buttoning up his coat as he ran. +hurrying past them. +husband. +husband of a beauty, and in a word—an old woman; and secondly because +husband. Prince Andrew’s eyes were closed, so weary and sleepy did he +hussar and began lifting him. +hussar, “and why are you exciting yourself? Do you think the French +Hussar cornet Zherkóv had at one time, in Petersburg, belonged to +hussar revels and life in the fighting line, the other of the pleasures +hussars began carefully aligning their horses. Silence fell on the whole +hussars, but still with that naïve air that made it impossible to know +hussars, Cossacks, and adjutants, in his camlet coat, as he jolted on +hussars, flushing and addressing an adjutant who had ridden up, “so +hussars hastily dismounted, not knowing what they were to do. The men +hussars, told them to follow him, and trotted downhill in the direction +“I...” +“I...” +I, above all, who am to blame for everything. Help me, teach me, and +I alone have any influence with my father, and now and then can save him +“I also wanted to ask you,” continued Prince Andrew, “if I’m +I always stick to mother truth. It’s not right!” +“I am.” +I am.” +“I am afraid for the baby,” she said to Mademoiselle Bourienne: +I am afraid of him.” +“I am afraid of mixing the figures,” Pierre replied; “but if you +“I am afraid,” said Pierre, smiling, and wavering between the +“I am asking you when you last heard from Bolkónski,” repeated +“I am awaiting orders to join my new regiment, your excellency,” +I am dissatisfied with your younger son? Between ourselves” (and her +“I am expecting you, Pierre,” said the same voice, but gently and +“I am fond of you, especially as you are the one live man among our +“I am glad I have spoken out fully. Perhaps you did not like it? You +“I am glad I was able to do you a service, my dear Anna +“I am going away.” +“I am living at Countess Rostóva’s,” replied Borís, again +“I am not in the cavalry, Colonel, but I am a Russian general and if +“I am not jesting,” Bilíbin went on. “Nothing is truer or sadder. +“I am not jesting with you; please be silent!” cried Bolkónski, +“I am not speaking of regicide, I am speaking about ideas.” +“I am not talking about you,” he said, “I don’t know you and, +“I am not your ‘dear sir,’ Mr. Staff Officer, and you did not tell +“I am ordered to write a memorandum explaining why we are not +I am overwhelmed with business and it is purely out of charity that +“I am quite of your opinion,” replied Nicholas, flaming up, turning +“I am ready for everything,” said Pierre. +“I am so enchanted by the brilliancy of the wit and culture of the +“I am so glad you’ve come!” said Natásha, without answering him. +I am sorry for that,” he went on. +“I am so sorry for the poor count,” said the visitor. “He is in +“I am speaking sincerely as a friend! Consider! Where and why are +“I am speaking ze truce,” replied the hussar with a smile. +I am to do; I wanted to consult you seriously.” +I am told.” +“I am very glad I did not go to the ambassador’s,” said Prince +“I am very sorry, ma’am,” answered the maid. +“I am very sorry you did not find me in yesterday. I was fussing about +“I am very, very grateful to you, mon cher,” or “ma chère”—he +“I am waiting, Your Majesty,” answered Kutúzov, bending forward +“‘I am wounded and cannot ride and consequently cannot command the +“I am your faithful slave and to you alone I can confess that my +“I begin ab ovo. ‘The enemy of the human race,’ as you know, +“I believe it, I believe it, fwiend, and I share and appwove...” +“I bestow it with pleasure,” said Napoleon. “And who is that young +“I bet a hundred on Stevens!” shouted one. +“I bet fifty imperials”—he spoke French that the Englishman might +“I bet on Dólokhov!” cried a third. “Kurágin, you part our +“I burned this to prove my love for her. I just heated a ruler in the +“I called once or twice at your house,” said Rostóv, reddening. +I can do.” And his fancy pictured the battle, its loss, the +I cannot agree with you about Pierre, whom I knew as a child. He always +“I cannot argue about it,” replied Prince Andrew coldly, but he +I cannot find words to express to you my displeasure. You command only +“I cannot inform Your Majesty at what o’clock the battle began at +“I cannot pay it all immediately. Will you take an I.O.U.?” he said. +I can’t...” +“I can’t bear the sight of that woman.” +“I can tell you more,” continued Prince Vasíli, seizing her hand, +“I can’t help it,” said the prince. “Lavater would have said I +“I can’t. I’ve sworn not to. I won’t drink and won’t play till +“I can’t make out at all,” said Nesvítski. +I can’t,” replied Bolkónski, smiling. +“I can’t tell you how much I have lived through since then. I hardly +ice and into the water and oftenest of all among the crowd that covered +ice. Crowds of soldiers from the dam began running onto the frozen pond. +“Ice pudding, but you won’t get any,” said Márya Dmítrievna. +“I come from the archduchess’. I heard nothing there.” +“I commanded a squadron,” replied Repnín. +“I confess I do not understand: perhaps there are diplomatic +I confess I understand very little about all these matters of wills and +I consider it my duty to let you know of it. He is said to be very +I could not have done it myself, I should not have had the courage, but +I dare say, is braver than any of them. He says nothing about his +idea of the means by which our holy Order will help you to reach your +“I did not expect this of you,” said the staff captain seriously and +I did not think he would get it to you so quickly.... Well, how are you? +“I did not... What is it all about?” inquired Prince Andrew +idiot!... But what’s the good?...” and he waved his arm. +idleness, but would grow fat and die. The third thing—what else was +idlers have failed to beat the Germans. Since the world began everybody +idle, vicious life!” but dared not break the silence. +“I’d like to put you on a two days’ march with a knapsack! Your +I doing? Aren’t they laughing at me? Shan’t I be ashamed to remember +I do not begin, sire, because we are not on parade and not on the +“I do not know what you think, Father,” whispered the princess. +“I do not think I have complained of my wife to you, Másha, or blamed +“I do not understand,” said Pierre, feeling with dismay doubts +I do not yet know. There will be time enough to think about love when I +“I don’t at all say that all the plans are good,” said Prince +“I don’t even know what is in this paper,” said the younger of +“I... don’t...” he muttered, holding up two fingers to his cap. +“I don’t know, General....” +“I don’t know. I think if he writes, I will write too,” she said, +“I don’t like your Mademoiselle Bourienne at all,” said Prince +“I don’t like you to talk like that.” +“I don’t myself know ‘to who,’” replied the cornet in a +“I don’t say it’s a plan I approve of,” said the son; “I am +I don’t speak of Anatole, your youngest. I don’t like him,” she +“I don’t understand,” he said, “how it is that the mind of man +“I don’t understand it,” replied Prince Andrew. “Women who are +“I don’t understand, Mamma—what is his attitude to Pierre?” +“I don’t understand!” said Prince Andrew. +“I don’t understand. What’s it all about?” +I don’t want him.” (He looked at his blushing daughter.) “Are you +I don’t want to have you like our silly ladies. Get used to it and +I envy him, but you want to make him what I am, without giving him my +“I expected help from you and I get none, none from you either!” +“I expect so.” +if about to tell a good story he put down the cards, leaned back in his +if all the powers of his soul were concentrated on passing the commander +“If anyone comes meddling again,” said he, emitting the words +If a soldier, he should be dressed in regulation uniform like the +If at first the members of the council thought that Kutúzov was +“If at least we had some women here; but there’s nothing foh one +“If Buonaparte remains on the throne of France a year longer,” the +if but one stage nearer Znaim. The offer of a truce gave the only, and +if complaining of Kutúzov. +“If he could attack us, he would have done so today,” said he. +“If he” (he meant the enemy) “begins popping at the bridge now,” +if he intended to say something, but immediately, with affected +“If he is better, ask Pierre to dine with us. He has been to the +“If he is one of the ordinary little staff dandies sent to earn a +If he is standing before Brünn...” +“If he starts a row I’ll go away,” said Prince Anatole. “I +“If He were not,” he said quietly, “you and I would not be +If, however, the Emperor of Russia ratifies that convention, I will +“If I’d been in Nikólenka’s place I would have killed even more +“If I have time,” answered Nicholas. “But I promised the +if in search of something. Before dinner the old prince, of whom she was +if in search of something. On his way to the aunt he bowed to the little +“If it does not weigh a hundredweight and won’t break my neck... +if it is to last. Prince Vasíli knew this, and having once realized +“If it is true that Monsieur Denísov has made you a proposal, tell +“If it were not for my sincere affection and devotion to Uncle,” +“If it were true that he has been beaten, news would have come.” +“If I were Tsar I would never go to war,” said Nesvítski, turning +“If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no +If not it is merely a question of settling where the preliminaries of +“If only I knew that anything besides humiliation would come of +“If only they would be quick!” thought Rostóv, feeling that at last +if she had not meant it seriously. It makes it as if you were marrying +if the whole world had gone crazy.” +“If they had known that you wished it, the entertainment would have +if to say that this was no more than she had expected. +“If we fought before,” he said, “not letting the French pass, as +“If we get to Vienna I’ll get rid of it there but in these wretched +“If we live we shall see,” replied Bilíbin, his face again becoming +if we occupy the villages of Sokolnitz and Kobelnitz, whereby we +if you are in love, marry him!” said the countess, with a laugh of +“If you are refusing for my sake, I am afraid that I...” +“If you are resolved, I must begin your initiation,” said the Rhetor +“If you had told me sooner, Mamma, I would have gone,” she replied +if you have firmly resolved to join our Brotherhood.” (Pierre nodded +“If you have nothing better to do, Count (or Prince), and if the +“If you like, your honor!” +“If you please, your excellency, Pétrusha has brought some papers,” +“If you really want it,” said he. +“If you, sir, choose to make a buffoon of yourself,” he said +if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that +“If you won’t answer, I’ll tell you...” Hélène went on. “You +I get reinstated.” +“I had not the pleasure of seeing you,” said Prince Andrew, coldly +I had to express my own desire...” She had no time to finish. The old +“I have.” +“I have already refused,” she said hurriedly. +“I have already told you, Papa,” said his son, “that if you +I have a presentiment that for the first time I shall have to show all +“I have come to you with a message and an offer, Count,” he +“I have come with my mother to see the count, but it seems he is not +“I have done my best for him, and I can assure you the education there +I have done that though badly and to a small extent; but I have done +“I have four sons in the army but still I don’t fret. It is all +I have had a letter from my brother, who announces his speedy arrival +“I have had a proposition made me concerning you,” he said with an +“I have heard of you, my dear sir,” continued the stranger, “and +“I have met loving, noble, high-minded men, but I have not yet met +“I have no money with me,” he said. +“I have not referred to this out of curiosity, my dear sir, but for +“I haven’t been in the room. It must be where you put it.” +I have received what was due from the Ryazán estate and will keep it; +“I have said nothing to you, but you have already been talked to. And +“I have seen as much before now, mate!” +“I have the honor to congratulate you. General Mack has arrived, quite +“I have the honor to present myself,” repeated Prince Andrew rather +“I have the pleasure of addressing Count Bezúkhov, if I am not +I have written that he should make use of you in proper places and not +“I hear you have given orders to harness,” she cried, panting (she +“I... hope... for guidance... help... in regeneration,” said Pierre, +“I hope this will prove the last drop that will make the glass run +“I imagine that Freemasonry is the fraternity and equality of men who +“I?... I’m going to Petersburg,” answered Pierre, in a childlike, +“I intended to re-form them beyond the village, your excellency,” +“I? I? What of me? Leave me out of the question. I’m not going to +“I knew someone who received that sacrament seven times.” +“I knew the princess at once,” put in Mademoiselle Bourienne. +“I knew you would be here,” replied Pierre. “I will come to supper +I know for certain that you won’t marry her.” +“I know from reliable sources that the Dowager Empress is taking a +“I know, I know,” answered Prince Vasíli in his monotonous voice. +“I know,” interrupted Bilíbin, “you’re thinking it’s very +“I know it and shall prove it,” said Rostóv. +“I know, my dear, kind princess,” said Anna Mikháylovna, seizing +“I know people consider me a bad man!” he said. “Let them! I +“I know that no one can help if nature does not do her work,” said +“I know the will was made, but I also know that it is invalid; +“I know who has taken it,” repeated Rostóv in an unsteady voice, +“I know your heart,” repeated the prince. “I value your friendship +“I know your outlook,” said the Mason, “and the view of life you +I know you will pray over it. Well, pray if you like, but you had better +“I’ll drink it! Let’s have a bottle of rum!” shouted Pierre, +illegitimate.” +I’ll find you another place.” +“I’ll flatten you into a pancake!” shouted the angry officer to +I’ll flog you all.” +I’ll go to the general and ask him.” He readjusted himself in the +ill! I was only there a few moments and hardly said a word...” +I’ll just finish dealing, and then Ilyúshka will come with his +“I’ll kill you!” he shouted, and seizing the marble top of a table +I’ll let her see....” +“I’ll let two more letters pass, but the third I’ll read,” said +ill luck takes us. They say we are going to Olmütz, and Olmütz is a +“Illness or not, he’d better not cwoss my path. I’d kill him!” +illness. Prince Vasíli said something to Lorrain in passing and went +“I’ll really call in on the nuns,” he said to the officers who +I’ll see.” The old prince snorted. “Let her marry, it’s all the +“I’ll show you, I’ll show you! It’s not a secret. And it’s a +“I’ll sing for you a whole evening,” said Natásha. +ill-suited to the family circle of which Pierre was almost a member. +I’ll teach you to think!” and lifting his stick he swung it and +“I’ll tell you what, my dear fellow,” said Prince Andrew, who +“I’ll trust you.” +illumined, and plunge him into the depths of unknown and undefined +I love so that I would give my life for them, and the others I’d + * “I love you.” + * I love you. +“I love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you +Ilyá has sent you to ask for strawberries and fresh pineapples.’ We +Ilyúshka, the one who danced at Count Orlóv’s, you remember, in a +imagination a new plan of life. On the previous evening at the Lodge, he +imagine...” +imagined only important possibilities: “If the enemy attacks the right +imagined oppressors whose victims he would rescue. Of the three +imagine that their children have no secrets from them. “I know I shall +imagining himself before his own officers, insisted on his soldierly +“I make bold to ask your excellency to move a little for this +I’m alive, that is not my fault, so I must live out my life as best I +“I’m certain of it; you’ll see.” +“I’m glad,” answered Dólokhov briefly and clearly, as the song +“I’m glad, glad, to see you,” he said, looking attentively into +immediately. +immediately.” +immediately brightened on seeing Rostóv. “Schön gut Morgen! Schön +immediately broke off. The door of the private room opened and Kutúzov +“Immediately, Prince,” said Kozlóvski. “Dispositions for +immediately starting to run along the hall and up the warped steps of +immediately told him that this man could be useful, and without any +immense force upon Kutúzov’s line of communication with the troops +immensity of the power they constituted. +immobile for a few moments. Then wrinkles ran over his face like a wave +“I’m not a goose, but they are who cry about trifles,” said +“I’m not such a fool.... Just you try it on.... Allez-vous +“I’m not to blame that the conversation began in the presence of +“‘I most ardently desire,’ writes the King of Prussia to +impassive face of Oriental type, came out after the commander in chief. +impassive face?” Prince Andrew asked himself as he looked. Prince +impatience, while the princess jumped up and with a gesture of +impatient and sets to work himself and finds letters from the Emperor +impatiently. +impatiently, “I came here not to wrangle with you, but to talk about +impatient the nearer they got to Moscow. +impending action. From privates to general they were not expecting a +impending battle, under a heading which he also read out: +imperials ... or do you wish to make it a hundred?” added he, +imperturbable calm she did not begin to speak in front of the valet. +impetus, and Princess Mary long remembered the dying creak of that +implied that, for certain considerations he could not know of, this was +importance, he returned again, called back the cook and the club +importance of the rite now being performed and even approved of it. He +important and unimportant, all of whom he knew, as if they were all +important post in Vienna. Both the foreign minister and our ambassador +important. What is important are the rights of man, emancipation from +impossible...” +Impossible!” And suddenly he was seized by a panic of fear for himself +“Impossible!” cried Prince Andrew. “That would be too base.” +impossible for him to return to his former conception of her, that he +impossible not to notice his face. Dólokhov was a man of small means +impossible... Oh, how pleasant it was at home!... The knave, double or +impossible to stop him, she rallied her forces and joined the vicomte in +impressionable, smiling young faces (smiling probably at their own +impression. “But that is a matter of perfect indifference to me,” he +impression his news of a victory would create, or recalling the send-off +impression of those voices and faces and a sense of loneliness merged +impressions of the recent battle, picturing pleasantly to himself the +impression. Whether Dolgorúkov and Weyrother, or Kutúzov, Langeron, +impressively, blocking the way to the bedroom and preventing the other +improvement. His satire has been less bitter of late, and there was a +“I’m quite worn out by these callers. However, I’ll see her and +“I must also inform you,” said the Rhetor, “that our Order +“I must have that purse, I tell you,” shouted Denísov, shaking his +I myself have experienced ... and so ... because ... No, excuse me! +In 1806 the old prince was made one of the eight commanders in chief +in a bad temper, and in the morning Tíkhon had already advised the +inability to enter a room and converse in it was, however, redeemed by +in accord with his intentions. Prince Andrew noticed, however, that +in a cheerful voice: +In a corner of the hut stood a standard captured from the French, and +In a corner of the room something red and tiny gave a grunt and squealed +inactive and has left the university to join the army. I will confess to +inactive, would also soon have to meet the enemy. +In a day or two we shall all have to take part in a greater and more +in all sincerity—not as a future Mason but as an honest man: have you +in amazement. +“In a minute, in a minute,” he said, dipping his pen. +“In a moment. À propos,” she added, becoming calm again, “I am +In a moment the men came running gaily from their campfires and began +in, and sinking heavily into an armchair. +“In an hour’s time, I should say.” +in any case. He has forwarded me a letter from Borís. Thank God, Borís +inappropriate, she was unable to stop him. +in a shovel—the guests who had been scattered about in different rooms +in a tone only used by persons who are certain that those they call will +in attaching himself as an orderly officer to Prince Bagratión. He now +inattentive, but you had talent—oh yes, you had talent!” +inaudible, voice. +“In a word, a hearty one...” said the subaltern, laughing (the +in Bonaparte’s address to his army at the beginning of the campaign, +In Brünn everybody attached to the court was packing up, and the heavy +incessantly, repeating Petersburg reminiscences and even phrases. Prince +in chief, and from the noisy laughter of the Cossacks holding the +in chief’s office were gathered Kutúzov himself, Weyrother, and the +in chief would be. Though the aide-de-camp did not know these +in clean notes, was lying ready under a handkerchief on the countess’ +inclination—practical business. +income which was said to amount to five hundred thousand rubles a year, +incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was +in comparison with eternity?” +incomprehensible—the death of one she loved. +In consequence of this discovery his whole manner of life, all +inconvenient, unseemly, and impossible to do so. +in conversation—Count Rostopchín, Prince Yúri Dolgorúkov, Valúev, +in couples and he himself rode along the line trying to master the +increased tenfold, and their life, which seemed to have been passed in +increasing, seemed like someone’s breathing. He listened intently to +incredible, unheard-of, and impossible event of a Russian defeat, + * “Indeed, Sire, we shall do everything it is possible to +“Indeed? Yes, yes!” said Borís, with a smile. “And we too have +indicated that if he was not dancing it was because he would not and not +indicating a captive French dragoon who was being brought in on foot by +indicating her to the gentlemen, said: “Voilà Marie!” Princess Mary +indication of something new and stern showed round the mouth. +indications, he saw clearly that the allies believed him to be far away +indifference, began to hum to himself, producing a queer sound which +indifferent air, and glanced into the little drawing room. Pierre and +indifferent hands of the Minister of War and the polite adjutant. The +indifferently quiescent till the moment when motion is transmitted +indifferently to his wife’s chatter with Prince Hippolyte who had also +indignantly. “I come to ask you what to do, and you call it +indiscretion, nodded and said: “I hope to see you again, but I also +indiscretion, one might ask about our plans. +in discussion with the sole object of offending one another. But the +indisposition was the strong impression made on his sensitive mind by +indistinct words, shrugging his shoulders and gesticulating. +individual commanders and inquiring into details of the action and our +I need.” But when he came across a man of position his instinct +“I never could understand how Nataly made up her mind to marry that +“I never go back on my word,” he said. “Besides, Sónya is so +“I never invited them. They came to disturb my life—and there is not +inevitable pain showed itself. +inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. But you are +in exactly the same manner. Nesvítski laughed and nudged the others to +infamous, vile woman!” +infantry. +infantry and cavalry and took up its appointed position. Not only the +infantry, and having reached the village of Gruntersdorf they halted. It +infantry, cavalry, and artillery. How was it that two guns were +infantry in different uniforms; now was heard the rhythmic beat of +infantry officer who just before the battle had rushed out of +infants in arms met him to thank him for releasing them from hard +inflammable material on the bridge must be reinspected.” +Influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized +influence of a variety of exciting sensations. Only Pierre and +influence of the dark, graceful girl who loved another. +informed him of a victory and stated strategically the position of the +informing the prince that as soon as the action began he had withdrawn +“Inform the prince that I the bridge fired!” said the colonel +“Inform the prince that labor has begun,” said Mary Bogdánovna, +in four different provinces. He had arranged this for himself so as to +in French. +in French out of all this, showing all the news we have had of the +in front of him and that the enemy must be at least six miles away. +in front of him was misty darkness. Rostóv could see nothing, peer as +in front of them, and that the columns moving near Pratzen constituted +In front of them rows of gray cloaks were already visible through the +In general at Bald Hills the little princess lived in constant fear, and +“In general we must turn this bloodthirsty soldier to more humane +in geometry were among the greatest delights of her life. +in God’s hands. You may die in your bed or God may spare you in a +in good spirits, he mounted his horse and rode out into the field +ingratiating and appealing smile, and took his hand that he might not go +in Great Russia, which formed the larger part of his property, and left +inhabitants on whom they were quartered. Braunau was the headquarters of +In half an hour all was again in order, only the squares had become gray +in hand. +in her eyes, which, for an instant, glanced at Pierre, Prince Vasíli +inheritance; but I do know that since this young man, whom we all used +in his fine gray eyes, and on his delicate lips the same capacity for +in his hand, was sitting there with a smile of deep emotion on his face, +in his horse before the Emperor. +in his horse, said to him: +in his large elongated hand on blue paper as follows: +in his mind an unsettled question he always tried to stifle, one about +in his movements, in his walk, scarcely a trace was left of his former +in his saddle. +in his tone, “my dear,” whether they were above or below him in +in his voice a sincerity and weakness Pierre had never observed in it +in his writing table, and this is a paper he has forgotten....” +in.’ I do not know how far he was justified in saying so.” +in it by spring. +injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing +In Kiev Pierre found some people he knew, and strangers hastened to make +in killed, wounded, sick, and stragglers; though a number of sick and +in Kishenëv with only a Moldavian peasant woman to help instead of a +in lace-frilled drawers, and feet in low slippers—was just at that +in life, one she had not yet experienced, irreparable and +in love. The marshals stood behind him not venturing to distract his +in love with the Tsar,” he said. +in Mary Bogdánovna’s trembling white hands. +in me. I have been told that her brother Anatole was in love with her +in military matters. +in my opinion was nothing of the kind. We civilians, as you know, have +inner laboratory of his mind in a portable form as if intentionally, so +innocent and untried?” +innocent youth. +in November, 1805, announcing that he and his son would be paying him +In November, 1805, Prince Vasíli had to go on a tour of inspection +in no way binding) might give time for part of the transport to pass, +inn, where two roads parted. Both of them led downhill and troops were +In October, 1805, a Russian army was occupying the villages and towns of +in on bad company. Rostóv flushed up on noticing this, but he did not +In one company dinner was ready, and the soldiers were gazing eagerly +in only his stockings, rose when they entered, smiling not altogether +in our army. His own strategic plan, which obviously could not now +in our house, aren’t they?” +in our lack of understanding we see only our weakness and His +“In our temples we recognize no other distinctions,” read the Grand +In passing Prince Vasíli seized Pierre’s hand and said to Anna +in perplexity, and only later grasped that a stroke was an attack of +in Petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day +In Petersburg, as in Moscow, Pierre found the same atmosphere of +in Princess Drubetskáya’s case he felt, after her second appeal, +in pure, correct French many interesting details about the armies and +inquiring look. He was about to stoop over her hand and kiss it, but +inquiringly at the young prince, wondering what would follow. +inquiring what she was to do with these people. On leaving them, Anna +inquiry. The son noticed that an expression of profound sorrow suddenly +in retirement and had now no influence in political affairs, every high +in Rostóv’s soul! And this something was apart from everything else +insane—unprofitable to himself, to the count, and to the serfs—made +in separate piles, began counting them. +“In short, hoping to settle matters by taking up a warlike attitude, +insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and +in silence, and then the same joke was repeated. +in society it seems as if there were something in them, but there’s +insolent, hard, and mocking face as he had seen it at the banquet, and +insolent intelligence of his eyes, produced an effect which made it +insoluble. +in some respects a brilliant match for the dowerless, orphan girl. From +in some way essential. +inspired by the Emperors’ presence were eager for action. The +in spite of himself (although he knew how far it was safe to trust +In spite of Prince Andrew’s disagreeable, ironical tone, in spite of +in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the Austrian +In spite of the animation of his speech, Bilíbin did not forget to +in spite of this, both the face and words of his new acquaintance were +instantly dropped them again. All the blood which had seemed congested +Instantly his regret at not having been in action and his dejected mood +instead of black. The regimental commander walked with his jerky steps +instead of firing it, flung it at the Frenchman and ran with all his +instead of that he only excited himself more and more. +in step, and each one of these hundreds of soldiers seemed to be +instructing in reading, writing, and religion. On all his estates Pierre +instructions his father had sent and taking the correspondence and his +instructions to Major Ekonómov, he could not help taking notice of the +instrument he could not begin to speak. +insufficient, and he kept expecting something more, more and yet more. +intellectual pride,” said the princess, following the train of her own +intelligent, and resolute young man. +intelligent, how is it you don’t see that if the count has written a +intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously. The general looked the +intended for you too. Give them to the woman whom you shall honor most +intended to take up our position and begin the action, but were on this +intended to visit all his estates and see for himself how far his orders +intending to rest if but for a moment, eat something, and try to sort +intends to expose his precious person to the chances of war. God grant +intention of killing your man as quickly and surely as possible, and +intention of proposing, and today or tomorrow he would probably ask +intention should he try to direct his whole force against our faithful +intention to part from her forever. +intercourse with young women. +interested the Minister of War less than any of the other matters he was +interesting.” +interesting and entertaining. After the field marshal’s departure +interesting but hardly feasible.” +interests,” said Bilíbin. +interfere, making a scene on the very threshold of a dying man’s room? +interpreted. The life of old Prince Bolkónski, Prince Andrew, and +interrupting one another and mingling with the rustling of dresses and +intervene. Prince Andrew looked at Túshin from under his brows and his +interview? Why negotiate, and above all why retreat, when to retreat is +“In that case...” began Willarski, but Pierre interrupted him. +“In that case he is inviting his doom by awaiting our attack,” said +“In that case we can go,” said Willarski. “My carriage is at your +in that happy mood in which everything seems possible and everything +in the afternoon, having made all his calls, he was returning to +in the army, besides the subordination and discipline prescribed in the +in the assurance that the rumors about the Emperor being wounded were +In the autumn of 1806 everybody had again begun talking of the war with +In the autumn the Rostóvs returned to Moscow. Early in the winter +in the baggage train he had passed that morning on the Znaim road seven +In the beginning of the winter of 1805-6 Pierre received one of Anna +in the best possible manner, and feeling that he was doing it well he +in the common motion the result and aim of which are beyond its ken. +in the country.” +In the count’s room, which was full of tobacco smoke, they talked +In the darkness, it seemed as though a gloomy unseen river was flowing +In the deathlike stillness only the tramp of horses was heard. This +In the dining room, which like all the rooms in the house was +in the drawing room, talking to the little princess and Mademoiselle +In the drawing room the conversation was still going on. +in the drawing room, waiting for Borís to come out. She was already +In the Emperor’s suite all exchanged rapid looks that expressed +In the Emperors’ suite were the picked young orderly officers of the +In the evening, after supper, when all were about to retire, Anatole +In the evening Andrew and Pierre got into the open carriage and drove to +in the evening,” reported Rostóv, stooping forward with his hand at +In the fresh morning air were now heard, not two or three musket shots +in the garden, or superintending the building that was always going on +in the hair, the hair combed up, and the blue scarf arranged lower on +in the house on the Povarskáya rose before him with such vividness, +in the house was done in haste at that time), and Pierre and Anna +In their childlike glee, aroused by the fire and their luck in +in their own play. +in their power. +In the letter from his parents was enclosed a letter of recommendation +in the light of the dull autumn evening, mounted men coming toward him. +in the meadow behind the village, three of them are dragging something. +in the mean jocular way common to anonymous letters said that he saw +In the meantime, not only was it known in the maidservants’ rooms that +In the middle of his story, just as he was saying: “You cannot imagine +in the middle of the line that had seemed so terrible—and now he +In the midst of a conversation on political matters Anna Pávlovna burst +In the midst of the third écossaise there was a clatter of chairs being +in the military profession, so to an even greater extent Bilíbin gave +in the mist. +In the morning all that was left of the night mist on the heights was +In the morning Anna Mikháylovna said to Pierre: +In the night he called his valet and told him to pack up to go to +in the other the letter, and pressing them alternately to her lips. +In the passage Denísov, with a pipe, was squatting on the threshold +In the rearguard, Dokhtúrov and others rallying some battalions kept up +In the room next their bedroom there was a confusion of sabers, +in the same order in which they had entered but with redder faces, the +in the same tone. +in the same tone. +In the second room of the inn the lieutenant was sitting over a dish of +“In the seventh place, try, by the frequent thought of death,” the +in the small circular room. Around the table all who were at Count +In the spring of 1807 he decided to return to Petersburg. On the way he +in the streets of Petersburg in an old uniform. He made friends with +in the sutler’s hut without his boots.” He recognized the agreeable, +In the third circle, Narýshkin was speaking of the meeting of the +in the Viennese drawing rooms and often had an influence on matters +In the village of Hosjeradek there were Russian troops retiring from +in the world and above everything in the world. “What were losses, and +in this part of the house and did not even know of the existence of +In this room it was almost dark; only two tiny lamps were burning before +intimately. Prince Andrew spoke with some animation and interest only of +intimately regretted that he had died so young, leaving a pregnant wife +into a careless, merry smile. “What am I? An illegitimate son!” +into action as arranged, and after going behind other columns for +“Into action! Into action! Bring him a bottle for such news! But how +into Borís’ eyes. After he had gone Pierre continued pacing up and +into her heart an impulse that was against His will. My wife—as she +into her radiant smile. +into his room one evening in the official and ceremonious manner in +in to inform the commander in chief of this and, availing himself +“In token of obedience, I ask you to undress.” +intonation, look, and expression, pricked up her ears from the beginning +in too”—different voices were saying in the crowd, as the men looked +into sobs. +into step with a hop, looked back angrily, and through the ominous +into the corridor and met—coming out of the door of the Emperor’s +into the distance, at the waters of the Danube, at the sky, and at the +Into the insignificant, trifling, and artificial interests uniting that +in to the Minister of War. Five minutes later he returned and bowing +into the naïvely symmetrical pose of an Egyptian statue, evidently +in to the utmost, their red necks squeezed into their stiff collars, and +into the valley. He greeted the men of the foremost regiment and gave +into the water. He tried to right himself but fell in up to his waist. +into the water, or when he challenged a man to a duel without any +into which we have been drawn, God knows how or why. Not only where you +intoxication. He felt as though he were the center of some important and +Intriguer!” she hissed viciously, and tugged with all her might at the +invalid chair, a wax taper in his left hand, was leaning his left arm on +invalid,” said Anna Pávlovna, exchanging an alarmed glance with her +invent him,” said the wit Shinshín, parodying the words of Voltaire. +in Vienna knew him and valued him. He was not one of those many +invincibility of the French, and the Minister of War does not even care +invitation to Anna Pávlovna’s reception and had sat listening to +involuntarily came closer to him. +involuntarily, came up and sat down beside him. +involuntarily noticed that one of them was bleeding, and galloped on. +involuntarily, so much so that the only thing left to do seemed to be +in war on our own frontiers, with and for the King of Prussia. We have +in which Kutúzov entrusted them to the humanity of the enemy; and +in Zherkóv, looking uneasily around. He had not seen the hussars all +“I often think,” she continued after a short pause, drawing nearer +“I often think, though, perhaps it’s a sin,” said the princess, +Iogel’s were the most enjoyable balls in Moscow. So said the mothers +I only wanted to know your opinion,” and Anna Pávlovna let Pierre go. +“I ought to tell you that I do not believe... do not believe in +“I peg of you yourself not to mix in vot is not your business!” +“I promised to pay tomorrow,” said Nicholas. +“I quite understand,” answered Princess Mary, with a sad smile. +I really take it? How fortunate!” he thought. +“I recognize you only too well, too well.” +“I rely on you, my dear,” said Anna Pávlovna, also in a low tone. +“I request you to have the goodness to change your coat,” he said as +ironical voice. +irreparable. There was no insult on either side. Allow me to +irrepressible hatred. +irreproachably washed, brushed, and buttoned, held his pipe in the +irresistible human need for sleep. He really was asleep. Weyrother, with +irresistibly attractive to Pierre. +irresolution communicated itself to the men. +irritation. +“I said from the first,” declared Anna Pávlovna referring to +is all I have to say to you. The count is very, very ill, and you must +is a mob of scoundrels and not an army,” he was thinking as he went +is an admirable book which calms and elevates the soul. Adieu! Give +is a very good thing, but not for you—I don’t suppose you ever had +“I saw him myself,” replied the man with a self-confident smile of +“I saw the Pávlograd hussars attack there, your excellency,” chimed +“I saw you riding this morning...” he added. +“I say, Berg, my dear fellow,” said Rostóv, “when you get a +“I say, come round some evening and we’ll have a game of faro!” +“I say, Father, joking apart, is she very hideous?” Anatole asked, +“I say, Fédeshon!... Did he say when the battles are to begin? You +“I say, Rostóv,” said Dólokhov clearly, smiling and looking +“I say, shall we soon be clear? They say the cavalry are blocking the +“I say so,” he continued desperately, “because the Bourbons fled +“I say, this is folly! He’ll be killed,” said this more sensible +“I say, we’ve been in the front line! Our regiment attacked!” said +is betraying us! Russia alone must save Europe. Our gracious sovereign +is called weak character, do not seek a confidant in their troubles. He +is connected with the Montmorencys through the Rohans, one of the best +is Denísov!” +“Is everything quite all right?” +is for myself.” +is going as a cadet. There’s no one to interest himself for him. To +is good to have a friend like the prince,” she said, smiling at Prince +“I shall always remember that in this world one must expect no reward, +“I shall at any rate not run after a young man before visitors...” +“I shall be delighted to meet them,” said the prince. “But +I shall be in a more prominent position,” continued Berg, “and +I shall be very charmed to see you tonight between 7 and 10—Annette +I shall conclude will be worthy of my people, of you, and of myself. +I shall expect you, Drubetskóy. Au revoir!” exclaimed Prince Andrew, +“I shall probably die before you. So remember, these are my memoirs; +“I shall scarcely be able to avail myself of your hospitality, +“Is he really to be my husband, this stranger who is so kind—yes, +“I should like,” said the vicomte, “to ask how monsieur explains +“I should like to go to Kurágin’s,” thought he. +“I should like to speak well of them, but as far as I know the facts, +“I should never dare to say that I know the truth,” said the Mason, +“I should not be doing my duty, Count,” he said in timid tones, +“I should think he has a score of them.” +“I should think not,” said Véra, “because there can never be +“‘I showed them the path to glory, but they did not follow +is how I explain it to myself. It can’t be helped!” +is interrupted. He listened to what Langeron said, as if remarking, +“Is it certain?” she said. +“Is it for visitors you’ve got yourself up like that, eh?” said +“Is it possible?” exclaimed Anna Mikháylovna. “Oh, how awful! +“Is it true that Austrians have been beaten?” asked Dólokhov. +“Is it worth while noticing trifles?” He reined in his horse with +is much better than ours.” +is my witness,” and she made the sign of the cross, “I love her so +is not abashed now, so she cannot be a bad woman!” He had often begun +is nothing but a trick! He has retreated and ordered the rearguard to +is not my fault that I want it and want nothing but that and live only +is not so, then...” +is now on the staff.” +is now rushing along the road to Brünn and will be here in a day or +isn’t it logical? +“Isn’t she exquisite?” she said to Pierre, pointing to the stately +“Isn’t she too young? I have heard that it harms the voice to train +“Is Papa at home?” he asked. +is pua’ as on the fihst day of cweation... Who’s that now? Send him +is so fond of?” He remembered his mother’s love for him, and his +is so I don’t know...” +is, stormed and stormed and stormed! It was not a matter of life but +is such men as he who decide the fate of nations,” added Bolkónski +“Is that Mary practicing? Let’s go quietly and take her by +“Is that so? And what did he say?” inquired Bolkónski. +is that the Emperor is here. How he looked at me and wished to say +is the baby born?” +“Is the Englishman bragging?... Eh? Is it all right?” said Anatole. +is the one held by the majority of people, and is the invariable fruit +is the only difference between them.” He said this smiling in a way +is the only thing left me—not singing!” his thoughts ran on. “Go +“Is there sufficient forage in Krems?” +“Is this good or bad?” Pierre asked himself. “It is good for me, +“Is this the way to the princesses’ apartments?” asked Anna +“Is this your saber?” asked Pétya. “Or is it yours?” he said, +“Is this your saber?” he shouted. +“I still can’t understand what you are afraid of,” said Prince +is to take care of yourself. Leave it to those who are no longer fit for +is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky. There is nothing, +is very unhappy with her father. She is a relation of yours, Princess +it. +it. +it.” +it?” +Italian: “‘Dio mi l’ha dato. Guai a chi la tocchi!’’ +Italian to give her lessons.” +“It all depends on the bringing up,” remarked the visitor. +it all very well for Prince Vasíli told me himself. Besides, Cyril +Italy and on the Rhine; how fifty thousand Russians and as many English +it. And he is so clever and so good!” said Natásha. “Don’t +it and saw Telyánin’s horse at the porch. +it and wished to hear it again. In her voice there was a virginal +it...” answered her son coldly. “But I have promised and will do it +it appears that we are within sight of the enemy and must give battle. +it at that age.” +it. At that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over +it. But at that moment an adjutant galloped up with a message from the +it can’t be a square—for they are not drawn up for that.” +“It can’t be helped! It happens to everyone!” said the son, with +It can’t be helped!” said the count, shrugging his shoulders and +“It can’t be!” said Rostóv. “It must have been someone else.” +it dashed, some forward and some back, drowning one another. +it, easily find a way to prepare for the enemy the fate he deserves. +I tell her how I’ve seen the Emperor?) Natásha... take my +I tell you Buonaparte was a great tactician? Here, he says the same +I tell you he is in our hands, that’s certain! But what was most +“I tell you,” shouted Denísov, “he’s a fine fellow.” +it escape from his handsome mouth in rings. This was Lieutenant Berg, an +it. Feel in your pockets.” +it. Fr... fr... fr! And don’t I see that that idiot had eyes only for +it had appeared. The count sat on the sofa between two guests who were +it had the commander in chief continued to look at him, and so Kutúzov, +“It has begun. Here it is!” thought Prince Andrew, feeling the +“I... that’s different. Why speak of me? I don’t want any other +“I think I may congratulate you,” whispered Anna Pávlovna to the +“I think,” said the prince with a smile, “that if you had been +“I think the battle will be lost, and so I told Count Tolstóy and +I think there were not many such gallant sons of the fatherland out +“I thought perhaps something had happened,” she said with her +“I thought today’s fete had been canceled. I confess all these +it. If you refuse him on my account, I must tell you the whole truth. I +it is a bit of Mack. We are Macked),” he concluded, feeling that he +“It is all, all her fault,” he said to himself; “but what of that? +“It is all very well for Rostóv, whose father sends him ten thousand +“It is an illness, there’s no other way of explaining it,” said +“It is done!” she said to the count, pointing triumphantly to the +“It is dreadful, dreadful!” she was saying, “but cost me what it + It is for thee thus swells her heart, +“It is for the reasson, my goot sir,” said he, speaking with a +it is for you to talk or think of such matters. It is no easier for +it is. My dear pet!” +“It is now my turn to ask you ‘why?’ mon cher,” said Bolkónski. +“It is of great importance to me,” she said, turning with a smile +it is past midnight—cannot now be altered,” said he. “You have +it is said ‘There are thieves among the Pávlograd officers!’ But +“It is some letter of recommendation... what the devil do I want it +It is terrible to think.... This is my son,” she added, indicating +“It is the Buonapartists who say that,” replied the vicomte without +“It is the sword of Frederick the Great which I...” she began, but +“It is too late now, it’s done; besides I love her,” thought +“It is very good of you, Monsieur Pierre, to come and visit a poor +“It is very strange, mon Monsieur Prince,” said the staff officer. +it is. You must know. We will take it at once and show it to the +“It’ll be worse for you. Bogdánich is vindictive and you’ll pay +It’ll be worse if he fires the bridge. See, here’s an officer jammed +“It may be he or it may be nothing,” muttered the hussar. “It’s +“It may be treachery,” said Prince Andrew, vividly imagining the +it might really have been so? Could one possibly make out amid all that +“It must be one of ours, a prisoner. Yes. Can it be that they will +it necessary to introduce himself, and without experiencing the least +it, next day, November 15, after dinner he again went to Olmütz and, +“I told you it was all lumps and holes!” the little princess +it on his coat and supported himself with it. His frowning face was +it on something, and told him to hold a pair of compasses to his left +it, on the crest of the opposite hill, the village of Schön Grabern +it on the field at Schön Grabern. Young Rostóv’s ecstatic voice +it or not, and how they would cross it, agitated them all. +it, or why it had to be told in Russian, still Anna Pávlovna and the +it,’” Prince Andrew continued after a short silence, again quoting +it really happened, it would have been necessary to make an effort of +it right to refuse a duty to which he had been appointed by the Emperor +I trouble myself about you, and you also know quite well that what I +“It’s a bad business, eh?” +“It’s a bad business,” said the general without answering him, +“It’s a lackey’s job!” +“It’s all about the war,” the count shouted down the table. “You +“It’s all over; but I am a coward—yes, a coward!” thought +“It’s all the fault of these fellows on the staff that there’s +“It’s all the same now. If the Emperor is wounded, am I to try to +“It’s all the same to me,” he said. “I only want to see whether +“It’s all up! I’m lost!” thought he. “Now a bullet through my +“It’s all very well for you... I am not envious... I love you and + “It’s a long, long way. +“It’s a long time since we met,” he said. “Thanks for coming. +“It’s ancient history,” said another, guessing that it referred to +“It’s Andrew!” thought Princess Mary. “No it can’t be, that +“It’s a shame for a soldier to steal; a soldier must be honest, +“It’s as if a dam had burst,” said the Cossack hopelessly. “Are +It’s as if it had been done on purpose, on purpose. Besides, suppose +its broad temples and close-cropped hair, and looked at Bezúkhov. The +it’s definite and one is rid of the old tormenting doubt.” Pierre +“It’s different on different days,” answered the captain. “One +It seemed as if from some words Borís had spoken that evening about the +it seemed as if nothing in that voice could be altered without spoiling +it seemed quite natural that they should cry, and apparently it never +It seemed so natural to Pierre that everyone should like him, and it +It seemed to her that not only did everybody know that her fate would be +it seemed to him that he was being fired at. “What? What? What?... Cut +it seemed to Pierre, sunk in profound and calm meditation. His servant +it seemed to Pierre that he grew embarrassed. Pierre himself grew still +“It seems funny to me,” said Pierre, “that you, you should +“It seems that there will be no need to bring Mary out, suitors are +“It seems that while he was abroad this young man was allowed to do +itself?” +itself, a petty German town, Rostóv saw the Emperor again. In the +itself, rejoicing at the Emperors’ approach, had naturally burst into +itself to him. He was already enjoying that happiness when that +“It’s empty.” +its handsome, sensual mouth, and its cold, majestic expression, was +it, she was herself in such high spirits at that moment, so far from +“It’s impossible,” replied another. +“It’s in the inlaid portfolio that he keeps under his pillow,” +its last march the day before—presented a well-ordered array of two +it’s not all the same to us! Am I not right, Denísov? It’s not the +“It’s not at all from friendship,” declared Nicholas, flaring +“It’s not going to be a ghost story?” said he, sitting down beside +“It’s nothing, nothing; leave me alone!” sobbed Sónya. +“It’s nothing,” replied Prince Andrew. +It’s not pleasant, but what’s to be done, my dear fellow? You landed +“It’s not that I don’t remember—I know what he is like, but not +“It’s not there.” +“It’s not true!” +“It’s plain that they have not all gone yet, Prince,” said +it’s splendid. I am very glad to have made your acquaintance. It’s +“It’s that protégé of yours, that sweet Princess Drubetskáya, +“It’s the enemy?... No!... Yes, see it is!... for certain.... But +its thunder joining the roar of the whole line along which he had +It’s too late now when Vienna is occupied by the French army!” +It’s true he has been reinstated, but how could they fail to do that? +its upper lip covered with tiny black hair. +its use, he does not believe in the master who made it. To know Him is +its usual semblance of a smile. +“It’s wonderful what a lot of our troops have gathered, lads! Last +it. Telyánin took the purse and began carelessly slipping it into the +it timidly and tenderly on her son’s arm, “be affectionate and +it to be alleged that he had been the first to leave the range of fire, +it to its destination and make use of it. +it turns out that ‘the enemy of the human race’ pays no heed to +it turns out that we have landed ourselves in war, and what is more, +it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this +it under your head like a treasure,” said Rostóv. “I put it just +“It von’t go begging,” replied the German with a smile. +It was all that they could do to get the guns up the rise aided by the +“It was all they could do to rescue the poor man,” continued the +It was already quite dark when Prince Andrew rattled over the paved +It was a warm, rainy, autumnal day. The wide expanse that opened out +It was evident that he did not like the vicomte and was aiming his +it was evident that he performed his duty as a subordinate with even +It was evident that Prince Andrew was not interested in such abstract +It was evident that this strange, strong man was under the irresistible +it was impossible to get rid of them. +It was, in fact, solely to meet Prince Vasíli that she had obtained an +It was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna Pávlovna +It was just the moment before a big dinner when the assembled guests, +It was late in the evening when they entered the palace at Olmütz +it was long before their conversation could settle on anything. They +It was long since Rostóv had felt such enjoyment from music as he +It was long since the Rostóvs had news of Nicholas. Not till midwinter +“It was my fault, mon père,” interceded the little princess, with a +It was Napoleon accompanied by two aides-de-camp. Bonaparte riding +It was nine o’clock in the morning. The fog lay unbroken like a sea +It was no longer, as before, a dark, unseen river flowing through the +it was not so, that I had no right to do it. And so it turns out.” +It was not the dress, but the face and whole figure of Princess Mary +It was one of those March nights when winter seems to wish to resume its +It was past one o’clock when Pierre left his friend. It was a +It was plain that this cadet had already repeatedly asked for a lift and +It was plain that this “well?” referred to much that they both +It was pleasant and touching to see these little girls in love; but +It was Prince Andrew. The first thing he saw on riding up to the space +It was rumored that Savary had been sent to propose to Alexander +It was St. Natalia’s day and the name day of two of the Rostóvs—the +it was that the pain distracted him and prevented his seeing what he had +it was, the disorder was readily and naturally attributed to the stupid +“It was the officer, your honor, stained it,” answered the +It was the second night that neither of them had slept, watching the boy +It was true that a view over nearly the whole Russian position and the +it were not his. He examined his hand carefully, vainly trying to find +it were not my duty I would not talk to you for a moment”), was +it with you?...” +it won’t be your skirmishing at Dürrenstein, or gunpowder at all, +it worth thinking or speaking of it at such a moment? At a time of such +It would be different if you grudged losing a laborer—that’s how I +“It would be good,” thought Prince Andrew, glancing at the icon his +it would have been difficult for a face to express greater respect and +“It would have been hard to drive up, your honor,” he added. “I +It would not ache—it would be well—if only they did not pull it, but +“It would not be turned off the field even on the Tsarítsin +it!’ ‘Yes, let’s!’ say the others. And off they go and take the +it you talked about?” and Prince Andrew crooked a third finger. “Ah, +Ivánovich. He is in a very bad humor, very morose. Be prepared.” +Ivánovich Kutúzov: +Ivánovich (who always went into a corner to blow his nose on his +“I’ve been sent back to the regiment all on account of that devil, +“I’ve come to say good-by.” +“I’ve come to sit with you a bit, Másha,” said the nurse, “and +I’ve nothing against it,” the prince said to himself, “but he must +“I’ve seen him myself!” +“I want a great deal, Count! I want five hundred rubles,” and taking +“I want nothing, and I won’t be anyone’s adjutant.” +“I want to know!” +“I want to teach this young man how to shoe a horse,” said +“I was attached; I’m on duty.” +“I was coming to tell you so.” +“I was going to ask you. I know nothing except that it was all I could +I was right. Without boasting, you know, I may say that I know the Army +I was saying, Prince Vasíli is the next heir through his wife, but the +“I was there,” said Rostóv angrily, as if intending to insult the +I was to blame for not understanding her, for not understanding that +“I was told a charming Moscow story today and must treat you to it. +“I was very much surprised when I heard of it,” said Prince Andrew. +“I? What have I...?” stammered Pierre. +“I will allow no one to call me a liar!” cried Rostóv. “He told +“I will do it all, Father,” he said. +“I will do so,” said Prince Andrew, moving away from the map. +“I will give the order.” +“I will, I will, only tell me! You won’t? Then I will go and tell at +“I will,” replied Natásha. +“I will tell you frankly,” said Prince Vasíli in the tone of +“I will the bridge fire,” he said in a solemn tone as if to announce +“I will, your excellency,” said Timókhin, showing by his smile that +“I wished to get a nap, mon cousin, but I can’t.” +“I wonder, is it not too late to administer unction?” asked the +“I won’t say he is out of sorts, but I fancy he would like to be +“I won’t tell anyone!” and she ran off at once to Sónya. +jabbering! Fine, isn’t it? It’s all the Frenchy can do to keep up +jacket. +“Jacob, bring a bottle!” shouted the host, a tall, handsome fellow +jaw trembling and was hardly able to mutter: “I don’t know... your +jerked away his plate, which Tíkhon briskly caught. “Suvórov!... +jest. +jests and gossip. +Jests fell flat, news was not interesting, and the animation was +jest was unacceptable and had not come off. He grew confused. +“Je vous aime!” * he said, remembering what has to be said at such +jingling sound it presented arms. Then amidst a dead silence the +joined Kutúzov at Braunau now separated from the Russian army, and +joins the Allies, Austria’s hand will be forced and there will be war. +joke, and purposely trying to appear stupider than he really was. +jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a French battalion gets to +jolted over the stony road. Some of them were talking (he heard Russian +jovial old gentleman, who standing beside his tall and stout partner, +joy and happiness. On receiving the order he gave his horse the rein +joy at the approach of the Emperors. One voice was heard shouting: +joyful and mysterious taking place within her. +joyful, but an animal, squirrel-like expression. She paused as if she +joyful it seemed, that her son, the scarcely perceptible motion of whose +joyfully that the men themselves were awed by their multitude and the +joyfully up to Pierre. His face was so unusually triumphant that Pierre +joys and sorrows of this world—overflowed the great grief within her. +joy to give my Franz a thaler, or let him go with his Liebchen to the +JULIE +Julie wrote in French: +jumped down. He smelt strongly of rum. +jump, Túshin not taking his pipe from his mouth ran from gun to gun, +junction advisable, meant, among other arguments in support of his view, +just above his ear. +just as at Ulm... it is...”—he seemed to be trying to find the right +Just as he was going to open it the sounds ceased, the door opened, and +Just as he went in he saw that the nurse was hiding something from him +“Just as I may suppose you to be deluded,” said Pierre, with a faint +Just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable +Just as in the mechanism of a clock, so in the mechanism of the military +Just as Prince Andrew met Nesvítski and Zherkóv, there came toward +Just as Prince Andrew was a young man who gave promise of rising high +just as the architect, gardener, or Princess Mary did, till the prince +Just as the mother and son, having reached the middle of the hall, were +just at moments when such thoughts occurred to him, he would ask in a +Just before dinner, Count Ilyá Rostóv presented his son to Bagratión, +just come out of a hot bath.” +just completed. He lay with his head propped high on the pillows. His +just left.... It is true that it was hot there,” he added, modestly. +“Just look at the master! A regular eagle he is!” loudly remarked +just returned from abroad where he had been educated, and this was his +just returned from Vienna, two diplomatists, the old aunt, a young man +“Just see, the German sausage is making tracks, too!” +“Just see where it carries to!” a soldier near by said sternly, +just such a story—they would either not have believed him or, still +Just then a closed carriage and another with a hood drove up to the +Just then another visitor entered the drawing room: Prince Andrew +Just then at a distance behind Kutúzov was heard the sound of regiments +Just then Zherkóv entered the room. +“Just to flutter the nuns a bit. They say there are Italian girls +just under the icons; his large thick hands outside the quilt. Into the +just visible behind a screen. A small dog began to bark. +Kaiser Alexander hoch!” *(2) said he, quoting words often repeated by +Kámenski, visited the English Club, and was on intimate terms with a +Karl give no signs of life and make blunder after blunder. Kutúzov +keen interest in the whole affair. You know she is very gracious to +keen-sighted a companion. “You know, you see right through people. +keep from laughter provoked by a swarthy hussar officer who walked +keeping Pierre close beside her, entered the room even more boldly than +keep you long as an adjutant: a bad position! Tell him I remember +kept coming into her eyes. Anna Mikháylovna, with the letter, came on +kept looking round toward the drawing room door. It opened and Nicholas +kept turning his horse in front of the squadron. +kerchief, and the loose skin that hung under her chin. +Kiev province, where he had the greatest number of serfs, taking with +killed and if I have a son, do not let him be taken away from you—as I +killed anyone, or insulted or wished harm to anyone? Why such a terrible +killed by a cannon ball—struck in the breast before our regiment.” +killed.” Rook tried to rise on his forelegs but fell back, pinning his +Killed them, yes!” said he, frowning angrily and turning away from +killed, you are a fool and are lost for certain. But go with the firm +kill me.” But at the same time, his left arm felt as heavy as if +“Kill the Germans!” shouted one. +kind, because he has been a benefactor to them both. As Sterne says: +kindhearted, and because they—friends from childhood—had to think +kindle fires and make a noise to deceive us.” +Kindle in all hearts the flame of virtue. Share thy happiness with thy +“Kind...ly let—them—pass!” +“Kindly let this cart pass. Don’t you see it’s a woman?” said +“Kindly return to your posts,” said the staff officer trying to +kindly, smiling, handsome face and moist eyes. Nesvítski could hardly +kindness!” He turned to go. +kindness,” or, “With your excellent heart,” “You are yourself so +kind of talk, and at last all stopped. As often happens, the horses of +kind relation. But, Nataly, you know my love for my son: I would do +kinds overtaking one another and blocking the muddy road, three and +kind sprang from a second door and a third; more hugging, more kissing, +kind, that is the chief thing,” thought Princess Mary; and fear, which +King Francis is not much delighted by your victory. Even I, a poor +King of Prussia and others: ‘So much the worse for you. Tu l’as +King of Prussia what he is to do if he is summoned to surrender.... All +Kírsten. The staff captain on his broad-backed, steady mare came at a +kissed. Her father in jest tried to rouse her jealousy, and she replied +kissed her forehead. +kissed her hand, presenting to her his bald, scented, and shining head, +kissed him at the same time. Only his mother was not there, he noticed +kissed him three times. +kissed Mademoiselle Bourienne’s hand. (This was not etiquette, but +kissed Princess Mary’s hand. She did not know how she found the +kisses. Her looks asked him to forgive her for having dared, by +kissing each other on the face, and then to Prince Andrew’s surprise +kissing her hand, he left the room with quick resolute strides, without +kiss me,” and he offered his cheek. +“Kiss me here,” and he touched his cheek: “Thanks, thanks!” +“Kiss the doll,” said she. +kitten which promises to become a beautiful little cat. She evidently +knapsacks, bayonets, long muskets, and, under the shakos, faces with +knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the Austrian authorities had provided +knees, some squatting Turkish fashion on the wet grass. +knee with the palm of his hand. +knew....” +knew that. What will be the result? That I shall be the laughingstock of +knew that when it appeared on her face, she became mute and was not to +knew till after eight o’clock. +knew what had happened to him as he knew it himself. +knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is +knight. “I’m even weady to dance the pas de châle.” +knitting a striped scarf for him. +knitting, went to the window and leaning out tried to catch the open +knocked three of them over. +knocking over two horses and another tearing off a munition-wagon +knoll; if they had retreated they would have withdrawn from that too.... +know!” +know all about it and understand it all,” he said. “You behaved as +know, and know for certain, that the enjoyment of doing this good is the +know, but he felt sure it would do so. The locality and the position of +know God and hate your life. There is nothing strange in that, my dear +know his character: noble, upright ... but you see he has no one with +know how fond the count is of her.” +know how to dance, had liked sitting in this room to watch the ladies +know how to deal with them.” +know how to equip Borís.” She took out her handkerchief and began to +know how to express it ... not by a balance of political power....” +knowing how. First he spun her round, holding her now with his left, now +Knowing that Denísov had a reputation even in Poland for the masterly +know it is all over, and forever.” +knowledge. +know my principles—everything aboveboard! I will ask her tomorrow in +know myself again.” +know my son’s going, Márya Dmítrievna? My son is going.” +known as la femme la plus séduisante de Pétersbourg, * was also there. +known). Drawing nearer, he recognized in the Rhetor a man he knew, + Knows by experience, now, Bagratión, +know that ourselves!” Another, without looking round, as though +know! The Prussians are up in arms now. The Austrians, you see, are +“Know this, Másha: I can’t reproach, have not reproached, and never +know what it is to be left a widow without means and with a son you love +know yourself that last winter the count made a will by which he left +Kórchevo—a certain Khandrikóv—is up to; till now the additional +Kozlóvski were squatting on the floor by a tub so near to the commander +Kozlóvski, who was sitting at the window with a book. +Kronq,—chargé d’affaires from Copenhagen—a profound intellect,” +“Kurágin is exquisite when he discusses politics—you should see his +Kurágins’. All maintained a solemn silence, listening to the words +Kurágin was expecting the usual set for cards that evening, after which + *Kutúzov. +Kutúzov. +Kutúzov accompanied by his adjutants rode at a walking pace behind the +Kutúzov bowed with the same smile. +Kutúzov chose this latter course. +Kutúzov did not reply. He seemed to have forgotten what he had been +Kutúzov fell back toward Vienna, destroying behind him the bridges over +Kutúzov here woke up, coughed heavily, and looked round at the +Kutúzov, he was sent immediately with a special dispatch to Brünn. +Kutúzov laughed bitterly. +Kutúzov looked sternly at his adjutant and, after a pause, replied: +Kutúzov no one spoke of, except some who abused him in whispers, +Kutúzov ... recommend Borís to him as adjutant! Then I shall be at +Kutúzov’s, collected in groups and began to talk about the awards, +Kutúzov’s expectations that the proposals of capitulation (which were +Kutúzov’s face as he stood in the open doorway remained perfectly +Kutúzov’s headquarters and the staffs of the commanders of columns. +Kutúzov sighed deeply on finishing this paragraph and looked at the +Kutúzov’s suite like a flock of little birds. +Kutúzov’s whole army. To be able to crush it absolutely he awaited +Kutúzov, there is not a single Russian in command of a column! The +Kutúzov turned away. The same smile of the eyes with which he had +Kutúzov turned round without answering and his eye happened to fall +Kutúzov walked slowly and languidly past thousands of eyes which were +Kutúzov walked through the ranks, sometimes stopping to say a few +Kutúzov was left with only his own weak and exhausted forces. The +Kutúzov was occupying a nobleman’s castle of modest dimensions near +Kutúzov went out into the porch with Bagratión. +Kutúzov, where he inquired for Bolkónski, all the adjutants and even +Kutúzov, whom he had overtaken in Poland, had received him very kindly, +Kutúzov with his eagle nose and puffy face appeared in the doorway. +Kutúzov with his staff and all of us count for nothing. Everything is +Kutúzov, with his suite diminished by more than half, rode toward a +Kutúzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over +Kutúzov writes...” and he screamed as piercingly as if he wished to +Kuzmích, asking what the point of the story was as he had not heard it +“Kuzmích... From all sides... and then tears,” someone repeated +“La balance y est... * A German knows how to skin a flint, as the +labor but should die of it in a week, so he could not stand my physical +labor is as essential to him, as much a condition of his existence, as +labor was thus increased, though lessened on paper. He did not know +lackeys who care nothing for their master’s business. Quarante mille +lack the bump of paternity.” +lad,” he said, addressing his favorite soldier. “And where is the +ladies and gentlemen than Rostóv had ever expected to see him. +ladies and, leaning on his saber and beating time with his foot, told +ladies’ end an even chatter of voices was heard all the time, at the +ladies—” He turned with the same request to Denísov who was also a +lad jumped awkwardly back into the room, tripping over his spurs. +lad’s a fine fellow, a fine fellow! Well, come with me now.” He took +“Lads! here’s to our Sovereign, the Emperor, and victory over +“Lads!” shouted Milorádovich in a loud, self-confident, and cheery +lady, adding the priest’s clerical title, as if she had no opinion of +lady visitor. +“La femme est la compagne de l’homme,” * announced Prince +lain in ambush in a ditch, now attacked the French unexpectedly. +lamp, she stood before it with folded hands for a few moments. A painful +lances and the unfolded standards fluttered against their staffs. It +Langeron’s objections were valid but it was obvious that their chief +Langeron, trying as virulently as possible to sting Weyrother’s vanity +Langeron, with a subtly ironical smile, again glancing round for support +Language: English +Lannes and was thrown into confusion. Bagratión had sent Zherkóv +large and handsome eyes. He regarded his whole life as a continual round +large dark ballroom. All was the same: there were the same old card +large estate, Boguchárovo, about twenty-five miles from Bald Hills. +large leather sofa from Prince Andrew’s study into the bedroom. On +large, newly furnished Petersburg house, the happy possessor, as people +larger circle. +largest landowner of the province. Temptations to Pierre’s greatest +Larrey, was much more likely to end in death than in convalescence. +lashes, thick black plaits coiling twice round her head, and a tawny +last campaign, Prince Peter Ivánovich Bagratión!” and again his blue +last deciding seriously to prove to this youth how foolish his words +last few days. The antagonists stood forty paces apart at the farther +last interview with the gentleman-ranker—“that Private Dólokhov, +last long? It’s all the Club and his easygoing nature. Even in the +last Mademoiselle Bourienne gave a scream and ran away. Anatole bowed to +last moments by not letting him commit this injustice, and not to let +last only his white plumes were visible to Rostóv from amid the suites +last remaining strength, took hold of his left hand with his right, and +last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which +last time. And suddenly, in the most casual tone, which made him feel +Last Updated: January 21, 2019 +late in starting her practice on the clavichord, went into the sitting +“Late! It’s nearly ten o’clock,” answered Natásha’s voice. +later on. Oh, how glad I am to have you!” +latest cut, such as no one else yet had in Moscow, and boots of the +latest fashion, with extremely pointed toes and small silver spurs, +Late that night, when all had separated, Denísov with his short hand +lathe and, as usual, did not look round at her. +lathe?” asked Prince Andrew with a scarcely perceptible smile which +latterly spent whole days at home, that is, in Prince Vasíli’s house +latter threw up his arms in surprise saying it was nowhere to be found +laugh. +laugh. And they, too, passed on, so that Nesvítski did not learn who +laughed. +laughed. +laughed at every word he said or that she said herself, not because what +laughed. “I dreamed last night...”—“You were not expecting +laughed loudest. +laughed spasmodically as he stood in the porch waiting for the vicomte +laughed. “Véra’s spiteful; never mind her! And all will come right +laughing. +laughing. +laughing. “Dear, dear!...” +laughing for some reason and shaking himself free. +laughing, “‘Sergéy Kuzmích... From all sides... From all sides... +laughter led by Natásha. Both partners stood still, breathing heavily +laughter that convulsed his usually impassive features. +laughter, the shouting of familiar voices, the growling of a bear, and +Lavrúshka turned all the bedding over, looked under the bed and under +“Lavwúska!” he shouted loudly and angrily, “take it off, +laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of +lay across the bed with his head lower than the pillow, and was smacking +lay in the general progress of the war. When he saw Mack and heard the +lazily and advanced and again halted, receiving no timely orders from +leader, called les nôtres. * This set, consisting almost exclusively of +leading the Tsar’s beautiful relay horses covered with embroidered +leaf, gave it to Kozlóvski, stepped quickly to the window, and threw +leaned his arms on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes. Pierre +leaning his elbow on his knee and covering his face with his hand. After +leaning with his arms on the back of the sofa, sat in his former +leaping the furrows, he fled across the field with the impetuosity he +learned that Dólokhov the brawler, Dólokhov the bully, lived in Moscow +learn from Suvórov even so simple a thing as the art of crowing like a +learning that he was a special messenger led him to another entrance. +learning, was well brought up, and had a pleasant voice; what she said +least disconcerted by this reception. He had just entered, wearing an +least have some for my sake! She must be shown that the blockhead thinks +“Leave it,” said Dólokhov, though he did not seem to be even +“Leave me alone, please leave me alone! It is all quite the same to +leave me alone with him!” +leave of her and of Lise, his look tender yet proud. She saw him tender +leave of Rostóv in the club porch. +leave you cold a thousand times and the thousand and first time thrill +Le charmant Hippolyte was surprising by his extraordinary resemblance +led along a certain carpet. After that they took his right hand, placed +left...” A fat major skirted a bush, puffing and falling out of +Left alone, Pierre went on smiling in the same way. Once or twice +left bank of the Danube and took up a position for the first time +left breast, and stooping down pulled up the left leg of his trousers +left but to die?” he thought. “Well, if need be, I shall do it no +left foot began convulsively tapping the horse’s side with the spur, +left him, rubbing his small white hands. +left like this. Every moment is precious. I can’t think why his nieces +left the chair on which he had been leaning, and—with an air +legal heir to everything and you won’t get anything. You must know, +legs and turned-out toes, climbed the hill with difficulty.) Prince +legs, looked directly at Prince Vasíli with no sign of emotion in her +Lëlya’s name day. I will invite two or three people, and if he does +Lemarrois had just arrived at a gallop with Bonaparte’s stern letter, +length portrait of Catherine the Great. The same people were still +leonine head. This head, with its remarkably broad brow and cheekbones, +“Le Roi de Prusse?” Hippolyte said interrogatively, again laughing, +less a prey to evil and death?—death which ends all and must come +less, ate less, slept less, and became weaker every day. Princess Mary +lesson, was about to leave: “Mathematics are most important, madam! +less sincerely than the twenty-year-old Rostóv. +less than you do, but be a man!” +“Let go, I tell you! I will take the responsibility. I myself will go +let her know.” +“Let him do it, let him do it,” said Dólokhov, smiling. +let him do what he vill, but I cannot sacrifice my hussars... Bugler, +“Let’s come, quick, quick!” And with a glance round, she smiled at +letter. +letter. +letter. +letter are not destroyed, then you will have nothing but the consolation +letter from home and meet one of your own people whom you want to talk +letter, he now was. +letters sent through the embassy and all the searches made, his body had +letters that had come from the Archduke Ferdinand, who was in command of +letters to Nicholas from all the household were written and copied out, +letters to Princess Mary’s apartments, but did not find him there. He +letter to Murat: +letter to the Emperor begging him to recognize Pierre as legitimate, it +“Let them pass, I tell you!” repeated Prince Andrew, compressing his +let themselves be tricked at the crossing of the Vienna bridge, you are +letting the retreating companies pass by them, when a soldier came up +letting yourself be tricked by an aide-de-camp of the Emperor. +“Let us go and have supper,” he said with a sigh, going to the door. +“Let us go, Iván Lukích,” he said to the captain. +“Let us go ourselves. I only came round to ask Denísov about +“Let us go to her, I must say good-by. Or—go and wake and I’ll +“Liberty and equality,” said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at +liberty not to believe me and I don’t even care whether you do or +Lichtenstein, le Prince, de Hohenlohe, and finally Prishprish, and so on +lid, drew out a drawer, and took out an exercise book filled with his +lieutenant general, our dear Prince Auersperg von Mautern himself. +life, all alone—for Papa is always busy, and I... well, you know what +life, and can’t, for I know no other. But think, Andrew: for a young +life, and that of the seven virtues he lacked two—morality and the +“Life as it is leaves one no peace. I should be thankful to do +life from yours. I don’t wish to marry,” she answered positively, +Life Guards, who had been losing that evening, climbed on the window +life, he felt an unaccountable tenderness for this young man and made up +life: remorse and illness. The only good is the absence of those evils. +life together were stripped, so that the screw could not get in or out, +life, which seemed to him so beautiful now that he had today learned to +lifted in childlike happiness. +lift his stick again but hurried into the house. +“Lift it two lines more and it will be just right,” cried he in a +light blue Viennese calèche, slightly creaking on its springs and drawn +lighted mirrors which repeated their reflections several times. Now +light. It was evident that the more lifeless he seemed at ordinary +lightly, more lightly, and yet more lightly whirled the count, flying +lights and shouts in the enemy’s camp. Rostóv rode up to Bagratión, +lights of shops, houses, and street lamps, fine carriages, and all that +like a bird than a man.” +like a child, he fell into a deep, youthful slumber. +like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. Whether he was +like all those Polish names.” +liked to. He looked inquiringly at his monitress and saw that she was +liked to help young men, was flattered by being asked for his assistance +liked to repeat to herself. It was the story of a girl who had been +liked to tell him. He gathered up the papers and with a bow to both, +like his own, at the firing, and went back at a footpace. “Well, some +likely the doctor.” +like method of enlightenment. Our Order imitates the ancient societies +likes her way of reading. She reads to him in the evenings and reads +like strangers.” +like that six months ago?” +Like the others, Anna Pávlovna Schérer showed Pierre the change of +like these if one has any feeling?” said Anna Pávlovna. “You are +Like wind over leaves ran an excited whisper: “They’re coming! +line and that of the enemy were far apart on the right and left flanks, +line; and the Austrian troops. But they all stood in the same lines, +line followed them across and the last Cossacks quitted the farther side +line, for from where they had been before it had been evident that it +linen shirt unfastened in front. “Wait a bit, you fellows.... Here is +line of the advancing Russian columns. Evidently the person they were +lines of artillery with green caissons. +line (the Guards) was already in action. +line—the officers had been unable to keep sight-seers away. The +line to reconnoiter personally, and twice to the Emperors, Russian and +lingered for a moment. +link which other people recognized had grown up between himself and +lips. +lips and met them with her own. Her face struck Pierre, by its altered, +“Lise, I beg you to desist,” said Prince Andrew still more +Lise. I will follow.” +“Lise!” said Prince Andrew dryly, raising his voice to the pitch +Lise sighed too. +Lise? Take her to your room and I’ll go to Father. How is he? Just the +“Lise!” was all Prince Andrew said. But that one word expressed +Lise, young Bolkónski’s wife, this very evening, and perhaps the +“Listen, dear Annette,” said the prince, suddenly taking Anna +listened attentively. His favorite occupation when not playing boston, a +listened, refraining from a reply, and involuntarily wondered how this +listened to his regular breathing. The dark shadow was Princess Mary, +listened to the Rhetor in silence, feeling from all he said that his +listening to an old Russian general with decorations, who stood very +Listening to Bilíbin he was already imagining how on reaching the army +listening to the gypsies and other singers. +“Listen!” said he; “don’t worry about your wife: what can be +listen to his tale. +“Listen to me, Prince,” said she. “I have never yet asked you +listen, while waiting till it would be time to leave. Her task was +lit room adjoining the count’s reception room. It was one of those +Little as Nicholas had occupied himself with Sónya of late, something +little bent, looked with beaming face at the princess without +little companion! I hope she will bring her along with her when we’re +little creature, but dared not do so. He stood over him, gazing at his +little effort.” +little fingers. “All right! Then it’s settled?” +little Frenchy, successful only because there were no longer any +little gold icon Princess Mary had hung round her brother’s neck, but +little icon with its thin gold chain suddenly appeared upon his chest +little, I mean a good deal, a great deal—forty three thousand.” +little matters which could not interest anyone but themselves. Natásha +little Napoleon had suddenly appeared with his unsympathizing look of +little Natásha as grown up. +little princess. +little princess, and having asked for a needle began tracing the Condé +little princess, shrugging her shoulders. +little princess walked twice round her, now adjusting a fold of the +little table, and Anna Mikháylovna noticed that something was agitating +little towns there’s nowhere to spend it,” said he. “Well, let me +Little Túshin, moving feebly and awkwardly, kept telling his orderly to +little waves of the Enns, which rippling and eddying round the piles of +little while, felt as if they too were becoming, like her, full of life +lit wisps of straw and ran after him, shouting, “Vive l’Empereur!” +lived for glory.—And after all what is glory? The same love of others, +lived for others, and not almost, but quite, ruined my life. And I have +lively disposition, bent over her frame to hide a smile probably evoked +lively little girl’s look made him inclined to laugh without knowing +livery, get up behind the carriage, and come with me while I make some +living with his mother, who, if she saw him dying, would not survive it. +living without having solved the problems that so absorbed him. He had +living with the Rostóvs. +loading. +locality and surroundings—fruit gardens, stone fences, tiled roofs, +locality was known and shown in every detail on the maps, and Bonaparte, +locks of gray hair. +Lodge—were so strong that he could not resist them. Again whole days, +Lodge. Willarski coughed, he was answered by the Masonic knock with +loftiness of soul. She has refused to evacuate Malta. She wanted to +lofty, beautiful feeling, such a...” +lofty sky before? And how happy I am to have found it at last! Yes! All +London—could pronounce Pitt’s sentence, he saw a well-built and +loneliness of his daughter amid the general conversation. “Got herself +long. +“Long ago,” answered Rostóv, “I have already been for the hay, +long and warmly to the Emperor and how the Emperor, evidently weeping, +longed. Sónya now was sixteen and she was very pretty, especially at +longed to kiss his father’s hands and kneel to beg his forgiveness, +longed to snatch up, to squeeze, to hold to his heart, this helpless +longer and went on, between gasps of laughter: “And the whole world +longer to hinder them but because the guns were trained and there was +longest sentences, he stopped the rotary motion of the snuffbox, raised +long. Say ‘perhaps.’” +Look at me,” cried Denísov who, unable to keep still on one spot, +“Look at Papa!” shouted Natásha to the whole company, and quite +“look at Papa!” though as it was they never took their eyes off the +“Look at them scurrying! It’s burning! Just see the smoke! Fine! +looked as clean and well washed as the tips of one’s fingers after a +looked as if by that slight motion the army itself was expressing its +looked at Telyánin. The lieutenant was looking about in his usual way +looked at that aged, stern, motionless, almost lifeless face and moved +looked eagerly toward his eyes, waiting for the look for which she +looked like tradespeople, ran hurriedly from the entrance and hid in the +looked straight at his adjutant’s face without recognizing him. +looked very thoughtful and tender. With his hands behind him he paced +look for her. +looking about him uneasily, and an awkward pause followed. +looking and held out his hand to her. She pressed it. +looking at her and waiting. Nicholas saw that Denísov was refusing +Looking at her own handsome face she seemed to become still colder and +looking at his watch. +looking at Natásha. +looking at Pierre. “At the present time it is difficult to know the +looking at Rostóv, “you’ll win it back all the sooner. I lose to +looking at the ground, he came on some sticky, trodden mud, stumbled, +looking at the midwife with wide-open eyes of alarm. +looking at them, turned to an adjutant to ask him for a field glass. +looking at the puff from the gun that had sent the ball. His eyes +looking at those driving past as if he pitied all who were not at that +looking back saw that their foremost ranks were mixed up with some +Looking down at the waters of the Enns under the bridge, Nesvítski +looking inquiringly at him and watching to see how he would behave +looking like something between a cart, a cabriolet, and a calèche. +looking not at Pierre but straight before him, and turning the leaves +looking pretty and conscious of it, were standing by the clavichord, +looking round at the sound. +looking with a scared face at his comrade for help. The door, having let +looking with dismay at her husband. +looking with tender affection and pity at Mademoiselle Bourienne’s +“Look, look!” said this adjutant, looking not at the troops in the +“Look! Look there!” one soldier was saying to another, pointing to a +look. Nicholas went up to her and kissed her hand. This was the first +look or bad opinion from him,” Rostóv decided; and sorrowfully and +“Look, Prince,” said another, who would have dearly liked to take +looks and manner gave that impression. The princess felt this, and as if +looks) and she had put on a maroon dress with a pale-blue scarf, the +“Look sharp! Look sharp!” several voices repeated around him. +“Look then at thy inner self with the eyes of the spirit, and ask +look which was fixed on him, but him she could not see, she only saw +Lorrain considered. +Lorrain, pursing up his lips, waved a severely negative finger before +Lorrain’s instructions. The German doctor went up to Lorrain. +losing confidence in its allies, suffering from shortness of supplies, +losses. The general whose regiment had been inspected at Braunau was +lost....” And Prince Hippolyte began to tell his story in such Russian +lost count of his children, but this Pierre was his favorite.” +lost. Dólokhov “killed,” that is, beat, ten cards of Rostóv’s +lost more than he could pay. +lot? And who would marry Marie for love? Plain and awkward! They’ll +loudly, handing Kutúzov an envelope. +loud that those in the drawing room heard her and were startled. “Why +“Louis XVI was executed because they said he was dishonorable and a +love again, though for no one have I such a feeling of friendship, +love and befriend him.” +loved more than himself. He kept telling himself that he would consider +love for Natásha was unpleasant to him and he had not once been to see +love her. +love her, for that would be impossible. +love him all the more, but Nicholas now considered himself unworthy of +love, love of one’s neighbor, love of one’s enemy, is worthier, +lovely eyes there was a look of fearful joy and hope that was also new +love of death. He consoled himself with the thought that he fulfilled +lovers!” he added. +lovers of music do when they hear a false note. The two women let go +love, such rapture, and such self-sacrifice, what do any of our quarrels +love, though less ecstatically, with their Tsar and the glory of the +love you.” +love you, and I think I love you more than anyone else....” +loving and honoring him. “Why, I have not yet had time to settle +loving her; in deceiving yourself and her.” And he vividly recalled +lower one, and something like two distinct smiles played continually +low tones. +luck! Such ill luck. As soon as you left, it began and went on. Hullo +luck the man has!” +lucky man and, with his plain face, to be looked on as a sort of Paris +luggage. Franz, Bilíbin’s man, was dragging a portmanteau with some +l’u! * I shall certainly adopt an innovation and call him simply +luminous eyes fixed on her nurse’s wrinkled face (every line of which +luminous eyes shone more brightly than usual from the tears of joy that +luxurious study and sat down to the dinner prepared for him. Bilíbin +lying on the ground; they also met a crowd of soldiers some of whom were +ma chère! On behalf of the whole family I beg you to come, mon cher!” +“Ma chère, there is a time for everything,” said the countess with +machine, an impulse once given leads to the final result; and just as +machine or set it in proper motion, so Anna Pávlovna moved about her +Mack. An Austrian general complained of me. I congratulated him on +Mack, have by now already gained a decisive victory and no longer need +Mack’s arrival... What’s the matter, Rostóv? You look as if you’d +“Madame de Genlis! Madame de Genlis!” shouted laughing voices +Madame de Souza. He began reading about the sufferings and virtuous +“Madame, I doubt my ability before such an audience,” said he, +made a grimace, as if expecting something unpleasant. +made and highly valued. The old count came up to them and pressed +made a tour of the regiments and was annoyed at the irregularity of +made elegantly witty. In society he always awaited an opportunity to say +made for the sacrament of unction, and in his house there was the bustle +Madeira”... “Hungarian”... or “Rhine wine” as the case might +“Made, made me an offer, Mamma! Mamma!” she exclaimed. +Mademoiselle Bourienne. +Mademoiselle Bourienne, also roused to great excitement by Anatole’s +Mademoiselle Bourienne and the little princess had to own to themselves +Mademoiselle Bourienne, how I shall arrange it,” she added, smiling +Mademoiselle Bourienne in her arms and gently stroking her hair. The +Mademoiselle Bourienne, “Mary’s is a face which such a coiffure does +Mademoiselle Bourienne walked up and down the conservatory for a long +Mademoiselle Bourienne was also looking at Princess Mary, and in her +made. Prince Andrew several times prompted Pierre’s story of what he +made use of it.... “What have I done?” thought he. And he turned +“Made what?” +“Ma foi!” said he, “tomorrow we shall see all that on the +“Ma foi, sire, nous ferons ce qui sera dans notre possibilité, +magnanimous. She felt convinced of that. Thousands of dreams of a future +maid. +maid of honor’s hand to his lips, kissed it, and swung it to and fro +maid’s voice at the door. +maid with the decanter in her haste had not closed the door (everything +mainly because Denísov so delighted in her singing. She no longer sang +“Mais, mon cher, I did this for my own sake, to satisfy my conscience, +majestically entered the room. He was wearing his long coat with three +majestic figure of his father, Count Bezúkhov, with that gray mane of +Majesty.” +Majesty,” said an adjutant who had come from the batteries that were +Majesty’s and you were pitied....” +Majesty, “who, thank God, was better today.” And each visitor, +make a career and must not miss opportunities, but must avail myself of +make a remark, for the conversation interested him, but Anna Pávlovna, +make as successful a career of it as possible.” +make him go on. +make something exceptional of them,” said the visitor. +makes things trying for you, doesn’t it?” Prince Andrew asked +make them look at the wag. +“Malbrook s’en va-t-en guerre. Dieu sait quand reviendra.” * +malevolent and caustic expression softened, as if admitting that what +mallets and swords. As he was being led up to some object he noticed a +mallets, the doors opened before them. A bass voice (Pierre was still +malodorous mouth. Tears actually moistened his cheeks. +mamma.” +“Mamma, are you cross? Don’t be cross, dear! Is it my fault?” +Mamma has sent for me to go and dine at the Apráksins’. Read the +“Mamma!... Mamma!... He has made me...” +“Mamma!” rang out the clear contralto notes of her childish voice, +“Mamma told me to ask you to join the dancers.” +“Mamma! What sweets are we going to have?” and Natásha’s voice +“Mamma! What sweets are we going to have?” Natásha again cried +man. +man.” Again he pressed the hand of the latter with an expression of +managed to utter (to her everything seemed funny). She leaned against +man and help him to worldly success. Under cover of obtaining help +man, and that in the duel with Bezúkhov, Pierre was right and Dólokhov +man, be for her? In her thoughts of marriage Princess Mary dreamed of +man be fully imbued with the thought that we must defeat these hirelings +man beside you?” +man; by his acquaintances as a handsome lieutenant of hussars, a good +man. Either this look meant nothing but that as long as one has eyes +mane—which, though he saw other faces as well, he had not lost sight +man, had not the five rubles that would make him happy. +man.... Here he is, and the count has not once asked for him.” +man is as surly as a dog.” +man is the count’s son,” she added more softly. “What a terrible +manly-looking, but what amazed and estranged Pierre till he got used +manly voice interrupting them both. “Of course you artillery men are +manner he wore in drawing rooms, but with the animated face with which +manner nor a desire to enter into conversation, but speaking so quietly +manners, who evidently considered himself a celebrity but out of +manner: they were all evidently firmly convinced of Pierre’s noble +man, of medium height, with firm, clearcut features. Everything about +man? On such matters I am only severe with myself. I understand such +man, our dear Vyazmítinov....” +man’s hand and moving her lips as if to send it a kiss. Pierre, +man’s high, stout, uncovered chest and powerful shoulders, raised by +man’s penetration he understood all that was passing in Bolkónski’s +man’s simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory. Both +man. The Revolution was a grand thing!” continued Monsieur Pierre, +manure on well-kept plowland, lay from ten to fifteen dead and wounded +man who has at length begun to attain a long-desired happiness. As soon +man with a diamond ring on his forefinger, who was fond of speaking +man, with gray bushy eyebrows overhanging bright eyes of an indefinite +man with the white forehead, black eyebrows, and red lips. +many of them), and at last he saw how a whole detachment of French +many wrinkles on his large features, to Rostóv who was crimson with +many young men to his parents’ house. Véra was a handsome girl +marched gaily, as they always do when going into action, especially to +marching along both. +Marching thirty miles that stormy night across roadless hills, with his +marching with particular grace and boldness in time to the song and +mare he rode, his hand in a white glove gathered up the reins, and he +Maria Theresa Order of the third grade, which the Emperor was conferring +“Marie” produced on the visitors. And she saw Mademoiselle +marked the change? I sat all the time in this same place at this table, +market place, where there had been some rather heavy firing before the +Markóv immediately dropped his own beside it and picked it up without + * “Marlborough is going to the wars; God knows when he’ll +marriageable daughters, and of the young ladies themselves, toward +“Marriages are made in heaven,” replied the elderly lady. +marriage—when the marriageable daughters and their mothers had nothing +married,” answered the countess sharply and sarcastically. +married, la petite est gentille.” * +marry anyone, but will be a dancer. Only don’t tell anyone.” +marry!” concluded Prince Andrew. +marshal of the court, Count Tolstóy. +martyr’s death for his sake. Then Robespierre was beheaded for being +Mary. +Mary. +MARY +Márya Dmítrievna. +Márya Dmítrievna and the countess burst out laughing, and all the +“Márya Dmítrievna?” came her voice from there. +Márya Dmítrievna, curved his arms, beat time, straightened his +Márya Dmítrievna on her right and Anna Mikháylovna on her left, the +“Márya Dmítrievna! What kind of ice pudding? I don’t like ice +“Márya Lvóvna Karágina and her daughter!” announced the +Mary, and the little princess. Prince Andrew had been called to his +“Mary Bogdánovna, I think it’s beginning!” said Princess Mary +Mary Bolkónskaya.” +Mary, but did not at once take his arm from the waist of Mademoiselle +Mary did not frighten them (she never inspired fear in anyone), but they +Mary entered the antechamber as usual at the time appointed for the +Mary, having taken and closed the exercise book with the next day’s +Mary. How good it would be to know where to seek for help in this life, +Mary, I am going to love him very much,” said Lise, looking with +Mary, really this dress does not suit you. I prefer you in your little +Mary! Say...” And the little princess began to cry capriciously like +“Mary,” she said, moving away from the embroidery frame and lying +Mary spent most of the day in the nursery, taking a mother’s place to +Mary’s room. +Mason. +Masonic statutes, “be kindly and courteous,” recurred to him. He +masses. +masses of Russian troops. At the bend of the Danube, vessels, an island, +mass. Looking down over the rails Prince Nesvítski saw the rapid, noisy +Master, “but those between virtue and vice. Beware of making any +master’s thoughts. He guessed that the question referred to Prince +master, would touch and delude him. +match in Russia, had sunk greatly in the esteem of society after his +matchmaking chronicles of Moscow now speak of me as the future Countess +mathematics from her father, and when the old prince was at home went +matter might be he did not care, but it gave him great pleasure to +matter of indifference whether he remained there for a few hours or for +matters, social interests and the fair sex occupied no small part of his +matters very satisfactorily. Borís, during the campaign, had made the +matters yourself!’ Yes... That was the answer I got!” +“Matvévna’s” carriage. At the foot of the hill, a pale hussar +“Matvévna,” the gun from which they had removed the dead officer. +may Christ be with you in your great endeavor!” +may I shall do my duty. I will come and spend the night. He must not be +may laugh as much as you like, but all the same Bonaparte is a great +may not have seen, but I have seen, how good men brought up in those +may perhaps have a stronger effect on the sincere seeker after wisdom +“May the devil take them—the traitors!” +mazuwka is this? But she does dance splendidly.” +me!” +me.” +me.” +me?” +Meadow.” +mean good French society—will have been forever destroyed, and +meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the best joys of his life; +meaning for him, that he paid no attention to it. The aunt was just +means. Then you say, ‘lighten his toil.’ But as I see it, physical +me,” answered a voice struggling with tears. +meant by the words all is over, “and the count’s papers are opened, +meant for him not only the loss of sixteen hundred rubles, but the +mean to fight, let’s fight. But the devil knows what this is.” +meant to double the three thousand just put down to his score, when +meanwhile Kutúzov sent his adjutants back to hasten to the utmost the +Meanwhile Nesvítski, Zherkóv, and the officer of the suite were +Meanwhile, Pétya, having found and seized the sabers in the outer room, +Meanwhile Prince Vasíli had opened the door into the princess’ room. +Meanwhile the staff officer standing in front pointed out something to +Meanwhile the younger generation: Borís, the officer, Anna +me apologize, because if he, as commander of this regiment, thinks it +measures—the removal of injunctions, petitions, permits, and so +me; but, my dear, I am getting on for sixty and must be prepared for +me, but that he’ll marry Julie. You see how he’s been with her all +medal he can get his reward just as well in the rearguard, but if he +meditatively and rapidly: +meeting arrives. Not daring to look round and without looking round, he +meeting, they had kissed each other, but today they felt it could not +me. ‘Everyone fears a bear,’ he says, ‘but when you see one your +me!” He began to laugh. “Well, what of it! I hope we’ll get better +me. I am used to suffering.” +me I lied, and I told him he lied. And there it rests. He may keep me +me in choosing me for your second, if at this grave, this very +me in the eyes of society, and even of the court,” he added, lowering +me in war the energy of young men often shows the way better than all +me, just because I have exerted myself on his behalf, befriended him, +melancholy was just like the august melancholy she showed at the mention +member of the Hofkriegsrath mildly and attentively. +members and guests jostling one another and trying to get a good look +members of the council of war. They were drinking tea, and only awaited +memory, and he told everybody that his son had been killed. He tried not +memory, his extensive reading (he had read everything, knew everything, +memory, I will do the impossible—your son shall be transferred to the +me... myself most of all. Then I don’t eat, don’t wash... and how is +men and provisions have not arrived. Gallop off to him at once and +men disfigured by fear of death now crowded together, crushing one +men of the same kind hiding in the shadow of the house on both sides. +men, seemed so immeasurably above him, an insignificant officer of the +men’s end the voices sounded louder and louder, especially that of the +men should be in their greatcoats and in marching order, and that the +men should continue to march at ease, and he and all his suite showed +men’s will. +men take their first steps on life’s road, each saw immense changes in +mental activity is to you or me. You can’t help thinking. I go to bed +mental image of his future activity in this direction rose in his mind. +men—the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prince Adam Czartorýski.... It +mention, and which you think is the result of your own mental efforts, +mentioned during the journey. +mentioned their age. “If you marry it will be a different thing,” +mention her!” he exclaimed fiercely. +men uselessly, and so had hastened to throw some sharpshooters into the +men was to attack the French from different sides. The old prince did +men was training a trotter of his own for a race. He knew a lady on one +men, who here, as in Vienna, formed a special set which Bilíbin, their +men with broad, self-confident faces, fat fingers, and resolute gestures +me of her own accord in the evening and tell me everything. Perhaps I +me only the day before yesterday not to forget Borís. But he had +me, Pierre. I shall not forget your interests.” +me!” Rostóv whispered. +merrily. +merrily and prettily as ever. +merrily to everyone at once, sat down and gaily arranged herself in her +merry. +merry reminiscences. +message to Kutúzov, perhaps even to the sovereign himself. The morning +metallic roar, and a whistling grenade flew above the heads of our +me! That’s the sort of man he is, and nothing more,” replied +met him at the first door and, expressing their delight at seeing such a +methods that he had better leave Genoa alone?” retorted Prince Andrew +me to burn the bridge! I know the service, and it is my habit orders +me to inform you... But, don’t be uneasy,” he added, noticing that +met, she fell on his breast, sobbing. She could not lift her face, but +me! What will become of us? I am the wife of the doctor of the Seventh +me—yet dreadful and unnatural as it seems, I would give them all at +Michael Ivánovich are the two people to whom he is always gentle and +“Michael Ivánovich!” cried the old prince to the architect who, +Michael Ivánovich did not at all know when “you and I” had said +middle, a cry was heard, then Princess Mary’s heavy tread and the +middle of his mouth and with red lips gently inhaled the smoke, letting +middle of the drawing room on the first chair he had come across, +middle of the muddy road. +midnight. Prince Andrew went out. +midwife. +might, and a passionate attraction to him who was the cause of this +might be up to on the sly” (she meant that they would be kissing), +might deprive him of all this happiness, newly appreciated and newly +might easily succeed to the post; how popular he was with everyone in +might, feeling that he would like to injure himself by that shout, if +might have been more decisive had the commander in chief not been so +might outweigh all the courage of the Russian troops, and at the same +might retreat and leave the pickets.” +might toward the bushes. He did not now run with the feeling of doubt +Mikháylovna. +Mikháylovna and snatching the portfolio from her. +Mikháylovna as she entered, and at the big stout figure of Pierre who, +Mikháylovna Drubetskáya. Rostóv, the father, is Ilyá, and his son is +Mikháylovna entered the hall. Though she came upon the count in his +Mikháylovna enthusiastically, quite forgetting all the humiliation she +Mikháylovna evinced no surprise, she only smiled faintly and sighed, as +Mikháylovna in passing instinctively glanced into the room, where +Mikháylovna looked attentively at the sick man’s eyes, trying to +Mikháylovna made a hurried sign with her eyes, glancing at the sick +Mikháylovna of one of them. +Mikháylovna, or you will not hold out.” +Mikháylovna pass and did not evince the least surprise at seeing them +Mikháylovna returned to the Rostóvs’ and went to bed. On waking in +Mikháylovna?” said he. “Let us wait until evening. The doctors are +Mikháylovna,” said Prince Vasíli, arranging his lace frill, and in +Mikháylovna’s son; Nicholas, the undergraduate, the count’s eldest +Mikháylovna’s voice alone in a long speech, then a cry, then silence, +Mikháylovna. Though the latter held on tenaciously, her voice lost none +Mikháylovna, whom she had not seen properly since she returned from +Mikhelson’s army I understand—Tolstóy ‘s too... a simultaneous +Milan?” asked Anna Pávlovna, “and of the comedy of the people of +mile and a half away, but had suddenly and unexpectedly appeared just in +miles, and reining in his horse he sighed restfully and looked round +miles away from the French. At Grunth also some apprehension and alarm +military code, which he and the others knew in the regiment, there was +military men, bore that expression of condescending respect for their +milk-white sea. Nothing was visible in the valley to the left into which +millions in hand might smile at a poor fellow who told him that he, poor +millions of human beings who grew up in the same way. As twenty +Milorádovich wheeled his horse sharply and stationed himself a little +“Mind, Annette, I hope you have not played a wicked trick on me,” +mind at rest,” said he without altering his tone, beneath the +mind easy,” said he in abrupt sentences while sealing his letter. +mind. “If a tenth part of his detachment returns I shall thank God,” +“Mind, no holding on!” cried another. +mind once for all that what he saw happening around him that evening was +mind to ask him a question about the roads, the traveler had closed his +“Mind, walk him up and down well!” +mined?” +mined and doubly mined and that there are menacing fortifications at its +mine. I have written to my poor mother,” said the smiling Mademoiselle +miniature portrait of her son on the lid of a snuffbox, while the tears +ministers and great people, and know how to deal with them all! It’s +minister’s bent bald head with its gray temples. He went on reading +minister’s son was, with his rosy cheeks and dark eyebrows, and with +minute later with another committeeman, carrying a large silver salver +minutes before the troops had passed the Emperors. Not only would it +minutes later the eldest sister came out with a pale hard face, again +minutest details himself. Princess Mary had ceased taking lessons in +mirror her eyes full of tears and her mouth quivering, ready to burst +mischief-makers don’t meddle even a German beats Buonaparte. He is +miserable man who stood before him, but the task he had begun had to be +misery. A man offended you and you shot him, and you say you do not +misery. That could not be, yet he awaited with a sinking heart the +misfortune? And when did it begin? Such a little while ago I came to +misleading you.” +missed him. His one desire was to know what was happening and at any +“Missed!” shouted Dólokhov, and he lay helplessly, face downwards +mist!” +mistake and that Anatole meant to flirt with Mademoiselle Bourienne, +mistake. Marry when you are old and good for nothing—or all that is +mistaken,” said the stranger in a deliberate and loud voice. +mist and taking it for a tree can again take it for a tree after he has +misunderstanding. I expect you feel it so yourself. Let us write her +misunderstandings and did not now feel she had a right to ask him for +mixture onto the floor and asked for some more water. The maid brought +modeling and modeling you must get smeared with clay,” suggesting +modern science of strategics, had been handed to Kutúzov when he was in +moment!” +moment.” +moment consider what she should do), but all this had long been familiar +moment had arrived. With the air of a practical Petersburg lady she now, +moment he was clearly thinking of nothing but how dashing a fellow he +moment imagined himself to be Napoleon in person and to have just +moment marching with the company. The hussar cornet of Kutúzov’s +moment of meeting had been so beatific that his present joy seemed +moment, sat beside him: the rest, crowding round him, watched every +moments: but his words sounded so weak that he felt ashamed of himself. +moment the French who were attacking, suddenly and without any apparent +moment those hands with their short reddish fingers and hairy wrists, +moment when the first report was heard a fourth was seen. Then two +“Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu! Oh!” she heard as she left the room. +“Mon Dieu, mon Dieu!” she muttered, and lifting her dress with one +monk he received and had a long talk with.” +Monsieur Buonaparte sitting on a throne and granting the petitions of +monument from Moscow which he intended to erect in his own garden to his +more. +more and holding out the letter. +more and more animated and evidently wishing to express his new outlook +more animated. “And believe me, they are reaping the reward of their +more animated. Only when a man was killed or wounded did he frown and +Moreau would have been a prisoner if Suvórov had had a free hand; but +more, but he waited and did nothing. +more cheerful in his presence, and were evidently anxious to display +more confident was the appearance of our troops. The soldiers in +more confirmed the farther he rode into the region behind the village of +more confused, blushed like a child till tears came to his eyes, began +more cunning or subtle diplomatist—you know, a combination of French +more, for immediately afterwards cannon began firing from somewhere and +more honorable to admit one’s mistake than to let matters become +more important guests—an old general and his wife, and Anna Pávlovna +more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows +more natural and animated than usual, so that the wrinkles round +more noticeable how much plainer she had become. Some unobtrusive touch +more outcries, and tears of joy. He could not distinguish which was +more! Some more!” a merry voice was saying in his soul. But no more +More than anyone else, Prince Vasíli took possession of Pierre’s +more than they did Anatole. Dólokhov could play all games and nearly +more than Timókhin had done when he was reprimanded by the regimental +more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my +morning. +morning greeting, crossing herself with trepidation and repeating a +morning or evening than night. On the way Pierre remembered that Anatole +morning, the lines were so near together that the men could see one +morning till night and abstemious, so of course I am well.” +morsels. The group about Mortemart immediately began discussing the +mortification, our opinion of Bonaparte cannot alter. We shall not cease +Moscovites who took their opinions from others—Ilyá Rostóv among +Moscow!” +Moscow after the death of Count Bezúkhov, he would call Pierre, or +Moscow. As a result he could not go to the country with the rest of the +Moscow for his equipment, was to join them on the march to Radzivílov. +“Moscow has nothing else to do but gossip,” Borís went on. +Moscow’s hero was the fact that he had no connections in the city +Moscow their house was always full of visitors. The night after the +Moscow. The remembrance of the Rostóvs’ house and of his childish +Moscow when Borís was a boy of fourteen, and had quite forgotten him, +Moscow who was expected every moment, and men on horseback with lanterns +most in people. As to his inheritance and the part played by Prince +most joyful though erroneous rumors were rife of the imaginary approach +most of her observations, it made everyone feel uncomfortable, not +Most of the guests, uncertain how to regard this sally, looked at the +most part to be spoken at a moment of victory and triumph, generally +most strongly expressed his insincere love for her, and he felt the +mother!...” +mother and the youngest daughter—both named Nataly. Ever since +mother by the news of this loss, he knew what a relief it would be to +mother, drawing her hand from beneath her old mantle and laying +Mother keep you in their holy and all-powerful care! +mother, pushing away her daughter with pretended sternness, and turning +mothers used to be married at twelve or thirteen.” +motionless masses of the French now swayed and that there really was +motive of his visit, “is it true that the Dowager Empress wants +mountains, defending himself against superior forces of the enemy and +mountains of Bohemia, and you and your army would have spent a bad +mount and ride to the bridge. (Observe that all three are Gascons.) +mounted Frenchmen, probably adjutants, were galloping up the hill. A +Mounting his horse again Prince Andrew lingered with the battery, +mouth all seemed puckered into a vacant, wearied grimace, and his arms +mouth. Another was walking sturdily by himself but without his musket, +mouth full of false teeth, as if she were trying to cheat old age.... +mouth!” said Bilíbin, and the mop of hair on his head moved with +moved and halted at the officers’ command, turned with banners flying, +moved his forces to attack the center and outflank both the Russian +moved off accompanied by an irregularly swaying sea of aides-de-camp. +movement of Dólokhov’s hands. Those broad, reddish hands, with hairy +movement of soldiers forming ranks and getting their muskets ready, +movement of the Tsar’s seemed to him enchanting. +movements of the Austrian army, and then give it to his excellency.” +movements of the baggage trains of the entire army along the Krems-Znaim +movements of the bearers, and the cold listless gaze fixed itself upon +movements of the mass of which in his regiment he felt himself a tiny, +movements were still slow and measured. +movement, word, or look of his, never taking their blissfully adoring +move on a few steps and be killed themselves in the same way. +“Move on a hundred yards and we are certainly saved, remain here +move on. The horses moved off the bank. The ice, that had held under +moving a chair close to hers seated himself beside her. +Moving the money forward he prepared to deal. Rostóv sat down by his +moving toward our left flank, the higher command found that our center +“Mr. Aide-de-camp! Help me!... What does it all mean?” screamed the +“Mr. Aide-de-camp! Mr. Aide-de-camp!... For heaven’s sake... Protect +much, and all of you, only Véra... And what for? What have I done +much as a sailor is by his ship. However far he has walked, whatever +“Much as Mamma pressed her, she refused, and I know she won’t change +much at the captain as at those who were laughing, among whom Zherkóv +much because he heard their sound as because he saw uneasiness on +much interest him because at that moment he felt with delight that he +much, my dear sir.” +much of it left.” +much prettier. Pierre was received as if he were a corpse or a leper. +much that the count held him up as a pattern to the other guests. Berg +much to say to one another in private and so they had been seeking an +mud-bespattered breeches. The German landlady, hearing Rostóv’s loud +Murat. Bonaparte himself, not trusting to his generals, moved with all +Murat’s detachment and the battle had not yet begun. In Bagratión’s +Murat’s emissary and retired, leaving Bagratión’s division +murder of the Duc d’Enghien. The vicomte said that the Duc d’Enghien +music. Amid these sounds, only the youthful kindly voice of the Emperor +muskets of the nearest soldiers. The soldiers started firing without +mustache. “I want to know what you men are like. Are you the same as +must be broken off ... and then you know, André...” (she looked +must excuse me,” said he, putting Pierre at ease instead of being put +must gain his confidence and friendship and through him obtain a special +must have an explanation...” +must have pity on a young man in misfortune. You know he has important +“Must one die like a dog?” said he. +must put in an appearance there,” said the prince. “My daughter is +must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for +muttered something and colored. +my advance guard, and have no right to arrange an armistice without my +“My cousin has nothing to do with this and it’s not necessary to +“My darling!” he said—a word he had never used to her before. +“My dear Anna Mikháylovna,” said he with his usual familiarity and +“My dear benefactor! This is what I expected from you—I knew your +“My dear Borís,” said Princess Anna Mikháylovna to her son as +my dear boy, are you serving in the Horse Guards?” asked the old man, +“My dear count, you were one of my best pupils—you must dance,” +“My dear!” exclaimed his mother imploringly, again laying her hand +“My dear fellow, how are you?” said he through the singing, making +“My dear fellow,” Nesvítski whispered to Prince Andrew, “the old +“My dear fellow, what have you been up to in Moscow? Why have you +“My dear fellow, you are a hero!” said Bilíbin. +“My dear friend?” said she, in a tone of pathetic inquiry, prepared +“My dear,” he heard what seemed to him her despairing whisper behind +“My dear, I must tell you that this is a moment I shall never, never +“My dear Princess Catherine Semënovna,” began Prince Vasíli +“My dear, really... it’s better not to wake him... he’s asleep,” +“My dear,” said Princess Mary, addressing her brother from beside +“My dear,” she said to her son, once more stimulating him by a +my dear sir,” he added, seeing that his servant had entered... “and +my dear, whether the will and letter were written, and whether they have +“My desire is never to leave you, Father, never to separate my +my empty portmanteau and my dressing gown. The Emperor proposes to give +My father has not spoken to me of a suitor, but has only told me that he +my friend... I only need see Prince Vasíli Sergéevich: he is staying +“My friend,” said Anna Mikháylovna in gentle tones, addressing +my geometry lessons,” said Princess Mary gleefully, as if her lessons +“My God, how happy I should be if he ordered me to leap into the fire +“My God, I’m a ruined and dishonored man! A bullet through my brain +“My God! What does it all mean?” thought he. “And here, where at +my men in the wood. I beg of you, I beg of you,” he repeated, “to +“My mother! My mother, my angel, my adored angel mother,” and +“My part is played out,” said Prince Andrew. “What’s the use of +“My passion! I have had so many,” replied Pierre. +my relations with him, transient as they were, have been one of the +my respects to monsieur your father and my compliments to Mademoiselle +my riding and commanding so vast an army, so I have passed on the +myself and ruined my life. And only now when I am living, or at least +myself and you with the hope that your son is alive, for otherwise +myself not long ago, in Moscow and when traveling, but at such times I +mysteriously. “Yes, tomorrow, tomorrow!” he thought. “Tomorrow +mystery is of such a nature that nobody can know or use it unless he be +mystery on which perhaps the fate of mankind depends. But since this +mystical book I am sending you; it has an enormous success here. Though +my stupidity.” +“My vocation is a different one,” thought Princess Mary. “My +my wife—are the count’s only direct heirs. I know, I know how hard +“My wife,” continued Prince Andrew, “is an excellent woman, one +naked shoulders. She did not give him the money, but let herself be +name. +name-day party. +namesake, the new Count Bezúkhov) “and now she’s in love with that +name to rectify this omission, Prince Andrew galloped back. Kutúzov +napkin, from behind the next man’s shoulders and whispered: “Dry +NAPOLEON +NAPOLEON +Napoleon happened to fall into one of the fainting fits to which he was +Napoleon. “If he weren’t afraid of a battle why did he ask for that +Napoleon’s army of one hundred and fifty thousand men would cut him +Napoleon’s eyes Prince Andrew thought of the insignificance of +Napoleon’s proclamation was as follows: +Napoleon’s words. “‘I opened my antechambers and they crowded +Napoleon who said it. He heard the speaker addressed as Sire. But he +Napoleon with even greater warmth than the year before. Orders were +narrowed disdainfully, he entered the room of the Minister of War with +Narýshkin, Uvárov, Dolgorúkov, Apráksin, Valúev, to the committee, +“Natálya Ilyníchna behaves very well to me,” remarked Borís. “I +“Nataly,” he said, moving with rapid steps toward her, “decide my +Natásha, after she had pulled him down toward her and covered his face +Natásha, and Sónya, and will certainly never touch a card again.” At +Natásha blushed and laughed. +Natásha. But he was not as much at ease with Sónya and Dólokhov as +Natásha came in and walking straight up to Pierre said, laughing and +Natásha considered. +Natásha could not remain calm, seeing him in such a plight. She began +Natásha did not like the visitor’s tone of condescension to childish +Natásha fell in love the very moment she entered the ballroom. She +Natásha flared up. “I don’t want to marry anyone. And I’ll tell +“Natásha,” he said, “you know that I love you, but....” +Natásha kept pulling everyone by sleeve or dress, urging them to +Natásha kissed her on the hair. +Natásha looked at Sónya with wondering and inquisitive eyes, and said +Natásha. Nicholas understood that something must have happened between +Natásha no less proud of her first long dress and of being at a real +Natásha only desisted when she had been told that there would be +Natásha, raising her face for a moment from her mother’s mantilla, +Natásha saw there was nothing to be afraid of and so she braved even +Natásha, seeing the impression the news of her brother’s wound +Natásha’s intermediacy, to remind him of his promise, and then +Natásha’s large mouth widened, making her look quite ugly, and she +Natásha smiled through her tears. +Natásha’s prediction proved true. Dólokhov, who did not usually care +Natásha’s previous remark. “It’s because she was in love with +Natásha, stopping suddenly. “I feel so happy!” +Natásha suddenly flushed. +Natásha, that winter, had for the first time begun to sing seriously, +Natásha took the first note, her throat swelled, her chest rose, +Natásha to sing. +Natásha, who was exceptionally graceful, was first, even danced the pas +natural to him was very gentle and wary with them both at dinner. On +near by the news spread that the Emperor was unwell. He ate nothing and +nearer, faster and louder, louder and faster, a cannon ball, as if it +nearer. Then the clang of hoofs, as of several horses galloping, +nearest him were not to blame for they were themselves pressed still +near everything grew brighter, more joyful, more significant, and more +near him and only wished that they would help him and bring him back to +near him pricked their ears at these shouts. Over there, where the +nearly cut our left flank in half were for the moment repulsed. Our +near sixty, dear friend... I too... All will end in death, all! Death is +Near the altar of the church at Bald Hills there was a chapel over the +near the gun waved their arms and beat the horses to make them turn and +near the strange lady. Prince Vasíli in front of the door, near the +necessary for the position. Then there’s this house, which must be +necessary. Halfway up the stairs they were almost knocked over by +necessary,” said the younger of the two speakers, evidently in the +necessary to enable it to retreat without losing its heavy equipment. +necessary to go on insisting day after day and hour after hour, and even +necessary to take some part in it. +necessity of going back on his word. With a sinking heart he watched +neck and the corners of her mouth drooped. +neck instead. +neck. It seemed to Rostóv that Bogdánich was only pretending not +neck. On his right sat the Italian abbé whom Pierre had met at +needed. +needed for success in the service was not effort or work, or courage, or +need, even the inevitability, of entering into conversation with this +need some money.” +need to hurry. However, he put his horse to a trot in the direction +negotiations and to offer the Russian army the three days’ truce. +neighbor, and may envy never dim the purity of that bliss. Forgive thy +neighboring town, who had been at Bald Hills for the last fortnight.) +neighboring wheel is as quiet and motionless as though it were prepared +neighbor? No! You have spent your life in idleness. Then you married, my +neighbor on his right quickly turned in alarm to Bezúkhov. +neither I nor my mother would ever ask or take anything from him.” +neither moving forward to protect the battery nor backward with the +neither of her gown and coiffure nor of how she would go in nor of what +neither of them could think of her as a rival, so they began dressing +neither quickly nor slowly. At this Natásha dashed swiftly among the +Nesvítski. +Nesvítski and Zherkóv were so surprised by this outburst that they +Nesvítski closed their eyes. At the same instant they heard a report +Nesvítski. Count Ilyá Rostóv with the other members of the committee +Nesvítski looked round and saw, some fifteen paces away but separated +“Nesvítski, Nesvítski! you numskull!” came a hoarse voice from +Nesvítski rose, puffing, and went up to the general, smiling. +Nesvítski’s and Dólokhov’s sabers, which were stuck into the +Nesvítski stopped him and took him home. +Nesvítski. “They’ve made up splendid packs for me—fit to cross +Nesvítski tried to move on, soldiers and carts pushed him back again +Nesvítski was there as an old member of the club. Pierre, who at his +Nesvítski with a laugh threw his arms round Prince Andrew, but +neutral... I know that. What about Austria?” said he, rising from his +neutrality is just a trap. I have faith only in God and the lofty +never bear malice or enmity toward thy brother. Be kindly and courteous. +never favorably disposed toward him—would have used it to turn the +Never had love been so much in the air, and never had the amorous +“Never, never marry, my dear fellow! That’s my advice: never marry +never says anything stupid. She says little, but what she does say is +never take it off. Do you promise?” +never thought much of him.” +never to dare to change your way of dress without my consent.” +never understand it, because you’ve never loved anyone. You have no +new church, previously begun, had cost about 10,000 in each of the last +new friend’s influence. +newly erected buildings were standing empty and that the serfs continued +new mustache. “Now then, get on,” he shouted to the driver. “Do +new pack of cards said: “Bank, gentlemen!” +new path so attractively shown him by the Masons, on which he firmly +news. +news and common acquaintances like people who do not know each other +news—if it’s not false. Bennigsen seems to have obtained a complete +news I may take back to my poor boy.” +Next came four soldiers, carrying something heavy on a cloak, and passed +Next day, at eight in the morning, Pierre and Nesvítski drove to the +Next day he woke late. Recalling his recent impressions, the first +Next day Prince Vasíli had arrived and settled in the count’s house. +Next day Rostóv saw Denísov off. He did not wish to stay another +Next day, the army began its campaign, and up to the very battle of +Next day the French army did not renew their attack, and the remnant of +Next day, the third of March, soon after one o’clock, two hundred and +next glanced round in alarm. +Next morning, after the fatigues of their journey, the travelers slept +Next morning when the valet came into the room with his coffee, Pierre +next note, the next phrase, and everything in the world was divided into +“Nice! And so you no longer wish to marry Borís?” +nice... but it won’t do...not that... but as a friend, I shall always +nice indeed, quite French,” and he kissed the tips of his fingers. + * Nicholas. +Nicholas and Denísov were walking up and down, looking with kindly +Nicholas began pacing up and down the room. +Nicholas’ career and am heartless and ungrateful, while truly... God +“Nicholas! Come out in your dressing gown!” said Natásha’s voice. +“Nicholas, don’t tell me that!” she said. +“Nicholas! Get up!” Natásha’s voice was again heard at the door. +“Nicholas, have you come? Come here, dear!” called the old countess +Nicholas, having as usual exhausted two pairs of horses, without +Nicholas. I never knew any Madame Jacquot.” +“Nicholas is going away in a week’s time, his... papers... have +Nicholas’ letter was read over hundreds of times, and those who were +Nicholas Rostóv turned away and, as if searching for something, gazed +Nicholas Rostóv, with Denísov and his new acquaintance, Dólokhov, sat +Nicholas sat at some distance from Sónya, beside Julie Karágina, to +Nicholas straight in the eyes, “you know the saying, ‘Lucky in love, +Nicholas tried to say “Yes,” but could not: and he nearly burst into +Nicholas turned away from her. Natásha too, with her quick instinct, +“Nicholas!” was all Sónya said, instantly turning white. +Nicholas was to go with him to the regiment; then came Anna Mikháylovna +Nicholas went to her, kissed her hand, and sitting down silently at her +“Nicholas, will you come to Iogel’s? Please do!” said Natásha. +(nicknamed in society, “the King of Prussia”) ever since the Emperor +night.” +night a motley throng of people sat there, not merrymaking, but somberly +night. But now, in the solitude of the journey, they seized him with +night he had not the slightest doubt, and the guiltlessness of +night I looked at the campfires and there was no end of them. A regular +night long without closing their eyes, while the adjutants and +night, so dark that the coachman could not see the carriage pole. +night when he had decided that to marry Hélène would be a calamity and +“Nikólenka... a letter... wa... a... s... wounded... my darling +Nikólenka; by his relations as a charming, attractive, and polite young +“Nikólenka, what is the matter?” Sónya’s eyes fixed on him +“Nikólenka... wounded... a letter,” she announced in gleeful +nineteenth, a great, excitedly bustling activity began which lasted till +ninety thousand strong, was to threaten Prussia so as to bring her out +no?” +“No.” +“No.” +“No.” +no account have told a deliberate lie. He began his story meaning to +“No, Andrew, I must say you have changed. Oh, how you have....” +“No apologies, none whatever,” said Dólokhov to Denísov (who on +“Nobody wants me!” thought Rostóv. “There is no one to help me or +“No, but don’t you think it’s nice?” she kept repeating. +“No, but do promise! I won’t let you go! My dear benefactor...” +“No, but I have been in love a thousand times and shall fall in +“No, but imagine the old Countess Zúbova, with false curls and her +“No, but I must. It may be arrogant of me, but still it is best to say +“No, but I say,” said Pierre, calming down, “you are a wonderful +“No, but listen,” she said, “now you are quite a man, aren’t +“No, but she said that it was all over and that he’s now an +“No, but what is it, my dear? Do you want me to go and tell him?” +“No, call her you, please! I’ll tell you all about it some other +No, certainly I must not approach him, I must not intrude on his +“No,” cried he, becoming more and more eager, “Napoleon is great +“No, dearest, sweet one, honey, I won’t give up—I know you know +“No, fifty,” replied the latter. +“No, friend, he is sharper-eyed than you are. Boots and leg bands... +“No, friend,” said a pleasant and, as it seemed to Prince Andrew, a +no fruit. I never could understand the fondness some people have for +“No, gentlemen, no... you mustn’t think... I quite understand. +“No. Give me the book,” said the stranger. +“No good... no good...” said the prince rapidly, and thrusting his +“No, he’s not a fool!” replied Natásha indignantly and seriously. +“No, he thinks only of himself,” muttered the princess without +“No, I can’t agree with you! To live only so as not to do evil and +“No, I considered it erroneous and did not follow it,” said Pierre, +“No, if I hadn’t thought of it being a treasure,” said Rostóv, +“No, I hate my life,” Pierre muttered, wincing. +“No, I have a wicked heart.” +“No, I have been transferred to the line,” said Anatole, hardly able +“No, I have not; but this is what I have been thinking and wanted +“No, I meant to ask...” Pierre began, but Prince Andrew interrupted +“No, impossible!” said Prince Andrew, laughing and pressing +“No, I mustn’t. I am so sorry for him! He’s so nice.” +“No, it can’t be helped, lad,” said the prince. “They’re +“No, I tell you.” +“No, it’s a sprain.” +“No, it’s only indigestion?... Say it’s only indigestion, say so, +“No, it will not do,” she said decidedly, clasping her hands. “No, +“No, I will do it myself, only tell me what to say. It’s all very +“No, I won’t promise that. You don’t know how Kutúzov is pestered +“No, I won’t,” said Pierre, pushing Anatole aside, and he went up +“No, leave me alone,” said Princess Mary. +no longer, as it should be, to avoid or attack the enemy, but solely to +no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age +no longer looked at the French but paid attention to the sight-seers and +“No, Mamma, but I’m so sorry for him. I don’t know how I’m to +“No, Mamma, I’m not in love with him, I suppose I’m not in love +“No matter at all, my dear count,” she said, meekly closing her +“No matter, Princess, don’t be alarmed,” said Mary Bogdánovna. +“No, merci, mon père.” +“No, mon père.” +no more. She is so affected. Ask her in,” she said to the footman in a +“No, my dear fellow, I’ll be a wallflower,” said Denísov. +none to anyone.” +nonintervention. And...” he paused. “Finally one cannot impute the +“Non, madame.” He smiled quite inappropriately. +“No, no! A thousand times no! I shall never agree with you,” said +“No, no!” cried Natásha, “she and I have already talked it over. +“No! No! No! When your father writes to tell me that you are behaving +“No, no, please not... You are Mademoiselle Bourienne,” said +“No, nothing.” +“No, not on any account! I will tell him myself, and you’ll listen +nonreceipt of our dispatch of November 18. That is how it will end.” +‘nonsense!’” +nonsense, but it would in fact have been difficult to give any other +nonsense... but this is real.... Now then, Natásha, now then, dearest! +nonsense, but we are friends forever. She, if she loves anyone, does it +“Nonsense!” he cried, and the veins on his forehead and neck stood +nonsense,” he thought. “The slur on my name and honor—that’s all +“Nonsense, indeed! I am telling you the fact,” said Natásha +“Nonsense, nonsense!” cried the old man, shaking his pigtail to +nonsense out of your head.” +nonsense, the chief thing is not to forget the important thing I +“No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone +“No, one can’t hear them. They’d be firing if we had.” +No one had given Túshin orders where and at what to fire, but after +No one slept. +no one would understand that it was not to quench his thirst or from +“No, on my true word of honor,” said Natásha, crossing herself, +“No, on my word it’s not obstinacy! I can’t describe the feeling. +“No-o-o!” muttered Dólokhov through his teeth, “no, it’s not +“No, Papa is not back yet,” said Sónya. +“No, pardon me, I won’t go now till the child is better,” thought +“No, Peter Nikoláevich; I only want to show that in the cavalry +“No, Prince, our regiment has gone to the front, but I am attached... +“No, Princess, I have lost your affection forever!” said +“No—promise that you will not refuse! It will give you no trouble +“No really, my dear, this dress is not pretty,” said Lise, looking +no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use +nose. His face was depressed and gloomy. He seemed to see and hear +“No? She is very nice and kind and, above all, she’s much to be +no sky but only an atmosphere.” +“No, Sónya, but do you remember so that you remember him perfectly, +Nostitz, the Austrian general occupying the advanced posts, believed +no such reminiscences really exist—just as none existed in this case. +not a diplomatist. That’s why I joined the hussars, thinking that here +not a distinction,” said the diplomatist—“a gift, rather.” +“No talking in the ranks!... No talking, no talking!” +“Not all, for you will not be there; not all,” said Prince Hippolyte +not a logical answer and not at all a reply to them. The answer was: +not answer. The hussar at that moment noticed the face of the red-nosed +“Not at all bad!” he thought, examining her, “not at all bad, that +“Not at all,” said Prince Andrew. +not at once raise, and he spent most of his time in the girls’ room. +not attract a moment’s attention to their own evolutions and did not +not been found nor was he on the list of prisoners. What was worst of +“Not Bonaparte. He is the Emperor! Sacré nom...!” cried he angrily. +“Not bound to endure insults,” Dólokhov concluded in loud, ringing +not breathe. He knew that he must do something to put an end to this +not but believe in the sincerity of those around him. Besides, he had +not but tremble and his heart stand still at the imminence of that word. +not, but you have no grounds for telling me so. And that is the whole +not captured.” Again he pondered. “I am very glad you have brought +not come and brought his pupil with him” (for some reason Prince +not? Delightful!” +not disfigured by the approach of death. It was the same as Pierre +noted them down. +note. I am in such a state.... My only hope now is in Count Cyril +“No, tell them to harness.” +not evince the least interest during this explanation, but as if he were +not exist. +Not expecting to come on the enemy down by the stream, and having +not expect you today,” he added. “I only sent you the note yesterday +Not far from the artillery campfire, in a hut that had been prepared +Not finding the young prince in his study the valet went with the +not forsake him. He will fulfill his vocation and crush the hydra of +not go to any large gatherings, but only to small receptions. Prince +not have caused him to expect that honor. The prince, who generally kept +“No, there is no change. I only came to have a talk about business, +nothing. +nothing about firing it.” +nothing about it and have not thought about it. Moscow is chiefly busy +“Nothing,” answered Princess Mary, looking firmly with her radiant +nothing, but here on the one hand the local nobility have done me the +nothing but meanness, deceit, envy, intrigue, and ingratitude—the +nothing, but that. But even it does not exist, there is nothing but +Nothing could be seen. Pitch-dark, brother! Isn’t there something to +nothing. I am very amiable and have a caustic wit,” continued Prince +Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever +nothing more important...” he paused, “than to have a good sleep.” +“Nothing, my dear.” +nothing, nothing, nothing! No, don’t marry, my dear fellow; don’t +nothing of her and looks only at Bourienne. No, she has no pride... but +“Nothing of the sort. Orders are issued for a battle.” +nothing of what was going on around him and to be absorbed by some +“Nothing... only a shell...” he answered. +“Nothing... only I feel sad... sad about Andrew,” she said, wiping +nothing. She felt that Sónya was speaking the truth, that there was +nothing to be happy about!” thought he. +nothing to him.... “I should perhaps have done the same thing in his +nothing when they have no powers; this one had none.... The Austrians +“Not hurt, Petróv?” asked one. +noticeable one at the dinner. Rostóv looked inimically at Pierre, +noticed, left the room with a pleasant smile. +noticed that he was pale and that his jaw quivered and shook as if in an +noticed that they had not come to the front entrance but to the back +noticed the French appearing below them, and then they fired grapeshot +noticed the look of terror with which Pierre regarded that lifeless arm, +noticing what a bad state of things it was. The regimental commander +not ill-spent. He is worth it!” +no time for reflection, as in Petersburg. Instead of the new life he had +no time. I hope, my dear friend, you will carry out your father’s +no time to ask himself whether these people were sincere or not. He +not intend to devote her life to serving Prince Bolkónski, to reading +“Not in the least,” replied the vicomte. “After the murder of the +not, it was decided at a consultation between the battalion commanders +“Not killed—wounded!” another officer corrected him. +not know: he therefore wished to speak to Dolgorúkov. +not know Him, but He is here, He is in me, He is in my words, He is in +not knowing what to do, and glanced inquiringly at his guide. Anna +not knowing whether it would be proper to call the dying man “the +“Not Kutúzov, but what’s his name—well, never mind... there are +not leave the battery. He decided to have the guns removed from their +“Not let the wife have him?” said the old man, and laughed. +Not letting the abbé and Pierre escape, Anna Pávlovna, the more +not like us sinners of the line,” cried Rostóv, with martial swagger +not listening to it continued to dress while walking about, and three +not love liberty and equality? Even our Saviour preached liberty and +not many left alive. Go that way, to that village, all the commanders +“Not more stupid than you, madam,” said the nine-year-old Pétya, +not moving a muscle. +“No, to kill a man is bad—wrong.” +“Not on any account!” exclaimed Rostóv. +“Not only occupied, but Bonaparte is at Schönbrunn, and the count, +not only without interest but even as if ashamed of what Pierre was +not realize that he had come. His coming had nothing to do with +not replying to the Austrian. +not resume your former way of life. And now I wish you a good journey, +not right.” +not rise. Rostóv also tried to rise but fell back, his sabretache +not see him at all.” +“Not seen Duport—the famous dancer? Well then, you won’t +not see or understand Him and may not see or understand his own vileness +not see ten paces ahead. Bushes looked like gigantic trees and level +not suit in the least. Not in the least! Please change it.” +not ten times wounded, killed, or betrayed, well... what then?...” +“Not that either. That puts the court in too bad a light,” replied +not to challenge Bolkónski. “Of course not!” he now thought. “Is +not to have to repent is not enough. I lived like that, I lived for +not to notice one another. When having limbered up the only two cannon +Not two minutes had passed before Prince Vasíli with head erect +not understand what he ought to do then it will be my affair—yes, my +not used to it. She will retaliate. And she has been fooled in the +not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting +not wanted here? Go to the other girls, or...” +not what he had read that vexed him, but the fact that the life out +not wish it. In a word, I make no promise. And I beg you to consider +Notwithstanding the tone of wearied assurance with which these words +notwithstanding this, Borís embraced him in a quiet, friendly way and +not worse than this one.” +“Not yet. But where are you off to?” +not yet dispersed before another puff appeared, followed by a report. +not you! Go back or I’ll flatten you into a pancake,” repeated he. +novelty she offered her guests this time was not Mortemart, but a +Novosíltsev, Prince Volkónsky, Strógonov, and the others, all richly +now.” +“Now about your family. Do you know that since your daughter came +now aiming, now counting the charges, now giving orders about replacing +“No, wait, Pierre! The princess is too kind to wish to deprive me of +now approached the sick man with the noiseless step of one in full vigor +now at her, moved as if about to rise too, but changed his mind. +now before I am off duty. I’ll take another turn and when I get back +now centered round the Emperor. So we will go to Dolgorúkov; I have to +“Now come, come! Be reasonable. I know your excellent heart.” +“Now, dear boy,” said Prince Vasíli playfully, “say ‘yes,’ +now gradually opening before me.” But five of the other virtues which +“No! What is there to talk about?” said Pierre. “It’s all the +“No! What kind, Márya Dmítrievna? What kind?” she almost screamed; +nowhere encountering the enemy. On the contrary, the soldiers became +Nowhere to hunt with your dogs? But what is to be done, old man? Just +Now he was a lieutenant of hussars, in a jacket laced with silver, and +“Now I am all right,” she said, and asking the vicomte to begin, she +“Now I must disclose to you the chief aim of our Order,” he said, +“Now I see it all! I know who has been intriguing—I know!” cried +“Now look out for the ball... we’ll throw it back.” +now on one side, now on the other, giving his face an unpleasant +now permissible; “the door to the left, ma’am.” +“Now?” repeated Natásha, and a happy smile lit up her face. “Have +now rose and took their leave. The visitor’s daughter was already +now,” said another. +“Now, Sídorov, you have a try!” +“Now, Sónya!” she said, going to the very middle of the room, where +“Now the fun begins,” thought Anatole, sitting down with a smile +Now then, darling! How will she take that si? She’s taken it! Thank +“Now then, go away and take your monstrosity with you,” said the +“Now then, go on, go on!” incited the officer, bending forward and +“Now then, let’s see how far it will carry, Captain. Just try!” +“Now then, Matvévna, dear old lady, don’t let me down!” he was +“Now then, now then, I’m only joking!” he said. “Remember this, +“Now then, Váska,” said Nicholas. +“Now then, you devil’s puppet, look alive and hunt for it!” +now there’s this recruiting.” +now the smile of the little princess—influenced by the general mood +now,” thought Rostóv driving his spurs into Rook and letting him go +“Now thou hast seen the lesser light,” uttered a voice. Then the +now told about that affair!” +now to look at Dólokhov, who was sitting opposite him. Every time +“Now, Véra, what does it matter to you?” said Natásha in defense, +now was evidently ready with a joke. “Whether tomorrow brings +now we shall get anything we want from his hothouses. I have to see him +“Now what does this mean, gentlemen?” said the staff officer, in +now, when my heart fails me and my mouth feels dry at the mere sight +“Now you don’t know that at all!” said Nicholas. “But I must +“Now you, young prince, what’s your name?” said Prince Bolkónski, +“No, you don’t understand!” +“No, you know it’s too soon for news. But my father is anxious and I +“No, you’ll never manage him that way,” said Anatole. “Wait a +number of men had perished in fleeing from Pratzen. The French had not +Number one jumped briskly aside. The gun rang out with a deafening +nurse and nurse Sávishna in the late princess’ rooms and Princess +nurse, Praskóvya Sávishna, who hardly ever came to that room as the +nursery.” +Nurse Sávishna, knitting in hand, was telling in low tones, scarcely +nurse’s French, at which he and Borís used to laugh long ago. +obedience—which did not even seem to him a virtue, but a joy. (He now +obedient, and insignificant atom. They followed Prince Dolgorúkov out +obeying, and suddenly doubts arose in his mind. “Where am I? What am +object above his head and, holding it there for some seconds, suddenly +object it is necessary that... The first column marches... The second +objects mentioned by the Rhetor, this last, that of improving mankind, +obligingly took the dish from Bagratión (or he would, it seemed, have +obtain a post on the commander in chief’s staff. Berg and Borís, +obtained his captaincy during the campaign, had gained the confidence of +obtained through an acquaintance and sent to her son, asking him to take +obviously strange to her to think that this stern handsome man should be +obviously trying to restrain within the bounds of decorum the excitement +occasionally drew it down to meet the lower lip. As is always the case +occasioned by the sausage eaters. +occupation, came up to her for a moment and made haste to go away, +occupation of the town of Wischau and the capture of a whole French +occupied by the Emperors and their retinues. +occupied. He was himself always occupied: writing his memoirs, solving +occupied with evening parties, dinners, lunches, and balls, giving him +occupy is a strong one, and while they are marching to go round me on +occupy the position and prepare for an attack.” +occurred to him. On the contrary, he became more and more elated. It +occurred to him, though the question he was about to ask was the chief +occurred to his regiment, but in reality he did not himself know what +o’clock all had been brought into due order. The ranks were drawn +o’clock left the third column with which he had been and galloped +Odýntsova had married an old man, and that there was a suitor for Mary, +o’erpassed,” said an old priest to a lady who had taken a seat +of a battle but also disbelieved in the nearness of an engagement. +of affairs?” concluded his father. “But it troubles me. I don’t +of a girl, but I like her.” +of a gun at Ismail. +of all that mass of huge and handsome men, of all those brilliant, +of all these brilliant young men. +of all. This gift will be a pledge of your purity of heart to her whom +of Alms” went round to all the brothers. Pierre would have liked +of a man who enjoys life and knows how to live, he swayed to and +of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him. +of an attack spread through the squadron. The command to form up rang +of, and am going to rejoin my regiment, I am giving a farewell supper +of an immense fortune. The will has not yet been opened. I know you +of a parade. We had expected, as I told you, to get at their rear by +of a pleasure, and obliges me to interrupt you. I am very sorry to leave +of a ruling prince, in a crown—an alleged descendant of Rúrik and +of a sin he could neither remedy nor forget. He could not weep. The +of assurance and haste, Pierre concluded that it was all absolutely +of a subject, she did not stop talking, but chattered about the +of a surgeon who has just performed a difficult operation and admits the +of Austerlitz, but wore a tight new uniform with Russian and foreign +of Austerlitz: nine tenths of the men in the Russian army were then in +of awe and even servility. A deference such as he had never before +of Bagratión’s detachment. His hussars were placed along the line +of battles was evidently culminating in a panic. +of beginning anew pictured to himself the blissful, irreproachable, +of being afraid roused him again. “I cannot be afraid,” thought he, +of believing in the possibility of attaining perfection, and in the +of birds. +of blessedness which now flooded his heart with glad emotion. +of Bonaparte. +of Bonaparte, encountering a population that was unfriendly to it, +of capacity for philosophical meditation (to which he himself was +of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist. In front and +of columns from Russia, of some victory gained by the Austrians, and of +of command. +of communications, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his +of contempt. “And believe me, if I still value my life it is +of Count Bezúkhov’s death. She said the count had died as she would +“Of course. I’m going into action! I’ve shaved, bwushed my teeth, +“Of course, it is a very brilliant match, but happiness, my dear...” +“Of course, we only just missed one another,” said the staff +“Of course. What is it?” +of cowardice in the other. Both passed the examination successfully. As +of cruelty, as when tying the policeman to the bear and dropping them +of deep bass voices, and in the intervals sighs and the shuffling of +of delighted amazement. +of disease without help while material assistance could so easily be +of dread was in the air. It was evident that the affair so lightly begun +of each. +of each shot, as at the word of command, the whole squadron with its +of England, inspired by such hatred of our nation! This victory will +of eternal peace and blessedness?” she thought. +of everything. One must think of the future, of all of you... I love you +of exasperation. “Don’t you hear it’s His Majesty the Emperor’s +of expression and intonation that obliged one to listen to each +of expression on his face. Now his forehead would pucker into deep folds +of face, evidently worn out with childbearing—she had had twelve. +off; and here at last was a Russian prince. Mademoiselle Bourienne knew +off, and the firing had begun to subside. Suddenly, near by on the +off—and this is what comes of it!” said Prince Andrew in an +of fate and the designs of rogues. During the few days he spent in +off at every moment. They waited and listened. +off completely and surround his exhausted army of forty thousand, and he +of fear for his young and happy life, possessed his whole being. Rapidly +of fellow. As for the past two years people have amused themselves +offended tone. +offend me. Really I have some,” Rostóv repeated. +offensive, the plan of which, carefully prepared in accord with the +offered a most striking contrast to his quiet, little wife. It was +off his cloak. +off his courage, had ridden on to the planks of the bridge: +off his eyes and glanced around him. The room was in black darkness, +officer.” +officer and a wounded hero, would it be right to remind him of herself +officer arrived, but at a sign resumed his measured, monotonous pacing. +officer as in a looking glass—started, moved forward, and answered: +officer has stolen...” +officer in charge of transport was beating the soldier who was driving +officer in the Semënov regiment with whom Borís was to travel to join +officer in the white uniform of the Horse Guards. +officer joined in the colonel’s appeals, but Bagratión did not reply; +officer of the suite by the arm. “Look! A man has fallen! Fallen, +officer passing by addressed him: +officer pointing to the soldiers. “The officers don’t keep them in +officers. +Officer!” said Bagratión to Rostóv, “are the enemy’s skirmishers +officers became animated. The Guardsmen told Rostóv of their march and +officers, but every soldier with his freshly washed and shaven face and +officers buttoned up their coats, buckled on their swords and pouches, +officers,” continued the staff captain, “and Bogdánich” (the +officer sends for Auersperg; these gentlemen embrace the officers, crack +officers, generals, and adjutants, as they passed Rostóv going or +officers. Now what was the colonel to do? Have the officer tried and +officer’s remark was just and that really no answer could be made to +officers were counting the men, poking the last man in each section in +officers who had been standing together rode off to their places. The +officers who had gathered at his quarters. The little old man with +officer, that he would drink a bottle of rum sitting on the outer ledge +officer, with a smile to Bolkónski. +official appointed to the province in which the prince’s estate lay +of fire and had descended into the dip, he was met by some of the staff, +off on the line of Kutúzov’s retreat. If he reached Znaim before the +of for a single moment during the whole service. He judged by the +of fugitives, Prince Andrew, trying to keep near Kutúzov, saw on the +of habit said things he did not even wish to be believed. +of having been dutiful et tout ce qui s’ensuit!* That’s certain.” +of hearts. On the previous Sunday the old count had given his son +of hearts with a torn corner, which he had picked up from the floor. He +of Hélène. Some, as if unwilling to distract her from an important +of her most august Majesty the Empress Márya Fëdorovna. Pierre felt +of her neutrality and draw her into the war; how part of that army was +of her saint’s-day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to +of her worthlessness he was also dreaming of how she would be his +of him—at the battery. He now saw clearly the figure of a red-haired +of him, listened to him, admired, and imitated him, and with them Prince +of him?” Not one of the innumerable speeches addressed to the Emperor +of his appearance before her now. Prince Andrew went round the sofa and +of his book with his old hands which from excitement he could not keep +of his coat and looking down at him—the Englishman was short—began +of his commissions and ordered the small closed carriage for her. +Of his former bachelor acquaintances many were no longer in Petersburg. +of his mouth and winking at the count. +of his own, goodness only knows why, he leaves me and locks me up alone +of his return. +of his speech. “Vous comptez vous faire des rentes sur l’état; * +of his whip fell on the apron of the equipage. The woman screamed +of his words for the solemnity of the moment, as he spoke. “I +of horses had been sent up the highroad to meet the German doctor from +of horse’s hoofs approaching at a trot along the line of hussars was +of how beside himself and all aflame with excitement, he had flown like +of how to get away quickly to her own room to make out the problem in +of inviting the other to take a seat beside him. Pierre felt reluctant +of it. Prince Andrew” (he always spoke thus of his son) “has been +of its honeyed firmness and softness. +of its rightful king,” she concluded, trying to be amiable to the +of it. The only question is, has it been destroyed or not? If not, then +of joy in his eyes, looked round him, not knowing how to answer the +of Lannes’ sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and +of life, with his delicate white fingers raised from the green quilt the +of love and sadness. It was plain that she was following a train of +of love and self-sacrifice. And cost what it may, I will arrange +of love which pervaded the Rostóv household that winter and, now after +of Mack’s defeat, the camp life of the officers of this squadron was +of Mack, the news of his defeat, and the thought of what lay before the +of men and horses, from the little puffs of smoke on the enemy’s side +of mind, Pierre carried out an intention he had long had of visiting his +of mingled shame and vexation. +of now as the “Seeker,” now as the “Sufferer,” and now as the +of officers and courtiers, was riding a bobtailed chestnut mare, a +of Olmütz where Bolkónski had seen him for the first time abroad, but +of one another, and then, as if afraid of being too late, seized each +of other things and to look in other directions, thought only of what +of permission previously given him by Kutúzov to be present at the +of Peter and Paul, his patron saints. In another place the women with +of pride, indolence, and ignorance. Forgive me, my dear sir, but if I +of profound thought. The round, steady, hawk’s eyes looked before him +of Prussia, in order to draw Borís into the conversation. +of Prussia’s consent by assault. You are so eloquent. Will you give me +of reflection are generally in a serious frame of mind. At such moments +of rum in his hand was approaching the window, from which the light of +of,” said the princess in the same petulantly playful tone in which +of Sergéy Kuzmích and at the same time his eyes glanced toward his +of several thousand men could produce. The lights spread farther and +of shots retreated. In the highest army circles from midday on the +of sixteen, evidently passionately in love with him (he did not doubt +of sixteen, had been in Paris and Copenhagen, and now held a rather +of slaves? Have you helped them physically and morally? No! You have +of smoke that had concealed the hollow, driven by a rising wind, began +of some dislocation and blunder spread through the ranks. How such +of something too large and unsuited to the place, came over her face +of sons and brothers. +of Sónya, who blushed and smiled unnaturally. In the midst of his talk +of speech and of the press—and only for that reason did he obtain +often heard from his fellow hussars. +often heard. “What is this?” thought Prince Andrew approaching the +often than at anyone else and took delight in his every movement. +of that song. +of the action balls and shells began flying all over his regiment and +of the actual battlefield. They began to meet wounded men. One with a +of the advance. As soon as an Austrian officer showed himself near +of the army into the hands of a better informed and more skillful +of the Azóv and Podólsk infantry and the Pávlograd hussars—was +Of the behavior of the eldest princess and Prince Vasíli she spoke +of the boulevards whom he visited of an evening. He led the mazurka +of the campfire, waving his uplifted arm. +of the candles was focused on those two happy faces alone. +of the cannon. He heard the whistle of bullets above him unceasingly and +of the club, beset the new arrivals. Count Ilyá, again thrusting his +of the club from the day it was founded. To him the club entrusted the +of the colonel, Nesvítski, Zherkóv, and the officer from the suite. +of the commander in chief’s special favor he was sent with the news of +of the dam, throwing two soldiers off their feet, and ran onto the +of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the +of the Emperor like a cloud of haze across a clear sky and vanished. +of the enemy’s lines, which all day long had yielded ground to us +of the feebleness of age, “Bolkónski!” he whispered, pointing to +of the field he stood on was well-known and familiar ground. Though he +of the Frenchmen with the gunners ended, whether the red-haired gunner +of the French were coming down upon them and that his regiment was in +of the general sorrow. +of the Gospel: “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with +of the Guards, a girl of fifteen, and a plump rosy-faced boy in a short +of the hand on the dial of human history. +of the intellectual essence of Petersburg,” as she herself put it. +of the lathe he removed his foot from the pedal, wiped his chisel, +of the lean sinewy hand, showed that the prince still possessed the +of the lovers. “That’s happiness!” +of the maids who was present. (Mary Bogdánovna was a midwife from the +of the majestic Emperor. Casually, while surveying the squadron, the +of the meal and was certain that there was some secret between her +of them forgot what was happening and what was about to happen in the +of them will have any meaning for me. Tomorrow perhaps, even certainly, +of the nearness of the Emperor Francis’ black cob, nor of all that was +of the newly commissioned officer were collected. Anna Mikháylovna, +of the night. The gloom that enveloped the army was filled with their +of the nineteenth March, and her downy little lip rose from old habit, +of the oft-repeated passage of the sonata. Prince Andrew stopped and +of the orderlies and servants. +of the President, who held a mallet in his hand. Let into the wall was +of the river. +of the road were forests of different kinds, fields, and villages. +of the room. Prince Andrew turned to him, but the doctor gave him a +of the sayings and doings of their commander, the Grand Duke, and told +of the second gun’s crew was “uncle”; Túshin looked at him more +of these maneuvers that enabled us to escape him. Buxhöwden pursues +of the service the voices of the priests suddenly ceased, they whispered +of the sleigh. +of the statutes and these remained in his mind. +of the streams and hollows of Sokolnitz and Schlappanitz beyond which we +of the sun. In front, far off on the farther shore of that sea of mist, +of the Thabor Bridge is delightful! It is not exactly stupidity, nor +of the third company!” +of the third floor window with his legs hanging out. +Of the three precepts of Freemasonry Pierre realized that he did not +of the unwritten code of subordination—looked so fixedly at the +of the upper lip formed a sharp wedge and closed firmly on the firm +of the victory that had been gained. Prince Andrew introduced his +of the war and without leaders. The Moscovites felt that something was +of the war that had been announced in a manifesto, and about the +of the way! Make way!” +of the wood ran out of it, the different companies getting mixed, and +of things to him in the very worst light, pointing out the necessity of +of thirteen, hiding something in the folds of her short muslin frock, +of this delicious Russian tea,” Lorrain was saying with an air of +of this kind for another, which from pride he would never accept for +of this set. +of those Frenchmen,” he said. “What nasty brutes they are! I’d +of those rare women with whom a man’s honor is safe; but, O God, what +of truth, my dear sir, but have thrust her into an abyss of deceit and +of Túshin’s battery. Prince Andrew followed with the suite. Behind +of twenty; Sónya a girl of sixteen with all the charm of an opening +of voices, the tramping feet, the horses’ hoofs moving in mud, the +of Weyrother’s voice, he opened his one eye with an effort. +of which Kutúzov was standing began to shout, he rode a little to one + of whom you have made a friend, but not for you, not for +“Of whom you imagine me to be one?” said Prince Andrew, with a quiet +of wind blowing over the army slightly stirred the streamers on the +of wounded pride, and a hope of glory. “And should there be nothing +of you.” +of your misfortune.” He seemed to emphasize the last word, as if to +of yours, is not at all to blame that my face has the misfortune to +Oh, Andrew! What a treasure of a wife you have,” said she, sitting +“Oh, but you were there?” said Prince Bagratión, addressing Prince +“Oh dear, what a beast I am!” muttered Rostóv, as he read the +“Oh dear, what am I thinking about? I’ve mixed everything up. One +“Oh, Denísov is quite different,” replied Nicholas, implying that +“Oh, don’t mention it, Count! I quite understand,” said Berg, +“Oh, don’t speak of his going, don’t! I won’t hear it spoken +“Oh, don’t speak to me of Austria. Perhaps I don’t understand +“Oh, every bullet has its billet,” answered Váska Denísov, turning +“Oh God, what would happen to me if the Emperor spoke to me?” +“Oh, go to the devil!” called out a voice, drowned by the laughter +“Oh, Heaven! How ill he is!” exclaimed the mother. +“Oh, he is in a dreadful state,” said the mother to her son when +“Oh, he is so kind!” answered Princess Mary. +“Oh, he’s all right, a good horse,” answered Rostóv, though the +“Oh, how delightful it is!” she kept saying, running up to Sónya. +“Oh, how dreadful! How can you laugh at it, Count?” +Oh, how I would guard him, how I would tell him the truth, how I would +“Oh, how nice, how splendid!” she said to everything. +“Oh, how nice,” thought Natásha; and when Sónya and Nicholas had +Oh, how that chord vibrated, and how moved was something that was finest +“Oh, hush, please!” said another. +“Oh, I must give you a treat,” Bilíbin whispered to Bolkónski. +“Oh! I thought you were in your room,” she said, for some reason +“Oh, it’s nothing. I only wished to say...” (he wanted to repeat +“Oh, it’s terrible to feel oneself so in this man’s power,” +“Oh, it’s wetched! Well, what are you standing there for, you +“Oh, leave off!” said the accountant with a beaming but rather +“Oh, leave off, you always talk nonsense and keep putting things +“Oh, little countess!” ... and the count began bustling to get out +“Oh, my bower new...!” chimed in twenty voices, and the castanet +“Oh, my bower, oh, my bower...!” +“Oh, my dear fellow, we’re in such a stew here these last two +“Oh, my God! My God! Schmidt!” he exclaimed in German. “What a +“Oh, my God! thank God!” said Princess Mary. “I must go and meet +“Oh, Natásha!” said Sónya, looking ecstatically and earnestly at +“Oh no, let me off, Countess,” Denísov replied. +“Oh, no, no!” And besides the pallor and the physical suffering +“Oh no, not at all! On the contrary, I am very glad to make your +“Oh no, not at all too young!” replied the count. “Why, our +“Oh no!” said Iogel, hastening to reassure him. “You were only +“Oh, nothing,” said he, as if weary of being continually asked the +“Oh, nurse, I’m so glad!” +“Oh! Oh!” exclaimed several voices. +“Oh! Oh!” groaned Nesvítski as if in fierce pain, seizing the +“Oh! Oh! Oh!” +“Oh! Oh! Oh!” groaned Kutúzov despairingly and looked around.... +“Oh! Oh! Oh!” he muttered, looking down from the window at the +“Oh, take those off... those...” she said, pointing to his +“Oh, that is all the same,” Dolgorúkov said quickly, and getting up +“Oh, that is dreadful, dreadful!” said Pierre. “I don’t +“Oh, that’s it!” said Rostóv, evidently thinking of something +Oh, that wicked Prince Hippolyte!” she said. +“Oh, the faiwy! She can do anything with me!” said Denísov, and +“Oh, those Moscow gossips!” said Dólokhov, and he took up the cards +“Oh, to die, to die for him,” thought Rostóv. +“Oh, very well, you may stay in attendance on me.” +“Oh, well then, good-by: go and dress. Is he very terrible, +“Oh, well, well!” remarked the regimental commander. “Still, one +“Oh, what a nuisance,” said Dolgorúkov, getting up hurriedly and +“Oh, what a pig I am, not to have written and to have given them +“Oh, what are you talking about?” said another. “Where is he to +“Oh, what a terrible state he is in! One would not know him, he is so +“Oh, what nonsense!” cried Natásha, laughing. “I don’t think +“Oh, yes!” +“Oh yes,” assented Princess Mary, “perhaps that’s it. I’ll go. +“Oh, yes, I quite understand,” answered Rostóv, who was under his +“Oh yes, it is horribly stupid,” said Pierre. +“Oh yes, like that, I know, I only forgot,” said he. +“Oh, yes!” said Pierre, with a forced smile. “I am very grateful +“Oh yes, very much! My brother knows him, he’s dined with him—the +“Oh, you damned dandies! Clean and fresh as if you’d been to a fete, +“Oh, you Don Juan! You serpent!” cried several voices. +“Oh, you fool!” said the old man, spitting angrily. Some time passed +“Oh, you Guards!” said Rostóv. “I say, send for some wine.” +“Oh, your excellency!” said Franz, with difficulty rolling the +old age and tobacco, which she had known so long. “Now, madam, these +Old Bolkónski had always had a poor opinion of Prince Vasíli’s +old chamberlain was heard assuring an old baroness that he loved her +old Count Bezúkhov, and his inheritance. Fancy! The three princesses +older visitors. They now, stretching themselves after sitting so long, +oldest rose. Márya Dmítrievna paused at the door. Tall and stout, +old father, and entering the military service, my dear. And there was a +old fellow? Out of sorts?” +old fool,” he thought. “That Princess Hélène will be beautiful +Old Gabriel brought in the wine. +old lady next to her and glanced angrily at her daughter, and her sigh +old man continued to fold and seal his letter, snatching up and throwing +old man, living alone in the country for so many years, could know and +old man, shaking his powdered head as much as the tail, which Tíkhon +old man too came up and kissed the waxen little hands that lay quietly +Old Michael was asleep on the chest. Prokófy, the footman, who was +old miller had been accustomed to sit in his tasseled cap peacefully +old prince had forbidden it, appeared on the threshold with a shawl +Old Prince Nicholas Bolkónski received a letter from Prince Vasíli +old princess, kissing her soundly. “If I hadn’t this headache I’d +old prince understood from this official report that our army had been +Olga went out. Pierre stood looking at the sisters; then he bowed and +Olmütz and that he wanted to see him as he had a letter and money for +Olmütz, was preparing to be reviewed next day by the two Emperors—the +“O Lord God! Thou who art in that heaven, save, forgive, and protect +on. +on account of the smoke nothing could be seen. The nearer they got to +on a chair in the ballroom, crossing one leg high over the other, +on a few steps he stopped before Prince Andrew, who lay on his back with +on a hot dish. +on all sides, had stopped because a horse in front had fallen under a +on all sides. The countess rose and went into the ballroom. +On all sides they saw rain-soaked officers with dejected faces who +on anything. It was about this choice that Prince Andrew was speaking. +on around him. Not only was he indifferent as to whether he got to +on a sofa in a far corner of the room. He closed his eyes and seemed to +on at the crossing. And why are they dawdling there?” +On being relieved from picket duty Rostóv had managed to get a few +on both sides. Behind our position was a steep and deep dip, making it +once.” +“Once again, Colonel,” said the general, “I can’t leave half +once been in to see the count. He has not sent for me.... I am sorry for +once for a moment of glory, of triumph over men, of love from men I +once he raised his eyebrows, abruptly touched his horse with his left +Once more the conversations concentrated, the ladies’ at the one end +once recognized it to be a tuft of grass. She was terribly close to him. +once she has said...” +once the stranger closed the book, putting in a marker, and again, +once was—did not struggle, and perhaps she was right. Nothing has been +on cloaks or mantles, and drive away. The conversation was on the chief +on condition that she should tell no one. +on duty every day, or may place me under arrest, but no one can make +one another. +one another, beginning to see one another through the mist. They had the +one another time to ask questions and give replies concerning a thousand +one but the Emperor of Russia has that right. +“One!” came the command. +“One can’t everywhere say all one thinks, mon cher. Well, have +“One can’t write so fast, your honor,” said the clerk, glancing +one considers that by tomorrow one may be dead, or something so +one day’s ration of bread remains, and in some regiments none at all, +one feels as if one were in the country.” +one foot, bounded from the floor like a ball, and flew round the room +one foot, from the orderly and began to mount. +one had put but which was always in her mind, “and how much suffering, +one I’d give my life for her! But those!...” and he made a gesture +one is to interfere with his arrangements—leads his division to +one moment prayed to God as he had done on the battlefield at the bridge +“One moment, your excellency.” +“One more question, Count,” he said, “which I beg you to answer +“One must admit,” continued Prince Andrew, “that Napoleon as a man +“One must be indulgent to little weaknesses; who is free from them, +one of disdain which was quite uncalled for. His fertile mind instantly +one of the Ápsheron regiment went forward past the Emperor. +one of the guests. “The vicomte is a wonderful raconteur,” said she +One of the hindmost guns that was going onto the dam turned off onto the +one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow. +one of them knew, not one of them wanted to know, and not one of them +One of them was a sallow, clean-shaven civilian with a thin and wrinkled +One of them was leading by the bridle a fine large French horse he had +One of the next arrivals was a stout, heavily built young man with +One of the players said he hoped he might be trusted. +One. “Oh, this senseless life of ours!” thought Nicholas. “All +one pair at each window. She stopped and smiled scornfully. Sónya was +one quite at home, and from habit immediately lay down on the sofa, took +one reviews the past and plans for the future. Prince Andrew’s face +one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, +(one shattered gun and one unicorn were left behind), Prince Andrew rode +“One should make up to the husbands of pretty women,” said Denísov. +one side of which symbolized God, another moral things, a third +one spot. His predictions were being justified. Part of the Russian +“One step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing +“One thing I ask of your excellency,” Dólokhov said in his firm, +“One thing I thank God for is that I did not kill that man,” said +“O-ne! T-wo! Thwee!” he shouted angrily and stepped aside. +“One was damaged,” answered the staff officer, “and the other I +One was on a white horse. Prince Bagratión and Prince Dolgorúkov with +one.... Whom, I ask you, can we rely on?... England with her commercial +one word after another, came through the open door. She was speaking as +one would have expected of him. +One would have thought it impossible for a man to stretch himself +one would have to... the Metropolitan himself... and even then it +one would not need finesse; and he tells me that I am lying—so let him +On February 26, 1807, the old prince set off on one of his circuits. +on! Go on!” And cries of horror were heard in the crowd. The soldiers +on hearing of the arrival of the letter went softly into the room and +on hearing the news was one of anger with Sónya.... He tried to say, +On Hélène’s name day, a small party of just their own people—as +on her face. +on her lips, she got up and left the room. All Nicholas’ animation +on her priority) “that that senseless young man was spoiled by the +on her toes any longer. “So that’s what I’m up to! I’ll never +on him by the doctors, clergy, and relatives of the family. Prince +on himself. He could remain silent for hours without being at all put +on him. The Empress’ chamberlain invited him to see Her Majesty. The +on him without changing their expression. “I love you all and have +on his arm as if that touch might soothe or rouse him. +on his pupil’s behalf. That’s how it’s to be understood! ‘How +On his return to Moscow from the army, Nicholas Rostóv was welcomed +on his saber, and put on his cap. +on his seat, lowered his hands, moved a little to the right and then to +on his side of it. +on his thin bony legs, and keeping on a worn, nankeen-covered, sheepskin +on horseback facing the ditch. One with a white plume in his hat seemed +on in his usual tone of indifference. +on!” innumerable voices suddenly shouted after the ball had struck +On Kutúzov’s staff, among his fellow officers and in the army +onlookers for what was to follow. As soon as the provocatively gay +only a small lamp was burning inside something white. Pierre went nearer +only because I still hope to meet such a divine creature, who will +only betrayed us three times in three years. We take up their cause, but +only bivouacking here and have just come to look round. I am going back +only by the elite. +only change being that the words “Father Kámenski” were replaced by +only covered by her garments. And having once seen this he could not +“Only fools and rakes fall ill, my boy. You know me: I am busy from +only heard Dólokhov’s hurried steps, and his figure came in view +only help a bit! I must have singers too. I shall have my own orchestra, +only his eyes were brighter than usual. +“Only let me report this gentleman’s business, and I shall be at +only lit fires to deceive us. +Only now, when he was confronted by the stern authorities, did his guilt +only pressed it to the cold braiding of his hussar’s jacket. Denísov, +only Sónya, Nicholas, and Natásha, but even the old countess, +only sure happiness in life.” +“Only take care you and your Cossacks are not all captured!” said +only telling you what it is. Napoleon has also formed his plan by now, +only that all the men of the day were mere babies who did not know the +“Only that?” said Bolkónski. +only to express his rapture fully. +Only when approaching Bagratión did Rostóv let his horse gallop again, +Only when Prince Andrew was gone did Rostóv think of what he ought to +“On my honor!” +On November 1 Kutúzov had received, through a spy, news that the army +On October 11, 1805, one of the infantry regiments that had just reached +On October 11, the day when all was astir at headquarters over the news +On our right flank commanded by Bagratión, at nine o’clock the battle +on purpose to vex us. The Archduke Karl does nothing, the Archduke +On reaching Petersburg Pierre did not let anyone know of his arrival, +On reaching the village he dismounted and went to the nearest house, +On retiring to her own room, she sat in an armchair, her eyes fixed on a +On returning from the review, Kutúzov took the Austrian general into +on seeing Rostóv before him, with whom he would inevitably collide. +on snowy-white smooth pillows, evidently freshly changed, Pierre +on—that Pierre became quite bewildered and only replied: +On that third of March, all the rooms in the English Club were filled +“On the 4th, the first courier arrives from Petersburg. The mails +on the arm of a colonel of hussars, a man of importance to them because +on the arm said: +“On the contrary,” he said, in a querulous and angry tone that +on the contrary it gave her an unnatural, and therefore unpleasant, +“On the contrary,” replied the prince, who had plainly become +“On the contrary, that coiffure suits the princess very well,” said +on the contrary, they stimulated his energy and determination. +on the cot. +On the eighteenth and nineteenth of November, the army advanced two +On the evening of the last day’s march an order had been received that +on the field. +on the field before the fortress. Now thousands of feet and bayonets +On the first arrival of the news of the battle of Austerlitz, Moscow had +On the French side, amid the groups with cannon, a cloud of smoke +on the ground. +On the high ground where the enemy was, the smoke of a cannon rose, +on the little princess’ face, an expression of childish fear of +‘on the march’ it meant in greatcoats?” said he reproachfully to +On the morning of the day that the young couple were to arrive, Princess +On the opposite side the enemy could be seen by the naked eye, and from +on the other an immense case containing icons, was brightly illuminated +on the other side, the children, tutors, and governesses. From behind +On the Pratzen Heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his +on. The preoccupation and despondency which Pierre had noticed in his +“On the same business. But you are damp! Let me wring you out!” +on the snow. +on the soft springs of the carriage, he turned to Prince Andrew. +on the table, again bound his eyes. +On the third day after Christmas Nicholas dined at home, a thing he had +on the top of her head (a style that quite altered and spoiled her +On the twelfth of November, Kutúzov’s active army, in camp before +On the twenty-eighth of October Kutúzov with his army crossed to the +on the unattractive martyrlike expression it so often wore, as she +On the way home, Prince Andrew could not refrain from asking Kutúzov, +On the way to his sister’s room, in the passage which connected one +on this high ground, shall withdraw the left flank under its cover, and +“On Tuesday between eight and nine. It will give me great pleasure.” + * “On vous fera danser.” +on what he thought right. The steward promised to do all in his power to +on which Rostóv sat. +on which with a broken bit of chalk he had written “800 rubles” in +on you. You complain of our separation. What then should I say, if I +“Oooh! For Christ’s sake let me alone!” cried the wounded man, but +opened eyes. “What has happened to her? How she is singing today!” +opened the bedroom door. +opened the door which moved noiselessly and easily. She paused at the +open it. Someone was holding it shut. +operations according to him were connected with such complicated +opinion,” said she, turning to the young man who, having come quite +opinions, but you see what a capital, good-natured fellow I am.” And +opportunity of joining in the general current of recollections. +opportunity since morning to meet one another alone. When Princess Mary +opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. +opposite, in front of which large masses of French were advancing. +opposite Pierre and seemed very gay. Rostóv was talking merrily to his +opposite. Pierre spoke little but examined the new faces, and ate a +or anybody; but you are free to choose.... Go to your room, think it +or appreciative according to the way the joke was received. Everybody +“Or are you afraid to play with me?” Dólokhov now asked as if +or cap, his head was bandaged, and over his shoulder a French munition +ordained that the Austrian army should maneuver the previous year on the +ordeal was about to begin. +order. +ordered his horse at once and, coldly taking leave of Borís, rode +ordered the horses to be harnessed. Only those things he always kept +ordered to turn back to the right. Several thousand cavalry crossed in +orderly by the shoulders and knocking him against the wall. +orderly, running behind the cart and fumbling in the back of it. +orderly to the bravest general, and still more, he was going with a +order not to lose his head and do foolish things he must not act on his +order of Maria Theresa on his neck and a black bandage round his head, +orders. +Orders, and the Star of St. George on his left breast. Evidently just +Orders by heart and know the Regulations as well as I do the Lord’s +orders the sergeant to be arrested. Come, you must own that this affair +orders to admit no more, but the porter was told to be sure to invite to +orders to the club steward and to the famous Feoktíst, the club’s +orders which showed that the Russian troops, who had hitherto been +order to make Borís’ better acquaintance, promised to come to dinner, +order. You are causing me to lose the fruits of a campaign. Break +ordinary staid and respectful good manners habitual in the prince’s +or even to wish to be thought to listen. Exactly opposite Weyrother, +or gray horses; then again, spreading out with the brazen clatter of the +Or he would suddenly feel ashamed of he knew not what. He felt it +or Kutúzov was. Some said the report that the Emperor was wounded was +Orlóv never gave such a dinner as ours will be!” +or make out anything of what was happening: there in the smoke men of +or of the necessity of rebuilding factories and workshops. So the first +or Prince Vasíli. Forty thousand serfs and millions of rubles! I know +or two in his head but dozens, some only beginning to form themselves, +or whether some other thought flitted across his dying brain, at any +or you as having been at all insulted, and as a man older than you, my +Ostralitz. In the large drawing room which had become the commander +other.” +other, awkwardly, like a child at a dancing lesson. +other before the service was concluded. Pierre paid no more attention +other fare, was splendid, yet he could not feel quite at ease till the +other had ridden up to him. +other lady visitors were farther down. At the other end sat the count, +other officer; he’ll say: ‘Go and find out what’s there.’ There +other officers. Perhaps I ought not to have spoken before them, but I am +others...” +others.” +others and even from herself, the stronger it grew. “O God,” she +others and, in shirt sleeves and breeches, went glass in hand to the +others appreciated Prince Hippolyte’s social tact in so agreeably +other’s hands, kissing them and pulling them away, and again began +other soldiers. He stood looking about him, when suddenly he heard a +others, only now have I understood all the happiness of life. No, I +others. “Well, you old sinner,” she went on, turning to the count +other virtues—love of his neighbor, and especially generosity. +otherwise. To tell them that she felt ashamed for herself and for them +other young ladies in begging Natásha and Nicholas, who were noted for +ought to be, now he fancied it was only something in his own eyes. His +ought to go straight to him and give the message Dolgorúkov had ordered +ought to know where they are, and must find them, because...” +“Oui, madame,” replied he, looking around him. +our aid,” said Kutúzov. +our dear Count Vrbna, goes to him for orders.” +our enemies! Hurrah!” he exclaimed in his dashing, old, hussar’s +our fine speeches and in his rude and savage way throws himself on the +our hands! No, we mustn’t forget Suvórov and his rule—not to put +our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against +Our infantry were stationed there, and at the farthest point the +our members as much as possible to reform their hearts, to purify and +our men had begun firing. They were still firing, not at the cavalry +“our men have been wasting time.” +our officers.” +our officers and men at Austerlitz. One had saved a standard, another +our Order can bestow it will render you, my dear sir. You are going to +our people...” +our present, depraved world. No one now loves virtue; it seems like + * Ours. +ourselves.” +ourselves, dear prince,” said the little princess (of course, in +ourselves, were growing up and dying with no idea of God and truth +“ours,” kissing his finger tips. +‘our Sovereign, the Emperor,’ as they say at official dinners,” +our thoughts to the second, Bonaparte. But as it turns out, just at +our troops had descended and from whence came the sounds of firing. +our troops were known to him as far as they could be known to anyone +our turn next.” +out. +out: +out about him. +out accidently.” +out and the sabers whizzed as they were drawn from their scabbards. +out a notebook, hurriedly scribbled something in pencil, tore out the +out as a post horse, but still I must have a talk with you, Catiche, a +out everyone has been enraptured by her? They say she is amazingly +out from behind the clouds, and the clear sound of the solitary shot +out her cambric handkerchief she began wiping her husband’s waistcoat. +out his notebook and, leaning on the cannon, sketched a plan of the +out in front of a platoon of grenadiers before whom lay a naked man. Two +out like cords. “You are mad, I tell you. I won’t allow it. +outlines. Dressed as she used to be in Petersburg society, it was still +out. Mack loses a whole army, the Archduke Ferdinand and the Archduke +out of countenance himself or making others uncomfortable, but as +out of hearing. Another musket missed fire but flashed in the pan. +out of it. They could not understand that I have not the necessary +out of this position; that here was the Toulon that would lift him from +out over the fire, and not waiting for an answer he gave a grunt and +outposts today and it is impossible to say where his chief forces are +outright. +outside his uniform. +out skirmishers. He had felt perfectly sure that there were other troops +out. The fences and gates were new and solid; two fire pumps and a +out there... both playing the hero... Ah, Vasíli Ignátovich... +out the stinging and tormenting thoughts that confused his mind. “This +out until, at the first pause, the guests rise with a rustle of dresses +out whether she was considering what he had just said or whether she was +over a fire brigade of Bonaparte’s, that will be another story and +over.” And after stumbling a few staggering steps right up to the +over, and come back in an hour and tell me in his presence: yes or no. +over,” Anna Pávlovna continued. “The sovereigns will not be able to +over beamed with irrepressible delight.) “It’s in the Emperor’s +overcome a certain secret sorrow that has been in my heart ever since +overflowed with animation and impulsiveness. To be an enthusiast had +“overflowing with amiability. His position has not turned his head +overflow with sick, and famine is everywhere. Twice the marauders even +over his shoulder. +over his shoulder, as when Rostóv had seen him on the eve of the battle +over his spectacles, and then again resuming his walk, muttering +over. It will be a tremendous banquet.” +overtaken by the enemy and fighting rearguard actions only as far as +Overtaking the battalions that continued to advance, he stopped +over, the adjutant he had seen the previous day ceremoniously informed +over the battlefield had given final orders to strengthen the batteries +over the Enns, and then guessed that the card that came first to hand +over their heads, unstrapping their overcoats and drawing the sleeves on +over the squadron. Rostóv raised his saber, ready to strike, but at +owed him money! What baseness! What meanness! I know you understand +Owing to the terrible uproar and the necessity for concentration and +own about the facts he was recounting. For some time he engrossed the +own breast, the husband standing by and gazing tenderly at her and the +owner of one of the largest fortunes in Russia, I am much amused to +own eyes she comforted the count, and decided that at dinner and till +own ideas tonight, but must yield himself up entirely to the will of +pace. +paces, and Nicholas could clearly distinguish every detail of his +pacing angrily about and snorting. The old prince felt as though he +painful to him at this moment of sorrow; besides, what can I say to him +painstaking effect that had been in it before; but she did not yet sing +palace in a manner agreeable to yourself, and in so far as circumstances +pale, and added, “Look at it, young man.” +pale and his jaw trembled, shivering feverishly. He was placed on +pale and then blushing. +pale face and glittering eyes. +pale, now blushed and strained every nerve to overhear what Nicholas +pale on seeing her father-in-law. +pale, with compressed lips and feverishly glittering eyes. +Pale, with quivering lips, Pierre snatched the copy. +pallid and quivered. +“Papa, I have come on a matter of business. I was nearly forgetting. I +“Papa! Pa-pa!” he called after him, sobbing, “forgive me!” And +“Papa,” said his beautiful daughter in the same tone as before, +“Papa, we shall be late,” said Princess Hélène, turning her +Papa, which Natásha, and which Pétya. Everyone shouted, talked, and +paper and her hand moved rapidly over it. This is the reply she wrote, +paper. He looked gloomily in Rostóv’s face and said: “I am witing +papers and it was the first time he had heard Villeneuve’s name. +papers and still taking no notice of the special messenger. +parade. However, I will let you know.” +parade... I am the first to apologize, you know me!... He was very +paralyzed his will. +pardon. As soon as Rostóv heard them, an enormous load of doubt +“Pardon me! A snuffbox with the Emperor’s portrait is a reward but +parents who have petted their children from babyhood, but which Prince +Paris. It was not calculation that guided her (she did not even for a +part. Anna Pávlovna Schérer on the contrary, despite her forty years, +part from his horse, and at last sprang down and called to his orderly. +particular emphasis as if in it lay the gist of the matter. +particularly addicted), he regarded even this not as a defect but as a +particularly agreeable before going away. Besides this he was +particularly calm and absent-minded way, which inspired the respect of +particularly discontented and out of temper. Whether he was in a bad +particularly on the word possible... “as po-o-ossible,” he ended, +particularly striking among all these drunken voices by its sober + particularly victorious.” +Particularly vivid, humiliating, and shameful was the recollection of +parties, wearing a dress such as was then fashionable, cut very low at +part in it, but also by the joyful expression on the faces of soldiers, +Partly because of the depressing memories associated with Bald Hills, +partly because Prince Andrew did not always feel equal to bearing with +partner’s hand firmly, threw back his head, and advanced his foot, +part of his legs; he had on a kind of necklace above which rose a high +part of his mind her image rose in all its womanly beauty. +party at which Pierre had to be present unless he wished to spoil +passed his time very gaily. After a short period of adapting himself +passed in step before the Emperors and their suites at a bold, brisk +passed out by a back door, but returned to their places one after the +passed, the Pávlograd division was ordered to advance. In Wischau +passing Bagratión and racing one another they rushed in an irregular +Passing behind one of the lines of a regiment of Foot Guards he heard a +Passing between the companies that had been eating porridge and drinking +passing, but before he had finished his greeting there was a general +Passing by Kutúzov’s carriage and the exhausted saddle horses of +passing it across Hélène’s back. Hélène stooped forward to make +passionately and tenderly, and old Mary Ivánovna, who had grown fond of +passionately, at which she laughed; at the other could be heard the +passionately fond of the boy, and Princess Mary often deprived herself +passionately once more to enjoy that dissipation he was so accustomed to +passionately repents. I will do all I can to arrange the match between +passion but in your own heart. The source of blessedness is not without +passion,” said the latter. +pass the three officers quite easily, but Zherkóv, pushing Nesvítski +past the company, and overtook the carriage, still keeping time to the +past the ladies into the little drawing room. With quick steps he went +pathetic smile, as though she too knew that Count Rostóv deserved this +path of virtue,” said the Mason. +patronage at the dancers. +patroness. She added that Her Majesty had deigned to show Baron Funke +patted his favorite, Rostóv, on the shoulder. +Paul had exiled him to his country estate had lived there continuously +Paul was a market village where a fair was held on St. Peter’s day, +pause after this mot to give time for its due appreciation. “The +paused. “I am going because the life I am leading here does not suit +pause, “she told him she loved another.” +pausing. “The only question is what will come of the meeting between +Pávlograd commander. The commanders met with polite bows but with +Pávlovna. +Pávlovna again touched Pierre’s sleeve, saying: “I hope you won’t +Pávlovna: “Educate this bear for me! He has been staying with me +Pávlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering +Pávlovna, looking up pensively. +Pávlovna’s, an unacknowledged sense of the guilt of that desire +Pávlovna’s drawing room he considered an important step up in the +Pávlovna, shaking her little shriveled finger at him. +Pávlovna’s hand and for some reason drawing it downwards. “Arrange +Pávlovna’s hand, and screwing up his eyes scanned the whole company. +Pávlovna’s usual pink notes with an invitation to which was added: +Pávlovna’s voice, “I see you are all right there.” +Pávlovna’s was the first he had attended in Russia. He knew that all +Pávlovna’s words and looks when she spoke to him about his house, +Pávlovna threatened him on behalf of “our dear Vyazmítinov,” and +pay. I can tell you for myself...” +paying off the debts and undertaking new activities with serf labor, +payments had been diminished by a third, their obligatory manorial work +peace.” +peace. The old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was +pearls on their bare shoulders, looked at themselves in the brilliantly +peasant, or a woman with a baby, has no rest day or night and I give +peculiar form of beauty. Everyone brightened at the sight of this pretty +peculiarities of his reserved nature, Borís had managed during his +peculiarly deliberate steps. This feeling of disdain was heightened +peculiar to pregnant women. It was evident that her eyes did not see +pensions and the same amount for asylums; 150,000 alimony was sent to +people and starting to join the army. You should have seen the state of +“People are always too clever with their eldest children and try to +people—businessmen, relations, and acquaintances alike—were all +people dancing, Iogel with Natásha, his pride and his best pupil, were +people do understand him. He is such a lofty, heavenly soul!” +people,” he went on, turning to Anna Pávlovna, “he ever was a hero, +people show to everyone when they are happy. +people were in one of the inner rooms, not considering it necessary to +perception befitting a man of the world, he indicated by a movement of +perfection of manner. If he ever thought of Hélène, it was just of +perfect one’s self. And to attain this end, we have the light called +perform! Prussia has always declared that Buonaparte is invincible, and +perhaps because it was hard for him, hungry as he was, to look on at +“Perhaps,” coldly and angrily replied Dólokhov, glancing at Sónya, +perhaps dying, while meeting my remorse with some forced bravado!” +perhaps I may...” +“Perhaps later on I may tell you, my dear boy, that if I had not been +perhaps, see and take part in the first Russian encounter with the +“Perhaps the count did not ask for me,” said Pierre when he reached +“Perhaps we’d really better not wake him,” he said hesitating. +permission here in hospital, that I may not have to play the part of a +“Permit me, Princess, to know what is necessary and what is not +perseverance, but only the knowledge of how to get on with those who can +personage, a position in the army which seemed to him most attractive. +personage he was referring to. +personal interview was refused, and instead of the Sovereign, Prince +personally it would be a pleasure to hand over the supreme command +persons, among them the elderly lady and Anna Pávlovna, did however +person she happened to look at she was in love with for that moment. +Petersburg. +Petersburg, and had been expelled from there for riotous conduct and +Petersburg and staying at his house. With apparent absent-mindedness, +Petersburg. Anna Mikháylovna, with her tear-worn but pleasant face, +Petersburg. But now this head was swaying helplessly with the uneven +Petersburg earlier or later, or whether he secured accommodation at this +Petersburg. Hand this to Count Willarski” (he took out his notebook +Petersburg. He could not imagine how he could speak to her now. He +Petersburg. It is high time for you to get away from these terrible +Petersburg—no one knows who will inherit his immense fortune, Pierre +Petersburg on the tenth of August, and her son, who had remained in +Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age +Petersburg to ascertain what Moscow was thinking about Austerlitz. +Petersburg to procure an appointment in the Guards for her only son. +petisenfans, allay cushay dormir!” he exclaimed, imitating his Russian +“Pétrusha has come with papers from your father,” whispered the +Pétya. +Pétya. Besides that, he sent greetings to Monsieur Schelling, Madame +Pétya, clinging to his legs, kept shouting, “And me too!” +Pétya! Good man!” cried he, addressing Pierre. +Pétya in, closed again. A sound of laughter came from behind it. +Pétya paced the room in silence for a time. +Pétya, pacing the room with large, resolute strides. “Now I’m very +“Pétya, you’re a stupid!” said Natásha. +pe vell. And ve must discuss it as little as po-o-ossible”... he dwelt +philosophizing voice with pleasure. +physically at that moment, there was a weight on his chest and he could +physical things, and the fourth a combination of these. Now and then +pick up the glove himself and to pass round the doctors who were not +piercingly. Seeing Prince Andrew she leaned out from behind the apron +Pierre. +Pierre. +Pierre. +Pierre. +Pierre. +Pierre. +Pierre, after all, had not managed to choose a career for himself in +Pierre and himself was in the room, and addressed her in a tone of +Pierre and there were lines of pain on his face and a shamefaced smile. +Pierre, as in a dream, saw several men standing before him, wearing +Pierre at the age of ten had been sent abroad with an abbé as tutor, +Pierre began describing what he had done on his estates, trying as far +Pierre blushed, as he always did when it was mentioned, and said +Pierre clutched his temples, and turning round went into the forest, +Pierre considered. +Pierre could not and did not wish to break this silence. +Pierre could not go on. He gulped and turned away. +Pierre could not make out what it was all about, and still less what +Pierre did not catch what they were saying, but knew they were talking +Pierre did not understand a word, but the conviction that all this had +Pierre drank one glass after another, looking from under his brows at +Pierre dropped his eyes, lifted them again, and wished once more to see +Pierre felt confused and wished to avoid that look, but the bright old +Pierre felt himself far poorer than when his father had made him +Pierre felt that he was the center of it all, and this both pleased and +Pierre felt uncomfortable and even depressed in his friend’s company +Pierre flushed and, hurriedly putting his legs down from the bed, bent +Pierre, from joy, agitation, and embarrassment, was not in a state to +Pierre gave her an inquiring look. She kissed the young man on his +Pierre gave no answer, for he neither heard nor saw anything. He had +Pierre gradually began to recover himself and looked about at the room +Pierre had already long been feeling in himself that refreshing source +Pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception at Anna +Pierre had come just at dinnertime and was sitting awkwardly in the +Pierre had met in Petersburg society. In the President’s chair sat a +Pierre had none of the practical persistence that would have enabled him +Pierre had of late rarely seen his wife alone. Both in Petersburg and in +Pierre had taken part in tying a policeman to a bear. He had now been +Pierre, hardly restraining his sobs, began running toward Dólokhov and +Pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved +Pierre heard her say: +Pierre. He went up to him, took his hand (a thing he never used to do), +Pierre in his preoccupation and absent-mindedness had not recognized +Pierre in his secret soul agreed with the steward that it would be +Pierre, in reply, sincerely agreed with her as to Hélène’s +Pierre, “I said at the time and before anyone else” (she insisted +Pierre. It seemed to him that more than half an hour had elapsed. +Pierre knew very well what a hieroglyph was, but dared not speak. He +Pierre leaped up from the sofa and rushed staggering toward her. +Pierre listened to the colonel’s speech and nodded approvingly. +Pierre listened with swelling heart, gazing into the Mason’s face with +Pierre looked at her over his spectacles. +Pierre looked at his friend and, noticing that he did not like the +Pierre looked over his spectacles with naïve surprise, now at him and +Pierre looked questioningly at Anna Mikháylovna to see what he was to +Pierre looked silently and inquiringly at him over his spectacles. +Pierre looked silently and searchingly into Prince Andrew’s face, +Pierre murmured something unintelligible, and continued to look round as +“Pierre, my dear, come here. I think he will not be out of place in a +Pierre, not knowing whom to answer, looked at them all and smiled. His +Pierre, on unexpectedly becoming Count Bezúkhov and a rich man, felt +Pierre paused, seeking a reply. +Pierre, perplexed, looked round with his shortsighted eyes without +Pierre quickly took out his purse and watch, but could not manage for +Pierre reaching the house first went into Prince Andrew’s study like +Pierre recalled, counting them on his fingers, he felt already in his +Pierre remained gloomily silent, answering in monosyllables and +Pierre rose to help him. +Pierre rubbed his forehead. +Pierre said nothing; he looked fixedly at his friend with surprise. He +Pierre sat down with his little partner. Natásha was perfectly happy; +Pierre sat opposite Dólokhov and Nicholas Rostóv. As usual, he ate and +Pierre sat up on the sofa, with his legs tucked under him. +Pierre saw that Borís wished to change the subject, and being of the +Pierre’s direction at a slight rustle made by the latter. “Why have +Pierre seized the crossbeam, tugged, and wrenched the oak frame out with +Pierre’s eyes. +Pierre’s eyes with it and tied it in a knot behind, catching some +Pierre’s hand to show that there was no need to ask the question. He +“Pierre!” she said. +Pierre shook his head and arms as if attacked by mosquitoes or bees. +Pierre sighed, rose submissively, emptied his glass, and, waiting till +Pierre’s legitimation? Do you understand that in consideration of the +Pierre smiled, but his smile showed that he knew it was not the story +Pierre smiled in his good-natured way as if afraid for his companion’s +Pierre’s mind was in such a confused state that the word “stroke” +Pierre’s outburst Anna Pávlovna, despite her social experience, was +Pierre’s remarks, rose and made a sign to his wife that it was time to +Pierre stood with his arms hanging down and legs apart, before his +Pierre. The estates he had not before visited were each more picturesque +Pierre, the one who had behaved so improperly at Anna Pávlovna’s +Pierre threw off his cloak and entered the first room, in which were the +Pierre took his feet off the table, stood up, and lay down on a bed that +Pierre took off his coat, waistcoat, and left boot according to the +Pierre took off his spectacles, which made his face seem different and +Pierre took them off, and his eyes, besides the strange look eyes have +Pierre tried several times to speak, but, on one hand, Prince Vasíli +Pierre turned his whole body, making the sofa creak. He lifted his eager +Pierre turned over heavily on the ottoman and opened his mouth, but +Pierre understood nothing of all this and coloring shyly looked in +Pierre was about to reply, but Prince Vasíli interrupted him. +Pierre was evident. She kept an anxious watch on him when he approached +Pierre was one of those people who, in spite of an appearance of what +Pierre, was only busy causing him annoyance. +Pierre was silent. +Pierre was sitting in the drawing room where Shinshín had engaged him, +Pierre was staying at Prince Vasíli Kurágin’s and sharing the +Pierre was still afraid that this officer might inadvertently say +Pierre was struck by the modesty of the small though clean house after +Pierre was ungainly. Stout, about the average height, broad, with huge +Pierre was very fond of. +Pierre well knew this large room divided by columns and an arch, its +Pierre well remembered this small circular drawing room with its mirrors +Pierre went in at the door, stepping on the soft carpet, and noticed +Pierre went out. +Pierre went with rapid steps to the door and suddenly came face to +Pierre. “What of it? It’s the truth!” and he himself smiled his +Pierre, who had been growing more and more agitated as he listened to +Pierre who had been regarded with patronizing condescension when he was +Pierre who has inherited all the property and has besides been +Pierre, whose preoccupied, absent-minded, and massive figure was a very +Pierre, who was lagging behind, to follow. Though he did not see why it +Pierre who was under such obligations to him (“But never mind that”) +Pierre wished to say something, looked at her with eyes whose strange +Pierre wished to say this to the Mason, but did not dare to. The +Pierre, with a gentle smile of pity and remorse, his arms and legs +Pierre, with downcast eyes, drank out of his glass without looking at +Pierre, without knowing why, was having his enormous Petersburg house +pilgrimage, of holy friendship, of the Eternal Architect of the +pillows one at a time and shaking them. +pinch of snuff. +pineapple ice. Before the ices, champagne was served round. The band +pistols, and at the word thwee begin to advance. +pitied. She has no one, no one. To tell the truth, I don’t need her, +pity, and for their sake I should like to liberate the serfs. You +pity for me. Why is it?” +pity me. Yet I was once at home, strong, happy, and loved.” He sighed +pity’s sake, leave this helpless youth who, after all, was the son of +place and everything waiting for him in the Archives Department! Isn’t +place and that he might now be lying, recovering or dying, alone among +place and without answering drew out a handkerchief. Blood was flowing +placed a chair for her. +placed them on the window sill, though it was already quite light. +place him on a stretcher that had been brought. The soldier groaned. +places and met in certain habitual groups. A minority of those present +places. Then the strains of the count’s household band were replaced +place,” thought Pierre. “It’s even certain that I should have done +place! We passed close to the park and saw two deer... and what a +Placing the bottle on the window sill where he could reach it easily, +plain enough as it is.” +plainly that there are not many wives with husbands such as you who +plainness of speech, uttering the word amant as casually as any other +plain that she understood nothing and was so frightened that her +plaiting slippers out of cloth selvedges. He looked up at the opening +plan chimerical. +plan of a flanking movement. +plan perfectly worthless. Weyrother met all objections with a firm and +“Plans!” repeated Prince Andrew ironically. “My plans?” he said, +plans to Kutúzov’s quarters where the council of war was to be +player, in spite of the burden of his equipment, rushed out to the front +players, or peered at the now cold face of Dólokhov and tried to read +playing a Viennese waltz on the clavichord, while a fourth, lying on +playing chess. Berg held a smoking pipe between his knees. Borís, in +playing with the ball of worsted as a kitten should. +play. Involuntarily he felt a joyful agitation at the thought of the +“Plea...” began Dólokhov, but could not at first pronounce the +pleasant face and resonant though not loud voice, attracted everyone’s +pleasant smile, as if it were obvious to him that his success must +pleasant smile—his eyelids drooping more than half over his old eyes, +“Please, Andrew, for my sake!...” +“Please be quick,” he said. +“Please come and visit us... you know my brave boy... been together +“Please come to tea. The prince will be out in a moment,” came the +pleased!” And he held out his hand to the captain. +“Please, Denísov, let me lend you some: I have some, you know,” +pleased faces, for they knew that under no other management could they +pleased to take me as an aide-de-camp....” +pleased with. +“Please have a look at it”—and Kutúzov with an ironical smile +“Please,” he uttered with an effort. +please make way!” +“Please place your money on the cards or I may get muddled in the +“Please, Vasíli Dmítrich,” Natásha was saying, “do come!” +“Please, your excellency, for God’s sake!” he kept saying, +pleasure and listened to the conversation of his two neighbors, whom he +pleasure at the sound of the singing and the sight of the dancing +pleasure of deceiving me, if it really were true. Yes, if it were true, +pleasures than allow himself to be seen in a shabby equipage or appear +pleasure that for the first time since his arrival Prince Andrew was +pleasure to herself and to all around her. “I have brought my work,” +“Plenty of time, your excellency,” muttered Kutúzov in the midst of +pocket and that’s quite simple and is no one else’s business.” +pocket of his riding breeches, with his eyebrows lifted and his mouth +point.” +point. Ask Denísov whether it is not out of the question for a cadet to +point... Come, how are you?” asked Rostóv. +pointed boot then fashionable, touched the groin of the bobtailed bay +pointing to Nicholas, “his friend Borís has become an officer, and +Pointing to the fields, he spoke of the improvements he was making in +pointing to the flying soldiers; but at that instant, as if to punish +point where the French pickets had been standing that evening. +police tried to interfere, and what did the young men do? They tied +polished shining cannon that quivered on the gun carriages and with +politeness and affected sympathy of which indifference and even irony +politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions +politeness modestly placed himself at the disposal of the circle in +political events. +political news. It became particularly animated toward the end of the +pomaded hair, perfumed, and in a new uniform, looking just as smart as +pondered. A husband, a man, a strong dominant and strangely attractive +pondered. Sometimes he staked a large sum, but Dólokhov refused to +ponderous steps up to her sister-in-law. +poor Amélie’s happiness, she loves him so passionately, and so +poorer than the poorest beggar. A thousand thanks, dear friend, for the +poor resources I have for entertaining a woman used to the best society. +porch. His landlord, who in a waistcoat and a pointed cap, pitchfork in +porch. Prince Andrew got out of the carriage, helped his little wife to +porter. He had no lambskin cap on his head, nor had he a loaded whip +portfolio. +portfolio, and changed her grip. +portfolio she held in her hand. “All I know is that his real will is +portfolio were the only sounds audible, but it was evident that if +portmanteau into the vehicle, “we are to move on still farther. The +portrait (evidently by the hand of the artist belonging to the estate) +position. He kept closing his eyes and then again looking at the fire, +position. He made some notes on two points, intending to mention them to +position is now a terrible one,” continued Anna Mikháylovna, sadly, +position, it was now necessary to attack in order to cut a way through +position now, Peter Nikoláevich...” +position of that insignificant individual was such as could certainly +position of the army reached him as he went along, and the appearance of +positions and withdrawn in his presence. Together with Túshin, stepping +position with his eyes shut. Pierre looked at him and had not time +possessed of a Helen. “But no doubt it always is and must be so!” +possessed. Pierre was one of those who are only strong when they feel +possessor of the finest fortune in Russia. It is rumored that Prince +possibility of active brotherly love among men, which Joseph Alexéevich +possibility of anyone seeing her without being enchanted. The aunt +possible. And I,” continued Pierre, “shot Dólokhov because I +possible. God preserve us from that terrible misfortune! +possible. His conversation was always sprinkled with wittily original, +possible. Kutúzov himself with all his transport took the road to +posted on a rather steep incline which dominated the French position. +posted, two men appeared on horse back. They were an aide-de-camp +Posting Date: January 10, 2009 [EBook #2600] +postmaster’s book. Bazdéev had been one of the best-known Freemasons +post of commander in chief as a reward for his victory, does not give up +“Postulant,” to the accompaniment of various knockings with +Potëmkins or Suvórovs left to oppose him; but he was also convinced +pouch was slung. He had an officer’s sword in his hand. The soldier +poured drops from a medicine bottle into a wineglass half full of water. +pour le Roi de Prusse!” +pour vous. *(2) Only a hobbledehoy could amuse himself in this +Powdered footmen, in livery with buckled shoes and smart stockings, +powder,” said Prince Andrew banteringly yet tenderly. +powder smoke and stopped in despair. Everything seemed lost. But at that +power.” +power.” +powerful nation like Russia—barbaric as she is said to be—to place +practical woman that she was, had even managed by favor with army +pranced up and down in one place like a goat and shrieked piercingly. +prancing horse had splashed mud over some foot soldiers. +Prater... True, we have no Prater here...” +Pratzen Heights. +Pratzen, interrupted by such frequent reports of cannon that sometimes +Pratzen, which was full of troops of all kinds. +prayed that the daily interview might pass off well. +Prayer. So, Count, there never is any negligence in my company, and +prearranged sentence. +precedes a battle and had spent that happy day in inactivity, was all +preening its plumage and became motionless. +pregnant,” said Prince Andrew, following every movement of his +prejudices, and equality of citizenship, and all these ideas Napoleon +premeditation Prince Vasíli took the first opportunity to gain his +preoccupied manner. He beckoned to one of his white adjutants and asked +preoccupied that only in bed was he able to be by himself. He had to +preoccupied, yet meekly Christian look which never left her face, Anna +preparations for war lay in the fact that Nicholas would not hear of +preparation swept over all the troops. +prepare a circular, memorandum, or report, skillfully, pointedly, and +prepared by long and diligent self-purification, not everyone can hope +prepared to continue, but just then Anna Pávlovna, who had kept a +prepare her sister-in-law, and every time began to cry. Unobservant as +preparing tea. He brought in a boiling samovar. When everything was +presence and particularly distinguished himself.” +presence, I will teach you to behave yourself.” +present bivouac another fortnight there will not be a healthy man left +presented he was as little able as his father to change his opinion. He +present Emperor—more than once in Paris, and tells me he never met a +present I am free and am all right. Only I haven’t the least idea what +present, suddenly pushed forward with a scared and angry look and wanted +preserved all that was good in it—equality of citizenship and freedom +preserve his gravity. +president of the council of war. Weyrother evidently felt himself to be +pressed him still harder with proofs of the impossibility and above all +pressed two fingers more and more rigidly to his cap, as if in this +pressing the hands of Prince Andrew and Borís. “You know I should +pressure lay his only hope of salvation. +presumptuous lieutenant who had prevented his finishing what he had to +pretending to do something real. Prince Andrew gaily bore with his +pretending to sleep, the sounds his nose emitted during the reading that +pretense of helping, was in everyone’s way. +pretext that her aunt wished to hear him. +pretext. The fact is he has come to see Count Cyril Vladímirovich, +pretty face. +pretty young Princesses Gorchakóv met suitors there and were married +Preussisch-Eylau. +prevented her from going on with it. +pricking its ears at the noise and looking at the lights. The shouting +pricking its ears at the sound of shots just as it had done on the +pride enough to see it? If she has no pride for herself she might at +pride. “That lawsuit taught me much. When I want to see one of those +priests; “all we relatives have been in such anxiety. This young +prince. +prince. +Prince.” +Prince. And God only knows where your man Peter is,” said the other +Prince Andrew. +Prince Andrew always became specially keen when he had to guide a young +Prince Andrew and his sister, hand in hand, kissed one another, and +Prince Andrew began to reply and to state his own plan, which might +Prince Andrew, beginning to understand that his news of the battle +Prince Andrew bowed his head in token of having understood from the +Prince Andrew caught him by the hand. +Prince Andrew considered possible contingencies and formed new projects +Prince Andrew could not understand. +Prince Andrew did not see how and by whom it was replaced, but the +Prince Andrew during the battle had been in attendance on the Austrian +Prince Andrew, evidently confused. “I know that out of a million +Prince Andrew expressed his ideas so clearly and distinctly that it was +Prince Andrew felt that either the actions of Kutúzov’s army +Prince Andrew followed her with a courteous but sad expression. +Prince Andrew frowned again, expressing his annoyance with whoever was +Prince Andrew galloped off to execute the order. +Prince Andrew gave him a look, but said nothing and went away. He felt +Prince Andrew gazed with anxious curiosity at that impassive face +Prince Andrew glanced again at the artillery officer’s small figure. +Prince Andrew glanced at Kutúzov’s face only a foot distant from him +Prince Andrew got up and went on tiptoe up to the little bed, wineglass +Prince Andrew grew more and more animated. His eyes glittered feverishly +Prince Andrew had gone out into the hall, and, turning his shoulders +Prince Andrew, having reached the front line, rode along it. Our front +Prince Andrew, his face distorted with fury, rode up to him and raised +Prince Andrew. “I build a house and lay out a garden, and you build +Prince Andrew kept looking with an amused smile from Pierre to the +Prince Andrew knew how to take his stand so that they respected and even +Prince Andrew looked Anna Pávlovna straight in the face with a +Prince Andrew looked at his sister. In the dim shadow of the curtain her +Prince Andrew looked inquiringly at him and gave no reply. +Prince Andrew looked kindly at him, yet his glance—friendly and +Prince Andrew looked sternly at her and an expression of anger suddenly +Prince Andrew made use of Boguchárovo, began building and spent most of +Prince Andrew moved toward the door from whence voices were heard. +Prince Andrew nodded to him. He still looked ahead while Prince Andrew +Prince Andrew only shrugged his shoulders at Pierre’s childish words. +Prince Andrew, recalling his father’s letter. “Yes, we have gained +Prince Andrew remained at Bald Hills as usual during his father’s +Prince Andrew remembered nothing more: he lost consciousness from the +Prince Andrew replied. Then followed other questions just as simple: +Prince Andrew riding up to the officer. +Prince Andrew rose, shrugged his shoulders, and walked about the room. +Prince Andrew said nothing to Túshin. They were both so busy as to seem +Prince Andrew saw that the officer was in that state of senseless, +Prince Andrew’s calm manner of treating everybody, his extraordinary +Prince Andrew screwed up his eyes and turned away. Pierre, who from +Prince Andrew, seeing that his father insisted, began—at first +Prince Andrew shouted, “Brothers! All’s lost!” And at this as if +Prince Andrew shrugged his shoulders. +Prince Andrew sighed and broke the seal of another envelope. It was +Prince Andrew sighed and made no reply. +Prince Andrew’s joyous feeling was considerably weakened as he +Prince Andrew smiled. +Prince Andrew smiled as he looked at his sister, as we smile at those we +Prince Andrew smiled involuntarily as he looked at the artillery officer +Prince Andrew smiled ironically. +Prince Andrew spoke so earnestly that Pierre could not help thinking +Prince Andrew stayed at Brünn with Bilíbin, a Russian acquaintance of +Prince Andrew stood right in front of Kutúzov but the expression of +Prince Andrew stopped short. +Prince Andrew. They had known each other previously in Petersburg, but +Prince Andrew told his driver to stop, and asked a soldier in what +Prince Andrew understood that this was said of him and that it was +Prince Andrew was as glad to find the boy like that, as if he had +Prince Andrew was on duty that day and in constant attendance on the +Prince Andrew was one of those rare staff officers whose chief interest +Prince Andrew was silent, but the princess noticed the ironical and +Prince Andrew was surveying the position, was the easiest and most +Prince Andrew was to leave next evening. The old prince, not altering +Prince Andrew went again to his wife and sat waiting in the room next +Prince Andrew went out. +Prince Andrew went up to the child and felt him. He was burning hot. +Prince Andrew when he drove up to the palace felt even more vigorous and +Prince Andrew, who had also been brought forward before the Emperor’s +Prince Andrew, who had evidently wished to tone down the awkwardness of +Prince Andrew with one word, one argument, +Prince Andrew without lifting his eyes rode hastily away from the +“Prince Auersperg is on this, on our side of the river, and is +Prince Bagratión and Túshin looked with equal intentness at +Prince Bagratión, distinguished by his Schön Grabern affair and by +Prince Bagratión, having reached the highest point of our right flank, +Prince Bagratión looked at Túshin, evidently reluctant to show +Prince Bagratión proposed to Dolgorúkov to send to inquire of the +Prince Bagratión rode an officer of the suite, the prince’s personal +Prince Bagratión screwed up his eyes, looked round, and, seeing the +Prince Bagratión to begin the council. At last Bagratión’s orderly +Prince Bolkónski sat down in his usual place in the corner of the sofa +Prince Bolkónski’s household felt that their life had not been real +Prince Bolkónski surveyed Anatole. +prince, but could not get it quite right.) +Prince Dolgorúkov ceased to listen to him and gazed absent-mindedly not +Prince Dolgorúkov to the advanced post of the French army. +Prince Hippolyte approached the little princess and, bending his face +Prince Hippolyte, having brought the workbag, joined the circle and +Prince Hippolyte hurriedly put on his cloak, which in the latest fashion +“Prince Hippolyte Kurágin—charming young fellow; M. +Prince Hippolyte was lolling in a lounge chair with his legs over its +Prince Hippolyte, who had been gazing at the vicomte for some time +Prince? How priceless are those last moments! It can make things no +“Prince, humanum est errare, * but...” replied the doctor, +“Prince, I did not ask you here. Go, please go!” And he jumped up +prince interrupted her. +Prince Kurágin about me. I only wanted to ask because I fear the Guards +prince never directly asked himself that question, knowing beforehand +Prince Nicholas frowned, but said nothing. +prince, one window frame was removed in each room as soon as the larks +Prince Repnín!” and he spurred his horse and galloped away. +Prince Repnín named Lieutenant Sukhtélen. +prince, she prepared to listen. +prince’s household. General in Chief Prince Nicholas Andréevich +prince’s question as to how she felt. +princess and Prince Vasíli, recovering themselves, followed her. A few +princess, and stared fixedly at her through his eyeglass. +Princess Anna Mikháylovna intervened in the conversation, evidently +princess anxious and inquiring, the nurse encouraging. Everyone in the +princess’ beautiful eyes with all their former calm radiance were +“Princess, come here!” he shouted. +“Princess Drubetskáya to see Prince Vasíli Sergéevich,” he called +“Princesse, au revoir,” cried he, stumbling with his tongue as well +princesses, sat in a corner knitting a stocking. Pierre had never been +princesses spent most of their time, he greeted the ladies, two of whom +princesses was coming to take her turn at watching. “Let us go.” +princess’ face. She took it quickly and bent her head over it. +princess felt this; they still thought that if a blue ribbon were placed +princess had been crying after dinner and had spoken of her forebodings +princess’ hair. It was evident that he could be silent in this way for +princess’ hand. +Princess Hélène, Prince Vasíli’s daughter, and the little Princess +princess, his cousin, at Moscow, concerning Dólokhov’s intimacy with +Princess. I am at your command.’ Yes, he is a fine fellow and a very +Princess, I hold to the principle that a maiden has a full right to +“Princess, I must warn you,” she added, lowering her voice and +princess. (In accordance with Lise’s and Prince Andrew’s wishes they +Princess Kurágina, a portly imposing woman who had once been handsome, +princess, looking at Anna Mikháylovna as at a stranger. +Princess Mary. +Princess Mary admitted to one another that the angel’s face reminded +Princess Mary but were looking within... into herself... at something +Princess Mary could not lift her head, she was weeping. +Princess Mary could not understand the boldness of her brother’s +Princess Mary did not listen to the end, but continuing her train of +Princess Mary, evidently intimidated and confused that her opinion +Princess Mary grew quite unconscious of her face and coiffure. The +Princess Mary had greatly changed since 1805. +Princess Mary had long since put aside her book: she sat silent, her +Princess Mary knelt down before her and hid her face in the folds of her +Princess Mary, little as he seemed to value her, was unthinkable to +Princess Mary looked at her brother in surprise. She did not understand +Princess Mary looked at them in silence. She could not understand it. At +Princess Mary rose and moved to the door, then stopped and said: +Princess Mary sat alone in her room listening to the sounds in the +Princess Mary shrugged her shoulders but took the glass submissively +Princess Mary shuddered; her nurse, putting down the stocking she was +Princess Mary sighed, and having crossed herself went down, thinking +Princess Mary’s self-esteem would be wounded and his point (not to +Princess Mary, then sat thinking for a while with that expression of +Princess Mary threw a shawl over her head and ran to meet the newcomer. +Princess Mary was first surprised and then aghast at this question. +Princess Mary was left alone. She did not comply with Lise’s request, +Princess Mary was sitting on the sofa in her room, holding the weeping +Princess Mary was still standing by the cot, gently rocking the baby. +Princess Mary went back to her room with the sad, scared expression that +Princess Mary went to the door of the study with special trepidation. +Princess Mary with a gay smile, as if inviting her to join in a laugh at +“Princess, my dear, there’s someone driving up the avenue!” she +princess never saw the beautiful expression of her own eyes—the look +princess on hearing the news. +princess’ room, a carriage containing Pierre (who had been sent for) +princess rose. “It’s now two o’clock and you dine at four. There +princess suddenly, her pretty face all at once distorted by a tearful +princess, turning away and continuing to read. But Julie did not flatter +princess was not unwell, but had such an overpowering fear of the prince +princess went in with the drink she had prepared according to +princess with a pleased smile, as to an intimate acquaintance. +princess with the expression women assume when they suppose they are +princess, with the long waist and hair plastered down like a doll’s, +prince, stepping on his heels, paced up and down his study and sent +prince’s things in my bedroom,” said he to the servant who was +prince to get up, Tíkhon came to call the young prince to his father. +prince told me to ask,’ and come and tell me her answer.” +Prince Vasíli. +Prince Vasíli always spoke languidly, like an actor repeating a stale +Prince Vasíli and Anatole had separate rooms assigned to them. +Prince Vasíli and that son of his to me? Prince Vasíli is a shallow +Prince Vasíli and the eldest princess were sitting close together +Prince Vasíli and the generals, had the benefit of the diplomat. +“Prince Vasíli arrived in Moscow yesterday. I hear he has come on +Prince Vasíli arrived that evening. He was met in the avenue by +Prince Vasíli, as he entered. “I know all about it, and I can tell +Prince Vasíli a third time. “How absent-minded you are, my dear +Prince Vasíli became thoughtful and frowned. Anna Mikháylovna saw that +Prince Vasíli bent his head and spread out his hands. +Prince Vasíli came next. He staggered to the sofa on which Pierre was +Prince Vasíli did everything to get Pierre to marry his daughter. Had +Prince Vasíli did not reply, though, with the quickness of memory and +Prince Vasíli frowned, twisting his mouth, his cheeks quivered and his +Prince Vasíli gave Pierre a significant look. +Prince Vasíli had come to the conclusion that it was necessary to throw +Prince Vasíli had to settle matters with Pierre, who, it is true, had +Prince Vasíli kept the promise he had given to Princess Drubetskáya +Prince Vasíli looked questioningly at the princess, but could not make +Prince Vasíli passed by, seeming not to hear the ladies, and sat down +Prince Vasíli readily adopted her tone and the little princess also +Prince Vasíli rose. +Prince Vasíli rose. “Oh!” said he with reproach and surprise, +Prince Vasíli said no more and his cheeks began to twitch nervously, +Prince Vasíli’s arm and led him to his study. As soon as they were +Prince Vasíli saw that Pierre knew this. He suddenly muttered +Prince Vasíli saw the princess off. She held a handkerchief to her eyes +Prince Vasíli’s daughter, the beautiful Hélène, came to take her +Prince Vasíli’s face so out of keeping with his dignity that Pierre +Prince Vasíli’s last words. Then rising, he suddenly went up to his +Prince Vasíli smiled. +Prince Vasíli smiled, and Pierre noticed that everyone was smiling at +“Prince Vasíli’s son, he, and a certain Dólokhov have, it is said, +Prince Vasíli stared at her and at Borís questioningly and perplexed. +Prince Vasíli was not a man who deliberately thought out his plans. +Prince Vasíli was seated in an easy chair in his familiar attitude, +Prince Vasíli, who pretended to want to know this in order to settle a +Prince Vasíli wished to obtain this post for his son, but others were +Prince Vasíli, with one leg thrown high over the other and a snuffbox +prince was at home, and showed him into a clean little anteroom. +“Prince, what I have said is all there is in my heart. I thank you for +principal guests. He was just going to take it when Dólokhov, leaning +principals nor their seconds suffered for it. But the story of the duel, +prisoners.” +private and had not seen fit to recognize him. But now that Kutúzov had +privilege of admiring her beautiful figure and shapely shoulders, +prizes his freedom which he needs for so many other things. When he +probably he did not, for in general he thought very little—but his +“Probably,” said Prince Andrew moving toward the outer door. +probably think it easy to gain victories!” he thought. His eyes +probably to strengthen the front line. The smoke of the first shot had +problems in higher mathematics, turning snuffboxes on a lathe, working +proceeded to his study. +proceeding as usual. Denísov, who had been losing at cards all night, +produce at the same intervals and hold for the same time, but which +produced an effect she glanced at Anna Pávlovna, at once adopted just +produced on Sónya, felt for the first time the sorrowful side of the +profited by their toil to lead a profligate life. That is what you have +progress. Would you believe it, I have literally not a penny and don’t +projects for peace, a secret peace concluded separately.” +promener,” * she used to say. Often seeing the success she had with +prominent gray eyes. Then she shook her head and glanced up at the icons +promised? Nothing! And what little they have promised they will not +promised not to forget him, distinguished him above the other adjutants, +promise of rising in his diplomatic career. He was still a young man but +promise to Prince Andrew was of no account, because before he gave it +promotion. +promotion...” +promotion, Nicholas said that he kissed his father’s and mother’s +promotion to the rank of major, and Rostóv, who had already drunk +pronounced the Mason in a stern and tremulous voice. +proofs of Nikólenka’s virtues. How strange, how extraordinary, how +proper, and regular motion. But amid these cares her anxiety about +properly. Hélène answered with a smile that she too had missed it. +proper posts. Borís had been quartered, and had marched all the +propose is the only thing possible.” +proposition to you in his pupil’s—I mean, his son’s—name. Do you +prospect of spending an evening with a poor invalid is not too terrible, +prostrated himself before the Gates of the Temple. And really, the +protégé, but Prince Dolgorúkov politely and firmly pressing his hand +proudly at his son. +proverb says,” remarked Shinshín, moving his pipe to the other side +Prussia, and had just returned from there as a special messenger. He had +Prussian army, Hélène had suddenly found it necessary to see him. +Prussians without giving them time to finish the parade they had begun, +Przebyszéwski and his corps had laid down their arms. Other columns +Przebyszéwski’s and Langeron’s columns which had already gone down +Przebyszéwski, with respectful but dignified politeness, held his +P.S. Let me have news of your brother and his charming little wife. +public to appreciate his skill. +Puckering up his face though smiling, and showing his short strong +pulling him by the chain and trying to set him at the others. +pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at +Pultúsk to Petersburg returns bringing our appointment as commander in +punishments were to be admonitory and not corporal, and hospitals, +purified, thou wilt gain wisdom. Look at your life, my dear sir. +purity, and not the serfs’ backs and foreheads, which, beat and shave +purple-faced general wait respectfully while Captain Prince Andrew, for +purple face, reporting something. +purposely dropped a handkerchief in front of him and stood looking +purse. +purse and, drawing its rings aside with his small, white, turned-up +purse that sank into the sofa. “As for us, Count, we get along on our +purse undah the pillow,” he said, and went out to the quartermaster. +Pursued by the French army of a hundred thousand men under the command +pushed back in the sitting room where the count and Márya Dmítrievna +pushed the guns and wagons themselves. Whips cracked, hoofs slipped, +pushing back his chair, he rose from the table. +put a little aside and to send something to my father,” he went on, +put it in a carriage, and set off with it to visit some actresses! The +put it off. Perhaps God will help me to find a way to prepare him!... +put questions and gave brief replies about things they knew ought to +putting them down. When they’ve been put down, the war with Buonaparte +putting the nightshirt over his dried-up old body and gray-haired chest. +puzzled the devil himself! When you get there you’ll find out what +qualifications for it—the kind of good-natured, fussy shallowness +qualities. He was always hearing such words as: “With your remarkable +quarreled with Hélène, mon cher? You are under a delusion,” said +quarreled with her brother about him. She insisted that he was a bad +quartermaster for the money.” +quartermaster’s presence. +quarter of an hour between two fires.” +quarters and riding up to Captain Timókhin who was walking in front. +quarters near Braunau, where they hoped to receive boots and clothes and +quarters torches and candles were burning and no one slept. The old +queer,” he added after a pause, “that you should have suspected +“Qu’ est-ce qu’il chante?” * asked a Frenchman. +questioned Prince Andrew about the details of his interview with the +question for her to refuse him. And therefore Nicholas’ first feeling +question for whose sake he came (though no one spoke of it) was soon +question he noticed that it should not have been put. +question him. The man announced that the Tsar had been driven in a +questioning him about political affairs and news. He seemed to listen +question—one so important that he took no notice of what went +questions of health, sometimes in Russian and sometimes in very bad but +questions put to him. He was bespattered with mud and had a pitiful, +questions that might be put to him and the answers he would give. He +quick. +quickly as possible. +quickly. Prince Bagratión, uttering his words with an Oriental accent, +quickly roused himself with a feeling of joy, as if learning afresh that +quickly turned away, a scarcely perceptible smile flitting over his +quick or the enemy will bring up his guns to use grapeshot.” +quick-witted, nor ready or eloquent in conversation, but he had the +quiet and peace. Thank God!...” +quiet authority, “you wish to insult me, and I am ready to agree with +quietly and humorously how he had known that doll Mimi when she was +quietly and said in a whisper: “Please walk in.” +quilt. The eyes and face of the sick man showed impatience. He made an +quite astonishing. How did you get things settled? I couldn’t possibly +“Quite avare, your excellency,” suddenly shouted the colonel, +quite certain. Ah! it is very dreadful...” +quite close at hand, and a voice of naïve terror barely two steps from +quite heard. +quite mistaken if you reckon me or my mother among such people. We are +quite opposite reputations. Some, a minority, acknowledged him to be +quite remember how, but don’t you remember that it could all be +“Quite right,” said the Englishman. +quite sincerely tried to make her look pretty. She was so plain that +quite true; he had been indebted to her father for the first steps in +“Quite well? All right then, sit down.” He took the exercise book +quits... it can’t be!... And why is he doing this to me?” Rostóv +quivering in his breast and a tickling in his nose, and tears dimmed his +quoting one of his own mots, releasing the wrinkles on his forehead, and +radiantly on her beautiful face. Pierre gazed at her with rapturous, +rage, “who are you? Are you in command here? Eh? I am commander here, +railings. He looked back laughing to the Cossack who stood a few +raised. He remained stubbornly silent, gazing at Weyrother’s face, +raise him. But as soon as he thought of what he should say, he felt that +raising him. +raising his eyebrows. +raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspiring head, smiling +ran ahead on tiptoe and knocked at a door. +ran forward on each such occasion, fearing to miss a single word of the +ran forward shading his eyes with his small hand to look at the French. +range and wipe them out?” These were the questions each man of the +rank and importance, who was the first to arrive at her reception. Anna +rank (for he did nothing), that Prince Vasíli had procured for him, +rank—“I thank you for myself and for our two dear ones whose name +ranks. +ranks; Anatole was in the army somewhere in the provinces; Prince Andrew +ranks in this regiment.” +ranks were returning from the attack. Rostóv got out of their way, +ran rapidly over the wide space, but he only saw that the hitherto +ran up, begging a little fire for the infantry. +rapidity. He again vividly recalled the details of the battle, no longer +rapidly. +rapidly adding up the total of Rostóv’s debt, breaking the chalk as +rapidly and indistinctly. “You thought!... Rascals! Blackguards!... +rapid retreat. Austrian troops that had escaped capture at Ulm and had +rapid, self-confident, familiar tone. “Here is my second son; please +rarely done of late. It was a grand farewell dinner, as he and Denísov +rarely left her and which made her plain, sickly face yet plainer. She +rascality....” +Rasgulyáy—the coachman Ipátka knows—and look up the gypsy +rate he glanced at the refractory arm, at Pierre’s terror-stricken +rather confine ourselves to studying those sublime rules which our +rather of death, as the saying is. ‘Albanians!’ and ‘devils!’ +rather round shoulders and glanced at Novosíltsev who was near him, as +rather short, as if surprised that anyone should not know him. +rather than of what the generals were disputing about. +ratify it; but it is only a trick. March on, destroy the Russian +rattle on the bridge as if nuts were being spilt, and the hussar nearest +Rays of gentle light shone from her large, timid eyes. Those eyes lit +reached Bagratión, the weighty tread of the mass of men marching in +reached the bushes. Behind these were some Russian sharpshooters. +reached to his very heels, and, stumbling in it, ran out into the porch +reached. Wheels creak on their axles as the cogs engage one another and +Reaching the large house near the Horse Guards’ barracks, in which +read a congratulation on his future son-in-law and on his daughter’s +readily and rapidly like a man who has not talked for a long time. His +readiness to fall in love and an expectation of happiness. +reading confirmation in Anna Mikháylovna’s face. +reading the letter. He went on tiptoe to the nursery door and opened it. +reading them aloud. Bagratión bowed his head and listened: +reading. Then Milorádovich looked round significantly at the other +“Read this if you like, Father,” said the princess, blushing still +read this in Tíkhon’s face and in that of Prince Vasíli’s valet, +ready, the stranger opened his eyes, moved to the table, filled a +ready to embrace the countess at the appropriate moment. +reality again presented itself. He got up without saying a word and went +realize because the fear was so much the stronger feeling. The prince +realized as he read that book: the joy, hitherto unknown to him, +realized that something dreadful had happened to his regiment, and the +really all the same to me when my son’s fate is at stake.” The +really...” But he did not say what “it really” was. “For the +really good society” consisted of the fascinating Hélène, forsaken +“Really I don’t care about that, I don’t care at all,” said +“Really, I don’t yet know. I don’t like either the one or the +“Really, Papa, I believe Prince Bagratión worried himself less before +“Really, truly!” answered Natásha, pushing in a crisp lock that had +real state of French public opinion.” +reappeared. +rearguard all the freshness of atmosphere of the French army, which was +reason for rejoicing, they looked at each other with joyful delight and +reasoning contained in the Mason’s words, or believed as a child +reason of her friend’s sorrow, “I’m sure Véra has said something +reason, or shot a post-boy’s horse with a pistol. That expression +reason, ran back and disappeared from the outskirts, and Russian +reasons for Buonaparte’s hatred of him. +reawakening. He was afraid of any want of clearness, any weakness, in +rebuking her for her fall. +recalcitrant cavalry colonel, his own dignity as a general, and above +recalled all this as childishness he had left immeasurably behind. +recalled thousands of such hints from Prince Vasíli and others, and was +recalling Bilíbin’s words. +receipt, he left at the end of November, without taking leave of any of +received. +received all Petersburg, proud of her unapproachability and beauty. So +received and read the then famous rescript of the Emperor Alexander +received as a savior.” +received. A thanksgiving service was arranged, Kutúzov was awarded +received by the Emperor. Had you heard?” +received him with distinction and special marks of favor, explaining to +received Pierre with a shade of melancholy, evidently relating to the +received was shown him. A strange lady, the one who had been talking to +receive that science it is necessary to purify and renew one’s inner +receiving from all sides declarations of the people’s loyalty, that +receiving it. This gratitude reminded him of how much more he might do +reception. +reception hall: Michael Ivánovich, Mademoiselle Bourienne, Princess +reception room if he wished to see him. Borís thanked him and went to +reciprocated this antipathy, but it was overpowered by his contempt +reckoning.” +recognized as legitimate; so that he is now Count Bezúkhov and +recognized him and stopped to listen to what he was saying. Dólokhov +recognized his lamented and adored monarch. +recognized the Tsar and watched his approach. When he was within twenty +recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it. That is the one +recollection of how he was put in the sleigh or of the first three +recollections.” Prince Vasíli sighed. “Yes, yes, my boy. And my +recommended to the Empress) and at the same time to console him, so she +recounting his military exploits (Prince Andrew could not endure +recover.” +recovered, and Rostóv became very friendly with him during his +recross to the other. At last our enemy, Buxhöwden, catches us and +recruiting. None of them had yet seen the manifesto, but they all knew +recruitment so as to avoid active service. The old prince and his son +recruits were being enrolled in the villages, and from the seat of +red hands; he did not know, as the saying is, how to enter a drawing +Red patches appeared on Princess Mary’s face and she was silent as if +red. Several battalions of soldiers, in their shirt sleeves despite +reduced to tears. +referred to in that drawing room as “a man of great merit” (un homme +“refill my pipe for that one!” and then, scattering sparks from it, +refined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and +reflected on theirs. +reflections. Better die a thousand times than risk receiving an unkind +reform by marrying him to Prince Andrew’s sister. +refusal with his head and hand and by that gesture Rostóv instantly +refuse Iogel and asked Sónya to dance. Denísov sat down by the old +refusing to let her see them off. The diplomatist preserved a mournful +regarded all these little adjutants on the staff of whom the newcomer +regard him—but you want to cure him from love of him. And he does not +regarding all arguments as nonsense in comparison with that smile. +regarding him with a smile of approbation. +regard to this project of marriage for me, I will tell you, dear sweet +regenerate, purify, and elevate me. But you don’t understand it.” +regeneration, and return to life. +regimental commander and Major Ekonómov had stopped beside a bridge, +regimental commander cooling down a little. “Leave indeed.... One says +regimental commander hung his head, silently shrugged his shoulders, and +regimental commander, overtaking the third company on its way to its +regimental commander was nicknamed King of Hearts). +regiment, and Bogdánich knows it. Oh, we do prize it, old fellow! And +regiment but was not liked; Rostóv especially detested him and was +regiment had been broken up. All he knew was that at the commencement +regiment had just the appearance of any Russian regiment preparing for +regiment—instead of the straggling, disorderly crowd it had been on +regiment next to no time, my lad, you’re here today and tomorrow +regiment, saying he was not such a fool as to slave at the front when he +regiments, both cavalry and infantry, were by no means ready for the +regiments form bands and scour the countryside and put everything +regiment. The faces of these young people, especially those who were +regiment, they listen intently, look about, and eagerly ask concerning +regiment was much surprised at the commander in chief’s order to throw +regret. Drawing rooms, gossip, balls, vanity, and triviality—these are +regret her words. But she went on hurriedly: +regrettable delusion.” +regularity in his household was carried to the highest point of +regular motion as a result of all that activity. +regular order. +reinforce the right flank. The officer of the suite ventured to remark +reins and started of his own accord. +rejects all knowledge that does not come from Him; and the less we seek +relating to Nikólenka, did not venture to ask any questions at dinner, +relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the +relays. +religion?” +reluctantly, but gradually with more and more animation, and from habit +relying on reason only? What art thou? You are young, you are rich, you +remained alone with him for a long time. +remained in reserve and Nicholas Rostóv spent that day in a dull and +remained on the farther side of the bridge facing the enemy, who could +remaining in Moscow, and only awaited the termination of Denísov’s +remaining strength. He raised his pistol and aimed. +remains of sheds, chairs, tables, wheels, tubs, and everything that they +remains of supper. A footman, thinking no one saw him, was drinking on +remain stationary in face of an enemy eight times as strong as itself. +remarked. “Well, sit down: let’s have a talk.” +remarks at him, though without looking at him. +remarks. The old count rose once more, glanced at a note lying beside +remarks which seemed to him clever while they formed in his mind became +remark to him, pointing to the gallant Ápsherons. +remembered it three months before, when the count had sent him to +remember everything?” said Natásha, with an expressive gesture, +“Remember, for you everything depends on this.” +remember how we and Nicholas, all three of us, talked in the sitting +remember Nikólenka too, I remember him well,” she said. “But I +“Remember that you will answer for the consequences,” said Prince +remorse, humiliations, sufferings, outbursts of pride, fear, and +rendered, and I supplied them with a doctor, a hospital, and an asylum +renounced your former convictions—do you believe in God?” +repeated by others from various sides and all became silent. +repeated from the opening words of the manifesto: +repeated. “I should be glad enough to fall asleep, so it’s not my +repeat his question. +repeating in a low voice the same words several times over. +repeating the terms of the bet, addressing himself particularly to +repeating the terms of the wager to him in English. +repeating to himself at each alternate step, “Left... left... +repellent. Yet in this very repugnance to all his circumstances Pierre +repented and added: “I am glad; really, dear, I am very glad.” +replace some chessmen that were falling. He was about to embrace his +replied. +replied, “and it is that He would be merciful to him and would allow +replied, and the four simply looked at one another. She lingered in the +replied Borís, betraying neither annoyance at the prince’s brusque +replied Prince Vasíli. +replied that it would be more than enough for him and that he gave his +replied: “Yes, yes, I agree,” and with a beaming, childlike smile, +reply. +reply. +reply to his look, and went still faster along the passage. +reply—which he would not have received, for the princess was unable to +report, and began deliberately to examine the whole battlefield extended +reported to him, and then joined the adjutants listening to what the +reports from our scouts. Here are two letters from Count Nostitz and +reports one after another, and a third. +reports that Prince Auersperg was defending Vienna?” he said. +report was heard, Bagratión looked round and shouted, “Hurrah!” +reprehensible, looked round with a blush. It seemed to him that everyone +representative but one of the great century, and that it is his own +represented all that was left of that whole regiment. Impelled by the +represented as a brilliant victory over the French, and so the +reprimanding and reproaching him. Túshin gave no orders, and, +reproached and disputed with each other. +reproached her for yielding to a man without being married. Mademoiselle +reproached him for not having stayed at the palace, and offered him +reproachfully at the count who had presented it to him. Someone +repulsed, he had lost more than half his men. He said the attack +request. +request that he would take no part in the matter, Rostóv agreed to be +required papers. Kutúzov and the Austrian member of the Hofkriegsrath +rescue. Pierre had managed to start a conversation with the abbé about +resembling his master in manners and looks, who was accompanying him +reserve gun carriage, the wounded were carried away, and the four guns +reserve tomorrow,” he thought. “I’ll ask leave to go to the front, +reserve units were able to join up, and the fight was at an end. The +resolute in the discharge of duty, ran out and touching Pierre lightly +resolutely took the salver with both hands and looked sternly and +resolute self-will, “he is wicked and heartless. There now, I like +resolution. Can it be that I have none?” +resolved not to be the first to break silence, if she had to wait till +resolved to go away next day and leave a letter informing her of his +resounded on the planks of the bridge, and the squadron, officers in +resounded. The column moved forward without knowing where and unable, +resounding voice, apparently to preclude the possibility of not being +respect and honor you, but all the same remember that the future belongs +respected and feared her. +respectfully. +respectfully bowed head, seemed also to be waiting. The silence lasted +respectfully when the Military Governor, having stayed about half an +respect, he had decided that it would be a good thing to set fire to the +responsibility. But circumstances are sometimes too strong for us, +responsibility of that deed.” +rest, and then...” +rested on Prince Andrew’s face. +resting, and to halt facing Vienna with Znaim to his rear, and if he +restrained animation as he stood sipping tea from a delicate Chinese +restraining her angry tears. +restraining his tears of pity for the Emperor, he rode on in utter +rest, went in to dinner. He was seated in the place of honor between +result from it—no longer seemed to be in the future but in the past. +resumed her duties as hostess and continued to listen and watch, ready +resumed its former cold, artificial expression. She returned to the +“Retire! All to retire!” he shouted from a distance. +retreat after a battle have lost it is what we say; and according to +retreated as a disorderly crowd. One soldier, in his fear, uttered the +retreating against their will. A few minutes after the Emperor had +retreating forces. +retreating to our frontier—which do today.’ +retreat to the dip by echelons.” So he reasoned.... All the time + return.” +returned), and, forcing open a loosely closed latch, set the damask +returned, and over the bottle of wine conversation between the three +returned from a long journey on which he had spent dozens of years, had +returned from the council, tired and exhausted but eager and proud +returned from them dragging sheep, fowls, hay, and bulging sacks. At +returned home just before dinner. As soon as he entered he noticed and +returned to Moscow and went straight to her rich relations, the +returned to Petersburg quite crestfallen. +Returning from his journey through South Russia in the happiest state +returning his smile. +returning to his hobby; “tell me how the Germans have taught you to +returning to the town. The commander in chief made a sign that the +return the holy image. +return to her the whole evening. +reverence and was beyond question. +revoir! ”—and she left the hall. +revolution, which has become more terrible than ever in the person of +Rhetor, after a moment’s pause. +Rhetor said, “to bring yourself to regard it not as a dreaded foe, but +Rhetor’s instructions. The Mason drew the shirt back from Pierre’s +Rhetor, though it aroused his curiosity, did not seem to him essential, +Rhetor went away, leaving him to solitary meditation. “It must be so, +ribbons. +rich?” +richest of the officers now that he had received his money, bought it. +rich old man. But before leaving home and undertaking these new affairs, +rich youths, officers and cadets, who had galloped past him on their +ride and especially by the sound of the bullets. +rider’s leg. Blood was flowing from his head; he struggled but could +rid himself of them he closed his eyes. +riding a fine bobtailed horse, and a civilian—an accountant who had +riding alone with three hussars into that mysterious and dangerous misty +riding, and sometimes, when he came within six paces of them, the +riding away, say to Czartorýski: “What a terrible thing war is: what +riding over it trained a gun on him and fired several shots. The +rid them of the Bourbons and because they saw that he was a great +right. +right across the skull. Having said this he glanced at Natásha. +right!” And his head once more sank to his horse’s neck. All at once +right and what’s good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by +right flank and drive it into the Bohemian mountains according to plan, +right hand, which was lying palm downwards, a wax taper had been thrust +right—he did not know. “But was it really not possible for Kutúzov +right, it is advantageous to attack the enemy’s latter wing especially +right light.... In my opinion perpetual peace is possible but—I do not +rightly supposes that matters have already gone too far. I think it will +right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that’s what +right—serve him. Nicholas Bolkónski’s son need not serve under +right, shouting and firing were again heard. Flashes of shot gleamed in +rights of man, is sentenced to...” But before Pierre—who at that +right sounded oftener and nearer. As soon as Túshin with his guns, +right to fire when they liked as they approached the barrier. Dólokhov +right! Twenty-one rubles,” he said, pointing to the figure twenty-one +ring, and Zherkóv, uneasily glancing at them all, and Prince Andrew, +ring, cried from the window: “Come here; part the bets!” This was +ringing, deliberate voice. “I ask an opportunity to atone for my fault +risen and was going toward his room. +rising in his soul. Dólokhov, Denísov, and Rostóv were now sitting +rite which everyone expected of him, and that he was therefore bound +river flowed was formed by the rising ground only half a mile away. +river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at +rivulet flowed, the soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was +road. Bagratión’s exhausted and hungry detachment, which alone +road which gleamed white in the mist would have been safer because it +rode, not hoping to find anyone but merely to ease his conscience. When +rode past the limbers to the farthest cannon. +rode side by side in front, at full gallop. One in a black uniform with +rode with our regiment all the time, so that we had every comfort and +rolled softly over the straw beneath the windows, Anna Mikháylovna, +rolling them up. Márya Dmítrievna always spoke in Russian. +roof lit up by the sun? No one knows, but one wants to know. You fear +Rook—a handsome horse despite its game leg—had the happy air of a +room. +room, addressed Pierre. +room after supper? Why, we settled how everything was to be. I don’t +room. All were silent. +room, almost all the company had assembled, and the conversation, guided +room, and looked round with a smile. She was, as always at evening +room and still less how to leave one; that is, how to say something +room and we shall have to go down, and you have not smartened yourself +room by which Dolgorúkov had entered—a short man in civilian clothes +room. Denísov silently watched Lavrúshka’s movements, and when the +room, exclaiming and oh-ing and ah-ing. +room, grew silent and gazed with eyes full of curiosity or expectancy at +room,” he said. +room.... Nicholas had been prepared for resistance, but had not at all +room. No one spoke and the only sounds heard were the clatter of knives +room, something flew out from a side door like a tornado and began +room. The countess reflected a moment and took a pinch from a gold +room. The old countess, waiting for the return of her husband and son, +room. The old man already knew everything. He was standing close to +room. The prince stood still; his lively glittering eyes from under +room, they still heard the laughter and merry voices trying to persuade +room to write to his father, to whom he wrote every day. In the corridor +room, where you will be ranged side by side with a court lackey and an +room with a look of alarm. Between twelve and two o’clock, as the +room without a word. But at the door he stopped and then retraced his +room with rapid steps. Now he seemed to see her in the early days of +room with the inkstand in her hand. +rose and with her heavy tread went up to the table. She took a sheet of +rose, by a glance inviting Pierre, who sat opposite, to listen to what +rose from an ensign and became Emperor. Well, well, God grant it,” he +rose in alarm on seeing it. +“Rostóv!” +Rostóv. +Rostóv. +Rostóv. +Rostóv, absorbed by his relations with Bogdánich, had paused on the +Rostóv and Denísov drove away with the wounded Dólokhov. +Rostóv, and Dólokhov—who was now again an officer in the Semënov +Rostóv and had not responded to his greeting. When the Emperor’s +Rostóv and most of the officers after the review. +Rostóv, and sighing deeply he took Rook, his horse, which stood resting +Rostóv anticipated his horse’s movements and became more and more +Rostóv as he continued to deal. +Rostóv became thoughtful. +Rostóv considered, and then went in the direction where they said he +Rostóv could already see their faces and heard the command: +Rostóv did not know or remember how he ran to his place and mounted. +Rostóv did not listen to the soldier. He looked at the snowflakes +Rostóv did not speak. +Rostóv did not think what this call for stretchers meant; he ran on, +Rostóv fancied he had seen before) rode up to the ditch, struck his +Rostóv felt Denísov’s gaze fixed on him, raised his eyes, and +(Rostóv felt himself quite tiny and weak compared to these gigantic men +Rostóv felt ill at ease. He tried, but failed, to find some joke with +Rostóv felt that, under the influence of the warm rays of love, that +Rostóv, flushing, drew Dólokhov into the next room. +Rostóv followed them. In front of him walked Kutúzov’s groom leading +Rostóv for his friendship to her Fédya, often talked to him about her +Rostóv from a distance saw with envy and remorse how von Toll spoke +Rostóv, growing red and pale alternately, looked first at one officer +Rostóv had been ordered to look for Kutúzov and the Emperor near the +Rostóv had just prepared a card, by bending the corner of which he +Rostóv heard. +Rostóv himself, his legs well back and his stomach drawn in and feeling +Rostóv, his eyes avoiding Denísov, began buttoning his coat, buckled +Rostóv hurriedly put something on his feet, drew on his dressing gown, +Rostóv laughed so loud and merrily that Denísov, in his bedroom, felt +Rostóv learned later that Russian and Austrian soldiers had been firing +Rostóv let go of the horse and was about to ride on, when a wounded +Rostóv looked at and listened listlessly to what passed before and +Rostóv met Sónya in the drawing room, he reddened. He did not know +Rostóv noticed something new in Dólokhov’s relations with Sónya, +Rostóv recalled at that moment a strange conversation he had once had +Rostóv rode on at a footpace not knowing why or to whom he was now +Rostóv, rubbing his eyes that seemed glued together, raised his +Rostóv’s and back, and back again and again in an instant. +Rostóv saw nothing but the hussars running all around him, their spurs +Rostóv saw overhead the old familiar cornice with a bit of plaster +Rostóv saw tears filling the Emperor’s eyes and heard him, as he was +Rostóv saw that it had been well considered by them. Sónya had already +Rostóv’s face. A gentle, mild light poured from them. Then all at +Rostóv’s feeling, there was a deathly stillness amid which was heard +Rostóv’s horse was also getting restive: it pawed the frozen ground, +Rostóv shrugged his shoulders as much as to say: “Nor do I, but +Rostóv smiled. +Rostóv smilingly reassured the dragoon and gave him money. +Rostóv spurred his horse, called to Sergeant Fédchenko and two other +Rostóv’s share in Dólokhov’s duel with Bezúkhov was hushed up by +Rostóv’s soul (it seemed to Rostóv that he understood everything), +Rostóv staked five rubles on a card and lost, staked again, and again +Rostóv, standing in the front lines of Kutúzov’s army which the Tsar +Rostóv, still looking round toward the fires and the shouts, rode with +Rostóv stopped. +Rostóv stopped his horse for a moment on a hillock to see what was +Rostóv submitted. He let the eight hundred remain and laid down a seven +Rostóvs, with whom she stayed when in the town and where her darling +Rostóv thrust the purse under the pillow and shook the damp little hand +Rostóv too, bending over his saddle, shouted “Hurrah!” with all his +Rostóv took the letter and, throwing the money on the sofa, put both +Rostóv took the money and, mechanically arranging the old and new coins +Rostóv took the money, avoiding Telyánin’s eyes, and went out of the +Rostóv took the purse in his hand, examined it and the money in it, and +Rostóv turned his horse and galloped back. Four more reports followed +Rostóv was not far from the trumpeters, and with his keen sight had +Rostóv was very happy in the love they showed him; but the first +Rostóv waved his cap above his head like the German and cried laughing, +Rostóv went on ahead to do what was asked, and to his great surprise +Rostóv went to Telyánin’s quarters. +Rostóv, when their leave permits had been passed at the town gate and +Rostóv, who had completely forgotten Denísov, not wishing anyone to +Rostóv, who had just celebrated his promotion to a cornetcy and bought +Rostóv wiping his muddy hands on his breeches looked at his enemy and +Rostóv with Dólokhov and Denísov stayed on at the club till late, +Rostóv, without returning home, took a horse and rode there. There was +rosy, was sitting in an easy chair with her work in her hands, talking +rosy, with a dark little mustache, evidently rested and made sleeker by +round and clapping Rostóv on the shoulder with his big hand. +round and galloped back to the place where he had seen the Emperor, but +round and notices here a spindle that has stopped or there one that +round an open window. Three others were romping with a young bear, one +round her head. +round his son’s neck, and without a word he began to sob like a child. +round Márya Dmítrievna, now on his toes, now on his heels; until, +round once more. The French had fallen behind, and just as he looked +round. Prince Andrew and the battalion were already within twenty paces +round-shouldered Captain Túshin, stumbling over the tail of the gun +round shoulders shuddered as if a cold shiver had run down them, how his +round Sónya and Natásha as the air does before a thunderstorm. Sónya +round the company. He noticed the change in the little princess’ +round the first man changed his run to a walk and, turning, shouted +round the table, the clatter of plates, knives, and glasses mingled with +round the two corners of the mouth; this, together with the resolute, +round with much animation and cheerfully nodded to his son as the latter +roused by activity, expected the best results from the new campaign, +roused, had begun to talk, and wanted to express what had brought him to +“Rousseau’s Contrat Social,” said the vicomte with a tolerant +rows of faces so alike yet so different, holding its breath while the +rows of statues in niches) and looking significantly at the lady’s old +royalist emigrant. +rubbed his forehead as if to rid himself of all interest in what he +rubbing his bald head and angrily pulling back toward him the little +rubles at a time, to talk about not wishing to cringe to anybody and not +rubles a year? And,” he went on after a pause, “what will it be in +rubles, Dólokhov lived with him and had placed himself on such a +rubles I don’t know what to do with, and she stands in her tattered +rug and began reading to him from a manuscript book an explanation of +ruin. Wasn’t he my friend? Wasn’t I fond of him? But it’s not his +rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be +rum without taking it from my mouth, sitting outside the window on this +running. +running beside Timókhin, killed a Frenchman at close quarters and was +running? Can they be coming at me? And why? To kill me? Me whom everyone +Running into Sónya’s room and not finding her there, Natásha ran to +running to the door and the noise of a chair falling over, and a girl +rushed out apparently beside herself with delight. +rushing at the cadet to restrain him. +rush to obey the summons. “Send Dmítri to me!” +Russian. +Russian and the Austrian. The Guards, just arrived from Russia, spent +Russian arms. +Russian army. And I won’t—not even if Bonaparte were here at +Russian army found vent in anger at Zherkóv’s untimely jest. + Russian army, I must say that your victory was not +Russian army loots terribly—her army is destroyed, her capital +Russian army! Well, as I was saying,” he continued, recovering his +Russian army will be fully equipped, and shall then, in conjunction with +Russian bath. The movement of these wrinkles formed the principal play +Russian general. The general shouted a demand that the cavalry should be +Russian musketeer who had gone up to the picket line with an officer and +Russian on which he wished to put a contemptuous emphasis. +Russians fought, the only consequence of these actions was a yet more +Russians from Krems to Znaim. + Russians! O’er all barriers on! +Russian troops and their commander of the laurels they have been +Russian troops moving down the valley to their left. +Russian troops were crossing the river Enns. At midday the Russian +Russian valor—what more could be wished for?” +Russia’s glory were led to destruction. Go, Princess Mary. Go and tell +Russia were settling near the fortress of Braunau and burdening the +saber had tasted flesh and he had fallen exhausted, and so on. And so he +saber, he sank on the snow beside it. His left hand was bloody; he wiped +saber them... Whom? The hussars... Ah, the hussars with mustaches. Along +saber which had caught in his cloak. It was an old-fashioned saber of +sabretache...”—“Keep to the right, your honor, there are bushes +sacrament, allow him a moment’s peace! Here, Pierre, tell them your +sacrament. The dying man lay as lifeless and immovable as before. Around +sacrificed everything for his sake!” she cried. “It’s splendid! +sacrificed myself. But only the base, the vile succeed! I know who has +sad and depressed. It was all so strange, so unlike what he had hoped. +saddle and touched up his horse to ride once more round his hussars. It +saddle, he galloped to the other flank of the squadron and shouted in +saddle sore which, coming after all my previous journeys, quite prevents +sadness, and this occurred every time she mentioned her illustrious +sad voice, as if saying: “Very well, finish me off.” +said. +said. +said: +said a gunner, coming up to Túshin. +said another. +said a tall, grizzly-haired staff captain, with enormous mustaches and +said Bilíbin as he came out to meet Prince Andrew. “Franz, put the +said Dólokhov. +said he. +said he, bending down a finger. +said he, “but the health of our Sovereign, that good, enchanting, and +said he, carrying away into the darkness a glowing stick. +said he. “Now for trouble!” Rostóv looked out of the window and +said her eyes. She was not surprised at his having come; she did +said, holding the casement and not closing it. “With lanterns. Most +said, “how am I to stifle in my heart these temptations of the devil? +said in a tone of indifferent politeness: +said inquiringly. +said it, and they all felt awkward. +said little Iogel coming up to Nicholas. “Look how many charming young +said nothing to Borís and, evidently unable to suppress the thoughts +said, of a wife who was a celebrated beauty and of millions of money. +said one of the nursemaids to Prince Andrew who was sitting on a +said Prince Andrew, as he entered the study, rubbing his small white +said Prince Andrew when they had gone into the large room where the +said Prince Andrew who had not yet had time to eat anything. +said Repnín. +said Rostóv, blushing. +said Rostóv in an imploring voice, “but I can’t apologize, by God I +said she. +said she in French, displaying her bag and addressing all present. +said she, uttering the word with peculiar assurance and unconcern, “I +said Shinshín, laughing ironically and mixing the most ordinary Russian +said: “That’s bad! Go on, go on.” +said the countess. “But I am in great need of this sum.” +said the countess, indignant that they should have dared to treat this +said the countess smiling. +said the general, turning to an artillery officer. “Have a little fun +said: “Then I will go to my rooms. You will let me know when I can see +said the old man, “say so, my dear sir.” And he suddenly smiled, in +said the old soldier dismally to a comrade, “you’ll forget to +said the princess, ignoring his question. “Now I know! Yes; if I have +said the princess in a tone of entreaty. +said this some time after she had finished singing. While that untrained +said to be fleeing in great disorder. Mind you gallop off to Kórchevo +said to her, went to the looking glass and arranged her hair and scarf. +said, without noticing Nicholas. +said without sitting down. “A person of very high standing in our +said yesterday... let him grow up with you.... Please.” +said Zherkóv. +saint, my angel,” she said with a sigh. +sake that the latter might say something he would afterwards regret. +saluting, and this sound rapidly came nearer along the whole extended +salver, glanced around in dismay, as though seeking help. But all eyes +same!” +same?” +same as usual,” and Princess Mary pale, frightened, and with downcast +same commanders. The sailor rarely cares to know the latitude in which +same expression, which seemed to say that he had a right to suppose +same firm pressure of the hand and the same quick, repeated bows. As +same.... Is everything ready?” he added. “Only tell me where to go +same mind he began explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the +same moment his kindly eyes grew moist with tears of joy and enthusiasm. +same!” Pierre often indulged in reflections of this sort, nullifying +same question. “Will Papa be back soon?” +same sergeant major Iván Mítrich, the same company dog Jack, and the +same speed, but they kept increasing their pace, so that some of the +same state of excitement as when she had slammed the door of her room. +same time at the Emperor Francis. +same time felt shy. +same to me!” he screamed in the same piercing tone as when parting +same way. When did it happen and what has happened? I am well and strong +same. You’ll be all right anywhere. But look here: give up visiting +sang the quartette, “The Brook,” with which everyone was delighted. +sarcastic smile. +satchels, sabretaches, open portmanteaus, and dirty boots. Two freshly +sat down again, smiling at the noise they had made and exchanging +sat down at her writing table, on which stood miniature portraits and +sat down languidly on the sofa: he felt it unpleasant to have dropped +sat facing Bagratión and, as the very personification of Moscow +sat in an armchair in her dressing jacket and nightcap and Katie, sleepy +satisfaction. +satisfied with him?” he asked the regimental commander. +satisfied with the party. She replied in her usual simple manner that +sat playing patience with the old gentlewoman who lived in their house. +sat up and began wiping her eyes and explaining. +sat waiting for something, and again soldiers straggling from their +sausages and a bottle of wine. +saved. But he saw nothing. Above him there was now nothing but the +save myself?” he thought. He rode on to the region where the greatest +Saviour’s words, that it is easier for a camel to go through the +saw a rather short man. Having evidently come from the light into the +saw—covered to the waist by a bright green quilt—the familiar, +saw Denísov coming home. Denísov was a small man with a red face, +saw friendly looks and heard friendly words. Yesterday’s adjutant +saw his smile, which said nothing, unless perhaps, “Opinions are +saw the beloved features that were so deeply engraved on his memory. The +saw them all and saw them in detail. She saw Prince Vasíli’s face, +saw with his own eyes brick buildings erected or in course of erection, +say. +say (as he has done before) that I’m in the dumps.” +say I’ll have his head off if everything is not here in a week. +saying. +saying, and sat plunged in thought. Five minutes later, gently swaying +saying as he moved from the gun, when a strange, unfamiliar voice called +saying. “I have been an atheist,” answered Pierre. +saying it right, I have drunk a good deal—but that is how I feel, and +saying.” Prince Andrew looked silently at Pierre with an ironic smile. +saying something witty and stinging. +saying that he must prostrate himself at the Gates of the Temple. +saying that, on the contrary, she remembered him quite well. Then +saying that the Russian ladies are not equal to the French? One has to +Saying this he again turned round, dropped his hands, took the bottle +say it.” +say something but could not. Her brother had guessed right: the little +say that it is dull in my house again,” and she glanced at Hélène. +say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and +say to the adjutant that Borís felt uncomfortable. He turned away and +say—“Yes, misfortune! Call it what you please, I know that what +scabbard and flourishing it. +sca’cwow? Call the quahtehmasteh,” he shouted to Lavrúshka. +scarred and puffy face. +Schérer.” +Schérer. At the other end sat the younger and less important guests, +Schérer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Márya Fëdorovna. +Schlappanitz and Bellowitz which cover the enemy’s front. For this +Schlappanitz and the Thuerassa forest, avoiding the defiles of +Schönbrunn, 25th Brumaire, 1805, +“Schon fleissig?” * said Rostóv with the same gay brotherly smile +Schön Grabern affair, just as those who have taken part in a battle +Schön Grabern—and he would have found that easier. The committeemen +schoolboy called up before a large audience for an examination in which +schools,” he went on, crooking a finger, “education and so forth; +Schoss, and his old nurse, and asked them to kiss for him “dear +“Schubert, the colonel of the Pávlograd Hussars, is dining with us +science explaining the whole creation and man’s place in it. To +scoundrel is again at our heels!” +scoundrel? Is that how you look at it? We don’t see it like that. And +“Scoundrels! Blackguards!” shrieked the old man, turning his face +scratch from one paragraph to another with his hard nail. +scratch yourself.” +screams, continued. +screams kept repeating: +screwed up his eyes as if dazzled by the sun. He was entirely absorbed +screwing up his eyes and shaking with suppressed laughter, and unable +scrutinizing Anatole closely and intently. +search of somebody and answered all her questions in monosyllables. He +seat. +seated them on the center sofa. The bigwigs, the most respected members +seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the + SECOND EPILOGUE +“Second line... have you written it?” he continued dictating to the +seconds he stood not moving from the spot or realizing the situation. +second time. But Pierre was so absorbed that he did not understand what +secretary of the Russian Embassy, do not feel any need in token of my +secretary rather than commander in the army. My removal from the army +secretly regretting this, saw only the dark side. +secret malevolence in their hearts. +sedate, and the naïveté of his youthful egotism was so obvious, that +seduced, and to whom her poor mother (sa pauvre mère) appeared, and +see his face. Anna Mikháylovna left him, and when she returned he was +“See how smart she’s made herself! Oh, the devils!” +see how these nestlings are growing up,” and she pointed to the girls. +“See, I’m standing! See!” she said, but could not maintain herself +Seeing Anna Mikháylovna and her son, Prince Vasíli dismissed the +seeing Prince Andrew stopped, hesitating on the threshold. He went into +seeing some men running toward him. “They will help me!” In front +Seeing that smile, Rostóv involuntarily smiled himself and felt a still +seeing the favor the Emperor showed the prisoners, they now hastened to +seeing the fright of that small and frail but proud man when covered by +Seeing them he kept thinking, “That may be the very standard with +seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. Man’s future and thy own fate +seem. +seemed as though not the trumpeters were playing, but as if the army +seemed confused and blushed as if not knowing what to say. +seemed familiar to Princess Mary was saying something. +seemed impossible. “But perhaps they may do it!” For more than ten +seemed like a lifeless body, but as soon as he came up it became alive, +seemed loaded with a whole houseful of effects. A fine brindled cow with +seemed ready to lift its tail, jump down on its soft paws, and begin +seemed to ask. She noticed at once that something had happened to him. +seemed to be Poles—all under the Russian crown—but here they’re +seemed to be seeking something, and soldiers dragging doors, benches, +seemed to give way within him at this news. Dólokhov was a suitable and +seemed to groan at the terrible impact. +seemed to have changed roles since the campaign of 1805. The old man, +seemed to hear left... left... left. +seemed to her that someone was there standing behind the screen in the +seemed to him all the interests that engrossed Napoleon, so mean did his +seemed to him as though one of the soldiers near him hit him on the head +seemed to him like ants. In that world, the handsome drunkard Number One +seemed to him that Bogdánich rode so near in order to show him his +seemed to him that he had expected all this and even more. Trying +seemed to him that it was a very long time ago, almost a day, since he +seemed to him that it was getting lighter. To the left he saw a sloping +seemed to me to have an excellent heart, and that is the quality I value +seemed to say. She saw her husband, but did not realize the significance +seemed to say: “Yes, there’s nothing left for you and me but to sip +seemed to say. “You had not noticed that I am a woman? Yes, I am a +seemed to wish, but to be unable, to diminish its effect. +seeming to grow suddenly smaller, and respectfully received the blessing +seem to him that everyone is afraid of him, and that must please him. +seen him in Petersburg. I saw him just as I see you.... There he sat in +seen him since we acted together at the Rumyántsovs’ theatricals. I +seen. Prince Andrew stopped and began examining the position. +seen the day before in the arms of her nurse’s daughter—at her +seen the light, come here? What do you seek from us? Wisdom, virtue, +seen. The lines of that mouth were remarkably finely curved. The middle +seen through. +seen you. Very glad! Go back to your rooms, Princess. Go!” said +see the soldiers’ shaggy caps, distinguish the officers from the men, +see the true light, and that he, Pierre, ought to aid, enlighten, and +see those who, judging by the sound of hoofs and voices, had ridden up +see whether he cannot attach you to himself or find a place for you +see whether it was firmly plaited, and grasping his by the hand. “The +see whether they were getting up. +see you,” he added, bowing his head. +seized by an unreasoning panic—it occurred to him that the child was +seized by terror lest he had already, in some way, bound himself to do +seized him at the thought of that dreadful step. A thousand times during +seize some horsecloths, though he had told him the Russians were there. +seizing his father’s hand, he pressed it to his lips and burst into +seizing the most opportune moment for making use of people. +self, and so before one can know, it is necessary to believe and to +self-complacency than his did.) “Well, he stormed at me, as the saying +self-complacent happiness that one sees on the face of a boy happily +self-confidence, while his body was thin and weak. His eyes, nose, and +self-confident. +self-confident French; then again, like a man weary but unflinching in +self-derision genuinely Russian. Bilíbin wrote that the obligation of +self-possession. If a man lacking in self-confidence remains dumb on +self-possession mingled at that moment in Rostóv’s soul. +self-respect, but admit that the time and place are very badly chosen. +self-satisfied. +self-satisfied, youthful, and constant smile of animation, and by the +“Sell me the missis,” said another soldier, addressing the German, +“Sell us that horse!” Denísov called out to the Cossacks. +“Semën! Do you know the Daniel Cooper?” +semi-private, long-established jokes and amusing reminiscences, though +send his orderly staff officer, and later Prince Andrew also, to order +sensation of fear and respect which the old man inspired in all around +sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around +senseless cry, “Cut off!” that is so terrible in battle, and that +sense of awe and veneration such as he had experienced in his boyhood at +sent an official to Austria to seek for traces of his son, he ordered a +sent Dólokhov the whole forty-three thousand rubles and received his +sentiments,” he seemed to be saying, “so much the worse for you!” +sent instead of our dear Wintzingerode you would have captured the King +sent to Moscow. The story told about him at Count Rostóv’s was true. +sent you. Religious! I don’t interfere with anyone’s belief... I +separately through his thin compressed lips, “I will throw him down +“Separate? Very well, but only if you give me a fortune,” said +separating the living from the dead—lay between them. All were +separation! Though I tell myself that half my life and half my happiness +sergeant in charge of the cannon which was to give the signal to fire +sergeant was carrying in a wooden bowl to an officer who sat on a log +‘Sergéy’ he sobbed, ‘Kuz-mí-ch,’ tears, and ‘From all +“Sergéy Kuzmích—From all sides—” he said, unbuttoning the top +Sergéy Kuzmích...’ Poor Vyazmítinov could not get any farther! +serious duel, and besides, Drubetskóy, who says he is an old friend +serious expression. But the author himself took the verses and began +serious for an instant at the sight of her, but immediately smiling +seriousness of his stupid smile, could not but give him a moment’s +serious tone, “but the prince told me to ‘go and tell the colonel +servant. +servants say in a frightened whisper. “Catch hold from underneath. +Servants with lanterns were bustling about in the porch. The immense +served up was received with pleasure by all her visitors. The greatest +serve him. Rostóv patted the horse’s neck and then his flank, and +service.” +service. A little behind them stood the two younger princesses holding +service, and he at once understood his role, letting his hostess make +service is to serve under him.” +service... it can’t be helped... one is sometimes a bit hasty on +service,” said the prince disdainfully. “Why his son is coming I +service to place himself very advantageously. He was aide-de-camp to a +serving as a private. But the command of the extreme left flank had been +serving our Tsar and our country, rejoicing in the successes and +set fire to the Schön Grabern village, delayed the French advance. The +set off to rejoin the army, not knowing where he would find it and +setting fire to Schön Grabern. +setting it on fire and the French batteries were now firing at them, no +setting, on a finely wrought silver chain. +settled down comfortably beside the fire. +settled. He came because of Sónya. And Sónya, though she would never +settled into three groups. One, chiefly masculine, had formed round +“Settled!” replied Borís. +set without whom my wife cannot exist, and those women.... If you only +seven he needed was lying uppermost, the first card in the pack. He had +seven in the morning but had not reached it by five in the afternoon.” +“Seven new and three old imperials.” +seventeen of the forty men of the guns’ crews had been disabled, but +seven virtues, corresponding to the seven steps of Solomon’s temple, +several dead men. One ball after another passed over as he approached +several of them were not separated from one another but merged into a +Several of those present smiled at Zherkóv’s words, expecting one of +several persons whom he did not know, giving him a whispered description +Several soldiers fell. +several soldiers fell, and a second lieutenant who was holding the +several thousand rubles. +several thousand rubles quitrent received from Pierre’s peasants, +Several times in the course of the morning Princess Mary began trying to +Several wounded men passed along the road, and words of abuse, screams, +severe gaze straight on Pierre’s face. +severely. “You don’t wish to apologize, but, man, it’s not only to +severity changed, and he drew Pierre’s hand downwards, made him sit +severity. The dance grew livelier and livelier. The other couples could +shading his eyes with his small hand. +shadow of the wall. Pausing for a moment, Pierre noticed several other +shako on the back of his head. He came up to the porch gloomily, hanging +shall not agree with you, and you do not really believe what you are +shall reproach my wife with anything, and I cannot reproach myself +shall think nothing of an extra seventy miles to come and see you at +“Shall we have three cold dishes then?” asked the cook. +“Shall we have time to change clothes?” +“Shall you write to him?” she asked. +shame and anger choking him, had already leapt from his horse and run to +shameless, and he ignores her!” +share defeat and disgrace with Kutúzov’s whole army.” +sharply, with a slight trembling of the lower jaw, “I can’t prevent +sharpshooters in front of our columns. The colonel at the head of the +sharpshooters showed themselves in the copse. It was Timókhin’s +shawl had been adjusted he kept his arm around her for a long time, as +she added hurriedly. “No, don’t be angry, but promise! I have asked +she added, turning to her hostess. “You wrote that it was to be quite +She already had power over him, and between them there was no longer any +She always addressed him with a radiantly confiding smile meant for him +She approached him, saw his face, and something gave way within her. Her +she became still more animated and chattered away giving him greetings +she began to smile and talk. He asked about mutual acquaintances, and +she began to tell of how at Potsdam the impious Bonaparte had stolen the +She brought into Princess Mary’s strenuous, mournful, and gloomy +she came up fearless and gay to kiss her hand. “I know she’s a scamp +She caught the young officer by his cuffs, and a look of solemnity and +she considered the resonance was best. +she continued, uniting them both in one glance. Pierre did not look at +She could not lie either on her face or on her side. Every position was +She crossed herself, kissed the icon, and handed it to Andrew. +shed, and its tone was so sincere that he could not but listen. +She drew nearer to him. Her face flushed. +she faltered. “You are on good terms with Michael Ilariónovich +she felt any symptoms of pregnancy. She laughed contemptuously and said +she felt guilty. +She forgot all fear of her father, went up to him, took his hand, and +She gave her companion an angry glance. +(She glanced at Hélène and smiled at her.) “My dear Hélène, be +She grew confused, glanced round, and, seeing the doll she had thrown +She had a fan in her hand that one of the ladies had given her to hold. +She had been married during the previous winter, and being pregnant did +She had determined not to tell her and persuaded her father to hide the +she had finished speaking to him, and now he continued to speak to +she had first entered the room—the smile of a perfectly beautiful +she had just vacated. “You have made the place warm, I must say,” he +she had learned it) she talked with her partner, fanning herself and +she had sacrificed so much. She could not refrain from weeping at these +she had seldom experienced, came upon her. She feared to look round, it +she had spoken to Hippolyte in the drawing room and which was so plainly +She has a brother; I think you know him, he married Lise Meinen lately. +She hurriedly ascended the narrow dimly lit stone staircase, calling to +“She is not very well,” answered Mademoiselle Bourienne with +She knew of the duel and had come to speak about it. She waited till the +she knew so well), on the lock of gray hair that escaped from under the +She led him into the dark drawing room and Pierre was glad no one could +“She let the hawk fly upward from her wide right sleeve,” went the +She looked at him inquiringly and with childlike reproach. +She looked round and seeing that her friend was not in the room ran to +She looked timidly at her brother. +shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, +she moved toward Anna Pávlovna. Hélène was so lovely that not only +she must be on the chest in the passage. The chest in the passage was +she must love him if she could so far forget herself! Perhaps I might +“She needs rest,” said Prince Andrew with a frown. “Don’t you, +she not only left her hair as it was, but did not even look in her +she ought to behave like Mademoiselle Bourienne, but could not. +She paused, as women always do, expecting something after they have +She pulled up her muslin sleeve and showed him a red scar on her long, +She pushed the little dog off her lap and smoothed her dress. +She rang for her maid and asked her to sleep in her room. +She rose and smoothed her hair, which was as usual so extremely smooth +She roused herself, and felt appalled at what she had been thinking, and +She rushed to Sónya, hugged her, and began to cry. +“She said.... Oh yes! She said, ‘Girl,’ to the maid, ‘put on a +she said, trying to smile though tears were in her eyes. +She seemed that day to be more than ever kind and affectionate to +She seemed to promise to explain that necessity to him when he came on +She smiled as she uttered his pet name, “Andrúsha.” It was +she suddenly came into his mind as she was at the moments when he had +She suddenly paused, smiling at her own impetuosity. +She thought: “If I seem not to notice he will think that I do not +She took a pair of pear-shaped ruby earrings from her huge reticule and, +She took his arm and with a happy face went with him into the adjoining +She took the liberty of inquiring whether it was long since Anatole +She tried to pass Anna Mikháylovna, but the latter sprang so as to bar +She turned away and gave her hand to the count, who could hardly keep +She turned away from him and glanced at her younger brother, who was +She turned to go, but he stopped her with a gesture and took an uncut +she turned to his father. The conversation was general and animated, +she understood all the gravity of her friend’s trouble. +(She used the word “diplomat,” which was just then much in vogue +she used to have quarrels with the too indulgent count, that son who +she was dancing with a grown-up man, who had been abroad. She was +She was much altered. She was now plain rather than pretty. Her cheeks +she was, Natásha, who knew how sensitive her mother was to anything +She was no longer in the loose gown she generally wore in the morning, +she was not a fool to want to have children, and that she was not going +she was now saying she had talked of before, with tears. +“She was so tired that she has fallen asleep on the sofa in my room. +“She went. Suddenly there was a great wind. The girl lost her hat and +“She will go to the country.” +she wished to and only refrained out of regard for his modesty. +she would say. What could all that matter in comparison with the will of +shining eyes, not interrupting or questioning him, but believing with +Shinshín, a cousin of the countess’, a man with “a sharp tongue” +Shinshín. “He has stopped Austria’s cackle and I fear it will be +shirt, and in every knapsack the appointed number of articles, “awl, +shod in a Tartar boot embroidered with silver, and the firm pressure +shone with such gaiety and youth, such innocent youth, that it suggested +shooting at you like a target.” +shops, bakers’ signboards, street lamps, and sleighs!” thought +Shortly after nine o’clock that evening, Weyrother drove with his +shortsighted delight at the misery of others, and doubts and torments +short sturdy figure with the sinewy hairy hand and stumpy fingers in +shots came. +should already have suggested to your heart, if it is sincere, more than +should be a nice set of fellows if we were to wait about and so give him +should be glad and not cry.” +should be if I could now say: ‘Lord, have mercy on me!’... But to +shoulder and left the room without snuffing the candles or saying why he +shoulder and taking his feet off the sofa. +shoulders and dropped his eyes as if startled by something extraordinary +shoulders and eyes, almost closing the latter, sighed, and moved away +shoulders. Anna Mikháylovna with just the same movement raised her +shoulders close to his eyes. +shoulders, turned out his toes, tapped gently with his foot, and, by +shoulder, their bayonets interlocking, moved over the bridge in a dense +should get not more than two hundred rubles every four months, even +should much like to be an adjutant and not remain at the front.” +should now be away in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, a manly +“Shouldn’t we now send for Berg?” asked Borís. “He would drink +should one love and what hate? What does one live for? And what am I? +shouted. +shouted Denísov in a bloodthirsty tone. +shouted Denísov, suddenly, turning purple and rushing at the man with +shouted hoarsely. +shouted “Hurrah!” in exactly the same voice in which he had shouted +shouted the regimental commander, thrusting forward his jaw and pointing +shouted to him: +shouting. +shouting came from, a fire flared up and went out again, then another, +shouting grew louder and louder. Rostóv could hear the sound of French +shouts of hurrah, and saw wounded being brought back (there were not +shouts of thousands of voices. His horse and the horse of the hussar +showed a paper she held in her hand—with the verses Nicholas had +showed greatness of soul by not fearing to take on himself the whole +showed how he presented himself, with his hand to his cap, and really +showed that, in spite of all his love and respect for his father, he was +show her over, and they’ll talk nineteen to the dozen. That’s +showing the creases where it had been folded and thick gold epaulettes +showing the necessity of first paying off the loans from the Land Bank, +showing the spot where it burst. +showing under his open shirt, he stood in a majestic pose in the light +shown, fired. Not at all expecting so loud a report, Pierre shuddered +shown to the best room, which Dólokhov had taken for that evening. Some +shudder of disgust. +“Shut up!” +“Shut up!” cried Dólokhov, pushing him away from the window. The +sick man had been laid in a stately pose in keeping with the ceremony +side and at first did not play. Dólokhov kept glancing at him. +side and looked round with a frown. Along the road from Pratzen galloped +side as her betrothed, seeing, hearing, feeling her nearness, her +side by side. Prince Vasíli was not having any supper: he went round +side of the question and you will see that your duty, on the contrary, +side (only now did Pierre realize how near death his father was), and +sides. He acknowledged no acquaintances but saw in all these men only +side, so close to our own forces that Napoleon with the naked eye could +sides’ was smothered in sobs and he could get no farther. And again +sideways at Princess Mary from a little distance. “You have a maroon +“Sideways! Cover yourself with your pistol!” ejaculated Nesvítski. +Sídorov, turning to the French, winked, and began to jabber meaningless +sighed. “I have loved you like a son from the first. Trust yourself to + Sighing its message out to thee... +sight of his superiors, he did not notice the staff of the banner and +sight of Murat’s mantle and ostrich plumes, qu’il n’y voit que du +sight of tears and was ready to cry himself. +sign. +significant command to come to her on Tuesday. +significantly at her husband) “I’m afraid, I’m afraid!” she +sign of strength. +sign papers, to present himself at government offices, the purpose of +signs to the footmen, and anxiously glancing from the clock to the door +sign that this was exactly what he had desired and expected. Turning +silence. +silence and the regular tramp of feet beating the ground in unison, one +silence as he left the drawing room. He pictured the vanity of his +silence at Princess Anna Mikháylovna. After her talk with Pierre, Anna +Silence ensued. The countess looked at her callers, smiling affably, +silent. +silent and seemed confused. The prince asked her about her father, and +silent as he passed by, and moved to make way for him. At first Pierre +silent. At first Kutúzov stood still while the regiment moved; then he +silently—fearing to speak because at every word he felt ready to +silently, with the languid interest of sick children, at the envoy +silent prayer. Every morning she came in like that, and every morning +silent, “that Sónya and Nicholas now say you to one another and meet +silent, waiting for what he would say. +silken hangings. On leaving the bed both Prince Vasíli and the princess +sill, leaned over, and looked down. +sill. “Listen!” cried he, standing there and addressing those in the +sill to attract attention. “Wait a bit, Kurágin. Listen! If +silver and crystal gleamed, so did the ladies’ toilets and the gold +simply dressed hair (two immense plaits twice round her lovely head like +simply looking at him. +simultaneously attacked and outflanked by superior French forces under +Since early morning—despite an injunction not to approach the picket +since his appointment as Commander in Chief. He told me himself that +“Since Prince Bagratión is not coming, we may begin,” said +“Since the day of our brilliant success at Austerlitz,” wrote +Since then Pierre had not been disturbed and had spent the whole time in +since the nursing mothers were no longer sent to work on his land, they +since the time when he thought his son had been killed, he did not think +singer” (he meant Natásha’s Italian singing master), “that’s +“Singers to the front” came the captain’s order. +sir!” +sire,” * he answered gaily, raising nevertheless ironic smiles among +sir, for shame! It would be better if you went to the war.” +sister, black eyes... Na... tasha... (Won’t she be surprised when +sister, Catiche, with a vicious and determined look steadily fixed on +sister had hung round his neck with such emotion and reverence, “it +sister-in-law’s dress. +sister-in-law’s friendship for you. She was not expecting us?” +sister’s, but while in her case everything was lit up by a joyous, +sister’s room his wife was already awake and her merry voice, hurrying +sister,” was all she said, in a dry and mournful tone. +sister. “Why isn’t she dull and ashamed?” +sister with the mole. +sit down! Sit down, Michael Ivánovich!” +sitting and dropped onto it, covering his face with his hand. Pierre +sitting at tea with Bilíbin. “The fete is for tomorrow. How is your +sitting close to Nicholas who was copying out some verses for her, the +sitting down beside him she began to speak about his father; but he +sitting here in almost the same positions as before, whispering to one +sitting in a conspicuous place and talking to him like a grown-up lady. +sitting motionless before the glass, looking at her face, and saw in the +sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself +Sitting on the sofa with the little cushions on its arms, in what used +sitting room. +sitting so for a while he rose, and, looking about him with frightened +situated,” said Prince Andrew. +situation it occurred to him that it was he who was destined to lead it +“Six hundred rubles, ace, a corner, a nine... winning it back’s +six miles away, or whether they were near by in that sea of mist, no one +Sixth Chasseurs whom they had just passed. Prince Andrew was struck by +sixth stroke. The doctors pronounced recovery impossible. After a mute +Six weeks after Anna Pávlovna’s “At Home” and after the sleepless +Six weeks later he was married, and settled in Count Bezúkhov’s +skillfully changed the subject. He asked him to tell them how and where +skillfully made watch, dares to say that, as he does not understand +skittles,” said he in conclusion. +sky—the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray +sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and +sleep at night. Come now, where has this great commander of yours shown +sleepiness that kept coming over him. An enormous space, with our +sleeves!” said Anna Mikháylovna, pointing to Nicholas as he went out. +sleeve with her finger, saying: +sleigh and pair at once, and go to Bezúkhov’s, and tell him ‘Count +slender, delicate arm, high above the elbow on that part that is covered +slender little girl. +slightly open, as if to say, “Yes, yes, I am putting my purse in my +slightly sarcastic smile. “I am Borís, son of Princess Anna +slight smile he began to examine his nails. +slippery ice that covered the millpool. +slope of the hill amid the smoke a Russian battery that was still firing +“Smack at ‘em, lads!” he kept saying, seizing the guns by the +small but distinctly visible enemy column was moving down the hill, +small cloud rose from the hill and was borne in a streak to the left by +small old man, with powdered wig, small withered hands, and bushy gray +“Smart lads! Only fit for a fair!” said one. +smashed, and the shouting grew louder. They drank to Bekleshëv, +smash something. Pushing away the footmen he tugged at the frame, but +smeared with chalk—as white as flour! I suppose they polish him up as +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile. +smile, and engaged the smiling Julie in a confidential conversation +smile, and pronouncing the phrase “knocked out” with ringing +smiled and interrupted him. +smile, for which he was long unable to forgive himself, “I have lost a +smile of a doctor to whom an old wife wishes to explain the treatment of +smile of his which seemed to say, “Ah! This is what I like!” +smile of satisfaction and presented a strange appearance among the +smile on his lips and face, but his eyes were dull and lifeless and in +smile on his lips change. +smile that usually brightened her face. Pierre knew that everyone was +smile was unlike the half-smile of other people. When he smiled, +smiling as if she did not recognize him. +smiling at his reassuring thoughts. +smiling, but in spite of herself her eyes under their thick long lashes +smiling. “Cela nous convient à merveille.*(2) Suvórov now—he knew +smiling face, moved after Willarski with uncertain, timid steps. +smiling, glittered with effort and exasperation as he mustered his +smiling joyfully; and snatching the shawl from the footman, whom he +smilingly inclining his head. +smilingly raising a finger at him, she left the room. +smiling over the fan. +smoke, and an officer catching sight of Bagratión rushed shouting after +smoke enveloped everything. +smoke, rendered denser by the mist, prevented him from seeing anything +smoke spasmodically and screwing up his eyes. This was an old bachelor, +smoke. The excited faces of the soldiers were blackened with it. Some +smoking and talking. He neither smoked nor talked, but bending his head +Smolénsk threatening Bald Hills—even then I wouldn’t serve in the +Smolyanínov, and it mortified him to think that the newcomer was an +smooth as a sign that the conversation was at an end. +smooth—felt that no small matter was happening, but an important and +smoothing down her dress with an inquiring look at her mother, when +snacks.” +snow-covered road, did not once wake up on the way to Moscow, but lay +snuffbox while trying to hear what was being said at the other table. +snuffbox with her husband’s portrait on it. +so alien to us. +so. And, in fact, the last letter he had received from Mack’s army +soap, and all,” as the soldiers say. There was only one circumstance +sobbing like a child. The door opened. The doctor with his shirt sleeves +so beautiful that very often in spite of the plainness of her face +sobs. The count was lighting his pipe and did not notice his son’s +so, but you have no sense about women. What an argumentative fellow you +so-called battle of the three Emperors—that is to say, a slow movement +society. +society. +society, and so her position now is not a rosy one. We should enter into +society. Beside him stood a lad of nineteen, also a wounded officer of +society had entered the simple feeling of the attraction of a healthy +society had lost her former influential connections. She had now come to +society, more especially of the feminine society, in which I have had +society of women was rather derogatory to his manhood. He went to balls +society so dearly and distinctly indicated. +society woman to be buried in the country during the best years of her +so completely silenced and their arguments confuted by such conclusive +so contrary to his method of conducting war? Believe me, he is afraid, +so convulsively that her bare little shoulders shook. Natásha’s +so delighted...” came the sounds of animated feminine voices, +so do you too! To the health of Alexander the First! Hurrah!” +so easily extract a good profit for themselves from a dinner costing +So energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable +so for friendship’s sake he is leaving the university and me, his +soft hand taking hers firmly, and she touched with her lips a white +soft snowbanks that bordered both sides of the path. The prince went +soft steps of the footmen. At one end of the table sat the countess with +so he simply held out his bristly cheek (as yet unshaven) and, regarding +so he went from one group to another. Some of the most important old men +“So I can fire when I like!” said Pierre, and at the word +so ill that he may die at any moment, and Dr. Lorrain has come from +soirees as before—such as she alone had the gift of arranging—at +“So it does,” thought Pierre. +“So it is all finished!” he thought. “And how has it all happened? +“so it is useless to ask whether it is good or bad. It is good because +So it seems to me.” +“So it seems you’re a hero, eh? Come now, what was this duel about? +Sokólniki after the duel and had spent that first agonizing, sleepless +Sokólniki forest and found Dólokhov, Denísov, and Rostóv already +Sokolnitz, November 30, 1805.” +soldier. +soldier after camp life. Despite his rapid journey and sleepless night, +soldier and the gay and smartly marching men. In the second file +soldier at the front, gave the command “Attention!” and rode up +soldier. “I’ll teach you to push on!... Back!” +soldier, mimicking the general who had ridden away. “I’d shoot them, +soldier of forty—looked sternly at the singers and screwed up his +soldiers, after a twenty-mile march, were kept mending and cleaning all +soldiers and officers of various regiments, they saw on their left some +soldiers’ bonfires and with his long gray mustache, his white chest +soldiers’ boots. More than half the men’s boots were in holes. But +soldiers forming the picket line, like showmen exhibiting a curiosity, +soldiers had kindled on the road. Rostóv, too, dragged himself to the +soldiers held him while two others were flourishing their switches and +soldier shouted to him. “They’d kill you there!” +soldiers lifted the canteen lids to their lips with reverential faces, +soldiers, loudly demanding bread, meat, biscuits, fodder, and whatnot! +soldiers, munching biscuit and beating a tattoo with their feet to +soldiers, officers, and generals were heroes. But the hero of heroes was +soldiers only need to be restrained and held back! On all sides, new and +soldiers passed in a semicircle round something where the ball had +soldiers ran from the fires, thrust their pipes into their boots, their +soldiers running in confused crowds across his path. +soldiers, straining their lungs, shouted “Hurrah!” +soldiers. The company marched on gaily. The soldiers’ voices could be +Soldiers! The Russian army is advancing against you to avenge the +soldiers to change into their greatcoats. The company commanders ran off +soldiers. “Where are you shoving to? Devil take you! Can’t you wait? +soldiers who were seizing the artillery horses and turning the guns +soldier three gold pieces. +soldier with a wagon, who was pressing onto the infantrymen who were +soldier, with his clear blue eyes, stepped forward from the ranks, went +soldier with the harsh voice, and it was that affair and this soldier +solemn affair. Every general and every soldier was conscious of his own +solemn interest and silent approval. The aunt spoke to each of them in +so long,” he added. +so long waited, presents itself to him at last. He firmly and clearly +so many years Moravians in shaggy caps and blue jackets had peacefully +some!” +some approaching achievement, and some in course of disintegration. He +some concessions. Continuing to represent the liberation of the serfs +Someday I will tell you about our parting and all that was said then. +Some flash as of an electric spark shot from Telyánin’s eyes to +some great change had come over him that day. He was silent all through +“Some herb vodka? Certainly!” said Túshin. “But still, to +some inspection business,” remarked the visitor. +some in the sitting room, some in the library. +some men who, carrying pails, came running downstairs, their boots +some not. This whole mass droned and jostled in confusion under the +Some of the nearest relatives had not yet left. They were sitting in +some of the topics at first lightly touched on: their past life, plans +Someone mentioned that Captain Túshin was bivouacking close to the +someone. (Prince Bagratión did not ask about the guns on the left +someone rich and distinguée, and it is on you that his relations’ +someone to fire at. +some question—“Most likely he is asking at what o’clock they +some reason she called it Urope as if that were a specially refined +some sort were moving about, in front and behind moved lines of troops; +Some swarthy men and women were really entering from the cold outside +something.” +something.” +something and went away. It seemed to Pierre that even the prince was +something as she whispered: +something big, that splashed into the water. +something, but dared not.... No, it was I who dared not. But that’s +something disconcerting to himself. +something I cannot inflict on others,” said Prince Andrew, growing +something I have received from the chancellor. I asked him for you, and +something large, brilliant, and handsome moving toward her as she +something like qualms of conscience. She had reminded him of what was +something loudly to a comrade farther back. Rostóv paused. “No, +“Something special is always said in such cases,” he thought, but +something striking and took part in a conversation only when that was +something terrible and monstrous rising in his soul and turned quickly +something that was evidently wrong and that he ought not to do. But at +something to drink?” +something to him in French in an undertone and then went up to a small +something toward it and you cannot persuade me that it was not a good +sometimes four abreast. From all sides, behind and before, as far as ear +sometimes like a chip of wood whirling in the river, an hussar on foot, +Sometimes on his way back from the anteroom he would pass through the +sometimes spend a whole night at his writing table. He worked well +some time to get the wedding ring off his fat finger. When that had been +some twenty men of his suite. These gentlemen talked among themselves +some way and knowing that this was impossible was ready to cry. The Tsar +somewhere below his throat rushed to his face and eyes. He could not +somewhere beyond them. The hussars did not look round, but at the sound +somewhere nearer the sun.” +somewhere under her heart would ever cry, suck her breast, and begin to +some wooded hills were discernible, and it was there the enemy probably +“So much the better! I shall see it close,” he thought. +so my conscience was at ease. I came forward....” (Berg stood up and +son. +son. +son.” +song. +song, arousing an involuntary sensation of courage and cheerfulness. +son, Ilyá? Only fancy, I didn’t know you at first. Do you remember +son made no rejoinder, but it was evident that whatever arguments were +son or kinsman.” +son’s affair hushed up, but even he was ordered out of Petersburg.” +son’s arrival: he gave orders to admit him to his apartments while +son, sat at the table writing. He glanced round. +son; Sónya, the count’s fifteen-year-old niece, and little Pétya, +son’s when speaking to him that afternoon, “believe me I suffer no +Sónya again interrupted. She gave him an imploring, frightened look. +Sónya and Dólokhov before dinner, and with the kindly sensitiveness +Sónya and fat little Pétya doubled up with laughter. +Sónya became thoughtful. The question of how to write to Nicholas, and +Sónya could not continue, and again hid her face in her hands and in +Sónya did not pull it away, and left off crying. Natásha, not stirring +“Sónya, don’t believe her, darling! Don’t believe her! Do you +Sónya interrupted him. +Sónya, Natásha, Pétya, Anna Mikháylovna, Véra, and the old count +Sónya sat up. The little kitten brightened, its eyes shone, and it +Sónya, shaking off some down which clung to her and tucking away the +“Sónya,” she suddenly exclaimed, as if she had guessed the true +Sónya’s joint ages. Rostóv, leaning his head on both hands, sat at +Sónya smiled. +Sónya smiled. +Sónya’s refusal and felt uncomfortable at the thought of how they +Sónya’s thin little shoulders, Natásha’s eyes and laughter, +Sónya struck the first chord of the prelude. +Sónya too, all rosy red, clung to his arm and, radiant with bliss, +Sónya trembled all over and blushed to her ears and behind them and +Sónya was more tender and devoted to him than ever. It was as if she +Sónya was sitting at the clavichord, playing the prelude to +“Sónya! What is anyone in the world to me? You alone are +“Sónya! What is it? What is the matter?... Oo... Oo... Oo...!” And +“Sónya, what is the matter with you? How can you?” said he, running +Sónya, whom he loved and thought of just the same as ever.” When she +Soon after his admission to the Masonic Brotherhood, Pierre went to the +Soon after Prince Andrew’s return the old prince made over to him a +Soon after Prince Bagratión had left him, Túshin had succeeded in +Soon after this there came into the dark chamber to fetch Pierre, not +soon as he had seen a visitor off he returned to one of those who were +soon as the conversation concerned himself he would begin to talk +sooner?” +sooner or later he would step across it, but an incomprehensible terror +so on. Then a place was assigned to Pierre, he was shown the signs of +“Só-o-onya! Look here! How can you torture me and yourself like that, +soothe him. +“Sophie,” he began, timidly at first and then more and more +Sophie—I can’t repeat them—that it made the count quite ill and he +Sophie, the rosy, laughter-loving, youngest princess with the mole, +so rapid that they could hardly be his mother’s. +sorrowful, and all-forgiving expression on her face, stood by the door +sorrow, sadness, or self-reproach, that she purposely deceived herself +sort—(le sort de l’armée d’Ulm).” * He remembered these words +sorts, and Russian and Austrian soldiers of all arms, some wounded and +so softly that the Rhetor did not hear him and asked him what he was +so strange that one could not take it in. But then the expression of +so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat +so terrible to the soldiers, despite his furious purple countenance +so that his mouth, the most striking feature of his face, was clearly +so that she felt herself surrounded on all sides by the acrid scent of + * So that squares matters. +“So that’s what I’m sorry for—human dignity, peace of mind, +“So that’s what they hit with?” asked the accountant. “How +so that the maid could hardly get her hair plaited, and she was +“So the attack is definitely resolved on?” asked Bolkónski. +“So there’s nothing?” +So the swishing sound of the strokes, and the desperate but unnatural +so the worse the condition it was in, the better pleased the commander +“So they will,” said Nesvítski. “No, but what I should like,” +so to me? What have I done to you? You are going to the war and have no +soul and his face. +soul: courage, generosity, morality, love of mankind, and especially +soul to believe and he did believe, and felt a joyful sense of comfort, +soul to see such men as the old count and his worthy son,” said she. +sounded and you’ll be in a pretty position without your boots!” (The +sounded far away. Here everyone clearly saw and said that the battle +sounded louder and calmer, the stretchers disappeared from sight. +sounded much like irony. But Kutúzov went on blandly smiling with the +sounded. Several of our men fell, among them the round-faced officer +sounded still more firm and resolute. +sounding, even the connoisseurs said nothing, but only delighted in +sound of artillery fire near by. Having forced his way out of the crowd +sound of footsteps. +sound of kissing. When Prince Andrew went in the two princesses, who +sound of officers’ voices in eager conversation. +sound of that sentence: “Contez nous çela, Vicomte.” +sound of the hoofs of the approaching cavalcade, but because as he drew +sound of these voices, the inattentive way Kozlóvski looked at him, the +sound of wheels and footsteps heard by the outposts during the night, +sounds very fast: “Kari, mala, tafa, safi, muter, Kaská,” he said, +sount ze retreat!” +“So we are to have visitors, mon prince?” remarked Mademoiselle +so well how to arrange a feast on an open-handed, hospitable scale, +so widely from a private. +“Soyez tranquille, Lise, you will always be prettier than anyone +“So you are not afraid to play with me?” repeated Dólokhov, and as +“So you are really going to the war, Andrew?” she said sighing. +“So you are still at that silly business!” quickly closed his eye +“So you have never noticed before how beautiful I am?” Hélène +So young, and burdened with such riches—to what temptations he will be +“So you think he is powerless?” said Langeron. +spadefuls of red clay were continually being thrown up from behind the +sparkling black eyes, and black tousled mustache and hair. He wore an +speak—he turned back, rapidly mounted the stairs again with the +speaking and evidently not thinking about her at all. Anatole was not +speaking as if he were saying something which had long since been agreed +speaking French. He opened his eyes. Above him again was the same lofty +speaking of a collection of snuffboxes that had belonged to Pierre’s +speaking of Berg as her “intended.” The count sat between them and +speaking of Him, my dear sir. Of what, of whom, are we speaking? Whom +Speaking of the position of Prussia, Anna Pávlovna very naturally asked +speaking playfully of a matter that evidently distressed him. +speaking quickly with a harsh German accent, looking to both sides and +speaking to an Austrian general. Prince Andrew, who was a little behind +speaking very gently. +speak in the tone of decided refusal and disagreement in which he had +speak, so now she could not believe that that little creature could be +special force. No matter what he thought about, he always returned to +specially amiable mood that day. +specially choice delicacy a piece of meat that no one who had seen it in +spectacle of his power over these three women. Besides that, he was +spectacles. +spectacles and white dressing gown, in which he received no one but his +spectacles unable to understand what they wanted or how they could go on +speeches were intended for quite other conditions, they were for the +spend time in reading what is unintelligible and can therefore bear +spent, and almost every year he was obliged to borrow. Besides this the +spirited impression. +spiritual needs, while it seems to me that animal happiness is the only +spirit will not and cannot understand the Emperor Alexander’s +spite of his evident wish to do so he could not give them a joyous +spite of his money. They wanted to introduce him to me, but I quite +splashing with blood those near them. +Splendid! And I am sitting here ill, as you see.” +“Splendid! Excellent!” exclaimed Natásha. “Another verse,” she +splendid house!” +splendidly.” +splendid soldiers. Besides he began by attacking Germans. And only +“Splendid! What a horse he will be!” he thought with a smile, and +spoil her, but really that seems the best plan. With her elder sister I +spoke as if his sole aim were to put a given number of questions—the +spoke in abrupt sentences. “The whole company can bear witness. I beg +spoken to the gentleman ranker, he addressed him with the cordiality of +spoke particularly slowly, as if to impress the fact that there was no +spoke smilingly and listened with a laugh. +spoke to the taciturn Michael Ivánovich more often than to anyone else. +spot” (he stooped and pointed to the sloping ledge outside the window) +sprang out before the sleigh stopped, and ran into the hall. The house +spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbé’s +spread by the fact that the Emperor’s carriage had really galloped +spreading out his legs and putting his hands on his knees with the air +spread out her arms to show her short-waisted, lace-trimmed, dainty gray +spread out his arms with a choleric gesture. +springing to him, putting her arms round him, and kissing him. This +spring up with more energy and again play with her cousin as soon as +squadron. All were looking at the enemy in front and at the squadron +squadron commander. +squadron in which Nicholas Rostóv served as a cadet was quartered in +squadron may be recommended for honors and he may get a ribbon. Our +squadron’s officers in Denísov’s quarters. +squadron, that in which Rostóv was serving under Denísov, to return to +squadron. The day was bright and sunny after a sharp night frost, and +squatting on his heels in front of a clerk. The clerk, with cuffs turned +S— S— get the same distinction?” +staff...” +staff?” +staff captain’s question by a disapproving shake of his head. +staff officer. +staff officer, and at Zherkóv, and he frowned. +staff officer smiled.) “Kindly return to your posts, gentlemen, all of +staff were not far off, in the village the vehicles were going to. +stages of his journey. +stairs and embraced his sister. +stairs and up another, to Pierre’s rooms. +stake of twenty rubles. +standard in hand, I shall go forward and break whatever is in front of +standing motionless; then he came to the region occupied by Uvárov’s +standing together out of range of the shots, watching, now the small +standing up, on which lay an open exercise book, and the lathe with +stand made at Krems and the victory over Mortier raised the spirits of +stand the sight of these unfortunates. +starry night was followed by a bright cheerful morning. The snow was +stars on his breast. He seemed to have grown thinner since the morning; +started,” thought Prince Andrew, watching his old acquaintance with +starting from their sockets to watch their chief. On reaching the +start my apprenticeship as old maid.” +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WAR AND PEACE *** +state.” +state of the political thermometer of legitimate Petersburg court +stating them to the Emperor Francis. He vividly imagined the casual +station), and again embraced his sister. +station, but compared to the thoughts that now occupied him it was a +stationed on the Pratzen Heights. +station or a doctor for the cadet, and sat down by a bonfire the +stayed his hand. The sergeant, who was evidently wiser than his general, +staying the whole evening, I hope?” +steadily and ceaselessly on all sides. With the exception of the aunt, +step; a soldier who had fallen behind, his face showing alarm at his +step could be heard. On their left flank, nearest to Bagratión, marched +stepped away from the man and looked round inquiringly at the adjutant +stepped softly over the carpet and went out into the waiting room. +stepped to the middle of the room and stood still. +“Stepping flat on his heels—we know what that means....” +stepping into the deep snow. He held the pistol in his right hand at +steps. +steps, and again stopped. +steps behind him holding two horses by their bridles. Each time Prince +steps. Behind the company the sound of wheels, the creaking of springs, +steps down the line. He was evidently pleased at his own display of +steps, her workbag on her arm, and gaily spreading out her dress sat +steps. “O God,” he said with tears in his eyes, “how could you do +steps should be taken to liberate the serfs, which the steward met by +steps. When at last, smartly whirling his partner round in front of her +step that for you all is ended, all is closed except the drawing +stern and solemn train of thought that weakness from loss of blood, +stern but handsome face really joined in the dance. What was expressed +stern eyes on his son. +sternly with a threatening and forbidding movement of her head. +stern, shrewd, and penetrating expression of that look struck Pierre. He +stern, threatening, inaccessible, and intangible line which separates +steward, and again began giving orders. A light footstep and the +steward there, who, bowing respectfully, looked into his face and at +“Still aching?” Túshin asked Rostóv in a whisper. +“Still, don’t ruin yourself!” said Dólokhov with a side glance at +still farther ahead a dark line which he could not see distinctly but +still feeling his eyes gazing at her. +still five men between him and Dólokhov with his bluish-gray uniform. +still gazed at the spot where Pierre’s face had been before he sat +still he was lifted and laid on the stretcher. +still. “If it were a man whose existence thou didst doubt I could +still in course of construction. Round the house was a garden newly laid +still in the drawing room, drew a chair toward him or her, and jauntily +still in the same place, his stout body resting heavily in the saddle +still it was terrible, and she could not help thinking of it. She was +Still, I will take Borís and go to see him at once, and I shall speak +Still less did he think of injuring anyone for his own advantage. He +still looking silently at her brother and her beautiful eyes were full +Still no one moved. The troops of the left flank, infantry and hussars +still quite a young lady, before her nose was broken; how she had aged +Still smiling, she gracefully moved away, turning and glancing at her +still sound, yellowish teeth. +Still the cannon balls continued regularly to whistle and flop onto the +still there?” +“Still the same; but what can you expect, this noise...” said the +“Still the same,” she said to her husband. +“Still the same. Wait, for heaven’s sake. Karl Ivánich always says +still was not in time to avoid them. +still when she’s fifty.” +still why didn’t you capture him? So don’t be surprised if not only +stimulating effect on him. “Vive l’Empereur! l’Empereur!” he now +stint yourself, we’ll settle afterwards,” he added, turning to +stir. An adjutant, dismounting, lifted the soldier under the arms to +stir, and a footman who had run in announced, with a frightened face: +stir around him, then the people resumed their places and the service +stomach with an already stiffened arm flung wide. +stone, hundreds of riders composing the suites moved carelessly but +stones of the pavement. +stood at a window with Dólokhov, whose acquaintance he had lately +stood at every door anxiously noting visitors’ every movement in order +stood before a looking glass and brushed the hair on his temples +stood cold and silent, as if quite regardless of who had come to it. +stood, met, and separated, some in uniform and some in evening dress, +stood waiting by the door. +stood with his marshals around him, it was quite light. Above him was +stood with the candle. Yes, it was he, pale, thin, with a changed and +“Stop jesting,” said Prince Andrew sadly and seriously. This news +stopped and glanced inquiringly over his spectacles at his guide. Anna +stopped at a solitary, deserted house that had probably once been an +stopped him. He turned his horse and galloped off. +stopped the company.” Dólokhov breathed heavily from weariness and +Stopping in front of the Pávlograds, the Tsar said something in French +stopping occasionally at a corner to make menacing gestures at the wall, +“Stop them!” he shouted, and at the same moment, probably realizing +“Stop this jesting,” he said. +“Stop those wretches!” gasped Kutúzov to the regimental commander, +stories of his kindness and irascibility. Berg, as usual, kept silent +stories of the Grand Duke’s quick temper he related with gusto how in +stories or telling them, but followed every movement of Rostóv’s +story of the misfortunes of some Mary Víktorovna or other. At the +story to him, her seducer. And now he, a real Russian prince, had +stouter!...” +straight into his son’s face with keen eyes which seemed to see +straight! It’s well God had mercy on us. And what was it for? Who +straight on Napoleon, he was silent.... So insignificant at that moment +strains of Daniel Cooper (somewhat resembling those of a merry peasant +strange and ridiculous to meet objections from Russian generals and to +strangely softened but agitated expression on his face. He came up the +stranger. +stranger, looking deeper and deeper into Pierre’s eyes. “And in +strangers and unable to send news of himself. The gazettes from which +stranger, yet nearer to him through the brotherhood of man. With bated +strange, unknown, and dangerous places he reaches, just as a sailor is +strategic position where the operations would take place was familiar in +straw covered street and turned into the wide courtyard of Count Cyril +strayed from under her friend’s plaits. +strayed off the track into the snow, Pierre looked down at his feet, +streamed out of a side street. +streets of Brünn and found himself surrounded by high buildings, the +stretched along the highroad in the midst of a young copse in which were +stretchers came into view before Rostóv. And the fear of death and of +“Stretchers!” shouted someone behind him. +stretching himself he rose from the table. “One does get tired sitting +(Strictly speaking, Daniel Cooper was one figure of the anglaise.) +strictly to obey. You said the bridge would be burned, but who would it +striking a blow!” +striking chords with his short fingers, his legs thrown back and his +striking him regularly on his bare back. The man shrieked unnaturally. +Striking his horse with his long muscular legs as if it were to blame +stripes on their bodies heal, and they are happy as before. But it is +stroke, came up to the prince, bowing his bald head resignedly before +stroked the animal. It was plain that he did not quite grasp where he +stronger flow of love for his sovereign. He longed to show that love in +strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and are surrounded by other such +struck him by her beauty on the preceding day. Today, when he had caught +struck the ground in front of them. +struck two and another with a shrill tone joined in from the drawing +struggle, but with naïve and lighthearted gaiety. +struggles of a certain Emilie de Mansfeld. “And why did she resist +struggle to conquer that fear, all his dreams of distinguishing himself +study. +study a little before noon in his silk dressing gown and found his head +study, on the blue sofa, the confidential sofa? Why cannot I now, as +study, the old prince went for his walk as usual next morning, but he +stumbled on him in the fog, hearing no encouraging word from their +stumbled over it. Several of those present laughed. +stupidest remarks came out clever and apt. Now everything Pierre said +style, wearing an antique coat and powdered hair; and when Prince Andrew +subject, and was thus at the duc’s mercy. The latter spared him, and +subject under discussion than those they are talking with. +submissive general. +submit from habit, and she said: “I wish only to do your will, but if +submit my report, with the information that if the army remains in its +submitted herself to Mademoiselle Bourienne and Lise. Both these women +subordinate by me. +subordinate commanders was done, if not by his direct command, at least +subscribed the same amount as the others. +subsiding under the delightful interest of his own story, “is that the +subtleties here beyond my feeble intelligence, but I can’t make it +succeeded in forestalling the French he was to delay them as long as +succeeded in setting two loquacious talkers at one another. +succeeded!’ The Prussian generals pride themselves on being polite to +succeeds. He sat motionless, looking at the heights visible above +success.” +success and at the inability of others to understand these things. +successfully cannonading the French, our artillerymen only noticed this +success reached Kutúzov’s cheerless staff with the galloping advent +Such a friend that I burned my arm for her sake. Look here!” +such a fright! Oh, what a pig I am!” he repeated, flushing suddenly. +such an unfortunate and charming woman! Don’t mention him before +such a plan in which the enemy’s position was assumed to be known, +such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was passing now +such as might call for his rapidity of perception and decision. +such bad health, and now this vexation about his son is enough to kill +such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread +such love as Sónya was speaking of. But Natásha had not yet felt +such silence and an anxiety to find something to say, the effect is +such things about Bonaparte, but understanding that he was wanted as +suddenly. +Suddenly a gust of wind beat violently against the casement of the +suddenly appeared in the fog, there was a flash, followed by a report, +suddenly appeared, looming huge as an elephant. +suddenly came to and, lifting his head with an effort, took Rostóv, who +suddenly changed to one of horror. The French were supposed to be a +Suddenly Dólokhov made a backward movement with his spine, and his arm +suddenly from the next room were heard the footsteps of boys and girls +suddenly heard a sound new to him, of something swiftly approaching... +Suddenly Prince Bolkónski frowned. +Suddenly Prince Hippolyte started up making signs to everyone to attend, +suddenly replied the irate colonel. “If you vere in the cavalry...” +Suddenly she jumped up onto a tub to be higher than he, embraced him so +Suddenly the angry, squirrel-like expression of the princess’ pretty +suddenly transformed. He put on the air of a subordinate who obeys +suddenness and prompt him to the coarsest and most reckless actions. +suffer for it.” +suffering, and the nearness of death aroused in him. Looking into +suffering, but what he wanted to do was too terrible. +suffering?” suggested another voice. Prince Andrew, however, did not +sufferings. What a heart! How like him it is! And how he has remembered +sufficient ground for this affair, or for blood to be shed over it.... +sufficiently weakened to be successfully attacked. But still he did not +suggested that she had resolved to endure her troubles uncomplainingly +suggested to him a blow from something. He looked at Prince Vasíli +suggested to him a point of view which gave him a right to despise +suggestion and pressed his lips to the large boned, fleshy hand. Neither +suite. +suite, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the gun they could see +suite and said in French: +suite who had mimicked the regimental commander, fell back from the +sumptuous but cold apartments known to Pierre only from the front +sun. How beautiful the sky looked; how blue, how calm, and how deep! +superfluous was hanging on his benumbed left arm. The wrist felt as if +superior. +superior to Napoleon’s, were concentrated in one place, the troops +superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence. He +“Supper, it’s time for supper! And here are the gypsies!” +supported him under the arms. There was a gurgle in his throat and he +support of his battery all was forgotten. Prince Andrew listened +supposed, must have risen to fifteen thousand. In reality it already +supposed, share the general Russian antipathy to the Austrians which was +supposed that The Russian Guards, Abroad, was quite a definite address, +suppose that I should look severely on your affection for that young +suppressed smile brightening both their faces, a smile that had nothing +“Surely he will leave something to Borís,” said the countess. +surprise.” +surprised by what he saw. Hoping to enter on an entirely new life quite +surprised Pierre. +surprise, the French had thrown down their muskets and run. Dólokhov, +surrendered but had beaten the French. +surrender of most of the Prussian fortresses had been received, when our +“Surrounded! Cut off? We’re lost!” shouted the fugitives. +surroundings, and from her smiling lips flowed sounds which anyone may +surroundings unable to find their own regiments. In this way the action +surveying the guests, and leisurely arranged her wide sleeves as if +survive....” +Suvórov giving his saber to Bagratión in Italy, and the recollection +Suvórov-like, in a kibítka, and is received with acclamations of joy +Suvórov. Moreover, paying such honor to Bagratión was the best way of +Suvórov’s time, now passing so gallantly before the Emperors, that he +Suvórov’s wars. Send it to the Academy. Here are some jottings for +swallowing his r’s, and pronouncing the Latin words with a French +swarmed with well-provisioned sutlers and Austrian Jews offering +sway and scatters its last snows and storms with desperate fury. A relay +sways the world. Think this over and I will come to you again.” +sweeter, and better than the feelings which the beautiful eyes of a +sweetest comforts to my poor heart, which has already suffered so much. +sweetly. It was the third time that day that, with an ecstatic and +sweet, so good-natured, and her position now is a very hard one.” +sweet wine, my dear, now that the time has come for these young ones to +swinging their arms and keeping time spontaneously, marched with long +sword of Frederick the Great. +swords, meaning them to pierce it. But the swords were drawn back from +symmetrically and above all freely, and in front of them two men—the +symmetrically on his knees in the naïve attitude of an Egyptian statue, +sympathize with him; if I seem sad and out of spirits myself, he will +table. +table, a child’s table, and the little chair on which Prince Andrew +table and becoming more animated and talking more rapidly: “what if +table and placed on it his small leather-gloved hands. +table began to watch her hands arranging the cards. From the dancing +table. Denísov was sitting there scratching with his pen on a sheet of +table linen, he would call Dmítri Vasílevich, a man of good family and +table on a corner of which he smilingly and absent-mindedly fixed his +tables and the same chandelier with a cover over it; but someone had +table seemed to feel this, and they forgot their duties as they looked +table that he had pushed away. “But... in short, the fact is... you +table. “What are you thumping the table for?” she demanded of the +tache,” he thought. “There now... it’s not a tache... Natásha... +“Tafa-lafa! But what he’s jabbering no one can make out,” said a +tail extended, Bedouin, as if also conscious of the Emperor’s eye +“Take a glass of boiled water and put a pinch of cream of tartar,” +take a seat beside her. +“Take a stick between your legs, that’ll suit you for a horse!” +take her for her connections and wealth. Are there no women living +take his eyes off her and beat time with his saber in a way that clearly +take it...” He threw it on the table. “I have an old father and +“Take it if you like,” said the officer, giving the girl an apple. +“Take it right out, or they’ll think I’m holding on,” said +take me too? Who are these men?” thought Rostóv, scarcely believing +taken a ballroom in Bezúkhov’s house, and the ball, as everyone said, +taken advice; but no, you go and blurt it all straight out before the +taken, and all this for the beaux yeux * of His Sardinian Majesty. And +taken and I hope it will not be, for it is mined and orders have been +taken from the prisoner. +taken, it was not his fault but the corporal’s who had sent him to +taken off his eyes and, by the faint light of the burning spirit, +taken up their position and seeing troops before them, thought they were +take part in receiving the visitors. The count met the guests and saw +takes place at such moments. +take the money,” and he threw the purse to him and ran out of the inn. +take these away. Put this on the seat and this to the right.” +“Take this and deliver it,” said he to his adjutant, handing him the +“Take this road, your honor, that way you will be killed at once!” a +taking advantage of it!” +taking a glass from the table he went up to Pierre. +taking a letter addressed in a woman’s hand from a bag hanging above +taking charges from their pouches, while others were firing, though who +taking him by the hand led him forward. The hairs tied in the knot hurt +taking his partner with him. He glided silently on one foot half across +taking leave of Anna Pávlovna. “It is settled,” she added in a low +taking no notice of his arrival. A wax candle stood at each side of the +taking offense, but you don’t mind disgracing the whole regiment!” +taking out what she was holding inside it, as if what she held were +Taking the colonel’s outburst as a challenge to his courage, the +taking up a pack he prepared to deal. Rostóv submissively unbent the +talk, but I don’t want to,” he seemed to say. Besides this, in his +talked of peace but did not believe in its possibility; others talked +talking about me? Let us talk about you,” he added after a silence, +talking of the Schön Grabern affair? Were you there?” +talking. Seeing them pass, Prince Vasíli drew back with obvious +talking too loudly and vehemently with the abbé, so she hurried to the +talks sense, but to temporize and wait for something now when Bonaparte +talk to her. What a darling Sónya is!” he added with a smile. +tangled black hair. +task Pierre had to face was one for which he had very little aptitude or +taste. And she had a lady’s maid, also big. She said....” +tea?” asked his valet. +teacher’s fault or the pupil’s, this same thing happened every day: +teach you to dress the men in fancy coats for a parade.... Eh...?” +tears. +tears.” +teatime she would prepare the countess, and after tea, with God’s +teeth, he began with stubby fingers of both hands to ruffle up his thick +“Tell Bezúkhov to come. I’ll put his name down. Is his wife with +tell everything just as it happened, but imperceptibly, involuntarily, +telling her things. She has had a dream and is frightened.” +telling him. +telling me what forces are being collected against him! While you and I +“Tell me about that!” he said. +tell me,” he added with studied carelessness as if it had only just +“Tell me, my dear,” said she to Natásha, “is Mimi a relation of +“Tell me, when did the battle begin?” he asked hurriedly. +tell the little countess!” +“Tell them to give me a seat, for God’s sake!” +“Tell these devils, these fiends, to let me pass!” shouted Denísov +tell the truth. +tell you for the tenth time that if the letter to the Emperor and the +Telyánin. +Telyánin. +Telyánin, and he went out to give the order. +Telyánin’s orderly. “Has something happened?” he added, surprised +Telyánin, taking up his cap and moving toward a small empty room. “We +Telyánin was sitting in the same indolent pose in which Rostóv had +temper because Prince Vasíli was coming, or whether his being in a bad +temper made him specially annoyed at Prince Vasíli’s visit, he was +temptation she slipped quietly behind one of the columns. In the midst +tenacious endurance and vigor of hardy old age. After a few more turns +tenderly sad voice, she said: +ten minutes. And that it will not be too dull, here is the dear count +Ten minutes later Lavrúshka brought the coffee. “He’s coming!” +terrible and holy secrets of Providence while we remain in this flesh +terrible, and now he has this authority of a commander in chief of +terrible dividing line of uncertainty and fear—resembling the line +terrible dragon, a lady distinguished not for wealth or rank, but for +terrible news from her till after her confinement, which was expected +terrible pain of being lifted onto the stretcher, the jolting while +terrible voice that the whole house heard it with horror. God knows what +terribly true. I pity Prince Vasíli but am still more sorry for Pierre. +tête-de-pont. * They spin him a thousand gasconades, saying that +than a hundred cannon were already in the hands of the French. +than a man who has been looking at a tuft of steppe grass through the +than anything else showed Pierre her superiority. She was right in +than a yard above the glow of the charcoal. Flakes of falling snow were +than five hundred paces from where Kutúzov was standing, a dense French +thanked him for his love. His looks thanked her for offering him his +thanked,” thought the overseer, “the storm has blown over!” +“Thank God!” +“Thank God,” said his son smiling. +“Thank God!” said Prince Vasíli. “My wife has told me +“Thank God!” said Sónya, crossing herself. “But perhaps she +“Thank God!” said the voice. “And Father?” +Thanks to Anna Mikháylovna’s efforts, his own tastes, and the +thanks to Princess Lise’s voice and little downy lip that lifted over +“Thank you, my dear.” She kissed him on the forehead and sat down +“Thank you very much, I will go on alone,” said Prince Andrew, +“Thank you very much, Prince,” answered one of the officers, pleased +thank you with my whole heart.” To Rostóv every word sounded like a +thank you! You must have a rest. Be at the levee tomorrow after the +“Thank you; you saved me, my dear fellow!” said Túshin. +than once. “You know it won’t do to leave your posts like this. +than the other; the serfs everywhere seemed thriving and touchingly +than with politics,” said he in his quiet ironical tone. “I know +that. +“That abbé is very interesting but he does not see the thing in the +that affair for me and I shall always be your most devoted slave-slafe +that afternoon. She felt that as she brought with her the person the +that all Europe is powerless before him.... And I don’t believe a +that Anna Mikháylovna whom I would not take for a housemaid... the +that army: a feeling of self-forgetfulness, a proud consciousness of +that between the person they so address and themselves there are some +that both her slender bare arms clasped him above his neck, and, tossing +that came upon him at Hollabrünn, which was clearly impossible. But +that column himself. When he had reached the village of Pratzen he +that could save the army, and how he alone would be entrusted with the +that day, but had heard about them from an infantry officer. “They +That day Nicholas Rostóv received a letter from Borís, telling him +that dinner was ready! The door opened, and from the dining room came +that divine purity and devotion I look for in women. If I found such a +“that Dólokhov was my lover,” she said in French with her coarse +that dreadful abyss, Pierre said to himself: “What am I doing? I need +that dread of beaten tracks, and wish to express itself in a manner +that end and when did this new, terrible state of things begin? What +That evening, proud of Dólokhov’s proposal, her refusal, and her +that evening to bid a last farewell to the celebrated grandee of +that, even more than in Moscow, he felt a sense of bewilderment, bustle, +that everything done by necessity, by accident, or by the will of +that everything was splendid. “Just fancy: wants to be an hussar. +that explained their teaching by hieroglyphics. A hieroglyph,” said +that fat one in spectacles” (that was how Pétya described his +that for an instant). Why should he not love her now, and even marry +that friendship?” remarked the count in an inquiring tone. +that God who has been sewn into this amulet by Mary! There is nothing +that had advanced beyond the village went back; but as though in revenge +that had already once been given in detail: “and tell the hussars +that had placed the Vienna bridge in the hands of the French without +that had tormented him all dinnertime rose and took possession of him. +that, hearing he was in a bad humor, she had decided not to appear. +that he could not believe his eyes. “Who are they? Why are they +that he decided to go. The thought immediately occurred to him that his +that he fell off his horse and sprained his arm and then ran as hard as +that he had composed in his imagination could he now recall. Those +that he is probably tired of them,” said another officer. +that he ought to avoid her and go away, Pierre, despite that decision, +“that here lives Count Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov so rich, all +that he should do the same. The rider, whose figure seemed familiar +That hesitation lasted only an instant. The Tsar’s foot, in the narrow +that he too seemed ashamed of the hussar of the line. +that he was at the front and in the power of a man toward whom he now +that he was dangerously wounded. +that he would have to answer it justly, and justice clashed not only +that his heart stood still. His hand trembled as he gave his horse into +that his remarks were too enthusiastic and emphatic for the occasion and +that I am saying!” thought a diplomatist, glancing at the happy faces +that I do not like him.” +that if he asked on behalf of all who begged of him, he would soon be +that—if you consider yourself bound by your promise—it will seem as +that I’m a sharper, so I advise you to be careful.” +that imprint of newness found in the households of the newly married. +that insignificant society people might carry them from drawing room to +that in spite of all the unpleasantness he had to endure he would still +that instant the trooper Nikítenko, who was galloping ahead, shot away +that in this world there is neither honor nor justice. In this world one +“That is all nonsense.” Prince Andrew again interrupted him, “let +“That is doubtful,” said Prince Andrew. “Monsieur le Vicomte quite +“That is enough for me,” said Sónya, blushing. +“That is just why I do not begin, sire,” said Kutúzov in a +“That is no business of mine,” he thought. He had not ridden many +that is not yet ready. +“That is probably the work of Vinesse,” said Pierre, mentioning +That is still too fresh. Ah, dear friend, you are happy not to know +That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one +“That is what I ask you. No one, not even Bonaparte, knows why.” +“That is what we shall see! That is what we shall see!” he added +“That is why I beg to be sent to that detachment,” he said. +“That is, with Ilyá Rostóv who married Nataly Shinshiná,” said +that is, you want to raise him” (pointing to a peasant who passed by +that it is more dangerous to run away than to advance, but that Russian +that it is we who lost the battle of Pultúsk. In short, we retreat +that it might not occur to her to speak of his share in the affair of +that it seemed to be made of one piece with her head and covered with +that it was impossible to stop them, spurred his horse and rode to the +that it was not she but he was so unusually beautiful, and that that was +that it would be a bad thing), but he knew it would happen. +that I was ungrateful, and that Mamma would never allow him to marry +that I would give my life twice over...” He looked at the countess, +that?... Kindly do as you are ordered.” +that Kutúzov’s upper lip twitched unnaturally as he said the +that led to his own apartments. +“that letter was written, though it was not sent, and the Emperor knew +that makes me unhappy. But even in this I can see lately a shade of +that moment after supper at Prince Vasíli’s, when he spoke those +that moment a third enemy rises before us—namely the Orthodox Russian +that moment been wounded and his face showed fear rather than suffering. +that moment his home life, jokes with Pétya, talks with Sónya, duets +that moment Pierre felt that Hélène not only could, but must, be his +that month and a half while he felt himself drawn nearer and nearer to +that more irritating news than yours could not have been conceived. +that negotiations for peace were already proceeding, and that he +That never does any harm,” thought Anatole. +that not even a continuity of most brilliant successes would secure +That one also passed. Then followed a cart unlike any that had gone +that on receiving news of the defeat some would simply not believe it, +that passionate animal feeling which was apt to master him with great +“That passion which more than all others caused you to waver on the +that peculiar expression of polite weariness which plainly says, “If +that Pierre could no longer see the reddish-yellow face with its gray +that Princess Mary in this guise looked very plain, worse than usual, +that provisions are supplied and the routes indicated,” said Bilíbin, +that remained uninjured out of the four, they began moving down the hill + * “That Russian army which has been brought from the ends of +“That’s admirable!” he shouted. “He will take you with your +“That’s a fine death!” said Napoleon as he gazed at Bolkónski. +“That’s a good thing, but don’t move from Prince Vasíli’s. It +“That’s all right. No one thinks you a coward, but that’s not the +That same day a council of war had been held in which all the members of +That same evening there was an animated discussion among the +that same evening there was to be one of the balls that Iogel (the +That same night, having taken leave of the Minister of War, Bolkónski +That same night, Rostóv was with a platoon on skirmishing duty in front +“That’s a miwacle.” +“That’s better, Count,” said the staff captain, beginning to +“That’s capital; of course she’ll forget her childish promises +“That’s fine,” said he. +“That’s for them all,” he said to the officer who came up. +that she had not intended her flight to bring her so far. Behind her in +that she winced and uttered a cry. +that showed that his father’s foibles did not prevent his son from +“That’s how we used to dance in our time, ma chère,” said the +that’s it.” And with a complacent sigh he would return to the +“That’s it, that’s it!” exclaimed the count, and gaily seizing +“That’s just it,” answered Bilíbin. “Listen! The French entered +“That’s just it,” interrupted Dolgorúkov quickly, laughing. +“That’s just it, my dear fellow. You see it’s hurrah for the Tsar, +that sleep is more important than anything,” whispered Princess Mary +That smile was immediately reflected on Pierre’s face. +that’s not it—that’s tomorrow. Oh yes! Natásha... sabretache... +“That’s not the point, my dear.” +That soldier passed on, and after him came another sitting on a cart. +that sort of man), he gave Borís a pleasant smile, frowned as with +that sort of thing.” +“That’s our battery,” said the staff officer indicating the +That’s our house,” said Rostóv. “Of course, it’s our house! +“That’s so, your excellency, all they have to do is to eat a good +that state of mind which makes everything seem possible, pleasant, and +that’s the way they treat me! No confidence in me! Ah, ordered to keep +that stood before his plate, Pierre held out one at random and drank +“That’s true!” +“That’s twue, devil take it!” shouted Denísov, jumping up. “Now +that sum. “He’s begun to go a little lame on the left foreleg,” he +that surrounded the Emperors. +“That’s what comes of a modern education,” exclaimed the visitor. +that’s what I did.” +that’s why I have come... I am a relation. I shall not disturb him, +that the Corsican monster who is destroying the peace of Europe may +“that the Emperor will meet me and give me an order as he would to any +that the hussars must return quickly and fire the bridge.’” +that the Ismáylov regiment was quartered for the night ten miles from +that the prince was in a bad humor, stood awaiting him; Mademoiselle +that the pupils’ parents wept at having to let him take their children +that the question of his wife’s guilt which had been tormenting him +that there were no political difficulties in Europe and no real war, +that these thoughts had been suggested to Prince Andrew by his +that the story about Sergéy Kuzmích, the laughter, and the food +that the strange lady, the aide-de-camp, and some of the servants, all +that they are to cross last and to fire the bridge as I ordered; and the +that they despaired of the possibility of checking this disorder. +that they may run smoothly. +that those broad-boned reddish hands with hairy wrists visible from +that tonight he was a person obliged to perform some sort of awful +that very instant a cloud of smoke spread all round, firing was heard +that village, amid the smoke, was something resembling a battery, but it +“That was a Daniel Cooper!” exclaimed Márya Dmítrievna, tucking up +“That was a nice snub for the little aide-de-camp,” came a voice +that was dispersing on the hill lay still more densely below, where they +that was good. +that was not pretty, but neither Mademoiselle Bourienne nor the little +that was swaying from its weight in Prince Andrew’s hands, but he +that were afloat, and so Kutúzov’s suggestion of an Austrian victory +that were arriving from Russia. If Kutúzov decided to remain at Krems, +that were so agonizingly, incessantly pulling and pressing his arm and +that where the steward had shown him in the accounts that the serfs’ +that which had said: “The Pávlograd hussars?” + That while her fingers touch the harp +that while Napoleon’s proclamation was being read to the troops the +that white spot. “I expect it’s snow... that spot... a spot—une +that will decide the matter, but those who devised it,” said Bilíbin +“That would be a fine thing!” said she. “I never wanted anything +“That would be fine, gentlemen!” +“That would take too long to tell,” answered the son. +that year, as all his estates had been remortgaged, and so Nicholas, +that year to Moreau to enter the Russian service.... “Wonderful!... +thawing in the sunshine, the horses galloped quickly, and on both sides +the 18th Brumaire; was not that an imposture? It was a swindle, and not +the abbé. Another, of young people, was grouped round the beautiful +The Abbé Morio and many others had also come. +the accountant with the naïve face was feeling its texture, shaking his +the accurate way characteristic of him, was building a little pyramid of +the act of falling asleep. Rostóv lifted his head that had sunk almost +the address. “This letter would be of great use to you.” +the adjutant and the minister. “Away from the smell of powder, they +The adjutant on duty, meeting Prince Andrew, asked him to wait, and went +the adjutant on duty,” said the official. “He will conduct you to +the adoration then common in Moscow for the Emperor, who was spoken of +the advanced army. Prince Andrew Bolkónski came into the room with the +the advantages are far less than in the infantry. Just consider my own +the affair, and like everyone in similar cases, did not yet believe that +the affair had come to an actual duel). “You know, Count, it is much +the agility with which he capered about on his light feet, Márya +The aide-de-camp was sent to confirm the order which had not been +the aide-de-camp with a respectful politeness evidently relating to the +the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that is how +“The ammunition for the guns in position is exhausted, Your +the animated hum of several conversations. At one end of the table, the +the anteroom. “I can’t remain any longer in Petersburg. Tell me what +the appointed place. +“The Ápsherons must be stopped, your excellency,” cried he. But at +the Archduchy of Austria, and yet other regiments freshly arriving from +the Archduke Ferdinand and Mack, and Kutúzov, not considering this +the architect. +the armistice immediately and march on the enemy. Inform him that the +the army, and about whom Natásha had teased her elder sister Véra, +the army considerably. Throughout the whole army and at headquarters +the army now that it is in danger. I understand that. Mon cher, it is +the army was a great grief to me. This young man, of whom I spoke to you +the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both +the arrival of the rest of the troops who were on their way from Vienna, +the artillerymen were still as merry and lively as ever. Twice they +theater, where he had been with his family and Denísov. He was at once +The attack of the Sixth Chasseurs secured the retreat of our right +the Austrian adjutant, he addressed Bolkónski. +The Austrian general looked dissatisfied, but had no option but to reply +the baggage wagons had all crossed, the crush was less, and the last +the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young +the bald head. Véra, Natásha, Sónya, and Pétya now entered the room, +The band immediately struck up “Conquest’s joyful thunder +The band struck up the newly introduced mazurka. Nicholas could not +the baron. +the battalion commander. “Oh, my God!” he added, stepping resolutely +The battalion commander perceived the jovial irony and laughed. +the battery to retire as quickly as possible. When the supports attached +the battlefield, believed that the French had been defeated and were +The battle had begun! Prince Andrew turned his horse and galloped back +the battle of Schön Grabern than you do now,” said his son with a +The beauty went to the aunt, but Anna Pávlovna detained Pierre, looking +the Bedchamber. The diplomatic career now lies open before you.” +“The Berlin cabinet cannot express a feeling of alliance,” began +the best maroon dress, and so on, all would be well. They forgot that +the best post he could—preferably that of adjutant to some important +the better. But Bogdánich, without looking at or recognizing Rostóv, +the bigwigs who guided the club’s opinion reappeared, and everybody +The black, hairy, snub-nosed face of Váska Denísov, and his whole +the Bohemian mountains with. It’s a bad lookout, old fellow! But +the bonfire, and addressing Túshin asked him to have the guns moved a +the bonfires of our infantry who were felling wood. The French line was +The book was the Gospel, and the white thing with the lamp inside was a +the boots. +The bottle of rum was brought. The window frame which prevented anyone +the bridge. +the bridge and its celebrated bridgehead and Prince Auersperg? We heard +the bridge and not let us cross? But it will please our sovereign the +the bridge chased each other along. Looking on the bridge he saw equally +the bridge, for the horizon as seen from the valley through which the +the bridges were strong and had handrails. Everything bore an impress of +the bridge unobserved, flings the bags of incendiary material into +the brilliant surroundings in which he had last met his friend in +“‘The Brook,’” suggested Nicholas. +The cadet was Rostóv. With one hand he supported the other; he was +the campaign and the two battles in which he had taken part, and his +the campfire. They were quarreling and fighting desperately, each trying +The card tables were drawn out, sets made up for boston, and the +the care of a skillful rider and, slightly bending over, disengaged his +the carriage as pale as anything. How they made the four black horses +the carved back of a velvet chair he had turned round for the purpose, +the case, hesitated about lifting the injured or dead. The soldiers, +The case is this: you ought to have thought the matter over and +the cause of his grief. +the cause of justice against the enemy of the human race. Anna Pávlovna +The cause of the confusion was that while the Austrian cavalry was +the center of the Russian army, and that that center was already +the chair for her. +the changed expression on Prince Bagratión’s face at this moment. It +The chanting of the service ceased, and the voice of the priest was +the chantry long before, but that nine tenths of the peasants in that +the cheeks, the same expression was on her charming childlike face with +the cheerful glitter of that autumn day was in keeping with the news of +The cheerful mood of their officers after the inspection infected the +The chief steward, a very stupid but cunning man who saw perfectly +The chief steward expressed great sympathy with Pierre’s intentions, +The chief steward, who considered the young count’s attempts almost +The child moved slightly in his sleep, smiled, and rubbed his forehead +the clavichord, sang the tune. Bolkónski was not there. None of these +The clear blue eyes looked at the commander in chief just as boldly as +the cleverest among them, including the chief steward, understood from +the clever though shy, but observant and natural, expression which +the climate,” said he. +The cloak they spread under him was wet with blood which stained his +The club cook and the steward listened to the count’s orders with +The coach with six horses was waiting at the porch. It was an autumn +The coin was a new one. Rostóv rose and went up to Telyánin. +The cold, austere tone of this man, whom he had almost always before met +the cold wind, swarmed in these earthworks like a host of white ants; +the colonel, closely—to find in his face confirmation of his own +The colonel deliberately stopped the regiment and turned to Nesvítski. +The colonel looked silently at the officer of the suite, at the stout +The colonel rode to the front, angrily gave some reply to questions put +The colonel told them that the declaration of war had already appeared +The colonel was a stout, tall, plethoric German, evidently devoted to +the column, gave him the order to advance. +The combatants advanced along the trodden tracks, nearer and nearer to +“The commander in chief is engaged,” repeated Kozlóvski calmly. +“The commander in chief is engaged,” said Kozlóvski, going +The commander in chief is expected and you leave your place? Eh? I’ll +the commander in chief, Kutúzov. +the commander in chief’s one sound eye showed him to be so preoccupied +the commander in chief would inspect the regiment on the march. Though +The commander of the company, with his eyes fixed on his superior, +the commander of the dragoons had already retreated beyond the dip in +The commander of the regiment, a thin, feeble-looking old man with a +The commander of the regiment turned to Prince Bagratión, entreating +The commander of the regiment was an elderly, choleric, stout, and +the commander with a tone of suffering in his voice, while there were +the command of the army to General Buxhöwden. During this interregnum +The command of the left flank belonged by seniority to the commander of +the company commander might get killed and he, as senior in the company, +the complete darkness Túshin’s guns moved forward, surrounded by the +The concentrated activity which had begun at the Emperor’s +the contempt with which Rostóv, from his fighting army point of view, +the conversation, “almost all the aristocracy has already gone over to +the conversation broke up into insignificant small talk about the last +The conversation did not flag all evening and turned chiefly on the +the conversation to insignificant matters. Natásha, who, of the whole +The conversation was hushed. +the convoy officer. +the copse across which our men, regardless of orders, were running and +The Cossacks sold the horse for two gold pieces, and Rostóv, being the +the cot. He did not look round, but still gazing at the infant’s face +the cot where she was standing, “better wait a bit... later...” +The council of war, at which Prince Andrew had not been able to +The council of war was just over when Prince Andrew accompanied +the count and at Anna Mikháylovna, the latter very adroitly turned +The count burst out laughing. The other guests seeing that Shinshín +The count came waddling in to see his wife with a rather guilty look as +The count considered. +The count danced well and knew it. But his partner could not and did not +the count, dying with laughter. +the countess; about 70,000 went for interest on debts. The building of a +the countess as her mother and called her so) “that I am spoiling +The countess did not believe her ears. Denísov had proposed. To whom? +The countess exchanged glances with Anna Mikháylovna. The latter +The countess’ eyes filled with tears and she pondered in silence. +The countess glanced at her silent son. +The countess had been prepared by Anna Mikháylovna’s hints at dinner. +The countess shrugged her shoulders. +“The countess told me to inquire whether your excellency was at +The countess tried to frown, but could not. Márya Dmítrievna shook her +The countess was a woman of about forty-five, with a thin Oriental type +The countess was upset by her friend’s sorrow and humiliating poverty, +the countess, with a smile. +The count, holding his cards fanwise, kept himself with difficulty from +“The count is suffering physically and mentally, and apparently you +The count jumped up and, swaying from side to side, spread his arms wide +the count, my uncle; but you, my dear, had better go to Pierre meanwhile +The count put his ear to the keyhole and listened. +The count sobbed yet more. +The count walked up and down the hall in his dressing gown, giving +the count was beginning to breathe heavily and quickly which was always +The count was delighted at Anna Mikháylovna’s taking upon herself one +The count went in first with Márya Dmítrievna, the countess followed +the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his +The crowd moved on again. Nesvítski realized that it was a cannon ball. +the crowd of retreating soldiers, ordering them back. Bagratión rode up +The crowd, pushing forward desperately, squeezed together, moved a few +the crystal decanters and fruit vases, the count kept glancing at his +the dam, the pond, and the bank. +the darkness. This was the last French attack and was met by soldiers +The day after he had been received into the Lodge, Pierre was sitting at +The day after Rostóv had been to see Borís, a review was held of the +The day after the review, Borís, in his best uniform and with his +the Day. That’s what keeping one’s head means. That’s the way, +the decisive point, and gains the victory alone. “But death and +the declaration from Petersburg gave him particular pleasure, and that +the deep wet snow between the place where they had been standing and +the determination of Denísov who flourished his sword and shouted +“The devil knows! They’ve killed everybody! It’s all up now!” +“The devil only knows! They say so.” +“The devil only knows what they’re about!” muttered Denísov. +“The devil skin your Emperor.” +the dinner sat silent, glancing with a frightened look now at her +the disordered battalion and at the enemy, “what’s that?” +“The dispositions!” exclaimed Kutúzov bitterly. “Who told you +the dispositions or anything else—he was engaged in satisfying the +The dispositions were very complicated and difficult. They began as +“The divine mercy is inexhaustible! Unction is about to be +The doctor cast a rapid glance upwards and silently shrugged his +The doctor entered. Prince Andrew went out and, meeting Princess Mary, +The doctor glanced at his watch. +the door. +the door and as soon as it opened his rough old arms closed like a vise +the door himself behind him. +the door; the scream ceased and he heard the wail of an infant. +the door, was sitting at the table in a Persian dressing gown, writing. +the doorway appeared a student with a crimson coat collar, an officer +“The doubt is flattering,” said “the man of profound intellect,” +the drawing room. He evidently tried to find something to say, but +The duel between Pierre and Dólokhov was hushed up and, in spite of +the duel with Nesvítski, Bezúkhov’s second. Pierre went home, but +The dull, sleepy expression was no longer there, nor the affectation +the duties of wife and mother upon me I shall try to perform them as +thee, and even in those blasphemous words thou hast just uttered!” + the earth by English gold, we shall cause to share the same +the ebb and flow of these sounds. +the efforts of the old count, and instead of being degraded to the ranks +“The Eighteenth.” +The elderly lady was a Princess Drubetskáya, belonging to one of the +The elders began talking about Bonaparte. Julie Karágina turned to +The eldest princess paused in her reading and silently stared at him +the Emperor about him; so that in the case of his death—and he is +the Emperor Alexander and the King of Prussia in Berlin? If Prussia +“The Emperor Alexander,” said she, with the melancholy which +the Emperor, and a thousand reasons occurred to him why it would be +The Emperor drew level with Rostóv and halted. Alexander’s face was +The Emperor, frowning slightly, bent his ear forward as if he had not +the Emperor. He felt that this nearness by itself made up to him for the +the Emperor immediately!” thought Rostóv and galloped on. +The Emperor interrupted him. +The Emperor’s horse started at the sudden cry. This horse that had +the Emperor spoke to him most graciously. Annette and I were speaking of +the Emperor’s severity regarding duels at that time, neither the +the Emperor’s suite. One officer told Rostóv that he had seen someone +the Emperor’s voice. +The Emperor thanked Prince Andrew and bowed. Prince Andrew withdrew and +“The Emperor! The Emperor!” was suddenly heard among the hussars. +The Emperor turned with a smile to one of his followers and made a +The Emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of +the enchanted circle I cannot escape from. I am now going to the war, +“The enemy has quenched his fires and a continual noise is heard from +“The enemy is still far away, your excellency. According to the +the enemy’s fires, but heard the shouting of the French more loudly +The Englishman nodded, but gave no indication whether he intended to +The Englishman took out his purse and began counting out the money. +The English will come off badly, you know, if Napoleon gets across the +the Enns and the Danube became visible, and the rocky left bank of the +the enormously high study door opened and showed the figure of a rather +The enormous study was full of things evidently in constant use. +the entrenchment, and went on again. Just behind it they came upon some +the Epistles and Gospels. Let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries +the evening again turned to Borís, asking him in a tone of caressing +“The exchange horses have just come,” answered the servant. “Will +“The execution of the Duc d’Enghien,” declared Monsieur Pierre, +the exercise book containing geometrical figures. +the experience of old Cunctators.” +the expression she saw on the maid of honor’s face, and again relapsed +The eyes of the general and the soldier met. The general became silent, +the eyes of the Guardsman’s horse. The heavy black horse, sixteen +the face and figure of Prince Andrew, in a fur cloak the deep collar of +the face of each soldier and each officer seemed to say. +The face of the little princess changed. She sighed and said: “Yes, +The faces of officers and men brightened up at the sound. Everyone got +the face that emerged from the shirt. +“The fact of the matter is,” said she significantly, and also in a +the fall of Austria’s capital. “How is it Vienna was taken? What of +the familiar staircase. The well-known old door handle, which always +(the family solicitor) “and he says the same.” +The farther forward and nearer the enemy he went, the more orderly and +the farther he went the more disorganized they were. The highroad on +the fate of battles had arrived. Would this disorderly crowd of soldiers +the feather bed. Natásha began consoling her, but her face showed that +The feeling, “It has begun! Here it is!” was seen even on Prince +the felt boots approached the unseen bend of the staircase more rapidly. +“The field marshal is angry with the Emperor and he punishes us all, +the field of battle, who though still in some confusion were less +the fire of life had seemed extinguished, now flashed with brilliant +The fires and shouting in the enemy’s army were occasioned by the fact +the first couple. Noiselessly, skillfully stepping with his little +The first door on the left led into the princesses’ apartments. The +“The first man that turns up—she forgets her father and everything +the first second. “A baby? What baby...? Why is there a baby there? Or +the first time. Sometimes that same look fell on Pierre, and that funny +the first to catch his eye. He sent him. +the first to seize the surrendering French officer by his collar. Our +The first words he heard on coming to his senses were those of a French +the flagstaff that had been dropped beside him. (The flag had already +The fog had begun to clear and enemy troops were already dimly visible +The fog had grown so dense that though it was growing light they could +The foreboding of evil that had suddenly come over Rostóv was more and +the foreman of a spinning mill, when he has set the hands to work, goes +The foremost Frenchman, the one with the hooked nose, was already so +The foremost, wearing a Cossack cloak and lambskin cap and riding a +the forests in the province of Kostromá, the land lower down the river, +the French, after crossing the bridge at Vienna, were advancing in +the French and lay down their arms at the first demand. +The French dragoon was a young Alsatian who spoke French with a German +the French, galloped along the front as hard as his horse could go, but +the French grenadier. +The French guns were hastily reloaded. The infantry in their blue +The French had attacked the battery and, seeing Kutúzov, were firing +The French had been repulsed for the last time. And again and again in +The French had time to fire three rounds of grapeshot before the hussars +“The French have abandoned the left bank?” +the Frenchman Langeron, Kutúzov’s incapacity, and (it was whispered) +The French onlookers and listeners laughed. +the French sentences which to them were meaningless, with an air of +The French, the spy reported, having crossed the Vienna bridge, were +The French were already near. Prince Andrew, walking beside Bagratión, +the French were firing, and he felt his heart palpitating as he rode +The French, who had ceased firing at this field strewn with dead and +the French with his whole army was impossible. The road for the French +The friends were silent. Neither cared to begin talking. Pierre +the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that +the front, but at Dürrenstein, where I was, our attack began after +the front. I held my sword in my left hand, Count. All our family—the +the fulfillment of duty, he rose to see some visitors off and, stroking +the full significance of the words he heard. +The game continued; a waiter kept handing round champagne. +the gates, a group of undertakers, who hid whenever a carriage drove up, +The general frowned. Though there was no definite news of an Austrian +The general frowned, turned away, and went on. +The general had a fit of coughing as a result of shouting and of the +The general had so wished to do this and was so sorry he had not managed +the general pleasure and disappoint everyone’s expectation. Prince +The general’s face clouded, his lips quivered and trembled. He took +The generals seemed to listen reluctantly to the difficult dispositions. +the general state of affairs which was far from satisfactory. +The generals were passing by, looking as if they wished to avoid +the general, the men themselves not knowing what, or why, they were +the general... third company to the commander.” The words passed along +the general, who looked through his field glass. +the gentlemen and Mademoiselle Bourienne rose and the little princess, +the gentlemen around. +The gentlemen assembled at Bilíbin’s were young, wealthy, gay society +the gentlemen of the Tsar’s suite by his poor French. +The German closed his eyes, signifying that he did not understand. +the German landlord. +The German laughed, came out of the cowshed, pulled off his cap, and +the German village of Salzeneck. The best quarters in the village were +the gesture of a man too busy to lose a moment, glanced at Kutúzov and, +The girl smiled and took it. Nesvítski like the rest of the men on the +The girls sprang aside. Denísov hid his hairy legs under the blanket, +the gleaming icons stood a long invalid chair, and in that chair +the glory of our arms and of the day’s work, they assumed a serious +the good-natured expression still more apparent, and gazed at his friend +the good-natured Iogel, flying about like a feather and bowing according +the Grand Cross of Maria Theresa, and the whole army received rewards. +The Grand Master began reading the statutes. They were very long, and +The Grand Master proposed that the last duty should be performed, +The Grand Master rapped with his mallet. All the Masons sat down in +The gray-haired valet was sitting drowsily listening to the snoring of +the greater part of the men had to halt and an unpleasant consciousness +the greatest war there ever was, and I know nothing and am fit for +the ground, as a heavy fire had been opened on him and he was losing +the group round Mortemart to listen to what was being said there, and +The Guards had gone to the front; Dólokhov had been reduced to the +The Guards had made their whole march as if on a pleasure trip, parading +the Guards to the field of battle, afraid of letting a ready victim +The guests got up and took their leave, promising to return to dinner. +the guests, knowing of the affair with the bear, looked with curiosity +the guests. To each of them he made some careless and agreeable remark +the gunners who had seized it straining to roll it quickly back to its +the hair was wet, so profusely had the child perspired. He was not dead, +the half-closed eyes was there greedily gnawing a mutton bone, and the +the hall porter, “I know Count Cyril Vladímirovich is very ill... +The hall porter sullenly pulled a bell that rang upstairs, and turned +the hand nor a single muscle of the count’s face stirred. Once more +The handsome Véra smiled contemptuously but did not seem at all hurt. +The handsome Véra, who produced such an irritating and unpleasant +The handsome young Emperor Alexander, in the uniform of the Horse +The head of the column had already descended into the hollow. The clash +“The head of the garrison at Glogau, with ten thousand men, asks the +The headquarters were situated two miles away from Salzeneck, and +the head that he was considering this information. +the heavy standard, he ran forward with full confidence that the whole +the highest law thou shalt regain traces of the ancient dignity which +“The highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish +The highest wisdom has but one science—the science of the whole—the +“The highest wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those +The high-shouldered figure of Zherkóv, familiar to the Pávlograds as +the hill not to go beyond the stream, but Rostóv pretended not to hear +the Hofkriegsrath and both Emperors took part. At that council, contrary +the hollow the less they could see but the more they felt the nearness +The homestead consisted of a threshing floor, outhouses, stables, a +the honor, but I shall never be your son’s wife.” +the honor of being received, that I have not yet had time to think of +the honor of the flag... Well, never mind, it’s true I’m to blame, +“The hoof’s cracked! That’s nothing. I’ll teach you what to do +the hope of an alliance with her. +the Horse Guards. +The Horse Guards were galloping, but still holding in their horses. +The horses’ croups began to sway in the front line. Rook pulled at the +“The hours are the same, and the lathe, and also the mathematics and +the house where the commander in chief was. +The hussar did not reply. +The hussar only sighed without replying and coughed angrily. The sound +the hussars.” +The hussars crowded round and responded heartily with loud shouts. +the hussar shouted back. +The hussars ran back to the men who held their horses; their voices +The ice bore him but it swayed and creaked, and it was plain that it +The ice gave way under one of the foremost soldiers, and one leg slipped +the icons and there was a pleasant scent of flowers and burnt pastilles. +the icons, as though declaring to all that she could not answer for +the icon stand. To her surprise and distress she found that her prayers +The idea of defeat and flight could not enter Rostóv’s head. Though +The imposing figure of Nesvítski followed by his Cossack, and +The infantry regiments that had been caught unawares in the outskirts +The infantry who had been stopped crowded near the bridge in the +the inhabitants of the district. +the inlaid portfolio. Pierre signed the deed and after that the princess +the intellectual lights of Petersburg were gathered there and, like a +their adjutants had come to witness the curious phenomenon of the +their battery a milk-white cloud arose. Then came the distant report of +their bayonets and guns. +their cleanliness and discipline. They had come by easy stages, their +Their conversation would probably have been different but for the effect +their courage before him. +their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for +their faces was a quiet and solemn look. +their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company +their grief in their own way. The old prince would not cherish any hope: +their guns, were running toward him. He also saw French infantry +their journey. She answered him and continued her chatter. +their long hair falling over their magnificent glittering vestments, +their marriage, with bare shoulders and a languid, passionate look on +their meaning but must keep them. The second pair of man’s gloves +their musical talent, to sing something. Natásha, who was treated as +their name and my own I hold out a brotherly hand to you.” +their own form of government; and I believe that once free from the +their own resources what might be needed for the success of the fete. +their places, and one of them read an exhortation on the necessity of +Their sabers catching in the bridles and their spurs jingling, the +their seats, went up to “congratulate” the countess, and reached +their thick, bushy eyebrows sternly scanned all present and rested on +their way to negotiate with Prince Auersperg. He lets them enter the +their woman’s way! I am glad to have her. Sit down and talk. About +the kitchen would have cared to eat, so Anna Pávlovna served up to +the landing below, Philip, the footman, stood looking scared and holding +the landing. “I’d better go to my own room.” +the large drawing room. Prince Vasíli came up to Pierre with languid +The large table covered with books and plans, the tall glass-fronted +The last of the Horse Guards, a huge pockmarked fellow, frowned angrily +The last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing +the last post station but one before Moscow, Denísov had drunk three +the last syllable of the general’s name like a Frenchman, “has been +the late Emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the King of Prussia.’ He is +The latter began to feel that it was in bad taste to speak of his +The latter lay silent in the sleigh with closed eyes and did not answer +the left, and took up the bottle. Anatole brought two candles and +the left-flank columns had already descended. +the left, the firing became more distinct. Kutúzov had stopped and was +the left! Wait a bit.” But the soldiers, crowded together shoulder to +the letter away, and leaning his elbows on the table he drew toward him +The letter was old, having been written before the battle at +The lieutenant never looked the man he was speaking to straight in the +“The limits of human life ... are fixed and may not be +the line of retreat on the left by the French. However inconvenient the +the lines and an adjutant ran to look for the missing officer. +the line that had so sharply divided the two armies?” he asked himself +The little kitten, feasting her eyes on him, seemed ready at any moment + * The little one is charming. +The little princess and Mademoiselle Bourienne had already received +The little princess did not, or did not wish to, hear his words. She was +The little princess during the whole discussion and the rest of +The little princess entered the room. The passage broke off in the +The little princess got up, rang for the maid, and hurriedly and merrily +The little princess grumbled to her maid that her bed was badly made. +The little princess had also left the tea table and followed Hélène. +The little princess had grown stouter during this time, but her eyes +the little princess, kissing her. “I know you already through my +The little princess lay in the armchair, Mademoiselle Bourienne chafing +The little princess lay supported by pillows, with a white cap on her +The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, +the little princess. She felt, as courtiers do when the Tsar enters, the +The little princess, taking the dress from the maid, came up to Princess +The little princess talked incessantly, her short, downy upper lip +The little princess went round the table with quick, short, swaying +the little town could be seen with its white, red-roofed houses, its +the liveliness of a fourteen-year-old boy, and yet it was the face +The lively song gave a special flavor to the tone of free and easy +the living charm of her neck and shoulders, so near to his lips that +the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. And +the Lodge, told the password, and at last was permitted to sit down. +the long German carts six or more pale, dirty, bandaged men were being +the look she felt upon her made that world still more poetic. But +“The Lord be thanked, yes!” +the loss of Prince Andrew had reached Bald Hills, and in spite of the +them.” +The magnificent reception room was crowded. Everyone stood up +the maintenance of the balance of power of Europe, and it would save the +them. All eyes fastened involuntarily on this French column advancing +the manager of all his affairs, and while looking with pleasure at the +them. And among all these faces that he found so tedious, none seemed +them, and reads those from the Emperor addressed to others. ‘Ah! So +them, and she doubts the means we have of gaining them. That is the +them, and understood that it was useless and even cruel to insist. +The manly voice again interrupted the artillery officer. +The man was wearing a bluish coat of broadcloth, he had no knapsack +the march: in their greatcoats, and packs, and without any preparation +them are harmful, especially the women. Yes, dear boy,” he continued, + * The marshalls. +The Mason cleared his throat huskily, as old men do, and called his +The Mason did not move and for a long time said nothing after this +The Mason looked intently at Pierre and smiled as a rich man with +The Mason remained silent for a long time, evidently considering. +the Mason’s arguments; he dreaded not to be able to believe in him. +The Mason smiled with his gentle fatherly smile. +the Mason. “Yes, I never thought of it, but I have led a contemptible +“The master is not in, he’s gone to headquarters,” said +the matter depended on my personal wishes, the will of His Majesty the +the mazurka, which was just coming into fashion, were danced. Iogel had +them curiosity, awe, and even love—a supercilious consciousness of +them down! What?...” said Rostóv, waking up. At the moment he opened +“The means are ... the balance of power in Europe and the rights of +The meeting was at an end, and on reaching home Pierre felt as if he had +The member of the Hofkriegsrath looked at him severely but, seeing the +The members and guests of the club wandered hither and thither, sat, +the memory of a remote event long past. +The men and officers returning spoke of a brilliant victory, of the +the men and women had separated as in church. All were silently crossing +the men (the commanders, as we saw at the council of war, were out of +them from others was the absence of host or hostess and the presence of +them from the other end of the corridor, Strauch, an Austrian general +them!” he reflected. +the middle of a field without rhyme or reason. It’s all those damned +The midwife was already on her way to meet her, rubbing her small, plump +them. If he is not rich I will give her the means; I will ask my +the mildness of his features, was all the greater. Rostóv was happy +The Military Governor of Moscow, who had been assiduous in sending +the mines and blow up the bridge, this sergeant, seeing that the French +the minister and his son had arrived, but the appearance of both had +the Minister of War.” +the Minister of War but also his Most August Majesty the Emperor and +them in the thick fog, the Russians exchanged shots with the enemy +the mist, and his cold face wore that special look of confident, +the mist. From information he had received the evening before, from the +them it was difficult to get out again. One was shouting, “Get on! +them, neither do I condemn them. Only it seems to me that Christian +them now! And yet really the anxiety is greater now than the joy. One is +them off, inviting them all to dinner. +The moment he heard the firing and the cry from behind, the general +the moment is not Bonaparte but Buxhöwden. General Buxhöwden was all +the moment Prince Andrew entered the room had watched him with glad, +the more depressed. +them or make them move. On the one hand, the chief steward put the state +the morning, carriages with six horses had been coming and going +the morning of the twentieth, when the memorable battle of Austerlitz +the morning she told the Rostóvs and all her acquaintances the details + * The most fascinating woman in Petersburg. +The mother smoothed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large +the mothers, wives, and children of the men who were going and should +them Pierre noticed a large cast iron ring with a seal representing a +them—remained for a while without any definite opinion on the subject +them rest and leisure?” said Pierre, hurrying and lisping. “And +themselves and grow more and more miserable.” +themselves, and the reading of the church service, the subdued chanting +themselves quite innocent, and since that day when he was overpowered +themselves, stifle this remorse and grow callous, as a result of being +themselves to Túshin in all their horror. He had been so excited that +them something funny and kept them amused, while he watched the young +them strangely of the little princess. But what was still stranger, +them taking off his cap) “from his animal condition and awaken in him +them the order to march, thereby indicating that he intended to lead +the mud off his face with his sleeve. “Perched up there, you’re more +them, when suddenly, clinking his spurs and spreading out his legs, +then....” +Then a general rode past shouting something angrily, not in Russian. +then a gleam of bayonets; to the left beyond the village similar masses +“Then allow me to express your regrets, and I am sure your opponent +then all will be right, as our bear huntsman at Kostromá used to tell +“Then am I to order those large sterlets?” asked the steward. +then appointed to supervise the enrollment decreed throughout Russia. +Then a thin, pale soldier, his neck bandaged with a bloodstained leg +the nations? Adorable! It is enough to make one’s head whirl! It is as +then believe an expert. I have just been talking to Dmítri Onúfrich” +then both voices together with glad intonations, and then footsteps. +then, brothers, on to glory, led by Father Kámenski.” This song had +then brought back to the general circle. +then detached ideas and impressions from the world of reality shot +The nearest soldiers shrank back, the gun driver stopped his horse, but +the new Campo Formio are to be drawn up.” +The newcomer was a short, large-boned, yellow-faced, wrinkled old +the new homestead he was constructing and its buildings, but even here, +The news of Count Bezúkhov’s death reached us before your letter +The next day the Emperor stopped at Wischau, and Villier, his physician, +then he did everything so simply and with such assurance!) Mademoiselle +Then he recalled the coarseness and bluntness of her thoughts and the +Then he remained silent for a while, and all at once looked cheerfully +The night he received the news, Kutúzov sent Bagratión’s vanguard, +the night ten miles from Olmütz and next morning were to come straight +The night was dark but starry, the road showed black in the snow that +The night was foggy and through the fog the moonlight gleamed +“Then I’ll have it brought round,” said Rostóv wishing to avoid +“Then I may reckon on it, your excellency?” +“Then it is certain?” said the prince. +then named Prince Vasíli in an inquiring whisper, then pointed to the +Then Nicholas sang a song he had just learned: +the noblest role on earth, and he is so virtuous and noble that God will +the nonsense talked by the Austrian generals. Shinshín, standing close +The novelty Anna Pávlovna was setting before her guests that evening +then particularly strong. +then quickly glanced at Dólokhov and, bending his finger as he had been +Then she slipped down among the flowerpots on the other side of the tubs +then she smiled again and clutched Prince Vasíli’s arm more tightly. +Then suddenly he realized the joyful significance of that wail; tears +then, suddenly spread out in the sunlight, far-distant objects could +then that same face pale, quivering, and suffering, as it had been when +Then the voice said something more, Demyán replied, and the steps in +“Then they’ve not gone to bed yet? What do you think? Mind now, +“Then tomorrow you will speak to the Emperor?” +the nurse, as she stood in one of the doorways. +the nurse brought it to him and nodded approval when she told him that +The nurse lit the gilt candles before the icons and sat down by the door +the nursery, but Sónya was not there either. Natásha concluded that +“Then what is this blood on the gun carriage?” inquired Túshin. +“Then when am I to have it?” +“Then why are you here? You should have gone on long ago, now you +then with remarks which showed that he was in a good temper. +Then with the unerring official memory that characterized him he +then, Wostóv, now then!” +“Then you are serving?” +The officer flourished his arm and hastily rode away. +The officer glanced at him, and without replying turned again to the +the officers and men of Denísov’s squadron, though they tried to talk +the officers as he went: “Have these gentlemen attended to and taken +The officers gathered round Denísov’s canteen, eating and talking. +The officers got up and stood round the Cossacks and their prisoner. +The officers laughed. +the officers or adjutants who wandered about in the fog in those unknown +the official side of the service. These gentlemen received Prince +The old aunt received the two young people in her corner, but seemed +The old count cast down his eyes on hearing his son’s words and began +The old countess, not letting go of his hand and kissing it every +The old count pretended to be angry. +the old count, the countess, Pétya, Véra, Natásha, and Sónya, and +the old lady. +The old man made a departure from his usual routine in honor of his +the old man turned angrily away. +The old man was in a good temper after his nap before dinner. (He +The old man was silent. +The old prince did not sleep either. Tíkhon, half asleep, heard him +The old prince dressed leisurely in his study, frowning and considering +the old prince first heard of the defeat at Austerlitz stated, as usual +The old prince knew that if he told his daughter she was making a +the old prince’s face. +The old princess came in and also wept. The elderly lady was using +The old princess did not reply, she was tormented by jealousy of her +The old prince stopped writing and, as if not understanding, fixed his +the old prince. “Very, very glad to have seen you,” repeated he, +The old prince was very affectionate and careful in his treatment of +the one that will result from it will be as victorious! However, dear +(the one who had paraded his regiment before Kutúzov at Braunau) that +the onlookers, “Will it be long? Are things ready?” +“The only thing that is hard for me... I will tell you the truth, +The only young people remaining in the drawing room, not counting the +the orderlies looked at him as if they wished to impress on him that a +the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves +The order was given to halt and down knapsacks. +the other clutched his drooping pistol. His face was pale. Rostóv ran +the other committeemen. “There will be many toasts, it’s time to +the other, glanced inquiringly with his large, intelligent, kindly eyes +the other men in the room, her anxiety could only have reference to +the other, quite a new reflection of the society in which they had taken +the others. Again someone shouted, “Stretchers!” Four men seized the +the others but win from you. Or are you afraid of me?” he asked again. +the other side of the fire, warming his thin yellow body. +the other side of the room. “How young-looking he is!” +the other—who with beaming faces had come to see their master making +the pack. Much depended on Rostóv’s winning or losing on that seven +the pained expression his joke had brought to his sister’s face, he +the party of the young had triumphed. The voices of those who counseled +“The past always seems good,” said he, “but did not Suvórov +The patches grew deeper on her forehead, neck, and cheeks. She tried to +the pathetic importance of these last moments of meeting between the +“The Pávlograd hussars?” he inquired. +The Pávlograd Hussars were stationed two miles from Braunau. The +the people,” the abbé was saying. “It is only necessary for one +the people who know of it the less a woman in travail suffers, everyone +“The picket is still on the hill, your excellency, just where it was +the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits... There was peace +the place of mourning for the younger female generation in the Rostóv +the plan of operation for the coming campaign. He explained how an army, +the pleasure of spending the evening with you.” +the point of view of the old countess and of society it was out of the +the portfolio so firmly that it was plain she would not let go easily. +the possessor of wealth. How have you used it? What have you done +The postilion started, the carriage wheels rattled. Prince Hippolyte +The postmaster came in and began obsequiously to beg his excellency to +The postmaster, his wife, the valet, and a peasant woman selling +the Povarskáya, so well known to all Moscow. The countess herself and +“The praise of a great commander is a soldier’s highest reward,” +the pre-eminence. +the priests and deacons and some servants also went in at the door. +the priests, rose and offered him her seat; an aide-de-camp picked up +the priest with a goose feather anointed the boy’s little red and +the prim visitor could not help joining in. +The prince again laughed his frigid laugh. +The prince answered nothing, but she looked at him significantly, +The prince bowed his head and went up to the porch. “God be +The prince bowed to signify his respect and gratitude. +The prince gave orders that no one should leave his post. Now you, +The prince looked at his daughter’s frightened face and snorted. +the princess. +the princess and hastily adjusting his lorgnette, as if without this +The princess bent over the exercise book on the table. +The princess blushed, and raised her arms with a gesture of despair. +The princess continued to look at him without moving, and with the same +The princess did not fall down or faint. She was already pale, but on +The princess did not reply. Their efforts in the struggle for the +the princess did speak, her words would not be flattering to Anna +the princess’ eyes grew dim, she could not see and could not hear +The princess gave a wrong answer. +The princess gave no reply and did not even smile, but left the room as +The princess glanced at her watch and, seeing that she was five minutes +The princess, holding her little dog on her lap with her thin bony +The princess let go. +The princess listened, smiling. +The princess looked in a scared way at her father’s eyes glittering +the princess, now quite changed. “And what does she come worming +The princess, picking up her dress, was taking her seat in the dark +The princess pondered awhile with a thoughtful smile and her luminous +The princess rested her bare round arm on a little table and considered +The princess said nothing, but suddenly her short downy lip quivered. +The princess sank helplessly into an armchair beside her father and +The princess saw that her father regarded the matter with disapproval, +The princess smiled as people do who think they know more about the +The princess smiled. She rose with the same unchanging smile with which +The princess started. Evidently Pierre’s words touched her to the +The princess went up to the door, passed by it with a dignified and +The princess, who had a straight, rigid body, abnormally long for her +The princess wished to rise, but the prince held her by the hand. She +the prince sternly; “I’m afraid you write much nonsense. I’ll read +The prince stopped. He saw the effect these words had produced on his +The prince turned round to the overseer and fixed his eyes on him, +the prince was lying on the sofa, looked at him, noticed his perturbed +The prince was silent and looked indifferent. But, with the womanly and +the prince, who was in his large study. From the far side of the house +The Project Gutenberg EBook of War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy +the Prussian army and was aide-de-camp to a very important personage. +the puhse?” he asked, turning to Rostóv. +The purse is here! I’ll flay this scoundwel alive, and it will be +the question arose whether the troops were to be in marching order or +The quiet home life and peaceful happiness of Bald Hills presented +the ranks. +the ranks, and above all being unable to see anything in front or around +the ranks of obscure officers and offer him the first step to fame! +the ras...” he did not finish. +“the rat”) he said, rubbing his forehead and whole face with both +there. +there.” +there any hope?” +there are no difficulties in your way.... But Nicholas is my cousin... +“There are precedents, I may mention Schwarzenberg.” +“There are so many prisoners today, nearly the whole Russian army, +there are things in it difficult for the feeble human mind to grasp, it +the rearguard and have an eye on the order of retreat, “which is also +the rearguard by the commander in chief, was sitting on the trail of a +the rearguard stood with a staff officer, scanning the country through +there as he. And now—this duel! Have these people no feeling, or +the reception room, where he found some ten officers and generals. +the recruiting, granted by the Emperor. If I had been two hours late +“There, Fedótov, you should be quartered on them!” +(the reflection was still incomplete), he caught himself smiling and was +therefore met with unaltered looks the angrily inquisitive expression of +therefore offered this truce to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. Count +therefore—this is between ourselves—I instinctively feel that we +therefore you seek wisdom and virtue. Is that not so?” said the +The regimental adjutant came in and confirmed the news brought by +The regimental commander, flushing, ran to his horse, seized the stirrup +The regimental commander, going up to the line himself, ordered the +the regimental commander on horseback and some ten men of his company, +(The regimental commander’s face now that the inspection was happily +The regimental commander sought out Dólokhov in the ranks and, reining +The regimental commander was afraid he might be blamed for this and did +the regiment, and how satisfied his father was with him. Berg evidently +The regiment broke up into companies, which went to their appointed +the regiment I’d... Ah well, I’ll show that in action, and for me +the regiment Kutúzov had reviewed at Braunau and in which Dólokhov was +the regiment under a hail of bullets which fell around, but fortunately +there, God only knows what would have happened! You know, Uncle promised +There had been actions at Lambach, Amstetten, and Melk; but despite the +“There he is!” said Borís, thinking Rostóv had said “His +there?” he said, turning to the door as he heard a tread of heavy +“There... he’s puffing again,” muttered Túshin to himself, as a +there in which he had now no part could perturb him. He shut his eyes, +there is hardly time to put in action—seeing Pierre, touched his +“There is in Moscow a lady, une dame, and she is very stingy. She must +“There is nothing so refreshing after a sleepless night as a cup +“There is one thing I constantly pray God to grant, mon cousin,” she +There is only Mademoiselle Bourienne....” +“There is something nasty, something wrong, in the feeling she excites +“There is something up,” thought Nicholas, and he was further +there is so much happiness; but here... groans, suffering, fear, and +“There is still much, much before us,” he said, as if with an old +“There is still time, my dear. You must remember, Catiche, that it was +“There, it’s just as I thought,” said Rostóv to himself. “He +“There, leave Bruin alone; here’s a bet on.” +The remains of Langeron’s and Dokhtúrov’s mingled forces were +The remains of our regiment which had been in action rapidly formed up +there many more of you to come?” +“There now! Confess that this is delightful,” said he. “This +“There now! Didn’t I tell you, Michael Mítrich, that if it was said +“There now! It’s true that all you women are crybabies,” remarked +“There now, Prince! We can’t stop those fellows,” said the staff +“There now!” said the officer of the suite, “that’s +“There now!... So you, too, are in the great world?” said he to +“There now, the Kúrskies have also gone past,” was being said in +there. Now then!” +“There now, you wish to liberate your serfs,” he continued; “that +“There now, Zíkin, they ought to put you on a horse. You’d look +there. Pierre had the air of a man preoccupied with considerations which +the report of musketry. +The report which had been circulated that the Austrians had been beaten +the reproachful tone of a man who has repeated the same thing more +“The reserves, sire!” replied a voice, a very human one compared to +there, she glided up to him with a sort of amble, not exactly bowing yet +“There’s no need to talk! He receives his orders and will marry you +“There’s nothing for me to understand,” she cried out with +“There’s nothing to be gay about,” answered Bolkónski. +the resounding strains of the polonaise: +“There’s plenty to do still.” +there’s some mistake,” thought he. “They can’t have wanted to +the rest.” +“There’s the corner at the crossroads, where the cabman, Zakhár, +the rest of his life. +the rest of the evening. +there! Tea!” +there. Then, as happens to people of weak character, he desired so +“There, there! Do you feel it? I feel so strange. And do you know, +“There! They are bringing another!” cried one of the officers, +the retreat from Austerlitz, where he alone had withdrawn his column +the retreat of the frightened Bonaparte. +the revolving pulleys whirr with the rapidity of their movement, but a +there was a crush. Halfway across stood Prince Nesvítski, who had +There was a general movement as the princess, smiling and talking +there was generally a drinking bout, finishing with visits of a kind +There was no answer to any of these questions, except one, and that +There was no laughter in the maids’ large hall. In the men servants’ +there was none he would so much like to have for a friend as that very +there was no one beyond the ditch now. Only some carts and carriages +There was no one in the hall. “Oh God! Is everyone all right?” +there was no reason why it should not reach the Pávlograd regiment, +There was not a trace of agitation on his face. With delicate irony he +there was nothing between the squadron and the enemy, and again that +there was nothing to be said, and neither wished to give occasion for +There was now no one in the reception room except Prince Vasíli and the +There was really nothing to be seen in front except a barren descent +There was something peculiar about it, quite unsoldierly, rather comic, +there was still the same bewitching combination of majesty and mildness +There were in the room a child’s cot, two boxes, two armchairs, a +“There, what egotists men all are: all, all egotists! Just for a whim +“There will be a council of war at Kutúzov’s tonight, though; you +the Rhetor but Pierre’s sponsor, Willarski, whom he recognized by his +The Rhetor cleared his throat, crossed his gloved hands on his breast, +the Rhetor, “is an emblem of something not cognizable by the senses +the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up. Soldiers scattered over +the right and sent an adjutant to the dragoons with orders to attack the +the right flank and the French were already advancing, were engaged +the right they will expose a flank to me. Soldiers! I will myself direct +the rivers Inn (at Braunau) and Traun (near Linz). On October 23 the +the road he reined in his horse, hesitating whether to ride along it or +the room, and seeming not to notice the chairs was dashing straight at +the room, pondering over his vicious past, and with a rapturous sense +The room was crowded with small pieces of furniture, whatnots, +The Rostóvs knew everybody in Moscow. The old count had money enough +the Rostóvs since the day of his departure for the army. To be in Anna +the Russian army) are nothing compared to what this man has been doing +The Russian Emperor’s aide-de-camp is an impostor. Officers are +The Russian officer in charge of the transport lolled back in the front +the Russians were running away and that he himself was killed, but he +the Russian with his heir the Tsarévich, and the Austrian with the +The rustle of a woman’s dress was heard in the next room. Prince +the sale of the land and forests and to release them from the Land Bank, +the salute and unable to repress the smile of delight induced by his +The same happy, rapturous faces turned to the shaggy figure of Denísov. +the same, then why this duel, this murder? Either I shall kill him, or +the same time, my honored benefactor,” wrote Prince Vasíli. “My son +the same words, about their health and her own, and the health of Her +The score against him reached the fateful sum of forty-three thousand. +the scoundrels!” +the scraping of chairs. Then one of those conversations began which last +the seal of her letter. It was from her most intimate friend from +the seat indicated to him beside the fair Hélène and listened to the +The second princess had just come from the sickroom with her eyes red +These gentlemen ride onto the bridge alone and wave white handkerchiefs; +these,” he said, handing him several papers, “make a neat memorandum +These latter the butler thrust mysteriously forward, wrapped in a +these poignant joys and sorrows. You are fortunate, for the latter are +the sergeant major with brightened expressions, licking their lips and +the sergeant to meet some mounted men who were riding along the line. +the serious faces of those around, remembered all he had already gone +these rooms. Anna Mikháylovna, addressing a maid who was hurrying past +The servant brought back his tumbler turned upside down, * with an +The servant handed him a book which Pierre took to be a devotional work, +the service and patriotically Russian. He resented Shinshín’s remark. +The Service before everything. Thanks, thanks!” And he went on +these same questions which he could not solve and yet could not cease to +These sights and sounds had no depressing or intimidating effect on him; +these things. I absolutely must see him, however painful it may be for +These words he repeated to everyone without exception or variation, and +the shed with super human force, throwing up a mass of earth. The ground +the shirt. +The sick man was so surrounded by doctors, princesses, and servants +the sight of the killed and wounded. +The silence lasted some time. Prince Bagratión, apparently not wishing +the sinews and scorching the flesh of his sprained arm and shoulder. To +the sky, the dawn merging with the afterglow of sunset, was visible. +the sly what was left in the glasses. From the third room came sounds of +the smell of linstocks, came the artillery which crawled between the +the smoke, Rostóv hesitated whether to gallop after them or to go where +the snow, greedily bit at it, again raised his head, adjusted himself, +“The snow is deep. I am having the avenue swept, your honor.” +the sofa. The princess came in. She had changed her gown for a house +the soldier always has around him the same comrades, the same ranks, the +The soldiers crowded against one another with terrified faces, and +the soldiers’ faces and unnatural warlike solemnity on those of the +The soldiers laughed. A moment later, an adjutant arrived with the same +“The soldiers say it feels easier without boots,” said Captain +The soldiers who had carried Prince Andrew had noticed and taken the +The soldier to whom the laughers referred was Dólokhov. Prince Andrew +the soldier. “Turn back with your slut!” +The son, lowering his eyes, followed her quietly. +the son, or Pierre, whom it had been pitiful to see, so stricken was he +The son sighed, thus admitting that his father had understood him. The +The sound of musketry at the foot of the hill, now diminishing, now +the sound of voices and the shouts of command. The whole air reeked with +The southern spring, the comfortable rapid traveling in a Vienna +“The sovereigns? I do not speak of Russia,” said the vicomte, polite +the special deep cooing tone, precluding the possibility of interrupting +the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and +The spot chosen for the duel was some eighty paces from the road, +the spot indicated to him. He made no reply on his father’s favorite +The squadron crossed the bridge and drew out of range of fire without +The squadron in which Rostóv was serving had scarcely time to mount +“The squadron quartermaster!” said Lavrúshka. +“The squadwon can’t pass,” shouted Váska Denísov, showing his +the staff captain. +the staff captain, “but we old fellows, who have grown up in and, God +the staff captain in his deep bass, calmly stroking his long mustache. +The staff captain, Kírsten, had twice been reduced to the ranks for +The staff captain’s voice began to tremble. “You have been in the +The staff officer and Prince Andrew mounted their horses and rode on. +the staff officer on duty. +The staff officer remained behind and Prince Andrew rode on alone. +the standard. +the state of the Prussian army. As soon as he had finished she turned to +“The step must be taken but I cannot, I cannot!” thought Pierre, +The steward did not say it was quite impossible, but suggested selling +the stewards (there were semiliterate foremen among them) listened with +the still greater unimportance of death, the meaning of which no one +The stores are empty, the roads impassable. The Orthodox begin looting, +The story was very pretty and interesting, especially at the point +The stranger’s face was not genial, it was even cold and severe, but +the stretchers, and love of the sun and of life, all merged into one +The stretchers moved on. At every jolt he again felt unendurable pain; +the struggling men, and the fate of the red-haired gunner, who had +the study, like pistol shots, came the frequent sound of the old man +The stupid smile, which had left his face while he was speaking, +the subject of her request and must not be shown before the request was +the suite pointed out to Bagratión a French column that was outflanking +the sutlers. On receiving Borís’ letter he rode with a fellow officer +the table in a merry mood, sitting down now by one, now by another, of +the table, onto which he threw it. +the table, screened by a bound music book so that the light did not fall +the table, searched everywhere, and stood still in the middle of the +the table, summoned his daughter. He never gave his children a blessing, +the table which was scrawled over with figures, wet with spilled wine, +The tall, fair-haired General Buxhöwden stood, leaning his back against +the tears from his eyes and from the letter, then having dried her +The temperature shown by the political thermometer to the company that +the termination of the ceremony. He looked up joyfully at the baby when +the third!” +The third company was the last, and Kutúzov pondered, apparently trying +the third division and convinced himself that there really were no +The third group was gathered round Mortemart and Anna Pávlovna. +The third interruption came when Prince Andrew was finishing his +“The third, I said the third!” cried the prince abruptly, pushing +The third time the Rhetor came back more quickly and asked Pierre +The three voices, hers, Mademoiselle Bourienne’s, and Katie’s, who +the Thuerassa, he merely saves us a great deal of trouble and all our +the time had come to experience the joy of an attack of which he had so +the tipsy guests who were again crowding round the window, and listening +The Torzhók peddler woman, in a whining voice, went on offering her +the town where the headquarters and the diplomatic corps were stationed +The traveler was Joseph Alexéevich Bazdéev, as Pierre saw from the +the tremor of the speaker’s voice—which sometimes almost broke—or +The troops again began to move, and two battalions of the Nóvgorod and +the troops in their disorderly flight confirmed these rumors. +The troops of the vanguard were stationed before Wischau, within sight +The troops were running in such a dense mass that once surrounded by +the Tsar!” +The Tsar addressed the officers also: “I thank you all, gentlemen, I +The Tsar heard but obviously did not like the reply; he shrugged his +The Tsar looked intently and observantly into Kutúzov’s eye +The Tsar said something more which Rostóv did not hear, and the +The Tsar stopped a few minutes in front of the hussars as if undecided. +the Tsar with another glance at the Emperor Francis, as if inviting +the Tverskáya Street rode the hussar with mustaches... I thought about +The two generals and the adjutant took hold of the field glass, trying +the two ladies, addressing Prince Vasíli and pointing to an inlaid +The two Pávlograd squadrons, having crossed the bridge, retired up the +The two young men, the student and the officer, friends from childhood, +The unknown general looked disdainfully down at Kozlóvski, who was +“The unpleasant things were said to me,” remarked Véra, “I said +The unsolved problem that tormented him was caused by hints given by the +the uselessness of freeing the serfs, who were quite happy as it was. +the valley. The fourth column, with which Kutúzov was, stood on the +the very time he was expressing this conviction to himself, in another +The vicomte appreciated this silent praise and smiling gratefully +The vicomte bowed and smiled courteously in token of his willingness to +“The vicomte knew the duc personally,” whispered Anna Pávlovna to +The vicomte merely shrugged his shoulders. Pierre looked solemnly at his +the vicomte’s story. Prince Vasíli’s words frightened her, an +The vicomte told his tale very neatly. It was an anecdote, then current, +The vicomte was a nice-looking young man with soft features and polished +The vicomte who was meeting him for the first time saw clearly that +The vicomte wished to begin his story and gave a subtle smile. +the village again, but Túshin’s guns could not move, and the +the village letting the troops pass by him. That morning Kutúzov seemed +The visitor, compelled to look on at this family scene, thought it +The visitor made a gesture with her hand. +The visitor, not knowing what to say, shook her head. +the visitors, and before the visitors I tell you that in future you are +the waiter. +the wall, his eyes fixed on a burning candle, and seemed not to listen +the war is over, that the Emperor Francis is arranging a meeting with +The war was flaming up and nearing the Russian frontier. Everywhere one +the water, and approaches the tête-de-pont. At length appears the +the wax with the baby’s hair had not sunk in the font but had floated. +the way from Ulm, while Dólokhov maintained that the Russians had not +the way he walked through the ranks behind the generals, bending forward +The weather had cleared again since noon and the sun was descending +the weight of his knapsack. +the well-known Prince Bolkónski who had to retire from the army under +the whole day was finally and indubitably answered in the affirmative. +the whole human race, offering it in our members an example of piety +The whole interest was concentrated on Rostóv. Instead of sixteen +the whole matter and decide what was right and how he should act, but +the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building +the whole story of life. You talk of Bonaparte and his career,” said +“The wife!” said the old prince, briefly and significantly. +the wild set led by Dólokhov. Zherkóv had met Dólokhov abroad as a +the will and letter will be delivered to the Emperor, and the petition +“The will will show that, my dear; our fate also depends on it.” +the wind. +The wind had fallen and black clouds, merging with the powder smoke, +the window sill, but refrained from touching it. Pierre again covered +the woman he had known as a child, of whom when her beauty was mentioned +the woman’s vehicle for trying to get ahead of others, and the strokes +the women.” +The word of command rang out, and again the regiment quivered, as with a +the words of the order were not clear to the regimental commander, and +the worst,” said the Austrian general, evidently wishing to have done +“The wound is not here, it is there!” said Kutúzov, pressing the +They all had but one wish: to advance as soon as possible against the +They all separated, but, except Anatole who fell asleep as soon as he +they all were, or seemed to be, pretty—so rapturous were their smiles +they are beaten, flogged, or sent to Siberia, I don’t suppose they are +“They are regular brigands, especially Dólokhov,” replied the +they assure the officer on duty that they, the marshals, are on +they became silent, and Pierre thought he saw the princess hide +they both felt happy). “We had our hands full last night. However, I +“They can’t be far off, probably just beyond the stream,” he said +“They coax me as if I were Váska the cat!” said Denísov jokingly. +they contain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, know the +they could not fail to vanquish anyone, be it whom it might: so thought +They dismounted and entered the tent. Several officers, with flushed and +“They don’t even give one time to dwink!” answered Váska +they do the guns.” +They entered the elegant, newly decorated, and luxurious dining room. +They entered the large hall, from which one of the doors led to the +they gave her an attraction more powerful than that of beauty. But the +“They give little hope,” replied the prince. +They got into the carriage and drove for a few minutes in silence. +they had entered Moscow. +they had gone by, the same stream of soldiers followed, with the same +they had lifted the dying man and were moving him. +they had looked at the regimental commander, seeming by their expression +They had not met for nearly half a year and, being at the age when young +they had when she was not thinking of herself. As with everyone, her +they halted in silence. There was nothing fresh to be seen from the +“They have gone to bed and put out their lights, your excellency.” +They’ll ransack that castle,” he remarked with evident approval. +they’ll say so again and again, and that will be the end of it. My +“They march splendidly,” remarked someone in Bagratión’s suite. +“They might call a halt here or we’ll have to do another four miles +“They must be feeling dull, too,” said one of the bolder officers, +they must look somewhere, or it meant too much. Pierre hesitated, +They named the colonel, Prince Repnín. +The younger Emperor could not restrain his wish to be present at the +The young man, flattered, sat down nearer to her with a coquettish +the young man had departed. “There is never any ‘impossible’ with +“The young man’s a real hussar!” shouted the colonel, again +The young people, at the countess’ instigation, gathered round the +The young Princess Bolkónskaya had brought some work in a +the young prince. The members of the household were all gathered in the +the youth and inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless +they quite understood one another as to the first part of their romance, +“They’re always in love with someone,” he thought of Sónya and +“They received me and my news as one receives a dog in a game of +They’re coming!” Alarmed voices were heard, and a stir of final +“They’re coming!... they’re coming!... Stand aside, make way, +They rode up the opposite hill. From there the French could already be +They rose from the table and sat down in the entrance porch which served +“They say Pierre is quite broken by his misfortune.” +“They say the ball will be very good,” replied the princess, drawing +they seemed of them, one could feel by the occasional glances they gave +They seized him by his arms; but he was so strong that everyone who +They stood silent, facing one another. The old man’s sharp eyes were +they too could, like Natásha and Borís, escape from the drawing room. +“They’ve been saying so a long while,” said the count, “and +They went out and walked about till dinnertime, talking of the political +They went through the porch and into the stable. The lieutenant +They went up to the door of the sitting room from which came the sound +They were again silent. +they were as usual laughing. +they were firing at could not be seen for the smoke which there was no +“They were in a hurry enough to start us, and now here we stand in +they were in the carriage. “He hardly recognizes anybody.” +they were saying was amusing, but because she felt happy and was unable +“They were there this evening, but now I don’t know, your +they would have remained there for a long time testing each other’s +they would not for an instant let his shoulder move a hair’s breadth. +thick, bushy eyebrows. Prince Andrew went up and kissed his father on +thick-set general with grizzled eyebrows and whiskers, and wider from +thin face. Her eyes, always sad, now looked with particular hopelessness +thin face was now quivering with nervous excitement; his eyes, in which +thing.” +thing can be arranged. It shall be on your family’s behalf that I’ll +thing he would have to unite his fate with hers. He might perhaps have +thing I have faith in! Our good and wonderful sovereign has to perform +things and supper dishes stood in disorder, and in the middle of the +things,” and the skin over his left temple puckered, “either you +things, but Austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war. She +things had to be. From the passage they went into a large, dimly +things he should have shown it sooner, but he lets it go on for months. +things. She did not reply, but looked at her seriously. +things that had never occurred. Mademoiselle Bourienne also shared them +things that he has been expelled by the police.” +things the old count sent to his son. +thing we are interested in here,” said the spirit of the place. +think could hardly be found nowadays—but is she contented with her +think, Count? The next day it was not even mentioned in the Orders of +thinking about you. Why are you going?” +thinking? I mustn’t forget. How shall I speak to the Emperor? No, +thinking of?” she went on, turning to Prince Hippolyte. “Fetch me my +think it over. Go! Yes or no, yes or no, yes or no!” he still shouted +think so yourself. And the main thing is,” he continued, “that I +Think that he is your father ... perhaps in the agony of death.” She +think the regiment is not a bad one, eh?” +think we thoroughly understand. +“Think what you please! I know you are just like Father. Think as +thin lips interrupted Weyrother, wishing to say something. But the +third company he suddenly stopped. His suite, not having expected this, +“Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,” she counted on her slender +thirteen look at the boy they are in love with and have just kissed for +thirtieth he attacked Mortier’s division, which was on the left bank, +thirty,” said he, looking at Shinshín and the count with a joyful, +This action was so unlike her usual composure and the fear depicted on +This active old servant was unpacking the traveler’s canteen and +this answer. “Have you sought for means of attaining your aim in +This battle, which consisted in the capture of a French squadron, was +This black-eyed, wide-mouthed girl, not pretty but full of life—with +this bone—a bill for thirty thousand rubles—to the poor princess +This Buonaparte has turned all their heads; they all think of how he +this?” But these doubts only lasted a moment. Pierre glanced at +this card and I’ll take my cap and drive home to supper with Denísov, +this consciousness of mismanagement became a general conviction, but as +this defect was not due to any fault of the regimental commander, for +this disorder,” he muttered. “Do as you like.” +This door led into a back anteroom. An old man, a servant of the +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost +this expectation did not upset the regular routine of life in the old +This expression evidently pleased him. +this fact ought to give Prince Vasíli much satisfaction. +This Guardsman would certainly have bowled Rostóv and his Bedouin over +this heart, so kind and generous? Say ‘perhaps’... The future is so +this he’ll soon have us, too, for his subjects! How are you?” And he +this holiday time. “Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! +this house and in Brünn itself. I want to entertain him as far as I +this indecision appeared to him majestic and enchanting, like everything +this information, the little princess and Mademoiselle Bourienne, whose +this instant!” thought Rostóv. +this is absolutely true. +“this is absurd! Come, let go I tell you.” +“This is all very fine, but things must be settled,” said Prince + * “This is a pleasure one gets in camp, Prince.” +“This is Dólokhov,” said Prince Andrew. +“This is for Borís from me, for his outfit.” +“This is not at all the thing,” he said. “What sort of Polish +This is the battle of Pultúsk, which is considered a great victory but +“This is the first act. Those that follow are naturally increasingly +“This is what I think. Austria has been made a fool of, and she is +“This is what I want, my dear fellow,” said the count to the +this is what I was proud of! I then thought that I did not understand +this lowest-grade greeting, a look of anxiety and fear, as at the sight +this magnanimity Bonaparte subsequently repaid by death. +this marriage. He recalled her former words and looks and the words +this may be my only chance of seeing the Emperor. It won’t be long +This meant that Tíkhon was not handing him the waistcoat he wanted. +this misery, and money, and Dólokhov, and anger, and honor—it’s all +this moment of happy, rapturous excitement. She gazed at him, not taking +this murderer and villain! We alone must avenge the blood of the just +this name day of hers had been one of the pleasantest she had ever had. +this poetic and pure intimacy, were what my heart needed. But enough of +this reinforcement. +this resemblance he was exceedingly ugly. His features were like his +this same room was dimly lighted by two candles. On one small table tea +This short man had on a white leather apron which covered his chest and +This short man nodded to Dolgorúkov as to an intimate friend and stared +This silence was broken by one of the brethren, who led Pierre up to the +this speech how they could best handle the master for their own ends. +this strange incident, and then shrugging his shoulders went to the door +this strong, brave man, this model son and officer that, judging by this +this table with the thought of winning a hundred rubles to buy that +this! The chief news, about which all Moscow gossips, is the death of +this uncertainty and hurry... There—they are shouting again, and +This unpleasant impression merely flitted over the young and happy face +This very sentence about Countess Zúbova and this same laugh Prince +this victory to the Austrian court, now no longer at Vienna (which was +this—want glory, want to be known to men, want to be loved by them, it +this was not so but that on the contrary the French had run away. He +This was particularly noticeable on Nesvítski’s usually laughing +This was quite true, but the count, the countess, and Natásha looked +This was the count’s favorite dance, which he had danced in his youth. +This was true. The architect had told him that it was necessary, and +“This won’t do, Princess; it won’t do,” said he, when Princess +this young Jacobin was not so terrible as his words suggested. All were +those brilliant aged eyes grown old in this conviction, or the calm +those first steps. Both had changed greatly since they last met and both +those Hofs-kriegs-wurst-Raths are! Suvórov couldn’t manage them so +those Kurágins and leading that sort of life. It suits you so +those of higher ranks in the Order. 3. Morality. 4. Love of mankind. 5. +those on foot, collapsed in a great mass, and some forty men who were on +those recently arrived from Russia, both Guards and regiments of the +those richer and more powerful than himself and he had rare skill in +“Those were extremes, no doubt, but they are not what is most +those who had been campaigning under Kutúzov. The two Emperors, +those who were guiding him. +those who were holding him under the armpits, and of his gray, curly, +Those who were in the dimly lit reception room spoke in nervous +those women—mostly mothers—who, having once made up their minds, +thou art wise because thou couldst utter those blasphemous words,” he +though all were in a conspiracy of silence. The men who set the tone +though embracing her. +Though five minutes before, Prince Andrew had been able to say a few +though he may perhaps outlive us all, as I sincerely hope he will...” +though he smiled delightedly. He ran up to them. +though he wrote in French and used French jests and French idioms, +Though Mademoiselle Bourienne had been so unsuccessful in her choice +Though none of the column commanders rode up to the ranks or talked to +Though not much time had passed since Prince Andrew had left Russia, he +Though no words had passed between Anatole and Mademoiselle Bourienne, +though of this Prince Andrew said nothing to his sister, was that in the +though politeness prevented his showing impatience, left the old woman +though she were grown up, was evidently very proud of this but at the +though shy, went on carefully executing her steps. Denísov did not +thought and heard of her might be false. And he again saw her not as the +thought. And suddenly, at this thought of death, a whole series of most +thought, as he listened to voices in Kutúzov’s courtyard. The voices +though the big hospitals and the houses in Krems converted into military +thought, he called Tíkhon and began to undress. +thought he heard a strange noise through the door. He was seized with +thought he, “I shall be sent with a brigade or division, and there, +thought: “I am going to save the army.” +thought, “I must remain free.” +thought independent of her sister-in-law’s words. In the midst of a +thought of everything, considered everything, and did everything the +thought of his friend and how much he expected of him in the future. +thought of Sónya, during this stay in Moscow, he said to himself, +thought of such a thing, it is only the cabinet that says it.” +thought Pierre, “and how little attention we pay to it!” +thought Pierre. “But this man knows the truth and, if he wished to, +thought Prince Andrew, and striking his horse he rode up to Kutúzov. +thought—referring to the little princess who was not in the dining +thought Rostóv. At that moment Alexander turned his head and Rostóv +thought Rostóv. He knew what a shock he would inflict on his father and +thought Rostóv. “I should die of happiness!” +thoughts. +thoughts, and memories suddenly arose within him that he could not fall +thought, “seriously, I have long been thinking of it.... Leading such +thoughts he has dreamed of for nights, but looks around for help or a +thoughts rather than the trend of the conversation—“and that’s a +thought that came into his mind was that today he had to be presented +thought that he, an exemplary officer of many years’ service who +thought. The minister drew the remaining papers together, arranged them +thought turned to her sister-in-law with a tender glance at her figure. +though what happened was due to chance and was independent of the +Though what she said was quite just, perhaps for that very reason no one +though without knowing its cause—was such as to remind one still more +thou hast lost.” +“Thou hatest it. Then change it, purify thyself; and as thou art +thousand Austrians, with a hundred thousand Russians, were to operate in +thousand men breathlessly gazing at him and the regimental commander did +thousand men each of whom knew his place and his duty, had every button +thousand-ruble horses, only eighteen were left after the charge. +thousands such as I in Russia.’ +thrashing for letting a private traveler have the courier horses. +threatened by the French) but at Brünn. Despite his apparently delicate +“Three and a half miles, Your Majesty.” +three beats: “Oh mio crudele affetto.”... One, two, three... one, +Three days later the little princess was buried, and Prince Andrew went +“three,” he went quickly forward, missing the trodden path and +three months ago, draw fresh moral strength from your look, so gentle, +three parts of that army were sharply distinguished: Kutúzov’s +throttle if they stood in my way. I have an adored, a priceless mother, +through, and realized that he could not stop halfway. He was aghast +through him, and again laughed his frigid laugh. +through his lorgnette, suddenly turned completely round toward the +throughout the whole cavalry division as Váska Denísov. Cadet Rostóv, +Through that door was heard a noise of things being moved about, and +through the closed doors came the sound of difficult passages—twenty +through the conservatories, the serfs’ quarters, and the outbuildings, +through the door. +Through the door came the regular hum of a lathe. The princess timidly +Through the door came the sounds of Kutúzov’s voice, excited and +through the door on tiptoe. He could not walk well on tiptoe and his +through the door. Prince Andrew got up, went to the door, and tried to +through the naïve and intelligent count and played with him as with +through the smoke. He was pressing one hand to his left side, while +through the town of Enns on both sides of the bridge. +throwing down his chisel. (The wheel continued to revolve by its own +thrown the reins of the snaffle bridle over the horse’s head. It was +thud of the enemy’s cannon balls, from the flushed and perspiring +thumb to the room where Telyánin was sitting, he frowned and gave a +thumping the table. +thumping the table; “and ve must tie for our Emperor, and zen all vill +thyself whether thou art content with thyself. What hast thou attained +tidiness and good management. Some domestic serfs Pierre met, in reply +Tíkhon, at her husband, and at the footman who accompanied them. +Tíkhon did not hear the slightest sound from the study after that. +Tíkhon knew his master’s habit of sometimes thinking aloud, and +Tíkhon knew that neither the son’s arrival nor any other unusual +Tíkhon, like all good valets, instinctively knew the direction of his +Tíkhon to ask Mary Bogdánovna what news.—“Say only that ‘the +Tíkhon went and told the prince. +till he began sincerely to believe in his own exceptional kindness and +till its coat shone like satin and every hair of its wetted mane lay +till May, and asked him to be more economical this time. Nicholas had +Till midday on the nineteenth, the activity—the eager talk, running to +till now. But where am I?” +till she was twenty, and arranged her life so that her whole time was +till ten o’clock. +till the general asked him to restore it. All his absent-mindedness and +till then, had listened with an amused smile to their conversation and +till then. Their powers of reasoning, feeling, and observing immediately +Till the Tsar reached it, each regiment in its silence and immobility + * Till tomorrow, my dear fellow. +till you can say to yourself that you have done all you are capable of, +time!” +time. +time, Anna Mikháylovna sent someone to call her son, and went into the +time could not admit the idea of his hero being disgraced. +time for that sort of thing and a young man fears to bind himself and +time in the shop. +time, muttering to herself. +time. No, I’ll tell you now. You know Sónya’s my dearest friend. +times before: how the late princess had given birth to Princess Mary +time since his return that they had talked alone and about their love. +times repeated—of a sonata by Dussek. +times, the more impassioned he became in these moments of almost morbid +times unexpectedly interrupted. Once he stopped it by shouting: “The +time that evening, vainly expecting someone, now smiling at someone, now +time till they came to Moscow had not left them for a day. +time to get his uniform. He had on a shabby cadet jacket, decorated with +time to time he went out to ask: “Hasn’t she come yet?” They +timidly from behind the backs of the generals. As he stepped past the +timidly to the corner where Denísov sat. She saw that everybody was +Timókhin, armed only with a sword, had rushed at the enemy with such +Timókhin to the subaltern beside him. +tint in her complexion and especially in the color of her slender but +tiny limbs she had felt twenty years ago within her, that son about whom +tipsy rage when a man does not know what he is saying. He saw that his +tiptoe to the countess’ door and paused. +tired of being run after by women, his vanity was flattered by the +tiresome,” said Natásha in a mortified voice that trembled slightly. +“Tit! I say, Tit!” said the groom. +Title: War and Peace +to abandon the road connecting him with the troops arriving from Russia, +to above the knee. Pierre hurriedly began taking off his right boot also +to accept their services. He took the glove in silence from the +to adopt a jocular tone. But before he had finished he felt that his +to a footman dressed in knee breeches, shoes, and a swallow-tail coat, +to agree to the truce but also to offer terms of capitulation, and +to all the club members and to all the club guests, and finally to +to another. “How evidently he belongs to the best society,” said she +toast, the count took out his handkerchief and, covering his face, wept +to a third; and the vicomte was served up to the company in the choicest +to attain it quickly. Hence we have a secondary aim, that of preparing +to attend to the business himself and so he disliked it and only tried +to a tune in which the weary musicians blundered, and while tired +to Bagratión which the old countess at Anna Mikháylovna’s advice had +to balance himself. One of the footmen who had stooped to pick up some +to be all right,” Pierre concluded, and followed Anna Mikháylovna. +to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, +to be grew stronger, and he meekly followed Anna Mikháylovna who was +to behave here as you did in Petersburg, you will end very badly; that +to be heard. +to be his old schoolroom, and looking into Natásha’s wildly bright +to be opened. Everywhere he saw the stewards’ accounts, according to +to be parted from her husband and be left alone in the country, in her +“To be quite frank, Mary, I expect Father’s character sometimes +to be reserved because in the depth of my soul I feel too near to him +to be severe, found nothing to say; the others did not venture to +to be silent. But after a while, just as a jury comes out of its room, +To be so sent meant not only a reward but an important step toward +“To be sure, your excellency,” replied the architect. +to be talking to a staff officer of such importance. “It’s a lovely +to blame all round. Well, what else do you want?...” +to bore him so much as that of his pretty wife. He turned away from +to build a new chantry to the church at their own expense in honor +to change his former way of life, but his strength failed him. He walked +to cheer the men but merely carried out the orders), yet the troops +“To combat the evil which sways the world...” Pierre repeated, and a +to continue his military service, and when the war recommenced +to control her joy which expressed itself by laughter. +to control herself any longer, she jumped up and rushed from the room as +to Count T., Prince V., and others. Then he bursts into one of his wild +to credit it, bent his head, and told Túshin that he could go. Prince +to cross the ditch on foot. The Emperor, wishing to rest and feeling +to cruel with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the +today, and that his excellency was not receiving anyone. +today for the Emperor.” Dolgorúkov smiled significantly. +today. He has been here on leave and is taking Nicholas back with him. +today or tomorrow—at any rate, in an instant as compared with +Today was a great day for him—the anniversary of his coronation. +today?” was his first thought. “And I did not know this suffering +“Today when I remembered that all these delightful associations +to demonstrate the defects of the latter and the merits of his own plan, +to dinner. I suppose he won’t go?” she continued, turning to the +to distraction! One learns many things then,” she added with a certain +to do but dwink. If we could only get to fighting soon. Hullo, who’s +to do it?”—“Because you married her,” answered an inner voice. +to do it that it seemed to him as if it had really happened. Perhaps +to do what was for him the most difficult thing in life—to say an +to do with Sergéy Kuzmích—a smile of bashfulness at their own +to dress in here; and that Andrew had quite changed, and that Kitty +to drive straight home. But the nearer he drew to the house the more he +to each couple of acres. The wounded crept together in twos and threes +To each new arrival Anna Pávlovna said, “You have not yet seen my +to enter into conversation with this old man, but, submitting to him +to enter the Brotherhood of Freemasons under my sponsorship?” + * To err is human. +toes toward the general. The captain’s face showed the uneasiness of +to everyone. Pierre was so used to that smile, and it had so little +to execute an order. The officer on duty, a handsome, elegantly dressed +to express our sincere views on that subject, and can only say to the +to fathom what He has been pleased to conceal from us, the sooner will + To feel that in this world there’s one +to fight a battle ‘on his own hand’ as the Germans say. He does so. +to fire and sword. The inhabitants are totally ruined, the hospitals +to fire the bridge, and now someone has gone and blundered; they are all +together.” +together, and made some steps on the very tips of her toes. +together? And there! Bezúkhov got off scotfree, while Fédya had to +together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel. At last +together. The German, Pahlen, has been sent to New York in America, to +together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes +to get himself killed. Tell me what this wretched war is for?” she +to get more money from the traveler. +to give her friend the pleasure of dandling the little angel—as she +to give in money and work all that other people’s serfs gave—that is +to give you the love you do not feel, and your prayer would have been +to go by the back stairs, yet judging by Anna Mikháylovna’s air +to greet the young man. +to Grunth to find Prince Bagratión. He heard the cannonade behind him +to have any children by me.” +to hear the details.” +to hear the voices of well-known men. The largest circles formed round +to help at any point where the conversation might happen to flag. As +to her. +to her.” +to her and kissed her warmly. Anatole went up to kiss the little +to her, and now that Anatole had appeared it just grouped itself around +to her but to the movements of Mademoiselle Bourienne’s little +to her? I am so grateful to you that I would willingly sacrifice +to hers. A woman came from the bedroom with a frightened face and became +to herself: “No, I must be mistaken, he must be feeling happy, just as +to her shortsighted eyes. Turning from Princess Mary he went up and +to him about politics. Prince Andrew and the others gathered round these +to him and disputed with one another who should bring him his tea, +to him, as you so well know how to be.” +to him. Availing himself of his friendly relations with Pierre as a boon +to him by the officers, and, like a man desperately insisting on having +to him fell against the rails with a groan. Rostóv ran up to him with +to him. He could not tell them simply that everyone went at a trot and +to him: “I hear you are refitting your Petersburg house?” +to himself, but which formed the whole interest of his life, +to Himself, for in Him alone is truth and peace,” said she in a voice +to him senseless, he understood and was not surprised at it. +to him straight out. Let people think what they will of me, it’s +to him. We search, but none are to be found. The field marshal grows +to his adjutant he ordered him to bring down the two battalions of the +to his beautiful sister, but yet more by the fact that in spite of +to his estates and quite recovered the philanthropic mood in which +to his horse’s mane and pulled up beside the hussar. He was succumbing +to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real +to his people in Germany; and he felt greatly offended when the butler +to his study with the wet nurse and little Prince Nicholas (as his +to hope from him—especially as he did not know how, and did not +to imbibe,” he said. “Can I receive that pure liquid into an impure + * To indicate he did not want more tea. +to indicate that he was about to say something witty. “Buonaparte?” +to inquiries as to where the prince lived, pointed out a small newly +to irresistible, youthful, childish drowsiness. “But what was I +to it were his inertia and a wrinkle on his brow indicating prolonged +to join some Swedish forces at Stralsund; how two hundred and twenty +to know as plain Monsieur Pierre, has become Count Bezúkhov and the +to know?” she asked sternly. +to know what is right and what is wrong. Men always did and always will +to Kutúzov’s staff despite all Anna Mikháylovna’s endeavors and +told him, and said, “Very good!” in a tone that seemed to imply that +told him that he should try to do nothing to stain the whiteness of that +told him the whole field could be seen. Here he dismounted, and stopped +told him to expect. +told him what he had seen. +told the count such vile, disgraceful things about us, especially about +told them all that. +told you, but you would not believe it,” she said triumphantly. “He +told you it would not be enough. How much?” +to leave that seclusion where they three were shut off from all the +To live for myself avoiding those two evils is my whole philosophy +to look under the uniforms he would have found on every man a clean +to make out the pattern. +to make reflections or think aloud in her company, and she had always +to make scenes. This last consideration moved him. +tomb of the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument +to me after the review and we will do what is possible.” +to me all about it, and I will help you in everything.” Pierre had +to Milorádovich who was near him. +tomorrow.” +tomorrow... in the evening. You must come.... Come!” +tomorrow! Only let me tell you, I want to know my son-in-law better. You +tomorrow,” or, “Be in to dinner or I shall not see you,” or, “I +“Tomorrow our squadron is to be in reserve. May I ask to be attached +“Tomorrow,” replied Rostóv and left the room. +“Tomorrow very likely I may be sent with some message to the +to move from right to left as if drawn by an invisible hand, and the +tomowwow,” muttered Denísov. +to my bivouac; let my doctor, Larrey, examine their wounds. Au revoir, + To my native land...” +to my sister today. I will introduce you to her. But of course you know +tone and manner, here in Moscow to Anna Mikháylovna whom he had placed +tone of entreaty and reproach that a carpenter uses to a gentleman who +tone of voice. “Come here, my friend...” and she ominously tucked +tones. +tone. “What has been decided? They have decided that Buonaparte has +“Tonight, not later,” said he in a low voice, and he moved away +tonight to my friends—come to the English Hotel. +to notice him, and that his whole aim now was to test the cadet’s +too. +to offer their services. Most of those present were elderly, respected +took a horse and a Cossack from a Cossack commander, and hungry and +took her hand and begged her forgiveness, without knowing what for. +took her sister-in-law’s arm and drew her into another room. +took him by the shoulder, led him to the window, and began to talk to +took it...” he whispered just above Telyánin’s ear. +took to be the enemy. Shots could be heard, but some way off. +took up her work. +to Olmütz, dined there, drank a bottle of wine, and then set off alone +tools laid ready to hand and shavings scattered around—all indicated +too, might have their own interests. But all he said was so prettily +to one another, and the old servant who was holding the count’s hand +to one side he gracefully held a gold lorgnette to his eyes and looked +too seemed strange; at one moment they looked impudently sly and at the +to pass the time.” +to Petersburg, look round, and choose your profession. I will agree to +topic—making fun of the military men of the day, and more particularly +topic of the day: the illness of the wealthy and celebrated beau of +To Pierre he said nothing, merely giving his arm a sympathetic squeeze +to Pierre. He spoke in French. “I only know two very real evils in +To please you...” said Prince Andrew. But immediately, noticing +to present the regiment in parade order, on the principle that it is +to pretend to the steward that he was attending to it. The steward +To PRINCE MURAT, +“To Prince Vasíli. He was so kind. He at once agreed to everything, +to provide himself with some books for the campaign, and had spent some +to raise... happens to everybody! Yes, who has not done it?” +to read and write by the deacon, like your father and me. Now tell me, +to recollect something. Prince Andrew stepped forward from among the +to remain for a few weeks longer in the house she so loved and where +to remain so for a hundred years; but the moment comes when the lever +to rest after their hard marches. +to restrain his laughter. +to retreat along the road from Krems to Olmütz, to unite with the +to right and left of him soldiers continually groaned and dropped. But +to Rostóv and involuntarily riveted his attention, made a gesture of +to Rostóv’s face, and his sobs were audible. +to Rostóv when the animal was handed over to the hussar. +to run out to her, and remained in her hiding place, watching—as +Torzhók embroidery came into the room offering their services. +Torzhók post station, either there were no horses or the postmaster +to say: “Ah, what have you done to me, and why?” And at the sight +to say, all that could be got out of them. +to say and as if she were saying it to someone else, with whom joking +to say more in the presence of a stranger. +To say “tomorrow” and keep up a dignified tone was not difficult, +to seize hold of Dólokhov’s shirt. +to set the serfs to work. Say that everything out of the hothouses must +to settle here altogether next year....” +to shout: “Blackguards!... Throw the snow back on the road!” did not +to show her fear of Anna Pávlovna. She looked at her niece, as if +to show that they are not at all impatient for their food. The host and +to show the Austrian general the wretched state in which the troops +to slip in over there.” +to snatch from the other a boot they were both holding on to. +to snatch it from one another. The expression on all their faces +to sob aloud. +to start her gambols again and display her kittenish nature. +to state his views plainly to the Emperor? Is it possible that on +to stimulate his emotions he looked around. “God, death, love, the +to stop and fire the bridge.” +to subscribe all he had, but fearing that it might look like pride +to sympathize in any way. +to take their leave. +totally altered and unexpectedly rapturous and tender expression on +total of his losses on it, then he looked round for aid from the other +to tear open the veil of convention that separates a commander in chief +to tell you. There is a war now against Napoleon. If it were a war for +to the accountant, “but he feels a pain in the pit of his stomach +“To the army.” +to the Austrian Emperor and smiled. +to the back of the house, to the room of the eldest princess. +to the devil, I’m busy!” he shouted to Lavrúshka, who went up to +to the effect that the Duc d’Enghien had gone secretly to Paris to +to the elderly lady, even betraying some impatience, she gave him an +“To the Emperor.” +to the Emperor Francis; he remembered the Minister of War, the polite +to the Emperor shocked Rostóv. Rostóv saw how the Emperor’s rather +to the Emperors with a salute. His whole appearance and manner were +to the end, without raising his eyes at the opening of the door and the +to the farther side of the bridge and stopped the infantry. Beside the +to the first squadron?” +to the footman who was helping him on with his cloak, listened +to the French sword and pouch. “I have taken an officer prisoner. I +to the frontier. Our dear Emperor has left Petersburg and it is thought +to the front of the regiment and examined it from a distance. +to the general commanding that left flank with orders to retreat +to the godmother, Princess Mary. Prince Andrew sat in another room, +to the Guards’ camp to find his old playmate. Rostóv had not yet had +“To the Head of the French Government... Au chef du gouvernement +“To the health of our Sovereign, the Emperor!” he cried, and at the +to the hussar beside him. +to the Imperial family as well as to all Moscow and Petersburg, and both +to their chatter. Anatole kept on refilling Pierre’s glass while +to their companies, the sergeants major began bustling (the greatcoats +to the last meeting between father and son, it was so touching that she +To the left down below in the mist, the musketry fire of unseen forces +to the maid, “bring the princess her gray dress, and you’ll see, +to them are the parts of the mechanism which the impulse has not yet +to then been in regular order and silent began to sway and stretch and +to the old conditions of life, Nicholas found it very pleasant to be +to the palace, however, an official came running out to meet him, and +to the prince and smiling amiably at him as if to show that political +to the princess. +to the prince that if these battalions went away, the guns would remain +to the ranks along which shots crackled now here and now there, drowning +to the ranks,” said the captain softly. +to the removal of the guns. +to the review, reaching the field at Olmütz by ten o’clock. +“To the right from the corridor, Euer Hochgeboren! There you will find +to the rules of his art, as he collected the tickets from all his +to the Tsar or to Kutúzov, even if they were alive and unwounded? +to the unknown place where he was going, many more of our men were going +to the Vienna-Znaim road. Bagratión was to make this march without +to the views of the old generals Kutúzov and Prince Schwartzenberg, it +to the visitor she added: “She is my youngest girl.” +to the window. +to think of the impression he makes on others, but is occupied with +to think of the interview with his dying father which awaited him. He +To this chit of a girl, Natásha, who not so long ago was playing with +to this occurrence than to the rest of what went on, having made up his +to those who knew the indubitable truth.) He forgot what the seventh +to time she smoothed the folds of her dress, and whenever the story +“To try his luck or the certainty?” Rostóv asked himself. +to turn away when the old man, opening his eyes, fixed his steady and +to turn the count’s heavy body toward the wall. +to Túshin’s battery had been moved away in the middle of the action +to twitch. The twitching increased, the handsome mouth was drawn to one +touched him was sent flying. +touched Pierre: he looked at Hélène and she too seemed disconcerted, +touching Bonaparte’s. +touching his arm, but when he saw Pierre’s beaming face he gave him an +touching his horse and turning purple in the face. “Vill you be so +touching thanks of deputations of serfs in their full-skirted blue +touch with it, and looked around bewildered and unable to grasp what was +touch, “you promised me!” + * To understand all is to forgive all. +to unload the muskets, explode the ammunition, and all return home as +to us.” +to walk up and down before it. +toward Anna Pávlovna, and Anna Pávlovna, with the same sad smile with +Toward evening Dolgorúkov came back, went straight to the Tsar, and +Toward evening he ceased moaning and became quite still. He did not know +toward him and said something. +toward him whom He may give me for husband. +Toward the end of 1806, when all the sad details of Napoleon’s +toward the sofa she had indicated. As soon as Anna Mikháylovna had +toward the vanguard. Before he came up with the hussars, several +toward those Pratzen Heights which were being more and more denuded by +to warn me of the humor my father is in. I do not allow myself to judge +to. Weyrother had been twice that evening to the enemy’s picket +to Weyrother sat Count Langeron who, with a subtle smile that never left +to what he dreaded more than anything in the world—to ridicule; but +to what he must do and how he should answer, Willarski only replied that +to which Pierre did not agree. On the other hand, Pierre demanded that +town knows?” +“To your barrier!” and Pierre, grasping what was meant, stopped by +to you since dinner? Hasn’t she?” +to you. Where are you traveling from?” +traces broke, and lungs were strained with shouting. The officers +traditions of unlimited power, in time when they grow more irritable, +trampled mud and gazed with that particular feeling of ill-will, +trampling through the deep snow, and muttering incoherent words: +transit gloria mundi.” +Translators: Louise and Aylmer Maude +transparently radiant with impulsive joy. +traveler, also detained for lack of horses. +traveler, having packed his things with his practiced hands, began +traveling effects of Prince Andrew’s were in very good order: new, +treading heavily he stepped down from the carriage just as if those two +tread of the soldiers who were keeping step with him. He carried close +treated them with absent-minded contempt. +treetops and bluish gorges. The turrets of a convent stood out beyond a +trembled nervously; this was sufficient to cause his whole body to slip +trembling with emotion, solemnly holding up in both hands before her +triangles are equal; please note that the angle ABC...” +tried to conceal them. +tried to pretend not to know; no one spoke of it, but apart from the +tried with his lips whether the child was still feverish. The soft +trifle to let a wagon go past. After he had gone, two soldiers rushed to +trigger, as he had not before held a pistol in his hand—a fact that he +tripping rapidly across in her little shoes trimmed with bows, ran +triumph. +triumph. +triumphant, cheerful face. +triumphantly and gaily. +triumphantly secured the mop and still did not realize what awaited him, + Triumph, valiant Russians, now!... +troops arriving from Russia, he risked being forestalled on that road +troops below the hill and fell far short of the enemy, a little smoke +troops had already entered Prussia and our second war with Napoleon +troops, he saw, near a kitchen garden with a ditch round it, two men +troops on the high ground above the bridge involuntarily asked himself +troops were ill-clad, exhausted, and had lost a third of their number +troops were moving in the distance, and he listened to the sounds of +troops were no longer moving, but stood with the butts of their muskets +troops were running onto the bridge, was about to fire, but Lannes +trot to escape from the poisoned atmosphere of these latrines. +trouble, and silently fixed his eyes on Bagratión as a schoolboy who +trouble, but the Mason told him that was not necessary and gave him +trouvez là le mot pour rire,” * he said, as if strengthening his +trowel, a rough stone and a squared stone, a pillar, three windows, and +trowel, he told him to toil with it to cleanse his own heart from vice, +truce and a capitulation, he detected a ruse and wrote the following +“True enough,” answered Nesvítski; “two smart fellows could have +true Gascon) and says: ‘I don’t recognize the world-famous Austrian +true, or might at least seem to be true had it not referred to his wife. +trumpets of the first cavalry regiment played the general march. It +“Trust in His mercy!” and pointing out a small sofa for him to sit +trusts to luck, one should make certain,’ and I want to try.” +trying in vain to find the answer to some question. +trying not to lose a word of the speech which was incomprehensible to +trying only to be ahead of the others; but just at the bridge, not +trying” (Pierre’s modesty made him correct himself) “to live for +trying through the Dowager Empress Márya Fëdorovna to secure it for +trying to get something out of the rich man?” +trying to give an expressive intonation to his voice. +trying to prove that the Russians had surrendered and had fled all +try to do all I can for your happiness.” +“Try to serve well and show yourself worthy,” added he, addressing +Tsar and the country? It is wartime. Such a fine fellow must serve. +Tsar, who still remained in the same attitude of indecision. +tucked up, without a coat, pale and with a trembling jaw, came out +Tuesday. +tuft of plumes in his cocked hat worn on one side with its corners front +tumbler with tea for himself and one for the beardless old man to whom +turn away from the sight, shouting angrily at the men who, as is always +turned away and went down the side of the corridor. +turned from Captain Timókhin again flitted over his face. He turned +turned out splendidly all the same,” he added, winking at Véra. +turned round. The officer evidently had complete control of his face, +turned their horses away. The accountant stopped, facing the Cossack, +turned to Anna Mikháylovna, answering her query by a movement of the +turned to her. +turned to his wife. +turned to speak to his daughter, the beautiful Hélène. +turned toward her brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, +turned toward the women, and while the vehicle was passing at foot pace +turned to Zherkóv. The nervous irritation aroused by the appearance +turning away from the girls, who at once assumed an air of inattention. +turning for a moment to the front line, and slightly swinging his arms, +turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, +turning into the village already... they will have their buckwheat +Turning the horse sharply, he again jumped the ditch, and deferentially +turning to Anatole, “come here, let us talk and get acquainted.” +turning to Prince Vasíli and answering his imploring look. “Yes, or +turn into vexation and anger at the stupid arrangements and at the +turn now, but that he will do all he can to let his turn come as late as +turn spindles at home!’?” said Shinshín, puckering his brows and +“Turn this way!” he shouted, jumping over the ice which creaked +Túshin. +Túshin did not say that there were no covering troops, though that +Túshin rose and, buttoning his greatcoat and pulling it straight, +Túshin’s battery but had never reached it. Interrupting one +Túshin’s battery had been forgotten and only at the very end of the +Túshin’s guns had been intended to cannonade the valley, he was +Túshin’s large, kind, intelligent eyes were fixed with sympathy and +Túshin smiling shyly in his uncomfortable position, evidently wishing +Túshin’s wattle shed was laid, with a bullet in his stomach, on +Túshin told them to give the man some water. Then a cheerful soldier +Túshin turned round in dismay. It was the staff officer who had turned +Túshin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to +twelve men in garments like those he had already seen. Some of them +twenty men were gathered round a table at which Dólokhov sat between +twinkled and looked out straight. +twisted upwards, sat the ruddy Milorádovich in a military pose, his +twitched its ears as the bayonets touched it, and snorted, spurting +two. +two.” +two Alexanders—Bekleshëv and Narýshkin—which was a significant +two battalions of the Sixth Chasseurs in fine order. Before they had +two candles. On the table was a pile of gold and paper money, and he +two Cossacks. +Two footmen, the princess’ and his own, stood holding a shawl and +two friends, one of whom was a dashing hussar and the other a notorious +two front teeth were missing that had been knocked out by the butt end +two hostile armies was all the more clearly felt. +Two hours later Prince Andrew, stepping softly, went into his father’s +“Two, I think.” +Two months had elapsed since the news of the battle of Austerlitz and +Two of the enemy’s shots had already flown across the bridge, where +two seconds. Whether or no the Emperor understood what was going on in +“Two such charming children. And really you appreciate them less than +twot fo’ward!” +two thousand rubles, and though he always disliked speaking of money +two, three... One... “Oh mio crudele affetto.”... One, two, three... +two years, and he did not know how the rest, about 100,000 rubles, was +two younger ones were embroidering: both were rosy and pretty and they +“Ugh! I don’t like that fellow,” he said, regardless of the +“Ugh. The hussars will get it hot!” said Nesvítski; “they are +unable to ask for himself, he became chary of using his influence. But +unable to overcome or conceal his groundless antipathy to the man. +unable to realize where he was. +unable to withstand it now, but he also felt that on what he said now +unaccustomed brightness, but he was looking not at his sister but over +unappreciated bliss, long past. He could not conceive that a stupid +un bâtard!”* she added, as if supposing that this translation of the +unbroken and had all day beaten back an enemy force twice as numerous +unchanging smile. +unchanging stonily severe expression; and, sitting down opposite the +unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of Napoleon’s doctor, +unconscious little princess, he shook his head reprovingly and slammed +unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the +“Und die ganze Welt hoch!” * +under an invisible cap—to see what went on in the world. She was +under an obligation, assuming an air of much greater importance than he +under fire for the first time. +under him; “turn this way!” he shouted to those with the gun. “It +under his weight alone. The men looked at him and pressed to the +under one command, and in a like order. +understand?” +understand, agitated her. She said nothing but looked about uneasily as +understand and state the patient’s condition. +understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but +understand him, but he did not speak it very well—“I bet fifty +understand him it was so much the worse for them—did not go up to the +understand how a man of his immense intellect can fail to see what is +understand how one can live with such ideas. I had such moments +understanding but not wishing to appear to do so. The princess as usual +understanding half of it, read only to forget, if but for a moment, what +understanding of his employer’s happiness. +understand it’!... And I ask you!” +understand it; I don’t in the least understand why men can’t live +understand it so differently. He collected all his strength, to stir and +understand. She kissed his rough curly black head. At this instant, they +understand. That’s what I’m up to.” +understand the self-abnegation of our Emperor who wants nothing for +understand... what a soul he has!” +understand what was being read. He managed to follow only the last words +understood all the difficulties of the Russian army’s position, and +understood her and made up my mind what she really is. Was I mistaken +understood him. The old man got up and gave the letter to his son. +understood, that he could not answer him. +understood that she was being asked to entertain this young man, and +understood that this woman might belong to him. +understood the Revolution and quelled it, and so for the general good, +understood what was happening as little as he did. +understood without naming. +“Under the lower pillow.” +under the shirt sleeves, those hands which he loved and hated, held him +under the table. +under which she felt that she could not think, but would only be able to +“Und vivat die ganze Welt!” Though neither the German cleaning his +uneasily as if preparing to resent any slight that might be put upon the +unexpectedly kind and pleasant smile. +unexpectedly through his mind. +unexpectedly to go into action. Rostóv without hearing Borís to the +unfastened cloak, wide breeches hanging down in creases, and a crumpled +unfinished bit of nibbled sugar, and asked if anything more would be +unfortunate, a stranger, alone, helpless! And, oh God, how passionately +unfriendly now became gentle and affectionate. The angry eldest +ungainly Russian princesses, would fall in love with her and carry her +uniformed Austrian officer. +uniform living waves of soldiers, shoulder straps, covered shakos, +uniforms advanced toward the bridge at a run. Smoke appeared again +uniforms and groups with horses, easily recognizable as artillery. +uniforms, mounted on black horses, trotting straight toward him and +uniforms, with smartly dressed bandsmen in front mounted on black, roan, +unintentionally, he poured too many drops into the glass. He threw the +universe, and of the courage with which he should endure toils and +unlicked bear! A perfectly absurd and stupid fellow, and a gambler too, +unlike the old one, he expected everything to be unusual, even more +unlucky at cards.’ Your cousin is in love with you, I know.” +unmarried, and even the happier for it?” So thought Prince Bolkónski +unmask his deceivers!” And in order to realize vividly his love +unmelted snow, or some white houses? He even thought something moved on +unnatural smile. “I expect you have guessed that Prince Vasíli has +unnatural way, he stretched out his hand for Alpátych to kiss, and then +unpleasant. +unpleasantly excited expression. +unpleasant things to everyone and upset them. Let’s go to the +unpleasant thing to a man’s face, to say what the other, whoever +unusual than what he was seeing. A skull, a coffin, the Gospel—it +unwell, sat down under an apple tree and von Toll remained beside him. +unwell today? Eh? Afraid of the ‘minister’ as that idiot Alpátych +unwounded—it was they who were crushing, weighing down, and twisting +unwounded. The soldiers were ascending the hill breathing heavily, and +up against him. He wrote “800 rubles” on a card, but while the +up a glass and a pipe that were handed him. +up and began watching the movements of our troops below, as plainly +up and turning away as if from a shameful aspersion. “It is not from +up at all!” +up!” came the company commander’s voice in jaunty tones. The +up for lost time. +up from both sides. Everyone crowded to the window, the Englishman in +up from the sofa, seized Borís under the elbow in his quick, clumsy +up her downy little lip. “All the pretty women in society will be +up her sleeves still higher. Pierre approached, looking at her in a +up, invited him to his house in Petersburg, and now... she has come here +up like a fool!” he thought, looking irritably at her. “She is +upon and could not now be altered. “We start tomorrow and I’m giving +upon anyone, and it was clear that the kitten had settled down only to +upon him, passed splendidly, lifting his feet with a high and graceful +upon Prince Andrew, who was beside him. Seeing him, Kutúzov’s +up on the vast field. The whole army was extended in three lines: the +up out of the mist. +upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to be her own special and +up their knapsacks with a jerk of their shoulders and pulling the straps +up the steps to where the coffin stood, to give her the farewell kiss. +up the whole of her thin, sickly face and made it beautiful. Her brother +up to Denísov’s squadron and rode at a footpace not far from Rostóv, +up to her. +up tomorrow. But you will see everything for yourself when you get to +up to the altar, placed his feet at right angles, and bade him lie down, +up to the appearance of the pauvre mère; they understood that they had +up to the commander in chief, and presented arms. +up to their gallery, addressing the first violin: +up to the window of the first house, when a familiar voice called him by +up to Túshin. +upwards, in the way affected by the Emperor Alexander, and, having +up, was hastily writing at a tub turned bottom upwards. Kozlóvski’s +urged on his already weary horse to get quickly past these crowds, but +urging of horses, and the swearing of soldiers, orderlies, and officers. +us?...” “Ah! Mary, you have got thinner?...” “And you have grown +us aides-de-camp and adjutants! But this is what we’ll do: I have +us. But Vienna is on the other side. No, the bridge has not yet been +us but within....” +used for dancing, but in which five beds now stood, and furniture of +used to be. Don’t judge Lise harshly,” she began. “She is so +used to like to spend them, or to open his mind by intimate talks with +used to say that a nap “after dinner was silver—before dinner, +used to show at catchplay, now and then turning his good-natured, pale, +use of whatever interest he had to offer. He himself carefully scanned +ushering Bolkónski in. “So you’re a messenger of victory, eh? +us nice news of a victory by the Archduke Karl or Ferdinand (one +us talk business. Have you been to the Horse Guards?” +us. To the left the horizon bounded by the adjacent wood. Prince +usual. +usual in French, and as if after long self-restraint she wished to make +usually so described. +usurper, the whole nation will certainly throw itself into the arms +us. Well, you want an argument,” he added, “come on then.” +us—we scuttle. He hardly crosses the river to our side before we +utter a sound. He feebly moved his leg and uttered a weak, sickly groan +uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan. +Uvárov, who had arrived with him, paused at the doorway to allow him, +vacancies occur much more frequently in the Foot Guards. Then just think +vainly trying to master her agitation. +valet can go in your carriage. Ah! I was nearly forgetting,” he added. +valet had set down the coffee things and left the room. Pierre looked +valor carry disorder and confusion into the enemy’s ranks, but should +value this mystic power and glory that is floating here above me in this +Valúev was confidentially telling that Uvárov had been sent from +vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of +vanished from his face. +vanished. He waited for the first pause in the conversation, and then +various figures worked upon it, at the other was something resembling an +various kinds: a table, chairs, and a clavichord. One adjutant, nearest +varnish. +varying expression and the same prevalent appearance of goodhearted +Vasíli. +Vasíli and his son. +Vasíli and the eldest princess. Pierre concluded that this also was +Vasíli, “but it is difficult for me to ask the Emperor. I should +“Vasíli Denísov, your son’s friend,” he said, introducing +“Vasíli Dmítrich, I’m so sorry for you!... No, but you are so +“Vasíli Dmítrich, I thank you for the honor,” she said, with an +Vasíli had only acquired by imitating other parents. +Vasíli, his cheeks twitching more than ever. +Vasíli. “I know something about that. Don’t I? And you are still so +Vasíli in the anteroom. All the affectation of interest she had assumed +Vasíli, in the rare moments when he was at home, would take Pierre’s +Vasíli, it is very sad for both. Ah, my dear friend, our divine +Vasíli one day, closing his eyes and fingering Pierre’s elbow, +Vasíli played a very despicable part in this affair and that he +Vasíli severely. “You don’t know what you are doing.” +Vasíli’s house in the company of the stout princess, his wife, and +Vasíli’s son Anatole, whom they wish to reform by marrying him to +Vasíli’s son, Hippolyte, had come with Mortemart, whom he introduced. +Vasíli’s tone of careless self-assurance that he felt he would be +Vasíli to Anna Mikháylovna. “Go and take something, my poor Anna +Vasíli to Anna Pávlovna. +Vasíli to himself, with a sorrowful sigh, one morning, feeling that +Vasíli understood it as an expression of weariness. +Vasíli went on, testily pushing away a little table without looking at +Vasíli, who had grown thinner and paler during the last few days, +velvety softness, which so mingled with her lack of art in singing that +“Ve must vight to the last tr-r-op of our plood!” said the colonel, +Venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly +“Véra,” she said to her eldest daughter who was evidently not a +Véra’s remark was correct, as her remarks always were, but, like +Véra with guilty, happy faces. +verses called “Enchantress,” which he had composed, and to which he +verses in the bosom of her dress close to her bony little chest, ran +“Very.” +very briefly and vaguely, that after brilliant engagements the Russians +very clever but eccentric, and a bore. The poor girl is very unhappy. +very decent town. You and I will travel comfortably in my calèche.” +very fields where the French had now to be fought; the adjacent +Very fine!” +very fine when he said that,” he remarked, repeating the words in +very glad to see him hanged, but I was sorry for my father—that again +“Very good,” answered Nesvítski. +“Very good!” said Bagratión. +“Very good!” said the prince closing the door behind him, and +“Very good, very good,” said Bagratión. “Thank you, officer.” +very important.” +very important personage, had been sent on a very important mission to +“Very interesting.” +very likely be getting a letter from him that day. Each time that these +“Very likely it would be splendid, but it will never come about....” +“Very lovely,” said Prince Andrew. +very much! I have promised myself not to serve again in the active +“Very much,” said Nicholas flushing, and with a stupid careless +very muscular men, and on the night of the battle, having arrived +very poor, but for my own part at any rate, for the very reason that +very pretty and sweet, and evidently deeply in love with him, but he was +“Very,” said Pierre. +very serious talk.” +“Very silly,” said Véra. “I am ashamed of you. Secrets indeed!” +very strictly to social distinctions and rarely admitted even important +very trying,” said Prince Andrew, apparently speaking lightly of their +very well...” +“Very well,” said Smolyanínov, and went on at once: “Have you any +“Very well, then, be so good as to wait,” said Prince Andrew to the +“Very well, very well...” +very wise, because you can take everything along with you—vodka and +vessel and judge of its purity? Only by the inner purification of myself +vicious and unfortunate people whom he would assist by word and deed, +vicomte and from the vicomte to their hostess. In the first moment of +vicomte continued, with the air of a man who, in a matter with which +vicomte who was continuing his story. +victory, and General Bennigsen, hoping to receive from Petersburg the +victory be in doubt, even for a moment, you will see your Emperor +victory. His Majesty will no doubt wish to see you, but not today. I +victory or defeat, the glory of our Russian arms is secure. Except your +victory over Buonaparte at Eylau. In Petersburg everyone is rejoicing, +victory, what effect would that have on the general course of events? +victory which was conveyed, not only by the tales of those who had taken +Vienna as I told you. Very well. Next day, which was yesterday, those +Vienna by the Austrian Hofkriegsrath, the sole and almost unattainable +“Vienna considers the bases of the proposed treaty so unattainable +Vienna. Kutúzov with his transport had still to march for some days +views by this French sentence. “C’est bien pour un garçon de rien +view they were right, as were those too who canonized him and died a +vile, infamous paper, but I thought the thing was invalid.” +“Vile woman!” shouted the princess, darting unexpectedly at Anna +village and had already been sent for. +village!” he said angrily to a general who had ridden up. “Don’t +village of Pratzen. But neither they nor a single commanding officer +villages were in a state of the greatest poverty. He did not know that +village. Tell it to stop and await my orders.” +village. “Very good!” said Bagratión in reply to the officer’s +virtue was and could not recall it. +virtuous future that seemed to him so easy. It seemed to him that he had +virtuous life of which he had been dreaming since he met Joseph +vish to destroy my men for your pleasure!” +visible as if but a stone’s throw away, and the movements of the +visible in the snow and a shovel had been left sticking in one of the +visible through the smoke, make out moving masses of infantry and narrow +visit his neglected estates at the same time and pick up his son Anatole +visiting all the places he meant to go to and where he had been invited, +visit Mademoiselle George; that at her house he came upon Bonaparte, +visitor alluded to, though she had already heard about the cause of +visitor. “And to think it is Cyril Vladímirovich Bezúkhov’s son +visitor. “He is a son of Márya Ivánovna Dólokhova, such a worthy +visitors on his right. Midway down the long table on one side sat the +visitors. There was the fact that only those came who wished to dance +vividly imagined what awaited it and the part he would have to +Vladímir medal and ribbon? But now, even if they do get peppered, the +Vladímirovich Bezúkhov, Countess Rostóva sat for a long time all +Vladímirovich Bezúkhov. If he will not assist his godson—you know +Vladímirovich Bezúkhov’s house. “My dear Borís,” said the +Vladímirovich is my mother’s second cousin. He’s also my Bóry’s +vocation is to be happy with another kind of happiness, the happiness +vodka a quarter of an hour before, he saw everywhere the same rapid +vodka—get on!” Rostóv shouted, when the sleigh was only three +vodka. The campfires crackled and the soldiers’ songs resounded +voice. +voice. +voice, and Lieutenant Telyánin, a small officer of the same squadron, +voice, “but believe me, I so adore your daughter and all your family +voice calling him by name. +voice from heaven. How gladly would he have died at once for his Tsar! +voice, obviously so elated by the sound of firing, by the prospect of +voice, opening his door. +voice, popped her head in at the door. +voices. +voices, and the army swayed and started in one enormous mass six miles +voices subsided, the footmen cleared away the broken glass and everybody +voice suddenly shrieked: “but if I hear that you have not behaved like +voices were but feebly heard amid the uproar and one saw by their faces +voice. “There was no one else in the room except myself. So that if it +voice. To fresh questions as to the firmness of his resolution Pierre +voice trembled.) “I loved your father... and she will make you a good +voice which expressed joy for himself, severity for the regiment, and +voice, with its incorrect breathing and labored transitions, was +voice, “you were pleased to send me to Captain Túshin’s battery. I +“Voilà l’agrément des camps, monsieur le prince,” * said the +volume you have sent me and which has such success in Moscow. Yet since +von Bergs—have been knights!” +votre victoire n’est pas des plus victorieuses.” * +voulu, George Dandin,’ that’s all we have to say about it!” +vous aime’?” he kept repeating to himself. And when he had said it +“Vous voyez le malheureux Mack,” he uttered in a broken voice. +vreatening Russia and zat ze safety and dignity of ze Empire as vell +vulgarity of the expressions that were natural to her, though she had +Vyazmítinov, the new military governor general of Petersburg, had + Wafting sweet music o’er the lea, +waistcoat. “It’s the sauté, most likely,” she added with a smile. +“Wait a bit and listen. It’s fine!” answered Sídorov, who was +“Wait a bit, he is not drunk yet! A bottle here,” said Anatole, and +“Wait a bit, here’s a letter for you,” said the old man suddenly, +“Wait a bit, I have something in view for you this evening.” +“Wait a moment, I’ll get my work.... Now then, what are you +“Wait!” cried Dólokhov, hammering with the bottle on the window +waited for him to go on, but as he seemed quite decided to say no more +waited impatiently for Prince Andrew’s return from the commander in +waited in expectation of an important order for an expensive funeral. +waiter filled his glass he changed his mind and altered it to his usual +“Wait, haven’t you dropped it?” said Rostóv, picking up the +“Wait, I have not finished...” he said to Prince Andrew, seizing +waiting for a seven to turn up, gazed at Dólokhov’s hands which held +waiting for him to say a word and cross a certain line, and he knew that +waiting for—some important relation who has not yet arrived, or a dish +waiting for the beat. Only on horse back and in the mazurka was +waiting to hear whether he would say anything more. But Kutúzov, with +waiting to see what he would do. He stood a little while before the +“Waiting, Your Majesty,” repeated Kutúzov. (Prince Andrew noted +“Wait—just a word! When he has been transferred to the Guards...” +wait only two hours, when, come what might, he would let his excellency +waken...” All rose and cried “Hurrah!” Bagratión also rose and +wake up, Váska!” he went on, turning to Denísov, whose head +walked away from the fire. +walked slowly without raising his pistol, looking intently with his +walk to meet him. His face with its long mustache was serious as always, +wall. On this knoll there was a white patch that Rostóv could not at +walls hung round with Persian carpets. The part of the room behind the +wanted. +wanted to show him that his losses were an achievement that made her +wanted to sleep. The gay triumphant shouting of the enemy army had a +wants to go to the war,” replied Pierre, addressing the princess +“Wants to turn on the other side,” whispered the servant, and got up +want that. And besides, what a notion that medicine ever cured anyone! +want the money for? As if that money could add a hair’s breadth to +want to, but now I have no time.” Besides, it seemed to him that the +want to dance well. Her enormous figure stood erect, her powerful arms +WAR AND PEACE +war came contradictory news, false as usual and therefore variously +wardrobe in which Pierre noticed garments such as he had never seen +wares, especially a pair of goatskin slippers. “I have hundreds of +war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature—which townsfolk +war has deprived me of one of the associations nearest my heart. I mean +warm themselves, gathering round the fires throwing into the flames the +war or politics but related to high society, to certain women, and to +warrior doing some kind of man’s work of his own, without help or +wars,” he said. +was. +was about to be decided. But Prince Andrew did not see how it ended. It +was about to cross the space between the barriers, when Dólokhov cried: +was about to expand her dresses into a balloon and sit down. They were +was about to run on, thinking that the farther he went to the front +was about twenty-five. Like all infantry officers he wore no mustache, +was about, went across the room to where Pierre was standing and gave +was abroad; so Pierre had not the opportunity to spend his nights as he +was accustomed to understand him. He led him to the desk, raised the +was again nodding. “Come, get on! You shall have three rubles for +was a great success. There were many pretty girls and the Rostóv girls +was all over; but he said in an indifferent tone: +was already perfectly cured of his former faults and was ready for all +was also a yellow, wrinkled old man, without beard or mustache, +was always busy and always felt in a state of mild and cheerful +“was a political necessity, and it seems to me that Napoleon +was a stroke of genius. Prince Auersperg feels his dignity at stake and +was at home last, and, having assured himself that they had not, he +was a unique chance to show his devotion to the Emperor and he had not +was a young horse Telyánin had sold to Rostóv.) +was baptized. The wet nurse supported the coverlet with her chin, while +was beginning, Anna Pávlovna gave one of her soirees. The “cream of +was being done was not his adjutant’s fault, and still not answering +was being held by the arms and his horse was being led behind him. +was Borís Drubetskóy, who had just arrived as a special messenger from +was bright, he had a good horse under him, and his heart was full of +was charmant. Even if Anna Pávlovna did not say so, he could see that +was charming... You are very kind... Countess Apráksina...” was heard +was coming, and turning to her mother: +was delighted with Denísov’s skill, he was asked again and again as +was diverted by the desperate shrieks of the woman in the vehicle. An +was downstairs. +was dulled by imbecility and a constant expression of sullen +was ecstatically conscious of his approach. He felt it not only from the +was evidently one, Rostóv felt confused, blushed, and became silent. +was excellent. With the second course, a gigantic sterlet (at sight of +was for earthly love. The more she tried to hide this feeling from +was forgetting. We must have another entrée. Ah, goodness gracious!” +was, for something could be descried. On the right the Guards were +was fought. +was fully described: Prince Murat et tout le tremblement... You see that +was going home to Vorónezh and Rostóv persuaded him to travel with him +was great on the bridge of Arcola, and in the hospital at Jaffa where he +was growing dusk. On the narrow Augesd Dam where for so many years the +was happy. “Left... left... left...” he seemed to repeat to himself +was heartily sick of them. In spite of this, or rather because of +was holding fast to plait, would allow. +was immediately killed. Prince Andrew again seized the standard and, +was immediately surrounded by courtiers on all sides. Everywhere he +was impossible for cavalry to act among the bushes and broken ground, +was impossible to see it clearly with the naked eye. Our right flank was +was in a white uniform rode a black one. These were the two Emperors +was in his place, waiting. +was in raptures about him, when he had just returned from abroad, and +was in the right so I kept silent; was not that best, Count?... ‘Hey, +was in the way and was the only one who did not notice the fact. Most of +was keeping the bank. Rostóv had not seen him since his proposal and +“Was Kutúzov well? When had he left Krems?” and so on. The Emperor +was large and of an old pattern. The French swarming round their guns +was laughing at something, mingled in a merry sound, like the chirping +was lost. No one whom Rostóv asked could tell him where the Emperor +was lying asleep on the ottoman with an open book in his hand. +was mentioned and, pointing to his forehead, remarked: +was merely a man of the world who had got on and to whom getting on had +was more important than verses, and Bagratión, again preceding all the +was Napoleon—his hero—but at that moment Napoleon seemed to him +was necessary for him to go to the count at all, still less why he had +was “not a whit worse than you or I.” At dinner the prince usually +was not behaving very well in this matter. “Youth, frivolity... well, +was nothing. So why should I not stay at his house? Then I played cards +was not in love with anyone in particular, but with everyone. Whatever +was. Now he excused himself for having been taken prisoner and now, +wasn’t it?” +“wasn’t I telling you to fire the bridge, when inflammable material +“Wasn’t it fine when those Germans gave us lifts! You just sit still +was often on Dólokhov’s face when looking at him. “Yes, he is a +was on duty and that he should go through the door on the left into the +was only redder than usual. With his shaggy head thrown back like birds +was out of the question, “I am in love with your brother once for all +was pale, his blue eyes looked impudently into the commander’s face, +was particularly pleasant at that moment. They had reached the battery +was perfectly true. He was afraid of getting some other officer into +was rapidly and excitedly talking to a French grenadier. “Hark to him +was rather out of place in this brilliant society, the whole company had +was repeatedly summoned to see him. At headquarters and among the troops +was said. +was saying. +was serving, and a misunderstanding arose. The two commanders were much +was silenced at once. They looked at the beautiful, large, thoughtful +was silent with his steward, the gardener, and the architect, and though +was sitting at a small table, chattering with Másha, her maid. She grew +was sitting at the head of the table. On either side of her sat the +was sitting beside him, by the hand. Rostóv was struck by the +was sitting. The curtains were drawn, and a single candle was burning on +was so close to him that his shortsighted eyes could not but perceive +was something black, now little lights seemed to glimmer where the enemy +was spitting blood. A bullet had evidently hit him in the throat or +was standing beside the princess, and they were both speaking in excited +was stricter.” +was struck by the change in him. His words were kindly and there was a +was taken up with dinners and balls and was spent chiefly at Prince +was talked of. For the Rostóv family the whole interest of these +was talking came up to listen. Berg, oblivious of irony or indifference, +was tall and fair, and his calm and handsome face had regular, delicate +“Was that grapeshot?” he asked Denísov. +was the count at last handed a letter addressed in his son’s +was the Emperors’ suites. The Emperors rode up to the flank, and the +was the little princess, these tears, the cause of which she did not +was the name his fancy gave to the farthest gun of the battery, which +was there on the hilltop, and kept constantly looking at the patches +was thinking of. Yes, Na-tásha, sabretache, oh, yes, yes! That’s +was told that the prince had gone to the nursery. +was too far separated from our right flank and the cavalry were all +was true and appropriate, yet, strange to say, everyone—the visitors +was true. No one had taken any notice, for everyone knew the sensation +was trying to fit music: +was very valuable. Officers who approached him with disturbed +was warm blood under his arm. “No, I am wounded and the horse is +was writing. “I’ll do it.” +watched her cousin who was going to join the army, with such passionate +watched him. She smiled, hid her face in her handkerchief, and remained +watched him smilingly, and he rode off by the winding path down the +watchful eye on the young man who so alarmed her, noticed that he was +watching and it creaked very slightly as she disappeared behind it. +“watching over his interests” meant, but he decided that all these +watch the change in the tone and manners of the mammas burdened by +watchword—shaft, Olmütz. What a nuisance that our squadron will be in +water. +water cart, painted green, stood in a shed; the paths were straight, +waters of the distant Danube shone. And fairer still were the faraway +waving it above his head cried: +way and attaching him to himself! What if he gave me a place near him? +way, and, blushing far more than Borís, began to speak with a feeling +way, dear boy! Make way, make way!” pushed through the crowd more +way,” he added in Russian—but pronouncing the word with a French +way in which he danced the mazurka, Nicholas ran up to Natásha: +way!... Let us pass!... Stop there, you devil with the cart! I’ll hack +way of these men, and he would have got clear had they continued at the +way,” said an officer. +way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a +way, with Berg who was already in command of a company. Berg, who had +weak human understanding cannot grasp, it seems to me rather useless to +weakness—the one to which he had confessed when admitted to the +“We all have our weaknesses,” said Kutúzov smiling and walking away +“Weally! And I’ve been losing, bwother. I lost yesterday like a +weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men +“We are enjoying ourselves! Vasíli Dmítrich is staying a day longer +“We are not fighting pour le Roi de Prusse, but for right principles. +“We are such friends, such friends! All that ruler business was just +“We are to spend the night in Znaim.” +weariness and assurance, as if he were adding every time: “You know +weariness of tone, “it is almost impossible for me to do what you +wearing long dresses for the first time. With scarcely any exceptions +wearing scarves and all their decorations, not only the elegant, pomaded +wearing the Cross of St. George, awarded to soldiers for bravery in +weary, and distracted air, though at the same time he was haughty and +weary faces, were sitting at the table eating and drinking. +weary, making his way past the baggage wagons, rode in search of the +weary of it and it was not at all what he wanted. He turned away and +weather, and Countess Apráksina. Now and then they glanced at one +weather. “The weather is beautiful, Princess; and besides, in Moscow +we begin a very original and interesting series of maneuvers. Our aim is +we can know is that we know nothing. And that’s the height of human +“We can’t have less—yes, three... the mayonnaise, that’s one,” +we could not think how to address the reply! If not as ‘Consul’ +Wednesday’s meeting of the Imperial Council, at which Sergéy Kuzmích +“We don’t interfere with you and Berg.” +‘We don’t love people so much for the good they have done us, as +“We drove them back!” said Borís with animation, growing talkative. +weeks, and months of his life passed in as great a rush and were as much +weep without knowing why—rode behind on his artillery nag. Though +“We had better separate,” he muttered in a broken voice. +we had not religion to console us life would be very sad. Why do you +We have fully concentrated forces of nearly seventy thousand men with +“We have orders to drive you off here, and we shall drive you off,” +we hear is true, it is dreadful. How little we dreamed of such a thing +“We here in Moscow are more occupied with dinner parties and scandal +weight. +weight they were carrying were too much for them. +We knew you’d say so. But it won’t do, because you see, if you say +we know where we are. And what do you think of the Boulogne expedition? +welcome for the approaching chief. +we let our feeble human minds roam, the better we shall please God, who +welfare of his soul is at stake. Ah, it is awful: the duties of a +well.” +well.” +“Well, all I can make out is that everything is abominable, +“Well, all right, all right.” +“Well, all the same, you must refuse him.” +“Well, and are you still true to Borís?” he continued. +well!” and he turned to go. +well and, in particular, drinks well. “So do come and dine with us!” +“Well, and is that all?” he asked. +“Well, and so he never got farther than: ‘Sergéy Kuzmích’?” +“Well and then?” asked the other voice. “If before that you are +“Well, and to whom did you apply about Bóry?” asked the countess. +“Well, and you? What are your plans?” +“Well, and you, young man,” said he. “How do you feel, mon +“Well, aren’t you ashamed of yourself, Captain Túshin?” he +Well, are you off to the front?” +well, as all the connoisseurs who heard her said: “It is not trained, +“Well, as you see. So far everything’s all right, but I confess I +“Well, au revoir, Bolkónski! Au revoir, Prince! Come back early to +“Well, au revoir! Good-by! You hear her?” +“Well begin!” said Dólokhov. +well-brushed clothes. There was a masculine odor and a smell of tobacco. +“Well done!... Fine fellow!... There’s a bet for you!... Devil take +“Well done, lads!” said Prince Bagratión. +“Well, do you think I shall prevent her, that I can’t part from +well educated and clever. This is all that his foreign education has +well enough to be sure that this will not turn your head, but it imposes +we’ll fire off some cannon! But this sort of thing seems done +well for you,” said Natásha, with a responsive smile. “You should +“Well, fwiend? So you’ve smelt powdah!” shouted Váska Denísov +“Well, go and see,” he said, after a pause. +“Well, good-by, Prince,” said he to Bagratión. “My blessing, and +“Well—had a good time?” said the old count, smiling gaily and +“Well? Has he been degraded into a field marshal, or into a soldier? +“Well, have it so, and you talked a lot of nonsense to him and must +“Well, have you finished?” said he to Kozlóvski. +“Well, have you sent Gabriel for some wine? All right let’s have +“Well?” he asked. +“Well!” he said, turning to his wife. +“Well, he’s really a good fellow, one can serve under him,” said +“Well, how are you going to get out of that?” he remarked. +“Well? How do you feel?” he asked. +“Well! How d’ye do? How d’ye do? Glad to see you!” +“Well, how d’you do, my dear fellow?” said Dolgorúkov, who was +“Well, how is he?” +“Well, I am taking it off,” replied Lavrúshka’s voice. +“Well, I did not expect you, I am very glad,” said Prince Andrew. +“Well, I don’t know about that, but I am uncomfortable with him. And +“Well, I don’t know. It’s awkward and would make me ashamed.” +“Well, if you do, so much the better, and you can go back to her!” +“Well, I have got all I need into packs for two horses,” said +“Well, is it true that it’s peace and capitulation?” asked +“Well, I suppose it is time we were at table?” said Márya +“Well, I think it is. The bigwigs here think so too, but they +“Well, it’s as you like,” said the staff captain. “And what has +“Well, it seems that no one has noticed,” thought Rostóv. And this +well I will give you my hand to kiss. Not till then!” she said. And +“Well, I will leave you in your little corner,” came Anna +“Well, I will read them, then!” Bagratión seemed to say, and, +well known, so much appreciated by everyone. The other day at the +“Well, Lëlya?” he asked, turning instantly to his daughter and +“Well, let’s go and sing ‘The Brook.’” +well-lit anteroom where they took off their cloaks without the aid of +“Well, little countess? What a sauté of game au madère we are to +“Well, madam,” he began, stooping over the book close to his +“We’ll make you dance as we did under Suvórov...,” * said +“We’ll manage very well without a doctor.” +“Well, maybe!” said Prince Andrew. “Go, Másha; I’ll come +“Well, Michael Ivánovich, our Bonaparte will be having a bad time +“Well, Michael Mítrich, sir?” he said, addressing one of the +“Well, mon cher,” said the vicomte, having seated himself beside +“Well, my boy, you’ll get along wherever you go—foot or +“Well, my dear?” asked the countess. +“Well, my dear boy, I hear you’ve been educated abroad, not taught +“Well, my dear fellow, so you still want to be an adjutant? I have +“Well, my dear fellow, tomorrow we are off at last,” said Prince +“Well, my dear?” said Prince Vasíli, taking her hand and bending it +well, never mind, here you are.” +“Well, never mind; I only...” +“Well now, gentlemen,” said Bilíbin, “Bolkónski is my guest in +“Well, now, good-by!” He gave his son his hand to kiss, and embraced +“Well now, isn’t she a fool!” shouted the prince, pushing the book +“Well, now tell me about your exploits,” said he. +“Well, now to the health of handsome women!” said Dólokhov, and +“Well, now we’ll arrange something quite simple and becoming,” she +“Well, now you’ve done what you wanted,” put in Nicholas—“said +“Well, of course, of course!” +well, only a little bruised just here,” he added, pointing with a +“Well, Prince?” asked Kozlóvski. +“Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the +“Well, really, Catiche! Can’t you understand! You are so +“Well, really, Mamma! Why should you? What is there to be surprised +well remembered that seven afterwards. He laid down the seven of hearts, +“Well?” returned the old man. +“Well,” said she, “how’s my Cossack?” (Márya Dmítrievna +“Well!...” said the old count, spreading out his arms and sinking +“Well, send for him... and how do you get on with that German?” +we’ll set off.” +“Well, she loves me and you like that.” +“Well, so that’s finished, my dear fellow! I am very glad to have +“Well, stand us some of your herb vodka, Túshin,” it said. +“Well, talk as much as you can, anyway. He has a passion for giving +“Well, thank God! We’ve been sitting here too long!” +“Well, that is hardly a sufficient reason, Mamma...” +“Well, that’s all right,” continued the regimental commander. “A +“Well, that’s only till the first engagement.” +“Well, the Lord be thanked, Princess,” said Mary Bogdánovna, not +“Well then, accept his offer. It’s high time for you to be +“Well then, be quick. We’ll all have breakfast together.” +“Well, then go off to your Buonaparte! Mademoiselle Bourienne, +“Well, then, I won’t; only forgive me, Sónya!” He drew her to him +“Well, then, let’s be quick. Borís, come here,” said Natásha. +“Well then, mind and have cocks’ comb in the turtle soup, you +“Well, then, old chap, mon très honorable Alphonse Kárlovich,” +“Well then,” Prince Andrew answered himself, “I don’t know +“Well then, tell him so.” +“Well then, that’s excellent,” said he. “We’ll talk it over +“Well then, till tomorrow at Sokólniki,” said Dólokhov, as he took +“Well then, what do you want? You’re all in love nowadays. Well, +“Well there certainly are disgusting people,” thought Rostóv as he +“Well, there you see!” +“Well, they’ve sent you a tidy sum,” said Berg, eying the heavy +“Well, this is strange! Do you suppose I... who could think?... I know +“Well, till we meet again...” he said, holding out his hand to +“We’ll try to,” replied Berg, touching a pawn and then removing +“Well, what about it?” said he to Denísov. “It won’t come to a +“Well, what is it?” came a sharp, unpleasant voice. +“Well, what’s this now? What have you been up to now, I should like +“Well, what then?” +“Well, why are you going to the war?” asked Pierre. +“Well, why don’t you speak? Whom have you got there dressed up as a +“Well, won’t you go on? I had a splendid card all ready,” as if it +“Well, you’d better not play,” Dólokhov added, and springing a +“Well, young cavalryman, how is my Rook behaving?” he asked. (Rook +“Well, young man?” he said with a sigh, and from under his lifted +“Well, your excellency, what? Your excellency! But what about your +“Well, you see, Count, I want some money.” +“Well, you see, I’ll tell you the whole secret of dueling in two +“Well, you see, my dear princess and cousin, Catherine Semënovna,” +“Well, you’ve told me nothing new,” and the old man repeated, +“We may as well go back,” said the son in French. +“We must distinguish between the Vienna cabinet and the Emperor of + * “We must let him off the u!” +“We must let him see Amelie, she’s exquisite!” said one of +we? No?” +went about the rooms fashionably dressed but looking sad and dull. Here, +went by. Then suddenly a terrible shriek—it could not be hers, she +went further in among the plants and threw down the doll. “Closer, +went into the reception room familiar to Pierre, with two Italian +went in with Nicholas. After them other couples followed, filling the +went on to the game without omitting a single dish or one of the wines. +went on, with a somber and scornful smile. “And thou art more foolish +went out after shaking hands with Dolgorúkov and Bilíbin. +went out of the hut in which he was billeted with Nesvítski and began +went there and found two thirds of the men and horses knocked out, two +went to her father’s room at the usual hour, Mademoiselle Bourienne +went to the carriage. +went, with the smile of a coquettish girl, which at one time probably +we parted. Why are we not together as we were last summer, in your big +wept. She saw her brother now as he had been at the moment when he took +wept too. They wept because they were friends, and because they were +were all a pretense, and that the whole attention of that company was +were all hugging him, and the serfs, men and maids, flocked into the +were already up and astir. The smoke of the campfires, into which they +were also distinguished by the fact that she always presented some new +were among the prettiest. They were both particularly happy and gay. +were being set out for eighty people; and looking at the footmen, who +were bringing in jugs and basins, hot water for shaving, and their +were bringing in silver and china, moving tables, and unfolding damask +were casual guests—chiefly young men, among whom were Denísov, +were children. You might think that I... I understand, quite understand. +were concentrated. Twice they had attempted to attack this point, but on +were constantly shaping themselves in his mind, arising from the +were crossing themselves. Rostóv no longer looked at the colonel, he +were descending. In front in the fog a shot was heard and then another, +were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of +were expecting Márya Dmítrievna Akhrosímova, known in society as le +were flocking in to look at him. Prince Bagratión was thanking the +we’re getting it still worse,” said Nesvítski. “But sit down and +“We’re going into action, gentlemen!” +were, “high-sounding words which have long been discredited. Who does +were in a hurry to show the changes that had taken place in them. +were in them. She leaned over to her brother and kissed him, slightly +were leaving to join their regiment after Epiphany. About twenty people +were lips seeking a kiss. +were moving in and out among the Russian troops and served as heralds +were moving in the same direction. Every soldier felt glad to know that +were near him. Everybody said that Buonaparte himself was at Braunau.” +were Nicholas and Sónya, the niece. Sónya was a slender little +were not in very good condition), and instantly the squares that had up +were not to be overburdened with labor, women while nursing their babies +were not to be sent to work, assistance was to be given to the serfs, +were of the same age and both handsome fellows, though not alike. Borís +were only 217 sick and stragglers. Everything was in good order except +were passing by. From one of the drivers he learned that Kutúzov’s +were present, including Dólokhov and Denísov. +were pronounced, Pierre, who had so long been considering his career, +were ready to drop, and so said the grown-up young men and women who +were really given, but that Prince Bagratión tried to make it appear +were saying. Suddenly, however, he was struck by a voice coming from the +were sent to the crossroads to guide him over the country road with its +were sitting at embroidery frames while a third read aloud. It was the +were sitting at the table on which a plan was spread out. +were sitting on some feather beds. Evidently these fugitives were +were talking and listening too eagerly and too naturally, which was why +were the center of groups which even strangers approached respectfully +were the fun of the game which interested him most. +Were the Potëmkins, Suvórovs, and Orlóvs Germans? No, lad, either you +were therefore awkward. +were there, only disorganized crowds of troops of various kinds. He +were there,” thought Rostóv. “In myself alone and in that sunshine +were those of the orderlies who were packing up; one voice, probably a +were throwing everything superfluous, made the eyes smart. It was cold +were to be severe with her and to forbid it ... goodness knows what they +“We’re to go into action, gentlemen! Mack has surrendered with his +were to land at Naples, and how a total force of five hundred thousand +were turned against the ten-gun battery. Túshin’s companion officer +were using their ramrods, others putting powder on the touchpans or +were waiting for them to come out. +were walking, driving past, and settling down all around. The sound +“we shall be late.” +“We shall probably advance,” replied Bolkónski, evidently reluctant +“We shall see.” +“Wetched business,” he muttered to himself. “How much is left in +“Wetched!” he muttered, throwing down a purse with some gold in it. +“We’ve given it ‘em hot, mate! They won’t make another push +“We’ve got to it at last—why did you not tell me about it +“We’ve said good-by. Go!” he suddenly shouted in a loud, angry +“We were ordered to be at the place before nine, but we haven’t got +“we will talk of it later” (and he looked round at Rostóv). “Come +“We will talk of it later,” said Anna Pávlovna with a smile. +We women, Prince,” and she smiled tenderly, “always know how to say +Weyrother. +Weyrother again gave that smile which seemed to say that to him it was +Weyrother, hurriedly rising from his seat and going up to the table on +Weyrother’s had already been approved. As soon as Prince Andrew began +Weyrother’s name, or even the term “dispositions.” +Weyrother, who was in full control of the proposed battle, by his +“What about capitulation?” +“What about your master?” he asked Lavrúshka, Denísov’s orderly, +“What a charming creature your younger girl is,” said the visitor; +“What a clever man your father is,” said she; “perhaps that is why +“What a dandy you are today!” said Nesvítski, looking at +“What a delightful woman this little princess is!” said Prince +“What a fine fellow you are, friend!” said the Cossack to a convoy +What a heart!” +“What? A minister? What minister? Who gave orders?” he said in +what am I to do if I love nothing but fame and men’s esteem? Death, +“What an extraordinary genius!” Prince Andrew suddenly exclaimed, +“What a nice figure the policeman must have cut, my dear!” shouted +“What?” answered the old man absent-mindedly. +“What a pity you weren’t at the Arkhárovs’ on Thursday. It was so +“What are they about?” thought Prince Andrew as he gazed at them. +“What are you about?” shouted Rostóv, looking at him in an ecstasy +“What are you doing!” she cried vehemently. “He is dying and you +“What! Are you going to remain as you are, dear princess?” she +“What are you making such a noise about over there?” Márya +“What are your commands, little countess?” +“What, are you wounded, my lad?” said Túshin, approaching the gun +“What?” asked the commander. +what? A slur on my name? A misfortune for life? Oh, that’s +what a soul there is in Dólokhov, you should see him with his mother. +“What a strange fate, Másha darling!” And having taken off his +what a strange frenzy one experiences during an attack,” Prince +“What a style! How charmingly he describes!” said she, reading the +“What a treasure that Dmítri is,” added the count with a smile when +what a voice she has; though she’s my daughter, I tell the truth +“What brings you here?” cried the officers turning to the newcomer. +what can be done with two hundred and thirty rubles! I even manage to +“What can he say? Tra-di-ri-di-ra and so on... merely to gain time. +“What can it be?” he thought. “The enemy in the rear of our army? +“What can one say about it?” replied the prince in a cold, listless +what chance has Michael Kutúzov? No, my dear boy,” he continued, +“What delicacy!” thought the princess. “Is it possible that +“What devil brought them here?” thought he, while Tíkhon was +“What devils these quartermasters are! See, the fifth company is +“What did he say? Where to, now? Halt, is it? Did he thank us?” came +what difficulty the father had dragged his legs upstairs while the son +“What division are you?” shouted an adjutant, riding up. +“What does harm to another is wrong,” said Pierre, feeling with +“What does it mean? What is it? Whom are they firing at? Who is +“What does that prove?” he was saying as Rostóv rode up. “They +“What does this mean?” she brought out. +what do we, I mean the Austrian court, care for your victories? Bring +“What do you thank me for?” +“What do you want, your honor?” asked an artilleryman, standing +“What error or evil can there be in my wishing to do good, and even +whatever. +“Whatever are you bothering about, gentlemen?” said Bilíbin, who, +“Whatever happens to you,” he said, “you must bear it all manfully +“Whatever is this? This!” he shouted and stood still. “Commander +“Whatever the European sovereigns and commanders may do to +whatever the import of his work. It was not the question “What for?” +Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is +“What for? I don’t know. I must. Besides that I am going....” He +“What good are they? They’re led about just for show!” remarked +what happiness it would be to die—not in saving the Emperor’s life +“What has happened?” he asked himself. “I have killed her lover, +“What have the young people come to nowadays, eh, Feoktíst?” said +“What have they taken a baby in there for?” thought Prince Andrew in +“What have you done to Mlle Schérer? She will be quite ill now,” +“What?” he answered, not recognizing Borís. +“What? Here? But why did they not blow up the bridge, if it was +what he should do on his estates. +what he was about; yet they beat him à plate couture,*(3) and where +what he was laughing at. Everything her father did inspired her with +what he was saying was out of place, tactless and unsuitable, that +what he was to do. The coming of these visitors annoyed him. “What are +what I have seen during these last three months is incredible. +“What is bad, Father?” +what is beyond death, none of us would be afraid of it. That’s so, +what is going on around them. +“What is it?” +“What is it?” asked the countess, startled; but seeing by her +“What is it, dear?” +“What is it?” he asked. +“What is it?” he said crossly, and, his hand shaking +what is it I am attached to, Papa?” said Anatole, turning to his +What is it meant to prove? What? I ask you.” +“What is it? What?” asked both princesses when they saw for a moment +“What is it you are afraid of, Lise? I don’t understand,” said he. +What is life, and what is death? What power governs all?” +“What is that?” asked the countess as if she did not know what the +“What is the commander in chief doing here?” he asked. +“What is the matter, Mary?” +“What is the matter?” she asked. +“What is the matter with you, my darling? You look pale. Oh, you +“What is the matter with you, my dear?” she said crossly to the maid +what is there? Who is there?—there beyond that field, that tree, that +“What is the something?” asked he. + What is this bliss that makes my fingers thrill? +“What is this?” thought Nicholas, listening to her with widely +“What is your conception of Freemasonry?” +“What! It is as if I were glad of a chance to take advantage of +what it must be for her, poor thing, after what she has been used to, +what looked like a squadron of horsemen in various uniforms. Two of them + What magic power is this recalls me still? +“What manners! I thought they would never go,” said the countess, +“What, Monsieur Pierre... Do you consider that assassination shows +“What news, sir?” asked the officer, evidently anxious to start a +“What next? Have you gone mad?... No one would let you!... Why, you go +“What next?” the princess interrupted, smiling sardonically and not +“What nonsense...” +“What nonsense! Much I need it!” said Rostóv, throwing the letter +“What? Occupied? Vienna occupied?” +What Pierre did not know was that the place where they presented him +“What? Revolution and regicide a grand thing?... Well, after that... +“What? Saw the real Mack? With hands and feet?” +“What shall we sing?” she said. + * “What’s he singing about?” +what she was holding in her reticule.) “So you promise?” +“What’s it all about? Why, the French have crossed the bridge that +what’s one to do?” and, having given his order, he returned to +What’s one to do, my dear?” + What spark has set my inmost soul on fire, +“What’s that that has fallen?” asked the accountant with a naïve +“What’s that? What do you make of it?” said Rostóv to the hussar +“What’s the good of denying it, my dear? Our dear countess was too +“What’s the matter?” exclaimed Prince Andrew standing still in +“What’s the matter? I only congratulated them,” said Zherkóv. +“What’s the matter with you? Are you ill?” +what’s the matter with you? You must be ill to shiver like that,” he +“What’s this? Am I falling? My legs are giving way,” thought he, +“What’s to be done? She’s pretty! I will do everything. Make your +“What stupid orders! They don’t themselves know what they are +“What’s your name?” +what there is in you.” +what to do with his hands; he was more accustomed to walk over a plowed +“What! To whom?... Nonsense!” cried the count, suddenly reddening +what was approaching in the distance from the opposite side—the blue +what was going on in the passage. Some women passing with quiet steps in +“What was it?” +what was passing in his mind. +what we fathers have to put up with.... Is this princess of yours +“What? What? How dare you? What?” said Telyánin. +what will happen and don’t want to know, and can’t, but if I want +“What will happen now?” thought she. +“What would it cost you to say a word to the Emperor, and then he +“What would you have me do?” he said at last. “You know I did all +“What would you have, my dear fellow?” answered Pierre, shrugging +“What! You don’t remember Borís?” asked Sónya in surprise. +“What you have with you: watch, money, rings....” +“What you said just now was splendid!” said his partner Julie. +wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular movement of the +wheels and the sensation of victory. Then he began to imagine that +wheels and working the screws himself. +wheel, which merged in her memory with what followed.) +When all was ready, the sabers stuck in the snow to mark the barriers, +“When am I to receive the money, Count?” +When Anna Mikháylovna returned from Count Bezúkhov’s the money, all +“When are you starting?” he asked. +When Borís and Anna Pávlovna returned to the others Prince Hippolyte +When Borís appeared at his door Pierre was pacing up and down his room, +When Borís, who was to be served up to the guests, entered the drawing +whence—a stern note of which all are conscious sounds in the moral +“When did you get the letter? Was it from Olmütz?” repeated +When everybody rose to go, Hélène who had spoken very little all +when footsteps or voices were heard did they look at one another, the +When Germans start being accurate, there’s no end to it!” +When he came level with the Foot Guards he noticed that about them and +When he entered, Prince Andrew, his eyes drooping contemptuously (with +when he first loved her. He thought of her pregnancy and felt sorry for +When he got home he could not sleep for a long time for thinking of what +When he had become a little quieter, he explained to Rostóv that he was +When he had gone less than half a mile in the rear of the column he +“When he looked at my feet, friend... well, thinks I...” +when he needs repose? Worldly conversation at a moment when his soul is +“When her confinement is due, send to Moscow for an accoucheur.... Let +When he reached Kiev he sent for all his stewards to the head office +When he read that sentence, Pierre felt for the first time that some +when he saw the minister seated at a large table reading some papers +when he stayed in (as he said) for Pierre’s sake, hardly exchanged a +when he was dying of wounds and the sovereign had thanked him for heroic +when he wished to speak contemptuously, and noticing Borís, Prince +when, if you remember, he posed as a sort of Marat at one of my soirees. +“When I saw, your excellency, that their first battalion was +when I say she’ll be a singer, a second Salomoni! We have engaged an +When it came to Natásha’s turn to choose a partner, she rose and, +When Natásha ran out of the drawing room she only went as far as the +When Paris was mentioned, Mademoiselle Bourienne for her part seized the +When Prince Andrew entered the study the old man in his old-age +When Prince Andrew left the palace he felt that all the interest +When Prince Andrew reached the room prepared for him and lay down in a +When Princess Mary came down, Prince Vasíli and his son were already +When Princess Mary returned from her father, the little princess sat +When Princess Mary went to him at the usual hour he was working at his +When Prince Vasíli returned to the drawing room, the princess, his +When Rostóv went back there was a bottle of vodka and a sausage on the +when she began to speak passed through such transitions as she herself +when she had seen her guests out. +When she looked up at him she was struck by his beauty. Anatole stood +When she said this, he did not reply and only bowed, but again everybody +when she saw Pierre enter. Though he was certainly rather bigger than +When she saw the count, she stretched out her arms to him, embraced his +when she took her seat opposite and beamed upon him also with her +when she was not like that and when everything was light and gay. She +“When speaking to the Emperor, try as far as you can to praise the way +When starting on a journey or changing their mode of life, men capable +When Telyánin had finished his lunch he took out of his pocket a double +When the eager but misrepeated words had reached their destination in +When the Emperor had passed nearly all the regiments, the troops began +When the Military Governor had gone, Prince Vasíli sat down all alone +When the monotonous sound of Weyrother’s voice ceased, Kutúzov opened +When the officers had emptied and smashed their glasses, Kírsten filled +when the princess, as if lost in a fog, had already staggered out of the +When the reading which lasted more than an hour was over, Langeron again +When the review was over, the newly arrived officers, and also +when the subject did not relate to himself, but in connection with the +When the sun had entirely emerged from the fog, and fields and mist were +When the twenty minutes had elapsed and the time had come for the old +when they again heard an unexpectedly violent whistling which suddenly +when they drink, pressing his spurs mercilessly into the sides of his +when they played some tricks on a policeman, didn’t they do it +when they saw his looks. +when we were rejoicing at his happiness! And such a lofty angelic soul +“When would you like them, your excellency?” asked Dmítri. “Allow +when you began living for others. I experienced just the reverse. I +“When you see my sister, Princess Mary, you’ll get on with her,” +where. +“Where am I? Oh yes, in the skirmishing line... pass and +where a parade does not begin till all the troops are assembled,” said +“Where are headquarters?” +“Where are you going?” asked an infantry officer who was eating an +“Where are you going to now, my dear sir?” +“Where are you off to?” asked Borís. +“Where are you off to?” he said suddenly to Prince Andrew who had +whereas it was perhaps not known, since the enemy was in movement. +“Where? At Bykov’s, at the rat’s... I knew it,” replied a piping +“Where have you put it, Wostóv?” +where he could never have expected the enemy to be. +where he was staying, and had been absurd, excited, and foolish in +where his regiment was stationed, and take him to visit Prince Nicholas +“Where is Dólokhov?” asked Kutúzov. +“Where is it, that lofty sky that I did not know till now, but saw +“Where is the commander in chief?” asked Bolkónski. +“Where is the Emperor? Where is Kutúzov?” Rostóv kept asking +“Where is the princess?” he asked. “Hiding?” +Where’s the victory?” +where the clavichord stood. +“Where the devil have the leg bands been shoved to?” said an +where the hottest musket fire and cannonade were heard. Suddenly he +where the rivals suddenly recognized one another; and the ladies looked +where the sleighs had been left, in a small clearing in the pine forest +“Where to?” +“Where to?” +where to find me, but don’t forget that I do not regard either myself +where Túshin’s guns were stationed was an unharnessed horse with a +“Where would I not go at the countess’ command!” said Denísov, +where you always ran away; you remember cette chère Annette!” +whether he was speaking in jest or in earnest. “Ah, your excellency! +whether he was still firm in his intention and determined to submit to +whether she ought to write, tormented her. Now that he was already an +whether what he said was very witty or very stupid. He was dressed in +which a faint smile forgot to fade though his features now expressed +which an enormous map of the environs of Brünn was spread out. +which aroused his own pity. +which at least half of them would be left on the field. After passing a +which attracted him. He very readily took up Borís’ cause and went +which changed his appearance for the worse. There was something naïvely +which covered with snow, appeared on the landing where the footman +which Denísov followed her. +which did not leave his eager face. “Hoch Oestreicher! Hoch Russen! +which Dólokhov’s second had called on him, and, having closed the +which every Freemason should cultivate in himself. These virtues were: +which forms an impenetrable veil between us and the Eternal? Let us +which had been particularly revived and strengthened by his late tour. +which had disappeared, but at French infantry who had come into the +which had grown much older. +which had lost all dignity, and at the twitching cheeks of Prince +which he always deceived himself. The question was whether he could ever +which he found himself. Anna Pávlovna was obviously serving him up as +which he had come out was thronged with calèches, carriages of all +which he had reckoned up to ten thousand, but that now, as he vaguely +which he had worn on his Italian campaign, sat on his small gray Arab +which he held the hilt of his naked saber, looked just as it usually +which held him in their power.... The ten fell to him. +which he presented to Prince Bagratión. On the salver lay some verses +(which he very likely would be), and found the commander in chief +“Which house is it?” asked the driver. +which Ilyá Rostóv blushed with self-conscious pleasure), the footmen +which, in accord with the club custom, he had given up to the hall +which indicates that patience is exhausted. +which I not only cannot address but which I cannot even express in +which intellectual knowledge is divided. The highest wisdom is one. +which intimated that he knew what he was about and if others did not +which I shall lead the army.” +which is the only thing we need fear, or he is changing his position.” +“Which is the senior?” he asked, on seeing the prisoners. +which it is difficult to justify.” +which it rests and which no human power can destroy, is the preservation +which made a certain sensation, the count exchanged glances with +which Nicholas Rostóv served and which was in Prince Bagratión’s +which Princess Mary meekly submitted, just as her hair had been arranged +which seemed to him dazzlingly red, and at the feeble, round-shouldered +which seemed to rise out of the sea of mist and on which the Russian +which seemed to say that he was not blaming anyone, but could not help +which seemed to stand rather than lie down on his massive shoulders. He +which several others joined but which bored Pierre. When the music began +which she neither wished, nor could, nor considered it necessary, to +which she spoke of her exalted patroness, supported Hélène’s wish. +which showed that he only understood the meaning of his words after he +which stood on her right. It reflected a weak, ungraceful figure and +which the cadet under fire for the first time had experienced. +which the Guards prided themselves), the officers on foot and at their +which the prince had retained for himself. +which the Rostóvs always attended. He was pointedly attentive to Sónya +which the serfs’ manorial labor had been diminished, and heard the +which they were present, and went to Iogel’s balls for young people +which though they embarrassed Pierre awakened a joyful feeling in the +which to attack and defeat the enemy should he cross the Lech. Also, +which to reply to Dólokhov’s words. But before he had thought of +which was a lie, and worse than a lie? I am guilty and must endure... +which was littered with books and papers. The princess was as untidy as +which was not clear to him, to question his chief steward, to visit his +which was offered him. Telyánin for some reason had been transferred +which was presumably somewhere in the same neighborhood. And so it was +which was to be found “the cream of really good society, the bloom +which were to be the first to descend the heights to attack the French +which were uppermost in his mind at that moment, addressed Prince Andrew +(which would be very difficult), he would not be able to get back before +while dressing, and yet the question he was always putting off demanded +While father and son were having their explanation, the mother and +while he tried to prove to Pierre that in his actions there was no +While in the Rostóvs’ ballroom the sixth anglaise was being danced, +while on the scaffolding, in the midst of a talk explaining the future +while others sought some extraordinary explanation of so strange an +while Prince Andrew on the contrary, taking no part in the war and +While Prince Andrew went to report about the purple-faced general, that +While Rostóv was thus arguing with himself and riding sadly away, +While the count was being turned over, one of his arms fell back +While the couples were arranging themselves and the musicians tuning up, +While the guests were taking their leave Pierre remained for a long time +While these conversations were going on in the reception room and the +while the youngest, the one with the mole, who was of a cheerful and +while under the supervision of the countess and the solicitude of the +while we, on the other hand, with our left wing by far outflank his +whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, +whispered, and a shudder ran down her back. +whispered to him. “This happiness is for those who have not in them +whispered to one another, casting significant looks at him with a kind +whisper, “has compromised her completely, they say. Pierre took him +whispering, and betraying by every word and movement that they none +whispers. +whispers, and, whenever anyone went into or came from the dying man’s +whistling, singing, and hissing continually around them. He spoke in the +white Cossack coat, and bring him along to me.” +white foam from his bit, tramping the planks of the bridge with his +white foam on the waves of the Enns, an officer, in a cloak and with +white hands with an air of calm importance. +white horse, was Prince Bagratión. Prince Andrew stopped, waiting for +white one, the white one!” +white plumes in his hat rode a bobtailed chestnut horse, the other who +white ruffle, outlining his rather long face which was lit up from +whites glittering and rolling as he waved his sheathed saber in a small +white teeth fiercely and spurring his black thoroughbred Arab, which +“Who?” +who also enjoyed the famous actress’ favors, and that in his presence +who always solved questions that seemed to him perplexing by deciding +who amuses himself in this sensible manner! And he was said to be so +who, angry and frightened, strode energetically along with downcast +who appeared at his call. “Hurry off and tell Maksím, the gardener, +“Who are they? Why are they here? What do they want? And when will +“Who are you talking about?” +“Who?” asked Rostóv. +who, as they passed through in their ball dresses with diamonds and +who at the front had the power to annihilate him, a lieutenant of the +who at the Rostóvs’ had jocularly assumed the role of Natásha’s +who came to congratulate, and who constantly succeeded one another in +“Who can tell, your honor?” replied the hussar reluctantly. +who could therefore be of use to him. He liked Petersburg and despised +who—dreading this love affair which might hinder Nicholas from making +whoever he may be, exhort him who goeth astray, raise him that falleth, +who evidently understood his case and wished him nothing but good, +(who gazed with curiosity at the soldiers) were not Russians, the +who gives himself the airs of a monarch.” +who had come into the room unnoticed by anyone, stood there and wiped +who had come up to the cot with noiseless steps, lifted the curtain, +who had evidently just arrived, entered quickly, slamming the door. +who had grown old in society and at court. He went up to Anna Pávlovna, +who had him under observation, interrupted: +who had lolled in Anna Pávlovna’s easy chairs and with half-closed +who had marched so gaily and complacently. But at the moment the first +who had recently opened a restaurant there with girls as waitresses. +who had sheltered in the village houses. They all rushed out of +who had spoken to him on behalf of her only son Borís on the evening of +who had stolen some boots from the recruits; I should even have been +who had wished to stop the affair ran to a corner of the room and threw +who have striven to attain this mystery, and thereby to render them +“Who is it you want?” he asked. “The commander in chief? He was +who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies. +who kept her waiting some minutes. “Don’t you wish to serve me? Then +who kissed his hand. +“Who? Kutúzov?” asked Rostóv. +who lays back her ears and continues to crouch motionless before her +whole army.” +whole army it is still uncertain whether he is alive or not. I comfort +whole body jerked at each step. The eldest princess followed him, and +whole dining hall, and last of all the children, tutors, and governesses +whole mass of men was concentrated. +whole set. Yes, you’re all right! Choose what you will; it’s all the +whole tenor of his thoughts instantaneously changed; the battle seemed +who, liking work, knew how to do it, and despite his indolence would +who looked at her, after being in her company and talking to her a +who made her a low bow when she met him in the corridor carrying hot +whom all the regiment knew for a rogue. +whom did you apply?” +who met him with the cross oppressed the peasants by his exactions, and +whom he had promised to take home. +whom he now found nothing in common. “We will go after dinner. And +whom he was again talking with the same involuntary smile. Sónya wore +whom I mention this, because I like you.” +“Whom shall I announce?” +whom should I say that? Either to a Power indefinable, incomprehensible, +who on Kutúzov’s staff in charge of the provisioning of the Russian +who ran downstairs and looked over from the halfway landing. +who recognized him and said a few words to him, disjointed and awkward, +who remained behind, and the monotonous tramp of thousands of feet +who’s a better man than you in every way...” +“Who sacrificed everything for him,” chimed in the princess, who +“Whose company?” asked Prince Bagratión of an artilleryman standing +whose state of unconquerable childish embarrassment now changing to +whose words struck Pierre more and more by their precision and firmness. +“Who should it be? You yourself told him to come. It’s the +“Who’s that curtseying there? Cadet Miwónov! That’s not wight! +“Who’s that running on the middle of the bridge? To the right! Come +“Who’s that? Why? Wait a moment!” Anatole’s face seemed to say. + Who still is thinking but of thee! +who stood in the midst of the group, without a coat, and with his fine +“Who the devil has put the logs on the road?” snarled he. +“Who told you that? Who?” cried the prince. “Suvórov!” And he +who was a secretary to the embassy, Bolkónski was already acquainted. +who was associated by memories of the Italian campaign with the name of +who was in a high fever. These last days, mistrusting their household +who was kissing her hand, “you’re feeling dull in Moscow, I daresay? +who was passing: +who was reduced to the ranks, took a French officer prisoner in my +who was sitting silently beside him, what he thought of tomorrow’s +“Who was that?” asked Borís. +“Who was that? The Military Governor himself?” was being asked at +who will not refuse to accompany you.” +who, with his face buried in the ground and a blackened nape, lay on his +“Wh-what is the matter?” asked both the young and old Rostóv. +why. +“Why?” +“Why?” +“Why a blue coat? Off with it... Sergeant major! Change his coat... +“Why aren’t you beginning, Michael Ilariónovich?” said the +“Why aren’t you serving in the army?” +“Why are they down on me?” thought Túshin, looking in alarm at his +“Why are you crying, Mamma?” asked Véra. “From all he says one +“Why are you going? I know you think it your duty to gallop back to +Why are you hindering us?” Another in the same place turned round and +“Why are you so glum?” asked Nesvítski noticing Prince Andrew’s +Why did I bind myself to her? Why did I say ‘Je vous aime’ * to her, +“Why didn’t you capture one, just one, marshal for us?” +“Why didn’t you mention it, Prince? I would have offered you +“Why did Sónya run away?” asked Rostóv. +“Why did they write, why did Lise tell me about it? It can never +“Why did you not succeed in impressing on Bonaparte by diplomatic +Why doesn’t the Frenchman stab him? He will not get away before the +“Why doesn’t the red-haired gunner run away as he is unarmed? +“Why, don’t you hear it?” Rostóv asked again, after waiting for a +“Why don’t you play?” he asked. +“Why don’t you renew the acquaintance?” said Dólokhov to Rostóv. +“Why don’t you speak, cousin?” suddenly shrieked the princess so +“Why do they want to make her sing? How can she sing? There’s +“Why do you say this young man is so rich?” asked the countess, +“Why do you shout so? You’ll frighten them!” said Borís. “I did +“Why, for this reason! My father is one of the most remarkable men of +“Why have we stopped? Is the way blocked? Or have we already come up +“Why have you thrown that away?” asked Borís. +“Why, have you too much money?” +“Why, I didn’t recognize you!” he said. But Rostóv was otherwise +“Why? I love you more than ever,” said Princess Mary, “and I will +“Why, is it late?” +“Why is it wrong?” urged Prince Andrew. “It is not given to man +“Why is it you were never at Annette’s?” the little princess asked +“Why no, my dear fellow,” said the astonished narrator, shrugging +“Why not?” inquired Borís. +“Why not wash? That is not cleanly,” said Prince Andrew; “on the +“Why run risks, Captain? You should dismount,” he said. +why she’s ashamed!” +“Why should I envy them? My chance is not lost, and maybe I shall see +“Why should I mind Monsieur Pierre being here?” exclaimed the little +“Why shouldn’t I speak? I can speak as I like, and I tell you +“Why should you be ashamed?” +“Why so?” asked Prince Andrew. “To kill a vicious dog is a very +“Why talk nonsense? Say what you want.” +“Why terrible?” asked Nicholas. “No, Váska is a splendid +“Why, that one, right at the end, the big one. Don’t you see? +why they all looked so at him, and flattered by this general admiration +“Why, this is a palace!” she said to her husband, looking around +“Why,” thought Prince Andrew, “that’s the captain who stood up +“Why ‘What the devil’?” said Borís, picking it up and reading +“Why, you remember before you went away?... Well, she says you are to +wider than ours, and it was plain that they could easily outflank us +width of the field, an enormous mass of cavalry in brilliant white +wife: “Ah, why have you done this to me?” +wife and her tall cap with its light-blue ribbons, and busily filled +wife, and that it could not be otherwise. +wife... God bless you!...” +wife, how she would love him become quite different, and how all he had +wife’s command had let his hair grow and abandoned his spectacles, +wife, sister, and future son, and the tenderness he had felt the night +wife, was talking in low tones to the elderly lady about Pierre. +wife, while you...” +wild virgin pine forest, and far away on the other side of the Enns the +will accept them,” said Nesvítski (who like the others concerned in +will all die for him gladly! Is it not so, gentlemen? Perhaps I am not +will all end in nothing!” +will all the same never be like those Petersburg young men.” +Willarski bowed his head. +Willarski was silent throughout the drive. To Pierre’s inquiries as +Willarski, whom Pierre had known slightly in Petersburg society, came +will be cut off,” said he. +will begin. And he says Buonaparte is in Braunau! Shows you’re a fool. +will be my teacher...” And lowering his big arm he offered it to the +will certainly be granted. Pierre will get everything as the legitimate +will certainly happen!” thought Pierre, glancing at those dazzling +will come!” +will come back in a rage. Will you have coffee?” +willing, are going to die in the regiment, we prize the honor of the +will in Pierre’s favor are among the count’s papers, then, my dear +will just be time.” +will not reach your regiment before peace is concluded, or you will +will not rest until they have gained their end, and are prepared if +will pass here immediately; it will please him to see these gentlemen +will slash at him!” thought Rostóv, gripping the hilt of his saber. +will. The races, the English Club, sprees with Denísov, and visits to +“Will they burn the bridge or not? Who’ll get there first? Will they +will they cross Pomerania?” +will to tell only what happened. It is very difficult to tell the truth, +“Will you bet? The ribbon of the order is a different matter....” +“Will you have the portmanteaus brought in? And a bed got ready, and +window and from Dólokhov’s back. Anatole stood erect with staring +window, from which the double frame had been removed (by order of the +window. Nesvítski, moving his moist lips as he chewed something, and +window sill. +window sill, with a pale but radiant face. +windows opening into the conservatory, with its large bust and full +wind to carry away. A pleasant humming and whistling of bullets were +“Wine? Gluttony? Idleness? Laziness? Irritability? Anger? Women?” +wine with dignity and looking to the count for approval. +wings, hoping before evening and before the arrival of the Emperor to +wing with the other, Prince Andrew met Mademoiselle Bourienne smiling +winter of 1806, which Nicholas Rostóv spent in Moscow, was one of the +wiping them on the sleeves of their greatcoats. All their faces were +wisdom.” +wish?” +wished both to rebuke him (for daring to speak as he had done of a man +wished to do something special on meeting his friend. He wanted to pinch +wished to help him but could not. +wished to make some suggestion. But Prince Vasíli interrupted him in +wished to say something more, but at that moment Prince Vasíli and his +wished to see the regiment just in the state in which it had been on +wished to take another seat so as not to trouble the lady, and also to +wishes; that is my only reason for being here. I came simply to help him +wishes to stay with me, let him... he’ll be of use here if he’s a +wishes to test me!” His heart contracted and the blood rushed to his +wishing to avail himself of their courtesy, and this caused some delay +Wishing to find out where the commander in chief was, he rode up to +wishing to rid himself of this staff officer’s company, “please +wishing to show her connections and knowledge of what went on in +wishing to show him that she did not even dare expect to interest him, +wishing to take it off, but let it drop again. The five minutes spent +wish or not to be Prince Anatole Kurágin’s wife? Reply: yes or no,” +wish to be seen in that mood, for hearing footsteps in the passage he +wish, to court society’s favor. Now he alone was blamed for what had +with a bashful and awkward gesture not at all like a military salute +with a bottle wrapped in a napkin passed him by. He frowned, trying to +with a calm smile that she was not so stupid as to be jealous: ‘Let +with a clear, bright expression, as if asking them to notice how calmly +with a clever face and sharply projecting jaw which, without spoiling +with a decanter on a tray as “my dear” and “my sweet,” asked +with a decorous smile of self-satisfaction at being able clearly to +with a distressed face left the room to find Sónya. +With a facetious smile on his face, he was telling the ladies about last +with a foretaste of artistic pleasure. +with a friendly smile. +with a gloomy and tired face, was wearily taking off his wraps with the +with a heart full despair he rode away, continually looking back at the +with a hum of conversation, like the hum of bees swarming in springtime. +with a look of nervous agitation such as Pierre had never before seen on +with a look the significance of which could not be understood by mortal +“With a message to His Majesty.” +with a mournful expression. +with a mouse. +with an apoplectic flush over neck and nape as old people do. +with an enormous mouth, hardly refraining from laughing, “I felt like +with an f, as a village elder of mine writes in his reports. She is rich +with an old mother and a hunchback sister, and was the most affectionate +with anything in regard to her; and that always will be so in whatever +with a pleasant feeling that there was something à la Louis XV in the +with a rapid, almost brutal movement of her head, she intercepted his +with a scared look and that Princess Mary was no longer by the cot. +with a sense of antipathy to the old prince which she did not +with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not +with a serious expression, but with a smile lurking at the corners of +with a sigh. +with a sigh he could not suppress, as they passed out of the palace. +with a sigh. This might have been taken as an expression of sorrow +with a sinking heart—watching the bridge and the hussars in the bright +with a smile. +with a strength he had never before felt, he made a step toward her +with a subtle smile. +with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her +with a trembling voice and some difficulty in utterance due to his +with a wink, and passed on followed by another, an old man. +with banks still bare of grass. It was at the end of a village that +with bread and salt and wished to build a chantry in honor of Peter and +with carts that it was impossible to get by in a carriage. Prince Andrew +with Dólokhov. “None but fools trust to luck in play,” Dólokhov +with elasticity of movement, faith in his good fortune, and generally in +with enjoyment, gazing with ever-increasing amiability at the other +with evident pleasure. +with exaggerated politeness. +with flour whitening their carts—on that narrow dam amid the wagons +with frightened eyes; the second assumed precisely the same expression; +with Germans all day. We went with Weyrother to survey the dispositions. +with gossip,” he continued. “Just now they are talking about you and +With great difficulty he managed to get to his horse, and shouting +with grief, though he tried hard to hide it in order not to sadden his +with her and picked up her reticule and drove out with her. How did it +with her beautiful eyes full of tears at the door through which Prince +with her head bent first on one side and then on the other. +with her. He kissed her hand and addressed her not as thou but as +with her knitting. Princess Mary took a book and began reading. Only +with her to the side of the room where stood the high bedstead with its +with him.” +with him remained in his room; a small box, a large canteen fitted +with himself and those around him, his smile and glance were brighter +with him. There now, Sídorov!” +with him to Dolgorúkov. +with his cap on the back of his black head and a cloak hanging jauntily +with his daughter, Princess Mary, and her companion, Mademoiselle +with his eccentric father. +with his eyes bandaged seemed to him an hour. His arms felt numb, +with his face in his hands. +with his feelings but with the very possibility of life. Life without +with his foot. +with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache +with his glittering, black eyes at Rostóv. +with his handkerchief, sat down by Natásha and did not leave her for +with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. At the sound +with his right hand, then falling on one knee he twirled her round him, +with his right thumb under a button of his uniform, his chest expanded +with his small hand. +with his thin legs, went up to Kutúzov. +with his whole body as if in that position he hoped to hasten the speed +within. +within a few days. Princess Mary and the old prince each bore and hid +within grapeshot range now.” +Within half an hour adjutants had been sent in various directions with +with it hidden for awhile; then looking up and seeing Pierre she +with it to the marshals, and ordered the action to begin. The marshals, +with jests and to come to business. He involuntarily looked round at the +with kisses, holding him tight by the skirt of his coat, sprang away and +with Kutúzov’s cantata, laid one before Pierre as one of the +with lanterns, standing at the entrance. She went out on the stairs. On +with lighted tapers in their hands, slowly and solemnly conducting the +“With my father and sister, remember,” said Prince Andrew gently. +with Napoleon if, contrary to expectations, these negotiations were +with Natásha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed +with none of the embarrassment so commonly shown by young men in their +with one another. Again the footmen rushed about, chairs scraped, and +with one leg crossed high above the other. His cheeks, which were so +without an inner struggle; “at such a moment as this one must think +Without answering, Rostóv shook the soldier’s Cross of St. George +without any command being given, apparently obstructed by something in +without any definite position, without relations or even a country, did +without at all noticing that his involuntary smile had stabbed the heart +without boasting that it was a little better than at Ulm...” +Without changing his careless attitude, Pierre looked at them over his +without delay and carry out instructions! +without eating.” +without going out of the house, waiting for the money his father could +without his boots (he had given them to the canteen keeper to dry), +without his greatcoat, with his Orders on his breast and an enormous +without his noticing it the feeling of offense immediately turned into +without laughing, but could not resist looking at him: so to be out of +without looking at him, and with a kind of fury that made him like his +without looking at the man he was addressing, and did not reply to +without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly. It was as +without male society, on Anatole’s appearance all the three women of +without moving, undertaking nothing....” +without omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from +without reading it and reread his father’s letter, ending with the +without reasoning. With an affectation of respect which evidently struck +without receiving any explanation. +without support. Prince Bagratión turned to the officer and with his +without taking any notice of him although they were now meeting for the +without turning their heads glanced at one another, curious to see their +without wars. How is it that we women don’t want anything of the kind, +with papers from Kutúzov to the Tsarévich, he looked in on Borís, +with particular courtesy ushered Prince Andrew before him along a +with pleasure to his own voice. “All I can say, General, is that if +with Prince Bagratión’s detachment.” +with profit. The first and chief object of our Order, the foundation on +with rapid rhythmic whistle flew over the heads of the horsemen and fell +with red light like a Russian church during evening service. Under +With shifting eyes but eyebrows still raised, Telyánin handed him the +with Shinshín. Berg gave his arm to Véra. The smiling Julie Karágina +with silver plate, two Turkish pistols and a saber—a present from +with So and-So,’ and then I take a cab and go myself two, three, or +with something. It was a coffin with bones inside. He was not at all +with something more than curiosity and sympathy. He noticed that they +with such exactitude that Nesvítski could not help laughing. Kutúzov +with Telyánin and Bogdánich. That affair was the same thing as this +with tender smiles was saying to Véra that love is not an earthly but +with the air of an old brigadier. +with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our +with the delight boys feel at the sight of a military elder brother, and +with the expression with which people compliment their host at a ball. +with the flirtatiousness of a handsome youth at Sónya and the young +with the full swing of a bludgeon. It hurt a little, but the worst of +with the gentle, patronizing intonation natural to a man of importance +with the hussar colonel on his left and Shinshín and the other male +with their management and embezzlement of money, some after their first +with their plumes, ribbons, and medals, both courtiers and military +with the lassitude of age, sat yawning wearily with closed eyes. The +With the naked eye Prince Andrew saw below them to the right, not more +with the old prince.” +with the physical pain. It was they, these soldiers—wounded and +with the rank of lieutenant; but as it is I receive two hundred and +with the river between himself and the main body of the French. On the +with the same expression on his full, cheerful, clean-shaven face, the +With the self-satisfaction of a man on parade, he stepped lightly with +With these words she greeted Prince Vasíli Kurágin, a man of high +With the soldier, an infantry officer with a bandaged cheek came up to +with the strict formality of his house. At that moment the great clock +with thoughts and anxieties as to be oblivious of his presence. He +with trembling hands, threw his body across the saddle, righted himself, +with upraised arms. +with us.” +with which he listened to Pierre, especially when he spoke with joyful +with you alone! God knows how long we may again be parted. You are not +with you. I can’t.” +“With you I will be quite frank,” said Anna Mikháylovna. “There +with you. May I?” he added in a low voice so as not to disturb the +woman; and what have you done? You have not helped her to find the way +woman, but there, just fancy! Those three got hold of a bear somewhere, + * “Woman is man’s companion.” +woman. Now I have spoken that terrible word to myself all has become +woman’s privilege.” +woman who may belong to anyone—to you too,” said her glance. And at +woman. With a slight rustle of her white dress trimmed with moss +women. +women.” +women are when you see them in their true colors! When you meet them +women have that dress can make a face pretty. +“Women,” he said in a low, scarcely audible voice. +women’s gloves, he said: “Dear brother, these woman’s gloves are +women, ‘women and wine’ I don’t understand!” +wonderful classic beauty of her figure, his face on the contrary +won’t be in action,” he added as if in apology. +won’t get there till evening.” +won’t go.” +“Won’t you come over to the other table?” suggested Anna +wood. +wooden walls redolent of pine, and would have gone farther, but Antón +word. +word; and he sat down at the nearest table. +word, “and you believed it! Well, what have you proved? What does this +word infected the whole crowd with a feeling of panic. +word of honor not to take anything more till the spring. Now only twelve +word or slight rearrangement kept the conversational machine in steady, +words but could not distinguish them. The din of many voices was too +words could do. You will perhaps also see in your further initiation a +words: “Gallop off to Kórchevo and carry out instructions!” +words, he added, “Don’t be hurt, my dear fellow; you know I speak +words he had found so difficult to utter: “I love you.” “It all +words. If you are going to fight a duel, and you make a will and write +words: “Morning dawned, the sun was rising,” and concluding: “On +words of Rostopchín, that French soldiers have to be incited to battle +words), others were eating bread; the more severely wounded looked +words—the Great All or Nothing-” said he to himself, “or to +words to the soldiers who were carrying him, now with his eyes fixed +words. Touched that this statuesque princess could so change, Pierre +words with vague yet joyful ideas. The door opened and someone came in. +word that Hardenburg says, or Haugwitz either. This famous Prussian +word “waiting.”) “Not all the columns have formed up yet, Your +word would effectively prove to Prince Vasíli the invalidity of his +work and study. And if Pierre was often struck by Andrew’s lack +workbag.” +work, chimes to play, figures to pop out, and the hands to advance with +working and looked up with that curious expression of inner, happy calm +working herself up to tears with the imaginary words of her pauvre mère +work nearer to her. +work. On a third estate the priest, bearing a cross, came to meet +world!” +world a quite different atmosphere, careless, lighthearted, and +worldly sciences of physics, history, chemistry, and the like, into +world. Prince Andrew was the first to move away, ruffling his hair +worn and irritable. The infantry passing before him came to a halt +worn leather, and an officer’s saber with a sword knot. The Don horse +worse, and it is absolutely necessary to prepare him if he is so ill. +worse than others.” +worse, would have thought that Rostóv was himself to blame since what +worthless scoundrel whose whole life could not atone for his crime. He +worthy of it. This rescript began with the words: “Sergéy Kuzmích, +“Wostóv, deah fellow, just see how much there is left and shove the +“Wostóv, get up!” +“Wostóv, you’ve not been playing schoolboy twicks...” +would again have risen had not the prince still held her fast, “though +would appear as he passed the commander. +would at last start on that path of regeneration and on the actively +would be easier to see people coming along it. “Follow me!” said he, +would be good if everything were as clear and simple as it seems to +would be killed. +would be particularly pleasant to him to dishonor my name and ridicule +would be something unnatural, and as it seemed to him dishonorable, in +would be taken immediately to free his serfs—and that till then they +would be to betray her agitation, while to decline their offers to +would be too extraordinary,” and at the very moment she thought this, +would be transferred to the Guards at once?” said she. +would be wiser for him to leave Petersburg. Pierre proposed going to his +would find himself in the position of Mack at Ulm. If Kutúzov decided +would give way not only under a cannon or a crowd, but very soon even +would happen to him and still more afraid of showing his fear. He felt +would have addressed yourself first to me. In that case you would not +would have hit Alpátych, the overseer, had not the latter instinctively +would have made them. +would have me be, but I have never had help from anyone.... But it is +would have seemed so unnatural had anyone disliked him, that he could +would have taken the icon, but she stopped him. Andrew understood, +would I not give now to be unmarried! You are the first and only one to +would magnanimously extend the hand of reconciliation. +would meet. +would not be bad as regards the unwritten code,” thought Borís), +would not have taken lovers (des amants), but I have not done so,” +would not see us for a whole fortnight. I know it was then he wrote this +“Would not such a meeting be too trying for him, dear Anna +would not supply them. Pierre was obliged to wait. Without undressing, +“Would not your excellency like a little refreshment?” he said. +would occupy a most brilliant position in society. Don’t you think so? +would still remain piteous and plain. After two or three changes to +would take place on this side of it... +“Would you believe it, Count, I was not at all alarmed, because I knew +would you now like to look round my place?” +wounded and captured Russian officers he was carried to the hospital. +wounded, and one knocked out,” he added, unable to restrain a happy +wounded had been abandoned on the other side of the Danube with a letter +wounded—had left it long ago. All about the field, like heaps of +wounded in the right hand, taken his sword in the left, and gone +wounded officer?” +wounded soldier was so dirty, coarse, and revolting that his proximity +wounded under him and his own arm slightly grazed by a bullet. As a mark +wounded were more distinctly heard than any other sound in the darkness +wounded where there was no one left to fire at, on seeing an adjutant +wounds, the loss of family—I fear nothing. And precious and dear +wrath. Having snapped at an officer for an unpolished badge, at another +wretched mood. At nine in the morning, he heard firing in front and +wringing her hands. +wrinkled, clean-shaven cheek for Pierre to kiss and would say: “Till +wrinkled soles and palms. +wrists visible from under the shirt cuffs, laid down the pack and took +“Write to her and let me know how her father looks at the matter. Au +write, told Rostóv the contents of his letter. +writing, so that his quill spluttered and squeaked. “If you have +written, “still, I should not cry, but you can’t... no one can +wrong, and further that he was disagreeable and unnatural. +wrong and that to discuss the bad news was difficult, and so it was best +wrote himself,” said she through her tears. +XVII, for the Queen, or for Madame Elizabeth? Nothing!” and he became +yards was all that separated them. The enemy ceased firing, and that +year?” said “the man of profound intellect.” “Why shouldn’t +years before, it seemed impossible that the little creature who lived +years older than her sister and behaved already like a grown-up person), +years ... then I will ask for your hand.” +“Yes.” +“Yes.” +“Yes, and even tomorrow,” replied her brother. +“Yes, and he is over sixty. I hear the count no longer recognizes +“Yes, and I have some money and a letter to give you,” he added. +“Yes and no mistake!” cried Denísov. “You worked like wegular +“Yes, a regular volcano,” said the count. “Takes after me! And +“Yes, bring some.” +“Yes, but between ourselves,” said the princess, “that is a +“Yes, but he will dislike it extremely,” said Bolkónski. +“Yes, but it is not as you imagine,” Prince Andrew continued. “I +“Yes, but you are not the only one. There are your sisters...” +“Yes, Count,” she would say, “he is too noble and pure-souled for +“Yes, Dmítri, clean ones, please,” said the countess, sighing +“Yes, everything is different nowadays, everything is changed. The +“Yes, Father, I have come to you and brought my wife who is +“Yes, from Olmütz,” he answered, with a sigh. +“Yes, gentlemen, I’ve been told there’s a rumor going about Moscow +“Yes, God be thanked! Yes! They’ve just finished supper. Let me have +“Yes, he is very handsome,” thought Pierre, “and I know him. It +yes, hospitals, medicine. He has a fit, he is dying, and you come and +“Yes, I am, but please don’t let us do like that.... In another four +“Yes, I belong to the Brotherhood of the Freemasons,” said the +“Yes: ideas of robbery, murder, and regicide,” again interjected an +“Yes, I do believe in God,” he repeated. +“Yes, I do wish it,” said he. +“Yes, I’d send them on in front, but no fear, they’re crowding up +“Yes, I feel a kind of oppression,” she said in reply to the +“Yes, if having obtained power, without availing himself of it to +“Yes, if you put it like that it’s quite a different matter,” said +“Yes, I have heard of his scheme for perpetual peace, and it is very +“Yes... I... I... desire regeneration,” Pierre uttered with +“Yes, I knew it long ago but had forgotten. I knew that I could expect +“Yes, immediately, immediately! Hey, who’s there?” he called out +“Yes, I’m tired too,” said Rostóv. +“Yes, indeed!” +“Yes, indeed,” replied the princess with a sigh. “So he may have +“Yes, I never loved her,” said he to himself; “I knew she was a +“Yes, I saw him, and am convinced that he fears nothing so much as +“Yes, it can’t be helped if they won’t take less. Ah, dear me! I +“Yes, it is all very horrid,” interrupted Pierre, “very horrid.” +“Yes, it is very likely that I shall be killed tomorrow,” he +“Yes, it’s a nice purse. Yes, yes,” he said, growing suddenly +“Yes, it seems he is ill. People are always disturbing him,” +“Yes, it’s from Julie,” replied the princess with a timid glance +“Yes... it’s getting on, it will all be settled today.” Anna +“Yes, I was a fool! I still believed in people, loved them, and +“Yes, I was brought up quite differently,” remarked the handsome +“Yes, I was thinking”—for some reason Borís could not help +“Yes, just the same. Though I don’t know what your opinion will +yes, killed my wife’s lover. Yes, that was it! And why? How did I come +“Yes, let’s go in and I will get myself a roll and some cheese,” +“Yes, my dear, this is a great loss for us all, not to speak of you. +“Yes, my Sónya could not have done otherwise!” thought Nicholas. +“Yes, now you may be glad!” said she; “this is what you have +“Yes, one is afraid,” continued the first speaker, he of the +“Yes, please do,” answered the general, and he repeated the order +“Yes, please do,” said Rostóv. +“Yes,” replied a footman in a bold loud voice, as if anything were +“Yes,” said Natásha. “Do you know, Nicholas—don’t be +“Yes,” said Rostóv as if it cost him a great deal to utter the +“Yes,” said the countess when the brightness these young people had +“Yes, sir.” +“Yes, sir.” +“Yes, sir, and there’s a light in your father’s study.” +“Yes, so it is, so it is,” said the general angrily, lowering the +“Yes, stories!” repeated Rostóv loudly, looking with eyes suddenly +yesterday and the question presented itself whether he ought or ought +yesterday’s order. Have you got it, Denísov?” +“Yes, that all happened!” he said, and, smiling happily to himself +“Yes, that must be so,” thought Pierre, when after these words the +“Yes, that’s me!” she seemed to say, answering the rapt gaze with +“Yes, that was fine,” said Rostóv, smiling. +“Yes, the Austrian prince who built that castle was no fool. It’s +“Yes, the ham was just delicious...” answered another with a loud +“Yes, these verses Nicholas wrote himself and I copied some others, +“Yes, they are splendid, splendid youngsters,” chimed in the count, +“Yes, this is the one thing left me now,” he said with a sigh. +“Yes, we have altered much, very much, since then,” said Prince +“Yes, we know that, but the harm I am conscious of in myself is +“Yes, yes,” assented Pierre. +“Yes, yes,” assented Pierre. +“Yes, yes, do so.” +“Yes, yes, go and tell them to get it ready,” she answered, +“Yes, yes,” he muttered, “it will be difficult, I fear, difficult +“Yes, yes, I am unhappy,” assented Pierre. “But what am I to +“Yes... yes, I believe in God,” he said. +“Yes, yes, if you please! It is already late,” said he, and nodding +“Yes, yes; just so! Bring it. Give it to the countess.” +“Yes, yes,” muttered Bagratión as if considering something, and he +“Yes, yes, of course,” interrupted Prince Vasíli impatiently, +“Yes, yes, of course!” Pierre chimed in, pleased at the arrival of +“Yes, yes, that is so,” said Pierre joyfully. +Yes! Yes! Yes! Don’t look at me with such surprise. If you marry +“Yes, you do not know Him, my dear sir,” said the Mason. “You +“Yes, you have seen him?” said Prince Andrew. “Well, what is +“Yes, you might, but I am afraid of getting the accounts mixed. So I +“Yes, you’re quite right,” continued the countess. “Till now I +“Yes, your excellency,” answered the Ukrainian gaily, tossing his +“Yes, your excellency. Forgive me for heaven’s sake... It was only +“Yes, you talk, but try it yourself!” +yet at the same time was conscious of his strength as a part of that +yet a young woman. Escaping from her father she ran to hide her flushed +yet. He felt that he must not say it. +Yet it was she, dressed in a new gown which he did not know, made since +yet occupied that region, and the Russians—the uninjured and slightly +Yet the ladies themselves could not help laughing. +yet with a hope for the fulfillment of her forbidden earthly longing) +yet with unhesitating assurance that he was doing the right thing, + you.” +you!” +you.” +you?” +“You absolutely must come and see me,” she said in a tone that +you, all!” he added in a tone of command. +“You always manage to do things at the wrong time,” continued Véra. +you and make you weep. +“you and your generals won’t get on against Buonaparte; you’ll +you a place in my carriage. I am very glad. All our important business +“You are a little slyboots,” she said. +You are all blubberers and understand nothing.” +“You are an angel: I am not worthy of you, but I am afraid of +“You are good in every way, Andrew, but you have a kind of +“You are in love with me?” Natásha broke in. +“You are joking,” replied Pierre, growing more and more excited. +“You are mistaken,” said Borís deliberately, with a bold and +“You are most welcome! I know, I know,” said the count, kissing and +you are not aware of the fact...” +“You are off to the war, Prince?” said Anna Pávlovna. +“You are seeking for truth in order to follow its laws in your life, +“You are still the same dreamer, I see,” remarked Borís, shaking +“You are the commander of the Emperor Alexander’s regiment of Horse +“You are unhappy, my dear sir,” the stranger continued. “You +“You are wounded?” he asked, hardly able to master the trembling of +you at last decided on anything? Are you going to be a guardsman or a +“You at least must tackle him properly, or else if he goes on like +“You, Bolkónski, don’t know,” said Bilíbin turning to Prince +you, but we’ll see what will happen. Buonaparte has become a great +you, but why should I bother about you? You’d be only too glad, of +“You call him Váska? That’s funny! And is he very nice?” +you!” came from different sides. +“You came rushing into the drawing room so that everyone felt ashamed +“You can give the message to His Majesty,” said Dolgorúkov, +“You can’t come in! You can’t!” said a terrified voice from +You can’t wait a moment! Don’t you see the general wants to pass?” +You can undertake the theater, I society, and you, Hippolyte, of course + * “You clear out of this.” +“You couldn’t see a thing. How they shot at their own fellows! +you cry, Sónya, dear love, darling Sónya!” and she kissed her and +You’d better listen more carefully!” +you, dear Mary, that in spite of his extreme youth his departure for +you did gain a brilliant victory, if even the Archduke Karl gained a +“You did not get my letter?” he asked, and not waiting for a +“You don’t mind your honor?” he asked Túshin. “I’ve lost my +“You don’t say so!” replied the countess. +“You don’t understand why I say this,” he continued, “but it is + * You expect to make an income out of the government. +“You forget yourself, Colonel. I am not considering my own pleasure +“You give me your word of honor not to go?” +you going, when you might remain here? You are faced by one of two +“You had better go.” +“You had better take care!” said the countess. +“You have a try, Hercules,” said he, turning to Pierre. +you have been entered in the diplomatic corps and made a Gentleman of +“You have been in Paris recently, I believe? I suppose it’s very +“You have earned the St. George’s standards and will be worthy of +“You have not yet seen my husband?” +“You haven’t read the letter?” asked Sónya. +“You have only lately arrived?” the countess asked him. +you hurry up? Now then!” +you? I’m awfully glad you’re my brother.” She touched his +you—is that that man suffers, and this Don Juan, wicked fellow, is +“You just wait a moment, my dear fellow, and listen,” interrupted +“You know Bilíbin—he’s a very clever fellow. He suggested +“You know her husband, of course?” said Anna Pávlovna, closing her +“You know Him not, my dear sir, and so you are very unhappy. You do +“You know, Michael Ilariónovich, we are not on the Empress’ Field +“You know, mon cher, your father and I had some accounts to settle, so +“You know N— N— received a snuffbox with the portrait last +“You know, Prince, I am not a Bonapartist!” +“You know,” said the princess in the same tone of voice and still in +“You know they’ve come, Marie?” said the little princess, waddling +“You live in the country and don’t think the life terrible,” he +you’ll be appointed adjutant somewhere and can snap your fingers when +“You’ll die and all will end. You’ll die and know all, or cease +you’ll like it,” and he patted her cheek. “It will drive all the +“You’ll make a fine thing of it, deploying in sight of the enemy! +“You may go,” he said to Anatole. +“You may punt,” he said. +“You might have taken some from the covering troops.” +“You must do as you please,” said Prince Bolkónski, bowing to his +“You must excuse me, dear Vicomte,” said Prince Vasíli to the +“You must look for husbands for them whether you like it or not....” +“You must walk, walk as much as possible, as much as possible,” he +“You, my little countess, are a notorious spendthrift,” said the +“You need not have said that to me, Father,” said the son with a +young aide-de-camp with a smile. +young, all our octogenarians were reviewed, and of Prozoróvski +young and old men and women Pierre could not understand why he did not +young ever to be more to me than a friend, but this sweet friendship, +young face to look back. A shudder of terror went through him: “No, +young girls ready for anything and full of hope—experienced the same +young ladies. “I can just imagine what a funny figure that policeman +young lady visitor and the countess’ eldest daughter (who was four +young man can inspire in a romantic and loving young girl like yourself. +young man he did not know, with a peculiar cross hanging from his +young man. He sat with his legs up on the sofa as if quite at home and, +young man’s recent loss by the death of Count Bezúkhov (everyone +young man’s shoulder. +young man was an illegitimate son of Count Bezúkhov, a well-known +young master. “Can it be? My treasure!” and Prokófy, trembling with +young Nicholas Rostóv, who with his enthusiasm could not bear to remain +young Rostóv. +young son, resting on him and winking joyfully at him. Young Rostóv +young woman, so soon to become a mother, so full of life and health, and +young. You need advice. Don’t be angry with me for exercising an old +you not rest here?” +“You ought to have been there at seven in the morning.” +“You owe forty-three thousand, Count,” said Dólokhov, and +“You picked it up?... I dare say! You’re very smart!” one of them +you please, but do this for my sake! Please do! Father’s father, our +you positively that Hélène is as innocent before you as Christ was +your battalions. I will keep out of fire if you with your habitual +“Your cousin...” Dólokhov started to say, but Nicholas interrupted +your Denísov though he is a rake and all that, still I like him; so +your disposal.” +“Your doctor tells you to go to bed earlier,” said Prince Andrew. +your doing so; but I warn you that if you dare to play the fool in my +“You’re always like that; you thwow a thing down anywhere and forget +your enchanting party,” said he, turning to Anna Pávlovna. +You’re wrong to think that of me... I... for me... for the honor of +“Your excellency...” +“Your excellency, here are two trophies,” said Dólokhov, pointing +“Your excellency, I should like to be of use here. Allow me to remain +“Your excellency, it’s the officer Dólokhov, who has been reduced +“Your excellency! Let us attack them! I’ll dwive them off.” +“Your excellency!” Prince Andrew broke the silence with his abrupt +“Your excellency,” said he in German, stepping forward and +“Your excellency,” said Rostóv, “may I ask a favor?” +“Your excellency, should not Mary Bogdánovna be sent for?” said one +“Your excellency, you gave him leave yourself, on the march.” +your eyes,” added Willarski. “I wish you courage and success,” +your father.” +your father is rich, I don’t regard myself as a relation of his, and +your father the truth when he was in favor, and in your case it’s my +your greatest pleasure is to be unpleasant to people! Go and flirt with +your hands.” He spoke as if those bullets could not kill him, and his +“Your honor, I thought...” +“Your honor, the generals!” said the sergeant, riding up to Rostóv. +“Your honor, there he is!” cried one of the hussars behind him. And +“Your honor, you’re wanted by the general. He is in the hut here,” +your interests as with a kinswoman, a good, kind, true relation. And I +“Your joke is too bad, it’s witty but unjust,” said Anna +your old father...” he paused unexpectedly, and then in a querulous +your presence; if she is willing, then he can stay on. He can stay and +“Your regiment fulfilled its duty honorably,” said Napoleon. +yours.” +yours? A daughter, I suppose?” +yourself and say you nearly ruined your life and only found happiness +yourself in a position to be attacked, but yourself to attack. Believe +yourself in it. And now, when one wants to smooth the thing over, some +yourself, put a bridle on your senses, and seek blessedness, not in +yourselves. It must be here somewhere,” said Lavrúshka. +Your son bids fair to become an officer distinguished by his industry, +“Your son,” wrote Kutúzov, “fell before my eyes, a standard in +your victory is not a matter for great rejoicing and that you can’t be +you?” said the old prince to Prince Vasíli. +you say so much that is bad, does not seem to have had its usual effect +you see I do understand. I don’t know how to put it... with this one +“You see! I have asked,” whispered Natásha to her little brother +“You see, my dear fellow, I have been thinking about you,” +“You see, my dear... What’s that mess?” she said, pointing to his +“You see, my fwiend,” he said, “we sleep when we don’t love. We +you seen Duport?” +“You see yours is already an officer in the Guards, while my Nicholas +you select to be your worthy helpmeet in Masonry.” And after a pause, +“You shan’t have it!” he said distinctly. +you—Sónya. But their eyes met and said thou, and exchanged tender +“You speak to the colonel about this nasty business before other +“You spoke to me of inflammable material,” said he, “but you said +you tell me that among some good things it contains others which our +“You tell the colonel in the presence of other officers that an +youth and his wish to express all that was in his mind. +you that it would be very easy to do so if you haven’t sufficient +youthfully glittering eyes. +youthful movement, stood for a moment in the stirrup as if loathe to +“You think I’m an old man and don’t understand the present state +“You think so?” rejoined Anna Pávlovna in order to say something +“Youth is no hindrance to courage,” muttered Sukhtélen in a failing +“You thought!” shouted the prince, his words coming more and more +“You told me to remind you of the officer Dólokhov, reduced to the +you to read when I am gone. You will find them useful.” +“You treat me like an invalid or a child. I see it all! Did you behave +You understand that my sole desire is conscientiously to carry out his +you understand, your excellency, my dear sir, that you must not +“You value your own pride and don’t wish to apologize,” continued +“You’ve been in a hurry. That’s bad!” +“you’ve got it at last.” +“You’ve grown older, Tíkhon,” he said in passing to the old man, +you’ve had to take,” cried he. +“You’ve only just missed him,” said the orderly. +you want to know whether I am happy? No! Is she happy? No! But why this +you want to make something out of your company?” +you were about, challenged a man you are jealous of without cause.” +“You were meaning to go out, weren’t you, Mamma? Do you want the +You were not right, not quite in the right, you were impetuous...” +“You were saying, Mr. Staff Officer...” continued the colonel in an +you, who do not believe in the truth of the light and who have not +“You will change it, won’t you?” said Lise. And as Princess Mary +“You will find the beautiful Hélène here, whom it is always +you will let me win this ten, or beat it.” +you will remember this, your excellency!” +you will see.” +“You will soon be dressing your men in petticoats! What is this?” +you with my saber!” he shouted, actually drawing his saber from its +you won’t ask!” +“You won’t ask,” Natásha’s little brother was saying; “I know +“You won’t be able to find either your baggage or anything else now, +“You won’t bear me a grudge, Prokhór Ignátych?” said the +you won’t require it. We’ll go into the accounts later.” +you yourself reported to Count Buxhöwden yesterday, you must think of +“You...! you... scoundrel! I challenge you!” he ejaculated, and, +“Zat, my dear sir, is vy...” he concluded, drinking a tumbler of +zere’s an end of it! And how do you, a young man and a young hussar, +Zherkóv, not removing his hand from his cap, turned his horse about +Zherkóv. 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64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=c46b37271cc286de9fbd72e5b79d500f5d243398, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/convert: symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/convert +/usr/bin/convert-im6: symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/convert-im6 +/usr/bin/convert-im6.q16: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=ef650aa4a248af14e79d141ee1b48545b27d304a, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/corelist: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/cowpoke: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable +/usr/bin/cpack: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=957782eb96e68c5d5e911ecfb277cf29ca8bd4bf, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/cpan: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/cpan5.28-x86_64-linux-gnu: cannot open `/usr/bin/cpan5.28-x86_64-linux-gnu' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/cpio-filter: cannot open `/usr/bin/cpio-filter' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/cpp: symbolic link to cpp-12 +/usr/bin/cpp-4.8: cannot open `/usr/bin/cpp-4.8' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/cpp-4.9: cannot open `/usr/bin/cpp-4.9' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/cpp-6: cannot open `/usr/bin/cpp-6' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/cpp-8: cannot open `/usr/bin/cpp-8' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/cpufreq-aperf: cannot open `/usr/bin/cpufreq-aperf' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/cpufreq-info: cannot open `/usr/bin/cpufreq-info' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/cpufreq-set: cannot open `/usr/bin/cpufreq-set' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/crc32: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/createdb: symbolic link to ../share/postgresql-common/pg_wrapper +/usr/bin/createlang: symbolic link to ../share/postgresql-common/pg_wrapper +/usr/bin/createuser: symbolic link to ../share/postgresql-common/pg_wrapper +/usr/bin/c_rehash: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/crontab: setgid ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=d85df4195f321ff8e16624fe77f9efd018b4118a, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/cs2cs: cannot open `/usr/bin/cs2cs' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/csplit: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=0fa6bcca2cdbc6002a7422fd4079a88006fd47cf, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/ctags: symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/ctags +/usr/bin/ctags.emacs: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=28f169c140dde40f576046951144fa3f3120419d, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/ctags-exuberant: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=393bb8e84127f38db8f1476d5b0e65140153be9a, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/ctanbib: symbolic link to ../share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/ctanbib/ctanbib +/usr/bin/ctangle: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=6556d11fef00950f5c01b5ed5c1992cc71a63afa, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/ctanify: symbolic link to ../share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/ctanify/ctanify +/usr/bin/ctan-o-mat: symbolic link to ../share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/ctan-o-mat/ctan-o-mat.pl +/usr/bin/ctanupload: symbolic link to ../share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/ctanupload/ctanupload.pl +/usr/bin/ctest: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=28c35e577aa847c5edabd9b829645f582174a0f6, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/ctie: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=db93eb443688be317da0b49d25fcd060c9a1a88e, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/ctstat: symbolic link to lnstat +/usr/bin/cudf2lp: cannot open `/usr/bin/cudf2lp' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/curl: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=f699c63f2e1f55012549019649d2aacd94c39555, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/cut: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=3f2badf9c70583dc86ccf38d135e9cf1fbb9daaa, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/cvs-debc: symbolic link to cvs-debi +/usr/bin/cvs-debi: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable +/usr/bin/cvs-debrelease: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable +/usr/bin/cvs-debuild: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/cvtsudoers: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=514afa5b9c849c9495c68bc2ea64e45c6b0bb951, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/cweave: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=dd543b25af03e97cab19985579705576a8db8b9e, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/cws-11d.x: cannot open `/usr/bin/cws-11d.x' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/cws-4d.x: cannot open `/usr/bin/cws-4d.x' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/cws-5d.x: cannot open `/usr/bin/cws-5d.x' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/cws-6d.x: cannot open `/usr/bin/cws-6d.x' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/cws.x: cannot open `/usr/bin/cws.x' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/cygdb: cannot open `/usr/bin/cygdb' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/cysignals-CSI: cannot open `/usr/bin/cysignals-CSI' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/cython: cannot open `/usr/bin/cython' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/daemon: cannot open `/usr/bin/daemon' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/danetool: cannot open `/usr/bin/danetool' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/darcs: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, BuildID[sha1]=b08e9b0ad8b0e7a9d6c93ffce8e6e99f261722b7, stripped +/usr/bin/db5.3_archive: cannot open `/usr/bin/db5.3_archive' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db5.3_checkpoint: cannot open `/usr/bin/db5.3_checkpoint' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db5.3_deadlock: cannot open `/usr/bin/db5.3_deadlock' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db5.3_dump: cannot open `/usr/bin/db5.3_dump' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db5.3_hotbackup: cannot open `/usr/bin/db5.3_hotbackup' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db5.3_load: cannot open `/usr/bin/db5.3_load' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db5.3_log_verify: cannot open `/usr/bin/db5.3_log_verify' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db5.3_printlog: cannot open `/usr/bin/db5.3_printlog' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db5.3_recover: cannot open `/usr/bin/db5.3_recover' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db5.3_replicate: cannot open `/usr/bin/db5.3_replicate' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db5.3_stat: cannot open `/usr/bin/db5.3_stat' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db5.3_upgrade: cannot open `/usr/bin/db5.3_upgrade' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db5.3_verify: cannot open `/usr/bin/db5.3_verify' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db_archive: cannot open `/usr/bin/db_archive' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db_checkpoint: cannot open `/usr/bin/db_checkpoint' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db_deadlock: cannot open `/usr/bin/db_deadlock' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db_dump: cannot open `/usr/bin/db_dump' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db_hotbackup: cannot open `/usr/bin/db_hotbackup' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/dbilogstrip: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dbiprof: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dbiproxy: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/db_load: cannot open `/usr/bin/db_load' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db_log_verify: cannot open `/usr/bin/db_log_verify' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db_printlog: cannot open `/usr/bin/db_printlog' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db_recover: cannot open `/usr/bin/db_recover' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db_replicate: cannot open `/usr/bin/db_replicate' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db_sql: cannot open `/usr/bin/db_sql' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db_stat: cannot open `/usr/bin/db_stat' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/db_upgrade: cannot open `/usr/bin/db_upgrade' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/dbus-cleanup-sockets: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=d8e7cab32733f444407d8ca1e39f7be7453bda66, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/dbus-daemon: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=207d8fc9131bbe390a049166365e5ad5b564c422, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/dbus-launch: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=bd5f41dd6ac80c3da1ed94b0d532a7dc40d4a0f0, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/dbus-monitor: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=434126941ad19213a442089161a98aa02271b67b, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/dbus-run-session: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=6663bec527d4089f7771e72e51871ca6662da337, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/dbus-send: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=0b2a2e0b6ccd1e88b05df44acf42cf37b953f9ff, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/dbus-update-activation-environment: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=8bd0ee87be9312a6f93c9b74b697ab2a0f91eaf5, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/dbus-uuidgen: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=0032a747fcaae5f61bc820c600da6aa0fef18ba7, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/db_verify: cannot open `/usr/bin/db_verify' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/dc: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=19856c2d7f0a61f3bba2136ec3ce9a567745ed61, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/dch: symbolic link to debchange +/usr/bin/dcmd: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable +/usr/bin/dcontrol: cannot open `/usr/bin/dcontrol' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/dcut: cannot open `/usr/bin/dcut' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/dd-list: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/deallocvt: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=5cd6765967b29151653841281b61ccddf4b30d7c, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/deb3: cannot open `/usr/bin/deb3' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/debc: symbolic link to debi +/usr/bin/debchange: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debcheckout: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debclean: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable +/usr/bin/debcommit: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debconf: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debconf-apt-progress: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debconf-communicate: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debconf-copydb: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debconf-escape: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debconf-gettextize: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debconf-set-selections: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debconf-show: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debconf-updatepo: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable +/usr/bin/debdiff: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debdiff-apply: Python script, ASCII text executable +/usr/bin/debi: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debianbts: Python script, ASCII text executable +/usr/bin/debpkg: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=6652d6d12ea36de807ef957ec2a305a9eea68bc5, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/debrelease: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable +/usr/bin/debrepro: POSIX shell script, Unicode text, UTF-8 text executable +/usr/bin/deb-reversion: Bourne-Again shell script, Unicode text, UTF-8 text executable +/usr/bin/debrsign: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable +/usr/bin/debsign: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable +/usr/bin/debsnap: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debsums: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/debugedit: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=31a47b14cdea37b390a672e296d3300cacdaa4f8, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/debuild: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/defmt-c: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=5465ae0afe4f9c1b79d67ff0b1a1cfe6c042fc69, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/defmt-sh: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=739acd62c4b7460368dcf6f558892feec2226fd5, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/dehtmldiff: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable +/usr/bin/delaunay: cannot open `/usr/bin/delaunay' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/delpart: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=dd4c072b00e4599ca5ed3aad9fc331ada0ca6ff4, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/delv: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=d70f1225ecf1f032f72cdcb563a35e22f62f0317, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/de-macro: symbolic link to ../share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/de-macro/de-macro +/usr/bin/dep3changelog: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/depythontex: symbolic link to ../share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/pythontex/depythontex.py +/usr/bin/depythontex3: cannot open `/usr/bin/depythontex3' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/derb: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=33dcd38313fc530f8ffc5305d460034142017e01, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/designer: symbolic link to qtchooser +/usr/bin/desktop2menu: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/detex: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=d348bd93771937bdadcd911c44eb6719b5bbca78, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/devdump: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=0ddfeefd7dd08fc190f0b6160ca1f4103fd913aa, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/devnag: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=ad02c58d359f2cde9a9fb4ee8a0e5eb91d2b2461, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped +/usr/bin/dget: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_auto_build: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_auto_clean: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_auto_configure: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_auto_install: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_autoreconf: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_autoreconf_clean: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_auto_test: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_autotools-dev_restoreconfig: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_autotools-dev_updateconfig: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_bash-completion: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_bugfiles: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_builddeb: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_clean: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_compress: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_dkms: cannot open `/usr/bin/dh_dkms' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/dh_dwz: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_fixperms: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_gconf: cannot open `/usr/bin/dh_gconf' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/dh_gencontrol: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_icons: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_install: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installcatalogs: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installchangelogs: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installcron: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installdeb: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installdebconf: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installdirs: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installdocs: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installemacsen: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installexamples: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installgsettings: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installifupdown: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installinfo: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installinit: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installinitramfs: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installlogcheck: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installlogrotate: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installman: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installmanpages: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installmenu: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installmime: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installmodules: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installpam: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installppp: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installsystemd: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installsystemduser: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installtex: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installudev: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installwm: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installxfonts: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_installxmlcatalogs: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_link: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_lintian: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_listpackages: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_makeshlibs: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_md5sums: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_missing: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_movefiles: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_numpy: cannot open `/usr/bin/dh_numpy' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/dh_perl: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_perl_dbi: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_perl_openssl: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_prep: Perl script text executable +/usr/bin/dh_pypy: cannot open `/usr/bin/dh_pypy' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/dh_pysupport: cannot open `/usr/bin/dh_pysupport' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/dh_python2: cannot open `/usr/bin/dh_python2' (No such file or directory) +/usr/bin/dh_python3: 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+1,145 @@ +from itertools import permutations +from typing import List, Dict, Callable, Any, Union + +class Function: + def __init__(self, name: str, func: Callable, + function_properties: Dict[str, bool], + output_properties: Dict[str, bool], + input_type: str, output_type: str): + self.name = name + self.func = func + self.function_properties = function_properties + self.output_properties = output_properties + self.input_type = input_type + self.output_type = output_type + + def applies_to(self, annotations: Dict[str, Any]) -> bool: + """Check if this function matches the given annotations.""" + if annotations['input_type'] != self.input_type or annotations['output_type'] != self.output_type: + return False + for prop in self.function_properties: + if prop in annotations and annotations[prop] != self.function_properties[prop]: + return False + return True + +# Database of functions +function_database = [ + Function( + name='sort', + func=lambda lst: sorted(lst), + function_properties={ + "is_associative": False, + "is_idempotent": True + }, + output_properties={ + "is_sorted": True, + }, + input_type='list', + output_type='list' + ), + Function( + name='unique', + func=lambda lst: list(dict.fromkeys(lst)), # Maintains order + function_properties={ + "is_associative": False, + "is_commutative": False, + "is_idempotent": True + }, + output_properties={ + "is_sorted": False, + "reduces": True + }, + input_type='list', + output_type='list' + ), + Function( + name='cat', + func=lambda lst1, lst2: lst1 + lst2, + function_properties={ + "is_associative": True, + "is_commutative": False, + }, + output_properties={}, + input_type='list', + output_type='list' + ), + Function( + name='sum', + func=lambda num1, num2: num1 + num2, + function_properties={ + "is_associative": True, + "is_commutative": True, + "is_idempotent": False + }, + output_properties={ + "is_sorted": False, + "reduces": False + }, + input_type='num', + output_type='num' + ), +] + +# Function to synthesize an aggregator based on annotations and real partial outputs +def synthesize_aggregator(annotations: Dict[str, Any], correct_output: Any, partial_outputs: List[Any]) -> Union[Callable, str]: + applicable_functions = [f for f in function_database if f.applies_to(annotations)] + + # Ensure we have at least one 'add' or 'cat' function + essential_function = next((f for f in applicable_functions if f.name in ['cat', 'sum']), None) + if not essential_function: + return "Cannot synthesize aggregator: no applicable 'add' or 'cat' function found." + + # Iterate over all permutations of applicable functions + for function_permutation in permutations(applicable_functions): + def aggregator(*partial_outputs): + # Start by applying the essential function + if essential_function.func.__code__.co_argcount == 2: + result = essential_function.func(partial_outputs[0], partial_outputs[1]) + else: + result = essential_function.func(partial_outputs[0]) + + # Apply the remaining functions in the specified order + for func in function_permutation: + if func != essential_function: + result = func.func(result) + + return result + + # Test the aggregator with actual partial outputs passed to the function + test_output = aggregator(*partial_outputs) + + # Check if the generated output matches the expected output + if test_output == correct_output: + return aggregator + + return "No combination of functions produced the correct output." + +# Example usage +if __name__ == "__main__": + expected_output = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] + + annotations = { + "input_type": "list", + "output_type": "list", + "is_commutative": False, + "is_associative": False, + "is_idempotent": True, + "reduces": True, + "preserves_order": False, + "is_sorted": True + } + + # Assume these are the partial outputs produced by parallel processes + partial_outputs = [ + [1, 3, 5], + [2, 3, 4] + ] + + # Now we pass the partial_outputs to synthesize_aggregator + aggregator = synthesize_aggregator(annotations, correct_output=expected_output, partial_outputs=partial_outputs) + + if isinstance(aggregator, str): + print(aggregator) + else: + result = aggregator(*partial_outputs) + print("Aggregator Result:", result) From 1e978400163190abe733a103720cb9f5207bd4c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roberto Gonzales Matos Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:07:39 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 3/6] Feat: modified synthesis --- py-2/synthesizer/TestSynthesizer.py | 185 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ py-2/synthesizer/synthesizer.py | 98 ++++++--------- 2 files changed, 222 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-) create mode 100644 py-2/synthesizer/TestSynthesizer.py diff --git a/py-2/synthesizer/TestSynthesizer.py b/py-2/synthesizer/TestSynthesizer.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c70beb2 --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/synthesizer/TestSynthesizer.py @@ -0,0 +1,185 @@ +from synthesizer import * + +def example_1(): + expected_output = ["orange", "grape", "banana", "apple"] + + annotations = { + "input_type": "list", + "output_type": "list", + # "is_commutative": False, + # "is_associative": False, + # "is_idempotent": True, + # "reduces": True, + # "preserves_order": False, + # "is_sorted": True + } + + partial_outputs = [ + ["orange","banana"], + ["grape","apple"] + ] + + comparator = lambda x: -ord(x[0]) # Alphabetical descending sorting based on first letter + + aggregator = synthesize_aggregator(annotations, correct_output=expected_output, partial_outputs=partial_outputs, comparator=comparator) + + if isinstance(aggregator, str): + print(aggregator) + else: + result = aggregator(*partial_outputs) + print("Aggregator Result:", result) + +def example_2(): + expected_output = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] + + annotations = { + "input_type": "list", + "output_type": "list", + "is_commutative": False, + "is_associative": False, + "is_idempotent": True, + "reduces": True, + "preserves_order": False, + "is_sorted": True + } + + partial_outputs = [ + [2, 4, 6, 8], + [1, 3, 5, 7] + ] + + comparator = lambda x: x # Numeric ascending sorting + + aggregator = synthesize_aggregator(annotations, correct_output=expected_output, partial_outputs=partial_outputs, comparator=comparator) + + if isinstance(aggregator, str): + print(aggregator) + else: + result = aggregator(*partial_outputs) + print("Aggregator Result:", result) + +def example_3(): + expected_output = ["banana", "orange", "apple", "grape"] + + annotations = { + "input_type": "list", + "output_type": "list", + "is_commutative": False, + "is_associative": True, + "is_idempotent": False, + "reduces": False, + "preserves_order": True, + "is_sorted": False + } + + partial_outputs = [ + ["banana", "orange"], + ["apple", "grape"] + ] + + aggregator = synthesize_aggregator(annotations, correct_output=expected_output, partial_outputs=partial_outputs, comparator=None) + + if isinstance(aggregator, str): + print(aggregator) + else: + result = aggregator(*partial_outputs) + print("Aggregator Result:", result) + +def example_4(): + expected_output = ["banana", "orange", "apple", "grape"] + + annotations = { + "input_type": "list", + "output_type": "list", + "is_commutative": False, + "is_associative": False, + "is_idempotent": True, + "reduces": True, + "preserves_order": True, + "is_sorted": False + } + + partial_outputs = [ + ["banana", "orange", "banana"], + ["apple", "grape", "orange"] + ] + + aggregator = synthesize_aggregator(annotations, correct_output=expected_output, partial_outputs=partial_outputs, comparator=None) + + if isinstance(aggregator, str): + print(aggregator) + else: + result = aggregator(*partial_outputs) + print("Aggregator Result:", result) + +def example_5(): + expected_output = 25 + + annotations = { + "input_type": "num", + "output_type": "num", + "is_commutative": True, + "is_associative": True, + "is_idempotent": False, + "reduces": True + } + + partial_outputs = [ + 10, 15 + ] + + aggregator = synthesize_aggregator(annotations, correct_output=expected_output, partial_outputs=partial_outputs, comparator=None) + + if isinstance(aggregator, str): + print(aggregator) + else: + result = aggregator(*partial_outputs) + print("Aggregator Result:", result) + +def example_6(): + expected_output = ["a", "hi", "cat", "dog", "elephant"] + + annotations = { + "input_type": "list", + "output_type": "list", + "is_commutative": False, + "is_associative": False, + "is_idempotent": True, + "reduces": True, + "preserves_order": False, + "is_sorted": True + } + + partial_outputs = [ + ["cat", "elephant"], + ["a", "hi", "dog"] + ] + + comparator = lambda x: len(x) # Sort by string length + + aggregator = synthesize_aggregator(annotations, correct_output=expected_output, partial_outputs=partial_outputs, comparator=comparator) + + if isinstance(aggregator, str): + print(aggregator) + else: + result = aggregator(*partial_outputs) + print("Aggregator Result:", result) + +if __name__ == "__main__": + print("Running Example 1:") + example_1() + + print("\nRunning Example 2:") + example_2() + + print("\nRunning Example 3:") + example_3() + + print("\nRunning Example 4:") + example_4() + + print("\nRunning Example 5:") + example_5() + + print("\nRunning Example 6:") + example_6() diff --git a/py-2/synthesizer/synthesizer.py b/py-2/synthesizer/synthesizer.py index 8e7c9cc..364cb5f 100644 --- a/py-2/synthesizer/synthesizer.py +++ b/py-2/synthesizer/synthesizer.py @@ -20,15 +20,16 @@ def applies_to(self, annotations: Dict[str, Any]) -> bool: for prop in self.function_properties: if prop in annotations and annotations[prop] != self.function_properties[prop]: return False + for prop in self.output_properties: + if prop in annotations and annotations[prop] != self.output_properties[prop]: + return False return True -# Database of functions + function_database = [ Function( - name='sort', - func=lambda lst: sorted(lst), + name='merge_sort', function_properties={ - "is_associative": False, "is_idempotent": True }, output_properties={ @@ -39,14 +40,10 @@ def applies_to(self, annotations: Dict[str, Any]) -> bool: ), Function( name='unique', - func=lambda lst: list(dict.fromkeys(lst)), # Maintains order function_properties={ - "is_associative": False, - "is_commutative": False, "is_idempotent": True }, output_properties={ - "is_sorted": False, "reduces": True }, input_type='list', @@ -54,9 +51,7 @@ def applies_to(self, annotations: Dict[str, Any]) -> bool: ), Function( name='cat', - func=lambda lst1, lst2: lst1 + lst2, function_properties={ - "is_associative": True, "is_commutative": False, }, output_properties={}, @@ -65,81 +60,62 @@ def applies_to(self, annotations: Dict[str, Any]) -> bool: ), Function( name='sum', - func=lambda num1, num2: num1 + num2, function_properties={ - "is_associative": True, "is_commutative": True, - "is_idempotent": False }, output_properties={ - "is_sorted": False, - "reduces": False }, input_type='num', output_type='num' ), ] -# Function to synthesize an aggregator based on annotations and real partial outputs -def synthesize_aggregator(annotations: Dict[str, Any], correct_output: Any, partial_outputs: List[Any]) -> Union[Callable, str]: - applicable_functions = [f for f in function_database if f.applies_to(annotations)] - - # Ensure we have at least one 'add' or 'cat' function - essential_function = next((f for f in applicable_functions if f.name in ['cat', 'sum']), None) - if not essential_function: - return "Cannot synthesize aggregator: no applicable 'add' or 'cat' function found." - # Iterate over all permutations of applicable functions - for function_permutation in permutations(applicable_functions): - def aggregator(*partial_outputs): - # Start by applying the essential function - if essential_function.func.__code__.co_argcount == 2: - result = essential_function.func(partial_outputs[0], partial_outputs[1]) - else: - result = essential_function.func(partial_outputs[0]) +def synthesize_aggregator_to_lean(annotations: Dict[str, Any], comparator: str = "a.key <= b.key") -> Union[str, str]: + essential_functions = [f for f in function_database if f.applies_to(annotations) and f.name in ['merge_sort', 'cat', 'sum']] + if not essential_functions: + return "Cannot synthesize aggregator: no applicable 'merge_sort', 'cat', or 'sum' function found." + + primary_function = essential_functions[0] + lean_expression = "" - # Apply the remaining functions in the specified order - for func in function_permutation: - if func != essential_function: - result = func.func(result) + if primary_function.name == 'merge_sort': + lean_expression = f"merge (fun a b => {comparator})" - return result + elif primary_function.name == 'cat': + lean_expression = "cat" - # Test the aggregator with actual partial outputs passed to the function - test_output = aggregator(*partial_outputs) + elif primary_function.name == 'sum': + lean_expression = "sum" - # Check if the generated output matches the expected output - if test_output == correct_output: - return aggregator + applicable_functions = [f for f in function_database if f.applies_to(annotations) and f.name not in ['merge_sort', 'cat', 'sum']] + for function_permutation in permutations(applicable_functions): + if primary_function not in function_permutation: + function_permutation = (primary_function,) + function_permutation + + for func in function_permutation: + if func != primary_function: + if func.name == 'unique': + lean_expression += " ∘ unique" + elif func.name == 'merge_sort': + lean_expression += f" ∘ merge (fun a b => {comparator})" - return "No combination of functions produced the correct output." + return lean_expression -# Example usage -if __name__ == "__main__": - expected_output = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] - +def example_2(): annotations = { "input_type": "list", "output_type": "list", - "is_commutative": False, - "is_associative": False, "is_idempotent": True, - "reduces": True, - "preserves_order": False, + "reduces": False, "is_sorted": True } - - # Assume these are the partial outputs produced by parallel processes - partial_outputs = [ - [1, 3, 5], - [2, 3, 4] - ] - - # Now we pass the partial_outputs to synthesize_aggregator - aggregator = synthesize_aggregator(annotations, correct_output=expected_output, partial_outputs=partial_outputs) if isinstance(aggregator, str): print(aggregator) else: - result = aggregator(*partial_outputs) - print("Aggregator Result:", result) + print("Lean Aggregator:",synthesize_aggregator_to_lean(annotations, comparator="a.key <= b.key")) + +if __name__ == "__main__": + print("\nRunning Example 2:") + example_2() From 87ac9852f2f9368672916f10112e4a790616f883 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: RobertoGonzalesMatos Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 09:44:22 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 4/6] Feat: modified synthesis --- py-2/synthesizer/synthesizer.py | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/py-2/synthesizer/synthesizer.py b/py-2/synthesizer/synthesizer.py index 364cb5f..61a776a 100644 --- a/py-2/synthesizer/synthesizer.py +++ b/py-2/synthesizer/synthesizer.py @@ -2,12 +2,11 @@ from typing import List, Dict, Callable, Any, Union class Function: - def __init__(self, name: str, func: Callable, + def __init__(self, name: str, function_properties: Dict[str, bool], output_properties: Dict[str, bool], input_type: str, output_type: str): self.name = name - self.func = func self.function_properties = function_properties self.output_properties = output_properties self.input_type = input_type @@ -111,10 +110,7 @@ def example_2(): "is_sorted": True } - if isinstance(aggregator, str): - print(aggregator) - else: - print("Lean Aggregator:",synthesize_aggregator_to_lean(annotations, comparator="a.key <= b.key")) + print("Lean Aggregator:",synthesize_aggregator_to_lean(annotations, comparator="a.key <= b.key")) if __name__ == "__main__": print("\nRunning Example 2:") From 415c8842a26205a8a79c57837002355d4ebdcde1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: RobertoGonzalesMatos Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:53:45 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 5/6] Feat: generate lean file --- py-2/synthesizer/synthesizer.py | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/py-2/synthesizer/synthesizer.py b/py-2/synthesizer/synthesizer.py index 61a776a..f7f12c7 100644 --- a/py-2/synthesizer/synthesizer.py +++ b/py-2/synthesizer/synthesizer.py @@ -101,7 +101,34 @@ def synthesize_aggregator_to_lean(annotations: Dict[str, Any], comparator: str = return lean_expression -def example_2(): + +def generate_lean_file(annotations: Dict[str, Any], comparator: str = "a.key <= b.key"): + lean_code = synthesize_aggregator_to_lean(annotations, comparator=comparator) + lean_file_content = f""" + import Aggregators + + def main (args : List String) : IO UInt32 := do + let args : List System.FilePath := List.map (fun arg ↦ ⟨arg⟩) args + let streams ← getAllStreams args + + let output ← List.foldlM (fun acc stream => do + let lines ← readFile stream [] + let inputs := parseInput lines + let acc := {lean_code} acc inputs + pure acc) + [] streams + + output.forM (fun output => IO.print output) + return 0 + """ + with open("GeneratedAggregator.lean", "w") as lean_file: + lean_file.write(lean_file_content) + print("Lean file GeneratedAggregator.lean created with synthesized aggregator.") + + + +if __name__ == "__main__": + print("Running aggregator synthesis") annotations = { "input_type": "list", "output_type": "list", @@ -111,7 +138,4 @@ def example_2(): } print("Lean Aggregator:",synthesize_aggregator_to_lean(annotations, comparator="a.key <= b.key")) - -if __name__ == "__main__": - print("\nRunning Example 2:") - example_2() + generate_lean_file(annotations, comparator="a.key <= b.key") From d48580ff04272db677192eaa4b28f293fb15b064 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: RobertoGonzalesMatos Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 14:18:58 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 6/6] Feat: generated aggregator --- py-2/synthesizer/GeneratedAggregator.lean | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 py-2/synthesizer/GeneratedAggregator.lean diff --git a/py-2/synthesizer/GeneratedAggregator.lean b/py-2/synthesizer/GeneratedAggregator.lean new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b8da619 --- /dev/null +++ b/py-2/synthesizer/GeneratedAggregator.lean @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ + +import Aggregators + +def main (args : List String) : IO UInt32 := do +let args : List System.FilePath := List.map (fun arg ↦ ⟨arg⟩) args +let streams ← getAllStreams args + +let output ← List.foldlM (fun acc stream => do + let lines ← readFile stream [] + let inputs := parseInput lines + let acc := merge (fun a b => a.key <= b.key) acc inputs + pure acc) + [] streams + +output.forM (fun output => IO.print output) +return 0 + \ No newline at end of file